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A late-season winter storm is expected to arrive today and remain into Saturday with predictions of up to three inches of snow. “Though many people connect March to spring, Oklahoma is still susceptible to the possibility of winter weather,” said Alex Lamers, National Weather Center meteorologist. He warned against traveling in western, north central and northwestern parts of the state. People with connecting ﬂights in Denver to see the men’s basketball team compete in the Sweet 16 in Memphis can expect delays. The Big Event also has been postponed due to the incoming winter weather. Temperatures should return to normal Sunday with an expected high of 61 degrees.

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Lights out weekend in Norman Many Norman residents, businesses and institutions are expected to join about 1 billion worldwide people in switching off the lights for one hour this weekend. The movement, Hour Earth, began in Australia in 2007 and spread to Norman last year with the founding of hOUR Norman, which is asking everyone in the city to turn off lights and unplug unnecessary appliances between 8 and 9 p.m. Sunday. Joshua Maxey, hOUR Norman spokesman, said the group is trying to get people to “rethink the way we do things on a daily basis.” One local restaurant that participated last year had so much success with its candlelight dinner and “green” menu and is doing it again. On that night, Blu Restaurant will offer food requiring little energy to cook and live music, manager Ryan Robinson said. — MICHAEL MOHON/THE DAILY

LIFE & ARTS Looking to wet your whistle? Check out page 11 for the Beer of the Week. Want to go see a movie this weekend? Check out The Daily’s ﬁlm reviews on pages 9 and 11.

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The women’s basketball team has its Sweet 16 matchup this weekend facing oﬀ against Pittsburgh Sunday night in Oklahoma City.

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Karl Bergey, CEO of Bergey Windpower Co., explains how an inverter works during a tour of the company Thursday morning. Bergey, along with his brother, Mike Burgey, founded the company, which produces small wind turbines, in 1977.

• Wind power industry promises job security CADIE THOMPSON The Oklahoma Daily While the job market continues to tighten, some Oklahoma schools are bracing for a boom in “green collar” jobs. Renewable energy is in demand, and schools are creating programs that position their students to take advantage of the wave of the wind enterprise. The Oklahoma Department of Commerce estimates the wind industry could produce $500 million in tax revenue and create 18,000 jobs in Oklahoma over the next 10 years. So far, five Oklahoma schools — Oklahoma City Community College, Oklahoma State University of Oklahoma City, High Plains Technology Center, Tulsa Community College and Francis Tuttle — are offering classes for students to become wind turbine technicians. Jerry Nielsen, division head of the science and engineering technology department at OSU-OKC, said this is the school’s first semester to offer a turbine technology degree and said there are 60 students enrolled in the program. With the recession in full swing, the program offers a strong incentive, Nielsen said. “Students can go to work in this industry, and at 40 and 45 they can

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A Bergey BWC Excel wind turbine operates outside the Bergey Inc. building in Norman. Bergey Inc. has sent hundreds of these Excels to all 50 states and more than 100 nations. retire in this industry,” he said. “They won’t have to change jobs.” Along with the demand for wind energy, a demand for wind turbine technicians is steady and growing, Nielsen said. OG&E, an industry partner with OSU-OKC, will need to hire approximately 90 technicians a year for the next 17 to 20 years to accomplish the government’s agenda of 20 percent wind power by 2030, he said. Rusty Walker, assistant training director for the turbine technician program at Oklahoma City Community College, said technicians aren’t feeling the effects of the economy, like

layoffs. “They say the economy is bad everywhere else, but we have a full schedule,” he said. Walker said his labor union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, is contracted to expand on at least two existing wind farms in Oklahoma this summer. They will need about 80 people for the project, and he’s offering some of his students the chance to gain experience and join them in the field. But it’s not just job security that is rallying people to move into the green

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Organization looks for new ‘sexperts’ • College students give presentations to their peers on safer sex, sexual assault JAMIE BIRDWELL The Oklahoma Daily

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The Big Event, originally scheduled for Saturday, March 28, will be postponed due to inclement weather forecasts, said Amanda Holloway, Big Event chairwoman. Holloway said the decision to postpone the Big Event until Saturday, April 18 was a joint decision between members of the Big Event executive committee, and personnel in Student Affairs, the President’s Office and at the National Weather Center. Team leaders and volunteers were sent an e-mail at 7:21 p.m. Thursday that announced the postponement of the Big Event and asked volunteers to notify group leaders of their availability on April 18. She said safety and making sure turnout is high were top reasons for the move. Many volunteer sites are located in Oklahoma City and Yukon where wet weather may present dangerous driving conditions for student volunteers, Holloway said. Forecasted rain and snow would prevent students from working at outdoor job sites and completing tasks like painting and landscaping. “We want to make sure people enjoy their time at the Big Event,” she said. More than 4,900 students and 300 groups were registered for the March 28 Big Event and the executive committee is currently corresponding with group leaders to confirm volunteer numbers for April 18. “We can’t please everyone, but we’re trying to do the best we can for the students and the organizations,” Holloway said. “We’re getting everything ready to go on the 18th and looking forward to having a great day.” All questions can be directed to the big event@ou.edu.

The Women’s Outreach Center is looking for new recruits interested in becoming the next generation of campus “sexperts” to teach students about safer sex practices and sexual assault. Sexperts are peer educators trained to teach in one of two areas: safer sex or sexual assault prevention, said Kathy Moxley, Women’s Outreach Center director. The center is accepting applications for the fall semester until April 10, she said. Moxley estimated five safer sex and five sexual assault positions would be available. She said groups like greek houses or student housing ask sexperts to educate students.

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Sexperts, Lyndsey Jones, bio-medical and zoology junior, and Bobby Mace, accounting junior, help educate students about safer sex practices and sexual health awareness. There are two types of sexperts; sexual health educators and sexual assault awareness and SEXPERTS Continues on page 2 prevention.

Study abroad not affected by Mexican violence • Partner universities not located near dangerous border region JAMIE HUGHES The Oklahoma Daily OU study abroad officials said they will continue to send students to Mexico despite the U.S. State Department’s recent travel alert. The Education Abroad and International Student Services office has students who are interested in studying in Mexico for next fall and spring, and there are no plans to cease sending them, Karen Elmore, associate director of Study Abroad, said in an e-mail. Violence has increased in the past few months near the U.S.-Mexico border because of conflicts between Mexican drug cartels and security services, according to an alert on the department’s Web site. Mexican authorities in Juarez report that more than 1,800 people have been killed in the city, located near El Paso, Texas, since January 2008. None of OU’s partner universities, however, are located close to the border region and the office wouldn’t send students to a violent area, Elmore said.

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She said advising students against studying in Mexico because of the violence around the border wouldn’t be a reasonable approach. “That would be like telling international students they shouldn’t come to study in Oklahoma because there is a gang war in Los Angeles,” Elmore said. There have been times, however, when international students reconsidered studying in Oklahoma because of other states’ violence, she said. “I remember after September 11 (2001), the parents of some incoming exchange students didn’t want them to come to Oklahoma because there had been a terrorist attack in New York City,” Elmore said. “Some Oklahomans found this amusing, talking about how far away we are from NYC and what a ridiculous fear that was for the parents to even mention.” The study abroad program has canceled exchange programs before because it was uncomfort-

CORRECTION Due to an editor’s error, The Daily misquoted Homeless Alliance Director Dan Straughan in Thursday’s story about homeless children.

able sending students to certain countries, she said. The office canceled a trip to China in 2003 because of the SARS outbreak. The violence happening in Mexico may not be worse than violence in some U.S. states, but people in the U.S. don’t really have a context to understand the violence, said Charles Kenney, political science professor. Students in Mexico should be aware of their surroundings just like a student going to New York or Washington, D.C., said Kenney, who studies Latin American politics. Mexico sees a constant level of violence, which can sometimes get out of hand, he said, but the situation is the same in most countries and Mexico is no more violent or dangerous than other Latin American countries. But some parents and students are still concerned. Elmore said the study abroad office has received phone calls this semester on the issue and she tries to reassure parents of the safety. “If the question is ‘Is it safe for my son, daughter, sister to study in Mexico?’ our response is usually, ‘We cannot guarantee safety here in

Norman, Oklahoma, but we do not send students to destinations that we consider dangerous,” she said. Elmore said the office doesn’t expect the violence to affect students but they have experienced emergencies with students studying abroad before. OU had students in Madrid and surrounding areas during Spain’s 2004 train bombings, she said. “That morning I was checking early morning international news and e-mails, saw what had happened and rushed to campus so I could begin contacting students by phone,” Elmore said. “Our partner universities were already on top of the situation, of course, and I called them first.” She said the study abroad office follow the OU international emergency procedure, which states the director of Education Abroad and International Student Services will assign a crisis coordinator to regularly update the director about the evolving situation. Kenney said students should discuss the area of interest with the study abroad office and learn as much about the culture before going and students shouldn’t worry about going to Mexico.

