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Mental-health department denied additional funding Committee allocates entire amount from student-activity fees to student government

Affairs and a member of the Student Activity Fee Committee, recommended UOSA should receive the entire $12,470.20 from student-activity fees. The other committee members — UOSA JARED RADER and RENEÉ SELANDERS The Oklahoma Daily President Franz Zenteno, Student Congress Chair Brett Stidham and Graduate Student he university’s mental-health de- Senate Chair Derrell Cox — approved the recpartment did not receive the extra ommendation, making UOSA the only organifunding it requested from student- zation to receive a budget increase for the next activity fee revenues this semester academic year, according to the OU Board of even though the money was available. Regents March meeting agenda. UOSA’s budget increased by $12,470.20 for Because UOSA officials requested $3,458, the the 2011-2012 academic year after the Student student association received $9,012.20 more Activity Fee Committee allocated than it requested — money that the entire projected increase in could have funded Counseling student-activity fee revenues to and Testing’s proposed salaries Allotting student government. and benefits increase for departstudent funds T h e S t u d e n t A c t i v i t y Fe e ment interns. Committee reviewed applications Members of the committee derequesting increased funding cided to allocate the money to Requesting from UOSA and the university’s UOSA, which is funded entirely more funding primary mental-health agency — by student-activity fees, because Counseling and Testing Services Counseling and Testing has fund— on March 4. ing sources other than student Distributing UOSA requested an additional activity fees, said Brett Stidham, UOSA’s money $3,458, with $2,465 budgeted for Undergraduate Student Congress hourly and student wages and chair, in an email. The addition of $993 budgeted for adjustments a UOSA webmaster position to in benefits for UOSA’s two full-time staffers, ac- maintain and update student government webcording to UOSA’s funding request. sites and an increase in student organizations Counseling and Testing’s request included using most of their allocated funds influenced two proposals: an extra $41,250 to promote its the committee’s decision to grant the additional lone psychiatrist from part-time to full-time and revenue to UOSA, Stidham said in an email. $7,980 to increase the salaries of its interns from The mental-health department receives addi$19,000 to $21,000 per intern. tional funding from the state and makes revenue While Counseling and Testing didn’t re- off of sales and services. ceive the additional requested funding from “I personally believe that the mental health student-activity fees, recent turnover in experi- of our community is important, yet the quesenced staff freed up the funds necessary to ful- tion still remains: how to finance the endeavfill the proposed salary increase for interns, said or,” Stidham said in an email. “The committee’s William Wayne, Counseling and Testing Services director. Clarke Stroud, vice president of Student SEE FUNDS PAGE 2

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Regents to hold hearing on academic costs A public hearing will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the State Regents’ Conference Room, 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 in Oklahoma City to discuss academic service fees. Members of the public may address the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education during the meeting. Legislative peer limits for tuition and fees will be open for discussion during the hearing. This includes tuition and fees for all institutions in the Oklahoma State System for Higher Education. Resident and nonresident tuition and credit-hour rates for fiscal year 2011-2012 will be discussed. Tuition and mandatory fee limits for professional programs will also be discussed for College of Law and OU Health Sciences Center programs. Academic service fee proposals will be presented among the tuition and mandatory fees. This includes both the addition and deletion of lab, program and service fees for main campuses and the OU Health Sciences Center. Students interested in voicing their opinion must call the Chancellor’s Office of State Regents at 405-2259100 before the hearing, said Ben Hardcastle, regents communications director. “This is an opportunity for students to express their views and their opinion is important to the Board of Regents,” Hardcastle said. — Hillary McLain/The Daily

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Superior Court hears runoff-election case Decision about petition to invalidate CAC election results will be decided soon KATHLEEN EVANS The Oklahoma Daily

T h e U O S A Su p e r i o r C o u r t heard arguments Monday night about whether the Campus Activities Council chair runoff election should be invalidated. Philosophy senior Matt Bruenig filed a petition asking the court to invalidate the election results because of mass emails allegedly sent by CAC chairwoman-elect Melissa Mock’s campaign team, according to Daily archives. B r u e n i g ’s re p re s e nt at i o n , Matthew Zellner, law student and associate General Counsel, argued that Bruenig was justified in bringing the case to the court despite direct injury to him. Because every student is part of UOSA and because CAC creates campuswide events in which any student can participate, Bruenig was harmed by these emails and election violations, Zellner said. “Because of the nature of the office in question and because

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all students in UOSA are able to participate and be appointed and run within CAC, by the fact that the chairperson is elected in possibly an invalid election is a harm,” Zellner said before the court. He also said that the UOSA Superior Court has bent the rules in the past about an injury being

necessary to ensure that the court is accessible to all students. Amber Siddiqui, law student and G eneral Counsel chairwoman, represented Mock in the hearing and said Bruenig could not show more harm done to him than to any other student and was not able to bring the case to court.

