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Highway exit closures to slow commuter students DEVIN SIAOSI

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As construction on the Main Street bridge across Interstate-35 delays traffic, Sooners commuting from Oklahoma City leave earlier to avoid the rush and get to classes on time.

OKC resident and OU communications senior Taylor Cain said the construction already has had an adverse effect on her commute to campus. The trip used to take her 25-30 minutes but now typically takes her 50 minutes.

“I leave an hour earlier now because you never know what traffic is going to be like,” Cain said. “Rush hour is exceptionally worse.”

She used to take the Main Street exit to get to Flood Avenue, but now she exits

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CONSTRUCTION

$30 million project part of Fallin’s structural initiative

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on Robinson Street or Lindsey Street.

“The bridge has been needing replacement awhile,” said Larry Clore, Oklahoma Department of Transportation spokesman.

The planning for the $30 million project to construct a new bridge on Main Street began Jan. 7, 2012 and will take less than two years to complete, Clore said. It resulted from Governor Mary Fallin’s intentions to replace all structural deficiencies throughout Oklahoma by 2019.

Norman residents can expect brief road closures and nighttime lane shifts as the project progresses, but the contract states that I-35 must remain open at all times, Clore said. The contract is a joint project between two private companies: Allen Contracting, Inc. and Manhattan Road and Bridge.

The Oklahoma Department of Transportation promised the

AT A GLANCE Ramps to be closed - Northbound Interstate-35 exit to westbound Main Street - Southbound Interstate-35 exit ramp to eastbound Main Street - Westbound Main Street on-ramp to southbound Interstate-35 - Eastbound Main Street on-ramp to northbound Interstate-35 Source: Caleb Riemer, resident engineer

contractors a $15,000 bonus per day up to 100 days if they complete the project in less than 420 days, said Caleb Riemer, OU alumnus and resident engineer for the department.

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RECYCLING

TEDXOU

Alumnus dispels ‘Myths of Creativity’ David Burkus to explain true leadership qualities, innovation EVAN BALDACCINI Campus Reporter

Innovative. Creative. A combination of a revolutionary artist and a savvy businessman.

That’s how students and co-workers have described David Burkus, a professor at Oral Roberts University and OU alumnus, who will speak at OU’s TEDxOU conference DAVID Friday. He BURKUS is returning to campus to encourage those attending the talk to recognize creativity in the world.

Recognizing creativity is important because it is the natural precursor to innovation, Burkus said. He will focus his TEDx speech on how leaders can cause innovation and change.

“We have a tendency now to use the term ‘leadership’ to be anyone who is the head of any organization,” he said. “That’s not necessarily what it’s about. A leader, by definition, is somebody who evokes change, and when that change is positive, we call it innovation.”

Burkus received his

master’s in Organizational Dynamics from OU. He now teaches courses in entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity and organizational behavior.

“I’m excited to give my TEDx talk back at the school where I did my master’s degree - where two organizations that I love come together,” Burkus said.

Burkus will focus most of his speech on “great, innovative ideas” because natural human tendencies are either to reject or to criticize innovative ideas, he said.

Many of the ideas Burkus will present are from a book he has written, which will come out in the fall, titled “Myths of Creativity.”

This will be his first time

“A leader, by definition, is somebody who evokes change.”

DAVID BURKUS, OU ALUMNUS

speaking at a TEDx conference, and he said he hopes his speech will cause people in the audience to notice the creativity that is always around them.

“I am hoping that people SEE TEDXOU PAGE 2

STUDENT RESOURCES

OU Writing Center extends hours

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Gigi Nieto, a University College Freshman, recycles at Traditions West on Wednesday afternoon. The Traditions appartments added a recycling station this year to help encourage residents to recycle.

Traditions Square residents welcome new large-scale recycling program Lack of proper recycling bins prompts change

Adair, environmental engineering junior. “The plastics bin filled up quickly and spilled out onto the ground where the wind could easily blow it away.”

ATIBA WILLIAMS It also detracted residents from reCampus Reporter cycling, because it looked terrible, Residents of OU Traditions Square and throwing their recyclables away East and West found a new addition was much easier than finding a recyto their apartment complex at the be- cling center outside of the complex, ginning of this semester: recycling Adair said. bins.

However, with the new recycling Traditions East has one recycling bins, things have changed. bin, located north of the apartment “Since Traditions received the new complex. Traditions West has two: recycling bin, I’ve witnessed an inone located between crease in recycling by “The plastics bin buildings J and K and residents - myself inone between build- filled up quickly and cluded,” Adair said. ings O and P. The red, Traditions East and aluminum bins are di- spilled out onto the West received these vided into cardboard ground where the bins because of the and plastics No. 1 to of wind could easily implementation No. 9. new infrastructure deblow it away.”

