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educators in uproar about A to F grading scale

ARIANNA PICKARDCampus reporter

Oklahoma legislature’s new method of grading school ef-fectiveness has drawn criticism from OU professors, along with other Oklahoma teachers and school superintendents.

OU professors join other Oklahoma teachers and school superintendents in disagreement with the state’s new meth-od of grading school effectiveness.

The Oklahoma State Department of Education released the first school report cards that grade all Oklahoma public schools on an A-F scale on Oct. 25.

The grades are based off grade-level performance stan-dards, graduation and dropout rates and atten-dance rates for elementary schools, according to the Oklahoma State Department of Education’s website.

The purpose of this new grading system is to create accountability and transpar-ency among schools while making the report simple enough for parents to un-derstand, according to the department’s website. It is meant to empower school administrators, parents, teachers and citizens to make informed choices and identify ways to strengthen and improve schools to ben-efit Oklahoma students.

“It all comes down to how do we keep schools accountable for educat-ing children,” said Teresa DeBacker, associate dean of

OU’s Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education and a profes-sor of psychology .

Many teachers, professors and school administrators, however, disagree with this new method, DeBacker said.

There’s a lot of controversy about how to measure school effectiveness, she said. When students come into a class-room with different levels knowledge, different learning rates and different testing skills, it’s unfair to measure the teacher’s ability and judge the school from one test the

OU profits from cola deal

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ARIANNA PICKARDCampus reporter

OU has received over $10 million through its exclusive contract with Coca-Cola over the last four years.

Coca-Cola has the exclu-sive rights to sell and promote its beverages throughout the OU’s Norman campus, fa-cilities and food operations, according to a contract the company signed with the university four years ago. No competitive beverages will be sold on campus until the contract ends.

OU will receive a total of $13,100,800 from Coca-Cola over the 10-year period that the contract is active, accord-ing to the agreement. About $3,840,000 was paid after the first year of the contract in 2008, and $1,028,978 will be paid each year after that.

The agreement has pro-vided OU with $10,265,921 in funding for student activities, athletic venues, programs associated with Oklahoma Memorial Union and insti-tutional support, said Chris Kuwitzky, OU associate vice president and chief financial

University will receive over $13 million from Coke

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Spice up your lifeL&A: spice & Rice, a new campus corner restaurant and grocery store has brought taj mahal taste to Norman since mid-september. (Page 7)

UNIVerSITY CONTrACTS

Only 9 percent of Oklahoma schools receive an A under new system

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BY THE NUmBErSOklahoma School report Card

9 percent received an A

48 percent received a B

34 percent received a c

8 percent received a d

1 percent received an F

Source: Oklahoma State Department of Education website

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STePPINg UP TO THe PLATeSports:

Oklahoma’s A through F public school grades ineffective (Page 4)

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poorest schools are strug-gling and the richest schools are prospering,” Baines said.

In Ohio, zero high-poverty schools are considered A quality, while 95 percent of the schools in Ohio’s richest neighborhoods are consid-ered A or B quality, Baines said.

“Despite the clear connec-tion between poverty and achievement, current poli-cies favor A-rated schools over F-rated schools,” Baines said in an email.

Arianna Pickard Arianna.J.Pickard-1@ou.edu

students take at the end of the year, she said.

“How do you reduce that complexity down to ‘they get a B?’” DeBacker said.

Teachers might be “phe-nomenally effective,” but if their students are coming in learning English as a second language or if they have in-tellectual disabilities, their scores are going to drop, and the school’s ratings are going to “get slammed,” said Lawrence Baines, chairman of OU’s department of in-structional leadership and academic curriculum.

“Sometimes I think that the state forgets that schools should be about helping children, not punishing teachers,” Baines said.

Most teachers and profes-sors see this as an extremely complex task, but lawmakers want a method of judging schools that is simple and easy for parents to under-stand, DeBacker said.

“These report cards are user-friendly, straight-forward and fair,” said Janet Barresi, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, in an article in the Norman Transcript. “It is high time for parents to have access to this information as

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tuesdAy, NoV. 6A gallery talk titled “Living Cultures” will be held from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Fred Jones Jr. museum of Art’s ellen and Richard L. sandor photography Gallery. Heather Ahtone will lead a tour about the key visual elements about Native American cultural dynamics.

