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the rugby and soccer fields on the south side of Blankenship Boulevard, according to a press release . An architectural firm will be selected to draft a building proposal for a Water Innovative Research Laboratory on campus, which will house water research laboratories, classrooms, testing facilities and public learning spaces. This selection process will help the university gauge the probable budget of the construction project, but as of right now, tangible plans are in the early stages, said Nick Hathaway, executive vice president of administration and finance. “Water is one of the strategic areas of research focus here at the university,
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OU received funding for a new practice center for the women’s rowing team, a new water research laboratory and new radar equipment as part of the 19 motions passed at the OU Board of Regents meeting yesterday at the National Weather Center. The Varsity Rowing Practice Center, which will provide approximately 24,000 square feet of space for the team to train indoors, will be located south of
and this research center would generate things like government water agency interest in OU’s studies,” Hathaway said. A motion was passed to proceed with purchasing radar equipment needed to improve the facilities at OU’s Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms based at the National Weather Center on the research campus. The next meeting of the OU Board of Regents currently is scheduled for March 27 and 28 in Oklahoma City, according to a press release . Bennett Hall benhall@ou.edu
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money to eat — and tend to get trapped in an inescapable cycle of debt, she said. With a trip overseas fresh on their Alta Gracia, a living wage factory in the minds, students petitioned the OU Dominican Republic, pays its workers Bookstore to purchase “She worked for this, more than three times the the majority of its apparel industry average, allowand she earned it, ing workers to afford nufrom companies that pay a living wage. and she’s building it. tritious food, school for The living wage apparel themselves and their chilIt was a wonderful dren, adequate housing, would be of equal quality and cost the same or less transportation and have moment.” than the brands currently savings, she said. ClAY BURnS, in stock, such as Nike and “I think [switching eCOnOMICS SenIOR Champion, said Jessica to Alta Gracia Apparel] Distelhorst, president of would provide a wonderthe Student Organization for Fair Trade. ful opportunity for us,” economics senior The difference is the factory workers Clay Burns said. To be associated with employed by Champion typically make justice, fairness and taking care of people around 20 cents a day — only enough around the world is good for the image
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DeFIneD Living and minimum wage in the Dominican Republic $2.85 (USD) sufficient for nutritional food, transportation, schooling, adequate housing and savings. $0.84 (USD) typically enough for food and possible transportation for a single day. Source: Alta Gracia website
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How much violence is too much violence? L&A: Graphic films attract many viewers but could the violence affect future blockbuster success? (Page 5)
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A biology sophomore will be working closely with scorpions next fall as a result of OU’s new undergraduate research initiative. Randall Proctor, a sophomore from Jacksonville, Fla., will conduct research to investigate hairs on the legs of scorpions and their role in water detection. Proctor became interested in research while taking Introduction to Zoology w ith biology professor Doug Gaffin, Proctor said. Gaffin told Proctor about a class with the University College called Research Sooner!, which introduces students to research at OU and prepares them to begin the research process. After taking the University College course,
Coordinator. UResearch is a new system of assistance and support to help undergraduate students conduct research. “There are huge pockets of vibrant undergraduate research happening all over OU, and the Honors College has always been responsible for whatever organization that has happened on campus,” Pendley said. “But, undergraduate research is for all students, not just honors students.” OU undergraduate students involved in research are doing the work of professionals, Pendley pHoto pRoVided The photo provided (above) is a screenshot from a video explaining said. They’re published in the research and the process of elizabeth Knowlton and Douglas peer-reviewed journals in gaffin, department of zoology, as they research the hairs on the disciplines ranging from legs of scorpions. dance, to biology. Proctor approached Gaffin course, offered exclusiveabout researching alongside ly to freshmen in the fall him in his study of scorpi- and opened to all students ons, Proctor said. Thus, in in the spring, is part of a fall 2013, Proctor will begin broader undergraduate reSEE MORE ONLINE his study of scorpion leg search initiative at OU called Visit oudaily.com hair’s role in water detection UResearch, said Joy Pendley, for the complete story with Gaffin as his mentor. OU Undergraduate Research oudaily.com/news The Research Sooner! a n d C r e a t i v e A c t i v i t y
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of the university, Burns said. Distelhorst and Burns traveled to the Dominican Republic to visit the Alta Gracia factory during the first two weeks of January. They stayed in homes of factory workers and saw firsthand the difference a living wage can make. “The thing that stuck with me most was when we were there seeing somebody building their own home. They were finally having the money where they could afford to put a roof over their heads and not live in a shack made of wood with a tarp over it,” Burns said. “She worked for this, and she earned it, and she’s building it. It was a wonderful moment.” The Alta Gracia factory currently employs 133 workers, which is only about 4 percent of the workers previously employed by the old BJ&B factory, which shut down because of local union formation and efforts to improve human rights in 2007, Burns said. Still, the factory’s presence makes a substantive impact on the community. “When you start to create a middle class like that, they are finally able to put money back into their community,” Burns said. “When you have more money going into the community, then people are receiving more money for fruit, the bakers are being paid and everybody is able to start to rise up.” That’s where the Student Organization for Fair Trade and other organizations come in, Distelhorst said. If OU purchases more clothing from fair trade factories, those factories can expand. On their trip, Distelhorst and Burns also met with union leaders from Haiti and other free trade zones within the Dominican Republic. These unions dealt with Gilden factories, which supply Champion Apparel. Workers in these factories often suffer from swollen feet, and new mothers with swollen breasts are unable to return home to feed their newborns, Burns said. Some call center workers were locked inside windowless buildings for the workday and when fires broke out they were stuck inside suffocating.
