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NEWS STORY FORMER OKLA GOV. HENRY BELLMON PASSES AWAY NATASHA GOODELL Daily Staff Writer
Members of both Republican and Democratic parties mourned the loss of former Oklahoma Republican Gov. Henry Bellmon, who passed away Tuesday at 88 years old after a long battle against Parkinson’s disease. “Henry Bellmon will be remembered as one of the greatest Oklahomans in our state’s history,” OU President David Boren stated in an e-mail. “In an age of politicians, he always stood out as a statesman with the moral courage to do what he thought was right. Ever since I entered public life 40 years ago, he has been my friend, adviser and a constant source of encouragement to me. His death leaves a gap in the lives of all of us.” Bellmon became Oklahoma’s first GOP governor since statehood. Bellmon was the father of the state’s modern Republican party, U.S. Rep. Tom Cole (R-Moore) stated in an e-mail. “He served his nation as a soldier in a time of world war. He led Oklahoma Republicans out of the wilderness in the 1960s. And, as governor and U.S. senator, he served our state and nation as a statesman,” House Speaker Chris Benge (R-Tulsa) also stated in an e-mail. “He leaves a legacy that all can celebrate and a model of service for other public officials to follow.” Gov. Brad Henry ordered that all flags on state property be flown at half-staff Tuesday in Bellmon’s honor. “Oklahoma mourns the passing of a legend,” Gov. Henry said. “Henry Bellmon was not only a proud Oklahoman, but in many ways embodied Oklahoma — toughminded, hard-working, honest, patriotic and a true son of the land. He was a man who preferred deeds to words. Most important, Henry Bellmon was a superb leader and public servant who always sought to better this state he so dearly loved.” As governor in 1990, Bellmon saw the passage of the Education Reform and Funding Act (House Bill 1017), which called for a 27 percent increase in funding for public schools. “His legacy will perhaps be greatest felt in education, where he fought valiantly to ensure every child in Oklahoma received a solid education and a world of opportunity,” Todd Goodman, chairman of the Oklahoma Democratic Party, stated in an e-mail. In 1982, Bellmon spoke out about his own party’s supply-side economics policies, telling the U.S. Senate Budget Committee that they were hurting farmers with their policies. “During a time when a drought severely struck Oklahoma’s wheat harvest, I walked the wheat fields of northwest Oklahoma with Governors Bellmon and Keating as Bellmon showed us the drastic impact the drought had on Oklahoma’s farms,” Todd Lamb (R-Edmond), Oklahoma state senator and family friend of the Bellmon’s, stated in an e-mail. Cole said Bellmon led on every issue with courage, commitment and integrity, Cole said. “Like tens of thousands of other Oklahomans, I honor and appreciate his life, mourn his loss and offer my heartfelt sympathy to his family. Henry Bellmon was an Oklahoma political pioneer — we won’t see his like again,” Cole said. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Changes in Women’s Studies Department to encompass both genders NATASHA GOODELL Daily Staff Writer
T h e O U Wo m e n ’s Stu d i e s Department is expanding its curriculum beyond its focus on the issues and equality of women this year to include issues of gender to reach a broader group of students. “I think the gender aspect has always been a huge part of women’s studies, but now I think it’s more inclusive,” said Garrison Warren, women’s and gender studies and political science junior. Warren said he thinks there is easier access to this department now. “My roommate last year became a women’s and gender studies minor right as they were changing CHANGES CONTINUES ON PAGE 2
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A campaign to stop violence occurring against women of the Democratic Republic of Congo hangs in the newly named Women’s and Gender Studies office. The previous name of the department was Women’s Studies.
Students must revote on old ballot measures
UOSA hears reform arguments at meeting
Congress addresses mishaps from last spring’s election
Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society argues for new body of Congress
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Students will have to vote again on a resolution to add “sexual orientation” to OU’s non-discrimination clause in the upcoming fall general
election, but this time they will also add “and gender identity” to the ballot. Though a resolution to amend the UOSA constitution was approved by the student body last spring, the resolution did not change the university’s non-discrimination clause. MEASURES CONTINUES ON PAGE 2
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Student Congress Chairman John Jennings, management information systems senior, presides over the UOSA meeting which took place Tuesday in Adams Hall.
