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Three-day Prayer event held in grass outside M.D. Anderson Library

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will continue on through today.

Students will gather outside the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library to pray and sing songs. — Zachary Burton/The Daily Cougar

‘Undie Run’ controversy unfoldsAmanda HilowManaging editor

A scheduled event was pre-maturely shut down by UH Police Department and Houston Police Department just before midnight Nov. 6 because of the growing size of a large crowd of unaffi liated groups at Lynn Eusan Park.

Although Phi Beta Sigma Fra-ternity, Inc. reserved the area until 1:30 a.m. for a Homecoming event,

the crowd was dispersed by police offi cials shortly after midnight.

“The confluence of the undie run, a fraternity event at Lynn Eusan Park and an election celebration in the residential areas created a situ-ation that demanded the attention of UHPD,” said Chief of Staff Lt. Bret Collier.

External vice president of the Zeta Zeta chapter of Phi Beta Sigma, Jason

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UHPD explains varied response to theftCRIME

Samuel ColinContributing writer

A student was struck on the back of his head and then robbed of his cell phone Oct. 30 in a parking lot located off of Elgin Avenue and Cul-len Boulevard. A second robbery was attempted on another student at 8:27 p.m. Friday near the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center.

The former incident was reported to UH Police Depart-ment, but a security alert was not sent out to students. Instead, UH Department of Public Safety sent out an e-mail the next day urging students to be smart while using their phones. For the latter inci-dent, a security alert was sent out by UHDPS at 11:28 p.m. that same evening.

“The incident that occurred on the 30th was considered for an immediate crime alert, but was recognized as not necessarily meeting the criteria. Ultimately it was decided that even if an alert was not required, we wanted to make sure the community was aware of related trends we were seeing. The most appropriate alert we could send, the one that would be most helpful to the community, was one highlighting the increas-ing instances of cell phone related crimes, including ones like the incident on the 30th,” said Lt. Bret Collier in an e-mail.

“The incident this past weekend was similar in many ways to the previous, although the phone was not ultimately taken. The nature of the crime, combined with its

similarity to another recent crime was enough for our staff to recog-nize that there may be a continuing threat, triggering a crime alert.”

Cell phone thefts have been

increasing across the country and UHPD thought it was better to pro-vide information on how to avoid

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Police comments on its different reactions to attempted and successful cell phone robberies

The UHPD motto is ‘Effort, Respect.’ | Julie Heffl er/The Daily Cougar

The so-called ‘Undie Run,’ the Lynn Eusan Park fraternity event and a re-election celebration all took place on the evening of Nov. 6. | Courtesy of Wade Tao

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Machine – At 1:57 a.m. Nov. 5 at the Cambridge Oaks Apartments, a staff member reported a vend-ing machine was burglarized. The case is inactive.

Reckless Damage – At 9:50 a.m. on Nov. 5 at the Wortham Theater, a staff member reported someone damaged the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center. The inci-dent occurred between 5:00 p.m. Nov. 2 and 9:50 a.m. Nov. 5. The case is active.

Possession of Dangerous Drug/Possession of a Controlled Sub-stance – At 9:56 a.m. Nov. 5 on Bayou Oaks Apartments, a stu-dent was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance and released to Harris County Jail. The case is cleared by arrest.

Theft/Credit or Debit Card Abuse – At 5:31 p.m. Nov. 5 at the Engineering 2, a faculty member reported his wallet stolen and a credit card was used to make unauthorized purchases. The case is active

Theft – At 12:33 p.m. Nov. 6 at Moody Towers, a staff member reported the theft of unattended and unsecured food. The incident occurred between 3:00 p.m. Nov. 5 and 8:00 a.m. Nov. 6. The case is active.

Theft – At 2:29 p.m. Nov. 6 at Bayou Oaks Apartments, a student reported the theft of the contents of her unattended and unsecured wallet. The incident occurred between 3:30 p.m. Nov. 5 and noon Nov. 6. The case is active.

Public Intoxication – At 7:42 p.m. Nov. 6 at the M.D. Ander-son Memorial Library, a student was arrested for public intoxica-tion and transported to Harris County Jail. The case is cleared

by arrest. Theft – At 8:46 p.m. Nov. 6 in

Lot 15G, a student reported the theft of cash. The case is active.

