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STOOPS TEAMS WITH STATE TO SUPPORT CHILD SAFETY Voluntary program to help families find missing children with use of personal kits RICKY MARANON Assignment Editor

OKLAHOMA CITY — OU football head coach Bob Stoops is teaming up with Gov. Brad Henry and State Superintendent Sandy Garrett to back a new program to help find missing children. The National Child Identification Program is a voluntar y program designed to give families tools to identify

their children if they are lost or missing. “This is an easy way for parents to keep track of information that could someday save a child’s life,” Henry said. Statistics show that 800,000 children are reported missing every year, the governor said. “That means a child goes missing every 40 seconds,” Henry said. The state plans to launch the program, which is co-sponsored by the American Football Coaches Association, within the next 30 days.

“Coach Stoops brought the idea to my office, and through a federal grant, we are implementing this program,” Henry said. Many other football coaches have backed the program in other states, Stoops said. “We work with young people every day and it is important that we do everything we can to keep them safe,” Stoops said. A missing girl from Dallas was found in Phoenix with the help of a kit the girl’s parents had picked up at her school, said Bret Phillips, National Child Identification Program spokesman.

“In states where these programs exist, we’ve had many success stories,” he said. Garrett said the state will encourage parents to participate. “The program is purely voluntary, and parents will keep the information at home,” she said. Phillips said the kit’s contents will not expire or require replenishment, but the child’s photo should be updated as the child gets older. Henry said the government does not want to create a database that stores the information in the kit.

“The only time you will ever need to give this to a government official is if your child goes missing,” he said. The governor said the state received a portion of the Federal Safe School’s Grant, so state funds would not be used to purchase the kits. The federal grant allowed the state to purchase 360,000 kits for $300,000. “We hope that we will get 100 percent participation, but at this time, we only have enough for students who are currently enrolled in public school,” Henry STOOPS CONTINUES ON PAGE 2

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OU football head coach Bob Stoops announces his support for a new child safety program. Stoops has partnered with Gov. Brad Henry and State Superintendent Sandy Garrett to help Oklahoma families protect children in kindergarten through sixth grade. Stoops, Henry and Garrett announced at a press conference Thursday that the new federally funded safety program will begin this month.

HENRY: TREASURER’S WORDS ‘IRRESPONSIBLE’ Lawmakers debate if federal stimulus money can be used toward state budget crisis RICKY MARANON Assignment Editor

OKLAHOMA CITY — State Treasurer Scott Meacham’s comments about political fighting surrounding the state’s budget are “irresponsible,” Gov. Brad Henry said Thursday. Meacham told the Associated Press on Wednesday that lawmakers are risking a veto on supplemental funding for education, prisons and health care if an agreement isn’t reached on the source of the funds. At the heart of the issue is whether federal stimulus money can be used to alleviate Oklahoma’s budget crisis. Meacham said Henry could potentially veto any bills that included federal money, rather than the governor’s proposal to use the state’s Rainy Day Fund. “Are they willing to do all that work and potentially have the governor veto it?” Meacham said. “The governor has proven

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in the past that if he feels something is not in the best interest of the state, he will veto it.” But Henry said using a veto has not come up as an option yet. “[The Republicans] have wanted me to supplement the spending of the Rainy Day Fund with stimulus money, but I have signed an agreement that would not permit me to do so,” Henry said. “Spending stimulus money would be a no-no.” The governor, who signed the agreement with the federal government, has said he’s concerned spending stimulus money in lieu of reserve funds could jeopardize the federal funding, which is critical to easing the state’s worst budget crisis since the Great Depression. One provision of the agreement, he said, stipulates that states not use the stimulus money to replenish, or as a substitute, for using reserve funds. B u t P re s i d e n t P ro -Te m Glenn Coffee said using federal stimulus money to boost funding for education would not constitute supplanting the VETO CONTINUES ON PAGE 2

Fishing team lands history-making catch Seniors use ‘strategy’ to net victory, six bass at national event last month CAROLINE PERRYMAN Daily Staff Writer

The OU bass fishing team recently won a national college fishing event with a catch that marked the biggest weigh in college fishing history.

Chip Porche, communications senior, and Mark Johnson, dental hygiene senior, helped win the National Guard FLW College Fishing Texas Division event at Falcon Lake on Saturday, Jan. 31, by catching six bass that weighed a combined 34 pounds, 8 ounces. From this victory, the OU bass fishing team brought home $5,000 for the university, Porche said. To compete in these tournaments,

the team members must use about $10,000 to $15,000 of their own money in addition to sponsors’ contributions. “We asked [UOSA] for $3,000 and we got maybe $300,” said Porche, who helped start the team. Porche said bass fishing is the fastest-growing sport, and while there were 50 universities competing four years ago, there are now about 300 competing.

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U.N. TURNS TO OU LAW FOR PANAMA REPORT Shadow report of conditions in Guyana will be under review in Switzerland CAROLINE PERRYMAN Daily Staff Writer

Eight OU College of Law students participated in the first of the OU College of Law International Human Rights Clinic focusing on indigenous peoples in Guyana and Panama. Lindsay Robertson, faculty director of the American Indian Law and Policy Center and

Fishing Continues from page 1 “[Fishing] is a sport,” Porche said. “You’re out there eight hours and it’s not like where you can pick the weather conditions you want. You’re out there against Mother Nature ... it can be tough on you. If you talk to the guys that fish for a living, and they are fishing 200 to 250 days a year, they’ll tell you it’s a sport.” Weather is not the only challenge fishers face, Porche said. He said a fisherman may place a certain bait deep in the water that could successfully catch a fish one day, but the same strategy may fail the next. The fish change, which changes what fishers do. Porche and Johnson have synchronization within their team. When one of them is catching a fish, the other comes in with the net. They

associate director of the InterAmerican Center for Law and Culture, developed and presented the idea for the clinic to the OU Law faculty last spring, according to a press release. The students went to Guyana in South America during the fall semester and Panama in Central America during the spring semester. The students are researching the conditions of the country’s indigenous people to create and submit a report to the Human Rights Council of the United

also have to recognize how to change their strategy with changes in the weather and water depth. To successfully catch a fish, you cannot kill it, Porche said. He said one time they had to stab a fish in a certain spot near its lung so it could breathe, because it doesn’t count if the fish dies. “It is a mental game,” Johnson said. “You can have all the right equipment, everything you need, but you don’t know the little stuff like that takes time. You can put someone right on a school of fish with everything they need, and specifically at that tournament we were at I guarantee you could have put every other college student at that event almost on those stakes and they would have gotten them. [Fishing] is very specific stuff.” The team fishes around the country. They hit lakes from eastern Arkansas to the southern border of Texas.