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Members of Student Congress heard arguments from Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society on how student government should be reformed Tuesday night. Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society had previously parliamentary spoken out of order and interrupted the Student Congress meeting on Sept. 22 when they began their Take Back UOSA! campaign. Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society had two members speak before Congress: former UOSA Graduate Student Senate member Nicholas Harrison and Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society spokesman Matt Bruenig. “I initially was not a part of SDS until I saw what they were campaigning for,” said Harrison, law and business graduate student. “I was a member of the Graduate Student Senate [from fall 2008 to spring 2009], and the biggest thing we did was approve of a mixer. I tried to pass initiatives on things like sexual orientation but it was lost in committee, and no one wanted to talk about them when they were brought up.” Harrison said as someone who was formerly active in student government, he has personally seen disappointments in student representative government. “We are proposing a constitutional change that gives student organizations like SDS and GLBTF a voice in Congress,” Harrison said. “We also want uncontested races to automatically come up for re-election in the next general election.” Harrison mentioned to members of Congress that they could have extended the deadline to allow people more time to sign up to run for office, but they chose not to last spring. ARGUMENTS CONTINUES ON PAGE 2
Professors benefit from repaired Hubble Space Telescope Additions to the telescope make it ‘more powerful than ever’ RICKY MARANON Daily Staff Writer
Astronomy professors said they are benefiting from the recent repair of the Hubble Space Telescope, which provides them information for research and classroom teaching. “This marks a new beginning for Hubble,” said Ed Weiler, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, upon completion of repairs. “The telescope was given an extreme makeover and now is significantly more powerful than ever.” According to a NASA press release, a new camera and spectrograph were added to the telescope, and an additional camera used for advanced surveying and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph were repaired at the circuit board level.
“I use the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph,” astronomy professor John Cowan said. “We use it to look for radioactive elements in some of the oldest stars in the universe, and with information collected from this research, we can know what elements and types of stars were present at the very beginning of the universe.” Cowan said the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph stopped working two years ago when the instrument’s power supply failed, and he was forced to study backlogged data acquired as early as 1993. He said he was unsure if a repair was going to be made when the instrument broke two years ago. “Previous NASA administrators didn’t want to fix Hubble at all,” Cowan said. “There was a great deal of doubt if there was going to be any repair made to any part of the telescope.” After an administrative change, Cowan was TELESCOPE CONTINUES ON PAGE 2
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THURSDAY CAREER SERVICES Career Services will be open to students needing help with resumes from 1:30 to 4 p.m. in the Union’s Career Services Lobby. Career Services will present “How to Write a Resume for a Federal Government Job,” will be offered from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Regents Room of the Union.
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Changes Continued from page 1 it last year,” Warren said. Warren said he has his reservations about the change, but thinks gender is still really important. “From my point of view, we have a generation of students who are interested in social justice and topics related to gender issues and equality,” said Jill Irvine, director of the women’s and gender studies program, as it’s now called. Irvine said she thinks this new program reflects more of the students’ needs and interests. “There has been a lot of interest by students and faculty about gender equality all around the world,” Irvine said. She said the issue has become much more complex and now involves men and women. They are offering a new course,
Measures Continued from page 1 “We’ve been working on a way to fix the problem since last April,” said Issac Freeman, social sciences district representative. “Because of a technicality, we were unable to amend the nondiscrimination clause, and we also did not add ‘gender identity’ on the resolution last spring.” We did not pinpoint the regents equal opportunity statement last spring, said Matt Gress, Student Congress Vice Chair. “This is a technicality that has hindered us from being proactive on this issue that the student body has asked us to act on, and right now we are fixing it,” Freeman said. Congress also approved a resolution against the Sept. 18 Westboro Baptist Church protest in which Congress declared the organization’s actions to be against the basic principles of America. Citing popular American phrases such as “liberty and justice for all” and “all men are created equal,” the language of the bill states Westboro committed an act of hate by discriminating against a religious organization.
“There was an out-of-town group that came and brought hate to an organization that promotes freedom of religion and freedom of organization,” said Brett Stidham, business district representative. Congress said though the resolution mentions the actions of the Westboro Baptist Church, the resolution was not specifically aimed at them, said Spencer Pittman, UOSA Student Congress spokesman. Congress also worked on a campaign reform measure addressing the issue of overspending the campaign finance limit that occurred last spring in the election of the chairman of the Campus Activities Council. “This bill is to correct the problems that occurred in the election last spring,” said Brandon Mikael, UOSA Office of Green Initiatives director. Mikael said in previous elections in which candidates overspent, they were penalized by forcing to pay a fine of 10 percent of the amount overspent. The new rules now fine 50 percent of the overspent amount. “If I have a $1,000 spending limit and I spend $1,100 then instead of paying $10, I now pay $50,” Mikael said.
