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CAMPUS NEWS The North Oval was shut down for about two hours Sunday evening while the Norman Hazardous Device Response Unit investigated a suspicious device found between Monnet Hall and the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

The area was not evacuated, but students were asked to leave the Union’s Schooner Room and the North Oval was closed to traffic.

Investigators found a bag that contained clothes. OUPD Lt. Bruce Chan said police removed the bag and will attempt to locate its owner.

WHAT’S INSIDE Are you a T.E.A. Cafe fanatic? The restaurant is opening a new location on Campus Corner.

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LIFE & ARTS Norman’s own The Early Beat took the stage Saturday at the Opolis. See the group’s story, page 9.

What happening this week in TV? The Daily tells you what to watch. Page 9.

KATE CUNNINGHAM The Oklahoma Daily klahoma City resident Kurt Leichter holds an honorary doctorate from Oklahoma City University, but he last attended school when he was in 5th grade.

Shortly after, Nazi Germany invaded his native Austria, forever changing the lives of Leichter and thousands of other Jews.

Years and miles removed from the horrors of World War II, the retired Leichter has quietly set out about changing the lives of students. His need-based scholarship programs have put more than 50 young people throughout the country through college.

Leichter is not merely the businessman and philanthropist his many acquaintances know. He is a man who has spent his life achieving the American Dream after escaping the Nazis as a teenager.

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Leichter was born in 1924 in Vienna, Austria, the only child of Albert Leichter, a Jewish newspaper executive, and Claire Costa Leichter, a renowned Protestant opera singer.

After Claire died of pneumonia in 1936, the Leichters continued to live comfortably in Vienna. As the only Jewish boy on his street, his first brush with Nazism came while he was playing with neighborhood children.

“All my friends in the neighborhood started shunning me,” he said, with a soft trace of a German accent still present in his voice. “All of a sudden, all of these people wouldn’t talk to me because they knew what happened when you became friends with a Jewish family. I was an outcast.”

Leichter said he wasn’t surprised when the majority of Austrians welcomed the Nazi takeover.

“One winter day on a street corner, I saw two S.S. [Nazi secret police] men standing over an old Jewish couple,” he said. “They were forced onto their hands and knees to scrub the concrete sidewalk for no reason but that the police wanted to shame them publicly.”

Leichter said the incident disturbed him deeply and is something he could never forget.

Germany invaded Austria in March 1938.

Leichter said at that time the Nazis wanted to remove all the “undesirables” from the region, so they gave Jewish families notice to leave the country.

At the end of a short period given for the Jewish people to make arrangements to leave Austria, Nazi soldiers knocked on the Leichters’ door, and stole their house, their car and everything they owned. The Leichters each were compensated with the equivalent of $52 and a suitcase.

His father made arrangements for him to stay with distant cousins who had lived in

New York k for generations. Albert could not get permission ission to enter the United States because of the immigration laws. Instead, he fled to England where he had to find work as a butler.

The new world In March 1938, Leichter went to Belgium to board the S.S. Westernland bound for New York.

“My dad hugged me, gave me a kiss, and wished me good luck. Then I was off,” he said.

Leichter came to the United States with little other than a change of clothes and his passport, said his wife, Cathy.

“I spoke practically no English, so my father arranged it so that I wore a straw hat with a band around it,” Leichter said.

“On the band he wrote ‘K-U-R-T’ so that the distant cousins taking me in would know who they were looking for.”

Leichter stayed with the relatives in New York for about a year while he attended a trade school. He could not understand English and his relatives did not speak German. They arranged for him to get vocational training through the National Youth Administration (NYA), a government program that provided jobs to unemployed Americans during the Great Depression. One of the training camps was in Oklahoma.

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Holocaust survivor and Oklahoma City resident Kurt Leichter with wife, Cathy, examines the passport (above) he used to flee Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938.

ended up in Shawnee. He chose to become a brick mason’s apprentice.

After one-and-a-half “miserable” years in Shawnee, he said, he came to Oklahoma City for a bricklaying job, but was fired for poor workmanship in just three days.

However, some Jewish members of the Oklahoma bound community helped find him odd jobs and Leichter got on a bus in New York and eventually he landed a job at a jewelry

Rebirth of NAACP student chapter on the horizon

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Willis arrested for DUI, suspended indefinitely

• OU’s chapter inactive compared with others across state RENEÉ SELANDERS The Oklahoma Daily Oklahoma NAACP representatives launched efforts to revive OU’s student chapter of their civil and human rights organization Friday in an Introduction to African American Studies class.

Involvement in their organization goes beyond the advancement of black people, said Anthony Douglass, president of the Oklahoma State Conference’s NAACP, and Rhonda Williams, NAACP Youth and College Division Adviser for Oklahoma.

They said the NAACP focuses on community issues, like education and health care, that affect all Oklahomans.

“We have to always give back to the community,” Williams said.

OU’s NAACP student chapter has been very inactive compared to those chapters at other Oklahoma colleges and universities, like Langston University, University of Central Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University, Williams said.

During the discussion with students, Williams focused on the importance of equality of education.

She said the education she received in segregated schools did not equip her with necessary reading and writing skills. Now Williams said she focuses her efforts on a reading and writing program that ensures students throughout Oklahoma get the same opportunity to learn to read and write.

“If you all get the same chance, you can accomplish great things,” she said.

Williams and Douglass promoted the NAACP’s sense of service in their discussion to interest stu-

store, filling in for employees who were drafted to fight in World War II. Leichter volunteered for the military, but he said he was turned away because he was not yet a U.S. citizen.

In 1948, Leichter earned his U.S. citizenship and brought his father to Oklahoma.

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Anthony R. Douglas, Oklahoma state conference NAACP president, speaks to an African-American studies class about the NAACP and how to get the OU chapter more involved Friday afternoon in the Physical Sciences Center.

NAACP HISTORY • The NAACP turns 100 on Thursday.

• The NAACP Youth and College division had its inaugural youth convention in 1936. dents in their organization.

Jasmine Brown, University College freshman, was at the Williams and Douglass’ discussion. She said she didn’t know an OU NAACP chapter existed, and that discussing the organization’s issues now was a highlight on Black History Month.

“It just brings it back to a focus,” Brown said.

Gerry Branch, marketing and management information systems sophomore, said some aspects of the NAACP’s activities agitated him. After sitting through the Friday discussion, Branch said he is happy to hear that the NAACP is taking an active role serving the community.

“It kind of restored my faith in other things they were doing,” he said.

Williams said the Oklahoma National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is working to get the state’s youth and college student president from Langston University to visit OU to help revive the chapter.

Norman police arrested Ray Willis, a freshman guard on the OU’s men’s basketball team, on suspicion of driving under the influence early Saturday morning.

Norman police Lt. Brian Green said Willis was pulled over at the intersection of Asp Avenue and Lindsey Street at about 3 a.m. Saturday. Willis was transported to RAY the Cleveland County WILLIS Detention Center, but was released on bond prior to OU’s basketball game against Colorado on Saturday.

Willis did not suit up for Saturday’s game against Colorado. He sat on the bench, wearing khaki pants and a polo shirt.

Head coach Jeff Capel told reporters on Saturday that Willis had been “suspended indefinitely,” but did not say why.

Willis is originally from Atlanta and has played in 14 games this season, averaging 7.1 minutes per game. He also averages 1.6 rebounds and 3.8 points per game. He did not play in the three previous games prior to his arrest.

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Continued from page 1 In 1956, Leichter opened his own discount jewelry store, Treasures, Inc. Over the next 30 years, his business grew with multiple stores around the metro area before he sold it in 1987 to a large chain based in California. By that time, he said he had made jewelry for everybody from 1967’s Miss America Jane Jayroe to international opera star Luciano Pavarotti.

Aftermath

UOSA voids special election outstanding violinist,” Leichter said. “They took all the Jewish people that had musical talent.

But also because of that, he was selected to play for the German hierarchy, you know, all the German officers and such.”

When the Americans liberated camps, Leichter’s grandparents went to a rest home in Switzerland. Leichter was able to see them there before they died in their 90s.

Leichter has traveled back to Austria six times. Even after the unpleasantness he experienced when he was young, his face still lights up when he talks about the first time he revisited his childhood home.

“When I went back, I was in my 60s,” he said. “The most unbelievable experience was when I went back to my homestead — that street — and it had shrunk. My vision of the street was that huge. I was always tall for my age, but I always thought of it as being, you know, so much bigger.”

