The Vista Nov. 29, 2011

Wearing Shirts for a Living

Basketball

One broadcasting student at UCO is seeking online votes, in the hopes of landing a job wearing T-shirts.

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The Bronchos came out victorious over the Southwestern Baptist University Bearcats Saturday night in the SBU Thanksgiving Classic.

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Thanksgiving

THANKSGIVING AT CENTRAL

By Mervyn Chua / Staff Writer The Edmond Community Thanksgiving Dinner Association served more than 3,000 meals in the UCO Ballrooms on Thanksgiving Day. The Thanksgiving dinner was held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday. At the dinner, participants filled out a form with meal options such as white or dark turkey meat, and a choice of sides. Choices included mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans and more; the diners were then served their preference.

Meals were also delivered to the community.

“We deliver to all over the Edmond community and so far we have delivered over 430 meals,” Mike Laska, one of the organizers of the event, said. Laska is a member of First Presbyterian Church. “As long as they live within the boundaries that we have set, we’ll deliver the meal to them. And we serve about a 30 to 40 mile square area.”

The Edmond Community Thanksgiving Dinner Association had a phone line set up which goes into effect Nov. 1 every year. This allowed people to call in and through the voice prompt, encouraged to identify if they wanted a meal delivered or to be a volunteer.

If the caller chose the former, the phone line asked about their food preferences. Someone then called them to ask for their particulars.

There were about 600 volunteers. To sign up, volunteers could contact the same phone line to leave their name and contact number.

Ashley Price from First Christian Church was a volunteer.

“It is great helping to serve people with no other place to go,” she said. “I’d do it again and again, to see a lot of happy people.”

Crystal St. Pierre, another volunteer who came from a military family, enjoyed the experience.

“It’s fun and nice to give back to the community and a good way to know people in the area,” she said.

This annual event started in 1981, when Frank and Pat Paradise wanted to serve their five children a Thanksgiving meal but did not have room at their home. They had it in the church and invited a few people. They had it again subsequent years and the invitations kept growing.

In 1995, the stand-alone Edmond Community Thanksgiving Dinner Association was created.

“Every year we find new people that have

Guests of the 2011 Edmond Community Thanksgiving Dinner were served their meals in the Nigh Center Ballrooms, Thursday Nov 24, 2011. Photo by Liz Boyer, The Vista

not come. They make it for the first year, maybe just to have a desert, maybe just to participate with a meal, but they always come back.”

Laska said. “They talk about it year after year and they say ‘I have never seen anything like this.’

So it grows by word-of-mouth because it’s such a warm event, such a heartwarming feeling to have all these people coming together and representing the entire community as we know it and serve as many people as you can.”

RUNNING THE GOBBLE GAUNTLET

A child runs down Boulevard during Turkey Trot in Edmond, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. More on page 5. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

Campus Events

‘CENTRAL FACTOR’ TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY The National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH) is hosting The Central Factor from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Nov. 30 The Central Factor, a talent show derived from the popular television show “The X Factor,” will be held in the Central Plaza lobby.

The Central Factor will feature students performing song or dance routines in hopes of winning cash prizes of $100, $50 or $25 for placing in the top three. Each contestant will have five minutes to perform his or her act. There are 18 contestants registered to compete.

Winning contestants will be chosen by a panel of three judges. Judges will base their

decisions on creativity, performance, and talent.

“This is the first UCO talent show I have competed in,” Brandi Wilson said. “I’m really excited to be a part of The Central Factor. It’s going to be a lot of fun.”

“This year is the second year The Central Factor will be held. The talent show was created in order to showcase UCO’s student talent,” Darrell Potter, NRHH chapter vice president, said. Between 50 and 80 students are expected to attend this year’s event; guests will be served sandwiches, fruit, cheesecake and punch as refreshments.

The NRHH was created in order to recognize the top one percent of college students who have helped to promote the quality of life

in residence halls through student programming, leadership, and community service. Members are selected to join the organization; students must have a minimum 2.5 GPA and live in a residence hall.

“We have about twenty members in UCO’s

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NRHH chapter, but we would like to have more,” Potter said.

In addition to The Central Factor, the NRHH has also hosted Thanks for Giving, a canned food drive, and Auction for Action, an auction where money raised is donated to charity.

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WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS

“Probably Intro to World Politics. There is so much subject matter.”

“History because I didn’t study enough. There’s not enough time.”

“Sociology. It’s not interesting.”

Woody Guthrie’s guitar was famously known for the sign he put on it that read, “This Machine Kills Fascists.” Now the fascists want to kill the machine.

The Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, is a new bill being pushed through Congress with the broad goal of reducing the amount of online copyright infringements. While the goal itself seems innocent enough and general enough that resistance sounds silly, the damage that will be done if this bill gets passed in its current state is of catastrophic proportions. The full effect is best explained through example.

Scenario 1: A seventh-grader makes a video project for their history class, and as part of the video they dance to a song by Justin Bieber. They upload the video to YouTube so they can show their classmates and a few days later a letter arrives at their house. The letter is from the Recording Industry Association of America and they want $70,000 in “damages.” The parents can go to court or just pay the fine.

Scenario 2: A different seventh-grader uploads a video for their history project. In their video, they sing a Lady Gaga song without any backing music. A letter comes to their house asking for thousands of dollars in “damages.” Again, the parents are stuck with a giant fine or a court battle.

