With a victory over Northern Colorado on Nov. 7, UH men’s basketball head coach Kelvin Sampson would reach 700 career collegiate wins and 200 with the Cougars. | Sean Thomas/The Cougar

Every chef’s gumbo recipe is a little bit different.

Some prefer a dark roux while others would much rather have a lighter one. Some like a nice seafood gumbo while others lean towards chicken and sausage. 

As it turns out, the oft-comedic chef Kelvin Sampson likes the nationally ranked men’s basketball team he coaches just how he likes his gumbo — with a little bit of everything.

“I want you to think of a basketball team like a big ol’ pot of gumbo,” Sampson said “Somebody’s got to be the okra. Somebody’s got to be the tomatoes. Somebody’s got to be that crab leg, that piece of sausage, that shrimp, that chicken. You can’t have a pot full of just chicken.”

While the ingredients of gumbo are random by themselves, they all blend together in just the right way to create something special. 

During his time as the head coach of the UH men’s basketball team, Sampson has never built a roster full of the most talented high school players, at least by the way they are ranked on paper. But few programs have experienced more success than the Cougars have since 2017.

Three American Athletic Conference regular-season titles, two conference tournament championships and appearances in the Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight and Final Four over the past three NCAA Tournaments highlight the Cougars’ success under Sampson.

By not focusing on bringing in high schoolers that have the most stars next to their names and rather recruiting guys that fit the program and its needs, Sampson has turned UH into a well-rounded machine.

Ramon Walker is the perfect example of this philosophy. While Walker isn’t an elite shooter, Sampson said the sophomore guard would be his first pick in a draft of players that impact winning.

While being the first on the floor to gather a loose ball or taking a charge won’t appear on the box score, Walker was a key factor in UH’s success a season ago because of these hustle plays.

Scoring, an area Walker lacked as a freshman, was picked up by others like Kyler Edwards, Fabian White Jr., Josh Carlton, Taze Moore and Jamal Shead.

While Carlton, Edwards, Moore and White are gone, reloading has not been a problem for Sampson as he has lost multiple key starters each year at UH and the team has still not missed a beat the following season.

A healthy Marcus Sasser and Tramon Mark, two proven scorers and big-time shot makers, along with a monster on the glass in J’Wan Roberts and some young firepower in Jarace Walker, Terrance Arceneaux and Emmanuel Sharp give the Cougars a variety of weapons and has them ranked No. 3 in the AP Poll entering the 2022-23 season.

“Our team has guys that are good at some things and not very good at others. That’s why we have a good ol’ pot of gumbo,” Sampson said. “We’re not a one-trick pony.”

Of course, in order to make a good gumbo the chef has to know how to properly mix all the ingredients to create as much flavor as possible.

Sampson, a self-proclaimed fan of the Cooking Channel who has previously used metaphors like vanilla ice cream and the extra fries a person often finds at the bottom of their McDonald’s bag to describe his team, has been the perfect chef for UH.

With an elite ability to mix and match players, Sampson, who sits just one victory shy of 700 career wins as a collegiate head coach, is a proven winner that gets the most out of each one of his players.

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The No. 9 ranked Gophers volleyball team has had quite the season this year. Some notable achievements include a September sweep against the defending NCAA champions, Wisconsin, and the now 50-game win streak against Iowa.

There is no denying the team is performing at an exceptional level this season. The Gophers are competing in a loaded conference with No. 6 Ohio State, No. 4 Nebraska and No. 3 Wisconsin. The Gophers are setting themselves up with great preparation before the postseason.

“It’s a particularly gnarly iteration, good athletes, good coaches and great crowds, so it makes it tough to be a competing team in the Big Ten,” said Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon.

The team’s efforts, however, would not be possible without the stand-out playing of individual players. Sophomore Taylor Landfair substantially leads the team with 324 kills while Jenna Wenaas’ 174 kills put her in second. Landfair is currently one of two players in the country to hit double digits in kills in every game this season.

Graduate student CC McGraw has also proven herself to be a valuable asset to the team. With 1,779 career digs, she is currently fourth for most digs in Gopher volleyball history. She is 91 short of third place, which is currently held by Dalianliz Rosado.

“The thing that is most noteworthy is the whole team’s commitment to improvement. We understand some individuals have garnered some recognition,” McCutcheon said. “But those are more ‘we’ awards than they are ‘me’ awards. It’s a reflection of our team’s performance.”

