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Advocacy group files lawsuit against state abortion bill • Group argues bill invades privacy by requiring ultrasound before abortion CAITLIN HARRISON Daily Staff Writer A pro-choice advocacy group filed a lawsuit Thursday in an attempt to block Oklahoma legislation that would require women obtaining abortions to have an ultrasound and hear verbal descriptions of the fetuses from doctors.

The Center for Reproductive Rights filed the suit

on behalf of Nova Health Systems, which operates Reproductive Services, an abortion provider in Tulsa.

The suit, titled NOVA Health Systems vs. Brad Henry, states that Senate Bill 1878 invades patients’ privacy, assaults their dignity and could endanger their health, said Dionne Scott, senior press officer for the center.

SB 1878 is scheduled to take effect Nov. 1. It was authored by Sen. Todd Lamb, R-Edmond/Oklahoma City. It would make Oklahoma the fourth state in the U.S. to enact such a law.

Scott said the bill includes the most extreme ultrasound requirements in the country, because it forces the patient to listen to a description of the ultrasound.

The law also prevents a woman from suing her doctor for intentionally withholding other informa-

tion about the fetus, such as the presence of birth defects.

“Their lawsuit seeks to undo important reforms that provide women with information that helps them give informed consent prior to receiving an abortion,” Scott said.

Lamb said this measure helps prevent “wrongfullife suits” that claim a disabled baby would have been better off aborted. He also said the patients do not have to view the ultrasounds.

However, Scott said if a woman chooses to avert her eyes from an ultrasound screen, she is required to hear a description of the fetus from her doctor.

The law also requires doctors to follow a specific protocol when administering the abortion pill RU-486, which is more costly and has higher side effects than the one recommended by the

BY THE NUMBERS 6,300,000: Number of pregnancies in the U.S. in 2005 1,200,000: Number of abortions in the U.S. in 2005 69,800: Number of pregnancies in Oklahoma in 2005 6,950: Number of abortions in Oklahoma in 2005 9: The percentage decline in Oklahoma abortions from 2000 to 2005 6: The number of abortion providers in Oklahoma .6: Percentage of U.S. abortions performed in Oklahoma Source: The Guttmacher Institute

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• Regents rep praises OU’s emergency alert system JAMIE HUGHES Daily Staff Writer OKLAHOMA CITY — A campus safety task force called Monday for more funding for better counseling services on Oklahoma college campuses and reaffirmed its commitment to fighting concealed weapon legislation.

Gov. Brad Henry’s Campus Life and Safety and Security (CLASS) Task Force met in Oklahoma City to discuss campus safety legislation.

Oklahoma State Regents Chancellor Glen D. Johnson said the group took a position against conceal-and-carry legislation last spring when it was introduced.

Johnson said there might have been good intentions behind the proposal, but it would “make campuses more dangerous.”

The law would have allowed people with special firearms training to carry concealed weapons on state campuses.

Some regents said they had heard rumors of another bill being introduced.

“If [it] comes up again, we want to be ready to oppose [it],” Johnson said.

Phil Berkenbile, state director for Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education, suggested being proactive and sending a letter to Gov. Henry, the Speaker of the State House of Representatives and Senate President Pro Tempore, reaffirming the board’s stance on the issue.

Members of the task force also discussed the need for increased funding of emergency notification and response systems.

Anil Gollahalli, interim general counsel at OU, spoke about OU’s preparation.

Gollahalli said the university continues to run tests of its alert system, which notifies people on campus when there is an emergency. Each time, a larger percentage of students is notified, he said.

Sometimes, though, there are unforeseen problems with communication. Cell phone towers can get clogged with calls, which forces OU to use alternative forms of communication like e-mail, he said.

“OU has done a lot of great work,” Johnson said about OU’s emergency response system. “[The] University of Oklahoma had a comprehensive [system]

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OU President David L. Boren listens as F.W. de Klerk, Nobel Peace Prize winner and South African president from 1989 to 1994, speaks Monday at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art about democracy and his partnership with Nelson Mandela.

Nobel Peace Prize winner: US can’t lead world alone • F.W. de Klerk helped end apartheid, legalized African National Congress LEIGHANNE MANWARREN Daily Staff Writer

A LOOK AT SOUTH AFRICA

Middle East expert lectures on Islamic fundamentalism A Middle East scholar and author will give a lecture today on Islamic fundamentalism and Sufism in the Muslim world.

Itzchak Weismann, senior lecturer in the department of Middle Eastern History at the University of Haifa in Israel, will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Scholar room.

Latin American journalists from 11 nations visit OU A panel of Latin American journalists from 11 different countries will meet with students at a round-table dinner at 7 p.m. today in the Hall of Fame Room of Gaylord Hall.

The delegation of journalists is visiting OU as part of the Edward Murrow Program. The journalists were invited by the Department of State, which oversees the program, to provide U.S. journalists with experiences and insight from other countries.

Population: More than 48 million ormer South African president F.W. de Klerk spoke at Ethnicity: 79 percent black African, 9.6 percent white, 8.9 OU Monday about reforming South African politics, percent colored, 2.5 percent Indian working with Nelson Mandela and the global role of Land Size: Roughly twice the size of Texas the U.S. today.

People living with HIV/AIDS: 5.3 million (2003 est.)

“The U.S. can and must lead the world but cannot do it Languages: IsiZulu 23.8 percent, IsiXhosa 17.6 percent, alone,” de Klerk said at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Afrikaans 13.3 percent, Sepedi 9.4 percent, English 8.2 percent, “You have no idea how your politics affect the rest of the Setswana 8.2 percent, Sesotho 7.9 percent, Xitsonga 4.4 percent, world. The world is paying just as much attention as you other 7.2 percent (2001 census) are to your election process. They feel they should have a vote.”

