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FRESHMEN MUST EXCHANGE INCORRECT PERMITS Upperclassmen in residence halls displaced by sales error RICKY MARANON The Oklahoma Daily

Freshmen with Priority Housing permits have until 5 p.m. Friday to exchange their current parking permits for a regular Housing parking permit before they face a $125 fine. Some freshmen were given the ability to purchase Priority Housing parking permits even though they did not qualify for them, due to a malfunctioning computer program that sells permits online. “We were in the process of implementing a new computer program when the mix-up happened, and we regret what has

taken place,” said Kris Glenn, spokesperson for OU Parking and Transit Services. Priority Housing spots are reserved for upperclassmen and located in close proximity to the residence halls. “When we found out that there was a problem, we notified the students who had the wrong permit that they needed to come in and make an exchange for the right one,” Glenn said. Glenn said in order to qualify for a Priority Housing permit, a student must have lived in the residence halls for two semesters and completed 24 credit hours. According to an open records request, 481 Priority Housing permits were issued, and 147 of them were accidentally given to freshmen. Of those, Glenn said 40 of them have willingly exchanged their

permits. But students who do not make the exchange soon could face consequences. “Students who have been notified they have the wrong permit ... have until Friday Sept. 4 at 5 p.m. to go to the parking office to be issued the correct permit,” Glenn said. “If they do not get the correct permit, they can be cited for unauthorized use of a parking permit.” According to the Parking and Transit Services Web site, a citation for using a stolen, forged, altered or unauthorized permit includes a $125 fine. Glenn said students can be cited multiple times until they pick up the proper RICKY MARANON/THE DAILY permit. The OU parking office is asking 174 freshman to return Upperclassmen who qualified for a the priority parking passes they were assigned in place of PERMITS CONTINUES ON PAGE 2

freshman passes by this Friday, or face the possibility of a $125 parking ticket.

Lecture held in support of health care bills

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Director stresses prevention as key to health care reform JARED RADER The Oklahoma Daily

OKLAHOMA CITY — Preventive care must be at the forefront of health care reform if the U.S. wants a sustainable new health care system, Tulsa County Health Director Gary Cox told an audience of students and citizens Tuesday during a lecture at the OU College of Public Health. Cox, who will become the director of the Oklahoma City-County Health Department on Oct. 1, according to the Oklahoma City-County Health Department Web site, said citizens should contact local congressmen to support the health care bills currently going through the U.S. Congress. “It’s time to put wellness back into health care reform,” Cox said. “If you’re really going to save money for the health care system here in the United States, you’re going to have to focus on wellness and prevention and keeping people from getting sick in the first place.” He said the bill going through the House of Representatives includes a funding mechanism similar to the bill going through the Senate, but within the fund is a distinct prevention and wellness trust fund, which would benefit local health departments. “Local health departments are the backbone of public health,” Cox said. “Local health departments are critical because they have partnerships in place and they know the community, they know the data, they have elected representatives on their boards of health and they have a wide variety of expertise.” Cox said the bills would also create jobs. Using the example of the millions of dollars the federal government is putting into Oklahoma to combat the possibility of an H1N1 outbreak, he said local health departments would need to provide jobs for epidemiologists, nurses, vaccinators, IT people and specialists. Cox said he thinks Congress will approve some form of health care because of American interest in preventive health care. He cited a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation poll released in June that showed 76 percent of Americans ranked prevention as the most important aspect of health care reform and that the level of funding for prevention should be increased. “Americans from coast to coast believe in prevention and they want prevention in health care reform,” Cox said.

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Jonathan David Brilliant’s installation, “Goldsworthy of the Coffee Shop,” is a masterpiece composed using only coffee stirrers. The piece can be seen at Lightwell Gallery through Sept. 25. CHECK OUT THE FULL STORY ON PAGE 6.

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A Pixar animation artist who has worked on films such as “Cars” and “WALL-E” will speak with students at 3 p.m. Thursday. Jay Shuster will present a lecture at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art on the design story behind the company Pixar and his career as an animation artist. According to a news release, Shuster worked as a sketch artist on “Cars” in 2006 and “WALL-E” in 2008. He is currently the art director for Disney-Pixar’s sequel to “Cars,” scheduled to release in 2011. He lives in San Francisco and also worked on the “Star Wars” prequel trilogy.

The Cleveland Area Rapid Transit system launched a new route Monday that will connect the east Norman community to Oklahoma City. The new route, the Little Axe Link, is used to connect to Norman’s bus routes and Sooner Express buses to Oklahoma City. It will run Monday through Friday, as a link to expand the Little Axe route that began last year. The bus will leave the South Oval beginning at 5:50 a.m. and return by 6:50 a.m. The last run of the day will leave campus at 6:10 p.m. -Hillary Atkinson/The Daily

Organizers invite students to have a taste of Norman More than 40 local restaurants to offer food for donations TROY WEATHERFORD The Oklahoma Daily

Organizers of the seventh annual Taste of Norman event said that the community is invited to sample food from more than 40 area restaurants. The event is from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at McCasland Field House, Sherry Isom, volunteer coordinator for the Taste of Norman, said. The Norman and Norman North high school music programs will provide entertainment, Isom said. “It’s a great chance to partake in restaurants around Norman and the money goes directly to the kids,” said Brad Benson, director

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of fine arts at Norman Public Schools. organizations in Norman and we’re happy The money from general admission will be to participate,” he said. divided evenly between the music programs In addition to long-standing Norman resat both high schools. taurants, this year feaIt will be used to pay FINDING THE FOOD tures a number of new for student transporparticipants, including tation, sheet music When: 5:30 p.m. Thursday at McCasland Field the Pink Elephant, “O” a n d e q u i p m e n t House. Asian Fusion, Embassy for the programs, Suites Restaurant, How much: $15 in advance (tasteofnorman.com W i n g s t o p a n d Benson said. “Being a former or at Norman Republic Bank locations) or $18 Interurban Restaurant, band student my- at the door. Isom said. self, I understand the “It’s a wonderful need for fundraisers For more information, visit tasteofnorman.com social event, and this like this,” said Dustin year we have several Van Voast, general manager of Coach’s new restaurants participating,” Isom said. Restaurant. In addition to the area eateries and their Skay McCall, general manager of The staffs, more than 100 parent volunteers will Mont, said his restaurant has been participat- help out with the event, which is expected to ing in the Taste of Norman for many years. bring about 2,000 people and earn the music “It’s a great event for all the music programs around $30,000, Isom said.

