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Campus Activities Council has cooked up a whole week of events planned to welcome students back to campus after the month-long winter break.

Winter Welcome Week, which takes place during the first week of the semester, is a week full of free food, events and promotions for all OU students. Students can jazzercise, try a smorgasbord of different healthy foods like smoothies or participate in a snowball fight, among other things, according to the CAC website.

The theme for this year’s “We only had a welcome week is “A New semester to work, Year, A New You,” and each is based off of potential while only meeting day New Year’s resolutions, said once a week. The Emma Hunsaker, strategic small group size was communication senior and chair of the Winter Welcome also a challenge.” Week committee.

“For example, Monday is bReAnnA bobeR, MARKeTinG ‘Get Fit Day’ so we’re giving FReShMAn away coffee on the south oval instead of hot chocolate, because hot chocolate isn’t good for you,” Hunsaker said.

The members of the CAC’s Winter Welcome Week committee have been planning for this event since as far back as May 2012. The committee of 25 members had regular weekly meetings every Tuesday since late September, with executive committee meetings occurring more often than that, even during breaks from school, Hunsaker said.

While Winter Welcome Week is an annual event, this one will be a little different from years passed. The biggest difference is that this year CAC made a video to promote the daily themes for the week. As well, the subcommittees within the welcome week committee focused more on working together than they had in the previous years, which led to CAC raising $8,000 in cash, prizes and donations for the week despite the

OU education students picked up their free iPads Sunday and are getting ahead of the game as educators across the country are enhancing classroom learning by making use of the latest technology.

About 600 free iPads have been provided to give to Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education students, according to a press release. The students will be allowed to keep them following graduation to continue to enhance their teaching careers.

It’s important to bridge how educators are using digital media in their classrooms with what education majors are learning, said OU education professor James Gardner. “[The MORE INSIDE i P a d i n i tiative] is education wonderful students to and conassist faculty temporary,” in developing curriculum for he said. iPads.

By ownPage 2 ing these iPads, education students will learn how to use multiple forms of media to find and represent information in multiple ways in the classroom, he said.

This increase in flexibility will allow educators to extend their reach to more students in more diverse ways. “[Providing ipads] will allow students to create content that will be useful for them in their professional

History of Science: OU’s History of Science Collections now has an exhibit guide available on the iPad that offers digitized copies OU’s most historic texts.

OU4YOU and OU2GO: Mobile applications to check out campus information and gain access to D2L and OUnet iD accounts.

iBooks: iPad owners are encouraged to use iBooks as a more portable and lower cost alternative to textbooks.

Athletics: OU Athletics Department is exploring the use of iPads to enhance the academic experience for student athletes.

iTunes U: A catalog used to store course lectures, presentations, departmental and program information, training sessions and guided tours.

OUDaily.com: At the same time, Student Media has expanded its own technology use with an iPhone app to make The Daily’s content more accessible.

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cAlenDAR Winter Welcome Week events Monday: Get Fit Day • Free healthy food on the South Oval 9-11 a.m.

• jazzercise on the south Oval, high-energy music & healthy food giveaways noon to 2 p.m.

• night at the huff, an open invitation with free smoothies from 7-9 p.m.

Tuesday: Get Involved and Make New Friends Day

Wednesday: Learn a New Skill Day

Thursday: Help Others More Day

• Free food on the south Oval from 9-11 a.m.

• involvement fair on the South Oval with free food from noon to 2 p.m • snowball Fight in WalkerAdams Mall from 7-9 p.m.

•Free food on the south Oval from 9-11 a.m.

• Learn a new skill on the South Oval with free food from noon to 2 p.m.

• concert in Will rogers room from 7-9 p.m.

• Free food from 9-11 a.m.

•Volunteer fair on the South Oval with free food from noon to 2 p.m.

• basketball & dodgeball tournament benefiting Soonerthon from 7-9 p.m.

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Innovation is plugging into tradition inside and outside of the classroom this semester at OU, said the keynote speaker at a training session for faculty on Friday, Jan. 11.

Mark Morvant, executive director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, said integrating both the new and the old is vital to the communication between generations, particularly in the academic aspect.

“Each generation has to absorb how to interact with the next,” he said. “The goal is to translate and connect with these new, digital natives to enable, increase and inspire their educational value.”

Over 200 individuals, 16 sessions and a lobby full of department booths made up the first floor of the Devon Energy Hall as the second annual Academic Technology Expo took place, fostering the digital initiative announced in November to create a more dynamic scholastic experience.

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As a joint effort between the Center f o r Te a c h i n g Excellence, Information Technology and OU Libraries, the event concentrated on using cutting-edge innovations like iTunes U and iPads to enhance both teaching and learning.