Unemployment rate: 24.3 percent De Klerk was president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994.

Population below poverty line: 50 percent (2000 est.)

During his presidency, de Klerk overturned South Africa’s Major industry: mining — South Africa is the world’s largest apartheid law, released Mandela and other political prisonproducer of platinum, gold and chromium ers and legalized the banned African National Congress and Independence Dates Communist Party, which led to South Africa’s first demo• 1910: Union of South Africa formed from four British colonies cratic election in 1994.

• 1961: Republic of South Africa founded “In the end I had to do what I did or else there would be • 1994: Majority rule established, allowing the first multiracial catastrophe to South Africa. We did what we had to do to elections and ending apartheid achieve a sense of justice in South Africa,” de Klerk said.

De Klerk and Mandela earned the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for their joint work in reforming South African politics.

Source: CIA World Factbook “President de Klerk’s receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize was well deserved recognition of the critical role that he played in bringing democracy and equal rights to South Africa,” worthy example to the entire world of what can be achieved said OU President David L. Boren in an e-mail. “His role in when leaders work together.”

One of de Klerk’s most controversial decisions as presibringing a peaceful transition to the presidency of Nelson Mandela required great personal moral courage and is a

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CosmoGirl magazine names OU as a top university for women • Environmental awareness, campus safety qualities earn OU recognition MEREDITH MORIAK Daily Staff Writer OU is one of three Big 12 schools chosen

by CosmoGirl magazine as a top 100 coed college for women.

The listing, put together by CosmoGirl staffers with data obtained by the Princeton Review, is geared to find the best public and private coed colleges and universities across the country that offer exceptional programs for women, including leadership opportunities, intimate class sizes and sports.

“I feel like there are a lot of resources for women on campus and it’s good it’s noticed,” said Kathy Moxley, coordinator of the Women’s Outreach Center.

The University of Nebraska and University of Texas were also included in the list.

The University of Tulsa was the only other Oklahoma college featured in the magazine’s list.

“Things are changing in terms of dynamics of college campuses,” Moxley said. “More and more women are taking positions and it is good to highlight the unique things on campus for women and serve their unique needs that males don’t have.”

More than 600 colleges and universities were evaluated for the listing based on 21 data points taken from information gathered

by The Princeton Review.

More than 10 data points were drawn from the opinions of 80,000 females about campus safety, recreational facilities, class and lab size, student friendliness, ethnic and social diversity, city and town atmosphere, student happiness, professor instruction, career services and internship opportunities, according to a CosmoGirl press release.

“It is good that [the listing] looked at other variables than academics,” Moxley said. “It looks at clubs, sports and career

services.”

The remaining 10 points were specific to the schools and based on availability of women’s center services, above-average women’s varsity sports and club sports, specific financial aid factors, percentage of women faculty, class size, student-to-faculty ratio and entrepreneur programs, according to the press release.

“We are so happy to team up with the Princeton Review once again, to help girls find the best school to fit her needs,” said CosmoGirl Editor-in-Chief Susan Schulz in a press release. “This list helps ease the selection process by providing readers with specific information that speaks to girls on a more personal level.”

This is the listing’s last year to be published. Amidst the U.S. economic turmoil CosmoGirl closed its doors last week. The final issue will be published in December.

This listing is targeted at high school students choosing colleges, Craig Hayes, executive director of recruitment services said prospective students care about more than rankings and listings.

“So many things that students want to know about schools are not picked up

by U.S. News and World Report and The Princeton Review,” Hayes said.

He said these listings do not reflect campus friendliness, proximity to home, class size, tradition and campus atmosphere which are things many prospective students care about.

“Students choose schools based off of more than rankings and lists,” Hayes said.

Listings and rankings provide secondary information about the university for students already showing an interest, Hayes said.

In addition to the list of top 100 colleges for women, CosmoGirl also gave each of the 100 colleges a Green Rating that reflects their current environmental awareness and preparation for the future, said a press release.

OU was given a rating of 91 out of 99. The rating evaluated the quality of life for students and whether or not students are being prepared for employment in the clean energy economy. Lastly, it evaluated the school’s environmental responsibility principles.

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American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Scott said.

Lamb said the provision changes Oklahoma’s law to mirror federal regulations on the abortion pill.

Keri Parks, director of external affairs for Planned Parenthood of Central Oklahoma, said the law’s provisions do not protect the health of women, but rather, put more burdens on women and health care facilities.

She said that applying the abortion pill provision to rape victims is also inappropriate.

Gov. Brad Henry originally vetoed the law because it did not include an exemption for rape and incest victims, but Oklahoma lawmakers overrode his decision.

The Oklahoma State Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of the override last April, according to a press release.

Dr. Dana Stone, an Oklahoma City obstetrician, said she lobbied against the bill before it was passed and believes the legislature should not be able to mandate medical procedures.

“Women who come to the decision to have an abortion do not do it lightly,” she said. “The government does not need to require that women do specific things before they make a

medical decision.”

Before SB 1878, Oklahoma law already required that women be offered a free ultrasound before an abortion, Stone said.

Mark Hiehle, executive director of the Eden Clinic, a Norman reproductive health care center, said in an e-mail that he is in favor of the law. He said the lawsuit is troubling because women should be as informed as possible before having an abortion.

“It is a sad commentary that proabortion activists desire to keep factual information from women as they struggle to make difficult decisions during a time of crisis in their lives.”

