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from the IT store hasn’t been part of the deal since January of this year. Federal aid money once paid for anything charged to a student’s bursar account. This changed in July 2008, when the U.S. Department of Education adjusted the nationwide cash management
rules. Federal aid dollars can only be applied to what federal regulations define as “institutional charges,” which include tuition, fees and room and board. The department implemented these changes to limit what federal aid dollars
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Sophomore wide receiver Jaz Reynolds (16) hugs fans after OU’s 38-28 win against the Missouri Tigers on Saturday at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Reynolds made his first start since being suspended and forced to redshirt the 2010 season.
Reynolds embraces shot at redemption Sophomore wide receiver steps up after suspension in 2010 JAMES CORLEY Sports Editor
A good indication a Sooner player has “arrived” is when he is commonly known to OU fans by one name. Landry. Broyles. Dom. Stills. Sam. In OU’s 38-28 shootout against Missouri on Saturday night at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, another player made a case for joining his peers: Jaz. Sophomore wide receiver Jaz Reynolds had
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an explosive game against the Tigers, catching five passes for 93 yards. It was the first time he’d been in the spotlight in MORE INSIDE almost a year and a half. Jaz had 13 receptions for Sooners fend off 256 yards as a freshman in Missouri, 38-28. 2009, but he was suspendPAGE 8 ed last year for an insultOU wins, but falls ing post on Twitter and was in the AP poll. forced to redshirt. PAGE 9 “It was embarrassing,” he said. “It was a humbling experience. It taught me to grow up and work harder just to get everything back that I worked for my freshman year.”
Since that moment, Jaz said he’s been working to get back under the bright lights. After he didn’t see significant time on the field in OU’s first two games this season, he said he started to get down on himself. But he got some sound advice that helped him wait. “My parents told me, ‘Just be patient. Good things come to people who wait.’ I finally got my chance,” he said. His chance became a possibility when sophomore wide receiver Trey Franks was suspended indefinitely last week for violating see JAZ paGe 10
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Faith in hand for Oval recruits BLAYKLEE BUCHANAN Campus Reporter
Every so often, students begin the daily bustle through the South Oval and ask: Why is that kid dressed in a green body suit and trying to get me to join a religious organization? This scene may be unfamiliar to some, but on a college campus, it is one of the many ways religious organizations reach out to potential members. Some might think this alternative recruitment would deter students, but many students see this as a positive approach. The Latter-Day Saints Student Association was spreading the word ab out its Fr iday barbeque on Wednesday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Petroleum engineering senior Edson Cafranca of the association said having a table set up does help increase interest. “Well, what we do is, since I’m a student here, if you’re a friend of mine passing by and you see me, you’re more likely to come,” Cafranca said. Shane Kammerer, assistant director at the OU Baptist Student Union, was outside Dale Hall on Thursday with students of Paradigm. People who walked by could write on a piece of paper who they thought God was and attach it to free-standing boards. Kammerer said the purpose of this activity was not to add more members but to spread the word about the Christian organization’s events. Religious studies senior Trevor Clark said the fliers and table set ups didn’t affect his decision to join Paradigm. “Really it was more like relationships with people, friendships with people. [My friends] brought me along. Going to Paradigm was part of the relationship building process,” he said. University College freshman Amy Miller said when she makes her way across campus, the promotions don’t get her to go, necessarily, but rather just keep her informed. “Although I rarely go to the event because of the fliers, it is helpful because it lets me know that they are having an event. That way I can make the choice to go or not,” Miller said.
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Greek affiliates should work closely with campus community. (Page 4)
lIFE & arts ‘Dracula’ astounds on opening weekend Cast’s performances draw standing ovations after first shows. (Page 5)
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Junior Ben Habern will miss six to eight weeks, Stoops says. (Page 10)
OU fraternities stride for domesticviolence awareness VICTORIA GARTEN Campus Reporter
Fraternity members strapped on their slingbacks, put on their pumps and strutted across South Greek on Friday to join OU Alpha Chi Omega’s campaign to end domestic violence. The sorority held its first “Walk a Mile in her Shoes” event, an international men’s march to stop rape, sexual assault and gender violence.
The national program began in 2001 after a 20-yearold Alpha Chi Omega member was raped in 1995 and committed suicide on New Year’s Eve of that year. Friday evening’s event began with Andrea Cooper telling her daughter Kristin’s story. It was this story that moved so many fraternity members to support the women on campus. “With so many women present, as well as the fraternities that participated in
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Participants in Friday’s “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” domestic-violence awareness event line up to race in women’s footwear.
