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License agreement under fire New initiative that decreases licensees accuseed of violating antitrust laws ENJOLI DI PATRI

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OU’s new licensing initiative, which would reduce licenses held by manufacturers in an effort to produce consistent OU branded goods, is coming under fire for possibly violating antitrust laws, according to a letter sent to the athletic department.

Steven Bradbury of Dechert LLP issued a letter to 27 universities — incuding OU — demanding they “cease and desist from implementing or maintaining the Sideline +1

initiative.” In the letter, Bradbury accuses Sideline +1 of being an “anticompetitive restraint of trade.”

OU’s Trademark Advisory Committee decided to enter into the Sideline +1 agreement, which went into effect July 1, OU licensing director Renata Hays said. The initiative limits the number of licensees in some of the men’s apparel departments.

Bradbury accuses OU of working with other universities to supress competition by decreasing the amounts of licenses held by manufacturers.

“While an individual licensor is free to choose how to license its trademarks, the antitrust laws prohibit licensors from acting in

concert to suppress competition in markets for licensed goods,” Bradbury said in his letter.

However, OU licensing director Renata Hays refutes Bradbury’s allegations and said OU did not get together with other schools when deciding to enter into the Sideline +1 agreement.

“We always do what’s in the best interest of the university, our fans and our licensing department,” Hays said. “We didn’t speak to any other schools in the process.”

When The Daily requested docuements pertaining to the Sideline +1 initiative, no correspodence between other universities was found.

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MONEY

Tuition law helps military families Oklahoma students who have lost or will lose parents during active combat to receive waiver ENJOLI DI PATRI

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Lisa Dooley wraps produce for a customer on July 9 during the Cleveland County Fairgrounds Farmers’ Market. Norman residents can visit the market to find fresh produce and goods produced by local farmers. The market takes place every Wednesday and Saturday from April to the last Saturday of October. The next market will begin Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon.

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HOUSING

A new law that will provide free tuition in Oklahoma to children of troops killed in active military service is expected to apply to 130 to 150 students.

The Heroes Promise Act, which will provide up to 48 college hours of free tuition, went into effect July 1, but it will retroactively apply to any current incoming students whose parent was killed since Jan. 1, 2000, said Eric Bradshaw, Oklahoma House of Representatives media specialist.

Since the begining of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, about 100 Oklahomans have died, according to The Washington Post.

The act applies to all Oklahoma colleges and universities.

“Nothing we can do will ever replace loss of a Mom or Dad who died for our country,” said Oklahoma Rep. Eric Proctor, D-Tulsa. “However, we have a moral obligation to help the children of our fallen soldiers attain their dreams.”

Proctor co-wrote House Bill 1343 with Oklahoma Sen. Tom Ivester, D-Sayre.

“My greatest concern as a soldier would be that my family was taken care of should I die,” Ivester said.

The tuition program could cost the state around $100,000 a year, but not until qualifying children are able to attend college, according to the Oklahoma policy website.

“The children need to know that the people of Oklahoma love them and will never forget their family’s sacrifice,” Proctor said.

COMMUNITY

Condos built to withstand noise Business owner uses

beef to provide relief

New housing being built near OU’s campus using sound suppresion to help residents

A team of employees from Rudy’s Country Store and Bar-B-Q restaurant traveled to Joplin, Mo., to aid the devastated city

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An OU graduate is building new condos next to campus that are constructed with noise-suppresion materials to combat sounds produced by Norman’s frequent trains while offering students and buyers a home close to campus.

The new Loft 401 condominiums, located near the corner of Classen Boulevard and Boyd Street, are slated to open for residents in August.

More than half the units in the four-story building have already been sold, according to the Loft 401 website.

Despite being located so close to the OU campus, Loft 401 stands right next to a railroad track.

Sarah Danner, a senior who hopes to transfer to OU in the fall, bought her condo when she returned to Norman after living in Oklahoma City.

Danner said when she visited the construction site to see how her condo was coming along, she couldn’t hear the train very much.

“The reality is that living in

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A sign advertising the new condos adorns the currently-underconstruction buildings. The lofts should be open to residents in August.

Norman, no matter what, you’re going to hear the train,” Danner said.

The building is equipped with features to alleviate noise, said Julie Shubert, Loft 401 sales and marketing member.

