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CAMPUS BRIEFS OU Web site temporarily down Most Web services on the ou.edu domain were intermittently unavailable for 30 minutes at about 1:30 Wednesday afternoon.

Maintenance that has been performed before with no problems blocked users from accessing services like the OU home page, PeopleSearch and the OU e-mail system, OU IT spokesman Nick Key said. Once the outage was noticed, the changes were reversed.

The changes were rescheduled to take place during regular weekly maintenance downtime.

Childers released on bond The former OU student accused of using a gun to attempt to kidnap a professor on campus Feb. 13 was released on bond Friday.

Bondsman Tony Shirk said Michael Joseph Childers, 27, of Broken Arrow, was released on $100,000 bond. A court clerk employee said he is set to appear for a preliminary hearing March 17 at the district attorney’s office.

Shirk said he met Childers on Friday and Childers is subject to an electronic tracking device.

Childers is accused of attempting to kidnap Mano Yasuda, his former professor, at gunpoint from Kaufman Hall, but witnesses said she resisted and her attacker fled. Childers was arrested hours later in Broken Arrow and transferred to Cleveland County detention center.

He was charged with attempted kidnapping and illegally using a firearm on Feb. 17. Both carry a maximum 10-year prison sentence.

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WHAT’S INSIDE Having a significant other in another country is hard enough, but how do students with boyfriends or girlfriends in Iraq and Afghanistan handle the pressure? Page 3.

LIFE & ARTS Next week is spring break and students are leaving for different climates. But will they hit the slopes or the beach? The Daily’s Kyle West and Colin Henson argue about the advantages and disadvantages of snow and sand. Page 9.

Need something to do during spring break?

Check out page 10 for the ‘spring break update.’

SPORTS The men’s basketball team takes on Oklahoma State tonight in the Big 12 tournament, looking to advance to the semifinals. For Big 12 tournament coverage, head to page 7.

The Big 12 women’s basketball tournament starts today. The Daily’s Annelise Russell takes her shot at predicting the results. Page 6.

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Students back fair trade petition • Fifty percent of coffee and tea sold on campus is traded fairly RICKY MARANON The Oklahoma Daily

tives further.

“50 percent of the coffee Housing and Food sells across campus is fair trade,” Baugh said.

“We want it to be 100 percent.”

Housing and Food Services is open to stu-

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Students are circulating a petition to make all OU purchases of on-campus coffee and tea 100 percent fair trade.

“Our goal is to have coffee and tea sold to students as guilt-free and as conflict-free as possible,” said Lindsay Baugh, Norman Fair Trade spokeswoman and public relations junior.

She said fair trade is a system aimed at protecting coffee and tea farmers around the world who might otherwise be exploited for their products by large international corporations.

Housing and Food Services began selling some fair trade products four years ago through partnerships with Starbucks Coffee and Prima Coffee, Lauren Royston, Housing and Food spokeswoman, said in an e-mail.

The petition aims to take the fair trade initia-

According to Norman Fair Trade spokeswoman Lindsay Baugh, some large international companies exploit coffee and tea farmers.

What a ‘Wonderful’ woman • First Oklahoma woman to become major general impacts students years later CLARK FOY The Oklahoma Daily In a small office on the fourth floor of McCarter Hall, south of the residence halls, lies the office of the director of Advanced Programs in the College of Continuing Education.

A small shrine is set in the back left corner of the room. The shrine’s contents: a collection of Wonder Woman memorabilia — action figures, key chains, pictures and posters fill not only the shrine, but the entire office.

Gen. LaRita Aragon’s love of Wonder Woman is certainly unique. Ask her and she will happily oblige with the history of where Wonder Woman comes from, why she has superpowers and what she represents.

This superhero parallels her own life.

Aragon certainly is a real life version of the comic book superhero.

Now a retired major general of the Oklahoma Air National Guard and the director of Advanced Programs at OU, she had to overcome a tight schedule, a demanding home life and gender discrimination to become the first and only female major general in Oklahoma, among many other firsts.

If being a major general wasn’t enough, Aragon is an expert marksman with the M16, M9 and .38 revolver, held two positions at the Pentagon, and is the mother of six and grandmother of 11.

She said all of this, and much more, has been accomplished through integrity, hard

work and learning to meet and network with as many people as possible.

“I’ve been really lucky to know famous and wonderful people who, out of the goodness of their hearts, have done wonderful things for me,” Aragon said.

Finding her place After her husband left home one day, Aragon was left a single mother supporting two daughters and teaching at an elementary school.

With no financial support from her former husband, Aragon took up two more jobs as a church secretary and a McDonald’s employee to make ends meet. Life was hard living paycheck to paycheck.

Despite working three jobs, Aragon still found it hard to make enough money to support herself and her two daughters. A friend suggested Aragon consider joining the Air National Guard, where she could make money while working only during breaks and weekends.

She joined the Oklahoma Guard in 1979, at a time when women only composed two percent of the military by law. The same year that she married another man, who brought four children of his own to the family.

Aragon said she immediately fell in love with the Air National Guard, where she began progressing through the ranks.

Her first promotion came in 1981, moving up to an administrative officer at the Will Rogers Air National Guard Base, where she earned the nickname “Paladin,” after the popular black and white television gunslinger.

The original Paladin was a sheriff who was always on call for helpless towns besieged by bandits. Aragon, like Paladin, Liz Brooks/The Daily was always on call for the different departments at the base. If one needed straight- Ret. Maj. Gen. LaRita Aragon stands with just a few of her Wonder Woman memorabilia items ening up for inspection or lack of perfor- in OCCE McCarter Hall of Advanced Studies. In addition to the many honors Aragon has already mance, Aragon was called on to fix the

received, she will be inducted into the Oklahoma Women’s Hall of Fame March 26 at 3 p.m. at the WONDER Continues on page 2 state capitol.

Faculty: lack of evidence to blame for reform failure • Senate votes not to review Dead Week policy again until 2014 CADIE THOMPSON AND LAUREN STALFORD The Oklahoma Daily

Source: Oklahoma Weather Lab

Members of the Faculty Senate said they opposed Student Congress’ proposal to amend Dead Week regulations because proponents did not provide them with evi-

dence of problems with the current policy.

Kimball Milton, physics and astronomy professor, said he voted against the resolution but said he is in favor of giving students Dead Week off from school.

But that’s not what Student Congress proposed. Student Congress’ proposed Dead Week policy only strayed slightly from the current policy with variations in the weight of assignments allowed during Dead Week.

Milton took issue with the proposed amendment that states if professors wants to assign work due during Dead Week worth 5 percent of a course’s grade or more, the professor would need to ask for the department chair’s approval 30 days

prior to Dead Week.

The current policy allows for faculty to assign work worth 10 percent of students’ grades if it’s announced 30 days before Dead Week, according to the Faculty Senate’s handbook.

