November 4, 2013

a student newspaper of the university of tulsa

november 4, 2013 issue 9 ~ volume 99

TU responds to student groups: adopts NonDiscrimination Statement, modifies EEO Policy

TU amended its Equal Employment Opportunity Policy to include sexual orientation and gender identity this summer and passed a new Non-Discrimination Statement effective Oct. 24. It thus joined numerous peer and elite schools that had adopted similar policies. See “Orientation, sexual identity protected by new policies,” p. 4.

UC Berkeley—pre-1999

“The University of California… does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including sexual harassment), gender identity, pregnancy/childbirth and medical conditions related thereto, disability, age, medical condition (cancer-related), ancestry, marital status, citizenship, sexual orientation, or status as a Vietnamera veteran or special disabled veteran.”

SMU—1999

“SMU will not discriminate… on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status. SMU’s commitment to equal opportunity includes nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression.”

Harvard—2005

“Any form of discrimination based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, veteran status, or disability unrelated to course requirements is contrary to the principles and policies of Harvard University.”

Rice—2006

“Rice University does not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, disability, or veteran status.”

UT Austin—2008

“The University prohibits unlawful discrimination, including harassment, on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, including sexual harassment, age, disability, citizenship, and veteran status.… Pursuant to University policy, this policy also prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.”

The University of Tulsa—2013

“The University does not discriminate on the basis of personal status or group characteristic including, but not limited to individuals on the basis of race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, gender, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, ancestry, or marital status.”

Graphic by Jill Graves

Above is a sample of peer and elite schools that have adopted policies protecting individuals from discrimination based on sexual orientation, alongside the dates that the policies first protected sexual orientation.

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Sports

4 November 2013

the Collegian : 2

Catherine Duininck / Collegian

UTSA’s Kam Jones beats two TU defenders to score an 84-yard touchdown, the longest in UTSA’s three-year program history.

David Kennedy / Collegian

Jayson Burscough plays the mellophone on Skelly Field at H.A. Chapman Stadium during the Sound of the Golden Hurricane’s halftime performance at the homecoming game against the UTSA Roadrunners Saturday.

TU football fan remains faithful

ing opponent—the newly-formed University of Texas at San Antonio Roadrunners—the only question would be how many points we decided to score on them before running out the clock. Both of our estimates were over 70.

J.Christopher Tulsa, the consensus preseason Proctor favorite to win the C-USA West Editor-in-Chief lost this weekend, 34–15 to a team in its third season of playing football. The 4–5 Roadrunners were predicted to finish dead last in the West.

This summer I was talking to my What happened? good friend John Lepine about TU Well, a slew of turnovers didn’t football’s upcoming 2013 cam- help. Trey Watts fumbled a punt paign. While there were some big return in the end zone during the questions about matches against first quarter to give the Roadrunteams like Iowa State and East ners an easy touchdown, and a Carolina, we both agreed that late interception off the hands when it came to our homecom- of Dane Evans was returned for

Hurricane football has been very disappointing this season, but this fan is still loyal.

a touchdown to seal the loss for the Hurricane. Additionally, three promising drives were ended by turnovers, with a Trey Watts fumble, a Cody Green interception and a turnover on downs at the UTSA three-yard line dashing the Hurricane’s chances for victory.

Turnovers aside, the offense was largely underwhelming, as neither the passing nor rush game seemed to take hold, and drive after drive ended in a punt or turnover. The Hurricane was threatened with a homecoming shutout for much of the game, but luckily was able to punch one in at the close of the third quarter.

Tulsa used three different quarterbacks during the game. While Green was a respectable 11–17 passing, he averaged 2.7 yards

David Kennedy / Collegian

A Golden Hurricane fan holds the coin at midfield for the official to toss. Tulsa won the coin toss and uncharacteristically elected to receive to start the game.

a completion and failed to lead a scoring drive. Dane fared slightly better, passing 12 for 22 and averaging 7.2 yards a catch. But he too was unable to bring Tulsa into the game, and his pick six, Joseph Calcagni, was called in to finish off the game.

The Hurricane is now 2–6. To become bowl-eligible, it must win all of its remaining games. For a team that ended last season as ranked champions and was overwhelmingly picked to repeat, this season has been a disappointment.

But win or lose, this fan will support his team.

It’s traditional that at the end of the game, TU players face the stands and sing the fight song with students and the band. On Saturday, some of the players started to file into the locker room without singing. But many of their teammates pulled them back on the field where they faced the almostempty student section, and together, students and players, we sang the Hurricane Fight Song.

This season has been rough but we will still be here. Next week.

On the road at East Carolina.

Kickoff at 2:45 on Fox Sports 1.

Boston Red Sox win first World Series at Fenway in 95 years The Boston Red Sox won a league-leading third World Series title in the last ten years and clinched in Fenway Park for the first time since 1918.

Jesse Keipp Staff Writer

As many predicted, this World Series ended in Boston. This Series would take six, maybe even seven games to decide the better of the two 97-win teams. Nonetheless, this matchup was a lot less even than many had predicted it to be.

Until a Jonny Gomes home run in the sixth inning of game 4, it appeared that the Series would be decided by which team would make fewer errors.

Game one saw Owasso-native Pete Kozma doing everything he could to give the game to the Red Sox, committing an error in both

W. Soccer

the first and second innings. The errors not only gave the Sox momentum, but wasted what could have been a fruitful start from the Cardinals ace, Adam Wainwright.

The Red Sox welcomed the Cardinals to Fenway with their leagueleading offense, posting eight runs on the scoreboard by the ninth inning. Despite an uncharacteristic revival against the Dodgers ace, lefty Clayton Kershaw, the Cardinals offense struggled against lefthanded pitching as they had all year long, while lefty Jon Lester pounded the strike zone.

Game 2 embodied exactly the essence of the 2013 Cardinals.

Rookie arms, led by postseason behemoth Michael Wacha, outpitched John Lackey and company. Yet again Wacha, the NLCS MVP, seemed to continue his tear through baseball’s best offenses, despite a small hiccup, where he allowed a two-run homer to the unstoppable David Ortiz. Af-

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ter that, Wacha was replaced by Carlos Martinez, followed by flamethrower Trevor Rosenthal, who closed out the game. Every Cardinals pitch had been thrown by a rookie, all under the age of 24.

Continuing to St. Louis with the Cardinals owning the momentum, things seemed bright for the Redbirds. And in game 3, things were.

Each time the Cardinals gained the lead, the Red Sox caught up. But, in the bottom of the ninth, Allen Craig bolted for home plate after a throw sailed past third base.

Tripping over third baseman Will Middlebrooks, Craig scrambled to his feet and was tagged by catcher Jason Saltalamacchia.

However, in a crazy call, Craig was safe because of an obstruction

by Middlebrooks. Furthermore, the call marked the first time that a World Series game had ended on an obstruction call.

Having won two games in a row with two games remaining, the Cardinals appeared to hold their own destiny. But Jonny Gomes begged to differ in game 4. His

three-run blast seemed to singlehandedly switch the momentum of the entire Series to the Red Sox. Though the tired Clay Buchholz lasted only four innings as a starter, he allowed only one run, and the solid Red Sox bullpen, specifically Felix Doubront, shut down the Cardinals offense. This was more than just a loss. As Gomes’s teammates tugged on his beard, Cardinals fans worried that the offense wouldn’t be able to keep up with Boston’s.

Consequently, with St. Louis hosting its last game of this year’s Fall Classic, ace Jon Lester made his return. Continuing to struggle against left-handed pitching, the Cardinals could muster only one run and four hits against Lester.

The lone run came on a Matt Holliday, base-empty homer. Meanwhile, Wainwright pitched well against the Sox, but not quite well enough, as he allowed three runs.

After a listless effort by the Cardinals offense, the Red Sox brought the World Series back to Boston, looking to clinch the Fall Classic in Boston for the first time

since 1918. An ominous gloom descended over Cardinal nation, as it appeared unlikely that the Cardinals would take two victories in Boston, who had a .654 winning percentage at home on the year.

John Lackey amended his game 2 loss, giving up only one run in total and escaping a bases-loaded jam without giving up a run. Simultaneously, Wacha ran out of gas, giving up six runs and leaving the Cardinals without a chance at a game seven.

Overall, the Sox pitching dominated the Cardinals hitting, which largely disappeared for the Series.

David Ortiz dominated Cardinals pitching on the way to earning the World Series MVP. There simply is no excuse for pitching to a hitter who has a .688 batting average on the Series. By the time the Cardinals started intentionally walking Ortiz in game seven, he had already done his damage.

All in all, the Red Sox simply outplayed the Cardinals; Boston undisputedly reigns as baseball’s best team in 2013.

Men, women XC C-USA Champions

Tuesday Nov. 5

M. Golf

Eagle/Osprey Intercollegiate

W. Soccer**

vs Colorado College

Jacksonville, Fla.

