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Director says global threats necessitate CIA existence

Former security advisers discuss world status of US

Speaker discusses dangers Americans face including terrorism, war, proliferation, cyber threats JAY KUMAR Contributing Writer GREG MAUS Daily Staff Writer

Considering the enormity of threats to American lives from around the world, the CIA must exist in a constant state of adaptation in order to effectively prevent or thwart attacks, said Leon Panetta, CIA director.

Speaking to a large crowd Monday during his visit to OU, Panetta described the CIA’s primary mission of “keeping America safe.”

Panetta outlined five broad threats: counter-terrorism, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, counter proliferation, cyber threats and climate change.

On counter-terrorism, the director detailed the danger stemming from al-Qaida. Panetta said the terrorist organization remains the “most urgent threat of our time.”

He discussed current U.S. efforts in the foreign theater, citing the CIA’s successful elimination of more than half of al-Qaida’s top 20 leaders. At home, however, the director warned of the threat imposed by trained individuals deployed by al-Qaida to attack our infrastructure. In this as well, the CIA has made progress – arresting four such operatives last year – but Panetta said he remains apprehensive about the future, which could bring new individuals with “clean credentials” and no history of terrorist activity.

Mov i n g t o t h e t o p i c o f Afghanistan and Pakistan, Panetta emphasized the goal of the U.S. and its NATO partners was to “degrade the Taliban” in order to allow the Afghan people to govern themselves freely.

The question that most concerned him was whether the U.S. would be able to ultimately transfer power to the Afghan people. The answer, Panetta said, lies in whether the Karzai administration will succeed in building effective government, which he defined as the capacity to protect the people “at the provincial level.”

In Iraq, Panetta said, the threat level is a mere shadow of its former self. The director praised the Iraqi people who turned out to vote and support their nation-state in the midst of obvious turmoil.

“As our military presence in Iraq diminishes, our intelligence presence will remain to aid the Iraqi people,” Panetta said.

Proceeding, the director addressed the CIA’s counter-proliferation efforts.

Fighting the spread of deadly weapons is a core issue of the CIA’s duties, especially in light of Osama Bin Laden describing the acquisition of nuclear weapons a “religious duty.”

Panetta discussed his concerns regarding North Korea’s trafficking of nuclear weapons, as well as Iran’s floating of the U.N.’s nuclear policy.

“The greatest difficulty [is] knowing the intent of these countries,” Panetta said.

The director also mentioned the new brand of cyber threats facing the nation.

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This generation of American students is facing as great a challenge, if not greater, than that of other generations, OU President David Boren said Monday night at a dinner featuring two former national security advisers.

Gen. Brent Snowcroft served as a national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush in addition to a 29-year military career.

Zbigniew Brzezinski served as national security adviser for President Jimmy Carter and is the author of several books on foreign policy, as well as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981 for his role in the normalization of U.S.-China relations and for his contributions to the human rights and national security of the United States.

The former advisers’ dialogue began with an opening question from Boren about the general state of the U.S. in relationship to other nations.

They also discussed whether the U.S. remains the world’s sole superpower, given the rise of China and other nations.

Snowcroft offered a historical perspective.

“At the end of World War II we were economically standing alone,” Snowcroft said. “World War II actually built the American economy into a giant and it destroyed everyone else’s.”

Snowcroft said we thus stagnated and our industries were overcome in innovation and raw output, and with the end of the Cold War, the U.S. felt little need to focus upon foreign policy assuming that democracy had won, as suggested by the book “The End of History.”

“Do I think we’re in decline? No, but we have got to get our act together,” Snowcroft said. “We can no longer lead the world the way we tried. ‘You’re either with us or against us,’ or ‘Join us or get out of the way.’ We are still the only country in the world that can galvanize mankind on behalf of the great

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Brzezinski added a moral component, saying America committed some fundamental errors at the end of the Cold War. “I think at home we became increasingly focused on self-gratification and consumption, defining the good life purely by material goods,” Brzezinski said.

Brzezinski also said America became intoxicated with its own sense of power to some degree.

“We embarked on a foreign policy around our needs and indifferent to the needs of other countries, which has had the effect of isolating us from the world and illegitimizing America’s world role,” Brzezinski said. “As a consequence, I think we’re in deep trouble and it’s no surprise that there’s so much talk now about America’s decline.”

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Former Marine explains faults with War on Terror A former combat Marine addresses the current state of the War on Terror and the U.S response to al-Qaida RICKY MARANON Assignment Editor

The U.S. is going the wrong direction and making vital mistakes when examining its attitude toward fighting al-Qaida overseas, said a former Marine.

Matthew Hoh, a former combat Marine in the Middle East and Foreign Service officer in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2009, said he chose to resign from the Foreign Service because he thought the U.S. government was making fatal errors in carrying out the War on Terror at a foreign policy conference Monday on campus. Hoh worked in the Pentagon in 2003.

“I’m not mad about our decision to invade Iraq,” Hoh said. “I’m upset that someone didn’t get fired.”

Hoh addressed the current situation of the War on Terror from the following four points: U.S. forces’ effect on al-Qaida, U.S. forces’ upholding of a new regime lead by Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, the proposition of an immediate cease-fire in Afghanistan and the U.S. defense strategy’s approach toward cultural tensions that existed in the region before the U.S. arrived in the region after 9/11.

“I’m in no way saying we should not have gone to Afghanistan in 2001, we were rightly justified

in doing so,” Hoh said.

He said the U.S. is on track to repeat history with other countries that have previously occupied the same region.

“People aren’t firing at us because they hate freedom, they’re upset because we are occupying their land,” Hoh said. “Let me put it to you this way: If Texans were now Oklahoma State Troopers, you’d be just as angry as these people.”

He said al-Qaida is currently re-establishing itself in other places.

OU President David Boren compared al-Qaida’s current state to the mafia.

“They’re like the mafia use to be,” Boren said.

“When things got bad in Chicago, they would move to Miami.”

Boren said al-Qaida should not be treated as if they were a military force.

“We aren’t dealing with the Third Reich here,” Boren said. “I’m worried we are using the term ‘war’ to justify this nation spending resources that we don’t have in the middle of an economic recession in which our resources are already stretched so far.”

Mike Boettcher, visiting journalism professor, who offered his perspective on CNN about the conflicts in the Middle East and reported overseas in the Middle East, said the debate within the U.S. is flawed to give the American public a false idea of the enemy.

“We as the media have done a horrible job of explaining this situation,” Boettcher said. “We as a nation do not have the information to properly

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inform us about what is going on.”