Assault – At 1:13 p.m Wednes-day at Garrison Gym, a student said she was involved in an ongo-ing verbal confl ict with a teaching assistant and the teaching assis-tant touched her inappropriately. The incident occurred between 10:30 p.m. Nov. 5 and 11:30 a.m. Wednesday. The case is active.

Traffic Offense – At 4:19 p.m. Thursday in Lot 4A, a student reported that someone struck his unattended vehicle and failed to leave the information required by law. The case is active.

Theft – At 12:37 p.m. Friday at University Hilton Hotel, a staff member reported that a guest’s necklace was stolen. The incident occurred between 6:00 p.m. Nov. 6 and 8:00 a.m. Friday. The case is active.

Robbery – At 8:56 p.m. Fri-day at 4800 Calhoun, a student reported that someone attempted to take his cell phone. The case is active.

Theft – At 8:01 p.m. Saturday in Lot 15F, a visitor reported the theft of unsecured and unat-tended property. The case is active.

Burglary of a Motor Vehicle –At 2:14 p.m. Sunday in Lot 9C, a student reported that some-one burglarized his unattended and secured truck. The incident occurred between midnight Fri-day and 2:21 p.m. Sunday. The case is active.

Burglary of a Building or Habi-tation – At 4:34 p.m. Sunday at Calhoun Lofts, a student reported that someone stole his unsecured and unattended laptop computer. The case is active.

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becoming a victim, said UH Chief of Police Ceaser Moore.

Students on campus have opposing views on reporting incidents.

“I appreciate that they tell us to be mindful, but if it is happening on our campus, I think we should have been alerted,” said Stephanie Reyes, fi nance junior.

Isaiah Colin, business freshman, said he was fi ne with the way UHPD handled the situation.

“I think the police department made the right choice by telling us of this new trend, instead of alert-ing us and possibly scaring people

on campus,” said Colin.These security alerts are sent

out after serious criminal activity, Moore said.

“Following every serious crime that occurs on or near the campus, UHPD looks at several factors to determine if a crime alert is appro-priate, including the timeliness of the report and if there is a serious and sustained threat to the com-munity,” Moore said.

“UHPD is required to issue crime alerts for crimes that they feel represent a serious and continuing threat to the campus community. This is a requirement of the Clery amendment to the Crime Aware-ness and Campus Security Act.”

The Cleary amendment also requires that every crime that is

reported to the police department is posted on the crime bulletin to inform the community.

UHPD looks at the details of the case to determine if it is worthy of sending out an alert to students.

“Crimes that are reported to UHPD, campus security authori-ties or local police agencies and are considered to represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees will receive a crime alert,” Collier said in an e-mail.

“Both of these elements are to a degree subjective, so our staff considers every crime and whether it meets these elements and what response would be most helpful to the University community.”

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International Education Week kicks off at UH

The U.S. Department of State and the U.S.

Department of Education have sponsored the Inter-national Education week since President Bill Clinton was in offi ce, said Anita Gaines, director of Interna-tional Student and Scholar Services Offi ce.

The Language and Culture Center performed in front of the UC Satellite Monday (left). — Julie Heffl er/The Daily

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Holiday, expressed with President Francesco Bain the organization’s original intentions of the night.

“We were trying to have a mid-night hump day celebration of Lynn Eusan, who was the first African-American Homecoming queen at the University of Houston in 1968,” Holiday said. “Our organization will put on these monthly hump days at the University, and they’re usually very successful.”

“We just wanted that. We just wanted some kind of Homecoming event.”

According to the Freedom of Expression policy (13.01.01) in the Manual of Administrative Policies and Procedures, organizations

wishing to involve in expressive activities — non-curriculum related events designed to attract an audi-ence of 25 or more — may reserve a University common area, but the University maintains its right to place reasonable restrictions regard-ing time, place and manner on such activities.

“We did reserve the park for 200 people,” Bain said. “The night of the event, it just so happened — coinci-dentally — the election happened.”

Concurrently, promotion orga-nization 5-Star Protainment hosted an underwear run in the same vicinity of the Homecoming event. Executive director of Media Rela-tions Richard Bonnin said the run was unauthorized.