Any deviations from this policy must be stated in course syllabus and receive the department chair’s approval.

The current policy also allows faculty to introduce new course material during Dead Week.

Faculty Senate members voted 19-12 against any changes to the policy Monday.

Senate members did more than turn down any revisions to the policy. They resolved to not reconsider the Dead Week

policy until 2014.

The Faculty Senate motioned to freeze the policy because members didn’t want to revisit the issue, which has been extensively reviewed for more than a year, said LeRoy Blank, Faculty Senate member and chemistry professor.

“Their opinion is probably not going to change much in one year,” Blank said.

Blank said he was surprised the resolution did not pass and no questions were asked after the resolution failed.

He said it isn’t uncommon for the Faculty Senate to place five-year freezes on pieces of legislation after they have been considered for long periods of time and then fail to pass.

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Smaller wheels, same badge • OUPD officers on bicycles go where police cruisers cannot SANDRA KUNZWEILER The Oklahoma Daily

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Officer Jay Littlejohn rides down the South Oval Thursday night during his biking shift. Littlejohn has been a cop with OUPD for five years.

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problem.

After 18 years of hard work and building her reputation, she got a call from the adjutant general of the Oklahoma Air National Guard, Steve Cortright. A former pilot, he was the first one to reach the rank of adjutant general and wanted an assistant who knew the Air National Guard well.

“I need some one I can trust, some one who understands how the air operates,” she said Cortright told her.

It was highly unusual for a non-pilot, much less a woman, to hold such a high position. While Aragon knew she could be trusted, she admits now that since she was never a pilot, she didn’t “know the air” like he wanted.

“It was because I knew people, and could deal with people, and people would follow me that he brought me to state headquarters,” Aragon said.

Cortright even promised her a promotion to colonel, which would make her the first female colonel in Oklahoma. She retired from teaching and took up military work full-time.

“I was all excited, very excited,” Aragon said. “[I thought] that would be the end of my career, and that would be very exciting because I would get to make colonel, and there had never been any other female colonels.”

Modestly confident After a career full of firsts, Aragon declined offers

to become the adjutant general and to run for public office. She retired from the military in December 2007 and came to OU in February 2008 as the director of Advanced Programs, where she helps military personnel work toward graduate degrees in accelerated night and weekend classes. Aragon said the program is the only one like it in the nation.

“The truth is I’ve had so much fun working all the different jobs that I’ve had in the military,” she said.

“Now, working for OU is the best of both worlds because I get to still serve the military — which is my very favorite thing in the whole wide world — and I still get to be in education, which I started so many years ago.”

Her colleagues notice her hard work as well James Pappas, dean of The College of Continuing Education, said whenever Aragon says she is going to do something, she does it, plain and simple.

“She really is an amazing person,” Dean Pappas said. “She probably didn’t tell you this, but she works so hard even though she had her hip replaced last year. It is so impressive that she has continued working so hard, even though she has been in a great amount of pain. She cares deeply of those soldiers she works to serve.”

While she declined to run for public office, Aragon said she would like to help her former roommate, Mary Fallin, campaign for governor.

She would also like to help dig Oklahoma’s public education from its current standing at 47th in the nation, lowering the teen pregnancy rate and lowering the percentage of incarcerated women in the state, which is the highest in the nation.

“My goal is to make sure that every young woman has the chance to be a Wonder Woman,” Aragon said.

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Alyson Cook didn’t know what to expect when she saw red and blue lights flashing in front of her Camero last spring.

But when she brought her vehicle to a halt, Cook knew this would be no ordinary encounter with law enforcement.

For the first time in her life, Cook, zoology sophomore, had been pulled over by an OUPD bike cop.

Although they may not be as visible as police cars, officers have been riding bicycles on campus for nearly 20 years, OUPD Lt. Bruce Chan said.

Officers originally used impounded or left behind bicycles and had them fixed up, Chan said.

But today, the officers ride in style.

Officer Jay Littlejohn has been with OUPD for five years and has been biking for the past three. He said sporting the bicycle “look” for officers isn’t cheap.

Officers need bike specific helmets, gloves, glasses and shorts, which can cost anywhere from $500 to more than $2,000 per officer, Littlejohn said. He said the prices usually meet or exceed $2,000 because the bicycles themselves average the same prices.

“The equipment isn’t cheap,” he said.

Littlejohn, an OUPD bicycle instructor, said trained officers may ride bikes all year long, but only when they choose.

As springtime approaches, Littlejohn said it’s likely more bike cops will appear on campus.

“The campus environment is perfect for police on bikes,” he said.

“You can get to a lot of places cars can’t go.”

Officer Rod Sanders said bicycle officers handle car burglars and football games, while other officers

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“The nature of Housing and Food Services is to give the OU community a choice,” Royston said. “By providing the students, faculty and staff with multiple options, it is in their power to choose the type of coffee they prefer.”

Baugh said Norman Fair Trade proposed the changes to Housing and Food Services Director Dave Annis, and the group is waiting to talk to OU President David Boren.

Baugh said drinking fair trade coffee and tea benefits consumers as well as producers.

“I personally think it tastes better,” she said.

To be labeled fair trade, growers must not use pesticides, fertilizers or hormones, Baugh said.

“There is less processing between the producer and the consumer. Eighty percent of the time, the coffee arrives fresher

than if it were sent through a popular brand company,” she said.

Royston said student petitions for changes in food service have been successful in the past when it came to expanded afterhour meal exchange benefits, adding nutritional information to the H&F Web site and bringing healthier eating options to campus.

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Game days are good examples of how bikes can be utilized, Littlejohn said.

The Norman Police Department also brings six to eight bicycle units to accompany OUPD. Game days might seem like OUPD bike cops’ biggest days, but Sanders said bike cops face hazards on a daily basis.

“I’m good at crashing,” Sanders said. “And traffic is dangerous especially at night.”

The risk of harm is almost always worth the stories they hear, Sanders said.

“I’ve heard people make phone calls saying ‘Apparently, the police can pull you over on a bike,’” he said.

Cook, who was driving with a friend when she was pulled over, said she was nervous and confused when she first saw the bike cop, but laughs about the occurrence now.

She said the incident has made her think twice about getting pulled over, but she’s still the only person she knows of to get pulled over by a bike cop.

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CORRECTIONS

In Tuesday’s edition, The Daily under-reported the cost of building a parking garage. The actual cost to build a parking garage is between $11,000 and $15,000 per parking spot, according to Chase Roberts, UOSA director of off-campus living & transportation.

In Wednesday’s edition, The Daily mistakenly attributed a quote in the story about Dead Week policy. The quote in the second to last paragraph, in which the speaker calls students to action, was said by Student Congress Rep. Matt Gress.

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Long-distance relationships withstand trials, separation • Many couples find that time apart strengthens the bonds of love SHERIDAN STOVALL The Oklahoma Daily One OU student is five months, 120 miles and a wedding away from his future wife, and the couple’s wedding plans must endure the distance, which has separated them for four years and counting.

