Friday, October 21, 2011

Sooners optimistic despite low expectations (Page B1)

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University system will implement new $26M federal grant

Alums return years later

oU to help prep students for college The Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs Grant was awarded to OU’s K20 Center for Educational CHaSe CooK and Community Renewal Managing Editor and the Oklahoma City Public Financial help is on the way School District. for 10 Oklahoma City middle The partnership grant supschools with the announce- plies $26 million to help more ment of a partnership grant. than 4,500 high-poverty

sixth- and seventh-graders prepare for college, said Christine Frank, OU College of Education spokeswoman.

The grant is only given to schools with 50 percent or more students receiving free or reduced lunches.

This isn’t the first time OU

AT A GLANCE schools receiving money Centennial Middle School Douglas Middle School Jackson Middle School Jefferson Middle School John Marshall Middle School Northeast Middle School

Rogers Middle School Roosevelt Middle School Taft Middle School Webster Middle School Source: College of Education

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Musical paints picture of artist’s life, work George, played by musical theater senior Carl Culley, sketches during rehearsal of “Sunday in the Park with George” on Wednesday in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center. The musical by Stephen Sondheim follows painter George Seurat and his greatgrandson 100 years later in New York.

The show debuts at 8 tonight.

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JaKe MoRgan Staff Reporter

OU fosters a legion of devotees who bleed crimson and cream, but some hearts have been pumping Sooner spirit for more than half a century.

Alumni from the graduating classes of ’51, ’52, ’56, ’57, ’61 and ’62 are pouring into Norman to attend their reunion and be inducted into the President’s Medallion Club. Dave Hail, executive director of the OU Alumni Association, said the club is for those who hit the half-century mark.

“Anyone who graduated 50 years ago or more is, by definition, a member of the President’s Medallion Club,” Hail said. “Fifty years is a long time. ... It’s great for us to honor those who are coming back to campus and, in a way, remember those who are unable to attend.”

Besides attending the luncheon to recognize new inductees, alumni will have the chance to KinGsLey BUrns/tHe dAiLy

transPortation

CART website undergoing changes for easier access Web team works to provide faster updates for users MoLLY tHoMSon

Contributing Reporter

Students will soon be able to use a more informative website for Norman’s bus system.

The Cleveland Area Rapid Transit system’s website will be converted from its existing site to OU’s contentmanagement system by OU Web Communications.

The latter works to improve user experience for university sites, according to Web Communications.

The team will hand over

the site to CART by Oct. 27.

Then, CART spokeswoman Vicky Holland said she will begin to move information from the old site to the new one.

The team began meeting with CART officials about a month ago, Holland said.

“The change will allow me to maneuver the site much more easily,” Holland said. “If we are changing a route, or if a bus crashes, I’ll be able to put it on the site in two minutes.”

She said such speed was not possible on the old site.

Visual app eal, continuity and overall userfriendliness are goals to be achieved with the

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OUDAILY.COM Link: Visit Cleveland Area Rapid Transit system’s website for more information conversion, Holland said.

Like other OU websites, CART’s soon will have an easily updated slideshow, announcing events and news for the system. Links, tabs and other content will be arranged in a design similar to other OU sites.

“We’ve already converted the parking site to OU’s content management system,” she said. “Now we are ready to convert CART’s.”

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Library acquisitions staff member Brigette Kersten (right) sorts thousands of surplus books Thursday for today’s sidewalk book sale on the south side of the Neustadt Wing of Bizzell Memorial Library. The sale will be open to members of the OU community from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and to the general public from 1 to 4 p.m.

Students dodge, duck, dip, dive in sports competition

October hopes to bring awareness to domestic violence. (Page a4)

sooner volleyball to host Wildcats OU and Kansas State set to face off Saturday in Norman. (Page B1)

LiFE & arts

Professor of the week continues

Parade to close Homecoming Week

A battalion commander explains his unique position. (oUDaily.com)

Student organizations come together in crimson activities. (Page a5)

CaMPUs BriEF TECHNOLOGY

Grant funds opening of online data storage unit

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Matt Prueitt, film sophomore, plays dodgeball Thursday at the Huston Huffman Center during Night at the Huff. Organizations competed in dodgeball, volleyball and basketball for Homecoming Week.

After almost a year of construction and preparation, the Oklahoma PetaStore , Oklahoma’s largest data storage unit, is now ready for use.

The PetaStore will be used mainly by faculty and graduate students in order to store large amounts of long-term data.

“The Oklahoma PetaStore will improve our ability to maintain rapidly expanding research data collections,” OU’s chief information officer

Loretta Early said. “[The goals is] do more, and to do it better, at lower cost.”

The Oklahoma PetaStore applies to any discipline, OU Information Technology spokeswoman Becky Grant said.

The Oklahoma PetaStore is funded by a $792,925 grant from the National Science Foundation, which was received in October 2010. And with the new technology also comes new opportunity.

“The biggest thing we’re most excited about is [the opportunity] to get more grants and make OU a big institute for researchers,” Grant said.

Brooke Buckmaster, Life & Arts Reporter

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grant: School district to aid with applications Continued from page A1 has received a partnership grant. A current Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs grant is currently examining rural students, said Gregg Garn, College of Education interim dean.

Goals of the grant

Today around campus OU Libraries’ book sale will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the south side of the Bizzell Memorial Library.

A reading titled “Adkins Scholars’ Choice” will take place from 11 a.m. to noon in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Sandy Bell Gallery.

The Guess the Score contest will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s first floor lobby. The goal will be to guess the score for the OU vs. Texas Tech game on Saturday. The individual winner of every home game will receive a Blu-ray movie and the individual winner of every away game will receive a Union Programming Board T-shirt. The season winner will receive a Blu-ray player combo pack.

Mid-Day Music will take place from noon to 1 p.m. featuring Atiba Williams in the union’s food court.

Free food will be available from noon to 1 p.m. on the South Oval until supplies last. The food is part of Campus Activities Council’s Homecoming Week.

An economics seminar on trade agreements will be hosted by professor Firat Demir from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Ellison Hall, Room 132.

A play titled “Sunday in the Park with George” will be performed by the University Theatre from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Reynold Performing Arts Center.

Tickets are $15 for students, $30 for adults and $25 for OU faculty/staff and senior adults.

Saturday, OCt. 22 An exhibition of contemporary Chinese photography and video will be on display in the Ellen and Richard L. Sandor photography gallery.

The opening of the Stuart Wing and the reinstallation of the Eugene B. Adkins collection, as well as other installations, will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. The museum will be open all weekend. The event is free.

An OU vs. Texas Tech watch party will take place in Meacham Auditorium in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. The game starts at 7 p.m.

The homecoming parade will take place from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Boyd Street.

Sunday, Oct. 23 The continued celebration of the Stuart Wing will take place from noon to 4 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. The event is free and open to the public.

A play titled “Sunday in the Park with George” will be performed by the University Theatre from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $15 for students, $30 for adults, $25 for OU faculty/staff and senior adults.

An auto performance show titled the “Peak Performance Winning Drive Tour” will look for the best tailgating vehicles from 2 to 5 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center.

The K20 center will be working directly with teachers and leaders to improve student comprehension and encourage students to take courses that would better prepare them for a college career, said Scott Wilson, K20 center’s associate director of innovative technologies.

The center also will work with counselors and community members to talk with students’ family members to navigate the college application process and make students aware of opportunities, as well as benefits from scholarships, Wilson said.

The K20 center will work directly with leaders of the Oklahoma City Public Schools District to implement a model that will catalyze

Continued from page A1 tour the campus, view the homecoming parade and root for their alma mater as Sooner football plays the Texas Tech Raiders on Saturday night.