“To bring a lawsuit in any court you need palpable injury. Why should this court be any different just because it is a student court?” Siddiqui said. Students wanting to bring a case to the court can do so by petitioning the General Counsel, rather than petitioning the court directly, Siddiqui said. This would get around the need to confirm an injury, but Bruenig chose to file the case himself. The court then heard arguments about whether there was enough evidence to call for an invalidation of the election results. More than 1,000 unsolicited emails were allegedly sent out on Mock’s behalf by friends and volunteers, Zellner said. She only won the election by 57 votes, meaning the number of emails sent was 17 times the margin and about half of the entire number of voters, Zellner said. Because of the large number of students receiving this email and because of the personal nature of the emails, it is safe to say they SEE CAC PAGE 2

CIA to recruit students from campus this week General information, internship opportunities will be presented at sessions RICHARD IMMEL The Oklahoma Daily

A CIA recruiter will be on campus this week to discuss employment opportunities within the organization with OU students. CIA recruiter Nancy Hunt will host two recruitment sessions this week, both of which are open to

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students. The first will be a general information session that takes place at 4 p.m. today, and the second session will focus primarily on internship opportunities for freshmen and will take place noon Wednesday. Both sessions will be held in Hester Hall, Room 160. Students also may schedule individual appointments with Hunt to delve deeper into the CIA’s application process. “In international and area

studies we have a lot of students that are interested in this line of work, particularly our international security majors,” said Suzette Grillot, event coordinator and College of International Studies associate dean. “It benefits them because students can have questions answered regarding everything from how to apply, where you find application materials, how the application process works, what are they to expect throughout that

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process to just general information about what it’s like to work for the CIA,” Grillot said. There is often misunderstanding regarding the lifestyle of people employed by the CIA, she said. “It can clarify a lot of their own ideas about working for the CIA.” Grillot said. “I think a number of [students], when following up on the application process, will be more successful because they have had that one-on-one contact.”

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Today around campus » The School of Art & Art History’s Foundations exhibition will be open to the public from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Fred Jones Jr. Memorial Art Center’s Lightwell Gallery. » As part of Green Week, Student Congress will tie-dye Green Week T-shirts for free from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the South Oval. » Jack Willis, former OU journalism professor, will speak at a men’s breast health awareness seminar from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Sooner Room. » School of Music faculty and students will perform a free guitar concert at noon to 12:30 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Sandy Bell Gallery. » Two Oklahoma government officials will present a workshop on the 2010 Census from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Bizzell Memorial Library, Room 149D. Reservations are required. Call 405-3254142 to reserve a spot. » Bette Scott, career services director, will give a free seminar on the transition from school to career from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245. » A CIA recruiter will discuss working for the CIA from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hester Hall 160. » As a part of Green Week, Student Congress will host OU Unplugged from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the WalkerAdams Mall featuring free food and acoustic music. » The OU Jazz Band will perform from 8 to 10 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall as a part of the Sutton Concert Series.

Wednesday, April 20 » Fresh waffles will be available from 9 to 10 a.m. in the Wagner Hall Writing Center, Room 280, for students working on papers. » Guest speaker Mary Kay Reinemann of the Center for Nonviolent Communication will speak during a lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Room 100. » As part of Green Week, Student Congress is having a sack-lunch picnic with chips and guacamole provided by Chipotle from noon to 1 p.m. on the South Oval. » Free Health and Fitness Seminar: “Short Distance Race Training” will be from noon to 12:45 p.m. Email heatherkirkes@ou.edu for more information.

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April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City Federal Building bombed The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed in the largest terrorist attack in the U.S. at the time. The bomb was linked to Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, who were arrested and charged within a month. 168 people died in the bombing, including 19 children. In April 2000, on the fifth anniversary, the city dedicated the Oklahoma City National Memorial to commemorate those who died. — Source: The Oklahoma Daily archives

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decision was one for student-organization funding and a more open student government to maximize the benefit to all students within the OU community.” Counseling and Testing’s application for funding states its interns’ salaries have remained the same for the last seven years, while other Big 12 institutions have increased salaries to a median salary of approximately $25,000 per intern. Student-activity fees fund three intern positions, and the OU athletic program and OU Health Sciences fund additional positions, according to testing services’ application. “This program is beneficial to OU students in that it enables [Counseling and Testing Services] to extend its services by using doctoral interns under supervision to provide counseling in a very cost effective manner,” according to the application. In 2008, the Student Activity Fee Committee approved a request by testing services to raise the salary for its lone psychiatrist from half-time to three-quarter-time, according to a funding application. However, this still puts OU behind most Big 12 universities that average 1.5 psychiatrists per campus, according to counseling’s funding application. “The very limited availability of psychiatric services to students is probably the area of highest liability for [Counseling and Testing Services] and the university,”

