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James CorleySports Editor
It can be difficult to keep a university athletic depart-ment’s nose clean in this day and age, but OU’s com-pliance department says it is doing everything it can to keep Oklahoma out of trou-ble with the NCAA.
OU self-reported 26 sec-ondary violations to the col-legiate athletic governing body from August 2010 to
mid-October of this year, ac-cording to correspondence documents obtained by The Daily through an open re-cords request.
That number may seem high, but OU investigates 50 to 60 secondary violations a year on average, said Jason
Leonard, executive director of the OU athletics compli-ance department. Most of OU’s violations are inciden-tal or unintentional, he said.
The compliance depart-ment monitors all activity between the athletic depart-ment and prospective re-cruits and the activity of the university’s student-athletes to ensure no NCAA rules are violated, Leonard said.
OU’s compliance depart-ment has nine full-time employees, three part-time graduate assistants and one
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SportSoSU storming of the field endangers fansRare Bedlam victory ends in typical results of mass celebration. (page 5)
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Applications for tickets to the inaugural TEDx event at OU are now available for in-terested students and com-munity members.
TEDx is a local, self-or-ganized event that tries to capture the creative energy
of its larger counterpart, the Technology, Entertainment and Design — or TED — Conference, according to
a press release. The Jan. 27 event is invitation-only and those interested must apply for tickets by filling out forms
with questions that ask about a applicants’ interests.
TEDx at OU will feature 15 speakers giving lectures und e r the the m e t i t le d “Astound.” So far, only four speakers have been an-nounced, but more will be revealed as the conference gets closer, according to the event’s website.
T h e o r i g i n a l T E D Conference began in 1984 to promote new ideas in the technology, entertainment
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Queer Theory course returns
ViCtoria GartenCampus Reporter
For Benjamin Mather, Queer Theory wasn’t a special interest or elec-tive course taken for a fun break from the norm.
Mather, interdisciplin-ary perspectives on the environment junior, said it was a change of world view and new outlook for his desired field of study.
“It shouldn’t be seen as a special interest class, as so many women’s and gender studies classes are,” Mather said. “This information is widely rel-evant and it gives students an analytical lens to un-derstand so many other fields of study.”
T h e Q u e e r T h e o r y course was introduced by the OU Department of Women’s and Gender Studies in 2009 and has only been offered three times since, but Queer Theory instructor Richard Davis said he looks for-ward to the course be-coming a regular fixture at OU.
The class is an upper di-vision credit, but it is not required to complete any degree program. However, Davis said the course con-tinues to fill every semes-ter it is offered, and he re-ceives numerous inquiries from students wanting to take the course.
“I think because people are very hungry for this in-formation, and interested
Course offered three times since ’09 establishment
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Team drops price to lure fans
Students’ creations on display in exhibit
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Nathan Raglin, film and media studies senior, views artwork made by OU students during Monday’s opening reception for Society Debut. The exhibition, located in the Lightwell Gallery in the Fred Jones Jr. Memorial Art Center, was produced by the F-Stop Society, a photogra-phy and video student organization founded this year. The exhibition closes Friday.
Sooners place premium on complianceAtHLetiCS
AT A GLANCEoU violationsFrom August 2010 to October, the university self-reported 14 text message violations, four phone call violations, two offseason workout violations and six other violations, including defensive coordinator Brent Venables “liking” a recruit’s Facebook photo and defensive backs coach Willie Martinez posting on a recruit’s Facebook wall.
Source: OU compliance department
Technological advances make office’s job harder
oudaily.coMPdFs: All correspondence between the university compliance office and the NCAA from August 2010 to October
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Ken Parker, co-founder of RiskMetrics group and CEO of NextThought
Ghislain d’Humieres, OU Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art director
Reed Timmer, Discovery Channel storm-chaser and TornadoVideos.net creator
Kyle Harper, OU Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage director
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Uny ChanCampus Reporter
O U ’s m e n ’s ba ske t-ball ticket revenue has dropped 14 percent from the 2008-2009 season to the 2010-2011 season, with the number of tick-ets sold falling by 33.9 percent.