Nations on that country’s compliance with certain commitments, obligations and rights. As a non-governmental organization, the OU College of Law International Human Rights Clinic submits shadow reports focused on specific areas which have an impact on the indigenous population, according to the release. For the shadow report on Guyana, students focused on environmental degradation by mining and deforestation, sex work and human trafficking, and

health and education. Students Conor Cleary, Michael Davis, Julia Mills and Amanda Mullins collected information through extensive use of telephone interviews and e-mail. Their shadow report was submitted in November and the review of Guyana will occur May 3 through 14 during a session of the Universal Periodic Review Working Group at the U.N. in Geneva, Switzerland. The group went to public and private institutions that work with Kuna — an indigenous group of Panama. They also met with

leaders of the Kuna Congress, indigenous attorneys and the chief of Kuna Yala, an autonomous territory. “A high point of the trip was traveling across the country to the Caribbean coast and venturing by sea to the islands that constitute the archipelago of Kuna Yula, where they heard directly the grievances of indigenous Kuna people,” said Alvaro Baca, a Nicaraguan attorney living in Norman who also serves as adjunct lecturer to the International Human Rights Clinic.

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said. Garrett said because of the small number of kits available, home-schooled children and some private school children will have to go without for now. There are only enough kits for children in public schools who are in grades kindergarten through sixth grade, she said.

reserve funds. Coffee said legislative leaders made clear to Henry during negotiations their position on spending no more than $225 million from the state’s $600 million reserve. If the governor chooses to sign the spending bill and not authorize federal stimulus money to make up the difference, “then he would be

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choosing to cut education, not us,” Coffee said. Coffee said Wednesday that a veto by Henry would send this year’s budget negotiations into a tailspin before negotiations have even started on next year’s budget. For fiscal 2011, legislators will have $1.3 billion less to spend than last year. “We’d have to go back to the table and start over on the deal,” Coffee said. —T h e A ss o c i a t e d P re ss contributed to this report

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EX-PRESIDENT CLINTON UNDERGOES HEART PROCEDURE NEW YORK — Former President Bill Clinton had two stents inserted Thursday to prop open a clogged heart artery after being hospitalized with chest pains, an adviser said. Clinton, 63, “is in good spirits and will continue to focus on the work of his foundation and Haiti’s relief and long-term recovery efforts,” said adviser Douglas Band. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton left Washington and headed to New York to be with her husband, who underwent the procedure at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Stents are tiny mesh scaffolds used to keep an artery open after it is unclogged in an angioplasty procedure. Doctors thread a tube through a blood vessel in the groin to a blocked artery, inflate a balloon to flatten the clog, and slide the stent into place. That is a different treatment from what Clinton had in 2004, when clogged arteries first landed him in the hospital. He underwent quadruple bypass surgery because of four blocked arteries, some of which had squeezed almost completely shut. Angioplasty, which usually includes placing stents, is one of the most common medical procedures done worldwide. More than half a million stents are placed each year in the United States. With bypass or angioplasty, patients often need another procedure years down the road because arteries often reclog. “It’s not unexpected” for Clinton to need another procedure now, said Dr. Clyde Yancy, cardiologist at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas and president of the American Heart Association. The sections of arteries and veins used to create detours around the original blockages tend to develop clogs five to 10 years after a bypass, he explained. New blockages also can develop in new areas.

POLICE REPORTS The following is a list of arrests and citations, not convictions. The information given is compiled from the Norman and OU Police Departments. At times, the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Department and the Oklahoma City FBI will contribute to these reports. All those listed are innocent until proven guilty. POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA Kira Elizabeth Davis, 18, Dewey Avenue, Wednesday, also possession of drug paraphernalia MUNICIPAL WARRANT Ronald Ray Pierce, 36, 1400 E. Alameda St., Wednesday, also county warrant OTHER WARRANT Jamie Mignon Smith, 23, Arkansas Street, Wednesday PUBLIC INTOXICATION Justin Leigh Summers, 34, 318 E. Hayes St., Wednesday, also interference with protective custody

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MONDAY OU is hosting an interviewing 101 class from noon to 12:30 p.m. in the Crimson Room of the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Donald Asher will lecture about selecting Majors and Careers from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium. The OU Student Success Series Seminar is hosting an event about how to decide upon a major from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium. Donald Asher will lecture about how to get any job with any major from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium. The OU Student Success Series Seminar is hosting an event about pre-calculus exams from 3 to 5 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 254. Engineers Week will host a parlor games tournament from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Willoughby Lounge on the fourth floor of Felgar Hall.

“This kind of disease is progressive. It’s not a one-time event, so it really points out the need for constant surveillance” and treating risk factors such as high cholesterol and high blood pressure, he said. Doctors will have to watch Clinton closely for signs of excessive bleeding from the spot in the leg where doctors inserted a catheter, said Dr. Spencer King, a cardiologist at St. Joseph’s Heart and Vascular Institute in Atlanta and past president of the American College of Cardiology. Complications are rare. The death rate from non-emergency angioplasty is well under 1 percent, King said. A White House official said the former president’s condition did not come up during a meeting Thursday between President Barack Obama and the secretary of state. The afternoon meeting took place a few hours before word of Clinton’s heart procedure became public. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the meeting were considered private. Aides to Mrs. Clinton said she still plans to go ahead with a previously scheduled trip to the Persian Gulf. The trip is to begin Friday but could be delayed slightly. The former president has been working in recent weeks to help relief efforts in Haiti. Since leaving office, he has maintained a busy schedule working on humanitarian projects through his foundation. Clinton’s legend as an unhealthy eater was sealed in 1992, when the newly minted presidential candidate took reporters on jogs to McDonald’s. He liked hamburgers, steaks, french fries — lots of them — and was a voracious eater who could gobble an apple (core and all) in two bites and ask for more. Two of his favorite Arkansas restaurants were known for their large portions — a hamburger the size of a hubcap and steaks as thick as fists. He was famously spoofed on “Saturday Night Live” as a

