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Katherine MorrisContributing writer
The ballots are in – Cedric Ban-doh and Rani Ramchandani will take offi ce in the 50th Student Govern-ment Association administration.
Bandoh won re-election over competitor Eduardo Reyes with 59.6 percent of the votes. Bandoh and Ramchandani will begin serv-ing their term together as president and vice president, respectively, April 1.
Both Bandoh and Ramchandani plan on getting straight to business come April, Bandoh said.
“Many items on our platform will begin simultaneously as we will hit the ground running,” Bandoh said. “Folks who know me understand that I believe time is money, and I don’t like wasting either one, and the students deserve an SGA that
works diligently.”“A major item that we will start,
is working with our Department of Public Safety to look at implement-ing the Cougar Patrol,” he said.
Bandoh said scholarships and financial aid will still remain as part of his driving forces. Bandoh and Ramchandani said they plan to continue to further improve on what we have, including a better refund service for students.
Bandoh’s reason behind choos-ing Ramchandani is because of to her passion for the campus, he said.
In the current administration, Ramchandani serves as chair of the Senate Committee on Administra-tion and Finance. Outside of SGA, she has served two years as co-president of the Mr. UH Executive Board in which she raised $3,000 for philanthropic service
“I am extremely grateful to the student body for supporting our mission and believing in our vision,” Ramchandani said. “At the end of the day, Cedric, myself and the
entire SGA collective are working in the best interest of the students for the students.
Chrystal GrantStaff writer
A lecturer for the UH Law Center who became the fi rst African Ameri-can woman to serve on the First Court of Appeals in Texas, died Friday.
Gaynelle Griffi n Jones, 64, died at her home in Houston after battling cancer for several years, said her daughter, Athena Jones.
“She was very impressible and energetic,” Jones said, a correspon-dent for CNN. “She loved to work on new projects a n d t r a v e l , from building g ingerbread houses with her grandson to planning trips to Egypt, G h a n a a n d South Africa.”
Born Nov. 20, 1948 in Dallas, Grif-fi n was the second child of Marvin and Lois Griffi n. She graduated from A. J. Moore High School in Waco. She received a scholarship to Emerson College in Boston and earned a degree in history. She then received a full scholarship to attend Boston Col-lege Law School, where her 40-year legal career began.
Griffi n was appointed by the Texas governor to serve on the First Court of
Appeals. Former President Bill Clinton named her United States Attorney for the Southern District in Texas in 1993, making her the fi rst African-American woman appointed to the position.
Griffi n taught trial advocacy at the UH Law Center and contributed legal services to the poor, criminal law, cor-porate law and private practices.
Griffi n loved to stay involved and volunteer her service, Jones said.
She was a senior fellow as the Center for Houston’s Future and the American Leadership Forum, and she served on the board of the Houston Area Women’s Center; the Phoenix House of Texas, a teenage drug treat-ment program; and Cate School.
Jones received many awards and honors for her achievements, includ-ing the Sarah Hughes Outstanding Achievement Award from the State Bar of Texas Women’s Section, the Bessie Coleman Trailblazer Award and the Star of Achievement Award.
She was active in the Houston Bar Association as co-chair of the minor-ity opportunities committee and was a frequent lecturer at professional seminars and programs.
The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Wheeler Avenue Baptist.
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On Saturday, in correspondence with its push for an increased focus on science and technology, UH contributed to the annual Science Engineering Fair of Houston, an event that awards more than $60,000 in college scholarships to approxi-mately 200 students from the greater Houston area.
UH has become a major player this year by holding campus and residence hall tours for the par-ticipating students and by having the award ceremonies held at the
Cullen Performance Hall. The fair has provided an educational service to junior and senior high school stu-dents since the 1960s.
“Houston is this scientifi c hub,” said Mark Smith, dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathemat-ics. “And supporting and cultivating the local minds is extremely impor-tant to our city’s success.”