Scenario 3: After a whole class of seventh-graders upload videos containing various copyright infringements, the RIAA tells YouTube to either pay them $300 million in damages or shut down.

With the third scenario, the true problem of this law becomes evident. Vague mentions of copyrighted works become the kiss of death for websites. The RIAA and the Motion Picture Association of America are so concurred with an extra million dollars than they are with our culture at large.

Woody Guthrie had a thing or two to say about copyrights.

Of course, he also said this land belonged to the people and not the corporations, but the Supreme Court says otherwise.

Woody still copyrighted his works, but it wasn’t quite the same as what we imagine today. This is what was attached to one of his albums: “This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.”

For more information about the Stop Online Privacy Act, check out the website EverythingIsARemix.info

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STUDENT VOLUNTEERS SPEND THANKSGIVING DAY SERVING

By Josh Hutton Occupy Skyrim

Anna Wilson, a senior public relations major, participates in the City Rescue Mission Thanksgiving dinner. Photo by Hong Fu, For The Vista

By Hong Fu / Contributing Writer At City Rescue Mission’s Thanksgiving Day “Adopt-a-Table” feast, UCO student volunteers were found at almost every corner. One of them was volunteer and UCO student Anna Wilson.

The City Rescue Mission is a nonprofit, faith-based organization that provides support to the underprivileged community in the Oklahoma City metro.

Because these student volunteers came individually and did not plan this as a group, finding out that they all attend the same college made it even more special.

“My friend and I showed up together and were pleasantly surprised to have met fellow UCO students,” Wilson said. “I am truly thankful for this opportunity to serve others while meeting new people with a common interest. What a small world with big hearts.”

Volunteers were asked to come at 10 a.m. to set up and decorate the tables for their guests. Each table was unique, ranging from wholesome pumpkin centerpieces to elaborate candelabra and fruit arrangements.

Here, Wilson met fellow volunteer and UCO alum Melanie

Berry and her children, Kayelee and Donnie.

“Anna turned around and struck up a conversation and somehow we got to talking about our personal lives,” Berry said. “I graduated in 1998 from UCO with a degree in substance abuse in social work. I heard the campus has changed quite a bit so I need to come back and visit to see for myself.”

Wilson encountered another UCO student while waiting to grab a plate for a client in the buffet line. Christina Torres, a junior Speech and Pathology major, has volunteered with City Rescue Mission in the past. Torres said she was back to volunteer and in good spirits.

Rev. Tom Jones, president of the Mission, said he was proud to see so many people with families who gave up their time away from home to serve the homeless. Jones said in the past, the Mission served a Thanksgiving meal on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving Day, but just a couple years ago decided to change route and serve on the day of to make it more meaningful.

The Mission staff worried that they would come short of volunteers on Thanksgiving. As it turned out, not only did many people sign up to help, the staff ended up having to turn down volunteer requests due to excess requests. This year’s Thanksgiving lunch served about 1,200 people.

Scholarships

P.E.O. PROVIDES SCHOLARSHIPS TO INTERNATIONAL FEMALE STUDENTS

By Monica Johnson/ Contributing Writer The Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) Sisterhood is currently offering female international students scholarships totaling $10,000.

Full-time female international graduate students are eligible to apply for the International Peace Scholarship (IPS) Fund, which provides financial aid up to $10,000 per year, based upon recipient’s need. The IPS Fund may be renewed once. Scholarships cannot be transferred to another academic year or pay previous debts.

To be eligible, applicants must be qualified for admission in a full-time graduate program or already be working toward their graduate degree. Applicants must also have a full year of instruction remaining and live in residence while receiving the scholarship. Students working on their doctoral disserta-

tion are ineligible.

Carolyn Larson, IPS project supervisor, said 165 scholarships were awarded last year.

“The goal of the scholarship is to provide women with an education they can take back to their home country to help promote peace,” she said.

The PEO was founded in 1869. The PEO Sisterhood’s mission is to further educational opportunities for women by providing them financial assistance in the forms of scholarships, grants and loans. The P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship Fund was established in 1949. To date, the IPS Fund has awarded over $27 million to help women pur-

sue their educational goals.

Applications are available online at www.peointernational.org and are due

by Dec. 15. To complete the application, the IPS office must receive a copy of the applicant’s confirmation of admittance to their university by April 1. Applicants will also be required to sign a document verifying they will be returning to their home country, outside of the United States and Canada, within 60 days of program completion.

Recipients will be notified in May; funds will be distributed in August and December.

For additional information, call (515)255-3155 or email ips@peodsm.org.

In the waning hours of respectable night, one of those emotional, nuclear bomb commercials about starving children in sub-Saharan Africa came on the tube. A hushed voiceover gently attempted to seduce dollar bills out of my wallet, as a gut-wrenching image of a black child with a swollen belly and flies buzzing around his face played alongside.

I changed the channel.

I then ate my sixth meal of the day, made entirely of trans fats and high fructose corn syrup. I washed down the spoils of sixth meal with about 400 calories of Dr. Pepper Ten. I ate and drank until my belly got swollen with calories. I then keyed up the Xbox and loaded up Skyrim, the latest installment of Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls series.

Skyrim takes us back to the golden age of money making.

I do not have to be a low-level barista, a waiter, or a cashier. When rent’s due in Skyrim, I simply put the hurt on bandit camps. I chop down baddies and walk away with the content of their coin purses.