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Faith Mouse, entrepreneurship sophomore, gets a Coca-Cola drink Sept. 17 at Oklahoma Memorial Union’s food court. OU grants Coca-Cola exclusive marketing rights on campus until 2018.

- To market, advertise and promote beverages on campus in connection to ou Norman campus and the teams.

- To market, advertise and promote beverages off campus in connection to ou Norman campus and the teams.

- To sample and survey individuals on campus with ou’s prior approval as to location and time, subject to approval

by the vice president for administration, if required, and subject to ou Norman campus’ policies governing research using human subjects.

- To market, advertise and promote beverages in connection with university marks and teams on television and radio, on print, signage, electronic and all other media, whether now or hereafter known.

Source: OU/Coca-Cola contract

AT A GLANCE Coca-Cola campus contract

officer.In return, OU has agreed to

cooperate with Coca Cola’s efforts to maximize the sale and distribution of their products on campus through marketing and advertising, according to the contract.

“The economic advantage of having an exclusive bever-age provider, coupled with the complexity of working with multiple beverage pro-viders… is the reason virtu-ally all [universities, restau-rants and theaters] engage an exclusive beverage provider,” Kuwitzky said in an email.

The contract prevents the university from dealing with the hassle of multiple bever-age providers, such as dupli-cate fountain stations, vend-ing machines, competing vendors at sporting events, contract administration, etc., Kuwitzky said.

OU Housing and Food Ser vices sometimes re-ceives questions and com-ments from customers about why the university only serves Coca-Cola, said Amy Buchanan, assistant director of marketing and communi-cations for OU Housing and Food Services.

“The majority of feed-back that Housing and Food Services receives from cus-tomers concerning our bev-erage variety is simply a mat-ter of curiosity,” Buchanan said in an email.

New students, faculty and staff will sometimes ask why certain products are avail-able and others are not, but they usually understand once the contract is explained,

Buchanan said.Many universities have

some form of agreement to provide beverages on cam-pus, Kuwitzky said. Most of these agreements require the university to sell only certain kinds of beverages on cam-pus, besides certain excep-tions like sports recovery drinks.

OU’s contract with Coca-Cola ends in July, 2018, Kuwitzky said. Until then, OU will examine the bene-fits of the agreement, look at other interested bidders and decide if the contract is worth continuing.

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College of International Studies holds essay competition as part of International Education Week

wriTiNG ComPETiTioN

students will have the chance to write about how multicultural experiences have influenced their lives in an essay contest this month.

the college of international studies’ contest will kick off ou’s international education Week that takes place from Nov. 12 to Nov. 16.

“the idea of the essay contest was simply to allow students to think about how international connec-tions have transformed their lives in preparation of international education Week,” said Janice Levi, ou’s international programs adviser.

the 750-word essay must reflect how the student has expanded his or her horizons or been

enriched by an intercultural encounter, Levi said. this could include a student’s experi-

ence studying abroad, par-ticipating in the ou cousins program or socializing with international students on campus, she said.

the essay contest com-mittee consists of five people, including Levi, an ou international student services staff member, an ou education Abroad staff member and an ou student Life member.

students must submit their essays by Friday, and the oklahoman will publish the winning essay Nov. 16. the winning writer will receive $100.

Jenna Beilman Campus Reporter

BY THE NUmBErSNorman Schools report Card

6 schools received an A

9 schools received a B

7 schools received a c

Source:Oklahoma State Department of Education website

“The idea of the essay contest was simply to allow students to think about

how international connections have transformed their

lives in preparation of International

Education Week.”JANiCE LEVi,

iNTErNATioNAL ProGrAmS ADViSor

they seek to make the best educational choices

for their children. Parents have a basic right to this in-formation, and they should be able to find it easily.”

This simplicity isn’t neces-sarily better, DeBacker said.

Another issue with this method is that poorly fund-ed schools that can’t afford the same technology, text-books and teachers as other schools will get bad grades, DeBacker said.

