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Officials still urge residents to limit water usage

GSS spot up for grabs

Mandatory conservation lifted CHASe Cook

assistant Campus editor

No r ma n n o l o n g e r i s under mandator y water conservation but those living off-campus shouldn’t bust out the Slip ‘N Slide just yet.

City manager Steve Lewis rescinded the mandatory water conservation Monday after it had been in effect since Aug. 1, according to a city proclamation. However, residents are being encouraged to use voluntary water conservation due to potential spikes in summer heat and the state’s continuing drought threat, according to a press release.

“It’s just smart water use,” Norman utilities director Ken Komiske said. “It’s still the summer time and temperatures are still warm.” According to Norman’s Water Conservation Plan, residents are urged to water on odd days if their addresses are odd and on even days if their addresses are even. Residents are also encouraged to water early in the

day and reduce non-essential water use where they can. The cooler temperatures and recent rain may make the situation seem less bleak, but Lake Thunderbird is still 59 inches below normal levels, Komiske said. And the outlook through October is that the state will remain in a drought, he said.

Saving water and using it wisely means the city will have enough to pump water to the top of the hospital and that water will be available for things like firefighting or other emergencies, Komiske said. If residents don’t keep water use down, it’s possible that water restrictions see WATER paGe a3

OU welcomes new students from abroad

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Biology junior nishan thapa holds mini flags in front of the International Advisor Committee table tuesday during Howdy Week on the south Oval.

InternAtIOnAL stUDents

eXCHAnGe stUDents

Program orientation Slight decrease to be held for families in exchange Meeting informs potential hosts about program MeLoDIe LeTTkeMAn Campus reporter

A 31-year-old program will continue the tradition of bringing a family environment and sense of home to international students at OU by holding an orientation Thursday. Friends to International Students, a host family

program founded by Millie Audas, director emeritus of Education Abroad and International Studies, will hold its meeting for potential host families at 5:30 p.m. at the Norman Public Library. The program matches international students with families in Norman, typically those of faculty members, to bring a sense of family to the students, the FIS boardmember said. “When you are in a new

place where the language, culture, everything is different, the people that have welcomed you [and] opened their hearts and homes to you … make all the difference,” Audas said. “Nothing is more important than feeling welcome by family.” And Audas knows what it’s like to be in those shoes. At 15, Audas left her home in Bolivia and began

students at OU

Numbers have been lower than previous years, spokeswoman says ALYSSA MAnnen Campus reporter

The number of exchange students at OU this fall is lower than it has been in the past few years, according to a university spokeswoman. This year OU welcomes 202 foreign exchange students, a slight decrease compared with past years (233 in fall 2011 and 227 in fall 2010), Education Abroad

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Nominations for chair spot being accepted CHASe Cook

assistant Campus editor

Graduate Student Senate will be accepting nominations for a new chair after the previous chair woman resigned Tuesday. Psychology doctoral student Kiersten Baughman said she tendered her resignation after she was asked by her department to take another position. The Senate will request nominations beginning Monday and ending Aug. 31, Senate vice-chairman James Cook said. The Senate’s executive committee will then put together a ballot and a selection will be made as soon as possible, he said. As vice-chairman, Native American Studies graduate student Cook will assume Baughman’s responsibilities until a person is selected as the new chair. Cook and Baughman were elected as leaders during last semester’s Senate elections. Cook said he supported Baughman’s decision and that he was looking forward to getting a new chair elected. “She is doing what’s best for her and her department,” Baughman said. Nominees for Baughman’s position must be in good standing with the Senate, and the senator must have served at least a spring or fall semester, according to the Senate’s bylaws. Cook has served on the Senate for five semesters and said he would consider accepting a nominat i o n i f h i s na m e i s brought up, but he has a family and other obligations to fulfill. Baughman was forced to choose between the Senate and the psychology department when she was asked to take another position in the department, Baughman said. The new position, along with her role as chairwoman, made her a full-time employee, so she had to pick a position

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Report states Cooke was drunk Student’s blood alcohol content was .19 percent STAFF RePoRTS

OU student Casey Cooke, 22, was drunk when she fell to her death from the Evans Hall fire escape June 3, according to her autopsy. The medical examiner wrote Cooke had “acute

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e t ha n o l i n toxication” as a significant medical condition during her death. Her blood alcohol level CAseY was .19 perCOOke cent, according to the autopsy. Cooke was discovered u n re s p o n s i v e a t a b o u t 2:30 a.m. by campus police

beneath the building’s fire escape. Her cause of death is listed as blunt force trauma to the head and chest and the manner was labeled an accident, according to the autopsy. Cooke’s death led the university to remove the fire escape from Evans Hall and start a campus-wide review of fire safety. The university plans to rebuild two fire escapes

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on campus to bring them up to date and to begin implementing new fire safety plans after an engineering firm makes recommendations.

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8/21/12 11:10:17 PM

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“This is my favorite story to tell people about hosting,” Lisa said. “We got three students, and one from Yugoslavia came up with long, curly hair, a leather jacket and tight jeans. I thought, ‘What have we gotten ourselves into? What are we putting in front of our children?’” What the Robinetts got was a relationship that endures to this day, a relationship that lasted through student’s doctorate studies and beyond. Lisa said the feeling of closeness never changes. “We recently said goodbye to a student from India,” Lisa said. “It tore my heart out. She was like my daughter going far away.” Claudia Robertson, a staff assistant at the College of International Studies, also has hosted students. “My kids are growing up learning that the world is bigger than Oklahoma and the United States,” Robertson said. Kyven Zhao/The Daily

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Austin Ederer, a member of the Healthy Sooners, passes out free water to students Tuesday as part of Howdy Week on the South Oval. Ederer is a health and exercise senior.

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a life as an international student to attend one year of high school in Illinois. She had planned to return home and complete high school there but instead graduated early and attended college in Michigan, France and Italy. While in France, Audas said she became close to the daughter of one host family. “She is as close as a blood sister,” she said. Upon coming to OU in 1978, Audas applied that family feeling to her position at the College of International Studies, where she molded the program from President George Lynn Cross’ Host Families program into its current form in 1981. Presidents of FIS Dale and Lisa Robinett are familiar with how close host families and students become with each other. When the couple began hosting students in 1989 to expose their young sons to other cultures, a boy from former Yugoslavia entered their lives.