Reef fish to make a splash Natural history museum visitors will have the opportunity to participate in a discussion about the relationships of reef fish as part of a returning series of lectures held in Norman. The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History will host “Coral Reef Fishes: Novelties Underlying Ecological Impact in Nature’s Richest Realm” as part of the George Miksch Sutton lecture series at 7 p.m. April 26 in the museum’s Robert S. Kerr Auditorium. The lecture series was established in 1972 by an endowment from George Miksch Sutton and is sponsored by OU’s zoology department, according to a press release. Sutton was an ornithologist, conservationist and artist who also worked as a professor of zoology and curator of birds at the history museum, according to the press release. Peter Wainwright from the University of CaliforniaDavis, will present the lecture. Wainwright will focus his attention on the diversity and relationships of reef fish, particularly the way they feed and how the processes contribute to biodiversity, museum spokeswoman Linda Coldwell said. “[I am] interested in addressing questions about the origins and consequences of functional diversity,” Wainwright said in the press release. The lecture series is free and open to the public. A reception will be held in the museum’s Redbud Café afterward. Other lectures in the series have not yet been announced. — Courtney Goforth/The Daily

according to the request. The Student Activity Fee Committee has been helpful to Counseling and Testing in the past and always shows consideration toward its requests, Wayne said in an email. “We understand resources are limited — especially now — and in my opinion it is quite reasonable that a structure like the current one is in place to decide which of the requests deserve the available funds,” Wayne said in an email. Every OU student pays $5.95 per credit hour in student-activity fees to fund UOSA and Student Affairs departments, including Counseling and Testing Services, Number Nyne Crisis Center, Fitness and Recreation, the dean of Students, Student Life and Student Media. Projections of student-activity fee revenue are based on historical enrollment and fee collection trends and are prepared by the university’s Chief Financial Officer Chris Kuwitzky. Every year, organizations under Student Affairs must submit funding requests to the Student Activity Fee Committee for review. After reviewing the requests, the committee creates and approves a budget that must then be approved by the OU Board of Regents.

Editor’s note: This is part two of a three-part series tracking the allocation of student-activity fees. Part one focused on the distribution process. Part two examines the departments that applied for an increase in funding for 2011-2012. Part three will focus on how UOSA distributes its money.

CAC: Both candidates violated campaign rules, chairwoman says Continued from page 1 had an effect on the election outcome, Zellner said. One of Siddiqui’s main points was that the first student to send the email actually checked the rules to see if sending an email would violate election rules. She misinterpreted the rules and did not think she was in violation of them, Siddiqui said. Candidates cannot send unsolicited electronic messages, and candidates are responsible for the actions of their campaign teams and volunteers, according to the UOSA Code Annotated.

The people sending the emails were just volunteers and friends, not official team members, Siddiqui said. Also, they did not hold positions of authority, so one cannot assume students were influenced by the emails. Also, Mock’s opponent Greg Emde also violated election rules by displaying signs that were too big, Siddiqui said. These signs were seen every day by students walking across campus and could have had a bigger impact than the emails, which were sent out to only 1,000 students. The court will release its decision as soon as possible and hopes to have something by today, Election Board chairwoman Natalie Jester said.

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THUMBS UP ›› State regents are inviting citizens to speak at their open meeting (see page 1)

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Last week students proved change can happen if they voice their opinions to the administration. A group of students spoke out about the university’s time limit for sexual-assault victims to file grievances and administrators extended the filing period to a full year. Students will have another opportunity to voice their opinion on an equally hot topic — tuition — Wednesday before the State Regents for Higher Education. A public hearing will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the State Regents’ Conference Room, 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 in Oklahoma City. Everyone is welcome to attend the meeting and discuss increasing education costs. As students, we never like hearing we’ll be forced to pay more for education, but we at least want to know where it’s going.

As the ones who will be most affected by tuition increases, it is our duty to let the regents know what sort of implications a tuition increase would have. A tuition increase is looming and we must let those in control know how this will affect us. We believe this is a valuable opportunity for students to gather together and make our voices heard about tuition increases. Come August, you can’t complain about increased tuition unless you are proactive. The regents have until June to set the tuition rates for the next academic year, lets make our voices heard and let the regents know how we really feel about tuition increases.