Hail said having the reunion during the school year gives the alumni a unique opportunity to view the campus in a different light.

“In between classes [the alumni] are interacting with people who are 50 years their junior,” Hail said.

“They say things [to the students] like, ‘Hey, I used to spend my time in the library just like you.’”

As Hail said, 50 years is certainly no catnap. Over that time, the country has seen a civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and the advent of Twitter and Facebook.

Despite the generational gap, these graduates still faced the same problems that plague today’s students.

John Imel, a ’61 graduate, remembers what put his academic skill to the test.

“My biggest hurdles were physical chemistry and the difficult term problem of Dr. Donald Menzie,” Imel said.

Imel, now a retired petroleum engineer, said he had a great time studying and playing a variety of sports.

Since Imel graduated, OU’s fall enrollment has risen from 12,525 to 30,639, and regular semester tuition rates have increased from $5.50 per credit hour to $128.30 per credit hour,

Being

NUMBER ONE is nothing to

Corrections

Wednesday’s page 2 Undergraduate Student Congress story incorrectly identified the time of UOSA’s Tailgate. The tailgate will happen from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on the corner Lindsey Street and Asp Avenue.

Thursday’s page 6 pomping story photo cutline incorrectly identified Amy Slanchik’s sorority. Slanchik is a Gamma Phi Beta.

$323M

The total funding for the program was $323,212,000

748K

The total number of students in the program

$432

Average federal cost per student in the program

211

Total number of awards

Source: U.S. Department of Education

these changes, Wilson said.

The model was developed over a 10- to 12-year span.

“Through [the model] we work hand-in-hand with principals and looking at data and how to build structures within their school to support change,” Wilson said.

The money supplied to the K20 Center and the Oklahoma Public School District will follow the sixth- and seventhgrade students all the way to

State’s promise Another goal of the grant is to prepare students to apply for the Oklahoma Promise Scholarship, said Sheli McAdoo, Oklahoma City Public Schools executive director of secondary schools and reform.

McAdoo helped author the grant and also was a high school principal when a GEAR UP grant was awarded.

McAdoo said she thinks this grant will be more effective than the last grant because the GEAR UP staff will be placed inside the school instead of at an off-site location.

McAdoo said she hopes placing personnel inside the school will create better

relationships with both students and parents.

The Oklahoma Promise Scholarship is offered to eighth-, ninth- and 10th-grade students. The scholarship is awarded to the students if they take certain high school courses and their family’s income is below $50,000 when they apply for the program.

The scholarship pays the tuition of public two-year colleges and four-year universities in Oklahoma, according to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education’s website.

The GEAR UP grant was established in 1998 as part of amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965. This year’s GEAR UP grant is about $303 million, about 6.3 percent less than last fiscal year.

The six-year grant is given to states to help high-poverty middle and high schools.

The funds are used to provide scholarships, use early intervention programs to increase college attendance and raise the expectations of low-income students, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s website.

reunion: Tuition, enrollment biggest changes

celebrate.

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Readers should bring errors to The Daily’s attention by emailing dailynews@ou.edu.

BY THE NUMBERS GEAR UP stats from 2010

college. Data on the students will be collected during the six-year grant and it will help show whether or not the model was effective by comparing it to similar groups of students, Garn said.

“I think the model we have developed over the years has been based on Oklahoma students and Oklahoma data, and we’ve got a good bit of history there that shows to expect [improvement],” he said.

This year, more than 163,000 people will die from lung cancer—making it America’s

NUMBER ONE cancer killer.

But new treatments offer hope.

Join Lung Cancer Alliance in the fight against this disease. lungcanceralliance.org

according to Institutional Research and Reporting.

But some things never change, especially for the winnigest college football team over the last 75 years.

In 1956, the OU football team won the national championship under legendary coach Bud Wilkinson.

In 2011, Bob Stoops and crew are competing for a return trip.

AT A GLANCE Events in OU history 1950 — OU desegregated graduate and law schools after Supreme Court decisions in the Sipuel and McLaurin cases 1955 — Bass Collection in business history donated to the University Libraries 1955 — Undergraduate colleges desegregated

1957 — OU School of Library Science began teaching classes in Tulsa 1960 — College of Liberal Studies began offering a bachelor’s of liberal studies 1962 — The Oklahoma Center for Continuing Education dedicated

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Students perform ‘living’ piece of artwork Left: Jules, played by musical theater senior Joel Behne, criticizes the artwork of George, musical theatre senior Carl Culley, during Wednesday’s rehearsal of “Sunday in the Park with George” in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center.

Musical explores life of both painter and his grandson Megan Deaton

Life and Arts Reporter

This weekend, OU musical theater students will open “Sunday in the Park with George,” a musical about 19th century painter George Seurat.

Written by Stephen Sondheim, the University Theatre show will be an art piece in itself, musical theater senior Meredith Tyler said.

“It is such a different show than anything ever written,” said Tyler, who plays the roles of Dot and Marie. “It is literally incomparable, but I think it is fascinating that we are a living art piece.”

In the first act, the musical follows the life of Seurat, detailing his struggles with art, life and relationships.

The second act jumps to the future and follows Seurat’s great-grandson, also named George, as he deals with similar issues.

“It is unlike any show in the musical theatre canon,” director Shawn Churchman said. “For example, the second act jumps ahead 100 years to focus on Seurat’s great-grandson, who is also an artist.”

Musical theater senior Carl Culley will be playing the roles of both Georges.

“There are similarities and differences between the two, and finding a way to connect them but also keep them rooted in their different times was a challenge,” Culley said.

Each actor plays two different parts. In the second act, 100 years in the future, the actors take on a character that parallels the previous character they

Bottom: George’s mistress Dot, played by musical theater senior Meredith Tyler, sings while getting dressed during Wednesday’s rehearsal of “Sunday in the Park with George.”

Photos by Kingsley Burns/The Daily

“It is such a different show than anything ever written. It is literally incomparable, but I think it is fascinating that we are a living art piece.”

Meredith Tyler, musical theater senior

portrayed in the first act.

Culley said the music is what truly makes the musical a work of art.

“When George is furiously creating, the music takes on a sound of ‘pointillism’ — very sharp and exact,” Culley said. “But when the story focuses on the tragic and romantic aspects of the show, Sondheim creat e s mu s i c t hat i s v e r y ‘impressionistic.’”

The audience should expect to be entertained, but the musical is not a simple, feel-good show, Churchman said.

“It is very emotionally cathartic as well as being full of very interesting and sometimes complex ideas,” Churchman said. “It is not in any way ‘escapist’ or fluff.”

Like the music, the costumes and set will also help

create an artistic masterpiece, Tyler said.

“It is a concept musical, so there is pretty much no set,” Tyler said. “A lot of what is happening on stage is happening in George’s mind. The audience really gets to delve into the artist’s mind and understand how he thinks.”

The costumes will feature 19th century garb, including big bustles and corsets for the women. Tyler wears a mechanical costume that opens and closes by remote control, as well as an opulent bustle.

Though the set will be composed of mostly simple, black-and-white backgrounds, the lighting for

the show will be complex, including projections and a laser show.

“It’s refreshing and so exhilarating to work on a show that feels completely different daily,” Culley said. “It’s such a privilege to do this show. This is a show that is rarely done and getting that chance to perform it is really a dream come true.”

GO AND DO ‘Sunday in the Park with George’ WHEN: 8 tonight, 8 p.m.

Wednesday to Oct. 29, 3 p.m. Sunday and Oct. 30 WHERE: Reynolds Performing Arts Center

You Are Invited!