Loft 401 is constructed on a concrete podium that decreases sound transmission, Shubert said.

Also, sound caulking is used at any points of penetration in the

A LOOK AT WHAT’S ON A temporary emergency system will be tested Tuesday to make way for a new, permanent warning system.

drywall, and a Saflex interlayer in the windows will provide noise reduction compared to ordinary glass windows, she said.

Mark Risser, a graduate from the OU College of Architecture, had the vision of building a place to live in Norman that was within walking distance from campus.

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When the general manager of Rudy’s Country Store and Bar-B-Q, a store employee and the store’s area director took 80 pounds of barbecue to Joplin, Mo., to feed police officers, they were unprepared for the sheer amount of destruction.

“As we pulled into town, I thought, we’d seen this on the news, but that didn’t do it justice,” Rudy’s employee Mike Greenleaf said.

Joplin, Mo., was hit by an EF5 tornado on May 23 that killed more than 150 people and devastated the city. The Rudy’s team headed to Joplin July 8, more than a month after the tornado struck the city.

As the team began distributing food and talking to the officers, they found out more and more of what the community lost, Greenleaf said.

“We saw the town displaced, the community ripped apart,” Greenleaf said.

Area Director Doug Vydrzal said the police officers were very appreciative of the team’s efforts.

“It was amazing that we were able to help them out,” Vydrzal said.

In addition to the 80 pounds of barbecue, Rudy’s donated $7,500 to the Joplin chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, Vydrzal said.

Mike Chapman, Rudy’s General Manager, said he decided to provide aid for the Joplin police because the police were in need.

Joplin needed help, so Rudy’s provided it, Chapman said.

Greenleaf said he and Chapman performed a similar act for the police officers of Moore after the May 3 tornado in 1999.

Greenleaf said that in both cases, he and Chapman were playing only a small part in the relief effort.

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• Thursday, July 21, 2011

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STEPHEN COLBERT (“The Colbert Report,” Tuesday)

EDITORIAL

Coburn’s plan a bold move Our View: Tom Coburn’s proposed deficit reduction plan won’t pass, but it’s a good step.

But Coburn’s plan will not pass. The cuts to military spending and corporate tax loopholes won’t be supported by most Republicans, and the cuts On Monday, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., released a to welfare programs won’t be supported by most deficit reduction plan that would save $9 trillion dur- Democrats. But it does have the potential to change ing the next 10 years. the conversation about reducing the deficit.

His plan easily qualifies as the most amWe need to start asking whether we can bitious of all deficit-reduction plans being afford our foreign policies, and Republicans The Our View discussed, but it’s sad none of our politineed to realize tax increases are a necessary is the majority and fair part of any deficit-reduction plan. cians are actively discussing its content with opinion of Americans or each other.

Coburn’s plan makes meaningful conThe Daily’s There’s a lot in Coburn’s plan not to tributions to both of those ends. Pointing five-member like. The cuts to social security, Medicare out the potential savings that can be gained editorial board and Medicaid are painful. Medicare and by cutting military spending will hopeMedicaid would lose $2.6 trillion by shifting fully start an overdue conversation about costs from the government to the people, according whether we can afford to be dropping bombs in to Politico. six different countries at the same time (Pakistan, For OU students, the big news about this plan is Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and Libya). it seeks to end most federal student loans. Last year Coburn’s proposed tax revenue, on the other alone, 15 million college students took advantage of hand, gives conservative Republicans cover to allow loan programs that this plan would cut, according to more revenue to be collected through taxes.

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Coburn has acknowledged his plan can’t be Cutting from education, as we have argued in the passed. It’s sad our political climate allows a politipast, is its own financial burden. Poor education in cian to work hard to enrich the debate on deficit the U.S. creates a deficit much more difficult to fix reduction only to know ahead of time all his efforts than the one we’re dealing with now. won’t even be discussed.

That said, there is a lot to like about this plan. It We applaud Coburn’s willingness to take on the proposes to cut $1 trillion from the Pentagon and tough topics of defense spending and corporate tax will raise a trillion more by cutting corporate tax breaks. He also deserves credit for being willing to loopholes such as ethanol subsidies. cross party lines. Washington could use more of that Both these moves deserve a great deal of praise, kind of attitude. especially coming from a politician with such strong Comment on this at OUDaily.com conservative credentials.

