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AUTOPSY SHOWS GILBERT WAS INTOXICATED Students to aid Haitians during break Report indicates blunt force trauma, small levels of alcohol were cause of OU senior’s death RICKY MARANON Assignment Editor

OU student Julia Gilbert’s autopsy report cites multiple blunt force trauma to her body and acute alcohol intoxication as the causes of her death.

Gilbert, French education senior and Kappa Alpha Theta sorority member, had ethyl alcohol concentrations of 0.14 percent in her liver and 0.24 percent in her brain, according to the State Medical Examiner’s report, released Wednesday.

Gilbert’s physical wounds occurred mostly from the accident, the report stated. She received wounds across her body as a result of the accident.

The report states authorities found

Gilbert’s body nearly frozen in her car when it was found upside-down in a ravine in northeastern Oklahoma County two days after she went missing.

Gilbert had been at a BCS National Championship watch party at a friend’s house about five miles away from her parents’ home in Edmond. She was last seen leaving her friend’s house at 3 a.m. Jan. 8. Her vehicle was found Jan. 10, almost 18 miles away in the opposite direction from her parent’s house, on Waterloo Road near Council Road.

Why Gilbert was in the area when she crashed is still unknown.

“I don’t know if we’ll ever know why she was in that particular area,” Glynda Chu, Edmond Police spokeswoman, said in January.

Chu said there has been a lot of support from the Edmond community and those who knew Gilbert. “[She] touched so many lives ... everybody joined in to find Julia,” Chu said.

According to Daily archives, the State Medical Examiner’s office ruled the death as accidental and the cause as an atlanto-occipital dislocation, more commonly known as a neck fracture, Cherokee Ballard, State Medical Examiner spokeswoman, said in January.

Ballard said the medical examiner concluded Gilbert’s death would have been quick, but there was no real way to tell definitively.

In memory of their daughter, John and Laurel Gilbert set up “The Julia Kathryn Gilbert Memorial Fund” to support Lyme disease research and to provide scholarships for French majors at OU. Having struggled against Lyme disease for more than six months, Gilbert’s friends said she struggled with the lack of Lyme disease awareness in the community. A friend of Gilbert’s told The Daily in January that Gilbert went six months undiagnosed because medical professionals were unsure of what it was.

Boren refutes alleged land exchange plot Officials deny a local TV station’s report of a deal between the university and medical examiner’s office for land RICKY MARANON Assignment Editor

OU officials are denying allegations that the university was planning to give a plot of land to the State Medical Examiner’s office.

The statements regarding the potential selling or exchange of a plot of land that would allow the medical examiner’s office to expand and stay in its current location come from a News 9 report that aired Tuesday in which Rep. Al McAffrey, D-Oklahoma City, said an exchange of land was in the works.

OU President David Boren said by e-mail he is not trying to influence the decision of the Oklahoma Legislature that would potentially move the State Medical Examiner’s office away from the OU Health Sciences campus and onto the University of Central O k l a h o ma’s c a m p u s i n Edmond.

“I am puzzled because our position has been consistent that we support any decision by the legislature in regard to the M.E.’s office,” Boren stated. “The university is not advocating one location over another.

I have never taken the initiative to involve myself in this issue. If any action is required on the part of the university to implement a legislative decision, of course, we would cooperate and take that action, but we are not seeking to influence the legislature’s decision.”

UCO Executive Vice President Steve Kreidler said he had not heard about any deals between OU and the medical examiner’s office, but understood the medical examiner’s office needed to either be relocated or renovated.

“Perhaps [in the Associated Press] stor y this morning, they didn’t check with President Boren

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A blue-green tint reveals the presence of silver contamination at Mouse Lake.

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PURE INTENTIONS OU engineering students travel halfway around the world for water project DIONNE BUXTON Daily Staff Writer

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From left to right, Beatriz Santamaria, Alan Garrido, Bill Strosnider, Robert Nairn and Leah Oxenford pose at a previous Engineers Without Borders project in Bolivia.

Give a Bolivian family a pack of water — $5. Clean their entire irrigation system from 800 years of silver contamination — priceless.

The OU Engineers Without Borders chapter is planning a trip to Potosi, Bolivia, to help improve the region’s water system, said Robert Knox, adviser to the organization.

“Engineers Without Borders is a nationwide organization,” Knox said. “Our purpose is to take knowledge to these under-developed counties, and help with problems of water and sanitation.”

Engineers Without Borders is an organization that partners with disadvantaged communities to improve quality of life, while at the same time developing internationally responsible engineering students.

“We apply engineering skills first hand to innovative projects,” said Diana Lucero, architectural engineering junior and organization president.

The group will travel to Bolivia to install open limestone channels, which will remove iron and aluminum from the system. Engineers create a natural filtration system by adding particles of

OU Health Sciences students to work with missionaries to bring relief to country in need KATHLEEN EVANS Daily Staff Writer

While most people spend spring break at the beach with friends or catching up on rest and relaxation, a group of OU Health Sciences Center students are going to Haiti for a different type of break.

Students will spend their break in Haiti helping current relief efforts by missionaries. Haiti was devastated by an earthquake that struck the country Jan. 12 and is still recovering.

The group was originally going to Peru, but changed plans after hearing about the earthquake and how much aid the country needed, said Diane Clay, OUHSC Office of Public Affairs spokeswoman.

While in Haiti, students will work with missionaries from the Christian Medical and Dental Association who are currently in Haiti, Clay said. Work will include setting up medical clinics, treating wounded patients and educating and counseling Haitians.

The association is a nonprofit organization composed of health care professionals and students, according to its Web site. Its aim is to “change hearts in health care,” which it does through global missions and ministries.

To raise money and supplies for the trip, the OUHSC and the association sponsored a Global Gala Saturday at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City. Events included a silent auction, musical concert, dancing lessons and catered dinner from Johnny Carino’s restaurant.

Tickets were $15 for students and $25 for nonstudents. The group also accepted donations of both money and medical supplies, such as aspirin.

