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WWW.OUDAILY.COM 2013 PACEMAKER FINALIST TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 e University of Oklahoma’s independent student voice since 1916 L&A: Support your local arts district by going to the No Age concert at a Norman art gallery (Page 7) KEATON BELL AND MAX JANERKA Life & Arts and Campus Reporters Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art is offering a new program of discussions called FRED Talks, which look into different topics related to the arts. The FRED Talks are loosely inspired by the Pecha Kucha presentation style with concise presentations by multiple speakers on a broad topic about creativity, the museum’s director of education Susan Baley said. Each will be about a topic suggested by the museum’s faculty advisory board, and the board plans to offer two FRED Talks programs each semester said Susan said Baley . Baley worked with Jessica Farling, curator of academic programs, to find members of the museum’s faculty advi- sory board who could propose topics for the talks. Todd Stewart, photography associate professor and co-interim director of the School of Art and Art History, will be one of the faculty members taking part in this session, Baley said. The first discussion, Stewart’s “Journey,” is at 7 p.m. Sept. 27 in Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. It will feature discus- sions of the recent “Road to Ruscha” project, Baley said. The discussion stems from this past summer, when Stewart and his students, along with geology students and various other faculty members, began a class project. CHRIS JAMES/THE DAILY (Left to right) Tuba players Zach Palank, Jake Hille and Justin Duke were the only members from the Pride of Oklahoma’s tuba section to show up for practice on Monday. ARIANNA PICKARD Campus Editor The Pride of Oklahoma’s tuba section lacked all but three members at rehearsal Monday after members de- cided to take a stand against inadequate teaching and changes made to the band this year. Freshman tuba player Michael Boyd said mem- bers of the tuba section de- cided Sunday not to show up to rehearsal Monday and emailed their director, Justin Stolarik, to voice their concerns with the band’s performance this year. Boyd said he and other members explained to Stolarik, who was hired as the new Pride director in February, that they feel their performance this year doesn’t match the band’s performance in past years because he’s not giving them enough instruction when changing aspects of their pre-game and halftime routines. Boyd said Stolarik also not helping them im- prove because he doesn’t give them enough feedback when they do something wrong. “The main issue is that the instruction is inad- equate, and we’ve ap- proached [Stolarik] on that,” he said. At the beginning of September, Pride mem- bers approached Stolarik to voice their concerns about the lack of instruction and changes made to the band’s performance. “We brought him our de- mands… Things have got- ten a little better, but the band that was the Pride last year and the band this year is not the same,” he said. Freshman tuba player Jacqueline Oliver said she’d wanted to march with the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art opens its new arts lecture series with “Journey” Tuba players protest band practice Facebook facebook.com/OUDaily Twitter twitter.com/OUDaily VOL. 99, NO. 21 © 2013 OU Publications Board FREE — Additional copies 25¢ Visit OUDaily.com for more INSIDE TODAY Campus ...................... 2 Classifieds ................ 5 Life&Arts .................. 7 Opinion ..................... 4 Sports........................ 6 News: Read what students think about the constitutionality of the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk procedure (Online) SEE FRED PAGE 2 OU Board of Regents consistently vote “Yes” since 2009 The regents vote on program changes, faculty and administration salaries and funding for projects around campus, and in the past four years, they have all voted yes to everything. This unified record has held since at least 2009, when the board consisted of nearly all of its current members. While two new Regents have been named since that time, the record has remained the same: no contestations. Whether it’s an increase in football coach Bob Stoops’ salary or it’s spending several million dollars for the renova- tion of a student-housing complex, the regents, which govern OU’s Tulsa and Health Sciences Center campuses as well as Cameron and Rogers State Universities, has a cohesive view. The board is comprised of seven members appointed by the governor of Oklahoma and is currently made up of primarily businessmen from around the state who are all OU graduates. Nearly all monetary matters above a certain minimum, contract changes, ten- ure approvals and program changes that are relevant to the university pass through the hands of the regents. When asked for a reason behind this voting record, regent Kirk Humphreys, who was appointed in 2012 and simul- taneously works for The Humphreys Company in Oklahoma City, said, “…the administration does a good job of work- ing out the details in presenting informa- tion to the board in advance of meetings. If there are issues that need to be worked out, they’re worked out as it’s formulated.” A statement from board Chairman Richard Dunning corroborated Humphrey’s statement. “Prior to casting votes, members of the board have the opportunity to discuss and become acquainted with the material in each agenda item,” the statement said. “Board members share a sense of coop- eration and commitment to the agenda items and the ways in which they will help the university long-term.” While official discussion and votes on university business is only permitted in pre-scheduled meetings, board members do communicate in a less formal manner between official meetings. “I don’t talk to the president every week,” Humphreys said. “But from time to time, if there’s something that is an issue I want to talk to him about, I do, and I’m sure that other board members do that.” SEE YES MEN PAGE 2 Sports: Even when the targeting penalty is reversed, the yards still stand. Is this fair? (Page 6) I n the past four years, with seven to eight meetings a year, the OU Board of Regents has unanimously approved every measure put to them for a vote. CARMEN FORMAN SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR PRIDE AND PROTEST ‘We’re not the Pride’ Pride since she was 6 years old, but she doesn’t feel the band is owning up to its name this year. “We’re not the Pride,” she said. Boyd said members of other sections have the same concerns with the band’s leadership as the tuba players, but they were waiting for someone else to take the first step in advo- cating for changes. “We’re just the first sec- tion to take action,” he said. Boyd said Stolarik asked FRED Talks slated for two fall events ARTS DISCUSSION SERIES SEE BAND PAGE 2 oud-2013-09-17-a-001,002.indd 1 9/16/13 10:35 PM

