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OU’s Alta Gracia Coalition demands to be heard from Boren after being ignored CEDAR FLOYD
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A coalition of OU students will petition President David Boren a third time regarding living wage clothing companies today in front of Evans Hall. The Alta Gracia Coalition will deliver another letter at 3:45 p.m. to Boren asking him to support the goal that 50.1 percent of apparel sold on campus be purchased from companies that pay laborers a living wage by this fall. Alta Gracia, a factory in the Dominican Republic, is one such company, said Clay Burns, economy, finance and energy management senior and member of the OU Alta Gracia Coalition. see COALITION paGe 2
Outlet for business plans provided Editors note: Reneé Selanders was the managing editor for The Daily in fall 2010 BENNETT HALL campus reporter
OU Startup Weekend will return for its third consecutive year today, Saturday and Sunday at a new venue. This year’s event space will be at the offices of the Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth at OU’s Research Campus, said Reneé Selanders, OU Startup Weekend coordinator. “This new location, with nine different collaborative work spaces available, will highlight CCEW’s role as the event host and a strong supporter of the weekend’s entrepreneurial activities,” Selanders said. Over 75 OU undergraduates, students from other surrounding universities and
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Student interns discuss their project during a meeting in the Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth Oct. 4. The student-led team is working to develop a business model for the international Eye institute
Oklahoma City professionals will be participating in the weekend activities, Selanders said. There will be guest business speakers, meals and the signature pitch sessions. Participants use these pitch sessions to bounce ideas off one another and perfect their business plans that can be brought to life in the community, Selanders
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said. “People who want to create business plans for things like websites, iPhone apps or food trucks can come and participate,” Selanders said. Participants vote on the best pitches Friday evening, Selanders said. This way, only the best ideas are expanded throughout the rest of the weekend — just like
the rest of the business world. Tickets for OU Startup Weekend are $40 and will be available online until the events begin at 6 p.m. Interested individuals can register at the OU Startup Weekend website. Bennett Hall benhall@ou.edu
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Public to take the plunge to support Oklahoma Special Olympic athletes despite today’s predicted chilly and rainy weather, more than 30 people plan to dive into a pool of freezing water on Campus Corner to raise money for oklahoma’s special olympics. polar plunge is a fundraising challenge made to an individual or group to dive into a cold body of water to raise money for special olympics, according to the special olympics oklahoma website. plungers register with special olympics oklahoma and raise a minimum of $75 each, then jump into the water, said Jennifer Lightle, director of special events of the organization. this is the second year norman has held a polar plunge, but it is the 12th year statewide, Lightle said. Last year, norman residents raised $10,000 at the polar plunge, Lightle said. the goal for this year was to beat that total and have 50 participants. the money raised at this event and others like it across the state will help 9,500 athletes participate in oklahoma’s special olympics, Lightle said. the pool used for the plunge was donated by pleasant pools and will be on Campus Corner, Lightle said. students can register to plunge at http://www.sook. org/polar-plunge-norman.html Max Janerka Campus Reporter
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Political science junior Kyuyoung Cho (left) talks with chemical engineering junior Khanh Ho at the English Conversation Cafe on Thursday in Hester Hal.