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Today around campus Student Success Series: A forum navigating OU’s colleges will take place from 2 to 3 p.m. in Adams Center’s learning center. The forum plans to guide students through academic paths at OU. A recital hosted by the School of Music titled “Visiting Artists Michael & Mary Kirkendoll, Flute Recital� will take place from 8 to 10 p.m. at the Catlett Music Center’s Pitman Recital Hall.
Tuesday, sept. 27 Art Adventures is hosting “Beautiful Oops!� from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in the Dee Dee and Jon R. Stuart Classroom. Children ages 3-5 accompanied by an adult can attend. Contact Susan Baley at sbaley@ou.edu or 405-325-3270 for more information. A noon concert by the OU School of Music faculty and students will take place from noon to 12:30 p.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in the Sandy Bell Gallery. The event is free. “Rauschenberg: Prints from Universal Limited Art Editions, 1962-2008� will be from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the Nancy Johnston Records Gallery. Tet Trung Thu - Lunar Moon Festival 2011 will take place from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the Jim Thorpe Multicultural Center. Admission is $5 for the public and $2 for Vietnamese Student Association members. OU’s 2011 Neustadt Festival of International Literature and Culture will begin with a poetry and fiction reading 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Norman Train Depot, 200 S. Jones St. The Festival will offer events throughout the week until Friday. Sutton Concert Series: OU Symphony Orchestra will play from 8 to 9:45 p.m. at the Catlett Music Center in Sharp Concert Hall. Tickets are $9 for adults and $5 for students, OU faculty/staff and senior adults. The Friends of Music Reception by the OU School of Music will take place from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the Catlett Music Center in Gothic Hall. The reception is free and open to the public.
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this event, this should inspire women to speak up about domestic violence and encourage men to help prevent domestic violence when they witness it,� University College freshman and Phi Kappa Psi pledge David McCabe said. McCabe won “Fastest Stride� in the walk event after he and other fraternity members marched in high heels for Kristin’s cause. “Many women told me they were helped by the presentation. I think the men were made aware of the situation a woman may be put into and learned to respect the woman,� said Andrea Cooper, a Delta Delta Delta sorority alumna. Alpha Chi Omega chapter adviser Katy Bergman said the walk is about tackling a subject that reaches so many people. “Unlike most issues, ours is unique in that anyone can be affected by it, and only few discuss it. Our chapter is striving to raise awareness and to advocate for those
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University College freshman Sanjay Prabhu runs in women’s footwear Friday. Alpha Chi Omega sponsored “Walk a Mile in her Shoes�, an international event that brings men dressed in varying heights of shoes who complete a race without taking the shoes off.
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who may not feel comfortable doing it for themselves,� Bergman said. The event raised more than $10,000 for YWCA and the OU Women’s Outreach Center. YWCA focuses on women’s needs and issues, as well as eliminating racism and empowering women, and the Women’s Outreach Center empowers and advocates on behalf of women, according to their websites. “I believe that this year was a start of a new event and raising awareness. After this year, I hope that it will continue to grow and hopefully go from the Greek community to campuswide to communitywide,� said Jennifer Arnold, health and exercise science junior and Alpha Chi Omega philanthropy chairwoman. “I would love to come back in five years and the walk have hundreds of participants.� Arnold said domestic violence happens to regular people, and it happens to people we all know. It will take all of us to stop it, she said.
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only, Grant said. Cash payments are not accepted because of the danger it imposes on people carrying large amounts of cash. University College freshman Raechel Karas was not attending OU when students were still able to make OU IT charges to the bursar account. Karas said students not being allowed to make OU IT purchases through their
bursar account can be financially inconvenient but understands OU’s reasoning. “It’s good that we can’t charge everything to our bursar because it puts a certain amount of responsibility on us, but at the same time, it’s a pretty big inconvenience because you never really know when your computer is going to break down or when you’re going to need a laptop charge,� Karas said.
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William Clark’s family gave a canoe to Chinook Nation LONG BEACH, Wash. — It was a long time coming, but the descendants of explorer William Clark have tried to make amends for a 205-yearold theft. A descendant of the explorer in the Corps of Discovery expedition that opened a land route to the West presented the Chinook Indian Nation with a replica of a canoe that the corps stole in 1806. Some of Clark’s descendants and a few donors stepped forward to pay for the canoe, which was custom built in Veneta, Ore. The five-hour ceremony on Saturday included songs, gift exchanges and the maiden voyage of the replica canoe. Ray Gardner, chairman of the Chinook Nation’s tribal council, said the return of the canoe is a “good place to begin healing.” “It’s nice to see a circle completed,” Gardner said. After completing their journey west and spending a wet and wretched winter at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1806, Clark and Meriwether Lewis found they were short a canoe, so they stole one from the Clatsop Indians who had kept them alive all winter. The Clatsop later became one of five tribes to form the Chinook Indian Nation. It has long been a sore subject with the tribes in the Pacific Northwest, who perceived the theft as a major insult. Canoes were a sacred part of their culture and an important mode of transportation. The Chinook Indian Nation is not for mally recognized by the U.S.
