30 September 2013

a student newspaper of the university of tulsa

september 30, 2013 issue 4 ~ volume 99

OKLAHOMA HEALTH RANKINGS out of 50 states OVERALL HEALTH OBESITY SMOKING HEART DISEASE DIABETES INFANT MORTALITY PREMATURE DEATH

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OKLAHOMANS

One in six Oklahomans is without health insurance.

One in four adults in Oklahoma is without health insurance.

MARKETPLACE INSURANCE

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NATIONAL AVERAGE

$174

$249

Lowest tier plan

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30%

Comparable plan

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POVERTY LINE

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130 THOUSAND

Oklahomans will not qualify for Medicaid or subsidies due to coverage gap Graphic by Jill Graves

Oklahoma currently ranks among the lowest states in several health categories. One in four Oklahoman adults do not have health insurance. The average price of the lowest-grade Oklahoma insurance plan is one-fifth less than the national average. While the policies of the Affordable Care Act will increase coverage in Oklahoma, Governor Mary Fallin’s rejection of federal funds to expand Medicaid will leave a coverage gap in Oklahoma.

Obamacare insurance exchanges open Oct. 1 On Tuesday, those without coverage will be able to purchase insurance plans through government exchanges. This week the Collegian covers the healthcare reform and some of its consequences for Oklahomans.

Kimberly Poff Haley Stritzel Staff Writers

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n October 1 the healthcare marketplaces created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will officially open for enrollment, allowing Americans who presently do not have insurance to choose between a variety of plans. Coverage will kick in on January 1, 2014.

The insurance exchanges are marketplaces where those not covered by their employers and not eligible for Medicare or Medicaid

may purchase insurance. Those with incomes between 100 and 400 percent of the federal poverty level will be eligible for tax credits towards purchasing insurance.

Plans offered on the marketplaces will all cover a certain minimum of services, but vary based on annual premiums and out-of-pocket payments, such as deductibles and co-payments. Lower-tier “bronze” and “silver” plans will have lower premiums and high out-of-pocket costs, with the opposite being true of higher tier “gold” and “platinum” plans.

The Affordable Care Act Passed into law on March 23, 2010, the ACA represents an effort to lessen the disparity between healthcare costs and outcomes.

In 2006, the US spent 16 percent of its GDP on healthcare, about $650 billion more than would be expected given its GDP compared to other developed countries.

However the extra money does

not seem to be resulting in better care. Despite spending more than two and a half times most other developed nations per person on healthcare, the US ranks 22nd in life expectancy among developed countries.

Similarly, the US ranks 50th in the world for infant mortality.

However, we spend much more on childbirth than other developed countries: the average cost of traditional childbirth in the US is $9,775, in comparison to $2,641 in Britain, which is ranked 35th.

The ACA is wildly unpopular among Republican officials and has faced challenges in the Supreme Court. The most recent episode in the controversy is a threatened government shutdown.

Republicans are pushing for the ACA to be defunded or delayed in the upcoming federal budget and a government shutdown looms pending a deal being reached by midnight on Monday, Sept. 30.

The reforms initiated by the

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Make a Difference Day This is a national event to spotlight community service in your area. TU will be joining other Kendall-Whittier community partners to clean up Kendall-Whittier Main Street on Oct 26th from 1 P.M. – 4 P.M.

ACA fall into three main categories: insurance mandates (both for employers and individuals), the insurance exchanges, and changes to government healthcare, particularly Medicaid. The bill mandates some changes in coverage for individuals and employers; notably that children can be covered by their parents’ insurance until the age of 26, FDA-certified contraceptives must be covered and companies may not drop policyholders if they become sick or refuse to cover treatment after a certain price threshold.

As a primary component, the law includes a requirement that all Americans (with a few exceptions) have health insurance: the individual mandate. This provisions was originally proposed in 1989 by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.

The individual mandate was again championed in 1993 in the Republican HEART Act. This bill came in response to the Clinton

healthcare bill, which would have required all employers to provide insurance. In 2006, Republican Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney enacted the individual mandate at the state level in Massachusetts’ health care insurance reform law.

The mandate is primarily an attempt to lower healthcare costs: people without health insurance still utilize healthcare services, resulting in billions of dollars every year in unpaid medical bills.

People who have health insurance coverage access preventative care more often, thus avoiding higher costs later when health issues worsen and require emergency intervention. They are also less likely to be bankrupted by health issues.

Further, relatively healthy people under age 35 often don’t have health insurance, because they often don’t hold jobs where

See Healthcare page 4

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For additional information on volunteer opportunities, contact Kathy Shelton in the True Blue Neighbor Volunteer Center at kathy-shelton@utulsa.edu or call 918-631-3535.

Sports

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Hurricane loses Liberty Bowl rematch The Hurricane offense sputtered during the game against Iowa State and must now prepare for a conference matchup against Rice at home Saturday afternoon.

Catherine Duininck Student Writer

The Tulsa Golden Hurricane lost 38–21 in a tough matchup against the Iowa State Cyclones on Thursday night. The two teams met twice last year, splitting the games, and had only met once before last season in a game in 1961 which the Cyclones won.

TU scored twice in the second quarter to take a lead of 14–7,

which was their only lead of the night. The Cyclones were too far ahead in the fourth quarter for the Hurricane to mount a comeback.

TU senior quarterback Cody Green was 18 for 31 passes with 237 passing yards and two touchdowns. Green was taken out of the game in the second half.

He was replaced by redshirt freshman Dane Evans. Evans was unable to kickstart the offense at the quarterback position. Evans had eight completions on 18 pass attempts for 51 yards.

Junior receiver Thomas Roberson was the recipient of both touchdown passes from Green.

Roberson had been out with an injury and the ISU game was his first time back on the field.

Roberson’s had an incredible over-the-back catch over an ISU defender which gave TU their only lead for the night.

Although Roberson’s two touchdowns didn’t contribute to a win, they showed his athleticism and his drive for success. He will be an important component to TU’s offensive success. Roberson ended with six catches for 63 yards.

Senior running back Trey Watts totaled 150 yards which included 38 rushing, 69 receiving and 43 return yards. Watts also had a touchdown. Senior receiver Jordan James had eight catches for 86 yards.

By the end of the game the statistics spoke for themselves. The

Cyclones were dominating the Hurricane. The Cyclones rushed 44 times for 179 yards. The Hurricane only attempted to run the ball 28 times and was held to 86 rushing yards.

TU’s offense had trouble moving the ball. Mistakes such as interceptions, fumbles and drops ended up really effecting the result of the game. TU had four turnovers, three fumbles and an interception, while ISU had none.

Because the offense wasn’t staying on the field long, the defense spent most of their night trying to hold back the Cyclones offense.

Senior linebacker Shawn Jackson led TU’s defense with 14 tackles.

Some good points of the night included underclassman stepping

up their defensive game. Sophomore safety Michael Mudoh and redshirt freshman cornerback Darnell Walker Jr. each tallied nine tackles and made great efforts to be in as many defensive plays as possible.

The Tulsa Golden Hurricane will take on the Rice Owls at H.A. Chapman Stadium on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. The game is the Conference USA opener for the Hurricane. The Owls began C-USA play last Saturday when they beat Florida Atlantic 18–14.

The game will be broadcast on CBS Sports Network. CBS Sports Network can be found on channel 643 by AT&T Uverse subscribers and channel 249 for Cox Communications customers.

David Kennedy / Collegian

Thomas Roberson celebrates his touchdown reception in the back of the end zone. The nine-yard pass from Cody Green to Roberson plus the point-after-attempt by Carl Salazar put the Hurricane up 14–7 with 1:33 left in the first half. It was also one of two touchdown passes by Green to Roberson in the game; the only two touchdown passes for the Hurricane.

M. Soccer M. Tennis M. Golf

Catherine Duininck / Collegian

M. Tennis

Tulsa’s Keevan Lucas is taken down near midfield by the Iowa State Cyclones’ Jeremiah George near the end of the game on Thursday night.

M. Tennis

Oct. 1

vs Maryland ITA AllAmerican

Shoal Creek Invitational ITA AllAmerican ITA AllAmerican

College Park, Md.

6 p.m.

Case Tennis Center

All Day

Birmingham, Ala.

All Day

Oct. 2 Case Tennis Center

All Day

Oct. 3 Case Tennis Center

All Day

Oct. 4

W. Soccer Volleyball Cross Country M. Tennis

vs Southern Miss

Hattiesburg, Miss.

4 p.m.

Notre Dame Invitational

Reynolds Center

7 pm.

South Bend, Ind.

All Day

Case Tennis Center

All Day

vs Rice

ITA AllAmerican

Oct. 5 Football

vs Rice

Rowing

Head of the Oklahoma

M. Tennis

M. Soccer W. Soccer

Volleyball M. Tennis

ITA AllAmerican vs South Carolina

H.A. Chapman Stadium

2:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City

All Day

Case Tennis Center

All Day

Oct. 6

vs Rice

vs North Texas ITA AllAmerican

Columbia, S.C.

12 p.m.

Houston, Tex.

1 p.m.

Case Tennis Center

All Day

Reynolds Center

1 p.m.

Oct. 7

David Kennedy / Collegian

Ja’Terian Douglas takes a short pass from Cody Green near the line of scrimmage at the Hurricane’s 38 yard line and runs all the way to the Cyclones’ 21 yard line. The play helped to setup Roberson’s first touchdown reception of the day.

W. Golf

Dick McGuire Invitational

Albuquerque, N.M.

All Day

Sports

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Top collegiate tennis players compete at TU ITA All-American Men’s Championships qualifying begins at Case Tennis Center Monday and runs through the main draw which will end Sunday.

Jordan Dunn Hoyt Student Writer

The University of Tulsa’s Michael D. Case Tennis Center will be the site of this year’s Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-American Championships. This is TU’s ninth straight year hosting the tournament. More than 250 of the nation’s top collegiate tennis players will compete for the national singles and doubles titles.

Qualifying for the singles bracket began Saturday. Four TU athletes, Alejandro Espejo, Matthew Kirby, Dylan McCloskey and Chase Gordon, competed to earn a place in the main draw of 64 players. Gordon and Kirby both advanced to the second round of qualifying on Saturday. Players must win four rounds in qualifying to reach the main draw.

“It means so much to me to be playing at such a high level,” Gordon, a freshman, commented after being asked what it’s like for him to be competing in the ITA Championships. “I am incredibly blessed to have an opportunity to compete

with the best of the best and would love for everyone to come out and watch our team play.”

