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Oklahoma City Marathon winners and OU graduate students Jordan Kinley, former Oklahoma Daily reporter, and Catherine Odell have found success after their careers as OU runners. Kinley’s time of 2:27.19 was more than 10 minutes faster than the next runner’s time, and Odell’s 3:10.16 was more than five minutes faster than the second female finisher’s time at the OKC Marathon.

Check out the full story in SPORTS, Page 9.

Lonely people may turn to TV for social fulfillment Studies suggest that TV characters fill social void Clark Foy The Oklahoma Daily

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A study recently revealed that college students who are lonely revert to music and television most to cope with their loneliness. The internet, video games and other forms of electronic media are also used as substitutes for social interaction.

A collection of studies released by two universities suggests people coping with loneliness might find themselves watching more television to fulfill their social needs.

Psychologists at the University at Buffalo and Miami University in Ohio published their findings in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, indicating that television can provide people with the impression that their social needs are being met with the illusionary relationships made with their favorite TV characters and/or personalities.

Lisa Frey, director of the OU Counseling Psychology Clinic, said while she is unsure how common this form of coping is, there are

students who cling to TV and other technologies in times of depression.

“More times we have people come in that say they are using those things to avoid social interaction or to get their mind off of it,” Frey said, “or because they have had some bad experiences so maybe they aren’t confident in their ability to have social interaction or to socialize.”

The first survey of 701 undergraduate students had students arrange 31 activities by how likely they would use each activity to cope with loneliness. Watching a favorite program ranked second behind listening to music.

The second study surveyed 102 undergraduate students by having the subjects write essays over several television programs. Subjects who found their social needs met wrote longer in their descriptions of their favorite programs than they did in their descriptions of

OU claims four Fulbright Grant winners Highly competitive program offers grants for research Will Holland The Oklahoma Daily

Earlier this month, three recent OU graduates and a current OU student were named recipients of Fulbright Grants for Study and Research Abroad.

O U g ra d u at e s Jo rd a n L o h m e y e r, Stephen Terry and Sarah Steece, and Lauren McGough, zoology and international and area studies senior, received the grants to work or teach abroad after

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applying for the OU Fulbright program in September, said Karl Rambo, program adviser and assistant professor in the anthropology department.

In 1946, Congress created the Fulbright Grant program to “enable the government of the United States to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries,” according to the program’s Web site.

College seniors and recent college graduates around the nation propose project ideas they could work on in foreign countries to apply for the grants.

Rambo said the program has expanded

to over 100 countries, and in fall 2007, there were 6,700 applicants nationwide.

Of those applicants, about 1,500 received grants to work or teach in another country, he said.

In fall 2008, seven OU students applied and four were named as recipients, Rambo said. Another OU applicant was put in an alternate group in case those who received the grants decline to accept them.

Rambo said it’s impressive that four OU students were chosen this year.

“We did really well compared to typically what happens,” he said.

He said once students apply, they do

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“The problem with using technology to meet those [social] needs is we don’t get anything back. You may have the illusion you’re getting something back but you really aren’t. You aren’t getting to know somebody better or developing a friendship with somebody else.”

— Lisa Frey, director of the OU Counseling Psychology Clinic other programs.

One hundred and sixteen undergraduates participated in study three, which showed having a favorite program on a person’s mind reduced negative moods, low self-esteem and feelings of rejection. people CONTINUES ON PAGE 2

a local interview in their region before their applications are sent to a national center for evaluation. At that point, about two thirds of the applications are weeded out. The remaining applications are then sent abroad, where they are evaluated again.

Six of the OU applicants made it past the national review level, Rambo said.

Because of the competitive nature of the application process, the program attracts quality students, he said.

“Only really the best students typically end up applying,” he said.

The locations the OU grant recipients proposed include Germany, Mongolia and New Zealand.

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Continues from page 1 The final study had 222 undergraduates write an essay in 10 minutes about their favorite program.

After completing the essay, the participants expressed less feelings of loneliness or social alienation than they had in control experiments.

Frey said television is not the only thing that students sometimes use as substitutes for a social life.

Other technologies, like the Internet, video games or a mix of the three, seem to take the same role as television does in the studies. “The problem with using technology to meet those [social] needs is we don’t get anything back,� Frey said. “You may have the illusion you’re getting something back but you really aren’t. You aren’t getting to know somebody better or developing a friendship with somebody else.�

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Correction In Tuesday’s edition, The Daily erroneously reported the date of Mexico’s independence. The Mexican independence day is September 16.

Campus Briefs Faculty Senate Measure could make Classes more difficult to cancel The Faculty Senate will vote Monday on a proposed addition to the Faculty Handbook that would allow cancelled classes to continue in an alternate format.

Classes would continue online or professors could schedule make-up classes.

The proposition was discussed at a Faculty Senate meeting last month with hardly any opposition.

The only comment came from Kim Milton, physics and astronomy professor.

“Isn’t it common sense?� she said.

The meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m. in Jacobson Faculty Hall. — Jacqueline Clews/The Daily

Study abroad director switching positions The study abroad program will be losing its long-time director next semester.

Millie Audas, director of Education Abroad and International Student Services, will leave her post this summer for a new position working with President David Boren as the Special Assistant to the President for International Partnerships.

University spokesman Jay Doyle said Audas will continue to work with international students. “She will focus on reviewing and strengthening OU’s reciprocal exchange agreements and International OU Alumni Association groups, continue working with international student groups on campus and continue working with host families for international students,�

Doyle said.