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GSS: Chairwoman steps down from position Continued from page A1 that would move her below the full-time employee threshold, she said. State law does not allow graduate students to be fulltime employees, Baughman said. Graduate students have an obligation to serve their respective department, Baughman said.

“It was completely not my plan. I was very much looking forward to serving as chair.”

There are rules in the bylaws to deal with situations like this, he said. “We will not see any setKiersten Baughman, backs in any way,” Ahmadi Former GSS Chair said. “The show must go on.” “It was completely not my status at the university. The Senate’s first meeting Senate adviser George plan,” she said. “I was very much looking forward to Ahmadi expressed regret is 7 p.m. Sunday in Sarkeys that Baughman had to re- Energy Center, room A235. serving as chair.” Baughman said she still sign, but said the shakeplans to serve as a senator, up in leadership wouldn’t since that doesn’t impact cause any problems in the Chase Cook chaseacook@gmail.com her part-time employee Senate.

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Wednesday, August 22, 2012 • A3

Greek

Official fraternity bids signed New members make pledges to fraternities

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Jake Morgan

Assistant Campus Editor

Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Will Rogers Room became a bowl of Greek alphabet soup Tuesday night as OU’s fraternity pledge classes signed their official bids to become new members within their respective fraternities. Also known as signing day, the occasion marks the culmination of the rush process, Interfraternity Council President Nick Coffey said. The act of signing the official bid card represents a pledge’s commitment to a specific house. “In other words, they can’t go join another fraternity right now,” Coffey said. The entire process begins during the summer when recruitment teams from each fraternity chapter on campus organizes events to attract students to their house, Coffey said. However, students who attend the summer rush events represent only 20 percent of the men who eventually go through recruitment. Formal recruitment previously lasted for two days, but IFC decided to condense the process down to one day, Saturday, in order keep the effort energized and focused, Coffey said.

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University College freshmen Hunter Sutterfield (right) and Charles Sager sign their Sigma Nu bid cards Tuesday at the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

“It was getting over-complicated,” Coffey said. “We shrunk it down to one to improve chapter presence and help the rush teams out.” After a series of cuts to the number of potential new members, an unofficial signing day is held the day before to give chapters an idea of the size of their incoming pledge class, Coffey said. “It’s basically to get your ducks in a row,” he said. Eight-hundred and seventy-five men signed up for formal recruitment online this fall, Interfraternity Council Adviser Koby Harrington said, and IFC hop es to achieve a retention rate of around 85 percent this fall. The number represents the

percent of men who signed official bids out of the total number of students who signed up for recruitment online. In the Will Rogers Room, rows of tables covered with pens and paper awaited signatures of OU’s upcoming fraternity members. One by one, chapters filed in, including Sigma Nu, which is introducing its first pledge class since leaving the university in 2010. Spencer Montgomery, expansion and recruitment consultant for Sigma Nu, said the reintroduction of the fraternity brings back an extensive history to the university. Before leaving in 2010, Sigma Nu continually had a chapter

at OU since 1909. Fresh from signing their bids with Beta Theta Pi, University College freshman John Wiggins, Hayden Bryan and Aaron Murray said the transition from a normal student to a new fraternity member leaves them “ecstatic.” “It’s hard not to smile when you’re a part of something like this,” Murray said. Hayden said there’s nothing comparable to gaining 64 new brothers in a single night. “This is one of the best decisions of my life during one of the biggest times of my life,” Murray said. Jake Morgan, jakemorgan@ou.edu

Water: Norman wells operating above capacity Continued from page A1

AT A GLANCE Water conservation

can be imposed again. If the city’s water need exceeds production capacity by 4 million gallons for two consecutive days, mandatory water conservation can be implemented, according to Norman’s Water Conservation Plan. Norman has wells that pump water and a water t re at m e nt p l a nt, b u t i t isn’t always enough, so the city purchases water from Oklahoma City, said Bryan Hapke, Vernon Campbell Wat e r T re at m e nt Pl a nt supervisor. Norman operates a water treatment plant and water

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all the time so we have to rest wells so that water levels can recover,” Hapke said. Norman operates between 36 to 38 wells, Komiske said. At least five of those wells are dow n because they have been running for 35 to 40 days straight when they should be running one day and then shut off for one day, Hapke said. The demand was high

enough that the wells had to continue running, he said. OU has been resilient to the recent heat thanks to the university having a personal supply of water wells. This makes the university exempt from Norman’s water conservation requests since it manages its own water supply. The rain in the spring helped deal with the hott e r d a y s o f s u m m e r, Landscaping and Grounds director Allen King said. “All in all we have been pretty fortunate,” King said. The recent cooler weather has helped OU’s water supply and less water is needed day-to-day, King said. It has also helped keep plants and trees from dying. There hasn’t been bigger loss than the department is used to seeing, he said.

director Alice Kloker said. This decrease may be attributed to the language requirement instituted two years ago, Kloker said. Despite the decrease in students, the number of partner universities and countries has stayed relatively the same, she said. This fall, foreign exchange students come from 68 different universities in 26 different countries, according to the 2012 International Profile. Students are given two to three days of orientation upon arriving on campus to help them make the transition, Kloker said. The orientation includes information on what to expect in the Norman area, as well as advanced preparation for their classes, she said. Computer science graduate student Ricardo Santos from Portugal is one of the new exchange students this fall. A native of Beja, a town located a few hours southeast of Lisbon, Santos never has been to the U.S. until now, he said. Santos completed his undergraduate work at the Universidade de Coimbra before coming to OU. “It’s the oldest Portuguese university, so it’s really beautiful,” he said about his undergraduate alma mater. “I’m really proud of things like that.” Santos decided to study abroad because he’s never had the opportunity to travel much, and several of his friends who had studied abroad encouraged him to do so, he said. He primarily focused on English-speaking countries as possible destinations because he wanted to go somewhere where he could practice his English, Santos said. He originally wanted to stay closer to home and searched for programs based in the United Kingdom, but because his university had no such program, he turned to the U.S., he said. He picked Oklahoma because he’d heard that it was friendly and that there were plenty of things to do at OU, he said. One of this biggest adjustments he’s had to make since coming here is the difference in cultural schedule, Santos said. For example, Norman restaurants and bars close earlier than in Portugal. He does like the university environment though and described his university in Portugal as less of a centralized community. “Right here, you have everything in the campus, and that’s really good because you have like a city of students,” he said. Through the exchange student orientation, Santos already has signed up for several clubs at OU, he said. Although traveling to another country may seem daunting initially, Santos said he is happy he chose to do so and hopes to come back to the U.S. to work after completing his education. Alyssa Mannen, Alyssa.L.Mannen-1@ou.edu

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• Wednesday, August 22, 2012

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QUOTABLE: “We will not see any setbacks in any way. The show must go on,” said Graduate Student Senate adviser George Ahmadi about the GSS chair’s resignation. (Page 1)

EDITORIAL

Registering to vote locally important for all Sooners Our View: Don’t just register to vote, make sure you’re registered in Norman.