He said, “With so many people in poverty, there are no short-term fixes.”

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job market. President Obama’s stimulus package has also helped spur schools and students to turn to green jobs. The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act is loaded with more than $20 billion aimed at creating a greener economy, $500 million of which is being invested in training for green jobs, according to the White House Web site. The Obama administration announced Thursday that $3.2 billion of stimulus money will be going toward the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program, which is designed to allocate grants for projects that will improve energy efficiency nationwide. Oklahoma will receive more than $27 million through the program, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The stimulus package is also loaded with incentives for people to use renewable energy, thus spurring the creation of more green jobs. Karl Bergey, chairman and CEO of Bergey Windpower, a Norman company that manufactures small wind turbines, has been in the business of building wind turbines for more than 30 years and expects incentives from the stimulus package to drive up his business.

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Moxley said elected students undergo training from Goddard, the Rape Crisis Center, Planned Parenthood and herself before fall semester.

Safer sex Zoology and biological sciences junior Lyndsey Jones is currently a safer sex sexpert. Jones realized she was comfortable discussing the subject after she was assigned a persuasive speech on safer sex practices in a speech class last spring. “Sex was talked about at home,” Jones said. “But realistically a lot of people don’t know how to protect themselves.” The main goals of the safer sex sexperts are to educate on how to protect oneself, open lines of communication and bust myths about sex education, she said. “There’s a new song ... that talks about putting on two condoms at once,” she said. “Don’t put two condoms on. They’ll rub together

“Products and services that use renewable energy resources, reduce pollution, and conserve energy and natural resources.” Source: White House Web site

The stimulus package provides a 30 percent tax credit for the total cost of buying and installing a wind turbine. The federal tax credit combined with tax credits that some states offer will drive down the cost of installing a wind turbine and increase business, Bergey said. “We’re beginning to see a tremendous increase and inquiries,” he said. “Now we expect that will probably turn into purchases, but we take a cautious attitude.” Bergey, whose company started with a crew of three workers and himself, has watched the business grow internationally, with 30 people on staff in Norman and a crew of 20 at his headquarters in China. He said in the 30-plus years he has been involved in the industry he has never had so much hope for the future of renewable energy in Oklahoma and nationwide. “I think we have very good reason to be optimistic about the future, the short term future and certainly the long term future,” Bergey said.

and the friction will cause them to break.” Sexperts are prohibited from discussing personal experience, and if sexperts are unsure of an answer, they are required to refer students to a professional, she said. The safer sex workshops consist of a poster board with information about safer sex practices and a question-and-answer game, Jones said. Sessions usually start lightly with some jokes to break the ice. “There’s usually a lot of laughter,” Jones said. “It’s a lot of fun and they learn from it.” The sexperts say the goal is not to promote sex, which is already a common experience while in college. “We’ve been raised in a culture where sex is thought to be bad,” Jones said. “We don’t live in a world where people wait for marriage. Someone needs to inform about having an unwanted pregnancy or an STD.”

Sexual assault Jennifer Cox, a women’s and gender studies senior, is a sexual assault sexpert. Cox said she

heard about sexperts at a showing of the Vagina Monologues. The sexual assault program focuses on sensitivity awareness and dispelling rape myths. A common misconception of rape is that a woman puts herself in danger when she wears anything revealing, Cox said. In actuality, 70 to 80 percent of rapes are premeditated, she said. Most attacks are perpetrated by someone the victim has known for at least a year, she said. Sexperts talk about the laws pertaining to sexual assault, and present scenarios that are common to students, she said. Sexperts also discuss surviving an attack and how to help a friend who has been through a crisis. The sexual assault workshop often divides men and women, but there are also co-ed presentations, she said. Cox also volunteers as a rape response advocate at the Women’s Outreach Center. “It gets information out to students,” she said. “A lot of students come to campus without knowledge of either subject. It also gives the peer educators a chance to grow.”

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Fraternity may have temporary home soon • Alpha Tau Omega eyes former Kappa Sigma house

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RENEE SELANDERS The Oklahoma Daily

Information: Alpha Tau Omega has occupied other houses near campus since the OU chapter was founded in 1921. The First OU Alpha Tau Omega Residence – 1005 S. Jenkins Ave. The first Alpha Tau Omega house was built in 1928. It is now named Rhyne Hall and houses the OU School of Social Work. The Second OU Alpha Tau Omega Residence – 1411 Elm Ave. The second Alpha Tau Omega house was built in the early 1960s. It was leased to Alpha Omicron Pi sorority after the fraternity’s active chapter left campus. The sorority now owns this former Alpha Tau Omega residence. The Third OU Alpha Tau Omega Location – 1025 College Ave. This threebedroom rental house currently serves as a general meeting place for Alpha Tau Omega members.

Alpha Tau Omega fraternity members soon may have a place to call home, pending negotiations of their lease of the former Kappa Sigma house. The Delta Kappa chapter of Alpha Tau Omega has been without a live-in house for members since the fraternity’s recolonization at OU in October 2005. Negotiations for a two- to five-year lease on the Kappa Sigma house have been underway since January, said Mike Carter, vice president of the Alpha Tau Omega Housing Corp. “We’re working on the terms and language of the lease,” Carter said. “But it hasn’t been finalized and signed.” Carter, an OU alumnus and Alpha Tau Omega member, said the fraternity has looked for a property to buy or lease since it returned. It had closed its OU chapter in 1997. The Kappa Sigma property became available when the OU chapter of Kappa Sigma was shut down Jan. 31 after a month-long suspension. Ryan Butts, president of Kappa Sigma

POLICE REPORTS Names are compiled from the Norman Police Department and OUPD. The reports serve as a record of arrests, not convictions. Those listed are innocent until proven guilty.

MUNICIPAL WARRANT Nicholes Benjamin Brooks, 20, 1800 Beaumont Drive, Wednesday David Keith Duryea, 23, 300 Hal Muldrow Drive, Wednesday Ryan Lee Eddy, 20, 1225 Iowa St., Wednesday Quincy Toliver Taylor, 38, East Frank Street, Wednesday

COUNTY WARRANT Kyle Taylor Fillis, 39, 1000 Brandywine Lane, Wednesday

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Alpha Tau Omega fraternity hopes to purchase former Kappa Sigma house located at 1100 College Avenue. Negotiations are ongoing and a date for the purchase has not yet been set. Housing Corp., said the Kappa Sigma fraternity intends to recolonize at OU in the future, which is why a temporary lease off the property is an attractive option for the Kappa Sigma Housing Corp. The Alpha Tau Omega fraternity also recognizes that leasing the Kappa Sigma house is not a permanent solution, Carter said. “We’re happy to be back, and hopefully at some point we’ll find a permanent fraternity house,” he said. “But we’re really happy to be able to work with the Kappa Sigs to help them out while their chapter is off campus for a couple of years and helps us out, and I think it’s a win-win for everybody.” The prospect of having a house

Erik Shawn Mueller, 26, East Alameda Street, Tuesday Kamell Cohlmia Purdum, 21, 1044 E. OK-9, Wednesday, Oklahoma county warrant

POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA Christien Mark Bryant, 19, 1800 Beaumont Drive, Tuesday Logan Wesley Price, 18, Creighton Drive, Wednesday