“The University did not sanction such an event, and a request to do so was never submitted,” Bonnin said.

According to MAPP 13.01.01, non-University affiliated groups are allowed to use Lynn Eusan Park for non-reserved expressive activities, as long as the area has not already been reserved.

William Munson, the associate vice president for Student Affairs and Dean of Students, said the Uni-versity is in the process of review-ing any alleged policy violations and is unable to release further details to the public at this time.

An attempt was made to retrieve a statement from the Center for Fraternity and Sorority Life in regards to an alleged con-nection between the fraternity and the underwear run but activities adviser Cassandra Joseph declined to comment.

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Patrick LaroseStaff columnist

For individuals who may be living under a rock, President Barack Obama

was elected for his second term on Tuesday. Of course people already know this, the election was so widely advertised that it was impossible to watch any show without getting bombarded with ads — and those who to escaped online faced the same dilemma.

It was an election that was so widely publicized and important for our nation that as soon as someone logged on to Facebook last Tuesday, they became greeted by a barrage of statuses of absolute gibberish from people banging on their keyboards — either in excitement or horror.

It’s time to move on. The upset from the election has largely come from the contested polls presented through every media outlet.

From the conservative side, the polls were consistently showing former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney in the lead. While on the more liberal leaning sides, the polls refl ected Obama in the lead with the race being equally close each time.

Despite the outcome, neither of these polls were necessarily correct but rather the product of a capitalist business model in an incredibly partisan world.

The U.S. stands more divided than any other time since the Civil War, proven true by the close numbers of the popular vote.

The popular vote functions as an infl uencing power rather than the central power with the Elec-toral College, and this was hardly an upset. The statistician, Nate

Silver, who is now making his news circuit rounds for his own personal victory, had predicted the election with Obama having a 90 percent chance of winning, which was a far cry from the close race other stations were calling.

This is inevitably because his predictions were not based on partisan shift, but on statistics and math.

American culture exists in a time of privatized television news. Rather than the older days when television networks would sink money they knew they would never get back into nightly newscasts, there are corporate

news stations that align them-selves with partisanship in order to secure a demographic and cover advertising revenue.

They exist in the CNN’s and Fox News of today. These popular news networks circulate and benefi t from these close polling results as a way to drive their viewership during one of their most profi table times. It causes their viewers to check up on, bite their nails and glue their eyes to set in fear that there would be a chance their candidate could lose. If they knew the truth that the election was never quite as close as they expected, these networks and websites would

lose viewers and money.Now in the wake of the elec-

tion, these networks and websites are using the post-election rage and discomfort as a source for new media with investigating why the votes turned out the way they did or what was wrong with previous predictions — all quite obviously fi ller news stories.

There is a second form of post-election news stories fl ood-ing the websites and television stations: the horror stories, where supposed journalists report on the many ways Obama will destroy the nation’s freedom now that he will have a term without fear of having to be re-elected.

Our federal government con-sists of a system of checks and balances, where the president only resides with one-third of the government’s power. The ideal here is that Congress or the Supreme Court will shoot down anything that seems actually damaging to the country and the people’s freedom.

Sorry, but Obama is not a communist, anti-christ or Kenyan, and he is defi nitely not going to destroy the country any worse than the last president.

Patrick Larose is a creative writing sophomore and may be reached at [email protected].

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Christopher SheltonAssistant sports editor

Less than a week after suffering a near-fatal injury, senior corner D.J. Hayden was released from the hospital.

Shortly after, Hayden surprised his teammates by showing up to a team meeting before practice. He

spoke for 15 minutes.“I went over a few br ief

announcements, and I told them we have a special guest,” said head coach Tony Levine to the Houston Chronicle. “D.J. came out walking a little slower than usual, but he looks great.”

Hayden tore his inferior vena cava, the large vein that carries

blood to the heart from the lower half of the body, six days ago after a collision with another player. According to UH team physician Dr. Walter Lowe, the injury is fatal 95 percent of the time.

Dr. Lowe said Hayden is ahead of schedule, and the healing pro-cess is progressing.