NATION NEWS BRIEFS 1. MEETEETSE, WYO.
Rare North American ferret grows in population The only ferret species native to North America is well on its way to recovery since biologists concluded the creatures went extinct in 1979. Thirty years ago this month, a ranch dog named Shep killed a black-footed ferret near Meeteetse in northwest Wyoming. Shep’s owner found the dead ferret. Word got out, and it didn’t take long for biologists to find about 100 black-footed ferrets living on a nearby ranch. A federal captive breeding program has helped to re-establish about 1,000 black-footed ferrets in eight Western states, Canada and Mexico. Black-footed ferrets are predators that prey exclusively on prairie dogs. Ranchers continue to aggressively poison and shoot prairie dogs on their land. Plague outbreaks also have taken a severe toll on prairie dogs over the past century. The Associated Press
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Mylee Wahlgren, 6, left, and her grandmother Donna Sinclair, of Washougal, Wash., bless the 36-foot replica canoe during the canoe reparation ceremony Saturday Sept. 24, 2011, at Fort Columbia, near Chinook, Wash.
government. Federal recognition would make the tribe eligible for economic assistance, land, housing grants a n d o t h e r g ov e r n m e n t benefits. “I cannot help but think, if one family can step forward and right a wrong that has been committed against the
Chinook nation 205 years later,” Gardner said, “it would be nice if the federal government would do the same.” Clark’s descendant, Lotsie Clark Holton, said she was overwhelmed by the acceptance of her family by Chinook tribe members. Holton learned of the
theft while working at a Washington, D.C., nonprofit with Gardner, setting Saturday’s events in motion. “It’s been a wonderful experience. The Chinook people totally accepted us,” Holton said. “After 205 years, it was certainly overdue.” The Associated Press
One person has been killed and two others wounded in a shooting at a hotel-casino in Sparks, Nev. that witnesses say involved members of rival motorcycle gangs, the Vagos and Hells Angels. Sparks police confirmed the fatal shooting at John Ascuaga’s Nugget about 11:30 p.m. Friday, but they have not identified any of the people involved. Daniel Sharp of Stockton, Calif., told the Reno Gazette-Journal he was in the dance area at the Nugget for the Street Vibrations biker festival when a group of Vagos club members came in. He says a single Hells Angel then entered, soon followed by several more. Within five minutes he says a fight erupted and shots rang out. Police Lt. Pete Krall says they are investigating different motorcycle clubs but declined to name them. The Associated Press
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“If they want to register a student organization, then they should have to accept all students.” (oudaily99, Re: EDITORIAL: Two types of students organizations needed)
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Greek philanthropy hits home Our View: Greek organizations accomplish a lot of philanthropy, but they should focus on their most effective events: those focused on issues important to the OU community.
extensive philanthropy, as well as the influence to affect students’ priorities. Events like these invest the energy of participants into campus instead of spending time and resources away from campus. One feature of the greek community that freIt’s important, of course, for student organizaquently gets lost in discussion is the charity and tions of all kinds to affect the world outside the service it encourages. college bubble — universities are uniqueStudents see so many of these events ly suited to fostering an environment that The Our View that it’s easy to take them for granted. makes such outreach, service and charity is the majority Alpha Chi Omega’s “Walk a Mile in her possible, after all. But issues that affect opinion of Shoes” event this weekend, to raise awarethe campus should be a higher priority. The Daily’s ness for sexual assault and gather money So while we applaud the greek com10-member for the Women’s Outreach Center by haveditorial board munity for all its philanthropy projects, ing fraternity members march down South we’d love to see more events like this one Greek in heels, illustrates the power of that are clearly relevant to the OU comgreek organizations to effectively grapple with munity. And while the impetus and planning for timely and important campus issues. these events originates in the greek community, We don’t know if the recent discussion of sexnon-greek students can help make them more efual-assault issues inspired Alpha Chi Omega to fective, too. bring this event to campus — or if the event had All these events are open to anyone, and we already been in the works — but either way, the have heard greek members encouraging partiming is powerful. ticipation from the rest of the campus. But often The greek community engages in a lot of signifi- nongreek students don’t realize they are welcome cant and beneficial philanthropy, but events like to attend these events. Many sorority and fraterthese are especially effective because they relate nity functions are designed by their very nature specifically to the OU community. Student organi- to exclude non-members, so members will need zations don’t often have a chance to raise money to be much more explicit in advertising inclusive or awareness for issues so closely tied to campus, activities. but they can choose events that are relevant to After all, it doesn’t matter how much chalking recent campus issues. It’s a way to take part in the greek members do to welcome students to their community dialogue on these issues and to furevents — if students see those greek letters, they ther emphasize their importance. think it means “stay away.” This is especially true for greek organizations that have the resources and structure to carry out Comment on this at OUDaily.com
