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Brazil trip approved for summer 2013 Program to take place over 4-week period next June ELYSSA SZKIRPAN Campus Reporter

OU students will have the opportunity to spend their summer studying in Brazil next year after an advisory committee approved a new program.

The Committee on Latin America, a regional advisory group the university works with to promote studyabroad opportunities, unanimously approved OU’s proposal to add the Brazil program, said Alice Kloker, OU Education Abroad director.

Committee officials encouraged faculty members to submit proposals for a 2013 journey trip, and professor

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Erika Larkins proposed Brazil as a location, Kloker said. “[Larkins] brings a great deal of expertise to this program, and it will be a tremendous opportunity for OU students to earn academic credit next summer in one of the most important countries in the world,” Kloker said.

Although the exact details of the program are still being worked out, the program is

set to take place over a fourweek period in June 2013.

The trip will be comparable in price to current Journey to Latin American programs, said Larkins, who is leading the trip.

Larkins is an anthropologist by training and has traveled to Brazil for research and recreation for almost 20 years, she said.

Visiting and studying Brazil

is important to succeed in the future, Larkins said.

“Brazil is the country of the future,” Larkins said. “By all indications, it’s going to be a world leader and economic powerhouse in the years to come. Knowing something about Brazilian history, language and culture is not just for those in majors directly centered on these topics but will make students studying

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Regents approve radar facility Construction on a new facility of the OU Radar Innovations Lab will begin this summer to increase the types of radar research at OU. The OU Board of Regents approved the project’s $15 million construction budget at the group’s March 29 meeting. The project will expand the current lab, located south of One Partners Place, to more than 36,000 square feet for researching and testing, according to the agenda.

Currently, OU and national severe storm labs have studied the use of radar for weather applications, said Robert Palmer, director of the Atmospheric Radar Research Center.

Meteorology and radar always have been the focus, but OU hired four new faculty in January to research radar in other fields, Palmer said.

“It will use the same technology but with new applications,” Palmer said. “We are leveraging the work we are doing in

the video and make a lineup decision, he said.

A student comes in and watches the mock crime video and then, after a distraction period, the person comes back and views the lineup video and tries to choose the suspect he or she thinks committed the crime, said Shannon Andersen, who assists Gronlund in this research.

Andersen recently received her master’s in cognitive psychology and is now pursuing a doctorate,

A conference originating from OU and intended to discuss race, social justice challenges and access to American higher education soon will convene in New York City.

The Annual National Conference for Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education will be held May 29 to June 2.

“I’ve worked on diversity in education in various situations, and at the time the question was, ‘How do we integrate and involve the different minorities?’” said James Pappas, OU vice president for University Ou t re a c h a n d d e a n o f t h e College of Liberal Studies.

To address this question, the Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies launched its first conference in 1988 to address the resurgence of racist incidents occurring on campuses across the United States.

“Minority groups felt isolated,” Pappas said. “One of our goals was to call everyone and be like, ‘How do we do that better?’”

The initial conference quickly showed results, he said.

“A whole bunch of diversityrelated positions were created and all the people wanting to know how to deal with these issues better became interested,” Pappas said.

When the event started 25 years ago, organizers had to find a bigger venue, Pappas said.

“A lot of people said they would rather come to a national one than small regional ones, and over the years, it has become a forum very well known and respected in the field.”

About 2,500 administrators, deans, faculty, minority affairs officials, campus life leaders and students are expected to attend the upcoming conference at the Marriott Marquis in New York’s Times Square.

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environmental engineering junior Spencer Shanbour considers chip options Wednesday at Xcetera. Shanbour’s shopping spree was funded by a freshman friends’ extra meal points. He bought several bottles of sports drinks and chips.

Sooners stock up on food before meal points disappear With finals just a few days away, students are scrambling to use their meal plan points before they disappear.

University meal plans roll over from the fall to spring semester based on the discretion of the Food Services director, but the points do not roll over from spring to the next fall semester, according to the Housing and Food Services website.

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Kennedy, a resident of Traditions Square apartments, said she started the semester with 2,000 points to pay for breakfast and lunch on campus.

“I still have about 700 points left, and I plan to spend them at Xcetera to stock up on nonperishables and around-thehouse items for my apartment,” Kennedy said.

Amy Buchanan, OU Housing and Food Services spokeswoman,

said Xcetera grossed more than $266,000 in April through meal plan points, as well as Sooner Sense and cash.

Xcetera has grossed more than $59,000 so far this week alone.

Buchanan said bulk items like water, drinks and snack items once again will be available for purchase at Xcetera from now until the end of finals.

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Study analyzes forms of eyewitness identification Witnesses more cautious, less willing to select subject in sequential lineups, professor finds ARIANNA PICKARD Campus Reporter

An OU professor is using psychology research to identify a more accurate form of eyewitness identification to prevent innocent people from being convicted.

OU psychology professor Scott Gronlund is researching and comparing two forms of eyewitness identification — sequential and simultaneous lineups — and

working to discover a more accurate form, he said.

For a simultaneous lineup, a witness chooses from several suspects lined up in front of him or her at once, Gronlund said. For a sequential lineup, the witness views only one suspect at a time until he or she recognizes the criminal.

Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions nationwide, playing

a role in more than 75 percent of convictions overturned through DNA testing, according to the Innocence Project website.

The Innocence Project has been working to prove prisoners innocent through DNA testing, according to its website.

