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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Broadway veteran Ron Kellum has played every male ensemble part in the musical “Chicago.” Now, he’s taken on the role of guest director for OU’s production of the play.

Check out our feature in A&E. Page 7.

Oklahoma City rapper Jabee might not be rich, but his rhymes beg to differ. We get into the rapper’s head in our Q&A, in which Jabee talks about his new album and more.

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Services will be Friday for microbiology senior Noah Brandherm, who died Monday.

Services planned for OU senior

SPORTS The women’s golf team won the Price’s Give ‘Em Five Invitational last season, but couldn’t repeat that success this week in New Mexico. Page 6.

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Posters of negative body images conveyed in magazines were portrayed on the Wall of Shame, on the left side of the display, next to posters of healthy women on the Wall of Fame, right, on Wednesday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Will Rogers Room. The Women’s Outreach Center hosted “Love Your Body Day” to help students combat low self-esteem caused by poor body image.

‘Love Your Body Day’ spotlights issue of negative body image • Students encouraged to sign ‘Body Peace Treaty’

Ellen Mueller

CAMPUS BRIEFS Candidates spar in last debate Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain squared off Wednesday night in their third and final debate, but did it change any students’ opinions? Page 11.

Chili cook-off raises cash Six OU celebrities, including Carol Stoops, the wife of head football coach Bob Stoops, donated their chili recipes to OU United Way’s chili cook-off Wednesday.

Associate vice president Susan Sasso won for the best chili recipe.

The cook-off launched the beginning of United Way’s four-week campaign to raise more than $200,000, which will be donated to Norman’s United Way. Contributions from the cook-off totaled almost $300.

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NATASHA GOODELL AND LEIGHANNE MANWARREN Daily Staff Writers egative body image isn’t something that can be classified as a women’s issue. In fact, the issue is a growing problem among men, said an OU psychologist.

“Guys think body image is a girl problem and don’t really talk about it, but usually they have the same problems and don’t think anything of it at the time,” said Christopher Bader, who acts as a psychology resource for athletes.

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Bader said the ratio of women to men with eating disorders has grown from 10:1 to 4:1 in the last 20 years. He said the issue isn’t gender specific.

“The difference between guys • In 2003, more than 223,000 cosmetic and girls dealing with eating disorprocedures were performed on patients ders is that guys tend to start from 18 or younger. what they think is overweight and • The number of surgeries in 2003 more work their way down to an ‘average’ than tripled the number of procedures weight, whereas girls probably start from an ‘average’ weight and try to performed in 2002. get thinner in the spectrum.”

• Of the more than 200,000 procedures, Although problems with body 39,000 were nose reshapings, breast lifts, image are not convinced to females, breast augmentations, liposuction and the Women’s Outreach Center deditummy tucks. cated Wednesday as “Love Your Body Source: Federal Drug Administration Day,” and concentrated on minimizing body image issues and redefining the media,” said Kathy Moxley, the beauty for women. center’s director.

“The ‘Love Your Body Day’ is a As part of “Love Your Body Day,” chance to educate and celebrate the center set up a table in the women for who they are and counteract the negative images shown in BODY Continues on page 2

THE PLASTIC SURGERY SURGE

WILL HOLLAND Daily Staff Writer Memorial services are planned for an OU student who committed suicide Monday in Norman.

Microbiology senior Noah Brandherm of Guymon died Monday, said Bonnie Novak of Henson-Novak Funeral Directors, a Guymon funeral home. He was 20.

“He was a wonderful son, and we’ll miss him deeply,” said his father, Mike Brandherm. “He was funny and smart and loved people.”

Sophomore Ross Rozell said he had been a friend of Brandherm since the two were in sixth grade in Guymon.

“It really just came out of nowhere,” Rozell said. “But [he was a] great friend, good guy.”

Brandherm was in the OU Honors College and was working as a research assistant in the microbiology department, according to an obituary sent to The Daily by the funeral home.

Memorial services for Brandherm will be 2 p.m. Friday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Guymon.

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Oklahoma gas prices fall on lower crude oil prices • Norman residents welcome lower prices at the pump in light of economic turmoil PAIGE LAWLER Daily Staff Writer

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Gas prices are down — way down.

Some Oklahomans may be surprised to see prices lower than there have been since the spring, despite the turmoil in the economy.

Local gas prices are at an average of $2.63 per gallon in Norman because oil prices have dropped dramatically, from about $147 a barrel to below $80 a barrel over the past couple months, said Alesha Leemaster, communications specialist and spokesperson for Devon Energy.

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Gas cost $2.35 a gallon Wednesday at the Murphy USA station on Interstate Drive.

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Upperclassman campus residents receive loyalty meal point perks • OU’s Loyalty Program offers many benefits to on-campus residents MELISSA MORGAN Daily Staff Writer Students living at Traditions Square and the residence halls don’t have to use their few dollars and cents to buy lunch on campus just yet.

Upperclassmen living in the residence halls and OU Traditions Square receive 50 free meal points every semester, but some students still have not applied for their free meals. Some students thought the meals would be added to their Sooner OneCard, while others just did not know about the program.

“I had no idea I got 50 free meal points,” said Katie Pirog, public relations sophomore and Traditions Square West resident. “That will definitely come in handy during finals week!”

If a student has not yet received their free meal points, Amanda Hearn, Marketing and Public Relations specialist for OU Housing and Food Services, said he or she can apply for the Loyalty Program at the Housing and Food Services office on the first floor of Walker Tower. There the student will be given a Loyalty Card, which will carry the value of 5 meal points.

“When a student entered the Loyalty Program, we guaranteed annually discounted rates for the residence halls or locked in rates for OU Traditions Square,” Hearn said. “In addition, students were rewarded with free meal plan points, bathroom cleaning and special upper-class student only events.”

The Loyalty Card offers both free food and

convenience to users, because it is redeemable at every campus restaurant, Hearn said.

“If a student did not receive the card, I recommend that they promptly contact the main Housing and Food Services office,” Hearn said.

“We’ll remedy that.”

The Loyalty Program is designed to keep students on campus, but it is only one of the many reasons upperclassmen choose to stay.

In addition to free meal points and annually discounted or locked in rates, OU students said they can also rest easy in university housing because of the close proximity to campus, the convenient dining and academic resources.

Accounting senior and Traditions Square East resident Dan Adams has lived on campus for four years. He said he has enjoyed living on campus and the amenities provided by the program. “[The Loyalty Program] is definitely a perk, but it’s not what kept me on campus,” Adams said. “The location kept me there.”

University housing will also soon offer a new benefit for successful students. Beginning Oct. 27, students can reserve their space in the OU Academic Success Rebate program.

The OU Academic Success Rebate rewards upperclassmen and graduate students for living on campus and maintaining a 3.25 cumulative GPA, Hearn said.

“This initiative is replacing the Loyalty Program, but students currently in the Loyalty Program will continue to receive their benefits for the duration of their residence on campus,” Hearn said.

The OU Academic Success Rebate should not be mistaken for a scholarship, however. Hearn assures that the rebate is “guaranteed money for residents” to use as they wish.

“It illustrates our commitment to the academic success of students living on campus,” Hearn said.

Oklahoma Memorial Union with the media’s portrayal of body images, along with a board covered with students’ vows and hosted a panel discussion over the aspects of body image. A panel, comprised of Bader, professors, a psychologist and assistant director of the Huston Huffman, met in the afternoon to discuss body image.

Students were encouraged to write a Body Peace Treaty on a small, heart-shaped piece of paper to put on the board displayed in the Union. The Body Peace Treaty is a vow the individual makes concerning their own body; for example, “I vow to … quiet the negative voice inside when it says mean things about my body.”

Yaisa Mann, women’s studies faculty member and panelist, said the media portrays women as needing to have the perfect body, while men can get away with being average.

“The beauty of life is being yourself and not working to be what you see on TV,” said Savannah Campbell, human relations senior and an intern at the center.

Natalie Tindall, public relations assistant professor and panelist, said she has worked in health communications and has seen how women view

“The beauty of life is being yourself and not working to be what you see on TV.” Savannah Campbell, human relations senior and Women’s Outreach Center intern themselves through the media.

“It is very troubling to see how it affects women, and I had the opportunity to approach them and make it relevant on campus,” Tindall said.

University College freshman Dana Mohammadzadeh said she attended the panel to learn about body image from people with a professional outlook on the issue.

“I noticed that a lot of girls and guys here strive for a certain body image. I didn’t know if it was just because I’m from out-of-state or if it is a new environment,” Mohammad-zadeh said.

Gas Continued from page 1 The lower demand for crude oil get a lot,” Burns said. is causing the price to diminish, Consumers may be reaping sending gas to a more favorable the benefits of lower prices, but price, said Mike some oil compaMcDonald, conies are not as owner of Triad thrilled with the Energy Company. situation.

“Evidently McDonald people think said companies we’re not going that produce oil • Murphy USA, 609 NE 12th to use as much and gas are losand E. Main, $2.33 per gallon [gas] because the ing business, Wednesday economy is bad,” because the price • Express, 1251 E. Alameda, McDonald said. of oil is so low $2.33 per gallon Tuesday Norman resiright now.