Sponsors for the event include Republic Bank and Trust and Marc Heitz Auto Family, Isom said. “It’s very generous of [the restaurants and sponsors] because it’s quite a donation,” Isom said. The Norman-Norman North football game will follow the Taste of Norman at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, according to tasteofnorman.com. Tickets to the Taste of Norman are $15 in advance or $18 at the door, and that price does not include admission to the football game. Advance tickets may be purchased online at tasteofnorman.com. Advance tickets are also available at the three Norman Republic Bank locations, said Scott Martin, business resource specialist at Republic Bank said. TASTE CONTINUES ON PAGE 2

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

Alumnus selected for prestigious national achievement award Dallas lawyer recognized for achievement and service to community MATTHEW MOZEK The Oklahoma Daily

OU alumnus Robert Witte was recently selected as one of the 2009 Ten Outstanding Young Americans for professional achievements and contributions in the community by the U.S. Junior Chamber. The organization, known as the Jaycees, evaluated more than 120 applications and selected the top 10 recipients based on volunteerism. Witte said his success is a result of being involved at OU. He was in the President’s Leadership Class, served as president of a fraternity, worked on campus and was actively involved with campus activities during his four years at OU. “It really sets a tone immediately that you’re going to be doing more than just going to class and getting a degree,” Witte said. Witte has remained involved with OU since graduating in 1990, serving as a member of the OU President’s Association Council and College of Arts & Sciences Board of Visitors. Professionally, Witte works as a lawyer with Strasburger & Price, LLP in Dallas and has served in leadership positions within the Texas Young Lawyers Association, Dallas Bar Association and Dallas Association of Young Lawyers, he said. In 2003, DAYL named Witte the “Outstanding Young Lawyer in Dallas,” based upon professional excellence and service to the community, as stated on the Strasburger & Price

Permits Continued from page 1 Priority Housing parking permit said they have been inconvenienced by the mix-up. “I have circled around the priority spaces many times, and then I would just give up and just end up doing a lot of walking,” said Lindsay Kolsrud, history senior and Couch Center resident. “[Knowing that freshmen have received Priority Housing permits] has been tough. I’ve been living in the dorms longer, and I should be able to park in those spaces.” Other upperclassmen are taking the fiasco in stride. “I was a bit surprised about it all and sort of disappointed,” Luke McConnell, journalism sophomore and Walker Center resident said. McConnell said the only time he was inconvenienced by the mishap was when he was coming home from church on Sunday. “It’s a bit unfair,” he said about the citation. “Parking

Web site. In 2007, he was named one of “Five Outstanding Young Dallasites” and in 2008 he was named one of “Five Outstanding Young Texans.” “I think one of the reasons that the chamber has recognized me in this case is not necessarily what I’ve done, but the groups and organizations that I have been given the opportunity to help lead,” Witte said. “When you’re given those opportunities and good things result, I think it’s probably more a reflection of the collective efforts of a lot of people.” Witte said the Jaycees look to spotlight people who innovate and accept new ideas. “The chamber requires you to be a little more well-rounded,” Witte said. “Frankly, that is as much a result of the experience I had at OU.” Witte said he believes it is important not to take on too much at any given time. He said he believes that people get “burned out” and step away from service when they’ve taken on too much and they’re not able to do any one thing well. “You are going to make a bigger difference when you are involved in things that you are passionate about,” Witte said. The Ten Outstanding Young Americans program is one of the oldest and most distinguished recognition programs in America, as stated on the Junior Chamber Web site. “He was selected, not only for his accomplishments in business, but also his community involvement,” said Brad Gemeinhart, director of communications for the U.S. Junior Chamber. “He has done several different things, like the Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Texas, to help build a stronger community.” A variety of prominent figures have been recognized as Outstanding Young Americans in the past including Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald

[Services] made the mistake. They shouldn’t be punishing others for their mistakes.” But some found the deadline and citation option to be a sign of relief. “It’s nice to know that things are going to be sorted out,” Kolsrud said. Kolsrud and McConnell said their trouble with the parking permit situation makes them wish there were more priority housing parking spaces.

PARKING AND HOUSING NUMBERS 3,146 freshmen currently living in the dorms 442 upperclassmen currently living in the dorms 2,244 Housing permits issued 481 Priority Housing permits issued 147 Priority Housing permits issued by mistake to freshmen Note: Number does not include students living in the Sooner Housing Center. Source: OU Open Records Office

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Ford and Bill Clinton, as well as Vice Presidents Al Gore and Dick Cheney. Other notable honorees include Elvis Presley, Nelson Rockefeller, Sen. Edward Kennedy and actor Christopher Reeves. Witte said he encourages students looking to make a difference to start now. “Don’t just wait until you’ve got your degree or wait until after grad school or until after you’ve been working five to 10 years,” Witte said. “Opportunities to do great things exist now and they’ll exist every step of the way.” Witte will be honored at the Sept. 26 U.S. Junior Chamber awards ceremony in Orlando, Fla. “You cannot let the four walls of your office define what it is you do,” Witte said.

Taste Continued from page 1 RESTAURANTS PARTICIPATING IN TASTE OF NORMAN Applebee’s BJ’s Boomerang Grille Brothers/Stepbrothers Charleston’s Chili’s Grill and Bar Coach’s Restaurant Dishing It Up Domino’s Pizza El Chico Eskimo Sno Goldie’s Hideaway Pizza Himalaya Interurban Restaurant

Jason’s Deli JR’s Family Barbeque Jamba Juice La Baguette Legend’s Maggie Moo’s The Mont North Park Grille, Embassy Suites “O” Asian Food Olive Garden On The Border Orient Express Panera Bread Papa John’s

Pink Elephant Qdoba Mexican Grill Raising Cane’s The Rib Crib Rudy’s Rusty’s Frozen Custard Sam’s Club Santa Fe Cattle Company Sodexo Sooner Legends BBQ & Catering Starbuck’s Ted’s Cafe Escondido Wingstop

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OU-Texas tickets sell out within half an hour Some Students have trouble with online system NATASHA GOODELL The Oklahoma Daily