Sooners break down language barriers AJINUR SETIWALDI campus reporter
American students can socialize with international students over cups of coffee to help international students and their families improve their English every Thursday. English Conversation Café was designed to improve international students’ English vocabulary and knowledge of American culture, according to the OU International Student Services website. The conversation café is also open to students from the Center for English as a Second Language and families of international students. This semester, students will meet 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Thursdays in Hester
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other times as many as 15 attend the conversation café. Each week, a New International Student Orientation peer leader facilitates the discussion, Levi said. Peer leaders often prepare a topic in case When: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. general discussion isn’t flowing. thursdays Monrada Yamkasikorn, a senior international student from Thailand, led Where: Hester Hall room 170 the first conversation café session this Info: For more information semester. She has been studying intercontact Janice Levi, international national studies and Spanish since she programs coordinator, at came to America four years ago. jarulevi@ou.edu The only way for international students to improve their English is to talk with more people, Yamkasikorn said. Hall 170. The event is held in a lounge area International Student Services espewith sofas that give it a casual feel, in- cially encourages international freshternational programs coordinator men and exchange students to come to the events. Janice Levi said. Attendance fluctuates, Levi said. see CAFE paGe 2 Sometimes there are five students and
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Who cares if fried Southern food is bad for you? Opinion: southern food gets a bad rap for being unhealthy, but everyone needs grease in their diet to lubricate their arteries. (Page 3)
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L&A: if you’re scared of wearing formal wear, don’t be. these few tips will have you looking dapper but comfortable for the pink and Black Ball. (Page 5)
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CAFE: Students engage in language exchange Continued from page 1
Today around campus Sign a petition to save Sasquatch starting at 11:30 a.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s food court. A how-to session for returned study abroad students will take place from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. in Hester Hall, room 160. Men’s tennis will play Tulsa at 5:30 p.m. at the Gregg Wadley Indoor Tennis Pavilion. A free movie: “Wreck-It Ralph” will be screened at 6, 9 p.m. and midnight in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium. Attend the opening lecture and reception for “Into the Void” starting at 6 p.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Attend a free lecture as part of Medieval Fair Lecture Series entitled “The Dragon Ships of Oslo: Oseberg, Gokstad, and Tune” at 6:30 p.m. at the Norman Public Library.
Saturday, Feb. 9 Visit the opening of “Into the Void,” an art exhibition that is a modern ode to a few of the founding members of the Optical art movement, in the Ellen and Richard L. Sandor Photography Gallery. Attend University Theatre’s “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Rena Cook examining the rise of Nazism, 8 p.m. in the Weitzenhoffer Theatre. Attend the Native Crossroads Film Festival and Symposium 9 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Sam Noble Museum of Natural History and Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium. Attend the Pink and Black Ball, benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure 8 p.m. to midnight in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom. Men’s basketball will play Kansas at 3 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center.
Sunday, Feb. 10 Women’s tennis will play Minnesota at noon at Headington Family Tennis Center. Women’s basketball will play Oklahoma State at 4 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center. Do you want to see your organization’s campus event here? Visit OUDaily.com/events/submit to add your entry.
“I want to spread my culture to the community and participate in as many activities as possible,” Yamkasikorn said. “That’s a way to interact more with American students and better improve my English.” International students also come to ask questions about campus services and programs, Yamkasikorn said. They feel more comfortable asking these questions around their peers instead of going to ask student services. But not many American students attend prog ra m s l i k e t h e E n g l i s h Conversation Café, Yamkasikorn said. There was one native English speaker and five international students at the first session this semester. “It will be nice to see more Amer icans in the
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Business junior Kai-Wei Ma (left) talks with political science junior Kyuyoung Cho at the English Conversation Cafe on Thursday in Hester Hall.
conversation café for people to actually get to talk to a native speaker,” Yamkasikorn said. International students should take advantage of opportunities to improve their English through programs
like the conversation café, the people who speak those and American students languages, as well. should be more proactive hosts, Yamkasikorn said. American students learning other languages can come Ajinur Setiwaldi to the conversation café sesAjinur.U.Setiwaldi-1@ou.edu sions to learn more about
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Continued from page 1 The first letter was de- week. livered Jan. 18, the second It’s important the meetFeb. 1, Burns said. It’s been ing with Boren happens thre e w e eks, and there soon, Burns said, because hasn’t been any word from the bookstores will be Boren in response to the placing their apparel orcoalition’s attempts to set ders for the fall semester up a meeting. soon. The coalition B o r e n “Supporting did, however, doesn’t ususweatshops receive an enally decide shouldn’t be couraging letwhat the ter from Boren allowed by those b o o ksto re s through OU order, but he terms, and if it has the capapress secretary, Michael Nash, is, that’s a much bility and the at the first letbigger problem.” responsibiliter drop. ty to hold the “He seemed bookstore clay Burns, interested in economy, finance and accountable the idea [of energy management for what it senior supporting p u rc h a s e s, living wage Burns said. apparel]. We’re just restat“They need to be in ing what we want, a sim- accordance with [OU’s] ple ‘we’d like to talk to you, terms of conduct,” he would you like to talk to said. “Supporting sweatus?’” Burns said. shops shouldn’t be alThe coalition has had lowed by those terms, more success communicat- and if it is, that’s a much ing with the Follett book- bigger problem.” store, which also received a letter Jan. 18. The coalition expects to have a meeting Cedar Floyd with store manager, Tina cedar_floyd_789@hotmail. com Peterson, sometime next