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GUEST COLUMN

Conserving U.S. energy use On our way to school this morning my stepson and I The project that was first envisioned in 1983 began in had a discussion concerning technological innovation in 1991 and was canceled in 1993. Two major factors were a Germany before and during WWII. We covered highways, desire to balance the budget and to end the Cold War. At ballistic rocketry, jet propulsion, nuclear research and that time the cost projection had exceeded $12 billion — even Volkswagens. It was amazing to consider the inno- which isn’t a huge sum by today’s standards. Energy innovation Germany produced during that period. Outside of vation and policy wasn’t popular then and that DOE projcomputing it’s scary to consider the areas in which innova- ect was scrapped $2 billion in. tion has become stagnant. Fast forward to today. We have troops engaged in miliAfter I dropped him off at school I started to think about tary actions in multiple countries. We do not have a balsome of the issues Americans face. The country is strug- anced budget. Our energy independence is more distant gling to find a budget that works. Citizens are complaining as we see our dependence on fossil fuels increase. We are about gas prices. also realizing bio-fuels aren’t all they were expected to be. Before I go any further I need to share a little about my Another level 7 nuclear crisis in Japan and the offshore background. I was raised in and around the oil and gas in- drilling accidents in the gulf of Mexico aren’t helping much dustry. During a few summers I would tag along and help either. To top this off Chinese and Indian citizens are realbuy oil and gas leases. My father helped build one of these izing — to a greater extent — a luxury previously limited to local oil companies, which will be moving into one of the western cultures — personal automobiles. skyscrapers in downtown Oklahoma So where are we? Do we have anyCity. thing exciting on the horizon? Are we Here is what is going to happen While he was helping to build this going to see another string of innowhether we like it or not: we company he was also trying to raise vation as we saw during WWII or the are going to become more awareness of our country’s energy situCold War? dependent on fossil fuels and ation. He has expressed these concerns Here is what is going to happen to people everywhere including US whether we like it or not: we are going Fossil fuels will become less congressmen. As an example, one day abundant and more expensive.” to become more dependent on fossil we turned the TV to C-SPAN as a senafuels and Fossil fuels will become less tor was using materials dad had provided. As the camera abundant and more expensive. panned throughout the room we noticed it was empty. I Also, those involved in the energy industry are going to learned how this was very common in D.C. I also learned get wealthier and others will suffer as energy costs increase. how energy independence isn’t a very popular subject. It’s The United States will enter a significant war while we fight even less popular when it comes from the people in the over dwindling oil and gas reserves. know — i.e. those in the industry. Innovation will come one way or the other. It may not In the nineties we saw federal budget problems, experi- come from the US and it may not come from a government enced a shutdown and fought a war. These are similar is- initiative, but it will come. sues to what we are facing today. The differences this time This morning, I pondered what would have happened if are that we don’t have a clear path to a balanced budget we had developed the Super Collider 18 years ago. Would and if you consider Peak Oil — among other theories — we we still rely on fossil fuels? How long until energy innovahave an impending energy crisis. tion and an energy policy are popular? Are we missing any Many people on campus may not remember a victim of other economic windows of opportunity? our balanced budget in the nineties: the Superconducting Super Collider. This was a Department of Energy particle — Matt Lettrell, accelerator project. Many people may be familiar with the economics graduate Large Hadron Collider; this was much larger. The particle accelerator planned for Waxahachie, Texas had a design Comment on this column at OUDaily.com potential of 20 TeV (teraelectronvolts). According to my research, the LHC plans to be running at 7 TeV by 2014.

