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Reorganization, updates established by new committee need input from students
KATHLEEN EVANSThe Oklahoma Daily
In attempts to make it easier for the student body to understand UOSA laws, a committee will re-evaluate the Code Annotated, the document which explains the pro-cesses of UOSA and its laws.
The UOSA Undergraduate Student Congress voted Tuesday night to create a committee to reorganize and recreate its Code Annotated.
The Code Annotated con-tains the text of all the laws and
regulations, such as qualifications for running for a position or stu-dent organization budget rules.
“We were looking over the [Code Annotated] over the summer and said, ‘you know, this is kind of a mess,’” said Brett Stidham, UOSA Undergraduate Student Congress chair and co-author of the bill. “This committee will come back at the end of the semester, maybe the end of the year, with a new CA that is hopefully clean-up, spiffed-up and be everything you want it to be and more.”
The new Legislative Committee for UOSA Code Annotated Reform will consist of eight members from the Graduate Student Senate and Undergraduate Student Congress.
Co-chairs will be Silas DeBoer, Graduate Student Senate chair, and Stidham, human resources management senior.
The bill passed with unanimous consent. Though letters sopho-more Joe Sangirardi tried to change his vote afterward, a move to recon-sider voting was not approved by the necessary two-thirds majority.
Changes will include a restruc-turing of the code and deletions of outdated laws.
“There will be some reorganizing and putting things in a logical order, not just categorically,” Stidham said. “We want to put it in a way that
UOSA works to make laws logical to students
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Professor emeritus George Henderson signs a copy of his book, “Race and the University: A Memoir,” Tuesday evening in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Beaird Lounge. Henderson spoke about his time at OU and of the civil rights efforts during the times.
SIGNING | PUTTING IT IN THE BOOKS
Members of the Jewish community will observe Rosh Hashanah tonight
CHASE COOKThe Oklahoma Daily
Members of the Oklahoma Hillel Foundation are hosting newly or-dained Rabbi Jean Eglinton to cel-ebrate the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, today at OU Hillel, located at 494 Elm Ave. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. and special ser-vices start at 7 p.m.
Keren Ayalon, Hillel executive director, said they are excited to have the new rabbi.
“We are very much looking for-ward to Rabbi Eglinton [leading] our services,” said Ayalon. “We are expecting a large crowd.”
Rosh Hashanah is also the start of the high holy days, the period of ten days between the new year and the upcoming Jewish holiday Yom Kippur.
Holly McMannes, Jewish stu-dent life coordinator, said special
OU Hillel celebrateswith new rabbi
Voter registration held Thursday
A voter registration booth will be held 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union food court.
Students can use the booth to register to vote in Oklahoma for the fi rst time, change their Oklahoma address or change their political affi liation from previous registrations.
Students that change their address within Oklahoma should make sure any scholarships they receive do not depend on their previous primary address.
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Newest residences on South Greek cost $6 million
JOSEPH TRUESDELLThe Oklahoma Daily
The Phi Gamma Delta frater-nity has a new home on 1200 S. College Ave. that is to be dedicat-ed at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. This is the third house built by the fra-ternity since the early 1920s.
Phi Gamma Delta has owned the 1200 S. College lot since 1954 when then-members of the house gave up their social funds for two years and bought it for $10,000, said Turner Hardwick, communications senior and Phi Gamma Delta president.
Planning for the new house started in 2007, with fundrais-ing led by OU’s Phi Gamma Delta Alumni Association start-ing in early 2008. Construction soon began at the end of May 2009 and took approximately 14 months to complete.
“With fundraising, planning
and construction we worked on the house for about two and a half years,” said Lee Allen Smith, Phi Gamma Delta alumni and member of the fundraising foundation.
With construction completed, members were able to move in at 4 p.m. Aug. 17 in time for the fall semester, Hardwick said.
The new Phi Gamma Delta house is 29,000 square feet. It has 36 bedrooms for members, three living rooms, three study halls, three laundry rooms, one dining hall and one kitchen. The senior hall, officer wing and some bedrooms are one-person bedrooms, compared to others which are two person bedrooms. The house can hold up to 72 members.
Cost of the house is approxi-mately $6 million, said Smith.
Amenities at the house in-clude Internet, a state-of-the art media room, automated doors and a security system, Hardwick said. The house is also equipped
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UOSA President Franz Zentano introduces eight new appointees at Tuesday’s UOSA meeting in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Regents room.
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The rebuilt Phi Gamma Delta house is pictured Tuesday. The house has 29,000 square feet, 36 bedrooms for members, can hold 72 members and cost approximately $6 million to build.
FIJI house to be dedicated Saturday morning
with games including two bil-liards tables and two pingpong tables in different areas of the house, said Donald Harrell, en-ergy management junior and Phi
Gamma Delta treasurer. “I feel the new house certainly
anyone can read and recog-nize. Also, we want to make necessary changes like little-known laws that don’t make sense anymore in practical application.”
Though the legislative branch of the UOSA will be editing the Code Annotated, other branches can have a say in the proceedings, Stidham said. Meetings will be open, and anyone is welcome to attend.
Stidham stressed that he wants the process to be as transparent as possible with plenty of input from every-one along the way.
“This is not a way to hud-dle people in a back room and rewrite everything,” he said. “We will send parts to people as they are completed and will have meetings say-ing, ‘hey, what do you think? Is this good, as far as being passable and workable?’”
T h e c u r r e n t C o d e Annotated can be found on the UOSA website and is 182 pages long.
