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Governor to sign bill to help attract faculty Bill generates additional funds for program to recruit top teachers, researchers to state universities RICKY MARANON Assignment Editor

Gov. Brad Henry will sign a bill today to help fund the endowed chair program, which helps bring the best and brightest faculty to Oklahoma universities to teach students and engage in cutting-edge research.

The bill authorizes the restructuring of an ongoing bond issue to generate additional resources to help match private donations to the program.

“By passing this bill, the legislature has demonstrated the strong

commitment to the education of our obligations authorized under this students,” OU President David Boren section. said by e-mail. “The quality of our A special signing ceremony will faculty is the foundation upon take place at 1:30 p.m. at the which academic excellence is Oklahoma Capitol. built, benefiting our students Boren is unable to attend by bringing increased vitality because of prior commitments into the classroom.” out of the state, OU spokesman Boren said endowed profesJay Doyle said. sorship positions allow OU to The bill was authored by attract, retain and reward talOklahoma House Speaker Chris ented faculty members who Benge, R-Tulsa, and Senate take existing academic proBRAD Pro-Tempore Glenn Coffee, grams to a new level and create R-Oklahoma City. In the House HENRY of Representatives, the bill was new centers of excellence.

The bill states that Oklahoma declared an emergency, which may use bonds, notes and other would put the measures of the obligations for the purpose of refinanc- law into effect immediately after the ing or restructuring the outstanding governor signs it into law.

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Members of the Hong Kong Student Association perform a dance reflecting the culture and night life of the Chinese city Tuesday evening during Hong Kong Night in Meachum Auditorium. The event featured food, song and performances.

STUDENTS TREATED TO HONG KONG CULTURE Hong Kong Student Association honors Chinese city with food, music, performances AUDREY HARRIS Daily Staff Writer

The Hong Kong Student Association h o s t e d O U ’s s e c o n d H o n g Ko n g Night on Tuesday night in Meacham Auditorium.

Attendees witnessed Hong Kongstyle song and dance, as well as a skit written by Kelly Lin, association president.

Lin, international area studies senior, said Hong Kong is an important city to Chinese culture and compared its nightlife to that of New York City.

She said she watched a lot of films from Hong Kong to get inspiration for the skit’s script.

“The whole night is based on a love story, and on top of that we are adding music videos and songs sung in

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Cantonese,” Lin said.

The skit centers on an OU exchange student named Benson who travels to Hong Kong to study abroad. He tells his roommate he wants to “experience the real Hong Kong” and see how the people spend their nights and live their lives.

The skit showcases Benson’s experiences in the city, including meeting wacky neighbors and falling in love. Lin said each floor of Benson’s five story apartment building features a different stereotype of Hong Kong residents, including one of the landlord’s wife who wears curlers and yells at her husband.

One of Benson’s experiences includes a trip to a nightclub. Hong Kong Student Association members performed routines for the audience to a mixture of Cantonese and American songs including Lady Gaga’s “Telephone.”

The skit also included several musical interludes and video aides. Two group members sang solos, and one video that played — called the “Pick-

up Girls Bible” — taught Cantonese phrases to the audience, such as “sot loy” which translates to “hot girl.”

After the skit, audience members were invited to eat Hong Kong cuisine in the Oklahoma Memorial Union food court. Stephanie Van Houten, advertising senior, said she was most excited for the food, but enjoyed learning about Hong Kong’s active night life.

“I have an interest in a lot of different Asian cultures,” Van Houten said.

“I thought it was good, and I learned some funny Cantonese phrases.”

Liao Zonghu, civil engineering graduate student, said he attended Hong Kong Night because Hong Kong culture influenced the culture in Longyan, where he was born and raised.

Liao said he eats the same kind of food in his hometown as people do in Hong Kong.

“I’ve been to Hong Kong, and my hometown is not far from Hong Kong, so I came to enjoy the night of culture,” Liao said.

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UOSA elects new officers at first meeting Student Congress names chairman, vicechairman and secretary; discuss possibility of special election for presidential runoff TROY WEATHERFORD Daily Staff Writer

The UOSA Undergraduate Student Congress elected new officers for the upcoming year at the first meeting of its new session Tuesday.

