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EDUCATORS WEIGH EDUCATION REFORM Conference stressed need for improvements in elementary through high school education KATE CUNNINGHAM The Oklahoma Daily

Oklahoma educators say they are on board with President Barack Obama’s proposed educational reforms that will take educational standards to a more centralized, national level.

“If our teachers and students are going to be compared to other states, we need to be judged on the same things, and that’s not happening right now in Oklahoma,” said Lela Odom, executive director of the Oklahoma Education Association.

A panel of Oklahoma educators considered Obama’s proposed education reforms in a panel discussion Saturday at the Oklahoma Educational Studies Association conference.

Panelists included Odom; Carla Kimberling, Norman Public Schools assistant superintendent; Bill Frick, associate education professor at OU; and Nancy Mergler, senior vice president and provost at OU. Panelists were asked to discuss the points of the reforms Obama presented in a speech he made to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce March 10. His five main points included raising the quality of early learning programs; encouraging better standards and EDUCATION CONTINUES ON PAGE 2

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OU professor of education William Frick speaks about President Obama’s proposed education reform plan while Carla Kimberling, Norman Public Schools assistant superintendent; OEA Executive Director Lela Odom and OU Provost Nancy Mergler listen. The panel was held Saturday as a part of the Oklahoma Educational Studies Association’s conference titled “Honoring Cultural Wealth” in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

10 years later, tornado survivors Former President share stories of strength, change Clinton visits OKC Memorial

National Weather Service and survivors commemorate May 3, 1999 anniversary

Clinton appointed to OKC bombing memorial’s board of trustees

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Survivors of the May 3, 1999 tornado outbreak gathered Friday at the National Weather Center to share stories of survival and reflections from that fateful day.

The event was hosted by the NOAA National Weather Service to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the historic weather events that occurred over three states bringing meteorologists and those affected by the tornado together to discuss tornado readiness, disaster recovery and personal impacts.

Some of the most touching stories came from the survivors who gave their testimony to the power of that day.

Survivors said they have all learned valuable lessons from the tragic events.

full-time mayor.

“The mayor’s salary was only $7,000 a year,” he said. “I spent a year and a half rebuilding my town, and for a while, my daughter who was working part-time at Subway was making more than me.”

Since the tornado, Norton has

OKLAHOMA CITY - Former President Bill Clinton visited the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum Saturday night to announce his acceptance of a position on the memorial’s honorary National Board of Trustees.

“This memorial is a special place to me,” said Clinton, who was president during the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. “My life has been indelibly marked by the people I meet here, and I’ve come here to thank you.”

He said the way Oklahomans responded to the bombing affected how his administration responded to terrorist threats.

“I believe with all my heart that the way you reacted to the bombing, by seeking justice and moving forward, by remembering your loved ones, had an effect on leaders and changed the atmosphere of America,” he said.

Clinton said the impact of the bombing on his life is why he chose to accept the job of a trustee. He was also given The Beacon of Hope Award for his support of the memorial.

An honorary trustee for the memorial travels the world to tell people what happened in Oklahoma City, and raises money to keep the memorial and museum operating.

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TIM NORTON, FORMER MAYOR OF HAYSVILLE, KAN. “The night of May 3 was a life changing experience for me,” said Tim Norton, former mayor of Haysville, Kan. “If you think it won’t happen to you, it probably

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Sarah Gleen, meteorology junior, showcases a new T-shirt commemorating the May 3, 1999 tornadoes Friday at the National Weather Center. The tornadoes claimed 46 lives. will. My job went from throwing candy at parades and fixing pot-holes to standing on a pile of rubble with the vice president facing a town in crisis.”

Norton was mayor of Haysville on May 3 when a tornado wiped out most of his town and told his story about how he quit his job to rebuild the town as a

CIA veteran details flaws of US foreign policy, war on terror Former chief of tracking unit recounts missed opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden JARED RADER The Oklahoma Daily

The U.S. will have a chance to defeat its radical Islamist enemies and restore U.S. national security only if the government adopts a non-interventionist foreign policy outlined by the Founding Fathers, CIA veteran Michael Scheuer told an audience Saturday at the Reynolds Performing Arts Center.

Scheuer, now retired after 22 years with the agency, was chief of the Osama bin Laden tracking unit from 1996 to 1999, and adviser to

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He said the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have not served U.S. national interests and have only harmed national security. These wars are the result of an interventionist foreign policy trend followed by elected leaders for the past 35 years, he said.

“Such knee-jerk interventionism has been the hallmark of U.S. policy, especially in the Muslim world, since at least 1973,” Scheuer said. “And all it guarantees is endless war with Muslims.”

Scheuer said such policies have helped AlQaeda defeat America by putting the nation in huge debt, sapping the strength of U.S. military and intelligence by the nation spreading its forces too thin and creating an atmosphere of hyper-partisanship.

Scheuer said Al-Qaeda has the upper hand

in the War on Terror because of the failure of U.S. government and “academic and media apologists” to understand exactly why AlQaeda targets the country.

“It is likely that the maintenance of Washington’s prevailing assumption that Muslims hate Americans for who we are and how we live, rather than what the [U.S.] government does in the Islamic world, will lead to nothing less than a vast and willful case of selfdeception that ultimately will yield calamity for the nation,” Scheuer said.

