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OKC BOMBING PROVES OKLAHOMANS’ RESILIENCE, UNITY The Thunder, Ford Center, Memorial Marathon help move city beyond tragedy, mayor says CASEY WILSON Daily Staff Writer

Fifteen years after 168 people lost their lives in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, life in downtown Oklahoma City is thriving while living in the shadow of the deadliest

domestic terrorist attack on American soil. Today, the Ford Center is filled with thousands of people united in cheering on the Oklahoma City Thunder. This team is, for Mayor Mick Cornett, a prime example that shows how the city and the state has moved forward after the bombing. For many years, Oklahomans allowed for the bombing to define them, Cornett said. But now the Thunder allows the city and the state to connect itself to something more positive, he said. Cornett said the Thunder and its success in Oklahoma could be, in part, traced back to April

19, 1995. “There is one aspect you can look back and trace, and I think that’s the unity of the city,” he said. Oklahoma City came out of the bombing strengthened as a more tightly knit group than ever before, he said. With the playoffs in town this week, Cornett said Oklahoma City will have a noticeably higher public profile. The Memorial Marathon is another example of how the state has moved forward, he said.

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Student Senate delays bills; fills vacancy Representatives ask to hold off on resolutions to provide more time before making decisions TROY WEATHERFORD Daily Staff Writer

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Buddy Wilson sells vegetables Saturday at the Norman Farm Market. The Norman Farm Market is held at the Cleveland County Fairgrounds, 615 E. Robinson St., every Wednesday and Saturday 8 a.m. -12 p.m.

Farm Market keeps it fresh Market brings farm-grown produce to Norman community every Wednesday, Saturday until October CASSI TONEY Daily Staff Writer

The overwhelming aroma of fresh produce welcomes shoppers to Norman’s Farm Market, where dozens of booths from local farms sell farm-grown fruit, vegetables, herbs, natural soaps, bread, honey, fruit preserves and flowers. The Norman Farm Market opened for its 30th season at the beginning of April, and will remain open from 8 a.m. to noon every Wednesday and Saturday until October. Approximately 500 to 600 people shop at the market each Saturday, which is usually busier than Wednesday, said Richard Kill, president of vendors. Kill, who has sold produce at the market for nine years, said the goal of the Farm Market is to bring fresh produce and products to the Norman community. “Most of [the produce] has been picked the night before and brought in instead of sitting in the grocery stores for two weeks,” Kill said.

Kill said the market is only open two days a week to allow the shoppers to use what they have bought from the market. “If we had it open every day it would just be a trickle of people come in instead of the big crowds,” Kill said. Barry Myze, of Myze Produce, said the main difference between the Farm Market food and the grocery store food is the better, richer taste of homegrown foods. Myze said he has sold at the Norman Farm Market for six years. He said July through September is the busiest time for the market. Dylan Ward, a Norman resident, said he shops at the market every Wednesday with his grandmother, Betty Groom. He said they like browsing the selections. “The market is pretty successful,” Ward said. “I’ve seen the same people year after year.” Betty Groom said she thought the market was a good place to come and visit with people. She said she shopped at the farm market to help local farmers. “To help out the community, [the Norman community] should shop here instead of at the commercial grocery stores all over the country,” Groom said. Kill said Norman is probably the premier market in the area. He said farmers from Guthrie, Ardmore, Seminole and other areas of Oklahoma come to the Norman Farm Market to sell their produce.

The Graduate Student Senate tabled a resolution, filled a vacant position and sent an act back to committee Sunday night. GSS postponed action on a bill that encourages Undergraduate Student Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against UOSA Superior Court. The Superior Court sent down a decision that penalized the GSS $500 and two senators, Lindsey Harvell and Susan Adams Johnson, each $75 in connection to a March 21 forum discussing referendums in the general election. The court issued an injunction against GSS holding the forum without equal time being given to both sides. The organizers of the event maintain it was not sponsored by GSS but by Graduate Students for a Better Tomorrow. The author of the bill that encourages impeachment, Silas Deboer, was unhappy with the Superior Court’s ruling that the forum held violated an injunction against GSS holding a forum. Deboer said the Superior Court had infringed upon GSS’s rights to freedom of speech. “Frankly, if I were assessed this fine I wouldn’t pay it, just as I would hope that you wouldn’t pay it either,” Deboer said. Secretary Derrell Cox asked the bill be tabled so he and other senators could familiarize themselves with the court decision that influenced the bill. ELECTION BOARD VACANCY FILLED GSS named Michael Upkong as special election chairman for the upcoming presidential run-off election. UOSA Election Board Chairman Jeff Riles resigned Friday, stating in his resignation he needed to focus on finals and that the run-off election was a time conflict. Other people considered for the position were Shane Pruitt, CAC candidate, John Jenning, previous UOSA chairman, and Nicholas Harrison, UOSA presidential candidate, said Susan Adams-Johnson, GSS chairwoman. Harrison said President Katie Fox told him he would be the election chairman, and he was surprised Upkong was chosen at the meeting. APPROPRIATIONS ACT SENT BACK An act to provide administrative appropriations for 2010-2011 was sent back to the committee. The appropriations totaled $483,593. GSS CONTINUES ON PAGE 3

Professor studying differences in local, global quakes Local earthquakes different from those in other countries due to different points of origin, professor says JESSICA SHEETS Daily Staff Writer

Oklahoma has experienced 34 earthquakes this year, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey Observatory website. However, Oklahoma earthquakes pose no major threat, especially when compared to those occurring around the world. OU Geophysics Professor Randy Keller

