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ZENTENO NAMED UOSA PRESIDENT Lawmakers Zenteno-Lloyd win run off after receiving 150 more votes than Glavas-McCullock ticket TROY WEATHERFORD Daily Staff Writer

With a 52 percent majority, Franz Zenteno and Cory Lloyd were named the victors of UOSA’s run-off election held Monday and Tuesday. President-elect Zenteno celebrated the news late Tuesday night at Lloyd’s house. “I want to congratulate all of the OU students for coming and voting, and I just want to say thank you to them,” said Zenteno, political science senior. Zenteno and Lloyd received 2,055 out of 3,960 total votes, election chairman Michael Ukpong said. Ally Glavas and Zach McCullock

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were originally named the winners of the general election on March 31 with 2,246 out of 5,282 total votes cast. However, UOSA Superior Court ordered a run-off election because no candidate received a majority and the automatic electronic run off did not include just the top two candidates as required by the UOSA Constitution. “We want to bring everyone together and make a positive change so that everyone can be represented by student government,” Zenteno said. Glavas said that she had no comment about the results.

Run-off election results: Zenteno-Lloyd: 2,055 votes Glavas-McCullock: 1,905 votes Total votes: 3,960

State House of Representatives, Senate vote overwhelmingly against Gov. Brad Henry’s vetoes RICKY MARANON Assignment Editor

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UOSA President-elect Franz Zenteno celebrates with Vice President-elect Cory Lloyd after the election announcement Tuesday evening at Lloyd’s house.

Students prep for cross-country bike trek Bikers will devote summer vacation to service-oriented bike ride across the United States CASSI TONEY Daily Staff Writer

Three OU students plan to bike across the country this summer to raise awareness of affordable housing in the United States. The students will ride in support of Bike and Build, a non-profit organization that encourages college students ages 18 to 26 to bike 4,000 miles across the country to raise money and awareness for organizations such as Habitat for Humanity. Brian Phillips, one of four trip leaders on his route, said there are eight routes across the country. Each route is approximately 4,000 miles long and has an average of 32 participants, said Phillips, psychology senior. “Bike and Build is an experience of a lifetime because it is a lifelong commitment to community service,” Phillips said. Phillips said approximately 255 college-aged people participate each summer. He said each participant must raise $4,000 to join. Bike and Build has contributed $2.3 million to housing projects in the last seven years, according to the website. The participants from summer 2009 donated $660,000. The team bikes an average of 75 miles per day for 11 weeks in the summer and members sleep in community centers and churches for free, he said. The team also volunteers at a Habitat project site once a week. Phillips, who participated for the first time in 2009, said his team plans to stop in Colorado Springs, Colo., for a full week to work on a Habitat project. “Last summer it was weird because you’re helping the affordablehousing cause, but you’re only on a job site for one day,” Phillips said. “This year I’ll actually feel like I’ll build something.” Phillips said he never owned bike before he signed up. “Riding a bike across the country sounds awesome and you’re doing it to help other people,” Phillips said. “I feel like I will definitely continue to give back whenever I can to the community because of this experience.” Kathryn Vculek, accounting senior, said she learned about Bike and Build through Phillips and decided in September to participate this year. “Anybody you talked to about doing it said it was an amazing and said they would do it again in a heartbeat, so I wanted to experience that,” Vculek said. Vculek said she hoped other OU students would do some volunteer work after they see the Bike and Build’s participants’ drastic actions. “If other students just like you are getting involved on such a drastic scale, why not get involved on one weekend?” Vculek said. Vculek said she wanted to participate to get more involved in community service, have a physical challenge and make new friends. “You meet 30 strangers when you arrive in Virginia, and by the time you arrive in Oregon, you’re family,” Vculek said. Amy Hamilton, psychology senior, said she heard about Bike and Build when she met Phillips in a class in fall 2009. “I asked him what he did over the summer,” Hamilton said. “He lifted up his sleeve to show his tan lines and said, ‘I just cycled across the country.’” Hamilton said she had heard about people doing things like Bike and Build and thought it sounded crazy but cool. She said she loves doing activities outdoors but she had never really ridden a bike before. “It was something I always wanted to do, but I never thought I

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From the left: Amy Hamilton, pychology senior, Kathryn Vculek, accounting senior and Brian Phillips, psychology senior, pose for a picture. These students will participate in a cross-country bicycle trip to rise money and awerness for affordable housing.