Retired NASA astronaut and engineer Bonnie Dunbar, the leader the Science, Technology, Engineer-ing and Mathematics Center, offered
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“Our mantra for the 50th admin-istration is to keep a continuous improvement mindset and leave things better than we left them. I can’t tell you how exciting of a role this is and how passionate I am about this University. Even with the expected challenges on this path, I only see a bright future with many
triumphs,” she said.Ramchandani takes the place of
the current vice president, Turner Harris, who opted out for re-election to put focus on fi nishing school.
“I hope Cedric and Rani pick up right where we left off and continue to have a tangible impact on the student body,” Harris said.
“I’m really excited to see what they accomplish — it’s been a while since SGA has had a president serve back-to-back terms, so Cedric won’t
have to spend the first couple of months learning the ropes. Rani is such an intelligent and capable person; I am very much looking forward to see what she does.”
The voting process, which encountered multiple problems, provided the election’s results Fri-day, but the results should be vali-dated by Tuesday, said chief election commissioner Said Jalajal.
the contestants her advice at the ceremonies.
“Developing a pipeline for careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics will play a major role in the sustained growth and stability of the U.S. economy and
is a critical component to helping our nation win the future,” Dunbar said.
The Science and Engineering Fair of Houston has promoted the learning and applications of science and technology for Texas middle and high school students.
UH’s goal is to generate a steady stream of bright and talented stu-dents with an interest in STEM
fi elds to contribute to the growing scientifi c industries and health care facilities located in the city and state, Dunbar said.
Dunbar offered more words of encouragement to the students.
“I just don’t see obstacles,” Dun-bar said. “I see challenges. I like solv-ing problems.”
CAMPUS
Guest lecturer uses desert as teaching tool
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Mary DahdouhContributing writer
The desert, known for its isolation and solidarity, has become a teaching inspiration of hospitality and social responsibility for author Rubén Martinez.
Martinez, a former UH creative writing professor and Emmy Award-winning journalist, returned to UH on Thursday to discuss how his book, “Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West,” portrays the juxta-position of the desert and inescapable human encounters.
“People often go to the desert thinking that they will fi nd solitude there, that they will find healing there; they will fi nd a spiritual journey there,” Martinez said. “But if you stay there and live there like I did, you will fi nd that all the things we are suppos-edly leaving behind are found in stark relief out in the desert as well.”
Martinez was an immigrant to the desert, moving from one of the most
densely-populated cities in the world, Mexico City, to the deserts of New Mexico. Martinez said he struggled with tension between the desert he imagined and the desert he lived in.
A young couple and their son lived next to Martinez and were a constant reminder of the unhappiness and struggle that dwells on the borders of the desert. Each day, Martinez would watch Rose and José’s fi ghts from his attic but never did anything.
“My wife and I write about bor-ders. We write about the ideas of hospitality and solidarity,” Martinez said. “And then suddenly we’re liv-ing in a situation where our literal neighbors ... and our ideals of solidar-ity come up against this harsh real-ity of what are we supposed to do with our neighbors. ... What are our responsibilities?”
Through these questions, Marti-nez opened the idea of hospitality and confrontation to include many global issues surrounding the idea of borders
between people and nations.“He touched on a lot of concepts
that I hadn’t really thought about,” said biology sophomore Amber Ansari. “He spoke about how a border is just a wall, but it’s only physically there. There’s no symbolic meaning, and it really doesn’t stop anything from happening or progressing.”
In his book and lecture, Martinez compared his life in Mexico and the U.S. and said how two cultures clashed. For this reason, Maria Laura Zubiate, a graduate student and Span-ish professor in the Honors College, urged her class to attend.
“Today’s presentation dealt with a lot of culture between the two coun-tries, and my class is not only about language, it’s about language and culture,” Zubiate said.
“Through hospitality, what is happening in Mexico is not just the others’ problems. It’s our problem as well,” she said.
Martinez concluded by saying the desert asks us to change the way we live and think explained by many phi-losophers, such as Jacques Derrida.