A town hall meeting for students to express con-cerns next is scheduled for Wednesday night, Sept. 15 in Wagner Hall.
Other business of Tuesday night included appoint-ing eight new directors to
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UOSA: Congress chair stresses transparencyContinued from page 1
Today around campus» A Student Health Insurance seminar will be at 8 a.m. in the Union’s Alma Wilson Room.
» Career Services will host a seminar “Professional Dress for Men” at 10:30 a.m. in the Union’s Frontier Room.
» Career Services will host a seminar “Professional Dress for Women” at 10:30 p.m. in the Union’s Heritage Room.
» Phi Kappa Sigma will host an informational session at 2:30 p.m. in the Union’s Heritage Room.
» Career Services will host a seminar “Creating a Winning Resume for the Sooner Showcase Career Fair” at 2:30 p.m. in the Union’s Crimson Room.
» Society of Portuguese Speakers will host a meeting at 5 p.m. in the Union’s Heritage Room.
» The Muslim Student Association is hosting ThinkFast at the Union’s Ballroom at 7 p.m. The program includes guest speakers, breaking fast together and a delicious dinner. Donations are appreciated.
» The Oklahoma Undergraduate Indian Society is hosting its fi rst meeting at 8 p.m. in Lissa and Cy Wagner Hall Room 140.
» This day in OU history
Sept. 8, 1986Moving of funds, faculty positions cause problemsThe reallocation of funding and faculty positions from
one OU school to others in the College of Engineering caused a signifi cant decline in research.
Inexperience volleyball squad swept by TexasOU volleyball coach Miles Pabst took his young,
inexperienced team into a game against Texas and the players nerves got the best of them, he said.
The Sooners lost 15-2, 15-10 and15-12. “A couple of the kids were extremely nervous,” he said.
Mennie’s 5-under 69 leads Sooners to 3rd placeThe OU women’s golf team earned a third place fi nish in
the Roadrunner Invitational in Las Cruces, N.M. Junior Jane Mennie lead the team and shot an
astounding fi ve-under in her fi nal round of the tournament to grab third place individually.
*Source: The Oklahoma Daily archives
Thursday, Sept. 9» Sol Sender will present his marketing campaign for President Barack Obama in the seminar “A Symbol of Change: Branding the Obama Campaign” at 3:30 p.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
» Christians on Campus will host a Bible study at 11:30 a.m. in the Union’s Traditions Room.
» CAC will have a general council meeting at 5 p.m. in the Union’s Heritage Room.
» Colombian Student Association will hold a meeting at 8:30 p.m. in the Union’s Pioneer Room.
Friday, Sept. 10» The Women and Business Leadership Conference will be at 8:30 a.m. in the Union’s Governors, Regents and Associates Rooms.
Saturday, Sept. 11» UOSA will hold a tailgate tent with free food for all OU students at 11 a.m. on the corner of Lindsey Street and Asp Avenue.
» Union Game Day Events will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the Union’s Beaird Lobby & Lounge and the Will Rogers Room.
» The OU football team hosts Florida State at 2:30 p.m. at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
services take place during this time for Jews to reflect on the past year.
Megan Godwin, health and exercise sciences ju-nior and president of OU Hillel, said it’s traditional for an ordained rabbi to run the special services, which is why Rabbi Eglinton is fly-ing in.
Ian Fullington, econom-ics senior, said there are small, symbolic differences in the Rosh Hashanah ser-vice compared to the tradi-tional service.
One of them is a white cover for the Jewish holy book, the Torah.
“It’s a special symbolic slip for the high holy days, which is Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur,” said Fullington. “It’s to signify the new year, a clean slate.”
Godwin added they blow a hollowed-out ram’s horn called a shofar.
“When it was hard to get word around, the shofar was used to tell villages Rosh Hashanah was start-ing,” said Godwin. “We blow it at the end of the service.”
It is also customary for celebrants to eat apples and honey.
“The apple’s white in-side represents renewal and getting a new start,” said Godwin. “The honey is sweet and represents hav-ing a sweet new year.”
Godwin said this tradi-tion made Rosh Hashanah a f a v o r i t e p a r t o f h e r childhood.
“The temple I went to in Tulsa had these huge red delicious apples,” Godwin said. “It was my favorite service.”
The Rosh Hashanah 7 p.m. services are free to ev-eryone, and the dinner is $10 for community mem-bers and $5 for children under 12. Students get in free.
Upcoming Jewish holidays
» Yom Kippur (Sept. 18) — This day commemorates the day that God forgave the Jewish for creating a false idol. They abstain from food and drink from sunset the night prior until sunset the day of the holiday, nearly 26 hours. They spend this time foregoing physical needs and focusing on time in the synagogue praying and repenting.
» Simchat Torah (Oct. 1) — These two days make up a major holiday and most forms of work are prohibited. The Jewish celebrate the completion — and restart — of the annual reading of the Torah, the Jewish holy book.
» Tevet (Dec. 17) — This holiday is a time of mourning and repentance for the beginning of the siege on Jerusalem by the Babylonians. Jews abstain from food and drink and offer a special prayer for the victims of the Holocaust.
» Pesach [Passover] (April 18 to 26, 2011) — This eight-day holiday celebrates the freedom of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. Jews don’t consume “wheat, barley, rye, oats, spelt or their derivatives.” Processed food and drink can be assumed to contain these ingredients unless they are certifi ed. During the fi rst two days of the holiday, it is customary to eat Matzah bread — unleavened bread — but it is optional the rest of the holiday.