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Google Plus maintains company’s princples Google Plus, the first plausible Facebook-killer, STAFF COLUMN is in the process of expanding across the Internet.

Zac Smith Even in its current trial phase, Google’s social-networking site has acquired more than 10 million users.

Google Plus is, in many ways, defined in opposition to Facebook. While Facebook has become known for its remarkably blasé attitude to user privacy, Google Plus has emphasized the privacy its users ostensibly enjoy.

In a broader sense, Google Plus attracts the many people who have been roped into using Facebook by its ubiquity despite their frustration with Facebook.

Google Plus is fast, simple and trustworthy, just like the rest of the Google brand.

The public impression of Google is a unique company that defies corporate stereotypes. As Google’s statement of principles says, “You can make money without doing evil.”

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LIFE&ARTS

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MUSIC TECHNOLOGY

James Corley, campus life editor dailyent@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-5189

BOOKS

Cloud options vary in services Schools may be

jails, author says

New advances in technology lift audio libraries onto Internet

Journalist Annette Fuentes new book takes a look at how schoolhouses may represent jailhouses

JAMES CORLEY

The Oklahoma Daily

The abacus was trumped by the calculator, the calculator was trumped by the computer, the computer was trumped by the Internet and the Internet was trumped by... the cloud?

The newest fad in information technology is cloud computing, which is storing information on a server somewhere you’ll never see that gives you access to your information anywhere you have an Internet connection.

No more emailing documents to yourself or wishing you had more space on your MP3-enabled phone.

The business applications of cloud computing

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The next technological step in consuming music is moving to cloud computing and storage. are numerous, allowing coworkers to share documents, spreadsheets and lists easier than ever before, but the cloud is making the most impact on music.

G o o g l e, A ma z o n a n d Apple have all scrambled to

join the cloud fun over the last year, pushing out Web storage and streaming products that all seem comparable on the outside but have different features on the inside. However, a few notable underdogs are entering this

horse race against the techgiant trio.

So how would one choose the best cloud music service from among the bunch?

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High-tech surveillance. Metal detectors. Zero tolerance for, well, just about any bad behavior, real or overblown.

Welcome to “Lockdown High,” the title of a sweeping new book by journalist Annette Fuentes, describing how the schoolhouse has become a jailhouse and fear prevails.

Dating to Ronald Reagan’s war on drugs launched nearly three decades ago, fueled by campus shootings and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, “preoccupation with security and violence are particularly acute when it comes to children and teenagers,” she writes.

But a paradox exists, Fuentes argues, and it goes like this: “Children are considered both potential victims, vulnerable to dangers from every corner, and perpetrators of great violence and mayhem, demanding strict, preventive discipline.”

After the 1999 tragedy at Columbine High, where two students fatally shot 13 people and themselves, youth became Public Enemy No. 1 and the “criminalizing trends in juvenile justice that were swirling in the 1990s were by then flooding into public schools.” It came, ironically, at a time when school violence and juvenile crime had actually begun to subside, Fuentes writes.

She dedicates an entire chapter to Columbine, which opted not to install metal detectors or turn itself into a fortress after the campus rampage.

“The Columbine scenario is terrifying, but the odds of it occurring in your hometown are about one in two million,” Fuentes notes, citing a joint study in 2000 by the Justice Policy Institute and the Children’s Law Center.

She points out guns are by no means rampant in schools, and kids who bring weapons in are always suspended.

The bigger problem is an epidemic of “suspensions for discretionary reasons,” unrelated to serious crimes like weapons possession, Fuentes said. These suspensions, she contends, have become an easy way to squeeze out lowachieving kids amid the pressures of high-stakes testing.

In another chapter, Fuentes highlights a gaggle of “profiteers” looking to make money from schools by peddling everything from identification systems like radio frequency tags and retinal scanners to background checks against sex-offender lists.

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Thursday, July 21, 2011 There is a good chance that Lady Luck could intervene on your behalf in the year ahead, and help you finally achieve something you failed at numerous times in the past. Thus, it is important you keep on plugging toward your goals.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Trying to help out another while at the same time attempting to do your own job is likely to turn out to be a bummer for both of you, as you lose track of which project you’re working on.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- You’re not likely to take kindly to those who oppose your opinions or ideas.