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Dr. Allan Schwartz, Bill Clinton’s cardiologist, speaks to the media outside the Milstein Building at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, Thursday in New York. Clinton underwent a procedure to insert two stents into one of his coronary arteries.

gluttonous McDonald’s customer. Friends and family say Clinton changed his eating habits for the better after his bypass surgery. Other than his heart ailments, Clinton has suffered only typical problems that come with aging. In 1996, he had a precancerous lesion removed from his nose, and a year before a benign cyst was taken off his chest. Shortly after leaving office, he had a cancerous growth removed from his back. In 1997, he was fitted with hearing aids. —AP

OU Integrity Council stands out, officials say Academic misconduct rehabilitative program first of its kind in Big 12, sets university apart KATHLEEN EVANS Daily Staff Writer

OU is at the forefront of fighting academic integrity among universities across the nation, according to an OU employee. The Integrity Council, formerly known as the Honors Council, is part of the UOSA executive branch and is a student body designated to teach students about academic misconduct and decide on sanctions. In October, four members traveled to St. Louis for a conference at Washington University, where they learned that OU’s program is much more advanced than those of other universities, said council member Zekiel Johnson, psychology and international securities studies senior. “We didn’t begin until the 2004-2005 academic year,” said Breea Bacon, assistant director of integrity systems and staff adviser. “What makes it special is the fact that we are so young and keeping up, if not leading.” Part of what sets the Integrity Council apart is a new test pilot of a program called “Do You Understand Integrity?” — a rehabilitative program for students who have committed a form of academic misconduct, Bacon said. It is the first of its kind in the Big XII. The program currently consists of five classes, taking about 30 hours of a student’s time, Bacon said. The old sanction was to work in the library alphabetizing books, something the Council

decided to cancel. “We want to actually talk to students about behavior that causes academic integrity and have them think about personal integrity, as well as academic integrity,” Bacon said. “We want our students to leave our programs thinking not ‘man, I hope I don’t get caught again,’ but rather ‘man, I will never do that again.’” Council members will work with students during DYUI classes to teach them about integrity, Johnson said. An added benefit is that the program should keep students from falling behind and raise OU’s retention rates. The Council also wants to require students to take a plagiarism test when they first attend the school, similar to the new copyright test required before using OU’s Wi-Fi network, Johnson said. Although OU is a leader in academic integrity, Bacon said she wants to see the group eventually become completely student run, similar to two other Big 12 schools. Currently, if a student chooses to go to a hearing over an academic misconduct charge, a panel of three professors and two students from the council recommend a sanction, Bacon said. A student-run group would investigate charges and prosecute hearings. Having only students on the panels can be comforting to some students, said Grant McLoughlin, political science junior and council member. “Instead of seeing us as a board us as a board of professors out to punish them, they ... look to us as their protector of sorts,” McLoughlin said. “It’s just good that students have a voice in this. We’re able to give a student perspective and have often taken

the classes or had the professor.” The council signs a confidentiality contract every year to ensure the privacy of students, Bacon said. Besides hearings and the DYUI program, the council also reviews cases of students who have admitted to academic misconduct to recommend a sanction, Bacon said. Usually the council will review the more difficult cases when a sanction is not always clear-cut. The council also helped set up the online program Turnitin with Desire2Learn, Johnson said. Turnitin scans student papers against a large database to search for unoriginal content. At the end of the day, McLoughlin said that the council is about protecting OU’s reputation and good name. “We are in the business of upholding high standards of academics at the university,” McLoughlin said. “A lot of what the council does is protect the integrity of the OU degree. If it wasn’t for this organization, then a lot of damage would be done to it.”

COMMON ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT OFFENSES • Plagiarism • “Crib notes” – using unauthorized notes or electronics during exams • “Improper collaboration” – working together when unauthorized, both purposefully and not Source: Bacon, Johnson and McLoughlin

FUNNY NEWS CONDOMS USED FOR MORE THAN JUST PREGNANCY PREVENTION TUCSON, Ariz. — An environmental group plans to distribute 100,000 free condoms across the U.S. beginning Valentine’s Day to call attention to the impact of human overpopulation on endangered species. The packages have slogans such as “Wrap with care, save the polar bear,” and “Wear a condom now, save the spotted owl.” The Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson says it will hand out six different condom packages with original artwork. The endangered species condoms will be distributed in bars, supermarkets, schools, concerts, parties and other public events. The center’s Randy Serraglio says human overpopulation is destroying wildlife habitat at an unprecedented rate. -AP

AUTHORITIES FIND WEED IN JESUS PORTRAIT EL PASO, Texas — The U.S. Border Patrol says agents found a stash of marijuana coming across the border in El Paso in an unusual spot: tucked behind a framed portrait of Jesus. A Border Patrol statement issued Wednesday said the bust was made just before 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Bridge of the Americas in El Paso. A 22-year-old Mexican woman arrived at the port of entry from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in a sport-utility vehicle. According to the statement, she told agents that she had nothing to declare but some framed art. Cesar the drug-sniffing dog found otherwise. He was drawn to three framed pictures of Jesus Christ in the SUV. Agents found 30 bundles totalling about 31 pounds behind the backing of the three pictures. The Border Patrol said it turned the woman to El Paso police for prosecution. -AP

BILL PUSHES FOR METH DISCLOSURE

NORMAN MAN CITED FOR ASSAULT

Rep. Seneca Scott, D-Tulsa, recently filed legislation that would require full disclosure to home renters if the house has a history of methamphetamine production. Oklahoma ranks among the top five states in meth use and production, and currently, by law, realtors must tell home buyers if the property has been used as a meth house. Scott said this should be the same policy for home renters. “This is a public health issue that needs to be addressed so home renters know they are renting an unsafe property that could harm their family,” Scott said in a Capitol press release. “The public needs to know the lasting dangers meth labs can leave on property so they don’t go into a dangerous house blind. It is time the whole state follows suit and

A man has been cited by authorities after he assaulted his mother and then stole $400 from his grandfather who has Alzheimer’s disease, according to a Norman police arrest report. Matthew I. Williams, 30, has been cited for domestic abuse. According to the report, Williams, who was suspected of consuming alcohol, physically forced his way through the patio door of his home on Oklahoma Avenue.

