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Student charged with 17 offenses criminal activity Sept. 27. Dustin Bailey Graham, 25, surrendered to Oklahoma County Sheriff ’s Office on Oct. 1 and was released JOEY STIPEK Online Editor the same day on a $46,000 An OU Health Sciences bond. Graham is charged with Center medical student was charged with 17 counts of offenses dating back to Oct.
Graham no longer enrolled at OU
18, 2011, according to court records. These charges include eight counts of using electronic equipment in a c l a n d e s t i n e ma n n e r ; seven counts of use of a computer for the purpose of violating Oklahoma statues;
unlawfully using a computer system or computer network to gain access to and damage, modify, alter, delete, destroy, copy, make use of, disclose or take possession of information; and possession of obscene m a t e r i a l i nv o l v i n g t h e
participation of a minor in an email. under the age of 18. “I can tell you he is not Since there is an ongoing a currently enrolled OU investigation involving student,” Bishop said. Graham, it would be inappropriate for the OU to comment on the situation, said Catherine Bishop, vice Joey Stipek president for public affairs joey.stipek@gmail.com
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Books banned, challenged over last 10 years To ban or not to ban?
Edmond Editor’s note: This is part four in a series on books that have been banned or challenged to be removed from shelves in Oklahoma over the past 10 years.
“TTFN” “Farenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury by Lauren Myracle Challenged in 2011 Challenged in 2008
This graphic represents the number of books banned and/or challenged over the last decade, and the cities closest to Norman that challenged books. All challenges to books were made by parents.
“TTYL” “Gossip Girl” series by Lauren Myracle by Cecily Von Ziegesar Challenged in 2008 Challenged in 2006
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Students bring innovation, economic wealth to state Students work with researchers, privatesector mentors PAIGHTEN HARKINS Campus Reporter
Students at OU’s Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth are working on five projects this semester with real world implications, getting them out of the classroom and into the business world. The Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth, or CCEW, puts together interns, private-sector mentors and OU researchers to help push different technologies toward the marketplace. This semester, the center has 12 first-year interns working on three different core projects. Also, the group currently is working with two different alumni groups on their respective projects, said CCEW Fellow Robert Free. The three core projects are each part of the three major divisions of the center ; Software B u s i n e s s A c c e l e r a t o r, Social Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization. The Software Business
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Accelerator project the interns are w orking on this semester is an iPad application designed to work with a helmet sensor that can detect concussive blow built by the company ICEdot. The application would keep track of what the sensor says, Free said. T h e S o c i a l Entrepreneurship project is focusing on an International Eye Institute. That group will be working with a public hospital in China and an eye institute to try and build a joint eye clinic in China, Free said. The last branch of the center, Technolog y Commercialization, is working on advancing and marketing an X-Band radar that was developed by the National Weather Center and the Enterprise Electronics Corporation, Free said. Since the center started in 2006 the students have raised approximately $6.5 million for the various projects, mostly through grants and competitions, Free said. The student interns run these projects almost completely, Free said. The mentors guide them in their decision-making, but the
E! News host to speak on ethics L&A: Giuliana Rancic will speak tonight at Lloyd Noble Center about ethics and surviving breast cancer. (Page 6)
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Student interns meet with ophthalmology professor Dr. Lloyd Hildebrand (right) in the Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth on Thursday. The student-led team is working to develop a business model for the International Eye Institute, a joint venture ophthalmic surgery center opening in Sichuan Province, China.
interns make the final call. “ T h e i n t e r n s a re t h e core drivers of every single project,” Free said. “They do the work to get it done. It’s their project.” Applications are due Nov. 1 for students interested in becoming an intern at the center during the spring
semester. Typically, 12 interns are accepted per semester, Free said. Interns can receive upperdivision credit for their time at the center from the colleges of engineering, business, arts and sciences and honors, according to the center’s website.