For the 2010-2011 sea-son, OU sold 116,074 tick-ets, but in the 2008-2009 season, OU sold 175,630.
To address the situa-tion, the student season ticket price was reduced to $40 this year from $140 last year thanks to a spon-sorship from The Reserve on Stinson.
There are 1,400 seats reserved exclusively for
Oklahoma hoops’ revenue fall calls for price decrease
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in whether or not what they view as their sexuality or gender expression is repre-sented on campus,” Davis said. “Not everyone on cam-pus is straight, and not ev-eryone is either male or fe-male, and to have one class out of thousands on campus is something that people with different sexualities or different gender expressions are very hungry for.”
The class looks at the queer theory body of litera-ture that focuses on how sex-uality is socially constructed within society, how that so-cial construction creates structures of power and who benefits from that power, Davis said.
While OU has jumped on board with this expanding field, students may not hear the words “queer theory” at other universities.
Oklahoma State University offers a sexuality theory
course but only a minor in gender and women’s studies.
“Dealing or talking with sexualities, with gender dif-ferences, gender expressions is something that a lot of peo-ple aren’t really comfortable with because it’s tied in with things like religion; it’s tied in with things like interper-sonal relations, maintaining power and control, and with morality,” Davis said.
Mather said the course helped him to challenge and understand the pattern of privilege and oppression in his own life and community,
allowing him to go into other classes with a different per-spective on why the world functions the way it does.
Wo m e n ’s a n d g e n d e r studies junior Carly Palans said she plans to take the class in the spring after hear-ing her friends’ reviews of
the course and its relevancy to her everyday life.
“I feel like that’s a subject that’s really been lacking from my education,” Palans said. “I want to study more about gender and sexuality. I feel like it’s something you don’t go into enough.”
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ToDAY ArouND CAmPusan exhibit of students’ photos will be on display all day at the Fred Jones Jr. museum of Art’s Lightwell gallery. The display is a presentation from the F-stop society, a new student-art organization. The exhibit will be on display until Dec. 9.
a young artist event will take place from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Fred Jones Jr. museum of Art’s Dee Dee and Jon r. stuart Classroom. The free event will feature the children’s book “When Clay sings” by Byrd Baylor. Children ages 3 to 5 must be accompanied by an adult.
a percussion concert will take place from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. at Catlett music Center’s grayce B. Kerr gothic Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.
a seminar on financial aid for academic year 2012-2013 will take place from 4 to 5 p.m. at Wagner Hall, room 245.
a free holiday brass concert will take place from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Catlett music Center’s grayce B. Kerr gothic Hall.
tHeory: Positive reviews spark students’ interest in courseContinued from page 1
tiCKetS: Norman residence provides price cutContinued from page 1
“it shouldn’t be seen as a special interest class. this information is widely relevant and it gives
students an analytical lens to understand so many other fields of study.”
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students out of a total of 12,000 available seats in Lloyd Noble Center, said Michael Houck, OU athletic media relations associate director.
“Our fans are very impor-tant to the team,” men’s bas-ketball coach Lon Kruger said. “I want to say students are our priority, and we will do everything we can to make sure everybody en-joys a good time.”
The Reserve on Stinson Student Apartments also has agreed to offer a num-ber of additional benefits. Students will be entered to win a $100 prize in each game, an iPad and a night of Pizza Hut pizza, according to SoonerSports.com.
“We want to create the connection with the com-munity and an atmosphere, especially a family-friendly atmosphere with these of-fers,” said Christa McGraw, director of community mar-keting outreach for the OU
Occupy Norman efforts continue with student protesters
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An Occupy Norman participant who asked to be called “Liza” (left center) and Grant Delozier, political science and geographical information studies senior (right), pass out fliers Monday on the South Oval. Delozier, who joined the Occupy movement in October, said he has joined the group in its camp out of Andrews Park. He helped lead mem-bers of the protest in a march from Andrews Park to Dale Hall on Monday to raise awareness for the Occupy Norman cause.
