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Read about the University Theatre production “Is He Dead?” in the Life & Arts section.

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80°/65° owl.ou.edu CAMPUS BRIEFS THE HUFF CLOSED FOR HOME FOOTBALL GAME

OU’s Huston Huffman Center will be closed all day Saturday because of the OU-Tulsa football game. Huston Huffman will close at 10 p.m. tonight and reopen at 2 p.m. Sunday, said Chris Thompson, a front desk worker at the Huston Huffman Center.

Higher education plan simplifies FAFSA and could save billions RICKY MARANON The Oklahoma Daily

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would, if it becomes law, remove private lenders from the student loans business.

The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (H.R. 3221) is the adoption of President Obama’s higher education plan and passed 253 to 171.

“No student in America should have to

Certain sites will not fully function as records are transferred

FAN FEST CANCELLED FOR OU-TULSA GAME

MEREDITH MORIAK The Oklahoma Daily

-Jono Greco/The Daily

LECTURES TO BE GIVEN OVER DARWIN’S THEORY

Elliott Sober, research professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will deliver three public talks on the general topic “Philosophical Reflections on Darwin’s Theory” during the 11th Biennial David Ross Boyd Lectures at OU this month.

Lecture titles and dates are “Darwin and Intelligent Design,” Sept. 21, “Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards?” Sept. 23, and “Darwin and Group Selection,” Sept.

25. All lectures are scheduled for 5 p.m. in room 128 of Dale Hall, 433 W. Lindsey St. For more information about the lectures, please contact Reinaldo Elugardo at 325-6324 or relugardo@ ou.edu.

-Daily staff reports

the change in the way the government would administer student loans, if the bill is passed in the U.S. Senate and signed by President Obama, would generate $87 billion in savings to the federal government over the next 10 years.

But there are other provisions to the bill aside from the change in student loans.

According to the press release from Miller’s office, the bill simplifies the FAFSA and provides loan forgiveness for members of the military who are called to active duty in the middle of the academic year. It would also invest $40 billion BILL CONTINUES ON PAGE 2

Students to encounter oZONE conversion difficulties

-Charles Ward/The Daily

Saturday’s Fan Fest activities prior to the Oklahoma-Tulsa game have been cancelled due to wet grounds, said OU and Sooner Sports Properties officials in a press release.

“The grounds were soft for last week’s game and we’ve had more rain since that time,” said Eric Barnhart, general manager of SSP. “We don’t want to subject the fans to muddy grounds and we also don’t want to do any damage to the track and field facility.”

Kickoff is set for 2:30 p.m.

mortgage their future to get a good education,” stated the bill’s author, Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., in a press release. “This legislation provides students and families with the single largest investment in federal student aid ever and makes landmark investments to improve education for students of all ages – and all without costing taxpayers a dime.”

Miller stated the bill would allow students to borrow through a direct loan program set up by the federal government rather than through lenders who participate in the federally-guaranteed student loan program.

According to the Congressional Budget Office,

Today and for the next 10 days, students will have limited access to many OU student-focused Web sites like Enroll, Degree Navigator and Student Services.

However, beginning Sept. 28, students will have around-the-clock access to the sites from a new portal called oZONE. “This is the largest technology project ever done at the University,” said Eddie Huebsch, technical project lead and OU IT director of projects.

The conversion of more than two million student records from a 40-year-old mainframe system to the oZONE portal will begin today and continue through Sept. 28.

Desire to Learn and Exchange e-mail will not be affected by the conversion, said Nick Key, oZONE spokesman.

On Sept. 28, the portal will go live and combine existing student services Web sites, like Learn, Enroll and Exchange, in one place, Key said.

OU formed an oZONE team in June 2005 and began looking for solutions to remove information from the university mainframe system that was launched in 1968, Huebsch said.

Members of the oZONE team said the new site will look different to students.

“Change is going to be hard for students and hard for the staff,” said Melanee Hamilton, director of web communications. “It will be a tough change but so much better in the long run.”

Team members predict oZONE will be most effective for incoming students who are learning to access their financial aid, e-mail and other student services before arriving in Norman.

“There [was] no clear path [with the old system] ... with this, they will have everything right in one place and it will streamline their experience,” Key said.

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Sites to function as read-only: “Change isn’t al-enroll.ou.edu SOURCE: Nick Key, oZONE spokesman ways easy, but it’s very foundational and reFor more information about oZONE, log on to ally a positive thing overall,” Key said. www.ou.edu/ozoneinfo.

Democratic leader-elect chosen by caucus OU golf course stays

green with grey water

Sen. Andrew Rice to lead party from 2011-12

Practice saves on water, frees up funds

CAITLIN HARRISON The Oklahoma Daily

Sen. Andrew Rice. D-Oklahoma City, was chosen today as Democratic leader-elect by the Oklahoma state Senate Democratic caucus.

“I’m honored to have the chance to do it. It’s a very diverse caucus,” Rice said. “The margins are very close [between] the senators … a lot of votes come very closely.”

Rice will serve as leader for the 201112 legislative session. Current leader Sen. Charlie Laster, D-Shawnee, will serve as leader for next year’s legislative session and step down at the end of next year. He has served as democratic floor leader since January 2007.

“I have been honored to serve as leader of the Democratic caucus and share my Democratic colleagues’ desire to work with Sen. Rice as we fight aggressively to regain the majority in the Oklahoma state Senate,” Sen. Laster stated in a Capitol press release.

Rice said he hopes to gain Republican support that will help push Democratic legislation, as well as foster the Democratic party as a whole.

“I think our party is moving in a different direction,” Sen. Rice said. “The leaders designated in the House for the Democrats are both younger and

RICKY MARANON The Oklahoma Daily

MICHELLE GRAY/THE DAILY

Andrew Rice, current Oklahoma State Senator for district 46, speaks as part of his campaign for a spot in the U.S. Senate, Wednesday afternoon in the Sooner Room in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Rice's fellow state senator, John Sparks (district 16), and Wallace Collins (right), a candidate for state representative of district 45, stood behind him during the speech Rice delivered last fall campaign for the U.S Senate. we’re both from the Oklahoma City area where you see growth for our party.”

Rice said the party’s leaders have typically come from the state’s rural areas, so he hopes his urban background will serve as a positive change.

He said the party’s leaders are divided evenly between rural and urban areas, and that the party’s focus on rural policies won’t change.

Rice was elected to District 46 in 2006 with nearly 70 percent of the vote, and also ran unsuccessfully for

the U.S. Senate last year.

“I congratulate Sen. Rice on being chosen by his colleagues to serve in this important capacity, and I’m excited to work alongside a democrat with his ability to energize our younger voters,” state Rep. Scott Inman, D-Oklahoma City, stated in a press release. “I know we are both committed to being a strong voice for all Oklahomans, and I’m confident we will work together to bring a fresh message to move our party and our state forward in the coming years.”

The Jimmie Austin OU Golf Course uses grey water to keep its greens free from brown patches.

Grey water, or recycled water, is equivalent to water that someone has been used to bathe in or wash dishes in, not sewage, according to the 1998 Water and Environment Journal, published by the Charter Institute of Water and Environment Management.

“We at [the] Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club are proud that we have the capability to use recycled or grey water to water our golf course,” Eddie Roach, assistant superintendent of the golf course said.

“The use of grey water for irrigation purposes is becoming more of an everyday trend, especially on golf courses, since water restrictions on golf courses are becoming more of an issue.”

Roach said the water is collected in a 500,000-gallon tank located directly south of

the course’s clubhouse.

Jason Faires, Jimmie Austin superintendent, said the water is pumped to the golf club from the waste water treatment plant located about a mile south of the golf course.

“Our golf course is greener in the sense that we have the capability to water our course with water that is being recycled rather than from water that is bought directly from the city like many other golf courses throughout the nation have to do,” Roach said.

However, Faires said there were some problems with grey water use.

