UH’s Student Feminist Organization has been meeting to promote gender equity, social justice and student success through weekly group discussions. In 2009, UH alumni Amanda Williams and Andrea Pratt founded SFO to inform and educate students about feminism. Their goal was to inspire members to abolish social...
The dining halls at the University of Houston (Fresh Foods Company and Cougar Woods) seem to have a wide variety of reviews. Some people think that the dining halls are the bane of all creation, and this side would probably argue that the quality of food is low, they do not serve the needs of students who want to be...
Houston’s animal shelters are reporting a huge increase in abandoned animals and they can’t hold them for long. This means a lot of them will have to be put down, something most people don’t like. The different animal shelters around the Houston area such as BARC and the Houston Humane Society are trying everything in...
Walk through the beauty aisles of any major supermarket and you will be inundated with products that guarantee to fix problems you didn’t even know you had. But turn over that bottle of hair gel and you might discover a paragraph of ingredients that seem better suited for a sci-fi novel. Sure, you don’t know what...
Most class assignments only lead to a grade. When I completed my application to an international residency for performers in Tuscany, Italy, which was hosted by the International University for Global Theater Experience, I was merely thinking of submitting the copies of the application to my teacher. It was our...
Behold: my roommate’s Intel octa-core, GTX 1080 SLI with 64 GB of RAM intended to run yet-developed PC games that only cost me three easy payments of $1,399.99 and, possibly, a quart of blood. That’s cool and all, but I just built my PC on craigslist for about $420.00. It will probably run most games on high or ultra...
College is stressful, which is why you should take advantage of the study spots we have here on campus. Agnes Arnold Hall/Philip Guthrie Hoffman Hall Here you’ll find comfy benches to sit down and read a book while enjoying the environment. Upstairs, there is a foreign language study room. Also, there are a few tables...
“Technology is killing our generation.” Such a broad statement cannot be taken seriously; it’s a disservice to the collective dialogue about where technology is going. Speech like that is so corrosive and divisive that the simple thought of it makes my IQ drop a fraction of a point. However, my Note 7 really is trying...
Nobody likes Houston. It’s an oil-crazed, sweaty city with more cars than people; ugly and chaotic; crime-ridden and polluted; just too damn big and always, always, always under construction. But Houston doesn’t hide its flaws coated in shiny paint or behind gated communities (except you, River Oaks). We’re all aware...
There was a moment when, like it or not, I became a Houstonian. It began with a friend from high school. She was visiting from North Texas, and I was to show around the city. It felt like Judgment Day, the way she asked it, her eyes wide and scrutinizing and her brown hair wavy and curling over. We were no longer...
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