Brett Stidham, human resources and management junior, was unopposed for chairman and was named to the highest position in Student Congress by unanimous consent.

Jonathan Vann, advertising junior, was elected as vice-chairman, over Shayna Daitch, Judaic studies and international security studies junior.

“My biggest goal with Student Congress is to build relationships — relationships are the way to get things done,” Vann said.

Allysa Loveless, Spanish sophomore, was elected as secretary over Jason Robison.

UOSA passed an act establishing a special election for a presidential runoff April 26 and 27. The bill will only take effect if the Superior Court orders that a special runoff election be held.

The UOSA Superior Court held a hearing Monday to decide whether to validate the election, after presidential candidates Jess Eddy and Franz Zenteno contested the results, saying that President-Elect Ally Glavas did not receive a majority of ballots cast.

The court has not yet issued a decision, but the bill is an effort to be proactive, Stidham said.

“This is just a preventative measure,” Stidham said. “If we waited any longer, we wouldn’t be able to hold a special election this semester.”

The bill would restrict the candidates to a $200 limit on campaign spending for the special election. Candidates also would be allowed to use their campaign materials from the general election.

Glavas said she had saved most of her campaign materials and was happy with the spending limits for the special election, if indeed a special election was held.

“It’s a good amount, but frankly we don’t know how the court will rule and whether there will even be an election,” Glavas said.

Zenteno said he had saved around 70 percent of his campaign materials. “$200 is not enough, but it’s a useful amount for either candidate,” Zenteno said.

Voting for a special election would be online and no physical polling places would be established.

NEW OFFICERS The following students were elected Tuesday night as new UOSA Undergraduate Student Congress leaders for the fall 2010 semester: • Brett Stidham — Student Congress chairman • Jonathan Vann — Student Congress vice-chairman • Allysa Loveless — Student Congress secretary

Norman airport without power for an hour Max Westheimer Airport, north part of OU’s campus lost power after a car runs off road, hits an electrical box on Flood Avenue DANIELA MCCORMICK Daily Staff Writer

The Norman airport was without power for an hour Tuesday because of a one-car traffic accident on Flood Avenue.

The Max Westheimer Airport and most of OU’s north campus lost power, said Matthew Jay, student dispatcher.

“It’s strictly the north campus.” Jay said “No else is being affected.”

OU Assistant Director of Utilities William Davis confirmed power was lost due to a traffic accident.

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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.

Continues from page 1 Davis said a woman driving a red and orange Jeep Liberty went off the road and hit an electrical box.

He said she was coherent and talking when she was taken to Norman Regional Hospital. Davis said there is no explanation as to why she had an accident.

“She was very fortunate,” Davis said. “She grazed the telephone poll and grazed the transformer.”

The extent of the power outage led to a complete loss of service because of a traffic accident that took out a utility pole, Michael Flournoy said by e-mail.

For airport workers, it was business as usual.

An Ozzie’s Diner waitress was seen serving four customers in the dark.

Paul Gray, the diner’s night shift leader, said he was able to still serve customers because everything except for the soda machine is run by natural gas.

“I’ve still fed quite a few people,” Gray said.

“I’ve had 24 customers so far.”

Gray also said he heard some rumors about the traffic accident.

“I’ve heard she pulled all the wires out with her car,” Gray said.

POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA Joshawa David Belknap, 19, 1800 W. Main St., Sunday Nathan Daniel Valentine, 22, 2339 W. Main St., Sunday INTERFERENCE WITH AN OFFICIAL PROCESS Toby Joe Declark, 34, 1224 E. Brook St., Sunday COUNTY WARRANT Darrell Wayne Gillette, 31, North Flood Avenue, Monday Jerald Warren Johnson, 26, 300 Hal Muldrow Drive, Monday MUNICIPAL WARRANT RICKY MARANON/THE DAILY

A jeep liberty is hooked up to a tow truck Tuesday after the driver ran off the road and hit an electrical box on Flood Avenue. The accident left the Max Westhimer Airport without power for a little more than an hour.

CAMPUS EVENTS TODAY MEN’S BREAST HEALTH A table will share information about men’s breast health at 11 a.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUS Christians on Campus will host a Bible study at 12:30 p.m. in the union.