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W W W . O U D A I L Y . C O M 2 0 1 3 P A C E M A K E R F I N A L I S T

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� e University of Oklahoma’s independent student voice since 1916

L&A: Support your local arts district by going to the No Age concert at a Norman art gallery (Page 7)

KEATON BELL AND MAX JANERKALife & Arts and Campus Reporters

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art is offering a new program of discussions called FRED Talks, which look into different topics related to the arts.

The FRED Talks are loosely inspired by the Pecha Kucha presentation style with concise presentations by multiple speakers on a broad topic about creativity, the museum’s director of education Susan Baley said.

Each will be about a topic suggested by the museum’s faculty advisory board, and the board plans to offer two FRED Talks programs each semester said Susan said Baley .

Baley worked with Jessica Farling, curator of academic programs, to find members of the museum’s faculty advi-sory board who could propose topics for the talks.

Todd Stewart, photography associate professor and co-interim director of the School of Art and Art History, will be one of the faculty members taking part in this session, Baley said.

The first discussion, Stewart’s “Journey,” is at 7 p.m. Sept. 27 in Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. It will feature discus-sions of the recent “Road to Ruscha” project, Baley said.

The discussion stems from this past summer, when Stewart and his students, along with geology students and various other faculty members, began a class project.

CHRIS JAMES/THE DAILY

(Left to right) Tuba players Zach Palank, Jake Hille and Justin Duke were the only members from the Pride of Oklahoma’s tuba section to show up for practice on Monday.

ARIANNA PICKARDCampus Editor

The Pride of Oklahoma’s tuba section lacked all but three members at rehearsal Monday after members de-cided to take a stand against inadequate teaching and changes made to the band this year.

Freshman tuba player Michael Boyd said mem-bers of the tuba section de-cided Sunday not to show up to rehearsal Monday and emailed their director, Justin Stolarik, to voice their concerns with the band’s performance this year.

Boyd said he and other m e m b e r s e x p l a i n e d t o Stolarik, who was hired as the new Pride director in February, that they feel their performance this year doesn’t match the band’s performance in past years

because he’s not giving them enough instruction when changing aspects of their pre-game and halftime routines. Boyd said Stolarik also not helping them im-prove because he doesn’t give them enough feedback when they do something wrong.

“The main issue is that the instruction is inad-e q u a t e , a n d w e ’ v e a p -proached [Stolarik] on that,” he said.

A t t h e b e g i n n i n g o f September, Pride mem-bers approached Stolarik to voice their concerns about the lack of instruction and changes made to the band’s performance.

“We brought him our de-mands… Things have got-ten a little better, but the band that was the Pride last year and the band this year is not the same,” he said.

Freshman tuba player Jacqueline Oliver said she’d wanted to march with the

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art opens its new arts lecture series with “Journey”

Tuba players protest band practice

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OU Board of Regents consistently vote “Yes” since 2009

The regents vote on program changes, faculty and administration salaries and funding for projects around campus, and in the past four years, they have all voted yes to everything.

This unified record has held since at least 2009, when the board consisted of nearly all of its current members. While two new Regents have been named since that time, the record has remained the same: no contestations.

Whether it’s an increase in football coach Bob Stoops’ salary or it’s spending several million dollars for the renova-tion of a student-housing complex, the regents, which govern OU’s Tulsa and Health Sciences Center campuses as well as Cameron and Rogers State Universities, has a cohesive view.

The board is comprised of seven members appointed by the governor of Oklahoma and is currently made up of primarily businessmen from around the state who are all OU graduates.

Nearly all monetary matters above a certain minimum, contract changes, ten-ure approvals and program changes that are relevant to the university pass through the hands of the regents.

When asked for a reason behind this voting record, regent Kirk Humphreys,

who was appointed in 2012 and simul-taneously works for The Humphreys Company in Oklahoma City, said, “…the administration does a good job of work-ing out the details in presenting informa-tion to the board in advance of meetings. If there are issues that need to be worked out, they’re worked out as it’s formulated.”

A statement from board Chairman R i c h a r d D u n n i n g c o r r o b o r a t e d Humphrey’s statement.