In the years following the war, Leichter was able to learn what happened to the other Jewish members of his family. “[The Nazis] were so proud of themselves they kept records of everybody they killed,” Leichter said.

He found that his mother’s brother, Felix, his Jewish wife and their two children were taken by cattle car to the Maly Trostinac extermination camp.

Records show that they were all executed upon arrival.

Leichter’s paternal grandparents were taken to the concentration camp at Dachau. They Returning home After his father died, Leichter were luckier than Felix’s family, thought that he was the last livhowever.

“The reason they survived ing member of his family. Cathy, was that my grandfather was an however, wanted to look into

what happened to his relatives.

This August, while looking for his mother’s grave, Leichter and Cathy found the grave of his uncle, Martin Costa. In Austria, graves are not bought outright — a survivor has to pay rent each year.

“I knew that if it was still there, then there must be relatives living to pay for Martin’s grave,” Cathy said.

After just two days of Internet research and traveling to cemeteries, Cathy found the people paying for the grave.

They called twins Carl and Christian Costa, who invited them to their summer home outside Vienna.

“We believed that this was certainly a mistake or a joke,” Carl and Christian said in a e-mail they composed together in German. “After we first made eye contact, we knew we had a new cousin.”

“Leichter is a head taller than both of us,” they said, “but, in the face, one recognizes his relations.”

Since Leichter had left the country when he was young and the Costa twins’ father spoke little about family, none of them knew they had any living rela-

tives.

“Our father never spoke about things that happened during that terrible time,” Carl and Christian said.

The challenges Leichter faced have forced him to work that much harder to be successful, Cathy said. His education ultimately came from “the school of hard knocks.”

Because Leichter’s chance for an education was stolen from him, and he never had children of his own, he took an interest in helping others, she said. While there are official scholarships under his name at various organizations, he has been known to personally aid individual needy students.

Leichter says that it’s not his success in the business world that he is most proud of, but rather what that success has allowed him to do. When asked about his scholarship programs, he said in his characteristically reserved manner, “I am proud of being able to give help where help is needed.”

— TRANSLATION CONTRIBUTED BY KURT LEICHTER AND INTERNATIONAL AND AREA STUDIES SOPHOMORE

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T.E.A. Café expands to Campus Corner • Second location to cater to student population LAUREN STALFORD The Oklahoma Daily T.E.A. Café, a local Asian restaurant, is giving its OU customers a reason to rejoice.

T.E.A. Café will be opening a new location on Campus Corner sometime in March, but the exact date has not been released.

Amy Selsor, mechanical engineering sophomore, said she and her friends eat at T.E.A. Café about three times a week.

“We are pumped that it’s going to be closer at Campus Corner,” Selsor said.

After four years at the Alameda location, T.E.A. Café owners have decided to open an additional location designed for college students.

College students make up 80 percent of the restaurant’s customers, said Michelle Weng, T.E.A. Café creator and owner.

Weng said the idea of a Campus Corner location was always in her mind.

“It’s an ideal location because it’s convenient to the students,” said Viet Nguyen, T.E.A. Café manager and co-owner.

Weng said she wanted to provide an environment for students where they could relax between their classes and have tea.

T.E.A. Café is going for a new look, Nguyen said. The owners want a modern contemporary look to better fit college students, he said. The look is going to be very refreshing for students, Weng said.

“You are going to be very surprised,” Weng said.

The new location will look different from any other Asian food place in Norman, she said.

Owners are currently working on creating new items for the Campus Corner menu, Weng said. They have not finalized all the items, but Weng said students can look

forward to having more desserts added to the menu.

Lisa Nguyen, T.E.A. Café employee and graphic design junior, said she is looking forward to the change of pace the new location will bring.

There won’t be as much downtime for employees, said Lisa Nguyen, because students will be in and out all day.

T.E.A. Café was designed to give Asian international students a place to eat authentic food from their homes, said Weng, who is from Taiwan.

Weng said she and her husband, James, are crazy about boba tea, which contains tapioca balls, but no place in Norman offered it. A local lack of her favorite tea inspired Weng to open T.E.A. Café.

Employees are still excited about the location, despite the busier location.

“I’m pretty excited,” Lisa Nguyen said.

“It’s going to be a different kind of feel.”

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The UOSA Superior Court reaffirmed the UOSA Election Commission’s decision to invalidate the results of the Jan. 27 and 28 election.

UOSA will begin accepting applications Wednesday for the vacant social sciences and humanities positions. UOSA will interview the applicants and place someone in the position.

“Instead of having yet another special election, Student Congress will be interviewing applicants for those seats through our own internal appointment procedures,” Kurt Davidson, chair of the Undergraduate Student Senate and political science senior said in an e-mail.

“Through that process, we will ensure that these seats will be filled until the spring election, making sure those districts have representatives. There will then be the general election on March 31 and April 2 that includes most Congress seats in addition to both the UOSA President and CAC Chair race.”

Davidson said the UOSA Code Annotated requires the Undergraduate Student Congress and the Graduate Student Senate to pass legislation for elections three weeks prior to the election. He said if UOSA were to take this approach, the election would be in March, less than one month before the general spring election.

Raymond Rushing, Election Commission chair and human relations graduate student, said the Election Commission invalidated the results because a transferable voting system had a glitch and chose a candidate itself for the January election.

He said when a student votes for a representative, they can chose a second and third choice. If a student’s preferred candidate does not win the election, the student’s vote goes to the second or third choice. Because of this system, the humanities candidates received the same amount of votes and the winner was therefore chosen by a computer, Rushing said.

Rushing said the transfer of votes is one of the primary reasons the Election Commission invalidated the events. He said the Superior Court set a precedent declaring it can invalidate elections when there is a problem, but only when the

election has been verified by the Election Commission. Since the election was not validated, the Superior Court ruled it cannot touch the results, Rushing said.

“Unfortunately, this is the best and fairest way to fill the seats,” he said.

Davidson said UOSA is encouraging those who ran in the Jan. 27 and 28 elections to apply for the position and interview with UOSA officials. Applications are due Feb. 18.

JAMIE HUGHES/THE OKLAHOMA DAILY

Structural problems close downtown building A six-story tower on the corner of Main Street and Peters Avenue, home to The Vista Sports Grill, is closing to the public due to structural concerns.

Tenants and owners of the Financial Building, 111 N. Peters Ave., were notified the tower should be evacuated until repairs are made.

In a letter posted on The Vista Web site, General Manager Skay McCall, said the building’s owners are making plans for repairs, but they “could take several months.”

“Everyone is bailing out like rats,” said Teddy Whitehead, Little Guys Movers employee. “It’s like a bad Jenga game.”

Whitehead was clearing the office space of Fisher & Company, an accounting firm, to move it across the street. He said everything for Fisher & Company should be moved out by Sunday.

All tenants have made plans to vacate the building or have already left according to a statement from Patrick Copeland, Norman City building inspector.

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Organizer of pivotal 1950s sit-in speaks about equality • Clara Luper shares life experiences during ReadIn at Norman library RENEÉ SELANDERS AND SHANE KLISH The Oklahoma Daily Members of the Norman community saw living history embodied in civil rights leader Clara Luper, who was the honorary guest at Norman Pioneer Library’s African American Read-In Sunday.

For this year’s read-in, Luper shared her experiences and read from her autobiography, “Behold the Walls,” before other readers recited passages from books by black authors.

Luper led the first publicized sit-in in the U.S. at a Katz Drugstore lunch counter in Oklahoma City in 1958. Her initiative inspired other sit-ins throughout the country and contributed to racial integration in Oklahoma.

“If anyone had told me that I would be invited back here to relate my experiences, I would not believe them,” she said.

Luper sat facing her audience, and on the wall behind her was a poster-sized photo of her younger self. Her poster hung among photos of President Barack Obama, Maya Angelou and other blacks who embody the successes of the civil rights movement.

Marilyn Hildreth, Luper’s daughter, also participated in the 1958 sit-ins. Hildreth said some people

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Clara Luper (second from right), known as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, listens as Joyce Henderson (second from left) reads an excerpt from “Behold the Wall” Sunday afternoon during the 20th Annual African American Read-In hosted by the Norman Public Library. Luper’s daughter, Marilyn Hildreth (left) and surrogate daughter, Elizabeth Bowie (right), listened as Henderson recounted the 1958 tale of Luper’s protest of Katz Drugstore in Oklahoma City. didn’t understand that all they wanted was to order a cheeseburger and be treated equally.

