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‘We’re not the Pride’ Tuba players protest band practice ARIANNA PICKARD Campus Editor

The Pride of Oklahoma’s tuba section lacked all but three members at rehearsal Monday after members decided to take a stand against inadequate teaching and changes made to the band this year.

Freshman tuba player Michael Boyd said members of the tuba section decided Sunday not to show up to rehearsal Monday and emailed their director, Justin Stolarik, to voice their concerns with the band’s performance this year.

Boyd said he and other members explained to Stolarik, who was hired as the new Pride director in February, that they feel their performance this year doesn’t match the band’s performance in past years

because he’s not giving them enough instruction when changing aspects of their pre-game and halftime routines. Boyd said Stolarik also not helping them improve because he doesn’t give them enough feedback when they do something wrong.

“The main issue is that the instruction is inade q u a t e , a n d w e ’v e a p proached [Stolarik] on that,” he said.

At the beginning of September, Pride members approached Stolarik to voice their concerns about the lack of instruction and changes made to the band’s performance.

“We brought him our demands… Things have gotten a little better, but the band that was the Pride last year and the band this year is not the same,” he said.

Freshman tuba player Jacqueline Oliver said she’d wanted to march with the

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band’s leadership as the tuba players, but they were waiting for someone else to take the first step in advocating for changes.

“We’re just the first section to take action,” he said.

Boyd said Stolarik asked

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art is offering a new program of discussions called FRED Talks, which look into different topics related to the arts.

The FRED Talks are loosely inspired by the Pecha Kucha presentation style with concise presentations by multiple speakers on a broad topic about creativity, the museum’s director of education Susan Baley said.

Each will be about a topic suggested by the museum’s faculty advisory board, and the board plans to offer two FRED Talks programs each semester said Susan said Baley .

Baley worked with Jessica Farling, curator of academic programs, to find members of the museum’s faculty advisory board who could propose topics for the talks.

Todd Stewart, photography associate professor and co-interim director of the School of Art and Art History, will be one of the faculty members taking part in this session, Baley said.

The first discussion, Stewart’s “Journey,” is at 7 p.m. Sept.

27 in Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. It will feature discussions of the recent “Road to Ruscha” project, Baley said.

The discussion stems from this past summer, when Stewart and his students, along with geology students and various other faculty members, began a class project.

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(Left to right) Tuba players Zach Palank, Jake Hille and Justin Duke were the only members from the Pride of Oklahoma’s tuba section to show up for practice on Monday.

Pride since she was 6 years old, but she doesn’t feel the band is owning up to its name this year.

“We’re not the Pride,” she said.

Boyd said members of other sections have the same concerns with the

OU Board of Regents consistently vote “Yes” since 2009

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n the past four years, with seven to eight meetings a year, the OU Board of Regents has unanimously approved every measure put to them for a vote.

The regents vote on program changes, faculty and administration salaries and funding for projects around campus, and in the past four years, they have all voted yes to everything.

This unified record has held since at least 2009, when the board consisted of nearly all of its current members. While two new Regents have been named since that time, the record has remained the same: no contestations.

Whether it’s an increase in football coach Bob Stoops’ salary or it’s spending several million dollars for the renovation of a student-housing complex, the regents, which govern OU’s Tulsa and Health Sciences Center campuses as well as Cameron and Rogers State Universities, has a cohesive view.

The board is comprised of seven members appointed by the governor of Oklahoma and is currently made up of primarily businessmen from around the state who are all OU graduates.

Nearly all monetary matters above a certain minimum, contract changes, tenure approvals and program changes that are relevant to the university pass through the hands of the regents.

When asked for a reason behind this voting record, regent Kirk Humphreys,

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who was appointed in 2012 and simultaneously works for The Humphreys Company in Oklahoma City, said, “…the administration does a good job of working out the details in presenting information to the board in advance of meetings.

If there are issues that need to be worked out, they’re worked out as it’s formulated.”

A statement from board Chairman Richard Dunning corroborated Humphrey’s statement.

“Prior to casting votes, members of the board have the opportunity to discuss and become acquainted with the material in each agenda item,” the statement said.