• Murphy USA, 363 N. Interstate dent Candelon Oil prices are Dr., $2.35 per gallon Wednesday Burns, 23, said based on supply • Love’s, state Highway 9 & I-35, she is amazed to and demand, and $2.35 per gallon Wednesday see prices continwith the econ• Shell, 1120 N. Berry Rd., $2.35 ue to drop below omy in ragged per gallon Tuesday $3 per gallon. shape there is Burns said she less demand. The and her fiancé economy market commute daily is so unstable, between Norman and Moore for that many people are nervous, their jobs. She said the decrease Leemaster said. in gas prices has made it easier “The recent turmoil in financial to get by. markets most likely has caused “It’s definitely helped my bud- people to conserve more and con-

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sume less, essentially lowering demand and easing oil prices,” Leemaster said.

Burns said she thinks the economy is in trouble because so many people are focusing on the upcoming presidential election.

Part of the problem is everyone is so busy anxiously waiting to see who the new president will be, and the current president is just preparing to leave office instead of remaining involved with the issues, Burns said.

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Response team comes to assistance of sexual assault victims • SART gives victims medical, emotional support RYAN BRYANT Daily Staff Writer Despite few instances of sexual assault on campus, OU’s Sexual Assault Response Team was started last spring to provide resources for victims of sexual assault.

There have been five forcible sex offenses at OU since 2005, according to the 2008 Sooner Safety Report.

Response team coordinator Kathy Moxley said she is proud of the work she and the response team have conducted in the past few months.

“We’re able to provide a really great service,” she said. “We can provide a lot of help to those who need it at the university.”

Moxley, coordinator of the OU Women’s Outreach Center, said the team provides a coordinated response to instances of sexual assault at OU, and seeks to assist victims of sexual assault at the university.

“We work to be supportive emotionally, as well as being a resource for victims of sexual assault,” she said. “We’re entirely confidential, and we work with law enforcement and others to provide assistance to

victims.”

The organization, which is run by staff members of the Women’s Outreach Center who volunteer their time, are on call 24 hours a day to respond in the event of a sexual assault on an OU student, Moxley said.

They provide assistance by working in concert with campus police and Norman Regional Hospital to make sure that victims of sexual assault have the medical and emotional support necessary. She said the organization also helps victims find counselors to assist them on a long-term basis.

Detective Chris Patison of the OU Police Department said the response team has been an incredible benefit to the university community.

“We utilize SART with every instance of sexual assault in our jurisdiction,” he said. “It’s been a really useful program.”

Patison said OUPD must get compliance from victims of a sexual assault before the response team is notified.

“People usually opt to talk to them,” he said. “At the least, if they aren’t interested in contacting SART, we give victims their contact information, even if they say they don’t necessarily want their help.”

Patison said he believes that forcible sex offenses are rare on campus because of OU’s efforts to provide services and education that work to decrease sexual assaults.

“The Women’s Outreach Center’s efforts, as well as those of fraternities and sororities among others, have made great strides in educating students about this

kind of assault,” he said. “This has definitely reduced occurrences of sexual misconduct around the university.”

Human relations senior Savannah Campbell volunteers at the Women’s Outreach Center. She said she and her colleagues work to make sure students have somewhere and somebody to turn to.

“We want to get our name out there, to let students know we’re out there to help them if they need it,” she said. “If we’re spreading the word, we can definitely decrease the chances [of sexual assault].”

Tatianna Cannon, adult and higher education graduate student, works in conjunction with the response team. She said the program reinforces a safe atmosphere that already exists at OU. “OU has a really awesome campus,” she said. “I think student government and President [David L.] Boren have really done a lot to make it such a safe place for students.”

Cannon said that programs like the response team are especially beneficial to those assaulted.

“I think a lot of people have no idea what to do or who to talk to, so this acts as a way to help them out,” she said.

Moxley said that despite the low number of sexual assaults on university students, the response team exists to let people know that there is someone who Merrill Jones/The Daily can help.

The OU Sexual Assault Response Team works with the OU “I want people to know this is a resource for them,” she said. “We want people to know that we’re always Police Department to offer support and legal advice to victims. OU’s emergency phone lines operate 24 hours a day. here for them.”

Final debate fails to sway undecided students JERRY WOFFORD Daily Staff Writer

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Students watch the final presidential debate Wednesday night in Beaird Lounge inside the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Megan Hulshizar hasn’t decided which presidential candidate to support heading into Wednesday’s debate watch party.

As she watched the debate at the OU Votes: 2008 in 2008 Final Debate Watch Party in Beaird Lounge in Oklahoma Memorial Union, Hulshizar said the lack of focus on substantive issues won’t help her make up her mind.

“This election has been real character driven,” the international area studies and German sophomore said. “I want to see what their issues are and who would be good for our failing economy.”

Wednesday night’s debate was the final opportunity for voters like Hulshizar to see a debate between Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and the watch party drew a large crowd from both sides of the aisle, as well as those in the middle.

Daniel Swanson, chairman of the Oklahoma College Republicans and marketing junior, said the main focus should be on the strug-

gling global economy, but there are many other issues that need to be discussed.

“Polls show the economy situation is the number one issue,” Swanson said. “But, they need to let people know it’s not the only issue facing Americans.”

Sam Ikard, president of Sooners for Obama and political science junior, said McCain’s performance in Wednesday’s debate was “less restricted than I thought it would be.”

He said he thinks the McCain campaign has turned somewhat negative recently, while Obama continued to focus on the issues.

The difference in McCain and Obama’s campaign strategies should provide undecided voters a clearer picture, Ikard said.

“I don’t see how someone can look at them both with the same level of seriousness,” Ikard said.

Undecided voters, like Hulshizar, still have a large part in this election, though Obama has established a lead in national polls.

Hulshizar said there was no one issue that would help her make up her mind, but the economic struggles will play a large part in

her decision.

“The debt we’re in right now is something our generation will have to deal with,” she said. “It’d be great to hear just a straight answer.”

Another undecided voter, Derek Case, International Area Studies sophomore, said foreign policy, the economy and student loans are the issues most important to him.

“I still haven’t made a final decision yet,” he said. “I’m kind of just waiting.”

Wednesday’s debate watch party was sponsored by Young Democrats, College Republicans, the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Legislature, the Union Programming Board and Sooners for Israel.

The debate was originally scheduled to focus on foreign policy issues, but most of the discourse between the candidates focused on the economy, tax policy and other domestic issues.

“Whoever is elected will shift world views of this country,” said Zach Messitte, director of the International Programs Center who spoke to students before the debate.

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Image-conscious, out of control We’re glad the Women’s Outreach Center is shining a light on the problem of unrealistic body images in advertising, but it’s unfortunate that there’s a need for it in the first place.

The celebrities who grace the covers of grocery story shelf magazines are there because they are far thinner, prettier and fuller-lipped than most people.

For average people to flip OUR VIEW through magais an editorial zines, check selected and debated out the ads by the editorial board and written after a and think they majority opinion is should look formed and approved like the peoby the editor. Our View ple on those is The Daily’s official glossy pages is opinion. absurd.

For them to surgically alter their bodies in pursuit of that look is even more absurd.

But many of them do, to the tune of 223,000 cosmetic procedures a year — on patients under the age of 18 (see page 1 for details).

Plastic surgery is dangerous. Every year, people die as a result of complications from elective surgery. According to the Institute of Medicine, most women who undergo breast augmentations will experience a non-lethal complication within the first three years of the pro-

cedure.

Just as concerning as the danger that plastic surgery poses to individuals is what it reveals about society. Despite great strides over the past hundred years of women’s history, the reality is that people still place an inordinate amount of importance on the attractiveness of people, especially women.

This is wrong. People should be judged on how accomplished they are, how smart they are and how capable they are, not how hot they are.

People who get plastic surgery are perpetuating the lie that the way a person looks is his or her most important attribute.

It’s easy to argue that there’s nothing that can be done about society’s prejudices, and people should to do whatever they can to succeed within the systems they have been born into, even if it means plastic surgery.

This is wrong as well. A nation’s priorities are shaped by its people, and if people choose to start talking about who is most successful and not who is most beautiful, the emphasis placed on outward appearances might start to shrink.

But as long as people keep buying into the myth that image is everything, as long as they keep buying fake breasts and fake pecs, there will continue to be a need for a Wall of Shame.

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Road trip inspires exploration OK law outrageous the parking lot outside a rowdy bar on a Friday night, and our bus was the only one there).

Luckily, Hans made a friend on the bus while looking out the window at elephants. The man was a police officer traveling across the country to pick up a convict, planning to “public bus” him back across the country the next day.

Our new friend walked us around and found a lodge for the night.

After a special soup concoction — purchased from a gas station, prepared in the coffee maker and served in coffee cups — for dinMARK ner, we learned that our NEHRENZ cop buddy needed help.

His contact for accommodation was not answering her phone and it was late.

So he spent the night on our floor.

It was a killer sleepover.

We watched a movie on TV called “Treehouse Hostage” starring the infamous Ernest of “Ernest Goes to Camp” and other award-winning films.

Before sleepytime, our friend showed us the handcuffs and leg irons he would use on the prisoner the following day.