Funding for the signed by OU Facilities bins came in part Management.

ELI ADAIR, ENVIRONMENTAL from OU’s Facilities “One of the last few ENGINEERING JUNIOR Management and part places that we hadn’t from OU’s Housing really had much of a and Food, said Brian Ellis, director of presence was at the Traditions apartFacilities Management . ments,” Ellis said. “Recently, we deThe bins sparked excitement commissioned one of our old trash among Traditions’ environmentally trucks, and we converted it into a — conscious students. truck that can handle bulk trash or “When I first moved into Traditions roll-off bins and, because of that, we East, I was disappointed at the lack of now have the option of designing containers used for recycling,” said Eli some large recycling bins that can roll

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on and off of a big truck.”

Facilities Management makes its own trucks and bins.

“We’ve been managing recycling on campus for over 10 years,” Ellis said.

“Because of the compact nature of our campus, we don’t have lots of space for a lot of large trash receptacles.”

As a result, the trash and recycling receptacles on campus traditionally have been small, and they get emptied two or three times a day, compared with the Norman service, which picks trash up once a week, according to the City of Norman website.

“Because we need a higher level of service than the city can provide, we have our own trash service, and we can do that on an economical basis,” Ellis said.

Facilities Management also has its own recycling station.

When something is thrown away in the recycling bin, it’s taken down to their recycling facility on the south campus, Ellis said.

While some items can be recyclesafely and cheaply, there are some items that can’t be recycled inexpensively, Adair said.

“For instance, aluminum cans are a great thing to recycle because the process is efficient, safe and we can reuse the cans,” Adair said. “However, SEE RECYCLE PAGE 2

The Writing Center will be more available to students this semester with extended hours in its Bizzell Memorial Library location.

In addition to being open during its regular times on Tuesdays, starting Jan. 29, it will be open 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays and Sundays, according to the website.

There will be a grand opening on Feb 3. free popcorn, and prizes will be provided, according to Associate Director Moira Ozias.

Students and faculty can use the center to get feedback on their writing, according to the Center’s website.

Last semester, the Writing Center’s library location had approximately 200 consultations, with an average of 12 per evening, Ozias said.

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Students to perform original choreography L&A: A variety of dances will be featured in the Young Choreographers’ Showcase tonight.

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DELAYS: Bridge to be second of its kind in Okla.

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TODAY AROUND CAMPUS A screening of Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, “The Inner Light,” will be shown at 6:30 p.m. in the Bizzell Memorial Library’s Harlow Room. Pizza and drinks will be provided.

The Young Choreographer’s Showcase will open at 8 p.m. in the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center, featuring original choreography by School of Dance graduate and undergraduate students.

FRIDAY, JAN. 25 Chocolate chip pizza will be given out by Union Programming Board beginning at 11:30 a.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s First Floor Lobby.

A free showing of “Argo,” which tells the story of a covert operation to rescue six Americans during the Iran hostage crisis, will be shown at 6 p.m., 9 and midnight in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium.

SATURDAY, JAN. 26 Men’s tennis plays Memphis at 2 p.m. at Headington Family Tennis Center.

SUNDAY, JAN. 27 Young Choreographer’s Showcase will have their final performance at 3 p.m. in the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center.

Chocolate chip pizza will be giving out by Union Programming Board at 12:30 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s First Floor Lobby.

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The bridge will be a single-point urban interchange, Riemer said. There are few like it in the U.S., and it is the second of its kind in Oklahoma.

The bridge in Norman will look similar to the bridge on Interstate-40 and Morgan Road in Oklahoma City, Riemers said. It will boast a sidewalk, signal crossings and decorative landscape.

Riemer said the transportation department will adapt its construction to meet the needs of public safety.

Daily traffic advisories will be sent out to inform drivers of traffic changes or ramp closures, according to a press release.

“The [transportation department] is doing whatever it takes to implement an abHEATHER ANTONSEN/THE DAILY solutely safe work environ- A construction worker moves dirt in preparation to build on Main Street. This 30-million dollar project ment for the traveling public,” will be completed within two years.

Riemer said.

TEDXOU: Ingenuity key to change Continued from page 1 will get out of the talk [and] have a greater awareness that they’re faced with some incredibly creative things all the time, but they may not see it,” he said.