“He’s got a lot of healing left to

do as the procedure to repair the inferior vena cava is much like a heart transplant. The sternum should take around three months to heal, and D.J. is expected to be able to resume normal activities without contact in three to four months.”

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Phillip Steward shows that his injured teammate, D.J. Hayden, is still on his mind during Saturday’s contest against Tulsa. | Justin Tijerina /The Daily Cougar

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Christopher SheltonAssistant sports editor

Forward Jessieka Palmer became the fi rst freshman to score double digits in the Cougars’ fi rst road contest since forward Sha’Ratta Hawkins posted 28 points at Wis-consin on Nov. 18, 2005.

Palmer said the stat sheet was not as important as winning though.

“Scoring double digits, that was big, but after leaving with an L, it wasn’t something to celebrate,” Palmer said.

Palmer fi nished with 10 points and hit 50 percent of her shots. She didn’t start the game but was the fi rst player off the bench. Head coach Todd Buchanan said Palmer could contribute to his best bench during his tenure at UH.

“We got in foul trouble relatively early (against Mississippi State),” Buchanan said. “We weathered the storm in the fi rst half, and in the second half we did a good job, we just didn’t fi nish the deal. I think this can be our deepest team to date.”

Senior guard Porsche Landry fi n-ished with a team-high of 16 points. It was Landry’s fi rst time on the court since suffering an injury early last season against Georgetown.

The Cougars dropped their opening game of the year 72-66, but prepare for their home opener Tuesday against Alabama at Hofheinz Pavilion. Buchanan said the Cougars could fi x the issues that caused the loss.

“A lot of that is just nerves, inexperience, learning to play the game on the division I level on a big stage,” Buchanan said.

Landry said it will be good to play in front of the home crowd again.

“I’m excited for this being my fi rst home game in a year,” Landry said.

UH was out-rebounded 65-39. Sophomore center Martha Alwal grabbed 18 boards.

Buchanan said two tough tests to open the season will be good for UH.

“Obviously, I put this schedule together for a reason; we’ve got to learn,” Buchanan said. “Sometimes the best lessons are hard lessons: You go back-to-back and play SEC foes (and) you learn.”

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Cullen Performance Hall was abuzz with music, dance and a raucous crowd for the Council of Ethnic Organizations’ annual

International Explosion talent show Wednesday night.

The talent show featured 10 stu-dent organizations that competed in various cultural displays.

Erica Tat, assistant director of

CEO and French junior, said Inter-national Explosion is one of CEO’s biggest events of the year.

“We are trying to showcase the diversity we have on cam-pus. It’s also a chance for us to

collaborate with these different organizations.”

Crowd favorites included the Wushu Club’s martial arts

Laura GillespieStaff writer

In a partnership with the Cyn-thia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, the Asia Society Texas Center hosted “SuperEverything*,” a fi lm that uses live music and explosive lighting to highlight problems with modern Malaysia and the world.

“SuperEverything*” was created by The Light Surgeons — a group of British multimedia artists — and Ng Chor Guan, a Malaysian musi-cian who provides the live music and sound effects.

“There is a chemical reaction when you play with different art-ists, different venues; it gives you a different inspiration,” Guan said.

“It’s like a chemical reaction when it goes together today; tomorrow it might be a different

feeling. I think that’s the beauty of live music.”

The film was fast-paced and multi-layered, with colors fl ashing above the heads of interviewees and glimpses of Malaysian life.

Malaysians of different ages, genders, religions and backgrounds discussed important issues famil-iar to Western audiences: con-sumerism, deforestation and the dangers of an isolated society in a world seemingly controlled by the Internet.

“At fi rst, I was a little concerned that I was going to be overwhelmed with so much going on, and I was kind of amazed at how it still con-tained a narrative,” said patron Joui Romano.

“You can follow a story going on while you’re still taking in the

images and the music so you’re kind of hit in all sense, but in a balanced way where it all falls into place.”

New media graduate student Evan Lee enjoyed the show as well.

“The fi lm was very interesting because it’s a way of experimenting with perception and how we look at space and things moving within that space,” Lee said.

“It’s another way of how you communicate an idea to an audience.”

