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International pupils face more than language barriers

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The ocean isn’t the only divide AJINUR SETIWALDI campus reporter

Looking around campus at the groups of students hanging out at Oklahoma Memorial Union, eating at Campus Corner, studying at the Bizzell Memorial Library or walking down the South Oval, students report seeing a distinct gap between international and American students.

“What I see is most of the time, the international students hang out with their own race — the international with the international, the Chinese with the Chinese, the European with the European,” said Monrada Yamkasikorn, Spanish and international studies senior.

Yamkasikorn is an international student from Thailand. She said she came to OU about four years ago not only to study but also to learn about

the American culture, make friends and share as low language proficiency or shyness,” acThai culture with them — so far that hasn’t been cording to the study. easy for her.

Language and culture can be a communicaThe disconnect between the international and tion barrier for interaction, Yamkasikorn said.

American communities at OU is easier to gravitate to “For example, exciting Itwhat is often the case at other camyou know, so it is less means something puses in the U.S. and abroad, likely for people from differsaid Janice Levi, the interna- positive in English. In Thai ent cultures and regions to tional programs advisor for make friends. the College of International it can mean something A l t h o u g h t h e y m i g ht Studies. positive or negative. It know English, it’s challengObstacles to interaction: ing for international stucan mean nervous.”

• Language: Nearly 40 perdents to understand how cent of the 450 international monrADA yAmKASIKorn, SpAnISh AnD to use words the same way students responding to an onAmericans do. Students are InternAtIonAL StUDIeS SenIor line survey reported having no afraid of using the wrong close American friends, according to a study pub- words, embarrassing themselves or offending lished in 2012 in the Journal of International and others, Yamkasikorn said.

Intercultural Communication.

“For example, exciting means something About 46 percent said “the reason for their positive in English,” Yamkasikorn said. “In Thai friendship problems was an internal factor, such see BARRIERS pAGe 2

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Free HIV testing to be offered in student union this Valentine’s day sooners can go on a special kind of date with their significant other and get free and confidential HiV testing at oklahoma memorial Union. students can go to the main lobby at the union from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to get tested. testing will be conducted by expressions Church HiV test counselors in private rooms. oU’s Women’s outreach Center is partnering with expressions Church to raise awareness of HiV and provide testing to the oU community. the Women’s outreach Center hosts HiV testings periodically throughout the year, said Kathy moxley, Women’s outreach Center director. the center is hosting the event on Valentine’s day, thursday, because this week is also national Condom Week, and it seemed timely to remind people of HiV awareness, moxley said. there are more than one million people living with HiV in the U.s., according to estimations by the Center for disease Control and prevention. one in five of those people living with HiV is unaware of his or her infection.

“Folks who have taken risks should consider getting tested,” moxley said.

HiV can be transmitted through blood, semen, pre-seminal fluid, breast milk and vaginal fluids, according to the federal Aids website. individuals who have had unprotected sex, used drugs that require injection or had a blood transfusion or organ transplant should get tested. the tests are confidential, moxley said. students do not have to bring any identification or medical records with them. expressions Church conducts HiV tests monday through thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. at the expressions Community Fellowship located at 4010 n. youngs Blvd., oklahoma City.

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Snowy Tuesday may not be Sooners’ last chance for canceled class

Higher Education Day helps students fight for education ATIBA WILLIAMS campus reporter

An OU student prepared to take her first step into politics as she disembarked from a bus with fellow stud e n t s a n d e n t e re d t h e Oklahoma State Capitol.

Lindsey Weiss looked perfectly composed as she paused between meetings with legislators. With her typed notes in hand, her calm demeanor contrasted with the intense bustle around her.

To her left, a choir had just left the rotunda, while downstairs a student quartet was playing. Interest groups and schoolchildren filled the Capitol, all busy meeting with different legislators.

Lindsey Weiss, international studies and Arabic sophomore , joined about 50 OU students and drove to the state Capitol to defend the university’s funding on Higher Education Day. “It is a chance for students to lobby on behalf of all the students at OU,” Student Government Association Vice President Rainey Sewell said.

The main reason students lobby at the Capital is for funding, SGA President Joe Sangirardi said. This year, not only were students asking for more money for the university, but they were there to defend the funding OU already has.