Doyle said Audas, who has served at OU for 30 years, has committed to one more year working with President Boren. — Griffin Shaffer/The Daily

Huffman center helps students fight stress during finals week The Huston Huffman Center is aiming to keep students’ stress levels down during finals week and will make its group fitness classes free to students next week to help reduce stress.

Amy Davenport, director of the Huston Huffman Center, said free chair massages will also be available to students during finals week. She said students interested in one should contact the center to schedule an appointment. — Kelly Marose/The Daily

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Continues from page 1 ideas to teach in Germany, Terry proposed a project to compare the communication and monetary policies of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the Federal Reserve in the U.S., and McGough proposed a project to document traditional hunting methods in western Mongolia.

Terry, who received a master’s degree in mathematics from OU in 2007, said in an e-mail he was happy he received the grant, but he plans to decline the grant in favor of enrolling in the economics Ph.D. program at Stanford University in the fall.

And Steece, who graduated in December with a German and European studies degree, said she was also considering declining the Fulbright Grant to take a assistant teaching position from a different U.S. Fulbright program.

Even thought she might not accept the grant, Steece said she was very happy when she heard

she had received it. “I was extremely excited when I heard that I had been selected,� she said in an e-mail. “The process of applying is very long and can be quite tedious, so to know that all of the work and months of waiting has paid off is very rewarding.�

Steece said she decided to apply after she studied abroad in Austria as an undergraduate student at OU. “I think the Fulbright program allows students a once in a lifetime opportunity. Much like the study abroad programs at OU, the chance to spend an extended amount of time in a different country is an invaluable experience for anyone seeking to develop their own education,� she said.

Rambo agreed the opportunity is excellent for students because the grant usually pays for 10 months abroad, which includes insurance, travel and a living allowance.

“I was extremely excited when I heard that I had been selected,� she said in an e-mail. “The process of applying is very long and can be quite tedious, so to know that all of the work and months of waiting has paid off is very rewarding.�

Sarah Steece, Fulbright Grant winner He also said he likes the program because it focuses on giving students international experience. “I was happy with the results this year, just for the students, and at a larger level for the program,� he said.

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Professor’s journey leads to Greece and back Professor found success screenwriting in Europe before teaching at OU RICKY MARANON The Oklahoma Daily

Before Angelina Jolie, “Ocean’s Eleven” and even “Thelma & Louise” were a part of Brad Pitt’s life, there was an OU professor.

Sitting in his third floor office in Old Science Hall, surrounded by classic movie posters and pictures of Hollywood elites, is film and video studies professor Andrew Horton. His career didn’t lead him to the motion picture capitol of the world, but to lesserknown sights for his projects.

“I’ve never been a part of Hollywood,” he said. “I’ve mainly been under contract to do films in Greece, New Zealand and Norway.”

Horton is a screenwriter and author of 21 books on travel and film and video studies.

THE PATH TO PITT Horton’s path to writing films began during the Vietnam war.

“I was opposed to the Vietnam war, and a friend said that I should go over to Greece and teach English,” he said. “The army let me go over and teach English, saying, ‘By teaching them English, I was stopping them from becoming communists.’”

He said while he was in Greece, he gained a passion for writing, and began writing screenplays.

After a few successful films, he caught the attention of Yugoslav film producer Angelo Aranjelovic for the screenplay he co-wrote, “Dark Side of the Sun.” While casting the film with Marion Doughtery, who worked on movies like “The Sting” and “Batman,” Horton was asked to make a choice on who would play the lead.

“She gave me the choice of two new actors that have had some small parts on television,”

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During the filming of “Dark Side of the Sun”, film and video studies professor Andrew Horton (left) stands with Brad Pitt (right) and director Bozidar Nikolic (middle) in 1989. “Dark Side of the Sun” was primarily shot in Yugoslavia during the summer of 1988, but was not released until 1997 because footage was lost during the Yugoslavian civil war.

Horton said. “I had to choose between River Phoenix and Brad Pitt. I thought it was a joke at first because the names sound so funny.”

Horton and his colleagues picked Pitt.

T h e f i l m w a s re l e a s e d i n Yugoslavia in 1989, but before it could be released in other countries, the master print was lost in the Bosnian War and the film’s debut was delayed for eight years.

In 1997, the film was released on home video, but not in movie theaters.

Horton says starring in “Dark Side of the Sun” impacted Pitt

“He’s actually seen what other countries are like early on in his career and it’s had an impact on him.”

ANDREW HORTON, FILM AND VIDEO STUDIES PROFESSOR in more ways than just his acting career.

“It’s because of starting off in an international film is why he is involved in international efforts,” he said. “He’s actually seen what other countries are like early on in his career and it’s had an impact on him.”

Horton said many people ask him for advice for succeeding in Hollywood.

“ B e a p l u m b e r,” h e s a i d .

“Everyone needs their pipes fixed, even famous people, and that’s how you make your connections.”

TIME FOR TEACHING In 1990, Horton taught English at Loyola University in New Orleans, and came to OU in 1999 as the first film and video studies professor.

“I came to OU a year late,” he said.

He and his family travelled around the world for a year, which he writes about in his book “Life Without A ZIP Code.”

Ever y summer he goes to Greece, where his career started, and takes a group of students to study film and mythology.

But Horton is not just a frequent visitor to Greece.

“My former students bought my wife and I a house on a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea,” he said.

Horton said he also would like to start a summer film institute in Greece for film students.

