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Senior linebacker Travis Lewis, wearing Austin Box’s No. 12 jersey, celebrates the Sooners’ 55-17 win against the Longhorns in Saturday’s Red River Rivalry game at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. oklahoma set or tied six defensive records in the rout of No. 11 Texas, including scoring three defensive touchdowns. (Page 7)

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The Kindle Fire recorded 95,000 orders the first day of sales on Sept. 28, according to marketing firm eDataSource, but the iPad challenger is not prompting OU to increase its use of e-academics.

It is still early to speculate if the sales of Kindle Fire will surpass the iPad’s, but whether Bizzell Memorial Library will purchase more e-books is evaluated on a case-bycase basis, said Karen RuppSerrano, collection development officer at University Libraries.

Currently, e-borrowing from the library is still PDFor ebrary.com-based, which are not customized for any

electronic reader or tablet.

University libraries have recorded an increasing number of students using ebooks in the past few years, but further successes are at the mercy of the publisher, said Sarah Robbins, director of strategic initiatives at University Libraries.

“We can’t just use [an] ebook aggregator and convert all the books by ourselves,” Robbins said. “Whether Kindle Fire or iPad 2 would allow more students to access e-learning materials depends on the copyright owner.”

Books offered online are carefully selected.

“We tend to buy e-books in the subjects that the university offers at a distance,” Rupp-Serrano said. “On the other hand, we also evaluate factors such as whether the auBrie HiLL/tHe daiLy

see READER paGe 2 Zac McCullock, international business and finance senior, prepares his iPad before class begins.

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University College freshman Paige Briscoe always has her nose in textbooks, but the demands of college have her envious of students who seem to manage so effortlessly.

“I don’t go out and am always working, yet I still feel stressed out about all of my classes,” Briscoe said. “I don’t know how some people are doing it.”

But Briscoe is not the only college freshman feeling added pressure.

Almost half of freshman college students are feeling the strain of university life and perceive their health to be average or below average compared with their peers, according to a recent study.

Of the students who participated in the University of California’s Higher Education Institute study, 51.4 percent said their health was above average or in the top-10 percent compared with their peers.

This is a 3-percent decrease since 2005, according to the report.

Some students at OU link their personal health issues to overwhelming classes, time management or not know ing what teachers expect.

Briscoe said the transition from a small town and high school has contributed to her stress.

University College freshman Vanessa Ochoa said dealing with time management is the main reason she feels stressed.

“There isn’t enough time to get everything done,” said Ochoa, who stays up late working on homework and has to wake up early for Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.

According to the study, 9.7 percent of U.S. freshmen said there was a very good chance they would seek personal counseling,

oU weather center expands to Maldives

OU volleyball falls to No. 16 Iowa State

New facility will study weather anomalies on island nation. (Page 3)

Crack open an e-book more often

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Football, crazy fans and a fair, oh my

Members use game to raise money for charity. (oUdaily.com)

Relive the Red River Rivalry and the state fair one more time. (Page 5)

Breast cancer marks month of October lINcOlN FeRGUSON aND Rachel SaNTSchI

E-books are cheaper and lighter than the physical book. (Page 4)

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Seniors Carlee Roethlisberger (7) and Brianne Barker (1) attempt to block an attack from an Iowa State player during oU’s 3-1 loss to the Cyclones on Saturday in Ames. (Page 8)

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With October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, OU will host events such as seminars and giveaways to highlight the importance of breast health and taking steps to reduce the number of diagnoses.

Students and faculty are

encouraged to wear pink to Zumbathon’s “Party in Pink” from 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 27 at the Huston Huffman Center. The pink-themed event costs $10.

The Women’s Outreach Center is encouraging students and faculty to get their pink on this October, said K.C. Moore, graduate assistant for center.

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Chase Cook, managing editor dailynews@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666

Stress: Developing good habits key, officials say 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.

International Education week begins.

A Chinese tea ceremony will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. in Kaufman Hall, Room 230.

A Gaylord College study abroad session will take place from 3 to 4 p.m. in Gaylord Hall’s Hall of Fame Room.

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 for adults, $5 for students, faculty and staff.

A forum on studying abroad will take place from 8 to 9:30 p.m. in Couch Center’s lobby.