All Day

Wednesday Nov. 6 Houston, Texas

1:30 p.m.

Friday Nov. 8

W. Basketball M. Soccer Volleyball W. Soccer**

vs Texas Southern

Reynolds Center

11:30 a.m.

vs Florida Atlantic

Boca Raton, Fla.

6 p.m.

C-USA Semifinals

Reynolds Center

7 p.m.

Houston, Texas

TBA

vs Tulane

Saturday Nov. 9

Football

W. Volleyball M. Basketball W. Soccer**

vs East Carolina

Greenville, N.C

Sunday Nov. 10

vs Marshall vs Oral Roberts

C-USA Finals

2:45 p.m.

Photos by Aidan Barrett / University of North Texas Senior Staff Photographer / NTDaily

Reynolds Center

12 p.m.

Reynolds Center

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Houston, Texas

1 p.m.

** if women’s soccer team advances in C-USA tournament.

The men’s and women’s cross country teams traveled to Denton, Texas Saturday morning for the Conference USA Championship.

The men’s team entered the day as the only C-USA ranked in the top 30 with a No. 11 ranking. The team finished in first place scoring 36 points. Chris O’Hare finished in second with a time of 24:50.09. Andy Heyes and Danny Thater came in fourth and fifth, respectively followed shortly by Marc Scott who came in seventh and Tim Rachers in eighth place. The team has now won four consective C-USA titles, a first for the conference. The women’s team tied for first place, another C-USA first, with the UTSA Roadrunners. Brandi Krieg finished first for the Golden Hurricane in ninth place with a time of 17:41.52 followed by Katherine Camp in tenth place less than a second after Krieg and Stacie Taylor 11th at 17:44.10. Natasha Cockram finished the race in 16th and Rachel Baptista rounded out the top five TU runners in 21st.

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4 November 2013

Basketball to build on end-of-season run Building off last year’s impressive postseason run, the Tulsa women’s basketball team looks to continue its success.

Jesse Keipp Staff Writer

In a radio interview, Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Gerald McCoy revealed that his d-line coaches “got upset with me because I helped (an opponent) up (after a play).” The Bucs are having a notoriously bad season, after a 0–7 start and having cut their starting quarterback, Josh Freeman, a few weeks ago.

McCoy, putting up Pro Bowl numbers for the second straight year, was yelled at by his coaches for just being a nice guy. In unrelated news, the Bucs canceled all charity events for the rest of the year. Additionally, a hotline has been established, where you can notify the organization if you see McCoy or one of his teammates helping an old lady across the street.

Before leaving for game six of the World Series, the St. Louis Cardinals’ flight to Boston was delayed because the team plane had mechanical issues. After six hours and the arrival of a replacement plane, the Cardinals finally departed for Boston.

However, after the Cardinals offense produced only two runs in the two final Boston games, it was learned that the Cardinals offense never left the first plane; therefore, while most of the team flew to Boston, Beltran, Holliday and company remained in St. Louis.

The terribly confused hitters somehow managed to subsist on honey-roasted peanuts until security personnel arrived at the scene a few days later.

Photo courtesy @dfreese23

David Freese, the third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals and a St. Louis native, signed on as spokesman for Imo’s Pizza, a popular pizza chain in St. Louis, over the summer. Freese tweeted during the delay that the team would be getting pizza and his teammates tweeted their excitement on their own Twitter accounts.

An anonymous former University of Oregon football player ripped Oregon fans in a scathing letter via The Oregonian’s John Canzano. After this player attended his first game as a fan a few weeks ago, he vowed never to return to a Ducks game again because of the disrespect that the fans had for the players.

Hearing booze-infused criticisms projecting loudly from the mouths of ignorant fans behind him, the former player futilely tried to get them to stop. Frustrated by the unappreciative fans, the player concluded, “I will always love the Ducks: my coaches, my teammates, my brothers and family. The rest… Go (expletive) yourselves.”

The New Orleans basketball team rebranded itself this offseason from the Hornets to the controversial Pelicans. Many fans scoffed at the name, which supposedly is a nod to the local NOLA culture and history.

Catherine Duininck Student Writer

The 2013-14 TU women’s basketball will have seven veterans return and seven new players. The Golden Hurricane is looking to build on its successful end of 2012–13’s season in which head coach Matilda Mossman led the team to a victory in the Conference USA tournament at the BOK Center which earned the the team its first NCAA tournament bid since 2006.

The starters returning are forward senior Loren McDaniel, guard sophomore Ashley Clark and sophomore guard Kelsee Grovey.

Also returning are junior guard Kadan Brady, forward Mariah Turner, sophomore guard Jasmine Vasquez and guard sophomore Antoinet Webster.

Coach Matilda Mossman comments that the veterans have a different attitude going into this season because of their success last season and are more confident in themselves as players. This is positively influencing the seven new members of the team to step up and be more efficient players which should lead to a successful season.

Grovey from Shawnee, OK is Tulsa’s leading returning scorer at 10.5 points per game a year ago, Clark recorded 5.8 ppg, Lions, bears, and falcons are all intimidating animals. But fans and writers alike wondered how a pelican could strike fear.

Their new mascot, Hugo, is how. I cannot tell which makes me want to try cry more— the beak or the eyes.

But the eyes inevitably beckon you into their dark abyss. The top of the beak bends into some sort of nose. All too reminiscent of the Joker’s lips, the beak undoubtedly gets its color from the blood of Hugo’s victims. Sure, the anthropomorphic bird smiles, but does Hugo enjoy the same good-hearted happiness that we humans do? Doubtful.

Wearing gloves to cover up fingerprints, he smiles in anticipation of nabbing his next meal. Your wide open arms do not entice me, Hugo.

The Pelicans are 1–1 at home under the rule of Hugo including a loss the night he debuted.

and McDaniel from Arlington, Texas is the leading returning rebounder at 6.7 rebounds per contest last season.

The seven new players this year include two from the Tulsa area. forward Stevi Parker is from Bixby and forward Liesl Spoerl is from Tulsa. Guard Ashley Hughes is from Sulpher, Okla. Center Autura Campbell and guard Erika Lane come to Tulsa from Topeka, Kan. Center Rickae Jinks is from Miramar, Fla. and forward Kayla Wright is from Lauderhill, Fla. Last year, Tulsa advanced to the NCAA Championship for the second time in school history. Unfortunately, it fell to the No. 1 seed and No. 4 ranked Stanford in the first round. The Golden Hurricane went to the tournament after they won four-straight Conference USA tournament games. TU finished the season with 17 wins, the most victories for the team since 2006.

On Oct. 27 the TU women’s basketball team took on the Newman Jets for their first contest in an exhibition game. TU won 90–67 and had four players score double figures. Freshman Liesl Spoerl had a teamleading 16 points and eight rebounds, sophomore Ashley Clark contributed 13 points, freshman Stevi Parker recorded 11 points

and sophomore Jasmine Vasquez added 10 points in the game. Freshman point guard Erika Lane had a team-best eight assists and sophomore Kelsee Grovey grabbed three steals.

TU took on Rogers State for their second preseason match Nov. 1. The Golden Hurricane triumphed over Rogers State 84–52.

Kelsee Grovey, Liesl Spoerl and Mariah Turner all scored in double figures. Miriah picked up her second foul less than two minutes into the game which resulted in her sitting out the first half, however, she made up for lost time in her second half.

Grovey led TU with 20 points and had seven rebounds. Spoerl posted 15 points and six boards. Ashley Clark contributed with a team-best nine rebounds, eight of which were on the defensive end of the floor, and had three steals, while Erika Lane helped out with six assists. TU shot 42-percent from the field, 32-percent from beyond the arc and 81-percent from the free throw line. TU had 34 points off the bench and 32 points in the paint.

Tulsa will open the regular season against the Texas Southern Tigers on Friday, Nov. 8 at 11:30 a.m. in the Reynolds Center.

News and Notes •

The National Football League moved the Kansas City Chiefs vs Denver Broncos game on Sunday in week 11 from an afternoon start on CBS to NBC’s Sunday Night Football. Starting in week 11, NBC is allowed to “flex” one Sunday afternoon game normally aired on CBS or FOX.

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The Tulsa 66ers, the National Basketball Association Development League affiliate of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, participated in the NBA D-League draft Friday. The 66ers had traded up to pick first overall in the draft. With the first overall pick, the team picked forward Grant Jerrett from the University of Arizona. The team selected eight players in the draft.

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The Tulsa Oilers fell to 1–5–2 over the weekend after losing 4–3 against the Missouri Mavericks Friday night and then 5–4 to the Allen Americans Saturday night. The Oilers had lost six consecutive games by only a single point. The Oilers won their first game of the season 3–1 against the Americans Sunday afternoon. The Oilers return to the BOK Center Wednesday night game against the Wichita Thunder. Puck drop is schedule for 7:05 p.m.