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Despite most degrees being completely worthless and irrelevant to actual work in the field, the actual piece of paper is the most important part. Unless you intend to go into specialized practices after graduation. It is only important that you have the piece of paper. Any hiring manager worth their salt will know that

the person behind the paper is most important, and if they are smart, they can be taught nearly any job.

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LANGUAGE VOTE IMPORTANT

We aren’t living up to our own ideals

Oklahoma voters next year will have the chance to take a stance on whether English should be the state’s official language. College students should seize the opportunity to make their voices heard.

Wednesday, the state House passed a measure to put a question on the 2010 ballot asking voters whether they believe English should be Oklahoma’s official language.

Making English the official language would require all state business to be conducted in English. It would also prohibit individuals from suing the state for failing to provide services in other languages.

The bill contains measures to protect the use of American Indian languages on reservations or for educational purposes.

Supporters of the proposal say it will cut costs because the state will no longer be required to print forms and provide services in other languages, but opponents say the bill will send an antiimmigrant message.

This represents an opportunity for students to not only express their Constitutional rights, but investigate an issue and take a well-reasoned stance on it.

Before you head to the polls next November, ask yourself these questions

about the measure: If you support it, can you articulate the reasons for your support? What about the possibility that it could make Oklahoma seem hostile toward non-English speakers?

If you’re against it, could you explain your reasoning to a proponent of the measure? What about the fact that it could improve the state’s efficiency and save money?

This is the sort of statewide issue that is too important to be decided by unfounded assumptions or initial impressions.

You have until November 2010 to decide what you believe about this topic and why. Use that time well.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR IT EXPERIENCE EXCELLENT There are a lot of complaints about the student services here on campus - I’ve made some of them myself. Some of them are justified. I, personally, haven’t always been totally fair in my expectations; I’ve often wanted more than I could reasonably expect from the people who work here.

For that, I am sorry, but I am pleased to say that my recent experience with the OU IT Store exceeded even my own, sometimes exacting, standards.

Good customer service is hard enough to come by as is, but I’ve worked in the tech industry, and I can tell you that good service is far more vital when you’re dealing with products that your customers don’t always fully

understand.

When I recently had a problem with a transaction taken through the IT Store (a problem that arose, as it turns out, through nobody’s fault - just one of those things), Annette, the manager, and David Goodspeed were right on it.

They resolved my issue promptly and with an eye toward making sure I was not only satisfied, but fully informed of the steps that were being taken to make it right.

My experience with them was a model of excellent service.

I will be doing as much of my tech purchasing as possible through the IT Store in the future. I can’t recommend them highly enough.

- Landon W. Schurtz, department of philosophy

STAFF CARTOON Ian Jehn - civil engineering junior

We are a society of superficial supporters. We like to be environmental advocates, Christians and humanitarians.

We like being defined by these overarching terms, but we don’t like applying them in our lives.

It is popular and easy to define yourself in any of these categories.

However, it seems that our daily actions on these issues might define us as anything but supporters.

We see examples of this superficial support everywhere from campus to Congress.

We see it when people’s actions are inconsistent with their ideals.

We see it in the environmentalist who MAX shops at Wal-Mart, the Christian who votes AVERY for the death penalty and the humanitarian who’s never even been to a local charity.

People act hypocritically by making these choices that directly oppose their beliefs.

Consider the environmentalist who minimizes driving, however, this same person buys products manufactured thousands of miles away, made with materials that were transported thousands of additional miles.

These products require massive cargo ships to transfer products around the world. According to the International Maritime Organization, cargo ships pollute the air far worse than automobiles.

The 15 largest ships in the world emit approximately the same amount of pollution as 760 million automobiles.

If your goal is to pollute the planet, buying international goods is better than driving a Hummer.

The focus of environmental advocates seems to be on different issues. Issues not tied to our lifestyles.

This focus lets people keep thinking of themselves as environmentalists while they continue making environmentally damaging choices. Convenient.

In Congress, we regularly see Christian politicians advocate the death penalty.

This punishment leaves no avenue for rehabilitating the individual, thus no possibility of forgiveness.

This mentality is fundamentally antithetical to the Christian ethics of charity and forgiveness, teaching people to turn the other cheek and stand up for our beliefs peacefully, to forgive our neighbor’s trespasses, not smite them down for their sins.

Also, consider the humanitarians across campus that wish to alleviate world poverty; Africa and Palestine seem to be the most popular places to save right now.

We see so much international support and charity, but few will give their time to Food and Shelter for Friends or another local charity that helps the local poor.

I understand saving exotic children is sexy and good for the world, but there is poverty here, too.

There are hungry children here, too.

If you want to save those distant children, why not dedicate some time to helping someone who’s closer?

It’s more convenient – no crossing oceans or endangering your life, it’s close, it’s easy and there is definitely a need.

Perhaps we don’t do it because it’s pragmatic.

It’s not sexy to do things here, and besides, we might actually change our lives without having to pay exorbitant amounts of money for the experience.

We espouse great ideals, but we need to work on living up to them.

Max Avery is a political science senior.

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Embryonic stem cell fight is far from over Two weeks ago, Gov. Brad Henry vetoed a bill that would have banned embryonic stem cell research. The Oklahoma Legislature has since failed to override the veto. However, the fight is not over, the battle over the sacredness of the seeds of human life continues.

Each side purports that they are the most pro-life, the most compassionate and the most humane. It is essential to understand SARAH that right now the ban is ROSENCRANS not on adult stem cells, which has been researched extensively and has progressed quite far with far less controversy. Surely, I do not need to belabor that point; I am opposing embryonic stem cell research here.