“The biggest misconception about using reclaimed water is that it is free water,” Faires said. “The water may not cost as much as ground water or city water, but using it has adverse effects on soil structure and turf.”

Faires said more aerification and gypsum applications are needed just to make turf grow as it would if it were watered with fresh water, which means higher than normal labor and fertility WATER CONTINUES ON PAGE 2

2 Friday, September 18, 2009 Meredith Moriak, managing editor dailynews@ou.edu • phone: 325-3666 • fax: 325-6051

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is similar to the health care bill in that he stated the student loan industry would be destroyed from a “public option.”

Continued from page 1 “It will cost taxpayers billions, elimito increase the maximum annual Pell Grant nate private jobs and make students and scholarship to $5,500 in 2010 and eventually colleges more dependent on the federal raise the amount to $6,900 by 2019, provide government.” $3 billion to bolster college access and keep Rep. Fallin stated in a press release that interest rates on need-based and subsidized the bill creates more bureaucracy for citiloans variable beginzens and turns the U.S. “No student in America should Department of Education ning in 2012.

O k l a h o m a have to mortgage their future into a large bank.

Congressional del- to get a good education. This “The government alegation members ready owns our mortR e p s. Ma r y Fa l l i n , legislation provides students gages, car dealerships R-Oklahoma City, and and families with the single and banking institutions,” Tom Cole, R-Moore, largest investment in federal Fallin stated. “Now they voted against the bill want to control the stustudent aid ever.” calling it another govdent loan market as well, ernment takeover of a managing over $1 trillion -REP. GEORGE MILLER, D-CALIFORNIA private enterprise. in capital over the next “A b o l i s h i n g t h e ten years and eliminatFederal Family Education Loan student loan ing college financing choices for students. If program in order to institute a government- this bill becomes law, students will be stuck run lending program that pulls dollars from standing in line in another massive bureauthe already overdrawn U.S. Treasury is a mis- cratic system, just like the Internal Revenue take,” Rep. Cole, who represents Norman, Service or Post Office.” stated in an e-mail. “This is just another funFallin stated the bill would take 6.7 million damentally flawed government takeover.” students and 4,400 institutions of higher eduCole stated the legislation that was passed cation into one large federal program.

PROPOSED CHANGES TO STUDENT LOAN LEGISLATION The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Student Aid and Financial Responsibility Act Thursday.

If the act becomes law, the bill’s author, Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., claims the bill will make several changes to the way student loans are obtained and funded, including: • Students would not obtain federally-guaranteed loans from private lenders. Instead, students would borrow directly from the federal government.

• The FAFSA will be easier to fill out.

• Pell Grant amounts would increase to a maximum of $5,500 per year in 2010, and to $6,900 per year by 2019.

• According to the CBO, the bill would save $87 billion during the next 10 years.

Sources: Congressional Budget Office, press release from Rep. George Miller’s office

Water Continued from page 1 costs.

Faires said Jimmie Austin switched over to grey water when the course was redesigned in 1995.

Students said it is a good idea to use grey water on the course.

“I really don’t see the harm in them using recycled water,” Iosiah Varghese, sociology

and criminology senior, said.

Varghese said he has heard other golf courses using other means to water their courses and thought it was good that Jimmie Austin was being different.

“As long as people aren’t drinking the water, I don’t see any harm in it,” Alice Lee, management information studies graduate student, said.

Faires and Roach said grey water is not for drinking or cooking and is specifically used for just watering the course.

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Student finds motivation, dedication to keep drivers safe SAFEride a smart alternative to reduce possible risks on the road

through Saturday night, said Brynn Daves, assistant to the vice president of student affairs, in an e-mail.

The program was created in 2004 and offers free rides to students with a valid student ID from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. anywhere in Norman city limits, according to the SAFEride Web KAITLYN BIVIN The Oklahoma Daily site.

Long said he decided to join SAFEride not only because In July 2008, criminology senior Jacob Long’s life changed the position presented itself, but because of his drive to help forever when his close friend, Brandon Barrett, was killed by students stay safe and prevent further tragedies. “[SAFEride] has given me the opportunity to help students a drunk driver after attending a concert. stay safer,” Long said. “Just by being able to give In an effort to remember Barrett and help them a safe ride home without the risk of drivkeep fellow students safe, Long joined the SAFER STREETS ing with friends who are drunk or if they have university SAFEride program this fall and anSAFEride is free to all students been drinking themselves.” swers student phone calls for the program.

Long said his experiences with drunk driv“I’ve been on pretty much every end of the with a valid OU ID from 10 p.m.

TEEKO YANG/THE DAILY drunk driving spectrum,” Long said. “I’ve had to 3 a.m. Thursday through ing fatalities changed his perspective and gave Jacob Long, criminology senior, answers phones for SAFEwalk him the drive to work for SAFEride. He said he Tuesday afternoon. The SAFEwalk and SAFEride programs have friends drive drunk and kill innocent people, Saturday. Call 325-RIDE. is now attempting to get the message out about been implemented to increase campus and student security. and I’ve had friends killed by drunk drivers.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and SAFEride to students.

“I’ve been telling people to call SAFEride more to get them Fellow SAFEride employee and multidisciplinary studies Prevention, 36 people in the U.S. die each day and approxisophomore Austin Conwell said Long is excellent at his posimately 700 more are injured in motor vehicle crashes that off the road and hopefully save someone’s life,” Long said.

The fruit of his labor is recognized with every call. tion as a member of the program. involve an alcohol-impaired driver.

“As long as people are willing to call that’s all the reward I “[SAFEride] is a great program to be involved in if you want SAFEride is a university-wide program that gives students to help people,” Long said. a safe, alternative and nonjudgmental ride home Thursday need,” Long said.

Home game tailgating boosts Norman economy, game excitement Fans enjoy hours leading up to football games to help economy NICOLE HILL The Oklahoma Daily

One of Kathy Brown’s favorite things about setting up camp in front of Copeland Hall on Saturdays is creating the menu. Last week it was Idaho potatoes and roasted chicken.

In the past there were frog legs for the Texas Christian Horned Frogs and bear burgers for the Baylor Bears.

Different opponent, different dish, but for every OU home game, the same story: Brown, her husband and four other couples

pitch their tent, fire up the grill and set up the Norman Convention and Visitors Bureau.

HoleyBoard game.

“The tourism economy is much more than Brown, from Tulsa, is just one of hundreds hotels and restaurants,” Koranda said. who take over campus on game days for the Close to $53 million is generated throughsame weekend routine: tailgating. Brown out a regular football season, which typically and her group, some of “Our slogan is, ‘You go to includes six home football whom have been tailgating games, through an influx at OU games since the ‘70s, tailgate and you hope a of weekend visitors, both set up their site at 11 a.m. football game breaks out.’” “day-trippers” and tailSaturday for a 6 p.m. game. gaters, he said.

A sign of dedication for –KATHY BROWN “Traffic and sales are sure, but these fans bring definitely up [on game more than school spirit; they actually boost days],” said Amanda Clark, owner of Blush, the local economy as well. a boutique on Campus Corner.

Every home game weekend generates Clark said she tries to get all of her em$8.8 million for the Norman economy, said ployees to work on home game Saturdays Stephen Koranda, executive director for the because of the extra volume of business. OU

CAMPUS NOTES The Daily draws all entries for Campus Notes from OUDaily.com’s comprehensive, campus-wide calendar. To get your event noticed, visit OUDaily.com and fill out our userfriendly form under the calendar link.

TODAY OU SOCCER OU will play Lamar at 7 p.m. at the OU soccer complex.

COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS The College of Fine Arts will pres-

Parents’ Weekend and Homecoming are particularly big business weekends, she said.

With rain, a loss the previous week and a little-known opponent, the Idaho State game brought less business than usual, Clark said.

Clark said she doesn’t expect that to be the case the rest of the season, though.