*Source: www.chabad.org
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the executive branch. The Congress voted on these as a block and passed the ap-pointments with unanimous consent.
UOSA President Franz
Zenteno said each person went through an application and interview process and that he is sure they are right for the job and will work to make UOSA better.
gives a good image to Greek life at the University of Oklahoma … it shows that the Greek life at OU is thriv-ing now more than it ever has,” Harrell said.
Phi Gamma Delta is a partner with the University of Oklahoma and this facil-ity gives university students a nice place to live, said
Smith. “This gives the students
a place to study and have a good time also,” Smith said.
Smith added that the current fraternity members will hopefully make good grades, have excellent jobs after school and in 50 years be the alumni donating money and time to build a new Phi Gamma Delta house.
FIJI: Alumni fund house constructionContinued from page 1
Police increase number of DUI arrests in week, weekend before Labor Day
The OU Police Department racked up a combined total of 34 DUIs with the Norman Police Department between Aug. 26 and Sept. 6, after participating in a nationwide initiative to crack down on impaired driving the week before Labor Day.
Those caught driving while impaired face jail time, license suspension and court and attorney fees, according to OUPD.
During the DUI crackdown, students had their fi rst weekend in Norman after the beginning of fall classes and the fi rst home football game. Compared to the past two years, 2010 tops the list for number of DUIs issued during the week and weekend leading up to Labor Day.
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1. Tanah Karo, Indonesia
Indonesian volcano erupts again Tuesday; strongest blast yet since awakening
An Indonesian volcano shot a cloud of black ash high into the air Tuesday, dusting villages 15 miles away in its most powerful eruption since awakening last week from four centuries of dormancy.
Some witnesses at the foot of Mount Sinabung reported seeing an orange glow in cracks along the volcano’s slopes for the fi rst time. Vast swaths of trees and plants were caked with a thick layer of ash.
“There was a huge, thunderous sound. It sounded like hundreds of bombs going off at one,” said Ita Sitepu, 29, who was among thousands of people staying in crowded emergency shelters. “Then everything starting shaking. I’ve never experienced anything like it.”
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2. Kabul, Afghanistan
Church’s planned Quran burning endangers troops, Gen. Petraeus says
On Tuesday, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warned that an American church’s threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book could endanger U.S. troops in the country.
Meanwhile, NATO reported the death of an American service member in an insurgent attack Tuesday in southern Afghanistan.
Gen. David Petraeus said the plans by Gainesville, Fla.,-based Dove World Outreach Center to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11 would be used by extremists to “infl ame public opinion and incite violence.”
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3. Kinshasa, Congo
Congo police arrest 3 men carrying suitcases full of elephant ivory
Police in southeastern Congo say they have arrested three men carrying six suitcases full of elephant tusks.
Anti-smuggling commission coordinator Placide Magungu said Tuesday three Chinese nationals were caught at Lumumbashi’s airport. He says the men said they bought the ivory from antique dealers.
Illegal hunting of elephants in central and eastern Africa has intensifi ed in recent years, with much of the ivory exported to Asia.
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Authorities confi rm 25 people dead in the village of Nahuala, at least 20 others elsewhere
On Monday, searchers pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back land-slides buried bus passengers and then the people trying to save them.
The deaths raised the confirmed toll from mudslides in Guatemala to 45 as rains pounded the country.
Authorities said 25 people are con-firmed dead and at least 15 are be-lieved to be still buried beneath de-bris in the village of Nahuala, where a first mudslide buried a bus and other vehicles, then a second turned would-be rescuers into victims.
At least 20 others died over the weekend elsewhere as a tropical de-pression saturated the ground and set off more than a dozen landslides around the country, according to the national disaster agency.
The most recent slide, on a high-way in northern Guatemala, killed one person and injured 26 on Sunday.
In southern Guatemala, rescue workers used motorboats to reach
about 100 families cut off by massive flooding in the town of Santa Ana Mixtan.
Some residents sat on their roofs waiting to be evacuated, while oth-ers tried to drag bundles of their be-longings through neck-deep water.
In Nahuala, emergency crews and villagers rushed to the Inter-American highway on Saturday, picks and shovels in hand, after radio reports of the deadly slide — only to be swamped by the second cascade of rock and earth.
Search and rescue efforts were suspended Sunday for fear that the mountainside could give way yet again, but digging resumed Monday with heavy machinery and fewer workers, said Sergio Cabanas, a Civil Protection director.
Of the 100 people originally searching for bodies and survivors, only 33 remained, all of them sol-diers and firefighters, Cabanas said.
“And even they might not be able to recover the last of the bodies,” Cabanas said. “It’s very dangerous to have personnel there.”
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A man holds on to a rope as he wades through floodwaters to search for people to evacuate during flooding Monday in Santa Ana Mixta, Guatemala. At least 45 people have died and many remain missing after days of torrential rains.
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People stand in a flooded street Monday in Santa Ana Mixta, Guatemala. At least 45 people have died after days of torrential rains.
Mudslide death toll reaches 45
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Editor’s note: this is in response to Gerard Keiser’s column “There is no room for co-ed housing arrangements” which ran Sept. 7
Parker Hubbard is a former employee of Student Media.
For the sake of The Daily, I hope that Gerard Keiser’s opinion column “There is no room for co-ed housing ar-rangements” is meant to be taken satirically. If not, it is mind blowing that an article so imbued in bigotry and illogical reasoning would be published in the opinion paper of a public university.
There is so much wrong with the article that for the sake of brevity I will focus on one especially troubling section of his column.