Class of 2012 Ring Ceremony Honoring Dean of University Libraries

Sul Lee

For Over 30 Years of Service to the University Honorary Ring Recipient and Homecoming Parade Marshal

3 p.m.

Friday, October 21, 2011 Class of 1950 Plaza and Oklahoma Memorial Union Courtyard

In case of rain, the ceremony will be moved to the Will Rogers Room.

For additional information or for accommodations on the basis of disability, please call (405) 325-3784.

The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution.

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OPINION

“Great, and then all graduates can go to states with the better jobs ... We also need GOOD PAYING jobs in this state!.” (Tina, Re: Oklahoma aims to boost graduation rates)

EDITORIAL

Fight abuse with awareness Our View: It’s important to be aware of domestic violence issues so you can recognize the signs and get help, for yourself or a friend.

AT A GLANCE List of helpful resources • OUPD — 911, from a campus phone; 325-1911, from a noncampus phone

information for 12- to 24-yearolds — BreakTheCycle.org

Nearly half of dating women in college report • Oklahoma Domestic Violence having experienced abusive dating behavior, ac• The National Domestic Violence Help — OKDVHelp.com cording to a September survey by the Love Is Not Hotline’s online guide “Am I Being Abuse program. In fact, 20- to 24-year-olds are at • Men Stopping Violence’s Abused?” — TheHotline.org the greatest risk of domestic violence of any age online tips and guides — • The National Domestic Violence menstoppingviolence.org group, according to the Department of Justice.

Hotline — 1-800-799-SAFE Despite these facts, the Love Is Not Abuse survey • Women’s Resource Center Crisis also reported that more than one-third of students • Break the Cycle’s dating violence Line — 405-701-5540 said they wouldn’t know how to get help on campus if they were caught in an abusive relationship and 58 percent said they wouldn’t know how to situations, forcing or manipulating you into having help a friend in the same situation. sex, demanding sex when you are sick or tired, or October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, pushing, slapping, biting, kicking or choking you. which provides an opportunity to ensure you know Your loved ones may be in an abusive relationhow to recognize the signs of abuse in your and ship if they lose interest in activities they used to others’ relationships, as well as how to get help. enjoy, stop seeing friends, become increasingly isoDomestic violence is a widespread issue. One lated, refer to their partner’s bad moods or temper, in four women will experience domestic violence have unexplained injuries or decrease their digital in her life, amounting to an estimated 1.3 communication. million a year, according to the Centers for The Our View If you or anyone you know may be in is the majority an abusive relationship, it is important to Disease Control. The Domestic Violence opinion of Awareness Project defines domestic vioget help before things get worse. In 70 to The Daily’s lence as “a pattern of abusive behaviors — 80 percent of all partner homicides, the 10-member including physical, sexual and psychologiman physically abused the woman beeditorial board cal attacks as well as economic coercion fore the murder, according to the Justice — used by one intimate partner against Department’s National Institute of Justice. another to gain, maintain or regain power and But it is often difficult for abused partners to recogcontrol.” This kind of abuse can happen to anyone, nize the danger they are in and get out. Only about male or female, in any kind of relationship. one-fourth of all physical assaults and one-fifth of Recognizing potential abuse in your or your all rapes of females by their partners are reported to loved ones’ relationships is essential to quelling the police, the CDC reported in 2000. this serious problem.

If you’re ready to get help for you or a friend, try Signs of emotional, physical or sexual abuse inany of the options in our list of resources. You don’t clude your partner trying to isolate you from family deserve to be treated with anything less than reor friends, insulting you or continually criticizing spect. So don’t become another statistic — get help. you, acting jealous or possessive, damaging propComment on this at OUDaily.com erty when angry, using physical force in sexual

COLUMN

No simple solutions for Occupy

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udre Lorde wrote, OPINION COLUMNIST “Revolution is not a one-time event. It is becoming always vigilant for the smallest opportunity to make a genuine change in established, outgrown responses.”

Lorde was discussing the Elizabeth Rucker lessons of the 1960s mass wordful@ou.edu movements that many thought almost brought about a true revolution in this country. As the world and finally the nation focus on the occupation of capitals, financial districts and even some universities by the 99 percent, comparisons to the ’60s are inevitable.

The activists from Wall Street to Kerr Park in Oklahoma City operate in very different contexts, but are subject to similar critiques. Namely, the demand that organizers produce a unified, simple set of demands or messages (preferably bullet-pointed and in triplicate).

Like many others, my fellow columnist, Jason Byas, advises the Occupy Together movement to develop “clear demands that cannot be twisted by power-seeking politicians.” The problem is that politicians can always twist demands.

For example, GLBT demands for equitable treatment were compromised into a still damaging policy due to Beltway politicking. The push for fair provision of housing as per federal law actually resulted in the further institutionalization of residential segregation (and extant

problem in our society), most dramatically in the creation of low-income housing projects that offered no solutions to poverty but did offer politicians a convenient way to placate racist constituencies.

That is not to say that institutional changes do not need to be made, but there is not one singular change, law or policy that can truly alter the balance of power in our society. And it is not true that Occupiers have only complained — they have been generating dialogue and developing solutions. Check out the Twitter handle @OccupyIdeas to see a small fraction of just how much is being done in that area.

Still, the Occupy movement’s power derives from the precarious fact that it cannot be tidied up and allowed to gather dust on a party platform. As Mercedes Allen wrote in a fantastic essay this Saturday, “If all the Occupy movement accomplishes is to remind the 1 [percent] of the population that increasingly controls and hoards the nation’s wealth that the remaining 99 [percent] have power ... Then it has been an incredibly worthwhile effort indeed.” In effect, the Occupy movement offers a chance at a paradigm shift — a far more effective means of addressing the evils of our present system.

Yes, we need solutions. But we should not hinge our power on our ability to hand deliver neat and tidy solutions to the State. Continuing her thoughts on revolution, Lorde reminds us, “How important it is not to allow even our leaders to define us to ourselves, or to define our sources of power to us.”

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

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Religion a necessary component of debate Re: “Evolution tried and true explanation,” a letter to the editor on Thursday Although I agree with Taylor Haas’ argument that evolution is the primary explanation for life, I disagree that there should never be discussion of the opposing religious viewpoint.

Evolution and religion aren’t automatically irreconcilable just because religious theory can’t be

tested like evolution can.

In fact, many people have a blended view of evolution and religion, not viewing them as mutually exclusive theories.

By discounting religion as unworthy of discussion, students are forced to adopt an argument which they would not necessarily believe if presented with alternate views.

How do you expect

children to effectively debate evolution, as Haas argues they should, if they are never presented with any opposing viewpoints?

Haas states outright that he is “all for free speech” — isn’t religion covered by free speech? Whether the topic is scientific or religious, subjects should be debated and discussed on their own merits and weaknesses.

To not do so would be like

having a court case where only the prosecution presents its case, and the defendant’s case is deemed invalid before it’s ever presented.

In only considering scientific arguments as valid free speech, Haas is essentially prohibiting any future constructive discussions about evolution and religion.

Adrienne Elias, zoology and art history junior

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» Poll question of the day Should Bank of America get rid of its new credit card fees?

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Americans must call out their banks

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ell, Bank of OPINION COLUMNIST America, I think it’s time we had a little chat.

I heard you’re no longer the largest bank in the U.S. thanks to that big bully JPMorgan Chase. But this doesn’t Jacob Oller mean you get to lash out jacoboller@ou.edu towards the people who love you. For years, millions of people have put their trust in you to not lose all of their money if the Great Depression returns. That’s really all you’ve had to do for quite a while. We don’t ask too much of you, just don’t lose our money and don’t make it too painful to get it back from you. I mean, most of us are lazy enough that we’ll put up with some inconvenience, but enough is enough.

