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FLAVORED CIGARETTE BAN AFFECTS LOCAL STORE Flavors seen as appealing to younger smokers KATHLEEN EVANS Daily Staff Writer

One Norman tobacco store has a variety of flavored cigarettes that it is unable to sell and must return to the manufacturer after a government ban on flavored cigarettes went into effect in late September.

In hopes that it would prevent youths from smoking, the government banned the sale of flavored cigarettes Sept. 22.

They are seen as gateway drugs that lead younger smokers to become regular smokers as adults, according to the Food and Drug Administration. About 90 percent of adult smokers start smoking when

they are teenagers.

At Plantations, a tobacco store in Norman, employee Dillon Summers said youths were not even the target audience for flavored cigarettes.

“I don’t see how it’s a big deal with younger people,” Summers said. “The flavored cigarettes we sold were more expensive than regular. Younger kids usually went for the cheaper stuff. It was more your older college crowd.”

Plantations will now have to send their 10 different varieties of flavored cigarettes back to the manufacturer to be reimbursed, Summers said. The most popular of these was the clove and cherry-flavored Dream cigarettes.

The bill is not clear on what will change and only bans flavored cigarettes, not all flavored tobacco products, like hookah,

menthols or cigars.

“I don’t really know the details of the new law,” said Michael Hackney, aerospace engineering sophomore and clove cigarette smoker. “I will probably just switch to menthols to get my flavor fix.

Tobacco is just not my favorite flavor.”

Hackney said that menthols would probably entice a younger crowd more than other flavors because they do not cost as much.

Menthols are a smaller, mint-flavored variety of cigarette; the FDA is currently looking into regulating menthol and other tobacco products, according to a press release about the ban.

Non-smokers were pleased with the idea of the bill but unsure of whether it will BAN CONTINUES ON PAGE 2

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Stoops devotes time to cancer patients, awareness ‘Be the change you wish to see in the world’ Students take time to help local charities NATASHA GOODELL Daily Staff Writer

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TJ Hutchings, human resource management senior, was diagnosed with childhood cancer at 17, and developed a friendship with OU head football coach Bob Stoops while staying at the Oklahoma Children’s Hospital.

Student survives disease, makes friendships with others CAITLIN HARRISON Daily Staff Writer

When TJ Hutchings first met head football coach Bob Stoops five years ago, it didn’t involve any connection to sports, football or even OU. Hutchings was a cancer patient in the hospital.

Hutchings, human resource management senior, was diagnosed with

a rare form of childhood cancer at 17, during his senior year in high school.

He spent many days and nights in the Oklahoma Children’s Hospital, where he met Stoops, who regularly volunteers with the Oklahoma Children’s Cancer Association, a nonprofit organization that provides support for children with cancer and their families. He said they have kept in touch ever since.

“TJ is a special young man and a good friend, and I have valued the time we have spent together,” Stoops stated in an e-mail. “He is like many others I see in that he is courageous and

amazingly positive. My visits to people like TJ are among the most encouraging things that I do. I owe him, and so many others, a lot of credit for keeping me grounded and inspired.”

During his year-and-a-half battle with cancer, Hutchings endured numerous weeks of chemotherapy and radiation, as well as several surgeries.

He said the most difficult part was missing out on the last semester of his high school senior year but that he never stopped fighting to live.

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Native American issues addressed at forum

Iranian Student Association celebrates culture, history

Leader speaks about necessary changes to studies program

Organization seeks to educate others

LARA SAAVEDRA Daily Staff Writer

Native American studies programs should partner with native communities to develop models that improve education, health, government and leadership among tribes at an American Indian Studies symposium on campus, said a former leader of the Cherokee Nation Friday.

Former Principal Chief of Cherokee Nation Wilma Mankiller spoke at a forum hosted by the Native American Studies program at the National Weather Center. The forum was designed to address the need for Native American studies curriculum at colleges

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and universities and to reflect the issues present in tribal communities.

“We need to chart a new course for the future,” she said. “Things have changed, so we need to change.”

Ma n k i l l e r s a i d s h e helped develop one of the first Native American studies programs in the U.S. in 1968 at San Francisco State University.

Today, more than 100 Native American studies departments exist in the U.S. and Canada.

Mankiller said Native American studies should be seen as an integral part of a university and not marginalized on campus.

The issues of native people are dramatically different than they were four decades ago, Mankiller said, FORUM CONTINUES ON PAGE 2

More than 120 students volunteered in the community Saturday as part of the second annual “Be the Change” event that promotes service and honors Mahatma Gandhi.

