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Mike Strauss (left), associate professor of physics, and Horst Severini (right), adjunt assistant professor of physics, stand beside the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. This ATLAS detector is one of four large detectors at CERN.

Professor hopes to dispel myths surrounding world’s largest particle accelerator JARED RADER

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Questions about the origins of the universe soon may have some answers when protons smash into each other this September at the much-hyped Large Hadron Collider research station in Geneva, Switzerland.

Less-hyped is the significant role OU researchers will play in the experiment.

The LHC is a 17-mile-long circular tube that will accelerate subatomic particles to almost the speed of light and smash them together releasing immense amounts of energy. Under construction since 1998, it is scheduled to restart operation in September

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following a technical error that set back the program a year.

Students will have the opportunity to learn about OU’s involvement in the project at 7 tonight at the Norman Public Library.

Science Café will host a discussion led by Phil Gutierrez, a physics professor who helped shepherd the collider to completion.

Gutierrez and a team of OU researchers helped build one of the LHC’s particle detectors, which are essentially super-powerful cameras that identify properties of high-energy particles. Discovering those properties may help answer questions about the past, present and future of the universe, as well as many other questions physicists have been asking for centuries.

Gutierrez said computing centers at OU will contribute to the global research surrounding the LHC, and interpret raw data into usable information.

Sean Crowell, physics graduate student

and Science Café coordinator, said students should not be turned off by the complex science behind the LHC. He said the discussion will explain the concepts in layman’s terms so that students of all areas of interest can understand.

The event will also help students understand the realities of the project rather than what the media has covered.

“News media coverage of the LHC has been very spotty,” Crowell said. “This will be a chance for people to come spend an hour of their time and gain a decent perspective of what’s going on there.”

He said media reports have spread fear that the LHC may create an Earth-swallowing black hole or discharge lethal amounts of radiation. Gutierrez hopes to quell those rumors.

“The theory of black hole creation tells us the black hole would disintegrate almost immediately,” Gutierrez said. “Everything

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SEAN CROWELL, PHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT the LHC can do, nature has already done better.”

Physicist and professor Howard Baer said the Earth is hit daily by cosmic rays from the sun, which yield much higher energy than particles colliding in the LHC. “If these cosmic rays could create black holes capable of sucking in the Earth, it would have happened long ago,” Baer said.

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Landscaping accident injures one outside Boren’s house

One of the top executives from Oprah Winfrey’s company, Harpo Inc., will visit campus Friday to give lectures to classes and the public.

Erik Logan, executive vice president of the ERIK media company, will visit LOGAN the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication and give an open lecture at 1:30 tomorrow in the Hall of Fame Room.

Before joining Harpo in 2008, Logan was executive vice president of programming and broadcast operations for XM Satellite Radio and president of programming for Citadel Broadcasting, according to the Gaylord Web site. He now oversees the retail, print and radio divisions for Harpo.

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“The experiment has potential to change the way we see the universe.

Whatever we find out from the LHC will set the tone for scientific discoveries for the next hundred years”

Officials from the Norman Fire Department inspect an OU Physical Plant utility truck that toppled over onto another OU work truck outside President David Boren’s house yesterday. © 2009 OU PUBLICATIONS BOARD

A landscaping accident just east of Boyd House injured a Physical Plant employee and forced responders to close down part of University Boulevard for about an hour Wednesday.

While lifting a dead tree from OU President David Boren’s backyard around 9:45 a.m., a large construction pickup truck fell onto a smaller one intended to transport the tree. Both trucks are owned by OU. Carl Mize, the injured employee and driver of the smaller truck, was treated and released for head, neck and back injuries, according to a Norman Regional Hospital spokeswoman.

Wednesday’s accident was not Mize’s first onthe-job injury. In 2005, he was struck by lightning while working north of campus near the airport, according to a 2005 Daily article. The 2005 strike was his fourth time to be struck by lightning since 1978.

The drivers were following safety standards and the cause of the accident is still being investigated, said Jay Doyle, University spokesman.

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Thursday, April 9, 2009

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An artist rendering of Anne and Henry Zarrow Hall, which will be the new home of the School of Social Work located at the Elm Avenue and Brooks Street intersection.

School of Social Work to get state-of-the-art hall Construction to begin this fall RICKY MARANON

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The School of Social Work is set to move to a new state-ofthe-art building on Elm Avenue.

“It will be good to finally give the School of Social Work a facility that will help the program reach new heights and expand its potential,” said Paul Bell, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Anne and Henry Zarrow Hall, named in honor of the donors who gave $5 million toward the move, will be equipped

with larger classrooms and many technological advances.

“Currently students sit in a classroom where some cannot see the educational films and use the technology to its fullest,” Bell said. “In the new building, the geometry of the classrooms will be designed so all students can receive full and better instruction.”

Rhyne Hall was originally built as the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house in 1921, and was acquired by the university to be converted to classrooms for the School of Social Work in 1928.

“I’m very excited,” professor Monica Maria Alzate said. “I heard that we are getting double mirrors for interrogation exercises.”

Alzate said her students felt they were at a disadvantage in

their current facilities.

“My students would look at programs like journalism and business and ask, ‘Why can’t we have buildings and programs like that?’” she said. “Now I can tell them that their time has come.”

She said the new building should attract more students to the social work program, and hopes it will make the program a more competitive choice for future students.

Construction on Zarrow Hall will have to wait until the Jim Thorpe Multicultural Center is moved to its new location south of the dorms because the new building is to be situated on the center’s current lot.

The Thorpe Center is expected to move into its new facilities in the fall.