Paula Meder, administrative manager of the OUHSC College of Pharmacy, said the event had a good turnout.

“It went well,” Meder said.

“There were over 100 people registered to attend.”

She did not yet know how much money was raised from the gala event.

Overall, students from all colleges on the OUHSC campus will be going on the trip, ranging from dentistry and pharmacy to nursing.

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Students spark senator’s position switch Activists protest in downtown Oklahoma City on behalf of $40 million Uganda-relief bill before Sen. Coburn alters stance and lifts hold on bill DIONNE BUXTON Daily Staff Writer

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, changed his status on a bill at 3 p.m. Tuesday after OU students engaged in an 11-night, 12-day demonstration showing their discontent with one of Coburn’s decisions.

OU students participated in an 11-day “sleep out” in front of the Chase Tower, protesting the hold Coburn placed on the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act. This bill would allocate $40 million to war-affected areas of Uganda.

Coburn said in earlier press conferences he would only lift his hold if the bill was amended to specify where the money will be taken from.

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Protesters celebrate outside Tuesday in downtown Oklahoma City. The group protested outside of the Chase Tower for 11 days to convince Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, to switch his position on funding to Uganda.

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Bolovia Continues from page 1 limestone to an existing flow of water. Limestone channels have been successfully applied in the United States, and the engineers hope to bring this low-cost and low-impact solution to Potosi.

“Previous attempts by the Bolivian citizens to clean the water have failed because they are one of the poorest places in the world,” said Christopher Breazile, civil engineering junior. “We have studied their water, and we believe this will work.”

Potosi’s water is particularly difficult because of the presence of silver mining in the area going back to the Incas in the 1400s. The city was a major center for Spanish silver mining during the Colonial Era. The seepage from the mines into the water supply has been blamed as the cause of malnutrition, anemia and high rates of infant mortality in the area.

“Our goal is to help the community improve water quality in Rio Juckucha (the area’s water source), restoring it as

OUDAILY.COM » CATCH A VIDEO OF THE DAILY’S BRAND RACKLEY TRIES TO GET SOME STRAIGHT ANSWERS FROM SOME TOUGH INTERVIEWEES. a useful water resource safe for agricultural applications,” Lucero said.

This project started because an OU doctoral student went to Bolivia to do research. While he was there he realized the magnitude of the water contamination problem that was caused by the mine discharge. When he got back to the U.S he got in touch with Engineers Without Borders.

Lucero said the proposed plan involves three major areas. The OU engineering students are taking the lead on installing the limestone channels, while others focus on mine discharge treatment for working and abandoned mines.

The OU chapter of Engineers Without Borders participates in many activities throughout the year. Its most recent project was in Guatemala, where members spent winter break building a school for an

impoverished community. The organization also will spend its spring break in New Orleans working on the ongoing process of recovering after Hurricane Katrina.

“EWB’s mission statement is to partner with disadvantaged communities and that is not limited to developing countries,” Lucero said.

The group is currently taking donations for the travel cost to Bolivia. The Oklahoma Rotary has funded $74,000, the cost of the materials needed to complete this project. The organization has also hosted fundraisers like a stuffed-potato bar earlier this month. (Potatoes were originally domesticated by the native people of Peru.)

“The Students of OU can really help by raising awareness of the water problems in other countries,” Breazile said.

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government money. He ran his campaign by promising the country he would make great efforts to reduce the deficit.

“We may have differences in opinions on the role of the government, but those differences should not prevent us from working together to insure our charity today does not come at the expense of future generations of Americans,” Coburn said in his bill criteria released in 2007.

The students who participated in the protest say this was not a campaign against Coburn, only an effort to challenge the senator on this particular decision, according to their Web site, coburnsayyes.com.

“We were sleeping out just so he could agree to have a 10-minute meeting with us,” said Matthew Mead, international studies sophomore.

That meeting finally came through a phone call two hours after the hold was lifted.

Students traveled from across the United States to sleep out for this bill, and many local residents stopped by for shifts. The community supported the protesters with food and media

attention.

“We never had to buy meals because donations were always pouring in from friends as well as local businesses,” Mead said.

In the phone call, Coburn said the groups’ efforts heavily influenced his decision to lift his hold on the bill, said Mark Nehrenz, OU alumnus.

“I think our actions put pressure on him to work for a compromise that wouldn’t have been there had our presence been absent,” Mead said.

The group hopes its efforts will raise awareness, but that was its secondary goal, Nehrenz said.

“Our first goal was to get this bill passed,” Nehrenz said. “The fact that this bill was even on the floor was because of four to five years of hard work.

We didn’t want another five years to pass without any action, and we didn’t want that hard work to be in vain.”

The Daily’s phone calls to Coburn’s o f f i c e f o r h i s c o m m e nt w e re n o t returned.

whether or not he said that,” Kreidler said. “The important issue for all of us is the State Medical Examiner desperately needs a new facility, and it needs to be in a place that helps them best do the job. If there is a better location, we understand it needs to be in the best location for the Medical Examiner.”

When McAffrey was asked to clarify his remarks Wednesday on News 9’s afternoon program, McAffrey said OU Vice President Danny Hilliard, a former state

Legislator and current vice president of government relations, said an exchange was being proposed.

When The Daily contacted Hilliard, OU vice President of Public Affairs Catherine Bishop issued a statement on behalf of Hilliard stating it is impossible for OU to donate land to the medical examiner’s office because OU does not own the land next the medical examiner’s office.

“No offer to donate land has ever been made,” Bishop said by e-mail. “The university does not own the land adjacent to the Medical Examiner’s office.”

The Daily’s phone calls to McAffrey for clarification of his remarks and his side of the story were not returned.

OUR COMMITMENT TO ACCURACY The Daily has a long-standing commitment to serve readers by providing accurate coverage and analysis. Errors are corrected as they are identified.

Readers should bring errors to the attention of the editorial board for further investigation by e-mailing dailynews@ou.edu.