“Board members share a sense of cooperation and commitment to the agenda items and the ways in which they will help the university long-term.”

While official discussion and votes on university business is only permitted in pre-scheduled meetings, board members do communicate in a less formal manner between official meetings.

“I don’t talk to the president every week,” Humphreys said. “But from time to time, if there’s something that is an issue I want to talk to him about, I do, and I’m sure that other board members do that.”

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band: Members disagree with Pride changes Continued from page 1 the tuba players to meet with him after rehearsal Monday to talk about their complaints.

“I hope that things will change for the better,” The Daily emailed Stolarik and called his office after rehearsal Monday evening, but he was unable to respond by press time.

The Daily will continue to contact him until he is able to respond to students’ complaints.

Today around campus A free concert by Jeffery Weaver on piano will be held from noon to 1 p.m. for Mid Day Music in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s food court.

Arianna Pickard aripickard@ou.edu

A Q-and-A with undergraduate and graduate students will be held at noon in Cate Center Building 4, Room 351.

Students can discuss career opportunities with the U.S. Department of State.

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Zach Palank stands next to other members of the Pride during practice on Monday. All but three Tuba players chose to not attend in protest of recent changes.

FRED: Series of arts discussions opens this fall

An open house commemorating Constitution Day will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. on Bizzell Memorial Library’s fourth floor. The event will celebrate the 120th anniversary of the founding of the University of Oklahoma Libraries’ Government Documents Collection.

Continued from page 1 Last year, from May 15 to May 24, 20 OU students followed Ruscha’s path from Los Angles to Oklahoma City and visited all 26 gas stations, Stewart said.

The students’ experiences were documented in a multimedia project presented in the museum.

Stewart and the other faculty members involved in this project used Ed Ruscha’s modern art book, “Twentysix Gasoline Stations,” as inspiration for the project, he said.

However, the project wasn’t just an attempt at recreating Ruscha’s work.

Instead, they tried to use it to understand the nature of journeys in the modern world.

“This was never about just re-photographing these places but, instead, using them as a basis for the idea of journeys in society,” Stewart said. “What appealed to me about this one is that it was a contemporary experience compared to the one that happened 50 years ago.”

The result of the journey was even better then Stewart could have

A meet and greet with U.S. Diplomat in Residence, Jean Preston and recruiter, Jim Madril will be held form 3 to 4 p.m. in Cate Center Building 4, Room 351.

An information session about the OU in Arezzo program will be held at 4 p.m. in Gould Hall. The event includes a bruchettamaking demonstration.

A tournament for bocce ball will take place at 5 p.m. on the South Oval as a part of Italy Week.

A training session to become a Greek Ally will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Students involved in a fraternity or sorority can register online at lgbtq.ou.edu.

A meet and greet for Sooner Ally will be held at 5:30 to 7:30p.m. at the WalkerAdams Mall. The event will be carnivalthemed event with free food, games and prizes.

imagined, he said.

“With the amount and diversity of the people involved, on any given night, there would be conversations about geology, space, place, cultural landscapes and other things related to each persons own individual experiences on the trip,” he said.

As well, students and faculty from the trip will discuss the concept behind their journey and what it meant to each of them.

“The whole point of this project, the FRED Talk, is to collect and gather the assets from that trip and present it in this discussion-based setting,” Stewart said.

Seating for this talk is limited to 40 people, Baley said.

Another presenter, Dan Schwartz, assistant professor of music and member of the faculty advisory board for the museum, is discussing blasphemy, he said.

“Blasphemy is an exciting choice, particularly in the arts, and lends itself well to a wide variety of angles,” he said.

Schwartz’s specific presentation will be on “Fantasy Sketch 1,” a piece he composed for solo oboe, he said.

This piece is inspired by a very

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“Blasphemy” When: 7 p.m., Nov. 22 Where: Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditoriumclassroom

controversial piece of photography, Immersion (Piss Christ), by Andres Serrano , and Schwartz will discuss how the photography plays into his composing and performing, he said.

This FRED Talk will be held in the Fred Jones auditorium, which seats 150, at 7 p.m. Nov. 22, said Baley. Both events will be free to the public.