You posted $6.2 billion in profit this quarter. And that’s good. Glad to see you back on your feet. Now it’s easy to see that you’re really not hard up for cash, so this would be an excellent opportu“And as college nity for you to stop screwing over Americans. I mean, with Occupy students, banks Wall Street, people are actually are constantly calling out banks, investment after our money firms and ratings agencies on their terrible business practices. anyway. Be See, here’s an issue right here: wary everyone People who give ratings to business or investments shouldn’t be and do your paid by those business or people research.” who own those investments. OK? Can you see why we’re all a bit peeved about this, Bank of America? If a company is selling me a TV, and I decide to ask people what they think of the TV, I’d like to hear if it’ll explode when I plug it in or if it comes to life if I watch it after 10 p.m., rather than have some sponsored lies thrust at me.

But I digress. Bank of America, your profits are great, but this means that the new fees you’ve decided to push onto people with your debit cards are not only completely unnecessary, but also completely unnecessary. For those readers who aren’t aware, there will be a monthly $5 fee to have a debit card with Bank of America. This new way to charge for a previously free service comes as a response to reforms brought to Wall Street by the Dodd-Frank Act which reduced how much banks can charge retailers due to debit card swipes.

And as college students, banks are constantly after our money anyway. Be wary, everyone, and do your research. If you’re like me, you probably don’t have the $20,000 or so in the bank that exempts you from these fees, so you may think about switching out.

With $6.2 billion in profits this quarter, it’s not like we should feel upset for them. There’s absolutely no reason to stand for these fees. Never mind that Bank of America also plans to cut 10 percent (or 30,000) of its employees and close to 10 percent of its branches.

Nah, don’t worry about it guys, America didn’t need those jobs anyway. Oh, wait. And you say the 2,000 people you fired in this wave of layoffs didn’t show up on your $6.2 billion profits, huh? Seems like you really didn’t even need to fire those people. But I’m sure you know what you’re doing.

Bank of America’s CEO Brian Moynihan defended his bank’s new $5 fee on debit cards and the firings, saying that customers understand the bank has a “right to make a profit.” Well, I suppose we understand that profits are the point of a business. But we can also understand that you made a profit separate from the institution of this fee and the firing of 2,000 hardworking Americans. So I hope you’ll understand when we say we have a right to protest.

Jacob Oller is a management information systems sophomore.

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Unrest in the middle east

World NEWS briefs

Rebels kill Gadhafi

Mexico City

Libyans rejoice death of nation’s former dictator AT A GLANCE Gadhafi’s rule 1969 — Gadhafi leads the coup that overthrows Libya’s monarchy and becomes the undisputed ruler.

1988 — Gadhafi is accused of ordering the terrorist attack of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

2002 — Gadhafi publicly renounces his support of terrorism, saying, “In the old days, they called us a rogue state. They were right in accusing us of that.”

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Libyans celebrate the news of Moammar Gadhafi’s death Thursday afternoon in Tripoli, Libya. Gadhafi, 69, was killed Thursday when revolutionary forces overwhelmed and captured his hometown, Sirte. The former dictator is the first leader to be killed in the wave of protests that swept through the Middle East.

2011 — Gadhafi unleashes the bloodiest crackdown of any Arab country against the region’s protests. The country descends into a months-long conflict between Gadhafi loyalists and the opposition.

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Moammar Gadhafi and son Muatassim killed in Sirte Gadhafi was barricaded with heavily armed loyalists in the last few buildings they held in Sirte. He was killed by revolutionaries as he attempted to escape in an 80-vehicle convoy.

District 2: Gadhafi’s escape convoy was struck by a NATO airstrike. He was shot twice by rebels and his body transported to Misrata.

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Gadhafi’s son Muatassim was also killed in Sirte and taken to Misrata. His son Seif al-Islam, was captured with a gunshot wound to the leg and taken to a hospital.

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Gadhafi’s design. They have already shown signs of infighting, with divisions between geographical areas and Islamist and more secular ideologies.

President Barack Obama told the Libyan people, “You have won your revolution.”

Although the U.S. briefly led the NATO bombing campaign in Libya that sealed Gadhafi’s fate, Washington later took a secondary role to its allies. Britain and France said they hoped that his death would lead to a more democratic Libya.

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SIRTE, Libya — Moammar Gadhafi, Libya’s dictator for 42 years until he was ousted in an uprising-turned-civil war, was killed Thursday as revolutionary fighters overwhelmed his hometown of Sirte and captured the last major bastion of resistance two months after his regime fell.

Interim g ove r n ment offiMOAMMAR cials said one of Gadhafi’s GADHAFI sons, his former national security adviser Muatassim, also was killed in Sirte, and another, one-time heir apparent Seif al-Islam, was wounded and captured.

Gadhafi is the first leader to be killed in the wave of popular uprisings that swept the Middle East, demanding the end of autocratic rulers and the establishment of greater democracy.

“We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Moammar Gadhafi has been killed,” Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said at a news conference.

His death decisively ends a regime that had turned Libya into an international pariah and ran the oil-rich nation by the whim and brutality of its notoriously eccentric leader.

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President blames U.S. for fueling border violence Mexican President Felipe Calderon said the United States is dumping criminals at the border because it is cheaper than prose c u t i n g FELIPE them, and CALDERON he said that has helped fuel violence in Mexico.

Calderon said net migration of Mexicans to the U.S. is approaching zero, as fewer people leave and more come back.

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200,000 political prisoners held in North Korea A United Nations envoy said North Korea is estimated to hold up to 200,000 people in political prisons, a sharp increase from a decade ago.

Special U.N. rapporteur on North Korean human rights Marzuki Darusman gave the estimate in his report to the U.N. General Assembly, citing a comparison of satellite images from human rights groups.

South Korea estimates North Korea holds 154,000 political prisoners in six camps across the country. Darusman said recent satellite images indicate “a significant increase in the scale of the camps.”

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The University of Oklahoma Announces a Milestone in the History of Arts in Oklahoma: The Opening of The Stuart Wing Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

Opening Oct. 22, The Stuart Wing provides a new 18,000-square-foot expansion of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art to house the museum’s many collections. Designed by noted architect Rand Elliott, the new addition is named the Stuart Wing to honor a $3 million lead gift from the Stuart Family Foundation made possible by the generosity of OU Regent Jon R. Stuart and his wife, Dee Dee, a member of the art museum’s board of visitors.

You are invited to visit The Stuart Wing The collections housed in the Stuart Wing allow visitors to view works of art that complement the already outstanding collections held by the museum, including the Weitzenhoffer Collection of French Impressionism, bringing the total to nearly 16,000 works of art.

The Roxanne P. and William H. Thams Collection of Southwestern art by members of the famous Taos Society of Artists, also known as the Taos Colony, came to the University from OU alumnus William H. Thams of Midland, Texas, in memory of his wife, Roxanne P. Thams, who also was an OU graduate. It includes 31 works by such artists as Ernest L. Blumenschein, E. Irving Couse, Nicolai Fechin, Leon Gaspard, Bert G. Phillips, E. Martin Hennings and Joseph Henry Sharp.

Eanger Irving Couse (U.S., 1866-1936) The Medicine Maker (n.d.) from the Priscilla C. and Joseph N. Tate Collection.

The Priscilla C. and Joseph N. Tate Collection, a gift from Priscilla C. and Joe Tate of Tulsa, includes 12 masterworks by members of the Taos Society of Artists.

