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Lane expansion on Lindsey st. delayed Wider roadway to be completed in eight weeks CYDNIE NEAL

Campus Reporter

Construction on Lindsey Street and east of Jenkins Avenue is slightly behind schedule but will be completed in an estimated eight weeks, a project coordinator said.

When the construction is completed, commuters to campus will have access to a four-lane roadway with ten feet sidewalks on both sides

on the street, Scott Sturtz, City of Norman capital projects engineer, said.

“The final outcome will have a positive impact on all commuters using Lindsey Street from Jenkins to the railroad tracks to access the campus,” Sturtz said. “With the addition on the four-lane roadway, let us hope that the congestion on Lindsey will taper off and be an easier roadway to drive down.”

Though construction has fallen behind schedule, according to the proposed construction timetable, delays have been minimal,

Sturtz said.

“These minor issues have required coordination between the city, OU and the contractor that have resulted in short-term delays,” Sturtz said.

There have not been any other major issues resulting in significant delays or time being added to the project, Sturtz said.

Lindsey Street construction began June 13.

The construction has impacted traffic on Lindsey Street, but the roadway has remained open since a new bridge structure was

completed south of the Duck Pond to accommodate car and bicycle commuters, Sturtz said.

“There may be slight delays due to the project for those commuting to campus by car through the construction area,” Sturtz said.

“Pedestrians and cyclists have most likely been the groups impacted, though we have tried during the construction to accommodate these groups.”

Despite the delays, roadway construction still is

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Construction workers pave the road Tuesday. The city of norman consee ROADS page 2 tinues to make progress on the project to widen Lindsey street.

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Robert Meiners, center, strikes up converations with students Wednesday at the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s food court. Meiners is known for being very outgoing with the students. Meiners has worked for OU for 10 years and said he balances his social time with his work time.

Union worker sweeps up with a smile OU’s longest employed custodian loves his job

Among the tables and trays of the Oklahoma Memorial Union food court, custodian Robert Meiners quickly wipes the tables CONNOR SULLIVAN and sweeps the floors — always Campus Reporter with a smile.

Born an average child, Meiners, You may not know his name, but chances are he remembers 48, has had all but the average life. At 2 years old, he was hit yours if you’ve talked to him.

by a semi-trailer truck while in the street in his home state of Louisiana, Meiners said. Because of the accident, his brain suffered irreversible damage.

However, Meiners said he never lets the accident or people bring him down.

“He is an inspiration to me

and everybody else that knows him”, drama sophomore Matthew Percival said.

He still has an amazing memory and can remember people’s full names, where they work, where they live and where their

protest

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum will visit Oklahoma City and Tulsa today, according to the event calendar posted on his campaign website.

Santorum will host a rally at 9 a.m. at the H&H Shooting Sports Complex at 400 South Vermont, Suite 110 in Oklahoma City before traveling to Tulsa for a 1:30 p.m. rally a t t h e Ma b e e C e n t e r south entrance at 7777 S. Lewis Ave., according to the agenda posted on his campaign website.

S a n t o r u m i s a f o rmer U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania who will appear on the Oklahoma Republican primary ballot Tuesday, March 6.

He is one of the four Republican candidates still campaigning for his party’s nomination for the presidency, and one of three candidates to win a primary this year.

Thus far he has earned victories in the Iowa, Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri primaries.

His three principle competitors for the nomination are Mitt Romney , Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul.

Romney has won New Hampshire, Florida and Nevada, and Gingrich won South Carolina.

Paul has yet to earn a first-place finish.

Cydnie Neal, Campus Reporter

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Strikers picket company on campus Exchange students Workers march over low wages, lacking benefits KATHLEEN EVANS

assistant Campus editor

About a dozen protestors donning fluorescent green vests and white picket signs circled outside Headington Hall today to protest a company participating in oncampus construction.

P ro t e s t o r s w e re w i t h Carpenters Local Union No. 329 in Oklahoma City, a group that protests for fair wages for workers, according to representatives.

The construction company Green Country Interiors does not provide standard wages for its employees, including no health-care benefits or pension packages, said a representative who identified himself only as

Lester.

The union is currently in legal disputes with the company.

The union has also been to sites in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, and this is its first time in Norman, Lester said.

Construction began on Headington Hall, the new residence hall at Jenkins and L inds e y streets, in spring 2011.

In March 2011, the Regents approved Flintco to manage and contract construction of the site, according to March 23 minutes.

Workers were not part of the construction project on the hall, Lester said.

The protestors represent a union issue, not a protest against the project or the selected contractors, OU spokesman Michael Nash said.

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Campus

Laney Ellisor, campus editor Kathleen Evans, assistant campus editor Chris Miller, assistant campus editor dailynews@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666

meiners: Custodian wants people to be happy

Today around campus A lecture, “What we know, what we think we know, and what we do not know about Climate Change,” as part of a Presidential Dream Course with Barrien Moore, will take place from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Rober Kerr Auditorium at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History.

A concert featuring Kale Hunter and Bryce Merritt will take place from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Beaird Lounge of the Oklahoma Memorial Union. The event is Valentine’s Day themed and will provide free hot chocolate and coffee.

FRIDAY, FEB. 10 A steel pan festival featuring original compositions for steel pans will begin at 8 p.m. in Pitman Recital Hall of Catlett Music Center.

The festival will continue at 8 p.m. Saturday.

University Theatre’s “Mary Stuart” opens at 8 p.m. at the Weitzenhoffer Theatre in the Fine Arts Center. Additional performances are scheduled for 8 p.m. Feb. 11, 15, 16, 17 and 3 p.m. Feb. 12 and 18.

hometown is after one conversation, he said. He does everything he can to get to know every OU student.

“He is always so nice, saying hi to people all of the time,” University College freshman Taylor Lowe said.

He makes it his mission to always be nice and to say hi to people, even when they are too busy to say hi back, Meiners said.

“I know sometimes people get busy, and they don’t want to talk, but I still say hi,” Meiners said.

This attitude and outreach always makes her happy, drama sophomore Anna Schafer said.

“He is so nice, and he always puts a smile on my face whenever I walk through the union,” Schafer said.

Meiners understands people often lead hectic lives, but he said he wishes people would slow down and enjoy life.

“He always brightens my day up when he takes the time to talk,” Lowe said.

Meiners always is happy with what he has rather than dwelling on what he doesn’t have, he said. “ I k n ow m o s t p e o p l e don’t like Mondays, and most people get upset with school, but I’m just really happy to have my job,” Meiners said.

distancE: Voting while abroad poses challenges Continued from page 1 More than 20 countries are scheduled to have presidential elections in 2012, according to the International Foundation for Electoral Systems.

T h e re a re m o re t h a n 2,200 international and exchange students representing approximately 100 countries at OU, according to OU International Student Services. Many of those students are of voting age in their home countries and may be eligible to vote while studying in the U.S.

Continued from page 1

Thursday, February 9, 2012 •

Voting while abroad Voting is not so simple abroad, said Jim Antturi, an environmental economics exchange student from Finland. Registered voters have to go to a polling station, usually at an embassy or consulate, to vote in the Finnish presidential elections, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland.

Antturi said he was unable to vote in the first round held in January and the second held Sunday because the nearest place to vote was Colorado. If the trip had been shorter and more cost effective he would have voted, he

said.

“I didn’t want to spend $300 to buy a ticket to travel to Colorado,” Antturi said.

Despite being distanced from home, Daria Prokhorova, a Russian arts graduate student at OU, said voting is still important to international students like her.

“I’m planning to go to Texas to vote at the Russian Consulate, and I’ll try to get as many of my Russian friends to vote,” Prokhorova said.

Leila Hamaidi, a French exchange student studying international business, said considering the current social, economic and political state of France, she can’t think of not voting.

“I am a young voter, so I take my role very seriously because I feel it can be part of the big decisions,” Hamaidi said.

Russian chemistry graduate student Dalia Maraoulaite said she follows the U.S. elections more closely than the Russian ones but still wants to vote in the Russian presidential election.

“I’ve never been excited about elections in Russia,” Maraoulaite said. “I would vote only because I can’t complain if I don’t vote.”

Jiyoung Moon, a South

Korean exchange student, said although she isn’t interested in politics, she still wants to vote.

Moon can vote in the South Korean presidential elections in December if she returns to Korea, she said.

South Korean students can go to a consulate or mail in an absentee ballot, according to the “Korea Herald.”

If Moon is still at OU in December, she might not take the trouble to travel to an embassy or mail in her vote, but she would vote if there were an online method, she said.