“Whatever knowledge we gain from the experiment gets back to the classroom,” he said. “The experiment also provides opportunities for physics graduates, because a lot of technology goes into it.”

Physics graduate student Andre Lessa creates hypothetical models of the reactions the LHC is studying as part of her

graduate work, and makes suggestions to researchers of what they can expect.

“The experiment has potential to change the way we see the universe,” Crowell said. “Whatever we find out from the LHC will set the tone for scientific discoveries for the next hundred years

Universe continues from page 1 high-energy collision, and the amount yielded by collisions in the LHC will be relatively small and too far underground to cause any harm.

Besides debunking rumors, Gutierrez’s discussion will center on the engineering behind the project, and what the discoveries may mean for the future of science.

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Professor goes the distance to find gold Astronomy professor and astrophysicist looks for gold and other elements in stars light years away RICKY MARANON

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In the 1960s, the race to space between the United States and the Soviet Union was in full swing. New technologies were being launched and American children who looked to the sky and saw the moon could catch a glimpse of a satellite passing overhead.

Now, one of those kids is making history in the same field that took his breath away nearly 50 years ago.

“I saw a satellite go over my house, and I was just amazed,” said John Cowan, astrophysicist and astronomy professor.

“That’s what got me interested in astronomy.”

He said although he now looks at data instead of space, he’s still as passionate about his field as he was when he started.

“It’s still fascinating, just not as romantic as many people think,” said Cowan, who has been teaching at OU for 30 years.

For some, Cowan is best known for his Introduction to General Astronomy class, but few know about Cowan’s achievements outside of the classroom.

THE SUPER MASSIVE BLACK HOLE While looking for supernovae in 1998, Cowan stumbled upon a super massive black hole at the center of a neighboring spiral galaxy.

Supernovae are large star explosions within a galaxy.

“I’ve discovered supernovae before, but this was my first black hole discovery,” Cowan said.

Cowan’s research on his black hole discovery has helped scientists reach the conclusion that many galaxies have super

massive black holes at their centers.

DISCOVERING GOLD Shortly after his black hole discovery, Cowan shifted his focus to discovering rare elements in the universe.

In 2002, Cowan and his colleagues discovered gold in a distant star.

“This is real gold like what we have here on the earth,” he said. “But of course, we can’t exactly get rich because not only is it so far away, but it’s also in a star that is over 4,000 degrees Kelvin (6,740.33 degrees Fahrenheit).”

Every star has its own identity, Cowan said, and his job is to analyze individual stars’ compositions.

He said he analyzed the light signatures and the ultraviolet wavelengths coming off the star were the same wavelength of gold.

Although the gold is unreachable, Cowan said his analyses serve a different purpose.

“We are mining these stars from afar so we can analyze what elements were present at the beginning of the universe,” Cowan said.

He said the discovery of gold shows gold was present in early stars around the time the universe began.

Shortly after his first gold discovery, Cowan found gold in a second star.

CURRENT PROJECTS Cowan is set to study elements in other stars with the Hubble Space Telescope, a telescope that orbits above the Earth’s atmosphere to give clearer views of the universe, but the telescope is currently broken.

“I’m waiting on the astronauts to fix it,” Cowan said.

While he waits for Hubble to be fixed this summer, Cowan will work on a Swiss government-sponsored research project on the universe’s elements in Europe.

But on campus, Cowan is preparing for next fall, remembering that his students are his motivation for his work.

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Astronomy professor John Cowan discovered a super massive black hole at the center of a neighboring spiral galaxy in 1998 and is waiting to study other elements in stars using the out-oforder Hubble Space Telescope.

“I love walking into the classroom, and teaching people things most of them have never heard of before,” he said. “I like to see the amazement in the eyes of my students when they learn about something new.”

GENDER-WAGE GAP: HOW TO HELP JILL CATCH UP TO JACK Subpar negotiating skills, children can hinder women in workplace JAMIE BIRDWELL

The Oklahoma Daily The Women’s Outreach Center is set to host a three-hour workshop Friday to educate young women about the gender-wage gap and how to beat it.

Annie Houle, a director of a national female workers rights group, will present the workshop titled “Start Smart” from 9 a.m. to noon in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Participation is limited, with only 30 slots open so participants

can practice negotiating skills with each other, said Kathy Moxley, director for the Women’s Outreach Center.

On average, women make about 77 cents to every dollar that men make in the same field, she said.

The workshop’s goal is to educate women about how to get a salary equal to a man’s in the same profession, Moxley said.

“Thirty-three cents doesn’t sound like a lot, but that could add up to $1 million later on,” Moxley said.

One of quickest ways for a woman to level the field is to do her homework, she said. Simply figuring out how much money is earned on average in the profession gives

an edge to anyone entering a new field.

And those salary negotiations will be a main focus of the workshop, Moxley said.

“When you get out of college, you’re just excited to have a job,” she said. “A younger woman doesn’t negotiate at first, but we’re hoping she’ll leave with the skills to do it.”

Subpar negotiating skills are one of the biggest causes of the pay gap, said Jill Irvine, director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department. Culturally, women are not socialized to think as aggressively and ask for raises or promotions, she said.

“This is something that men

get made aware of,” Irvine said.

“Whether it’s through talking to peers, parents, mentors, they get very clear messages. Don’t sell yourself short. Ask for it.”

Another reason women aren’t getting paid as much as men is the ever-difficult balance between work and family, Irvine said. The single most important hit women take in wages is when they start to have children, she said.

Irvine said women could roughly plan on losing about $7,000 to $8,000 per year in wages per child.

