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Organization gives award to groups that increase accessibility, inclusiveness
MEGAN DEATONThe Oklahoma Daily
The Association of Disabled Students recently distributed awards to student groups that go the “extra mile” to help disabled students on campus.
“[The association]’s objective is to assist students with disabilities in becoming fully integrated into cam-pus life,” said Colin Bober, group president.
The Extra Mile Award was given to student groups that have made an effort to make life on campus easier for disabled students. The asso-ciation met with the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council to promote accessibility opportunities for each house to install for disabled students.
“Since then, a number of houses have really stepped up to make changes, big or small, and as a result, we have seen an increase in partici-pation for disabled students in the greek community,” Bober said.
Alpha Gamma Delta, Delta Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa
6 of 11 districts have unopposed candidates, a result of low student participation, election chair says
CHASE COOKTHE OKLAHOMA DAILY
This is Natalie Jester’s first year as UOSA election chair. She said she has done what she could to get students involved, but it has been difficult.
“I’ve learned a lot,” said Jester, inter-national and area studies junior.
Monday’s Best Day Ever event on the South Oval aimed to get students involved with the election process, but the turnout was average, Jester said.
Students are going to the polls today to elect student representatives
for UOSA Undergraduate Student Congress from 11 districts, but only five of those districts’ elections are contested.
T h e o t h e r s i x : A r c h i t e c t u r e , Atmospheric and G eographical S c i e n c e s , E a r t h a n d E n e r g y , Humanities, Engineering and Life Sciences have candidates running unopposed.
There are also six seats not being filled this election cycle. Two seats in Education, one seat in Earth and Energy, one seat in Continuing Education, one seat in Language and one seat in English. There were not enough candidates to fill these spots, Jester said.
The lack of candidates in these
districts and lack of competition in others is the result of low student par-ticipation, Jester said.
“I don’t think political activism is quite up to par on campus yet,” she said.
Another reason for low participation is the lack of candidate information
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Forrest Bennett, UOSA public relations committee co-chairman, talks to English literature sophomore Trent McMinn about the Undergraduate Student Congress elections. UOSA hosted its “Best Day Ever” on Monday to encourage students to vote.
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Ambassadors address China’s relationship with U.S., stress decreased impact of war
DHARA SHETHThe Oklahoma Daily
D u r i n g t h e i r f i r s t v i s i t t o O k l a h o ma a n d O U, C h i n e s e Ambassador Jianmin Wu and his wife, Ambassador Yanhua Shi, spoke to students about the re-lationship between the U.S. and China in the changing world Monday afternoon.
Wu and Shi are the first Chinese couple to serve simultaneously as diplomats to the same country, said Paul Bell, College of Arts and Sciences dean.
Wu’s lecture, titled “China-U.S. Relationships,” addressed the changing relations between the U.S. and China.
“I like to highlight the impor-tance of this relationship and make suggestions about how we can best manage these relation-ships,” Wu said.
Wu highlighted globalization as one of the trends that is changing the world in the 21st century.
“When we look at the world, we have to understand how it is changing and what the force of the change is,” Wu said. “We need to change ourselves to embrace globalization.”
A major change in the world is the decline of the importance of war. War used to be a power-ful method of settling differences when countries disagreed. It is not as powerful today, as exem-plified by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Wu said.
Wu said he predicts that the world is on the eve of industrial and lifestyle revolutions that are driven by the rising populations of developing countries and af-fected by the interdependence of nations around the world.
However, Wu pointed out that just because we live in the infor-mation age does not mean that we understand each other well. Too many stereotypes and misun-derstandings exist, he said.
Because of this, one of the key elements of China’s peaceful de-velopment strategy is not form-ing alliances with other nations, although China will not follow in the footsteps of the Soviet Union, Wu said.
“While there are lots of chal-lenges, with dialogue we can
Air Force choses 48 students each year to train in fi ghter jets with European forces
CHASE COOKThe Oklahoma Daily
Aviation management se-nior Chauncy Rockwell has wanted to conquer the skies
since he was a little boy.“I’ve wanted to fly since I was
seven,” Rockwell said. “I’ve wanted to fly for the Air Force since I was eight.”
As an Air Force ROTC pilot recruit, he has already fulfilled his dream with runs in small aircraft. As a dis-tinguished member of his class, he will be living his dream in the upper echelon of the Air Force’s pilot class.
Rockwell and cadet Jon Guillen, mechanical engineering senior, were selected to attend the United States Air Force Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program. The pro-gram is highly competitive, selecting only 48 ROTC students nation-wide each year, said Major Rodney Rodgers, a member of the Air Force for 18 years.
It’s the first time since 2006 that an OU student has been given the honor, and a first in recent memory that two students have been selected from OU at the same time, Rodgers said.
Both cadets were chosen based on their academic performance, physi-cal fitness, pilot skills and leadership
ability, Rodgers said. Based on their excellence, it is no surprise they were selected, he said.
“They are both driven indi-viduals,” Rodgers said.
The program will send both ca-dets to Shepherd Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas. It differs from the typical jet pilot training programs because it guarantees training with European forces and gives students first pick on the aircraft available, Guillen said.
The program consists of 55 weeks of rigorous training filled with 12 hour days, according to its website. Single officers are placed in dorms together, and there is a focus on cama-raderie between class-mates as they complete their courses together. After selecting their aircraft, the Air Force will provide the cadets with follow-up training as they carry out their service.
After being asked what getting accepted into the program meant to them, a smile burst onto Guillen’s face.