City council members GO AND DO also control changes to the local community. Voter registration If you live near the main campus and study or These changes affect When: 11 a.m. to work at OU, you are not just a resident of the univer- students both on and off 2 p.m. Monday and sity, but a resident of Norman. But how many of you campus. For example, a Tuesday have lent your voice to important local issues? noise ordinance passed Where: South Oval On Aug. 28, Norman residents will have a chance in 2000 discouraged offWho: Women’s to vote on a moderate property tax increase that will campus student parties. Outreach Center pay for construction projects to fix safety, congestion The council also conand flooding issues. If you’re registered to vote in trols transportation, the city, it’s important for you to go out and support drainage and other things that affect everyone. And these much-needed improvements. if the city is ever going to be more bicycle-friendly, But chances are most of you still are registered in that change will start with the council. your hometown (or state), if you’re registered at all. And it’s not just about being able to vote in local No matter how long you’ve been here or how long elections. Being registered in Norman also will you intend to stay, it’s important for you to be able to make it easier to vote in the national elections withvote in Norman. out having to make a trip home or vote absentee. Being registered in Norman allows you to parAnything you can do to simplify the process will ticipate in local elections. This includes electing make you less likely to skip the polls that day. local officials, such as city council members and More importantly, when you do vote, your choice the mayor, who actively affect the daily lives of will be added to the state and local numbers. No Normanites. It also gives you input on important is- matter which party you vote for, it’s important to be sues like the upcoming bond election. counted so the community can have an accurate Compared to presidential elections or state refmeasure of its political leanings. erendums, it might be difficult to see how a local Even if you’re a Democrat voting in this predomielection could ever be significant. nantly red state, your vote is not wasted. It’s perhaps But a quick look through the last few more important, even, for you to make yourself The Our View years’ headlines shows several imheard so that the real level of political diversity in is the majority portant local issues. Norman and Oklahoma can be seen. opinion of In 2011, Norman residents voted The Daily’s But if you are registered currently in a battlenine-member to give $3 million to the Norman ground state that is more likely than Oklahoma to go editorial board Animal Shelter to expand and upeither way in the election, then you should stay regdate its facilities, allowing it to keep istered in your home state — and be sure to vote abmore animals and house them in sanitary condisentee by visiting your state’s election board website. tions. The vote was preceded by strong debate, and If you do plan to change your registration, you the outcome was uncertain. don’t have enough time to do so before Tuesday’s In 2010, a Norman City Council meeting about a bond election. But if you do it before Oct. 12 , you’ll proposed gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender his- be registered in time for Nov. 6’s national election. tory month devolved into several hours of hate-filled vitriol against the GLBT community. A month later, How to register You can register to vote or change your registraZachary Harrington, a gay man who had attended tions by filling out a new registration card with a the meeting, committed suicide. Norman address. Council members ultimately passed the resoGo to OUDaily.com to download the digital verlution. Though no political action could bring sion or find a map of locations where you can pick Harrington back or undo the damage caused that one up in person. day, continuing to elect progressive council members would go a long way toward ensuring such a Comment on this on OUDaily.com tragedy is not repeated.

COLUMN

Students should take stand for Syria

hile on break, OPINION COLUMNIST students tend to block out the world in favor of more malaise and relaxing realities. Fortunately for nearly all Americans, the fear of an artillery strike on a hospital, mechanized assaults on subNolan Kraszkiewicz urban neighborhoods and Nolan.Kraszkiewicz@ou.edu the loss of an entire generation in a family is a distant and abstract notion. However, this does not and should not abdicate the American public’s conscience from the atrocities taking place in Syria. The millennial generation — those who range in age from 16 to 25 — is by far the most electronically connected in terms of global communication. Now is the time for us to put this vehicle into action. Last semester, I wrote a column imploring students to take action so we can keep Syria off of a macabre list that includes the likes of Rwanda, Sarajevo, Srebrenica and the Democratic Republic of Congo. With a death toll in excess of 20,000 and evidence suggesting the brutal regime of Bashar Al-Assad has committed atrocities amounting to war crimes, the window for the possibility of avoiding mass atrocity crimes has now passed. What remains is the opportunity for swift cessation and resolution. But the current geopolitical climate would suggest that this secondary follow-up objective may fall out of reach as well. Here is where we must take a stand. The case for intervention in Syria would be first and foremost humanitarian. In contrast with how the U.S. handled Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom, justification for an intervention could be mounted solely on humanitarian grounds, without needing a weapons of mass destruction goose-chase.

Thanks to the proliferation of online tools, such as blogs, YouTube and Twitter, firsthand looks at the violence and depravity in Syria are easily accessible. Those who claim a non-interventionist policy no longer can stand by the sidelines. The U.S. and other allies already have intervened. Now there is only a question as to what extent we will continue to intervene. Non-lethal aid, medical supplies and diplomatic measures are all forms of external intervention into the Syrian crisis. To those who say the risk of your grandchild having to pay an extra 5 percent in taxes in 50 years to pay off a national debt means we must not help people half a world away who are truly suffering, remember this: At the very least you can still talk that way about your progenies’ future. Hundreds of families in Syria have lost that ability through the loss of an entire generation. I said it before: If we remain comatose and act complacent, we will become morally culpable. We still have time to right the course of history. This reinvigorated call for action is not a call for war or invasion, but rather to help the Syrians suffering at the hands of their own brutal government. You should be outraged and angry at such senseless slaughter and the subsequent lack of committed action. By understanding the daily hell Syrian children are experiencing, you will see how strong the justification is for continued intervention. Your calls should become stronger and more passionate the more you learn of their suffering. And if our peaceful intervention tactics fail and the need for direct military intervention becomes a potential reality, the mere fact that steps were taken to understand the issue before the onset of war will make for a more honest and intelligent discussion. Nolan Kraszkiewicz is a political science and religious studies senior.