Planned Parenthood is in favor of women receiving the necessary information to make private health care decisions, but it opposes the legislation because doctors, not politicians, should decide what information and care is best for their patients, Parks said.

Stone said lawmakers in favor of the bill want to change women’s minds about getting an abortion, but she does not think it will be effective.

“Putting one more step in the way will probably not alter their behavior that much,” she said.

before [the 2007 shootings at] Virginia Tech and built on it even more.”

Task force members said money is needed to increase the number of mental health professionals and services on campuses in state.

“I think that it’s important that people are actually talking about these issues and getting factual information,” said Terri White, commissioner for the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.

Mental health professionals and counselors are too absent from college campuses in Oklahoma, Johnson said.

Mental health professionals make campuses safer, and they should be on campuses to prevent tragedies from occurring and to provide services if they do happen, he said.

In its next meeting, the group will address the need to graduate more mental health professionals from Oklahoma schools.

The next CLASS meeting will be Dec. 8.

de Klerk Continued from page 1 dent was the release of Mandela and the legalization of the African National Congress. Three months before de Klerk released Mandela, the pair met secretly to see if a negotiation process between each other was possible. “[Mandela] was taller than I had expected, he stood up straight as a board. I realized then Mandela has a presence. He is an impressive man,” de Klerk said.

After hearing about de Klerk’s accomplishments, students said they wanted to learn more about his experiences in South Africa during the early 1990s.

“Anytime someone like a Nobel Peace Prize winner comes to OU, I want to see what they have to say,” said Kjell Sawyer, math and biochem-

istry senior. “I knew a little about the apartheid and the ANC, but what he said helped me fill in the history and background.”

De Klerk said the world is going through a process of globalization.

“America is the mayor as well as the world’s police force. That role is always unpopular. The U.S. is criticized whatever it does. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. That is the price of being the last surviving superpower,” de Klerk said.

Today South Africa is deemed a “non-racial democracy,” said journalism senior Mark Nehrenz, a Daily columnist and the only OU student studying abroad in South Africa this semester.

Nehrenz said this title should be

credited to de Klerk’s reformation of the government.

“It was the steps that de Klerk took, breaking from the racist policies of the past, that started the process of allowing South Africa to be what it is today,” Nehrenz said.

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Arrests in Dallas spike during OU-Texas weekend • 62 arrested for public intoxication in Dallas hotspots WILL HOLLAND Daily Staff Writer The Dallas Police Department tallied a higher than average number of arrests last weekend, a jump its officers attribute to the Red River Rivalry.

The number of public intoxication arrests was higher than it is during a typical weekend, but was average for OU-Texas weekend, said Dallas Police Department Senior Corp. Kevin Janse.

The department reported 62 arrests, all of them for public intoxication, Friday night before the OU-Texas football game at locations popular among the crimson and burnt orange crowd.

There were no major incidents this weekend, and most of the citations

the department issued were to students who were out of control, said Dallas Police Department Corp. Jerry Monreal.

The department had extra officers on duty, both in patrol cars and on bicycles, the night before the game to monitor the five most popular spots where Sooners and Longhorns gather in Dallas.

“Showing presence out there, I think, deters people from acting up,” Monreal said.

His department had extra officers patrolling the West End, Victory Plaza, Deep Ellum, Greenville Avenue and Main Street, Janse said. He said the West End and Deep Ellum are the most popular.

There were no arrests in Victory Plaza or Deep Ellum, but there were 35 public intoxication arrests in the West End, 24 on Greenville Avenue and three on Main Street between 2 p.m. Friday and 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Janse said.

Janse said he thinks the arrests were OU-Texas related because of where

they took place, but Monreal said the State Fair of Texas, which was also going on during the weekend, could have contributed to the number of

Environmental design senior Eric Martin was arrested last year during OU-Texas weekend by a Dallas police officer for having an open beer container outside. Martin said the beer he was holding was his first of the night.

“The policeman looked at me and goes, ‘You’re going to jail,’” Martin said.

He was handcuffed and placed in a police car for an hour the Friday night before the game. Martin said he was then taken to a holding cell, where he stayed until he was released the next morning.

While he was being booked, Martin said he saw about 15 or 20 OU students at the jail.

Martin said he went to Dallas again this year but did not visit the West End. Monreal said some of the hotels in Dallas popular with students employed Photo Illustration by Photos.com their own security forces for the weekend. He said the department did not arrests.

Some OU students have personally mind the extra help.

“Everybody is going to work together experienced the result of an increase in once they’re out there,” Monreal said. the number of officers on the street.

Nalgene stops making bottles with BPA • Some retailers still sell bottles with potentially cancerous chemical CAITLIN HARRISON Daily Staff Writer The Nalgene company, known for its durable water bottles, has halted production of a line of bottles containing a chemical that could cause cancer. But these bottles are still available at some Norman retailers.

According to Nalgene’s Web site, the bottle was not a recalled, but the company replaced the line made with polycarbonate, which contained the chemical bisphenol-a, after consumer demands for non-BPA products grew. The new version is made from copolyester.

Studies from the National Toxicology program and the Canadian government found potential health concerns related to BPA intake, including cancer risks and the early onset of puberty. According to the site, the reports were not conclusive.

Backwoods, a Norman sports retailer, sells both the new and old Nalgene bottles. The store will continue to sell the old bottles containing BPA until they are sold out, said Pam Cherek, sales manager.

Neither the Federal Drug Administration nor the Environmental Protection Agency has banned or taken a position on the use of BPA in consumer food products, according to Backwoods’ position statement on

plastic bottles.