would get the chance,” Hamilton said. Hamilton said she took a spin class and took a few rides per week to train for the summer. She said Oklahoma is a good place to train because of the hills and high winds. Hamilton said participants who finish the route get to keep their bikes. “I can’t imagine how you can put so much time, effort and even money into something and then quit,” Hamilton said. Hamilton said she wishes OU students knew Bike and Build existed and that there are students on campus trying to make a difference. “It would be nice for more students to be educated about affordable housing because it’s such a big issue,” Hamilton said. “It’s something that everyone needs to know about.” Bike and Build was founded in 2003 by Mark Bush who modeled the organization after the Habitat Bicycle Challenge at Yale, Phillips said. For more information and to donate to specific riders, visit bikeandbuild.org.

STUDENT CONGRESS DELIBERATES SUPERIOR COURT IMPEACHMENT Representatives air concerns over conflict of interest, potential breaking of Open Meetings Act TROY WEATHERFORD Daily Staff Writer

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The Oklahoma Senate overrode Gov. Brad Henry’s veto of two abortion bills Tuesday, one of which requires a woman to view an ultrasound before having an abortion. The other bill makes it illegal to sue a doctor claiming wrongful birth because the doctor failed to convince the mother to abort a child. Henry vetoed the two bills last week on the grounds that they do not protect victims of rape and incest. On Monday, the House of Representatives voted 84-12 against the governor’s veto, and the Senate voted 36-12 on Tuesdsay, making the bills law. Henry said he is disappointed with the override because it signals the beginning of another costly legal battle for the state. “Both laws will be challenged and, in all likelihood, overturned by the courts as unconstitutional,” Henry said by e-mail. “I fear this entire exercise will ultimately be a waste of taxpayers’ time and money.” Henry’s words came true Tuesday afternoon when a reproductive rights group from New York filed a lawsuit in Oklahoma County court. House Speaker Chris Benge said he was proud the House acted quickly in overriding the veto. “This is clearly not a partisan issue,” said Benge, R-Tulsa. “We must move to stop the degradation of human life seen in recent years and stand up for those who cannot defend themselves.” Senate Pro-Tempore Glenn Coffee, R-Oklahoma City, said the only way the bill will be defeated is in court, but Coffee said he is confident the laws will remain on the books. “I would remind the governor and those who would seek to overturn this action that the governor has already signed two prolife bills into law this session that had been previously overturned by the courts on a technicality, not substance,” Coffee said. “That same technicality applies to the two vetoes that were overturned today. The argument that these bills will be challenged in the courts is speculative.”

Graduate Student Senate Chairmanelect Silas DeBoer encouraged the Undergraduate Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against the entire UOSA Superior Court. DeBoer said the court issued fines against GSS and specific senators in a court proceeding that they were not present for or informed of. The Graduate Student Senate has

twice delayed a resolution to encourage impeachment. DeBoer, communication graduate student, said the Senate was ignorant in not recommending impeachment. “I’m doing this because one of my constituencies has been wronged,” DeBoer said. UOSA CONTINUES ON PAGE 2

HENRY VETOES GUN BILL On Tuesday, Gov. Brad Henry vetoed a gun bill exempting buyers of Oklahoma-made guns from federal criminal background checks and other regulatory safeguards. Henry said the bill would make it easier for criminals to obtain a wide array of weapons in Oklahoma and endanger citizens and law enforcement officers in the process. “Any state effort to selectively ignore federal laws will certainly draw a legal challenge and result in a costly court battle that the state cannot win,” Henry said. “It simply makes no sense to continue to pass unconstitutional measures that run up legal bills and waste taxpayers’ money.” But the bill’s author, Sen. Randy Brogdon, R-Owasso, said just like the two abortion bill vetoes that also were overturned, he believed he had enough votes to overturn this veto. He said he would attempt to override the governor’s veto of SB 1685 as soon as possible. “The governor claims to be pro-life then vetoes pro-life bills. He claims to support the Second Amendment then vetoes legislation supporting it,” Brogdon said. “Actions speak louder than words — what he says he believes and what he does don’t add up. This bill would have given Oklahomans greater protection for their right to keep and bear arms.” Brogdon said the reason he wrote the bill was to preserve a citizen’s right to purchase a firearm, which he said was slowly being legislated away. —Ricky Maranon/The Daily VOL. 95, NO. 144