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Researches study climate in Antarctica MATTHEW MOZEK Daily Staff Writer

A team of OU researchers traveled to Antarctica in search of clues to the Earth’s climate system earlier this year.

Gerilyn Soreghan, OU geology professor, said reconstruction of the Earth’s past climate is a key path to understanding the Earth’s climate in general, as well as projecting future climate changes.

Soreghan, research team member, said she believes comparing more modern systems in a range of different climates will help support her hypothesis that ice existed at the equator some 300 million years ago during the late Paleozoic Period.

To research her hypothesis, Soreghan said a proposal was submitted to the National Science Foundation to study modern sediments formed in “end-member” climates.

Soreghan said although the proposal was ranked highly, it was not ranked highly enough for full funding. Instead the National Science Foundation countered with an offer to fund a very small pilot project in Antarctica.

“Although disappointed that we did not acquire funding for the entire project initially, we were — and are — very excited to commence work on a portion of it, with the hope of discovering some additional data to strengthen our hypothesis and ultimately resubmit a stronger proposal to complete the work,” Soreghan said.

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(From Left to Right) Ph.D student, Kristen Marra, M.S student, Allison Stumpf, and Dr. Lynn Soreghan, all from the OU School of Geology, are part of a research team who went down to Antartica to study climate.

Marra and Allison Stumpf, flew to New Zealand on Dec. 28, Soreghan said.

Marra said she prepared for the trip using suggestions made by the United States Antarctic Program, which supplies almost all gear needed to work in an extreme field environment.

“We definitely arrived with more additional gear and clothing than anyone would ever need,” Marra said.

The trip to the McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, took about five hours.

There they pinpointed the glaciers where they would take water and sediment samples. When they were ready, a helicopter dropped them in the Dry Valleys, and they began collecting samples in one of the smallest rivers in Wright Valley, an OU press release stated.

The team then moved to the Onyx River, the largest river in the valley. Sampling here was more successful as the river flows roughly six weeks during the summer, the press release stated.

The water samples taken from the river showed nonrandom patterns, which is a good sign, Soreghan said.

She said the experience was exhilarating, otherworldly, fascinating, breathtaking and blindingly bright; however, the journey was physically demanding.

“I realized it would be physically demanding, but had not fully appreciated the rigors of the true field experience in the Dry Valleys,” Soreghan said.

The team had to set up 100pound tents and weighing them down in anticipation of katabolic

wind storms, consuming food that was typically at least two to three years old and sometimes nearly a decade past expiration, hiking 12 kilometers in a 20 degree wind chill and seeing rocks carved by the wind into intricate and unimaginable shapes, she said.

Stumpf said the team spent a total of 12 days in the field, seven days in Wright Valley, and five days in Taylor Valley.

“Each day we would hike up to the front of a predetermined glacier and then sample down its drainage,” Stumpf said. “We collected rock, sediment and water samples along the stream drainage.”

The samples will be arriving sometime in April, she said.

Soreghan said she hopes their research increases their understanding of how rocks weather in an extreme polar desert, and how they can detect such conditions in rocks ranging back hundreds of millions — and even billions — of years into the Earth’s past.

“In a sense, we are opening Earth’s laboratory book and discovering the results of various past planetary experiments,” Soreghan said.

Although the trip was strenuous, Marra said it was the experience of a lifetime.

“This was by far my most extreme outdoor experience,” Marra said. “I thoroughly enjoyed the entire process, from researching the geology of the Dry Valleys to learning the appropriate clothing to wear to cooking pizza on a camp stove in the middle of the Frozen Continent.”

SUSPECT IDENTIFIED IN MR. SHORTSTOP ROBBERY A Norman man identified by his mother as a suspect wanted for the Feb. 8 armed robbery of the Mr. ShortStop convenience store was arrested Tuesday, Norman Police reports stated.

John Clark Lair Jr., 38, was taken into custody Tuesday by Norman Police, arrest records stated.

Lair and James Nolan, another suspect wanted in connection with the robbery, allegedly became intoxicated Feb. 8, and with a third suspect, entered the convenience store and demanded money from the store clerk, a Cleveland County Court affidavit of probable cause stated.

Lair allegedly pointed a shotgun at the clerk while

the other two suspects walked around the counter to steal money from the cash register, the affidavit stated.

The robbery, which was recorded on the store’s video surveillance system, resulted in the suspects stealing cash and beer, Norman Police reports stated.

Detective Corey Lambrecht questioned Lair about the robbery. During the questioning, the detective saw a resemblance between Lair’s face and that of the gunman. Lambrecht said he recognized Lair’s crooked nose, according to the affidavit.

Lair was placed in a police line up and was

identified by the store clerk as one of the suspects, according to the affidavit.

Lambrecht also questioned Lair’s mother, showing her surveillance video of the robbery.

She identified the gunman in the video as her son and also identified another suspect, James Nolan, according to the affidavit.

Lair denied being involved with the robbery, according to the affidavit.

Lair has been charged with first-degree robbery, conspiracy and wearing a mask during the commission of a crime, according to police records.

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POLICE REPORTS The following is a list of arrests and citations, not convictions. The information given is compiled from the Norman and OU Police Departments. At times, the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Department and the Oklahoma City FBI will contribute to these reports. All those listed are innocent until proven guilty.