The collection features paintings of superior quality ranging from Kenneth Adams to Walter Ufer. The Tate paintings do not duplicate the works in either the Thams or the Fleischaker Collections, but add strength and extraordinary depth overall.

Walter Ufer (U.S., 1876-1936) Going East (n.d) from the Eugene B. Adkins Collection.

The Eugene B. Adkins Collection������������������� works of American and Native American art from the Southwest, amassed by Eugene B. Adkins who was born in Tulsa, Okla., includes paintings, prints, jewelry, pottery and basketry on display in the new Stuart Wing of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. In 2008, the Eugene B. Adkins Foundation awarded stewardship of the collection of more than 3,300 objects to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa.

Helen Hardin (U.S., 1943-1984), Winter Awakening of the O-Khoo-Wah (1972) from the James T. Bialac Collection.

Nicholai Fechin (U.S., b. Russia 1881-1955) Indian Girl with Pottery (n.d.) from the Roxanne P. and William H. Thams Collection.

The Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Sandor Photography Collection features vintage works by Bill Brandt, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward S. Curtis, André Kertész, W. Eugene Smith, James VanDerZee, Garry Winogrand and others, including many works depicting people. The collection was given by Ellen and Richard Sandor of Chicago, in honor of University of Oklahoma President David L. Boren and First Lady Molly Shi Boren.

Ernest L. Blumenschein (U.S., 1874-1950) Taos Valley and Mountain (n.d.) from the Richard H. and Adeline J. Fleischaker Collection.

The James T. Bialac Collection includes more than 3,700 works representing indigenous cultures across North America, especially the Pueblos of the Southwest, the Navajo, the Hopi, many of the tribes of the Northern and Southern Plains and the Southeastern tribes. James T. Bialac of Arizona gave one of the most important private collections of Native American art in the country to the university’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.

André Kertész’s (1894-1985) Piet Mondrian, Paris (1926) from the Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Sandor Photographic Collection.

The Richard H. and Adeline J. Fleischaker Collection of approximately 450 major pieces of art, including paintings, sculpture, pottery, basketry and Native American artifacts, was built over several decades by the late Richard H. and Adeline J. Fleischaker of Oklahoma City. It includes works by such notable artists as Thomas Hart Benton, Marc Chagall, Childe Hassam, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro and Pablo Picasso. The Native American paintings, sculpture and pottery include work by such contemporary and historical artists as Allan Houser, Maria Martinez, T.C. Cannon, R.C. Gorman, Stephen Mopope, Fritz Scholder, Jerome Tiger, and Pablita Velarde. Western artists include Ernest L. Blumenschein, E. Irving Couse, Nicolai Fechin, Leon Gaspard and more.

Also housed in the wing are other important works from the collections of Jerome M. Westheimer, Sr., Rennard Strickland, Carol Beesley Hennagin and other works of photography.

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

For more information visit www.ou.edu/fjjma The museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. The museum is closed on Monday.

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Junior guard to lead team this season

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Mounted on the walls inside the OU women’s basketball practice facility at Lloyd Noble, there are two important lists that face the court for the players and coaches

to see before heading into the locker room.

One list displays the past Big 12 regular-season and tournament champions, where the OU name is repeated a record 11 times on nameplates, including a league-leading four tournament crowns earned by the Sooners.

The second list recognizes

the past national championships where fellow Big 12 teams such as Baylor and Texas A&M can be found. OU is the only elite program in the Big 12 without a national title, something the Sooners say they prepare to change at the beginning of every season.

“Our program is always looking to compete for the national championship,”

junior guard Whitney Hand said. “It’s something that we haven’t done, so we’re working toward that. And even though we have eight underclassmen, our sophomores have grown up and are starting to play like seniors.”

It may be too early to begin talking about the national title game that is a tough nonconference stint and a volatile Big

12 schedule away from OU, but for the seasoned veterans on this Sooner team, demanding success and postseason appearances are just usual expectations for a program that went to back-toback Final Fours in 2009 and 2010.

Striving for top-echelon see Hoops page B2

OU harnessing mid-week breaks to hone skills Luke McConnell Sports Reporter

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Freshman pitcher Georgia Casey fires a strike to the plate in the second inning against Western Oklahoma State on Oct. 12 in Norman. OU has outscored fall opponents, 47-0, in two games during the exhibition season. The Sooners host Newman University at 7 p.m. Friday at the OU Softball Complex.

Game against Sooners close to home for pitcher Noble native to play exhibition game against OU softball team Tobi Neidy

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Oklahoma softball kicks back into action with contest against Newman University at 7 p.m. Friday in Norman.

The Sooners have not allowed a fall opponent to reach home plate this season, outscoring their opponents 47-0 in the first two outings while amassing 50 hits in the past two weeks.

Both OU games have been extended to 10 innings this year, allowing all of the Sooner pitchers ample opportunities to work their pitch counts on the mound.

The extra-long games also allowed freshman newcomers chances to see live pitching at the collegiate level from someone other than their teammates.

Newman, located in Wichita, Kan., boasts a rising star in sophomore pitcher Sarah Fipps.

Fipps, a Noble native, grew up less than 30 miles from the OU campus but found her place on the Jets’ roster.

While she spent most of her time on the mound for the Jets, Fipps was better recognized at the end of the season for her .370 batting average with 20 RBIs to earn second-team AllHeartland Conference honors.

As one of only two Jets players to receive postseason awards, Fipps also is currently one of just two members from the state of Oklahoma on Newman’s roster.

Junior infielder Erin Monday, who hails from Glenpool, spent her first year at Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College before transferring to Newman.

The No. 22 Oklahoma volleyball team will be back in action to host the Kansas State Wildcats at 2 p.m. Saturday at McCasland Field House.

The S ooners didn’t have a match Wednesday and won’t have one next Wednesday, either.

O U c o a c h Sa nt i ag o Restrepo said the team is using the extra time to work individually.

“The next two weeks, at least the first two days, we’re able to work on some individual stuff that we’re not able to do (normally),” Restrepo said. “It’s going to be pleasant to see.”

Restrepo said there would be a lot of emphasis on passing and serving, as well as blocking, an area that has improved greatly throughout the course of the season.

Another goal, Restrepo said, is to get everyone on the team healthy.

Junior outside hitter Morgan Reynolds is out for two to three weeks with a dislocated disc in two different places in her lower back.

“She’s been playing like that ever since the beginning (of the season),” Restrepo said. “We finally figured out what was wrong with her. She has to let it rest, let it heal, and we’ll see if we can get her back in two to three weeks.”

The loss of Reynolds is a blow to the offense because although she is a lefty, Reynolds can be an effective hitter on both sides of the court, making her a useful weapon that can make it difficult on the defense.

Restrepo said the team would have to adjust and is looking for sophomore Kelia Rodríguez and senior Caitlin Higgins to fill the void. see Sooners page B2

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Sooners unfazed Oklahoma to visit pair of Texas teams by low expectations OU to play Aggies, OU coach, players optimistic despite being picked to finish last in the Big 12

PLAYER TO WATCH Caitlin Mooney

Bears on the road Tobi Neidy

Year: Junior Position: Forward Hometown: Edmond Notes: Mooney was an integral part of the Sooner offense during last season’s run to the Big 12 championship final. OU needs a pick-me-up offensively, and if anyone is capable of putting it together for the road, Mooney is.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Coach Lon Kruger and junior forwards Andrew Fitzgerald and Romero Osby boarded an early morning flight Thursday to attend Big 12 basketball media day in Kansas City, Mo. Although it started at 8 a.m., they entered the Sprint Center in good spirits.