“A lot of this comes down to funding; we’re testing but not investing,” DeBacker said. “Now, we’re publicly printing the report cards—humiliating the schools while withholding what they need to do their jobs.”

Other states have taken to this same method of ranking schools with a report card, and it has been an “expen-sive disaster everywhere,” Baines said.

“Everyone knows that the

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places to report, so be care-ful about jumping to a con-clusion if Romney looks strong early on. Most of the polls in Florida close at 7 p.m. Eastern, so by 8 p.m. Eastern, when the last polls close, results will start to roll out quickly. But fully 4.5 percent of votes in Florida weren’t counted on election night in 2008, so if things are tight, no one’s going to be hasty about declaring a vic-tor in the state. Especially after the 2000 fiasco in which the winner in Florida, and thus the presidency, wasn’t determined for more than a month. If you want to get re-ally granular, Hillsborough County, home to Tampa, is widely considered a bell-wether for the state.

Tiny New Hampshire is another competitive state to watch closely.

A l s o k e e p w a t c h o n Pennsylvania (20) for any signs of a Romney surprise. The state has long been con-sidered safe for Obama, but Republicans started running

ads there in the final week of the campaign, and the GOP ticket was campaigning there Sunday. No Republican presidential candidate has carried the state in nearly a quarter century.

—8:30 p.m.Polls close in Arkansas

(six), where Romney is com-fortably ahead in surveys.

—9 p.m.Polls close in 14 states,

including battlegrounds C o l o r a d o ( n i n e ) a n d Wisconsin (10). Democrats have carried Wisconsin for six straight presidential elec-tions, and Obama had the edge in polling going in, so a flip here would be especially noteworthy.

Colorado, where almost 80 percent of voters cast early ballots, could be a strag-gler because it’s so close. Historically, as much as 10 percent of the state’s vote doesn’t get counted on elec-tion night, and those ballots could be decisive in a close

race.Information from exit

polls could help flesh out the Colorado picture: Young pro-fessionals and Hispanic vot-ers were central to Obama’s victory there in 2008, but the sluggish economy has hurt his standing.

T w o m o r e t o w a t c h : M i n n e s o t a ( 1 0 ) a n d Michigan (16). The states long have been consid-ered safe for Obama, but the Republicans made late moves there.

— 10 p.m. Polls close in four states,

including the last of the bat-tlegrounds, Iowa (six) and Nevada (six).

Iowa’s been leaning to-ward Obama, but watch how the vote breaks down geo-graphically. Can Romney’s advantage in GOP-heavy western Iowa overcome Obama’s edge in eastern swing territory?

If Obama wins Ohio and Wisconsin, Romney would have to have help from the

West, in places like Nevada and Colorado. Nevada, where two-thirds of the elec-torate votes early, has been moving Obama’s direc-tion in recent weeks, pow-ered by strength in huge labor and Hispanic voting blocs. A Romney incursion there would really mean something.

—11 p.m.Polls close in five western

states, but most are foregone conclusions for Obama. He gets 78 electoral votes from California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington; Romney gets four from Idaho.

— 1 a.m., Wednesday

The last of the polls close, in Alaska. Romney gets three electoral votes. Will many people still be up?

Political junkies could well be waiting to see how things play out in one or more bat-tleground states.

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President Barack Obama supporters hold a ”Vote early” sign as former President Bill Clinton spoke at an Obama campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio on Oct. 29. With this year’s presidential election razor-close, Tuesday could be a long night. Obama has more options for piecing the 270 electoral votes needed for victory, so early setbacks for romney could be important portents of how the night ends.

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WASHINGTON — Stock up on munchies and make sure the batteries in your TV remote are fresh. With this year’s presidential elec-tion razor-close to the fin-ish, Tuesday could be a long night.

Even if the presidency isn’t decided until after midnight EST, there will be plenty of clues early in the evening on how things are going for President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney. Obama has more options for piecing together the 270 electoral votes need-ed for victory, so any early setbacks for Romney could be important portents of how the night will end.

Here’s a timetable for armchair election watchers on how the night will unfold, based on what time the last polls close in each state. All times are EST.

