Thursday, September 27, 2012

Page 1

The University of Oklahoma’s independent student voice since 1916

T H U R S D A Y , S E P T E M B E R 2 7, 2 0 1 2

W W W.O U DA I LY.C O M

2 011 S I LV E R C R O W N W I N N E R

StUDeNt MeDIA LOVeS yOU, StACy Campus: Family, co-workers remember business manager’s laugh (Page 3) hOUSING AND FOOD SerVICeS

FeStIVAL

Cate A La Carte cut from Cate Center Event Housing and Food Services deemed program good, but unused LINDSEY RUTA Campus Editor

L ow u s a g e o f a ro o m service program lead to its termination this year, according to Housing and Food Services representatives. The Cate A La Carte program — which delivered food from Cate Center to

s t u d e n t s e l s e w h e re o n campus — is not an option for students this year. The 4-year-old program was cut in an effort to help keep rates low on students’ meal plans, said David Annis, Housing and Food Services director. Cutting the program saved H&F Services more than $50,000 a year, Annis said.

The program wasn’t generating any revenue because it was underused by students, he said, making it an added expense to H&F Services. “It was a nice service when a student needed it, but it wasn’t used that much,” he said. The program averaged $200 to $300 dollars a day, Annis said — meaning about 30 students used it daily, on Brian hawkins, Austin Bowling and rasheeda Cada, all University see CATE PAGe 2

College Freshman, eat in Cate Center on tuesday afternoon.

shows OU’s talents Creativity Fest to kick off today NICK WILLIAMS

Life & Arts Reporter

FOOtBALL

Offense looks to find its mojo Team still in hunt for national title, quarterback said TOBI NEIDY

Sports Reporter

During last Saturday’s 24-19 letdown loss to Ka n s a s St at e, S o o n e r nation watched an opponent come into Oklahoma Memorial Stadium and beat the a t- t i m e s i x t h - r a n k e d Sooners. There were several areas of the Sooner performance that attributed to the loss, including three pivotal turnovers that kept points off OU’s side of the scoreboard. This week, Oklahoma gets its last idle week of the 2012 season before lumbering deeper into Big 12 conference action, and quarterbacks coach Josh Heupel said the offense needs to find its identity before going up against Texas Tech on Oct. 6. “In college football, your team’s identity and personality changes,” Heupel said. “We made some mistakes, but there were some things

we did right, and (I’m) absolutely excited to see how we’re going to keep making strides and (figure out) who we’re going to become.” One way the Sooners can complete their metamorphosis into a high-powered offense is finding players that consistently perform well on Saturdays, Heupel said. “We have to find a way to put skilled guys in position to be successful, and we have to out the guys that are going to do their job on a consistent basis and take care of the football,” he said. “We also haven’t been as consistent as we want to be in the passing game.” And the Sooners have several players on the depth chart with the potential to come together and form a well-oiled, point-scoring machine. Freshman receiver Sterling Shepard made his case for a starting position after posting 108 receiving yards and a touchdown against KSU. see FOOTBALL PAGe 5

KinGsLey Burns/tHe DAiLy

Freshman wide receiver Sterling Shepard (3) hurdles senior defensive back Nigel Malone (24) in a game against Kansas State on Saturday. the Sooners lost 24-19 for their first lost of the season. Shepard recorded seven receptions for 108 and a touchdown. the freshman is one of many playmakers the Sooners have on offense and said the team needs to come back strong after the loss. “When you come off a loss, you have to come back with some fire,” Shepard said.