“Prior to casting votes, members of the board have the opportunity to discuss and become acquainted with the material in each agenda item,” the statement said. “Board members share a sense of coop-eration and commitment to the agenda items and the ways in which they will help the university long-term.”

While official discussion and votes on university business is only permitted in pre-scheduled meetings, board members do communicate in a less formal manner between official meetings.

“I don’t talk to the president every week,” Humphreys said. “But from time to time, if there’s something that is an issue I want to talk to him about, I do, and I’m sure that other board members do that.”

SEE YES MEN PAGE 2

Sports: Even when the targeting penalty is reversed, the yards still stand. Is this fair? (Page 6)

In the past four years, with seven to eight meetings a year, the OU Board of Regents has unanimously approved every measure

put to them for a vote.

CARMEN FORMAN • SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR

PRIDE AND PROTEST

‘We’re not the Pride’

Pride since she was 6 years old, but she doesn’t feel the band is owning up to its name this year.

“We’re not the Pride,” she said.

Boyd said members of other sections have the same concerns with the

band’s leadership as the tuba players, but they were waiting for someone else to take the first step in advo-cating for changes.

“We’re just the first sec-tion to take action,” he said.

Boyd said Stolarik asked

FRED Talks slated for two fall events

ARTS DISCUSSION SERIES

SEE BAND PAGE 2

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Arianna Pickard, campus editor Paighten Harkins and Molly Evans, assistant editors

[email protected] • phone: 405-325-3666oudaily.com • Twitter: @OUDaily

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CAMPus

Today around campusA free concert by Jeffery Weaver on piano will be held from noon to 1 p.m. for mid day music in oklahoma memorial union’s food court.

A Q-and-A with undergraduate and graduate students will be held at noon in cate center Building 4, room 351. students can discuss career opportunities with the u.s. department of state.

An open house commemorating constitution day will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. on Bizzell memorial Library’s fourth floor. The event will celebrate the 120th anniversary of the founding of the university of oklahoma Libraries’ Government documents collection.

A meet and greet with u.s. diplomat in residence, Jean preston and recruiter, Jim madril will be held form 3 to 4 p.m. in cate center Building 4, room 351.

An information session about the ou in arezzo program will be held at 4 p.m. in Gould Hall. The event includes a bruchetta-making demonstration.

A tournament for bocce ball will take place at 5 p.m. on the south oval as a part of Italy Week.

A training session to become a Greek ally will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. students involved in a fraternity or sorority can register online at lgbtq.ou.edu.

A meet and greet for sooner ally will be held at 5:30 to 7:30p.m. at the Walker-adams mall. The event will be carnival-themed event with free food, games and prizes.

A free lecture from the social media manager of nasa, John yembrick, will take place at 6 p.m. in the Gaylord college of Journalism and mass communication auditorium, room 1140.

Do you want to see your organization’s campus event here? Visit OUDaily.com/events/submit to add your entry.

Last year, from May 15 to May 24, 20 OU students followed Ruscha’s path from Los Angles to Oklahoma City and visited all 26 gas stations, Stewart said. The students’ experiences were doc-umented in a multimedia project pre-sented in the museum.

Stewart and the other faculty mem-bers involved in this project used Ed Ruscha’s modern art book, “Twentysix Gasoline Stations,” as inspiration for the project, he said.

However, the project wasn’t just an attempt at recreating Ruscha’s work. Instead, they tried to use it to under-stand the nature of journeys in the mod-ern world.

“This was never about just re-pho-tographing these places but, instead, using them as a basis for the idea of jour-neys in society,” Stewart said. “What ap-pealed to me about this one is that it was a contemporary experience compared to the one that happened 50 years ago.”

The result of the journey was even better then Stewart could have

imagined, he said.“With the amount and diversity of

the people involved, on any given night, there would be conversations about ge-ology, space, place, cultural landscapes and other things related to each persons own individual experiences on the trip,” he said.

As well, students and faculty from the trip will discuss the concept behind their journey and what it meant to each of them.

“The whole point of this project, the FRED Talk, is to collect and gather the assets from that trip and present it in this discussion-based setting,” Stewart said.

Seating for this talk is limited to 40 people, Baley said.

Another presenter, Dan Schwartz, as-sistant professor of music and member of the faculty advisory board for the mu-seum, is discussing blasphemy, he said.

“Blasphemy is an exciting choice, particularly in the arts, and lends itself well to a wide variety of angles,” he said.

Schwartz’s specific presentation will be on “Fantasy Sketch 1,” a piece he composed for solo oboe, he said.

This piece is inspired by a very

controversial piece of photography, Immersion (Piss Christ), by Andres Serrano , and Schwartz will discuss how the photography plays into his compos-ing and performing, he said.

This FRED Talk will be held in the Fred Jones auditorium, which seats 150, at 7 p.m. Nov. 22, said Baley. Both events will be free to the public.

