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BANNED BOOK WEEK

Students 'read-out' to defend banned books Students celebrate Banned Book Week by reading challenged books Emma HamBLEn Campus Reporter

The OU School of Library and Information Studies and the Oklahoma Library and Information Studies Students Association held a Read-Out

on Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The Oklahoma Library and Information Studies Students Association (OLISSA) is partnering with the American L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n ’s

Freedom To Read Foundation for Banned Book Week. In addition to holding ReadOuts on the South Oval,

OLISSA is participating in a virtual readout on YouTube, said Sara Pyle, co-president of OLISSA and Master of Libraries and Information Studies graduate student.

People challenge books by filling out forms at the public library. The library then examines its collection development program — its

rules about what books it has and why — and decides if the challenged books should be there or not. If it should, the library explains to the patron why the book is there, Pyle said.

While there are a lot of challenges to books, they aren’t usually banned because the librar y can

usually explain why it’s there, Pyle said. Either the patrons will accept it and move on or, in the case of some books like Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” (1969), they will just give up.

Patrons sometimes decide it’s not worth challenging a book see BANNED paGe 2

GROUPS

LUNAR MOON FESTIVAL

New 'green' club approved Group focuses on economy, environment aRianna PiCKaRD Campus Reporter

Editor’s note: Andrew Sartain is an opinion columnist at The Daily.

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Left: Students from the Society of Vietnamese Students dance to a traditional song at the Lunar Moon Festival on Tuesday.

Right: Kevin Ton, microbiology junior, and Huy Le, finance and accounting senior, practice for their ending act at the Lunar Moon Festival on Tuesday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union's Molly Shi Boren Ballroom.

Asian festival provides lunar fun More than 200 students attend festival in Oklahoma Memorial Union mELoDiE LETTKEmEn Campus Reporter

It took a pulsating drum beat and two colorful Lions dancing through the crowd to finally silence the guests at the Lunar Moon Festival, even if only for a moment.

The large, cloth lion puppets, operated by eight total students, paraded through a crowd of more than 200 students gathered in Molly Shi Boren

Ballroom Tuesday night to learn about Vietnamese culture and to celebrate the Lunar Moon Festival, a celebration of the end of fall harvest.

The event brought a taste of Vietnamese culture to OU, providing students with performances of traditional Vietnamese music and skits of Vietnamese fables, followed by a dinner provided by Wong Key. Though the performances were hindered by a loud crowd — and some microphone feedback inter r upted the first skit — Vietnamese Student Association president Paulinna Huynh felt

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the event was a success.

“We had difficulties, but it was OK,” Huynh said. “ [The performers] did well. We didn’t prepare for the sound as well as maybe we should have, but we got through it.”

The crowd noise was encouraged by a collection of booths at the back of the ballroom, offering carnivalstyle activities for participants, including face painting and a bean-bag toss.

“It wanted the festival to be what I’ve always seen at Lunar Moon festivals. There are always booths and a stage with skits and

pageants and music,” Huynh said.

The booths offered the interaction Hyunh hoped to encourage during the event, she said.

“I wish the audience had been a little more respectful of the performers, but the atmosphere was what I wanted. I wanted them to feel comfortable,” Huynh said.

While Huynh said she wanted the event to feel informal and welcoming, Vietnam Student A s s o c i at i o n v i c e p re s i d e nt Yen Tran thought it was more see FESTIVAL paGe 3

HATE AWARENESS

Ham radio is still Sooners to hold vigil to kicking in Oklahoma raise bully, hate awareness Cellular age hasn't stopped amateur radio fenatics Sam HiGGinS

Campus Reporter

In the age of cellular communication and the Internet, ham radio may seem like an antiquated means of communication.

However, the practice still is alive and well, and the Oklahoma Student Amateur Radio Club is part of it.

The group encourages students to participate i n t h e a mat e u r ra d i o

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community by providing a c c e s s t o t h e Na t i o n a l We a t h e r C e n t e r ’s h a m radio equipment, which is of a much high caliber than the cheaper handheld or mobile devices, said Connor Keef, meterology sophomore and the club’s vice president.