“The Friday before the beginning of every semester, everyone comes together for one day to really focus on one of the most pressing issues in higher education today,” said Courtney Kneifl, communications specialist of IT. “Professors better teaching and students better learning means incorporating technology.”

One of the more current advancements talked about at the session includes introducing D2L 10.1 across campus. The upgrade was showcased during a session presented by Michelle Crowe, academic technologist of IT, and Kevin Buck, support technician of IT. The upgrade is set to launch on Saturday, May 25, drastically altering the visual aspect of the system for the

first time since around 2005, Crowe said.

It will have an overall cleaner and simplified look and feel, improving the interface of the content and user progress tabs, and adding new features, such as a minibar of courses, settings and notifications and an accessible late dropbox submissions option, Buck said.

Other initiatives involve iTunes U, iBooks, iPads, DIY: Online Course Design, Social Media, Lecture Capture and more.

Sepideh Stewart, assistant professor in mathematics, attended multiple sessions as well as was part of a panel during a session about Student Response Systems/Clickers. Stewart said she found the event uniquely helpful, as she was exposed to things she didn’t expect.

“Coming together to share and grow is always exciting,” she said. “I think finding a balance is the key to it all – adapting without throwing away irreplaceable principles.”

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Today around campus Free Food: Hot chocolate will be provided for students by the Union Programming Board from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the first floor lobby of the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

tuesday, jan. 15 Free Food: Self-brewed tea will provided courtesy of the Union Programming Board from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the first floor lobby of the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Wednesday, Jan. 16 Bingo! Students can play bingo and win prizes from 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Crossroads Lounge in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Men’s basketball will play Texas Tech at 7 p.m. at the Lloyd Noble Center.

A Pre-Dental Club Meeting will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in room 125 of Dale Hall.

Friday, Jan. 17 Art Exhibition: The 99th annual School of Art & Art History Student Exhibition opening reception begins at 7 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, followed by an awards ceremony at 8 p.m. The exhibition features art by OU School of Art and Art History students. The exhibition will remain on display until Feb. 10.

Women’s Gymnastics will compete against Denver at 7 p.m. in Norman.

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Initiative brings new technology options to campus, students Continued from page 1 careers,” said university press secretary Michael Nash in an email.

Education sophomore Jaye Pelley said she is very excited about the opportunity to work with an iPad. “I didn’t know I was getting one, and then I suddenly got an email asking me to register,” she said.

Since she, like many other students, has never used an iPad before, the college of education held a training session Sunday afternoon to teach students how to navigate the devices.

The training sessions featured lectures about how to navigate iMovie and use it to develop quality movies, how to use iTunes U to catalog educational content and how to use iPad note-taking applications and narrated art applications, according to the training’s schedule.

OU college of education faculty were provided with free iPads in the fall, according to a press release. Education students are now expected to assist faculty members in designing and planning activities for classes using their new iPads.

Providing free iPads is part of OU’s digital initiative called One University, which might provide student athletes with iPads as well in the future, according to the initiative’s website.

WELCOME: Week celebrates new year Continued from page 1 short amount of time they had to work and a small group of people working, said Breanna Bober, marketing freshman and programming committee member.

“We only had a semester to work, while only meeting once a week. The small group size was also a challenge,” Bober said.

The planning for the week was done completely within the different, small committees. Members of the programming committee paired up, and each pair was assigned a different day of the week to work on. Bober’s pair was responsible for making calls to various organizations to see if they’d be interested in coming to the ‘Help Others More Day,’ Bober said.

Winter Welcome Week will kick off Monday morning at 9 a.m. on the South Oval with healthy food giveaway and will end Friday afternoon with another free food giveaway on the South Oval.

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Shown is from the FX original series, “Sons of Anarchy.” Television executives who spoke to the media recently about the tragic shootings in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., say the events bothered them, but none offered concrete examples of how it is changing what they put on the air, or if that is necessary. FX President John Landgraf said he was in favor of further study about any correlation between entertainment and real violence. Landgraf pointed out that the zombie series “Walking Dead” and brutally violent “Sons of Anarchy” are both very popular in England and that country has far fewer gun murders than the United States.

Divide between TV, violence Without proof of ill effects, television stations will continue to air content as is

“The Following,” about a serial killer who recruits deadly disciples, and its gruesome scenes include a woman who commits suicide by gouging her eye and piercing her skull with an ice pick, and a man set on fire at a coffee stand.