The Open Meetings Act of Oklahoma, which passed when OU President David Boren was the Governor of Oklahoma in 1977, states members of a public body can discuss issues with each other as long as these infor-mal conversations don’t take place between “a majority of its members.”

Humphreys laughing-ly compared these con-versations to inter-office discussions.

“What the law does not allow is what’s been de-scribed as a rolling board meeting,” Humphreys said. “In other words, intention-ally transacting the pub-lic’s business in a way so as to keep it out of the public view… And that’s not what we do.”

The board hasn’t always voted in such a unif ied manner.

“There have been times in the university’s history when the regents have been divid-ed – sometimes quite bitter-ly,” a retired history professor who is writing a history of the university said. “It is…one of the principal tasks of any university president to try, insofar as possible, to main-tain good relations, not only with members of the board, but also with the governor of Oklahoma who will be nom-inating a new regent each year.”

While this division can be caused by differences in

opinion or philosophy, it hasn’t been felt during the time of Boren’s presidency, perhaps to his credit, sug-gests the professor.

President Boren, there-fore, has the responsibility of making reasonable and informed suggestions to the board and should attempt to make it as unified a force as possible, he said.

“Approval of these [agen-da] items is a collaborative process between President Boren and the board,” regent Dunning’s statement said. President Boren officially recommends every agenda item, but final approval rests with the seven members of the board.”

Carmen Forman [email protected]

the tuba players to meet with him after rehearsal Monday to talk about their complaints.

“I hope that things will change for the better,”

T h e D a i l y e m a i l e d Stolarik and called his of-fice after rehearsal Monday evening, but he was unable to respond by press time. The Daily will continue to contact him until he is able to respond to students’ complaints.

Arianna Pickard [email protected]

yes men: OU Regents vote ‘yes’ unanimouslyContinued from page 1

AT A GLANCEOU Board of Regents• chairman richard dunning

• Vice chairman Tom clark

• clay Bennet

• Leslie rainbolt- Forbes

• Jon stuart

• max Weitzenhoffer

• Kirk Humphreys

FReD: Series of arts discussions opens this fallContinued from page 1

GO AND DOFReD Talks: “Journey”When: 7 p.m., sept. 27

Where: Fred Jones Jr. museum of art, dee dee and Jon r. stuart classroom

“Blasphemy”When: 7 p.m., nov. 22

Where: Fred Jones Jr. museum of art, mary Eddy and Fred Jones auditoriumclassroom

BanD: Members disagree with Pride changesContinued from page 1

Chris JAmes/The DAily

Zach Palank stands next to other members of the Pride during practice on Monday. All but three Tuba play-ers chose to not attend in protest of recent changes.

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Celebrate the U.S. Constitution signed by our founding fathers on Sept. 17, 1787, in Philadelphia.

libraries.ou.edu/cms/default.aspx?id=54www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters.html

www.constitutioncenter.orgwww.constitutionday.com

www.billofrightsinstitute.org

The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution. www.ou.edu/eoo

of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establishJustice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote

the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our

Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

For additional information, please visit the following websites:

You Are Invited!to a Public Lecture on

“Lincoln’s Constitution”Presented By

Justin DyerProfessor of Political Science, University of Missouri

in honor of Constitution Day

University of Oklahoma Activities for Constitution Day

South Oval and in Cate Center.

Oklahoma Memorial Union.

tulsagrad.ou.edu/csdc/constitution.html

4:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 17

Oklahoma Memorial Union

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with autographs of U.S. presidents and classics of law, government and political theory

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Our View: This year’s Miss America Pageant reminded us that not all of America has moved on from racism, which won’t be tolerated at OU.

On Sunday, 8.43 million view-ers fixated their attention on the 53 candidates representing their states in the Miss America Pageant, according to Nielsen. After watching the 17-24 year-old contestants compete for the crown, the 2014 Miss America was crowned, and the au-dience cheered.

The Syracuse, New York, native is Nina Davuluri. Not all Americans were happy about the outcome, though. The minute she was presented with the spar-kling crown, Twitter was blasted with racist tweets throughout the night, pinning her as an Arab, a terrorist and a foreigner, among other insinuated hateful remarks. The tweets were shameful and clearly misrepresented the direc-tion our nation is leading toward.

Even though racism still looms over America, there is no jus-tifiable reason it should or will be tolerated — and our campus is no exception. While a simple tweet is just 140 characters or less of gibberish half of the time, the fact that Davuluri was victimized on the social website because of her skin color is an inexcusable glimpse of history’s filth.

Daluvuri is the first Miss

letter to the editor

Students don’t necessarily have to participate in OU football

On September 13, The Daily’s unsigned editorial stated, “Our View: the student section should be filled at OU football games.” However, it was

quickly apparent to anyone who read the column that their suggestion went a little further than that.

The editorial chides students with tickets that sell them, commanding that, “If nobody has bought your ticket yet, take it off the market. Wake up early and go to the game. And when you get there, cheer. Be loud.”