—7 p.m., TuesdayPolls close in six states, but

all eyes will be on Virginia, the first of the battleground states to begin reporting results. If either candidate is comfortably ahead in Virginia, with 13 electoral votes, that could be a lead-ing indicator of which way the night is going.

Virginia typically has been fairly fast at counting ballots. But there’s a new voter ID law in the state that could complicate things this year. Voters who don’t bring iden-tification to the polls still can have their ballots counted if they produce ID by Friday. If the race in Virginia is super tight, it could come down to those provisional ballots. On Election Night, no one will even know how many of them are out there.

Virginia is especially im-portant for Romney. In 2008, Obama became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry Virginia since 1964. Keep an eye on turnout in northern Virginia’s

Democratic strongholds for an early idea of which way the state will go.

—7:30 p.m.Polls close in three states,

including all-important Ohio (18 electoral votes) and competitive North Carolina (15).

If Ohio is particularly close, and polls suggest it might be, there’s a chance the outcome there won’t be known until after Election Day, and the presidency could hinge on it. In the last several elections, between 2 percent and 3 percent of the state’s votes came from provisional ballots, which aren’t counted until later. In 2004, after a long, tense night counting votes, the presi-dential race wasn’t decided until 11 a.m. the next day, when Democrat John Kerry called President George Bush to concede Ohio and the presidency.

R o m n e y d e s p e r a t e l y needs Ohio; no Republican has won the presidency without it. Without Ohio, Romney would need vic-tories in nearly all the re-maining up-for-grabs states, and he’d have to pick off key states now leaning Obama’s way, such as Wisconsin and Iowa. Obama has more work-arounds than Romney if he can’t claim Ohio.

In North Carolina, the most conservative of the hot-ly-contested states, Romney appears to have the late edge in polling. Obama, who nar-rowly won the state in 2008, has paid less attention to it recently. An Obama victory there could point to broader troubles for Romney.

—8 p.m.More pieces of the puzzle

will start falling into place as polls close in the District of Columbia and 16 states, including battlegrounds F l o r i d a ( 2 9 ) a n d N e w Hampshire (four).

Democratic-leaning parts of Florida tend to be the last

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I’ve been reading about the presidential elec-tion on the Internet,

and since we all know the blogosphere can’t say any-thing that isn’t true, I really feel I have a good grip on what to expect if the presi-dent should be re-elected.

Here is the timeline, as far as I can piece it together, of what will happen following an Obama victory.

First, everyone will be fired Wednesday should the elec-tion go Obama’s way. Don’t even bother going to work. Just unplug your alarm clocks. Taxes will be so high for employ-ers, they will be forced to fire everyone and outsource jobs to the remotest areas of the Amazon where workers can be paid with shiny bits of plastic and polished buttons.

Next, the government will come after your guns, as the Second Amendment will be outlawed by the new Obama Supreme Court. Only those who have maxed out all their credit cards to stockpile weapons and ammo in their basements will survive the coming disaster. Good thing they took that gamble.

With all of the unemployed, unarmed and likely very depressed Americans, the president will order the UN to seize the opportunity to carry out a full-scale uprising with its overwhelming military might: blue-helmeted troops from Argentina, Belgium, Fiji and Finland will occupy all of our cities with armored vehicles, allowing the socialist, communist, fascist, elitist, Nazi Caliphate Dictatorship to take control of our communities. During the ground invasion by the UN, the Muslim Brotherhood will parachute into Washington D.C. and seize control of Congress.

Once all wealth has been re-distributed to the lazy, abortion-loving, drug-addicted bottom 47 percent of the

country, Shariah law will be implemented. The burqa will be mandatory for all women, and mentioning Jesus will be punishable by stoning. Husbands will be required by law to beat their wives daily, and every morning you will wake up to the call to prayer from the minarets that have replaced your church steeples.

Fortunately, you won’t have to endure this for long, be-cause it will become apparent Obama is the Antichrist. A second American civil war, led by Chuck Norris and his love-ly second wife, Gena, will usher in the following 1,000 years of darkness.

