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Robinson leads Sooners to big victory

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Danielle Robinson (shown right) scored 20 points as the women’s basketball team destroyed Western Illinois, 84-43, on Friday at Lloyd Noble Center.

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OU’s United Way campaign fails to hit goal Deadline extended to Dec. 10 in hopes of avoiding donation cuts to Norman organizations CHASE COOK The Oklahoma Daily

OU’s United Way of Norman campaign didn’t reach its intended goal of $215,000 by its self-imposed Friday deadline, said Kathy Holder, United Way of Norman’s vice president of operations. Holder said United Way of Norman’s overall campaign is doing well, but budget cuts and rising health care costs

Oklahoma ranks 3rd in daily smokers

may have contributed to a dip in fundraising this year from OU. As of Friday, OU’s campaign had raised $148,302.23. That’s 69 percent of its intended goal of $215,000. OU participates in the program with individual pledges from faculty and staff. Student organizations also contribute by holding events and fundraisers, Holder said. Holder said organizers plan to push the deadline back to Dec. 10. She is confident they will reach their goal. “We still haven’t counted money from individual pledges or money from some of the other fundraisers,” she said. However, she stressed how important OU is to the United Way’s overall campaign.

It is the biggest single contributor to the campaign, she said. OU’s goal of $215,000 is 11 percent of the United Way of Norman’s $1.95 million goal. “If OU doesn’t come in at [its goal], we probably won’t make it,” Holder said. Holder said if organizers don’t reach their goal, they will have to find a way to make up the money. The United Way of Norman contributes to 26 different organizations throughout Norman. SEE FUNDRAISING PAGE 2

FOOTBALL | SOONERS PUMMEL BEARS, 53-24

On-campus smoking ban won’t happen without student, faculty support, spokesman says

Sarah Swenson

TREVOR SHOFNER The Oklahoma Daily

Oklahoma has the third-highest percentage of everyday smokers, following Kentucky and West Virginia, according to a recent survey from Slate Labs. Seventeen percent of Oklahomans smoke every day, compared to the national average of 13 percent. In Cleveland County, 23 percent of residents smoke daily. With 32 percent of 18- to 24year-olds still smoking on a daily basis, some officials at college campuses in the state are making an effort to help students curb the habit. Eighteen universities in the state of Oklahoma have adopted smoking bans on their campuses, including Oklahoma City University, the University of Central Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University, said Doug Matheny, Oklahoma State Department of Health Tobacco Use Prevention Service chief. The Oklahoma Smoking in Public Places act, which went into effect Nov. 1, allows campus police to fine students not in compliance with the school’s tobacco policy anywhere from $10 to $100, said Yvon Fils-Aime, OSU’s tobacco health educator. OU, however, currently has no

28th OU Rhodes Scholar to study English, history en route to med school

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True freshman running back Roy Finch, left, celebrates with teammates after scoring an eight-yard touchdown run in the first quarter of the Sooners’ 53-24 win against Baylor on Saturday in Waco, Texas. The Sooners have never lost to Baylor and lead the series 20-0. OU now turns its attention toward Saturday’s Bedlam matchup against Oklahoma State University in Stillwater with the Big 12 South title on the line. For additional coverage of the OU-Baylor game, see page 7.

Zoology senior Sarah Swenson was announced among the 32 new Rhodes Scholars on Saturday in Colorado Springs. Swenson, who is involved in the UOSA Integrity Council and worked as a genetics research lab assistant and a history of science department researcher, hopes to attend medical school to become a physician. As one of her district’s Rhodes Scholars, she is planning to study for a second bachelor’s degree in history and English. “A pretty new thing to be coming to medical school is education and narrative medicine, which uses literature to help doctors listen to patients better to better diagnose,” she said. “I think the second bachelor’s at Oxford will help with that.” Swenson is OU’s 28th Rhodes Scholar since the program’s inception in 1902, and she will now have the opportunity to study abroad for two years at Oxford University in England. Each year, only 32 scholars from the U.S. are selected. “I think the most important thing is to do what you’re passionate about and also to maintain balance and try more than anything to achieve success,” Swenson said. — Danny Hatch/The Daily

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State Question 755’s implications unacceptable, panel says Sharia law amendment a ‘blunder’ that will harm Oklahoma, professors say TREVOR SHOFNER The Oklahoma Daily

Though State Question 755 received 70 percent of Oklahomans’ support, it has received considerable criticism from both inside and outside the state. One such criticism, a lawsuit accusing the amendment of being unconstitutional, will be decided today by the Oklahoma Supreme Court. To help inform and engage the student body about this issue, the School of International and Area Studies held a panel discussion

Friday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union with four professors in relevant fields. The opposition to the question has been largely reactionary, something panelist Keith Gaddie, political science professor, blames on the media for failing to expose the public to the question’s nature and implications before the election. “I think a good general discussion of the matter would have been good before the election, but for being such short notice, this panel was good even though it was after the fact,” international and area studies senior Jesse Emanuel said. The panelists agreed that while

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the language in SQ 755 is very ambiguous, it sends a clear message to Muslims. “There is no sophistication or clarity in the legislative thinking of this mess,” said panelist Rick Tepker, law professor. “[SQ] 755 is a blunder.” Tepker said the rhetoric of religious intolerance used by “political opportunists” in the recent elections has “tracked mud and bigotry on the constitution of Oklahoma.” Gaddie said the recent set of DUKE GOULDEN/THE DAILY state questions were more than OU law professor Peter Krug, left, and political science professor Keith Gaddie, just gimmicks to draw out the

right, discuss the effect of State Question 755 during a panel Friday afternoon in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. The Oklahoma Supreme Court will rule on SEE SHARIA PAGE 2 the amendment’s constitutionally today.

THE OKLAHOMA DAILY VOL. 96, NO. 67 © 2010 OU Publications Board www.facebook.com/OUDaily www.twitter.com/OUDaily

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