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Bachmann remarks stir debate
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n Sept. 24, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was at a Republican debate. The congresswoman has a problem: Her poll numbers have taken a slide since Rick Perry entered the race, catering to a similar tea party crowd. Seeking to separate herself from the Texas governor, she cited an executive order Perry made requiring all adolescent girls in Texas to receive the human papillomavirus vaccine, Gardasil, designed to prevent cervical cancer. Bachmann didn’t just claim this policy violated the rights of girls receiving the vaccine. She didn’t cite health and safety concerns, a common complaint, although this particular vaccine has an excellent safety record. Nor did she bring up another conservative issue that vaccinating against HPV — a sexually transmitted virus — would encourage
things about biology have challenged the claim. Of course, if Bachmann met a woman who personally attests to such an effect, we could always find this mysterious Floridian woman and her daughter. (Though I doubt even she was qualified Zach Eldredge to correctly make medical zeldredge@ou.edu statements such as these.) A promiscuity. No, Michele professor at the University of Bachmann claimed she spe- Minnesota, Steven Miles, is cifically knew of an individu- offering a $1,000 reward for al who had become mentally the name and medical reretarded after receiving the cords of the person so afflictvaccine. ed. Another bioethicist has This claim sparked quite upped the offer to $10,000. an uproar among people Oddly, nobody has collected who, you know, care about these yet. facts. Bachmann’s claim Michelle Bachmann’s wasn’t just untrue — it was statements were irresponsiludicrous. Bachmann said ble. They were irresponsible she spoke with a woman politically, as she attempted in Tampa who approached to pass off unconfirmed her after the debate and anecdotal experience as armade the claim about her gumentative support. They daughter, but the candidate were also irresponsible medapparently didn’t think to ically, as her comments are check into the validity of this. taken seriously by thousands Several people who, unlike of people, some of whom Bachmann, actually know may now choose not to be
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vaccinated. Twelve thousand women died of cervical cancer last year. A doctor at the University of Chicago Medical Center said 70 percent of those deaths were preventable by vaccination. However, the real efficacy of a vaccine is its ability to protect those who weren’t even vaccinated. This effect, called herd immunity, arises because the number of potential carriers for the virus drops to be much lower. By discouraging vaccination and engaging in fearmongering for personal political gain, Bachmann puts large numbers of people at further risk of becoming infected with HPV and contracting cervical cancer. There is, perhaps, a place for debate on the merits of mandatory immunization. But to toss unsubstantiated rumor and hysteria around is neither reasonable nor safe. Zach Eldredge is a physics sophomore.
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ast Wednesday, I watched coverage of Troy Davis’s execution in horror. Davis was convicted of killing a Burger King security guard, but doubts about his guilt rose when witnesses recanted or changed their stories. Protests and petitions grew in number as his execution date grew closer. Lawrence Russell Brewer also was executed on Wednesday. Brewer, a white supremacist gang member, was convicted of chaining James Byrd Jr. to the back of his pickup truck and driving him down an asphalt road. Byrd was recovered in
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pieces. I didn’t watch coverage of Brewer’s execution. I didn’t sign a petition asking for the death penalty not to have been applied. But I should have. I don’t doubt Brewer was guilty, and what he did makes my stomach curl. I’m
horrified that Byrd was killed because of his race, and I’m sick that he was killed in such a brutal fashion. However, Brewer shouldn’t have been killed. He’s a terrible man who did unspeakable things, but Texas was wrong to apply the death penalty to him. We cannot call for the death penalty to be abolished when a Troy Davis comes along but root for death when a Lawrence Brewer does. It’s a double standard. In the eyes of the law, Davis’s crime was no greater than Brewer’s; both should receive the same fate. Blogger David Henson
puts it simply, “While we rushed to defend Troy Davis ... to give voice to his voicelessness, we ignored the voice of a dogged white supremacist who met the same fate, on the same night as Troy Davis, who became a black man’s brother in circumstance.” Brewer was certainly guilty. Davis was possibly guilty. Neither deserved to die. Capital punishment in any situation is a mistake, for as Gandhi wrote, “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” Kate McPherson is a journalism sophomore.
