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Junior wide receiver Jalen Saunders (18) rushes to celebrate with junior running back Brennan Clay (24) after Clay scored the game-winning touchdown in a game against Oklahoma State on Saturday. The Sooners won the game, 51-48, in overtime. Saunders and Clay led the way for OU with Saunders going for a team-high 162 yards receiving and Clay leading the Sooners in rushing with 59 yards on the ground. Saunders also returned a punt for a touchdown at the beginning of the fourth quarter to keep the Sooners chances for a win alive. Three receivers earned more than 100 yards — junior Kenny Stills (103 yards) and senior Justin Brown (146 yards) joined Suanders — for the first time in OU history. Senior quarterback Landry Jones shined in the game, completing 46 of 71 pass attempts and finishing with 500 yards and three touchdowns. The Sooners didn’t lead the entire game until Clay scored the game-winner in overtime to finish the game.

INTerSeSSION

CereBrAL PALSY

Courses no longer offered Infants gain hope in summer intersession to be able to crawl ‘Canceled arts and sciences courses could affect students’ degree plans,’ cadet says

Researchers create device for babies JAKE MORGAN Campus Reporter

SARAH SMITH

Campus Reporter

Thamel, a human relations junior, said as a freshman member of ROTC, he was required to make and sign a schedule of all the classes he would take before graduating.

Thamel said he risks losing his ROTC scholarship if he does not take classes according to the graduation plan he made.

“If they decide that you’re not going to graduate on time or in the manner that you said you were going to, you can get in big trouble for that,” he said.

In addition to losing his scholarship, Thamel faces other risks if he graduates late: Because his commissioning date and Basic Officer Leadership Camp will be pushed back, graduating late can affect his assessments and whether he even gets commissioned.

“They could say, ‘Well, you’re taking too long,’” he said. “They could say, ‘You don’t have to pay any of the scholarship back, but you don’t get commissioned.’”

Courses within the College of Arts and Sciences no longer will be offered during May and August intersession, which could affect students’ degree plans.

At the end of the 2012 spring semester, Renee Williams, director of intersession, said Paul Bell, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, notified the intersession office that he no longer would be approving proposals for May and August intersession courses within the College of Arts and Sciences.

Courses from the College of Arts and Sciences have made up about 63 percent of intersession course offerings in the past, Williams said.

“Most of the Arts and Sciences classes taught in intersession do not carry [general education] credit,” Bell said.

However, according to oZone, six Arts and Sciences courses gave general education credit out of 25 intersession courses offered in May 2012. In August 2012, seven Arts and Sciences courses offered general education Courses canceled for revenue credit out of 38 total courses offered. reasons When courses are offered through inROTC students’ graduation dates tersession, the instructors are paid through could be affected the intersession office, not through the colROTC cadet Adam Thamel has encoun- lege, Williams said. tered barriers to meeting his degree plan The colleges do not make revenue from because of the changes to the university’s intersession programs. see COURSES PAGe 2

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AT A GLANCE Cerebral Palsy Cerebral palsy is a collection of disorders caused by brain damage that affect the brain’s ability to send messages down to the muscles.

Infants with a disorder that severely affects motor and cognitive development may learn to crawl on time thanks to a multidisciplinary group of OU researchers.

Andrew Fagg, Lei Ding, machine learning to create David Miller and Thubi a device that helps infants Kolobe are combining robotics, brain imaging and see DISORDER PAGe 2

House District 45 candidate files petition MIKE WORMLEY Campus Reporter

Despite the House District 45 race being called for Republican incumbent Rep. Aaron Stiles by 16 votes after the Nov. 15 recount, the battle for the district continues.

Opinion: An educated, dialogue is necessary for peace in the region.

Misconceptions abound locally and internationally. (Page 4)

Syrian rebels take helicopter base near Damascus News: the takeover exemplified how the rebels are advancing near the capital despite challenges. At least 23 were killed. (Page 3)

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Israel-Palestine conflict not well understood in U.S.

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Courses: Changes due to finances Continued from page 1

Today around campus TODAY AROUND CAMPUS Reference assistance provided by OU Libraries will be available from 10 a.m. to noon in Adams Hall, Room 110 and Gould Hall, Room 275.

