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When OU’s dry-campus alcohol policy was enacted in spring 2005, an alcohol checks system to hold all student campus residents accountable was also implemented by the university.

These unannounced alcohol checks consist of non-student workers checking the public areas of fraternity houses for any signs of alcohol use — strictly forbidden in any greek house or residence hall, as well as the surrounding area, according to the university’s dry campus policy.

“The general procedure is unannounced checks — a check of the public areas

Jayce McWilliams, an infant without disabilities who participated in the study, shows how to crawl on the device developed by researchers at the OU Health Sciences Center and marketed by OU student interns. The inventors initially designed the device for babies with cerebral palsy, which affects brain development as well as motor skills as they grow.

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students are helping market the device around the country.

The device, called a self-initiated prone progressive crawler, resembles a high-tech skateboard with sensors to gather data about an infant’s motion when he or she uses the device.

The crawler was initially designed and geared toward babies with cerebral palsy, a disease in which the brain is injured or abnormal during development, see DEVICE paGe 2

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An OU alumna is screening her first feature film on campus Friday.

Rachel Tucker’s film, “Time Expired ,” tells the story of Randall Zimmerman, a terminally ill parking enforcement office, who wants nothing more than to live out his final days in peace, but his friends have other ideas.

The film was Tucker’s thesis script and combines experiences at OU and interactions with a parking enforcement officer she said she met while hosting karaoke.

“He was a parking enforcement officer on campus, and he whistled his songs instead of singing,” she said. “I don’t know much about him at all, but I imagined what he might be like and took it from there.”

After starring in a play about a professor with cancer, she decided to take on the

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terminal-illness genre, she said.

“Instead of wanting to do things before he dies, Randall loves his life the way it is and doesn’t want to change anything. Everyone else changes instead,” Tucker said.

And in Tucker’s film, OU plays a starring role.

“We even filmed a good deal of the movie on campus. We also used The Earth and various other locations in Norman and Oklahoma City,” Tucker said.

The film won the Silver pHoto provided Remi award at the 44th Annual Worldfest-Houston in director Nick Lawrence talks to actors Stephen Goodman and Branden Smith while sound mixer Michael April of this year for best com- Clardy attaches wireless mics to the actors while filming “Time Expired” in the North Oval. The film, written

by OU Alumna Rachel Tucker, was filmed on campus and at several Norman locations. edy feature.

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The current policy unfairly targets greek houses. (page 4)

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An Occupy OKC protester who identified himself as Archangel (left) and hairstylist and Occupy OKC protester Shyloh Cooper show support for the nationwide movement Wednesday on the South Oval.

Students are going on a binge this month, but no liquor required — just a computer and creativity.

November is National Novel Writing Month and to honor the monthlong event, the website www. nanowrimo.org is hosting an annual challenge to any individual willing to go on a one-month writing spree.

The rules for the challenge are simple: Write a novel or 50,000 words in one month, and content doesn’t matter.

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cAMpUs brief Sooners have until Nov. 18 to donate food for the statewide initiative Feeding Oklahoma.

Vo l u n t e e r s a n d O U Housing and Food will be in the Oklahoma Memorial Union, Cate Center and Couch Restaurant selling canned goods for students to buy and donate.

“Students are obviously not walking around with canned food in their backpack,” said Aaron Lindley, OU Housing and Food staff member. “So they can buy the cans here to give them right away.”

The cans of corn, green beans, pasta or peanut butter will then fill the shelves of the Oklahoma Regional Food bank. There have been

AT A GLANCE how to donate Students can donate food before 2 p.m. and pay with cash, Sooner Sense or meal plan points.

food drives in the past, but this is the first campuswide effort campuswide, Housing and Food General Manager Dorothy Flowers said.

This year, on a governor initiative, OU and OSU will compete to see who will be able to collect the most food.

The winner will be judged by the total weight of food collected.

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Device: Inventors hope to expand nationally Continued from page 1

Today around campus A symposium will take place for women wanting to become more active in charitable organizations from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom.

Wrestling will compete against Oklahoma City University at 7 p.m. in McCasland Field House.

Softball’s National Pro-Pitch Fastball All-star game will begin at 7 p.m. at McCasland Field House.

A seminar on money management will take place at 5 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245. The seminar is part of the Student Success Series.

A performance by the OU School of Dance entitled “Once Upon A Dream 18” will take place at 6:15 p.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.

Corrections The Oklahoma Daily has a commitment to serve readers with accurate coverage and analysis.

