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By Josh MaloneThe Daily Cougar
When UH reached out to Joseph Tedesco to be dean of the Cullen College of Engineering in 2007, Tedesco admittedly didn’t give the request much attention.
As an accomplished professor and chairman at the University of Florida, he had helped build the undergraduate engineering program a national top-ten ranking and didn’t intend to leave.
“I had received and declined similar requests from other universities. But (UH) was persistent and they finally persuaded me to come out for a visit,” Tedesco said.
Tedesco said the campus setting and the potential to build a program to match the already prosperous
engineering community in Houston impressed him. Tedesco soon began his tenure as the sixth dean of the Cullen College of Engineering in January 2008.
Among Tedesco’s top priorities is improving the college to help the University achieve flagship status.
In his two years as dean, Tedesco has doubled the college’s research spending, approved a new degree program in petroleum engineering and created the Department of Biomedical Engineering, the college’s first new department in 35 years. Next fall, a new honors engineering program will be offered.
“For Houston to continue being one of the best cities in the world is dependent on UH becoming (a flagship school),” Tedesco said. “We’re improving our academic and
research programs, recruiting better faculty and students and building a stronger relationship with the community. These are all incremental victories that will get us to (flagship).”
Tedesco admits these goals are harder to obtain as the University
continues to tighten its budget. To ease the effects of the cuts, Tedesco said he and Provost John Antel are exploring ways other than tuition increases to generate revenue.
Tedesco said among these tactics are partnerships with the private
sector, where the college will share facilities and work on common research interests with the Texas Medical Center and local energy companies.
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College of Engineering Dean Joseph Tedesco says he enjoys his job, particularly because he gets to work with young students who are eager to learn.
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Cougar Byte was robbed Friday around 3 a.m. by an unknown number of individuals, police said.
Police said that display items were the main target in the robbery, but other items were also stolen.
According to UHPD Assistant Chief of Police Brad Wigtil, the fact that the crime occurred in the early hours of the morning makes it difficult to look for witnesses, but he said they are hopeful that if someone was awake during that time, they will contact the department.
“We’re just hoping that somebody may have seen something that could help us with our investigation,” Wigtil said.
The discovery of the robbery was made the next morning when a custodian reported the incident.
Wigtil said UHPD is actively pursuing leads and that businesses in the UC are not targeted often.
“over the last five years, maybe one or two incidents (have occured), but typically those business are not targeted, especially after hours,” Wigtil said.
If anyone has information on the crime, they are urged to contact UHPD at 713-743-3333.
Leslie Harris of HiEd Inc. and president of Cougar Byte could not be reached for comment.
Study examines domestic violence
Scientists discover true age of meteor
By Sarah Wiggins-GoffThe Daily Cougar
UH doctoral candidate Venus Tsui, under the supervision of Monit Cheung, the doctoral dissertation chair at the graduate school of social Work, is conducting a survey of male victims of domestic violence in order to better understand the issue.
“It is definitely a challenging and tough topic,” Tsui said. “Although underreported and less common, male victims of domestic
violence suffer negative physical and psychological consequences which are similar to their female counterparts.”
Tsui said the underreporting of domestic violence toward men is due to two main inhibitors: society and men themselves.
“related literature and extant studies reveal that men are often discriminated against by domestic violence service providers and law
By Amanda TrellaThe Daily Cougar
The UH Department of Earth and Atmospheric sciences, in collaboration with NAsA, has made recent discoveries that mark the oldest and most well known Martian meteorite as younger than previously presumed.
After 15 months of continuous study of meteorite ALH84001, assistant professor of geology and Isotope geochemistry, Thomas Lapen and his team determined that the meteor’s robust age is exactly 4.091 billion years old, which varies
significantly from the originally accepted age of 4.5 billion years old.
“The age of this particular meteorite, which has been quoted in literature as being 4.5 billion years old, has never been published before,” Lapen said. “We figured that we could apply a fairly new system, lutetium-hafnium isotope analysis, and calculate a robust age for the stone.”
The discovery helped Lapen and his team better understand Mars’ volcanic activity, as well as how it compares to younger meteorites.
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UH Memorial Service: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Large Chapel, A.D. Bruce Religion Center. Each year, UH holds a memorial service to honor the memory of students, faculty and staff members who have died during the past year. For more information, con-tact the Campus Ministries Associa-tion at 713-743-5051.
Census on campus: 10 a.m.-2 p.m., University Center Satellite, UC and the Center for Public Policy (104 Heyne Building). Census representa-tives and Civic Houston Intership Pro-gram interns will provide assistance and resources for the 2010 Census at various information tables. For the Houston community, including UH, to prosper, everyone should participate. For more information, contact Mike Angel at 713-743-3976 or [email protected]
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Jobs for Coogs Fair. This job fair is open to all majors, and there will be opportunities for both full and part-time summer jobs, internships and volunteer work. For more informa-tion, please contact Jessica Campbell at [email protected] or (713)743-5098. Employer registration is now open at career.uh.edu/careerfairs/summerjobs/2010
2010 School of Art Masters Thesis Exhibition: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., The Art Museum of UH. Each year, Blaf-fer Gallery presents an exhibition showcasing works by graduating Master of Fine Arts students in the School of Art. This year, 11 students are featured in the exhibition. The MFA candidates are Debra Barrera, Nancy Douthey, Geoff Hippenstiel, Sura Khudairi, Robyn Lehmer, Grant C. MacManus, Richard Nix, Anne J. Regan, Keijiro Suzuki, Tala Va-habzadeh, and Vanessa VanAlstyne. Admission is free, and refreshments will be provided. For more informa-tion, contact the Blaffer Gallery at [email protected] or the Web site blaffergallery.org
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Tedesco said finding creative ways around the budget cuts is a difficult but essential part of his job.