You would have never known they were picked to finish at the bottom of the conference in the Big 12 preseason poll and were absent from national preseason polls.

The Sooners return four starters from last season’s team, but those four players will have to contribute more if they’re going perform better than their 14-18 record from 2010-11 in a potent 10-team league this year.

Still, Kruger said he isn’t worried about how his team will perform in conference play. For now, he’s enjoying his time at practice with his team and looking for ways to improve his players every day.

“I think for a coach, the first two or three weeks of practice might be the most enjoyable because you see guys coming together, especially on the first-year situation like we’re in,” Kruger said. “You get to know guys a little better and see them develop individually and meshing together as a group.”

He said it was too early to know whom his starting five would be when the team opens against Idaho State on see Kruger page B3

Oklahoma soccer (6-10, 1-4 Big 12) takes to the road this weekend for a pair of matchups south of the Red River.

OU first visits Texas A&M (11-5, 4-1) at 6:30 p.m. Friday in College Station before concluding the weekend with a 5 p.m. Sunday matchup against Baylor (13-2-2, 4-1-1) in Waco.

Texas A&M The Aggies have been impressive in Big 12 play. A&M is on a three-game winning streak and has won eight out of its last nine games.

The team’s most celebrated win was a 4-3 overtime win against No. 1 North Carolina.

Freshman forward Kelley Monogue leads the team on offense with 13 goals and seven assists this season.

A&M leads the all-time series against the Sooners, 15-2,

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Junior forward Caitlin Mooney dribbles forward against an opponent earlier this season. OU plays Texas A&M and Baylor this weekend.

but OU has won two of the last three meetings against the Aggies, including a 1-0 overtime win last year in the Big 12 tournament semifinals.

OU has never w on in College Station, and a win

this weekend could begin to turn things around for this struggling Sooner team.

Baylor The Bears are riding an eight-game unbeaten streak

and have only two losses to Kentucky and Texas A&M. Ju n i o r f o r w a rd D a n a Larsen leads Baylor with nine goals and 19 points, and goalkeeper Courtney Seelhorst has posted nine shutouts.

The Sooners lead the overall series, 7-4-3, and have won the last four meetings.

Oklahoma is 2-3 all-time at Baylor’s Betty Lou Mays Field in Waco.

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Hoops: Sooners hope to form stronger team bonds with special activities Continued from page B1 goals also helps the team perform better during the regular season.

Hand said OU is a nationalcaliber team this year.

“Last year, we were inconsistent,” she said. “Being elite is about buying into our program and our game plans every game. If we all commit to doing things coach (Sherri) Coale stresses and that our program is known for week after week, then we’ll be back (to the Final Four) again.”

One of the things the Sooners will need to recover from last season is the team’s consistenc y away from Norman. After starting the season at 9-0, the Sooners stumbled through the Big 12 portion, trading off wins and losses during travel periods to end up with a 10-6 conference record.

“Our No. 1 goal is to stay consistent because last year, we would have a great game, and the next game we were off,” sophomore guard Morgan Hook said. “Every game is going to be a battle because everyone in the Big 12 is good, so it’s going to be fight for the top two teams in

AT A GLANCE Women’s basketball The Sooners kick off exhibition play at 7 p.m.

Nov. 2 with a game against Central Oklahoma.

The Sooners open the season with three consecutive home games.

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Junior guard Whitney Hand drives the ball against a Texas Tech defender during a game last year. Hand and the Sooners plan to spend more time together this season to strengthen team chemistry.

the conference.”

The Sooners also lost all three of last season’s matchups against the current defending national champions, Texas A&M, that included a 81-68 mishap during the Big 12 tournament.

But this OU team is working to fix its performance irregularity by focusing less on the schedule and developing

a new mantra to deal with upcoming opponents.

“We’ve broken it down to one game at a time,” Hook said. “Last year, we spent too much time looking ahead at our schedule, so now we’re just concentrating on segments and finding ways to win them.”

The Sooners also will be spending more time together

off the court and creating activities to build better team chemistry, such as a team Bible study every Sunday and before they leave for games.

“We’re trying different things,” sophomore center Nicole Griffin said. “We’re still coming up with ideas to stay focused and together throughout the week while also trying to come up with

» DaShawn Harden, guard, from Olathe, Kan. » Katherine Zander, forward, frrom Orange Park, Fla. » Sharane Campbell, guard, from Spencer » Kaylon Williams, forward, from Midwest City

new ideas to do on the bus when we travel.”

By looking past practices to understanding how chemistry doesn’t end on the court with championship-caliber teams, the Sooners hope to show they’re maturing well with experience and age.

“With a young team, you can’t look past anyone,” Hand said. “We have a tough

pre-conference and conference schedule, so there isn’t a game where we can’t bring our best.”

OU will need Hand’s leadership on the court to keep the younger Sooners composed this season.

OU coach Sherri Coale said she sees Hand as the essential piece to help replace graduated guard Danielle Robinson.

“When you have eight underclassmen on your team, Hand’s presence becomes more important and her play even more integral,” Coale said.

If this Sooner team can have new faces step up when they’re needed and get consistently good performances from its veterans, OU may eventually be looking at another Final Four banner hanging from the Lloyd Noble rafters next year.

The Sooners won’t be satisfied until they earn a national title, but fixing the mistakes from last year and helping the new freshman class grow this year will be the two main goals for this year’s team.

And just maybe those corrections will be what the Sooners need to put their name on the top of both lists.

Sooners: Oklahoma hopes to finish first half of Big 12 schedule strong Continued from page B1 “I think both of them are capable of playing all six rotations,” Restrepo said. “I think it’s a game-time decision, and also during the game, evaluate them more and see what they’re doing.”

Restrepo also said senior setter Brianne Barker’s X-ray on Monday came back negative. Barker suffered an injury to her left ring finger in last Saturday’s match against Kansas, but Restrepo said it

appeared to be a deep bruise on her knuckle.

Saturday’s match against the Wildcats marks the halfway point of OU’s Big 12 conference schedule, and Restrepo said the Sooners are looking to end the first half on a positive note.

“We’re looking to finish 6-2 in the halfway point of our conference,” Restrepo said. “If we can finish 6-2 and do better in the second half, I think we’ll be in pretty good shape.”

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doesn’t want his team looking too far ahead.

“One thing that I will tell them is it’s great to be thinking about all these goals, but the bottom line is for us to be successful, we’ve just got to worry about that one match — one match at a time,” Restrepo said.

Kansas State is good at a motion called the slide, where the middle blockers loop around to the outside and hit back to the center, something the Sooners struggled to defend against

Texas A&M and Kansas.

“We’re going to have to work a lot at how to slow down the slide and block the slide,” Restrepo said.

Restrepo said passing and serving well will be the key to getting the offense clicking at its normal break-neck pace to hamper the KSU defense.

“Our setting the ball pin to pin fast so that the middles cannot get there will open up a lot of angles, seams and openings for our hitters,” Restrepo said. “That will be a key.”

AT A GLANCE Kansas State Wildcats 2011 record: 15-6 (4-3) Last game: Beat Kansas, 3-1, on Wednesday in Lawrence Last game vs. OU: Lost to the Sooners, 3-1, in Norman in 2010 Key players: Sophomore MB Kaitlynn Pelger (4.49 kills per

set, 2.72 digs per set, 1.14 blocks per set), sophomore OH Lilla Porubek (3.34 kills per set), junior setter Caitlyn Donahue (11.30 assists per set, 2.56 digs per set), junior libero Kuulei Kabalis (3.50 digs per set)

Restrepo’s take: “They’re extremely talented. They’re a team that brought everyone back last year. Last year, they were very good, they were just young. They’re very physical and very tall.