Keiser argues that “traditional mores have an uncan-ny tendency to be right, or at least to have some element of truth.” By “traditional” he evidently means “straight white Christian male” mores. Don’t believe him? “Then, of course, there is the fact that Oklahoma is against it.” Never mind where this statistic comes from, or what ex-actly is meant by “Oklahoma.”
His two examples of traditional mores are so irrelevant to the argument that they are almost laughable. Caught up in praise of humble hominy, Keiser forgets to mention other, more problematic “traditional mores.” Was there
“some element of truth” in slavery? Did laws banning women from voting or entering the workplace have any particular “uncanny tendency to be right”?
And my personal favorite: “As a result, making things a little easier on a few homosexual students could have a big [negative] impact on everybody, including those same students.” So rather than offering constructive criti-cism for improving overall student life, Keiser instructs those who don’t share his unwavering “traditional mores” to learn their place as soon as possible: “If they are mature adults as [Stanfield] says, they should be able to deal with it, and it is surely a realistic preparation for situations later in life.”
In short: accept the fact that you are wrong and unim-portant and just pretend to blend in. Life isn’t fair, so the university you pay to attend shouldn’t be either. That, as I understand it, is his solution to the housing debate.
We should be shocked that, in 2010, a piece of this na-ture is not only written but actually published. We should be shocked, but, as Keiser wryly reminds us: “You know, this is Oklahoma.”
— Parker Hubbard,
visual communications junior
Co-ed housing column response lacks logicLETTER TO THE EDITOR
A widespread tactic used by many conservatives lately is claiming that the Obama administration is out of touch with mainstream America. Common tea party rhetoric includes “taking back” America and equates the current administra-tion to the totalitarian regimes of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.
Conservatives paint Washington as a secluded place with guard dogs and moats, where no common men are allowed. They describe a federal government where a concentrated few liberal elitists devise schemes to take over America and turn it into a Communist dictatorship.
The rhetoric presents an “us versus them” scenario in which an elitist liberal minority forces unwanted policies down the throats of an oppressed conservative majority. However effective and appealing this approach may be, it is hardly rooted in reality.
Unfortunately for them, this entire men-tality is a giant example of confirmation bias. They ignore reality, so that when conserva-tive talking heads say that the health care bill is something that Americans don’t want, they buy it wholeheartedly. They like to think they are in the overwhelming majority and that the Obama administration simply ignores what the majority wants.
To get specific, a June 2010 Gallup poll found that 49 percent of Americans think of the recent health care legislation as a “good thing” while only 46 percent say it is a “bad thing.” With a narrow plurality, this certainly doesn’t conjure up images of an elitist few people cramming unpopular policies down the throats of millions. In fact, not all of the respondents report-ing the bill as a “bad thing” thought it was too progressive or overreaching; many of them thought it didn’t do enough.
The presidential approval rating is also telling. Obama’s average approval rating, according to Gallup, is 53 percent. This is higher than George W. Bush’s average of 49.4 percent, and slightly higher than GOP demigod Ronald Reagan’s av-erage of 52.9 percent. But we didn’t hear theories about a right-wing conspiracy in which these administrations were shoving unpopular policies down Americans’ throats (at least they were not near as common as the current claims
r e g a r d i n g t h e O b a m a administration).
Also, let’s not forget the humble fact that a major-ity of Americans voted for Obama for president, know-ing what policies he would try to implement (Obama beat McCain 53 percent to 46 per-cent). This majority is more than Bush or his adherents can claim from the 2000 election, when Al Gore actually received more votes than George Bush.
In fact, the 2008 election brought about a sweeping vic-tory for the Democratic party. The Democrats took 59 of the 100 Senate seats and 257 House seats compared to 178 Republicans.
This unified Democratic government came about because voters wanted the policies that the Democratic Party had to offer. That party is now following through on what it campaigned on. How conservatives can deny this majority or its legitimacy is beyond my comprehension.
Do these victories and majorities necessarily mean that all of the policies the Democrats are pushing through are great? No, and I’m not try-ing to say they do. All I’m saying is that the mod-erate to progressive majority demonstrated their desire for a new type of government that would implement the types of changes that Obama campaigned on in 2000. The polls show that
Americans favor, if ever-so-slightly, most of the major poli-cies the administration is championing.
Conservative rhetoric claiming that they are in the vast majority and that the Obama administration is therefore ig-noring what the majority wants is simply not true. You can paint yourself as in the mainstream majority and everyone to the left of you as a communist if you’d like (i.e. Fox News), but that doesn’t make it true.
— Jerod Coker,
journalism senior
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Conservative rhetoric ignores reality of majority
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Editor’s note: This is in response to Tucker Cross’s Sept. 1 column “Increased education spending won’t solve problems.”
Last Wednesday, an article by Tucker Cross arguing against increased education spending ran in The Daily.
Expecting to be enlightened with an alternate view-point on the issue of our education system, I instead got the regurgitation of bits gleaned from the literature of one man — Andrew Coulson.
The basic gist of the article is that we in America need not increase spending on public schools, be-cause they are inefficient and filled with far more school employees than are necessary.
Cross claims that char-ter schools do more for students with less money, and infers that by “letting this whole issue be handled on a local, free market level,” vir-tually all of our problems will be solved.
What Cross doesn’t tell you is that Coulson asserts not that there are too many teachers, but that there are too many school employees. If one reads further into Coulson’s work, you will find that he means school bu-reaucracy more than any other sector of public school employment.