“The University has to find another way to operate. you can’t continue to raise tuition as it only pays a small part of our expenditures. We have to be more creative and not put the burden on the students,” he said.
Despite the financial constraints, Tedesco continues to draft new goals for the college, including a new $30 million engineering building that he hopes will include “high-tech classrooms and space for engineering’s 22 great student organizations.
“Enrollment has grown 28 percent in just two years, but our space hasn’t. Unfortunately, they’re relegated to the engineering laboratory, which frankly is an embarrassment, and
our students deserve better,” Tedesco said. “one of my biggest priorities is getting rid of that building and getting them a (flagship) building.”
To complete the project, Tedesco said fundraising and public relations have become an increasingly important part of his job, a far cry from his days as a professor.
Tedesco began his career in academia in 1982 at oregon state University before stopping at Auburn University and the United states Air Force research Laboratories, among others.
While acknowledging the importance of the work he does now, Tedesco said that those days were his favorite.
“I love working with young people because they don’t have preconceived notions about how things should be. They’re just full of optimism, are eager to learn, then earn their degree and change the world,” Tedesco said.
enforcement systems in the help-seeking process,” Tsui said.
This and other forms of exclusion breed a stigma in men that causes them embarrassment and is often the ultimate provocation to keep the abuse to themselves, Tsui said.
“They face the challenge of masculine identity when reporting the abuse,” she said. “socialization affects how men behave, and seeking help is often thought (of) as a sign of weakness.”
Cheung’s interest in the subject dates back to 2006 when she was a radio talk host for the Houston-Hong Kong radio, AM 1050 and AM 1180, during a live phone-in program.
“In this 25-week program, I found that very few men called in, but for those who called, eight of them expressed that they were abused – physically and/or emotionally – by their partners/wives,” Cheung wrote in an e-mail interview. “I started to research more about male victims/survivors of domestic violence.”
similarly, Tsui’s personal interest in the subject developed when she was living in Hong Kong and witnessed men as victims of domestic violence. The two researchers’ shared curiosities eventually led them to co-creating this survey.
“With my research, I hope to identify the barriers and facilitators to help-seeking among male victims of partner abuse as well as to develop effective prevention and intervention strategies that are gender-sensitive and responsive to the unique needs of male victims,” she said.
Both researchers recognize that the sheer secretiveness behind this issue is the very root of the problem.
“To help male victims in need, it is important to not only encourage them to ask for help, but also dispel the myth and acknowledge their need for services in the society,” Tsui said.
The survey, which is completely anonymous, is available both online and in paper format. It can be found online at www.surveymonkey.com/s/KS9WG96.
“These meteorites come from volcanoes on Mars, and when comparing (ALH84001) to a meteor that is 500-150 million years old, it appears that the sources of the magma that produced the very old rock are very similar to those that produced the young rock,” Lapen said. “We can then infer that the volcanic processes occurring in Mars have been occurring in the same way for most of Mars’ history.”
The sample that was used in the study was provided to Lapen and his team, which included former NAsA scientist and UH associate professor of Isotope geochemistry Alan Brandon and two post-doctoral researchers, Minako righter and John shafer, from the NAsA Antarctic meteorite curator and the Meteorite Working group.
ALH84001 was found in 1984 in the Allan Hills of Antarctica and is the only meteorite sample scientists have from Mars’ early history.
Its age is roughly more than 2.5 billion years older than any other available sample. Due to this, any results found from the study of this sample help scientists better understand the relationship between planets, especially Earth and Mars.
“These results put a context for how we think of Mars in terms of its evolution and planet evolution in general,” Lapen said. “our data suggests that while Earth is dynamic because of its plate tectonics and how it is constantly recycling materials from its crust into the mantel, Mars remains in a steady state for most of its existence.”
Future analysis and subsequent studies will help reveal the full implications of what this means in terms of evolution really means.
“The rock crystallized around the same time Mars was suitable for life, and only future analysis will be able to tell,” Lapen said. “our findings don’t preclude there being evidence for life on Mars but at the same time doesn’t say there is evidence.”
The findings were published in an article, titled “A younger Age for ALH84001 and Its geochemical Link to shergottite sources in Mars,” in the April 16 issue of science, an international weekly journal, which is self-proclaimed as “the world’s leading outlet for scientific news, commentary, and cutting-edge research” on its Web site.
