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DECEITFUL DELIGHT Some still unaware of hookah smoking risks BY MARK BAUER The Shorthorn staff

Puff, puff, pass. Hookahs — water pipes used to smoke flavored tobacco — have gained popularity on college campuses and in other social circles across the U.S. According to a World Health Organization report, many perceive water pipes as a safer alternative to cigarette smoking. But evidence from studies conducted by health organizations shows that the effects from smoking hookah could be just as bad, if not worse, than cigarettes. The amount of smoke inhaled during a single hookah session — which typically lasts from 20 minutes to more than an hour — is equivalent to the smoke consumed from 100 or more cigarettes. The report concluded that “using a water pipe to smoke tobacco is not a safe alternative to cigarette smoking.” A hookah consists of a chamber partially filled with water. When charcoal heats the tobacco, usually flavored and sweetened for taste, users suck the smoke through the water-filtered chamber from an external hose. Because the smoke first passes through water, the smoke tends to be cooler and doesn’t burn. It’s the combination of cool smoke and sweet taste that convinces students like undeclared freshman Jeff Clark that the hookah causes less harm than cigarette smoke. “It’s easier to take in — more flavorful,” he said. “There’s no nicotine, and there’s no addiction either. I don’t think there are any societies against it.” Clark said he typically visits Narah Café, a Med:FDDLE@:8K@FE iterranean restaurant a few miles from campus,

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THURSDAY Happy Thanksgiving!

Planetarium Shows: Chemistry and Physics Building. “Seven Wonders� at 7 p.m., “Rock Hall of Fame� at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for children and seniors, $3 for faculty, staff and alumni, and $2 for students. For information, contact Levent Gurdemir at 817-272-0123 or planetarium@ uta.edu.

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members getting together,â€? she said. Ton said the holiday that most Celebrating holidays with family resembles Thanksgiving in Vietnam tends to be a universal trend, but the is called “Tetâ€?. The holiday is the VietThanksgiving holiday can be foreign namese lunar new year. for some students. Although the origins of the holiday Growing up in Nigeria, accounting don’t involve a feast between pilgrims freshman Oseikhuemen Omon-Anolu and native Americans, she said it’s the has never experienced Thanksgiv- biggest holiday for Vietnamese famiing and looks lies. forward to “It’s like a spending the time for famHOLIDAY HOURS ON CAMPUS holiday with ily to get tohis roomgether,â€? she • Bowling and Billiards: mate’s family. said. “It is the Closed Thursday-Sunday “I’m exmost impor• Connection Cafe, The Market, The Plaza, cited because tant holiday.â€? The Post Office: Closed Thursday-Saturday we don’t have Some orThanksgiving ganizations, in Nigeria,â€? like the Baphe said. “All I tist Student know is that it’s when the people that Ministry, have done a few events for first came to America gave gifts to the international students to experience Native Americans.â€? the holiday. Business junior Tien Ton came to On Nov 22, BSM hosted its annual the United States from Vietnam a few Thanksgiving meal at the BSM buildyears ago. She said her host family at ing. The event had about 150 interthe time tried to give her an authentic national student participants, BSM first Thanksgiving here in the states. director Gary Stidham said. He also “So I spent [my] first Thanksgiv- said that the hospitality doesn’t stop ing like any other American families there. may have — a nice dinner with family “Many of our students also invite BY DUSTIN DANGLI

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Shuraih Latifi, Electrical engineering graduate student, on the advantages of study buddies. See Page 1

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HoUSToN — The smoked turkey resembles sliced deli meat but stiffer, the candied yams are bland inside, the green beans taste like they’ve been microwaved to death and the corn bread stuffing has a broth-heavy, institutional flavor. Grandma’s home cooking, it’s not. Then again, Grandma’s Thanksgiving dinners were never irradiated, freeze-dried, vacuumpacked into plastic pouches and then launched into space to be served 220 miles above earth. That’s what the Turkey day meals for the astronauts aboard space shuttle endeavour have endured. endeavour’s seven astronauts and the three crew members at the international space station will take a break from their

chores and gather for their special meal Thanksgiving day. The last time a space shuttle crew ate their holiday meal in space was six years ago. “it gives us a moment to pause and reflect just how fortunate we are as a country and as global community,” endeavour commander Christopher Ferguson said from the space station. “We’re thankful for that, in addition to the opportunity to fly in space.” Although there were only six Thanksgiving meals prepared, Ferguson said not to worry. They were scraping together turkey from the space station pantry so everyone could experience space’s version of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, including the lone russian, space station cosmonaut, Yuri lonchakov.