“The goal is to try to develop better quality eyewitness identification that is less likely to send innocent people to jail,” Gronlund said.

To c o n d u c t t h i s re s e a rc h, Gronlund makes mock crime videos and presents them to student assistants who are asked to view

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There will be no language prerequisites, the program is open to all majors and Larkins will teach the two courses, she said. However, with Portuguese now being offered again in the fall term, some language background can only enhance student

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Wagner Hall will remain open 24 hours per day through May 11 to give students a place to study.

Students can reserve study rooms at uc.ou.edu.

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Today around campus A lecture about how American artists and critics perceived Disney animation as a new American art form will be at 6 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium.

The softball team will play the Texas Longhorns at 7 p.m. at Marita Hynes Field.

“Seussical the Musical,” performed by OU School of Musical Theatre students, begins at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center’s Rupel Jones Theatre. Admission is $35 for general admission, $25 for faculty and senior citizens and $15 for students.

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weather to expand the portfolio of research.”

Examples of new radar research include military, civil air and surveillance, Palmer said.

Nathan Goodman, electrical and computer engineering professor, was one of the four faculty members hired in January for his research in defense radar, Palmer said.

In the past, he has received grants from the Air Force, the Navy and other defense organizations for this type of research, Goodman said.

The facilities and opportunities to collaborate with other researchers were driving factors for his choice to come to OU, he said.

The current lab has been on the south research campus for about six years now, and researchers have been talking about expanding the building for about two years, Palmer said.

“Basically, it’s an office building, and we’re trying to do radar research in there,

Photo Provided

An artist’s rendering of the construction project, which will expand the current lab located south of One Partners Place. The updated lab will allow professors to conduct new radar research.

so it’s challenging,” Palmer said. “The expansion will make us, in my opinion, one of the best programs in the country.”

Included in the new facility will be more space to research, design, test and assemble radar equipment; office space for 20 researchers and 60 students; machine shops; test areas; and special chambers for

research, according to the regents agenda.

Goodman said his lab will benefit a lot from the new shops, test areas and chambers, he said.

“I basically have a homemade chamber that really isn’t as good as it should be,” Goodman said.

The building won’t have classroom spaces in it, but it will have room for 60

graduate students to conduct research in all areas of radar, Palmer said. Labs will provide hands-on education about radar and electronics.

The expansion is scheduled to end in fall or winter 2013, Palmer said.

Funding for the project has been identified from bonds, according to the regents’ agenda.

Brazil: Courses to be split between two cities Continued from page 1 experience.

More information about the trip is scheduled to be available to students later this summer on the Education Abroad website.

The program is currently set to take place between two cities in Brazil: Salvador da Bahia for the first two weeks and Rio de Janeiro for the second two weeks of the

program, Larkins said.

Salvador da Bahia in the Northeast of Brazil once was the colonial capital, she said. Here, students will study the early history, indigenous groups, slavery and emancipation.

Students also will study the Afro-Brazilian culture to learn about capoeira (a mixture of martial arts and music), regional cuisine and the practice of Africanderived religions.

Plans are being made for an excursion to a national park to study Brazil’s environmental movements and biodiversity, Larkins said.

In Rio de Janeiro, students will have the opportunity to learn about Carnaval (a festival), samba (a dance), soccer and the local beach culture, as well as exploring social problems in Brazil, she said.

The last weekend of the program may involve a service-learning opportunity

for students to team up with a local non-profit organization to alleviate poverty and improve healthcare.

Students in the program will post photos and writings on Facebook, Twitter and a travel blog to share the Brazilian experience with everyone, Larkins said.

“I love Brazil and really can’t wait to show students all the things that make it such a vibrant and unique place,” Larkins said.

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NCORE: Scholarships to cover conference cost Continued from page 1 workshops and hear speakers who are among the leading scholars and writers in education and diversity, according to a conference brochure.

In an effort to make the conference accessible to students, a scholarship has been made available to cover the up to $750 cost of registration, according to the brochure.

This year’s scholarship was won by OU adult and higher education doctoral students Moira Ozias and Rodney Bates.

“It’s the first time I had the opportunity to go to [the conference]. I’m really excited,” Ozias said. “It’ll allow me to connect with people in the country and in the world who study this, to be able to make a change and make a difference for the students here in OU.” Bates agreed.

“I desired to get knowledge about race, gender, equality and hope to learn the issues of access to minorities and how can I be a better agent of change,” he said. “Later, I intend to present ; I intend to be published.”

Sooner chosen for trip to Africa An OU student recently won the opportunity to take a trip to Africa and learn how to affect change.

Chegg, an online textbook rental company, and the ONE campaign chose Cate Lynn, microbiology junior, as one of eight students to travel to Zambia and South Africa this July at no cost.

From close to 5,000 applicants, Chegg and ONE selected Lynn because of

she said.

When Gronlund began conducting this research, he said people generally believed sequential lineups were better. When a witness is choosing from a simultaneous lineup, he or she is comparing the faces of the suspects and making decisions based on who is there.

When a witness is choosing from a sequential lineup, he or she compares the suspect’s face with the face in his or her memory instead of comparing the faces with other suspects, he said.

Gronlund wanted an explanation of why seBY THE NUMBERS quential lineups were Innocence considered better, he said.

After trying four or five Project different experiments, Posthe has not yet found an conviction explanation proving they DNA exonerations in the are better. Instead, he has United States since 1989 found they tend to make witnesses more cautious Of those 289 and less willing to choose exonerations, a suspect. number who were serving “It really became a fun time on death row project and turned out Source: Innocence Project to be more complex and complicated than we thought,” he said.