“We are honoring the history of Gandhi’s life,” said Sheetal Patel, psychology senior and service chair of Delta Phi Omega. “We’re trying to show how one person impacted almost a million people.”

The event was hosted by Delta Phi Omega, Delta Epsilon Psi and Beta Chi Theta, and participants were primarily South Asian American students.

Patel said the event is a miniature version of “Big Event,” but focuses on honoring Gandhi’s life.

“It gives young generations a way to give back to the community, and it feels great,” Patel said.

Turnout for the event was higher than expected.

“This was better than last year,” said Sharup Karim, French and microbiology senior. “We doubled the volunteers that we had last year.”

Nusaybah Khan, biochemistry pre-medical senior and president of Delta Phi Omega, said she is happy that people were willing to get up on a Saturday to come help with the event.

“It’s a great cause, and we’re going to great places [in Norman] to go help,” Khan said. “We’re trying to give back to them as much as they have given to us.”

Some students helped Habitat for Humanity, one of the nine service sites chosen for this event, as they sorted through piles of donated items.

“It’s a good thing to help people out because there are always people in need,” said Chris Tran, business and accounting sophomore and member of Tau Kappa Omega.

Gandhi said “Be the change you wish to see in the world,” and Khan said all of the volunteers Saturday were attempting to do that.

“We were made known of ‘Be the Change’ and we wanted to do out part and help the community,” said Matt Klein, accounting and finance senior and member of Phi Sigma Pi.

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In an effort to raise awareness about Iranian culture, members of the Iranian Student Association have recently hosted movie nights and other outreach events on campus.

“We’re an organization whose goal is to teach Iranian culture to the campus,” said Sahar Noor, international and area studies junior and president of the association.

The association held an event Friday night celebrating the 802nd birthday of the poet Rumi, a 13th-century Persian mystic poet.

Members, as well as Dann May, adjunct professor of religion and director for ethics and leadership at Oklahoma

City University, met at a local hookah bar to reflect on Rumi’s poems.

May gave a short presentation of Rumi’s background and the numerous volumes of his poems. Many in attendance then read poems in Farsi, with May translating them into English.

“I was very impressed by these English translations,” said Maryam Nafari, computer science graduate student. “The translations are very similar to the actual meaning of the poems.

It was interesting to see how so many Americans actually know about Rumi.”

Nafari, fluent in Farsi, came to OU at the beginning of this semester from Iran.

“All and all, it was a great night. The hookah bar provided a great atmosphere for events like this,” graduate CULTURE CONTINUES ON PAGE 2

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Erin Garifalos, environmental engineering senior; My Chuong, microbiology senior; and Amber Simpson, accounting senior, volunteer their time Saturday morning at the Cleveland County Habitat for Humanity. Students gave up their time as part of “Be the Change,” a service event honoring Gandhi.

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Continued from page 1 “There’d actually be days that I’d say I didn’t even want to live anymore because it was so bad,” Hutchings said. “I look at it now, and I’m like, why would I even think that? More than anything, I had a really good attitude about it all. I was always just joking around and playing.”

Hutchings said encouragement from people like Stoops helped him through his battle. Stoops regularly visited him in the hospital and called him to see how the treatment was going if he could not make a visit.

Stoops has been involved with promoting childhood cancer awareness for several years and wears a gold ribbon pin on his visor to represent and support the cause.

He received the pin a few years ago from Cody Brown, an 8-year-old who passed away from cancer, said Kay Tangner, who has volunteered for the association with both Stoops and Hutchings.

Tangner met Hutchings when he was a patient in the hospital.

Forum Continued from page 1 but there’s still great disparity between the Native American studies programs today.

Mankiller is influential in the lives of women all over the world, said Waleila Carey, Native American studies graduate student.

“One day I met a woman who changed my way of thinking, and her name was Wilma Mankiller,” Carey said. “She’s a leader not only for Cherokee women, but for all women.”

In 1998, President Clinton awarded Mankiller the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

One thing yet to be established in academia that would greatly benefit the growth of Native American studies is an endowment, Mankiller said.

“No Native American studies department that I’m aware

“I walked out of his room many a time thinking I was saying goodbye to him, that he wasn’t going to make it,” Tangner said.

“He had a positive attitude. He was the one going room to room, being the encourager.

And that’s what he’s still doing today.”

Tangner said she and Stoops became close friends while volunteering together and admires his work and dedication to the children.

“He’s their friend. It’s not a football visit.