Three members of the Golden Hurricane, Carlos Bautista, Japie De Klerk, and Clifford Marsland have already earned places in the main draw that begins Thursday, Oct. 3 and culminates with finals matches on Sunday, Oct. 5.

“It is always good to play in Tulsa because we are used to the conditions and courts,” stated De Klerk, the Hurricane senior from Ashton, South Africa. “It’s also more fun because your friends can come support you which always helps you play better, so I’m really excited for this tournament and for the upcoming season!”

Doubles qualifying also began over the weekend with TU’s doubles pairs Carlos Bautista and Daniel Santos; Cliff Marsland and Dyland McCloskey; and Japie De Klerk and Alejandro Espejo attempting to find a place in a championship doubles bracket that has space for only 32 doubles teams.

Alejandro Espojo and Dyland McCloskey have already locked a place as a pair in the main draw.

Qualifying for the tournament ends on Monday. The main draw of the tournament begins on Thursdays and comes to an end on Sunday. All matches are at the Case Tennis Center.

Baseball’s best month to thrill MLB’s season concluded Sunday afternoon following a wild last week of play previewing what should be an exciting postseason.

Matthew Magerkurth Student Writer

After an eventful season, we are finally ready to get the Major League Baseball playoffs underway.

The American League division races were set fairly early. The defending AL Champion Detroit Tigers won the Central Divison, the Boston Red Sox won East Division and the Oakland A’s won the West Division. The Red Sox ensured home field advantage throughout the playoffs with a regular season record of 97–65.

The AL Wild Card race was a doozy with a six-team race the final week of play. The Cleveland Indians, who finished the season with a 10-game winning streak, took the first AL Wild Card spot.

The Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay Rays were tied on the last day of the season. A play-in game will be played on Monday night in Texas at 7 p.m. Texas slipped from the AL West division lead earlier in the season, but they hope to go to their third World Series in four years with a possible wild-card berth.

The Tigers, coming off another hot season with exceptional performances by Max Scherzer and the best hitter in the world in Miguel Cabrera, are expected to go deep into the playoffs again.

The winner of the play-in game will face the Indians in the AL Wild Card game in Cleveland. The winner of the Wild Card game will face the Red Sox in the ALDS and the Tigers will play the A’s in the other series of the ALDS. Notably absent from the playoff scene is the New York Yankees. At the end of this year, they lose three of their signature stars, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Andy Pettitte, to retirement, and their season was wrought with the Alex Rodriguez injury and steroid scandal. Their team will have big shoes to fill in the next couple of

years to replace these staples in their lineup.

The National League races were a little more clear-cut from the beginning, but it’s shaping up to be an exciting postseason for the NL teams as well. The division titles were taken by the Atlanta Braves in the East and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the West.

The St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds in the Central Division all claimed playoff spots early in the week, but only one could be crowned the Central Division champion. The other two would take the two Wild Card spots.

The Cardinals were able to pull away after a series with the Washington Nationals and Chicago Cubs to win the Division and claim the best record in the NL. This left the Wild Card positions with the Pirates and the Reds.

The two teams played a series to end the season. The Pirates swept the series to ensure home field advantage in the Wild Card game on Tuesday night.

The winner will play the Cardinals in the first round of the NLDS. The Braves and Dodgers will play each other in the other series of the NLDS. The Braves began their season with a huge hot streak, and finished strong, leaving division rival the Washington Nationals in their dust.

Despite the loss of Albert Pujols two seasons ago, the Cardinals have remained a strong force atop the NL Central, making the postseason for the third year straight.

The Los Angeles Dodgers snuck up on the baseball world by uprooting last year’s world champion San Francisco Giants in the NL West race. The Giants finished the season below .500.

This year, for the first time in 3 years, the American League won the All-Star Game, so the World Series will be played with AL home-field advantage.

Of these eleven elite teams, only one will be the world champion come late October, and this postseason, like most of them, is shaping up to be one of endlessly fierce competition.

30 September 2013

NHL teams face-off in Oklahoma City

Will Bramlett / Collegian

The National Hockey League’s regular season begins on Tuesday. The Dallas Stars and the Edmonton Oilers finished their preseason schedules at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City on Friday night. The arena is the home of the Oilers’ affiliate in the American Hockey League, the Oklahoma City Barons. Austin Smith kicked off the scoring for the Stars just over halfway through the first period. The Stars found the net three more times while holding back the Oilers top scorers. The final score was 4–0 in favor of the Stars. The Oilers begin their regular season on Tuesday night at home against the Winnipeg Jets.

The Stars play the Florida Panthers in Dallas on Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. on FS Oklahoma to start their regular season.

Fox Sports 1 announcer shares thoughts on game vs Cyclones Justin Kutcher, Fox Sports 1’s play-by-play announcer for Thursday night’s game vs Iowa State, answered a few questions for the Collegian following the Hurricane loss.

problem is there needs to be more consistency, and that’s been the biggest question mark all season. I like Trey Watts and his versatility, and getting Roberson back will be big for the team.

Collegian: How was the trip to Tulsa? How is our stadium compared to other schools, specifically the small ones?

K: I love Shawn Jackson! He may be one of my favorite players to watch on defense so far this season.

Kutcher: I was really impressed with the stadium. We showed pictures of how it has evolved over time, and right now, it’s beautiful. I love the stone work around the stadium, and around the entire campus, for that matter. It doesn’t hurt either that the booth was nice and spacious.

C: Turnovers were a big problem on the offensive side of the ball.

What would you tell Cody Green during practice this week?

C: The Golden Hurricane struggled at points during the game.

Was there any bright spots on offense the team can build on as they begin C-USA play?

K: There were flashes from Cody Green where you start to think, “There could be something.” The

C: How about defense?

Be more confident in your decisions and live to see another play.

Throw the ball away as opposed to throwing it up in the air. And be more confident when running the zone-read. There seemed to be way too much hesitation between he and Ja’Terian Douglas, which led to the two fumbles.

C: How did the Cyclones play?

Did mistakes by the Hurricane cost the game or was the Cyclones’ play that much better?

The Cyclones played better and with more urgency, but ultimately the turnovers hurt Tulsa in a big way.

C: Will this be the same crew for our next Fox Sports 1 game against Marshall?

K: Yes it will. Joel Klatt, Petros Papadakis and Kristina Pink are with me each Thursday night, and I absolutely love working with them.

C: How hot does it get in the booth with all of those lights? Are there chairs or does everyone stand the entire time?

K: It certainly can get hot in the booth, but usually we only put those lights on when we go on camera. There are some chairs, but typically the three of us stand throughout the game. Football seems to be a sport where I feel better calling the game while standing, as opposed to baseball where I’m sitting the whole time.

News and Notes •

The Tulsa Golden Hurricane Women’s Cross Country team was scheduled to run on Saturday at the Oklahoma State Cowboy Jamboree in Stillwater, Okla, but a lengthy rain delay sent the team back to Tulsa early. The Jamboree is the longest-running cross country meet in the nation.

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The Volleyball team played the Italian Under 23 National team in an exhibition match on Friday night. The Hurricane fell 3–1. Tulsa rebounded on Sunday afternoon beating UAB in Birmingham, Ala. 3–2 after falling behind 2–0.

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The Big 12 Conference announced that the 2015 Big 12 Baseball tournament will be hosted at ONEOK Field in Tulsa. Since 1997, the tournament has been held in Oklahoma City every year except 2002 and 2004.

Collegian Playoff Bracket Texas Rangers/ Tampa Bay Rays

Cincinnati Reds

Wildcard

Wildcard

World Series

Cleveland Indians

Boston Red Sox

ALDS

Pittsburgh Pirates

St. Louis Cardinals

ALCS

NLCS

Detroit Tigers

NLDS

Los Angeles Dodgers

Winner

Oakland A’s

Atlanta Braves

Fill in your bracket with the winners of each series and the number of games in the World Series, put your name and e-mail address on the back, cut it out and turn it into the folder outside the Collegian office marked “MLB Bracket” before the first Division Series game on Oct. 3 for a chance to win a $20 QuikTrip gift card.

The winner will be the bracket which Editor-in-Chief J.Christopher Proctor deems to be the best.

NEWS

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TU Global Scholars to launch in October New program designed to integrate students further into the global community funds semester abroad and requires extra classes.

Giselle Willis Staff Writer

In May 2011, TU undertook a Strategic Plan for Comprehensive Internationalization, and out of the six points in this document, one of them was a program called “TU Global Scholars” (TUGS).

The plan (available on the TU website) describes a program “established around key interdisciplinary initiatives: energy, technology and the environment; cybersecurity; indigenous populations; community health; and entrepreneurship.” This year, the TUGS program was also introduced to freshman and sophomores.

Admittance into TUGS is competitive; only 15 students are

chosen, and since the program is meant to attract majors from every TU college, this means five students are accepted from each college. Applicants turn in essays, letters of recommendation and transcripts.

According to TUGS Director Lara Foley, once a student is accepted, he or she must go to a TUGS retreat during the October 18-19 weekend, take an introduction to Global Issues class and attend a summer sustainability course in Germany next year.

The student must subsequently elect a course on either Global Health, Population and Migrations, or Resource Management, take 4 semesters of a modern foreign language, spend a semester abroad, participate in a “globally focused course” within the student’s major and complete a capstone project and portfolio.

Additionally, participants in TUGS will automatically receive preferential housing at LaFortune House and $10,000 in travel

scholarships.

Freshman Gabby Brotherton heard about TUGS at one of the freshmen information sessions and applied because she was thrilled at the prospect of scholarships for studying abroad.

While Brotherton was excited about the scholarships, half the scholarship is designated for housing, and the other half is reserved for the required semester broad.

Thus, tuition for the summer course is not covered.

Freshman Madison Reid had

insurance is provided and often feel they can’t afford to purchase it on their own. This “adverse selection” drives up costs for the people with the most medical needs. An individual mandate distributes costs over a larger pool of people.

The ACA also expands Medicaid eligibility for people with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty line, with the federal government paying for the vast majority of this expansion.

States may choose whether or not they accept the expansion, and the accompanying funds. Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin joined 15 other states in rejecting the the federal money and Medicaid expansion.

All of this new coverage is bound to cost money, yet the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) claims the bill will reduce the federal deficit by $200 billion during the 2012–2021 time period. The revenues which offset the spending of expanded coverage are the taxes of various kinds on the healthcare industry and the wealthy.

The most notable is the “Cadillac tax,” which requires employers to pay a 40 percent tax on highcost, plans that have premiums in excess of $10,200 a year for an individual or $27,500 a year for a family. There are also penalties for individuals not carrying insurance and employers not offering it.