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Students must do more to save vital rainforests OPINION COLUMNIST

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he average American may be under the false impression that the destruction of rainforests is less of an issue today than when the subject was a hot button issue during the 1990s. That simply isn’t true. In Scott Starr fact, the destruction of rainscott.e.starr-1@ou.edu forests has not only continued, but accelerated greatly in the last 15 years, while the world has focused on other areas, such as terrorism, war, energy and economic recession — problems that affect the U.S. indirectly but do not always begin on U.S. soil. The environment is part of an interconnected web and adverse conditions have negative repercussions everywhere, just like terrorism, war and recessions. Normanites should be just as concerned with the Amazon rainforests as they are with trickle-down economic policies overseas that eventually impact the U.S. Our health and well-being is at stake. The rainforests of the world are under severe threat with no sign of their destruction abating. According to The Nature Conservatory, 6 million square miles of rainforests once existed worldwide. Now, only 2.6 million square miles remain. Additionally, a chunk of rainforest the size of a football field is lost every second, totaling to a deficit of 86,400 football field-sized rainforest plots lost each day. If the trend of global rainforest destruction continues, not only will these vital ecosystems and their inhabitants be threatened with extinction by the year 2050, but the biosphere of the whole planet will be thrown out of balance. Yes, even Norman is part of this biosphere. The leading causes of rainforest deforestation are predictable; the harvest of forest for lumber and paper or pulp products, such as newspapers, toilet paper and paper towels. Think about your fast food sack you discarded this afternoon or this copy of The Daily you’ll probably throw away instead of either recycling or returning to the stand for someone else to read. The primary causes for deforestation are thought to be somewhat preventable, yet measures to address the problem are hardly practiced at all, let alone at a level that can make a great difference. The responsibility to reduce and reuse, therefore lessening the need to harvest more and more lumber is on each and every one of us because rainforests contain more than mere biomatter that can be turned into wood shingles and throwaway tissue paper. Important medicines and organic compounds already have been harvested from tropical forests from around the world, and many more are yet waiting to be discovered. According to The Nature Conservatory, more than 2,000 tropical forest plants have been identified by scientists as having anti-cancer properties, yet scientists have only analyzed less than one percent of the tropical rainforest species for their medicinal value. When we allow the decimation of rainforests, we also unknowingly could be destroying the cure for cancer or AIDS or serious diseases yet to emerge. The American Cancer Society estimates more than 19,000 new cancer cases in Oklahoma alone for 2012. Making these kinds of sacrifices for short term, unsustainable economic gain is insane. The fight to save rainforests is for the most part reduced to the argument of jobs and profits versus trees or “tree huggers.” People who have fully bought in to the value system of industrialism and supply-side or trickledown economics fail to comprehend humans are essentially committing suicide and precipitating the mass extinction of many other biosphere-supporting organisms. Worse, many of those who willfully and even vehemently support this economic scheme and culture of death, seething at any perceptible threat to it, honestly consider themselves to be “pro-life.” With the destruction of rainforests imminent and possibly irreversible, the question of whether or not we are doing enough to protect rainforests is on the verge of becoming a moot point. With all the various environmental concerns compounding one another, the question is about to become, “Why didn’t we do more before it was too late?”

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NEWS

Wednesday, August 22, 2012 •

AFGHANISTAN

Taliban attacks U.S. forces

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Attack follows killings of U.S. military trainers

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Militants fired rockets into a U.S. base in Afghanistan and damaged the plane of the chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff while he was on a visit, but the general was not near the aircraft, a spokesman for the U.S.led military coalition said Tuesday. The rocket strike that hit the plane of U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey was yet another propaganda coup for the Taliban after they claimed to have shot down a U.S. helicopter last week. It also followed a string of disturbing killings of U.S. military trainers by their Afghan partners or militants dressed in Afghan uniform. Such attacks killed ten Americans in the last two weeks alone. Ta l i b a n s p o k e s m a n Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place Monday night at the Bagram Air Field outside Kabul, saying Dempsey’s plane was targeted by insurgents “using exact information” about where it would be. Two maintenance workers were slightly injured by shrapnel from the two rockets fired, coalition spokesman Jamie Graybeal said. Dempsey was nowhere near the plane when the rockets hit near where the aircraft was parked, the spokesman added. Dempsey had finished his mission in Afghanistan and

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In this image released by the U.S. Department of Defense and taken Monday, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, prepares to board a CH-47 at Kabul International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.

had left by Tuesday morning on a different plane, said Graybeal. A helicopter on the base was also damaged in the attack, according to NATO. Graybeal cast doubt on the idea that Dempsey’s plane may have been hit by any precision attack. He said that insurgent rocket and mortar attacks are “not infrequent” at Bagram and that such fires most often comes from so far away that it’s virtually impossible to hit specific targets. Bagram is a sprawling complex about an hour’s drive north of Kabul that usually serves as the first point of entrance for U.S. officials visiting the country. It is the hub for military operations in the east of the country and the largest U.S. base in Afghanistan. Dempsey was in

Afghanistan to discuss the state of the war after a particularly deadly few weeks for Americans in the more than ten-year-old war as international forces begin drawing down. He and the chief of U.S. Central Command, Marine Gen. James R. Mattis, met with NATO and U.S. Afghan c o m ma n d e r G e n . Jo h n Allen in Kabul and also with a number of senior Afghan and coalition leaders. Among the topics was the escalating number of “insider attacks” in which Afghan police, soldiers or militants dressed in Afghan uniform turn their guns on coalition military trainers. Once an anomaly, such attacks have been climbing in recent months. There have been 32 such attacks so far this year, up from 21 for all of 2011,

according to NATO. Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar last week said the insider killings were the result of an insurgent campaign of infiltration, though NATO has said it’s too early to tell if the attacks were related to the insurgency of caused by personal disputes turned deadly. The Taliban also claimed to have shot down a U.S. military helicopter that crashed during a firefight with insurgents in a remote area of southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing seven Americans and four Afghans on board in one of the deadliest air disasters of the war. U.S. officials, however, said initial reports were that enemy fire was not involved in the crash.