“Women up to about the age of 25 tend to earn much more equivalent pay rates to men, but in the childbearing years they don’t keep

up,” Irvine said.

There’s been a lot of attention to family-friendly work, Irvine said.

The Family Medical Leave Act, which was passed in 1993, promises a parent 12 weeks off while employed by companies with more than 50 employees, she said.

Irvine said young women should go into a career being mindful of how much they are worth. She said one of the best ways to gain knowledge is to find a woman in that chosen field and inquire about the average salary, expectations, benefits and challenges in that field.

“Do a little bit of homework,” Irvine said. “Don’t assume that what you’re being offered is fair.”

THIS WEEKEND AT YOUR UNIVERSITY Thursday, Apr. 9 Student Success Series: Taking Essay Exams | 2:30 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245. Presented

by University College.

The Art of Larry McNeil: Fly by Night Mythology | 7 p.m. in the Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Larry McNeil is exploring the notion of American mythology with his “Fly by Night Mythology” art. The art is a critical, yet lively inquiry about what happens at the intersection of cultures where satire, humor and irony play leading roles.

University Theatre: “Baby” | 8 p.m. in the Weitzenhoffer Theatre. Baby is a charming and romantic musical comedy with style, energy. Is there anything more exciting, frightening and utterly transformational than impending parenthood... at anytime in our lives? Book by Sybille Pearson, music by David Shire, and lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. Winner of two Drama Desk Awards and seven Tony nominations, Rated PG. Call the Fine Arts Box office for ticket information, (405) 325-4101.

Sooner Idol Auditions | 6-9 p.m. in the Louise Houchin Room, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Find out if you have the pipes and what it takes to be the next Sooner Idol. Presented by the Union Programming Board, www.ou.edu/upb Union Jazz Lounge | 8 p.m. in the union courtyard, featuring the Marviard Quartet and the Anthony Nagid Trio. Get some free food and relax at the Union Programming Board’s Jazz Lounge. Who Loves You, OU? Intramural Update | Soccer officials training today at 4 p.m. at the IM fields. Co-ed soccer entries today at the Huston Huffman Center. For more information, call Jonathan at 325-3053.

Gathering Fragments: Edward S. Curtis in Oklahoma | In summer 1926, toward the end of a long and distinguished career, photographer Edward S. Curtis and an assistant traveled to Oklahoma to conduct fieldwork for Curtis’ multivolume masterwork, The North American Indian. Curtis included more than 100 images of Oklahoma tribes in a subsequent volume and portfolio published in 1930. These fragmentary and often romantic images are the focus of this exhibition. Exhibit will be on display at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of art through May 17, 2009.

Touch the Sky: Prairie Photographs by Jim Brandenburg | Photography exhibit on display at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History through April 12, 2009. This exhibit features the breathtaking prairie photographs of National Geographic photographer Jim Brandenburg. The photos capture the beauty and drama of the prairie ecosystem - its landscape, plants, animals and weather.

Friday., Apr. 10 Free Film: “Confessions of a Shopaholic” | 4, 10 p.m. & midnight in Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Presented by the Union Programming Board and the Campus Activities Council Film Series.

Sooner Idol Auditions | 6-9 p.m. in the Alma Wilson Room. Find out if you have the pipes and what it takes to be the next Sooner Idol. Presented by the Union Programming Board, www.ou.edu/upb.

OU Baseball vs. Texas Tech | 6:30 p.m. at L. Dale Mitchell Park. Visit http://soonersports.com for ticket information.

Comedy Fight Night | 7-10 p.m. in the union food court. You decide who is the funniest student on campus in this stand-up battle royale. Presented by the Union Programming Board, www.ou.edu/upb.

Free Film: “Planet Earth” | free showing at 7 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. See an installment of this groundbreaking documentary series as part of the University of Oklahoma Student Association’s Green Week. Presented by UOSA, the Union Programming Board and the Campus Activities Council.

International Salsa Ball | 8 p.m. in the Molly Shi Boren Ballroom. Enjoy dance lessons from 8-9 p.m. and then the salsa ball! Presented by the Latin Dance Club.

University Theatre: “Baby” | 8 p.m. in the Weitzenhoffer Theatre. Rated PG. Call the Fine Arts Box office for ticket information, (405) 325-4101.

Late Night Snacks | 9:30 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium Lobby, Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Get some FREE snacks courtesy of the Union Programming Board before the 10 p.m. showing of “Confessions of a Shopaholic.” Who Loves You, OU? Visit www.ou.edu/upb for more information and events.

Saturday, Apr. 11 OU Track: John Jacobs Invitational | All day at the track and field complex.

OU Baseball vs. Texas Tech | 4 p.m. at L. Dale Mitchell Park. Visit http://soonersports.com for ticket information.

University Theatre: “Baby” | 8 p.m. in the Weitzenhoffer Theatre. Rated PG. Call the Fine Arts Box office for ticket information, (405) 325-4101.

Sunday, Apr. 12 OU Baseball vs. Texas Tech | 1 p.m. at L. Dale Mitchell Park. Visit http://soonersports.com for ticket information.

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In response to an opnion blog post about Sen. Jim Inhofe’s frustration with Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ plan that stopped cannon manufacturing in Oklahoma.

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“Gates is not cutting the defense budget. In fact, the defense budget increases under Gates’ plan, but he is changing the priorities away from Cold War style projects that would probably never be used in combat in favor of counterinsurgency and irregular warfare programs to match

what the military is actually doing today. Opponents like Inhofe may try to portray this as a cut that endangers the U.S., but really they are just protecting their defense contractor buddies.”