Petroleum engineering junior Andrew Price said he and his fiancé have sustained their relationship online and over the phone since they officially became a couple more than four years ago.

Price said he and his fiancé dealt with growing pains as the couple adjusted, but ironically, the distance has improved communication and trust between himself and his girlfriend, who attends Northwestern University in Enid.

“Being in a long-distance relationship allows you to know the other person on a different level because the physical aspect of a relationship is pretty much non-existent, so you have to have better communication skills,” he said. “Sometimes it can also make hard times in a relationship even harder and more difficult to overcome.”

Price said he is anxious to see how living together will affect their relationship after they get married.

“It will be something completely new for us because we have been in a long distance relationship, and I think that marriage should be completely new in a way,” Price said. “It also puts more pressure

Photo illustration by Lilly Chapa/The Daily

Long distance relationships are common between college students. For some, the distance destroys the relationship, and for others it makes the relationship stronger. on us, not really knowing whether we can or can’t live with each other for a long period of time.”

Price said that above all, the most important aspect of a long distance relationship is to let the other person know that you’re thinking of them.

“We always end our day talking on the phone,” Price

said. “We just try to let each other know what’s going on every day, it’s important to our relationship.”

Price isn’t alone in dealing with the stress of a longdistance relationship. Many OU students are going the distance to sustain their relationships as miles, and sometimes continents, separate couples.

Petroleum engineering alumna Lindsey McCarty spent six months away from her partner while studying abroad in Chile in 2007.

McCarty said she and her husband got together two years before her trip to Chile, and their time being physically apart allowed their emotions to grow and mature. Within four months of returning to OU, her boyfriend proposed to her.

“My stay in Chile was kind of like my last time to be alone,” McCarty said. “I could go explore and meet people, and all my time was my own. I got to have my own adventure before we started our life together.”

McCarty said though the distance added stress, her time away from her husband reaffirmed her feelings.

“I think we got to explore different ways of having a relationship that we wouldn’t have known otherwise,” McCarty said. “We probably talked more because that was all we had, and we gained even more trust by being apart. It became very clear that he was the one, and if we could be together from that far apart, we could be together always.”

Jason Bailey, accounting junior, has been dating his girlfriend for about six months, and will not see her until she returns from studying abroad in August.

Bailey said his girlfriend has been in England since January, and will move on to Spain for summer school.

“I talk to her about three or four times a week,” Bailey said. “The time difference is weird, and it’s hard to catch each other at a good time. She’ll be coming in when I’m waking up and the other way around.”

He said other than studying more and saving money, nothing has changed between the couple.

“We decided to stay together, and I guess we’ll see if our relationship has changed or grown when she gets back,” he said.

OU author gives military couples advice to keep their love from going AWOL • Book deals with long-term separation stress, depression JAMIE BIRDWELL The Oklahoma Daily An OU Ph.D. student hopes to calm anxieties caused by military separation with his book, “Surviving Military Separation.”

Marc Maxwell was first inspired to write his book a few years ago when the 1st Armored Division was deployed to Iraq, he said in an e-mail. Maxwell, a Department

of Defense guidance counselor, began seeing many spouses of servicemen and women for counseling, he said.

The spouses didn’t know what to do with themselves, he said.

The services and activities the military provided for them weren’t working. The thousands of miles of separation left them unable to know what the next step was, he said.

There were books on the market about deployment but none with step-by-step guides to help families along the way, he said. So Maxwell decided to create a book that had 365 activities broken into 52-week sections.

“The book’s setup allows the reader the ability to break

down the deployment into weeks instead of months,” he said. “This gives the family member a chance to take the deployment one step at a time.”

Family members can expect to feel anxious, proud of their service member, and a sense of abandonment during the deployment, Maxwell said.

Families need to remember they aren’t alone and that assistance can always be found, he said.

Maxwell’s book could have helped more people than he might have imagined, and closer to home.

Bekah Cope, dental hygiene sophomore, is engaged to a National Guard Member. Her fian-

ce, Jared Weise, returned home to Tulsa Jan. 20 after serving a fourmonth tour in Kuwait.

Cope said her fiance’s tour was one of the most challenging things she’s ever had to face.

The first couple of weeks were difficult and took some adjusting, she said. As time went on, the couple found it more difficult to be in a long-distance relationship.

They had some good days but Weise could only call her once a day at the most, Cope said.

Cope said she and Weise started fighting and couldn’t fix problems like ordinary couples, she said.

Eventually Cope had to put it out of her mind.

She said she dealt with her fiance’s absence by staying busy

and tried not to think about him too often.

“I’m not saying I didn’t love him, I just didn’t want to dwell on the fact that he was away from me,” Cope said.

Maxwell’s book aims to serve families that need reminders their soldiers will be home soon, he said.

Maxwell served five years as an Army Airborne Ranger and was once deployed for ten months. He said he wished his family had a tool like his book to deal with his deployment.

“Surviving Military Separation” isn’t just helping American families, though.

Family readiness groups and spouses clubs from Germany and

Japan have ordered copies for their family members in bulk, Maxwell said.

“I truly believe that this book will help our family members cope with a deployment, any deployment,” he said.

Feeling anxious and worrying when a loved one will come home is a difficult task because there’s usually a possibility of redeployment.

Cope said that she has to come to the realization that Weise might be deployed again but hopes it never happens again. The separation was hard on the couple but she said they survived it.

“We can handle more because of it,” Cope said. “We made it out fine, even though we fought.”

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Ray Martin, opinion editor dailyopinion@ou.edu phone: 325-7630, fax: 325-6051 For more, go to oudaily.com.

Ian Jehn — civil engineering junior

Either kill dead-week classes or stop fighting for 5 percent Student Congress’ pride and joy was shot evidence for why the current policy was probdown on Monday. lematic (we aren’t sure exactly how one would Trying to amend the dead-week policy was its evidentially show students need less work the big project, and it has been an issue since before week before finals) UOSA shouldn’t have subKurt Davidson took over as chairman. mitted the legislation in the first place.

The current regulations on dead It should have tried to implement week allow faculty to assign sometruly significant change – eliminatOUR VIEW ing required classes and all assignthing worth 10 percent of the course is an editorial grade during dead week if they give 30 ments during dead week completely, selected and debated days of notice. for instance, or stop griping about that by the editorial board and written after a The proposed resolution would have extra 5 percent. majority opinion is forced faculty to receive permission The entire situation reveals many formed and approved from their department chair 30 days by the editor. Our View of the shortcomings of UOSA and the is The Daily’s official prior to dead week if they wanted to Faculty Senate. opinion. assign something worth more than 5 UOSA tried and tried to make this percent of the course grade. See Page happen for a long time, yet a negative 1 for details. vote from the Faculty Senate made the issue not UOSA was fighting the wrong battle. negotiable until 2014.