White House officials say top priorities job creation, fiscal policies, economy JIM KUHNHENN
Obama was to deliver public remarks to the House LANSDOWNE, Va. (AP) — members and then take President Barack Obama is questions in private, officials promoting his second-term said. agenda to House Democrats, White House officials say eager to keep them uni- Obama’s top priority is job fied as a bulwark against a creation and that he will Republican majority on is- make a case for fiscal polisues as diverse as the econo- cies that encourage econommy, immigration ic growth. Setting “We can’t just up a contrast with and guns. Obama was cut our way Republicans who meeting with are insisting on D e m o c r a t i c to prosperity.” spending cuts, l a w m a k e r s President Barack not tax increases, Thursday during to stanch federal Obama their retreat in red ink, Obama Lansdowne, Va., a day after told reporters Tuesday, “We he held a closed-door ses- can’t just cut our way to sion with Senate Democrats prosperity.” at their off-campus conferO bama met pr ivately ence in Annapolis, Md. for more than two hours The meetings with leg- Wednesday with Senate islators from his own party D e m o c r a t s. T h e W h i t e come days before Obama’s House said the president State of the Union address spoke briefly, took questions Tuesday to a joint session of from 10 of the senators asCongress. They have served sembled, then spent an hour as something of a preamble chatting with them in smallfor that nationally televised er groups. speech.
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Fried food is essential in a balanced southern diet Our View: Grease is good.
to the university’s website. We knew that no self-respecting southerner would jeopardize our love of fried foods, so why is Chicken, hamburgers, potatoes, pickles, candy a Northerner telling us what to eat? We can bars, ribs, ice cream — there is nothing only speculate Judd has not tasted any good that can’t be made better by a long bath in The Our View fried chicken, chicken-fried steak or fried a deep fryer. is the majority pickles. Grease — vitamin G — is an essential opinion of Surely, as soon as she tries a golden fried part of a balanced Southern diet, and The Daily’s pickle dipped in ranch and experiences the Oklahoma is the buckle of the grease belt nine-member — our state fair is the epicenter of fried editorial board incredible sensation that follows, she would immediately retract her study. foods. But a new study from the University We will do our part by shipping a box of of Alabama at Birmingham proposes that Cane’s to Judd immediately. If you want to join in, our favorite foods are a health risk. Apparently, if you eat around six fried and sugary send The Daily a box of fried pickles, a rack of fried ribs or a chicken-fried steak with sausage gravy, a foods a week, your risk of having a stroke rises 41 side of okra and cornbread and we will be sure to percent, according to the study. The study did not look at how delicious fried foods are or forward them to how lack of vitamin G would impact Judd. people’s happiness. We love eating Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, corn dogs from Cate ala Carte, and pretty much everything from Crossroads restaurant. Whether or not our daily meals at these establishments negatively affect our health, they do wonders for our mood. Fried foods are delicious, and we don’t need science telling us what to eat. It is surprising that a negative report came out of Alabama. If Oklahoma is the belt buckle, Alabama is extra holes you have to drill in the belt after eating so many fried foods. But even though the Comment author of the study, Suzanne Judd, on this on works at the University of Alabama, she got OUDaily.com TY JOHNSON/THE DAILY her undergraduate degree in Michigan, according
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ith the spark OPINION COLUMNIST of the current green revolution taking hold around the world, countless forms of similar innovation are bubbling up within the community. Individuals, small groups, Andrew Sartain big groups and compaandrew.sartain@ou.edu nies — many recognize the best outlets to bring environmental and economic change, but they fail to take the initial action to reach out to the others in the community working on synonymous projects. A good example of this is community gardening concepts. There is much eagerness in Norman to implement this idea, yet the lack of long-term commitment it has been able to build has hindered its success. Not a week goes by I don’t hear of another small group of people or an organization that has been heavily interested in setting up a community garden, but has struggled with funding, participation, popularity, etc. Why is collaboration so important to community innovation? Particularly in the environmental movement, people will get eager to attack an issue and it seems as though there is a lot of potential to address countless problems, but they lack the coherent coordination to bring ideas to full fruition. Rather than there being 50 community gardening ideas in Norman, we need to implement a platform that allows these ideas to easily and conveniently come together so that 50 half-developed community gardens can turn into 6 full-scale, successful gardening concepts. The ideas that will inherently change the perceptions and actions of a local community will be the ones that incorporate the people in procedures, both in development and in operation. In a rapidly-shrinking world, one idea can stimulate community implementation. Whether this is recycling, gardening or energy use — individual effort only gets you so far. True success in these fields is accomplished collectively. So to the visionaries within the community who long for their brilliant ideas to be executed, make an effort to find each other — you are not alone. To those without ideas of their own but who want to take action and make a difference — you too are not alone. Andrew Sartain is an interdisciplinary perspectives on the environment & nonprofit management senior.