It’s a friend visit,” Tangner said. “He knows them by name. He told Cody Brown he would wear the pin for him, and that’s what he could promote.”

Hutchings, who is president of Beta Theta Pi, said his fraternity is currently selling replicas of the pin to raise money for childhood cancer awareness and prevention.

“I hope the sale of the pin will help in the fight against cancer,” Stoops said. “It’s a devastating disease for everyone and is particularly difficult for children and their families. Every little bit that each of us can do helps in the search for a cure and in making life a little better for those who are fighting the disease.”

of has been endowed,” she said. “What could better ensure the long term viability of a Native American studies program than by a commitment by the university to help build an endowment specifically for Native American studies?”

In order to preserve language and culture, communities need to utilize 21st-century technologies, Mankiller said.

“When elders die, they take with them thousands of years of knowledge and stories and ceremonies,” she said. “We have to work together to help preserve our culture, our history,” Mankiller said she is optimistic about the future of native people all over the world.

“How could I not be optimistic?” she said, noting her people’s history with foreigners.

“We can face any challenge our creator sends our way in the future. We can do it ourselves. We have our own vision. We don’t need the American dream. We have our own dream.”

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Hutchings said he began volunteering with the Oklahoma Children’s Cancer Association after he was released from the hospital several years ago.

“I’ve always been passionate about doing that because I remember people that would come back and just sit down and talk with me and give me that little bit of hope that dark days would get better, not everyone dies,” Hutchings said.

Hutchings said he has helped provide encouragement and support for the sick children and their families, but, unfortunately, he has seen many of them pass away.

“As time has gone on, these kids pass away that you develop a good friendship with, and it’s tough for me,” Hutchings said.

Hutchings said his experience with cancer has given him a more positive outlook on life, and he hopes he is conveying that to others.

“I like to live like the saying, ‘live like it’s your last day.’ I decided to literally take that to heart,” Hutchings said. “It just takes a little bit of effort to do something good. It’s pretty easy to do.”

Ban Continued from page 1 truly be effective in stopping youths from smoking.

Alicia Jones, finance and marketing senior, said the bill would probably not be a strong deterrent for youths in the end.

“I don’t know if it will decrease the number of youth smoking, but it will probably

Culture Continued from page 1 student Marjan Seirafi-Pour said.

The association officially came together in 2007 but is not a political organization, Noor said.

“ISA is made up of people celebrating Iranian culture,” she said. “We’ve hosted cultural night, where there’s

prevent an increase,” Jones said.

The measure is part of the Family Smoking Prevention and Control Act, which gives the government more control over regulating the tobacco industry, according to the FDA press release. President Barack Obama signed the bill into effect back in June.

“It sucks,” Summers said. “It didn’t seem like an important thing to do at the moment.” traditional music and dancing, with a short presentation on Iran, followed by dinner.”

Last year’s cultural night was the celebration of the Iranian New Year, which takes place on March 22 each year.

It offers traditional dancing, clothes and food. The association also hosts a booth during November’s International Bazaar with other organizations on campus.

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Kings of Leon rocking out on stage. The band played at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City Saturday.

The Daily’s Joshua Boydston shares his thoughts on the rock band’s concert.

From the opening distorted strut of “Crawl” to the closing roar of “Black Thumbnail,” Kings of Leon proved to be a new addition to the dying breed of great American rock bands. Not only do its Southern tinged rock anthems and heartfelt power ballads appeal to nearly everyone’s ears, but it has finally found the massive following it has been dying to find.

JOSHUA The band has made its BOYDSTON frustrations of breaking through to the American mainstream known. The Followill boys of KOL have been superstars across the globe, most notably England, since the release of “Aha Shake Heartbreak,” but have struggled to find a steady foothold with audiences stateside.

Then a year ago, Kings of Leon released “Only By The Night” along with the radio dominating rock anthem, “Sex On Fire.” Since its release, the album has hovered around the top 10 albums charts almost weekly, still holding strong even today.

It also gave birth to the arguably even bigger single, “Use Somebody,” and with the newly added audience, it was finally time for Kings of Leon to step up from smaller venues to the Ford Center.

Many fans (myself included to an extent) were somewhat disappointed with the newer album. There is definitely a drastic difference from the youthful swing and garage spirit of the first couple of albums in comparison to the polish of newest.

So as you can imagine I was pretty thoroughly let down by some of the reactions I got from the crowd, and the heavy handedness

of “Only By The Night.”

The band itself did a pretty good job of spreading the love between all the albums, though tracks from “Youth & Young Manhood” beyond “Molly’s Chamber’s” were absent.