At sunrise, we found the large border ferry broken. An enterprising fellow charged us a small fee to cross the Zambezi river on his motor boat.

I love Africa.

Our next two days were spent in Zambia seeing Victoria Falls, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

All I can say is this: please, sometime during your life, visit Victoria Falls.

It is the most breathtaking wonder of

nature I have ever seen.

We took pictures, pretended to fight on a cliff, had Hans play dead in a pool close to the edge, you know, what was expected of us.

The Zambia view was amazing, but we heard it was much better across the way in Zimbabwe.

So we forked over $30 for a temporary visa in Zimbabwe.

On our way across the massive border bridge, we did the world’s second highest bungee jump.

A Zimbabwean dude selling trinkets took pictures of the jump, managing to have his thumb over the lens on all shots, and wear out my battery before we made it to the Zimbabwen side of the falls, which was ten times better than the Zambian side.

Then he tried to use it to his favor.

“My friend, I was you camera man. I give you good price, copper bracelets, good gifts.”

For some reason I bought a few.

Guys like him are the flavor of Africa, and mzungus (white people) like Hans and I were constant targets.

Back in town, we ran into some more “businessmen” and bought a few black market 100 billion dollar bills from Zimbabwe.

Yes, they are real, and a massive stack won’t even buy a loaf of bread.

Our next few days took us across most of Zambia and we ended in a rural village sleeping under the stars next to a Peace Corps volunteer’s hut.

I woke up in the morning with a pig staring me in the face.

Then I had about 10 little kids shake Hans’ tent and scream “MZUNGU MZUNGU!” to wake him.

We spent the next few days in Malawi and then hopped on a plane to fly back to South Africa.

We flew through Zimbabwe just for the thrill, and I managed to lose my checked bag of dirty clothes, which is, eight days later, still “missing.”

That just makes it a better story for the grandkids: “You see, Sonny, I had to bribe the dictator Robert Mugabe. He would only let me leave his country if I gave him my favorite t-shirt.”

It was the experience of a lifetime, and though it does motivate me to travel Africa more, it awakens an even stronger desire to travel America.

One time, my friends at OU took a spontaneous weekend trip to the Grand Canyon, and I missed out.

Never again.

I haven’t seen nearly enough of my own beautiful country.

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Last June, before I came to South Africa, my two brothers and I trekked across four states in 12 hours for a family reunion weekend in Ohio with the awesome ol’ Nehrenz clan.

My cousins and I made a movie about the killer man-beast living in “Monsterberry Woods,” then we headed back to Oklahoma.

It was a great American road trip, something we can all relate to.

I never thought I would be comparing it with a road trip across most of southern Africa, but here we go.

Two weeks ago was Spring Break here.

My roommate Hans and I took an 11-day trip across four countries in southern Africa, mainly by public bus.

We hit Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

It was a bit more intense than the drive to Ohio.

Relaying the whole experience here is impossible, but I do plan to use you as test subjects for story material that I will exaggerate for my grandchildren.

This bus trip covered 1,600 miles of African soil and was relatively unplanned.

The goal was to visit three friends from Camp Lutherhoma in Oklahoma. These former camp staffers are now Peace Corps volunteers serving in Zambia and Malawi.

We started by traveling to Botswana by bus and then traversed the entire country in about 12 hours on two more buses.

We arrived at a border town to enter Zambia just as the border closed.

Picture the scene: Mark and Hans, bearded white boys standing at a bus station, bags on shoulders and no idea where to stay the night (for the record, the “bus station” was

Last week the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit against Oklahoma’s own Senate Bill 1878 — a bill that will require a woman to have an ultrasound and for the doctor to describe the image to her before she can have an abortion.

The law, passed by the Oklahoma State Congress last spring, is slated to go into effect Nov. 1.

It is about damn time. As the Center for Reproductive Rights stated in a press release: “the Oklahoma law profoundly intrudes ROSIE upon a patient’s privacy, endangers her SONTHEIMER health, and assaults her dignity.”

Now, I had told myself that in choosing to write for a red-state paper, I would never, never write about abortion, but in light of the recent events that have unfolded, I must go back on this promise.

My biggest qualm with pro-lifers stems from statistical facts.

Every society that has been studied has been known to perform abortions. Even here in the United States, abortion was legal until the mid-tolate 1800s, when Americans were concerned that immigrants might overpopulate the country.

Even after abortions were made illegal, analysts estimate that nearly 1 to 2 million abortions were performed by doctors, abortion “specialists”, nutjobs looking to make a few bucks and women themselves.

Because of the horrible lengths that women had to go to get abortions, scholars estimate that nearly 5,000 women died each year as a result of illegal abortions from the time abortion was made illegal until the passage of Roe v. Wade.

Today, 25 years after the Supreme Court struck down laws that criminalized abortions, nearly 1.3 million abortions are performed annually.

Very few women die from these legal abortions.

If you think of nothing else, remember that. Whether abortion is legal or illegal, the same number of procedures will be performed. The same number of women will seek help.

But more women will risk serious injury or death when they do so illegally.

SB 1878 does not make abortions illegal. Instead, it makes an already emotionally difficult surgery for a woman a much more traumatic one.

If you do not believe in having an abortion, fine — don’t have one. That is what being pro-choice is about; it is about tolerating other people’s very

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private and very personal decisions.

It is realizing that the health and safety of other women is vital to the survival of this nation.

Since I have already broken my “I’m-not-going-to-talk-about-abortion” vow, I might as well throw out another bit of information on the abortion front.

In Colorado this November, the question of when life begins will be on the ballot. According to the Washington Post, “The Human Life Amendment, also known as the personhood amendment, says the words ‘person’ or ‘persons’ in the state constitution should ‘include any human being from the moment of fertilization.”

Fertilization happens when a sperm enters an egg. That means that a little clump of cells could have the same rights as you or me.

If this change is approved by Colorado voters, it will place a mother at risk of being charged with murder if she were to have an abortion or even if her actions unintentionally caused her to miscarry.

The new definition of personhood could make the act of blocking implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterus an “abortion.”

This would make the morning after pill and hormonal birth control pills illegal despite the fact that these methods do not induce abortion, but rather keep a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus.

There is no such mention of these two possible consequences of the amendment on the ballot.

What has happened here? Has our region of the country gotten so deeply involved the private matters of women that they have to humiliate them with costly and time-consuming ultrasounds and withhold important information about contraceptives and their consequences?

Have we focused so much on saving a few cells or a fetus that we forget about our women, and our men, who are already alive and kicking and in need of support instead of bigotry and selfishness?

I love this state and I love this country, but I cannot stay silent when personal rights are being attacked.

We have already placed enough obstacles in the way of women seeking abortions.

Don’t step outside the boundaries of your own rights and interfere with someone else’s unless you want another woman to die from a coat hanger or knitting needle abortion.

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STAFF COLUMN

A handful of tough with a dash of crazy very now and then, the sports world provides a story that leaves me speechless. Sometimes about a player overcoming great adversity in order to succeed. Other times it’s an athlete who makes an incredible personal sacrifice.

This story fits both of those categories: Trevor Wikre, a 21-year-old offensive lineman for Division II Mesa State College, recently had the top two joints of his pinky surgically removed so he could finish his senior season.

Wikre injured the pinky while throwing a block during practice. The finger became caught in a teammate’s jersey and was severely dislocated. It would have required surgery and six months of rehab.

COREY So instead of missing the remainder of his senior season, he chose to cut it off.

DEMOSS Now, is this guy incredibly tough or just a nutjob?

Valid arguments could be made for both sides.

Obviously, a decision of this magnitude takes some guts.

Nobody is going to doubt Wikre’s commitment to football.

In his entire career — all the way from Pop Warner through college — Wikre has never missed a game.

Offensive linemen have to do the dirty work in the trenches and are commonly injured, so playing in every game for that long is impressive.

I doubt Wikre completely avoided injury in that time, which means he has regularly played with pain. So the guy is tough, but does that toughness come from having a screw loose?

His choice was so drastic that the surgeon didn’t even list it as a possible choice of action.

Had this happened during any of Wikre’s previous years of playing football, I highly doubt he would have made this decision. This is his final year in college, and because he won’t be going to the NFL it’s his last chance to experience competitive football.

No players want to miss their last college game, but I don’t think many would sacrifice a digit to play. Most players have their priorities straight.

Your pinky may seem unimportant, but losing it is still significant. Now how can he show how sincere his promises are? And the hard setting of Guitar Hero just got that much harder.

In all seriousness, a missing finger will attract unwanted attention to Wikre for the rest of his life. People will ask what happened, he’ll explain it to them and then they’ll promptly judge him as a crazy ex-football player with crazier priorities.

I admire Wikre for his determination, but will it really be worth it? I go back to the main question: is this guy incredibly tough or just a nutjob?

The answer is … both.

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— COREY DEMOSS IS THE SPORTS EDITOR AND A JOURNALISM SENIOR.

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The Sooners gather before playing Texas last Saturday. They lost 45-35 and have since dropped to No. 4 in the nation. The players are now trying to move on and get back on the right track against No. 16 Kansas.

