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Sooner football is undefeated this season, but football isn’t the only thing OU President David Boren

wants to showcase.

Student and faculty academic excellence someday may have a permanent memorial walk on the South Oval.

The new walk, as Boren proposed to The D aily, would be called the Scholars’ Walk and would be located on the east side of the South

Oval, parallel to the Michael Price Walk.

The academic walkway would be similar to Heisman Park on the east side of the stadium.

Boren said scholars deserve to be honored alongside other OU achievers.

“We have statues of athletes, statues of presidents

of the university, but where are the statues of the great scholars, the great teachers?” Boren said.

And the president isn’t the only one thinking it’s time to honor OU’s scholastic achievements.

Elementary education sophomore Sam Hale agreed that academic excellence

should be honored.

“It seems only fair to do the same for another group that performs well in another area,” Hale said. “I think it would be nice for those who are visiting OU to see that we have people that reach high levels of achievement in many fields.”

There is no estimated

t i m e o f c o mp l e t i o n f o r Scholars’ Walk, spokesman Michael Nash said, and it’s something very early in the works.

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Shiny Toy Guns vocalist Carah Faye Charnow performs at the final show in the Must Stay Music Festival on Saturday on the union’s east lawn. The event featured several bands over three days, as well as a watch party for the OU-Kansas football game. Life &Arts editor Katherine Borgerding interviewed Charnow and Jeremy Dawson. (Page 3)

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The Occupy Wall Street movement is growing in Norman after three meetings were held on campus last week to decide on the group’s course of action.

Occupy Norman identifies itself as an independent organization that operates in

solidarity with Occupy OKC, Occupy Wall Street and all occupations worldwide, according to their website.

Occupy is a leaderless resistance movement with people from various backgrounds and political persuasions seeking to end corporate greed and corruption by replicating the nonviolent tactics deployed in Arab Spring.

O c c u p y No r m a n w a s started by OU students and Norman residents, most of

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whom were OU graduates. It is still in its infancy stage, and its early meetings focused on the logistics of voicing participants’ dissatisfaction with excessive corporate influence on politics.

Some local participants were first-time protesters such as Brielle King, a political science sophomore at Rose State College who learned about the movement on Al Jazeera and decided to join the cause.

“Our plight is for justice,”

King said. “It is not limited to the people in Wall Street only. Corporations shouldn’t be demonized, but I do think everyone should be treated fairly.”

At the group’s first general assembly, Norman resident Brian Husted emphasized supporters must understand the basic financial system protestors are rejecting.

“We need to learn about how derivatives work so that when the media asked what we are campaigning for, we

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Band members discuss their present and future plans. (OuDaily.com)

Task force considers selling stronger beer in grocery stores. (Page 5)

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Junior defensive back Javon Harris battles a Kansas player for the ball during OU’s 47-17 win against the Jayhawks. Harris and the defense held KU to just 54 yards in the second half. (Page 7)

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could be clear about what we stand,” Husted said.

His enthusiasm for complex financial operation was not shared by many campaigners; however, it has inspired others to facilitate discussions about the socioeconomic problems.

No explicit agenda has been finalized by the Norman chapter, and no events have been announced as of yet.

However, some people feel

Angela Startz joked ab ou t t h e t h ou g ht o f cancer.

It ’s j u s t a c y s t , t h e OU College of Arts and Sciences information specialist said on the phone to her best friend, Darci Gregory, as Gregory prepared for a mammogram.

An hour later, Startz was faced with the daunting fact that her best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Their close friendship began the first day they met working together at OU. Over the course of seven years, they had each other at every stage of life.

Through breakups, kids, birthdays and now cancer, their friendship didn’t waver.

“I answered the phone, and she just said, ‘I have cancer.’ I couldn’t talk. My heart stopped. It was surreal,” Startz said.

St a r t z a n d G re g o r y said it was an emotional night as Gregory decided it was time to shave her head, and they made it a celebration.

“It was very awkward,” Gregory said. “I think what was harder than losing my hair was losing my eyebrows and eyelashes because that, too, is such a huge part of who we are as women. We look different without our eyebrows and eyelashes.”

Many women and friends, who have

Presidential primaries are just a few months away, and one local organization is getting prepared for the highly contested Republican nomination.

The Norman Ron Paul 2012 headquarters opened Friday in downtown Norman to begin campaigning for the Republican representative

from Texas.

Paul advocates limited constitutional government, low taxes and free markets, according to his campaign website.