Ham radio and amateur radio are used interchangeably to describe the licensed use of a radio frequency that is set aside for purposes ranging from recreation to emergency see RADIO paGe 2

250 people are expected to attend aLi HaUSnER

Campus Reporter

AT A GLANCE Candlelight vigil Where: unity Garden in

A candlelight vigil to raise the south oval awareness about bullying When: 7 to 8 p.m. and other forms of hate will be held tonight in the Unity Source: Kasey Catlett, Women’s Garden.

Outreach graduate assistant and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender The “Share Your Light” and Queer Advisory Board member. vigil is meant to inspire a more supportive campus and the community as a and Queer Advisory Board whole, said Kasey Catlett, member.

Women’s Outreach graduate UOSA President Joe assistant and Lesbian, Gay, Sangirardi will welcome guest Bisexual, Transgender

speaker the Rev. Amy Venable, minister at St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church in Norman.

A native Oklahoman, Ve n a b l e i n f l u e n c e d t h e inclusion of the surrounding Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, T ra n s g e n d e r a n d Qu e e r community at St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church, Catlett said.

The event is open to faculty and students, and 250 people are expected to attend.

A new OU organization takes two of America’s major issues head on by working to stabilize the economy and add to OU’s efforts to improve the environment on campus.

OU senior Stanley Andrew Sartain, an interdisciplinary perspectives on the environment major and nonprofit minor, has founded a new environmental student organization called Earth Rebirth.

The mission of Earth Rebirth is “to foster a sustainable future that provides environmental restoration through social and economic evolution,” Sartain said. “So basically, we’re trying to bridge the see GREEN paGe 3

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RADIO: Club looking to expand membership Continued from page 1

Today around campus The Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium, sponsored by OU Supercomputing Center for Education and Research and OU IT, will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Thurman J. White Forum Building.

Reference assistance will be provided by OU librarians from 10 a.m. to noon in the IT lab in Rawl Engineering Practice Facility and Adams Hall, Room 110.

A workshop titled “Lunch & Learn: Job Search Strategies” presented by Farmers Insurance will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Sooner Room.

A roundtable discussion part of OU Student Media’s self-study, Imagine the Future, will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Boomer Room.

The focus of the discussion will be print versus digital delivery for media.

A Student Success Series seminar titled “Ten Tiny Library Tricks” will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. in Lissa and Cy Wagner Hall, Room 245.

Mid Day Music, sponsored by Union Programming Board, will be held from noon to 1 p.m. Dillion Gourd will play the piano.

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Students gather inside the radio room in the National Weather Center while on Tuesday. This was the first meeting of the year to do elections and tour the radio room.

a s t h e y a re, a n d i f y o u have a license, you don’t necessarily have to know their call sign, their phone number or their Facebook,” McClellan said. “You can just talk to someone and have fun.”

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AT A GLANCE Next meeting The next meeting for the Amateur Radio Club will be Oct. 23 When: to be announced Info: more information can be found on theorganizations facebook page Source: W5tc.org (The Oklahoma Amateur Radio Club’s website) Arrl.org (The National Association of Amateur Radio’s website)

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communication, according to the National Association of Amateur Radio’s website.

Traditionally, meteorology majors have filled the club because of the club’s association with the School of Meteorology, Keef said. However, he and club president Megan McClellan said they are hoping to expand to a broader group of students.

“It doesn’t just necessarily need to be m e te o ro l o g y maj o rs o r engineering majors in the club,” McClellan said.

“What we really want to work for is having a diverse club. We can have anyone from education majors to aeronautical engineers.”

The group had its first meeting of the semester last Tuesday in the NWC, McClellan said, and discussed its upcoming contest titled “School Club Roundup.”

During the Oct. 15 event, the club will use its station to dial into other universities and clubs to intro duce students to amateur radio,

McClellan said.

O t h e r a m a t e u r ra d i o clubs can be found at universities and community centers across the country, including at Oklahoma St at e Un i ve r s i t y , Tu l sa Community College and the University of Texas in Austin.

The club also holds training sessions to allow people to obtain licenses to use ham radio, McClellan said.

Te s t i n g s e s s i o n s f o r amateur radio licenses are held at 6:30 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month at Norman Fire Department T ra i n i n g C e n t e r a t t h e Max Westheimer Airport, McClellan said.