Hoh said the misinformation hinders real progress made at home when deciding on a strategy for the right approach in Afghanistan and Iraq.

“We need to make decisions based on the right thing, not what is going to look popular in the next election,” Hoh said.

Hoh speculated what the future of the U.S. forces in the Middle East would look like.

“I would think that President (Barack) Obama would want to show some action on international issues because his domestic policies look like they are falling through,” Hoh said.

Hoh said the U.S. would have to keep troops in Iraq to keep stability between the Sunnis, Shias and Kurds, but in the end, Obama will have to take some action on Iran.

“Either way, it is going to be good for the regime,” Hoh said. “They are not going nuclear to blow up Tel Aviv, [Israel]. They are building a bomb because they want to be treated as a respected country in world affairs. But if we occupy them to stop them from going nuclear, then those who are for and against the regime will all unite because they won’t like being occupied by foreign forces.”

Hoh predicted that what is taking place in Afghanistan will take place in Iran.

“We know how to occupy people and take down regimes in three weeks, what we do afterward is where we face the most trouble,” Hoh said.

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New York Times writer discusses foreign policy Pulitzer Prize-winner touches on Iranian nuclear program, importance of relations with China during Foreign Policy Conference GREG MAUS Daily Staff Writer

Not since former President Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933 in the middle of the Great Depression has any president faced as many problems as President Barack Obama and his administration, said a New York Times reporter.

David Sanger, The New York Times’ chief Washington correspondent, spoke Monday at the Foreign Policy Conference in a lecture and discussion titled “The Architecture of American Foreign Policy,” moderated by Vice Provost of International Programs Zach Messitte and Associate Director of International Programs Suzette Grillot and featuring questions from the audience.

Among Sanger’s other qualifications are two Pulitzer Prizes, the Weintal Prize, the Aldo Beckman prize and two Merriman Smith Memorial Awards. He also is the writer of the New York Times’ bestseller “The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power” and is a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group.

“While the Iraq War had many costs — 4,000 Americans

CIA Continues from page 1 Quoting Mike McConnell, former director of the National Security Agency and National Intelligence, Panetta warned the audience that “the United States is fighting a cyber way today, and we are losing. It is that simple.”

He said he feared the next Pearl Harbor might be a cyber attack and urged the need to catch up on our cyber security efforts.

Before closing, Panetta also touched on the issue of climate change and the committee he organized to look into potential associated risks, including the effects

killed and wounded and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis —I think that its biggest effect on American history is that it distracted the U.S. from many bigger threats and some big opportunities that we could have exploited and did not and this came about in part because the Bush administration believed that this was going to be a six-month war,” Sanger said, citing North Korea and Iran as primary examples.

Although, he said, the Chinese were the big winner of the Iraq War. “They used the moment to sign up exclusive oil deals throughout South America and Africa,” Sanger said. “They used the moment to do very brilliantly what we did in the ’50s and ’60s, which is aid programs to spread their influence in southeast Asia.”

Focusing on Iran, Sanger expressed his concern that the Obama administration has not firmly established “red lines” over which the Iranian nuclear program will step before their patience ends.

“If you don’t answer that question you wake up one day, as we did with North Korea, to find a nuclear test happens,” he said.

Sanger said he was pleasantly surprised by Obama’s diplomatic relationship building with Pakistan, noting Pakistani assistance in taking down both the Pakistani and Afghani Taliban, though he is uncertain if this is a fundamental shift in Pakistan foreign policy, or if they are merely dealing with

of rising sea levels and population shift.

The director closed with two take-away messages.

Panetta talked on the heroic value of serving one’s country, as well as the need for “good human resources” – dedicated employees who both represent the supreme diversity of the U.S. as well as possess command of foreign languages.

The second, Panetta said, is the true nature of the American dream.

Panetta recounted a story of asking his Italian immigrant parents why they bothered traveling all the way to America. Their answer was, he recalled: “To give our children a better life.”

a threat to themselves. He said Pakistan is more important than Afghanistan, emphasizing its nuclear arsenal and larger population.

Although Sanger said Washington has focused disproportionately on Afghanistan, he did mention a $100-million program in which the U.S. helped to secure Pakistan’s nuclear stockpiles, though Pakistan will still not give the U.S. intelligence on the locations and safeguards of each. Sanger said he considers this potentially to be a case of justified paranoia.

Also with regard to nuclear proliferation, Sanger said “while there is no evidence that [North Korea] has sold nuclear materials to terrorists, there is evidence that they have sold nuclear technology to other states.”

Perhaps even more concerning, Sanger said “unlike Iran, the South Koreans have nothing else to sell.”

About Obama’s foreign policy in general, Sanger praised its pragmatism, while mentioning its compromises on human rights, such as women’s rights in Afghanistan, but said the administration is only now coming to terms with the limits of the strategy of diplomatic engagement, as evidenced by Iran’s total lack of engagement and China’s selectiveness therein.

“I think when we all look back on the Obama Administration, for all that we are focused now on Afghanistan, on Pakistan and on Iran, my guess is that how he manages the China relationship will end up being what his foreign policy is or is not remembered for,” Sanger said.

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Leon Panetta, CIA director, discusses current key national challenges Monday afternoon in the Molly Shi Boren Ballroom.

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Larceny reports on the rise Police receive about 500 more reports in 2009 than 2008 CASEY WILSON Daily Staff Writer

Incidents of larceny increased in and around the OU campus between 2008 and 2009, according to the police.

OUPD received 229 reports of larceny in 2008 and, as a result of police investigations into those larceny cases, nine arrests were made, said Lt. Bruce Chan, OUPD spokesman.

In 2009 OUPD received 305 reports of larceny and investigations into those cases resulted in 20 arrests, Chan said.

He said there have been 33 larcenies reported this year.

“This is the same number as those reported to this date in 2009,” Chan said.

In the city of Norman, 2,644 incidents of larceny were reported in 2008, said Jennifer Newell, Norman Police Department spokeswoman.

In 2009 there were 3,077 incidents of larceny reported, she said.

“We did have an increase,” Newell said. “Not that we’re excited about that.”

An act of larceny takes place when a person has a right to be at a location, but that person chooses to take something that does not belong to them, she said.

Sooner Mall has been the location of several incidents of larceny this year, including an incident in which two OU basketball players, Steven Pledger and Andrew Fitzgerald, were cited and released on petty larceny charges, according to police reports.

Sooner Mall officials declined to comment for this story, citing security concerns.