“They were confused in their thinking,” Luper said.

Charlotte Gordon, librarian and read-in organizer,

said Luper’s presence at the event emphasized the strides that have been made in the civil rights movement and gave the community the opportunity to see living history.

“Let them gaze upon this woman who sacrificed

her livelihood,” she said.

Before Luper spoke, the audience sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the national black anthem. Hildreth helped keep the mood of the event uplifted by keeping beat to a cheer, “Give me that old freedom spirit,” before talking about her mother’s impact on achieving integration in segregated establishments in Oklahoma.

“My mother is beautiful,” Hildreth said. “She is history itself. Anytime I can share a platform with her, it makes me want to shout.”

Those at the event also vied for a moment to share with Luper. During a fifteen-minute break between Luper’s reading and the rest of the program, she took photos with children, listened to people who praised her contributions, and held hands with those who remember her efforts to achieve equality in Oklahoma.

Breanca Thomas, journalism senior and Miss Black OU 2008, read a passage from “Cane River” by Lalita Tademy. Thomas was able to speak with Luper before she left. Thomas said she looks up to Luper as one of the foremost advocates for equality and said being able to meet Luper was a powerful experience.

“Her presence showed her impact,” Thomas said.

Linda Ford, who attended the event and read “Ain’t I a Woman” by Sojourner Truth, said seeing Luper was important to her because she appreciates the progress Luper helped make in the 1950s.

Luper was arrested 26 times for her civil rights protests and was a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1972.

Students sleep outside to raise awareness for local homeless • 2,000 homeless in Oklahoma City LAUREN STALFORD The Oklahoma Daily Approximately 20 OU students gathered on the South Oval Friday evening to camp-out and raise awareness about the local homeless population.

Phi Beta Sigma hosted its eighth annual “Sleep Out for the Homeless” from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.

“It’s to raise awareness about the plight in Norman,” Vince Winston, public affairs and African American studies senior said.

In the Oklahoma City metro area, approximately 2,000 people are homeless each night, said Tiffany Webb, City Rescue Mission public relations manager.

The group also collected canned food in local neighborhoods to donate to East Main Place, a Norman homeless shelter.

Homeless people aren’t the stereotype, said Winston, UOSA vice president. They are people just like college students, faculty or staff,

he said.

There are quite a few college-aged homeless people, Webb said.

Some have been in the foster care system and were kicked out when they turned 18, she said. Some of them have nowhere to go, Webb said.

“Many people don’t understand what homelessness looks like,” she said.

There also is a fair amount of homeless children, Webb said. City Rescue Mission currently houses 35 children, she said.

“That’s pretty shocking to people,” Webb said.

Damion Thornton, University College freshman, said he wasn’t sure what to expect about being homeless for a night. Thornton said he tried to sleep on a bench, but it was too painful to really sleep.

Thornton said the experience helped him better understand something about his own family. He said his mother was once homeless during his childhood.

“I better understand what she was going through at that time,” he said.

Thornton said the Friday night experience gave him a drive to accomplish his goals. He said he wants to do what it takes to make

sure he never has to live in that situation.

The South Oval experience was about 1 percent of what a homeless person actually goes through and still made an impact, said David Garcia, visual communication junior.

Webb said the best way for people to help the homeless situation is to get involved.

Even touring a homeless shelter can help raise awareness, she said.

“If you get involved and get to meet these people, it changes your perspective on what homelessness looks like,” Webb said.

Bobby Olupona, petroleum engineering junior, said it’s hard to understand homelessness without being on the street.

“You really don’t know it until you do it,” he said.

Marquetta Frye, an OU alumna, said she doesn’t think students think about the homeless enough. Frye graduated last year but still attends the event because her sorority did it when she was at OU. Webb said the sleep out event is helpful to raise awareness for the homeless. Students are sometimes so focused on their studies, and an event like this can help open their eyes to the homeless cause, she said.

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Students, faculty should appreciate Darwin events Students and faculty members have a rare pher of biology who has testified in creation/ opportunity to engage in one of the most impor- evolution court cases. Ruse will debate intellitant debates in culture this semester. gent design theorist William Dembski the night While scientists claim there is no debate after his lecture in the Paul F. Sharp Concert about evolutionary theory in academic circles, Hall. it’s clear that in the wider culture Darwinian Several departments have partnered to bring evolution remains controversial. evolutionary biologist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins to the We don’t think students and faculty OUR VIEW McCasland Field House on March 6. should miss the rare educational expeis an editorial Dawkins, the former Charles Simonyi riences related to Charles Darwin and selected and debated Chair for the Public Understanding of his theory of evolution this semester. by the editorial board Science at Oxford, is undoubtedly one OU will host lectures, symposiums and written after a majority opinion is of the most famous and controversial and debates that will observe and formed and approved figures in academia. analyze the theory of evolution in by the editor. Our View These events, and several othhonor of Darwin’s 200th birthday, is The Daily’s official opinion. ers, create an environment that will which is Thursday. encourage diversity of thought and Some of these events are historical, differing ideologies. others scientific. Many are presented A great university should strive to be a marby some of the world’s leading academics.

The Darwinian Revolution Dream Course ketplace of ideas – different ideas – and OU will has attracted many of the speakers – all of be home to perhaps one of the nation’s largest which offer a guest lecture in the course and discussions this semester.

We think students and faculty members an evening lecture in the Sam Noble Oklahoma should be grateful for these events, and regardMuseum of Natural History.

The Dream Course will host a lecture later less of which side of the debate they fall, should this month by Michael Ruse, a famous philoso- participate and engage in the discussions.

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Who was more influential: Darwin or Lincoln?

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Lincoln Editor’s note: Thursday is the birthday of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. This is the first installment of a week-long argument about who was the more influential man. The columnists will respond to each other each day.

Darwin is considered the father of modern biology. This is due to his single contribution of the theory of evolution via the mechanism of natural selection. Darwin did not conceptualize the theory of evolution; evolution was widely expounded by many scientists and philosophers from classical times and onward.

Darwin proposed a mechanism for a larger theory that was already accepted by much of the scientific community. Furthermore, this singular contribution was Darwin’s only one of any outstanding significance. Yes, it was a great one, but this is hardly the scope or magnitude of achievement needed to justify greatness.

Lincoln was a world shaper. His most nota-

ble achievements include the Emancipation Proclamation, his lobbying for the 13th Amendment, leading the Union to victory during the Civil War and his part in the reconstruction of the U.S. afterwards.

Lincoln is invariably ranked as one of the top five U.S. presidents by historians and scholars.

Lincoln served, and still serves, as an incredible role model for American values as JULES well as universal morality and leadership. Lincoln preserved KUNZE the nation that is currently the major world power, while at the same time shaping this nation’s morality and dedication to human rights.

Jules Kunze is a biomedical sciences senior.

Abraham Lincoln is iconic chiefly due to his stewardship of the U.S. during the North’s victory in the Civil War. However, given the Confederacy’s inferior resources and infrastructure, and its population, which lagged the Union’s by 13 million, it seems likely that, had Lincoln never been born, any competent replacement would have managed the same accomplishment.

By the time Lincoln had signed ZAC the Emancipation Proclamation, SMITH most other culturally advanced nations, including Britain and France, had already accomplished abolition.

Lincoln participated in the advancement of many noble ideas, but his influence was in no way singular.

Original V-Day depressing flowers to his girlfriend or wife. He was ascending the walls of a castle to reach his love late at night. The event was intended to be a surprise.

Just before he reached her window, his foot slipped on a loose stone. St. Valentine tumbled into the moat below. He was subsequently devoured by crocodiles that guarded every castle in the Middle Ages.

That’s what he would get for trying to surprise her!

Valentines Day has a unique background not only historically but in our own lives.

Each of us can remember making small cards for our grade-school class. You had to be somewhat savvy.

If there was someone you liked, you had to put extra effort into that card. The note went beyond a simple salutation. Instead of “Happy Valentines Day”, the card read, “I really hope you have a Happy Valentines Day!” This was code for “I like you”. Can’t you tell by the extra six words?

One had to be selective, too, about which Conversation Hearts were given to whom.

You didn’t want to give the “Be Mine” heart to the person you did not like. Mixed messages could result in awkwardness at recess.