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hange is always OPINION COLUMNIST tricky. Some love it, and some hate it. Consider a change on Facebook — the company makes just one cosmetic change to the appearance of our news feeds and profiles, and many are immediately Alex Niblett annoyed and against it. After alexandra.g.niblett@ou.edu some time though, we get used to it, start to like it and move on with our lives. Maybe it’s time to consider changing daylight saving time. Better yet, let’s not change it. Let’s end it. I could definitely get used to not worrying about changing my clocks or waking up an hour earlier each spring; this year it’s on March 10. The first Daylight Saving Bill was drafted in 1909 but was opposed by many people, farmers in particular. Daylight saving time was first officially adopted on April 30, 1916, to replace artificial lighting in an attempt to save fuel for the war effort in Germany. Inspired, President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched yearround daylight saving time in the United States on Feb. 9, 1942, with intentions to save additional energy resources during World War II. After World War II ended in 1945, daylight saving time caused a number of problems — some problems that still exist today. Daylight saving time has been implemented in the U.S. since World War II, but as of 2007, it has been nationally set to begin at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday of March and end at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of November each year, excluding Hawaii and Arizona. Daylight saving time may have some minor positive aspects, but the cons cannot be overlooked. First, daylight saving time is an inconvenience. Clocks need to be adjusted, and software updates can be affected. As if different time zones are not already a challenge, imagine the simplicity if transportation industries did not have take daylight saving time into account. Confusion is so easily created thanks to different regions of the country and
“I think that daylight savings time is pointless the world that participate in daylight savbecause we use artificial lighting to light up our ing time on different dates of the year. cities at night anyways,” Smeltzer said. By changing the time backward or for“We don’t really need to ward one hour, sleeping patterns and inchange the time that the ternal clocks are negatively affected because sun is rising because everyof the disruption of one wakes up at different our natural circadian times. There isn’t a set time rhythm. The Monday that everyone and Tuesday after adneeds to have justing clocks ahead one the sun up.” hour in March is associated “I think that daylight Also, do not with a 10 percent savings time is be fooled with the increase pointless because old myth that daylight in the risk saving time benefits of having a we use artificial farmers — most farmers heart attack, according lighting to light up are actually opposed to University of Alabama to it. Like at Birmingham associate our cities at night humans, professor of medicine anyways.” animals, Dr. Martin Young. too, have Interestingly MATT SMELTZER, biological clocks enough, Dr. AEROSPACE ENGINEERING SENIOR and the one hour change Young, who can have negative effects. has a Ph.D. in Let’s hope the farmers the division of cardiovascular remember to remind disease, noted this risk dethe roosters of the creases by about 10 percent time change in March. when falling back an hour If daylight saving time would be done in the fall. The decrease effects away with, most of us would easily be able is great, but how can the to get used to living with the same time be acceptable if the risks increase in March? We zone year-round. Our bodies would not should get rid of daylight saving time altogether. even notice the difference. Daylight savDaylight saving time is so often praised for saving time is not necessary anymore. ing energy, but some studies are showing it is beIf you agree that daylight saving time is a thing of the past, ginning to have an adverse effect. Daylight saving time may you can sign the petition and voice your opinion on reduce the demand for household lighting, but depending whitehouse.gov. on the location, it is being discovered that the hour-change increases demand for cooling on summer evenings, as well as heating in early spring and late fall mornings. OU aerospace engineering senior Matt Smeltzer signed a Alex Niblett is a journalism junior. petition with many others to end daylight saving time.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- This could be a good day to enhance your financial wherewithal. If you know of anything you can do that would open such doors, do it now. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Most of your associates had better step aside when they see you coming, because once you get on a roll, there will be no stopping you, regardless of what’s in your way. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- You will have no trouble accomplishing whatever you set your mind to. Obstacles will melt away in the face of your energetic momentum. Enjoy the ride. CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Putting yourself out for others without hesitation will make you feel good, mostly because you won’t make them feel obligated to you in the process.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Don’t hesitate to elevate your sights when establishing your objectives. All you have to do to perform some remarkable feats is believe in yourself to the fullest. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- If there is an important agreement that you need to negotiate, you’re likely to find this to be an excellent day to do so. You stand a good chance of coming to a quick understanding. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Because your modus operandi is exceptionally efficient, you won’t waste any time performing your assignments, particularly those that involve a joint interest. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Many times, two heads are better than one. This is likely to be one of those days when your efforts could be doubly effective, all because of another’s aid. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Because you unselfishly desire to help another, your efforts could bear large fruit. As a result, you could receive some extra rewards that you didn’t seek.
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| PARADE: Oklahoma’s only Mardi Gras parade is in Norman on Saturday. | FUNDRAISER: “Meet Me On Bourbon Street” will be held tomorrow.
PINK & BLACK BALL
Men: Don’t fear formal wear LIFE & ARTS COLUMNIST
Don’t look bland. Let me share with you a little secret for nearly any outfit you put together: It’s all in the details. Choose a good pair of shoes that match your outfit, preferably simple, sleek ones with leather soles. Get a haircut and then do something with it (an old-fashioned part is a good Buck Roberson choice). You even could step buckroberson@ou.edu up your game and get a pocket et out your nicest duds, gents — square or flower for your lapel. the Pink and Black Ball is here. And for crying out loud, tie If there’s a bigger, more formal your own tie. Nothing says “I’m event for the entire student body, I haven’t coasting” more than a pre-tied heard of it. This, men, is the time to shine. or — worse yet — a clip-on tie. But before you toss on your tie and head You’re a man now, so stop putting out the door, make sure you’re getting this it off. Buy yourself a real tie and formal wear thing right. learn to knot it. As I said, this isn’t Despite the simplicity of men’s clothing, high school. You’re better than that there are some surprisingly easy pitfalls on now, so dress like it. the way to dressing debonair. Avoid these, The last thing you should know and you’ll stand out, not stick out. about formal wear, and dressing well The first problem to avoid must be prefaced in general, is more nuanced. You by a simple but easily-missed reality of formal should not merely wear the clothes — events: Women are the center of attention. It’s old you should inhabit them. Be the man fashioned, I know, but it’s the way things are. If you behind the clothes, not the man in the want to subvert tradition, go ahead. But do so with clothes. They may be nice, but they’re full awareness of this reality. still just clothes. As Hardy Amies once Don’t be flashy just for the sake of being flashy — quipped, “A man should look as if he has it’s tacky and self-centered. I’m sure you remember bought his clothes with intelligence, put that guy at senior prom who wore something incredthem on with care and then forgotten all ibly loud. Every prom has one. He’d rented a white about them.” suit, a big bright tie and probably a cane and hat too. As we don’t often wear formal clothes, Of course, he thought he was absolutely “all that” it can sometimes be difficult to feel natbecause he stuck out. At the time, he might have ural when wearing them. But if you stop seemed cool, but now that we’re actually adults, acting like they’re out of the ordinary, such showboating just looks tasteless. You they will stop feeling odd. Wear the full don’t need to scream for attention to look good. outfit around your room. Carry stuff GRAPHIC BY TY JOHNSON/ A classic suit speaks for itself. If you want in your jacket pockets. Wear a tie to THE DAILY proof, look at George Clooney, Joseph Gordon-Levitt school a few times. Whatever you and Ryan Gosling. They’re among the best-dressed on the need to forget about the suit, do it. red carpet, and all three stick with reserved looks. You’ll do Now, go put on that suit and get so much more for yourself by wearing classic attire. handsome. It’s time to go dance for the cure. However, don’t expect to get by just because you happen to have on a suit. That’s only the beginning. You can be in a Buck Roberson is a classical languages junior. perfectly good two-piece and still look bland.
