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Opinion: How to study abroad without being an ass (Page 3)

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CHIlI GETS CREATIVE

l&A: Sooners devour homemade food (Page 6)

MEN’S BASKETBAll

Vocal vet brings intensity Fifth-year senior comes back as team’s second-best scorer DILLON PHILLIPS, ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

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he OU men’s basketball team didn’t have much to celebrate last season.

After winning 10 of its first 12, OU went 5-13 in Big 12 play, finished the season with a losing record and, for the third year in a row, missed the NCAA tournament.

But 2012 wasn’t all bad for the Sooners. Despite last season’s lackluster results, a leader emerged: senior forward Romero “Roe” Osby.

“What he’s done has been really, really good,” coach Lon Kruger said. “(He’s) just sincere about [playing basketball], just has a passion; he’s in the gym; he’s very self-motivated.”

DILLON PHILLIPS

Assistant Sports Editor

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Forward Romero Osby is one of five seniors who anchors the OU basketball team. After transferring from Mississippi State and sitting out the 2010-2011 season, Osby led the Sooners in rebounds, blocks and field goal percentage last year and is recognized as the team’s vocal leader.

PETITION

Transfer students have place Sooners seek to give everyone an equal to meet similar students An average of 1,800 students come to OU as transfers

student began with a last-minute decision to drop out of Oklahoma State University and Tulsa University’s enrollment process, thus leaving him to attend Tulsa Community JAKE MORGAN College for a year before choosing another Campus Reporter school, he said.

College was nothing new for Brandon “I was just going to go to OSU and follow Tomlin. When Tomlin transferred to OU some friends, but I came to the realization from Tulsa Community College at the begin- that I can’t go to school based off where my ning of this semester, he felt confident in his friends are going,” Tomlin said. “I needed to ability to adjust. wait.”

“I thought I was a know-it-all,” Tomlin Tomlin attended the Camp Crimson sessaid. sion for transfer students during the sumBut the intensity of the courses at OU and mer and received a mass email directed to the amount of independence proved to be all transfer students explaining OATS and more challenging than he expected, Tomlin how it planned to help transfer students. said.

“I was thinking, ‘I’m going “I was just going Months later, Tomlin, a bito jump into this; I’ve got to ology sophomore, now helps plugged in somewhere,’” to go to OSU and get OU’s first student organizaTomlin said. “And I love it.” tion geared toward guiding follow some friends, As an ambassador in the transfer students like himbut I came to the organization, Tomlin speaks self into their first year on to transfer students, assists realization that I campus. with campus tours and visThe Oklahoma Association can’t go to school its other universities in the of Transfer Students, or based off where my area.

OATS, will hold its first Barker, a geography sefriends are going.” nior, said the organization is event tonight at Jim Thorpe Multicultural Center to inin the process of building its BRANDON TOMLIN, troduce transfer students to executive team and increasBIOLOGY SOPHOMORE the new organization and ing its presence. So far, about how it can help them find 15 students serve on the exan outlet at OU, said Danielle Barker, chair- ecutive team, and the group’s Facebook page woman of the association. has received at least 60 likes.

Kyle Butcher, the organization’s adviser, Programs made to guide freshmen alfounded the group near the end of last se- ways have existed at OU, but transfer stumester after he and his wife, Kacee, realized dents have not found specialized help until transfer students had no way to introduce recently, Barker said. themselves to each other, Barker said.

“It’s a step in the right direction,” Barker “We really want to put them on a level said. “They are not freshmen and may feel playing field, especially with freshmen,” she excluded. While they are sophomores, they said. are almost freshmen in a sense.”

An average of 1,800 students have transBarker transferred to OU from Crowder ferred to OU each academic year since fall College in Neosho, Mo., during the fall se2009, according to Institutional Research mester of 2010 and said the most significant and Reporting’s enrollment analyses.