Telescope Continued from page 1 notified the telescope was going to be repaired, but it was still not sure if his instrument would be fixed, Cowan said. “We weren’t even sure if our instrument was going to be fixed when the repair mission was announced,” Cowan said. “Out of the list of the 10 things to repair on the telescope, we weren’t even in the top five. We were more like number six if not number eight, and fixing STIS isn’t exactly an easy thing to do.”
had a face lift and are now offering classes that are more relevant to the students.” Wright said she has improved her ability to speak out on issues. “Women’s studies really has an activist aspect to it,” she said. “They are really supportive, and it fosters advocacy and activism.” As a part of this expansion, they are planning on having a minor for social justice in place next year and are taking steps to make it a reality. “In November, we will be launching a center for social justice reflecting this understanding of our students that issues of gender equality and social justice are important,” Irvine said. She said they wanted to reach out to a wider group of students and faculty, providing a way for students to come together. “We as a program feel we can take on issues related to equality more generally,” Irvine said.
a discussion with the students who were overwhelmingly in support of this,” Irvine said. It took their department a year to change the name, but it’s now official. “There has been strong support from the administration who are happy to accommodate the changing nature of a field, the discipline of women’s studies and meeting the needs of the students,” Irvine said. Caitlyn Wright, women’s and gender studies senior, said she didn’t really know much about this program before she took Introduction to Women’s Studies. “I realized how important it was to me because gender is everywhere,” Wright said. Wright has since become an undergraduate research assistant for the women’s and gender studies department. “What’s exciting is that we are really growing,” she said. “We kind of
American Men and Masculinity, as a way of branching out to other students on campus. “We have more than tripled in our majors,” Irvine said. “We have grown from 60 students to 600 students in the program within the past two years.” She said this program has increased at colleges and universities across the country in about the same way that it has at OU, possibly from the trend in changing this program from women’s studies to women’s and gender studies. “There is a reason we kept women in the title though,” Irvine said. “We wanted to ensure that women and whatever they’re interested in would continue to reflect women’s experiences in our courses.” Irvine said their program has traditionally been engaged in the issue of gender equality, and they wanted to keep that aspect in the program. “Changing the name started as
Arguments Continued from page 1 “We want to merge the Graduate Student Senate and the Student Congress together as one legislating body and preserve the districts as they are now,” said Matt Bruenig, Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society spokesman. “We want to create a new body in which student organizations come together as one body and offer bills and ideas that aren’t always addressed by Congress now.” Bruenig said student organizations are more aware of specific needs than members of Congress are by just representing the student body by districts according to colleges. “We are currently OK with the status quo of student government and a large overhaul could be detrimental to effective student government on campus,” said UOSA spokesman Spencer Pittman. Members of Congress asked questions and commented about the proposed new bodies’ function and the Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society campaign. “The specific members you are punishing through a recall election are the ones that are working for the same goals and desires as your group,” said Forrest Bennett, a University College representative. “If you wanted to sit in Congress,
He said astronauts repairing the spectrograph had to remove 150 bolts while floating upside down in space before they could access the broken instrument for repairs. “We found out the repair was approved and was going to be made at the last minute, almost at the same time the shuttle was about to launch,” Cowan said. “They fixed everything and were very successful in their mission.” Cowan said he is ready to begin studying with the repaired spectrograph but has to wait until this winter to begin his research because of administrative delays from the organization who is in charge of operating the instrument.
why didn’t you run in the spring like I did for my University College seat?” Bruenig said the campaign to change UOSA is not about getting members of Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society elected to Congress, but the group wants to reform the way legislation is brought up and the legislative system itself. “You say that the Congress doesn’t represent people well through the district system, but I talk to the people I represent everyday,” said Matt Gress, UOSA Student Congress vice chairman. But Harrison said the newly proposed body would improve communication on legislative ideas in student government. He also said the proposed new body is similar to the student government model at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, in which the student organizations meet under one body on legislation and pass it to the other body that is a mixture of what OU has as a Graduate Student Senate and the Undergraduate Student Congress. “The body we are suggesting will run like the Student Congress, but will be full of representatives from student organizations,” Harrison said. Pittman said Student Congress is glad the Oklahoma Students for Democratic Society has agreed to work with them and that UOSA will review their suggestions for reform.
