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SGA signs bill that could potentially alter dining system ROSE SINGH SENIOR STAFF WRITER

In an effort to address concerns over the current meal plans offered to on-campus residents, Student Government Association President Shaun Theriot-Smith signed the Student Focused Dining Act that would offer students more options and flexibility.

“SGA and the Food Services Advisory Committee advocates for the students in food services policy development,” Theriot-Smith said. “This is a great example of how students can positively affect issues that affect them on a daily basis.”

Economics junior and chair of the Food Services Advisory Committee Shane Smith proposed the bill.

It is comprised of four specific requests, some of which include additional options that are smaller and cost less. Smith said the Cougar 160 meal plan should be discounted to "reflect a steeper bulk-purchase discount that is closer in price per meal to non-mandated meal plans."

Students like pre-communication sciences and disorders freshman Christian Guerrero are upset with the current meal plans that are offered.

The Cougar Choice 160 meal plan is the cheapest option available to freshman and sophomore students who live in Moody Towers, the Quadrangle, Cougar Villages 1 and 2 and Cougar Place. The students living in these dorms are required to purchase a meal plan.

He said he has more swipes than he knows what to do with thanks to his Cougar Choice 160 meal plan.

“I believe that it is an overpriced meal plan,” Guerrero said.

“The 160 swipes is kind of impossible to use in one semester.”

These issues prompted the inclusion of a third request in the bill that asked the FSAC community, along with other University personnel and students, to review the "possibility of making substantial changes to the UH dining model.”

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costs about $1,800 a semester and equates to about $8 per swipe. Compare this to the approximate $6 per swipe for the cheaper $960 Block 120 plan, which is only available to students who are not obligated to purchase a meal plan. “(For) most of the friends that I have, there’s weeks left (until the end of the semester) and they still have over 100 swipes, so that’s about $800 that they paid for nothing,” Guerrero said.

The bill also asks for a policy revision that would allow any unused meals purchased through meal plans to be donated at the end of the semester and redistributed to “UH students having financial difficulty providing food for themselves” as determined by a neutral University entity.

Other potential suggestions include rolling over unused meal plan swipes every semester.

"This bill has more sponsors than any SGA legislation not only this year, but the last two years," SGA Vice President Tanzeem Chowdhury said.

In response to the bill, UH Dining services said it is open to suggestions and that the act "opens up the opportunity for further discussions regarding (the) current dining program."

"We solicit feedback annually and daily from our customers and also partner with the Food Service Advisory Committee to ensure we are consistently hearing and listening to our consumers," Emily Fahner, marketing manager for UH Dining Services said. "We understand needs change and are always open to new ideas, suggestions and comments to improve our dining program." news@thedailycougar.com

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Petroleum engineering program elevated to full department TYLER FOUST

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A program that started with 20 students in 2009 has about 1,100 now and was recently designated as a full department.

Until a month ago, the petroleum engineering program was within the Chemical and Bio-molecular Engineering Department, but is now housed under the Cullen College of Engineering.

“The program has grown very, very rapidly,” Petroleum Engineering Director Tom Holley said. “A lot of that has to do with the excellent job prospects for students.”

The new department status comes at the heels of the program gaining accreditation by the Accrediting Board for Engineering Technology in August.

UH has had a petroleum engineering masters program for many years and used to have an undergraduate program in the

1970s. Holley said the ups and downs of the petroleum energy industry caused that program to vanish but the same caused it to return in 2009.

“One reason why we didn’t have a petroleum program for undergraduates for so long was because two of the premier programs, University of Texas and Texas A&M, aren’t very far way,” Holley said.

Holley said there is a growing need for petroleum engineers especially in Texas, and that growing need has begun to surpass the UT and Texas A&M University programs.

“The demand has grown beyond their capacity, and so it was a no-brainer to start one up at UH,” Holley said.

Cullen College of Engineering Dean Joseph Tedesco said that there is no major U.S. city where demand for engineering talent is greater than in Houston. He also said he believes that UH petro-

The Conoco-Phillips Petroleum Engineering Building was finished in summer 2011 and is one of the leading contributors to the program. File Photo | The Cougar.

leum engineering graduates are the “next-generation of global, entrepreneurial energy leaders.”

