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Misconduct cases hit record high Changes to academic integrity system lead to increased reports PAIGHTEN HARKINS Campus reporter

Cases of academic misconduct hit a record high in academic year 2011-2012, and academic integrity officials are predicting that number will spike this year.

There were 379 reported

cases of academic misconduct in 2011-2012, up from 292 cases reported in 20102011. The number of academic misconduct cases spiked after the rise of the Internet in the mid-2000s, and then there was a steady increase of cases caused by

greater awareness of misconduct, the new Integrity Code and a recent change that allows students to report academic misconduct, Associate Provost Gregory Heiser said in an email.

The new code implemented a more student-run approach when handling cases of academic misconduct, according to daily archives. Students now

investigate academic misconduct violations.

Since the code’s creation in 2011, the number of reported cases has increased by about 30 percent.

Th i s r i s e i n re p o r t e d cases isn’t surprising, said Breea Clark, assistant director of Academic Integrity Programs. The new code

By the numBers Cases resulting in admonitions

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academic year 2011-2012 had 392 cases of academic misconduct. 208 were settled as admonitions.

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academic year 2010-2011 had 292 cases of academic misconduct. 168 were settled as admonitions.

Source: Breea Clark, assisant director of Academic Integrity Programs

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Cab service limits activity by implementing voucher system Students can pick up 3 vouchers for the entire weekend in the union EMMA HAMBLEN Campus reporter

This summer, the university made a major change to its weekend cab service, which adds an extra step for students interested in getting a ride on the weekend.

As of July 16, OU students now must plan ahead if they want to use SafeRide.

Students no longer are allowed unlimited service — instead they must pick up a limited number of vouchers in order to use the program, according to Daily archives.

Previously, students only needed to call the SafeRide phone number to utilize the cab service, which was initiated as a measure to discourage students from drinking and driving on the weekends.

The number of students using SafeRide has more than doubled over the past three years. During the last academic year, 35,544 students used the confidential cab service while 14,225 students did the same in the 2009 to 2010 academic year, OU student programs director Brynn Daves said.

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Students now are allotted three vouchers per week, which they must pick up in the Oklahoma Memorial Union with a valid OU student ID, according to Daily archives. Vouchers only can be picked up between noon to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday.

T h e v o u c h e r s ca n b e used from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m.

Thursday to Saturday but can only be used for the weekend indicated in the top right corner of the voucher, according to Daily archives.

Yellow Cab and Airport Express are the only two taxi companies that will accept the vouchers. Their numbers will be on the voucher so that students can call when they need a taxi, according to Daily archives.

When the taxi arrives, students must present their OU ID and give the driver one voucher. One voucher can be used for multiple students at one stop, but a voucher must be used at each pickup, according to Daily archives.

The increase in students’ use of SafeRide and the intermediate role played by

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35,544 students who used saferide last year

staying connected during the commute just got a little easier with the installation of Wi-Fi on Cart buses. all 22 of Cleveland area rapid transit’s fleet of buses and trolleys have Wi-Fi that users can access for free, Cart spokeswoman vicky Holland said in an email. installation began in the summer and finished up about a week ago, she said in an email. the connection is not connected to oU’s it network and doesn’t require a sign-in.

Cart received a positive response when testing the new system on its oklahoma City route, Holland said in an email. “it didn’t take long for the passengers to get used to it, and when we put another bus on the route for a couple of days, they clamored to get the Wi-Fi back,” Holland said in an email. the system was made possible by a state grant that paid for 80 percent of the cost of installation, Holland said in an email. it cost about $1,000 for each bus with a $39 monthly fee per bus to maintain the connection, she said in an email.

Chase Cook, Assistant Campus Editor

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students who used saferide in 2009-10 Source: Brynn Daves, OU student programs director

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CART makes all buses, trolleys Wi-Fi friendly

Editorial: Follow these tips to make sure you protect yourself while enjoying your weekend.

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SafeRide dispatchers brought about the change in the SafeRide program, according to Daily archives.

Previous SafeRide dispatchers no longer receive phone calls from students who need a cab, but they still are part of the program. They disperse SafeRide vouchers in the Union, Room 181, Daves said.

Changes to the program were not made because of cost, Daves said, so as of right now OU is not anticipating the new program to make a fiscal impact either way.