In addition to the new book he wrote, Burkus regularly writes for his personal blog called “LDRLB”, which is ‘leaderlab’ without the vowels, a blog called “The Creativity Post” and another outlet called “99u,” he said.

Burkus began his career by studying leadership, and that’s how he became fascinated with people who lead, he said. “[Leadership is] less about creativity and more about innovation and about change,” Burkus said.

W h e n M a t t M a l l i n o, Burkus’ teaching assistant and former student, first met Burkus, he could tell Burkus was a man with great, new ideas, he said.

“I could tell right away that he was an innovative guy. He was a young professor and had a bright future ahead of him,” Mallino said.

During the process of writing his book, Burkus used Mallino to test out new ideas, Mallino said. During that time, Mallino was able to sum up Burkus into an odd dualism, he said.

“Burkus is one of the most innovative people that is great at connecting the dots,” he said. “A mix between an M.B.A and Picasso.”

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Talk Topic: The birth of vertebrate paleontology in America How he feels: Satisfied knowing his university shares his interest in bridging the gap between professional academics and the general public

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Continued from page 1 some materials like certain kinds of plastics can cause recycling centers problems. In this case, a trip to the landfill is more economical than dealing with the plastic, but is it the right thing to do?

That’s the controversy.”

A fix for the economic problem facing recycling may just be more recycling, The more people recycle, the more economically feasible recycling will be, Ellis said.

“Back in the day, I’m sure it didn’t pay for itself,” Ellis said. “As time progressed and the recycling markets have become more mature, we’re able to have better funding or earn more return on the materials that we recycle, and therefore offset the cost of that program.”

Facilities Management uses the returns they get from some recycled items, which he estimates to be between $70,000 and $100,000, to fund buying more equipment and replacing broken and damaged infrastructure.

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A new research laboratory will be discussed at The Oklahoma Board of Regents meeting tomorrow among other things, according to a press release.

The meeting will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the David L. Boren Auditorium of the National Weather Center.

The most important thing on the agenda is the new Water Innovative Research Laboratory , OU Press Secretary Michael Nash said.

The board will review the considered architectural firms to provide planning and construction of the laboratory, according to the press release.

The board will also be considering a proposal to purchase weather radar equipment for the university’s Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms to continue to develop numerical analysis skills and to predict high-impact local weather, according to the press release .

The board will also look at a recommendation to award a construction contract in order to build the Varsity Rowing Practice Center.

Evan Baldaccini Campus Reporter

Volunteers to be nominated for award Sooners can nominate students dedicated to volunteerism for an honor that will award them $250 in cash.

Nominations for the Molly Shi Boren Volunteer Award may be submitted online by Jan. 31.

Applicants must be current OU students and be nominated by a faculty or staff member or another OU student. Only two nominations are allowed per person, and once a student is nominated, he or she will be contacted and invited to submit an application.

“We are looking for students who have dedicated a significant amount of time and service to their community, who have created initiatives to serve others, and who generally live life with a spirit of service,” said Ashley Sullivan, volunteer coordinator for the Office of

Leadership Development and Volunteerism.

One to two students receive the award each year, said Becky Barker, director of OU Leadership Development and Volunteerism. The student(s) selected will be granted the cash award and honored at the Spring Campus Awards Program.

The award was created in honor of Molly Shi Boren’s dedication to volunteerism and creation of the Volunteer Office, Sullivan said.

“President and Mrs. Boren have always been very dedicated to community service,” Sullivan said. “We thought this award would be a wonderful way to honor her, as well as recognize students who have dedicated their time and talents to the community.”

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Shooting shocks school, leaves four injured HOUSTON (AP) — Luis Resendiz hid quietly in a small room with dozens of classmates after gunshots erupted in a courtyard on his college campus north of Houston.

There his mind quickly drifted to last month’s Connecticut elementary school massacre that left 20 children dead, wondering if another gunman was on a rampage on the other side of the door.

“I didn’t think something like this could happen,” said Resendiz, 22, who crouched in the room for about 20 minutes before being allowed to leave. “You don’t think about it happening to you.”

A volley of gunshots around noon Tuesday at Lone Star College prompted a lockdown and then evacuation of the campus. A maintenance worker who was caught in the crossfire was sent to a hospital, along with two others who authorities believe were involved in the shooting.

Carlton Berry, 22, was arrested Tuesday and formally booked early Wednesday on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to Harris County Sheriff’s Office records. Berry will be arraigned Thursday.

Bond is set at $60,000.