The Oklahoma City Police Department has been setting up checkpoints to crack down on unlicensed drivers. The stops are simple enough, you will wait in line and the police will ask to see your driver’s license. If you have it on you and show it, you will simply get to drive off, but if you are unable to produce your license then you will get a ticket. However, a huge problem in the process was brought up in a story on NewsOK.com. The story reports “some drivers are given warnings; others are ticketed or arrested.” There should be no opportunity for leeway in such a situation; you either have your license or you don’t. Even if someone had a license but happened to leave his or her wallet at home, they should be written a ticket. Some counties allow these types of tickets to be waived by presenting their valid driver’s license to the court within a certain number of days. So even if the ticket were to be eventually thrown out, the ticket needs to be given. With such a black and white offense, we are left scratching our heads over about why police are handing out warnings. By allowing any sort of grey area in these sorts of situations, police are opening the door for preferential treatment — the very thing they should never be associated with. The law leaves little room for interpretation. We can even understand where the arrests are assessed. If you are stopped during the checkpoint and you have an open container, paraphernalia or any other illegal object then you will be arrested — and deservingly so. This is the driver’s fault for not following the law and he or she should be punished accordingly. Every person who is unable to produce a valid drivers license should receive a ticket, no matter the excuse, race or gender; you either have a license or you don’t. This situation is very similar to how the Norman Police Department sets up drunken driving checkpoints around Norman during the weekends. This is another clear-cut case of either breaking the law by being over the legal limit, or being free to go because you are sober. Yes, drunken drivers are a greater threat to citizen’s safety, but unlicensed drivers also create many problems for law-abiding citizens. Unlicensed-drivers will not have insurance, meaning if they cause a car accident we will be out hundreds of dollars in car repairs — which is completely unfair to those of us who have gone through the proper steps to insure they are following the law. By creating these checkpoints and carrying out the law, the Oklahoma City Police Department can protect themselves from a potentially dangerous situation where citizens could claim they are being profiled; when really they are breaking the law and are unfortunate enough to drive through the checkpoint. The police department is merely doing their job and protecting citizens, but they need to make sure they are consistently delivering an equal punishment across the board in order to create equality among citizens. People who break the law deserve to be punished no matter what their excuse may be. No more warnings, carry out the law as it is supposed to be done, and issue tickets.

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Hipsters are not to be feared He wears a scarf and sandals. From the is soulless junk, and dismiss popular opinion pocket of his skinny jeans, a headphone as white noise. In layman’s terms, hipsters are STAFF COLUMN cord runs up and around his shoulders, snobs. Or at least, that’s how the mainstream emitting Pitchfork-approved music. He Steven Zoeller grapples with their existence. reaches into a bag of organic crackers and The truth is, something about the hipsters’ crushes one between his pouting lips, the struggle to escape society at large rubs people sea salt getting caught in his goatee. Behind transition the wrong way. Is it because they help awaken ‘normal’ lenses, his impassive eyes appraise everything they fall people to their own conformist way of life? Or perhaps the on. hipsters’ urgent desire to separate themselves from sociYou have encountered a hipety makes its members ask, hey, ster. Do you flee or stand your what’s so bad about us? Regardless of the reason, society has ground? Regardless of the reason, sotaken to mocking these cultural elitists, ciety has taken to mocking these The first option is free of shame and probably the most cultural elitists, characterizing characterizing them as condescending wise, especially if you’re not a jerks that would drop their favorite band if them as condescending jerks that connoisseur of entertainment. drop their favorite band if they knew anyone else listened to them.” would Unfortunately, since not every they knew anyone else listened to hipster fits the above descripthem. Websites like Hipster Hitler tion, people often find out by accident what they all have — a web-comic following a verbose, eco-friendly Fuhrer in common: An impressive disdain for anything embraced — and the Hipster Handbook —exactly what it sounds by the mainstream audience. like— reduce hipsterism to a cliché. Other sites, like the Urban Dictionary puts it this way: “Hipsters are a sub- aptly titled “Look at this f***ing hipster,” are more overt, culture of men and women… that value independent simply posting pictures of hipsters so that people can bethinking, counter-culture, progressive politics, an ap- little them. preciation of art and indie-rock, creativity, intelligence And that’s truly a shame, because hipsters really ought and witty banter… Although hipsterism is really a state of to be emulated. mind, it is also often intertwined with distinct fashion senThey have a desire to be different, but they’re not dessibilities. Hipsters reject the culturally-ignorant attitudes perate like they’re made out to be. of mainstream consumers.” Hipsters are the people who, in their own way, protest — Steven Zoeller, society by dressing, eating and shaving differently than ev- University College freshman eryone else. They are those among us who believe most entertainment produced by a major label or film-studio Comment on this column at OUDaily.com

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HOROSCOPE By Bernice Bede Osol

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- It isn’t enough that you are holding all the trump cards, it is equally important that you recognize this fact and use them to your advantage. Don’t let your opposition off the hook.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Some chance remarks, coming from almost anybody, might provide you with several good ideas that you will be able to put to good use. It pays to be both friendly and a good listener.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Even if self-interest rather than compassion compels you to help another, at least you’ll lend a hand. That’s more than could be said for some others.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- An unexpected bonus derived from simply being kind to another will offer you something that you never dared believed could be yours. You won’t seek it, but you sure will enjoy it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Step forward and show others how it is possible to turn an interest of theirs into something that’s good for everybody. Colleagues will be thrilled at this development.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- By focusing on the virtues of others rather than their faults, you can encourage them to apply their talents to something in which you’re interested, and you’ll help yourself in the process. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Although you may not always choose to use your imaginative faculties, you are likely to have a need for just such skills. Don’t hesitate to step out of the box and use what you have. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Treating others fairly and with consideration is one of your greatest assets, and even if you don’t always realize it, it works to your advantage. In general, people respond in kind.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Although your needs will be important, you won’t allow them to usurp the hopes of others. If the only way you can have something is at the expense of another, you’ll pass. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Most of us make judgments on the outward appearances of what’s at hand, instead of considering the real factors behind things. You’ll be able to see beneath the veil. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- One of your greatest assets is your ability to go with the flow and quickly adjust to changing reality. You’ll use this talent to your advantage in several instances. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- You’ll work hard acquiring something you believe is important to another. Interestingly, you could ignore things that benefit yourself, but knock yourself out for friends and family.