If this is the case, you’re apt to turn your back on some really good thinking that could help you out a lot.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Be very careful about who you team up with. If you link up with someone who doesn’t operate with the same high standards as you, this person could create trouble.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Owing to an inclination to negatively judge people in advance, you could easily begin a relationship thinking the worst of someone. It’s a sure way to cut your own throat and turn your back on a nice person.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Adopting the wrong attitude will defeat you right off the bat. All you’ll do is unjustly jaundice your view of everyone and everything.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Just because a friend of yours is in a mood that makes him or her difficult to get along with at this

point in time, there’s no reason to shun this person altogether. Let him or her be human.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Once you establish an objective, you’re apt be quite headstrong when going after it, which is well and good, as long as you don’t carry it too far. Be moderate, above all things.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- If you’re looking for some encouragement, don’t seek out the opinions of someone who seldom endorses another person’s ideas. All you’ll get is a negative assessment that’ll discourage you.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Be careful about borrowing money that you could have trouble paying back, and avoid loaning out what you can’t afford to lose. In either case, it is likely to be problematical for you.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Your self-sufficient qualities might desert you and, as a result, you could wrongfully depend on others to accomplish your aims. You won’t like what they do, nor will you relish the results.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Although you’re usually pretty efficient, this could be one of those days when everything you do seems harder or comes out all wrong. If this is the case, put off these jobs until another time.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -Trying too hard to please someone will result in no one having a good time. Relax and let the chips fall where they may. Even if things still don’t go well, you’ll be able to laugh.

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SPORTS

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SOFTBALL

Sooner pair to take world stage with USA Softball Ricketts, Shults join Team USA for World Cup of Softball this week in OKC RJ YOUNG

The Oklahoma Daily

World Cup of Softball kicks off at 7 p.m. tonight in Oklahoma City for Team USA as it seeks to win its fifth in six years.

This year’s team is full of new faces, including two members of the OU softball team — juniors Keilani Ricketts and Jessica Shults.

Ricketts is coming off a stellar season as the Sooners’ ace in which she set a single-season record for strikeouts (452) and was awarded first-team AllAmerican honors.

The six-foot-two-inch junior said she is looking forward to competing against the world’s best fastpitch softball players in what is the sport’s largest stage.

“It’s really exciting to be here. It’s the World Cup tournament, the capital of world softball.” Ricketts said. “Hopefully we’ll be getting a lot of OU fans out here.”

Shults shares Ricketts’ enthusiasm about playing so close to the city where they play college softball.

“Having the opportunity to play [in Oklahoma City] is just really exciting,” Shults

SOFTBALL NOTEBOOK

Softball added to shortlist for consideration for 2020 Olympics The International Olympic Committee recently added softball to the shortlist of sports that may be admitted in the 2020 Olympic Games. The final vote for the 2020 games takes place in 2013.

“Softball brings so much to the Olympic movement,” said Don Porter, International Softball Federation president, in a press release. “We know that the IOC wants a sport whose best athletes will compete at the Games.”

Team USA coach Ken Eriksen applauded the ISF’s efforts to return softball to the Olympic stage.

“I don’t think these guys go to sleep without having done something that day to get us back into the 2020 Olympics,” Eriksen said.

Softball was taken out of the Olympics after 2008. The sport first entered the Games in 1996.

— RJ Young/The Daily

Former Sooner to compete against Team USA at World Cup Former Sooner Jessica Legendre also will play in the World Cup of Softball as a member of Great Britain’s softball team. She started at third base for Oklahoma in 2008 and hit .216 for the season.

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— RJ Young/The Daily

Catcher Jessica Shults (left) and pitcher Keilani Ricketts (right) talk with OU associate head coach Melyssa Lombardi during a game last season. The juniors will compete as first-timers with Team USA at the World Cup of Softball, which starts today in Oklahoma City. said. “I’m excited to be back on the field again and playing with my best friend.”

Shults made the team as an alternate after booking one of the more spectacular first halves to a collegiate softball season in recent memory, also earning first team All-American honors.

But late in the postseason, Shults contracted a previously undisclosed illness she later attributed to an

inflammatory bowel disease called ulcerative colitis.