David Bauder Kevin Reilly, Fox entertainment chairman, said that given AP Television Writer all of the media choices, the impact on real life is a broad and PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — If there’s any soul-searching complex conversation. “It trivializes it to try and link it to teleamong top television executives about onscreen violence vision, or broadcast television in particular,” he said. contributing to real-life tragedies like the Connecticut school “Part of entertainment, part of what we do on television, is shooting, it isn’t readily apparent. to provide escapism,” Reilly said. “Escapism comes in many All say the horrors of Newtown and Aurora, Colo., rocked forms. It could be laughter. It could be fantasy. It is also your them. But during a series of meetings with reporters here over worst nightmare come to life. And it makes our palms sweat the last 10 days, none offered concrete examples of how it is and it moves us emotionally and puts us on the edge of the changing what they put on the air, or if that is necessary. seat. We are engrossed in it and we forget ourselves for an “I’m not a psychologist, so I’m not sure you can make hour.” the leap (that) a show about serial killers has caused the When a network is putting a thriller on the air, it has to be sort of problems with violence in our country,” said Robert able to compete on an intensity level, he said.

Greenblatt, who put “Dexter” on the air when he ran Being publicly questioned about the level of violence on Showtime and is now overseeing development of a series the air clearly annoyed Reilly, however. Asked if Fox had made on the notorious creep Hannibal Lecter for NBC. “There are any changes to the promotion or content of “The Following” many, many other factors, from mental illness to guns.” after the Newtown school shooting last month, he snapped, All of those points are being considered by Vice President “No,” and said he wouldn’t address any more questions on Joe Biden as he prepares to make recommendations the topic.

Tuesday to President Obama on ways to curb violence.

He was wrong, by the way: Fox later said it had replaced a When entertainment executives met with billboard showing a woman with an ice pick “I’m not a Biden in Washington on Friday, makers of with an image of series star Kevin Bacon, and blood-spurting video games like “Call of psychologist, so I’m combed its on-air promos to make sure there Duty” and “Mortal Kombat” dominated atwas no gunplay. not sure you can tention. In theaters, “Texas Chainsaw 3-D” Reilly wasn’t alone in his impatience. dominated box office receipts during its first make the leap (that) CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler week. called a halt to questions on the topic a show about serial also Television’s biggest influence is its omSaturday after being asked several. Tassler killers has caused was unhappy with NBC’s Greenblatt, who nipresence; the average American watches more than four hours of TV a day. the sort of problems said that CBS’ “Criminal Minds” was worse In recent days, only FX President John than “Dexter” ever was in terms of content.

Landgraf said he was in favor of further study with violence in our She said it was a mistake to allow the disabout any correlation between entertaincussion “devolve into my show versus your country.” ment and real violence. Previous studies have show.”

Robert Greenblatt been mixed.

CBS is on pace to be the nation’s mostLandgraf has sons aged 15, 12 and 9 and watched television network for the 10th time said he doesn’t let them play video games in which the player in 11 years, and has done so with a huge fictional body count. is shooting.

The network’s prime-time schedule is dominated by proceEverything the entertainment industry does should be fair durals that usually involve solving violent crimes. Tassler said game in a discussion about violence, he said. But he point- CBS would begin promoting on the Super Bowl a summer ed out that the zombie series “Walking Dead” and brutally series based on a Stephen King book about a town trapped violent “Sons of Anarchy” are both very popular in England under an invisible dome, the promo clip shown to reporters and that country has far fewer gun murders than the United included drawings of body parts dropping from the sky, a States. The availability of powerful assault weapons and am- pacemaker bursting out of a man’s chest and a bloody hammunition are most responsible for the difference, he said. mer being cleaned in a sink.

The Newtown shooting was heartbreaking, said Paul Lee, NBC illustrated a similar disconnect. As its executives ABC entertainment president. “We welcome the conversa- said NBC wasn’t a “shoot ‘em up” network, a highlight reel tion as to how we as a culture can make sure that we don’t let of “Revolution” was shown that that included a swordfight, a these events happen again,” he said. standoff between two men with guns, a gunfight and a buildHe said ABC has strong standards for what it broadcasts, ing blown up with a body flying through the air. stronger than its competitors.

Tassler said CBS will show “awareness and sensitivity” as it “We talk about it all the time,” he said. “We are storytellers. moves the process of making pilots and selecting series that We have to tell stories that are vibrant and passionate, but we will run on the network in coming years. want to make sure that the stories that we tell are done with integrity, you know, there’s no gratuitous action that goes out there, that it’s driven through the stories and the characters, and that we have a moral compass in what we do.”

The appetite for “Walking Dead” and “Texas Chainsaw 3-D” among young viewers is not lost on any TV executive, and bottom line pressure speaks most loudly to them.

Broadcast networks feel a particular need to push the envelope when they see cable programs making noise with an ability to show more explicit scenes.

The same week that Lee talked about ABC’s standards, the network’s hit “Scandal” had a scene depicting waterboarding.