Where this absolute duty comes from isn’t very clearly spelled out. When I enrolled at OU, I was thought I was paying thousands of dollars to get an education. I wasn’t paying that money for the Ultimate Sooner Football Fan Package 2013.

The condescending editorial completely ignores that

not every student is as fortunate as them. Perhaps some-one selling their ticket is doing so because they desper-ately need the money. Maybe they have work that day. They might even need to do something for a class — since, they’re in, you know, college.

Maybe the student just doesn’t like football. I person-ally do, but I think it’s anyone business whether or not someone enjoys standing in a not-so-easily-navigable stadium with over 82,000 other people in sweltering heat.

Even as a fan, the cult of football and its athletic na-tionalism is more than a little creepy. When I do watch a game, I much prefer seeing it comfortably from my home rather than having to wade through the “atmosphere” of middle-aged men with middle-school minds who’ve nearly consumed their own weight in alcohol.

Besides, if someone sells his or her ticket, the seat is still filled. Someone who doesn’t want to go gives it to someone who does. Why does The Daily want to deprive genuinely devoted fans of a chance to see the game just so some student goes purely out of social compulsion?

After all, given the prime importance that the columnist puts on enthusiasm at games, it seems that they should prefer that the ticket gets sold. They clearly have a much stronger bond with their football fans than with their fel-low students.

Go ahead. Sell your ticket. Don’t let The Daily and its tired bromides change your mind.

Spencer Yarros is an economics and philosophy junior.

Last week, we marked 12 years since the Twin Towers fell. Nearly 3,000 lives were lost that day. Countless more lives were claimed in the wars and occupa-

tions our government and militaries engaged in under the guise of liberation for oppressed peoples and retribution for the American lives taken. This is disgraceful to the memory of our loved ones lost and to our national identity.

Retribution is essentially vengeance. The adage goes: “One who sets out for revenge should dig two graves.” This is a lesson we are going to learn, if we haven’t already, as pub-lic opinion of the US across the globe continues to decline thanks to our “War on Terror,” and most recently, the NSA spying.

Sasha Barron Cohen’s character Borat in the film of the same name refers to our wars following 9/11 as a “War of Terror.” I think this is a better representation of scenes in places like Yemen, where drones rain ordinance down onto “terrorist” tar-gets. Of course, civilian cau-salities are inevitable.

Despite the fact that our government and military-in-dustrial complex continues to engage in world policing to combat networks of “evil terrorists,” a majority of our citizens seem to have realized that military involvement in foreign conflict is not a good idea.

Forty-nine percent of Americans disapprove of aerial strikes against Syria if they do not give up chemical weapons, while 37 percent are in favor of strikes and 14 percent are un-decided, according to a Pew Research Center poll.

It seems that 49 percent learned a lesson from clumsy involvement in the Middle East since the end of World War II. For example, I usually cite the poorly conceived and ex-ecuted establishment of modern Israel by the freshly creat-ed United Nations, which led to the ongoing conflict there. Second, there was coup in Iran in 1953, which recently re-leased documents confirm the CIA facilitated. Iran isn’t our biggest friend. Third: the war between Iran and Iraq in the 1970s, where we supported the Iraqis. Again, that seems to have worked out well, right?

Finally, and this is my favorite, is our support of the Mujahedeen during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s. The CIA trained and armed the “freedom fighters” to fight the communist menace. A lot of those weapons and tactics ended up in the hands and battle plans of the Taliban, many of which were part of the Mujahedeen originally, and this includes the Saudi Arabian Osama bin Laden. If you haven’t seen Rambo Part III, you should make that a prior-ity. The unconquerable Afghani people are the protagonist group in that movie.

So why would all these people turn against us, when we so clearly helped them? Likely because of our militaristic and imperialistic tendencies during and following the Cold War. In the absence of the Soviet “bad-guy” to make us the “good-guy,” we became the occupying enemy.

Ironically, we now see those roles reversed on the world stage as the U.S. and Russia’s interactions with Syria have been largely good-cop/bad-cop, and we’re now the aggres-sive, in-your-face-with-ballistic-missiles kind of problem solver. While President Obama agreed to postpone the deci-sion to strike while diplomatic processes begin to take place with the Russian-backed Assad government concerning its chemical weapons, the possibility of U.S. military involve-ment is not off the table.

This is subterfuge however; multiple news agencies are reporting that CIA trained and outfitted rebels have already been deployed in Syria. Obama reportedly told senators during a meeting in early September that teams were in route to Syria.

Although past actions in this vein helped fuel anti-Amer-ican sentiment that was a motivator in the bombing of the USS Cole, the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, 9/11 and Benghazi, surely the tinkering of the CIA in Syria won’t have disastrous effects, right? Excuse me if I sound cynical, but I don’t think our government leaders learned anything at all from the past 12 years. I have to rise above that, she said. I’ve always viewed myself as first and foremost American.

Jared Glass is an English senior.