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Jessica Distelhorst (left), health and science senior, speaks out about fair trade on campus while standing beside Clay Burns, finance, economics and energy management senior. They delivered a letter to President David Boren Friday.
In depth SOFT The Student Organization for Fair Trade is the organization leading the Alta Gracia campaign on campus. Members have long worked for an increase in Fair Trade and other non-human rights abusing products on campus. They are responsible for OU serving 50 percent Fair Trade coffee.
It is not uncommon for workers to spend all of their remaining money on transportation to the factory, only to be sent home again wageless, Burns said. “That [money] was basically how they were going to eat that day,” Distelhorst said. The OU Alta Gracia Coalition is currently calling for additional student organizations, students and faculty to support the cause, Burns said. The coalition has already held several organizational meetings, delivered letters to President Boren and Follet’s bookstore manager requesting a greater presence of Alta Gracia on campus and plans to screen an educational documentary in the near future. “If there’s a voice for this, if there’s a scream for ‘this is what we want,’ the university
is ours,” Burns said. The University of Oklahoma Bookstore already has a contract with Alta Gracia and carries two of their unisex products, Burns said. That means it should be a relatively simple process to switch the order around to get a majority of living wage apparel this fall. “We do also need to understand that this is a business environment too,” Burns said. “We can see that this is good for all sides. You don’t just have to be an evil corporation, you can treat people fairly, make a good product and it works out well for everyone.” Distelhorst and Burns are encouraged by the reactions they received from Boren, the store manager and students, they said. After the bookstore is s t o c k e d w i t h 5 0 . 1 p e rcent living wage apparel, Distelhorst said she plans to expand into the community and ask other local businesses to carry the merchandise. “The way we look at it, the
bookstore is kind of a catalyst for change in the community,” Distelhorst said. “If we start there, a lot of other businesses will start to pop up with Alta Gracia.” Many other universities, such as New York University, Duke, Notre Dame and The University of Texas, already carry a majority of living wage apparel, Burns said. “Honestly, even University of Texas has beat us to the punch. Let’s at least try to beat Stillwater to it,” he said. Cedar Floyd cedar_floyd_789@hotmail.com
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Student voices still under threat at Florida A&M Our View: Administrators can’t punish a student editor in chief for past wrongs.