Following elections at home Exchange students like Moon, who said she is less familiar with Western media, follow international election news through foreign news outlets.

Moon follows the Korean elections through Naver, a South Korean search portal, she said. The top searches listed on Naver usually involve a lot about upcoming elections.

Leila Hamaidi follows the French presidential election through French TV programs and online newspapers, she said.

However, home media

sources are not always accurate because of government influence on them, said Katherine Tsetsura, a professor of strategic communication and public relations at OU. Tsetsura follows the presidential elections in Russia by communicating with friends in Russia, utilizing social networks and following various Russian and Western media.

There are very few independent media in Russia, and many of them have started to self-censor news, Tsetsura said.

Ma r a o u l a i t e s a i d a l though she gets her news from Western sources like National Public Radio, she contacts other Russians to get their perspective.

“I prefer to discuss it with Russian people or people in Russia like my mom,” Maraoulaite said.

Social networks like Facebook and YouTube provide inter views and commentary and provide people with an alternative, Maraoulaite said.

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Robert Meiners cleans a table in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s food court Wednesday. Meiners said he wishes people would slow down and enjoy life more often instead of rushing through the day.

Meiners said he prides himself in his work as one of the longest employed custodians at OU, and he has no intention to leave OU anytime soon.

This year marks a decade of his employment at OU. Meiners said he loves his job more than anything because he is able to see OU students every day, and he

likes to make people happy while he works.

He wants people to do what makes them happy, like his job does for him, he said.

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Campus Briefs awards

Broadcasting students dominate the gold in state competition OU broadcasting students took home the gold in nearly a third of the award categories at a state broadcasting competition this week, according to a press release.

OU received 24 percent of all awards out of more than 200 entries in the Oklahoma Broadcast Education Association Undergraduate Student Award competition.

The University of Central Oklahoma and Oklahoma City University led behind OU with 19 percent and 11 percent of total awards received, respectively, according to a press release.

Categories included television directing, radio, hard news story and script writing. Among these categories, 27 OU students were recognized as winners.

Awards will be presented at the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters convention in early March. Results for the National Broadcasting Education Association awards should be announced in coming weeks.

Jake Morgan, Campus Reporter

Campus Corner

New restaurant to open on Campus Corner in mid-March The Campus Corner building vacated by La Luna should be operational once again by mid-March when Chimy’s opens for business, the restaurant’s owner said.

When Chimy’s opens at 529 Buchanan Ave., it will be the fourth restaurant run by the father and son duo who own the franchise, owner Kyle Wright said.

Chimy’s locations had previously been maintained exclusively in Texas, with locations in Lubbock, College Station, San Marcos and Fort Worth near the Texas Christian University campus, Wright said.

“The charming aspect of the campus and the brand awareness from students from Texas made us want to come to Oklahoma,” Wright said.

When completed, Chimy’s will be a taco stand style restaurant with a casual patio atmosphere, Wright said.

“There is still a lot of work to be done,” Wright said.

Cydnie Neal, Campus Reporter

Roads: Four lanes will ease commuter traffic Continued from page 1

Corrections The Oklahoma Daily has a commitment to serve readers with accurate coverage and analysis.

Readers should bring errors to The Daily’s attention by emailing dailynews@ou.edu.

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expected to come to a close in eight weeks if the weather cooperates, Sturtz said.

“The final project completion may linger longer for the completion of the

sidewalks, final grading and placing of grass in the landscape areas,” Sturtz said.”

When the project comes to a close, OU will be responsible for landscaping south of the Everest Indoor Training Center and in the center median, Sturtz said.

Sturtz said he did not know when this portion of the project will be completed.

It will be nice when the project is completed and the roadway is more easily navigated by car, University College freshman Kassidy

Bloss said.

“I drove down Lindsey (Street) last week at night coming back from [Raising Cane’s],” Bloss said. “The one narrow lane is scary to drive down, especially at night. It feels like you’re closed in from all sides.”

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Campus

Laney Ellisor, campus editor Kathleen Evans, assistant campus editor Chris Miller, assistant campus editor dailynews@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666

meiners: Custodian wants people to be happy

Today around campus A lecture, “What we know, what we think we know, and what we do not know about Climate Change,” as part of a Presidential Dream Course with Barrien Moore, will take place from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Rober Kerr Auditorium at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History.

A concert featuring Kale Hunter and Bryce Merritt will take place from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Beaird Lounge of the Oklahoma Memorial Union. The event is Valentine’s Day themed and will provide free hot chocolate and coffee.

FRIDAY, FEB. 10 A steel pan festival featuring original compositions for steel pans will begin at 8 p.m. in Pitman Recital Hall of Catlett Music Center.

The festival will continue at 8 p.m. Saturday.

University Theatre’s “Mary Stuart” opens at 8 p.m. at the Weitzenhoffer Theatre in the Fine Arts Center. Additional performances are scheduled for 8 p.m. Feb. 11, 15, 16, 17 and 3 p.m. Feb. 12 and 18.

hometown is after one conversation, he said. He does everything he can to get to know every OU student.

“He is always so nice, saying hi to people all of the time,” University College freshman Taylor Lowe said.

He makes it his mission to always be nice and to say hi to people, even when they are too busy to say hi back, Meiners said.

“I know sometimes people get busy, and they don’t want to talk, but I still say hi,” Meiners said.

This attitude and outreach always makes her happy, drama sophomore Anna Schafer said.

“He is so nice, and he always puts a smile on my face whenever I walk through the union,” Schafer said.

Meiners understands people often lead hectic lives, but he said he wishes people would slow down and enjoy life.

“He always brightens my day up when he takes the time to talk,” Lowe said.

Meiners always is happy with what he has rather than dwelling on what he doesn’t have, he said. “ I k n ow m o s t p e o p l e don’t like Mondays, and most people get upset with school, but I’m just really happy to have my job,” Meiners said.

distancE: Voting while abroad poses challenges Continued from page 1 More than 20 countries are scheduled to have presidential elections in 2012, according to the International Foundation for Electoral Systems.

T h e re a re m o re t h a n 2,200 international and exchange students representing approximately 100 countries at OU, according to OU International Student Services. Many of those students are of voting age in their home countries and may be eligible to vote while studying in the U.S.

Continued from page 1

Thursday, February 9, 2012 •

Voting while abroad Voting is not so simple abroad, said Jim Antturi, an environmental economics exchange student from Finland. Registered voters have to go to a polling station, usually at an embassy or consulate, to vote in the Finnish presidential elections, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland.

Antturi said he was unable to vote in the first round held in January and the second held Sunday because the nearest place to vote was Colorado. If the trip had been shorter and more cost effective he would have voted, he

said.

“I didn’t want to spend $300 to buy a ticket to travel to Colorado,” Antturi said.

Despite being distanced from home, Daria Prokhorova, a Russian arts graduate student at OU, said voting is still important to international students like her.

“I’m planning to go to Texas to vote at the Russian Consulate, and I’ll try to get as many of my Russian friends to vote,” Prokhorova said.

Leila Hamaidi, a French exchange student studying international business, said considering the current social, economic and political state of France, she can’t think of not voting.

“I am a young voter, so I take my role very seriously because I feel it can be part of the big decisions,” Hamaidi said.

Russian chemistry graduate student Dalia Maraoulaite said she follows the U.S. elections more closely than the Russian ones but still wants to vote in the Russian presidential election.

“I’ve never been excited about elections in Russia,” Maraoulaite said. “I would vote only because I can’t complain if I don’t vote.”

Jiyoung Moon, a South

Korean exchange student, said although she isn’t interested in politics, she still wants to vote.

Moon can vote in the South Korean presidential elections in December if she returns to Korea, she said.

South Korean students can go to a consulate or mail in an absentee ballot, according to the “Korea Herald.”

If Moon is still at OU in December, she might not take the trouble to travel to an embassy or mail in her vote, but she would vote if there were an online method, she said.

Following elections at home Exchange students like Moon, who said she is less familiar with Western media, follow international election news through foreign news outlets.

Moon follows the Korean elections through Naver, a South Korean search portal, she said. The top searches listed on Naver usually involve a lot about upcoming elections.

Leila Hamaidi follows the French presidential election through French TV programs and online newspapers, she said.

However, home media

sources are not always accurate because of government influence on them, said Katherine Tsetsura, a professor of strategic communication and public relations at OU. Tsetsura follows the presidential elections in Russia by communicating with friends in Russia, utilizing social networks and following various Russian and Western media.

There are very few independent media in Russia, and many of them have started to self-censor news, Tsetsura said.