Scheuer said Al-Qaeda targets the U.S. because of six aspects of its foreign policy: blind U.S. support of Israel and indifference to Palestinian Arabs; U.S. support for countries that oppress Muslims like China and India; the presence of U.S. forces on the Arabian Peninsula; the occupation of Iraq

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OUDAILY.COM and Afghanistan; U.S. political pressure on Arab states to keep oil prices low; and U.S. support for tyrannical governments in Muslim countries.

In 2007, bin Laden cited Scheuer’s book, “Imperial Hubris,” which details these issues, as a resource Americans should read to understand Al-Qaeda’s war with the U.S. In order to escape endless war with militant Islamists, Scheuer said the U.S. should return to an independent and non-interventionist foreign policy.

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become a county commissioner, and said Haysville has been completely restored.

“Since that day, I’ve been a huge advocate of emergency management,” he said. “Leaders, be not afraid to make tough decision. We all saw what happened to those who were in charge during Katrina.”

“We want this place to be just as special 50 years from now as it is today and the day it opened,” said Bill Scheihing, Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation chairman.

He said the memorial is different from those honoring the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks because the victims were all from one community.

“Our mission has not been forgotten,” Scheihing said. “But we need to remember what happened and do everything in our power to not let this happen again.”

The former president directed a section of his remarks directly to the victims’ families and survivors in attendance.

“The work you are doing to commemorate your loved ones is as important today as it was the day you started,” Clinton said.

JACK MCANALLY, FORMER MAYOR OF MULHALL “We woke up that morning, and it was a normal morning,” said Jack McAnally, current Mulhall mayor.

He said because of the storm, Mulhall residents now realize what they have is precious and the town had a chance to start fresh with the building of a new school and utilities.

“I like to look for the humor in these things,” McAnally said.

“This is the greatest thing ever to happen to Mulhall.”

STEVE COUCH, FORMER ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL OF MOORE CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL “Every year, we get out our book of drill procedures and count how many we should have, but it never occurred to us that we weren’t prepared for what happens after the storm,” said Steve Couch, former assistant principal of Moore Central Junior High School.

His school did not suffer major damage from the storm, but three-fourths of the student population either lost their homes or had homes that were severely damaged.

“We had to provide a sense of normalcy and a familiar face to our students,” Couch said. “We opened up the cafeteria for dinner that night, and began to track down parents.”

He said the school also was opened to a displaced elementary school down the road.

“One problem we faced was how do you get a second grader to use a potty that was made for an adult,” he said. “We also had to help the kids that couldn’t come back to school.”

He said because of the tornado, many lessons were learned.

Moore Public Schools no longer solely stores student records on computers and in one place, and the district is better equipped to handle the needs to students and staff affected by severe weather.

AMBER MURPHY, RESIDENT OF BRIDGE CREEK “I was pregnant then, and I was a little swollen that day so I couldn’t wear my jewelry,” said Amber Murphy, former Bridge Creek resident. “Little did I know that when I took my jewelry off that it would be the last time I would see my jewelry.”

She said she was on her way to visit her grandparents in Del City when the tornado touched down.

“The only thing that mattered was seeing my parents covered in mud with my brother on my grandma’s front porch,” she said.

Murphy said after she knew her family was safe, she went back to her home in Bridge Creek to search for what she could of her belongings.

“You arrive hoping to find something left of your life,” she said. “Everything I have fit in a coffee cup. You really appreciate the value of a toothbrush.”

Mu r p hy n ow w o rks f o r O k l a h o ma Em e r g e n c y Management, the same organization that helped her recover from the tornado. She says the events of that day have made her better at her job.

She said telling her story was part of her personal healing process.

“By you allowing me to tell my story today, I can put a period at the end of a sentence of a long chapter in my life,” she said. “Going through this you feel anger and frustration, but this had made me stronger. If I had to chose to go through this again, I would do it.”

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Christians on Campus will host a Bible study at noon in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Policy Continues from page 1 freedom and independence for all, but the champion and vindicator only of our own,” he said.

Scheuer believes the U.S. can only achieve this by investing in alternative energy and avoiding foreign and religious wars. He also said Congress must reverse the expansion of executive power, and the U.S. government must stop trying to spread democracy abroad.

“Having negated all but the ability of the U.S. to abstain from wars for oil and major wars between Arabs and Israelis, the U.S. political elite has completed its axis of doom for Americans through their apparently limitless zeal for overseas democracy crusades, a perversion of what America stands for that can only lead to war and more war,” Scheuer said.

Scheuer made a distinction between

Education Continues from page 1 assessments; recruiting, preparing and rewarding outstanding teachers; promoting innovation and excellence in America’s schools; and providing every American with higher education.

The financial crisis has heightened concerns of paying for higher education, and college graduates have had to go to other states to make the highest possible incomes to pay their school debts, Mergler said.

She said it would help those in higher education to keep an eye to the costs of education, but there needs to be a reassessment of the goals of higher education.

“What you’re after is the education, after all,” Mergler said. “Some of these extracurricular activities could be done more simply.”