The Our View is the majority opinion of The Daily’s nine-member editorial board

column

U.S. hasn’t learned from Sept. 11, 2001

editorial

racism not welcome at miss ou pageant, campus

America winner of Indian de-scent. Her dark features and complexion are what sparked the nasty online conversation. We should all know by now that per-sonalities aren’t colored, so why so many ignorant minds voiced toxic, inappropriate tweets baf-fles us. Regardless, with the Miss University of Oklahoma Pageant coming up, it’s important to re-

frain from any slander, libel or other forms of disrespect to all those who run.

Our campus is di-verse, just as the rest of America is. The new Miss America is handling the waves of negative at-

tention well thus far.“I have to rise above that,”

Davuluri said. “I’ve always viewed myself as, first and fore-most, American.”

Thousands of other Americans are standing up for her via Twitter, encouraging America to grow up. Sooner nation — let this be a reminder to everyone that racism leaves scars, and as young adults, we can flow with the current moving away from the foolishness.

Two years ago, OU broadcast journalism student Alicia Clifton was crowned Miss Oklahoma and pressed on to compete for Miss America in 2013. Clifton came close to winning the title, plac-ing third in the competition. Just think about if she had secured the crown. Most of us on campus

would be congratulating her, but could you imagine what scrutiny she’d have because of her slight Asian appearance? We don’t want to imagine it ei-ther. We aren’t claiming Clifton would have had to go through the same criticism Davuluri is experiencing, but after seeing certain individuals’ behavior — who knows. No matter who the person is or what his or her descent is, no one, student or contestant, should be subject to racism.

The 2014 Miss OU pag-eant will be held Oct. 4, in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium. These women will compete against one another for scholarships and, of course, the crown. This pageant may stand on a lower level than the Miss America pageant, but regard-less, these students have a passion for this, and we need to support them. When they compete, they will be scored based on their talents, swim-suit appearances, interviews, on-stage answers and evening gown presentations. Leave any forms of discrimination alone, whether spoken or written. These women deserve support, and our campus can celebrate its diversity by silencing racial slurs.

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Column

Targeting needs reform

Julia [email protected]

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Senior defensive back Gabe Lynn lowered his shoulder and hit

the shoulder pad of Tulsa running back Trey Watts. Yellow flags went flying. The call? Targeting.

Targeting has been a rule for the past five seasons in college football. The call used to result in a 15-yard penalty, but the NCAA de-cided to spice things up this season.

If the penalty occurs in the first half of the game, the defender sits out for the remainder of the game. If it occurs in the second half, the defender will also be suspended for the first half of the team’s next call.

That’s rough.But here’s where things

get a little crazy. Since ejec-tion is serious business, the call can be reviewed in the replay booth, and if it’s determined the player was not targeting, the ejection can be reversed. That’s great and all, but the 15-yard pen-alty still stands no matter what.

Wait, what?The referee can essen-

tially say he shouldn’t have called the penalty, but the yardage still stands.

The more times I say it, the crazier it sounds.

So back to Lynn. The referees went to the replay booth and overturned the targeting call. The replay clearly showed Lynn hit

Watts’ shoulder pad, and there’s no penalty for a clean, hard hit. The referees took the penalty back, Lynn stayed in the game, and Tulsa got a free 15 yards.

The same situation hap-pened to Alabama safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix against Texas A&M on Saturday.

It doesn’t make sense. The referees are admitting the penalty shouldn’t have been called. They’re essen-tially picking up the flag. But they won’t come out and say they were completely wrong.

Coach Bob Stoops said the rule worked exactly how it was supposed to. He guessed the penalty yard-age couldn’t be reversed

because of the amount of judgment calls referees are required to make. If they review the entire penalty for targeting, would they have to review late hits? What about holding penalties?

While Stoops does have a point, I still think the logic is a little wonky. Targeting is a serious call, and keeping the penalty yardage just seems excessive.

If anything, it punish-es players for just playing football. It teaches them to avoid hard hits in general.

I understand wanting to prevent injuries and con-cussions, but let’s be real for a minute. These safety pre-cautions didn’t come about until former players starting

suing the NFL.The game of football is

supposed to be tough —that’s what the helmets and pads are for — but at some point,officials need to take a step back and look at the rule.

Either the call is right or wrong. It can’t be half right.

So when the replay showed Lynn’s clean hit, the penalty shouldn’t have stood. At all. Players should be rewarded for clean foot-ball, not punished.

Julia Nelson is a journalism senior.

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A referee makes a controversial targeting call in oklahoma’s game against tulsa on Saturday. the call eventually was overturned, but the penalty yardage was still enforced. After two weeks of multiple reversed targeting calls, many are questioning the rule’s fairness.

OU looks to take on Tulsa on road

Column

The Oklahoma volleyball team emerged victo-

rious from its recent ap-pearance in the Dr. Mary Jo Wynn Tournament in Missouri this past week-end. The Sooners made up for their less than stel-lar performance in the Portland State tourna-ment, in which they suffered their first loss of the season.