Yes, Skyrim represents a happy-go-lucky time when kicking fanny was a lucrative business. Currently, many middle and lower class citizens are wishing they could pull in that kind of gold.

While Occupy protesters lick their wounds from the Zuccotti Park eviction debacle, I lie sprawled out in front of a television screen, occupying some dragon slaying.

Am I part of the 99 percent? Yup. Do I think the wealth disparity in this country has gotten out of hand? Sure. Do I think the Occupy Movement is effective? Now, that’s a mixed bag.

I think the protests have garnered a much-needed amount of attention to the economic condition of this country; however, I do not see tangible change in the form of legislation any time soon. Why? The poor, struggling middle and lower class Americans have it pretty darn good. The percentage of humans with cars in the world is a meager 8 percent. The percentage of Americans owning one or more cars is 89 percent.

Our bounty is so great we wear the symbols above our breaking belt buckles. Our wealth makes us feel guilty when we see infomercials about dire poverty. But we use our wealth to change the channel and alleviate the guilt.

The Occupy Movement will falter because it requires a deep commitment from the 99 percent, and the 99 percent is too preoccupied with its “stuff.”

Too many good video games, too many good shows on AMC, too much food in the fridge, too much gas in the car. All add up and distract from unnecessary commitments. Humankind rarely makes an effort for improvement until its already too late. Here’s to hoping the Occupy Movement shifts away from awareness, and starts gaining tangible ground.

If you want the rich bandit’s gold, you have to go into his camp and kick his fanny.

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Students

GRADUATING SENIOR AIMING TO WEAR OUT HIS FUTURE

By Cody Bromley / Editor-in-Chief Carder Price has worn shirts all his life.

“Well, not the day I was born, but I think pretty much from there on afterward,” Price said.

After 21 years of doing it as an amateur, senior broadcasting student Carder Price is ready to start making money and go professional. Wearing shirts, that is.

“I’ve actually paid people to wear shirts, but I’ve never been paid,” he said.

Price is attempting to get a job with a company called iwearyourshirt.com. Founded in 2009 by Jason Sadler, iwearyourshirt.com is changing the standard advertising model by instead putting the advertising on a model. Ironically enough, today’s shirt worn by the current five wearers is for a website called Tshirts.com. The iwearyourshirt.com website also boast s being used by companies such as Pizza Hut, Starbucks, Smarties, 1-800 Flowers.com, Nissan and more.

Price, who is set to graduate in December, was first turned on to the site through his girlfriend.

“She actually had a friend who was applying, saw it on Facebook, saw her video and checked out the details of what the video was all about and she said I should apply.

I checked out the details, I made a video. I did it. Now, I’m just sitting here waiting,” Price said.

Were he to land the position, the job would be his first full-time job post-grad. Price said his reason for getting into this is because it will allow him to express his creativity and build his expertise in the advertising field.

How will he do that wearing

shirts? Simply put, the advertising buys do not end at the T-shirt.

In addition to wearing a different shirt every day except Saturday, shirt wearers are also expected to produce a YouTube video, take a photo of themselves and make it their new profile picture, host a 30-minute live video chat and interact with their friends, fans and followers on Facebook and Twitter.

“I’ve actually paid people to wear shirts, but I’ve never been paid.”

Carder Price

In his application video, Price touts his qualifications, along with some humor. Among those qualifications are producing content for UCentral, UCO’s student media network which covers the school’s Cox cable channel 125, as well as UCO360.com, ED 90.1 HD2 and The Vista.

Last year, Price was one of the producers for the web-show Randomplay, where he and others made skit videos, song parodies and other shenanigans. This semester Randomplay changed its format to a game show, which Price hosts.

While wearing shirts and making videos is something Price loves to do, he still sees how this will affect him.

“It might be exhausting, eventually. I’m sure there’s gonna be days where I’m just like, ‘Uh. I still gotta make this video.’ But, at the same time, I’ll have no room to complain. I’d be wearing T-shirts for a living,” Price said.

Carder Price, a graduating senior broadcasting major, has applied to wear shirts with iwearyourshirt. com, an advetising company who’s five shirt wearers wear a different shirt each day. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

As of Sunday night, Price appeared in the top four highestrated results on iwearyourshirt. com, but the hiring information page on iwearyourshirt.com says that popularity alone will not win him a spot.

According to the hiring FAQ, “It doesn’t matter if you have the most followers, most friends, most comments, most ratings, most anything. Just because you have those things doesn’t make you the best person for the job. We appreciate every single person that takes the time to apply and want you to know we will be closely watch-

ing and following this application process.”

The application process as a whole will come to a conclusion on Dec. 7, when iwearyourshirt. com founder Jason Fadler announces the next four wearers for 2012 during his daily video show.

If chosen, Price will be flown to Jacksonville, Fla. from Dec. 16-19 to meet the whole team and learn how to wear a shirt professionally.

Until the results are announced, Price hopes to boost his visibility and promote his ability to reach a large number of followers and friends.

To see and vote on Price’s application video, scan this barcode:

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Community

A BRISK TROT ON TURKEY DAY The city of Edmond hosted the second-annual Edmond Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning. All profits benefited Turning Point Ministries, an organization that provides housing assistance in the Edmond community. Approximately 1,600 people, including out-of-state participants, showed up to the race Thursday morning, an amount almost double that of the year before.

