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Ten years after receiving his Master’s degree in Sociology from UH, Charles A. McClelland, Jr. was sworn in as the new chief of the Houston Police Department.

Alumnus becomes HPD chiefBy John Brannen The Daily Cougar

Executive Assistant Chief Charles McClelland was sworn in to replace Harold Hurtt as new police chief of the Houston Police Department on April 14.

The decision was announced by Mayor Annise Parker just before the new year.

A veteran of the HPD, McClelland said he was humbled by Parker’s choice and that he looks forward to overseeing people who are devoted to protecting and serving Houston citizens.

“It has been a tremendous

honor to start my career out as a police cadet and rise through the ranks and become chief of police,” McClelland said. “I feel very fortunate. It’s the capstone of my police career and this will be the last job I’ll ever have at the HPD.”

McClellan said some of his goals are to promote communication within the force and the community.

“I want to increase police community relationships and strengthen that,” he said. “There are a lot of ideas that men and women throughout the ranks have and I need to find an avenue for them to give me ideas on how to

be more efficient.” McClelland did not grow

up with a desire to be a police officer. Instead he stumbled into a law enforcement career out of necessity.

“I was probably like most other 20-year-olds at the time that was looking for something stable, something I could be proud of and something that would at least put the food on the table,” he said. “My brother-in-law was a Houston police officer so he’s actually the one, I guess he’s the one, that gets credit for recruiting me and

CPH holds global forum on energy

A Memorial Day observance was held Monday

morning at Houston Memorial Cemetery. The ceremony included an address by Governor Rick Perry and a flyover by the U.S. Coast Guard. Although official numbers for the total veteran population of UH are near 800, it is believed that there were more than 1500 veterans enrolled this past spring.

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The UH System Board of Regents has approved a budget of $1.3 billion for the fiscal year 2011 and 25 percent of it will be spent on student scholarships.

The board unanimously approved the budget during the May 15 meeting. The five percent reduction in spending from state appropriations was considered in the budget process.

“I commend the board’s finance and administration committee for the long hours it spent poring over this budget,” UHS Board of Regents Chairman Welcome W. Wilson Sr. said in a UH press release. “They worked diligently to make necessary reductions while protecting priority initiatives that benefit our students and are crucial in UH’s journey toward Tier one status.”

The budget plan that will go into effect Sept. 1, was broken down between all the UH system schools. UH main will receive $1.01 billion, the majority of the funding.

With the economy still recovering from one of the worst financial crises since the Great Depression, many students are still struggling to cover college expenses.

“College tuition is getting crazy,” business junior Mukesh Pillai said. “A lot of expenses go

Students praise budget’s aid plans

By Gordon FurneauxThe Daily Cougar

The UH Center for Public History recently held lectures to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of living in modern energy capitals.

Two Houston professors led the lectures, which drew experts from around the globe.

“The paper focused on questions related to oil-led economic development in Houston during the 20th century and the impact of that development on urban growth, labor, immigration, environmental pollution and land issues,” said director of the Center for Public History Martin Melosi.

The energy capitals that were represented share similar problems, but the city of Houston was selected due to its status as one of the most energy dependent cities in the world.

“Although Houston is not necessarily a model for all energy development globally, the city’s status as ‘the energy capital of the United States’ made our venue a logical one,” said Melosi.

After funding was granted by the National Science Foundation and UH, it was decided the meetings would be held in Houston.

Cullen professor of history and business Joseph Pratt said he was pleased to lead these lectures from home but, more importantly, that Houston set the example and can promote more meetings in other locations.

“We had scholars from around the nation and the world,” Pratt said. “We hope that our conference will help create regular meetings here and in other cities to explore common issues in cities strongly influenced by energy-led development.”

The lectures were held from May 21-22, and allowed scholars and experts like Melosi and Pratt to share their findings in an open forum. Experts from as far as Perth, Australia, descended on the Houston campus to discuss some of the problems faced in their energy led cities.

“The advantages are certainly economic – for the companies, workers, and in some cases, the cities themselves,” Melosi said. “The downside is that local communities that produce energy normally carry the environmental burden rather than distributing it among the users of that energy.”

Attendees, in order to gather as much information as possible and find similarities among the global problems and assets associated with energy production and distribution, discussed a total of ten papers. Another purpose of the meetings was to gain support for publishing their findings from the different discussed areas.

“We had a wide range of papers on the following cities besides Houston,” Melosi said. “We anticipate completing a book project incorporating these cities.”

