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If at first, you don't succeed... ... build another one. Fresh off the heels of The Vue's delays, Fountain Residential still wants more access to UH's growing residential population. | PG 4

COMMENTARY

The end of an era: Mack moves on Athletics Director Mack Rhoades is heading to Mizzou. One Cougar editor has been covering Rhoades for nearly four years. Here's his take on Rhoades' biggest moves at UH. | PG. 11

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Daily transgender trials misunderstood Think about the past year's legislative flip-flopping and society's deeply-rooted misconception of the transgender experience. It's no wonder people who are trans rarely feel represented. | PG. 6

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The UH Democrats hosted City Council at Large 1 candidate Lane Lewis on Tuesday.

Lewis is currently serving as Chairman of the Harris County Democratic Party. He has not stepped down from his postion since announcing his candidancy in December.

As reported in the Houston Chronicle, Lewis previously ran for to represent District A in city council in 2009 but lost. In 2011, he won Democratic chairmanship.

Some critics are worried that his run for city council will have a conflict of interest with his Chairman position. The Houston Chronicle reported Lewis as saying that voters could tell what comes from the party and what comes from him.

"All elected officials have campaigns, and they have to differentiate in their contact with the electorate," Lewis said in the Houston Chronicle. news@thedailycougar.com

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Off-campus developments target UH Complexes like the Vue on MacGregor and Campus Vue may threaten the growing on-campus residential population GLISSETTE SANTANA

“Factor in the Houston traffic, and it is easy to see why great housing close to campus is a necessity. Unfortunately, as with most highly urban schools, there is limited availability of quality land.”

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Sarah Chehade had no choice but to live on campus.

Transferring from Weatherford College – 30 minutes west of Ft. Worth – the math junior hadn’t spent much time in the Houston area before coming to UH last fall. The unfamiliar city fazed her, so she figured being on campus would be the easiest option, both socially and economically.

“I’m learning the area, but it’s all so new,” Chehade said. “It’s super expensive (on campus), but I didn’t have many other options."

According to Brent Little, the president of Fountain Residential Partners – the Dallas-based developer responsible for building The Vue of MacGregor and a new sister property, Campus Vue – the student housing market is one of the largest in the country.

Given UH’s proximity to Texas Southern University, the Third Ward has become a revitalized area for student housing, giving developers the excuse to find land suitable to build a complex and start leasing as soon as possible.

“There is no other significant quality housing in the area to satisfy the demand of the growing student body,” Little said.

“Factor in the Houston traffic,

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The Campus Vue has already started leasing for the Fall 2015 semester. Despite construction delays with The Vue on Macgregor, student demand for The Campus Vue has "exceeded expectations." | Courtesy of Fountain Residential

and it is easy to see why great housing close to campus is a necessity. Unfortunately, as with most highly urban schools, there is limited availability of quality land to develop housing.”

For many developers, including Fountain Residential Partners and Austin-based Aspen Heights, it seems as if the closer they can get to campus,

the better.

Aspen Heights announced plans last week to build student housing on the corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Old Spanish Trail, south of MacGregor Park – half a mile from the southeast edge of campus. The Vue on MacGregor and Campus Vue are housed half a mile to the southwest, near Bayou Oaks.

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With new off-campus developments springing up near campus and taking away potential patrons from on-campus housing, the question remains: Are off-campus properties threatening to stall the growing on-campus population?

“We don’t see it as a threat at all,” said Don Yackley, executive director of Student Housing and

Residential Life. “Students living off-campus have different needs, different wants and different price points.”

With 8,008 beds on campus and 6,979 of those beds occupied, Yackley said their primary goal is to have 25 percent of undergraduates calling UH home. Although Yackley doesn’t see that happening for another 10 to 20 years, UH is still looking for ways to make sure housing on campus is available to those who want it.

“We think that we provide housing and investment in supporting student success. We don’t really see them as competition (because) we always have something that’s different,” Yackley said.

High construction costs have also left universities in a rut, according to the Houston Business Journal, which reported that while housing markets seem to be down, student housing sparks a simmer of hope that students will leave Mom and Dad’s house and head off on their own.