CAREER SERVICES Career Services will host a workshop for business majors about finding jobs and internships in tough economic times at 12:30 p.m. in the union.

CAREER SERVICES Career Services will have a workshop for arts and

Donna Bacon Jarrell, 60, 201 W. Gray St., Monday Jason On Len Jones, 28, 201 W. Gray St., Monday Shane Christopher Kern, 26, 1900 Fillmore Ave., Monday Lavell Tyrone Lewis, 23, East Imhoff Road, Monday Johnny Lee Montgomery, 52, Mount Vernon Drive, Monday Bronwyn Renee Nelson, 26, 201 W. Gray St., Monday Matthew Bennett Ruthart, 33 201 W. Gray St., Monday

sciences majors about finding jobs and internships in tough economic times at 4 p.m. in the union.

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FILM FESTIVAL Student organizations on campus will show short videos breaking down stereotypes for the Peace, Not Prejudice Film Festival at 7 p.m. in the union.

OU LIBRARIES A librarian will discuss using MLA International Bibliography online and other digitized sources at 2 p.m. in Bizzell Memorial Library.

CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST Campus Crusade for Christ will host a Bible study at 9 p.m. in the Santee Lounge of the Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

STUDENT SUCCESS SERIES The Writing Center will talk about writing research papers at 3 p.m. in Wagner Hall.

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COLLEGE OF ART AND SCIENCES Anthropologists Mercedes Doretti and Clyde Snow will talk about “Beyond CSI: Forensic Anthropology and Human Rights” at 7:30 p.m. in Hester Hall.

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IMPACT MOVEMENT The Impact Movement will have a Bible study and fellowship at 9 p.m. in the Adams-Tarman basement.

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Oklahoma needs to support the DREAM Act The Immigration in the Heartland conference has brought immigration issues to OU’s doorstep this week. But members of the OU community shouldn’t just glance over coverage of the conference or listen half-heartedly at the panel discussion.

We should take this opportunity to think about how immigration issues most affect us in a setting of higher education.

The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act was reintroduced in the U.S. Senate on March 26. The House of Representatives version, the American Dream Act, was introduced the same day.

According to the National Immigration Law Center, “Under the DREAM Act, most students with good moral character who came to the U.S. at age 15 or younger at least five years before the date of the bill’s enactment would qualify for conditional permanent resident status upon acceptance to college, graduation from a U.S. high school, or being awarded a GED in the

U.S.” States are currently discouraged from granting in-state tuition or other benefits without regard to resident status.

Oklahoma is one of 10 states that has gotten around this federal roadblock and grants in-state tuition to any student who has graduated high school in the state, regardless of resident status.

But the cost of higher education isn’t cheap. If one were to pay for OU out-of-pocket, the total cost would be around $16,000 per year, according to OU’s Web site. While the DREAM Act would not make students with illegal resident status eligible for Pell Grants or federal financial aid, it would allow for federal work study and student loans.

The DREAM Act would provide much needed assistance to students with illegal residency status. The act would especially help students who did not choose to enter the country, but who

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were brought here illegally as children. These students should not have to suffer high, out-of-pocket costs and deportation risks to gain an education.

Oklahoma lawmakers should push for the DREAM Act to be passed at the national level. The state is already more lenient regarding in-state tuition and our representatives at the national level should reflect this mentality. There also is bipartisan support for the act, which should make it easier for our representatives to reflect our will rather than party politics.

If our state and national government are going to tout the image of equal opportunity, we must make sure we follow through on that promise. Education is the foundation for most opportunities, so we must make sure equal access is granted to higher education.

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Matriarchy could solve many of the world’s problems The answer to peace on Earth is being confined to remote places sparsely located across the globe. I believe the new goal of feminism should be to halt capitalist industrial development and spearhead a movement toward matriarchal global takeover.

Oh yeah, I said it. Matriarchal global takeover.

And I’m not kidding.

Look around the world and ponder on how far we’ve come under male rule. For millennia, elite men have been telling marginalized non-elite men what to do, what not to do, what to think, how to feel, what’s acceptable, what’s not, who to be, what to wear, what to believe. the list goes on, into every aspect of life.