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The Sooners have now won five straight and will hope to extend that streak to six when they travel to Tulsa to take on the Hurricane at 7 p.m. tonight.

The Hurricane are currently sitting at 8-3 on the season and will hope to end the Sooners current winning streak. However, the Sooners will do everything in their power to prevent that from happening.

Since suffering their first loss to the Pacific Tigers, the Sooners have only lost three sets in their five match win-ning streak. Two of those three were at the hands of then No. 25 ranked BYU before the Sooners knocked them off in a thrilling comeback victory.

The Sooners will look to remain consistent against Tulsa, extend their winning streak to six and improve their season record to 10-1.

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BRIANA HALLLIFE & ARTS REPORTER

A local art gallery will host a concert for popu-lar band No Age, with the help of OPOLIS, Sub Pop Records and the Norman Arts Council.

The concert will be held a t 8 p . m . o n Wednesday at the MAINSITE Contemporary Art gallery.

M A I N S I T E gallery manager Joshua Boydston said he has been a fan of the band for quite a while, and is excited to finally see them live. MAINSITE e n j o y s h o s t -ing all kinds of artists, allow-ing musicians to perform in a place that is not a traditional performance space, Boydston said.

W h i l e B o y d s t o n s a i d MAINSITE often hosts pop-up shows including poetry readings, screenings and performance art, he said fans should be extra ex-cited to see the band play Wednesday.

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band that is pushing the boundaries of what punk is, combined with then non traditional setting of an art gallery — it’s an experience you don’t get to experience in Oklahoma that much,” Boydston said.

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s i g n e d w i t h a l ab e l ou t o f S e a t t l e , d e -scribed their in-teresting sound. Dean Spunt, one of the band’s two members, coins their sound as “medium rare rock.”

Spunt and his partner, Randy Randall, started out in a relation-ship when they were about 18 years old.

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places other than the bed-room,” Spunt said. “We start-ed to make music because we love making music.”

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it was really organic.”Though the two began

with a very aggressive sound, Spunt said they have evolved toward a more “listen to as you’re driving and hanging out” kind of sound.

The band’s latest album, “An Object,” was released in late August and features a more encompassing and re-laxed feeling to it, Spunt said.

He said his favorite track off the album is “C’mon, Stimmung.”

Boydston said he’s lis-tened to the album and

would call it both interesting and good.

“How they packaged and designed everything them-selves — it was a great qual-ity to showcase and I’m happy to display that during the show,” Boydston said.

The band’s end goal is to consolidate music, ex-istentialist issues and life, and to be able to translate it through music to others, Spunt said.

“You never really move

anywhere, but as long as we keep playing music, things will advance beyond their years,” Spunt said. “Over time, it eventually all be-comes one.”

Advance tickets to the concert are $10 and tickets purchased the day of the show will be $12.

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LIFE & ARTS COLUMNIST

There’s a mo-ment in the mid-dle of “Oracular

Spectacular,” MGMT’s wild-ly successful first album, when you stop and think to yourself, ‘Wow. This is weird.’

I hope you liked that mo-ment, because it continues in perpetuity on MGMT’s self-titled third LP. And it’s even weirder.

You’d be forgiven for for-getting MGMT’s second album, “Congratulations,” exists, but in 2010 it was a clear indication that MGMT didn’t feel tethered by their unexpected success.

The group’s newest album, “MGMT,” however, is an unprecedented step further.

It begins with a winding, mesmerizing psych-rock

ballad called “Alien Days.” Lacking the constraints of such structure as verses or a chorus, “Alien Days” takes the opportunity to forewarn listeners of the journey they’re about to embark on; it’s not for the faint of heart.

“Cool Song No. 2” (yes, it’s really called “Cool Song No. 2”) reinforces the idea that lyrics--in stark contrast to MGMT’s earlier works--won’t be very important on this album. They exist in abundance, but they are

almost entirely unintelli-gible on most of the tracks and, in any case, they don’t make any sense when they are understood.

There are exceptions to this rule, and that’s when “MGMT” gets interesting.

“Instrospection,” for instance, seems to nicely sum up the album’s ap-proach. “Instrospection/What am I really like in-side?” poses singer Andrew VanWyngarden during the chorus, a valid question in this warped musical realm.

The next track seems to provide the answer, and the answer is ‘cynical.’ “Count your friends/ on your

hands/ now look again/ they’re not your friends,” he sings on “Your Life Is a Lie,” the most overt message on “MGMT.”

Don’t despair; if you’re not a fan of being preached at, the next track, “A Good Sadness,” goes back to not making sense.

For anyone confused, MGMT has decided to accompany the album with an ‘Optimizer,’ a CGI, psychedelic, continuous music video of sorts that plays through the ten tracks of “MGMT.” Rather than explaining any of the al-bum’s themes, however, the Optimizer serves as a hastily

arranged, occasionally dis-turbing visual rollercoaster that makes me never want to try ‘shrooms.