The frustration came from the near indifference to standout tracks like “King of the Rodeo” and “Four Kicks.” The chilling crunch and holler of “Charmer” got half the applause of the rather flat “Revelry,” though “Charmer” was probably one of the most remarkable (and nasty) moments of the whole evening.

I even heard quite a few members of the crowd mumble and complain when they strayed away from “Only By The Night” for more than one or two songs, to which I can only hope that new fans take time to explore KOL’s back catalog and discover the genius of the past albums.

The Followill boys were on point as always though. They really know how to put on a show, and their songs translate to a live setting brilliantly. The blasting hook of “Four Kicks,” the gorgeous saunter of “Knocked Up” shimmering under Caleb’s raspy howls and the crash of “King of the Rodeo” were all moments of perfection that left no doubt about how great they are.

The best moment came during the big, dumb, but undeniably catchy soar of “Sex On Fire.” Not only were new and old fans probably most in tune with each other as they shouted along together, but Caleb gradually gave way to the biggest, almost heart melting, smile I’ve ever seen.

As the band played its unofficial homecoming show during its very first stadium tour of the United States, it seemed like in one moment, all those years of hard work had finally been validated. It was hard to be let down with anything at that point.

Joshua Boydston is a psychology sophomore.

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Artists and members of the Norman community enjoyed local creativity Saturday morning at one of Norman’s recurring Downtown Arts Markets.

Saturday’s market included numerous booths run by local artists and craftsmen who displayed everything from locally made sterling silver jewelry to homemade picture frames.

At the market, there was live music and a small petting zoo. Brittany Housley of the Little River Zoo oversaw the animals at the market.

She said the animals they choose to bring to each market vary with changes in climate and the feeding habits of the animals.

This week, the petting zoo featured a porcupine, a Red Tailed Boa and a Nile Monitor lizard.

“We try to bring whatever the kids like the most,” Housley said.

George James, a local artist who designs and crafts his own sterling silver jewelry, said he shows his jewelry

at every Downtown Arts Market. His pieces range from turquoise embedded rings to peace sign earrings.

James said his business does OK at the recurring markets. He said some days business is really busy and the next it is slow.

“The person who wants to buy something could be the next one coming,” James said.

The markets seem to have something for everyone.

Laura Flinton, business senior, experienced her first Downtown Arts Market last week and said she would suggest that more students attend the market.

“I’ve never been to one in Oklahoma and wanted to see what it was like,” Flinton said. “It’s entertaining and it was a nice afternoon in downtown Norman.”

The Downtown Arts Market will take place on three more Saturdays this fall and is always from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. along Legacy Trail on Jones Avenue between Main Street and Eufaula Street in downtown Norman.

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Tobacco law unfairly discriminates based on cigarette flavor President Barack Obama signed a bill in June that stops the sale of flavored cigarettes. The Food and Drug Administration began enforcing the law last month (see page 1 for details).

We fully support the law’s stated purpose of discouraging young people from smoking, but we think it is unnecessary because it unfairly prohibits adults from smoking a legal substance simply because it’s flavored.

Imagine if the government passed a law banning the consumption of beer, but people were still allowed to consume other kinds of alcohol, like vodka or rum. We imagine if this were the case, many people would be up in arms because, although they would still be allowed to drink, they would not be allowed to drink the kind of alcohol they wanted.

That’s essentially what this law does for tobacco smokers. And for what? Yes, it’s supposed to deter kids from starting to smoke, but we question whether this will be effective.

Regardless of whether it will be or not, however, the ban could definitely make current flavored cigarette smokers switch to an alternative type of cigarette to get their tobacco fix.

Maybe the law will encourage some current, of-age smokers to break the habit. But if that was supposed to be the goal of the law, why not make smoking any form of tobacco illegal? We doubt this will ever happen due to the strength of the tobacco lobby in Washington D.C. and the reliance of some states’ economies on the crop.

So until smoking is made completely illegal, it’s not fair to limit what kind of tobacco those who are 18 or older can smoke simply based on flavor.

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OU football lost again, this time to Miami, Saturday.

Two Supreme Court justices will visit OU this semester.

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Fall marks the return of delicious seasonal favorites like pumpkin spiced lattes.

Central Oklahoma has attracted big-name acts recently, such as Kings of Leon and U2.

Stupid reality shows dominate the fall TV lineups of several channels.

Newspaper thieves stole several copies of The Daily Wednesday.