This is the masculine way: You listen to me, and I won’t listen to you. And it’s great for a precious little fraction of the world that is the “elite,” but for a vast majority of the world, it isn’t fair. I use capitalism as my example of exploitation because it is applicable to all people. It is the “masculine” Global North, with all its industry and domination; and it is the “feminine” Global South, with its agriculture and exploitation. The masculine Global North thinks it knows what’s best for the feminine Global South, but it doesn’t. The two are completely different. It doesn’t have the understanding to implement a system that BROOKE works for it onto the feminine Global South.

MYERS Modernity today often connotes the result of progressive movements toward democracy, capitalist industrial development, mitigation of wealth disparities and gender, class and racial equality. But what I find interesting is the under-the-radar government discontent, labor exploitation, growing wealth disparities and social inequalities present in “modern” societies, like the U.S. I cannot help but look at the ideological foundation of these problems.

In the case of the U.S., I refer to patriarchy. The most potent connotation of modernity is economic. It is often thought that capitalism and its compliment — democracy — are the basis of all other social improvements. Social improvements mean education for all, which means opportunity for all. But within the framework of patriarchy, these things come at a cost to women.

This cannot be clearly understood without looking at the concept of matriarchal societies, most notably found in non-developed areas around the world, such as the Mosuo civilization in Southwest China, the Igbo people of Nigeria, pre-colonial Cherokees of North America and the Minangkabau peoples of Indonesia.

Study of these societies reveals that the modern economics and democracy of America are not necessarily the answers to gender equality. It is important to look at the discrimination still faced by women in the U.S., both culturally and in their careers at the hands of men. While women in the Mosuo, Igbo, Cherokee and Minangkabau societies have specific roles and duties, these are not dictated by their inferiority to men, while in Western patriarchal society this has always been the case (whether admitted or not, it is clearly evident).

These societies are founded on a system of balance and cooperation between the essential-to-life male and female, which often results in more peaceful relations in the society. This is because “these patterns are not just a reversal of patriarchy, with women somehow ruling over men — as the usual misinterpretation would have it — rather they are … gender-egalitarian societies, and in many cases fully egalitarian societies” (“Matriarchies as Societies of Peace: Rethinking Matriarchy”).

Complete egalitarianism is antipodal to capitalism, which survives by exploitation. This is the underlying difference between patriarchal and matriarchal societies: The former is based on hierarchical structures, the latter on mutual cooperation and harmony. If ideals create systems, then it is clear that masculine ideals are competitively based; it is a race to the top, and the stairs are the heads and shoulders of other people. Feminine ideal, as reflected in all matriarchal societies’ economic and political systems, is interdependence, recognizing that each part is needed and holds value.

The masculine-feminine symbolism is ubiquitous. And in all cases, the female perspective is left out. There is no attempt at mutual understanding on the side of the male. And furthermore, there is no genuine taking into account that the two genders are different.

Let me say that again, they are different. They don’t just have different formulas, they have different kinds of numbers. Before any man tries to tell any woman what to do, he needs to find that Rosetta Stone of male and female languages and translate. Thousands of years of failing to do that has resulted in a world based on disgusting hierarchies.

A.J. Stafford is a psychology senior.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Regarding marijuana prohibition, the government has an interest, nay a duty, to protect its citizens from harmful subtances they might put in their body. Thus that government imposes punishment for doing so, in the name of protecting the citizen. This is a rational course of action, if that country is run by nanny-state liberals who believe the government is the solution to all problems.

Prohibition is a policy whereby the government threatens its citizens with punishment, backed up by the police, prosecutors and prisons, for anyone who steps outside the box of alcohol, tobacco, Prozac and Valium. Yes, in regards to our bodies, they are owned by the Big Brother.

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The editorial on April 9 regarding Oklahoma History not being taught at OU was not researched correctly. I am an alumni of OU and, when I attended OU 19661970, Oklahoma History was a required class for all undergraduates as well as the English J Exam. I don’t know when OU stopped requiring Oklahoma History as a requirement, but it is a loss to the students that have chosen Oklahoma as their home for four years or more. History is an important part of life and the more knowledge you can get can only be a benefit to students.