Cherek said some customers prefer the new bottles, but others are not as concerned about the possible health risks. The store has not seen a drop in the bottle’s sales, she said. “[The risk] really hasn’t been proven,” she said.

“The danger would be when it’s exposed to high temperatures and when it’s worn out or scratched,” Cherek said.

Nalgene’s polycarbonate bottles are stronger and more durable than the new ones, which is why some customers prefer them, Cherek said.

Richard Loeffler, an accounting senior who owns nine Nalgene bottles, said he uses the bottles daily and does not see a difference in quality between the old and new bottles. He said he recently bought one of the new bottles but still uses the old ones.

“I wasn’t extremely worried about [the BPA],” he said. “I still kind of use my old ones a lot. I don’t know enough about the material to know if it actually is causing harm in people.”

Loeffler said he sent an e-mail to the company after the bottle controversy surfaced. He said Nalgene’s response defended the safety of the bottles and said the company is still researching the product.

Ratcliffe’s Textbooks took Nalgene bottles off the shelves when it heard about BPA health concerns last April, said manager Charissa Siebert. But she said numerous student requests at the start of the school year caused the store put them back out.

“I just don’t think I’d put anything on the shelf if I thought it was really harmful,” she said. “The studies said it was not conclusive.”

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BPA-free Nalgene bottles sit on the shelf Monday afternoon at the Backwoods store in Norman. Research has suggested that BPA may cause negative health effects and is especially harmful to pregnant women and infants.

Siebert said many students who purchased a Nalgene bottle recently knew about the chemical warnings, but did not seem concerned.

Lindsay Hodges, elementary education senior, said she planned to buy a Nalgene bottle, but her mother advised against it because of the possible BPA health risk. She said she bought a metal water bottle instead.

“I’m really glad I didn’t buy one,” she said. “I had no idea how many bad things are in the plastics. It’s unbelievable.”

Polycarbonate bottles are still safe to drink from, according to Nalgene’s Web site. The company intends to monitor any future studies on the health risks.

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National group’s lawsuit against Okla. abortion law justified A national pro-choice advocacy group is justified in suing the state of Oklahoma over a law that will OUR VIEW require women is an editorial to hear a detailed selected and debated description of an by the editorial board and written after a ultrasound within majority opinion is one hour of havformed and approved ing an abortion. by the editor. Our View is The Daily’s official The Center opinion. for Reproductive Rights is suing on behalf of Nova Health Systems, the parent organization of Reproductive

Services in Tulsa. According to the suit, Senate Bill 1878 by Rep. Pam Peterson, R-Tulsa, and Sen. Todd Lamb, R-Edmond, infringes upon women’s privacy and represents inappropriate governmental influence over medical procedure. (See page 1 for details.)

The law is scheduled to go into effect Nov. 1.

Regardless of whether or not we agree with the law, we are glad the Center for Reproductive Rights is suing on behalf of the Tulsa business to provide a check on the Oklahoma

legislature’s power.

There are people who will claim a national group based in New York has no right to challenge a state law. (Both chambers of the Oklahoma Legislature overrode Gov. Brad Henry’s veto of the bill.)

But the group is giving clout to a private Oklahoma business that would not stand a chance against an overwhelmingly decided legislature in a conservative state in which most people agree with the law.

The group’s involvement gives the Tulsa business a fair fight against a

large group of people who support the law.

The group also is drawing national attention to the law.

States often are not held accountable for the laws they pass because those laws easily can go unnoticed.

When states pass hundreds of laws per year, it is too time consuming for citizens to read through each one and determine its legal and ethical merits.

We hope the Center for Reproductive Rights’ lawsuit inspires important discussion about this.

Before this law goes into effect, there needs to be talk about the role of government in health care, the amount of information needed for informed consent, the dynamic of patient and doctor relationships and whether or not it is right to put up barriers to abortion.

We hope Oklahomans will keep the state government in check, but when other entities do not think Oklahomans are doing so, they should step in and make sure the government is upholding its duty to its citizens.

STAFF COLUMN

The current economic “crisis” couldn’t come at a better time for college students.

Sure, our first steps into the world may be on uncertain financial ground, our dream employers may be paying their debts instead of hiring aspiring students and our parents may not be able to bail us out as they watch the value of their investments plummet.

But if college is about learning, pick up your pens and start taking notes. We have an opportunity to learn from the greatest teachers: mistakes.

This brand of historical education is at the core of Professor J.R. Fears’ Freedom in Rome and Freedom in Greece WHITNEY classes, so I COLEMAN asked him to compare our current economic issues to those of an ancient civilization.

He said we don’t have to look very far. Our own country has faced this decision before.

The forming of the U.S. Constitution led to our government’s first bailout, he said.

In the spring of 1787, mortgages and debts mounted in the fields of western Pennsylvania farmers and loomed over the shops of wealthy Boston and New York merchants. The country faced immense national and state debt, and the people subsisted on credit bubbles — until they popped.

Sounds familiar.

Fifty-five delegates gathered to do something about it. A summer later, the Constitution that still guides our country was born.

Establishing a stable currency and financial security was — and is — one of its primary functions.

In 1789, the first Congress under that Constitution carried out a huge financial bailout. Fears said the leaders implemented this plan in the midst of criticism and public doubt, similar to the sentiments the American public recently expressed toward a new bailout.

With a grand gesture, the government backed up the banks to ensure that money issued “in the name of the United States” held its value.