A prolonged loss of business would be dramatic, Koranda said. To illustrate this point, Koranda used the example of a waitress. Without the surge of traffic into Norman, she makes less money. That is less she will spend on groceries, clothes and books and less revenue for the city’s economy.

“Our slogan is, ‘You go to tailgate and you hope a football game breaks out,’” Brown said.

POLICE REPORTS ent “Is He Dead?” at 8 p.m. in the Max Weitzenhoffer Theatre.

SATURDAY OU VOLLEYBALL OU will play Missouri at 11:30 a.m. at the McCasland Field House.

OU FOOTBALL OU will play Tulsa at 2:30 p.m. at the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS The College of Fine Arts will pres-

ent “Is He Dead?” at 8 p.m. in the Max Weitzenhoffer Theatre.

SUNDAY OU SOCCER OU will play USC at 1 p.m. at the OU soccer complex.

COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS The College of Fine Arts will present “Is He Dead?” at 3 p.m. in the Max Weitzenhoffer Theatre.

The following is a list of arrests and citations, not convictions. The information listed is compiled from the Norman Police Department and the OU Police Department.

Those listed are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Michael Wayne Monckton, 35, 201 W. Daws St., Tuesday Jason Tyrel Willis, 25, 170 12th Ave. S.E., Wednesday, also driving under the influence and possession of a controlled dangerous substance

PUBLIC INTOXICATION Donna Jean Bogle, 44, 170 12th Ave. S.E., Wednesday, also driving under the influence and possession of a controlled dangerous substance

POSSESSION OF A WEAPON Daniel William Cleveland, 21, 736 S. Lahoma Ave., Wednesday POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA Heather Rochelle Daniel, 21,

311 Skylark Court, Wednesday HARBOURING A VICIOUS DOG Lucinda Ann Oropeza, 37, 800 Lexington St., Friday, also dog at large Luis Gerardo Palza, 21, 822 Owl St., Wednesday MUNICIPAL DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Matthew Alton Mackey, 25, 300 W. Boyd St., Wednesday

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COMMENT OF THE DAY »

Will Holland, opinion editor dailyopinion@ou.edu • phone: 325-7630 • fax: 325-6051

In response to Thursday’s news story, “Demonstration planned

by Westboro Baptist Church” YOU CAN COMMENT AT OUDAILY.COM

OUR VIEW

“Sounds like Hillel is doing the right thing.

Ayalon said.

I was considering coming to counter-protest, but I’ll do my part by staying out of it if that’s what Hillel wants.”

-OUSooners

‘We are not giving this group, who’s looking for press, any additional reason for press,’

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Student loan legislation good for taxpayers, students The House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass a bill that prescribes several changes to the country’s higher education system, including making the government the sole student loan provider.

See page 1 for details.

The bill, which is on its way to the Senate, is aimed at making college more accessible for students, and may save taxpayers as much as $87 billion by putting an end to loan subsidies. But some Republicans worry that if passed, the bill would actually cost taxpayers money.

Despite the GOP’s reservations, we are glad this bill is one step closer to becoming a law because it cuts out the lender, which is an unnecessary piece of the loan system.

Now, the government is the lender, and if this does save taxpayers money as the

bipartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates, it will be a great way to conserve during an economic recession.

And this is especially true if, as an AP story on OUDaily.com reports, “College students probably wouldn’t notice much difference in their loans, which they would get through their schools.”

We hope loans will remain as available to students as they currently are, because the system may soon be completely in the hands of the government, which makes us a little weary. Perhaps there should be a private option in case someone really wants to have additional choices.

For now, however, we must take the government at its word.

And if it holds up its end of the bargain, and the new alterations save taxpayers money, we can’t oppose the bill.

To the editor,

Get back to our roots? Hunter civilizations are presumed to have lived (and lived off meat) as far back as 2 million years ago, and meat is a central part of several of our national holidays.

I agree with the opinion that some people eat way too much meat, but to imply that by having a meat-based protein with most meals is a “disgusting addiction,” is absolutely ridiculous.

And to further imply that be eating meat I am aiding in the destruction of the environment because cows fart, is also ridiculous.

My suggestion is that if you are worried about corn-fed beef and cow flatulence, then take a note from the Chick-Fil-A cow and “Eat Mor Chikin.”

I found Christopher Gibbons’ tirade against meat in Thursday’s edition of The Daily quite amusing until I realized he was completely serious.

I think most people would agree that eating a turkey sandwich for lunch and having tacos for dinner is not a “disgusting addiction” as he called it.

Christopher claims the demand for meat will soon become unsustainable because I will eat 25 percent more meat (50 pounds) in 2015 than I did last year. So what?

Meat is not a necessity like oil or water, and I’m pretty sure we will never run out of cows, pigs and chickens. It’s like saying 5,000 Skittles a day for everyone in America is unsustainable.

The columnist’s conclusion states that, “we need to get back to our roots, and … under- Kyle Bertholf stand that meat was, and still is, a luxury.”

OU Alumnus

STAFF COLUMN

Campus groups lead through cooperation Intolerance is an unfortunate reality of today’s society. One needs only to turn on one’s favorite news channel for five minutes to figure that out.

It’s easy to become disillusioned when newspapers, blogs, TV channels, etc. constantly bombard us with proof of humanity’s capacity for hatred. It’s also perhaps most lamentable that much of this hatred seems to be carried out in the name of God and religion.

This is not to say, however, that NABEEL those who are religiously inclined KHAN are predisposed to intolerance or bigotry.

Growing up, I was always taught that religion was a favor bestowed upon the world, bringing promises of peace and justice. True to my Sunday school teacher’s words, I have come to understand that those perpetuating prejudice through religion are, more often than not, a small minority simply misrepresenting their respective religions.

Why then do we seem to notice this small minority more than we notice the rest? Well, as the saying goes, it’s because the hollow

drum makes the loudest sound.

Like it or not, the repetitive beating of these hollow drums affects each and every one of us. Their malignant rhythms can and do shape our perception of the world around us.

Some might even be driven to believe that intolerance is the natural order, an inescapable reality. Fortunately, there are also those who are driven to prove them wrong.

My focus is on the latter.

This past Monday, Sept. 14, members of Hillel and the Muslim Student Association broke bread together at an Iftar dinner.

Hillel, a Jewish student organization, invited the Muslim Student Association and the OU community at large to the Hillel House right before sunset, the time when Muslims break the daily fast during the Islamic month of Ramadan, which ends Saturday.

The day after Ramadan, Sunday, Muslims will celebrate the festival of Eid, two days after the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah.

In addition to dinner conversation and holiday wishes, speakers from both the Jewish and Muslim communities of Norman

reflected upon the purpose of fasting in both religious traditions at what turned out to be a hugely successful interfaith dialogue.

I had the opportunity to speak to several of the attendees of Monday’s event; almost all of them claimed they learned something new and expressed their anticipation of similar events in the near future.

One Hillel member recalled that she particularly enjoyed the friendly and relaxed atmosphere of the evening. In addition to her praise, she also stated her concern about a protest being held today in front of the Hillel House by members of Westboro Baptist Church from Topeka, Kansas.

For those of you who may be unfamiliar, Westboro has become infamous for its use of frank hate speech in its literature and protests.

Although Hillel has stated that they will not stage a counter-protest, this hasn’t stopped students and student organizations from voicing their support of Hillel and their rebuke of Westboro’s hateful sentiments, which, as one student put it, are in stark contrast with mainstream Christianity.

Me m b e r s o f t h e Mu s l i m St u d e n t Association have been some of the most

vocal in their denunciation of Westboro and their support of Hillel, further illustrating the cooperative relationship between the two.

I wholeheartedly commend both organizations for being farsighted enough to invest their time and effort into reaching out to each other. It is my hope that these types of activities continue into the future and evolve to engage other groups as well, both religious and otherwise.