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TEDESCOcontinued from page 1
VIOLENCEcontinued from page 1
MARScontinued from page 1
Groups grill for top business prizeBy Sabrina LloydThe Daily Cougar
Putting its students’ skills to the test, the Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship at UH’s C.T. Bauer College of Business is teaching more than how to start a business.
Entrepreneur students are getting firsthand experience in running their own business by serving hamburgers to patrons on campus.
Burger Fest 2010 is a two-day, yearly competition that allows entrepreneurship students to start their own hamburger company, making use of classroom lessons.
During the event, students also get to enjoy a live DJ, dance classes, dunking booth and inflatable games.
“The entrepreneur program consists of five classes, which
are revenue, cost and capital, decision making, business plan and implementation,” said Andrea De La Torre, CEo of The sales and Marketing Team, a group competing in the festival. “We use what we have learned from each of the classes to come up with two business plans; one is individual, and one is a team.”
This year, five teams are participating in Burger Fest. Each team must endure everything that opening a business demands. They must also be creative and come up with an original concept.
“We had to write a business plan from the ground up, raise money, find sponsors and extensively plan how we’re going to make our idea into a business,” De La Torre said.
The teams are The supreme Team, led by Alejandro Allala Jr., The smokehouse grill, led by J.r. read,
Vida Loca, led by Ashley Hurst, The Bottomless Pit, led by Katie Dale and, The sales and Marketing Team, led by De La Torre.
The teams have gotten creative serving not just hamburgers but a variety of foods such as homemade potato salad, fajita nachos and even cheeseburger rolls.
robert Heckeroth, a student leader, said that he looks forward to seeing the reaction from customers and remains hopeful that his team will see the results of their marketing efforts in a good turnout for Burger Fest. He is also looking forward to seeing what all the other teams are planning.
Held on the north patio beside the University Center, today is Burger Fest’s final day.
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The Justice Department released a statement Thursday announcing that it had secured an indictment against former National security Agency official
Thomas Drake, who is accused of leaking classified information to a Baltimore
newspaper reporter in 2006 and 2007.Though the indictment does not
name the reporter or newspaper that information was allegedly leaked to, the description “applies to articles written by siobhan gorman, then a reporter for The Baltimore sun, that examined in detail the failings of several major NsA programs,” The New york Times’ scott shane reported.
gorman’s articles focused on problems surrounding the NsA’s Trailblazer Project, which was shown to be a horribly mismanaged program that hemorrhaged money and produced nothing of value. In a January 2006 article, she quoted intelligence expert Matthew Aid, who described Trailblazer as “the biggest boondoggle going on now
in the intelligence community.”In the statement announcing the
indictment, Assistant Attorney general Lanny A. Breuer said, “our national security demands that the sort of conduct alleged here — violating the government’s trust by illegally retaining and disclosing classified information — be prosecuted and prosecuted vigorously.”
Prosecuting an NsA whistleblower for leaking embarrassing information seems like an odd move from President obama’s Justice Department, given that the president repeatedly stated a desire to look forward, not backward with regard to crimes committed during the Bush administration.
The previous administration established a torture regime that a 2009 report from the senate Armed services committee said led directly to the deaths of numerous detainees. A 2006 review by Human rights First found that an estimated 100 detainees had died in custody. Many of the cases were clearly homicides, and a number of the victims
had obviously been tortured to death.Despite a mountain of evidence
that the Bush administration crafted a policy that was directly responsible for systematic torture at guantanamo Bay, Abu ghraib, Bagram Air Force Base and various secret CIA prisons, there has been no criminal investigation and certainly no indictments of anyone responsible.
After evidence of torture began to mount, the CIA destroyed numerous interrogation tapes too, a clear case of wiping out evidence that should constitute an obstruction of justice. We know they destroyed the tapes because they admitted it. It’s been frequently reported on, and the names of those responsible are in the public record.
yet despite a mountain of evidence that the CIA destroyed evidence that some of its agents had tortured detainees, the Justice Department’s “investigation” has turned up nothing, and there have been no indictments.
There is constant scrutiny regarding the health and overall weight of Americans. Everything from sexy models to beautiful movie stars to an annual list
of the fattest cities in the country are a persistent reminder of what kind of role models the children
of today are pressured to measure up to.The one prominent figure who
doesn’t quickly come to mind is longtime fast food mascot, ronald McDonald. Apparently, there are some people who would disagree, so much so that they are fighting to have the smiling clown “fired” because they feel he directly promotes childhood obesity.
Corporate Accountability International is a company that challenges corporate abuse in an effort to protect the public. ronald McDonald is the latest victim in CAI’s crusade for healthier food and
children. since 1963, the clown as been the icon of the McDonald’s corporation, and CAI feels that “ronald deserves a break and so do we!”
If you visit retireronald.com, you’ll find an entire website created by CAI, decked out with cartoon characters and mocking any typical child-geared website. There are also plenty of activities for you to participate in, such as signing ronald’s retirement card or taking a ronald McDonald fact quiz.