In middle school, we quit mass-producing cards and focused on that special someone.

Usually, this was the person you had been the meanest to for the past few months.

Puberty sucks the life out of common sense.

High school saw the emergence of an actual date. You ask, they say yes, sparks fly. Maybe.

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In response to a Feb. 6 news story about nuclear energy possibilities in Oklahoma With a talk just given this week on OU campus from the Secretary of Energy, the likeliness of a nuclear plant going up in Oklahoma is very unlikely since we have a huge potential for wind and natural gas in the state.

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In response to a Feb. 6 opinion column about why Congress should lower the drinking age to 18 Hopefully Congress will actually choose to open up a discussion about this.

Now that they seem to have come to some sort of agreement on the stimulus package, they should be able to move on to issues like this.

- POSTED BY JJ AT OUDAILY.COM

The fact of the matter is, the government has no right to impose such a law.

What happened was that a lot of moms and women got together and wanted to assert their standards on everyone because “mother knows best” right? Well they got it and this moralizing was allowed.

- POSTED BY JFREEZY AT OUDAILY.COM

The only thing with lowering the drinking age is that if they’re going to lower it, it needs to be done gradually. From a psychological and sociological standpoint, if the drinking age was suddenly lower, there would be a dramatic increase in drinking rates as some young people who were waiting until they turn 21 wouldn’t be waiting anymore.

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Guys learned what a florist did for a living. We made a reservation at a fancy restaurant like Charleston’s.

We delivered Russell Stover chocolates purchased by a parent because we could not stomach the thought of spending more than a dollar on—for all intensive purposes—candy that did not taste as good as real candy.

Girls got nervous – and overdressed.

They got upset when the guy showed up in tennis shoes and a baseball hat. And they knew the guy was never going to be as great as Noah from “The Notebook.”

And we arrive at college, where Valentines Day is both venerated and revered with equal fervor.

People are more likely to go to a party embracing singleness on Saturday, than they are to go on a romantic date.

Those parties usually consist of single people hoping to not end the night single.

They spend most of the night talking about what-his-and-her name are doing.

Did he bring flowers? Yes. Take a shot.

Did he take her to a really nice restaurant? Yes. Take a double.

Guys in college pretend that they are blessed to fly solo on Valentines Day. Girls ignore the façade. We would like to be out with someone special just as much as you.

St. Valentine, the Martyr and the BrokenHearted, would probably find our modern ode to love as laughable. But, at least we try – even if we send a Hallmark card instead of our beating heart.

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Love was not in the air for the original St. Valentine.

Two competing stories attempt to explain the origins of St. Valentine. Each is violent, sad and altogether depressing. I hope I do not ring any bells.

The first was told, naturally, by the Roman Catholic Church. St. Valentine was allegedly martyred by Claudius II for marrying Christian couples.

The murder was part of a broader effort by Claudius to persecute anyone found helping Christians during the time.

Geoffrey Chaucer turned St. Valentine from Martyr to Matchmaker during the MATT 15th century when chivalry was en vogue.

FELTY The second story comes from the Belarus states. In this account, St. Valentine was dumped by his longtime girlfriend. To express his undying and everlasting love, he stabbed himself in the chest and sent her his still-beating heart, knife included.

This gives new context to giving and receiving heart-shaped cards.

I was surprised to discover the tragic origins to our “Holiday of Love.”

When I went hunting for information on Wikipedia, I expected to read of a legendary lover who died fighting for his true love on or around Feb. 14. I imagined seeing paintings of some buff dude surrounded by beautiful women at a swanky Italian party.

Or maybe St. Valentine was the perfect guy who died tragically trying to deliver

Charles Darwin’s coinage of the theory of evolution by natural selection singlehandedly revolutionized every field related to biology.

While Lincoln’s influence was localized to the U.S., Darwin’s was felt in every nation with scientific facilities.

While Lincoln remains relevant only as a symbol, Darwin’s theory is currently the central staging ground of the battle between religious fundamentalism and scientific enlightenment.

As biologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote, “Evolution is not a peripheral subject, but the central organizing principle of all biological science.”

Were Lincoln, in this argument, replaced by Solon or Albert Einstein, I might be hesitant to play Darwin’s advocate.

However, as it stands, I think there’s hardly an argument to be had at all.

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Women’s Basketball

Sooners take down Cowgirls, 93-75 • Paris sets Big 12, NCAA records in win over in-state rival ANNELISE RUSSELL The Oklahoma Daily

Record-breaking night for Paris Senior center Courtney Paris became the NCAA’s all-time leading rebounder and the Big 12’s leader in points and field goals on Saturday with her 17 point, eight rebound performance.

She now has 1,823 rebounds, breaking the record set by Drake’s Wanda Ford, 2,481 points and 1,037 field goals in her career.

The No. 2 women’s basketball team took the bus to Stillwater Sunday afternoon for a Bedlam battle and took home a 93-75 win over OSU. Sophomore guard Danielle Robinson drove through the lane to score the first points of the game for OU, and that was indicative of how the first half played out.

OU got going early while the Cowgirls were still looking for their first basket three minutes into the game.

OSU finally put some points on the board, but they were no match for the Sooners high octane offense early on.

Robinson led the Sooners in scoring in the first half with 10 points.

The difference on the scoreboard was the seven players scoring for OU to only four for the Cowgirls.

“They have all the pieces of the puzzle,” Oklahoma State coach Kurt Budke told the Associated Press. “Connecticut is probably a notch above, but Oklahoma is above everyone else. They’re that good. It’s not just the Courtney Paris show and it doesn’t have to be. They have a lot of options this year.”

The Sooners built up a double-digit lead and took the Cowgirls into halftime with a 49-34 lead.

An OSU run marked the opening minutes of the second half, but the Cowgirls team could not break into the Sooners 10-point lead.

OU continued to make the extra pass and knock down shots.

Senior center Courtney Paris finished the game with 17 points and became the all-time leading scorer in Big 12 women’s basketball. She now sits ahead of Big 12 greats Sophia Young, Kendra Wecker and Nicole Ohlde.

The Sooners ended the game with six players — Robinson, Paris, junior forward Amanda Thompson, sophomore guard Nyeshia Stevenson, sophomore guard Jenny Vining and freshman guard Whitney Hand — scoring in double figures.

“I was really proud of the balance of our team today,” head coach Sherri Coale told the Associated Press. “I thought we shared the basketball extraordinarily well. I thought we adheared to the game plan well. I thought we played together extremely well. We got great play off of our bench. Another road win in the Big 12, and we’re proud of it.”

The Sooners return home to face an improved Iowa State team at 7 p.m. Wednesday night at Lloyd Noble Center.

“I thought we played together extremely well. ... Another road win in the Big 12, and we’re proud of it.”

— Head coach Sherri Coale

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SPORTS BRIEFS Brooks, Legendre named to U.S. Senior National Team after performance at Winter Cup The Sooners now officially have three members of the U.S. Senior National Team after senior co-captain Chris Brooks and sophomore co-captain Steven Legendre were named to the team Saturday night following their performances at the Winter Cup in Las Vegas.

Business senior and former OU gymnast Jonathan Horton also made the team.

Brooks finished fifth in the event and Legendre finished seventh. Legendre was on the team last year, but this is Brooks’ first appearance.

After the Winter Cup, seven total gymnasts were named to the Senior National Team, and three of them are Sooners. Six others will be added later, and that team of 15 will compete in the 2009 Visa Championships in August.

The OU men’s gymnastics team gets back to action at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 21 against Iowa at McCasland Field House.

The Sooners’ meet with the Hawkeyes marks “Cleveland Elementary Night.”

Students, parents and teachers will pack the Howard McCasland Field House as the annual event is part of a “Partners in Education” program with Cleveland Elementary.

— DAILY STAFF

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OU senior forward Ashley Paris (5) jumps while guarding Oklahoma State guard Andrea Riley during the first half of an NCAA women’s college basketball game in Stillwater Sunday. Oklahoma defeated Oklahoma State 93-75.

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After dropping its opening game of the 12th annual Hawaii Paradise Classic 8-5, to Hawaii, the No. 10 Sooners exploded for 53 runs in four games en route to capturing the tournament title.

OU (4-1) captured the tournament title in a 13-1, run rule victory against the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Senior pitcher D.J. Mathis went four shutout innings for the championship game victory.