“We get to fly T-38s,” Guillen said. A T-38 is on the
Cadets selected for elite jet pilot training program
AIRBORN | STUDENTS RECOGNIZED FOR EXCELLENCE
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Air Force cadets Chauncy Rockwell, aviation management senior, and Jon Guillen, mechanical engineering senior, were selected to attend the Euro-NATO Jet Pilot Training program. They will travel to Shepherd Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas, for training. The pair has not received a start date.
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Injunction ordered against Sharia law amendment
A Monday hearing at the District Court in Oklahoma City resulted in an injunction against Oklahoma’s recently approved ballot question prohibiting international and Islamic, or Sharia, law from being considered in state court.
The order will prevent the state election board from certifying the results of the ballot measure until the court hears the case on Nov. 22.
Muneer Awad, executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, said the amendment “stigmatizes his religion” and fi led the lawsuit Thursday, saying State Question 755 is “unconstitutional on its face and in its operation.”
The ballot measure passed during the 2010 General Election with 70 percent in favor of the amendment.
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Disability awareness rewarded
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Husband, wife team lectures on China
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Kappa Gamma and Alpha Phi were among the greek organi-zations to receive it in 2010.
Kappa Alpha Theta received the award for putting in a ramp in the back of their house, and also installing a bathroom on the first floor of the house that is completely accessible.
“We have potential new members who sometimes need accommodations, so it’s important that they can have the same experiences that any other student looking to be in a sorority would have,” said Emily Payne, Kappa Alpha Theta president.
“If we have a student that needs a space, we will put in a physical disability space for that student, even though we have already met the required number,” said Rick Adamo, operations manager for Parking Services. “We go out of our way to try to help them get as close as possible to anywhere they want to go.”
The association hopes to make all students aware of the challenges that disabled students face every day.
Bober encourages students to ask themselves the ques-tions, “If I were on crutches or in a wheelchair, what would I need to achieve my daily routine with the campus as it is today?” and “Would I be able to do it on my own?”
The award is presented twice a semester to student orga-nizations, sororities, fraternities, faculty members, adminis-trators or individual students, according to the association’s website.
on the OU elections web-site, she said. Some of the candidates have photos and a quick paragraph on their plans. Others can-didates have no photo or information.
It’s up to the candidate to provide the informa-tion, Jester said. She said she hopes in the future she can get candidates with platforms and visions so students know why they are voting.
But Jester said she has
seen progress. She noted the Architecture district’s seat was vacant at the be-ginning of the year, and now a student is running for that seat for the spring.
Once a representative is elected, their job is to figure out what students in their district need and to bring that to Student Congress meetings, said Aaron White, University College fresh-man and candidate for the University College district.
Zach Milvo, University College freshman, is an-other of the nine candidates running for five seats in the
University College district. He feels this job is impor-tant, and students should get involved.
“I want to help make sure incoming freshman get what they need,” Milvo said.
Forrest Bennett, political science junior and public relations vice chairman, said he feels that Congress has done its part to show students i t can make a difference.
“We have gone 90 per-cent,” Bennett said. “We are asking the students to come the other 10 percent.”
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Today around campus» Sooner Servants will meet 7 to 8 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Crimson Room.
» Christians on Campus will host a Bible study noon to 12:45 p.m. in the Union’s Traditions Room.
» Student Success Series is hosting a seminar on Overcoming Procrastination from 3 to 4 p.m. Wagner Hall, Room 245.
» Transfer Leadership Class will be held noon to 1 p.m. in the Union’s Presidents Room.
» Sooner Ballroom Dance Club will meet 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. in the Union’s Scholars Room.
» This day in OU history
Nov. 9, 1929University Press publishes 1st books
OU entered the publishing fi eld with the publication of three new books: “Folk Say: A regional miscellany,” edited by B.A. Botkin, “The Terminology of Physical Science” by Duane Roller and “The Value of Theory of the Second Austrian School” by Howard Ormsby.
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Wednesday, Nov. 10» Pro-Life Ambassadors will host a Justice For All discussion 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Union’s Frontier Room.
» There will be an Interfaith Coffee and Conversation from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Union’s Beaird Lobby and Lounge.
» Christians on Campus will host a Bible Study 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. in the Union’s Traditions Room.
» Student Success Series will host a research writing seminar 4 to 5 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 280.
Thursday, Nov. 11» A free art lecture and book signing of “In the Remington Moment” will take place 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
» Paradigm, hosted by the Baptist Student Union, will take place 8 to 10 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium.
» Union Programming Board’s Jazz Lounge will take place 8 to 10 p.m. in the Union’s Beaird Lobby & Lounge.
Friday, Nov. 12» Delta Gamma Fraternity Lectureship in Values and Ethics, presenting Leigh Anne Tuohy (whose story inspired “The Blind Side”), will take place 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom.
» Student Association of Bangladesh will meet 6 to 11 p.m. in the Union’s Sooner Room.
» “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World” will show at 4, 7, 10 and 11:50 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium.
» The Wire’s Battle of the Bands will take place 8 to 11 p.m. in the Union’s Will Rogers Room.
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Saturday, Nov. 13» Boomer Bash will take place 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Union’s Molly Shi Ballroom.
» Student Association of Bangladesh will meet 6 to 11 p.m. in the Union’s Sooner Room.
» OU Improv Rehearsal will take place 8 to 11 p.m. in the Union’s Frontier Room.
To vote
» Students can vote for representatives in their districts from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and Wednesday in Dale Hall, outside the residence halls, in the Oklahoma Memorial Union or at the bus stop at the top of the South Oval.
» Electronic voting takes place 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. today and Wednesday at elections.ou.edu.
Sunday, Nov. 14» A Masquerade Ball hosted by the Health Sciences Center Share Dancers will take place 6 to 11 p.m. in the Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom.