OU-Texas student tickets sold out in 30 minutes despite being in additional supply this year, compared to last year when tickets lasted only about three hours, said Kenneth Mossman, senior associate athletic director for communications. “OU-Texas is an attractive game,” Mossman said. “You have the Heisman winner and the runner-up playing each other, so it’s expected to be a good game.” The OU ticket office sold 4,200 tickets to students this year, 200 more than sold in 2008, Mossman said. “We were excited about the demand for tickets,” Mossman said. This year, one student had the right name, but the wrong place in line for tickets. “If anyone deserves OU-Texas tickets, it should be someone with the name ‘Boomer,’” said Boomer Butler, health and exercise science sophomore. Butler said he woke up at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday to get OU-Texas tickets, but was unable to get through the online notification page, which was alerting its users that the server was busy. “I was thoroughly angry,” Butler said. Butler said he and his friends intend to go to the Texas State Fair and may stay near the stadium to watch the game with other students who couldn’t get tickets. “I like to talk smack,” Butler said. “I’m

that guy, unfortunately.” tickets Tuesday morning because she Weihao Zhang, a social work gradu- had heard from several people that ate student originally from China, said freshmen couldn’t get tickets until this is the first year in his three years at Wednesday, if any remained. OU to attend the “I knew realOU-Texas game. istically I prob“If anyone deserves OU-Texas “It’s pretty hard ably wouldn’t get to get tickets, so I tickets, it should be someone them,” Carnesciali just gave up every with the name ‘Boomer.’” said. time,” Zhang said. Blake Jenkins, “And it’s pretty ex- BOOMER BUTLER, HEALTH AND EXERCISE letters sophopensive when you SCIENCE SOPHOMORE. more, was elidon’t have season gible for a ticket tickets.” Tuesday morning Zhang said he woke up at 7 a.m. but said he missed his chance to get Tuesday to buy tickets, but the Internet one. connection at his apartment complex “It was 10:30 a.m. this morning when was very slow and wouldn’t let him log I remembered,” Jenkins said. “I checked on to the site. and they were sold out, which is what I Fortunately, Zhang said he asked his figured.” friend who lives in the Kraettli apartJenkins said he plans to get together ments to buy his ticket for him. with friends and watch the game in the Zhang said he is going with a group Dallas area or remain in Norman, unof friends to the OU-Texas game. less he can find a ticket to the game. “I think [these games] are great for the university community,” Zhang said. “You have this pride and it’s great.” TICKET SALES Nevertheless, other obstacles hinOU-Texas 2008: OU sold 4,000 dered many students from getting tickstudent tickets in three hours ets to this game. Devon Carnesciali, University OU-Texas 2009: OU sold 4,200 College freshman and season tickstudent tickets in 30 minutes et holder, said she didn’t try to get

OUR COMMITMENT TO ACCURACY The Daily has a long-standing commitment to serve readers by providing accurate coverage and analysis. Errors are corrected as they are identified. Readers should bring errors to the attention of the editorial board for further investigation. Thursday’s edition of The Daily incorrectly stated that a $500,000 award was presented to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. The museum did not receive a cash award of $500,000 but rather a publication design award for a catalogue for their new exhibition, “The Visions of Native American Artists” from the Rennard Strickland Collection. The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art won this award in the category for museums with an operating budget of $500,000 and over. Recognition should be given to Eric Anderson, associate professor of art at OU, for earning an award for the museum and himself as a result of his graphic design.

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

TODAY

KAPPA PHI The Rose Tea rush party will be held at 8 p.m. at the Wesley Foundation on the corner of Elm and Lindsey.

CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUS Christians on Campus will host a Bible study at 12:30 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST The group will meet at 9 p.m. in the Santee Lounge on the fifth floor of the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

PHI SIGMA PI A rush information meeting will be at 12:30 p.m. in the Union.

TOMORROW

CAREER SERVICES Resume Writing 101, which helps students build up an effective resume, will be held at 1 p.m. in the Union. UNITED STATES MARINES An information session will be held at 3 p.m. in the Union.

CAREER SERVICES Resume Writing 101, which helps students build an effective resume, will be held at 2:30 p.m. in the Union. WOMEN’S OUTREACH CENTER A law school informational session for women will be held at 3 p.m. in the Union.

POLICE REPORTS The following is a list of arrests and citations, not convictions. The information is compiled from the Norman Police Department and OUPD. All people listed are presumed innocent until proven guilty. HOSTING OR PERMITTING A LOUD PARTY Ivey Nicole Baker, 20, 1801 E. Imhoff Road, Sunday Mary Katherine Cooke, 20, 1801 E. Imhoff Road, Sunday Ryan Mathew Griffin, 20, 1801 E. Imhoff Road, Sunday Mallory Dawn Yates, 24, 1801 E. Imhoff Road, Sunday COUNTY WARRANT

Mason Jay Burkhalter, 21, 201 W. Gray St., Monday Jeremy Scott Payne, 32, 300 Hal Muldrow, Monday Angel Rae Sherrell, 29, 609 N. Interstate Drive E., Monday Timothy Duane Trautman, 34, 300 Hal Muldrow Drive, Monday OTHER WARRANT Phillip A. Herron, 33, 300 Hal Muldrow Drive, Tuesday DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Jerald Leon Johnson, 57, West South Highway 9, Monday, also transporting

open bottle, driving without a license

12th Ave. N.E., Sunday

POSSESSION OF ALCOHOL Ryan Christopher Heath, 20, 1801 E. Imhoff Road, Sunday Raymond Kyle Lane, 19, 1600 E. Imhoff Road, Sunday Ashton Briann Zaloudek, 20, 1801 E. Imhoff Road, Sunday

AGGRAVATED DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Noel Lozano-Lomas, 24, 1000 W. Tecumseh Road, Sunday, also transporting an open container James Kenichi Takahata, 23, Sussex Place, Monday

PETTY LARCENY Kelley Dane Lackey, 42, 3499 W. Main St., Sunday Timothy Wayne Lewis, 46, 601 12th Ave. N.E., Monday Denise Darnell Whitehead, 46, 601

PUBLIC INTOXICATION Michele Elizabeth Pace, 40, 2900 W. Tecumseh Road, Sunday DISTURBING THE PEACE Javed Tavio Woodley, 24, 2900 Oak Tree Ave., Sunday

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

“Wow. ‘The second way I

In response to Tuesday’s Life & thought I’d die was a driveby, Arts column, “Chicken to die for.” because being white and naïve, I thought I was the obvious target of gangsters and thugs.’