There are multiple reasons why America has gained such negative attention when it comes to obesity. Although children can be very persuasive, they are not really the ones who drive to the restaurant, open up their purse or wallet and buy the fast food. Parents do those things. so part of this fight for healthier children is directly linked to the growing problem of parents not standing their ground and telling their children
“no.”In my case, every now and then, my
mom said “yes,” and as I grew older, I came to not only enjoy many fast food restaurants, but visited them frequently out of sheer convenience. I will also admit that ever since middle school, I have eaten fast food at least three times a week. At the same time, I am now 23 years old, stand 5-8 and weigh only 120 pounds. If eating fast food is directly linked to childhood obesity, then why hasn’t it affected me?
Another contributor that CAI is conveniently leaving out is genetics. CBs reported that “stanford University found that having overweight parents is the biggest risk factor for childhood obesity.” Not only that, but the article goes on to list the three major overweight factors, and none of them have anything
Prosecution a case of hypocrisy
Clown not issue with McDonald’s
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schools across the country deal with issues of fraternity hazing every year, but many choose to ignore the problem instead of
working to fix it. Tuesday, officials at Prairie View A&M University made it clear that they take hazing very seriously.
Administrators at the school decided to disband the Prairie View chapter of the Phi Beta sigma fraternity after concluding that it had violated school hazing rules, resulting in the death of 20-year-old pledge Donnie Wade Jr. officials also determined that members covered up the circumstances surrounding Walsh’s death.
The announcement was handed down one day after the anniversary of the birthday of Jack Phoummarath, a University of Texas at Austin student who drank himself to death at the encouragement of his fraternity during another bout of hazing.
It’s good to see Prairie View send a message to students that hazing won’t be tolerated, but the message needs to be stronger. The fact of the matter is, fraternities have been hazing pledges since well before Animal House, and no school yet has created an airtight policy to keep this tradition from continuing.
Fraternities don’t seem too worried about the consequences of their actions, as they continue to get away with breaking not only school codes, but also standards of human decency.
Universities need to update the rules. In fact, they really only need one: you haze pledges, you’re out.
No second chances, no letting students’ rich parents or benefactors influence a decision. If a student puts someone else’s life in danger, their academic career needs to come to an abrupt end.
Not sending a message this severe only serves to embolden fraternities to continue acting as they have in the past. After all, when the worst that can happen to fraternity members is losing the free house they and their friends get drunk in, why in the world would they be motivated to change?
UH and every other college in the nation needs to implement a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to hazing. Not doing so would only show a lack of caring on the school’s part.
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Universites need harsher punishments for hazing
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The previous administration also instructed the NsA to illegally spy on U.s. citizens. Information on that secret program was leaked to the New york Times in 2005, triggering civil lawsuits against the government. Three federal judges have since ruled that the program was illegal.
yet despite a mountain of evidence that the Bush administration illegally spied on American citizens, including confirmation from three federal judges, there have been no criminal investigations, and none of the responsible parties have been indicted.
so we won’t prosecute people responsible for the torture (and murder) of detainees, for destroying evidence of torture and for illegally spying on American citizens. For stuff like that, we need to look forward, not backward.
But if you leak information demonstrating that a government program is a massive waste of money, we need to vigorously prosecute you, because clearly, in such a case, it’s simply too dangerous to not look backward.
This selective application of the law is ridiculous. Lady Justice wears a blindfold for a reason. Political inconvenience is not an acceptable reason to overlook criminal behavior, and high-ranking government officials should not be above the law.
After eight years of rampant criminal behavior from the Bush administration, the obama administration should be doing its best to show the American people that it believes the law applies equally to everyone.
Instead, just as its predecessor, the obama administration thinks it’s above the law.
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to do with fast food. They say that a child’s temperament, amount of sleep and a lack of parental concern contribute to childhood obesity more than anything else.
so why attack ronald? If he deserves to go, then why not retire the cute little Wendys girl or the loveable Chick-Fil-A cows? CAI claims that because ronald McDonald is a clown, he is more relatable, and children feel safe taking his advice. I find this difficult to believe when it is common knowledge that many children are, in fact, afraid of clowns.
If CAI were to succeed in
bringing down the individual it calls “the deep-fried Joe Camel of the 21st century,” it would be taking away more than just a fast-food icon. It seems to forget that the name “ronald McDonald” is also associated with ronald McDonald House Charities that provide a home and security for sick children all over the world.
If CAI is so intent on trying to improve childhood obesity, then it needs a new focus. retiring ronald McDonald will no more prevent a child from begging for a Happy Meal than removing the star from the flag will stop me from being Texan.
Callie Thompson is a communication senior and may be reached at [email protected]
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Houston band The Literary Greats released its much-anticipated second album, Ocean, Meet the Valley, in 2009 and has solidified its status among Texas groups.
Texas-sized soundsBy Jack WehmanThe Daily Cougar
If you’re in touch with the Texas music scene, chances are you’ve heard of The Literary greats. They released their self-titled first album in 2007, but they were still just learning about each other – the band didn’t even completely form until they were in the studio recording together. After a few years of touring and honing their sound, they’ve come out with their sophomore release Ocean, Meet the Valley.