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Dance for the cure Saturday For just $15 in advance or $20 at the door, you can help the Women’s Outreach Center raise funds for breast cancer research at its 9th annual Pink and Black Ball on Saturday. All proceeds will benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s Central and Western Oklahoma Affiliate. The semi-formal soirée will be held from 8 p.m. to midnight in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom. The event is alcohol-free, according to the Pink and Black Ball’s website, but there will be mocktails, hors d’oeuvres, a mashed potato bar serving “potatotinis” and a chocolate fountain. K.C. Moore, a Susan G. Komen graduate assistant from the Women’s Outreach Center, has high hopes for this year’s event. “For this year’s Ball, we hope to raise over $10,500 for Komen and have over 400 attendees,” Moore said. Last year’s event raised more than $10,000, according to Daily archives. There will be a live band playing jazz music for the first hour, followed by a disc jockey playing club music for the remainder of the night, according the event’s website. There also will be a raffle, Moore said, with one ticket for $1 or eight for $5. Prizes include a basketball signed by the OU women’s basketball team, personal training sessions at Huston Huffman Fitness Center, gift certifi cates and a spa day, according to the website Shannon Borden, Life & Arts Reporter
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Mathematics education graduate student Jeff Wolford and broadcast journalism senior Lisa Mealer swing dance to live jazz music at the Pink and Black Ball Feb. 11.
THEATER
Production uses mobsters to symbolize Nazi Germany ‘The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui’ satirizes the rise of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany COLLIER MCKINNIS Life & Arts Reporter
Starring an ensemble cast of various drama students, University Theatre will present the play “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” to the general public this weekend. Written by German playwright Bertolt Brecht, the play highlights main character Arturo Ui’s rise to power as a mobster. Ui uses his newfound power to intimidate and murder his way into the role of a mob boss in 1930s Chicago. Along with his various henchmen, Ui then moves on to do the same in other U.S. towns. “He [Brecht] kind of sheds light on the ridiculousness of Hitler’s rise and the blindness of the public in the way that people can be manipulated,” acting junior Brooke Reynolds said. The play is a satirical allegory for the rise of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany. Several characters in the play parallel key figures in that historical time period such as Arturo’s parallel to Hitler. Key characters that parallel real historical figures include Ui’s henchman Ernesto Roma who portrays Ernst Röhm, Dogsborough who represents Paul von Hindenburg and Giuseppe Givola who depicts Joseph Goebbels. “It has so many different elements to it,” Reynolds said. “There’s a lot of spectacle to
the whole production that’s fun to watch.” Throughout the play, the audience sees Ui transform from a charming, charismatic Chicago mobster into a ruthless, murderer that sieges the town. The ironic title “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” highlights the point that Ui’s inevitable rise to becoming a murderer is partly the people’s fault. “I hope people get the message of the play,” acting junior Matthew Percival said. “This play shows just how culpable the people are in this situation as well. They let him become Hitler.” Although the play features serious subject matter, it also has a comedy and a prominent circus theme. This element lends audience members laughs while still maintaining an air of seriousness, Reynolds said. The play will feature other entertaining technical elements, such as snare drums
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for gun-shots, says Percival. “The subject is such dark AUSTIN MCCROSKIE/THE DAILY material, but we’re in a circus (left) Zach Whitman (Arturo Ui), performance sophomore, threatens Connor Konz (Old Dogsborough), so it’ll be nice to see how the performance and dramaturgy junior, during Thursday’s dress rehearsal of “The Resistible Rise of audience perceives that,” act- Arturo Ui.” (center) Jake Ryan Lozano, performance sophomore, looks on as Ernesto Roma. ing sophomore Kasey Weir said. Collier McKinnis collier.j.mckinnis-1@ou.edu
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SPORTS