Runners participate during Turkey Trot in Edmond, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

Scott Davey, 17, of Edmond, catches his breath after running in the Turkey Trot in Edmond, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

Devon McNew of Mcloud receives the Ham-it-up Award for best costume during Turkey Trot in Edmond, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

First Place (Overall Male Champion) Ben Zywicki - The Woodlands, TX 15:31 First Place (Overall Female Champion) Marie Patton- Golden, CO 19:09 Costume Contest Devon McNew - 2011 “Ham It Up� Winner

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Clubs

UCO CHILD STUDY PROGRAM RECEIVES RENOVATION GRANT

ADP PARTNERING FOR FINALS FOOD

By Monica Johnson / Contributing Writer

Beck Walker, 3, plays at the Child Development Center playground, Monday, Nov. 28, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

By Ashley Allsbury / Contributing Writer A former UCO student and his family donated $13,900 to UCO’s College of Education and Professional Studies for the renovation of the UCO Child Study Playground.

Steve Foskin and his wife Amy of Edmond, along with her parents Robert and Juanita Johansen, donated the funds for the renovation. Foskin is a graduate of the College of Business Administration, and the Johansens are residents of Bartlesville.

“They requested that the playground equipment be accessible to children who are hearing impaired,” Judy Reyes-Henderson, development manager for the College of Education and Professional Studies, said.

The renovation will take approximately six to nine months, depending on funds raised, Reyes-Henderson said. The end goal is $50,000.

“The entire playground will be redone to include new play equipment, decking, sitting areas, garden, water features, sandbox and other amenities,” she said.

The Child Study Center and those who attend the Edmond Regional School for the Deaf use the playground.

The Child Study Center is a half day program with three and four-year-olds in the morning session from 9:00- 11:30 a.m.

Four and five year olds are placed in the afternoon session from 1:00-3:30 p.m. The children attend Monday-Thursday.

The American Democracy Project is partnering with UCO’s Leadership & Civic Engagement class to provide international students with a free dinner the week before finals week.

The dinner, dubbed Finals Feast, is part of an effort to make international students feel welcome while staying at UCO. Finals Feast will be held at 5 p.m. on Dec. 7 in the Cherokee Room of the Nigh University Center. Guests will be served hot foods and beverages catered by UCO Dining Services. Entertainment for the evening will include music, games and door prize giveaways.

Leadership and Civic Engagement students were assigned to help plan the event early in the school year as their final project. The project was designed to give students firsthand experience in areas of leadership, teamwork and civic engagement.

“The goal of Finals Feast is to give international students a nice break from intense studying, as well as help them make new friends,” Katie Reddick, Leadership & Civic Engagement student, said. “I think it helped my leadership skills because it forced me to reach out to people I may not have. Getting out of thinking about my own little world helps me to be a better citizen.”

ADP was established in 2003 and is a national collegiate organization, with over 240 chapters. ADP is partnered with The New York Times and American Association of State Colleges and Universities. ADP’s mission is to increase student civic engagement and develop educated citizens for the future.

In addition to Finals Feast, ADP organizes other educational programs throughout the school year to enhance students’ college experiences. Programs include Read & Lead (a student leadership book club), the Voter Registration Contest, 9/11 Panel Discussion, and Passport to France: Film Screenings.

“We try hard to help our faculty, staff and students see that the decisions they make can make a difference,” Susan Scott, ADP student organization advisor, said. “We want to bring the real world to our students’ lives and help them see the need to become active citizens in their communities, state, nation and world once they leave our campus.”

For more information, call (405)-974-3504 or visit http://www.uco.edu/adp.

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Shopping

HOW MUCH CRAZIER CAN BLACK FRIDAY GET?

Target customer Nancy, last name not given, waits with televisions purchased at aTarget Store in Colma, Calif., Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

By Chris Hawley / Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Peppersprayed customers, smash-and-grab looters and bloody scenes in the shopping aisles. How did Black Friday devolve into this?

As reports of shopping-related violence rolled in this week from Los Angeles to New York, experts say a volatile mix of desperate retailers and cutthroat marketing has hyped the traditional post-Thanksgiving sales to increasingly frenzied levels. With stores opening earlier, bargain-obsessed shoppers often are sleep-deprived and short-tempered.

Arriving in darkness, they also find themselves vulnerable to savvy parking-lot muggers.

Add in the online-coupon phenomenon, which feeds the psychological hunger for finding impossible bargains, and you've got a recipe for trouble, said Theresa Williams, a marketing professor at Indiana University.

"These are people who should know better and have enough stuff already," Williams said. "What's go-

ing to be next year, everybody getting Tasered?"

Across the country on Thursday and Friday, there were signs that tensions had ratcheted up a notch or two, with violence resulting in several instances.

A woman turned herself in to police after allegedly pepper-spraying 20 other customers at a Los Angeles-area Walmart on Thursday in what investigators said was an attempt to get at a crate of Xbox video game consoles. In Kinston, N.C., a security guard also pepper-sprayed customers seeking electronics before the start of a midnight sale.

