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Former coach Curl awaits heart transplant, and power outage forces University Center to temporary officesTRANSCRIPT
Kathleen MurrillAssistant sports editor
The last time former head women’s bas-ketball coach Joe Curl was on a plane, he should have died.
The Cougars were headed to face Texas Tech, but when the plane landed, Curl was rushed to the hospital. His heart had stopped pumping properly during the fl ight
and caused him to gain almost 30 pounds in excess fl uid.
Doctors told him he would never be able to fl y again, and at the end of the season, Curl told UH he wouldn’t be coaching again.
Curl coached the team for 12 seasons, compiled a 193-167 record and become the longest tenured and most successful coach in the program’s history. In 1998, Curl led the
Cougars to the most wins in school history with 28 wins, championships in the Con-ference USA game and tournament and an appearance in the NCAA tournament.
After the record-breaking season, Curl was named C-USA Coach of the Year and received National Coach of the Year honors from the Associated Press, United States Basketball Writers Association, ESPN.com and The
Basketball Times.Now, Curl sits on his couch with an IV in
his arm reading the newspaper cover to cover, listening to UH basketball games and waiting for a new heart.
“It has been five years since my heart attack, and I have forgotten what it is like to
Joe Curl said the only thing that makes his frequent hospital stays bearable for him is the visits from family, including his grandson, Maverick. | Courtesy of Angela Curl-Okafor
Natalie HarmsNews editor
The University Center is suffer-ing from a power outage — one that is projected to last until Monday at the earliest.
“The cause of the power outage is under investigation,” said Richard Bonnin, the executive director of media relations for UH.
Bonnin had hoped that the UC would be up and running by Tuesday.
“We are working with Tellepsen, Capp Electric and UH plant opera-tions staff to identify and evaluate the entire system to bring power back on line,” Bonnin said.
According to Bonnin, the areas affected were junction boxes, which are containers for electrical connec-tions, elevators and the fi re detec-tion and fi re-suppression systems.
Once the center is open, it will be posted to the UC and Division of Student Affairs websites.
“The fi rst area/service to re-open will be the Bookstore/UC First Floor (projected to be the beginning of next week), followed by the middle of next week for the offices and services on the Second Floor of the University Center,” according to a UH press release.
In the meantime, students are encouraged to visit the interim offi ces, which are listed on the UC website, and refer to the website for developing information if they need anything.
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UNIVERSITY CENTER
Refugee offi ces created
CURL continues on page 5
Due to the UC’s power outage, student organizations have been relocated for the week
Make-shift offi ces have been set up across campus while the UC remains closed
The University Centers (including UC CARS, CreationStation and UC Administration), Center for Student Involvement and the Center for Fraternity and Sorority Life will be housed in room 1004 of the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center.The Dean of Students Offi ce will be housed in the Campus Recreation Suite Room 2000.The Women’s Resource Center is being housed in the Women’s Gender Sexuality Studies Offi ce in Agnes Arnold Room 624.The GLBT Resource Center is being housed in the Learning Support Services Offi ce on the First Floor of Cougar Village.Veterans’ Services Offi ce is being housed in the UH Welcome Center Room 134.The UC Business Offi ce is being housed in General Services Building Room 268.
—All information is from uh.edu/uc
INTERIM OFFICES
Playing the waiting game
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FLASHBACK
For this week’s flashback and in honor of Valentine’s Day, The Daily Cougar staff went back in the archives to what we’ve deemed the Year of Love — 1993.
It is still an ongoing tradition for the Cougar to offer students, faculty and staff the opportunity to submit a special message to their loved ones. The Cougar will showcase hearts with 15 to 20 words on Thursday’s issue of the paper.
To give readers a taste of what’s to come; here are some of the sweetest love messages from 1993.
“Hope, I often wonder how I ever survived before we became man and wife. You are truly the only Hope for love I have now and forever. – Your Loving Carlos.”
“Freckles, you’re all over my heart. I’ll love always! Happy Valentine’s Day, Pumpkin.”
“Honey-Bunches: I love you more than the whole world! (Betcha By Golly Wow!) Love, Babykins – Your Valentine Forever.”
“HRW, you make all my wishes come true. Living a simple day without you is impossible. I love you., YMN.”
“Kim Nguy, Although we’ve cut our date short; we’ll definitely keep in touch. But if dreams do come true in heaven, the angels will send you to me. Secret Admirer.”
“Pretty Mama – I’m crying to you. I need you to change me, nour-ish me, cradle me, LOVE ME – Your baby.”