She said the competition between

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Former President Bill Clinton speaks to a crowd at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum on Saturday in Oklahoma City. Clinton was named to the Memorial’s Honorary National Board of Trustees.

non-interventionism and isolationism, saying the former would still allow Americans to combat threats, including militant Islamists.

He said the fundamental struggle of Islamics is with oppressive domestic or regional players who are aligned with America, but because it is seen as propping up those players, the focus shifts to the U.S. “Non-intervention would strike a direct and staggering blow to the center of gravity of Al-Qaeda and other Islamic organizations,” Scheuer said. “Without U.S. intervention as their reliable foil ... their attention would begin to shift back to the targets against which their violence should be rightfully directed.”

Though President Barack Obama seems to have a more open approach in his foreign policy, Scheuer said he sees little difference between Obama’s policy and the policies of his predecessors. “[The Obama administration] is still tied to the six policies that motivate Al-Qaeda to attack the U.S.,” Scheuer said. universities for better dorms, parking lots, swimming pools and other amenities take the focus away from education.

The panel focused less on higher education, however, and more on kindergarten through high school education. Kimberling predicted national standards and better methods of assessment will be the hot topics of education in the near future.

She focused on some of Obama’s specific reforms, especially the expansion and improvement of pre-kindergarten and kindergarten programs.

“We need to make the school ready for the child, not the child ready for the school,” Kimberling said.

She gave the example that children coming from middle class backgrounds start school with five times the vocabulary of their classmates living at or below the poverty level.

Those at the panel also expressed support for Obama’s plans to encourage the recruitment and retaining of

Scheuer worked for the CIA for 22 years, resigning from the agency in November 2004 in protest over the 9/11 Commission conclusion which found no one responsible for any intelligence failures that led to the terrorism attacks.

Part of his frustration with the 9/11 Commission stemmed from 10 failed opportunities to kill or capture bin Laden during his run as chief of the bin Laden tracking unit because of the Clinton administration’s refusal to authorize action.

Scheuer encouraged students to think for themselves rather than relying on partisan leaders, academia and popular media outlets to educate them on foreign policy.

“The impression I want to leave on students is to think for themselves,” Scheuer said. “The important thing to consider is that we’re at war with Al-Qaeda because of what our government does, it provides the enemy’s motivation. Otherwise, we’re going to be fighting an enemy that doesn’t exist.”

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“Incentive pay is the better way to go, because that [elementary] student doesn’t just have a classroom teacher,” Kimberling said. “It forces teachers to collaborate ... retaining good teachers is difficult, also.”

For the most part, panel members were open to at least modified versions of Obama’s proposed reforms. Frick, however, said many citizens who voted for Obama based on his education plans may find his proposals “disheartening.”

He said Obama’s rhetoric about higher standards and increased accountability echo the statements of every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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HILLEL CELEBRATES 65 YEARS ON CAMPUS Jewish student group reflects on past, sets goals for future RENEÉ SELANDERS The Oklahoma Daily

Leaders in Oklahoma’s Jewish community celebrated the Hillel Foundation’s 65 years at OU with an anniversary reception and lunch Sunday.

More than 200 guests gathered at the Embassy Suites in Norman to commemorate the organization’s milestone.

A number of guest speakers, including OU President David Boren, recognized the progress that’s been made since OU Hillel’s founding in 1943, and set goals for the future.

Boren reflected on the progress made

by Hillel and the Jewish community at OU, noting the growth in the Judaic studies program.

He also acknowledged the interfaith dialogue between Jewish and Muslim students, their commitment to engaging other students in peaceful, progressive talks about world issues and the possibility of fostering

understanding throughout the world.

“It seemed to be almost that the founding of Hillel on this campus in that year is a statement by the generation of parents and the generation of students who caused it to happen — a statement of faith, a statement of confidence, a statement of determination,” Boren said.

Hillel, an organization that aims to be a home away from home for Jewish students, has passed through many stages since its establishment at OU in the 1943-1944 academic year, said Rabbi Jeremy Cassius, director of the OU Hillel Foundation.

There was a peak of nearly 2,000 Jewish students involved with Hillel in the ’50s and ’60s, many who came from out of state, Cassius said.

“Now there’s not as much of a critical mass, but it’s still a vibrant Jewish community and the students are very active, and it’s stayed that way because of the supporters that we’ve had,” Cassius said.

He said some of the main challenges facing the Jewish community in Oklahoma are growth and balancing demographics.

He said Hillel plays an important part of

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AGGRAVATED DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Joshua Brian Valentine, 29, East Alameda Street, Friday DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Zachary Amos McGarrah, 19, 1200 Sonoma Park Blvd., Saturday Manfred T. Perkins, 39, North Stewart Avenue, Saturday Aaron Jay Sullivan, 20, West Boyd Street, Saturday Sarah Kristin Dunigan, 31, 400 E. Lindsey St., Friday Sarah Grace London, 21, Classen Boulevard, Friday OKLAHOMA COUNTY WARRANT Jamie Deann Welker, 32, 1400 24th Ave. NW, Friday MUNICIPAL WARRANT Aaron Ricardo Reed, 40, West Main Street, Thursday Kerrie Dawn Bickley, 31, 7600 E. Highway 9, Friday