MUNICIPAL WARRANT Amber Rene Ameen, 22, 1400 N. Flood Ave., Tuesday, also no insurance verification and driving under suspension Heather Rochelle Daniel, 21, 201 W. Gray St., Tuesday Samuel Black Felder, 21, Brandt Park, Tuesday COUNTY WARRANT John Clark Lair, 38, 1220 Northcliff Ave., Tuesday Derek Cole Moss, 20, Shadowridge Drive, Tuesday AGGRAVATED DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Stephanie Ann Bell, 69, W. Robinson Street, Tuesday DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Kevin Don Jones, 41, 2600 W. Robinson St., Tuesday POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA Jarod Ryan Carr, 20, 1918 W. Main St., Monday, also possession of controlled dangerous substances Booker D. Shackelford, 30, Southeast 12th Avenue, Tuesday INTERFERENCE WITH AN OFFICIAL PROCESS Matthew Benjamin Spaulding, 29, 927 N. Flood Ave., Monday DOG AT LARGE Kenneth Mark Deberry, 50, 1500 Eisenhower Road, Sunday Adam Levi Ledbetter, 21, 3200 Rambling Oaks Drive, Sunday PUBLIC INTOXICATION Dewey Lunsford Gay, 65, 1107 N. Flood Ave., Tuesday Sean Michael McClure, 36, 1107 N. Flood Ave., Tuesday

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COMMENT OF THE DAY »

Max Avery, opinion editor dailyopinion@ou.edu • phone: 325-7630 • fax: 325-6051

In response to Dannon Cox’s cartoon on corporate urban sprawl.

OUR VIEW

GOVERNMENT SHOULD NEVER CLOSE ITSELF FROM THE PRESS Our government shouldn’t be ashamed of its actions; it should be open. When an open records request is filed it should be fulfilled. Period.

Unfortunately, many state employees disagree and are supporting a closed government.

Fears of people using birth dates as identity theft has inspired Oklahoma Senate Bill 1753 which would remove the birth dates of public employees from the public record.

However, The Oklahoma Public Employees Association has claimed open access to birth dates would put public employees at risk for identity theft. But identity theft requires far more information than a date of birth, thus refusing to give a date of birth would only protect the elderly employees insecure with their age.

The Oklahoman, Oklahoma’s largest

newspaper, sent an open records request asking for a list of all state employees and their birthdates so they can confirm their identities. This is common practice for journalists. Without birthdates, we can’t distinguish between two people with the same name.

The Oklahoma Public Employees Association response was to e-mail a “call to action” to its members, to protest the request. This solicited several phone calls and e-mails to The Oklahoman, which violates state ethics rules prohibiting the use of state materials for lobbying purposes.

In a democratic society, government institutions should be an open book on everything. The only reason to not acquiesce requests of this kind would be security reasons.

It seems many Oklahoma

lawmakers don’t support the idea of open government.

However, this fails to address the really big question: Why are we debating this? The fact this is being debated is wasting taxpayer time and money. We are in a state with a major budget deficit, extremely polarized wealth, one of the consistently worst education systems in the country, and we have better things to do than discuss the birthdates of our state employees.

This shouldn’t be an issue; state institutions need to be as open as possible, always. The recent behavior of The Oklahoma Public Employees Association is the sort of reactionary behavior that give labor unions a bad name.

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GUEST COLUMN

Studying abroad gives a new understanding of your home A few nights a week I hear them below my balcony in the “Grapes of Wrath.” I’ve grown accustomed to this and have often streets, banging drums and chanting. I look down and see the red found the best way to impress people is to mention Brad Pitt was flags hoisted, the white crescent and star of the Turkish Republic born there. flapping, the men bundled in trench coats and muddy boots, I play upon ignorance. I note Oklahoma has the largest their hot breath visible in the air, the women wrapped in bright American Indian population in the States — something, anything hijabs, some of the only color in a month of overcast skies and to make my birthplace seem somehow exotic. I do not mention endless rain. the unchanging landscape of Wal-Marts and Best Buys and fast Their shouts and protest banners change but the anger and the food chains bordering the enormous, fast-moving freeways, travdesperation does not. Last week the focus was the ruling party’s eling through which seems like being spun around in a barber’s arrest of high-ranking military officials accused of planchair, seeing the same vision over and over again. When ning a coup. This week they’ve assumed a more antipeople talk about our culture they refer to things that are American flavor, protesting the U.S. congressional panno longer present in our reality: cowboys, buffalo, the el’s resolution to brand the mass killings of Armenians by wild west. But whenever I take my eyes from my comthe Ottoman Empire as “genocide.” puter and look, really look, all I see are Wal-Marts and Regardless of what they protest I always feel an urge Best Buys and fast food chains. What does that mean? to join them, to be swept long into something collective, When I talk about Oklahoma I talk about how strong enormous and transforming. But the seldom agreeable the wind is, the flat horizon, the ice storms and how stumotive of the march, and the tendency for these gatherdents at universities such as OU have come to worship DAVID JOSHUA ings to burst into violence, often keep me away. college football players, and therefore future car salesThat’s what studying abroad, and travel generally, is JENNINGS men and burger joint proprietors. about: allowing yourself to be transformed, allowing Stories about tornadoes impress people the most, or all the layers of your ignorance to peel away after being perhaps descriptions of the religious landscape, where burned by the experience of larger things. every white person is assumed to be some manner of Christian Days ago on the other side of Turkey a 6.0 magnitude earth- and the student newspaper opinion column at the leading uniquake swallowed a number of rural villages. A few thousand versity constantly publishes articles by students shouting argumud-brick homes crumbled into rubble and the tall, beautiful ments that God does not exist simply to make themselves feel minarets of the mosques toppled to the ground like pencils. they’ve transgressed. I talk about church camps, the songs sung The dead were almost immediately forgotten, as such horror and the Bible exercises and the demented people to whom paroften unearths greater worry, such as: what if, by chance, this was ents entrust their children simply because they claim to love to happen in a place where significantly more people live, such Jesus, whom they know nothing about. as Istanbul? The event is commoditized, stripped of all blood and Such stories send forth a thrill of exotic strangeness, about a emotion, becomes a brick on which Turkish politicians build a land others do not understand, a war-loving society, a land where campaign. The tragedy disappears people embalm their recently deceased relatives into the hearts of those who suffered “I encourage all students and stare at them for days before lowering them into it. the ground. I’ve lived in Oklahoma most of my life, I at OU to consider seriously I was more than 1,000 kilometers tell them. I’m not lying. I’ve seen it. I know. the option to study abroad. away at the time of the quake, travelI talk about these things as a means of discovery. I ing in Cappadocia, 50 yards beneath Allow the pre-conceived reach inside myself for things that have been inside the Earth in an underground city built strangeness of foreignness, me for so long that they have become invisible. I by the Hittites 4,000 years ago, where constructed by your culture, hold them out in front of me for others to pick apart. persecuted Christians later hid to I become alienated from them again. I find they no evade the empires, first Roman and to evaporate in its simplicity.” longer fit inside me. then Arab, whose armies rode back This is the great wealth of traveling, and I encourand forth across the plains above. This land has a history on age all students at OU to consider seriously the option to study which my country would be a blip, a freckle on the thigh. It has abroad. Allow the pre-conceived strangeness of foreignness, seen empires come and empires go, revolutions and counter- constructed by your culture, to evaporate in its simplicity. Allow revolutions. The shepherds I see strolling along the hillsides, like light to be thrown into the corners of yourself that you have yet to the hills of yellow, swaying grass themselves, seem untouched by discover, much less explore. Learn to fully understand and love these waves of differing governments and ideologies. They live the place you are from. Take a trip, study elsewhere (the more meekly, with their flock and their staff, much as they did 1,000, exotic the better) and begin to perceive not so much the overeven 5,000 years ago. whelming strangeness of others, but of yourself.