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OU hosts reeling Kansas squad
Sooners start season at Kajikawa Classic
Sooners searching for signature win
OU boasts three All-Americans, high expectations for 2013 season
Garrett Holt Sports Reporter
The O klahoma men’s basketball team will have a difficult task on its hands as it tries to get back into the win column against Kansas at 3 p.m. Saturday at Lloyd Noble Center. Both the Sooners (14-7, 5-4 Big 12) and the Jayhawks (19-3, 7-2 Big 12) come into the game on a two-game losing streak. “We didn’t respond very well to the Kansas State game,” coach Lon Kruger said. “For the first time all year, we came out of a loss and didn’t respond like you would want to. “I think that one took a little something out of us, and we didn’t have much pop [in the next game].” After that 52-50 loss to Kansas State, OU came out flat against Iowa State and was handed one of this season’s worst defeats, 83-64. On the other side of the matchup, Kansas also picked up one of its worst losses of the season in its last game against TCU. The Jayhawks shot a dismal 29 percent from the field and only managed to score 13 points in the first half of what eventually became a 62-55 loss. “We’ve lost two games, they’ve lost two games,” senior forward Romero Osby said. “They’re going to come in here fired up. They’re still the No. 5 team in the nation until that changes.”
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Freshman guard Isaiah Cousins (11) and senior forward Romero Osby (24) defend Kansas State senior guard Rodney McGruder (left) during OU’s 52-50 loss to the Wildcats on Saturday.
Osby and his frontcourt mate, junior forward Amath M’Baye, will have their hands full against Kansas’ senior center Jeff Withey. In the last matchup between the teams, a 67-54 Kansas victor y, Withe y dominated the Sooners with 13 points, nine rebounds, four blocks and three steals. The OU for wards will have to limit his effectiveness and also play to their potential if they hope to lead
the Sooners to the upset. In the last game, neither player had a great game. M’Baye finished with eight points and six rebounds while Osby had six points and six rebounds. “All we have to do is do our job and things will take care of themselves,” M’Baye said. “I expect a lot of myself and out of this team, so the results have been OK. “I think that we can all agree that we could have
done better.” The Sooners certainly hope they will start doing better this Saturday because this is an extremely important game for OU, M’Baye said. “Every game is a must win,” he said. “We all want to win this game. It’s going to be a fun one.”
After months of preparation, the nation’s second-ranked team will be back in action against No. 21 Stanford on Friday morning at the Kajikawa Classic in Phoenix. The excitement is evident within the program, and following Thursday’s practice, the team was eager to get the season underway. OU will play a sequence of five games in three days at the tournament. Senior catcher Jessica Shults said the team is primed to begin the season. “We’ve just been preparing and waiting to get back on the field and start the season,” Shults said. “We are prepared for what we’re going to face out there.” The Sooners will not be able to ease into the schedule. They will face Stanford on Friday and No. 6 Oregon on Saturday — two highly anticipated matchups. But difficult early season contests are commonplace for coach Patty Gasso’s teams. “We’ve always had the philosophy of playing a tough schedule,” Gasso said. “This team loves that competition. They would much rather be in a close ball game than to runrule a team.” Sophomore infielder Lauren Chamberlain echoed the thoughts of her coach and teammates. “We’re ready to be on the diamond with great teams,” she said. After making it to last season’s title game, the Sooners recognize the importance of facing quality competition during the regular season. “We’re trying to make a run for the national championship right now,” Chamberlain said. “Playing a stacked schedule is what we need to better prepare us for the end.” Softball’s national spotlight is on this year’s Oklahoma team, which returns three All-Americans, including USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, senior pitcher Keilani Ricketts. “We talk about staying in the moment, not looking ahead and not looking behind,” Gasso said. “That’s really where our focus has been.” The Sooners continue play in the Kajikawa Classic on Saturday when they play Oregon and New Mexico followed by one game Sunday against Northwestern.
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