Coordinators at the Ron Paul Headquarters, located on Main Street, are trying to build a larger following within the local community, and supporters said they hope their centrally-located building will create a buzz around Norman. see PAUL paGe 2

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Paul: Organizers donate their money, furniture Continued from page 1

Today around campus The collaborative art exhibit titled “Satan’s Camaro� is on display in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Lightwell Gallery. The exhibit, featuring the work of Justin Strom and Lenore Thomas, will be on display until Oct. 21.

Free food will be available at noon Monday through Friday on the South Oval as part of Campus Activities Council’s Homecoming Week. The food available will vary by day and be available as long as supplies last.

A blood drive will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Cate Center and the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s East Lawn.

The blood drive is part of Campus Activities Council’s Homecoming Week.

A CIA Career Workshop will be held from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in Kaufman Hall, Room 230, for those who want to learn about the opportunities to work for the CIA. Candidates with a foreign language skill and a desire to live overseas are highly desired. The workshop is free.

A lecture titled “The Age of Lincoln and the Civil War� will be given from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium. The lecture will be given by Clemson University history professor Vernon Burton. The lecture is part of the Civil War Lecture series.

OU School of Music will present a free concert featuring the trombone choir from 8 to 10 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall. The concert will present a range of music from the 1500s to modern times.

Tuesday, Oct. 18 Free Cotton Candy will be available from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s First Floor Lobby. The Cotton Candy is courtesy of the Union Programming Board.

A Bible study hosted by Christians on Campus will take place from noon to 12:45 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Sooner Room.

A concert will be performed from noon to 12:30 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Sandy Bell Gallery. The concert will be a preview of the play, “Sunday in the Park with George.� Admission to the art museum is free on Tuesdays.

Free food will be available at noon Monday through Friday on the South Oval as part of Campus Actitives Council’s Homecoming Week.

The food available will vary by day and be available as long as supplies last.

A blood drive will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Cate Center and the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s East Lawn. The blood drive is part of Campus Activities Council’s Homecoming Week.

A seminar titled “Get Ready to Enroll� will take place from 4 to 5 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245. The seminar will help prepare students to enroll in next semester’s classes.

Supporter Matt Ball said the location for the building is perfect because it is near a busy intersection and is located near the campus.

The headquarters is paid for by supporters, who agreed to pledge $60 a month for the rent and utilities, said Clayton Dorris, a recent marketing graduate from OU. The furniture and artwork also were donated to make the environment usable and welcoming to the public.

Dorris said they wanted this headquarters to be a grassroots campaign, where all donations come from several small monetary gifts.

The headquarters can accommodate about 15-20 active members, and supporters said they expect many more to come to the building just to hang out. The building is more than 3,000 square feet, which gives the group room for people sit down or walk around to look at artwork.

Dorris said they wanted to create an atmosphere that is

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The Ron Paul campaign headquarters, located on Main Street, is more than 3,000 square feet, allowing supporters to hang out and talk about the Texas candidate. Organizers donated artwork to decorate the building.

friendly, where anyone can come in during their free time to drink free coffee, use the Wi-Fi and talk about Paul.

The group expects many OU students to drop by because Dorris said Paul’s

Continued from page 1 action needs to take place soon to sustain the cause. “We are losing traction,� said Mary Francis, OU alumna and president of Voices of Oklahoma.

Robert Cole, another campaigner, echoed the statement on the official Occupy Norman Facebook page.

“Talk is good but action is better. Time spent on preparation is time lost on action,�

Cole said in the post.

Francis and Cole are not the only ones ready to see action from Occupy Norman.

Self-described outlaw poet Zakk Flash said he wonders what the group can do from Norman. “We got friends in the circle around the world. The

first question is, what do we do here? What can I do to get attention from Wall Street?�

Flash asked.

The campaigners suggest an improvement in transparency and accountability could help the movement’s success, but what they see as an end to their demand remains unclear. “Of course, there will be signposts on the way, but I

am a big believer in continuous revolution,� Flash said. “The autocrats kept invading our ways.�

OU alumnus David Slemmons said each person has his own definition of Occupy’s success. “Each of us has individual milestones,� he said. “The fact that we come out to voice our concerns in unity is a pretty big achievement already.�

race: Friends, family members rejoice for life Continued from page 1 experienced what Gregory and Startz went through, d o n n e d a p i n k T-s h i r t and sneakers Saturday in Oklahoma City as they lined up for the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.

The race had about 18,000 participants and is expected to raise $1.2 million this year.