The team battled on the road against Wisconsin last week. Despite losing in four sets, teams are sometimes able to grow most from loss.

“We were able to make some changes and it paid off,” McCutcheon said. “The idea that we can play to this roster with the depth and talent that we have and put different lineups and get different outcomes is encouraging.”

The Golden Gophers will take on the Michigan Wolverines on Friday at Maturi Pavillion. The game will be broadcast on Big10+ at 6:30 p.m.

“I think we were firing on all cylinders, we had good serving, good passing, I think defensively we were doing well,” outside hitter Wennas said when talking about the Gophers’ early season matchup with Michigan. “Everything was working for us, so hopefully we can do that again on Friday.”

For many, this last weekend was filled with fun thrills and cold chills. For many college students, it was filled with crazy costumes and the Sunday scaries. I settled somewhere in between as I indulged in the festivities after a long work and school week. 

One way I did this was wolfing down about 50 milligrams of Dixie Sour Strawberry Gummies. Trust me when I say these sit somewhere in my top five edibles that I consume. 

I wanted to choose the perfect night of Halloweekend to devour these chewy delights, and that landed on Friday evening. That spooky night, I was Kim Kardashian (less spooky, I know) with black spandex and a bodysuit badly impersonating the SKIMS fashion line. However, I had a pair of black reflecting glasses that really tied the costume together while serving its real purpose of hiding my blood-red eyes. 

The bag of Dixie edibles cames with 10 edibles at 10 milligrams of THC a piece, totaling 100 milligrams, and it can be found in just about any dispensary, but I did obtain these at LivWell Enlightened Health. Dixie is a local corporation in Denver and offers a wide variety of edibles. From drinks to taffy, there’s something for anyone. 

A pro to purchasing Dixie products is they’re reasonably priced for a solid product. I snatched a bag for $16 plus tax and threw five of those suckers in my mouth. Granted, for most, this bag would probably last you longer than it did for me, who downed half the bag in one sitting. 

“Being out and about for Halloween that night made me prone to social anxiety, but these edibles actually caused the worry of an imaginary audience of people judging me to float out of my head.”

Now, indica is categorized in the sleepy stoner mood, which might not be the best mix if you’re headed out to a party. However, the gummies didn’t digest until about an hour later when I noticed the red LED lights lining a basement ceiling beginning to pulsate and circle around me. It was rather settling, as I felt I was in the latest college dirtbag movie. 

One of my dearest best friends was accompanying me as Audrey Hepburn and was wearing these gorgeous big circular sunglasses, but about two hours into the edibles, her sunglasses looked more like giant bug eyes. 

I’m not saying these edibles give you lucid-type trips of shape shifting objects, but they do give you enough of a high to blur reality if you take several chewies. Plus, the plethora of Halloween costumes was making my brain rather creative with my elevated imagination state.

The high stretched through my entire body, starting at my head, giving me a slightly heavy feeling. which I knew was the indica calling my name to go to bed. However, I powered through and let the high consume the rest of my body into a comfortable tingle as I hit the dance floor. 

The only real negative I noticed was the need for something to drink, as most edibles cause a gnarly case of cottonmouth for me. Having a water bottle or drink in your hand at all times is a must. 

Midnight came, and being about four hours into my night’s journey, I was ready to call it. The tint of my sunglasses and the darkness of the night sky were making my fight to stay awake incredibly hard. 

Ms. Hepburn and myself, Ms. Kardashian, decided to wrap up the night, and we called a fellow friend for a ride. As soon as I stumbled into my apartment, the knock-off Yeezy slides were kicked off, sunglasses thrown, purse and keys on the floor and phone plugged in as my head quickly hit the pillow. 

I’ve eaten these edibles more than a few times, and they never fail to create a good time. The dominance of the indica can catch up to you, but Dixie offers hybrid and sativa strains of edibles if you want a less drowsy social high. 

Being out and about for Halloween that night made me prone to social anxiety, but these edibles actually caused the worry of an imaginary audience of people judging me to float out of my head. Overall, the sour candies went down easily and blended in with the rest of my body for a relaxing high. 9/10 rating. 

Reach Taylor Paumen at cannabis@collegian.com or on Twitter @TayTayPau.

“Be(com)ing Whole” is the theme of this year’s TedxBU.

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Latino archives should be preserved in a way that makes them accessible to the Latino community it is serving. 

