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EDMONDSON TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR Democrat to focus on state’s job creation, economic growth in 2010 gubernatorial bid

of Oklahoma deserve an efficient and effective government, and that will be my first priority.”

Edmondson plans to give education more attention in state government and also said RICKY MARANON he would make teacher pay competitive naThe Oklahoma Daily tionally rather than just regionally. “[Higher education] is no longer a luxury OKLAHOMA CITY —Attorney General but an economic necessity,” he said. “More Drew Edmondson announced kids will seek a higher education if Wednesday he will run for governor they know there is a job waiting for in 2010. them in Oklahoma after graduation.”

Edmondson originally planned Job growth and expansion of the making the announcement for his state economy — specifically in the intention to run after Labor Day, energy industry — will be the focus but was encouraged to move the of Edmondson’s campaign. announcement to Wednesday after “We are an energy state, and I will receiving positive response to his do all that I can to make sure [enpotential candidacy.

DREW ergy] industries grow and prosper,” “I have always believed the first EDMONDSON he said. “Oklahoma should not take responsibility of government is to a back seat to anyone on alternative protect those who are least able to energy.” protect themselves,” he said. “The people If elected governor, Edmondson would be

the first attorney general in state history to go and powerful position in the Senate first,” directly from his current position to gover- he told The Daily in March. “The people of nor. He also cites his achievements as attor- Oklahoma would be left until later. I want to ney general as a way for voters to foresee how focus on their problems right now.” he will act as governor.

Edmondson will face “As attorney general, I’ve “The people of Lt. Gov. Jari Askins in the fought to protect Oklahomans Oklahoma deserve Oklahoma Democratic from crime, I’ve stood up Party primary on July 27, against special interests and an efficient and ef2010.

I’ve taken on corrupt politi- fective government, “Both Lt. Gov. Askins and cians,” he said. “As governor, and that will be my General Edmondson are I’m going to fight just as hard outstanding public servants first priority.” to create good paying jobs and whose dedication to the make sure all Oklahomans people of Oklahoma is unhave access to quality, afford- OKLAHOMA ATTORNEY questionable,” Oklahoma GENERAL, DREW able health care.”

Democratic Party chairEdmondson previously EDMONDSON man Todd Goodman said. said he has no desire to run “Oklahoma would be fortufor Congress because he nate to have either of these prefers working at home for the people of candidates as our governor. I am proud to Oklahoma. see both of them running for this office — “If I were to go to Washington, I would they are two of the finest that our party has have to shift my focus to getting a prominent to offer.”

David Ray to serve as new Honors College dean Ray to serve as interim honors dean JAMES LOVETT The Oklahoma Daily

Political science professor David Ray will likely be named the new interim dean of the Joe C. and Carole Kerr McClendon Honors College, according to a statement released Wednesday by OU Public Affairs.

Ray’s appointment awaits approval from the OU Board of Regents during its June meeting. Ray would succeed Robert Con Davis-Undiano, who resigned as dean to focus on his new role as executive director of OU’s literary journal, “World Literature Today.”

“I appreciate the extra service Professor Davis-Undiano provided to the university by serving as both the Honors College dean in addition to his responsibilities as executive director of World Literature Today,” OU President David Boren said in the statement. “In concert with our efforts to minimize hiring during the economic downturn, I’m also grateful that Professor Ray will serve as interim Honors College dean for approximately two years, after which the university will conduct a national search for a permanent dean.”

Ray joined the political science department in 1992.

Prior to coming to Norman, he spent 14 years teaching at the Georgia Institute of Technology. While at Georgia Tech, he received the Teacher of the Year Award and the InterFraternity Council’s Outstanding Professor Award.

During his time at OU, Ray received the University General Education Teaching Award in 1995, the Regents Award for Superior Teaching in 1999, the Student Athletes Association “Most Inspiring Professor” award in 2000, and the University College award for Outstanding Instructor in a Freshman Seminar in 2001. In April of this year, UOSA honored Ray with the Outstanding Faculty Award.

Ray represented Ward 4 on the Norman City Council from 2002-2003. Norman Mayor Cindy Rosenthal also represented Ward 4 before becoming mayor, but said she first met Ray working in the political science department at OU. “We’re both political science faculty members and that’s how I first knew him,” Rosenthal said. “I think David has a well-established and well-deserved record as a really gifted teacher.”