Tomlin’s journey to becoming a transfer see OATS pAGe 2

New players sign LOIs Baseball team leads all signees with 13 athletes

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STUDENT lIFE

ATHlETICS

chance to save lives Students gather signatures to allow gay, bisexual men to donate blood PAIGHTEN HARKINS

National Letter of Intent Initial Signing Day for 2013-2014 was Wednesday for every sport but football, track and field, cross country and soccer, and OU signed 33 new student athletes.

Men’s basketball signed three, women’s basketball signed three, men’s gymnastics signed five, women’s gymnastics signed five, volleyball signed two, baseball signed 13 and softball signed two.

Baseball coach Sunny Golloway stole the show on signing day, landing 10 high school and three junior college players, including infielder Josh Ake of Readington, N.J., who was selected in the 29th round of the 2011 MLB First-Year Player Draft by the New York Mets.

Edmond Memorial guard Jordan Woodward, a Rivals three-star player, was one of the signees for the men’s basketball team, and the women’s team’s top signee, guard Gioya Carter, garnered All-State honors at Carl Albert.

Signing day for football and all other sports is Feb. 6.

Dillon Phillips dphillips85@ou.edi

People should be able to choose to die with dignity Opinion: the death with dignity Act was defeated in massachusetts, but Americans should not give up the fight for the right to die. (Page 3)

Assistant Campus Editor

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hen one Sooner came out as a gay man almost a year ago, he found out some disheartening news — he couldn’t donate blood ever again during his lifetime if he had sex with another man.

“It kind of hurt me,” business graduate student Michael Hernández said. “You can’t go the next step, that seems natural in every other relationship, and the punishment to follow your true feelings with the person you love is to be banned from saving other people’s lives.”

Hernández created a

BY THE NUMBERS petition to change the Bedlam Blood Federal Food and Drug Drive Donors Administration’s policy barring gay men from givosU donors ing blood, and Sooners g a t h e re d We d n e s d ay to sign the petition in oU donors a conjunction with the Oklahoma Blood Institute’s annual Bedlam Competition ends Friday Blood Drive.

Source: Leslie Gamble, Oklahoma Blood The LGBTQ Program Institute Director of Community Relations Advisory Board and UOSA sponsored the push for signatures and partnered with the Oklahoma Blood Institute to host the We Give Because They Can’t blood drive event, said Kasey Catlett, spokesman for the Women’s Outreach Center.

Hernández stood on the South Oval next to an Oklahoma Blood Institute tent with his petition on a clipboard Wednesday. During his shift, he had gotten approximately 300 people to sign the petition stating the FDA should remove the current policy and replace it with a more lenient one-year deferral policy, similar to what is practiced in the United Kingdom, Hernández

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Women’s basketball team falls to UCLA, 86-80.

Sports: no. 11 sooners were outhustled and overpowered in first loss to UCLA. (Page 5)

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The Lebanese Student Association is hosting its annual cultural night 7 p.m. Friday at Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.

blood: Could save 480K lives Continued from page 1

Today around campus The Bedlam Blood Drive will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Armory. All donors will receive free food and a T-shirt and have a chance to win a pair of tickets to the Bedlam game.

Dave Barnes Holiday Concert tickets will be available for purchase by Union Programming Board from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s first floor lobby.

A lecture titled “James T. Bialac: A Lasting Legacy” will be given by Christy Vezolles from 4 to 5 p.m. in Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium.

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The policy Hernández is advocating would allow gay men to donate blood, provided they haven’t had sex with another man for at least a year, he said.

The one-year deferral policy would open up the eligible donating pool to 160,000 men who would be willing and able to donate, Hernández said.

According to the America’s Blood Centers website, one pint of blood can save up to three lives. If the 160,000 willing men donated blood, up to 480,000 lives could be saved.

The deferral polic y is similar to the one already

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Business graduate student Michael Hernández (left) watches as University College freshman Giovanni St. Cyr signs a petition to allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood. Hernández stood on the South Oval to collect signatures Wednesday.

in place for those who have had anonymous sex, according to the FDA website.