A 5 percent decrease in what faculty can It shows the Faculty Senate doesn’t really assign or make due during dead week with 30 take student feedback into consideration, as days prior notification really isn’t that big of a 93 percent of the 8,000 students who voted in deal. the spring of 2008 were in favor, yet it passed And while the Faculty Senate voted 19-12 an amendment that won’t allow the dead-week against the resolution because of a lack of discussion to resurface for five years.

STAFF COLUMN

Public education immoral at its core Albert Einstein once said, “Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” I somewhat agree with Einstein’s skeptical view of education.

However, my objections rest on moral and pragmatic grounds. Public education is an immoral force in America.

First, a brief history of American compulsory education is necessary.

Compulsory public education in America came about during the “progressive” era of the early 1900s and was simply meant to indoctrinate immigrants into being good Americans.

The majority of Americans were white Protestants who feared the influx of white Catholics, white Jews, and non-white immigrants during the heavy immigration periods of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Dangerous ideas like Catholicism, Judaism, Communism and Socialism were being imported into the U.S. at alarming rates. The white Protestant majority had to act and they did so with compulsory education.

One proof for the white Protestant influence is prayer in public schools.

Prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance are simply relics of the true mission of public

education -- make people God-fearing, Protestant Americans. Keep in mind one of the hidden assumptions behind public education. Some ideas or ideologies (e.g.

Catholicism, Communism, etc.) are so bad that we must indoctrinate the youth.

I urge you to look at some of the writings of John Dewey and other “progressives” of the era that helped to establish compulsory education.

They established public education mainly to socialize children, not to inform them of objective knowledge.

And people wonder why America falls TARRANT behind other counCARTER tries in education. It’s because our priorities are wrong. While socialization might help one become a better mingler in society, socialization isn’t going to help one score better on tests of objective knowledge.

While the people who founded public education in America might have had good intentions, public education is still coercive. Children are forced against their wills to attend class until they reach a

certain age. Also, every taxpayer who pays property tax is required to pay for public education whether they use it or not. So, if you want to send your kids to private school, you will get double charged and have to pay and subsidize an unknown public school kid’s tuition.

It is sort of like the Feed the Children program on steroids. Except you don’t get to form a personal relationship with those you help and you don’t get to choose who to help.

With public education, you are forced to be charitable whether you like it or not.

When you force someone to do something, it seems to me that it takes away the meaning of things like charity and helping.

The coercive effect of public education makes you less free because it eliminates your choice in alternatives.

Another way to look at this issue is from the standpoint of who gets to fill your child’s brain with information – you or the government. Countless studies show there are critical periods of brain development in humans.

Most of our basic ideas about the world are developed in our childhood. So why should the government be granted carte blanche and decide the curriculum and

educational philosophy to instill in our children?

What moral right does the government or anyone else for that matter have to indoctrinate your child? Think about the dangers of a small group of people basically dictating the thought patterns of the masses.

This is why education must be decentralized, so that we all do not think the same. Also, with decentralized education, the phrase “diversity of thought” might actually have meaning. I cannot count the numerous times where someone from a different country or worldview has challenged my ideas and helped me see an issue from a different perspective.

Another element to this issue is the pragmatic side. Why should people like LeBron James, Bill Gates or Albert Einstein be forced to go to school? They seem to have talents that the public education systems cannot address. A man of such physical talent like James does not necessarily need to go to school. His time is better spent developing his body and his basketball skills.

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they will be in the system of perpetual debt that we read about in the newspaper almost every day.

None of those options seem becoming of a ‘public’ university.

Comparatively, a vo-tech is considerably cheaper – usually a fraction of college tuition so more students can afford to attend. But what about the additional knowledge we attain at the university?

Reading one quality book will usually point an inquisitive mind in the right direction through its bibliography. And if that’s not enough, I like to believe most teachers, or informed people in general, will point anyone in the right direction with readings. Thus, they could obtain knowledge, without the formalized education for which we pay so much.

So, why are we here? Here, we obtain a single piece of paper that will help us obtain one whitecollar job (I have been informed by a few employers that once you’re out of school, they no longer care how you did in school, it’s how you did on the job). If we wanted an education, we’d read books.

But more than seeking an education, we want credentials to obtain jobs. That’s why we trudge through this absurdity. That is why we are here, paying tuition, buying palpably overpriced textbooks and staying up all night to turn in a paper only one person will ever read.

We want jobs. Thus, we are a white-collar votech.

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In response to Zac Smith’s Wednesday column about antiatheist prejudice

I just sent the following message to Rep. Thomsen’s e-mail: With all due respect, go **** yourself. Evolution is science, and I am proud OU is hosting the Darwin 2009 events. Instead of making yourself the laughingstock of the nation, perhaps you should spend your time focusing on something that matters.

I am going to make a big donation to your opponent in the next election. And I am going to ask my friends to do the same.

Have a nice day

As long as an atheist can respect that I’m a Christian and that I can also be logical and sane then I have no beef with them; if I get treated as inferior just for being a Christian I don’t feel any respect for that person.

Unfortunately it’s the most outspoken that become the stereotype and it’s anti-religious bigotry from Dawkins and all kinds from self-proclaimed Christians such as those from Westboro and numerous other organizations.

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That may seem like a leap. So, test it. Ask a senior arts and sciences major what they get asked more: “What are you doing after you graduate?” or “Where is your passion of study?” As a soon-to-graduate arts and sciences major, I can assure you it’s the former.

So why is this bad?

Because we aren’t honest about why we’re here. We say we are off to gain an education, which we may be gaining, but mostly we are seeking a high paying job to help us live the American dream.

We call the act of becoming educated spending four years or more writing papers that will only be read by our professors, in buildings and rooms named for environmental polluters (ConocoPhilips Writing center) or businesses that openly abused their workers (Carnegie building).

We stress to complete assignments on a deadline while being surrounded by the logos of companies with actions that express a blatant disregard for human rights (Coke, Nike, etc.). We do all this for a piece of paper called a diploma. To top it all off, we are paying for this, probably the most expensive, monetarily and emotionally, part of the service sector in this country.

The fact that it costs around $3,000 a semester adds something more to the absurdity of college “education.” This ensures students attending this university are overqualified and receiving scholarships, independently wealthy and their parents or themselves are paying for their education, or they are taking on student loans, in which case

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A vocational-technical school is a school that exists to teach students necessary career skills that will allow them to get a better job.

So, why did we all decide to go to a university instead of a vo-tech?

From the student’s perspective, a university provides prestige a vo-tech cannot, and potentially larger paychecks.

For a majority of OU undergrads, the University of Oklahoma is a vo-tech. It’s a place to learn vocational skills.

Instead of preparing us for the blue-collar jobs associated with a traditional vo-tech, we learn MAX white-collar jobs, but it’s still AVERY vocational training, just posh.