Keef said that amateur radio is more than a hobby — it’s a community.

“You can hear [members] talking to people like they have known them their entire lives, and they’re talking across the country,” he said.

Talking to someone from across the globe can be as easy as turning a dial, McClellan said.

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A watch party for the first presidential debate will be held tonight in the Gaylord Hall’s Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation Auditorium.

The party will start at 7 p.m., and free refreshments, pizza and Raising Cane’s will be provided.

The 90-minute debate will start 8 p.m., and students who attend the event will be

able to register to vote or find out more information about absentee ballots, said Allen Hertzke, political science p ro f e s s o r a n d Fa c u l t y in-Residence for the Cate Center.

The Faculty-in-Residence program, UOSA, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Political Science Club are partnering to host the event.

“I am really excited to

see the students engage in debate,” Hertzke said. “It helps me as a professor and I learn from the students.”

Political science professor Ron Peters will moderate a student debate after the presidential debate.

UOSA will partner with other groups in conjunction to future debates for this election, Hertzke said.

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AT A GLANCE First debate Who: President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romeny When: 8 to 9:30 tonight Topic: Domestic Policy Source: www.2012presidentialelectio nnews.com

BANNED: Books at university rarely challenged Continued from page 1 because no one is going to take it out of the library.

“It is really rare at OU, for example, that a book gets challenged,” Pyle said.

“Nobody challenges books in the university library very often because we’re a university, we’re a place where people come to learn and have different opinions, so nobody really challenges many books here.”

Pioneer, the local library system, doesn’t get a lot of challenges, and when they do it’s usually because a patron doesn’t understand why, for example, the library would have a book about assisted suicide, Pyle said.

“You explain it, and they get it, and they’re fine and move on,” Pyle said. “Or you explain that the library’s policy usually is: You can read whatever you want, so can everyone else. If you don’t

“It is really rare at OU, for example, that a book gets challenged.”

Sara Pyle, co-president of OLISSA and Master of Libraries and Information Studies graduate student

want to read it that’s fine, you don’t have to, no one’s going to make you ... that doesn’t mean that it’s your right to say that nobody else can read that book.”

Because public library use has increased, there is a strong group of people who support the freedom to read books other people want taken out because it is immoral, evil or wrong. Additionally, freedom of speech laws have given libraries a better legal standing to say, while they understand a given book may contain questionable content, they still want to offer it to their readers, Pyle said.

Neither the federal

government nor state governments can ban books.

Rather, individual libraries ban books, Pyle said.

The situation is difficult f o r l i b ra r i e s i n re m o t e areas, because if a book is challenged, it’s hard to raise awareness and gather protestors, Pyle said. Greater accessibility to the Internet has made it easier for these libraries to reach out to the American Library Association if they are receiving challenges to a particular book.

All public libraries report to the American Library Association, and most nonpublic (school and special) libraries have affiliations with the American Library Association as well, Pyle said.

If a book is challenged, the association provides support

for librarians who wish to fight the challenging or banning of a book.

Banning books normally doesn’t have the intended effect of limiting access, Pyle said. It has the opposite effect.

“When a book is challenged and the ALA swoops in and the librarians start fighting for it, it tends to skyrocket popularity,” Pyle said. “So it’s not only ridiculous to try and challenge or ban a book based on an accurate depiction of life or a story that is meaningful to people, but it usually backfires for the people who are trying to do it.”

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GROUPS: Economic, environmental problems require mutual solution Continued from page 1 gap between our economic and environmental problems.”

He said people tend to believe that our economic and environmental problems must be solved in different ways, when in reality both issues only require one solution.

With a number of different environmental student organizations on campus, Sartain said he wants to distinguish his environmental group as a reasonable economic organization also.

“We want to really show people that the economy will result in environmentalism if we just manage it properly,” he said.

The group started in March 2011, obtained nonprofit status in January of this year and became recognized as an OU student organization a few weeks ago, Sartain

AT A GLANCE Environmental Student Organizations at OU - our earth - earth Rebirth - department of Geography and environmental sustainability - environmental science student association Source: Student Life

said.