Rosenthal said she thinks Ray’s teaching capabilities will

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David Ray, political science professor, stands in his office in Dale Hall Tower. Ray, a professor at OU since 1992, is expected to be named the interim dean of the Joe C. and Carole Kerr McClendon Honors College. be a good fit for the Honors College.

“To the extent that the Honors College is about quality teaching, I think he’ll be a great leader at the college,” she said. “He’s very well-liked by students and he’s just interesting, provocative, entertaining and thoughtful in the classroom, and that’s a lot of what the Honors College contributes to the university.

Boren also said Ray’s popularity among students will be beneficial to his new role as interim dean.

SOONERS COMPETE IN 2009 NCAA TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS

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Sophomore Ti’anca Mock stretches for distance in the long jump at the NCAA Midwest Regionals held May 29 at John Jacobs Field. Mock, along with eight other Sooners, made the cut for the 2009 NCAA Track and Field Championships held this weekend in Fayetteville, Ark.

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“Professor Ray is a master teacher known as a professor who puts students first,” Boren said. “He is often mentioned by student leaders and those who have excelled academically as one of their most important mentors. The mission of the honors college is to serve as a catalyst for intellectual growth and vitality on our campus. The Honors College should be an integral part of the entire university, and I can think of no one better positioned to underline the importance of great teaching and mentorship than David Ray.”

SECURITY GUARD SHOT, KILLED AT HOLOCAUST MUSEUM WASHINGTON — A gunman shot and killed a security guard inside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday.

U.S. Park Police Sgt. David Schlosser said the gunman walked into the museum with what he described as a “long gun.” He shot and killed a security guard before being shot by other guards.

A law enforcement official says James Von Brunn, an elderly white supremacist, is being investigated as a potential suspect in the shooting at the museum.

Another law enforcement official said Von Brunn’s vehicle was found near the museum and was tested for explosives.

The two officials were not authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke on condition that they remain anonymous.

The museum normally has a heavy security presence with guards positioned both inside and outside. All visitors are required to pass through metal detectors at the entrance, and bags are screened.

Schlosser said park police SWAT teams were doing a secondary sweep of the building, but they didn’t believe there was another gunman.

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The museum, located just off the National Mall near the Washington Monument, is a popular tourist attraction. It draws about 1.7 million visitors each year.

Roads surrounding the museum have been closed and blocked off with yellow tape. Several police cars and officers on horses surround the area.

Mark Lippert of Lasalle, Ill., said he was at the museum when he heard several loud pops and saw several schoolchildren running toward him, three with horrified looks on their faces.

He said when he saw the kid’s faces, he knew someone had been shot.

Sandy Perkins of Massachusetts said her daughter, Abigail, called her shortly after the shooting. The teen was on a school trip to the museum and told her mother students heard several shots before they were told to leave the building.

President Barack Obama said he was shocked by the shooting, and called it a reminder for vigilance against prejudice.

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

In response to “New Music Tuesday” reviews

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

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OUR VIEW

“The new Grizzly Bear album is great but I can’t decide if it’s as good as Yellow House. The problem with Grizzly Bear is that its louder songs are better (think Little Brother and On a Neck, On a Spit), so much so that three or four tracks from Yellow House easily compensated for what, honestly, felt

like some mediocre holdovers from their first “effort”. Some tracks on Veckitamest are the same way, and songs like “Fine For Now” are so hulking that it’s easy to forget some of the more waifish tracks.”

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Ray good fit for Honors College Political science professor David Ray is a good choice as interim dean of the Honors College.

During his 17 years at OU, Ray has established a reputation among students and faculty as an instructor who is both knowledgeable and personable.

His education includes a bachelor’s degree in political science from Yale University, and a master’s degree and doctorate degree from Stanford University.

He is well respected in political communities for his policy-making research, and has works published in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics and Western Political Quarterly.

Ray is probably most well known for his entry level American Federal Government course, which often serves as a wake-up call for freshman that may not receive the grade they were used to in high school. Although many students don’t receive high grades in the class, it is consistently referred to as a favorite course by graduating seniors.

He has consistently made himself available to students outside the classroom, and even created an informal book club unrelated to his courses.