Most department programs and majors are blatantly career-oriented (engineering, journalism, business, architecture, computer science, pre-med) and are obviously training for a career.

Conversely, some are not so obviously training for a job, like arts and science majors.

However, there is a large bureaucracy in business and government; whether they are meant to or not, arts and sciences classes give us the necessary writing, research and organizational skills to thrive in these bureaucracies. They also prepare us for graduate school, either to teach future undergrads and research, or go into the legal system.

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successful business. Einstein, one of the smartest men of all time, respectfully, failed math in high school and was not challenged by the system. We need to realize that some of the skills taught at school are not as important for certain professions like professional basketball or business. Others, like Einstein, have their skills hindered by a system that takes a one-size-fits-all approach that alienates those of genius I.Q. We should rethink our nation’s retrogressive approach to education. Our country thrived for more than 100 years without compulsory education. Let us promote freedom by not forcing our citizens to pay for public education, nor forcing them to go to school.

Let us promote diversity of thought by allowing parents to choose whether to send their kids to schools that are Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Islamic, Atheistic, Humanistic or Secular, or onto careers without schooling. Let us do the moral thing and not force compulsory indoctrination onto any free person, no matter how noble our intentions.

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Obama signs ‘imperfect’ spending bill

BY CHARLES BABINGTON The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, sounding weary of criticism over federal earmarks, defended Congress’ pet projects Wednesday as he signed an “imperfect” $410 billion measure with thousands of examples. But he said the spending does need tighter restraint and listed guidelines to do it.

Obama, accused of hypocrisy by Republicans for embracing billions of dollars of earmarks in the legislation, said they can be useful and noted that he has promised to curb, not eliminate them.

On another potentially controversial matter, the president also issued a “signing statement” with the bill, saying several of its provisions raised constitutional concerns and would be taken merely as suggestions. He has criticized President George W. Bush for often using such statements to claim the right to ignore portions of new laws, and on Monday he said his administration wouldn’t follow those issued by Bush unless authorized by the new attorney general.

White House officials have accused Bush of using the statements to get around Congress in pursuing antiterror tactics.

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President Barack Obama leaves the podium after making remarks on earmark reform, Wednesday, March 11, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. remarks playing down their scope and possible harm in the measure.

They comprise about 1 percent of the spending package, which will keep the government running through September, he told reporters.

“Done right, earmarks have given legislators the opportunity to direct federal money to worthy projects that benefit people in their districts.

And that’s why I’ve opposed their outright elimination,” he said.

Still, the president acknowledged the storm of criticism from watchdog

groups, talk show hosts and many Republican lawmakers — including some who have obtained earmarks — who call them wasteful and politically motivated. They are special provisions earmarking money in spending bills for specific projects.

Obama, too, has criticized them as overused and subject to abuse.

Proposing new safeguards, he asked Congress to require that any earmark for a for-profit company be subject to competitive bids. He also said he would work with Congress

to eliminate earmarks or other specific items in spending bills that he believes serve no legitimate purpose.

But he did not specify how.

Critics were unmoved. Obama “naively asked earmark addicts to police themselves,” said Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. Lawmakers “trumpet their pork on their Web sites,” he said, “and nobody believes we will have public hearings on pet projects.”

Presidents can ask Congress to rescind various spending items. But the authority has little bite because lawmakers tend to ignore requests to undo their work.

Congress has wrestled for years with how to regulate earmarks, the targeted spending items for construction projects, weapons systems, research grants and thousands of other programs sought by Senate and House members. Voters tend to disdain earmarks in the abstract, but they often embrace the money and jobs that earmarks produce close to home. Many lawmakers base their re-election bids on the goodies they steer to constituents, and efforts to eliminate earmarks have repeatedly met strong resistance in both parties.

Nearly all earmarks serve some public purpose, even the so-called “bridge to nowhere” in Alaska. But abuses have included tying earmarks to kickbacks, including those that sent former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, R-Calif., to prison in 2006.

Army to review wounded troops’ treatment

BY KEVIN MAURER The Associated Press FORT BRAGG, N.C. — The general in charge of the Army’s more than 9,000 wounded soldiers said Wednesday he is ordering a review of how the ones at Fort Bragg are being punished for minor violations.

Brig. Gen. Gary Cheek said he is asking the Army Surgeon General to look at all discipline that has been taken against soldiers in the base’s Warrior Transition unit to make sure each case was fair.

Cheek’s comments come a day after The Associated Press reported that soldiers in the unit are being disciplined three times as often as those assigned to the base’s main tenant, the 82nd Airborne Division. The AP also found that discipline rates vary widely across the Warrior Transition system; some units punish their soldiers

even more frequently than the one at Fort Bragg, while others are far more lenient.

“We are transparent enough in this that we want to make sure that we aren’t doing anything bad by our soldiers,” Cheek said in a phone interview from Washington.

The Army set up 35 Warrior Transition units two years ago to help soldiers navigate the medical system and monitor their progress and treatment following the scandal over shoddy conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.

More than a dozen current or former soldiers who have been assigned to the transition unit at Fort Bragg told the AP that its officers are indifferent to their medical needs and punish them for the very injuries that landed them there. Officers who oversee the unit said they hold the wounded soldiers to the same performance standards as able-bodied troops, arguing that it helps them get back into fighting shape.

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Paul Rieckhoff, founder and executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, said his group is hearing similar things from soldiers throughout the Army. The service needs to view injured troops as patients more than soldiers, he said.

“There is still this culture of toughness that is pervasive throughout the military,” Rieckhoff said.

“They are probably in the minority, but they need to alter the system so that you don’t have a guy with a head injury getting screamed at for missing formation.”

Cheek said he is “very confident” that Lt. Col. Jay Thornton, the Fort Bragg transition unit’s commander, does what’s best for his troops.

“He has done good things for our Army and our soldiers there,” Cheek said. “I think there is much more positive than negative, but that said, we’ll take a look at it. We don’t want to disadvantage a single soldier.”

WORLD BRIEFS DA says Ala. shooter had revenge list SAMSON, Ala. — A gunman who killed 10 people in the worst mass shooting in Alabama history had a list of employers “who had done him wrong,” including the nearby sausage plant he quit days before the spree and the metal factory where he shot himself, authorities said Wednesday.

Investigators trying to figure out why Michael McLendon, 28, killed relatives and others Tuesday afternoon found the list in his home, Coffee County District Attorney Gary McAliley said.

The killings devastated rural communities in two counties near the Florida border. While the list was one of several perplexing clues that emerged Wednesday about McClendon’s life, authorities couldn’t say what set him off.

And the people who might be able to explain — his mother, his grandmother, his uncle and two cousins — were among the victims. A witness said the four had no time to react when McClendon wordlessly and expressionlessly pulled his car up to a house where they were sitting and opened fire.

Oklahoma House passes voter ID bill OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma House has passed legislation to require voters to show photo identification before they are allowed to vote.