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compared an Oklahoma earthquake to the recent earthquake in Chile. “For the sake of comparison, the energy released by the recent earthquake in Chile was about 1 million times larger than that of our biggest recent earthquake,” Keller said by e-mail. The reason for this difference in energy is due to plate boundaries. “Most earthquakes occur along the boundaries of the tectonic plates,” Keller said. “The recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile are examples. Intraplate earthquakes occur away from the plate boundaries, and their causes are poorly understood. The recent

earthquake in China is an example.” Three years ago, a team of U.S. geophysicists paired up with a team of Chinese colleagues to learn more about intraplate earthquakes. Keller is leading the U.S. team and said they have used new instruments to locate the earthquakes more accurately. “An important issue is that they are occurring deeper in the Earth (5-10 km) than we expected,” Keller said. Holly Gunzenheiser, communication science disorders sophomore, remembers feeling an Oklahoma earthquake in her apartment in Traditions Square West. “I was sitting on my bed when it happened,”

Gunzenheiser said. “It just felt like the whole room was shaking for about five seconds, and then I felt tiny vibrations for about 30 seconds longer. It happened the same day as the huge earthquake in Chile, so my first reaction was that I was being paranoid.” Keller does not believe these earthquakes pose any sort of threat to Oklahoma and said the state has a history of small earthquakes. “The recent activity is not all that anomalous from a historical perspective,” Keller said. “We do not believe that the relatively small quakes we have experienced are leading up to a larger one.”

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“It’s become one of the top runs in the world,” Cornett said. “And I think it’s Continues from page 1 a great opportunity to celebrate life and energy.” Ultimately, Cornett said what happened back in 1995 was something we choose to remember, and it should not be viewed as an event we can’t forget. The Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum was built to help remember those who died, those who survived and those who were changed forever April 19, 1995, said Kari Watkins, Memorial director. “It’s meant to teach respect, responsibility and resilience,” Watkins said. Through the memorial, people can learn that all choices have consequences and even through the worst of times, all Oklahomans are resilient enough to survive, Watkins said.

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“We have to teach the lesson of hope,” she said. “That there’s hope even if something horrible happens. There’s a way to succeed.” Sen. Andrew Rice, D-Oklahoma City, said the bombing caused the nation to learn terrorism can rear its head in different ways. “We have very serious threats from abroad, of course, in the form of terrorism by people who pervert the Islamic faith,” Rice said. “But we also learned that domestic anger and hatred can boil over into senseless violence.” Rice said the resilience and compassion showed by Oklahomans was very profound. “The empathy that the Oklahoma City community has since showed toward other communities affected by terrorism in Kenya and in New York City is also a unique byproduct of our compassion and personal struggles with the events of April 19, 1995,” he said. OU President David Boren said because of the bombing,

the entire nation learned the people of Oklahoma have a community spirit that is unmatched anywhere else. “People immediately reached out to help each other and to support those who came to respond to the crisis,” Boren said. Boren said he will never forget the New York firemen who left waving dollar bills saying they never had to spend a dollar of their own money while in Oklahoma. There are many lessons to learn from, Boren said. First, we must do everything to keep the spirit of community strong, he said. He also said that in the aftermath of a tragedy like the bombing, we must not give in to fear or intolerance. Boren said some were quick to point blame at those from other places or members of certain religious groups when there was no factual basis to do so. “I hope we have learned a lasting lesson that we should never give in to rushed judgment or give in to bigotry before we have all the facts,” he said. LAUREN HARNED/THE DAILY

TIMELINE OF APRIL 19 EVENTS April 19, 1993 FBI gassed the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, killing 75 people. April 19, 1995 9:02 a.m. — Bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in response to the Waco incident, killing 168 people Within 90 minutes of the explosion — McVeigh was pulled over for driving without a license plate and is found with an unregistered gun; McVeigh was arrested and linked to the bombing. 4 p.m. — President Bill Clinton declared a federal emergency and addressed the nation. April 21, 1995 McVeigh had a court hearing on the gun charges; federal agents held him while they investigated his ties to the bombing. Nichols turned himself in. May 5, 1995 Rescue efforts were concluded. Only three bodies were left unfound April 24, 1997 McVeigh’s trial began. June 3, 1997 McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy. August 15, 1997 McVeigh was sentenced to death by lethal injection. December 24, 1997 Nichols was found guilty of conspiracy and manslaughter in a federal trial. June 5, 1998 Nichols was sentenced to life in prison without parole. April 19, 2000 The outdoor memorial was dedicated. February 19, 2001 The Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum was dedicated. June 11, 2001 McVeigh was executed, the first federal execution in 38 years. May 26, 2004 An Oklahoma jury found Nichols guilty of murder. The judge sentenced him to 161 life terms without parole. April 6, 2010 Gov. Brad Henry signed a bill into law saying that the bombing must be taught in state curriculum. SOURCES: TIME magazine, “Oklahoma City Bombing” by Jennifer Rosenberg, Memorial website, USA Today, Oklahoma Department of Civil Emergency Management After Action Report, New York Times

Families of bombing victims still struggling Even with closure, some things never get easier when you’ve lost a parent, survivor says CAITLIN HARRISON Managing Editor