Although popular belief continues to spread across the country that sequential lineups lead to better accuracy in choosing a suspect, Gronlund said he found that all they lead to is more cautious choosing.

“Sequential lineups provide protection for the innocent, which we want, but also make it less likely to pick the guilty,” he said.

You have to consider which is more important: protecting the innocent or catching the guilty, he said.

Gronlund said he will continue to work on this debate, work to convince policy makers that sequential lineups aren’t better and move toward looking at new, accurate forms of eyewitness identification.

“This is worth pursuing because it has real-world consequences,” Andersen said.

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Education doctoral students Rodney Bates (left) and Moira Ozias discuss Wednesday their upcoming visit to the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education. Bates and Ozias received scholarships to travel to the conference later this month in New York.

The students admit they couldn’t have gone without the scholarship, and embrace this opportunity.

“I heard more about [the conference] in Kansas than here. I wish more people at OU knew how big of a deal it

is,” Ozias said.

And it is a big deal, Pappas said.

“I would like people to be able to think about their issues and that they need to realize how can we live better together as people

and how education can foster that,” Pappas said.

“Twenty-five years ago, we were learning how a society copes with diversity. It’s a whole different world now, and getting people to think about it is critical.”

her passion and interest in learning about the issues surrounding these countries, said Heather Porter, Chegg director of philanthropy.

Porter said Lynn was chosen in one round of the competition to attend a summit with the organization. Lynn came to the conference with limited knowledge of ONE, but gained knowledge and confidence after the first day.

“Cate stood out as if she were an expert,” Porter said.

“She had such a passion, very clear articulation and effort.”

Winners were selected based on essay and video

submissions and interaction at the summit, Porter said.

Lynn will travel to Africa with students from all over the nation on the trip from July 15 through July 25.

The students will meet with African students, visit health facilities and meet with community leaders to discuss poverty issues, according to a press release.

While on the trip, students will share their experiences on the ONE campaign’s blog.

“By seeing what’s actually happening over there … they can come back and sort

of inspire their campus and student base to get involved,” Porter said.

After returning, the students are expected to take their experiences from the trip and affect change from their communities, according to the release.

This includes political advocacy, raising awareness to senators and local representatives and remaining involved with ONE student organizations on their individual campuses, Porter said.

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Wagner Hall will remain open 24 hours per day through May 11 to give students a place to study.

Students can reserve study rooms at uc.ou.edu.

radar: Lab to be completed fall, winter of 2013 Continued from page 1

Today around campus A lecture about how American artists and critics perceived Disney animation as a new American art form will be at 6 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium.

The softball team will play the Texas Longhorns at 7 p.m. at Marita Hynes Field.

“Seussical the Musical,” performed by OU School of Musical Theatre students, begins at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center’s Rupel Jones Theatre. Admission is $35 for general admission, $25 for faculty and senior citizens and $15 for students.

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.

A Thursday news story, “Packages to boost spirits before finals,” misreported the room number for care package pickup. The correct room number is Couch Center, Room 131.

The Wednesday and Thursday Sooner Schedules misspelled “Seussical the Musical.”

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

weather to expand the portfolio of research.”

Examples of new radar research include military, civil air and surveillance, Palmer said.

Nathan Goodman, electrical and computer engineering professor, was one of the four faculty members hired in January for his research in defense radar, Palmer said.

In the past, he has received grants from the Air Force, the Navy and other defense organizations for this type of research, Goodman said.

The facilities and opportunities to collaborate with other researchers were driving factors for his choice to come to OU, he said.

The current lab has been on the south research campus for about six years now, and researchers have been talking about expanding the building for about two years, Palmer said.

“Basically, it’s an office building, and we’re trying to do radar research in there,

Photo Provided

An artist’s rendering of the construction project, which will expand the current lab located south of One Partners Place. The updated lab will allow professors to conduct new radar research.

so it’s challenging,” Palmer said. “The expansion will make us, in my opinion, one of the best programs in the country.”

Included in the new facility will be more space to research, design, test and assemble radar equipment; office space for 20 researchers and 60 students; machine shops; test areas; and special chambers for

research, according to the regents agenda.

Goodman said his lab will benefit a lot from the new shops, test areas and chambers, he said.

“I basically have a homemade chamber that really isn’t as good as it should be,” Goodman said.

The building won’t have classroom spaces in it, but it will have room for 60

graduate students to conduct research in all areas of radar, Palmer said. Labs will provide hands-on education about radar and electronics.

The expansion is scheduled to end in fall or winter 2013, Palmer said.

Funding for the project has been identified from bonds, according to the regents’ agenda.

Brazil: Courses to be split between two cities Continued from page 1 experience.

More information about the trip is scheduled to be available to students later this summer on the Education Abroad website.

The program is currently set to take place between two cities in Brazil: Salvador da Bahia for the first two weeks and Rio de Janeiro for the second two weeks of the

program, Larkins said.

Salvador da Bahia in the Northeast of Brazil once was the colonial capital, she said. Here, students will study the early history, indigenous groups, slavery and emancipation.

Students also will study the Afro-Brazilian culture to learn about capoeira (a mixture of martial arts and music), regional cuisine and the practice of Africanderived religions.

Plans are being made for an excursion to a national park to study Brazil’s environmental movements and biodiversity, Larkins said.