The awards he has received during his tenure at OU speak for themselves. Although his term as interim dean will only be two years, the Honors College is in good hands under the supervision of David Ray.

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Society’s perceptions contort masculinity “Sooner Scandals” is a theatrical production put on every year by the Greek society.

I’m not sure that a piece about amateur musical theatre is what this newspaper needs, but the subject of grown men dancing around on stage sparked some ideas about masculinity, so I’ll talk about that instead.

Society — specifically JOSH American society — works WESNESKI very hard to instill certain concrete beliefs and archetypes. One such archetype is masculinity—the generally accepted “form” of a man.

In other words, society sets certain expectations for men (and women) to meet; masculinity is the degree to which men (or women) meet that standard.

On the surface, this isn’t such a bad thing. A successful society demands that

role models exist for us to judge ourselves against. But beyond providing role models, the standards of masculinity can be harmful to our society.

It takes a lot of guts to dress up in a ballerina outfit and dance across a stage in an auditorium packed with thousands of spectators, but it takes a lot more if that ballerina is a guy. Now, most guys don’t want to be ballerinas, and that’s fine with me, but setting such rigid standards for masculinity restricts the creativity and individuality of many men.

Sure, as Americans , we are free to pursue any career or hobbies we choose, but society pins men down into certain molds that exclude some very fulfilling activities such as musical theatre, dance, art, poetry, and even teaching.

To explain why these particular exclusions exist would take more than a single opinion column to explain, so let’s accept on faith that these stereotypes do exist. The point is, through the role models provided by film,

television, and even the newspaper, men are discouraged from engaging in the aforementioned activities simply because they are not considered “manly.”

Stop for a moment and think about what dance really is. Dance is a carefully choreographed series of movements aimed at entertaining an audience. What about football? Well, a football play is a carefully choreographed series of movements aimed at making your team more successful and thus entertaining the audience and selling more tickets. True, football also involves 300-pound men running into each other, but the point is that the mechanics behind these two activities is not so different, it is merely the perceived masculinity that separates the two.

The result is that creativity is stifled and men cannot express themselves in all of the ways they might want to. Our society assumes that any man who rigorously engages in dance or musical theatre must be either

James Lovett, sports editor dailysports@ou.edu • phone: 325-7630 • fax: 325-6051

homosexual or just lonely. The truth is that male dancers and performers have a lot more courage than I could ever muster. It certainly takes courage to stand up to a defensive line set on breaking every bone in your body, but it takes a different kind of courage to admit to yourself and others that you enjoy some “unmanly” things.

I’ll say it: I love the “Powerpuff Girls.” That song is really catchy. At any rate, this ties in well with what I discussed last week; accept who you are and don’t be afraid to share it with others. Masculinity is a meaningless word that society has created to help solidify stereotypes. But I believe that “manliness” comes from being brave enough to stand up against such social stigmas and embrace your inner Zac Efron.

Fighting, a concept of masculinity that has existed for hundreds of years is difficult, but it always starts with you. Be the brave one and check out that salsa dancing class—worst case scenario: you might actually like it.

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Nine Sooners taken in MLB Draft EDDIE RADOSEVICH AND JAMES LOVETT The Oklahoma Daily

Any little league baseball player has the dream of playing major league baseball. For some Oklahoma Sooners, that dream has taken a step closer to becoming reality.

Tuesday marked the beginning of the 2009 MLB Draft, and junior Garrett Richards became OU’s third first-round draft pick in the past six years. Selected with the 42nd overall pick by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Richards was the first Sooner selected.

The right-handed pitcher from Edmond became the 17th Sooner to be selected in the first round since 1967.

Richard’s 2009 campaign included 17 appearances, 15 of which were starts, while leading Oklahoma with nine wins and 85 strikeouts.

Starting pitcher Andrew Doyle was the next to go for the Sooners, when he was selected Wednesday in the fourth round by the Texas Rangers with the 124th overall pick. It marks the second time in Doyle’s career that he has been drafted.

Recording 18 wins in his three years in Norman, the Rock Island, Ill., native finished second on this year’s 2009 team with eight wins, and earned second-team All-Big 12 honors.

Doyle ranked second on the 2009 roster, behind Richards, with 65 strikeouts and posted a team-best with 92 innings.