When Barbara Williams’ husband dropped her off at her Oklahoma City workplace the morning of April 19, 1995, it was like any other day. Just the usual morning routine. No indicators terror might strike. Or that this was the last chance she’d have to kiss him goodbye. “It was just a normal day,” Williams said. “I remember watching him, I don’t know why ... because usually I’d just get out of the car and go into the building, but I watched him drive around and make the U-turn to go back out ... and he’d already had the radio turned back up.” Her husband of 23 years, Steve Williams, 42, continued on his way to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, where he worked for the government as an operational supervisor. At 9:02 a.m., Williams felt a shocking jolt in her building. “Even at 50 Penn Place it was like, you could feel it was like a big jolt,” she said. “Then somebody came in my office and said something happened with the federal building.” Within minutes, Williams saw the horrifying television images of the torn-apart building. Fearing for her husband’s safety, she started calling his work. But the phone lines, she said, were already dead. It wasn’t long before Williams and her three daughters were informed Steve was reported missing. Allysone Williams Moore, an 18-yearold high school senior at the time, was pulled out of class into the principal’s office that morning along with her 15-year-old freshman sister, Meryl Williams Esser. “More details came in, and at one point they thought it was a different building. We got confirmation that it was the Murrah Building ... that’s when it became very real and very scary,” Moore said. “So my aunt came up to school and picked us up and took us back to her house.” Sara Williams Sweet, Williams’ oldest daughter, a 22-year-old senior at Oklahoma State University at the time, also was in class when the bomb went off. She heard a rumor about an explosion from a classmate, but didn’t think much of it at first. But by the time she returned to her sorority house, she knew something had gone terribly wrong. “I got about halfway up the driveway and someone came out and said, ‘You have a call on the house phone,’ and that’s when I knew that something had gone wrong, because no one ever used the house phone,” Sweet said. “It was the campus police who were calling

me.” Sweet left OSU and returned to her hometown of Cashion where she stayed glued to the television at her aunt and uncle’s house with her two sisters. Williams spent the day going to several hospitals in the hope of finding her husband, before returning home to be with her daughters. The family waited 12 days before hearing the unthinkable. The husband and father of three was found dead in the building’s rubble. “I just never really thought that it would be my dad,” Sweet said. “When [my mom] told us, I knew what she was going to say before she said it, but it still didn’t click in till she said it.” Williams, Esser and Moore said they found it difficult to hope for Steve’s return after a few days. “It was hard to even do anything really, just waiting for the phone call and not wanting to give up hope, because you just kept hearing there was a possibility that somebody might still be alive, but then after that many days you start to realize that’s pretty far-fetched,” Williams said. Sweet said although the 12 days were by far the worst of her life, she could not fully believe she wouldn’t see her father again. “Maybe I just never consciously thought he could be dead, or maybe I just didn’t want to believe it, but I just didn’t really believe it until my mom came back and told us for sure,” Sweet said. After Steve’s funeral, though, the grieving family had to face what they said was the hardest part: Going on with life. “We had a really nice service,” Williams said. “And then it was just like, you always hear that when that part’s over, everybody has lives. I knew all that in my head, but it was just so emotional at that time.” Sweet studied in Europe that summer and headed back to finish her last year at OSU in the fall, while Moore began her freshman year in Stillwater. Williams said she and Esser said stayed only one more year in their Cashion home before moving to Oklahoma City in 1996. She said the memories of her husband in the house were especially difficult. Steve’s daughters all had a good relationship with their father, they said. “I would probably spend more time talking to my mom, but my dad was always the one when I got my ACT scores or did well in a class or something, he was always the one I would call,” Sweet said. Sweet said her father always made time for his family. “He was proud of his job and everything, but it’s not like he was someone who worked 80 hours a week,” Sweet said. “He was very good at leaving work at the office and just being with us.”

Sweet said she and her sisters dealt with the loss differently, as each was in a different stage of life at the time. Sweet said she was the most outwardly emotional, while Moore said she held many of her emotions in at first, trying to be strong for her mother. “I didn’t want her to be upset, I didn’t want her to be sad, so I kind of took on that role,” Moore said. Esser said she almost did not know how to handle it at first. “My mom was concerned about me because I didn’t cry, but I think it’s just because it’s kind of hard for a 15-year-old to grasp at that time,” Esser said. “I wasn’t showing any emotion because it was just kind of overwhelming.” But perhaps the most difficult part to grasp was how the family lost its husband and father, Sweet said. Sweet and her mother attended Timothy McVeigh’s 1997 trial in Colorado, where they met McVeigh’s father. Sweet said the experience provided her with some of the closure she needed. “It was just so eye-opening meeting him, because he was just like, ‘I hate what happened to you all, I’m so sorry,’” Sweet said. “I kind of forced myself to see him as this man’s son so I could let go of some my anger and hatred that I was hanging onto, and it definitely helped.” But even after gaining some closure, some things in life never really get easier, Sweet said. “I got married, and it’s just like, every big moment is kind of bittersweet,” she said. “There was just an element that was missing, and then I had my children, and I just think about that the only way they’ll ever know my dad is through stories and pictures, and just how much fun he would have had with my kids.” Moore said she found high school graduation one of her hardest milestones without her father, especially because she graduated about a month after his death. “It’s just all of those things that should have been so much fun. It just put a cloud over them in a way,” Moore said. College, Moore said, was an especially difficult sorting-out period. “I started in August, and the whole college experience was just very weird for me. I was kind of damaged, and so I just didn’t have enough time to kind of figure things out,” Moore said. Fifteen years have passed, but it’s been a long journey, Williams said. “It gets easier, but it’s just a tough time of the year,” she said. “It’s just all the prettiness in the world, and then this ugly part. And it just reminds me of garden weather. It’s just the whole thing. You think after 15 years, it’s gotten easier, but it’s still sad.”

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GSS Continues from page 1 $164,200 for the campus activities council, $49,500 to GSS for grants, $40,000 for the UOSA office and general expenses and $163,383 for salaries and stipends. Marilyn Krell asked for it to be tabled because of appropriations to UOSA office expenses and the Student Bar Association who were appropriated $9,000. She said UOSA needed more money because she felt that in their previous budget, some expenses were left out or duplicated. She also did not feel the Student Bar Association was an administrative office and

should not be funded in this budget. Undergraduate Student Congress Chairman and author of the bill Brett Stidham defended it and said tabling would be counterproductive. “I think if we table it, it doesn’t make changes, it puts it on an imaginary table ... it doesn’t do anything, and it doesn’t make progress,” Stidham said. He said a decision needed to be made within two weeks or else the money would not be distributed. Stidham called the budget a “slash and burn” effort and said it trimmed away fat from previous budgets. The legislation will go back to committee and be heard at next week’s meeting.