The Sooners’ offensive juggernaut was led by the tournament’s Most Valuable Player, junior infielder Amber Flores, who hit .643 in five games. She was one of seven AMBER players who had a batting average of more than .300.

Flores’s offensive production included three home FLORES runs, while driving in 15 runs and having a 1.429 slugging percentage.

In the Sooners’ first victory of the tournament against UAB, she tied an Oklahoma single-game record of eight RBIs and hit two round -trippers in an 18-0 victory.

Supporting the Sooners’ offensive outburst was pitching that allowed one run in four wins, including three consecutive shutouts.

Mathis earned the tournament’s Most Valuable Pitcher title as she threw 13.1 innings while giving up seven hits and striking out 13 batters. In her three starts she posted a 2-1 record and 2.70 ERA. Also earning All-Tournament team honors included freshman pitcher Kirsten Allen, junior catcher Lindsey Vandever, sophomore infielder Dani Dobbs, sophomore outfielder Krystle Huey and freshman designated player Katie Norris.

“I was pleased with our response for the remainder of the tournament following Thursday’s uncharacteristic performance,” head coach Patty Gasso said.

“Each individual played a part in our success this weekend.”

— JONO GRECO

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Monday, Feb. 9, 2009

Men’s Basketball

Sooners hold off Colorado late, reach 9-0 in Big 12 ERIC DAMA The Oklahoma Daily The men’s basketball team isn’t showing any signs of slowing down.

The Sooners improved upon their best start in school history Saturday, beating Colorado, 77-72, to push their record to a nation-best 23-1 (9-0, Big 12).

Sophomore forward Blake Griffin led all players with 26 points and 12 rebounds. Griffin’s double-double marked his sixth-straight and NCAA-leading 20th on the season.

“He did a heck of a job,” Colorado senior forward Jermyl Jackson-Wilson said. “You got to try to limit his catches, but he’s going to do what he’s going to do.”

Junior guard Tony Crocker also turned in a monsterous performance. Crocker hit seven three-pointers and finished with 24 points, three rebounds and three assists.

“He hit seven threes,” said Colorado junior guard Dwight Thorne II. “If anybody hits seven threes, it’s going to be a long day.”

Both teams shot well from the floor Saturday. The Sooners shot 57 percent while Colorado shot 51 percent.

The Buffaloes had four players score in double figures, with sophomore guard Cory Higgins recording a team-high 20 points.

“We had a hard time guarding their stuff,” head coach Jeff Capel said. “It is a hard game to get into a rhythm because they switch defenses so much. Those guys played really hard.”

The Sooners led 65-51 with 6:47 remaining in the game, but a late charge by the Buffaloes pulled them within eight at the 1:04 mark.

Several quick shots from Colorado and a few turnovers by OU allowed the Buffaloes to make the score 73-70 with 12 seconds left.

Crocker and sophomore Cade Davis each made two free throws, however, and sealed the game for OU. “I thought in the first half we did a good job offensively when we didn’t turn it over,” Capel said. “In the second half I thought their defense did a little better job of containing us.

Our defense has to get better as we go forward if we want to get better as a team and continue winning like we’ve been winning.”

Junior guard Juan Patillo came off the bench to give the Sooners his usual energy boost. Patillo saw an extended amount of playing time (27 minutes) and finished with eight points, five rebounds, three assists and three blocks.

“He gives us a big lift,” Griffin said. “He has a knack for being in the right place at the

Griffin shows off repitoire in win over Buffs DANIEL MARTIN The Oklahoma Daily Sophomore forward Blake Griffin has been dominating opponents for 24 games this season, and Saturday marked the 20th time he made a complete mockery of defensive efforts against him.

Collecting his 20th double-double, with 26 points and 12 rebounds in a close win over Colorado Saturday, Griffin continued to show why he is the likely front-runner for National Player of the Year.

Griffin racked up 26 points while draining 11 of 14 from the field on Saturday. He made every one of his seven first half attempts and his only stutters of the night seemed to come at the free throw line.

Griffin only hit four of his 10 attempts from the charity stripe.

Colorado head coach Jeff Bzdelik said he spent 18 years in the NBA and realizes Griffin is something special.

“He is a great talent, he is going to get his points and we know that,” Bzdelik said. “He is just a special athlete and you can tell his head and his heart are in the right place.”

Griffin let loose in the second half and began to use his size, speed and basketball expertise to hit the Buffaloes where it hurt.

Just before the 16 minute mark, Griffin stole a cross-court pass and took it the other way for a windmill dunk.

With 10:30 left in the game, Griffin was at it again. This time cutting through the lane when he elevated above the defense for a ferocious tomahawk, and-one, dunk that brought the crowd and the Sooner bench to their feet in the blink of an eye.

“He is an All-American and he plays like it,” Colorado’s senior forward Jermyl Jackson-Wilson said. “He’s a heck of a player and a monster dunk always electrifies the crowd.”

Griffin is still writing his destiny, but his mark has been left at OU. “As good of athlete as he is, he is a 10 times better person,” head coach Jeff Capel said.

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Sophomore forward Blake Griffin attempts a finger roll against Colorado Saturday at Lloyd Noble Center.

The Sooners beat the Buffaloes 77-72. right time. Defensively, he’s all over the place, and we always feel like if we get stops on the defensive end, it helps us get into our offensive game.”

The Sooners now travel to Waco, Texas, to take on Baylor Wednesday at 8 p.m.

Highlight video of Saturday’s game and more can be found at OUDaily.com.

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Junior guard Tony Crocker (center) drives between two Colorado defenders in Saturday’s game at Lloyd Noble Center. Crocker finished with 24 points.

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Wrestling

Sooners drop two matches to top-five foes In Sunday’s matchup, No.16 HWT sophomore Nathan Fernandez led off and lost a tough battle to Nebraska’s No.19 Tucker Lane 3-1.

Fernandez also lost to No.1 Mark Ellis from Mizzou on Friday, 5-3.

Following Fernandez on Sunday, Fio won via major decision over The No. 14 Sooners (15-3 overall, 1-3 Big 12) finished their final home matches on a sour note, losing 12-18 to No.5 Missouri Friday night and Andy Pokorny 16-5.

141-pound junior Kyle Terry was also one of the stars of the week15-18 to No.4 Nebraska on Sunday. end, going 2-0 and upping his overall record to In both matches, OU had an early lead and let 23-1, a team high in wins. the opponent back into the game, leading to two “I try not to think about my record,” Terry Sooner losses. said. “It crosses my mind, but I try not think “We wrestled great teams and battled hard,” about it. I try not to get over confident.” head coach Jack Spates said. “We had two great No. 8 Terry beat Mizzou’s Andrew Sherry opportunities this weekend and lost by a hair in 8-3 on Friday and got the technical fall against both. You learn from it.”

Nebraska’s Curtis Salazar 21-6.

The Sooners had a 9-3 lead against Missouri “I’m pleased with my performance,” Terry at one point and a 15-3 lead against Nebraska. said. “I work hard and that was my goal for From the 157-weight class to heavyweight, seven minutes. I take it one match at a time.”

OU went 1-11 this weekend.

OU has done better than expected this sea“It’s frustrating to see our bigger guys not son, with this weekends’ losses being its second doing as well as the lightweights,” sophomore and third. Spates said he is confident that his 125-pound wrestler Joey Fio said. team can compete with wrestling’s elite.

On the other hand, from the 125-weight class “We wrestle hard and we wrestle well,” Spates to 149-weight class, the OU grapplers went 7-1 said. “We can wrestle with anyone. We started on the weekend.

— Head coach Jack Spates the year off outside the top twenty.”

A weakness has risen in the latter portion of Despite the straight losses, OU still believes the lineup. they can finish the season strong in a competi“You have to be better than that,” Spates said. tive Big 12 conference. “[The Cornhuskers] are potent in the upper weights.”

“The Big 12 is considered the toughest conference,” Terry said. “All No.7 Fio started the Sooners off right on Friday against Missouri, as the Big 12 teams are good. It’s a battle of who wants it more.” he beat Troy Dolan 8-4. It was Fio’s 10th straight win.

MJ CASIANO The Oklahoma Daily

“We wrestled great teams and battled hard. We had two great opportunities this weekend and lost by a hair in both. You learn from it.”

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In the 157-pound match, senior Will Rowe struggles to break the hold of Missouri’s No. 8 Michael Chandler in Friday night’s wrestling match against the Tigers.