FURNISHING ALCOHOL TO A MINOR Evelyn Dianne Carson, 57, 1150 E. Cedar Lane Road, Wednesday Teaiw O. Kuti, 52, 315 White St., Wednesday Dimple B. Patel, 23, 1724 24th Ave. SW, Wednesday Phen Van Truong, 39, 3001 S. Berry

for members to live in will not only improve the fraternity’s standing on campus but also will help with recruitment efforts, said Adam Moody, Alpha Tau Omega executive council member. “Before the house situation, we were having a little bit of problems getting new members,” said Moody, zoology senior. “It was almost like we had plateaued because young guys, they come in and they’re looking for a house to live in, and now that we have that, I think that that’s just going to set us on the map and definitely help our numbers grow significantly.” Alpha Tau Omega currently holds its meetings in a three-bedroom rental house at 1025 College Ave., he said. While the small house is able to

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POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE Tamara Ann Danker, 26, 3499 W. Main St., Tuesday, also petit larceny

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PETTY LARCENY Jonathan Kouri Scott Mahoney, 20, 3499 W. Main St., Tuesday Ashley Lexa Phiffer, 20, 3499 W. Main St., Tuesday Amanda Khanh Pham, 19, 3499 W. Main St., Tuesday Raechel Cenene Rohweder, 18, 3499 W. Main St., Tuesday

serve as a general meeting place for the members, the potential for a live-in house has added a new sense of motivation for the chapter, Moody said. Alpha Tau Omega president and finance senior James Benson said in an e-mail that acquiring a live-in house has been at the forefront of the fraternity’s goals, and the prospect of finalizing lease negotiations has lifted the spirits of the members. “A strong sense of brotherhood has allowed us to endure without a house for four years,” Benson said. “Having a fraternity house will only strengthen that bond of brotherhood.” Pending negotiations, Butts said the lease will turn the Kappa Sigma house over to Alpha Tau Omega June 1.

Sources: Mike Carter, vice president of Alpha Tau Omega Housing Corp.; Adam Moody, zoology junior and Alpha Tau Omega executive council member; Rhyne Hall Informational Plaque, 1005 S. Jenkins Ave. Source: Alpha Tau Omega National Web site, http://www.ato.org

Pollster pioneer Zogby to speak Monday DALENESIA KENDRICK The Oklahoma Daily The man credited with sparking America’s infatuation with election polls will talk about the future of America at the President’s Associates Dinner on Monday at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. John Zogby founded Zogby International in 1984 to conduct polls and research for political campaigns, businesses and governments in Latin America, Canada, the Middle East and Eastern

Europe. Zogby will speak about his best-selling book “The Way We’ll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream” and his thoughts on the future of America. OU President David Boren chose Zogby to be the keynote speaker because of his experience and knowledge of current issues that affect the lives of college students, university spokesman Jay Doyle said. Doyle said Zogby will discuss

the type of America college-age students will grow up to create. “John Zogby is uniquely positioned to give us a glimpse into America’s future,” Boren said in an e-mail. The President’s Associates Dinner is held for OU alumni and faculty, and is open to staff and students. Attendees will be able to talk to Zogby after the dinner. His book will be available to buy and a book signing will follow. The dinner begins at 5 p.m. For more information, call 3235-3784.

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New building is a good start for the School of Social Work With the economy on the rocks, the decision to make pricey purchases is liable to raise eyebrows, whether you’re a student stopping at Starbucks or an AIG exec springing for a jet. But OU has just announced a $5 million spending spree that we couldn’t be more excited about. At the OU Board of Regents meeting Wednesday, OU President David Boren announced that a gift from the Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation will allow

OU to go OUR VIEW ahead with is an editorial plans to build selected and debated a new School by the editorial board of Social and written after a majority opinion is Work. formed and approved As we by the editor. Our wrote earlier View is The Daily’s this month, oﬃcial opinion. social work education should be a priority for any Oklahoma university interested in serving this state. The Sooner State’s Department

of Human Services is a mess. It is plagued by high turnover, high caseloads and allegations of overlooking abuse. DHS officials say it is difficult to hire qualified staff members because Oklahoma’s social work schools don’t produce enough graduates to meet their needs. As a result, they regularly hire employees who don’t have social work backgrounds. Although they’re usually well-intentioned, they aren’t necessarily well-qual-

ified. Social services employees who haven’t been trained as social workers are more likely to leave their jobs after fewer than five years and less likely to perform effectively as they work to protect Oklahoma’s children. That makes social work education at OU critical for the state, so we’re glad to see that the university has continued to make the OU School of Social Work a priority.

But it’s crucial that the emphasis placed on the school doesn’t evaporate once the new building is built. It’s great for a program to have nice facilities, but what goes on inside an academic building is far more important than how nice its exterior is. If OU wants to truly improve its School of Social Work and therefore the state, it won’t just make resources available for a new building. It will seek funding for endowed

chairs that will ensure that great faculty teach in the school. It will find donors who will put money toward scholarships for social work students who commit to staying in the state and working after they graduate. We’re thrilled by the Zarrow family’s recent gift to the OU School of Social Work. We hope OU will continue to make the school a priority by funding people and programs, not just bricks and mortar.

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American Christianity on the verge of collapse American religious life is changing radically. According to the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS), 15 percent of Americans now claim no religion at all — the third largest category, trailing only behind Baptists and Catholics. And within a single generation, the number of people who call themselves some form of “Christian” has fallen 11 percent. Though the survey was much-discussed, its findings are not unexKYLE pected. To anyone who’s been paying attention, WILLIAMS it’s another confirmation of what has been obvious for quite a while: American religion is dying. We are witnessing the biggest shift in American religious life since the great migration of Puritans. The trend goes against organized religion in general (hence the 15 percent that don’t claim a religion). Instead, more Americans are following their own whims. As the survey’s co-author explained to USA Today, “More than ever before, people are just making up their own stories of who they are. They say, ‘I’m everything. I’m nothing. I believe in myself.’” The major casualty of this backlash against organized religion has been the mainline denominations: the Episcopalians, the Methodists, the Presbyterians, the Congregationalists, the Baptists, the Lutherans — that is to say, American religion. The significance of this is difficult to overstate. It was the Protestant tradition that made America. These varied traditions held many clashing beliefs about theology, but it was their shared anti-Catholicism and common understanding of public life that bound them together. Alexis de Tocqueville noted in his travels in the early 1800s that all the clergy shared a common language, an

agreement with the laws and the “duties which are due from man to man” and they made up one “undivided current.” The mainliners helped define the common culture of America for generations, but within the last 50 years or so they have managed to become almost completely irrelevant to public policy and culture. There are plenty of theories as to why this happened: acquiescence to modernity, the loss of intellectual vigor, the decline in anti-Catholicism and the lack of authoritative structure that ensures unity. One thing that is certain, however, is that evangelicals attempted to fill the gap the mainliners had left. By its very nature, however, evangeli-

calism is not tied to the ecclesiastical structures that had previously defined American religious experience. Instead, they emphasize certain fundamental ideas like personal conversion and the authority of the Bible. Thus, the ambiguous nature of evangelicalism as a movement allows it to exist across denominational lines and many theological allegiances. This is one of its particular drawing points. According to recent surveys, the majority of Christians in this country now define themselves as evangelical. Since the very ambiguity of the label allowed so many people to identify themselves by it, it’s easy to see why Republicans

so heavily courted the evangelical movement. By the 1980s, evangelicals became entrenched in conservative politics in an alliance that has heavily influenced American politics. And yet, it would be a mistake to say that evangelicals picked up right where the mainline denominations left off, especially in regard to their influence on American culture. While the mainliners diffused into society and influenced culture, the conservative evangelical movement has defined itself primarily in its opposition to culture. This is important because after the dissolution of the Moral Majority, the death

of Jerry Falwell, and at the end of the Bush presidency and with James Dobson’s resignation from Focus on the Family last month, many are beginning to wonder if conservative politics has driven the evangelical movement into the ground. In a recent essay for the Christian Science Monitor, evangelical Michael Spencer makes just that point: “Evangelicals have identified their movement with the culture war and with political conservatism. This will prove to be a very costly mistake.... The evangelical investment in moral, social, and political issues has depleted our resources and exposed our weaknesses.” The statistics bear this out, too. The ARIS survey showed that the number of self-identified evangelicals, which rose quickly after the collapse of the mainline denominations, has remained relatively unchanged since 1990. The Southern Baptist Convention, which is quite the evangelical stronghold, has declined 4 percent. With 21 percent of its members over 70 years old, they will soon experience a marked decline in numbers. All denominations are shrinking and this inevitably means a decline in ecclesiastical structures. Without these structures to fall back on, individuals are left to pass on their religious beliefs, but this is particularly problematic. “Ironically, the billions of dollars we’ve spent on youth ministers, Christian music, publishing, and media has produced a culture of young Christians who know next to nothing about their own faith except how they feel about it,” Spencer wrote. What will American religion soon look like? It remains unclear. Still, one thing is likely: Evangelicalism has failed to replace the mainline denominations and is itself, as Spencer predicts, on the verge of collapse. Kyle Williams is a classics and letters sophomore.