Here, there is some confusion on the Internet. Either the rapture will happen after Obama defeats the Norris family (and their friends Texas and Virginia) or it will happen after Obama’s last four years are up. I’ve had trouble getting a concrete answer, but since Internet users cannot lie, I’m sure I’m just missing something. Either way, the disappearance of 50-80 million hardworking, honest Americans will cripple what’s left of the world economy, leaving the remaining 6.9 billion people on the planet to endure Obama’s evil wrath. If only they had listened to the Internet.

From this point on, it’s a familiar story. The seven-headed demon rises out of the sea, four demons on horses fly down from the sky and inflict horrors on mankind — trumpets, victorious return of the king and final curtain. The after party will be at the downtown Ramada in heaven.

The prophecy of the Internet is not set in stone; we can still avoid disaster for the next four years by electing Mitt Romney. Then, we can put aside all of this talk of war and evil until 2016, when Mitt Romney, savior of the world, will be forced once again to battle the evil forces of the Democratic Party. Stay tuned to the Internet, and Godspeed!

Trent Cason is a literature and cultural studies senior.

Our View: Oklahoma needs to address social issues, not A through F grades, to create better schools.

The State Board of Education released grades for Oklahoma schools at the end of October, assigning an A through F letter grade to all Oklahoma public schools based on “student achievement,” “school performance,” “overall student growth” and “bottom 25 percent student growth.”

While attaching a letter grade to public schools ensures transparency between the school board, administrators and teachers, the grading system is confusing.

Grades are largely determined based on calculations derived from students’ scores on a state-mandated exam. Further, a school’s report card is accessible only if it is interpreted while consulting a glossary of terms to best understand what values for “performance index” or “overall student growth” truly mean.

The final grade is reached by averaging test scores in various ways, but a grade cannot adequately describe a school’s conditions, successes or weaknesses.

Does a C mean the school offers an “average” education? Should parents, teachers and administrators settle for an average education? Does an A mean a school does not need to improve? Where does a school that received an F start to improve? These are questions the report card doesn’t answer.

Because each state government assesses public education systems differently, Oklahoma’s school report cards evaluate a school’s performance relative to other Oklahoma schools and do not compare schools to others in the nation. It is impossible to know how they will perform in another environment, should Oklahoma students seek education outside the state. This makes it impossible to ensure Oklahoma schools are adequately preparing students, making it problematic for students who pursue degrees outside Oklahoma.

This sets the state up for failure. Today’s students will determine the success of our state. These students need to be able to work with other people and states effectively and understand Oklahoma within the context of the nation, not within the context of Oklahoma.

Further, the grading system can create classism and make it difficult for schools with poor grades to achieve high grades.

Parents relocating their children will be more likely to move to a school district with a high grade. This encourages development in schools already performing well and discourages development in poorly-graded schools.

When pairing school grade reports with U.S. Census data, one finds the higher the poverty rate in a county, the more likely the school district in that county performed poorly on school grade reports.

For example, 2010 Census data shows 21.8 per-cent of children ages 5 to 17 in Tulsa County come from impoverished families. The Oklahoma State Department of Education shows 45 percent of schools in Tulsa County received a D or F grade and only 6 percent received A’s.

On the other hand, 12.7 percent of children ages 5 through 17 in Canadian County come from im-poverished families, while 9 percent of schools in Canadian County received a D grade and zero re-ceived a F grade. Almost 74 percent of Canadian County schools received A’s or B’s.

The grading system works best for schools that have achieved high grades but does a disservice to those that scored poorly.

The grading system was adopted “to provide incentives to schools to challenge all students to reach high levels of college and career readiness,” according to the Oklahoma State Department of Education. The system will also “give schools a tool to encourage more parental and community involvement” to ensure a school’s success.

But a school with a D or F may not have the financial resources to improve, no matter the incentive. If a quarter of the community is in poverty, it may be difficult for parents to find the time or resources to “become involved.”

Grades cannot improve with cuts to education at more than 20 percent, especially when schools rely heavily on property taxes to fund schools.

