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College presidents request funds to avoid tuition hike • Chances of increase uncertain in light of economic crisis MEREDITH SIMONS Editor-In-Chief OU President David L. Boren and eight other college presidents said Friday they will freeze tuition and fees for the next school year if the legislature appropriates $80.4 million in new funding for higher education.

The proposal came after years of low or nonexistent levels of new higher education funding, which university presidents say has forced them to raise tuition and fees year after year.

Last year, the legislature didn’t appropriate any new funds to higher education. Tuition and fees at OU went up by 9.9 percent the following semester.

Boren said he and Regents Chancellor Glen Johnson began working on the plan at the end of

the last legislative session. Their goal was to determine how much the entire state higher education system needed to cover an increase in operating costs and other necessary expenses without raising tuition or fees.

Their request for $80.4 million in new funding is part of an overall appropriation request of $1.13 billion, an 8.35 percent increase over 2009’s budget.

State officials said the chances of the request being fulfilled by the legislature are uncertain.

It comes in the midst of a national recession that could impact state revenues in the future.

Although the nation’s economic crisis hasn’t hit the Sooner state as hard as it has other places, energy prices are falling, and some are worried that higher-than-expected revenue collections of the first quarter may give way to declining revenues as the year progresses.

The state will not receive its first revenue estimate until December, according to Paul Sund, spokesman for Gov. Brad Henry.

“Gov. Henry is certainly supportive of any effort to head off a tuition hike,” Sund wrote in an e-mail.

“Until we receive a concrete revenue forecast, it is difficult to say whether or not the regents’ proposal

“Until we receive a concrete revenue forecast, it is difficult to say whether or not the regents’ proposal is feasible.”

Paul Sund, spokesman for Gov. Brad Henry is feasible.”

Regents spokesman Ben Hardcastle said the regents think their proposal “is an appropriate request.”

“We will work with the governor and the legislature on this,” he said. “And we believe we’ll get a fair hearing.”

FUNERAL SERVICES TODAY FOR SOPHOMORE Funeral services will be held today in Tulsa for an OU student who died Thursday in Norman.

A memorial for chemistry sophomore Jayson Carlile Williamson will be at 2 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church at 115 S. Boulder Ave. The cause of death was not imJAYSON mediately available.

WILLIAMSON Williamson graduated high school from Holland Hall School in Tulsa where he was a member of the first Holland Hall crew team. He was also an Eagle Scout, according to Williamson’s obituary.

In lieu of flowers, please send memorial donations to F & M Bank in care of Marilyn Morris, P.O. Box 4500, Tulsa, OK 74159.

To view Williamson’s obituary and post memories of his life, visit www.ultimatetributes.com.

— WILL HOLLAND/THE DAILY

WHAT’S INSIDE

Life on campus...

By Meredith Moriak with photos by

Michelle Gray

OU’s promotional commercial has been broadcasting statistics about the university for years, but one of those statistics is misleading.

OU claims that according to the Policy Center on The First Year of College, it is ranked in the top 10 for freshman experience, but the policy center says otherwise. Page 3.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR’S NOTE: For four days and four nights, journalism sophomore Meredith Moriak conducted an experiment to see if it is possible to survive on campus without a home and with little money. The following is her personal account of the events and emotions during the week.

What exactly is so wrong with Bluetooth® headsets? According to The Daily’s Kyle Kidd, pretty much everything. Page 5.

I found myself aimlessly wandering around the campus and pacing around the Oklahoma Memorial Union looking for a place to sleep. Eventually, I settled on a brown leather couch in Beaird Lounge for my bed that night.

During my four day, four night stint as a homeless college student, I was extremely humbled.

I missed my microwave, fuzzy velvet monkey and a warm shower.

I missed my home base.

But I was a survivor. Now I know that if being homeless was ever a reality for me, I could shower at the Huston Huffman Center, live out of my trunk and spend money frugally.

During my time as a homeless person, I spent $7.85 on food. I scoured out all of the free food options on campus every day. One thing is for sure, pizza is the popular handout.

If I was really homeless, I know the case would be different. My friends wouldn’t give me free food and drinks or call me every morning to make sure I was alive.

Now the next time I see someone on Campus Corner asking for spare change, I will be more inclined to give him more than a couple of bucks.

I know what it’s like to miss your bed.

SPORTS The Sooners got off to another quick start Saturday, and cruised to a 66-28 victory over Texas A&M. Page 8.

Wednesday afternoon I washed a few shir ts in a sink in Copeland Hall. Although it wasn’t a fun experience, the soap smelled good.

Monday

TODAY’S INDEX

1 a.m. Fruit Punch Powerade purchased by a friend 1:04 a.m. I miss my rainbow quilt and big stuffed velvet monkey.

Sleeping on a couch in the Union’s Beaird Lounge isn’t the same. Nobody likes to sleep in jeans or with their shoes on. I’m less scared of getting attacked than I am of getting yelled at by someone in OU Student Affairs.

