VICTORIA GARTENCampus Reporter

Angela Startz joked a b o u t t h e t h o u g ht o f cancer.

I t ’s j u s t a c y s t , t h e OU College of Arts and Sciences information spe-cialist said on the phone to her best friend, Darci Gregory, as Gregory pre-pared for a mammogram.

An hour later, Startz was faced with the daunting fact that her best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Their close friendship began the first day they met working together at OU. Over the course of seven years, they had each other at every stage of life. Through breakups, kids, birthdays and now can-cer, their friendship didn’t waver.

“I answered the phone, and she just said, ‘I have cancer.’ I couldn’t talk. My heart stopped. It was sur-real,” Startz said.

St a r t z a n d G re g o r y said it was an emotional night as Gregory decided it was time to shave her head, and they made it a celebration.

“It was very awkward,” Gregor y said. “I think what was harder than los-ing my hair was losing my eyebrows and eyelashes because that, too, is such a huge part of who we are as women. We look different without our eyebrows and eyelashes.”

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Presidential primaries are just a few months away, and one local organization is getting prepared for the highly contested Republican nomination.

The Norman Ron Paul 2012 headquarters opened Friday in downtown Norman to begin campaigning for the Republican representative

from Texas.Paul advocates limited

constitutional government, low taxes and free markets, according to his campaign website.

Coordinators at the Ron Paul Headquarters, located on Main Street, are trying to build a larger following with-in the local community, and supporters said they hope their centrally-located build-ing will create a buzz around Norman.

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OPINIONHonor academically excellent studentsBoren should go ahead with proposal to recognize academics. (Page 4)

NeWschanges brewing in state liquor lawsTask force considers selling stronger beer in grocery stores. (Page 5)

MulTIMeDIashiny Toy Guns sit down for a chatBand members discuss their present and future plans. (OuDaily.com)

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BLAYKLEE BUCHANANCampus Reporter

Sooner football is un-defeated this season, but football isn’t the only thing OU President David Boren

wants to showcase.Student and faculty aca-

demic excellence someday may have a permanent me-morial walk on the South Oval.

The new walk, as Boren proposed to The D aily , would be called the Scholars’ Walk and would be located on the east side of the South

Oval, parallel to the Michael Price Walk.

The academic walkway would be similar to Heisman Park on the east side of the stadium.

Boren said scholars de-serve to be honored along-side other OU achievers.

“We have statues of ath-letes, statues of presidents

of the university, but where are the statues of the great scholars, the great teach-ers?” Boren said.

And the president isn’t the only one thinking it’s time to honor OU’s scholas-tic achievements.

Elementary education sophomore Sam Hale agreed that academic excellence

should be honored.“It seems only fair to do

the same for another group that performs well in anoth-er area,” Hale said. “I think it would be nice for those who are visiting OU to see that we have people that reach high levels of achievement in many fields.”

There is no estimated

t i m e o f c o mp l e t i o n f o r Scholars’ Walk, spokesman Michael Nash said, and it’s something very early in the works.

Completion time to be announced, spokesman says

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Shiny Toy Guns vocalist Carah Faye Charnow performs at the final show in the Must Stay Music Festival on Saturday on the union’s east lawn. The event featured several bands over three days, as well as a watch party for the OU-Kansas football game. Life &Arts editor Katherine Borgerding interviewed Charnow and Jeremy Dawson. (Page 3)

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Norman movement in infancy stage of protest

UNY CHANCampus Reporter

The Occupy Wall Street movement is growing in Norman after three meetings were held on campus last week to decide on the group’s course of action.

Occupy Norman identi-fies itself as an independent organization that operates in

solidarity with Occupy OKC, Occupy Wall Street and all occupations worldwide, ac-cording to their website.

Occupy is a leaderless re-sistance movement with people from various back-grounds and political per-suasions seeking to end cor-porate greed and corruption by replicating the nonvio-lent tactics deployed in Arab Spring.

O c c u p y No r m a n w a s started by OU students and Norman residents, most of

whom were OU graduates. It is still in its infancy stage, and its early meetings focused on the logistics of voicing par-ticipants’ dissatisfaction with excessive corporate influence on politics.

Some local participants were first-time protesters such as Brielle King, a po-litical science sophomore at Rose State College who learned about the movement on Al Jazeera and decided to join the cause.

“Our plight is for justice,”

King said. “It is not limited to the people in Wall Street only. Corporations shouldn’t be demonized, but I do think everyone should be treated fairly.”

At the group’s first general assembly, Norman resident Brian Husted emphasized supporters must understand the basic financial system protestors are rejecting.

“We need to learn about how derivatives work so that when the media asked what we are campaigning for, we

could be clear about what we stand,” Husted said.

His enthusiasm for com-plex financial operation was not shared by many cam-paigners; however, it has in-spired others to facilitate dis-cussions about the socioeco-nomic problems.

No explicit agenda has been finalized by the Norman chapter, and no events have been announced as of yet.