Fox has a highly anticipated series due later this month,

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Civil war continues to claim more civilians Death toll in Syria’s civil war found to be higher than former opposition estimates BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian ground and air forces bombarded rebel strongholds on the outskirts of Damascus and other areas around the country Friday while anti-government forces targeted a military post near the capital with a car bomb, activists said.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said warplanes targeted neighborhoods around the capital including Douma, which troops have been trying to recapture for weeks. Two air raids there Thursday killed 12 people and caused heavy damage.

The Observatory added that a car bomb blew up outside a military intelligence building in the northern Damascus suburb of Nabk but had no immediate word on casualties.

An amateur video posted online showed a strong explosion with black smoke billowing from Nabk and the narrator said the blast targeted the military intelligence facility. The video appeared genuine and corresponded to other AP reporting on the events depicted.

The violence came two days after the U.N. said that more than 60,000 people have been killed since Syria’s crisis began in March 2011 — a figure much higher than previ“Regime forces ous opposition estimates. are facing very Damascus-based activstrong resistance in ist Maath al-Shami said government troops were Daraya.” firing rockets and mortars Maath al-Shami, from the Qasioun mounactivist tains overlooking the capital down at orchards near the southern suburbs of Daraya and Kfar Sousseh. The Observatory says troops were also fighting rebels in Aqraba and Beit Saham, also south of Damascus, near the capital’s international airport.

The army command said in a statement Thursday night that troops carried out operations in suburbs of the capital including Douma and Daraya.

“Regime forces are facing very strong resistance in Daraya,” said al-Shami via Skype, but said that government forces had been able to advance down the main street in the suburb.

The government capture of Daraya would provide a boost to the regime’s defense of Damascus. It is close to a military air base as well as the government’s headquarters and one of President Bashar Assad’s palaces.

In the north, rebels resumed a week-old offensive against regime-held airbases. The government’s air power poses the

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Men help a wounded civilian after a mortar attack in the Saif al-Dawlah neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday. The revolution against the Syrian regime started in March 2011 with peaceful protests but morphed into a civil war that has killed more than 60,000 people, according to a recent United Nations estimate.

biggest obstacle to advances by opposition fighters. “painful strikes” against the “armed terrorist groups” of Activists said there were battles around the military air Jabhat al-Nusra, a group the U.S. claims is linked to al-Qabase of Taftanaz in the northern province of Idlib close to the ida-linked organization. The Syrian military says the exTurkish border and near the international airport of Aleppo, tremist group is carrying out the Taftanaz attack, and that Syria’s largest city and commercial center. dozens of fighters were killed.

Fadi al-Yassin, an activist based in Idlib, Aleppo airport has been closed since said the rebels killed on Thursday the com- “The battles now are Monday. A government official in Damascus mander of Taftanaz air base, a brigadier at the gates of the said the situation is relatively quiet around general. the facility, adding that it is up to civil aviation airport.”

“The battles now are at the gates of the authorities to resume flights.

Fadi al-Yassin, airport,” al-Yassin said via Skype. He added A man who answered the telephone at activist that it has become very difficult for the rethe information office at the Damascus gime helicopters to take off and land at the base.

International Airport said, “God willing, flights will resume He said warplanes taking off from airfields in the central to Aleppo very soon.” province of Hama and the coastal region of Latakia are parSyrian rebels are fighting a 21-month-old revolt against ticipating in attacking rebels around Taftanaz. the Assad regime. The crisis began with pro-democracy proThe Syrian Army General Command said troops directed tests but has morphed into a civil war.

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New gun laws are a misfire Lobbyists predict block of new gun legislation is likely WASHINGTON (AP) — The powerful gun lobby is gauging enough support in Congress to block a law that would ban assault weapons, despite promises from the White House and senior lawmakers to make such a measure a reality.

Senators plan to introduce a bill that would ban assault weapons and limit the size of ammunition magazines, like the one used in the December shooting massacre that killed 27 people, most of them children, in Newtown, Conn.

Democratic Sen. Dianne the associated press Feinstein of California has The National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne promised to push for a re- LaPierre, speaks Dec. 21 during a news conference in response to newal of expired legislation. the Connecticut school shooting in Washington.

The National Rifle Association has so far prevented passage of another assault weapons ban like the one that expired in 2004. But some lawmakers say the Newtown tragedy has transformed the country, and Americans are ready for stricter gun laws.

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Still, the NRA has faith that Congress would prevent a new weapons ban.

“When a president takes all the power of his office, if he’s willing to expend political capital, you don’t want to make predictions. You don’t want to bet your house on the outcome. But I would say that the likelihood is that they are not going to be able to get an assault weapons ban through this Congress,” NRA president David Keene told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

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Unfortunate event-full break troubles Sooners Our View: The winter break saw some of the more tragic and frustrating events of the past year. School shootings, politics, civil wars and bowl games captured national attention. These issues represent a brief look at the stories you might have missed.