Typical examples of larceny are when someone steals an unattended backpack, textbook, laptop computer or cellular phone, Chan said.

“The best way to prevent this sort of theft is to always keep your property locked or with you. Don’t leave it behind even for just a moment,” he said.

The Huston Huffman Center has been the location of several incidents

this year, according to police reports.

At the center, there are many ways that crimes of opportunity can be avoided, said Amy Davenport, director of recreations services.

“Members should avoid leaving cell phones, wallets, MP3 players and other items of value unattended,” she said.

Davenport said visitors to the center should ensure items of value remain with the owner at all times or they should be left in a secure location, such as in a locked locker.

Lockers can be rented for the semester for a minimal charge, and coin lockers are also available on a daily basis, she said.

Often, Norman police officers see larceny incidents in which people had purses, laptops and backpacks stolen from their cars, Newell said.

“When people see purses, they figure there is going to be a wallet, credit cards and things like that in there that they can take and use immediately,” Newell said.

Do not leave anything in a car you would not want to lose, 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.

AGGRAVATED DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Michael Wesley Jent, 41, 747 Asp Ave., Saturday Tyler Paul Powell, 22, West Brooks Street, Saturday DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE

Christopher M. Moore, 27, 2000 W. Lindsey St., Sunday Amy Sue Nett, 28, 12th Avenue, Sunday, also no insurance and failure to carry a driver’s license Benjamin Robert Mauldin, 21, 400 S. College Ave., Friday Frank Joseph Set Blixt, 21, 1300 George Ave., Saturday James Pete San-Miguel, 21, 400 W. Boyd St., Sunday DOMESTIC ABUSE George Robert Ross Geary, 32, 1909 Twisted Oak Drive, Sunday MUNICIPAL WARRANT

Howard Kenneth Gandy, 63, 203 S. Jones Ave., Sunday Brandon Allen Kirkpatrick, 27, 203 S. Jones Ave., Saturday PUBLIC INTOXICATION Tyler Garrett Cardwell, 18, Classen Boulevard, Sunday Michael Wayne Lewis, 27, 750 Asp Ave., Sunday Jesse Daniel Moon, 23, 800 E. Main St., Sunday POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA Cory Sean McFadden, 21, Kansas Street, Saturday, also possession of drug paraphernalia

CAMPUS EVENTS TODAY CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUS Christians on Campus will have its weekly Bible study at noon in the Traditions Room of the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

CAREER SERVICES Career Services will speak about second-level interviewing at 1 p.m. in the Career Services lobby.

STUDENT SUCCESS SERIES A representative from financial aid will talk about money management for spring break at 3:30 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 245.

CAREER SERVICES Career Services will give a presentation about job searches for international students at 4 p.m. in the Career Services lobby.

EVERETT POETRY SERIES Poet Hugh Tribbey will read his works at 7 p.m. in the Jacobson House, 617 Chautauqua Ave. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY The Zoological Society will host a series of speakers about “What Can I Do with a Biological Science Degree?” at 7 p.m. in the Governor’s Room of the union.

TOMORROW CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUS Christians on Campus will have its Bible study at 12:30 p.m. in the Tradition’s Room of the union.

CAREER SERVICES Career Services will speak about panel interviewing at 2 p.m. in the Heritage Room of the union.

STUDENT SUCCESS SERIES Sophia Morren will talk about a study skills system at 3:30 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 245.

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Students Today Leaders Forever heads to Washington Members will volunteer and tour, all while earning class credit CASSI TONEY Daily Staff Writer

Students leave Friday to travel across the country, volunteer and earn course credit on an alternative spring break road trip.

OU’s chapter of Students Today Leaders Forever, which began last fall, has organized the Pay It Forward Tour — an opportunity for students to volunteer and sightsee in six cities across the nation.

“The biggest part [of the trip] is empowering students to be productive over spring break and feed their passion for service,” said Emily Ward, founder of the OU chapter.

Students Today Leaders Forever is a national nonprofit service organization.

OU’s chapter is the 23rd collegiate chapter and the first in the South.

John Wood, finance senior and the group’s financial officer, said he wanted to work with the new organization and leave behind a legacy at OU. “It seemed like a great opportunity to get involved in something meaningful and to help create the culture and set the standards in the organization at OU,” Wood said.

Approximately 30 OU students will travel on a bus, volunteer three hours each day, tour the cities and sleep in cheap alternatives to hotels. OU participants only pay $450 for the spring break trip.

The last two nights are spent in a downtown Washington, D.C., hotel, the destination city for the trip. Eight universities will join OU’s chapter in D.C. to clean up the Potomac River and celebrate the completion of the road trip, said

Ward, University College freshman.

Ward said the group tries to do a variety of service work including cleaning up a national park, tearing down a house with Habitat for Humanity and volunteering at a senior center.

Kari Dawkins, assistant director for OU Leadership Development and Volunteerism, said she decided to act as the organization adviser because the group is dedicated to making a difference locally and nationally.

“The trip is for our students, organized by students,” Dawkins said. “I have been here for support and questions but they deserve all the credit for their hard work.”

The group also receives course credit for an upper division human relations course because of the reallife service experience and communication lessons, Ward said.

Frank Cardenas, biochemistry junior, was the second person to commit to the Pay It Forward Tour.

He said the video testimonies of past participants on the organization’s Web site convinced him to sign up in October.

“By the end of the trip, maybe I can do one of those videos that shares experiences and thoughts of everything because that’s what really pulled me in to the whole trip,” he said.

Cardenas said he plans to take many pictures during the trip and is looking forward to sightseeing and spending time with the other participants.

“It’s definitely one of those life-changing experiences where you learn an incredible amount about yourself and you really feel the need to better yourself,” Ward said. “You get more involved in community service and get out of your comfort zone.”

RELAY FOR LIFE Relay For Life will have a meeting for team captains and those interested in participating at 7 p.m. in the Scholar’s Room in the union.

For more information, visit ou.edu/relay.

CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST Campus Crusade for Christ will meet at 9 p.m. in the Santee Lounge of the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

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Max Avery, opinion editor dailyopinion@ou.edu • phone: 325-7630 • fax: 325-6051

In response to Monday’s Our View on modern protests.

OUR VIEW

STAFF COLUMN

Abortion is a health care issue too Last Tuesday, the Oklahoma House of Representatives passed a bill that would require women to get an ultrasound before getting an abortion. This bill wouldn’t require women to view the ultrasound; it would just require them to go through the effort of getting it and the doctor to describe the scene.

