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And while were at it, lets throw in a High Times or Smoke n' Toke

let's do it, call them up!

The existing UH garage is nothing spectacular, in my opinion.

Here are a handful of photos I found online:

but its better than most bland parking garages....the real good thing about the new garage is the retail on the ground level....

You're right! Maybe they can make it "architecturally significant" like the Hines garage on Main.

Oh wait, never mind.

lmao...good point...as long as the new garage looks like the one that just went up across the Rec Center, then it's all good!

are they going to remove the strip center that runs along calhoun all the way to the old pizza hut?

Man, what's up with the hostility towards other universities in Houston? If UH people would rather me remain ignorant about UH then maybe that's what I should do. I really have no reason to go there besides trying to keep an open mind and see how nice your campus is. I know you're half joking but this university hostility thing seems kind of childish to me. I gave up on that when I was in high school.

lmao...i guess that's why you are at Rice...you take things seriously, which is a really good thing and the University hostility comes from both schools being in the same Conference..i can't wait until football season

I haven't been on the UH campus enough to comment on it, but the few times I've driven by I saw lots of nice trees but I didn't remember that sort of canopy effect. I should really go there and walk around one day.

oh and wear some rice paraphernalia...me and some buddies will make you feel welcome >

I hope it's not a retractable roof...which I don't see as being financially reasonable for a soccer stadium in America. I want to go to some sporting events with rain...soccer is much more fun in the rain.

bingo...soccer, like football, should always be played outside no matter what type of weather....unless there is lightning

it looks a lot like Lanier Middle School...is it the same design?

This is from "Texas Almanac 2006-07." Enrollment for Fall 2004: University of Houston-Downtown: 11,974. Rice University: 4,973. University of Texas-Austin: 50,403. Texas A&M-College Station: 46,111.

With such a big difference in the number of students between UT/A&M and UH/Rice, it makes me wonder why at one time they were all in the same (Southwest) conference in sports. I guess that sports classifications in college are not the same as in high schools.

dude, you got the wrong school....UH main has around 35,000 students....the thing that i love about UH is its diversity and its classification as a "blue-collar" school....most of us here are in the lower to upper middle class and for many of us we are the first generation to attend college, so we are very similar..oh and the scholarships that are given out aren't too shabby eithe r

Plastic can you download the google tool bar with the spell checker it is confusing reading your post sometimes.

but..but...but, that is what makes his tRHeadS sO GraTe!

I was in class of 93 there and I suppose I started this thread cause I read some great ones on other schools. It would be cool to find someone who went there at the time around me. Lanier was something else. The building was magnificent and historic; 1929 was when they built it. As a kid I was just overwhelmed by how big the school was.

Anyway, what are your memories of the school and who are the standout teachers?

The school used to be so segregated in terms of who came there to learn something and who came there to eat lunch and go to gym. The vangaurd program was not all that hard but just involved tons of busy work. I think I did more homework there than in all of high school and college combined. I do recall that they used to burglarize the lockers in the gym dressing rooms quite a bit. The juvenile criminals were so brazen they would do it out in the open with everyone watching. They are probably in adult prisons being sodomized each day these days so oh well.

Of the teachers a few stand out in my mind after all of these years:

Mr. Siros - I will remember this guy till the day I die. He taught theater arts on the 3rd floor in that room with college style seating and painted all black. Whenever he was losing an argument or the class got loud he would scream "hey" and everyone would shutup. When we were in other classes you could hear this guy screaming from down the hall and you knew he was going insane.

Mr. Siegel - 7th grade English lit. He was dating the Spanish teacher Ms. Barazi from across the hall for a while but when she dumped him he decided to become gay overnight. The dude was really creepy and would talk about weird stuff like how rubbing oil on your body to tan is dangerous in the sun. WTF?

Mr. Wilson - 8th grade reading This guy was AWESOME! His clothes were always ironed to perfection and he spoke so well meaning he varied sentance structure and used advance vocabulary at a middle school level. His professionalism rubbed off on his students and I am so glad I decided to take his class instead of a foreign language so I could take an extra year of gym in high school.