OU’s Student Government Association has been attending Higher Education Day since the 1990’s, Sewell said.

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Above: Students ducked under umbrellas as quarter size flakes of snow fell across campus Tuesday morning. Although the slush across a good part of Oklahoma gradually melted in the late afternoon, a slight chance of snow is expected later in the week, said Ken Gallant, meteorologist at the National Weather Center. “There is a low, 20 percent precipitation chance around Friday,” Gallant said.

“But, the rain or snow isn’t expected to be anywhere near as widespread or significant as it was this time.” The unlikely accumulation may add up to only one to three inches, Gallant said.

Below: A group of poncho-clad tourists cross campus as rain and snow fall. it started raining early Tuesday morning and by 10 a.m. had begun snowing.

Sports: students overflowed from the student section and rushed the floor following a 72-66 win against Kansas on saturday at Lloyd noble Center. But should they have stayed in the stands? (Page B1)

Blogger offers healthy cooking suggestions L&A: “peanut Butter Fingers” provides simple instructions for healthy meals and yummy sweets. (Page B4)

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Today around campus Attend Union Programming Board’s Bingo event 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s first floor lobby.

Attend an information session on OU in Arezzo, the OU Italian program and the Italian club, Baccano, 5-7 p.m. in Hester Hall. Snacks and beverages provided.

Attend the Pre-Dental Club meeting 6 to 7:30 p.m. in ale Hall 125.

THURSDAY, FEB. 14 Visit the 3rd Annual Art from the Heart Fundraiser, a fundraiser to support the OU School of Art and Art History students 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Lightwell Gallery of the OU School of Art and Art History.

Decorate Valentine’s Day Cookies 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Attend a decorating party while promoting international giving for the P.I.G. Scholarship noon to 2 p.m. in Hester Hall 170.

Attend the Red Flags and Green Lights in Relationships Student Success Seminar to learn about how relationships affect your academics from Sunny Wenger 2-3 p.m. in Wagner Hall 245.

Attend a film screening of “I am Love” as part of Italy Week 6-8 p.m. in Kaufman Hall 230.

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Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation sparks mixed reactions in Sooners Lent begins today, and in the wake of the pope’s resignation, OU students of the Catholic faith are responding in a variety of ways.

Some Catholic OU students expressed frustration and confusion regarding the timing of the announcement Pope Benedict XVI made on Monday.

“I was shocked,” Maggie Collins, University College freshman, said. “As a Catholic, I didn’t anticipate seeing three, maybe even four, popes in my lifetime. Maybe he should have stuck it out [through the Lenten season] so we could have a solid leader to look up to.”

Pope Benedict XVI is the first pope to resign in six centuries, as the pope typically holds office until death, according to CNN. Other students, such as journalism sophomore Molly Evans, respect the pope’s decision, and, though they do not understand the timing, do not believe the resignation will adversely affect their faith.

“I think it’s a smart decision [to resign] if you can’t do the work,” Evans said.

Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation, which will become effective on Feb. 28, was announced on Monday, according to the Vatican website. Benedict cited poor health and age as the reasons behind his resignation.

“I thought it was kind of him to [step down],” said Barbara Boyd, director of outreach for religious studies.

“He seems to be looking out for the Church instead of for his own power.”

Editor’s Note: Molly Evans is a Life and Arts reporter for The Oklahoma Daily.

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• Fear of the unknown: The greatest barrier is often fear of the unknown, said Amy Lantrip, Asian studies sophomore and public affairs chairwoman for Inte r nat i o na l Ad v i s o r y Committee.

“It’s not knowing,” Lantrip said. “A lot of it is you don’t know about their culture, and you are scared you are going to do something or say something wrong.”

International students often befriend other international students, leaving Americans to think they are not interested in getting to know about American culture. Usually that isn’t the case, but it is hard to determine what students are thinking, Levi said.

It isn’t that international students aren’t interested in Americans and their culture; it’s just easier for international students to make friends with international students, Yamkasikorn said.

“We [international students] don’t know the society,” Yamkasikorn said. “So we both have that in common — we connect.”

American students often face the same pressures, anxieties and time constraints international students do, so they may not always be able to take the initiative to meet, greet and befriend international students, Levi said.

Technology also is part of the problem, Levi said. It hinders before — and after — class conversations that can lead to friendships.

