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NEW CREDIT CARD ACT TARGETS STUDENTS

Monopole to be an ‘attractive’ improvement on current reception technology, finance director says

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Alltel Communications will build a permanent cell tower on the corner of Lindsey Street and Classen Boulevard. Existing reception technology exists on the water tower on the same corner, but the water tower is being torn down. A new monopole will be built 50 yards northeast of that location, Norman Finance Director Anthony Francisco said. “Alltel has had a temporary pole there for years and they wanted a permanent one with more height,” Francisco said. Norman will own the pole, but Alltel will pay for the pole itself, as well as for the installation, Francisco said. As per their agreement with the city, Alltel will use the pole for 15 years, lease-free. Other providers, such as Verizon and U.S. Cellular will continue to pay lease for use of the pole. “After 15 years, [Alltel] will pay $1,000 a month,” Francisco said. “Other providers already pay $1,000 a month.” The monopole will take a “matter of months” to construct, Francisco said. The 180-foot monopole will take six months to build. Mayor Cindy Rosenthal said the new pole will be a winwin situation for the citizens of Norman. “In addition to the lease revenue and bringing in more potential providers, the city of Norman can place its own equipment on the new pole,” Francisco said. “It’s also attractive to the city.” Francisco said the new monopole can also be used to help improve Norman police cars and the reception they receive. Aesthetically, the monopole will resemble the pole on University and Highland Parkway, yet the city does not own that particular pole, he said. Ward 3 councilman Hal Ezzell said normally this creates a lease stream revenue in which the providers pay the city, so this is a positive thing for the city of Norman. “This is a positive thing, especially if you are a Alltel customer,” Ezzell said.

Act bans marketing of credit cards on campuses, requires disclosure of revenue

A new credit card law that took effect Monday has been called one of the biggest reforms on credit card issuers in this lifetime. The Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 targets primarily college students and persons under 21. Jared Bernstein, senior economic adviser to the vice president, said in a White House telephone conference Tuesday that President Barack Obama hoped for more transparency from credit card issuers upon

signing the act. Some of the new regulations under the act include parental cosigning on credit cards issued to those under 21 years of age, a ban on marketing on college campuses, no interest rate hikes during

t h e first year the card is issued, prior notices of interest hikes and a ban on shifting payment dates. Also under the act,

universities are required to publicly disclose revenue made from the sales of credit cards issued to students. Many campuses and credit card

companies make deals that allow both institutions to

make revenue, sometimes at the expense of the college student. Credit card issuers in the past have participated in “misleading and unfair practices,” said Bernstein. Bernstein said this act is important for younger people because “shady” practices can make it difficult for young people to start their careers. Credit card practices in the past caused “considerable damage to your credit score,” he said. It also is vital for the economic health of the country, Bernstein said. He said regulations were placed on the credit markets because they

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Josh King, University College freshman, pours syrup on his free short stack of pancakes Tuesday afternoon at IHOP in Norman. The event was from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. and all donations went towards Children’s Hospital Foundation.

Students take advantage of free pancakes National Pancake Day brings students to IHOP for cheap meal while donating to Children’s Miracle Network CAROLINE PERRYMAN Daily Staff Writer

IHOP saw no shortage of OU students at its free pancake day Tuesday, but the purpose behind the special day was about more than

just pancakes. The annual free pancake day is an effort to support the Children’s Miracle Network, and IHOP asked customers to consider donating to support local children’s hospitals through the Miracle Network or other local charities, according to IHOP’s Web site. IHOP gave each customer one free short stack of pancakes from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. at stores across the country.

Bailey Robinson, Miss OU and public relations sophomore, sat next to the Children’s Miracle Network donation box asking for donations Tuesday evening. “I’m so excited that [donating] is such a big deal here in Norman,” Robinson said. “So many people are willing to give to Children’s Miracle Network because it’s one of those things that once you are involved with it, the children steal your heart, you’ll always want

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Legislators seek sanctions for underaged drinking on buses Oklahoma House of Representatives will consider bill that would impose sanctions to party bus companies that serve alcohol to minors RICKY MARANON Assignment Editor

OKLAHOMA CITY — A bill to crack down on underaged drinking on party buses is swiftly moving through the state legislature, said the bill’s author. Sen. Debbe Leftwich, D-Oklahoma City, said her bill to establish penalties for operators and owners of party buses who serve

alcohol to minors while using their services has moved out of the Oklahoma State Senate and will be brought up in the Oklahoma House of Representatives within the next few weeks. Leftwich said the bill is based off of an incident that occurred in her district last spring when a group of high school students showed up to their prom heavily intoxicated. “They literally fell off the bus and out the door because they were so drunk,” Leftwich said. “However, state statues did not have anything on the books about prosecuting these types of situations, so many have asked me to take action.” Leftwich said she attempted to take action last spring, but failed to pass any type of

emergency legislation because the legislative session was coming to an end. “The students were suspended from school, but there was no action taken toward the bus driver and the bus company,” Leftwich said. A new bill was brought up with the same language this session, she said. Leftwich said the bill is meant to target high school aged minors who receive alcohol from the buses. “This bill could affect some college students, but college students are not the intended target of this bill,” she said. “This bill is to focus on getting alcohol out of the hands of high school students who have had alcohol provided to them on these buses.”

Elizabeth Lucas, University College freshman, said she remembers hearing rumors about alcohol being transported to school functions such as prom. “I always heard about students who came in limos stashing wine in the sides of the cars,” she said. Lucas said she thinks a crack down would be a good thing and would prevent minors who rent the vehicles from becoming intoxicated. Leftwich said aside from her constituents, she has received support from companies that operate party buses in the metro area. “We support the legislation,” said Jennifer Paris, spokeswoman for Paris Limousine of Oklahoma City. “We never serve alcohol to PARTY CONTINUES ON PAGE 2

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were part of the reason the U.S. fell into a recession. Sub-prime consumers and high-risk-taking credit markets can be attributed to the debt the country is currently experiencing. Kristina Leal, human relations senior, has been frustrated with the past practices of credit card companies. She said she has been a victim of overdrafts and payment duedate manipulations. Like many other students her age, she has been constantly bombarded with credit card temptations on college campuses and businesses like Forever 21 and Victoria’s Secret. Leal said the credit card companies she dealt with were sometimes inconsistent on timing of payment dates and interest rates. Leal said her bank often did not warn her about overdraft fees her and tended to blame her for any problems with the account. Her experience with credit cards left her with no other option but to cancel her credit card with her bank. Even with the new regulations on credit card issuers, she wants to avoid credit cards in her immediate future.

to be involved with it for the rest of your life.” Mallory Dodson, advertising sophomore, donated to Children’s Miracle Network while at IHOP Tuesday. “Who wouldn’t want free pancakes?” Dodson asked. “It is f re e f o o d a n d g o o d food for a great cause. I did not know about the charity being a part of Free Pancake Day until I was done eating, but I decided to donate. The service was really great too. My waitress was nice and our food was delivered zippy quick.” University College freshman Autumn Whisenhun and elementary education sophomore Priscilla Ba r n e s at e t h e f re e pancakes and said they were surprised at how good they were, because they thought the pancakes would be cold. They also said they were surprised there was not much of a wait to get a table.

Children’s Miracle Network is a nonprofit organization raising funds for more than 170 children’s hospitals, according to the organization’s Web site. Children’s Miracle Network funds medical care, education and research that improves and saves the lives of 17 million children each year. Children of any age and background can receive treatment for any disease or injury. Children’s Miracle Network has raised more than $3.4 billion to date, most of which was donated as $1 or $2 at a time. National Pancake Day started in 2006, according to the site. IHOP has raised more than $3.25 million since 2006, and raised $1.3 million alone last year. Usually the event happens on Fat Tuesday but this year they are extending the money-raising window by a week to maximize donations.