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The Dallas Cowboys improved their record against teams with a record below .500 to 17–1 since 2011 with their victory over the Minnesota Vikings Sunday. In the same time, the Cowboys are 4–19 against teams with records .500 or greater.

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NEWS

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Orientation, gender identity protected by new policies After calls from student organizations like SA and Pride, TU has adopted a new Non-Discrimination Statement and a revised Equal Employment Opportunity Policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Nikki Hager Staff Writer

Sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression are now protected classes at the University of Tulsa due to recent amendments to the Equal Employment Opportunity Policy and the addition of a Non-Discrimination Statement.

These changes have come in large part due to the efforts of several student organizations.

“Students at TU, especially members of Pride at TU (the organization formerly known as the BLGTQSA, the Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Queer Straight Alliance) have been working on this issue for the past eight years,” said Pride President Leanna Duncan.

Last semester, Pride and SA worked together to pass legislation adding sexual orientation and

Oct. 25 21:10 A person refused to leave the Skelly Mansion property when asked to do so by event personnel.

The event personnel asked for the Event Officer to assist. The person immediately complied and left the property when asked to leave by the Officer.

Oct. 26 3:30 Officers and EMSA responded to John Mabee Hall after a student reported experiencing chest pains

gender identity to the classes protected under the EEO Policy. The changes were signed into effect by President Upham over the summer.

In addition, TU recently adopted a Non-Discrimination Policy that went into effect on Oct. 24.

Both the Non-Discrimination Statement and the updated EEO Policy are available on Campus Connection, TU’s multi-purpose online portal.

“A non-discrimination policy is more inclusive than an Equal Employment Opportunity Policy because an Equal Employment Opportunity (policy) is limited to employment,” said Sam Halabi, an associate law professor at TU. “A non-discrimination policy would be any set of services including admission that the university undertakes. There is a difference.”

As the policy states in its title, the Equal Employment Opportunity Policy applies to employment.

A non-discrimination statement applies to anything else the University does, including admissions, academics, athletics, housing and appropriation of university funds. Before Oct. 24th, TU had no such official non-discrimination statement.

TU is required to comply with both federal and state laws that limit discrimination based on a

number of classes including, race, ethnicity, religion and gender. Sexual orientation and gender identity are not included.

“There’s a lot of people associated with the university that the (EEO) Policy doesn’t really cover,” said Zachary Harvat, TU graduate and former Pride president. “That’s why it’s important to have both.”

Under federal law, there is nothing requiring TU to have a nondiscrimination statement. “It’s a best practice, but there’s no requirement by federal law,” Halabi said.

However, before the adoption of this new policy, TU was in a minority of colleges and universities which did not have a specific policy addressing non-discrimination.

Pride did extensive research about what kind of policies other universities used, especially those ranked ahead of TU in the US News and World Report college rankings.

“We looked at every single institution ahead of us,” said Harvat, “I don’t think we ran into a school where there wasn’t a non-discrimination policy. An overwhelming majority included sexual orientation and gender identity.”

Around 2005 many universities across the nation began to include sexual orientation and gender

after drinking alcohol. The student reported drinking alcohol for the first time.

Officers determined the student was not of legal drinking age and contacted a Housing official.

EMSA determined the student was dehydrated and did not transport the student.

12:50 While driving on Harvard Ave., near 8th St., a student’s vehicle was struck by a rock, possibly thrown from a groundskeeper’s lawn mower.

The rock created a dent in the vehicle’s door.

11:15 A US South apartment resident reported a window screen had fallen from a 3rd floor apartment above them. Officers were unable to make contact with the residents of that apartment.

Oct. 29 12:45 A University employee reported batteries were removed from a large vacuum inside of Case Tennis Center.

Oct. 31 23:20 Officers responded to a non-injury vehicle accident in the Mayo Village lot. A vehicle, backing out of a parking space, struck a parked vehicle double-parked in the traffic lane of the lot.

The collision caused minor damage to both vehicles and no injuries were reported.

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

identity in their non-discrimination policies. Harvard added sexual orientation and gender identity to their policy in 2006. According to “The Harvard Crimson” it joined 52 other universities including Brown and Cornell. Peer university Rice also passed legislation including sexual orientation and gender identity in 2006, illustrating a trend among top ranking universities.

case. (The EEO policy’s) explicit promises are in a narrower context.”

TU administrators made potentially confusing statements along these lines over the course of our investigation.

Earl Johnson, Associate Vice President for Enrollment and Student Services and Dean of Admission said on Oct. 18 in an email, “The office of admission adheres

TU’s Non-Discrimination Statement The University of Tulsa’s new Non-Discrimination Statement is available on Campus Connection, where logged-in students and faculty can view it.

The University of Tulsa is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in education and employment. The University does not discriminate on the basis of personal status or group characteristic including, but not limited to individuals on the basis of race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, gender, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, ancestry, or marital status in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, employment policies, scholarship and loan programs, athletic, and other University administered programs.

Inquiries about compliance should be addressed to the University’s Associate Vice President of Human Resources & Risk Management, Fisher Hall East Room 103, at 800 S. Tucker Drive, Tulsa, OK 74104.

Additionally, in 2011 the University of Oklahoma added sexual orientation to its Non-Discrimination Policy.

SA also attempted to pass legislation to include these groups around that time. Pride and SA worked together in 2005 to pass legislation to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the Equal Employment Opportunity Policy. While it passed SA, President Upham failed to sign it into effect.

Even this legislation would not have given TU a non-discrimination policy. A non-discrimination policy and an Equal Employment Opportunity Policy do not serve the same purposes. Though they are closely related, so someone unfamiliar with the distinction could easily assume the EEO Policy was a non-discrimination policy or vice versa.

“People who aren’t familiar with the distinction might think somewhere in some document it says TU doesn’t discriminate,” says Halabi, “in their mind that would be the same thing for student activities that it would be for employment when that’s not the

to the current Equal Opportunity and non-discrimination policy in place at TU.” This was six days before the effective date of the Non-Discrimination Policy.

Additionally, the Student Code of Conduct under the General Standard of Conduct seems to refer to a Non-Discrimination Policy when it states, “Activities that violate the University policies of nondiscrimination in regard to tolerance, religion, national origin, age, gender, handicap, or status of a veteran …”

The Student Code of Conduct included this language before Oct. 24, and therefore before the NonDiscrimination Statement existed.

Both in April, before SA passed the bill amending the EEO Policy, and more recently, Human Resources and Admissions were unable to provide the Non-Discrimination Policy that both Johnson and the Code of Conduct referred to.

On Oct. 23 we met with Associate Vice President of Human Resources & Risk Management, Wayne Paulison.

See Policy, page 5

Mayors face off in Nov. 12 election Former mayor Kathy Taylor cites development of city, education; current mayor Dewey Bartlett, Jr., points out reduced spending, addition of jobs.

Gissele Willis Staff Writer

On Tuesday, Nov. 12, a general election will be held to decide the new mayor of Tulsa. The candidates, Kathy Taylor and Dewey Bartlett, have both previously served as mayor. Taylor was mayor of Tulsa from 2006 to 2009, and Bartlett has been mayor since 2009.

Courtesy KTUL / Tulsa’s Channel 8

Kathy Taylor

According to Kathy Taylor’s campaign website, she helped launch Tulsa Achieves, a program that pays for up to 63 hours of college credit at Tulsa Community College, and developed the Fix Our Streets plan, which voters officially approved in 2008.

Since Vision 2025 was voted into approval in 2003, Taylor was also responsible for carrying it out.

According to the Vision 2025 website, Taylor’s involvement in Vision 2025 meant creating incentives for American Airlines and providing “monies for OU-Tulsa, OSU-Tulsa, NSU-Broken Arrow … Tulsa Community CollegeSoutheast Campus, (and) common education funding for instruction material for the nearly 107,000 children attending Tulsa County public schools.”

The Vision ballot also included “a new Events Center, and Expo Square improvements … monies for Parks, Trails, and Community Centers; The River and Attractions; and Community Infrastructure.”

This bill means Mayor Taylor oversaw the construction of the BOK center downtown, but Urban Tulsa Weekly writer Michael Bates claims that the project went over budget by a third, and that the extra taxpayer money used to fund the BOK center could have completed “the low-water dams promised in …

Vision 2025.”

Kathy Taylor campaign manager

(and TU graduate) Monroe Nichols argued that the vision bond issue was actually put to a vote, and that “people voted for streets and not dams,” so the dam money went towards Fix Our Streets instead.

She also financed “the $60-million downtown ballpark” known as the ONEOK Field and consolidated City Hall into One Technology Center, according to Jennie Lloyd of Tulsa People. Nichols said that property taxes from local owners are what paid for the field, since they would be the ones to benefit from increased property values.