Evan Fry, biochemistry and economics junior, joined the center his sophomore year because he wanted to be a part of something with implications outside of the university, he said. “I enjoyed working on SEE CCEW PAGE 2
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By Lauren Myracle
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CCEW: Center shows students other side of business Continued from page 1 teams with a goal in mind, but I found that some of the [groups on campus] lacked larger significance,” Fry said. “It was cool to do on campus but it didn’t ultimately make a big difference in the community.” Until a week before classes started that semester, Fry didn’t know what project he’d be working on. He ended up working with a piece of technology created by an OU researcher who would help babies with developmental issues crawl. Fry and his group worked
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Two co-chairs of the bipartisan National Commission will visit OU to talk about fiscal responsibility, the economy and ways to fix the debt and deficit crisis. Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform will speak during an informal student discussion at 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 8 in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s
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to see if there was a market for this product and met with licensing partners who ultimately would manufacture and sell the technology. Being a part of the center showed Fr y that he had options in his career. Instead of taking a narrow path to law school or taking an entry-level job in a Fortune
500 company, he saw that he could join a start-up c o m p a n y o r w o rk w i t h international businesses, he said. For Jerod Coker, a former team leader at the center, the experience showed him a side of business he had not seen before. “I would have never thought that business could
actually be an intellectual endeavor,” Coker said. “ I had always pictured it as bean counters in suits droning on about PowerPoints and stock prices. In reality it is a very creative, dynamic and fun environment.”
Sandy Bell Gallery and later during the President’s Associates Dinner at 6 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom, according to the press release. Their talk will outline the issues surrounding the crisis and highlight possible solutions, according to the release. Simpson and Bowles were asked to speak because the economy has dominated as an issue during this year’s presidential election, OU press secretary Michael Nash said. Interested students can RSVP for either event by
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EDITORIAL
Okla. makes it harder for mothers to feed babies Our View: Oklahoma has once again targeted
Planned Parenthood — and hungry mothers and children are caught in the crosshairs.
WHAT’S NEXT Contact your officials
After a string of attempts, Oklahoma’s conservative bloc finally has managed to cut state ties with Planned Parenthood — by taking food out of the mouths of mothers and babies. The Oklahoma State Department of Health announced in a Sept. 27 letter it no longer would fund Women, Infant and Child (better know as WIC) services through Planned Parenthood health centers in the Tulsa area. The WIC program provides food vouchers to economically disadvantaged pregnant women, babies and children under 5 years old and mothers of young children. Many women and children rely on this funding for access to healthy food. Planned Parenthood has been one of the limited number of distributors of this service for 18 years. In Oklahoma, nearly 3,000 women and children visit Planned Parenthood centers for these vouchers each month, according to Planned Parenthood of the Heartland. The Health Department reports more than half of all babies born in Oklahoma rely on WIC benefits for their food. Reducing the number of distribution sites for this service, which already are limited, harms the most vulnerable members of society. And it’s all because of politics. Planned Parenthood has been targeted nationally by conservative The Our View is the majority politicians because some of its centers provide abortion services. opinion of The Daily’s But the majority of Planned nine-member Parenthood’s services are other editorial board kinds of health services, including essential preventative care for men and women, which are made available at reduced costs. The Planned Parenthood centers in Oklahoma don’t even provide abortion services. These facts obviously have escaped some of Oklahoma’s lawmakers, who have attacked the organization multiple times over the past few years. In 2011, Republicans in the state House of Representatives unsuccessfully attempted to amend a nutrition bill for seniors with a measure that would restrict private contractors like Planned Parenthood from distributing WIC funds. Then, in February, House Republicans authored a bill that would have moved Planned Parenthood to the back of the line for state funding. The bill failed to pass. It seems those efforts have finally paid off. Of course, the Health Department denies this
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decision was politically motivated. It claims the decision not to renew Planned Parenthood’s contract, which now will end Dec. 31, was made for “business reasons.” The department said in a statement, “This is a renewal period, and the agency has taken the option not to renew based on the needs of the Health Department, the contractor’s performance and funding availability.” But given recent strenuous efforts to cut off Planned Parenthood, it’s difficult to believe political pressure had no influence on this decision. Now, because those in power have been so eager to collect political points by attacking a vital medical organization for its tenuous link to abortion, thousands of mothers and their children will be forced to seek their WIC benefits from other, less convenient sources. This doesn’t necessarily mean driving a few more blocks. These families are not likely to have a reliable means of transportation, so many will be relying on public transportation in a state not exactly known for it. Many will be single mothers, and some will not have access to affordable childcare. What might be a small inconvenience to a middle-class family could be an overwhelming obstacle. Not to mention Planned Parenthood of the Heartland has announced there is a possibility the clinics affected may have to close because of the loss of funding. That means these women also will lose access to essential affordable medical services, such as prenatal and pediatric care. Oklahoma’s mothers and children need your help. Call, email, write, tweet or post a Facebook message to spread the word and urge the officials listed here to work to reverse the decision. As the state with the nation’s eighth worst hunger problem, where one in five children live in poverty, Oklahoma cannot afford to put misguided and misplaced political attacks above a mother’s need to feed her children.