Berry was hospitalized, “I didn’t think sheriff ’s officials said. His something like this condition, along with the conof the other person could happen. You ditions involved in the shooting and don’t think about it maintenance worker were not happening to you.” available.

A fourth person also was taken to a hospital for treatLUIS RESENDIZ, LONE STAR COLLEGE STUDENT ment of a medical condition, Harris County sheriff ’s Maj. Armando Tello said, without describing that medical condition.

Authorities offered no details on what prompted the shooting. One of the two people involved had a student ID, and both people were hospitalized, Tello said.

At least 10 patrol cars clustered on the campus’ west side as emergency personnel tended to the wounded and loaded them onto stretchers. Students led by officers ran from the buildings where they had been hiding as authorities evacuated thecampus.

Keisha Cohn, 27, was in a building about 50 feet away and began running as soon as she heard the shots.

“To stay where I was wasn’t an option,” said Cohn, who fled from a building that houses computers and study areas.

All thestudents were eventually evacuated, running out of buildings as police officers led them to safety.

Mark Zaragosa said he had just left an EMT class when he saw two people who were injured, so he stopped to help

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Ana Leal, left, embraces Lone Star College student Sabrina Cuellar after she was evacuated and picked up by her mother, Maria Cuellar, right, from the campus following a shooting at the north Harris County school Tuesday in Houston. Authorities say the shooting was the result of an altercation between two people, and at least one was a student.

them. He described the wounds as minor: One with a gunshot to the knee and another to the buttocks.

“We were carrying (one man) over to an open area and they (the officers) told us to put him down — with all weapons drawn — and they cuffed him right there,” Zaragosa told KHOU-TV. The shooting last month at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., heightened security concerns at campuses across the country. In Texas, several school districts have either implemented or are considering a plan to allow faculty tocarry guns on campus. While guns are not allowed on college campuses, the Texas Legislature this year might debate a bill that would allow them.

Richard Carpenter, chancellor of the Lone Star College System, said the campus is a gun-free zone that “has been safe for 40 years.”

“We think it’s still safe,” he added.

The campus reopened late Tuesday afternoon, with classes expected to resume Wednesday.

Daniel Flores, 19, was in a second-floor tutoring lab with about 60 people when he heard a noise that sounded “like someone was kicking a door.”

Once he and others realized that sound was gunfire, they fled to the nearby student services center, where authorities kept them for about 30 minutes before letting them leave.

Cody Harris, 20, said he was in a classroom with six or seven other students waiting for a psychology class to start when he heard eight shots. He and other students looked at each other, said, “I guess we should get out of here,” and fled.

“I was just worried about getting out,” Harris said. “I called my grandmother and asked her to pick me up.”

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US to continue airlift to Mali

House of Representatives delays debt ceiling debate until

already has flown fi ve C-17 flights into Bamako, delivering more than 80 French troops and 124 tons of equipment.

The U.S. is not providing direct aid to the Malian military because the democratically elected government was overthrown last March in a coup.

The French-led operation to oust Islamic extremists from northern Mali began Jan. 11.

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did themselves when they were in the minority “Some have suggested that one’s view of the filibuster depends on where one sits,” says Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Not only Congress delays things.

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These are the U.S. Air Force personnel who will stay only until the airlift is completed.

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French foreign legionnaires take position outside Marakala, central Mali, some 240kms (140 miles) from Bamako Tuesday. French troops in armored personnel carriers rolled through the streets of Diabaly on Monday, winning praise from residents of this besieged town after Malian forces retook control of it with French help a week after radical Islamists invaded.

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Congress and President Barack Obama barely avoided a New Years’ Day “fiscal cliff” of mandatory tax increases and spending cuts by scrapping most of the tax hikes and putting off a decision on the spending cuts until March.

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Okla. State Legislature: Save Lance Armstrong comes out to Oprah the Oklahoma Arts Council I Our View: The state Legislature must fund the

year for two programs through the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. One program, the pARTner project, brings 1,125 Arts education in Oklahoma is under fire in Norman Public Schools fourth graders to the muthe state Legislature. A bill will first be read in seum for interactive tours and activities. the House of Representatives Feb. 4 that proposNot only is the council involved in arts edues ending state allocations to the Oklahoma Arts cation directly, it assists in funding education Council. through outside sources. Funding cuts to the As the primary state agency concerned council would reduce subsidy sources The Our View with art and music in Oklahoma, the counthat offset costs to taxpayers. is the majority cil is uniquely positioned to provide assisSchools aided by the council’s proopinion of tance to a wide variety of programs that digrams receive $9 for every $1 invested The Daily’s rectly benefit students and citizens across in the council’s budget, according to the nine-member the state. editorial board council’s website.