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Sandy Hook: In 1999, one of our editorial board members was an eighth grader living in Littleton, Colo., when the Columbine massacre occurred. The senseless and brutality of the tragedy shook that community in lasting and profound ways that must also be felt in Newtown, Conn., after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. The shooting at Sandy Hook is even more senseless and tragic than anything we have seen in an American school. Our thoughts and condolences go out to the families and community affected by this most horrific event. The citizens of Newton need our support, not our politics.

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Gun Control: Sparked by school shootings, the gun control debate reached new heights over the break. After the shooting, Vice President Joe Biden immediately encouraged action through a new gun violence task force. Reactions by pro-firearms organizations were swift and intense. The National Rifle Association flatly rejected the administration’s proposals. We should not use gun control as a way to react to school shootings. The use of tragedies by both sides to bolster their positions is disturbing and reprehensible. Gun control is an issue that must be analyzed logically and thoughtfully, not as a tool to gain political points after a shooting.

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Syria: Early this month, the U.N. released a report dramatically increasing the estimated death toll in the Syrian Civil War. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has been responsible for 60,000 casualties and many believe the actual number to be much higher. This number is more than the roughly 50,000 U.S. combat deaths in Vietnam and is only expected to rise. The international community has been inactive in pushing for a peaceful end to the conflict, but the new report should spur significant pressure from the U.N. and the United States. President Barack Obama and the U.N. should follow up recognition of the rebel leaders with continuing diplomatic support to end the killings of Syrian citizens immediately. More violence is not the answer. The U.S. should not lend military aid to the Syrian revolutionaries. The last thing we want is more of our students fighting and dying in yet another foreign conflict.

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Fiscal Cliff: The pageantry and theater were performed by both sides of the aisle during the final stages of negotiations rivaled the best Christmas performances. Democrats and Republicans created the conditions that led to the artificial crisis in the first place. The fiscal cliff was originally developed as a built-in consequence to congressional inaction. If Congress did not make budgetary decisions by a certain date, automatic budget cuts would be issued. In the end, the endless talks and meetings in front of TV cameras ended in a predictable compromise. Democrats won agreements to delay spending cuts and raised taxes on citizens earning more than $400,000 a year, while Republicans won agreements to maintain Bush-era tax breaks for citizens below that line. Voters in each party should not be encouraged by their representatives’ efforts. Both sides lost ground and only postponed necessary reforms to spending and tax policies. It might have looked like Democrats and Republicans were fighting hard, but they just played opossum.

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OU Football: Our defeat at the Cotton Bowl brought the direction of the Sooner football program into question. Starting quarterback Landry Jones is leaving, sparking questions surrounding backup quarterback Blake Bell’s ability to fill his shoes. The exodus of three experienced veterans — juniors Kenny Stills, Tony Jefferson and Tom Wort — is further evidence of dramatic changes to the makeup of the team and necessitates rethinking strategies on both sides of the football. At this point, it is not clear in what direction OU football will go in the future. Right now, the only thing certain in Sooner land is change.

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Gun control debate takes attention from more pressing issues

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he national deopinion columnist bate over gun rights is consuming a great deal of public attention. Media outlets run story after story about mass shootings and gun control legislation, and politicians argue the pros Hunter Ash and cons of public gun Hunter.R.Ash-1@ou.edu ownership.

But compared to war, disease, climate change, the national debt, the rebellion in Syria, social justice, poverty and a whole host of other more pressing issues, gun control isn’t that important. It does not come close to deserving the amount of media coverage and political attention it has received.

The primary reason for the sudden increase in focus on the issue of gun ownership was the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The impact of the event was exacerbated by the memory of previous similar mass killings, such as those at Virginia Tech and Aurora, Colorado.

These acts are tragic and frightening. But fear has caused us to ascribe unwarranted importance to them. A country should not choose its priorities based on fear.

Looking at statistics instead of individual dramatic incidents makes guns seem like much less of a threat. In 2010 there were 8,874 murders committed with firearms in the US. This constitutes less than 0.35 percent of the approximately 2,500,000 total deaths in America that year, and pales in comparison to the almost 600,000 deaths from heart disease in 2010 or the 570,000 from cancer.

Taking international problems into account further diminishes the importance of gun control. There have been over 313,000 direct war deaths in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan since 2001. Malaria killed 1.2 million people in 2010. Civil war rages in Syria. Yet CNN currently has a special “Gun Control” section on its homepage.

But even if gun control is less important than other issues, even if it is much less important, isn’t it at least worth talking about?

Yes, gun control should be talked about. Every responsible citizen should think about it, talk about it and research it. Individuals can and should devote enough time to this issue to arrive at an informed and levelheaded opinion, without sacrificing awareness of other important issues.

However, both the national government and the national media have a very limited amount of time and resources, and devoting more to one topic means sacrificing another. Any time Congress spends debating gun control is time it could have spent discussing legislation to improve American health or responding to international crises.