“Many students are isolated because of technology, shackled to their iPhones, iPods or social networking before class begins,” Levi said.

• Shyness: A lot of international students, especially Asian students, tend to be shy and difficult to approach, said journalism junior Kiana King, who participated in OU Cousins in 2012.

According to the study, 78 percent of East Asian students attributed their friendship difficulties to factors like low language proficiency or shyness.

King said most of the interactions between international and Amer ican students at OU Cousins events were awkward, but she became friends with a Columbian student.

“It looks like we isolate them,” King said. “But we try to interact, and they shut themselves out.”

• Reasons behind lack of interaction: “More than half the international students who were less than very satisfied with their American friendships said they felt the main problem lay with the

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Azka Khawaja represents the Pakistani Student Association on April 13 during their Pak Masala Fusion dance at the Eve of Nations in Lloyd Noble Center. The event has taken place for 42 years and brings together the OU and Norman communities for an evening of international food, music, fashion and dancing.

Americans,” said Elisabeth Gareis, professor of commuIn depth nication studies at Baruch Ways to bridge the gap College/City University of New York, who conducted English Conversation Café: the study, in the press reInternational students engage in casual conversations lease from June 2012. with American students over coffee, according to the College of International Studies’ website.

The most common reason for attributing the problem OU Cousins: to Americans was superfiPairs international students with American students, ciality, getting 32 percent of according to the program’s website the vote.

The second most comFriends to International Students: m o n re a s o n i s t hat i n Families can open their homes to international ternational students bestudents, according to the program’s website. lieved Americans weren’t International Student Speakers Bureau: open-minded or weren’t International students and scholars can volunteer to interested in other cultures. share about their home countries, according to the That reasoning got 25 perCollege of International Studies’ website. cent of the vote, according to the study.

Lion’s Club of Norman: International students Lions are an international network of 1.3 million men desire inclusion, but they and women in 205 countries and geographic areas who work together to answer the needs that challenge are also wary of the reasons communities around the world, according to the club’s Americans are interacting website. with them, Lantrip said.

“A lot of them say ‘yeah I’m excited,’” Lantrip said. “But O n c e y o u m a k e o n e ask, ‘What have you done there are some that are say- American friend, he or she to reach out?’” Levi said. ing ‘well, they just want to do serves as the gatekeeper “ There isn’t typically a it for their resume. They are to American culture by in- response.” doing it for their future, and troducing you to a range of Ev e n t s s p o n s o re d by they don’t really care about Americans, American tradi- I n t e r n a t i o n a l S t u d e n t me or my culture.’” tions and culture, Levi said. Services and organizations That’s the kind of attitude While there is no clear around campus have helped the International Advisory solution to the disconnect shrink the gap between the Committee b e t w e e n two communities, but the is tr ying to “The problem for this t h e t w o problem still exists, Lantrip disconnect is the flush out, c o m m u - said.

Lantrip said. Americans are going, nities, the “I would like it completeThe orkey to inter- ly shrunk and gone,” Lantrip ‘Hey, are you going action lies said. ga n i z at i o n encourages to come say hi?’ And in the willCampus Activities students to ingness of Council usually hosts events interact be- the internationals are ever y stu- that are geared toward tradicau s e t h e y going, ‘Hey, are they dent to step tional students, but Lantrip are a part of going to come say out of his or is saying they should do the Sooner her comfort something that brings interhi?’” communiz o n e a n d national and American stuty and have i n t e r a c t , dents together.

Amy Lantrip, Asian studies m u c h t o sophomore and public affairs said Levi.

International Advisory offer one anT a k e a Committee and OU Cousins chair for International other — not chance and p r o v i d e m a n y e v e n t s Advisory Committee for sorority introduce throughout the semester cultural points or for their yourself. That’s when inter- that are typically free to the resumes, she said. action and friendship be- entire student body at OU, gins, Levi said. said Raymond Wolber, OU • Bridging the gap: start Levi said she encourages Cousins Student Director, in with a “Hi.” her international students to an email. Those efforts are as “The problem for this dis- get involved outside of their much for the American comconnect is the Americans are cultural organizations. munity as they are for the ingoing, ‘Hey, are you going to “When my internation- ternational community. come say hi?’ And the inter- al students come to me nationals are going, ‘Hey, are with a common complaint they going to come say hi?’” of not being able to make Ajinur Setiwaldi Lantrip said.