Putt-4-Prizes, sponsored by Union Programming Board, will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s first floor lobby. Students may putt for a chance to win free parking passes in the Union Parking Garage.

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intersession courses, but colleges do make revenue from summer session courses, Bell said.

Like fall and spring semester tuition, half of summer session tuition goes to the university and half goes to the college, which pays the costs of the course, Bell said.

“With the budget cuts that we’ve had because of the state Legislature and the cutting of funds in higher education, we had to find ways to raise extra money to help keep all the classes going, and so whatever money we make here , we plow back into fall and spring,” Bell said. “We had some Arts and Sciences folks who were teaching in intersession because they always did.

“And the problem was, we found we were competing with ourselves.”

According to the 2013 summer schedule, intersession courses now run at the same time as the summer session.

Many times, the same courses were offered in intersession and in summer session, based on professorial decisions about teaching classes, Bell said.

“We decided that we would

Corrections

A Monday, Nov. 19, story, “Protestors stand against violence,” erroneously referred to the Arab Student Association as the “Arab Student Organization” on second reference.

A story in the Friday, Nov. 16 edition, “University gives a warm welcome to new Farsi language program,” left out two modern language studies offered at OU. Hebrew and Japanese should have been included. The story also listed “Mandarin” and “Chinese” as two separate language studies offered at OU. Mandarin Chinese is one language.

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AT A GLANCE Summer 2013 Schedule Block A: May 13 – June 7 Block B: June 10 – July 3 Block C: July 8 – Aug. 2 Block D: May 13 – June 28 Block E: July 1 – Aug. 16

Source: Summer intersession website

summer session,” Bell said.

Bell said the current summer session was designed so students can plan around their summer engagements.

The summer session, which Bell said was expanded by the university in 2010, consists of five blocks: three four-week blocks and two “half-semester” blocks which split the summer.

“If there’s something we need to do to create a block [in summer session] that accommodates ROTC students, that’s great,” Bell said.

Demand for intersession courses still high

Arts and Sciences faculty stop competing and basically interested in offering inrun all of our summer activi- tersession courses have been ties through the university’s calling the intersession office,

Williams said.

“The student interest is still there,” Williams said regarding May and August intersession. “We get phone calls daily from students wanting to take additional courses that aren’t being offered.”

Thamel said many other students could be affected by the changes as well.

“There’s 30-year-old students with kids, there’s commuter students, there’s scholarship-restricted students, there’s students that have time requirements for their graduation,” Thamel said.

Sarah Smith sarah.c.smith-1@ou.edu

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Xue Tang Yu, a Chinese instructor with the Confucius Institute, teaches a College of Arts & Sciences Business Chinese course Sept. 8 in Cross Center.

learn the specific body and limb movements required for crawling.

The team received a $1.135 million grant from the National Science Foundation in October to improve upon a device that Kolobe designed at Virginia Commonwealth University. Three years ago, Kolobe came to OU and presented the prototype to Fagg and Miller.

After meeting, Miller and Kolobe applied for and received a grant to develop a kinematic suit that observes infants’ limb movements in real time, said Miller, co-investigator for the project.

The suit fits the infant like a “onesie” and is functionally similar to body suits used in animation movie filming to simulate natural movement, Miller said. Twelve inertial measurement sensors spread throughout the suit communicate where the infant’s limbs are in space at any given time.

The new grant will be used to introduce brain imaging, Ding’s specialty, into the project, improve the

BY THE NUMBERS Cerebral Palsy

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thousand children and adults in the U.S. exhibit one or more symptoms of cerebral palsy.

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thousand babies born in the U.S. each year develop cerebral palsy Source: United Cerebral Palsy

kinematic suit and redesign Kolobe’s crawling robot, Fagg said.

Kolobe’s design for the crawling robot was a type of motorized skateboard, equipped with pressure sensors to read shifts in the infant’s weight and respond with movement accordingly, said Fagg, the project’s lead principal investigator.

The skateboard design, however, had some limitations, Miller said. It broke on a regular basis, and the device carried the infant’s whole weight, so the child never learned to support its own weight. The robot could not scoot sideways, a

common movement for infants learning to crawl.

“We want something that can mimic all the movements that infants want to do and do the same type of training to get them to learn to carry more and more weight,” Miller said. “We’re pretty much starting from the ground up.”