“I always thought about what we would do if Rose came and knocked on our door one day, hysterical after a fi ght with José,” Martinez said.
“A book on hospitality by Derrida answers that question: You have to open the door. By not taking the risk of opening the door or knocking on the door, how is anything going to change?”
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Robert BuzzancoGuest contributor
Next week, I will commemo-rate the third anniversary of the worst day of my life — the date on which my son Kelsey Buzzanco, a UH student, died by suicide.
It was March 11, 2010 when Kelsey took his life with a handgun. Since that time, I’ve thought of him every day, and anyone who has lost someone close to suicide will tell you that the pain does not go away. Still, there are ways to try to make something positive out of such a loss through helping others understand, get educated about and prevent the growing crisis of suicide in our society.
According to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2010, there were more than 38,000 sui-cides in America, or 12.4 percent for every 100,000 people, which is up from 10.7 percent in 2000. College-aged persons accounted for 4,600 suicides, or 21.1 per-cent per 100,000 people.
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people. More alarming is that there are about 1 million suicide attempts per year. Males are four times more likely to successfully kill themselves even though females attempt three times more than males.
These numbers among young people are continuing to rise. Military suicides in par-ticular have become a national mental health and medical cri-sis. Last year, more soldiers died by suicide than from service in the war in Afghanistan. Even after their service, the mental aftermath, the depression
and the post-traumatic stress disorder remain, and their risks of suicide are still signifi -cantly larger than the general population.
Another emerging problem associated with suicide has become student debt. While the evidence is anecdotal, mental health professionals and counselors for young people all suggest that more young people are trying, and often succeeding, in killing themselves because of the pressure of student debt, which is now about $1 trillion nationwide.
No discussion of suicide should occur without talk about guns. While recent tragedies have brought the issue of guns, especially assault weapons, into the national debate, the prob-lem of handguns and suicide is actually much more alarming. In 2010, more than 19,000 suicides were attributable to fi rearms.
Since the overwhelming majority of young people in cri-sis, like my son, can easily obtain guns, we have a lethal situation in which it becomes far too easy to commit suicide because someone having a crisis can obtain access to a nearby gun.
With states like Texas considering the allowance of concealed weapons on campus, this issue will only become more important and the implications likely more grave.
This information is vital, not to instill fear, but to educate. On campus, we have some of the groups most at risk: young people under stress, students on medications such as Ritalin or Adderall, military veterans and students in debt.
The best approach is to talk to someone about these problems or to ask people who seem troubled if they’re doing okay. The UH Counseling and Psychological Services in the
Student Service Center 1 Build-ing is available to confi dentially talk to students, but we need to get the University involved in having more suicide education programs during orientation and at other times.
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, which also has a campus chapter, has great resources and information at www.afsp.org. Sometimes, something as simple as asking someone if he or she is all right or needs to talk can be the dif-ference between life and death.
A few months ago, NFL player Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend and himself. After, the Kansas City Chiefs’ quarterback and his teammate, Brady Quinn, spoke to the media.
“The one thing people can hopefully try to take away, I guess, is the relationships they have with people,” Quinn said.
“I know when it happened, I was sitting and, in my head, think-ing about what I could have done differently. When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth?”
Quinn’s observation is an important one. Communication is key to educating about and preventing suicides. None of this information is useful if we only receive it after the fact, like I have. I worried about Kelsey but never realized how much pain he felt; however, it is pos-sible to talk to others, to avoid having guns nearby and to seek help. Maybe then a lot fewer people will be commemorating anniversaries like I will be on March 11.
Robert Buzzanco is a professor of history.
UH history professor Robert Buzzanco, left, next to his late son Kelsey Buzzanco. Kelsey’s suicide is one in a growing number of suicides among young adults. | Photo courtesy of Robert Buzzanco
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MENTAL HEALTH
Past the breaking point
OPINIONEDITOR Aaron Manuel EMAIL [email protected] ONLINE thedailycougar.com/opinion
VOICE OF THE PRIDESequestration, defi cit and the battle of the budget
Feb. 19, when President Barack Obama marched out fi refi ghters and other fi rst responders in his
campaign to shame Congress into passing legislation that would bypass or lessen the impact of the fi rst wave of budget cuts, I was genuinely offended.