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Seriously? Do the editors even read these articles before they go to print? I’m glad I’m not easily offended, because this article goes pretty far.” -TheJR

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Learning from our mistakes First, I would like to sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended by Tuesday’s column about BoBo’s Chicken, “Chicken to die for.” I do not believe the author, Kyle West, meant to offend anyone in the OU community or beyond, but it was nonetheless insensitive. As editor-in-chief, I want to assure anyone who is reading this column that West’s views are not those of The Daily nor shared by JAMIE everyone on the staff. HUGHES As a minority journalist, it has been a personal goal of mine to help break down unfair stereotypes. I am disappointed to say Tuesday’s column embraced negative stereotypes — exactly the opposite of what journalists should strive to accomplish. As a result of this step back, the column has been removed from OUDaily.com. For those of you still asking yourself how this article was ever allowed to be published, I will try to answer that as best as possible. Columns are not articles. They are

personal attempts to describe how one individual feels about a certain issue. Regardless, we edit columns and try to look for problems and offensive issues like the ones brought up in Tuesday’s column. I’m afraid there is no excuse for the column slipping through the cracks, but that is essentially what happened. The Life & Arts editor should not have overlooked the potentially offensive subtext, but again, that’s what happened. The Daily is a department of Student Media, a division of Student Affairs, and aims to give OU students hands-on and practical experience in as many mediums as possible. With this being said, I hope everyone realizes we are all students and are all still learning. And I can assure you we have learned from this mistake, like others, and have taken it to heart. We will try our hardest, as we always do, to avoid making any mistakes we have in the past. I can only hope you, the OU community, will trust us on this promise. Jamie Hughes is editor-in-chief of The Oklahoma Daily and a journalism junior.

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A glance at what we do and how we do it Each day – Sunday through Thursday – at 4:30 p.m., the editorial board of The Oklahoma Daily sits down to discuss the following day’s paper and debate which issue to write about here, in the Our View space. Du r i n g t hat m e e t i n g Tuesday afternoon, we discussed a couple potential issues for the Our View you are currently reading, and we decided to try to give you a bit of insight into how things work in the newsroom. Because, just as we demand transparency from other OU organizations, we want to be as transparent as possible. Following the daily meeting, each desk’s editor makes his or her way to the designated area set aside for each section of the paper. The newsroom is a large, open room, and

inside there is a cluster of desks and computers for each of The Daily’s sections — news, opinion, sports, life & arts and photo, as well as a copy editing area. Once at his or her desk, each editor gets to work editing the stories, columns and photos that will appear on his or here page the next day. Each editor then lays out which ever page or pages he or she has been assigned. When the pages are laid out, mock copies are printed and given to copy editors who read and edit them before passing them along to another copy editor for further review. Once it is all said and done, the section editor and two copy editors have edited each page. From there, the page in-question is ready to be printed. To assemble the entire newspaper, it usually

takes until around 10 or 11 p.m. All this may seem to indicate the people who work for the various sections don’t often collaborate. But as this is going on, we are all in the same room and often ask for each other’s advice or help. Because we understand we are all working for the same goal: To put out the best newspaper and Web site with the best and most relevant information we can for the OU community. We try to make as few mistakes as possible, but mistakes do happen. And when one shows up on a page, the other editors, writers and photographers feel the same frustration as the editor who is in charge of the page on which the mistake appeared (See the above column for more information on this issue).

I, for instance, am a member of Alpha Sigma THIS LETTER IS IN RESPONSE TO MONDAY’S NEWS STORY, “OU OFFERS Kappa - Women in Technical Studies, a sorority DIFFERENT WAYS TO GO GREEK.” for women in mathematics, science, engineering and architecture. Dear Editor, Unfortunately, we, as well as some other Greek social organizations, have no council When I read the paper today, I was glad to under which we can be represented at OU. This see that your writers are looking for stories that leaves us at a significant disadvantage when illuminate the different student organizations it comes to rush and other opportunities. I open to students on our campus. hope in the future other organizations will be And while “OU offers different ways for stu- included to give a more complete picture of dents to go greek” showcases an important and Greek life on campus. quickly growing part of the OU Greek community, there are several socially oriented Greek organizations on campus which are not associ- Allison Quiroga Architectural engineering sophomore ated with the four major councils.

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Collider does not signal Earth’s demise, hopefully Why wait for Dec. 21, 2012, when the end technology are nothing but evil incarnate. The LHC was given additional bad press of the planet as we know it might be right around the corner, courtesy of the Large when retired radiation safety officer Walter Wagner and science writer/professor Luis Hadron Collider? Sancho filed a lawsuit against CERN For those of you not familiar with (the European Organization for the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, Nuclear Research – the acronym is it is the world’s largest particle actaken from a French phrase, which celerator, stretching 17 miles in is why it doesn’t match), the United length and resting roughly 600 feet States Department of Energy, the underground, beneath the border National Science Foundation and of France and Switzerland. the Fermi National Accelerator It will be used for the testing of Laboratory on grounds the LHC physics theories in an attempt to would create a black hole, thus desolve problems that have been CAMERON stroying the Earth. troubling physicists for some time. MASINGALE Hopefully, they’re incorrect, Some of these problems include and when the collider is fired up the scientific dilemmas of whether gravitons and extra dimensions exist, su- in November, we won’t be ripped atom by persymetry and the Higgs particle, to name atom into a vacuum so powerful that not a few that you may (or very possibly may even time can escape it’s pull. If a black hole is formed, I’m sure Wagner not) be familiar with. Universities and laboratories from more and Sancho will be screaming, “I told you than 100 countries funded the project, also!” as spaghettification (the astrophysics lowing it to become a frequent topic in the term for the stretching of objects by strong news. Some not entirely familiar with the gravitational forces) takes effect on the nature of the experiments propagated the planet. In reality, the LHC is nothing to be feared rumor the LHC would cause the formation of a black hole, and – as some of you may because it is merely another tool to expand know – black holes consume everything our understanding of the universe in which unfortunate enough to wander into their we reside; it’s like the submersible, the gravitational fields, including stars and space shuttle and the microscope. Perhaps now we may understand what planets. If one were to form on Earth, well, let’s holds existence together. The American Physical Society says the just say it would be a bad day for the planet. In Dan Brown’s novel “Angels and collider is no threat to Earth. And a public Demons” (and Ron Howard’s 2009 film relations person working for CERN said on adaptation), the LHC was used as part of NPR that the doomsday scares were some a prominent plot point. Anti-matter cre- of the best press the LHC has received. Thankfully, the large number of people ated with the LHC was going to blow up the Vatican. How one can contain anti-matter who worked on the LHC aren’t going to let is beyond me, although, I have not read any irrational rumors keep them from oblitthe book nor seen the film. But I’m sure the erating the planet in an unstoppable vortex science employed in both versions is docu- – I mean, keep them from discovering the mentary-like in it’s portrayal of anti-matter workings of our universe. and all other scientific facts, like in most But seriously, it’s safe. other large-budget films. “Documentaries” such as “Jurassic Park,” “Titantic” and “The Terminator” show us that science and Cameron Masingale is a journalism junior.