Ajinur.U.Setiwaldi-1@ou.edu American friends, I often

advocate: Students work to protect OU’s funding Continued from page 1 brings together student delegates from universities around the state to remind state legislators of the importance of funding higher education, according to Daily archives.

Throughout the day, student delegates perform “drop-ins,” stopping by legislators’ offices with informational packets and a pitch.

After her meeting with state legislators, Weiss remained positive.

“To be able to talk to the people who are making decisions about my university — about my state — I feel like I’m both making history Donterio Ligons/The Daily and watching history hap- Josiah Wood (left) and Lindsey Weiss spend the afternoon at the state Capital in Oklahoma City advopen,” Weiss said. cating about higher education reform and tuition cost.

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THUMBS DOWN: Some of OU’s international students feel alienated from other students and find it difficult to socialize and interact with their American counterparts (Page 1)

EDITORIAL

Vatican can modernize with next pope Our View: Catholic Church must reform to survive. he addressed the meeting of Vatican cardinals.

Benedict gave his resignation in Latin, underscoring his adherence to traditional Catholic practices, acThere will be no more big, funny hats for Pope cording to the Associated Press.

Benedict XVI. The pope announced His resignation comes while the Catholic Monday he would be resigning the papacy The Our View is the majority Church is mired in numerous sexual abuse at the end of February prompting the need opinion of and political scandals that have plagued his to elect a new pope in the first weeks after The Daily’s papacy. Benedict’s strict adherence to tradihis resignation. The traditional mourning nine-member period after a pope’s death will not apply, editorial board tion and mishandling of controversy likely contributed to his resignation. making a quick election possible.

Benedict angered many Muslims in 2006 The Catholic Church must use Benedict’s when he quoted a Byzantine emperor who called resignation to move away from conservative politIslam “evil and inhuman.” He later apologized for ical advocacies and toward a progressive, inclusive dogma. The resignation of the conservative Benedict the speech — an act that was accepted by many top clerics from around the world. can mark a new era for Catholics in every corner of The controversy over Islam was one brief incident, the world. Popes almost never resign. The last pope to resign was Pope Gregory XII who stepped down in but the real test of Benedict’s papacy was the sex 1415 to unify the Church after three different popes abuse scandals involving Catholic priests. Although the scandals began years before Benedict’s papacy, claimed power. much of the damage control fell to Benedict after the When Benedict stepped down in a small meetdeath of his predecessor, Pope John Paul II. ing with his closest advisers, it shocked Catholics The scandal was particularly damaging in the around the world, according to Reuters.

United States after an investigation by the Boston The pope is not just a leader like a president or Globe exposed widespread abuse in 2002. king. The pope is a spiritual guide for 1.2 billion Catholics make up 22 percent of the American Catholics and shapes the religious and political actions of a large portion of the American population. population — approximately 69 million people — and 25 percent of voters, according to the Pew Benedict cited health and travel demands when

Forum on Religion and Public Life.

Catholics in America also are more liberal. A majority of Catholics voted for President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, despite his stance on contraceptives and abortion rights, two policies Benedict strongly opposed.

As American Catholics become increasingly liberal compared to church leadership, the Catholic Church must change its leadership to respond.

One key issue for many Catholics has been the adoption of women priests. One American group, Roman Catholic Womenpriests, has begun ordaining women into the priesthood against Catholic law.

Benedict’s predecessors, John Paul II and Pope John XXIII were progressive, international figures.

Benedict’s election was, in some way, a step back to a conservative period in Catholic doctrine before the reforms undertaken in the mid-20th century.

The election of a progressive, modern pope would help reflect the changing views of Catholics.

Hopefully, Benedict’s resignation will remove many barriers to progressive, liberal policies that better reflect a changing church population increasingly concerned with ideas of social justice and equality.

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COLUMN

Reproduce, reuse, recycle OPINION COLUMNIST

Micah Wormley m.wormley@ou.edu

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ational Condom Week is this week and top drawers all over the country are becoming stuffed with the prophylactic devices.

The tradition began at the University of California, Berkeley and spread to provide educational information at high schools, colleges and family planning organizations, according to the website for National Condom Week.