OUR COMMITMENT TO ACCURACY The Daily has a long-standing commitment to serve readers by providing accurate coverage and analysis. Errors are corrected as they are identified. Readers should bring errors to the attention of the editorial board for further investigation by e-mailing dailynews@ou.edu. In Monday’s edition of The Daily, Ms. Black OU 2010-2011 Kaneisha Lloyd’s name was misspelled.

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Party Continues from page 1 minors on our buses, but we have heard other companies do.” Paris said her company actually has two employees monitoring minors who rent their vehicles. “We have a driver, and we have an attendant,” Paris said. “The attendants on our vehicles are not permitted to serve minors

alcohol. They are also there to make sure that the law is abided by.” Leftwich said when she tried to confront the company that caused the incident in her district, she could find no trace of the business. “When they heard we were looking into them, they literally disappeared,” Leftwich said. “We haven’t heard any complaints about that company, but nothing is stopping them from coming back under a new name. When they come back, we have to be ready so we don’t have another incident again.”

CITY COUNCIL HONORS FORMER OU PARKING DIRECTOR The City Council congratulated Theta Dempsey on her retirement Tuesday night. Dempsey, former director of OU Parking and Transit Services, retired Monday after 26 years. The Theta Dempsey OU Transportation Operations Center is being renamed in her honor. “Yesterday was a wonderful celebration at the university on behalf of Theta Dempsey and her service to the university, but we wanted our resolution to get ours on tape,” Mayor Cindy Rosenthal said. “Theta Dempsey began her career at the University of Oklahoma working at the customer service window at parking and transportation services, worked her way up through the department, eventually becoming the director.” Dempsey’s job also required her to work with the

Cleveland Area Rapid Transit system. Rosenthal said that CART has flourished under Dempsey’s guidance. Dempsey said she was asked to come to the meeting to introduce her successor, Doug Myers. “He will continue to advance our goals and I am absolutely confident that CART will continue to grow,” Dempsey said. “I appreciate this very much and it has been a joy to work in Norman, for the university and for the community and I thank you very much. Myers current is in charge of parking and transit services at the OU Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City. Casey Parvin/ The Daily

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International humanitarian speaks about genocide in Burma DANIELA MCCORMICK Daily Staff Writer

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Dr. Thomas Van Dyke speaks to students about genocide in the country of Burma Tuesday night in Dale Hall.

Thomas Van Dyke, executive director of Heroes Serving Humanity, spoke to OU students Tuesday night about the human rights struggle in Burma. He said Burma army implements systematic genocide to kill off the several ethnic groups in Eastern Burma using several different methods such as relocation, rape, torture and the use of land mines. Taking a quote from the Amnesty Council, Van Dyke said, “The entire country of Burma is like a prison without bars.” Girls are usually raped or taken into the sex trade, the homes of the Burmese people are being burned down, villagers are forced to relocate, and hardly anyone knows about it, Van Dyke said. He talked about how relocated villagers must build the fences around the concentration camp areas to which the Burma army ordered them. “Villagers are forced to make their own prison. Normally, people go to camps because they don’t want to be shot at,” Van Dyke said While showing slides of pictures of children, women and men native to Burma who have been affected by the

various methods used by the Burma army, Van Dyke talked about the relief effort his organization is doing now to help and how difficult it is due to denial of aid by the Burmese government. “We have to operate underground. We have to break the law and enter illegally,” Van Dyke said. Van Dyke left the University of North Carolina in 2008 after 12 years as professor. He said he realized that he was no longer satisfied with his work knowing there were people in the world willing to sacrifice their comfort to help others. In 2009 he started the Heroes Serving Humanity, which focuses on creating awareness of human rights abuse in Burma and providing humanitarian relief to Burma. Melody Hollifield, international and area studies junior, said she knew about Van Dyke’s efforts in Burma due to a conference she attended in Washington D.C and she was able to meet Van Dyke and get his contact info. “We asked him if he would love to come to Oklahoma and talk about Burma, and he said that he would love to come, Hollified said. Jessica Disteelhorst, international and area studies and zoology sophomore, said that she thinks what Van Dyke does is amazing.

Student Congress expands non-discrimination policy TROY WEATHERFORD Daily Staff Writer

The Undergraduate Student Congress added the words “sexual orientation, gender identity and sexual identity” to a bill suggesting that OU’s non-discrimination policy be updated. The bill that passed Graduate Student Senate on Sunday was introduced to Congress recommending that the OU Board of Regents add “personal expression of sexuality” to their equal opportunity statement. After debate, congress amended the bill to also recommend that “sexual orientation, gender identity and sexual identity,” be added to the statement. Representative Forrest Bennett shared a letter from a freshman expressing concern that “personal expressions of sexuality” is too ambiguous of a term to be truly effective. The wording of the bill protects nearly all forms of

sexuality including protecting people from being discrimi- “I’m really happy about the candidates here; this nated against for not being monogamous, Graduate Student is one of the best candidate pools I’ve seen.” Senate Secretary Derrell Cox said. “I’m trying to address some of the other forms of discrimination that occur in regard to human sexuality,” Cox said. FORREST BENNETT, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE It was a long process to come to the wording that was used, Cox said. “We don’t just want equal rights for gays and lesbians, we earlier this month. Brett Stidham, Business Representative, was elected as want them for transgender and transsexuals [and others] ... This resolution encompasses all of their rights,” Stidham the new UOSA Undergraduate Congress Secretary at the meeting. said. Stidham ran against Social Science Reps. Joe Ahrabizad In addition to talking about human sexuality, Congress passed a resolution to encourage OU Housing and Food and Jason Robison. Stidham said his most pressing priority was improving Services to put condom dispensers in the residence halls. Engineering Representative David Ward, who co-authored communication within the congress and to the public. “I’m really happy about the candidates here; this is one the bill, didn’t know where the machines would be placed if of the best candidate pools I’ve seen,” said Forrest Bennett, the resolution is successful. “We don’t have any say where it’s going to go. That’s up to University College representative, who nominated Stidham. Stidham is currently chairman of the Ways and Means Housing and Food,” Ward said. Congress also appointed a new officer to fill the absence Committee and budgetary chairman and began taking the left after Congress Secretary Brittany Pritchett resigned meeting minutes immediately following the election.

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“The problems with religion are the same problems without religion, but given a different face. It’s time we start looking deeper into human nature to find the cause of our problems and uproot them. Religion, Atheism, and many other walks of life can coexist if we fix them from the inner-humanside out.” - William

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Oklahoma needs tolerance in alcohol law Oklahoma has a problem with selling alcohol: there’s not enough, and what we have isn’t strong enough. Sen. Andrew Rice, D-Oklahoma City, knows this and attempted to solve some of this problem when he proposed legislation to allow wine and high-point beer into our grocery stores. It would be progress; patrons of the alcohol industry would be able to solicit grocery stores for their day drinks, their wine and beer, while liquor stores would maintain their monopoly of the harder evening drinks; drinks that take a greater experience to fully appreciate. Please note: liquor

stores would continue to carry their day drinks as well. This monopoly of evening drinks would prevent the super-box stores from stealing the alcohol industry from these smaller, often locally owned liquor stores that are such a blessing to our local economies. Unfortunately, the Senate Committee on Business and Labor rejected this bill. It is a sad day for the state of Oklahoma. Not only does this mean we will continue to have alcoholic beverages containing the scant 3.2 percent alcohol, it means our democratically elected representatives want it to stay

that way. They want us to drink at least twice as much to get the same buzz, thus not only are we consuming twice the calories, but we’re also twice as broke as we would be while consuming alcohol in a state far closer to its purest Socratic Form. By striking down this bill we are actively rejecting progress. We are continuing to relegate the availability of these completely legal barbiturates to the confines of liquor stores in our regressive memory of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which happens to be the only amendment so