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

Wednesday’s page 1 story about the education forum incorrectly reported an activity at the event. The film “The Cartel” was not screened.

Wednesday’s page 1 story contained two errors The Women and Gender Studies will be renamed in the UOSA Constitution or Student Congress Bylaws. The resolution with the ballot questions will not need to be reintroduced.

affecting motor skills.

“It is not only an intervention device that simultaneously generates performance outcomes, but it also can be used to gather comprehensive information about how infants, both with and without cerebral palsy, learn a movement-related task like crawling,” Thubi Kolobe, lead researcher and physical therapy professor, said in a statement.

Babies with cerebral palsy are usually not able to crawl, which can cause parts of the brain to die because they are not used, Kolobe said. The crawler lets these babies use those parts of the brain and make connections to others.

“Our goal is not for them to walk but to be more functional and autonomous,” Kolobe said.

The device is being developed by OU Health Sciences Center physical therapists and engineers, as well as partners at Virginia Commonwealth University. The National Institutes of Health helped fund 85 percent of the project, according to a press release.

‘How we can help’ Now, OU student interns for the OU Center for Creation of Economic Wealth are helping Kolobe broaden her idea and allow for national use.

Every semester the center finds projects related to biotechnology, software and social entrepreneurship to create wealth in Oklahoma.

It both helps the inventors further develop the technologies and teaches students how to work on real-world problems.

“Every year when looking for projects for a semester, we go to the office of technology and development and just see what they’ve received,” Programs Director Valerie Myers said. “That was one of them and it looked very promising. The technology manager had nothing but great things to say about

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Lead researcher Thubi Kolobe (left) of the OU College of Allied Health describes the crawler device designed for babies with disabilities. Also shown is Josh Southerland, engineering graduate student.

the inventor … and anyone would jump at the chance to help children.”

Microbiology senior Jay Kumar is the team leader of the five students working on the project, a group with majors ranging from biochemistry to aviation. This team has helped broaden the device’s applications to a host of other developmental diseases.

“One of the many things we do is help with that process — collect opinions, surveys, interviews with physical therapists around the country to figure out exactly how we can best help physical therapists, help developmentally delayed children and see what types of children we can help,” Kumar said.

So far, the team has contacted physical therapist organizations in all 50 states

WHAT’S NEXT Apply to join the team CCEW is accepting internship applications for the spring 2012 semester.

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and has had extensive conversations with about two dozen of them, she said. Another half dozen or so are still in the works.

Challenges The project comes with its fair share of challenges, notably that states have different organizations for physical therapists and sometimes ambiguous data on how many are in the state, but the benefit of getting to

recommendation, transcript and essay on ccew.ou.edu.

Applications are due by noon Friday.

do hands-on work to solve problems with experts in the field makes it worth it, Kumar said.

The team’s work has helped speed up the commercialization of the crawler and is helping it become closer to an item on physical therapy store shelves, Myers said.

The team will give a final public presentation Dec. 6 to summarize its accomplishments and make recommendations for further work.

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Novel: Challenge finishes by end of November Continued from page 1 to write for one month and turn out a completely original novel.

Winfred Blevins, professor of professional writing, said this sort of writing is great for the first-time novelist.

“I think it’s great to seize or be seized by some passion and ride that horse as hard and as fast as you can till it or you drops,” he said.

Blevins also said that in the world of novel writing, there are two distinct types of authors. The first group is composed of those who regularly write a thousand words a day for however long it take it to reach their goal. The second group is made up of binge writers, those who sit down for two or three weeks at a time and write and write until their story is done, which is the method required to churn out a novel in one months time.

For students on campus, churning out a novel of any length during any time period seems like a daunting task, even more so if the time required in just one month — that’s more than 1,666 words a day.

It may seem intimidating, but many from an organization known as Nerdfighters are giving it a try.

Angela Wilkerson, University College freshman, is attempting the monthlong

OU to return home after loss With over three minutes left in regulation, OU was hanging with top-seeded Oklahoma State during first round action of the 2011 Big 12 tournament on Wednesday.

Alcohol: Checks take place on weekends Continued from page 1

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Angela Wilkerson, University College freshman, proofreads what she has written for the day on her novel in her room Wednesday in Adams Center. Her novel is one of many that will be a part of National Novel Writing Month, which requires all submissions to be at least 50,000 words to be entered.

endeavor for the fourth time.

In her first year, she didn’t do very well, and since then has yet to reach the 50,000-word mark, but she thinks this could be the year she finally completes the challenge.

Wilkerson plans to major in professional writing and continue later on to write novels for young adults, so she sees the challenge as a major step in that process.

