TODAY’S FORECAST HI: 90o LOW: 60o Chance of Rain: Matt Sayles/Invision/Associated Press Houstonian staff makes predictions on upcoming Emmy Award show. P4 0% Art dept. clears confusion on Leonard: U.S. should focus on future of photography degree P2 Obama ‘foreign policy failure’ P3 Volume 122 / Issue 7 www.HoustonianOnline.com Thursday, September 20, 2012 One last Endeavor NATION & WORLD Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth named in top dirty cities Houston isn’t just one of the fattest cities in the country. It’s also one of the dirtiest. Travel + Leisure magazine released it’s list of the top 10 dirtiest cities in the country. Houston ranked number 10. The Dallas/Forth Worth area took the number seven spot, while Austin was clean off the list. New York City was ranked the dirtiest. Houston has previously appeared in lists as being one of the top fattest cities in the nation. Follow us today! @TheHoustonian White apologizes The Galveston County Daily News, Kevin M. Cox/Associated Press for behavior in THE FINAL STOP Space Shuttle Endeavour riding atop NASA’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft does a low flyover escorted by a T-38 Talon at Ellington Field in Houston on Wednesday morning September 19, 2012. Endeavour will spend the night in Houston before continuing its journey from the Kennedy Space Tennessee Center in Florida to the California Science Center in Los Angeles where it will be on permanent display. Olympic gold medalist Shaun White has come out to apologize for his actions in Nashville, Jobs/Economy Tennessee a couple of days ago. White, 26, was arrested for vandalism and public SHSU third in graduates getting jobs after college intoxication at a hotel he was staying at. He was trying to run 2010 THECB numbers show 69.9 percent of students have employment after graduation out of the hotel to get into a cab and ended up kicking a guest SOPHIE NELSON while continuing their education who tried to stop him. Staff Reporter at a Texas graduate or professional Students Entering the Workforce “I want to apologize for school. These numbers do not the unwise choices I made The Texas Higher Education include those who have left Texas over the weekend and for Coordinating Board (THECB) to work, but THECB has said that any inconvenience it caused has ranked Sam Houston State the out-of-state numbers will be my family, friends, business University third out of 38 public added in the future. partners, the hotel and their Texas four-year universities THECB also included in their 69.9% guests,” White said. “I was for graduates obtaining report the employment rate for 63.3% celebrating a happy occasion employment after recieving their each major at Sam Houston. The with a ton of family and friends baccalauraeate degree in the baccalaureate majors that had and got carried away. I’m truly 2012 edition of The Texas Higher a 100% employment rate were: sorry for my poor behavior.” Education 2012 Almanac. Radio and Television; Public White won gold medals in SHSU President Dana L. Relations/Image Management; both the 2006 and 2010 Winter Gibson, did not seem surprised Industrial Technology/ Olympics. Since he is only 26, he by the report and commented Technician; Operation will most likely win more gold that, “Sam Houston continues to Management and Supervision medals for USA. educate the Texas workforce by and Electrical; Electronic and providing a quality education.” Communications Engineering Currently, almost 70 percent of Technology/Technician. Foods, Nutritions, and Wellness Merchandising. those who receive their bachelor The baccalaureate majors that Studies; Banking and Financial The baccalaureate majors Visit our website! degree at Sam Houston find work had an 85-99% employment Support Studies; Human that had an employment rate www.HoustonianOnline.com within the next year, and another rate were: General Agriculture; Resources Management/Personal below 40% were: Philosophy and five percent have found work Agriculture Mechanization; Administration; and Fashion Applied Physics. Campus Life Chick-Fil-A may Residence Life close to ending dorm overcrowding issue stop donating to GEORGE MATTINGLY To combat this, she said Residence assigned never show up. Then, as The new dorm is currently anti-LGBT groups News Editor Life made adjustments to offer more space becomes available, we planned to be built on Ave. J. several female rooms as male move students in.” rooms in Sam Houston Village Usually, students are moved buildings because it makes it Nearly two months after Chik- Sixteen students will need to and in other small houses. in by the second week of class, harder to accommodate more fil-a’s president announced that wait about three more weeks With an average of 3,204 Tipton said. However, with one students with some of our older the company