Hernández wants to get 1 million signatures on his petition and then plans to

present it to the FDA. As of political and societal views Wednesday morning, ap- should not diminish the proximately 6,550 people need,” he said. had signed.

“Blood donations help so Paighten Harkins paighten.harkins@ou.edu many people that our own

OATS: Aspects of OU daunting for new Sooners Continued from page 1 difference is the overall size and difference in teaching. “[Crowder] was so tightknit, and OU is so much bigger,” Barker said. “It was easy to kind of feel a little lost.”

The average class size at the two-year community college ranged from 15 to 20 students, with the largest classes topping off at 30 students, Barker said. The professor-to-student interaction changed from one-on-one to one-to-many when Barker transferred to OU. For Tomlin, certain aspects of OU, such as D2L

and oZONE required that he take the initiative to discover things himself, he said.

“You’re kind of expected to know certain things, and if you don’t know, you’re expected to find out,” Tomlin said. “It was your own job to figure out about OU. It was upon the individual.“ The group’s event titled OATStoberfest, a fall festival playing off of Oktoberfest, will feature various activities, including a “kissing booth” in which students may guess how many Hershey’s kisses are in a jar, Barker said.

Guest speakers from the Provost’s office, Student Life and other departments

will give advice to transfer students about how the advisement process works, how they can get involved on campus and what OATS has planned for transfer students.

The organization currently is looking to see what it can do for transfer students as it grows, Tomlin said.

“Next semester is supposed to be very, very proactive,” he said. “This [semester] was just kind of getting our feet wet.”

James T. Bialac: A Lasting Legacy | 4-5 p.m. in the Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Join Christy Vezolles for an illustrated lecture revealing the path Bialac took in collecting what has become one of the foremost private collections of American Indian arts. For more information, please contact Michael Bendure, mbendure@ou.edu

OU Hockey vs. University of Arizona | 7:30 p.m. at the Blazers Ice Centre, 8000 S. I-35, Oklahoma City, OK. OU students, faculty & staff get in FREE with valid OU I.D. General admission is $5 and reserved seating is $10. Call the Blazers Ice Centre at (405) 631-3307 or see www.ouhockey.com for more information. Presented by Oklahoma Hockey.

Sound Lounge: Hometown Glory | 8 p.m. in Beaird Lounge, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Come listen to some soothing Adele covers with some talented artists! Presented by Union Programming Board.

University Theater presents: “And When We Awoke There Was Light and Light” | 8 p.m. in the Lab Theater. For more information and tickets, call the Fine Arts Office (405) 325-4101.

Table Tennis Tournament | Huston Huffman Fitness Center. $1 a participant per event and free to students that live in OU Housing. The times of play are available on the Huston Huffman Fitness Center website, www.ou.edu/far.

Friday, Nov. 16

OU Hockey vs. Arizona State University | 7:30 p.m. at the Blazers Ice Centre, 8000 S. I-35, Oklahoma City, OK. OU students, faculty & staff get in FREE with valid OU I.D. General admission is $5 and reserved seating is $10. Call the Blazers Ice Centre at (405) 631-3307 or see www.ouhockey.com for more information. Presented by Oklahoma Hockey.

Champagne, Sparkling Wine, and Food Tasting | 7-9 p.m. in the Sally Bell Gallery, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Join the FJJMA for an exciting evening as we toast the museum’s collection! The evening serves as an art acquisition fundraiser for the museum; cost is $35 for FJJMA Association members/$45 for non-members. Seating is limited; please call (405) 325-2297 for reservations.

Mr. OU Pageant | 7-9:30 p.m. in the Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Come and see 15 Sooner men compete for the title of Mr. OU in this very masculine take on pageants. The Mr. OU Pageant proudly raises awareness for Movember, men’s health awareness month and men’s health charities. Visit us.movember.com for more information on Movember and you can help.

University Theater presents: “And When We Awoke There Was Light and Light” | 8 p.m. in the Lab Theater. For more information and tickets, call the Fine Arts Office (405) 325-4101.