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Death penalty impractical, cruel sentence With the execution of OPINION COLUMNIST Troy Davis — a Louisiana man sentenced on the basis of what many believe to be dubious evidence — doubts are finally surfacing about the United States justice system, and more specifSteven Zoeller ically, the death penalty. stevenv.zoeller@gmail.com Many people have never considered this issue, and quite a few don’t believe it to be an issue at all. But in anticipation of renewed national debate, I’m going to lay out why I believe we should move to abolish capital punishment. The most common argument against my position is that the threat of death is a good deterrent against heinous crimes. However, the findings of social scientists have traditionally suggested this is not the case. According to a 2009 study by the Northwestern University School of Law, 88 percent of leading criminologists do not believe capital punishment has a deterrent effect. Also, because many, if not most, capital crimes are committed while the criminal isn’t thinking clearly — when he or she is panicked, impassioned or intoxicated — it simply doesn’t make sense to think a steeper punishment would matter to them. Thus, life imprisonment would appear to be the better option: Nobody else gets killed, and society doesn’t have to see the criminal’s face ever again. At this point, some readers are possibly asking why taxpayer’s money should pay for a murderer to spend the remainder of his or her life in prison. What they may not realize is that killing the murderer is actually the more expensive option. Sending a criminal through the long appeals process, paying experts to testify and dealing with procedural safeguards is costly, so much that some lawmakers are using the death penalty’s expense to argue for its abolition. For example, a death penalty case in Maryland costs roughly $1.9 million more than a case in which the death penalty could’ve been sought, but wasn’t, according to the Urban Institute. Beyond these cold, pragmatic questions, however, is the most dire concern facing capital punishment: its tendency to ensnare innocent people. Ideally, we would want every person that’s shipped to death row to be guilty, but that’s sadly not the reality. In the recent past, we’ve seen a chilling number of innocent people sent to death row. Fortunately, most of them, like John Thompson and Leroy Orange, have been exonerated by DNA evidence. Others weren’t so lucky. We have good reason to believe the state has executed innocent people. Cameron Todd Willingham, whom I wrote about last week, and perhaps Troy Davis, fall into this camp. I urge readers to explore these cases for themselves. My final argument in favor of abolition is something of a cliché, but I think it still has merit: the death sentence constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. The French philosopher Albert Camus, once claimed “For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date on which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months.” This is certainly a nightmarish scenario to contemplate. I’ve personally had the experience of reading letters addressed from death row, and the misery of the inmates is heart wrenching. It is a common misconception that execution takes only a day to inflict, but it’s really a process of several years, most of which is spent waiting in dread, watching fellow inmates go to the grave one by one. Surely, this is cruel and unusual. Yet this argument might be the weakest of the four because it’s hard for some people to have any sympathy for murderers and child molesters. I understand this reluctance, but I do not think it weakens the point or justifies what Camus called “the most premeditated of murders.” Hopefully these reasons, in addition to personal reflection, are enough to convince other people to stand against popular opinion and oppose capital punishment.
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niversity Life & Arts Columnist Theatre’s “Dracula” is nothing like “Twilight” or “The Vampire Diaries” story crowds might have expected — and that’s a good thing. The show opened Sydney Allen Friday to a packed audisallen@ou.edu ence, a standing ovation and a stunned silence at the end. While some of the show’s elements were unrefined, such as the near constant ear-splitting screams, accent troubles and awkward staging when a character was bleeding, “Dracula” was still one of the most technically advanced shows to come out of UniversityTheatre. Tricks such as a floating body, lightning-fast character changes and a multitude of trap doors added mystery and professionalism to the performance. The set, created by designer Hana Goff, gave a feeling of spookiness to the stage. Fight coach Matthew Ellis also taught the cast very effective stage fighting sequences. Every slap and punch seemed vivid and caused the audience to wince in sympathy. Leads Brad Brockman, Stella Highfill and Madison Niederhauser as Dracula, GO AND DO Lucy Westphal, and Abram See the horror van Helsing, respectively, appeared convincingly natuWHEN: 8 p.m. Friday ral as they expressed the fear, through Saturday, 3 p.m. danger and desire of vamOct. 2 pirism. Van Helsing’s elderly WHERE: Rupel J. Jones appearance and accent was Theatre, Fine Arts Center also impressive and realistic. But it was Kevin Percival PRICE: $14 for OU students as Robert Renfield — Dracula’s unwilling and inINFO: Fine Arts box office, sane assistant — who stole 405-325-4101 the show. He gave a masterful performance that was just as frightening as the murder scenes. His rapid-fire line delivery accurately portrayed a mental patient consumed with the thoughts and orders of a senseless murderer. Some of the audience who expected a sexier show straight out of a teen fiction novel might feel alienated by the seriousness and horror of the show. The subject matter and atmosphere of this show is definitely not one for children. But most good theater should scare people.