According to NewsOK.com the “House members didn’t ask questions or debate House Bill 2780.” They just passed it with an overwhelming majority.

Though this bill is attempting to prevent uneducated abortions and ensure potential mothers know the seriousness of their actions, this is the wrong way of going about it.

An ultrasound has absolutely nothing to do with the medical aspects of an abortion. Yet if many supporters of this legislation are calling for government to stay out of health care, why should they support government inserting itself in this manner? Is abortion a special exception allowing government interference in our lives?

They think this is a health issue they can get involved in, an issue that has nothing to do with our health, an issue they’ve passed three times now.

As this page has shown, abortion is an issue that never seems to go away. Legislators upset by Roe v. Wade keep trying to work with it, to make getting an abortion even more uncomfortable for the women.

Rather than attempting to serve the law and legislate accordingly, they attempt to impose new regulations on their constituents’ bodies and make it more difficult to follow the law.

This legislation is an unnecessary infringement of women’s rights to do with their bodies what they choose, and we should let our legislators know their overwhelming majority vote was unrepresentative of many of their constituents. Write them now.

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The CIA should only be an intelligence agency In relation to citizens and governments of nations around the world, America’s reputation is becoming more and more synonymous with the CIA. Why? Because, now more than ever the CIA is the primary instrument by which the U.S. pursues its political agenda abroad.

Diplomacy has become secondary to the more reliable methods of the CIA and military.

In the context of American foreign policy, the role played by the CIA now is drastically different from the original idea of an intelligence agency. Intelligence agencies were created to fulfill two primary objectives: to collect and analyze intelligence on foreign governments, individuals, or other sorts of entities whose pursuits appeared to be in conflict with American policy or were threatening to America and to then inform government officials, enabling them to react appropriately.

As Panetta, the director of the CIA who spoke at OU Monday, put it, “it is our fundamental duty JESS to provide warning and prevent surprise” for the EDDY president and other associated policymakers.

Although the CIA continues to fulfill these responsibilities, the CIA now actively engages and pursues the US foreign policy agenda. Paramilitary actions, manipulation of domestic affairs in foreign nations and the allowance — if not utilization — of torture are just a few of the means by which the CIA has become an instrument of the American government as opposed to an information supplement, its original intent. The difference is profound.

Democracy is based on many notions, one of which is the ability of its citizens to acquire knowledge of the government’s activity. The people are the greatest check on the government. Because the CIA does not reveal its actions to the American people, this check is non-existent, and this void must be filled.

Of course, there are times in which the elected members of a democratic government must conduct business behind closed doors, and there is no fine line that

The media don’t shape, they reflect American cultural critics and cynics of all persuasions differ vastly in their critiques.

Some say we’re too secular; others say we’re too religious. Some say we’re too fat; others say we’re too obsessed with body image.

Some say we need to be more like Europe; others say we’re becoming too much like Europe. Despite these differences of opinion, they can almost unanimously unite behind one problem: the media.

Blaming the media has become a staple in American social critiques. Fox News is turning us into a bunch of knuckle-dragging evangelical fascists. MSNBC is brainwashing us all into Obamaworshipping atheist Commies. The mass media obsess over stupid “issues” like Tiger Woods and Anna Nicole Smith, while ignoring health care reform and multiple wars in the Middle East.

JEROD To most critics, it’s all their fault.

This blame is wholly misplaced, COKER however. We — the people, the audience, the consumers — are to blame.

Every media outlet, whether print, Web or broadcast, has a bottom line: Profit. They make that profit not from the consumers, but from advertisers. Advertisers, naturally, seek outlets that will give them big audiences of people likely to buy their products.

What does this mean? This means the media will do whatever it takes to keep us watching, reading, clicking or listening. This means we have the power, not them.

The reason the media obsesses over Tiger Woods and ignores health care (relatively speaking) is the same reason it airs Jersey Shore and Flavor of Love: us. As consumers, Americans prefer mind-numbing idiocy and “reality” shows over any form of provocative (intellectually speaking) entertainment.

Many people have this strange view that the people in the media are some kind of aristocracy that they have no sway over. They act as though the talking heads are ideological gods who manipulate the masses for their own ends. This couldn’t be further from the truth. The media reflect our views, they don’t shape them.

Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly don’t create apocalyptic anti-Obama conspiracy theorists; rather, they pander to the ones already there. Similarly, Jon Stewart and Anderson Cooper don’t create big-government-loving socialist Obamabots; they also seek a demographic already well established.

Similarly, non-”News” programming panders to a predetermined audience as well.

Jerry Springer and Tila Tequila were aired and stayed on the air because there were people there to watch it. In fact, sadly, there were millions.

To ensure there will be millions of viewers, TV producers for every network have rigorous processes for selecting the content they will air. Of the thousands of show ideas sent in annually, very few make it to the end of the line. Once they get there, a sophisticated process of test screening is done to choose which shows will air. The purpose of all this is simple: profit.

Once again, the sole question that producers have in mind is: “Will this show get us ratings?” Let’s review what this question, unfortunately, is not. It’s not: “Does this show have educational or intellectual content?” or “Does this show accurately reflect reality?” or “Does this show seek to be objective and fair?”

If producers didn’t have to put profit first, perhaps they would ask these questions. However, the CEOs of Time Warner and Viacom make sure producers put profit first.

It is therefore up to us to keep content “good.” And while this is a highly subjective description, those of us who are frustrated with the current state of the mass media know at the very least what “good” content is not.

What I am saying is we should work to make the programming we do find objectionable or stupid or trivial or mind-numbing lose ratings as quickly as possible.

This means we should stop visiting stupid Web sites; we should stop subscribing to rags like Cosmo and Seventeen; we should stop allowing Fox to play in the background in Cate Center; and we should stop watching “Hogan Knows Best.”

And if we can’t stop, we should at the very least stop blaming the media elites. It’s not their fault that what gets them ratings is trash and bias and idiocy. It’s ours.

If we really want to change that, good luck getting people to switch to the History Channel when Tiger Woods starts apologizing or Charm School comes on.

Jerod Coker is a professional writing, political science and philosophy junior.

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Destroy your television We shouldn’t stop with simply turning And no matter what, television would still off our television every once in a while. We be a non-interactive medium. It would still need to see television for what it is — an evil be quality programming that reaffirmed the entity that no good will ever come out of. views we already had — perpetuating a soThen, we need to throw our televisions out ciety of people who do not think. Television the window. is, therefore, in its design, a flawed basis What is the goal of the national media? for intelligent discussion and should be Is it to educate? To inspire? To get us talking abandoned. about important issues, perhaps?

