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Christmas season sees record donations Salvation Army collected over $164 thousand in Cleveland County alone CEDAR FLOYD

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Citizens of C leveland County dropped a record amount of change into the Salvation Army’s red kettles during the 2012 Christmas season, according to a press release.

Bell-ringers and volunteers collected $164,967 between Nov. 23 and Dec. 24 in Cleveland County alone, meLodie LettKeman/tHe daiLy about $50,000 more than the proBrandon Kitchens, University College freshman, rings a bell beside jected collection goal for 2012 and $10,000 more than was collected for a salvation army kettle Nov. 28, 2011 outside Dale hall.

the 2011 Christmas season. Oklahoma as a whole collected $651,717, almost $100,000 more than the goal and about $5,500 dollars more than last year, according to a press release.

The increase in funds largely was because of an increase in volunteers and kettle locations, said Richard White, executive director of the Salvation Army in Oklahoma.

A record 6,400 Oklahomans donated 17,477 hours of their time to the Salvation Army this Christmas season.

Almost three times as many people volunteered for almost twice as many hours as in 2011, according to a press release.

The numbers were a bit unexpected,

White said, because collection for the season was limited to 38 days.

Locations like Wal-Mart and Hobby Lobby, which tend to generate the greatest donations, have a policy that the bell-ringers only can solicit donations after Thanksgiving. In the past, the stores in Norman and the surrounding areas have been willing to bend the rules and let collections start early, but for the 2012 season, the Salvation Army’s national directors made an agreement that laid down the law: no early ringing, White said.

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Student builds Unseasonable weather hits Norman experience in research lab Sooner seeks to understand common gadgets MORGAN GEORGE Campus Reporter

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Colton richardson, University College freshman, walks up a puddle-covered south Oval on Tuesday. rare January thunderstorms began the night before and continued throughout the morning.

Severe storm conditions abnormal early in year NADIA J. ENCHASSI

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The campus was alive yesterday with the sight of slick raincoats, swaying umbrellas and squeaky rain boots as a barrage of warm temperatures and a cold front passed through the state, causing unseasonably stormy weather, including dark clouds, a downpour of rain and a tornado warning.

Steven Cavallo, assistant professor in the School of Meteorology, said this type of weather isn’t highly abnormal in Oklahoma – except when it happens this early in the year.

“Severe weather usually gets going here in March or even April and peaks in May,” Cavallo said. “This is seasonally uncommon for January.”

Cavallo said the cold temperatures following the warm temperatures

Matthew Day, meteorologist at the National Weather Center, said yesteraT a glanCe day’s high of 69 degrees fell only a few Norman Forecast degrees short of reaching last year’s record high of 76 degrees around this Wednesday time. partly sunny The moisture and warm air won’t High 47°F stick around for long though. The Thursday weather is expected to be dryer and mostly sunny cooler within the next week, Day said.

High 59°F “It is unusually warm right now,” Day said. “But, I’d tell students to keep Friday their jackets close, because temperamostly sunny tures may drop to as low as 20 degrees High 51°F soon.”

Source: National Weather Center This is a fast moving system that is expected to clear out in a couple of are causing the random rain and days, heading East towards Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi, humidity.

The weather was caused by a strong Cavallo said. cold front, which corresponds with low air pressure. That combining with the warmer moisture in the air Nadia J. Enchassi nadia.j.enchassi-1@ou.edu from the Gulf of Mexico is causing this warm, moist air and the strange weather, Cavallo said.

As a little girl passing hours sitting within the walls of a telecommunications company in Iran, her passion was ignited through listening to the clicking machines communicate with one another and wondering how they worked.

Those were the weekends Maryam Sabeghi, mechanical engineering senior, recalls of her childhood. When she thinks of accompanying her father to work, she can’t help but smile. It was those weekends when she developed a fascination with how things worked.

“I started thinking about those devices — how they work and how they communicate with each other, as a system.

From there, I started to

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[look at] the wires, and my d a d w ou l d b r i ng h o m e wires, colorful wires. Those were my tools,” she said.

“I really liked to work with them and play with them.

But I always liked to know how different machines worked, and all the gears always fascinated me.”

From her early days in Iran, the array of rainbow colored wires was among the many things that sparked her fascination with engineering. To help spark that curiosity in other people, Sabeghi is planning to one day teach mechanical engineering, which is supplemented through her participating and conducting various research projects, both at OU and across the country, she said.

For Sabeghi, her first encounter with research came when an industr y door closed on her, forcing her to find other options, she said.