Mrs. Klemm/Ms. Miller - she was the 6th grade math teacher that had all sorts of love life problems. I think she was divorcing her husband while we were in her class. Anyway, she had an obsession with alcohol bottles that squirt to clean the slides on overhead projectors. The immage of dry erase marker watered up is burned in my mind for life.

Mr. Yeargin - 8th grade English Lit. ...this guy was way too sophisticated and polsihed to be an 8th grade teacher. I felt pity for the man cause the students never respected him. I suppose having been forced to read Charles Dickens and Bronte bothered the kids and I admit I did not like it at the time as well. I dunno, this guy seemed highly intelligent to me.

Mr. Garret - 7th grade science....he was working on his masters to get to become a marine biologist so he did not care much about what we learned or did in class. Rice uinversity had built a science lab in Lanier and we were using email to talk to kids in the UK back in 1992 (a very high tech thing for 13 yrd olds at the time). The emails were just BS....not a hint of educational content...more along the lines of "Hi how are you?" "Fine and you?"......This guy used to give etra credit like crazy and make us hold it until grade cycles were ending. Then you took up the papers he signed and he added your points. He issued so much EC people ended up with 108 points on a 100 point scale. He always made sex jokes as well.

Mr. Holliger - WORST teacher in the school. I understand he is still there. He went to UT and played basketball there until his knees went out. God this guy only taught chemistry and physics to the 2 kids in the room that got 100% of what he was saying. He would have these TAs work as slaves for him to write his notes and lessons.

i also went to Lanier Middle School for the Vanguard Program 99-02....i had Mr. Yeargin and Mr Hollinger....Mr. Yeargin was very smart but he could get boring at times...the best part about Mr. Hollinger's class was building a mouse trap car

ha, i remember the Pup House, i think i went there once.....anybody remember the French teacher's name? the German teacher was Mr. Nielsen

i'm all for it...let the City of Pearland pay for the stadium

Yeah, the Pelli looks alright from Cullen or the courtyard area, but it turns its back on Entrance 14 and all the foot and auto traffic that goes along with it. I don't like that, personally.

I like the library, but much of it is still underutilized. Seems like there are still too few computer terminals for students to use during peak hours.

yup, that's why i bought my laptop....it's impossible to find an open computer at noon

it is unfortunate that the Y building will be taken out. it has been housing the various engineering student groups for years. I hope that they get space in the new building. it looks fantastic and appropriate for the college of engineering!

yup...i study in the little buildings next to it, it feels like home

great pics...and your wife is pretty

does anybody know if the second tower is a go?

BuilderGeek: from the photos, it is totally amazing how those cranes (skinny things) are so tall and don't topple. Anyone know how they are anchored to prevent high winds from blowing them to Galveston? (Yeah, I'm not too smart when it comes to this sort of thing.)

wouldn't the air flow right through the crane? it doesn't have a large surface area so i don't think that it blocks the wind

its across the bayou south of the TMC

^^ i also noticed that plot of land when i went to Barnes and Noble, hmmmm

moo....it looks similar but the Bank of the Southwest Tower is already in Phily, its the short version though

(2500 Cool Points to DJ V Lawrence for giving me props)

And IIRC, wouldn't Metro's Southeast BRT would run on Harrisburg past the stadium....

yeah, the golf course is one block south of Harrisburg, so it would be a pretty good location...i used to live near the Golf Course and it looked empty most of the time, so this sounds like a good idea.....there is a problem though, what about all of the soccer moms and their kids? don't you think that they will shy away from the Barrios and be scared of the place?

VicMan i think the same way you do.....we are already seeing new townhomes being built on the east side of 288....i am pretty sure that the properties around UH will increase in value as Gentrification spreads towards the UH area

No thanks. We don't want it.

same here...but what if ut or aggy try to take it over?

build it in the burbs with another city's money or build it in the warehouse district with private funds