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today around CampusThe collaborative art exhibit titled “satan’s Camaro” is on display in the Fred Jones Jr. museum of art’s Lightwell Gallery. the exhibit, featuring the work of Justin strom and Lenore thomas, will be on display until oct. 21.

Free food will be available at noon monday through Friday on the south oval as part of Campus activities Council’s Homecoming Week. the food available will vary by day and be available as long as supplies last.

A blood drive will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Cate Center and the oklahoma memorial union’s east Lawn. the blood drive is part of Campus activities Council’s Homecoming Week.

A CIA Career Workshop will be held from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in Kaufman Hall, room 230, for those who want to learn about the opportunities to work for the Cia. Candidates with a foreign language skill and a desire to live overseas are highly desired. the workshop is free.

A lecture titled “the age of Lincoln and the Civil War” will be given from 7 to 9 p.m. in the oklahoma memorial union’s meacham auditorium. the lecture will be given by Clemson university history professor Vernon Burton. the lecture is part of the Civil War Lecture series.

OU School of Music will present a free concert featuring the trombone choir from 8 to 10 p.m. in Catlett music Center’s sharp Concert Hall. the concert will present a range of music from the 1500s to modern times.

tuesday, oCt. 18Free Cotton Candy will be available from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the oklahoma memorial union’s First Floor Lobby. the Cotton Candy is courtesy of the union programming Board.

A Bible study hosted by Christians on Campus will take place from noon to 12:45 p.m. in the oklahoma memorial union’s sooner room.

A concert will be performed from noon to 12:30 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. museum of art’s sandy Bell Gallery. the concert will be a preview of the play, “sunday in the park with George.” admission to the art museum is free on tuesdays.

Free food will be available at noon monday through Friday on the south oval as part of Campus actitives Council’s Homecoming Week. the food available will vary by day and be available as long as supplies last.

A blood drive will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Cate Center and the oklahoma memorial union’s east Lawn. the blood drive is part of Campus activities Council’s Homecoming Week.

A seminar titled “Get ready to enroll” will take place from 4 to 5 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 245. the seminar will help prepare students to enroll in next semester’s classes.

MeMbers: Campaigners voice their concernsContinued from page 1

action needs to take place soon to sustain the cause.

“We are losing traction,” said Mary Francis, OU alum-na and president of Voices of Oklahoma.

Robert Cole, another cam-paigner, echoed the state-ment on the official Occupy Norman Facebook page.

“Talk is good but action is better. Time spent on prepa-ration is time lost on action,” Cole said in the post.

Francis and Cole are not the only ones ready to see ac-tion from Occupy Norman. Self-described outlaw poet Zakk Flash said he wonders what the group can do from Norman.

“We got friends in the cir-cle around the world. The

first question is, what do we do here? What can I do to get attention from Wall Street?” Flash asked.

The campaigners suggest an improvement in trans-parency and accountability could help the movement’s success, but what they see as an end to their demand re-mains unclear.

“Of course, there will be signposts on the way, but I

am a big believer in continu-ous revolution,” Flash said. “The autocrats kept invading our ways.”

O U a l u m n u s D a v i d Slemmons said each per-son has his own definition of Occupy’s success.

“Each of us has individual milestones,” he said. “The fact that we come out to voice our concerns in unity is a pretty big achievement already.”

race: Friends, family members rejoice for lifeContinued from page 1

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Angela Startz and Darci Gregory after the 2011 Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure on Saturday in Oklahoma City. The race raised money and awareness for breast cancer research.

experienced what Gregory and Startz went through, d o n n e d a p i n k T- s h i r t and sneakers Saturday in Oklahoma City as they lined up for the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. The race had about 18,000 participants and is expect-ed to raise $1.2 million this year.

OU alumna Cassandra Ketrick has participated in the 5K for six years with the OU Women’s Outreach Center in memory of her aunt who passed away after her battle with breast cancer.

She managed to remain energetic throughout the race, which she attributes to the overwhelming amount of love surrounding the race, pushing everyone to the fin-ish line.

“My favorite part of the race is seeing thousands of people gathered in pink : men, women, children, the young and the old and, most importantly, survivors. It’s

beautiful. It’s humbling,” Ketrick said.

Gregory said seeing the turnout Saturday remind-ed her why she walks in the race.

“Once I got there and saw all of the incredible young women still fighting the fight, I said this is why I’m here walking for those peo-ple,” Gregory said. “If I can get through this past year and create awareness for my girlfriends and get them to get breast exams on a regu-lar basis, then I have made it all worth while if they don’t have to go through what I went through.”

Gregory was diagnosed with stage 3B breast cancer, an invasive stage in which the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes and chest.

She was 37 when she was diagnosed with breast can-cer and had no history of cancer in her family. She said every woman can be at risk for breast cancer, no matter what her age or history.

