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Intelligence officials to speak with students • National security colloquium to tackle ethical issues in intelligence JAMIE HUGHES Daily Staff Writer

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Former Bond girl Famke Janssen will speak on campus today as part of United Nations Day. Janssen is a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador.

Students have the opportunity to discuss legal and moral issues surrounding intelligence-gathering with officials from national intelligence agencies on campus today.

OU Outreach will hold a colloquium on national security studies from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Thurman J. White Forum Building, located between 4th Street and Timberdell Road on Asp Avenue.

Featuring representatives from Homeland Security, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, the event’s afternoon session will focus on legal and ethical issues in intelligence.

Cal Hobson, executive director for operations at OU Outreach, said events like this have been held at other universities, but this is the first time OU has played host to one.

Students are welcome to discuss and even criticize what they’ve heard about government intelligence agencies, event organizers said.

“They will have every opportunity to learn more direct [information] with high ranking officials,” Hobson said. “[It’s] something I never had the opportunity to experience when in school.”

The morning session will be about diversity recruitment in intelligence agencies.

The panel will be comprised of people with a variety of ethnic backgrounds. Panel member Joe Watkins, director of the Native American studies program, said the CIA has already contacted him about recruiting Native Americans for employment in the agency.

Hobson said diversity is crucial for effective intelligence-gathering.

“After 9/11 happened, intelligence was heavily criticized for being wrong about weapons of mass destruction,” he said. “What was lacking was human intelligence, people who could speak the languages of the Middle East. We didn’t have enough people who understood the culture there, not enough [people] with the language and ethnic skills [in the areas] where people don’t love us.”

Panel member Rita Aragon, director of advanced programs, said human intelligence is a weakness for the Department of Defense because the organization doesn’t have enough people on the ground in hostile areas.

“It’s very important to have human intelligence,” she said.

Students will also have the opportunity to speak with officials and are encouraged to bring resumes.

Intelligence officials will provide information about potential careers and scholarship opportunities.

The registration deadline was Thursday night, but there will be plenty of room for those who didn’t preregister, Hobson said.

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• Event marks 63rd anniversary of UN’s founding

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JAMIE HUGHES Daily Staff Writer Dutch actress Famke Janssen joins professors, faculty members and students today in celebration of United Nations Day. The focus of this year’s celebrations will be on gender issues within the U.N., its importance in solving international human rights issues like human trafficking and the organization’s overall importance in global rights.

United Nations Day marks the founding of the U.N. on Oct. 24, 1945. “[The U.N. is] not perfect, but it’s needed,” said Zach Messitte vice provost for International Programs Center. “[It’s] deeply poised to address issues because it’s an international organization.”

Janssen, a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador, will hold two discussions at OU. She will lead a discussion on acting at 3 p.m. in Beaird Lounge with Thomas Huston Orr, director of the School of Drama.

Janssen will discuss human trafficking with Jill Irvine, associate professor of religious studies and director of the women’s studies program, during a dinner at 7 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. A trailer of Janssen’s newest film, “Taken,” will be shown at the dinner to promote awareness of human trafficking. Janssen plays a mother of a child who is sold into slavery.

The main goal of the day is to raise awareness about pressing human rights issues that the U.N. supports, Messitte said.

“It’s terribly important to draw attention on the part of human rights,” Irvine said. “It’s sometimes easy for people to look to individual countries for human rights issues.

People should be more aware of the U.N.’s role in the issues,

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University College freshman Kennedy Winn and physics professor Stewart Ryan execute Ryan’s “bed of nails” demonstration Wednesday in Nielsen Hall. This demonstration is used to show the effect of distribution of pressure over a surface area.

OU’s ‘nutty’ professors • Wild antics, humor show a different side of the classroom TIFFANY HAENDEL Daily Staff Writer tewart Ryan doesn’t don the traditional professor’s uniform. Instead each day he makes a point to wear Pi-inspired parody T-shirts to class. Tuesday’s shirt bore a drawing of fangs in the shape of a Pi symbol with the word “VamPire” written underneath.

Ryan, a physics professor with 31 years of experience, is one of several OU professors who uses non-traditional antics like humor, cartoons and demonstrations to teach.

Briana Bliss, communications sophomore, said she enrolled in physics for nonmajors specifically to have Stewart as a professor.

“I heard he was funny and made it easy so you could understand it,” Bliss said.

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a cartoon and then announces “Viewer Mail” by blowing into a giant seashell.

“Viewer Mail” is an outlet for Ryan to clarify physics concepts to students who are embarrassed to ask questions in class. He said the purpose of the mailbox is to get students engaged in class, and the idea came to him from a former OU math professor.

“Sometimes there is physics in the mailbox, but it’s usually a joke of some kind or another.

And so students can put that in, but if they don’t, I have a file here, and I pull out an appropriate one from a past semester,” Ryan said.

Ryan also incorporates everyday examples into his lecture to help students relate to the material. He said the more outlandish the demonstrations, the better the lesson “There are usually a lot of props. Some of them are sort of ho-hum and some of them are fun. It’s important to keep attention, and sometimes you have to be a little bit out in left field,” he said.

The demonstrations range from inflating a hydrogen-filled

Arts scholar and educator Mark Andrew White was named Thursday as the inaugural holder of the Eugene B. Adkins Curatorship at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum MARK ANDREW of Art. WHITE “The university is very pleased to have a person of Mark White’s outstanding background to serve in this important curatorship,” OU President David L. Boren said in a press release.

The Adkins collection contains more than 3,300 Native American and Taos pieces, including paintings, pottery, jewelry and silverwork.

A 6,500 square-foot addition will be added to the museum to house the exhibit.

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Winn stands on Ryan as part of the demonstration. Ryan uses NUTTY Continues on page 2 unconventional methods and experiments in his teaching.

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Nutty Continued from page 1 balloon to lying on a bed of nails and asking a student to stand on his chest or swing a sledgehammer to break a concrete block on his stomach.

Kennedy Winn, University College freshman, said he was surprised by what he was asked to do when Ryan handed him a sledge hammer and told him to smash the concrete block.

Tentatively picking up the sledgehammer and shaking his head a few times, Winn gently tapped the block.

It took two attempts — and a bit of goading from Ryan — for Winn to gain enough momentum to break the concrete block.