So please, OU, take heed to my advice.

The goal of the media is to maxiYou are not better than the ads or the mize viewers. opinions propagated by the media.

Why has Tiger Woods been reNeither am I. You cannot go a year ported exponentially more than seeing 30,000 commercials without Afghanistan? It is not because Tiger falling victim to many of the absurd Woods is more important, but ideas expressed. You will believe your because people will watch Tiger life would be better if you bought this, Woods. had that, looked like this, talked like Then you take a step back and that. realize this news isn’t even what JORDAN So what is media, then? Media is we should be talking about. If the ROGERS a conglomerate. When a program media had our interests and growth is running, it is inhibiting thought at heart, the entire day would be because that keeps you a seasoned filled with stimulating conversations on viewer. When a program is on a break, it’s health care, human rights and our military. (successfully) convincing you that you are But that’s not the case. The media is de- not good enough in some way but would signed in every facet to get your money. be if you bought a product. It’s propagating Nothing good can come from you watching materialism. them.

No matter how you slice it, nothing good They give us programs that don’t chal- comes out of the television. As long as their lenge us to think but merely pray on the goal is retaining viewers, it can’t. Yes, turning beliefs we already have. How many loyal it off solves some problems, but it doesn’t go Fox viewers would sit through a half hour of far enough. Getting rid of them entirely is the “Why you should vote Democrat?” only viable solution. You’ll feel better about Rather than trying to encourage the edu- yourself, have your own ideas, make more cation and growth of a body, as the news and better friends, be more creative and be should, we are more satisfied being told an all-around better human being. what we already know. This is how they keep It would be amazing if OU removed every a viewer night after night. This is how they public television from this campus. It would make money, and television can never be force us to talk, interact, learn and grow as a more than that. collective body. It would give OU an The second is why amazing reputation: “The School they want to keep “No matter how you Without Television.” We would then our eyes on the box: slice it, nothing good be able to physically see the benefits advertising. of a university without them. comes out of the Broadcast media Your television doesn’t care television. As long as about exists to sell you stuff. you. It doesn’t care about The television is a soul- their goal is retaining your well being, your education, less cube designed to viewers, it can’t.” your mind or your happiness. It make you feel your life only cares about your money. I care is boring but would be about your soul. Take my advice — much improved if you bought something. not the television’s. Call your provider and What’s horrible is it works. It works so well cancel your cable. You’ll be better off withthat companies spend billions every year to out it. do it.

Yes, it is our fault we watch terrible televi- Jordan Rogers is an industrial engineering senior. sion and now idiotic culture reigns supreme, but even if the masses only tuned into qual- COMMENT ON THIS COLUMN ity programming, we would still have to deal AT OUDAILY.COM with advertising.

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The water boarding of Kahlid Shiek Mohammed, occurring 183 times in one month, has left troubling questions in everyone’s minds. Personally, I would have confessed to the assassination of Lincoln if I were in his shoes.

President Franklin Roosevelt formed the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the CIA, in 1943 during World War II. Its responsibility was to collect information on the Nazi enemy.

But those were different times. Now the CIA has evolved into an agency that does not adhere to its ideological foundations of gathering intelligence, because the CIA now engages in extraintelligence operations. The actions of the CIA are adequately encapsulated by former President George W. Bush’s favorite word, “pre-emptive.” The CIA acts preemptively in the world today. Of course this is as it should be, but should the CIA act pre-emptively to non-threats, to policy interests?

The CIA collects information on countries, entities and individuals who are of interest to American policymakers.

Whether or not a threat exists is no longer the fundamental question the CIA acts upon. What the American foreign policy agenda requires is what the CIA fulfills. I am not sure what type of agency this would be, but it certainly isn’t purely an intelligence agency.

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Men’s basketball has something to prove next season Before head coach Jeff Capel arrived at OU, he was mostly known for one long-range shot at Duke. What Capel will be remembered for after he leaves OU could be decided very soon.

Athletic director Joe Castiglione has shown a tendency to strike gold with his coaching hires. Bob Stoops, though a fairly well-known defensive coordinator at Florida, had never been a college head coach before resurrecting OU football.

Women’s basketball head coach Sherri Coale was a high school coach before she came to OU and quickly STEVEN made the sport relevant. And when JONES Kelvin Sampson left OU for Indiana amid recruiting violation rumors, Castiglione turned to another relatively unknown: Capel.

At first, the hire looked great. After the recruiting issues Sampson left behind, Capel seemed like the antiSampson. Capel is serious, smart and a man of integrity.

With the program close to falling into oblivion, Capel was the figure of strength OU basketball needed. And it didn’t hurt that on-court success quickly followed.

After a first-season struggle, Capel led the Sooners to a six seed in the 2008 NCAA tournament and an Elite Eight appearance in 2009. Sooner fans seemed pleased, as was Castiglione, who gave Capel a raise and contract extension after the 2008 season.

Soon, though, OU fans will find out what kind of coach Capel really is.

As successful as the Sooner turnaround has been, a lot of the credit belongs to Blake Griffin. Capel’s first McDonald’s All-American recruit was a special talent as well as a unique person.

Since Griffin’s arrival, Capel has recruited three more McDonald’s All-Americans, none of whom have yet enjoyed the same success as Griffin. As Griffin moved on to the NBA, OU fans are realizing what kind of rarity he was.

Not only was he a phenomenal talent, but he cared about his teammates, the university and winning.

Not everyone is like that.

While I want to avoid sweeping generalizations, there are definitely players on this OU team who seem to lack those qualities.

In the Sooners’ regular-season finale Saturday, they displayed a wide variety of displeasing trends. Some players played lazily. Some played carelessly. And in general, there was a great lack of fundamentals on both sides of the court on a semi-regular basis.

Now is Capel’s opportunity to show what kind of coach he really is.

After an extremely disappointing 13-17 season, OU will return next year with a wealth of talent. The problem is the Sooners had plenty of talent this season, too.

Now that this roster is loaded with players who seem like they do not easily take coaching, Capel has a chance next season to prove he is worth his money. He has done more than enough to prove he’s a great recruiter, but now is the time to prove he’s a great coach.

With certain players, there’s only so much you can do.

I doubt Capel encourages his players to consistently provide weak or no help defense or to jog down the court as the opponent gets out on the break. However, Capel is the man who brought these players to OU. Now he has to deal with them.

Next season will be telling as Capel has an entire offseason to rethink his strategy with this group of players.