Levi Blu McClain, 23, 201 W. Gray St., Friday POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA Christopher Lee Curren, 20, 2501 Jenkins Ave., Thursday Justin Eric Davis, 21, 1912 Fillmore Ave., Thursday Roy Don Parker, 18, 1912 Fillmore Ave., Thursday, also possession of alcohol Coy J. Rhodes, 20, 1912 Fillmore Ave., Thursday, also possession of alcohol Joshua Edward Cloud, 27, Buchanan Avenue, Friday, also possession of a controlled dangerous substance POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA Jessica Liane Daniels, 18, 2501 Jenkins Ave., Thursday David Michael Cole, 19, 3216 Conestoga Dr., Saturday Mark Darwin Leslie, 43, East Alameda Street, Saturday, also driving under the influence and possession of drug paraphernalia Christopher Glenn Minor, 25, 2825 Dewey Ave., Saturday Michael Saul Frazier, 24, 1000 S. Berry Rd., Friday Samantha Jill Mason, 24, 1125 Brandywine Lane, April 23, also

possession of drug paraphernalia Zachary Tomas Rinehart, 21, 1125 Brandywine Lane, April 23, also possession of drug paraphernalia PUBLIC INTOXICATION Lori Rene Banks, 38, 1801 Morren Drive, Saturday Richard Nicholas Bristow, 43, 15700 E. South Highway 9, Saturday Gary Proctor Ware, 44, 1200 E. Rock Creek Road, Saturday UNLAWFUL USE OF A DRIVERS LICENSE Meredith Ann Behne, 19, 211 E. Main St., Friday OUTRAGING PUBLIC DECENCY Paul Woo Jin Jung, 23, Westbrook Terrace, Saturday PETTY LARCENY Lisa Susan O’Bryant, 29, 601 12th Ave. NE, Friday Shannon Shellad Sturgeon, 42, 600 Ed Noble Parkway, Friday, also county warrant INTERFERENCE WITH OFFICIAL PROCESS Sylvester Alan Pruiett, 39, Shiloh Avenue, Friday

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ensuring the Jewish community has a larger presence in the state by involving younger Jews in a thriving community.

“The Oklahoma Jewish community has a lot of older people in it, there’s not a lot of young people,” Cassius said. “A lot of our students come here from Dallas and Houston, and it’s important for us to be able to welcome them in, not only in Norman but all ASHLEY HAGGARD/THE DAILY over the state, to let them Jeremy Cassius, Hillel Rabbi and executive director; Robert Weiss, know that you can stay fundraising chair for Hillel; Judy Kishner, daughter of Anne and here, you can make your Henry Zarrow; Julie Cohen, granddaughter of Anne and Henry jobs here.”

Zarrow and OU President David Boren stand together at Hillel’s 65th Cassius will be leaving Anniversary dinner Sunday at Embassy Suites in Norman. his post as director after Poplin said the organization still achieved three years in Norman.

His successor, Keren Ayalon from Princeton its goal of being a home away from home for University, will pick up with goals like re- her daughters and other Jewish students.

Josh Griff, sociology and criminology cruiting more out-of-state Jewish students and establishing a mentorship program for senior, said Hillel is a vehicle for meeting people outside of class. Griff said while Jewish students in Oklahoma.

Still, Cassius has helped Hillel make many his hometown of Richmond, Va., has a strides in his time at OU. Arlette Poplin of much larger Jewish community, the one in Oklahoma City attended the anniversary Oklahoma is close-knit and allows him to celebration and said the recent growth in maintain ties with his culture.

“I treat it as more of a cultural identity,” the Hillel Foundation in Norman is a direct Griff said. “Sometimes it’s hard to conresult of Cassius’ leadership.

“It’s much more active now than it was nect with people, but you always have your Jewish identity and at Hillel you can always when my kids went to Hillel,” Poplin said.

Her three daughters attended OU in the find Jews and you can always find connec’80s and ’90s and were involved in Hillel. tions that you can form with other people.”

NEWS BRIEFS BENEFIT AIDS GAZA WOMEN Campus groups raised more than $8,000 last week to help women in the Gaza Strip, said Bekah Stone, Sooners for Peace in Palestine president and international and area studies junior.

About 75 people attended the “Benefit Dinner for the Women of Gaza” Thursday night, she said in an e-mail.

The money will benefit Madre, an international women’s rights organization that has a program in Gaza, and the Palestinian Medical Relief Society.

The event was sponsored by Sooners for Peace in Palestine, the Women’s Studies Program and the International Programs Center.

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TRIAL TO BEGIN IN NORMAN Court proceedings in the trial of a Norman man charged in the killings of three women inside a Norman home in September 2007 are set to start today.

Jury selection in the trial for 52-year-old William Eugene Davis will begin on Monday morning in Cleveland County District Court.

Davis faces three counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of 52-year-old Tami Link, 56-year-old Sheila Ellis and 87-year-old Letannah Bishop. Davis, Link and Ellis were related and Bishop was Link’s mother-in-law.

District Attorney Greg Mashburn and Assistant District Attorney Christy Miller will prosecute the case while the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System will represent Davis.

District Judge Lori Walkley will oversee the trial.