Ma r a o u l a i t e s a i d a l though she gets her news from Western sources like National Public Radio, she contacts other Russians to get their perspective.

“I prefer to discuss it with Russian people or people in Russia like my mom,” Maraoulaite said.

Social networks like Facebook and YouTube provide inter views and commentary and provide people with an alternative, Maraoulaite said.

More Online Visit OUDaily.com to read the complete story

Ricardo Patino/The Daily

Robert Meiners cleans a table in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s food court Wednesday. Meiners said he wishes people would slow down and enjoy life more often instead of rushing through the day.

Meiners said he prides himself in his work as one of the longest employed custodians at OU, and he has no intention to leave OU anytime soon.

This year marks a decade of his employment at OU. Meiners said he loves his job more than anything because he is able to see OU students every day, and he

likes to make people happy while he works.

He wants people to do what makes them happy, like his job does for him, he said.

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Campus Briefs awards

Broadcasting students dominate the gold in state competition OU broadcasting students took home the gold in nearly a third of the award categories at a state broadcasting competition this week, according to a press release.

OU received 24 percent of all awards out of more than 200 entries in the Oklahoma Broadcast Education Association Undergraduate Student Award competition.

The University of Central Oklahoma and Oklahoma City University led behind OU with 19 percent and 11 percent of total awards received, respectively, according to a press release.

Categories included television directing, radio, hard news story and script writing. Among these categories, 27 OU students were recognized as winners.

Awards will be presented at the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters convention in early March. Results for the National Broadcasting Education Association awards should be announced in coming weeks.

Jake Morgan, Campus Reporter

Campus Corner

New restaurant to open on Campus Corner in mid-March The Campus Corner building vacated by La Luna should be operational once again by mid-March when Chimy’s opens for business, the restaurant’s owner said.

When Chimy’s opens at 529 Buchanan Ave., it will be the fourth restaurant run by the father and son duo who own the franchise, owner Kyle Wright said.

Chimy’s locations had previously been maintained exclusively in Texas, with locations in Lubbock, College Station, San Marcos and Fort Worth near the Texas Christian University campus, Wright said.

“The charming aspect of the campus and the brand awareness from students from Texas made us want to come to Oklahoma,” Wright said.

When completed, Chimy’s will be a taco stand style restaurant with a casual patio atmosphere, Wright said.

“There is still a lot of work to be done,” Wright said.

Cydnie Neal, Campus Reporter

Roads: Four lanes will ease commuter traffic Continued from page 1

Corrections The Oklahoma Daily has a commitment to serve readers with accurate coverage and analysis.

Readers should bring errors to The Daily’s attention by emailing dailynews@ou.edu.

Being

NUMBER ONE is nothing

expected to come to a close in eight weeks if the weather cooperates, Sturtz said.

“The final project completion may linger longer for the completion of the

sidewalks, final grading and placing of grass in the landscape areas,” Sturtz said.”

When the project comes to a close, OU will be responsible for landscaping south of the Everest Indoor Training Center and in the center median, Sturtz said.

Sturtz said he did not know when this portion of the project will be completed.

It will be nice when the project is completed and the roadway is more easily navigated by car, University College freshman Kassidy

Bloss said.

“I drove down Lindsey (Street) last week at night coming back from [Raising Cane’s],” Bloss said. “The one narrow lane is scary to drive down, especially at night. It feels like you’re closed in from all sides.”

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Consent is no laughing matter Our View: You are living in a rape culture. Don’t perpetuate it with rape jokes.

watching your surroundings.

It is a society that tells women if they don’t follow these rules, they will be raped — like one in six of In its short life, the Facebook page OU Memes altheir fellow women, according to the Rape, Abuse ready has gathered over 4,500 fans and a constant and Incest National Network. And it is a society that stream of submissions. If you go to OU and use ignores the one in 33 men who have been raped as Facebook, there’s a good chance your news feed is well. overrun by these OU-specific Internet jokes.

Rape culture is a society that accepts rape Some are clever; some seem to miss as an inevitability, that teaches only some The Our View the point entirely. Predictably, some have is the majority types of people get raped, that ignores the opinion of crossed the line into offensive and started prevalence of rape.

The Daily’s angry comment arguments (greeks vs. GDIs, Rape culture is our culture. And by mak10-member anyone?). But some in particular have gone ing it something worthy of laughing at — by editorial board beyond the realm of “bad but true” or “picknormalizing it, by ridiculing consent and ing a fight” into completely unacceptable. down-playing the objective and innate horOne particular meme showed a picture of the ror of it — rape jokes allow that culture to continue.

“Sheltered College Freshman” with the words “First When you, thinking it’s “just a joke,” laugh or fail to night partying in college atmosphere. Gets roofied. object, you implicitly indicate you support it.

Gangbanged.”

The fact that you can make a rape joke — and The comments below the picture are a tangled ar- even, in many settings, be relatively certain someone gument between those decrying the joke as indefen- will laugh — is itself the clearest evidence we live in a sible and those championing the poster’s right to a culture that perpetuates and protects rape. “sense of humor.” And it wasn’t the only rape-related This is not an issue of us needing to get a sense of meme sparking similar arguments. humor. We appreciate humor as much as the next We want you to know this one important truth: It is person and understand that pushing boundaries never OK to make a rape joke. and addressing taboos is an important part of that.

No, they’re not funny. No, it isn’t “dark humor.” It It’s also not a free-speech issue. You are, and should isn’t clever or edgy or rebellious against the “politiremain, legally allowed to say anything you want cally correct” mainstream. that doesn’t incite violence.

By joking about rape, you’re trivializing the issue.

But if this nation is going to fight rape, it has to fight One of the great powers of humor is minimizing the assumptions, myths and ways of communicating fears, making them seem smaller and conquering that perpetuate it. The only way to do that is for every the monsters by laughing at them. person who is against rape to stand up and fight But rape is one monster we should never work to these things where they occur: in our daily, seemmake smaller. Our society has done just that for too ingly harmless conversations. Even (especially) on a long. Only by facing the horrible reality of rape can silly Facebook page. we fight it. The most important step to fighting rape We’re calling on all our fellow Sooners to stand up is ending what activists call “rape culture.” against rape, rape culture, rape lies and rape jokes.

Rape culture is a society that ignores, minimizes, OU should be a community that gives more than laughs at and, by extension, encourages rape. It is a just lip service to the idea that a woman’s body is her society that blames victims of rape because they flirt- own, that consent is necessary and that the responed, wore the wrong thing, went to the wrong party, sibility for rape lies solely with the rapist — Sooners slept around or in some other way indicated they should live it with their actions every day. “wanted it.” It is a society that protects rapists.

In the end, rape jokes are a part of a system that It is a society that tells women they must be careful protects and enables rapists. And if that doesn’t disnot to walk alone, not to walk at night, not to drink gust you, horrify you and make you consider the eftoo much, not to wear that outfit and not to make fect of your actions, maybe you’re not as anti-rape as eye contact with a stranger. To get a roommate, get you thought. a dog, take a self-defense class. To always be alert, always be prepared, on guard, watching your back, Comment on this at OUDaily.com

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he state of OPINION COLUMNIST Washington passed a marriage equality bill Wednesday. It is the seventh state in the country that has full legal recognition for same-sex relationships.

All this work is coming on the heels of New York Zachary Carrel passing such a bill, but this zachary.d.carrel-1@ou.edu momentum is beginning to trouble anti-equality organizations.

In New Jersey, legislators are trying to put together a bill that would mirror New York’s marriage equality bill.

Unfortunately, the governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, has stated that he will veto the bill so that a referendum can be sent to the people for them to decide on the issue.

New Jersey is a state where direct democracy and referendums are not an automatic part of the system. The legislature has to sanction such an event before a referendum can be sent to the people.

Christie made this statement so he did not have to politically deal with this issue, but he brings up the idea of referendums as a way for the people to be involved in civil rights.

However, Christie is forgetting his own state’s history with referendums and civil rights.

In 1915, the New Jersey legislature sent a women’s suffrage bill to the people, but not surprisingly the male population voted it down. This shows that these two parts of our democratic system are not compatible. The U.S. Constitution lays down certain rights that cannot be stripped from any individual. The right to marry is one of those rights.

The Supreme Court ruled that marriage was a fundamental right when it struck down laws in the south that forbade interracial marriage — and if referendums had been sent to the people on desegregation, do you think the majority white populations in the south would have voted to change their system?

The idea is simple: We are given certain rights in this country that cannot be taken away by the majority. Our Constitution does all it can to protect the freedoms of the many minorities of this country.