A free lecture from the social media manager of NASA, John Yembrick, will take place at 6 p.m. in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication auditorium, Room 1140.

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yes men: OU Regents vote ‘yes’ unanimously Continued from page 1 The Open Meetings Act of Oklahoma, which passed when OU President David Boren was the Governor of Oklahoma in 1977, states members of a public body can discuss issues with each other as long as these informal conversations don’t take place between “a majority of its members.”

Humphreys laughingly compared these conversations to inter-office discussions.

“What the law does not allow is what’s been described as a rolling board meeting,” Humphreys said.

“In other words, intentionally transacting the public’s business in a way so as to keep it out of the public view… And that’s not what we do.”

The board hasn’t always voted in such a unified manner.

“There have been times in the university’s history when the regents have been divided – sometimes quite bitterly,” a retired history professor who is writing a history of the university said. “It is…one of the principal tasks of any university president to try, insofar as possible, to maintain good relations, not only with members of the board, but also with the governor of Oklahoma who will be nominating a new regent each year.”

While this division can be caused by differences in

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opinion or philosophy, it hasn’t been felt during the time of Boren’s presidency, perhaps to his credit, suggests the professor.

President Boren, therefore, has the responsibility of making reasonable and informed suggestions to the board and should attempt to make it as unified a force as possible, he said.

“Approval of these [agenda] items is a collaborative process between President Boren and the board,” regent Dunning’s statement said.

President Boren officially recommends every agenda item, but final approval rests with the seven members of the board.”

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Nina Davuluri is crowned the next Miss America on Sunday night.

Racism not welcome at Miss OU pageant, campus Our View: This year’s Miss America Pageant reminded us that not all of America has moved on from racism, which won’t be tolerated at OU.

America winner of Indian descent. Her dark features and complexion are what sparked the nasty online conversation. We should all know by now that personalities aren’t colored, so why On Sunday, 8.43 million view- so many ignorant minds voiced ers fixated their attention on toxic, inappropriate tweets bafthe 53 candidates representing fles us. Regardless, with the Miss their states in the Miss America University of Oklahoma Pageant Pageant, according to Nielsen. coming up, it’s important to reAfter watching the 17-24 frain from any slander, year-old contestants libel or other forms of The Our View compete for the crown, disrespect to all those is the majority the 2014 Miss America who run. opinion of was crowned, and the auOur campus is diThe Daily’s dience cheered. verse, just as the rest nine-member The Syracuse, New editorial board of America is. The new York, native is Nina Miss America is handling Davuluri. Not all the waves of negative atAmericans were happy about the tention well thus far. outcome, though. The minute “I have to rise above that,” she was presented with the spar- Davuluri said. “I’ve always kling crown, Twitter was blasted viewed myself as, first and forewith racist tweets throughout the most, American.” night, pinning her as an Arab, a Thousands of other Americans terrorist and a foreigner, among are standing up for her via other insinuated hateful remarks. Twitter, encouraging America The tweets were shameful and to grow up. Sooner nation — let clearly misrepresented the direc- this be a reminder to everyone tion our nation is leading toward. that racism leaves scars, and as Even though racism still looms young adults, we can flow with over America, there is no justhe current moving away from tifiable reason it should or will the foolishness. be tolerated — and our campus Two years ago, OU broadcast is no exception. While a simple journalism student Alicia Clifton tweet is just 140 characters or less was crowned Miss Oklahoma and of gibberish half of the time, the pressed on to compete for Miss fact that Davuluri was victimized America in 2013. Clifton came on the social website because of close to winning the title, placher skin color is an inexcusable ing third in the competition. Just glimpse of history’s filth. think about if she had secured Daluvuri is the first Miss the crown. Most of us on campus

would be congratulating her, but could you imagine what scrutiny she’d have because of her slight Asian appearance?

We don’t want to imagine it either. We aren’t claiming Clifton would have had to go through the same criticism Davuluri is experiencing, but after seeing certain individuals’ behavior — who knows. No matter who the person is or what his or her descent is, no one, student or contestant, should be subject to racism.

The 2014 Miss OU pageant will be held Oct. 4, in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium. These women will compete against one another for scholarships and, of course, the crown.