Th e re a re ab ou t f ou r p e o p l e i nvo l ve d i n t h e organization at OU so far, but there also are volunteers around the country and a branch in Kansas City, he said.

There are three main programs planned for Earth

FESTIVAL: New location attributed to positive event atmosphere Continued from page 1 theatrical than last year’s event, which was held in Jim Thorpe Multicultural Center.

“At Jim Thorpe, it was more casual. The difference in venues definitely created a difference in the atmosphere,” Tran said.

The event also included a difference in attendance, partly due to making the event free, whereas last y e a r ’s e v e n t i n c l u d e d admission fees.

“I wanted the event to be

more open,” Huynh said.

S h e s a i d l a s t y e a r ’s event brought around 100 guests, meaning this year’s attendance was nearly double the turnout. melodie Lettkemen melodie.lettkeman@gmail.com

Rebirth this year, Sartain said. First, the group is working with Love Works Outreach in Norman to encourage next generation gardening by creating a community garden where students can grow their own produce.

Sar tain also wants to educate volunteers about how to properly dispose of things while cleaning up small water sources around Norman. Finally, the group will work to educate homeowners on how to optimize energy efficiency and lower energy bills while adver tising low-energy appliances.

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Andrew Sartain, Interdisciplinary perspectives on the environment senior and president and founder of the newly chartered Earth Rebirth Club explains his vision of the club going national and green initiatives on campus such as the Green Roof Project at the National Weather Center. Sartain says that one of the main goals of the club is to help people understand that environmentalism is not just about hugging trees but also good economic strategies. The Earth Rebirth Club meets on campus 7 p.m. on Sundays in room 326 of Gittinger Hall.

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OPINION

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EDITORIAL

No good choice in Nov. for privacy, due process, rights Our View: When it comes to civil liberties this

Barack Obama:

What is more important to you: your individual liberties or national security?

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election, it’s a choice between expectedly bad and surprisingly worse.

Much has been said about the presidential candidates’ views on social issues, if you limit that category to civil rights, equality and religious concerns. But what about the more basic civil liberties of privacy, due process, assembly and freedom from unwarranted detention?

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Between the president’s duty to protect the nation, the daily briefs on a steady flow of threats and the opposing party’s readiness to strike at any perceived weakness, presidents are pressured to favor security over vital civil liberties.

Obama is not excepted from these pressures.

And in response, he has sold out the American people in order to vastly expand the reach of executive power. Obama has eroded citizens’ most vital protections against state abuses in the name of supposedly protecting them from outside threats.

Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, declared himself “disgusted” with Obama’s record. We have to agree.

When he first took office, President Barack Obama seemed like a dream come true for those concerned with civil liberties. He decried his predecessor’s record of torture, overreaching presidential power and secrecy, and he ran on promises of an open government.

He did fulfill some of those promises.

He banned torture The Our View is the majority (including waterboarding), promised to close our prison at opinion of The Daily’s Guantanamo Bay and closed nine-member the CIA’s secret prisons. But it editorial board quickly became apparent that Obama was not the white knight Mitt Romney: civil libertarians had been hoping for: His record Without four years as president, Republican of abuses matches, if not outdoes, that of any candidate Mitt Romney has no national security president who came before him.

• He gave in to a stubborn Congress and ceased record to scrutinize. But his campaign statements say enough. efforts to close the prison camp at Guantanamo • Romney has no plans to close the Guantanamo Bay. Bay prison. In 2007, he said, “I want them on • Obama has continued indefinite detentions at Guantanamo Bay and brought the policy home Guantanamo, where they don’t get the access to lawyers they get when they’re on our soil. … My by signing the National Defense Authorization view is we ought to double Guantanamo.”

Act this year. The act gives the military the • In 2012, Romney said in a debate he, too, power to arrest and indefinitely detain anyone, would have signed the 2012 National Defense citizens included, who is suspected of terrorist Authorization Act, which gave the president the connections.

• He has continued the warrantless surveillance power to indefinitely detain citizens suspected of terrorist ties. Obama signed the act on Dec. 31. of American citizens started by his predecessor.