Honestly, most of “MGMT” feels like a bad acid trip. But it certain-ly has its moments: the urgent drumbeats of “Mystery Disease” sound concert-ready, and “Plenty of Girls in the Sea” is (by its title alone) instantly relatable.

“As soon as you get your-self free,” VanWyngarden sings on “Plenty of Girls in the Sea,” “then somebody stops you from swimming.”

On the whole, though, I can’t think of a better way for MGMT to eliminate its remaining mainstream goodwill than with this album. And perhaps that’s the entire point; MGMT has

MGMT’s new album could take you to a strange placeevery right to make music it likes, rather than pander to the teenagers who want another “Kids” or “Electric Feel” to jam to on the way to the party.

Fans willing to embark on the journey with them will find enough idiosyncra-sies, veiled messages and interesting compositions to keep them coming back to “MGMT.”

For the casual fan, how-ever, “MGMT” is an ex-hausting album. It feels a bit like being thrown into Woodstock’s sweatiest drum circle, only to realize that you don’t want to be at Woodstock in the first place.

Graham Dudley is a public relations sophomore.

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GO AND DONo Age concertWhen: 8 p.m. tonight

Where: MAINSITE Contemporary Art gallery, 122 E Main St.

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We’re trying to take it back to 1984, where it all started. Where it was

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MEMBER OF NO AGE

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$1,160 13” 2.9GHz 8GB, 750GBHD (MD102LL/A)

$1,525 15” 2.3GHz 4GB, 500GBHD (MD103LL/A)

$1,795 15” 2.6GHz 8GB, 750GBHD (MD104LL/A)

MacBook Pro

$1,120 21.5” 2.7GHz 8GB, 1TBHD (MD093LL/A)

$1,250 21.5” 2.9GHz 8GB, 1TBHD (MD094LL/A)

$1,455 21.5” 2.9GHz 8GB, 1FusionHD

$1,520 27” 2.9GHz 8GB, 1TBHD (MD095LL/A)

$1,700 27” 3.2GHz 8GB, 1TBHD (MD096LL/A)

$1,725 27” 2.9GHz 8GB, 1FusionHD

$1,885 27” 2.9GHz 16GB, 1FusionHD

iMacs

$850 11” 1.3GHz, 4GB, 128GBHD (MD711LL/A)

$935 13” 1.3GHz, 4GB, 128GBHD (MD760LL/A)

$1,015 13” 1.3GHz, 8GB, 128GBHD

$1,020 11” 1.3GHz, 8GB, 128GBHD

$1,055 11” 1.7GHz, 8GB, 128GBHD

$1,145 13” 1.7GHz, 8GB, 128GBHD

$1,175 11” 1.7GHz, 8GB, 256GBHD

$1,200 13” 1.3GHz, 8GB, 256GBHD

$1,235 11” 1.7GHz, 8GB, 256GBHD

$1,322 13” 1.7GHz, 8GB, 256GBHD

$1,475 11” 1.7GHz, 8GB, 512GBHD

$1,565 13” 1.7GHz, 8GB, 512GBHD

MacBook Air

$1,250 13” 2.5GHz, 8GB, 128GBHD

$1,435 13” 2.6GHz, 8GB, 256GBHD

$1,575 13” 2.9GHz, 8GB, 256GBHD

$1,595 13” 3GHz, 8GB, 256GBHD

$1,795 15” 2.4GHz, 8GB, 256GBHD (ME664LL/A)

$1,825 13” 2.9GHz, 8GB, 512GBHD

$1,835 13” 3GHz, 8GB, 512GBHD

$1,975 15” 2.4GHz, 16GB, 256GBHD

$2,150 15” 2.7GHz, 8GB, 512GBHD

$2,335 15” 2.7GHz, 16GB, 512GBHD

$2,655 15” 2.7GHz, 16GB, 768GBHD

MacBook Pro with Retina Display

$530 Mac Mini 2.5GHz, 4GB, 500GBHD

$725 Mac Mini 2.3GHz, 4GB 1TBHD

$925 Mac Mini Server 2.3GHz, 4GB, (2)1TB Drives

$85 Apple TV

Mac Mini & Apple TV

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PRICES ALSO VALID AT

Gift cards in increments from $5 to $1,000 will be given to the first 200 paying customers in line at the OneU Store on

September 23rd. All visitors to the OneU Store during grand opening week can enter to win one of 5 iPads and 5 iPad Minis.

@OUITStore325-1925itstore.ou.edu /OUITStore

329 W. Boyd on HISTORIC CAMPUS CORNEROpen 9AM - 5PM Mon - Fri, 11AM - 3PM Sat.

325-5001oneustore.ou.edu

900 Asp. Room 101 in the OKLAHOMA MEMORIAL UNION

Departmental purchases are always welcome. For large departmental orders please contact us at [email protected]

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