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Integrity Council’s new system now student-run

OU rallies to beat Tigers

Students steer campus integrity into one office, the Office of Academic Integrity Programs, to help streamline cases, council chairman Zekiel Johnson said.

LILLY CHAPA The new format puts students in Staff Reporter the driver’s seat, Johnson said.

“Students now are being held acThe OU Academic Integrity Council’s revamp is giving students countable by their peers, not just adgreater responsibility for academic ministrators,” he said. “The old system was very adversarial, pitting the misconduct on campus.

OU’s academic misconduct system see INTEGRITY paGe 2 is now student-run and centralized

AT A GLANCE reporting academic misconduct to report possible academic misconduct, email Breea Bacon at breea@ou.edu or visit integrity.ou.edu.

Once reported, professors will be notified and proper action will be taken.

Students can request anonymity but may be required to attend a hearing, if necessary.

Source: Breea Bacon, Academic Integrity Programs director

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Industrial engineering sophomores Katy Rubin (left) and Sarah Yung sit while they eat their free food they received during Wednesday’s Bevo Burger Bash on the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s lawn. The Union Programming Board hosts the event each year before the OU-Texas football game.

Bevo burger brings out the students UPB prepared food to feed up to 600 students Wednesday KATHLEEN EVANS

Senior Campus Reporter

Good weather, free food and high spirits brought students out to the Oklahoma Memorial Union lawn Wednesday afternoon to enjoy the Bevo Burger Bash.

The Union Programming Board hosted its annual bash with free hamburgers, chips and sodas for students.

The board prepared food for up to 600 Austin Smith, petroleum engineering sophomore, takes a bite people, graduate student assistant for UPB out of a hamburger he received during the Bevo Burger Bash on Lauren Giddens said. the Oklahoma Memorial Union lawn Wednesday afternoon.

Students dotted the east side of the union, sitting under shade trees, in clusters on the grass or in rows along the steps of the buildOUDAILY.COM ing. Others lined up along sidewalks — sometimes having to wrap around the union Video: Students line up for free food Wednesday afternoon — for the free burgers aptly named after the

University of Texas’ longhorn mascot.

“We better win,” said Rebecca McNeley, University College freshman and board member, in reference to the OU-Texas game.

“I’m from Texas, and all my friends go to UT, so we better win.”

Those not planning to go to the game also were getting in the mood for a trip to Dallas to hang out at the State Fair of Texas. For Enes Karaaslan, a civil engineering senior from Turkey, this will be his first American fair.

“I don’t have tickets to the match, but I am going to the fair with some American friends,” Karaaslan said. “I haven’t been to a fair before, so I want to see what it is like.”

Professional writing sophomore Dana Henderson said she does not have plans to head south but is heading north to Edmond to be with her family during the long weekend. She wanted to take advantage of the free food Wednesday and use the long weekend to gear up for her midterms next week.

When Missouri rallied to tie the game at 2-2 after being blown out in the first two sets, OU’s Suzy Boulavsky put the team on her back.

The senior right side had 19 kills, including two quick ones in the deciding fifth set, as OU survived a comeback by the Tigers to defeat Missouri, 3-2 (-12, -17, 21-25, 22-25, 15-7), at McCasland Field Housew.

“Once again it shows that going to five (sets), we have the confidence and endurance to do so,” Boulavsky s a i d . “ Yo u MORE don’t want to get in that INSIDE habit, though, A preview because it can of OU’s come back to Saturday get you.” matchup Senior setwith No. 16 ter Brianne Iowa State.

(Page 9) Barker had 48 assists and 17 digs while leading the offense. Freshman outside hitter Tara Dunn had 13 kills, and sophomore middle blocker Sallie McLaurin added 11.

Junior defensive specialist María Fernanda had 31 digs to lead three Sooners with double-digit digs.

Missouri’s Lisa Henning had 16 kills to lead the Tigers. Priscilla Armendariz had 18 digs to lead Mizzou’s defensive effort.

The match began with back-and-forth play as the Sooners and Tigers felt each other out. However, OU took the lead at 7-6 and never looked back.

Missouri coach Wayne Kreklow burned both his timeouts at OU leads of 11-7 and 14-7. The Sooners rolled the Tigers, 25-12, hitting a .615 in the set, and Boulavsky had seven kills and a .778 hitting percentage in the opener.

Missouri only hit .152 and had only five digs the entire set.

The second set also was tight at the beginning, but the Sooners stretched their lead to force Mizzou to call timeout with OU up, 13-7.

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Students join nationwide protests

Sooner produce takes root in campus dining options

The Occupy Wall Street movement reached OU on Wednesday. (Page 3)

Movement good, but lacks specific focus

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If Occupy Wall Street is to succeed, it needs to have clear goals. (Page 4)

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A certified tutor offers tips to easing nerves and stress. (OuDaily.com)

Whether you’re going to the game, be sure to visit the fair. (Page 6)

ROTC members to carry game ball Red River Run begins annual Toys for Tots campaign

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Students visited the Look Local Expo on Wednesday to get a taste of what local vendors are cooking up for OU restaurants. (OuDaily.com)

The race is on for members of OU’s Naval Reserve Officers Training corps as they carry the OU-Texas game ball to Dallas.

Mo s t o f t h e 8 5 m e m bers of the battalion are participating in the Red River Run, a 190-mile trek to deliver the game ball,

said midshipman Alixe Bunyard, international security studies junior.

In the spirit of tradition and giving, the corps uses the run to kick off the yearly Marines’ Toys for Tots campaign.

At 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, OU coach Bob Stoops met up with the battalion to donate a football to the toy drive and hand off the game ball.

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run: Runners to travel 190 miles in three days Continued from page 1

Today around campus The collaborative art exhibit titled “Satan’s Camaro” is on display in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Lightwell Gallery. The exhibit, which features the work of Justin Strom and Lenore Thomas, will be on display until Oct. 21.