This pageant may stand on a lower level than the Miss America pageant, but regardless, these students have a passion for this, and we need to support them. When they compete, they will be scored based on their talents, swimsuit appearances, interviews, on-stage answers and evening gown presentations. Leave any forms of discrimination alone, whether spoken or written.

These women deserve support, and our campus can celebrate its diversity by silencing racial slurs.

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ast week, we marked 12 years since the Twin Towers fell. Nearly 3,000 lives were lost that day. Countless more lives were claimed in the wars and occupations our government and militaries engaged in under the guise of liberation for oppressed peoples and retribution for the American lives taken. This is disgraceful to the memory of our loved ones lost and to our national identity.

Retribution is essentially vengeance. The adage goes: “One who sets out for revenge should dig two graves.” This is a lesson we are going to learn, if we haven’t already, as public opinion of the US across the globe continues to decline thanks to our “War on Terror,” and most recently, the NSA spying. opinion columnist Sasha Barron Cohen’s character Borat in the film of the same name refers to our wars following 9/11 as a “War of Terror.” I think this is a better representation of scenes in places like Yemen, where drones rain ordinance Jared Glass down onto “terrorist” tarJrglass@ou.edu gets. Of course, civilian causalities are inevitable.

Despite the fact that our government and military-industrial complex continues to engage in world policing to combat networks of “evil terrorists,” a majority of our citizens seem to have realized that military involvement in foreign conflict is not a good idea.

Forty-nine percent of Americans disapprove of aerial strikes against Syria if they do not give up chemical weapons, while 37 percent are in favor of strikes and 14 percent are undecided, according to a Pew Research Center poll.

It seems that 49 percent learned a lesson from clumsy involvement in the Middle East since the end of World War II. For example, I usually cite the poorly conceived and executed establishment of modern Israel by the freshly created United Nations, which led to the ongoing conflict there.

Second, there was coup in Iran in 1953, which recently released documents confirm the CIA facilitated. Iran isn’t our biggest friend. Third: the war between Iran and Iraq in the 1970s, where we supported the Iraqis. Again, that seems to have worked out well, right?

Finally, and this is my favorite, is our support of the Mujahedeen during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s. The CIA trained and armed the “freedom fighters” to fight the communist menace. A lot of those weapons and tactics ended up in the hands and battle plans of the Taliban, many of which were part of the Mujahedeen originally, and this includes the Saudi Arabian Osama bin Laden. If you haven’t seen Rambo Part III, you should make that a priority. The unconquerable Afghani people are the protagonist group in that movie.

So why would all these people turn against us, when we so clearly helped them? Likely because of our militaristic and imperialistic tendencies during and following the Cold War. In the absence of the Soviet “bad-guy” to make us the “goodguy,” we became the occupying enemy.

Ironically, we now see those roles reversed on the world stage as the U.S. and Russia’s interactions with Syria have been largely good-cop/bad-cop, and we’re now the aggressive, in-your-face-with-ballistic-missiles kind of problem solver. While President Obama agreed to postpone the decision to strike while diplomatic processes begin to take place with the Russian-backed Assad government concerning its chemical weapons, the possibility of U.S. military involvement is not off the table.

This is subterfuge however; multiple news agencies are reporting that CIA trained and outfitted rebels have already been deployed in Syria. Obama reportedly told senators during a meeting in early September that teams were in route to Syria.

Although past actions in this vein helped fuel anti-American sentiment that was a motivator in the bombing of the USS Cole, the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, 9/11 and Benghazi, surely the tinkering of the CIA in Syria won’t have disastrous effects, right? Excuse me if I sound cynical, but I don’t think our government leaders learned anything at all from the past 12 years. I have to rise above that, she said. I’ve always viewed myself as first and foremost American.

Jared Glass is an English senior.

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Students don’t necessarily have to participate in OU football

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n September 13, The Daily’s unsigned editorial stated, “Our View: the student section should be filled at OU football games.” However, it was quickly apparent to anyone who read the column that their suggestion went a little further than that.

The editorial chides students with tickets that sell them, commanding that, “If nobody has bought your ticket yet, take it off the market. Wake up early and go to the game.