Gregor y was declared cancer-free in early October

after two lumpectomies, six rounds of chemotherapy treatments and seven weeks of radiation. Despite this triumph, Gregory said she doesn’t feel like one of the survivors at Saturday’s race and will always worry that it

will happen again.“My girlfriends all say I’m

such a hero, and I think, ‘No, you would do the same thing if you were in my position,’” Gregory said. “It’s not a mat-ter of being a hero — it’s part of a process.”

Paul: Organizers donate their money, furnitureContinued from page 1

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The Ron Paul campaign headquarters, located on Main Street, is more than 3,000 square feet, allowing sup-porters to hang out and talk about the Texas candidate. Organizers donated artwork to decorate the building.

Supporter Matt Ball said the location for the building is perfect because it is near a busy intersection and is lo-cated near the campus.

The headquarters is paid for by supporters, who agreed to pledge $60 a month for the rent and utilities, said Clayton Dorris, a recent marketing graduate from OU. The fur-niture and artwork also were donated to make the environ-ment usable and welcoming to the public.

Dorris said they wanted this headquarters to be a grassroots campaign, where all donations come from sev-eral small monetary gifts.

The headquarters can ac-commodate about 15-20 ac-tive members, and support-ers said they expect many more to come to the building just to hang out. The build-ing is more than 3,000 square feet, which gives the group room for people sit down or walk around to look at artwork.

Dorris said they wanted to create an atmosphere that is

friendly, where anyone can come in during their free time to drink free coffee, use the Wi-Fi and talk about Paul.

The group expects many OU students to drop by be-cause Dorris said Paul’s

largest following is college students.

Paul is popular with college students due to his support of personal freedoms, his desire to end the U.S. wars, the way he speaks with authority and

his social views, Dorris said. Sarah Shipman, a stu-

d e nt at O k l a h o ma C i t y Community College, said students like Paul because if he says something, he means it and will do it as president.

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T h e D a i l y s a t d o w n with vocalist, Carah Faye Charnow and bassist, Jeremy Dawson of Shiny Toy Guns on Saturday.

The Daily: Tell us about your new album.

Carah Faye Charnow: Well, half of it is already mastered. Jeremy Dawson: You guys are the first people to know

that because it happened last night. It will be done this year, but that doesn’t matter really, we have said that about 16 times this year.

The Daily: What are your favorite kinds of shows to play? Do you like playing at colleges?

Carah: We love it. Because the show is free for the kids, they appreciate it, you know? There is an energy, even though they may not know the band, they are going to come and appreciate it.

Jeremy: Most of our friends that are in bands like MGMT were born in their dorms. They wrote most of their album in their dorm between classes. ... In college you are focusedly ballsy — you take risks; you are dynamically thinking about your life.

The Daily: What do you guys do to get ready for a show?

Carah: We call it “prep time.” It consists of getting aesthetically ready, vocally ready.

Jeremy: “Aesthetically ready”?Carah: How you look: You don’t want to get warmed up

and ready by song four, you want to be ready for song one and already be in that mind set.

The Daily: Where are you guys going next?Jeremy: Our next show is in San Francisco, in like a

week. We play every nine to 15 days.The Daily: Carah — you are in another band, Versant.

How is it managing both bands? Carah: Well, right now since we are doing a new album

right now, we have to dedicate our time, our energy, our heart to that. I love both and I am so happy to get to do both. [But] right now I have to focus on Shiny Toy Guns to do it right.

Jeremy: Polygamy doesn’t work; it might work in Utah, but it doesn’t work in the music business.

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Taylor Swift treated her audience of 13,000 at the

Chesapeake Energy Arena Saturday night like chatty girls at a sleepover.

“Would it be okay if I stood up here and told you some of my stories?” she asked, centering the show on her latest album, “Speak Now.”

And Swift spoke, fill-ing the stadium with tales of losing love (“Last Kiss,” “Dear John,” “The Story of Us,” “Back to December”), finding love (“Enchanted”, “Fearless,” “Ours,” “Love Story”) and sweet, sweet girl-on-girl revenge (“Better than Revenge”).

Although Swift is 21 years old, her show still called to mind “high school mu-sical,” featuring a crew of dancers who changed roles and costumes rap-idly. Although Swift is aging, she still can please her younger fans with the comically exaggerated dancing, acting and her sometimes shallow subject matter. Pyrotechnics were a

surprisingly large portion of Swift’s show; sparks literally flew across the stage when she opened the show sing-ing “Sparks Fly”.

Vocally, it is clear that Swift has improved through the years. She’s still no pow-erhouse Carrie Underwood, but she is able to hit those high notes in “You Belong With Me” with more clar-ity at than previous shows. And she also seems to have been practicing her piano, ukulele and banjo; all three

instruments were played during the show along with her signature sparkling guitar.

Swift was kind to those in the back of the arena, flying out in a balcony dur-ing one song and carving a path through the audience to sing on a smaller stage with a revolving tree during another.

Swift and the band took no time at all after the huge red curtain closed to come back on for an encore,

singing “Ours,” “Fifteen” and “Love Story.”