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›››› Sooner Sampler: Who did you think of the presidential debate?
“I dont think they know what they’re talking about. They’re going to say what it takes to get votes.” HUNTINGTON HAWKINS, SOPHOMORE
“I feel like Romney failed to present any specifics, but I don’t feel like Obama presented himself in the best light ...” CARSON ELWELL, JUNIOR
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Romney “gaffes” blown out of proportion Mitt Romney’s presidential OPINION COLUMNIST run has been a long string of gaffes, each worse than the last, that have revealed him to be snobby and cold-hearted. At least, that’s the narrative some Democrats are trying to sell. It’s intuitive and it fits well in the context of Steven Zoeller President Barack Obama’s stevenv.zoeller@gmail.com anti-plutocrat rhetoric. The only flaw in the narrative is that it happens to be a lie. Contrary to reports, Romney’s “gaffes” have not been significant. Many of them shouldn’t even be classified gaffes. To see what I mean, let’s look at two of Romney’s most infamous “gaffes”— the “I like to fire people” gaffe and the “$10,000 bet” gaffe. The “I like to fire people” gaffe has its origins in a talk Romney gave during a campaign stop. He was telling people he appreciated the freedom to fire employees who weren’t doing a good job. There was nothing radical about this talk. I bet $1 million most people actually would agree with Romney on this point. Why should you be forced to pay someone for a service they can’t competently provide? The Obama camp decided to disregard this nuance, instead lifting a specific quote from Romney’s speech — “I like being able to fire people who provide services to me”
— and airing it out of context for all to gasp and jeer at. If that’s not dishonest, I don’t know what is. Now let’s turn to the “$10,000 bet” gaffe. It originates from a bet Romney offered to Texas Governor Rick Perry during a debate. He bet Perry $10,000 that he couldn’t find a particular passage in his book praising individual mandates. Obama supporters pounced on this comment, claiming it showed Romney was out of touch with the average American. After all, they said, no middle-class citizen would ever bet $10,000 on a whim. This reasoning is clearly flawed because average Americans bet money like this all the time. I myself bet readers $1 million a few paragraphs ago, and I don’t even have $100 in my bank account at the moment. It’s a common rhetorical technique to bet a large sum of money just to show someone you’re confident about being right. It’s not at all snobbish, and to pretend otherwise is to purposefully interpret the comment a dishonest way. Like the two “gaffes” I’ve dissected in this column, I think many of those attributed to Romney are fraudulent. While perhaps one or two of them actually do say something about Romney as a person, I’m fairly confident the others amount to nothing but ambiguous language and irrelevant quips. It’s time for Romney haters and liberal news organizations to straighten up. Stop this childish twisting of words and manipulation of sound bytes. Grow up.
“Romney spoke about a lot of issues Obama hasn’t taken care of. ... [He] did a good job.” TOBI KEHINDE, SOPHOMORE
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There’s no need to play up the importance of this weekend’s game. No need to twist, spin or put a special flavor on it: Never has there been a bigger road game against an unranked conference opponent during coach Bob Stoops’ 13-year tenure. “I think ever y game from now on is a mustwin,” junior safety Tony Jefferson said. “This game, David you know, King you got a little baggage on you — we know what they did to us last year at home. We know what we’re getting ourselves into.” What the Red Raiders did to OU at home last year was snap the Sooners’ 39-game home winning streak by drubbing them to the tune
of 452 passing yards and 41 points. OU looked shaky at best against Kansas State two weekends ago in its first-ever home loss to a ranked team, and the Sooners are 3-4 against Texas Tech since 2005 and haven’t won in Lubbock since 2003. But OU never has lost backto-back games under Stoops. Something’s got to give. With the loss to Kansas State, OU dropped its second home game in five games dating back to last season — when the Sooners owned the nation’s longest home winning streak until losing to Texas Tech. For the first time in a long time, the Sooners have something to prove. “We’ve been called out,” senior defensive lineman David King said. “I called out the defense this week: How are we going to respond to losing two weeks ago? Are we going to do a better job?” A year ago, Texas Tech s h re d d e d t h e S o o n e r s’ defense for 572 yards and 27 first downs. “It doesn’t take long to
turn on the film (of last year’s Tech game) and see we just got beat individually and as a defense,” defensive coordinator Mike Stoops said. “We just have to play better overall defense. We just didn’t play a very good game a year ago. It was a game that certainly left a bad taste in OU’s mouth. “We’re going to need all 11 guys to play well and play fast and be in the right spots. Because if they’re not, you’re going to get exposed.” If the performances of Bob Stoops’ past teams are any indication, the Sooners will come out swinging. “You’re still going to have to go and execute well,” Bob Stoops said. “We did at Kansas State a year ago (after losing to Texas Tech) and didn’t turn the ball over. So yes, I see the same kind of attitude in how they’re working, coming to practice, coming to meetings. So in that regard, yes, I do see the same kind of attitude and hopefully resiliency.” Kingsley burns/the daily
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Senior wide receiver Kenny Stills (4) slips while running the ball during a game against Texas Tech on Oct. 23 in Norman. OU lost the game 41-38, their first loss at home since 2005.