Supporters of embryonic stem cell research claim that since the cells are pluripotent, meaning they can specialize into any type of body cells, their versatility will make it possible to repair and regenerate diseased and damaged tissues.

Thus, you hear the possibility of curing paralysis, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes

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and various cancers, among other diseases.

Even though current research has not produced any results, there is no denying the possibility.

That is not the problem, rather, the problem is that these cells come from a five-dayold embryo. An egg, one among many taken from a woman, and a sperm taken from a man, has been joined and human life was begotten.

Everything needed to develop and be human is in that first human zygote and blastocyst. I believe that life begins at conception and science does not disprove this.

Trying to define it at any other point becomes a slippery slope. How can it not be a live human in the womb and then suddenly become one outside of it? Is it any less human because a scientist has artificially recreated conception in a laboratory? This is why many find embryonic stem cell research problematic; it destroys the embryo once the cells are removed. It destroys a human being.

Supporters of the research also argue that leftover embryos from in vitro fertilization used by fertility clinics should be used because the embryos would be discarded and wasted anyway. I find this problematic

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in two ways: it presumes in vitro is a morally licit procedure, and it presumes humans are only as good as their usefulness to society.

In vitro fertilization is problematic primarily because it creates life outside the natural marriage act; it separates the loving act of a husband and wife from their future children with a laboratory and a scientist.

While many infertile couples may long to have children, they are not a right or a product to be had on demand.

Also, the procedures create extra embryos for the sake of having one survive. Thus, these hundreds and thousands of embryos are left unwanted and frozen.

Though they should never have been created in the first place, they are quite human, so they should be thawed and let to die in peace or perhaps adopted.

If these embryos are only as good as their usefulness in research, then what about the mentally ill and the severely handicapped, some of whom can never make a living, or work a job or be useful in any measure of society? Should they be experimented on and let to die? Do we experiment on capitally condemned prisoners, knowing that they are about to die?

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We should not treat the origins of human existence so cavalierly, regardless of when one believes life begins. Bald eagle eggs are protected, because they hold a young eagle.

Should not human life be more protected and sacred than any eagle or other endangered species? Only if you believe humans are a blight on the planet. But then if humans are a blight on the planet, why fight so hard for research you think will potentially cure their diseases?

There is potential and results in adult stem cells, as I have noted above, and they should continue to be studied as they have been.

Science must have moral bounds, or it will become insensitive to the human soul as it tries to save the human body and exploit it at the same time.

It is a grave contradiction to kill life in the name of saving it. Closing the door on embryonic stem cell research is not so much an undue limit on science, but rather a call to creativity in achieving the same results using means that do not exploit human embryos, women or any person.

Sarah Rosencrans, zoology and biomedical science junior

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MEXICO’S WEAPONS CACHE STYMIES TRACING Lack of information from Mexican authorities makes it difficult for U.S officials to trace guns E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Deep inside a heavily guarded military warehouse, the evidence of Mexico’s war on drug cartels is stacked two stories high: tens of thousands of seized weapons, from handguns and rifles to AK-47s, some with gun sights carved into the shape of a rooster or a horse’s head.

The vault nestled in a Mexican military base is the government’s largest stash of weapons — some 88,537 of them — seized from brutal drug gangs. The Associated Press was recently given rare and exclusive access to the secure facility.

The sheer size of the cache attests to the seemingly hopeless task of ever sorting and tracing the guns, possibly to trafficking rings that deliver weapons to Mexico. And security designed to keep the guns from getting back on the streets is so tight that even investigators have trouble getting the access they need.

The warehouse — on a main drag in northeastern Mexico City near the horse racing track

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In this April 24 photo, seized hand guns sit in racks in a seized weapons warehouse at the Secretary of the Defense headquarters in Mexico City. In all, the military has 305,424 confiscated weapons locked in vaults, just a fraction of those used by criminals in Mexico, where an offensive by drug cartels against the military has killed more than 10,750 people since December 2006.

— is surrounded by five rings of security. There are two military guards at the door and five more are in the lobby. Inside, another 10 soldiers sort, clean and catalog weapons. Some are dismantled and destroyed, a few assigned to the Mexican military.

The guns are stacked to the two-story ceiling in a warehouse the size of a small Wal-Mart. The

rifles lie on 22 metal racks; the pistols hang from metal poles by their triggers.

The cavernous warehouse is impeccably clean, the only smell coming from the coffee the soldiers prepared for their rare visitors. The clash of metal and sounds of the soldiers at work echo off the walls.

The security, bolstered by

closed-circuit cameras and motion detectors, makes the warehouse practically impenetrable, said Gen. Antonio Erasto Monsivais, who oversees the armory.

In all, the military has 305,424 confiscated weapons locked in vaults, just a fraction of those used by criminals in Mexico, where an offensive by dr ug

Here she comes: Saudi’s Miss Beautiful Morals Pageant delivers Islamic message, judges contestants on level of respect for parents DONNA ABU-NASR Associated Press

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Sukaina al-Zayer is an unlikely beauty queen hopeful. She covers her face and body in black robes and an Islamic veil, so no one can tell what she looks like. She also admits she’s a little on the plump side.

But at Saudi Arabia’s only beauty pageant, the judges don’t care about a perfect figure or face. What they’re looking for in the quest for “Miss Beautiful Morals” is the contestant who shows the most devotion and respect for her parents.

