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UH-Downtown Hosts a Deputee Voter Registrar Swearing In

September 4, 2010

Election day 2010 is less than 9 weeks away, and it’s gonna be ugly for someone. I’m hoping that rational people will show up to the polls and vote for Democrats, but if you believe the talking heads this isn’t very likely. The key to winning this year will be voter turnout. If Democrats can [...]

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History Repeats Itself

August 8, 2010

I wrote an essay for a class I took at UHD, The History of the New South, that focused on the creation of a distinct Mexican American identity in Houston before WWII. While rereading it, and preparing it for submission as a writing sample for my grad school apps, I couldn’t help but post a [...]

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UH-D’s Bill Flores Calls for Stand-alone DREAM Act

July 21, 2010

The President of my alma-mater, William Flores called for a standalone DREAM act today. Follow the jump for an excerpt of the article published by the Texas Tribune.

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UH-D Name Change: A Question of Class and Race

May 16, 2010

I have a serious problem with the way UH-D is being represented in the media, and none of the people being interviewed in these articles seem to have the wherewithal to correct the reporters when they make asinine assumptions. Just because UH-D is an open enrollment university, does not mean that it is second rate anything. Students, faculty, and staff are doing amazing things with the scraps that UH gives us.

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The Name Change Continues

April 18, 2010

On Wednesday of last week, the UH-Downtown administration and public affairs offices held open meetings to discuss the results from the research conducted by the STAMATS research firm. I won’t recant the proceeding of the whole meeting because that can be found in my Twitter feed. I do have a response to the two proposed [...]

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Twitter People From UH-D

June 8, 2009

So This is a blog post to that intends to list the various people at UH-D who are fans of the Twitter. So this will be just a list for now, and I’ll start with myself. Jaime Puente- @brownboyrocks The Dateline Downtown- @TheDateline Student Activities and Events- @UHD_SAE Nataura Brown- @imforit Liza (SA&E)- @LizAlo Lorenzo [...]

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Tips for the New Freshman

June 8, 2009

So it’s your first time on a big college campus, and its not like the pretty Universities you’ve seen in the movies either. At UH-D we have the privilege of being neighbors to a wide mix colorful characters that may or may not be as hygenic as you might like. In this new and generally [...]

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