Teammate J.T. Wise didn’t have to wait long for his name to be called shortly after Doyle’s. The Big 12 Player of the Year was selected in the fifth round by the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Joining teammates Garrett Richards and Andrew Doyle, Wise’s selection marked the first time Oklahoma had three AP PHOTO / RICH SCHULTZ draftees in the first five rounds since 1985.

Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig opens the 2009 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft at MLB Network Wise, a finalist for the Johnny Bench Award, lead the Big Studios in Secaucus, N.J. Nine Sooners have been drafted, including Garrett Richards and J.T. Wise.

12 during the regular season with .375 batting average. The Apopka, Fla., native also threw out a Big 12-best 30 potential taken 276th by the Arizona Diamondbacks, and junior on Wednesday. Hubbard was selected 785th overall by the shortstop Bryant Hernandez was taken with the 277th selec- Cleveland Indians, and Harughty was taken by the Chicago base stealers this year.

Outfielder Jamie Johnson also took the next step to play- tion. Hernandez will join teammate J.T. Wise with the L.A. White Sox with pick No. 793.

At the end of Wednesday’s 30th round, OU has contribing major league baseball when he was taken by the Detroit Dodgers.

First baseman Aaron Baker was selected in the 11th round uted nine players to this year’s draft. This total marks the Tigers with the 210th selection in the seventh round. Johnson was Oklahoma’s lead-off hitter for a majority of the year, and by the Pittsburgh Pirates. The All-Big 12 second team mem- most players taken since 2006 (9) and trails only two other ber hit nine homers and drove in 22 runs in Big 12 play.

OU clubs, the 1998 and 1995 Sooners, which both produced hit .353 for the Sooners with 13 home-runs and 44 RBIs. Senior second baseman Matt Harughty and sophomore 10 draft picks in their respective seasons.

Two Sooners were taken with back-to-back picks in the Rounds 31 through 50 begin Thursday. draft’s ninth round. Junior pitcher Chase Anderson was Antwonie Hubbard were both selected in the 26th round

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Dusty Somers, L&A editor dailyent@ou.edu • phone: 325-5189 • fax: 325-6051

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‘Drowsy Chaperone’ skewers, celebrates musical theater Even the staunchest musical theater lover has to admit some of the genre’s shortcomings — especially those from the Golden Age. There’s the paper-thin plot that only exists to string together lavish production numbers, the token horribly racially stereotyped character and the pervasive need to wrap things up in a neat resolution far removed from reality.

And yet, how can you not love musicals?

DUSTY That’s exactly the disposition of SOMERS “The Drowsy Chaperone,” the Tony Award-winning musical that opened at Civic Center Music Hall Tuesday night.

The bubbly, fast-paced romp that’s a show within a show gently pokes fun at the conventions of musicals while simultaneously embracing them with open arms — not unlike the fond self-reflexivity seen in a number of classic musical films, like “Singin’ in the Rain.”

The touring production — fresh from Tulsa and performing in Oklahoma City through Sunday — is crisp in every way. The talented cast, led by the superb Elizabeth Pawlowski as the bride-to-be at the center of the show, kept the breezy musical — only an hour and 40 minutes without an intermission — bouncing along until the final scene.

On its surface, “The Drowsy Chaperone” is about a lonely musical theater lover, simply known as Man in Chair (John West), who guides the audience through one of his favorite musicals, called, of course, “The Drowsy Chaperone.”

When we meet him, Man in Chair is wearing a frumpy cardigan and is holed out in his tiny apartment, sipping a warm drink and reveling in his record collection. He has a lot to complain about when it comes to the theater — the interruptions, the discourteous fellow audience members, the unrealistic messages it promotes.

One minute he’s complaining, but the next, he’s gushing, and he insists playing the two-record set of “The Drowsy Chaperone.” The ’20s-era musical then unfolds in the middle of his apartment, with Man in Chair — unseen by the characters — prancing around and thoroughly enjoying every minute of it.

The musical within the comedy is about Broadway star Janet Van De Graaff (Pawlowski) who’s giving up the theater to marry a man she just met, Robert Martin (Leigh Wakeford).