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Paper or pixels: Must we choose?

No excuse for mass ignorance

Today, you chose whether to pick up the newspaper or to read it online. Whether you’re reading ink or pixels, you are shaping the future of media’s changing form. Print media has been compared to travel by horse and carriage, and print’s death to the Protestant Reformation. But is print media really breathing its last breath or simply undergoing massive reconstructive surgery? Either way, the way you get your news in 10 years will not be the same. Already, many publishers are cutting back and shrinking content. Rather than rant about how I’ll miss the musky smell of crisp, yellowed pages in old books or how many trees we will save by not printing, I propose questions that our community should conLINDSEY sider as we witness the birth of a ALLGOOD new media age. Say books and magazines disappear altogether. What do we lose besides nostalgia? For some, it’s an aesthetic pleasure—the feel of a glossy magazine or being able to fold the crossword to fit into a briefcase. For others, it’s what they’ve grown up with. I’ve tried to convince my grandparents to get a computer. “I could talk to you every day! Share pictures and stuff!” But they’re happy with their small-town headlines and the obituaries. Old habits die hard. On the other hand, Computer Vision Syndrome is a real medical condition. Look it up. What do we gain with digital media? I see the upside to whipping out an iPhone instead of tackling a newspaper crammed in the backseat of a subway just to read headlines.

Biochemist Gregory Petsko predicts that by the year 2050, America will face a neurological epidemic. There will be 31.6 million Americans over the age of 80 and half of them will have Alzheimer’s disease. But there is a neurological epidemic of different sorts spreading through society today. While less visible, it is the reason why more funds have not been allocated to research and prevent the coming Alzheimer’s burden. The epidemic is the generational ignorance that permeates college campuses nationwide – a collective amnesia of the past, hedonism in the present and a disregard for the future. Our country is very sick. Yet, many youth are actively disinterested in these stark symptoms: home foreclosure, unemployNEAL ment, credit crisis, bloated healthcare, failing public schools and SHARMA oil addiction. Always distracted, always impatient for the next Facebook status update, who has the time to read the newspaper? Who cares if the government is loaning an additional $30 billion to the American International Group? Who cares if parents are bailing themselves out with their children’s Visas? If the government is going to bail out General Motors, I want to know how it will turn a profit and update its vehicles for a greener future – full transparency. In the same way we want to know the various medications a doctor prescribes to a family member, we should want to know the various treatments the government and private sector are unleashing to treat the crises our country faces. A part of me dies when a friend writes, “i dont read lol,” under the favorite books section of

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News

Friday, March 27, 2009

New estimate raises ND flood higher than sandbags • 6,000 volunteers endure temperatures below 20 degrees to sandbag DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. — Bad news turned dire Thursday for residents scrambling in subfreezing temperatures to pile sandbags along the Red River: After they spent the day preparing for a record crest of 41 feet, forecasters added up to 2 feet to their estimate. The first estimate sparked urgency among thousands of volunteers in Fargo, but the second sparked doubts about whether a 43-foot-high wall of water could be stopped. Across the river in Moorhead, Minn., City Manager Michael Redlinger said portions of his city’s dike could not be easily raised to withstand a 42-foot crest. “Now everything’s up in the air,” he said. The old estimate was 41 feet by Saturday afternoon, and thousands of volunteers had labored throughout the day to raise the dikes around North Dakota’s largest city to 43 feet. City and emergency officials had said they were confident the city would make it, but will now have to build higher. The National Weather Service said in guidance issued late Thursday afternoon that the Red was expected to crest between 41 and 42 feet, but could reach 43 feet. It said water levels could remain high for up to a week — a lengthy test of on-the-fly flood control. “Record flows upstream of Fargo have produced unprecedented conditions” on the river, which “is expected to behave in ways never previously observed,” the weather service said. Tim Corwin, 55, whose south Fargo home was

sheltered by sandbags to 43 feet, said he wasn’t giving up but was pessimistic after hearing the new potential crest. “I’ve lived here 40 years and over a 30-minute span I’ve reached a point where I’m preparing to evacuate and expect never to sleep in my house again,” he said. Even before Thursday’s revised estimate, official briefings in Fargo had lost the jokes and quips that had broken the tension earlier in the week. Instead, Thursday’s meeting opened with a prayer. “We need all the help we can get,” Mayor Dennis Walaker said. The city of 92,000 unveiled a contingency evacuation plan Thursday afternoon, but at least four nursing homes already had begun moving residents by then. “A few of them said they didn’t want to go. I said I’m going where the crowd goes,” said 98-year-old Margaret “Dolly” Beaucage, who clasped rosary beads as she waited to leave Elim Care Center. “I’m a swimmer,” she said, smiling, “but not that good a swimmer.” Officials in Moorhead earlier had called for voluntary evacuations for several hundred homes on the city’s south side. The sandbag-making operation at the Fargodome churned as furiously as ever, sending fresh bags out to an estimated 6,000 volunteers who endured temperatures below 20 degrees in the race to sandbag. “I was skeptical as far as volunteers coming out today, but they’re like mailmen,” said Leon Schlafmann, Fargo’s emergency management director. “They come out rain, sleet or shine.” Gov. John Hoeven, heading into a planning meeting in Fargo, urged residents not to let down. “We know they’re tired, but we need to hang in there and continue the work,” he said. Hoeven was calling for 500 more National Guard members to join 900 already part of the effort. Walaker, the mayor, said he was shocked by the new forecast. “Is this a wakeup call? People can’t take many

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Volunteers make use of a ladder and other items to assist in filling sandbags as the Red River rises Thursday in Moorhead, Minn. more wakeup calls,” he said. But Walaker also said the forecast didn’t seem to match what he had seen in the Red’s tributaries earlier in the day. “This is the worst-case scenario,” he said. “Right now, I’m going to stick with 41,” he said. As in Fargo, sandbagging was under way in Moorhead, a city of about 35,000 where some homes in a low-lying northern township had already flooded. The city was setting up a shelter at its high school for

displaced residents and those who heeded the call for voluntary evacuation. Moorhead Mayor Mark Voxland told WDAY-TV that the city would just have to raise its protection another foot. “The problem is we don’t have that much time. Every day is a day closer to crest and now we’re looking at 36 hours to cresting — we don’t know if we have time to add another foot to all of our dikes.”

Short ‘gigs’ create patchwork jobs for workers

STATE BRIEFS Senator says give $2.6 billion back OKLAHOMA CITY — A state senator considering running for governor has some advice on what Oklahoma should do with $2.6 billion in federal stimulus money — give it back. Sen. Randy Brogdon said in a statement early Thursday there are too many strings attached to the money and he objects to the federal government imposing new mandates and regulations he thinks are outside its authority.

Coffee pays old traffic tickets OKLAHOMA CITY — State Senate President Pro Tem Glenn Coffee says he isn’t sure why he did not take care of two traffic tickets he got in 2000. He paid them this week after reporters questioned him about them. “I was talking with my wife about that last night, and I actually think I called or went by when I was downtown” in 2000 and tried to pay for them but the traffic clerks could not find the tickets, Coffee said Thursday.

Health officials report drop in smoking rate OKLAHOMA CITY — The percentage of adult smokers in Oklahoma has dropped to a record low and more smokers in the state are kicking the habit, state health oﬃcials reported Thursday. The adult smoking rate in Oklahoma dropped to 24.7 percent in 2008, the state Department of Health reported. The rate was 28.7 percent in 2001. During the same time, the number of former smokers in Oklahoma grew to 24.7 percent last year, marking the ﬁrst time the state had as many former smokers as current smokers.