Education system would improve if teachers’ salaries were higher I loved the fact that in high school, once that 2:20 p.m. bell rang, education was banned from entering my thoughts for the rest of the day. I loved that I was able to play sports, hang out with friends and still have plenty of time to relax with my family.

Still, I wish I had learned something in physics, rather than watch silly videos and fill out worksheets every day. All I remember from my history class is watching the musical “Oklahoma!” I think my government teacher spent as much time grip- TJ ing about how athletic coaches are bad MOEN instructors as she did actually teaching.

And I have no idea what the state capitol of Vermont is.

I will admit I have had some great teachers, and I couldn’t be happier with the university I am attending as a result of my mediocre, small town, public school, K-12 experience.

I feel bad though when I hear that a good friend has dropped out of college because he or she just wasn’t prepared. I get frustrated when I am grouped with a student who doesn’t know elementary English.

Probably every person reading this column has had a moment in a class when they couldn’t help but think, “How did you even make it to college?”

President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan recently began pushing their model of educational reform, but strangely enough, education hasn’t been a hot topic in our school newspaper.

Whereas 21-year-olds suddenly stop complaining about the legal drinking age, I hope we have not stopped caring about our K-12 education system merely because it doesn’t directly affect us as much anymore.

Education reform provides the groundwork for a debate in which every college student can form an argument from personal experience. Contrast that with health care; it seems many students declare their position by mimicking their favorite politician or news figure.

So, take a look at the issues surrounding our education system, and use your own experience, good or bad, to form your opinion. I’ll share mine.

One of the most publicized proposals of Arne Duncan’s plan is to lengthen the school day and shorten summer vacation.

Depending on the specifics and the severity of the changes, more time at school would be, at best, a non-factor ego boost for our educational system.

Sure, we could boast that we have longer school days than our Asian counterparts. But does spending more time with unmotivated, uninspiring teachers really help young students?

I suppose children living in hostile environments

could benefit from being at school for longer, but everybody knows a good education starts at home anyway. So unless the government is going to completely take away the parenting responsibilities from every “bad” parent, any proposed education reform should focus first on getting more value out of the time already invested in school.

How? We need to get rid of the grumpy teacher who hates his or her job but loves the pay raises that come on the basis of tenure rather than performance. We need to ensure accountability on behalf of the coach who teaches on the side.

Merit-based pay raises, the ability to fire bad teachers and school vouchers are all viable steps toward increasing the quality of our education. To attract the right people in the first place, though, is the most important challenge.

Thus, I don’t see why teachers aren’t making six-figure salaries.

I mean, I understand economically why they aren’t, but don’t you agree that teachers are worth more than the current Oklahoma average salary of under $45,000?

(Please don’t pretend a low salary proves that every teacher today is doing his or her job out of pure altruism.)

Imagine what it would be like if teachers were paid at a level corresponding to their value to society, if they were viewed as highly as doctors.

Without a doubt, the OU College of Education would see an enormous increase in enrollment.

When hearing that a highly motivated, highachieving student is an education major, we would no longer think, “Wow. You could be doing a lot more.” We wouldn’t need programs like Teach for America to create prestige.

The increased competition for teaching jobs would deter the unqualified and uncaring from moving into education after their first plan fails. It would convince the brightest students to consider one of the most influential careers possible.

The fact is there are simply not enough high quality instructors in America; a significant pay raise would be a huge step toward putting great leaders in our classrooms.

So, I spent the first half of this column complaining about bad teachers, and the second half saying we should pay them more.

Well maybe if I had a better education, I could come up with an original idea that made more sense.

TJ Moen is an industrial engineering junior.

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Columnist calls attention to sexual violence in Congo The woman on the screen does not cry.

Her eyes are empty, not quite looking into the camera, as she tells her story. She was raped. She is not the only one.

The woman of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are being targeted by a “systematic military strategy” of mass sexual violence. They are raped by 10 or 12 soldiers at a time.

MARY In front of their families, STANFIELD husbands and children.

Sometimes with rifles and sticks.

Old, young, pregnant or ill, any woman is in danger. Some are teens, too young to have been married yet. Some are children, even infants.

Some will die from their injuries. Many will develop fistula, a hole in the lining of the vaginal wall that causes incontinence and pain.

The lucky ones will end up at Panzi hospital, the only hospital in the country which can perform the surgery to repair fistula.

Many will suffer from sexually transmitted diseases. Health care officials worry that the next few years will bring an explosion of HIV to the Congo. Many are pregnant with the child of their rapist. All of them will have to live with the memories of their brutal rape for the rest of their lives.