When: 6 to 8 p.m.

Where: Jim Thorpe Multicultural Center Guest Speakers: Joyce Allman, associate provost for Academic Advising Oversight Lisa Portman, director of the Center for Student Advancement Zac Stevens, director of Camp Crimson

Jake Morgan jakemorgan@ou.edu

Kyle Butcher, OATS adviser

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Thursday, Nov. 15

3v3 Basketball entries | 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at the front desk, Huston Huffman Fitness Center. $35 a participant per event and free to students that live in OU Housing.

This is a double elimination tournament and will begin on November 26th. For more information, visit www.ou.edu/far.

GO AND DO OATStoberfest

Friday Continued

Badminton Tournament | Huston Huffman Fitness Center. $1 a participant per event and free to students that live in OU Housing.

The times of play are available on the Huston Huffman Fitness Center website, www.ou.edu/far.

Saturday, Nov. 17

OU Men’s Rugby vs. UT Dallas | 1 p.m. at the OU Rugby Complex. For more information or tickets call (405) 650-9263 or visit rugbyou.wordpress.com.

OU Hockey vs. Arizona State University | 4 p.m. at the Blazers Ice Centre, 8000 S. I-35, Oklahoma City, OK. OU students, faculty & staff get in FREE with valid OU I.D. General admission is $5 and reserved seating is $10. Call the Blazers Ice Centre at (405) 631-3307 or see www.ouhockey.com for more information.

Presented by Oklahoma Hockey.

University Theater presents: “And When We Awoke There Was Light and Light” | 8 p.m. in the Lab Theater. For more information and tickets, call the Fine Arts Office (405) 325-4101.

Pickleball Tournament | Huston Huffman Fitness Center. $1 a participant per event and free to students that live in OU Housing.

The times of play are available on the Huston Huffman Fitness Center website, www.ou.edu/far.

Sunday, Nov. 18

Family Days | 1-4 p.m. in the Dee Dee and Jon R. Stuart classroom, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Explore the The James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection: Selected Works, and enjoy a variety of hands-on art activities for the entire family. Family Days are made possible by generous support from the Kirkpatrick Family Fund. Admission to the museum is free on Family Days.

OU Women’s Basketball vs. Saint Louis | 2 p.m. at the Lloyd Noble Center. FREE admission for students with a valid OU I.D. Visit soonersports.com for more information.

University Theater presents: “And When We Awoke There Was Light and Light” | 3 p.m. in the Lab Theater. For more information and tickets, call the Fine Arts Office (405) 325-4101.

Sutton Concert Series: Collegium Musicum | 3-5 p.m. in Gothic Hall. For more information and tickets, contact the Fine Arts Box Office (405) 325-4101.

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THUMBS UP: A new student group, the Oklahoma Association of Transfer Students (or OATS), helps transfer students find their footing in the OU community. (Page 1)

EDITORIAL

Can you study abroad without embarrassing the rest of us?

Our View: Leaving the country is not an excuse to

be a jerk.

Throughout the year — particularly during International Education Week this week — you will hear a lot about the benefits of studying abroad. Even we often have touted the benefits of international experiences.

But amidst all the pressure to take part in OU’s education abroad The Our View is the majority programs, one important caveat has been forgotten: Not everyone opinion of The Daily’s is ready to study abroad. eight-member Simply put, there is a difference editorial board between a tourist vacation and a study-abroad experience. If all you want is the former, then simply take a couple weeks to visit another country.

If you want the latter, you must be ready to live like a native of the country you are visiting.

If you cannot do any of the following, then you are not ready to live abroad and represent OU and the U.S. to another culture:

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Just because the country has a McDonald’s, doesn’t mean you have to eat there. Enough said.

make mistakes based on cultural or linguistic misunderstandings. That is part of the studyabroad experience and will result in great stories to bring home. If you can roll with it and adapt, the good experiences always will outshine the bad.