OU alumna Cassandra Ketrick has participated in the 5K for six years with the OU Women’s Outreach Center in memory of her aunt who passed away after her battle with breast cancer.

She managed to remain energetic throughout the race, which she attributes to the overwhelming amount of love surrounding the race, pushing everyone to the finish line. “My favorite part of the race is seeing thousands of people gathered in pink : men, women, children, the young and the old and, most importantly, survivors. It’s

beautiful. It’s humbling,�

Ketrick said.

Gregory said seeing the turnout Saturday reminded her why she walks in the race. “Once I got there and saw all of the incredible young women still fighting the fight, I said this is why I’m here walking for those people,� Gregory said. “If I can get through this past year and create awareness for my girlfriends and get them to get breast exams on a regular basis, then I have made it all worth while if they don’t have to go through what I went through.�

Gregory was diagnosed with stage 3B breast cancer, an invasive stage in which the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes and chest.

She was 37 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had no history of cancer in her family. She said every woman can be at risk for breast cancer, no matter what her age or history.

Gregor y was declared cancer-free in early October

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after two lumpectomies, six rounds of chemotherapy treatments and seven weeks of radiation. Despite this triumph, Gregory said she doesn’t feel like one of the survivors at Saturday’s race and will always worry that it

will happen again. “My girlfriends all say I’m such a hero, and I think, ‘No, you would do the same thing if you were in my position,’�

Gregory said. “It’s not a matter of being a hero — it’s part of a process.�

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A variety of colored tents outlined the grassy area on the corner of Santa Fe Avenue and Main Street, across the street from Native Roots Market, with a few scattered in the middle for the fifth annual Downtown Arts Market on Saturday.

The event was hosted by Dreamer Concepts, an art gallery on Main Street used for emerging artists to showcase their work.

The fair gave artists a chance to show crafts they do not have an opportunity to showcase to the public very often said Amber Clour, executive director and founder of Dreamer Concepts.

“If you’re not in a shop, which is hard to get into if you are a local crafts person, then you don’t have an outlet for people to get to know about your things,” Clour said.

Clour said the Downtown

“It’s always just a nice outdoor market to do, you get to see people you know, and it’s usually good weather when they have it.”

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Arts Market took place once a month during the months of October through December.

This year, Dreamer Concepts decided to host one large event because of the great w e at h e r t h e y e x p e c t e d would compliment it.

Tom Farris, a Norman resident and event participant, showcased his contemporary American-Indian and pop-inspired art, which appeared to have a similarity to Andy Warhol’s modern and brightly colored paintings.

One attention-grabbing piece by Farris was his painting of the iconic villain Darth Vader. Farris said this was his third year to participate.

“It’s always just a nice outdoor market to do, you get to

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Kids and adults make crafts at The Scissortail School of Art’s booth at the fifth annual Downtown Arts Market on Saturday. The event took place across the street from Native Roots Market on Main Street.

see people you know, and it’s usually good weather when they have it,” Farris said.

Local musicians were

The Daily sat down with vocalist, Carah Faye Charnow and bassist, Jeremy Dawson of Shiny Toy Guns on Saturday.

alternative music on a stage set up at the entrance of the event.

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able to show-off their music as well. Starting at 10 a.m. and lasting until 7 p.m., musicians took turns playing folk, bluegrass and

Graphics, said this was his first time to participate in the Downtown Arts Market. His booth, titled “Doin’ Fine,” referred to the lyrics “You’re doing fine, Oklahoma” and the fact that his business is doing fine. Twitchell’s booth showcased screen-print and embroidered T-shirts designed by a few of his coworkers and himself.

“The designs are all meant to be about Oklahoma heritage and being proud about being from here and living here,” Twitchell said.

Twitchell said the clothing he was selling is also for sale at Anty Shanty and will begin to be sold at Native Roots Market next week.

Other tents featured photography, portrait galleries and ceramics. 3 Dirty Dogs, a boutique that sells products for dogs and their owners, also took part in the event.

“This event was geared towards these exact people that come out and sell their wares and hopefully build up a clientele list for the future,” Clour said.

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The Daily: Tell us about your new album.

Carah Faye Charnow: Well, half of it is already mastered.

Jeremy Dawson: You guys are the first people to know that because it happened last night. It will be done this year, but that doesn’t matter really, we have said that about 16 times this year.

The Daily: What are your favorite kinds of shows to play? Do you like playing at colleges?

Carah: We love it. Because the show is free for the kids, they appreciate it, you know? There is an energy, even though they may not know the band, they are going to come and appreciate it.