Universal Crossword Edited by Timothy E. Parker April 19, 2011

ACROSS 1 Perjurers 6 Technologyshunning group 11 Common article 14 French farewell 15 Nary a soul 16 Kubrick’s ﬁlm computer 17 Dominating 19 Free (of) 20 Poor, to a ﬁlm critic 21 Center 22 President Coolidge’s nickname 25 English time letters 26 Corrects, as text 28 Old apple spray 30 Cable TV athletic award 33 Fort Knox bar 34 Guilty of neglect 36 Some House of Lords members 38 Walk out on 43 Bobbing on the briny 44 Schoolmaster’s stick 45 ___ -Saxon 48 Make indistinct 50 Dubai big shot 51 Commits to memory 53 Dundee brush-off

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13 One with the most life experience 18 Formidable foe 21 Ofﬁcial reprimand 22 Sagan or Sandburg 23 Tar’s direction 24 Tibetan priest 27 Choreographer Agnes de ___ 29 Yankees vs. Red Sox, e.g. 31 Rose segment 32 Yes, in “Fargo” 35 ___ Hall (New Jersey campus) 37 Song’s chorus 39 Woodpecker’s tool 40 Type of roast 41 TV advertiser’s award

42 “___ goes nothing!” 45 One lacking in pigment 46 Render impotent 47 Funny joke, in old slang 49 Needing neatening 52 Unmoving 54 Hoops great Baylor or Chicago suburb 58 Largest continent 59 Leave on the grill too long 60 White-tailed sea eagle 62 ___ Newton (kind of snack) 63 Passenger info 64 Write down the wrong answer, e.g. 65 ___ Alamos, N.M.

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Perkins makes OKC contender Power of the playoff beards

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The trade between the Boston Celtics and the Oklahoma City Thunder that dealt Kendrick Perkins and Nate Robinson to OKC for Jeff Green and Nenad Krstic dramatically altered the Thunderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playoff destiny. Having Perkins down low frees up Serge Ibaka to run wild with weakside defense, leading to a spike in blocks for the Congo native. I n S u n d a y â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s G a m e 1 against the Nuggets, Ibaka totaled four blocks. Even though Denverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NenĂŞ racked up 22 points against OKC in the first matchup, he could have doubled that had Perkins not slowed him down. Perkins not only makes Ibaka better â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he makes every player around him better. Perkins did the same thing for the Celtics, too. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no coincidence Boston slipped after the trade deadline, conceding the top seed in the East to Chicago â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even though Derrick Rose also had something to do with it. Bostonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Threeâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ray Allen, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett â&#x20AC;&#x201D; depended on Perkins to do what he does best for the offense. Garnett benefitted from Perkins in the same way Ibaka is now, flourishing as a weakside defender and getting to play more like the forward he is. Allen and Pierce benefitted from the big body in the

wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have won the title. With Perkins as the final puzzle piece, OKC should make a deep playoff run.