However, there are provisions exempting low income persons not eligible for Medicaid and small businesses.

The CBO’s estimates were reduced to $84 billion following the Supreme Court ruling allowing states to opt out of the federal mandate to expand Medicaid.

Oklahoma healthcare According to America’s Health Rankings, a report released annually by the United Health Foundation, Oklahoma is one of the unhealthiest states in the union.

Oklahoma ranked 46th in overall health in 2011 and 43rd in 2012.

Although Oklahoma’s ranking has improved, healthcare policy analyst Tiece Dempsey of the Oklahoma Policy Institute, explains that “there are still areas in

homa consistently places 49th in access to primary care physicians, with only about 80 primary care physicians per 100,000 people.

Other striking rankings include obesity (45th), tobacco use (47th), and deaths from cardiovascular disease (48th).

Health insurance coverage in Oklahoma is similarly dismal.

About one in six Oklahomans are uninsured, with nearly one in four adults between the ages of 18 and 64 lacking coverage.

According to Dempsey, the Affordable Care Act will definitely improve Oklahomans’ access to and quality of care by providing health insurance coverage. Because many people lack coverage to see a doctor at the initial signs of illness or injury, “they wait until the last moment and end up going to the ER,” a costly process with poorer health outcomes.

With improved access to primary care physicians, patients will be able to address health concerns much earlier, instead of waiting for a crisis to precipitate an expensive visit to the ER. According to a report recently released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the rates of plans in the Oklahoma exchange will be 20 to 30 percent lower than the national average.

For example, those who purchase the lowest tier “bronze” plan will pay $174 a month in premiums (before subsidies), compared to the national average of $249 for a comparable plan.

While these new policies will increase coverage in Oklahoma, Governor Fallin rejected federal funds to expand Medicaid in Oklahoma. This will leave a “coverage gap” of 130,000 uninsured Oklahomans who do not qualify for Medicaid or for subsidies in the new exchanges.

Currently, working-age adults must have dependent children under 19 and incomes roughly around 30 percent of the federal poverty line (varying slightly by household size) in order to qualify for Medicaid in Oklahoma. To be eligible for the new tax credits for the health insurance exchange, Oklahomans need to have an in-

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nationalization because more and more of our students are working and interacting in a global context and we want our students to be prepared.”

The TUGS page on TU’s website further states that “the TUGS program will give students multiple opportunities to study and/ or work abroad … that will demonstrate to potential employers the value of the study abroad experience, language acquisition, and a … curriculum focused on global issues.”

Nimrod conference to bring prominent writers to TU The conference will allow students to attend seminars and one-on-one conferences with Nimrod editors and guest writers.

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been planning on a free summer course, so this deterred her from applying, although she also said, “Mainly, I’m wanting to double major in Chinese Studies and Women & Gender Studies, so I’m worried that the required classes for TUGS won’t count towards either.”

TUGS administrators were sure to assure those with busy schedules and restricted, accredited majors that they could still apply.

Dr. Foley went on to explain that “TU…is interested in inter-

Student Writer

On Saturday, October 19, “Nimrod International Journal” will host its annual workshop for writers and readers and is inviting all TU students to attend the workshop for only $10.

The workshop will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 19, in the Allen Chapman Activity Center.

At the workshop, participants with be able to work with over forty distinguished authors, including this year’s Nimrod Literary Awards judges, National Book Award Finalist Cristina García, author of “King of Cuba” and awardwinning Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of “Lucky Fish.”

Other guests include such celebrated authors as memoirist Jon Katz, author of “The Dogs of Bedlam Farm”; young adult fantasy writer Jessica Spotswood, author of “Born Wicked”; National Jewish Book Award Finalist Joan Leegant, author of “Whenever You Go”; poet Millicent Borges Accardi, author of “Injuring Eternity”; Oklahoma Poet Laureate Nathan Brown, author of “Karma Crisis”; former Oklahoma Poet Laureate and Nimrod’s own Francine Ringold, author of “Still Dancing”; young adult fantasy writer and Nimrod’s Editor-in-Chief Eilis O’Neal, author of “The False Princess”; and over thirty other professional writers and editors eager to share their talent and experience.

“The workshop leaders at our conference are some of the best writers in the country, and our classes are small enough that our participants get to work closely

come of at least 100 percent of the federal poverty line.

Without the Medicaid expansion, this pool of low-income adults with incomes between approximately 30 and 100 percent of the federal poverty line will not be eligible for any assistance with health insurance. These adults will be exempt from the individual mandate and thus will not have to pay a penalty for lacking coverage.

For college students For college students concerned about how ACA will affect them, Dempsey says that there are “mechanisms in place for health

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with those leaders,” Eilis O’Neal, Editor-in-Chief of “Nimrod,” as well as one of the featured authors at the conference said.

Saturday morning opens with participants attending one of two panel discussions. Participants’ first option will be a general discussion of the theme “Hunger and Thirst: Fulfilling Desire.”

critiqued one-on-one with a “Nimrod” editor or guest artist.

In order to participate in a oneon-one editing session, a completed registration form and 2-3 pages of poetry or 4-5 pages of fiction must be received by Nimrod by October 12. Writing for the oneon-one editing sessions can be in any style and genre.

Courtesy of Nimrod International Journal

“Hunger & Thirst: Fulfilling Desire” is the theme of this year’s Nimrod conference, which will bring students, writers and editors together in an examination of literature.

Secondly, a Q&A session will take place on editing and publishing. The Q&A will be followed by classes on poetry, fiction, memoir, young adult fantasy, performance of literature and finding a literary agent.

“It’s an intimate conference.

We don’t keep our guest authors behind glass—they spend the day interacting with participants, having lunch with them, talking with them between classes. Also, we’re the only conference I know of in the area that offers one-on-one editing sessions along with group classes,” Eilis O’Neal said.

Participants also have the opportunity to have their own work

Though there will be late registration at 9:30 a.m. the morning of the conference, students are encouraged to pre-register to assure that they are enrolled in their first choice of classes. To take advantage of the TU student scholarship, simply mark on the registration form that you are a TU student and include your $10 registration fee.

Registration brochures and programs are available at the “Nimrod” office in Zink Hall Room 337, the English Department office, and on the web at www. utulsa.edu/nimrod. For further information, please contact “Nimrod” at nimrod@utulsa.edu or call 918-631-3080.

insurance to be affordable for young adults as well.” In addition to the option of staying on their parents’ health insurance plan until age 26, individuals under age 30 can also buy catastrophic plans in the marketplace.

These plans have lower monthly premiums and cover three primary care visits a year and preventative services, but charge high annual deductibles. They are intended for young, relatively healthy adults who want coverage in case of emergency and do not expect regular medical expenses.

It’s hard to tell exactly what changes students at TU will see in their health insurance. The University already requires every student to have coverage and provides a free health clinic for minor illnesses.

Students on their parents plans will maintain their coverage, and as noted can stay on their parent’s plans until they are 26. Students not on their parent’s plans, like many international students, use the school health insurance.

The current insurance plan,

which students are enrolled in unless they expressly opt out with proof of insurance, meets most of the ACA guidelines, despite a disclaimer on the brochure suggesting that TU’s student insurance may not meet the minimum standards required by the healthcare reform law. It appears that technicalities in the legislation make it hard to navigate, prompting a disclaimer.

There may be some changes in the cost or coverage of the university insurance, but these are still working their way through the system. Wayne Paulison, Associate Vice President of Human Resources & Risk Management, says he is working on communicating information to the University Benefits Committee and the employee base before public comment can be made to students.

The hope has historically been that after graduation, students would find full-time jobs with comprehensive insurance. Now graduates can either stay on their parents’ plans or venture into the exchanges.

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Magdalena Sudibjo Staff Writer Africa KENYA Early last week, members of the Al-Shabaab, a Somali militant group, claimed responsibility for what would become a four-day standoff in a Nairobi mall in Kenya that took at least 72 lives.

Rescuers have found several bodies under the rubble of collapsed walls bombed during the attack. Officials said that evidence collection from the devastated

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cause he claimed that the court’s decision was unconstitutional.

“I don’t care about punishment from the Supreme Court. They should uphold the constitution,” Thowfeek told Reuters.

The court delayed the run-off, with protests from the European Union, after candidate Qasim Ibrahim filed allegations of foul play in the September 7 vote in which he finished third.

No candidate received the minimum 50 percent vote required to win the election, though former president Mohamed Nasheed received 45.45 percent of the votes.

“Violating the Supreme Court order or assisting such an action is a crime,” acting Interior Minister Ahmed Shafeeu said in a statement. “The government will take necessary action against such persons.”

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The Singaporean government has made several plans to expand the city-state underground to deal with growing problems of overcrowding.

With an estimated population of 6.9 million people by 2030 and a

The Maldives Supreme Court has ordered strict enforcement of its decision to postpone the presidential run-off after Election Commissioner Fuwad Thowfeek’s public announcement that he would go ahead with the second election be-

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scene could take up to a week to complete. Investigations of the perpetrators are still underway.

Kenya began three days of national mourning on Wednesday.

land mass just slightly larger than Houston, the island city-state has almost reached its limit in building higher and out to the sea.

“Singapore is small, and whether we have 6.9 million or not, there is always a need to find new land space,” Zhao Zhiye, the director of the Nanyang Center for Underground Space at Nanyang Technological University, told The New York Times. “The utilization of underground space is one option for Singapore.”

Projects range from a mammoth underground oil bunker that would free up around 150 acres of land aboveground to the “Underground Science City” that would create labs and housing arrangements for up to 4,200 scientists and researchers.

Speech pathology major investigates human, animal communication Student used documentary as launching point for research project that included a trip to the Bahamas to study dolphins.

Kimberly Poff Staff Writer

Junior Megan White, a Tulsa native majoring in speech pathology with minors in biology and deaf education, spent this summer studying the similarities between human and animal communication.

Her work, formally titled “A Linguistic Comparison of Animal and Human Communication Modalities,” is a literature review exploring the similarities present in both animal and human communication.

This title can lead to misunderstandings. “Everyone I talk to about this has to ask if I’m teaching the animals to talk! I always have to say no,” she lamented.

White is instead looking at patterns in animal communication, both vocal and behavioral.

The research allows White to uniquely combine her divergent interests and areas of study: speech and biology.

White had the idea for the research over winter break after taking a linguistics class in the fall.

She said of the study of linguistics, “I began to wonder if these

patterns were a similarity that we shared with some of the cognitively advanced animal species like dolphins, chimpanzees, or elephants.”