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sped up the process of reporting a student’s academic misconduct, she said.

The code also made the process easier for professors because it lifted the burden of proof off of them in cases against students, she said. Where professors once had to gather evidence and present in a hearing, members of the integrity council now conduct investigations under the supervision of Clark’s office.

“That’s not why professors become professors. It’s a bad part of their job,” Clark said.

The current numbers may be startling ­with an increase predicated, but that spike is anticipated based on the effort to increase awareness, make the academic misconduct filing process run more smoothly and reach out to specific departments. As the number of academic misconduct cases were rising in the early and mid-2000s, the university created the admonition penalty to enforce on students that didn’t commit an offense that gave professors more punishment flexibility, Clark said. An admonition serves as a one-time warning to the student; only one can be given out in the student’s entire academic career, she said.

“Some professors felt that the student’s cheating wasn’t bad enough to warrant expulsion … but now they can just admonish them and it’s not as bad,” Clark said.

The most severe penalty from an admonition is a zero on the assignment, according to the academic integrity website.

Since the introduction of the admonitions, the number of admonitions given to

Number of Cases Reported

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“We are the front lines to relaying information to the majority of freshmen students.

We only have a few hundred freshmen students that do not live in the residence halls. If you need to get a message to them, we are the way to do that.”

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students has gradually increased. Fifty-one percent of all reported cases result in an admonition.

Clark’s office keeps track of the admonishments that can be used to back up a case if a student is accused of academic misconduct in the future, she said.

Additionally, admonitions aren’t reported outside of the university, so students avoid a lot of grief when applying for higher education institutions outside of OU because the new university will not be notified of the admonition, Clark said.

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Programs is also increasing its efforts to educate students and help them lay a good foundation, Clark said.

“A culture change isn’t a quick and easy process,” Clark said. “Academic integrity on campus is all hands on deck. It’s not just us and the administration, it’s not just the students, it’s not just the faculty — It’s literally everybody.”

Because our freshman class is going to continue to grow it’s important to educate them about misconduct, Clark said. That is why she decided to speak to the

resident advisers this summer — to promote her office and education initiatives to change the academic culture, she said.

“We are the front lines to relaying information to the majority of freshmen students. We only have a few hundred freshmen students that do not live in the residence halls,” said Christine Bird, resident adviser and Integrity Council member.

“If you need to get a message to them, we are the way to do that.”

Last year Bird became the first resident adviser to host a floor event featuring Clark and her office, and it seemed to have an impact on the students, Bird said.

“One of the points [Clark] always makes is that academic integrity affects every degree the university has ever issued; including ones that some of our parents hold as well as other alumni,” Bird said in an email. “This really struck home with one of my residents.”

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ATLANTA — The “Solid South” was a political fact, benefiting Democrats for generations and then Republicans, with Bible Belt and racial politics ruling the day. But demographic changes and recent election results reveal a more nuanced landscape now as the two major parties prepare for their national conventions.

Republicans will convene Aug. 27 in Florida, well established as a meltingpot battleground state, to nominate Mitt Romney of Massachusetts. Democrats will toast President Barack Obama the following week in North Carolina, the perfect example of a Southern electorate not so easily pigeonholed.

Obama won both states and Virginia four years ago, propelled by young voters, nonwhites and suburban independents. Virginia, long a two-party state in downballot races, had not sided with Democrats on the presidency since Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

Each state is in play again, with Romney needing to reclaim Florida and at least one of the others to reach the White House.

Southern strategists and politicians say results will

New guidelines require schools to offer healthful lunch options

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There will be more whole grains on school lunch menus this year, along with a wider selection of fruits and vegetables and other healthy options.

The challenge is getting children to eat them.

The problem is a serious one for the nation’s lunch-line managers, who are implementing the biggest update to federal school-food guidelines in 15 years.

New Department of Agriculture guidelines set calorie and sodium limits for school meals. Schools must offer dark green vegetables, orange or red vegetables and legumes at least once a week.

Flavored milk must be nonfat, and there’s a ban on artificial, artery-clogging trans fats.

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President Barack Obama acknowledges the crowd after speaking at the University of North Carolina on April 24 in Chapel Hill, N.C. Demographic changes and recent election results reveal a more nuanced landscape in southern states now as the two major parties prepare for their national conventions.