» Society of Chinese Students & Scholars will meet 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Union’s Sooner Room.
fighter-bomber track at jet pilot training, he said. There are only so many slots available and the top students in the jet pilot training program get first pick, he said.
Rockwell said it’s a dream come true.
“Our friends that are going to Vance Air Force Base have to compete for fighters on top of compet-ing for their airplane,” Rockwell said. “We only have to compete for our specific airplane.”
There are only so many fighter bombers slots avail-able, Guillen said.
Both cadets want to get into a fighter jet. Guillen wants to fly the F-16, and Rockwell wants the F-15. Rockwell has been in a F-15 before, and he said the experience was incredible.
“You go to take off, and you are at 30,000 feet in a manner of sec-onds,” Rockwell said. “It’s phenomenal.”
They attribute their suc-cess to participating in as many ROTC events as they can and keeping their grades up. Guillen said he focuses on his grades during the semester and devotes his summer to the Air Force.
OU’s facilities have played an important role as well. Other ROTC groups pale in compari-son, Guillen said.
“There is so much sup-port at this university,” Rockwell said. “It’s insane.”
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overcome the difficulties that exist,” he said.
Shi, who had never vis-ited the Midwest before, also gave a speech titled “How Many in Diversity.”
Wu retired and returned to China in 2003, af ter spending nine years as an ambassador from China in various parts of Europe. H e n o w s e r v e s a s t h e chairman of the Shanghai Center for International Studies.
OU is one of five univer-sities Wu and Shi are speaking at on their trip to the U.S. Wu’s visit was coordinated by the Confucius Institute at OU, part of a global network of almost 300 Confucius Institutes and 272 Confucius Classrooms in about 90 countries throughout the world.
“The Confucius Institute seeks to facilitate engage-ment with China in ways that strengthen the under-standing, opportunities and bonds between the people of the south central United States and the people of China,” said Sharon Gou, institute director.
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Blog author to visit Gaylord
Ree Drummond, author of The Pioneer Woman blog, will share the secrets of her success as a blogger and self-made media brand Nov. 17 at Gaylord College.
Drummond, whose blog led to the publication of her cookbook, “The Pioneer Woman Cooks,” will speak at 3:30 p.m. in the Gaylord College of Journalism’s Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Auditorium. Gaylord Ambassadors, a student representative organization for the journalism college, is hosting the event. This is the student organization’s fi rst speaker event of the year.
Drummond, a graduate of the University of Southern California, once thought she was destined for big city life, but that changed when she met her husband, a cattle rancher, in her hometown of Bartlesville. Her life changed course, and when she started blogging about ranch life, home schooling her four children and posting photos and recipes, she gathered an online following that’s grown exponentially. Her success has translated into book and movie deals.
— Daily Staff Reports
Alum wills $11M to university
OU now has $11 million in gift money from a deceased alumnus, whose career in geology and interest in sports will infl uence how the money is distributed throughout the university.
Logan Wickliffe “Wick” Carry, Jr. left the money from his estate to OU. The gift will be used to establish an endowment for football athletic scholarships. The geology department, the International Programs Center, the Honors College and the Institute for America’s Constitutional Heritage will also receive some of the funding.
“As the nation, state and University of Oklahoma continue to address economic challenges, the generosity of alumni and friends help us advance the progress and new ideas that are the hallmark of great universities and that further strengthen OU’s position as a pacesetter in American public higher education,” President David Boren said in a press release.
Wick was born in Oklahoma City, attended Classen High School and pursued undergraduate studies at Yale. In 1954, he received his master’s degree in geophysics from OU. Wick moved to New Orleans in 1960, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He died May 11, 2009.
An avid sports fan, Carry was known to keep football teams’ current game schedules, including OU’s, in his shirt pocket, according to his obituary from 2009.
— Sabrina Prosser/The
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Pakistani association to host cookout
STUDENT LIFE
Group reformed this year in response to media coverage of Pakistan
LAUREN CASONHUAThe Oklahoma Daily
The Pakistani Student Association is holding a cookout tonight as part of its attempt to revive the or-ganization’s presence on campus.
“[The organization] had previously been around on campus, but it felt like the members were disconnect-ed,” said Irfan Mahmood, organization president and sociology and microbiology senior.
The idea to start the group back up again came about when Mahmood, who is involved in other cultural groups on campus, decided recent events in the media warranted student represen-tation on political and cul-tural views of Pakistan.
“We wanted people to get a better understanding of the country and what its culture is about,” Mahmood said.
Hajra Habib, zoology ju-nior, expressed the same sentiments.
“The Pakistani members should find a community
within the university,” Habib said.
Mahmood, who knows Pakistani culture and visits Pakistan often, used his own personal network of friends as well as people from the community to help get the group started.
His father is a former board member of the Oklahoma Pakistani Association, giving Mahmood a starting point.
Joshua Landis, Center for Middle East Studies director, said it’s important for all stu-dent groups to have a chance to voice their concerns with others who have similar backgrounds.
“It’s often nice to just be with people from your own country who share your lan-guage and share your food,”
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Members of the Pakastani Student Association meet Monday night in Wagner Hall. The group was established this year and will host a cookout 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday.
More info
The OU Pakistani Student Association will host its 2010 Cookoff Challenge at the Henderson Tolson Cultural Center. The Cookoff Challenge will have two categories for meat and vegetarian with the best dish winning $100. Cost to eat is $3.
Films brought by Hillel, Judaic and Israeli studies as part of fi lm series
EMILY HOPKINSThe Oklahoma Daily
Israeli filmmaker and actor Pini Tavger will be available to answer questions at a screening of three of his short films today.
“We’re very excited to have Pini Tavger com-ing,” said Misheala Giddings, international and area studies senior and OU Hillel’s Grinspoon MZ-Foundation Israel Advocacy intern. “He’s a well-established actor and director in Israel and is a great example of the wave of new and exciting talent coming out of Tel Aviv University.”