“He keeps class lively with stuff like that,” Winn said, gesturing behind him to the bed of nails. “He has a really unique personality. He’s just kind of out there. It helps hold your attention instead of just being monotonous.”

But each professor is different, and for communication professor Eric Kramer, lying on a bed of nails is not his style. Instead, he uses humor to keep students interested.

“There’s a way of presenting material that makes it interesting. You can take anything and make it horribly boring, I suppose, but I’d also like to think that the ideas themselves are exciting,” Kramer said.

Few students said they get bored in Kramer’s class, where he acts out various story lines and covers the chalkboard with words and visual representations. Ashley Rhone, international and area studies sophomore, said creative teaching methods help her comprehend and remember material. The semester is almost halfway over, and she remembers the majority of what is discussed in class, she said.

“The subject could be very heavy if he didn’t relate what he is talking about at the time with an example or story that helps you remember it. Usually, I space out in class, but he makes his class interesting with his sense of humor and funny antics and stories,” she said.

University College freshman Namisha Thapa said she occasionally becomes so engrossed in lectures that she loses track of time, and is surprised when she discovers the hour has passed.

According to students, many professors are popular because they try to get the class laughing.

“I don’t think people come to class just to see my demonstrations. It’s probably much nicer to sleep in, but what I hope is that there is enough fun in the class that they can get through the boring part,” Kramer said.

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ABOVE: Heather Drilling, microbiology graduate student, participates in “Pie a Prof” at the Alpha Kappa Delta Phi fundraiser for breast cancer awareness Thursday on the South Oval. David Elmendorf, assistant microbiology professor, takes a face full of whipped cream to help raise money for the Susan G. Komen foundation.

RIGHT: Eva Trinh, nursing sophomore, and Vien Pham, biochemistry senior, prepare for a student to “Pie a Prof.”

UN Continued from page 1 Irvine said.

She said the organization is essential in promoting human rights, and she hopes students will learn how they can become more involved with global issues.

“The U.N. has been such a leading force in promoting women’s equality in the world,” she said.

Keith Brecheen, political science and economics senior and OU’s Model U.N. Chief of Country Representation, said he hopes the events help change peoples’ minds about the U.N. and what it does.

“People in this part of the country don’t reflect [on it],” he said. “I hope somebody will learn

something new about the U.N. and perhaps turn over an anti-U.N. bias.”

Brecheen said there is a misunderstanding that the U.N. tries to keep the country from doing things it needs or wants to do and he hopes people will talk about the issues and learn the U.N. exists to do “good things” for the world.

Stephanie Holliman, international area studies and economics senior, is the secretary-general of OU’s Model U.N. She said the group members are dedicated to raising awareness about the U.N., and today’s celebrations are a good way of doing that.

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Commence the Commenting • Newsletter provides H&F services feedback

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TIFFANY HAENDEL Daily Staff Writer “I LOVE the croutons at the Caf — they are big and like a taste explosion in my mouth — but the Cate croutons at O’Henry’s are rather pathetic in a tiny, bite-sizedfor-a-mouse way. Would it be possible to get croutons that are like the Caf’s?�

This is the sort of question that Dave Annis, the director of OU Housing and Food Services, has been dealing with for 22 years as the sole producer of Kitchen Comments, the weekly foodservice newsletter that serves as a vehicle for every manner of question, complaint and exclamation about on-campus dining. “Hi Dave!� one contributor to the Oct. 10 edition of Kitchen Comments began, “I’m a freshman and [the caf’s] got great food and tons of options for a picky eater like me. HOWEVER, yesterday night I was waiting for food at the Pizza and Pasta place when I saw a cockraoch crawling up the side of the counter. I’m sorry, but that completely grossed me out. I know that bugs and buffet lines go hand in hand but not seeing creepy crawlies two feet from the food would be good.�

Annis responds to every comment. In this case, he assured the concerned freshman that Housing and Food ing doing away with the printed version.

Services works hard to keep things clean, but he would “I still believe having an issue to read while you eat check with the managers at Couch Cafeteria to make and relax is important,� he said. sure they were doing everything they could to manage Annis crafts witty responses to the comments, hoping the pests. to “inject a little humor into people’s everyday life,� he “I publish the comments because I believe that when said. one student has a question there are probably 10 others “I try to help students understand that in the grand with the same one,� Annis said. “It allows customers to scheme of things, running out of chicken at dinner one ask their questions directly to people who night won’t scar them for the rest of their can make changes.� lives,� Annis said.

A typical issue takes about six hours Turn to page 4 to When one student wrote that, “It would to produce. Although Annis tries to pub- read our view on be really nice to get a PB&J sandwich at lish the newsletter once a week, although Crossroads,� Annis responded with, “I’ve sometimes scheduling conflicts or a dearth Kitchen Comments got to say we don’t get that request very of comments force him to skip a week. often. It’s something we can look at but Although Kitchen Comments has been around since I think if you are creative you can probably make your 1986, the process of soliciting input has changed over own.� the years.

History junior Henry Martin picks up Kitchen Now, virtually all of the comments are sent in through Comments whenever he’s at Crossroads, joking that he Housing and Food Service’s Web site or e-mail, while always goes to the restaurant with the same friend, and twenty years ago, they were written on index cards and “it’s more exciting than talking to him.� dropped into buckets that sat in all the food service locaHe finds it entertaining to read the criticisms of writtions. ers, saying that he admires Annis for “responding to all With this change came longer comments. the anal complaints.� “In the old days, there was only so much you could Although he has fun with the newsletter, Annis does write on that three-by-five card,� Annis said. note that the job requires a thick skin.

Advances in technology also mean that the newsletter “There are days when all you get are complaints is published on the Web. However, Annis is not consider- or comments like ‘Dave, you are ugly and your mom

Below is an excerpt from the Oct. 10 Kitchen Comments

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dresses you funny,’� he said.

One of the main purposes of Kitchen Comments, though, is its position as an outlet for emotion, Annis said. “I wanted to give students a way to blow off steam, either because we messed things up in the kitchen or they just blew a big test and needed to vent about something,� he explained.