STAFF COLUMN

We’re more than pretty faces If we’re not pretty, we’re a problem. tools our culture offers us can make us If we’re pretty, we’re still a problem. perfect. If we’re not smart, we’re a problem. It is obvious we have not defined If we’re too smart, we’re a bigger American cultural ideals of beauty. problem. Men have made it clear that If we’re infertile, we’re a problem. they prefer us downward of a If we’re fertile, we can create a size 6, while our average size problem. is, in fact, twice that. The everIf we’re weak, we’re our ow n pervasive media have made problem. it clear to us that we’re not If we’re strong, we’re theirs. worthy of display or recogniWe’re the victim no matter what we tion unless we are young, slim do. We’re the victim in the eyes of a and beautiful. global patriarchal society. And who doubts them? BROOKE And our bodies are a fundamental Who among us can close our problem. eyes to our culture and say MYERS Religion says our subordination is that none of what it says matnecessary because of our incapacities ters? Who of us can say that we don’t and our womb. Man’s science makes feel better when we’re thinner? That we our natural cycles our enemy and our feel more valued when we’re prettier? inconvenience. Politics has deemed Not many of us can. Because we keep overpopulation our fault and our steril- on buying what our culture tells us can ization the cure. fix us. We keep on buying because we Culture, as both product and mother really do think we need to be fixed. of religion, science and politics, has This is revealed in the fact that the been our staunchest enemy. It has been media, the spokesman of our culture, our cleverest enemy. It has been our continues to address us as a problem most tempting enemy. that needs fixing. And they keep on ofAnd since civilization’s beginning, fering us more quick fixes; they keep we have been losing the war. promising we can be a size 4; we can While we have made strides in at- have smooth, flawless skin; we can get taining more rights on bigger boobs; we can paper, we have done “While we have made have thick lips; we can little to change our un- strides in attaining more have a smaller nose; documented cultural can have blonde rights on paper, we have we victimization. Our culhair; we can be sexy ture has cleverly posed done little to change our — we can! We can! as our friend. And in so undocumented cultural We not only can — doing, it has manipu- victimization.” we must. lated us into living in The result of these accordance with it. demands is not only We don’t have our own definition of stressful, but deadly. Our culture has beauty. Our culture has used us against created a disease of which millions of us us by displaying perfected versions of us have become victims. Low self-esteem is on every medium, as we have grown to a plague that has swept across America, believe that we can indeed be nothing and eating disorders are one of its worst short of perfect. And furthermore, we symptoms. These disorders cause more have been cheated into believing the deaths than any other mental illness,

according to the Oklahoma Eating Disorders Association Web site. The pressures of society have not only affected us, but OEDA also confirms we account for 90 to 95 percent of all eating disorder cases. One in five of us has an eating disorder. And while eating disorders are caused by a variety of psychological issues, the fact remains that we are the main sufferers. The correlation between pressures directed solely at us to be thin and beautiful and the percentage of eating disorders attributed to us is not a mysterious coincidence. But what is being done to confront our (literally) sickening culture? Our worth has always been reduced. First, we were confined to motherhood and domesticity. We were deemed incapable of duties outside that sphere. We were not worthy of higher education, and in some cases any education at all. Our duty was to be a wife and a mother, a servant. For some around the world still, this image has not morphed. Today, in the West, our worth is reduced to our image. Only the elect are truly worthy. The rest of us can only do everything in our power, with the help of cultural tools, to make ourselves better. We can do most all other things. We can go to school and get great a job. But this merits only secondary value. “Beauty” can’t be outshone. Our struggles have always been the greatest. But when we’re weak, we’re our own problem. When we’re strong, we’re theirs. Brooke Myers is a University College freshman.

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Are you that guy? Well stop it already In nearly every class I’ve taken thus far at OU, there has been that guy. You know who I’m talking about. That guy. He’s loud; he’s obnoxious; he’s opinionated, talkative and easily confused. He’s the guy that has to make a remark or ask a question after every sentence the professor says. He wears his backpack high and his hair messy. He speaks out more than the rest JEROD of the class combined. He’s COKER that guy. If you don’t think you’ve encountered that guy, it’s probably because you’re him. If this is the case for you, please stop. It’s annoying as hell. If it’s not, please join me in quelling the onslaught of those guys that are ruining classes all across campus. If you’re unsure about whether or not you’re that guy, you probably are. But just to be sure, ask yourself the following questions: Do you raise your hand more than five times a class? Do you think that when a professor asks a general question

it is a race to see who can shout the answer first? Do you regularly try (and fail) to challenge the professor’s interpretation of a text? Do you share random, off-topic anecdotes about puppies, ski trips or cousins’ bar mitzvahs? Do you regularly laugh at your own jokes in class, only to find no one else laughing with you? If you answered yes to one or more of the above, you are definitely that guy. I don’t know what it is about these guys that compels them to be so obnoxious. In most cases, it seems that they genuinely enjoy being in class and actively participating, and that’s fine. But that guy often ruins the class for most of the other students. And while at times it may be amusing, and sometimes even a welcome break from a particularly dull lecture, overall it takes away from the class. Yes, sometimes overly dramatic interpretations, off-the wall comments and rambling anecdotes do induce laughter from the

class. (However, it is important here to note that when the class laughs, they are not laughing with him; rather, they are laughing at him.) And these moments of laughter almost never compensate for the stare-inducing obnoxiousness that that guy generally receives. So stop answering when other students ask the professor a question. No one trusts anything you have to say. Stop pumping your fist and whisper-shouting “yes!” whenever you find out you were right about something. No one cares that you got an 80 on the last quiz (that you proudly declare you didn’t even study for). Stop telling everyone what you think about Taco Mayo’s tater tots. No one cares about (or respects) your opinions. If you must be like that, please just stay home and play Modern Warfare. I think everyone involved would be happier that way. Jerod Coker is a professional writing, political science and philosophy junior.

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wrongheaded it united the nation enough to pass another amendment — the 21st Amendment — specifically for its repeal. However, there are other restrictions on this inebriating ambrosia even more pressing to the student body. We are a dry campus, in a state that can claim to be moist at best. There is a lot of work to be done if we wish to enjoy the sweet brew that has been a blessing to humanity since time untold. We need to forever be working for this change; we need to stay at it until it is fixed. Please drink responsibly.

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An open letter to the cyber subscriber To all of the mindless digital derelicts of my generation, to all of you Facebookers and MySpacers, to you texters and Tweeters: Please come back to reality. It can get lonely without you here. Nobody is going to be mad, or yell at you. We just want you safely back in the real world. We really thought we lost you there for a minute. You just seemed so happy sitting there with your eyes glazed over, fingers furiously stabbing your laptop, blessing all of your friendsters with the latest updates on how boring your class is. The saddest part was that you seemed completely and utterly oblivious to the fact that there is not one person on Earth who gives the teeny tiniest little nugget of a crap about how bored you are. But there you sat, sending your boredom coursing through the electronic veins of the world. Do you remember when we used to go out at night? We would talk and laugh and have an awesome time. Now you just sit at the end of every table. Mute. Lost in a quest to bastardize the English language one word at a time. There was TRAVIS a time when I could just sit back and LMFAO every time I got a text message GROGAN from you. And OMG you’re my BFF, but its gotten to the point where TARFU. You really haven’t seen reality for a long time. You’ve become so obsessed with electronic interaction that you’ve forgotten how to just interact. But it’s really not your fault. The Internet and text messaging seem so much easier than actually talking to people on the phone or in person. You can take your time and calculate everything you want to say. Actually talking to people when you could get nervous and say something dumb seems really intimidating. The text message solved everything. Now we can all communicate with someone without ever actually putting ourselves out there. We all thought that was OK for a while. “It’s technology,” we said. It’s taking over everything anyway. Why not be on the right side of the learning curve? Put the analog anuses in their place! This is the digital age! This is where I can have over a thousand friends on a giant list for everyone to see! But now it is dawning on the analog people of the world that there are very few people left to interact with. Everyone is checking out of reality in order to live vicariously through his or her Facebook account. Even crowded tables of friends have become eerily silent except for the deafening clicking of digital buttons. All the while, nobody seems to notice what we have lost. We have lost the passion in translation. Everyone might as well sound like Droopy in a text message. It’s all emotionless monotone. There is nothing beyond the words. You can’t tell if a person is happy or sad. You can’t tell what his or her first reaction is. You can’t tell how a person really feels. You can’t create the emotional bonds that accompany real human connection. Perhaps, it is not that we have forgotten how to interact. Perhaps, it’s that the world never forced us to learn to interact in the first place. We never had to make those phone calls to the cute one that gave us the number at the party. Just send them a text message. Just “friend” them. We have figured out a way to perpetuate the condition of that first middle school dance where you have a friend ask your crush to dance for you. When we were 12, this fear of embarrassment and rejection was understandable. But we’re not in middle school anymore. We’re in college. We should be able to hold an adult conversation. We should be able to think on our feet. We should be willing to put ourselves out there, because we should know that is the only way we’re ever really going to get anything back. So before you start mainlining bandwidth, let’s step back for a minute. Invest a little more time in your real relationships in the real world. Please… just unplug. The rest of us miss you. Sincerely, Travis Grogan, Political science and communications senior