Obama knew these cuts were coming, cuts he thought were “absolutely neces-sary” when he signed the Budget Control Act of 2011. He said as much Feb. 13, 2012
to students at Northern Virginia Community Col-lege in Annandale, Va.
“The truth is we’re going to have to make some tough choices in order to put this country back on a more sustain-
able fi scal path,” he said.This year, the president has received
his tax increases on the rich. With the end of the temporary 2-percent payroll cuts, everyone’s taxes have increased. Up until the zero hour before sequestration, Obama tried to avoid fulfi lling the promise of the BCA in taking the fi rst step toward ending Washington D.C.’s culture of uncontrolled spending.
Still, there is more to be done. In truth, more spending must be cut, and taxes — painful as this reads — must increase. Balancing the budget is not enough; princi-pal on the debt must be paid.
That is just my opinion, though. The Opinion Desk wants to know what the Pride thinks in this week’s Voice of the Pride.
Aaron Manuel is a print journalism senior and may be reached at [email protected].
Debt, other factors driving more young adults to suicide
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Andrew ValderasStaff writer
With 17 seconds remaining in the game, the crowd rose and paid its respects Sunday to Porsche Lan-dry as she hugged her coach and headed toward the bench for the last time at Hofheinz Pavilion.
Head coach Todd Buchanan said the redshirt senior guard has meant everything to the team this year.
“She’s put this young team with new faces on her back and has carried us to the promise land time and time again for our team,” Buchanan said.
She again meant a lot for the Cougars. UH improved to 7-8 in C-USA and 13-15 overall with the 69-59 victory over Rice University.
Landry was just shy of a triple-double as she had game highs in 28 points, eight assists and nine rebounds. She said she left noth-ing behind and wanted to leave everything out on the court in her last home outing.
“I wanted to come out and just have fun,” Landry said. “My plan was wanted to get my team-mates involved and to play with no consciousness.”
J u n i o r c e n t e r Ya s m e e n
Thompson registered her sixth double-fi gure scoring effort and was just shy of a double-double with 13 points and nine rebounds.
Thompson said Landry’s last game will make them play more consistently with the games ahead.
“All of us are going to act like every game is going to be (Landry’s) last,” she said. “We were playing for a lot today and that is going to keep us ahead.”
UH shot a season high 47 per-cent in the fi rst half and had a 34-24 lead at halftime.
“We stayed aggressive,” Buch-anan said. “I thought our defense really started it for us when we forced turnovers and go in transition.”
Buchanan said he is proud and grateful to be associated with such a great player like Landry.
“She’ll have a legacy here at UH for the rest of her life,” Buchanan said. “Everything for her has been well deserved, and I have been extremely humble to be her coach for the past three years.”
Harrison LeeStaff writer
The Cougars looked like a new baseball team as they slugged, fi elded and threw their way to a 2-1 showing during the Astros Founda-tion College Classic this weekend.
Over a span of three games, the Cougars scored 23 runs and were able to defeat two respected programs.
“I feel good about the weekend. I’m happy with where the ball club is at,” said head coach Todd Whitting.
The Cougars overpowered Texas A&M and Baylor before falling to the University of California-Berkeley. In
the process they scored 23 runs with 41 hits and collected 20 walks with 14 coming in the game against the Aggies on Saturday.
Redshirt junior Frankie Ratcliff set a College Classic record with four walks in the seven inning game against Baylor.
“I had the same approach going up to the plate to not try and do anything special and just get the next guy up,” Ratcliff said. “(If you are) able to foul balls off and attack pitches in the zone, the rest will fall into place.”
