January 23rd, 2012
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Ship still afloat
The Cougars did about everything in their power to hand ECU their first conference win of the year. After cruising to a 24-point advantage with 7:46 left in regulation, UH (10-9, 2-4 C-USA) spent the...
Perfect fit for UH offense
Some things are just meant to be. For first-year Houston Cougars head football coach Tony Levine, the stars seemed to align early in his coaching search after being faced with filling several vacancies in...
UH comes up empty mining for a win in El Paso
El Paso was not kind to the Cougars. The Cougars (2-16, 1-5) saw the Miners (17-2, 6-0) up close but failed to conquer Conference USA-leading UTEP in a lopsided 87-43 loss on Sunday. The 44-point loss...
Rookie rapper delivers on expectations
The audience at Warehouse Live on Saturday night was well-rewarded after waiting in a line that hugged the building, caused by fans waiting in anticipation for California rapper Kendrick Lamar Lamar’s latest album, the inspiring...
Independent film debut falls flat
Dee Rees’ “Pariah” started as a 27-minute short film in 2007, but it has now turned into a feature full-length release. “Pariah” tells the story of Alike (Adepero Oduye), an African-American teenage girl growing...
Band electrifies indie crowd
John Darnielle, guitarists, keyboardist and lead singer of The Mountain Goats, said it best on Friday night, “Some artists would use stencils, but they’re just posers.” It speaks to not only the oddly-hipster style of...
Nondiscrimination bill to be voted on by SGA
UH administration has put the alterations to the student handbook suggested last semester by the Student Government Association back into the hands of the student senate. The SGA will vote on a new GENDA bill,...
Cougars spend 14 days at Times institute
Three UH print journalism majors spent the first two weeks of January in Arizona, learning from the staff of the New York Times in what they described as a “journalist’s boot camp.” Seniors Louis Casiano,...
Former UH president dies
UH System President Emeritus Charles Bishop died Jan. 14 in Durham, N.C. The 80-year-old served as president from February 1980 to September 1986, when he left to pursue a job teaching business and economics at...
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Stone of hope
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, which he delivered before 250,000 people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963 contained the following sentence: “With this faith, we...