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research: Experience reveals teaching interest Continued from page 1

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one of [the internships I applied for], and I could not get in,” recalled Sabeghi.

Discouraged, Sabeghi consulted her now-mentor Farrokh Mistree, director of the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering.

Mistree suggested that instead of looking for industrial internships, she should try research, she said.

So she did.

Her first experience was in the OU System Realization Laboratory, a computation lab nestled on the second floor of Carson Engineering Center, run

by Farrokh Mistree and his wife Janet Allen, engineering professor.

Sabeghi began her research dismantling a device essential to most people: a cellphone, she said.

Through opening up the phone, or reverse engineering it, she was able to learn about the parts, estimate their costs, understand the components of the design and how they work and figure out if the material could be recycled, said Sabeghi. It was during her time in the lab that Sabeghi was adopted by her mentors Mistree and Allen into their academic family, she said.

“In our laboratory, we take people and we say that we will adopt them as our academic child, and ask whether they would be willing to be adopted, and adopt us as their academic parents,” Mistree said. “That’s a very important connection.”

This academic adoption soon became a crucial part of the decisions Sab e g h i w ou l d have t o make concerning her

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Maryam Sabeghi, engineering graduate student, studies the dynamics of solidification in aluminum nano particles at the National Institute for Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md., where she worked before attending graduate school at OU.

research. She had to decide visit engineering companies between three summer re- like Dell, IBM and National search programs, one at Instruments, she said.

Harvard, the other at the Mistre e believes that National Nanotechnology Sabeghi’s research experiInfrastructure Network and ence broadened her underthe third at the National standing of the distinctions Institute of Standards and between research and deTechnology, she said. velopment, he said.

Ta k i n g h e r “Through her “In our academic par[ re s e a rc h e xe n t s’ a d v i c e , laboratory, we periences] she Sabeghi chose take people and recognizes that the undergradresearch inuate research we say that we volves the cref e l l ow s h i p at will adopt them ation of knowlthe National it is not as our academic edge, Institute of the application child...”

Standards and of knowledge.

Technology in The application Farrokh Mistree, Gaithersburg, of knowledge is director of the M d . S h e w a s School of Aerospace development,” one of only 170 Mistree said. and Mechanical students choSabeghi plans Engineering sen nationwide, to use her reSabeghi said in her personal search experience to impact report. future students when she’s Later, she was chosen as a professor, she said. The one of 16 students to go on yearning to teach has been an entrepreneurship trip as a part of Sabeghi’s life since part of the college of engi- she was a teenager. neering to Austin, Texas, to As early as middle school,

a friend’s parents asked her to tutor a fellow student in math, and when she went to Oklahoma City Community College before coming to OU, she was tutoring students and was asked by one of her professors to join the math department as a supplementary instructor, she said.

All of her experience in teaching showed her she loved it, said Sabeghi.

“I think that any other job that I could [be] in, for example, industry ­— I will do one thing and the value is just there. But, I look at being a professor as creating and sharing my knowledge.

I am helping hundreds and hundreds of students to go into society and be successful and create value,” Sabeghi said.

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donations: Provide food, shelter Continued from page 1 $30,000 short of last year’s collections. Instead, the Salvation Army ended up breaking the all-time record by focusing on recruitment and increasing the amount of time ringers were at their posts, White said.

“We went out earlier and stayed out later,” White said.

D onation totals w ere nudged higher by contributions collected in campus kettles, manned by 11 sororities and fraternities who collected a total of $2,900, according to a press release.

Beta Theta Pi was the Campus Champ fraternity for the season, raising $1,050. The Salvation Army presented the fraternity with an award on Jan. 24, according to a press release.

“Really good bell ringers

make the difference,” White said.

Aaron Murray, petroleum engineering freshman and member of Beta Theta Pi, and his fraternity brothers found a way to spread the enthusiasm of the giving season.

“O n e w a y t o m a k e i t more fun was to sing as we were ringing,” Murray said.

“Usually when we sang, people were more enthusiastic to give. Sometimes, people would come up and sing with us; some would come and say, ‘Thank you.’

Some people, even though they are college students, would drop quite a bit of money.”

The money raised helped provide local families with food, Angel Tree Program toys and clothing during the Christmas season. The remaining funds also will

continue to contribute to the homeless shelter in Norman, the food pantry, youth programs, outreach ministries and emergency needs, according to the press release.

White said he also hopes the Salvation Army someday may be able to open a Boys and Girls Club in Norman.