Lemon Law hits Senate roadblock OKLAHOMA CITY — Legislation that strengthens consumer protections for Oklahomans who buy defective cars and trucks has hit a roadblock in the state Senate. The chairman of the Senate Business and Labor Committee, Sen. Harry Coates, said Thursday he does not plan to give the House-passed “Lemon Law” a hearing because there is little support for the bill in the chamber.

25 disinfected wells to be retested TULSA — The state’s Department of Environmental Quality is resampling 25 disinfected private water wells in the Locust Grove area. Department spokeswoman Skylar McElhaney said the new round of tests, which could take up to two weeks, are being done on wells that homeowners have told the department were disinfected. “We don’t know what we will ﬁnd,” she said in an e-mail. “Like previous sampling, we are doing this so people can make informed decisions about their drinking water.”

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• Craigslist and other sites posting jobs for unemployed ERIN VANDERBERG Associated Press NEW YORK — Simone Sneed has been a brand ambassador for a telephone company, a backup singer in a local theater, a freelance grant writer and a psychic in a scavenger hunt — all for a day. Sneed found those jobs and many others in Craigslist’s Gigs section, where she finds work for a few hours or a day to earn extra cash. Sneed almost posed for an artist who wanted to paint her as a mythical creature that was half woman, half lion, but had to draw the line somewhere. “I mentioned it to my mom and dad,” she said. “My dad is an artist and he said it sounded a little sketchy.”

At a time when many Americans are having trouble finding one job, some intrepid jobseekers like Sneed are creating a patchwork quilt of many, all short-term gigs found through Craigslist and other sites where companies and individuals seek out part-time help. When she didn’t get tenure, English professor Diana Bloom used the Web site’s Services section to advertise herself as a tutor, editor and translator-for-hire. She’s been able to make a living through the work the Web site directs her way since 2002, while staying home with her young son. All that without ever having to pound the pavement. “I’m not very outgoing and getting my foot in the door to companies would have been hard,” said Bloom, of New York. But for all the ease the site offers, most gigs and part-time work offer no health benefits, no sick days, no paid vacation. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of people employed part-time for economic reasons, also known as involuntary part-time workers or the “underemployed,” rose by 787,000 in February,

reaching 8.6 million. That is up from 4.9 million the previous February. “There is a clear correlation between economic distress and social distress,” said Paul Osterman, professor of Human Resources and Management at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Underemployment is not good news for families.” And while some of the short-term jobs are on the books — like Sneed’s handing out seed packets and key chains for Sprint — others are not. Job postings are down overall on Craigslist, the most-used job board in the United States, said Jim Buckmaster, CEO of Craigslist.org. But postings for short-term gigs are up. Newspapers also run ads for temporary work, the kind of gigs often found on community bulletin boards. And temp agencies are reporting a flood of applicants for short-term jobs. The Active Staffing Services agency in New York, Jersey City, N.J. and Hialeah, Fla., has had to turn away applicants because they have had so many, and so few jobs to give them.

Analysis: Pendulum swings toward financial restraints • Administration presses for closer international coordination TOM RAUM Associated Press WASHINGTON — Capitalism can’t always be trusted. If you’re too big to fail, you’re too big to make all your own decisions, according to the emerging view in Washington. Three decades after Ronald Reagan launched a determined campaign to ease government regulations on business, the pendulum is swinging the other way. “Too big to fail is the right size to regulate,” declares Rep. Al Green, D-Texas. Riding a wave of public anger over Wall Street greed and government bailouts, the Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a farreaching plan for “better, tougher, smarter” rules over big financial companies. The plan would crack

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some of the changes through the Democratic-controlled Congress. Even administration critics acknowledge there needs to be more financial regulation to avoid any repeat of the kind of meltdown that has plunged much of the globe into painful recession. Few would argue that it’s a good idea to allow sprawling financial conglomerates to be able to shop for their own regulator — pretty much what bailedout insurer American International Group did. But there is also fear of going too far and suppressing the entrepreneurial spirit that is part of the nation’s free-market heritage. The pendulum had been swinging against tough regulation until recently. Although President Jimmy Carter began deregulation efforts

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Sports

Friday, March 27, 2009

Men’s Basketball

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Sooners face Syracuse tonight Sooners will handle and adjust to the Orange’s infamous 2-3 zone on defense. Freshman guard Willie Warren knows what he’s about to go up against and has a good idea of how his squad can break the Orange’s defense. “Syracuse is the team in the Big East ERIC DAMA known for running the zone,” Warren The Oklahoma Daily said. “We’re going to have to move the With only one-fourth of the original ball around and make a couple ball tournament teams still playing for a fakes. Once you move the ball and have trip to Detroit, the spotlight starts to the defense going from side to side and shine a little brighter as the games kick the ball in to Blake and back out, become more competitive and the field there’s going to be plenty of shots for everyone.” continues to shrink. OU is going to likely need nearly But head coach Jeff Capel doesn’t see it that way. Not Friday. Not any everyone to make those shots if the Sooners want to play a second game day. “It’s just the same old tournament this weekend. Warren and senior guard Austin game,” Capel said. “The intensity is Johnson were crucial factors in OU’s really high, but it’s like that every game 10-point victory for the entire tourSunday over coach nament, because John Belein and everyone is fightMichigan’s 1-3-1 ing for their lives. zone defense. Each game is difJunior guard ferent because the Tony Crocker, on styles may be difthe other hand, has ferent, but we’re a struggled offensiveteam coming into ly as of late. And this tournament it’s going to take just concentratsolid efforts from ing on what we do all three guards and making teams to push OU past adjust to us.” Syracuse and into Before practice the Elite 8. Monday, Capel “As long as our didn’t hold back guys are taking his praise for the shots, we opponent his team Head coach Jeff Capel good feel good about will face in the that,” Capel said. Sweet 16 Friday “[Crocker’s shots] night in Memphis. Capel recognized almost every were great shots [on Saturday]. He just missed them. Hopefully we can conaspect of the Syracuse program. “They’re really good. They have great tinue to be efficient offensively, make players,” Capel said. “They come from shots, and use that against their zone.” Sophomore forward Blake Griffin a great conference and they’re coached by a Hall-of-Famer, one of the best said he is preparing for all aspects of the Syracuse attack. ever. But it’s just a matchup.” “They probably have the best athBy far, the biggest storyline heading into tonight’s matchup is how the letes in the tournament so far,” Griffin

• OU looks for Sweet 16 win in Memphis

“The intensity is really high, but it’s like that every game for the entire tournament because everyone is fighting for their lives.”

said. “They definitely showed they can pull it out towards the end so we want to create some space for the last few minutes.” Despite what his coach says, Griffin can feel the spotlight of the big game. But it doesn’t scare him or his team. In fact, it’s welcomed. “Everybody wants to be that team that gets the attention,” Griffin said, “so for us to get some of that light, it’s been great.”

WHERE TO WATCH The Sooners will be playing in Memphis this weekend, but if you can’t be at the game, there are still plenty of ways to watch the Sooners. Here’s where to catch the action: What: OU vs. Syracuse When: 6:27 p.m. Television: CBS (Cox channel 10 in Oklahoma City) Online: Stream the game live on NCAA. com Radio: KOKC AM 1520 in Oklahoma City KTBZ AM 1430 in Tulsa

QUOTABLES Here’s a few quotes from the Sooners press conference Thursday afternoon in Memphis: James Cornwell/ The Daily

“We’re going to have to be good and pick our spots and then run our offense really well to get good looks.” — Sophomore forward Blake Griffin on the Orange’s zone defense “He has incredible poise, just kind of has a calming factor about him. In a game like this, we’re going to need him to play well just like any of our other guards.” — Senior forward Taylor Griffin on senior guard Austin Johnson

Freshman guard Willie Warren drives past a Morgan State defender in the Sooner’s first-round game in the NCAA Tournament Thursday in Kansas City. Warren scored 16 points in the Sooner’s win. OU then beat Michigan in the second round to earn the right to face Syracuse Friday.