Before the 1960s, there were practically zero written documents referring to Latino culture. This is not to say that they were nonexistent. 

There were hundreds if not thousands of documents collecting dust in boxes, but since they did not fit the white male American’s perception of Latinos, they were disregarded. 

The Recovery Project at UH aims to build a collaborative and inclusive space for scholars from all around the world to preserve Latino history. 

There has been a lot of criticism of the archival world as the majority of the content within them has to fit a certain standard that does not match the way history flows within minority spaces. 

For Latinos, it is common for documents to never make it into the archives as they prefer to keep them safe in their homes as they get passed along through generations. 

The term migrant archives is used to refer to this unique flow of documents as there is a lack of trust in the archival world as previous encounters have led to a loss of personal histories. Several instances have occurred where records have been taken away by white archivists only to never be returned and kept in spaces blocked by a paywall or specific credentials. 

To add on, there is a lot that goes into archiving works of minorities, especially those in different languages. With translations, meanings can get lost and with a majority of archivists lacking the cultural context of these Latino documents, much information is white-washed or straight-up racist. 

Translation and interpretation are two completely different concepts that usually get mixed. 

The Recovery Project digitizes these important documents combining the efforts of several Latinos to ensure that the information delivered as is clear and raw as its original document. 

Migrant archives explore a unique experience that usually does not match up with the previous concepts of Latino histories. Some of these documents share new ideas and revelations and sometimes add to theories to strengthen them. 

Many people used to think that Latinos were illiterate and that women contributed nothing to the scholarly world, however, these theories were debunked as documents were uncovered by future Latinos who believed that their pasts were more than just what the white-centric archival world told them. 

It is important to place importance on building an honest and inclusive archival world that includes these Latino histories but it cannot be done without creating a space for Latino archivists to input their thoughts as well. 

The whole reason Latino archives are so undervalued is that the people who have to power to pick and choose which archives are important refuse to acknowledge the very people who the archives are about: Latinos and their histories. 

Archives have the power to reconstruct the present as they provide insight into the past and without Latinos having a say on how their history is presented, only misconceptions will continue to be told. 

Cindy Rivas Alfaro is a journalism sophomore who can be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com

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Dancers from across the region are performing at the FitRec’s Dance Theater on Nov. 4 at 7:30 p.m.

For the third year in a row, the University of Utah has surpassed previous years’ enrollment numbers, contrary to a nationwide trend of decreasing college enrollment and in spite of the continued COVID-19 pandemic. This includes the numbers for first-time freshmen and overall student enrollment.

A new data release shows where the numbers have grown, particularly among students of color and women. In the especially diverse freshman class of 2026, there are, “The largest number of incoming freshmen of color at 1,655 students, [as well as] the highest number of female-identifying freshmen at 2,779 students,” stated the study.

Steve Robinson, assistant director of admissions at the U, said the growth the U experienced was double what he first saw at the beginning of the fall 2022 semester. “As of last week, we’re up about one and a half percent over the same time last year,” he said. 

The report showed a 3% increase in freshman enrollment, along with growth in undergraduate, graduate and overall enrollment.

“The freshmen increase of 3.0 percent contributed to an overall 2.0 percent growth totaling 26,355 undergraduate students. Combined with 8,379 graduate students, overall enrollment increased 0.8 percent to 34,734 students,” the study explained .

Robinson said, “This is the largest number of undergraduates we’ve ever had at the university.”

And while there have been many enrollment records broken over the last three years, U President Taylor Randall has goals to continue to surpass enrollment numbers.

According to Robinson, “The president has articulated a vision that we will be at 40,000 students within the next five years to get there, you know, we’re going to have to continue growing every year. It’s a bit of a tightrope, but it’s very possible to do it.” 

Robinson said there are lots of changes that need to be made besides the obvious in housing. For example, if there are many more students, then there need to be more instructors hired to teach more sections of the classes, more dining spaces need to be added and more parking spaces to accommodate the growing population, among other things.

Zach Thompson, a freshman at the U studying finance, said he was excited about new students to be able to attend college, such as minorities and women, but later Thompson said he was “concerned” about the number of students the university is accepting.

According to Thompson, college connections have been different than he expected. “It’s weird,” he said. “It’s like I know even fewer people than I did in high school, even though it’s an even bigger class, I know even less people.”

He has experienced firsthand the housing shortage at the U that many students face.