A workshop on modern languages, literatures and linguistics will be presented by OU alumnus Grant Moak from 8 to 10 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall. Moak will discuss how French language skills will be useful in the following areas: French Honorary Consul in Oklahoma, in the field of law and in a work or study-abroad program in France.

The OU jazz bands will perform from 8 to 10 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall. The concert is part of the Sutton Concert Series. Tickets are $9 for adults, $5 for students, OU faculty/staff and senior adults.

Friday, Oct. 7 No school. OU-Texas weekend begins.

Sunday, Oct. 9 A recital by the Marvin Murphee Mosaic Vocal Ensemble will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Pitman Recital Hall. This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited.

A flute performance by professor Valerie Watts will take place from 8 to 10 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Pitman Recital Hall. The performance is part of the Sutton Artist Series.

Seating is limited.

Monday, Oct. 10 A workshop on the music of North India will take place from 5 to 6 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Pitman Recital Hall. The workshop will demonstrate the drumming patterns of the folk music of North India.

A concert of the Himalayan Folk Music of North India will take place from 8 to 10 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall. Tickets are $9 adults, $5 students, senior adults and OU faculty/staff.

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the battalion as it navigates backroads of Oklahoma and Texas along Highway 77, student battalion commander Jack Reidy said.

Runners somewhat “bunny hop” on the way down by jumping in the van to rest, said Reidy, mechanical engineering senior.

They will run two fivehour shifts Wednesday and Thursday and one Friday, while the group stops to rest at night. Someone will always run with the ball during those shifts, Reidy said.

The runners have to keep a pretty steady pace, covering about 40 miles per shift. Each member likely will run at least four miles, with some running up to 20 miles or even more, he HOLLY DAVIS WALKER/THE DAILY said.

OU coach Bob Stoops places a football on top of the donation box Spencer Hart set a record for the Toys for Tots program Wednesday morning outside the Armory. after running 50 miles in

2007.

Donation boxes are set u p t h rou g h ou t ca mpu s and the greater metro area to collect toys, which the Marines will then distribute to children in time for Christmas.

And the fun doesn’t end when the battalion reaches Dallas. OU’s members compete against the battalion from Texas in a friendly game of flag football.

For the last five years, the result of the flag football game has predicted the result of the OU-Texas game, Bunyard said. “ We l o o k f o r w a r d t o going out there, beating Texas, setting the standard for OU to beat Texas as well,” said Midshipman Jacob Campbell, finance senior and the battalion’s executive officer.

The game ball will be officially delivered during a ceremony Saturday before the Cotton Bowl, Reidy said.

Integrity: Change streamlines appeal process Continued from page 1 professor and the student against one another. The new system is designed to reduce the adversarial nature, while still holding everyone accountable.”

Academic integrity always has been important, and the new system is more proactive, said Breea Bacon, director of Academic Integrity Programs.

“Academic integrity isn’t something new,” Bacon said.

“We’re finally starting to talk about it. We’re just starting the conversation.”

Bacon said the council is the student voice of academic integrity. The council is the largest and most diverse integrity council yet, with 35 to 40 members, she said.

“The Integrity Council investigates student misconduct charges,” Bacon said.

“It’s not the professor’s job to investigate academic misconduct, and the council can conduct an independent investigation.”

She said OU is the first campus to have an entirely student-run integrity council.

“The program was started by students for students, and the administration has been extremely dedicated to the cause,” Bacon said.

Another necessary change in the program now streamlines the academic misconduct process. Bacon said before the changes were put in place, misconduct charges and investigation would often take a semester or longer.

“The charges would be filed in the misconduct office,

but after that the paperwork and investigation would take place in other offices, and if one person dropped the ball the whole system slowed down,” she said. “With the new system, we can have a case resolved in a matter of days.”

The Academic Integrity program boasts continuing success in its Do You Understand Integrity classes.

The one-credit-hour class is required for students found guilty of academic misconduct and began in spring

2010 and recently graduated its 100th student, Bacon said.

One student, whose name was withheld by the university due to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, took the class in spring 2011.

He said it gave him an opportunity to make up for the problem he created himself without condemning his future.

“I couldn’t speak any more highly of the DYUI class,” the student said. “I truly believe the students who take this class are the most well-

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Bacon said the program will continue to change and expand, and they’re looking to offer a writing-intensive program for students who have been caught plagiarizing.

“How we deal with academic integrity is constantly changing and evolving,” she said. “It is something worth caring about, talking about and the conversation has just begun.”

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south oval Maddie Habeck, pre-occupational therapy sophomore, plunges into a dunk tank Wednesday on the South Oval.

Habeck was volunteering with the other members of sorority Gamma Delta Pi to raise money for the Sunflower Mission’s children’s educational programs in Vietnam.

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Student Congress minutes under fire Inaccuracies may be in violation of Open Meetings Act Chase Cook

Managing Editor

Incomplete recording

by Undergraduate Student Congress has muddled recent meeting minutes in regards to its actions on student organizations’ allocations.

The Sept. 27 meeting’s minutes of the Student Congress do not accurately state whether two emergency allocations to student organizations were passed. Because the minutes are vague on the vote, it may be in violation of the Oklahoma Open Meetings Act. Two emergency funding bills are referenced in the minutes, but they do not mention any vote before they shift to a new agenda item. The bills were passed, according

to Student Congress’ voting record, which is a separate document from the minutes.

The Oklahoma Open Meetings Act states public bodies must provide minutes “showing clearly those members present and absent, all matters considered by the public body and all actions taken by such public body.”

Congress keeps its roll call and voting records as separate documents under the “resources” tab of its website, but the act states roll and voting records must be kept in the minutes of a meeting.