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UOSA Continues from page 1 DeBoer encouraged the U n d e r g ra d u at e St u d e nt Congress to pass an impeachment bill so that the Graduate Student Senate could begin proceedings against the court. Rep. Kody Shipley questioned whether it would be a conflict of interest for the GSS to hold a trial against the court, which issued a fine against GSS. DeBoer said it wouldn’t be a conflict of interest and he didn’t think the Senate would achieve the two-third majority needed to impeach the court. “I promise the senate will give the courts due process rights that were denied to [our members],” Deboer said. T h e Ju d i c i a l C o d e o f Conduct lists four impeachable offenses : breaching confidentiality, ex parte communication, recusal and endorsement of a candidate. DeBoer said that these were impeachable offenses, but that the court

could be impeached for other reasons. Congress attempted to bring the bill to the floor through a parliamentary procedure and achieved a twothirds majority, but members opposed to the bill left the room and a majority was lost. After two roll call votes, a quorum was regained. Soon, a recess was called. After a long recess, in which the legality of passing a bill not on the agenda was discussed, the meeting reconvened and a bill for impeachment was drafted. The Oklahoma Open Meetings Act allows new business to be presented at meetings, but it must be reasonably unforeseen. A bill encouraging impeachment was first heard at GSS April 18. Next in the Undergraduate Congress meeting, due to a mix-up in parliamentary procedure, the Congress voted again to move to committee of the whole to vote on a bill for impeachment. Moving to committee of the whole is a parliamentary method for introducing new legislation. This time, a two-thirds majority was not reached

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and the bill was not voted on, voiding the question of whether it violated the Open Meetings Act. “I think the more we went through it, the more people understood what we were doing,” said Sam Peyton, University College district representative. “If we had moved into committee, I think we may have violated the Open Meetings Act.” Also at the meeting, a bill was passed to deregulate administrative organizations’ elections. Administrative organizations fall into three categories: governmental, such as UOSA; residential, such as the Housing Center Student Association; and campus activities, such as the Campus Activities Council. The bill allows administrative organizations to hold elections without UOSA sanction. The bill also removes a requirement of these organizations to register all of their voting members with UOSA. Organizations would still be required to hold their elections during a UOSA election time frame.

EDITOR’S NOTE: In a story in Tuesday’s edition of The Oklahoma Daily, fraternity representatives accused UOSA presidential candidate Ally Glavas of campaigning at Greek house meetings instead of recruiting members for UOSA involvement, as was originally proposed. While The Daily stands by the accuracy of the reporting, the editors who made the decision to run the story were unaware of the fact that the story’s author, Emily Payne, is serving as president of Kappa Alpha Theta, and was actively campaigning for Franz Zenteno and Cory Lloyd. The Daily received the story through a partnership with a news gathering class in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Payne, a member of the class, had informed The Daily’s editor-in-chief of the potential conflict of interest, but the editor was absent from the newsroom when the decision to run the story was made. While we value the importance of the story, it was after its publication that we learned it was more than a week old. The story should have been covered by a reporter unaffiliated with either campaign, and presented before election voting had begun. Glavas confirmed Monday she did talk about the run-off election while recruiting members of Greek houses to volunteer for the UOSA executive branch.

CAMPUS EVENTS TODAY CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUS Christians on Campus will have its weekly Bible study at 12:30 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. PUBLIC LECTURE Diana Liverman, co-director of the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona, will give a lecture at 2:30 p.m. in the National Weather Center. SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AND AREA STUDIES The School of International and Area Studies will end its 2010 Asia Symposium with a lecture about Bollywood at 5:30 p.m. in the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of History. Following the lecture is a film screening. PRE-LAW CLUB The Pre-Law Club will meet at 6 p.m. in the union. CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST Campus Crusade for Christ will meet at 9 p.m. in the Santee Lounge of the Gaylord Family Memorial Stadium. IMPACT MOVEMENT The Impact Movement will have a Bible study and fellowship at 9 p.m. in the Adams-Tarman basement. THURSDAY

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. DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Brandon Lee Austin, 21, 794 Asp Ave., Monday Debra Marie Borsch, 52, 2400 SE 24th Ave., Monday Perdomo Juan Felipe Andrade, 23, 200 Wadsack