The time they have spent playing together has paid off in spades – The Literary greats have made a better album than their first, and there is a genuine attention to detail that so many artists seem to forget about on their
second record.“The last album, we recorded it ourselves,
and we hadn’t played a lot of shows, so whenever you play shows (as a) full band…you figure out what the band does well live, and I think that translated more to the second record,” said guitarist Taylor Lee.
The lead singer for The Literary greats, Brandon Elam, seconded that notion, saying, “For the second record we were already a band and writing and playing together. That’s probably the biggest difference, actually.”
The Literary greats have been cementing their place in the Texas music scene not only with their live performances, but also with the support they give their other local musicians.
“We all play in other groups, too. We’re lovers of music; we’re not one of those bands
where we play with other bands and we don’t stick around to see them,” said Lee. “We like watching other bands that we play with; we like different genres of music.”
one of the best things about The Literary greats is their dedication to Houston. They got their start here in town at the Continental Club, and it’s their favorite venue because “they have a good vibe and they’ve been good to us,” Lee said.
They also have a very clear picture of the future and what it holds for them as musicians, as well as the impact the band has on their families. “When we’re not on the road, we all have our little things going on. We all have day jobs as well,” Lee said.
Local houston musicians The Literary Greats prepare for their show at Cactus Music this Saturday
Where has all the four player fun gone?By Jeff JostThe Daily Cougar
remember the good old days when you and up to three of your friends would hang out at someone’s house playing video games together all night long. you could compete with each other or team up in four player games, trash talking and making jokes. remember how you could actually turn to your side and look your opponent in the face as you ruthlessly gloated at them? remember what it was like to see everyone’s characters on one screen? remember how you never had to have an internet connection to play games with friends? This was called
“local multiplayer” and it’s starting to become a scarcity. Where has all the multiplayer gone? In one word, “online”.
With the creation of the next gen systems a lot of emphasis has been put into online play. Microsoft and sony are relentlessly promoting their online networks with add on’s, perks and extra features that are all only accessible online. New games are being developed that push the boundaries of online gaming, such as the massive multiplayer style of M.A.G. or the immensely popular trend of MMorPgs (massively multiplayer online role playing games) such as World of Warcraft and the upcoming Final Fantasy XVI.
And games such as Modern Warfare 2 have made more of a name for themselves as online multiplayer gaming arenas than as a single player game.
But what about the face-to-face multiplayer we all grew up with? I can’t battle legions of undead with three of my friends in Left 4 Dead (one or two) without all of us getting online at the same time or getting together two TVs, systems, and copies of the game for a system link. I tried playing the shooter/role playing hybrid Borderlands with friends, but you can only play two characters on a system, and when you do important text like your name and stats get cut out of the menus. I can’t
even play two player cooperative on Dynasty Warriors: Gundam even though the other Dynasty Warriors games have it. It just seems like developers don’t care to make games that four people can play in one room anymore. sure, you can buy four wireless controllers for your 360 or Ps3, but all you could use them for is playing triple-A first person shooters such as Halo and Modern Warfare; everything else is just pushed aside. The recently released Bioshock 2 had a multiplayer mode added to its content, but you can’t play it without an online connection.
I realize this may seem like a
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remember when you were a kid and your whole world, at least for those eight hours a day while you were at school, was ordered
around the wisdom of the buddy system? The idea was simple: as long as there was a second small child with
you at all times, you were much less likely to be abducted by the bogeymen lurking in the shadows. Brilliant.
Flash forward ten years, and the buddy system starts to seem pretty smart, especially when it comes to staying fit. regardless of your exercise of choice, having a buddy by your side is almost indispensible if you want to get them most out of your workout.
Take going to the gym. Not only is much of weightlifting only safe to do if you have somebody there to spot you, you’ll be much more likely to work up the courage to strike up a conversation with the resident hottie if you have a buddy there to egg you on. Alternatively, it helps for the ladies to have a girlfriend along to ward off the creeps that come over, trying to chat you up, when all you want to do is get your sweat on and relieve some stress.
Buddies help if you’re into running, too. running can be a lonely game, and as the miles pass under your feet, it helps to be able to look up and see a friend suffering alongside you. It can be hard to stay motivated by means of willpower alone, especially if you’re training for something unnaturally grueling like a marathon. Having an equally committed person by your side can keep you going far past the point where, otherwise, you’d have dropped off.
so, how to choose a buddy? This may seem like an obvious question—you have a friend and you both want to get into shape; problem solved. But it’s not that simple; not all buddies are created equal.
First, you have to ask yourself, “Is this person likely to flake?” No matter how committed you are to your fitness goals, if the buddy you have chosen doesn’t take things seriously, chances are you won’t either.
second, make sure the buddy you choose is at about the same fitness level as you. If you’re on the scrawny side, don’t choose somebody who could bench press three of you to lift weights with, you’ll only end up annoying him and discouraging yourself. or, if you’re on the hefty side, don’t
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choose a skin-and-bones runner to go jogging with; the only thing worse than getting left in the dust by your running partner is knowing that you’re making them slow their pace down just for you. If you can, find somebody who is just a bit stronger and faster than you. That way, they’ll be more likely to know the ropes, to know what works and doesn’t. Besides, such a person will
push you harder than somebody who’s a step slower or a few reps weaker than you are.