Top: Kevin Percival plays the role of Robert Renfield in University Theatre’s production of “Dracula.” The production uses many stage techniques to highten the drama. Right: Cast members stand behind bars on stage in “Dracula.” The play’s script is based on Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” and will run through Oct. 3.
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The Oklahoma soccer team (5-6) dropped its final non-conference contest of the 2011 season to the New Mexico Lobos, 2-1, on Friday in Albuquerque, N.M. After staging a secondhalf comeback to tie the game at 1-1, UNM’s Jennifer Williams scored on a long pass assist by Brooke Ellison in the 85th minute to give the Lobos their final lead of the game. “It’s frustrating to keep possession 70 to 80 percent of the time and give up the type of goals that we are giving up,” OU coach Nicole Nelson said. “We have to continue to get better defensively, and we need to put together another full minutes of quality soccer like we did against BYU last weekend.” Williams was the catalyst for the UNM offense, scoring the first goal in the 12th minute of the contest. The Sooners hadn’t secured a comeback win this season, and Friday’s game ended in OU’s fourth one-goal loss this season. The Sooners held a 9-6 shot advantage during the first half of action but fell to a 8-2 Lobo advantage in the second half. New Mexico capitalized with six corner kicks in the second half to hold a 6-1 corner advantage during the game. Ju n i o r f o r wa rd D r ia Hampton redeemed the
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Junior defender Brianna Turang (left) chases down New Mexico senior forward Jennifer Williams during OU’s 2-1 loss to the Lobos on Friday in Albuquerque, N.M. It was OU’s last nonconference game of the year.
Sooners with a goal in the 79th minute — her fourth of the season and 12th of her career — after collecting a deflected ball in the box to send it past New Mexico goalkeeper Kelli Cornell. Hampton provided most of the OU attack against the Lobos, taking a game-high six shots and scoring the lone goal for the Sooners while the rest of the offense managed just five shots during the game.
Cornell was instrumental for New Mexico in goal, making five saves and allowing just one goal. The loss dropped the Sooners’ record below .500 while junior goalkeeper Kelsey Devonshire fell to 3-6 this season. OU returns home to host No. 2 Oklahoma State for the first conference game of the season. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. at John Crain Field.
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Texas A&M’s athletic conference future appears to have gained clarity after SEC presidents voted unanimously on Sunday to accept the university. A&M will officially join the SEC on July 1, 2012, and A&M athletic teams will begin competition with the new conference in the 2012-13 academic year. University President Bowen Loftin said he was excited to join the “premier athletic conference” and reiterated his belief that the move will benefit A&M’s visibility as one of the nation’s top institutions. “The Southeastern Conference provides Texas A&M the national visibility that our great university and our studentathletes deserve,” Loftin said. “This is a 100-year decision that we have addressed carefully and methodically, and I believe the Southeastern Conference gives the Aggies the best situation of any conference in the country.” A&M has 20 athletic teams and competes in every sport sponsored by the SEC except gymnastics. The SEC offers every sport A&M competes in except equestrian. Bernie Machen, chairman of the SEC Presidents and Chancellors and president of the University of Florida, said in a statement that the board is “pleased to welcome” A&M as the 13th member. “The addition of Texas A&M University as the SEC’s 13th member gives our league a prestigious academic institution with a strong athletic tradition and a culture similar to our current institutions,” Machen said. SEC Commissioner Mike Slive said in a statement that the addition of A&M bolsters the league’s reputation across the nation. “On behalf of our presidents, chancellors, athletics directors, students and fans, I welcome Texas A&M University to the SEC family,” Slive said. “Texas A&M is a nationally prominent institution on and off the field and a great fit for the SEC tradition of excellence — athletically, academically and culturally.” Loftin told the Dallas Morning News and CBSSports. com at halftime of the OSU game Saturday he thought the legal issues were “basically done” and that the Big 12 was “committed to going forward without us.” Porter Garner III, president and CEO of the Association of Former Students, released a statement thanking Loftin for leading A&M’s conference negotiations. Garner affirmed his belief in Loftin’s leadership throughout this process and said Loftin “acted in the best interest of Texas A&M.”