Little said there was “no new purpose” to build luxury student housing until recently, when UH started promoting itself as a growing Tier One University.

That factored into why The Vue and Campus Vue were built with such high demand.

The date of completion for Campus Vue hasn’t been officially announced, though the complex has started leasing rooms for the Fall 2015 semester. news@thedailycougar.com

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Kinesiology sports admin sophomore Michael Castro counts the stomach crunches of his workout partner. | Pablo Milanese/The Cougar

A test of endurance Battlefrog coaches visited UH on Friday to help students prepare for the Navy SEAL-designed obstacle course occurring on March 28 and 29. The event, hosted by Student Veterans of America, consisted of circuit courses which included running 800 yards, jump squats, and farmers carry.

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STATE

Lawmakers misunderstand transgender community

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t a wedding last October, every time my friend needed to use the restroom, she came up behind me and whispered for me to come with her. I would stand outside the stall, arms crossed, ready to defend her if anyone saw reason to protest a transgender woman using LAURA the women’s GILLESPIE restroom. My OPINION WRITER being there was the only thing that made her feel safe.

Every transgender person I know has a story — they’ve been yelled at, insulted, chased out of the bathroom by angry women with swinging purses and angry men with puffed-out chests. Going to the restroom shouldn’t be difficult, but American lawmakers continue to make the complicated

Activist, Author, and blogger Mia McKenzie of Black Girl Dangerous

process of transitioning that much harder.

In late February, Harris County-based Texas House Representative Debbie Riddle introduced two bills, H.B. 1747 and 1748. H.B. 1747 that would amend Texas’ definition of “disorderly conduct” to include individuals who “(enter) a public restroom that is designated by a sign for members of the opposite sex of the actor.”

The law defines sex, in this case, as the sex designation on a person’s driver’s license or state ID. H.B. 1748 goes on to classify that a person over the age of 13 entering a locker room, shower or toilet that is not designated for their assigned gender is a Class A misdemeanor — which can result in up to a year in jail or a $4,000 fine. The bills, if passed, would take effect Sept. 1.

For every step forward, like the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance that was signed in to law last year, lawmakers take a step back and try to push forward with bills and

laws that would inhibit transgender individuals from expressing their gender identity. The rationale is always the same — lawmakers say there’s risk of men using women’s restrooms and locker rooms as an excuse to assault women and children.

This is despite the fact that it’s usually the opposite – transgender people are overwhelmingly likely to suffer harassment at the workplace, in school and in restrooms.

UH Law Center professor Peter Linzer said that courts will likely draw the legal line of whether a person will be acknowledged by their gender when that legal sex change is made – and that’s a progressive statement in of itself.

“If someone calls the cops and says, ‘Hey there’s a man in the ladies’ room,’ and you find someone who’s wearing slacks, seems to have some breast development, in most ways appears to be a man and (has) a driver’s license (saying) it’s male, then the cops will make a decision,” Linzer said.

Most Texas courts do not allow an individual to change their sex on their driver’s license without having first had sexual reassignment surgery, or SRS. SRS is expensive, usually costing in the tens of thousands of dollars, and many transgender people aren’t even interested in it.

It’s a poor way to determine whether an individual really is transgender and isn’t trying to commit fraud by having their sex changed — something that could easily be determined by a note from a licensed psychiatrist, which is used to approve transgender individuals for hormone therapy and surgery.

One of the only comments Riddle has made on her bills is from a Jan. 13 Facebook post, where she said that during this legislative session she would “protect women and children from going into a ladies’ restroom and finding a man who feels like he is a woman that day.” Commentators on the post weren’t happy.

Riddle’s rationale is unusually absurd, as she seems to be under the impression that men regularly walk into the women’s restroom and say that they’re a woman to get away with it. But the problem sure didn’t start with her, and it’s not going to end any time soon.

Lawmakers are continuing to prove that they do not have the fundamental facts of what being transgender means, which is a problem when they make laws that affect the transgender community.