The council is a vital part of Oklahoma’s Many of the grants that programs recultural and civic life. Legislators must ceive through the council are based on continue funding the council to maintain the vital matching funds incentives — the council uses tool for art education and engagement. state funds to help raise funds from private doThe bill, which is being introduced by Rep. Josh nors, Gavin said.

Cockroft, (R-Tecumseh), would end funding to the Federal funding also is tied to state funding. The council over the next four years.

National Endowment for the Arts makes up the The council is a state agency that was formed in other portion of the council’s budget. The nation1996. As a state agency, al endowment must be given to state arts councils the council does not that meet certain requirements. Cutting state In depth raise its own funding funds also would cut off national funds.

House Bill 1895 and relies on state fundIf Cockroft was concerned about education ing allocations, accord- funding, he would invest more in efforts to assists HB 1895 would ing to a statement about schools in receiving outside grants. cut funding to the Oklahoma Arts Council the bill on the council’s The council also helps stimulate local comby 25 percent every website. merce through programs like 2nd Friday Circuit year until funding was The council gets 85 of Art in Norman, a program to promote particieliminated. The bill is part of an effort by percent, or $4 million, pation in art exhibits and musical performances. lawmakers to simplify of its budget directly The impact of the arts on Oklahoma’s economy state allocations. from state appropriais significant. Arts organizations have a $314 milFunding for the council makes up less than tions, said Joel Gavin, lion impact on the state’s economy and generate one-tenth of 1 percent the council’s director $29 million in tax revenue, according to a 2010 of the state’s overall of marketing and comstudy by Americans for the Arts. budget. munications. The rest Beyond the monetary impacts, arts programs of the budget is funded provide incalculable benefits to daily life in through national programs.

Oklahoma.

Loss of these funds would likely shut down the The Norman Music Festival receives funding council permanently. The only other option would from the council. We at be to raise private donations for the program, The Daily can’t imagine Contact which would be extremely difficult, said Erinn spring without it.

State Rep. Gavaghan, executive director of the Norman Arts With the development Scott Martin Council. of downtown and other District 46 In defending the bill in the Norman Transcript, areas in Oklahoma City Cockroft stated that he wants to funnel more state and around the state, it (405) 557-7329 money toward education, but the primary purpose is increasingly important scott.martin@ of the council is arts education. for Oklahoma to supokhouse.gov The council is involved in dozens of programs port the arts publicly and to support the arts including grant and education privately. programs. The council puts on the Oklahoma Arts Please ask your state Conference, a forum for Oklahoma artists to interrepresentative to oppose act with each other. the bill and support the Oklahoma economy, edThe council has programs in 750 schools, Gavin ucation and the arts. said. The council also assists schools seeking other grant money.

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f you haven’t Opinion Columnist heard about Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah Winfrey by now: First, tell me where your fortress of solitude is; second, Armstrong in the interview said yes to using performance enhancers Micah Wormley including erythropoietin m.wormley@ou.edu (EPO), blood transfusions, testosterone, cortisone and Human Growth Hormone (HGH).

People, including him, are saying this is cheating and perhaps it is in his sport. However, looking at the bigger picture, I have a different theory. I submit for your approval the idea that Armstrong, is transgender.

Other definitions aside, transgender simply means the presentation of one’s gender, and that person’s gender identity do not match. Like me, Armstrong was working incredibly hard to correct this.

Unlike me, he identified with a gender created purely in the media, a hypermasculine rather than masculine.

Armstrong is a superman trapped in the body of an average man.

Just as there are those who identify as hypermasDefinition culine, there are those who identify as hyperfeminine. hypermasculine These superwomen, A person who exhibits like their supermen counexaggerated male terparts, take their bodies attributes as portrayed and their health in their in popular media. own hands turning to surgery addiction or eating disorders.

Hypergender people have the same issues as any other transgender person.

For instance, Armstrong experienced gender dysphoria. In the interview, Winfrey asked if it was hard living up to the projected image fans had for him. His reply was, “Impossible. Certainly I’m a flawed character, as I well know, and I couldn’t do that.”

Competition is merely an outlet for Armstrong’s identified gender, and the whole interview seems less like a confession and more like a “coming out.”

Take his response to the question of happiness in winning. “There was more happiness in the process, in the build, the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in,” Armstrong said. I’ve certainly found that there has been more happiness in the process of becoming a woman myself than in the actual outlets I’ve sought.