In New York, crowds reportedly looted a clothing store in Soho. At a Walmart near Phoenix, a man was bloodied while being subdued by police officer on suspicion of shoplifting a video game. There was a shooting outside a store in San Leandro, Calif., shots fired at a mall in Fayetteville, N.C. and a stabbing outside a store in Sacramento, N.Y. "The difference this year is that instead of a nice sweater you need a bullet proof vest and goggles," said

Shoppers wait for a midnight opening at a Best Buy store on Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011, in Brentwood, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Betty Thomas, 52, who was shopping Saturday with her sisters and a niece at Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh, N.C. The wave of violence revived memories of the 2008 Black Friday stampede that killed an employee and put a pregnant woman in the hospital at a Walmart on New York's Long Island. Walmart spokesman Greg Rossiter said Black Friday 2011 was safe at most of its nearly 4,000 U.S. stores despite "a few unfortunate incidents."

Black Friday — named that because it puts retailers "in the black" — has become more intense as companies compete for customers in a weak economy, said Jacob Jacoby, an expert on consumer behavior at New York University.

The idea of luring in customers with a few "doorbuster" deals has long been a staple of the postThanksgiving sales. But now stores are opening earlier, and those deals are getting more extreme, he said.

"There's an awful lot of psychology going on here," Jacoby said.

"There's the notion of scarcity — when something's scarce it's more valued. And a resource that can be very scarce is time: If you don't get there in time, it's going to be gone."

There's also a new factor, Williams said: the rise of coupon websites like Groupon and LivingSocial, the online equivalents of doorbusters that usually deliver a single, oneday offer with savings of up to 80 percent on museum tickets, photo portraits, yoga classes and the like.

The services encourage impulse buying and an obsession with bargains, Williams said, while also getting businesses hooked on quick infusions of customers.

A crowd awaits the opening of a Target store in Springettsbury Township Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. Early signs point to bigger crowds at the nation’s malls and stores as retailers like Macy’s and Target opened their doors at midnight. Toys R Us and a few stores other stores that opened on Thanksgiving Day also were filled with shoppers.(AP Photo/York Daily Record, Jason Plotkin)

"The whole notion of getting a deal, that's all we've seen for the last two years," Williams said. "It's about stimulating consumers' quick reactions. How do we get their attention quickly? How do we create cash flow for today?"

To grab customers first, some stores are opening late on Thanksgiving Day, turning bargain-hunting from an early-morning activity into an all-night slog, said Ed Fox, a marketing professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Midnight shopping puts everyone on edge and also makes shoppers targets for muggers, he said.

In fact, robbery appeared to be the motive behind the shooting in San Leandro, about 15 miles east of San Francisco. Police said robbers shot a victim as he was walking to a car with his purchases around 1:45 a.m. on Friday.

"There are so many hours now where people are shopping in the darkness that it provides cover for people who are going to try to steal or rob those who are out in numbers," Fox said.

The violence has prompted some analysts to wonder if the sales are

Occupy Movement

MEMBERS OF OCCUPY OKC ARRESTED ON BLACK FRIDAY

By Trevor Hultner / Staff Writer Ten people in connection with Occupy OKC, a local branch of the wider global occupation movement, were arrested in a Del City, Okla. Walmart on Friday following a “mic check” peaceful protest inside the store.

In a press release Friday, Mark Faulk, the media workgroup moderator for Occupy OKC and one of the 10 arrested, called the police response “uncalled for and unconstitutional.”

“The Mic Check had been performed at two other Wal-Mart stores in the Oklahoma City area where the activists were simply asked to leave and exited the store without incident,” he said.

“The same scenario was repeated in the Del City store, and the Mic Check participants were again asked to leave and began to walk peaceably towards the store exit. At the urging of Wal-Mart management, the Del City police officers ran towards the peaceful protesters and

tackled several of them to the ground and handcuffed them.”

The mic check was developed in New York City at the Occupy Wall Street protest, as a way to circumvent the NYPD’s no-amplification rule. It evolved as a method of protest itself through usage at recent political speaking engagements.

One person reads a scripted message and the group repeats it.

Management at the Del City Walmart declined to comment on the arrests.

They referred all media inquiries to the company’s media relations hotline.

“We were there, basically, to go in and point out the inequalities between what the average worker makes at Walmart – I believe the average starting salary is $8.75 an hour – and the amount of money that a CEO, for instance, makes – which is $19 million per year, which comes out to $19 thousand an hour,” Faulk said.

According to Faulk, who was filming

the action, Walmart employees asked the group to leave, as had happened at the previous stops in Oklahoma City, and the protesters were complying.

“We were all walking towards the exit in absolute compliance – what was requested of us by store management – when suddenly, rushing by me, came a number of Del City police officers,” he said. “I watched one of them, possibly two of them, but definitely one right next to me pull out his Taser; he ran up behind the person who was in front – and I don’t believe that person ever even saw him – tackle him to the ground and threaten to Taser him.”

The Del City Police Department declined to make a statement regarding the incident because of possible litigation being brought against the department

by Occupy OKC. An incident report was not yet available, due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

worth it, and what solutions might work.

In a New York Times column this week, economist Robert Frank proposed slapping a 6 percent sales tax on purchases between 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving and 6 a.m. on Friday in an attempt to stop the "arms race" of earlier and earlier sales.

Small retailers, meanwhile, are pushing so-called Small Business Saturday to woo customers who are turned off by the Black Friday crush. President Barack Obama even joined in, going book shopping on Saturday at a small bookstore a few blocks from the White House.

"A lot of retailers, independent retailers, are making the conscious decision to not work those crazy hours," said Patricia Norins, a retail consultant for American Express.

Thomas said she likes the time with her sisters and the hustle of the mall too much to stay home and just shop online.