Some of the countries and states involved included Mexico, Canada, louisiana and Tennessee.

These lectures were just the beginning for Melosi and Pratt, who said they hope the meetings between these energy experts will spawn more gatherings and bring further attention to the issues discussed.

“our first step is to complete the book. We also are considering additional workshops,” Melosi said. “We also want to take the lessons learned and provide them to policymakers wherever possible.”

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Christopher Farnsworth’s Blood Oath: 6:30 p.m., Murder by the Book, 2342 Bissonnet St. 77005. Blood Oath is the first in a series of supernatural thrillers featuring Nathaniel Cade, a vampire different from most other undead characters we’ve been seeing on television and in movies these days. Cade was captured by the U.S. Army and is being forced to protect the president from threats by the undead and whatever otherworldly creatures that might come along. Mix vampires, who literally drink blood, with D.C. politicos, who may as well, and toss in an overconfident Oval Office liaison, a few conspiracies and some biological weapons, and you have quite a literary cocktail. For more information, call 713-524-8597 or visit www.murderbooks.com. The event is free.

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City of Ships: 10 p.m., Super Happy Fun Land, 3801 Polk St. 77003. Florida’s metallic City Of Ships just released their second full-length LP, Look What God Did to Us, late last year. The band’s sophomore album was included in Decibel’s end of year ‘best-of’ list and drew praise from

metal mavens of all stripes for its staunch post-hardcore grind. Fans of the like-minded Cave In and the nearly-departed Isis will find City Of Ships a nice fit for their ears. The band’s complex riffs will easily sink into the pores of any devoted math-rocker worth his or her Gravity Records collection. The event is free and, as always, will include a potluck dinner. For more information, call (713) 880-2100.

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Free Press Summer Fest: 2-10 p.m., Eleanor Tinsley Park, 500 Allen Parkway 77002. Over 70 national and local acts will be performing this weekend at Houston’s annual Summer Fest. The 2010 festival welcomes the addition of a third stage and an exciting expan-sion of the scope and area of artist installations. In addition to the array of sights and sounds, festival-goers can take a break from the heat and browse dozens of local artisan booths, cool off in one of the misting tents and grab an icy cold adult beverage in the shaded beer garden. The event continues on Saturday during the same hours. For more information, visit www.freepress-SummerFest.com

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The Cougars were fortunate to make the Conference USA tournament hosted at Cougar Field. During May the Cougars went 7-6 in conference play. Teams with more talent like UCF and Tulane faltered down the stretch, and UH snuck in.

The Cougars won their first game 11-7 over Marshall and gave some hope that maybe they could pull off a miracle. However, that set up a matchup against the Cougars’ worst nightmare – Rice.

The owls not only swept the Cougars 4-0 and outscored them 48-16, and a spot in the championship game was on the line. The owls brought the Cougars back to reality by amassing half that total in a colossal 24-3 win to end UH’s season.

The Cougars’ third game was a meaningless 10-6 loss to Southern Miss. The only news to come out of that was that the Golden Eagles would go on to pull the 7-4 upset of the owls in the championship game.

“It was a poor season, our pitching just never could come together, our bullpen didn’t come together, we had numerous guys nicked up and hurt,” Noble said. “It was just way below University of Houston standards this season.”

Against Marshall, the Cougars’

offense scored on defensive lapses, walks, balks and timely hitting. The Cougars scored four runs in the first two innings.

In the four-run third it was a walk-a-thon. The Cougars walked four times, had three hits and scored four runs. The Cougars scored one in the fourth and two in the fifth on Cokinos’ first triple of the year to lead 11-0.

Michael Goodnight had a disappointing season as the Cougars’ number one starter, but he finished with one of his better outings. Goodnight did allow nine base runners, but the only blemishes were a two-run homer in the sixth, and a solo homer in the seventh.

Goodnight said he was trying to pitch quickly so the offense could get back on the field.

“I was feeling good. our offense was clicking, and I was just trying to get back in the dugout as quickly as possible. That way our offense could get more runs,” Goodnight said. “They did a number in the first four or five innings, and they sealed the game for us.”

The Cougars’ win against Marshall and Rice’s 11-3 win over East Carolina meant both teams would face each other with a chance to play in the championship game.

The owls decided that chance right away by scoring 11 runs in the first inning, including a grand slam

by All-American Anthony Rendon. The owls scored 10 in the third,

fourth and fifth innings and 24 runs total to set a tournament record for runs in an inning and a game.