— Channler K. Hill
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Ellen GoodacreStaff writer
In efforts to raise Cougar spirit, the Coog Factor Association will bring a talent show to the line up of Frontier Fiesta for the fi rst time.
“The University doesn’t really have anything that spirited after the fall semester, and that sucks for the school spirit,” said psychology and bioprocessing sophomore Isaiah Ross, president of the Coog Factor Association.
“So what we’ve decided is we wanted to fi nd someone on campus who has that ‘it’ factor, the Coog Fac-tor. The best way to fi nd that out is by putting on a type of talent show.”
The CFA will host a Wild West Tal-ent Show featuring student perform-ers on the opening night of Frontier Fiesta on March 21. The festival will continue until March 23 and offer cookouts, live music and the unmis-takable “Fiesta City.”
The CFA was established in the fall and aims to rally school spirit year round.
The organization’s goal is to host
an extravagant talent show, inspired by the television show the X-Factor. Frontier Fiesta representatives, already hoping to bring a student showcase to its event, saw great potential in partnering with Coog Factor to host the Wild West Talent Show.
“Isaiah has been a good friend of mine since middle school,” said nutrition sophomore Cynthia Orobio, director of productions for Frontier Fiesta. “I sat in on a couple of their meetings, and when Frontier Fiesta wanted to do a talent show or some type of battle of the bands, I imme-diately thought of Coog Factor. Their organization is all about showcasing talent all over Houston and all over campus.”
The Coog Factor Association still plans to host its own variety showcase next spring but sees this opportunity as a learning experience.
“This is an opportunity to show what the Coog Factor Association is and get our names out there,” Ross said. “Also, this is showing us what it’ll be like when we do our own show
separate from Frontier Fiesta. And so the most exciting thing is just the learning experience of it all.”
The Coog Factor is currently accepting entry forms for students who would like to perform and encourage students, bands and orga-nizations to get involved in the event as a way to showcase themselves and show some school spirit.
To enter the Wild West Talent Show and learn more about the organization, contact [email protected].
Students are also encouraged to participate in other Coog Factor events.
“We’re really excited about bring-ing the school together so we con-sider ourselves more than that day
of the show,” Ross said. “We want to do itty-bitty things like put on salsa nights for people who want to dance and poetry slam nights, things like that. So you can expect that from us — anything that shows the stu-dents and the variety and diversity of them.”
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UH spirit won’t have to be fueled by Shasta and the UH cheerleaders alone this year, as one of the goals of the Coog Factor is to promote Cougar pride by way of a talent show. | File Photo/The Daily Cougar
Manuella MoreiraContributing writer
Mila Golovine, as a marketing and fi nance undergraduate student anxious to get her degree in the early 1990s, decided to sign up for an entre-preneurial class because it sounded like an easy elective. But instead of an easy A, she found a stepping-stone to a life of success.
“I signed up for what I thought was an easy marketing class,” said Golovine. “But what we were exposed to was totally life changing. I ended up applying for the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship program, and stick-ing with (it).”
Golovine, one of the graduates of the entrepreneurship program’s fi rst class, is the founder and CEO of Master Word Services, Inc., a leading global provider of industry-specifi c language solutions, worth more than $13 million.
She says she couldn’t have done it without the Wolff Center for Entrepre-neurship program.
“I learned a lot there because we didn’t just have professors lecture us,” she said. “They brought guest speak-ers, entrepreneurs, to talk to us. We heard from people who succeeded and people who failed.”
Founder and Co-Chairman of the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship at the Bauer College of Business, Wil-liam Sherrill, who was Golovine’s mentor when she was enrolled in the program, said that the main goal of the program is to teach students how to be executive offi cers.
“Most of a student’s career focuses on planning and organizing,” he said. “We teach students business plans and how to switch from planning to
implementation.”Sherrill explained that while fran-
chises have a 97 percent change of succeeding, small businesses have only about 7 to 8 percent chance, because franchises have perfected a business plan and eliminated risks.
“They have it all worked out,” he said. “And that’s what we work on here in the Center. We work with students to perfect plans and eliminate risks. We improve the chances of small business from 7 to 50 percent.”
Golovine, who is fl uent in Russian, French and English, immediately took interest in the translation and interpretation market.
“Doing my research, I found a $20 million business dominated by moms and pops,” Golovine said. “There were no big companies providing this type of service in the Houston market.”