Other professors are benefiting from the recent overall repairs made to the Hubble Space Telescope. Astronomy professor Yun Wang said she does not directly use Hubble for her work, but benefits from discoveries made by researchers using the telescope. “I do use data of supernovae that other astronomers have obtained and published [using Hubble],” Wang said. “Thus I think the repair of the [telescope] is a very good thing, and I expect to benefit in the long run when new data is obtained by others and published.”
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VOLLEYBALL TEAM TO HONOR COACH’S SON OU will remember coach Santiago Restrepo’s son who lost his battle with cancer in July
the Restrepos were told he would not have much time left. So the OU athletic department reached out to Javi and the Restrepos to help him be JAMES CORLEY just a happy little boy, doing some of those Daily Staff Writer things he wanted to do. Football coach Bob Stoops sent the famJavier Restrepo wanted to be like all the ily out to his condo on the beach so Javi other boys. could spend a day playing in the sand and He wanted to play baseball, basketball, the ocean. soccer and football. He wanted to go to the When they got back, Javi got to tour the beach and do all the other things boys do. university facilities and hang out with But Javier, or Javi, as he coaches, student-athletes, was affectionately known, cheerleaders and masOU VS. NEBRASKA had something the other cots. He got to have a taste boys didn’t: acute lymphoof something many only When: Tonight 6 p.m. blastic leukemia. dream about. He couldn’t play sports, “Everyone made themWhere: McCasland play outside much or go on selves available to help him Field House vacation. Instead, he spent out and to make it memoa lot of time in a hospital rable,” Restrepo said. bed. What: Raising money Women’s basketball The son of OU volleyball for leukemia research coach Sherri Coale paid for coach Santiago Restrepo the Restrepos to have a prosuffered from a type of canfessional photography and •Coaches Bob Stoops cer that attacks the body’s video session that would and Sherri Coale will white blood cells and keeps capture Javi and his famsign autographs for a the abnormal cells unable ily in precious moments of $10 donation at 6 p.m. to fight illness, leaving his happiness together. young immune system vul“To see how they have nerable to infection. gone out of their way to go He was diagnosed when above and beyond to make he was a year-and-a-half these things happen, for old and underwent intense chemotherapy, that I’m grateful for what they have done for sending the leukemia into remission. But our family,” Restrepo said. when the cancer returned, he needed a Javi lost his three-year battle against the bone marrow transplant and a liver trans- leukemia on July 31, at age 4-and-a-half. plant to repair the damage the leukemia and Volleyball season started up again a little chemo had done to his immune system. over a week later. The volleyball staff and “It only takes one bad cell to get it going players did everything they could to make again,” Restrepo said. “And it did.” things easier on coach Restrepo. When Javi’s cancer returned once more, “Their support says how much they are a
Gresham headed to NFL draft JONO GRECO Daily Staff Writer
Head coach Bob Stoops said Tuesday senior tight end Jermaine Gresham has decided to enter the National Football League Draft this upcoming spring rather than appeal the National Collegiate Athletic Association for another season. “Jermaine’s going to go into the draft,” Stoops said. Gresham caught 111 passes at OU for 1,629 touchdowns and 26 touchdowns. He ends his Sooners career just seven touchdowns short of the NCAA record for tight ends.
In 2008 he was a First Team All-American, a member of the All-Big 12 first team and a finalist for the John Mackey Award. Stoops said it is not his place to force players to stay at OU or leave and go into the NFL draft, but rather it is the player and his family’s job to make the decision. “Our job is to make sure we educate our guys to know exactly what you are capable of, where you’re at and what are the possibilities of you being picked at this position,” Stoops said. “I don’t force a guy on anything. It’s their decision, and my job is to educate them only of what the possibilities are and what you want for your life.”