Sooners putting past behind them • Team’s focus shifts to matchup with Kansas KYLE BURNETT Daily Sports Writer Coming off its first loss of the season to rival Texas, the OU football team is now looking to make a statement against No. 16 Kansas. “[The Texas loss] is behind us; we can’t do anything about that anymore,” freshman linebacker Travis Lewis said. “We still have a full schedule. Just because we lost a game, anything can happen.”

Lewis recorded 19 tackles against Texas and will be forced to step up his game even more now that junior linebacker Ryan Reynolds is out for the year.

Fellow junior linebacker Keenan Clayton will have to do the same.

Clayton said his personal goals and the team’s goals have to remain the same despite the loss.

“One of the goals was to beat Texas, and that’s the only goal that’s out there right now that we can’t get,” Clayton said. “So, all our other goals are still out there to be accomplished, and that’s what we’ve got to shoot for.”

The next step to finishing the season strong begins with winning this Saturday against a ranked Jayhawk squad.

Kansas (5-1, 2-0 Big 12) is the first Big 12 North opponent OU (5-1, 1-1 Big 12) will face this year.

The Jayhawks have won three games in a row after losing to South Florida on a last second field goal, and are now first place in the North division.

“You have to have a great attitude because again, what a great team Kansas is — 17-2 in their last 19 games is pretty strong,” head coach Bob Stoops said. “They are a team that expects to win and knows how to win, and we’re very aware of that.”

Kansas’ two losses in that stretch have come to Missouri and the aforementioned South Florida. Both teams were ranked in the AP top 25.

Stoops said the team will go through its usual routine to get ready for Kansas.

“We just know that [Stoops] is a great coach and that he’s going to get us ready to play,” senior center Jon Cooper said. “The fact is that he’s a great coach and that he can move on.”

Cooper said the attitude was good in practices coming off the Texas loss.

“Practice was very high-energy, we worked hard and came out and got some things established that we saw that we didn’t do too well

“You don’t come to a place like Oklahoma to lose football games.

You just get past it and we’ll find out how good our team is this week.”

— Senior center Jon Cooper against Texas,” Cooper said. “You don’t come to a place like Oklahoma to lose football games. You just get past it and we’ll find out how good our team is this week.”

Junior running back Chris Brown said the loss to Texas has inspired him to work even harder.

“It’s hard losing, especially when you’re put up on the pedestal, and No. 1, it brings you back down to earth,” Brown said. “We’re excited about playing the quality Kansas team on national TV again. It’s our chance to show that we are still in the running for everything.”

THIS WEEKEND AT YOUR UNIVERSITY T hursday, Oct. 16

Campus Activities Council Homecoming Activities | All week, visit http://cac.ou.edu/ for a full schedule of events.

Intramural Update | Four-on-Four Volleyball entries begin today! Punt, Pass & Kick Competition, 4-6 p.m. at the IM fields. For more information visit recservices.ou.edu or call Mark List, (405) 325-3053.

Sutton Artist Series: OU Wind Symphony & Sypmphony Band | 8 p.m. in the Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall, Catlett Music Center. Adult admission $8, student, faculty/staff and senior admission$5. Please call F.A.C.T.S. Fine Arts Tickets Service at (405) 325-4101 for more information.

American Artists from the Russian Empire Art Exhibition | Now through January 4, 2009 at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Comprised of over ninety works by artists such as Nicolai Fechin, Leon Gaspard, Jacques Lipchitz, Mark Rothko, Ben Shahn, Pavel Tchelitchew, and Max Weber, this exhibition examines the impact of American culture on Russian artists living in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century as well as the lasting influence these same artists had on the development of American art. For more information call (405) 325-4938.

Highlights from the Adkins Collection Exhibition | Now through Dec. 28 at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. One of the most important private collections in the nation featuring the Taos artists as well as Native American art is now open to the public. Don’t forget that museum admission is always FREE for OU students with a valid student ID and only $2 for OU faculty/staff. To learn more about the Adkins Collection, other exhibitions, permanent collections and general information, visit www.ou.edu/fjjma.

Friday., Oct. 17 OU Libraries Book Sale | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Bizzell Memorial Library. OU Libraries will sponsor a sidewalk book sale on the south side of the Neustadt Wing of the Bizzell Memorial Library. The sale will be open to members of the OU Community only from 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. From 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. the sale will be open to the public. For more information about the book sale, contact Starla Doescher at (405) 325-2141 or by email at sdoescher@ ou.edu.

Guess The Score | 11:30 a.m. in the union food court. Think you know Sooner Football?

Prove it at the Union Programming Board’s pre-game predictions for a chance to win great prizes. Play every Friday during football season to earn points and increase your chances of winning. Who Loves You, OU? OU Ring Ceremony | 4 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union Courtyard.

FREE Film: “Get Smart” | 4, 7, 10 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. in Meacham Auditorium. Presented by the Union Programming Board and CAC Film Series.

Homecoming Pep Rally | 7 p.m. at the Howard McCasland Field House. Presented by the Campus Activities Council.

University Theatre: “Chicago” | 8 p.m. in the Rupel Jones Theatre. Winner of six Tony Awards, and an Oscar nomination for best song, Chicago is a thrilling smash-hit with murder, greed, corruption, and adultery... all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts. Spotlighting the finest of Bob Fosse choreography. Who says murder’s not an art? Guest Director Ron Kellum, Rated PG-13. Call the Fine Arts Box office for ticket information, (405) 325-4101.

Free Concert: The Rocket Summer, Phantom Planet, Secret Handshake & Morning Light | 9 p.m. on the East Lawn of the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Presented by the Campus Activities Council Concert Series and Union Programming Board.

Late Night Snacks | 9:30 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium Lobby. Enjoy some free snacks courtesy of the Union Programming Board and then see the 10 p.m. showing of “Get Smart.” Who Loves You, OU?

Saturday, Oct. 18 Dream Course: Russian Arts in the 20th Century | 10 a.m. in the Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. “Issues of Russian Music in the 20th Century,” presented by Richard Taruskin, Guest Musicologist. For more information call (405) 325-4938.

Homecoming Parade | 11:30 a.m. starting at the corner of Elm & Boyd. Presented by the Campus Activities Council.

Sooner Football: OU vs. Kansas | 2:30 p.m. at the Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Visit http://soonersports.com for ticket information OU vs. Kansas Watch Party | 2:30 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Don’t have tickets? Come and see the game for FREE on the big screen in Meacham. Presented by the Union Programming Board.

University Theatre: “Chicago” | 8 p.m. in the Rupel Jones Theatre. Winner of six Tony Awards, and an Oscar nomination for best song, Chicago is a thrilling smash-hit with murder, greed, corruption, and adultery... all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts. Spotlighting the finest of Bob Fosse choreography. Who says murder’s not an art? Guest Director Ron Kellum, Rated PG-13. Call the Fine Arts Box office for ticket information, (405) 325-4101.

Sunday, Oct. 19 University Theatre: “Chicago” | 3 p.m. in the Rupel Jones Theatre. Winner of six Tony Awards, and an Oscar nomination for best song, Chicago is a thrilling smash-hit with murder, greed, corruption, and adultery... all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts. Spotlighting the finest of Bob Fosse choreography. Who says murder’s not an art? Guest Director Ron Kellum, Rated PG-13. Call the Fine Arts Box office for ticket information, (405) 325-4101.

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Sooners fall short in New Mexico

Griffin and Warren win preseason honors

• Women’s golf team unable to defend tournament title

OU men’s basketball players Blake GriďŹƒn and Willie Warren were unanimously selected this week by the Big 12 coaches as Big 12 Preseason Player and Freshman of the Year, respectively.

GriďŹƒn is the third Sooner to be selected as Preseason Player of the Year. Hollis Price in 2002-03 and Taj Gray in 2005-06 preceded him.

Warren becomes the second OU player to be named Preseason Freshman of the Year. Drew Lavender received the honor before the 2003-04 season.

ANNELISE RUSSELL Daily Staff Writer New Mexico did not have the same magic it did last year for the OU women’s golf team.

The ladies finished the Price’s Give ‘Em Five Invitational Wednesday in third place despite winning the tournament last fall.

The tournament began on Monday and after the first day’s round, the Sooners placed third with a team score of 299 (+11). The Sooners performed well the first day behind the play of newcomers Sarah Hemingway (+2), Brooke Collins (+2) and Kelly Short (+3).

Tuesday was an even better day for the Sooners, when they took over the No. 2 spot and trailed leader UC Irvine by only three strokes. All five of OU’s team competitors finished the day in the top-30 despite fighting through difficult weather conditions. “We had a very solid round and reached our goal of being low round for the day,� OU head coach Carol Ludvigson said Tuesday afternoon. “There were tough conditions with the rain, wind and cold, but the team fought the entire day.�

Senior Kendall Dye shot a 71 for the second round in an impressive surge through the rankings to make up for a 6-over-par finish on Monday. The performance jumped Dye from 42nd to sixth place.

Not far behind Dye were freshman Kelly Short and Brooke Collins, who moved into 12th and 19th place, respectively.