They touch a lot of balls and block a lot of balls.”

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“I’m excited about the group,” Kruger said.

Kruger said he was excited to be back in the Big 12 Conference and admitted he’s mistakenly referred to it as the Big Eight several times.

Old habits die hard.

He played college basketball for Kansas State from 1971-74 and saw his No. 12 jersey retired there in 2006.

He coached the Wildcats from 1986-1990 and took the team to the NCAA tournament all four years.

“Growing up just a few miles down the road here from Kansas City feels like coming back home,” he said.

Oklahoma fans hope Kruger can have the same effect on the Sooner men’s basketball program that he did at Kansas State. But Kruger said there won’t be much to rebuild.

“Just three years ago, [Oklahoma] was playing a game to go to the Final Four, so it’s really not that far removed,” he said.

Kruger said he and his staff are communicating to the players that OU is steeped in tradition, and they are responsible for carrying on that tradition.

Fitzgerald is one of those players who will be most expected to carry that legacy into the 2011-12 season, but he said he doesn’t feel any pressure as the team’s leading returning scorer.

“No pressure at all,” he said. “We’re just going to go

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Missouri expected to discuss SEC move behind closed doors Tigers’ board of curators started closed-session talks Thursday

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OU coach Lon Kruger signs a basketball during the Big 12 basketball media day at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo. Kruger and junior forwards Andrew Fitzgerald and Romero Osby represented Oklahoma.

“A lot of people do have us ranked low.

That’s something we can’t really control.”

Romero Osby, Junior forward

out there and play basketball and just have fun. It’s more of a team concept; no more individuals. I’m just so excited to start playing.”

When he starts the season, he’ll have help.

Fitzgerald said he and Osby will be a formidable duo in the low post this season. “ We’ re g o n na h o l d i t down,” he said. “Me and [Osby] are gonna hold it down in the paint this year.”

Osby sat out last season

due to NCAA transfer rules when he decided to leave Mississippi State. The 6-foot8-inch junior will be counted on to bang the boards in Kruger’s system.

Osby said he’s up for the challenge, and he’s looking forward to the start of the season.

He has not played in game since 2009.

“It was frustrating sometimes being that far away from home, that far away from family,” Osby said. “I felt like I could help last year and contribute to [Oklahoma] last year. But I took that one year to get better, and I feel it was beneficial for me.”

With three weeks left until the season begins, Osby said he wasn’t fazed by what

experts have had to say about the Sooners’ chances of winning the Big 12 and putting together a memorable season.

“A lot of people do have us ranked low,” Osby said.

“That’s something we can’t really control. That’s something that we don’t really want to think about. We just know that we’re going to play hard, we’re going to work hard and do everything that coach tells us to do.

“I think at the end of the day, that’s going to put us in a position to be successful.”

At the end of the six-hour press conference, Kruger, Fitzgerald and Osby stepped back on a plane to head back to Norman.

There’s work to be done.

Big 12 men’s Basketball Notebook Kansas State

Coach has fun making expressive media guide The award for most creative media guide cover in the Big 12 and possibly the nation goes to Kansas State.

In four separate black and white panels are four startling close-ups of the expressive face of coach Frank Martin, a man who’s not afraid to admit he wears his emotions on his sleeve.

In the photo marked “intensity,” the coach’s jaw is clenched, his dark eyes staring out at readers. The photo marked “dedication” shows a darkly suspicious Martin and the third photo marked “excitement” shows the coach offering a warm, winsome smile.

Scariest of all is in the lower right marked “passion.” Teeth bared, eyes narrowing into slits, it’s the volatile Kansas State coach at his most intimidating.

“A couple of those, I probably had an official in mind,” Martin deadpanned.

“Actually, if you come to a game, that’s probably about four possessions.”

The whole thing took only about 30 minutes to shoot after school officials approached Martin with the idea last summer.

He’s having great fun with it.

“I did a little acting in junior high. I really did,” he said. “They put a camera there, and they asked me to start acting and showing different emotions. I did the best I could. Every response I’ve gotten, from emails and Twitter and fans and media people, they tend to like it.

Our players are killing me. I can’t go in the locker room without getting abused.

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Sooner coach familiar with Big 12 landscape Two of the Big 12’s new head coaches are not new at all to anyone who’s been around the league.

Lon Kruger, taking over at Oklahoma, was an all-conference point guard for Jack Hartman’s Kansas State teams in the 1970s and replaced Hartman as the Wildcats’ head coach in 1986.

Billy Gillispie, replacing Pat Knight at Texas Tech, was 70-26 as head coach at Texas A&M from 2004-07 before spending two turbulent seasons at Kentucky.

Kruger, a Silver Lake, Kan., native, compiled an 81-46 record as Kansas State head coach. Since he left Manhattan, a vagabond coaching career has taken him to three different colleges — Florida, Illinois and UNLV — and stints in the NBA with the Atlanta Hawks and New York Knicks.

He agrees the basketball landscape in the Midwest is much different from the way he left it 21 years ago, when KSU was part of the Big Eight Conference, prior to the formation of the Big 12 in 1996.

“I’ve referred to it several times as the

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Kansas State’s media guide featuring coach Frank Martin making faces to illustrate his expressive nature.

Big Eight by mistake,” said Kruger, who appears only a pound or two heavier than when he was Big Eight player of the year in the early ‘70s. “It is back to the roots.”

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Hurricanes recruit DeQuan Jones $10,000 to attend the school with Haith’s approval.

The report by Yahoo! Sports includes two photographs of Shapiro with Haith — one at a Miami Beach restaurant and the other showing the pair with Miami president Donna Shalala at a bowling alley accepting what Shapiro said was a $50,000 donation to the school’s basketball program.

The website also obtained telephone records showing 85 calls or text messages between the two over a five-year period.

In a school-issued statement, Haith pledged to cooperate with the NCAA. “The reports questioning my personal interactions with Mr. Shapiro are not an accurate portrayal of my character,” Haith said then.

And he’s not saying much now. At Big 12 media day Thursday, he said the controversy has not hurt his Missouri recruiting and insists his players have not even asked about Miami.

“Nothing. Not at all,” he said. “We’ve got great kids.”

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Cowboy freshman has Barnes says Longhorns scare during practice wanted Big 12 to survive Oklahoma State had a big scare Rick Barnes of Texas may be one of the few Big 12 coaches who never thought the league would remain viable despite the defections of three schools and possibly a fourth, Missouri.

“I think we’ve got the best athletic director in the country. And from day one, when the talk of all this expansion started years ago, we met as a staff, and (Texas AD) DeLoss Dodds made it clear that his No. 1 goal was to always keep the Big 12,” Barnes said. “There’s no question the University of Texas could have gone anywhere we wanted to go.

But his goal, regardless of what anybody might say, has been to keep the league together. We’re going to continue to have a great league. It’s not going anywhere. It’s here.”

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Tigers coach tries to put controversy behind him Frank Haith is trying to settle in at Missouri and leave a bit of controversy behind.

Haith spent seven years at Miami before he was hired by Missouri in April.

After he was hired, Yahoo! Sports released a sweeping investigation into alleged corruption in the Hurricanes’ athletics programs, citing information from booster and convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro.

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Monday when freshman C.J. Guerrero dropped to the floor during practice with an apparent neck injury.

Ever yone feared the worst.

“We had something that’s never happened to me in all my years of C.J. coaching,” coach Travis GUERRERO Ford said.

Apparently, the fourstar prospect was coming through the lane guarding his man in practice and got hit in the neck when someone set a screen.