we start protecting our citizens from unsafe property.” Since 1995, meth lab seizures have increased 577 percent nationally. The fumes meth production creates can soak through a house and remain a health problem even after the lab is destroyed unless special cleaning procedures are made, according to the release. House Bill 3021, sponsored by Scott, requires landlords to reveal to the prospective renter if the property was ever used to make or aid in the making of meth. The bill passed the House Economic Development and Financial Services Committee this week. It is now on the House floor. -Caroline Perryman/Daily Staff Writer

He struck his mother in the face, knocking out a tooth and cutting her face. Williams then stole $400 from his grandfather’s wallet, the report stated. Williams fled from the home on foot. His mother told officers he was recently released from jail on his own recognizance, the report stated. Williams was arrested Sunday for municipal warrants, according the report. -Casey Wilson/Daily Staff Writer

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The Kraettli upgrades are in need of improvement Kraettli is the worst of student housing. It’s farther from campus than the dorms and significantly lower in quality than Traditions Square. While Traditions East, which is only four years old, is receiving renovations to keep it up to date and looking like new, Kraettli’s renovations are to update the roof. Kraettli’s one benefit is that rent is nearly $200 cheaper than Traditions. But students still aren’t getting their

money’s worth. The quality of life in Kraettli needs to be increased. Instead of letting Kraettli go to pot, only renovated when it borders on livability, Housing and Food Services should follow its own example with Traditions and upgrade Kraettli more than simply for livability. And because Kraettli is lagging behind, they should cancel the upgrades of Traditions Square and put all those efforts

into Kraettli until it’s on par. Fixing a roof is a different matter than upgrading televisions; it’s more important and it should be a priority. Kraettli doesn’t need the resort feel that surrounds Traditions, but a working roof, kitchen and a little less mold would be a good start. It only makes sense to fix the big problems first. And a bad roof is a big problem for student housing.

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“Since we deny gays and lesbians the right to marry because their couplings do not produce children, and the purpose of marriage is for the state to promote procreation, we need a bill that establishes mandatory offspring terms. If a married couple does not produce any children within some set period of time, say 2 years, then they would be subject to fines or other penalties. -StevesWebHosting

Letter from the editor The Oklahoma Daily ran a cartoon on the opinion page Wednesday that has offended many members of the OU community. I’m taking this opportunity to shed some light on the situation and apologize to those who misinterpreted the cartoon and were offended. The cartoon was centered around the possibility of condoms being made available in the basement of the dorms on campus. It depicted a male walking into the laundry room of the dorms, a woman standing near a washer or a dryer and condom machine. The next frame is a shot of the woman up close. The last scene is the laundry room door being locked. According to comments on OUDaily.com, many viewed this as suggesting rape. Schuyler Crabtree, the cartoonist, said he wanted the cartoon to be satirical and poke fun at the idea that easier access to condoms would lead to more sex in the dorms. Max Avery, opinion editor, and I didn’t interpret the cartoon as suggesting rape when we viewed it the night before it was published. The suggestion of rape definitely did not cross either of our minds. If it had, it would not have been published. It was only after hearing complaints and reading comments on OUDaily.com did I understand the connection some had made between the cartoon and rape. I would like to assure all of you no one at The Daily, including myself, think rape or sexual violence should be taken lightly. I hope those of you who were offended will accept our apology and continue to help us learn in the future by sending us letters to the editor, commenting on OUDaily.com and calling to let us know your thoughts and concerns. And thanks to those of you who have already done that in this situation. Jamie Hughes is editor-in-chief of The Oklahoma Daily and a political science junior.

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A draft would violate our liberties

A draft would increase voter participation

Though policy makers have never seriously considered drafting Americans into the military in their planning of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the modern debate over a draft still reveals deeper political implications. Slater Rhea contends the draft is necessary to promote greater citizen involvement in politics, specifically to motivate greater reluctance to go to war on the part of the public. While a draft would certainly have the effect of making disconnected citizens more active in their opposition of wars that may be unnecessary, it would also rob citizens of the most profound method ERIC M. of opposing war: staying home. While voting, protesting and mak- STAIB ing demands of politicians may feel gratifying, these efforts ultimately only matter to politicians in swing areas. Consider the plight of a peacenik living in the ultra-conservative Oklahoma panhandle if a draft were reinstated. This citizen’s activism will be no more useful under a draft system, and he will face the possibility of being sent off to war and face death and dismemberment. He will be deprived of the only meaningful form of activism at his disposal, staying home and simply refusing to fight in the war. Under a draft system, this man’s only option to avoid going to war would be to dodge the draft and risk imprisonment or forced enlistment. Forcing this man to fund the war by taxing his income is offensive enough; forcing him to fight for a war he doesn’t support in the name of greater voter involvement is downright repugnant. Furthermore, it is questionable whether greater political involvement is even desirable. In fact, I would contend lower voter turnouts and levels of political involvement are desirable. A CNN analysis of a recent census report revealed 16 percent of all Americans ages 16 to 24 are high school dropouts. Among men 16 to 24, who would be the most likely to be drafted (once they come of age, of course), the rate is 18.9 percent. Drafts historically have included deferments for students pursuing higher education, so while it is not necessary to include such a deferment in the future, history