Chandler won the by a score of 6-2. The Tigers beat OU 18-12 and handed the Sooners their second loss of the season.

STAFF COLUMN

Lawlessness should bring harsher punishments than NCAA violations Since when did breaking the law become less of an issue than breaking NCAA rules?

For those that haven’t heard the news, Texas head baseball coach Augie Garrido was pulled over in the wee hours of the morning on Jan. 17 for driving without his headlights.

Police ran a DUI test and arrested him on a charge of drunken driving.

He then pleaded guilty, and the Longhorns subsequently suspended him for the first four games of the 2009 season.

Four games for a DUI? That’s a great punishment, considering the first four games will be against Illinois-Chicago, a team Texas could likely beat without its starters.

In total, Garrido is effectively suspended for three days, including the Feb. 20 opener, a double-header the next day and the series finale on Sunday, Feb. 22.

JOEY Harsh punishment.

Compare that to former OU men’s basketball HELMER coach Kelvin Sampson and his violations of NCAA rules and his punishment.

Sampson was reprimanded for making more than 550 illegal phone calls to 17 different recruits while at OU, and was denied offcampus recruiting rights and couldn’t make phone calls for a year.

The Sooners were left under watch for three years for those recruiting violations, and Sampson left to coach at Indiana.

There, he was involved in controversial recruiting process in competition against Illinois for now-NBA guard Eric Gordon.

Gordon committed to Illinois but backed out and went to Indiana and Sampson was highly criticized for not communicating with Illinois coach Bruce Weber throughout the process.

But it got worse.

While at Indiana, Sampson broke five major NCAA rules, including the terms of the sanctions against him for his actions at OU. He made 35 impermissible phone calls from his home, and the NCAA cracked down on him even further.

He resigned from his position as head coach of the Hoosiers, and the NCAA threw a five year show-cause order on him.

That means he can’t coach another NCAA team for five years unless the program hiring him shows he served his punishment.

Now, I’m not justifying what Sampson did; it was wrong.

Both figures were wrong with their actions.

But what’s worse, driving a car drunk without the headlights on and possibly hitting and killing someone or making a few extra phone calls to get a recruiting edge?

Clearly, drunken driving is a more serious offense.

The drunk driver is slapped on the wrist with a petty four-game suspension while the other is cut from the NCAA for five years.

That’s ridiculous.

Maybe that’s why society is so backwards, because the value of a game is greater than the value of someone’s life.

JOEY HELMER IS A JOURNALISM SENIOR.

SPORTS BRIEFS Both tennis teams lose over weekend This past weekend was rough for both OU tennis teams who were on their first road trips of the semester.

Both the men’s and women’s teams lost this past weekend.

The men’s team lost their second straight game at the Great Northwest Shootout as they fell to the University of Washington and Boise State University.

The women’s team suffered their first loss of the season as they fell to the Alabama Crimson Tide by a score of 4-2. The Sooners got down early in the match 3-0 and were not able to mount enough of a comeback to take the match.

Both teams will try to rebound next week as the men will return home to face Tulsa on Feb. 12. The women will travel to Wichita, Kan. to face Wichita State on Feb. 15 — JAMES ROTH

Golf finishes 10th in Hawaii The men’s golf team began the spring portion of its schedule with a respectable finish at the Hilo Invitational at the University of Hawaii.

OU finished in a tie for 10th, following a final-round score of 293 (+5). The Friday score was 10-strokes under the second round score on Thursday.

Sophomore Liam Logan (T22), who fired a final round score of -2, led the way for OU, finishing at +4 for the tournament.

OU’s next best finish was by redshirt freshman Riley Pumphrey (T24), who shot +1 for the final round, six shots better than his 79 on Thursday.

Southern California came away with the victory in the tournament. The Trojans ran away with the tournament, winning by 11 strokes over Pac-10 foe, Washington.

OU is back in action Feb. 16-17, in San Antonio.

— JARROD YOST

Women’s gym falls to Nebraska

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The No. 7 Sooner women’s gymnastics squad lost a close match with No. 12 Nebraska Sunday afternoon in Lincoln, 196.175-196.000.

The Sooners were forced to count a fall on uneven bars in the first rotation when freshman Megan Ferguson missed a release move for 9.325 and junior Hollie Vise took a hard fall on her dismount (9.150). OU rebounded on the remaining three events, scoring 49.150 on vault, 49.325 on beam and 49.000 on floor exercise. Seniors Ashley Jackson and Haley DeProspero finished 1-2 in the all-around, but the Sooners still came up short by .175.

“I was very proud of the way we hung in the entire meet,” head coach K.J. Kindler said. “It would have been easy to fold after trailing by such a large margin after the first rotation, but we came back with three-straight 49-plus scores. We didn’t give Nebraska any room for error with the way we closed the meet and we can build from that as we move forward.”

The Sooners next face off against No. 19 Denver on Saturday in Colorado.

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Track competes across the country The OU track team set several records in the weekend, as the Sooners split up with members competing in South Bend, Ind., Norman, New York City and Albuquerque, N.M. In South Bend, sophomore Jacob Boone became the first-ever OU runner to run the mile in less than four minutes, finishing at 3:59.07 at the Meyo Invitational. The performance was good for an NCAA qualifying mark.

In New York, senior Leslie Cole broke her own record in the 400-meter dash by running it in 52.33 seconds, earning a second place finish and a NCAA qualifying mark.

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Senior Ashley Jackson competes on the floor exercise against Minnesota on Jan. 30 at Lloyd Noble Center. Jackson scored a 9.850 on the event and the women won the meet 196.500-195.675, but the Sooners are now 2-3 on the season after their loss to Nebraska on Sunday.

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Life & Arts

Monday, Feb. 9 2009

Drama students bring pinball wizard to life When Christopher Rice arrived at the Lyric Theatre Friday night, he was expecting business as usual.

Rice, a musical theatre junior, is one of 21 OU students appearing in the Lyric’s production of “The Who’s Tommy,” a rock opera that tells the story of a deaf, dumb and blind boy who is healed of his afflictions, and rises to fame through his superb pinball playing skills.

Typically, Rice stars in several bit parts in the show, as well as the ensemble.

But Friday night, it was clear something was DUSTY different when Rice went to talk with co-star Julia SOMERS Murney, an off-Broadway veteran and one of the show’s leads.

“She grabs my hand and goes, ‘Honey, we need to talk,’” Rice said.

With 25 minutes to go before the show’s scheduled start time, Murney told Rice that Jon Fletcher, one of the show’s leads, was sick, and either the show would be canceled or Rice would have to step up.

Rice, the understudy for Fletcher’s role as the titular Tommy, had never actually rehearsed the part, but decided he would perform it anyway.

After taking a few minutes to go over the music with the musical director and interacting with some of the stage props, including a rotating pinball machine, Rice took the stage to take on a role he had watched, but never performed.

Now, when I go to a musical, I have a hard time not enjoying myself, even if the quality isn’t quite what I’d hoped. The energy, commitment and talent required in musical theater almost always builds up to a catharsis that is incredibly satisfying to watch.

But Friday night achieved something at an even greater level.

It was a triumph to see someone step into shoes he’d never stepped into before, and wear them like they were his own from the very start.

Rice showed an enormous amount of discipline staying in character throughout the show, especially at the end, while singing songs he hadn’t learned the lyrics too, necessitating his use of the libretto.

“A lot of times I was praying,” Rice said. “I was always thinking ahead.”

Not that you were able to tell – he looked in the moment every step of the way.

As for the rest of the show, “Tommy” is the musical you take your friends who hate showtunes to. Anchored by the spectacular music

by Pete Townshend and The Who, the show is a highly technical visual wonder.

The Lyric’s production excelled thanks to the brilliant set design of Amanda Foust, that consisted of constantly shifting white panels and the bright costume palette designed by Jeffrey Meek.

photo provided by Lyric Theatre

“Tommy,” the stage adaptation of the 1969 rock opera by the legendary British rock group The Who, opened in 1993 on Broadway.

Although not every number hit the mark, there were many standouts, most of which were fronted by the ensemble consisting almost entirely of OU students. Their dancing was spot-on, their harmonies crisp and their energy unflagging – OU’s musical theater department certainly represented well.

On the frustrating side, Friday night’s performance suffered from a bevy of sound issues, with plenty of actor’s microphones not turned up at the proper time. Fortunately, by the second act, the problem was mostly solved.