White had her “aha!” moment while watching the 2000 documentary “Dolphins.”

The documentary, like the research, was conducted in partnership with the Dolphin Communication Project. The DCP is a worldwide organization which studies dolphin communication

Carly Putnam Copy Editor

On Saturday, September 21, the Tulsa Police Department formally apologized for its inaction during the 1921 Tulsa Race Riots.

Over sixteen hours on May 31 and June 1 of 1921, white Tulsans attacked the local black community. The all-black thriving Greenwood district, known as the “Black Wall Street,” was burned. An estimated ten thousand black Tulsans were left homeless and more than twelve hundred residences were destroyed.

No official records of black injuries exist because the black hospital burned with the Greenwood.

Although the official count places black fatalities at 39, some estimates have placed the actual number as high as three hundred.

Although reports indicate that

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake killed more than 300 people in western Pakistan early last Tuesday and created a small island off the coast of Gwadar in the Arabian Sea. Government officials reported that the earthquake hit hardest in

Heart University in cetacean ecology.

This course, located on the island of Bimini in the Bahamas, allowed for first-hand observation of dolphin behavior and communication as well as study of animal cognition, psychology and behavior in a classroom setting.

The class was offered by the DCP, and is being offered again this summer. The class is taught by Dr. Deidre Yeater, a professor at Sacred Heart University, and Kel-

the province of Balochistan, destroying at least 30 percent of mudbuilt homes in the poor Awaran district, but affected five other districts. Tremors could be felt as far away as Delhi and Dubai.

South America VENEZUeLA Venezuelan officials have arrested up to 22 people suspected of taking part in the smuggling earlier this month of 1.3 tons of pure cocaine worth up to $270 million onboard an Air France plane from Venezuela to Paris.

The suspects consist of eight National Guard soldiers, including a lieutenant colonel, Italians, Britons and an Air France assistant manager.

“This marks the biggest seizure of cocaine ever made in mainland France as part of a judicial investigation,” French Interior Minister Manuel Valls told reporters, as he displayed the thirty empty suitcases that had contained the contraband.

Valls further emphasized the “importance of strengthening international cooperation in the fight against traffickers.”

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Vendors, rides and exhibits of all kinds have packed into the Tulsa Fairgrounds for the state fair, running through Sunday.

Annual State Fair Brings Food, Festivities Concerts, rodeos, eating contests and the classic deep fried bacon dog will be at this year’s state fair.

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Megan White studied dolphin behavior and communication during her time in the Bahamas this summer. White published her findings in a literature review on animal and human communications.

and interactions. White found the DCP because they were listed in the credits.

As a supplement to this research White was able to complete a twoweek course offered by Sacred

ly Sweeting, a full-time researcher with the DCP. Megan says of the trip, and the research she was able to do there: “It seriously was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!”

TPD apologizes for race riot inaction The police chief refused to accept excuses for the department’s inactivity and alleged participation in 1921 Race Riots.

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some Tulsa police attempted to break up the white mob and move black Tulsans to safety, they were largely ineffective, and no charges were made against white rioters. John Gustafson, Tulsa Police Chief at the time, was later removed from office due to his inaction, and witnesses claimed white officers participated in arson and looting.

“I cannot apologize for the actions, inaction and dereliction that those individual officers and their chief exhibited during that dark time … But as your chief today, I can apologize for our police department. I am sorry and distressed that the Tulsa Police Department did not protect its citizens during those tragic days in 1921,” Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan said.

Jordan continued, “I have heard things said like ‘Well, that was a different time.’ That excuse does not hold water with me. I have been a Tulsa police officer since 1969 and I have witnessed scores of different times. Not once did I ever consider that those changing times somehow relieved me of my obligation to uphold my oath of office and to protect my fellow

Tulsans.”

Hannibal B. Johnson, a facilitator with the Mayor’s Police and Community Coalition and author of the book “Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District,” said that he had been approached

by Chief Jordan about making a statement in a public forum and felt that it signaled “a new day.”

The Tulsa race riots remain the single-largest incident of racial violence in American history.

The city’s black population never again regained the prosperity that had existed in the Greenwood, and Tulsa remains largely racially divided.

The apology was delivered in John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park. The Park tells the story of people of color in the Oklahoma region.

Chief Jordan’s comments kicked off “Literacy, Legacy and Movement Day,” promoting cultural awareness, literacy, health/ wellness and entrepreneurship.

After Chief Jordan spoke, participants toured areas significant to Tulsa’s racial history.

Fraser Kastner Staff Writer

The annual Tulsa State Fair will be in town from September 26 until October 6. It is being held at the Tulsa Fairgrounds, located at 4145 E 21st Street. The Cane Transit shuttle will also make a stop by the fair’s main gate, and free parking can be found at 16th and Yale.

The Tulsa State fair will feature rides, games, livestock shows, live music, Disney on Ice, rodeos, multitudes of vendors in the Quiktrip Center and of course fair food. The adult entry fee is $10.

Some of this year’s highlights are performances by Casting Crowns, Kansas and Chevelle, as well as a corndog eating contest, the Corndog Craze. Also look out for the Cheese Sculpture exhibition, the Miss Tulsa State Fair beauty pageant and Perondi’s Dog Stunt Show.

Thrill seekers can experience a wide variety of rides on the Midway. The more adventurous visitors may want to visit the Sling Shot, a ride designed to sling two people high into the air while inside of a circular cage attached to bungee cords.

Those with less intense tastes may enjoy the Quiktrip Center,

also known as the Expo Center.

Inside are a variety of vendors, exhibits and sights.

As always, fair food will be available. Some of this year’s more notable items include cheese on a stick, fried bologna sandwiches, deep fried bacon dogs, and donut burgers. $75 will purchase a Mega Ride Pass, a wristband which allows free entry to all rides on the midway, excluding the “extreme” Sling Shot, Skyscraper, and Sky Ride.

There will also be livestock shows throughout the fair. Those interested in animals may wish to see the one of the Draft Horse Shows, Pigeon Shows, or Llama shows taking place this year.

All of the buildings will be open until 10 p.m. most days, closing at 9 p.m. on Sunday. The Midway will operate until 11 p.m. from Sunday until Thursday, staying open until midnight on Friday and Saturday.

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A rodeo hosted by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association will occur Oct. 4-5 at this year’s Tulsa State Fair.

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Police chief Chuck Jordan recently apologized for the actions of the Tulsa Police Department during the 1921 Race Riot. Then-police-chief John Gustafson stood by during the Riot, and officers were reported to have participated in the violence.

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EA scores with “FIFA 14” Released on Sept. 24 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii, EA’s latest installment in the “FIFA” series may look similar to its predecessor, but still proves itself a worthy title.

Elliot Bauman Staff Writer

In recent years, the “FIFA” franchise, a soccer game series developed and published by Electronic Arts, has seen some big changes.

“FIFA 13” introduced Ultimate Team and further expanded on the league play system, while earlier installments improved player collision and defense mechanics.

Does “FIFA 14”—released on September 24 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii—offer the same type of innovation? The answer is twofold.

Annual titles, such as “FIFA 14,” face a distinct challenge in the gaming industry: fans and critics like to see concrete innovation while also the retaining of the defining factors of the series. A lack of new features causes players to feel as if they are paying $60 for an update. Such a phenomenon

certainly is not exclusive to the “FIFA” franchise—Activision’s yearly “Call of Duty” games experience the exact same dilemma.

The question remains: does “FIFA 14” build on its predecessors in any way? It many areas, it does. For one, the next generation versions of the game—including the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One—will contain EA’s new Ignite Engine. Ignite aims to deliver an incredibly real experience to the player. The new engine will feature dynamic weather, realistic crowd interaction, improved graphics and even more accurate player model mechanics.

On the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii version of the game, the innovation is less obvious, and perhaps even lacking. That said, “FIFA 14” does do an excellent job of compiling all the new features and successful advancements of the recent installments.

Player movement and interaction is superbly executed and offers a very a real experience. There have been obvious improvements to the shooting aspect of the game, but the passing component was clearly neglected, as transitioning the ball between players does not feel as smooth as it could be.

Moreover, there is a brand new user interface, which allows for easy navigation through “FIFA 14’s” many features. The title also brings a new sort of RPGstyle player customization sys-

tem, which allows gamers to assign “classes” to players on their rosters. The various classes, such as “Powerhouse” and “Engine,” boost individual player stats.

Additionally, the AI, or artificial intelligence, of both teammates and opponents has reached a new height for the “FIFA” franchise. Computer-controlled players move with a sense of strategy and have excellent “soccer awareness,” rather than simply following the player or moving to scripted locations, as was the case in many previous installments. At its core, “FIFA 14” is basically a great consolidation of all the positives of the previous games.

Unfortunately, that is about all the innovation there is, especially on the current generation versions of the title, which lack the impressive, new, Ignite Engine. The graphics have had no upgrades or improvements, and game looks almost identical to “FIFA 13” and “FIFA 12.” In its defense, this drawback is due entirely to the very aged hardware of the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii. It simply lacks a major new feature on the current generation hardware.

As a whole, “FIFA 14” stands as a good addition to an annual series. While there is only minor innovation, the title does a good job of consolidating all of the positive features from previous titles.

“FIFA 14” earns an 8/10 across all current generation platforms.

Tulsa Ballet’s latest enchants Located at 45th and Peoria, just shy of a 10-minute drive from campus, the Tulsa Ballet offers discounted ticket prices for students for each of its mesmerizing performances.

Helen Patterson Staff Writer

Tulsa Ballet’s 2013–2014 Season opened with three short ballets: “One/End/One,” choreographed

by Jorma Elo and set to Mozart’s “Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K 218”; “Company B,” choreographed by Paul Taylor and set to a variety of songs from the World War II Era; and “Rite of Spring,” choreographed by Adam Hougland and written by Igor Stravinsky.

Overall, the performances were excellent; the only thing that would have made the experience more enchanting would have been the presence of a live orchestra.

“One/End/One” was a charming opening piece. The flourishes and the gestures of the dancers evoked the dancing melodies of Mozart’s strings. There was a lot of humor

in the choreography; at times, the dancers treated each other like instruments, manipulating each other’s bodies to the music.

“Company B” moved into darker territory. The pieces, including such classics as “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” and “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoën” were often upbeat and joyous. There was a lot of humor in numbers such as “Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!” and “Rum and Coca-Cola.” However, the backdrop of World War II offset the light-hearted music. Some of the choreography depicted men marching off to battle, or people seemingly dying.

