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Health Center offers free HIV testing The UH Health Center encourages students to take advantage of its free HIV testing day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at the UH Student Health Center. The testing is anonymous and confidential, and it is open to all UH students, faculty and staff. For more information, contact the Health Center at 713-743-5151. — Sara Nichols/The Daily Cougar
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Group targets smokers Health students join campaign to ban smoking on campus Sarah Raslan
THE DAILY COUGAR In a creative effort to curb smoking, UH student health organizations traded students a plate of barbeque, chips and a drink for their cigarettes. This annual national campaign, The Great American Smokeout, aims to encourage smokers to quit. The group intends to have a smokefree campus. “Instead of the University just banning smoking, we want it to be a student-led initiative,” said Thomas Frank, UH community and environmental health committee chairman. The organizations were stationed at three
locations between the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library and Philip Guthrie Hoffman Hall, at the University Center and at the UC-Satellite on Nov. 11. On display as part of the campaign were two pig lungs. One lung represented a healthy smoke-free lung while the other represented the lung of someone who had been smoking for 20 years. The smoker’s lung was injected with carbon, one of the main components of cigarettes, and connected to an air pump to show how each lung breathes. The carbon-injected lung doesn’t breathe so well, said health science junior Nina Imo. Another display item used to encourage SMOKING continues on page 8
The UC-Satellite C3-Store has sold packs of cigarettes to students 18 or above since its opening. | Brianna Leigh Morrison/ The Daily Cougar
Frontier Fiesta team plan to meet early
The comedic play is part of the Theatre for Young Audiences series and features six children who attend church for the first time and take command of the holiday pageant. Tickets are $5 for children and $10 for adults, but people can receive a $5 discount for bringing one nonperishable food item to donate.
Group is discussing new changes to increase participation at annual event
For more information, visit www.theatredance. uh.edu.
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THE DAILY COUGAR Frontier Fiesta is getting an early start in organizing this year’s event by holding its first Connection Meeting in an effort to increase participation and get more student organizations involved. We’re trying to break away from the stereotype that it’s just for Greeks,” co-director of marketing for Frontier Fiesta Cameron Bailey said. “We want to start our communication early, because we want there to be no reason that you’re not participating in Frontier Fiesta.” Bailey said that if a group needs financial assistance, they will be having fundraising events to help pay for entries and variety shows. The meeting, taking place at 7 p.m. today in the
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ON CAMPUS Frontier Fiesta Connections Meeting Frontier Fiesta Association will host a meeting that intends to inform student organizations about ways to participate in next year’s Frontier Fiesta. The meeting will be held in the UC Bluebonnet Room from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
AROUND TOWN Belanova Latin Grammy-award winning pop band Belanova will be in town tonight and performing at the House of Blues at 7 p.m. Belanova is one of Mexico’s greatest up and coming pop bands, so be sure to not miss this one! Find more campus and local events or add your own at thedailycougar.com/calendar
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Students and their families have one last chance to experience the UH School of Theatre & Dance’s holiday production of “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” at 2 p.m. Saturday at the UH Wortham Theatre.
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Protesters form a rally on campus
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group of individuals, all of whom were not students or UH staff, protested Tuesday morning in front of the UC-Satellite opposing President Barack Obama’s economic policies. The group dressed in costume, held signs and chanted out loud to grab students’ attention for more than two hours. | Andrew Taylor/The Daily Cougar
UH continues to lead in energy research Katie Rowald
THE DAILY COUGAR The Energy Research Complex, a facility just off of the Gulf Freeway and formerly known as University Business Park, has maintained its effort in leading energy research to help UH towards flagship status. Built in 1953 and comprising 580,552 sq. feet of warehouse and office space on 68 acres of land, the complex was once home to Schlumberger, an oilfield service provider that recently opened its first multinational research and geo-engineering center in Rio de ENERGY continues on page 8