Last March, as part of a week-long rape and violence awareness campaign, a

documentary the violence did WAYS YOU CAN HELP covering the vionot stop. Rebel lence against groups backed by Go to www.vday.org/drcongo to get more information women in the foreign countries about this conflict and the crimes against women in the Congo was shown are still fighting Congo. On that site you will find ways to get involved, to students who in the country’s such as writing to the Congo president Joseph Kabila attended “A Night eastern half. The Kabange urging him to end the violence against women for the Women of chaos of the conand bring rapists to justice. the Congo.” tinuing conflict Since then, athas allowed those Sponsor a Congolese woman (www.womenforwomen. tention for this foreign counorg). issue has been tries to pilfer the growing rapidly abundant natural Run for a Congolese woman (www.runforcongowomen. in the U.S. and resources of the org). abroad, culmiarea. nating in a unaniRape is used as Buy a bag handmade by rape survivors (www.storemously approved an official strategy cday.org).

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T h i s re s o l u ity to tear apart tion creates a communities special envoy to and dehumanize coordinate the fight against the use of rape individuals. as a weapon and focuses efforts on advising The UN has estimated that over 200,000 governments on the best way to prosecute woman have been raped in the area in the offenders. last decade.

While these measures certainly begin the But it is impossible to accurately estimate journey toward progress, the international the number of women raped during this community has much farther to go to truly conflict because most of these crimes go combat this problem. unreported. Men convicted of rape can easWhen the conflict known as “Africa’s First ily pay their way out of jail and potentially World War” officially ended in the Congo, come back to further harm the woman who

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accused them.

This lack of accountability is the primary challenge facing efforts to stop this phenomenon. Congolese culture not only supports an apathetic attitude toward rape, but also places the blame on the victimized woman.

It is considered infidelity, as if she wanted it to happen.

Many rape victims are abandoned by their husbands and left with few means of survival.

To save their own and their children’s lives, women hide the fact that they were raped and cannot receive the medical and psychological help they need.

Organizations such as Panzi hospital are attempting to bring help to these women, but it is an uphill struggle. They are underfunded and threatened, attempting to change the gender roles on which Congolese culture is based.

There must be accountability for these crimes, real punishment. There must be sympathy for the victims. There must be attention from the Congolese government. These things will not happen if the global community does not continue to act, decisively and continuously.

Political pressure on the government of the Congo is the only way to stop this femicide, and while the UN resolution lays the groundwork for this pressure, it will be nothing but an empty gesture if not followed by action.

Mary Stanfield is a philosophy sophomore.

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«VOLLEYBALL Volleyball takes care of business at home over Texas Tech. OUDAILY.COM

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OU football suffers another loss to injury JONO GRECO Daily Staff Writer

Broyles has been the Sooners’ most successful receiver this season. He has 23 receptions for 346 yards and seven touchdowns, which is tied for the most touchdown receptions in the nation.

Prior to Saturday’s loss, he had at least one touchdown reception in each of OU’s first three games.

Whichever quarterback – either Heisman-winning junior Sam Bradford or freshman Landry Jones – starts this Saturday against Baylor will have to find a new favorite

The Sooners lost more than just a game Saturday night to the No. 11 Miami Hurricanes– they lost their national championship hopes and their most reliable wide receiver for four-to-six weeks.

Sophomore wide receiver Ryan Broyles left the game with a fractured left shoulder, and came out of halftime in his street clothes and with his left arm in a sling.

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The Sooners’ leading receiver behind Broyles is junior wide receiver Brandon Caleb. Caleb has caught 14 passes for 201 yards and has two touchdowns.

Caleb had mixed performances in the first two games of the season before having a coming out party against the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. Against Tulsa, he had five yards for 104 yards and two touchdowns.

After Caleb one wide receiver

and three running backs round out OU’s top five receivers. Wide receiver junior Cameron Kenney and running backs junior DeMarco Murray and senior Chris Brown have combined for 22 catches for 266 yards and two touchdowns.

Outside of those five receivers, Sooners quarterbacks have received little help from neither the rest of the receiving corps nor the tight end corps.

With senior tight end Jermaine Gresham out for the season with

a knee injury, OU’s offense cannot rely on a part of its game that helped make the Sooners the most prolific offensive during the 2008 season.

Through four games this season the tight ends have combined for five catches and 43 yards.

Broyles’ injury adds to the laundry list of problems the Sooners have had to address this season, and unless they can find a suitable option for either Bradford or Jones, the offense may be in some serious trouble.

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