Although it might seem silly that Swift has penned songs professing undying love for every boyfriend she has, she captures what every teenage girl feels and isn’t afraid to share it with the world — or a crowd of thousands in Oklahoma City.

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A variety of colored tents outlined the grassy area on the corner of Santa Fe Avenue and Main Street, across the street from Native Roots Market, with a few scattered in the middle for the fifth annual Downtown Arts Market on Saturday.

The event was hosted by Dreamer Concepts, an art gallery on Main Street used for emerging artists to show-case their work.

The fair gave artists a chance to show crafts they do not have an opportunity to showcase to the public very often said Amber Clour, ex-ecutive director and founder of Dreamer Concepts.

“If you’re not in a shop, which is hard to get into if you are a local crafts person, then you don’t have an out-let for people to get to know about your things,” Clour said.

Clour said the Downtown

Arts Market took place once a month during the months of October through December. This year, Dreamer Concepts decided to host one large event because of the great w e at h e r t h e y e x p e c t e d would compliment it.

Tom Farris, a Norman res-ident and event participant, showcased his contempo-rary American-Indian and pop-inspired art, which ap-peared to have a similarity to Andy Warhol’s modern and brightly colored paintings. One attention-grabbing piece by Farris was his paint-ing of the iconic villain Darth Vader. Farris said this was his third year to participate.

“It’s always just a nice out-door market to do, you get to

see people you know, and it’s usually good weather when they have it,” Farris said.

Local musicians were

able to show-off their music as well. Starting at 10 a.m. and lasting until 7 p.m., musicians took turns play-ing folk, blue grass and

alternative music on a stage set up at the entrance of the event.

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Graphics, said this was his first time to participate in the Downtown Arts Market. His booth, titled “Doin’ Fine,” referred to the lyrics “You’re doing fine, Oklahoma” and the fact that his business is doing fine. Twitchell’s booth showcased screen-print and embroidered T-shirts designed by a few of his co-workers and himself.

“The designs are all meant to be about Oklahoma heri-tage and being proud about being from here and living here,” Twitchell said.

Twitchell said the cloth-ing he was selling is also for sale at Anty Shanty and will begin to be sold at Native Roots Market next week.

Other tents featured pho-tography, portrait galler-ies and ceramics. 3 Dirty Dogs, a boutique that sells products for dogs and their owners, also took part in the event.

“This event was geared towards these exact people that come out and sell their wares and hopefully build up a clientele list for the fu-ture,” Clour said.

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Our View: Boren plans to honor students’ academic achievements with a Scholar’s Walk; we urge him to push the project forward soon.

In an interview with The Daily on Oct. 5, President David Boren spoke about his newly developed plan for a Scholars’ Walk on the east side of the South Oval, an analogy to the Heisman statues by the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Boren said the walk would replace the road currently used by the buses with a walk similar to the Michael F. Price Walk on the other side of the Oval, and it would feature statues hon-oring students with outstanding academic achievements. This commendable plan will honor scholars in the same way we honor our athletes.

No one can deny that sports are an important part of OU — they form much of the foundation for Sooner culture, boost campus pride and bring in money and prestige. So the sculptures honoring our greatest ath-letes near the stadium are a common-sense feature of campus. But athletic accomplishments certainly are not the only, or even the primary, trait OU has to be proud of.

Academic accomplishments should take center stage first and foremost. After all, it’s not like Sooners are lacking in that department. OU’s 64.5-percent graduation rate is significantly higher than the na-tional average of 57.2 percent, according to a 2008 report released by the National Center for Education Statistics. And those rates are continuing to rise. The

university ranks first in public universities for the number of National Merit students, with a record-breaking 225 in this year’s incoming class, accord-ing to the National Scholars Program. And OU has had 28 Rhodes scholars, while no other university in Oklahoma has had more than three.

A Scholar’s Walk would send a clear message to the community that OU highly values its scholarship and the academic progress of its students. Boren has always been concerned with raising OU’s national profile — with fighting the perception that OU is just some southern public school — and showing that we are more than a football school goes a long way toward accomplishing that goal. More importantly, regardless of our empha-

sis on athletics, these students simply deserve the rec-ognition for their hard work and accomplishments.

Boren said he wants to get the project started as soon as possible and have it paid for through private donations. We recognize there are logistical problems that will delay this project: planning alternate bus stops, finding funding and designing and organizing the space.

Thus, we urge Boren to put his weight behind this beneficial idea and quickly get the details worked out, so he can make a formal presentation to the OU Board of Regents. This plan will benefit the university’s at-mosphere and reputation, and we want to see OU’s top scholars recognized as soon as possible.

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Over the last cen-tury, humankind has damaged the

environment more than in the previous 4,000 years. Population growth and massive consumption rates are accelerating the extrac-tion of natural resources, and we are forgetting an essential issue: We live in a finite planet with limited resources. Thus, we should use them wisely.

Recycling is a good way to reduce resource extraction, allowing us to process waste materials into new products. However, this is a complicated issue in Norman.