The crowning piece was “Rite of Spring,” which celebrated its one-hundredth anniversary on May 29. The ballet has always been a controversial piece. In this choreography, it depicted the brutalization and sacrifice of a young woman by a group of ten cruel and depraved couples.

During its original premier, the disharmony of Stravinsky’s music and the jerky, unsettling motions of the dancers angered the audience so much that the police came.

Hougland modernized the original choreography, and the ballet was set in a grungy, industrial nightmare that looked like a cross between an underground sewer system, a factory and the worst high school locker room imaginable.

The ten couples alternated between states of zombie-like lethargy, uniform mechanized movements and moments of frantic, chaotic energy. Alone any of these movements would have been terrifying, but the juxtaposition of the three highlighted the depravity and madness of these lost souls. The Chosen One, played by Youhee Son (Friday/Sunday performance; Beatrice Sebelin starred Thursday/Saturday), stood out against this nightmare, dressed in white and clearly terrified by the cruelty around her.

In scenes as effective as they were emotionally brutal, the audience witnessed The Chosen One being lifted and spun carelessly through the air as if she were a rag doll by the men, and being coldly ignored by the women when she pleaded with them for pity. Her final death scene was shocking, made more so by Son’s excellent technical skill and clear emotional anguish.

Tulsa Ballet is a world-class company with performances barely ten minutes from campus and heavily discounted student tickets available. Students should consider attending future performances, such as “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” November 1–3 and “The Nutcracker” December 13–15 and 20–22.

Cosmo Cafe, out of this world Cosmo Cafe, located in the heart of the Brookside district, features an extensive menu, a fun and elegant atmosphere and a full bar that is certain to satiate the hungriest of appetites.

Anna Bennett State-Run Editor

A famous favorite among local Tulsans, Cosmo Cafe is the coolest spot in the extremely hip Brookside district. Although the areabetween 21st and 51st on Peoria is perhaps more of a jaunt for TU students than Cherry Street, the Pearl District, or Downtown, the food and drink at Cosmo make it well worth the drive—which is only about 10 minutes anyway.

Cosmo Cafe features an extensive menu of appetizers, plat-

ters, entrees, salads and desserts.

They also have a gluten-free menu which includes many of their classic dishes. Even their late-night bar food menu has plenty of delicious choices. I always take a long time looking at the menu, but I almost always fall back on that famous appetizer—Italian Nachos.

Although such a crossover of Italian and Tex-Mex may seem strange, it only takes a few bites of this piping-hot platter to be sold on the utter genius of putting marinara, alfredo, cheddar, mozzarella and basil all over tortilla chips.

For a little extra, diners can get chicken, onions, black beans, corn, tomatoes, or jalapenos on their Italian nachos. Though delicious, these additions do not make or break the experience. Many of their bar snacks, Italian Nachos included, can be ordered in small or large sizes to better suit the occasion, appetite, or wallet of patrons.

The “cultural crossover” typified by the Italian Nachos is repeated throughout the menu with such dishes as Greek and Indian Bruschettas, Thai Chicken Pizza,

and flavorful twists on hummus and labneh. So while the names of dishes may be familiar to guests, they have never been done in such a way before, making Cosmo a true original.

Cosmo Cafe is also known, as the name implies, for their cosmopolitans and other mixed drinks.

They serve classics like The White Lady, Fuzzy Navel and Poolside Cosmo, alongside less common concoctions such as the Pop Star, the Lemony Snicket and the Green Tea and Lime Cosmo.

Cosmo also boasts seasonal cocktails, and with autumn upon us, patrons can enjoy such treats as the Pumpkin Pie and the Caramel Apple Pie. While such delectably fancy creations may be a bit unkind to the college kid budget, Cosmo always has a $3.50 special on one of their cosmopolitans and a selected beer.

With its fun, classy atmosphere, delicious and innovative food, and excellent drink selection, Cosmo is a must-try for anyone new to Tulsa. Once you go, you’ll be back. Trust me.

By Anna Bennett

Ways to B.S. Your Way Through a Class Discussion Having one of those days/weeks/semesters where your college education seems to be getting in its own way?

Were you up till 4 a.m. writing a paper for one class, rather than doing the reading for another?

Are you a senior who just does not care anymore? Luckily, if you have only the vaguest idea of what’s going on, you can still get through the discussion unscathed, with no one the wiser. Here are some solid strategies: 1. If you are called on directly, quickly turn to a page—any page—in the text. Read the first sentence you see as grandly as possible. Then look up and repeat any phrase you like from said sentence, with gravitas.

Give your classmates a look that says, “the significance is so obvious I don’t have to say anything.” And then you don’t.

(For example: “So, do you consider de Beauvoir to be a materialist?”

You say, “Well, if you turn to page 498, she clearly states that ‘for her part she becomes adamant and refuses to accept that there is any substance in her husband’s reasoning.’”

You look up. “ ‘She becomes adamant,’ you guys.”)

2. Invent a plausiblesounding text by a writer that no-one has heard of (since they don’t exist) to support or deny someone else’s point. This makes it look like you’ve done a lot of outside reading.

Better yet, invent a whole school of thought to support your own points, like Postrealism or Objectionalism.

3. Take an issue with the text itself, rather than its content. “The REAL issue at hand here is that we’re still talking along such gendered lines.” Or “I’m not sure I can give much credence to an author who so flagrantly misuses commas.”

4. If you’ve actually done part of the reading, then by golly, refer to the part you have read until the cows come home. Blow its importance way out of proportion, and use words like “intrigued” and “fascinated” when referring to it.

5. If you only have a limited time to cover the material, read a little bit towards the beginning, a few sections in the middle, and the very end.

Highlight and annotate as much as you can. It makes it looks like you have read the whole thing. Make sure your notations are clearly visible to the rest of the class.

6. Latch onto a particular element that someone else mentions, and then make an analogy to a text you are familiar with.

Even/especially if it’s Harry Potter. Milk that analogy for all it’s worth.

7. Similarly, bring up things you’ve learned in other classes, even if the connections between Existentialism and Dance Conditioning are tenuous at best.

Breadth of knowledge is a great camouflage for shallowness.

8. If you can, wait until the discussion has gone tangentially away from the text. You can then rely on political sound bites and anecdotal evidence to get those participation points.

This will not work if your professor actually keeps the class on task.

9. Rather than waste precious time reading the text and doing your own analysis, skip the text and go right to the internet to find other people’s theories on the symbolism of the garden gnome or the structure of Pinter’s plays.

10. In the worst situations, feign laryngitis, and occasionally nod or grunt passionately, as if you would make so many wonderful points and counterpoints if only you had your voice...

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Become a Variety Writer—it’s pretty legit.

Just email stephanie-hice@utulsa.edu!

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A look at the Affordable Care Act

With national and state insurance exchanges set to open on Tuesday and a veritable glut of ACA-related opining almost immediately available in the blogosphere, we though the Opinion section could be more useful by including something closer to analysis than opinion. Below you will find considerations of the names given to the Affordable Care Act, how American healthcare compares to that of other countries, and some of the basic goals of the reform.

‘Obamacare’ vs. ‘the Affordable Care Act’ Giselle Willis Staff Writer

Obamacare: According to a picture from heritage.org, it has “extreme costs,” “false promises,” and hidden agendas.

Affordable Care Act: The San Francisco Medical Society Blog has an aesthetically pleasing picture graph about how 30 million people “will gain insurance…by 2020.”

To see the pros and cons of Washington’s latest health care law, one has to search two different names.

CNN reporter Gregory Wallace wrote that “the actual language of the law is not as important as the way it is discussed.”

Because the law is so extensive and there are different interpretations circulating around it, people

make snap judgments based on the name.

The term “Obamacare” actually originated in 2007, when Barack Obama wasn’t even president yet, and “health care lobbyist Jeanne Schulte Scott penned it in a health industry journal,” according to CNN. After three years of debate, “Obamacare” started to gain prominence in Republican vocabularies because, as Republican strategist Frank Luntz explained, “People want health care personalized not politicized, and … ’Obamacare’ is an effective way to communicate the politicization of health care.”

Finally, in 2011, Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said in an interview with ABC News that “Republicans shouldn’t be allowed to continue to make a disparaging reference to the president while expressing their concerns about … the law.”

She was implying

that the term “Obamacare” was a personal slur against the president, since politicians kept using it when they criticized the law.

It was as if wanting to make the President the sole person responsible for any criticisms they were making.

ABC News reporters John Parkinson and Matthew Jaffe added that after Wasserman-Schultz mentioned this to Republicans on the House floor, “Rep. Steve King … used the term ‘Obamacare’ a slew of times.”

Thus began the reign of “Beware Obamacare.”

According to The Hill reporter Julian Pecquet, Obama began embracing the term later that year, stating, “Folks go around saying ‘Obamacare.’ That’s right—I care.”

On March 23, 2012, the Obama campaign tweeted: “If you’re proud of Obamacare and tired of the other side using it as a dirty word, complete this sentence:

Courtesy of the Conservative Daily News

Graphic courtesy of the Daily Kos

The two images above exhibit the dichotomy that exists in the connotations behind Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act. Obamacare raises questions of government invasion, while the ACA seems overwhelmingly beneficial.

General goals of the Affordable Care Act Nikki Hager Staff Writer

Americans pay more for healthcare than any other nation in the world. According to PBS, Americans spend more than two-and-ahalf times than other developed nations, amounting to almost a fifth of our economic output, about $8,000 per person a year.

The Affordable Care Act sets out to reduce the overall costs of health care.

While there has been much debate as to exactly its effect on the US economy, the bill includes several concepts that are fairly straightforward.

The legislation targets the health insurance industry, the channel a majority of Americans use to pay for health care.

“Because so many of us have insurance and we don’t see the bills, we tend to think of health care as free,” says Elisabeth Rosenthal, New York Times health correspondent, in an interview with NPR last month. “‘Why not get that colonoscopy? It doesn’t cost anything.

What’s the difference if my hip replacement costs $100,000? I’m not paying.’ But, in fact, we’re all paying.”

Rosenthal’s examples highlight how having insurance can create the illusion that health costs are reasonable. But as health costs rise, deductibles and premiums skyrocket for those with insurance, and those who are uninsured are left with colossal debts.

The Affordable Care Act seeks to reduce insurance costs in several ways.

First, the act contains an individual mandate that requires all individuals to purchase health insurance or face a fee.

The idea is that as more people enter the insurance market, increasing demand, the price of insurance will fall.