Sexually transmitted infection and pregnancy prevention are important when it comes to students because half of the 19 million cases of infections are among people aged 15 to 25 years, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Almost 750,000 U.S. women aged 15 to 19 become pregnant each year, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

However, the people distributing free condoms can become a little zealous in their labor, and often passers-by will collect more condoms than would be useful for even the most sexually active of us.

I applaud efforts to distribute condoms as widely as possible, but there is no need to create unnecessary waste from unused condoms.

To remedy this, I have assembled ideas for what to do with the extra condoms you may have planned on using in a different way or not planned on using at all.

First aid

Coin wrap

A condom can be used as a crude rubber glove when dealing with wounds. The condom will protect the wound from your hands and your hands from blood-borne pathogens.

Drop the right number of coins into a condom for each denomination: 50 pennies, 40 nickels, 50 dimes, 40 quarters, 20 half-dollars, or 25 dollar coins and make a deposit at the bank.

Flotation device

Lubricate Equipment

Inflate several to make a buoy. A woman who fell overboard was able to survive for three days using this trick after falling overboard from a cruise ship.

In India, condoms are used in the manufacturing of saris.

The condom is placed over the spool. The lubricant keeps thread moving through the sewing machine.

Fire starter

Fishing bobber

Fill a condom with water, gather some dry tinder and then use the filled condom as a convex lens to focus the light of the sun on the tinder.

The brush should catch fire quickly.

Micah Wormley is a professional writing junior.

Water balloons

Protect a newspaper

Finished starting your fire? Just lob the filled condom at your friends. On second thought, they may retaliate, so have a few already filled, just in case.

For this you will need two condoms and a copy of The Daily.

Roll the paper tightly and slide it into the first condom. Then slip the other condom over the opposite end.

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Fans celebrate on the court after rushing the floor following OU’s 72-66 win against then-No. 5 Kansas on Saturday at Lloyd Noble Center. Kansas dropped to No. 14 after the loss.

minutes of regulation surely would have dampened that mood.

I wanted to leave the arena rather than run to the center of it. Only a miraculous comeback or last-second miracle would provoke me to rush the court.

A matter like this should be treated by professional teams. Many franchises have endorsements involving the final score that affects nonsports related outcomes.

For example, the Los Angeles Lakers have a gimmick that rewards their fans with tacos if they eclipse 100 points while keeping their opponent from that total.

It’s very concrete; there are rules to be followed. The fans should infer extracurricular activity, not like the “will they/won’t they” attitude displayed on Saturday.

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These are my issues: First and foremost, OU is not a basketball school.

One cannot be overjoyed about a victory from a secondary sport that doesn’t involve touchdowns. Do we see any die-hard softball fans rushing the field after a signature win? I doubt it.

Secondly, Kansas is now out of the top 10. Did OU fans rush the court after defeating OSU ranked just three spots higher? Of course not.

Barely beating an average, struggling basketball team by escaping from their lastditch effort, church-league, triangle two defense does not merit the type of celebration that ensued.

The abuse of this tradition definitely is concerning.

We’re reaching the point in which the phrase “the game we rushed the court”

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What we just witnessed this past weekend needs to be addressed.

No, I’m not talking about our university’s upheaval of an overrated and unproven Kansas squad — losers of three straight games.. I’m talking about the egregious display after the game where 20 students evoked the rest of the fans in attendance to climb down the barriers of Lloyd Noble Center and high-five their new favorite players they just realized were on their new favorite team.

This display was pathetic.

They looked like Boy Scouts running onto the field after old Tulsa football games just so they could see how many yards they were running.

Something needs to be done regarding this matter.

Not only is it dangerous, but it also taints the quality of the win.

The fate of my tolerance depends upon it.

Let’s look at the origins of rushing the court. I imagine it came about because loyal fans were so overjoyed about their team finally making that leap and winning an important game that their emotions got the best of them and spurred them to stand and run to whatever space surrounded them.

It’s a sense of instant joy and satisfaction, where one square foot of your designated seat cannot and will not restrain you.

This game was a drawnout grind. Nothing I witnessed as a fan caused me to leap in joy or adulation.

The last two minutes took 20 minutes in real time.