Punishing an editor for a crime he did not period. commit is unacceptable. After administrators suspended the Despite the fact none of the current staff- paper, Etters created Ink and Fangs, an ers were with the paper a year ago when the alternative website where he and others mistake was made, school could publish material. Events at Florida A&M University under“I said something administrators held current The administration still score the need for student control over stustaff accountable. tried to interfere. along the lines of dent newspapers. If that unjust punishment Shortly after the website’s As we reported in this space Jan. 14, the ‘We publish the weren’t enough, school adcreation, journalism school student newspaper at Florida A&M, The ministrators are now blockDean Ann Kimbrough, who truth whether it’s Famuan, had been temporarily suspended ing the paper’s editor from was responsible for the for a month of unpaid, “continuing trainpositive or negative, shutdown, accused Etters coming back to work. ing” after a student filed a lawsuit over a Stewart hasn’t talked to of plagiarism. good or bad.” factual error in the paper. journalists, but she did not Kimbrough contactAfter fighting to bring the paper back KARL ETTERS, think Etters fit the adminised the Student Press Law from suspension, former FORMER EDITOR IN CHIEF OF trations vision for the paper, Center because she thought THE FAMUAN editor in chief Karl Etters Etters said. Etters had given Etters had taken language was not allowed to return The Our View an answer in his interview from the center and used it is the majority to his post. he said Stewart didn’t like. on his website. Etters was made to opinion of “I said something along the lines of ‘we One of the center’s lawyers, Adam reapply for his job after The Daily’s publish the truth whether it’s positive or Goldstein, denied Etters had plagiarized, continuing training, and nine-member negative, good or bad,” Etters said. according to the center’s website. editorial board the paper’s new adviser, The watchdog function of a student Administrators should not have direct Kanya Stewart, decided newspaper is the main benefit of a univercontrol over student newspapers funded not to hire him. The consity paper. by advertising and student activity fees. tinuing abuses of student speech at Florida It is remarkable Etters was not allowed Faculty advisers are there to assist students, A&M must stop. to return, even after the unpaid training not manipulate and punish them.
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alking through wasted space and wasted OPINION COLUMNIST OU’s campus, as water. well as any other In regards to space, a simcampus, one can’t help but ple walk through campus admire the intricate details shows that every building of the buildings, the beauhas a flat, stagnant roof that tifully cured vegetation acts as nothing more than a strewn along the landscape limitation to the building’s and an irrefutable cognipotential. Andrew Sartain zance each facet of the cam- andrew@earthrebirthnow.com The National Weather pus was carefully planned Center near Highway 9 has to ensure an environment challenged this by impleconducive to higher education. menting an experimental green roof project But as standards of technology and inand is continuing to improve it steadily. frastructure get pushed to new bounds, a But the main portion of campus rereconsideration of our expectations must mains dry in its innovation; few students coincide. are aware of the National Weather Center’s As the number one producer of renewgreen roof and even fewer have seen it. able energy in the Big 12 conference, OU is Furthermore, a recent group of OU gradparticipating significantly in raising infrauate students working on the EPA Campus structural criterion. RainWorks Challenge, a national compeBut aside from renewable energy purtition to solve campus rain runoff, came to chases of wind and natural gas, what imthe realization that the OU facilities departprovements could be tacked on? ment has no indication or record of how Any new infrastructure should push much water OU uses on campus annually newer limitations. or per semester. A good start is Headington Hall, the new The facilities department iterated that residence halls being built across from the since it is non-potable or well water, there current athletic dorms on Jenkins Avenue, was no necessity to measure the usage. which will house almost 400 students. Shayna Orr, one of the graduate students Its construction has created buzz as it’s working on the study said. considered the final stepping-stone in a 13“Even though it is well water year plan to make OU athletic facilities the doesn’t mean best in the country. we shouldn’t It also meets pressing environmental measure it. standards, such as LEED certification. Just beBut many buildings already are built, and we can’t just start over, so what’s next? It seems safe to say there are two major problems with OU’s infrastructure,
cause we don’t drink it, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t conserve it.” The economic incentives to improve the amounts of rainwater wasted from stagnant roofs, impermeable surfaces and the amounts wasted or unmonitored by landscaping practices are quite significant. Solutions that remain relatively cheap, such as rain barrels or liners to collect runoff, would conserve thousands of dollars in water, in contrast to the $75 million being spent on Headington Hall alone. Even just planting more native grasses instead of turfs would save significant amounts of water. Other options include higher caliber investments like solar panels and mini wind turbines for buildings, or even additional green roof schemes or vertical wall gardening projects to inspire student interest. An in-depth analysis is critical in determining which improvements are best for each campus. But basic improvements seem like logical steps in the right direction. It is difficult to optimize water consumption without a statistical breakdown of what you are currently consuming. It is hard to entice a committed betterment to student life when ventures remain unseen to the student body. What a plentiful world it would be if each building on campus produced at least one-fourth of its own energy, collected at least 10 percent of its
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Violent films ‘kill’ at box office
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Could graphic content affect future blockbuster success?
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Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) draws his gun and fires at a sheriff in “Django Unchained.”