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CLINTON TO BE HONORED Former President Bill Clinton will receive a Reflections of Hope Award by the Oklahoma City National Memorial on Wednesday for his work helping Oklahoma City after the bombing, as well as his international peace work. This year marks the five-year anniversary since the award’s inception in 2005. Recipients may be any individual or group whose behavior shows that hope can survive in tragedy and chaos, and that peaceful approaches are the best responses in violent environments, according to the Oklahoma City National Memorial website. Last year’s recipient was Father Alex Reid C.S.s.R. for his life’s work on establishing peace in Northern Ireland. The reception begins at 6 p.m, with a dinner 7 p.m. in the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in the Sam Noble Special Events Center in Oklahoma City. Clinton will speak during the dinner. Individual tickets cost $168. There is limited seating. For more information, call 405-235-3313. -Audrey Harris/The Daily

TODAY STUDENT SUCCESS SERIES Pre-Calculus exams will be hosted as part of the Student success Series at 3 to 5 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 245. The first hour will be for class 1503/1523 and the second hour will be for 1643. TUESDAY AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY There will be a hot dog lunch for Relay for Life from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the 5th floor Devon Hall patio. Cost is $5. CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUS A Bible study group will be held from noon to 12:45 p.m. in the frontier room of the union.

GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS BASICS Jeffrey Wilhite, Governent Documents Librarian, will give an overview of the OU Government document collection from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Bizzell Memorial Library, room 149D. EVERETT POETRY SERIES Poet Barbara Daniels will read her work from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Jacobson House as part of the Mark Allen Everett Poetry Series. OU NAMI MEETING The OU chapter of National Alliance on Mental Illness Studies will meet from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Dale Hall tower, room 905. The organization is an informational club and support group.

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. PETTY LARCENY Eleanor Louse Bates, 78, 3501 W. Main St., Wednesday Todd Andrew Burnette, 44, 333 N. Interstate Drive, Thursday, also county warrants Velita P. Downey, 42, 3499 W. Main St., Friday FIRST-DEGREE BURGLARY Aaron Wayne Goddard, 22, 333 E. Brooks St., Friday DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Justin Daniel Genson, 29, 601 NE. 12th Ave., Thursday Casey Jay Shaver, 20, Classen Boulevard, Thursday James Ray Ward, 9000 E. Alameda Drive, Thursday, also leaving the scene of an accident and transporting an open bottle Harrell Dane Bolding, 26, Classen Boulevard, Saturday

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Ryan Lee Hodges, 19, East Main Street, Friday AGGRAVATED DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Tess Denae Owen, 1700 Schooner Drive, Thursday William Tyler Crocker, 21, Oak Tree Avenue, Saturday, also no insurance Mark Evan Shields, 21, 101 Ed Noble Parkway, Saturday, also no insurance Christopher Blair Tate, 19, 108 N. Stewart Avenue, Saturday Willie Watson, 34, West Boyd Street, Saturday, also without proof of insurance and driving under suspension PUBLIC INTOXICATION Randell A. Hutcheson, 47, 2402 W. Brooks St., Wednesday Winford S. Coon, 43, 2305 Beaumont Drive, Friday, also municipal warrants Thomas David Horton, 48, 225 Chalmette Drive, Thursday, also molesting property Ronald Louis Russell, 39, 3201 W. Main St., Friday Bryon Thomas Nilsson, 19, East Main Street, Friday COUNTY WARRANTS Caron Mikel Jones, 34, 1000 Rambling Oaks Drive,

Thursday Brittney Leann Davis, 21, 4400 W. Main St., Friday Willie Lonzell Jackson, 55, 2808 Dewey Ave., Thursday MUNICIPAL WARRANTS Caleb James Courtney, 26, 2020 W. Main St., Friday Lorenzo Guadalupe Jurado, 21, 201 W. Gray St., Friday Donovan Taylor Scott, 18, 3220 Conestoga Dr., Friday Chessine Deann Gibson, 37, 205 Chalmette Drive, Saturday Laura Kathryn Hamilton, 40, 19200 E. SH9 Highway, Saturday Johnny R. Houston, 37, 400 SE. 12th Avenue, Saturday Jesse Tanedoh James, 26, 700 Asp Ave., Saturday Brandie Corinna Ocampo, 35, Superior Avenue, Thursday, also poss OTHER WARRANT Raymond Foster Lee, 19, 1410 Glen Oaks Court, Friday TRESPASSING

Gaius Asher Marcellous, 53, 1318 N. Interstate Drive, Thursday DOMESTIC ABUSE IN THE PRESENCE OF A MINOR Derrick Leslie John, 23, 1818 E. Lindsey St., Saturday OUTRAGING PUBLIC DECENCY Eric Benjamin Johnson, 22, 750 De Barr Avenue, Saturday ASSAULT AND BATTERY Tim Chike Anyanwu, 21, 2116 W. Brooks St., Thursday POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA Samuel Collier Chase, 21, 705 Ridgecrest Court, Thursday, also possession of drug paraphernalia POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA Joshua Lee Roberts, 20, 1015 W. Lindsey St., Saturday, also social host and nuisance party DISTURBING THE PEACE Preston Alexander McGehee, 20, 1800 Beaumont Drive, Friday