Annis said another advantage of the newsletter is that it provides an avenue for direct feedback between customers and employees. Rather than employees hearing from supervisors what they should improve, they hear directly from students, who have more influence than their bosses. “There are a lot of instances where [employees] take it upon themselves to solve the problem,� he said.

Annis tries to look into each comment and has been surprised by some of the situations he has encountered.

He once received a comment that called for Couch Cafeterias to “stop putting the cherry cough syrup in the Rice Krispie bars.� Although his initial response was to dismiss it as a joke, he checked into it anyway, and discovered that “one of the bakers was putting almond extract into the bars even though it was not on the recipe. Too much almond extract tastes like cherry cough syrup,� Annis explained.

Student: “Dave, I have a problem and a solution for you. The problem is O’Henry’s setup. Tonight at 9:40 I made an order from the kiosk for my sandwich. I did not leave with my sandwich until 10:00...that is 20 minutes I waited when there were only 4 other customers waiting!!! That is beyond ridiculous!!

I have held my breathe about O’Henry’s long enough and I think you should know that there is a serious problem there... My solution is to bring back the block and barrel setup of making the sta directly connect with the customers. This customer relations will not only bene-ďŹ t these workers in their future careers, but it will also greatly beneďŹ t this operation. You can make it have two lines. I have a good mock setup in my head if you’d like a sketch I’ve been working on it for a while now.â€?

Dave Annis, director of Housing and Food Services: “What a nightmare! What you de-scribe should never happen. I apologize for the lack of attention and professionalism our employees showed ... You know something though? Some of our best ideas come from our customers, you see our service from a dierent perspective. I would encourage you to contact Sharon at Cate and talk to her, Bobby, and Cathy about your ideas.â€?

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Kitchen Comments commendable

American election through an African lens Editor’s Note: Mark Nehrenz is studying in South Africa this semester.

and then goes right to the PEANUT BUTTER! Oh yes, that delectable source of the problem and fixes it. spread is highly important.

He’s like the perfect politiWhen we reminisced about a past Kitchen Comments cian. Or Santa Claus.

If George W. Bush were as entry that included someone’s passionate pursuit of peanut attentive to his constituents butter in Cate ala Cart, using as Annis is to his diners, capital letters with each maybe we would be spendrefrence, we couldn’t help ing less money on a war and more money on education. but smile.

If Oklahoma lawmakKitchen Comments, a newsletter produced by Dave ers responded as quickly to problems as Annis Annis, Director of does, we wouldn’t OU Housing and OUR VIEW have bridges on the Food Services, is is an editorial verge of collapsing awesome. (See page selected and debated or roads chock full 1 for details.) by the editorial board of potholes.

In fact, Annis is and written after a Annis has helped awesome. majority opinion is formed and approved make Housing and It’s too bad he by the editor. Our View Food Services a was not elected to is The Daily’s official laudably transparhis position because opinion. ent department Kitchen Comments within the OU is representative of how a democracy should world.

Students respect the fact work.

Annis could be a com- that even their smallest complete tyrant in his position. plaints are carefully considHe could allow burned toast, ered.

The fact that Kitchen lumpy milk and salmonellainfested chicken and could Comments is a humorous laugh at students’ inability to read is a bonus.

We hope other departments do anything about it. follow Annis’ and Housing But he doesn’t.

He responds to his should- and Food Services’ example, be constituents’ cares and and we wish more politicians needs with comforting words would be as willing to change and promises that, yes, for the betterment of society Johnny, there will be tur- as Annis is.

Especially when that betducken on the menu tomorterment involves what we row.

Annis doesn’t just throw stuff our faces with.

Students should continue out empty promises like polito take advantage of Annis’ ticians do.

When he says your service willingness to listen to them.

We know we will. at Crossroads will be friendJust for the record, we lier, he means it.

When he hears that you would like to see crepes and waited too long at O’Henry’s, Nutella added to the breakhe sympathizes with you — fast bar in Cate ala Cart.

YOUR VIEWS Our View assertions about pageants incorrect Pageants aren’t promoting women’s achievement? I just want to clarify a couple of things in response to Wednesday’s Our View.

The swimsuit competition is not “an opportunity for the judges to see exactly what a woman looks like when she hardly has anything on.”

A swimsuit competition involves more preparation and talent than you think. During a swimwear competition, the contestants are not judged on their “disproportionately caucasian” bodies.

They are judged on how they present themselves on stage and on their confidence levels.

The purpose of a swimsuit competition is to throw the contestant out of her comfort zone and see how she holds her poise and confidence, and any Miss America judge would say just that.

The ability to stand and walk in a swimsuit in front of hundreds of people while holding your confidence and poise is something that can only be created within. No contestant likes to be up on stage walking around in a two-piece, but the Miss America System understands why there is a need for this portion of the pageant as well as the eveningwear portion.

Judges want to see a presence on stage that lights up the feeling of the room. It makes no difference what dress or swimsuit a girl is wearing or even how she looks in it, but it is about how she feels in it and the feeling that she gives off to the judges.

Also, there are pageants in Oklahoma that are specific to the “Mrs.” category of women, and which women are required to be married to compete. The reason for the restriction for Miss America is that they are looking for a woman who has the time to devote to community service and the desire with little distractions along the way, not to discriminate against married or pregnant women.

We are a community here at OU that supports anyone who is willing to put themselves out there to better their lives and the lives of the people around them and the article printed on Tuesday says nothing of that sort about the students who approved it. Yes, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but not to an uneducated one.

Were the people writing this article backstage with the contestants that night? Were they one of the highly accredited judges? The answer is no.

What these types of people need to realize is that Miss America/ Miss Oklahoma/ Miss University of Oklahoma is not just a pretty face but an intelligent woman with passions, hopes, dreams and enormous goals for her future and her community and is a woman who is able to show her confidence while being pushed outside of her comfort zone.

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if Obama is elected it will have virtually nothing to do with how he would treat Africa, but for many people here, that is all that matters.

Right after I arrived in South Africa, a newspaper was having a forum called “What Africa means to Obama and What Obama

become much more affordable for him to visit America.

Don was an incredibly bright and articulate kid, and I had to explain to him that things don’t quite work like that.

The view held by Don was quite prominent in Kenya, which is understandable as the nation has such a pride in their “American Son,” but not everyone thought this blissfully.