In 2009, Tulsa was affected by the national recession, and Taylor’s website says that instead of focusing on trying to campaign, Taylor decided to refrain from re-election and work instead on “managing the consequences of the economic downturn.” This year, Nichols stated that her slogan is to “get back to the basics,” and that by providing a reliable infrastructure and increasing public safety, she hopes to secure the interests of business that will create an attractive work force for Tulsa’s young people.

Dewey Bartlett, Jr. Taylor was succeeded by Dewey Bartlett, Jr., who dealt with these consequences by asking “City of Tulsa employees (to do) with a little less so that the City could turn its lights back on and stay open for business” instead of raising taxes, according to his campaign website.

His website also states that his “‘Lights on Project’ adds lighting in at-risk neighborhoods.”

He also added 9,000 jobs to

Tulsa, and he told Channel 2 News that these would ideally go to “young adults” because that would “solve a lot of things.”

Channel 2 further cites Bartlett as saying that “overspending weakened our city,” obliquely referencing Taylor’s investments downtown. Because of this, he has endeavored to set up a “$2 million rainy day fund” and has completed the Fix Our Streets project “on time and under budget.”

Michael Bates, however, also criticized Bartlett for managing “to alienate all nine members of the City Council.”

In a debate with Kathy Taylor hosted by the Kiwanis Club on Oct. 7, Taylor pointed out the “green waste” controversy Bartlett has been facing. Tulsans paid to put green stickers on plastic bags to mark them as green waste, but under Bartlett’s administration, green waste was not disposed of as promised.

Members of his campaign were unavailable for comment.

that Bartlett had “deflected the green waste problem.”

In her current campaign, Taylor has “recently announced her Transparency and Accountability Plan for Tulsa, which calls for placing the city’s entire budget and spending online,” according to her website.

During the debate, it was mentioned that Tulsa Firefighters PAC and Tulsa’s Fraternal Order of Police have publicly declared support for Taylor, but Bartlett responded by saying that “unions have decided to endorse my opponent because they know they’ll get a better deal from her,” but that he does not partake in any preferential treatment.

Further Debate Nevertheless, Taylor also had to answer for how hired firefighters had falsified medical training under her administration. She claimed she “never pointed fingers,” while implying

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Dewey Bartlett (left), mayor of Tulsa since 2009, and Kathy Taylor (right), mayor from 2006­­–09, will be competing in Tulsa’s Nov. 12 mayoral election. Both candidates point to successes during their terms as mayor, with Taylor citing her involvement in Vision 2025 and OneOK field and Bartlett citing his involvement in the “Lights on Project” and creation of young-adult jobs.

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The inauguration of the tunnel coincided with the 90th anniversary of the Republic of Turkey. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose country contributed about a fourth of the $4 billion total cost of the project, was in attendance.

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Magdalena Sudibjo Staff Writer Middle East TURKEY Last Tuesday, Turkey officially opened its first railway tunnel connecting Istanbul’s European and

Asian sides, fulfilling an idea proposed by the Sultan 150 years ago.

Construction of the Marmaray tunnel started in 2004 but was delayed by the discovery of a significant archaeological site.

The underground railway is built to withstand earthquakes and runs 8.5 miles with a 0.8 mile portion under the Bosphorus Strait. It can transport up to 75,000 people

Last Wednesday, the Israeli government announced its plans to construct 1,500 new apartments in an East Jerusalem Jewish settlement just hours after freeing 26 Palestinian prisoners.

The release of the prisoners was part of an agreement to resume peace talks between Israel and Palestine, but the construction announcement, which many consider to be the government’s attempt to appease Israelis by the prisoner release, could jeopardize the agreement.

“We are worried and concerned

From Policy, page 4 equitable and welcoming campus SA legislation amending the EEO Along with a copy of the EEO Policy that included the changes introduced by SA legislation, he gave us several additional policies including, a “Non-discrimination Policy” to go into effect the following day.

Paulison said that they tried to address the issues brought up by the SA legislation when they changed the the EEO Policy over the summer.

“Then (the changes) came back with further questions,” said Paulison, “The Equal Employment Opportunity was in that policy specifically for employment, not admissions.”

“We have come up with an over-arching non-discrimination policy.”

Paulison added that ancestry and marital status would also be included in the groups protected by the policies, along with sexual orientation and gender identity.

Paulison said that President Upham, Kevan Buck, executive vice president and treasurer, met to discuss the classes covered by the Equal Employment Opportunity policy in October. They then discussed the need to develop “NonDiscrimination Statement.”

Throughout all of our correspondence with the administration, TU has maintained that it does not discriminate and that it aims to create an environment where students, faculty, and staff feel welcomed and comfortable.

“Our holistic admission process ensures a fair and equitable review of each application,” said Johnson.

Although the administration says they actively engage in making TU an open and welcoming place, before the changes some students expressed concern that the university’s policies were not reflective of this.

“While I find TU a very open and accepting environment, I don’t think it’s reflected in the current policy,” said Harvat last April.

“The Non-Discrimination Policy is so important for creating an

environment at TU,” said Duncan.

“Having a nondiscrimination policy that specifically describes protected identities allows students, faculty and staff to feel secure in the knowledge that TU is committed to creating a diverse and accessible environment,” Duncan continued.

Both Harvat and Duncan highlighted the importance a policy on non-discrimination plays in prospective students’ decision to come to TU. “People’s decisions about whether or not to attend a university or take a job often hinge upon whether or not they feel safe and accepted at the institution,” said Duncan. “This is particularly true for people of marginalized groups.”

Jacob Mahmood, a student who identifies as being transgender, described his concerns when applying to TU. “When I was applying to TU, I was afraid they weren’t going to admit me because I’m so different,” said Mahmood.

While the lack of a policy prohibiting discrimination did not deter him from applying, he did consider the policies in place to protect students.

“Especially in Oklahoma, I took into consideration how I would be accepted in the community.”

Mahmood said he felt that having a non-discrimination policy can make transgender students feel more accepted.

“Transgender students can have trouble in their transition process,” he said, “If you feel like you can’t express yourself, it can cause you unnecessary stress.”

Harvat agrees, “(A non-discrimination policy) says ‘If you’re a trans or queer student we have your back’ ... It helps them feel protected as they attend the university.”

“I’m glad TU’s policies now more accurately reflect its actuality of being a great place to learn, live and grow,” said SA senator Whitney House, who wrote the

policy.

While the Non-Discrimination Statement may be new, TU has several other policies and programs that reflect the community House refers to.

TU recognizes domestic partnerships. While some states legally require this, Oklahoma does not. According to Halabi, TU is one of the few institutions in the state to do so.

Additionally, TU has included sexual orientation and gender identity in its Anti-Harassment Policy since 2006. The university also has a Safe Zone program, which aims to support queer students and provide educational resources to the TU community.

The new policy changes provide additional support for minority groups, especially on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity that are not protected under federal or state law.

These changes built on prior efforts by multiple student organizations.

Pride showed that most colleges and universities provided protection on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and that TU was an anomaly because it did not. Pride also was the first to draw attention to the fact that TU lacked a non-discrimination policy.

SA passed legislation recognizing these issues, first in 2005 and then again last semester. This second bill was taken up by President Upham and is now official university policy along with the new Non-Discrimination Statement.

The words ‘policy’ and ‘statement’ were both used by the administration to refer to the new Non-Discrimination Statement. At press time, it was unclear whether the terms were interchangeable or signified a real policy distinction. The version posted on Campus Connection is titled “Non-Discrimination Statement,” and we elected to use this term when referring specifically to TU’s policy.

4 novemBER 2013 that if Israel continues with the expansion of settlements, this might kill the two states vision which we would like to see on this land,” said Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah.

UN Secretary General Ban Kimoon also said in a statement that the settlement “is contrary to international law and constitutes an obstacle to peace.”

Africa MADAGASCAR Wide-scale locust infestations coupled with annual cyclones have reduced Madagascar’s harvest by 21 percent, leaving 4 million people short of food and around 9 million more at risk of food insecurity.

“The locust came from the South blown by the wind,” Jean Bruno Rakotondrabee, a farmer, told Al Jazeera. “They flew silently in a huge swarm; we were very surprised. They passed like a huge cloud and blocked out the sun.”

Farmers have started planting new crops, but with a lack of animal feed, the bulls are also too weak to plow and everything must be done by hand.

Starting this month, around eight thousand squares miles of land will be sprayed with pesticides, but the Malagasy govern-

ment still lacks the full $41 million needed to complete the eradication process.

SOUTH SUDAN Residents of Abyei, a region in the border of Sudan and South Sudan, have voted 362 to 12 to join South Sudan last Thursday, though many claim that the referendum was unofficial and biased.

The Ngok Dinka tribe, who has close ties with South Sudan, organized the three-day vote, and its members were the overwhelming majority of voters.