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OU rallied from an early deficit and scored 28 unanswered points to beat Missouri, 38-28, on Saturday night in Norman. The tougher-than-expected victory slipped Oklahoma down to No. 2 in the AP poll Sunday. The Louisiana State Tigers took over as the topranked team in the poll. After 20 straight home games without trailing, the Sooners found themselves in an 11-point hole nine minutes into the first quarter. Missouri got the scoring started with a seven-play, 76-yard drive after holding the Sooner offense to a threeand-out on the game’s opening possession. Freshman kicker Michael Hunnicutt put OU on the board with a 26-yard field goal. But Missouri promptly responded when sophomore quarterback James Franklin fired a 45-yard touchdown pass to L’Damian Washington. “Ever ybody just knew that we had to step up, that we don’t play like this,� junior safety Javon Harris said. “When we were down 14-3, I think it turned the game around.� The Sooners shook off the initial shock, and junior quarterback Landry Jones drove the offense down the field, putting OU in the end zone for the first time with a Kingsley Burns/The Daily 24-yard touchdown pass to senior receiver Ryan Broyles. Junior running back Dominique Whaley evades a Missouri defender during OU’s 38-28 win against the Tigers on Saturday at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Whaley finished with 82 Oklahoma followed with a rushing yards from 16 attempts and 82 receiving yards from five catches, adding a touchdown on the ground. 10-play drive that also ended with a Broyles touchdown grab to give the Sooners the lead for good. Broyles had r an k e d t o p 5 13 catches for 154 yards and BEST PLACES three touchdowns as the Sooners rallied to win their Best Mexican Food www.interworks.com | www.wehirenerds.com conference opener. IN OKLAHOMA! But while OU got on track Tasty lite menu offensively, the defense gave up 532 yards to Missouri and allowed the Tigers to finish Monday is OU Day 50% off with OU ID!
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Redshirt freshman kicker Michael Hunnicutt kicks an extra point during OU’s 38-28 win against the Missouri Tigers on Saturday in Norman. Hunnicutt started in place of senior Jimmy Stevens.
last kick a week ago.” Stoops said he would have put Hunnicutt in the game for the last field goal against FSU if the freshman had more kicks in games.
“I knew this week, no matter what, I was getting Michael some kicks,” Stoops said. “ You want to have some of the easy ones under your belt before you have to
hit one that really matters.” Hunnicutt made his only field goal attempt — 26 yards — and was 5-for-5 on point-after attempts against the Tigers on Saturday.
WIN: Sooners rally with 28 unanswered points Continued from page 8
night. But the scoring didn’t stop there. Jones also finished with a the game with two 100-yard rushing touchdown on a rushers — Franklin and run- quarterback sneak in the second quarter. That’s 24 of ning back Henry Josey. D e f e n s i v e c o o r d i n a - the Sooners’ 38 points. tor Brent Venables said the Receiving threats Sooners were plagued with emerged: Ryan mental busts. Broyles finished “Guys are going to be embarrassed about what we with 154 yards and three are going to have on tape, touchdowns to keep the and I know I am as a coach,” Sooners on track, but what Venables said.
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helped OU was the way the players around him stepped up. Nine players recorded a reception Saturday, but sophomore receiver Jaz Reynolds was a vertical threat for the Sooners, snagging five balls for 93 yards.
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Oklahoma’s defensive line had a strong game led by Frank Alexander. The senior defensive end continued his tremendous season, recording six tackles, one and a half tackles for loss and a sack. Alexander kept pressure on Missouri as he flew around the field and disrupted the Tigers’ timing.
he Missouri Tigers SPORTS COLUMNIST won again. Sure, this time it wasn’t reflected on the scoreboard — the Sooners beat Mizzou, 38-28, on Saturday — but the Tigers still accomplished one of their goals coming into James Corley a game with Oklahoma: jcorley@ou.edu Knock the Sooners out of the nation’s No. 1 spot. With a 36-27 win against OU last year, Mizzou knocked off the freshly crowned BCS No. 1 Sooners. By refusing to be blown out Saturday, the Tigers knocked off the reigning AP Poll No. 1 Sooners, as Sunday’s newest poll results showed. OU didn’t lose, but the Sooners went from receiving 37 first-place votes to just 12 and dropped to No. 2 behind another group of Tigers, LSU. No. 2 LSU previously blew out No. 16 West Virginia, 47-21, in Morgantown, W.Va., in front of an audience of ESPN’s “College GameDay” that included most of the AP voters. One could argue the voters were merely waiting for the Sooners to show weakness — beating No. 5 Florida State on the road threw a kink in their plans — to crown the Southeastern Conference’s shining child as the country’s new best and brightest. Perceived SEC bias or no, Oklahoma didn’t look like a No. 1 team Saturday, something coaches and players readily admitted in the post-game interview room. “I’m disappointed in myself as a captain and a leader of the defense,” senior linebacker Travis Lewis said. “And I’m disappointed in the guys. It’s fortunate that we won because we shouldn’t have won that game.” All is not lost for the Sooners, however. With Oct. 8’s Red River Rivalry aside, OU enters an easy stretch of its schedule in the next few weeks with games against Ball State, Kansas, Texas Tech and Kansas State. LSU, meanwhile, has home games against No. 12 Florida and defending national champion Auburn in the weeks leading up to a crucial road game against No. 3 Alabama. There’s no reason the voters couldn’t change their minds again. After all, the Sooners spent the preseason and first four weeks atop the polls and haven’t lost yet, and it’s unlikely LSU will continue playing at such a high level without faltering even once, especially in the tough SEC West Division. But maybe this is what the Sooners needed to stay sharp heading into a stretch during which few would fault them for slacking off a bit. “I’m happy that this happened,” Lewis said. “We get to go back to work [this week] and rebuild.” James Corley is a journalism senior and the sports editor for The Daily. You can follow him on Twitter at @jamesfcorley.