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Our View: Enroll in courses like Queer Theory to broaden your understanding and to prove to OU that such courses are essential.
OU’s Queer Theory course, which has been of-fered intermittently since 2009, highlights one very important thing: the need for diversity in education.
It’s likely that your history education skipped the contributions of GLBT Americans entirely and only included other groups, including women and racial minorities, in the context of their own social movements. Basically, U.S. history curricula is the story of wealthy, educated white men and their exploits.
And there are compelling arguments for keeping it simple on the high school level — after all, even that history is not being taught well if the consistently poor scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress exam are any-thing to judge by. But by the time students reach college, they no longer have an excuse for such a restricted understanding of American culture.
America is a melting pot — it’s a cliche for a rea-son. Our worst cultural controversies arise when the interests of these different subcultures clash. But many times it seems these groups are simply talking at cross-purposes.
How many social controversies are the result of actually conflicting interests, and how many could be avoided with a little education? Maybe there’s no obvious answer to that question, but it does seem obvious that a little effort to understand each other wouldn’t go to waste.
To encourage this broader understanding, OU re-quires a non-western civilization course as part of the general education requirements. But diversity isn’t just about understanding the cultures of other countries. It’s about understanding the cultures, histories and perspectives of your fellow citizens.
So, next time you have a general education re-quirement to fill or a free space in your schedule for an interesting class, try enrolling in Queer Theory.
It’s only through student interest and in-volvement that the administration can judge the value of a course.
And it’s not just this one course. Try a course in Islamic studies such as The Quran, a course offered by the religious studies department. Or what about Intro to African and African American Studies,
Native Peoples of North America or Gender and Interpersonal Communication? The possibilities are wide open, and each of these courses needs fuller enrollment to emphasize its worth.
Enrolling in these courses is a statement that these subjects are necessary and beneficial, and that they should continue to be offered. Only by fill-ing seats can students urge the university to offer more diverse, interesting classes that expose them to cultures they might not otherwise have a chance to understand.
When you look through the offered courses and see the diversity of cultures represented, you can be sure of one thing: This is America. How much do you know about it?
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OPINIONComment of the day on OUDaily.com ››“� is campus, especially for on-campus residents, is very accessible with a bicycle or legs. I’m a third year student and currently live o� campus, and have not had a car since I’ve started.” (baconbits, Re: Letter to the editor: OU Parking scams students)
I understand the disappointed re-action to our loss
in Stillwater. However, I don’t understand why, for many students, it was the most upsetting oc-currence in the last cou-ple of weeks. Something much worse than losing a football game — or even losing an entire season (or the football program itself ) — was within inches of happening, and no one seemed to care.
The usual gang of “moderates” from both “sides” of the political establishment crafted and tried to push through certain particularly horrific provisions in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act , an an-nual bill that specifies the Department of Defense’s expenditures.
These provisions, intended as a tool for fighting the endless Global War on Terror, would have allowed the military to detain literally anyone, including American citizens, without those pesky things such as due process or fair trial.
What basis would the military have to have, under those provisions, to send me or you to Guantanamo Bay ? Just to “suspect” the person in question of being involved with al-Qaida .
I am not, of course, suggesting that if this bill were passed, large numbers of random Americans with no actual link to al-Qaida would be suddenly kidnapped by the military and never released, without appeal. However, the bill would have, had it passed as origi-nally written, made that hypothetical situation 100-percent legal.
Luckily, an amendment removed that portion of the bill (though it was passed by a troublingly low margin). What still should be cause for outrage, however, is the lack of public outcry.
The 24-hour news channels, for example, were far more concerned with Herman Cain’s affairs. With this lack of cover-age, so followed a lack of public awareness.
The sheer depravity of modern American apathy is staggering.
What do I suggest? You should make an effort to become more aware of the political forces that have a very real impact on your daily lives. Especially focus your pursuit of knowledge on those voices least likely to be heard.
For example, I would highly recommend going to the Ron Paul rally at the state capitol in Oklahoma City on Dec. 17. Not only because I support the candi-date, but most importantly, because the guest speaker will be Adam Kokesh.