A journalism student in Nairobi angrily pointed this out to a group of students, “Why do people here call him a Kenyan?” he asked. “He has never lived here like us; he is not a Kenyan.”

I realize that during these trying economic times in America,

means to Africa.”

So, what, if anything, would an Obama presidency really mean for Africa? It could mean a lot of things, and the incredibly surprising endorsement by former Secretary of State Colin Powell is quite significant in this regard.

Powell has always focused significantly on Africa, and this influence could also lead Obama in that direction.

I have been to some historic places on the continent, like the Kibera slum in Kenya, apartheid monuments Soweto, South Africa. I have also seen pictures of Obama visiting these places, and the same cannot be said of most U.S. politicians.

Of all my friends in the U.S. supporting Obama, I know of

none who have ever met him, yet here in my residence in South Africa, there is a student a few houses down who had a long meeting and discussion with Obama in 2006.

Obama has a connection with this continent that no other U.S. politician can boast of, and he could use it to do incredible things, or he could completely neglect it.

I have fallen in love with this broken but beautiful continent, and I sincerely hope that as president, Obama would use his unique position to encourage U.S. businesses to invest in Africa and to support sustainable development projects here.

Whether or not Obama would change any direct U.S. policies towards Africa is impossible to tell now. Politics is politics. But if elected, Obama must do at least one thing in regards to Africa. He must use his motivational power to shift some focus to Africa.

I want more people to have experience like I have had here, to meet people like I have met, and to develop life-long relationships and partnerships that can in turn help develop this beautiful place.

Obama is about change, right?

Perception drives our actions, and its about time perception of Africa changed. Obama could help with that.

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Map mentality places borders around people As we watch the Electoral College use maps to color states red or blue based on their residents’ votes, it’s easy to forget maps’ true purpose.

Today, maps hardly exist in their former Rand-McNally glory. With the innovation of personal GPS devices, gone are the road trips with dad battling the accordion map while swerving across a foreign interstate.

Functionally, maps are used for traveling.

But theoretically, maps were created for containing.

People understand concepts they can contain, especially those that can be organized within neat, color-coated lines and shapes.

Journalist Robert Kaplan calls today’s map “an invention of modernism, specifically European colonialism.”

“The map, based on scientific techniques of measurement, offered a way to classify new national organisms, making a jigsaw puzzle of neat pieces without transition zones between them,” he said.

Our European ancestors sent ships with curious explorers down rivers and across oceans (hoping they wouldn’t fall off the edge of the flat world) to locate and quantify the whole of existence.

They thought they knew so many things.

Their own discoveries proved them wrong about most of them.

America loves to be right, especially on our view of the world. And we are right until proven wrong.

We know all about other countries and their issues and their weapons — until we find out we don’t.

Many of our efforts in other countries

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The fact that Obama has immediate family roots in Africa and has the U.S. presidency at his fingertips is incredibly exciting and inspiring to people in Africa.

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will prove fruitless if we do not take great lengths to understand the cultural spheres beyond the borders our country once drew.

Our systems of defining are outdated in today’s increasingly borderless world of globalization.

Internationally, we struggle to understand a Middle East divided by distinct groups that pervade the borders drawn by nowdeparted European powers. Kurdistan, for example, is a cultural entity of about 20 million people that spreads over parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and former Soviet republics.

We entered the region with an understanding of the borders. The intersecting cultural spheres that define the region and mainWHITNEY tain its instability greeted us COLEMAN instead.

Nationally, the election season illuminates our intended purpose of borders. The Electoral College combines the races, religions and lifestyles existing between a state’s lines into a few votes, the number varying by population. Thus, millions of people and their opinions are easily measured, examined and ranked.

The system makes the season a little jollier for politicians and journalists. Candidates focus their efforts on the swing states, and journalists can create headlines like this one in the New York Times: “McCain fights to keep crucial blue state in play.”

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Ready to explode yet?

From what I gather here on the other side of the world, these last few days before the election are going to be pretty intense.

I am sure that Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper and the like are so busy filling your TVs with stories about Joe the Plumber’s life saga and Sarah Palin’s appearance on Saturday Night Live that you MARK just want to scream, “Shut NEHRENZ up, cover something real, and, while you’re at it, why not buy some more LCD screens and get a real name, Wolf!”

To some degree, I am a bit disappointed that I have missed out on the pure insanity of this years election process, but it has been eye-opening to see it from a completely different perspective.

Since late May, I have only been in the United States for a grand total of three weeks. The rest of the time, I have been on the soil of seven different countries in Africa.

The U.S. election comes up all the time when I meet people, but discussions are not usually about the “election” per say.

The story on this continent is — big surprise here — Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. If you think Obama-mania is huge on campuses in America, multiply it times some large “illion” number, feed it some spinach and inject it with steroid-laced Red Bull, and you might come close to the Obamaexcitement I have experienced in Africa.

I was in Kenya when Obama beat Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., for the Democratic nomination in early June. (In case you’ve been living in a bat cave because Heath Ledger’s Joker scared the crap out of you, Obama’s father was from Kenya).

Not only was I in Kenya, but in the Nyanaza province, home of the Luo tribe Obama’s father belonged to.

One day in Siaya, the current

home of Obama’s grandmother, we drove past Senator Barack Obama High School.

The day after he beat Hillary, Obama was on the front page of both national newspapers.

One of the papers had something like 17 pages of stories dedicated solely to him and his victory, family, history, favorite music, etc.

In South Africa, the editor of the Mail and Guardian, one of the country’s leading newspapers, talked about the corrupt politics in her country. She told me Americans are incredibly lucky to have such an exciting candidate.

The fact that Obama has immediate family roots in Africa and has the U.S. presidency at his fingertips is incredibly exciting and inspiring to people in Africa.

What he represents to them is impossible to put into words, but often, hopes are misplaced.

In Kenya, I interviewed a 12-year-old named Don. He brought it up, and I asked what Obama meant to him. He said he just knew that if this “Kenyan citizen” was elected, it would

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the ancient and largely defunct method, and some center their largest boasts on this system of statehood (i.e. Texans).

But there are many wrongs found between our borders and within our system of bordering.

Before our country jumps into another war or another election, we should devote a few brilliant discussions in the Senate and Congress to our methods of defining the world.