• He has vocally supported the same warrantless • Obama has demonstrated an enthusiasm for surveillance used by Obama and condoned by targeted killings and drone warfare, which not the PATRIOT Act. In a November 2011 debate only cause large numbers of civilian deaths but on National Security, he said, “We need tools also raise troubling questions about the bounds of when war is waged domestically ... We’ll use the executive power.

Constitution and criminal law for those people • Perhaps worst of all, he has proven he can who commit crimes, but those who commit war and will order the assassination of U.S. citizens abroad based on suspected terrorist connections. and attack the United States and pursue treason of Obama bragged about the CIA-orchestrated death various kinds, we will use instead a very different form of law.” of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Muslim • In the same debate, he shrugged cleric who had not been charged for off concerns about individual rights But it quickly a crime or tried before a court when a U.S. drone strike ended his life. became apparent being eroded by government power: “And I hear from time to time people • His administration has refused that Obama was say, ‘Hey, wait a second, we have civil to prosecute CIA operatives or not the white knight liberties we have to worry about.’ But other officials responsible for the civil libertarians had don’t forget the most important civil program of torture under former liberty I expect from my government been hoping for.

President George W. Bush. In not is my right to be kept alive ...” investigating and prosecuting those • He also agreed with Obama’s responsible for war crimes, Obama assassination of an American citizen in Yemen violated international law, and his actions justify the refusal of other states to investigate their own without due process.

• His campaign spokeswoman said last year alleged war crimes.

Romney does not believe waterboarding is • Domestic dissent also has seen its share of torture and would not promise to ban the attacks in the form of police harassment and technique. She said he would not specify the harsh repression. “enhanced interrogation techniques” a Romney The White House counsel has tried to explain administration would use against terrorists. this radical departure from the views Obama • In 2009, he decried the possibility of campaigned on in 2008, telling the Wall Street investigations into CIA torture allegations. He Journal, “Until one experiences [the presidency] worried that such investigations might cause first hand, it is difficult to appreciate fully how you other nations to refuse future partnerships in need flexibility in a lot of circumstances.”

It’s clear that no one but former presidents truly which prisoners are shipped to those countries for interrogations that violate international law can understand the pressures and necessities of (known as extraordinary rendition). the job, but no pressure is great enough to justify Unlike Obama, Romney has every reason to the violation of the basic individual rights that stick to these stances. His base would expect underlie our society and protect us from federal nothing less, and the appearance of being tough power. on national security has won him major points.

No, it’s more likely that Obama simply is But for those in the Republican Party who lean continuing a long presidential tradition. Since more toward Libertarian views — or anyone the 1930s, presidents have chosen national concerned about government overreach and security over civil liberties — whether it was the human rights — there seems to be no good choice internment of Japanese-Americans in World come November.

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Romney’s stances on gay marriage contradictory

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itt Romney has OPINION COLUMNIST had more than his fair share of foot in mouth moments over the past few weeks.

However, one received much less attention than it deserved.

While most of the nation Sarah Sullivan was focused on Romney’s katsar313@netzero.net comments about the 47 percent of the country, I was focused on his contradictory comments made Sept. 19 at Univision’s “Meet the Candidates” forum in Coral Gables, Fla. Romney was asked how he would feel if one of his grandchildren were to be gay. His response was like most of his responses to the public: confusing, contradictory and representative of his lack of sincerity.

Romney stated that he would be okay with his grandchildren being gay and that he would want them to be happy. He said he would want them to be able to live together in a loving home, have children and have a meaningful and respectful relationship.

If you are thinking this doesn’t sound like the Mitt Romney of the 2012 campaign, then I am with you.

However, in typical Romney fashion, he proceeded to stick his $500 Gucci loafers in his veneer-adorned mouth.

He assured viewers he still is opposed to same-sex marriage, saying “I would like to have the term ‘marriage’ to continue to be associated with a relationship between one man and one woman.”

Romney, what if you have a homosexual grandchild who falls madly in love and wants to get married? What if that is what is going to make him or her happy — to be able to call that person his or her husband or wife?

Would you be opposed to a family member’s right to pursue what would fill his or her life with joy and contentment?

At this same forum, it was reiterated that Romney would like to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. I find it strange that someone who is running for president of the U.S. would have such a benighted idea on his agenda.

You cannot amend the Constitution to remove basic rights that we are all legally entitled to as human beings — like equality before the law. That is the bottom line.