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In response to Friday’s editorial about a state politician who says Oklahoma should reject federal stimulus money

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

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The federal government has bribed the states for years.

This isn’t free money. There are major stipulations to how this money is spent. It’s nice to see a politician thinking about the long term consequences of a bailout.

- T_MONEY

This makes no sense. Only in Oklahoma would this guy be praised and receive a higher chance of becoming governor by turning down money that our state desperately needs.

- FREAK197

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In case you needed one more reason to be in favor of investing in alternative energies, here it is: developing alternative energies may allow the United States to extricate itself from the War on Terror.

This is the argument made by former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer. Scheuer told an audience at OU Saturday that much of the ire directed at the United States is due to the nation’s foreign policy as it relates to the Middle East.

As it stands now, America’s thirst for oil makes independence from Middle Eastern issues impossible. But, if the U.S. were to quickly develop alternative energy technologies that could replace the millions of barrels of oil that are imported every day, it could take on more autonomy in the foreign policy sphere.

Oklahoma and OU should play a significant role in the development of these technologies. The Sooner State is already home to some of the country’s most important energy companies, and many of the students preparing for energy-related work in the state study at OU. The university, in cooperation with the state, should continue to promote excellence in traditional energy programs like petroleum engineering. Oil will be a vital energy source for years to come; we understand that.

But at the same time, officials at the state and the university level would do well to encourage more students to prepare themselves for careers in alternative energy research and development. The university could offer more scholarships to students studying alternative energy, and the state could create research programs that would give these students places to work after they graduated.

This would keep jobs, money and minds in Oklahoma, giving the state an advantage in what should be a nationwide race to develop alternative energies and free the country from its dependence on foreign oil.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR COLUMNIST GOT BASEBALL WRONG The column titled “Athletes’ salaries in professional sports ruining the games” is far from what the title makes it out to be. Daniel Martin should sit in the dugout and get more of the facts before he tries to make it in the big leagues.

Mr. Martin should have titled his article “Those Damn Yankees.” Martin strictly bashes the New York Yankees and their place in Major League Baseball.

Yes, the Yankees have the highest payroll in professional baseball, but Martin failed to mention that the fact that teams like the New York Mets, Los Angeles Angels and Boston Red Sox also have extremely high payrolls. Also, according to Major League Baseball, the majority of the teams have lower payrolls this year than they did this past year, including those “Damn Yankees,” although, according to Martin, “Every year the Yankees spend more.”

Martin also misspoke when he said the Yankees got beat in the playoffs by the Tampa Bay Rays (no longer the Devil Rays, also missed by Martin).

The Yankees failed to make the playoffs last year for the first time in over 10 years, a feat that many teams could only dream of, but this is just a fact I am sure he overlooked.

Baseball players are not alone in being “overpaid,” “self-centered,” or “pampered” humans, but Martin’s agenda to bash the Yankees blinded him from this fact. Football players get million-dollar contracts before they even play a game.

Basketball and even soccer players are among the highest paid athletes in the world. It’s a shame that people like Martin are writing opinions that are not based on the facts, but on personal feelings abut the Yankees, not just Major League Baseball or how backwards society is as a whole. What about CEOs who received over a billion dollars the same year that the economy and their corporations or businesses faltered?

The Yankees and baseball as a whole are not what they used to be in the good ole days. Babe Ruth is not on the mound, Yogi Berra is not behind the plate, but to say that the Yankees of today do not deserve the pinstripes that those men helped make an American icon is just plain ignorant. Derek Jeter, the Yankees’ longest-serving team captain and starting shortstop, is the only active player who provides a scholarship that helps deserving kids to go to college. Is Jeter really selfcentered?

Martin was quick to call out Alex Rodriguez for his admitted steroid use, but he failed to mention the hundreds of other people in baseball who also tested positive. Many of those who have been caught were among the highest-paid athletes in MLB that decade.

I am glad Martin has already decided the teams that are going to the playoffs with only 20-some games played in the season, and he has evaluated the worth of players so quickly.

Now, I don’t even have to watch the remaining 100-plus games.

Shawn Pearce, political science junior

Over the last couple of weeks nothing has been more prominent in the news than the dreaded swine flu.

A number of countries, including Argentina, Cuba and Peru, have begun restricting travel to Mexico.

In Hong Kong, the Meropark Hotel will be quarantined for a week thanks to a single case being reported within its walls.

Schools in Texas CARSON have been shut down PAINTER in places where cases were thought to be likely; indeed it has turned into quite the “pandemic.”

But is the swine flu really a pandemic?

The reality is that swine flu is no more deadly than the regular flu. In a given year, in the United States alone, the standard old flu will infect between

35,000 and 40,000 people.

To date, the swine flu has infected 615 worldwide and has killed only 17. This sheds a whole new light on Stalin’s famous line that “one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.” Fueled by the fires of a reactionary media trying to stir a fire, we as a global population have supremely overacted.

Ac c o rd i n g t o t h e Na t i o n a l Meningitis Association, bacterial meningitis will infect about 3,000 Americans this year with about 13 percent of those cases being fatal.

The World Health Organization predicts that around 200,000 people will come down with a case of cholera this year. It also predicts that Dengue fever will infect around 50 million, and that there could be as many as 500 million malaria victims.