Despite the Sooners’ improving play on Tuesday, they could not seal the deal on the final day of play. The ladies dropped back into third place behind UC Irvine and Baylor after the team posted a cumulative 305 for the round. “Today was a rough day for the Sooners,�

Ludvigson said. “In our final round we still beat some key teams and will continue to get

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Paris and Hand receive honors as well The Big 12 coaches also selected women’s basketball players Courtney Paris and Whitney Hand as Big 12 Preseason Player and Freshman of the Year, respectively.

Paris is a two-time Big 12 Player of the Year who became the conference’s ďŹ rst three-time consensus All-America First Team selection last season.

Hand ďŹ nished her high school career as the second-leading scorer in Texas history with 3,649 points and was named a High School All-American by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association.

Mid-season All-Americans

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Senior Kendall Dye takes a shot during a practice round in August wat the Jimmie Austin OU Golf Course. Dye and the Sooners finished third overall in the annual Give ‘Em Five Invitational this week in New Mexico. better and stronger with this experience.�

Short led the Sooners on Wednesday with a final score of 225 and tied for eighth place overall. Dye fell out of the top 10 on the last day with a round of 79 and tied for 22nd with fellow Sooner Sarah Hemingway. “We were kind of disappointed because we were in the hunt,� Dye said, “we just didn’t

have it today.�

Collins finished 29th and junior Ellen Mueller placed 31st to round out the rest of the Sooner team. “We definitely would have wanted to win, but everyone did fantastic,� Coach Ludvigson said, “Our third, fourth, and fifth players kind of carried the team.�

Sophomore quarterback Sam Bradford and senior oensive guard Duke Robinson have been named to the mid-season All-America Team.

Bradford has completed 72.4 percent of his passes for 2,052 yards and 23 touchdowns, and is second in the nation with an eďŹƒciency rating of 201.23.

He has thrown 59 touchdowns, which is the most DUKE touchdown passes through sophomore year in NCAA hisROBINSON tory, breaking Rex Grossman’s previous record of 55 in the last game against Texas.

Robinson is part of an oensive line that has given Bradford the ability to sit back in the pocket and torch opposing defenses.

Volleyball team snaps skid The OU volleyball team broke a four-match losing streak Wednesday night, convincingly defeating Colorado in straight sets (25-15, 25-21, 25-15).

The Sooners topped Colorado in nearly every statistical category, relying on their oense to roll in the match’s ďŹ rst two sets, while the defense carried the load in the evening’s ďŹ nal set.

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LEFT: Ron Kellum, director of OU’s production of the musical, “Chicago,” sits in the Rupel J. Jones Theatre before rehearsal starts on Oct. 9. Kellum, a Broadway veteran, is guest directing for the OU Musical Theatre Department.

RIGHT: Kellum, directs rehearsal in the Rupel J. Jones Theatre on Oct. 9.

Broadway veteran brings ‘Chicago’ to OU DUSTY SOMERS Daily Staff Writer Twirling his hands in the air, Ron Kellum arched his back and strutted backward across the stage, counting time and urging Hartleigh Buwick, musical theater senior, to do the same.

“This is like your fantasy,” he said, directing her.

“This should be like you’re alone in your living room.”

She followed his lead, performing the onstage maneuver several more times as she practiced her role as Roxie, the naive Midwestern girl thrust into the whirlwind of fame, murder and corruption that defines “Chicago.”

The Tony Award-winning musical opens at the Rupel J. Jones Theatre on Friday, and is the product of more than six weeks of rehearsal helmed by Kellum, a guest director who is a Broadway veteran and has an intimate connection with “Chicago.”

Kellum’s experience with the musical began more than 10 years ago, when he performed in the Broadway company on its first national tour. Since then, he’s played every male ensemble part in the cast, in addition to directing the show around the country.

“He has been incredible because he’s extremely knowledgeable about the show,” Buwick said. “He’s obviously done a lot with it. He just knows every in

and out of every detail of the show, which is great for an actor.”

At first, Kellum wasn’t given much time to acquaint himself with the material. He had a week to rehearse before being thrown into performing it for the first time, he said.

“You really had to rise,” Kellum said. “With the best, they only expect the best. The learning curve was fast and steep, but it was such a huge accomplishment to have to really push yourself.”

In the midst of the frenzied pace, it was the camaraderie among the cast that set that experience apart, Kellum said.

“The sense of teamwork and support was phenomenal, so that’s why it ranks as one of the highest shows in my career,” he said.

Kellum has tried to foster that same atmosphere in his time directing “Chicago” at OU, said Lindsay Schwak, musical theater junior.

Schwak, who plays Velma, the starlet upstaged by Roxie, said Kellum encouraged the actors to have coffee with him to discuss the show or the theater business.

“Everything [about him] is so encouraging,” she said. “He’s the kind of person you want to work with in this industry.”

On the first day of rehearsal, Kellum told his actors that his stage was the safest place they could be.

“You have to make and allow actors to feel safe,” Kellum said. “The safer they are, the better they are to do the work and be creative like kids. They just explore whatever emotion they’re feeling and they don’t feel stifled by what people think.”

Joel Ingram, musical theater junior, plays the part of Billy Flynn, a lawyer hired to deliver innocent verdicts for guilty girls. He said Kellum’s willingness to let the actors explore made him feel like a professional.

“He did it in a way that didn’t make you feel dumb,” Ingram said. “Instead of just being like ‘This is what you do and that’s wrong and that’s wrong,’ he was very good at talking to us and making us realize and find for ourselves who our characters were.”

When “Chicago” opens this week, it will be an opportunity for the actors to put that exploration to good use, and for audiences to see a musical that can’t be seen just anywhere.

“This is a huge opportunity for [the university] because most professional theaters aren’t even allowed to do the show,” Kellum said. “It’s a very difficult show to get the rights for.”

Kellum credited relationships developed by Max Weitzenhoffer, the founder of OU’s musical theater program, and the quality work of the program for the ability to obtain the rights.

“Everything [here] is A-plus,” Kellum said. “Even in the professional world, I haven’t seen this level of care

and attention to detail.”

Six weeks in Norman turned out to be a lot more interesting than he envisioned it, Kellum said, and working with a group of actors willing to push themselves has made all the difference.

“I always tell them, ‘If you trust me, we won’t fail,’” he said.

‘CHICAGO’ SHOWTIMES When: Friday — 8 p.m.

Saturday — 8 p.m.

Sunday — 3 p.m.

Oct. 23 — 8 p.m.

Oct. 24 — 8 p.m.

Oct. 25 — 3 p.m.

Where: Rupel J. Jones Theatre, 563 Elm Ave. How much: $22 for adults; $20 for seniors/OU faculty and staff ; $14 for students For more information contact the Fine Arts box office at 325-4101.

OU STUDENTS YOU ARE INVITED! Panel Discussions on

U.S.-China Relations Monday, Oct. 20, 2008

Panel I: “30 Years of U.S.-China Relations, 1979-2009” 10 a.m. - Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

Panel II: “The Future of U.S.-China Relations” 2 p.m. - Beaird Lounge, Oklahoma Memorial Union

featuring J. Stapleton Roy, former U.S. Ambassador to China Zhou Wenzhong, Ambassador of China to the U.S. Richard C. Bush, former managing director, the American Institute in Taiwan David Gries, former senior CIA officer, U.S. Embassy, Beijing Wu Xinbo, Professor, Fudan University, China

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Q&A: ‘Blood,’ soul and rapper Jabee •The Daily’s Tyler Branson spoke with OKC-based rapper Jabee about his new album, honesty and repping Okla.

RICHARD PYLE Associated Press

erhaps one of Oklahoma’s best-kept secrets, OKC-based rapper — and part-time youth leader — Jabee burst onto the scene in summer 2008 with his debut album “Blood is the New Black.”

A sharp divergence from the popular “party” hip-hop that pours out of radio stations, Jabee utilizes beats and samples heavily centered around soul and jazz. The result is something a little more intricate, with beats reminiscent of Brother Ali or early Kanye West, and an emphasis on soulfulness rather than the ability to “bump.”

On top of the smooth beats are positive, personal rhymes with a vocal style nearing that of def poetry. With a flurry of shows scheduled this fall, including a performance Friday at the Conservatory, a traditionally indie-rock club in Oklahoma City, Jabee has a lot to be proud of, and even more to talk about.

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First off, what’s new in the world of Jabee? How’s the album doing? What kinds of tours, events and projects have you been working on lately?

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Oklahoma City-based rapper Jabee’s debut album, “Blood is the New Black.” The record is available at datapanicdistro.com or on iTunes.

The album is doing well. Trying to keep the buzz going about it, still doing a lot of shows for it. I am throwing a “Jabee and Friends II” show at the Conservatory [on Friday], and I’m working on “Hipsters Handbook II” for December.

I’m also working on some EPs with a few homies that will probably have free downloads, so look out for those. [You can] order the album at datapanicdistro.com or on iTunes.

What does “Blood is the New Black” mean?

“Blood is the New Black” means that life is in style.

“The new black” is often used to describe what’s in and I was simply saying blood is in — life, love, family, relationships, death. That’s the new black.

All the beats on “Blood” are very jazz- and soulinfluenced. Was this a conscious decision on your part to have a sort of soulful fluidity?