To her, the more pressing problem was that the Thanksgiving weekend sales didn't seem very good.

"If I'm going to get shot, at least let me get a good deal," Thomas said.

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ASTEROID MAKES CLOSE PASS OVER EARTH ON THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

By Bryan Trude / Staff Writer As Americans slept in preparation of turkey, dressing and more stereotypical holiday foods, skeptics and skywatchers the world over were gripping their seats as they waited to see if Earth would take one on the chin.

On Nov. 18, NASA’s Near Earth Object (NEO) program released an advisory regarding Asteroid 2011 WP4. This is not to be confused with 1995 WP4, a minor planet located in the outer Asteroid Belt that lit up twitter feeds and websites.

According to NASA, 2011 WP4 was discovered on short notice that day and projected to make a close approach of Earth on Thanksgiving Day. Although scientists projected the asteroid to pass outside of the moon’s orbit, the short notice and lack of time before the pass caused NASA to assign a condition code rating of 8.

For NEO, every space object that passes near Earth are assigned a condition code to rate how certain the office is about the path the object would take; 0 is absolute mathematical certainty, while 9 indicates a random guess.

“This asteroid was just discovered on Friday,” Chris Monty, a blogger for the online web magazine Blippet, wrote. “Scientists have not had much time to analyze its path, which is why the uncertainty code listed is so high.”

This high condition code rating set forums and blogs ablaze across the Internet. Conspiracy websites such as Disclose.tv and God-Like

Productions came alive with users debating whether 2011 WP4 would hit, and if so, how much damage the asteroid, estimated to be 20 to 30 meters in diameter, would do.

For comparison, the asteroid that formed Arizona’s Barringer Crater is estimated to have been 50 meters in diameter.

While 2011 WP4 wound up not striking Earth – it wound up passing .5 lunar units outside the lunar orbit, where 1 LU is the distance from Earth to the moon – the asteroid was the second significant near-Earth approach in the span of a month.

Asteroid 2005 YU55 made headlines in early November when it passed within lunar orbit, becoming one of the few asteroids that could be observed from the ground. Although 2005 YU55 was significantly larger – 400 meters diameter – its path was well-defined and is not expected to risk an Earth impact for another century.

“Discovered Dec. 28, 2005 by Robert McMillan of the Spacewatch Program near Tucson, Arizona, the object has been previously observed by Mike Nolan, Ellen Howell and colleagues with the Arecibo radar on April 1921, 2010 and shown to be a very dark, nearly spherical object 400 meters in diameter,” Don Yeomans wrote in a NASA press release on 2005 YU55.

According to NEO, the next closest projected pass of an asteroid to Earth will occur Christmas Day, Dec. 26, when Asteroid 2000 YA will pass just under 3 LU with a condition code of two.

Source: NASA Propulsion Labs

Economy

PRICE OF PEANUT BUTTER WORRYING FOOD BANKS

By Kantele Franko / Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Food banks and pantries around the country say high peanut butter prices have made it harder for them to provide one of their most-requested items — and a favorite among children — this holiday season.

Peanut butter prices have gone up 30 percent or more because hot weather in states like Texas and Georgia hurt this year’s peanut crop and because some farmers switched to more profitable crops, such as corn and cotton.

The increase in peanut butter prices and the cost of food overall has been a blow to family budgets, and hunger-relief groups that say they’re serving more clients even as the poor economy has made it harder to get donations.

Terry Shannon, president of the Phoenixbased St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance, one of the country’s largest food banks, said it increased the amount of food it distributes annually by about 75 percent over the past three years, to 74 million pounds. Its cash donations have kept pace with the need so far, but Shannon said he worries the alliance won’t raise enough money during the holiday season to keep including peanut butter in each of the 25,000 emergency food boxes it distributes each month.

“That’s probably the item we buy most frequently ... because we don’t have enough of it donated,” Shannon said. “I would anticipate if the prices continue to go up, we’re going to have to take a hard look at it.”

Peanut butter is popular at such agencies because it’s a kid-friendly source of protein that has a long shelf life, meets most religious restrictions on food and doesn’t require special storage or cooking. Lately, it’s sometimes absent from shelves at places like the Broad Street Food Pantry near downtown Columbus, which started limiting the largest families to two jars instead of three if it’s available.

When that happens, the clients notice, pantry manager Kathy Kelly-Long said: “Why isn’t it here? Why don’t you have peanut butter? We always get peanut butter.”

But with a jar of peanut butter running

about $3 or $4 at grocery stores, food banks say they expect to receive fewer donations, buy less, pay more for what they do buy and consider offering protein alternatives such as canned tuna or chicken, which might be comparatively good deals.

Food banks get cheaper prices by buying in bulk, but the higher cost is still noticeable.

The Cleveland Foodbank in Northeast Ohio bought a truckload of peanut butter in June for $12.95 per dozen 18-ounce jars, but that rose to

$18.31

by October. If peanut butter becomes nearly as expensive as some meats, the latter might provide more nutrition at nearly the same cost, food bank president and CEO Anne Goodman said.

Christa Hendricks, a client and volunteer at a West Side Ecumenical Ministry food center in Cleveland, has two children who are both peanut-butter eaters. But she said if there are alternatives that food banks could buy more cheaply and in larger quantities, she’d sup-

port that decision.

“If there’s something that’s sustainable that is half the cost of that, I’d rather have that,” said Hendricks, 39.