I know our modern volunteer American What is more, as much as we want to bemilitary is highly trained and capable, and lieve we all are free and equal, it is undeniI know so deeply the men and women who able those of poorer means and fewer opporhave volunteered to serve so that we might tunities turn out to be the bravest and most be freer are most courageous and patriotic. patriotic who serve our nation abroad. And I know we owe these citizens the greatIn addition, those who have honorably est thanks and respect. served and continue to do so are profoundly And so it was with some reluctance that I abused by the extensions upon extensions to agreed to write this counterpoint. their service. They did not volunBut over the course of recent teer for service without end, and it months and years, it has become is immoral to hold their lives hosmore and more deeply apparent to tage as we do now. me that we Americans at large are utSome would have us believe terly detached from the actions of our that sitting a war out is in itself government. some high and moral act of reI believe it has been abundantly sistance — and I agree that there clear to anyone following the course may be valid exceptions. But this of current events our representatives SLATER is no protest, and is instead an act in Washington are at least very ineffi- RHEA of violence against those who are cient with the people’s business, and sent in our place. at most, capable of and carrying out No one, especially a volunteer, who-knows-what in our name. should be made to fight and possibly to die It’s only natural we should feel disaf- for any reason but absolute necessity. fected and unencouraged, and apathetic The situation of our volunteer army allows about participating in the recent and ongo- and even promotes a dangerous detachment ing nightmare of lobbying and legislative from their sacrifice. sausage-making. This cannot change until people are ravWhat is more, the nation is deeply en- ing in the streets over wars they oppose, until gaged in wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and they feel in their own lives the fire of uncerIraq, and will be for many, many more years. tainty and despair, the bloody facts of the Soldiers and their families will continue to wars in which we are at this very moment make sacrifices in endless tours-of-duty complicit. while we at home know little or nothing “If we decide it is If we decide it is of it. necessary for any to be necessary for any sent to war, And after deep consideration, I believe it should a new military draft in times of war would to be sent to war, fall to any able citizen be not only be right for our country, en- it should also fall to do so. couraging real participation in the de- to any able citizen I am not a pacifist. mocracy we own, but in fact would be the I believe in the end, to do so.” only fair option. some wars are necesGiven the current smiting load on solsary. But the test must diers and their families, and the fact that we be whether such a cause is worth our leadare engaged in intractable situations likely to ers sending their own sons or daughters to last for years if not decades, we must some- stand in the breach, and know committing how answer the shortage of new troops. And to anything short of this would earn the ire considering the volatile nature of foreign re- and wrath of all for whom he speaks. lations in Iran and Israel, the Koreas, Sudan Of course, we live in the age of the rise of and elsewhere, another global conflict is not the drones, machines even now are beginunlikely. ning to make troops obsolete. We will wage We still live in a democracy, a free country war in air-conditioned rooms and on comin which no man should be compelled to act puter screens, Starbucks in hand. against his will. But when a democracy acts, Soon enough, I guess, none of us will have it does so in the name of every citizen. And if to worry about the sacrifices of war. we fail, because of complacency or comfort, Slater Rhea is an English and letters senior. to object and object loudly, we approve.

indicates the burden of war would likely fall mostly on the shoulders of these young people, who couldn’t even enroll in a community college to avoid the draft. It seems ridiculous to suggest America ought to scare its least-educated into voting and making their voices heard. Yet this is the exact effect the draft would have on the political dialogue in this country; wedge issues and mudslinging, which are easier to understand than nuanced arguments and already too prevalent in politics, would become even more pervasive. The volunteer military system preserves personal choice for young people. Young people like myself who enjoy living in a relatively free country such as America but would sooner go to prison than suit up in camouflage should not be forced to decide between these two unpleasant options. Finally, what I consider to be most important about the issue of a draft is the simple moral implications of forced national service. While I do not claim to be a scholar or even a student of philosophy, I am deeply inclined toward the concept of self-ownership. One does not, by the geographical coincidence of his birthplace, owe his time and life to the U.S. military or to the government that commands it. That a large percentage of citizens’ personal incomes is taken directly by governments at various levels is enraging enough. I refuse to accept Rhea’s implicit assumption that, in exchange for the favor of robbing me of this money, I ought to risk my life for the desires of a few hundred people in Washington, DC whom I would rather have nothing to do with. This refusal of “national duty” holds for all proposals of mandatory national service, including President Barack Obama’s nowrescinded proposal of the creation of a mandatory civil service corps in his original campaign platform. Forced labor was outlawed everywhere in this nation over a century ago, and I am in no hurry to make exceptions for the government or the military. Eric M. Staib is an economics senior.

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OU women’s basketball opens the doors of Lloyd Noble Center again Saturday to host the Colorado Buffaloes. The Sooners are coming off two wins over Big 12 Conference foes Oklahoma State and Baylor and should be riding high, but this game against the Buffaloes has the makings of a perfect trap game. Monday, the Sooner squad will host the No. 1 team in the nation, Connecticut. The Huskies have not won a game by less than 12 points this season and have one of the country’s most dynamic players in Maya Moore. It would be easy for OU to overlook Saturday’s game, but here are five things the Sooners need to do to avoid such a mishap.

LIMIT TURNOVERS In the Baylor win OU totaled only 13 turnovers, which is much fewer than the normal 17 to 19. It is not unheard of for the Sooners to win and commit more than 20 turnovers, but OU does not need to take that chance against Colorado.

CONTINUE INTENSITY ON DEFENSE Senior forward Amanda Thompson led a Sooner defense that was, as junior Danielle Robinson called it “possessed” Wednesday night, and that intensity is what OU needs to maintain. It’s a hunger for the ball and effort plays that make the difference in conference play. OU does not have the offensive prowess to score 100 points per game and forget about defense.

Fouls were problematic in the Sooners last loss to Texas on Feb. 3 when Robinson fouled out. Against Baylor, this problem was not as apparent, even though junior Carlee Roethlisberger did have three fouls in the first half. When key starters go out with fouls, it deflates the whole team.

SPREAD THE OFFENSIVE LOAD Too many times this year the scoring load has been carried by either Thompson, Robinson or senior guard Nyeshia Stevenson. For the Sooners to be successful on the back end of Big 12 play, they are going to have to find other players to put in productive minutes. If senior center Abi Olajuwon could give the Sooners at least 10 points a game and Roethlisberger could add more than a couple free throws, OU will be much better off.

SET THE TEMPO Against Colorado, the Sooners cannot allow themselves to get sucked into another team’s game. When teams do that they tend to play down to the other’s level, and the Sooners are much better than that. OU is at its best when it can efficiently run the offense without rushing themselves and give the team time to set up shots instead of forcing them up.

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Senior guard Nyeshia Stevenson passes the ball during Wednesday night’s game against Baylor. The Sooners won 62-60.

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The third annual "Beuaty and the Beast" event, including the No. 9 wrestling squad and the No. 1 women's gymnastics team, will be held at 7 tonight in the Lloyd Noble Center. The wrestling squad (14-2-1, 2-1-1) will compete against Chattanooga (10-6), and the gymnasts will face No. 16 Iowa State. The two will be competing side-by-side. Last week, the wrestling team recorded two conference wins—the first since the 2002-03 season. OU rallied 22-15 at Nebraska on Thursday, and then dominated 25-10 at No. 17 Missouri on Saturday. OU wrestling is 2-0 all-time versus Chattanooga, including a 23-14 win last season in Tennessee. Head coach Jack Spates will fire out three true freshmen -- Jarrod Patterson (125), Kendric Maple (133) and Tyler Caldwell (165); true freshman Erich Schmidtke (184) will also start for OU. A total of eight wrestlers are ranked this week for OU, including No. 3 ranked Zack Bailey (141) and Kyle Terry (149). Also ranked: No. 18 Jarrod Patterson, No. 12 Shane Vernon (157), No. 15 Tyler Caldwell (165), No. 15 Jeff James (174), No. 6 Eric Lapotsky (197), and No. 15 Nathan Hernandez (HWT). Spates, in his 17th year at OU, has a career home record of 88-27-3 (.785). The OU grapplers will also host Oregon State at 2 p.m. Sunday inside the McCasland Field House.