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Women’s basketball to host No. 3 Nebraska Sooners look to hand undefeated Nebraska its first loss ANNELISE RUSSELL Daily Staff Writer

What does a team do when the No. 1 women’s basketball team in the conference is on its doorstep? Play your game. “It’s just about playing Oklahoma basketball,” said senior center Abi Olajuwon. No. 11 OU faces its toughest conference battle so far tonight at 7 against No. 3 Nebraska. The Cornhuskers are currently undefeated at 25-0, led by senior forward Kelsey Griffin. Despite the hefty challenge the Sooners face, they will not be intimidated. “We’re prepared to play them and we are not going anywhere from our game plan,” Olajuwon said. OU has its own assets going into tonight’s game. Senior forward Amanda Thompson is averaging a double-double with 12.3 ppg and 10.1 rpg. Thompson also is the Big 12’s leading rebounder in conference play this season and will have to contest with Griffin, who averages 10.2 rpg. Junior guard Danielle Robinson, the Sooners leading scorer with 16.8 ppg, will lead a Sooner offense that is

“We have small numbers and you have to get used to trusting people on your roster.” ABI OLAJUWON, SENIOR CENTER looking for consistency. “We definitely cannot get down like we did against Kansas State,” Olajuwon said. “We also need consistency between halves.” Consistency from the bench is another key to combatNEIL MCGLOHON/THE DAILY ing the scoring barrage of Nebraska. In OU’s last game Amanda Thompson, senior forward, dribbles the ball past a Texas player during the Sooner women’s basketball game against the Texas against Kansas State the bench contributed nine points. Longhorns on Feb. 3 in the Lloyd Noble Center. OU lost 75-57. “We have small numbers and you have to get used to currently leads the conference in offensive production with OU is looking for a much different turnout. trusting people on your roster,” Olajuwon said Olajuwon said they tried to take down a ranked team last It is going to take that kind of trust to face a Nebraska team 78.4 points a contest. “They are not 25-0 for no reason,” Olajuwon said. week and that is what they are going to do this week with that somehow always finds a way to win. The Cornhuskers Tonight’s game will be the second time in 10-days that OU hopefully different results. had a close call against Missouri on Feb. 13, but Nebraska was gets a crack at an undefeated team, after losing to Connecticut The battle in the Big 12 gets underway at 7 tonight under able to hold the undefeated record with a close 82-78 win. the lights of Lloyd Noble Center. This should be no surprise for OU though as Nebraska on Feb. 15.

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Sooners score top-10 finish in Puerto Rico RICKY LY Daily Staff Writer

of 216 (E). Pumphrey collected his second-straight top-25 finish as the Georgetown, Texas, native climbed up In danger of posting its worst finish of the season, the leaderboard from a tie for 47th after the end of the OU men’s golf team finally found its game to fin- the first day of play. ish 10th Tuesday at the Puerto Rico Classic in Rio Senior Tyler Rody played arguably his best round Grande, Puerto Rico. of golf since the CordeValle Collegiate back in After the first two rounds of golf, the Sooners were November to shoot a 3-under-par 69 and finish in a well off the pace set by No. 1-ranked Oklahoma State tie for 43rd. and No. 9 Texas. But OU posted a Junior Liam Logan (72) and season-best team score in the final sophomore Ben Klaus (76) roundOU POSTS BEST round to climb three spots and earn ed out the scoring for OU with ROUND OF SEASON its first top-10 finish of the spring. finishes in 53rd and 70th place, The Sooners started Tuesday’s respectively. final round in 13th place after rounds To understand how big Tuesday’s Overnight leader Texas followed of 292 (+4) and 293 (+5) left them 4-under-par 284 was to the up its 19-under-par 269 on the secwell behind the leaders. Sooners, take a look at how long ond day with a 12-under-par 276 Closing with a final-round team it’s been since OU had posted to cruise to a six-stroke victory over score of 284 (-4), OU hurdled No. 12 its last under-par round: the Cowboys. Oklahoma State Alabama, No. 42 Michigan and Ohio • 11 tournaments posted the day’s best score with a State by carving up the Rio Mar River • 12 months 274, but could not make up enough Golf Course for the fourth-lowest • 32 rounds of golf ground to catch the Longhorns on tally of the day. Tuesday’s play was OU’s best the leaderboard. Senior Ben Blundell, who fired an round of golf since the Sooners The rest of the field finished well even-par 72 Tuesday to finish in 19th opened the UTSA Intercollegiate behind the two Big 12 rivals as No. place, once again led OU in the 15with rounds of 283 (-1) and 281 28 Clemson finished in third place, team tournament. (-3) on Feb. 16, 2009. 21 strokes behind the Longhorns. After a disappointing tie for 49th Junior Kevin Tway won the indiin the team’s previous competition vidual title for the Cowboys by firat the Oak Hills Invitational, Blundell ing a 66 to overtake second-round responded with yet another top-20 finish in leading leader Cody Gribble of Texas and earn his third colthe Sooners for the fourth time in six tournaments. legiate victory. The senior has accumulated four top-20 honors so With the top-10 finish, the Sooners will head into far this season, highlighted by a sixth-place finish in their next tournament with more momentum than OU’s season-opening win at the Kansas Invitational the team has had since the spring season began. in Lawrence. After playing two tournaments in the span of nine Redshirt sophomore Riley Pumphrey carded back- days, OU will return to action March 5 and 6 at the to-back rounds of 71 after opening with a 74 to earn a Border Olympics in Laredo, Texas. share of 25th place, finishing with a three-round total

TRACK AND FIELD JUMPS IN RANKINGS The OU men’s track and field team jumped four spots in the latest United States Track and Field and Cross Country Association rankings released Tuesday. The Sooner men are now ranked No. 12 in the nation. They were boosted by K.P. Singh, who is now eighth in the nation after breaking his own school record at the Sooner Open over the weekend. Other top-10 OU teams and athletes include the men’s 4x400meter relay, Ronnie Ash and Malcolm Anderson who are ranked second and sixth respectively in the 60-meter hurdles. The Big 12 Indoor Championships begin Friday in Ames, Iowa. -Daily Staff Reports