The newly elevated depart-

ment is expected to see a rise in faculty recruitment who want to come be a part of a the new department.

“We are recruiting highly sought-after faculty that want to come to a prestigious, thriving program and getting department status is an indicator that’s happening,” Holley said.

Petroleum Engineering Department Chair Christine Ehlig-Economides said resources will start to become available to undergraduate students as a result of this new designation.

“In addition to more permanent staff teaching classes, we should start to gain more access to classroom space and research space,” Ehlig-Economides said.

Tedesco said plans are in the works for a new building as well.

The engineering program was launched in direct response to industry needs and with significant support and contributions from industry leaders such as Conoco-Phillips, Devon Energy and Marathon Oil. news@thedailycougar.com

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Head of Arab studies program aims to shape understanding of Middle East BAILEY MORGAN

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Following an extensive international search, Professor Abdel Razzaq Takriti took up his appointment as the inaugural Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History at UH. As the recently-endowed head of the program, Takriti is working to change his students' perceptions of the Middle East through classes that will inform them of the realities of the Arab world.

A new home Takriti was drawn to Houston for its vast cultural heritage, a heritage that benefits local universities as much as the city.

“The strength of (UH) is that it reflects the city in its diversity and culture,” Takriti said. “You don’t see such heavy community involvement in big cities like this usually. Houston is an exception.”

The local Arab community saw a need to educate and support local programs that sought to teach relevant curriculum, so UH became a natural choice for Takriti.

“We have a unique situation in Houston in which we have

Abdel Takriti is an accomplished professor and academic who came to UH to head the Arab studies program.| Photo by Bailey Morgan | The Cougar.

two endowed chairs of modern Arab history at two major universities,” Takriti said. “The Arab community has funded both of these chairs, so there’s a very close relationship between these institutions and the Arab community.”

Arabic is the third-mostused language in Houston. The

investment of the Arab community into local academia at UH and Rice is a testament to the city’s ability to come together, Takriti said.

A blossoming program Takriti said the Arab Studies program, which was established over the course of the past five years, was teeming with interest from students despite its relative newness. He is offering undergraduate classes on Palestine and the Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict and Arab Revolutions.

"Dr. Takriti fills a large hole in the Department of History's curriculum," Department Chair Philip Howard said. "As a modern Arab historian, he has a unique perspective and (provides) students with a body of knowledge that is both political and social. We are very excited to have such a young and brilliant mind."

For some students, the growth of the Arab Studies program at UH was inevitable. There were nearly 1,500 international undergraduate students at UH in Fall 2014. Over 300 of those students come from the Middle East, mainly Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Oman.

But it’s not just about the numbers.

“More importantly, there are valuable discussions within these classes about the issues being taught,” Takriti said. “The Arab world has a very complex and intimate relationship with the United States.”

Takriti said media coverage of the Arab world has skewed many students’ perspectives.

“There’s actually very little real understanding of what’s going on,” Takriti said.

Students are often not aware of this reality, and when they find out, they are interested in learning more.

“I try and give my students the information that isn’t communicated through the average media outlet in the United States,” Takriti said. “American news coverage of the Arab world tends to be more skewed (and) is completely different from any other country.”

Takriti said the classes are growing in popularity and are becoming more relevant by the day.

“His style of teaching is relaxed but engaging,” history senior Haya Khan said. “He always encourages discussion.”

Takriti believes that the program can only continue to increase in size and quality.

"This comes to show that these classes and these subjects are incredibly relevant and incredibly important,” Takriti said. “Not just among academics, but among students too."

A goal within the professor’s courses,Takriti said, is to dissuade students from prescribing to one Eurocentric perspective.

“The Middle East is a very dynamic region,” Takriti said. “I encourage my students to think of the Middle East on its own terms and move beyond prevailing orientalist attitudes towards the region.”

Takriti said there are more things in common between people and civilizations than what is portrayed by the media and even in some history classes.

"I’m trying to show my students that there isn’t an inherent cultural superiority," Takriti said. "We are all subject to the ebb and flow of history.” news@thedailycougar.com

Behind the name Professor Abdel Razzaq Takriti made significant strides before his arrival in Houston.