There was a part in the interview where Winfrey looked into transgressions that Armstrong had with individual people. While his behavior toward those people is inexcusable, I think it is the product of Armstrong’s means of transition. According to WebMD, the effects of Anabolic steroids include, “Irritability, rage, uncontrolled high energy (mania) or false beliefs (delusions).”

These side effects certainly would contribute to the attacks Armstrong had on teammates and others.

I am a little saddened that this whole thing is being perceived as a confession of cheating in the sport. If society saw this as I do, perhaps people who identify as hypergender could get treatment that would prevent the complications involved in Armstrong’s case. If hypermasculine athletes are seen as having an unfair advantage over other competitors then perhaps leagues, competitions and races should be developed just for them.

In either case, this is a sector of people who are self-medicating and would benefit if the society supported a way for them to safely express their inner selves.

Micah Wormley is a professional writing junior.

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his is my body, coveted Tour de France, but Opinion Columnist and I can do before anyone has an ulcer whatever I over Sir Lancelot’s doping, want to it. I can push it and there needs to be some study it, tweak it, listen to it. ground rules put in place.

Everybody wants to know First, before anyone acts what I am on. What am I on? betrayed by Lance’s hypocriI’m on my bike busting my sy over the last decade, he or ass six hours a day. What are she must be able to explain Doug McKnight you on?” what winning the Tour de douglas.c.mcknight-1@ou.edu That was Lance France means.

Armstrong in 2001. To be Second, anyone choosing sure, most Americans have assumed for not to drink Michelob Ultra anymore bealmost a decade that Lance won the Tour cause they are “taking a stand” against comde France because he was on something panies that endorse hypocritical athletes other than his bike for six hours a day, should be laughed at, and then asked why but America’s overzealous reaction to they drank Michelob Ultra in the first place.

Armstrong’s confession last week seems All of that said, of course I think rather engineered.

Armstrong should be ashamed of himself I realize, for instance, that some for doping his way to victory in cycling’s Americans are as fanatical about cycling as most prestigious and historical event. we are about soccer, and we burst into hysHe should be even more ashamed for terics when a fellow countryman wins the using the publicity earned from those

worthwhile for us to remember how Hans victories to start a charity founded on lies Halter, a German observer at the 1998 Tour, and hypocrisy, while at the same time bedescribed La Grande Boucle. coming a national icon and inspiration for “For as long as the Tour has millions of people around existed, since 1903, its particthe world, not to mention WHAT’S NEXT ipants have been doping. No becoming a millionaire. dope, no hope they say. The But unfortunately, with Lance Tour, in fact, is only possible all of our attention focused Armstrong because — not despite the fact solely on Armstrong’s — there is doping. For 60 years, doping his way up the Armstrong has been this was allowed. For the past mountainous stages of stripped of his bronze 30 years, it has been officially the Tour de France, we are medal from the Sydney Olympics and prohibited. Yet the fact remains, forgetting that in the last stepped down from great cyclists have always decade, it seems the encharitable positions. doped,” said Halter. tire professional peloton Armstrong wasn’t the first has done it: three-time successful cyclist to dope, nor winner Alberto Contador, will he be the last. Its part of the sport. Plus, American champion Floyd Landis, who are we to judge? None of us biked 2,200 Armstrong’s archrival Jan Ulrich, Frank miles in 23 days.

Schleck, Tom Danielson, Levi Leipheimer, Ivan Basso, and the list goes on ad nauseam.

Still, before we overreact to the news Doug McKnight is a German, History senior. of Armstrong’s confession, it may be

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t’s about to get real.

Coming off home wins against Texas, both OU’s men’s and women’s basketball teams enter this weekend with plenty of momentum, one-loss conference records and road trips against top-five opponents slated for Saturday.

The No. 20 women will travel to Waco to take on the defending national champions and top-ranked Baylor Bears, and the men are headed to Lawrence for a showdown against No. 3 Kansas.

More Czech hedgehogs than Big 12 roadblocks, Baylor and Kansas present OU’s basketball teams with the biggest challenge either team has faced all season.

Baylor boasts the 2012 AP Division I Player of the Year, Final Four Most Outstanding Player and Wade Trophy winner — 6-foot-8 senior center Brittney Griner — who just might be the most dominant player in women’s college basketball history.

Kansas has a roster that mirrors the Sooners’ in its mix of veteran leadership and young legs, but far exceeds it in terms of talent.