Jeremy: Most of our friends that are in bands like MGMT were born in their dorms. They wrote most of their album in their dorm between classes. ... In college you are focusedly ballsy — you take risks; you are dynamically thinking about your life.

The Daily: What do you guys do to get ready for a show?

Carah: We call it “prep time.” It consists of getting aesthetically ready, vocally ready.

Jeremy: “Aesthetically ready”?

Carah: How you look: You don’t want to get warmed up and ready by song four, you want to be ready for song one and already be in that mind set.

The Daily: Where are you guys going next?

Jeremy: Our next show is in San Francisco, in like a week. We play every nine to 15 days.

The Daily: Carah — you are in another band, Versant.

How is it managing both bands?

Carah: Well, right now since we are doing a new album right now, we have to dedicate our time, our energy, our heart to that. I love both and I am so happy to get to do both. [But] right now I have to focus on Shiny Toy Guns to do it right.

Jeremy: Polygamy doesn’t work; it might work in Utah, but it doesn’t work in the music business.

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“Would it be okay if I stood up here and told you some of my stories?” she asked, centering the show on her latest album, “Speak Now.” And Swift spoke, filling the stadium with tales of losing love (“Last Kiss,” “Dear John,” “The Story of Us,” “Back to December”), finding love (“Enchanted”, “Fearless,” “Ours,” “Love Story”) and sweet, sweet girl-on-girl revenge (“Better than Revenge”).

Although Swift is 21 years old, her show still called to mind “high school musical,” featuring a crew of dancers who changed roles and costumes rapidly. Although Swift is aging, she still can please her younger fans with the comically exaggerated dancing, acting and her sometimes shallow subject matter. Pyrotechnics were a

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surprisingly large portion of Swift’s show; sparks literally flew across the stage when she opened the show singing “Sparks Fly”.

Vocally, it is clear that Swift has improved through the years. She’s still no powerhouse Carrie Underwood, but she is able to hit those high notes in “You Belong With Me” with more clarity at than previous shows.

And she also seems to have been practicing her piano, ukulele and banjo; all three

instruments were played during the show along with her signature sparkling guitar.

Swift was kind to those in the back of the arena, flying out in a balcony during one song and carving a path through the audience to sing on a smaller stage with a revolving tree during another.

Swift and the band took no time at all after the huge red curtain closed to come back on for an encore,

singing “Ours,” “Fifteen” and “Love Story.”

Although it might seem silly that Swift has penned songs professing undying love for every boyfriend she has, she captures what every teenage girl feels and isn’t afraid to share it with the world­­— or a crowd of thousands in Oklahoma City.

Sydney Allen is a broadcast and electronic media sophomore.

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Students deserve recognition Our View: Boren plans to honor students’ academic achievements with a Scholar’s Walk; we urge him to push the project forward soon.

university ranks first in public universities for the number of National Merit students, with a recordbreaking 225 in this year’s incoming class, according to the National Scholars Program. And OU has In an interview with The Daily on Oct. 5, President had 28 Rhodes scholars, while no other university in David Boren spoke about his newly developed plan Oklahoma has had more than three. for a Scholars’ Walk on the east side of the South Oval, A Scholar’s Walk would send a clear message to an analogy to the Heisman statues by the the community that OU highly values its Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Boren said scholarship and the academic progress of its The Our View the walk would replace the road currently students. Boren has always been concerned is the majority used by the buses with a walk similar to the with raising OU’s national profile — with opinion of Michael F. Price Walk on the other side of fighting the perception that OU is just some The Daily’s the Oval, and it would feature statues honsouthern public school — and showing that 10-member oring students with outstanding academic editorial board we are more than a football school goes a achievements. This commendable plan will long way toward accomplishing that goal. honor scholars in the same way we honor our More importantly, regardless of our emphaathletes. sis on athletics, these students simply deserve the recNo one can deny that sports are an important part ognition for their hard work and accomplishments. of OU — they form much of the foundation for Sooner Boren said he wants to get the project started as culture, boost campus pride and bring in money and soon as possible and have it paid for through private prestige. So the sculptures honoring our greatest ath- donations. We recognize there are logistical problems letes near the stadium are a common-sense feature of that will delay this project: planning alternate bus campus. But athletic accomplishments certainly are stops, finding funding and designing and organizing not the only, or even the primary, trait OU has to be the space. proud of.