“I wouldn’t say the South is any more ideologically rigid than anywhere else in the country. Certainly, it’s complicated.”

PHIL BREDESEN, FORMER GOVERNOR OF TENNESSEE

turn again this year on which party and candidates understand changing demographics and voter priorities.

“The transformation of the South seems to never end,” said Mo Elleithee, a Democratic campaign consultant with deep experience in Virginia and federal

elections. “Now it’s beginning to emerge, at least parts of it, as solidly purple.”

New citizens, birth rates, and migration patterns of native-born Americans make high-growth areas less white, less conservative or both.

There is increasing urban concentration in many areas.

African-American families are moving back to the South after generations in Chicago, New York or other northern cities.

“I wouldn’t say the South is any more ideologically rigid than anywhere else in the country. Certainly, it’s complicated,” said former Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee.

Bredesen, a Democrat, won twice while Republican George W. Bush occupied the White House. Before that, Bredesen was a two-term mayor of Nashville.

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Nation’s corn harvest expected to be smallest since 2006 This year’s corn harvest is ahead of schedule with 4 percent in already compared with just 1 percent at the same time last year.

The harvest is three to four weeks ahead of schedule in most of the corn belt because an unusually warm spring allowed farmers to plant earlier.

Most expected a good year then, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been reducing its estimates of the nation’s harvest amid a severe drought centered over the Midwest. It now says it expects the least amount of corn since 2006, although the tally won’t be certain until the harvest is done.

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Part of Mississippi River closed due to low water levels Nearly 100 vessels await passage as river is dredged ADRIAN SAINZ

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M E M P H I S , Te n n . — Nearly 100 boats and barges were waiting for passage Monday along an 11-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that has been closed due to low water levels, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

New Orleans-based Coast Guard spokesman Ryan Tippets said the stretch of river near Greenville, Miss., has been closed intermittently since Aug. 11, when a vessel ran aground.

Tippets said the area is currently being surveyed for dredging and a Coast Guard boat is replacing eight navigation markers.

He said 40 northbound vessels and 57 southbound vessels were stranded and waiting for passage Monday afternoon.

Tippets said it is not immediately clear when the river will re-open. A stretch of river near Greenville was also closed in 1988 due to low water levels caused by severe drought. The river hit a record low on the Memphis gauge that year.

The Mississippi River from Illinois to Louisiana has seen water levels

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plummet due to drought conditions in the past three months. Near Memphis, the river level was more than 12 feet lower than normal for this time of year.

Maintaining the navigation channel is essential to keeping vessels from colliding or running aground.

Thousands of tons of material are shipped on the river each day.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is using dredges to dig out sand and ensure the navigation channel is deep enough for barges loaded with coal, steel, agricultural products and other goods.

The Corps is required to

provide a minimum navigation channel that is 9 feet deep and 300 feet wide on the lower Mississippi River.

Shippers who move mater ial up and dow n the river on a daily basis have complained that the shallow river is forcing them to lighten the loads on their barges to avoid hitting bottom. Lighter loads mean less revenue for the shippers, who still have to deal with costs such as labor and fuel.

Also, low water at docks and ter minals makes it more difficult to load or unload material, as ships have trouble getting close enough to docks.

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A boat passes along the Louisiana side of the Mississippi River on Thursday at Vicksburg, Miss. In a switch of extremes, the river has dropped to very low levels this summer unlike last year when the river was flooding much of the Delta due to record high levels.

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QUOTABLE: “A culture change isn’t a quick and easy process,” said Breea Clark, assistant director of Academic Integrity Programs, about fighting academic misconduct. (Page 1)

EDITORIAL

Tips ensuring your night on the town is a safe one • Alternate alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. and Norman’s social scene is warming up, don’t Order a soda in between drinks (or better, water). forget these tips for safe, sane partying.

Give your body a chance to process how drunk you are before deciding if you want another drink. At The start of this semester has brought the largest the very least, you’ll feel better in the morning. freshman class to campus and brought many stu• Keep an eye on your friends. Make sure one of dents home after a summer in their hometowns. you still is sober enough to notice and end dangerSo, for those new to the campus environment and ous situations. Come as a group, leave as a group. for those who need a refresher, here are some well• Recognize alcohol poisoning and get help. If tested tips for when you decide to party: one of your friends has had a lot to drink and his skin becomes pale or cold, his breathing becomes To/from the party irregular or slowed, or he begins vomitting regu• Use the buddy system. Make sure larly, call 911 immediately. someone knows where you are at all times.