For the grading system to best serve Oklahoma, the state and administrators need to recognize the underlying social issues that enable poverty and impair students by addressing issues such as crime rates, teen pregnancy, chemical dependency and poor living conditions.

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The news media has given more attention to the

federal funding received by Sesame Street than to America’s destructive—and probably illegal—drone war in the Middle East.

The drone war is important despite the lack of fuss among politicians and pundits.

By “drone war,” I refer to the campaign of military strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles in the Middle East, concentrated most heavily in Pakistan’s Fata region. After the U.S. acquires intelligence revealing the location of known terrorists or other “militants,” a drone is sent to blow them up.

President Obama, who has championed the use of drones, says the strikes make America safer by efficiently eliminating threats with few civilian casualties. In the last presidential debate, Gov. Romney said he shared Obama’s position on drones and would continue to use them.

Obama’s position—and Romney’s by extension—is highly questionable. It’s unclear if the number of civilian casualties is as negligible as they seem to believe, and while drone strikes have certainly hurt terrorists in some ways, there’s reason to think they‘ve also invigorated them and turned even more people against America.

It’s unclear how many civilians have been killed by drones, partly because of the obfuscating language employed by the Obama administration. However, some respectable estimates do exist.

Research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism shows at least 475 of the at least 2,593 people killed by U.S. drones in Pakistan since 2004 were civilians.

The figures given by the New America Foundation are more conservative, but nevertheless concerning: At least 153 of the at least 1908 people killed by drones are confirmed to have been civilians.

While Obama and Romney might call these figures negligible, that’s not what most Pakistanis would say. According to a June Pew Research Center survey, 94 percent of Pakistanis believe drone strikes kill too many innocent people. A must-read report published by NYU and Stanford law schools also shows Pakistanis have a dim view of drones—many are frightened and traumatized by their patrols in the region.

Accounting for the harm inflicted on civilians by drone strikes, it’s easy to see how they might be detrimental to their purpose of keeping America safe.

Crossing Pakistan’s borders at will and striking at the cost of civilian deaths and injuries, the drones breed resentment and fear in the Middle East that makes groups like the Taliban look less like terrorists and more like freedom fighters. Reporters overseas have witnessed children swearing vengeance on America over the loss of their parents to the drones. The failed Times Square bomber was reportedly motivated by rage in response to CIA drone strikes in Pakistan.

Before the drone war began, terrorist group recruiters would point to things like Guantanamo Bay to show the depravity of the U.S. Now, they point to the smoldering ruins of a drone strike target and the children who lie dead.

At some point Americans must ask: Is it worth it? It’s important we ask, because America’s next president

sure won’t.

Steven Zoeller is a journalism junior.

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I read The Oklahoma Daily on Oct. 29th and was happy to see that the newspaper was covering the under-reported crimes of rape and sexual assault on the OU campus. I was dismayed, however, to see the term “forcible rape” used both in the article and in a glossary defining various sexual crimes.

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Oklahoma men’s tennis player sophomore Dane Webb lost in the singles final of the Longhorn Invitational in Austin on Sunday.

Princeton senior Matija Pecotic defeated Webb 7-6, 7-6 in the final match.

“Dane (Webb) lost a very close match to a guy that’s top five in the country,” assistant coach Bo Hodge said in a release. “[Webb is] playing some of the best tennis he has ever played. We are expecting him to have a breakout year.”

Webb currently is ranked No. 57 in the nation by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association — 10 places higher than Pecotic’s No. 67 ranking.

OU also represented both teams in the doubles final. Webb and senior Costin Paval were set to play junior Peerakit Siributwong and freshman Leonard Stakhovsky before the team decided to not play the match to allow Paval to recover from a small injury, and both teams were named co-champions of the invitational.

The Sooners conclude fall play at the USTA/ITA Indoor National Championships that begin Thursday.

Garrett Holt, Sports Reporter

Kedric Kitchens, sports editorDillon Phillips, assistant editor

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Column

Jones never enough for fans

Saturday in Ames, senior quarterback Landry Jones threw

for 405 yards and four touchdowns, propelling the Sooners to a 35-20 win.