“The idea of the pageant is to measure the contestants’ commitment to Islamic morals... It’s an alternative to the calls for decadence in the other beauty contests that only take into account a woman’s body and looks,” said pageant founder Khadra al-Mubarak.

“The winner won’t necessarily be pretty,” she added. “We care about the beauty of the soul and the morals.”

So after the pageant opens Saturday, the nearly 200 contestants will spend the next 10 weeks attending classes and being quizzed on themes including “Discovering your inner strength,” ‘’The making of leaders” and “Mom, paradise is at your feet” — a saying attributed to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad to underline that respect for parents is among the faith’s most important tenets.

Pageant hopefuls will also spend a day at a country house with their mothers, where they will be observed by female judges and graded on how they interact with their mothers, alMubarak said. Since the pageant is not televised and no men are involved, contestants can take off the veils and black figurehiding abayas they always wear in public.

The Miss Beautiful Morals pageant is the latest example of conservative Muslims co-opting Western-style formats to spread their message in the face of the onslaught of foreign influences flooding the region through the Internet and satellite television.

A newly created Islamic music channel owned by an Egyptian businessman aired an “American Idol”-style contest for religious-themed singers this month. And several Muslim preachers have become talk-show celebrities by adopting an informal, almost Oprah-like television style, in contrast to the solemn clerics who traditionally appear in the media.

Now in its second year, the number of pageant contestants has nearly tripled from the 75 women who participated in 2008.

The pageant is open to women between 15 and 25. The winner and two runners up will be announced in July, with the queen taking home $2,600 and other prizes. The runners up get $1,300 each.

cartels against the military has killed more than 10,750 people since December 2006. But each weapon is a clue to how the cartels are getting arms, and possibly to the traffickers that brought them here.

The U.S. has acknowledged that many of the rifles, handguns and ammunition used by the cartels come from its side of the border. Mexican gun laws are strict, especially compared to those in most U.S. border states.

The Mexican government has handed over information to U.S. authorities to trace 12,073 weapons seized in 2008 crimes — particularly on guns from large seizures or notorious crimes.

But the Bureau of Alcohol, To b a c c o , F i r e a r m s a n d Explosives, which handles the U.S. investigations, is at the mercy of local Mexican police for the amount and quality of the information.

“Many of these rural municipalities that may come into a gun seizure ... may not even know anything about tracing guns,” ATF spokesman Thomas Mangan said.

A police officer in Mexico submits a description, serial number and distinctive markings of the gun. The weapons are then turned over to the military for storage in one of a dozen armories such as the one in Mexico City.

Last year’s winner, Zahra al-Shurafa, said the contest gives an incentive to young women and teens to show more consideration toward their parents.

“I tell this year’s contestants that winning is not important,” said al-Shurafa, a 21-year-old English major. “What is important is obeying your parents.”

There are few beauty pageants in the largely conservative Arab world. The most dazzling is in Lebanon, the region’s most liberal country, where contestants appear on TV in one-piece swimsuits and glamorous evening gowns and answer questions that test their confidence and general knowledge.

There are no such displays in ultra-strict Saudi Arabia, where until Miss Beautiful Morals was inaugurated last year, the only pageants were for goats, sheep, camels and other animals, aimed at encouraging livestock breeding.

This year’s event kicks off Saturday in the mainly Shiite Muslim town of Safwa, and mostly draws local Shiite contestants. But it’s open to anyone — and this year, 15 Sunni Muslims are participating, al-Mubarak said. “This is a beautiful thing,” she added.

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‘Class of Katrina’ graduating, 4 years after storm Students credit hurricane for strengthening character, bond KEVIN MCGILL Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — In the months after Hurricane Katrina swamped the University of New Orleans campus in August 2005, the basketball team practiced at a school six hours away in Texas and played almost its entire season on the road, winning just three games.

Some team members quit, but for those who stuck it out, “it made us closer,” said Jada Frazier, who was a freshman from Albany, Ga. “I strongly believe that sometimes you have to go through some hardships and changes in order to become a stronger person,” she said. “And I don’t think I could have gone anywhere else and become the person that I am today.”

Frazier is a member of the Class of Katrina — the graduating college seniors who were brand-new freshmen when the hurricane plunged New Orleans into anarchy and ruin four years ago.

While many of their classmates left and never came back, they returned, whether out of loyalty to their school or affection for the city. And for some of them, it was a lifechanging experience.

Tulane University student Denali Lander, an English major from Boulder, Colo., helped

start a nonprofit relief effort called the NOLA Fund. Originally a source of aid for families displaced by the storm, it evolved into a program providing students at a New Orleans public school with technology training and free laptops.

“I’ve always been a civic-minded person, I like to think. But certainly the hurricane kind of put that at the forefront of my interest,” Lander said.

Many of New Orleans’ freshmen had barely unpacked and decorated their dorm rooms when the city was ordered evacuated because the levees broke. Administrators returned weeks later to find major damage at Dillard University, Xavier University, the University of New Orleans and Southern University at New Orleans. Tulane and Loyola universities fared better.

Other colleges around the country took in New Orleans’ students for a semester before classes finally resumed in the city in January 2006 — in trailers at some of the flooded campuses or, in the case of Dillard, at a hotel.

It was a dreary, depressing experience.

An international business and Spanish major, Ashlee Yates of Memphis, Tenn., recalled a Dillard gym piled ceiling-high with the belongings of students who wouldn’t be coming back for them. Her dorm room had flooded, and she had lost everything.

“The morale became really, really low after the hurricane,” Yates said. “A lot of students that came in with me aren’t here anymore.”