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Sports

Friday, March 27, 2009

Women’s Basketball

Sooners looking to stop Sweet 16 slump • OU to play Pittsburgh Sunday evening ANNELISE RUSSELL The Oklahoma Daily The women’s basketball team will take the brief bus ride to Oklahoma on City Sunday to battle Pittsburgh for a spot in the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight. If the Sooners make it, it will be the first time they’ve gone past the Sweet 16 since 2002. The Sooners are the No. 1 seed in the Oklahoma City Regional and must win against No. 4 Pittsburgh to have any chance at this year’s Final Four. OU is fresh off a win against Georgia Tech, where guards

freshman Whitney Hand and sophomore Danielle Robinson led the Sooners to a 69-50 win over the Yellow Jackets. Head coach Sherri Coale said her Sooner guards will be vital to a win over a Pitt team that is known for strong guard play. “I thought Danielle Robinson and Whitney Hand in the first two games of the NCAA Tournament were fabulous, regardless of their stat line,” Coale said. Coale said her guards have been the Sooners’ mainstays all year and will need them to stay that way against Pitt guard Shavonte Zellous. Zellous is a senior and has been Pitt’s leading scorer for the past three seasons, averaging 22.9 points per game and racks up 5.6 rebounds per game. She is part of a tough Panthers team that had to fight through a tough conference in the Big

PLAYER TO WATCH Junior forward Amanda Thompson was becoming one of the Sooners’ solid contributors near the end of the season, especially on the boards, before a foot injury caused her to miss the majority of the Sooners’ last two games. Thompson returned brieﬂy in the OU’s game against Georgia Tech, and head coach Sherri Coale said she expects Thompson to play on Sunday against Pittsburgh for a shot at the Elite Eight. Thompson is averaging 7.1 points and 4.9 rebounds per game.

AMANDA THOMPSON

“I think we have some of the best fans in the nation and we’re really excited to be back here and play in front of them.” Senior center Courtney Paris East. OU All-American senior center Courtney Paris said the Sooners will need to be ready for the Panthers. “They have great shooters and good inside post players,” Paris said. “They have the full package, so we’re just going to have to be ready to go.” One thing that might give the Sooners the edge in Sunday’s game is the fact they are essentially playing a home game at the Ford Center. “I think we have some of the best fans in the nation, and we’re really excited to be back here and play in front of them,” Paris said. This is the Sooners’ second chance to play in front of a loud and rowdy crowd at the Ford Center after beating Pat Summit and Tennessee earlier this season. OU fans can also look forward to seeing starting junior forward Amanda Thompson back for the Pitt matchup. Thompson sat out

most of the first two rounds healing from a foot injury. “She should go [Friday] and then we’ll see how Saturday goes and she should be ready for Sunday,” Coale said. Thompson provides an added intensity for the Sooners and having her back in the swing of things gives the Sooners the leadership and a long-range jumper they might need to top the Panthers. When the Sooners’ last went past the Sweet 16, the ultimately finished as national runner-up to Geno Auriema’s Connecticut Huskies in 2002. If the Sooners hope to meet the Huskies again, they’ll have to first take care of business in Oklahoma City.

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Junior forward Amanda Thompson looks to drive past a Texas A&M defender during the Big 12 tournament in Oklahoma City. OU lost, 74-62.

Baseball

Sooners host two games against Nebraska this weekend • The Daily’s Jono Greco looks at the key matchups between OU, Nebraska The No. 12 baseball team starts its Big 12 home schedule 2 p.m. Saturday at L. Dale Mitchell Park against Nebraska. The series, which was scheduled to begin today is being pushed because of predicted inclement weather today. The Sooners (21-5, 2-1) have posted a perfect 13-0 record at home and are averaging 10.9 runs per home game. Nebraska (15-7-1, 3-3) is 5-4-1 on the road, including a 1-2 road conference record. In their only Big 12 series the Sooners took two-of-three from the Kansas State Wildcats in Manhattan, Kansas. In the series, OU scored 42 runs, including a 29-4 rout that featured 11 Sooner long balls. Here’s a look at who has the advantage in certain key areas:

have ERAs over 5.50. If OU gets into a close game near the ninth inning, it should have the advantage as sophomore pitcher Ryan Duke (2-0) has been solid as the closer. In 13 innings he has recorded four saves while allowing four runs on 12 hits and struck out 15.

The Sooners have four players hitting .375 or better through 26 games. Junior shortstop Bryant Hernandez leads the team by hitting .422 with five homers – a career high – while driving in 30 runs. Rounding out the other top hitters are freshman third baseman Garrett Buechele (.400), junior center fielder Jamie Johnson (.394) and senior catcher J.T. Wise (.375). Through 23 games, Nebraska is hitting .298 with 20 round trippers and has plated 180 runs. The Cornhuskers leading hitter is junior first baseman Tyler Farst. He’s hitting .359 with two homers while driving in 20 runs. Junior right fielder Adam Bailey leads the team in slugging percentage (.747), homers (nine), RBIs (33) and is second in batting average (.352). On paper, OU is a far superior team when on offense.

FIELDING: TOSSUP

Even though the Sooners edge the Cornhuskers in fielding percentage by .002 percent, the two teams have committed the same number of errors, 24. OU did commit two errors Tuesday against Central Arkansas, but those errors could be attributed to the players looking forward to the Nebraska series rather than the game at hand.

XFACTOR: OU

PITCHING: NEBRASKA

HITTING: OU

Prior to Tuesday’s victory against Central Arkansas, the Sooners were ranked third in runs scored, eleventh in batting average and were tied for sixth in home runs. Since then, OU has upped its season totals to 260 runs and are hitting .348 with 42 homers.

Nebraska posts a lower ERA than OU – 4.97 to 5.19 – and has allowed a lower opponent’s batting average – .270 to .298. Junior Andrew Doyle (2-2, 4.55 ERA) and sophomore Michael Rocha (3-1, 4.35 ERA) have already been announced as weekend starters, but neither have an ERA under 4.00 while one of the two announced Nebraska starters does. Sophomore Casey Hauptman (2-0, 4.21 ERA) and junior Jordan Roualdes (3-1, 3.86 ERA) are scheduled to start the first two games of the series.

The only toss-up in the pitching category is each team’s bullpen. The Sooners at times have shown flashes of brilliance in relief while at other times struggle on the mound. Nebraska has three pitchers without a start who

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Junior pitcher J.R. Robinson (27) pitches against the California Bears Mar.ch 9. OU won, 9-6.

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SPORTS BRIEF Coming oﬀ spring break the men’s tennis team looks to increase its winning streak while the women’s team looks to snap a four-game losing streak. Both teams will be in action at 6 p.m. Friday at the Gregg Wadley Indoor Tennis Pavilion in Norman. Both teams will continue Big 12 play as the men (9-5) will face No. 14 Texas A&M University (8-5) and the women (6-9) will face Kansas University (6-8).

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Even though the weather is supposed to be less than favorable this weekend, the conditions at L. Dale Mitchell Park usually lean toward OU’s liking. The ball park is a hitter’s park that takes advantage of the Oklahoma wind. Hits that would usually be fly-ball outs or extra-base hits turn to an easy jog around the bases. The Sooners are accustomed to the dimensions of L. Dale Mitchell Park and what the wind can do, so they should have the edge in this weekend’s series. JONO GRECO IS A JOURNALISM SOPHOMORE.