In fact, I challenge these student organizations to serve as a reminder that constructive interaction between people of diverse backgrounds is not only possible, but desirable.

Intolerance is a global issue with no easy solution. Resolution requires that each of us takes time to analyze our attitude and behavior toward one another and to actively work against the forces of bigotry.

Again, this is no easy task. I don’t believe, though, that it’s unattainable in the future, and when the day finally comes, the University of Oklahoma should be proud to have been part of the process.

Nabeel Khan is a political science junior.

STAFF COLUMN

Stereotypes, perceptions not always accurate “They can’t decide on anything.”

“They’re lazy and unproductive.”

“They’re only good at this/that.”

We all do it. We base expectations on it. We reduce the complexities of the world down to it. The power of perception and stereotype is strong, especially when the group is radically different than our own.

JON Sometimes MALONE those stereotypes can be helpful and truthful. Other times they can be dangerously inaccurate, setting up unnecessary boundaries between groups.

Everybody loves categorization.

We love structure and order in our nations, cities, homes and lives.

We classify everything according to kind, type, appearance, texture, flavor, etc.

But like most everything else, I and those around me can go too far in these distinctions.

International students, likewise, perceive Western culture (particularly U.S. culture) through a set of classifying eyes. I know this because I teach internationals English, and their assessment of American

culture is often refreshingly honest (albeit sometimes misguided).

One morning, one of the students in my class brought up the topic of stereotypes. With the climate of my classroom being that many differing cultures and backgrounds are represented, I cautiously asked him to explain what he meant.

A brief but fascinating discussion followed when I asked the students the perceptions of the U.S. and its people in their countries.

Their responses reflected both some funny misunderstandings and also refreshingly accurate analysis.

These incorrect assumptions about American culture in general are often humorous.

While it is generally true that people in the U.S. are more overweight than in many other cultures (put forth in consistent statistics and a fast-food culture), some students are surprised to meet active and healthy Americans.

The expectation that all people in this country are wealthy may be generally true in an international economic sense, but many times this façade is broken when the students begin to understand the massive toll that high-interest credit card debt, brought on by years of unchecked and unthinking spending, brings for many Americans.

The boats they see in many driveways and the new BMWs patrolling the streets are often on loan rather than a sign of affluence.

Another fascinating expectation that many of my students bring to the U.S. is that American culture is primarily Christian. They may have no idea what Christianity means now or historically, but they often assume that most Americans believe it.

A recent Barna Group survey seems to support this idea, in that 88 percent of those surveyed believed their religious beliefs to be “very important in [their] life”; however, the same poll said that 71 percent of that same group say they are “more likely to develop my religious beliefs on my own, rather than...accept...[a] set of beliefs that a particular church teaches.”

Regarding the perceptions of the students in my class, their expectations are probably due in part to their own backgrounds, as many come from cultures and nations in which only one belief system and worldview is legal. As such, their only frame of reference religiously is in the form of a monoculture.

This assumption about the U.S. is often externally affirmed in the form of other surveys and polls conducted in which high percentages claim religious affiliation. But

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the reality is that, even though the most commonly-held “religion” is some form of Christianity, the terms “orthodoxy” and “Christian worldview” are given no seat at the table of the postmodern, neo-Darwinian “educated” in the U.S. today.

Many internationals are rather surprised to find this to be true, although ironically they often glean their views from Hollywood movies (which aren’t often mistaken for being particularly concerned with external spiritual authority).

There are very specific areas, however, in which many international students in my classes accurately perceive U.S. culture. The most common one seems to be that Americans are concerned only with themselves rather than thinking of others.

This could stem from students who come from community-driven cultures, but I often think very similar thoughts about the relational distance and absence we as the people of the U.S. have with one another and those outside our sphere.

Even the recent Peace Corps/social justice mission which many Americans seem to be on is often just for the sake of traveling and seeing the world rather than actual concern.

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regarding them without actually taking the time to listen and read and think.

It’s much easier for me to smear someone in the blogosphere and “smash” their ideas without actually taking the time to learn their best argument or having a discussion with someone who thinks differently than I do.

It’s a lot simpler for me to read and watch media about a specific international group and assume I understand their perspective without having lived, thought or seen the truth of the circumstances.

Stereotypes are interesting and potentially educational to talk about in the right setting, and many of the students in my class already understood that some of their perceptions of the U.S. weren’t necessarily factual.

As such, I have found myself thinking that I, for one, need to see the line of prejudice better and more frequently when discussing a group.

Then I (and we, eh?) might be able to have more appropriate, concerned and honest discussions about what life and reality mean.

Jon Malone is an English education graduate student.

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U.S. education secretary visits Oklahoma

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U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, left, and Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry, right, look on as prekindergarten students at an education center for disadvantaged children release a box of butterflies in Oklahoma City Thursday, Sept. 17.

OKLAHOMA CITY — U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan praised Oklahoma Thursday afternoon as a national leader in efforts to improve early childhood education, saying such efforts would prove their worth in future years.

During a whirlwind trip to the state, Duncan spent time at Oklahoma City Educare, a new education center for disadvantaged preschool-age children located in a poor neighborhood on the city's south side.

He joined Gov. Brad Henry and others on a tour of the facility, speaking to children as they played with blocks, Play-Doh and train tracks in one classroom. Duncan later took questions during a town hall-style meeting at the Oklahoma History Center.

Saying U.S. education is at a "turning point," Duncan said he and President Obama believe, "We have to educate our way to a better economy. That's the only way we're going to get there." Such education needs to start at the preschool level, Duncan said, so that a child's future teachers won't have to play "catch-up."

"If we can simply do it right ... [children] have a fighting chance to be successful," he said.

Educare, a collaboration between the public and private sectors, provides year-round learning programs for disadvantaged children from birth to age 5, with the goal being to prepare those children for kindergarten and future schooling. The first Educare program began in Chicago in 2000 and has since expanded to centers in Omaha, Neb.; Milwaukee, Tulsa, Denver and Miami, as well as Oklahoma City. A second Tulsa Educare facility is scheduled to open in early 2010.

The Oklahoma City facility, which has 200 students, opened in July and already has a waiting list. It has an annual budget of $3.5 million, with money coming from public and private sources. Duncan said such public-private partnerships are the only way to

improve early childhood education.

"This is a better way to do it and this is starting to become a national model," he said.

He said such improvements are key to reducing high school dropout rates and ultimately producing more college graduates, although it could take years before the effects of that early education can be quantified.

"This is not a short-term investment ... but I promise you those young children who have the benefit of that great [Educare] building and caring adults will go on to be successful," Duncan said.

State Superintendent Sandy Garrett, who attended the announcement, said 72 percent of 4-year-olds in Oklahoma attend pre-K classes. The National Institute for Early Education Research noted in a report earlier this year that Oklahoma is one of only two states offering statewide voluntary pre-K access. Henry said Oklahoma's leadership in that area is "something we should be proud of."

Garrett said she supports the Educare concept and wishes it could be offered to more children.

"There are 200 children here. We want this for every child that's living in poverty," she said. "We're so pleased to have this model.

We think the adults in this state realize that the earlier we can help children with the skills that prepare them for life, it's good for learning."

Among those who attended the announcement were Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, Tulsa Mayor Kathy Taylor and philanthropist George Kaiser, the chairman of BOK Financial Corp.

"Ultimately, we intend to break the cycle of poverty that captures way too many Oklahomans," said Bob Ross, the president and CEO of the Inasmuch Foundation and chairman of Oklahoma City Educare.

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Okla. City officials urging sales tax for new downtown projects OKLAHOMA CITY — A new downtown Oklahoma City convention center and 70-acre park make up more than half of a $777-million MAPS 3 sales-tax proposal city leaders unveiled Thursday.

The eight Metropolitan Area Projects (MAPs), which also include a downtown streetcar system, bicycle and walking trails, and improvements along the Oklahoma River, will be placed on the Dec. 8 ballot for Oklahoma City voters.