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Lonmin strike continues, dozens of miners shot dead A spokeswoman for Lonmin’s PR company says that only some 27 percent of workers returned to work Monday morning despite a warning that those on strike would face dismissal. Police shot dead dozens of striking miners near the Lonmin platinum mine in South Africa last week. Sue Vey, spokeswoman for the Lonmin PR company Inzalo, said on Monday it is unknown how many of the returning workers had taken part in the strike that began on Aug. 10. The Associated Press

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Syria’s President Assad makes rare public appearance Syria’s state-run TV has aired footage of the Syrian president performing Eid prayers in a mosque in Damascus. It is Bashar Assad’s first public appearance since a July 18 Damascus bombing that killed the country’s defense minister and three other top security officials, including the president’s brother-in-law. The last time he appeared in public was on July 4 when he gave a speech in parliament. The Associated Press

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US judge says Vatican isn’t priests’ employer

MINNEAPOLIS — Vice President Joe Biden, who will be a Democratic presence in Florida next week as Republicans gather to nominate their presidential candidate, on Tuesday compared GOP critics of the Obama administration’s Wall Street reforms to “squealing pigs.” B i d e n ’s c o m m e n t s showed he has no intention of softening his attackdog rhetoric, despite widespread criticism of remarks he made last week in which he said presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney and other Republicans would put Americans “back in chains” in order to unshackle Wall Street. Appearing before a raucous crowd in downtown Minneapolis, Biden said a Democratic-led Congress had approved a law reining in the Wall Street excesses that contributed to the nation’s economic collapse four years ago. The DoddFrank law, which toughened financial-industry regulations after the 2008 meltdown, was approved despite strong objections from Republicans, including Romney, Biden said. “O v e r t h e o b j e c t i o n s — where they sound like squealing pigs — over the objections of Romney and all of his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history,” Biden said.

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The Vatican has won a major victory in an Oregon federal courtroom, where a judge ruled the Holy See is not the employer of molester priests. The ruling Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Michael Mosman ends a six-year question in the decade-old case and could shield the Vatican from possible monetary damages. The original lawsuit was filed in 2002 by a Seattle-area man who claimed the Rev. Andrew Ronan repeatedly molested him in the late 1960s. The Associated Press

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CSX train derails outside Baltimore, killing 2 Authorities outside Baltimore say a CSX train hauling coal has derailed in downtown Ellicott City and two people have been killed. Howard County officials say 21 of the train’s 80 cars flipped over and fell from a bridge just before midnight Monday. County Executive Ken Ulman says some of the cars crushed parked vehicles in a nearby county-owned lot. The Associated Press

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NYPD: Muslim spying led to no leads, terror cases In more than six years spying on Muslim neighborhoods, the New York Police Department’s secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation. That’s according to court testimony unsealed Monday. The Demographics Unit is at the heart of a police spying effort built with help from the CIA. The Associated Press

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Vice President Joe Biden points to his head as he greets supporters after he addressed a grassroots rally, Tuesday in Minneapolis.

“What’s bold about gutting Medicare and education to pay for tax cuts” for the rich? We’ve seen this movie before, we know how it ends.” VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN

Although the economy remains sluggish and unemployment persistently high, Biden said that progress was being made under President Back Obama. “Folks, the middle class has started to come back. They have been ravaged,”

he said. Biden said a budget plan offered by Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was neither new nor courageous. “What’s bold about gutting Medicare and education to pay for tax cuts” for the rich? Biden asked. “We’ve seen this movie before, we know how it ends. It ends with the Great Recession of 2008. It ends with catastrophe.” Biden said Romney had flip-flopped on trade sanctions against China by once denouncing them as protectionism but now supporting them. The vice president pointed to Romney’s former firm, Bain Capital, to criticize the Republican further

on China policy. “I wish he’d been that tough when companies owned by Bain were outsourcing thousands of jobs to China,” he said. The Obama campaign announced that Biden will be attending events in Florida on Monday and Tuesday, including a stop in Tampa on the convention’s opening day. Obama won Florida four years ago, but Republicans are hoping the weeklong convention will help them recapture the key battleground. After his speech in Minneapolis, Biden asked reporters, “Any of you going to Florida?” He added, “I’m going to be the speaker at the convention.”

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SPORTS

Section B • Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Kedric Kitchens, sports editor Dillon Phillips, assistant editor dailysports@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666 oudaily.com/sports • Twitter: @OUDailySports

Football

Bell takes over as backup quarterback AT A GLANCE Blake Bell at OU Bell ran the ball 44 times for 171 yards and 13 touchdowns last year. He also attempted four passes, completing one and throwing one interception. Source: SoonerSports.com

A ‘more consistent’ Bell gains the role of back-up this season, Bob Stoops said Dillon Phillips

Assistant Sports Editor

OU football coach Bob Stoops announced that sophomore quarterback Blake Bell will back up L a n d r y Jo n e s t h i s s e a son after practice Tuesday evening. After months of

speculation, Bell claimed the Sooners’ backup quarterback job, edging out fellow quarterbacks junior Drew Allen, redshirt freshman Kendall Thompson and true freshman Trevor Knight. “I just feel Blake’s been more consistent overall and is playing the way we

need him to,” Stoops said. Offensive coordinator Josh Heupel c i t e d B e l l’s command of the offense, Blake playmaking Bell ability and ball control as attributes that separated him from the rest of the quarterbacks. “Where we’re at, we feel

that [Bell] is moving in the right direction, and we want to give him those reps,” Heupel said. “I think he felt a lot more comfortable grasping our offense, (and) defensively, knowing what people are doing and where he needed to go with the ball.” Bell had his coming-out party last season, as his “Belldozer” package had wild success and provided a solution for the Sooners’ red

zone woes. Stoops said Bell’s role in the “Belldozer” package won’t change, and Allen, the backup all of last season, will still be in the mix. “[Drew] will continue to battle,” Stoops said. “He’s had a great attitude and continued to work really hard also.” Dillon Phillips dphillips85@ou.edu

Analysis

Soccer

Stoops names team captains Five elite players given the prestigious honor Toby Neidy

Sports Reporter

Astrud reed/the daily

Sophomore defender Molly Richey (24) and senior midfielder Zoe Dickson (5) wrestle the ball from a Nebraska player in a 2-1 win Friday night. Richey got prepared to play college soccer by playing on her high school boys’ soccer team for three years before creating a girls’ team her senior year.