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WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS NOTES - The OU women’s gymnastics team regained its No. 1 ranking this week, marking the first time a Big 12 program has been ranked in the top spot for multiple weeks in one season. - Redshirt freshman Natasha Kelley was named Big 12 Event Specialist of the Week on Tuesday afternoon. Kelley, who is competing with a torn ACL, led the Sooners to their highest road score of the season against Missouri with three routines of 9.85 or higher and a career-high 9.9 on vault. -Daily Staff Reports

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TWO SOFTBALL PLAYERS HONORED Freshman pitcher Keilani Ricketts was named Big 12 Pitcher of the Week and USA Softball’s National Player of the Week, and senior infielder Amber Flores received Big 12 Player of the Week honors. Ricketts pitched 19 innings last week and recorded a 0.37 earned run average. She pitched two complete-game shutouts in her four appearances. Flores earned conference player of the week honors for the sixth time in her career. She batted .573 in Las Vegas over the weekend, scoring eight runs, five RBIs and three home runs over the Sooners’ five games. -Daily Staff Reports

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House candidate discusses education, transportation Transgender attorney speaks to OU law students about her election platforms CASEY WILSON Daily Staff Writer

Brittany Novotny, Democrat, spoke Tuesday at the OU College of Law about her platform for her election-bid to replace Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City, for Oklahoma State House of Representatives District 84. United Students, a law student group that focuses on equality issues, invited Novotny, a transgender attorney, to speak at the College of Law, said Jeff Riles, an officer for United Students. Novotny, who received her bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree from University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma and earned her J.D. from the University of Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Hastings, is an attorney in Oklahoma City, according to her

Web site. While living in San Francisco, Novotny said she wanted to move back to Oklahoma to be a part of the renaissance occurring in Oklahoma City, and to help Oklahoma move forward. Novotny said she believes the education system needs a lot of support. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we need to put a whole lot more money into education, and we need to be finding ways our students in the next generation are familiar with the technology of the future,â&#x20AC;? she said Students need to know how to browse the Internet, and they need to know what good sources are and what bad sources are, Novotny said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to make sure our children have the critical thinking and research abilities to use all this information that is at our

fingertips,â&#x20AC;? she said. Oklahoma also has a lot of transportation issues, Novotny said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our roads and bridges arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in the best of shape,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We only have one train to go from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth.â&#x20AC;? Oklahomans do not have a lot of options while commuting, Novotny said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think in moving forward to our future, we are really going to have to take a look at investing in new modes of transportation for our people,â&#x20AC;? she said. Novotny said the Oklahomans cannot continue to believe cars are the only mode of transportation. The state needs to ensure people who choose greener options of travel are safe while doing so by building bike lanes, she said. Novotny said she is focusing on a future Oklahoma with more transportation options,

and where children get the best education they can. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe if I share these common values we have as Oklahomans and the vision for a brighter future with the voters in my house district I can achieve victory, and we can achieve victory of the people of Oklahoma,â&#x20AC;? she said. Riles, a first-year law student, said he is excited Novotny is running for office. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know that is going to be a tough race, especially in the current political climate,â&#x20AC;? Riles said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I think sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got a great chance, and a lot of support.â&#x20AC;? Sarah Wynn, a first-year law student, said she agrees with Novotnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s position on the need for more transportation options. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m from out of state, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a car,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard for me to get around.â&#x20AC;?

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

CAMPUS EVENTS

TODAY CAREER SERVICES Career Services will have a summer camp career fair at 11 a.m. in the food court of the Oklahoma Memorial Union. CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUS Christians on Campus will host a Bible study at 12:30 p.m. in the Traditions Room of the union. STUDENT SUCCESS SERIES Professors Doug Gaffin and Marielle Hoefnagels will talk about studying for the sciences at 5 p.m. in Dale Hall, room 128. FRED JONES JR. MUSEUM OF ART The museum will show a sneak peek of the film “1 in 3: It’s Closer Than You Think” at 6 p.m. in the Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium. The film is about domestic violence. WOMEN’S OUTREACH CENTER The Women’s Outreach Center will host a movie screening and panel discussion on body images and eating disorders in Devon Hall, room 130. GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER AND FRIENDS GLBTF will host its weekly meeting at 7 p.m. in the Traditions Room of the union. CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST

Campus Crusade for Christ will meet at 9 p.m. in the Santee Lounge of the Gaylord Family Memorial Stadium.

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Mike Fogarty, OU College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni, will discuss the state of health care and his work with Oklahoma children and families at or near the poverty line at 10 a.m. in the Regents Room of the Oklahoma Memorial Union. CAREER SERVICES Career Services will offer a clinic in preparing for a behavioral interview at 1 p.m. in the Weitzenhoffer Room of the union. ARTS AND SCIENCES DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI LECTURES Edward Correia, president of Correia and Associates, will join Tom Boyd, Robin Meyers and moderator Rob Griswold to discuss the future of God at 1 p.m. in the Regents Room of the union. ARTS AND SCIENCES DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI LECTURES Donald R. Baucom, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and 1976 doctoral graduate of OU, will present a lecture titled “Hitting a Bullet with a Bullet: Emergence of Kinetic Energy Interceptors” at 2:30 p.m. in the Regents Room of the union. ARTS AND SCIENCES DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI LECTURES William McGrew, a 1965 zoology graduate from OU who later earned a Ph.D. from Oxford University, will present a lecture titled “Fifty Years of Chimpanzee Tool Use: What’s Left to Know?” at 4 p.m. in the Regents Room of the union.

NEW EMERGENCY WARNING SYSTEM UP FOR VOTE 21 sirens will be replaced around Norman if proposal passes; new system will better respond to severe weather, fire chief says DANIEL PUMA Contributing Writer

Improvements to the Outdoor Emergency Warning System will be in the hands of voters next Tuesday. The Outdoor Emergency Warning System consists of 37 sirens that are activated when severe weather is imminent, and many of these sirens are old and not useful, said Norman Fire Chief James Fullingim. “Twenty-one sirens are considered obsolete. That means they have run their useful life and the manufacturer no longer supports them,” Fullingim said. “If something breaks in the siren, the manufacturer no longer produces necessary parts to fix it and the siren would not work.” He said many of the sirens are 35 to 40 years old. Norman City Councilman Tom Kovach said, “The main problem is that when we turn on one we have to turn them all on even if the danger is only in one part of Norman.” With the new system, any selected sirens can be activated, warning only the part of Norman in risk

and at danger, Kovach said. If the new proposals are voted into acceptance, the city would replace all of the obsolete sirens while also adding new sirens. “The 16 new sirens would allow complete coverage over our jurisdiction,” Fullingim said. Norman’s jurisdiction covers 196 square miles with only a percentage of that being covered under the current siren system. Kovach said, “We are proposing adding new locations and replacing old sirens with a digital system.” Fullingim said the new system allows for silent testing. The silent testing works by sending a radio signal to the sirens; then, sirens indicate back whether it would have sounded or not. The silent testing allows for more tests to be conducted and ensures every siren is working or is fixed as soon as it is discovered to be broken. The fire chief said it is important to replace these old sirens because some of them have failed to receive the radio signal when activated. These proposals have been brought about from years of inadequate coverage from the Outdoor Emergency Warning System. The current system requires activation of the sirens from one of two different control rooms, Fullingim said. If a storm quickly develops, a proper warning can not be given because someone

with authority needs to drive to the control room and activate the sirens, he said. The proposed system would allow the proper authorities to remote activate the sirens from their car or even their computer at home. Kovach said the new system will provide much better and wider coverage. The city would have regional control of the sirens. In addition, the city would be able to make announcements for other dangers affection a particular area such as a hazardous train spill. The city estimates the cost of the bond issue to be $2.2 million, a City of Norman bond election brochure stated. The brochure states the bond goes toward “the purchase of 60 new sirens to cover the entire city limits, modifications to and relocation of 17 existing sirens, and site acquisition and right-of-way costs.” Norman will pay for the proposed system through a general obligation bond. The bond is to be paid off in five years from property taxes. The bond will not result in higher city fees, utility rates and other service charges. If the bond is approved, the additional property tax would be approximately 60 cents per month of a homeowner with a value of $100,000, and the city expects the new system to be operational in the spring of 2011 if the bond issue is passed.

