August 30th, 2010
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‘The Last Exorcism’ No. 1 at Box office
“Exorcism is alive and well,” Reverend Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian) says in Daniel Stamm’s end-of-summer horror fest “The Last Exorcism.” The same can be said for horror films of the same genre,...
Soccer team posts pair of shutouts, improves to 3-0
For the first time in history, the UH women's soccer team has begun its season 3-0 by earning shutouts in each victory after squeezing by the Sam Houston State Bearkats 1-0 last...
Pecha Kucha night at Domy books an experience for everyone
Twenty slides, 20 seconds and a unique opportunity to see and be seen. Ten members of Houston’s creative community participated in the city’s third Pecha Kucha Night Thursday at Domy Books in the...
International company drives onto campus, brings interactive technology
The ActivClassroom in Motion, an RV that has been transformed into a mobile classroom, rolled onto campus last Friday to introduce College of Education students and faculty to new educational technology. Promethean, which...
UH freshman get lucky in new dorms
The residential class of 2014 is unbelievably lucky. Not only do they get to break in gorgeous, state of the art freshmen dorms, they also may never need to know the horror...
Beck rally is poisonous for America
For anyone who may not watch television, heavily browse Facebook, or have an unhealthy appetite for frenzy, it might come as news to you that Glenn Beck held a rally recently to...
Website allows students to gamble on their GPAs
Many places allow people to gamble on any number of different things — sports games, horse racing, even who is going to win Best Picture at the Oscars — but very rarely...
Volleyball team gets 1 out of 3 in Austin
The Cougars kicked off the 2010 volleyball campaign under the direction of new head coach Molly Alvey at the Austin Invitational with a 3-1 win against McNeese State, sandwiched between two 3-0...
New UH doctoral program gets underway
UH’s newly established biomedical engineering doctoral program has admitted its first students and is on track to producing its first graduates. The program is expected to gradually expand over the next two ...