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The American way is not the “right” way. Yes, it goes against every bit of American exceptionalism and individualism we’ve been taught, but you are in another people’s country now. It’s their culture, and you cannot expect it to change to accommodate you. You should make the effort to speak the language and understand the customs.

If you have trouble communicating, many people will be willing to help you. But simply assuming they all speak English and complaining signs are not in English only will engender annoyance or disgust.

Unless the customs violate your safety or your core beliefs, it’s only polite to cause the least disruption possible to any culture you live in for a while. Would you expect any less from a visitor to the U.S.?

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Don’t flash the cash. Whether you’re living in a country with a similar Don’t make a scene; make an effort to economic situation to the U.S. or one that isn’t assimilate. When things are difficult or faring as well, it’s never beneficial to flash an don’t work like you expect, don’t make a scene. expensive iPhone or a wad of currency around.

Use it as a learning experience and understand Not only does it perpetuate the idea that you made the mistake — not the other culture.

Americans are spoiled and arrogant, it makes you a more likely target for theft.

Spend time away from Americans. After On that note, be sure you understand the all, isn’t that what you came for? It’s easier cultural norms about tipping servers in the to hang out with others who speak your language country you visit. In some countries, not only is it and understand all your references, but you not necessary, it can be taken as an insult. could be spending that time making friends from the country you are visiting and learning about If you don’t care, fake it — or leave. As their lives. After all, if you want to hang out with a part of your trip, you likely will visit the bunch of Americans, you can do that at home for a well-known monuments, buildings or artworks lot less money. of the country you are visiting. These spaces and objects are more than just profile picture You will not impress anyone with opportunities. Often, they are essential to that your drinking. Seriously, it’s not a nation’s culture and identity. competition. And most cultures you are likely So even when you find them incredibly to visit don’t treat alcohol the way we do in the boring or incomprehensible, make an effort to U.S. Partying is fun and a good way to make understand and appreciate them for what they more local friends, but if you drink to the point are. At the very least, show enough respect to the of hazy memories or blackout, you not only will people around you to treat those spaces with the put yourself at risk for assault or theft — you will reverence they deserve. encourage the depiction of Americans as loud, And remember: You don’t have to go. Don’t take arrogant and obnoxious. “must-see” as a literal description. If you aren’t interested and can’t fake it, go get lunch instead.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Fracking has brought good things to Okla.

Andrew Sartain, in his Nov. 1 column on hydraulic fracturing, made some comments that I found to be quite inaccurate and irresponsible. Before I remind him of the incredible impact the oil and gas industry has had on this university and this state, I would like to address his comments that are untrue.

He states the potential risks hydraulic fracturing poses to drinking water are major concerns. However, in 2011, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency stated, under oath to a U.S. House of Representatives Committee, she was aware of no instances of ground water contamination caused by hydraulic fracturing.

Even our own Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Bob Anthony has stated on record that in more than 100,000 hydraulically fractured wells in Oklahoma, there have been zero documented cases of groundwater contamination. Before Sartain makes dangerous blanket statements, he needs to check his facts.

Secondly, Sartain refers to a scene in “Gasland” in which the tap water in Pennsylvania is found to be flammable. The movie-makers and Sartain blame this on hydraulic fracturing. They fail to realize many water wells are drilled in areas where methane occurs naturally near the surface, thus leaking into the water supply as a result.

A third reckless point Sartain makes is the smog content in the Barnett Shale in the summer is caused by hydraulic fracturing. He fails to inform the readers that a large portion of the

Barnett Shale sits directly over the metropolitan area of Fort Worth. The population of Fort Worth has grown more than 23 percent since 2000 and is expected to grow another 10 percent before 2014. The baseless accusations Sartain makes about smog can be attributed to the pollution of the growing city of Fort Worth.

Sartain claims the benefits of hydraulic fracturing are “not worth it” when compared to the risks. The 3 million Americans employed as a result of natural gas production would disagree — and so would I. Many of the beautiful buildings on this campus have been funded by oil and gas companies and their founders, officers and employees.