Adam Kokesh is a Marine veteran of the Second Gulf War whose personal experiences have made him one of the most fervent anti-war activists in America today. His evaluations of what he saw don’t fit within the dominant paradigm of our military presence as a benign, peace-restoring force in the world.
Taking the individual effort to go and hear those with dissenting opinions such as Kokesh is astronom-ically more important than other methods of activism that we tend to celebrate such as the electoral process itself. Just voting within the given field of options is generally going to do nothing or worse.
Of course, as libertarian historian Tom Woods once noted, no one likes being told that he needs to “go read these five books” when he can just vote and get all the feeling of having done something without any of the work.
The answer to how we must work to change the po-litical forces that constrain us is not one we want to hear, but it is absolutely necessary. Self-education is crucial.
Jason Byas is a philosophy junior.
This year, several hundred New Yorkers chose to spend their Thanksgiving in Zuccotti Park , behind a double-layer of steel barricades and under the
watchful eye of New York Police Department surveillance towers. I was with them.
Zuccotti Park has undergone several transformations the past three months. On Sept. 17, the small park became the site of a modest protest. Later that month, videos of NYPD officers assaulting protesters broadened public support for the demonstrations. By November, Zuccotti Park had be-come the hub of the Occupy Wall Street movement, from which thousands of people worked to coordinate protest ac-tions and to dispense free services to the public.
“When the tents were up, the services that were being given out here were far better than the City of New York could ever have provided,” said Alex Borders , a protester who also works with counseling organization NYC Youth Alternatives. “The economic needs of the disadvantaged of New York were being met in this park. ... We had people who hadn’t received real medical care in their whole lives coming into our tent and receiving their first flu shot.”
Protester Ken Presting describes the prin-cipal function of operations at Zuccotti Park as outreach to the public and to the home-less in particular. “We provided services that were accessible to the homeless under any conditions,” Presting said. “No one was ex-cluded. Even the people who were danger-ous, we did our best to accommodate.”
On Nov. 15, the scene at Zuccotti Park changed again, as the NYPD staged a late night raid in which all tents and other mate-rials in the park were disassembled and cart-ed away in dump trucks. The NYPD prevent-ed journalists from observing the raid, and The Guardian reported that a CBS News helicopter was grounded to pre-vent aerial viewing of the operation. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in the Huffington Post that these measures were taken “to protect members of the press.”
Since the raid, regulations have been implemented to pre-vent Zuccotti Park from functioning as a hub for protesters. Tents, tarps and “large containers” are no longer permitted in the park. All activity in the park is continuously monitored by the NYPD, and entrance to the park is permitted only via gates manned by private security.
“When the tents were up, there was a sense that you ac-tually could live on the street in New York and be happy, be productive and contribute to the culture,” Presting said. “This place was friendlier and more pleasant when it was full of tents and not surrounded by barricades.”
On Thanksgiving, Zuccotti Park returned to something like what it had been before the raid, as protesters gathered to sing, tell stories and forget for a moment their continu-ing standoff with the authorities. There were numerous impromptu musical performances. A particular highlight was the music of the 99 Cent String Band , a bluegrass group that comes from Brooklyn but sounds like the backwoods of Kentucky.
“It’s a great community event,” said artist Seth Tobocman , who has visited the Zuccotti Park occupation regularly since September. “I think there’s a sense here that, while people will critique the standard narrative about Thanksgiving,
they also will embrace the positive feelings people have about it. I think that’s been typical of the Occupy move-ment from the beginning. It’s very welcoming; it critiques society but it doesn’t cri-tique people. It doesn’t trash people’s feelings. ... There isn’t that elitist sense of, ‘We know more than you,’ that happens with some other leftist groups.”
The largest-scale operation of the day was the preparation and distribution of free food to the public. Occupiers distrib-uted 3,000 meals, at least 500 of which went to the homeless, kitchen coordinator Saman Waquad said. The food was re-portedly prepared using facilities donated by a group of anti-Mubarak Egyptian restaurateurs.