In OU Traditions Square, there are only two sorting op-tions: General garbage and plastics. Cardboard, paper and glass are not recycled.

I am from Spain, and in Europe, we usually have at least four big containers: plastic, glass, general rubbish, and cardboard and paper.

There are not many opportunities to recycle on the OU campus. The recycling bins are difficult to locate as they are not usually placed close to the trash cans. The trash cans should be replaced with 3-in-1 recycle bin sets with three disposals — paper, plastic and general garbage — to make recycling easier for people.

Plastic is an essential material. Nearly every object that surrounds us has some plastic component, and we must be aware that it takes centuries to break down in a landfill. In 1997, scientists discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch , which is a gyre of litter in the central North Pacific Ocean . Mainly, it is an array of pelagic plastics, chemical sludge and other debris that make up an area the size of Texas .

Over the years, the amount of litter in this patch has in-creased as it has become trapped in strong ocean currents . It is polluting the sea, harming sea life and creating an un-sustainable scenario.

There are many activities that can be done to cap plas-tics. For example, reducing bottled water consumption will help. Bottled water is the best business ever created. Companies fill a plastic bottle from tap water and sell it at a huge cost markup. Advertising has created the idea that bottled water is healthier than tap water, whereas in many cases it isn’t. It is estimated that the U.S. consumes about half a billion bottles of water every week, according to the

documentary “The Story of Bottled Water.” Just think about all the damage done by those bottles weekly and what it would be like if we were able to reuse them.

In addition, we should remove the use of plastic bags. When we go to a superstore, we carry our stuff in a cart and from there it goes to the trunk of our cars. Thus, there is no need for plastic bags. We could bring transport trays in our cars to place the products in, and when we arrive home, we could carry our groceries in those environmentally friendly trays. Or we could use cloth bags in much the same way as we now use plastic.

Another good initiative would be if the stores paid a small amount (10 to 20 cents) to costumers for bringing back a bottle after drinking its contents. People would pay only for the beverage and would have a motivation to recy-cle. In Germany, this system successfully works with glass bottles.

Recycling is very easy, but without convenient ways to properly separate the different materials, it is impossible. Thus, facilitating the task is mandatory to successfully fos-ter collaboration.

Adrian Espallargas is a journalism junior.

For the past several years I have been receiving a lot of Facebook posts and emails that simply aren’t true.

Spreading misinformation is a pet peeve of mine. Actually, it’s more than just a pet peeve — it’s a line I refuse to cross as a political consultant specializing in research and the dissemination of information.

I am fully convinced that there are consultants who are paid by political parties and campaigns to deliberately cre-ate and spread misinformation. I wouldn’t even be sur-prised if misinformation was their specialty.

The most frustrating part of the situation is that average citizens are allowing themselves to be tools of propaganda by forwarding misinformation over the internet.

Even more frustrating is that it takes fewer than 10 seconds to fact-check something. Through the industrious work of sites like Factcheck.org , Politifact.org and Snopes.com , most Facebook posts and emails can be fact-checked simply by performing a Google search on a key phrase.

It takes just 10 seconds to not fall prey to propagandists.These specialists are taking advantage of the public’s

prejudices. They capital-ize on the viewpoints of their supporters, create propaganda pieces that tell outlandish stories exempli-fying those viewpoints and send those pieces onto the Internet where people read them and forward them.

The goals of the pieces are simple. They enrage a given audience, give sup-

porters even more reason to further the causes of the cre-ators and bring new members into the fold.

Help stop the lies. If someone sends me something that isn’t true, I respond with a link to the truth. I’ve even been known to do a “respond to all.”

A simple rule is: If it seems outlandish, it is probably not true. Check to make sure.

Tom Taylor is a political science graduate student.

For years, people have called Barbie anorexic,

racist or otherwise of-fensive. Recently, the at-tacks have been stepped up. In this month’s O, The Oprah Magazine and on Yahoo News , novel-ist Amy Bloom wrote an article declaring the im-portance of teaching girls and women to love their bodies and their personalities.

I have no problem with this assertion; I’ve written many columns and papers on the subject. I have a problem with the article’s photo illustration.

The picture shows model Katie Halchishick posing with a Barbie doll. Halchishick’s body has been marked with the lines a plastic surgeon would need to turn her into Barbie. The implication of the picture and the article is that Barbie teaches us to hate our bodies.

This isn’t the first time body-positive advocates have at-tacked Barbie, and it probably won’t be the last.

The London Times reports Barbie has been blamed for eating disorders. Several college newspapers, includ-ing Elon University’s The Pendulum and Montclair State University’s The Montclarion , have published columns lambasting Barbie for her too-long neck and too-big breasts. The women at Adiosbarbie.com invoke Barbie negatively as they blog about body image and racial issues.

I don’t deny our society has a real issue with body image. Why else would OU’s Women’s Outreach Center host Love Your Body Day? Likewise, I don’t deny that Barbie is disproportionate and unrepresentative of many women in our society.