Drive, Saturday Justin Warren McConnell, 20, 700 Asp Ave., Sunday, also possession of another person’s I.D. Michael Karl Kiby, 23, Jenkins Avenue, Sunday AGGRAVATED DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Flortentino Guzman Huerta, 31, E. Eufaula Street, Monday PUBLIC INTOXICATION Steven Dean Ishcomer, 20, 794 Asp Ave., Monday Justin Dewayne Stover, 25, 100 E. Brooks St.,

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HILARIOUS HITCHCOCK WORK GOES PLEASINGLY OVER THE TOP

One of Alfred Hitchcock’s early British films gets re-imagined in a stage adaptation that pumps up the comedy while thinning down the cast, and the resulting “The 39 Steps” is a comedy cyclone. Hitchcock was known for his dry black wit, but something tells me he would’ve appreciated this unabashedly silly approach. “The 39 Steps” opened on Broadway in 2008, and is making its Oklahoma premiere now through Sunday at Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre. The spy thriller presents us with Richard DUSTY Hannay, the unquestionably dashing hero SOMERS who winds up protecting the beautiful Annabella Schmidt after shots are fired in a crowded London theater. She informs him that she’s a spy, and is on the run from people trying to steal British military secrets. Soon, Hannay is on the run from the very same people in a cross-country escapade of adventure and betrayal. The plot is almost identical to Hitchcock’s film, but with only four actors portraying hundreds of characters, the tone is ramped up to a gleeful silliness rather quickly. PLAYBILL Oklahoma theater stalwart Jonathan Beck Reed When: 8 p.m. Friday stars as Hannay and Hannay 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday alone, but he’s surrounded 2 p.m. Sunday by a whirlwind of costume Where: Freede Little Theatre changes as Lexi Windsor Civic Center Music Hall portrays the three women 201 N. Walker St. Hannay encounters, and Tickets: $30 evening Matthew Alvin Brown and performances, $25 matinees, Steve Emerson play every$8 student rush one else — male, female and For tickets, call 405-297-2264 inanimate object. Reed and Windsor engage in escalating over-dramatized tomfoolery, always on the verge of a massive wink to the audience. Brown and Emerson do the admirable job of creating distinct, if broad, characterizations out of each of their minor parts. The show reaches a fever pitch of comedy in the moments when it’s most blatant about its artificiality — a train chase

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From left: Lexi Windsor, Jonathan Beck Reed, Steve Emerson, Matthew Alvin Brown. The four actors starr in “39 Steps,” which opened this weekend and runs through Sunday. sequence where Brown and Emerson change hats on stage to switch between policemen, a conductor and a newspaper boy is an adroit piece of obvious physical comedy. The show isn’t as up to par in terms of its verbal dexterity, where the recurring joke is wedging titles of nearly a dozen Hitchcock films into otherwise normal dialogue. It’s mildly amusing at “Rear Window” and “Strangers on a Train,” but by the time we’ve gotten to “Family Plot,” the bit is officially dead. If they had found a way to get “Juno and the Paycock” in there, then I’d be impressed.

Still, “The 39 Steps” is a wildly entertaining piece of theater. It has enough meta references and self-reflexivity to please any fan of irony, and the pace with which the cast transforms itself again and again is repeatedly astonishing. Director Shawn Churchman keeps the madness proceeding at a digestible pace, and the result is an undeniable crowd-pleaser of a play. CityRep’s production is one of the best theater opportunities in Oklahoma City this year. Dusty Somers is a journalism senior.

I am with the band ... of other journalists The Daily’s Caitlin Turner recounts her time covering Norman Music Festival as a reporter for the first time Norman doesn’t allow for too much social climbing. It is one of those everyone-knowseveryone-that-they-want-to-know sort of towns. It isn’t like you walk into Gray Owl or Blu or the Oklahoma Memorial Union for that matter and see someone that you literally have never seen before. And if you do it’s that one girl’s boyfriend from Chicago so back off, dude. Or worse, a high school CAITLIN student, and you just got TURNER one step closer to cradle robbing. High five. But in this college town of greeks and geeks I think of myself as a socialite. I like people, but more importantly I like to talk about people. Of course, The Daily recognized these traits as the moral foundation of all rogue investigative journalists and therefore gave me a press pass for Norman Music Festival. I needed this magical necklace to really get all up in the inner -workings of NMF. To find out just what was happening behind the scenes. To see exactly how freaking hot various