As it turns out, approximately one-third of the jobs added since 1970 have been in this sector; yet Cross writes as if it is exclusively a surplus of teachers that is the problem.
He also points out that approximately $7,420 per stu-dent is spent each year. This number is given with abso-lutely no context, leaving the average reader in a state of shock. Furthermore, the National Center for Education Statistics reports the average expenditure per student is actually $8,586. Assuming a student attends every one of the 180 days in a school year, this amounts to $47.70 per day, which is just about minimum wage if he or she were working the seven hours spent in the classroom.
Cross also doesn’t even bother to mention this includes not simply average students, but special education stu-dents as well, who cost around twice as much to educate.
The fact that students with learning disabilities even exist is completely ignored by both Cross and Coulson, for if that were factored into the difference between general
public schools and charter schools, the cost-effectiveness difference would shrink. Charter schools are filled with students both capable and willing to succeed in school, so of course they do more with less.
In fact, as a general rule the bet-ter a student does in school, the less he or she costs to educate. I’d like to address the meat of the problem here: more or less money?
I question whether Mr. Cross has ever attended a rural school in Oklahoma. I can’t speak for the rest of the country, but in my hometown of Ada, state school districts are literally dying. In the Vanoss, Stonewall and Konawa school districts, administrators have cut sports, trips and custodial staff down to the bone, and they’re not alone.
One school district in the area, Stratford Public Schools, was in such bad shape financially that they closed doors for the summer early because they simply ran out of funds.
My own mother is a teacher, and I can promise you there is no such thing as an overpaid public school teach-er. Only an idiot would go into teaching for the money here in Oklahoma. Yes, we need reform, but not when times are already tough. This issue needs to be addressed with a chisel, not a sledgehammer.
Our schools are desperate for money, and to cut fund-ing any more simply because there are a few inefficient ones is flirting with disaster.
— Buck Roberson,
University college freshman
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We hope Tuesday’s book signing of George Henderson’s memoir, “Race and the University,” provided an opportunity for students to learn about his past and continuing efforts to combat racism on campus and in Norman.
Few people have contributed to this university like Henderson has.
He joined the OU faculty in 1967 as the third black professor and was a pioneer in Norman as the first black property owner.
He also founded OU’s human re-lations department, received three renowned professorships and au-thored 28 books.
Even if you didn’t get a copy at Tuesday’s book signing, we implore each of you to keep in mind this mes-sage — we still have a long way to go until we’re living in an actual racially integrated society.
The numbers tell the story.In 2009, only 38 of the total full-
time faculty members on campus were black, according to the OU
FactbookNumbers of the other minority
groups also pale in comparison to the 1,039 white faculty members. Only 35 full-time faculty members were American Indians, 47 Hispanic and 141 Asian.
Factbook numbers show that only 20 percent of the full-time faculty members are American minorities.
This isn’t to say the OU administra-tion doesn’t actively seek out diverse faculty members — they do. But why can’t they get a more equal number of minority faculty members?
It’s because there isn’t a large number of minority graduate stu-dents. And there isn’t a wide selec-tion because many minority stu-dents run into trouble paying for tuition.
In 2003, the last record of OU’s graduation rate, about 64 percent of students graduated.
While there isn’t a record of the demographics within this number, CBS News reported in May that only
43 percent of black students gradu-ate college, compared to 63 percent of whites. And 70 percent of black students said the No. 1 reason for dropping out was their inability to pay tuition.
It would be foolish to assume rac-ism has played no part in this hum-bling statistic. The disproportionate number of white students who grad-uate compared to other minorities isn’t an accident. It’s the product of past social policies, institutions, and laws that favored white Americans over minorities.
Look back to 1935 when most blacks were excluded from New Deal benefits and the Social Security Act of 1935 excluded domestic and agri-cultural workers, the great majority of whom were black.
The Wagner Act of 1935 allowed labor unions to exclude blacks from union membership, reducing com-petition for white laborers and forc-ing blacks into work with the small-est wages.
We know this was 75 years ago, but this and the countless years of racism behind it, set the foundation for thousands of impoverished black families.
We have made progress — the fact we have a black president is proof.
But, we still live in the shadow of past, oppressive social policies. Poverty and low income due to rac-ism still effect minorities seeking higher education.
College is supposed to be a mar-ketplace of ideas. But as long as we remain unaware of the existing prob-lems, we won’t gain a more diverse faculty or student body. And this is a disservice to Henderson’s legacy.
Don’t just read Henderson’s book. Let it inspire you to take a stand. Pledge to combat continuing racism and help us attain the goal of complete racial integration.
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We demand more diverse faculty
Conservatives
paint Washington
as a secluded
place with guard
dogs and moats,
where no common
men are allowed.”
Administrators have cut sports, trips and custodial staff down to the bone, and they’re not alone.”
By the numbers
38 full-time black faculty
47 full-time Hispanic faculty
141 full-time Asian faculty
35 full-time American-Indian faculty
1,039 full-time white faculty
105 full-time non-resident alien
faculty
26 full-time race unknown faculty
1,431 total full-time
faculty
*Source: OU Factbook
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SPORTS James Corley, sports [email protected] • phone: 405-325-3666
OUDAILY.COM ›› Watch highlights from Tuesday’s football press conference
THE DAILY’S SOONER SPORTS STOCK REPORT
Suzy BoulavskyJunior outside hitter
Boulavsky’s 3.31 kills per set is good for ninth in the Big 12, and she’s on pace to break several school records.