‘MAD’ magazine to auction early works

People lie all the time, like “I have this, I have that,” but they’re the same people taking my order at Burger King. If you are so rich, why are you at Burger King?

So I am honest in my music; I’m not rich, I’m struggling. I drive a ‘95 Jeep Grand Cherokee, and that’s honest because that’s what the normal person is dealing with, and that’s how the average person is living.

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Where: The Conservatory, 8911 N. Western Ave., OKC How much: $8 Ages: all ages

Yes, everything I do is soul-influenced. I recorded about 30 songs and just picked from those. All the beats are produced by my favorite producers, DJ Vadim, DJ Alibi, Ob-one and Michael Manassah.

I went through hundreds of beats to find ones that have that soul that spoke to me. I really pride myself in my beat selection, and all those beats were crafted for “Blood.”

From lyrical and production standpoints, the album is extremely open and personal. Were you nervous about showing that kind of honesty in your music? What kind of risks do you take when you release an album like this?

The biggest risk is being so transparent and honest because people know you and they hear things and they had no idea I felt that way or they had no idea I thought these things.

I think it’s important to be honest and let people know the real you.

Could you talk about your experience as a youth leader? What made you decide to do this outside of music? In what ways does it influence your music?

Youth are my passion! That’s another reason [why] I’m honest in music because so many musicians aren’t, and they send youth the wrong message. They send a message that helping each other isn’t important, that we should only be concerned with ourselves and how much we can get — and that’s not right. It doesn’t influence youth to change the world, it doesn’t give youth substance.

What does being from OKC mean to you? Do you think it’s important to rep your city?

OKC is my number one favorite place to be. I rep my city in everything I do. Being from OKC is part of the reason I’ve gained so much attention nationally, because people are surprised I’m from here. I have [the state of Oklahoma] tatted on my neck (laughs). When I was on the Warped Tour, I made sure everybody knew I was from OKC.

NEW YORK — Alfred E. Neuman, the grinning face with the flapping ears, has gazed out from the covers of “MAD” magazine for half a century — becoming such a familiar presence that Charles, Prince of Wales, may have felt it necessary to deny that he looked like him.

The heir to the British throne, then 9 years old, apparently sent a letter to that effect in 1958. On Buckingham Palace stationery and mailed from a nearby post office, it was published in “MAD’s” letters column.

Pretty tough to deny the resemblance, though.

Witness a last batch of original drawings of AP photo Alfred and other early works being put up for The 1956 cover art from “MAD” magazine auction by the magazine, issue #30, featuring the iconic figure of Alfred which since 1952 has E. Neuman in an illustration by artist Norman kept legions of American youths reading under the Mingot is one of three dozen original artworks from MAD’s archives that will be covers with flashlights.

The sale is scheduled offered on Nov. 14 by Heritage Auction for Nov. 14 at the Heritage Galleries in Dallas, Texas and online.

Auction Galleries in Dallas and online. A preview exhibition of the 36 items to be sold will be held at New York’s Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art on Oct. 29.

MAD, founded by William Gaines and Harvey Kurzman, became widely popular for its mix of zany, absurdist and irreverent humor — especially its devastating parodies of Hollywood films and satirical commentaries on pompous politicians and self-important celebrities.

MAD’s current editor, John Ficarra, said the 36 original works had been held out of previous sales of the magazine’s archives at Heritage, Christie’s and Sotheby’s.

“We wanted to hold onto them for as long as possible,” he said.

“Not as much as a tribute to the early history of MAD ... but because these paintings were covering up quite a few holes in the walls. This auction leaves us no choice. Now we have to patch and paint.”

WHERE’S THE THURSDAY THROWDOWN? The hardest hitting form of journalism in The Daily, the Thursday Throwdown, will now be an online-only podcast. Check it out in the Multimedia section of oudaily.com.

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Okla. No. 2 for state child care OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma has the second-highest per capita rate nationally for removing children from their homes and placing them in state care, initial audit information shows.

Independent auditors of the Family Services Division of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services told state lawmakers Tuesday that the reason for the high rate, second only to Nebraska, may be that Oklahoma’s definitions of abuse and neglect are very broad.

Rep. Ron Peters, R-Tulsa, chairman of the Oklahoma House of Representatives’ Human Services Committee, leads the bipartisan task force that asked for the audit.

He said that when the final audit report comes out at the end of the year, lawmakers from the task force will propose legislation to address the issues noted by the auditors.

Another issue that will be addressed in the audit’s final report is the different policies in different DHS offices throughout the state, including the roles judges and district attorneys play in the agency’s cases.

Almost no statement about DHS is true on a statewide basis, and different conditions prevail in different offices, according to a progress report from the auditors.

“There is an assumption that DHS controls its destiny,” said Helaine Hornby, lead auditor.

“It really isn’t true. Other entities determine it.”

State legislation, district courts, administrative judges and prosecutors all share roles in determining DHS’ powers and policies, she said.

Employee salaries are also among the issues the final report will address, Hornby said.

“There are child-welfare workers who actually qualify for food stamps in this agency,” she said.

Hornby Zeller Associates, the auditing firm, has conducted similar agency audits in more than 30 states, said Dennis Zeller, the firm’s co-founder.

The firm will be paid $420,000 for the audit. It submitted the lowest of four bids for the project and will be paid from the House of Representatives’ budget.

— AP

Boren leads House race in fundraising OKLAHOMA CITY — Democratic Rep. Dan Boren is running for re-election against a little-known Republican opponent in the heavily Democratic 2nd Congressional District.

But that hasn’t kept Boren from going after campaign cash with gusto, easily leading all members of the Oklahoma delegation in fundraising.

Boren’s latest campaign report, filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission, shows he has collected almost $1.6 million for his re-election bid.

That’s about a third more than Republican Rep. Mary Fallin of the 5th Congressional District, the only other member of the Oklahoma congressional delegation to surpass the $1 million mark as of Sept. 30.

— AP

Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

Kidney donor matching program kicks off OKLAHOMA CITY — Hundreds of Oklahomans with failed kidneys are finding new hope in a Paired Kidney Donation program at an Oklahoma City hospital.

When relatives of a kidney patient are not acceptable matches for donation, program officials check relatives of other kidney patients in hopes of finding matches for both patients.

A swap was made last week, said Dr. E.N. Scott Samara, Integris Baptist Medical Center’s kidney transplant director. The swap involved Ross and Susan Cates of Norman, John Kitchen of Moore, and Tresa Hargrove of Lawton.

Ross Cates, 55, Susan’s husband, donated a kidney to Tresa Hargrove, 42. Susan Cates, 48, received a kidney from John Kitchen, 32, who is Tresa’s Hargrove’s brother.

“This all is a blessing from God. I can help someone live a better life,” Ross Cates said during the news conference Tuesday.

John Kitchen said the transplants clearly demonstrate that “everything

happens for a reason.”

When a donor cannot be found, there is little patients can do other than remain on the state’s 900-member kidney-transplant waiting list.

Samara said Integris Baptist physicians are working with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore to expand the national kidney donor pool.

Currently, about 74,000 Americans are waiting for kidney transplants. A national shortage of donated organs means about 12 people a day will die without a transplant.

“It’s a grim reality affecting families in Oklahoma and across the nation,” Samara said.

Dr. Jose-Marie El-Amm, medical director of kidney transplantations at Integris Baptist, assisted Samara and is hopeful other hospitals will follow.

“An additional 3,000 kidney transplants could be performed every year if this concept were adopted nationwide,” he said.

— AP

H.S. students hear about addiction woes • Former addict speaks about overcoming addiction OKLAHOMA CITY — An actor, author and recovering addict held little back in describing his years on and off of drugs and the possible fate facing some attending the Oklahoma Outreach Sober School, a high school for people recovering from to drugs and alcohol.

“A lot of you will die,” Christopher Kennedy Lawford told a group of students Tuesday in Oklahoma City. But for those willing to find their inner strength, he said, there is boundless hope and possibility.

“There is a whole life beyond your wildest dreams,” he said.

Lawford, 53, son of actor Peter Lawford and Pat Kennedy Lawford, was also involved in “An Evening of Courage and Inspiration,” a benefit for Oklahoma Outreach Foundation. The event honored Chesapeake Energy Corp. and

its employees, recipient of the Dare to Believe Award.

Lawford described growing up among celebrity and power, how uncle Jack Kennedy woke him up at 3 a.m. to say he had been nominated for president, and how Marilyn Monroe taught him to do the twist when he was 6.

But something changed when he was 8, Lawford said, and he eventually spiraled into a pit of despair, drugs and self-destruction.

Perhaps it was the family curse, the tendency to addiction that saw his father give him cocaine on his 21st birthday. Or the late 1960s, when experimentation without fear of reprisal was the norm. Or his family’s string of tragedy from divorce to public assassinations.

After arrests and health problems and coming to the brink of suicide, he found “that little switch” that made him want to be sober, to face and live with the real world.

One student asked how to break away from addiction. “You’ve got to really ... want it,” Lawford said.