Congress chairwoman Alyssa Loveless said recent secretary turnover has changed the format of the minutes, but she said the minutes still uphold the act.

“I think we followed everything required by the Oklahoma Open Meetings Act, the [UOSA] code annotated and the Student

Congress bylaws,” Loveless said.

Student Congress lost its previous secretary, international and area studies sophomore Aaron White, after he resigned.

Luba Popov, Congressional Administration committee chairwoman, took his place, Loveless said. Popov was next in line for the position.

Congress may not have willfully violated the Open Meetings Act, but not clearly displaying the vote was a violation, Oklahoma Press Association President Mark Thomas said.

All votes must be publicly disclosed in the minutes of a public body meeting, according to the court opinion in the Oldham v. Drummond Board of Education in 1975.

The purpose of minutes is to allow citizens not attending the meetings to have a reasonable idea what

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happened, Thomas said.

Student Congress could be liable for a willful violation if it maintains its minutes this way or if someone said the minutes were wrong, but they were approved anyway, Thomas said.

“If I was them, I would back up and do it right,” he said.

Six Congress members disagreed with how the minutes were taken and voted not to approve them.

One of the six members, Shayna Daitch, international security studies senior, said she felt the minutes violated both the meetings act and Student Congress bylaws.

Daitch said she and other members were misquoted in the minutes, and the minutes are missing a motion to separate agenda items.

Loveless said anyone with concerns regarding the minutes can come to her office hours and discuss them with

Nationwide protests to occupy OU Caitlin Ruemping Campus Reporter

The effects of the nationwide Occupy Wall Street protests have reached Norman as students and residents have joined the movement for a meet-and-greet at noon Friday on the South Go and Do Oval.

Occupy Norman The Occupy Wall Street meet-and-greet movement aims to gather people across the nation, WHEN: Noon Friday and even the world, to end financial greed. Protesters, WHERE: North end of the who aim to inform the South Oval, in front of world about these injusBizzell Memorial Library tices to gain more followers to actually make a change, have gathered every day since Sept. 17 to demonstrate the need for change.

Protesters argue they represent the 99 percent of America that holds only 1 percent of the nation’s wealth.

Inspired by this movement, geology senior Emma Baker joined the local Occupy movement, along with a handful of Norman residents who vary in age and background.

Baker, vocal in the movement through social media, said she believes that using the closeness of college communities will further the movement.

“I saw the movement, and I thought that protests in the ’70s “We want started on campuses,” she said. anyone who “It only makes sense to bring it feels wronged. here.”

Protesters mainly object to the We’re human government’s overbearing impact rights, and we’re in finances. The government’s intrying to end volvement in all aspects of life and agreements with private corporacorruption.” tions have caused corruption in Emma Baker, the nation. geology senior “Some people know what we’re talking about, some don’t,” protester Jim Hughes said. “Not everyone at OU gets their news from ‘Democratic Daily’ like I do.”

Baker encouraged all who desire change to join the movement, and said it is the first step toward accomplishing the movement’s goals of an uncorrupted nation.

“We want anyone who feels wronged. We’re human rights, and we’re trying to end corruption,” Baker said.

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OPINION

“I’m not one of those OU fans that thinks UT is a lost cause.

They’re always at the top of the recruiting classes and this year is double trouble in my opinion ... Boomer Sooner!” (HornsDown, Re: Red River Rivalry keys to victory for OU and Texas)

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Movement needs leadership Our View: We’re glad to see the Occupy movement come to Norman, but the protesters need specific demands to accomplish their goals.

likely deny them jobs upon graduation.

Occupy Norman The Occupy moveMeet-and-greet ment is committed to WHEN: Noon Friday fighting the very real The Occupy Wall Street protest, and the Occupy problem of wealth inTogether movement it inspired across the country, WHERE: North end of the chose Wednesday as a rallying point. The Wall Street equality in this country South Oval, in front of Bizzell Memorial Library — their main slogan is group organized a march with labor union leaders about the 99 percent that drew around 3,000 people, ABC News reported, taking power back from and that effort was matched by Occupy groups nationwide with their own marches and protests. That the 1 percent who control the majority of the wealth push was brought to the OU campus when students — and “taking to task the people who perpetrated the economic meltdown,” according to its in the Occupy Norman movement walked website. These issues are vitally important, out of their classes as part of a nationwide The Our View movement in solidarity for the Wall Street is the majority especially to college students, and must be addressed. We applaud the protestors for opinion of protestors. gathering their outrage and funneling that The Daily’s Students on the Facebook page for Occupy 10-member energy toward a worthy purpose.

College, the organizers of the walkout, reeditorial board But that purpose would be much better port participation from across the country, served if the movement had a specific action though the numbers differ wildly: from the plan with focused goals. You can’t fight inequality 200 at University of Massachusetts at Amherst to and corruption just by making a lot of noise. Occupy the “dozens” at Brown, and the handfuls at OU and needs clear demands to focus this momentum on.

Oklahoma City Community College. The numbers They should specify what actions they want to see on at OU weren’t exactly inspiring, but we’re proud of the students who took a stand today by leaving class the part of lawmakers, bankers and citizens to bring and demonstrating on the South Oval, proud to see about their goals. This will let all their supporters students from OU participating in an important na- know where to funnel their energy and let everyone tional movement, expressing their beliefs and trying else decide whether they are on board with the message. Occupy Norman could be the leaders in this to accomplish change. effort.

We have frequently called on the student body to Members of Occupy Norman, this is your chance go beyond complaining on social media, to loudly to lead the movement into a more productive direcexpress their opinions and to work for the change tion.

Maybe the attendance at the next event will be they want to see. This walkout and the Occupy closer to 500 than five.

Norman movement are students doing just that. It is a visible expression of students’ frustration with corComment on this at OUDaily.com porate corruption and the recession that will most

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Continued wars bring disunity

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n Friday, as the annual autumnal exodus of students flows out toward Dallas, hometowns, airports or to a hard desk chair to catch up on course work, our country will pass another benchmark.