“The result of this was that our country became a great place to put money, and it gave prosperity for all Americans because they

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had the courage to carry out this bailout,” said Fears, who favored passing the bailout as soon as possible. “This First Congress, they didn’t follow public opinion — they led it.”

Fears deemed this “a very clear instance where American leadership responded to financial crisis and solved it.” After watching the Senate and House’s deliberations on the bailout — which were highly politicized and inflamed by the sway of the elections that threaten their legislative seats — few would extend the same praise to the decision makers of today.

But our lawmakers did learn from one historical example to decide quickly.

The Great Depression represents the consequences of our government crafting a “perfect” plan for three years while the people drowned in squalor. These past weeks, we have heard even hesitant legislators acting with a new sense of urgency.

We do not know yet whether the decisions made under pressure will serve us in the long term as well as in the short term.

But there is work to be done in the meantime.

If national and personal economics are as aligned as our founders thought they should be, it’s time for each of us to balance the books.

How does a country get into such debt? By taking a big pay cut, enduring a costly battle and continuing to live outside its means by using credit. Fears pointed out that our country did just that: cut taxes, engaged in a costly war and continued to live beyond its means on credit from other countries.

Our founders thought it wise to run the country’s finances the way we run our personal finances, and we’ve been doing it ever since. In a culture in which Americans are living beyond their means, it should be no surprise that their country is as well.

So sit down, study up on the nation’s financial fumbles and diagnose the symptoms in your bank account that could result in a personal crisis.

Specifically: Pay off debt (i.e. credit cards and student loans) before buying more stuff, start saving (there’s a reason grandma still has dollars stashed in her pillowcase) and spend wisely.

Display a personal economy that would put our country’s to shame.

After all, it shouldn’t be that hard right now.

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By most accounts, this year’s edition of OU-Texas weekend was a rousing bust for fans wearing crimson.

My experience was no different, coupling the loss on the field with a host of other nightmares that constituted my latest foray into Dallas-Fort Worth.

But with the stadium improvements at the Cotton Bowl, hope is definitely on the horizon for my fellow Longhorn haters and me.

Over recent years, there’s been a debate over the future of this cultural and social mecca.

As you might imagine, it was all about dollars and cents.

Essentially, the old stadium’s status as little more than a massive port-a-potty made moving the game to a home and home series pretty attractive.

Others pined for the game to be moved to the new Dallas Cowboys’ stadium that is soon to open in Arlington.

But those options are blasphemy.

The home of the Red River Rivalry is and forever shall be the city of Dallas and the renovated Cotton Bowl.

For those who need more evidence or lack the funding and selfcontrol needed to survive an early October weekend in Dallas, here are a few reasons why the city and the Cotton Bowl make such a beautiful combination.

• Shiny new seats and lots of dollar bills

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Macaroni and cheese should not be only option in kitchen For all those fans of the Food Network, all those honors students who have pondered the relation between food and culture and for all those college students wanting to cook something more interesting than macaroni and cheese, it is time the university offered a cooking class as an elective.

Cooking is one of the most fun and useful practical skills one can learn.

Knowing how to cook can save you from restaurant prices.

Yes, it takes time to cook, but there is not a more productive way to take a break and procrastinate than cooking omelets or baking death-by-chocolate brownies.

Too often, parents do not teach this valuable life skill. A cooking elective would teach it and would

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Perhaps you didn’t notice, but the Cotton Bowl stadium got quite a facelift. And it may have saved the sanctity of the game itself.

New renovations completed this year added more than 16,000 seats to the old bag of bones that used to be the stadium. The old one was run down, decrepit and small.

The updated version is small, cramped and wholly uncomfortable. But at least it looks new and managed to rid itself of the Texas dumpster smell.

Without the city of Dallas approving funds for improving the Cotton Bowl, the annual havoc in north Texas likely would have been outsourced.

As a loyal Oklahoman, I’ll say it once and only once: Thank you, people of Texas.

• The State Fair of Texas ERIC I’m not sure how much explaining I really COMBS need to do here, but spending the morning hours wolfing down massive funnel cakes and guzzling watered-down domestic beers before one of the most heated tackle football competitions on the planet is a purely American experience.

The Cotton Bowl’s location on the grounds of Fair Park in October is irreplaceable.

I have serious doubts that Norman or Austin would provide similar pre-game environments.

Besides, walking down Sixth Street in Austin with one hand displaying a middle finger salute and the other showing an upside down longhorn just wouldn’t be safe.

At Fair Park, however, that’s a completely acceptable and typical activity.

• The hotels A switch to a home and home series would eliminate one of the most amazing hotbeds of hatred ever created: The West End. And that would just kill the fun.

Masses of crimson and burnt orange pile into the streets of downtown Dallas on the eve of the game to take part in lots of good old-fashioned ribbing between fans of the rival teams.

And when I say ribbing, I mostly mean verbal assaults that often resort to insults concerning the weight and morality of one’s girlfriend, sister and mother.

I certainly couldn’t get away without mentioning the human ant farm that is Sheraton Suites (formerly Adam’s Mark) in downtown Dallas.

Imagine roughly every person you ever met at OU plus a couple thousand. Then place them in one building created for people the size of dinosaurs.

That’s Sheraton.

If you haven’t been, go. If you’ve been more than twice, save your body the trouble.

So, maybe this year’s trip wasn’t so enjoyable for us. I’ll let the experts worry about what happened on the field Saturday afternoon.

But as for the royal rumble that goes on throughout the rest of the weekend, let’s just hope it stays in city of Dallas and Fair Park for a long time.

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Caleb Meacham of Sapulpa, Okla. starts a cheer before the OU-Texas game Saturday in Dallas’s Cotton Bowl.