Thus, we urge Boren to put his weight behind this Academic accomplishments should take center beneficial idea and quickly get the details worked out, stage first and foremost. After all, it’s not like Sooners so he can make a formal presentation to the OU Board are lacking in that department. OU’s 64.5-percent of Regents. This plan will benefit the university’s atgraduation rate is significantly higher than the namosphere and reputation, and we want to see OU’s tional average of 57.2 percent, according to a 2008 top scholars recognized as soon as possible. report released by the National Center for Education Comment on this at OUDaily.com Statistics. And those rates are continuing to rise. The

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ver the last cenOPINION COLUMNIST tury, humankind has damaged the environment more than in the previous 4,000 years.

Population growth and massive consumption rates are accelerating the extraction of natural resources, Adrian Espallargas and we are forgetting an espallargas.adrian@gmail.com essential issue: We live in a finite planet with limited resources. Thus, we should use them wisely.

Recycling is a good way to reduce resource extraction, allowing us to process waste materials into new products.

However, this is a complicated issue in Norman.

In OU Traditions Square, there are only two sorting options: General garbage and plastics. Cardboard, paper and glass are not recycled.

I am from Spain, and in Europe, we usually have at least four big containers: plastic, glass, general rubbish, and cardboard and paper.

There are not many opportunities to recycle on the OU campus. The recycling bins are difficult to locate as they are not usually placed close to the trash cans. The trash cans should be replaced with 3-in-1 recycle bin sets with three disposals — paper, plastic and general garbage — to make recycling easier for people.

Plastic is an essential material. Nearly every object that surrounds us has some plastic component, and we must be aware that it takes centuries to break down in a landfill. In 1997, scientists discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch , which is a gyre of litter in the central North Pacific Ocean.

Mainly, it is an array of pelagic plastics, chemical sludge and other debris that make up an area the size of Texas.

Over the years, the amount of litter in this patch has increased as it has become trapped in strong ocean currents.

It is polluting the sea, harming sea life and creating an unsustainable scenario.

There are many activities that can be done to cap plastics. For example, reducing bottled water consumption will help. Bottled water is the best business ever created.

Companies fill a plastic bottle from tap water and sell it at a huge cost markup. Advertising has created the idea that bottled water is healthier than tap water, whereas in many cases it isn’t. It is estimated that the U.S. consumes about half a billion bottles of water every week, according to the documentary “The Story of Bottled Water.” Just think about all the damage done by those bottles weekly and what it would be like if we were able to reuse them.

In addition, we should remove the use of plastic bags.

When we go to a superstore, we carry our stuff in a cart and from there it goes to the trunk of our cars. Thus, there is no need for plastic bags. We could bring transport trays in our cars to place the products in, and when we arrive home, we could carry our groceries in those environmentally friendly trays. Or we could use cloth bags in much the same way as we now use plastic.

Another good initiative would be if the stores paid a small amount (10 to 20 cents) to costumers for bringing back a bottle after drinking its contents. People would pay only for the beverage and would have a motivation to recycle. In Germany, this system successfully works with glass bottles.

Recycling is very easy, but without convenient ways to properly separate the different materials, it is impossible.

Thus, facilitating the task is mandatory to successfully foster collaboration.

Adrian Espallargas is a journalism junior.

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or the past several years I have been receiving a lot of Facebook posts and emails that simply aren’t true.

Spreading misinformation is a pet peeve of mine.

Actually, it’s more than just a pet peeve — it’s a line I refuse to cross as a political consultant specializing in research and the dissemination of information.

I am fully convinced that there are consultants who are paid by political parties and campaigns to deliberately create and spread misinformation. I wouldn’t even be surprised if misinformation was their specialty.

The most frustrating part of the situation is that average citizens are allowing themselves to be tools of propaganda by forwarding misinformation over the internet.

Even more frustrating is that it takes fewer than 10 seconds to fact-check something. Through the industrious work of sites like Factcheck.org, Politifact.org and Snopes.com, most Facebook posts and emails can be fact-checked simply by performing a Google search on a key phrase.

It takes just 10 seconds to not fall prey to propagandists.

These specialists are taking advantage of the public’s

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prejudices. They capitalize on the viewpoints of their supporters, create propaganda pieces that tell outlandish stories exemplifying those viewpoints and send those pieces onto the Internet where people read them and forward them.

Tom Taylor The goals of the pieces tomtaylor.home@gmail.com are simple. They enrage a given audience, give supporters even more reason to further the causes of the creators and bring new members into the fold.

Help stop the lies. If someone sends me something that isn’t true, I respond with a link to the truth. I’ve even been known to do a “respond to all.”

A simple rule is: If it seems outlandish, it is probably not true. Check to make sure.