Jazmine Boutte, a student at Dillard, didn’t just lose what she had on campus; her family

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Denali Lander, a Boulder, Colo., native and Tulane University senior, talks to students Monday in a New Orleans charter school in New Orleans. Lander is taking part in a nonprofit program she directs that provides computers and computer training to students. in New Orleans lost their home to flooding. It was, she said, a shock to her then-materialistic soul when she wound up in Houston with no extra clothes, dependent on the kindness of strangers.

“I’ve really changed from how I was. I would never want Wal-Mart clothes and things like that, and that’s what I had to resort to right after we evacuated,” Boutte said.

“I just never thought I would have to have people giving me things when I used to be the one giving all the time.”

When she returned to New Orleans, Boutte helped paint and clean damaged

property, tutored schoolchildren and participated in the building of a Habitat for Humanity house. She also took part in a 2006 rally to encourage displaced residents to vote — the kind of civic-minded activity she said she never would have participated in before.

“I was kind of materialistic before Katrina.

I’ve really learned not to take anything for granted,” she said. “My whole views on having this and having that have really changed.”

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Oklahoma voters to decide English as official language State would be 31st to officialize English TIM TALLEY Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma House gave final passage Wednesday to legislation that asks voters if they want English to be the state’s official language, ending weeks of dialogue over the divisive issue that opponents said is aimed at Hispanic immigrants.

Without debate, House members passed the Senatepassed measure 89-8. It now goes to a statewide ballot where voters will decide the issue in 2010.

A recent poll conducted by SoonerPoll.com for the Tulsa World found that 86 percent of Oklahomans support making English the official language of state government. Thirty other states have already adopted official English laws, as have more than 50 nations around the globe.

Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe on Wednesday

introduced the National Language Act of 2009, legislation similar to Oklahoma’s proposal that would make English the national language of the U.S. government.

It says no one is entitled to receive federal documents and services in languages other than English unless required by law.

“By establishing that there is no entitlement to receive documents or services in languages other than English, we set the precedent that English is common to us all in the public forum of government,” said Inhofe, R-Okla.

The author of Oklahoma’s official English bill, Rep. Randy Terrill, R-Moore, said it recognizes English as Oklahoma’s common and unifying language and declares that all official actions of the state must be conducted in English. It also bars individuals from suing the state to have services provided in languages other than English.

“As our common language, English and the ‘melting pot’ process it makes possible has made the United States the most successful multiethnic nation in history,” said Terrill,

author of the 2007 measure that targeted illegal immigrants, House Bill 1804.

“Our government should encourage immigrants to assimilate so they can pursue the American dream, and this legislation encourages that process,” said Rep. George Faught, R-Muskogee, co-author of the bill. “We need to encourage legal immigrants to join mainstream American society and not live in linguistic isolation.”

Under the legislation, private individuals and businesses will still be allowed to use whatever language they choose.

Only official government business would be affected.

The bill also contains provisions to protect the “use, study, development, or encouragement” of any American Indian language, including the languages of Oklahoma’s 39 federally recognized tribes.

But tribal leaders have been among the measure’s most outspoken opponents as the bill and similar measures have been considered by Oklahoma lawmakers.

—AP

THIS WEEKEND AT YOUR UNIVERSITY T hursday, May 7 Student Success Series: Health/Nutrition | 3:30 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245. Presented by University College.

Astronomy Lecture Series: Black Holes | 7-8 p.m. at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Lecture presented by Dr. Karen Leighly, OU Physics. The International Year of Astronomy lecture series is sponsored by The University of Oklahoma’s Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman Public Schools, OKC Astronomy Club Odyssey Astronomy Club and Ten Acre Observatory.

University Theatre Presents: A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 8 p.m. in the Rupel Jones Theatre. Guest Director Joel Ferrell adapts Shakespeare’s fantasy to New York City, in an edgy, exotic fantasy romp. It’s a modern twist of magical mishaps, strange dreams and the foolish path of romance (Rated PG-13). For tickets call the OU Fine Arts Box Office at (405) 325-4101.

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

One Hundred Summers: A Kiowa Calendar Record | A special exhibition featuring the art of renowned Kiowa artist Silver Horn on display now through August 23, 2009 at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. This exhibit is made possible by the Kirkpatrick Foundation and the Merkel Family Foundation.

Friday., May 8 Free Film: “Fan Boys” | 4, 7 10 p.m. & midnight in Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Presented by the Union Programming Board and the Campus Activities Council Film Series.

University Theatre Presents: A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 8 p.m. in the Rupel Jones Theatre. Guest Director Joel Ferrell adapts Shakespeare’s fantasy to New York City, in an edgy, exotic fantasy romp. It’s a modern twist of magical mishaps, strange dreams and the foolish path of romance (Rated PG-13). For tickets call the OU Fine Arts Box Office at (405) 325-4101.

Late Night Snacks | 9:30 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium Lobby, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Get some FREE snacks courtesy of the Union Programming Board before the 10 p.m. showing of “Fan Boys.”

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University Theatre Presents: A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 8 p.m. in the Rupel Jones Theatre. Guest Director Joel Ferrell adapts Shakespeare’s fantasy to New York City, in an edgy, exotic fantasy romp. It’s a modern twist of magical mishaps, strange dreams and the foolish path of romance (Rated PG-13). For tickets call the OU Fine Arts Box Office at (405) 325-4101.

Sunday, May 10 Free Museum Admission for Moms | 1-5 p.m. at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.