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be fun.

The average college student who wants to put variety in daily meals should have more options than eating out or trying to decipher Food Network when he or she does not know how to cook.

Cooking is as important to one’s lifestyle as the currently offered electives of bowling, SARAH ballroom dancROSENCRANS ing and lifestyle fitness. It may even be more important since meals should be about more than just meeting basic energy requirements.

Cooking is both an art and a

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science. It applies the objectiveness of chemistry within recipes and the subjectivity of art in taste.

Thus, it could be established in the College of Arts and Sciences.

It could also be offered as a complement to the Honors College’s Perspectives class Food and Culture. Having taken the class, I was disappointed because it did not offer the opportunity to taste and prepare all the culturally influenced fare.

Why settle for a greasy sandwich from Chik-Fil-A when you can learn how to make your own oven-fried chicken?

A cooking class would be a good alternative to fast food companies that provide unhealthy food prepared for cash-strapped people.

By learning to cook, you learn

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to appreciate quality food. The time and labor put into a meal make it all the more appetizing.

I’d much rather eat my own burnt chicken cordon bleu than pay $5 for a perfectly grilled value meal unless I am very tired and in a hurry.

Cooking is a skill that will last a lifetime. Even when you have your dream job and a family, the ability to cook a variety of delicious and taste bud teasing dishes is a path to independence.

In a place where life skills of every kind are taught, there is no reason for the University of Oklahoma to not have a cooking elective.

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Arts & 5 Entertainment ‘ANSWERS’ AND ‘DIRT’ The real Rock the Vote Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008

• This week, reviews of the latest from Holly Golightly and an EP from The Answer.

no rock ‘n roll song.”

• Voting for official Moore said once the votes have been counted, it is up to the state legislature to finalize Oklahoma Rock Song a decision.

“The legislature technically can do their own thing,” he said. “We ends Nov. 15. don’t know how exactly that all will work as far as OFFICIAL J L the process is concerned.

Daily Staff Writer OKLAHOMA ROCK The final tally will be subto them, and durOklahoma may be the SONG FINALISTS: mitted ing the spring of the next home of country superAMES

THE ANSWER “Never Too Late” J.Albert & Son The Answer, an emergent rock band from Northern Ireland, debuts in North America with its EP “Never Too Late”.

The Answer comes out with a bang, bursting with solid guitar riffs and sharp vocals. The band derives its sound from the legendary bands of the ‘70s like Led Zeppelin, The Who and Aerosmith.

The album opens with the title track, “Never Too Late,” a great example of classic rock rejuvenated.

Immediately, the guitar riff from Paul Mahon combined with Cormac Nesson’s vocals deliver an audible strut that hasn’t been heard since your parents were in high school.

You’ll also get to try it out for yourself.

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The track will debut as an extra song on “Guitar Hero: World Tour.”

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HOLLY GOLIGHTLY AND THE BROKEOFFS “Dirt Don’t Hurt” Transdreamer British songstress Holly Golightly has teamed up for the second time with The Brokeoffs for another foot-stompin’ back porch jam.

The appropriately named “Dirt Don’t Hurt” album sounds like B-sides from 1920s Appalachian backcountry recordings with a twist of modern low-key indie love.

Golightly collaborates with Lawyer Dave, a musician who constitutes backing band The Brokeoffs.

The duo have been making muddy low-fi recordings ever since.

“Dirt Don’t Hurt” was recorded in the middle of the band’s last tour, when it stopped in a studio in Gijon, Spain, pumping out the songs in five days.

The gritty sound of banging pots and pans, slide guitar and twangy vocals is only heightened by the quality of the songs. The album consists of mostly originals, but the duo draws from traditional songs

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which fit into the mixture like butter on toast.

In an age of upscale music production, “Dirt Don’t Hurt” is a breath of fresh air for traditional folk storytelling.

It can be hard to listen to at times, because the songs begin to mesh together and sound the same.

The quality is in the dirt, and as they say, “Dirt Don’t Hurt.”

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stars Toby Keith and “After Midnight” – J. J. Cale Garth Brooks, but it’s rock bands such as the “Heartbreak Hotel” – Mae Boren Flaming Lips and the AllAmerican Rejects comAxton, performed by Elvis Presley peting for the state’s official rock song.

“Oklahoma” - The Call More than 450 songs were nominated by the “Do you Realize?” - Flaming Lips public, and 10 finalists were selected for the “Never Been to Spain” - Hoyt Axton, official rock song of performed

by Three Dog Night Oklahoma. Votes for the top song will be accepted “Move Along” – All-American Rejects through Nov. 15.

The project is a joint “Home Sweet Oklahoma” - Leon Russell effort by The Oklahoma History Center and the “Endless Oklahoma Sky” - John MoreOklahoma Film & Music Office. A resolution to land and the Black Gold Band allow an official rock song was unanimously “Walk Don’t Run” - The Ventures approved by both the State Senate and House “Let’s Have a Party” - Wanda Jackson of Representatives in April.

To listen to the Official Oklahoma Rock Ohio, home of the Rock Song finalists and cast a vote for the winand Roll Hall of Fame and ner, visit www.oklahomarocksong.org.

Museum, is currently the only state with an official rock song.

Jeff Moore, director of exhibits for the Oklahoma History Center, said the selection of a song will coincide with a new rock ‘n roll exhibit opening in May 2009.

“We wanted to do Photo provided something that would be a permanent tribute to Oklahoma’s rock ‘n roll heritage,” he said. “Someone noted we have a doesn’t make me state country song and a state folk song, but cally,” he said.

session they will name the song.”