Ten years ago, the United States launched its invasion of Afghanistan in response to the Sept. 11 attacks. Many people have documented the distinct, and often troubling, shifts in our country after that tragedy. In response to the economic crises and mismanagement, our three open wars abroad, political stagnation in the capital and a good many other issues, citizens are organizing and occupying from Wall Street to Chicago and Seattle to Dallas.

The connections present themselves readily to me: the citizens occupy their capitols while their military occupies subjugated

“Everyone is welcome, regardless of background or opinion, to grieve, to unify and to remember.”

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Elizabeth Rucker wordful@ou.edu

states. As of this writing, the Associated Press reports 1,682 U.S. military fatalities in Afghanistan — the United Nations Mission to Afghanistan reported 8,832 civilian casualties as of December 2010. To finance the means to our end, our government has spent more than $460 billion.

Some progress has been made from all this bloodshed — girls are nominally allowed to go to school and Afghanistan experienced an economic boom. But scholars like Robert Rotberg write that the benefits of the boom have not reached the

Afghan poor, and Barnett Rubin noted in 2002 that despite the Taliban’s atrocities, the country was more secure in 1998 than in postinvasion.

As I observe — like many people have throughout all our country’s wars — the human costs of this war, I am reminded of a few lines of poetry that came up in some course readings this week. Sa’adi, a 12th century Persian poet, penned these words: “The children of Adam are limbs of one another, created from a single substance. When one limb suffers misfortune, the others cannot be at rest. You who do not suffer the pain of others do not deserve to be called human.”

Our futures are all bound up together: the financiers

of Wall Street and the starving Afghan children, the protesters arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge and the military personnel deployed to maintain occupation of Afghanistan. Today the deeply human element of all these entanglements strikes me.

In this spirit, I invite you and your family, priests, friends, professors, imams, veterans, activists and roommates to gather for a candlelight vigil at 8 p.m Wednesday in the Unity Garden. Everyone is welcome, regardless of background or opinion, to grieve, to unify and to remember.

Elizabeth Rucker is an international studies and interdisciplinary studies on the environment senior.

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Pop music industry too demeaning

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s part of my required field experience for the College of Education, I have to log a certain amount of observation hours at an urban school system, which I am currently doing.

In an attempt to connect with my students during my most recent field experience, I joined in on a conversation some seventh-grade girls were having about their favorite celebrities. They came to the general consensus that Justin Bieber is God’s gift to womankind, followed closely by Taylor Lautner.

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as nothing more than sex objects.

Pop music may be scorned by the “enlightened” college crowd, but it is a reality that the Top 10 songs on iTunes are almost always pop songs.

Somebody is buying and Janna Gentry listening to pop music, and janna.f.gentry-1@ou.edu unfortunately, oftentimes While middle school these somebody’s are imcrushes on Justin Bieber pressionable youths. and Taylor Lautner annoy Many pop songs don’t more than concern me, one even try to mask their chaustudent’s musical rendivinistic attitudes. Chris tion of a recent Lil’ Wayne Brown is obviously not a song had me concerned shining example of treatthat he was feasting his im- ing women with respect, pressionable young mind and his most recent pop on lyrics that treat women song tells the woman he is

crooning to that she looks “better with the lights off.”

Another currently popular song by Lil’ Wayne called “You Will” is so explicit in its sexual content that most of the song has been edited for radio consumption.

Though America has made many strides regarding its treatment of women, our popular music sends a message that makes it very clear a woman’s role in our society is to be a sex object and that a woman obtains worth through a man’s desires.

Janna Gentry is an English education senior.

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or some of us, OPINION COLUMNIST saying “bless you” after witnessing a sneeze is as much a reflex as an act of courtesy. Being raised with this tradition, the phrase acts as an arbitrary vocal knee-jerk Jacob Oller for some Americans. jacoboller@ou.edu However, this little phrase created quite the ruckus at one Bay Area high school. At William C. Wood High School in Vacaville, Calif., health teacher Steve Cuckovich penalized his students’ grades after they said “bless you” in class.

So far the news surrounding this issue has focused on the perceived anti-religious stance this teacher has taken and the relevance of the phrase in the modern day. But this teacher really isn’t worried about whether his students are blessing each other with antiquated phrases or expressing their faith in class; he just wants to teach.

His reasoning, which he reported to the superintendent of his school district, was that his students were using the repetition of the sentiment to overwhelm the class. One student would violently, dramatically sneeze and the rest of the class would respond with “bless you” at varying intervals, followed by the original sneezer thanking each blesser in return. What little punks. If you’re reading this “However, throw in paper, then I’m going to assome anti-religious sume you’ve either graduhigh school or put up sentiment and the ated with teenagers long enough hordes of Bibleto realize that this sort of obnoxious, time-consuming, thumpers and teacher-frustrating behavior aggressive atheists, is just the kind of shenaniboth pushing their gan that students love to see agendas, crawl out if they can get away with.

Of course, some parents of the woodwork.” were furious with the teacher, claiming his rule was anti-religious. One upset father lamented, “I think that’s ridiculous. First the Pledge of Allegiance, now preventing a kid from saying ‘bless you’?” It does a heart good to see parents who are active in their offspring’s lives. Sure, Cuckovich probably could have handled this problem in a way that didn’t affect grades. (The punishment was, as one student eloquently commented, “messed up.”) Maybe this was the last resort of a desperate man, only wanting to teach eager pupils about the wonders of high school health, facing a class turned against him. I’ll admit, I don’t know. However, it is much easier for me to believe that high school kids are little snots who love to make their teachers’ lives hell than to think this high school health teacher has a secret atheist agenda to eradicate the use of “bless you” one classroom at a time. This is just another case of the media raising irrelevant issues to make headlines.