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Henry vetoed reasonable bill For some reason, Democratic Gov. Brad Henry vetoed a very reasonable bill on Wednesday.

Senate Bill 4, a bill that would have required Oklahomans to provide a valid form of federal or state-issued identification or a voter registration card, was shot down by Henry, who was previously a known opponent of voter ID legislation. We understand Henry’s arguments. But this bill was a very mild form of previous voter ID bills.

SB 4 would have, unlike most pieces of voter ID legislation, accepted voter registration cards as a form of ID. It also would have allowed people without valid forms of ID to vote on a provisional ballot that would have been reviewed by an election board.

The bill, essentially, would have prevented any voter fraud in our state. No, there haven’t been any reported cases of voter fraud in Oklahoma.

But with about 25 percent voter participation in this state, there could be mass voter

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fraud going on right now, and nobody would know.

If people wanted to vote illegally, they could. Easily. And we probably wouldn’t even know.

And while Democrats insist the voter ID legislation is a mere Republican attempt to eliminate senior citizens and poor voters, both of which are statistically more likely to vote Democrat, there isn’t any proof the legislation will work in favor of conservatives.

In fact, a Wall Street Journal report from last year revealed that Georgia’s Democrat voter numbers increased after it passed similar legislation.

The good news for proponents of the bill is that Sen. John Ford, R-Bartlesville, who introduced SB 4, has also introduced legislation that would send the issue to a vote of the people.

Ironically, Oklahomans might have one more chance to vote fraudulently in opposition to voter fraud.

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WEB CULTURE AN ‘UNREFINED CACOPHONY’ At some point between Matt Drudge breaking the news about the White House sex scandal more than 10 years ago and 175 million people playing on Facebook today, something important happened. The plurality of voices that make up our culture increased drastically.

Since Drudge showed us that “with a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world,” popular culture followed suit and everything has changed. From the news KYLE media and entertainment WILLIAMS media to commerce and education and even to religion — have you seen your local megachurch’s “online campus” yet? — our culture has been revolutionized. To be online is to be relevant, declares the mantra. The more voices the merrier, our laissez-faire hearts cry.

The media revolution not only changed the way in which we receive culture, but also the very content that makes up our culture.

In other words, it’s not just that a network like NBC offers episodes of “The Office” online now, but that television programs with multimillion-dollar budgets are competing with OU’s own crying sorority girl on YouTube.

Or to put it in less trivial terms, the reason newspapers are dying is because more people now find their news and opinion on blogs and other online outlets.

There are more voices clamoring for the attention of the market but the market isn’t much bigger. Thus, newspapers that have budgets compete with bloggers who pontificate in their boxers and it’s the established institution that has more to lose.

“Hooray!” respond the heralds of the New Media.

“I envision a future where there’ll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It’s freedom of participation absolutely realized,” Drudge, the New Media king, once said. March the media gatekeepers down to the guillotine and viva la revolution!

The free market ideology that propelled the New Media to the fore is the driving force behind the user-generated content model of Web 2.0 itself. The more competitors, the better, they say.

With more and more people generating content, so the theory goes, the superior voices will rise to the top, guided by the invisible hand of the market.

But this ongoing deracination of the hierarchy of American culture is resulting in perhaps less than desirable consequences.

That’s the argument of Andrew Keen in his

recent book, “The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture.”

The Web 2.0 movement is succeeding not just in disrupting the gatekeepers of culture — which arguably can be a good thing.

According to Keen, the New Media doesn’t replace the old gatekeepers with a hierarchy of its own that is more reflective of what people want, but with the elimination of hierarchy altogether. And the result of our egalitarian notions is increased atomization.

This all seems fairly innocent and commonplace when indie-hipsters judge the value of bands based on their obscurity.

Successful bands are just sell-outs, haven’t you heard?

This atomization takes a more sinister turn when you see that its fruit is more than just obscure musical groups on MySpace.

Keen quotes the head of the world’s largest privately owned public relations firm who said, “In this era of exploding media technologies there is no truth except the truth you create for yourself.”

The exaggerations of salesmen notwithstanding, Keen suggests that the leveling of culture brought about by today’s media technologies is resulting in the loss of the very idea of the expert — and the loss of cultural authority altogether. Because there is no discrimination of content except what the individual user prefers at the moment,

STUDENTS SHOULD CARE ABOUT GREEN WEEK

Legalizing all drugs would end unnecessary ‘war’ Alright people, it’s time to wave the white flag.

Yes, I, the liberal columnist, am suggesting that we lay down our arms, and admit that it is over.

We have lost the “war on drugs.”

I know many of you out there are uncomfortable with the idea that America could ever fail at TRAVIS anything, but take GROGAN a minute and think about it. There is virtually no drug that you can’t find somewhere within a few miles of campus. From marijuana to heroin, drugs are easily accessible if you know where to look.

How is this possible? The U.S. spends about $40 billion a year fighting the drug war, and it’s still estimated that close to 10 percent of the population has used illegal drugs in the past month. That means roughly 30 million Americans have broken the law to get high in the past 30 days alone.

My question to all of you sober soldiers out there is this: Why do you care?

Of course, there are drug users who negatively affect the lives of those around them, but that doesn’t mean we should ban the drug. Should we ban

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all the voices clamoring for attention have equal authority.

Indeed, the very idea behind a Web site like Wikipedia is egalitarianism. All contributors are equal. The credentialed academic with tenure at an Ivy League school has no more authority than the college dropout who works at McDonald’s.