In Rio de Janeiro, students will have the opportunity to learn about Carnaval (a festival), samba (a dance), soccer and the local beach culture, as well as exploring social problems in Brazil, she said.

The last weekend of the program may involve a service-learning opportunity

for students to team up with a local non-profit organization to alleviate poverty and improve healthcare.

Students in the program will post photos and writings on Facebook, Twitter and a travel blog to share the Brazilian experience with everyone, Larkins said.

“I love Brazil and really can’t wait to show students all the things that make it such a vibrant and unique place,” Larkins said.

Friday, May 4, 2012 •

NCORE: Scholarships to cover conference cost Continued from page 1 workshops and hear speakers who are among the leading scholars and writers in education and diversity, according to a conference brochure.

In an effort to make the conference accessible to students, a scholarship has been made available to cover the up to $750 cost of registration, according to the brochure.

This year’s scholarship was won by OU adult and higher education doctoral students Moira Ozias and Rodney Bates.

“It’s the first time I had the opportunity to go to [the conference]. I’m really excited,” Ozias said. “It’ll allow me to connect with people in the country and in the world who study this, to be able to make a change and make a difference for the students here in OU.” Bates agreed.

“I desired to get knowledge about race, gender, equality and hope to learn the issues of access to minorities and how can I be a better agent of change,” he said. “Later, I intend to present ; I intend to be published.”

Sooner chosen for trip to Africa An OU student recently won the opportunity to take a trip to Africa and learn how to affect change.

Chegg, an online textbook rental company, and the ONE campaign chose Cate Lynn, microbiology junior, as one of eight students to travel to Zambia and South Africa this July at no cost.

From close to 5,000 applicants, Chegg and ONE selected Lynn because of

she said.

When Gronlund began conducting this research, he said people generally believed sequential lineups were better. When a witness is choosing from a simultaneous lineup, he or she is comparing the faces of the suspects and making decisions based on who is there.

When a witness is choosing from a sequential lineup, he or she compares the suspect’s face with the face in his or her memory instead of comparing the faces with other suspects, he said.

Gronlund wanted an explanation of why seBY THE NUMBERS quential lineups were Innocence considered better, he said.

After trying four or five Project different experiments, Posthe has not yet found an conviction explanation proving they DNA exonerations in the are better. Instead, he has United States since 1989 found they tend to make witnesses more cautious Of those 289 and less willing to choose exonerations, a suspect. number who were serving “It really became a fun time on death row project and turned out Source: Innocence Project to be more complex and complicated than we thought,” he said.

Although popular belief continues to spread across the country that sequential lineups lead to better accuracy in choosing a suspect, Gronlund said he found that all they lead to is more cautious choosing.

“Sequential lineups provide protection for the innocent, which we want, but also make it less likely to pick the guilty,” he said.

You have to consider which is more important: protecting the innocent or catching the guilty, he said.

Gronlund said he will continue to work on this debate, work to convince policy makers that sequential lineups aren’t better and move toward looking at new, accurate forms of eyewitness identification.

“This is worth pursuing because it has real-world consequences,” Andersen said.

289

Kingsley Burns/The Daily

Education doctoral students Rodney Bates (left) and Moira Ozias discuss Wednesday their upcoming visit to the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education. Bates and Ozias received scholarships to travel to the conference later this month in New York.

The students admit they couldn’t have gone without the scholarship, and embrace this opportunity.

“I heard more about [the conference] in Kansas than here. I wish more people at OU knew how big of a deal it

is,” Ozias said.

And it is a big deal, Pappas said.

“I would like people to be able to think about their issues and that they need to realize how can we live better together as people

and how education can foster that,” Pappas said.

“Twenty-five years ago, we were learning how a society copes with diversity. It’s a whole different world now, and getting people to think about it is critical.”

her passion and interest in learning about the issues surrounding these countries, said Heather Porter, Chegg director of philanthropy.

Porter said Lynn was chosen in one round of the competition to attend a summit with the organization. Lynn came to the conference with limited knowledge of ONE, but gained knowledge and confidence after the first day.

“Cate stood out as if she were an expert,” Porter said.

“She had such a passion, very clear articulation and effort.”

Winners were selected based on essay and video

submissions and interaction at the summit, Porter said.

Lynn will travel to Africa with students from all over the nation on the trip from July 15 through July 25.

The students will meet with African students, visit health facilities and meet with community leaders to discuss poverty issues, according to a press release.

While on the trip, students will share their experiences on the ONE campaign’s blog.

“By seeing what’s actually happening over there … they can come back and sort

of inspire their campus and student base to get involved,” Porter said.

After returning, the students are expected to take their experiences from the trip and affect change from their communities, according to the release.

This includes political advocacy, raising awareness to senators and local representatives and remaining involved with ONE student organizations on their individual campuses, Porter said.

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Great Home Cooking You’ve Been Missing!

Open Tues-Sat 11am-8pm 100 S. Main Street Noble, OK 405.872.0303 kendallsrestaurant.com

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This year, more than

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8am - 12noon

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A compromise is not an ending Tuition hikes, cuts Our View: Gender-neutral housing compromise Though we urge Boren to do as much as he is a great first step, but it’s not enough. thinks he can get away with in this political climate to improve the housing system and proPresident David Boren soon may agree to tect vulnerable students — and to give the freea compromise with members of the Genderdom of choice to any student who wants to live Neutral Housing Coalition, The Daily reported in a mixed-gender environment — he should Thursday. Students from the coalition met with know that this isn’t over.

Boren on Wednesday and said while the presiStudents will not stop calling for gender-neudent expressed concerns about implementtral housing, and neither will we. We hope the ing the full policy now, he was open to some administration will remain as open to working policy changes that could improve the housing on this issue in the future. Administrators cansituation. not let the political climate pressure them into In this political climate and considering the suppressing or ignoring this issue. complexity of this issue, we understand the But students, this all depends on you. It startneed for compromise. Boren already has done ed with you when a group of students came more than many university presidents. together to express concerns with the current Although those meetings were closed — housing system and suggest a solution. It will keeping the student body from being involved continue only with your involvement. Many in a discussion that will affect them and eradi- of the leaders of the Gender-Neutral Housing cating any possibility of holding both parties Coalition are graduating this month, and they accountable — simply by meeting with stumust pass this effort on to a new generation of dents and hearing their concerns, Boren has passionate students. started a process from which real change may So, if you care about creating a safe space develop. for GLBT, gender-queer and otherwise enIf he takes steps to improve the housing sys- dangered students, or if you simply believe all tem for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and students should have the free choice of whom otherwise queer students, and opens more to live with, go to OUDaily.com to find more inhousing choices for all students, it will go a long formation about how to get involved. way toward fulfilling the coalition’s goals.

But compromises are only a first step.

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OU made the right choice bringing back Portuguese OU once again will offer Portuguese language courses starting this fall, The Daily reported Wednesday. Paul Bell, College of Arts and Sciences dean, said student interest inspired the return of the program after a two-semester hiatus.

We’re glad to see the university recognize the importance of this widely spoken language. Brazil is the sixth-largest world economy, creating a demand for Portuguese speakers. This language, more specialized than the more popular languages taught at OU, could be a huge boon to students’ hireability.

Not to mention, it’s difficult to build a Brazilian studies program without Portuguese courses.

But this addition isn’t permanent. The courses were brought back due to student demand, and they will survive and thrive only as long as student interest remains.

Consider taking Portuguese to fill your language requirement. Portuguese opens doors to study or visit beautiful, diverse Brazil, and it gives you a chance to study an interesting culture that has an increasing presence on the world stage.

Today marks the deadline for most students’ course evaluations. Evaluations can seem like a distraction from all the work at the end of the semester, but students can’t forget evaluations’ key role.

This is your chance to give feedback that could change the future of a course and influence the teaching style of a professor. The results are archived and used in administrative evaluations of professors. They can be used to decide on changes to specific courses.

If you want OU and your specific courses to best serve students, you have to tell professors and the administration how they might do so. Plus, it’s an easy way to reward inspiring professors and chastise those who made your life hell.

Don’t forget that evaluations were instituted in response to students’ demands for a greater voice.

Those students fought to have their opinions taken into account; current students don’t have to.

So take a few minutes to go to eval.ou.edu today and fill out your course evaluations. It will help OU improve and provide you with a convenient break from finals studying. And who knows; maybe you’ll win that iPad.

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rom all across the state, 18pure orange juice.

Opinion columnist wheeler trucks pulling cold In order to improve milk, we must steel trailers pour in. Miles of improve cows. tubes pump the raw material into the The first step in this process is simbowels of the factory to be processed. ple: When a cow is taken off its corn The yellowish liquid is heated and based diet and onto a grass diet, it spun through centrifuges before sheds the majority of bacteria that exheading to packaging. By this time, the ists in its body. liquid is white as snow and ready to Even in worst-case scenarios, raw Mark Brockway be shipped off in a bevy of plastic conlocal milk only has the potential to mark.d.brockway@ou.edu tainers to houses all over the country. harm a small number of people who Pasteurized, homogenized, fortified consume milk from a specific farm. milk from the factory is poured over cereal, made into In a large production facility, the potential for harm is ice cream and drank right out of the jug in millions of much greater. households, but the liquid in the bottle has been so alAccording to the Federal Drug Administration’s tered from its original form it cannot be called milk. website, only 800 people have become ill from conCows produce milk; factories do not. suming raw milk since 1998. To put this number in Before the industrial revolution, around the turn of perspective, the Centers for Disease Control and the century, the only milk that was available was raw, Prevention estimates that 1 in 6 Americans — or 76 unpasteurized milk. Millions of people drank it. No million people — get food poisoning each year. You one ever questioned what milk was. are far more likely to be struck by lightning than get All this changed in 1864, when Louis Pasteur infood poisoning from raw milk. vented a way to heat liquids in order to kill potentially When consumers begin to purchase milk from harmful bacteria and keep the liquids fresher. small, local farms, the supply of milk will increase with What Pasteur did not know was that his invention the demand. Milk production on the farm will grow as would radically change the way milk would be probusiness shifts to raw milk just as it did with its move cessed. This event altered the definition of milk from to the factories. Preservation of nature’s design can raw to pasteurized. Shortly after, states began creating only be achieved when we remove the process that laws banning the sale of raw milk to consumers. corrodes milk into a shadow of the original product.

Modern milk is a product of the methods of the inA clear demonstration of milk’s inherent values will dustrial revolution. Cows are fed a diet that is based be made by allowing it to speak for itself. In Oklahoma, in corn. They congregate on huge feedlots in unsaniit is only illegal for a farmer to transport raw milk, but tary conditions. The same decrepit conditions that farmers can sell it directly from the farm. A turn off spurred pasteurization still exist today. Pasteurization the highway and around the bend to the local farm or is only necessary because the bacteria counts in the farmers market is all that is required. milk product are so high.

The modern glass of pasteurized product is as simiMark Brockway is a political science junior. lar to milk as Sunny Delight juice drink is to a glass of

needed to cover costs

I was surprised and disappointed by the May 1 editorial in The Daily.

I can only conclude that the writer or writers did not attend my open budget discussion or read my full-page open letter to students.

As I pointed out, since 1980, the percentage of OU’s budget coming from the state has gone from 38 percent to 17 percent. The gap has been largely filled by tuition and fees going up from 10 percent of the budget to almost 28 percent. If this trend continues for 10 or 20 more years, there will be nothing left of “public” higher education.

Already, our medical school receives less than 7 percent of its funding from the state. Where was the call to action in the editorial to help save public higher education for current students and for the next generation?

We are truly at a defining moment for our state and nation.

In addition, the editorial erroneously stated that we only have had one decrease in our state appropriation in the last 19 years. The OU Fact Book, based on State Regents data, shows that we had a cut of $16 million in 2003, a cut of another $10 million in 2004, a cut of $10 million in 2010 and a cut of $13 million in 2011.

None of these figures included tens of millions of dollars in uncompensated fixed costs for items like health insurance, which OU can’t control. In many more years, our appropriations were not enough to cover these costs.

Second, the editorial said that I should be candid and open with students. In fact, I set out exactly what I know. Right now, we have more than $8 million in fixed costs increases. I have been provided with no funds to cover these expenses. In addition, we could receive a $2.5 million additional cut if the Legislature and governor do not make permanent some temporary funds they gave us last year.

Over the next two or three weeks, the governor and the Legislature will decide whether to cover these costs. If they do not cover them, it would take a tuition increase of 5-6 percent to cover this amount, or it will require $8 million to $10 million in budget cuts on campus — or a combination of the two.

I can only tell the OU community what I know. Let us hope that these costs will be covered since we already have absorbed more than $100 million in cuts and fixed costs increases over the last three years.

Students and their families, faculty and staff should let our elected officials know how they feel.

Finally, it is absolutely true that over the last 18 years, we have added new programs and facilities. To achieve excellence, we have had to take care of deferred maintenance and add new facilities. We’ve also added programs like the Honors College, the College of International Studies, study abroad scholarships, the reinstatement of the debate program, a new religious studies program and countless others. We are proud of the fact that we constantly seek to enrich the educational experience of our students. We must never stop trying to get better each year.

Our students deserve the best possible education.

OU President David Boren

Letter to the editor

We must advocate for our education, future It’s time to ask a question: How much do we value our education, our university and our futures?

Four decades ago, students rallied on campus and at the Capitol; they held deep convictions, knowing the need for action both to preserve and better their way of life. Our parents’ generation, at our age, took action en masse to protest and rally for one another.

The difference between our state officials and us is one of passion and apathy. It makes sense that those most passionate are the ones who run for office. What does not make sense is when the people negatively affected by their actions do not show concern. Even now, as the state budget approaches the floor of our Legislature, little more than yesterday’s Daily editorial is being done.

Colleges and departments here at OU are talking: What will we have to cut now? Who won’t be returning with us next fall?

As OU President David Boren said Monday, we have made cuts trying not to hinder the academic mission of the university. Now, we’re cutting into muscle. We need to look at the cuts made to the Women’s and Gender Studies program. And what action have we, as students, taken?

It’s time to advocate and to affect. We must do more than complain.

Our generation is plagued by the false philosophy, “Someone else will take care of it.” Sadly, it may take seeing our university stripped clean of what makes it great to compel us to act.

One thing is clear: Someone else may be acting, but someone else is not taking care of it. Our university can only cut so much. Our university has acted. Now, it’s our turn — not just for us, but for our brothers and sisters who want to attend college, for the students we’ll one day produce and for the future of this university, state and country.

It’s as easy as sending an email or calling a legislator. And while we have been doing nothing, we have forced our administrators, professors and mentors to cut their colleagues’ jobs and dismantle crucial programs.

We must change our attitude from “Someone else will take care of it” to “I will take care of it.” I will try my best to continue advocating for students and the institution of higher education, but at the end of the day, I am one vote. I am one phone call. I am one email. We are 24,000 votes.

We are 24,000 phone calls. We are 24,000 emails.

Sounds impressive, right? It can be.

We have been told for years that one day we will inherit these colossal problems prior generations have left for us. Until now, it has seemed both terrifying and exciting — a chance for us to prove ourselves as a great generation.

I hope pre-finals week is treating you well. Just keep in mind that your stressful highly-caffeinated late-night lifestyle this week can only happen because you can still afford to be here. It all boils down to one question, “How much do you value our education and our future?”

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Bowlsby new head of Big 12 Former Stanford AD hired to be commissioner STANFORD, Calif. — A teary-eyed Bob Bowlsby walked out of a Stanford auditorium to a roaring ovation from university coaches and staff members Thursday, leaving behind a lasting legacy at one of the nation’s top athletic programs for a conference in desperate need of a strong leader.

The Big 12 Conference made it official in the afternoon, announcing Bowlsby as its commissioner. He will take over for interim Commissioner Chuck Neinas — who replaced the ousted Dan Beebe in September — on June 15 after six years as Stanford’s athletic director.