Anti-equality organizations have used this type of direct democracy to ban same-sex marriage in 28 states, including Oklahoma, which makes it one of the largest efforts to subvert the rights of a single minority in this country.

Their main tool to fight the marriage equality movement is based on the belief that public polling is on their side. Maine and California allowed gay marriage in some form, but those laws were overturned by referendums sent to the people.

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered population has had to watch as state after state makes laws and sends out referendums that ban us from being able to pursue the happiness our nation has established as a birthright.

In the coming months, more states will pass marriage equality laws, and the certain groups will try to overturn that progress with a great tool of American democracy.

This column is not meant to look down on direct democracy like referendums. There are many issues across the country where this option is best for making sound democratic decisions, but when it comes to civil liberties, this type of process only can hold our society back.

Christie’s comments showcase the problems the LGBT community and other minorities face when direct democracy practices are used to protect the views and sensibilities of the majority.

That is not the way our system works, and as we move forward on these issues, the political discourse will come to understand that fact.

On Tuesday, the 9th Circuit Court of appeals, which includes California and eight other Western states, ruled that Proposition 8 was not constitutional. This most likely will take the case against referendum bans on marriage equality, like California’s Prop 8, to the Supreme Court.

Once it finally has made it there, the justices will have to decide once and for all the issue of gay marriage. I have every hope the justices will come down on the side of marriage equality and rule that these referendum bans are onerous laws that are meant to target and oppress a minority group, and that they cannot be upheld without legitimate constitutional justification.

Zachary Carrel is an international studies and anthropology senior.

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hy do so OPINION COLUMNIST many individuals forgo the process of coming to the U.S. legally?

I recently undertook the task of researching the process of becoming a U.S. citizen. I wanted Janna Gentry to understand why, janna.f.gentry-1@ou.edu according to a study by the Department of Homeland Security, 10.8 million undocumented immigrants were in the U.S. in 2010.

What is it about the citizenship process that deters so many people?

When I began asking this question, most people said they decided not to go through the process because it was long. However, no one ever explained to me why the process was so long.

After much research, it turns out the process is lengthy and begins with immigrants applying for a Permanent Resident Card (also known as a green card).

After, and if, they receive a permanent resident card, they must stay in the U.S. for five consecutive years unless they are married to a U.S. citizen or are in the armed forces.

Only after they have completed this time in the U.S. can they begin the actual naturalization process.

The entire citizenship process is one in which the applicant follows the steps of naturalization and waits to hear back from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. The applicant is powerless over the amount of time that is spent processing their case, and they must clear all of the hurdles before moving onto the next step.

The USCIS does not give an estimated amount of time that it takes to complete the naturalization process, but it does say that “it would like to decrease the time it takes to an average of six months after the filing of the (initial) form,” indicating that the process is not quite as efficient as the government would like it to be.

After confirming that the naturalization process was long, I questioned why it was this way. Doesn’t our government want to welcome into its arms the tired, poor, “huddled masses”?

The answer is that it wants to welcome the right kind of “huddled masses” and the process for becoming a citizen is making sure the immigrants who become naturalized meet the government’s standards for being worthy of citizenship.

Great pains are taken by the government in making sure that applicants are moral (according to Immigration Services, this means free of a criminal past), educated in the English language and American history and government and are willing to take on the responsibilities that are required of an American citizen.

I can understand the hesitance many undocumented immigrants have in investing the time and money into becoming a U.S. citizen, but I also deeply respect immigrants who make it through the process.

Born citizens would do well to consider the standards immigrants must meet to become citizens. Many Americans are failing at the standards that for others are the very basis for their citizenship.

If new citizens are expected to live up to a certain standard, why should we expect anything less for ourselves?

Janna Gentry is an English education senior.

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Gay marriage bill passes State lawmakers voted in favor of same-sex unions OLYMPIA, Wash. — State lawmakers voted to approve gay marriage Wednesday, setting the stage for the state to become the seventh in the nation to allow same-sex couples to wed.

The Washington House passed the bill on a 55-43 vote. Supporters in the public viewing galleries stood and cheered as many on the Democratic side of the House floor hugged after the vote.

The state Senate approved the measure last week, and the bill now goes to Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire, who is expected to sign it into law next week.

Gregoire watched the vote with the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Ed Murray, who is gay and has sponsored gay rights legislation for years. Murray said the vote marked “a day that will be remembered in the history of this state.”

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Rep. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, (left) is congratulated by Rep. Reuven Carlyle, D-Seattle, (center) after the House voted to legalize gay marriage in Washington state Wednesday in Olympia, Wash. Gov. Chris Gregoire is likely to sign the bill next week.

Gregoire issued a statement after the vote, saying it was “a major step toward completing a long and important journey to end discrimination based on sexual orientation.”

Democratic Rep. Jamie Pedersen, a gay lawmaker from Seattle who has

sponsored gay rights bills for several years, said he and his partner have been grateful for the rights that exist under the state’s domestic partnership laws but such protections are an inadequate substitute for marriage.

Several Republicans argued against the bill, saying

it goes against the tradition of marriage. Rep. Jay Rodne said the measure severs the cultural, historical and legal underpinnings of marriage.

Despite the action, gay couples can’t begin walking down the aisle just yet.

The proposal would take effect 90 days after the session ends next month but opponents have promised to fight gay marriage with a ballot measure that would allow voters to overturn it.

If opponents gather enough signatures to take their fight to the ballot box, the law would be put on hold pending the outcome of a November election.

Opponents must turn in more than 120,000 signatures by June 6 if they want to challenge the proposed law.

Otherwise gay couples could wed starting in June.

Same-sex marriage also has the backing of seve ra l p ro m i n e nt Pa c i f i c Northwest businesses, including Microsoft, Nike and Starbucks.

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Teenager receives life sentence for killing 9-year-old girl A central Missouri teenager has been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in the killing of a 9-year-old girl.

Alyssa Bustamante was sentenced Wednesday in Cole County Circuit Court. She pleaded guilty in January to second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the October 2009 stabbing and strangling of her neighbor, Elizabeth Olten, in St. Martins, a small town west of Jefferson City.

Bustamante, who was 15 at the ALYSSA time, now is 18.

BUSTAMANTE Bustamante had been charged with first-degree murder. By pleading guilty to the lesser charges she avoided a trial and the possibility of spending her life in an adult prison with no chance of release.

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Facebook discloses details on bonuses Executives eligible for biannual bonus up to 45 percent base salaries, earnings NEW YORK — Facebook’s top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, are eligible for twice-a-year bonuses of up to 45 percent of their base salaries and other earnings, according to a Wednesday regulatory filing.

Facebook Inc. said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it will pay Zuckerberg,

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Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg will receive a base salary of $300,000.

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David Ebersman will continue to serve as chief financial officer and he will get a base salary of $300,000.

M i k e S c h r o e p f e r, Facebook’s vice president of engineering, will receive a base salary of $275,000.

Both he and Ebersman have a target bonus of 45 percent.

That said, the bulk of MARK the windfall ZUCKERBERG Zuckerberg and others will earn will be in the form of Facebook stock they

own. The company said last week it plans to raise $5 billion in its IPO. If all goes as planned, Facebook could be worth as much as $100 billion.

Another executive, Vice P re s i d e nt a n d G e n e ra l Counsel Theodore Ullyot, will receive a base salary of $275,000, according to the filing. He will also get a retention bonus of $400,000 per year for five years, as well as restricted stock and stock options.

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Sandusky seeks State College jury for child sex abuse trial Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky wants jurors in his child sex abuse trial to be chosen from the community where he lives.

Attorney Joe Amendola filed court documents Wednesday opposing a request by the state attorney general’s office to bring in out-of-county jurors.

Amendola says publicity about Sandusky’s case has been so pervasive that jurors from other counties will also have been saturated with news coverage. He says there’s no better place than Centre County to pick jurors for Sandusky’s trial.

The filings also suggested that a trial delay might be the best way to address the case’s intense publicity.

Sandusky is accused of abusing 10 boys over a 15year span. He denies the allegations.

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Sophomore Whitney Ritchie stands ready as her doubles partner, senior Marie-Pier Huet, serves the ball during OU’s Jan. 21 match against Drake. Ritchie and Huet are undefeated this season.

“I think they will get better,� Mullins said. “They need to get used to losing that doubles point and coming out and understanding Year: Sophomore that doubles isn’t our stronHometown: gest point this year. We’re OKC just going to have to win a lot Season stats: more singles matches.�

Ritchie Arkansas has not shared is 3-3 in O U ’s re c e n t w o e s. T h e singles this Razorbacks are currently season and on a 4-game winning streak a perfect 6-0 at the No. 1 since losing to Nebraska on doubles position with senior Marie-Pier Huet.