• Know your limits. If a friend has to fill in The Our View • Go with a group. Bring friends you can is the majority details for you the next morning, you probtrust and make sure you are collectively opinion of ably had too much to drink. Besides, what’s The Daily’s sober enough to make good decisions. the fun in a night you can’t remember? nine-member • Plan ahead. If you plan to drink, make • If you see someone in trouble, don’t igeditorial board sure you choose a designated driver benore it. Call the police. Don’t be scared of forehand. If no one volunteers for the duty, over-reacting: It’s better to get help during pick up SafeRide vouchers Monday through Friday a real attack even if you risks calling the police in for from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial something innocent.

Union, Room 181.

• Don’t ride with a drunken driver. Ever. Not just After-party this once, not because you really want to get home • Be verbal and direct. If you choose to have and not because the person says he or she is fine. sex, enthusiastic consent is the name of the game.

Have a plan and stick to it.

Explicitly tell your partner what you like, what you want and what you don’t. Not only is consent manAt the party datory, it’s also sexy. Like all these rules, this ap• Don’t leave drinks unattended — yes, even plies just as much to men as to women. men. In 2009, nearly 9,000 adults were hospital• Protect yourself. Contraception is both partized after having their drinks drugged, according to ners’ responsibility. Don’t forget that oral contrathe Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ceptives don’t protect against STDs — and that Administration. Don’t think this is a gendered condoms don’t protect against all of them, either. problem either: Four out of every 10 of those cases Talk to your partner and, most importantly, keep were men. track of your own sexual health by getting tested.

• Trust your instincts. Don’t be afraid to leave a • If in doubt, get help. Sexual assault takes many situation or get away from a person just because forms. It is not always a violent attack, and it is usuyou feel uncomfortable. Not only is that enough of ally not committed by a stranger. If you did not a reason, that’s the best reason. clearly and explicitly consent to sexual activity, • Avoid important decisions while you’re drunk. don’t hesitate to get help. You can report the assault Even if you feel like you’re fine, alcohol does not to OUPD or contact the 24/7 sexual assault hotline make for rational decisions. This includes choosat 405-615-0013 for support. ing to engage in sexual activity, for both men and women.

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difference in either specific case, but still argue arming citizens would prevent future massacres in general.

I think this is a more restates allow spectable position, but it concealed carry still suffers some problems. without a permit For me, it’s a lot easier states allow to imagine how armed concealed citizens could make public carry with a permit shooting situations worse and various levels of rather than better. As the restriction concealed carry license holder and the instigating states allow shooter exchange fire, it is open (nonquite possible unarmed concealed) carry without a permit civilians will be hurt in the crossfire, causing even more Source: Violence Policy Center destruction.

It’s also likely the police, upon arrival at the scene, would be unable to distinguish between the defending citizen and the terrorist. Confused, they would be forced to react quickly, and this may entail shooting them both.

Finally, it’s worrisome how multiple concealed carry license holders might react to one another in the heat of the moment. It’s easy to imagine them all mistaking one another for the instigator and opening fire.

Personally, I haven’t come to a final decision about concealed carry. However, I do believe using the shootings in Aurora and Oak Creek to argue for it is misguided. If anything, those incidents highlight why adding more guns isn’t an easy fix.

As for the claim that armed citizens would stop future mass shootings, I think the problems with it are obvious.

It’s a bad argument, and gun advocates would do better to drop it from their list of talking points.

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fter Mitt Romney selected Paul Ryan as his running mate, there was a lot of discussion about Ryan’s past praise for (and more recent disavowal of) Ayn Rand.

Opponents were quick Jason Byas to bring her up, knowing jason.l.byas-1@ou.edu how polarizing the controversial novelist and philosopher is.

Some supporters also broadcast the Rand connection as one of Ryan’s selling points.

But both sides are missing the most important point: No matter what Ryan thinks or thought about Rand today, tomorrow or yesterday, it seems unlikely that Rand would have anything nice to say about him.