Finally, make sure they have a good sense of humor. When that next mile or that next set of reps begins to seem like a cruel joke, it can be great to have someone there who can lighten up the mood with a laugh.
As it turns out, Miss Price from second grade had a pretty good idea after all.
small complaint. Everyone should have an online connection these days and getting a membership to Xbox Live costs about $50 a year, so what’s the problem? The problem is that I want to play with my friends. Not all my friends have the same system. Most people don’t, because gamers are constantly segmented between their system of choice or even computer play. Even when someone has multiple systems would they have a copy of the game you want to play on the same system as you? More than that, it’s just more fun to play when your friends are actually in the room. Why do you think people have LAN
parties and LAN centers are built all over? Because even games that are designed to only be played on multiplayer are more fun when you can turn to the person you just shot and see their frustration manifest in real life in the face of a friend. Then there are the various problems with online gaming itself. The complaints constantly resurface again and again. Hackers, rage quitters, people that don’t understand your language, bigoted jerks that won’t keep their mouths shut, the list goes on and on.
There is one major company and system of gaming that I have yet to mention. That is of course the Nintendo Wii. For many gamers the Wii has been shrugged off as a niche system made to make gaming more accessible to a mainstream audience, but multiplayer is one of the areas
in which the Wii shines. The system is practically designed for parties and groups of friends wanting to play together. With continuations of popular multiplayer franchises such as Mario Party, Raving Rabbids and Super Smash Brothers, as well as new party creations like New Super Mario Brothers, Nintendo still provides a party in a platform.
Don’t get me wrong, online gaming is great and it is still revolutionizing the industry. But let’s not forget the fun that can be had with actual human interaction playing a part in our virtual interactions. It’s great when game time can also be hang out time, and you can’t really do that very well through an Ethernet chord.
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The band knows they aren’t going to explode overnight and that it takes a lot of drive and passion to continue to make good music. That’s what the group was founded on and that’s how they continue to view the future.
“Honestly the ultimate goal is to continue making music and try to make music for a living. Ultimately we’d like to be able to make a good living playing music – a good enough living to support our families, really. We have no aspirations to be superstars,” Elam said.
The Literary greats aren’t just focused entirely on themselves, either. If they could eliminate any band from history, it would be Nickelback, “so that I would never ever have to hear one of their songs again,” Lee said.
When the topic of illegal downloading came up, Elam stayed calm. “I hope they (illegal downloaders) come to the show. I hope they like it enough that they would rather come see us live,” he said.
It’s rare for a band to know exactly where their place in music is and to know exactly what steps they want to take moving forward. When one does come along, though, it’s only a matter of time before they make it big. Expect to see more, well, great things from The Literary greats.
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By Tristan TippetThe Daily Cougar
After their worst stretch of the season, in which they lost seven of eight, the Cougars have rebounded to win three of four, including a series win at home over Conference UsA foe Memphis last weekend.
The Cougars now sit at 16-18 and will take a short break from league play to take on Lamar at 6:30 today at Vincent-Beck stadium in Beaumont.
Lamar is the fifth team from the southland Conference the Cougars will face. The others were Texas state, stephen F. Austin, Texas-san Antonio and sam Houston state. The Cougars went 3-4 against these programs, with three of those losses coming against Texas state at home to open the season.
Lamar is having another solid season under second-year head coach Jim gilligan, who is in his 34th season with the Cardinals. He has a 1,144-722-7 record in his tenure at Lamar.
In gilligan’s first season at Lamar, the Cardinals were 38-22 and split their two-game set with
UH, losing 4-2 in Beaumont and winning 12-3 at Cougar Field. That win snapped Houston’s five-game winning streak over Lamar.
This year, Lamar is 23-15, including 14-6 in a fairly easy non-conference schedule. The Cardinals’ best win was a 13-7 victory at rice on Feb. 24 in their fourth game of the season.
The Cardinals, though, are hot as of late, having won six of their last eight, including a sweep over reeling sam Houston state last weekend at Vincent-Beck stadium.
Lamar is solid on offense. The Cardinals are batting .295 as a team, with four regulars batting .309 or better. shortstop Aaron Buchanan leads the way with a .381 average to go along with a team-high 42 runs scored and 23 rBIs. outfielder Quentin Luquette is the team’s second-best batter with a .321 average and a team-high 36 rBIs.
Unlike most of the teams the Cougars have faced this season, Lamar has one of the better pitching staffs in the area with a 4.56 team ErA, including a trio of Matison smith (6-1, 3.43), Eric Harrington (5-1, 3.73) and Jonathan Dziedzic (2-2 4.61).
That’s what UH head coach rayner Noble is hoping to see out of his starters who, despite the team’s recent success, haven’t made it to the fourth inning in three of the last four games.
“We’ve just got to put somebody on the mound that can throw some innings for us and
keep them at bay, and hopefully we can just keep scoring and keep scoring,” Noble said.