Jan. 28. Most recently, the team recorded a dominant Mullins said fighting for sin- 5-2 win over No. 53 Kansas gles points is something his State for its fifth win of the team will have to get better year. at as the season progresses.

The Razorbacks are led by

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the play of junior Claudine Paulson. Paulson won her sixth straight match Sunday afternoon, and has yet to go to a third set in any of her singles matches this year.

She is a perfect 6-0 at the No. 4 singles position for the Razorbacks.

After facing the Razorbacks at 11 a.m. Friday, the Sooners will stay in Fayetteville, Ark. for a match with No. 25ranked Yale. It will be a trying weekend for the Sooners and a good chance for the young team to gain more experience in what are almost certain to be two very tightly contested matches.

Sooners to face No. 1-ranked Arkansas Dillon Phillips Sports Reporter

For the second time in three weeks, OU’s men’s and women’s track and field teams will travel to the University of Arkansas.

OU will be pitted against Arkansas’s top-ranked men and fourth-ranked women, as well as a stable of other toptier teams, when it competes in the Tyson Invitational this weekend.

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coming off a record-setting performance in New York City, where they broke a school record in the Distance Medley relay at the New Balance Invitational.

OU’s relay team of senior Eric Harasyn, sophomore Ethan Baker, junior Riley Masters and senior Frezer Legesse finished second with a time of 9:30.13, besting the program’s previous mark by over a second. “Honestly, that was one of the best experiences I’ve had in track and field,� Masters said.

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Standout performers for the women’s team included senior sprinters Shelleyeka Rolle and Sherine Wells, in the 200-meter dash.

Running a 24.47, Wells barely missed the cut for the finals, and with a time of

25.31, Rolle set a new personal record.

However, Oklahoma’s women will be one runner short in Fayetteville as senior Jessica Engel will be competing at the Flotrack Husky Invitational in Seattle.

A second-team AllAmerican and Big 12 Champion in 2011, Engel is ranked 24th in the 3,000-meter run.

The Sooners return home next weekend to host the Sooner Invitational before traveling to College Station for the Big 12 Indoor Championships on Feb. 24 and 25.

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After coming off a lackluster finish in last year’s Women’s College World Series, the Oklahoma softball team renews its hunt for the national title against Cal State-Bakersfield at 1:15 p.m. Friday at the Sportco Classic in Las Vegas.

The Sooners are ranked No. 5 in the USA Today preseason poll and were picked to finish second in the Big 12 by conference coaches.

Oklahoma returns 12 letter winners from last year’s team that finished with a 43-19 record and earned the program’s sixth WCWS appearance. Although the Sooners couldn’t produce the runs they needed to beat their WCWS opponents, last year’s experience as one of the final eight teams is something coach Patty Gasso hopes will ignite this year’s squad. “What I feel is that the experience at the WCWS has really elevated the game — the maturity — but also the passion for wanting things a little bit more,� Gasso said. “I really enjoy working with this team every day. It’s a very easy job right now because they’re all on the same page and have the same goals and missions.�

Returning junior All-American battery mates, Keilani Ricketts and Jessica Shults, plan to pick up where they left off last season as OU’s dominating threats on the mound and behind the plate.

Ricketts and Shults also were named to the preseason USA Softball Collegiate Player of Year Watch list last week, the second consecutive year the pitcher-catcher combo has been nominated to the prestigious group.

As one of the vocal leaders on the team who leads by voice and action, Shults said this team is hungry to get back to the WCWS this season. “We know how good we are, and we want to get back,�

Shults said. “Hopefully (we’ll) have an opportunity to win the national championship because we have the talent this year and our chemistry is awesome. Just the taste isn’t enough; we want to get more.�

The team also introduces six freshmen to the roster this season, including Australian standout pitcher Georgia Casey and 2010 High School UnderArmour All-American Lauren Chamberlain. While Gasso was quick to admit all of the team’s newcomers have their own skill set to bring to the team, she said she has been impressed by how soon she could start rotating the freshmen into the lineup. “The freshmen have come and really stepped in quickly,� Gasso said, who is entering her 18th season at OU. “They’ll make a big impact for us. They don’t play like freshmen, and that’s the beauty of them right now.�

That kind of impact will be needed after the team lost three starters to graduation last season — former team captain Chana’e Jones (.500 slugging percentage), former infielder Dani Dobbs (.561 slugging percentage) and former outfielder Haley Nix (.419 slugging percentage).

And OU will need underclassmen talent to step up in clutch situations because the Sooners have one of the nation’s toughest schedules, including contests against 11 preseason top 25 teams.

Apart from competing in a highly touted season opener against No. 22 LSU on March 2, OU winds down the month with contests against No. 15 Michigan and No.12 Washington in the Judi Garman Classic in California. The Sooners also will face Baylor, Texas A&M and Iowa State on the road but will get Kansas, Texas Tech, Missouri and Texas at home. The Bedlam rivalry kicks off this season March 28 at Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City before a regular-season home-and-away series.

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After nearly a week off, the OU women’s tennis team will once again hit the court at 11 a.m. Friday in Fayetteville, Ark. to take on the No. 32-ranked Arkansas Razorbacks.

The Sooners are coming off their second loss of the year, a 5-2 defeat to No. 20 Tulsa. However, coach David Mullins said he was actually quite pleased with his team’s performance in the loss.

Though the final score seems lopsided, the Sooners were within a few points from turning the match around and having a shot at an upset. “I want to feel every match that there’s a period, even if it’s ten or fifteen minutes, that I see there’s a chance we can win,� Mullins said. “And I did feel like we had a shot at it, so overall I was happy.�

The Sooners fought hard for the doubles point against the Golden Hurricane but came up just short. After sophomore Whitney Wofford and freshman Nicole Long were defeated at the No. 2 doubles position, senior Marie-Pier Huet and sophomore Whitney Ritchie finished off their opponents at one doubles to immediately tie the match back up.

All eyes were then on the No. 3 doubles court.

Freshman Abbi Melrose and sophomore Mia Lancaster played a very long match, but Tulsa’s Michelle Farley and Isaura Enrique were able to grind out the 8-4 victory. Tulsa had the 1-0 lead, and never looked back.

OU was only able to take two of its singles matches, with Melrose winning at the No. 4 position and Long coming out victorious at the No. 6 spot.

All of OU’s losses came in close matches, though. The Sooners simply weren’t able to close out their opponents when they had the chance.

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James Corley Night Editor

Many of the athletes growing up in Oklahoma dream of becoming Sooners, but most will never make it on an OU roster.

But a few do.

Sophomore gymnasts Ma d i s o n M o o r i n g a n d Hayden Ward are the only home-grown Sooners on OU’s roster this season.

Though both entertained the idea of going somewhere else for college, they said they ended up where they really wanted to be.

“I couldn’t imagine being anywhere else,” said Mooring, who is from Sallisaw. “I always loved Oklahoma. It was my first choice.”

She also was recruited by Nebraska and visited the campus, but she said it didn’t feel right and she couldn’t escape the idea of being a Sooner.

“It was really cool to think that I could be [an OU gymnast],” she said.

Ward is a truly hometown athlete because she grew up in Norman.

Though being immersed by a school as much as Normanites are by OU can drive some people away, she said something about Oklahoma was stuck in her mind, so this is where she wanted to be.

“I grew up around Oklahoma gymnastics,” she said. “It was always my dream to be part of the women’s team.”

Although staying close to home can be a burden for some college students who just want to escape, OU coach K.J. Kindler said it can be a real benefit for gymnasts who go to in-state colleges.

Above: Sophomore Madison Mooring performs her floor routine during a meet last season.

The Sallisaw native is one of only two Oklahomans on the Sooner women’s gymnastics team this year.

Left: Sophomore Hayden Ward performs her floor routine during a meet last season. Ward, who grew up in Norman, said she always wanted to be a part of the OU women’s gymnastics program.

Photos by James Corley/The Daily

“Their high school friends get the opportunity to see what they’ve been doing their whole lives,” Kindler said. “A lot of their friends probably have no idea what they’ve been putting their

time into.”

Gymnasts train in club programs, so most of the time and effort they put into being gymnasts isn’t as visible as other high school sports. But once gymnasts

reach the college level, things are different.

“For [Mooring and Ward] to have the opportunity to have friends see them in the spotlight, I think, is very special,” Kindler said.