“The people are celebrating, there is dancing and music, and the nine chiefs of the Dinka Ngok are marching, they will sign a declaration of commitment to join South Sudan,” Luka Biong, the spokesman of the referendum, said to AFP news agency.

The African Union, however, does not recognize the vote and has warned the Dinka people that the symbolic referendum could spark tensions between the different ethnic groups in the already volatile region.

“The Dinka Ngok’s referendum and its result do not concern us,” Mokhtar Babo Nimr, a Misseriya leader whose people consider Sudan their ancestral homeland, told Reuters. “It is an illegal process.”

Policy analyst to speak on racial economic inequality Kate Richey of the OK Policy Institute will give a presentation on racial income disparities Nov. 7.

Carly Putnam Copy Editor

The median net worth of a white household in the US in 2009 was $119,149. For Black households, it was $5,667. Unemployment rates, levels of educational attainment, property ownership, incarceration rates, and health outcomes all yield disparities between white Oklahomans and Oklahomans of color.

Kate Richey, policy analyst with the local nonpartisan think tank Oklahoma Policy Institute (OK Policy), argues that, contrary to popular misconception, these differences aren’t inherent to particular groups and aren’t simply the result of poor personal choices. She says that disparate outcomes are an inherited legacy of discrimination that has historically impeded economic opportunity for people of color.

“Insisting that ‘personal choice’ alone drives the racial wealth gap leads to deeply pernicious conclusions,” Richey notes in a post on the OK Policy blog.

“If our successes and failures are simply the sum of our choices, then wealth disparities by race can only persist because most people of color make poor choices while

their wealthier White counterparts make wiser ones.”

Instead, Richey argues, data clearly shows that inherited systemic barriers block people of color from accumulating wealth at the most basic levels, which in turn prevents them from building assets—anything from a savings account to a house—that can grow in value and be passed on to children.

Richey will speak about the origins of the racial wealth gap at TU on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 8:30 p.m. in Lorton 207. The lecture is based on her report “Closing the Opportunity Gap: Building Equity in Oklahoma,” published by OK Policy about a year ago, and is sponsored by the TU Coalition for Women’s Issues and United Campus Ministry.

United Campus Ministry executive director Nancy Eggen is looking forward to the lecture.

“There is a persistent myth that lower-income people remain lower-income because they don’t want to work hard or they don’t manage money properly, when the data seems to indicate that persistent poverty is highly correlated with barriers to building assets,” she said.

“No one has done better work on this issue than OK Policy, and I’m thrilled that Kate will be here to dispel myths, provide accurate information, and present possible solutions going forward.”

New anthropology PhD program displays diverse research Anthropology open house shows off new departmental digs, research.

Kimberly Poff Staff Writer

This past Friday, from 4 to 6 pm the Anthropology department hosted an open house in Harwell Hall to showcase both its new labs and its new Ph.D. program.

Greeted with snacks and refreshments by professor Lamont Lindstrom and departmental assistant Kim Ivey, students and parents were encouraged to engage the professors and graduates about their research.

The Anthropology department straddles the dividing line between liberal arts and sciences. It can formally be broken into four branches: biological anthropology, archeology, cultural anthropology and linguistics.

Many students only encounter anthropology through block classes focusing more on the liberal arts side, but the labs and research on display boasted elaborate instrumentation and statistical methodology.

Petroleum abstracts, a service

at TU which aggregates petroleum engineering articles from various journals into a manageable digest for various clients, recently moved to the Library. This vacated the basement of Harwell for labs related to both human and animal bones.

Dr. Miriam Balmaker discussed the significance of a new skull casting acquired by the department: Homo floresiensis is an animal standing only three feet tall, but which appears to have used tools.

H. floresiensis’ brain is thought to have been about the same size as a chimpanzee’s. This defies conventional logic that brain size of hominoids increased with cognitive function.

In a lab where human skulls were on display senior biochemistry major and anthropology minor showed off his collection of other human bones. His research focuses on cataloguing various human bones on an online database.

Much anthropological research focuses on comparing new finds to existing collections to garner information about origin, diet or use of the object.

In another lab graduate students catalogue hundreds of tiny bones

which give insight to the lives and diets of early humans. Some of the bones, originating from southern Africa to Jordan, belong to rodents, which live in smaller areas and can indicate the effect of climate change on other, larger animals. Some have lain unobserved in the Smithsonian for a quarter of a century.

Across the hall, PhD student Colleen Bell analyzes stone tools with the aid of a 3D scanner. She discusses why she came here from California: “The staff have a lot of different interests, but they are mutually beneficial.”

Bell is working on analyzing different kinds of tools and developing a statistical methodology for determining what various tools were used for.

Upstairs lies further collections of stone tools as well as a cute canine mascot: River, who comes to work with his graduate student on Fridays, inhabits an upstairs office while interested parties meander past. Graduate students are on hand to explain tables full of stone artifacts. TU has one of the largest comparative collections of stone tools.

Across the hall upstairs is

Dr. Michael Whalen who studies North Mexican pottery. He commented on the growth of the department, “I was the third professor here when I was hired in 1978.” His research focuses on the development of statistical methods which allow researchers to recon-

struct the shapes of pottery from only shards.

Overall the open house successfully showcased the many different areas of anthropological research as well as the new lab space and the PhD students in the newlyminted PhD program.

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Senior biochemistry major and anthropology minor Travis Brachtenbach holds bones from the anthropology department’s collection. “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.”

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7 Twice the wine, Twice the fun

Apothic Red and Raspberry Wine are two very different reds with distinct flavors.

Kim Poff Helen Patterson Staff Writers

This week, we have reviewed not one, but two wines for your drinking pleasure! Both were red, but the resemblance ends there. In nearly every way, these wines hail from radically different ends of the wine spectrum.

The first, and more expensive of the two, was a local Raspberry Wine produced just off historic Route 66 in Vinita, OK. Summerside Vineyards produces a variety of wines, from fruit flavors to meades to whites and classic reds.

Raspberry wine does not contain any grapes. It is simply fermented raspberry juice. It is typically a summer dessert wine.

This wine was exceptionally sweet and is not to be approached as if it were a grape wine: the effect would be akin to biting into a piece of fruit gum

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The wine has a somewhat musty smell which was initially off-putting, but its full raspberry flavor soon delights the tastebuds. Raspberry Wine is sweet enough to necessitate drinking in small quantities or even with club soda­—creating a raspberry soda. Many people may not be able to taste the alcohol in this drink.

The second bottle of wine hailed from California. Apothic Red is a blend of zinfandel, merlot, syrah and cabernet sauvignon. The name is an adaptation of the word “apotheca,” the name of wine storage rooms in ancient Rome.

The Apothic Red declares itself a wine from the first whiff.

There are no overtones of potentially cloying sweetness in the bouquet, and unlike Raspberry Wine, it was not sweet. However, it remains a very delicate red; it lingers only briefly on the tongue and finishes smoothly.

The Apothic is a much better wine to drink with an entrée or a cheese plate.

Speaking of cheese, this week we sampled the Montboissié du Livradois. Hailing from France, the cheese is made of cow’s milk and is particularly distinctive because of a noticeable dark layer separating the upper and lower halves. Traditionally this layer is made from ash, but is now frequently dye.

It is certainly not for the faint of heart, and while it has a lot of flavor, it certainly falls in the category of “stinky” cheeses.

Raspberry Wine was obtained for $21 from Summerside Vineyards, the red for $12 at Whiskey Business and the cheese for $6.66 from LaDonna’s Fancy Foods.

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6 Chvrches’ debut album sensational Scottish electro band Chvrches’ album “The Bones of What You Believe” is a powerful work of art.

Patrick Creedon Opinion Editor

The last few years have been absolutely riddled with wistful longing for the ’90s and the intense self-satisfying angst of the music that permeated those years. However, my nostalgia yearns for a decade supposedly forgotten by time where everything was fake and shamelessly produced. The introduction of synthesized instrumentation into pop music is commonly described as a terrible moment signaling the end of actual talent in music.

Well, screw that, hypothetical dissent! The genres of electroand synthpop have led to some of the most dynamic and interesting songs I’ve ever heard.

Consider “The Bones of What You Believe” by Scottish electro band Chvrches (which is of course pronounced Churches).

It is amazing! It gets me jazzed in the best possible way. The album is their first, and the band has been cruising heavily on the basis of singles “The Mother We Share,” “Recover” and “Gun.” All three are composed of energetic blasts of computerized sound that keep the listener energized and going. The lyrics

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Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty from the Scottish electro band Chvrches released their debut studio album, “The Bones of What You Believe,” in September.

are an ethereal longing for more, littered with ennui and the like, and yet that depressed, longing nature is hidden by the pounding and rolling sounded glitches.