Kenny StillsFreshman wide receiver
Many declared Stills a savior for the receiving corps. His performance Saturday was certainly a disappointment, but it’s too early to say he won’t still be a game-changer.
Jamell FlemingJunior defensive back
Fleming’s stock will only keep dropping if he doesn’t shore up his coverage before Christian Ponder and Florida State roll into town Saturday.
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Way receives Big 12 weekly honorsSophomore punter Tress Way was
named co-Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week on Tuesday. The Tulsa native shared the award with Kansas State kicker Anthony Cantele.
In the Sooners’ 31-24 win Saturday against Utah State, Way punted eight times with a 46.6-yard average.
He also kicked an 85-yard punt, the longest in Big 12 history and the longest for OU in 40 years.
O’Brien award open to fan votingThe fi rst round of voting for the Davey O’Brien National
Quarterback Award opened Tuesday and runs through Oct. 24. OU redshirt sophomore quarterback Landry Jones was named on the O’Brien Award’s watch list this season.
The fan vote counts for 5 percent of the results each round. The rest comes from a selection committee comprised of journalists, broadcasters and former winners.
Fans can vote once daily at www.VoteOBrien.org.
FSN to air 4 women’s hoops gamesThe OU women’s basketball team announced four games for
the upcoming season that will be televised on Fox Sports Net.• Jan. 23 at Kansas (Lawrence, Kan.)• Jan. 29 at Oklahoma State (Stillwater)• Feb. 5 vs Iowa State (Norman)• Feb. 19 vs Texas (Norman)
— Daily staff reports
Bob Barry Sr. is one of t h o s e r a re p e o p l e t h a t not only loves his job but seems to love it more than anyone else.
That ’s just one of the reasons he is among the greatest sports journalist to call Oklahoma home.
In this, Barry’s 50th and final season as sportscaster, Sooner fans are witnessing the swan song of the man who is — and will always be — the only sports journalist to be handpicked by Bud Wilkinson as the play-by-play man for Sooner foot-ball and basketball games starting in 1961.
At 79 years young, Barry has called some of the biggest games in Oklahoma collegiate athletics history, including the historic 2000 football season in which the Sooners won their first na-tional title in 15 years.
He spent a season cover ing that one school in eastern Oklahoma that doesn’t seem to know there’s no such thing as a “hurricanes” — only torna-does — in the great state of Oklahoma (Tulsa) from 1973-1974 as well as that gaudy tangerine and white school up north (Oklahoma State) from 1973–1990.
Barry graduated from OU in 1946, where he played baseball and was journalism major, before joining the U.S. Air Force in 1951.
He began his illustrious career right here in Norman
in 1956, back when sports journalists still had to hold down day jobs to keep working at their passion. In his five years prior to joining the Sooner broadcasting team, he worked as salesman and disc jockey.
His rise to the upper echelon of Oklahoma’s great sports journalists was so precipitous that by 1966, in addition to his play-by-play work, Barry was the head sports anchor for what is now KFOR-TV. Just four years later he was named the station’s sports director, a posi-tion he held for three years.
In the mid-90s he returned to KFOR-TV as the week-night sports anchor, a position he be-queathed to his son and present KFOR-T V sports anchor, Bob Barr y Jr. He retired from working in television in 2008.
Barry is the quintessential Okie sports-caster and the voice of many childhood memories for nearly three generations of Sooner faithful. He has called four Big 12 men’s basketball championships, six Big 12 football championships and one BCS national title.
He has provided perspective, joy and a local charm to the broadcasting occu-pation seldom seen anymore in today’s 24-hour news cycle atmosphere.
After 50 years of calling football and men’s basketball games, you assume he’ll miss it. But his feeling will pale in comparison to how much Sooner fans will miss him.
— RJ Young,
journalism graduate student
Tress Way
Despite poor outings against Utah State, Jones sees better performances coming in the future from his receivers
AARON COLENThe Oklahoma Daily
Outside of junior wide receiver Ryan Broyles, none of OU’s receivers put up signif-icant numbers Saturday against Utah State.
However, coaches and players alike are confident two of the more experienced members of that group, senior wide receiver Cameron Kenney and junior wide receiver Dejuan Miller, will improve that in the near future.
“Dejuan played good for us last year, and Cameron came out and has obvi-ously shown what he can do around here,” redshirt sophomore quarterback Landry Jones said. “They’re going to be good players, and I’m excited to see what they can do on Saturday.”
Kenney had two recep-tions for 20 yards and Miller had two receptions for 19 yards against the Aggies, and neither of them scored a touchdown. Kenney had a touchdown catch that was called back because of an il-legal motion penalty.
Even though it didn’t necessarily show up in Kenney’s statistics, coach Bob Stoops said the Georgia product had a solid game.
“I’ve noticed him being more consistent
and competitive and making plays, and he did play well,” Stoops said. “So it was big to see him step up and become a guy that you can go to and count on.”
Kenney’s production wasn’t solely on of-fense. He also contributed on special teams with a 31-yard kickoff return.
“It’s definitely a great opportunity to have,” Kenney said. “Certain guys stepped out so I had to get in on the kickoff return and just tried to make the best of it I could.”
Kenney said he has a good comfort zone with Jones, and even though his coaches said the quarterback was rushing through
his checks, he didn’t even notice.
“I didn’t even know he was rushing, I thought he was doing good,” Kenney said. “If they say he was in a rush then I guess he was. But everything felt good out there we just had some small mistakes offensively and defensively that we’re going to get changed.”