Sooner sharpened skills vs. boys OU soccer player played on boys’ high school team for three years Ross Stracke Sports Reporter

Most college athletes have to adjust to a new set of teammates and new level of competition, but in high school, sophomore defender Molly Richey had to adjust to playing with the opposite gender. Since her high school did not offer a girls’ soccer team, Richey took matters into her own hands. As a freshman at Bishop T.K. Gorman High School in Tyler,Texas, she tried out for and made the boys’ soccer team. As an already competitive club soccer player, which is where most soccer players get scouted, she could have stayed content

AT A GLANCE Molly Richey Richey played three years on the boys’ soccer team in high school before spearheading the creation of a girl’s team her senior year.

with just playing competitively there. But according to her high school coach Skyler Clarkston, the boys’ game added a new element that she needed to learn and adapt to, even though she played girls club soccer at the highest level already. Clarkston believes she took as much away from her experience psychologically as she did physically.

“Most other schools jeered her when she was a freshman and a sophomore,” Clarkston said. “To be expected. Mostly due to the fact that she was a girl, but more because she was actually good and better than they were.” Robert Richey, Molly’s father, also took notice that his daughter was better than most of the boys. “At first, the guys were more afraid of her than she was of them and as a result she got a lot of open field chances,” Robert said. “Then, when we played these teams again, they began to cover her more closely.” However, Richey says she tried out not only to get better, but to be able to represent her school as well. “Every athlete wants the chance to represent his or her school,” Richey said. She admits she was a little

nervous but was “fortunate” to play on a very competitive team my freshmen year. “I believe we went all the way to the state quarterfinals that season,” Richey said. “My teammates took really good care of me, and I really had a blast playing soccer with the guys.” After her freshman season, Clarkston said they lost key players and, as a result, in her sophomore and junior years, Richey was “by far the best player we had.” Richey was a three-year starter for the team as well as a threetime all district honoree. As a junior, she was named the most valuable player of the boys’ team. In Richey’s mind, her experience on the boys’ team prepared her for the speed and see Richey page B2

Soccer

Former Wildcat is comfortable with her new home New player emerges as team’s top scoring threat Garrett Holt Sports Reporter

Senior for ward Renae Cuellar never expected to end up playing soccer at OU. The senior transfer student from Arizona always thought she would be playing college ball closer to her La Puente, Calif., home. “I was recruited by OU,” Cuellar said. “But I was looking more toward the west coast when I came out of school. More of the Pac-12 Conference.” The Sooner soccer team is

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“Obviously Renae’s a talent. I was really pleased about the framework that she played within the concept of our team.” OU soccer coach Matt Potter

glad that she had a change of heart, though, as she made an impact for them in her first game, scoring both of the team’s goals in their seasonopening 2-1 victory over the Nebraska Cornhuskers. However, while she may

be a star on the field, Cuellar says she isn’t doing it on her own, and that it takes a team to win. “It obviously starts from the back and goes to the front,” Cuellar said. “It’s not just me individually, but the hustle and effort of my teammates creating space for me and helping me get those opportunities. They presented themselves, and I put them away, fortunately.” This team mentality has served Cuellar well in her college career, helping her score 17 goals and tally four Astrud reed/The daily assists for the Wildcats from Arizona transfer, senior forward Renae Cuellar goes after the ball 2008-2011. see Cuellar page B2

in a game against LSU on Monday. The Sooners lost 1-0 in double overtime. Cuellar is the team’s leading scorer this season.

When OU football coach Bob Stoops announced the teams’ five captains on Monday, it was really no surprise to hear senior quarterback Landry Jones made the list. Jones, who is a threetime captain and the Sooners’ starting QB since taking over following an injury to former starter Sam Bradford in 2009, is an obvious choice to wear the designated ‘C’ on his uniform, as that type of recognition comes with the position’s territory. Senior defensive end David King, junior offensive lineman Gabe Ikard and junior fullback Trey Millard were also rightfully recognized as leaders of their perspective individual teams. But one captain’s name that may raise a few eyebrows is senior punter Tress Way. It’s not very often that you hear about a special teams member nominated as a team captain, but the Sooners obviously look to Way for leadership on their team because this is the senior’s second consecutive year to don the ‘C.’ Way has started every game (40) during his career at OU and holds the program’s record for career punts over 50 yards (58). He’s been nominated to All-Big 12 lists since his first official season as a Sooner and his career-long 85-yarder against Utah State in 2010 is the third longest in OU’s history. He may not be tabbed on the preseason Ray Guy Award watch list — that annually recognizes the top punters in the country — but Way has already proved he has the capability and the leg strength to be one of the best punters this season. And that’s really what makes this group of five teammates the right choice for this year’s list of captains: all five have something to prove in each of their positions. Jones will look to complete his four-year tour at OU and help to keep his team in the hunt for the eighth national title. King and Ikard will each switch to new positions this season to fill the holes on both the defensive and offensive lines, respectively. The Sooners have also found room in the see captains page B2

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• Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Richey: Improved from high school soccer days Continued from page B1 st re ng t h o f t h e c o l l e g e game. “Going from the girls’ club team to boys’ high school is way faster, and they are obviously a lot more physical, so I got pushed around a lot,” Richey said. “It taught me to adapt to the game and play faster.” By her senior year, Richey felt other girls deserved the opportunity to represent their school through soccer like she did. So, rather than just talk about it, she convinced her mom and dad to help fund a girls’ team and talked to the athletic director of her school about forming one. After that, all she needed were girls to sign up, and the response was immediate according to Richey. “Basically, I had to go out

Astrud reed/the daily

Sophomore defender Molly Richey fights for the ball in a game against LSU on Monday. Richey is willing to get physical after three years on her high school boys’ team.

there and get a group of girls to sign the papers and say, ‘Hey, we will come if you form a team,’” Richey said. “By the end of that month or so, I had a list of 25 girls, and we were all fighting for spots.” In her final year, all of

Richey’s hard work paid off and she shined. As a senior on the girls’ team, she earned district MVP honors as well as being named to first-team All-State. Currently, she is in her sophomore year at OU and has started the past two

games for the S ooners. Richey says she still carries her experience in boys’ soccer with her and, in her eyes, how the boys play isn’t so different to how the girls in college. “On a division one level it kind of feels the same honestly,” said Richey. “You get pushed around a lot you fall down, you just have to get back up.” Clarkston says what Richey did was a huge preparation for college and that he still gets questions regarding Richey three years later. “She has definitely left a legacy at the school, for our program and future players,” Clarkston said. “Players and coaches are still talking about ‘that girl’ we had.” Ross Stracke ross.stracke@ou.edu