Sports

Friday, March 27, 2009

FRIDAY FACEOFF

Who will win tonight’s game: OU or Syracuse? OU

n games that could go either way, I traditionally pick the team possessing the most dominant player. This formula has been somewhat trustworthy for me, so I choose to use it here. In this case, it is an easy call, because the best player in Friday’s game happens to be the most dominant force in the nation. He plays for OU; JARROD his name is Griffin. YOST Blake In a game that figures to be tight, having the best player in the land can make the difference. OU will avenge its 2003 Elite Eight loss to Carmelo Anthony’s ‘Cuse with

a win Friday. The Big East certainly has its fair share of beasts in the interior, but Hasheem Thabeet and DeJuan Blair have certainly not proven to be in the same stratosphere as Griffin. The Orange has not seen anything quite like No. 23 for the Sooners, nor do they have anyone to match up with him. Although, in fairness to Syracuse, there isn’t a player in the land who can slow down Griffin when he is dialed-in. The backcourt for the Orange is stacked: Jonny Flynn, Eric Devendorf and Andy Rautins each average double figures and play well on defense in Jim Boeheim’s zone. The Sooner guards may not be on par with their counterparts Friday, but should be able to hold their own. The OU advantage in the paint will be more than enough to balance

SYRACUSE

Syracuse’s potential advantage on the perimeter. Yeah, Syracuse is hot, but so is OU. After shaking off their late season cobwebs, the Sooners have looked increasingly like their old selves since the tournament began. The guard play against Michigan was what the team needs, and what it will use to get to the next round. As long as senior guard Austin Johnson and freshman guard Willie Warren can continue to stroke the threeball like they did against the Wolverines, the Sooners will continue to have success in the tournament. In big games, your best players must be your best players. The Sooners big guns will step up Friday, and outplay the players clad in orange.

t may be sacrilegious to utter these words on campus at this point in the year, but the Syracuse Orange are going to the Elite Eight. The Sooners’ inconsistent play during the final few regularseason games combined with Syracuse’s zone defense will wind up being OU’s demise. Ever since sophomore forward Blake Griffin was knocked out of the game against Texas on Feb. 21 in Austin, it has been hard to tell which Sooner team will show up to the court. Even though two of the losses were without Griffin, probably the most important one came against Oklahoma State in the Big 12 To u r n a m e n t with him. Since the start of the NCAA tournament, OU has played up to par, but Sooner JONO fans can only how GRECO wonder long that play will continue. Griffin has averaged 30.5 points and 15 rebounds per game in the tournament, but other than him and senior forward Taylor Griffin, the Sooners have had less-than-stellar play from the bench. Syracuse’s zone defense is going to exploit the inconsistencies of OU’S other four starters and bench players. In that zone, the Orange may be able to force the Sooners to keep the ball around the perimeter and out of Blake Griffin’s hands in the paint. If they can have players like freshman guard Willie Warren – who is the only Sooner other than Blake Griffin who averages double-digit points per game – junior guard Tony Crocker and

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Syracuse’s Arinze Onuaku (21) dunks the ball as Arizona State’s Eric Boateng (2) looks during the second-round men’s NCAA college basketball tournament game Sunday in Miami. Syracuse defeated Arizona State 78-67. senior guard Austin Johnson controlling the ball and taking most of the shots from the perimeter, the Orange will have a great chance to come out victorious. OU’s 36 percent shooting from beyond the arc means the Sooners can survive while shooting those shots but can’t win off them. I believe that if Syracuse’s zone defense can force Warren, Crocker and Johnson to take the majority of the shots from deep, then OU will be in a lot

of trouble. Most Sooner fans know what they know about the Orange based on what they did on ESPN in the Big East Tournament, but as a group they have played more consistently as five players are averaging double-digit points per game. Syracuse will wind up winning, but the question is going to be whether the Orange will actually win the game, or if the Sooners will lose it. JONO GRECO IS A JOURNALISM SOPHOMORE.

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Life & Arts 9 ‘Little Big Planet’ wins big ‘Beer and Loathing’ Friday, March 27, 2009

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PlayStation 3 adventure game which allows players to create and share their own levels was honored for best game design, debut, technology and innovation at the Game Developers Conference ceremony Wednesday evening. Bethesda Softworks’ “Fallout 3” seized

the evening’s top prize. The post-apocalyptic shooter, which is set in the ruins of Washington, D.C., blasted fellow nominees “LittleBigPlanet,” Valve Software’s “Left 4 Dead,” Lionhead Studios’ “Fable II” and Rockstar Games’ “Grand Theft Auto IV” to win game of the year. “Fallout 3” was also awarded the best writing trophy. “I was a nerd growing up in South Boston,” said “Fallout 3” lead writer Emil Pagliarulo during his acceptance speech. “To all the nerds growing up in South Boston, don’t play hockey. Don’t join Little League. Stay in your room, read your Lloyd Alexander and play ‘Dungeons and Dragons.’ It all works out in the end.” Selected by a jury of game creators, the Game Developers Choice Awards honor the best games of the past year. The lively ninth annual ceremony was hosted by “Psychonauts” and “Brutal Legend” developer Tim Schafer. The show was capped off with the debut teaser trailer for “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2,” the upcoming sequel to the best-selling game of 2007. Other winners at the ceremony at the Moscone Convention Center were Ubisoft Montreal’s “Prince of Persia” for best visual art, Ready at Dawn Studios’ “God of War: Chains of Olympus” for best handheld game, EA Redwood Shores’ “Dead Space” for best audio and 2D Boy’s “World of Goo” for best downloadable game.

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The DreamWorks Animation productions have always played second fiddle to the intelligent and charming Pixar features over the years, but they’ve managed to hold their own with some creative films like “Shrek” DUSTY and “Kung Fu Panda.” SOMERS H o w e v e r, their latest offering, the deeply mediocre “Monsters vs. Aliens,” is more on level with the execrable Vanguard Animation output like “Happily N’Ever After” and “Space Chimps.” A talented voice cast is wasted on lame jokes and weak science fiction parodies wrapped in a non-plot that’s saved only by the immersive 3-D animation. Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon) is getting married to her best friend, weatherman Derek Dietl (Paul Rudd). But on their wedding day, a meteorite collides to Earth, coating Susan in a radioactive substance that turns her into a giant.

She’s quickly captured by the government, who classifies her as a monster and imprisons her with the like: The Missing Link (Will Arnett), Dr. Cockroach (Hugh Laurie) and the gelatinous B.O.B (Seth Rogen). Fortunately for the monsters, the United States soon needs them to ward off an impending alien attack by the powerful Gallaxhar (Rainn Wilson), and they are set free. They’re aided in their efforts by the aging Gen. W.R. Monger (Kiefer Sutherland) and dopey President Hathaway (Stephen Colbert). Most of the gags are halfheartedly set up and the “learn to accept who you are” message tacked on at the end is tired. If not for Rogen’s lines, there wouldn’t be any laughs to be found at all. The decent 3-D effects liven up the often ugly animation, but if you’re not willing to put down the extra surcharge to see it in 3-D, don’t bother.

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ver been to Panama City in Florida? After reading this book, you may be on your way. Keith Strausbaugh’s “Beer and Loathing in Panama City: A Bloodthirsty Spring Break Exodus” brings together a mix of drunken rants and a stream of conscious writing that offers the audience a look into the mind of the spring break male. Prime for the adultonly audience, “Beer and Loathing” details the journey of eight Virginia Tech students as they survey and purvey the beaches of Florida for girls, thrills, beer and the never-ending high of spring break. Set obviously in Panama City, Fla., Strausbaugh unveils the truths of a city running on spring break’s schedule complete with 24-hour services, men and women who never leave Panama City – or spring break behind – bars, booze, scantily clad women and multinational, corporate-sponsored binge drinking. Bringing reality to the surrealism of spring break, Strausbaugh reveals a city of sin at its worst, being at the heart of it and of the misadventures of America’s youth culture without the hinges of responsibility to hold them to the hard truths of Strausbaugh’s morality. In a book about immorality, Strausbaugh brings (for lack of

a better word) “truthiness” to the morals that can be found in a life of relentless alcoholism and sexual schemes revealing the inner qualities of young men looking to make the best of a week of full unadulterated freedom. While this is all well and good for the content of the book, I found the form of the novel to be overrated and under informative. After all, stream of consciousness style-writing works great for pros like Virginia Woolf; Strausbaugh fails to fully bring into the readers perspective the overall ending affect of his times in Panama City. I also found the outside characters to be significantly underdeveloped and vague, but, as a whole, the book pulls off the possibility of a drunkenrant writing style quite photo provided well. In fact, there is also a light and comical aspect to the novel. In fact, I laughed hysterically during several instances of unintended humor. The book was overall readable and funny. Strausbaugh succeeds in divulging the inner workings of a mind exposed to too much beer, sun and women. I highly recommend “Beer and Loathing” as a pop culture book. So, give Strausbaugh’s “Beer and Loathing in Panama City” a try, and you may find some familiarity from your own past spring break adventures within the imbibed tirades of America’s youth culture during the best week of the spring semester. BRITTANY BURDEN IS AN ENGLISH SENIOR.