Despite all the negative press and publicity that has come from the close win Saturday, Kenney said his confidence will remain
high and the game will be a building block for the remainder of the season.
“There were definitely a lot of positives,” Kenney said. “A lot of receivers made plays, DeMarco had a great game, Landry got the jitters out so now it’s go-time and everyone’s ready to get it going for the next game.”
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Sooners expect wide receivers to step up
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lot of positives. A lot of
receivers made plays,
DeMarco had a great
game, Landry got the
jitters out so now it’s
go-time and everyone’s
ready to get it going for
the next game.”
— CAMERON KENNEY,SENIOR WIDE RECEIVER
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title in 15 years.”
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Wide reciever Cameron Kenney (6) caught a pass in the endzone during Saturday’s Utah State football game. The pass was called back due to an illegal shift penalty. The Sooners won 31-24.
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Members of three Norman bands combine to create a ’90s tribute band that revisits their decade of youth
MARGO BASSEThe Oklahoma Daily
2010: the year of the iPad, the addition of “chillax” into the dic-tionary, two years before the fated end of the world and the birth of a ’90s cover band. It’s about time.
Named after the cult-classic ’90s TV drama “My So-Called Life,” My So Called Band is ready to hit the Norman music scene.
Band members Kyle Davis, Carly Gwin, Aaron Daniels, Ricky Salthouse and Brian Stansberry are bringing an array of songs from two decades past to flash concert-goers back to their former years when plaid reigned supreme and Super Nintendo was the technology of choice.
They tossed around Nirvana White, Crystal Pepsi and White Ford Bronco when first thinking of the perfect moniker to represent the decade of their youth. They eventu-ally settled on a shortened version of their friend’s original suggestion: My So Called Nineties Cover Band.
“It actually kind of started out as a joke,” Gwin said. “But the more we talked about it, the more we thought we really wanted to do it.”
While four of the five members are typically busy taking part in other local bands The Evangelicals, The Workweek and Pidgin Band, they’ve taken the past three months to master more than 40 songs, including hits from Beck, Cake, No Doubt and dozens more.
“We’re really playing a little bit of everything,” Davis said. “We’re trying to get more hip-hop and country.”
Everything about these guys gives off an effortlessly cool vibe, from the cozy rehearsal space tucked away in Gwin’s house to the nonstop flow of ’90s references that pour out of their mouths.
The band spent most of the interview reminiscing about the Hanson brothers and JNCO jeans while “Karate Kid 3” played in the background. It’s easy to see why the band chose this particu-lar decade to pay homage to.
“We were in kindergarten in 1990, so the ’90s [are] what we know,” Davis said.
The band consists of the basic elements of any great ’90s group: the token rocker chick
and four guys all avoiding the drag of day jobs to pursue music. None of them were
limited to any one instrument during their rehearsals, switching between guitar, bass, drums and keyboard at their leisure.
“This so far has been less stressful because you’re not writing music,” Davis said. “We can focus more on
the performance.” And while the band is made up of
some prime musicians, the members’ main focus is to have a good time with
their shows and to allow the audience to look back at a decade of incredibly diverse
music, and even sing along. Each song won’t be just a musical performance,
but a chance to reenact a classic ’90s pop culture image, like when Gwin wears a top hat with goggles to mimic the lead singer of the 4 Non Blondes, Linda Perry.
The band hopes to see people of all ages at their show and ex-pects to have a solid college student turnout despite the fact that many current college students likely barely remember the ’90s.
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LIFE&ARTS Dusty Somers, life & arts [email protected] • phone: 405-325-5189
TOMORROW›› Read about a professor whose sculptural works are going on display at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
HEAR ‘EM LIVE
WHO: MY SO CALLED BAND
WHEN: 9:30 P.M. THURSDAY
WHERE: THE DELI, 309
WHITE ST.
COVER: $5
NINETIES, MAN!NINETIES, MAN!BECK “WHERE IT’S AT”
ALANIS MORISSETTE “HAND IN MY POCKET”
311 “ALL MIXED UP”
NO DOUBT “DON’T SPEAK”
VANILLA ICE “ICE ICE BABY”
SOUNDGARDEN “BLACK HOLE SUN”
& MORE
g gmore. many current college students likely barely remember the ’90s.
TOTALLY AWESOME!A FEW RAD SELECTIONS FROM MY SO CALLED BAND’S COVER CATALOG
PHOTO PROVIDED
Norman ’90s cover band My So Called Band makes its debut at 9:30 p.m. Thursday at The Deli, 309 White St. The band will play covers of artists including Beck, Cake and No Doubt
A fi lm produced by the Chickasaw Nation will begin its fi rst commercial showing Friday at the Moore Warren Theater.
“Pearl” tells the true story of Pearl Carter Scott, a Chickasaw girl who began fl ying planes at 13 and was a commercial pilot by 14 in the late 1920s. Scott died in 2005.
“Pearl” marked the fi rst feature-length fi lm project for the Chickasaw Nation. It was named the best overall fi lm and best Native American fi lm at the 2010 Trail Dance Film Festival in Duncan, and also played at the deadCenter Film Festival in Oklahoma City and the American Film Institute Dallas International Film Festival.
Members of the cast and crew will be in attendance after the 7 p.m. Saturday showing to answer questions and sign autographs. The fi lm will play at the Moore Warren through Sept. 16.
-Daily Staff Reports
PHOTO PROVIDED
Elijah DeJesus stars as Pearl Carter Scott in the film “Pearl,” opening Friday at the Moore Warren Theater.