The three films were nominated for the 2009 Student Academy Awards. “Pinchas,” about a nine-year-old Russian boy dealing with life in Israel, won the audience award for short subject at the 12th annual Brooklyn International Film Festival in 2008.
“What better way to highlight Israeli and Jewish culture than by bringing films that highlight Israeli society, along with the director?” said Keren Ayalon, OU Hillel executive director.
In addition to writing and directing his own films, Tavger acts in movies, TV shows and soap operas.
“He’s a young, fun guy, and I think people will love him,” Giddings said.
Judaic & Israel Studies has been sponsoring the
Jewish and Israeli film series for the 15 years the program has been at OU, said Norman Stillman, Judaic history professor.
“Some of our faculty are associate or full mem-bers of the Film and Video Studies program and teach courses such as Israeli culture through cinema, so bringing in films is a natural for us,” Stillman said.
The event is cosponsored by the Schusterman/Josey Program in Judaic & Israel Studies, the OU Film & Video Studies Program and the OU Hillel Jewish Student Center.
A question-and-answer session will follow the screening, which begins at 4:30 p.m. in the Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
Israeli director to attend showing of his short fi lms
FILM SCREENING
Landis said.Habib said she was sur-
prised at how hard it was to start up a new organization.
“Nobody ever got orga-nized enough. It’s hard to start up a new organization,” Habib said.
The Pakistani Student Association has around 40 members.
T h i s y e a r t h e g r o u p hopes to recruit new mem-bers and spread awareness about Pakistani culture, and
Mahmood personally hopes that the group provides a comfortable ground for stu-dents to interact and learn about the country.
“A lot of non-Pakistanis or even Asians don’t un-derstand the difference be-tween the Pakistani culture and the Indian culture,” Mahmood said. “They think it’s all one big culture, but there are significant cultural differences.”
The association will help
provide a community for Pakistani members as well as help others get involved in the culture, Habib said.
Mahmood encourages other students to not be put off by the group being an ethnic organization.
“Our association is for Pakistani students, but it’s also for everyone else,” Mahmood said. “We want as many people to know about our culture and be involved.”
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Editor’s note: The Daily runs a media literacy column by Sarah Cavanah, interim executive director of Oklahoma Scholastic Media and former Daily staff writer, every Tuesday to give readers a behind-the-scenes look at The Daily and media coverage in general.
On Oct. 18, The Daily received a letter from petroleum en-gineering graduate student Nabil Chavez Majluf questioning The Daily’s coverage of the dramatic mine rescue in Chile — or the lack thereof.
Chavez Majluf, originally from Bolivia, said he thought The Daily failed its readership by not giving more notice to the mine rescue. It’s a frustration I know I’ve heard several times from international students and residents, not just about The Daily, but about the U.S. in general. We can look a little self-centered.
But, I would argue that Chavez Majluf isn’t really seeing the famous “ugly American” phenomenon at work. Instead, I think he’s seeing one of the holes in the news net.
Reporters at The Daily would give their eye teeth for the op-portunity to be a witness, interview the miners and their fami-lies and report the story.
Obviously, The Daily can’t send reporters to events halfway around the world, and neither can most local news outlets.
For most media, local is king. Before the Internet, local was everything. A printed newspaper is only distributed so far be-yond its newsroom, and a television signal can only reach so far. Consequently, generations of journalists were trained to look for what was newsworthy or important in their own back-yards before looking beyond the coverage area.
Even when it comes to world events, for instance the Haiti earthquake, the stress is on journalists to find out how that event affects the publication’s audience. In The Daily’s case, that meant finding out what happened to OU students who were in Haiti at the time, and finding out what Haitian students at OU were going through while searching for news.
And here’s where the hole in the net comes in. Chavez Majluf rightly points out that “many students do not have TVs in their dorms or apartments… Many of these students rely on the OU Daily to get informed about events happening… around the
world.”Before the Internet — before radio even — newspapers set
up a system so that their local readers could get important news from around the world, just for this purpose. The Daily, for in-stance, can’t send a reporter to cover the mid-term elections in Delaware, but Delaware papers also can’t send reporters to cover the Oklahoma governor’s race. So, they trade stories.
Many major papers, including The Daily, are part of a col-lective effort called the Associated Press. Every day, papers up-load their stories that might have an interest to readers outside their publications’ reach. Other papers can chose from this pool and run the stories. We call these “wire stories,” and you can find them everywhere from the front page to state, national and world sections.
The system worked — pretty well, at least. But then came the Internet and the great reduction in newspapers.
The Internet allows anyone to go directly to Chilean papers to get news about the mine rescue, or at least to an American national outlet with a reporter on the scene, like NBC or The New York Times. The Internet also opened up a whole new av-enue for advertisers. The number of pages in a newspaper is in direct correlation with the number of ads sold for that day. Fewer ads means fewer pages.
Newspapers were faced with a choice. Cut local coverage or cut those wire stories from outside the area. It’s kind of a no-brainer, journalistically speaking. Many, many news organiza-tions covered the Chilean mine rescue. Only a handful, and maybe just one, would even consider running information on how much the lowest-paid staffers at OU get per hour.
The hole is for those students who do still get the main part of their news from The Daily. Some days, there is enough ad-vertising, and therefore enough room, to run in-depth cover-age of world events. Some days, all The Daily can do is cover its area well and mention the effort briefly, as it did on the opinion page with a thumbs-up kudos.
Perfect? No. Realistic? Yes. Comprehensive? Absolutely not. But the burden has to be on the reader for that day, at least until we work out a new system that mends that hole.