“Just common practice or disruptive behavior? Bay Area teacher plays judge” reads an MSNBC tagline for the article. I like to think that if my classmates decide to filibuster my education by pulling this sort of prank, they won’t be able to hide behind the vague freedom of speech or pseudo-religious issues that a news organization looking for some notoriety awkwardly thrusts into the situation. Like a guy who keeps claiming that “Shrek” is just a commentary on the situation in the Middle East, trying to bring this unnecessary controversy into an otherwise lowkey, local issue just obfuscates anything actually newsworthy with this tabloid-style reporting.

A story that could have been about school disciplinary practices and the options available for teachers to avoid a situation where they can’t continue class has been skewed to something a little sexier in the news community. I mean let’s be serious, outside of teachers and hardcore PTA-ers, few people would be interested in an article about the restructuring of a teacher’s ability to control their class. However, throw in some anti-religious sentiment and the hordes of Bible-thumpers and aggressive atheists, both pushing their agendas, crawl out of the woodwork. This kind of yellow journalism is killing the news and feeding off the emotional scuffle between the polarizations they create rather than informing the community about what’s happening in the world.

Jacob Oller is a management information systems sophomore.

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Red River trash-talk exchange OUR VIEW

Keep your elusive network; we prefer championships Editor’s note: In preparation for the OU-Texas football game Saturday, The Daily Texan, the University of Texas’ student newspaper, and The Oklahoma Daily agreed to exchange editorials and run them at the same time.

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t’s early October, Longhorn fans, which means it’s once again time to leave that insulated bubble of pompous pretension you call a state capital for a trip to the Red River Rivalry.

That’s right, hipsters, it’s time to wax that ironic mustache, point the ol’ fixed-gear bicycle north on Interstate 35 and get ready for a frenetic weekend spent sipping wine coolers under the bright lights of Dallas.

Most of all, it’s time to prepare yourselves for the dejection you’ll feel Saturday afternoon after once again having your asses handed to you by a better-coached, more talented team in crimson and cream.

We Sooners love everything about the lead-up to the Red River Rivalry. The anticipation felt in Norman this year is akin to how you’d feel Christmas Eve if you knew you’d be waking up the next morning to compete with your slower, weaker and less-attractive sibling for presents.

But as we all know, a trip to the big game is about more than an athletic competition for both fan bases.

For Longhorn fans, it’s the opportunity to mingle with your grotesque brethren at the world’s largest gathering of the fat, misguided and stupid, otherwise known as the Texas State Fair.

For Sooner fans, there’s the opportunity to laugh in your faces as you experience heart-wrenching sorrow and shame on your own native soil.

See? Good times all around.

On a more serious note, we Daily staffers are glad conference realignment talk seems to have settled down for the moment, and the fate of this great rivalry no longer seems to be in jeopardy.

As much as we dislike your fans, your excrement-orange attire, your governors-turned-presidential-candidates both past and present and your state’s unjustifiably inflated sense of importance in a national context, we hated the thought of not being able to tell you as much to your faces at least once a year.

Yes, despite your best efforts to submarine an entire conference with the vainglorious Longhorn Network, it appears the powers-that-be at Time Warner Inc., Comcast Corp., AT&T U-verse, DirecTV and Dish Network want nothing to do with enthralling programming such as “Rewind with Mack Brown,� “Game Plan with Mack Brown� and

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Texas fans (left) and OU fans cheer at last year’s Red River Rivalry. OU and Texas meet for the 106th time Saturday at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.

“Longhorn Legends,� Mack Brown’s roundtable discussion program with a rotating selection of paroled Longhorn greats.

But what would the shortsighted powers-that-be at every major cable provider in the nation know about quality programming, right?

Yes, the network has been a topic of heated debate across Big 12 country, but in Norman, we’re proud to say we haven’t had many complaints, even when it came to plans to air high school football highlights and thus gain a potential leg up in recruiting.

Up here in Sooner country, it’s clear you guys need all the help you can get when it comes to keeping your best prospects from wising up and donning crimson when they graduate. We’re confident the tradition of a team that has won seven national championships and seven Big 12

championships north of the Red River stacks up rather nicely against a television network nobody is watching.

Regarding your team’s play four games into the season, we think it’s quaint the Longhorns enter Saturday’s matchup undefeated after refusing to let losing to Iowa State become a pattern. We were worried for you, we really were.

Keep up the good work, and you may even return to a bowl this year. Why, we don’t think a trip to the New Era Pinstripe or — dream big — perhaps even the Meineke Car Care of Texas Bowl is out of the realm of possibilities for your unlovable, ragtag group of underachievers.

Best of luck Saturday, and we know we speak for all of Sooner nation by saying it’ll be a pleasure to see your half of the Cotton Bowl empty out once your overmatched team fails miserably and the game gets out of hand.

Boomer Sooner!

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h you sweet, stupid OU. Looks like we have a pretty tough game coming up. I mean, facing an experienced quarterback is daunting enough, but when you add the best wide receiver in the nation into the mix, we’ll really need to be at our best to pull out a win.

But enough about Oklahoma State. This weekend, we’re playing your team, which means it’s that special time of year when we travel to Dallas to eat fried food, mingle with your fans and ask, “What is that smell?�

There’s no other way to put it: Last year, we were a pretty bad team, but anomalies do happen. After all, Landry Jones has all his teeth. We’re coming into the game as the underdog, but we think we may just have the squad to pull the biggest upset since your university was accredited.

Remember that time Colt McCoy and Jordan Shipley beat you guys a lot? Yeah, we’ve got another set of those.

Sorry.

Congratulations on finally ending your nine-year BCS bowl drought by winning the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, which is fitting because your state happens to have all the flavor and personality of a tortilla chip. We used to say jokes such as, “Why can’t Sooners eat cereal? (Because they always choke in bowls!)� But we’ll cut that out now that you guys are legitimate again. UConn’s Division 1, right?

While from the vantage point of those stuck in NormanBosnia-Herzegovina things in Austin must seem amazing, the truth is times are as tough here as they are anywhere else in the nation. Recently, our newspaper’s headlines have been dominated by talks of state funding and budget cuts. Now we don’t mean to confuse you Sooners, so let us explain. “Budgets� are a financial planning device used to

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manage your money. “Money� is that green stuff that you leave at casinos.

Luckily, we found a new alternative source of revenue by establishing our own UT-centric television network, which will bring in $300 million from ESPN. Knowing that your university only survives by stealing from Texas, we look forward to the announcement of OU’s own cable channel and all the exciting potential content it will air. We’re sure “Teen Wife� and “Sister Swap� will hit home with the locals.

In the meantime, a lot has been made of the potential profits surrounding conference realignment. With our sister school A&M moving to the SEC to do whatever it is they do over there, the future of the Big 12 is uncertain at best.

But we’re glad Texas and OU have stuck together. I mean, it’s so hard to find a good plumber these days.

There’s just something endearing about our rivalry, something that we’re glad won’t fall prey to conference realignment. We can’t quite put our finger on it. Maybe it’s the way OU fans sound like Lou Holtz after their third corndog (remember, chew!). Or perhaps it’s the way your

caravan of mobile homes will triple the population of every town with a Cracker Barrel on I-35 this weekend. Or it might just be that adorable face Bob Stoops makes when he’s confused.

Let’s just face it: We’re in a symbiotic relationship. Sorry, big word, let us explain: You need us, just like every underdog needs an opponent who clearly outmatches it — you know, like Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed or the SAT and you.

And UT needs OU just like every small town needs an addict loitering outside the corner store, serving as a cautionary tale for parents to tell their children: “Do your school work so you don’t end up like ‘ol Rhett over there.�

Are we forgetting something? Let’s see: Dental hygiene, Rhett Bomar, ESPN deal. Oh yeah!

You suck.

And now if you’ll direct your attention to the top of the page, enjoy this year’s winning entry in the annual Pottawatomie County essay contest titled “Things we looked up about UT on Wikipedia.�

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LIFE&ARTS

Katherine Borgerding, life & arts editor dailyent@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-5189

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LIFE & ARTS COLUMNIST e’ve all been counting down the days and hours until most of campus Brooke Buckmaster caravans to Dallas for brooke.n.buckmaster-1@ou.edu the game of the season, the OU-Texas matchup.

Ticket or no ticket to the game, the State Fair of Texas is a place for all OU students to mill around all day or before you enter the stadium. Whether you’re a State Fair of Texas native or newbie, check out these top attractions before, during or after the game in order to maximize your Texas experience.

Whether you’re walking around enjoying the Texas fair’s ever-popular corn dogs or waiting in line to ride the Ferris wheel, you also can experience a constant stream of live music. From 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., artists such as Jack Ingram, Lantana, Mockingbird Sun, Jolie Holliday Band, Maren Morris, The Killdares and more will be playing in scattered venues throughout the fairgrounds.

THE FOOD Fried bubblegum Gotta have that “something fried.” This year’s top pick is fried bubblegum, voted Most Creative in the Big Tex Choice Awards. However, don’t let the name fool you. Fried bubblegum is a gum-flavored marshmallow dipped in batter and fried to perfection.

Buffalo chicken and flapjacks The fair is a place for trying new and or out-of-the-ordinary foods. If you’re up to trying the extraordinary, seek out the buffalo chicken in a flapjack, which won Best Taste this year. Mixing breakfast with lunch, the buffalo chicken in a flapjack is exactly what it sounds like: a buffalo chicken strip coated in pancake batter. The flapjack is then sprinkled with jalapeno bread crumbs, deep fried and served with a side of syrup.

Deep fried salsa Experience the true taste of Texas by trying the deep fried Texas salsa. Jalapenos, garlic, onions and peppers are rolled together, dipped in mesa and topped with crunchy tortilla crumbs. After it is fried, the concoction is served with warm queso.

THE ATTRACTIONS BMX Bike Stunt Show Looking for a thrill? Be sure to check out the BMX Bike Stunt Show located in the Thrillway. This event is performed by the 720 Action Sports team at 2, 4 and 6 p.m.

Saturday.

Big Tex stands in the State Fair of Texas’ fairgrounds in Dallas. This weekend’s Red River Rivalry will have many OU students and fans attending the fair which ends Oct. 23.

BACKGROUND Big Tex’s history After World War II, merchants in Kerens, Texas, had a problem getting residents of the town to spend their money at local stores. Instead, people would drive 75 miles north to Dallas for their pre-Christmas shopping sprees.

Looking for a gimmick to encourage people to shop locally, the Kerens Chamber of Commerce built what it claimed was the world’s largest Santa Claus, a 49-foot-tall figure made from iron-pipe drill casing and papier mache.

The promotion was a big success during the 1949 holidays, but the novelty quickly wore off.

In 1951, the State Fair of Texas purchased Santa for $750 and hired a Dallas artist to create a giant cowboy out of the material.

Big Tex made his debut at the 1952 State Fair of Texas. Wearing size 70 boots and a 75-gallon hat, Tex towered 52 feet above fair visitors.

Source: www.bigtex.com

Illumination Sensation Close out the evening exclusively by attending the attraction shown only at nightfall. Illumination Sensation is located along the 700-foot Esplanade reflecting pool. The free show starts at 8 p.m. and contains a series of pyrotechnics, fire and impressive visual effects.

Brooke Buckmaster is a University College freshman.