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What: Beauty and the Beast When: Tonight Where: Lloyd Noble Center Time: 7 p.m. The OU wrestling team and the women’s gymnastics team compete side-by-side in the 2010 Beauty and the Beast event.

Finally acquiring the nation’s top spot, the undefeated Oklahoma Sooners women’s gymnastics team will host No. 16 Iowa State (4-4, 0-1 Big 12) tonight in Oklahoma’s annual “Beauty and the Beast” night. After displacing Alabama from their No. 1 ranking, the Sooners placed their name atop the latest Troester poll. Reaching this achievement ends a 30-year long drought for the women’s gymnastics program and is the first OU women’s sport to be ranked No.1 during the regular season. Tonight Oklahoma’s annual “Beauty and the Beast” event should offer a spectacle rarely witnessed in sports. Showcasing two of the nations top ranked programs, the No. 9 OU men’s wrestling team and the first ever No. 1 women’s gymnastics team should provide a show for the ages. OU has never before had two highly ranked programs share a stage together to compete in their respected sports. OU has dominated the Cyclones for seven straight victories under fourth-year head coach K.J. Kindler, who came to Norman after making her head coaching debut at ISU in 2001. Kindler coached Iowa State for six seasons, leading them to its first Super Six appearance in 2006. Leading the Sooners in from the floor will be last week’s high scorers, Kristin Smith (9.95), Kayla Nowak (9.925), Hollie Vise (9.925) and Megan Ferguson (9.9).

OU softball to start season in National Collegiate Invitational TOBI NEIDY Daily Staff Writer

The Sooners escape the bitter Oklahoma temperatures to face the No. 4 ranked Michigan Wolverines in the National Collegiate Softball Invitational at 1pm today in Clermont, Florida. Michigan’s power pitchers Nikki Nemitz and Jordan Taylor return to the line-up after combining for 591 strikeouts last season. The no. 11 ranked Sooners will also face Central Florida at 4 p.m. following the Michigan matchup. The Sooners will continue the tournament through the weekend, facing Florida Atlantic at 10 a.m. followed by Chattanooga at noon on Saturday, leading up to another ranked matchup on at 8 a.m. Sunday against no.16 Tennessee. A chance at redemption is also on the schedule this season. The Sooners will face the Tulsa Golden Hurricanes at 6 p.m. on March 3 in Norman. The Hurricanes beat the Sooners in a late rally to end the Sooners’

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Flores has earned accolades this season already. Flores was named to the Player of the Year watch list last month while the Sooners were picked no. 10 [ESPN.com] and no. 11[USA Today] in the preseason polls. Flores was also selected as the fifth overall pick in the 2010 National Pro Fastpitch Senior Draft by USSSA Pride on Wednesday. The National Pro Fastpitch league gives elite players an opportunity to play professionally after graduation. Flores joins an elite cast of 14 former Sooners currently in the league. The Sooners will return to the friendly confines of Marita Hynes field for the home opener against St. Gregory’s at 3 p.m. on Tuesday.

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American classic sees its way to the stage DUSTY SOMERS Daily Staff Writer

For director Tom Huston Orr, staging “To Kill a Mockingbird” presented a number of challenges. The biggest — a six-letter word that starts with “n.” “[I thought],’ We have to deal with this word for the next five weeks — how do we do this?” Orr said. University Theatre’s production of the play adapted from the novel by Harper Lee opens tonight in the Weitzenhoffer Theatre, with an adaptation by Christopher Sergel that is grittier than the film version, Orr said. Despite some misconceptions, “this is not a children’s story,” he said. To prepare for the play’s themes of racial injustice, Orr brought in several civil rights speakers and tried to broaden the concept of equality to its aboriginal foundations. “You forget that the civil rights movement began a long time ago,” he said. All that led up to the hurdle of that electrified word — a hurdle that theater gets to transcend, Orr said. “In the theater, we have the privilege of not being afraid of words,” he said. “In the beginning, the word was strange and unfamiliar, [but] now the word doesn’t mean anything at all. It’s just another word.” The intent behind words can transform them into something

else, but“Mockingbird” is a reminder that rights are not a given, Orr said. At the center of the struggle for rights are altruistic lawyer Atticus Finch and the accused, Tom Robinson, played by drama seniors Paul Stuart and Jonathan Hooks, respectively. The two didn’t know each other that well until recently, y, when both participarrticirtici pated in the Irene reene Ryan Acting Competition n at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Per for ming A r t s i n Wa s h i n g t o n , D.C., but the ensusu uing friendship segued gu gued nicely into theirr perfor perforPHOTO PROVIDED mances, Stuart said. id Paul Hooks (center) and Jonathan Hooks (right) rehearse a scene from “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “There’s this connection which premieres at 8 tonight at Weitzenhoffer Theatre, 563 Elm Ave. between us that is really fitting for this play,” he said. “This reFinch’s daughter. lationship doesn’t take up much of the story, but there is an intiIn staging the production, it had to stay very freeform, as the macy between them.” thrust stage featured in the Weitzenhoffer Theatre is not the kind For Hooks, who grew up in an interracial family, the character of stage this play is usually performed on, Orr said. Simply trying of Atticus Finch is a reminder of his own grandfather, who raised things and seeing if they worked became a necessity, but ultihis children to always respect people, he said. “Mockingbird” tells mately Orr wanted a show free from artifice that let the message a story that is undeniably personal. stand out, he said. “For the first time since I’ve been here, it’s just cool to see stories “There is such a reverence for this material and this particular being told that your body already tells,” Hooks said. book,” Orr said. “It’s moving [just] to listen to the words. In many In addition to Stuart and Hooks — who have a rapport that ways, the play [itself] carries it. The message makes you rise.” makes it “like watching surgery,” Orr said — the play stars 13-year“To Kill a Mockingbird” opens at 8 tonight in the Weitzenhoffer old Alyssa Danley from Edmond in a guest role as Scout, Atticus Theatre and runs through Feb. 21.