— Sarah Cavanah,
professional writing and journalism graduate
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The Justice For All anti-abortion exhibit is return-ing later this week to the an-noyance of most of the stu-dent body, not in the least because the Women’s and Gender Studies Student Association (WGSSA) might once again also be back with their kazoos and signs saying “our campus not theirs” — a charming and pithy expression of the WGSSA’s take on free speech on campus.
Beyond the problematic fact that the student associa-tion of an OU department organized itself to support one side of a political debate rather than open dialogue, the WGSSA activists were obnoxious and overbearing. They did not seek to start conversations, but stifle them.
However, when approached by students, whether like-minded or not, several of the WGSSA protesters did dis-cuss the issues rather than continue shouting, a credit to those of the protesters who came to speak as well as shout. But what was absent, at the fault of Justice For All as well as the WGSSA, is that while both groups spoke with unaf-filiated OU students, I saw no instances of the two groups speaking to one another. These groups spent several hours a day standing (and marching and yelling) not 20 feet from one another, but in the two or so hours I spent talking with and observing both, they did not engage with one another. Perhaps this is a good thing, as it may have been impos-sible for both sides to tone down the rhetoric (“You’re pro-murder!” “You hate women!”) long enough for them to have anything resembling the rational discussions each side was carrying on with passersby.
This indicates a deeper problem. It’s no coincidence that abortion rights and anti-abortion advocates label them-selves “pro-choice” and “pro-life.” These are code words that allow them to discredit the other side without having to go through the trouble of listening to them.
The anti-abortion side ignores the abortion rights side’s all-encompassing emphasis on trusting the decisions of pregnant women, while the abortion rights side will not consider for a moment the anti-abortion side’s arguments about when a person really is a person. To do so would be to think like the enemy, who is obviously crazy — they do stupid things like put up giant pictures of bleeding fetuses or march around with kazoos. Obviously, such people can-not be reasoned with, but only ridiculed.
I saw this refusal to try to understand the other side per-sonally last week. When talking to a WGSSA student about the Justice for All exhibit, I asked whether the student be-lieved that the intact dilation and extraction method of abortion (known colloquially as partial-birth abortion) should continue to be illegal. This procedure involves partially extracting a fetus, feet first, until only the head remains in the uterus. The doctor then cuts a hole in the fetus’ skull and uses a vacuum to suction out the brain until the skull collapses, at which point the dead fetus is delivered.
This procedure was not limited only to cases in which the mother or fetus’s life was in danger, but, as Roy Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, asserted in 1997, “In the vast majority of cases, the procedure is per-formed on a healthy mother with a healthy fetus that is 20 weeks or more along.” The procedure has been illegal in the United States since 2003, and the Supreme Court upheld the ban in 2007. A 2003 ABC poll found that 69 per-cent believe the practice should be illegal, a belief shared by 60
percent of Democrats and 63 percent of liberals.The student first began to talk about how Justice For
All’s pictures are misleading, since a lot of them come from abortions in which either the mother’s or the fetus’ life was in danger, cases in which even the Justice For All volun-teers would allow the abortion.
I pressed on with the question, asking when she would consider a fetus alive, if not during this procedure. The stu-dent resorted to the standard abortion rights logic that we need to trust women to make the right decision about their bodies. To consider that maybe there might be a point that we could all agree a fetus is truly alive would be the ulti-mate rejection of her ideals and must not be entertained.
I hope Justice For All and WGSSA can put down the kazoos and the brochures and talk to one another this Wednesday without calling each other genocidal or woman-hating. Consider how to weigh the freedom of choice of a woman against the human rights of a baby. Have a rational debate in which you come to some sort of consensus.
Who knows, you might actually learn something.
— Patrick O’Bryan,
economics and letters sophomore
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Student Congress and apathy
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Pakistan and Indonesia are two of the most populated coun-tries in the world, with approximate populations of about 170 million and 220 million, respectively. These two countries boast the highest Muslim populations in the world.
Obviously there is significant Islamic influence throughout these two nations. However, the justice system in these coun-tries is governed not by Sharia law, but rather through a secular courts system.
That’s right. Almost 400 million Muslims in Indonesia and Pakistan, and the predominantly Muslim countries of Bangladesh and Turkey, follow a legal system that does not adhere to Sharia law. Yet on Nov. 2, Oklahomans showed up to the polls and, in resounding fash-ion, approved State Question 755, banning Sharia law from Oklahoma courts.
State Sen. Rex Duncan, R-Sand Springs, the chief author of the amendment, described State Question 755 as a “preemptive strike” against the use of Sharia and international law in Oklahoma courts.
Approximately 1 percent of Oklahoma’s popula-tion is Muslim — about 30,000 out of 3.7 million people. Nearly half a billion Muslims live in the mainly Islamic countries with-out Sharia law, yet apparently the 30,000 Muslim-Americans of Oklahoma were a great enough threat to warrant a “preemp-tive strike.” In the weeks leading up to the elections, the debate should not have been whether to vote “yes” or “no” on SQ 755, but rather why such an irrational and nonsensical piece of Islamophobia managed to find its way to the ballot box.
Some have argued that the Sharia law arbitration tribunals utilized in the U.K. provide reason for SQ 755. However, before we view the situation in Britain as an imminent threat, these Sharia courts must be analyzed in context. Islam in Britain has not assimilated to the extent it has in the U.S. There are small towns and neighborhoods in the U.K where the entire popu-lation is Muslim. These Sharia arbitrators in Britain can only
serve in civil suits in which both parties in dispute agree to give them power to rule in the case. Thus, Sharia law in the U.K. does not apply to all citizens, but only to those Muslims who allow for it to decide their case.