The new device uses “omni wheels,” wheels with rollers perpendicular to the axle, that allow the device to skid across the floor. These wheels are similar to those used in factories to move parts across the production floor, Miller said.

A force-torque sensor that rests on the wheels measures forces that are up, down, left, right, forward or backward, including pitch and yaw, he said. The robot combines information from the sensor with information from the kinematic suit to generate motion in relation to the infant’s limb movements.

Infants learn to crawl by trying random movements, and these movements might cause them to roll or scoot across the floor, Fagg said.

The resulting motion surprises the infant and drives

them to keep trying.

“The infants start to build associations like ‘I see a toy a few feet away; here are the movements I need to get over there,’” Fagg said.

“Infants with cerebral palsy don’t have the strength or muscle coordination to produce those movements, and thus they don’t have those ‘Aha!’ moments. They learn to stop trying.”

The absence of these “Aha!” moments substantially delays crawling, and because crawling is key in childhood development, cerebral palsy infants face more developmental problems down the road, Fagg said.

Jake Morgan jakemorgan@ou.edu

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People console a woman whose relative was killed in a fire at a garment factory outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday. At least 112 people were killed late Saturday night in a fire that raced through the multi-story garment factory just outside of Bangladesh’s capital, an official said.

Many of 4,000 factories lack safety measures Jukas Alam

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DHAKA, Bangladesh — At least 112 people were killed in a fire that raced through a multi-story garment factory just outside of Bangladesh’s capital, an official said Sunday.

The blaze broke out at the seven-story factory operated by Tazreen Fashions late Saturday. By Sunday morning, firefighters had recovered 100 bodies, fire department Operations Director Maj. Mohammad Mahbub told The Associated Press.

He said another 12 people who had suffered injuries

after jumping from the building to escape the fire later died at hospitals.

The death toll could rise as the search for victims was continuing, he said.

Bangladesh has some 4,000 garment factories, many without proper safety measures. The country annually earns about $20 billion from exports of garment products, mainly to the United States and Europe.

Mahbub said firefighters recovered 69 bodies from the second floor of the factory alone. He said most of the victims had been trapped inside the factory, located just outside of Dhaka, with no emergency exits leading outside the building.

Many workers who had taken shelter on the roof of

the factory were rescued, but firefighters were unable to save those who were trapped inside, Mahbub said.

He said the fire broke out on the ground floor, which is used as a warehouse, and spread quickly to the upper floors.

“The factory had three staircases, and all of them were down through the ground floor,” Mahbub said.

“So the workers could not come out when the fire engulfed the building.”

“Had there been at least one emergency exit through outside the factory, the casualties would have been much lower,” he said.

Army soldiers and paramilitary border guards were deployed to help police keep the situation under control as

thousands of onlookers and anxious relatives of the factory workers gathered at the scene, Mahbub said.

He would not say how many people were still missing.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed her shock at the loss of a huge number of lives in the blaze and asked authorities to properly conduct rescue operations.

The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, the apex body of the garment sector, said the association would stand by the victims’ families.

Bangladesh’s garment factories make clothes for brands including Wal-Mart, JC Penney, H&M, Marks & Spencer, Carrefour and Tesco.

in Judge Tracy Schumacher’s courtroom at the Cleveland County Courthouse, lasting until it was recessed at 6 p.m.

The hearing will pick up again at 10:30 a.m. Friday.

Greg Bledsoe, Roberts’ attorney, centered his arguments on the handling of provisional ballots, highlighting seven provisional ballots in particular in which people gave addresses different from their registered address.

T h ro u g h q u e s t i o n ing, Bledsoe had Anette Pretty, assistant election board secretary, walk the court through the entire provisional ballot process.

A voter may cast a provisional ballot if the voter arrives at the polling place without an accepted identification card, Pretty said.

Acceptable identification cards include stateissued, federal-issued and tribal-issued cards that have a name, photograph and an expiration date.

While many of these do have an address on them, the address on the card is not required, Pretty said.

Without any of these cards, the voter must submit a provisional ballot if the voter wishes to vote.

“Once the voter has filed a provisional ballot, it goes into a secrecy envelope,” Pretty said. “And that into an affidavit [envelope] that is filled out by a polling worker.”