When in doubt, I vote for a lot more sitting down and thinking before we do things. Our instincts and those of decision makers are largely learned. If the example we follow is wrong and we do not examine it, we will perpetuate that wrongness.

Our intuition teaches us that if the world has outgrown the clothes we’ve dressed it in, we should add another layer of labels on top of those that exist, breaking it into more digestible parts.

Though breaking borders down completely is an idealistic and impossible solution, reconsidering them is necessary.

As cultures change, the maps by which we define them should too.

Thomas Jefferson did not buy the Louisiana Purchase and leave it off the map.

He sent Lewis and Clark to explore it. If we hope to gain more ground as an international generation that transcends and deconstructs the definers of culture, we must set our minds on a new front of discovery.

Our culturally outdated maps just won’t do.

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Looking good while staying creative shouldn’t be a problem this Halloween. Even with limited resources, a bare-bones costume can be transformed into a fashion statement.

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• Fashionable Halloween costumes might not seem like such a reach after this week’s edition of Fashion Friday alloween is the one time of year that can inspire creativity in even the least imaginative person. Whether you are hand-making your costume or selecting one off the rack, a little Martha Stewart comes out in all of us.

Costumes are closely related to fashion — many elite designers come from a background in costume design and vice versa. For example, Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli was chosen to re-imagine the Playboy Bunny costume in 2006. With the reopening of the Playboy Club in The Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, the classic uniform was in need of a refresher.

Be like Cavalli this year and create your version of anything you want to be. From animals to professions, Halloween offers infinite possibilities.

First, you must tackle the challenge of deciding what you want to be that spooky night. Think outside of the cliché, such as sexy kitten, witch or nurse. Try finding inspiration from nature, history or inanimate objects.

Once you have pegged your theme or idea, it is time to get creative. I find that having an iron, no-sew tape and an open imagination are must-haves. It is surprising what one can pull together with limited resources.

Last Halloween I put together a last-minute gladiator costume with an old belt, scraps of vinyl and a hot glue gun. By adding my roommate’s gold cuffs and gladiator sandals, I had the perfect outfit for a night of debauchery.

After your costume is created, don’t forget to accessorize. By adding little touches, you are adding to your character and making your costume feel complete and well-planned.

Consider this costume to be just as important as your weekend going-out outfit. Don’t restrict your creativity to the costume itself. Consider how to style it with accessories and complement it by beautifying yourself (hair, makeup, etc).

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Byron Towles, graphic design sophomore, carves a pumpkin Thursday afternoon on the lawn oustide the Fred Jones Jr. Memorial Art Center. Towles, along with many other students, competed in the second pumpkin carving contest hosted by the Graphic Design Association. An iPod Nano was awarded to the “Best in Show” winner.

Carved in the name of art TYLER BRANSON Daily Staff Writer

• Graphic Design Association’s second pumpkin carving contest yields creative, political results Students sat on a tarp surrounded by a sea of gooey pumpkin insides Thursday outside the Fred Jones Jr. Memorial Art Center, diligently carving and drawing on what they hoped to be winning entries in the Graphic Design Association’s second pumpkin carving contest.

The contest was open to all students and faculty, who paid $5 to enter. They submitted their finished pumpkins for consideration in the categories of “Best in Show,” “Best Design,” “Most Creative,” “Funniest,” “Scariest” and “Best in Faculty.”

Keisha Whaley, GDA president and a visual communications senior, said the response to the contest so far has been positive, even among the faculty.

“The sculpting professors love the contest,” she said.

“Last year I saw blowtorches, LED lights and even soldering irons.”

The winner of the “Best in Show” category received an iPod Nano. Winners of other categories received gift certificates from various local donors such as Guestroom Records, Salon Zen, Perfect Swing and Louie’s, Whaley said.

Contest judges included film professor Liz Rodda, founda-

tions professor Cedar Marie and Thomas White, assistant professor of painting.

Whaley said the winning pumpkins will be on display next week outside of the art building. Those interested in purchasing them may consult with the artists. She said the leftover, uncarved pumpkins will also be on sale along with the winners, in case students are inspired to carve their own pumpkin this Halloween.

The process of getting donors to participate and local restaurants to feed the contestants was a huge task, but worth the time, Jessica Martin, GDA vice president and a visual communications senior, said “I think it’s gone really well,” she said. “This contest will help us get the funds we need in order to do things we wouldn’t normally be able to do, like go on field trips, visit studios or bring in speakers. Plus, it’s really fun. It’s also great to see an artistic community having fun and being creative together.”

The entries were diverse, and included portraits, traditional Jack-o’-lanterns, abstract designs and a carving by a faculty member of the mathematical symbol for Pi, titled “Pumpkin Pie.” Rachael Custer, visual communications sophomore, carved her pumpkin to resemble vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

“I’m doing a portrait of Sarah Palin with Nixon victory hands,” she said. “On the back it’s going to say ‘Palin, 2012.’”

When conjuring up frightening images, Sarah Palin may not seem the most likely choice for a scary pumpkin, but to Custer, it was the most logical.

“Why wouldn’t it be scary?” she said. “Palin as president in 2012 is terrifying.”

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ROME — Canadian director David Cronenberg is swapping his camera for a pen. LOS ANGELES — Hollywood producers said Thursday they are willing to meet with a federal mediator to try to break a long-running stalemate in their talks with the The moviemaker, who was attending the Rome Film Festival on Thursday, said he has written 60 pages of a novel, but besides ruling out that it would be a Screen Actors Guild.

The move by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers came after horror or science fiction, offered few details on the project. the guild’s national board voted Sunday to formally request a federal mediator join “Based on the pages I have written we found publishers all over the world, the negotiations. which is very terrifying to me,” Cronenberg told reporters. “It’s at a very delicate “We are also realistic,” the alliance said in a prepared statement about the phase right now, so I can’t really talk about it. It’s not like Stephen King, I don’t nonbinding talks. know what it’s like but you wouldn’t call it a horror or science fiction novel at all.

“It will be very difficult to reach an agreement if SAG continues to insist But what it is exactly, well, I don’t know yet.” unreasonably that it deserves a better deal than the ones achieved by the other The director, known for “Videodrome,”‘’The Fly” and “A History of Violence,” entertainment guilds during far better economic times,” the statement said. said he had wanted to write a book for 50 years.