I don’t want someone to find out about my story and put a halt to it. As I get ready to sleep, I notice there is an OU security guard sitting at a table about 50 yards from me. I hope he continues to stay 50 yards from me and doesn’t tell me I have to leave.

2 to 6:40 a.m. Slept on couch in the Union’s Beaird Lounge 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Slept on couch outside the Bizzell Memorial Library’s Great Reading Room

9:45 a.m. My first night without a home went well. I made a couch

Monday and Tuesday night I slept in my 2000 Ford Escort in the Traditions Square East parking lot. The backseat is small, but I was warm and felt safe.

in Beaird Lounge my own and rested for about four hours. The worst part of the experience was around 5:30 a.m. when the janitor decided to take out the trash and rolled through with his trash can on wheels that thumped across the tile-floored lounge. I immediately woke up when my alarm went off at 6:45 a.m., collected my things and headed for my car. I parked outside the Union last night, but at 7 a.m. my car would become free terrain for parking tickets. Nobody wants that! As I drove to the

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Lloyd Noble Center to park my car and ride the bus back for free, I thought about how tired I was. I didn’t get much sleep the night before from the anxiety and excitement of this adventure. Plus, I woke up with a crick in my neck.

1 p.m.

Cup of Potato Soup and four

crackers

4:45 p.m. Three slices of pizza and a Diet Coke at a club meeting Photo provided

Archaeologists mount a thin slice of a shard of ancient pottery to a glass slide (top). An OU researcher developed a technique to digitally analyze and map the consistency of the clay (bottom), a task that normally hours for a person.

Researcher discovers new technique for artifact analysis • Grant opens door for pottery research, testing Nijim Dabbour Assistant Night Editor An OU researcher has won a $50,000 grant to test a new technique that may unlock secrets of how some ancient societies around the world lived.

The technique uses automated software to analyze highresolution photos of pottery shards to yield data in minutes while current techniques require hours of tedious work from highly trained specialists.

Anthropologist Patrick Livingood, the researcher who designed the process, said scientists study ancient pottery because it is usually the most abundant artifact prehistoric people leave behind.

“Before people made pottery, stone tools were usually the most abundant artifact we have,” he said. “Later on, when people start making pottery, the pottery preserves really well. ...

We are able to use it to say a great deal about people.”

Livingood said the system will allow archaeologists to more cheaply and efficiently study certain aspects of ancient life in more detail than current technology allows. With tens of millions of pieces of ancient ceramic pottery around the world, Livingood’s technique could allow scientists to re-examine cataloged artifacts from previous archaeological

discoveries.

“Essentially this will just lower the cost of something archaeologists have been doing for a long time,” he said.

“You’ve got this huge pile of pottery [and with] the techniques that archaeologists use, there’s not much more that we can say about them, and so what this does is let us look at another dimension of ancient behavior.”

Specifically, he said, archaeologists may be able to learn about details as varying as tribal lineage, trade relations or ritual practices.

But the technique is still unproven, so Livingood applied for the grant from a division of the National Park Service to fund a year-long test run on artifacts from a site in northern Arkansas that was inhabited about 1,200 years ago by the ancestors of the Quapaw Tribe.

His proposal beat out 60 others for one of only a handful of awards. The money will go toward purchasing equipment and paying researchers.

Livingood’s team will study a site known as the Moon Site, which holds as many as 25,000 pieces of pottery. Livingood said he plans to conduct his testing with a small group of student researchers.

To check the quality of the results, random samples from the collection will be tested using the traditional method.

“There’s a potential that applying this to the Moon Site could say something very interesting,” he said. “There’s simply things that you can’t answer in any other way.”

Wednesday

12:30 to 7:45 a.m. Slept in my car in the Traditions East parking lot 8:22 a.m. I slept in my car again last night and parked it next to my friend Craig’s truck in the back of the lot to avoid people seeing me. I definitely don’t want anyone to know I’m homeless.

8:10 p.m. Showered at Huston Huffman

8:15 to 10:00 a.m. Slept on the couch outside of the library’s Great Reading Room

11:13 p.m. I am so hungry.

12:30 p.m. Baked Barbecue Lays from Monday’s lunch and a leftover slice of pizza

Center

Tuesday

12:01 a.m. I am beginning to be emotion-

ally drained. I am tired, lonely and don’t like not knowing where I am going to sleep tonight.

I’m sitting in the Union with my boyfriend Luke, and I don’t like knowing that he is going home tonight, and I will either be sleeping in my car or in the Union again. I miss my roommates a lot. It’s kind of like losing your best friend. The only people I see are the people I work with because I stop by the newsroom every day. I decided to sleep in my car, a 2000 Ford Escort, tonight.

I am so tired right now, but I can’t go to bed because I have to finish a homework assignment. Also, I am afraid to shut my eyes. It’s scary here at night. I don’t want to go to bed because it’s scary.

