April 18th, 2012
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Climbing to the top
The battle for first place in Conference USA continues as the Cougars play first-place Tulsa. UH (26-16, 11-4 C-USA) is tied with UAB for second place in C-USA and are just one game behind Tulsa...
No need for TSA on buses
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee held a press conference last week to discuss the details for Houston’s newest safety initiative, which will supposedly help the METRO transportation system. In a nutshell, the Transportation Security Administration is...
UH gets its man: Morris is coming to Houston
Kansas City Community College point guard Brandon Morris will join the Cougars as the fourth member of its 2012 recruiting class. “We are thrilled to have Brandon join our Cougar family. He is an explosive...
Genital mutilation cake was tasteless media stunt
Few would attest the claim that cakes are generally pretty inoffensive. However, there have been few notably offensive cakes — or references to cakes — in the history of the culinary concoction. Marie Antoinette...
Don’t forget CCTV
The heat is off for traditional privacy-invading devices — like surveillance cameras — thanks to all the attention on data mining in social media. But there is no doubt — surveillance cameras are not obsolete....
Not worth saving the Dome
If the Astrodome were to vanish tomorrow, like poof it’s gone like magic, would you notice? Would your daily life change in any significant or insignificant way? No, most likely not. It would be nice if...
Foreign student explores America, UH
Saudi Arabia, a country of 27 million people whose primary language is Arabic, was home to 18-year-old Yousif Shams, a recent level-five language student who came to the United States in 2011 in hopes...
Student editors gather for final reading of graduate journal
Members of Houston’s writing community — young adults, UH creative writing students and professors — all gathered together Friday at Brazos Bookstore for the final installment of the “Gulf Coast Reading Series.” The event was...
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Presidential campaign still haunted by dog
When Gov. Mitt Romney was running for the United States Senate in 1994, a local newspaper ran a story describing the way Romney loaded up his “beloved” dog, Seamus, in a crate on the...