Ninety five percent of the people I encounter have never heard of Oklahoma. The other five percent include American exchange David Joshua Jennings is a English and philosophy senior currently studying abroad in Istanbul, Turkey. students who have perhaps watched clips of our ignorant and embarrassing senators on television, or who know of the Murrow bombing, the musical, or the dust-bowl backdrop of Steinbeck’s COMMENT ON THIS COLUMN AT OUDAILY.COM

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“When I visit town now, I get stuck in traffic jams of cars full of people going to Banana Republic, LA Fitness, or the countless other commercial chains, and I cry a little inside. :(“ William

STAFF COLUMN

Let’s hear it for folk music Let’s hear it for the tradition of folk music.

Folk music, in the beginning, was the continuation of traditional songs and stories through a genre of music. Think 19th century Odyssey or Ramayana. This type of music sought to preserve tradition, not destroy it with innovation. Folk music is about the appreciation of the past for what it was and never forgetting that.

Let’s hear it for the beauty of folk music.

Folk music takes on many different forms. Although contemporary definition may put folk music into a box of wailing songs with an acoustic guitar, it is much more varJOHN ied than that. That is because BEST folk music is the song of the people. It is defined more by the continuation of an oral tradition or message than by a musical style. Folk music is the preservation of slave work songs.

Let’s hear it for tales of suffering told through folk music.

Artists like Woody Guthrie are able to embody and express the suffering that is often characteristic of folk music. Although Guthrie may best be known for songs such as “This Land is Your Land,” his repertoire goes much deeper than such delightful, upbeat ballads. Woody told the unsung stories of the downtrodden during the 1930s. For example, he spent a period of his life following migrant workers fleeing the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma in search of work in California. He wrote songs about the struggle of farmers during this time with titles such as “Dust Bowl Blues” “I Ain’t Got No Home,” and “Dust Pneumonia Blues,” to name a few. The struggle of joblessness, prejudice, hunger, persecution by police and migration can be found and felt in Guthrie’s lyrics and delivery.

Let’s hear it for the revealing nature of folk music.

When a folk musician doesn’t like something about society, they sing about it. Marvina Reynolds was frustrated with the overwhelming sameness of suburbia and suburban sprawl. From this frustration came a song called “Little Boxes” which is about little houses that looked the same, only different colored. It also poked fun at the “American Dream” to go to university, get a nice job, have kids, send them to summer camp and then send them to university. And repeat. And repeat. And repeat.

Let’s hear it for the protest songs of folk music.

Songs like “Hurricane,” by Bob Dylan. This protest song was about a boxer named Rubin “Hurricane” Carter from the ’60s who was arrested, falsely tried and convicted of murder. Dylan’s song profiles the racism and unjust nature of the police forces involved in Carter’s arrest and the corrupt legal system that convicted him.

Let’s hear it for the power of folk music.

It is through the power of folk music that many social changes can be made possible. Folk musicians often choose to write original songs or perform traditional songs for educational and political goals.

Folk music is also used as a form of social commentary. While they were in no way the most important actors in such movements as the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s, many folk musicians wrote songs in support, or participated quite actively.

Let’s hear it for the endurance and adaptability of folk music.

Unlike many other genres of music, folk music never died. It has gone through a bit of a sinusoidal curve, with multiple revivals of folk music throughout the twentieth century. Not only that, but folk music has laid the foundation for other genres of music such as country music and bluegrass.

Let’s hope folk music grows in Norman.

Norman is a town with so much transformational potential. Music plays an integral part in the lives of a majority of Norman residents. One of the most radical events at recently was probably an occupation of the South Oval organized by some students on last week. While the message behind the protest was something to be admired, there were no more than 25 students “occupying” at one time. Numbers aren’t everything but the numbers could be so much bigger. Folk music could do something to change this. We need musicians writing protest songs. The fuel for transformation is here. Residents of Norman care about countless causes and love music. We need the fire of folk music to help destroy the apathy.

John Best is a biochemistry and Asian studies senior.

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Oklahoma State forward Roger Franklin (32) and Oklahoma guard Tony Crocker (5) try for a rebound during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game at the Big 12 tournament Wednesday in Kansas City, Mo. OU lost 81-67.

OU’S SEASON ENDS WITH BEDLAM LOSS KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Watching his team during its shootaround before the Big 12 tournament, Oklahoma State coach Travis Ford was concerned. The normally loose group of players were quiet, spending nearly 20 minutes saying barely a word.

Ford wondered: Were they in awe, focused, or was their inexperience coming through?

He got his answer in hurry.

Keiton Page scored 19 of his 24 points in a dominating first half, and Oklahoma State withstood a brief rally in the season’s third Bedlam game to beat Oklahoma 81-67 on Wednesday night in the opening round of the Big 12 tournament.

“Being Bedlam, it adds to being the first game of the tournament,” Ford said. “There’s extra meaning to it, no question. It’s a tough first game to play. We’re just glad to get it over with.”

