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Judge Kinky TEXTBOOK “LIFE IN Jay D. Concluded TIPS 2 3 HELL”4 Hirsch6 : Sept. 19 - Oct. 2, 2006 Newspaper for the University of Houston-Downtown Fall Volume 37 Issue 3 S t uateline d e n t - R u n s i n cowntown e v o l u m e o n e RecyclingD Receptacles Need Your Plastics D Textbook cle Mayhem y Legislative Help have no choice but to pay those c prices. Students have told me that e for Rising Textbook R they often end up sharing books, Costs copying necessary pages, using older editions, and doing whatever By Sean Augabright they can to save money.” Staff Writer A study conducted in 2005 by the Government Accountability Offi ce (GAO) supports his claim. It concluded that over the past 20 By now, you may have years, textbook costs have outpaced recovered from the sticker shock of the rate of infl ation by two hundred your textbook-buying experience. percent. The GAO estimated Perhaps you are already eyeing that the yearly cost of books and apprehensively at next semester’s supplies for a full-time student was hardbound, new-edition $898 at a typical four-year public bloodletting. If so, you are not the institution. only one concerned about the rising The reasons for the rising cost of college textbooks. costs are caused, in part, by Texas State Representative the business strategies of the Photo by Juan Ortiz Scott Hochberg, along with some publishers. Hochberg remarked, of his Democratic colleagues, “… [P]ublishers are changing UHD Recycling Program announced a legislative proposal editions every year and forcing late last month that intends to students to buy extra materials like reduce the cost of student textbooks. CDs and workbooks that they don’t Needs Your Help Hochberg, from Southwest need. Those practices must stop.” our world. Gore went on to It was not the Social Security Houston’s District 137, outlined six While it may make sound business By Cody Roberts show several images of glaciers or Medicare issues, and it was specifi c steps to his plan: sense to publish a new edition Managing Editor in South America and Africa not the immigration debate. The 1) Require books to be used for every time the leaves change, it that had melted at an alarmingly answer was the environment. at least three years whenever seems like the only thing ‘new’ unnatural rate and the gasps and Young people feel that this is the possible. about the new edition is the price. Most college students hushed silences of the audience biggest issue, the issue that would 2) Make it easier to shop around for Some courses, by their very subject recognize that the environment following his words were telling. most affect our future, and the better prices. matter, should need little, if any, is in dire need of help. At the The former Vice President then issue that they feel is being paid 3) Don’t require students to buy updating. How much has College recent MTV Video Music Awards, went on to reveal the results of a the least attention. books, CDs, workbooks, etc. that Algebra changed since Robert musician turned award-winning poll MTV had taken. Granted, with the current the professor does not expect the Recorde invented the ‘=’ sign in the actress Queen Latifah presented The specifi c poll was taken state of global affairs, one can class to use. 16ttthhh century? US History to 1877 is a brief soliloquy on the state of by MTV over the course of the easily overlook such paltry issues 4) Use state purchasing power to another good example. It’s history. nature before introducing former Rock the Vote festivities of the as the reduction of greenhouse lower prices. Are we even supposed to update it? Vice President Al Gore to the 2004 election. The question gases, legislation on emissions 5) Create a pilot program for rental The addition of the twenty-seven throngs of screaming fans. It was posed was what issue young and pollutants, global warming, textbooks. 8”x10”color, glossy pictures with a quiet respite from the rest of the people of the MTV generation- vanishing species of plants and 6) Prohibit gifts or payments from captions and cross-references and a evening’s riotous performances our generation- felt would most animals…until it all comes publishers that could infl uence paragraph on the back of each one, and celebrity appearances, and affect our future. The answer was crashing down in the form of book selection. explaining what each one was; is an important moment to refl ect surprising, as it did not pertain tsunamis, hurricanes, and the rapid In his press release, Hochberg a nice touch, but hardly worth an on just how rapidly the earth, to the election of