University Theatre Presents: A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 3 p.m. in the Rupel Jones Theatre. Guest Director Joel Ferrell adapts Shakespeare’s fantasy to New York City, in an edgy, exotic fantasy romp. It’s a modern twist of magical mishaps, strange dreams and the foolish path of romance (Rated PG-13). For tickets call the OU Fine Arts Box Office at (405) 325-4101.

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IT’S ALL ABOUT WHO YOU TWEET The micro-blogging site offers chance to follow Hollywood’s biggest names Of all the time wasting, soul-sucking Web sites, Twitter has emerged from the social networking shadows to become one of the most popular, and addictive, of them all, promising if anything to make it to a creepy episode of VH1’s “Remember the 2000s?” in the very near future.

Twitter operates with the simple premise of “what are you doing?” in which users can post micro-blogs in the form of “tweets” in 140 characters or less. And while excessively TYLER annoying, Twitter is getting increasBRANSON ingly celebrated by nearly everybody– CNN, my sister, even Shaq.

Even I have one.

But one of the most interesting things to develop from Twitter isn’t the proliferation of information to the masses at an almost instantaneous speed.

No, the best thing about Twitter is the acceptance and large-scale usage by celebrities. If you think about it, it’s the perfect apparatus for a celebrity. In what other way can somebody egotistically post exactly what they’re doing at every waking minute of every day? It’s a megalomaniac’s wet dream. Also, you don’t even have to be a celebrity to act like you’re one on Twitter. Twitter is a medium through which anybody can think everyone else gives a crap about them. In a weird way, it’s self-affirming.

Nevertheless, after scouring the Internet for hours and hours, I have compiled a list of the four most entertaining people to follow on Twitter. If you need a pick-me-up, check out a few “tweets” from these egotistical narcissists whenever you get a chance.

Tyler Branson is an English senior.

SHAQ If Shaq is trying to prove Katt Williams’ characterization of him as a dumb, bumbling goofball wrong, he isn’t showing it with his Twitter feed.

With frequent updates and photos of himself doing mundane things – Shaq at the gym, Shaq at work (he’s a cop now?), Shaq petting a puppy – he sets himself up to be endlessly entertaining in a David Letterman’s “Stupid Human Tricks” kind of way.

Frequently in all caps, Shaq’s uplifting words of advice range from, “Just got dat underwater ipod adaption device jammy so I can hear music unda water, I b aqua jammin, Waaaa Waaa Shaq-mu The quilla,” or, my personal favorite, an early morning post, “I’M UP EARLY TO TWIT WITH OPRAH.” Priceless.

JOHN MAYER I’ve heard that pop musician John Mayer was funny. And after following him for a while on Twitter, I tend to agree. He’s a pretty hilarious guy who loves to update on his Twitter in a selfdeprecating, “Hey, I’m doing it ironically” kind of way.

His most recent tweet reads, “Last night we ended up in Reno to pay a visit to a man who said he owned C3PO. Why do I get myself in these predicaments?” Oh, John, you’re such a rebel! If only I could get myself into these situations with you!

Or how about the May 2nd post: “Man, if you leave Life cereal and milk in a bowl for 90 seconds, you have a bowl of giant spongy mass. No more milk and 8 inch squares.” Ah, to ponder the mind of a genius. A really wealthy, bored genius.

YOULOOKGREAT The user who goes by the name YouLookGreat, is perhaps my favorite person on Twitter to follow, if only for his biographic information which reads, “Your daily passive aggressive affirmation.” This man speaks my language, and I feel like he speaks to me on many levels. For instance, take his May 1 tweet: “Things are never as bad as they could be, but they’re usually worse than you think.” Or, take his April 29th tweet: “Everybody knows you are doing the best you can: they’re just

L&A BRIEF REALITY TV’S JON SAYS HE DIDN’T CHEAT ON KATE NEW YORK — Reality TV star Jon Gosselin has denied cheating on wife Kate. But he said he’s sorry for creating that impression.

“These allegations are false and just plain hurtful,” Gosselin said Wednesday, insisting: “I did not cheat on Kate.”

Gosselin was speaking out against tabloid reports that he’s had an affair with a Pennsylvania schoolteacher. Photos of Gosselin and the woman have surfaced in recent weeks.

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not impressed.”

YouLookGreat shows me that there are, in fact, people out there who share the same disdain and lack of hope for humanity, and furthermore, it’s OK to share it with the world. Thank you, YouLookGreat.

SHIA LABEOUF In case you were wondering where you could find all those photos paparazzi take of Shia LaBeouf, look no further than his own Twitter page, where he shamelessly posts candid photos taken of himself in public.

“Spotted with his Mamma. Oh S***!” reads one post, with a link to a picture of himself posted to a celebrity Web site. This guy loves being famous, and encourages people to take part in his fame. Or perhaps his April 20 tweet to famed celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, asking simply “Would you?” implying both something grotesquely sexual and pompously disgusting.

Actors are interesting people. The more I’ve been following them on Twitter these days, the more glad I am that I’m not raking in millions of dollars and adored by everybody. Well, almost.

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Memorial Marathon winners share history KELSEY WHITTEN The Oklahoma Daily

Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon winners Jordan Kinley and Catherine Odell have more in common than winning their first marathons on the same day.

Both are Oklahoma residents, OU master’s students and both were OU runners. And when they turned onto Classen Boulevard 21 miles into OKC’s April 26 marathon, neither first timer was sure they wanted to continue.