FLICKS FOR THE CYNICS AND LOVEBIRDS ALIKE No matter what category you fall into, The Daily’s Laron Chapman and Lunden England have just the film for you.

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN OUT FOR THOSE IN COMPLETE DENIAL: “300”

A ROMANCE FOR THE AIMLESS WANDERER: “LOVE ACTUALLY”

Richard Curtis’s engaging and cheerful “Love Actually” (2003) is a relentless cannonball into the sea of romantic comedy. Following the love lives of more than a dozen A-list stars including Hugh Grant (Prime Minister), Laura Linney (Sarah), Alan Rickman (Harry), Emma Thompson (Karen) and Keira Knightley (Juliet), the film is chock-full of romance, heartbreak, witty dialogue and spirited direction. With a wonderful cast and heartwarming writing, “Love Actually” is a mustsee, sure to have lovebirds everywhere smiling. The film proves that whether you are a vulgar and eccentric radio host or a starry-eyed youth, love can be found in the most unexpected places.

A ROMANCE FOR THE COMMITTED LOVER: “THE NOTEBOOK”

Nicholas Sparks’ tender and heartfelt novel “The Notebook” (2004) was given a luminous and timely adaptation in the hands of director Nick Cassavetes. Those planning on viewing Sparks’s recent novel adaptation, the lame “Dear “De John,” should quickly reconsider and revisit to the lives of young you lovers Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) and Allie Nelson (Rachel (Rac McAdams). The film reminds viewers that our o devotion to our loved ones is an essential q quality to possess. While a certified tearjerker, ““The Notebook” earns its sappy moments wh when they are complemented with elements of real drama and complex characters we care about. As their romance flourishes o our hearts grow fonder of tthe loves in our own lives. While tears and the use of a box of tissues are inevitable, “The Notebook” reveals that love is both fulfilling and everlasting.

Valentine’s Day? What Valentine’s Day? For everyone who has long ago turned a cold shoulder on the romance-saturated holiday, more important endeavors await in director Zack Snyder’s 2007 adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel of the same name. Viewers will band together with King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and his pack of sweaty, scantily clad soldiers as they make their stand to defend Sparta against Xerxes, the king of Hot Topic, and his massive army of conquered peoples. Stylistically captivating and dripping with action and testosterone (it’s like estrogen — only meaner), “300” becomes the perfect distraction on you-know-what day, and in the oh-soinviting words of the fearless Spartan king: “Tonight, we dine in hell!”

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BURNED: “THE FIRST WIVES CLUB”

Director Hugh Wilson’s 1996 comedy has it all for anybody who is reeling in the aftermath of a nasty breakup. The film aptly conveys the anguish felt by its three divorcée protagonists, while still managing to remain lighthearted enough to warrant a bounty of laughter from viewers. Featuring the indispensable talents of Diane Keaton, Bette Midler and Goldie Hawn (the original, sassier and better Kate Hudson), “The First Wives Club” plays the game of revenge with a new level of delectable spitefulness. This Valentine’s Day, get a little payback through the inspiration of “The The First Wives Club.” Lunden England is a film and video studies senior.

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A ROMANCE FOR THE SKEPTIC ROMANTIC: “HOPE FLOATS”

Before Oscar-hopeful Sandra Bullock dazzled us in the inspiring “The Blind Side” (2009), she played the heartbroken, country divorcee Birdee Pruitt in the love story “Hope Floats” (1998). After being dumped by her husband on a popular talk show, Birdee seeks solace in her hometown of Smithville, Texas. Once high school sweetheart Justin Matisse (Harry Connick, Jr) reentered her life, it was only a matter of time before her once shattered spirit was uplifted by the promise of hope. The film demonstrates that there is always a second chance at love. With a great soundtrack, including Garth Brooks’ tender “To Make You Feel My Love,” warm performances and timely values, “Hope Floats” is a romance to inspire the skeptic in all of us. Laron Chapman is a film and video studies sophomore.

FUN, FRESH AND CHEAP DATE IDEAS 1. Have a dress-up-and-stay -in date night where you both dress up, light some candles, play some music and dance. 2. Give an old-fashioned handwritten love letter, sealed with a kiss. 3. Go to the park for a picnic lunch, bring a blanket or two (or have the picnic in your living room with blankets, pillows, and candles). 4. Prepare your valentine for a

scavenger hunt! Have the end of it be a romantic dinner. 5. Go to the Second Chance animal adoption clinic and play with the puppies and dogs, bring you camera to take pictures of you, your date and your new furry friend. 6. Give each other massages in front of a fire. 7. Make your valentine a mixed CD of all the songs that remind you of him or her and

drive around and listen to it. 8. Write your valentine a song/ toss pebbles at her window and serenade her. 9. Take a walk together after dinner and listen more than talk. 10. Cook an inexpensive meal together, like spaghetti (go “Lady and the Tramp” style with it).

Caroline Perryman is an advertising sophomore.

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the EVENTS Sunday, February 14 -Road Rallye (Reeve’s Park, 1 pm) An auto scavenger hunt with a cookout at the final destination. Cash prizes to the top three finishers! Monday, February 15 -Engineering Quiz Bowl (EPF 2nd Floor, 11:00am1:00 pm) Students compete in a tournament style quiz bowl . Cash prizes to top three teams! -Games Tournament (Willoughby Lounge, 6 pm) Partners compete against other teams in pool, foosball and ping-pong. Cash prizes to the top three teams! Tuesday, February 16 -Stress E-liminator (WSSC, 10:30am-12:30pm & 1:30-3:30pm) Reduce your stress with food and massages courtesy of Heritage College. -Engineers Got Talent (OMU, 7 pm-9 pm) Engineering students studying various disciplines show off their many talents to win cash prizes. Wednesday, February 17 -Blood Drive (Willoughby Lounge, 10:30 am-3 pm) -Casino Night (Willoughby Lounge, 7 pm) Try your luck in our Las Vegas style games. Bring canned goods for extra chips. Thursday, February 18 -Corporate and Tech Society Fair (EPF 2nd Floor, 11 am-3 pm) Network with E-Week sponsors and learn about all of the various CoE tech societies. -Centennial Presentation (EPF 2nd Floor, 3-4pm) Learn about the past, present and future of the CoE with a special presentation from Dean Landers. Friday, February 19 -LKOT Fireout (Felgar/Carson Lawn, 4:39 pm) -Fluid Dynamics Lab (O’Connell’s Campus Corner, 6:30-11:00 pm) The study of the movement of low viscosity, green, effervescent fluid into human oral cavities. Saturday, February 20 -Banquet (Kerr-McGee Stadium Club, 6:30 pm Social & 7 pm Dinner) Outstanding students, faculty, and staff recognized as well as event winners.