I am not attempting to turn you into a hypochondriac, just pointing out that we have really been making a mountain out of a mole hill.

Had you even heard about the

Swine flu is doing more damage as a media phenomenon than as a virus. swine flu until just recently? Well, it turns out it has been around for quite some time. The first report of a transfer of influenza from pigs to humans was in 1918.

If we stop being so tunnel-visioned and look at the big picture, we would realize how silly we are all being.

Swine flu is doing more damage as a media phenomenon than as a virus.

It has hurt the North American pork industry badly as other countries have started barring the purchase of our pork.

Planes that should be flying have been grounded, and people who would otherwise be out and active, are confined to their home for fear of the tiny virus.

Carson Painter is an international business and finance sophomore.

STAFF COLUMN

Have an international adventure, even in Norman Quick, what three things does the human body absolutely need to survive? Food, water and air.

Yes, clothing’s important – and polite – but not absolutely necessary. Neither is shelter. Food, water and air are the only things that cannot be done without. People all over the world need them, and survive on them as they have for millennia.

The air around the world, pollution levels aside, is fairly uniform. The same is true for water. Some places have naturally good-tasting water. In other places, water comes with that trademark arsenic aftertaste every Normanite knows.

Regardless, water is water.

The only thing that varies from country to country and region to region is MUNIM food. This diversity is due to several fac- DEEN tors. First, the naturally occurring plants and animals vary from area to area due to climate, soil, etc. Our long-ago ancestors looked to the immediate vicinity when foraging or hunting for food. The natural environment determined what animals could be raised and what plants could be cultivated. Different methods of food preparation developed based on what exactly was in or could be raised in the immediate vicinity. In this way, different food habits arose in different parts of the globe.

There are some animals and plants that are found all over the globe. Nevertheless, because of the varying taste preferences resulting from different food habits, the same ingredient can be cooked in myriad different ways. Carne asada from Mexico and rezala from Bangladesh, though both made of beef, taste nothing like each other.

Because of people’s dependence on it, food has become an important and emblematic part of people’s cultures.

Thus, one of the most important and enjoyable ways to experience a new culture is to taste its cuisine.

Trying previously unknown cuisine is no small step, to be sure. Each of us has grown up eating a particular type or types of food, and we’re comfortable with that food. It’s what we picture when we think of home-cooked meals. It’s the comfort food we keeping coming back to.

Think about this: the food that is so familiar and so dear to us is likely extremely strange to someone in another part of the world. Of course, what they eat might seem totally weird to us, too.

But if they can eat their food and be alright, why can’t we at least try it, and vice versa for our food? It would be a small step, to be sure, but a step nonetheless toward gaining a deeper understanding of another person and a more profound appreciation for another culture.

The opportunity to taste new food, if available, is one that should be taken full advantage of. Fortunately, that opportunity is definitely available in Norman. This city offers the adventurous diner restaurants serving food from several different cultures just minutes away from campus.

Food from France, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Mexico, the Caribbean and the Middle East are all easily available right here in the middle of Oklahoma. Even our campus eateries feature international delicacies like sushi.

The diverse cultural nights on campus are also opportunities for culinary adventure.

If you’re willing to drive to Oklahoma City, you’ll find food from all the aforementioned countries as well as Ethiopia, Poland, the Korean peninsula and Spain, just to name a few.

A veritable world tour in the form of food is easily achievable. This “globe-eating” tour is one that everyone should take. Yes, it will take you out of your comfort zone, and you might eat something you don’t particularly care for. But in expanding one’s culinary horizons lies the adventure and opportunity for cultural enrichments.

Forgive an old graduating senior for doling out unsolicited advice, but I’ve been around long enough to experience this firsthand. It’s one thing to study another culture, or even speak the language of another people. That’s great.

To truly understand a different culture, however, it’s necessary to immerse oneself in that culture. The best way to do this is to travel to wherever that culture originates. A worthy second-place substitute is to immerse oneself into a small part of the foreign culture, like food.

For the duration of your meal, you’ll be eating and living just like someone half a world away without traveling more than a few miles. This is a powerful, not to mention tasty, learning tool. We’ve all heard that the most important learning doesn’t always happen in the classroom. I think whoever coined that phrase had a dining room in mind instead.

So while you’re in Norman for the rest of your college years, leave the gastronomic euphoria of Couch Cafeteria or the Union and head for something that you’ve never eaten before. You might not even be able pronounce it on the first try, but taste it nonetheless. If you like it, keep coming back. If not, try something else. Norman has plenty of options.

No matter what though, keep trying new foods, and new things in general. Stay curious about the world, and the people in it, and learn as much about them as possible.

You won’t regret it.

As a side note, thanks for reading my work for the past seven semesters. It’s been a privilege. All the best.

Munim Deen is a microbiology senior.

STAFF COLUMN

Finding purpose when it appears pointless It’s the end of the semester.

Summer is so close and yet “dead” week (I use the term lightly) and finals stand in the way of a much-needed break from the sometimes mundaneness of life.

Finals, papers, and projects are important, but they aren’t the end-all be-all of success. They might help you get a degree, but they won’t necessarily help you get a life.