trustworthy depletion in the health of what states, “College textbook costs are extra 26 percent price hike. the earth’s atmosphere, and rapid leadership, civil liberties, the war should really be the fi rst priority rising much faster than infl ation,” ‘Bundling’ is another tactic population growth have affected in Iraq, nor homeland security. See RECYCLE pg 7 Hochberg said, “and students See MAYHEM pg 7 S t u d e n t - R u n s i n c e v o l u m e o n e Sept. 19 - Oct. 2, 2006 Provosts’ Council during the 2004-2005 academic Scandal: MBA Program year. The last two steps in the process are approval by the U of H System By Timika Simmons controversy surrounding the pressures Texas to strengthen The letter written by Ms. Board of Regents and Staff Writer addition of a possible MBA and enhance campuses Maranville is not correct, and finally the Texas Higher program at UHD was that and academic programs at is misinformed. Dr. Molly Education Coordinating Prairie View Wood, VP of Board. UHD’s College A&M and Sam Academic Affairs of Business (COB) has On September 9th a Ms. Houston State ...UH’s proposal could go against civil rights and Provost at the largest number of Penny Maranville of Houston U n i v e r s i t y agreement over the last 25 years that presuresTexas the University majors and graduates in wrote a letter to the editor of were not to strengthen and enhance compuses and academic of Houston- the university and many The Houston Chronicle stating pleased with programs at historically black institutions. Downtown issued of these graduates are that the faculty of UHD was the proposal, -George Wrght, President of Prairie View A&M- the following eagerly awaiting the told that the MBA (Masters and those statement in approval of this degree. in Business) program for the i n s t i t u t i o n s response to the The approval of the MBA downtown campus would no complained that it would hurt historically black institutions. letter: was recently identified longer be pursued because them financially with the loss It was reported that “The College of Business as the highest goal of the the U of H System Board of of current and future student The Texas Higher Education at the University of Houston- COB faculty during their Regents chose not to support enrollments. Coordinating Board was not Downtown (UHD) has Strategic Long Range it. George Wright, the able vote on the proposed developed a MBA degree that Planning Retreat.” Her letter was intended president of Prairie View expansion at the last meeting is currently in the approval Clearly, the to be a response to an August A&M, brought to the attention because UHD did not submit process within the University university has not made a issue of the Chronicle that of the coordinating board that the required 30-day notice and of Houston System. The decision to stop pursuing discussed issues surrounding U of H’s proposal could go that the board was not clear on proposed degree was approved the MBA program at the the addition of the MBA against civil rights agreements when they would schedule the by the various levels at UHD University of Houston- program. Some of the over the last 25 years that vote. and by the U of H System Downtown.■ men from that Texas city were a “The point wasn’t the Kinky Concluded... tad too fond of sheep. mystery, it was the voice,” says CONTACT US Kinky had some success - Evan Smith. “The guy has got one - he played the Grand Ole Opry, of the most extraordinary authorial right out of his nose . .” joined Bob Dylan’s Rolling voices.” Managing Editor By Peter Carlson Cody Roberts “He was energetic, he was Thunder Revue and toured with When Smith became editor Washington Post [email protected] Part 3 of 3 pushing the envelope and he was Willie Nelson -- but by the early of Texas Monthly in 2000, he hired (713) 221-8569 doing things to irritate people,” ‘80s, his career was tanking, his Kinky as a columnist. The column Jewford recalls. “He was pretty longtime girlfriend had died in a was funny and very popular, but Assistant Editor The Second Career much the same as he is now.” car crash and he was doing way editing the Kinkster wasn’t always Monica Maza [email protected] Kinky Friedman has At the University of Texas, too much dope. easy. Once he did a column about lived a life that could, and soon he was nicknamed Kinky -- a “He was high on 27 different . well, we can’t say what it was Business Manager might, inspire the world’s most reference to his hair, not, alas, herbs and spices,” says Jimmie about, for the same reason that Tayvis Dunnahoe entertaining political attack ad.

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