The voter ID bill was approved 59-39 Wednesday and sent to the Senate, which passed a similar measure on Tuesday.

The bill requires voters to present a government-issued photo ID, like a driver’s license, before voting.

Rep. Sue Tibbs of Tulsa says her bill would help stop voter fraud in the state.

But Rep. Jerry McPeak of Warner says voter fraud is not a problem in Oklahoma. McPeak says the bill will disenfranchise elderly, poor and disabled residents who do not have photo IDs. Rep. Ryan Kiesel of Seminole says 78,000 Oklahomans over 18 do not have a photo ID.

Colonel Sanders rescued from river TOKYO — He was covered in mud when pulled from the river, and had lost both legs and hands, not to mention his glasses. But Colonel Sanders still had his trademark smile, 24 years later.

A statue of the KFC mascot has been found in a river in Osaka, a city official said Wednesday, nearly a quarter century after being tossed in by crazed baseball fans who felt the image of restaurant founder Harland Sanders resembled a key team member.

Sumeo Yokakawa, a spokeswoman for the chain’s Tokyo headquarters said the statue was taken from a nearby KFC restaurant and tossed in the river as part of a celebration by baseball fans in 1985, the year Osaka’s baseball team, the Hanshin Tigers, won the national championship.

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2009 Big 12 tournament predictions • With the Big 12 women’s tournament starting today, The Daily’s Annelise Russell predicts who will win in Oklahoma City

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These are two teams whose chances of making the NCAA tournament are fading quickly.

They both need a good tournament showing to convince the committee they are worthy of a bid. Both have the ability to take over a game at times, but neither team can put together a 40-minute game. In this case, OSU’s Andrea Riley will probably give the Red Raiders more than they can handle.

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Kansas vs. Nebraska, 1:30 p.m.

Texas vs. Missouri: 5 p.m.

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These teams could likely be the top team in weaker conferences, but with powerhouses like OU and Iowa State, they fall to the middle of the pack. Both will surely be headed to the big dance, but could improve their seeding with a strong showing here. Texas A&M should get the win, but only because they have played a tougher schedule in the more competitive Big 12 South.

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Texas has improved over the season and the Longhorns could have easily fallen off the map in such a difficult conference, but there is no getting around Iowa State. The Longhorns have some big wins, one of those being against the Cyclones, but they also have some boneheaded losses to San Diego State and Texas Tech. Iowa State, on the other hand, has the senior leadership to propel themselves through the Big 12.

Let the speculation begin. Will the Sooners be able to come back and beat the only team that stopped their undefeated Big 12 run? Is Texas A&M really that good? The answer to both questions is ‘yes’. The only reason the Sooners will win is because they have freshman guard Whitney Hand back from injury. If the Sooners had found just one more person to score, the 57-56 Aggie win would never have happened. OU just has more potential weapons than Texas A&M.

This might be considered an upset because Baylor played OU close both times and took down A&M both times during the regular season, but Baylor is a battered team. The Lady Bears have been playing without junior center Danielle Wilson, who suffered a knee injury in the Texas win on Feb. 28. Even if Wilson were healthy, the Bears are out of rhythm, and they were just blown out by Kansas. Iowa State is playing some of its best basketball in years, and are much better than most give the Cyclones credit for.

This match should take quite a few Sooners back. It was only a few years ago when Iowa State made its way through the Big 12 tournament to spoil the Sooners’ goal of winning a Big 12 championship, when Phylesha Whaley and the Sooners were building the OU program out of nothing.

This Cyclone team is just as good, if not better, than the 2001 team.

The only problem for Iowa State is that OU is even better. The Sooners have too much depth for the Cyclones to compete; on any given night there are at least six Sooners expected to reach double figures in points. It also doesn’t hurt to have half the Big 12 first team on your starting roster like OU. The Cyclones have upset potential if they focus and play as a unit, but the Sooners, at full strength, are too much for any Big 12 team to handle.

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Owens’ departure beneficial for Romo

• Sooners square off against OSU for second time in six days

t’s been just over a week since the Dallas Cowboys released star wide receiver Terrell Owens, and I will be the first to admit that I was upset when I heard this news and saw the coverage on ESPN. After having some time to think about it and watching everything unravel, though, the entire situation has worked out for everyone involved.

And the person this release helps out the most is Cowboys’ quarterback Tony Romo.

Romo will now have the opportunity to stand up and take charge of the offense after being criticized for not playing with heart and taking responsibility for the Cowboys’ 2008 demise, most notably the loss against the Eagles in week 17 that knocked Dallas out of the playoffs.

As the quarterback of a team, especially the Cowboys, you’re supposed to grab hold of the reins and take control of the team, no matter what kind of personalities you go into the huddle with.

Yet, Romo was reluctant to do so and made sure he took care of his disgruntled teammate before his JONO 51 others. There were games where it was embarGRECO rassing to watch him force terrible passes in Owens’ direction only to be off the mark or have the ball land in the defender’s hands.

Now with Owens out of the picture and working with the original group of guys Romo developed around, it should be easier for him to assert himself and step up from the “aw-shucks” attitude.

We already know he has the respect of his teammates from what he has done on the playing field, now he just needs to prove that he can be the boss inside the locker room, too.

Cowboys offensive players such as tight end Jason Witten, running back Marion Barber and wide receiver Patrick Crayton will rally around Romo and the Cowboys coaching staff and create a positive atmosphere in Valley Ranch and the Cowboys’ new stadium.

Wide receiver Roy Williams will develop into a big play threat, but he will have to get the chemistry with Romo going and the playbook down before he becomes the true No. 1 receiver.

Once he does, he’s going to be a dangerous weapon and open things up for the young, talented wide receivers like Sam Hurd and Miles Austin.

In the end, Romo should take the three years playing with Owens as a blessing but move on and become the locker room leader that he was supposed to be from day one.

So Bills fans, be happy and celebrate the arrival of the best receiver to come through Ralph Wilson Stadium since Andre Reed. At least you won’t have to worry about him missing anything wide right.

Cowboys Nation will be happy when Romo takes control of the TO-less team and gets back to his true gunslinger form rather than forcing the ball to an attention-craved receiver.

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ERIC DAMA The Oklahoma Daily It will be Act 3 of the Bedlam Series in today’s quarterfinals of the Big 12 tournament.

No. 2 seed OU will face No. 7 seed Oklahoma State, who advanced to the quarterfinals by beating Iowa State 81-67 in the first round Wednesday night.

This will be the third meeting between the two arch rivals this season. The Sooners won both regular season matchups — on Jan. 26 and March 7 — by a combined total of just 11 points.

For OU, this will be its second game against the Cowboys in six The Sooners game against days. While many people see that OSU tonight starts at 6 at the as an advantage for OSU, Sooner Ford Center. Here are all the coach Jeff Capel doesn’t think it details you need. makes much of a difference.