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Intramural Update: Dodgeball Entries | 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. at the Huston Huffman Fitness Center front desk. Sign your team up for dodgeball. FREE if all members of the team live in OU Housing or $30.00 per team. Games begin the evening of February 17. For more information visit http://www.ou.edu/far or call Jonathan Dewhirst, (405) 325-3053.

Friday, Feb. 10 Art “a la Carte”: 2nd Friday Circuit of Art | 6:30 p.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art provides live music and independent films by the deadCENTER Film Festival. Admission to Art “a la Carte” is FREE and open to all ages. Live music and films run 6:30-8:30 p.m. Films should be considered for mature audiences only.

CAC Dance Marathon Benefit Concert | 9 p.m. at the Opolis, tickets can be purchased at ticketstorm.com: CAC Concert Series and Opolis Productions presents Pretty Black Chairs & Burning Hotels. Proceeds benefit Children’s Miracle Network and Oklahoma Children’s Hospital Foundation.

Norton Artist Series: Two Seconds, Steel Drum Duo | 8 p.m. in the Pitman Recital Hall, Catlett Music Center. Tickets are $5 for students, OU faculty/staff and seniors and $8 for adults. Call the Fine Arts Box Office, (405) 325-4101, for more information.

New Century Ensemble | 8 p.m. in Sharp Concert Hall, Catlett Music Center. Tickets are $5 for students, OU faculty/staff and seniors and $8 for adults. Call the Fine Arts Box Office, (405) 325-4101, for more information.

FREE Movie: “Breaking Dawn Part 1” | 6, 9 p.m. and midnight in Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Come and see this blockbuster, courtesy of the Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council.

Blood Love Chocolate: Chocolate Factory and Twilight | 7-9 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union Food Court. The Union programming Board presents our Chocolate Factory! Come and enjoy free chocolate themed foods, a photo booth, Twilight trivia and a vampire costume contest. There’s ALWAYS SOMETHING at the Union, www.ou.edu/ upb.

PLAYER PROFILE Madison Mooring

PLAYER PROFILE Hayden Ward

Year: Sophomore Hometown: Sallisaw Notes: Mooring was named the OU Newcomer of the Year in 2011.

Year: Sophomore Hometown: Norman Notes: Ward earned the Clutch Performance of the Year for her bars performance in the 2011 NCAA Regional.

Feb. 9 - Feb. 12

Thursday, Feb. 9 Video Chat: 30 Minutes with Kiki Smith | 4 p.m. at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. After a 30-minute talk by Professor Susan Caldwell, the audience will go live with contemporary artist Kiki Smith for a chance to hear about her artwork and ask questions.

Smith will be live for 30 minutes. To learn more about Smith’s work, please visit www. ou.edu/fjjma.

The OU women’s gymnastics team will face Iowa State and Southeast Missouri State as part of an event created by Oklahoma alumnus Bart Connor.

The former Sooner men’s gymnast and Olympic gold medalist began the Bart & Nadia Sports and Health Festival with his wife, Nadia Comaneci — also a former Olympic gold-winning gymnast — to promote healthy lifestyles and gymnastics in Oklahoma.

The Perfect 10 Challenge gymnastics meet is one of the marquee events of the health festival and will pit OU against the Cyclones and Redhawks at 7 p.m. Friday at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City.

OU coach K.J. Kindler said the Sooners are honored to be part of the health festival.

“Our team definitely stands for being healthy,” she said. “It’s something, I think, our athletes have lived their lives doing, and it’s something they would like to pass down to children. They want to be role models for children, to show them the right path and how to make good decisions to lead a healthy lifestyle.”

Sophomore Hayden Ward said the team also hopes to use the meet to attract new fans to OU gymnastics and get them to come to Norman for a meet or two this season.

“It’s an opportunity for us to get away from Norman but still, at the same time, be around our home area,” she said.

Ward said the opportunity to compete in Oklahoma City will be a good chance for local club gyms in the area to come watch as well, especially since Ward and sophomore Madison Mooring are Oklahoma-born gymnasts.

“It’s a big thing for them with us being from Oklahoma,” Ward said.

James Corley, Night Editor

Saturday, Feb. 11 OU Women’s Basketball: OU vs. Missouri | 2 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center.

2002 Final Four team reunion and post-game autographs. Admission is FREE with a valid OU I.D. Visit soonersports.com for more information.

OU Track: Oklahoma Christian Indoor Invitational | All day at the John Jacobs Track and Field Complex. Admission is FREE for OU students. Visit soonersports.com for more information.

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The Pink & Black Ball | 8 p.m.-midnight at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Natural History Museum. The Women’s Outreach Center is hosting a night of great music, dancing and fun! The Ball is an alcohol-free semi-formal featuring a live jazz band and DJ. Refreshments and food will be served. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door and are available at www.stubwire.com or through the Women’s Outreach Center. All proceeds benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

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Sunday, Feb. 12 OU Men’s Tennis: OU vs. Indiana | Noon at the Headington Family Tennis Center.

FREE admission. Visit soonersports.com for more information.

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Bikers, walkers on even ground E

ach morning, LIFE & ARTS COLUMNIST as soon as the Walker Center elevator hits the first floor, I plug my earbuds into my iPhone and press play on my “walking to class” playlist — yes, I have one of those. I open the doors Brooke Buckmaster into the bright morning brooke.n.buckmaster-1@ou.edu and start walking — let the brisk walk to Sarkeys Energy Center begin.

And then I go into my bubble. My bubble of simultaneously jamming out and texting — head down.

There would be no problem with my daily walking routine, except for one minor detail: the bikers.

Whether on foot or wheels, sharing the sidewalk with the other is not always the most cohesive of experiences.

The walkers get annoyed with the bikers, and the bikers in turn become agitated at the pedestrians.

So the cycle goes. No matter which party you belong to, the reality of it is no one can escape the roadside relationship these two must share on campus. So in an effort to make the trek to class more of a walk and less like a game of “Frogger,” welcome to sidewalk etiquette 101: The crash course on how to make it to class without the, well, crash.

For the bikers

biggest pet peeve is when bikers break through a crowd at high speeds.

“It’s so annoying when there’s a huge crowd of people and bikers are riding by really fast through them and don’t slow down,” Cantrell said. “They run the risk of running into people that are walking.”

Cutting walkers off is not only dangerous, but it also is rude. Weaving through the crowds can’t be fun, but it’s the price to pay for leaving an overcrowded bike lane.

Save the texting for another time: This one is kind of a no-brainer, but, like many things in the world, they have to be mentioned because, believe it or not, people do stupid things. Just like texting and driving, texting while biking makes a simple morning routine significantly more dangerous Communications sophomore and biker Geoffrey Freeman said he always is surprised by the number of students he sees texting while biking.

“No cell phones while riding your bike, I think that’s kind of obvious,” Freeman said.

Obvious or not, it happens every day. So take the advice of a fellow biker and save the texting for when your feet are on solid ground.

Like any good love-hate relationship, there is responsibility on both sides, and walkers have some improvements to make as well.

For the walkers

Look both ways: Most near-death-encounters with those on wheels Follow the speed limit: have been for one main reason: Not looking both ways Okay, so maybe there’s not a real speed before crossing the bike lane. If your path forces you to limit for bikers, but a normal speed is intersect the bike lane, look both ways. While you may assumed and should be respected. If be old enough not to hold someone’s hand when crossyou’re pedaling like you’re escaping ing the bike lane, looking both ways is a principle that all the crime scene from a murder you walkers are still accountable for. just committed, chances are you’re University College pedaling a bit too fast. Walkers are freshman David Sergent “People are crazy, they said he rides his bike traveling at the speed of a snail walk in the bike lane. to class everyday and compared to bikers. The faster you go, the more difficult it is to is continually frustratOne time I saw a girl maintain control amidst the ed by walkers’ lack of walk across the bike sea of people, and speed will awareness. intensify a crash.

“Stay off the bike trail lane without looking Multidisciplinary studies and look before you and it caused someone junior Tanner Cordell said he cross,” Sergent said. to almost wreck on walks to class every day, and These are easy roubiker speed is a constant tines that walkers another bike.” concern. should respect, espeGEOFFREY FREEMAN, “Mainly the speed they cially if you want the COMMUNICATIONS SOPHOMORE go through on the sidewalks bike riders to respect is the most annoying thing your portion of the about bikers,” Cordell said. sidewalk.

He has had several instances Avoid the bubble: where biker speeds made Remember my bubble: earphones, text messages, him uneasy, he said. “They head down? Avoid it. I can safely say that my behavior, weren’t paying attention and one I’m sure many of you are familiar with, only lends just came flying up behind me, itself to many of the accidents that occur between bikers and cut across in front of me,” and pedestrian. Remember, you are not the only one tryhe said. ing to make it to class on time.