As Keen argues in his book, Web 2.0 directs more attention to mediocre Wikipedia articles, mediocre reporting on blogs and mediocre music on MySpace. The result is less attention and revenue given to academic scholars, professional reporters and higher quality artists. The fruit is the general degradation of culture. Drudge’s dream of 300 million reporters publishing without oversight is the same kind of dream behind many of the increasingly popular Web sites.

How about 300 million people editing encyclopedia articles simultaneously? Or 300 million people recording and publishing songs? Wouldn’t that be great? It all sounds so democratic, so egalitarian, so American.

But perhaps we’re starting to see that discrimination is a necessary filter in every society.

The culture of Web 2.0 is a non-culture precisely because there is no discrimination.

It is unrefined. It’s a cacophony.

alcohol because a percentage of users get behind the wheel and kill somebody after drinking Everclear? Should we ban cigarettes because some pregnant woman ends up smoking a pack of cowboy killers a day and kills her unborn child? Alcohol and cigarettes can be just as addictive, destructive and lethal as virtually any street drug, but the fact of the matter is almost none of us are seriously affected by the legality of tobacco or alcohol.

Conversely, the drug war affects everyone.

O verlooking the 1.5 million Americans who are arrested, and the half million who are put behind bars for drug-related offenses annually, there is an inordinate amount of violence that is perpetuated by banning substances. It’s easy to read the news about drug-related violence around the world and say “Well, at least it’s not happening here.”

Except it is.

How many law enforcement members die annually fighting this pointless war? How many innocent bystanders get caught in gang crossfire over drug territory rights? How many die because unregulated drug sales allow dealers to cut their products with potentially lethal substances?

We need to accept that, as long as there is a demand, illegal markets will continue to find ways to provide drugs.

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Those drugs will be more expensive because of transportation costs, and of lower quality. Furthermore, we will waste the potential tax revenues from an industry estimated to generate more than $300 billion annually.

Let’s put that money toward better education about the dangers of drugs.

Let’s use that money to treat people’s addictions medically, as opposed to locking them in a cage. Let’s cut out the gangsters and legalize it all.

The idea of making certain drugs legal is scary. But just because people can legally do something, doesn’t mean that they will. Addiction rates have no established correlation with the harshness of drug laws.

Will overall drug use go up if drugs are legalized? Probably. Will gangsters have less incentive toward committing violent acts? Absolutely.

Einstein’s definition of insanity “is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

This captures the war on drugs with stunning clarity.

So call your congressman, all you abstaining angels. Ask him to end this pointless war that has cost so many American lives. Who knows? If we get enough people marching for munchies at the local 7-11, our economy might recover after all.

As you may or may not know, this week UOSA Student Congress is sponsoring Green Week. The purpose of Green Week is to raise awareness of the impact that each of us has on the Earth and what we can do to lessen that impact.

You’re most likely asking yourself why you should care.

What is the thing that we are in contact with constantly, that impacts our existence more than anything and provides the very resources that we capitalize in order to create prosperous lives for ourselves?

The environment.

Without it, the human experience would cease to exist.

It just makes sense to maintain and sustain the things we rely on every day. This is what being an environmentalist, or “green,” is all about these days. It’s not about baby seals or oil spills. It’s about being responsible for future generations.

The point is sustainability. It means we do our part to ensure there is an Earth worth inhabiting for our children and grandchildren. You don’t have to lower your standard of living to become sustainable. Short of being an entrepreneurial whiz, it’s as easy as doing things like supporting renewable energy or alternative fuels – two things that will have the biggest impact in the grand scheme of things and will also directly affect Oklahoma the most.

Why not choose something that revitalizes communities, enriches local tax bases that spur investments in education and creates good jobs? If I can have something that will run out versus something that will not run out, why would I tie my future to something that won’t be around forever? Green Week is about embracing the inevitable tide of progress and learning what we can do to come out ahead for once.

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Travis Grogan is a political science junior.

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Fareed Zakaria International Political Analyst and Best-Selling Author “How Should the New President Reshape America’s Foreign Policy” International political analyst Fareed Zakaria is the author of The Post-American World, a New York Times best-seller about the “rise of the rest” — the growth of China, India, Brazil and many other countries — and what it means for the future. He is the editor of Newsweek International, overseeing all of Newsweek’s editions abroad, and is the host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN Worldwide. His award-winning cover stories and columns reach more than 25 million readers each week.

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PIRACY OFFERS SOMALIAN YOUTH POWER, PROSPERITY Pirated cash has increased wealth JASON DECROW/AP PHOTO

Jim Cramer, left, host of CNBC’s “Mad Money” show shakes hands with Jon Stewart Thursday during an appearance on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” in New York.

Nouriel Roubini lashes out at CNBC host “Mad Money” host called out for optimistic market predictions TORONTO — CNBC’s Jim Cramer has another feud on his hands.

Just weeks after “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart took Cramer to task for trying to turn finance reporting into a “game,” famous bear economist Nouriel Roubini criticized Cramer on Tuesday for predicting bull markets.

“Cramer is a buffoon,” said Roubini, a New York University economics professor often called Dr. Doom.

“He was one of those who called six times in a row for this bear market rally to be a bull market rally and he got it wrong. And after all this mess and Jon Stewart he should just shut up because he has no shame.”

Cramer, the host of CNBC’s “Mad Money” show, recently wrote in a blog that Roubini is “intoxicated” with his own “prescience and vision” and said Roubini should realize that things are better since the stock market’s recent bottom in early March.

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POLICE REPORTS Names are compiled from the Norman Police Department and OUPD. The reports serve as a record of arrests and citations, not convictions.