“So technically our room is a triple but it’s actually just a double that they threw another bed in because again, they’re too cheap to build more housing, so they just use the housing that they have and cram more people into it. Like rats in a cage.”

Thompson’s third roommate actually never showed, but he still feels extremely cramped in the space. “We are tall humans, and we have this tiny tiny space, where we have to tiptoe around.”

Even though there are efforts being made to create more spaces and housing for students, Thompson is concerned it won’t be enough. 

Looking to the future, Robinson says he can already see promising figures in the incoming applications for the class of 2027, with a 25% increase in applications in this time of year already. 

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Students and professors at Bovard Auditorium were treated to an evening with Natasha Trethewey Tuesday, where the poet performed a book reading from her newest memoir, “Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir,” and answered questions on meanings of family, race and history.

Trethewey is a Pulitzer Prize winner for her book “Native Guard,” a two-time poet laureate of the United States and the holder of a plethora of awards and fellowships, such as the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize in Poetry for Lifetime Achievement. She currently serves as a Board of Trustees professor of English at Northwestern University.

Within her reading of “Memorial Drive,” Trethewey performed a deep dive into her memories, revisiting the crime scene where her mother was murdered nearly 30 years prior and expressing her enduring relationship with her.

Reading an excerpt from her prologue, Trethewey said, “Vowing never to return, I took with me what I had cultivated all those years: mute avoidance of my past, silence and willed amnesia buried deep in me like a root. Nor could I have anticipated then that anything would ever draw me back to that city … a reminder of a past I was determined to forget even as I tried to honor her memory in every way I knew how.”

The book is about surviving traumas, both personal and national, as an African American woman. It’s about grief and the bond between mother and child, and about discovering the importance of place and forging herself into a writer. 

Trethewey also responded to audience questions in an event, marking the continuation of a series of speakers that have come to USC as part of The Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation Distinguished Speaker Series. The series is held by Visions and Voices, an initiative in the arts and humanities at USC that launched in 2006. 

David Delgado, the production specialist for Visions and Voices, is vocal about the importance of holding events in the arts and humanities for students at USC.

“The arts are absolutely pivotal to our students’ education, not just here at USC, but at any institution of learning,” Delgado said in an interview with the Daily Trojan. “It goes hand in hand [with] what individuals are learning from textbooks, but to actually experience art in a live and communal form, we believe is pivotal to the growth of our community.” 

Recent empirical evidence suggests that arts participation is related to behaviors that contribute to the health of civic society. Delgado emphasized the benefits of providing an education on culture, saying that, “we want our Trojan students to be as well rounded as possible, not just learning science and math and engineering, but also the arts and humanities, which fill the soul as well as the mind.”

The event series is designed to bring internationally renowned authors to campus. Along with Trethewey this year, the University has also hosted distinguished authors Michael Ondaatje and Zadie Smith. 

Alex Flores, a freshman majoring in public relations and an audience member, is a big fan of Trethewey’s work. They spoke of how much it meant to them to be able to see her speak and read from her work in person. 

“I loved everything that she wrote about, even though we come from two very different worlds. We’re two completely different people, but I kind of felt like we were one,” Flores said. “[The reading and] interview [were] everything I could have hoped for.”

Trethewey answered questions about her childhood being raised by a Black mother and white father in segregated Mississippi. She recounted how her family was targeted by hate groups, including the Ku Klux Klan and how the public admonished the relationship between her parents. 

Trethewey said recalling her past provides clarity for current affairs, saying that “even though I’m talking about half a century ago, so much of [these events] has an increasing resonance right now.”

As the Supreme Court is reportedly leaning toward ending affirmative action in the near future, the removal of Confederate statues perennially remains on the agenda of discourse in many Southern states. Last week, the Georgia Supreme Court allowed a lawsuit objecting to the removal of Confederate statues from downtown Covington to move forward.

“I think about contests over Confederate memorials,” Trethewey said. “Things that people think have been expelled long ago. Issues around civil rights; the way that, even in the language which is used against same-sex marriage, was the same language deployed against interracial marriage.”

Tripp Carrington, a freshman majoring in narrative studies and audience member, decided to attend the event after reading one of Trethewey’s works in his American Literature class. Carrington said he found the reading to be a valuable experience.

“I thought that the reading was beautiful, especially to hear writing from the author’s own voice is always valuable,” Carrington said. “She was gracious enough to stay back, answer questions. I found it really interesting and beneficial for anybody interested in literature.”

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