However, blaming Barbie for teaching children to hate their shape is ridiculous. Barbie is a doll. She is not a par-ent putting her kid on a diet. She is not an advertiser de-

picting all women as white and malnourished. She is a symptom of society’s ills, not the center of the problem.

That’s why I’m confused when I hear my colleagues at other universities mock Barbie instead of magazines such as Cosmopolitan. Cosmo teaches women to be skinny sex fiends by writ-

ing articles like “7 Surprising Things That Turn Guys Off” and “Are You Too Obsessed With Your Ex?” Barbie teaches girls a much more valuable lesson, one that transcends any body image issue.

Barbies are a very real way to show children they can hold whatever job they want to hold. Currently, Mattel manufactures Doctor Barbie, Veterinarian Barbie, Chef Barbie, Architect Barbie, News Anchor Barbie and many other Barbies with jobs that encourage some form of high-er learning.

Women are greatly outnumbered in many of the pro-fessions Barbie holds. Only 27 percent of doctors are women, according to the American Medical Association . Only 27 percent of architects are women, according to the American Institute of Architects, and only 37 percent of television journalists are women, according to Poynter Institute. The statistics are similarly dismal for other careers.

Mattel markets Barbies to girls. Children need positive reinforcement telling them they can be whatever they want. When you’re 6 or 7, your parent telling you that you can be an architect doesn’t mean nearly as much as Barbie telling you that you can. Barbie opens doors for girls they might not have known existed.

Frankly, girls need that influence more than ever. Although women have made great strides in equality, the gender pay gap is still very much present and largely not discussed. In Oklahoma, women earn less than 75.1 percent of what men earn, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. If Barbie helps teach girls to be strong, confident women who believe they can do — and earn — anything men can do, she’ll be doing our country a huge service.

Our society has a significant body image issue, but to summarily write off Barbie due to her plastic curves is lu-dicrous. Coupled with other positive, more body-positive influences, Barbie can teach girls to realize their dreams and help stamp out sexism.

Kate McPherson is a journalism sophomore.

“When you’re 6 or 7, your parent

telling you that you can be an architect doesn’t mean nearly as much as Barbie

telling you.”

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1. ELDORADO

Drilling company employee dies on site after being hit by pipe

Authorities are investigating the death of a Big Gian Drilling employee at a site near Eldorado.

Officials said Cecil Haley, 34, was on a construction elevator about 95 feet in the air, connecting two 1,600-pound pipes. The pressure of the pipes sent one of the pipes back toward Haley, which killed him on im-pact, officials said.

Levick said the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the accident.

The Associated Press

2. OKLAHOMA CITY

Gov. Fallin adopts abandoned dog, encourages animal rescue

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has adopted a dog to give some company to the dog she already has.

The adopted yellow Labrador was abandoned dur-ing a grass fire in north Oklahoma City.

The governor used the adoption to remind pro-spective pet owners that rescuing an animal could keep it from being euthanized.

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3. TULSA

About 150 march in Tulsa to protest against Wall Street

About 150 people marched in Tulsa as part of an ongoing protest nationwide against Wall Street.

Occupy Tulsa co-organizer Daniel Lee said the route of the march was constructed to go past finan-cial, corporate and governmental offices to illustrate how those institutions are working together to lead to “the destruction of people’s freedom.”

Lee said the spirit of the march wouldn’t fade, and Saturday’s event was just the beginning.

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Seams where mortar has fallen away from the exterior walls of the state Capitol are shown in Oklahoma City. Repairing the buildings could cost as much as $130 million.

O K L A H O M A C I T Y — The state Capitol has been a symbol of Oklahoma’s his-tory and aspirations since it opened in 1917. The halls of the limestone and gran-ite edifice were lined with the portraits of famous resi-dents, including humor-ist Will Rogers, Olympic champion Jim Thorpe and Sequoyah, creator of the Cherokee syllabary.

But 94 years later, the building reflects Oklahoma’s problems, especially its fis-cal hardship. The stately structure is beginning to crumble. Yellow barriers have been erected to prevent visitors from climbing the steps of the Capitol’s south portico because mortar and pieces of limestone are fall-ing from slabs overhead.

An engineering analy-sis found mortar between the massive limestone pan-els was disintegrating, and the metal clips holding the panels have apparently cor-roded. Repairs, along with revamping the outmoded

electrical, plumbing and other systems, could cost as much as $130 million.

The problem comes at the worst possible time, as the state works to recover from a $500 million budget defi-cit from last fiscal year. The

Legislature made significant budget reductions during the last session in funding for schools, mental health and public safety.

“We’re at a point now, both for preservation of the building and for public

safety, that the Legislature is going to have to be ad-dressing this,” said Richard Ellwanger, chairman of the State Capitol Preservation Commission.

The Associated Press

Damange repair to state landmark could cost $130M

Low-point beer could cease brewingLIQUOR LAWS

TULSA — Change may be brewing in Oklahoma’s beer market.