The game was Jones’ 10th 400-yard game as OU’s quarterback and allowed him to jump former Boise State quarterback Kellen Moore for fifth place in NCAA history with 14,792 career passing yards.

But you wouldn’t have been able to tell that from listening to local sports talk radio or reading one of the OU-centric online message boards. All they wanted to talk about was Jones’ two interceptions and his fourth quarter scramble that ended in a slide that was one-yard short of a first down.

And although those criticisms are warranted, it’s become apparent that after four years under center, there’s still nothing Jones can do to appease — much less please — OU’s rabid fan base.

His two interceptions against Iowa State — both of which were good reads that were thrown just a little off target — overshadowed his four touchdowns and more than 400 yards in a game the Sooners won on the road by 15 points.

But such is the nature of Landry Jones.

Last month, I wrote a column examining Jones’ career in terms of his performances against Texas, noting his success in a trio of big games against the Longhorns and acknowledging his standing among OU fans in the process.

And I stand by what I wrote there: No matter how well Jones plays, he always will be remembered for the times he didn’t play well enough.

Part of that is because he had the unenviable task of succeeding Sam Bradford as the Sooners’ signal-caller, and part of that is because he’s shown glimpses of brilliance that have made his moments of mediocrity all the more disappointing.

Statistically, he is the most decorated OU quarterback ever, but he had the misfortune of playing at a program where success is measured in national championships and nothing else.

He will be judged as unfairly as any OU player ever, and certainly more unfairly than any player of the Stoops era — save maybe Nate Hybl, who played under a similar shadow when he followed Josh Heupel.

People either forget or choose to discount the fact Jones is the winningest quarterback in OU history and the record holder of virtually every passing statistic kept at OU.

At season’s end, he likely will surpass Graham Harrell and become the Big 12’s all-

time leader in career passing yards. But in the eyes of the Sooner faithful, he’ll never quite be good enough.

Dillon Phillips is a journalism junior and assistant sports editor for The Daily. Follow him on Twitter at @DillonPhillips_.

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Senior quarterback landry Jones (12) throws a pass during a game against Iowa State on Saturday. Jones threw for 405 yards and four touchdowns in the, 35-20, ou win. It was the 10th 400-yard game of Jones’ career.

Tobi Neidysports Reporter

The Oklahoma football team couldn’t establish the running game against Notre Dame’s powerful defensive line last week. But on Saturday, junior running back Brennan Clay exploded for a career-high 157 rushing yards to help lead the Sooners to a 35-20 win over Iowa State at Jack Thrice Stadium in Ames.

Prior to this year, Clay had been part of the running back rotation, rushing for a combined 111 attempts for a total of 401 yards and just one touchdown, hardly the numbers expected from a highly-touted recruit who rushed for more than 2,000 yards and 26 touchdowns during his senior year of high school.

And with the addition of transfer running backs Damien Williams and Dominique Whaley over the past two seasons, Clay slid further down the running back depth chart.

But Whaley still hasn’t returned from last season’s injury, and Williams was questionable going into the matchup against the Cyclones after sustaining an ankle injury against the Fighting Irish.

Those injuries put the ball in Clay’s hands, and the San Diego native didn’t waste his chance to shine.

On the Sooners’ first offensive series, Clay rushed for 13 yards on three carries to help get OU down to the ISU six yard line.

Although the drive stalled without any points after sophomore quarterback Blake Bell failed to convert the first down after two rushing attempts, Clay’s early success on the ground set up the running game that OU missed against Notre Dame.

After Iowa State edged the Sooners’ lead with a 19-yard rushing touchdown by Jarvis West, Clay did his most damage in the game, accounting for 41 yards on five plays including an 18-yard dash to the endzone that gave OU the 28-13 lead in the third quarter.

But more important than Clay’s individual performance was the demonstration of OU’s depth in offensive playmakers who can step up when injuries strike.

Williams took over as the Sooners’ leading rusher this year, netting 581 yards on 87 attempts and seven touchdowns so far — accounting for almost half of OU’s total ground yardage.

Going into Ames with the possibility of not having Williams’ ability to shed tackles created some questions as to how OU would be able to escape its one-dimensional offense that showed up in the game a week prior to the Iowa State matchup.