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WHAT TO DO THIS WEEKEND TODAY Beau Jennings and Ryan Lindsey will play at 9 p.m. at The Opolis. Tickets $8. Little Big Town will play at 8 p.m. at Riverwind Casino. Tickets are $35-$45. Galapagos and Congratulations will play at 10:00 p.m. at The Deli. Dead Sea Choir will play at The Conservatory in OKC. Ali Harter will play at Galileo’s in OKC. Aliens Vs. Robots with Motown Blood, Sgt. Cloud and Ethos in Motion will play at 8 p.m. at Sauced Annex in OKC. Back Porch Mary with Brandon Clark Band will play at The Wormy Dog Saloon in OKC. Susan Herndon Band will play at The Blue Door

in OKC. Motion City Soundtrack with This Providence, The Nightlife and Hush Hush Commotion will play at The Marquee in Tulsa. Tickets are $16. The Romantic Disaster will play at The Pinkeye in Tulsa. Free popcorn will be given away at 11:30 a.m. in the first floor lobby of Meacham Auditorium. Mid-Day Music begins at 12 p.m. in the food court, featuring David Chang. Comedy Fight Night begins at 7 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium. Come see OU students battle to see who is the funniest!

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After Eden will play at The Conservatory in OKC. The Band of Heathens with Keegan Reed will play at The Wormy Dog Saloon in OKC. The Refugees will play at The Blue Door in OKC. Kanaga will play at Drinkz in OKC. Afroman with Society Society will play at Flytrap Music Hall in Tulsa. Hosty Duo will play at The Deli in Norman.

SUNDAY God Forbid with Straight Line Stitch will play at The Conservatory in OKC. Tickets are $13. Josh Grider Trio will play at The Blue Door in OKC. Hosty will play at The Deli. Need more L&A? Check out our blogs at OUDaily.com

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fter drinking green beer last week, I decided to continue my “worldly” beer sampling by trying a little Italian brew: Birra Moretti. Birra is a wonderful beverage, brewed since 1859, which I discovered whilst enjoying the food at the local Norman restaurant, Benvenuti’s, some time ago. Inside the rich, golden color of this delicious lager treat is a smooth taste. What’s really great about this beer – and probably my favorite aspect – is the fact it’s pretty much perfect with most Italian food. Right now, I would say “now that’s an offer you can’t refuse,” to play up the whole Godfather movie analogy that you might expect. I have respect BRAND for you though, so I’ll refrain. Anyway, of the Italian dishes, RACKLEY the best thing to eat with this beer is pasta or pizza. Be careful though, mixing Birra Moretti and Italian food is prone to make you gain about 40 pounds in the course of one dinner. So, practice a little self control and mind your meal and beer portions. If you don’t want to mix the beer with your food, then I also recommend you maybe try with cigars. That’s how I like to enjoy my Birra Moretti. If you’re looking for something new and a bit hoppy, then check out this quality beer.

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A different kind of ‘Sunshine’ Take a cursory glance at “Sunshine Cleaning,” and it seems like déjà vu all over again, with the obvious similarities between it and 2006’s smash hit “Little Miss Sunshine.” Same proDUSTY ducers? Check. SOMERS A l b u q u e r q u e setting? Check. Alan Arkin as a cantankerous, yet lovable grandfather? Check. The word “sunshine” in the title? Check. But “Sunshine Cleaning” is a different kind of indie film – less successful and satisfying than “Little Miss Sunshine,” but still full of its own kind of pleasures. The script stumbles at points, reaching for incongruous scenarios, but the performances are almost enough to make up for the contrivances scattered throughout. Amy Adams stars as Rose Lorkowski, former head cheerleader, current maid and single mom. Obviously not where her 10-year plan said she would be, Rose lives with one foot planted

as firmly in the good parts of the past as possible. She’s still sleeping with her high school boyfriend, Mac (Steve Zahn), even though he’s long been married to someone else. When her imaginative son, Oscar (Jason Spevack), gets in trouble at school, she’s forced to pull him out and look for a private school. She doesn’t have the money for that, but remembers Mac, who’s a cop now, telling her about the big bucks crime scene cleanup crews make. With little idea what she’s doing, Rose rushes headlong into the biohazard removal industry, convincing her slacker sister Norah (Emily Blunt) to be her partner. The job is gross, but the money is good, and the longer they do it, the more they

come to realize their lives are intersecting with the victims and their families at an irreversibly significant moment. “Sunshine Cleaning” might be masquerading as a quirky indie dramedy, but it goes light on the funny stuff, instead of attempting to dig into the desperation of its characters, most of whom have something painful in their past. The concept of using crime scenes as a vehicle for exploring the characters is solid, but only Rose feels sufficiently examined. Norah’s character is no less interesting, but a subplot involving photo provided her trying to track down the daughter of a dead woman takes up most of her time, and doesn’t have a worthy payoff. Still, the acting is impeccable

across the board. Adams is going places, and this is one of her most assured and confident performances yet. Blunt is a perfect casting choice as her sister, and Arkin is reliably entertaining as their father, Joe, even if not much is done with his character. Supporting characters filling in the cracks, such as Clifton Collins Jr. as a cleaning supply store owner and Mary Lynn Rajskub as one of Norah’s friends, help to flesh out the film nicely. “Sunshine Cleaning” does a lot of things well, but it left me feeling colder than a film with so much emotional potential should. The ending shows up abruptly, complete with a clichéd montage of images showing future possibilities for the characters. I’m all for an open-ended conclusion, but this one just feels lazy, and at only 90 minutes long, the film had more than enough room to give just a little more. These characters deserve it. DUSTY SOMERS IS A JOURNALISM JUNIOR.

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HOROSCOPE By Bernice Bede Osol

Friday, March 27, 2009 ARIES (March 21-April 19) -Today is a new ballgame, and the odds are in your favor that when you get up to bat, you’ll hit the home run that has been eluding you. Your dreams will come true. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -Although it would be quite unusual, you might have a strong desire for leaving work early and doing something different and excessively satisfying for yourself. Do so if you can. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- There is justification for your hopes and expectations to be realized at this time, with friends and associations playing a big part. It might be because of them that you’ll experience such joy.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- The needed cooperation will be there for you, and it is all because of your popularity and how often you took the time to make others feel special when they were down in the dumps. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -Conditions are greatly trending in your favor at this time with regard to your work or career. Those you assisted when they needed help the most will cover your back. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Your greatest joys and benefits are likely to come about through your close friends. Arrangements formed for the sheer joy of sharing each other’s company will fit the bill.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Once you set your heart on achieving a specific objective, there is little doubt that you will reach your goal -- not just because you have what it takes to get it but the odds are slanted in your favor.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- This is an exceptionally good day to attempt to work out any family issues that need to be resolved. A cooperative spirit will smooth the road and make things easy.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Nice things happen to good people, and because you are nice to everyone you encounter, you are going to be one of the most popular people around. Enjoy -- you deserve it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Don’t hesitate to discuss your plans with those you believe can be of great assistance to you. If they can’t help you personally, chances are they’ll have some constructive ideas.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -What makes you so in demand right now is your ability to help others sort out their affairs and/or show them how to get better results from the resources with which they have to work. Rewards will follow.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Give maximum attention to endeavors or situations that could enhance your material security. There are several financial opportunities that are worthy of exploration and development.

Friday, March 27, 2009

OU STUDENTS YOU ARE INVITED! Informal Discussion

John Zogby Internationally Noted Pollster

“The Way We’ll Be — America in the Future” John Zogby has polled, researched and consulted for a wide spectrum of business media, government and political groups nationwide. His polls are a daily feature on Yahoo! He regularly appears on all three nightly network news programs. He recently wrote a best-selling book – The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream – The book speculates about the kind of America that the current 18- to 29-year-old age group will create in the future. It is based on his in-depth polling of this age group benchmarked against earlier generations.

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March 30, 2009 Sandy Bell Gallery, Mary and Howard Lester Wing Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Please respond by calling the Office of Special Events at 325-3784. For accommodations on the basis of disability, call the Office of Special Events at (405) 325-3784. The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution.