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Committee approves Humphreys, awaits full Senate confirmation STAFF REPORT

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OU alumnus and former Oklahoma City Mayor Kirk Humphreys is set to become the newest member of the OU Board of Regents.

The Oklahoma Senate Education Committee voted unanimously on Monday to approve Humphreys’ appointment to the sevenmember governing body of OU, Cameron University in Lawton and Rogers State University in Claremore.

His confirmation awaits approval by the full Senate.

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Oklahoma City native who graduated from Northwest Classen High School and earned a business finance bachelor’s from OU in 1972, according to the Oklahoma City muKiRK nicipal govhUmphReYS e r n m e n t website.

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Mechanical engineering sophomore Steve Brunk eats expired easy Mac for dinner Thursday while playing Mario Golf on a Nintendo 64 in his friend’s room in Adams Center. Brunk and other dorm residents are paying 62-percent more for their dorms than their counterparts 10 years ago.

Increases outpace cost of living SARAH MARTIN

The apartment rates have been more stagnant because of the competitive apartment market in The competitive apartment market in Norman has Norman, Annis said. kept university-run apartment rates low, but dorm “There have been no increases at all in the rates have continued to increase Traditions rates,” Annis said. “That steadily over the past 10 years. is a direct response to what is hapDorm rates in the towers have pening in the community.”

AT A GlANCe risen at 10 times the rate of twoOU Housing and Food Services consumer price index bedroom apartments in Traditions considers rates at apartments in Square since the complex opened the community when setting rates Major areas of goods factored in 2005, according to records refor Traditions Square, Annis said. into the consumer price index: quested by The Daily. Rates for Traditions only had a one-time 3 four-bedroom apartments have percent rate increase for two-bed• Food and beverages not risen at all since the complex room units between the 2008-2009 • Housing opened, according to records. and 2009-2010 academic years, ac• Apparel Housing rates in the dorms are cording to records.

• Transportation increased each year to finance inCrimson Park apartments do • Medical care creased fixed costs, food costs, not increase apartment rates more • recreation • education and communication renovations and maintenance, than 5 to 10 dollars or 1 to 2 perHousing and Food director Dave cent per month in a year, said Brent Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics Annis said. Housing and Food reNungesser, leasing professional at quested a 3 percent rate increase the apartments. in June 2011 under that rational to “Over the years we have not felt maintain improvements on campus and services to we have been able to increase the Traditions rates and students, according to the June 2011 regent’s agenda. be competitive,” Annis said.

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Bryce McCarthy, architecture senior, participates in the “door” exercise Friday. This exercise requires students to draw themselves as a door in order to exhibit how memories and emotions effect their design and creativity as aspiring architects.

Professors use unique methods to boost creativity Past experiences influence design, professors say ARIANNA PICKARD Campus reporter

Architecture and interior design professors have begun to use positive emotions and personal memories as important aspects of the creative design process.

OU architecture professor David Boeck and interior design professor Hans-Peter Wachter have started to incorporate exercises in the classroom to encourage creativity in design and help students understand their own design style.

“Neurobiologists and neuroscientists say if you’re happy and open, you’re more

creative,” Boeck said.

The professors use different exercises to make students feel more at ease and open to the creative process, Boeck said.

These exercises could be used for anything, Wachter said.

These exercises make students aware of their own memories of past places, which Boeck and Wachter believe can influence their design style.

In one exercise, they ask students to think of a door from their past they liked and a door they hated. Next, they ask students to think of a door right now they like and a door they hate.

Finally, they ask students

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Dane Webb is having a solid first year for the Sooners, holding down the No. 1 singles and doubles spot. (page 7)

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Senior shortstop Caleb Bushyhead (top) awaits a throw to second base during OU’s 5-1 win against Kansas State on Friday. The Sooners host No. 11 Arkansas tonight. (page 7)

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Campus

• Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Campus

Tuesday, April 10, 2012 •

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

campus briefs Speech

President, CEO of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas to give lecture

housing: OU schedules 3% price hike yearly Continued from page 1

Today around campus The Foundations Exhibition will be on display from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Lightwell Gallery.

A tuba and euphonium concert by professor Brian Dobbins will take place at noon in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Sandy Bell Gallery.

A seminar about how to avoid committing academic misconduct, hosted by Student Success Series, will take place at 4 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245.

There is not the same competitive market for dorms in Norman.

All single freshmen under the age of 20 must live in the residence halls unless they have more than 24 hours of credit, according to the OU Housing Policy. Exemptions are granted with special permission if students petition the vice president for Student Affairs.

With a meal plan included in the total cost, rates in the towers has risen nearly 62 percent for double rooms and nearly 66 percent for single rooms in the last 10 years and by 54 percent in Cate Center for single and double rooms in the last 10 years, according to records. The cost of living in the towers has increased more rapidly because Housing and Food Services has wanted to maintain Cate

The Write Club Creative Writers will hold its weekly meeting for writing encouragement at 6 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 280.

A free concert benefiting the organization Playing for Change will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. at CafĂŠ Plaid.

The baseball team will face Arkansas at 6:30 p.m at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 The Foundations Exhibition will be on display from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Lightwell Gallery.

Corrections The Oklahoma Daily is committed to serving readers with accurate coverage and welcomes your comments about information that may require correction or clarification. To contact us with corrections, email us at dailynews@ou.edu.

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Center as a more affordable option for students and because the towers underwent renovations during the last 10 years, Annis said.

Once newly renovated rooms began to become available, they were offered at a higher rate than non-renovated rooms, accounting for some larger jumps in pricing, such as an 11 percent spike in rates from the 2002-2003 academic year to 2003-2004 academic year, Annis said.

Rates in the towers have increased by an average of 5.5 percent each year, outpacing cost-of-living increases in the U.S., according to records.

The consumer price index in the U.S. has risen by an average of 2.5 percent each year over the last 10 years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The consumer price index is used as a cost of living indicator because it factors price changes in items commonly

News Brief UOSA Election

Results OK’d, Sangirardi takes office Monday UOSA President-elect Joe Sangirardi and vice president-elect Rainey Sewell will take office Monday after the UOSA Superior Court validated the spring 2012 election results.

The UOSA president and vice president must be inaugurated a week after the UOSA superior court validates the election results, according to the U O SA Code Annotated. The court released its order Monday validating the elections after the court did not receive any grievances or appeals, according to the court’s order.

Next week’s inauguration will be followed by a

ceremony on April 27 to symbolize the transition of power, said Alyssa Loveless, Undergraduate Student Congress chair w oman.

Other elected executive officers will be sworn in they haven’t already began their work, Loveless said.

The incoming UOSA president talk about his upcoming plans, she said. The ceremony is also a time for students to celebrate with family members, Loveless said. “It’s a place where all our families and friends can come,� Alyssa Loveless.

Chase Cook, Managing Editor

GO AND DO Get involved WHAT: Housing Center Student Association meetings WHEN: 7 p.m. Mondays WHERE: 131 Couch Center

purchased by American families.

Housing and Food Services determines rate increase by considering yearly pre-determined costs, any increases in set costs and predictions of the number of residents, Annis said. “We will just usually go in and say we will budget a 3 percent increase unless we know that there is going to be something unusual happen,�

Annis said.

Housing and Food Services administrators collaborate to

set the residence halls’ costs and send their recommendation to OU President David Boren, Annis said. Once Boren and Housing and Food Services agree upon any proposed increases, the recommendation is sent to the OU Board of Regents for approval, Annis said.

Oklahoma State University is currently the only university in the Big 12 with lower dorm rates than OU, Annis said.

However, some plans at Texas A&M University cost about $3,800 depending on residence hall and meal plan, according to Texas A&M Residence Life and Department of University Housing.

Annis said he has a dorm rate recommendation ready for the 2012-2013 academic year and will consult with the Housing Center Student Association before releasing the recommendation.

REGENT: Humphreys mayor from ’98 to ’03 Continued from page 1 ophthalmologist from Norman.

In 1989, Humphreys began the commercial real-estate firm Humphreys Real Estate Investments, LLC. The 61-year-old Humphreys served as mayor of Oklahoma City from 1998 to 2003.

As mayor, Humphreys focused attention on the Oklahoma City MAPS projects and advocated redevelopment of the Skirvin Hotel, which had been closed for 10 years by the time Humphreys took office, according to the Oklahoma City municipal government website.

Humphreys resigned in November 2003 to run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Don Nickles, but he was defeated in the Republican primary by Tom Coburn, according to the municipal website.

Kelsey Higley/The Daily

Architecture professors Hans-Peter Wachter (left) and David Boeck (center) observe Bryce McCarthy, architecture senior, participate in the “door� exercise Friday. The professors also use place-memory exercises to help students discover their unique design styles.

DOORS: Students’ pasts influence current styles Continued from page 1 to draw themselves as doors. “The doors exercises helped to open your mind and get the creative juices flowing,� architecture senior Elizabeth Pearcy said.

When a teacher tells you to start designing something specific, your brain shuts down, Pearcy said. But when you are told to sketch something indirectly related to your main project, it opens up your mind and helps you find inspiration, she said.

Wachter and Boeck also use placememory exercises to help students discover a design style their clients will prefer. To design a pediatric center, they asked students to remember every time they went to a doctor’s office growing up and the specific characteristics of the offices that created positive and negative emotions.

The pediatric exercise was helpful because it put students in the mindset of the clients and reminded them how it felt to be 5 years old in the doctor’s office, OU architecture senior Amber Hovorka said.

The “door� exercise, which requires students to draw themselves as doors, helps open the mind to influences and biases from the past, OU architecture professors say.

Pearcy generally prefers designing in a stark, modern style that might not make children feel the most comfortable, she said.

This exercise helped her transition to the mind of a child so she could design a place where children would feel at ease.

These exercises also help students get in touch with their own design styles and help them realize how their pasts influence that style, Wachter said. “You come into every design with

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a bias — you don’t come in fresh,�

Wachter said. “Your experience in your subconscious creates bias that drives your design.�

Encouraging students to open up their memory and discover that bias in their subconscious helps them understand why they design the way they do, Wachter said. “I realized my environment until I was 15 [years old] influenced the kind of design I do and the kind of architecture I like,� Boeck said.

Boeck presented his research and incorporation of these exercises at the OU college of architecture Research and Creative Activity Day last month.

He wrote a paper on the outcome of these exercises and how they helped design students to use positive emotions to develop their design process, Boeck said.

The paper also discussed the next step in the research process – measuring how much managing emotions and developing improves creativity in the studio design process, Boeck said. “It all comes back to we do best what we like to do, and we like to do what reflects our past,� Wachter said.

The Price College of Business’ Distinguished Speaker Series will feature an address by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas president and CEO at 11:30 a.m. today in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium.

Featured speaker Richard Fisher began his career in 1975 at the private bank of Brown Brothers Harriman and Co., where he specialized in fixed-income and foreignexchange markets. He became assistant to the secretary of the Treasury during the Carter administration, working issues related to the dollar crisis of 1978 to 1979, acRichard cording to a press release.

He then returned to Brown Brothers Fisher to found their Texas operations in Dallas.

Fisher joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in 2005, and in October of 2006 he received the Service to Democracy Award and Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal for Public Service from the American Assembly.

He was inducted into the Dallas Business Hall of Fame in April 2009, according to a press release.

The speaker series presents top-level business executives from a broad range of backgrounds, industries and geographies. It is designed to promote face-to-face interaction between global leaders, the Oklahoma business community and Price College students, according to a press release.

A question-and-answer session will follow the lecture.

Arianna Pickard, Campus Reporter

lecture

‘Warrior Spirits: Indigenous Arts’ to feature New Guinea artifacts A free lecture titled “Snapshots of the Stories New Guinea People Tell Themselves� will take place at 7 tonight in the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.

The lecture will be presented by anthropology professor Karl Rambo, and will focus on the Melanesian ways of life.

Rambo will provide a contextual background for many of the pieces currently on display at the museum, as well as discuss important aspects of the Melanesian people’s lives.

This will be a continuation of the museum’s “Warrior Spirits: Indigenous Arts� exhibit, which features artifacts from New Guinea.

The lecture is free and open to the public. “Rambo will talk about the societies, relationships and lives of New Guinea peoples,� museum spokeswoman Jennifer Tregarthen said.“With a few comments on how knowing a little about their lives can help us further appreciate their handiwork.�

The Warrior Spirits exhibit will be on display at the museum until May 13.

Tim French, Campus Reporter

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Campus

• Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Campus

Tuesday, April 10, 2012 •

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

campus briefs Speech

President, CEO of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas to give lecture

housing: OU schedules 3% price hike yearly Continued from page 1

Today around campus The Foundations Exhibition will be on display from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Lightwell Gallery.

A tuba and euphonium concert by professor Brian Dobbins will take place at noon in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Sandy Bell Gallery.

A seminar about how to avoid committing academic misconduct, hosted by Student Success Series, will take place at 4 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245.

There is not the same competitive market for dorms in Norman.

All single freshmen under the age of 20 must live in the residence halls unless they have more than 24 hours of credit, according to the OU Housing Policy. Exemptions are granted with special permission if students petition the vice president for Student Affairs.

With a meal plan included in the total cost, rates in the towers has risen nearly 62 percent for double rooms and nearly 66 percent for single rooms in the last 10 years and by 54 percent in Cate Center for single and double rooms in the last 10 years, according to records. The cost of living in the towers has increased more rapidly because Housing and Food Services has wanted to maintain Cate

The Write Club Creative Writers will hold its weekly meeting for writing encouragement at 6 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 280.

A free concert benefiting the organization Playing for Change will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. at CafĂŠ Plaid.

The baseball team will face Arkansas at 6:30 p.m at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 The Foundations Exhibition will be on display from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Lightwell Gallery.

Corrections The Oklahoma Daily is committed to serving readers with accurate coverage and welcomes your comments about information that may require correction or clarification. To contact us with corrections, email us at dailynews@ou.edu.

Visit OUDaily.com/corrections to see an archive of our corrections

Center as a more affordable option for students and because the towers underwent renovations during the last 10 years, Annis said.

Once newly renovated rooms began to become available, they were offered at a higher rate than non-renovated rooms, accounting for some larger jumps in pricing, such as an 11 percent spike in rates from the 2002-2003 academic year to 2003-2004 academic year, Annis said.

Rates in the towers have increased by an average of 5.5 percent each year, outpacing cost-of-living increases in the U.S., according to records.

The consumer price index in the U.S. has risen by an average of 2.5 percent each year over the last 10 years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The consumer price index is used as a cost of living indicator because it factors price changes in items commonly

News Brief UOSA Election

Results OK’d, Sangirardi takes office Monday UOSA President-elect Joe Sangirardi and vice president-elect Rainey Sewell will take office Monday after the UOSA Superior Court validated the spring 2012 election results.

The UOSA president and vice president must be inaugurated a week after the UOSA superior court validates the election results, according to the U O SA Code Annotated. The court released its order Monday validating the elections after the court did not receive any grievances or appeals, according to the court’s order.

Next week’s inauguration will be followed by a

ceremony on April 27 to symbolize the transition of power, said Alyssa Loveless, Undergraduate Student Congress chair w oman.

Other elected executive officers will be sworn in they haven’t already began their work, Loveless said.

The incoming UOSA president talk about his upcoming plans, she said. The ceremony is also a time for students to celebrate with family members, Loveless said. “It’s a place where all our families and friends can come,� Alyssa Loveless.

Chase Cook, Managing Editor

GO AND DO Get involved WHAT: Housing Center Student Association meetings WHEN: 7 p.m. Mondays WHERE: 131 Couch Center

purchased by American families.

Housing and Food Services determines rate increase by considering yearly pre-determined costs, any increases in set costs and predictions of the number of residents, Annis said. “We will just usually go in and say we will budget a 3 percent increase unless we know that there is going to be something unusual happen,�

Annis said.

Housing and Food Services administrators collaborate to

set the residence halls’ costs and send their recommendation to OU President David Boren, Annis said. Once Boren and Housing and Food Services agree upon any proposed increases, the recommendation is sent to the OU Board of Regents for approval, Annis said.

Oklahoma State University is currently the only university in the Big 12 with lower dorm rates than OU, Annis said.

However, some plans at Texas A&M University cost about $3,800 depending on residence hall and meal plan, according to Texas A&M Residence Life and Department of University Housing.

Annis said he has a dorm rate recommendation ready for the 2012-2013 academic year and will consult with the Housing Center Student Association before releasing the recommendation.

REGENT: Humphreys mayor from ’98 to ’03 Continued from page 1 ophthalmologist from Norman.

In 1989, Humphreys began the commercial real-estate firm Humphreys Real Estate Investments, LLC. The 61-year-old Humphreys served as mayor of Oklahoma City from 1998 to 2003.

As mayor, Humphreys focused attention on the Oklahoma City MAPS projects and advocated redevelopment of the Skirvin Hotel, which had been closed for 10 years by the time Humphreys took office, according to the Oklahoma City municipal government website.

Humphreys resigned in November 2003 to run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Don Nickles, but he was defeated in the Republican primary by Tom Coburn, according to the municipal website.

Kelsey Higley/The Daily

Architecture professors Hans-Peter Wachter (left) and David Boeck (center) observe Bryce McCarthy, architecture senior, participate in the “door� exercise Friday. The professors also use place-memory exercises to help students discover their unique design styles.

DOORS: Students’ pasts influence current styles Continued from page 1 to draw themselves as doors. “The doors exercises helped to open your mind and get the creative juices flowing,� architecture senior Elizabeth Pearcy said.

When a teacher tells you to start designing something specific, your brain shuts down, Pearcy said. But when you are told to sketch something indirectly related to your main project, it opens up your mind and helps you find inspiration, she said.

Wachter and Boeck also use placememory exercises to help students discover a design style their clients will prefer. To design a pediatric center, they asked students to remember every time they went to a doctor’s office growing up and the specific characteristics of the offices that created positive and negative emotions.

The pediatric exercise was helpful because it put students in the mindset of the clients and reminded them how it felt to be 5 years old in the doctor’s office, OU architecture senior Amber Hovorka said.

The “door� exercise, which requires students to draw themselves as doors, helps open the mind to influences and biases from the past, OU architecture professors say.

Pearcy generally prefers designing in a stark, modern style that might not make children feel the most comfortable, she said.

This exercise helped her transition to the mind of a child so she could design a place where children would feel at ease.

These exercises also help students get in touch with their own design styles and help them realize how their pasts influence that style, Wachter said. “You come into every design with

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GTL GYM. TAN. LAUNDRY.

Inquire at the Union Branch, call 325-6358,

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We have an upgraded fitness center, new HEX stand-up tanning bed, and full-sized washer/dryer in every unit.

No other residence can compete.

for more information.

Fill your 4 bedroom apartment, Get a DVR upgrade!

Now Leasing for Fall 2012 | Rates start at $424

CRIMSON PARK | 888.724.1594 2657 CLASSEN BLVD | NORMAN OK 73071

a bias — you don’t come in fresh,�

Wachter said. “Your experience in your subconscious creates bias that drives your design.�

Encouraging students to open up their memory and discover that bias in their subconscious helps them understand why they design the way they do, Wachter said. “I realized my environment until I was 15 [years old] influenced the kind of design I do and the kind of architecture I like,� Boeck said.

Boeck presented his research and incorporation of these exercises at the OU college of architecture Research and Creative Activity Day last month.

He wrote a paper on the outcome of these exercises and how they helped design students to use positive emotions to develop their design process, Boeck said.

The paper also discussed the next step in the research process – measuring how much managing emotions and developing improves creativity in the studio design process, Boeck said. “It all comes back to we do best what we like to do, and we like to do what reflects our past,� Wachter said.

The Price College of Business’ Distinguished Speaker Series will feature an address by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas president and CEO at 11:30 a.m. today in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium.

Featured speaker Richard Fisher began his career in 1975 at the private bank of Brown Brothers Harriman and Co., where he specialized in fixed-income and foreignexchange markets. He became assistant to the secretary of the Treasury during the Carter administration, working issues related to the dollar crisis of 1978 to 1979, acRichard cording to a press release.

He then returned to Brown Brothers Fisher to found their Texas operations in Dallas.

Fisher joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in 2005, and in October of 2006 he received the Service to Democracy Award and Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal for Public Service from the American Assembly.

He was inducted into the Dallas Business Hall of Fame in April 2009, according to a press release.

The speaker series presents top-level business executives from a broad range of backgrounds, industries and geographies. It is designed to promote face-to-face interaction between global leaders, the Oklahoma business community and Price College students, according to a press release.

A question-and-answer session will follow the lecture.

Arianna Pickard, Campus Reporter

lecture

‘Warrior Spirits: Indigenous Arts’ to feature New Guinea artifacts A free lecture titled “Snapshots of the Stories New Guinea People Tell Themselves� will take place at 7 tonight in the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.

The lecture will be presented by anthropology professor Karl Rambo, and will focus on the Melanesian ways of life.

Rambo will provide a contextual background for many of the pieces currently on display at the museum, as well as discuss important aspects of the Melanesian people’s lives.

This will be a continuation of the museum’s “Warrior Spirits: Indigenous Arts� exhibit, which features artifacts from New Guinea.

The lecture is free and open to the public. “Rambo will talk about the societies, relationships and lives of New Guinea peoples,� museum spokeswoman Jennifer Tregarthen said.“With a few comments on how knowing a little about their lives can help us further appreciate their handiwork.�

The Warrior Spirits exhibit will be on display at the museum until May 13.

Tim French, Campus Reporter

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OPINION EDITORIAL

Dorm costs burdening freshmen Our View: Dramatically rising residence hall prices highlight the need to eradicate mandatory on-campus housing for freshmen.

keep up with this increasing burden.

Many of OU’s poorest students are on scholarships, but many more who do not qualify for aid are still struggling to keep up with the cost of attending If you live in a residence hall this year, you paid OU. It is a simple fact that college is difficult to afford about 62 percent more than a member of the fresh- for the vast majority of students, and massive debt man class in 2003. If you lived in the dorms in the last abounds. In fact, student debt in the U.S. surpassed decade you paid an average of 5.5 percent $1 trillion by the end of last year. more than students paid the year before to Despite this difficult reality and the everThe Our View live in the same space. growing cost of the dorms, OU requires all is the majority Room and board costs in Couch, Walker opinion of single freshman students under the age of The Daily’s and Adams centers have risen 62 percent 20 to live there unless they live with parents nine-member for double rooms and 66 percent for single within 50 miles of Norman. If this requireeditorial board rooms in the last 10 years, according to rement were lifted, it would release struggling cords obtained by The Daily. Costs have students from this financial burden. risen by 55 percent in Cate Center.

Lifting the requirement also would introduce This amounts to an average increase of 5.5 percent some measure of competition into that corner of the each year — outrunning the U.S. Consumer Price housing market, which could help deflate costs. At Index, commonly used to calculate the cost of living, least, it may put pressure on Housing and Food to which has risen by an average of 2.5 percent per year find ways to increase efficiency and reduce overhead over the same time period, according to U.S. Bureau costs, which could lead to a stabilized price for the of Labor Statistics. residence halls.

These constant price hikes have added up over And if Housing and Food really cannot find a way time to greatly impact the price of residence hall liv- to lower costs or keep them stable, the dorms still ing. Given that residence in the dorms is mandatory would be used by students who wanted and could for most freshmen, these price increases have unac- afford a more expensive, more convenient option. ceptably increased the burden on students.

Unfortunately, this would force students to choose Dave Annis, director of Housing and Food between an affordable option and the all-important Services, admitted in an interview with The Daily freshman-year experience. Some students view livthat the reason other university-owned housing, ing on campus as an important part of their first year such as Traditions Square Apartments, hasn’t seen here, allowing them to make friends, feel involved similar price increases is because those options face and connect with campus culture. outside competition. Competition from other apartBut it’s not only that. Housing and Food’s exempment complexes keeps prices low. tion booklet for freshmen requesting special permisBut the dorms don’t have that. Because the dorms sion to live off campus claims that higher education have a monopoly on freshman-year housing, research shows living on campus the first year makes Housing and Food can raise prices freely. students more likely to graduate, attend class reguIn his interview with The Daily, Annis said that larly, pursue graduate school, be involved in campus his department suggests a 3 percent price increase life and have a higher GPA. every year, at the bare minimum. After multiple days The booklet specifically references one study from of research, discussion and browsing through the the American Council on Education that found, Housing and Food website, we are having a hard “Students who live on campus have a 10 to 15 pertime understanding how this constant increase can cent better chance of doing well in college than stube justified. dents living off-campus.”

If there is a compelling reason for these price In light of this and all the important experiences hikes, we urge Housing and Food to publicize them involved in dorm life, the residence halls should be so that students can make sense of the large difan option for all students. But in order for the dorms ference between the prices in 2002-2003 and in to be a legitimate option, they must be affordable.

2011-2012. The administration at large must justify The first step to achieving that — or, at least, giving increases in tuition and fees to the student body, so students a reasonable alternative — is giving all stuwhy shouldn’t Housing and Food? dents the freedom to choose where they reside.

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o racism is close to OPINION COLUMNIST being dead. That is extremely strange to me. I could’ve sworn I was just pulled over by police a few days ago, unwarranted.

When I asked the reason, they responded, “There has been a lot of suspicious acJason Quaynor tivity tonight.” jquaynor4@gmail.com What could I say as a black man in Norman?

Welcome to the conflict that happens on a daily basis for some. Being six foot four inches tall has its benefits. But the benefits of that height when added to being a dark-skinned black man turn to slim pickings. Identifying privilege as a person of color is simple; for privileged people, it is a different story. So let me paint a picture for you.

My parents and family are bothering me one day. I mean, family time is great, but I want some time alone. I am a young man now, I can take a step outside by myself, right?

Well, that’s what I choose to do. So, as I dress up to leave, my mom questions where I am going. Feeling like I am almost a man, I tell her that I am only going around the corner to get some snacks.

She begs for me to let her drive me, but I reply, “Ma, it’s only around the corner!” With a heavy sigh, she lets me go.

“You know you have to be careful out there,” my mother says in a worried tone before I leave.

“I know ma, I got to remember where I am.” I hate when I have to hear that. Can’t I just be me? I guess now isn’t the time in the U.S. Hopefully soon. But let me hurry and go to the corner store and get some snacks before it is too dark.

As I am walking to the store, I start thinking about the usual: newest clothes, women, music and my future.

Arriving at the store, I see a few people milling about.

Walking in the door, I feel multiple eyes dart to me. Yet, one set of eyes scares me the most: the police officer’s glance.

“You know you have to be careful, out there.” My mother’s words bounce off every angle in my brain. While checking

out, I feel the glare of the officer burning through my hoodie.

I attempt to leave calmly, when the officer gets a call on his radio — something about suspicious activity.

Hopefully, he didn’t think something was wrong when I stuffed my snacks in my hoodie. I remember that my mother told me they fire on black men who may look like they have a weapon. I make it out of the door. At least it’s not me today.

Lord, let me just get home safe, please.

Thank you, Lord. I am back in my neighborhood. The gates can keep out any impending danger. No one can get me now.

“Freeze! Don’t move!” I turn to see a man pointing a gun at me. What did I do?

“Please don’t do anything!” I don’t know if he is even hearing my words. What does he see in me that threatens him?

Then it all catches up with me. My mother told me to be careful out here, but even she knows that I cannot be careful about being black. I can’t do anything. I’ve been caught being too black. As I scream for help, I see no one coming to my rescue. Before I can say anything else, my voice is silenced. I wonder if my body falling to the cold, rainy ground will even mean anything.

This is not my story. But it’s the story of a young black man no different than me.

Rest in peace Trayvon Martin.

People may think this event is an isolated incident. We should know by now that this is not the case. Rather than constantly looking for an excuse or exception to the rule, why not finally identify what the problem is: Racism still exists and is becoming an accepted institution.

Until we admit and fight this, we will lose more people like Trayvon Martin. And there will be even more unpublicized cases closer to us than we know.

We must admit there is still injustice. Still inequality. Still the staggering stratification of races. Until then, there will be no peace for us.

Peace and understanding for all.

Jason Quaynor is an English writing senior.

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tudents for a OPINION COLUMNIST Democratic Society wants you to rant with us Thursday.

So why the ranting?

The fact is that there is more going on (and going wrong) at our university, but there’s Elizabeth Rucker no way a single student wordful@ou.edu organization can know about — much less act on — everything at once.

My fellow organizers and I think our fellow students have the best ideas about what needs to change to keep OU a thriving, dynamic community.

Last week, OU held a profoundly uncontested round of university-wide elections, from student body president to various posts in Housing Center Student Association and Student Congress.

I have no doubt that these representatives will do good work, but they are going to need more active student engagement to keep them focused on the policies that affect students every day.

A lot of that engagement is going to occur offline and outside of Adams Hall, Room150, where Student Congress meets each Tuesday.

And that doesn’t mean griping about parking shortages or long waits at Crossroads Restaurant; there are more serious issues facing this campus community.

Each year, expenses rise and state allocations fall — and the university has to make decisions about where to cut funding.

Unsurprisingly, those in power look for easy targets: academic programs without endowed chairs or with “low” enrollments.

Often, language departments and segments of the social sciences are among the first and deepest hit.

This year, women’s and gender studies could potentially face cuts extreme enough to set the program back 10 to 15 years, according to women’s and gender studies senior Lindsey Vandeventer.

Language, gender and ethnic studies are crucial to the academic rigor of this university, and students can and should stand up to defend them.

On the other end of university machinations, the university engages in some questionable contracting practices.

Surely most of us have noticed the “Shame on University of Oklahoma!” banner stretched out on the North Oval for several months now.

The Carpenter’s Union has been protesting because our university subcontracts building projects to companies that do not pay area-standard wages and benefits at all their work sites, depressing wages in an area for workers already on the losing end of the latest recession.

Students should demand justice for these workers by advocating for policy change.

Those are just two of my ideas. But SDS’s Speak Out: Student-Led Vent-a-Thon is about your ideas. What do you see that needs changing?

Too often, older generations assume students and young people are apathetic, selfish and lazy.

This is manifestly untrue, as the huge student mobilizations in support of justice for Trayvon Martin, student involvement in President Obama’s 2008 campaign and Occupy movements have all demonstrated on the national stage.

You can see this on our campus, too.

From the successful, direct actions taken to change our sexual assault policy last year to the gender-neutral housing campaign, students nationally and locally can and do act.

I firmly believe that one factor that scares students away from mobilizing and advocating for dearly-held causes is a very real disenfranchisement.

On a national scale, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Wisconsin are among many states attempting to hamper students’ ability to vote.

At nearly every scale, students simply don’t know where or how to access information about policy makers — because it is to their advantage to keep our historically strong voices as muted as possible.

Thus, SDS wants to equip you to understand the power structures of our university and how to effectively use them to make the changes you want to see.

So, show up at 7 p.m. Thursday to Adams Hall, Room 304, and be prepared to vent, learn and — most importantly — act.

Elizabeth Rucker is an international studies and interdisciplinary perspectives on the environment senior.

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ex, drugs and Ramen noodles bowls, the college experience at its finest. Ramen has been thought of as the quintessential poor-college-student food for as long as I can remember.

Hailing from Japan, the instant noodle appeared in the late ’50s and has been holding its position as the most noodle of the noodles since. Everyone loves them and other noodles want to be them.

Now that we have paid proper respect to the noodle, it’s time to bring up the sad truth — they’re popularity hinges less on their quality and more on the fact that, well, they’re cheap. That being said, after a few too many meals consisting of just noodles and super sodium broth, there comes a point where you feel like you might snap if you don’t eat something else.

We all have been there — whether it was out of the ‘instant’ convenience or because our wallet was feeling a little empty at the time — either way, many college students have hit that Ramenbinge, if only for a week.

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Friday One of my favorite things to do with noodles when I need a change of pace from soup to solid is to make a Ramen stir-fry. Just cook up the noodles as normal then throw them in a fry pan along with any mixture of things you have left in your fridge. A little soy sauce and sometime later you will be the talk of your apartment.

Or to give it a little flair, throw in some peanut butter for your very own Thai-inspired creation.

Saturday We don’t have to stop there, either. It’s officially the weekend, so why not add a fancy flair to your Ramen — Italian style. You can make Ramen and meatballs with any leftover ground beef you melodie lettkeman/the daily have. Don’t have sauce? Try An egg can be a great addition to your Ramen. Heat the water to a boil, and add in your noodles and seaa little butter and any seasoning like you normally would. Then you can either crack an egg straight into the Ramen for a sunny-side soning you may have. addition or scramble a couple before pouring them in for an egg-drop-soup style dish.

Sunday Come Sunday you may be temporary — there are some eggs and pour them in for an Wednesday ready for just a bowl of good basic tricks you can use to egg-drop-soup take on your Now you’ve tried the veg- old fashion Ramen. If not, spice up your meals and Ramen. gies, so cater to your sweet use your uncooked noodles make it through the week Tuesday tooth and add some fruits as a snack — think of it as feeling a little more fulfilled You still need more variinstead. I recommend a huge chip. Just break off in the palette. ety. I understand because apples or pineapples. Both pieces of the noodle brick, So I give you Ramen 101: they say variety is the spice these fruits are notorious dip it in a salsa or dip and Monday of life and who doesn’t like for blending well with salty munch away.

The easiest and probably their life spicy? So add some items: Think about pork So if you find yourself in the cheapest way to go about veggies. For a cheap route, chops and apples or sweet a Ramen binge, don’t settle this is to toss an egg in there. grab whatever you have in and sour chicken. for bland sodium broth and For those who may be a little your refrigerator right now.

Thursday noodles. Use these tips to weary of the whole raw egg Chop them up and throw There’s an age-old axiom think outside of the bowl — thing, there’s no worry. Your them in to cook with your I like to live by: If it’s not or cup if that floats your boat. super-hot soup will cook broth. Craving some literal good put cheese on it. Who that egg to a nice sunny side spice? If you don’t have them doesn’t have some cheese up state that makes for a nice on hand, peppers and onin the fridge? Toss some Shawn Stafford is an break from the norm. Or you ions are affordable produce of that goopy goodness on international area studies can scramble a couple of that won’t break the bank. your noodles to create a junior.

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I think she is a brilliant wordsmith.

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Freshman Dane Webb defends the net March 12 during the Sooners’ victory over the Louisville Cardinals. Webb began the season unranked.

However, he has been steady for Oklahoma at both No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles this season and has steadily climbed the national rankings. The freshman is ranked No. 13 with doubles partner junior Costin Paval and No. 94 in singles competition.

Young players provide spark After a handful of losses, Sooners step up their game Cameron Strock Sports Reporter

The OU Men’s Tennis Team is currently playing its best tennis of the season so far. The team has had its fair share of struggles early on, losing a handful of close matches to Ole Miss, Pepperdine and Virginia.

In those losses, the team had late leads but failed to close out the competition and hold on for wins. OU coach John Roddick emphasized that weakness of the team in practice following the home loss to Pepperdine in hopes of avoiding similar losses in the future.

“A f t e r w e p l a y e d Pepperdine, we have really focused on staying aggressive with the lead,” freshman Dane Webb said.

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That attitude has been reflected in the team’s record.

The Sooners are currently on a seven-match winning streak, with all of the wins coming on the road. They beat Maryland, Florida State, TCU, Tulsa, No. 13 Texas, No. 25 Texas A&M and Rice all in blowout fashion. The closest margin of victory was 5-2.

“Everyone is more confident and really finishing our

matches well,” Webb said.

A large part of the Sooners’ recent success is due to the team’s overall mindset since suffering through early-season losses.

Roddick said he has been pleased with the way his team has been scoring points early and often over the last couple of weeks.

“We’re doing a much better job at closing out sets in matches and aren’t letting teams hang around anymore,” Roddick said.

Of course, the increased level of play is not due strictly to a better mindset. Quite simply, players have been playing better.

“Costin, at the No. 1 spot, o bv i ou s l y , ha s ha d t h e toughest task having to play the best player on the other teams,” Roddick said. “Dane has only lost one singles match all year. Willy Alcorta has really stepped up and started to play well.”

Seemingly everyone on the OU team has stepped up in recent weeks. However,

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Coming from Richardson High School in Richardson, Texas, Webb has had no problem adjusting from the high school level to Big 12 level tennis. The freshman see Tennis page 8

Oklahoma plays its fourth consecutive game against a top-10 opponent Tuesday night, when the Sooners take on the No. 11 Razorbacks 6:30 p.m. in Norman.

OU is coming off an Easter weekend series against No. 3 Texas A&M that saw the Aggies sweep the Sooners three games to none, despite Oklahoma leading in all three games.

One of the few bright spots from the weekend’s PLAYER PROFILE sweep was the perforErik Ross mance of senior outfielder Erik Ross.

Year: Senior Ross went 5-for-13 Position: in the series against the Outfield Aggies and now is riding a Hometown: nine-game hitting streak.

McKinney, If Ross hits safely against Texas Arkansas and extends Season stats: his streak to 10 games, it The senior is on a 10-game will be the longest hitting hitting streak, the longest of streak of his career. his college career.

In just his second start of the season, hardthrowing junior pitcher Damien Magnifico will take the hill against Arkansas in search of his first win.

The bulk of Magnifico’s work this season has been as a reliever — he’s tied for fifth in the Big 12 in saves — and his last start came in an 11-7 loss to No. 22 Oregon State at last month’s Nike Showcase.

Against the Beavers, Magnifico pitched 4 2/3 innings, giving up three runs on six hits with three walks and two strikeouts.

The Sooners will need a big game from Magnifico and plenty of support swinging the sticks if they expect to have a chance at beating the Razorbacks on Tuesday.

Oklahoma has a three-game series against conference foe Missouri at 6:30 p.m. Friday at L. Dale Mitchell Park, as the Sooners look to improve their pedestrian 4-8 record in Big 12 play.

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Continued from page 7 has lost only one singles match all year and is playing with Junior Costin Paval at the number one doubles spot for the Sooners.

The tandem has been ranked as the No. 13 best doubles tandem in the nation. Paval was expected to have a huge season for the Sooners this season.

However, Webb was a question mark for the team coming into the year, having played mostly singles in high school.

“I’ve improved a lot since I’ve got here” Webb said. “I mostly played individual stuff in high school” said Webb. Webb has had to get used to the team aspect this year at OU. “There’s more pressure being on a team, but that’s more fun too” Webb said.

After a 2-0 start to conference play, the Sooners are sitting right where they expect to be — at the top of the Big 12 standings. In addition, after the team’s recent seven-match win streak, the Sooners have jumped from No. 31 to No. 13 in the nation.

In that winning streak, Webb and Paval have lost only one singles match, and

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Freshman Dane Webb defends the net during his doubles match against the Louisville Cardinals March 12. Webb and junior Costin Paval currently are the No. 13 doubles tandem in the entire nation. The duo is undefeated in doubles play since the team’s last loss on March 16.

Webb is undefeated in singles play for the Sooners.

Entering the 2012 season, the Sooners showed a lot of promise. The team had questions that needed to be answered, though. There was a lot of talent, but a lot of youth and inexperience

along with it.

Now, though, the team appears to have the attitude of a conference champion and national contender. That coupled with a freshman putting up huge results for the No. 13 Sooners has this team right where it wants

to be. There is still time left in the season, though. And the Sooners are not worried about mid-season rankings or what the critics are saying.

“Regardless of what people say, our goal is to win it all,” Roddick said.

MILWAUKEE — Russell Westbrook scored 26 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder won their second straight game, beating the Milwaukee Bucks 109-89 Monday in a game that featured seven technical fouls and an ejection of Bucks backup forward Larry Sanders.

Sanders was ejected after earning a pair of technicals in the second half, while Mike Dunleavy, Brandon Jennings and coach Scott Skiles also were assessed technicals for Milwaukee. Oklahoma City’s Nazr Mohammed and Serge Ibaka also were called for technicals.

Kevin Durant added 19 for the Thunder. Oklahoma City came into Monday’s game trailing San Antonio by percentage points for the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference.

The Thunder beat the Bucks on the boards, outrebounding them 26-15 in the first half and 44-35 for the game.

With Oklahoma City already taking over the game in the first quarter, Westbrook hit a 3-pointer over Jennings — then paused to pantomime blowing smoke off his fingers and putting them back in holsters, a more-exaggerated-thanusual version of his celebration gesture.

Then Ibaka and Dunleavy got tangled up after a shot clock violation, with Ibaka standing over Dunleavy and keeping him down as he tried to get up off the floor. The two were separated and both assessed technicals.

The incidents didn’t do much to slow down the Thunder, who led 35-18 going into the second quarter and 61-47 at the half after Westbrook hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer.

With Milwaukee trailing by 12, Westbrook appeared to carry the ball right in front of the bench but it wasn’t called.

Skiles appeared to complain about the no-call and received a technical — as did Jennings immediately afterward.

Durant hit both foul shots, Westbrook scored and the Thunder led 82-66 with just over three minutes left in the third quarter.

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OU was selected as a No. 3 seed and will compete during the first semifinal session at 11 a.m. Friday at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth, Ga.

Oklahoma earned the three seed after an impressive showing at the Champaign, Ill., regional Saturday en route to a third straight regional title.

Competing along with the Sooners in the first session will be No. 2 UCLA, No. 6 Nebraska, No. 7 Utah, No. 10 Stanford and No. 11 LSU. The top three teams from each regional advance to the NCAA Super Six on April 21 for a shot at the NCAA title.

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Sooner shatters school record in javelin throw OU senior Brittany Borman set a new schoolbest mark with her victory in the javelin throw at Saturday’s Sun Angel Classic in Tempe, Ariz.

She set the record in her first throw of the competition with a mark of 194 feet, 11 inches. It tops the

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Oklahoma City Thunders’ Russell Westbrook (0) drives against Milwaukee Bucks’ Brandon Jennings during the first half Monday in Milwaukee. Oklahoma City won, 109-89.

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Most impressive about Borman’s new record is the fact that she did it in her first competition throw in the event all season.

Her throw Saturday set a Sun Angel Stadium facility and meet record and is tied for the 15th best throw in the world this year.

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