I am aware that many will argue the Constitution was not meant to include the rights of homosexuals. My rebuttal? It was argued that the rights set forth by the Constitution were not meant to include women, either, until we realized that was wrong. Then it was argued it was not meant to include black Americans. We all know what happened next: We realized that was wrong, too.

Times change. Laws and ideas change.

We are all people and that does not change. We all have the right to pursue what makes us happy, whether that is marrying the person you love, adopting a child or owning a home together. It doesn’t matter what it is, we all deserve the same rights.

Twelve states allow domestic partnerships or civil unions: Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Delaware, Washington, California, Oregon, Maine, DC, Nevada and Wisconsin. Six states legalized gay marriage: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, New Hampshire and New York.

These states are paving the way for change. Change is something that should not happen in the future. Change is something that happens now. No one ever said, “Maybe I will fight for women’s rights next week” or “Maybe I will go to the next Civil Rights march.” They just did it.

That is what these states are doing. They are accepting the inevitable: We will all be recognized as deserving the same basic rights regardless of sexual orientation, just as we realized it regardless of gender or skin color.

We are the next generation. The time to vote is fast approaching. If you vote in this election, do not take your vote lightly.

Remember when a candidate is wishy-washy, it is a reflection of his or her character. The small tidbits of truth we find in this forum and in his secretly recorded comments about the 47 percent of the country are what we should be paying attention to — not the glitz and glamour of the election campaign.

We can make the change, open the eyes and educate the minds. Don’t wait for the change. Be the change and vote wisely.

Sarah Sullivan is an English writing junior.

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The OU football team had two bye weeks in three weeks. They said they spent the last one trying to get their offense on track to take on Texas Tech.

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When coach Bob Stoops first arrived at Oklahoma in 1999, he brought a groundbreaking offense with him.

Stoops had nowWashington State coach Mike Leach install an offense at OU that Leach developed with former Kentucky coach Hal Mumme: the Air Raid.

While he was the defensive coordinator at Flor ida, Stoops always dreade d playing Kentucky — a team that boasted a high-flying offense that could light up the scoreboard and was extremely difficult to prepare for — so when it came to hire an offensive coordinator, L ea ch wa s t h e o bv i ou s choice.

Leach’s stay at OU was short-lived, as Texas Tech hired him away in 2000, but the impact of his innovative offense still is felt throughout college football.

Almost 15 years later, the Air Raid still has defensive coordinators scratching their heads, and, Saturday, the Sooners will face the same offense their former offensive coordinator pioneered.

The offense has evolved since its stint in Norman — see Dana Holgorsen’s offense at West Virginia that’s run mostly out of the pistol and incorporates jet sweeps and swing passes to give the ball to players at full speed — but the foundation of the offense has remained the same.

It consists of short, quickhitting pass plays that spread the defense out and rely on receivers to pick up yards after the catch.

When OU lost to Texas Tech at home last season, one particular play — the jailbreak or tunnel screen — shredded the Sooners and led to a pair of first-half touchdowns for the Red Raiders. “ That’s a tough play,” defensive coordinator Mike Stoops said. “Their timing is outstanding on it. It’s just something we have to have alerts for and recognize quicker than a year ago.”

Texas Tech caught the Sooners in soft zone coverage that allowed Tech’s blockers

OU 22-3 at McCasland Field House in last two seasons Chris Tyndall Sports Reporter

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Senior safety Javon Harris (30) makes a tackle in a game against Kansas State on Sept. 22 . Harris and the rest of the Sooner defense have to stop Texas Tech’s Air Raid offense to beat the Red Raiders in Lubbock on Saturday.

AT A GLANCE Texas Tech in 2012 358.8 passing yards per game

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to pick up their assignments and engage them before OU’s defenders could read the play and find the ball.

What resulted were two easy touchdowns where senior receiver Alex Torres waltzed into the end zone untouched.

Last season, the Sooners attempted to defend Texas Tech by only rushing four l i n e m e n a n d d ro p p i n g everyone else into zone coverage. As a result, they gave up 441 yards through the air and spotted the Red Raiders a 24-point lead.