Golovine is still involved with UH where she mentors students, helps with strategic initiatives and acts as a guest speaker. She is also trying to implement an internship program with her company to give students the opportunity to learn from her business.
Tuesday, Golovine celebrated her company’s 20 years of success at a party in her honor in her offi ce.
BAUER
Alumna thanks program for her success
Mila Golovine (right) and her mentor (left) have known each other for more than 20 years. | Courtesy of Mila Golovine
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AaronManuel
Jacob PattersonContributing writer
The way students eat on college campuses is quickly changing.
Burger Studio, in particular, is not only a delicious place to eat lunch, but a game changer in the way one orders food with how they utilize technology, specifi -cally a touch-screen menu and ordering kiosk.
In other words, the burger ordering process is entirely auto-mated. You order and customize your burger using touch-screen kiosks, hand the order ticket in and the burger is made to your exact specifi cations.
“It’s pretty cool. Ten people can be waiting on food, and you can still get your food in around 10 to 15 minutes by cutting out manpower from the ordering
line,” said fi nance and supply chain management senior Chan-dler Tomasini.
The concept is solid. Auto-mated ordering makes sense fi nancially, as an automated kiosk in the long run costs far less than a worker’s salary. It leaves out human error. Everyone, at some point, has faced the problem of placing an order at some food establishment only to wind up with vegetables you did not ask for, Diet Coke instead of regular Coke and your french fries wind-ing up with someone else’s order.
With Burger Studio, the exact order is printed out on the order ticket, so in most scenarios the only way to mess the order up is either from the customer’s end or the worker not following the ticket.
With most college being made up by an impatient generation that doesn’t like to interact and has grown up with advancing technology, you can expect to see food innovations like automated ordering take a larger role in the
future of the university setting.Another example of a suc-
cessful restaurant innovation in scholastic settings is JambaGO, an innovation from Jamba Juice. It is a series of self-service smoothie machines that are making their way into universities, secondary and primary schools nation-wide. With the new JambaGO
machines, a Missouri district detected a 10-percent increase in breakfast customers and a 15-per-cent increase in lunch sales.
According to forbes.com, Dairy Queen, Subway and Peet’s Coffee are among the growing number of restaurant chains that have implemented Google Wallet. With Google Wallet, you can store your
credit card information online, and then when you are eating out, you can pay your bill with a smart phone — no need to mess with cash or pull out your debit or credit card.
Jacob Patterson is a management information systems senior and may be reached at [email protected].
Burger Studio’s touch-screen ordering kiosk eliminates long lines to order food and minimize. This and other innovations like Google Wallet represent the future in food-service technology. | Nichole Taylor/The Daily Cougar
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ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR Samantha WongNEWS EDITOR Natalie Harms
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TECHNOLOGY
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OPINIONEDITOR Aaron Manuel EMAIL [email protected] ONLINE thedailycougar.com/opinion
Burger Studio’s touch-screen menu represents future of food service
POLITICS
Latest North Korea nuclear test likely to go unchecked by UN, Obama
Terrorists attacked our embassy and killed our ambassador in Libya
Sept. 11, 2012 and the Obama administration apologized for some hack’s anti-Muslim video. The same day, our embassy was attacked in Egypt and the adminis-
tration sold them weapons.Tuesday, North Korea success-
fully conducted a third nuclear test as its government seeks to produce a nuclear warhead that can be delivered by a ballistic mis-sile capable of reaching the U.S.
This presents an immediate threat, and the world just shakes
its collective fi st in sterile indigna-tion. U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, deliv-ered another of the empty threats that have become the standard of the U.N.
“(The U.N. Security Council) must and will deliver a swift, credible and strong response,” Rice said. “(North Korea) does not and will not benefi t from violating international law.”
Perhaps the response will be similar to the “swift, credible and strong response” the U.N. delivered to Iran to stop its nuclear ambitions. The idea of starving a nation in order to force its hand in making concessions does not work on rogue states. Iran and North Korea will continue to forge
nuclear swords.U.N. action — or rather, inac-
tion — has done wonders for Syria as well. Submitting to the will of Russia and China has saved so many lives.
Tuesday, Navi Pillay, the U.N. human rights chief, estimated that more than 70,000 have been killed in Syria’s civil war, with an estimate 9,000-plus killed this year alone. President Barack Obama’s lack of resolve on the issue was evident in a Jan. 27 interview with Chris Hughes of The New Republic.
Well, there’s the prospect of intervening to secure those chemical weapons, the prospect of stabilizing the country and stopping the killing, plus the fact
the U.S. launched a military strike in Libya without pulling a single soldier from the Afghan campaign to do it.