“Rice did an outstanding job of turning around mediocre

pitching,” Noble said. “you have to hand it to them – when we made mistakes, they pounded the ball.”

Noble said games like this you have to try to keep focus.

“you hope your guys can go out there and get outs and then come in and swing the bats,” Noble said.

“It makes for a long game, and it’s a little embarrassing, but that’s competition. Some times you’re going to have days like this.”

The Cougars finish the season 25-32.

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The men’s track team celebrated their second consecutive outdoor C-USA championship May 16 in Orlando.

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Cougar Sports ServicesThe Cougars will be well

represented at the 2010 NCAA outdoor track and field championships with ten athletes slated to make the trip to Eugene, ore. Wesley Bray will participate in the decathlon and Chris Carter qualified for the triple jump. Both men and women’s 4x100-meter relay teams qualified. For individual events, Grecia Bolton will run the 100-meter dash, while Christie Jones and Kalyn Floyd made the 200-meter finals. Errol Nolan will compete in the 400-meter dash.

The men’s team repeated as outdoor Conference USA Champions in orlando, May 16. Head coach leroy Burrell was named men’s coach of the year, winning the award for the 16th time.

Isaiah Sweeney won the High Point Scorer of the meet, winning gold in the long jump and the 200-meter dash. Errol Nolan was named Co-Freshman of the year.

The women’s team placed fifth but the 4x100-meter relay team set a meet record with a time of 43.82 seconds. The team consisted of Christie Jones, Whitney Harris, Kalyn Floyd and Grecia Bolton.

Running back Sims suspended for season; team racks up awards

The NCAA has ruled Charles Sims, who was expected to take an increased role in the offense, ineligible for the 2010 season. The reason for suspension was not released.

Several members of the UH football team were included in the Phil Steele Publications Preseason All-America teams. Quarterback Case Keenum and wide receiver Tyron Carrier made the Preseason All-America Second Team. Receiver James Cleveland made Third Team. Keenum and Cleveland were named on the All Conference-USA First Team, along with linebacker Marcus McGraw and kicker Matt Hogan.

Scout.com also ranked Keenum as the No. 2 preseason candidate to win the 2010 Heisman trophy.

Basketball sees roster changesThe UH men’s basketball team

has had a flurry of activity the past few weeks with several departures and key additions.

Desmond Wade, Bryce Clark and Kamell Broughton have all left the UH basketball program to look for playing opportunities elsewhere.

The Cougars added Darian

Thibodeaux of Navarro Junior College, Mikhail Mclean who graduated from Second Baptist and Jonathon Simmons from Midland Junior College and a graduate of Smiley High School. Fabyon Harris from Hyde Park Academy in Chicago signed a national letter of intent to play for the Cougars.

Athletic department hands out awards

Student-athletes were honored by the Athletics Department at the All-Sports Banquet May 3 for their athletic prowess.

Quarterback Case Keenum and national champion diver Anastasia Pozdniakova claimed the male and female Cougar of the year awards. linebacker Marcus McGraw was awarded defensive MVP of the football team. Tyron Carrier and Tim Mercer were the special teams MVPs.

Aubrey Coleman was recognized as the men’s MVP for basketball, and Courtney Taylor was the women’s MVP. Matt Creel and Blake Kelso were nominated as baseball MVPs. For indoor track and field Errol Nolan and Kalyn Floyd won the male and female MVPs, respectively.

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The U.S. government and British Petroleum have yet to come up with a solid solution to the oil leak that began on April 22, 2010.

The oil leak is far greater than simply endangering an important industry; it

displays our nation’s vulnerabilities. This disaster will surely become one of the most severe oil spills in history and must serve as a wake up call.

We just witnessed how the financial industry can deal a catastrophic blow to the economy, and our solution was to rescue it, which effectively solved nothing.

These are examples that our nation is losing its edge as the strongest problem solver. We are falling behind at something just as important - innovation and leadership.

The oil leak is more severe and more

dangerous than any of us know. BP has enormous incentives to downplay the negative effects of this incident. The U.S. government has incentives to portray their success and sense of control to produce a positive public image.

Not only is the end not in sight for a solution to this oil leak, we are using unproven methods in an effort to try and solve it.

The first biggest problem is that we have yet to accurately account for how much oil is actually leaking out.

BP’s worst case scenario estimates for the oil leak are 2,520,000 gallons per day, while the worst case scenario from the experts is 4,200,000 gallons per day according to a Gulf leak meter produced by PBS News Hour.

Another issue which is not only dubious but moreover horrifying is that our cleaning methods that are

unsuccessful so far have potentially adverse effects.