Everyone is in a rush to get to “Look up, look around and look for other bikes,” class on time, just be aware that the Freeman said. “A lot of people are distracted, as I am faster you go, the more potential you guilty of also, but you just have to watch out for people have for a collision. who are distracted.”

Two halves don’t make a whole: He said most of the South Oval collisions he has seen The bike lane is definitely limited, so often involved a walker with their head down, not payit’s understandable that at times bikers may ing attention. venture out to the general walking area when Don’t invade: the bike lane is too crowded.

Last, but certainly not least: Don’t walk in However, if you do decide to do the bike lane.

“People have clipped this, be considerate of the groups of “People are crazy, they walk in the bike people walking. One of the most agilane,” Freeman said, “One time I saw a girl me in the elbows tating, and scary, things for walkers before because they walk across the bike lane without looking and is when a biker splits right through it caused someone to almost wreck on anare cutting as close other bike.” the middle of a group. Right when it seems a biker is going to plow into There is nothing more obnoxious — or poas they can, trying some walkers, they part like the Red tentially dangerous for that matter — than to pass me.”

Sea, just in time for the wheels to a walker who doesn’t care and walks in the zoom right between them. middle of the bike lane. It’s annoying for the CHRIS MASSEY University College freshman Chris UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FRESHMAN bikers because that is their designated ride Massey said he understands bikers space. If you want bikers to respect the walkneed to leave the bike lane, but there ing side of the South Oval, then walkers need needs to be more communication between the riders to respect the bike lane, plain and simple. and walkers.

Hopefully after this crash course in sidewalk etiquette, “The most annoying thing about bike riders is not that walkers and bikers alike can better share the sidewalk they ride on the sidewalk, because they need to get to and make their way to class collision-free. For all the class too,” Massey said. “What’s annoying is when they walkers out there, you don’t have the divine right to rule the sidewalk. And for the ones on wheels, respect the try to pass you without making any noises or anything. foot-trekkers.

People have clipped me in the elbows before because they are cutting in as close as they can, trying to pass me.”

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t only was recently that I was able to visit the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art for the first time. I not only was enchanted by the impressive collection of Native American art found in the Eugene B. Adkins collection housed there, but I also was disappointed to see the apparent lack of student attendance at the museum.

I was joined in the gallery by only two other couples in my time there. I was surprised by the low attendance, considering the resources the museum offers the campus, and the fact that it is free to students.

Heather Ahtone said the low attendance is a recent trend for the museum.

Ahtone is the assistant curator for Native American and Non-Western Art at the museum. She said they attribute it to the fact that much of the museum was closed for renovation the past two years, and students are not yet used to it being available in its entirety.

I was impressed not only by the quantity of the Native American art pieces housed in the collection, but by the quality of the pieces. Most of the pieces were created by

a key part of many Native American lifestyles and the trade ran in the family, passed down from mothers to daughters, Ahtone said.

She explained that because most Native American communities consider the earth to be a female entity, women were the ones granted the privilege to collect clay from it.

The earthy aspect of ceramics is inherent in many pieces of ancient art, she said. The connection with the earth is especially noticeable in the San Ildefonso pots — some left unglazed, showing the original color of Rio Grande clay with slight variations depending on the spot where it was dug out.

Ahtone said, although a literal translation for our word “art” is not found in many Astrud Reed/The Daily Native American tribes, their Dance of the Mountain Spirits I, a sculpture by artist Allan Houser, stands in the Eugene B. Adkins pottery was an expression of Collection at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art on Wednesday. Heather Ahtone was named the assistant their world and is a relevant curator to the exhibit on Feb. 1. insight into their culture for us today. southwestern artists, with Museum in Santa Fe, N.M. be beautiful in and of itself.

“We see the relationship a few notable exceptions Ahtone said.

Whether it was for use or for between their life forces and made in Oklahoma, Ahtone “I want people to una ceremony, it wasn’t meant our own,” she said. “Native said. It was this collection derstand what they are to stay on a shelf. It was an Americans not only apprecicoupled with her own ties to enjoying beyond the decoindigenous aesthetic to make ate that they have a life, but the Kiowa tribe that brought rative surface,” Ahtone things beautiful,” she said. they also appreciate the conher to OU from the Institute said. “Everything that we Many of the pieces are tribution that these animals of American Indian Arts make has the potential to various pots. Pottery was make to their life through

providing sustenance.”

Ahtone said one of the things she loves about the Native American art is the cultural influence behind each piece. The western idea that having an abundance of objects makes one rich is virtually unknown to Native American communities, she said. For them, reciprocity is core.

“Reciprocity means that you share what you have with others, and it is a mutual exchange. So, if you can make something beautiful it has a great value for both the maker and the recipient,” Ahtone said.

The idea that wealth is measured in the ability to give away is one of the many cultural values that makes the culture and its art so special, she said.

For students who have not yet experienced the Native American art at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, I encourage you to visit this incredible resource available to you, it is a wonderful example of a culture unlike our own.

Ana Todorova is a geology graduate student .

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Hunting for hidden treasures on the university grounds

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Geocaching.com is a website where people can set up a cache hunt. These hunts consist of finding a hidden container, filled with little trinkets from geocachers who have come before you. The etiquette is to leave a trinket of your own in the box before taking a trinket of past geocachers. For example, when I went geocaching, we took a sticker and a patch from the tin and left a book of matches and some coins.

This is to ensure people are not taking advantage of the little treasures.

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OU’s campus is home to four caches that are a part of the OU Cache Series on geocaching.com. This series is located around various buildings and sites on campus, which is one of the harder ones in Norman because the website does not provide you with any hints other than the general locations. The series includes a hunt in the Oklahoma Memorial Union, Gaylord Hall, the Sarkeys Energy Center and one at the stadium.

In my family, treasure hunting was a normal weekend past time. My grandfather took my mom and my aunt out looking for arrow heads and other findings

their entire lives to fill the old west museum we own, which in turn made me the only kindergartener in my class who knew what a metal detector was and how to use it. So, it may come as no surprise that geocaching is now my new hobby.

Now, how does one go about getting to the little treasures hidden all around the world? Well, as a nowseasoned geocacher, let me offer a little advice: • Sign up.

Make an account with one of the free versions on geocaching and get the app on a smart phone — if you have one.

• Choose your locale.

Once you have signed up, you can type in a zip code, coordinates or a name of a place that you want to go exploring, and the website will pull up all of the geocaches located in that area. There are well over a hundred just in the Norman area.

• Know the lingo.

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A muggle, not to be confused with “Harry Potter,” means a person who is not geocaching and could interrupt your hunt. If a geocache says there could be a lot of muggles, that means it is in a highly populated public area and could make the search more difficult.

Another term that is good

to know is skirt-lifter. This means the cache is hidden somewhere on the ground, and if you are geocaching in a skirt, which is not the best idea in my opinion, you will need to lift it in order to search the area thoroughly.

• Interpret the symbols.

There are symbols provided to help narrow down when, where and what

conditions the caches are hidden in.

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• Add the sour cream, salt and pepper to your eggs (you can add some Parmesan or other type of cheese for a richer, thicker result).

• Put the slices of bacon on the bottom of your pie crust.

Coco Courtois • Put your egg mixture into oudaily.co.co@gmail.com the crust.

• Cover with cheese and ooking. It takes bake at 350 degrees. time, money and • After 20-25 minutes, you’re never really Voilà! Quiche is served. sure if it’s going to taste good Was is that hard? No mator not. ter what your cooking proOr at least, that’s what ficiency, this simple recipe many college kids tend to will take you 30 minutes, and think. the results will be delicious.

The reality is, cooking is This one is a basic recipe, easy — and often a more af- but it’s versatile. If you want fordable alternative to eating to change it up a bit, you can out. improvise around it.

When I say cooking, I Brown some mushrooms don’t mean put-a-slice-ofand onion for a few minutes ham-between-two-slices-of- and throw them in your egg bread-easy. I mean cooking mixture with some chicken. a stew or a meal that would You have a totally different even impress your mom. quiche. Don’t like chicken?