“He just literally collapsed,” Ford said.

“I think he was knocked out for maybe 5 or 10 seconds. Then he was screaming and yelling, ‘My neck, my neck,’ different things like that.”

Trainer Jason Miller immobilized the neck and called paramedics. Paralysis was feared.

Guerrero was taken by helicopter from Stillwater to Oklahoma City. After a battery of tests, the player began to feel better but was still sore and groggy, Ford said.

By 7 a.m., doctors said “everything looked absolutely, positively normal.

Perfect,” Ford said. “Nothing wrong.”

Guerrero has resumed going to class but wearing a neck brace.

“I think he’s going to be OK,” Ford said.

“He sees the doctor again on Monday.

The doctor even said hopefully at that point in time he may be able to resume playing.”

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The University of Missouri’s governing board opened a two-day meeting Thursday amid speculation the university is close to leaving the Big 12 Conference for the SEC. Conference affiliation wasn’t listed on the agenda, which includes closed sessions Thursday and Friday. University spokeswoman Jennifer Hollingshead said the curators do not plan to discuss the topic until at least Friday.

Steve Owens, acting president of the four-campus Missouri system, declined to comment about the curators’ possible discussions, and board Chairman Warren Erdman added: “I’m not going to talk about that.”

Earlier this month, the curators gave Missouri Chancellor Brady Deaton authority to explore leaving the Big 12. Missouri officials are considering a move to the Southeastern Conference in hopes of getting greater television revenue.

An internal university document obtained recently by The Associated Press showed Missouri hopes to gain as much as $12 million annually in additional television and cable revenue in the SEC if other factors fall into place. But the school also could face a hefty exit fee from the Big 12.

The SEC has not commented publicly on Missouri’s interest. Adding a team would require approval by each member, which currently stands at 12 schools.

Missouri would be the fourth school to abandon the Big 12. Nebraska (Big Ten) and Colorado (Pac-12) left during the summer, and Texas A&M will join the SEC next year.

TCU will join the Big 12 next year, spurning a move from the Mountain West to the Big East.

The Big 12 wants to keep Missouri, and earlier this month endorsed a plan to keep members in the fold by requiring schools to give up their most lucrative TV rights to the league for six years in return for equal revenue sharing.

The plan would give each school an estimated $20 million in June. The figure is expected to grow by 2013 when the league’s new 13-year contract with Fox Sports kicks in, and the Big 12’s TV contract with ABC/ESPN expires in 2016 and could bring in additional money when renegotiated.

The SEC, by contrast, distributed $18.3 million in revenue to each of its 12 members this year. But that league also can expect more lucrative contracts when the next round of TV rights negotiations occur.

While Missouri is a charter member of the Big 12, founded in 1996 when the Big Eight schools added four members of the old Southwest Conference, dissatisfaction with the conference has grown. In the early ’90s, with the Big Eight on the verge of collapse, Missouri pushed to join the Big Ten, and a group of state business leaders even formed a lobbying group.

Its desires to leave the conference it helped shape grew stronger in recent years, with suggestions that Texas and its Longhorn Network would only entrench Texas’ power and create an uneven playing field for the rest of the conference, especially the northern schools.

Besides being a fresh blow to the Big 12, a Missouri departure could threaten the school’s long-standing rivalry with neighboring Kansas, one of the oldest in college sports, and could drain event revenues from Kansas City, a longtime host to Big 12 basketball tournaments and the now-scrapped conference championship football game.

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Homecoming Week 2011

Sooner pride comes to fruition Campus Activities Council’s week to conclude with Saturday parade Lauren Duff

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H

omecoming Week is upon us, with the streets packed with crimsonclad students as alumni make the pilgrimage to Norman and tradition is held above all other priorities.

Evidence of Campus Activities Council’s endeavors were noticeable around campus all week — including the sidewalk chalk murals, events and boards on the South Oval that displayed the best of Sooner pride — pumping up the excitement for Saturday’s home football game against Texas Tech and the preceding parade celebration.

This year’s 54 student organizations participating in the parade will line up at 4 p.m. on the corner of Boyd Street and Elm Avenue next to the floats they put a lot of work and time into, Goodhart said.

Organization members will walk with smiles on their faces, passing candy out to the Norman residents watching colorful structures pass by.

Each decided on a specific, prominent city or landmark location of the United States or other countries to contribute to the overall theme, “Paint the Town Crimson,�

CAC Homecoming Week chair woman Madelyn Randolph said.

Las Vegas, New York City, New Orleans, London and Ireland are some of the places that the organizations are representing, as well as Disneyland and Hollywood. “We had a goal to come up with a theme that appealed to alumni and tie into a tradition,� Randolph said.

Ho m e c o m i n g p a ra d e chairman Colin Goodhart, management information systems senior, said the parade is an important part of Homecoming Week. “I think it is an important tradition because it really brings out the alumni and

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Top: Members of Beta Theta Pi, Delta Gamma and Delta Epsilon Psi walk ahead of their float during the 2010 CAC Homecoming Parade.

Center: Cheerleaders rouse the crowd as they march down Boyd Street. This year’s homecoming theme is “Paint the Town Crimson.�

Bottom: Members of Pi Beta Phi, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Beta Sigma and Alpha Sigma Theta lead their float commemorating Sam Bradford’s 2008 football season in the homecoming parade.

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fans, and everyone can see the hard work that is being put into this university,�

Goodhart said.

The OU Pom Pon Squad, OU cheer squads, the Ruf-

Neks, deans of different schools and the homecoming royalty candidates also will be walking in the parade.

Even though this parade is part of OU homecoming week, it is also a chance to celebrate the Norman community, Randolph said.

President Boren has invited high school bands to participate in the parade and children part of the OU Junior Spirit Squad will also be involved.

Goodhart said he wanted to be this year’s parade chair

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Brooke Buckmaster Life & Arts Reporter

Although a vintage clothing store and a punk-rock band event might sound like an odd pairing, but they do in fact complement each other, according to one downtown vintage clothing store.

Anty Shanty, 318 E. Main St., will host a costumethemed punk-rock concert at 8 p.m. Saturday in the warehouse attached to the store.

The night will feature Norman-base group Phat Minotaur and the Illuminati, with opening performances from The Needles and N.E.B.U.L.A. The three Norman locals making up Phat Minotaur and the Illuminati say they are looking forward to their second show at the vintage store — and with a name like Phat Minotaur and the Illuminati, it is evident that the audience will be in for an experience unlike any other said Taylor Young, the bassist for Phat Minotaur and the Illuminati.

The members of Phat Minotaur and the Illuminati describe their sound at its core as punk.

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because he has been a part of the homecoming celebration every year since he was a freshman. “I wanted to do something that was challenging but attainable,� Goodhart said.

Even though Goodhart thought it was challenging to get every group participating in the parade on the same page, he said he knew it was worthwhile. “I just like the whole planning it from start to finish and seeing it all work out in the end,� Goodhart said.

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But why a vintage shop? “If anything, people might not get the connection between vintage clothes and music ‌ and there’s not [one],â€? Anty Shanty owner Corey Gingerich said.

However, connection or no connection, Anty Shanty is a place where young artists enjoy playing, and fans enjoy the change of scenery. “I think more bands should play [at the store],�

Young said. “It’s a good way to get your name out there, and it’s really laid back and a lot of fun.�

At the store’s opening in November 2010, Gingerich had all intentions of hosting concerts in the back of his store but not for the sole reason of garnering attention from the public. “I [have a passion] for supporting the Norman youth scene,� Gingerich said. “I want to create a space that has to same vibe as a real venue without the same hang-ups.�

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