The Cowboys (22-9) tried to get it over with quickly, racing an 18-point lead in the first six minutes before allowing Oklahoma to creep back in it with a shaky start to the second half. Obi Muonelo kept the Sooners from completing the comeback, scoring 10 of his 15 points after the rally to send the seventh-seeded Cowboys into Thursday’s quarterfinals against ninth-ranked Kansas State, the No. 2 seed.

Bedlam in the Big 12? Turns out nothing could be better for the Cowboys.

“Coach told us that by this time of year, we’ve worked hard and worked on everything we need to work on,” Muonelo said. “It’s time to have fun. We were having fun out there.”

Oklahoma (13-18), seeded 10th, got off to jittery start without leading scorer Willie Warren (ankle) and never fully recovered to close out a disappointing season filled with injuries, suspensions and inconsistency.

The Sooners ended the year with a nine-game losing streak, their longest since dropping 10 in a row in 1963-64, and missed the postseason a year after reaching the NCAA regional finals. Tommy Mason-Griffin had 22 points and nine assists, and Steven Pledger added 18 points to cap Oklahoma’s first losing season since 1980-81.

“It wasn’t fun for me, not one second of it,” Sooners coach Jeff Capel said. “It was a very difficult year from the beginning. It’s not just the wins and losses — and we had a lot more losses than wins — it was just very frustrating on a lot of different angles.”

The third Bedlam game came after a split in the regular season.

Oklahoma won in overtime at home with the Big 12 player of the year, OSU’s James Anderson, on the bench for most of the second half with a head injury. With Anderson back, the Cowboys won by 21 in the second meeting in Stillwater.

Bedlam III looked like a blowout at the beginning.

Muonelo opened the game with a 3-pointer from the top

of the key, and Page followed with two more to make it 9-0.

Oklahoma State kept hitting, Oklahoma kept missing, and the Cowboys were quickly up 20-2, an opening blitz capped

by Page’s third basket from beyond the arc.

Page hit two more 3-pointers in the half, including a contested one from 30 feet that hit the front of the rim and tumbled over, and Oklahoma State made 17 of 29 shots to lead 45-23.

But, this being Bedlam, it wasn’t over. Not yet.

Oklahoma tightened defensively, found its rhythm offensively and opened the second half with an 11-0 run.

Oklahoma State didn’t score in the first 4:44 of the half as the Sooners hit seven of their first nine shots, cutting what seemed like an insurmountable lead to 45-34.

Muonelo ended Oklahoma’s hopes.

The senior guard scored eight points in a two-minute span, then hit another jumper and added a pass to a cutting Matt Pilgrim for a layup that put the Cowboys up 65-47.

Oklahoma never got closer, ending a season that started with high expectations with maybe the biggest disappointment of all.

“It’s never fun having a season like this,” Oklahoma’s Cade Davis said.

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LEWIS LOOKS TO STAY GROUNDED Freshman hard-hitter Ronnell Lewis said he was keeping a level head after his coming out party during the Sun Bowl.

While Lewis has been the talk of the town ever since his bone crushing hits on special teams, the young linebacker said he is not focused on all that happened in the Sun Bowl and just wants to move forward. He also said he would like to continue playing special teams if he gets the start at linebacker.

“Yeah I do, I want to help the team out in any possible way I can, so if it means starting on defense then running down kickoffs or punt returns, I’m just going to help the team.”

MCFARLAND FOLLOWS IN MCCOY’S FOOTSTEPS Defensive lineman Jamarkus McFarland said he has been looking to teammate Gerald McCoy for inspiration and tips on how to be successful at OU. McFarland had a lot of high praise regarding McCoy and said he hopes he can be like him both on and off the field.

“I look at him as his whole person not just practice. I look at everything, I take what he does in the games, I take what he does in practice, what he does in the locker room, what he does at home, what he does in the media, everything and I piece it piece by piece and see what I can take out of it to take his personality that’s got him to where he wants to be right

now. He was known just as much on campus as he was on the field, and that’s the way I want to be; not just a number, I don’t want to be 97. I want to be known as Jamarkus McFarland as a good person off the field just as on the field like he was.”

MARTINEZ ACKNOWLEDGES CHALLENGES The new secondary coach, Willie Martinez, said the process of selecting the starters for next year will be a slow process and will require a lot of studying before a definite decision can be reached. Of the many young and talented prospects OU has on its secondary roster, nobody has really separated themselves yet, Martinez said.

“It’s going to take some time, again because you come in here as a new coach and you really don’t know the entire

history. All the reps that a player has had for three years, whether it’s good or bad, or has he progressed, obviously it’s a great staff and they’ve communicated that to me. There are certain guys that have progressed and some guys that haven’t. I’ve got some kind of a starting point, but I think going through spring will help and understanding what kind of dept we have and what kind of abilities we have.”

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Lindsey Vandever, senior catcher, swings at a pitch during the game against North Texas Wednesday afternoon. OU won 6-4.

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Casey Johnson, junior outfielder, attempts to hit the ball during the baseball game against South Florida on March 4 at the L. Dale Mitchell Baseball Park. OU won 5-4.

Baseball wins eighth straight JONO GRECO Daily Staff Writer

Extending a winning streak to eight games was not a problem for the No. 15 baseball team as it defeated the Houston Baptist Huskies 9-1 Wednesday at L. Dale Mitchell Park in the final home game before spring break.

The Sooners (13-1) came out of the gates swinging by getting out to a 4-1 lead in after three innings and never looked back. The only time the game was close after scoring began was when the bottom of the second inning began with the score tied 1-1, but freshman second baseman Max White gave OU the lead for good with a two-run home run off the batters’ eye in center field.

The three-run lead was all the support senior pitcher Michael Rocha needed. Other than allowing the one run in the second inning, Rocha was on target during his five innings of work.

Rocha (2-0) allowed a home run, which was the only run and hit he surrendered by, in his second start of the season while striking out two batters despite getting little help from his defense.