We will not do anything to stop North Korea, Iran or Syria until a
lot more lives are lost — American lives, and thousands of them.
Aaron Manuel is a print journalism senior and may be reached at [email protected].
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SPORTSEDITOR Christopher Shelton EMAIL [email protected] ONLINE thedailycougar.com/sports
Stacey KarrContributing writer
For head tennis coach Patrick Sullivan, recruiting quality play-ers to UH is a breeze. He said the great academic opportunity, family environment, our fun and diverse city and the chance to play on a nationally-ranked tennis team is hard to pass up.
“The place really recruits itself,” Sullivan said.
Fresh after a 6-1 win against Texas State in the HEB Invitational, the Cougars picked up the sixth ranked recruiting class, accord-ing to TennisRecruiting.net. When recruiting, Sullivan’s key focuses are on work ethic, attitude and tal-ent. More than what the players have to offer, Sullivan focuses on the positive environment he can offer our players.
“Recruiting is about building relationships. I work hard to really get to know recruits and am very honest about what we have to offer and what we’re looking for,” Sul-livan said.
“I try hard to meet and to get to know their families and try to relieve their fears about sending their 18-year-old daughters far away from home. I try to give our current players the best experi-ence they can on and off the tennis court.”
He said he also works to main-tain these relationships.
“With all of the time we spend together, if you don’t develop life-long friendships, you’re doing something wrong.”
Sullivan believes maintaining these relationships is also good for the school and coaching staff as well as the students. Student-ath-letes will share their experiences with others on and off the court.
“It’s exciting to have a great foundation of high-character individuals that really do want to be great,” Sullivan said.
“We have had a really great start to the season, getting our first national ranking since 2006 and things are really looking up for us,” Sullivan said.
TENNIS
Squad scores top class
CURL continued from page 1
Since his health forced him to retire, Curl has been able to spend more quality time with his family including his wife Lesa and his 3-year old grandson Maverick, which Curl says is a “blessing.” | Courtesy of Angela Curl-Okafor
feel good,” Curl said.Curl has end-stage heart dis-
ease, causing his heart to function at about 15 percent of its regular capacity. Curl’s parents and all but one of his five siblings have died from the same disease. After a recent stint in the hospital, Curl was given 1B status, the second highest status on the heart transplant list.
Curl says he misses the interac-tion with the students and coach-ing, but he’s glad to be out of the game for now.
“The last two or three years of coaching were just overwhelming and exhausting. It would wipe me out so much walking down the hallway from the locker room and onto the court that I almost couldn’t coach the two hours,” Curl said. “I felt like I wasn’t doing justice to the team.”
But the worst part about no longer being a coach for Curl is the inactivity. Before the heart attack,
Curl was passionate about three things: coaching, landscaping and cooking. For 13 years, Curl would bring his custom-made, over-sized grill to tailgates and cook for any-one who would eat.
After Hurricane Katrina, Curl broke out his grill, and for 10 days fed people who were displaced. Then he drove to Splendora, Texas with a friend to cook for fi ve days for families without power.
Marvin Coleman, Curl’s friend and a long-time UH women’s bas-ketball fan, said Curl was always helping people and cared tremen-dously about not only his athletes, but all students.
“Joe is the best coach the wom-en’s team has ever had, but he is also a marvelous person. He’s big-hearted, and I don’t mean that as a pun,” Coleman said.
“We just keep praying that
something will come through for him. If it doesn’t, he won’t live, and he knows that. He is weak right now, but he’s a strong fi ghter. I don’t think the average person would have lived as long.”
Curl is on 22 prescriptions, an amount sure to increase if he were to receive a new heart. The cost of the medical procedures, prescrip-tions and the potential heart trans-plant has depleted the Curl family savings and forced them to sell their home.
“We have had, as a family, conversations with the doctors on whether or not to proceed with this at all because of the fi nances,” Curl said. “We have seriously considered just letting it run its course. But I want to live for my family. I want to see my daughters continue to grow and raise families and be with my wife. But it is really hard ‘cause
sometimes you feel like you are in the way.”
Through all of this, Curl’s daugh-ter Angela and wife, Lesa, look for-ward to the day their family receives a call letting them know that there’s a heart. However, Curl recognizes the other side to this good news, and his generosity overwhelms his own needs.
“I don’t know how I would feel about receiving a heart. I think my youngest daughter said it the best, ‘You hate to have something good to happen to you at the expense of someone else,’ and that is always first and foremost in my mind. I don’t wish that on anybody,” Curl said.