In 2014, the Student Union at University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom chose him as an Inspirational Lecturer, after teaching International History there since 2012.

His dissertation His dissertation from his time at St. Antony's College at Oxford earned him the Middle East Studies Association of North America 2011 Malcolm Kerr Award for Best Dissertation in the Humanities

Takriti said his aim was to move the focus of history from dictators and corrupt leaders to the people behind revolutions or popular history.

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Hang in there, everyone, the semester isn't over yet

T

he end of the semester is so close, we can almost see the end, complete with eggnog, warm fires, friends, family and the usual good cheer.

But final exams have reared their ugly heads like the Hydra.

It’s so easy to look the other way and take your chances with a lesser evil: procrastination.

According to the American Psychology Association, in a 2007 meta-analysis by University of Calgary psychologist Piers Steel, “80 percent to 95 percent of college students procrastinate, particularly when it comes to doing their coursework.”

As we all know, this results in lower final exam scores and assignment grades and a more disappointing GPA overall.

Most students are aware of this annoying fact. The Cougar feels your pain, whether your stress is caused by finals week or trying to deal with holiday planning. It’s a lot easier to binge-watch your worries

When it comes to procrastination, no one does it better than college students. | Justin Tijerina/The Cougar

away or daydream about Zoo Lights and put off your work until later tonight which sometimes becomes early tomorrow morning.

According to the Wall Street Journal, “procrastinators attempt to avoid the anxiety or worry aroused by a tough task with

activities aimed at repairing their mood, such as checking Facebook or taking a nap. But the pattern, which researchers call ‘giving in to feel good,’ makes procrastinators feel worse later.”

Perhaps it is denial, or just rationalization, but we think we can do

it all with just a little help. Coffee and energy drink-fueled delirium essay-writing and studying can be dangerous.

“Studies show more than 400 mg per day can put a person at risk of adverse effects,.” according to Inc. Just two tall brewed coffees from

Starbucks can tip you over the limit, which could mean high blood-pressure and heart issues in the future.

Some of us might think that we can afford to take a chance. But why take the chance when there are better alternatives?

According to U.S. News, “Getting good sleep, exercising or eating a snack packed with protein and complex carbohydrates” is much better for your health. But perhaps the best alternative is to start early, as simple as it sounds, and do a portion of the work so you are not overwhelmed later.

The familiar time crunch is particularly negative for students who need to tap into their creative side for essays or projects.

Make time for yourself and your work. There’s only a week or two left for most students on campus, then Fall 2015 is over forever.

Hang in there.

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It's the most polarized time of the year

ANTHONY TORRES

Freud, and was an expert in the art of public manipulation. He understood how to utilize mechanisms that can manipulate public perception, and outlined how to do this in his book "Propaganda."

His techniques can be seen during the Communism scare of the 1950s, and now we see it in the current uprising of Islamophobia today.

Manipulating the public to gain viewership is simply not ethical. The public needs to begin realizing truths from non-truths or society will only continue to be divided on mundane issues like saying "happy holidays" instead of "merry Christmas."

There's more important stuff to worry about.

OPINION EDITOR

E

very year as the holiday season approaches, conservative pundits and media outlets begin scrambling for any and every story they can find to prove that Christians are being persecuted and the war on Christmas is raging on.

This year it started with Starbucks deciding to simplify their holiday cup by removing the winter-themed patterns on the design.

This caused an outrage among evangelicals, ANTHONY and even TORRES presidential OPINION candidate EDITOR Donald Trump said "maybe we should boycott Starbucks."

Persecution isn't the problem here. It's polarization.

The war on Christmas started in the early 2000s when conservative news reporters like Bill O'Reilly started with one simple question: "Why does no one say 'merry Christmas' anymore?" Then everything escalated again when schools and private businesses began saying "happy holidays" instead of the normal Christmas greeting.

But for some reason, simply using a more broad expression to include holiday celebrations other than Christmas translates to religious persecution.

Then, in 2005, Fox News radio host John Gibson even wrote a book titled "The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse than You Thought."

It's phrase words like war on Christmas that make this issue so inherently divisive and polarizing.