Those listed are innocent until proven guilty.

PETTY LARCENY Mary Beth Almas, 30, 1222 Northcliff Ave., Monday MUNICIPAL WARRANT Brandy Tiana Koassechony, 19, 2125 W. Lindsey St., Tuesday,

also possession of a controlled dangerous substance Matthew Gregory McDaniel, 20, 201 W. Gray St., Tuesday Samantha Dawn Parks, 20, 24th Avenue SE, Tuesday James Edward Parnell, 43, 1209 Oakhurst Ave., Tuesday Mi Ri Son, 20, 2021 E. Alameda St., Tuesday POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA Ian Scott McDonald, 18, 2912 Astor Drive, Monday, also possession of drug paraphernalia

NAIROBI, Kenya — For young Somalis, piracy offers a life of adventure and money: At sea, they are armed with automatic weapons, rockets and grenades. On land, they are a cross between a town official and a gangster rapper — with grand houses, luxury cars and beautiful wives.

Piracy is a lucrative business in Somalia, a country with no central government, no banks and few opportunities.

For Somali men such as those who hijacked an American cargo ship, banditry at sea offers power and potential prosperity in a land so bleak that life expectancy is just 46 years and a quarter of children die before they reach 5.

Pirates are attracted by Somalia’s lawlessness and its strategic location. The Gulf of Aden is one of the world’s busiest waterways, with 20,000 merchant ships passing through yearly on their way to and from the Suez Canal. Countless fishing boats drop anchor in search of tuna, snapper and barracuda, which are plentiful in

Somali waters.

“Years ago, our life depended on fishing, but now we have a lot of money. We have luxury cars, beautiful houses and everything we want in our coastal village,” said Salah Haji Bahdon, who identified himself as a pirate in a phone interview with The Associated Press from the community of Eyl in a region where many hijacked ships are anchored while pirates negotiate ransoms.

Bahdon added, “It is like a small paradise where people are oblivious of the problems going on in the other corners of Somalia.”

In 2008, pirates seized 42 vessels off the country’s 1,900-mile coastline, the longest in Africa.

Since January, pirates have staged 66 attacks, and they are still holding 14 ships and 260 crew members as hostages, according to the International Maritime Bureau, a watchdog group based in Kuala Lumpur.

Foreign governments have condemned the seafaring robbers, but Somalis say they are grateful for the growth pirates bring to port towns.

Piracy has improved the economy somewhat around

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Seven suspected Somali pirates, seen Wednesday at the Port Police station, Mombasa, Kenya. The Foreign Ministry says Germany has handed over to Kenya seven men captured after they attacked a German naval supply ship in the Gulf of Aden.

The seven apparently mistook the FGS Spessart for a commercial ship and opened fire March 29. They were chased down and captured by international forces. The men were held aboard the German frigate.

Eyl, in the northern Puntland region. Commerce has increased because the pirates bring cash to spend. The pirates have promised to build new schools and better roads, but they have yet to deliver on those projects.

The AP called villagers in Eyl who had provided reliable information in the past, and they independently verified that Bahdon and two other men were pirates.

PIRATE NEGOTIATIONS Somali pirates seize a cargo ship with 20 U.S. crewmen, but the American crew retakes the vessel off the Horn of Africa. A crew member tells The Associated Press the ship’s captain is being held hostage and negotiations are under way. The Maersk Alabama is the sixth ship taken by the bandits within a week.

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CAREER SERVICES Career Services will hold a presentation on second level interviewing at 10 a.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

UNIVERSITY THEATRE University Theatre and the Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre will present the musical “Baby” at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center.

INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP Intervarsity Christian Fellowship will host the IV Earth Ball Tournament at 3 p.m. in the

School of International and Area Studies 2009 Admiral William J. Crowe Award

International Programs congratulates the inaugural Admiral William J. Crowe Outstanding IAS Student Award Recipient

Meredith Simons International Studies and Philosophy major

This award, established in 2009 by International Programs, honors the late William J. Crowe, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

For all inquires, contact Tracy Holloway at 325-1429.

FRIDAY WOMEN’S OUTREACH CENTER

The Women’s Outreach Center will host a Smart Start Workshop at 9 a.m. in the union.

OKLAHOMA BOTANICAL SOCIETY The Oklahoma Botanical Society will be selling a variety of herbs, vegetables and plants at 9 a.m. outside the OU Greenhouse.

UNIVERSITY THEATRE University Theatre and the Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre will pres-

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BASEBALL ÂŤ BASEBALL sweep OUSooners played Wichita double-header on State Wednesday night.

SeeTuesday the story online. ÂŤ

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Sophomore outfielder Krystle Huey slides into second base a few seconds too late during the game against Arkansas Wednesday. Arkansas won the game 11-9, scoring five runs in the top of the sixth inning.

OU falls to Arkansas Razorbacks score five in the sixth, win 11-9 AARON COLEN

The Oklahoma Daily

The offense did its job, but the pitching didn’t hold up for No. 13 softball in its 11-9 loss to Arkansas Wednesday evening in Norman.

With the non-conference loss, the Sooners fall to 30-12 on the year with their Big 12 record remaining at 7-3. “When you score nine runs as a team you expect that you can win,� head coach Patty Gasso said. “I don’t know what else I can ask. Defensively and offensively we did our job.�

Freshman pitcher Kirsten Allen started for the Sooners, but was only able to retire one batter before being taken out of the game. Allen gave up two earned runs on three hits.