Tuesday, Oct. 11 A children’s art adventure will take place in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art all day. Young artists are invited to experience art through books and related art projects for children ages 3 to 5 accompanied by an adult.

A Tuesday Noon concert will take place from noon to 12:30 p.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. The concert series is a cooperative effort between the OU School of Music and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. The museum is free on Tuesdays.

A Student Success Series titled Managing Stress will take place from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Wagner Hall Room 245.

Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium will take place at 5:30 p.m. in the Thurman J. White Forum Building. Dr. Barry I. Schneider from the National Science Foundation will present “XSEDE: An Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for US Scientists and Engineers.”

Sutton Artist Series: Jeongwon Ham, Piano Recital will take place from 8 to 10 p.m. at Sharp Concert Hall in Catlett.

which is up from 7.5 percent in 2005.

Though Briscoe and Ochoa both said they would not seek counseling, Briscoe said she might seek out an adviser for advice on better planning.

Scott Miller, the associate director of the University Counseling Center, said everyone experiences stress

Continued from page 1 publisher offers a discount for e-books. This is important when book price has been increasing over time, and our traditional book purchase has decreased as a result.”

E-books also are more suitable for a public library, where people would check out a book on a Kindle and read it at their pleasure, Rupp-Serrano said. For an academic library like Bizzell, most users still prefer to read a hard copy so they can reference from different pages quickly.

OU may not offer e-reader accessibility, but it does offer students mobile options.

Blackboard Commerce, the education software company that also provides the Sooner OneCard online management system, has provided an iPad application parallel to OU’s Desire2Learn system.

OU provides the OU4YOU app for iPhone users only.

This app allows students

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AT A GLANCE E-book sales on the rise E-books have grown in popularity quickly, according to a report by the Association of American Publishers.

In 2009, e-book sales were about $61.3 million.

to check a campus map, Cleveland Area Rapid Transit’s service update and renew library books, but it does not support any classroom management function. Course content on D2L still needs to be accessed via computers.

Management information systems professor Nathan Stout said he remains neutral about tablet’s impact.

“Economics aren’t everything. If we reduce the cost of a TV, would they buy more?

Yes, but would they use them in the classroom? I doubt it,” Stout said. “Functionality and ease of use — two key features to adoption of technology — should be considered

In 2011, e-books sales were about $441.3 million.

That’s a 620 percent increase in two years.

Source: Association of American Publishers

when prognosticating about the future of [Information Technology].”

Stout is known for his electronic teaching method for his MIS 2113 class, in which he uses an e-book that he can highlight and put notes in. He also records videos for students to review the use of Microsoft Access and Excel after regular class hours.

However, Stout said ebooks cannot replace the traditional textbook because students can’t sell them back, though the e-book cost is typically lower than the hardcopy cost minus the buyback value.

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“Functionality and ease of use — two key features to adoption of technology — should be considered when prognosticating about the future of IT.” Nathan Stout, Management Information Systems professor

place, but OU may have to wait a bit to make the switch.

“Attendance checking or other in-class activities would be really great using any portable devices, but we’ll have to wait until there are apps that span all platforms that are instructor friendly and have a very low cost,” Stout said.

“If apps that are appropriate for the classroom are created at an economical price, there would be some benefit and usage,” he said. “Most would agree there could be an increase in communication, which would in turn benefit the university.”

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Miller said first-year students should develop consistent habits such as good nutrition, exercise, time to relax and talking with others about the things causing stress.

Briscoe said she keys in on Miller’s advice to relax.

“I manage my stress by remembering the reasons why I am going through it and by taking time to relax every once and a while,” Briscoe said.

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and must learn to cope with its effects.

“People are physiologically designed to handle short-term stress, but a variety of problems arise when someone is faced with longer-term stressors,” Miller said. “Students dealing with long-term stress are more likely to experience changes in mood, have a weakened immune system and are likely to be more irritable.”

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Research

Norman weather center extends research to Indian Ocean island Facility will study weather anomalies in the Maldives Rachel Terry

Contributing Reporter

The National Weather Center in Norman is extending its research and mobile capability more than 9,000 miles to an island in the Indian Ocean.