But Clay answered all of those questions and more.While the 157-yard performance was a career-high for

Clay, the consistent run production also helped senior quarterback Landry Jones establish the air attack that utilized nine different receivers in the 15-point victory.

Clay led all rushers during the game, averaging 6.5 yards per carry on 24 attempts and collected the Sooners’ only rushing touchdown.

Whether the performance solidified the junior’s position in the starting lineup or not, Clay’s success helped the Sooners’ when the team needed a player to step up to fill a vacated starting role.

And the Sooners will need players like Clay to help sustain OU’s productivity going down the stretch with no more bye weeks and four games left on OU’s regular season schedule.

Tobi Neidy, tneidy@ou.edu

Junior running back ran for 157 yards and one touchdown in first start of year

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Clay steps up in place of injured backs

CHArLIE NEIBErgALL/THE ASSOCIATED PrESS

Junior running back Brennan Clay (24) ran for a career-high 157 yards and one touchdown. It was the first 100-yard game of Clay’s career, and led all runners in the game.

Dillon Phillipsdphillips85@ou.edu

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Spice up your life

New Campus Corner restaurant brings Taj Mahal taste to Norman

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above: ali alhubail and Hussain alkhars, petroleum engineering sophomores eat lunch at spice and rice restaurant and grocery on oct. 16. spice and rice has been open on Campus Corner since mid-september.

Left: a variety of spices and different types of rice sit on shelves at spice and rice on Campus Corner on.

Molly EvansLife & Arts Reporter

Students no longer need to study abroad in Mumbai or drive to Oklahoma City for authentic halal Indian cuisine with the opening of a new Campus Corner restau-rant and grocery store.

Since mid-September, Spice & Rice, 770 DeBarr Ave., has offered Norman residents a menu includ-ing staple spices like curry and classic chai tea, but the foods’ array of tastes and tex-tures offer insight into the many geographical, cultural and religious regions of the nation, co-owner Shamim Merchant said. Indian food varies in taste across north-ern and southern portions of the country, Merchant said.

Spice & Rice’s menu com-bines those regional differ-ences, with one of the best-selling dishes being chicken

tikka masala, a chicken and rice dish cooked in an herb and tomato sauce, she said.

Filling all 15 chairs around lunchtime, Spice & Rice also offers shelves of spices, len-tils and chili powders for cus-tomers to take home. Despite the slight differences, the key ingredients of Indian food are the various spices and rice, Merchant said.

“If I don’t eat even a couple of bites of rice, I don’t feel full,” Merchant said.

Multidisciplinary studies sophomore Anjum Hussain knows Shamim Merchant f r o m t h e i r m o s q u e i n Oklahoma City. Cinnamon, cloves, “zeera,” turmeric, red chili peppers and gar-lic are other familiar Indian spices with which the cooks of Spice & Rice know how to season their dishes perfectly, Hussain said.

“You know Indian food is at

its best when there’s a mom involved,” Hussain said. “The food tastes exactly how she makes it in her own home: nothing less than nostalgic and delicious.”

Me rcha nt ’s hu sba n d , Kabir, always had the dream of opening a restaurant, even without any experience in Mumbai or the couple’s five and a half years in Norman, Merchant said. Kabir, who manages the Campus Corner Market next door to Spice & Rice, regularly was asked by customers and students

about fresh Indian food, Merchant said.

T h a t f r e s h n e s s i s translated as “halal,” which

is a Muslim religious term similar to “kosher” in the Jewish tradition, Merchant said. All meat, except for pork, is completely “halal,” meaning “per missible” in Arabic, according to the Halal Food Authority. There is a prayer said before slaughtering the animal, and the animal must have been fed organically throughout its life, according to the website.

As the only “halal” obser-vant restaurant in Norman, Spice & Rice has done well in its first month and a half of

business, Merchant said. The Spice & Rice team

plans to expand the menu with the increase of business to cater a greater diversity of dishes, but Spice & Rice al-ready is enjoying the diversity of student customers enter-ing its doors six days a week, Merchant said.

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