1:30 to 6:30 a.m. Slept in my car in the

Traditions East parking lot

8:40 a.m. Free Election Day doughnut on the South Oval

1:16 p.m. For lunch today, I went to a student ministry that I was told has free lunches on Wednesdays. But when I approached the building and looked in the doors, I didn’t see anyone and there weren’t any signs about free meals. I decided not to go in. It was a pride issue. I didn’t want to walk into the building and ask for handouts. Part of me was afraid to do so because I didn’t want to be turned away.

3:00 p.m. Being homeless is dirty. While

the shower facilities at the Huff are clean, I don’t like having people look at me. I know I have to get in and out as soon as possible.

I don’t think a gym locker room is the place to do my hair and makeup, which is why I never do it.

4:45 p.m. Showered at Huston Huffman

Center

6:15 p.m. Three pieces of leftover pizza and four pieces of candy from nutrition class

2:15 p.m. Chik-Fil-A waffle fries and free,

6:25 p.m. It’s less than 24 hours until I have a home again, and I am very excited.

One of the many things that separates me from the homeless community is I have friends and a boyfriend who support me and would help me if I am in a rough situation. I know they would all offer me their couch for a few days or weeks, if I needed it.

3 to 5:15 p.m.

the night

9:15 a.m. Three pieces of candy from my nutrition professor 11:30 a.m. Half of a leftover sandwich from Monday and a piece of candy three-piece chicken strips couch

Napped on a friend’s

5:48 p.m. I am in a much better state now

than I was last night. I woke up this morning in my car at 6:40 a.m. when my alarm rang.

The backseat of my escort is not ideal for sleeping, but surprisingly, I wasn’t sore after sleeping for five hours.

6:30 p.m. Free pizza and cookies in the newsroom and diet coke left over from Monday’s meeting 11:15 p.m. I keep forgetting I am homeless. I’ve been in the newsroom all night with coworkers covering the election, and I just keep forgetting.

10:30 p.m. Locked in the newsroom for

11:37 p.m. I am hiding underneath the editor-in-chief’s desk! About 15 minutes ago, the doors to the newsroom busted open and the janitor came in.

It doesn’t sound scary. Yeah, not that scary unless you’re a 19-year-old girl sleeping in the newsroom by herself.

My editor said it was OK for me to sleep in her office because it was storming, and I was afraid to sleep in my car. I thought the newsroom would be the safest place. I was wrong. Her office doesn’t lock from the inside. I am praying this man doesn’t come in to empty the trash.

When I heard the janitor walk out of the newsroom, I army-crawled with my com-

puter behind the editor-in-chief’s desk and took out the trash can that is typically under there. I strategically placed the trash can that is normally under her desk next to it, hoping he wouldn’t come behind the desk and discover me. So here I am, behind her desk, in the dark, typing on my computer.

Yes, I realize homeless people probably don’t have computers. And they probably aren’t terrified of janitors and don’t sleep at work.

Regardless, this is a funny situation. Now I am tense and won’t be able to sleep until I hear him turn off the TV, see the lights go off and hear the alarm beep for 30 seconds.

I am a big girl. I’ll have to keep reminding myself that.

Thursday

12:04 a.m.I WANT TO GO HOME! 12:20 a.m. My heart is racing. Racing,

racing, racing.

1:01 a.m. The janitor is still here.

1:30 a.m. Left newsroom and headed to

the Union

3:00 to 6:45 a.m. Slept on a couch in the Union’s Beaird Lounge 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. Slept on a couch outside of the library’s Great Reading Room 8:07 a.m. I made it through the night alive. I got a little nervous being alone last night and wanted to sneak out of the newsroom, but I was afraid of setting off the alarm. I finally went to sleep at about 3 in the morning. Unfortunately, the janitor in the Union’s Beaird Lounge cleans from 5 to 6:30 a.m. so I didn’t get much sleep between him changing the trash bag liners and vacuuming the floor. Sleeping in your car is the best way to sleep at night. Sleeping on campus is only fun if you’re taking a 45-minute nap between classes.

5:45 p.m. Coming home was so exciting!

I came into my apartment and ran to my bedroom and flopped on the bed. After about 10 minutes, I decided I was tired of being dirty and took a shower. I felt so indulged that I sang in the shower.

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The Daily’s Kevin Hahn takes on 40-day fitness challenge • OU health challenge gives participants points for progress KEVIN HAHN Multi-Media Editor Last Monday I started OU Health and Recreational Service’s 40-day Challenge.

The event is a 40-day plan to help a person increase their overall fitness level and move towards a healthier lifestyle.

I know what you may be thinking, if it started last week why are we hearing about it now? To be honest, I was waiting to see if I could actually make the first week. I am no specimen of physical fitness. I would definitely feel comfortable

referring to myself as “out of shape.”

However, this is the main reason I decided to do the challenge.

In the past, I have tried to commit to a healthy diet and exercise and never done very well.

KEVIN After the first week I HAHN can tell this program is intended for people like myself, who have a problem with motivation. As I looked over the plan I found myself wondering, “Is this it?”