There has been a growing trend of creating phrases for almost the sole purpose of pitting one side against the other. Republicans were the ones who invented words like "Obamacare" and "war on terror" and use the word "liberal" as an insult.

It's understandable for media outlets to want more views and bigger ratings, but at what cost?

It has become a standard in the media to rile up the base of whatever political leanings for the sake of higher viewership.

But this is toxic to our society.

The war on Christmas fiasco is simply a cog in the machine that is American media distorting the political climate of the entire country for the sake of viewership.

Media outlets like Fox News are

People yelling about the war on Christmas has become almost as traditional as the holiday itself. | Graphic by Kevin Lemus/The Cougar

just recycling techniques introduced by Edward Bernays back

in the early 20th century. Bernays was the nephew of Sigmund

Opinion editor Anthony Torres is a political science junior and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar. com

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UH closed out the regular season on a high note with a 52-31 win over No. 16 United States Naval Academy, clinching the West Division and a berth in the American Athletic Conference championship game against Temple University next Saturday.

But a lot happened to get us to the AAC championship game. Let’s take a look at three of the top story lines from the Cougars’ journey here.

Ward’s evolution at quarterback After taking over as the starting quarterback for a stumbling 2-3 squad last season, Greg Ward Jr. turned the Cougars’ fortunes around, leading his team to a 6-2 finish and a comeback victory in the Armed Forces Bowl last season.

Ward may have stabilized the position, but he was far from a finished product after converting from

memorable comeback to keep the Cougars alive in the West.

Backup quarterback steps up, leads Cougars past Tigers

The Cougars' 2014-2015 season has been one of the best ever, with an 11-1 record under a first year head coach. | Justin Tijerina/The Cougar

his wide receiver role.

With his first off season taking reps as a starter, the prevailing thought was that Ward’s game would take a major leap forward in 2015 with the guidance of quarterback wizard Tom Herman as his new head coach.

Oh, how right they were.

The junior passer was much improved under center, particularly in his pocket awareness, consis-

tency and leadership.

Statistically, his numbers did not rise drastically, but he did improve in every category.

Ward’s athleticism shined for the Cougars this season as he broke multiple school records, including the single-game rushing yards record for a quarterback with 182 yards against the University of Tulsa and the single-season rushing touchdown record previously held

Chasing history in one year

The contest against No. 21 University of Memphis was earmarked by many from the start of the season as the key game on the Cougar’s schedule, and that was certainly the case.

But the hero of the game was not Memphis' highly-touted NFL quarterback prospect Paxton Lynch or Heisman-hopeful Ward.

It was the former walk-on from Seven Lakes High School, sophomore backup quarterback and wide receiver Kyle Postma, who would serve as the unlikely hero in the Cougar victory.

With UH down 20-0 late in the first half against Memphis, the fortunes of the team seemed at their bleakest when Ward limped off the field after injuring his ankle mid-drive.

In the most unfavorable of circumstances, Postma stepped in and delivered for his team with a

The Cougars came within one touchdown of finishing the regular season undefeated.

But finishing with an 11-1 record and a chance at the conference title is still a historic season for a UH team that is under the leadership of a first-time head coach.

Tom Herman came to Houston and electrified the program. Herman’s first year with the Cougars will go down as the best of any first year coach in the school’s history.

Better than Art Briles, Kevin Sumlin, Jack Pardee or even Hall-ofFamer Bill Yeoman accomplished in their first seasons on Cullen Boulevard.

Should Herman and company close out with two more wins, the 2015 Cougar football team will cement its place in the history of the program. sports@thedailycougar.com

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rant .51 Just deserts .57 Part of IOU .58 Type of legend or sprawl .59 With mouth wide open .60 It goes through withdrawals .61 Avian baby deliverer .62 Exclude from practice DOWN 1 Broadcast watchdog letters 2 “And what have we here?”

3 ___ shot (drummer’s quickie) 4 180 deg. from WSW 5 Plank producer 6 Writer’s cramp, e.g.