The instructions for handling the provisional ballots is located in the provisional bag in the form of a checklist, Pretty said.

After collection and secure storage, the process of researching the provisional ballots begins.

Research involves checking the affidavit envelope with the state database. If the database address and the affidavit envelope address did not match, Pretty was instructed to not count that vote, she said.

Bledsoe argued the rule that these two should match is unsupported by state statute and is unconstitutional because people voting with provisional ballots were receiving different treatment.

Bledsoe also questioned Lisa Shrieves, Cleveland County election board chairman, about counting absentee ballots and reconstituting “spoiled ballots,” including ballots unreadable by the machine because they were emailed from military members overseas.

It’s unclear who would receive the seven contested ballots if they were counted, but Bledsoe alluded to further issues, saying he would be amending the petition for a third time before Friday.

Mike Wormley m.wormley@ou.edu

Military technology

Israel’s new missile defense system passes test Mid-range weapon defense part of system overhaul Associated Press

JERU SAL EM — Israel successfully tested its newest missile defense system Sunday, the military said, a step toward making the third leg of what Israel calls its “multilayer missile defense” operational.

The “David’s Sling” system is designed to stop midrange missiles. It successfully passed its test, shooting down its first missile in a drill Sunday in southern Israel, the military said.

The system is designed

“The system is designed to intercept projectiles with ranges of up to 300 kilometers (180 miles).” to intercept projectiles with ranges of up to 300 kilometers (180 miles).

Israel has also deployed Arrow systems for longerrange threats from Iran. The Iron Dome protects against short-range rockets fired by militants in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. Iron Dome shot down hundreds of rockets from Gaza in this month’s

round of fighting.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the success of Iron Dome highlighted the “immense importance” of such systems. “ D av i d ’s S l i n g ,” a l s o known “Magic Wand,” is developed by Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and U.S.-based Raytheon Co. and is primarily designed to counter the large arsenal of Hezbollah rockets in Lebanon.

The military said the program, which is on schedule for deployment in 2014, would “provide an additional layer of defense against ballistic missiles.”

The next generation of

the Arrow, now in the development stage, is set to be deployed in 2016. Called the Arrow 3, it is designed to strike its target outside the atmosphere, intercepting missiles closer to their launch sites.

Together, the two Arrow systems would provide two chances to strike down incoming missiles.

Israel also uses U.S.-made Patriot missile defense batteries against mid-range missiles, though these failed to hit any of the 39 Scud missiles fired at Israel from Iraq In the first Gulf War 20 years ago. Manufacturers say the Patriot system has been improved since then.

AT A GLANCE What’s required for voting The law requires any document used for proof of identity for voting to contain the following information: • The name of the person to whom it was issued

The following documents may be used for proof of identity for voting: • An Oklahoma driver license • A passport • A military identification

• A photograph of the person to whom it was issued • An expiration date that is after the date of the election

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THUMBS DOWN: The College of Arts and Sciences will no longer offer intersession classes during the May and August sessions, limiting students scheduling options. (Page 1)

EDITORIAL

Israel-Palestine peace starts with accurate debate at home Our View: The discussion surrounding the Israel-

Palestine conflict, both locally and nationally, is marked by misconceptions.

CLAIM: Israelis are just defending their homeland — TOSS-UP

Last Monday, members of the Arab Student Association staged a protest against recent Israeli military action in the Gaza strip. The Israeli attacks were a response to rocket assaults from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in Western Israel.

The primary goal of the protests was to raise awareness in the OU community about the plight of Palestine in its clash with Israel.

The conflict in Israel is more complex than this one issue suggests. The dialogue on campus that resulted from the protests is a reflection of a debate that The Our View is occurring in the U.S. and the is the majority international community. opinion of Like the national and The Daily’s international debates, the eight-member editorial board discussions on campus are mired in misconceptions and generalizations on both sides, making constructive dialogue on the topic nearly impossible.

Students must take steps to understand both sides of the debate and focus their discussions on the best path for a peaceful solution for the region.

Below are a few examples representative of these misconceptions:

The UN Partition Plan of 1947 sought to set up two distinct areas in the region, one for Palestine and one for Israel. The action came after Great Britain had trouble controlling the region amidst a series of rebellions by local non-Jewish Arabs.