“The institutions of the Big 12 wanted a commissioner that could take us to the next era as a conference,” said Burns Hargis, president of Oklahoma State and chairman of the conference’s board of directors. “The search committee looked for a candidate that has a vision for the next generation of college athletics, and his credentials and ideas exceeded this.”

Bowlsby will lead a BCS conference that seems to have found some stability.

After losing four schools over the past two years, the league heads into this fall with 10 members, including new additions TCU and West Virginia. The conference also is working on a new television deal that could reshape revenue similar to the Pac12’s lucrative contract.

The 60-year-old Bowlsby had passed up several chances to leave Stanford over the years. He’s a nationally respected college administrator who was hired away from Iowa in 2006 after 15 years

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Thunder’s James Harden added to finalists for Olympic team The U.S. has added college player of the year Anthony Davis and Oklahoma City’s James Harden to its pool of finalists for its Olympic men’s basketball roster.

After losing Dwight Howard and Derrick Rose to their injury list, the Americans are back to 18 healthy players in the pool, allowing for a 12-man roster and six alternates.

Davis led Kentucky to the NCAA championship, winning the Most Outstanding Player award at the Final Four, and is expected to be the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft. Harden, a guard, is one of the NBA’s top sixth men.

The final roster has to be selected by June 18.

The remaining healthy finalists are: James Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Dwyane Harden Wade, Chris Bosh, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Blake Griffin, Russell Westbrook, Tyson Chandler, Kevin Love, Andre Iguodala, Rudy Gay, Eric Gordon and Lamar Odom — though his status is uncertain after his poor season that resulted in the Dallas Mavericks deactivating him.

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Former Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby talks during a news conference Jan. 13 in Stanford, Calif.

Bowlsby has accepted the Big 12 Conference commissioner job to replace the ousted Dan Beebe, the conference officially announced Thursday afternoon.

AT A GLANCE Bob Bowlsby • Announced as the new commissioner of the Big 12 Conference on Thursday • Spent six years as Stanford’s athletic director • Spent 15 years at Iowa prior to Stanford

spent running the Hawkeyes’ athletic department.

“I have been honored to have served Stanford University. It has been a productive and an enjoyable period of time and Stanford will always be a part of me,” Bowlsby said in a statement.

Success on The Farm blossomed during Bowlsby’s tenure.

Of all the decisions he made at Stanford, though, fans will forever remember his hiring of coach Jim

Harbaugh in 2006 most.

Harbaugh built the football program into a national power, winning the Orange Bowl over Virginia Tech in 2011 and finishing fourth in the final AP poll.

It was the program’s best ranking since the unbeaten 1940 team finished second.

Bigger challenges lie ahead for Bowlsby in the Midwest.

The Big 12 was hit hard two years ago and wound up losing Nebraska to the Big Ten, Colorado to the Pac-12 and, as of July 1, Texas A&M and Missouri to the Southeastern Conference. Beebe was booted in September as Oklahoma, Texas and others were flirting with the Pac-12 and the Big 12 seemed on the brink of falling apart.

The conference is reportedly working toward a new television deal with ESPN, and Neinas was pushing members to agree to a long-

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term grant of media rights to the league that would make it all but impossible for schools to bolt. No deal has been struck yet, but that will likely be among the first items on the agenda for Bowlsby.

T h a t ’s s o m e t h i n g h e worked closely with Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott to accomplish.

After reaching a 12-year contract worth about $3 billion last year with Fox and ESPN, the Pac-12 announced plans to launch a new conference-owned network to supplement coverage and create more exposure for Pac-12 athletes.

“We’re sorry to see him go, but this is a tremendous opportunity for him, and we wish him and the Big 12 all the best,” Stanford Provost and acting President John Etchemendy said in a statement.

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Men’s basketball

Oklahoma State player accused of inappropriately touching 2 women A Payne County judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors who have accused an Oklahoma State basketball player of inappropriately touching two women at an off-campus party also can question two additional women who claim they were groped the same night.

District Judge Phillip Corley said prosecutors can present testimony from two women who claim they were groped by 22-year-old Darrell Williams during the December 2010 party. Williams, who has been indefinitely suspended from the team, has pleaded not guilty to four counts of rape by instrumentation and one count of sexual battery.

Assistant District Attorney Jill Tontz told Corley the women did not immediately report the incident as a crime to law enforcement authorities, so no charges were filed.

“This defendant was sexually touching Darrell people throughout the evening,” Tontz told Williams Corley. She said the women were touched on their breasts and buttocks, and their testimony during Williams’ trial will help jurors put Williams’ alleged conduct in context. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday.

Williams’ attorney, Cheryl Ramsey, objected to the testimony and said it could be unfairly prejudicial to Williams.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s a crime,” Ramsey said. She also questioned whether one of the women can identify Williams as the person who touched her.

“She doesn’t know who did it,” Ramsey said.

The Associated Press

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Sooner sports With dead week nearly behind you, all you have to do is conquer your finals before you can head into summer. As you prepare to take down those exams, here are a few ways you can take a break this weekend and keep from having an end-of-semester meltdown before the final push.

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With finals around the corner, you may want to consider adopting a new kind of drink into your routine — tea.

Tea comes in various forms: iced tea, sweet tea, black tea, green tea, breakfast tea. The variety of types and uses goes on.

Tea is more than a healthful drink or a bedtime routine — it is a culture all its own that spans across countries, said Alan Atkinson, art and art history professor. “In all nations where tea is drunk, it has come to represent a quiet moment of civility — a time to sit and reflect on the shared pleasure of the human condition,� he said.