Additionally, the act requires that no one be denied coverage based on pre-existing conditions, expanding the ‘risk pool.’ This concept is a bit more abstract.

Not every person’s health costs are the same. For example, someone with a chronic illness is much more likely to have higher health costs than someone who doesn’t.

If a healthy person knows it is unlikely they will get sick and have large health bills, then they may

decide not to purchase health insurance.

If only people with high costs, or high-risk people, purchase insurance, then the overall price of insurance is higher.

The law seeks to equalize costs by requiring everyone to have insurance.

The legislation implements in-

There is some fear that employers may elect to limit hiring or hire more part-time employees in order to avoid the costs associated with the measure.

“If the law increases the firm’s marginal cost of hiring employees above 50, then presumably this would reduce their incentive to expand employment over 50.”

surance exchanges for those who are not covered by Medicaid or employer or family plans.

The healthcare marketplaces list available prices and coverage options from competing private insurance companies.

As competition increases, prices should fall.

Second, The Affordable Care Act requires that all employers of over 50 employees to provide basic health insurance.

Says Dr. Matthew Hendricks, TU economics professor. “For some firms, this may be sufficient to restrict hiring.” However, most firms are either significantly larger or smaller and will not alter their hiring behavior based on these provisions of the ACA. Finally, the act gives states the option of expanding Medicaid.

Some states, like Oklahoma, are refusing to accept federal money for the expansion of Medicaid.

“The legislation targets the health insurance industry, the channel a majority of Americans use to pay for health care”

#ILikeObamacare because…”

The movement backfired when opponents took up the hashtag with unabatedly enthusiastic sarcasm.

Meanwhile, the term “Affordable Care Act” still gets lampooned by opponents claiming it isn’t affordable at all. George Lakoff, linguistics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, claims the president “could have called it ‘The American Plan.’

It would be harder to argue against ‘The American Plan.’”

Dr. William Sage at the University of Texas complained that “the culmination of a century’s effort to enact universal coverage in the United States is a law with an uninspiring title, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and an even more awkward acronym,

PPACA.” He continued that even those in favor of the bill don’t like the name basically because it isn’t memorable, and certainly because it isn’t as memorable as the originally pejorative “Obamacare.”

Sage suggested changing it to “AmeriCare.”

Nevertheless, “Obamacare” seems to have enjoyed a boost in popularity after the United States Supreme Court decided to uphold the Act’s constitutionality.

NPR reporter Edward Schumacher-Matos, who once wrote an article condemning the use of the name “Obamacare,” decided in an article only a few weeks ago that “it is safe to say … that the term “Obamacare” has entered the general vocabulary as a largely neutral term.”

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medicine” in Health Affairs put “medical liability system costs” at just around 2.4 percent of U.S. spending on healthcare.

So perhaps we are sicker people? Although obesity rates are high in America, other countries have higher percentages of smokers and greater alcohol use. In fact, the U.S. has a lower prevalence of heart disease, asthma, hypertension, and mental illness than France, Spain, Italy, Germany and the UK. America’s higher costs cannot be explained by disparities in these areas.

Why, then, is so much money spent on healthcare? The answer is simple: medical procedures, equipment and doctor’s time costs more.

An MRI costs $1,121 in the US and $319 in Switzerland. A hip replacement costs over $40,000 in the US and less than $8,000 in Spain, and a month of Lipitor costs $124 in the US and $6 in New Zealand. In the US, our prices are actually restricting our access to health services, potentially leading to more and greater problems.

The New York Times has ascribed these higher costs to “business plans seeking to maximize revenue; haggling between hospitals and insurers that have no relation to the actual costs of performing the procedure; and lobbying, marketing and turf battles among specialists that increase patient fees.” For example, though there are several less expensive and intensive screens for colon cancer, the American health industry has largely opted for colonoscopies which is certainly the most expensive option.

So how do other countries keep costs so low? For one, the citizens don’t pay near as much for private care. But nations like Japan use their health care systems much more heavily than the US and still maintain spending about one-third

International Comparisons Student Writer

Americans may be surprised to learn that U.S. healthcare costs are the highest in the world. In fact, data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) show that America spends far-and-away more money on healthcare than any comparable countries. Per capita expenditure of public money on healthcare comes out to $3,795 in America compared to the OECD median of $2400.

The same comparison puts American per-capita private insurance and out-of-pocket expenditures at $3,189 and $976 respectively. The comparable median OECD values are $193 and $559.

About 18 percent of the American Gross Domestic Product is spent on healthcare, whereas Japan spends 8.5 percent of theirs on health care. Although Japan spends the least and America the most per capita, the health benefits received by the citizens are highly comparable, despite the fact that the Japanese leads the world in doctor consultations and several types of medical technology.

So why does the US spend so much on health care when its overall health is no better than any other nations? It is not, contrary to popular belief, related to malpractice suits. Malpractice suits can make doctors order more tests to cover their backs in the event of unforeseen medical consequences.

This drives up the medical costs simply because of the quantity of tests. But actual tort reform efforts in places like Texas don’t appear to have had any significant results, and articles in the New Yorker and a study in Health Affairs all show malpractice reform would have little tangible effect on healthcare costs.

After all, a comprehensive consideration of the cost of “defensive

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Medicaid expansion accepted by some states, rejected by others

Graphic by Jill Graves

A federally funded expansion of Medicaid is set to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2014. The expansion will be fully funded by the federal government for the first three years and funding will decrease until 2020, when only 90 percent of each state’s Medicaid program will be federally funded. The expansion covers people earning less than 133 percent of the federal poverty line.

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Govt. shutdown looms over ACA House Republicans are threatening the country with a government shutdown, an unpopular move among liberals and conservatives alike.

Nikki Hager

Staff Writer

“When Americans tried it, they discovered they did not like green eggs and ham and they did not like Obamacare either. They did not like Obamacare in a box, with a fox, in a house or with a mouse. It is not working,” said Texas Senator Ted Cruz in his 21-hour speech delaying the Senate from voting on a bill extending the US Budget.

The latest in an endless series of budget deadlocks will cause a partial government shutdown on midnight of Oct. 1 if the House and Senate cannot agree on a bill to fund the government. Last week

the Republican-led House passed a measure continuing to fund the government but also included language that would defund the Affordable Care Act. It then went to the Democrat-controlled Senate that passed the funding measure, but without defunding Obamacare. Around midnight on Saturday night, the House passed a bill funding the government through December but delaying Obamacare for a year.

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid has made clear the Democrats response to the bill. “As I have said repeatedly, the Senate will reject any Republican attempt to force changes to the Affordable Care Act through a mandatory government funding bill,” According to the White House Budget Office, when the government shut down the last time, in 1996, for six days it cost the US economy 2.1 billion dollars.

While the exact costs of a government shutdown are difficult to estimate, Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analytics Inc. estimates that a three-week government shutdown would cut fourth quarter growth

by 1.4 percent. Additionally it would effectively escalate unemployment from 7.1 to 7.8 percent.

A poll by United Technologies and the National Journal Congressional Connection shows a sizable majority of the American public does not want a government shutdown. 63 percent said Congress should “provide the funding to

“Even the majority of Republicans and the business community prefer a functioning government over an end to Obamacare” keep the government operating and deal with the health care issue separately,” while only 27 percent said to “only fund the continuing operations of the federal government if Obama agrees to delay or withdraw his healthcare plan.”

It is not only Democrats that support keeping government funding and the healthcare law separate. A majority of Republicans, 51 percent, agree. In fact, only one subgroup of the Republican constituency would rather shut the

Creative Commons promotes freedom The Creative Commons license strikes a balance between crediting creators and allowing free access.

Steven Buchele

Staff Writer

It would be hard to argue that the Internet is not changing how Americans view the world. How we consume and experience entertainment, how we gather and retain knowledge, how we think, how we create and how we interact with people on a fundamental level: these things have all experienced the metamorphic effects of the Internet.

Many people would say that the social concept that has experienced the greatest shift since the invention of the Internet is the idea of intellectual property.

I doubt it though. Yes, intellectual piracy, copyright violations and illegal streaming are rampant on the Internet.

Yet the funny thing is that for the most part, people don’t actually believe that they are doing anything wrong.

Most people operate under the more natural law of “finders keepers.” I think the most common sentiment is “if I can find it on the Internet, I have the right to do with it as I please,” which is completely contrary to both national and international law.

Current United States’ law holds that Once something is copyrighted the author has control over how to licence or distribute his work and that any intellectual work is automatically copyrighted the moment it is framed in a tangible format, meaning paper, information on a hard drive and so on.

That means term papers, doodles, even your text messages are technically copyrighted the moment they are written. (Though there are some rules concerning

parallel development that makes copyrighting doodles and text messages pretty much worthless.)

As one can see, this idea or copyright conflicts directly with the “finders keepers” culture of the Internet. Many different solutions to this conflict have been tried.

The current favorite of the United States government and large intellectual property based corporations is to crack down on copyright offenders. This has been met with only limited success and even more failure.

These larger corporations now look, to many people, like hulking goliaths ready to crush the free spirit of the Internet, as they sift through internet record to find copyright violators and drag those

as keeping their name on the work.

There are six different creative commons licences depending on what rights to the work the original author wants to maintain.

Creators can choose to retain or release rights to: commercial use, use in derivative works and how derivative works may be licensed, but all licences allow for free credited distribution.

The least restrictive of these licences allows for distribution, reuse, and remixing in commercial and non-commercial settings as long as attribution is given to the original author.

The most restrictive allows for credited redistribution in private settings so long as there is no change to the original work. The

Graphic courtesy of Creative Commons

that they find into exorbitant legal battles. This is quenching a great deal of the creative movements on the internet that thrive on reference, parody and remix.

On the opposite end of the spectrum are the people who might frequent sites like the Pirate Bay, who work to subvert the copyright laws. They too end up harming the culture of the Internet by decreasing the incentive for the creators they love to create things because they fear that they might lose control of their creation entirely.

The best solution to this conflict of ideas seems to be the Creative Commons Licence. This is a nice halfway point between the two previous strategies.

The Creative Commons Licence allows users to use and share licenced works without direct permission from the creator—which is in tune with the freeform culture of the Internet—with the stipulation that credit is given to the original creator; and the Creative Commons Licence lets creators maintain control over their work if it goes into commercial use as well

government down then continue to fund Obamacare: white males without college degrees. The National Journal suggests these poll results mean that the preference for a shutdown comes from the most conservative parts of the party.