“This proposal dreams big, and it continues the momentum and renaissance of the last 15 years,” Mayor Mick Cornett said. “I believe it will achieve the goals that have always defined MAPS projects — creating jobs and improving our quality of life.”

If approved by voters, the collection of a one-cent sales tax would begin April 1 and continue for nearly eight years.

It is the third major MAPS initiative, the first of which was approved by city voters in 1993 and raised $363 million to pay for the Ford Center arena, Bricktown Canal and ballpark, a downtown library and other projects.

A second MAPS for Kids approved in 2001 with a school bond issue generated $714 million for improvements at local schools.

The penny sales tax was continued in March 2008 when voters approved extending the tax for 15 months to pay for improvements to the Ford Center and construction of NBA practice facility for the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The centerpiece of the MAPS 3 proposal is a $280-million convention center that will include exhibit halls, meeting rooms, ballrooms and parking. The new center, which would be built alongside a proposed 70-acre, $130 million downtown park, would replace the Cox Business Services Convention Center that was renovated as part of the original MAPS. Cornett said the current convention center is “inadequate” to compete with those in neighboring cities and states for the lucrative convention business.

But including such an expensive project that most voters likely would rarely use could spell doom for the MAPS 3 initiative, said Stuart Jolly, executive director of the Oklahoma chapter for Americans for Prosperity, a group that advocates limited government and lower taxes.

“Do we really want and need a new convention center?”

Jolly said. “The one we have now has never been filled to capacity, it’s not continuously booked and it’s subsidized by the city to the tune of $2 million a year.

“I don’t think that’s the kind of project that should be lumped in with sidewalks and walking trails.”

Cornett and several council members acknowledged that selling the MAPS 3 project to voters over the next three months, especially given the current economic climate, will be a challenge.

“I think the entire package is a tough sell because it’s a

PROJECTS INCLUDED IN MAPS 3 PROPOSAL A list of MAPS 3 projects proposed as part of a one-cent sales tax in Oklahoma City that will continue for seven years, nine months: • New $280-million downtown convention center.

• 70-acre, $130-million downtown park.

• $130-million transit package that includes five to six miles of downtown streetcar lines.

• $60 million in improvements to the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds.

• $50 million for health and wellness aquatic centers for senior citizens.

• $60 million for improvements to the Oklahoma River, including a public white water facility and permanent grandstands.

• $40 million for 57 miles of bicycling and walking trails across the city.

• $10 million for sidewalks across the city. significant investment by the citizens of Oklahoma City,” he said. “Just because this initiative contains the MAPS brand doesn’t mean it will get a rubber stamp from the voters.”

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« SOCCER Sooners are at home this weekend to take on Lamar and USC.

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The Hurricane rolls into Norman Saturday OU football hosts in-state opponent the Tulsa Golden Hurricane Saturday at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

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Quick Facts: • OU is 15-7-1 all-time against Tulsa and has won the last four meetings between the teams, the last (a 62-21 OU victory) in Sept. 2007.

• The Golden Hurricane led the nation in total offense in each of the last two seasons with 534.9 and 569.9 yards per game, respectively.

• OU has won 25 straight home games, the longest current streak in the nation, and a mark that equals the school record. With a win tomorrow, the Sooners would set a new school record.

Keys to the Game: 1) The Offense. For both teams. The Sooners showed major offensive improvement from the season opening loss to BYU in Saturday’s 64-0 nuking of Idaho State (the four failed attempts to reach the end zone from the goal line on the opening drive excluded, of course). Idaho State was a good confidence booster for Landry Jones, but the Golden Hurricane rank 34th nationally in total defense, providing Jones with a legitimate test. On the other hand, although David Johnson, the primary reason Tulsa led the nation in total offense the past two seasons, isn’t back at quarterback, seven starters from the offense are. Sophomore dual-threat quarterback G.J. Kinne (No. 6 in the nation in passer efficiency) leads a Tulsa offense that averages nearly 41 points per game. Whether Tulsa wins or loses will likely depend on Kinne’s performance.

2) Damaris Johnson. The sophomore wide receiver for Tulsa leads the nation in all-purpose yardage (240 yards per game) after two games. In the season opener, Johnson proved he could do it all as he totaled 252 all-purpose yards, tallying 31 rush yards, 60 receiving yards, 76 kick-off return yards and 85 punt return yards. If OU’s special teams unit has trouble containing Johnson, Tulsa could very easily be starting many of their offensive drives close to or in Sooner territory.

3) Wide Receiver. Ryan Broyles caught seven passes for 155 yards and three touchdowns last week. The next three leading receivers in that game? Chris Brown, DeMarco Murray and Jermie Calhoun—all running backs. The trio combined for six catches and 90 yards. To be fair, Adron Tennell didn’t play, but Brandon Caleb and Cameron Kenney did, and they only had one reception each. Idaho State is one thing, but if these guys pull the same Invisible Man Act against Tulsa, the score might be a lot closer than most people would like it to be.

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Senior running back, Chris Brown (29), attempts to run the ball during the game against Idaho State University Saturday.

OU will win if: Landry Jones can pick up where he left off last week, and the defense continues to play as well as it has been. Travis Lewis and Gerald McCoy have been spectacular thus far, and they will be the keys to stopping Tulsa’s offensive attack.

Tulsa will win if: G.J. Kinne and Damaris Johnson both have career days, and even that may not be enough. These two will have their work cut out for them to keep pace with OU’s offense. Even if they only get stopped defensively a few times, that would likely be the difference in the game’s outcome.

They said it: • Bob Stoops on Tulsa’s offense: “They use all of their pieces. They spread the ball around to everyone. They do a nice job of mixing it up, run and pass, moving the pocket. They do

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a little bit of everything so they give you a lot to work on.”

• Stoops on Sam Bradford’s leadership on the sidelines: “He’s just a great team guy. I know he’s given Landry (Jones) a lot of support. His fire, his spirit is still there with the team. His presence around practice every day and in the locker room, you know he does all that he can and he’s awfully good at it.”

• Offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson on last Saturday’s game: “There were some strides made for sure, a lot of young guys had a chance to compete and play. We struggled on the goal line again, which is a concern and we need to do better on third downs. But we’re getting better and have a lot of work to do. We’re going in a positive direction but have some work we need to keep plugging at.”

• Junior CD Dominique Franks on if last Saturday’s game showed more of how OU is as a defense: “Yes it did. But at the same time, we’re just focusing on really just doing the stuff that we need to do. We don’t want to give up big plays and it’s just going to be us tackling in space, not giving up big plays and making them drive.”

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FRIDAY FACE-OFF: New York Giants or Dallas Cowboys The Dallas Cowboys face their rival, New York Giants Sunday. Which NFL team has the better chance of finishing atop the NFC East?

New York The NFC East is widely regarded as the toughest division in football. Home to the Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins and New York Giants, the NFC East is often closely contested, and the NFC Wild Card team often comes from the division.

I believe the New York Giants are the favorite this season. That has as much to do with what the other teams lack as it does to do with the strengths of the Giants. Each of the other teams in the division has glaring weakness that the AARON Giants can take advantage COLEN of.

The Redskins have their moments, but I don’t think they deserve a spot in this conversation as a threat for the division title. The Dallas Cowboys have a strong team this season. However, a shaky defense could cause problems, and neutralizes whatever production they might get from what is a potent offense.

They have also proven to be undisciplined under Head Coach Wade Phillips, leading the league in penalties last season. If the preseason was any indication, then that problem hasn’t been solved.

The Philadelphia Eagles shocked the league this season with the signing of former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick.

But that signing leads me to the weakness of the Eagles: a lack of quarterback stability.

Donovan McNabb is and will continue to be the assumed starter for the Eagles, so long as he is healthy. Problem is, McNabb is now questionable with a rib injury, and might not start for several weeks. Kevin Kolb is the backup, and the Eagles signed Jeff Garcia to back up Kolb. Meanwhile, Vick will be available to play in week 3.