Cuellar: Transfer a captains: New leaders break-out star for team Continued havefromthings to prove page B1 Continued from page B1 Now OU coach Matt Potter thinks that she can use her skills to help bolster a front line in need of a scorer after senior forward Dria Hampton’s transfer to Florida State. “Obviously Renae’s a talent,” Potter said. “I was really pleased about the framework that she played within the concept of our team. People found her, and when those people find her, she’s going to be dangerous.” Cuellar says that she is on the same page with her expectations for this season. “I hope that, being a forward, I can capitalize on all of the opportunities that are presented to me,” Cuellar said. “Every game is a different

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situation, whether it be scoring, or helping back more or passing more to somebody. I hope I can just do whatever is asked of me on that field.” Cuellar certainly will get her fair share of opportunities, as the Sooners lack proven front-line offensive threats other than senior forwards Caitlin Mooney and Amy Petrikin, both of whom came off of the bench in the win against Nebraska. The dearth of experienced attackers leaves a door open for Cuellar, who comes onto the team as one of the most battle-tested players on the Sooner roster. Garrett Holt garrett.holt@ou.edu

offensive playbook with Millard, who continues to showcase his workhorse mentality after finishing with 169 rushing, 127 receiving yards and two touchdowns last season. With one more year of invaluable experience under his belt, Millard has already caught the positive attention of coaches during the summer workouts. And, finally, Way will look to round out his OU kicking career by continuing to produce one of the nation’s top kicking averages this year. While their athleticism is top caliber for each of their individual positions, these five athletes also carry a degree of leadership that will help keep the entire team

AT A GLANCE 2012 Captains Landry Jones, QB Gabe Ikard, OL David King, DL Trey Millard, FB Tress Way, P

Source: OU coach Bob Stoops

focused throughout the 2012 season. And having the official ‘C’ on their uniform will be just one more reminder that these five specific athletes know what responsibility they have to keep this Sooner team on the right track.

Sports BRIEFS Suspended receiver moves to defensive back, safety leaves The Sooners’ roster received another shakeup today, as it was announced that redshirt freshman defensive back Bennett Okotcha no longer is with the team, and junior receiver Trey Franks has switched positions to defensive back. Okotcha’s departure had been rumored for several days on OU football message boards, but it wasn’t confirmed until this afternoon. Franks, who is serving an indefinite suspension but is expected to return midseason, changed his number from 2 to 24 upon changing positions.

Rowing team in search of more participants for fall season OU’s rowing team is holding an informational meeting at 6 p.m. Monday for anyone interested in joining the novice rowing team. The meeting will be held at Chesapeake Stadium Club Level Two, which can be accessed through Gate 12 of Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. No experience is needed to attend the meeting, and in early September, the rowing team will hold open tryouts for prospective walk-ons. OU’s rowing team had its inaugural season in 2008.

Men’s basketball team to hold second-annual alumni game The OU men’s basketball team will hold its Alumni Legends Game at noon on Saturday at Lloyd Noble Center as part of the second annual Sooner Basketball Family Weekend. The weekend begins Friday morning with a golf tournament at Jimmie Austin Golf Club, and Friday evening, the Wayman Tisdale Scholarship Dinner will honor the 1988 runner-up team — who Rivals. com ranked No. 10 on its Top Ten Teams of 64 Era. After averaging a margin of victory of 25 points and entering the NCAA tournament as the top seed, the ‘88 squad lost to the Danny Manningled Kansas Jayhawks — known as “Danny and the Miracles” — in the national championship. Admission to the game is free, and an autograph session will be held following the game’s completion. Sports Staff Reports

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Good, bad, ugly: summer movies E

very summer, the big wigs of Hollywood use all of their new bells and whistles to attract all of the students looking for an escape from the boredom of summer vacation. Superhero movies garnered an outstanding splash this summer with “The Avengers,” which landed a worldwide gross of more than $1.4 billion, according to its IMDb page. Well, how do you follow up a release like “The Avengers?” Easy: “The Amazing Spider-Man” and “The Dark Knight Rises.” Superheroes weren’t the only ones who showed up on the big screen this summer. With big releases like “The Campaign” and “Ted,” star power was shining through everywhere. With DVD releases on the horizon, you might be looking for a movie to watch or avoid when you find some free time this semester. Look no further. Here are the ups and downs that this summer movie lineup will offer again this fall.

AT A GLANCE DVD, Blu-ray releases “The Avengers” Sept. 25 “Battleship” Aug. 28

that will either fly right over your head or just aren’t funny. With a short running time of only 85 minutes, this is a quick stop that is worth watching before the end of the summer.

‘Dark Knight Rises’