Young aviator focus of new film
8 • Wednesday, September 8, 2010 The Oklahoma Daily | OUDaily.comLIFE & ARTS
Every day you hear how important it is to be careful about what you post on your social networking sites. After all, employ-ers are spending inordinate amounts of time stalking you on the Internet in order to decide whether or not to hire you as their social media manager. They are looking for the tiniest scrap of evidence that could unravel all of your years of hard work and land you unemployed and unhappy somewhere in the suburbs of your own life.
Sure, I want a great job that I am so passionate about I could marry it. And yeah, I would also like that job to line my pockets with cold, hard cheddar, but I ain’t afraid of no future boss-man/woman. The people that frighten me most with their use of Facebook, Twitter or the blogosphere in general are family members (or worse, family friends).
I encourage managers, supervisors and even human resource departments to go ahead and look through my 2,005 or so pictures, 70 percent of which feature me participating in criminal ac-tivity. I hope they have a blast scrolling through my statuses that frequently use phrases such as “riding the struggle bus,” “school is murdering my soul without mercy” or “traded my iPhone for a block of wood and found it in my purse this morning.”
I can handle people I don’t even know browsing through my tweets and passing judgment on me, but the endless parade of inappropriate comments from those who have aged out of the social network is starting to severely cramp my style.
After months of leaving your uncle/former adult classmate/painfully nerdy older cousin in confirm/ignore limbo, you took the path less traveled and made them your friend or follower. Your parents stopped pestering you with questions like, “Why
don’t you want to be their facespace friend? Do you have some-thing to hide? You know employers are looking at that stuff, right?”
And now, after all of that, your super trendy grandmother/high school geometry teacher/old neighbor with the tribal tat-too has the audacity to comment on your status, or worse, a picture in which other people are tagged and consequently forced to endure the shame as well.
By my calculations, there are three types of com-ments these people can leave.
First, there is the totally irrelevant comment. Your status is about tailgating on Saturday and he or she leaves you a comment that just says, “We love you baby girl!!! You are a blessing in our life!”
Not only does this have abso-lutely nothing to do with you hanging out with your friends before a football game, but it also uses the plural pronoun “we.” How does one per-son’s Facebook suddenly belong to two people? Did they clone themselves? Or develop another personality? Whatever has happened, it is disturbing and uncomfortable.
The second type of comment is the condescending com-ment. Once a certain relative of mine who shall not be named commented on one of my generic “I would rather devour human flesh than read this essay for class” statuses with a little lecture on why I should be so grateful for my schooling and that I should be especially appreciative of my hardworking father who
so graciously funds my higher education. If I can’t rant aimlessly on the internet about inconsequential
occurrences in my day without being bothered, then I might as well just get a freaking diary.
Finally, there is the invisible comment. This comment is the one that by passes the Internet and goes straight to your parents or friends.
A seemingly harmless status such as “I wish I could sleep forever” is interpreted as a suicide threat. Next thing you know, you are getting phone calls from your Grandma who is “just making sure everything is OK.” You know what? Everything is not OK, Grams. I am trying to take a nap and you are the fourth relative to call me to make sure I wasn’t simultaneously starting my car and closing my garage door.
Picture comments are generally worse. Your sister-in-law comments on a photo of you in which you are vehemently wasted and tells you how much you look like your mom. That just hits a little too close to home.
Your baby cousin asks if the guy you are kissing in your profile picture is your boyfriend and you just don’t quite know how to tell her that he already has a boyfriend.
Perhaps the only real solution to this problem is to launch a counterattack and comment back with a vengeance. Go out into the social media world and comment and be commented on.
— Caitlin Turner,
letters senior
Students of all disciplines should engage art
Intrusive relatives the scourge of social media
Matthew Arnold, the English cultural critic, once defined culture as “knowing the best that has been said and thought in the world.”
Somehow Snooki of “Jersey Shore” seems to fall short of this definition, yet I am sure that more people in the U.S. know of her escapades than of Paul Cezanne’s paintings.
The term “high art” is often met with bored expressions and obvious sighs when spoken among the “common man.” I know my occasional, isolated exposures to art museums or ballets that injected a shot of high culture into my otherwise very normal life did not irre-versibly change me.
The seemingly consistent dichotomy be-tween “high art” and the masses throughout history has even led some individuals to take action to reconcile the chasm.
You might say that Jessica Farling is another one of these individuals. The art history se-nior is the founder of the newly revived OU student organization called The Art Museum Ambassadors. Part of the focus she envisions
for the organization is to encourage students of all disciplines at OU to become involved with the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, contrasted with the former student advisory board that consisted of mainly art school students.
Even though I’m not an art student, I am ex-cited about the museum’s Wanderlust exhibit,
now on display. This photogra-phy exhibit chronicles the role “American highways and in-terstates have played in the mi-gratory desires of the American people.”
Hoping to bridge the often seemingly insurmountable chasm between “high art” and the common man (aka every-one who is not an art student), the Art Museum Ambassadors will move forward with the goal to enhance the OU student body by providing it with the opportunity to engage in something higher than themselves, and higher than the poof on Snooki’s hair.
— Janna Gentry,
English junior
PHOTO PROVIDED
Victor Landweber’s “S.N. Ward & Son Mobil Station, Pasadena, CA” is now on display at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art as part of the Wanderlust photography exhibit through Sunday.
STAFF COLUMN
Caitlin Turner
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The endless
parade of
inappropriate
comments from
those who have
aged out of the
social network
is starting to
severely cramp
my style.”
STAFF COLUMN
Janna Gentry
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