Graham Dudley Life & Arts Reporter
Although “Django Unchained” and “Zero Dark Thirty” are very different films made by very different directors, there’s no denying both movies have an R-rating for violence. Despite this, box office returns suggest film audiences are seeing these movies by the thousands. Film and media studies professor Katrina Boyd said this is because of the difference between “strong” and “weak” violence in the American film tradition. Boyd said “weak violence” is what the moviegoer is used to: cut-and-dry, black-andwhite acts where the good guys and bad guys are clearly defined, and the viewer always knows how to feel. Violence in real life is obviously not like that at all, Boyd said. Sometimes, movies will employ “strong violence,” setting its acts in very real-world situations where morality and heroism aren’t so obvious to the viewer, Boyd said. The result often makes ensuing violence more disturbing because no one quite knows
how to feel about it. Campbell also defends While the violence in director Kathryn Bigelow’s Quentin Tarantino’s “Django decisions with “Zero Dark Unchained” and his other Thirty.” films is undeniably graphic, “Why in America, in this given these criteria, it is usu- day and age, are you punally quite “weak.” ished for touching on a “To my mind, Tarantino’s subject that others won’t?” work doesn’t reference real Campbell said, referring life so much as it to the depicdoes other films,” “Be critical tion of torture in Boyd said. Bigelow’s film. of films and “ I f a n y t h i n g , But with the events of the past never think I t h ou g ht t hat year fresh on ev- that a movie would be kind of er yone’s mind, praised.” some have called is showing the This is why a on directors like world like it is.” rating system is in Tarantino to tone place, Campbell Katrina boyd, it down a bit in fusaid. The rating & media studies ture movies. Film film professor tells you exactly and media studwhat will be in the ies junior Jacob Campbell movie. said such a suggestion is “Zero Dark Thirty,” for inludicrous. stance, is R-rated for “strong “[Tarantino] would never violence including brutal tone it down,” Campbell said. disturbing images, and for Campbell said he con- language,” according to the tends a director’s vision is film’s website. more important than tempoBoyd, however, said she rary public pressure. was skeptical about the mes“That’s where the line be- sage of Bigelow’s movie, contween filmmaker and artist cerned people would accept is,” Campbell said. “It’s his it at face value. painting, it’s his vision . . . It’s “Be critical of films and not what [other] people want never think that a movie is to see. It’s very him. And it showing the world like it is,” works.” Boyd said.
Whatever their feelings, Campbell said he was sure the events of 2012 would have some impact on Hollywood. Campbell cited the year 1999 as an example of a time when Hollywood was changed. After the events of Columbine shooting in Columbine, Colo., Campbell said, there were lots of parts in movies that were cut out or altered. Even the title of the dark comedy “Killing Mrs. Tingle” was changed to “Teaching Mrs. Tingle” because of the uproar. Similar changes could occur in the short-term, Campbell said. In the end, though, he said depictions of violence in movies have little to do with the real problem. “I’m not one for blaming the art,” Campbell said. “I blame the individual.” Graham Dudley graham.dudley4@gmail.com
On Sunday, the Oklahoma City Farmers Public Market will host Fashion In The Snow 2013 with special guest Bianca Golden, an America’s Next Top Model contestant. Golden competed in two seasons of the popular reality TV show, including Cycle 9 and The All-Stars. The fashion show will be an all-white themed event featuring over 100 models in high fashion, bridal, couture, swimsuits and more, according to a press release. An OU student will get her shot at the runway Sunday. “I searched for a casting call, met with the managers and signed GO AND DO with them,” said Ashley Fashion in the Morgan, an advertising junior. “I’ve participatSnow ed in runway classes and photo shoots [and will When: 6 to 11 p.m. b e] mo deling DKN Y ” Sunday Morgan said. E xecutive producer Where: OKC Farmers and model Kristen Nichol Public Market said attendees should expect clothes from big Price: Tickets start name designers to be feaat $50 tured, but the names will be saved as a surprise for Sunday. This is the first Fashion In The Snow event. “We’ve spent about two months planning” Nichol said. “There will be lots of surprises that people will really enjoy”. Popular music artists will perform at the event. Hiphop artist and CEO of Video Junkies, L. Eazy, will perform on stage along with several other surprise musicians, Nichol said. The event will take place from 6 to 11 p.m. Sunday. Ticket packages range from $50 to $150. Exclusive ticket holders will enjoy access to the wine bar, receive an event gift bag and a meet and greet backstage with Bianca Golden. Erica Laub, ericalaub@ou.edu