The Sooner State accounts for 55 percent of the nation’s consumption of 3.2 brew, ac-cording to the Beer Institute, the national trade group and lobbying arm of the brewing industry.

Last year Oklahomans consumed 76.5 million gal-lons of beer — 28.8 gallons for every person of legal drinking age — and more than 89 percent of that brew was the low-point variety.

Strong beer is increas-ingly popular in the state. In 2010, strong-beer sales were up 32 percent in Oklahoma, while low-point beer sales declined 4 percent, the Beer Institute reports.

Low-point beer is still dominant in the Oklahoma market — accounting for 89.7 percent of beer sales in the state — but two propos-als fermenting in the state Legislature could cause strong-beer sales to foam.

A task force is considering whether strong beer should be sold in convenience and grocery stores. The plan may also allow liquor stores to sell refrigerated strong beer.

Either move would al-most certainly undercut the low-point beer market. Kansas has refrigerated beer in liquor stores and sells less than a fifth of the 3.2 beer as Oklahoma. Missouri has strong beer in retail outlets. Low-point beer sales are insignificant.

Another legislative pro-posal would move the state sales tax on 3.2 beer up-stream from the retailer

- either combining it into the existing excise tax or hav-ing the sales tax collected from the retailer by the beer distributor.

Either way, the shelf price of 3.2 beer would go up. While backers of the proposal say the actual cost would remain the same because low-point beer would be sales tax-ex-empt at the checkout coun-ter, beer distributors worry that the higher shelf price

would change consumer decisions, pushing buyers to go for smaller quanti-ties, lower-priced products or strong beer at the liquor store, which would appear relatively less expensive.

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OU senior wide receiver Ryan Broyles (85) celebrates a touchdown with sophomore Kenny Stills (4) during OU’s 47-17 win against the Kansas Jayhawks on Saturday in Lawrence. Broyles broke a pair of records during the game, including the NCAA’s career receptions mark (316) that was previously held by Purdue’s Taylor Stubblefield.

Defense, big plays keep Sooners alive against Kansas

54 Total yards allowed by the OU defense in the

second half

326 Career receptions for senior wide

receiver Ryan Broyles, breaking an old NCAA record held by Purdue’s Taylor Stubble� eld (316)

44 Career touchdown catches for Broyles,

breaking an old Big 12 record held by Oklahoma State’s RaShaun Woods (42)

217 Receiving yards for Broyles, his new

single-game career high

7 Games the Sooners have won against the Jayhawks

in a row

4 Field goals for freshman Michael Hunnicutt, his

career high and tied for the most in a single game at OU

12 Games junior quarterback Landry

Jones has passed for 350 or more yards, including Saturday’s 363-yard game

165 Rushing yards for junior Dominique

Whaley, his career high

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BY THE NUMBERS OU vs. Kansas

JAMES CORLEYSports Editor

Oklahoma’s game against the Kansas Jayhawks on Saturday didn’t go how the Sooners had wanted.

But the win — and OU’s issues that surfaced during it — was overshadowed by the performance of senior wide receiver Ryan Broyles.

The Norman native need-ed just four catches against the Jayhawks to break the NCAA record for career re-ceptions. He also was one touchdown grab away from breaking the Big 12 record for career touchdown catches.

He broke both records with a single catch in the sec-ond quarter, a 57-yard touch-down that put Oklahoma up, 24-10, and gave the Sooners momentum to hold on de-spite a slow start.

The NCAA record was held previously by Taylor Stubblefield (316), one of Drew Brees’ favorite targets at Purdue.

Stubblefield sent a con-gratulatory email to Broyles last week, Broyles said.

The Big 12 record was held previously by Oklahoma State’s RaShaun Woods (42).

The senior finished with 13 catches for two scores and 217 yards, breaking his previous single-game best of 208 yards against Colorado in 2010.

Senior hits new career marks in road-game win

Receiver breaks three records

OU’s struggles during a 47-17 win against Kansas were hardly expected.

Oklahoma couldn’t find the end zone in the red zone, junior quarterback Landry Jones’ throws were erratic and the Jayhawks stayed close for much longer than most anticipated.

But OU left Lawrence with a 30-point victory, so there were a few things that went right, too.

Why OU wonDefense, defense, de-

fense. For the second straight game, the Sooners’ defense had a huge game.

The only difference was OU might have lost this time if the defense hadn’t played

like it did.The Sooners held Kansas

scoreless in the second half, limiting the Jayhawks to just 54 total yards and a single first down.

Big plays. Despite OU’s inability to score touch-downs when inside the 20-yard line, the Sooners still

put up points from further out.

Senior wide receiver Ryan Broyles had a pair of big touchdowns from 57 and 43 yards out, respectively.

Lessons learned. In the 2008 national title game, Oklahoma failed to come up with points in two trips in-side the red zone.

Not so on Saturday.Though he wasn’t happy

about it, OU coach Bob Stoops sent out his kicker. Getting the points made a 12-point difference.