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or years, people OPINION COLUMNIST have called Barbie anorexic, racist or otherwise offensive. Recently, the attacks have been stepped up. In this month’s O, The Oprah Magazine and on Yahoo News, novelKate McPherson ist Amy Bloom wrote an kmcpherson@ou.edu article declaring the importance of teaching girls and women to love their bodies and their personalities.

I have no problem with this assertion; I’ve written many columns and papers on the subject. I have a problem with the article’s photo illustration.

The picture shows model Katie Halchishick posing with a Barbie doll. Halchishick’s body has been marked with the lines a plastic surgeon would need to turn her into Barbie. The implication of the picture and the article is that Barbie teaches us to hate our bodies.

This isn’t the first time body-positive advocates have attacked Barbie, and it probably won’t be the last.

The London Times reports Barbie has been blamed for eating disorders. Several college newspapers, including Elon University’s The Pendulum and Montclair State University’s The Montclarion, have published columns lambasting Barbie for her too-long neck and too-big breasts. The women at Adiosbarbie.com invoke Barbie negatively as they blog about body image and racial issues.

I don’t deny our society has a real issue with body image. Why else would OU’s Women’s Outreach Center host Love Your Body Day? Likewise, I don’t deny that Barbie is disproportionate and unrepresentative of many women in our society.

However, blaming Barbie for teaching children to hate their shape is ridiculous. Barbie is a doll. She is not a parent putting her kid on a diet. She is not an advertiser depicting all women as white and malnourished. She “When you’re 6 is a symptom of society’s or 7, your parent ills, not the center of the telling you that you problem.

That’s why I’m confused can be an architect when I hear my colleagues doesn’t mean nearly at other universities mock as much as Barbie Barbie instead of magazines such as Cosmopolitan. telling you.”

Cosmo teaches women to be skinny sex fiends by writing articles like “7 Surprising Things That Turn Guys Off” and “Are You Too Obsessed With Your Ex?” Barbie teaches girls a much more valuable lesson, one that transcends any body image issue.

Barbies are a very real way to show children they can hold whatever job they want to hold. Currently, Mattel manufactures Doctor Barbie, Veterinarian Barbie, Chef Barbie, Architect Barbie, News Anchor Barbie and many other Barbies with jobs that encourage some form of higher learning.

Women are greatly outnumbered in many of the professions Barbie holds. Only 27 percent of doctors are women, according to the American Medical Association.

Only 27 percent of architects are women, according to the American Institute of Architects, and only 37 percent of television journalists are women, according to Poynter Institute. The statistics are similarly dismal for other careers.

Mattel markets Barbies to girls. Children need positive reinforcement telling them they can be whatever they want. When you’re 6 or 7, your parent telling you that you can be an architect doesn’t mean nearly as much as Barbie telling you that you can. Barbie opens doors for girls they might not have known existed.

Frankly, girls need that influence more than ever.

Although women have made great strides in equality, the gender pay gap is still very much present and largely not discussed. In Oklahoma, women earn less than 75.1 percent of what men earn, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. If Barbie helps teach girls to be strong, confident women who believe they can do — and earn — anything men can do, she’ll be doing our country a huge service.

Our society has a significant body image issue, but to summarily write off Barbie due to her plastic curves is ludicrous. Coupled with other positive, more body-positive influences, Barbie can teach girls to realize their dreams and help stamp out sexism.

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Damange repair to state landmark could cost $130M OKLAHOMA CITY — The state Capitol has been a symbol of Oklahoma’s history and aspirations since it opened in 1917. The halls of the limestone and granite edifice were lined with the portraits of famous residents, including humorist Will Rogers, Olympic champion Jim Thorpe and Sequoyah, creator of the Cherokee syllabary.

But 94 years later, the building reflects Oklahoma’s problems, especially its fiscal hardship. The stately structure is beginning to crumble. Yellow barriers have been erected to prevent visitors from climbing the steps of the Capitol’s south portico because mortar and pieces of limestone are falling from slabs overhead.

An engineering analysis found mortar between the massive limestone panels was disintegrating, and the metal clips holding the panels have apparently corroded. Repairs, along with revamping the outmoded

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Drilling company employee dies on site after being hit by pipe Authorities are investigating the death of a Big Gian Drilling employee at a site near Eldorado.

Officials said Cecil Haley, 34, was on a construction elevator about 95 feet in the air, connecting two 1,600pound pipes. The pressure of the pipes sent one of the pipes back toward Haley, which killed him on impact, officials said.