“Many of [the Salvation Army’s] values align with our fraternal values. We do this every year; it’s one of our traditions,” Zach Lanier, Beta Theta Pi Chapter President and letters and political science senior, said. “It’s about commitment to community and giving back to the people.”

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OU certified as a ‘Healthy Campus’

A day after thunderstorms brought a tornado watch to Norman, OU will test its ability to warn students of potential dangers on campus.

OU will conduct a full test of its emergency communication systems on the Norman campus today, including the new outdoor speaker system.

The new system will broadcast a message across the entire campus. This initial test will allow for tuning and calibration of the speakers, so in the case of an emergency, all students, faculty and staff will hear and understand the broadcast, according to a press release.

The emergency communication systems also can alert the campus community via email and phone, provided their account information is up to date, according to the press release.

OU’s Norman campus has become a Certified Healthy Campus, the highest level of certification available.

The campus was given the certification as part of the Shape Your Future Campaign, according to a press release. The campaign, coordinated by the Oklahoma Turning Point Council, formed in 1997 to make the public healthier, according to the press release.

The council awarded this certification because of the new healthy initiatives pushed by the university, like Healthy Sooners. This program reaches all parts of campus, from students to faculty members, according to the press release.

The Healthy Sooners initiative includes: • A wellness incentive program called “Well onTarget,” offering resources to all members “no matter what their health or wellness level,” according to the press release.

• A weight-loss program open to all members of the OU community. It shows participants how to eat a full plate of food and still lose weight • Use of the Huston Huffman Fitness Center and the Murray Case Sells Swim Complex for employees for $10 a month • Discounted use of selected fitness centers for OU Blue Cross members who enroll in the BlueCross BlueShield Fitness Program • Departmental Coed Fun-For-All Basketball games at the Huston Huffman Fitness Center • Weight Watchers at Work “This is an honor and a testament to all the hard work done to improve campus health and wellness here at OU,” said OU Press Secretary Michael Nash.

OU and the other recipients will be honored on Feb. 28 at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City.

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Update: Syrian war New Egyptian government is still oppressive The civil war in Syria is getting The Our View more violent by the hour. As rebels is the majority gain more support, the government opinion of responds with severe crackdowns.

The Daily’s nine-member Syria is the next global hot zone editorial — a country that is on the brink of dramatic change. Here are the key events from the past few days and how they impact the future of the country:

Casualties: Dozens of people were bound and shot in the back of the head on Tuesday. In pictures presented by opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, bodies are seen lined up in a drainage ditch with blindfolds and bound hands. Large-scale executions will most likely become more common as al-Assad attempts to tighten his grip on rebels.

U.S. response: President Barack Obama released a video response to the killings promising increased humanitarian aid to Syria. Obama stops short of promising military aid. As the violence grows in Syria, Obama will be under increased pressure to make a firm decision about direct military aid for the Syrian rebels.

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little over two years ago, millions “thugs” and “criminals” unless they support of Egyptians took to the streets the president. The Muslim Brotherhood orIN DEPTH in public squares not just in appears to many to be working Egyptian military ganization Cairo, but across the country, protesting for the advancement of its interests at the government for “bread, freedom, and social justice.” expense of the interests of Egypt overall.

This beginning to the Egyptian revolution For these reasons, protests rage and revoEgypt’s army chief was an action for human dignity, and this lutionaries chant, “the people want the fall said Tuesday the remains the target of Egyptian revoluof the regime. ” The faces have changed, but country will collapse if tionaries to this day. While elections have the corruption, oppression and economic protests and marches taken place with minimal fraud and a new marginalization remains. The Egyptian peoagainst the military constitution has been enacted, the interple are openly disrespected and degraded government continue, according to a report action between the citizenry and their by their own leaders. Opposition leads to from USA Today. “representatives” remains flawed. The claims of lacking true faith in God. relationship between the people and their Egypt’s current leadership had nothing to government is hardly democratic. do with the initial uprising that began back Two years on, and revolutionaries on Jan. 25, 2011. Their early stance against see their sacrifices and deaths as being in vain. Hosni the revolution foreshadowed their continued resistance to Mubarak is gone, but this was never about him as an inthe true goals of revolutionaries. This resistance is perhaps dividual. The Egyptian revolution is not merely a political the biggest threat to the Egyptian people accomplishing statement; at its heart is the genuine desire by Egyptians the dream they have pondered for so long. to be treated as humans. The events of the past few days But resistance is also the only real hope for the people. have made it clear that this desire remains, for now, a As long as they resist the continued corruption, oppresdream. sion, and censorship of thought, their dream cannot die.