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Garrett Buechele, sophomore third baseman, makes a play to first on a ground ball during a game March 30. The Sooners went to Stillwater Tuesday where they lost to the Cowboys 7-6.

OU falls in extra innings ZACK HEDRICK Daily Staff Writer

The first game of the Bedlam series went into extra innings as the Sooners fell to the Oklahoma State Cowboys 7-6 in Stillwater.

The mental errors nagged the Sooners Tuesday night as the team allowed 5 unearned runs and recorded two errors on the evening.

In the bottom of the fourth inning, senior pitcher J.R. Robinson recorded two quick outs but an error by freshman second baseman Max White prolonged the inning. The bottom third of the order for OSU reached base and then scored when leadoff hitter Davis Duren hit a base-clearing double for three unearned runs making the score 4-1.

The next half inning, the Sooners scrapped for two runs to make it a one-run game when senior right fielder Kaleb Herren hit a homerun and freshman designated hitter Drew Harrison scored on an RBI single from sophomore center fielder Chris Ellison.

Junior relief pitcher Anthony Collazo allowed another unearned run in the bottom of the seventh when Oklahoma State catcher Kevin David scored on a wild pitch. David reached base on a walk, stole second and then scored on Collazo’s wild pitch increasing OSU’s lead 6-3.

The Sooners showed tenacity in the late innings scoring three runs in the final two innings of regulation. Sophomore third baseman Garret Buechele hit a two-run homer in

the top of the eighth to bring the score within one again, 6-5. This was Buechele’s second homer of the game, his first was a solo shot back in the top of the fourth. OU needed a run to at least get the game to extra innings in the top of the ninth.

Senior right fielder Kaleb Herren led off the inning but grounded out to the pitcher.

Next up was Bushyhead who singled and then stole second during Drew Harrison’s at bat. Harrison struck out, the Sooners were facing their final out.

Sophomore left fielder Cody Reine, who replaced redshirt junior left fielder Elliot Blair back in the fourth inning due to an injury, delivered in the clutch. After swinging through the first pitch and watching a change up down in the dirt, Reine laced one to rightcenter field and Bushyhead came round to score to tie the game at 6.

Junior closer Ryan Duke came on in the bottom of the ninth to keep the game alive for the Sooners. He retired the Cowboys in a one-two-three ninth inning and took the game to extra frames.

Duke recorded two quick outs in the top of the tenth inning, but an error by sophomore first baseman Cameron Seitzer extended the inning for the Cowboys.

A wild pitch moved that runner to second, followed by two walks to load the bases.

On a 1-2 count, Duke threw his second wild pitch to allow the winning run.

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T h e O U w o m e n ’s tennis team will host B e d l a m r i v a l No. 5 9 Oklahoma State today at the Headington Family Tennis Center.

The Sooners are hoping to turn things around in conference play after a two-match losing streak.

Last weekend, OU lost a heartbreaker to Texas A&M, 4-3. The Sooners fought to tie the score after losing the doubles point, 3-3, but the Aggies overcame the Sooners in the last singles match of the day.

“We have all recovered from this weekend and are in a better mind set going into this game,” sophomore Marie-Pier WILL BYRNE/THE DAILY Huet said. “We have really Freshman Teona Tsertsvadze hits the ball in a match March worked on our doubles 28, 2010 against Colorado.

The team plays Oklahoma play after getting swept for the first time this season.” State today in Norman.

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“I feel like I’m attracted to things that are funny about real life, [like] the tiniest fender bender that results in a Greek tragedy,” he said.

Wayne Rawley knows what it’s like to work a dead-end Starting small can be key to opening up to a larger world job behind a counter — the boredom, the interminability, in a play — an approach he’s taken with his own work and the soul-crushing weightof mediocrity. his students’ in the playwriting class he teaches as part of “As your soul is being sucked, someone the residency, Rawley said. comes in wanting a bagel,” Rawley said.

Sometimes, a play just needs to be PLAYBILL “I think anyone who’s worked behind a about the intricacies of a single meal, he counter can relate to that.” says.