musicians look from that little area in front of stage that you need a press pass to get into. Thanks to my truly inspired wardrobe choices I was looking so professional I could have been running that place or running a Forever 21, either way the dress was boss. So there I was, audio recorder in purse, ready to schmooze the face off of any remotely artsy looking person that came my way. I ran into the girls and guy from Those Darlins. They were super chill and even texted me the next day to hang out. Our plans fell through but I am sure next time they are in Oklahoma they will hit me up. Right? I said something to Edan and he said he would be back in a bit to talk. When he came back, I was gone, and he told my friend Bradley that I had 60 seconds to talk. Bradley said that I wasn’t even there, and Edan replied that I now had 45 seconds. That really taught me a lesson about carefully choosing when to pee and when to just hold it for another 30 minutes. At the Leon Russell show, I stood by myself at the front. A woman in her 50s told me I was too young to be there. I wanted to tell her she was too old to be dancing like that; instead I went to see what damage I could do at the Dirty Projectors show. Luckily, I found some of my Daily and O’Colly friends were at the main stage press pit.

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Edan (right) performs with his guest Dagha on Sunday on the main stage at the third-annual Norman Music Festival. The festival featured more than 170 local and national bands. Their dancing turned out to be not much better than the lady at the Leon Russell show, but the Dirty Projectors were way to busy blowing my mind for me to care. I was so close to them that if I had remembered to bring my ribbon dancer wand I probably could have touched them and then security would have probably asked me to leave. As the clock struck 11 p.m., my press pass turned back into laminated card attached to a black lanyard. I went to the BRONCHO show and got thrown around for a bit with the

masses, but I missed the privileged life. Walking home I took a moment to swing at the park on Symmes Street and University Boulevard. I looked down at my press pass. Would I get another one next year? Who knows. In the meantime I will keep it by my bed, reminding me of a time when I was more than just a face in the crowd. I was a girl with a pair of un-sunburned arms, a press pass and a dream. Caitlin Turner is a letters junior.

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In response to Tuesday’s column “Amendments necessary to update U.S. Constitution.” YOU CAN COMMENT AT OUDAILY.COM

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Another fast food joint added on Campus Corner Campus Corner has seen remarkable changes over the years. Most students cannot remember a Campus Corner without businesses such as Jimmy John’s, Pita Pit or Antique Garden. The transformation of this area was much needed, but now it seems like things have gotten a bit out of hand. Walking down Asp Avenue, you have so many choices for lunch it can be overwhelming — and its about to get even worse. Subway is going to have students “eat fresh” from a new location on Asp Avenue. Why do we need another sandwich shop on Campus Corner? Similar options can be found at Café Plaid, Pita Pit, Which Wich, Jimmy John’s and other places. And if none of those fit your fancy, there are always burritos with Chipotle and Freebirds no more than a block away. The Daily expressed its fast-food frustration last summer when Chipotle opened. There are so many grab and go lunch stops in Campus Corner it seems unnecessary to add a sub-par chain to the list. We should encourage the addition of more local places such as Pepe Delgados or New York Pizza. The new restaurant is going into the old Boomer Theatre building, a landmark for Norman residents. Why not turn it back into a small theater or revamp it into a venue? Make it a place where students can congregate and spend time, rather than running out the door with sandwich in tow. People can already go next door to grab a fast burrito. It would serve the students and the local community more to have a place people could actually use and take advantage of, rather than trying to navigate parking for a quick sandwich. There should be a unique flair to Campus Corner, but adding a Subway only further turns the corner into a one-stop shop for to-go food.

“I Great article Coker. This is something that has been needed to be said for a long time. Right-wing libertarians like to describe themselves as strict constitutionalists because they think it was the greatest document ever written, but

they don’t realize it was written by guys who thought it was a good idea to, as you say, disenfranchise 80 percent of the population. We need an updated version that accurately represents 21st century values..” - TERMINATE_DAMNATION

YOUR VIEW

Economics give rise to Tea Party Editors Note: In response to Tuesday’s Your View “Hypocracy of Teabaggers.” In his attack on the Tea Party movement, Mano Ratwatte asks for a single example of “a constitutional freedom we have as American citizens that isn’t ours anymore” since President Barack Obama was elected. How about the freedom not to engage in an economic transaction with a private company? President Obama’s health care plan requires that individuals like Mr. Ratwatte and I purchase health insurance or face punishment from the federal government. Nothing in the U.S. Constitution grants the government this power. The commerce clause allows the government to regulate activity, but it does not allow the government to regulate economic inactivity. If Mr. Ratwatte and I chose not to purchase health insurance prior to Mr. Obama’s regime, we could do so without fear of the government fining or imprisoning us for our refusal. Is Mr. Obama next going to require all of us to buy a new Camaro or face jail time in order to further delay the failure of General Motors?