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LUKE MCCONNELLSports Reporter

The No. 22 Oklahoma vol-leyball team was the vic-tim of a blown 2-0 lead on Wednesday night in a loss to Texas A&M. But on Saturday, the Sooners were the instiga-tors of a comeback.

The Sooners fought back from a 2-0 deficit and abys-mal play against the Kansas Jayhawks to win, 3-2 (23-25, 19-25, -23, -19, 15-9) at McCasland Field House.

J u n i o r l i b e r o M a r í a Fernanda set the school re-cord for career digs (1,446) during the match, breaking a 14-year-old mark held by Melissa Peterson. She had 21 total digs Saturday.

Senior right side Suzy Boulavsky tallied 14 kills, and senior setter Brianne Barker finished two kills short of the elusive triple-double with 41 assists, 14 digs and eight kills.

O U c o a c h S a n t i a g o Restrepo said the veteran leadership of the team was huge in pushing the team to complete the comeback win.

“It’s good to know that any given moment, we can switch people here and there and get things going,” he said.

Kansas came out fast, determined to snap a five-match Big 12 losing streak and jumped on top, 3-0. Kansas maintained a lead throughout the rest of the set to take it, 25-23.

KU came out in the second and blew the Sooners off the court, 25-19. OU hit -.026 in the set.

Barker said it’s important for her, as the setter, to pro-vide emotional stability for the team.

“We started the game with a lot of new girls, and staying

8 • Monday, October 17, 2011 SPORTS

SOCCER

Sooners stumble against Missouri in televised game

VOLLEYBALL

OU survives five-set scare

OU suffers from missed opportunities during Sunday’s matchup with Tigers

Top: Junior libero María Fernanda bumps the ball during OU’s 3-2 comeback win against the Jayhawks on Saturday in Norman. Fernanda broke OU’s career digs record during the match (1,446), besting a 14-year-old mark.

Left: Senior setter Brianne Barker prepares to serve the ball during the Sooners’ match against Kansas on Saturday. Barker said part of her job as a senior and as the setter is to keep her teammates emotionally stable, especially in close games like OU’s 3-2 win.PHOTOS BY MELODIE LETTKEMAN/THE DAILY

TOBI NEIDYSports Reporter

With added pressure from playing in front of a national TV audience on ESPNU, OU soccer couldn’t contain the Missouri offense.

Oklahoma dropped a 5-2 decision Sunday afternoon at John Crain Field.

With the loss, the Sooners fell to 6-10, 1-4 in Big 12 ac-tion, with just three games left on the team’s schedule.

While the five goals were the most scored by an OU op-ponent this season, the Sooners missed several chances early in the game that would have evened the score.

“Early, we had opportunities we didn’t take advantage of,” OU coach Nicole Nelson said. “Our final ball wasn’t quite there at times, and the end product was just not tak-ing enough chances shooting.”

OU held a 7-5 shot-on-goal advantage in the first half and ended up leading the Tigers in shots with 17 total shots.

Missouri wasted no time grabbing an early lead, 2-0, after goals in the 29th and 31st minutes from Taylor Grant and Kaysie Clark, respectively.

“ G i v e c r e d i t t o Missouri,” Nelson said. “They exposed us athleti-cally in a couple of posi-tions. We’ll look at it, and these young players will learn valuable lessons from it.”

But OU refused to go down without a fight.

In the 44th minute, just before halftime, freshman for-ward Kelly Price drilled the first Sooner goal past Tiger goalie McKenzie Sauerwein.

Price was instrumental in getting the OU offense up and running when she was left open on the outside to take un-contested shots from the edge of the box.

With a 2-1, Missouri came out firing in the second half. OU responded in the 59th minute with a goal from

Annalisa Hall, but a defensive breakdown allowed the Tigers to tack on two more goals before the end of the game.

“Defensively, fatigue affected some of the mistakes we made,” Nelson said. “We have to find a way to put it back-to-back Friday-Sunday.”

AT A GLANCEGame note

Senior setter Brianne Barker possibly sprained her left ring � nger in the third set. She’ll have X-rays this week to determine the extent of the injury.

Sooners overcome early 2-0 deficit

stable with your emotions is the best thing for them,” Barker said.

The third set saw a different Sooners team take the court. OU used a 5-1 run to close the set, 25-23.

Clinging to the momen-tum gained from winning the third set, OU fought off Kansas’ attempts at rallies to

win the fourth set, 25-19. OU hit .364 during the set, and Boulavsky had five kills to help the Sooner offense get on track.

The Sooners’ veteran lead-ership refused to lose, and OU had an 88-percent side-out percentage while hitting .400 as a team to close the match with a 15-9 fifth-set win.

AT A GLANCEOU vs. Iowa State

The Sooners found a way to end their � ve-game losing streak with a 2-1 win against Iowa State on Friday.

Junior Caitlin Mooney and sophomore Annalisa Hall scored to help OU get its � rst conference win of the season after starting 0-4 in Big 12 play.