There’s mayhem surrounding the wedding day, as her producer Feldzieg (Britt Hancock) is desperate to convince her to stay single and in his show, and the titular chaperone (Patti McClure) is typically tipsy, and not up to performing her only task — keeping the

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The touring company of the “The Drowsy Chaperone” performs on the national tour. The musical, which won five Tony Awards in 2006, including best book of a musical and best original score, is playing at Civic Center Music Hall through Sunday. bride away from the groom before the wedding.

Like any good fictional wedding, there are plenty of guests who don’t really know each other, like ditsy Kitty (Lindsay Devino), a pair of pun-happy gangsters disguised as pastry chefs (Dennis Setteducati and Marc de la Concha) and a hilarious, ridiculous Latin-lover stereotype named Adolpho (Roberto Carrasco).

The story is filled with well-worn musical archetypes, and a mistaken-identity plot fuels much of the action. Man in Chair frequently interjects, pausing the record — and necessarily, the other actors on stage — to provide obscure facts about the actors’ personal histories. The show makes good use of plenty of record gags — when the record skips and repeats itself, the actors follow suit, and when Man puts the wrong record on, we get an uproariously misguided parody of “The King and I.” “The Drowsy Chaperone” is packed with references to other musicals and the genre in general, and it doesn’t take long to establish rapport with the amiably awkward Man in Chair. In him, musical lovers

‘IDIOT AMERICA’ BOTH ENTERTAINING AND INFURIATING Readers beware: Sunscreen may need to be applied before reading the scorching, scathing “Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Vir tue in the Land of the Free” by Charles P. Pierce. The heat will especially burn conMEGAN ser vative MORGAN readers, but even slightly moderate liberals might find their cheeks reddening as well.

“Idiot America,” released June 2, is undeniably angry in tone, and Pierce clearly doesn’t mind if he offends anyone. (He will.)

This attitude can sometimes come off as hilarious — which is intended — but it can also seem exaggerated.

Through several individual topics broken up into separate chapters, Pierce relentlessly drives home his point: America has become a nation that doesn’t ridicule the ridiculous. Pierce writes that the country has been allowed to drift on autopilot, letting government, politics, science, pop culture and the media get out of control.

Pierce has narrowed down

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the problem of Idiot America into what he calls the three great premises: Any theory is valid if it sells, anything said loudly enough can be accepted as true and fact is created when enough people believe something.

He applies these premises to several major topics, including the media-saturated case of Terri Schiavo; the opening of the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., which featured models of dinosaurs with saddles; the war in Iraq; global warming and intelligent design.

So far, so good, right?

Well, maybe not completely. While Pierce does a well-crafted job of being persuasive in applying his premises to specific topics, he can also get a little extreme, which reads like bias.

For example, the problems that Pierce addresses are nearly all related to Republicans. It wouldn’t be hard to believe that this book was once titled “Idiot Conservatives,” but changed at the last minute before printing.

However, the fact that this bias exists probably wouldn’t upset Pierce in the slightest. In “Idiot America,” Pierce argues that the “gut” has taken over intelligent debate. The gut is the pure emotional drive of the nation that insists there

are two sides to everything — even fact.

This rhetoric is especially powerful in the chapter on global warming, a subjectwhich Pierce says should not even be a debate. So if Pierce gets blasted for being biased, he will probably argue that the gut has taken over.

But there’s another problem, too. Idiot America is supposedly a war on expertise because in a world where everyone is an expert, no one is.

OK, right.

But Pierce seems to contradict his own creed. Who says that he is an expert on these many varied subjects? Sure, he’s a well-renowned journalist, but Pierce also goes out of his way in “Idiot America” to discuss the ignorance of some journalists (especially in conservative talk radio, big surprise). So because of Pierce’s very own idea, readers may question his level of expertise.

But perhaps Pierce would

will find a common soul.

The songs are mostly only so-so, but the show itself even pokes fun at this, and the song and dance routines are so enthusiastically performed, it hardly matters. In this era where irony is king, the meta-musical status of the “The Drowsy Chaperone” ought to garner plenty of fans, even from those not quite as enthusiastic about musical theater as Man in Chair.

Dusty Somers is the Life & Arts editor and a journalism junior.

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have wanted it that way.

Overall, “Idiot America” is definitely entertaining and engaging, although at times overbearing. It is worth reading because it will almost certainly challenge a reader’s opinion, if not all of them, and that in itself may be a cure for Idiot America.

Megan Morgan is a professional writing senior.

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