Moore said he encourages students to vote because rock ‘n roll has been so heavily influenced by the college experience.

Yasha Moridi, energy management junior, said he voted for the Flaming Lips song “Do You Realize” because of his personal history with the band.

“One of my first concert experiences was at a Lips show,” Moridi said.

“It was an epic night I won’t forget.”

Derek Smoots, entrepreneurship and venture management senior, said he wasn’t thrilled with the final song selections.

“I thought most of the songs were really weak connections to Oklahoma,” he said. “We’re not exactly known for rock ‘n roll. I voted for Three Dog Night because it’s probably the most well-known of all these songs that has to do with Oklahoma.”

Smoots said he didn’t vote for the Flaming Lips because he couldn’t see a connection between the song and the Sooner state.

“They’re obviously my favorite of all these musicians, but the song itself think of Oklahoma specifi-

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TODAY SCHOOL OF MUSIC A harp ensemble concert will be at noon in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Violinist John Harrison will perform at 8 p.m. in the Pittman Recital Hall.

WEDNESDAY WOMEN’S OUTREACH CENTER/WOMEN’S STUDIES PROGRAM “Love Your Body Day” will be at 11 a.m. on the South Oval. A panel discussion on body image will be at 3 p.m. in the Union’s Traditions Room.

STUDENT ASSOCIATION OF BANGLADESH A Bangladeshi food festival will begin at noon in the Jim Thorpe Multicultural Center.

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CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUS A Bible study will be at noon in the Union’s Frontier Room.

A Bible study will be at 12:30 p.m. in the Union’s Sooner Room.

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UPB “The Three R’s: Reading, ‘Riting and Remembering” will be at 2 p.m. in Carnegie Hall, room 200.

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY There will be a meeting at 7 p.m. in Richards Hall, room 260.

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES Author Itzchak Weissman will give a lecture “The Islamnic Other: Fundamentalism and Sufism in the Muslim World and Beyond” at 4:30 p.m. in the Union’s Scholars Room.

POLICE REPORTS Names are compiled from the Norman Police Department or the OU Department of Public Safety.

The report serves as a public record of arrests or citations, not convictions. The people here are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

NO VALID DRIVER’S LICENSE Sheridan Jance Augustine, 20, 2000 block East Alameda Street, Sunday, also driving under the influence-driver under 21

• A seminar on understanding financial aid will be at 3 p.m. in Carnegie Building, room 200.

• A seminar on research writing will be at 5 p.m. in Bizzell Memorial Library, room LL227.

VOLLEYBALL The team will play the University of Colorado at 7 p.m. at the McCasland Field House.

HONORS STUDENT ASSOCIATION A meeting will be at 7 p.m. in David L. Boren Hall, room 182.

Dee Reed, 43, 400 block 26th Avenue Northwest, Sunday Kyle Brandon Morse, 18, 1400 block Asp Avenue, Friday, also outraging public decency

Oklahoma National Guard soldiers return after year in Iraq SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY — White buses rolled into Bethany on Monday as more than 2,600 members of the Oklahoma National Guard’s 45th Infantry Brigade continued to return home after a year in Iraq.

Three homecoming ceremonies were held at Southern Nazarene University’s Sawyer Center, and similar ceremonies are scheduled over the next week as more troops return.

About 700 have returned to Oklahoma so far. The rest of the soldiers are at Fort Bliss, Texas, for processing before they return to Oklahoma.

During Monday’s early afternoon ceremony, more than 100 soldiers in battle-dress uniforms with the familiar Thunderbird patch of the 45th Infantry Brigade, filed into the arena to waving flags and cheers from family and friends.

For Sgt. Brian Mai, Monday marked the first opportunity to hold his 6-week-old daughter, Kierstan, who sported a shirt that read “If you love your freedom, thank my Dad.” “This is the best thing I could come home to,” said Mai, who returned for a brief Christmas visit late last year. “It was a hard time, knowing you couldn’t be there for the birth of your child.”

Mai’s wife, Sheena, said she already has some work lined up for her husband when they return to their home in McAlester.

“He gets the first dirty diaper,” she joked.

Maj. Gen. Harry M. Wyatt, the state’s adjutant general, congratulated the soldiers on a job well done and said the brigade has added to the long and decorated history of the 45th.

“Thanks to the men seated before you, there will be another battle streamer added to that flag — the battle streamer of Iraqi Freedom,” Wyatt said.

Wyatt said the Oklahoma National Guard also has implemented a number of programs to help soldiers reintegrate back into their communities, with emphasis on physical and mental health, financial issues and education.

“Don’t be afraid to raise your hand and say, ‘Hey, I need some help,’” Wyatt told the group.

Col. Van Kinchen, the unit’s rear detachment commander, said the infantry soldiers had to adjust to a different role during their deployment — primarily providing security operations and conducting movement and transport of detainees.

Kinchen said none of the brigade’s 2,600 soldiers were killed during the deployment.

“That’s the best part,” he said.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- In reality, some of your first thoughts will be your best ones, yet you might not trust your judgment simply because they could be based more upon feelings than logic. Don’t discount sentiment.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Be careful when it comes to household repairs. Getting a friend to do these jobs might prove to be an expensive mistake, especially if you can’t point out what you don’t like.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -Although you might be adept at managing your personal affairs, don’t attempt to tell others how they should run their lives. It won’t go over too well, even if you mean well.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- A number of things might turn out to be a bit more difficult than usual to achieve, owing to a lot of small problems going against you. However, don’t use this as a cop-out to throw in the towel.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Even if someone close to you does something you don’t approve, don’t make a big thing of it. All that will do is create a chasm between the two of you that won’t be easily rectified.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -Running around with high rollers might give you delusions of grandeur, but the price you pay may be more than you’re prepared to handle. Trying to match their spending would be folly.