Levick said the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the accident.

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Seams where mortar has fallen away from the exterior walls of the state Capitol are shown in Oklahoma City. Repairing the buildings could cost as much as $130 million.

electrical, plumbing and other systems, could cost as much as $130 million.

The problem comes at the worst possible time, as the state works to recover from a $500 million budget deficit from last fiscal year. The

Legislature made significant budget reductions during the last session in funding for schools, mental health and public safety.

“We’re at a point now, both for preservation of the building and for public

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Gov. Fallin adopts abandoned dog, encourages animal rescue Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has adopted a dog to give some company to the dog she already has.

The adopted yellow Labrador was abandoned during a grass fire in north Oklahoma City.

The governor used the adoption to remind prospective pet owners that rescuing an animal could keep it from being euthanized.

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Low-point beer could cease brewing 3.2 beer would be sales-tax-exempt TULSA — Change may be brewing in Oklahoma’s beer market.

The Sooner State accounts for 55 percent of the nation’s consumption of 3.2 brew, according to the Beer Institute, the national trade group and lobbying arm of the brewing industry.

Last year Oklahomans consumed 76.5 million gallons of beer — 28.8 gallons for every person of legal drinking age — and more than 89 percent of that brew was the low-point variety.

Strong beer is increasingly popular in the state. In 2010, strong-beer sales were up 32 percent in Oklahoma, while low-point beer sales declined 4 percent, the Beer Institute reports.

Low-point beer is still dominant in the Oklahoma market — accounting for 89.7 percent of beer sales in the state — but two proposals fermenting in the state Legislature could cause strong-beer sales to foam.

A task force is considering whether strong beer should be sold in convenience and grocery stores. The plan may also allow liquor stores to sell refrigerated strong beer.

Either move would almost certainly undercut the low-point beer market.

Kansas has refrigerated beer in liquor stores and sells less than a fifth of the 3.2 beer as Oklahoma. Missouri has strong beer in retail outlets.

Low-point beer sales are insignificant.

Another legislative proposal would move the state sales tax on 3.2 beer upstream from the retailer

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Occupy Tulsa co-organizer Daniel Lee said the route of the march was constructed to go past financial, corporate and governmental offices to illustrate how those institutions are working together to lead to “the destruction of people’s freedom.”

Lee said the spirit of the march wouldn’t fade, and Saturday’s event was just the beginning.

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OU senior wide receiver Ryan Broyles (85) celebrates a touchdown with sophomore Kenny Stills (4) during OU’s 47-17 win against the Kansas Jayhawks on Saturday in Lawrence.

Broyles broke a pair of records during the game, including the NCAA’s career receptions mark (316) that was previously held by Purdue’s Taylor Stubblefield.

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Oklahoma’s game against the Kansas Jayhawks on Saturday didn’t go how the Sooners had wanted.

But the win — and OU’s issues that surfaced during it — was overshadowed by the performance of senior wide receiver Ryan Broyles.

The Norman native needed just four catches against the Jayhawks to break the NCAA record for career receptions. He also was one touchdown grab away from breaking the Big 12 record for career touchdown catches.

He broke both records with a single catch in the second quarter, a 57-yard touchdown that put Oklahoma up, 24-10, and gave the Sooners momentum to hold on despite a slow start.

The NCAA record was held previously by Taylor Stubblefield (316), one of Drew Brees’ favorite targets at Purdue.

Stubblefield sent a congratulatory email to Broyles last week, Broyles said.

The Big 12 record was held previously by Oklahoma State’s RaShaun Woods (42).

The senior finished with 13 catches for two scores and 217 yards, breaking his previous single-game best of 208 yards against Colorado in 2010.

OU’s struggles during a 47-17 win against Kansas were hardly expected.

Oklahoma couldn’t find the end zone in the red zone, junior quarterback Landry Jones’ throws were erratic and the Jayhawks stayed close for much longer than most anticipated.

But OU left Lawrence with a 30-point victory, so there were a few things that went right, too.

Why OU won Defense, defense, defense. For the second straight game, the Sooners’ defense had a huge game.

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Senior wide receiver Ryan Broyles had a pair of big touchdowns from 57 and 43 yards out, respectively.

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The Sooners held Kansas scoreless in the second half, limiting the Jayhawks to just 54 total yards and a single first down.

Lessons learned. In the 2008 national title game, Oklahoma failed to come up with points in two trips inside the red zone.

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Though he wasn’t happy about it, OU coach Bob Stoops sent out his kicker.