What: “Live! From the Last Night Rawley’s distilled that feeling down into “I find that there’s so much interesting of My Life” by Wayne Rawley his newest play, “Live! From the Last Night about breakfast,” Rawley said. of My Life,” a comedy opening tonight in The convenience store fits that model When: 8 p.m. Wednesday OU Lab Theatre.

— an insignificant place that can tell through Saturday, 3 p.m.

“Live!” had its first incarnation as a prous a lot about human nature and even Sunday duction for Seattle’s ACT Theatre in 2003, America. but Rawley has continued to develop “It’s a great metaphor for the huge and Where: Lab Theatre the play, most extensively this semester for the small,” Rawley said.

Beatrice Carr Wallace Old as OU’s Faith Broome Playwright-inDeveloping “Live!” over the course Science Hall Residence. The residency, which was creof nearly a decade has caused Rawley to ated in the fall, has helped propel “Live!” go through a number of phases — cultiinto new territory, Rawley said.

Tickets: $6 student, $8 adult vating humor that is dark, but hopefully PHOTO PROVIDED “I never really had the opportunity to OU Fine Arts box office steers clear of “quirky,” an adjective that take that final push,” he said. “There were 405-325-4101 has been bludgeoned to death by the “Life! From the Last Night of My Life,” a play written by OU’s Faith a couple structural things that weren’t re“Juno’s” of the world. And even though he Broome Playwright-in-Residence, premieres at 8 tonight at Lab ally jelling. [Now], it has made a quantum says “dude” a lot, Rawley doesn’t want to Theatre in Old Science Hall. leap from where it was.” be pegged into the Judd Apatow brand of comedy either, he said.

“Live!” tells the story of Doug, a convenience store em- he said.

Rawley plans to continue to tweak the play and has writployee who announces to the store’s security camera his Even though some things may seem derivative after havintentions to kill himself at the end of his shift. Meanwhile, ing been in the development process for so long, Rawley ten a screenplay based on it. He plans on shopping both around after his residency ends. ordinary life rolls along as usual in the midst of this life- knows his material is personal.

Doug may or may not kill himself at the end of the play, altering pronouncement — a smash-up of the banal and “You have to write what’s true to you — then you’re OK,” but the life of “Live!” is just getting started. the profound that Rawley is very interested in.

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Holding out hope for the perfect-wedding dream Let me be clear, this column is about my experience as a gay man living in Oklahoma and going to a university situated in the middle of the Bible Belt. My opinions don’t necessarily reflect all gay men, and I never said they did. This is my life, my story and I’m the one telling it.

That said, I’m going to talk a little about dreams.

There are a few things we dream about our whole life. One of those, especially for most little girls, is the dream of a perfect wedding.

She might imagine herself in a green meadow, wearing a flowing white dress and holding a bright bouquet of flowers. A piano plays in the background and the perfect guy stands next to her.

I wonder if the same is true about every BRYAN little gay boy?

DUGAN For me it was. When I was little, I dreamed about my wedding, which is weird because it’s not a common thing for two men to march down the aisle and exchange vows.

I can’t believe I was so optimistic.

To me, it was never out of the question to assume I’d spend the rest of my life with Mr. Tall, Dark and Handsome one day. I guess I just never thought about it being “different.”

Come on, I’ve been surrounded by girls my whole life. It’s only natural to imagine the rush of saying “I do” and kissing the guy you’ve chosen to spend the rest of your life with.

Was I really this naïve back then? Yes, and it’s just as bad today.

Sometimes I think I’m completely out of touch with reality. I find myself walking around in total bliss most days, until something reminds me that the country I live in treats me like a freak.

It pisses me off, too. People are allowed to use their morals and religion to affect my happiness, and there’s really nothing I can do about it.

Am I mistaken or isn’t there something in the Constitution about separation of church and state?

I don’t care what your beliefs are; you do not have the right to sit back and say, “The Bible says homosexuality is an abomination.”

The Bible says a lot of things.

And I’m definitely not attacking anyone’s beliefs. Faith is one of the strongest parts of your being, but I don’t think I should be punished for something I don’t think is wrong. Not to mention, legal issues should not be decided over something written in a book that only Christians believe.