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The reason for rushing the court shouldn’t be because other people seem to be doing it. It should be because your emotions as a fan cannot stop you from doing it.

I firmly believe this court rushing penalized the Sooners’ current ranking. The pollsters realized OU didn’t recognize or remember how to win games and docked them valuable credentials that will affect them come March.

The next time fans feel like they deserve a second of fame on ESPN, they should think of the implications.

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — For wrestling, this may have been the ultimate body slam: getting tossed out of the Olympic rings.

The vote Tuesday by the IOC’s executive board stunned the world’s wrestlers, who see their sport as popular in many countries and steeped in history as old as the Olympics themselves.

While wrestling will be included at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, it was cut from the games in 2020, which have yet to be awarded to a host city.

2004 Olympic Greco-Roman champion Khasan Baroev of Russia called the decision “mind-boggling.”

“I just can’t believe it. And what sport will then be added to the Olympic program? What sport is worthy of replacing ours?” Baroev told the ITAR-Tass news agency. “Wrestling is popular in many countries — just see how the medals were distributed at the last Olympics.”

American Rulan Gardner, who upset three-time Russian Olympic champion Alexander Karelin at the Sydney Games in an epic gold-medal bout known as the “Miracle on the Mat,” was saddened by the decision to drop what he called “a beloved sport.”

“It’s the IOC trying to change the Olympics to make it more mainstream and more viewer-friendly instead of sticking to what they founded the Olympics on,” Gardner told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Logan, Utah.

The executive board of the International Olympic Committee reviewed the 26 sports on its summer program in order to remove one of them so it could add one later this year. It decided to cut wrestling and keep modern pentathlon — a sport that combines fencing, horse riding, swimming, running and shooting — and was considered to be the most likely to be dropped.

The board voted after reviewing a report by the IOC program commission report that analyzed 39 criteria, including TV ratings, ticket sales, anti-doping policy and global participation and popularity. With no official rankings or recommendations contained in the report, the final decision by the 15-member board was also subject to political, emotional and sentimental factors.

“This is a process of renewing and renovating the program for the Olympics,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams said. “In the view of the executive board, this was the best program for the Olympic Games in 2020. It’s not a case of what’s wrong with wrestling; it is what’s right with the 25 core sports.”

According to IOC documents obtained by the AP, wrestling ranked “low” in several of the technical criteria, including popularity with the public at the London Games — just below 5 on a scale of 10. Wrestling sold 113,851 tickets in London out of 116,854 available.

Wrestling also ranked “low” in global TV audience with a maximum of 58.5 million viewers and an average of 23 million, the documents show. Internet hits and press coverage were also ranked as low.

NBC, which televises the Olympics in the U.S., declined comment.

The IOC also noted that FILA — the international wrestling federation — has no athletes on its decision-making bodies, no women’s commission, no ethics rules for technical officials and no medical official on its executive board.

Modern pentathlon also ranked low in general popularity in London, with 5.2 out of 10. The sport also ranked low in all TV categories, with maximum viewership of 33.5 million and an average of 12.5 million.

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t’s that time of year again. Valentines Day If you are stuck spending the night alone has arrived with full force, and if you don’t studying your life away, take a break and watch feel like shelling out the big bucks for an- a movie that won’t feel like additional torture. other Hallmark invented holiday, stay at home Here’s my list of recommendations for movand rent a movie or head to the theater with ies for any of the above scenarios: your valentine.

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“10 Things I Hate About You” — A light-hearted and “I Love You, Man” — For single guys: a Paul Rudd, Jason comical approach to the drama of high school love.

Segel bromance. Go for it.

“Sixteen Candles” — A throwback, but an epic of the “Clueless” — Cher Horowitz doesn’t get too wrapped up ‘80s era. No one could ever get sick of Jake Ryan and that in love, and neither should you if you are going to a “gal-ensexy red sports car. tines” party.

“Across the Universe” — This alternative to the cheesy “Magic Mike” — Break out the wine and cupcakes. romantic genre will make you nostalgic for the old days and the real-deal kind of love

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Cedar Marie, foundations studio professor, dishes out a bowl of soup at the Art from the Heart event Feb. 14, 2012. Participants in this fundraiser paid $15 for a piece of artwork and all-youcan-eat soup and sandwiches to raise money to help fund School of Art & Art History student scholarships.

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