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Food and beverages? Yes. Tasting fair food is a integral reason to why people visit the Fair, but if you have dietary or other reasons for wanting to bring your own food or beverages, please do. However, Alcohol, glass containers and metal knives and forks are prohibited.

7 a.m: Parking gates open.

1. Take the Interstate-35 S ramp to Dallas.

2. Keep left at the fork and merge onto I-35 S.

8 a.m: Buildings and admission gates open

3. Entering Texas, slight left onto I-35E S. 4. Take exit 428A on the left to merge onto I-30 E. toward Texarkana.

Coolers or ice chests? Yes. Any cooler brought in will be searched as you enter.

A bicycle, skateboard or roller skates?

No, but bicycles are an exception.

In the interest of overall safety, do not bring skateboards, scooters, roller skates and other wheeled forms of transportation inside the gates. Bicycle racks are located inside gates 5, 6 and 11 during the State Fair of Texas. Bicycles are not allowed through state fair ticket gates.

5. Take exit 47 to merge onto S. Second Ave toward Fair Park.

9 a.m: Stadium gates open.

6. Turn right onto Robert B. Cullum Blvd.

11 a.m: Kickoff

7. Take the third left onto Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.

Midnight: Midway closes

8. Turn right onto S. Second Ave. 9. Turn left onto Pennsylvania Avenue.

WHERE: 3921 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Dallas, Texas 75210

10. Turn left onto First Ave. 11. Turn right onto Ranger Circle.

A gun? No, with one exception.

A person holding a valid Texas Concealed Handgun License (or valid Concealed Handgun License from a reciprocating state) is permitted to enter onto the fairgrounds with his/her concealed handgun. However, CHL holders will not be permitted to carry their concealed handgun inside the Cotton Bowl Stadium.

INFO: 214-565-9931 www.bigtex.com

12. Turn right onto First Ave. 13. At the traffic circle, take the First exit onto Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

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A pet? No. Only service dogs will be allowed in the fairgrounds with the exception of animals on exhibit or those used in entertainment.

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Knives, scissors, etc.? No. Please help us keep the fair safe and fun for all. Fair officials reserve the right to search all fairgoers upon entry into the Fairgrounds. All sharp metal objects, such as pocket knives, scissors and the like, are strictly prohibited, as are guns and other weapons.

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OUDaily.com ›› Check for coverage and photos of Saturday’s OU-Texas game at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.

OU opens fall season with flood of scoring Junior lefty Keilani Ricketts pitches against Seminole State on Wednesday in the OU softball team’s fall season opener. The Sooners have seven more exhibition games scheduled through November.

Visit OUDaily.com to read a full recap of the Sooners’ 10-inning 27-0 win against the Trojans.

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Volleyball: Sooners slip in third, fourth sets Continued from page 1 went on a 9-3 run to close out the set, 25-17. Dunn had four kills in the set to lead the Sooners.

“They couldn’t stop anybody,” Boulavsky said. “We just got a little too comfortable. We kind of played on our heels a little bit and kind of took a little break.”

Missouri did not go away quietly, however. The Tigers took the lead in the third set at 13-12 and didn’t let up, slowly pulling away.

Oklahoma rallied to get within 23-21, but that was as

close as the Sooners got, and Missouri took the set, 25-21.

OU coach Santiago Restrepo said the team relaxed mentally after breezing through the first two sets.

“We took our off the pedal, bottom line,” Restrepo said.

“We thought that we were going to roll over this team, and that doesn’t happen. We have to make sure we keep applying pressure.”

The key for the Tigers in the third was a .364 hitting percentage and three total team blocks. The Tigers had a low percentage and no blocks in the first two sets.

After OU jumped out to a

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quick 4-1 lead in the fourth set, Missouri came back and took the lead, 9-8. The Tigers, determined to return the favor of coming back from a 2-0 deficit on the road, stretched the lead to 15-12, forcing OU to call timeout.

With the Mizzou defense

holding the Sooners to just a .087 hitting percentage, the Tigers completed the comeback, 25-22, and sent the match to a fifth set.

OU dominated the fifth set from start to finish. The experience of the Sooners is what helped them stay composed and finish the match with a 15-7 set victory.

Restrepo said it may take some tough love for the team to get the message to not take their foot off the pedal during the match.

“Maybe tomorrow I could kick their butt so they could get more serious about it,” Restrepo said.

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Team set to saddle up against Longhorns Sooners hope to end losing streak with win against Texas on Friday in Austin Tobi Neidy

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Oklahoma soccer invades Texas this weekend for a Red River Rivalry match at 7 p.m. Friday in Austin.

The Sooners (5-8, 0-2 Big 12) downed the Longhorns during both matches last season, including a 2-1 overtime win that was the program’s first win in Austin.

The Sooners also knocked out the Longhorns in the 2010 Big 12 tournament with a 1-0 victory in the quarterfinals, edging Texas’ overall series lead to 8-7-1.

But the Sooners aren’t just looking for a win against the Longhorns (8-4, 2-2 Big 12) to even the series — the team also is looking for the team’s first conference road win after starting the season 0-4 away from Norman.

“It would be a momentum change we need for us if we can go down there and win,” junior forward Caitlin Mooney said.

CAITLIN OU also is looking to put its four-game losing streak in remission with a win in Austin MOONEY this weekend, and the Sooners return both of the players who did the most damage against the Longhorns last year — junior forwards Dria Hampton and Mooney.

With the wins last year, both scoring veterans know this game added potential to be a great matchup for the Red River rivals.

“The atmosphere is going to be huge down there for Texas,” Mooney said. “They want revenge after what we did last year to them. It will be a huge win for us down there.”

During the most recent OU victory in the rivalry over thenNo. 21 Texas in the conference championship tournament, Mooney pulled through for the Sooners with an early goal in the first half. OU’s defense continued to put pressure on the Longhorns during the contest while goalkeeper Kelsey Devonshire made three saves in the second half to keep Texas from scoring a goal.