The oil and natural gas industry is the largest industry in this state, providing massive tax revenues for the state, which ironically are used in part to fund the very newspaper Sartain uses to criticize the industry. OU’s oil and gas-related areas of study are world-renowned as being on the cutting edge of technology and producing future industry leaders.

The oil and gas industry has done so much for Oklahoma, including donating millions of dollars to education and charities, as well as advancing our quality of life by bringing the Thunder and other wonderful events. We should be thanking these leaders and innovators for doing so much for us instead of falsely criticizing one of the greatest industrial breakthroughs this country has ever seen.

John Paul Albert, energy management alumnus

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n response to a OPINION COLUMNIST patient’s wish to die with dignity, the infamous Dr. House notoriously replied, “You can live with dignity; you can’t die with it!”

Comparable remarks were debated recently in Nathan Cranford Massachusetts, where a nathan.a.cranford-1@ou.edu new initiative known as the Death with Dignity Act had the potential to legalize doctor-assisted suicide.

Unfortunately on Election Day, Massachusetts residents determined doctors do not have the right to prescribe lethal drugs to terminally-ill patients requesting to die, ensuring a continuation of those patients’ suffering.

Terminal illness was defined as an individual with six months or less to live. The act required patients to be in a stable state of mind capable of rational decision making as confirmed by a second doctor. Patients also would be required to make one request to die in writing and two separate oral requests 15 days apart.

If passed, the Death with Dignity Act would have been a major victory for the American right-to-die movement. This is primarily because of the influential role Massachusetts has within health care. The reverberations of the Death with Dignity Act had the potential to make euthanasia a cultural norm.

Whereas bills of a similar nature had polarizing effects both politically and culturally, the polarization of the proposal especially was felt within Massachusetts, where 42 percent of the population is Catholic.

The Catholic Church is known for its vehement prolife views and the recent Death with Dignity Act was no exception.

But there were arguments on both sides that were not strictly religious in nature. Supporters of the act argued the value of life is marked by the capacity to enjoy life and that the Death with Dignity Act would allow assistance in ending a life that is not worth having.

On the other hand, opponents invoked slippery slope arguments. The terminally-ill are often incapable of making a rational decision because of depression.

And superfluous deaths could occur because of a misdiagnosis by even the most competent doctors.

This often is thought to be the knock-down argument against euthanasia. If euthanasia were legalized, even with the constraints imposed upon the Death with Dignity Act, a few worthwhile lives likely would be terminated.

However, by the same token, if euthanasia were not legalized, an undeniably large amount of unnecessary suffering would follow. A longer life is not necessarily a better life.

Another argument against the Death with Dignity Act is the pain experienced by the terminally-ill often can be alleviated. Some patients, given the right medication, are capable of living their remaining life comfortably.

It is true that given the appropriate medication, terminally ill patients can have a worthwhile life for whatever short time remains.

Unfortunately, only a very small fraction of patients receive this kind of medication. Nor does this take into account pain that isn’t necessarily physical, such as uncontrollable bowel movement, nausea, starvation and vomiting.

A final argument against euthanasia is the Death with Dignity Act ensures too much freedom. For instance, drug dealers are prosecuted for providing noxious substances to society. Because thwarting the intentional inoculation of noxious drugs is regarded as a permissible restriction upon freedom, so too is the prevention of suicide.

The difficultly with this argument is it ignores whether there are rational reasons for suicide given certain conditions. In response to these concerns, certain measures are taken by the Death with Dignity Act in order to ensure an informed rational decision based upon the best medical knowledge available.

If passed, the Death with Dignity Act would have been a major step forward in health care ethics.

Unfortunately, the right to die will not be regarded as a cultural norm in Massachusetts — let alone Oklahoma — for quite some time.

Nathan Cranford is a philosophy senior.