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Head volleyball coach, Santiago Restrepo, coaches from the sidelines during the Sooners match against Missouri Sept. 19. part of our family,” Restrepo said. Nebraska, the university will raise donaBecause of the support they received tions for research to find a cure for leukemia from everyone around them, Restrepo at the Children’s Hospital of the OU Medical wants to start a foundation to help families Center. with similar needs. The evening will be dedicated to Javi’s life “We’re very lucky that we have people and his memory. around us to help us out,” Restrepo said. “We’re hoping that as many people as “But we’re trying to find a way to help those possible will come to the game to support families that are less fortunate and are going this cause and to realize that my son was through the same situation—when you very courageous, fought for his life to the know it’s going to be the last chance to be with your sons or daughters—what kind of last minute and had a great smile,” Restrepo said. memorable moment can we give them.” At tonight ’s game against No. 10
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REMEMBER BLAKE AS PERSON, NOT REASON FOR ALCOHOL POLICY Five years ago on OU ’s campus, Blake Hammontree died from alcohol poisoning. In the years since then, several things have changed at OU, and as time passes, fewer and fewer students who were at OU when Blake’s life came to an end remain on campus. As those students graduate and move away, new, younger students arrive to take their places. These new students were not here when OU was a wet campus, and they have always experienced college with alcohol regulations. Campus is not the same place it was five years ago. Because of this, we fear they are losing sight of who Blake was, instead focusing on the alcohol policy that was instituted largely because of his death. We understand this is easy to do. College is stereotypically a time of newfound freedom and partying, and alcohol often comes with those two things. Because OU’s alcohol policy aims to deter binge drinking on campus (something that was all too present before Blake’s death and
remains a problem on campus today), it’s a constant reminder of OU’s administration watching over students, and not easy to forget. We want to urge students to remember Blake instead of thinking about the alcohol policy. Perhaps his name will always be linked with the policy, but even if that’s what defines him in death for many people, it was not what defined him in life. He was a person. He had a family and friends. He lived in the dorms and walked to classes through the South Oval, like everyone else. And the tragedy that befell him could happen to any one of us, too. We see students forgetting about what happened to him, instead focusing on the alcohol policy and ways of circumventing it. We are not naive enough to tell anyone not to drink. But we do want to encourage everyone in the OU community: administrators, faculty, staff, students and parents, to remember what happened to Blake, who was a person like all of us.
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Stories are lost as violence increases At the insistence of my sister, and with the maGore and violence do have their places in licious promise of forcing my roommate to pay to movies. Both are a part of life, and thus they must watch a movie he had decried as a contender for be incorporated into our fiction. And they have worst film of the year, I set out been around since the first tales were spun by this weekend to watch the cin- our ancestors. ematic epic “Sorority Row.” Increasingly however, we are ignoring the fact As I sat through this mar- that without a mythos to back them up, we are velous conglomeration of bad watching nothing but mindless carnage, like acting, loose plot lines and ste- Romans at the gladiatorial matches. reotypical, cheesy one-liners, I As I said before, some people call this movewas all but forced to drift off to ment “progressive,” but we have become so enmy happy place, thralled with the violent, the CARSON where I aimlessly As I said before, some shallow and the gruesome pondered the fu- people call this movement that we are actually moving PAINTER ture of the movie backward, the ultimate effect industry and the progress, but we have being that we will forget what future of fiction in general. become so enthralled with makes a good story. I was concerned that, when I Stories are a pillar upon the violent, the shallow and which began to think about it, my prewe as a race have built monitions were much more awful the gruesome that we are our understanding of the than the movie I had been trying actually moving backward, world, as well as a vessel for to escape. relaying our morals and valI foresee not a world filled with the ultimate effect being ues to the younger generathought-provoking plots, deep that we will forget what tions. If the next generation characters and those subtle quali- makes a good story. was to see the sort of movies ties which set the epics apart from and books we claim to enjoy, their brethren works of fiction, what would they think of us, but a world in which the “Saw” films demand of how we acted and felt? not only a sequel, but an entire series of movies It is like we have become a society of rubber(with the newest, “Saw VII,” planned for a 2010 necking drivers - while we know we should not release date). desire to look at the accident, we are compelled Our generation’s America is a far cry from the by our very nature to turn our heads, slow down America that our parents and grandparents grew and take as much of the scene in before zooming up in, and thus it is natural that the types of sto- by, moving on with our fast paced lives. ries and media being produced will change, but And this is something that should be very it has not been for better. troubling to all who realize it. We are a society that has shifted from stories So before you buy a ticket to the next horror of relevance to ones of insignificance, from truth flick that claims to be the bloodiest and most to ambiguity. On top of this, our stories have be- horrific yet, so full of awful and unimaginable come much more graphic, and while some might dreadfulness, I hope you are willing to accept call this progressive, we have gone too far with the consequences of leaving that movie without it. having the slightest bit of emotion having been We have become desensitized to the point stirred. where it is perfectly civilized to walk into a It is up to our generation to save the story, bemovie like “Friday the 13th” or “Saw,” and come fore it is too late and we lose it forever. out feeling, not horrified by violence, death and madness, but content at having just been Carson Painter is an international business and finance junior. entertained.