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The OU softball team opens up the 2012 fall schedule as host for the annual Oklahoma Fall Festival this weekend. The Sooners face North Central Texas at 7 tonight in Norman to begin the tournament action . This weekend’s action will be the first time for OU to face an opponent after coming up short against Alabama in the 2012 national championship. After winning the first game, 4-1, OU fell in the next two meetings, 8-6 and 5-4 respectively, allowing the Crimson Tide to run away with the trophy. But with a new year, the S ooners w ill spend the next month working on mechanics and rebuilding the team’s chemistry.
“It’s really awesome to have all of our starters back from last season after what we were able to accomplish,” junior outfielder Destinee Martinez said. “But right now we’re working on getting the freshmen involved in what we’re trying to bring to the field as a team; they’re very vocal and are starting to pull together.” This year’s recruiting class boasts seven newcomers who all hail from the state of Oklahoma. The freshmen joined the team in practice in September Jessica and already Shults have started to compete for starting roles. This is coach Patty Gasso’s first time to sign an entire class with in-state connections, but she said the local roots won’t matter come game time. “If anything, it makes it
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harder on them,” Gasso said. “So many people talk to them about expectations, and they come in here with a heavier weight on their shoulders because they’ve been around the program so much. But it was such a blessing to be able to have the type of players we wanted to recruit from inside the state.” But for the current starters, having a solid group of upcoming athletes, wherever they’re from, has helped the team get better. “They’re competing for our spots, and it’s exciting to know that they are making us work harder to keep our positions,” senior catcher Jessica Shults said. “I love coming out to practice every day and watch the battles for each position because it’s making us better.” Following Friday’s tournament opener, the Sooners will tangle with Connors State and Oklahoma Christian in Saturday’s doubleheader.
Connors State is coming off of a 26-28 record last season while Oklahoma Christian returns to the diamond after posting a 35-17 overall record in 2012 and falling to Lubbock Christian (Texas) in the Sooner Athletic Conference championship last spring. On Sunday, OU will return for the team’s second doubleheader beginning with Odessa College before going against former OU utility player Amber Flores (200710), who is now Seminole S t a t e ’s c o a c h , a n d t h e Trojans, who finished 44-13 last year. Flores, a three-time AllAmerican who still holds several OU career batting records, was an assistant coach at Stony Brook in New York before accepting the job at SSC last summer.
Oklahoma junior forward Amath M’Baye was voted the Preseason Big 12 Newcomer of the Year when the Big 12 men’s basketball head coaches released their Preseason All-Big 12 lists Thursday. M’Baye sat out last season after transferring from Wyoming, where the Bordeaux, France, native started all 31 games and led the team with 5.7 rebounds per game during his sophomore season in 2010-11. Senior forward Romero Osby and senior guard Steven Pledger — who is the conference’s returning leading scorer — received votes for the Big 12’s all-conference team, but neither player made the list. Osby, Pledger and M’Baye anchor a team that boasts five returning seniors from coach Lon Kruger’s inaugural season. In 2011, the Sooners won 10 of their first 12 games before going 5-13 in conference play. OU begins practice Tuesday and tips off against Louisiana-Monroe at 2 p.m. Nov. 11 at Lloyd Noble Center.