“It was probably the least fun 12 minutes of running I’ve had in recent memory,” Kinley said. “There was no part of it that was fun at all.”

Odell had similar thoughts, but battled through the strong head winds on the three mile stretch of the race thinking only of the finish line. Odell’s pace dropped from 6:45 per mile to 8 minute miles.

“I was getting discouraged mentally, which is where you get beat down in the marathon,” she said. “I just kept thinking it’s almost over. Four more miles [to go] of 26 isn’t that bad.”

Both made it through the tough, windy stretch and the entire 26.2-mile course faster than their competitors. Odell beat her closest competitor by five minutes with a time of 3:10.16. Kinley, finishing with a time of 2:27.19, was more than 10 minutes ahead of the second place finisher, but said he could have pushed even harder.

“I think I could have run faster,” he said. “I was fatigued at the end but not to the point of passing out.”

Kinley, who used a 40-day training plan, said some people were surprised with his win, but he came in knowing he could be near the top.

“I didn’t necessarily know I was going to win, but I thought I might have a shot,” he said.

Odell, who began training for the event with her fiance and friends in December, said she expected to do well and had a plan in place to ensure that she did.

“I wanted to win,” she said. “That was my goal. I had two teammates from OU run with me. One ran 11 miles with me. The other did the last six. I had people with me the whole time. It was very systematic.”

Unlike some big marathons, the OKC Memorial doesn’t award prize money, so Kinley and Odell got only bragging rights. At least for now, distance running is something the two do for other reasons than prize money. Kinley works at OK Runner in Norman and said he enjoys the social aspect of the running world. His boss and many of his customers were at the race to support him. Odell, who teaches middle school in Oklahoma City, said she also uses running to socialize and make the workouts easier.

“When you’re running with people that kind of makes it fun,” she said. “We would get together; go for runs, and it was almost like we were hanging out.”

With their first marathon out of the way, Kinley and Odell both say they hope to do more in the future. For now, Kinley is taking a two to three week break doing light workouts only and wants to

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OU graduate students Jordan Kinley and Catherine Odell represent OU well by winning the Oklahoma City Marathon. The OKC Marathon was the first marathon run by both Kinley and Odell. enter some shorter races.

“I’ll go on the record and say I might go after the state 5k record on the roads,” he said. “It’s much faster than I’ve run before, but I think it’s reasonable.”

Kinley plans to run either the U.S. Marathon Championships or the Chicago Marathon this fall and push for a time closer to 2:19, the Olympic trial standard.

Odell also says another marathon may be in her future, but for now she is running “whenever” and keeping up with one long run a week because even a day without running makes her miss it.

“Running is just something I do,” she said. “It’s not a burden really, or something I feel like I have to do. It’s just what runners do.”

STAFF COLUMN

Sports: A Study Break The middle of May has been a bittersweet time for me since I came to college.

As finals draw ever closer, and my stress level elevates to dangerous heights, it becomes necessary to find something to distract me from the yearly mediocrity that is better known as my grades.

That’s where sports come in.

They are the “-sweet” to the “bitter-“ feeling of knowing that once again my grade point average will probably translate in to what would be a MLB leading ERA. AARON They help me forget that I will probably be in college longer COLEN than Greg Paulus.

I love this time of year when I can make the switch from a world where 60 percent means an extra summer school class for me to a world where 60 percent means the Cavaliers just beat the Hawks by 27 because LeBron James shot 12-20.

I don’t know how many times this week I’ve sat down to read a book, study for a test, or even write some idiotic column (that’s a joke) and frustrated myself to the verge of committing a violent crime, but then turned on the television .

I then lost myself for a little while in the NBA playoffs, bringing me back to sanity.

Even hockey has stepped up and grabbed enough of my attention to keep my mind from overloading with the pressures of Dead Week.

Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin scoring three goals each in a Stanley Cup playoff game is the most exciting thing I’ve heard from the NHL in years.

Of course, I eventually have to turn the television off and get back to the grind that is the final two weeks of the school year. But I am very thankful that I have my favorite sports season of the year to balance me during my least favorite school season.

Now, if I could go back I would do things differently.

If I could go back in time, I would train tirelessly to become a star athlete. That way, I could just go to school for one or two years as a Sociology major before going pro. Then I wouldn’t have this problem.

That isn’t possible for me, but I do say thank you to those who took that path.

Because without you, who would I watch on TV while I’m procrastinating?

Aaron Colen is a journalism junior.

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WEEKEND UPDATE »

Looking for something to do this weekend? The Daily’s Life & Arts staff picked their favorite events this weekend.

FAIRY POWER

Univer sity Theatre presents “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday at Rupel J. Jones Theatre. A matinee showing star ts at 3 p.m. on Sunday.

Tickets are $17 with an OU ID. The show is rated PG-13.

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FREE FLICK A free screening of “Fanboys” will begin at 4, 7 and 10 p.m. Friday and midnight Saturday in Meacham Auditorium. The film is presented by the Union Programming Board and the Campus Activities Council Film Series.

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ZOMBIES & SILENCE

Slipknot with Korn, The Used, All That Remains, Violence to Vegas and Dirtfedd will perform at 3:30 p.m. Friday at the Zoo Amphitheatre in Oklahoma City. Tickets are $40 - $90.

Oklahoma City band Welcome The Silence will perform at 7 p.m.

Friday at Bricktown Live in Oklahoma City.

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MANNEQUIN MUSIC Jack’s Mannequin with Matt Nathanson and Eric McCarley will perform at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa. Tickets are $25.