And when you get there, cheer. Be loud.”

Where this absolute duty comes from isn’t very clearly spelled out. When I enrolled at OU, I was thought I was paying thousands of dollars to get an education. I wasn’t paying that money for the Ultimate Sooner Football Fan Package 2013.

The condescending editorial completely ignores that

not every student is as fortunate as them. Perhaps someone selling their ticket is doing so because they desperately need the money. Maybe they have work that day.

They might even need to do something for a class — since, they’re in, you know, college.

Maybe the student just doesn’t like football. I personally do, but I think it’s anyone business whether or not someone enjoys standing in a not-so-easily-navigable stadium with over 82,000 other people in sweltering heat.

Even as a fan, the cult of football and its athletic nationalism is more than a little creepy. When I do watch a game, I much prefer seeing it comfortably from my home rather than having to wade through the “atmosphere” of middle-aged men with middle-school minds who’ve nearly consumed their own weight in alcohol.

Besides, if someone sells his or her ticket, the seat is still filled. Someone who doesn’t want to go gives it to someone who does. Why does The Daily want to deprive genuinely devoted fans of a chance to see the game just so some student goes purely out of social compulsion?

After all, given the prime importance that the columnist puts on enthusiasm at games, it seems that they should prefer that the ticket gets sold. They clearly have a much stronger bond with their football fans than with their fellow students.

Go ahead. Sell your ticket. Don’t let The Daily and its tired bromides change your mind.

Spencer Yarros is an economics and philosophy junior.

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enior defensive back Gabe Lynn lowered his shoulder and hit the shoulder pad of Tulsa running back Trey Watts.

Yellow flags went flying. The call? Targeting.

Targeting has been a rule for the past five seasons in college football. The call used to result in a 15-yard penalty, but the NCAA decided to spice things up this season.

If the penalty occurs in the first half of the game, the defender sits out for the remainder of the game. If it occurs in the second half, the defender will also be suspended for the first half of the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next call.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rough.

But hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where things get a little crazy. Since ejection is serious business, the call can be reviewed in the replay booth, and if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s determined the player was not targeting, the ejection can be reversed. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great and all, but the 15-yard penalty still stands no matter what.

Wait, what?

The referee can essentially say he shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have called the penalty, but the yardage still stands.

The more times I say it, the crazier it sounds.

So back to Lynn. The referees went to the replay booth and overturned the targeting call. The replay clearly showed Lynn hit

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A referee makes a controversial targeting call in Oklahomaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game against Tulsa on Saturday. The call eventually was overturned, but the penalty yardage was still enforced. After two weeks of multiple reversed targeting calls, many are questioning the ruleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fairness.

Wattsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shoulder pad, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no penalty for a clean, hard hit. The referees took the penalty back, Lynn stayed in the game, and Tulsa got a free 15 yards.

The same situation happened to Alabama safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix against Texas A&M on Saturday.

It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make sense.

The referees are admitting the penalty shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have been called. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re essentially picking up the flag. But they wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come out and say they were completely wrong.

Coach Bob Stoops said the rule worked exactly how it was supposed to. He guessed the penalty yardage couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be reversed

because of the amount of judgment calls referees are required to make. If they review the entire penalty for targeting, would they have to review late hits? What about holding penalties?

While Stoops does have a point, I still think the logic is a little wonky. Targeting is a serious call, and keeping the penalty yardage just seems excessive.

If anything, it punishes players for just playing football. It teaches them to avoid hard hits in general.

I understand wanting to prevent injuries and concussions, but letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s be real for a minute. These safety precautions didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come about until former players starting

suing the NFL. The game of football is supposed to be tough â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what the helmets and pads are for â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but at some point,officials need to take a step back and look at the rule.

Either the call is right or wrong. It canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be half right.

So when the replay showed Lynnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clean hit, the penalty shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have stood. At all. Players should be rewarded for clean football, not punished.

Julia Nelson is a journalism senior.

Volleyball Beat Reporter he Oklahoma volleyball team emerged victorious from its recent appearance in the Dr. Mary Jo Wynn Tournament in Missouri this past weekend. The Sooners made up for their less than stelDemetrius Kearney lar performance in the Demetrius.V.Kearney-1@ou.edu Portland State tournament, in which they suffered their first loss of the season.