There are too many different scenarios to cover here, but here’s one: McNabb stays

out for the next few weeks, and Kolb doesn’t play well in his place. Vick gets the starting nod when he comes back, and he does play well. What happens when McNabb is back?

It’s just too much uncertainty.

The Giants have a proven champion at quarterback, and it is crucial to have a leader that has been to the top before. They also have a head coach who has shown he can adapt to his team and lead them to victory.

This weekend’s game between the Cowboys and the Giants will reveal much about the state of the NFC East, but I am confident that the Giants will come out on top.

Aaron Colen is a journalism senior.

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New York Giants wide receiver Mario Manningham (82) celebrates with Sinorice Moss (83) Sunday.

Dallas

game is going to provide a challenge The NFC East is the best division in and I think this is another challenge this football today. The New York Giants, week. Obviously they have a lot of good Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles players and talented guys over there who and Washington Redskins are all capa- have accomplished a lot. It will be a good ble of winning the division this year and test for our football team.”

The Giants at Cowboys game Sunday there won’t be a tighter race in any other has plenty of playoff implications. The division.

However, the Cowboys Cowboys have an easier schedule and are the most likely to more depth at every position other than win the division of the defensive end.

Seems like an easy pick for me: bunch.

They have a roster of Cowboys win the division. potential Pro-Bowlers M.J. Casiano is broadcast and electronic media junior. which includes the best tight end – Jason MJ Whitten- and outside CASIANO linebacker – DeMarcus Wa re – i n t h e ga m e today. Not to mention a three-headed monster at running back with Marion Barber, Felix Jones and Tashard Choice.

The entire offseason consisted of media-doubting quarterback Tony Romo’s leadership skills or the ability to replace wide receiver Terrell Owens, who left for Buffalo.

The facts are simple: it’s a team game and Romo is talented enough to take the team deep into the playoffs if the rest of the team maintains health. As for Owens replacement, how are 86 yards and a touchdown in week one for new No. 1 receiver Roy E. Williams?

The Cowboys also have an easier schedule this season using 2008 regular season records, according to ESPN.com.

It’ll be hard for the Giants to score in the air this year. They haven’t had a No. 1 receiver since Plaxico Burress was released and I’m not convinced they have a receiver that will go over the 750 yards AP PHOTO mark.

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo throws “They are a great football team, but I think everyone in the East is good this a pass during the team’s football training year,” Romo said. “I think that every practice July 29.

OU SOCCER HOSTS TWO MATCHES OVER THE WEEKEND

VOLLEYBALL AT HOME THIS WEEKEND TO TAKE ON MISSOURI

Soccer returns to Norman to begin a two-game series for the weekend.

The Sooners will face the Lamar Cardinals on Friday, Sept. 18 at 7 p.m.

Lamar is 1-5 for the season, after winning it’s first game against Texas Southern last Sunday.

The Sooners finish up the series against the

The OU volleyball team hosts its first conference home match at 11:30 a.m. Saturday against the Tigers of Missouri.

The Sooners are fresh off their first conference win Wednesday night in Manhattan, Kan. over Kansas State. The Sooners nabbed the win in four sets.

USC Trojans on Sunday, Sept. 20 at 1 p.m.

The Trojans won the NCAA National Championship in 2007, and are 3-4 on the season after beating Michigan 2-1 during last Sunday’s match.

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Wednesday night’s game was highlighted by a strong defensive outing, which the OU squad will rely on this weekend.

The OU Daily will bring you a full recap next week over the Sooner’s weekend battle.

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Man faces more questioning in terror probe DENVER — A man identified by law enforcement as having a possible link to alQaida met with the FBI for a second day Thursday as part of a terrorism investigation in New York and Colorado.

Najibullah Zazi didn’t speak to reporters, but defense attorney Arthur Folsom said he did not expect his client to be arrested. If agents intended to jail Zazi, they probably would have done so already, he said.

An official familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press that Zazi had contact with a known al-Qaida associate, but would not provide details on the location or nature of the encounter. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

But the defense lawyer said Zazi has never met with al-Qaida operatives and isn’t involved in terrorism.

“He’s simply somebody who was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Folsom said.

Agents questioned Zazi for hours on Wednesday and searched his apartment and the home of his aunt and uncle in the Denver suburb of Aurora.

The official said agents have been monitoring Zazi and four others in Colorado as part of a terrorism investigation.

The case took a strange turn when Zazi rented a car and made a cross-country trip from Denver to New York, crossing into

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Attorney Arthur Folsom, wearing a tie, and his client Najibullah Zazi, behind him, are surrounded by members of the media as they arrive at the offices of the FBI in Denver where Zazi was being question for the second day Thursday. Zazi, identified by law enforcement as having a possible link to al-Qaida, was questioned by agents for hours on Wednesday and returned Thursday afternoon for further questioning. The FBI searched Zazi’s apartment and the home of his aunt and uncle, both in the east Denver suburb of Aurora.

Manhattan last week the day before the Sept.

11 anniversary. He was stopped in what was described as a routine stop at the Washington Bridge before he was allowed to go free.

A relative says Zazi chose to drive to New York because he wanted to see the American countryside. Zazi says he went to New York

to resolve some issues with a coffee cart in Manhattan that he owns, but officials suspected that something more sinister might have been in the works.

FBI agents and police officers armed with search warrants seeking bomb materials searched three apartments and questioned

Ohio lawyers try to hold off second execution attempt COLUMBUS — Lawyers plan state and federal lawsuits and a request to Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland to stop next week's second execution attempt of a man whose lethal injection failed Tuesday.

Cleveland attorney Tim Sweeney said Thursday he expects to file a lawsuit Friday in an effort to halt the next attempt to put Romell Broom to death.

Sweeney argues that a secROMELL ond try at an execution is unconBROOM stitutional. At the very least, he said, Strickland should delay Tuesday's execution.

Broom "sustained both physical and mental injuries," Sweeney said.

"It's going to take time for all the psychic trauma to dissipate. Even if it never goes away, I think it's wrong to try to do it again so quickly in these circumstances."

Strickland stopped Broom's execution after executioners tried unsuccessfully for two hours to find a usable vein. Broom, who at one point wiped his face with a tissue and appeared to be weeping, told his attorneys he was pricked as many as 18 times.

Broom, 53, was sentenced to death for the rape and stabbing death of a 14-year-old Tryna Middleton, a girl he kidnapped in Cleveland in 1984.

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason said it was ironic that Broom was complaining about the execution given the nature of his crime.

"I am absolutely certain that it was Tryna Middleton that suffered from cruel and unusual punishment," Mason said.

Broom remains at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, where the prison system is monitoring how much he's drinking, said prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn.

Officials want to make sure Broom is not dehydrated before the execution, but they can't force him to drink more, she said.

Dehydration could make it more difficult to find veins; however,

Walburn said there's no evidence that caused Tuesday's problems.

Another execution attempt could include the same veins they tried accessing Tuesday or other points on his arms, legs or feet, Walburn said.

Late Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Frost agreed to give lawyers challenging Ohio's lethal injection system in an unrelated lawsuit more time to gather information related to the Broom case.

Their original deadline for gathering information had passed.

Federal public defender David Stebbins, who's working on the earlier lawsuit, said he plans to interview Broom on Monday in the

Stebbins and attorney Allen Bohnert argued in a court filing.

The only case similar to the Broom execution happened in Louisiana in 1946, when a first attempt to execute convicted murderer Willie Francis did not work. Francis was returned to death row for nearly a year while the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether a second electrocution would be unconstitutional.

The court ultimately ruled against Francis 5-4, and he was put to death in 1947.