Ticket information: contact “With Oklahoma State, one thing the OU Athletics Ticket Office our guys should be familiar with TV: KOCB Channel 34 in is what they do, some of the calls Oklahoma City they make and some of their plays,” Radio: 1520 AM in Oklahoma Capel said. “But the bottom line when you get to this point of the City year is you have to go out and make plays.”

Rather, Capel is more worried about the potential situation of having to play three games in three days, from Thursday’s quarterfinals to the Big 12 Tournament Championship game Saturday.

“It does concern me with having to play three days in a row because of our injury situation,” Capel said. “But I do hope we have that problem where we play three days in a row with guys trying to get their injuries healthy.”

The game tips off at 6 p.m. at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City.

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Sophomore forward Blake Griffin (23), blocks a shot Saturday against Oklahoma State. The Sooners beat OSU 82-78 for their fifth straight Bedlam win. The Sooners will now play OSU for the third time this season at 6 tonight.

BIG 12 TOURNAMENT DAY 1 ROUND UP Game 1: No. 9 Baylor: 65, No. 9 Nebraska: 49

Game 2: No. 5 Texas: 67, No. 12 Colorado: 56

The Bears won just five games in the Big 12 during the regular season, but on Saturday they were able to up that number to six.

After falling to the Cornhuskers in the regular season finale, Baylor blew out Nebraska in the opening game of the men’s Big 12 tournament.

The Bears were up by just three at the half, but jumped on the Cornhuskers in the second half, outscoring

The Longhorns didn’t finish their season they way they probably would have liked, but they earned the No. 5 seed in the Big 12 tournament, and drew Colorado in the first round.

The Buffaloes stuck around with Texas throughout the game, but never made a serious threat to take down the Longhorns.

The Longhorns were led in

them by 13 points in the half to win by 16.

Curtis Jerrells was Baylor’s leading scorer, putting in 19 points on 8-10 shooting.

Forward Kevin Rogers also had a big game for the Bears, scoring 10 points and pulling down 20 rebounds.

The Bears move on to play Kansas today at 11:30 p.m.

scoring by center Dexter Pittman, who scored 26 points and grabbed 10 rebounds while playing just 28 minutes.

Guard A.J. Abrams played 39 minutes but only took four shots, knocking down six of them to record 10 points and five steals.

Texas moves on to the second round and will play against Kansas State today at 2 p.m.

Game 3: No. 7 Oklahoma State: 81, No. 9 Iowa St: 67

Game 4: No. 6 Texas A&M: 83, No. 11 Texas Tech: 88

Iowa State was able to stick with the Cyclones for the first half, but in the second half the Cowboys’ fastpaced style proved to be too much.

After one half, the Cyclones led by three, but OSU outscored Iowa State by 17 in the second half to give the Cowboys a 14-point win.

The Cowboys had a balanced attack, with big contributions from Obi Muonelo, Marshall Moses and James

Early on, it looked like this game was going to be the tournament’s first route. The Aggies jumped all over the Red Raiders early and didn’t look back in the first half.

At the end of one period, the Aggies led 48-29, but the Red Raiders came out firing in the second half.

The leading scorer for Tech was Mike Singletary who scored 43 points and grabbed seven rebounds.

Anderson who scored, 18, 18 and 14 points respectively.

The Cowboys also outrebounded the Cyclones 34-27 in the game.

Iowa State got a strong performnce from forward Craig Brackins, who recorded 23 points and 12 rebounds, but it wasn’t enough for the Cyclones to get the upset.

OSU will play the Sooners this evening at 6.

The Aggies were led by Donald Sloan who scored 22 points.

The main area in which the Aggies had an advantage was in free throws, where they significantly more attempts until late when A&M was forced to foul.

TheRed Raiders will move on to the second round and face Missouri at 8:30 tonight.

— DAILY STAFF

SPORTS BRIEFS Two Sooners up for Sullivan Award

Senior Brooks wins national award

Sophomore gets national honor

Sophomore quarterback Sam Bradford and former Sooner gymnast and Olympian Jonothan Horton are two of 12 finalists for the AAU Sullivan Award.

The award is given annually to the top ammeter athlete in the United States.

Bradford led the Sooners to the National Championship in 2008 and won the Heisman Trophy.

Horton competed for the U.S. gymnastics team in Beijing and won a silver and bronze medal.

Senior gymnast and co-captain Chris Brooks was named the College Gymnastics Association Gymnast of the Week Wednesday.

In a meet Saturday against No. 1 Stanford and No. 7 Minnesota, Brooks won the all-around title by scoring a career high 90.200.

Brooks also won the high bar with a 15.100 and got second on the floor by scoring a career high 15.600.

Sophomore closer Ryan Duke was named to this week’s “National All-Star Lineup” by the College Baseball Foundation and Diamond Sports Wednesday.

The honor comes two days after Duke was named the Big 12 Pitcher of the Week.

In a three-game series against UCLA last week, Duke didn’t allow a run and earned three saves to lead OU to a series sweep.

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HELP WANTED SUMMER EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Instructor/Lifeguards $8.50-$9.50 per hr Lifeguards (Water Slide) $7.25-$8.25 per hr Pool Maintenance Workers $7.25-$8.25 per hr Pool Cashier (AM or PM) $7.25-$9.50 per hr Baseball Supervisor $8.50-$9.50 per hr Little League Umpires $10.00-$15.00 per game If you are interested in any of these positions, please call our job line or access our website to find out the minimum qualifications. Selected applicant must pass physical exam, drug screen, and background investigation.

Obtain application at: 201-C W Gray, Human Resources Department CITY OF NORMAN (405) 366-5482 JOB LINE (405) 366-5321 Web: cityofnorman.com EOE/AA Now hiring lifeguard, swim instructors, and AM pool managers. Apply at the Cleveland County Family YMCA, 1350 Lexington Ave. EOE. Make up to $75 per online survey, student opinions needed www.cashtospend.com.

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1 BLK FROM OU, very nice 4 room apt, 800 sf, wood floors, 1016 S College, Apt 1, $295/mo.

Call 360-2873 or 306-1970.

2 col (3.792 in) x 2 inches Sudoku ...........$760/month Boggle............$760/month Jumble ...........$760/month Horoscope .....$760/month 1 col (1.833 in) x 2.25 inches Crossword .....$515/month (located just below the puzzle)

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AVAILABLE IN MAY A short walk to OU, 1-5 blks west of OU, nice brick homes, wood floors, CH/A, w/d, disposal, good parking.

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ACROSS 1 “Needs more ___” 5 Banned submachine guns 9 Arab cloaks 13 Kind of waste 15 Ship deck 16 Upholstered piece 17 Inner self, per Jung 18 Greedy grab 20 A motorist may drive in it 22 Aviation hero 23 This year’s grads 24 Type of house or glasses 26 Didn’t return 28 Morning eye-opener 31 Direct hit 35 Back, at sea 36 Sneaky guy?