Most notably, freshman guard Ben McLemore and senior center Jeff Withey — both of whom are on the John R. Wooden Award

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Junior forward Amath M’Baye (left) and freshman guard Buddy Hield (right) dive for a loose ball against Texas on Monday night at Lloyd Noble Center. The Sooners won, 73-67, which followed the women’s 69-56 victory against the Longhorns on Saturday.

midseason watch list — provide the Jayhawks with playmakers of a caliber missing from OU’s squad.

Now factor in that the Sooners will play both games on the road, and it appears all the cards are in the favor of the Big 12 heavyweights.

For either team, returning to Norman with a “W” would be the tallest of orders. But that’s not to say it’s outside the realm of possibility.

Kansas already has dropped a game this season — a 67-64 loss to No. 13 Michigan State on Nov. 13 — and eked out conference wins by the skin of its teeth against Iowa State, Texas and Kansas State.

As for Baylor, the Bears lost to Stanford, 71-69, on Nov. 16 in a game where the Cardinals attacked Griner with a stable of front-court players to hold the nation’s top player to just six rebounds while outrebounding the Bears 40-28.

KEY OPPONENT Brittney Griner Year: Senior Position: Center Statistics: Averages 21.8 points and 8.1 rebounds per game.

And other than Griner — who is scoring 21.6 points per game — only two other Baylor players average double-digit point totals, senior forward Brooklyn Pope and junior guard Odyssey Sims — who average 11.5 points and 12.3 points per game, respectively.

If OU hopes to leave Lawrence with a win, it will need another 20-plus point effort from senior forward Romero Osby and a clean, efficient game from its

three freshmen guards while slowing down the Jayhawks’ dynamic duo of McLemore and Withey.

For the Sooners to steal a victory in Waco, they’ll need a big game from junior guard and leading scorer Aaryn Ellenberg and plenty of effort and intensity from senior forward Joanna McFarland and junior center Nicole Griffin — who will be tasked with slowing down Griner.

A hard-fought win in either game would do wonders for either team’s tournament resume.

And for two teams that may be on the bubble at season’s end, it could be the difference between making the big dance or staying home.

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

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ollectively, sports is a billion-dollara-year industry.

Much of this revenue is thanks to the massive media apparatuses surrounding sports. When it comes to funding for football universities like OU, tuition is rivaled only by athletic royalties and revenue from cable and tele-

vision rights to games.

Thus, it should surprise no one that the sports media, and sports journalists in particular, have become complacent in their profession. No recent event is more telling of this fact than the Manti Te’o hoax. Ubiquitously, sports journalists and news organizations devoted to covering sports failed to do rudimentary fact-checking on the Notre Dame linebacker’s purportedly deceased — and real — girlfriend.

The breaking of the Manti Te’o story was quite the coup for Deadspin, which only investigated further after being urged by an anonymous tipster. It is alarming that Sports Illustrated, a bastion of great journalism, ran a “It is alarming that sports cover story on Te’o without Sports Illustrated... checking the facts on his fake girlfriend at all. Pete Thamel, ran a cover story the journalist who wrote on Te’o without the story now tries to cover himself by saying there were checking the “small red flags” in Te’o’s facts...” story, but that he simply “[wrote] around it.”

Certainly the whole sordid affair is an embarrassment for Notre Dame, and humiliating for Manti Te’o. But it reflects most poorly on the sports journalism community, whose comfortable position appears to have resulted in complacency concerning journalistic integrity.

The niche sports media occupies in pop culture is reflected on a smaller scale here in Norman. Websites covering Sooner football such as OUInsider.com and SoonerScoop. com are big business for rabid OU fans willing to pay to glean potential insider information. The Te’o hoax is a reminder to media organizations that complacency can lead to embarrassment; and worse, disserving a loyal audience. It is also a reminder to sports fans, and by extension Sooner fans, to keep their heads on a swivel about the news they receive and the sources they choose to receive it from.

Tony Beaulieu is a film and media studies junior.

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Boggess Visiting Artist Series- Walt Strony, Theatre Organ | 8 p.m. in Sharp Music Hall, Catlett Music Center. For more information, please contact OU Fine Arts Box Office, (405) 325-4101.

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Former football player to be inducted into Hall of Fame

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Former OU running back Jakie Sandefer, who lettered for the Sooners from 1956-58, will be inducted into the Big Country Athletic Hall of Fame at 6:30 p.m. May 6 in Abilene, Texas.

Sandefer will be inducted during the 12th annual Big Country Athletic Hall of Fame induction banquet at the Abilene Civic Center.