Proclamations that “I’ll be a thorn in your side ’til you die” from “We Sink” sound completely happy and positive despite the obvious pain contained in such a lyric. The aching dripping off of lead singer Lauren Mayberry’s lips is immediately normalized by the driving positivity in the beats behind them. It is only with occasional lapses of energy in the quieter songs like “Tether” and “Lungs” that point to the solemn seriousness that embodies every one of their songs.

One of my favorite moments on the album comes in the song “Science/Visions.” The whole

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Scottish electro-pop band Chvrches’ debut album—just listen to it.

song has a non-descript repetition of a woman’s voice and a quiet bass drum as its beat, and it pulses throughout the whole song which then leads to perhaps the best payoff of the whole album. The bass drum pounds louder and louder as a warped synthesized glitching overloads the ears. It then stops, and Mayberry belts out, “With understanding… science and visions!”

The sudden shift causes such a spike in tension that the listener has no choice but to latch onto her voice, enveloped by it.

Powerful as Mayberry’s voice is, Chvrches would not be the same without the engineering of Iain Cook and Martin Doherty.

The rollicking soundscapes they produce with synthesizers and guitar easily encompasses the listener and balances out the slightly harsh tones that occasionally come out of Mayberry’s vocals like in “By the Throat.”

This deficit in her voice comes out a bit more in their live performances, where it sounds slightly more nasally. However, it simply reveals how masterful the arrangement of their music is.

I wish I could put into words how much I love this album. It has been in my car’s CD player for a month and been playing in my lab for a month longer. Listen to this if you like Lorde’s “Royals” and want something that sounds slightly more artsy. Listen to it if you like noise rockers Sleigh Bells and want something less glitchy.

Damn, just listen to it if you want to feel human.

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Fallin’s benefit refusal unconstitutional Gov. Fallin’s order to stop processing same-sex benefits in the National Guard is unconstitutional.

Nikki Hager

Staff Writer

“Today, the Department of Defense announced its plan to extend benefits to same-sex spouses of uniformed service members and Department of Defense civilian employees,” said a Department of Defense press release dated Aug. 14, 2013. “After a review of the department’s benefit policies fol-

lowing the Supreme Court’s ruling that Section Three of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional, and in consultation with the Department of Justice and other executive branch agencies, the Defense Department will make spousal and family benefits available no later than Sept. 3, 2013, regardless of sexual orientation, as long as service member-sponsors provide a valid marriage certificate.”

Despite federal legislation giving same sex couples the equal benefits that opposite sex couples enjoy, on Sept. 5 Mary Fallin ordered the Oklahoma National Guard to stop processing requests by same-sex couples.

Fallin spokesman Alex Weintz said that Fallin is honoring the wishes of Oklahoma. He cites

the amendment to the Oklahoma State constitution passed in 2004 prohibiting benefits to same-sex couples.

Same sex-couples must travel to federal rather than state run centers to process requests.

Oklahoma is one of nine states refusing to comply with the Department of Defense’s request.

Federal courts have ruled that in cases where federal and state laws come into conflict, that the federal law takes precedence.

The Supremacy Clause of Article VI of the Constitution, “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States ... shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”

In plain English, this means that federal laws take priority.

Supporters of Fallin argue that the Department of Defense’s order is an executive decree rather than federal legislation.

Again, the federal courts have not supported this since the Supreme Court case United States v.

Belmont (1937) set precedent.

Mary Fallin’s order to blatantly disregard federal orders is unconstitutional. Additionally, the National Guard is not a state-based institution.

While state governors can oversee their state’s national guard, they are nationally funded and subject to rules set forth by the Department of Defense and subject to presidential orders. On Thursday night, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel directed Oklahoma and the

other eight states refusing samesex couples benefits to comply.

“We did it because everyone who serves our country in uniform … should receive the full benefits they earned, fairly and in accordance with the law,” said Hagel, “Everyone’s rights must be protected.”

“Not only does this violate the states’ obligations under federal law, their actions have created hardship and inequality by forcing couples to travel long distances to federal military bases to obtain the ID cards they’re entitled to,” he said.

“This is wrong. It causes division among the ranks, and it furthers prejudice, which DOD has fought to extinguish.”

You can check out but never leave the Hotel OK The University of Tulsa administration appears to have ignored students it placed in the Aloft hotel.

Morgan Kruger

Staff Writer

The university no longer knows if or when it will be able to move Aloft residents onto campus.

The sizeable group of freshmen who were shunted off campus and left in a hotel have apparently been forgotten about for the rest of the semester or possibly the whole year.

While the hotel situation is regrettable, it is how the university is handling it—or failing to handle it—that is fast becoming an unforgivable mess.

Students are allowed to place a request to move between housing.

Such lists opened up after the first two weeks of school.

Put your name down, and when a room opens up in the desired location, students were told they would be moved.

It is now more than halfway through the semester, and such changes have not occurred for Aloft residents.

Many students have shuffled dorms on campus, but the isolated students who paid for on-campus housing and didn’t get what they forked an excessive amount of money over for have been abandoned.

Worse than being purposefully abandoned, it seems students in the hotel have simply been forgotten and are suffering from the university’s surprising lack of organization.

“Living in the hotel makes it almost impossible to be an athlete,” said freshmen rower Jacki Miller.

“I can’t get to school for morning practice, so I have to try to find a place to stay on campus overnight.

I am sleeping in friends’ dorms on campus up to four days a week, which makes it so I have almost no time to study. My grades are definitely suffering because of it.”

Such lack of the school action leaves students bewildered, frustrated, and in some instances with stunted social, athletic and academic lives.

TU claims it wants students involved, and then dumps a clump of mostly car-less freshmen a nearly

15-minute shuttle-ride away. Talk about mixed signals.

Administration has been unhelpful with answering questions, putting students off with claims of ignorance about what is going to happen or vague promises of “we’re moving students onto campus as fast as possible.”

Students were given the impression they would be move onto campus as rooms become available.

Only recently have they been told the university is waiting until all students can be moved over at the same time. As a result of this, all Aloft residents are stuck waiting to be allowed to move into the many empty rooms on campus.

If this is the peak of TU efficiency, then something needs to change.

All we want are answers and an idea of what to expect in the near future.

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John Boehner, victim of party extremism John Boehner’s faults as Speaker come from having to dictate compromise between extremes.

Oscar Ho

Staff Writer

The Honorable John Boehner (ROhio), Speaker of the House of Representatives, is constantly accused of failing to make his chamber legislate. He holds tremendous influence, making him the easy target for the President, Congressional Democrats and the American public.

While they may certainly make a case against Mr. Boehner, one could make a powerful argument that he is not at fault.

The Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives holds an incredible amount of authority.

The Speaker moderates the business of the House, and how he does that is where he gets his influence. His decisions are carefully calculated and are almost always dictated by his and his party’s political agenda.

This is because the House elects the Speaker by majority vote, and because the majority party gets its way, the Speaker normally happens to be the leader of the majority party.

Practically, the Speaker’s party is the majority party, and the Speaker leads his party in squashing the minority agenda. That’s textbook House politics.

Speaker Boehner is the grand

exception to the textbook. Senate Democrats, plotting with the President, forced his hand no less than four times in the last 12 months.

Infighting within the Republican party did nothing to help their Speaker resist.

The Speaker has several powerful tools to maintain control of the chamber, the two most potent being control of parliamentary rules and control of the subject matter of House business.

The only problem is that these tools work on the House in general, but not as much on individual

Speaker of the House.

During the fiscal showdown last spring, the Republicans were mostly unified. The American public blamed “Washington” for sequestration. When the budget issue rose again in October, Tea Party Republicans raised an agenda separate from House leadership, aiming squarely at Obamacare.

Boehner and Republican leadership tried to convince them that the strategy would not work, but to no avail. The paralysis of Boehner’s leadership was complete. The GOP fell apart.

“The challenge of being today’s Speaker of the House is the task of reconciling political extremists” Party members.

Far-right Republicans, the Tea Partiers, did not subscribe to Boehner’s more moderate agenda.

They resisted it almost to the point of a proper revolt.

After Boehner passed three bills in late 2012 and early 2013 with a coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans, several Tea Party Congressmen warned they would seek to recall him from office as Speaker if he continued the practice.

Renegade Republicans were half of Boehner’s problem. The far left, led by President Obama, demanded more spending and social services. Boehner could not make both extremes come to a compromise.

He was stuck in the middle. If the last 12 months succeeded in anything, it made a casualty of the

Many Americans blame John Boehner and the Republicans for the government’s problems, but to say that Boehner is the cause of the problems would be to make an ignorant statement. He is not to blame.

Congress’ failures are the result of left and right wing extremists.

The Democrats ignore Boehner because he is Republican, and the Republicans ignore him because he is not Republican enough.

Speaker Boehner has few allies, which makes one wonder, why did he run for re-election for Speaker in January? By this time, the Speakership had become the most undesirable job on the planet.