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Students should think about present, future while in college Week one is done. Now the pens hit the paper, the fingers tap the keys, the eyes scan the pages of classic literature or the thumb presses a button on the ‘clicker,’ depending on your respective major. But homework is not the entirety of the coming semester. Students TREVOR will make deciCLARK sions that have life-long impacts in contexts that will at times be trying. People will be affected by deaths, physical and verbal attacks, stress, etc. Whether pleasant, painful or (most probably) a mixture of both, students need to grasp ways of maximizing their fleeting college

experience. Sadly, I think many fail, as one Christian scripture reads, to “make the most of the time.” It is important to be strategic with the days we are given here because the college experience is a time ripe with opportunities that shape lives. The friendships we build and the career plans we form have farreaching ramifications. Perhaps even farther reaching, though far more subtly constructed, are the ideologies we adopt or refine during our college experience. Students will choose what, if anything, about existence is unique, valuable or important. Those undercurrents of thought then color everything from how we raise families and enact business deals to how we look at art and have conversations. When we die we will, like the

late Ted Kennedy, leave behind a moment. legacy. Shortsightedness renders stuIf certain ideologies are correct, dents unable to think generationthen we will also be held account- ally about their actions. able for the One way to choices we’ve It is important to be strategic exercise generamade and the with the days we are given tional thinking world views here because the college is to ask “what we’ve adoptparts of my ed along the experience is a time ripe with life are wor th opportunities that shape journey. passing on to These are lives. others?” additional A fraternity motivations setting, for exto identify how we mistakenly ample, is a place to build bonds handle the time we have and unof brotherhood and establish derstand how to live it success- rewarding contacts, which are fully.One mistake made is to focus good skills to pass on. But means only on the present. of self-gratification that often acIt is true that “today” hosts company Greek life (or for that enough cares to occupy our full matter college) are not skills that attention and many people do would benefit future friends or lose valuable time worrying about generations if passed on. the future, but it is unwise to twist One friend shared with me that this principle and live only for the if his children ask him what he

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was doing in the wake of the social evils of our time, he wants to be able to say, “I stood toe-to-toe with injustice and tried as hard as I could to correct it.” That’s one way of thinking generationally. If students learn to function outside of the normative “me” mentality, they will sense a new wealth of meaning to life. I have discovered that I must die to many of my selfish desires in order to pursue that life. I’ve also found that I lack the strength to do that on my own. College has provided an excellent framework in which to figure that out, friends to figure it out with and people with whom I can talk about those truths, passing them on in an attempt to make the most of my time. Trevor Clark is a religious studies and professional writing sophomore.

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Video shows chicks ground up alive DES MOINES, Iowa â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An animal rights group publicized a video Tuesday showing unwanted chicks being tossed alive into a grinder at an Iowa plant and accused egg hatcheries of being â&#x20AC;&#x153;perhaps the cruelest industryâ&#x20AC;? in the world. The undercover video was shot by Chicago-based Mercy for Animals at a hatchery in Spencer, Iowa, over a two-week period in May and June. The video was first obtained Monday by The Associated Press. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to ask ourselves if these were puppies and kittens being dropped into grinders, would we find that acceptable?â&#x20AC;? asked Nathan Runkle, the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive director, at a news conference in Des Moines. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think that most people would.â&#x20AC;? The group said that tossing male chicks, which have little value because they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lay eggs or be raised quickly enough to be raised profitably for meat, into grinders is common industry practice. United Egg Producers, a trade group for U.S. egg farmers, confirmed that. The hatchery is owned by West Des Moines-based Hy-Line North America and is one of many operations in Iowa, the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading egg producer. The video, shot with a hidden camera and microphone by a Mercy for Animals employee who got a job at the plant, shows a Hy-Line worker sorting through a conveyor belt of chirping chicks, flipping some of them into a chute like a poker dealer flips cards. These chicks, which a narrator says are males, are then shown being dropped alive into a grinding machine. In other parts of the video, a chick is

shown dying on the factory floor amid a heap of egg shells after falling through a sorting machine. Another chick, also still alive, is seen lying on the floor after getting scalded by a wash cycle, according to the video narrator. Hy-Line said the video â&#x20AC;&#x153;appears to show an inappropriate action and violation of our animal welfare policies,â&#x20AC;? referring to chicks on the factory floor. But the company also noted that â&#x20AC;&#x153;instantaneous euthanasiaâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a reference to killing of male chicks by the grinder â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is a standard practice supported by the animal veterinary and scientific community. Company spokesman Tom Jorgensen said Tuesday an investigation was continuing, and once itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s completed the company would release more information. Runkle acknowledged that his groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ultimate goal was to get people to stop eating eggs. He said he believe many would refuse to eat eggs if they knew what happened to male chicks. AP PHOTO/MERCY FOR ANIMALS â&#x20AC;&#x153;The egg industry is perhaps the cru- Chicks are corralled at Hy-Line North Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hatchery in Spencer, Iowa. An animal rights group is elest industry on the face of the planet,â&#x20AC;? calling on the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest grocery story chains to post warnings on egg cartons that unwanted male Runkle said. chicks are ground up alive, after videotaping the common industry practice at an Iowa egg hatchery. Mercy for Animals also sent letters anyone â&#x20AC;&#x201D; so that is clearly their motive.â&#x20AC;? There is no federal law that ensures the to the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 50 largest grocery store Mercy for Animals estimated 200 mil- humane euthanasia of animals on farms or chains, including Walmart, Whole Foods, Safeway, Harris Teeter and Trader Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, lion male chicks are killed a year, which the hatcheries, according to Jonathan Lovvorn, vice president and chief counsel of the asking them to include a label on egg car- United Egg Producers also confirmed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is, unfortunately, no way to breed Humane Society of the United States. tons that says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Warning: Male chicks are eggs that only produce female hens,â&#x20AC;? Head The Humane Society also says that virtuground up alive by the egg industry.â&#x20AC;? A spokesman for United Egg Producers said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If someone has a need for 200 million ally all egg farms, even those that sell cagecalled the proposal â&#x20AC;&#x153;almost a joke.â&#x20AC;? male chicks, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re happy to provide them free eggs, get their hens from hatcheries that Spokesman Mitch Head said Mercy for to anyone who wants them. But we can find kill their male chicks. Animals had no credible authority, as well no market, no need.â&#x20AC;? Using a grinder, Head said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;is the most â&#x20AC;&#x201D;AP as questionable motives. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a group which espouses no egg consumption by instantaneous way to euthanize chicks.â&#x20AC;?