At least, it seems reasonable to draw this conclusion from the fact that she forcefully argued against voting for Ronald Reagan, whom she said was “a conservative in the worst sense of that word — i.e., an advocate of a mixed economy with government controls slanted in favor of business rather than labor,” who was willing “to take us back to the Middle Ages, via the unconstitutional union of religion and politics.”

There’s much to be said in agreement with a recent column at The Atlantic that declares in its headline “If Paul Ryan Were an Atlas Shrugged Character, He’d Be a Villain,” but the Ryan-Rand drama is part of a much larger phenomenon.

For some time now, conservatives have been throwing in Rand’s name as one of their own. It might do them well to define what she actually believed before doing so.

One place the present-day Ayn Rand Institute and the modern Republican Party tend to converge is on the subject of foreign policy, supporting virtually all recent American military interventions in the Middle East (and seemingly ready for a new one in Iran). While this may be the position of what’s generally considered the most rigidly orthodox objectivist organization today, it’s not clear Rand would have agreed.

She opposed every single American war during her lifetime: Vietnam, Korea, World War I and, yes, even “the Good War” of World War II. Most conservatives probably would nod along to Rand quotes about how important the general idea of freedom is, but they’d also probably part ways as soon as the concept started being applied. Rand held that self-ownership and the right to life meant total and inalienable control over one’s own decisions. And for Rand, this means legalizing (without regulating or taxing) all drugs, as well as holding to an unequivocally absolutist pro-choice stance on abortion.

Another point conservatives and Rand agree on is the importance of what might be deemed “the culture wars.”

But they’re not quite on the same side. Rand thought that any serious defense of liberty required thicker commitments to individualism as a whole. She took this to mean opposition to religion, “family values,” nationalism, tradition for tradition’s sake and any ethical system that glorified sacrifice.

Rand even went so far as to hold Christians and communists as two sides of a coin. In “Atlas Shrugged,” she wrote that “both demand the surrender of your mind, one to their revelations, the other to their reflexes. No matter how loudly they posture in the roles of irreconcilable antagonists, their moral codes are alike, and so are their aims: in matter — the enslavement of man’s body, in spirit — the destruction of his mind.”

So while conservative commentators might namedrop Rand from time to time, it’s important to keep things in context. Yes, Rand would agree with conservatives that Catholic health care providers shouldn’t be forced to pay for birth control against their will, but she’d extend the same reasoning to a rejection of all laws regulating abortion.

Not only that, but in order to fight for freedom, she’d think the kind of values that bring someone to oppose birth control would have to be fought against as adamantly as possible in the social realm.

So whether the connection to Rand would make you more likely to vote Romney-Ryan — or less — don’t let the name-dropping fool you. It’s fine if conservatives want to like Rand’s novels, plays or essays. But they should understand she is definitely not one of them.

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n recent weeks, OPINION COLUMNIST gun advocates have claimed the shootings in Aurora, Colo., and Oak Creek, Wis., provide a compelling reason to embrace a policy of concealed carry, which would legalize toting concealed handguns in Steven Zoeller public (or to lessen restricstevenv.zoeller@gmail.com tions in states with such a policy).

They argue concealed carry would stop mass shootings by providing citizens with a way to defend themselves against shooters. This would give them power to stop tragedies like the ones we experienced recently in the aforementioned cities.

This argument has some intuitive appeal, but ultimately, I think it fails.

One problem with this argument is that it implies the presence of a brave, gun-toting citizen at the location of either recent shooting would have made a difference. But this is doubtful.

The shooting in Aurora took place in a dark, crowded theater that was slowly filling up with tear gas. It’s more likely an armed citizen would have shot a fellow moviegoer by accident rather than incapacitate the shooter with a well-placed shot.

The geography of the Oak Creek shooting area would be more ideal for a firefight, but in that case the shooter was an ex-Army soldier with training that enabled him to hold cops at bay during the massacre. A citizen who dared to return fire probably would have been better off hiding.