This is the tragedy of Boehner’s Speakership: “It’s a little bit like being the head caretaker of the cemetery,” Hal Rogers (R-Kentucky) said. “There are a lot of

people under you, but nobody listens.”

Perhaps the only reasons that Boehner sought re-election and won is that no one else wanted the job and he believed he could still get something done.

Fast-forward past the government shutdown of October to the bill to avoid default on the sovereign debt. The Republican conference had pushed the mute button on the House majority leader, Eric Cantor (R-Virginia), and his lieutenants.

Boehner had to get his party in line on his own, and he mildly succeeded. He was able to pass a funding bill that delayed Obamacare, over the objections of the Democrats, and thereby appease the Tea Party for a day or two.

Hours later, major news outlets reported that he received a standing ovation after a closed-door speech to his party.

Unfortunately, the Senate removed the Obamacare delay and added other items on the Democratic agenda, and sent it back to the House. Boehner had no choice but to put it to a vote. It passed the House with a coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans.

The challenge of being today’s Speaker of the House is the task of reconciling political extremists. Although no one in the GOP hates John Boehner, no one feels inclined to help him either. The Democrats do not hate him too much because they know they have the advantage.

If he is voted out by his peers, or if he steps down, there is no telling who may best navigate the treachery of Capitol Hill. For now, John Boehner remains the government’s greatest travesty.

He did everything right, but he was the captain the sailors locked in the hold.

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John Boehner, representing Ohio’s 8th district, has been Speaker of the House since Jan. 2011. His time as Speaker has been troubled by the rise of the Tea Party movement.

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Conference applies legal studies to life of Oscar Wilde

Speakers will examine the impact of copyright, obscenity, libel and blackmail laws on the life of the 19th century writer.

Oscar Ho Staff Writer

Professor Robert Spoo of The University of Tulsa College of Law and fellow scholars will host a free two day conference on the influence of the law on Irish author Oscar Wilde. The event opens on Thursday, Nov. 7 and closes on the afternoon of Nov. 8. All lectures will be given in the Price and Turpen Courtroom in John Rogers Hall.

The College of Law has invited academics from within and without the University to present their research. Most notably, Merlin Holland, Wilde’s grandson, will open the conference with his keynote at 12:15 pm on Thursday.

Lectures will be given in a panel format, where three scholars will give 20-minute presentations and then take questions.

Oscar Wilde’s (1854–1900) experiences with the law were marked by the kind of scandal that modern tabloids would love.

His open homosexuality outraged public decency and obscenity laws of the time.

Wilde’s male lover’s father, the Marquess of Queensberry, raged against both Wilde and his partner.

Queensberry’s outspoken condemnation of the relationship resulted in Wilde opening a criminal prosecution against Queensberry for libel.

The two following trials were full of drama, but it backfired and

Wilde was sent to prison, convicted under obscenity and libel laws.

Wilde’s bouts in the courts centered on scandal in his personal life and in his writings. Sean Latham, Pauline Walter Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The University of Tulsa and editor of the James Joyce Quarterly, asserts that Wilde’s writings are an embrace of scandal as an art form.

Using a technique known as roman à clef (roman-ah-klay, French for “novel with a key”), Wilde wrote real people into his books, though with different names.

Wilde used this technique in such a way that certain readers would recognize the references to actual people while others would not.

Unfortunately, his use of roman à clef landed him in trouble in court. His writings, such as his “Picture of Dorian Gray,” became evidence against him.

People who recognized themselves as scandalous characters in the story testified against him, accusing him of libel in his art.

Latham’s research on Wilde and modernist literature (c. 1900– 1945) led him to conclude that obscenity trials and libel law constrained literary expression during this period. Latham cited heavy use of roman à clef as the reason that author Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957) was repeatedly sued.

Even today, writers are safer, but the boundaries of libel are still ill-defined, Latham said.

It is for this reason, he added, that filmmakers and fiction writers add a disclaimer in the credits or the copyright page that often reads “All characters are purely fictional. Any resemblance to any real person is entirely coincidental.”

Professor Sean Latham will speak on the topic of libel and obscenity in relation to Wilde at 1:45 pm on Friday.

Professor Robert Spoo, Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law, maintains that Wilde brought much of his famous downfall upon himself.

Wilde “trademarked himself as a model of aesthetic,” Spoo said.

“The whole art of literature was put on trial” because of his celebrity status.

While Wilde’s personal conduct was investigated for obscenity, his writings were used as evidence and eventually investigated for obscenity too.

In the end, Spoo asserts that Wilde triumphed. “We still read him today,” Spoo said.

Wilde’s indirect approach to his subject material is what makes him so fascinating, according to Spoo. Professor Spoo will deliver the closing lecture on Friday afternoon.

The two-day conference has plenty to offer to undergraduate students and the general public.

The conference lecturers will cover a wide variety of topics.

Wilde’s copyrights will be examined, as will libel law, obscenity law and blackmail. On the non-legal side, taste in art will be investigated, along with the movements of public opinion and the issue of fashion.

The conference’s full schedule can be found on the College of Law’s website at www.utulsa. edu/academics/colleges/collegeof-law. Send questions about the conference to Barbette Veit at barbette-veit@utulsa.edu.

Although we applaud the University for its progress in instituting a non-discrimination policy, we believe that the way that the University has handled recent policy changes has been disappointing.

No campus-wide announcement was ever made following changes to the Equal Employment Opportunity Policy that went into effect over the summer.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy affects all TU students and faculty, because it governs how the university chooses and interacts with its employees.

It helps set the standard by which employees can expect to be treated. It would have been beneficial for the university to have sent an email alerting students and faculty to the change.

It also concerns us that TU administrators appear not to be familiar with their own policies. For example, the Collegian was told repeatedly last spring and early this fall that there was a non-discrimination policy that applied to admissions.

No such policy was ever made available to us despite repeated requests. The only copies of an overarching non-discrimination policy the Collegian has seen have an effective date of Oct. 24, 2013.

While representatives of the administration told the Collegian in an interview that they would inform the student body of the creation of the non-discrimination statement, they have yet to do so, and thus we believe the majority of students are unaware that the new non-discrimination statement exists.

Additionally, we believe that TU should make these policies available to the public, rather than

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Prospective students, especially those who identify as queer, are often concerned whether they will be safe and accepted on campus, and these policies can play a vital role in mitigating these concerns.

In our research, we discovered that the overwhelming majority of other universities with nondiscrimination policies made their policies and statements visible to the public, and we believe that TU should do the same. A policy is of little use if those it concerns are unaware of it.

We understand that the university is answerable to interests outside the student body that may have prompted the quiet release; however, we feel that publicizing the policy is in the best interests of of the TU student body.

We believe that this policy is a great move forward for the university and the TU community, and we call upon the administration to do more to publicize it.

Signed, J. Christopher Proctor Editor-in-Chief Kyle Walker Managing Editor Patrick Creedon Opinion Editor Conor Fellin News Editor Carly Putnam Copy Editor

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Green Team: After the homecoming football game, TU’s Earth Matters picked up recyclables from Chapman Stadium.

Carly Putnam

Taking out the trash

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Homecoming King Andrew Kresyman and Queen Jordan Hendrickson beam with excitement after Jordan’s victory was announced at halftime of the football game Saturday. Kresyman was named king the night before at the bonfire. Send Him victorious, happy and glorious, long to reign over us, God save the King.

“I was really amazed by what people throw away … Full Gatorades, full water bottles,” said Nathan Miller.

Miller, a senior, was one of ten members of TU’s Earth Matters Green Team who took to the H.A. Chapman Stadium on Saturday night after the Homecoming game to collect the recyclable waste left in the stands and thrown into trash cans by spectators.

After sporting events, TU maintenance crews collect garbage left in the stands and indiscriminately throw away recyclable and nonrecyclable waste alike.

In two hours, the Green Team had collected 21 large garbage bags full of recyclables and, with the assistance of a TU golf cart, hauled them to the Physical Plant to be recycled.

Members reported that twothirds of the contents of some trash cans were recyclables – largely plastic and glass bottles, alumi-

Haley Stritzel / Collegian

Celeste Williams, President of Earth Matters, poses next to the 21 bags of recyclables collected by Green Team during their post-homecoming cleanup of Chapman Stadium.

num cans and red Solo cups.

The TU Sustainability Committee was instrumental in getting the Green Team access to the stadium during Homecoming, said Earth Matters president Celeste Williams. “Jason Grunin … made this happen.”

Jason Grunin is the Associate Director of Special Projects and Energy Conservation at TU. “He helped (us) to get the passes and the bags … He talked to people in charge of Homecoming to make sure we could get in and do that.”

The Green Team wanted to show the impact that more recycling bins and prioritization of recycling

by TU students and community

could have on campus. Members hope to make the Green Team a recurring event at TU home games, said Williams.