CITY OFFICES IN FADING MINING TOWN TO CLOSE PICHER â&#x20AC;&#x201D; How can you fight City Hall when City Hall disappears? The few handfuls of residents left in this mining-scarred town will find out after city offices are shuttered Tuesday, another reminder that Picherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s days are numbered. Closing the offices will mostly be a formality, though, since the far northeastern Oklahoma town has been fading for months. The schools closed in July, and most Main Street businesses already are gone. A tornado that tore through the town last year, killing six people and leveling more than 100 homes, has hastened the exodus. Picher once boasted 20,000 people at its

peak, and generations of miners extracted enough lead ore out of the region to make bullets for both world wars. Now, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as close to a modern-day ghost town as it can get, with only a few dozen residents left. Most of the traffic through town comes from the dump trucks hauling away mountains of lead waste. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m setting over here on 436 South Francis, and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have anybody to the south of me and damn near anyone to the north of me,â&#x20AC;? said 62-year-old artist Steven Ray, who hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t decided whether heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll leave. The town he grew up in lies in the middle

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of the Tar Creek Superfund site, a 40-squaremile expanse of former lead- and zinc-mining towns that extends into Missouri and Kansas. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a place where the creek spews orange from pollution and mine cave-ins, and sinkholes threaten. Under a $60 million voluntary federal cleanup program, homeowners and businesses in and around Picher have been bought out over the past several years, and the buildings will eventually be razed. Ray was offered $46,000 for the home heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lived in for 40 years, an amount he says isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough to relocate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have roots in this town,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m

frustrated I have to make decisions, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not giving me much to make decisions with.â&#x20AC;? Some estimate as few as four residents, a dozen at most, will stay, in many cases because they are too stubborn or sentimental to move. The Environmental Protection Agency recently warned those who stay behind that the water will eventually be shut off, but city officials in the nearby town of Quapaw are working on a deal that would provide water service to Picherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remaining residents.

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ARTIST CONSTRUCTS MASTERPIECE USING COFFEE STIRRERS Jonathan Brilliant creates “Goldsworthy of the Coffee Shop” from the ground up. ASHLEY BERNTGEN The Oklahoma Daily

“In my version the natural environment is the coffee shop and my materials are the to-go coffee cup and all it accoutrements. The resulting work is both ironic and labor intensive with a traditional craft based sensibility” are the words of Jonathan Brilliant, the artist behind the most current exhibit on display at the Lightwell Gallery in the Fred Jones Art Center, the Goldsworthy of the Coffee Shop series. Brilliant has been constructing the installation out of thousands of coffee stirrers that are held together only by weaving and tension since Tuesday, Aug. 18 in the Lightwell Gallery in the School of Art and Art History. The installation at OU is only one of a series in Brilliant’s Goldsworthy of the Coffee Shop project. There are similar installations on display all over the country at such locations as Charleston, S.C., Orangeburg, S.C., Brooklyn, NY and Sumter, S.C. All the installations are site specific, meaning they are made from scratch at the same location at which they are to be displayed. Since his graduation from San Jose State University in 2007, Brilliant has been creating his site-specific installations in addition to other works. Brilliant uses a rust on paper technique, in which he forces metal objects to undergo the oxidation process and forces the resulting rust on to paper. He also makes sculptures out of weaving or welding found objects, such as water bottles, together. Brilliant also creates sculptures out of to-go coffee cups. “I see a parallel with the portable consumer fetish of the to-go coffee cup and the traditional traveling altars and fetish pieces seen in Buddhist and Hindu cultures,” Brilliant said. “The coffee cup acts as a surrogate image for Buddha or Vishnu, I have explored various permutations of the coffee cup as fetish object through drawings, castings, and other sculptural and performative interventions to better understand this powerful force in my life.”

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Jonathan David Brilliant’s installation “Goldsworthy of the Coffee Shop,” A piece constructed using thousands of coffee stirrers that can be seen at OU’s Lightwell Gallery through September 25. The exhibit is truly a chance for the OU community to witness the creation and finished product of a unique artistic medium. Even if people don’t consider themselves interested in the arts, it is amazing just to see the sheer size of the project; thousands of coffee stirrers held together by weaving and tension. “This is a great opportunity for our students to see clever appropriation and thoughtful construction merging into an experience that questions materials, motives, and the nature of art to explore and evaluate art itself,” said Jonathan His, associate professor of contemporary sculpture at OU’s School of Art and Art History. “He engages installation art and sculpture in an energetic fashion.”

The exhibit is also an opportunity for members of the Norman community to view an interesting piece of art. The installation will be on display to the public Friday Sept. 11 as part of the 2nd Friday Circuit of Art, a program sponsored by the Norman Arts Council that strives to transform all of Norman into an arts district, with the help of the Norman Gallery Association and CART, which provides free transportation to visitors on the CART Trolley. This free exhibit takes place in Lightwell Gallery on the second floor of the Fred Jones Art Center through Sept. 25.

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“Incognito #6” marks the final chapter of the much talked about series from writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips, the team that previously worked on the other highly acclaimed books “Sleeper” and “Criminal.” The story follows a former villain in the Witness Protection program who tires of his boring, simple life and finds escape in moonlighting as a vigilante until his former associates start searching for him. So think “The Incredibles” (fed up superOSI hero that hates his life) with AKEN’OVA a darker protagonist and a lot more violence. I heard about this book when it was in its fourth issue and decided to get into it, but unluckily for me, the back issues were sold out at my local comic book store. I really hate it when that happens, but fortunately the trade comes out sometime in November and I’m definitely coping with it.

“ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN 002”

Following the events of the Ultimatum and Ultimate Spider-Man, we are introduced to new characters and fresh new storylines in the Ultimate Comics Spider-Man: Spider-Man becomes a celebrity! Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy are dating! The return or “death” of the Kingpin! The appearance of a mysterious indomitable hooded being! I didn’t think writer Brian Michael Bendis could top the great storytelling in previous Ultimate Spider-Man

The Daily’s Osi Aken’Ova reviews three of this week’s new comic books.

books, so I was initially hesitant to pick this one up. After reading the first issue, though, I was completely blown away by Bendis’s ability to keep readers interested after a huge story arc. New artist David Lafuente was filling some pretty big shoes in taking over for previous iconic Spider-Man artist Stuart Immonen. The new anime-inspired artwork will take some getting used to, but with writing like Bendis’s, I’ll definitely be reading this title for a while.