Additionally on Sep. 27, a group of over 230 businesses, in-

Creative Commons Licence isn’t just for “indie” creators; Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons uses the Share-Alike Creative Commons Licence which allows for redistribution in private and commercial settings and alterations to the media, but all derivative works are also licensed under the Share-Alike licence.

Licensing something under the Creative Commons is actually incredibly easy. CreativeCommons. org will produce a licence for you after asking you three questions about which rights you want to retain. After answering these questions it generates a licence in three forms, human, lawyer and computer readable.

I believe that more creative works should be licenced under Creative Commons. Websites like Kickstarter have shown that people are willing to reward creators whom they like, so creators still have incentive to create under Creative Commons.

The freedom the licence brings to end users helps keep the Internet a free and open place.

cluding the right leaning Chamber of Commerce, sent a letter to Congress urging them to pass a budget.

Although there has been much criticism of Obamacare from the business community, there was no mention of it in the letter.

However, House Republicans continue to oppose Obamacare.

“This is the first time I’ve seen when Republican leadership is actively whipping the Republican conference to support Harry Reid and give him the power to enact his agenda” said Cruz. The public does not want a shutdown. Democrats will not defund Obamacare.

Even the majority of Republicans and the business community prefer a functioning government over a end to Obamacare.

Yet House GOP members continue their “my way or the highway” strategy.

From World page 7 of that of the US. How do they do it? “The Japanese do not restrain spending by restricting access; rather, they do so by aggressively regulating health care prices,” says David Squires of the Commonwealth Fund.

Every two years, a committee of medical and economic experts is convened to determine the prices of virtually all medical services.

They monitor profits in the industry, and when profits rise above a certain point, the committee lowers them. Though this is heavily socialized health care, the results seem poignant, for Japan has the highest life expectancy in the world.

Great Britain’s solution to high costs is simple and not unlike how our government handles defense.

The nation’s National Health Service (NHS) has companies compete for the nationwide contract for certain health items. Take, for example, hip replacements. The NHS creates a competition for the nationwide contract and use of these hips, so the competing companies are, in principle, driven to create the highest quality, cheapest hips.

It isn’t clear exactly where America’s high healthcare costs come from; it is a problem with multiple causes, but the systems, cost structures and health outcomes of comparable countries are instructive foils with which to evaluate America’s healthcare related woes.

Kyle Walker contributed to this report.

Traditionally, each editor-in-chief writes a letter in the first issue of each semester welcoming new Collegian readers and talking about how excited they are for the upcoming year.

Well, I’m a little bit late with this one, but I still wanted to take a minute to talk about the Collegian and what we’re trying to do here.

If you’ve been around TU for a while you will probably have noticed that the Collegian looks a lot different than it did when you got here. A year and a half ago we decide to try to shake things up with the paper, and things like the State Run Media and last week’s communism issue have been the result.

This year we want to push the changes farther, and focus on cover interesting topics that are relevant to TU students and the Tulsa community.

But we can only do so much on our own. We need feedback from you, the reader, to guide us.

Please send us letter, send us angry letters! Have something you want us to cover? Let us know. Or ever better, come to our meetings, Mondays at 5 in Oliphant Rm 110.

We are always looking for writers, and anyone is welcome to join us!

Enjoy this week’s issue,

Dear Collegian Staff and editors,

feel differently if they were chronically ill or underemployed. It can also be noted that over the last four decades, many of the wealthiest Americans have embraced a system of “corporate socialism” (the opposite of what Socialist leaders like Eugene V. Debs had in mind) in which they have received large government contracts, tax breaks and subsidies.

All the while they have railed against welfare, food stamps and “socialist” Obamacare; policies which benefit or will benefit the uninsured and working poor. In short, they like big government, but only when it serves their own interests and not that of the majority.

Congratulations on an excellent issue on the “Reddest state in the Union.” I found the articles focused on the socialist movement in Oklahoma to be very informative and well balanced, with a nice touch of humor mixed in. I teach a course on social movements that looks at the history you covered.

I would define socialism as a political-economic system advocating for more centralized government planning and public ownership of resources in order to ensure an equitable distribution of wealth in society and the protection of natural resources and the environment. Giselle Willis suggests at the end of her piece rightly that people like to complain about taxes but these same people would

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TU professor writes archives on “lawful piracy” DATING GOES DUTCH; from the

TU Law Professor traces the history of the public domain in his latest book, “Without Copyrights.”

Oscar Ho

terial, damage to overseas authors and a universal hatred toward United States publishing practices.

In “Without Copyrights” Spoo makes use of James Joyce’s bruis-

Staff Writer

Professor Robert Spoo, Chapman Distinguished Chair at The University of Tulsa College of Law, made his career investigating the piracy of literature. His prior work as editor of the James Joyce Quarterly brought piracy and copyright law to his full attention.

He found that copyright holders of James Joyce’s literature were suing and threatening to sue scholars who sought to use Joyce’s writing in their work. “There was a climate of fear that grew” around the scholarly use of Joyce’s work, Spoo noticed.

Spoo, a copyright lawyer who has practiced in New York, San Francisco, and Tulsa, published a book in August investigating copyright history.

The book, entitled “Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain,” is a study of the public domain and the extensive consequences of what he calls lawful piracy.

“It sounds like a paradox,” Spoo conceded, “and it really is.” Lawful piracy, according to Spoo, is quite simply piracy authorized by law.

In 1790, the United States passed its first copyright act. It provided that any work published abroad was considered in the public domain in the United States.

Publishing houses took this as a chance to publish editions of a foreign work without consulting or paying the books’ authors.

According to Spoo, this led to a glut in the market of foreign ma-

Courtesy Oxford University Press

Professor Robert Spoo’s book “Without Copyrights,” published August 19, details the history of “legal piracy.” Spoo will deliver a talk entitled “The Golden Age of Literacy Piracy in America” on October 1.

ing row with publisher Samuel Roth to highlight this failure of copyright law.

Interestingly, the races of rival publishing houses to print foreign literature hurt the publishers themselves. Simple economics was to blame: saturating the market with a given book caused the price of the book to plummet.

The publishers’ solution to this is informally known as “trade courtesy.” Publishers essentially agreed among themselves that they would take turns giving each other the courtesy of being the sole publisher of a given book.

While some, including Samuel Roth, did not subscribe to this scheme, it worked until 1890. It even proved beneficial to publishers and authors, according to Spoo.

Almost immediately after 1890, trade courtesy went underground.

Spoo did not elaborate in his book about why courtesy hushed in a short period of time, but he theorizes that anti-trust law was to blame.

The United States passed its first antitrust law in 1890, and Spoo theorizes that the law could be used against the practice of courtesy. However, Spoo asserts that the practice nevertheless lived well into the 20th century that its influence is still felt in the industry today.

In his epilogue, Spoo explores the future of the fractured public domain. He cites legislative and judicial events where work in the public domain was put back under protection, wreaking havoc on writers, scholars, and musicians.

He examines cases where literature may be in the public domain in one country but not in another.

Spoo believes that copyright law in general needs improvement.

“Without Copyrights” is far from a lament or battle-cry for reform; however, it is a thoughtprovoking look into how copyright and piracy has evolved and what scholars and authors should be aware of going into a new age of legal battles and modern philosophies (e.g. SOPA and the open source/crowdsourcing movement).

Spoo’s next project will be a focused history of a Boston company that was heavily involved in lawful piracy.

Professor Robert Spoo will be hosting “The Golden Age of Literary Piracy in America” on Tuesday, October 1, at 5:00PM in John Roberts Hall.

Professor Spoo will discuss the book and sign copies.

Former colonel critiques American foreign policy A U.S. Army colonel who retired in protest of the invasion of Iraq criticized U.S.’s violation of international laws.

Forrest Farjadian Staff Writer

After decades of service in the U.S. Army and State Department, Col. Ann Wright resigned her diplomatic position in 2003 to protest the invasion of Iraq. But she hasn’t slipped into a quiet retirement.

Since her resignation, Wright has assisted the legal defense of Wikileaker Pfc. Chelsea Manning, participated in the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla, protested outside the gates of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and traveled to Pakistan to interview the families of people killed in US drone strikes.

Wright’s years of peace activism have also put her on a first-name basis with Officer Mike of the Capitol Police, who has removed her from numerous congressional hearings.

If you’ve tuned in to C-SPAN in the past decade, you may have

Courtesy Wikimedia Commons

Ann Wright speaks in Staten Island New York in November 2011. Since her resignation from the military, Wright has appeared in government meeting rooms, on The O’Reilly Factor and at a number of college campuses.

heard Wright’s voice—which has retained its Arkansas accent, even after her diplomatic assignments in Nicaragua, Mongolia and a dozen places in between—shouting calmly in the back of a meeting room, at least until a gavel-banging committee chairperson orders her removal.

Perhaps you caught Wright’s appearance on The O’Reilly Factor, which ended abruptly when O’Reilly ordered her microphone cut off.

It must have been a pleasant change of pace for Wright when, during a visit to TU last Thursday, she was able to conclude her remarks on her own terms.

ertheless poses a threat to Americans’ safety, as civilian casualties (which are in the single digits, according to widely disputed government figures) turn public opinion against the United States and prompt reprisal attacks against American personnel.

Wright spoke at length about the detention of inmates at Guantanamo Bay, which she characterized as a “horror that will live in perpetuity.”

She condemned the continued detention of prisoners who have been cleared for release and denied that their years at Guantanamo have left them disposed to take up arms against the United States,

“It’s the easiest thing in the world to use our military. It’s the hardest thing in the world not to use it.”

In a wide-ranging presentation, Wright argued that the War on Terror has done more to threaten national security than to enhance it.

While invasions, indefinite detentions, lethal drone strikes and electronic eavesdropping have provoked anger internationally, the American public has been slow to notice, much less condemn, “the purposeful breaking of national and international laws by our government.”

To illustrate the political downside to extensive electronic surveillance, Wright pointed to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s spirited speech before the UN General Assembly last week, in which she reacted to revelations that the NSA had snooped on Brazilian government and corporate communications, including her own personal phone calls.

Wright asserted also that the use of unmanned drones, though touted as an alternative to putting human troops in harm’s way, nev-

claiming that only five percent of the more than 600 released prisoners have done so.

Asked by an audience member about the possibility of an American strike against Syria, Wright cast doubts on the wisdom of even a limited military engagement, questioning the cohesiveness of the opposition and noting that US naval bombardment of Lebanon in October 1983 was followed just weeks later by a suicide bombing at the US Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 241 American servicemen.

She was optimistic, however, that military intervention would be avoided in favor of a diplomatic solution.