The Sooners committed four errors, three by the infield, while Rocha was in the game, but the right-hander did not let the errors faze him. Rocha recorded an out

after each of the four errors.

OU’s bats broke the flood gates in the fifth inning when it plated four straight runners on four hits and a safetysqueeze bunt. Four players drove in runs during the inning after loading the bases and settling for moving runners from base to base to bring them in.

Head coach Sunny Golloway pulled Rocha despite throwing a mere 59 pitches once the Sooners got out to the 8-1 lead, and relied on the bullpen to pitch the final four innings.

Golloway turned to freshman pitcher Drew Verhagen to throw three innings and senior pitcher Jarrett Semler to throw the ninth inning to close out the game. The two pitchers did not allow a run in their four innings of work, and OU added a run in the eighth inning to reach the nine-run plateau for the sixth time this season.

Two OU hitters, White and senior designated hitter Ross Hubbard, had multi-hit games. Hubbard collected two hits in two at-bats and drove in a run, and White went 3-54 with the home run and two RBIs. The Sooners head down to Corpus Christi, Texas, this weekend to participate in the Whataburger Classic. OU’s first game of the tournament will be against Mississippi State at 7 p.m. Friday, and junior pitcher Zach Neal is expected to start on the mound.

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Senior third baseman Lindsey Vandever led the Sooners to an early four run lead in the first inning with a grand slam during the 6-4 win over North Texas on Wednesday night in Norman. The Sooners are 16-3 for the season with the win.

Although the Sooners won the contest, head coach Patty Gasso was disappointed in the team’s performance.

“I didn’t think it was good performance whatsoever from a coach’s point of view,” Gasso said. “Be happy with the win but that’s all I can say. I thought we played soft and as a team that’s this loaded with this much talent needs to learn how to play tough day in and day out.”

With a lot of walks allowed by the OU pitching staff, Gasso called them average regardless of the numbers. Freshman pitcher Keilani Ricketts recorded her 10th win of the season with five strikeouts in 2.2 innings pitched. Ricketts relieved freshman pitcher Michelle Gascoigne who pitched the first three innings. Sophomore pitcher Kirsten Allen came in to finish out the game.

After the first inning, North Texas responded by hitting a solo home run in the third iand added another run in the top of the fourth with a RBI single to bring the cut the lead 4-2.

The Mean Green loaded the bases before Ricketts struck out the last batter.

The OU offense also quieted down after the first inning.

After the grand slam, Vandever walked twice during the game.

Vandever, the team captain, also felt that the team’s energy slumped during the middle of the game.

“We came out hard but we got complacent because we got a big lead,” Vandever said. “Not a big lead, but a pretty decent lead, and we got soft on them.”

The Sooners host the Oklahoma Spring Festival this weekend. The next game is at 6 p.m. Friday against Utah in Norman.

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AROUND NORMAN Find your newest indie rock crush(es) when the ladies of Vivian Girl stomp through town with Abe Vigoda, Male Bonding and Lovvers at 9 p.m. March 15 at Opolis, 113 N. Crawford Ave.

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DOWN SOUTH Take a short trip down I-35 for the new precursor to SXSW: NX35. With bands like The Flaming Lips, Midlake, The Walkmen, Neon Indian and The Black Angels, the two-hour trip to Denton, Texas is certainly worth the time.

The festival will run March 11 to 14 in downtown Denton.

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Efforts to help Haiti and Chile are still going strong. Go to a local food bank or just head over to another local organization and clock some hours for others.

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been a connoisseur of Internet boyfriends. Nothing risqué, just someone you randomly meet through a friend of friend’s friends list who likes all the same bands as you and has a great profile picture. Someone to chat with into the wee hours of the morning and say sweet things to like “I wish I could drive to Milwaukee right now and cuddle with you!” or “Today I heard a Blink-182 song and thought of you.”

Internet relationships are ideal for a non-committal type like myself. It exists when you are online and suddenly disappears when you shut your laptop.

Unfortunately, even these unrealistic love connections have their expiration dates. You both start to grow apart, he loves a real life girl and you recently got NetFlix, and before you know it you are writing a wall comment that begins with “We need to talk...”

There always has to be that awkward moment of ending something that never really started. But a new social networking Web site has the answer to all of your uncomfortable Internet rejection problems. On Chatroulette, a chat room with audio and video capabilities, one click of the “Next” button, otherwise known as the F9 key, eliminates all evidence of the relationship and suddenly it’s like you never met.

Chances are if you have heard of Chatroulette you have also heard of its seedy nature. Sure, a nauseatingly large portion of Chatroulette participants are little more — uh, revealing — than I would like them to be, but every F9 in awhile I meet someone who is worth talking to and possibly friending on the ol’ Facebook.

Initially, I only chatrouletted in group settings but the instant attention from complete strangers was just too intoxicating to wait for Friday and Saturday nights.

One Monday night my years of practicing facial expressions in the mirror paid off, I met my first Chatroulette boyfriend, Jake from Liverpool.

You are judging me right now, I can feel it, but wait till you get showered with compliments from someone who sounds like the fifth member of the Beatles and then you can wag your finger at me all you like.

Unlike those questionable AOL chatrooms of the ’90s, I could see him and therefore knew that he wasn’t a 40-year-old in his basement somewhere outside of Reno.

Here is the best part: there are more than 20,000 people on Chatroulette at all times, and at least 30 percent of those people are clothed and ready to be your next Chatroulette love affair. After Jake from Liverpool it was David from Holland, then Rob from Glasgow and every once in a while I would keep it stateside with Tim

from Colorado or Sergeo and Frankie from Florida.

My Internet little black book went international over night and I couldn’t be happier. I have to be honest, girls are a minority on Chatroulette, and that gives me an advantage, except when you are a couple minutes into a conversation and some guy from Virginia asks when you plan on getting rid of your shirt.

But chin up girlfriend, you have that next button on your side and after you tell him exactly what he can do with himself — his ass is grass.