Thankfully, I’m not alone in saying one day, sometime in the near future, I’ll be able to kiss my husband, and a justice of the peace will hand us a marriage license.

Last Saturday, I was coming back from Oklahoma City with a few friends, when my straight male friend turned around and told me, “Don’t worry. When the older generation dies off, you’ll be able to marry whomever you want.”

That meant a lot to me, and he probably doesn’t even know it.

It touches my heart to know that I have straight allies on my side who stand up for me even when I don’t stand up for myself.

I hope that I live long enough to see the day when it’s not a big deal for a teenager to take his same-sex date to the prom or when the coming-out process isn’t something that tears families apart. I hope I get to see the day when we’re not writing columns in our college newspapers about the love that can exist between two men.

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ANATOMY OF AN OKLAHOMA HIPSTER Oh, what’s that? You don’t know what a hipster is? Sweet goodness! Have you been living under a rock? Nope, just in Oklahoma, huh? That explains your total lack of excitement about Dirty Projectors headlining at Norman Music Festival this year.

I am willing to forgive you, but this leaves me with the job of defining the word hipster for those of you out there who don’t consider urbandictionary.com a reputable source. Let me put it this way: you know those kids you have been labeling emos

or hippies or punks? Well, eliminate the saddest of the emos, the dirtiest of the hippies and the Ramones-est of the punks and then smash the rest of them together, add a dash of all things trendy and you have a hipster.

I think now is an appropriate time to say that when it comes to hipsters, it takes one to know one.

Well, I’ve never been to Brooklyn, but I’ve been to Oklahoma. And from what I have gathered from

HBO’s “Bored to Death” and a handful of Jay-Z lyrics, Brooklyn is a place where a person of the hipster-persuasion would feel most at home.

Oklahoma might serve as a solid second choice.

It has just the right amount of quirkiess meets coolness to make a hipster droll all over his or her V-neck T-shirt.

Let it be known that I am not trying to hate on the Sooner state. Trust me, I have Okie pride like you don’t even know. And I have nothing against

FEMALE HIPSTER 1. GRANDMA GLASSES After hours of searching through the optometrist’s reject box of glasses; she found these little gems. They do nothing for the shape of her face but do everything for her lookbook.nu posts.

2. EXCESSIVE BELTS Anything that you wear one of, a hipster wants to wear five of. A hand covered in rings, a neck slathered in scarves and a waist enveloped in belts. Do these groupings of accessories match in any way? No, but she still spent an hour choosing them.

3. BUNCHED-UP SOCKS This is a look that is easy for anyone to achieve. First, find the thickest socks you can find in the most ugly color. Second, grab a pair of wedge sandals. Third, go out in public looking like a chic 50-year-old male American tourist.

4. VARIOUS THRIFT STORE ITEMS One of the advantages of being an Oklahoma hipster is that the thrift stores are nearly as devoid of sweet finds as those in say, Los Angeles.

Combining something that you yourself categorized as “vintage” with your latest American Apparel purchase results in an outfit that is pure profile pic gold, my friend.

hipsters per se. I am just saying that sometimes trends that are sweeping the nation don’t always mix well with the wind that is sweeping down our plains.

So now we begin our dissection of the hipster.

Make sure you are wearing protective clothing and closed-toed shoes, because these kids haven’t showered since SXSW.

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MALE HIPSTER M 5. JAUNTY HAT Here we have featured a fedora, but the hipster male knows no bounds when it comes to head wear. The slouchy beanie and hip-hop style ball cap also come into play here. The important thing is that all hats are worn like they fell out of the sky and onto to your head without you noticing. Much like bird poop.

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As long as the shirt has at least two overly patriotic images, then you are good to go.

In Los Angeles, I saw a store make these things into every conceivable article of clothing. Some trends are best left on the coasts.

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8. SKINNY JEANS String bean boys everywhere rejoiced when they saw this trend pull into the station. Finally a chance for them to show the world what they are really made of — bones and 1 percent body fat. All lengths of skinnies are valid but please remember to cuff them; this isn’t Europe for goodness’ sake.

Erica Ingerbritson, University College freshman, and Cole Priddy, University College freshman and Daily contributing writer, model Oklahoma hipster attire.

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