UH will dodge Lamar’s big three as Blake Ford is scheduled to get the nod for the Cardinals. Ford enters today’s contest with a 2-4 record and a 5.97 ErA. Noble will counter with Barry Laird, who
is making his first start of the year and comes in with an 8.10 ErA.
After today’s game, the Cougars will return home to prepare for a three-game weekend series against Conference UsA rival southern Miss.
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Ashleigh Jones and the Cougars will take another stab at their first road victory of the season when they take on Texas State at 6 p.m. today. It will be one of the Cougars’ three remaining regular-season road games.
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With the regular season drawing to a close, the Cougars look to get their first road win of the season when they travel to Bobcat Field for a matchup against Texas state at 6 p.m. today.
Head coach Kyla Holas said time is running out, and her team needs to figure out a winning road formula fast.
“With our wins happening only at home, this has to be our chance to do something,” Holas said.
The Cougars (23-21) are 0-13 on the road. This midweek contest is one of three remaining non-conference matches for the Cougars. Holas would like to end the regular season non-conference matchup with a road win.
“With a tougher schedule at home, you would think it would be the other way around, and it’s just not lining up for us,” Holas said. “It just seems to be one of those monkeys on our backs that we just cannot figure out and cannot get away from.”
Texas state (21-18), which is coached by ricci Woodard, went 40-18 a season ago. Last week, the
Bobcats were swept by North Texas in a doubleheader. But Holas, who is 8-5 all-time against Texas state, said it is a great program that consistently finds its way to the top of the conference.
“People look really highly upon them from the outside, and we have to make sure that we are able to show up and take care of business against them,” she said.
Holas was not pleased with UH’s performance over the weekend. The Cougars suffered a sweep at Tulsa in a doubleheader that snapped a five-game winning streak.
“If you look at the numbers, we didn’t have good pitching and (had) some key errors that caused some problems,” Holas said.
Difficult weather conditions forced the cancellation of sunday’s game and Monday’s practice.
Deciding on a starting pitcher for today’s game is a hard decision, says Holas.
“We weren’t very pleased with what has happened this past weekend, so we are really going to have to take a look at things to see who mentally can step out there and win for us,” Holas said.
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Junior Blake Kelso has seen his stature and role on the team grow since his freshman campaign and is putting together the best season of his career when it matters most.
Kelso grows into team leaderBy Joshua SiegelThe Daily Cougar
on Feb. 22, 2008, UH head baseball coach rayner Noble penciled then-freshman Blake Kelso into the lineup for his first career collegiate start. Kelso has yet to miss a game since, starting all 153 games that the Cougars have played during his career.
Now a junior, Kelso has grown during his time playing for the Cougars, both as a person and a player. He began his career hitting at the bottom of the lineup without much fanfare but has become a fixture in of the leadoff spot.
“The more you play each year, you learn to be more and more patient,” Kelso said. “you try to make the game slower than it should be. since I don’t have a lot of power, I don’t go up there trying to hit home runs. I try to work my way on base because I’m the leadoff hitter.”
Coming out of Pflugerville High school, scouts were wary of how Kelso would project at the next level because of his size.
“A lot of people (were) saying, ‘you’re too small. you’ll never do anything,’” Kelso said. “That just really made me work harder and harder until I got to this point.”
Despite offers from other programs such as Notre Dame and Texas — close to his hometown of Pflugerville — Kelso chose UH because of the opportunity to start as a freshman.
“I knew I was going to have to go to college for at least three years if I wanted to play (professional baseball), sharpen my skills and get my name out there,” he said. “When I visited, I liked coach Noble and the staff. I felt like I would start my freshman year.”
Despite an inconsistent season for the Cougars as a team, Kelso has been a constant at the plate and in the field. He is posting career-highs in batting average (.336), on-base percentage (.422) and slugging percentage (.460) while leading the Cougars with 13 multi-hit games.
Kelso’s abilities were on display against some of the other top college players in the nation this summer when he played in the
Cape Cod Baseball League, which uses wooden bats. Kelso came away hitting .260 with a .358 oBP and swiping 18 bags to go along with stellar defense.
“It’s a little different,” Kelso said. “But you get used to it after a while. I like using wood bats. I did pretty (well). I didn’t feel like I was overmatched. I just went out and played the way I do.”
Kelso’s solid showing has him projected to be drafted as high as the fourth round in this summer’s Major League Baseball amateur draft. For now, though, Kelso’s primary focus is to help lead the Cougars, who have lost seven of their last 11 games.
“We’ve hit a little rut as of late. We’ve just got to get everything going together,” he said. “We’ve either been hitting well and not pitching well or pitching well and not hitting well. you’ve got to put them both together if you’re going to go somewhere.
“If we put it together, we could do some big things.”
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The Daily Cougar COMICS & MORE Wednesday, April 21, 2010 n 11
TODAy’S CROSSWORDCOUGAR COMICS Find more daily strips at thedailycougar.com/comics
TODAy’S SUDOKU
how to playEach row must contain the numbers 1 to 9; each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9; and each set of 3-by-3 boxes must also contain the numbers 1 to 9.