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Data Quality Office, located in the weather center, has added a mobile facility on Gan Island in the Maldives to collect data on atmospheric anomalies.

The Gan Island research project is associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation Investigation, now called AMIE-Gan. AMIE-Gan measures the area where the MaddenJulian Oscillation — a 30- to 60-day wave — begins eastward by observing the atmosphere, ocean and air-sea interface, according to the office website. A combination of radars, satellites and atmospheric soundings produces data that researchers can use to identify deficiencies in climate models and improve prediction abilities.

“From the National Weather Center, [ARM] has special connections that

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A subset of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Gan Island mobile facility sits amid a field to collect data from the island’s sky. The data is collected to study the Madden Julian Oscillation, a series of low-level and upper-level atmospheric anomalies.

allow us to view private data on the servers that users from other IP addresses cannot do,” said Brandon Sullivan, data analyst for the office.

“Also from the NWC, we hold conference calls and meetings with site scientists and team members all over the

world, from both our offices and conference rooms.”

For the National Weather Center and ARM, the project will help researchers to further monitor the tropics to the mid-latitudes.

ARM currently has three stationary sites around the

Month: Events focus on wellness Continued from page 1 awareness and have a good time celebrating health,” Moore said.

OU Health Services and Women’s Outreach Center will join forces with Health Huts from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Oct. 18 and 19, as well as Oct. 25 and 26.

The huts, which will be located on the South Oval, will give students the opportunity to ask questions and receive breast health tips.

Students should routinely check for signs of breast cancer, said Maggie Pool, assistant director for clinical services for OU Health Services.

“Every woman, at least starting probably (age) 18 and above, needs to do a clinical breast exam every year,” Pool said. “What I mean by clinical is that a doctor is actually going to do it, and most of the time that corresponds with a woman’s annual exam or their pap smear.”

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world: in the north slopes of Alaska, the southern Great Plains and the tropical Western Pacific. With existing mobile sites already set up, the Gan Island location will help researchers to further explore the MJO. “Each site has its own

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yearly check-up, Pool advises women to do monthly self-examinations.

“There’s no specific guidelines anymore for how often you should do a self-breast exam, but most physicians will tell you go ahead and do once a month,” Pool said.

It is important to do selfexaminations the same time each month so they do not coincide with menstrual cycles, Pool said.

The American Cancer Society estimates about 2 3 0 , 0 0 0 d i ag n o s e s a n d 39,000 deaths due to breast cancer in 2011.

Tips for decreasing breast cancer chances include

7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 27 — Zumbathon’s Party in Pink — Huston Huffman Center.

Source: Women’s Outreach Center and the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure websites.

maintaining a healthy weight, exercising and limiting alcohol intake and postmenopausal hormone use, according to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. The organization also encourages breastfeeding if possible.

Though October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, Pool said breast cancer is a year-round issue.

“It’s not that we shouldn’t be doing this all year long, but there’s so many different health issues for men and women and for the campus that sometimes it’s nice just to be able to raise awareness during a specific month,” Pool said.

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Gov. Jerry Brown announced Sunday that he had signed into law a bill that prevents children under 18 from using the popular tanning method.

The law takes effect at the start of next year.

Although Texas has banned the use of tanning beds for children under 16, the bill makes California the first state to set a higher age limit.

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“The movement is not about ‘the government’s overbearing impact in finances.’ It is about major corporations in the United States not taking responsibility...” (Firefly21, Re: Occupy Wall Street finds new members in Norman)

EDITORIAL

Turn the page with e-books Our View: Physical books pave the way to learning,

AT A GLANCE Paper vs. electronic

but e-books pave the way to a well-stocked wallet.

• E-book: $91.96 This is a list of courses with Let’s face it: e-books are the next big thing. We • OU bookstore: $148 required textbooks. There are know many of you are filled with the deepest ire just two formats: e-books and Source: amazon.com hearing that statement, ready to expound the virtues physical books.