Great Britain had taken the region from the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The UN plan originally was rejected by the Arab League and other organizations but has become the basis of advocacy for the proposed Palestinian state. One of the most contested regions is the West Bank. In the 1990s, Israel has continued establishing settlements, legal and illegal, in the area historically controlled by Palestine.

Because Palestine was never officially created by the 1947 plan, the borders between Israel and Palestine are constantly in dispute.

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legitimate, why give it air time? It’s random trolling in response to her public presence, and as trolls go, it was actually pretty cordial.

Second, this is a 37-year-old woman. If she wanted to exemplify how to handle a bully, venting on camera wasn’t the best choice. Why not just email the guy and tell him what she thinks? Her passive-aggressive response of releasing the guy’s name on the news is about as petty as his email.

Finally, all the whole thing did was to further define her by her weight. The Huffington Post, the NY Daily News and the Daily Mail all referred to her in their headlines as the “fat-shamed” news anchor. Splendid, that must have been exactly what Livingston had in mind.

I hated when people told me they hated when I smoked.

I hated having my worth devalued by some because I smoked. But I always took my share of responsibility for it, and I never felt bullied because someone called me a fool for willfully inhaling smoke.

As a nation, we are expanding in the waist. If we get to enjoy little unhealthy personal freedoms, we also have to deal with some people attacking us for it. Own it or change it.

But if you are dealing with a bully or a similar situation at OU, please don’t be afraid to talk to someone about it. And let your haters hate. They obviously need something to do.

Trent Cason is a literature and cultural studies senior.

Mark Brockway is a political science senior.

CLAIM: Hamas rejects plans for peace; Israel supports peace — MOSTLY FALSE

COLUMN

Own the thing they hate or change it

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Should UOSA pay Greek Council leaders and other special representatives?

roponents OPINION COLUMNIST of student involvement on campus might have been excited earlier this month when UOSA President Joe Sangirardi vetoed legislation that would cut pay for Greek Council Mark Brockway advisory positions, but mark.d.brockway@ou.edu the motivation behind the veto is troubling.

Sangirardi’s veto was in response to the limited scope of the funding cuts, which he said do not go far enough. During the same legislative session in which these funding cuts were proposed, student congress voted to create a new paid position within its own administrative structure.

Unfortunately for student groups, this recent move toward funding cuts for leaders of student organizations highlights a troubling trend toward less student involvement on campus and in decisionmaking positions.

Sangirardi justifies the proposed cuts by saying organizations that organize and benefit only a certain section of the student population should not receive student activity fees. These include the Greek Council but also the Student Bar Association and the Housing Center Student Association.

While Sangirardi’s argument makes some sense, it ignores the significant impact these organization have on students and also the greater Norman and Oklahoma community. Just because a group does not engage all students does not mean its impacts are less significant.

Possibly the best example of this engagement is the greek system. While I admit the most impactful activities performed by greek societies generally involve their own members, the greek community is particularly successful in sponsoring events that engage the entire campus, from fundraising to entertainment.

They also perform an amazing amount of community service.

These examples demonstrate that, while much of their activity bolsters internal unity, that unity and organizational prowess is used to benefit the larger community in and around OU as well.

It is a patent dismissal of these efforts that allows UOSA to eliminate the pay of the leaders of these organizations who hold positions within UOSA. Student campus leaders should be seeking ways to build alliances with the greek community for mutual benefit, not pushing them away.

Simply, the greek community contributes much more to the OU community than we contribute to it.

Moreover, as odd as it may seem to UOSA, greek students are students, too. The four councils represent a huge number of students who deserve a significant voice in student government When I read the list of organizations whose leaders Sangirardi and UOSA wanted to cut off from UOSA and researched what they do on campus, Sangirardi’s opposition to these groups further puzzled me.

The Student Housing Association, for example, has a ton of events for students and seems especially important in acclimating freshman into the OU community.

This organization would seem like a perfect entity for UOSA and Campus Activities Council to partner and cooperate with.

I am also surprised UOSA, made up of future lawyers and politicians, would not want to forge strong links with the Student Bar Association.

Having served in student government before at another college, I am sympathetic to the need for stewardship in managing student fees. It seems, however, UOSA has taken an extremely shortsighted attitude toward its responsibilities with these fees.