“If I could save somebody else the pain of losing somebody, I would do it in a heartbeat.”
During hospital stays, Curl’s grandson Maverick enjoys having fun with his grandfather. | Courtesy of Angela Curl-Okafor
Coach’s fi rst season with Cougars includes success on, off court
Checks, along with a form can be found on joecurlhearttransplant.com, and can be mailed to:
Wells Fargo Bank
1600 Highway 146
Seabrook, Texas 77586
Donations can also be made by taking the printable form to any Wells Fargo loca-tion. Donations also can be made to the National Heart Transplant Foundation
For more information, visit joecurlheart-transplant.com
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Coogs go lunar for New Year’s festivities
Monica TsoStaff writer
The atmosphere of the Lunar New Year was filled with Asian traditions. Students feasted on dishes with their families for good luck fortune. Red envelopes were exchanged and firecrackers were popped as families welcomed the Year of the Snake.
The Council of Ethnic Orga-nizations celebrated the Lunar New Year on Thursday with lion dances, dumplings and milk tea bring awareness of Asian cultures on campus.
Spanish senior Long Le is a mem-ber of CEO who believes in encour-aging cultural understandings.
“Asian culture is very important, and it’s a big part of the UH image of diversity,” Le said. “The school is known for its diversity, so the image of this school should be the celebra-tion of cultures.”
Le celebrated the new year by gambling and eating Vietnamese delicacies, and he received a great number of red envelopes from his family.
The Chinese Community Cen-ter in southwest Houston held its annual Chinese New Year festival Saturday. Acts, including traditional Chinese dances and martial arts, were performed for the crowd.
The parking lot was lined with food stands, games and local orga-nizations’ tents. Jesse Yao, a hotel and restaurant management fresh-man, has attended the festival for four consecutive years.
“The best part about Chinese New Year is having a blast when everyone gets together,” Yao said.
“We always go to a family friend’s house to have a giant potluck. The adults typically play mahjong (a popular Chinese gambling game) and sing karaoke after dinner.”
Mechanical engineering fresh-man Quyen Nguy also attended the event and shared his family’s new year traditions.
“My family visits three temples
every year, worships the gods for health and prosperity and cel-ebrates at my cousin’s house,” Nguy
said. “The best part of it all is the money though. I’m a poor college student, so red envelopes bring joy
into our lives.”
Students honor their heritage and keep ancient traditions alive
CYNTHIA WOODS MITCHELL
Center is heart of all UH artsYasmine SaqerContributing writer
For students walking around campus, the fine arts buildings can be indistinguishable. Not many of us realize the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts is the heart of all UH art programs.
The Mitchel l Center was established in late 2003 by Texas businessman and philanthropist George Mitchell as a gift to his wife Cynthia Woods Mitchell, patron of the arts.
The Mitchell family endowed $20 million and worked with UH to create a strong arts program. They proposed an alliance among the schools of art, music, theater and dance, as well as the creative writing program and Blaffer Art Museum.
In 2008, the Mitchell Center launched the Interdisciplinary Arts Minor for students that include a study in the historic and contem-porary examples of interdisciplin-ary arts.
In addition, the Mitchell Center
offers scholarships on an annual basis to graduate students in art, creative writing and theater. It also supports an annual curatorial fellowship position at Blaffer Art Museum.
The Mitchell Center serves to produce collaborations of perform-ing, visual and literary arts, offer-ing public events, residencies, and commissions.
Director Karen Farber believes art is for everyone and everyone is an artists.
“These are artists living among us and telling our stories,” Farber said.
“We are particularly commit-ted to presenting artists of color and artists from other parts of the world, to keep UH engaged in a global conversation.”
It has held many events, includ-ing the recent product of three-year resident and performing artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph with his perfor-mance work “Red, black & GREEN: a blues.”
Joseph will direct “En Masse”
in the Mitchell Center’s showcase with newly commissioned music by Daniel Bernard Roumain on April 20.
In collaboration with Troy Ben-nefi eld of the UH marching band, “En Masse” will be a large scale participatory performance held at Discovery Green that invites audi-ences to follow band members to experience what it’s like to be inside a “deconstructed parade.”
This is the place to start for stu-dents who have yet to experience UH’s art scene and have always wanted to, Farber said.
“Art is for everyone. The more experimental the art is often easier to relate to, not harder,” Farber said.