For every Defense of Marriage Act that is struck down and every progress that is made to LGBT equality, there’s another law passed that ensures gay and transgender people are allowed to be discriminated against. Last Tuesday, the Alabama Supreme Court halted same-sex marriage license issued in the state, despite the ruling that should technically allow it.

The United States Supreme Court is supposed to discuss same-sex marriage this term, but the debate isn’t going to end there.

Homelessness, health, discrimination and hate crimes are still a fundamental problem in the LGBT community, but they cannot be discussed if straight, cisgender lawmakers continue to display a fundamental misunderstanding of the community.

Opinion columnist Laura Gillespie is a print journalism junior and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar. com.

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Discovering a different world through maternity TREY STRANGE

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"The Book of Wanderings" is a tale of two journeys.

There's the physical one undertaken by Honors professor Kimberley Meyer and her college-bound daughter Ellie that followed the route of a Dominican friar Meyer was researching for her doctoral dissertation.

But Meyer described another journey - an internal meditation on how her daughter has shaped her life - as being the motivation behind her new memoir, which will be published on March 24.

Kimberly Meyer talks about her upcoming memoir, which details a cathartic journey taken by a mother and her daughter.

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Venice, Italy

Dubrovnik, Croatia Greece

Cyprus

St. Catherine's Cathedral, Alexandria

TC: What is your book about?

KM: Well, it sort of tells the story of two journeys. One is the journey in which my oldest daughter and I retrace this medieval pilgrimage route of a particular medieval pilgrim, this Dominican friar (Felix Fabri) whose account of his own journey I had discovered while doing some research on medieval pilgrimage for my doctoral dissertation. I became really fascinated with his account and his personality and the period in which he traveled, which was 1483; he’s traveling on this kind of hinged moment between the medieval world and the modern

Isreal

Finish

Kimberly Meyer: I still doubt that I'm a real writer. When I got a B.A. and an M.A. in literature, I was sure I would just teach literature courses. When I was seven months pregnant with my youngest daughter — who's now 17 — I moved back to Houston after having been away for a while, and my mother-in-law, of all people, suggested that we take a creative writing course. It was a personal essay class, and it just sort of opened up something in me that I hadn't known I'd been missing.

Sinai Desert

A map roughly tracing Meyer's journey across the Mediterranean Sea. | Graphic by Alex Tomic

I was a single mother for a few years, and her birth cut off possibilities I had envisioned for myself at that time, including travel. At the moment that we traveled, she was setting off for college herself and that kind of interior journey is a meditation on my past with her, my former self, and a kind of excavation.

TC: In your book, you cycle around the ideal life, describing it as the "bohemian-explorer-intellectual" kind of life. What is this life like?

Motherhood became the big adventure of my life, actually. It became a deeper and, I think, more enriching adventure to watch these little children grow and move on their own into the world. That actually became an adventure I hadn’t expected that was more rewarding, I think, than the life I had envisioned for myself in some ways. We did a lot of traveling with them in this country when they were little.

We just would pack them up every summer for a couple of weeks and just head out across all parts of the country.

As they started getting a little older, that’s when we started trying to travel with them outside of the country. I thought that (motherhood) was cutting things off, but it just forced a different kind of adventuring.

world. So my daughter and I retraced that route, and that’s kind of the second journey, this more interior journey... a meditation on how that daughter came into the world, unexpectedly.

Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages was often a journey of healing or absolution for some sin, and I think there’s some of that in my journey, too.

TC: In what ways did motherhood reconcile with this life?

KM: I think that I ended up taking all that energy of wanting to see the world and explore the world and funneled it into trying to raise my children in that way — to be outward-thinking — and it worked.

They all love to travel. They study languages and art. They’ve traveled way more than I ever did by their time; they’ve seen way more of the world than I ever did.

Germany

The Cougar: When did you know that you wanted to write?

flow of life, and this seemed cut off when my daughter was born.

TC: Do you have any advice for aspiring writers?