Every news story about a mass shooting or some pundit’s position on the gun debate means one less story about the disastrous effects of environmental damage or the deaths of millions from preventable diseases.

The media and the government are not wholly to blame for the misallocation of their attention: both take cues from the American public. So stop paying so much attention to grisly mass shootings and emotional rants about the unequivocal evil/undeniable good of guns. Stop letting fear override sense. Focus on the issues that matter.

Hunter Ash is a math and physics sophomore.

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Is the sports industry too inherently sexist to change?

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ecently, an ESPN Opinion columnist sportscaster has been publicly castigated for comments made on national television about a woman television cameras found in the stands.

Whether you think that Sarah Sullivan his comments were out of Katsar313@netzero.net line or just in fun, it raises the issue of how we treat women, particularly in the sports world.

Can we blame him for his comments when we live in a society where sports itself is one of the most misogynistic institutions around?

As Alabama and Notre Dame fans gathered to watch the game Jan. 7, ESPN sportscaster Brent Musburger was busy watching something else. That something was Miss Alabama and Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron’s girlfriend, Katherine Webb. This incident highlights the ever-present issue of misogyny in sports.

Whether it is cheerleaders who flaunt around in nextto-nothing or female sports teams that receive far less recognition than their male counterparts, the influence of male expectations and oppression is reinforced and proliferated.

The comments made by Brent Musburger, directed at Webb, got more attention than the actual score of the game. As she watched from her seat, the camera watched her. Musburger proceeded to comment on her

attractiveness, how lucky her boyfriend was and that foot- cheerleaders are doing a routine, no one cares about the cheers. Viwers care about the sparkling hot pants and ball players get all the prettiest girls. What was so alarming wasn’t that he made it known that he found her attrac- barely there tops.

This is evident in the dramatic uniform change that the tive, but the relentlessness of the comments that bordered Cowboys Cheerleaders made in 1972, when it became on imprudent. about sexy rather than sport. Midriffs, thighs and cleavDespite the uproar over his comments, Webb said to age were displayed — all to support the boys on the field TMZ, “I laughed hysterically. I was flattered ...and slight(Yeah, right). ly embarrassed ... but I thought it was the funniest thing Misogyny is evident in the little recogniever, I never expected that. I’ve been tion that female sports teams receive. How reading on Twitter that Musburger had “Musburger can’t often do you hear people talking about the backlash that he’s ‘creepy’ ... if I were to be chastised for his score of a women’s softball game? You resee him, I would say, ‘I don’t think you’re comments when ally don’t, but you do hear men talk about creepy at all.”

Regardless, ESPN issued a public apolthe environment he the beach volleyball teams and lingerie football ladies. ogy on behalf of Musburger claiming that Because of this, I can’t call out he was aware that his comments had gone works in obtains half too far. the entertainment Musburger for doing what the sports industry urges us to do: Gawk at and objecSo if Webb was not offended by the of a game from tify women as a whole. Sadly, Webb’s posi73-year-old’s comments and she has been given an apology, why should the incident treating women as if tion as Miss Alabama reinforces that. order to rectify this, women need to be discussed further? they were objects.” seeInthemselves as more than sexual subMusburger can’t be chastised for his jects and men need to see them as people, comments when the environment he works in obtains half the entertainment of a game from rather than objects. treating women as if they were objects. During timeouts However, in the sports world I doubt that will happen, and halftimes scantily clad cheerleaders parade around because who wants to watch men throw around a football shaking a whole lot more than their pompoms for the en- when you can watch the girls with pompoms and go-go joyment of spectators. boots?

Instead of being there for the purpose of encouraging the team with cheers, they are there to be sexy. I think most would agree with me that when the Dallas Cowboys Sarah Sullivan is an English writing junior.

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If you’ve been to a basketball game at Lloyd Noble Center during the postBlake Griffin era, you probably didn’t have much difficulty finding a seat.

It’s no secret : OU’s fan support has been suspect.

The Sooners have struggled to fill the stands while attempting to rebuild a once-elite basketball program.

Bu t Sat u rd ay a f t e rnoon, 8,696 fans — a season-high for attendance — watched OU thump OSU, 77-68, in the closest thing to a signature win in coach L o n K r u g e r ’s t e nu re at Oklahoma.

“Overall, it was a good win for us, and we beat a really good ball club,” Kruger said. “Oklahoma State is a really good team, and any time we can beat a good club like that, we feel good about it.”

Although not quite a capacity crowd, the Sooner fans brought their A-game — matching the intensity of the players on the floor for all 40 minutes — and their energy helped OU fend off the Cowboys’ second-half runs and propelled the Sooners to victory.