To d a y m a r k s t h e beginning of the O k l a h o ma C re at i v i t y Fest — Campus Activity C o u n c i l ’s m u l t i - d a y celebration of creativity. Starting this afternoon with an surprise on the South Oval, the fair o f f re s h t h o u g ht a n d artistic expression will incorporate live music performances, a poetry slam, theater shows and a rave. “We wanted to display creativity in all areas of life,” said OCF Programming Chair David Postic. “This includes the visual arts, theatre, dance, music, b u s i n e s s, e d u c at i o n , technology, etc. These e v e n t s re p re s e n t t h e wide range of activities we want to present and show the diverse nature of creativity.” O CF’s list of events includes performances of “Julius Caesar”, a Next|Ed education symposium and Boomerfest – a one-night music festival to be held in Meacham Auditorium. “As we moved forward with that event and began to get more people and ideas on board, we decided to not limit this festival to student creativity, but to open it up for the whole state to enjoy,” Postic said.

Visit ouDaily.com for the complete story oudaily.com/news

theOry

OU professor awarded two grants

Sooner hockey team celebrates its 10th season

Book will cover theory on exemplary people

SPORTS: the ou hockey program started out as an outlet for local players and has developed into one of the top club teams in the nation. (Page 5)

IN DEPTH Definition fmri: functional magnetic resonance imaging. measures brain activity by recording related changes in blood flow.

SARAH SMITH

Campus Reporter

An OU philosophy professor has received two grants that will help her write a book about her new theory on what makes exemplary people admirable. Professor Linda Zagzebski will use the grants to take a paid leave of absence to write the book about her Examplarist Virtue Theory, a moral theory that discusses the relationship between people and their exemplars, people who are picked out by the emotion of admiration, she said. The grants are initially valued at $50,000 for spring 2013 and $100,000 for the following academic year; the money will be used to hire a replacement while Zagzebski is working on the book. “[A moral theory] is kind of like a map of the moral life, so it’s meant to simplify something that’s really very complicated,” Zagzebski said. The theory’s basic idea is to define basic moral concepts

oud-2011-9-27-a-001,002.indd 1

HeAtHer BroWn/tHe DAiLy

Linda Zagzebski, philosophy professor, recently has received grants for her upcoming book “exemplarist Virtue theory.” She received the grants from the templeton Foundation and Wake Forest University. Zagzebski, the author of four other books, will be taking three semesters off in order to finish the project.

such as virtue by connecting them to exemplars of moral goodness, Zagzebski said. These exemplars are people who have been singled out through a group’s admiration, she said. Zagzebski received the two separate grants from Wake Forest University’s Character Project and the John Templeton Foundation at the beginning of the

summer. She applied for the initial grant after the Character Project issued an international call for proposals in the areas of the psychology, philosophy and theology of character, she said. Expert reviewers in the field assessed the proposals based on criteria such as how likely the research was to be successful, how

innovative the proposal was and how significant the research’s impact could be on the progress toward important questions, Character Project Director Christian Miller said in an email. “Zagzebski is internationally known as one of the leading experts in ethics, epistemology and philosophy of religion,” Miller said in an email. “Her project

was deemed to be first-rate by the expert reviewers who assessed it.” The Character Project has now given about $3 million to 28 different projects in the field of human character, Miller said. Zagzebski and other grant recipients will present their projects at the Character Project’s final conference next June. Zagzebski received her s e c o n d g r a n t f ro m t h e Templeton Foundation shortly after receiving the grant from the Character Project, she said. “ [ T h e Te m p l e t o n Foundation] knew about my theory … just from my other work and actually invited me to submit a proposal,” she said. The Templeton see THEORY PAGe 2

Oklahoma Creativity Festival Boomerfest L&A: Five student bands will perform at the Boomerfest music festival tonight. (Page 7 & 8)

VOL. 98, NO. 31 © 2012 OU Publications Board FREE — Additional copies 25¢

INSIDE TODAY Campus......................2 Clas si f ie ds................6 L i f e & A r t s ..................7 o p inio n.....................4 spor ts........................5 Visit OUDaily.com for more

Facebook

facebook.com/ouDaily

Twitter

twitter.com/ouDaily

9/26/12 10:39:05 PM


Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.
Thursday, September 27, 2012 by OU Daily - Issuu