Limbs for life puts prosthetic effort in Haiti 12 volunteers with dozens of prosthetic limbs will travel to village to help earthquake victims in Haiti CHINH DOAN Daily Staff Writer

Volunteers from an Oklahoma City amputee organization will take dozens of prosthetic knees and feet to a Haitian border clinic to assist maimed earthquake victims. About 12 Limbs for Life volunteers from all over Oklahoma will travel to a clinic in Barahona, a Dominican Republic village about 30 miles west of the Haitian border. Aid agencies will transport patients from the Haiti border to Barahona and back. Limbs for Life is committed to helping amputees in Haiti for the next 10 years. The organization’s goal is to set up a prosthetic facility in the country and eventually hand it over to be run locally.

“We can’t just go down there, fit as many people as we can with prosthetic limbs and then leave,” said Craig Gavras, Limbs for Life executive director and amputee of 15 years. Although prosthetic technologies have grown, most advanced legs and arms require technical care that are not feasible due to the current conditions in Haiti. The volunteers will be taking the most basic prosthetics. “While they don’t offer the same amenities of the advanced ones, they are more easily maintained and less likely to break,” McGhee said. Some manufactured parts are used from past patients, and some are donated by business. Nearly all parts can be reused after being dissembled and cleaned at clinics. Volunteers are able to assist amputees with the help from SPS Prosthetics and Orthotics and the Dominican Rehabilitation Association. “By helping the amputees of Haiti, we’re putting people back on their feet who can then turn around and help rebuild the country,” Gavras said. “Helping the nation’s amputees will play a critical part in helping the nation recover.”

Sen. Hutchison promotes ‘Texas values’ as others depict her as Washington insider JUSTIN, Texas — Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison acknowledged Tuesday that Republican Gov. Rick Perry has succeeded at casting her as a Washington insider, hindering her effort to kick him out of the Texas governor’s mansion. Trailing in the polls with less than a week before the March 2 primary, Hutchison assessed the state of her campaign to The Associated Press as she toured through towns in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Hutchison’s remarks about Perry’s anti-Washington tactics appeared to be her first acknowledgment that the governor has done some damage to her election bid. “It definitely has made it more difficult for me. I didn’t think that people would buy that because I’ve been so effective for Texas,” Hutchison told the AP on her campaign bus. “I didn’t think that anyone could turn my success in producing results for Texas into a negative, but I think that he has attempted to do that and that is what I’ve been having to fight against.” In the interview, Hutchison talked up her own record of bringing federal dollars to Texas and said she’s working hard to turn out grassroots supporters to boost her into an April 13 runoff with Perry. “I have protected Texas,” she said. “I’ve voted with Texas values. ... I’m not Washington — I’m Texas.” Perry seems to be riding a national wave of frustration directed at Washington politicians — the same anger that has fueled the “tea party” movement and complicated the Democrats’ plans to overhaul the nation’s health care system. The long-serving governor who has campaigned as

populist has repeatedly criticized Hutchison for pushing earmarks and voting for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout. Hutchison, who has been in the Senate since winning a special election in 1993, spent much of the day Tuesday spreading her message that Perry’s attacks aren’t true, accusing the governor of cronyism and assailing his mostly abandoned Trans Texas Corridor toll road network that threatened private property. “We appreciate the senator acknowledging our message GOV. RICK PERRY is resonating with Texas vot- SEN. KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON ers,” Perry campaign spokesman Mark Miner said in a that at the time, Perry signaled he wanted to run statement e-mailed to the AP. Hutchison told the AP that Perry’s been in of- for only one more term. She said now he has gone back on his word. fice long enough. “So I did step aside when I could have won,” “It’s just wrong for somebody to stay 14 years Hutchison said. and become arrogant,” Hutchison said of Perry’s GOP activist Debra Medina is also in the March tenure in office. He is the state’s longest-serving governor, having moved up to the executive post 2 primary, but she may have lost steam since rein December 2000 when George W. Bush resigned fusing to say there was no U.S. government into became president. Perry then won two terms volvement in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Medina later tried to back away from those statements. on his own in 2002 and 2006. Hutchison considered running for governor in —AP 2006, but she said Tuesday she decided against it to keep the Republican Party united. She said

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. MUNICIPAL WARRANT Ronny Joe Smith, 21, 201 W. Gray St., Monday

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REID SEEKS EXTENSION OF JOBLESS AID Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pressing to extend unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless through December as he and Republicans try to clear leftover Senate business. Reid also hopes to keep helping cashstrapped states with their Medicaid budgets, he said Tuesday on the Senate floor. Taken together, these proposals would cost in the range of $100 billion. The Nevada Democrat is in talks with GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky over what to include in catchall legislation to help the long-term unemployed, extend several expired tax breaks and prevent doctors from suffering a big cut in their Medicare reimbursements. The measure would cost more than the jobs bill the Senate is now expected to approve on Tuesday. It mostly clears up business left unfinished because of last year’s health care debate. There is nothing new in the emerging measure to spur job growth. Instead, it would extend provisions that senators in both parties say have generally been helpful to the

economy. Facing a Feb. 28 deadline, Reid hopes to pass two measures, one as soon as Tuesday. The first includes a 30-day extension of several of soon-to-expire provisions such as jobless aid, parts of the Patriot Act and prevention of cuts in Medicare payments to doctors. Reid and McConnell were discussing the parameters of the second — a broader, longer-term measure — in a private conversation on the Senate floor. A top Reid aide could be overheard suggesting a full-year extension of unemployment insurance and a 65 percent health insurance subsidy for the unemployed through the federal COBRA program. There is no agreement on how to proceed on the broader measure, said Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., who said Republicans are concerned about the high cost of the aid to the unemployed. An earlier bipartisan proposal would have extended the aid through May 31 instead of through the end of the year as proposed by Reid. Kyl added that the proposal to give more

Medicaid help to the states took Republicans by surprise. The nation’s governors are lobbying strongly for the help. The most costly piece of the measure would continue to provide additional weeks of benefits to jobless people whose unemployment insurance would otherwise expire. They have been extended several times by Congress since June 2008. The core benefit is 26 weeks, with up to 20 additional weeks in states with high unemployment. The Reid aide also proposed extending for another six months a provision of last year’s economic stimulus bill in which the federal government pays a higher share of costs for the state-federal Medicaid health care program for the poor and unemployed. The Medicaid help mirrors an Obama administration proposal to give states about $25 billion to help with their Medicaid budgets. Reid dropped the help for the unemployed from the jobs bill. Republicans were unhappy Reid had also discarded an extension of more than 40 expired tax breaks they wanted in the bill. A trimmed-down version of the jobs bill advanced on a bipartisan 62-30 vote

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., takes a call in his office prior to the jobs bill cloture vote on Capitol Hill in Washington. A bipartisan jobs bill cleared a GOP filibuster with critical momentum provided by the Senate’s newest Republican, Scott Brown of Massachusetts. Monday to end a GOP filibuster. -AP

2 teens injured in Colo. middle school shooting

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A woman embraces a girl outside Deer Creek Middle School in Littleton, Colo. in the aftermath of the shooting.