The highlight of the Baylor game was UH scoring 15 runs on only 6 hits. One hit from junior infielder Jonathan Davis was good for four of those runs as he socked his fi rst career grand slam into the left fi eld Crawford Boxes at Minute Maid Park.
“I went up there with the approach of just trying to get the guy in,” Davis said. “I was looking for something to hit, and the guy threw me a 3-1 fastball. I was able to put a good swing on it.”
Cougar pitching and defense was
solid for most of the Classic. Junior catcher Caleb Barker threw out two runners over the course of the Clas-sic and junior outfielder Landon Appling made several good defensive plays throughout all three games.
Cougar pitching was shown with
timely performances by senior Austin Pruitt, who got his third win of the season while keeping his ERA at a solid 1.71 in his win against Baylor on Saturday. Junior right-hander Chase Wellbrock held a high-powered Aggie offense to only one run over four
innings of long relief Friday.The Cougars are back home this
week for a series against Penn State starting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Cou-gar Field.
Senior guard Porsche Landry surpassed Brittney Scott (2007-11), a former teammate for the seventh spot on the all-time scor-ing chart with 1,547 points. She scored 28 points in her fi nal game at Hofheinz Pavilion. | Justin Tijerina/The Daily Cougar
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BASEBALL
Cougars’ bats guide team to Classic wins
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Landry shines in home fi nale
The Cougars, including freshman designated hitter Kyle Kirk, crossed the plate 23 times at the Astros Foundation Classic. The baseball team went 2-1, defeating Baylor and Texas A&M. | Esteban Portillo/The Daily Cougar
Cougars open practice today
If you want to fi nd out who has the early lead in positions battles, the University is offering you a chance to do so in person. The UH football team opens spring practice today at 4:30. It is open to the public.
SPRING BALL
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Monica TsoStaff writer
Ubiquitous things have form, and matter poems can depict how those forms of life hold together, said Kathleen Stewart, an award-winning anthropology professor from the University of Texas at Austin during her seminar Wednesday evening at the Blaffer Art Museum.
The Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series invited Stewart to dis-cuss her book project, “Worldlings,” a collection of matter poems per-sonifying New England in relation to its current theme: materiality.
“My focus is to transform the sound of language into writing,” Stewart said. “I want to push the edges of what people think is accept-able. In ‘Worldings,’ I learn how to incorporate the different trajectories and experiences of things.”
Stewart said she illustrated the American road as an emergence of streams of matter and thoughts. She also described the color red through a perception of a local house and expressed “pockets” as dark human spaces in a room where something changed.
“I want to capture the worlds in different intensities and to capture how uniquely people enter these
worlds. My work experiments with the sensory materiality of forms of attunement to these worlds,” Stewart said.
Rex Koontz, director of the School of Art, has worked with Stew-art and said he believes she wants to
understand the poetry of everyday life by questioning aspects that are seemingly ordinary and concrete.
“Stewart uses rich imagery much more effectively than most academ-ics,” Koontz said.
“She takes us down a New
England road with its colors, sounds and smells. She stops before a walking bridge to muse on its form color.”
Instead of believing or not believing, Koontz said he thinks the matter poems provide an essential
service to the art world.“Matter poems push back
against overly simplistic quan-tifications and rigid interpretive paradigms,” Koontz said. “It frees us to look closely and to pay atten-tion to the way forms constitute themselves throughout time.”
Art history freshman Brandon Zech said he was interested in Stewart’s connection with Tony Feher’s work, which is displayed in the Blaffer gallery, and the paral-lels between their ideas of poetry in everyday actions.
“I was intrigued by her idea that poetry was all-encompassing of everyday life and that it was pres-ent in every little thing in our daily routines,” Zech said. “Stewart is simply putting into words what is common of everyday life.”
Zech said he believes in the concept of matter poems and its prominence in current studies. He described matter poems as a way to see beauty in the everyday.
“I think that life in itself is a sort of unwritten poetry,” Zech said. “This idea is significant, because when one looks at their life in this way, it makes their life seem very meaningful.”