Atkinson is a self-taught guru and lover of tea. “Whether you are eating a watercress sandwich and sipping tea with milk out of a bone china cup in England, or strong, sweet, mint-flavored tea in a Bedouin tent in North Africa, or having a tall, cool glass of sweet iced tea around your backyard pool — tea offers all humanity a moment to stop and savor life’s pleasure,� he said.

In many cultures, tea is a part of elaborate ceremonies and rituals. Atkinson said many people might be familiar with Japanese tea ceremonies, where serving tea has become an art form. “Being able to serve tea according to the rules of Chado [or “the Way of Tea�] requires that kind of practice in order to be able to show your heart simply through your preparation of tea for your guests,� he said.

The Japanese aren’t the only culture with elaborate tea ceremonies.

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Tea is a healthful way to stay energized during finals week. The drink, with many health properties, is an important part of many cultures and is enjoyed in different ways around the world.

“Tea is also an almost universal sign of hospitality — this is probably the most important aspect of the tea ceremony. It symbolizes our willingness to sit face-to-face with another human, perhaps a stranger, and treat them with kindness and respect.�

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“The Chinese have an equally elaborate, but very different style of tea ceremony — as do the Russians, the English and many Arab countries,� Atkinson said.

Despite the cultural differences in these ceremonies, they are united in the symbolism of tea, he said. “Tea is also an almost universal sign of hospitality — this is probably the most important aspect of the tea ceremony,� Atkinson said. “It symbolizes our willingness to sit face-to-face with

another human, perhaps a stranger, and treat them with kindness and respect.�

Atkinson affectionately describes tea as the cup of humanity.

Ceremony aside, tea is known for its health benefits, he said. “It is well established that tea has powerful antioxidant properties that help combat the damaging effects of free radicals in our bodies,�

Atkinson said.

He cited numerous studies in Asia and in the West that

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have shown that tea helps control cholesterol, blood pressure, and can even decrease your chances of getting cancer. “There is also the health benefit that most Western drinkers are looking for, it contains caffeine in an easily controllable dose,� Atkinson said. “It helps people stay alert and focused for those long nights of studying for finals for example.�

If you want to stay awake, Atkinson recommends a good strong cup of black tea — preferably from Assam in India.

For those of you unable to get to India, stick with a strong black brew in general.

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My dad was born in the Republic of the Congo and is half Coco Courtois Congolese, which oudaily.co.co@gmail.com makes me one-quarter Congolese and threequarters French. I grew up with my grandma cooking traditional Congolese food for the whole family on Sundays. I always loved the different tastes and, even if I can’t sum up all the Congolese food in a single article, I can show you this one recipe that has always been my favorite.

It was passed to my mom by my grandma, and now I’m the one cooking it — proudly representing the family heritage.

The dish is a peanut butter chicken stew. It’s important to know there is a variety of peanut butter outside of the American classic — a non-sweet version, called Dakatine, is used as a condiment in a lot of the WestAfrican countries. This delicious stew is served with fried plantains, rice and a hot pepper sauce.

To make this meal for six people you’ll need: • A whole chicken, smoked if possible (or just the legs, it’s easier to cook) • A jar of creamy peanut butter (It’s important that the peanut butter is not crunchy, otherwise the chunks will fall down and burn for an unpleasant taste.) • 1 big onion • 3 cloves or garlic • 1 tomato (and some tomato paste if you have it) • 1 red bell pepper • 4 plantains • Rice (about 3 cups for six) For the hot pepper sauce you’ll need : • 2 small red peppers • half an onion • 2 cloves of garlic Start by cutting the chicken into large pieces and browning it in butter until the meat whitens, then set aside.

Chop your onion, garlic and bell pepper, then cook them in the chicken’s grease on low heat. When it has melted a little, add the diced tomato and a few spoonfuls of tomato paste. Add salt and pepper to taste.

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While you let it simmer a few minutes, bring a cup of water to boil and add a few generous spoonfuls of peanut butter to your stew, followed by the cup of boiling water. It really depends how thick you want the stew to be, but generally, three or four good spoonfuls should be good. You can add more water or peanut butter as suits your taste.

Put the chicken back in the pot, cover it and let it simmer at a low heat for about 20 to 30 minutes.

Stir from time to time and don’t hesitate to taste, you can always add more salt, or a little more peanut butter if it’s not thick enough — but be careful, the taste becomes stronger as the stew thickens.

After about 20 minutes, take the chicken legs out and remove the tender meat from the bones, then put it back in the pot for a few more minutes. You can start cooking your rice now so it will be done where everything will be ready. Follow the instructions on the box.

While you wait for it to finish, fry some oil — any oil except olive oil will work — in a big pan, cut your plantains in thick slices, and fry them until they are golden brown, but not crispy. Don’t forget to flip them to cook both sides.

For the hot pepper sauce, just chop the half onion, two garlic cloves and the red hot peppers in little pieces, and brown them in oil until it becomes a kind of a paste, which you can blend if necessary.

Carefully put some of the sauce on the side of the plate to dip your food in from time to time. Then garnish your plate with a base of rice, the meat and sauce

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Now before you take a bite, close your eyes, imagine a gazelle running in the savanna a few miles away from where you live; a group of women crushing the cassava leaves in a giant wooden mortar — singing and dancing to invite the neighbors to come share a meal ; the music and the joy felt on a warm night, eating outside with your friends and family. Got it ? Now take a bite.

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