This is all disregarding the fact that an armed citizen likely would be found in either location. One of the sites was a movie theater that forbids firearms on its property, and the other was on holy ground, which isn’t generally a place to find lethal weapons.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2012 You could do exceptionally well in the year ahead in a joint venture that has a long-term objective. The problem is that it might severely test your patience from time to time, but it will be worth your perseverance.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Chores assigned to you won’t be as burdensome as you might suppose. A little positive thinking on your behalf could considerably brighten your outlook.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- There is much more to life than merely its material aspects. If you allow yourself to dwell on what you don’t have, chances are you’ll miss out on the finer things available to you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Doing things others think much too difficult to manage will provide you with enormous gratification. You won’t retreat just because of some challenging developments.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Faulty methods or procedures will thwart you in your quest for accomplishment. The reason will be obvious to everybody, but you’re unlikely to take any advice.

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Joining clubs on campus gives Write Club opens students chance to get involved year with poetry Lauren Zuniga to perform poetry

457 organizations active on campus

Erica Laub

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Molly Evans

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The South Oval trek stretches less than a quarter mile, but the dusty chalk designs coating the pavement create a campus map, encouraging students to walk a bit farther.

These chalkings serve as simple advertising for the current 457 active organizations on campus. From the Adaptive Sports Club to the Zoological Society, campus clubs rooted in history or imagined within a dorm room constitute an expanding extracurricular force fueled by modern communication and enthusiastic students.

Publicity combined with the basic registration requirements promises little without the initiative of students themselves to join or start an organization, Student Life director Kristen Partridge said.

“Obviously, we want to assist every student who wants to find an involvement outlet, but we don’t believe in forcing students to do so,” Partridge says. “This is about personal choice.”

That choice for interior design sophomore Dalaney Flies meant leaving her reservations at the door of the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Fl i e s j o i n e d t h e Un i o n Programming Board as a freshman, and her consistency as a member qualified her to become community

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Anastasia Armour, electrical engineering junior, Meagan Fulk, psychology senior, and Zachary McWilliams, computer engineering senior, play the drums at the Sooner Orientation Weekend Organization Fair on Sunday.

service co-chairwoman, a new position on this year’s larger executive board.

“I joined because it was a place that made me feel most welcome,” Flies said. “As a freshman I was shy, but once I got involved with them, it helped me break away.”

UPB holds a variety of free events throughout the school year, including film screenings, Sooner Idol in the Union’s Meacham Auditorium, outdoor concerts on the East Lawn and game day watch parties in Crossroads Restaurant.

“You’re as involved as you want to be,” Flies says. “Any idea is a good idea. We’re all about getting general member input.”

UPB is unique to OU, but international organizations,

such as Habitat for Humanity, also reside on campus.

The OU chapter works with the Cleveland County Habitat for Humanity in any way possible, said president Brianna Versteeg, a psychology junior.

“We send volunteers out to help with builds on houses, spread awareness of issues with substandard housing in our area and raise money to help build houses for people in our community,” Versteeg said.

The campus chapter for Habitat for Humanity takes on the global mission of the organization but also holds two major campus events.

The Shack-a-Thon and the Hustle for Habitat 5k Fun Run are the two signature events, Versteeg said.

Students should sample the active organizations in order to experience such diverse opportunities that will not be as accessible in other places, Partridge says.

“I jokingly tell incoming students to think of OU as a giant buffet — that they should taste everything instead of just going back for mac ‘n’ cheese all of the time,” Partridge says.

Membership in active organizations can give the shy freshman a voice in Young Democrats, the undecided junior the push to pursue art history or the international graduate student a break to solve a Rubik’s cube. All it takes is a sign from some sidewalk chalk.

Molly Evans, mollyevans@ou.edu

An OU wr iting club is kicking off the school year with poetry to encourage creative writing on campus.

For mer OU student Lauren Zuniga is set to perform at OU Write Club’s open mic semester kickoff starting at 7 p.m.

Tuesday at Cafe Plaid.

Open mic night is a frequent event put on by the club, and is made up by of creative writing students.

Open mic night was created by three Write Club students in 2011 “ to encourage an atmosphere of creative writing in the local community,” cofounder Jessie St. Amand said in an email.

Zuniga performed at the club’s first open mic night in the spring 2011, St. Amand said.

“We invite d poet Lauren Zuniga to perform that night and they open mic was a huge success,” she said.

At a typical open mic night, there is time allotted for people to read whatever they want, there are no restrictions, St. Amand said.

Some nights there are games intended to get people to be creative. For example, someone might p a s s a ro u n d a p a p e r where everyone adds a line to a poem, St. Amand

AT A GLANCE Open mic night 7 p.m. Tuesday Café Plaid (333 W. Boyd St.) Guest performer Lauren Zuniga

said. Later, the feature reader will share several pieces to the audience.