CHEM 1315 of physical books. Maybe its that new book smell, “Chemistry” by Burdge ENGL 1113 • E-book: $96 or the satisfaction of holding it in your hands and “Norton Field Guide to Writing” • OU bookstore: $167 watching the page count dwindle. Maybe its that inby Bullock Source: vitalsource.com stinctive sense that digital reading somehow doesn’t • E-book: $18.75 ZOO 1114 • OU bookstore: $58 “count.” We’re not sure exactly, but we share your “Biology” by Hoefnagels Source: Norton website • E-book: $91.75 concerns. On the other hand, the rise of e-books PHIL 1113 • OU bookstore: $173 could mean good things for college students.

A Concise Introduction to Logic Source: McGraw-Hill website Put aside your images of rainy days with a good

by Hurley mystery novel and think about textbooks — these are some of the most expensive books available.

They are a constant drain on student budgets and have bought their books. Some professors have can be a serious chiropractic nightmare. But an ehopped on this bandwagon, but it should be a much book version would diminish both the price tag and more widespread practice at OU. the weight, as well as being conveniently available And even outside the realm of textbooks, e-books from anywhere on a tablet, e-reader or smartphone. could improve Sooners’ lives. The Norman Public Retailers can offer e-books at a lower price Library recently started checking out ebecause they cut out the cost of production, books, but the OU library system hasn’t yet The Our View shipping and stocking. Many textbooks are is the majority adopted this approach. Not only would this currently available online or in e-book forallow students to check out books more opinion of mat, and some students already have started easily and carry them around in portable The Daily’s using them instead of physical books. But technology, it also would allow OU to make 10-member availability, especially of the most expeneditorial board more books available. The lower costs of esive science texts, is still limited. OU could books means OU could widen its selection, do a lot more to encourage the suppliers it even during budget cuts. buys from to create online versions of their texts. The Yes, there are limits to this technology. And of university bookstore could even devote resources course physical textbooks must always remain to helping students find e-book versions of their re- an option for students without easy access to the quired textbooks.

Internet, or for those without the financial means to Professors also can use this new technology to buy a tablet or e-reader who need the book in class. help lessen the financial (and physical) burden on But supporting the option of e-books will cut the students. When they create their reading lists at the monetary burden on students, make textbooks more beginning of the year, they could be sure to choose convenient and greener option and eliminate the books with a digital version available. And they worry of leaving behind that one vital textbook. could be sure to point students in the direction of this version before the year starts and many already Comment on this at OUDaily.com

COLUMN

Leave out baseless accusations

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pastor of a Baptist OPINION COLUMNIST megachurch, Robert Jeffress, said Friday that presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is not a Christian and is a member of a cult.

Kate McPherson I’m mildly amused by kmcpherson@ou.edu Jeffress’ remarks, because I see many parallels between his evangelical Christianity and the Latter-day Saints. Both religions have a huge numbers of followers. The Southern Baptist Convention has 16.2 million members, according to the 2009 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, while the Mormon church has more than 14 million members, according to its website. Both religions’ members profess belief in God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, and both religions emphasize mission work and family.

In fact, under the theological and scholarly definition, cults are merely offshoots of a major religion considered different enough to be in its own category. From some perspectives — and certainly in some historical periods — evangelical Christianity could be viewed as this kind of cult. But Jeffress clearly meant the more popular definition of cult: that of a harmful, manipulative small group based around “crazy” religious beliefs that presents a real danger to its adherents. I certainly wouldn’t claim his beliefs fall under this category, but its equally hard to see how Romney’s do.

I am not amused by the incorrect personal attack on

Romney. As a person of faith, I find Jeffress’ remarks offensive. I grew up in an area with a large LDS population, and though I am not a member of the Mormon church, many of my close friends are.

I have a tough time connecting the large, diverse group of Mormons I know with Branch Davidians or Jim Jones’ KoolAid-drinking followers. No Mormon I know blindly follows his or her church — at least, no more than any evangelical I know. Just like most Protestant and Catholic churches, the Mormon church has many members who believe what they are told and just as many who decide their beliefs for themselves.

It would be one thing if Jeffress had attacked Romney’s stance on issues, but attacking his faith is as wildly inappropriate as attacking a candidate’s race or gender. If Romney’s religion informs his views, ask about his views. If Romney’s religion confuses you, ask about his religion.

Romney is open to these questions. “The blessings of faith carry the responsibility of civil and respectful debate,” he said in response to Jeffress’ accusations.