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Forgetting what we learned 15 years ago Today we remember the lives lost in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. But it seems in the past 15 years we have forgotten what the power of hate can do to a community. The hate that stole the lives of 168 people brought us together despite our political, relgious and cultural differences. We pulled together despite these differences to work together during this crisis. We seem to have lost this notion of togetherness. We scream from the left and right and relentlessly point fingers. Now we allow divisive speech like Rep. Michelle Bachmann’s. R-Minn., “Ga n g s t e r G ov e r n m e nt ” a n d R e v. Jeremiah Wright’s “God Damn America” to thrive and pull us even further apart. We are quick to petition the government, a right guaranteed to us by the

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First Amendment, but we go no further to talk through compromise. We raise our voices and toy with hate speech rather than work toward solutions. On April 19, 1995, we saw the effect of hate and anger. We listen to politicians rip our government and those who run it. We listen to people tear down our way of life, but make no effort to build it back up. This polarizing and seemingly hateful rhetoric is what can lead to greater acts of violence. When we value our own voice over that of others, we are losing the lessons we learned just 15 years ago. Our state taught this country how to band together during tough times, but now our nation seems to only perpetuate the hate and polarizing speech that attempts to further divide us.

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Before I digress, here is my thesis: As university students, we should not protect our fragile egos by sacrificing forums of free speech. Enjoy. Max Brooks’ first lesson in the “Zombie Survival Guide” is that “Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.” The only flaw in the Survival Guide is that Brooks doesn’t admonish the use of derogatory slurs like zombie or zombiess. Those described by the epithets “zombie” or “zombiess” prefer the gender-neutral “terminally undead.” If only an academic body would provide us a list of offensive words we should censor! The University of Missouri’s school of journalism was thoughtful enough to provide such a list of naughty-nouns that journalists must never use. These items are purged from our linguistic menu: cheesecake, honey, Oreo, tart, vegetable, white bread and many more. Yours truly was issued an abbreviated copy of this list for playing on the word “broad” in a recent column. I just want to do something special for all the ladies in the world whom I demeaned. BRYAN Henceforth, I will endorse the censorship of the following three words HONEYCUTT taken from Missouri’s list. These are not the only offensive words, but they are certainly the most offensive to me. “Beefcake” should no longer be used to demean physically attractive men. Also, avoid saying beefcake to describe delicious meatloaf, especially when it’s nasally expelled. Nor should we listen to Meatloaf, the stage name for Michael Lee Aday (Bitch-tits Bob from Fight Club), a corpulent singer who — coincidently — is a beefcake. “White bread” shouldn’t be used because it might hurt the feelings of some whites. Try wheat bread, baguette or pita the next time you describe anyone as a baked treat. While the list didn’t include sugar dumpling, it is possible Mizzou’s college of journalism would find Sam Cooke’s song “Sugar Dumpling” offensive as well. If you follow Gerard Keiser’s advice and bake your own bleached flour, please refer to it as wheatloaf from now on. Finally, Eliot Spitzer should not be referred to as a “John,” the derogatory word that discriminates against men whom prostitutes service. What kind of monster would attack the self-esteem of these troubled Johns? Let’s look at the consequences of low self-esteem. Massachusetts public schools recently suffered a self-esteem shortage (for more on this shortage, read George Will’s column “How to ruin a child: Too much esteem, too little sleep”). This outbreak of low self-esteem started when students were offended that they couldn’t jump rope in physical education class. The ever-wise school boards combated this by removing jump ropes from their curriculum. Hopefully, their heightened self-esteem will help them keep apace the terminally undead hordes. It seems doubtful, as they are being denied quality jumping practice in the name of self-actualization. Humans — even before becoming terminally undead—are terribly creative at hurting one another physically or verbally. John Painting, a combat-hardened Army officer, once stated “Even in a zombie apocalypse, humans are the real threat.” He suggests bludgeoning the terminally undead, but save your bullets for your fellow man. Bryan Honeycutt is an English graduate student.

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There is an unfortunate and old-fashioned idea lingering in the women’s rights community that men shouldn’t claim to understand “women’s issues” or voice opinions concerning topics — like birth control and abortion — that directly affect women more than men. In other words, men shouldn’t ever tell women what they ought to do because they aren’t capable of seeing the issue from a woman’s perspective. Personally, I hate this idea. I find it closed-minded and offensive to all of the progressive men out there, several of whom I consider my closest friends. For BECCA a woman to say they are some- SKUPIN how not entitled to have opinions about certain issues because of their gender is just the reverse of the same kind of sexism we have been fighting for years, the kind that said women weren’t capable of understanding “male stuff” like politics or economics. Granted, it can be difficult for a guy to understand exactly what it’s like to be a woman in today’s world. The majority of men will never personally experience being cat-called while they’re walking down the street, judged by their pharmacists when they pick up their birth control or ever worry whether they’ve just been hired for their abilities or their cleavage. But they can listen to our stories and empathize with our experiences. And, in doing so, they become justified in forming opinions about how women should react and behave in such situations. Expecting people to limit their opinions to topics they have directly experienced is unreasonable. You would not expect every single person who expresses a political opinion to hold a governmental office first.

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In fact, people from an outside perspective can often provide new and important insights into the situation. Gender is no exception. For example, science fiction writer Andre North was praised throughout her career for her incredibly real and accurate male characters. She was so insightful and realistic that many readers didn’t (and still don’t) realize that she was a woman. Conversely, self-proclaimed feminist director/producer Joss Whedon is known for creating some of the strongest, most complex female characters in Hollywood. He doesn’t have to be a woman to accurately and honestly portray socalled “women’s issues.” Which brings me to my second point: The term “women’s issues” is a misnomer. There is no such thing as a true “women’s issue” in the same way that there is no such thing as a “men’s issue” or a “Latino American between the ages of 18 and 37’s issue.” Implying that any situation or decision only concerns a limited group of people alienates people outside of that group. In other words, excluding guys from debates like abortion and women’s rights only forces these issues out of political spheres, the media and any other place where it’s critical they are openly discussed. So instead of adopting an “us versus them” mentality that will only be detrimental to women’s rights movements all over the world, it’s important all women’s rights advocates stop limiting who can and can’t participate. It’s time to get rid of the exclusionary mentality and listen to the opinions of anyone and everyone who cares enough about these issues to want to openly discuss them. Becca Skupin is an English sophomore.