The use of dispersant chemicals sprayed onto the water have been criticized for their possible harmful effects. The dispersants are designed to break down the oil on the surface of the water.

This means that if the dispersants would have to be increased to levels that are more proportional to the actual volume of the leak. That amount of dispersants is untested and therefore the consequences are unknown.

The oil leak exemplifies that we need to switch directions and begin focusing on other methods of energy and moreover learning the lesson of dangers when it comes to putting all of one’s eggs into one basket.

Andrew Taylor is an economics senior and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com

For some people, Memorial Day offers a chance to reflect on the sacrifices scores of brave men and women in uniform have made for this country.

Many, however, know little of what the holiday commemorates,

choosing instead to spend the day bargain shopping.

Amidst the sales and deals that the public is inundated with on this most important of holidays, a majority of Americans don’t stop and actually think about what Memorial Day is truly about.

At the conclusion of the Civil War, veteran forces in the North and South made a practice out of paying respect to fallen soldiers by decorating their graves. These “Decoration Days”, as they came to be known, were held on different days in each state, as there was no federal holiday.

Almost a century later, Congress officially enacted Memorial Day, ordering observation to be held on the last Monday of each May.

Unlike Veteran’s Day, which celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans,

Memorial Day is about honoring American soldiers who died during military service. Anyone who watches television or reads a newspaper in the week leading up to the holiday, however, probably thinks it’s a day to celebrate and reflect on the low prices down at the local Wal-Mart.

This country has lost touch with one of its greatest natural resources — the men and women who have given their lives serving us.

There are around 1.5 million Americans serving in the various branches of the armed forces, and every one of them puts their life in harm’s way at some point during their service.

Many people have family members who have served, maybe a grandparent in World War II or a brother in Afghanistan. While it’s nice that we observe those living and deceased two days out of the year respectively, every one of them deserves our acknowledgement as often as we can spare it.

How we might feel about the ethics or necessity of war does not matter; people in service work to protect every American, not simply liberals or conservatives.

I was discussing Memorial Day the other night with my best friend, who coincidentally just finished a six-year tour with the Navy. He said that whenever a civilian approached him or another member of his crew to give them a simple “thank you,” it put everything into perspective and made the sacrifice worth it.

I promised him that I would try to never again waste an opportunity to thank a person in uniform when I see them. Although I am somewhat timid when it comes to approaching strangers, I realized that if they can pick up a rifle to go and defend people they will never meet, I can work up the courage to thank them for doing so.

Memorial Day should be about more than shopping — it should be a day to honor those who gave everything for us. But don’t wait 364 days each year to celebrate the men and women who sacrifice to protect our way of life; next time you see one, just say “thanks.”

Alan Dennis is an communications senior and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com

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As far as newspapers go, The Daily Cougar has a high turnover rate, but that’s just the way it is with a college newspaper; editors, writers

and production staff are trained and let loose into the “real world,” and those of us who are left behind usually move up the ranks and always wish our fellow staffers a fond farewell.

This past semester was no different. And with the Summer 2010 semester beginning, the Cougar

editorial board is almost completely brand new, and with the new staff comes new ideas and directions for our University’s paper to take.

This semester, we’re hoping to expand our coverage. The Cougar will continue to be the campus watchdog, but we will also be reporting more of what our readers want to read about; we’ll be at Discovery Green, Fitzgerald’s and

Agora. From Meyerland to the Heights and from Clear lake to Kingwood, we know that our student body comes from all areas of the city of Houston, and we want to be a newspaper worth your time. In order to do that, we hope to receive a lot of feedback from you, our readers.

Are we covering events and issues that are important to you? Are there any new bars or restaurants opening on your side of town that you’d like to read a review for?

The members of our current staff all have experience in the world of journalism in different ways. Some of us have written for other publications and others have been on staff for years, but we have come together with the common goal of putting out a once-weekly, quality newspaper that you all will want to pick up every Wednesday. And we will be doing updates to the Cougar’s Web site on a regular basis, too, and we hope to stay relevant and fun while you all endure the summer semester, which always feels longer than it should. And if it’s any condolence, many of us are enrolled in summer school, too. So we feel your pain. If nothing else, we promise to keep the Sudoku.