Laura GillespieStaff writer
The Photography Student Asso-ciation is back in full gear after its recent fall-out from UH student organizations.
Seasoned photographers and wishful newcomers came together Thursday for PSA’s fi rst meeting of the year where introductions were made, events for the upcoming semester were discussed and $100 scholarships were awarded to one undergraduate and one graduate student.
Formerly UHPSA, the PSA was re-founded in the fall after the previous association lost its steam.
Sharing a logo and some T-shirts with its predecessor, the PSA serves as a networking, teaching, learning and social experience for everyone from experienced photography graduate students to those who have never held a camera.
“We took bits and pieces from
them, but it really is a new organi-zation,” said Katelin Washmon, PSA president and a third-year photo visual media graduate student.
“This (club) has graduate stu-dents involved, as well as under-graduate students, and I think that’s really crucial because that communication needs to be there. That networking needs to be there in order to have the club survive from year to year.”
The club will host workshops on photographic techniques such as lighting or how to properly clean a camera.
Additionally, the offi cers will offer portfolio critiques for students that want perspective on their work.
The highlight of the meeting was the announcement of the scholarship winners. The students were chosen based on short portfolios that were evaluated by a panel of judges.
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Undergraduate winner Brenda Franco was not present to receive her award, but second-year pho-tography graduate student Jeremy Underwood said he was grateful.
“It was great. What more can you ask for? That’s the great thing about the organization: You get involved, you can participate but also get something out of it,” Underwood said.
The PSA will host a viewing at the Houston Center for Photography
later in the semester, with students’ work turned to face the windows, so pedestrians walking past can view the photographs as well.
“(I like) the whole idea of orga-nizing people in a non-academic environment. You get a chance to socialize. You get a chance to learn things in a less-formal way and get to know everybody,” Underwood said.
“The relationship between undergrad and grad is always been separated, so it’s nice to get that col-laboration between the two.”
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Aisha BouderbadenContributing writer
Visiting children got to experience a tour of contemporary art pieces by Tony Fefer at the Blaffer Art Museum this weekend for Family Fun Day.
From 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, children and their parents attended an event organized by Blaffer to encourage the community to take an interest in contemporary art.
“They’re trying to get more people involved after the renovation,” said Erin Dunn, art education graduate and Blaffer docent.
Blaffer, which re-opened in Octo-ber after restoration, features differ-ent contemporary artists every 3 or 4 months.
After the tour through the gallery, the children took part part in activites, such as a hopscotch game made out of various geometric shapes.
“All of these [activities] have an element of Feher,” said Katherine Ven-eman, Blaffer’s curator of education.
One activity, tapetionary, required the children to make art with brightly colored tape on a white backdrop.
“You want to spark their imagina-tion,” Veneman said. “Kids have really open minds.”
During the tours, docents stopped at each piece and let the guests ponder it before talking about some of the ideas and materials
found in each piece.Painting graduate and Blaffer
docent Frederick Ocksassa said his favorite was “Sharadiant,” which was made out of a few brightly colored broom handles arranged in a circle.
This was Ocksassa’s fi rst time giv-ing a tour to children.
“They seemed very intrigued, and they seemed to enjoy it,” he said. “I want to get better at talking about art — Tony Feher’s exhibition in particu-lar. People are kind of hesitant, and I like to change their minds on it.”
Upstairs, there were more activi-ties for the children, including paint-ing and making toys with molds. Directed by artist mentors, sculpture alumni Lindsey Slavin and Tommy Gregory, these activities were among the most popular.
The art pieces were set on a table to dry and were judged later. Winners in each category — children, teenag-ers, and adults — were given prizes. The adult winner received an exhi-bition catalogue, a thick book with all of Feher’s art pieces in the gallery. The other two winners received art supplies.
Family Fun day, usually an annual event, is going to become a semesterly affair at Blaffer, Veneman said.
The Blaffer Art Museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The museum is closed on Sundays and Mondays.
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