I have not participated in Tea Party protests, but I certainly understand the frustrations they and many others have with the direction Mr. Obama is headed. I do not want more of my income confiscated to pay for health care for others or to prop up failing companies that should have died long ago. If I want to use my resources to help my neighbor pay for his medication or if I want to buy an inferior American made automobile from GM, I should be able to make those choices without Obama using the coercive power of the government to force me to do so. More than anything else, I just want the government to leave me alone. I am infinitely better able to decide what to do with my time, my money, my property, my body and my mind than President Clinton, President Bush, Obama, Jesus or anyone else. Any movement that seeks to take that decision making power from the government and give it back to me has my support. Chris Abernathy is a history PhD student.

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OU media disappoints I came to OU because I wanted to attend the Gaylord School of Journalism and Mass Communication. I thought coming to a school like OU would be a great opportunity to start my journalism career. I arrived in January, and since then I could not be more disappointed in what I have seen across all realms of our school’s media. I am a staff volunteer at the WIRE student radio and at all of our promotional giveaways this semester, many students had never heard of their own student radio. I would watch TV4OU, but the fact that I never know what’s airing or when effects my viewing. And as far as The Daily goes, I started out interested but the steady decline in quality has been truly disappointing. Who is being held accountable for the quality of information being presented to us as students? A satirical cartoon gets posted that upsets a select few and people are fired, but articles like the Glavas article on Tuesday make it to the front page written like it belongs in a tabloid. The general idea of the article was a great premise, it was just written so poorly it’s embarrassing. People all over campus think our school paper is a joke. But instead of just sitting here writing about how absurd our campus media has become, I plan on doing something about it. I plan to become more involved, come up with new ideas. I want to bring respect back to our student media any way that I can. Brandyn Alexander is an electronic and broadcast media junior.

Mark Potts is a broadcast graduate student.

GUEST COLUMN

‘HOOK-UP’ CULTURE BENEFITS NO ONE — ESPECIALLY WOMEN I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in the relationships of my female friends and peers that doesn’t seem to plague the male species quite as much. The trend goes like this. A girl falls for a guy, who ends up becoming her “first love”. They end up having sex, and the relationship may last for a while longer but eventually fizzles out. The girl is left with gargantuan amounts of hurt that she spends the next couple years of her life trying to get over by becoming somewhat of a man-eater, until so much time has past that she is finally able to put the hurt behind her and attempt another meaningful relationship with a guy. Meanwhile, the guy seems to go about his life relatively unscathed, moving from girl to girl and leaving a wake of hurt in his path. It is a common stereotype that women are more emotionally charged creatures than men. While this certainly does not apply to every single woman in the JANNA world, there is some truth to the stereotype. GENTRY This difference is often documented in humorous ways. The poster for the recent movie “the Ugly Truth” has a man and a woman paired together with a heart drawn in where a heart should be on the woman, and on the man a heart is drawn in an area that suggests that when it comes to relationships, something other than the heart does the choosing. There has been actual scientific research done to explain the emotional differences between men and women. One of these studies was done by researchers at Stanford University

in 2002. They used scan technology to measure the brain activity of 12 men and 12 women. These people were all shown a variety of images, ranging from a fire hydrant to very disturbing images of mutilated bodies. The scan revealed that in the women, nine areas of the brain showed high activity compared with only two areas of the brain for men. More than just a stereotype, there is actual neurobiological truth to the emotional differences in women and men. Taking this into consideration, it is not surprising that something like sex that might be a purely physical act for a man would have more emotional meaning to women. Because of the strong emotional significance of sex to women, it is degrading to women to partake in the “casual sex” that is often heralded as a beacon of sexual enlightenment and freedom in America today. An opinion article was written March 31 by Brooke Myers about Cosmopolitan magazine’s conflicting goals. I couldn’t have agreed more with Brooke’s opinion. She said that Cosmopolitan was actually enslaving the women that it claimed to liberate by reducing their identity to sex objects and having them derive their whole selfworth from the approval of a man. Although Cosmo claims to promote a “fearless female,” it could be argued that they are making women more fearful of not being what they have defined as desirable.