The Houston Food Bank hopes to keep up its peanut butter distribution by working with a cannery run by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The cannery provides the machinery, and the food bank provides the volunteers and pays for the peanuts — a cost that could double to $36,000 for each tractortrailer load that produces about 19,000 extralarge jars of peanut butter, president Brian Greene said. The food bank hoped to increase production from about eight loads annually to 12, but higher prices could hamper that plan.

Food banks said higher food prices also have led to less peanut butter and other foods being available through U.S. Department of Agriculture commodity programs, in which the government buys surpluses of certain items to help balance supply and demand and makes them available to schools and nonprofits.

The national hunger-relief charity Feeding America anticipates it could distribute half as many commodities this fiscal year as it did in the one that ended June 30, spokeswoman Maura Daly said.

The USDA did not respond to requests for comment.

The American Peanut Council, an industry trade group, estimates the average U.S. consumer eats 6 pounds of peanut products annually and that the market is worth more than $2 billion at the retail level. It’s keeping an eye on how prices affect charities that depend on peanut butter.

“We’ll probably do some work over the next year to try to get consumers to help out,” said Stephanie Grunenfelder, vice president for international marketing. “It’s always the poor who suffer the most when prices are high, unfortunately. Even though peanut butter is going to be more expensive, it’s still a pretty economical protein source for people that are struggling to get by.”

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IT’S OVER: NBA AND PLAYERS END LOCKOUT

By Bryan Trude / Sports Writer For NBA fans, both here in Oklahoma City and around the world, the news coming out of the lockout talks between the owners and the player’s association was like witnessing a Christmas miracle.

A last-ditch bargaining session between the sides saw the drafting of a tentative labor agreement Nov. 26, paving the way to an abbreviated 66-game NBA season beginning Dec. 25, Christmas day.

The agreement still has to be ratified by both the owners and the players.

It’s hard to imagine even as recently as a week ago that we would see NBA basketball this season at all. The NFL lockout over the summer was a story of continuous, if not slow, progress that only cost half the preseason. The NBA lockout, on the other hand, has been a story of thick-headedness and grandstanding on both sides, costing the league almost half the season.

From the outset, when the owners began the work stoppage just after midnight on July 1, the owners took an “all or nothing” approach to bargaining. It’s a style epitomized in the public demands of NBA Commissioner David Stern, who at one point threatened to start reducing the concessions to the players if they did not take the deal.

This drew sharp criticism from the national media, with some media figures such as HBO’s Bryant Gumbel comparing Stern to a modern-day plantation owner.

For their part, the players worked on currying public favor, talking about how they “just want to play” while players signed to play overseas, many with opt-out clauses. Others, such as the Thunder’s Kevin Durant and

In this Nov. 14, 2011, file photo, surrounded by NBA basketball players, Billy Hunter, right, executive director of the National Basketball Players Association, speaks to the media as Players Association president Derek Fisher, left, listens during a news conference in New York. NBA owners and players reached a tentative agreement early Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011, to end the 149-day lockout and hope to begin the delayed season with a marquee tripleheader Dec. 25. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

James Harden, occupied themselves playing pickup games and all-star showcases for charity around the country.

Durant even took time to film a movie, while Thunder pointman Russell Westbrook could be seen roaming the sidelines at UCO football games with his brother Reynard, a Broncho redshirt.

So what does the deal mean? One of the

major sticking points to any labor deal was the division of basketball related income, or BRI. The owners wanted to reduce the split between owners and players to an even 50/50, while the players resisted any attempt to lower it.

Under the terms of the deal the owners get their 50/50 split of the BRI, however a clause allows the share given to the players to rise or

fall depending on whether the BRI exceeds or falls short of projected estimates. The league will guarantee the player’s share of the BRI, which will never rise above 51 percent or fall below 49 percent.

Another issue, the soft salary cap, will stay as it was under the previous collective bargaining agreement, with only minor adjustments. One percent of the player BRI will also be used to create and fund post-career annuity and welfare programs for players.

Another item included in the CBA is rules for amnesty, which allows every team to waive one player during the off-season without that player’s salary counting against the cap.

It will have to be seen how well players can band together, prepare and tip off for owners who until just recently been locked with them in a vitriolic battle for dollars and public favor.

Some teams will even have to do without star players, as some who signed overseas did so without opt-out clauses on their contracts, particularly in the Chinese basketball league.

One particular example is Denver Nuggets superstar Kenyon Martin, who is locked into a contract with the Xinjiang Flying Tigers until the Chinese season ends in March.

Of course, this is all dependent on whether or not the full membership on both sides agrees, and there are still plenty of chances left for the deal to get derailed.

However, for the thousands and thousands of Thunder fans whose hearts rose when news of the deal first broke, the idea of see the giant Thunder flag fluttering above Bricktown again must have filled their hearts with the holiday spirit.

It certainly does for me.

Central Women’s Basketball

CENTRAL WOMEN GAMES IN MONTICELLO From Bronchosports.com Arkansas-Monticello used a late first-half run to open up a nine-point halftime lead and went on to upend No. 20-ranked Central Oklahoma 72-57 here Saturday afternoon on the second day of the UAM Hampton Inn Classic.

The host Cotton Blossoms outscored UCO 9-1 the final 1:43 of the half to take a 35-26 lead into intermission and the Bronchos never got closer in the final 20 minutes in falling to 6-2 on the year.