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PART ONE: SNOW EDITOR’S NOTE: In honor of spring break, The Daily’s Kyle West and Colin Henson will debate which vacation location is better. Today, Kyle West will make the case for the mountains.

Tomorrow, Colin Henson will argue for the beach.

From the dawn of time, a most pertinent question has plagued humanity– should I spend my spring break on a tourist trap beach or in a classy ski resort where I can be active, have fun with my social group and maybe even drop a few pounds?

Unfortunately, this question remains a great conundrum even to this day. Perhaps even more unfortunately, we can never truly answer this question unless someone magically happens to find a snowy beach that isn’t in a place as inhospitable as the Polar Regions (unless that beach happens to be Blizzard Beach, which admittedly is a pretty cool place to go for spring break).

Assuming that the stereotypical poor college student can’t afford to go to this proverbial paradise, the question must be answered: snow or sand?

I would argue that snow is clearly a better option than sand for spring break.

First, the nearest ocean we have is the Gulf of Mexico, a nine hour drive. And that beach is really bad. I know, because I lived next to it for most of my life. The Brazos River dumps all its silt and chemicals (Dow Chemical, the largest chemical plant on Earth, graces that river’s muddy banks) into the Gulf, leaving the ocean a yucky brown color. While neat because it’s a beach, it’s not a beach that’s worth an eighteen-hour round trip. If you want a real beach, go to South Padre, an extra eight hours driving, but be warned that it is an absolute madhouse during spring break. But if you’re willing to risk getting trampled by the masses, then be my guest.

Now let’s take a look at the benevolent pastime of

skiing. The ski slopes of Colorado are about the same distance as that nasty Texas beach, but offers so much more.

Imagine, if you will, that you’re at the top of a beautiful mountain with an even more beautiful loved one. You have just trekked up here together– true, that trek mostly consisted of going on three separate chairlifts, but still, you made it. For a moment, you inhale the fresh alpine air laden with the aroma of pine needles and coniferous trees.

And now, with a pioneering spirit and a force of reckless abandon, you zoom off and rip the slopes a new one, dodging mobiles like proximity mines in a war zone, adrenaline coursing through your veins like a drug that feels like it should be illegal. You speed past old people and a kid, bewildering and even awing them with your almost godlike skiing prowess. Then the kid says, “You, sir, are bigger than The Beatles.”

Then you turn and whisper back, “I know.”

Now which of these two options sounds better? You can lie about like a lout on the beach, gain weight, litter those six pack ring-things that don’t have a name and likely cause the extinction of an endangered species of fish, see unappealing nearly-naked fat people and increase your chance of melanoma because you were too stupid to put on sunscreen.

Or you can go to New Mexico or Colorado to ski, stay active, fly down slopes, kick the snow off your skis at unsuspecting people below while you’re on the chairlift, chill out in the ski lodge, etc. ad infinitum.

To me the answer is clear, evident and every one of these two words’ similes.

Skiing is a vastly superior choice to beach bumming for spring break.

KYLE WEST IS A PROFESSIONAL WRITING JUNIOR.

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L&A BRIEFS Drama students shine at competition Drama students took home many top honors at the regional Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival this past weekend. Additionally, OU’s production of “Anatomy of Gray” earned a spot in the regional KCACTF competition, placing OU’s production for consideration for an honorary performance at the national KCACTF in Washing-

ton, D.C., in April.

During the annual KCACTF Regionals, university and college drama majors and faculty members attend workshops and seminars as well as competitions in dramaturgy, directing, costume design, scenic design and the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship program. In this year’s regional festival, 166 students competed in the preliminary round, each

performing two duets and a monologue. Four OU students advanced to the finals, a record for any single school. Jonathan Hooks of Duncan, Okla. and his partner Paul Stuart, of Friendswood, Texas, received top honors and earned a trip to KCACTF Nationals in Washington, D.C. For a full list of awards, visit OUDaily.com.

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Thursday, March 12, 2009 PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Although an arrangement may initially seem to be unlucky, you will supply the missing ingredient it needs to be successful. Trust in the knowledge you possess to come through for you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- If you find yourself in the middle of a financial quagmire, don’t be so quick to throw up your hands in frustration. Give events time to work out, and the results you want will develop.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- If there is something new and unusual you want to introduce to your peers, don’t do so with a negative attitude, thinking they won’t like it. Your say-so is more respected than you think.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- The secret to being popular is simply to relax and be yourself. When you tighten up, you smother that warm, compelling personality that’s so eager to show itself.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- When you think there are few rewards to be gained, you tend not to even try. However, if you define what can be accomplished and then establish some goals, the world is yours for the taking.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Competition gets your juices flowing, so don’t shy away from a contest. You can’t win or lose if you don’t join the fray; but once you do, your chances for success are good.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- It behooves you to drop your extracurricular plans and make family matters your top priority.

You will be extremely fortunate with a domestic situation.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- What at first appears to be disappointing news will turn out to be more fortunate than you could have planned yourself. It’s the type of break that could bring significant gains.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Even if it looks as if this will be another wasted day, good news could arrive about something work-related in which you recently became interested.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -When asked, getting involved in a joint venture will interest you, but don’t do so with someone who only wants to work with your resources. Each must be willing to AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) put up an equal share.

-- Don’t accept defeat because adopting a positive, enthusiastic LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Lady outlook will overcome any Luck wants to be your advocate, obstacles standing in your way. so don’t handicap her by building You won’t have to settle for a brick wall around fate and second best. destiny. Give her a chance to prove that she’s available and willing to help.

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POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE Denise Lee Burns, 50, 1139 36th Ave. NW, Tuesday, also public intoxication

INTERFERENCE WITH OFFICIAL PROCESS Jessica Desiree Brewer, 30, 2125 W Lindsey St., Monday

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Contemporary swing band and Super Bowl XXXIII headliner Big Bad Voodoo Daddy will play at 8 p.m. Friday, March 20, at the Civic Center in Oklahoma City. Call 405-2972264 for more info.

Looking for some water? Check out Arrowhead Resorts in Talequah, OK, to float along the Illinois River.

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OTHER WARRANT Jeffery Tyrone Hasley, 25, 1901 Twisted Oak Dr., Tuesday

MUNICIPAL WARRANT Aaron Nathaniel Clifton, 21, 602 E. Eufaula St., Tuesday Donna Bacon Jarrell, 59, 218 Stanton Dr., Monday Thomas Lee Long 45, Tecumseh, Tuesday Craig Lamar Parsley, 39, 201 W. Gray St., Tuesday Terry Curtis Shafer, 29, 1110 W. Apache, Monday, also county warrant

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FIRST DEGREE BURGLARY James Berkely Quick, 26, 1409 Vine St., Tuesday

DOMESTIC ABUSE Thomas Cleveland Tibbs, 55, 2020 Cherokee Lane, Tuesday

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