Believing that Sharia law will ever find its way to Okahoma is to live at the apex of delusion. This measure was put to vote on Nov. 2 to simply arouse paranoia and intolerance from
Oklahoma voters against Muslims. Some have already taken action against the
measure, such as Muneer Awad, director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, who filed a lawsuit against the amendment on the grounds that it is unconstitutional. This resulted in the Oklahoma City District Court applying a restraining order on the ballot measure Monday. Although the eventual result of this lawsuit re-mains uncertain, perhaps some Oklahomans will
use this additional media attention as a chance to truly learn about Islam, the Muslims of Oklahoma and the illogical nature of SQ 755.
Regardless, in times of great uncertainty, divisive measures such as SQ 755 will only continue to worsen the relations be-tween Muslims and non-Muslims in Oklahoma. Become in-formed about the differences among us. Go to a local mosque. Talk to a Muslim student. Don’t let the fear mongering and in-tolerance of others govern your views.
— Mubeen Shakir,
University College freshman
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The relationship between our student government and the students resembles that of a terrible romantic comedy — they’re just not that into you.
“We have gone 90 per-cent,” said Forest Bennett, vice-chairman of Student Congress. “We are asking students to come the other 10 percent.”
A quick glance through elections.ou.edu reveals
that six of the races out of the 11 districts up for elec-tion are uncontested. Also, many of the candidates give no information about them-selves or their agenda on the site, and six seats will re-main empty after polls close on Wednesday.
It might look good on these students’ resumes to hold a position in Student Congress, but do you really want someone who gives no
information about him or herself to represent you?
The fact is that these stu-dent representatives are the most accessible advocates for the district your major falls in, and they approve the $500,000 allocated to various student organiza-tions each year. Moreover, legislation passed by con-gress has to ultimately be signed by OU President David Boren, so if you want
to get a message heard, this is an effective way.
So maybe you should give Student Congress a chance. It may seem boring and un-attractive. You may not have a lot in common with it. But if you start to get to know it, you may realize that it could be a great friendship — with benefits.
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DOCUMENTARY
Documentary on OU player who left team midseason in 1983 debuts tonight
RJ YOUNGThe Oklahoma Daily
Director Jonathan Hock set out to tell the story of the man he believes was one of the greatest running backs of all time.
That man’s name is Marcus Dupree, and he is the sub-ject of “The Best Player That Never Was,” a film airing at 7 tonight on ESPN as part of the network’s “30 for 30” sports documentary series.
Dupree was the first fresh-man to lead OU in rushing, amassing 1,144 yards and 13 touchdowns in coach Barry Switzer’s I-formation option offense.
“It was definitely hard, but I wanted to be the best,” Dupree said.
W h i l e a t t e n d i n g t h e University of Pennsylvania, Hock heard murmurs of a Herculean running back from Philadelphia, Miss., who had suddenly disappeared four games into the season.
“ I’ m t h e s a m e a g e a s Marcus, so when I was grow-ing up in New York, going to school on the East Coast, he was this kind of mythical figure,” Hock said. “And then for him to just vanish? It was hard to leave that alone. I be-came obsessed with finding out why and exploring that.”
Hock was inspired to tell Dupree’s story because he believed it was more than just a great sports story.
“I think the interesting sto-ries to tell are the ones that transcend sports,” Hock said. “One of the pitfalls of a lot of Hollywood movies is that the sports action is so lame. But when you have a guy like Marcus Dupree, and you get show his highlights — espe-cially the OU highlights — and high school highlights that no one had ever seen before, you have a story that transcends the sport aspect of it.”
The story of Dupree is one that Hock feels the entire country will appreciate.
“It’s about human beings and family and greed and loss
ESPN fi lm tells tale of vanishing football star
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OU tailback Marcus Dupree rests on the sidelines with an icepack for his neck on Nov. 6, 1982.
and redemption and how fleeting glory can be,” Hock said. “That has a profound ef-fect on people. Marcus never experienced the amount of glory he deserves.”
It was challenging for Hock to piece together the disappearance of Dupree in the middle of the 1983 sea-son after OU’s game against Texas.
“I talked to everybody involved and got their best recollections, and they don’t always jibe,” Hock said. “Marcus [Dupree] remem-bers it, but his memories are clouded by the concussion he suffered during the game.
“It was a sensational story in the history of sports. The best player in the country vanished.”
When it happened, OU coaches, players and fans took it hardest. Hock wanted to comfortably break the silence around Dupree’s legacy.
“I hope the people at OU will enjoy hearing the story,” Hock said. “Hopefully, 27 years later, it’s something we can speak about.”
When asked what he want-ed viewers to take away from “The Best That Never Was,” Hock became lyrical.
“Once upon a time, there was the greatest football player maybe who ever lived. Only a handful of people got to experience it. If you saw it, you’re very lucky; if you didn’t see it, you ought to know that it happened,” Hock said.
MARCUS DUPREE
Freshman season (1982)» 905 yards, 129 carries, 13 touchdowns (regular season)» Big 8 Conference Newcomer of the Year
Fiesta Bowl (Jan. 1983)» 239 yards, 17 carries, 14.1 yards per carry» Set rushing record for Fiesta Bowl and was named game MVP
Sophomore season (1983)» 369 yards, 61 carries, three touchdowns (four games)» Suffered concussion against Texas, transferred to the University of Southern Mississippi
Marcus Dupree was one of the most successful high school players in history, amassing more than 5,000 rushing yards and breaking Herschel Walker’s high school touchdown record.
Dupree was so heavily sought after by college football programs that author Willie Morris wrote a book about the process: “The Courting of Marcus Dupree.” It took a personal visit from OU legend Billy Sims to convince Dupree to join the Sooners.