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A response to ‘God is probably not pro-life’ column W h e n O U ’s P ro - L i f e Ambassadors hosted the Justice for All event last November (the giant pictures of aborted fetuses on the South Oval), I probably had more conversations about abortion than ever before. Some of those conversations were based on whether the government should do something about abortion, but more rested on the more pivotal JARED issue of whether the fetus HAINES had a right to life. Interestingly, it wasn’t until last Friday in Tarrant Carter’s opinion column that I heard an argument advancing the idea that the Christian God was not prolife. His central argument rests on two main premises that make God responsible for miscarriages. Firstly, more abortions (terminations of pregnancies) are miscarriages than are caused by humans. Secondly, Carter quotes some Christians saying of death, “‘It was God’s will.’” Carter also uses the term “some deaths” once. But if he really meant “some,” then he has offered no guidance on deciding for which specific deaths God bears responsibility. So I think his second premise is likely that God bears responsibility for deaths in general. Therefore, God is responsible for more abortions (miscarriages) than humans are. As a principle, Carter says we should judge by actions, not by words. So, judging by God’s actions, God is not pro-life where pro-life means to be absolutely opposed to abortion. Carter summarizes his point thus: “How can somebody that is responsible for the nearly one-fourth of naturally occurring abortions be considered pro-life?” I would like to note three problems with Carter’s argument. Firstly, Carter’s definitions of abortion, miscarriage and prolife don’t make sense for the abortion debate. Carter roughly defines miscarriages as “abortions by non-human causes” and to be pro-life as being “absolutely opposed to all abortion” so that being pro-life includes being opposed to miscarriages. These definitions make sense if abortion means “the termination of a pregnancy.” But being pro-life is not holding an absolutist stance against abortion when abortion means “the termination of a pregnancy,” because, properly speaking, to be pro-life involves two specific positions on abortion. Firstly, pro-life includes an ethical position involving some variation on abortion’s moral wrongness. Secondly, pro-life is a political/ legal position involving a government abolition of abortion’s practice. For us to talk about whether abortion is morally wrong, it has to involve abortion as an action that humans do or negligently allow others to do. Abortion’s definition in this case would be the induced termination of a pregnancy, as put forward by the American Heritage Dictionary. To put it bluntly, miscarriages The Oklahoma Daily is a public forum and OU’s independent student voice. Letters should concentrate on issues, not personalities, and should be fewer than 250 words, typed, double spaced and signed by the author(s). Letters will be cut to fit. Students must list their major and classification. OU staff and faculty must list their title. All letters must include a daytime phone number. Authors submitting letters in person must present photo identification. Submit letters Sunday through Thursday, in 160 Copeland Hall. Letters can also be submitted via e-mail to dailyopinion@ ou.edu.
don’t qualify as abortions under a definition of abortions we would use for a debate about the ethics of the act. So while miscarriages a re n ’ t re l e v a n t t o a n ethics discussion about abortion, Carter could still try to show that God is ethically responsible for them, and indeed he does. My second problem is w ith this attempt – Carter’s argument moves from his second premise of God’s responsibility “in some way” for deaths to a contrast between God’s ethical responsibility for miscarriages and human responsibility for abortions. He instead jumps from a premise that the Christian might grant – God is responsible “in some way” for death – to a conclusion that requires God being responsible in a specifically ethical way. Fur ther more, it would not seem to follow that miscarriages would be in God’s plan in an ethically responsible way without the human-caused abortions being in God’s plan in an ethically responsible way. In that vein, it would seem to me that if we would work the kinks out of Carter’s argument, we would be moving toward some argument that would closely resemble the problem of evil. Bu t t hat m ov e s away f ro m whether the Christian God is prolife toward whether the Christian God exists at all. Thirdly, Carter’s argument implies that we can judge the God of the Bible’s moral attributes by looking at things in the human experience. But the evil in the human experience like miscarriages, according to the G od of the Bible, has resulted from human rebellion against God in the Garden of Eden. The fact that human experience continues despite our rebellion lets us “judge” the God of the Bible as a God who patiently and mercifully has not yet brought his day of justice when he will right the evils of the human race. The Bible tells us why: God waits so that he may show mercy to those who, turning away from evils like abortion and promiscuity and pride, look to the Lord and savior Jesus Christ, who has borne their guilt and shame on the cross. A l l i n a l l , t h e a r g u m e nt i s lacking.