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The Cougar will continue to be the campus watchdog, but we will also be reporting more of what our readers want to read about

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By Jack WehmanThe Daily Cougar

Disney has got to be the most bipolar movie studio on the face of the planet. on one hand, they give us the best animated movies of all time- WALL-E, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, and Up are just insanely brilliant. This is their good side. Flip the coin over and you see their seedy underbelly- National Treasure 2, both of the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels, the Alice in Wonderland remake, and now they can add Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time as their crown jewel of suck.

For some reason Disney decided that Prince of Persia- the video game series- would make a good summer action movie. They set it back in time, when Persia was at the height of its power in Asia. Somehow, though, everyone in this movie is white. Not a little bit white, but full-blown Caucasian; there is maybe one or two actual Persian people in the movie. And, apparently, all Persians speak perfect English with a flawless British accent (just because it’s a foreign accent doesn’t make it the right foreign accent; we Americans aren’t that dumb.)

Prince of Persia could have been saved if these were its only mistakes – no one’s perfect, and it’s not trying to be the most historically accurate movie. The plot, however, is really where the movie takes a belly flop into a vat of clichés. There is – drum roll, please – an orphan boy, who, for some reason, gets taken in by the king, and becomes a prince because he has the “spirit of a king”. Sorry, other orphans, guess you don’t qualify. There is also an unattainable princess, and Jake (er, Prince Destan) must woo her while, of course, saving the entire human race from certain destruction. I guess since Disney owns Aladdin as

well it’s not technically plagiarism, but it sure comes close.

The story only gets more mediocre from there. yes, there are a few decent fight scenes, and Gyllenhaal makes a halfway decent action hero (he is in awesome shape, at least) – but there are far too many moments when I kept wondering if the movie was ever going to end, and that’s never a good thing, especially considering Prince of Persia doesn’t even hit the two hour mark.

I reserved a completely separate paragraph for the ending, because it is just that terrible. Prince of Persia was not a terrible movie, even with all its flaws; if you can turn your brain away from some of the acting and the dialogue, it mildly entertains. That is, until you see how the story ends. The writers painted themselves into a corner and didn’t see a way out; I wish I could spoil the ending here and rip it absolutely to threads, but unfortunately my journalistic integrity gets in the way (I have taken a solemn vow to never spoil a movie for anyone, even if it is terrible.) I will, however, say this: movies should never end like Prince of Persia. It is the cheapest cop-out I have seen a movie take in quite some time, and it leaves a terrible taste in my mouth just thinking about it. Everything that gave the movie a semblance of meaning is stripped away in an instant, and when the credits started rolling all I could think was, “Really?”

Sufficed to say, I did not like Prince of Persia. It was a waste of time and money for everyone involved. Do not pay to see this movie; if I had the prince’s magical time-dagger, I’d use it to stop myself from entering the theater.

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motivating me for looking at the HPD for a career.”

McClelland is an UH alumnus. He earned his Bachelor’s of Arts degree in criminology in 1998 and received a Master’s degree for sociology in 2000. Both degrees are mandatory in his career. In order to be eligible to apply as an assistant chief, one must earn a bachelors degree. A master’s

degree is a requirement to apply for chief of police.

McClelland said he was thankful for his time as a student.

“It made me more well rounded to sit in class, take those courses and to hear different views,” he said.

McClelland said his vision is for community-oriented policing throughout the city and he hopes to have partnerships with other law enforcement agencies throughout the region.

“UH is a community campus in

the Houston area, along with Texas Southern University. Both of those campuses are located in inner city Houston,” McClelland said. “Things that affect the campus can also affect the neighborhoods. We have to make sure we’re coordinated and use our resources wisely and make sure I give them information that can be helpful, and if they have information about the neighborhoods that they let me know.”

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into college like textbooks and living on-campus. People are discouraged from living on-campus, because of the expenses; scholarships can take care of that and allow students to get the full college experience.”

Pillai also said that this particular scholarship especially benefits him because of the possibility of spending more than the traditional four years in school.

“I’m planning to take a couple

of more years at UH, so I definitely could use a scholarship from the Bauer College (of Business),” Pillai said. “Any student could always use financial help, whether it’s a scholarship, financial aid or anything that provides for expenses.”

The UH system budget is funded by state appropriations but almost 34 percent of it comes from tuition and fees.

The budget funds are applied mostly, at 56 percent, to student success and access.

“This will give students more

opportunities to gain scholarships,” Engineering junior John M. George said. “This will also open up opportunities for people with financial problems.”

George said that his scholarship plays a major role in his expenses and makes a large difference for him.

“My particular scholarship covers half of my tuition,” he said. “If it wasn’t for my scholarship I probably wouldn’t have come to UH.”

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