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UH Student Review: Campus with serious Smoking Policy hip action HOT FUZZ 3 page 6 7 April 30 - May 12, 2007 : Spring Volume 38 Issue 7 Newspaper for the University of Houston-Downt own SD t ua d te ne t - lR iun n e s iD n co e w v on l tu mo e w o nn e The Climate Project His HolinessCOOL the DalaiWEBCAST Lama Visits Houston Tuesday, May 1, 2007 visits UHD While the event at Rice University is sold out, Global Warming and its potential consequences everyone can view the discussion live, via By Joseph Recinos educate individuals who are climate change. Climate Project’s streaming video, at http://webcast.rice.edu Dateline: Downtown ignorant or naive of the global first initiative was to educate warming crisis. Mr. Dunham 1,000 individuals to become presented explicit information on effective messengers to inform His Holiness the Dalai Lama Visits Houston the consequences earth is facing citizens of the repercussions of On Monday April 23rd, due to climate change, such as global warming. Gary Dunham University of Houston-Downtown the melting of the polar ice caps was in the first class of these commemorated Earth Day. Mr. and the deaths of artic wildlife trainees, selected from a pool of Gary Dunham, a representative of due to this melting. He also spoke 6,500. These individuals have the Project Climate organization about the contributors to global the ambitious goal of eliminating and advocate for Al Gore’s movie warming. global warming. In order to “Inconvenient Truth” shared his Climate Project is a non accomplish this task, they seek to concerns on global warming. profit organization founded by educate citizens and governments Inspired by Al Gores by Oscar Al Gore and scientists who were across the world, and to challenge winning movie “Inconvenient concerned about the effects of them to take immediate action. Truth,” Mr. Dunham created a global warming on earth. They Global warming is PowerPoint presentation with wanted to alert individuals around considered by most scientists pictures from Gore’s book to the world about the dangers of see GLOBAL pg 10 s Marketing Students team up with e g a m i e l Bausch and Lomb g o o g called Zyoptix that allows surgeons marketing agency, Urban Marketing, By Urban Marketing to customize Lasik for the individual which included event development, Dateline: Downtown eye. advertising, public relations, web- Bausch & Lomb, in based marketing, and research. 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On in eye care, has a laser procedure Twenty marketing students created a see MARKETING pg 8 Student-Run s i n c e v o l u m e o n e April 30 - May 12, 2007 Editorial IS IT JUST ME?!?© The Lure of Sports: Part II Racism Revisited is this: what did you think the conservative talk shows, right, but I understand.” about Don Imus? The talented, has been turning the criticism I resent Imus’ lack of responsible, and mostly away from racist white adults understanding in lumping all African-American Rutgers to “brainwashed” black rap together, just as he lumped women were doing what they musicians. And people are the entire Rutgers women’s were told society wanted. falling for this?!?! basketball together with a They weren’t just playing ball I am the first to agree that nasty epithet. I also resent wonderfully well. They came some rappers need to clean those who use the Rutgers’ back from underdog status with up their acts. But I also teach women’s accomplishments as team of mostly freshmen, with about rap music, so I know the sole reason they shouldn’t no seniors. They made it to the there are many styles, from the have been treated this way. No finals against the powerhouse tricky-party-rap of Run DMC woman should ever be treated women from my home state of to the growling anger of DMX; like this -- Ever. Whether Tennessee (Go ‘Vols!), going from the political preaching of they’re on welfare or on the s where no Rutgers team has Public Enemy to the fatherly basketball court, once we learn e g gone before. But they were also love of Will Smith; from the to treat all women with respect, a m i good students with a variety of positive pictures of black we’re on the way to a healthier e l g interests, including medicine men created by Salt ‘n Pepa society. ■ o o g and music. As Essence Carson, to the negative images of Jay- team captain, stated Imus Z calling Houston’s own, the CONTACT US “stole our moment of joy.” talented Beyoncé Knowles, But talking about this issue is If people who play sports his “number 1 ‘ho.” Some the first step in dealing with based on objective standards of this stuff has got to go. I By Dr. Yvonne Kendall Managing Editor Dateline: Downtown it. However, some complained can be treated like this, is it won’t go into the economics Don Pieper about me (but not to me). any wonder those of us in jobs of rap, a driving force in our [email protected] These people misunderstood judged by subjective standards capitalist society. I won’t even (713) 221-8569 Many on campus read my words and accused me can be treated even worse? The go into the fact that, according my article on sports in which of being anti-sports as well Rutgers women were treated to authorities, 80% of the Assistant Editor Andre Wojcik I spoke of professional sports as a reverse-racist. This is shamefully, but they can still Gangster Rap market is white [email protected] as a career where a person interesting, not just because play ball and go to school. The suburban males. of color could get the fairest it’s so far off base, but because professors I mentioned in my What I will say is this: Business Manager shake, though the road was several people of a variety of previous article were out of I don’t know a single rapper Timika Simmons sometimes bumpy. I wrote races, including Caucasian, work. (or family) who has belonged [email protected] (713) 221-8569 that minorities with the told me they enjoyed the article But wait! There’s more! to the KKK. No rapper has best qualifications in more and that it was no more than Imus’ apology was fairly lynched anyone. No rapper Layout Editor subjective jobs, like that of the truth. Their only complaint convincing because he didn’t has denied a qualified person a Juan Ortiz college professor, don’t always was that I was too gentle. try to slide around it with the job or a house mortgage based [email protected] get hired because of standards The complaints ranged ever-popular ploy of blame- on race. No rapper burned Staff Writers: that were mysteriously changed from accusations that my shifting. “I’m sorry if you felt down my sister’s house when Wil Chinchilla to work against them. recognition of racist practices that way.” He said, straight she was about to integrate a Doug Musgrove My words provoked encouraged the same, to up, that he was wrong. He was neighborhood. Self-hatred Joseph Recinos s e much needed discussion accusations of my being a doing fine until….dun, dun is part of the pathology of g a Guest Writers: m on important issues, a racist myself. I won’t dignify DUN!! (menacing music), he oppression. As Chris Rock has i e Yvonne Kendall l development I applaud. Some any of that foolishness with decided to mention gangster so aptly said about a number g o Heather Villalobos o agreed with me; others did not. a response. What I will say rappers. Somehow he, and of issues, “I’m not saying it’s g Urban Marketing Cartoon: Letters to the Editor: Dateline: Downtown welcomes letters to the editor from any memeber of the UH system. Letters should be no more Sadixt than 250 words, include author’s full name, phone number or e-mail address and affiliation with the university, including classification Faculty Advisor: and major. Anonymous letters will not be published. 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