In late April, male fans give a special ode to our faSTAFF COLUMN UMN vorite sports teams that have survived the regular season RJ Young and earned a spot in postseason play. It is displayed by men â&#x20AC;&#x201D; protectors of the action movie genre, the Second Amendment and all things rough, rowdy and obnoxious. It is called the playoff beard. Only a chosen few indulge in the subtle art that is growing a playoff beard because it is no small commitment. It requires no shaving, no grooming and a sports fanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fanaticism. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having trouble picturing the playoff beard, you neednâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fear â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just Google â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jeremiah Johnson.â&#x20AC;? The classic Western film is exactly what is expected of a playoff beard once the NBA Finals roll around this summer. Some of the best playoff beards of all time have been worn by NHL players around the country â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in Canada, too. Take Scott Hartnell for instance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a big, brash left wing with the Philadelphia Flyers during the 2010 NHL playoffs. His playoff beard was stupendous. A thick mane of brown, tangled hair descended from Hartnellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cheek bones down to the base of his neck. Or consider the Pittsburgh Penguinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Maxime Talbot. His playoff beard and all its magic were responsible for two goals during Game 7 of the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals that clinched the title for the Penguins. Had Talbot not been able to invoke the glory of the manfur growing on his face, the Penguins might have lost. Even some football players have participated in the growing of playoff beards â&#x20AC;&#x201D; we can thank former NFL quarterback Jake Plummer for this. But in the NBA, the playoff beard wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the style until the Knicks of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s decided it was fashionable to go half of April, all of May and the first week of June with beards of splendor. God bless them. Had it not been for some guy named Michael Jordan, the magic of the playoff beard might actually have worked for those Knicks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for most of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s, at least. Still, the tradition remains, and I for one am taking part. My girlfriend doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dig the idea of me looking like a mountain man, but she understands the significance and sanctity of the playoff beard. She understands the reason we fear and revere it. When your team wins a championship because you or some guy you know was wise enough to invoke the power of the playoff beard, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll understand too.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; James Corley, journalism senior

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; RJ Young, professional writing grad student

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Oklahoma City Thunder center Kendrick Perkins (5) defends a shot by Denver Nuggets center NenĂŞ during OKCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 107-103 win Sunday in Oklahoma City. paint drawing defenders so they could cut to the basket. Now, Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook have that advantage. Perkinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; size was exactly what Oklahoma City lacked in last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playoffs against

the Los Angeles Lakers. Just picture it: Perkins on Andrew Bynum/Lamar Odom, Ibaka on Gasol. Without the size mismatch in the Lakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; favor, that series could have gone to the Thunder, and the Lakers

FOOTBALL

QB impresses in spring game Drew Allen looked confident, feels heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be ready to step up if called on this season as backup frontrunner

a slow start, offensive coordinator Josh Heupel said. Bell seemed less comfortable in the pocket and with the plays than Allen, only further distancing the two. JAMES CORLEY Heupelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s calls were almost 50-50 with The Oklahoma Daily passing and rushing plays to allow the If there was ever any talk of a backup- coaches to evaluate the tandem of running quarterback controversy, backs, so neither quarterDrew Allen ended it with his back threw what they would DREW ALLEN performance in Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in a real game situation, but Âť Year (2011): spring game. Allen said the spring-game Sophomore The San Antonio native, exper ience boosted his Âť Position: who will be a sophomore in confidence. Quarterback the fall, completed 55 perâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Coach Heupel talked Âť Hometown: cent of his passes for 179 about how this is the closest San Antonio yards, a touchdown and an we are going to get to a gameÂť Stats: interception. like situation (before the sea16-29, 179 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drew (Allen), I thought, son starts),â&#x20AC;? Allen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was impressive for sure in does bring a lot of confidence that first half and did a lot of really nice to myself and to the whole team that I was things,â&#x20AC;? coach Bob Stoops said during the able to hold my own today.â&#x20AC;? Red-White postgame press conference. Allen said his offseason workouts and Allen outperformed redshirt freshman spring practices have prepared him if heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Blake Bell, who was 12-of-28 for 84 yards called on during the season. with a touchdown and an interception. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think I will be ready to step up if I need Bell took snaps with both squads so the to play some next year,â&#x20AC;? Allen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel coaches could get a better look at him after more prepared to take my role as backup.â&#x20AC;?

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PAUL SIMON “So Beautiful or So What” (Hear Music) Rating: 1/2

“So Beautiful or So What,” Paul Simon’s 12th album and his first in five years, is far removed from any of his work. As a result, “So Beautiful or So What” is Simon’s best since his 1990 album “Graceland.” Though the songs aren’t as pretty as some of his earlier work,they are well formed. “So Beautiful or So What” finds Simon doing what he does best: making some truly excellent pop songs. He’s a generational icon who belongs as much to us as he does to our parents, and this album solidifies that. — Danny Hatch/The Daily THE WEEKND “House of Balloons” (Record label) Rating:

In the last 20 years, R&B has become a staid cash cow with the standardized formula of a silky, provocative singer, gentle guitar strumming and uninspired, deep bass beat. That is until three weeks ago when the Toronto R&B project The Weeknd released its mixtape “House of Balloons,” and provided the genre a shot in the arm. The project sounds like a woozy, subdued R&B take on Beach House, with more provocative, disturbing lyrics than shoegazey ones. If this is where R&B’s going, then the genre’s certainly innovating for the better, if more explicit. — Matt Carney/The Daily BOWLING FOR SOUP