“We’re hoping it will become a regular volunteer opportunity for students on campus,” Williams continued, “so students looking for (volunteer) hours for a Greek organization or another organization on campus can get them through the Green Team.”

Miller said he was stunned by the volume of waste. “Just the sheer amount of stuff, and the sheer amount of recyclables that don’t have to be thrown away.”

“People just aren’t thinking about their waste,” Miller said.

Award-winning playwright to visit TU Helen Patterson Staff Writer

Photo Courtesy University of Tulsa

Students, alumni and families gathered for the annual TU bonfire Friday to start off homecoming weekend.

Controversial Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner will speak at the University of Tulsa Nov. 12 as a part of this year’s Presidential Lecture Series.

Kushner has been selected due to his achievements in theatre and in cinema. He has received numerous awards, including two Tonys, an Emmy and an Oscar nomination for the screenplay to Spielberg’s “Lincoln.” He was also recently awarded the 2012 National Medal of the Arts.

Students may be familiar with Kushner from TU’s Fall 2011 production of “Angels in America II: Perestroika,” the second part of Kushner’s seven-hour “Angels in America.”

Kushner has also written “A Bright Room Called Day,” the book to the musical “Caroline, or Change” and co-wrote the screenplay to Spielberg’s “Munich.”

Kushner is known for probing sensitive and timely issues, such as the AIDS epidemic and attitudes towards homosexuality (the full title of “Angels in America” is “Angels in America: A Gay Fanta-

sia on National Themes”).

Kushner has also been critical of extremism in Israeli politics and culture. These views led to controversy and almost prevented him from receiving an honorary degree from City University of New York.

Kushner does not typically give lectures during his visits. Rather, he will be interviewed by Dr. Lars Engle, TU Professor of English, in the Reynolds Center. This event will take place on Tuesday, November 12 at 7:30, and is free and open to both TU students and the general public.

May 2014 Graduates Nominate a Secondary School Teacher For The Prize for Inspiration Here’s how to nominate a high school teacher who inspired you: 1. Nominations may be made by any undergraduate who expects to graduate in May, 2014.

2. Nominations are due by 5:00 PM on December 13, 2013 and should be sent to the Dean’s office of the College in which the graduating senior is enrolled via-email as follows: College of Arts and Sciences: Stephanie-Boulden@utulsa.edu College of Business Administration: Chante-clarkson@utulsa.edu College of Engineering & Natural Sciences: Dottie-Smith@utulsa.edu 3. Teachers selected will receive a $2,000 award and their high schools will receive $1,000. The teachers will be recognized during the May commencement ceremony.

High school teachers throughout the USA are eligible.

4. Students whose nominated teachers are selected will receive $500.

5. For more information including the nomination criteria go to the Student Affairs website:

http://www.utulsa.edu/studentaffairs.

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State-Run media

The State-Run Media does not discriminate between facts and fiction.

No shortage of Equal Opportunity at TU A plethora of nondiscrimination clauses and policies cloud the waters of university justice.

Conor Fellin

Filthy Bureaucrat The University of Tulsa’s new non-discrimination clause is its first since 2005—the year an administrative misstep lead to the simultaneous existence of hundreds of non-discrimination clauses.

It all started when Vice President of Fairness Moe Rallity was asked about the existence of a non-

discrimination clause at an administrative open house.

“Well,” Rallity ruminated, taking a very long drink of water between words, “TU most certainly does have a non-discrimination clause. We take it very seriously and will punish anyone not in compliance.”

Rallity later admitted he was surprised when he discovered the next day that the TU Website did list a non-discrimination clause.

“The TU football team shall not discriminate between our receivers and the other team’s safeties,” it ordered in red Comic Sans font.

The bill was dated 1876, but the last edit to the page had been made hours ago.

Football coach Lou Sir denied rumors that he had posted the bylaw in an attempt to corral arrogant sophomore quarterback Will Miss.

Soon thousands of statements claiming to be TU’s non-discrimination clause were swarming campus.

“The masses shall not discriminate against Austrian neo-classicism in their plebian artistic ventures,” read a single, well laid-out piece of posterboard hanging from the doors of Phillips Hall.

Multiple statements to the effect that teachers could not discriminate against tests or essays on the basis of quality circulated across Facebook as chain letters.

When Director of Housing Bill Moore was questioned about his decision to buy an abandoned mall in Southern Hills to house the next year’s incoming class, he cited a clause stating that “housing shall not discriminate between on-campus and off-campus purchases.”

One phony clause reading, “SA shall give money to KA indiscriminately,” backfired when the Collegian misprinted it the following

week’s issue as, “SA shall give monkey to KA indiscriminately.”

SA president and PKE member John Rollins, being a religious reader of the Collegian, felt compelled by university statutes to fund a six-hundred-pound gorilla to be snuck into the KA house.

“Oops,” Rollins later gloated.

When asked how legitimate the roughly ten billion non-discrimination statements were, Rallity replied that he did not have enough information to discriminate between the true clause and the false ones.

Graphics by Anna Bennett

Left: one of the pitfalls of so much equality is the greater possibility of misinterpretation, as evidenced by the Monkey Incident.

Top: a nondiscrimination policy was discovered at the physical plant which reads “grounds keepers shall not discriminate between trees with red leaves and trees with yellow leaves.” The leaves in question couldn’t be happier with the policy.

Smoking gun of democracy fires parting shot at voters Remember the lead rule: “whoever holds the gun makes the rules.”

Helen Patterson Packs Heat

In 2011, Texas passed a new law requiring that all voters present a valid form of ID. Though the law was initially challenged as unconstitutional, it was upheld as part of states’ rights to create their own voting laws.

Led by an enthusiastic governor Mary Fallin, Oklahoma has pushed its own voter ID law through in a recordbreaking, space-time continuumshattering three days.

“The new law requires that all voters identify themselves as true, l e g a l citizens of the United States of America by showing poll officials a valid concealed handgun permit,” said Fallin at a recent press conference. “We understand that some people are under the mistaken impression that these permits are difficult, expensive

and time-consuming to come by.

That is not the case at all.”

In support of her argument, Fallin called up respected social scientist and owner of “Guns Galore,” Dr. Quack. “I can assure you that, based on this informal poll

firmed Dr. Quack. “On a related note, 10 percent of Oklahomans are morons who will be defenseless when They finally show up, and therefore shouldn’t be allowed to vote.” When asked who “They” were, Dr. Quack leaned closer and whispered: “Liberals.”

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Quack also discredited queries about the new law’s disproportionate impact on women and minorities, many of whom don’t have concealed handgun permits.

“Women vote the same as their husbands, so it really doesn’t matter anyway. And minorities? Well, we will elect officials who know what’s best for them.”

However, for those Oklahomans who do not have permits, there is still hope to vote. “We are currently working to issue Oklahoma Election Identification Certificates to citizens who have that I misplaced or failed to Graphic by Anna Benne tt did amongst some renew their permits,” colleagues of mine at a hunting said Fallin. “Just send $25 lodge, approximately 90 percent and a contract signing away your of Oklahoma’s citizens have a immortal soul to my office.” concealed handgun permit,” con-

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Studies show that today’s youths see the past as a nostalgic, instagram-like soup and do not discriminate between decades of popular culture.

“I think we <3 the 90s” SA brings in an extremely authentic 90s cover band to entertain about a dozen students.

Matthew Magerkurth 90s Kid

The 90s cover band brought in for homecoming to serenade the campus of 90s kids rocked the house Wednesday night.

Sources haven’t been able to confirm what house they rocked, or if it was even on campus, but we’re pretty sure some houserocking took place. The group, however, seemed to have a perfect grip on the stylistic nuances of the 90s, playing such hits as “California Gurls” by Katy Perry, who was indeed alive during the 90s, and “Heartbreaker” by Led Zeppelin, most of which was alive during the decade.

Though most student samplings of the group lasted one or two songs, some stuck around for the musical history lesson. “Wow, it was amazing,” said sophomore Davy Grohlsten. “It’s really inspir-

ing to see them play my favorite music from my favorite decade.”

Another student, Justin Woodpond, was also titillated by the band’s stylish interpretation of essential 90s hits. “They know just what I want to listen to when I want to hear 90s music.”

The immaculate choice of a decade-themed cover band is reminiscent of TU’s choice in 1943, when the Student Association selected a traditional German polka band called Die Schöne Rockin Beats meines Herzens. The students started an amorous mob for the accordion player, and he was never seen again. SA made another stellar choice in the hopping era of the 1960s, opting for a 1940s cover band that did such hits as Swinging on a Star by Bing Crosby, Boom Boom Pow by the Black Eyed Peas, and Mahler 9.

Next year, SA plans to do another 90s cover band—this time from the 1890s. Representatives said they want the performance to feature the music of Antonin Dvorak, Tibetan Monks and Carly Rae Jepson.