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“A lot of keys we misread,” junior safety Tony Jefferson said. “They gashed us. And that’s what Texas Tech can do: You make one simple mistake, and they can gash you because they got the players to do so.”

Although the Red Raiders are known for slinging the ball around the field, since coach Tommy Tuberville’s arrival, they’ve become much more balanced — producing one of the better rushing attacks in the Big 12. “ Th e y ’ re r u n n i ng f o r 190 yards a game,” senior

football Brief Former Sooner great arrested in Chicago Former OU defensive tackle Tommie Harris was arrested Monday night in Chicago for allegedly urinating in public and threatening a police officer.

Harris was cut from the Chicago Bears last season then played 13 games with the San Diego Chargers

but was released at the end of the year and is no longer in football.

The Bears drafted Harris No. 14 overall in the 2004 NFL Draft and went on to make three Pro Bowls with the Bears.

He finished second in the Defensive Rookie of the Year voting in 2004.

Harris recorded 226 tackles, 31.5 sacks and one interception in his

eight-year professional career.

At Oklahoma, Harris was an All-American and AllBig 12 selection in 2002 and 2003 and won the Lombardi Trophy, given to the nation’s best lineman, during his junior season in 2003.

Harris has a court date scheduled for Oct. 27.

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defensive end David King said. “So, it’s not like they’re just slinging it every play.

We’ve just got to do a good job of being in our gaps and guys making plays, making tackles.”

But still, Texas Tech’s offense poses its greatest threat throwing the football.

If the Sooners hope to stop, or even slow down, Texas Tech’s aerial attack Saturday, they’ll have to disrupt the timing of the offense either through blitzes, press coverage or a combination of both.

“I think you got to push them off their spots,” Mike Stoops said. “Whether it’s a rush or whether it’s a blitz, throw their timing off, get them to pull the ball down a little bit and not have those throwing windows they like to have.”

The Oklahoma volleyball team looks to continue its home winning streak when it hosts Wichita State at 6 tonight at McCasland Field House.

The Sooners have won all eight of their home games this season, including an upset over then-undefeated Kansas State.

OU is 22-3 when playing in Norman the past two seasons.

“Playing at home makes us more comfortable, more relaxed and having our fans cheer us on makes it a lot easier to play,” freshman setter Julia Doyle said.

Coach Santiago Restrepo agreed with Doyle on the benefits of home court advantage.

“It’s always easier for a team to play better at home because they are familiar with the area, and they have the fans on their side,” Restrepo said.

Heading into their final nonconference game, the Sooners are 8-2 in their last 10 games with their only losses coming to then-No. 1 Nebraska in Lincoln and No. Julia 9 Texas in Austin. Restrepo credits his Doyle young team’s ability to bounce back after losses — OU is 4-0 in games following losses — as a crucial part of its success this season.

“Nobody likes to lose two in a row, so we fight even harder to make sure it doesn’t happen,” Restrepo said.

Oklahoma is led by junior middle blocker Sallie McLaurin, who is averaging 2.65 kills a game and holds a team high .392 hitting percentage.

McLaurin, a Preseason All-Big 12 team member, is tied with Creighton’s sophomore middle blocker Kelli Browning for the most blocks per set in the nation with both players averaging 1.70.

Restrepo credits McLaurin’s success to her maturity.

“She reads her opponents extremely well, which helps her get all those blocks,” Restrepo said.

The Shockers are coming off a loss to conference foe Northern Iowa (3-1) last Saturday night in Iowa, stopping their three game winning streak. They are led by junior setter Chelsey Feekin (1.95 kills, 9.66 assists, .465 hitting percentage) and junior middle blocker Ashley Andrade (2.07 kills, 2.68 points, .321 hitting percentage).

Both players were named Missouri Valley Conference honorees this week with Feekin being named Player of the Week and Andrade as the Defensive Player of the Week.

The Sooners are 1-3 in their past four games against Wichita State with the Shockers owning a 2-1 record in Norman, splitting their last two meetings.

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Above: Alli Trussell kicks Chandler Ryan nearly to death during rehearsal of “Lion in the Streets” in the Old Science Hall’s Lab Theater Monday.

Below: Trussell chokes Ryan during the rehearsal. The play is directed by Susan Shaughnessy and is set to open tonight.