It was the lowest-scoring game of the season for UCO, which entered the game averaging 85.6 points a contest. The Bronchos were hampered by 27 turnovers and shot just 52.0 percent (13-of-25) from the free throw line.

Britney Morgan led UCO with 15 points UCO’s Rachel New (2) during a game between UCO and Southwestern Oklahoma and three assists, while Kasey Tweed had a State University, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

season-high 13 points as the only other player in double figures.

The Bronchos led only once, that coming four minutes into the game when Paiten Taylor’s layup gave made it 9-8. UAM answered with seven unanswered points to go ahead 15-9 and the Cotton Blossoms were up nine (25-16) with 5:19 left in the half.

UCO rallied to within one at 26-25 with 1:51 remaining when Autumn Huffman made one of two free throws, but the Bronchos scored just one point the rest of the way as UAM pulled away to take its 35-26 halftime lead.

The Cotton Blossoms maintained at least a nine-point lead the entire second half.

UCO returns home Tuesday to host Science and Arts of Oklahoma at 6 p.m.

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Opinion

VIEW FROM THE BRONCHOS BUCK BEARCATS CHEAP SEATS

By Trey Hunter

Vista Sports Editor

Even if the Oklahoma State Cowboys fall against the Oklahoma Sooners this weekend in Stillwater, something has to be said about what Mike Gundy has achieved at his alma mater.

The fans of this state have always supported their teams through thick and thin, over the course of the entire season. Every year we see Cowboys fans participating in ‘friendly’ banter with Sooners fans even though their team’s record isn’t comparable. This season, however, the Cowboys have finally reached the elite level of sniffing a national title shot in December, while the Sooners are just hoping to reach the Fiesta Bowl.

You don’t have to look far to figure out why Oklahoma State’s football program is slowly on the rise. You can read it on the orange and black shirts that plague the Stillwater campus and you can hear it on sports talk radio throughout the state. Gundy, a Midwest City native and former Cowboys quarterback, has instituted his wide-open offensive mentality even though most fans were against it in the beginning. He has impressed alumni with a record that continues to get better each year and the way he recruits against the big boys like Oklahoma and Texas. His offense has produced two players that are having tremendous seasons in the NFL, Dez Bryant of the Dallas Cowboys and Kendal Hunter of the San Francisco 49ers. He also has two future prospects with Brandon Weeden and Justin Blackmon.

The Cowboys are the third-ranked team in the BCS and if they defeat their rival this weekend, they have a strong chance to leap-frog Alabama and finish the season ranked second. A lot of fans across the nation would rather not see a rematch between LSU and Alabama after their first game against each other produced 0 touchdowns and only 15 points total. The human voters might be thinking the same thing. In fact, every computer poll that makes up the standings have the Cowboys ranked ahead of the Crimson Tide.

OSU has the advantage against the Sooners this weekend. They come into the game as the team playing for a title shot for the first time in a long time. They have the offense that can score against Oklahoma’s defense and if the game turns into a shootout, it plays right into the Cowboys’ hands. If OSU can hold the Sooners under 28 points, they should come away with the victory.

Gundy has already turned the Oklahoma State program around after Les Miles left them in the dust for a chance to coach at a more powerful program. If the Cowboys find themselves in the national title game this January, the Oklahoma native should be named national coach of the year.

UCO’s Johnny Stephene (1) and SWOSU’s Ryan Donahoe (2) during a game between UCO and Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

From Bronchosports.com Tyler Phillips and Brent Friday combined for 34 points and 19 rebounds to lead No. 11-ranked Central Oklahoma to a 77-66 victory over host Southwest Baptist here Saturday night on the final day of the SBU Thanksgiving Classic.

The Bronchos bolted to an early 7-0 lead, went up 47-34 by halftime and then overcame a second-half SBU rally to earn the win in bouncing back from Friday’s last-second 71-70 loss to Emporia State and improving to 5-3 on the season.

Phillips made four 3-pointers in scoring a game-high 18 points while pulling down eight rebounds, with Friday adding 16 points and 11 boards in leading UCO’s balanced attack.

“That was a big win for us, especially after the way we lost last night,” UCO coach Terry Evans said. “This is a tough place to win and we did a good job of staying patient after they came back on us in the second half.”

The Bronchos appeared in control after taking a 13-point lead into the break, but SBU opened the second half with a 16-1 run to surge in front 50-48 as UCO missed its first six shots from the field while also committing five turnovers.

It was a 52-51 deficit when the Bronchos used a 9-0 run to take the lead for good, getting three layups from Ronald Norfleet to go on top 60-52 at the 7:47 mark. It was a three-point lead at 64-61 with less than five minutes remaining, but UCO scored seven unanswered points to put the game away.

Phillips capped that scoring spurt with a 3-pointer that made it 71-61 with 2:51 left and the Bronchos coasted in from there.

Phillips scored five points and Friday a layup to help stake UCO to a 7-0 lead barely a minute into the game and the Bronchos went up by 11 (16-5) five minutes in on Cortez Colbert’s 3-pointer.

UCO’s lead peaked at 14 (24-10) at the 11:37 mark, with the Bearcats getting within five at 37-32 in the final minutes before Robert Lee and Phillips nailed 3-pointers in a 10-2 run to end the half that made it 47-34 at the break.

The Bronchos host a rare home game Tuesday, taking on Science and Arts of Oklahoma at 8 p.m.

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