Doug Allen, chief negotiator for SAG, said the union looked forward to meeting Cronenberg also attended a public meeting where he answered questions with the federal mediator and the AMPTP committee as soon as possible. from fans and moviegoers, one of the fixtures of the Rome festival, whose third

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Pakistani people from the Bajur tribal region collect water from a well Sunday at the Katcha Garhi camp in Peshawar, Pakistan where they are staying since the Taliban beheaded their relatives and terrorized their villages. Now, refugees fleeing a Pakistani offensive against the militants say the army is bombing their homes, killing women, children and livestock. Nearly 200,000 people have fled the fighting in Bajur regency to camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Pakistanis face bombs, brutality NAHAL TOOSI Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The Taliban beheaded their relatives and terrorized their villages. Now army airstrikes are killing the innocent, say refugees who fled fighting set off by a Pakistani military offensive against the Islamic extremists.

The army maintains it is winning the war in the Bajur tribal belt along the border with Afghanistan, one of its most intense operations against al-Qaida and its Taliban allies since 2001.

A spokesman even predicts military victory in a month.

Dozens of refugees interviewed by The Associated Press this week in tent camps on both sides of the border gave a rare glimpse of the human costs of the fighting in Bajur, a highly dangerous region where foreigners are largely restricted from visiting and Pakistani journalists have limited movement.

“I feel like a walking dead body,” Parmeen Bibi said as she carried her wailing 3-year-old granddaughter in a camp in Peshawar, the main city in Pakistan’s troubled northwest.

“I don’t want to go back to that land where my innocent brothers were slaughtered,” she said, referring to four brothers she says were beheaded by the Taliban for supporting the government. “To hell with those people, and to hell with those lands.”

Nearly 200,000 people have fled the fighting in Bajur, and many have sought refuge in the camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

For the most part, the refugees said they witnessed only airstrikes and heard artillery fire in the distance. None saw any combat involving troops on the ground in Bajur — something the army says has not been a major feature in a fight that has relied heavily on bombs and rockets fired from planes and helicopters. The army also has some 6,000 to 8,000 soldiers and paramilitary troops on the ground.

Some refugees described militants patrolling areas, staking out positions and occasionally peeping out to fire rifles at aircraft. But they also said insurgent numbers are few.

Pakistan says it is doing its best to avoid civilian casualties in Bajur, which is believed to be a possible hiding place for Osama bin Laden and

other al-Qaida leaders. The military does not release information on civilian casualties and it is unclear if it keeps figures on them.

However, many refugees complained of high numbers of civilians killed in army airstrikes.

Even those who expressed dislike for the Taliban said they felt betrayed by the government for tactics that take innocent lives.

Gulzada Khan said he and others had braved dangers to collect the bodies of children and women killed in the air attacks. “Whenever we went to collect the remains, the aircraft came again to the area and started bombing it,” he said.

The United States has praised the Bajur offensive and urges Pakistan to press on against militants blamed for rising attacks on U.S. and NATO forces across the frontier in Afghanistan.

The insurgents also are blamed for soaring suicide attacks within Pakistan, such as last month’s bloody bombing at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. Those attacks, and fighting in the northwest, are adding to pressure on Pakistan’s young civilian government at a time of economic stagnation.

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RACHEL ZOLL Associated Press Lepers. Untouchables. Politically radioactive.

These are ways American Muslims describe their status in an election year when Barack Obama’s opponents are spreading rumors that he is Muslim, when he is Christian, and linking him to terrorists.

So when Colin Powell, a Republican, condemned using Muslim as a smear — a tactic he said members of his own party allowed — there was an outpouring of gratitude and relief from American Muslims.

“That speech really came out of left field and really shocked us,” said Wajahat Ali, 27, an attorney and playwright from Fremont, Calif. “The sense is that it’s about time. He said something that needed to be said.”

The retired general, who was President Bush’s first secretary of state, made the comments on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” as he broke with his party to endorse the Democratic nominee for president. Powell noted in last Sunday’s broadcast that Republican John McCain did not spread rumors about Obama’s faith, but Powell said he was “troubled” that others did.

“The correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no, that’s not America,” Powell said. “Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, `He’s a Muslim and he might be associated (with) terrorists.’ This is not the way we should be doing it in America.”

Powell said he felt especially strongly about the rumors because of a photo he saw in The New Yorker magazine of the mother of a Muslim soldier in Arlington Cemetery embracing her son’s grave, which was marked with a Muslim crescent and star. The soldier, Kareem R. Khan of New Jersey, was 20 when he was killed in Iraq.

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In this undated photo released by “The New Yorker” magazine Elsheba Khan embraces the marker on her son, Spc. Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan’s grave, at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell referenced the photo on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sunday, while endorsing Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama. some American Muslims till we were blue in the face, and neither the media nor the people listen,” said Seeme Hasan, a Pueblo, Colo., Republican whose family has given tens of thousands of dollars to the GOP. “Gen. Powell made people listen and at a very humane level,” said Hasan, who is backing McCain. “More people in leadership positions need to say this and recognize this — that American Muslims have worked very hard to fight this war on terror.”

The inaccurate claims that Obama is secretly Muslim started as soon as he was mentioned as a potential presidential candidate. There were false rumors that he was educated at a radical Islamic school as a child in Indonesia and that he was sworn into the Senate on the Quran.

His opponents emphasized his middle name — Hussein — and circulated a photo of him wearing traditional Somali garb on a 2006 visit to Kenya.

Failure to reach security agreement would jeopardize US operations BAGHDAD — American soldiers might stop patrolling the streets and head back to their barracks. Help to the Iraqi army could suddenly cease, not to mention raids on al-Qaida fighters and Shiite extremists.

U.S. and Iraqi officials would scramble for options to salvage their mission here, in the waning, lameduck days of a Bush administration that launched and pursued the war.

It’s a vision of what may take place if Iraq’s parliament refuses to accept a new security agreement with the U.S. before year’s end. That date — Dec. 31 — is when a U.N. mandate expires and with it, the legal basis for American troops to operate inside Iraq.

No one knows for sure what will happen if that D-Day comes and passes with no done deal.