7 Back muscles, in brief 8 West Point athletes 9 Calypso relative .10 Fun rural diversion .11 Reach the critical point .12 Sao ___, Brazil .13 Authoritative proclamation .18 Name on a green toy truck .22 Feature of many a prima donna .23 NASA milieu .24 Chris Rock or Kevin Hart product .25 Beats a hasty

retreat .26 Workplace honcho .27 Wound covering .28 Kin of “bro” and “dude” .29 Two-tone treat .31 Pie a la ___ .33 Unlike fresh water .34 Galileo’s birthplace .36 The four in a quart .37 Watch the bar or goal .39 Short synopses 40 Dr. Scholl’s product .42 “___ got an idea!”

43 Send overseas 44 Gadhafi ruled it, once .45 “The Waste Land” poet T.S. 46 Moved like a coward 48 Boss on a shield .49 Within earshot .52 Leftover tidbit 53 Kind of limit 54 Capture, as a burglar .55 IRS calculator? .56 Suffix with “ballad” or “mountain”

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Lewis was a legend who guided UH to new heights BRYCE DODDS

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Guy V. Lewis was a Cougar for life.

From attending UH and playing basketball, to coaching his entire 30-year head career for the Cougars, Lewis did some spectacular things for the University and for the game of basketball.

Lewis became head coach of the Cougars in 1956 after serving as an assistant coach since 1953.

Over the length of his career, Lewis would accomplish things that no one had before and no one has since.

He was a pioneer in more ways than one. Lewis considered the dunk as the highest percentage shot, telling his players to pass up the jump shot in favor of the dunk, a lesson his Phi Slama Jama teams took to heart.

Lewis was also one of the first coaches at a major university in the south to recruit African-American athletes. He made history when signing the first two black players at UH, Elvin Hayes and Don Chaney, in 1964.

Former-head coach Guy V. Lewis piloted the Cougars for 30 seasons and led the school to an all-time high level of success. | Courtesy of Houstonian

The Cougars had one of their first great seasons under Lewis, with Chaney and Hayes buoying the roster during the 1967-1968 season.

During that season, UH strung together 31-straight wins, earning them a place in the Final Four, their second-consecutive appear-

ance at the stage.

During that season, Lewis orchestrated “The Game of the Century” between the Cougars and the University of California, Los Angeles Bruins at the Astrodome. That game was the first of its kind as it was the first nationally televised regular season

game.

The Cougars entered the game ranked second in the nation, while the Bruins held onto the top spot. Hayes, Chaney and UH came out victorious in an all-time great matchup over UCLA and Lew Alcindor, who would later be known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Though the Cougars weren’t able capture a title, that season helped to promote both the game of basketball and boost UH in the public eye.

Lewis and the Cougars exploded with the Phi Slama Jama teams, the high-flying fraternity of players which featured such legends as Clyde Drexler, Hakeem Olajuwon, Larry Micheaux, Michael Young and more.

After a couple of years with either early first-round exits or no appearances in the NCAA tournament at all, the Cougars again made a deep run into the playoffs during the 1981-1982 season.

The next two seasons, the Phi Slama Jama and Lewis led the Cougars to back-to-back Southwest Conference titles and

records of 31-3 and 32-5 respectively. The Cougars also made back-to-back appearances in the NCAA Championship game, but failed to capture a title in those two appearances.

Lewis coached two more season for UH before retiring from the game with a 592-279 all-time record.

During his tenure, Lewis revolutionized the men's basketball program at UH, coaching legends like Hayes, Olajuwon, Drexler, Chaney, Otis Birdsong, Dwight Jones, Louis Dunbar and Ken Spain.

During his career, Lewis was twice named the AP Coach of the Year, once in 1968 and again in 1983. He was also inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007 and inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013.

He is gone now, but the work Lewis did with the team and the impact of his time here will be felt for years to come. sports@thedailycougar.com

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Basketball program found its feet under Lewis Guy V. Lewis took the men's basketball program to new heights, reaching five Final Fours and two NCAA Championship games.

Top: Lewis coached players such as Hakeem Olajuwon, Clyde Drexel and Elvin Hayes. Bottom: Lewis encouraged his players to go for the dunk over the jump shot, calling it a "high percentage shot." | Courtesy of Houstonian yearbook

Lewis started as an assistant coach at UH in 1953 before taking over as head coach in 1956. | Courtesy of Houstonian yearbook

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