is against same- before being permanently placed students living on campus over of the largest freshman classes buildings.” sex marriage, the company has in residence halls after the the last four years, overcrowding enrolled at Sam Houston State According to the University pledged to stop giving money Residence Life Department dealt of residence halls is not University this fall semester, it has Master Plan, Raven Village will be to anti-gay groups and also to with overcrowding of dorms at uncommon at the beginning of taken longer. used as a model to build additional stop participating in social and the opening of the Fall semester. the semester, especially with the “We have had one of the larger dorms to accommodate a growing political debates. According to Joellen Tipton, number of students who apply groups in the hotel [compared student population. There are The advocacy group The director of Residence Life, or enroll late. Tipton outlined the to previous years],” Tipton said. currently 3,269 residential beds, Civil Rights Agenda posted about 60 students were put in alternatives Residence Life uses to “Because of that, those students and the plan anticipates needing a press release yesterday that temporary rooms around campus help the problem. stay a little longer in temporary 4,000 beds by 2020. said a conversation with Chilk- at the beginning of the semester Tipton said Residence Life spaces and it takes longer for us to President Dana Gibson Fil-A representatives that the because of an influx of students places students in premium- place them.” touched on this addition to company’s charity, WinShape, who enrolled late and the double rooms, which are rooms Of the 16 students awaiting campus living in her “Sate of the will stop donating proceeds to demolition of King Hall. that housed three beds before, placement, four are still in University Address” earlier this anti-LGBT groups, or any groups “With the freshman class in halls like Belivn-Buchanan Resident Adviser rooms, four are month. with political agendas, including growing, it’s harder to predict how Hall and Estill Hall. Additionally, in sorority houses and eight are in In her address, Gibson said the the National Organization for many students we will have living students are placed in Resident the University Hotel. university has acquired land to Marriage. on campus,” Tipton said. “Our Adviser rooms, unused spaces in Tipton predicts to have them build a new residence hall on the It also included a letter biggest concern is the students sorority houses and the University moved in permanent rooms in south side of campus across from sent to franchisees saying who enroll at the last minute. It Hotel. about three weeks. Raven Village. that customers cannot be just hinders our ability to plan. “We move the hotel students As enrollment continues to “[Planning groups] have discriminated against on the Whenever they apply earlier, it first as soon as space is available,” rise, Tipton stressed the need for been planning and building basis of several factors including makes it easier to control.” Tipton said. “We begin by more living space on campus. presentations over the next sexual orientation. Tipton said the demolition of moving students into no-show “We’re excited about it,” couple of months to finalize it No official word has come King Hall added to overcrowding. rooms, where students originally she said. “We badly need new pretty quickly,” Gibson said. from the corporate office. Page 2 News Thursday, September 20, 2012 houstonianonline.com/news ‘No Refusal’ policy deemed success people that had designated drivers the charge turns into a refused because we had put out the press specimen case. On a no refusal release of the no refusal, so we night, the people needed to look at it a success…the streets execute a warrant are already were safer because we actually had prepared to do so, and the process a ‘no refusal’ night,” said Landrum. goes much faster. Landrum also said that the As part of the press release, force tries to do these initiatives Chief Kevin Lunsford encouraged “periodically,” with the last citizens to use one of Huntsville’s account of a no refusal night two taxi services or the use in the Huntsville Item being of designated drivers. He also Independence Day of 2011. One informed them that many places of the main reasons they don’t do around town give free soda to them more often, even though designated drivers and that some they’d love to, is because of how of the apartment complexes offer difficult it is to coordinate all the late night shuttles. people it takes to make a no refusal The release ended with a quote night possible. from Lunsford: “Our local law Normally, if you get pulled over enforcement community wants all for suspicion of drunk driving and citizens on the roadways to be safe.