President Mohammed Morsi has again implemented And that dream is a human one. The rights we Americans the hated emergency laws in several cities. These laws sometimes take for granted are indeed inalienable. After were used for decades under the previous regime to give all, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is not so far security forces virtually unlimited power. It seems clear from “bread, freedom and economic justice.” these forces will again have this green light.

The revolution continues.

Many Egyptians see the current government as a mere replacement of the old regime, giving only lip service Chase Smithburg is a political science and Arabic senior. to the sizable opposition. Demonstrators are declared

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Obama’s policy deviations fool many Media, celebrities

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drone strike casualties between 2004 and 2012 have been civilians.

If the president values due process and human rights, he should avoid killing civilians without trial.

The President has repeatedly painted himself as a friend to immigrants and an advocate for immigration reform, but has actually deported 11,922 more people per month than President Bush, in fact more than any other president in history.

One of President Obama’s most touted liberal legislative victories is the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Many see the passage of this act as the fulfillment of Obama’s promise to revamp the American health system.

But the act is a far cry from the single-payer health care plan that he advocated when he was running in 2008.

Rather than shifting the management of health care and health insurance to the government, the act requires citizens to purchase health insurance from private providers.

While the act does contain some new constraints on insurance companies, it is by no stretch of the imagination a liberal triumph, and will likely be of more benefit to insurance companies than to consumers.

None of this is to say Obama is a particularly bad president. All political figures have to make compromises, and few can live up to all or even most of their campaign promises.

Questions of public policy are never black and white, and what some view as mistakes others will herald as progress. Whether you consider him a good leader depends on your political views. But he is by no means the liberal he claims to be.

n response to inOPINION COLUMNIST creasing incidences of mass violence within the U.S. during recent years, President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious gun reform policy proposal two weeks ago. President Storm Dowd-Lukesh Obama argues it will help storm.dowdlukesh@gmail.com address “our first task as a society: keeping our children safe.”

The day after, surging young hip hop artist Chief Keef (Keith Cozart) was sentenced to two months at the Illinois Youth Center in St. Charles.

Cozart received the sentence for violating the parole he received after pointing a gun at a police officer in President Obama’s hometown of Chicago.

A few months after the initial incident, Cozart was found in violation of parole during an interview with Pitchfork Media which took place at a gun range and resulted in the artist being filmed possessing a rifle - the captured pictures were used as evidence in his conviction.

President Obama’s policy announcement had nothing to do with the 17-year-old musician’s gun related troubles, but the Chicago youth’s story represents another side of protecting youth from weapons and shows a dangerous lack of cultural understanding between the majority of America and inner cities.

Let me preface by acknowledging that Cozart deserves punishment for his probation violation and is old enough to understand that agreeing to visit a gun range under his restrictions was foolish.

Still, gun violence in cities such as Chicago is not a trivial matter, and Pitchfork’s handling of the subject displays a thorough ignorance of the matter.

Taking a kid from Chicago, a city that saw 506 murders in 2012, to a gun range for an “edgy” interview opportunity is a moral misstep, but Pitchfork likely didn’t recognize this.

The dangerous element is that several journalists working for an organization based in Chicago itself were so separated from the reality of their interviewee that their interaction landed him jail time.

Unknowingly, Pitchfork was perpetuating the worst parts of “hood” culture and indulging in stereotypes communities have fought for decades.

Stronger regulation of firearm sales and possession is an excellent goal. But just as journalists overlooked the significance of their gun range visit with Cozart, policy makers have failed to pay mind to the most dangerous places within our country while addressing the issue of gun violence.

Children losing their lives to bullets is one of the most tragic and devastating events a country could ever go through. Gun control policies have also failed minors on the other side of the trigger, and tragically, all we think to do is take them to a target range and bring our best camera.

Hunter Ash is a math and physics sophomore.

Storm Dowd-Lukesh is an economics freshman.

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n his most recent OPINION COLUMNIST inaugural address, President Obama articulated an ambitious — though vague — liberal agenda, advocating an end to “perpetual war,” immigration reform, and affordable healthcare for all Hunter Ash citizens. hunter.r.ash-1@ou.edu However, little in Obama’s presidential record matches the image he portrays.

Although he ran in both elections as strongly liberal and committed to broad changes in government, he has repeatedly shown himself in practice to be at most moderate and often conservative.

One of the president’s most glaring deviations from his titular liberalism is his military policy.