While I like what Capel has done so far, people may have been slightly over-anxious with their praise. With Griffin gone, Capel is facing a challenge he has yet to face at OU. All year an excuse for this Sooner basketball team was that they were young. Keep in mind though, Capel is young too and in a difficult situation. But fans are impatient; if next season resembles this one, there could be problems. If Capel wants to be great, he better show what he can do soon.

Steven Jones is a language arts education senior.

SPORTS BRIEF The OU women’s basketball team had three players named to this year’s All-Big 12 team.

Junior guard Danielle Robinson and senior forward Amanday Thompson were both named to the first team, and senior guard Nyeshia Stevenson was named to the second team.

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will make the team better this year, especially on the offensive side of the ball.

The Sooners kicked off the spring Stoops said OU would be better at schedule Monday with their first prac- the quarterback position. tice in Everest Training Center.

“I definitely believe we will be betIn a press conference before prac- ter at quarterback. That’s because we tice, head coach Bob Stoops said he played the entire year without Sam was excited about the Bradford. Landry way the team worked (Jones) has a full RED-WHITE SPRING GAME during the winter. year under his belt, “(I’m excited about) he threw for almost the overall attitude of During the spring season 500 yards against a the team and the way OU will hold 13 practices, two ranked team in the they have prepared scrimmages and the annual bowl game and had and trained leading up spring game at the conclusion. an excellent game to spring ball,” Stoops against Oklahoma said. “We’re anxious Scrimmage 1: March 27 State as well. That to get back out on the showed his profield.”

Scrimmage 2: April 7 gression through Stoops said he was the entire year.” pleased with the way Spring game: April 17 Stoops also menthe team headed into tioned improvethe spring by the way ments on the offenit finished last season. sive line. Because The Sooners ended with a 27-0 shut- the Sooners played without many seout of Oklahoma State University and niors on the offensive front, the young a bowl win over Stanford University players are returning with game in the Sun Bowl, which snapped OU’s experience. three-game postseason skid.

Offensive linemen junior Jarvis Stoops reiterated that complete- Jones and sophomore Ben Habern team improvement would be the will return from injuries and join the main focus during the spring. team for most of the spring, and red“We have to improve in all areas,” shirt freshman tight end Gabe Ikard he said. “More than anything what we and senior tight end Erik Mensik will always try and do is build depth.” provide the line with more depth, Stoops said major strides were Stoops said. made near the end of last season that Defensively, Stoops said he thought

there wasn’t any reason the team could not be as good as last season.

Junior weakside linebacker Travis Lewis returns after leading the Sooners in tackles the past two seasons. Hardhitting sophomore linebacker Ronnel Lewis will play strongside backer and redshirt freshman linebacker Tom Wort will man the middle after recovering from a torn ACL last season, Stoops said.

The defensive line returns senior Jeremy Beal and junior Frank Alexander at the defensive end positions, and senior Adrian Taylor (when he returns from injury) and sophomore Jamarkus McFarland at tackle.

The secondary has strong personnel in senior safety Quinton Carter, junior safety Sam Proctor and senior corner Jonathon Nelson, but lost starting corners Brian Jackson and Dominique Franks to graduation and the NFL, respectively Grooming the defensive backfield will be the job of new secondary coach Willie Martinez, as the Sooners look to strengthen their secondary in preparation for next season.

Stoops spoke highly of his new secondary coach. He said Martinez brings great experience to the team.

“He’s been a lifelong secondary coach,” Stoops said. “I think he’s going to be a big plus for us.”

OU’s next practice is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

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“Broken Bells” 5.8/10.0 Key Tracks: “The High Road,” “Vaporize” The self-titled debut album from Broken Bells, the collaboration of the Shins’ James Mercer and Gnarls Barkley’s Danger Mouse, sounds exactly how you’d imagine it would. It’s ghostly at times, fun at other times and thoughtfully produced.

But its predictability is not negative; it’s more like comforting and relieving for those of us who have been anxiously awaiting this album’s release since the news of its conception.

It certainly won’t be the most innovative release of 2010, but it sounds like decent ‘driving with the windows down on a spring day’ music.

The first track, “The High Road,” is a great opener, with a melodic synth line and driving beat under Mercer’s dreamy, haunting vocals.

It’s followed by “Vaporize,” a song that sounds like it could fit right in on the Shins’ 2001 release, “Oh, Inverted World.”

“The Ghost Inside” is reminiscent of Gorillaz with an indie-rock spin on it, which is no surprise considering Danger Mouse produced Gorillaz’s “Demon Days.”

The album has varied influences and elements, like the strings and tin-can Beatles bridge in “Sailing to Nowhere,” 80s pop-style vocals in “Trap Doors” and Spanish brass in “The Waiting Game.”

Broken Bells plays it safe, but not boring, on this debut. Every song sounds good, but it’s hardly memorable.

Annika Larson is a professional writing sophomore.

PAVEMENT

“Quarantine The Past” 10.0/10.0 Key Tracks: “Gold Soundz,” “Unfair” Pavement’s first career-spanning release

This week’s edition of New Music Tuesday looks at a bevy of recent releases with bands returning, forming, celebrating and some just grooving.

does nothing but further support its case as being the best band of the ’90s.

Keenly made into a summation of the band rather than a greatest-hits album, “Quarantine The Past” is brilliantly paced and well-jointed; it’s a true album — the best you’ve ever heard.

It’s got the jovial singles, cult-fan favorites and everything in between, all played with that essential ’90s indie flair.

Really though, Pavement grows beyond the decade with this release. The album signifies another level for Pavement; it joins the likes of The Rolling Stones, The Smiths and The Beatles.

It has been 15 years since Pavements heyday — it’s bizarre to think that “Slanted and Enchanted” came out when I was 3 years old — and “Quarantine The Past” makes a case for Pavement having an impact for a long, long time.

Pitchfork might have beat me to it, but no album — or band — in recent memory is more worthy of a perfect score, and we can only wait and see what Pavement does to top it.

ROGUE WAVE

“Permalight” 6.1/10.0 Key Tracks: “Solitary Gun,” “Good Morning” Recording an album is hard, but it’s made all the harder when the band has a death and kidney problems to deal with all the while.

Returning from “Asleep At Heaven’s Gate,” Rogue Wave has faced its share of struggles lately. Drummer Pat Spurgeon has long waited for a transplant, and displaced bassist Evan Farrell passed away soon after Rogue Wave’s last release.