Instead of alienating large student organizations from the process of student government, UOSA should be taking advantage of the large networks of students these organizations employ. UOSA should work with, not against, the Greek Council to make a better campus and community for students.

Contact Joe at joe@ou.edu and ask him to stop pursuing divisiveness in student government.

While Hamas initially advocated for a complete takeover of the Israeli state, this view has undergone significant moderation in the past 40 years. The Oslo Accords demonstrated Palestinian willingness to negotiate a dual-state policy. The effort lost credibility when an Israeli CLAIM: Palestinians don’t have weapons extremist attacked unarmed Muslims in the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre.

— MOSTLY FALSE The 2000 Camp David summit led to an impasse Palestinians have significant access to rockets, when both sides refused to come to an agreement bomb-making materials and small arms they have on territory relegation with Yasser Arafat being used consistently to attack Israeli citizens in a the principle stonewall to the process. The Israelvariety of efforts. These weapons are smuggled in Palestine peace process is marked by lack of effort through Egypt and produced domestically. and unwillingness to negotiate on both sides.

Even though Hamas holds significant weaponry, These issues and more are often intricate and it pales in comparison to the arsenal held by hard to understand. Because of their difficulty, the Israeli Defense Force. The force holds tanks, students would significantly benefit from an fighter jets, sophisticated small arms and the educational effort that focuses on information region’s only proven nuclear weapons program. and ignores bias.

OU should continue the 2011 Arab-Israeli CLAIM: Palestinians do not support conflict Presidential Dream Course on a Hamas — MOSTLY FALSE permanent basis and promote continuing forums Hamas is not just a military organization; it is a through the College of International Studies that political party that also engages in social welfare involve presentations by OU faculty. programs aimed at aiding citizens living in the More importantly, students must make an Gaza Strip and the West Bank. In 2006, the party effort to foster dialogue between Arab and Jewish won control of parliament. students through joint meetings and discussion A 2007 Pew study found the majority of groups involving organizations from both sides.

Palestinians have a favorable view of Hamas. The If both sides seek peace in the region, they must same study also found many countries in Western come together here at home.

Europe also sympathize with Palestine more than Israel in the current conflict.

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OPINION COLUMNIST ’m trying to quit smoking after more than a decade, and it is starting to make me unpleasant to be around.

I’ve tried many times to quit before, but always end up back at the gas station buying smokes.

Trent Cason Maybe my impulse-control cason.trent@yahoo.com issues are why the story of Jennifer Livingston, a Wis. TV newscaster, struck a nerve.

Long story short, a security guard named Kenneth Krause wrote her an email asking if she should be on TV as a larger woman and if she was setting a bad example for young girls because of her size. By her own admission, Livingston is medically considered obese. In response, she went on a four-minute rant on the air about her weight troubles, her struggle with it and her awareness of her problem.

I’m with you, sister, as I take a drag from an unsatisfying e-cigarette.

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First, the email wasn’t bullying. It was insensitive and brutally honest, but there was nothing in it which mocked her or lashed out at her. If the watcher’s question was not

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Students ‘startup’ support for film Pinecone LLC supports indie film productions Colby Frederick Life & Arts Reporter

St u d e n t s f ro m O U, Oklahoma State University, the University of Central Oklahoma and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working together to build a platform for independent, television and film producers to get noticed.

The new technology startup Pinecone LLC sprouted up just south of Edmond’s University of Central Oklahoma campus, and the idea for it started in high school. Co-founder Greg Stamm said he met the Pinecone project manager in Key Club at Edmond North High School. Stamm and Jacob Bennett came up with the idea of starting a technology company. Thus, Pinecone was born.