Only one confrontation with police occurred on Thanksgiving when, at 1:56 p.m., dozens of NYPD offi-
cers swarmed into the park in response to one protester’s playing a hand drum. The NYPD’s handling of the incident was ludi-crously confrontational and provocative, and escalation was only prevented by the restraint of most protesters.
“That situation was dealt with in a pretty calm way by the people here,” said Tobocman following the incident. “It was a confrontation, but not a confrontation that spun out of control.”
Another strange episode occurred when a man arrived with a bag of used clothing
to donate to the occupiers. Due to the ban on large con-tainers, he was turned away by security personnel and in-stead tossed the clothing in handfuls over the barricades. The selectivity with which the NYPD enforces these rules at Zuccotti Park was illustrated by the fact that, three miles away, Black Friday shoppers were allowed to erect tents on the sidewalk in front of Macy’s, free of interference.
Among the newer participants in Occupy Wall Street’s vol-unteer services program is Matthew Cheverez , 24. Cheverez reports having been intermittently homeless for five-and-a-half years and has recently obtained stable housing with the help of Occupy Wall Street coordinators. Cheverez also plans to begin studies for his GED certificate soon.
“I was invited [to Zuccotti Park] by a friend,” Cheverez said. “I was kind of skeptical at the beginning, because I wasn’t too sure about protesting ... But once I got to be part of it, it opened my perspective ... Now I help assist people who are in exactly the same situation as me — people who are homeless, people who are also in need, as I am.”
Though tension is high in Zuccotti Park, it is apparent that the Occupy Wall Street movement is adapting in response to these pressures. This Thanksgiving, protesters demon-strated an undimmed determination to recreate New York’s alienating and predatory capitalist system as a system that serves the needs of all people and does not consider wealth a prerequisite for humane treatment.
Zac Smith is a journalism junior.
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OPINION COLUMNIST
“What do I suggest? You
should make an effort to become more aware of the political forces that
have a very real impact on your
daily lives.”
“[The Occupy movement is] very
welcoming; it critiques society but it doesn’t
critique people.”SETH TOBOCMAN,
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Oklahoma State fans celebrate after storming the field following a 44-10 win against Oklahoma on Saturday at Boone Pickens Stadium. At least 13 people were injured during the field-storming.
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It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt.
After beating the Sooners, 44-10, in the most lopsided Bedlam victory for Oklahoma State since 1945, 13 Cowboys fans were in-jured storming the field.
Two were airlifted to Oklahoma City hospitals — one unrelated to the post-game celebration — and Stillwater police believe more people could have been hurt whom they don’t know about because the in-juries weren’t treated.
What a way to end your team’s most successful foot-ball regular season ever.
Many of the injuries were sustained as fans jumped down from the walls around the field, which is almost a 10-foot drop, lead-ing to sprained or twisted ankles.
From the safety of a couch at home, fans pour-ing onto the field to cel-ebrate after a big win sure seems like a warm-and-fuzzy expression of emotion.
But just like any other time in life thousands of people are stampeding in a frenzied state (remember Black Friday?), it can be very dangerous.
But don’t worry your-self, dear OU fan — I doubt you’ll ever get the chance to be involved in a similar situation, so I won’t bother warning you to be careful.
Sooner fans would need
very good reasons to storm the field because there’s little uncharted territory for a program with seven national championships, 43 conference titles, an 82-17-7 record against its in-state rival and a nearly even record against its top rival, Texas.
The last time OU fans charged the field was in 2000, when No. 2 Oklahoma powered back from a 14-0 deficit against No. 1 Nebraska to knock off the Huskers and pave the way to OU’s seventh national championship.
The circumstances were just right. OU was coming out of one of the darkest points in its his-tory (read: the Howard Schnellenberger/John Blake era) and topped its
longtime traditional rival at Owen Field.
Don’t expect the stars to align again any time soon.
The Pokes are on top of the world right now. OSU is headed to its first-ever BCS bowl fresh off an 11-1 regu-lar season and its first out-right conference title since World War II.