— AP

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Government funds nixed for Jesus statue • Second attempt to use Gov. money for religious art SEAN MURPHY Associated Press EDMOND — The cross, Moses and now Jesus Christ have failed the separation of church and state test in this conservative Oklahoma City suburb with a penchant for trying to incorporate religious art in public spaces.

Edmond Mayor Dan O’Neil said Wednesday he plans to secure private funding to buy out the city’s $3,900 commitment to help pay for a 26-inch-tall statue titled “Come Unto Me” planned for a sidewalk outside a downtown Catholic gift shop. It shows Jesus surrounded by children.

“We’re not looking for a lawsuit,” O’Neil said. “This will be bought by a private organization.”

A decade ago, Edmond was forced to pay more than $200,000 in legal fees after losing a court battle to keep a cross on its city seal. Last year, the city backed down from a decision to use public funds on a statue of Moses outside a church.

Plans will move forward to have the Jesus statue in place, perhaps by Christmas, but no city funds will be used.

The Edmond Visual Arts Commission last month approved matching funds to help pay for the statue.

That decision was met with criticism from people who felt this violates the separation of church and state doctrine, while others considered it a good use of public funds.

“I’m already getting stuff from all over the country ...

Palm Bay, Fla., Texas,” O’Neil said. “It’s sort of mixed.

Some of them said, ‘There’s no need to fight over this.’”

Barry Lynn, executive director of the Washington D.C.-based Americans United for Separation of Church and State: “I’m delighted by this result. Clearly the city has felt some heat and now they have seen the constitutional light.”

June Cartwright, the chair of the commission and who supported funding the latest statue, said the sculpture was viewed simply as a piece of art and not a religious endorsement.

However, the Web site of the work’s artist, Rosalind Cook, described the image as depicting Jesus with three children, one cradled in his arm. “Every major line leads to the face of Christ who is the focal point and apex of the sculpture,” the site says.

City Attorney Stephen Murdock, who lost the cross lawsuit 10 years ago, had concerns about Edmond having an ownership stake in the Jesus statue, O’Neil said.

The mayor said guidelines will be drawn up to govern future local governmental participation in art projects.

He said he was unable to return calls Tuesday for comment on the issue because: “I was busy doing the mayor’s prayer breakfast.”

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National News & Details

Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

NATION BRIEFLY

CAMPUS NOTES

POLICE REPORTS

Dozens get gas in Wis. for 35 cents after mistake WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. — Sure, gas prices have come down lately. But to 34.9 cents a gallon?

That’s what Kelly Joosten and dozens of other motorists paid at a Citgo station Monday. The sign advertised $3.43 for a gallon of premium fuel, but the pump cost read $0.349 a gallon.

“That was amazing,” said Joosten, who normally spends about $100 to fill up her 1998 Ford Expedition.

Joosten proudly showed off her receipt for 25.36 gallons at $8.85. She said she saw other motorists filling gas cans, too, at the discounted price.

Station owner JP Raval says the attendant on duty couldn’t figure out why the station was suddenly so busy.

Raval estimated 30 to 40 customers fueled up at the incorrect price — between 200 and 300 gallons worth — for about 90 minutes.

“People kept coming, so fast,” Raval said. “Everything was crowded; it was like a fairground.”

AIG executives spent thousands during hunting trip CHARLOTTE, N.C. — First there was the $440,000 American Insurance Group Inc. spent entertaining executives days after receiving an $85 billion lifeline from the Federal Reserve, now it’s $86,000 for a hunting trip in England as the faltering company reaped another $37.8 billion in taxpayer funded loans.

News of the hunting trip emerged Wednesday as New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo ordered AIG to do away with golden parachutes for executives, golf outings and parties while taking government money to stay afloat.

“Even after the taxpayer-funded bailout of AIG, the company paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for luxurious retreats for its executives, including an overseas hunting party and a golf outing,” Cuomo wrote in a letter to the New York-based insurer.

He said the spending could be “fraudulent conveyances” under a state law regarding debtors and creditors and noted that beyond those excesses millions were paid to executives who were running AIG as it faced dissolution with government help.

Cuomo said he has the power under state business law to review and possibly rescind any inappropriate AIG spending as long as the Federal Reserve is propping up the huge insurer with almost $123 billion in loans announced since Sept. 16.

Company officials said the hunting trip in the English countryside was an annual event for customers that had been planned months before the bailout.

The company pledged — as it did following the September trip — to do everything possible to end such extravagances. They declined to say which AIG executives attended.

“This was an annual event for customers of the AIG property casualty insurance companies in the U.K. and Europe, and planned months before the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s loan to AIG,” company spokesman Peter Tulupman said Wednesday morning.

In a prepared statement later in the day, the company said, “We will continue to take all measures necessary to ensure that these activities cease immediately. AIG’s priority is to continue focusing on actions necessary to repay the Federal Reserve loan and emerge as a vital, ongoing business.”

The company said last week it would stop “all nonessential conferences, meetings and activities that do not clearly maximize value and service given the current conditions.”

Judge throws out suit against God LINCOLN, Neb. — A judge has thrown out a Nebraska legislator’s lawsuit against God, saying the Almighty wasn’t properly served due to his unlisted home address.

State Sen. Ernie Chambers filed the lawsuit last year seeking a permanent injunction against God. He said God has made terroristic threats against the senator and his constituents in Omaha, inspired fear and caused “widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants.”

Chambers has said he filed the lawsuit to make the point that everyone should have access to the courts regardless of whether they are rich or poor.

On Tuesday, however, Douglas County District Court Judge Marlon Polk ruled that under state law a plaintiff must have access to the defendant for a lawsuit to move forward.

“Given that this court finds that there can never be service effectuated on the named defendant this action will be dismissed with prejudice,” Polk wrote.

Chambers, who graduated from law school but never took the bar exam, thinks he’s found a hole in the judge’s ruling.

“The court itself acknowledges the existence of God,” Chambers said Wednesday. “A consequence of that acknowledgment is a recognition of God’s omniscience.”

Therefore, Chambers said, “Since God knows everything, God has notice of this lawsuit.”

Chambers has 30 days to decide whether to appeal. He said he hasn’t decided yet.

Chambers, who has served a record 38 years in the Nebraska Legislature, is not returning next year because of term limits. He skips morning prayers during the legislative session and often criticizes Christians.

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COUNTY WARRANT Brandon Ray Bracelin, 21, 800 block 24th Avenue northwest, Tuesday

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., answers a question as Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Debate moderator Bob Schieffer listen during a presidential debate Wednesday at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.,.

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FRENCH CLUB Movie night will be at 6:30 p.m. in Dale Hall, room 112.

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McCain, Obama get tough, personal in final debate BETH FOUHY Associated Press HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — John McCain assailed Barack Obama’s character and his campaign positions on taxes, abortion and more Wednesday night, hoping to turn their final presidential debate into a launching pad for a political comeback. “You didn’t tell the American people the truth,” he said.

Unruffled, and ahead in the polls, Obama parried each charge, and leveled a few of his own.

“One hundred percent, John, of your ads, 100 percent of them have been negative,” Obama shot back in an uncommonly personal debate less than three weeks from Election Day. “That’s not true,” McCain retorted.

“It is true,” said Obama, seeking the last word.

McCain is currently running all negative ads, according to a study by the University of WisconsinMadison. But he has run a number of positive ads during the campaign.

The 90-minute encounter, at a round table at Hofstra University, was their third debate, and marked the beginning of a 20-day sprint to Election Day. Obama leads in the national polls and in surveys in many battleground states, an advantage built in the weeks since the nation stumbled into the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression.

With few exceptions, the campaign is being waged in states that voted Republican in 2004 — Virginia, Colorado, Iowa — and in many of them, Obama holds a lead in the polls.

McCain played the aggressor from the opening moments of the debate, accusing Obama of waging class warfare by seeking tax increases that would “spread the wealth around.”

The Arizona senator also

demanded to know the full extent of Obama’s relationship with William Ayers, a 1960s-era terrorist and the Democrat’s ties with ACORN, a liberal group accused of violating federal law as it seeks to register voters. And he insisted Obama disavow last week’s remarks by Rep. John Lewis, a Democrat, who accused the Republican ticket of playing racial politics along the same lines as segregationists of the past.

Struggling to escape the political drag of an unpopular Republican incumbent, McCain also said, “Sen. Obama, I am not President Bush. ... You wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago.”

Obama returned each volley, and brushed aside McCain’s claim to full political independence.

“If I’ve occasionally mistaken your policies for George Bush’s policies, it’s because on the core economic issues that matter to the American people — on tax policy, on energy policy, on spending priorities — you have been a vigorous supporter of President Bush,” he said.

McCain’s allegation that Obama had not leveled with the public involved the Illinois senator’s decision to forgo public financing for his campaign in favor of raising his own funds. As a result, he has far outraised McCain, although the difference has been somewhat neutralized by an advantage the Republican National Committee holds over the Democratic Party.

“He signed a piece of paper” earlier in the campaign pledging to accept federal financing, McCain said. He added that Obama’s campaign has spent more money than any since Watergate, a reference to President Nixon’s re-election, a campaign that later became synonymous with scandal.

Obama made no immediate response to McCain’s assertion about having signed a pledge to accept federal campaign funds.