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lA GUAirA, Venezuela — russian warships sailed into port in Venezuela on Tuesday in a show of strength as Moscow seeks to counter U.S. influence in latin America. russia’s first such deployment in the Caribbean since the Cold War is timed to coincide with President dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Venezuela, the first ever by a russian president. russian sailors dressed in black-and-white uniforms lined up along the bow of the destroyer Admiral Chabanenko as it docked in la Guaira, near Caracas, and Venezuelan troops greeted them with cannons in a 21-gun salute. Two support vessels also docked, and the nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great, russia’s largest navy ship,

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A Russian warship arrives in La Guaira port, Venezuela, Tuesday. Russian warships have been deployed in a show of strength aimed at the United States as Moscow seeks to expand its influence in Latin America.

anchored offshore. Chavez, basking in the support of a powerful ally and traditional U.S. rival, wants russian help to build a nuclear reactor, invest in oil and natural gas projects and bolster his leftist opposition to U.S. influence in the region. He also wants weapons — Venezuela has bought more than $4 billion in russian arms, including Sukhoi fighter jets, helicopters and 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles, and more deals for russian tanks or other weaponry may be discussed after Medvedev arrives Wednesday.

russia’s ambitions in latin America, however, may be checked by global events. Both Venezuela and russia are feeling the pinch of slumping oil prices, and their ability to be major benefactors for like-minded leaders is in doubt given the pressures of the world’s financial crisis. The deployment of the naval squadron is widely seen as a demonstration of Kremlin anger over the U.S. decision to send warships to deliver aid to Georgia after its battles with russia, and over U.S. plans for a european missile-defense system.

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Latifi said that when he started grad school, he felt like a freshman with a lot more to do and had a hard time concentrating, so the program really helped him. “It’s just like workout buddies at the gym,” he said. “Only difference is you’re working out your homework together. Doesn’t matter who you are, the goals are all the same.” Some opportunities to join

lunch with my friend, but I was forced to remain hungry until I was allowed back in the Connection Cafe,” he said. If he’s required to have a meal plan to live at Arlington Hall, then he could be able to eat anytime. “We should either have freedom to consume our meals whenever we please, or we should be refunded for meals we don’t use,” he said. International business freshman Canyon Wendt, a Kalpana Chawla Hall resident, feels the same way. Wendt also has the Gold Plan and currently has 116 meals left, which he must use in less than three weeks. “I think it’s ridiculous that we have to pay that much,” he said. “I know for some of my friends, these are the only meals they get, so it can be frustrating.” He wouldn’t mind the plan if he were able to share them with his friends and family. “If my dad comes to visit the campus, he can’t even get a meal from the plan that he’s paying for,” he said. Dining Services director Elizabeth Cheong said that it’s important for students to look at their schedules to see what times they can eat.

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study groups come from organization participation, but students can also initiate groups. Biology junior Brittanie Pipkins said meeting classmates and forming a four- or five-person group can help keep people focused. “Get to know people in your class and set up a schedule that works best for everyone and build a study group,” she said. “I would gather with those who are focused and regularly attend lecture.”

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negative effects of traditional development.” Hopman said many LID practices are being considered like depressions in the earth, which will hold water running off a sidewalk or building — instead

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of the current system of using a berm, a mound of soil that guides the water from a sidewalk to the drains. Hopman describes the LID practice as going from “gray to green” and the old system as “gray to gray.” “What we’re trying to do is go from gray, off the hard surface, onto something green that will clean it, slow it down, take some of the hydrocarbons and

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take some of the nitrogen out,” he said. Hopman said that most of the water on campus flows from parking lots and sidewalks directly into the drain or from green spaces to the harmful areas then a drain. He and his students understand the creek may not be returned to a pristine ecological condition, but at least to a pre-

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development condition. They are also considering how it can be captured, used and expressed. “And in conjunction with that, we’re looking at how might the stream be designed to provide habitat for what kind of critters might go well here,” he said. “This is kind of like a little ecological pocket.” He said the areas could be a site for an environmental studies

Students on meal plans can’t roll over their meal allowances into the next semester. The university does not offer refunds for unused meals, but students’ remaining dining dollars, which can be used in the Plaza Food Court, transfer to the spring semester.

building in the future. “If they were going to have an environmental studies department on campus then it might make sense to have it somewhere where you have potential for an ecological-looking area where students can study critters,” he said. Jared Sylor, landscape architecture graduate student, said the class will present the ideas

to the President’s Sustainability Committee next month. “Whether or not it gets built all depends on what they think of our design,” he said. “If they like our design, if we’re able to convince them that our solutions are best for the campus and downstream of the campus.” SArAh lutz news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

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She also added that friends and family are able to use dining dollars, but not meal plans. “Meals are for the students only to ensure that they have enough meals throughout the semester,” she said. Dining dollars roll over from the fall to the next semester, expiring at the end of the spring semester, but meal allowances don’t roll over. Cheong said meal allowances are designed to carry students throughout the semester. “There are currently four allowable meal swipes per day for each student,” she said. “Allowing more than four per day will quickly deplete students out of meals before the end of the semester.” Cheong is part of the Food Service Committee, which meets monthly to discuss the likes, concerns and nutrition of students. Resident assistants from each residence hall speak on behalf of the students. She said Dining Services hasn’t received any complaints and that the percentage of students who lose money is low. Konty, Wendt and other students have lost money at the end of this semester. “It’s not as bad for me as it is for my parents,” he said. “I’m just frustrated with the system they have in place.”

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24 hours a day,” he said. “With hookah, it’s a little more difficult.” Still, despite when or where tobacco products are used, Sandra Parker, Tarrant County Public Health medical director, said it’s unhealthy. “Tobacco use in any form is not healthy and is dangerous,” she said. Clark said he smoked cigarettes at the beginning of the semester but quit a few weeks later because of health reasons. When he learned about the study, he said he would also give up hookah. “I quit,” he said, “for the sake of my health.”

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