Ecclesiastes, one of my favorite books in the KAYLE Bible, speaks of a quest BARNES for the meaning of life.

The “Quester,” or narrator, thought to be one of the wisest men to ever live, goes about trying to decide what is worth doing on earth.

He indulges in just about everything and concludes that most things are as futile as

chasing the wind. He repeats throughout the book that everything is meaningless. It’s an old-school book with wisdom that speaks to the modern age.

But who would ever do that? Chase the wind, that is? (Except for meteorology students, bless their hearts.)

This book was kind of depressing when I was younger, and I vowed that I would never “chase the wind,” but sometimes I’ve felt subject to that sense of futility anyway.

I don’t know about you, but over the course of four years, at times I’ve become burdened by the seeming futility of some endeavors: The repetitive nature of the university class structure, social interactions, the fact that every year a new group of students will begin anew the undergraduate experience.

This process, a knowledge factory of sorts, has been sending out supposedly educated individuals into the “real world” since the first American university was established in the

1800s. But colleges have, in the words of an esteemed columnist on this page (Max Avery), become “white-collar vo-techs” where degreed individuals go into the jobs they were trained to do.

It can all begin to seem kind of pointless, especially now as soon-to-be graduates face one of the worst economies in modern times, an Iran intent on going nuclear amongst other destabilizing global situations and, to top it all off, swine flu.

What is the point of it all?

What is the point of four, five or six years of tuition, fees and classes?

I think the point is to find a point.

What does that mean? Well for me, at the end of a four-year journey, I know college wasn’t about the classes I took or the lectures I attended.

It was about the books I read as part of a discussion group, the people I took the time to invest time in to create meaningful relationships

and the activities I participated in that became important to me. None of the above were on any syllabus, but all of them added meaning to what otherwise could have been a regular undergrad experience.

To borrow the soap opera’s title, we only get one life to live. This means that we can either go with the flow as others have done before or find a way that provides meaning in our life and betters the world.

So much goes on at OU’s campus that is an invitation for students to find meaning, either by joining organizations, building new relationships or their intellects. The onus is on each person to accept that invitation and explore.

The only danger in a quest for meaning or significance is that you might have to ask yourself some hard questions and take some risks.

But the heroes of humanity, those who are in history books and hearts around the world, tell us it’s worth it.

Kayle Barnes is a professional writing senior.

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A TRIBUTE TO THE

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to the following University of Oklahoma faculty members who were honored April 23, 2009 at a Faculty Tribute Day ceremony on the Norman campus.

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Albert

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Cook

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Damphousse

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Haring

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Havlicek

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Purcell

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Ryan

Santos

Sharp

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« JEFF DUNHAM OUDAILY.COM Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham performed at the Ford Center Saturday.

Check out a review of his performance online at OUDaily.com.

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Paul Stuart, drama performance junior, dances while under a spell as the character Demetrius Thursday night during a dress rehearsal of University Theatre’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” A majority of the show is set in “an edgy club in Lower Manhattan” known simply as “The Woods.”

OU’s ‘Midsummer’ takes chances Modern twist on Shakespeare classic is unexpected

comic per for mance by the actors, and they delivered. One of the best parts is a humorous cat-andmouse exchange by Jillian The University Theatre Robertson’s Hermia and presented a very unusual Jonathan Hooks-Abadom’s rendition of Shakespeare’s “A Lysander, as Robertson tries Midsummer Night’s Dream” all manner of antics to avoid Hooks-Abadom’s this weekend. In this advances until they variation of the oftare properly wed. played comedy, the While Laura story has been transS t e p h e n s o n ’s ported from ancient Queen Titania was Athens to moderncertainly formiday New York, and dable – and anyone just as the show’s should be comflyers warn, “this is mended for playnot your momma’s SARAH ing Shakespeare so DORN Shakespeare.” well in a shimmerIn the first place, ing brazier – Ryan things have gotten a bit less clothed. The cos- Wood’s portrayal of Nick tumes during the scenes in Bottom was the queen that the penthouse of Theseus, stole the show. Whether he played by Curry Whitmire, was donkey or comically are fresh and business styled. over-playing actor in the The attire in the Manhattan Interlude, Wood guaranteed nightclub “The Woods,” is far laughs whenever he made from business-appropriate, an appreance.

Another show stealer was though. Things have gone beyond club gear and into a platinum blonde Puck, as the closets of Snoop Dogg’s played by the usually-brubackup dancers. Fortunately nette Ryan Edward Claxton. for the audience, the actors Not only did he embody the trickster that Shakespeare pull it off.

Beyond the costuming, intended the character to be, the sets are far different than Claxton embraced the quintthose in a traditional perfor- essential club limelighter mance of “Dream.” Instead of a literal woods, The Woods is every bit the raving nightclub. Colored and strobe lights accent the dual-level club, its wild staircase and even wilder revelers.

The amount of techniReport incidents at: cal direction that must have gone into the show is clear. All kinds of clever sets were rigged so that scenes All calls are anonymous. could move smoothly from The University of Oklahoma is an penthouse to “The Woods.”

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Watching the lighting and music directions, the subtle and sudden changes, was fascinating.