As a freshman in 1982, Dupree was a phenomenon. After seeing little time on the fi eld in the fi rst four games of his career, Dupree started every remaining game of the season.
Dupree had four 100-yard rushing performances, including an Oct. 16 game against Kansas in which he rushed for 158 yards.
In the 1983 Fiesta Bowl against the Arizona State Sun Devils, Dupree rushed for a Fiesta Bowl record 239 yards on 17 carries. Even though Arizona State won the game and Dupree didn’t play much of the second half because of four separate injuries (fi nger, ankle, rib and hamstring), he was named Fiesta Bowl MVP.
As a freshman at OU, Dupree averaged 7.8 yards per carry and set OU freshman records in single-season rushing yards (905) and touchdowns (13) on just 129 carries.
A private spat about Dupree’s work ethic between him and coach Barry Switzer was made public, so after he left the 1983 game against Texas with a concussion, Dupree disappeared.
He resurfaced in Mississippi a week later with news that he intended to transfer to Southern Miss. However, since the NCAA required him to sit out a year, he never did play another down of college football.
— RJ Young/The Daily
FOOTBALL
Sooners disagree over causes of lossFourth quarters, road game challenges diffi cult to prepare for, team says
AARON COLENThe Oklahoma Daily
The No. 16 OU football team seemed confused after practice Monday about the root of their problems dur-ing Saturday’s 33-19 loss to the Texas A&M Aggies in College Station, Texas.
Coach Bob Stoops said he thought his team was possibly too hyped up for the game.
Senior defensive back Jonathan Nelson said he thought the team was flat in the beginning.
Junior linebacker Travis L ew is said the defense came in know ing more a b o u t Te x a s A & M’s o f-fense than any other of-fense they’d faced up to that point, yet both he and Nelson agreed that mental mistakes were to blame for the loss, not being physi-cally outplayed.
“We had mental mis-takes. I don’t think they beat us physically,” Lewis said. “These teams aren’t doing anything special; we’re just beating ourselves.”
In summary, OU came into the game against the
Aggies mentally prepared but got beat by mental mistakes.
Pu t t i n g t hat p a ra d ox aside, the Sooners face an-other obstacle in their quest to solve the issues that have plagued them this season, which include their inabil-ity to win on the road and their poor performance in the fourth quarter.
OU is faced with prob-lems that can’t be simulat-ed in practice.
They can’t re-create an environment of 80,000 hos-tile fans in the stands, and they can’t re-create a fourth quarter in practice.
“You can’t simulate that and work it on a day-to-day basis,” Nelson said. “It’s more of a test that you find out when you get out there how you’re going to handle it.”
One thing Nelson, Stoops and Lewis all agreed on is that the Sooners have to be tougher mentally to get over the hump on the road and in the fourth quarter.
“It’s an inconsistency thing, and it ’s a mental toughness thing,” Lewis said. “Being strong in the four th quar ter when i t counts ; right now that’s what we’re lacking.”
Defenders back soon from injuries
Coach Bob Stoops said sophomore linebacker Ronnell Lewis returned to practice this week, and sophomore defensive lineman Casey Walker will likely return next week.
Walker has missed the last fi ve games with a sprained knee that he suffered during the Sept. 25 Cincinnati game.
Freshman defensive tackle Daniel Noble’s return is still uncertain, said Stoops.
Noble injured his ankle Oct. 16 against Iowa State.— Aaron Colen/The Daily
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My car is my sanctuary. I spend so much time in it that it’s more like my home than any room could ever be.
Some people say that their body is their temple, but I gave up on that a long time ago — it’s way too fun to desecrate that thing.
In my car, there are no rules about how to keep it sacred. To me, it seems a little more holy with a bag of rotten Taco Bueno under the seat, three empty coffee cups on the passenger side and at least a fourth of my wardrobe in the trunk.
I do keep it sanctified in one traditional way, and that is the worship ritual of song.
The creators of the Mazda Protegé invented this little slot in the dashboard where you can just shove all of your CDs and prevent them from getting too scratched up. I like to blindly reach in
there while driving and pull out whatever is on top, and then allow myself just to be one with the jam.
During these blessed moments, details such as accurate lyrics and safe driving never get in my way.
Totally one of those “It’s all about the journey, not the destination” type of things. This is maybe the only time it is OK to use that phrase.
Just like everything else in my life, I prefer to pretend
that one day I am going to receive a DVD in the mail of my “Greatest Hits While Singing and Dancing in my Car.”
I don’t know how these people got the footage; all I know is that I have a well-produced 10-15 minute video of me getting down. And it is hilarious.
When I’m driving, if peo-ple happen to notice that I am full-on screaming some Arcade Fire like it is my an-them, then I just take the show up a notch, because it is just awkward to acknowl-edge them.
O f c o u r s e s t o p l i g h t s are a di f ferent animal. Depending on the level of obscenities in the song and the number of minors in the car next to me, I either stare directly at them and thrust my body accordingly or move straight on to the inappropriate gestures.
W h e n I r e a c h m y
driveway or a parking spot at Target, I try to wait and let the song finish, other-wise you get back in the car and really embarrass yourself with a loud blast of Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy.”
I try to make a devotion to the car god every day, but if I can’t swing that, I make a good scene while walking to school and listening to Cee Lo Green.
May the good lord bless my vehicle and keep the sweet sounds of Top 40 radio comin’.
In Mazda’s name I pray, amen.
— Caitlin Turner,
letters senior
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Sunday’s music school concert to feature Spanish medieval music
The School of Music will present a selection of Spanish medieval music Sunday in the Kerr Gothic Hall of the Catlett Music Center. The program will feature music from the age of King Ferdinand and Isabella, including pieces that refl ect the voyage of Christopher Columbus.