Everything was right for an OSU field-storming after Saturday.
Unless OU descends into another slump of three- or four-win seasons for several years, Oklahoma fans have to act like OU’s been there before — because it has.
James Corley is a journalism senior and the sports editor for The Daily. You can follow him on Twitter at @jamesfcorley.
law school extern. Even though OU has one
of the largest compliance departments in the country, Leonard said, the number of people working for the de-partment doesn’t matter that much.
“I could have a staff of 50 and we still couldn’t cover it all,” he said.
A manual the length of a later Harry Potter book dic-tates what universities can and can’t do, including strict mandates spanning the uni-versity’s initial communica-tion with prospective stu-dent-athletes through the time players graduate or leave the university to try their luck at the next level.
And it’s getting longer every year.
“ Th e ( r u l e ) b o o k ha s grown dramatically within the last five to seven years, and it continues to grow be-cause institutions basically try to legislate everything,” Leonard said.
The handbook, which Leonard said was the size of a pamphlet just a few years ago, is now more than 400 pages, and its pages are ever-changing.
“It’s always evolving, es-pecially with technology because it changes so fast,” Leonard said.
Coaches have a limited number of interactions they can initiate with prospects, and an extra phone call or text message could mean a sec-ondary violation. However, coaches can have unlimited contact with prospects via email and phone calls initi-ated by the prospect.
Initially, text messaging and phone calls were heav-ily regulated because of the potential cost to a prospect.
But long gone are the days of a simple text costing a dime or people having to count cellphone minutes, and most cellular providers have flex-ible or unlimited plans that have changed the way people use their phones in the last several years.
Another reason for the communication regulation was to prevent a university from gaining what the NCAA deems “a competitive ad-vantage.” So what does that mean?
“That’s a good question,” Leonard said with a chuckle. “I don’t know the answer. If a certain prospect wants to go to a certain school, I don’t know that he or she is going to be swayed to go to a differ-ent school just because they get five more text messages (from another school).”
The majority of OU’s viola-tions stem from coaches acci-dentally responding to a text message when they believed they were sending an email. With some smartphones, like Blackberries, it can be dif-ficult for people to discern whether they are sending a text message or an email.
Newer cellphones also present a new problem for OU compliance.
“Smartphones just make everybody more accessible,” Leonard said.
In the past, coaches could only respond to prospects by email or phone when they were sitting at a computer or near a phone, and they didn’t have to worry about text messages.
Now coaches can commu-nicate with prospects any-where at any time, meaning the compliance office need-ed a little help to monitor the vast amount of interactions.
So, in addition to the de-partment’s staff, OU also em-ploys computer software that
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monitors each coach’s phone to ensure no violations are occurring.
“If there’s a violation, it’s going to catch it,” Leonard said.
S o c i a l n e t w o r k s l i k e Facebook and Twitter also have made compliance
department’s jobs more dif-ficult, he said.
“Social networking is kind of a double-edged sword,” Leonard said.
On one hand, he said, it al-lows student-athletes easier interaction with fans and the ability to brand themselves
before going pro without breaking the rules. On the other, complete transparency can get players in trouble.
Leonard said the case against North Carolina’s football program never might have happened if one of the players hadn’t posted
a picture of the players at a hotel receiving preferential treatment and receiving im-permissible benefits.
“Everybody knows every-thing about your kids,” he said. “We have to educate our kids and say, ‘Listen, you have to understand the Internet is forever. Even if you get it down within a cou-ple of minutes, it’s going to be [somewhere] forever.’”
Sophomore quarterback Drew Allen has taken ahold of the education opportuni-ties offered by the depart-ment’s Twitter account, @OUCompliance, by ask-ing questions like, “If I hang around Kay Jewelers store and use it as a way to get free kisses..is that an extra ben-efit?” (@DrewAllen1)
The popularity of the de-partment’s Twitter, which now has more than 2,200 fol-lowers, has increased, and Leonard said the depart-ment has tried to make the best of the extra exposure to the public.