If you have questions about the Mormon faith, I’m sure members of the OU Latter-day Saint Student Association would be willing to discuss their faith if you are willing to converse civilly and respectfully.

Baseless accusations and vitriolic speech have no place in our political arena — they only drown out useful debate about policies and positions. If Jeffress insists on contributing to the public political conversation, his future remarks must be factual and respectful.

Kate McPherson is a journalism sophomore.

GUEST COLUMN

Businesses eye your social media use

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he Sept. 7 editorial touched on a relatively new area the federal government is tapping in to — social media monitoring. Unfortunately, they may have missed the point that this is not some kind of futuristic Orwellian monitoring; rather, it is already occurring as you read these words.

Companies like Radian6 and HootSuite already offer

social media monitoring (aka “listening”) services to businesses. They scan Facebook, Twitter, blogs, LinkedIn and virtually every other corner of the Internet for words pertinent to their clients.

For example, Coca-Cola Co. could hire Radian6 to monitor its brand name so they can measure the effectiveness of a new YouTube advertisement. The applications are endless.

While the U.S. Department of Defense’s adopting this technology raises some new rights-based questions in regard to what the government should and should not be allowed to do to monitor its citizens (nearly all defenses against which, by the way, have been eliminated by the so-called “Patriot Act”), the poll question that was posed

by The Daily — “Does having your social media use

watched concern you?” — is not hypothetical.

Keep this in mind the next time you watch a cat video on YouTube, complain about your electric bill on Facebook or spread the good news about a new product via Twitter: Big Brother may not be listening in yet, but Big Business certainly is.

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Don’t fear the preacher F OPINION COLUMNIST all has come. With it comes cooler temperatures, falling leaves, and — if last week is any indication — those old friends of the student body: campus preachers. In the last week they’ve reappeared, Zachary Eldredge haunting the area outside zeldredge@ou.edu Dale Hall, informing us that Satan pursues our souls and that most of us are probably going to hell.

They draw a crowd of people, block the bike lane and are not generally well-liked by the student population. A not insignificant number of students probably wish they weren’t allowed to display this way. They irritate most of us and cause inconvenience and frustration. It’s not even as if these people were members of a student organization or (as far as I know) invited by one. They’re just here, on our campus, adding nothing to it and, in a large sense, detracting from it.

But despite how I feel about their actions personally, I’m glad they can do what they do. Freedom of speech does not exist so that we can express “As long as our majority opinions, or so that we can express opinions only opinions can where nobody will be bothered. flow, minimally Speech is protected even when restrained, we we may not want to hear it.

In fact, that’s the only time have a shot at speech needs to be protected. If I take issue with the particulars maintaining of a message, it is not for me (or the ability to anyone else) to decide that the recognize the message ought not to be precorrect failures sented and available in the marketplace of ideas. There are limor flaws in our its where speech acts risk spilldemocracy” ing over to real acts, including hate speech, calls for violence or (as the Supreme Court has ruled) calls for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Perhaps there are also places where we want to disallow protest or limit them due to practical concerns, such as traffic or safety.

Outside these exceptions, however, all ideas are equally privileged even if we don’t like them. Of course, there is an unspoken social contract here. If a campus preacher is allowed to speak, we would also have to allow an atheist, a Muslim, a Jew or a Buddhist the same privilege.

As little as I like the campus preachers, I do appreciate one aspect of what they represent: my right to have an opinion and to express that opinion. The forces, laws and freedoms that allow that campus preacher to stay there are the same as those that enabled protestors and reformers throughout American history, as well as civil disobedience from Thoreau to King, from the civil rights movement to today’s protesters on Wall Street. It’s an important part of our national discourse, our heritage and our continued survival as a nation.

The best system is one with a capability for self-correction — when it goes wrong, it can fix itself, like Wolverine. A democracy, ideally, has that capability. If things go wrong, its people can speak, vote and correct it.

I know people who would argue that this isn’t the case in America anymore — that power has become entrenched in so many places and by so much money that voters have little real say in the government. I don’t know whether or not this is true. What I do know is that for it to be false, for we the people to maintain any stake in our government, freedom of speech is the most important right we have.