But the options are growing more stark amid the growing chance — almost inconceivable before — that U.S. forces could indeed find themselves with no legal authority to operate in Iraq, come the morning of Jan. 1, 2009.

Would Iraq’s army and police, in the blink of an eye, be left on their own to maintain security in a country still reeling from the savagery of the last five years? Would security gains won by the sacrifice of more than 4,100 Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis be at risk, in that same sudden moment?

Without American support, “security may deteriorate ... al-Qaida and the armed groups might resume their activities and the militias might return to the streets,” Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told Alhurra television Thursday.

Iraq may yet decide to approve the deal, especially if the U.S. agrees to changes. Nearly every major decision made in Iraq comes only after protracted haggling and complex bargaining — all done in an atmosphere of deep suspicion among the various religious and ethnic parties.

That means it’s still too early, with November and December ahead, to say this brinksmanship process has reached a lasting stalemate.

One influential Iraqi official, the Shiite deputy parliament speaker Khalid al-Attiyah, said Thursday that he hopes for a decision soon — either for or against the deal.

— AP

Kaplan will host free practice testing for the MCAT, LSAT, GMAT, GRE, PCAT, DAT, OAT and TOEFL at 9 a.m. on the second floor of the Physical Sciences Building.

The OU Opera Theatre will perform “Léo Delibes’ Lakmé” at 8 p.m. in the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center.

OBVIOUSLY UNREHEARSED IMPROV There will be a show at 8 p.m. in the Scholars Room of the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

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SCHOOL OF MUSIC The OU Opera Theatre will perform “Léo Delibes’ Lakmé” at 8 p.m. in the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center.

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The team will play Iowa State University at 1 p.m. at John Crain Field.

The team will play the University of

The OU Opera Theatre will perform “Léo Delibes’ Lakmé” at 3 p.m. in the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center.

POLICE REPORTS

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Names are compiled from the Norman Police Department or the OU Department of Public Safety. The report serves as a public record of arrests or citations, not convictions. The people here are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

Lori Nicole Lackie, 31, 1400 block 24th Avenue, Wednesday, also county warrant

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MUNICIPAL WARRANT Gene Allen Atauvich, 42, 200 block West Gray Street, Wednesday Karri Lynn Kortemeier, 36, 200 block West Gray Street, Wednesday John Dustin Newberry, 29, 100 block Crestland Drive, Wednesday

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US Muslims feel like election year outcasts

Nebraska at 7 p.m. at the Howard McCasland Field House.

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Justin Gregory Higdon, 29, 800 block North Porter Avenue, Wednesday

MOLESTING PROPERTY Mary Alicia Maisano, 26, 1600 block East Alameda Street, Wednesday Antonio Alvarez Soto, 44, 700 block East Main Street, Wednesday

POSSESSION OF ALCOHOL Lucas Tyler Sloan, 18, 1500 block Farmington Avenue, Tuesday

COUNTY WARRANT Leigh Ann Waggoner, 49, 1500 block Huntington Way, Wednesday Stephanie Elise Waggoner, 20, 1500 block Huntington Way, Wednesday

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By Bernice Bede Osol

Copyright 2008, Newspaper Enterprise Assn.

Friday, Oct. 24, 2008 In the year ahead, your endeavors will contain fertile seeds of success. If you find rich soil off which they can feed, they will grow into something not normally seen and yield a harvest of vast proportion.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Get out and mingle because a social encounter could produce some kind of hidden dividends for you. A close pal who values your friendship is apt to open a big door of opportunity for you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- If you are feeling a bit luckier than usual in material ways, don’t think your instincts are sending false signals. Act out the pattern they are dictating, and capitalize on these feelings.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- You will get a chance to prove to close companions who have harbored doubts about where you stand on certain issues that they have been wrong about you.

All will right itself once again.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -Someone who is obligated to you and who has ignored chances to reciprocate in the past will be the first to come to your assistance.

His or her timing couldn’t be better.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Because you see the good in everyone, your genuine warmth and congeniality will be capable of penetrating even the hardest of hearts. Others can’t help but see the kindness in you.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -Handle competitive situations in ways that enhance your

reputation. If you’re a winner, handle it with grace; but if you should lose out, treat the loss as merely temporary and trivial.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -Your ability to handle something that has proven too tough for others to control will boost your reputation; but more important, it will enhance your self-esteem.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -There is no need to get discouraged or to be intimidated if you should have to contend with some difficult circumstances. You have enormous resolve and resourcefulness upon which to draw.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Your chart indicates that you could meet someone quite extraordinary, so make it a point to participate in social activities where you can mingle with all types of people.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Although you might not deliberately plan to do so, much of your efforts will be devoted to helping others. You could end up making personal gains that will be directly linked to theirs.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- People who take themselves or life too seriously can have a negative effect on you; so do your best to hang out with those who have carefree outlooks, because they will produce the opposite effect.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- An unpleasant situation will resolve itself in a manner that will prove to be quite rewarding and engaging. There’s no need to fret over the outcome.

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OU defense focused on locking down Freeman • Sooners hope to contain athletic quarterback JONO GRECO Daily Staff Writer With question marks surrounding the OU defense, now might not be the best time for the Sooners to face a big, physical quarterback capable of gaining yards on the ground or through the air.

But that is exactly what they will face this weekend against Kansas State’s Josh Freeman.

Freeman, 6-foot-6 and 250 pounds, has the ability to scramble out of the pocket and make big plays.

OU defensive backs coach Bobby Jack Wright said Freeman can be a major factor in Saturday’s game with his size and strength alone. “[Kansas State’s offense is] not quite as prolific, maybe, as some of the other offenses, but they do have a big, strongarm athletic quarterback that’s a bigtime danger,” Wright said.

Freeman ranks 21st in efficiency in the nation, has thrown for 1,746 yards, 12 touchdowns and two interceptions and leads the team in rushing with 263 yards, averaging 4.9 yards per attempt.

His most impressive stat, though, is that he has been sacked only four times, all of which came in the last three games.

“He is hard to tackle when he scrambles,” Wright said. “We got to keep him in the pocket and make sure he’s not running around loose out there. And he does scramble quite a bit, and when he does he’s looking for somebody to go down field with.”