The plan is very easy to understand and implement. I simply acquire points from eating more fruits and vegetables, drinking a certain amount of water, or exercising for 30 minutes at a time.

The maximum amount of points I can turn in per day is 8. So on days that I do not eat healthy foods, I simply need to focus on one of the other points available. The

same goes for if I miss a workout, I can make up the point with diet.

Different daily challenges, worth one point, keep things interesting and remind you that total health includes more than just the body. Some of the challenges include parking at the furthest parking lot and walking to campus, or taking the stairs instead of using an elevator. Some of the challenges also focus on mental aspects, including introducing yourself to someone new or calling someone you haven’t talked to in a while.

This week I have chosen to add mountain biking and volleyball for my physical activity. These are both activities that I enjoy greatly and have lamented not getting to do them more often. I figure picking something fun will make it easier to do than trying to force myself onto a treadmill seven days a week. While I don’t expect to see much weight change in the next 40 days, I expect to feel better, fitter and more energetic.

Students show off campus on Sooner Saturday TIFFANY HAENDEL Daily Staff Writer

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Diversity Enrichment Program volunteers Amanda Davila, advertising junior (center), and Nick Robinson, marketing junior (right), help a prospective student navigate campus Saturday, in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Boren was shorter so they could have seen more of the campus.

“There were some events that we weren’t able to get to because we ran out of time,” said Angela Butkus, Julie Butkus’ mother.

Overall, Yarbrough said the event was a success.

“Every student I met was so excited to be at the university,” Yarbrough said. “One even told me that she immediately felt the sense of community, and I was so thrilled that she was already aware of the best part of OU.”

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About 3,000 prospective students from as far away as California and Ohio flooded OU campus for the university’s fall recruitment event on Saturday.

During the Sooner Saturday event, students toured the campus, dined at Couch Cafeteria, visited the residence halls and met with departments from financial aid to the College of Arts and Sciences.

“We want for prospective students to be able to speak to current students about their OU experience,” said Chan Klingensmith, assistant director of Prospective Student Services, who helped organize the event.

Many students manned registration booths and directed visitors across campus, while others hosted tours. Students who live in the dorms volunteered to show their room to the prospective Sooners.

University College freshman Callie Yarbrough said she volunteered because she remembered coming to Sooner Saturday while in high school and how it impacted her decision to attend OU. “I learned on Sooner Saturday that OU was the right fit for me, and I wanted to give that same feeling back to the future class of 2013,” Yarbrough said.

Yarbrough volunteered to set up for the event, answer visitors’ questions and assist in a workshop for prospective out-of-state students.

Prospective student Julie Butkus from Dallas said her favorite part of the day was touring the residence halls. But she said she and her family wished the introduction by President David L.

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OU set to replace inaccurate TV spot after years on air • Change comes 11 months after The Daily exposed discrepancy WILL HOLLAND Daily Staff Writer OU is shooting a new commercial that officials say will not use a factually inaccurate statistic.

OU’s commercial, which has aired for four years, claims that “OU is ranked in the top 10 for freshman year experience,” but according to the center that conducted the study that ranking does not exist.

The Daily first published a story about the discrepancy on January 16.

University College Dean Doug Gaffin said the university had committed to changing the statement, but the commercial continued to run unchanged for 11 months.

The statistic also appears in OU President David L. Boren’s welcome to prospective students on OU’s prospective students Web site.

The statistic is based on a 2002 proposal that OU submitted to the Policy Center on the First Year of College, said Betsy Barefoot, the organization’s co-director and senior scholar.

OU was one of 130 institutions that nominated itself for participation in the project, and OU was named as a semifinalist in Institutions of Excellence in the First College Year, Barefoot said.

Though OU was ranked as a semifinalist in the project, it was not one of the 13 schools selected as finalists for the first year of college experience.

“We do not do rankings,” John N. Gardner, executive director of the organization.

However, OU claims in its current

commercial and on its Web site that it is ranked in the top 10 in first year experience based on this study. But, Barefoot said the policy center does not conduct rankings.

“This process relied on self-nomination of institutions and was never designed to be an objective ranking that would evaluate all U.S. colleges and universities and make valid comparative judgment,” Barefoot said in a letter.

Barefoot said to conduct a comprehensive ranking, the policy center would have to evaluate every university nation-wide.

“Similar to someone who enters a national competition for writing, if they were one of ten semifinalists they would claim that they ranked in the top 10 of those that applied.

Even though that competition did not include every writer in the country you would still be proud that you were one of the semifinalists,” said Jay Doyle, press secretary and special assistant to OU President David L. Boren. “This is how OU feels about the Policy Center’s study.”

Last week OU students began work on a new commercial that will not feature the supposed ranking, but Doyle said the decision to create a new commercial was not because of factual inconsistencies, rather Boren wanted the new commercial to focus on different topics.