And ultimately, that’s a small complaint when considering the experience Friday night provided. The musical was excellent, but Rice’s display of resiliency made it hard to forget.

Somehow, I doubt he’ll be forgetting it anytime soon either.

“It was kind of an out-of-body experience,” Rice said. “It was really rewarding to be able to step into Tommy’s shoes, at least for one night.”

Mustang statue not well-recieved Rearing 32 feet high, the metallic blue mustang sculpture demands the attention of every traveler through Denver International Airport.

The horse was designed by New Mexico artist Luis Jimenez, the same sculptor of the mustang housed outside of OU’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. But that wild look of “Mustang” is prompting some to wonder if the sculpture installed just a year ago should be moved somewhere less prominent. Alternate monikers suggested for the horse with the glowering eyes include “Bluecifer,” ‘’Satan’s Steed” and “Blue Devil Horse.”

About 28 million travelers last year passed by the rearing blue horse, located south of the main terminal.

The city of Denver commissioned the fiber-

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Norman resident Janice Harris prepares a chocolate-covered pretzel behind the Abbey Road Catering booth at the Chocolate Festival held at Norman North High School Saturday.

Livin’ la vida cocoa • 27th annual Chocolate Festival brings tasters from near and abroad SHAYNA DAITCH The Oklahoma Daily

Norman North High School was choc full of people this past Saturday for the 27th annual Chocolate Festival, the biggest fundraiser for the Firehouse Art Center.

A day of heaven on earth, the Chocolate Festival was started 27 years ago by Dan Davis.

At the time, five restaurants participated and over 600 people attended.The festival’s popularity since has only increased.

This year, over 3,000 chocoholics from Oklahoma and several other states came to taste the delicacies provided by about 40 contributing restaurants.

From dark chocolate to white chocolate, bars to brownies, and cookies to cake, no variety was left out.

The festival was held in the commons area of Norman North High School. Chocolate lovers waited in lines that extended out the door to join the bustling throng inside.

Upon arrival, tickets holders were presented with a Styrofoam takeout box, a napkin, a spork and a punch card. The card was good for 10 samples and had room to write down notes about the best chocolate. Some people in line were com-

mentating that they didn’t feel like 10 samples would be enough. They would soon find that after a few samples, no one wanted anymore chocolate. People were leaving with boxes – a sweet surprise for later.

Each vendor had outrageous visuals to attract festivalgoers. It was a sight to behold. Kendall’s Restaurant from Noble, Okla had workers dressed as oompa loompas dishing out fresh hot chocolate cinnamon rolls. Three adorable girls dressed as the cinnamon rolls danced and sang to the crowd, while a fun-sized Willy Wonka strolled around.

Chili’s offered chocolate volcano cakes amongst an edible display of islands and surfers.

Cocoflow supplied a giant chocolate fountain while Amy Cakes, Sugar and Fancy That Cafe all showcased gorgeous and intricate multi-tiered cakes covered in colored fondant.

Legend’s chocolate cake created a lengthy line of purveyors coveting a slice. La Baguette displayed a large Dalmatian puppy in front of giant chocolate flames to enthrall the people in the queue for cake and chocolate mice.

Other vendors offered a change of pace from the rest of the assortment. The Mont gave out small cups of their queso, and The Diner provided chocolate infused chili to those wanting something without copious amounts of sugar.

All of the proceeds went directly toward the Firehouse Art Center and its programs. Grants and donations from the Norman and Oklahoma Arts Councils, the City of Norman and many private donors support the Firehouse.

– DUSTY SOMERS IS A JOURNALISM JUNIOR.

glass sculpture in 1993, two years before the airport opened. His 1969 sculpture “Man on Fire” and 1990’s “Vaquero” have been displayed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

In 2006, Jimenez was killed when a section of the unfinished horse fell from a hoist at his Hondo, N.M., studio. Jimenez’s sons, Adan and Orion, completed the sculpture, which was installed Feb. 11, 2008.

Jimenez’s widow, Susan Jimenez, said the original proposal was for a sculpture of a buffalo stampede. That was rejected because buffalo were hunted to near extinction in the West.

Jimenez then proposed the mustang — wild horses that symbolize the West and provided long distance travel, like airplanes today.

Trapp said any petition to move the sculpture wouldn’t be considered until 2013.

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Michael Loveland, Patrick Roberts, Sean Barker and Adam Smith of Early Beat hanging out before their performance Saturday night at the Opolis. Their next show will be March 6 at the Momentum: Art Doesn’t Stand Still exhibition.

Pre-school chums bring the beats How long have you been playing together, and how did the band form?

• Norman punk band makes noise at the Opolis “Without A Trace” – CBS, 9 p.m. Tuesday The missing person was posing as a college student. Why?

Early Beat Giant Squid Lives Records Released Sep. 2008

We’ve been playing together for almost a year. I’ve known Adam [Smith] and Patrick [Roberts] since pre-school. Just a lifetime of the EDTIOR’S NOTE: The Daily’s same interests.

Claire Douthitt spoke with Michael Loveland, lead vocalist What started Early Beat? and guitarist for Norman’s own Early Beat before their show Fate.

Saturday night at the Opolis.

The Early Beat played an ener- How would you describe your music? getic show, demonstrating the bands punk-tinged roots and wide Flower punk. range of influences. An authentic newer band, Early Beat has an Where does the name “Early Beat” come from? eclectic, refreshing sound that is perfectly suited for a live audience A music assembly we went to in elementary school. and a happy, fun energy.

Early Beat’s self-titled debut Who are your musical influences? album came out last year on Giant Squid Lives Records, and can next A whole bunch. It’s anywhere from Iggy Pop to the Rolling Stones. be seen at the Momentum art show in Oklahoma City on March 6.

Describe yourselves in three words.

You can check out more about Happy, energetic, mindful. the band at their MySpace page.

L&A BRIEFS “Lost” – ABC, 8 p.m. Wednesday

Grammy no-shows cause shuffling

‘Slumdog’ wins best picture at UK film awards

Ben tells Sun that Jin’s alive. Will she believe him and come back to the island?

The last-minute absences of scheduled performers and nominees Chris Brown and Rihanna caused some last-minute reshuffling of the Grammy telecast, including a hastily put together ensemble performance

by Justin Timberlake, Boyz II Men, Al Green and Keith Urban.

Rihanna was set to be the second performer on Sunday night’s CBS show, singing “Live Your Life” and “Disturbia.”

Instead, the ensemble performance went on after an awkward, impromptu-sounding introduction by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who had been scheduled to introduce Rihanna.

Brown was scheduled as the evening’s fifth performer, singing “Forever,” but his performance was scratched.

Not long before the show the Los Angeles Police Department announced that Brown is the subject of a felony domestic violence battery investigation.

Brown and Rihanna are dating and were both multiple Grammy nominees.

Rags-to-riches story “Slumdog Millionaire” continued its fairy-tale journey Sunday, winning seven prizes including best picture at the British Academy Film Awards and sealing its place as favorite for the Oscars later this month.

Kate Winslet and Mickey Rourke also gained Oscar momentum with acting wins — Winslet for her role as a former Nazi concentration camp guard in “The Reader,” Rourke for his career-reviving performance as a washed-up athlete in “The Wrestler.” Heath Ledger won a posthumous supporting actor award for The Dark Knight.”

“It’s such a pleasure to be back here, out of the darkness,” said Rourke.

After her emotional meltdown at the Golden Globes last month, Winslet was a model of composure, thanking her parents in the audience “who I will not look at right now, otherwise I will burst into tears.”

“Slumdog,” Danny Boyle’s film about a Mumbai street boy’s rise from poverty to game-show triumph, went into the ceremony with 11 nominations.

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Biden promises foreign policy shifts State environmental WASHINGTON — The Obama administration promises sweeping changes in American foreign policy, and some U.S. adversaries are nibbling the bait.

Vice President Joe Biden hit most of the right notes in his Munich speech this weekend, declaring — among a long list of initiatives — Washington’s readiness to push the “reset button” with Russia, talk with rather than browbeat Iran and revitalize the bruised NATO alliance.

U.S. troops are leaving Iraq. A more nuanced Afghan policy is in the works. President Barack Obama won’t rest without progress on an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

At the 45th Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Biden painted the global landscape in new colors, drawing stark contrasts with the Bush administration, which had alienated many American friends and deepened animosity among its enemies.