“NORTHLANDERS #20”

“Northlands #20” finds the reader revisiting the Viking series’ beginning with another story about the first volume’s hero Sven. In the previous episode, Sven, who returned to his homeland of Orkney to reclaim his birthright from his corrupt uncle, finds that he must leave again in a self-imposed exile to start a family in order to save his clansmen. Sven is seen as a hero by the people of Orkney and widely talked about. This fame drives a few of them to come looking for him – unsurprisingly spurring some conflict and revelations along the way. Sven’s story is one of my favorite arcs as he undergoes the most interesting character development in this series. When we’re first introduced, he’s a young military strategist who doesn’t care about his lineage and only wants his inheritance. By the end of the book, though, he’s tired of all the bloodshed and comes to a much more complex understanding of what it means to be a Viking and care for one’s people. “Northlanders” is a fascinating read, and I suggest that you pick it up today.

Osi Aken’Ova is a film and video studies senior.

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Comic book covers from three of this week’s most memorable books: “Incognito #6,” “Ultimate Comics Spider-Man 002” and “Northlanders # 20.”

MADONNA WRAPPING UP WORLD TOUR IN ISRAEL TEL AVIV, Israel — Madonna brought her mix of provocative music and spirituality to the Holy Land with a concert Tuesday in front of 50,000 fans who had endured a 16-year wait since the pop icon’s last gig in Israel. Madonna is wrappingup her worldwide “Sticky & Sweet” Tour with two concerts this week in a country whose place at the heart of the Mideast conflict has made it more of a magnet for diplomats than big-name performers. Madonna took the stage about a halfhour late Tuesday night, opening with her 2008 single “Candy Shop” and moving through a tightly choreographed performance that included a series of colorful costumes — beginning with a skimpy, black body suit with fishnet stockings and knee-high boots — and range of hits, new and old. “I shouldn’t have stayed so long away,” she told the adoring crowd midway through the show, as she broke away from the script to express her affection for the country. “Every time I come here, I get so supercharged with energy,” she said. “I truly believe that Israel is the energy center of the world. And I also believe that if we can all live together in harmony in this place, then we can live in peace all over the world.” The 51-year-old entertainer has long claimed a special bond with the Jewish state. She’s been dabbling in Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism, for more than a decade and has taken on a Hebrew name, Esther. She’s come on private pilgrimages in recent years. She has visited the Jewish holy site at the Western Wall

in Jerusalem since arriving in Israel on Sunday. Madonna was scheduled to perform again on Wednesday at Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park, the same outdoor site as Tuesday’s show. “One of the reasons she attracts such large crowds is that she has a special connection to Israel,” said Chen Shasha, a 24-year-old law student attending the concert. “Israelis appreciate the fact that someone appreciates them and approaches them and is willing to look into things such as Kabbalah.” Israeli radio stations played Madonna songs through the day Tuesday, and recorded Madonna tunes greeted concertgoers as they lined up to enter the concert grounds. On Israel’s Army Radio, a DJ interrupted a song briefly to quip, “tonight, Aunt Esther is playing at Hayarkon Park.” Late Monday, the pop diva dined with Israel’s moderate parliamentary opposition leader, Tzipi Livni, at Madonna’s request, Livni spokesman Gil Messing said. Her main political rival, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will receive Madonna at his Jerusalem residence on Friday. Madonna last performed in Israel in 1993 but came on private pilgrimages in 2004 and 2007 along with other Kabbalah devotees. Her previous two stops on the current tour, in Romania and Bulgaria, were marred by controversy. In Bulgaria, Orthodox Church officials accused the singer of showing disrespect for Christianity. In Romania, she was booed during her concert for criticizing widespread discrimination

against eastern Europe’s Gypsies, also known as Roma. In Israel, some rabbis have criticized her involvement in Kabbalah. Madonna was raised a Roman Catholic. She wrote in an article for an Israeli newspaper last month that the study of Kabbalah helped her understand life better. Jewish tradition holds that Kabbalah is so complicated and so easily misunderstood that students may only begin to approach it with a strong background in Jewish law and only after age 40. Still, Madonna’s fans are happy she’s in Israel. Her first show sold out quickly, and a second was added. After years of concerns over political tensions and violence, more world artists are performing to Israel. Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney performed a year ago, but he drew criticism from Palestinians who said his concert amounted to support for Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. David Brinn, a music critic for The Jerusalem Post, said Madonna’s performances are a sign that Israel is becoming more attractive as a concert venue. The Pet Shop Boys played Israel in July, pop sensation Lady Gaga was here last month, the rock band Faith No More is playing Tel Aviv on Tuesday night, and the iconic songwriter Leonard Cohen is to perform later this month. “For a long time, it was security-related, and artists and managers didn’t want to take a chance,” he said of the dry spell in concerts. “They realized it is safe in comparison to other countries, and it is viable for artists to come here.” -AP

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U.S. singer Madonna performs during her concert in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009.

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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Annelise Russell, sports editor dailysports@ou.edu • phone: 325-7630 • fax: 325-6051

« FOOTBALL The Daily sports staff picks this weekend’s football games tomorrow.

STAFF COLUMN

Fresh face of OU volleyball No Sympathy for JAMES CORLEY The Oklahoma Daily

María Fernanda has come a long way to become a Sooner. The freshman defensive specialist and libero is almost 3,600 miles from her home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and said Norman is not much like home. “Everything is near, not like here where it takes like 30 minutes to get to a mall,” she said. “The weather is very different. It’s not cold in winters. “And the food is different. I’m getting used to it.” Fernanda was very successful in high school and started playing for the Under-20 Puerto Rican national team when she was just 15. She was taught to play the libero position and received valuable experience and coaching. “They focused a lot on techniques and stuff that if I didn’t know, I would be very behind,” she said. “I think having that experience with the national team will help me know if I have to change my technique or have more, or if I’m good because I have it already.” At 5’ 7”, Fernanda does not have the size that other players like 6’ 4” Sooner Sarah Freudenrich do, so she has concentrated on being a defensive presence who is quick and can jump high. “It’s pretty hard to be short,” she said. With the national team, Fernanda competed in international tournaments against a number of squads, including the Dominican Republic, Canada and the USA.

Her coach encouraged her to look at coming to the United States to play in college and told her about OU coach Santiago Restrepo, whose ability to speak Spanish played a big role in getting Fernanda interested. Although Fernanda speaks English very well, better than she cares to admit, Restrepo’s ability to talk with her in Spanish has really helped. And she’s been able to return the favor with her skill as a defender. At last weekend’s tournament in Houston, Fernanda led the Sooners defensively in three of the four games, tallying 55 digs to help OU to its best start in five years. She credits her success to her teammates, who have been very supportive of her. “I feel so great because they were the ones that helped me get that work done,” she said. “I think without the help of the girls, I wouldn’t have done that well, so they helped me a lot. “Volleyball is not an individual sport, so you have to have that relationship with your teammates. You don’t make it alone.” Fernanda has high expectations for the season. “I want to win everything,” she said. “I know the girls also want to do it, so we’re working hard. If we keep playing like this last tournament and keep challenging ourselves on the court, I think we can make a good position in the NCAA [tournament] and go to the finals.”