“Our new institutional spot had absolutely nothing to do with the way the fact on the freshman year experience was referenced in the previous spot,” Doyle said in an e-mail. “We decided to redo the spot this year because we believe that showing the same spot for more than two years makes it become stale to viewers.”

Doyle said he and Boren discussed what topics they wanted the new commercial to focus on, and decided to use less numbers and focus on things like OU’s National Merit Scholar program.

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Mai-Thao Nguyen — biochemistry and studio art junior

Claim should have been removed OU should be more respon- included on the site within sible when it airs public mes- OU President David L. Boren’s sages.

“President’s Welcome” letter, The Daily printed an arti- which is seperately linked cle in January on both the front falsifying OU’s page and on OUR VIEW the Prospective claim that it was ranked in the top Students page. is an editorial 10 colleges for In the letter selected and debated by the editorial board freshman experilinked from the and written after a ence in a project front page, the majority opinion is sponsored by the claim is one of formed and approved Policy Center on two prominent by the editor. Our the First Year of features highView is The Daily’s College. (See page lighted with largofficial opinion.

3 for details.) er font.

OU was one of The false 130 institutions that submit- claim also has been continuted proposals to the project. ously aired in OU’s promoOU’s proposal qualified it tional television commeras a semifinalist in its cat- cial, which airs during teleegory, but it was not one of vised athletic events. That the 13 finalists. None of the commercial was shot four colleges, even the finalists, years ago. were ranked.

We are disappointed that After the January article, a misleading claim has been OU did remove its “top 10” continuously flaunted by the claim from prominent place- university, even after the ment on the Prospective claim was debunked.

Students page of its Web site, While we think OU cerwww.ou.edu. tainly provides an enjoyable However, the claim is still experience for freshmen, it

should not have to promote that with exaggerations.

It would have been easy to remove the claim from Boren’s online letter, and it would not have been too difficult to edit it from the commercial.

Since both are viewed by a large audience — which included prospective freshmen — OU should be honest.

When OU airs its new commercial during the football game against Texas Tech Nov. 22, we hope it is more accurate.

OU has many bragging points that can be promoted honestly, and we hope the commercial represents our university well.

We also hope the false claim is removed from OU’s Web site, even from the inside pages of it.

We want quality students to be attracted to this university, but we do not want the university to lie to them — over and over again.

STAFF COLUMN

STAFF COLUMN

Education reform sorely needed Being called an idiot can be OK Think back to high school.

Graduation came after 12th grade, at age 17 or 18. After that began four or five years at a university. After graduating from college, you’ll most likely go off to graduate school or enter the workforce.

But what if you could have graduated high school after 10th grade?

You would have had to take a set of comprehensive exams, and, upon passing them, would have had the option of finishing the last two years of high school or graduating early.

The catch: If you graduated early, your only two options would have been attending a technical school or community college.

If you attended tech MUNIM school, you could get a DEEN pretty good-paying trade job.

If you attended community college, you could build on your associate’s degree by moving on to a four-year college. You’d probably need to study only two additional years to get your bachelor’s.

Sound like a good idea? New Hampshire thinks so. And it is correct.

The state has announced a new system in which 10th graders statewide will take a set of challenging exams. Those who pass will supposedly be prepared to attend any of New Hampshire’s community colleges or tech schools. The tests can be taken as many times as necessary to pass.

This certainly sounds radical, considering how rooted and widespread the “12 grades” model has become in this country. Several other countries, however, implement models similar to the one adopted by New Hampshire.

It bears mentioning that students from those other countries generally outperform U.S. students across the board.

More and more states and educators’ groups are signing onto the idea.

The impetus behind this is the fact that the U.S. is lagging behind other nations in the education of its workforce.

Reform is sorely needed, particularly since more and more jobs are sent to other countries to be done by bettereducated workers.

In the past, most of the outsourced jobs were manual in nature. But lately, whitecollar jobs, which require higher levels of education, have also been sent abroad.

Most of the countries that receive those workers educate their students within systems that inspired New Hampshire’s new plan.

The plan is sound because it doesn’t really change the end result of the current education system.

Students still have the freedom to pursue whatever type and level of education they’d like. The tests in the system will not force students into a particular educational track depending on scores.

No, those graduating early will not be able to immediately enter a university, but

they will be free to do so after attending community college.

And having a two-year degree can only benefit those students in later higher education.

Officials also envision the tests as indicators of weakness as well as readiness to graduate. Students who demonstrate weakness will receive extra help before they’ll be allowed to graduate.

Eventually, the plan will call for standardized curricula at all levels of education.

This will minimize yearly reviewing of same material and will make sure all students are being taught to meet the same standards.

The plan also saves money.

As reported by Time magazine, more than half of high school graduates who pursue higher education attend community colleges.

The New Hampshire plan allows students to attend those same colleges two years earlier. If implemented nationwide, he plan would save $60 billion annually. the That money, which would have been spent on those students for two more years of high school, can then be spent in other sectors of education.

Critics of the plan say that allowng students to end high school ing earlier would result in lower-income students not attending college in favor of entering trade schools and would enter the workforce earlier.