The Sooners seemed to be back in their seemingly flawless form as they swept the competition to improve their season record to 9-1. In the process, head coach Santiago Restrepo also picked up his 300th win in his 17 PLAYER PROFILE year career when his team swept Middle Tennessee Sallie McLaurin State on Saturday Year: morning.

Senior Senior middle blocker and team captain Sallie Position: McLaurin had yet anothMiddle er exceptional weekend Blocker on the court, collecting tournament MVP honors Statistics: following the conclusion .722 hitting percentage, 13 kills, 6 blocks and no of the Sooners weekend errors last weekend. sweep. Senior outside hitter Keila Rodriguez and sophomore outside hitter Kierra Holst joined McLaurin on the all tournament team with their impressive performances.

The Sooners have now won five straight and will hope to extend that streak to six when they travel to Tulsa to take on the Hurricane at 7 p.m. tonight.

The Hurricane are currently sitting at 8-3 on the season and will hope to end the Sooners current winning streak.

However, the Sooners will do everything in their power to prevent that from happening.

Since suffering their first loss to the Pacific Tigers, the Sooners have only lost three sets in their five match winning streak. Two of those three were at the hands of then No. 25 ranked BYU before the Sooners knocked them off in a thrilling comeback victory.

The Sooners will look to remain consistent against Tulsa, extend their winning streak to six and improve their season record to 10-1.

Demetrius Kearney is a political science senior.

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The duo will visit Norman for a concert in an alternative venue BRIANA HALL band that is pushing the LIFE & ARTS REPORTER boundaries of what punk

is, combined with then non A local art gallery will traditional setting of an art host a concert for popu- gallery — it’s an experience lar band No Age, with the you don’t get to experience help of OPOLIS, Sub Pop in Oklahoma that much,” Records and the Norman Boydston said.

The band members, who Arts Council.

The concert will be held are currently on tour and signed with at 8 p.m. on a lab e l ou t o f Wednesday at Seattle, dethe MAINSITE scribed their inContemporary teresting sound.

Art gallery.

Dean Spunt, one MAINSITE of the band’s two gallery manager members, coins Joshua Boydston said he has been We’re trying to their sound as a fan of the band take it back to “medium rare rock.” for quite a while, 1984, where Spunt and his and is excited to finally see them it all started. partner, Randy started No Age is coming to Norman for a show at the MAINSITE Contemporary Art gallery. live. MAINSITE Where it was Randall, out in a relationenjoys hosting all kinds of really organic.” ship when they were about 18 artists, allowwith a very aggressive sound, would call it both interesting DEAN SPUNT, years old. ing musicians GO AND DO Spunt said they have evolved and good.

MEMBER OF NO AGE “ We s t a r t e d to perform in a toward a more “listen to as “How they packaged and No Age concert to collaborate in place that is not you’re driving and hanging designed everything thema traditional performance places other than the bedWhen: 8 p.m. tonight out” kind of sound. selves — it was a great qualroom,” Spunt said. “We startspace, Boydston said.

The band’s latest album, ity to showcase and I’m Where: MAINSITE W h i l e B o y d s t o n s a i d ed to make music because “An Object,” was released in happy to display that during Contemporary Art MAINSITE often hosts pop- we love making music.” late August and features a the show,” Boydston said. gallery, 122 E Main St. Over the approximate up shows including poetry more encompassing and reThe band’s end goal is readings, screenings and eight years since then, laxed feeling to it, Spunt said. to consolidate music, exPrice: $10 in advance performance art, he said Spunt said their sound has He said his favorite track istentialist issues and life, $12 day of show fans should be extra ex- changed a lot. off the album is “C’mon, and to be able to translate “We’re trying to take it cited to see the band play Stimmung.” it through music to others, back to 1984, where it all it was really organic.”

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MGMT’s new album could take you to a strange place

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AT A GLANCE ‘MGMT’

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here’s a moment in the middle of “Oracular Spectacular,” MGMT’s wildly successful first album, when you stop and think to yourself, ‘Wow. This is weird.’