Jared Haines is a philosophy and economics junior and president of the OU Pro-Life Ambassadors.
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Chuck Allen Floyd and the Liars Club plays at Libby’s Café, 10 minutes south of Norman, on Thursday nights ASHLEY BERNTGEN Daily Staff Writer
Fans of country music have an opportunity to show support for Norman based band Chuck Allen Floyd and the Liars Club each Thursday as the band takes the stage at Libby’s Café stage. The band, comprised of lead singer, guitarist and founder Chuck Allen Floyd, bassist Justin Morris, lead guitarist Bart Weilburg, drummer Tom Young and keyboard player Jon Knudson, came to be after Floyd, an OU Law School graduate did a songwriting stint in Nashville and moved back to Norman to form the band and tour Oklahoma and Texas.
“A degree is not a prison sentence,” Floyd said. He said after practicing law for six months, he knew he wasn’t meant to wear a suit and tie everyday. Floyd has developed an obvious appreciation for country music in his life, and spent four years writing songs for Clint Black, an artist Floyd considers one of his most significant influences. While there is some rock ‘n’ roll influence on the band, Floyd is the first to admit his band is country through and through. “When I sing, it just sort of sounds country,” Floyd said. Just Morris, an international and area studies graduate student and bassist for Floyd, said the band is happy to tour the Texas and Oklahoma scene, but especially loves playing in Norman. He said playing gigs in Norman is something akin to playing in their
own backyard. “Norman’s a really great market,” Morris said. “There’s a lot of music lovers there.” For Morris, there are other reasons he believes it’s good for the band to play in Norman. He said the word-of-mouth factor is really great, and that they’ve had a lot of success with people from OU, particularly staff and faculty from the School of International and Area Studies. “The toughest thing so far is digging into the student market,” Morris said. He said he thinks students will enjoy coming to Libby’s Café with a great patio, good food and beer specials. Chuck Allen Floyd and the Liars Club has a recurring gig Thursdays from now until Nov. 5 at Libby’s Café in Goldsby, 10 minutes south of Norman on I-35.
The Daily’s Osi Aken’Ova reviews two of this week’s new comic books.
today, and, as with all things Kevin Smith, I’m very excited. In “Batman Cacophony,” Smith was able to juggle both SPIDER-MAN CLONE SAGA mundane, plot-furthering dialogue and witty banter #1 After 15 years, Marvel with careful insight into the relationship Comics is rehashing between Batman its infamous clone and the Joker while saga from the ‘90s, respecting what and I honestly don’t other key “Batman” know how I feel writers have careabout it. fully crafted into It started out won“Batman” canon. derfully. A web of In “Widening Gyre” complications arose there is a new mysOSI as Peter Parker beterious vigilante in friended his clone, AKEN’OVA Gotham, and after Ben Reilly, and he saves Batman began to believe that from being killed by he himself was the clone and the demon Etrigan, this vigiBen, the real Spider-Man. lante proves that he is “betSounds interesting, right? Unfortunately, this is where ter” than the Dark Knight, things start to get bad. which of course piques our Marvel decided to shame- caped crusader’s interest. Kevin Smith might be lessly stretch the story for known as a writer who just three years, which killed it. Despite this disappoint- riffs on pop culture referencing turn of events, clone es especially, but he knows stories were not doomed his literature. His iconic film forever. A few years back, “Clerks” takes its structure Brian Michael Bendis wrote from Dante’s levels of hell a magnificent clone saga in “The Divine Comedy.” in “Ultimate Spider-Man,” Following this he boldly which did a great job of re- takes a quote from W.B. deeming the mainstream Yeats’ poem “The Second clone saga. I’d definitely rec- Coming” as the title for his ommend Bendis’ version to newest comic work, which anyone who felt the original gives this book pretty big was garbage. The clone saga shoes to fill. My current theory is beis known as one of the darkcause “The Second Coming” est clouds over Spider-Man’s history on print, and the fact is a poem that’s very hard to that Marvel is doing a six- understand, Smith might issue series seems unneces- just want to confuse readsary after Bendis’ wonderful ers. Whatever his reasons, it should be a very interesting run. read for both Batman and BATMAN WIDENING GYRE #2 Kevin Smith fans, and I sugThe new issue of film- gest you pick it up. maker Kevin Smith’s second “Batman” story comes out
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