This is true, but the current system does nothing more than he proposed plan the o encourage lowerto ncome students to income attend college.

Instead, it forces students to stay n high school in onger before longer being able o train to fo or jobs. for A Al ll funding All aid programs like FAFSA will still be available for those wishing to go o universities. to Those who don’t and instead attend rade schools and trade community colleges anyway will have he option of startthe ng their future ing education and work plans two years earlier.

This plan is getting more and more supporters, with other states looking

to implement similar programs.

Nationwide educational policy groups are signing off on the plan because it makes sense.

Much of the rest of the world already does it, and their students consistently perform better academically than American students.

Foreign students are future foreign workers and will fill exported American jobs not because they are willing to work for less money or benefits, but because they are better educated and more qualified for those jobs.

Unless serious reforms like the New Hampshire plan are implemented, American students – tomorrow’s American workers – will fall further and further behind.

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Yeah, it’s a bluetooth get it. I really do. I’m sure that having two free hands and a candid conversation at the same time is one of the most fulfilling actions you can partake in these days (trailing behind owning a Ninja motorcycle and leasing a Bowflex).

And if someone asked me, “Kyle, you’re going to need to go to Albertson’s and pick me up a list of items, would you rather have two hands or one hand to complete this task?” I think the answer is obvious.

Even so, sometimes practicality isn’t worth the aesthetic price. If you wear a bluetooth headset, you’re KYLE most likely dressed in a suit.

KIDD You overdid your cologne — again — but “Armani Attitude” has been your scent for years, it’s expected of you. Your shirt is electric blue (top three buttons unbuttoned), shiny shoes, hair slicked back, cleanly shaven, and Gordon Brackley from accounting (back at central office) just gave you a new copper bracelet to improve your golf game. The company scramble is next Sunday.

So you naturally jump in your mid-priced convertible and wonder how many women are going to give you “the look” on your way to meet Tommy-G for lunch at Chili’s. The sun’s not out? Well ... yeah, I can still wear my Photo provided Oakleys. I’m sure something will shine in my This guy wears a bluetooth headset.

We’re not saying you shouldn’t, eyes.

Congratulations on looking like Blade would just that this guy does. Think about it. if he had to work at Globotech for some extra cash (considering our current economic situa“Peace.” tion). I feel an Oscar for best picture AND best actor in Bluetooth connection disconnect. a leading role.

Drop it down into first, red light coming up. “Cougar Anyway, so you’re cruising down the street, headset alert, cougar alert,” you think to yourself, while you on, one hand on the steering wheel, slightly leaned nonchalantly — but creepily, slowly — glance to your back. Switch to gear four baby. Feel the power. left at the 35-year-old blonde sitting in her Tahoe, who Oncoming cars only get head nods, absolutely no not once breaks her forward stare to acknowledge finger raises from the steering wheel, way too much you. Show the shades, flash the watch, check out the acknowledgement. You’ve got Bon Jovi’s “It’s My Life” headset, it’s bluetooth. She remains staring forward. playing in the background, but you switch over to a Skank. All of the sudden the extra 20K for the Porsche U2 playlist to change up the mood for a bit — Chili’s is doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. getting closer.

Pshh. No worries. The Mustang’s a limited edition.

Buzz, buzz, you feel at your side (cell phone is Life is good. Life is good. hooked on belt), incoming call, no big deal. Click.

Chili’s time. You’re getting the grilled chicken sandBluetooth connection established. wich and you’re sitting at the bar, Stacey’s working “Darryl, my man! Talk to me. right now. Start it out with the Awesome Blossom and “You’re kidding me bro? Amy? From HR? Now that’s a dirty martini. After all, Tommy-G is buying. what I’m talking about, big guy, hell yeah!

My message to everyone is that one day it might “She called you the next morning? Pshh, what an seem appetizing to buy one of these little rascals at idiot! some point in our life. Try your best to resist. And “Ha ha that’s why we call you ‘the closer’ bro, always when 30 rolls around, at least limit bluetooth usage finishing the job. to the office. Hold your phone up to your ear when in “Yeah I wrapped up the Clancey account last public, unless of course, being an asshole is on your Thursday, it was cake. What’s that? Yeah I know I’m bucket list. still the man, bro ... drinks at Club Inferno at eight?

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University of Central Oklahoma student Stephanie Boone views student artwork displayed at Friday night at Oklahoma Christian University. The art was part of a charity event to help raise funds and awareness for the Wishing Well Project, a student organization that aids in Africa’s water crisis.

Music and art raise clean water concerns DUSTY SOMERS Daily Staff Writer EDMOND – The problem: a lack of clean water across a continent plagued by poverty and disease.

The solution: art.

The Wishing Well Project is a non-profit organization headquartered at Oklahoma Christian University. The group’s mission is to raise money to build clean water wells for African communities – a goal furthered by an art show and benefit concert Friday night on OCU’s campus.