Teachers tackled and subdued a man armed with a highpowered rifle just after he shot two teenage students Tuesday at a suburban Denver middle school that’s just miles from Columbine High School, the site of one of the nation’s deadliest school shootings, authorities said. The seventh-grade math teacher who tackled the suspect, David Benke, is a 6-foot-5-inch former college basketball player who has taught at the school for about 10 years, his wife Sandra Benke, told KUSA-TV. Other teachers quickly piled on the gunman, the station reported. “Some staff acted very quickly, and very heroically,” Jefferson County Sheriff’s office spokeswoman Jacki Kelley said. One male and one female were shot at about 3:30 p.m. outside Deer Creek Middle School in Littleton, Kelley said. Both students were taken to a nearby hospital and were expected to survive. The school typically finishes its day at 3:05 p.m. The

mother of one uninjured student, Sheri Hasse, said students were boarding buses when the shootings took place. The school is about three miles southwest of Columbine High School, where two teens — Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris — killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 23 others before killing themselves in 1999. The middle school is on lockdown and is expected to be evacuated to a nearby school soon. Students’ parents have been alerted through text messages, phone calls and e-mails, Jefferson County Schools spokeswoman Melissa Reeves said. Kelley said authorities don’t yet have a motive for the shootings. “Why this school, why this happened, why these students, we don’t have any of those answers yet,” she said. —AP

Girl Scouts warn of impostors during cookie sales Officials with the Girl Scouts of Western Oklahoma are warning of impostors during the annual Girl Scouts cookie sale. Deborah Gooding, director of marketing and communications for Girl Scouts of Western Oklahoma, said her organization received a complaint about four people going door to door taking Girl Scout cookie orders and collecting money in advance. Gooding said the report came from a man in Nichols Hills who said an older couple and two girls asked him to pay $12 up front and said his cookies would be delivered later. Girl Scouts of Western Oklahoma has had cookies available for purchase since the sale started in January. Girls are not taking orders for cookies as they already have the cookies ready to sell, Gooding said. Nichols Hills police received no report of such a scam, and Gooding said she was not aware of any more instances. But she said she has gotten similar reports over the years

including scam sales with no cookies, or possibly someone who bought cookies and was trying to resell them at a higher price. Gooding offered the following suggestions to help people identify legitimate Girl Scout cookie sales: Cookies cost $3.50 per box in western Oklahoma district, which includes Oklahoma City, and $4 per box in eastern Oklahoma. If someone is taking orders, state that you will pay for the cookies if they come back with the cookies to deliver. Do not pay in advance. The local council office and adults do not sell Girl Scout cookies door to door. Only Girl Scouts sell cookies. Girl Scouts are hosting cookie booth sales all over the

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Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Don’t hesitate to delegate assignments or authority to persons you believe can handle what needs to be done. Because you’ll have good help, big strides can be made.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -When it comes to engaging in a little horse-trading or engineering a bargain, you are likely to be without equal. To your credit, however, you’ll be fair to others.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Once again, you’re likely to be quite lucky working with a person who has helped you in the past. There is an unspoken bond between you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -You’ll have plenty of justification for taking pride in your achievements because even though there are a few feathers in your cap, you’ll still look out for colleagues and friends.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -Your insight will be an accurate gauge for reading the wants and needs of others. Take advantage of these conditions to present your ideas to those who can advance your career.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- One of your greatest assets is doing whatever it takes to accomplish whatever tasks are assigned to you. This splendid virtue could be your most dominating characteristic.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -Be ready to take advantage of career and financial opportunities that cross your path. One or more situations could be extremely advantageous.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- You’re in a momentary but propitious cycle for fulfilling your hopes and expectations on a grand scale. What you can’t do for yourself, Lady Luck will do for you.

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Jayhawk rockers to cast out set of acclaimed full-length albums MATT CARNEY Daily Staff Writer

Like everybody else from Lawrence, Kansas, The Appleseed Cast guitarist Aaron Pillar is a huge KU basketball fan. “If you happen to find anybody who isn’t, you have to ask what’s wrong with them,” he joked. At the moment, the Jayhawks are too-casually coasting to victory over the Willie Warren-less Sooners to claim a share of their sixth consecutive Big 12 basketball title. “Yeah, that’s the problem with being really good some seasons,” he said. “We get outplayed in the second half sometimes. We tend to let teams back in it at the end.” With more than 10 years of touring and recording under its belt, The Appleseed Cast is no stranger to college towns and intimate venues. Pillar said playing through the band’s two most lauded albums, “Low Level Owl Volume I” and “Low Level Owl Volume II” tonight at the Opolis will be about as natural as, well, playing in your basement. Here’s what he had to say to The Daily’s Matt Carney. You guys are vets. What’s it like playing in the Midwest, and how does it compare to playing shows elsewhere? I guess it’s always a little easier, it’s more laid back. We don’t have as much traffic or as many rules. It moves at a cooler pace. Usually when you get to a bigger city, there can be a lot more bulls**t involved. Parking, time schedules, curfews and things. Things are a little more of a punk-rock pace in the Midwest. What about playing specifically in Midwestern college towns, like Norman, Lawrence, Columbia, etc? Just because there’s a school doesn’t really mean that much because … I dunno, maybe

that’s not true. I enjoy it because we live in a college town and there’s that downtown area and the vibe of younger people going to school. I just feel comfortable around that, lots of good conversation. You guys are playing through your “Low Level Owl” albums this tour. What’s prompted that? We thought about the [10-year] anniversary of it and everything, and we saw some bands playing festivals and doing a specific album and seeing how that seemed to work pretty well. I thought that vibe made sense — it all kind of clicked in that way. Yeah, then there’s a part of me that made it seem contrived, but then I thought, ‘I want to see Sonic Youth play “Daydream Nation” or The Pixies play “Doolittle.” I want to see every song on my favorite record.’ What we’re going for is to make our fans happy, cause the only reason we’re doing this is cause of them. Are there any bands from the Norman/ OKC scene that you’re familiar with? As far as I know, we’ve never toured with anybody from there. Obviously, we’re fans of the Lips — I’ve seen Stardeath [and White Dwarves] before in Lawrence, and the Starlight Mints who run the Opolis. Man, I’d love to be like Wayne Coyne, where I can just say, ‘Alright, let’s do this just because it would be awesome.’ What band or bands have you been compared to that you wish you weren’t, and maybe ones you’ve been honored to be considered with? Now, maybe this would fly 12 years ago, but I don’t wanna have anything to do with Sunny Day Real Estate. I will give you that first record, but that was a long, f**ing time ago. It drives

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Lawrence-based band The Appleseed Cast will perform its albums “Low Level Owl Volume I and II” in their entirety at 9 tonight at Opolis. me nuts to be compared to an emo band, because that genre has been washed away into a sub-genre, and we haven’t sounded anything like that in a long time. We do get the Mogwai and the occasional Explosions in the Sky, and I’ll take it cause it’s hard [to categorize] when you don’t use a lot of vocals — ‘Oh, they have a lot of instrumental songs, so they sound like Mogwai.’ They throw early U2 in there, and that’s a big ‘yay!’. I mean, we’re still figuring it out. You’ve gotta get twenty years in before you know what you’re doing. We’ve got another ten years to go. I want us to be compared to us, how about that? What’s your guilty pleasure music? I’ll admit, I like The Killers. Those guys are

writing standalone records. They’re all different and don’t have much to do with each other, which is really hard to do. I look at all those songs and I’m like, ‘Damn, they wrote five singles,’ and that’s really f***ing hard to do. What do people hear live that they can’t get by listening to your records at home? The true sound of the band, that the band’s reality is four or five guys in a basement that’s loud as hell, that sounds like a mush, but a good mush. There’s that magic thing, and when you come to see that, there’s an energy there that you’ll never get on the record. You want the record to capture it if possible. When you’re able to do that, you’ll get a really great record.