“The Mitchell Center is dedi-cated to elevating the art of our time and (continues) to show us how to connect with it as an essen-tial part of becoming ever-more creative and forward-looking in our lives and careers.”
Students celebrated their Asian-American heritage and welcomed the Year of the Snake by attending events on- and off-campus. | Monica Tso/The Daily Cougar
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Joseph Yang. Freshman Richard Woodard is what the cutline should have said.
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MUSIC
Moores creates tunes for rodeoJessica PortilloAssistant life & arts editor
Graduate students in the Moore’s School of Music faced challenges and treaded unknown territory when they were asked to compose original country songs for this year’s Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
One of the four composers and lyricists, graduate student Samuel Hunter, recognized their limitations but that didn’t stop them from doing what they love.
“We all write classical music and so, at the very least, it was a step outside the everyday if not totally stepping outside of our comfort zone,” Hunter said. “I think at the very beginning we were a little con-fused but once we started doing it we were like, ‘Hey, this isn’t so bad. We can do this.’”
Despite the differences in style, graduate student Desmond Ikeg-wuonu found a way to bridge the gap and make it work for him.
“The basic thing is that we’re writing music, right? It’s just hav-ing to tell that story in a different way that captivates the audience,” Ikegwuonu said. “You always have to tell a story.”
Graduate student Daniel Webbon was inspired by the uniqueness of the rodeo and wanted to capture that in the music.
“The rodeo isn’t just dudes run-ning around in cowboy hats rid-ing bulls. It’s a huge thing and it’s multi-faceted,” Webbon said. “We really wanted to make these songs very specifi c to the Houston rodeo. They’re country songs so every-one can dig them, but they’re also special.”
The three students had to listen to everything from Taylor Swift to Johnny Cash to get a feel of what country was about.
“The rodeo is just not high school kids listening to country,” Webbon said. “There are people of all ages
there, so we’re going to write songs that appeal to people in their 70s and people in their teens.”
The group knew that this was bigger than their individual efforts. Webbon said that it is a huge col-laboration from many different people. Hunter agreed.
“I realized after a couple of weeks that I really cared about this project, and I really wanted it to turn out well. It wasn’t just another assign-ment,” Hunter said.
This is the first time Moore’s has been asked to compose for the rodeo, and Hunter realized it didn’t just reflect their efforts but what Moore’s can offer the community.
“This was more meaningful than just my contribution. It was all four of us and HGO’s (Houston Grand Opera) contribution to the rodeo and Moore’s school contribution to both,” he said.
Julia DavilaStaff writer
Win points with your loved ones this Valentine’s Day with something creative and homemade. Put some thought into gifts for that special someone, friends, neighbors or co-workers. Do-it-yourself gifts are easy and fun to make.
The Daily Cougar sat down with UH students to see what their ideas were for a unique DIY Valentine’s Day gift.
“I would take a couple of red bal-loons and have tiny slips of paper with reasons why I like that person and what characteristics I like about them. Then have them pop the bal-loons and read all of the slips of paper,” said Kendra Chambliss, a biochemistry junior.
Don’t be afraid to bake desserts like cupcakes, cookies or a cake. Dec-orate them with pink or red frosting and fun heart-shaped sprinkles.
“Whenever I have a girlfriend on Valentine’s Day, I always like to bake
them cupcakes. Most girls think that men can’t cook or bake, but I like to prove them wrong,” said Ahmad Hlayhel, a biology senior.
Not every DIY gift has to be given to a signifi cant other.
“I usually give my friends goodie bags that are filled with Mexican candy like dulce de leche or cajeta (a sweet gooey caramel) that my mom and I brought back from our most recent vacation to Mexico. I know my friends appreciate it when I give them something different,” said Lizette Soto, a photography and digital media junior.
If you are still having trouble with ideas, do not be afraid to turn to the classic gifts such as a coupon book or a mixtape. Decorate and print out the coupons from the computer with things like “This coupon is good for a one hour massage” or “This coupon is good for one lunch or dinner of your choice.”
DO IT YOURSELF
Creatively lovely
Warm that special someone’s heart by making a DIY gift for Valentine’s Day. | Nichole Taylor/The Daily Cougar
Daniel Webbon, Samuel Hunter and Desmond Ikegwuonu performed their original song, titled “Rodeo Song,” at the Tues-day concert at Moores Opera House. | Jessica Portillo/ The Daily Cougar
Not all Valentine’s Day presents need to be expensive. Homemade gifts are per-fect for students working with a budget. | Nichole Taylor/ The Daily Cougar