As long as our opinions can flow, minimally restrained, we have a shot at maintaining the ability to recognize and correct failures or flaws in our democracy. So try not to hate campus preachers too much; they may be irritating as individuals, but as long as they can do what they do — and as long as the rest of us have the ability to counter them if we wish — we’ll be OK. Zachary Eldredge is a physics sophomore.

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hearing stories about West End misadventures from my older friends, I decided to avoid the chaos.

I faced the real chaos, however, on my way to the Cotton Bowl on Saturday morning. I left at 7 a.m. — four hours before kickoff Sydney Allen — but I didn’t pass through sallen@ou.edu the fair gates until 9. By the time I parked in lot 13, a fter waking up at lot that was literally across 7 a.m. to retrieve a bridge from the fair, and my precious game took a tram to the actual ticket, freaking out when fairgrounds, it was 9:30, my sorority house’s Internet and I sprinted across the couldn’t handle the mass fair to try to catch a view amount of traffic and havof Lee Corso and College ing my boyfriend claim my Gameday. ticket around 7:10 a.m., I The game itself was both was ready to tackle the long everything I expected it weekend of crimson and would be and nothing like cream craziness that is OU- I expected it would be. I exTexas. pected us to win, but I still Because I live in Dallas felt a twinge of nervouswhen I’m not in school, I ness when I watched Texas’ didn’t have to mess with crappy pump-up video. hotel plans or coordinating For some reason, I fora carpool. got there would be more The drive actually only than my fellow students took three hours, surprissitting in my section, and I ing considering that the was hit in the head several Oklahoma Department of times when the rather large Transportation usually has man behind me waved his construction going whenarms around whenever we ever mass amounts of peo- scored. I didn’t expect that. ple are heading south on And surprisingly enough, Interstate 35. every Texas fan I encounI’m sure it was just a tered was, at the very least, coincidence. respectful of the Sooner I spent my Friday of the spirit. They made digs OU-Texas weekend loungabout us, but we dug right ing by the pool and taking back and everyone laughed. naps rather than boozing it No one tried to start anyup and going out. thing with me just because I I’m not really much of wore crimson and cream. a homebody, but after I enjoyed my time at the

Members of the Pride of Oklahoma marching band wave their Sooner spirit as OU fans cheer for the band during Saturday’s Red River Rivalry game in Dallas.

The Pride’s halftime show was part of the showing of Sooner pride that turned up for the game during the State Fair of Texas this weekend.

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State Fair of Texas watching my team pass, run and kick its way to glory eight rows below me, screaming like a maniac while surrounded by my best friends.

While my bursar account paid handsomely for my four hours of fun, the entire experience was — cheesy enough — priceless.

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Tomorrow ›› The hiring of coach Lon Kruger is the best thing that’s happened to OU men’s basketball in almost two years, The Daily’s RJ Young says.

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Junior defensive end Ronnell Lewis (56) causes Texas quarterback David Ash to fumble in the third quarter of Saturday’s OU-Texas game at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Oklahoma won, 55-17.

Sooners dominate ’Horns SPORTS COLUMNIST

Readiness leads OU to win against rival Preparation key reason for Sooners’ rout of Texas on Saturday, players say JAMES CORLEY Sports Editor

Chris Lusk chris.m.lusk@ou.edu

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ALLAS — Surrounded by a sea of crimson, cream and an empty Texas section, the Sooners celebrated a 55-17 beatdown of the Longhorns on Saturday.

Why OU won Defense, anyone?

Oklahoma’s defense 21, Texas’ offense 10. There’s no other way to put it: The Sooners were completely dominant in Dallas. OU held Texas to 0.8 yards per rushing attempt, sacked the Longhorns eight times and — most impressively — recorded three defensive touchdowns. Junior defensive back Demontre Hurst, junior defensive end David King and senior cornerback Jamell Fleming all reached the end zone as Oklahoma set a school record for the most times its defense has scored in one game.

The air raid. While Texas stymied OU’s ground game, the Sooners turned loose their passing attack on the Longhorns. Junior quarterback Landry Jones deliver a Heisman-like performance Saturday afternoon, completing 31 of 50 passes for 367 yards, three touchdowns and no turnovers.

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Senior cornerback Jamell Fleming (32) returns a recovered fumble 56 yards for a touchdown Saturday at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. The OU defense scored three times as the Sooners beat Texas, 55-17.