Plaxico Burress

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Freshman defensive specialist María Fernanda passes the ball during an afternoon practice Aug. 24.

SOONER PRACTICE NOTES: BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERISTY GAME WEEK BRADFORD’S LEADERSHIP AND OVERALL SKILLS IMPROVING

VENABLES SAID DEFENSE IS READY FOR SEASON

GRANGER TO STAY OUT WITH INJURY FOR ANOTHER MONTH

Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford said he has grown not only as a player but as a leader from a year ago.

Defensive Coordinator Brent Venables said he feels the defensive is ready this weekend to take on the cougars of BYU.

DeMarcus Granger is likely to be out with a knee injury for another month according to the senior defensive tackle.

“I feel like I’ve improved, I’ve come “I like our progress and chemistry,” “If I could play I would,” Granger said. a long way,” Bradford said, “My role Venables said. “We have a chance to “I’m going to need about a month or as a leader has increased and this is be awfully good.” so before I am back out there.” the most vocal I’ve ever been.” -JAMES ROTH/THE DAILY

Plaxico Burres committed a crime, will serve his time and the nation’s media and sports fans will continue speaking negatively about him. Many will tell you it serves no purpose shooting a man while he’s down. I won’t tell you that. Not in this situation, at least. Burress carried an unregistered loaded gun into a night club, pulled a Cheddar Bob from “8 Mile” and shot himself in the leg. And while it could’ve been worse – raping children, plotting a bombing or killing cute, little puppy bulldogs – he still broke a New York law. He could have seriously injured or taken MJ someone’s life, and he should be fortunate CASIANO he hurt himself, rather than someone else, or the punishment would’ve been much more severe. In an interview with Jeremy Schaap he reportedly said, “I look myself in the mirror every morning and I’m like, ‘You got yourself into it. You’ve got to get yourself out of it, get your life back on track, get back to doing what you love to do.’ Four or five years from now, down the road, I’ll look back on it and say I was reckless. I made a very bad decision, and I’m suffering major consequences for them. I took away what I love to do most, which is play football. I lost my job. That’s where I’m at right now.” I’m not buying that. He was the face of NFL fines and team discrepancies for years, and his showcase of personalities leads me to believe this is only another mistake on his path in life. Everyone has done things they regret and wants a second chance. And that’s what Burress wants: a second chance. That’s fine. He will get that second chance – second only if you don’t include other small mistakes during his NFL tenure – in two years when he’s released from prison. But this sulking and attempt for viewers remorse has got to stop. Burress cried in a recent interview because his wife is expecting and he won’t be there during delivery. Well Plax, you should’ve considered possibilities of what trouble a gun might lead you into. Or at least kept the safety lock on. M.J. Casiano is a broadcast and electronic media junior.

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Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009

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PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- It might not require any input on your part to get what you secretly want because, even without asking, others will be working on your behalf. ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- There’s a good chance you could be introduced to someone to whom you’ve been attracted but never met. To your amazement, this person will warmly receive you, and things could go further. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- If Lady Luck makes it known that she is your ally -- and she probably will -- elevate your sights and aim for more ambitious objectives. Make the most of her benevolence. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Someone will provide a piece of information, and you will know what to do with it more than this person. It could be the missing piece of the puzzle. CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- A wonderful opportunity for gain is likely to come from a situation where another has already done all the spadework -- but you hold the missing piece that can make it work. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- A partnership situation will take on greater significance. You will collectively do something that could prove to be quite enormous for both partners.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

AN INTRODUCTION TO COWBOYS STADIUM JONO GRECO The Oklahoma Daily

PARTY DECK

The OU football team heads for Arlington, Texas, this weekend to open the season against Brigham Young University in what can be considered the grandest football stadium in the country. This is the Sooners’ third straight game playing in a National Football League stadium, dating back to the 2008 Big 12 Championship. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones spent about $1.2 billion on the structure that has become known as “Jerryworld”. OU junior defensive lineman Adrian Taylor, a native of Arlington, noticed the initial construction and wondered what it might be like. “When I learned that it was going to be the stadium I was like, ‘Wow,’” Taylor said.

RETRACTABLE ROOF

•Located on both the east and west sides of the stadium. •Intended for standing room only fans. • Jones said the deck will be able to fit upward of 30,000 people. • With the additional room in the deck, the seating capacity rises over 100,000. •Warning: OU fans with these tickets should arrive as soon as possible because unless you are in the first few rows you’il be stuck watching the game on the video boards.

•The roof extends to 1,225 feet long.

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Football fans look down onto the field from one of the party deck sections as the Dallas Cowboys warm up before a preseason NF Lfootball game Aug. 21, in Arlington, Texas.

SYNTHETIC TURF VIDEO BOARD

•Largest 1080p HD television. • Stretches from each of the 20 yard lines, which is a total of about 160 feet. •Weighs 600 tons. • Located 90 feet above the playing field.

•The top rises 300 feet high– that means you could fit the Statue of Liberty inside without a scratch. •Takes about 12 minutes to open or close. •Scheduled to be closed for OU v. BYU game.

• The turf is part of a Soft Top Removable System where the Dallas Cowboys will be able to lay three different surfaces: NFL Football High school/College Football “Blank” Field

• Stoops has said he hopes one of his punters hits the board.

•The turf takes a week to install and is seamed together in five yard increments.

“You’re going to start peeking up [at the video board], but try not to make it too obvious.” –Junior wide receiver Mossis Madu

•Dallas Cowboys kicker Nick Folk said the height of the surface grass makes kicking a bit harder. •This might make it harder for OU kickers sophomore Jimmy Stevens and freshman Tress Way.

SOONER FAN FACTS •Seating capacity extendeds 80,000 permanent seats. •1,000 student tickets were sold to the game in under an hour. •Athlete’s reaction to playing in the new stadium: “I’ve never really seen the stadium but on TV. I’ve heard it’s a great experience, so I’m just looking forward to see what the stadium has in store for us.” -Sophomore wide receiver Ryan Broyles

AP PHOTO

Dallas Cowboys’s cheerleaders are projected on the large video screen as the crowds take in the new Cowboy Stadium Aug. 21, in Arlington, Texas.

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