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Sign the Petition for National Cesar Chavez Day

March 25, 2010

The fact that the Texas State Board of education is running rough shod over culturally important parts of our history should be reason enough, but if you need a few reasons to sign the National Cesar Chavez Day Petition they are not hard to find. Aside from being a hero for millions of farm workers [...]

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The Unreal Manifesto

March 12, 2010

One of the courses I am taking, this last semester of my undergraduate career, is titled Modernity & the Avant Garde, and it is one of the most interesting and powerful subjects I’ve studied so far. We began with Charles Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen (1869) and “The Painter of Modern Life”. Moving into the 20th century, [...]

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Alternatives to Grad school for the unemployed graduate:

June 9, 2009

So in Seth’s Blog (no clue who he is or why he’s important) he gives a few ideas for the unemployed college graduate to keep busy after college. At UH-D (I may be wrong) our students usually have less troubles finding a job because they are already working, but it’s a helpful list either way. [...]

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Academic Conference Alerts Website

February 26, 2009

I’ve been thinking about different ways to network myself into Grad school, and one of the way’s I’m doing that is to start attending academic conferences. I am presenting a paper at this year’s UHD gender conference, Policing Gender, but I hope to start attending conferences around the country. These are not that easy to [...]

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Identity questions.

February 16, 2009

Identity is one of the massive subjects I would like to further study. I’ve done basic research on the notion of identity, and now I find myself questioning the role of identity in just almost every possible context. Most recently (if you follow my sparsely updated blog) I have focused on the identity of UH-D, [...]

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Board of Regents Unanimously Vote to Delay the Name Change

February 8, 2009

Friday the University of Houston- System Board of Regents met to discuss and vote on the proposed name for what is currently the University of Houston-Downtown. The meeting began with an open forum of speakers both in support and opposition to the idea. I spoke against changing the name as did Dr. Michele Moosally. Dean [...]

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Possible Names for UHD

December 19, 2008

So the UH-System Board of Regents voted to change the name of my school, UH-Downtown. I am ambivalent about the idea. I can see both the good and bad about having a new identity for this growing institution. I would like to know, however, why President Max Castillo failed to inform the University community about [...]

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