Allen was replaced by fellow freshman Allee Allen in the first inning; however, she was no more successful than the starter. Allee Allen gave up nine earned runs on eight hits and

four walks in 6.2 innings of work.

Allee Allen picked up the loss. It was her second in three games and she is now 14-3. “Obviously, we didn’t do a very good job on the mound,� Gasso said.

Gasso said she never had any intention of letting senior pitcher D.J. Mathis in the game, no matter how much her pitchers struggled. “I was definitely not going to use D.J. Mathis in this game,� Gasso said. “There’s reasons for it medically, and Big 12 wise. Both freshman knew coming in that this was their game.�

Mathis has suffered from arm soreness all season and has seen limited action since returning last month. “She’s very limited,� Gasso said. “The fact that she’s even hanging in there right now, we really appreciate it.�

The Sooner offense did all it could to keep the team in the game, scoring at least one run in five straight innings from the second through the sixth, but it simply wasn’t enough.

Sophomore outfielder Haley Anderson hit her second home run

See a slideshow from the OU’s softball game against Arkansas online.

OUDAILY.COM of the season, a three-run shot in the second inning. Freshman shortstop Karolyne Long hit her third long ball of the season, and junior second baseman Amber Flores hit her teamleading 12th. “I thought we fought hard,�

Anderson said. “We had a lot of good at-bats and people were hitting the ball hard.�

OU had a 7-6 lead before Arkansas broke the game open with five runs in the top of the sixth inning. The Sooners scored two in the bottom of the inning, but were unable to score in the seventh and fell just short.

The Sooners will get a day off before resuming Big 12 play against Kansas Friday in Lawrence in the first of a two-game series. The game time has been moved up to 4 p.m. due to the threat of inclement weather.

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s a student at OU, this year has been everything one could have asked for, with the exception of losses in big games.

The football team battled back from a loss to Texas to win the Big 12 Championship and narrowly lost in the National Championship Game against Florida.

Quarterback Sam Bradford became the Heisman Trophy winner in the process.

The men’s basketball team boasted a 25-1 record at one point before star forward Blake Griffin suffered a concussion and sat out the remained of the Texas game and the one following it.

Regardless, the Sooners finished 30-6 as an Elite Eight team, and if they could have shot better from the perimeter, might have had a chance to beat the eventual National Champions, North JOEY Carolina.

HELMER On top of that, Griffin won National Player of the Year.

Then, there’s the women’s basketball team and seniors Courtney and Ashley Paris.

They brought everything to the table, despite bowing out to Louisville in the National Semifinals, amidst Courtney Paris’ proclamation of paying back her scholarship if they failed to win it all.

Nevertheless, they still made it as one of the Final Four teams, and Courtney Paris gained AP All-American honors for the fourth straight year.

However, there’s still one thing I’ve been waiting for and expecting to happen.

And that won’t come until the summer if it does.

Baseball head coach Sunny Golloway’s predicted in the preseason the Sooners will make the College World Series for the first time since 1995, and now that OU is 33 games into the season, I’m ready to say he’s right.

This team has everything it needs to get to the friendly confines of Omaha’s Rosenblatt Stadium, the pinnacle of college baseball every year in the second week of June.

Normally, a stacked offense, a few solid starting pitchers and a shut-em-down closer is the recipe to Omaha.

Prior to Wednesday night’s game, the Sooners were already hitting .341 and averaging nearly 10 runs per game.

Stacked offense, check.

Starting pitchers Andrew Doyle and Michael Rocha are a combined 7-4 with 57 strikeouts and are solidifying the starting role.

A few good starters, check.

Closer Ryan Duke has posted seven saves, a 2-0 record and opponents are only hitting .230 against him.

It’s safe to say Duke is becoming a ninth-inning force.

Shut-em-down closer, check.

Golloway’s declaration may have been dangerous at the start of the season, but I’m willing to back him.

The Sooners will be in Omaha for the first time in 14 years, when they went the dreaded “two-and-out,� losing to Florida State and Southern Cal.

Joey Helmer is a journalism senior.

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Bruce Springsteen, left, Steve Van Zandt, and the E Street Band perform at HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif. on Wednesday, April 1.

Springsteen rocks BOK Center The BOK Center in Tulsa became the latest victim of the “heart-stopping, pants-dropping, house-rocking, booty-shaking, Viagrataking, love making, legendary” E Street Band Tuesday night.

Bruce and his boys (and girls) blazed their way through a 24-song set lasting just under two and a half hours; not at all bad for a MATT dude pushing sixty.

CARNEY Even more impressive was The Boss’s larger-than-life stage presence. The man doesn’t pull any punches, treating every concert like a full-scale performance act laden with stage slides, guitar windmills, mid-show rock-n-roll sermons and hilarious crowd interaction. And that’s all on top of howling his lungs out all night. It was like the arena was a gigantic party, and Bruce was the host and entertainment.

When the lights first shut off, the crowd erupted, shouting for their idol from their mid-twenties.

With an enormous grin on his face and singing from his gut, he belted out lyrics about working all day in the “heartland” and the following song selection really reflected this ideal for the rest of the evening.

“Outlaw Pete” followed, an eight-minute cowboy epic from “Working on a Dream” his most recent release. An elaborate light show and backing desert scene on the television really added to the performance, as well as Bruce’s ability to produce a black cowboy hat from nowhere (apparently) during particularly dramatic points in the song.

The entire band was clad in varying shades of black, and acoustic guitar player and Bruce’s wife Patti Scialfa dressed the role of ‘rock star spouse’ to a tee. Clemons with his big saxophone and confident stride resembled a conservative pimp; guitar player and mandolinist “Little” Steven Van Zandt dressed his standard Italian pirate, and guitar virtuoso Nils Lofgren looked like, well, a guitar virtuoso.