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Every once in a while, a film comes along that spoils viewers silly with its blazing originality, sharp dialogue, manic visual style and relentless (emphasis on relentless) violence. Such characteristics are present in Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” films, ’70s exploitation films and the new comic-book adaptation “Kick-Ass.” Here is a film that is not afraid to take risks, ruthlessly plunging viewers head first into a pool of cheerful anarchy. Not since the stylish, yet underwhelming “Watchmen” has a comic book film served up such bloody mayhem in both hilarious and unsettling ways. Director Matthew Vaughn is sure to stir up controversy as he attempts to obliterate family LARON values in exchange for sheer, bloody and CHAPMAN shameless entertainment. When comic-book fanboy Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) pitches the idea of roaming New York’s crime-infested streets as a full-fledged superhero (complete with no powers or martial arts train-ing) to his loyal companions, they chuckle in disbelief. ef. That is until Dave, wearing a bizarre green-and-yellow ow wet suit, becomes a YouTube sensation after a curious us teenage bystander catches him on film making wimps out of two violent street thugs. While Dave’s alter-ego (titled “Kick-Ass”) is kept a secret from his comrades and his family, the confidence nce he evokes from being television’s hottest new icon does oes wonders for his once static social life. It is not long before The Big Apple is flooding with passionate superhero ero wannabes, including the hilariously awkward “Red Mist” ist” (played humorously by Christopher “Mclovin” Plasse).. As Kick-Ass’ popularity rapidly starts to develop, so does oes crime boss Frank D’Amico’s (Mark Strong) hatred for him. im. D’Amico views him as a threat to his sinister illegal pracactices and demands he be hastily disposed of. In over his head, Kick-Ass is graced with the likess of real-life superheroes Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and Hit Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz), who have their own sadistic stic and sophisticated methods for fighting crime. One limb mb and four F-bombs at a time, the three masked vigilantes ntes take justice into their own hands, even if it means making ing shish kabobs out of their victims’ organs. Combining elements of dark humor, flashy visuals, satire and gratuitous violence, “Kick-Ass” is destined to become an explosive pop-culture phenomenon. While edgy dgy and ultra-violent, the film also is very clever and consissistently charming. The laughs come fast and furious in this twisted actiononadventure, complimented by characters as engagingg as

they are eccentric. While Johnson evokes a quiet charm as the butt-kickutt-kicking protagonist, this is really Moretz’s show. Imagine gine the birth child of Chucky and Dakota Fanning, throw ow in a neon purple wig and an assortment of cutting-edge dge artillery and you’ll have something close to the characharacter Moretz’s depicts. At age 11, Hit Girl is a merciless ciless killing machine, savagely cute and with a potty mouth only a mother could love. She is bound to stimulate late a massive cult-following. Also, Cage is utterly hilarious, putting his usual sual quirks to good use. The film earns and embraces aces its R-rating providing viewers with graphic content, tent, both comically and artistically executed. “Kick-Ass,” gloriously silly and refreshingly origiriginal, is a total blast that more than lives up its catchy tchy title. Laron Chapman is a film and video studies sophomore. sophomoree.

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“Algebra came about hastily before recording my first EP, but has come to mean a lot more to me,” said Tulsa rapper Algebra, whose real name is Dan Hahn. “I really like its brevity and organic quality. Also, I take a very systematic, almost mathematic, approach to songwriting to the point that it has become full-blown perfectionism.” Hahn began rapping in 2007, with his first effort being “The Chainsaw EP,” a self-written and self-produced project. He said he sees hip hop as a great form of self expression. “I chose hip hop as, what I saw, the closest avenue for what I had to say,” Hahn said. Though he only began rapping three years ago, his artistic exploration began long before that. “I have written poetry since middle school and made the transition into music after adapting some poems with pirated instrumentals on some very rudimentary mixtapes,” Hahn said. While Hahn loves rapping, he said he also is very happy with his career as an English teacher at Clinton Middle School in west Tulsa, and even mentioned he sometimes incorporates his music into his teaching. “It is a very lighthearted and fun way to identify with them without them seeing me try to be something I am not just to fit in with urban youth,” Hahn said. “It also helps that they think I am good at it.” Hahn enjoys many hip hop acts, including veterans Nas, Mobb Deep and MF Doom, and newer acts The Cool Kids and New Boyz. He does, however, dislike certain aspects of the music. “I don’t personally identify with the materialistic aspects of it,” Hahn said. “Some people say that hip hop is the most materialistic of all entertainment but you see Nicholas Cage get foreclosed upon in a $14 million house, and you see Chad Kroger from Nickelback whining on YouTube about $300 jeans, so it isn’t exclusive to hip hop. I just don’t identify or buy into that aspect of the art.” Even with the materialistic focus of certain rappers, Hahn said he is optimistic that hip hop will remain a strong art form, and sees no death in sight. “It can’t die,” Hahn said. “In as much as painting didn’t die after da Vinci, Michelangelo and Picasso passed on, it might change and look different than it has or does, but it will be around in some form of evolution as long as creative people exist and can come together.” Hahn describes his music as simple, relying more on lyricism than production. “I gravitate toward beats that were made using as little means as necessary and try to let the lyrical content speak to people,” Hahn said. “Lyrically, I try to comment on meaningful things without becoming saturated in the realm of abstract thought to the point that no one knows what on earth is being said.” Algebra is set to perform at 7 p.m. Sunday on the Red Room Stage, 114 W. Main St., directly following his good friends Scales of Motion. “I feel exceedingly honored and excited to be chosen to play the PHOTOS PROVIDED Norman Musical Festival,” Hahn said. “This will be my first within a festiDan Hahn, who perfroms as Algebra, at a recent gig in Tulsa. The Tulsa artist began rapping in 2007. He will perform at 7 val atmosphere and to have the opportunity to play the same venue as my p.m. Sunday on the Red Room Stage at this year’s Norman Music Festival. good friends just makes me feel that much more grateful and hopeful for the event.” number