“We use that as a platform to educate on multiple differ-ent issues that he raises in his Twitter questions,” Leonard said. “He’s pretty funny.”
Despite the difficulties to keep the university in line with the NCAA’s rules, Leonard said he believes OU has one of the better com-pliance departments in the nation.
“We’re in as good a shape as I think we can possibly be with the system that we work under,” he said.
Editor’s note: This story is the � rst in a two-part series about the OU compliance department. The second part in tomorrow’s paper will focus on how the department manages external forces, such as boosters and agents, to keep Oklahoma in accordance with NCAA rules.
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Junior guard Steven Pledger (2) lays in the ball during OU’s 82-53 win against Sacramento State on Friday. Pledger served a one-game suspension during OU’s season opener after an OU compliance investigation revealed he hadn’t properly filed paperwork to compete in a summer league basketball game.
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Can you believe i t? After a year of anticipa-tion, you can finally listen to some new music from The Black Keys with the release of the band’s sev-enth album, “El Camino.”
The Keys sticks to their signature style in “El Camino,” old-style blues b e at s w i t h a m o d e r n twist.
The song “Lonely Boy” j u s t m a k e s y o u w a n t to dance (see the offi-cial music video to see why), but “Little Black Submarines” shows a softer side of the band that was both surprising and satisfying.
It would be impossible to convey my excitement over this new album, so I’ll just have to let you de-cide for yourself. Check out the new album.
If you like it (and you will) you’re in luck be-cause the band recently announced it will start a North American tour in March.
Mark your calendars, because “El Camino” could be coming to a town near you.
Megan Deaton is a journalism sophomore.
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Volunteers Jim Costello (left) and Cathy Naifeh serve meals Monday at Food and Shelter in Norman. The local shelter serves lunch every day of the week but Sunday.
As I have matured in age and as a person, I’ve learned to be
careful for what I wish for, and I’ve learned it’s important to appreciate what you’ve got when you’ve got it.
Many people take things for granted, but there are so many things to be thankful for around the holidays.
This weekend, I decided the perfect way to give back this time of year was volun-teering at a food shelter. It’s important to understand what others in your commu-nity are going through be-cause everyone impacts it in some way or another.
I volunteered at a small place in Norman called Food and Shelter Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides food, showers and laundry amenities for those in need. I helped served sandwiches and desserts, and while there, I learned just how different
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their lives were compared to mine. It was eye opening, to say the least.
Most of the people I met at the shelter are homeless, and others who do have a place to stay don’t have the means to get common necessities, so they resort to the shelter.
While volunteering, I met one young man who had ac-tually been a student at OU some years back.
I asked what his story was.He said he had everything
going for him, a good life and a good education, until
one day everything for him changed. He suddenly had a mental meltdown, and be-fore he knew it, he had lost everything, including his home.
It really struck home when he shared his story, because I couldn’t imagine how dev-astating that must have been. To that kind man, I wish him all the luck in the world, and I am happy to have met him. It takes bravery to share a per-sonal story like that.
Before the man left with his food, he asked me a question in return that caught me off guard: He asked me what my story was.
The first things that came to mind were things such as: I’m going to school, I plan to travel, my family just moved to my new home, etc. That’s when I realized how thankful I should be to even be able to have those things — this guy doesn’t have any of that.
Others I briefly
encountered talked about different struggles, and some were physically disabled.
I ended up telling the young man that my life story is about exploring the lives of different people, and learn-ing to keep an open mind. My goal, I told him, is to share peoples’ stories with the world so people understand what goes on out there, be-ginning with our community.
“There needs to be more people like you in this world,” he said.
I walked out the door with a new, adjusted outlook on life. The simple things I wake up and expect to find in my fridge are not what these peo-ple wake up to. The availabili-ty to take a nice warm shower is not always in reach for the people I met Saturday.
The experience showed me anyone can make a con-tribution to society by giving a bit of one’s time to help oth-ers in need.
We shouldn’t just recog-nize what we’re thankful for during the holidays, but we should appreciate them every day because you never know when it’ll be gone.
Alex Niblett is a University College freshman.
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