Auditions for the Kaleidoscope talent show will be at 7 p.m. in the HendersonTolson Cultural Center.

Richard Vine, managing editor for Art in America, will speak about art criticism at 7 p.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. SCHOOL OF MUSIC The Sutton Faculty Concert Series will present the wind symphony and symphony band at 8 p.m. in Sharp Concert Hall.

FRIDAY OU LIBRARIES There will be a sidewalk book sale on the south side of the Neustadt wing of the Bizzell Memorial Library from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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TRUANCY April Michelle Free, 18, 1300 block 168th Avenue northeast, Tuesday

DOG AT LARGE Betty A. Harris, 51, 800 block Sequoyah Trails Drive, Oct. 9

DRIVING UNDER SUSPENSION

AGGRAVATED DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Kelly Dawn Kennedy, 45, 3200 block Ridgecrest Court, Monday

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Rie Hachiyanagi, associate professor of installation and performance at Mount Holyoke College, will deliver a lecture entitled “One Million Every Four Days” starting at 6 p.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.

Diane Elizabeth Lecrone, 20, 600 block 12th Avenue Northeast, Monday Lauren Raylynn Wilson, 19, 600 block 12th Avenue Northeast, Monday, also trespassing

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UPB There will be a free show featuring Rocket Summer, Phantom Planet, The Secret Handshake and The Morning Light at 8:30 p.m. on the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s East Lawn.

Gregory Sean Miller, 37, 500 block Sinclair Drive, Tuesday

WARRANT Deangelo Dewayne Turner, 32, 200 block South Jones Avenue, Tuesday

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Your judgment as to what things are worth is extremely questionable, causing you to pay far more for something than it is worth to you or anyone else. It could be an ego thing.

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Jesse Tanedoh James, 24, 500 block East Boyd Street, Tuesday, also driving under the influence

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Although you can be quite industrious when the mood strikes, you could spend more time and energy rationalizing why you shouldn’t do something than it would take to do the job.

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Kimberly D. Brown, 34, 2500 block Cypress Avenue, Tuesday Wanda Brown, 67, 2500 block Cypress Avenue, Tuesday

Chase Derrick Emmert, 26, 1500 block North Flood Avenue, Tuesday

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- If you discuss your problems with an ineffective counselor, you could end up worse off than you were before. Be more discerning.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -Disappointment is in the offing if you simply expect others to drop what they are doing in order to gratify your whims. Be more considerate about their interests and help them instead.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -Sometimes you have a tendency to falsely anticipate the feelings of others and never give them a chance to show you otherwise.

Today could be one of those days -- unless you allow friends to express themselves.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Be prepared to pay the lion’s share of the bill when out with a friend who is always broke. If you’re smart, you’ll stick to doing things that don’t cost anything.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- If you think too optimistically about what you can accomplish, you could find yourself overwhelmed in no time, not to mention overworked. Complete one job at a time.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- There are no certainties in life, so don’t take anything important for granted, even that which is usually a sure thing. Little distractions may take you far off the mark.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- If someone you know is suddenly displaying overly friendly behavior, your antenna should be vibrating loud and clear that something is amiss. This person likely has ulterior motives.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Don’t allow companions or friends to dictate your mode of behavior, or make you do something that makes you feel uncomfortable or ashamed. Be your own person.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -Even though your performance level might be poor, you may not tolerate another who is having the same type of problems because you expect him or her to pick up your slack.

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World News

Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

EU, US call for global summit to reshape banking system of the United Nations and the Bretton Woods conference that laid out the post-World War II international financial and monetary system.

The G-8 leaders said in a joint statement released by the White House that they were united in their commitment to change the regulation of the world’s financial sector to restore confidence and “remedy deficiencies exposed by the current crisis.”

“We are confident that, working together, we will meet the present challenges and return our economies to stability and prosperity,” they said.

Brown, a longtime former Treasury chief widely seen as a leader in crafting policies to combat the financial crisis, said he wants a group of supervisors from major nations to monitor the world’s 30 largest financial institutions.

“I believe there is scope for agreement in the next few days that we will have an international meeting to take common action ... for very large and very radical changes,” Brown told reporters before meeting for talks on the financial crisis with other EU leaders, who on Wednesday endorsed a $2.3 trillion continentwide emergency bailout for the banking sector.

“We now have global financial markets but what we do not have is anything other than national and regional regulation and supervision,” Brown said. “The IMF has got to be rebuilt as fit for purpose for the modern world.

We need an early warning system for the world economy.”

Sarkozy said a string of government bailout plans had “treated the immediate symptoms of the crisis without attacking the roots of the disease.”

“We need to found a new capitalism based on values that put finance at the service of companies and citizens and not the reverse,” he told EU leaders.

“This fundamental reform can’t stop at Europe. The economy is global; no country can protect itself alone,” he said. He demanded that new global rules cover all financial institutions — including hedge funds.

The French leader said later that the European Union will back an overhaul of global financial system.

In a document given to EU leaders at a Wednesday summit and obtained

by The Associated Press, Brown said he wants banks to rethink how they deal with risk, and called for rules that make banks hold enough funds to cover potential losses, improve transparency in the system and eliminate conflicts of interest. Brown also wants executives to take more responsibility and end a system that encouraged reckless risk-taking.

AOIFE WHITE Associated Press BRUSSELS, Belgium — The Group of Eight major industrial nations announced Wednesday they will hold a global summit — perhaps as early as November in New York — to forge common action to prevent another economic meltdown.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said all European Union nations backed radical restructuring of global institutions like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. He called for a meeting “preferably in New York, where everything started” and said it should lead to “a new capitalism.”

Sarkozy said emerging economies such as China, India and others outside the G-8 should also participate because “no one should feel excluded from what we are recasting.”

EU leaders meeting in Brussels “all agreed that we don’t want the same causes to produce the same effects in future,” the French leader said. “We don’t want all this to start again; we want lessons to be learned.”

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the meeting would require vision similar to the creation

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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels, Wednesday. Efforts to calm the impact of the global financial crisis will top the agenda at a two-day EU leaders summit along with talks on how the 27-nation bloc can keep on track ambitious promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2020.

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Susana Gonzalez, a Juarez municipal police bike officer pauses by a closed business along Ave. Juarez, Mexico, about one block from the Paso Del Norte bridge on Friday. The avenue, normally bustling with tourists and El Pasoans, has seen a number of businesses close. Killings in Juarez, one of Mexico’s largest cities with about 1.5 million people, account for nearly 20 percent of the slaying in Mexico this year, with 2 1/2 months still to go.

Bloodbath in Juarez escalates ALICIA A. CALDWELL Associated Press EL PASO, Texas — Mexican officials are trying to persuade Americans to visit Ciudad Juarez, touting the city in a new billboard campaign as a “land of encounters.” But on this side of the border, that sounds like a cruel joke.

More than 1,100 people have been killed this year in Juarez, population 1.5 million, in a drug-related bloodbath so staggering that the city has been declared off-limits to U.S. soldiers looking to go bar-hopping; El Paso’s public hospital is seeing a spillover of the wounded; and residents on the American side are afraid to cross over to visit family, shop or conduct business.

“We all like to make money, but the money I was making isn’t worth it,” said Fernando Apodaca, who spent at least one day a week for the past 18 years working in Juarez as an auto industry consultant.

After his Cadillac Escalade SUV was stolen in a carjacking last month, Apodaca vowed he wouldn’t go over the border again.

“I had a gun to my face. There’s no law over there,” he said.

Juarez, situated just across the Rio

Grande from El Paso, has had more murders this year than New York and Chicago together had in all of 2007 — and those two cities have seven times the population of Juarez. Last weekend alone, Juarez had 37 killings.

Juarez has always been a rough town, but one where many Americans felt safe enough to play, shop and work. Violence began to mount early this year after Mexico’s president launched a national offensive against drug lords.

Initially, the bloodshed involved drug cartels fighting each other. Then, military troops, law enforcement officers and government officials became major targets.

Assassinations have become more brazen and more and more innocents have been killed. Masked gunmen stormed a drug rehab center in August and killed eight people. Six men were gunned down last weekend at a family party. A 12-yearold girl was shot and killed in June while riding with two men targeted by hitmen.

The second-in-command of the Juarez police department was killed in a hail of more than 50 bullets near his home in May. Armed robberies, carjackings and kid-

nappings for ransom are also rampant.

“The government isn’t in control, and that makes for a very dangerous situation,” Tony Payan, an expert on border crime at the University of Texas-El Paso. “Anyone at any time can commit a crime and anyone at any time can become a victim.”

While the bloodshed hasn’t yet spilled over to the American side, the violence is costing El Paso, a city of about 600,000 where only 17 homicides were reported in 2007.

Dozens of shooting victims, several of them U.S. citizens or legal residents, have been treated at Thomason General Hospital — the only facility for 250 miles that is equipped to handle such patients — at a cost to local taxpayers of more than $1 million.

The hospital has had several lockdowns because of fears that hit men would realize a victim was still alive and cross the border to finish the job — something that has happened in hospitals on the Mexican side.

Soldiers at the Army’s Fort Bliss are no longer allowed to travel to Juarez, whose nightclubs were once a popular place to party.

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