While he claims to advocate peace and the reduction of defense spending, his recently proposed Pentagon spending plan would result in a $36 billion increase in the military budget by 2017 The wartime ethical record of the Obama administration leaves him little ground to criticize his conservative predecessors. Although the then-Senator decried the lack of due process at Guantanamo Bay during his first campaign, he has failed repeatedly to meet his self-imposed deadlines for closing it.

Worst of all is the president’s policy on drone strikes.

Although he claims that targets of drone strikes must meet “very tight and very strict standards,” and a leading White House counterterrorism adviser described civilian deaths from drone strikes as “extremely rare,” a report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism indicates 474-881 of

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Sooners to face reeling Horned Frogs OU looks to bounce back from loss Demetrius Kearney Sports Reporter

The No. 21 OU women’s basketball team looks to rebound from a disappointing loss against the No. 1 Baylor Bears when the TCU Horned Frogs come to town 7 p.m.

Wednesday at Lloyd Noble Center.

The Sooners are 5-2 in conference play and are hoping to stay consistent as they enter the final stretch of conference games, starting with a matchup against a struggling TCU team that is 0-7 in the Big 12.

Nonetheless, OU isn’t changing its preparation or work ethic for a struggling team, and coach Sherri Coale is making sure the team stays focused on the ultimate goal: getting a win at home.

“We’re great. We’re in fine shape right now,” Coale said.

“We came in ready to work.

“Everybody has to be a little bit better, and it’s just me getting comfortable stepping into a different type role for us.”

PLAYER PROFILE Aaryn Ellenberg Year: Junior Position: Guard Statistics: Leads the team in scoring with 19.7 points per game

We watched film, practiced hard and we’re going to carry that over into the game.”

Despite the loss last Saturday, the Sooners have a positive outlook moving forward. TCU will have to find a way to contain junior guard Aaryn Ellenberg.

E llenberg has be en a scoring machine lately — averaging 23.2 points per game in the Sooners’ last 10 contests — and not even a tough physical defense like Baylor’s squad could slow

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on both offense and defense, and that’s exactly what the Sooners need moving forward.

“When we lost Whitney, we lost a lot of leadership on the team and a lot of astrud reed/the daily the output that you might Sophomore guard Sharane Campbell protects the ball as she drives to the basket during OU’s 69-56 not see on the box score,” win against Texas on Jan. 19 at Lloyd Noble Center. Campbell won the 2012 Big 12 Sixth Man Award. McFarland said. “So, I guess I just thought about doing as much as I can for my team her down. while assuming more of a role for us.”

She’s currently second leadership role on the team.

The Sooners also have from here on out.” in the nation in three-point “We’ve lost four guys, and benefited from the solid play field goals made per game they were pretty important of senior forward Joanna See more online with 3.68. to our team,” Ellenberg said. McFarland, who’s assumed Visit OUDaily.com Ellenberg has become a “Everybody has to be a lit- more of a leadership role as for the complete story dominant force on offense, tle bit better, and it’s just me well. slashing through defenses getting comfortable stepMcFarland is playing oudaily.com/sports and creating her own shot ping into a different type of tough, physical basketball

men’s basketball

OU heads to Waco in search of fifth conference victory Sooners face another tough road test in Baylor Garrett Holt Sports Reporter

The OU men’s basketball team will try to get back in the win column against Baylor at 6 tonight in Waco.

The Sooners are coming off a tough 67-54 loss to Kansas, a game they simply were outstripped by one of the best teams in the nation.

Oklahoma couldn’t get any offensive flow together in the loss, scoring a season-low 21 points in the first

half and shooting only 35 percent from the field. “ Ka nsa s is ve r y , ver y good,” coach Lon Kruger said. “And we have to play much better than we did [Saturday] to compete with them.”

Even though Kruger may not have been happy with the outcome of the game, the team still is looking at it as a learning experience and attempting to grow from it.

“A loss will always hurt a little bit, but we were able to hang in there and play pretty good basketball,” junior forward Amath M’Baye said. “It gave us a little bit of

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confidence, especially with them coming back to our house in a couple of weeks.”

That confidence will need to be fueling the Sooners against the Bears. While Baylor isn’t as good as No. 3 Kansas, and the game isn’t being played in Allen Fieldhouse, the Bears are still a very talented veteran

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Conversely, Austin does his work down low, using his 7-foot-1 frame to power his way to averages of 14.5 points per game and 8.8 rebounds per game.

“Isaiah is a good player,” M’Baye said. “I’m looking

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