“The U.S. administration sent a very strong signal, and the signal was heard,” Russian deputy prime minister Sergei Ivanov said Sunday.

Over the weekend, Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani spoke of a “golden opportunity for the United States” — suggesting that if Washington was serious about conciliation, Tehran could respond in kind. Larijani said the U.S. needed to change “to a chess game instead of a boxing match.”

Any changes in American strategy toward Russia, Iran or any of the other international actors now at odds with the United States could have huge political consequences. They would set off an explosion of opposition from American foreign policy traditionalists, neoconservative thinkers especially.

The Bush administration was guided by the blunt view that America was the only superpower — after the collapse of the Soviet Union — and had the economic resources and military strength to insist that Washington’s will be done.

That produced the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq in spite of heavy opposition from most European allies — Britain and, to a degree, Italy excepted. Iraq policy in turn has bedeviled U.S. efforts to pacify Afghanistan and hunt down Osama bin Laden in neighboring Pakistan. The Europeans have been far from wholehearted in supporting that U.S. military effort, which has gone seriously awry.

Then there’s Iran. Since the Islamic revolution and the extended crisis over the hostage-taking of American diplomats 30 years ago, the one-time ally has become an implacable foe. And it’s a foe with serious ambitions, including the destruction of Israel, support of anti-Israeli organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah and construction of a nuclear arsenal.

Iran is bent on becoming a regional power in the Middle East and its chances of success have been much advanced by events in neighboring Iraq, where the U.S. ouster of Saddam Hussein removed a major brake to Tehran’s ambitions.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin is fighting U.S. efforts to promote

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

DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Don Elwyn Powers, 25, Constitution Street, Thursday Kristopher Samuel Prevost, 28, North Crawford Avenue, Thursday, also driving without a license John R. Boul, 43, West South Highway 9, Saturday Ginna Leigh Ann Bradshaw, 21, West Boyd Street, Saturday Melanie Dawn German, 22, Boyd Street, Saturday Kenda Collette Wallace, 50, Classen Boulevard, Saturday, also no verification of insurance Raymond Willis, 19, Asp Avenue, Saturday

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Vice President Joe Biden addresses participants of the Munich Conference on Security Policy on Saturday in Germany.

NATO membership for countries that border Russia and were former satellites or even republics of the old Soviet Union.

NATO expansion — which began in earnest under President Bill Clinton — led the Bush administration to declare plans to install a missile defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland, compounding Kremlin anger and insecurity. While Washington insists those missiles are designed to counter any Iranian attack on Europe, even Russia, Moscow is not buying the argument.

Finally, al-Qaida remains determined to continue its campaign to knock the United States off keel. Many analysts fear bin Laden’s next assault will be even deadlier than the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, including biological or nuclear weapons.

But Obama is in the midst of a honeymoon with most of the rest of the Islamic world, which, for now, accepts his promises of respect and evenhandedness after nearly a decade of believing it was held in low esteem by the Bush administration. The Arab subset of that world is likewise enthralled with Obama and his energized efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace.

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unlawful use of a drivers license Tyler Thomas Goodpasture, 19, 4115 W Main St., Friday Kyle Dean Kenneda, 18, 2657 Classen Blvd., Friday John Joseph Kovach, 19, 4115 W Main St., Friday Evan Michael McGrath, 19, 2657 Classen Blvd., Friday Cody James Sheppard, 19, 800 W Lindsey St., Friday, also unlawful use of a drivers license Sean Lenard Smitherman, 19, 1501 Elm Ave., Friday, also unlawful use of a drivers license Gerrit Richard Verbeek, 18, 1800 Beaumont Dr., Saturday Kevin Windham, 20, 1800 Beaumont Dr., Saturday

James Mario Joseph Presson, 26, 606 Morningside Dr., Saturday, also possession of a controlled dangerous substance

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• The Schlumberger Technology Field Engineers info session will be at 6 p.m. in the Associates Room of the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

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But Strong said shrinking revenue will force all state agencies to find a way to operate with less.

State officials blame the budget shortfall on lower energy prices and a nationwide economic downturn.

“Everybody’s facing hard times economically,” Strong said. “We’re going to have to share taking cuts and services and reducing costs.”

Duane Smith, OWRB’s executive director, said his agency will work to become more efficient.

“We’re not going to sit here and complain,” Smith said. “The governor’s doing the best he can to put his budget together with the priorities he sees.”

Henry proposed deep cuts to the budgets of dozens of state agencies while largely protecting the current level of appropriations to core government functions including education, health care, transportation and public safety.

“In a perfect world, Governor Henry would have preferred to increase funding for the environmental agencies,” said his communications director, Paul Sund. “But with a $600 million budget hole and increasingly uncertain economic conditions, there weren’t any good choices available.”

“The governor hopes the latest reductions are temporary and when the economy and state revenues improve, so should the resources of the agencies.”

The cuts proposed by Henry include 10 percent reductions in the environmental agencies’ travel budgets as well as a 5 percent reduction in their overall budget.

His budget also recommends additional cuts to the agencies that would be made up with more than $2 million in fee increases.

But agency officials as well as budget writers in the Republicancontrolled Legislature indicated that raising that much money through fee increases this year will be difficult to accomplish.

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OKLAHOMA CITY — State agencies that protect public water supplies, manage the state’s flood plains and protect Oklahomans from the dangers of hazardous waste would bear some of the biggest cuts under Gov. Brad Henry’s proposed state budget for the upcoming year.

The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, which monitors the state’s air and water quality as well as solid, hazardous and low-level radioactive waste, lost almost $2 million in appropriations from its current $9.7 million budget, a reduction of 20 percent.

The Oklahoma Water Resources Board, responsible for setting water quality standards, enforcing dam safety regulations and managing Oklahoma’s flood plains, lost more than $1.1 million from its $4.6 million budget, a 25 percent reduction.

Henry released his budget plan, totaling a little more than $7 billion, at the start of the 2009 Oklahoma Legislature last week after warning in his State of the State address that the state faces a $600 million budget hole and some budget cuts were inevitable.

But the size of the cuts to DEQ and OWRB came as a surprise to agency administrators and workers.

“It was a bit surprising,” said Steve Thompson, executive director of DEQ. But the governor’s proposal is just the beginning of the budgeting process and many ideas will be proposed before Henry and lawmakers agree on a final budget before the Legislature must adjourn on May 29, Thompson said.

“There will be a lot of discussion before that final budget comes out,” he said.

Henry’s environmental secretary, J.D. Strong, said the budget cuts might lead some Oklahomans to conclude that the environment has become a low priority for the Democratic governor.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Usually, promises made under duress don’t turn out as they are represented, so take care if someone tries to pressure you into making a quick commitment.

Take time to study the matter.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- You need a lot of space in which to operate, so don’t let anyone take away your wiggle room. If they do, it’ll reduce your effectiveness and cause mistakes you wouldn’t make otherwise.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -Don’t allow yourself to get in the middle between two friends who are having a heated argument.

All your good intentions will backfire when both turn on you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- An overactive imagination could be to your detriment if it is a negative one; it will conjure all kinds of fanciful difficulties that’ll never happen and make you miserable.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Be prepared to go it alone, because those upon whom you can usually depend won’t be anywhere to be found. Better yet, don’t start anything you can’t finish on your own.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- It’s one of those days where you won’t be allowed to be your own person, yet you can’t be all things to everyone else, either.

It’s a no-win day, so simply do your best and don’t look back.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- It’s not like you to act impulsively. But upon those rare occasions, you could explode without warning with such force that you’ll blow your reputation of patience into oblivion.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Do not accelerate your sales pitch to a high level if you see what you are trying to sell is being totally rejected. Being pushy will only turn off potential clients further.

Try the indirect approach.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Try to be as independent as possible, and don’t ask for any favors. Your request could evoke an over-reactive negative response that may take things to unintentional levels.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- You’ve always had to be tenacious and consistent in order to achieve your objectives, but you know just how far to go. If you accidentally cross the line, it might send you back to square one.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Take care not to take offense if your associates aren’t as receptive to your ideas as they usually are. That sudden temper of yours -- which can come out of nowhere -- might explode again.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Although some things we want can only be acquired by longterm financial obligations, this is not one of those times when you should sign on. Something is wrong, so take your time rechecking things.

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