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A group of fans cheer the Sooners to victory against Oklahoma State on Saturday afernoon. Nearly 9,000 fans attended the game, a season-high for attendance.

said. “Just the whole crowd being here. I know a lot of students are just getting back in town from the holidays, but just them being loud and cheering us on, it was a great feeling.

“I’m really happy that [the fans] stepped up today.”

The Cowboys — who’ve spent most of the season

ranked in the Top 25, climbing as high as No. 20 after a 76-56 win against thenNo. 6 North Carolina State — looked uncomfortable throughout. “ We ’ r e a l l w e ’ v e g o t coming into the game,” OSU sophomore forward Michael Cobbins said. “It’s a different atmosphere where

everybody is against you instead of being at home where everybody is for you, so you have to stick together and have everyone on the same page.”

The hostile road environment coupled with early foul trouble for OSU freshman guard and Wooden Aw a r d f i n a l i s t Ma r c u s

Smart, spelled doom for the Cowboys, who’ve now lost three of their last four games.

The victory marked the Sooners’ second straight win in the series and ninth-consecutive home win in the Bedlam series dating back to Feb. 16, 2004, when the Pokes last beat

the Sooners at Lloyd Noble Center, 65-52, on their way to the Final Four.

The biggest reason for that winning streak was the advantage of 12,000 hooting and hollering Sooner fans willing their team to victory.

And Saturday, it was much of the same.

“I love it when a loud crowd is watching me play,” f re s h ma n gu a rd Bu d d y Hield said. “ It gives us more energy. We feed off each other, and we feed off the crowd, as well. It just gives us more confidence to knock down shots in the open and play together.”

But those type of crowds have been a rarity during the last three less-than-stellar Sooner seasons, and if OU wants to make the jump back to a perennial tournament-goer, it will need more crowds like the one it had Saturday.

“We had a great crowd and that is always imp o r t a n t ,” K r u g e r s a i d .

“Something we want to continue to do is build that base, and I think this group is really easy to watch, fun to cheer for, and they work hard.

“When a crowd like that comes and sees good results, good effort, and sees a group that works hard, hopefully that will encourage them to come back, and we will keep building on it.”

Dillon Phillips is a journalism junior and sports editor at The Daily.

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Upperclassmen fuel Bedlam win Sooners win ninth-consecutive home Bedlam matchup GARRETT HOLT Sports Reporter

Much of the hype surrounding the OU men’s basketball team is wrapped up in its three talented freshman guards: Isaiah Cousins, Je’lon Hornbeak and Buddy Hield.

However, it was a trio of upperclassmen who led OU to a 77-68 victory against OSU on Saturday afternoon at Lloyd Noble Center.

Senior forward Romero Osby paced the Sooners with 17 points and three rebounds, while fellow upperclassmen, senior guard Steven Pledger and junior forward Amath M’Baye, also had big games.

M’Baye, in particular, chipped in with a run of seven straight points after OSU cut OU’s lead to 63-57.

He finished with 15 points, five rebounds and two steals.

“I’m pretty sure that every single basket was assisted,” M’Baye said about his scoring run. “The 7-0 stretch is not mine, it’s the team’s.”

That run, coupled with timely baskets by Pledger, Osby and Hield, helped keep the Sooners in front of the Cowboys, who trailed all game.

One such moment in the game was when Pledger was fouled taking a three-pointer and made all three foul shots, pushing the lead to 58-52.

Pledger shot the ball poorly but found other ways to contribute — finishing with 11 points, nine rebounds, two assists and two steals.

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PLAYER PROFILE Amath M’Baye

The Sooners went 5-1 during the break, including a pair of wins in Big 12 play and a victory against former conference foe Texas A&M. OU also lost its third game of the season, falling at home to Stephen F. Austin, 56-55. The Sooners are now 11-3 and have won eight of their last 10 games.

Year: Junior Position: Forward Statistics: Averages 10 points and 5.8 rebounds per game.

Despite never coming closer than two points, the Cowboys looked as if they would possibly take a lead, or at least make the game close, at several points during the game. But OU always answered with a run to keep the game out of reach.

“We withstood a run by Oklahoma State in the second half and regained our composure pretty well at that point,” coach Lon Kruger said. “We made good plays for each other down the stretch.”

Much of the Sooners’ ability to stay ahead could be attributed to the crowd at the game. It was one of the loudest, most electric games of the season so far, and it provided an atmosphere Kruger hopes to see more frequently as the season continues.

“It was a great crowd,” Kruger said. “When a crowd like that comes and sees good results and good effort, hopefully, it will encourage them to come back.”

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The No. 16 Sooners kicked off the break by losing to Vanderbilt — OU’s second loss of the season — but have reeled off six straight wins since. The Sooners are 14-2 and tied for first place in the Big 12 with No. 1 Baylor.