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he 63rd NFL Pro Bowl is Sunday, which — I’d be willing to bet — is news to most of the people reading this. I don’t mean that as an insult to our readers, but rather a condemnation of how awful the NFL’s pitiful attempt at an all-star game is. And believe me, it’s bad. Really bad. Last year’s laugher — a game that was showered in boos from the almost 50,000 fans in attendance — ended in a 59-41 win for the AFC. Then-Miami Dolphins receiver Brandon Marshall carried the AFC to victory as he caught a Pro Bowl-record four touchdowns, earning him a GMC Yukon Denali for being named the game’s MVP (which I’m sure he desperately needed). But Marshalls’ stat line
was more a product of poor effort from the defensive backs who were supposed to be covering him and the limitations placed on the defense (namely, no blitzing) than anything he did. Still don’t think the Pro Bowl is a joke? Well, how about this: Last season, the NFL not only encouraged players to use social media during the game, it set up a computer on each sideline to give players access to Twitter. Give me a break. If the players playing in the game won’t take it seriously, why should the fans? NFL commissioner Roger Goodell already has said if this year’s Pro Bowl doesn’t show marked improvement from last season’s, he might get rid of the game altogether. And I’m all for it. Sure, all-star games for every professional sport are just glorified pickup games in which effort and competitiveness are excused in the interest of entertainment and preventing injuries. But remember last year’s NBA All-Star game? That’s what a good all-star game looks like. With the East trailing the West, 96-84, in the third quarter, a
frustrated Dwyane Wade flagrantly fouled Kobe Bryant while he went for a layup, breaking Bryant’s nose and giving him a concussion. Now as malicious as Wade’s foul was, I can’t help but appreciate it because it transformed the dynamic of that entire game. Wade didn’t just break Bryant’s nose; he jump-started a game that had one of the most exciting finishes in recent all-star game memory — a 152-149 win for the West. It went from a Globetrotter-esque show of acrobatic alley-oops to a down-and-dirty game of street ball. And I loved every second of it. That’s what the Pro Bowl is missing: a sense of competition. And, unfortunately, unlike basketball, it takes more than one player to spark the competitive juices of the other 21 players in a football game. Which is why I think the Pro Bowl is as dead as Dillinger. Dillon Phillips is a journalism junior and sports editor.
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR and the Super Bowl, as well
as moving the game away from Hawaii and bringing it to the mainland. The Continental U.S. option lasted just one game — in 2010 in a less-than-capacity Sun Life Stadium in Miami, which was the site Jono Greco for that year’s Super Bowl. @jonogreco13 The game was quickly hen was the moved back to Hawaii. last time you Whether the game is watched the played in beautiful Hawaii NFL Pro Bowl from start to or at the site of that year’s finish? Super Bowl, there’s only I don’t think I have done one good reason to keep so since elementary school. the Pro Bowl: The players Maybe. won’t want to give up that It’s usually boring, and extra paycheck. there are times you easily The NFL has no incencan tell when a player isn’t tive for the outcome of trying. the game other than the Honestly, the best use players earning money for I’ve gotten out of the Pro being there and an even Bowl — other than votbigger bonus if their team ing — is having an excuse wins. to lie down on the couch Try telling the players, one Sunday out of the year especially the ones who are and take a nap during a voted in on name alone, meaningless game just they won’t be making their to wake up in time to see annual vacation bonus. which conference won and Last year, players on the who was named the Most winning team were awardValuable Player. ed $50,000, while players But you cannot do away on the losing team earned with the country’s biggest $25,000. sport’s all-star game. While that seems like The NFL has done things chump change in terms in recent years to try to of how much NFL stars create more interest in the get paid, the players value game — namely playing every cent they are awardthe game during the dead ed for making the trip. week between the conferAccording to a NFL.com ence championship games blog, San Diego Chargers
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WHAT TO WATCH 2013 NFL Pro Bowl Who: AFC vs. NFC When: 6 p.m. Sunday Where: Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii Channel: NBC
tight end Antonio Gates was quoted at last year’s Pro Bowl, saying, “I think guys, for the first few quarters, they come out and have a good time. But when the fourth quarter arrives, people start thinking ‘Wow, I’ve been here for a week and I’ve spent this and all the incidentals.’ So another $50,000 seems a lot better than $25,000.” And for the younger Pro Bowlers who aren’t making jaw-dropping per-year salaries, that extra $25,000 or $50,000 means a lot. Sure, the Pro Bowl may not mean a lot to fans, especially those who cannot go to games, but last year’s game drew 12.5 million viewers. So, it has to matter, and it has to be a fun game to watch. Jono Greco is a journalism graduate student and the assistant sports editor.
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