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Kedric Kitchens, sports editor Dillon Phillips, assistant editor dailysports@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666 oudaily.com/sports • Twitter: @OUDailySports

women’s basketball

Sooners fall short against UCLA Ellenberg scored 24 points on 7-of-9 shooting from 3 Kedric Kitchens Sports Editor

The Oklahoma women’s basketball team was outhustled, outrebounded and outmuscled as it fell to UCLA, 86-80 Wednesday night at Lloyd Noble Center.

“I’m disappointed in our effort,” coach Sherri Coale said. “I’m disappointed with our response to the physical play. If that’s the way the game is going to be played, then we have to adjust to it, you have to fight back” The Sooners’ most glaring deficiency was on the offensive glass, with UCLA picking up 24 offensive boards compared to just eight for OU. Coale said she was shocked by the discrepancy.

“You don’t beat anybody when you give up 24 offensive rebounds,” Coale sad. “That’s just a number that is unheard of.”

Overall, the Sooners were outrebounded by 22, OU’s highest margin since losing to Notre Dame in the 2011 Sweet 16.

The Sooners trailed by just one at halftime, riding a 20-point half by junior guard Aaryn Ellenberg, who was

rAPID RECAP OU 80, UCLA 86 Key stat: Twentytwo boards. UCLA pulled down 22 more rebounds than the Sooners.

Key performer: Junior guard Aaryn Ellenberg.

Ellenberg scored 24 points, going 7-9 from 3-point range.

Key opponent: Junior guard Thea Lemberger.

Lemberger led the Bruins with 18 points.

Kedric Kitchens, Sports Editor

7-for-7 from 3-point range in the half.

Senior guard Whitney Hand said without Ellenberg’s Herculean effort, the Sooners would have been much worse off based on their play.

“Had Aaryn (Ellenberg) not shot seven 3s (in the first half ), we would have been down by 40,” Hand said. “So it’s not like we were playing great in the first half, she was just on fire.”

Ellenberg was humble, as always, with regards to her massive first-half performance.

“I don’t really have exact words for it,” Ellenberg said.

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Junior guard Aaryn Ellenberg scored 20 of her 24 points in the first half in the Sooners loss to UCLA on Wednesday. Ellenberg was 7-9 from 3-point range including hitting six of her first six attempts.

“We’re getting off running, and they’re getting me the ball. I’m going to try and shoot it.”

The Sooners struggled in the second half, with UCLA’s lead ballooning to 18 points in the second half. The Sooners mounted a comeback, trimming the lead all the way down to three points in the waning moments of the

game.

U C L A’s c o n t i n u e d physicality and rebounding prowess was too much for the Sooners, however, and the effort fell short, leaving OU with its first loss of the season.

UCLA coach Cori Close said her team’s rebounding ability told her a lot about her team’s toughness and

mentality.

“Relentlessness and will are what rebounding’s all about,” Close said. “I think it showed a lot about our heart and mentality.”

The Sooners lack of toughness and inability to rebound the basketball led to a loss, and Hand said they’re mind just wasn’t in the right place.

“There’s no excuse for it,” Hand said. “We weren’t in the right state of mind and that’s evident in how the game went.”

OU is back in action against Saint Louis at 2 p.m. Sunday at Lloyd Noble Center.

Kedric Kitchens kitchens_kedric@ou.edu

osby: Traveled forward hopes to lead Sooners back to the big dance Continued from page 1

Last season, Osby led the Sooners in rebounds, blocks and field goal percentage and was second in points per game to senior guard Steven Pledger — the Big 12’s leading returning scorer.

“He finished very strong (last season and) carried that over into the spring and summer and fall,” Kruger said.

But the biggest thing Osby brings to the team can’t be quantified or found on a stat sheet. Whether it’s in practice or in the heat of the game, Osby always can be heard barking out orders. He’s the guy who’s constantly talking — always in someone’s ear, always pushing someone to get better.

BY THE NUMBERS “Roe is interesting,” senior Romero Osby guard Sam Grooms said with a chuckle and a grin.