The win advanced the Sooners to the program’s second Big 12 semifinal in school history, where OU downed Texas A&M to move on to the championship game.

OU also beat the Longhorns early in the season courtesy of an overtime goal by Hampton in the 14th minute of extended play.

Hampton’s goal from 30 yards out lifted the Sooners to victory after former Sooner forward Whitney Palmer scored in the 10th minute to give OU its first lead that was equalized

by Kylie Doniak later in the first half.

And Hampton also knows just how big the win was for the program last year and how this year also would be a spark for a Sooner team that isn’t on top of its game right now.

“We have a huge opportunity to go on the road and beat a very good Texas team,” Hampton said. “We have the talent and the potential; we just have to put it together for an entire game.”

Following rivalry weekend, the Sooners return to Norman to host a pair of conference matchups against Iowa State and Missouri on Oct. 14 and 16, respectively.

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James Corley, sports editor dailysports@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666

Volleyball

Sooner squad eyes signature win in Ames Oklahoma hopes to add tough Iowa State team to list of victims this season Luke McConnell Sports Reporter

The No. 22 Oklahoma volleyball team will take to the road to face its fiercest challenge away from Norman this season when the Sooners face the No. 16 Iowa State Cyclones on Saturday night in Ames.

OU has not beaten Iowa State in Ames since 2006.

The Sooners held off Missouri on Wednesday night at McCasland Field AT A GLANCE House to improve to 17-3 Iowa State and a perfect 4-0 in Big 12 play.

2011 record: 13-3 (4-1) The Cyclones come into Last game: Win against the match ranked No. 16 Kansas State, 3-0, on Wednesday in this week’s AVCA poll.

Last meeting with OU: Iowa State swept Kansas Lost to Sooners, 3-1, last State on Wednesday night season in Norman in Manhattan, Kan. Key players: Senior OH The Cyclones’ 13-3 reCarly Jenson (3.89 kills/set cord can be deceiving 3.41 digs/set), junior setter since all three of lossAllison Landwehr (11.13 es came at the hands assists/set), sophomore of teams ranked higher libero Kristen Hahn (5.65 than ISU: No. 6 Nebraska, digs/set), junior MB Jamie Straube (2.28 kills/set, No. 10 Texas and No. 12 0.88 blocks/set) Northern Iowa.

However, Iowa State grabbed a signature road win against then-No. 9 Florida on Sept. 5 in Gainsville, Fla., so the Cyclones are capable of toppling big teams.

Due to flooding at Iowa State’s Hilton Coliseum last year, the Sooners and Cyclones played at Ames High School, where Iowa State swept the Sooners. The match was early in conference play, and the Sooners said the strange atmosphere definitely rattled them.

This year’s match will be played at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Hilton Coliseum.

A loss wouldn’t derail the team’s conference championship hopes, but a win would mean OU’s key victories against Texas and the Cyclones would make the Sooners the leading candidates to win the Big 12 in 2011.

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• Thursday, October 6, 2011

Sports

Football notebook

Lauren Gerson/The Daily Texan

Rivalry

Stoops says OU-Texas game has impact on recruiting The Red River Rivalry is one of the premier football games in the country, according to most pundits. However, OU coach Bob Stoops said whether the Sooners win or lose, the outcome has a minimal impact on recruiting.

“If you win this game and lose the rest of the year, I don’t think it helps you a whole lot,” Stoops said. “So, at the end of the day, I think it’s what you do through the whole year and what you’ve been doing through the years that matters more than the one game.”

Stoops caused a stir earlier this season when he said the annual rivalry game was not a necessity if the Sooners were to change conferences. However, he said he recognizes there are huge benefits to playing the Longhorns every year.

While winning the game might not necessarily bring in more recruits, Stoops said the fact that Oklahoma plays in the game at all certainly helps.

“I think it makes a difference,” Stoops said.

“I know people we recruit are always aware of it. The opportunity to play in this game is pretty special.”

Greg Fewell, Assistant Sports Editor

Defense

Team still has statement to make in Big 12, coach says A lot of people — the Sooner offensive linemen included — have been talking about the Longhorns’ new defensive scheme.

“Texas’ new defense is pretty complex,” sophomore center Gabe Ikard said. “They bring a lot of different looks and a lot of different fronts, so we’re just going to have to stay in the film room, watch a lot of extra film and just study for these guys because they throw some janky looks at you.”

While the Sooner defense has looked solid in three of its four games this season, there has been markedly fewer comments about the Oklahoma defenders heading into this weekend’s matchup.

The Oklahoma coaches have noticed, but they do not seem too offended because they said they’re aware the team still has some room for improvement.

“I haven’t heard any comments about somebody being scared of us,” defensive ends coach Bobby Jack Wright said. “They’ve got the tapes on us. We haven’t exactly been lighting people up, so we’ve got a long way to go. The last Big 12 game, we gave up a lot of yards, so now we’re playing our second Big 12 game, and hopefully (we improve).”

Greg Fewell, Assistant Sports Editor

Texas Offense

Longhorn playcallers like to throw in a few tricks The fact that Texas has two dual-threat quarterbacks gives them the ability show multiple formations and move players around to keep defenses off-balance.

“They do a good job of moving their people around,” coach Bob Stoops said. “At the end of the day, they do a good job of making people work to keep leverage on them and defend them.”

Texas also uses its multiple formations to execute trick plays. The Longhorns have had at least one gadget play in every game they have played this year.

OU coaches do not expect Saturday to be any different. Defensive ends coach Bobby Jack Wright said he expects to see trick plays and will have his players ready.

“You’ve got to always build all of that into your defense, and I think our guys have been really good at that this week,” Wright said.

“They’ll hit us with three or four Saturday.

They have everybody so far.”

Greg Fewell, Assistant Sports Editor

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