“Everybody from the Tea Party to the far left has agreed on one thing: we’ve got enough of war,” she said. “It’s the easiest thing in the world to use our military. It’s the hardest thing in the world not to use it, to figure out some other way to make a point.”

IF DATING GOES AT T. U. The Collegian, believe it or not, has existed in some form for over 100 years. Just recently, we began the finishing touches on uploading these Collegians of yesteryear to an online database. While not yet open to the public, our browsing has led to a couple of noteworthy finds. Here is one charming article, taken from the October 20, 1933, about the need for both partners to chip in on a date during the Great Depression.

New Deal Works Big Hardship on Girlies “Shall it ... be Sheridan Hills tonight, or Reservoir Hill?” is the cry that Tulsa co-eds hear from males.

Call it what you will, the University of Tulsa campus has been invaded by the convenient depression alleviator known as five-cent dating. Co-eds may fondly recall memories of evenings spent dashing about from dance to preview. They may think wistfully of tempting and extravagant dishes with French titles as they munch

their hamburgers. But they have resigned themselves.

This year the boys are getting a break. The New Deal is causing great joy to masculine hearts and pocketbooks. When John and Mary prepare to depart from the corner drug store, where they have been for a coke, Mary does her bit by digging down in the purse and handing the cashier a nickel for her share of the refreshments.

Dating has gone Dutch. Or even more so. Take the conversation overheard this morning at the Varsity.

“Why, yes, I’d love to go riding,” the pert little Tri-Delt pledge effervesced, bestowing her sweetest smile upon the new boy friend.

“O. K., Palsy-Walsy, you can pick me up at home about eight.

Here’s my address.”

The pleasure of Bill’s (supposedly) scintillating conversation and (rather) humorous remarks has to satisfy Betty. If he furnishes her cigarettes during- the evening she spends the next day boasting about being a gold-digger.

September 21

September 19 14:31 Officers responded to a fire alarm at the Kappa Delta Sorority. Upon arrival, Officers determined that smoke from an outside grill was blowing into the house, setting off the smoke detector in the house.

No injuries or damage were reported and the building was reopened.

September 20 7:45 A non-TU person lost control of their vehicle on Tucker Dr. causing the vehicle to hit the curb and damaged a tree irrigation system.

No injuries were reported and the vehicle was towed by Storey Wrecker.

14:30 A book was turned over to an Officer at Chapman Hall and impounded at Security.

21:45 A student injured their [sic] ankle at a US West apartment. EMSA was contacted and diagnosed a sprained ankle.

The student was not transported and they will seek further treatment at the Alexander Health Center on Monday.

1:09 Officers responded to reports of underage drinking at Fisher Hall West. Officers discovered an underage student had kept and consumed alcohol in another student’s room. The alcohol was disposed of and the student was escorted to their off-campus residence by Officers.

3:40 Officers responded to reports of an intoxicated underage student at Lottie Jane Mabee Hall.

The student admitted to drinking at a fraternity on campus. The student was left in the care of the roommate.

13:05 Officers responded to a fire alarm at Lottie Jane Mabee Hall.

Upon arrival, Officers determined that a student had burnt popcorn, setting off the fire alarm.

No injuries or damage were reported and the building was reopened.

September 22 17:30 Residents of a Norman Village apartment reported that unknown persons threw eggs at their apartment.

The residents’ apartment was the only one affected and no damage was caused by the eggs.

The Collegian does not produce or edit the Campus Crime Watch except for content and brevity.

A gouda sculpture

Courtesy Tulsa State Fair

Sarah ‘the Cheese Lady’ with her entry for 2010’s cheese sculpture contest. For more on cheese sculptures and the Tulsa State Fair, see p. 6.

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The State Run Media

State+Run media Trust me—I’m going to be a doctor in 8 years.

“Pre-Med Clinic” Jesus $aves discovered in dorm Enterprising but potentially unethical student earns extra cash and practices her residency early in Lottie.

Helen Patterson Hypochondriac

Graphic by Anna Bennett

Also known as the Prophet of Profit, the Messiah was both the savior of humanity and a brilliant businessman.

Biblical scholars discover that Jesus actually charged hefty fees for his miracles.

Anna Bennett

God-Fearing Editor New historical evidence suggests that Jesus Christ, the Lord and Savior of millions of people worldwide, may not have been a hippie-feel-good-lovin kind of guy after all.

Biblical scholar Holly Ghost has recently translated a series of documents from an archaeological dig in Jerusalem. She believes these documents to be invoices, written by the Son of God Himself, detailing how much various people owe him for the miracles he performed on them.

“You can see here in this invoice sent to Malachi the Leper,” Ghost excitedly indicates the markings and symbols on a piece of parchment that vaguely resemble a Microsoft Word template, “that for the miraculous healing of sores, Jesus would charge two denarii.

A full ‘leprosy cleanse’ would run about five denarii.”

Several months previous, another biblical scholar had done a controversial translation of writings on small pieces of parchment from ancient Palestine, which were previously believed

Thanks, Obama.

to be tickets for camel rides. Dr. Newt Estimette challenged this by claiming that the documents were in fact receipts from a 4-Star restaurant called “The Eucharist Bistro.”

“The prices for hummus and legs of lamb were pretty steep,” Dr. Estimette says of his discovery, “but people were willing to pay it, clearly­—it must have been heavenly.” He then points out that an individual named Jesus was listed as the server on every transaction. “And whoever he was, he must have been miraculously good, because the tips he received were downright unholy.”

These findings were dismissed as historical curiosity, until Ghost’s discovery of the Holy Invoices. Now, there is speculation in the biblical scholar community that the “Jesus” of The Eucharist Bistro fame might be the same Messiah who charged lepers and cripples for their healthcare.

“This totally changes the way we as a society think about Jesus,” says Ghost. “Now, when we ask ourselves, ‘what would Jesus do?’, the answer may very well be ‘provide food to those who can afford it and charge a market-determined fee for miracles.’ It looks like those Conservative Christians may not be hypocrites after all.”

In a shocking turn of events, campus security discovered that rumors of a freshman pre-med student operating a clinic out of her dorm room in Lottie Jane Mabee Hall were true. The freshman has been identified as Tulsa native Jane Smith.

When questioned, Smith responded: “I don’t think I’m doing anything wrong. Every other pre-med student I know is either a stripper or one of those people who writes other people’s papers.

Except for the Pres scholars, those smug bastards.”

“I don’t understand why everyone is so upset about this,” commented one of Smith’s patients who did not wish to remain anonymous, but shall remain so anyway.

“I think that Jane was an excellent doctor, much better than the other

doctors I’ve seen. She actually listened to me instead of just writing a prescription and asking me to fork over two hundred bucks.

And there were all these reports of equipment not being properly sterilized which were completely false. I personally saw Jane rinse thermometers and tongue depressors in vodka to sterilize them. It was cupcake vodka, and it tasted delicious.”

Another student asserted: “Sure, you can go to the Alexander Health Center. But do they have My Little Pony band aids? No. Do they have mystery lollipops? Double no.

Jane’s clinic is way better, even if it is twenty bucks a visit. She gave me these cool medicinal supplements, and now I can go, like, forty hours without sleep!”

When campus police asked Johanna Doe, Smith’s roommate, why she did not report the clinic to university officials, she maintained that she had no idea Smith was actually administering medical care. When pressed she said: “Honestly, I thought it was some sort of sex thing.”

The university administration has partnered with the Tulsa Police Department to thoroughly investigate the matter. Evidence uncovered thus far includes illegal stashes of penicillin, decongestants, flu vaccinations, and over four thousand cartoon character band aids. Smith is facing expulsion and possible legal action for running an illegal clinic without a medical license as well as personal injury suits from several of her less satisfied patients.

“I feel that I am being unfairly prosecuted. I never lied about having a medical license, none of my patients died, and I made sure to send serious cases to the Alexander Health Center,” Smith told reporters. “It’s not like I’m performing operations in one of the basement rooms in Kep like that one guy in my Gen Chem class.

That guy is weird.”

The University has declined to comment regarding the possibility of what student rumors are calling “a Frankenstein’s lab gone way wrong” in Kep and an unrelated decline in feral cat populations.

Graphic by Anna Bennett

Students line up to receive dubious treatments and encouraging stickers. Patients report that the quality of care and the Hello Kitty band-aids are well worth the $20 co-pay and sketchy liability waivers.

Healthcare ends world Through a series of unlikely coincidences, Obamacare causes the demise of American society.

Jared Starkweather Prophet of the Endtimes

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are declaring “I told you so” after the world turned into a

Graphic by Anna Bennett

heaping pile of shit just days after Obamacare took effect.

“It’s actually surprising how fast the things we assumed would happen actually happened,” exclaimed Jeb Brown from the apocalypse shelter that he built in preparation for the sweeping tide of anarchy and violence that he “just knew” would be born of Obamacare. “I didn’t know it would happen so fast.”

Right after Obamacare went into effect, thousands of sick, poor criminals who otherwise wouldn’t have received health care and would have died from their illnesses were able to go to the hospital and be cured. According to experts, those now-healthy poor people will CLEARLY now be roaming the streets and committing crimes, causing said crime rates to skyrocket.

Anthony Thomas, an expert on hypothetical assumptions based on anecdotal evidence, commented on the state of the world: “I have clear evidence based on the one time that I went to a low-income neighborhood in Chicago and saw a teenager tagging a bench with a gang symbol. I feared for my life and stepped on the gas pedal of my 2013 BMW M5 to get out of there. From that experience, it can reasonably be assumed that

Obamacare would allow criminals like that teenager to gain access to healthcare and not die if they got sick,” he explained. “With the increase in crime rates, more people will be inured. These injuries would be treated at hospitals, and paid for by the tax-fueled Obamacare. It’s obvious that, because I saw a teenager in a poor neighborhood tagging a bench, Obama just wants to raise taxes.”

Another one of Thomas’s concerns has also become reality. On Sunday, the Antichrist was enabled to carry out His mission of bringing Hell into the world after he caught pneumonia, but was able to receive treatment using Obamacare. “I just had a gut feeling on this one,” Thomas told reporters.

“He would have died because he couldn’t afford healthcare, and would have been afraid to go to the hospital because he wasn’t sure if he could pay for it or not. Luckily for the Antichrist, though, Obamacare paid for him to get treated, and now he’s all better and feeling good after he’s opened up the gates of Hell on Earth. Thanks, Obama.”

Now that all Hell has broken loose, experts are still divided on how Obamacare will make things even crummier next, because according to Thomas, “It’s only going to get worse. I just know it.”