Broom has a much stronger case than Francis did while on death row, said Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor and death

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This file photo shows Willie Francis holding a calendar with the date of May 9 circled. A first attempt to execute Willie Francis in 1946 by electrocution in Louisiana did not work. Francis was executed by electric chair in 1947, a year after the first attempt didn’t work, following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said a second try was constitutional. Experts say Ohio death row inmate Romell Broom has a much stronger legal case than Francis.

Southern Ohio facility in Lucasville.

The fact that Broom survived the execution "creates a singular opportunity to confirm that he, in fact, experienced serious pain in violation of his constitutional rights, not just a 'substantial risk' of serious pain,"

penalty expert.

In the case of Broom, however, "There's absolutely no question that the execution process started," she said.

residents in the neighborhood in Queens where he was staying.

A joint FBI-New York Police Department task force feared Zazi may be involved in a potential plot involving homemade hydrogen peroxide-based explosives like those cited in an intelligence warning issued Monday, said two other law enforcement officials, who spoke on anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the investigation.

The officials said Zazi had been put under surveillance because of the suspected alQaida links.

Folsom says Zazi, 24, was born in Afghanistan in 1985, moved to Pakistan at age 7 and emigrated to the United States in 1999. Zazi’s aunt had said earlier that he was born in Pakistan and grew up in Queens, N.Y. Folsom said Zazi has returned to Pakistan four times in recent years: in 2004 because his grandfather was sick and dying, in 2006 to get married and in 2007 and 2008 to visit his wife.

Folsom said FBI agents were cordial and asked detailed questions during the Wednesday session.

He said Zazi is observing the traditional daylight fast for Ramadan, and that the FBI gave him food after sunset Wednesday.

–AP

US net worth grows for first time since 2007 WASHINGTON — For the first time in two years, Americans actually got a little wealthier.

Household wealth grew by $2 trillion, or about 4 percent, this spring, ending the longest stretch of quarterly declines on records dating back to 1952, the Federal Reserve reported Thursday.

Net worth — the value of assets such as homes, checking accounts and investments minus debts like mortgages and credit cards — came to $53.1 trillion for the second quarter.

Some analysts say it could take as long as four years for households to recoup trillions in losses and get back to where they were before the downturn struck in December 2007.

"Households saw $14 trillion of wealth get blown away by the recession, and they recouped $2 trillion of that in the second quarter. That's good news," said Brian Bethune, economist at IHS Global Insight. "But they still have another $12 trillion to go to get back to where they were."

Many analysts expect the economic recovery "It is going to take a while to be lethargic, limit- for Americans to regain ing further gains in the stock and housing mar- lost ground and become as kets. That's why Scott comfortable as they were Hoyt, senior director of before all this started." consumer economics at Moody's Economy. –SCOTT HOYT, SENIOR DIRECTOR OF com, thinks household CONSUMER ECONOMICS wealth won't rise back to pre-recession levels until 2012 or 2013.

"It is going to take a while for Americans to regain lost ground and become as comfortable as they were before all this started," Hoyt said.

Even if the economy continues to improve, analysts say the erosion of wealth will keep Americans thrifty for years. In fact, even as wealth grew, Americans trimmed their spending slightly in the spring.

The value of Americans' stock holdings rose almost 22 percent from the first quarter — the first increase in two years.

Higher home prices helped, too. The value of real-estate holdings rose 1.8 percent, the first gain since the end of 2006.

Home prices are still about 30 percent below their 2006 peak.

Collectively, U.S. homeowners had just over 43 percent equity in their homes in the second quarter, up only slightly from a record low in the first quarter. Moody's Economy.com estimates nearly a quarter of all U.S. homeowners owe more on their mortgages then their homes are worth.

This week, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said the worst recession since the 1930s is probably over. He warned that the pace of recovery probably won't be brisk enough to generate solid job growth and keep the unemployment rate — now at a 26-year high of 9.7 percent — from rising further.

Retail sales jumped in August by the most in more than three years. But rising unemployment, the reduced wealth and still hard-to-get credit are expected to keep people cautious about spending in the months ahead.

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Mass. House gives initial OK to succession bill BOSTON — The Massachusetts House of Representatives has given initial approval to a bill allowing Gov. Deval Patrick to name an interim appointment to the Senate seat left vacant when Edward Kennedy died last month.

The House voted 97-58 in favor of the bill Thursday evening. It needs a second vote before it moves to the Massachusetts Senate, where its outcome remains unclear.

The House remained in session Thursday and a second vote was possible.

House Speaker Robert DeLeo, a Democrat, said the change in law is needed to ensure Massachusetts continues to be represented by two senators until voters can choose a replacement during a Jan. 19 special election.

“I just want to make sure that Massachusetts has a say ... that Massachusetts has their voice heard on health care, on the environment, on clean energy,” DeLeo said.

Patrick, a Democrat and ally of President Barack Obama, also supports the change.

Republicans, who number just 16 in the House, oppose the bill.

They point out that Democrats changed the succession law in 2004 to create a special election and block then-Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, from naming a temporary replacement if Sen. John Kerry had won his presidential bid.

To change the law now that there is a Democrat in the governor’s office smacks of hypocrisy, they said.

“When Senator Kennedy passed away we started (with) the law that was on the books and we shouldn’t be changing the law midstream,” said House Republican leader Rep. Bradley H. Jones Jr. “Everything else is ancillary and extraneous to that.”

Kennedy died of brain cancer on Aug. 25.

Rep. Michael Moran, House chairman of the Committee on Election Laws, said lawmakers shouldn’t be handcuffed by past votes if they are not in the best interest.

“I ask you to focus on the needs of Massachusetts not in 2004, but in 2009,” the

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Sen. John Kerry, center, D-Mass., speaks alongside U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, right, D-Mass., during a public hearing before the Joint Committee on Election Laws at the Statehouse in Boston to press lawmakers to allow Gov. Deval Patrick to name an interim replacement to the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy Sept. 9.

Boston Democrat said.

Other Democratic lawmakers conceded a political motive in the vote, saying they wanted to protect Kennedy’s legacy, including his signature issue of expanded health care.

“Some people say it’s political. Of course it’s political,” said Rep. Cory Atkins, a Concord Democrat and Kennedy supporter.

The bill initially would have required the appointee be from the same party as the person who created the vacancy, a Democrat in the case of Kennedy’s successor.

That requirement was stripped after critics raised constitutional concerns and noted that more than half of voters in Massachusetts aren’t enrolled in any party and would be barred from consideration.

Kennedy, in a letter sent to lawmakers before his death, urged the change in law saying “it is vital for this Commonwealth to

have two voices speaking for the needs of its citizens.”

The debate is being followed closely in Washington, where Democrats hope to regain a 60-vote, filibuster-proof margin in the U.S. Senate ahead of any debate on President Obama’s health care overhaul.

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Massachusetts’ all-Democratic U.S. representatives also back the change, saying they need all the votes they can to support the health care change.

Obama presidential counselor David Axelrod has contacted Massachusetts officials, according to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. The Massachusetts branch of Obama’s political arm, Organizing for America, has sent out e-mails advocating for the change.

DeLeo said lawmakers wanted to bar any appointee from also running as a candidate in the special election, but said they could not constitutionally include that provision in the bill.

DeLeo said House lawmakers instead hoped to pass a separate resolution stating that it is the intention of the House that an appointee not also be a candidate in the special election.

Patrick has said he would extract from the appointee a promise not to be a candidate in the special election.

The bill could also surface in the Massachusetts Senate on Thursday. Senate President Therese Murray, a Democrat, has been tightlipped about the bill’s chances in that chamber.

Senate Republican leader Richard Tisei has said he’ll object to the Senate taking up the bill. Senate rules require unanimous consent to debate a bill not already on the calendar, and the succession bill wasn’t listed for Thursday’s session.

An objection would delay it until the Senate’s next formal session. There is none scheduled for Friday. Tisei could use other parliamentary moves to delay a vote for additional days.