Of course I know most of Add in some ground beef you don’t have an extensive and top with some barbecue pantry selection or even sauce and cheddar; again high quality food availa different pie with miniable — or affordable — to mal ingredients and time you. We’re students after demand. all, right? Well trust me, You also can create a tart even without that, you can rendition of your quiche cook so much more than a by putting a second pie sandwich. crust on the top and fillTake for example the ing it with meat and vegquiche. etables. Potatoes work well This French dish is a perwith tarts. You don’t even fect example of a gourmet, need more eggs to bind it; healthful, cheap and quick just cook it the same as you meal everyone — and I would the quiche. mean everyone — can cook.

This recipe is just the first The recipe is easy and the step in making cooking number of ingredients is part of your weekly routine. low. With reasons like that, Next you need to continue there’s no excuse for you improvising. to not try your hand at this Easier said than done, gourmet French favorite. you may say, but there’s no To make a quiche you magical solution. The more need: you cook, the more you will • Three eggs try and the more you will be • A pie crust able to say what works well • A few slices of bacon together.

• A few scoops of sour Yes, it also means you cream will have to experiment and • Any cheese you want to discover by yourself. Some put on the top things are just not meant to Now, for the “hard” part be eaten together.

— the cooking.

Ultimately the point is, • Cook the bacon. with three eggs, some bacon • Stir three eggs. and a pie crust, you have a

AT A GLANCE Quiche costs

2. Bacon: $3.48 for 16 slices (about $0.65 per quiche) 3. Pie crust: $1.39 per crust 4. Sour cream: $1.58 for 16 ounces (about $0.15 per quiche) 5. Cheese: $9.47 per packet (about $1.50 per quiche)

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Above: The second step in the cooking process is to combine your eggs, sour cream, cheese, salt and pepper. Coco suggests parmesan, but he said any cheese will work. It’s all about personal preference.

complete and cheap meal.

Cooking should not be seen as a pain or another thing on the to-do list. It’s actually relatively simple to make delicious meals.

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radius of the geocache.

When hunting for caches, it is best to recall the adage, “it’s not where you end up, but the how you got there.” On one of my more challenging geocaching experiences, I only found one out of three caches, and I made a bit of a fool of myself while the “muggles” stared and thought that perhaps I had lost something in the drainage pipe under a bridge or was scavenging a dog park with no dog for fun.

The point is, you can have a really great time doing something a little out of the ordinary. Geocaching is a great date idea for those who have a little Indiana Jones in them. Granted, there are not, to my knowledge, any booby traps involved in these treasure hunts.

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salt and pepper to your eggs (you can add some Parmesan or other type of cheese for a richer, thicker result).

• Put the slices of bacon on the bottom of your pie crust.

• Put your egg mixture Coco Courtois into the crust. oudaily.co.co@gmail.com • Cover with cheese and bake at 350 degrees. ooking. It takes • After 20-25 minutes, time, money and Voilà! Quiche is served. you’re never really Was is that hard? No sure if it’s going to taste good matter what your cooking or not. proficiency, this simple Or at least, that’s what recipe will take you 30 minmany college kids tend to utes, and the results will be think. delicious.

The reality is, cooking is This one is a basic recipe, easy — and often a more af- but it’s versatile. If you want fordable alternative to eating to change it up a bit, you out. can improvise around it.

When I say cooking, I Brown some mushrooms don’t mean put-a-slice-ofand onion for a few minutes ham-between-two-slices-of- and throw them in your egg bread-easy. I mean cooking mixture with some chicken. a stew or a meal that would You have a totally different even impress your mom. quiche. Don’t like chicken?

Of course I know most of Add in some ground beef you don’t have an extensive and top with some barbepantry selection or even high cue sauce and cheddar; quality food available — or again a different pie with affordable — to you. We’re minimal ingredients and students after all, right? Well time demand. trust me, even without that, You also can create a tart you can cook so much more rendition of your quiche than a sandwich. by putting a second pie Take for example the crust on the top and fillquiche. ing it with meat and vegThis French dish is a peretables. Potatoes work well fect example of a gourmet, with tarts. You don’t even healthful, cheap and quick need more eggs to bind it; meal everyone — and I just cook it the same as you mean everyone — can cook. would the quiche.

The recipe is easy and the This recipe is just the number of ingredients is first step in making cooking low. With reasons like that, part of your weekly routine. there’s no excuse for you Next you need to continue to not try your hand at this improvising. gourmet French favorite.

Easier said than done, To make a quiche you you may say, but there’s no need: magical solution. The more • Three eggs you cook, the more you will • A pie crust try and the more you will be • A few slices of bacon able to say what works well • A few scoops of sour together. cream Yes, it also means you • Any cheese you want to will have to experiment and put on the top discover by yourself. Some Now, for the “hard” part things are just not meant to — the cooking. be eaten together.

• Cook the bacon.

Ultimately the point • Stir three eggs. is, with three eggs, some • Add the sour cream, bacon and a pie crust, you

AT A GLANCE Quiche costs

2. Bacon: $3.48 for 16 slices (about $0.65 per quiche) 3. Pie crust: $1.39 per crust 4. Sour cream: $1.58 for 16 ounces (about $0.15 per quiche) 5. Cheese: $9.47 per packet (about $1.50 per quiche)

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Above: The second step in the cooking process is to combine your eggs, sour cream, cheese, salt and pepper. Coco suggests parmesan, but he said any cheese will work. It’s all about personal preference.

have a complete and cheap meal.

Cooking should not be seen as a pain or another thing on the to-do list. It’s actually relatively simple to make delicious meals.

For me, it’s like painting: assembling colors that go together, and here and there, throwing in a completely unexpected ingredient and discovering it works.

Now, take your brush, and go paint your own delicious quiche.

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Left: Your delicious homemade quiche will be ready in about 20 to 25 minutes. Coco said a finished quiche makes a comfortable meal for two, and he estimates the overall cost per quiche is about $4.50.

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GEOCACHING: Use helpful tips, hints

Westlee Parsons is an English literature senior.

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• Thursday, February 9, 2012

radius of the geocache.

When hunting for caches, it is best to recall the adage, “it’s not where you end up, but the how you got there.” On one of my more challenging geocaching experiences, I only found one out of three caches, and I made a bit of a fool of myself while the “muggles” stared and thought that perhaps I had lost something in the drainage pipe under a bridge or was scavenging a dog park with no dog for fun.

The point is, you can have a really great time doing something a little out of the ordinary. Geocaching is a great date idea for those who have a little Indiana Jones in them. Granted, there are not, to my knowledge, any booby traps involved in these treasure hunts.

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To GLBT youth in OU: You are a beautiful child with one of the most amazing gifts ever bestowed: the chance to fall in love, against all odds and intolerance.

You have such heart You are so smart And so good looking too You are Ollie to my Stan I simply could not have found a more wonderful man!

Infinite love, Kato Dear Deskmate, Thank you for brightening my days. You have been soooo much help. I’m gonna miss you when you graduate.

Love, Taylor Gene & Karen, Happy Valentine’s Day! Your #1 Daughter Katelyn, Your blue eyes and bright smile had me in love from the first moment I saw you.

Dear Ad Staff~ You are so fun! Keep up the good work. ~Bosslady

AD1You’re cooler than Tango’s pajamas.

Thanks for being my friend. I heart you.

AD2 Dear n00bz, So happy we all get to work together! Yall make work so much fun!

Love, Taylor You’re the first and last person I want to talk to every day. Infinity. Eye…Cheek…”kiss” Dear H&M, Y’all are the best!

Love, Taylor Dearest Roomiez of 728, I love you so much and am so happy that all five of you are my Valentines.

You make my heart go pitter patter.

Peace, love, and Puppy Breath, Ginger Dear Bosslady, You are so much fun to work with!

Love, Taylor Dear Student Media (Advertising), Y’all are hotter then David Beckham’s new H&M ad.

Love, A newbie To my wife and two little sparrows, I love you! Happy Valentine’s Day. -Dad HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!!!!!!!!!!!

SJW~ In good times and bad, you’re the ONLY one.

Love, Mega Mega Mega

Dear Nicole and Tricia, I am so glad that we became friends. I will never forget all of our shenanigans.

Love you!!!

Taylor Dear Grace, Each facet of your being whether it physical or spiritual is an ensnarement from which there is no release.

But I do not wish release.

I wish to stay entrapped forever.

With you for all eternity.

Our hearts, always as one.

Love, Michael Staceface~ You are SO beautiful. Inside and Out! Macie, Happy Valentine’s Day! Your BFF, Abby Here’s to our super speller, Mom & Dad are so proud of you, Happy Valentine’s Day, Abby!

Chillax Adam, Happy Valentine’s Day! ~Stacy W. Dodie, You’re the greatest sister EVER! Happy Valentine’s Day! Love, Stacy

Logan, You’ll always be my baby.

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