Osby’s “[Him being a vocal leader field goal is] an everyday thing. He’s percentage last yelling; he’s screaming; he’s season always the same. You really Osby’s average can’t find a change in him.” for rebounds Entering his fifth year as per game last season a college athlete, Osby said it’s his wealth of experience Source: ESPN.com t h a t ’s a l l o w e d t o h i m take on such a prominent leadership role, and it’s not something he shies away from.

“I embrace [the vocal leader role] because I know my team needs to hear it,” Osby said. “We got some guys ... that sometimes need that little extra push, and I try to be the guy to do that.

Osby has played the role so well for so long that it’s reached the point where teammates become concerned if astrud reed/the daily he’s not jawing at them, he said.

Senior forward Romero Osby is entering his third season at OU and “If I’m not talking or something like that, people come his second as a starter. to me and are like, ‘Roe, what’s wrong? Something must be wrong ‘cause you’re not talking,’” Osby said. “I try to always

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“He’s yelling; he’s screaming; he’s always the same. You can’t really find a change in him.”

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be [vocal].”

Osby’s leadership has given the Sooners a lift they wouldn’t have received otherwise.

“It gives us something we can always fall back on,” Grooms said. “You know that that’s there; you know that he’s always going to push you.”

With three freshmen — guards Isaiah Cousins, Je’lon Hornbeak and Buddy Hield — earning significant playing time this season, Osby’s leadership has been critical in their development.

“I challenge them every day because I know they want to be good, and they challenge me as well because they’re good players,” Osby said. “Having them around is going to be really good for the program.”

And at the end of the day, that’s what it’s about: the program.

“Competing for a Big 12 championship in the best way possible, finishing in the top half of the Big 12 and getting to the NCAA tournament, I’d consider that a successful season,” Osby said. “(It would mean) we started off on the right track; we’re getting the legacy started back at OU, and that’s what everyone here is accustomed to, and that’s what we want to do.”

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Sooners spice up chili with crafted bowls

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Westlee Parsons

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line wrapped around the inside perimeter of the School of Art & Art History on Wednesday as students, faculty and members of the Norman community waited patiently to eat chili at the 5th annual Chili Bowl.

The Chili Bowl is a fundraiser to help fund art student scholarships and fund travel, attendees sampled 42 types of chili for $8. If people wanted a one-of-akind accessory for their chili, a handcrafted ceramic bowl, they could pay $15 for the bowl and unlimited chili.

Art students and members of the Red Clay Faction club created 200 bowls, all of which were sold at the event.

The names and types of chili were as unique as the bowls created to hold them. The types of chili ranged from white bean and chicken chili to deep red, meaty chili and vegetarian or vegan varieties.

Chili names included Antonia Belindo’s Kiowa Krave, Andrea Duran and Emily Blasdel’s Redheaded Step Child and Danielle Knight’s The Chili Formerly Known as Fred.

Best chili contest winners were Jessi Wilson’s “Pinky’s Chili” in third place, Jen Gourley’s “Diablo’s Verde Chili” in second and in first place Michael Waller’s “Charming Chili for All Occasions.”

The School of Art & Art History’s faculty and friends made the chili, said Mary Jo Watson, director of the school.

There also was a condiment bar where guests could amp up their chili with cornbread, crackers, chips, cheese, grated onions and sour cream.

This event gets people interested in what goes on at the School of Art & Art History and gets them to contribute to OU’s art community, Watson said.

Westlee Parsons, westlee.a.parsons-1@ou.edu

photos by heather brown/the daily

Hungry people flock to the School of Art & Art History’s Lightwell Gallery to feast on 42 types of chili. Attendees of the 5th annual Chili Bowl were able to choose from about 200 different ceramic bowls to purchase to eat their chili from. People could add condiments, including cornbread, crackers, chips, cheese, grated onions and sour cream to their chili.

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Nate Pipkin, music education sophomore stands in line for chili during the 5th annual Chili Bowl. Attendees paid $8 for an endless amount of chili, and for $15, they were able to get endless chili and a bowl made by OU art students.

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