Those said to be under consideration for an interim appointment include former Gov. Michael Dukakis, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul Kirk Jr.; former Massachusetts Senate President Robert Travaglini, former Kennedy staff chief Nick Littlefield, Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree and former state Treasurer Shannon O’Brien.

Candidates seeking the Democratic nomination in the special election include Attorney General Martha Coakley, U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano and Boston Celtics coowner Stephen Pagliuca. State Sen. Scott Brown and Canton Selectman Bob Burr are seeking the Republican nomination.

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NEWS BRIEFS MEXICO MAN SENTENCED FOR ROLE IN FAKE ID RING

JUDGE DISMISSES SCHOOL DRESS CODE LAWSUIT

DENVER — A Mexico resident has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison after admitting a role in a massive operation that manufactured and sold counterfeit identity documents in seven U.S. cities.

U.S. Attorney David Gaouette said Thursday that 46-year-old Pedro Castorena-Ibarra's organization was one of the largest fraudulent ID rings in the country.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents

ABERDEEN, S.D. — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to prevent a South Dakota school district from imposing a dress code.

U.S. District Judge Charles Kornmann took the action Thursday after learning that the Cheyenne River Sioux tribal council, which filed the suit, had withdrawn its support.

He also said there was no proof that the lawsuit was legally served on the Cheyenne-Eagle Butte School District and its officials.

seized more than 3 million counterfeit documents worth more than $20 million during the investigation.

They said it operated for about five years in Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, Las Vegas and New York City.

Castorena-Ibarra of Guadalajara was sentenced last week to 57 months in prison. He pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Some parents had complained they couldn't afford the required clothing — black, white or tan shirts, pants, skirts or shorts. Two parents who had joined the tribal government in filing the suit said they will likely file a new challenge.

School officials say the dress code already has helped reduce gang-related behavior problems.

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« CCOMING MONDAY “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” premiered in Norman last night.

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KID CUDI KEEPS MUSIC UNIQUE University cast presents ‘Is He Dead?’

There are things that Scott Mescudi is and things that he is not. He is not a revolutionary lyricist, he’s not a musical genius, but most of all, he is n o t p re dictable. If his goal is to be different, the 26-yearold, better known as Kid Cudi, ZACK is doing a KANAA good job.

He’s weird in a good way, in a refreshing-changeof-pace-and-sometimesabsolutely-ridiculous way, and seems to get it. His music is focused on intricate concepts and genuine thoughts, and Cudi’s confessional storytelling style is uniquely endearing. Pair this with infectious outer-spacedriven hooks and a sound that is really unlike anything you’ve ever heard, and you have Kid Cudi’s music in a nutshell.

“Man on the Moon: The End of Day,” Cudi’s new album, is ambitious in the sense that it tries to transcend any real musical

“genre.” This is part of what makes Kid Cudi unlike most other musicians: he’s impossible to categorize and while his music is part hip-hop, part electronic, and part soft-rock, it is also part Kid Cudi, and it is sure to transport listeners to whatever orbit Kid Cudi is in. And who knows where he may be?

His 2008-released mixtape “A Kid Named Cudi” features gems such as “Man on the Moon,” where Cudi claims, “They can’t comprehend/Or even come close to understanding him” and “50 Ways to Make a Record,” an almost-folky sounding song that is more two-piece conversation than actual song, a song that puts Cudi’s musical depth on display for all to hear. The mixtape also provided the initially catchy but now entirely overplayed “Day’n’Nite,” and has made Cudi a victim of the popular music cycle. It’s safe to say that most of the public considers Kid Cudi to be “that guy who sings Day’n’Nite.”

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The truth is that the rest of his music is nothing like “Day’n’Nite,” and “Man on the Moon: The End of Day” validates that claim. It’s the

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kind of album that is almost outside of being reviewed, the kind of album that is impossible to describe.

Listening to “Man on the Moon: The End of Day” is like taking a ride through outer space, and with each song you feel farther away from Earth, as Cudi is chalked full of vivid narratives describing his dreams and stories about being on the moon.

The album is a story divided into five “acts.” Kanye West and MGMT, among others, hop on the album only to be out-shined by Cudi, and on tracks such as “Soundtrack 2 My Life” and “Sky Might Fall,” the selfproclaimed “weirdo” that is Kid Cudi leaves listeners anxiously awaiting his next musical move.

It’s effortless, spaced-out, a little loopy at times, and unique. It’s like sitting on a space ship with Kid Cudi himself for story time. It’s a trip. But listening to Kid Cudi [a musician who actually is different in a musical world full of people just “trying” to be different] is an experience unlike any other.

Zach Kanaa is an economics junior.

The Daily’s Ashley Berntgen chooses a unique Bloody Mary blend for this week’s drink of the week.

This classic drink traces its roots back to an expatriate named Fernand Petiot, who bartended at Harry’s New York Bar in Paris in the 1920s. Petiot mixed tomato juice and vodka, and a patron suggested he name the drink ‘Bloody Mary’ after Queen Mary I of England, famous for her ruthless persecution of the Protestants. The ASHLEY drink gained popularBERNTGEN ity when Petiot moved

to New York and began bartending at the St. Regis Hotel. He experimented with his tomato and vodka concoction and began adding spices at the request of his clientele. These days, the Bloody Mary and all of its variations are known as the King of all breakfast cocktails. And as far as cocktails go, its almost healthy, kind of like a vegetable smoothie plus vodka.

Whether or not you drink one to cure your overindulgence from the night before, or as a complement to your pancakes and eggs, this spicy drink is sure to please.

Ashley Berntgen is a public relations senior.

BLOODY MARY Ingredients: 1-½ ounces of vodka ½ cup of tomato juice 2 teaspoons of fresh lemon juice Worcestershire to taste Tabasco sauce to taste 1 celery stick to garnish 1 lemon wedge to garnish Directions: Combine the vodka, tomato juice, lemon juice, Worcestershire and Tabasco over one cup of ice in a cocktail shaker. Mix well, add salt and pepper to taste and strain the mixture over a cup of ice. Garnish with a celery stalk and lemon wedge.

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The College of Fine Arts presents “Is He Dead?”, a classic comedy by Mark Twain that sets place in Paris, France during the 1840s about a talented artist who can’t sell any of his paintings.

DUSTY SOMERS The Oklahoma Daily

It took more than 100 years for Mark Twain’s “Is He Dead?” to get its debut performance, and now, just six years after the longlost play was discovered, OU’s University Theatre gets a crack at performing it, beginning tonight at the Weitzenhoffer Theatre.

Twain wrote the satire in 1897, but the political climate of the day prevented it from being performed. It was then shelved until 2003, when it was discovered by Shelley Fisher Fishkin and tightened up by playwright David Ives.

The comedy is filled with farcical, slapstick and vaudevillian humor, suited to the era when it was written, said Clay Guiltner, director of the show.

“It definitely has a vintage feel to it,” Guiltner

said.

Still, the stock comic bits and the universal storyline make it a natural fit to be performed today, he said.

Being the first show of a new school year, the cast and crew is required to begin rehearsals before the semester actually starts and is given less time to rehearse. But doing the first show of a new year has more benefits than downfalls, Guiltner said.

“We’re so excited about the show, we don’t mind coming back early,” he said. “That energy just goes so far. We’re not burned out yet.”

That momentum carries over into the actual performances, and it doesn’t hurt that the season’s premiere is a comedy, Guiltner said.

“I think it’s a great way to start the season,” he said.

Wo r k i n g i n c o m e d y from an older time period requires more precision than some shows where actors are allowed to develop their characters more organically, Guiltner said.

The generation gap ensures that learning is necessary.

“It is a little bit foreign at first,” he said. “This generation doesn’t come in with an education on comedy in this style. We’ve had to be very specific with the physical comedy. It’s almost been like a surgical kind of thing.”

“Is He Dead?” opens tonight in the Weitzenhoffer Theatre, 563 Elm Ave., and runs through Sept. 27.

Performances are Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

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