The original script by Shakespeare provides plenty of opportunity for great

with every ab on his body.

While so many of the performances were great, this reviewer is still undecided about the choice to rap some of the great lines of Willy Shakes, as the program calls him. While the bard did have a fantastic ear for poetic meter, it did not always transfer into great beats. Most of the time, the result was merely awkward rapping.

Overall, the show was entertaining and the modern twist was definitely interesting for the college audience.

Even with the recognition

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Ryan Claxton, drama performance senior, raps Shakespeare's verse into the mic Thursday night during the final dress rehearsal of University Theatre's production of “A Midsummer Night's Dream.” Claxton plays the role of Puck in the show.

that Willy Shakes was a dirty old man, though, certain parts of the show went a little too far. No Shakespearean actor needs to be onstage in a turquoise thong and mesh.

Still, if you’re looking for a romp into some not-soclean fun, OU’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is the place to be this weekend. Shows start at 8 p.m. Thursday throughSaturday and 3p.m. Sunday.

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Not many teams can win when their starting pitcher gives up crooked numbers in the first inning. Such was the case in each game of the No. 9 Sooners’ 2-1 weekend series loss against Kansas in Norman.

In Sunday’s game, sophomore left fielder Casey Johnson bailed out OU’s pitching with a walk-off RBI-double in the 10th inning to secure a 10-9 victory and avoid the sweep.

“I just wanted to see a ball up and drive it to the gap, try to score that run for us,” Johnson said. “Friday night I hit one just like that and it didn’t go anywhere, but thankfully it got over [the fielder’s] head.”

The Jayhawks (34-15, 12-9) handed the Sooners (34-14, 12-9) their first series loss at home this season with the 5-4 and 9-5 victories in the first two games.

Juniors Andrew Doyle, G a r re t t R i c h a rd s a n d Stephen Porlier combined to give up nine first-inning runs against Kansas, and Doyle was the only one to reach the second inning.

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Senior catcher J.T. Wise (21) shows disappointment after being tagged out at second by Kansas second baseman Robby Price (37) during Friday’s loss at L. Dale Mitchell Park. The Jayhawks disappointed the Sooners this weekend, giving OU its first home series loss of the season. runs Saturday, and Porlier allowed two runs in onethird of an inning Sunday.

The difference between Sunday’s finale and the first games was OU’s ability to overcome the multi-run deficit. Down 2-0 in the first, the Sooners plated six runs on as many hits to take their first lead of the weekend.

“It’s great to get off to a great start like that,” Johnson said. “That just sets the momentum up for the rest of the game. I think Friday and Saturday we were kind of slow, we didn’t play small ball like we should, and I think today our bats really showed up.”

Senior second baseman Matt Harughty started the first inning onslaught with a two-run blast to right field.

The rest of OU’s early runs came on three RBI singles and a fielder’s choice to give the Sooners a 6-2 lead.

After Kansas took a fifthinning 9-7 lead, freshman third baseman Garrett Buechele and freshman catcher Tyler Ogle both singled in runs in the seventh to tie the game 9-9.

Sophomore pitcher Ryan Duke held down the fort in the eighth, ninth and 10th innings, allowing no runs, a walk and striking out two.

The series loss dropped

the Sooners from second in the Big 12 to a tie for fifth.

Kansas holds the tiebreaker since it edges OU with the 2-1 head-to-head record.

“The way our guys fought back, even after we gave up the lead 9-7 and came back and won, I thought was huge,” Golloway said.

“It showed a lot of mental toughness and it wasn’t easy by any stretch.”

OU continues its home stand at 7 tonight against the Southern Utah Thunderbirds at L. Dale Mitchell Park. The game will be the last 50-cent hot dog and drink night of the season.

he first round of the NBA playoffs ended Sunday, and though the race to the championship has just begun, the first-round matchup between the Boston Celtics and Chicago Bulls might have been one of the best playoff series ever.

How does this stack up against some of the other great series? Many will immediately think of the historical matchups between the Lakers and Celtics back in the 1980s, and the battles between Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. Others might think of the ’90s between the Pacers and the Knicks and the clutch shooting of Reggie Miller.

People might even think more recently of the Mavericks and the Spurs in 2006; however, I feel what we just witnessed JAMES over the past few weeks is the greatest ROTH playoff series of them all.

The seven overtimes during the series is an NBA playoff record. The number of lead changes and ties between the two teams? That’s a record, too. If there was a way to measure drama and suspense, this series would have set the record for that as well.

Each game, excluding games three and seven, was decided by three points or fewer.

With all these records set during this series, along with how close each game was, it is hard to argue that this was not the greatest playoff series ever.

People might say because it was a first round matchup and not deeper into the playoffs, it isn’t the best ever.

Also, the Celtics had injuries to key players such as Kevin Garnett who were not able to participate in the series.

I don’t think that should matter, though.

Clearly, a healthy Garnett would have changed the series, but if you take the series for what it was, it had everything a fan could ask for.

If this was not the greatest playoff series of all time, it ranks very high on the list as one of the best.

As a fan, this was one of the most entertaining series I have ever witnessed. Regardless, this series will be talked about for a long time and it is a shame it had to end.

James Roth is a journalism senior.