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Colby Frederick colby.m.frederick-1@ou.edu

“Lion in the Streets,” presented by the OU Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts Lab Theatre, is a poignant play that highlights relevant issues with its non-linear format.

Canadian playwright Judith Thompson first produced the play in 1990.

The show opens tonight at OU. The narrative follows the ghost of a girl named Isobel investigating her own death. As the story unfolds, she (portrayed by acting senior Andrea Lopez) searches for her killer, piecing together her dark past with observations of her neighbors’ behavior.

This made the format of the play particularly interesting. As the primary source of continuity in the play, Isobel acts as an omni-present observer, fleshing out the neighbors as characters and the themes they represent.

At the same time, Isobel undergoes a transformation.

She intially wants revenge, but she eventually resigns herself to her situation.

Lopez clearly expressed Isobel’s initial desires for vengeance with appropriate anger and bitterness.

Every few scenes, the actors change characters.

Despite these characters being very different from one another, the actors handled their dual roles very well. With their skill and devotion, they animated the characters, making them

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very believable.

The messages and themes in “Lion” are timeless and very human. Among the topics it examines are failed relationships and human sexuality.

As far as content goes, I was most impressed with how the cast handled the darker scenes of rape and murder. The content is extremely graphic and mature, but it was handled so well that I never doubted its placement in the show.

The harrowing experiences in “Lion” reflect the cruel and dark side of human nature.

The show is played in the intimate Lab Theatre, which is the perfect choice for this play. In the 80-seat black box theatre, audiences truly will experience the show and be able to clearly see every

detail.

The minimalist set, comprised of stackable chairs and tables, suits the production nicely by giving audiences and actors a chance to use their imaginations.

The continuity of the scenes left me a bit confused at a few points. This was not the fault of the cast and crew, but of the structure of the play itself.

The play was unique in the way it jumped around the plot. Usually when a new scene began, it would introduce a new round of characters portrayed by the small group of actors.

Situations from one scene would spill into the next on occasion, but on average, a new scene meant a new subplot.

Toward the end of the play, all of the scenes and storylines came together for the benefit of the audience’s understanding.

While I thought the actors were all brilliant with every character they portrayed, Lopez was the only one who truly transformed for the role and vividly portrayed her character’s emotional shifts.

Colby Frederick is a University College freshman.

Art

Collective hosts new exhibition Courtney Aldridge Life & Arts Reporter

New Media Collective (NMC), a student organization out of the OU School of Art & Art History, will host an art exhibition in the Fred Jones Center’s Lightwell Gallery starting tonight.

The group was formed this year in an attempt to include a more collective group of art forms, said Molly Youngblood, NMC president and film and media studies senior.

Students will see photography, film, video and other non-traditional art forms that will give a broader perspective of art, she said.

The exhibition also shows mediums that aren’t typical of this area of the U.S., so students will see art forms that are new and different for them, Youngblood said.

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“It’s all under the umbrella categor y of new media, w h i c h i n c l u d e s p h o t o, video, film, installation, animation, performance and technology-based art,” photography junior Ryan Harris said.

Because of the exhibit’s variety, it can attract a wide range of people, said Tania Khouri, NMC vice president and photography senior.

“This exhibition pulls people in because it reaches a broader audience,” Khouri said.

This collection is relatable t o stu d e nt s w h o a re n ’ t familiar with art because it incorporates media that students use all the time, she said.

Khouri is showing her own photography in the exhibition that fuses art and high fashion. It takes fashion and art to the next level, Khouri said.

The exhibition will open with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, catered by La Baguette Bistro. Both the reception and exhibition are open to all students, Youngblood said.

Courtney Aldridge, courtney.e.aldridge-1@ou.edu

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{1:30 p.m. Nov. 21} Scholars Room Oklahoma Memorial Union presentation to OU Staff Senate

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• Wednesday, October 3, 2012

OU STUDENTS YOU ARE INVITED! A Discussion of ��������������������������������� Featuring Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson Co-Chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform

Erskine Bowles

Alan Simpson

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4 p.m.

Monday, October 8

Sandy Bell Gallery Mary and Howard Lester Wing Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������������������������

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