He played under legendary OU head coach Bud Wilkinson and was on the Sooners’ undefeated 1958 team, which defeated Duke in the Orange Bowl, 48-21.

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SPRING GAME

Red-White game and Big Boomer BBQ scheduled for April 13 at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium Oklahoma announced Tuesday its annual spring game will be held April 13 at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

OU also announced it will be holding the Big Boomer BBQ prior to the game at the north end of the stadium.

Admission will be free for children 5 and under, and campus parking will be free.

Last season, the White team defeated the Red team, 22-21, thanks to a last-minute drive from then-redshirt freshman quarterback Kendal Thompson.

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FOOTBALL BRIEFS

Senior receiver Jalen Saunders and junior defensive back Cortez Johnson faced misdemeanor marijuana possession charges Tuesday in Cleveland County Court.

Johnson pleaded guilty and received a deferred sentence of six months probation, and Saunders’ charges were dropped.

The two originally were charged with marijuana possession after a traffic stop on Dec. 2 following the Sooners’ season-ending victory against TCU, which resulted in both players being arrested.

CORTEZ Saunders, who transferred from Fresno State last season, was allowed to play in the Cotton Bowl against Texas A&M following the JOHNSON arrest.

Saunders was third on the team in receiving last season despite missing the first four games. He finished the season with 829 yards receiving and three touchdowns, and he will be the Sooners’ leading returing receiver next season.

Johnson, who transferred from Arizona last season, sat out last year per NCAA transfer rules. He will be eligible to play in 2013.

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Like Star Trek? The History of Science Association will host a screening and discussion of an episode of Star Trek in Bizzell Memorial Library tonight.

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dance

Sooners to perform original choreography Variety of dances to be featured in annual student showcase Kandice Lawson Life & Arts Reporter

GO AND DO

The OU dance deYoung p a r t m e nt ’s Yo u n g Choreographers’ Choreographers’ Showcase will open tonight.

Showcase The showcase will feature When: 8 p.m. Jan. 24, dance graduate and under25 and 26, 3 p.m. Jan. graduate students’ choreog27 raphy, according to the OU fine arts website.

Where: Donald W. Ma r y Ho l t, S c h o o l o f Reynolds Performing Dance director, said she Arts Center’s Holmberg knows how hard the students Hall have been preparing.

Price: $14 for “The students featured students, $22 for in the showcase presented nonstudents their work for faculty adjudication twice in the fall semester,” said Holt. “They have been preparing and re- based classes and attending hearsing their choreography rehearsals, Holt said. since September.”

“They may dance more Emily Haenny, a modern than six hours per day and dance performance junior, this is an addition to their acis not only dancing in the ademic work,” Holt said. show, but she also choreoThe dancers are not the graphed one of the pieces. only ones hard at work, but “I’m really also members excited to see it of the crew who “Dance is performed for work more beabout the the first time,” hind the scenes, Ha e n n y s a i d . expression of Holt said. “ I t ’s l i k e m y “Behind the the human world debut as a scenes is defispirit...” choreographer.” nitely as importThe show will ant and often as Mary Holt, be filled with the exciting as what school of dance student dancers’ goes on that the director creativity, Holt audience sees,” said.

Holt said.

“It’s a wonderful opportuHolt said that the audinity for our students to create ence should expect to see a and present their choreogra- wide variety of dance works phy,” Holt said. “Our audi- not limited to ballet, but also ences will enjoy the results of including modern and contheir creative efforts.” temporary dance. The choAll the dancers take at least reography includes jazz inone technique class a day in fluences as well. addition to performance Holt said she feels very

Photos by nikki self/the daily

Above: Dance sophomores Nicki Reehorst and Zeek Wright perform in choreographer Alyssa Grimsley’s “The Violet Hour” in the Young Choreographers’ Showcase dress rehearsal Wednesday night.

Right: Dance seniors Austin Lintner and Kathleen McKenna perform in choreographer Maggie Boyett’s “Flux of Slumber.”

strongly about the art form.

“Dance is about the expression of the human spirit and the dancers are artistic athletes communicating through their movements and expressive qualities,” Holt said. “It takes years to dance in this way, and our dancers work selflessly, committing themselves to the art form and all that it can be.”

Audience members will definitely enjoy the pieces,

Haenny said.

“Expect to see fresh choreography from very creative young people,” Haenny said.

“This is the world of the next generation of artists that’s going to be put in the world, and it’s really cool you can get a chance to see it on the stage.”

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