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Students reconcile beliefs with sexuality Two LGBT students look to resolve conflict between religion, sexuality JANNA GENTRY The Oklahoma Daily

he words “gay” and “religious” are often thought to be mutually exclusive. An interesting silence in gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered culture and activities is the discussion of religion. Barbara Boyd, Religious Studies Program outreach director, said she believes an individual’s upbringing has a lot to do with this silence. “I do not know one gay person who has stayed in a church that preaches that their orientation is a sin,” she said. “If someone does stay in that environment, it often ends in tragedy.” Because of negative childhood experiences, many in the LGBT community give up religion, finding it incompatible with their lifestyle. But some choose to remain religious despite their sexual preferences. University College freshman C.J. Mays and studio art senior Dezrea Dalessandro experienced conflict between their orientation and religion, yet they emerged from their conflicts with strong faith. Mays grew up in a conservative Messianic Jewish family. Though his family is not ethnically Jewish, they incorporated Jewish elements into their practice of Christianity. His family did not agree with homosexuality, and he left home after his mother passed away. “This all happened before college,” he said. “I moved to Tulsa and lived with two lesbian counselors in an environment where I felt like I could be myself.” Once at OU, Mays took an interest in the Hillel Foundation, a Jewish student group on campus. “As soon as I got here, Hillel was the first group that I went to —and I immediately felt accepted,” Mays said. Soon after Mays began to attend

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University College freshman C.J. Mays reads the Tanakh. Mays is a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community advocate within a religious group. Hillel, he decided he wanted to convert to Conservative Judaism, a process he is in the middle of. Mays said his sexual orientation does not conflict at all with his current religious beliefs. “I grew up in a conflicting and ostracizing environment, but my Jewish faith is very welcoming of my orientation,” Mays said. Dalessandro said she grew up attending a Baptist church, but described herself as a Christian who becomes more universalist every day. “I probably stopped being a Baptist when I was in the eighth grade, and that’s when I really began to know that I was queer,” she said. Because of her upbringing, Dalessandro had a difficult time coming to terms with her sexuality.

When a respected Christian woman came out to Dalessandro, she garnered the strength to deal with her feelings and what that meant in relation to her faith. “If I was going to accept being bisexual, I had to look at faith in a different way now,” Dalessandro said. Although she said she does not believe the Bible is a literal text, she believes it is a sacred book of truth. Most biblical references condemning homosexuality are in the Old Testament, and Christians generally regard the Old Testament as less relevant to their lives than the New Testament, Dalessandro said. She said she believes when New Testament authors such as Paul referred to homosexuality, they were talking specifically about pagan temple practices, and the intention

of the action was what was being condemned rather than the actual practice. “Christ never mentioned homosexuality,” she said. “ What he did talk about is caring and loving people.” Despite her confidence in her beliefs, Dalessandro said she is not immune to doubt. “I am convinced that God blesses and condones same-sex attraction, but I still have that little voice in my head that says ‘what if this is wrong and I have just talked myself into it?’” Dalessandro said. Boyd said context is important when interpreting the condemnation of homosexuality in the Bible. In the Old Testament, she said God condemned homosexuality because reproduction was impossible. “Jewish law was concerned with procreation, and sexual acts that were not in relation to procreation were not advocated,” Boyd said. In the New Testament, Boyd said she believes homosexuality is condemned because its practice was related to abuses of power, referencing the pagan practice of sexual relationships between men and boys. She also believes the differences between our society and the society that the Apostle Paul was writing to play a large role in interpreting scripture. “There are contextual differences that many biblical scholars will bring up,” she said. “Our contexts are just not the same. We are dealing with free will, lifestyle choices and the role of science in answering the question of homosexuality, so we have a lot of information that is quite different from what they had in Bible times.” Lastly, Boyd stressed the importance of the message of Jesus. “Jesus’ message seemed to be two-fold,” she said. “He spoke about love, which was a challenge to the idea of law, and he spoke about the kingdom of God, which would be a kingdom of love. He never mentioned homosexuality.”

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“Fishing for Woos” (Razor and Tie Records) Rating:

The new Bowling For Soup album is highly reminiscent of past releases — not that that’s a bad thing. With simple lyrics, the band succeeds at perfecting its breed of upbeat pop-punk. “Fishin’ for Woos” shows a few deviations from the usually happy-go-lucky band. Bowling for Soup will perform April 28 at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa to kick off its tour for “Fishin’ for Woos.” Hopefully Oklahoma fans who treasure the band will be able to make the show. This album is right up their alley. — Sydney Allen/The Daily Have any music news? An album suggestion for our writers? Questions? Email us at dailyent@ou.edu.

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