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Marty (Colin Farrell) argues with Billy (Sam Rockwell) in this scene from “Seven Psychopaths.” The movie tells the story of a screenwriter (Farrell) who becomes entagled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster’s Shih Tzu.
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“Seven Psychopaths” is a lame excuse for a Quentin Tarantino-esque movie. It has no real reason to be put in the same category as any of Tarantino’s movies either, and to be frank, it sucked. The cast of this overrated blockbuster i n c l u d e s C o l i n Fa r r e l l (“Horrible Bosses”), Woody Harrelson (“Zombieland”), Christopher Walken (“Wedding Crashers”) and Sam Rockwell (“Iron Man 2”). With such a talented, cast there is no excuse for a movie to be so terrible. Screenwriter turned director, Martin McDonagh may have won an Oscar for Best Writing, Original Screenplay for “In Bruges” in 2008, but the only thing that McDonagh deserves after this movie is a father-son like talk from Tarantino. “S e ve n Psych o pat h s”
starts off introducing the main characters Marty (Farrell), Hans (Walken) and Billy (Rockwell) as they go about their lives in Los Angeles. Marty, a young, Irish screenwriter, is working on a new film called “Seven Psychopaths,” but, we learn very quickly he is a struggling alcoholic with a nut case for a best friend (Billy). Billy is a struggling actor who has found a new way of making money by stealing dogs then returning them later for the cash reward. Hans comes into the story as Billy’s partner in crime, but one day, Billy steals the wrong dog, and after that event, the movie really starts to go down in flames. Who better to play the role of a psychopathic mobster who gets his dog stolen than Woody Harrelson (Charlie). And, boy, is he a doozy. Not everything was terrible in this movie. The two best characters in the movie are Hans and the stolen Shih Tzu (Bonny). It’s sad to say that a dog outperformed n e a r l y e ve r yo n e i n t h e cast, but sadly it is true because Marty’s character is unconvincing and Billy would be a close third in
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performance, but he was not on the same level as the other two. This brings me to Charlie (Harrelson). Ever since his role in “Zombieland,” Harrelson has not been himself on screen. In “Seven Psychopaths,” nothing is different from the character he plays in the zombie comedy. Part of me did go see “Seven Psychopaths” just to watch him prance
around like his badass “Zombieland” character Tallahassee. As I listened to the corny one-liner jokes and saw average cinematography t h ro u g h o u t t h e f i l m , I thought to myself, “when is this movie going to get better?” Sadly, no such epiphany occurred. Unless you want to enable Hollywood to keep bundling stars together in hopes of making a movie seem better than it really is, then I highly suggest you spend your money elsewhere because “Seven Psychopaths” is not worth your time or money. Brent Stenstrom is a broadcast and electronic media junior.
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Reality T V star and E! News host Giuliana Rancic will make an appearance tonight at OU to discuss values, ethics and breast cancer awareness tonight. Delta Gamma Lectureship in Values and Ethics is hosting Giuliana’s visit to OU in association with CAC Speakers Bureau and the OU Panhellenic Association, according to a press release. Sp e c i a l e v e n t s l i k e this are unique to the Delta Gamma chapter at OU. Only 18 of the 147 Delta Gamma chapters in the Fraternity have the privilege to host a lectureship, according to a press release. “Delta Gamma has been planning the event since the spring … we have overseen every last detail [including] ensuring that Giuliana has the opportunity to meet Delta Gammas who have [also] battled breast cancer,” Meredith Ellinger, a Delta Ga m ma m e mb e r a n d event coordinator said in an email. Although OU Women’s Outreach Center did not participate in the planning of the event, its work with breast cancer awareness
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coincides with this year’s lectureship message. “Breast cancer can happen to anyone at any age, and we need to take the necessary steps to reduce our risks and be aware of our bodies,” said K.C. Moore, Susan G. Komen Graduate Assistant at the OU Women’s Outreach Center. Rancic is a public figure noted for surviving breast cancer. She will share her story at the event. “[Giuliana] will speak about the values and ethics she follows in her own life,” according to a press release, “I am thrilled that Delta Gamma was able to arrange to have someone who relates well with young college women come to speak on campus,“ Moore said. Erica Laub, ericalaub@ou.edu
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