Jones and his arsenal of receivers gained 81 percent of Oklahoma’s offensive output as the Sooners handed Texas its fourth-worst defeat in Red River Rivalry history.

Texas’ youth. The ’Horns pass the eye test — recruiting four- and five-star athletes certainly helps that — but they showed there are more growing pains to endure before Texas can be a title contender again. The Texas quarterbacks were slow to make decisions, the cornerbacks were often out of position and the offensive line couldn’t slow OU’s push. The Longhorns have talent, but their inexperience allowed Oklahoma to

turn the game into a rout.

Superheroes Jamell Fleming. The senior cornerback finished with a team-high 13 tackles and had two tackles for loss, but Fleming’s 56-yard fumble return for a touchdown — which happened after he ripped the ball away from Texas sophomore receiver Mike Davis — sealed his superhero status.

and three touchdowns.

Frank Alexander. The senior defensive end wrecked havoc on his way to three sacks, four tackles for loss, a fumble recovery and a forced fumble that led to a defensive touchdown.

Supervillain

Fozzy Whittaker. Not much to be excited about if you’re Texas, but the senior running back gashed OU on The Ryan Broylesa 100-yard kickoff return for Kenny Stills duo. You could a touchdown in the second make a case for both receiv- quarter. ers, but the combination of the two was lethal Saturday. Chris Lusk is a journalism Broyles and Stills ran ramsenior and the editor in pant on Texas’ inexperichief of The Daily. You can enced secondary, combin- follow him on Twitter ing for 11 catches, 173 yards at @ChrisLusk.

DALLAS — If defense wins championships, what wins big games? As Oklahoma coaches and players told it after Saturday’s game, preparation does.

The Sooners said they were prepared to play, and that led to a 55-17 blowout win against the Longhorns at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.

“I felt like the coaches prepared us well for the game, and we just made plays when Landry (Jones) put the ball up for us,” sophomore wide receiver Kenny Stills said.

The preparation sure seemed to work for Stills and the offensive players, who rolled up 34 points and 453 total yards against Texas.

Much of that work was spent studying the Longhorn defense, which had its weaknesses exposed by BYU and UCLA earlier this season, making it clear what the Sooners needed to do to win, said senior wide receiver Ryan Broyles.

“We watched the film,” he said. “We felt like we had a pretty good game plan AT A GLANCE coming in.”

OU records set OU’s defense also was prepared for the game, » 3 defensive touchdowns helping the unit score 21 » 113 yards in tacklesfor-loss points and set or tie six » 84 yards in sacks defensive school records » 2 fumble returns for while forcing five turnovers scores, tying a record set and holding Texas to just 36 in 1941 rushing yards. The Sooners » 8 sacks, tying a record made sure they were ready set in 2001 for anything Texas might » 17 tackles-for-loss, tying throw at them. a record set in 2003 and “I felt like the bigmatched in 2009 gest thing this week was preparation and not getting caught up in all the shifts and trades that they do,” senior defensive end Frank Alexander said.

Junior defensive back Demontre Hurst echoed his teammates to credit the purposeful training they underwent to keep their sights on the goal of beating their rival.

“The main thing for us this week was to prepare well and just focus on what we had to — just keep our eyes on the right spots,” he said.

Though the team repeated the mantra, “It’s just another game,” all last week, Stills admitted OU-Texas is special.

“There is totally a different feel out there,” he said. “It is just so exciting. We love it. I cannot wait until next year.”

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Soccer

Sooners caught in Cyclone OU winless in Big 12 action

OU loses 1st Big 12 match this season in Iowa on Saturday

Conference losses to Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and Texas haunt Sooners

Luke McConnell Sports Reporter

The No. 22 OU volleyball team had a chance to take command of the Big 12 race Saturday against Iowa State but instead will be returning home with its first conference loss of the season.

The Sooners dropped the match to the Cyclones, 3-1 (23-25, 17-25, -22, 19-25), snapping the Soonersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; eightmatch winning streak.

Oklahoma only hit .157 for the match and were outblocked 10.5 to 4.0.