With all their fun nicknames and close relations to Bruce (drummer Max Weinberg, key/synth player Roy Bittan, Clemons and bassist Garry Tallent have all been in the band since the mid-70’s), it quickly became clear that the E Street Band is a tight-knit unit, a crew of best friends. I don’t think I can imagine a better situation than playing sold-out arenas with your ten best friends every night for screaming fans.

During “Working on a Dream”, Springsteen apologized for delaying his first trip to Tulsa for 36 years, promising to make up for it and “build a house of sexual healing” in the BOK Center. I don’t know how BOK security felt about this, but Springsteen continued to deliver a sweaty and impassioned rock-nroll sermon with Clemons as his backing choir.

To my delight, he procured “Johnny 99” from the back catalogue, a lost relic from the underrated and acoustic “Nebraska” as well as the dark

“Youngstown” punctuated by a mindblowing Lofgren guitar solo. Lofgren shook and stomped so hard he looked to be in intense pain as his fingers flew across the fretboard.

For a brief moment, I may have been in heaven. Those great songs from “Born to Run” just seem to have a holy quality about them—they’re absolutely timeless.

They finished with the immigrant’s anthem, “American Land” where “there are diamonds in the sidewalk” for “any hardworking man,” as Soozie Tyrell’s fiddle blazed an Irish jig-sounding path for the band to exit. Making their way offstage, Springsteen gathered them all back for one last number, which turned out to be the beloved “Dancing in the Dark.” After more shouting and screaming, the eleven entertainers gathered onstage, took their last bow, and exited into the darkness, leaving behind a crowd aching for more.

Zach Walchuk, industrial engineering senior, catches a frisbee while playing “In and Out Box” on the South Oval Wednesday afternoon.

WILL WRIGHT TO LEAVE ELECTRONIC ARTS NEW YORK — Will Wright, the video game designer behind such hits as "The Sims" and "Spore," is leaving game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. after 12 years.

Redwood City, Calif.-based Electronic Arts said Wednesday that Wright is departing to run Stupid Fun Club, a company Wright started in 2001.

"The entertainment industry is moving rapidly into an era of revolutionary change," Wright said in a statement. "Stupid Fun Club will explore new possibilities that are emerging from this sublime chaos and create new forms of entertainment on a variety of platforms."

Electronic Arts is making an equity investment in Stupid Fun Club, though EA did not say how much. Wright and EA own equal percentages and are the main shareholders.

Wright, 49, co-founded Maxis Software in 1989, and Electronic Arts bought it eight years later.

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HOROSCOPE

By Bernice Bede Osol

Copyright 2008, Newspaper Enterprise Assn.

Thursday, April 9, 2009 ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Override the morning blues so that you don’t get off to a bad start on what should otherwise be a great day. Good things can happen when you’re in the right frame of mind.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -When it comes to a partnership arrangement, don’t make any decisions without first consulting your cohort, just in case he or she is heading in another direction. You’ll be glad you did.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Don’t expect family members to do all of the chores just so you can sneak out of the house, leaving everything to them.

You’ll have a much better day knowing you did your fair share.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- You’ll know you’re off on the wrong foot if things that should be relatively easy are complex and difficult. If you stop and reassess the matter, all will go smoothly once again.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Find a way to avoid spending time with that annoying someone so you don’t end up spoiling a great day.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- The moment you discover you’re involved with someone who is dictatorial and a know-it-all, make a quick exit.

Don’t waste what otherwise can be a wonderful day for you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Resist the impulse to advance your personal interest at the expense of another. Give it a little time, and you’ll find that you didn’t need anyone else to clear the path for you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Just because you don’t know how to capitalize on your accomplishments right away doesn’t mean you can’t figure things out. Devise a plan that covers both victory and reward.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Presentation is extremely important, so if at first you don’t know how to make your pitch, make detailed preparations before moving on it. Time is your ally and will help you sort things out.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- If you’re asked to resolve an issue between friends, do so only if you can think of something that would completely satisfy each.

Otherwise, make your excuses and get on your way fast.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- If you discover you’re having difficulty stringing your own beads, move on to someone else’s cause. You could have a good day and be rewarded for putting deals together for others.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -Unless you want to be a martyr, don’t become involved with someone who is incapable of making a contribution equal to yours. If you do something else, this person will feel as if he or she is off the hook.

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Thursday, April 9, 2009

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WEEKEND UPDATE »

Looking for something to do? The Daily has put together some of our favorite events coming up this weekend.

‘TIL YOU DROP

Free screenings of the film “Confessions of a Shopaholic” will start at 4 p.m., 10 p.m. and at 12 a.m. Friday in Meacham Auditorium.

Also playing in Meacham, “Planet Earth” will screen at 7 p.m. Friday.

▲ GIVE IT TO GAVIN

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Gavin DeGraw will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Diamond Ballroom in Oklahoma City.Tickets are $20.

IN YOUR UNION

“Comedy Fight Night” will begin at 7 p.m.

Friday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union food court.

Audition for your chance to be a “Sooner Idol” at 6 p.m. Friday in the Alma Wilson Room of the Union.

The Latin Dance Club will be giving free salsa lessons at 8 p.m. Friday in the Molly Shi Boren Ballroom.

▲ NOT THE CASH CAB Death Cab for Cutie will perform with Cold War Kids and Ra Ra Riot at 6:30 p.m. at the Brady Theater in Tulsa. Tickets are $30.