ACross 1 The basics 5 Clean the deck 9 Comes unglued 14 Air show stunt 15 Syllogism word 16 Lancaster group 17 Razor brand 18 has regrets 19 Public sentiment 20 Put an edge on 22 Iced 24 Slight trace 26 Lemon cooler 27 Frame of mind 30 hoods 35 Sports palace 36 highway cruiser 37 Splash over 38 Robin’s beak 39 Broccoli seg-
ments 42 Kind of agent 43 Toe problem 45 B — — baker 46 Rousseau novel 48 Precisely (3 wds.) 50 Kind of expres-
sion 51 hwy. 52 Components of
an agenda 54 Live it up 58 Laundromat fixtures 62 Winning 63 Den 65 Sunburn remedy 66 Not glossy 67 Upgrade 68 Early Briton 69 Listens to 70 Unthinkingly 71 Fifth Avenue
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down 1 Mournful wail 2 The two of them 3 Mrs. Dithers in
“Blondie” 4 Lacking luxury
and comfort 5 Tranquil 6 Squeezed dry 7 Long time 8 Juicy pear 9 Turbulent water
10 Charms 11 Respiratory organ 12 Latin I verb 13 Tool storage 21 Dish with saffron 23 Custom 25 Retired professors 27 oblong fruit 28 Winter constellation 29 Give a counterargument 31 Forewarning 32 Dainty 33 California oak 34 Watched secretly 36 Just average
(hyph.) 40 Fills the hull 41 Beds of coal 44 husky 47 Accidents
49 Liszt compositions 50 Lustrously white 53 Durable fabric 54 hunter’s garb 55 Melville captain 56 Solar plexus 57 Grades 1-12 59 Essay byline 60 Flint or marble 61 Movie-lot locales 64 help
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12 n Wednesday, April 21, 2010 BLOGS The Daily Cougar
serving two masters »Being a college student is
way more important to me than being editor in chief of The Daily Cougar.
But more often than not, the opposite seems to be the case.
I still consider school to be my No. 1 priority, but The Daily Cougar easily commands the bulk of my time and energy. I usually work at least five days at the office per week, with some of the shifts lasting anywhere from 10-12 hours. I work late into the night on at least four of those days.
As you can imagine, this usually doesn’t leave much time for schoolwork. I usually have to settle for catching up on assignments upon returning to my room late at night. Thus, I don’t hit the sack until 4 or 5 a.m. on most nights, if ever.
Naturally, my grades tend to suffer a bit. A lot of my assignments are completed at the very last minute, so the work isn’t always as good as it could be. I study when I can, meaning that I don’t give myself enough time to prepare for examinations. I’m often not able
to finish reading the required materials for class.
Did I mention that I don’t get much sleep?
serving two masters is a difficult task. I think I’ve handled it as best as could be expected for the spring semester, but there have been a lot of close calls. I’ve been fortunate to receive extensions on some major assignments. Turning the work in late eliminates any chances of making an A on the assignment as points are subtracted for tardiness, but it beats having no grade at all.
Anyone who takes this position should understand that doing so will ultimately take some bite out of their academic career.
you can fight it off for as long as you’d like, but it’s inevitable.
editor.thedailycougar.com
my favorite scientist »I love reading the biographies
and life stories of scientists. reading through the critical moments that define their work has been the inspiration to my own research.
The stories of Marie Curie and rosalind Franklin reminded me of their relentless passion for truth when they had to bend all the rules in a society
where women were not allowed to pursue big dreams for themselves.
My favorite scientist, however, is Ludwig Boltzmann. Despite his success in physics, he seemed like an unhappy person and took his own life eventually. Throughout his life, his friends often turned into his worst enemies, and he had no allies in the science community. After he died, his coffin was misplaced. Decades later it was repositioned with a headstone inscribed only with “s=klogW.” His work in the kinetic theory of gas is an important contribution to modern physics. on the other hand, it’s quite sad that not even one person would say a word about Boltzmann.
His life story very often reminds me that it’s important to be a good and happy person. Although we often joke that science is our lifestyle and competitiveness is in our nature, we should not forget that scientists should also be kind and remember to give back to the society that unselfishly provides the resources making us who we are today.
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re: “sony falls short with system update to ps3” —
“You do understand why Sony has had to do this? The secondary operating system allowed users to exploit and hack the operating system. Piracy was the death of the PSP, so can you really blame Sony, or is it the fault of hackers?”
— Daily Cougar User “Nate”
re: “people need to observe dating rules” —
“I’m very happy to be born in this time and age. I never open doors for women or pull their chair out for them. If she wants a man to take care of her, then I expect her to stay home and be a housewife. Oh, wait. Women don’t want that anymore. It’s their choice. I’m sticking to mine.”
— Daily Cougar User “Jim”
re: “military wrong to cover up truth” —
“The main point, as you say, is the cover-up. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been making statements, saying it was all according to Hoyle. As soon as I saw the video clip, it hit me that he is doing damage control. Not just skillful hedging, but outright fibbing.”
— Daily Cougar User “Levi443”
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