Open mic nights also frequently include poetry slams.

In a poetry slam, 16 audience members can sign up to read three previously prepared poems. After each round, judges from the audience score the poets’ content and performance.

“We always try to have prizes for the winners,” St. Amand said.

T h i s w e e k ’s f e a t u re d guest, Zuniga, has been nominated by for State Poet Laureate on behalf of OU Write Club, St. Amand said.

Zuniga also was ranked as one of the top five female poets from the 2012 Women of the World Poetry Slam and was an activist-in-residence through OU’s Center for Social Justice .

Zuniga has competed in multiple national poetry competititons and performed at the TEDx technical conference held on campus during the spring 2012 semester.

The performance poet uses her poetry generally as a means of activism, according to Daily archives.

Erica Laub, ericalaub@ou.edu

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ummer television has a big job for college students. It has to be good, because we have cable, we have time and we want to be mindlessly entertained.

This summer two shows stood out, while being completely different from each other.

“Girls,” HBO The new dramedy “Girls” is one television show you should make time for.

The show is centered on Lena Dunham’s character Hannah Horvath and her friends as they “live the dream one mistake at a time.”

In the pilot, Hannah is bombarded by the news that her parents no longer will support her financially.

Within the first five minutes, the audience already feels sympathy for Hannah.

Any young person can look back at the moment when they realized they were no longer a kid. College students can sympathize with the terror of becoming an adult and being cut off.

After receiving the lifeshattering news, Hannah curls up in bed with Marnie Michaels (Allison Williams), her best friend. Right away, the show unveils the strong, reveal-all relationship the girls have with each other.

The characters aren’t afraid to show how women really act around each other.

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As Marnie shaves her legs sitting on the edge of the tub, Hannah keeps her friend company eating a cupcake, soaking in the tub. While that may not be common among best girl friends, sharing intimate details of your lives is.

The best part about the show is how relatable it is. As college students, most of us have experienced the anxiety of not knowing where our future is headed. Will we be broke and financially unstable after college? Jobless?

Single? Or maybe stuck in a relationship that isn’t going anywhere?

If you get a chance to watch the show, you’re likely to see your own friends and perhaps a little bit of yourself in some of these characters.

These “girls” are different from others in television.

They definitely are not the cliché females usually portrayed in television shows.

As the season progresses, the show exposes the girls’ weak and fragile characteristics as they consistently make mistakes. These raw character qualities, or character flaws, are what make this show worthy of being called one of the best on TV. “Girls” has been nominated for five Emmy’s, including Outstanding Comedy.

Season two is not likely to premiere until after the New Year, so there is more than enough time to catch up on this brilliant series.

“Dallas,” TNT Although many people haven’t seen or don’t remember the original series “Dallas” from the 1970s, the new TNT version might be more than a little addicting.

The show is not a remake.

It is a continuation of where the original series left off in 1991. By casting original characters, the show does a good job of letting new

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HBO summer hit Girls starts with the main character Hannah Horvath (Lena Dunham) facing adulthood when she is abruptly cut off financially by her parents. The show also stars Allison Williams as Marnie Michaels and Jemima Kirke as Jessa Johansson.

viewers, like myself, understand two decades of Ewing family drama.

The drama of the oil-rich Ewing family is addicting.

J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) is the villain of the drama because he intends to take over Southfork Ranch for his own greedy gains. The tagline of the show, “oil is thicker than blood,” is a true testament to J.R.’s character.

Jesse Metcalfe and Tulsanative Josh Henderson also star in the revamped show.

Both have been in and out of

the acting world for sometime, so it’s nice to see them catch breaks with roles that suit them well.

In the pilot episode, it’s only minutes before lies and betrayal begin to seep into the lives of the well-to-do Ewings. With the fate of the family’s beloved oil-rich land in jeopardy, the family is quickly divided and looks like they will stay that way throughout the series.

Erica Laub is a sociology junior.

Life & Arts editor ere we are ushering in a new school year.

But for me, it’s so much more -– this is the midway point of my college career.

Two years done, two years to go.

Optimist that I am, I Carmen Forman choose to see the Red Solo Carmen.M.Forman-1@ou.edu cup of college as half full.