Getting the points made a 12-point difference.

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The No. 22 Oklahoma volleyball team was the victim of a blown 2-0 lead on Wednesday night in a loss to Texas A&M. But on Saturday, the Sooners were the instigators of a comeback.

The Sooners fought back from a 2-0 deficit and abysmal play against the Kansas Jayhawks to win, 3-2 (23-25, 19-25, -23, -19, 15-9) at McCasland Field House.

Junior libero Mar ía Fernanda set the school record for career digs (1,446) during the match, breaking a 14-year-old mark held by Melissa Peterson. She had 21 total digs Saturday.

Senior right side Suzy Boulavsky tallied 14 kills, and senior setter Brianne Barker finished two kills short of the elusive triple-double with 41 assists, 14 digs and eight kills.

OU coach Santiago Restrepo said the veteran leadership of the team was huge in pushing the team to complete the comeback win.

“It’s good to know that any given moment, we can switch people here and there and get things going,” he said.

Kansas came out fast, determined to snap a fivematch Big 12 losing streak and jumped on top, 3-0.

Kansas maintained a lead throughout the rest of the set to take it, 25-23.

KU came out in the second and blew the Sooners off the court, 25-19. OU hit -.026 in the set.

Barker said it’s important for her, as the setter, to provide emotional stability for the team.

“We started the game with a lot of new girls, and staying

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Top: Junior libero María Fernanda bumps the ball during OU’s 3-2 comeback win against the Jayhawks on Saturday in Norman. Fernanda broke OU’s career digs record during the match (1,446), besting a 14-year-old mark.

Left: Senior setter Brianne Barker prepares to serve the ball during the Sooners’ match against Kansas on Saturday.

Barker said part of her job as a senior and as the setter is to keep her teammates emotionally stable, especially in close games PHOTOS BY MELODIE LETTKEMAN/THE DAILY like OU’s 3-2 win.

stable with your emotions is the best thing for them,” Barker said.

The third set saw a different Sooners team take the court.

OU used a 5-1 run to close the set, 25-23.

Clinging to the momentum gained from winning the third set, OU fought off Kansas’ attempts at rallies to

win the fourth set, 25-19. OU hit .364 during the set, and Boulavsky had five kills to help the Sooner offense get on track.

The Sooners’ veteran leadership refused to lose, and OU had an 88-percent side-out percentage while hitting .400 as a team to close the match with a 15-9 fifth-set win.

AT A GLANCE Game note Senior setter Brianne Barker possibly sprained her left ring finger in the third set. She’ll have X-rays this week to determine the extent of the injury.

With added pressure from playing in front of a national TV audience on ESPNU, OU soccer couldn’t contain the Missouri offense.

Oklahoma dropped a 5-2 decision Sunday afternoon at John Crain Field.

With the loss, the Sooners fell to 6-10, 1-4 in Big 12 action, with just three games left on the team’s schedule.

While the five goals were the most scored by an OU opponent this season, the Sooners missed several chances early in the game that would have evened the score.

“Early, we had opportunities we didn’t take advantage of,” OU coach Nicole Nelson said. “Our final ball wasn’t quite there at times, and the end product was just not taking enough chances shooting.”

OU held a 7-5 shot-on-goal advantage in the first half and ended up leading the Tigers in shots with 17 total shots.

Missouri wasted no time grabbing an early AT A GLANCE lead, 2-0, after goals in OU vs. Iowa State the 29th and 31st minutes from Taylor Grant and The Sooners found a way to end their five-game Kaysie Clark, respectively. losing streak with a 2-1 “Give credit to win against Iowa State on Missouri,” Nelson said.

Friday.

“They exposed us athletiJunior Caitlin Mooney cally in a couple of posiand sophomore Annalisa tions. We’ll look at it, and Hall scored to help OU get these young players will its first conference win of learn valuable lessons the season after starting from it.”

0-4 in Big 12 play.

But OU refused to go down without a fight.

In the 44th minute, just before halftime, freshman forward Kelly Price drilled the first Sooner goal past Tiger goalie McKenzie Sauerwein.

Price was instrumental in getting the OU offense up and running when she was left open on the outside to take uncontested shots from the edge of the box.

With a 2-1, Missouri came out firing in the second half.

OU responded in the 59th minute with a goal from Annalisa Hall, but a defensive breakdown allowed the Tigers to tack on two more goals before the end of the game.

“Defensively, fatigue affected some of the mistakes we made,” Nelson said. “We have to find a way to put it backto-back Friday-Sunday.”