Freshman outside hitter Tara Dunn collected another double-double to lead the Sooners. Dunn had 15 kills and 15 digs, as well as two service errors.

Senior right side Suzy Boulavsky added 14 kills, and senior setter Brianne Barker also collected a double-double with 43 assists and 15 digs.

Carly Jenson and Jamie Straube led the Cyclones with 14 kills a piece, and Tenisha Matlock and Hannah

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Sophomore middle blocker Sallie McLaurin (left) attempts to block the spike from Iowa Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jamie Straube during the game against the Cyclones on Saturday in Hilton Coliseum. ISU beat Oklahoma, 3-1.

Willms had 13 each. Alison Landwehr had 54 assists and 14 digs.

Iowa State led by as many as nine in the first set at 20-11, but the Sooners battled back, tying the score at 23. However, the Cyclones won the last two points to take the set, 25-23.

In the second set, ISU took

a 9-8 lead and kept its foot on the pedal to beat OU, 25-17.

OU rallied to win the third set to extend the match, but Iowa State came back in the fourth set and led almost the whole set to win, 25-19, and extend its winning streak over the Sooners in Ames to five years.

WHATâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NEXT OU vs. Texas A&M OU will be on the road again Wednesday to face Texas A&M at 6:30 p.m. in College Station.

The Oklahoma soccer team is still searching for its first conference win this season after the Sooners fell to the Texas Longhorns, 2-0, on Friday in Austin.

With a 5-9, 0-3 Big 12 record, OU continues to struggle to win after dropAT A GLANCE ping the past five consecOU in Big 12 play utive games. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel like our reSept. 30, Norman cord is representative of Sooners fell to Bedlam rival Oklahoma State, 3-0. the quality of this team,â&#x20AC;?

OU coach Nicole Nelson Oct. 2, Norman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We continue to Oklahoma was topped by get better, and we made Texas Tech, 2-0. some adjustments that we needed to work on from Friday, Austin last week.â&#x20AC;?

OU lost to Texas, 2-0, in Oklahoma held an 8-4 its first Big 12 road game shot advantage during the this year. first half but surrendered a 10-2 advantage during the final 90 minutes of the game to the Longhorns.

Junior forwards Caitlin Mooney and Dria Hampton combined for five of the Soonersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 10 shots but could not find the back of the net.

Forward Hannah Higgins was the difference maker for the Longhorns, scoring in the 21st and 71st minutes.

OU closes its home Big 12 contests this weekend with games against Iowa State and Missouri.

OU sports weekend update Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golf

OU climbs leader ladder on final day of tournament The OU menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golf team jumped up three spots in Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final round of the Brickyard Collegiate Championship in Macon, Ga., to finish tied for eighth.

The Soonersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; third-round 293 (+5) pulled Oklahoma out of 11th place to finish 42 shots behind Georgia Tech.

Junior Abraham Ancer led OU with a 3-under 69, tied for the second-best performance of the day, to finish tied for 20th place

out of 84 competitors.

Senior Riley Pumphrey also tied for 20th place with Ancer. The pair finished 14 strokes behind the leader, Brooks Koepka of Florida State.

Freshman Michael Gellerman followed in a tie for 43rd. Sophomore Eduardo Castiello and freshman Charlie Saxon rounded out the Sooner competitors in 60th and 61st, respectively. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have had better weeks,â&#x20AC;? OU coach Ryan Hybl said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but overall, I think our guys learned quite a bit about themselves. We will get better from this performance.â&#x20AC;?

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Paval loses in semifinal round of championships

Sooners, Team USA finish qualifying round in Tokyo

Junior Costin Paval advanced all the way to the semifinals of the ITA All-American Championships, where he lost to Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wil Spencer on Saturday.

He won the first set, 6-3, but dropped the last two sets â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 6-1, 6-1.

Paval beat Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Roy Kalmanovich in the quarterfinals of the tournament hosted by the University of Tulsa.

Daily staff reports

The U.S. menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national team â&#x20AC;&#x201D; featuring current OU juniors Jake Dalton and Alex Naddour, as well as former OU letterwinners Steven Legendre and Jonathan Horton â&#x20AC;&#x201D; finished its qualifying round of competition Sunday at the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo.

The second round of qualifiers, which does not include the U.S., finishes Monday.

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