I hope you liked that moment, because it continues in perpetuity on MGMT’s self-titled third LP. And it’s even weirder.

You’d be forgiven for forgetting MGMT’s second album, “Congratulations,” exists, but in 2010 it was a clear indication that MGMT didn’t feel tethered by their unexpected success.

The group’s newest album, “MGMT,” however, is an unprecedented step further.

It begins with a winding, mesmerizing psych-rock

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ballad called “Alien Days.”

Lacking the constraints of such structure as verses or a chorus, “Alien Days” takes the opportunity to forewarn listeners of the journey they’re about to embark on; it’s not for the faint of heart.

“Cool Song No. 2” (yes, it’s really called “Cool Song No. 2”) reinforces the idea that lyrics--in stark contrast to MGMT’s earlier works-won’t be very important on this album. They exist in abundance, but they are

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There are exceptions to this rule, and that’s when “MGMT” gets interesting.

“Instrospection,” for instance, seems to nicely sum up the album’s approach. “Instrospection/ What am I really like inside?” poses singer Andrew VanWyngarden during the chorus, a valid question in this warped musical realm.

The next track seems to provide the answer, and the answer is ‘cynical.’ “Count your friends/ on your

hands/ now look again/ they’re not your friends,” he sings on “Your Life Is a Lie,” the most overt message on “MGMT.” Don’t despair; if you’re not a fan of being preached at, the next track, “A Good Sadness,” goes back to not making sense.

For anyone confused, MGMT has decided to accompany the album with an ‘Optimizer,’ a CGI, psychedelic, continuous music video of sorts that plays through the ten tracks of “MGMT.” Rather than explaining any of the album’s themes, however, the Optimizer serves as a hastily

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arranged, occasionally disturbing visual rollercoaster that makes me never want to try ‘shrooms.

Honestly, most of “MGMT” feels like a bad acid trip. But it certainly has its moments: the urgent drumbeats of “Mystery Disease” sound concert-ready, and “Plenty of Girls in the Sea” is (by its title alone) instantly relatable.

“As soon as you get yourself free,” VanWyngarden sings on “Plenty of Girls in the Sea,” “then somebody stops you from swimming.”

On the whole, though, I can’t think of a better way for MGMT to eliminate its remaining mainstream goodwill than with this album. And perhaps that’s the entire point; MGMT has

every right to make music it likes, rather than pander to the teenagers who want another “Kids” or “Electric Feel” to jam to on the way to the party.

Fans willing to embark on the journey with them will find enough idiosyncrasies, veiled messages and interesting compositions to keep them coming back to “MGMT.” For the casual fan, however, “MGMT” is an exhausting album. It feels a bit like being thrown into Woodstock’s sweatiest drum circle, only to realize that you don’t want to be at Woodstock in the first place.

Graham Dudley is a public relations sophomore.

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All iPads 4

$50 Off

All iPads 2

$30 Off

All iPad Minis

10% Off

iPod Shuffles / Classic / Nano & Touch

50% Off

iPad Sleeves / Cases (Does not included Apple Branded)

Accessories $925

Displays (Thunderbolt & Non-Thunderbolt)

50% Off

Dr. Dre Headphones & Beats Pills

25% Off

Sol Republic Headphones

IT Store ON BOYD STREET only 15% Off

All PCs

30% Off

All Computer / iPad Sleeves and Cases

50% Off

All Cell phone Cases

25% Off

All Printers

Gift cards in increments from $5 to $1,000 will be given to the first 200 paying customers in line at the OneU Store on September 23rd. All visitors to the OneU Store during grand opening week can enter to win one of 5 iPads and 5 iPad Minis.

LIMITED QUANTITIES AT THIS PRICE Departmental purchases are always welcome. For large departmental orders please contact us at itstore@ou.edu

900 Asp. Room 101 in the OKLAHOMA MEMORIAL UNION

oneustore.ou.edu

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325-5001

329 W. Boyd on HISTORIC CAMPUS CORNER Open 9AM - 5PM Mon - Fri, 11AM - 3PM Sat.

itstore.ou.edu

325-1925

@OUITStore

/OUITStore

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