I should probably try to kick my Chatroulette addiction, but that requires me to have actual human contact with the opposite sex that doesn’t result in me severely offending them. Somehow my social skills translate better via webcam. This might be a sign of sad, creepy things to come for my social life but c’est la vie. I think I have reached my quota of nights at Louie’s Too anyway. And at least on Chatroulette I get to listen to my own well-crafted Pandora stations instead of that insufferable bar jukebox.

I am certain that it won’t be me and my MacBook forever. Soon enough all of my dreams will come true and one of my Internet boyfriends will show up on my doorstep, all 4 feet and 11 inches of him.

Caitlin Turner is a letters junior.

Citywide art gathering themed around literary classic COURTNEY SILVA Daily Staff Writer

Those who are looking for an exciting way to experience the Norman art scene should attend the Norman Arts Council’s 2nd Friday Circuit of Art event 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. tomorrow night.

The 2nd Friday Circuit of Art is a monthly event created by the Norman Arts Council that allows people to take the Cleveland Area Rapid Transit system to different locations around Norman, including the Downtown Arts District.

This month’s event is centered around the novel “The Maltese Falcon” written by Dashiell Hammett, which is a part of the Nation

Endowment for the Arts program The Big Read — a campaign to encourage increased reading throughout the United States.

There will be two main stops along the tour that will correspond with the night’s theme of “The Maltese Falcon.” The first will be at The Performing Arts Center in Norman. Guests of the event will be given complimentary copies of the novel and enjoy snacks and refreshments while listening to live music by Off Boyd Jazz.

The second stop will be at the Crucible Foundry and Gallery where falcon sculptures by artist Jeff Littlejohn as well as a documentary about the creation of the sculptures will be shown. The sculptures were commissioned

specifically for The Big Read. Guests of the event are highly encouraged to dress in period costumes that reflect the 1930s — the time period in which “The Maltese Falcon” is set.

There also are many other highlights of the evening. The Fred Jones Museum of Art, as a part of its monthly Art “à la CART” series, will show short films, have arts and crafts for guests and there are two new exhibitions guests can view for free.

The first bus will leave from the stop on the corner of Main Street and University Boulevard at 6 p.m. The cost is 50 cents per ride or $2 for the entire night.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Although you might mean well, keep your opinions and advice to yourself. Unless you’re extremely tactful, you could come off as a know-it-all.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Usually you’re the type of clearheaded person who mulls things over before speaking out, yet you could let your feelings rule your head and react emotionally instead. Don’t embarrass yourself.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Even though you know better, you could let someone who has duped you in the past do so again. If you haven’t learned from experience, you’re destined to repeat the mistake.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- If you’re too busy listening to what you have to say, you won’t hear all the constructive information all around you. Stop and pay attention to what others have to say.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- In your haste to get an assignment out of the way as quickly as possible, you could solicit the help of someone who isn’t up to the task and will only make matters worse. Do what needs doing yourself.

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PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- There is a strong probability that you could meet an exciting new someone who will have an immediate impact on your life.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Don’t go to a place where someone you dislike is hanging out because it’s going to make you uncomfortable. If you can’t ignore this person, go somewhere else.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- It’s more likely to be indifference or a lack of faith in yourself that brings you down in a competitive situation. If it doesn’t mean anything to you, don’t enter in the first place.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- An absence of organization could mean disaster. If you take on something complex hoping to achieve desirable results, you need to follow methodical procedures.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Be extra careful in partnerships with friends, especially when money is involved. If there is the slightest hint of selfishness and impropriety, a battle royale will quickly ensue.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Although you have a litany of good ideas, you might not be able to disseminate these concepts to others. Figure out what you want to say before trying to make your case.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- If you do not want to think for yourself, there will be any number of people who will gladly think for you. Unfortunately, this will provide a perfect opening for someone to take advantage of you.

Universal Crossword Edited by Timothy E. Parker March 11, 2010

ACROSS 1 Irretrievable 5 Cribbage markers 9 Part of 59-Across 14 Bar of yellow 15 ___ canal (dental operation) 16 Twistable joint 17 Chief Norse gods 18 “Do ___ others as ...”

19 Developed ability 20 Wear for those who serve 23 Conan slayer?

24 Disapproving looks 25 Video store category 27 Agronomists’ samples 30 Person who divines the future 33 You can’t stand having it 36 Aquatic nymphs 38 Slide accidentally 39 Obsolete piano key material 41 Turk’s title of respect 42 Unbending 43 Would-be pilot’s test 44 Whoop it up 46 It can be black or green

47 State of lawlessness 49 Where fathers may gather 51 Man with a nice laugh 53 Uses indelicate language 57 “Foiled again!”

59 Spring topper 62 Basketmaking branch 64 Subatomic particle 65 Cogito ___ sum (Descartes’ conclusion) 66 Badminton opener 67 Atlantic bird 68 Ship wood 69 Beyond full 70 Almost there 71 ___ quam videri (N.C. motto) DOWN 1 Steals from an abandoned store 2 Like days gone by 3 English Channel feeder 4 Heavy British weights 5 Bismarck’s realm 6 A dog’s age 7 Roman Empire invader 8 Ceded a seat 9 School in Poughkeepsie 10 Calligrapher’s

purchase 11 Designer item in 52-Down 12 Water vessel 13 Depend (on) 21 Certain literary device 22 Arrow shooter of myth 26 Ship timber 28 The boy who cried wolf, essentially 29 Tropical pudding bases 31 What Italians used to pay in 32 “The Facts of Life” housemother Garrett 33 Old Apple computer 34 Shakespeare could have bathed in it 35 Preppy top 37 Actress Tyne

40 Oblong tomato variety 42 Grumpy expression 44 Big cheese in Athens 45 More out of one’s gourd 48 Existing at birth 50 Wipe from memory 52 Vail alternative 54 Farm units 55 Some Indian music pieces 56 Said a mouthful 57 Designer Hugo 58 Voyaging, in a way 60 Land of the leprechauns 61 ___ fide 63 Serpent’s mark?

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