Over the last two months of the Sooners’ collegiate season, Shults lost nearly 25 pounds and the ability to help her teammates on the field.

“It was tough going through what I went through, but my teammates helped pick me up,” Shults said.

In the past, Team USA c o a c h Ke n Er i k s e n ha s

coached players from the same school who play on the same team at the same time, and he said having Ricketts and Shults on the team has not been an issue for Team USA. His only expectation for the team is to win. “ I c a n ’ t e v e n s ay t h e L-word (lose),” Eriksen said. “If you tell me we’re JOHN CLANTON/AP not going to win, just tell me what game it is so I won’t Members of the U.S. softball team sign autographs Tuesday at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City. show up.”

BASKETBALL

COLUMN

Sooner women release tough 2011 schedule

U.S. doesn’t always have to be the best

Home games against national powers Ohio State and Connecticut highlight the nonconference schedule for Oklahoma’s women’s basketball team next season.

The Sooners announced the schedule Wednesday.

Oklahoma opens the season Nov. 13 at home against Sacramento State before visiting New Mexico on Nov. 19.

Oklahoma will play in a tournament at Vanderbilt on Nov. 25-26 before hosting Ohio State on Dec. 4.

The Sooners then will visit Fresno State on Dec. 8 before hosting Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Dec. 11.

From Dec. 18-20, the Sooners will face Ohio, Syracuse and Xavier in the Duel in the Desert in Las Vegas. Oklahoma will host Texas Christian on Dec. 28 and Connecticut on Feb. 13.

OU will also host the first two rounds of the NCAA women’s tournament on March 18 and March 20.

— AP

STAFF COLUMN

Luke McConnell

For the longest time, the U.S. has been the best in a wide array of things — athletics, politics, military, you name it.

But now times are changing. The US of A is no longer the sole great superpower in the world, and to be honest, many don’t even consider America to be No. 1 anymore.

It didn’t help the public’s sentiment when the heavilyfavored U.S. soccer team lost the World Cup final to Japan in penalty kicks on Sunday.

There has been growing discontentment about how America’s dominance in professional sports, particularly golf and tennis, is waning.

On the men’s side, tennis is controlled by the big four of Rafael Nadal (Spain), Roger Federer (Switzerland), Novak Djokovic (Serbia) and Andy Murray (UK). The top U.S. player, Mardy Fish, checks in at No. 8 with Andy Roddick trailing at No. 10.

It has been since 2003 that a U.S. player won a Grand Slam tournament.

Golf has been nothing short of a crapshoot, but in a very positive way. The past 11 majors have seen 11 different winners. All of these young players are great for golf.

However, the highest-ranked U.S. player is Steve Stricker at No. 5, and the U.S. has only won four of the past 14 major

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United States goalkeeper Hope Solo reacts after the U.S. lost the final match between Japan and the United States at the Women’s Soccer World Cup on Sunday in Frankfurt, Germany. The U.S. lost in penalty kicks. championships.

Women’s golf is a little brighter. Cristie Kerr stands at No. 2 in the world, but the rest of the top 10 is pretty much dominated by those of Asian descent (six to be exact).

The women’s tennis rankings are a disaster zone for the U.S. — the highest-ranked American player is No. 31.

That’s never a good thing.

Thank goodness for the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, who have been the only U.S. players to win a

Grand Slam since Jennifer Capriati at the Australian Open in 2002.

From some people’s reactions to all of this, you would think someone had planned to cancel Christmas.

Two things here.

One, it’s really not that bad.

Sure, there isn’t an American ranked No. 1 in any of these sports, but when they’re competing against the rest of the world, Americans in the top 10 are pretty special.

Two, since when does the

U.S. have to have the best player in every sport or be the best at everything it does?

Golf, tennis and soccer aren’t even American sports.

The modern game of golf originated in Scotland, and tennis originally began in France, but the modern game ripened in Great Britain.

In soccer, the U.S. struggles and just can’t seem to get over the hump to be an elite team on the global stage.

So the country is bad at something. Whoop-de-doo.

I’ll bet the same people who want the U.S. to be the best at everything are the same who think there is no other country that comes close to the U.S. in economic power or overall authority.

If you want to be the best, you have to play the best and beat them.

U.S. athletes just aren’t doing a whole lot of that right now.

— Luke McConnell, journalism senior

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