Th e c re at i v e t e a m at Pinecone is developing an online application for Scott Starr/The Daily upcoming filmmakers and producers to place their William Low, nursing junior, and Brandon Silver, computer science junior, work to develop the application for the Pinecone LLC online video platform. The collaboration work before an audience. includes students from OU, Oklahoma State University, University of Central Oklahoma and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Pinecone website will be a The web application will forum for independent filmmakers to display their work. be similar in set up to YouTube, with the major difference being Pinecone’s website for viewing. Viewers deserve,” Low said. individual will have an to communicate and view content, said William Low, AT A GLANCE would be able to select what The prime time slot will be account that potentially posted works, Low said. chief marketing officer and Pinecone LLC they want to watch from a streamed live on Pinecone’s can include a résumé and Pinecone is intended nursing junior. wide variety as the site gains channel as a featured work, other personal information to launch at the end of the “It’s an application foVideo streaming notoriety and use, Low said. he said. about past experience and month, Stamm said. cused on the promotion of application that “Videos will be voted on While oriented around work history. Pinecone will up-and-coming filmmakallows independent by the Pinecone users to promotion for independent function as a collaborative ers and creative teams,” Low filmmakers to upload choose which ones will be film producers and writers, c o m m u n i t y p ro m o t i n g Colby Frederick, said. their work aired during prime time Pinecone also will have producers, wr iters and colby.frederick-1@ou.edu Independent filmmakers so that the ‘best’ films will innovative opportunities performers throughout the pineconefilm.com will be able to upload receive the attention they for actors, Low said. Each industry, allowing them their films to the Pinecone

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| Football: In one of the highest scoring games in Bedlam history, OU took advantage of opportunities late, beating Oklahoma State in overtime.

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Junior wide receiver Jalen Saunders (18) sidesteps a tackler during a punt return for a touchdown in a game against Oklahoma State on Saturday. It was the first punt return in Saunders’ career as a Sooner after transferring from Fresno State this season. Saunders also led the team in receiving with 162 yards and one touchdown on 10 catches.

Punt return touchdown kept OU in game DILLON PHILLIPS

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It didn’t look good.

With just under 15 minutes left in the ball game, OU trailed, 38-30, as junior receiver Jalen Saunders stood near his own 20-yard line waiting to field a punt.

About 30 seconds later, Saunders tied it up.

He caught senior punter Quinn Sharp’s punt at his own 19, sidestepped to his right, cut back to his left and then put his foot into the dirt and busted it to the outside.

“I saw a lane right when I caught the ball, and I was hoping someone got that block,” Saunders said. “And when I saw them get that

block, I just turned the corner and took off as fast as I can.”

Saunders took the punt 81 yards to the house — OU’s second punt return for touchdown this season — and just like that, the Sooners were back in it.

“When I got around the corner, I was just like, ‘Man, put ‘em up, put ‘em down,’ as my dad used to say,” Saunders said.

After spotting the Cowboys a 14-point handicap, OU never had the lead until junior running back Brennan Clay plowed into the end zone on the game’s final play.

But Saunders’ return sparked the Sooners’ comeback.

“I came back to the sideline after the punt return, and everyone was excited,” Saunders said. “I felt like everybody was just jumping,

ready to get back out on the field and make a play.”

RAPID RECAP Junior receiver Kenny Stills OU 51, OSU 48 also recognized the shift.

“I felt the momentum Key stat: The Bedlam change,” Stills said. “When game saw four ties Jalen makes a move, he’s created by the Sooner gone. He showed that offense. tonight, and he showed that Key performer: Senior last week.” quarterback Landry Saunders spelle d the Jones threw 71 times Sooners’ usual return man, for 500 yards and senior receiver Justin Brown, three touchdowns. and the punt return was Saunders’ first of the season.

Key opponent: At But Saunders long had been halftime, OSU’s staring quarterback was the rumored as a potential return team’s leading rusher man. and passer.

“We’ve been talking about that the last couple of weeks: Tobi Neidy, Sports Reporter Let’s get Jalen some catches back there because of how Saunders said Stoops dynamic he is,” coach Bob Stoops said. “So it didn’t asked him a few times if he surprise us that he would wanted to return a punt or squirt out of there, and two.

“I told him I didn’t mind fortunately, he did.”

doing it; I did it my freshman year at college at Fresno (State),” he said. “He just told me whenever I got back there to just tuck it up and run like you run — just do you, basically.”

And that’s exactly what he did as he gave the Sooners the boost they so desperately needed.

“It’s up there as one of the best plays of my career,” Saunders said. “I’ve had a few (good ones), but that one probably turns up there.”

But the punt return wasn’t the only play Saunders made Saturday; the Elk Grove, Calif., native also caught 10 passes for a team-high 162 yards, including a nine–yard touchdown reception in the second quarter.

“This game really, really meant a lot to me,” Saunders said. “I feel like I still got a

lot to prove. People always overlook me because of my size.”