However, the band has come back with a surprisngly sunny album that points to a refreshing optimism.

“Good Morning” and “Stars and Stripes” take a page from the book of The Postal Service while avoiding Owl City territory, blending folk

with electro-sensibilities.

Rogue Wave feels looser than it ever has, though there are hits and misses along the way — most markedly a complete dropoff in quality after the title track.

A genial slope dow nward since “Descended Like Vultures” is certainly apparent, but at least Rogue Wave is coming to terms in the meantime.

Joshua Boydston is a psychology junior.

GROOVE ARMADA

“Black Light” 6.5/10.0 Key Tracks: “Paper Romance,” “Cards to Your Heart” Listening to Groove Armada is kind of like going to the new trendy club — if that club was far off in the deep galaxies of space.

It is only fitting that a band that has named itself after a disco club from the ’70s would produce a dance-crazed record with powerful and echoing vocals.

However this album is not just a cheap blast from the past, as it features more electronic influence.

Even though at times the album can feel outlandish, Groove Armada pull you back with its anthem lyrics and intrigue to see where the song is going to end up.

Songs such as “Paper Romance” offer this sing–a-long effect while other songs like “Cards to Your Heart” pulsate with rhythm.

This album can appear a bit all over place, but “Black Light” definitely brings the disco fever with a modern tweak.

Cole Priddy is a University College freshman.

Professor recalls OU through the years RYAN QUERBACH Daily Staff Writer

Tom Boyd, David Ross Boyd Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and professor of religious studies, has been teaching for about 40 years, and he’s been at OU since 1969. He has taught more than 20,000 students, and doesn’t show any signs of quitting anytime soon.

Boyd was quick to mention the differences between 1969 and 2010.

“In the South Oval, there was just hippies everywhere,” Boyd said, chuckling.

“Now that’s a different world than what we live in now. It’s a different kind of energy.

Students are probably a little more laid back today, and have a greater diversity of interests.”

It’s no secret Boyd loves his job as a teacher, and there are many reasons for this love he’s developed.

“I have a lot of favorite parts, students especially,” Boyd said. “Basically I like the exchange of ideas and stimulating thinking.”

His days start early, around 7 a.m., and end late, around 11 p.m., and he keeps very busy. A normal day for him consists of teaching classes, meeting with students during office hours, spending many hours working in his home office and of course spending as much time as possible with his wife, Barbara, who also is a religious studies professor at OU. He said he also likes to spend as much time as possible keeping in touch with their four children, one of whom is a film and videostudies professor at OU. So yes, needless to say, he is a very busy man, but he doesn’t have the slightest problem with that.

“I don’t have a great deal of free time because I work all the time,” Boyd said. “And I’m not against that.”

When he does have free time, he enjoys reading, watching movies and hiking with his wife, among other things.

While Boyd said he loves his job as a teacher, and greatly enjoys contributing to students’ education, he does have some problems with the education system.

“One of the things I would change, if I had the capacity to do it, is I would rearrange almost every classroom,” Boyd said.

“I don’t like students sitting in rows, I prefer a more communal framing where everybody is close with a lot of interaction between students and students and their teachers, and I also like longer classes, I think you can get into things more and get more done.”

Boyd said he also feels as though students in America should not be subjected to such high fees.

“Of course, I would make education free for every citizen that qualifies. If you wanted to do it, and qualified,” Boyd said. “And

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Religious studies professor Tom Boyd is a student favorite at OU. my son, who lives in Germany, has had all of his education there absolutely free. We could do that in this country, we’ve got to change our idea about how money is used.”

Of course, Boyd said he realizes how outlandish such hopes might be.

“See, I’m being idealistic here. That’s not going to happen in America,” Boyd said. “I just think if you’re trying to help people get an education, maximize the way they go about getting it.”

Boyd’s enthusiasm and intellect has made him very highly regarded among his students.

“He values education and the academic experience,” said Nick Lopez, sophomore.

“He also has what is a pretty unique quality in a professor in that he really seems to care about you, the student, equally as well as he cares about you, the person.”

Lopez, who is in Boyd’s Religion, Culture and the Meaning of Life class, was quick to praise the way Boyd conducts class, citing how he especially enjoys his lectures.

“He’s very, very kind,” Lopez said. “He listens to you as a person and treats you as an adult, and the combination of those qualities make him very comfortable.”

In addition to the class Lopez has, Boyd teaches an upper division course called Religion, Ethics and Global Perspective.

He also spends a great deal of time working with graduate students.

Boyd said he is in no hurry to end his teaching career. He mentioned there are two things that will decide when he is finally finished: how long his wife would like to continue teaching, and how long his health and energy will permit him to teach.

“At present these matters are still openended,” Boyd said. “At age 76 the proverbial ‘handwriting on the wall’ begins to be legible.”

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Cinema’s travel tradition sets high standards DOCUMENTARY SHOWS Once again, spring break is upon us, and the time has come to evaluate how your big plans stack up against the grand travel adventures that film has been embarking upon since its earliest days. Consider the following memorable journeys to find out just how inspired your spring break agenda really is.

“A TRIP TO THE MOON” (1902)

Boorman’s story of four friends out on an expedition through the wilderness of Georgia — with a cast including Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty, “Deliverance” is one travel tale that invariably stays with its viewers long after they’ve experienced it.

“NATIONAL LAMPOON’S VACATION” (1983)

Filmmaking pioneer Georges Méliès’ silent, moonbound work still stands strong in the history of film, as well as in popular culture — check out both this short film and the Smashing Pumpkins “Tonight, Tonight” music video on YouTube.

The first and arguably best of four films that introduce audiences to the hard-not-to-love Griswold family, “National Lampoon’s Vacation” (directed by Harold Ramis) makes a strong case for traveling with friends rather than family as the quirky clan encounters their share of mishaps while driving from Chicago to California.

“THE LOST WORLD” (1925)

“BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE” (1989)

“IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT” (1934)

“DUMB AND DUMBER” (1994)

The first of many filmic adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 novel, director Harry Hoyt’s silent version takes its audience to a land untouched by time and roamed by ravenous dinosaurs.

Frank Capra’s screwball comedy about a newspaper reporter (played by Clark Gable) helping a spoiled heiress (played by Claudette Colbert) travel back to her new husband by means of bus and hitchhiking maintains its charm more than seven decades after its original release.

“AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS” (1956)

Based on the classic Jules Verne novel and directed by Michael Anderson, this inviting story of an English gentleman daring to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon earned itself five wins at the Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

“EASY RIDER” (1969)

Despite an ending that may leave audience wary about traveling, Dennis Hopper’s film (starring Hopper, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson) stands boldly as a symbol of its era and warrants attention throughout hroug the duration of its tale of motorcycles, drugs, friends iends and the open road.

“DELIVERANCE” (1972)

Forget for a moment the (major) ajor) plot element of demented hillbillies iin n John

Proving that slackers can prevail, Stephen Herek’s film follows the, well, excellent adventure of Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) as they travel through time in a phone booth collecting historical figures for a class assignment.

Written and directed by the Farrelly brothers, “Dumb and Dumber” is the comedy-film legend that audiences may forget as actually being a road trip movie. Hysterical writing and the talents of Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels make filmic gold of this story about two less-than-intelligent pals making their way from Rhode Island to Colorado to return a love interest’s briefcase.

“ROAD TRIP” (2000)

With a storyline revolving around one of the most major party fouls ever, Todd Phillips’ film about college buddies chasing down an incriminating videotape features a neverdull cast, including Seann William Scott, Tom Green and Breckin Meyer and memorable (albeit sometimes juvenile) humor.

“HOT TUB TIME MACHINE” (2010)

Set for theatrical release March 26, director Steve Pink’s film promises laughs g as its band of buddy characters takes an unexpected trip to 1986 via a very unusual Jacuzzi.

Lunden England is a film and video studies senior.

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PRODUCTION OF THE ‘FASHION BIBLE’

“ The September Issue,” a documentary film directed by R.J. Cutler that chronicles the months leading up to the release of Vogue’s 2007 September issue, made its way to DVD March 2. Naturally, I snatched it up the second I could step foot PHOTO PROVIDED into a Barnes & Noble.

This film is not just for lovers of fashion. As my dad, a retired Air Force Sergeant, will tell you, it’s quite fascinating to see how a magazine as profitable and well known as Vogue all comes together. My dad watches nothing but 1950s war movies and old westerns when really tan Caucasian actresses were used to play the Native American love interest. That should tell you something.

Although the film is ultimately about the process of creating the September issue of Vogue, it also examines the complex relationship of its editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, and its creative director Grace Coddington. Having worked together for 20 years at Vogue, their relationship is that of an old married couple: They don’t agree on much, yet they know each other like the back of their hands.

After watching the film more times than would be considered socially acceptable, I personally don’t think Wintour is as tyrannical as she is made out to be. For those of you who don’t know, Anna Wintour is the inspiration for Meryl Streep’s character Miranda Priestly in “The Devil Wears Prada.” But I like to think of her as the professor that always gives you a C, or my mom when she tells me “you really shouldn’t wear that.” Nothing special.

Welcome to my life.

But it’s in the DVD extras that you see the real wrath of Wintour and her outlandish demands. In a deleted scene, Wintour throws a fit at a fundraising benefit hosted by Vogue because the bartenders use white plastic buckets to store the ice for drinks. Really Wintour? The reputation of Vogue does not hang in the balance because white plastic buckets were used behind the bar.

There also are some very interesting extras of Wintour visiting designers at their studios. The sheer terror in their eyes accompanied by their complete lack of spine when she makes a criticism makes it very entertaining to watch.

Andre Leon Talley, Vogue’s editor-at-large, provides a few laughs in deleted scenes that I wish were in the actual film. In one scene, he takes the film crew to a fabric store in Paris where he has his shirts and “kimonos” (robes) made custom to wear to Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld’s house in Saint Bart’s. His flamboyant and over-the-top personality makes comedy inevitable.

Last but not least, Coddington is amazing. Period.

Whether you love fashion or find the industry to be a complete joke, the film is undeniably very well done and provides a deeper insight into the people and personalities behind the pages of Vogue.

Courtney Silva is a journalism sophomore.

Suggestive stage production loaded with laughter “That’s what she said” jokes may not be very mature, but man, can they be funny. Such is the case with “Lysistrata,” an update by Oklahoma City University alum James Tyra of the ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes.

Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre staged the play over the weekend with the premiere of Tyra’s adaptation.

This revamped “Lysistrata” retains the play’s basic plot and structure but jettisons most of its satire of sexual politics in favor of sex jokes, sex jokes and more sex jokes.

If that reads like a criticism, well, it’s not really. Clocking in at a brisk hour sans the intermission, this “Lysistrata” comes in fast, hard and leaves you fully satisfied. (Offended or disgusted readers might want to just stop here, and definitely want to avoid all stagings of this production in the future.)

Lysistrata (Lydia Mackay) is a Greek woman who has grown tired of the endless warfare between Athens and Sparta, so she devises a plan to put an end to the fighting for good.

Gathering all the women from both city-states, she convinces them to withhold sex from their husbands, and to continue to do so until every jot and title is taken care of on the peace treaty.

The proposition is a tough sell, but wouldn’t you know it, there’s a character in drag (William Frederick Steuernagel V) to convince the women that it’s their best course of action. Lots of orgasmic moaning and fantasizing about husbands’ apparatuses ensue.

The men don’t take the news any better when they discover their wives’ machinations, leading to a bevy of enlarged members hilariously and outrageously rendered using some clever under-garment gadgetry.

One might expect something along the lines of “Is that an ionic column beneath your toga, or are you just happy to see me?” OK, so they don’t say that, and most of the verbal innuendo isn’t particularly witty or edgy, but the cast is so committed to the physical comedy, it hardly matters.

NORMAN MUSIC FESTIVAL NEWS Norman Music Festival organizers announced the addition of a new stage to the festival — The Blackwatch Stage at Blackwatch Studios — Monday night.

They also announced the addition of Jacob Abello to the Sooner Theatre stage.

Norman Music Festival is April 24 and 25 in downtown Norman and is free to the public.

-Daily staff reports

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Mollie Armour, Lydia Mackay and Stephen Ochsner from the CityRep/Theatre OCU production “Lysistrata” that ran through the weekend.

Stealing the show often is Brandon Kreider as the scrawny and screechy outlier of the male chorus, and that’s even before his unusual “junk” enters the picture. Dallas-based Mackay also is fantastic as Lysistrata, who keeps both the men and the women wrapped around her little finger for most of the show.

With its short running time, “Lysistrata” doesn’t wear out its bawdy welcome and keeps the laughs coming at a rapid pace. This updated version may totally eliminate everything that is potentially highbrow about its ancient Greek theater origins, but something tells me Aristophanes himself would’ve enjoyed this version’s main thrust.

That’s what she said.

Dusty Somers is a journalism senior.