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OU coach Bob Stoops began a lot of speculation Saturday night when he started redshirt freshman kicker Michael Hunnicutt over senior Jimmy Stevens, who hasn’t missed a field goal yet this year. Although Stevens has made 4-of-4 field goals this season, including the gameclincher two weeks ago at Florida State, he has struggled during his three seasons at Oklahoma. Stevens is 42-for-52 overall with a long of 42 yards. When questioned about whether Stevens’ absence from the game Saturday meant Stoops had found a more reliable kicker, the coach said it was more about nursing an injury and making sure more than one kicker was ready. “Jimmy has been nursing a pull in his quad, so he didn’t feel very good out there hitting it,” Stoops said. “He really a week ago was trying to fight through it. I should have probably thrown Michael in for that
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jaz: Receiver answers team’s call after long wait INJURY
Continued from page 1 team rules. His chance became a real opportunity when team doctors discovered sophomore wide receiver Kenny Stills had sustained a mild concussion against Florida State last week and was not cleared to play against Missouri. With two receivers scratched from the depth chart, OU coach Bob Stoops talked to Jaz. “When coach called me Thursday and told me I was going to get to start, I got chills,” he said. The excitement he had to get back out there was balanced by the fear he’d do something to lose it again, he said. “First game back in a long time — (are) fans going to accept me? If I mess up, will they boo me?” he said. “I finally got my moment to shine, but I had to capitalize on it. I couldn’t let it slip through my hands or else I’d never be back on the field.” Junior quarterback Landry Jones said Jaz had been ready for a long time. “He just wanted to play,” Jones said. “He’s been biting his nails just to get in there and play a little bit. I think tonight he proved he can step up and be a really good receiver on our team.” Co-offensive coordinator Josh Heupel said Jaz spent a lot of time working toward getting back, even when nobody was watching him. “It’s good to see him get that opportunity and then perform the way he did,” Heupel said. “It’s a credit to guys staying the course, working hard every single day and believing that their opportunity’s coming.” Heupel said players can’t just sit on their hands waiting for a chance to get in,
FOOTBALL BRIEF Sooner starter to miss 6-8 weeks because of injury to snapping arm
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Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops announced Sunday that junior starting center Ben Habern will miss six to eight weeks after breaking a radius bone in his right arm in Saturday’s 38-28 win over Missouri. While Habern will not be able to play center for six to eight weeks, Stoops said there is a chance he could be able to spend time at guard in four to six weeks. Sophomore Gabe Ikard, who slid over from guard to replace Habern on Saturday, will continue to fill in until Habern makes BEN it back to the field. The positive for the Sooners is that Ikard HABERN is an experienced lineman with experience at center already under his belt. He took reps at center all through two-a-days while Habern nursed another injury. “(Gabe Ikard) is a good center,” junior quarterback Landry Jones said. “He plays really well, snaps it really well. So, we’ll be all right there. It does stink that Ben went down. You hate it for someone like Ben, just one of the better guys on our team.” Greg Fewell, Assistant Sports Editor
Sophomore wide receiver Jaz Reynolds (left) pulls away from a Missouri defender during OU’s 38-28 win against the Tigers on Saturday in Norman. Reynolds finished with five catches for 93 yards.
and he said Jaz’s success was because he didn’t just stand around waiting. “Preparing for that opportunity is the key,” Heupel said. “If you wait until that opportunity comes, you’re going to be in trouble.” Jaz said he never took his skill for granted by assuming he was good enough to bide his time until he took the field again. He made sure he was ready whenever the opportunity arose. “I’ve been ready for it and been preparing for it every day, just helping Kenny (Stills) and Ryan (Broyles) prepare for the games,” he said. “This week, it was my time to get prepared.” For most receivers, the game he had against the Tigers would be plenty as the first game back in almost a year and half, but not for Jaz. “I’m kind of upset I didn’t
get 100 yards,” he said. “There were a couple of passes — one pass was right behind me, and I got a hand on it, and it would have been my 100 yards.” Hitting the century mark or not, Jaz said he’s confident
his first big contribution on the field this year will not be his last, and he has lofty goals. “I’m going to have a couple of 100-yard games,” he said. “All you have to do is toss it up there for me.”
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