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Jamell Flemming, sophomore defensive back, pushes through the red team’s defense Saturday afternoon at the annual Spring Red/White game . The White team won against the Red 23-0.

Sooners answer questions during spring game JONO GRECO Daily Staff Writer

The weather and splitting up the team during the White team’s 23-0 victory in the RedWhite game did not help people see how the football team has improved during spring practices, but it gave people a chance to evaluate some of the pressing issues OU had going into the offseason. Here’s a look at some of the big questions the Sooners addressed during the Red-White game.

1. HAS THE OFFENSIVE LINE IMPROVED? Last season was a nightmare for the offensive line that head coach Bob Stoops and Sooner Nation would like to forget, but the way the line played in the Red-White game was a sign of improvement since the Sun Bowl in December. It is hard to get a complete grasp on the offensive line’s performance Saturday because the starting linemen were divided between the two squads, but this much is certain. It gave both quarterbacks a decent pocket to throw from and looked disciplined at a unit even though there were a couple of penalties. Sophomore quarterback Landry Jones looked comfortable behind the line and found receivers without being hurried too often. “The pocket was so much better than it was last year,” Jones said. “You could step up into the pocket. I feel like from guard-to-guard we’ve gotten so much better, and our offensive tackles have been great all year.” There were some times linebackers and defensive linemen forced Jones out of the pocket and recorded sacks, most of which came on situations Jones would have avoided the sack if the tap-sack rule was not in play. The important thing to take from this year’s spring game concerning the offensive line was that the linemen are working well together, even though none of them seem like potential first round draft picks. “The line is encouraging and you just like the overall group,” offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson said. “Even though it was mixed, you’re going to see several guys playing.”

2. IS JONES THE QUARTERBACK OF THE FUTURE? Jones did not look overly impressive Saturday, but he did not get much help from the

weather or his receivers, either. He completed 17 of 34 passes for 211 yards and two touchdowns for the White team, but had a number of passes dropped. Even though the statistics do not point to a good afternoon, Jones did have a good day and would have had more completions and yards if the tap-sack rule did not end a couple plays early. Jones moved the ball without the use of his favorite target, junior wide receiver Ryan Broyles, who had a productive game for the Red team. But he found another weapon in freshman wide receiver Kenny Stills. Jones and Stills connected six times for 84 yards, including one for a 31-yard touchdown. Stills showed he has the potential to be the Sooners’ third or fourth receiver in the fall and an even bigger weapon in 2011. Once the regular season starts, Jones should have improved volumes since the end of last year where he had a career day against the Stanford Cardinal in the Sun Bowl. “Landry is gaining maturity, and you can see that he’s more sure of himself,” Stoops said. “He made some nice throws and kept moving his team down the field.”

3. ARE ANY OF THE KICKERS EMERGING AS THE FRONT RUNNER FOR THE FIELD GOAL POSITION? The simple answer is no. Junior kickers Jimmy Stevens and Patrick O’Hara were the only kickers to attempt field goals in the spring game. Stevens made all three of his field goal attempts, from 39, 31 and 27 yards out, but O’Hara struggled. He attempted two field goals, but only one of which counted. O’Hara had his first field goal attempt, a 43 yarder, blocked by sophomore defensive end R.J. Washington, but the kicker got another attempt because Washington was not supposed to try to block the kick, Stoops said. O’Hara could not capitalize on the second chance by missing the field goal wide right. So does the fact that Stevens was the only kicker to make a field goal Saturday seal him as the starting kicker? Certainly not, and the kicking competition is still wide open, Stoops said. The starting kicker will not be decided until after summer practices, but Stevens did put a good foot forward for the White team.

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Men’s gymnastics finishes third in NCAAs RICKY LY Daily Staff Writer