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STAFF COLUMN

Red River Rivalry gave fans everything he most recent installment in the storied series between OU and Texas entered the history books Saturday and has since been dubbed an instant classic.

Who can really argue against that?

The shootout between then-No.1 OU and then-No.5 Texas provided enough theatre to satisfy even William Shakespeare.

Each big play was followed by the customary eruption from one half of the stadium, only to be silenced minutes later as the other team respond edwith a momentum-swinging drive of its own.

The game played out with the back-and-forth action of a tennis match.

The 45-35 final score was a testament to the offensive firepower both teams displayed. But there were also several terrific defensive stands, ERIC and Jordan Shipley made certain nobody overlooked the special teams unit in the box score.

DAMA The bottom line: This game had everything.

The latest Associated Press poll released Sunday reiterated this, as OU only fell to No. 4 following its defeat at the Cotton Bowl.

I had projected the Sooners to slide to somewhere near No. 10.

However, after another wild weekend in college football, OU fans couldn’t have asked for a much better situation given the Sooners’ loss to the Longhorns.

For the second consecutive week, three teams ranked in the top five lost. OU is the highest-ranked one-loss team, and Texas stands to play its next three games against No. 11 Missouri, No. 8 Oklahoma State and No. 7 Texas Tech.

Nevertheless, OU still has a lot of fixing to do if it plans on justifying the media’s ranking.

The special teams’ performance Saturday was by far the worst of the season. It felt as if Texas started every drive around its own 45-yard line — except, of course, the time Shipley returned a kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown.

OU had 10 rushing yards at halftime. That’s right, 10. Keeping with the spirit of one-upmanship that surrounds the OU-Texas rivalry, Texas decided it wasn’t going to let OU outdo it in anything.

So the Longhorns managed to top the Sooners’ ghastly ground game by rushing for a total of negative three yards in the first half.

Most importantly, the hole created at linebacker following the loss of Ryan Reynolds for the year will now place even more pressure on a young defense that most people are still uncertain about.

OU has to rebound and take care of business against No. 16 Kansas this week. There isn’t much else it can do.

And there isn’t much else it needs to do. All it takes is another weekend like the last two, when upsets across the country caused the nation’s top schools to be dethroned.

Now that’s some drama Shakespeare would appreciate.

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JOEY HELMER Daily Staff Writer Early Monday morning after a tough loss to Texas, Ryan Reynolds was in the film room.

He was also doing pushups on the sidelines during practice Monday while his teammates ran through drills.

This is in spite of the fact that Reynolds went down with a season-ending anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury to his right knee in the third quarter against Texas.

“He loves it,” said head coach Bob Stoops. “I picked him up off the ground and said ‘What are you doing’?”

Reynolds’ determination and love of football will be difficult for the Sooners to replace.

“He’s limping around, but [mentally] he’s still out there with us,” said redshirt freshman linebacker Travis Lewis. “That’s typical Ryan.”

Reynolds switched to the middle linebacker position during the offseason to fill the void left by Curtis Lofton, who departed for the NFL. Reynolds is the only member of this year’s linebacker corps to have starting experience at the position.

Lewis redshirted last season, and junior Keenan Clayton has

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Trainers attend to linebacker Ryan Reynolds (8) after he injured his knee in the third quarter of OU’s loss to Texas. He was diagnosed with a torn ACL, which will end his season. played safety the past two years.

Reynolds’ standout game this season came against Baylor, when he recorded 14 tackles and was given a 100 percent grade by defensive coordinator Brent Venables.

Venables said that is the first time in his 25-year career he has given a player a perfect grade.

Aside from bruising ball carriers, Reynolds has become a strong leader both vocally and by example.

“You can’t undervalue that,” Venables said. “It is big. [For] any

“At this point in time, all it comes down to is the mental work. I don’t feel overwhelmed at all. It’s just an opportunity that I have to come in and step in and make some plays.”

— Redshirt freshman Austin Box

team that goes through a similar situation, which everybody does to some degree, it’s really advantageous for you when you can have a guy that can actually be an asset for you in that regard.”

The Sooners’ main goal during practice this week will be to find someone who can at least attempt to fill Reynolds’ shoes.

The coaching staff would not give a definitive answer about who will start this weekend against Kansas, but redshirt freshman linebacker Austin Box is the likely candidate.

Box is competing with sophomore Brandon Crow — who took Reynolds’ place against Texas — and junior Mike Balogun. Box was the only one made available to the media after Monday’s practice.

Box was expected to be the starting outside linebacker this season before having arthroscopic knee surgery to repair cartilage in his left knee. During his rehabilitation period, Lewis stepped into the starting lineup and looked

impressive.

Box was a standout in high school, recording 71 tackles and three interceptions en route to being named defensive player of the year and all-state by The Oklahoman after hi senior season before being redshirted last season.

Box said he has no concerns about stepping into the starting lineup.

“At this point in time, all it comes down to is the mental work,” he said. “I don’t feel overwhelmed at all. It’s just an opportunity that I have to come in and step in and make some plays.”

Whoever steps into Reynolds spot will be expected to maintain a high level of play, but the entire defense will now to be forced to take on more leadership responsibilities.

“I mean, it’s just another challenge,” Lewis said. “I’ll help with the calls as much as I can and get myself lined up and play football.”

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