University of Houston - Houstonian Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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In polished precision, the Cougar Marching Band drum section moves In time with the music during half-time. Photo Ffadonallv-renowned comedian Anthony Hall. Campus Star Search emcee, and participants congratulate the winners on stage. t’hoto by Mark Lacy. ere .. Viewing things from a different angle are Matt Hudson and Carol Hall at tne Cougar Rendezvous Pool Party. Photo bu Mark Lacy. From As students reluctantly detached themselves from summer pleasures and or money-raising summer work, they flocked on campus for a year’s struggle with academic endeavor. They learned an entirely university-level meaning of delayed gratification: delay in paying fee bills and getting desired classes: delay in parking: delay in purchasing textbooks; delay in finding research materials; and the most recent, delay |n receiving grades in a gradeposting legality controversy. Though these were their first encounters, they were not their most impressive. Campus spirit rose with the discovery of a winning. 9-2 football team; red-and-white filled the dome, lit up bonfires. and made its way onto painted faces. The activities of Cougar Rendezvous and R.O.A.R. the entertainment of Campus Star Search, and the self-sufficient campus enivironment convinced students that the UH was indeed their own little ’’world.” They attended classes, slept, ate. organized. played, and faced the issues with their fellow students; and everything they did. it seemed, was “in the eyes of the world” — their own unique, campus-world.► Sandhya A. Sanghani From Here ... ■ 3

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A memorial to H.Roy Cullen In El Ula thins Murrlos Exhibit at the Lawndale Art and Performance Center. Photo by Mark iMcy And Beyond With elaborate folk dancea. Indian atu-denta help celebrate Navaratrt. the festival of nine goddesses. Photo by Tony Bullard. While fans cheered the Cougars on to the Aloha Howl, and while commuting or living on campus and attending classes became more routine, students increasingly witnessnessed the worldliness around them. Even as they searched to find displaced classrooms, the UH signed a $1.5 million contract with Du Pont, bringing out to the world the advancement of superconductivity research by faculty member Dr.Paul Chu. In another corner of the university, the Japanese philanthropist Ryolchi Sasakawa personally received an honarary professorship for his $3 million donatation to the College of Architecture s International Center for Space Architecture. a measure towards world peace. Each step, in each college, like the Hit Ion College of Hotel and Restaurant’s sccond-in-the-nation ranking, brings the university worldwide attention . .. Into the eyes of the world. In no way was this more visible than the international composition on campus. From international art. foreign-student exchange programs. and study abroad to In-tcrnational Food Fair, celebrations of Chicano Week. Asian Week and the like, the campus reflected a peak of internationalism. The worldy Influence is seen in numbers as well, in the Increasing international student enrollment, and the number of international organizations. from Armenians to Zorroastrians. If the world is made of people. and people believe what they see with their own eyes, then it was in the students view that the university had entered a world-class dimen-sion Sandhya A. Sanghani The Cougar bring out the red-and-whlte on the face of cheering Cougar fan , deaplte the Arkanaaa game defeat. Photo by Mark Ixtcy. 4 ■ Opening