but most noticeably for OU, who competed on the event directly afterward. ” We had just come off the best pommel-horse competition With the clock ticking toward midnight, Alex Naddour was we’ve had since I’ve been a head coach,” Williams said. “The waiting. momentum was clearly in our favor, but we weren’t able to The freshman out of Gilbert, Ariz., had been waiting all- carry that over because of the delay. night for a second chance to perform his rings routine after “By the time Steve and Alex were given an opportunity to guiding the OU men’s gymnastics team to the cusp of its ninth repeat their ring routines at the end (after falling off earlier), it national championship. was almost midnight.” In the end though, neither would happen as Naddour Naddour agreed with Williams and said the stoppages had called it a night, and the Sooners fell short of the NCAA title for a negative effect on the Sooners’ early energy. the second-straight year. “We started strong on floor and we had our best pommel The second-ranked Sooners (22-4) tallied a score of 357.050 pretty much in school history,” Naddour said. “We really wantto finish behind national champion Michigan (360.500) and ed to use that momentum to push us forward, but because No. 1 Stanford (359.800) in the final meet of the season Friday of the broken ring it kind of threw us off and messed up our night in West Point, N.Y. rhythm.” “I think the guys fought till the very end,” head coach Mark Legendre, the defending all-around champion, would post Williams said. “There’s no question we were fighting to stay in a new score of 14.350, but could not catch up to Michigan’s the mix for the championship, but unfortunately we just had a Chris Cameron in the individuals. few breaks that didn’t go our way. Cameron would win the individual all-around title, while “At the end of the day, I have no regrets. The effort was there Legendre finished second. and we did the best we could. On that night, Michigan was Naddour deferred the opportunity to compete again, finthe best team, but I couldn’t be any prouder of my team right ishing seventh in the all-around. now.” Freshman teammate Jacob Dalton was close behind with The conclusion to OU’s 2010 season played out all too simi- eighth-place honors overall, giving the Sooners three Alllar to the Sooners’ showing in last year’s competition. Americans in the all-around. OU entered the final rotation in second place, trailing While the team wrapped up the meet with its 11th-consecthe Cardinal by just five-hundredths of a point (300.350- utive top-three finish, six Sooners were still alive to compete 300.300). for individual titles in the event finals Saturday. The meet was turning out to be exactly the barn-burner that Joining Legendre (floor, vault), Naddour (pommel) and RICKY LY / THE DAILY was expected. Dalton (floor, vault) in the festivities were redshirt junior Ian Jeremy Adams, freshman, competes on the parallel bars However, what the Sooners did not count on was a spoiler Jackson (vault), freshman Jeremy Adams (pommel) and se- Saturday night in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in the form of an experienced Wolverine team set on upsetting nior co-captain Corey English (pommel, parallel bars). Championships inside McCasland Field House. OU once again. On the final night of competition, OU added two more indiThe team from Ann Arbor, Mich., would put up a total of vidual championships to its NCAA resume. claim his first NCAA title with a score of 14.425. 62.700 on vault to surge ahead of both Stanford and OU, as the Legendre earned his third-consecutive national title on “The goal is to hit your set and not worry about what score Cardinal finished on rings (59.450) and the Sooners on high floor exercise, scoring a 16.100 to top the field once again. you get,” Naddour said. “I just went up there and did my best bar (56.750). "I've done a ton of routines on that I could. I’m extremely honored to be the NCAA champion Last season, the Sooners entered the floor," Legendre said. "I am on that event.” the final rotation trailing the same “At the end of the day, I have no just fortunate and honored to Naddour’s title on Saturday gives the Sooners their 32nd Stanford team on the leaderboard, regrets. The effort was there and we win it for one more year." individual championship in the meet, ranking fourth all-time coming within two points of repeating With the victory, Legendre in NCAA history. as national champions before falling to did the best we could. On that night, earned his sixth career individuDalton earned All-American status on floor, vault and third behind Michigan on the final per- Michigan was the best team, but I al championship, tying him with in the all-around to push his total to three in his first year of formance of the night. couldn’t be any prouder of my team U.S. Olympic medalist Jonathan competition. Junior co-captain Steven Legendre right now.” Horton for the most in program The biggest surprise came from Adams, who edged past said although the ending was not the history. 2010 all-around champion Chris Cameron of Michigan to finish the Sooners were looking for, he Legendre’s third title on floor claim the eighth and final All-American spot on pommel HEAD COACH MARK WILLIAMS could not have asked for more from his marks the fifth-straight year the horse. teammates. Sooners have claimed the title. In his final night of competition as a Sooner, English earned “I couldn’t be any more proud of this Horton won on the same event the first two All-America honors of his career with a third-place team right now,” Legendre said. “Michigan and Stanford were in 2006 and 2007. finish on parallel bars and a fifth-place finale on pommel. better than us today, but we fought to the very last guy.” The Port Jefferson, N.Y., native now has nine All-America Even though the Sooners may have come up short this seaThe meet was delayed several times throughout the eve- honors in his collegiate career, after finishing eighth on vault. son, Naddour said the squad is excited to contend again next ning to fix a broken ring after an Illinois gymnast fell while The freshman trio of Naddour, Dalton and Adams com- year. competing on the rings apparatus. bined to earn a national title and six All-America honors, “We put in sweat and tears to compete in this one meet to Fortunately, the gymnast was able to walk off on his own laying claim to being arguably the top freshman class in OU prove how good our team is,” Naddour said. “Having our team power afterward. history. bond like we have right now, we’re like a family and nothing is The broken ring caused problems for many of the teams Naddour trumped the competition on pommel horse to ever going to change that.”

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - Be open to new ideas or different ways of doing things, because in order to be successful today, you might have to revise your original plans. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to like it, just concentrate on accomplishing your aims. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -Jumping to conclusions could cause you to label something as being insignificant when in reality it might be an opportunity of enormous magnitude. Try before you deny. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23Dec. 21) - Unless youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re open to all possibilities, you could miss that big break youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been hoping would be there for you. A closed mind closes all doors, including the good ones you should be opening.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) - Even if conditions are not optimum, you still can make things work as long as you keep a positive mind about achieving what you want, regardless of what you need to overcome.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - Certain ideas of your mate are likely to be superior to yours, but you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know that unless you keep an open mind. If this turns out to be true, openly give him/her all the credit.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - Any benefits you hope to derive today arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t likely to come from your efforts alone. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need the cooperation of those who work at your side, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need your acknowledgement of the part they played.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - This could be one of those days when you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like what you have to do in order to get something you want. But if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do so, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll shut yourself out from all possibilities.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Even if some less considerate companions attempt to induce you to do otherwise, do that which you believe to be the best for all concerned. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never get into trouble doing what is right.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - Someone among your peer group could attempt to upstage you or belittle your performance. If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t respond in kind, this person will end up looking like the poor excuse of a person s/he is.

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