As for his quarterback’s performance — senior Landry Jones threw for 500 yards and three touchdowns f r o m a c a r e e r- h i g h 7 1 attempts — color Saunders impressed.

“It’s incredible,” Saunders said. “It’s something you do in a video game.”

And although Clay was the hero — getting mobbed by co-offensive coordinator Jay Norvell and a host of OU players in the end zone after his game-winning, 18-yard touchdown run — and Jones dominated the stat sheet, it was Saunders who kept the Sooners in it.

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OFFENSE

Belldozer package pushes OU to rivalry win Sophomore is heir apparent for starting QB job

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The 51-48 overtime win against Oklahoma State on Saturday was the end of senior quarterback Landry Jones’ era in Norman and an important lesson for next season’s heir apparent, sophomore quarterback Blake Bell.

Oklahoma didn’t lead during any of the game’s regular 60 minutes of action, but the Sooners were able to put together a comeback and come away with the team’s ninth Bedlam victory in 10 outings.

The offense said it never thought about throwing in the towel because the team trusts the two experienced quarterbacks OU routinely uses.

“We knew we could count on Landry because of the way he conducts his offense and knows it to a tee,” junior r u n n i n g b a c k B re n n a n Clay said. “And it’s always amazing (to see Bell) make one and two guys miss and be able to fall forward.”

But Bell experienced some setbacks with the Belldozer package against OSU, mainly because opposing defenses know what to defend against when No. 10 takes over at quarterback. The Cowboys tripped up Bell during the first couple of outings, limiting the rusher to just two yards during the first half before forcing two fumbles during

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Sophomore quarterback Blake Bell (10) fights through tackles on his way to a game-tying touchdown in the final seconds of regulation in a game against Oklahoma State on Saturday. The Sooners won the game, 51-48, in overtime.

the Belldozer variations that included handing the ball to junior fullback Trey Millard during one of the miscues.

“Defensively, OSU had great schemes for us, and give them that credit,” Bell said.

Although a couple of wrinkles to the package were revealed when Bell handed off the ball to junior running back Roy Finch in the first quarter and then Millard in the third, the simplicity of the short-yardage play hasn’t changed since the Sooners

starting using the offensive option a year ago.

“All you’re thinking about is getting in the end BLAKE zone or get- BELL ting the first down,” Bell said.

And with Saturday’s game coming down to the wire, Bell had a front-row seat to Jones’ ability to get OU back to the redzone during the game’s final offensive series,

watching the offense march from OU’s own 14-yard line to getting within four yards of potentially tying up the game late in the fourth quarter.

And the fourth time was the charm for the Belldozer.

Even with the clock w i n d i n g d ow n a n d t h e game’s adrenaline flowing through his veins, Bell said he remained zoned in with the play before he hurdled over OSU defenders to score OU’s game-tying touchdown that sent the contest into overtime. Having that type

of patience is something Bell had to learn last year as a freshman; now he says it’s second nature to the man with an offensive scheme that carries his namesake.

“You have to just let the play develop and rely on guys like (sophomore fullback Aaron) Ripkowski to get their blocks,” Bell said. “We run through it so much, you just know when to do it.”

Even OSU coach Mike Gundy said he felt like the C ow b oy d e f e n s e h a d a good game plan to limit the

Belldozer’s success to start the contest, but Bell proved he would not be denied a chance to get into the end zone.

“I thought that we had him in the backfield on the tying touchdown,” Gundy said.

“He’s a big guy, and he made some guys miss and broke tackles.”

Next season, the Sooners could be relying on Bell to do more than his limited a p p e a ra n c e s o n s h o r tyardage situations. And Saturday’s come-frombehind win over OSU is an experience Bell won’t soon forget. “ There’s nothing like that feeling when you beat Oklahoma State in overtime on your home field when none of the fans left and everyone’s standing there,” Bell said.

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OU’s Mubeen Shakir was recently named OU’s 29th Rhodes Scholar, one of only 32 Rhodes Scholars in the United States this year.

OU is No. 1 in Rhodes Scholarships in Oklahoma and ranks highly among public institutions nationwide in the total number of Rhodes Scholarships that have been awarded to its students. OU is the only university in Oklahoma to have more than three Rhodes Scholars!

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