With only two years remaining in my college career, I need to make the most of the time I have left, and I urge all of you to do the same no matter how many years you have left.

I spent my summer working full time at an internship.

Though I loved learning about my future career and about the media industry, I realized I’m not ready to sit in an office all day five days a week, and I’m definitely not ready to be a full-fledged adult.

With only a couple years of college left, I think it’s time to have as much fun as I can in the time remaining.

I’ll avoid using Drake’s lame YOLO reference here in favor of my own awesome acronym, YOCO. That’s right, You Only College Once. Though it isn’t entirely true, there is law school, graduate school and getting a second undergraduate degree, the point is you should act like you’re only in college once. Besides, if you do go to law school, grad school or medical school, you’ll probably be too busy to have much fun.

So yes, I urge you to go to class and make passing grades, but don’t stress out too much about classes.

Years from now when you look back on college, you’re not going to remember the classes you took, what you learned or what your grade point average was when you graduated. Rather, you will remember the friends you made and the half-baked things you did together.

Make friends from different backgrounds; don’t just hang out with friends from high school or friends in your specific college. Meet people from other countries and people with interests completely different from your own so you can encounter different cultures and personalities.

Once you graduate, you will basically work until you’re too decrepit to do anything else, so now is the prime time for fun. Stay up all night just to watch the sunrise, take an impromptu weekend road trip with friends, start your weekends on Thursdays or stay out until 2 a.m. going to a concert on a school night when you have a paper due the next day.

Besides getting a degree, college is about having fun and enjoying your freedom, so have fun at OU and graduate regret-free. Make lasting memories and try to make it to class when you can.

So here’s to you OU students: Go out, have the college experience you don’t quite remember but will never forget.

Carmen Forman is a journalism junior.

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Soccer

Missed opportunities leave OU with a loss Junior defender Kathryn Watson (14) and the rest of the OU defense shut down LSU’s top offensive player, senior forward Carlie Banks (27) yet still lost, 1-0, in a double overtime match on Monday.

The Sooners’ record moves to 1-1 on the season.

Sooners finish with 5 corner kicks while Tigers had none Ross Stracke Sports Reporter

The OU soccer team met the challenge for 90 minutes against the heavily favored LSU tigers, but couldn’t hold up in overtime, falling, 1-0.

The Sooners came out firing early controlling the ball throughout the majority of the first half, obtaining four corner kicks in the opening 34 minutes of the game.

The story of the game is missed opportunities for the Sooners, failing to score on any of the corners or other open shot opportunities.

Senior goalkeeper Kelsey Devonshire took notice of all the missed opportunities yet remains positive about the overall play of the team.

“We had I think 16 chances on goal, and we just couldn’t put one away,” Devonshire said. “There’s a bunch of positives especially when you look at film and point out this necessarily wasn’t right but this was right.”

Senior defender Katharine Nutman said the Sooners can build on the loss and grow from it.

“We played some good s o c c e r t o d ay ,” Nu t ma n said. “It’s a disappointment tonight but in the long run I think we’re making progress.”

In contrast, LSU was able to capitalize on their few opportunities, putting the game away in the 107th minute with a goal by sophomore midfielder Alex Arlitt .

Coach Matt Potter said

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he believes the close game proves that the Sooners are every bit as capable of playing with top caliber teams like LSU. “[We] probably edged the clear cut chances,” Potter said. “But just weren’t able to finish them off tonight. “ However, Potter was not shy about giving credit to the opposing team.

“They found a way to claw themselves back into the game after our great endeavor,” Potter said. “Tonight, credit to LSU. They were on the right side of the moment, and we were on the wrong side.”

The loss puts the Sooners at 1-1 on the season and marks the fifth loss to LSU in school history. The

Tiger’s have never lost to the Sooners in the program’s history.

Oklahoma will continue its season against Nicholls State at 7 p.m. Friday at John Crain Field as the Sooners look to improve to 2-1.

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Rapid Reaction Oklahoma 0, LSU 1 Key stat: The Sooners had five corner kicks to LSU’s zero.

Key performer: Senior forward Annalisa Hall led the Sooners through much of the game, recording two shots, one

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Key opponent: Sophomore midfielder Alex Arlitt scored the winning goal for the Tigers.

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