Kimberly Meyer, left, and her daugher, Ellie, took a pilgrimage that began in Germany and ended in Egypt. | Courtesy of Kimberly Meyer

KM: That was the life that I had envisioned for myself when I wrote that at age 22. That vision included penetrating other worlds, other cultures, moving through them, understanding them, but also some kind of intellectual life, read-

ing and researching... At the most basic level, I didn’t want to live the ordinary life. I didn’t want to live the life that I had grown up in, suburban house with kind of narrow confines. I saw myself as being somehow engaged in the larger

KM: You should get obsessed and fall down the rabbit hole. Just throw yourself into the little thing that piques your curiosity and just keep digging, because it seems like there’s always more beneath the surface.

The more that you investigate, the more that gets revealed, and then the more interesting it becomes to just let the obsession take you over.

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#23

#24 Avg: .250 Hits: 10 COREY JULKS

ASHFORD FULMER CENTER FIELD

RBI: 5

LEFT FIELD

Look for strong defense and a great bat from Julks.

#34

Avg: .116 Hits: 5

Avg: .288

RBI: 5

Hits: 19

A vet on the team, Fulmer knows the outfield like the back of his hand.

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CONNOR WONG

Survance leads the team in stolen bases with 12.

Hits: 17

Avg: .352

Dbl play: 11

Runs: 11

RBI: 14

JOSH VIDALES

RBI: 10

SECOND BASE

Having reached base in every game this year, Vidales is a fighter.

Turning 11 doubleplays, Wong is a key defender in just his first year.

#20

#25

#13

Avg: .239

Avg: .327

Rec: 3-1

Hits: 11

Hits: 18

ERA: 1.30

RBI: 6

Trust Montemayor's clutch hitting to get the job done.

Walks: 9

#8

SHORT STOP

JUSTIN MONTEMAYOR THIRD BASE

KYLE SURVANCE RIGHT FIELD

ANDREW LANTRIP PITCHER

CHRIS IRIART FIRST BASE

K's: 18

Lantrip has become a consistent threat in only his second year.

NEW COUGAR CARDS

Starting the season in the Top 10, now at 9-7, UH hasn't had the best start. But with this weekend's Houston College Classic behind them and conference play on the horizon, the Cougars' season is about to get real.

Making the most of his transfer, Iriart leads the Cougars' offense.

#31 Avg: .333 Hits: 13 JACOB CAMPBELL CATCHER

RBI: 12

RBI: 6

Filling in for the injured Ian Rice, Campbell is constantly adjusting.

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 "Play it Safe" Spring

The Council of Ethnic Organizations will host comedian Emma Willmann from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Student Center South.

Break

The UH Student Center will host a Vegas-style Spring Break event that aims to educate students on how to have a safe but fun Spring Break. There will be activities and giveaways such as card games, obstacle courses, Starbucks gift cards and more. This event will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Student Center Front Circle. Free ice cream will be provided on behalf of Shasta's Cones' & More.

THURSDAY, MARCH 12

 Intramural Flag Football League The UH Campus Recreation and Wellness Center will host a 4 v. 4 Flag Football Intramural League at 4 p.m. in the Rotunda Classroom. Students can register at imleagues.com or at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center.

All players must create a profile and be added/joined on the team.

 CEO presents: Emma

 Sports |  Campus events |  City events | Ranch, canoing at the Buffalo National River and backpacking through the Ozark Mountains. This event will be from March 14 through 21.

MONDAY, MARCH 16

FRIDAY, MARCH 13

 Community Action Break

 UH Baseball

This event will allow students to give back to the community over Spring Break. The UH Student Center will provide various service projects for students to participate in from Monday through Thursday.

The Cougars, 8-7, will face the University of New York at Buffalo Bulls at 6:30 p.m. in Cougar Field.

SATURDAY, MARCH 14

 Houston Public Library WareHouse Volunteers are needed to assist by sorting and scanning books in this event hosted by the Metropolitian Volunteer Program and The Friends of the Houston Public Library.

Transporation will be provided, and volunteers will meet at 9:30 a.m. in the front of the Student Center.

 Outdoor Adventure The UH Campus Recreation and Wellness Center and Outdoor Adventure Program will host a Spring Break trip to Arkansas. They will be climbing east of the Rockies at Horseshoe Canyon

Be you. Belong.