Singer/songwriter Derek Webb, his wife Sandra McCracken and folk fan favorite Waterdeep performed as audience members browsed the walls of student-created African-themed art.

Nashville-based musician Webb said it’s easy to take clean water for granted when it’s all around you.

Webb, who describes himself as a singer/songwriter/agitator, has attached himself to various social change projects over the years, but said the clean water mission is an especially effective one because of its narrow focus.

“I walked past probably 10 water fountains on my way in here,” Webb said. “People just don’t understand when you take clean water out of a community what it does to that community. It is completely basic, and that’s why it’s so important.”

For the typical African mother, getting water is a full-time chore, and with much of the available water mingling with animal feces and insect larvae,

finding clean water is nearly impossible, Webb said.

“In many cases [she] has to commute 10 or 15 miles each way to get to the nearest water, and often that water is poison in the bodies of people whose immune systems are broken,” Webb said.

Webb’s job as an artist puts him in a unique position to bring awareness to issues of social injustice, he said.

“Most people are just trying to get by day to day and week to week and make money to take care of their families,” Webb said. “That’s why it’s the responsibility – maybe not of all artists, but of some artists – to kind of give people a starting point. We’ll distill [issues] for them and that maybe gets the conversation started.”

As the night progressed, there were several calls for donations, but art – the music, paintings and photography – was never forced from centerstage.

As Groves said, the night wasn’t about money, but about changing hearts.

Esther Harvey, a freelance photographer who traveled with Groves and his team to Rwanda, said her art is like a voice of expression. Earlier in the night, there was a person looking at her pictures, tears streaming down their face, she said.

“I can’t take a photograph that causes someone to cry,” Harvey said. “It’s something beyond [me] – it’s art.”

Whatever a person’s gift – be it art or otherwise – it’s that person’s responsibility to use it, Webb said.

“The best use of those gifts is in caring for our neighbors and connecting to something bigger and beyond ourselves,” he said.

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The Russian Navy said the submarine itself was not damaged in Saturday’s accident and returned to Bomb attacks kill 8, wound dozens its base on Russia’s Pacific coast under its own power in Iraq Sunday. The accident also did not pose any radiation danger, the navy said.

BAGHDAD — Bombs killed at least eight people Yet it was Russia’s worst naval accident since Sunday across Iraq and wounded dozens of others, oftorpedo explosions sank another nuclear-powered ficials said. Syria’s president blamed the U.S. military submarine, the Kursk, in the Barents Sea in 2000, presence for Iraq’s instability and called on U.S. troops killing all 118 seamen aboard. to leave.

Overcrowding may have been a significant factor In the northern city of Mosul, a roadside bomb on Saturday. ripped through an Iraqi army patrol soon after The submarine being tested had 208 people sundown, killing three soldiers and wounding four aboard, including 81 seamen, according to Russian others, police said. navy spokesman Capt. Igor Dygalo. Yet Russian news U.S. and Iraqi troops have been fighting for agencies said a sub of this type normally carries only months to clear al-Qaida in Iraq and about a dozen a crew of 73. other Sunni insurgent groups from Mosul, Iraq’s third largest city.

To the south, a bomb attached to a bike wrapped China announces $586 billion in a trash bag exploded outside a cafe in Khalis, 50 stimulus plan miles north of Baghdad, killing at least two people and wounding 13, including the city mayor, police BEIJING — China announced a $586 billion stimulus said. package Sunday in its biggest move to stop the global financial crisis from hitting the world’s fourth-largest economy.

Accident on Russian nuclear sub A statement on the government’s Web site said suffocates 20 China’s Cabinet had approved a plan to invest the amount in infrastructure and social welfare by the MOSCOW — The fire safety system on a brand-new Russian nuclear submarine accidentally turned on as end of 2010.

Some of the money will come from the private the sub was being tested in the Sea of Japan, spewing a gas that suffocated 20 people and sent 21 others to sector. The statement did not say how much of the

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TUESDAY STUDENT MEDIA Free graduation portraits for graduating seniors and graduate students from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

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Sports

Monday, Nov. 10, 2008

STAFF COLUMN

The waiting is the hardest part T

he Sooners’ last two games are against Texas Tech and Oklahoma State, but OU’s hardest part of the season is over.

They say good things come to those who wait. But the Sooners have done more than just wait. They’ve waited in style.

Since the loss to Texas, OU has scored just less than 58 points a game. The Sooners have forced 13 total turnovers, scored 55 points in the first half against Kansas State and 28 points in the first six minutes against Nebraska.

But none of that matters.

What’s important is that during these past four games — all of which had OU heavily favored — OU won. Easily.

STEVEN It may sound simple, but teams continue to JONES prove that winning games they’re supposed to can be difficult.

Look at last year’s squad. After crushing non-conference opponents, OU went to Boulder and lost a game to hapless Colorado.

Luckily, the Sooners got another chance late in the season to control their own destiny, but then came the debacle in Lubbock.