After Heath Ledger set the bar for villains in the series, it seemed impossible to create a character that could “The Campaign” match up. Oct. 11 If the Joker was the mental match for Batman, Bane “Amazing Spider-Man” November is the physical. The cinematography is “Dark Knight Rises” stunning from beginning Nov. 30 to end. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Christian Bale, Anne Emma Stone, has given him Hathaway, Michael Caine and Tom Hardy deliver something to fight for. The movie closely follows incredible, in-depth performances. to the 2002 movie but also It was a spot-on adaptatakes other pieces from the Photo provided tion of these characters comic book source to give Tom Hardy, as Bane, in director Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises,” which premiered July viewers a little something from the comic book pages 20. Bane matches the villainous strength of the Joker in one of the summer’s darkest films. to the big screen. new. The only part people Also, because of the outmight complain about is performances by actors, like eye for scripts. Mark Wahlberg and Mila standing Rhys Ifans as the the extremely cliché endRobert Downey Jr. and Chris If you are looking for Kunis do an outstanding job villainous Lizard, this new film isn’t lacking in action or ing to the film, but honestly Evans. a campy, dicey, actionmatching the energy that I couldn’t see it ending any The Union Programming packed explosion film, you MacFarlane puts out as the that dark comic book air. other way. Board will be screening might get a little enjoyment animated bear Ted. ‘The Avengers’ Now, let’s all hope that it at 6 p.m. Friday at the out of what Battleship has If you are looking for fun, ‘The Campaign’ With the momentum of Christopher Nolan will use Take “Anchorman” and Oklahoma Memorial Union to offer. give Ted some time out of five superhero blockbustfilm to delve further into “Talladega Nights,” then your day. He’ll get your gut ‘Battleship’ ‘Ted’ ers, a vast all-star cast and the mythos of the Batman throw in the antics that busting. a comic book author writsometime in the future, but only “Step Brothers” could The concept seemed simSeth MacFarlane, ‘Amazing Spidering and directing, “The give us and you’ve got “The for now, we all can sit back ple enough: a board game Seth MacFarlane, Seth Man’ Avengers” had nothing and enjoy all that he has ofCampaign.” with which you sink each MacFarlane. holding it back. fered to this point. This time, though, Will other’s battleships. The man already is runAndrew Garfield took the This is one of those movEven if you missed every Ferrell must throw down But with weak writing and ning the world of animated reigns from Toby Maguire ies you don’t just see once; other movie this summer, with “Hangover” star Zach crazy alien plot twists, they comedy on television. Why and surprised moviegoers. you go back because it gives should’ve just left this one in not take his genius to the big go and see this one. Galifianakis as southern He continued the witty you such a rush that is imdevelopment hell. screen? sarcasm, which added some politicians attempting to possible to resist, like a giant nab a Congressional seat in Once you make it through MacFarlane is the mind spunk and teenage angst film version of a Lay’s potato the opening scene, you and voice behind “Ted,” Jerry Stinnet is a University back into the character. The their district. chip — you can’t eat just The movie has a few jokes College freshman. already can tell that you as well as hit television love interest Gwen Stacy, one. aren’t going to want to keep shows “Family Guy” and Joss Whedon created a watching, but if you decide “American Dad.” If you tale of good versus evil, with to stick around, you will see don’t like his humor on teleeffects that will leave your Rihanna take the big screen vision, you won’t like “Ted.” jaw dropped. for the first time. It’s vulgar and over-theThe movie even has some She actually seems to top, but for a college stusentimental scenes that are have some talent for acting dent, it is the perfect comsolidified by the amazing but maybe needs a better edy movie. “Ted” October

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Emily Hopkins

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The Daily had a phone interview with Phil Dickey, vocals/guitar/drums/songwriting for Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. The Daily: Why did you decide to make your band name a tribute to Boris Yeltsin? Phil Dickey: Well, it’s less a tribute than just kind of random. We came up with the name in high school, and we weren’t planning on being a band for another 12 years or so. Boris Yeltsin’s name was in the headlines at the time. The Daily: What was it like playing in Russia, especially so soon after Boris Yeltsin died? Dickey: It was like a weird dream. It didn’t seem real to be playing over there. It was like the biggest music festival in Russia, and we played outside this huge park. The whole thing was just really surreal. We were a little worried that people would be really offended by the name since he’s not very popular there. And we don’t endorse him at all or think he’s a great president or anything. We were a little nervous, but everyone was really nice and seemed to get the joke about the band name, so that was good. The Daily: What’s it like playing on a college campus versus an actual venue? Dickey: College shows have always been our bread and butter because we’ve always done really well with college radio — it’s kind of how we got started touring. Most clubs and bars we play at are dark and dirty, so to play on a campus with a nice stage and a nice room is pretty ideal. And the crowd always gets pretty into it. We love playing at colleges. The Daily: How do you think your music and songwriting has evolved since your college days? Dickey: I think I kind of go in and out of phases of being able to write songs. It’s still kind of a mystery of how we’re able to do a song, especially hearing it when it’s completed. I don’t really understand what’s actually happening, and we’re just trying really hard to write songs that don’t suck. I think we’re still trying to figure things out. The Daily: So you recorded “Broom” by yourselves with your own equipment. How does that process compare

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(From left) Will Knauer, Jonathan James, Phil Dickey and John Robert Cardwell of Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin pose together. The band came up with its name randomly in high school. When the group came up with the name, Russian president Boris Yeltsin’s name was in the headlines, but it wasn’t planning on being a band for about another 12 years, Phil Dickey said.

with recording albums in We just didn’t have any the studio? experience with the music industry at all. Getting a Dickey: We like doing record label was just kind production stuff, too, so of like, especially at the doing stuff on our own is beginning, just helped kind of a nice way to craft us connect the dots, like the songs. But that can kind finding a booking agent of drive you crazy a little bit, and licensing our songs and too, if you have too much stuff. They just made us a control. So working in the lot more professional and studio with Chris Walla helped us to get things out. (producer and guitarist for Now, we’ve been on our Death Cab for Cutie) was record label for five or six nice to have someone else years. We have a better idea help us with decisions and of what we’re doing now, arrangements and making but it just helps to work with an album. And it’s a lot people who know how to cheaper. sell records. The Daily: What are the main differences between doing things on your own and being on a label? How did going to a label change things? Dickey: So we did the first album on our own, and at that point, we’d only played a couple of shows outside of our hometown. We’d been a band for like five or six years, so we kind of just thought of ourselves as a local band. We were just hanging out and kind of happened to make a record.

They all looked like rock of your personal musical stars, so we kind of had to influences? work on our rock moves and stuff so we could keep Dickey: A lot of classic up. rock and stuff. I think we all grew up listening to the The Daily: Do you feel like Beatles, the Beach Boys, touring with them boosted and Jonathan Richman — your fan base? just kind of a little bit of everything. Dickey: Yeah. Especially in New York City. There The Daily: Are you working were like 5,000 people at on a new album right now? the show or something, and most of them had never Dickey: Sort of. We’re heard of our band, so it writing songs right now, was definitely a good thing. but we haven’t figured out Sometimes the crowds can how we’re going to record be kind of hostile to the them or where we’re going openers, but with them, to record them. I think, The Daily: What was it like their crowds were great to on this tour, we might be touring with Tokyo Police us. It was one of our favorite testing out some new songs. Club and Two Door Cinema tours. I think when we get back Club? from the tours, we’ll really The Daily: Who are some start making plans for when Dickey: We were in like a 15-passenger van, and they were in huge tour buses, so we were just kind of followed them around. They were all great people. Especially with Two Door Cinema Club, it really seemed like they were taking off during that tour. It was kind of exciting to be around and see a band play while that was happening. I think every show sold out.

we’ll do our next album. The Daily: Do you have a time frame for the album, or are you just kind of seeing how it goes? Dickey: We’d definitely love to put it out later this year but probably early 2013. The Daily: Where do you hope you’ll be as a band in the next five years or so? Dickey: I’m hoping we’ll be able to find a band that doesn’t break down. We’re optimistic, but we’re not good at planning things. Emily Hopkins, ehopkins@ou.edu

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