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 Ariana Grande at NRG

Stadium

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo will host singer Ariana Grande at 6:45 p.m. at the Houston NRG Stadium.

Tickets are available at the stadium and online, with prices starting at $19.50, for standing room only.

FRIDAY, MARCH 20

 Spring Break

Students who volunteer at two or more events will be given a free Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo ticket.

You made it, Coogs — this day marks the beginning of Spring Break for UH students. Classes will resume on Monday, March 23.

 Level 1 Improv Class

SATURDAY, MARCH 21

The Beta Theatre will focus on listening, agreement, confidence and the cuture of improv. This class is applicable to a variety of paths, including comedians, actors and public speakers. Classes are held at 7 p.m. every Monday in the Beta Theatre.

TUESDAY, MARCH 17

 Discovery Green Flea This Green Mountain Energy-sponsored event will display and sell an array of artful kitsch, vintage items, mid-century modern furniture, recycled and repurposed items and collectibles. This event will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

 UH Baseball

 Chipotle, Music, and Movie Series

The Cougars, 8-7, will face the Rice Owls at 6:30 p.m. in Cougar Field.

Discovery Green and Chipotle Mexican Grill will present films that challenge

participants to take steps in caring for the environment. This week will screen "Fed Up," which focuses on the causes of obesity in the United States. This event will be from 7 to 10 p.m.

MONDAY, MARCH 23

 SPB presents: Coog Talks - Student Edition This event will gather students to discuss various issues or proposals concerning UH and the student body. This event will begin at 6 p.m. in the Student Center Theatre.

OVER THE BREAK...

The Cougar will have two reporters covering this year's South by Southwest Festival in Austin! Look forward to continuous coverage online of the festival's film and music.

Are you going to SXSW? Follow us on social media and share your favorite parts of the festival with us!

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Fundraising, construction highlights Rhoades' tenure CHRISTOPHER SHELTON

missed on other hires in revenuegenerating sports. Rhoades has fired his first basketball and football coach that he hired.

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Since Mack Rhoades arrived at UH almost six years ago, the climate and aesthetic surrounding the athletics department is different.

The facilities are upgraded and the standards are higher on the field and in the classroom. After covering him for three years, I always saw Rhoades tell the truth, even when it wasn't comfortable.

And he always emphasized the student portion of the athlete experience.

Now that Rhoades has decided to take his talents to Missouri to serve as Athletics Director there, here are the five events that most characterize Rhoades' tenure.

5: UH joins the Big East

For several months in 2011, it seemed like UH was in a big-boy conference for the first time since the South West Conference dissolved in 1996. After another round of conference realignment,

2: Nearly $200 million in construction

During his six years at the University, Athletics Director Mack Rhoades facilitated more than $100 million in fundraising for UH athletics. | File photo/The Cougar

the Big East was a basketballonly conference and UH was part of the American Athletic Conference, which rose from its ashes. And instead of $20 million per year in television revenue that UH expected when it initially left Conference USA for the Big East, it gets only about one-fifth of that from the American.

4: UH is a higher profile program

Everything from ESPN College GameDay making an appearance on campus to more consistent coverage by the national media has led to higher profile coaches and recruiting classes. Certainly, coach and quarterback duo Kevin Sumlin and Case Keenum deserve a lot of credit too, but Rhoades helped foster an environment where it was possible.

Now, UH spends more than one million per year for both its football and basketball head coach.

3: A mixed legacy on hiring

Baseball coach Todd Whitting has revitalized a once-great program. UH has been in the top 25 in each of the past three years.

However, Rhoades has swung and

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During Rhoades' tenure, UH has constructed $160 million in new facilities including TDECU Stadium, a $25 million basketball development facility that is expected to open in August and improvements to the baseball field, softball locker room and the Dave Williams Golf Academy. If Hofheinz Pavillion is renovated or rebuilt, the total will top $200 million. Rhoades has overseen more than $100 million in fundraising.

1: Thinking bigger

A new on-campus football stadium and a renovation of Hofheinz Pavilion was craved before Rhoades arrived, but it wasn't accomplished. He'll always be the AD who got it done. sports@thedailycougar.com

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