This year, the Sooners have handled the teams they were supposed to. They were favored against Texas, but the Longhorns are good, and no one considered that loss a choke job by the Sooners.

So now, OU finds itself in control of its own destiny ... sort of.

Despite those people who have tried repeatedly to say OU’s chances at a Big 12 title and national championship went out the window long ago, OU now finds itself two big wins away from a likely trip to Kansas City.

OU waited while a lot of other teams didn’t. After the game against Ohio State, USC just had to wait its way to Miami, but then came Oregon State. Penn State had the same problem coming off a win against the Buckeyes, letting Iowa sneak up on them.

And most likely, the major upsets aren’t done. There are still several weeks left of football, and other powerhouses will go down.

But OU won’t be one of them. I’m not saying the next two games will be easy, because they won’t. But even if OU loses to both Tech and OSU, while everyone will be disappointed, at least the losses will come against formidable opponents.

Players on this OU team have said all year that this is a mature team, and they’ve proved it over the past four weeks. They avoided dropping a game they shouldn’t, and they’ve been rewarded by their current position.

And now comes the easy part: beating the No. 2 team in the country, and then beating a highly-ranked rival on the road. Sooner fans will be anxious, waiting for OU’s biggest game of the season.

But be patient Sooner fans, because good things do come to those who wait.

Sooners roll to easy victory • Balanced offensive attack leads to 66 points JOEY HELMER Daily Staff Writer COLLEGE STATION, Texas — In front of the largest and most hostile road crowd the Sooners have faced this year, OU sprinted to a fast start on its way to a 66-28 rout over Texas A&M. “It makes a big difference to come out and play so strong and so well early,” said head coach Bob Stoops. “And it does put your crowd on [hold] when things aren’t going real well, so fortunately we came out and played hard and fast right off the bat.”

OU jumped on the Aggies after starting deep in its own territory, driving 90 yards in less than 90 seconds on four plays.

On the second play from scrimmage, sophomore running back DeMarco Murray dashed 70 yards to the A&M 16-yard line.

Sophomore quarterback Sam Bradford scrambled two plays later for a 15-yard touchdown run and a 7-0 lead.

“It felt great,” Bradford said.

“I think any time you can go 90 yards to start off the game, it kind of puts the other team’s defense on its heels because they kind of sit back and say, ‘Whoa, they just went 90 in four plays and didn’t throw the ball,’ so I felt like that was a great way for us to start the game.”

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OU continuned to strike quickly, recording two more first-quarter touchdowns to take a 21-0 lead at the end of the quarter.

“It was another one of those deals where we felt like everything we did was right,” Bradford said. “We just got in a rhythm, and everything was clicking.”

The Sooners then missed two field goals — one by redshirt freshman Jimmy Stevens and another by sophomore Matthew Moreland — that would have extended the lead.

“You’re disappointed [when the special teams doesn’t play well],” Stoops said. “You want to play perfectly, but we’ll keep working those guys. We can’t practice them a whole lot harder than we do.”

Brown added his third score of the game in the third quarter when he broke through for a 28-yard touchdown run, putting OU up 52-14.

“It was pretty fun when those guys up front are blocking and making holes like that,” Brown said. “It makes it that much easier on you to get through the line and get into the end zone.”

But the Sooners’ season-long kickoff coverage woes continued, as Aggie freshman Cyrus Gray returned the ensuing kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown to shave the deficit to 52-21.

Near the end of the third quarter, sophomore cornerback Dominique Franks recovered a fumble for a 39-yard touchdown to finish the scoring for OU at 66, the most points A&M has ever given up at Kyle Field.

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Sophomore DeMarco Murray (7) makes a catch in the first quarter Saturday.

Murray scored on the play, giving OU a 14-0 lead on the way to a 66-28 win.

It was Franks’ second defensive touchdown in as many games.

“Dom’s an excellent athlete; he really is,” Stoops said. “It is something that gave us an unusual formation. We handled it well, had a guy on the quarterback and the pitch just like you’re supposed to, and then [Johnson] made a bad pitch, and fortunately we got it.”

The Sooners recorded 653 yards of total offense — 325 passing yards and 328 rushing — to

the Aggies’ 278, and OU won the turnover battle on the road for the third time this season, forcing four turnovers while committing none.

Bradford threw for 320 yards and four touchdowns, which went to four different receivers.

“Coming in here, it’s never easy [to win], and it hasn’t been. Just to put it all together and to play as soundly as we did, I’m just pleased.”

Men’s basketball continues dominance

Volleyball shut out against Missouri

Sophomore forward Blake Griffin led the Sooners to a 94-39 drubbing of Cameron Saturday at Lloyd Noble Center.

Griffin finished OU’s two exhibition games with 39 points and 22 rebounds, and the Sooners outscored their opponents 184-82.

The volleyball team was unable to sweep its season series against Missouri, losing in straight sets Sunday.

The Sooners have lost their last two matches, both of which came on the road. Their next match will be at 7 p.m.

Wednesday against Kansas in Norman.

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