According to the offi cial website, “SuperEverything*” was part of the 2012 Houston Cinema Arts Festival, an annual event that was held from Wednesday to Sunday showcasing fi lms by and about artists.

It was hosted at the Asia Society

Texas Center, an organization that — despite having existed since the 1970s — just opened the doors to its fi rst permanent establishment in April 2011.

“We wanted to do more to actually engage the community and share what is a very important part of the world right now,” said director of communications Patsy Brown.

“We decided to raise the money to actually give us a space where we could share more, not only in terms of a small lecture space, but for performing arts, visual arts, business and policy-type topics as well as education. It’s a place that covers a lot as far as different areas of our mission.”

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In an effort to increase school spirit among students during Homecoming week, the Homecom-ing Board hosted Block Party — an event that focused on a variety of activities for students to take part in that included caricatures, face painting and games Thursday at Lynn Eusan Park.

“UH is traditionally a commuter school so our goal is to try to bring the events to them and get everyone involved as much as possible,” said Jacob Ortiz, director of productions on the Homecoming Board.

“Most students are pretty stressed around this time of year because of assignments and tests so this is a good opportunity to just relax and interact with fellow Coogs.”

Free food and drinks were pro-vided, and students were encour-aged to consume as much as they wanted. There were also many times throughout the party where plastic cups, drawstring backpacks and T-shirts were handed out.

It initially attracted only a few dozen attendees, but it even-tually more than 100 people participated.

Students said they felt the party was a great way for them to recon-nect with campus happenings.

“I really like what the Home-coming Board did here,” said mathematics junior Pablo Castro. “As long as they keep providing the food and free stuff, I see no reason why this can’t become big-ger in the future. Students here want more traditions in place to provide a more authentic college experience.”

Outside organizations such as Freebirds World Burrito and Whataburger had tables set up and dished out snacks, coupons and other promotional items to students.

The Hot 95.7 radio station was also on hand to provide music while hosting an ice cream eating contest.

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demonstration, which included a solo sword and chain weapon rou-tines performed at a deadly speed.

The audience also enjoyed the Caribbean Student Organization’s booty-shaking dance number, Alpha Phi Alpha’s energetic step dancing and Roarin’ Raas’ Indian spectacle. Each organization had more than a dozen dancers in eye-catching costumes.

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enjoyed the party and all it had to offer. But some, like chemical engineering junior Collin Watson, thought it could have been pro-moted better despite its success.

“I don’t think it’s a lack of work that goes into the promoting. It’s just that I asked a lot of friends if they would be attending this func-tion, and many didn’t even know what function I was talking about,” Watson said.

The Homecoming Board hopes to continue the Block Party tradi-tion next year and receive a bigger response.

“Everyone involved in this worked real hard into making sure students had fun, and I hope the students feel more a part of the University,” Ortiz said.

“It’s our job to show the fresh-men, sophomores and younger stu-dents how amazing our University really is and show them that we have school spirit.”

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always free for performers to enter and students to attend.

“We never charge for our events. It’s a chance for us to give back to them. That way if they win, they get cash prizes to help out with their organization or whatever they want to use it for.”

First, second and third place cash prize awards were determined by the judges through a combina-tion of crowd reaction and cultural representation.

According to Tat, last year’s attendance was about 500 people. Though the Cullen Performance Hall was only half full, audience members filled the rest of the auditorium with enthusiastic applause, laughter and all-around good cheer.

CEO staff raffl ed off T-shirts to lucky show-goers in between acts, but members simply flung shirts into the greedy crowd toward the end of the show.

A significant portion of the crowd was made up of support-ers of the defending champions, Roarin’ Raas.

Students carried Roarin’ Raas signs and went wild when the Indian dance troupe performed.

Pra t h a m @ U H t o o k h o m e third place for its performance, which featured a combination of traditional Indian dance and a modern-day morality play about the importance of young women receiving education in India.

The Wushu Club earned second place with its flawless acrobatic martial arts presentation.

For the second year in a row, the first place award and $500 went to Roarin’ Raas for its color-ful and well-choreographed dance routine.

Though International Explosion was a fun, free event for students, Tat said it also serves an important purpose.

“It’s to help students know that we have these organizations. Every-thing’s free, and it’s just a fun thing for these organizations to do.”

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