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Pop culture often portrays sex from the male perspective. Think “Superbad” or “American Pie.” From the male perspective in popular culture, men are always looking to “get laid,” “get action,” or some other term that vaguely suggests that they will in fact be doing this act with an actual human being. Women are portrayed in these movies as sex objects of which they are the sole desire of the male to conquer. There are far fewer instances in popular culture that tell the story from the woman’s perspective. An exception to this would be a recent episode of “Glee.” Two women in the story were being pressured to have sex by their significant others, and they decided to go ahead with it, only to change their minds at the last minute because they were not ready. The show ended with the men admitting that they were wrong for pressuring the women and promising to take into account their feelings in the future. What is needed for American women today who are living amidst a “hook up” culture is the knowledge and education that this type of no-strings-attached sex is optimal for men only, and that women suffer greatly from it. Sex without commitment is not a freeing, fun set-up for women. It is degrading and hurtful. In my opinion, one of an American woman’s greatest act of self-respect and feminism is to refuse to be used by shallow men in the guise of “sexual freedom” or “a good time.” Because the truth for women is if there is not love and commitment in the relationship, neither “sexual freedom” nor “a good time” will be had at all. Janna Gentry is an elementary education sophomore.

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Even if something you’re presently negotiating looks like it is close to reaching a final agreement, don’t sign the deal until all the facts have been verified and things are actually a fait accompli. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -Regardless of the circumstances you find yourself in, don’t pretend that you’ve taken care of something that you really haven’t. The truth will have a way of wiggling to the surface to bite you. CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- If you’ve been carelessly indulging all your extravagant whims lately, today could be a big day of reckoning. One way of or another, you’ll need to turn over a new leaf. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Take care that urgency or impatience on your part doesn’t cause you to reason unsoundly today. Forgo any temptations to hurry things along by making quick changes to something good you have going. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -Take the necessary time to sort your plans out in a more concise order, even the immediate ones, instead of attempting to blindly proceed forward, taking on whatever occurs at the moment.

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SOONERS BLOW OUT DALLAS BAPTIST OU jumps out to early lead and never looks back in Golloway’s milestone victory

With two outs and the bases loaded, the Sooners ended the inning with five runs on two hits and one error, including Black’s third TOBI ÑEIDY home run of the season. Daily Staff Writer Scoring remained quiet for both teams through three innings until the Sooners The OU baseball team exploded on offense scored six more runs in the bottom of the in three separate innings in the Sooners’ 14-0 fifth. victory over Dallas Baptist on Tuesday night The scoring began after sophomore inat L. Dale Mitchell Baseball Park. fielder Garrett Buechele was hit by a pitch With the shut-out win, the Sooners moved for the second time in the lead off posito 30-11 on the season and tion followed by a single head coach Sunny Golloway from sophomore infielder OU VS. KANSAS STATE recorded his 200th win at OU. Cameron Seitzer through After two early hits by the second base. After beating DBU, the Sooners Patriots to lead off the top of Buechele scored off of return to conference action the first, freshman pitcher an RBI single to right field Friday against Kansas State. Ryan Gibson came back to from sophomore shortstop close down the inning with Caleb Bushyhead. When: 6 p.m. Friday runners in scoring position. Harrison then walked to 5 p.m. Saturday The left-handed pitcher out load the bases before Black 1 p.m. Sunday of Yukon, Okla., finished the would single between night allowing six hits with first and second to score Where: L. Dale Mitchell six strikeouts in five and twoSeitzer. Sophomore pinch Baseball Park thirds innings pitched. hitter Tyler Ogle finished The Sooners responded in the inning with a threethe top of the first with a tworun home run over the left out three-RBI triple off of the left-center-field field fence to bring the lead to 11-0 over the wall by freshman designated hitter Drew Patriots in the bottom of the fifth. Harrison. The Sooners tacked on three more runs in The triple was followed by junior infielder bottom of the sixth off of a three-run triple by Danny Black’s home run over the right-field Junior infielder Cale Ellis to extend the lead wall to score Harrison. to 14-0 that would stand as the final score.

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