The performance begins at 8 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students, faculty, staff and seniors. For tickets, call 405-325-4101.
Chili fundraiser planned to raise money for student scholarships
The School of Art and Art History will host a chili fundraiser to raise money for student scholarships Nov. 17. The fundraiser will feature the sale of handcrafted ceramic bowls.
The event will take place 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 17 in the Lightwell Gallery, 520 Parrington Oval. Chili and a ceramic bowl will sell for $15. Chili on its own will sell for $8.
Dance, music schools to performThe School of Dance and the School of Music will host a
performance of “Bartók Sonata and Carmina Burana” Nov. 19 to 21 in the Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall.
The performance will stage at 8 p.m. Nov. 19 and 20 and 3 p.m. Nov. 21. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students, faculty, staff and seniors. For tickets, call 405-325-4101.
— Daily staff reports
Just like everything
else in my life, I prefer
to pretend that one
day I am going to
receive a DVD in the
mail of my “Greatest
Hits While Singing and
Dancing in my Car.”
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Syd Barrett“An Introduction to Syd Barrett” EMIReleased: Today8.9/10
It took but seven years for Syd Barrett to make an indelible impression on music. He was a founding member, and creative lead-er, for Pink Floyd, one of the most successful bands in the history of music, and his solo work continued to push boundaries.
“An Introduction” does just that, acquainting lis-teners to the full arc of Barrett’s work and remind-ing them just how impor-tant he still is.
Barrett began with Pink Floyd in 1965, acting as the chief songwriter and sty-listic director until 1968, when drug use and mental anguish prompted his de-parture from the band. He would perform for just four more years as a solo artist before exiling himself from the world of music, paint-ing and gardening until his death in 2006.
T h e m a t e r i a l o n “A n I n t r o d u c t i o n ” f o l l o w s a c h ro n o l o g i c a l o rd e r, launching off with Pink Floyd’s very first singles, “Arnold Layne,” “See Emily P l ay ” a n d “Ap p l e s a n d Oranges.” It dives through three more Floyd singles before emerging into 12 varied songs of Barrett’s solo work.
It’s an interesting listen, following through his natu-ral progression, and hear-ing songs like “Octopus” and “Terrapin” — which sound like something you’d hear on college radio today — acts as a fierce reminder
of just how far ahead of his time Barrett was.
— Joshua Boydston,
psychology junior
Cee Lo Green“The Lady Killer” ElektraReleased: Today9.8/10
C e e L o G r e e n ’s n e w album “The Lady Killer” is a pretty brilliantly concoct-ed work of art that is full of soul.
Green’s most recent ef-fort is for the most part a feel-good love song album, with some fun twists here and there. The instrumen-tals are perfectly compli-mented by Green’s superb-ly soulful voice.
While all the songs are love-oriented, the album is far from predictable. Green describes it best in the intro of the project : “Spontaneity is the spice of life.”
T h e Du n g e o n f a m i l y musician approached this album with obvious hard work, and his efforts pro-vided a successful project from intro to outro. This is one of those albums for which it is rather difficult to pick a best track, but the debate would probably be between the popular single “F**k You,” “Bodies” and “It’s OK.”
However, there really is no reason to try and rank each track, because each and every one is a solid composition. Production for the album came from the likes of the Smeezingtons, Salaam Remi and veteran English producer Fraser T. Smith. There are only two
features, singer Lauren Bennett and Earth, Wind & Fire singer Philip Bailey, but no more features were needed considering it ’s hard to find any flaws with the way the project turned out.
Combine phenomenal instrumentals that are far from simple with thought provoking and yet melodic lyrics, and you’ve got “The Lady Killer.” Green displays why he’s been able to re-main relevant to popular music on this one, showcas-ing his multitude of talents. There’s really nothing bad to be said about the record, and it is most certainly one that everyone should give a few spins.
— Ryan Querbach,
journalism senior
Kid Cudi“Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager” GOOD MusicReleased: Today9.0/10
Personal problems aside, Kid Cudi has matured into a great musician, and he shows this without question in his sophomore album “Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager.”
Speaking of personal problems, what album is complete without refer-ences to them? Well Cudi fills this quota, speaking in depth about the struggles he’s been through in the past year or so, mostly re-volving around his drug use.
Musically, the album is just like the first in that it is hard to compare it to any-thing else. Sure, it’s a hip-
hop album, but it’s nothing like any other that would fall in the genre. Cudi exer-cises his often-dark lyrics over similarly dark instru-mentals, with production coming from the likes of No I.D., Emile and Jim Jonsin.
Similar to most of Cudi’s music, his vocals range from singing to rapping, allowing him to keep lis-teners guessing from track to track. The album is un-mistakably personal, with Cudi approaching his inner demons without holding back.
It is solid from start to finish, with the most popu-lar song “Erase Me” prob-ably being the most lack-ing. Songs like “Mr. Rager,” “GHOST!” and “REVOFEV are perfect examples of Cudi’s willingness to ex-p re s s h i m s e l f l y r i c a l l y when it comes to his life. Like his first effort, this one is split into five acts, allow-ing it to flow smoothly with a dark underlying storyline. Features on the album in-clude Cee Lo Green, Mary J. Blige and Kanye West, with Blige and Green adding some soul to the project.
W i t h a n y m u s i c i a n , there’s always a danger of dropping a sophomore slump. Well, Cudi didn’t even come close to such a slump, and it is in fact hard to decide whether his first or second is better. Cudi’s music is in a league of its own. He’s far from the best rapper lyrically, but the musicality of his work is nothing short of fantastic. This project will without a doubt be included in best hip-hop album of the year discussions.
— RQ
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