COMPLETE NORMAN MUSIC FESTIVAL MAIN STAGE LINEUP ANNOUNCED JOSHUA BOYDSTON Daily Staff Writer

Norman Music Festival rounded out its main stage lineup Monday with the addition of Oklahoma acts Dead Sea Choir, Mayola and Gentle Ghost. Dead Sea Choir have amassed a large following out of Tulsa with a sound in the vein of Radiohead and Arcade Fire. Stillwater-based Mayola has become a fan favorite with their frantic live sets and manic energy reminiscent of Modest Mouse. And Norman’s own Gentle Ghost have quickly grown to a premiere local act with a chilly, haunting sound of their very own. All three acts played to max capacity crowds at The Opolis stage at last year’s festival. The Sooner Theatre headliner for April 25 also was announced. Ambient rockers, The Non, will perform with Cloud Collision Orchestra for a repeat of their sold-out Resound performance this past fall. The full main stage lineup will be Dirty Projectors, The Sword, Electric Six, Edan, Grupo Fantasma, Dead Sea Choir, Mayola and Gentle Ghost. The April 24 headliner at Sooner Theatre will be Evangelicals, and the April 25 headliner will be The Non with Cloud Collision Orchestra. Norman Music Festival will be April 24 and 25 in downtown Norman and is free to the public.

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Eating ‘green’ is easier than it seems

A few tricks to eating more consciously on the cheap. Eating “green” has become increasingly popular with the rise of organic and natural foods, but the price of eating responsibly on a budget can be an enormous obstacle for college students. After all, Ramen and ground beef from big-box grocery stores are just plain cheaper than organic goods. Yet eating responsibly while counting pennies isn’t as impossible as it may seem. In fact, there are plenty of smart decisions that are better both for the environment and for your body that won’t break the bank. It may not be possible to get all of your groceries from the natural foods store, but it is possible to be a smart consumer. Know when it’s a good idea to save money by being conventional and when it’s a better plan to buy pesticide and other chemical-free products. Conventional produce such as apples,

broccoli and an berries are grown with a lot of pesticides that have detrimenta detrimental effects on the environment and on consumers’ health, so place p your monetary priorities on buying these sorts of products organic. When you have to save money by buying conventionally-grown produce, choose vegetables and fruit conventio that aren aren’t produced with such large amounts of harmful chemic chemicals. Edu Educate yourself and know where your food is coming from from. There are some organic agricultural suppliers that are hardly better than conventional factory farms. On tthe other hand, a lot of small, local farms that don’t h have the USDA “organic” stamp and produce food responsibly and without destroying their environm ment. Go to the local farmer’s market and get to kn know the people and the farming practices that supply what you eat. When buying local isn’t an option, researc search food companies to find out which ones advocate hum humanitarian and ecologically sound practices. All corporations are not created equal, so if you have to support one, know how they grow and what they value. To take immediate action, buy in bulk. A lot of natural and organic food stores allow you to bring in your own containers (Tupperware or old spaghetti sauce jars work great) and fill them with a variety of dry goods such as cereal, rice, pasta, nuts, dried fruit and beans. Buying in bulk is often cheaper since the cost of packaging is eliminated. Plus, by buying food this way, you won’t produce a single scrap of trash! You can also cut back on the garbage you produce by avoiding over-packaged foods, which take more energy to create and result in more trash. Avoid to-go meals enveloped in copious amounts of paper and Styrofoam. Individually wrapped snacks are also wise to avoid. Over-processed foods also take a lot of energy to make; it requires a lot more fossil fuel to run raw materials through a food processing plant than it does to simply

transfer those materials directly to the grocery store. Instead of spending six dollars on one organic TV dinner, buy the ingredients yourself and make your own meal. It may take more time, but it will save you money, produce less waste and be better for your health. (Processed foods often have high amounts of sodium as well as chemical preservatives.) After you’ve made yourself dinner, don’t throw away the leftovers! Never let food end up in the garbage and you’ll save money and eliminate wasteful eating habits. If you’re feeling enthusiastic about reducing waste, consider dumpster-diving, which is a free and environmentally-friendly way of getting groceries. Grocery stores often throw away food simply because the packaging is defective or because it is one day past its expiration date. Rummage around and see what you can find; often times you’ll be surprised by the quality LAURA of food that would otherwise go uneaten and WIEDERHOEFT untouched in a landfill. Lastly, it is important to remember that buying organic is not the end-all and be-all of environmental responsibility when it comes to food. Just like any attempt at ecologically sound practices, consuming less extravagantly is the most important thing you can do. Educate yourself to be a smart consumer and know where your food comes from. Buy simple, whole foods that haven’t been processed beyond recognition and wrapped in yards of cellophane and cardboard. Don’t allow anything to go to waste. Soon you’ll find yourself more conscious about your food, eating better than ever before and even eating responsibly without going into debt. It may take a little effort to find the solution, but it will sure taste good when you do. Laura Wiederhoeft is a French and letters senior.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

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Since the creation of the Marvel’s Ultimate Nick Fury, no one really cared about the regular series’ super spy, and I don’t blame anyone; new Nick was just way cooler. Ultimate Nick was created to look like Samuel L. Jackson — this was before the film “Iron Man.” He was a major character in every major event or crossover, and never hesitated to get in on the action himself. If you’re reading “Secret Warriors” you should know old Nick is giving new Nick a run for his money. After the dissolution of S.H.I.E.L.D. — and the rise of Osborn’s H.A.M.M.E.R. — Nick Fury has been working hard at bringing down Hydra and H.A.M.M.E.R despite being the most wanted person in America, using every OSI trick in the book. We get to see Nick Fury AKEN’OVA do some actual spy work for the first time in decades; and with rising star Jonathan Hickman writing, this just might be one of the best books out now. Hickman’s non-linear story telling with complex super powered characters and suspense is able to blend superhero and espionage comics extremely well.

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With Hickman also writing this book, it has gotten lots of attention and even has some people saying Fantastic Four may return to its previous status as one of Marvel’s bestsellers. Hickman brings back the whole family aspect of this superhero team and adds many sci-fi elements to the series. I read the first arc a few months ago and stupidly decided I should read just one Hickman book, “Secret Warriors,” which proved to be a big mistake. Be sure to start reading this series, and if you don’t know anything about Jonathan Hickman, you should be sure to pick up a few of his graphic novels. “Nightly News,” “Pax Romana” and “Transhuman,” I promise you will not be disappointed. Osi Aken’Ova is a film and video studies senior.

Film screening aims to open eyes, encourage discussion ANNIKA LARSON Daily Staff Writer

A problem that is both global and local will be addressed tonight at “When It Hits Home: An Evening Concerning Intimate Partner Violence,” which starts at 6 p.m. at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. The event is hosted by the Center for Social Justice, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, and the Xenia Institute. Karin Jonsson, project coordinator for the Center for Social Justice, said the goals of the event are to raise awareness about the overwhelming problem of domestic violence and empower attendees to make a change. “There is an urgent, pressing need to do something about

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this,” Jonsson said. The event will begin with a screening of the film “1 in 3,” which was made in Norman by OU alumna Lagueria Davis. Davis said she was inspired to make the film after working for the Women’s Resource Center in Norman for the past seven years. “1 in 3” is about the effects of domestic violence. The title comes from the global statistic that one in three women will be subjected to domestic violence in their lifetime. “It’s set in Oklahoma,” Davis said, “but I think it could be anywhere.” After the film, discussion leaders from the Xenia Institute will facilitate a small group discussion of intimate partner violence with attendees. Jonsson said this is so everyone gets a chance to ask questions and share reflections in a workshop-

style environment, while also learning strategies to tackle the issue. Stephanie Heck, intern for the Center for Social Justice, said domestic violence is an important issue for college students because it will likely affect everyone’s lives in some way. “It’s a global problem,” Heck said, “but it’s also in our backyard.” Jonsson echoed Heck when she said it’s important to understand the statistics and the problem itself. “When It Hits Home” is meant to take a depressing issue and empower people to change it, because it is all around us. “If you stop and think about it the numbers ‘1 in 3,’ it is going to hit everyone’s life.”