FOOTBALL After claiming its 44th conference title, OU laid an egg of epic proportions against Texas A&M in the 77th Cotton Bowl Classic.

The No. 5 Aggies and their Heisman-winning redshirt freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel schellacked the No. 15 Sooners, 41-13, dropping OU’s record to 10-3.

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Golden Globes pace awards season 9-year-old wows Academy voters

Winners often granted multiple honors throughout the year SHANNON BORDEN Life & Arts Reporter

Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards set the tone for the 2013 awards season as the first big show of the year.

Patrick Vaughn, a film and media studies senior, said the Golden Globes are important because there are often parallels between the winners at the Globes and the winners at upcoming shows, particularly the Oscars.

According to the Golden Globes and Oscars websites, there has been a lot of overlap between winners at the Globes and winners at the Oscars in the past. For example, Meryl Streep won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, and then went on to win an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in “The Iron Lady.�

Similarly, in the Best Supporting Actor and Actress categories, Christopher Plummer (“Beginners�) and Octavia Spencer (“The Help�) won both Golden Globes and Oscars for their performances.

This awards season is a tight race, with many highly anticipated films hitting theaters. Vaughn chose the controversial film “Django Unchained� as his top pick of the year. “I feel like that film, story wise, is original and interesting, but at the same time pays homage to great Westerns...Also, I feel like the film handled a sensitive subject in an interesting way,� Vaughn said.

The performances of actors Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio also made the film a standout for Vaughn.

In regards to actors, Vaughn said DiCaprio had one of the best performances of the year in “Django Unchained,� but he gave an honorable mention to Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln.�

For Vaughn, there is one notable characteristic of an actor that makes his or her performance worthy of an award. “I think you have to be able to look up at the screen and instead of saying, ‘Oh that’s DiCaprio playing a plantation owner in the South,’ you just say, ‘That’s a plantation owner in the South,’� Vaughn said. “It may not sound like there is not much of a distinction there, but there definitely is.�

Katrina G. Boyd, film and media studies professor, weighed in with her own commentary on this year’s films in an email.

Boyd said she found Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom� to be a front-runner. It has flown under the radar, but impressed Boyd with stylistic similarities to films made in past

generations. “It remains a quiet and quirky film that recalls the sensibilities of the type of character-study films that were common in the 1960s and 1970s,� Boyd said.

Another movie that stood out to Boyd was “Bernie,� a dark comedy from Richard Linklater (“Dazed and Confused� and “Before Sunset�). “As a native Texan, the director was able to really nail the specifics of the region, playing them for both pathos and humor,� Boyd said.

Boyd said she thinks Jack Black’s starring role in “Bernie� earned him her vote for Best Actor. She said she’s enjoyed Black’s roles in comedies in the past, and this dark comedy showed his depth as an actor.

Boyd said her personal taste in movies doesn’t often line up with award show nominees, and films that stood out to her often go unnoticed come awards season. “Films that really break new ground are often very striking to me,� Boyd said. “Often the films that I think are the most noteworthy and likely to garner ongoing appreciation go unnoticed, while other films — that will disappear from public memory in relatively short order — are praised to the skies.�

The 85th Annual LIFE & ARTS COLUMNIST Academy Awards started off the new year right on Thursday by announcing this year’s Oscar nominations.

Nine-year-old Brent Stenstrom QuvenzhanĂŠ brent.e.stenstrom-1@ou.edu Wallis is creating all the craze this year in the Best Actress category. Wallis has the opportunity to be one of the youngest people to ever win an Oscar.

Her performance as Hushpuppy in “Beasts of the Southern Wild� impressed voters enough to catapult her into the history of the Oscars. With Wallis’ nomination, she has become the youngest nominee for Best Actress.

The distinction of being the youngest Oscar nominee went to Justin Henry, who was 8 years old when he was nominated for his role in the 1980 Best Picture winner “Kramer vs. Kramer.�

Although she will not be the youngest ever to have been nominated for an Oscar, Wallis could still write herself into the Academy history book with a huge underdog win over fellow competitors Jessica Chastain (“Zero Dark Thirty�) and Jennifer Lawrence (“Silver Linings Playbook�).

Other than Wallis’ surprise nomination, nothing really jumped off the page. One thing that is nice to see is the big Hollywood blockbusters not racking up the nominations like they had in previous years.

Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey� only gained three nominations this year, whereas Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King� swept all 11 Oscars that it was nominated for in 2004, leaving little room for smaller budget films to gain any warranted attention.

This year’s Oscars will not disappoint. Leave it to the voters to throw in an "Act 3" twist right under everyone’s noses, but come Feb. 24 the trophies will be handed out, and maybe the young Wallis can pull off the ultimate Oscar upset over her older competitors and take home the elusive Oscar trophy.

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