Even though Freeman is the Wildcats’ leading rusher, OU head coach Bob Stoops is more concerned with what he can do with his arm.

“Josh certainly can run, but that isn’t something I see as much of an emphasis for them because he has such a great arm,” Stoops said. “They’ll run in

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Kansas State quarterback Josh Freeman (1) attempts to get past Colorado linebacker Bryan Stengal (52) in the first quarter of Kansas State’s 14-13 loss last Saturday. Freeman is 21st in the nation in passing efficiency, and also leads the Wildcats in rushing. The OU defense will be looking to contain his running ability this weekend. some situation and he is a guy that has good speed, but I see that they’re more interested in throwing it than anything.

Once in a while he, like anyone, can squirm out and scramble and do a good job when he does.”

Wright said he has been impressed with Freeman’s play and his physical abilities while watching tape.

“He’s got a huge arm and I just marvel at him watching him on tape,” Wright said. “He just flicks his wrist

and throws the ball 60 yards down the field.”

Wright said the Sooner defense will have to apply pressure while containing Freeman within the pocket.

Over the past two weeks, the Sooners have recorded nine sacks — four against Texas and five Kansas — which is just less than half of their season total of 26 sacks.

Earlier in the season against Baylor, the Sooners had difficulty containing

quarterback Robert Griffin, who plays with a similar style to Freeman.

In Baylor’s loss to OU, Griffin ran 21 times for 102 yards despite having a dismal day through the air.

In the two games since then, the Sooners have improved on containing opposing quarterbacks.

The defense has allowed a total of 40 rushing yards to the last two quarterbacks it has faced — 31 yards to Texas’ Colt McCoy and nine yards to Kansas’

Todd Reesing.

Along with containment, Wright stressed that the secondary needs to stay with the Kansas State receivers to avoid big gains on improvised plays. “[Kansas State is] just another one of those teams that’s got good quality receivers,” Wright said. “They’ve got good speed. When [Freeman] gets to scrambling around, we’ve got to lock him up, and make sure he doesn’t turn somebody loose.”

FRIDAY FACEOFF

Which team will be this year’s BCS buster?

Boise State

TCU his college football season has been full of upsets. Perennial national championship contenders like USC, Florida, and Oklahoma have all lost already this season.

When top contenders lose, it opens the door for non-BCS teams to sneak into the major bowl games usually reserved for the elite from power conferences like the SEC, Big 10 and Big 12.

We’ve seen it before. I’m sure every OU fan remembers the Sooners’ surprising loss to BCS-buster Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl two years back.

This year, there are several other teams joining 12th-ranked Boise State with the potential to sneak into the national spotlight.

No. 11 Utah, No. 14 TCU, No. 18 South Florida, No. 20 Ball State and No. 21 BYU all could have a shot at a BCS bowl if they win out the rest of their schedules.

Utah, Boise State and Ball State are all undefeated, while BYU and TCU have one loss each.

BYU will actually play Utah this season, meaning one of those teams will inevitably fall out of contention for a BCS spot.

The team that I believe has the best shot at breaking through to reach a BCS bowl is TCU. TCU has one loss, which was to a No. 2 ranked Oklahoma team earlier this year.

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Given the high ranking of the team they lost to, and the fact that it was early in the season, it can be considered a “quality loss” that won’t hurt them too much in the polls. They soundly defeated BYU just last week by a score of 32-7.

Utah is ahead of TCU in the polls, but the teams will meet on Nov. 6, giving TCU a chance to both knock out another potential BCS buster and to earn a quality win over a ranked opponent.

TCU could conceivably jump over Boise State and their weak schedule just by beating Utah, even if Boise hapAARON pens to win out, which seems unlikely COLEN given the parity we have seen this season.

In this upset-filled season, it has been nearimpossible to predict anything.

Every time a team gets anointed the “best” team, it seems that they follow that up by losing.

Unfamiliar teams have snuck into the top 25, including Ball State, a team that had never been ranked before this season.

With so many non-BCS schools in contention, the question is not whether we will have a BCS-buster, but rather which team will it be, and I believe it will be TCU. — AARON COLEN IS A JOURNALISM JUNIOR.

ith the parity that encompasses college football these days, calling a non-BCS team that crashes the end of season festivities a surprise no longer fits.

Teams from the Mountain West and the WAC now all have a legitimate shot at playing one of the big boys in a BCS bowl.

So who will be this year’s team?

I am going with the answer I have seen before: Boise State.

As much as Sooner fans cringe at the memory of the Statue of Liberty play, the Broncos will make an encore appearance in January.

And rightfully so.

Boise is one of four non-BCS conference teams without a loss. For any non-BCS team to play in one of the five BCS games, they will have to finish the season undefeated.

Boise has already played through the toughest part of its schedule and pulled off a win against then-No. 17 Oregon. Fresno State is the toughest opponent left on the Broncos’ shcedule.

Utah still has a difficult schedule left to play, including a showdown with TCU and a rivalry game against BYU. Odds are they will lose one of those games.

Ball State and Tulsa, as impressive as both teams have been, have not built up the reputation as an elite non-BCS school and have not beaten, nor will they play, a ranked opponent this season.

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I cannot imagine these two squads playing in a BCS game.

The Broncos are also already within striking distance. In the first BCS poll, Boise is ranked No. 13, just behind Utah. With the Big 12, SEC and Big Ten showdowns still to come, all Boise has to do is keep winning to move up.

They can let Texas, Oklahoma State, Tech, OU, Ohio State, Penn State, Alabama, LSU and Florida continue to beat each other.

The way Boise wins also has a lot to do with their ranking. The Broncos are second in the nation with a miniscule 10.5 ZEIN points allowed per game.

There is another reason I think Boise JIVANI will probably edge even an undefeated Utah team to get into the BCS picture. The factor is intrigue.

Even though Utah was the first non-BCS team to get into the BCS, Boise was the first to win.

How many fans would turn on a BCS game where Boise State had a chance to dethrone a Goliath again? Maybe even the same beast it defeated the first time?

I would definitely watch and the BCS committee knows it.

In the end, it is about the money, and having a hot Cinderella come back and play is sexy. If Boise stays undefeated, they will play.

— ZEIN JIVANI IS A BROADCAST AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA SOPHOMORE.