the LEGEND St. Patrick’s Day is drawing near, and it will once again be time for the Engineers to pay homage to their patron saint, St. Patrick, who is revered through legend as the oldest Engineer. In modern times, we do this by electing new E-Club officers, listening for the distant rumble of the cannon being fired in the night, and consuming healthy portions of green brew. In the spring of 1903, the University of Michigan began construction of a new Engineering building. While the construction crew was digging, a large stone with a faint inscription was unearthed. The stone told the adventures of St. Patrick and his ties to the Engineering profession. Later that year, a geology instructor from Missouri brought a small piece of the stone to Oklahoma where OU Engineers kept it. Each year thereafter, graduating seniors would survey their way into the woods, bury the stone, and leave their calculations for the next year’s seniors to locate and rebury the stone. From the ideals and values set forth by St. Patrick, each year a student is elected the St. Pat of the College. His of her fellow students acknowledge that student’s devotion to the Engineering profession and to the Patron Saint of Engineering, St. Patrick.

February 14th - 20th

the RIVALRY

The rivalry between Engineers and Lawyers is one of our most time-honored traditions. The beginning of the rivalry at OU can be traced back to 1915, when a group of Engineers “confiscated” a cannon and fired it to honor St. Patrick. The firing destroyed every window in the Law Barn, and so began the rivalry. Although the Engineers have clearly shown their superiority through the years, the Lawyers have had their moments. In 1919 a female law student gained entrance to the Engineering Banquet and managed to spike the coffee with a mixture containing pepper, “Old Trusty #7,” LKOT’s cannon. A cannon much like this one was castor oil, and other assorted ingredients. The combination caused first fired in 1915, which destroyed the windows of the Law Barn. considerable gastric distress among the guests. Some guests caused an interruption due to their nausea-related exit. In the seventy-five years following this incident, the best the Lawyers have managed to do is campaign for a few of their less desirable female cohorts for E-Queen and paint scales on top of the LKOT shields. What the lawyers lack in imagination they make up for in Engineers’ Club was founded in 1910 and has grown to become the gullibility. In 1926 the owl on the Law Barn received the first of many largest Engineering program in the Sooner State. With more than 2,200 undergraduate and 700 graduate students, it is the largest future coats of paint, which have continued to this day. In 1980 Engineers posing as construction workers poured a student organization on the University of Oklahoma campus. E-Club’s purpose is to promote fellowship among Engineering faculty and cement footing on the lawn of the new law center in broad daylight. students and to help students develop leadership skills in addition to Later that night, a large concrete tombstone was erected on the footing with the inscription, “IS THE RIVALRY DEAD?” Due to their technical expertise. There are several opportunities for students to become involved extremely cold temperatures, the tombstone was not fully cured with Engineers’ Club. Regular activities include general meetings on and was found the next morning on the Engineering lawn upside the first Thursday of each month, hamburger feeds before each down with the words “HELL NO!” spray-painted on its face. In 1982 a couple of fine Engineering students attached a green home football game, along with annual events like Fall Festival, Career Fair, Open House, Engineers Week, and Williams Student dye injection system to the law center’s water supply. Every time a fountain was turned on or a toilet flushed, green water Leadership Retreat. Engineering Open House is the oldest annual event that is still “mysteriously” appeared. That E-Week the law center was held at OU. It offers high school students from across the state a ceremoniously decorated each night with green toilet paper. The taste of what Engineering is all about. Students design and produce Lawyers responded by presenting a restraining order to LKOT entries for contests such at the Egg Drop, Rubber Band Vehicle during fireout, stating that the cannon could not be fired. The restraining order was rolled up and placed exactly where it races, and Load-Bearing Bridge competition. Engineers Week is celebrated nationally each spring as a time for belonged: in the muzzle of Old Trusty. There was not much left students to escape the pressures of the classroom and have fun after the first shot sounded. A small riot ensued and the Lawyers with fellow Engineers. The principles of dedication, perseverance, once again found themselves on the wrong end of the beating stick. and hard work, on which E-Club was founded, are still apparent If they had only remembered a few years later, when a “Lawyer” was found buried face-down (with only his feet to be seen) on the today and guarantee its continued and successful future. Engineering lawn. The epithet classically read: Here lies the poor lawyer His legal work undone He mouthed off to an engineer When he should have run During the winter of 1985, a profuse growth of winter rye grass A group of Engineering students “confiscated” an old civil war in the shape of a shamrock adorned the north-side lawn of the Law cannon which became known as “Old Trusty,” and decided to Barn. Accusations were raised but what would Engineers know establish a tradition of firing the cannon on a regular bases. In about gardening anyway? 1920, the Loyal Knights of Old Trusty was formed, and the university In 1989 the Engineers were once again blamed for a law school and the College of Engineering have been under their watchful eye computer malfunction that resulted in letters being sent to more ever since. This year is actually the 90th anniversary of LKOT and than 500 law students informing them that their records had been they have not lost focus of their purpose continuing to make a lost due to computer error. Fearful that they would not graduate, difference on and off campus. they proceeded to call the 24-hour hot-line listed on the letters; The membership of LKOT is made up of students who actively good thing it was the law dean’s home phone number. participate in College of Engineering programs and organizations. It has been quiet lately; rumor has it the law students don’t have The members closely monitor all events within the college and act what it takes to play with the Engineers anymore. Don’t be accordingly to ensure that traditions are observed, upheld, and disappointed, there is always the business college… continued. Their service to the college is selfless. Public appearances are limited to their annual fireouts and other special occasions such as St. Patrick’s Day and Engineering Convocation. The spring fireout will take place on the lawn between Carson and Felgar on Friday, February 19 at 4:39 pm.

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