Another University College freshman, Whitney Thompson, is giving the

novel-writing website a try.

This is, however, her first year to attempt the challenge.

Thompson said she is undertaking the endeavor primarily because she loves reading and writing, but also because she said she can’t just write off the cuff.

She said she wants to use this challenge as a means to becoming a better speed writer.

Both freshman writers are approaching their novels in different ways — Thompson

has been planning her novel for weeks, with plot outlines and notes for the story all saved to her computer.

Wilkerson is taking her story more by feel, without doing any planning whatsoever.

The challenge concludes at 11:59 p.m. Nov. 30. The participants who succeed in meeting the challenge will be entered into the records of NaNoWriMo superstardom forever and all walk away novelists, according to the website.

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Deadlocked at 0-0 going into the 87th minute of the game, the match looked like a repeat of last year’s Big 12 championship game that was decided by PKs between the two teams-at least until OSU’s Megan Marchesano connected with Taylor Matthews to put the Cowgirls up 1-0 with 2:54 left on the clock.

With under seven minutes left to go in regulation, OSU led with five shots, but OU goalkeeper Kelsey Devonshire equalized the 5-3 shot ratio w ith five saves.

The lone goal of the game came just after OU junior Caitlin Mooney was stripped of the ball and knocked down inside the

Cowgirl box to switch the momentum to the other side of the field.

Marchesano then pulled the OU defense to the far right of the box to give an open shot at the net.

OSU survives with their unbeaten streak intact while OU will return home.

Tobi Neidy, Sports Reporter

and verification that there aren’t any large parties or alcohol,” said Clarke Stroud, vice president for Student Affairs and dean of Students.

The checks are performed every week, but can only be conducted from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Thursday night through Sunday morning. Workers check an average of 10 of 14 greek fraternity houses during that span.

Though the checks are assigned by a weekly number drawing in order to be fair, workers also can perform random checks if deemed necessary.

The aim of the alcohol checks and strike policy is not to punish students for partaking in alcohol but to curb the danger“The checks ous parties that occurred prior have changed to the policy implementation, the culture of the Stroud said.

“Those parties made it diffihouses, so we cult for the houses to know who don’t see those was coming, who was going and who was drinking,” he said. “The large, dangerous checks have changed the culture parties anymore.” of the houses, so we don’t see those large, dangerous parties Clarke Stroud, vice president for anymore.”

Student Affairs and Fraternity houses are the only dean of Students greek houses subject to checks, Stroud said.

The local and national policies of the sorority houses has kept those houses free of alcohol before OU implemented the policy in 2005, he said.

“We have not had those kinds of issues in sorority houses at the University of Oklahoma,” Stroud said.

Once a checker discovers alcohol, which is used as evidence to discipline the student or organization, the checkers have no authority in assigning disciplinary action.

Both the individuals and organizations can receive a strike for alcohol violations, according to the OU Student Handbook. Whether either receives disciplinary action depends on the situation, Stroud said.

If the party is loud and has a large number of people, the organization will be charged, Stroud said. If it is quiet and they see a specific student with alcohol, they also may charge the student alone, he said.

For the first strike, an organization can be charged a fee of up to $500, and a chapter is required as a whole to complete an alcohol education program as well as 10 to 25 hours of community service.

The alcohol checks are only one component of a comprehensive alcohol policy. The university develop means for the students to drink responsibly if they choose to do so off campus.

SAFEride, which operates during the weekend, provides students a designated driver with no questions asked.

Stroud said SAFEride gave 22,300 riders a ride home.

The OU Board of Regents recently approved that all SAFEride rides and health care for symptoms caused by alcohol shall remain confidential, and using these resources would prompt no disciplinary action.

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“Run Sarah Connor! Skynet is Aware!!” (Nolan_ Kraszkiewicz, Re: Letter to the editor: Game has dangerous implications)

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Time to revise alcohol policy Our View: It’s time to rethink OU’s alcohol policy.

simply get rid of it.

Clearly, it’s no longer obvious that there is a pressThe Daily reports today that only fraternity houses ing need for OU to be a dry campus — and whether are targeted in the weekly alcohol sweeps — random there ever was one is up for debate. Can’t Sooners checks to ensure compliance with OU’s policy projust admit that this policy was a knee-jerk reaction to hibiting alcohol on campus. The alcohol policy efone unfortunate tragedy (the 2004 death of freshman fects all greek houses and residence halls, so why are Blake Hammontree) and give up the illusion of its the sweeps only focused on a small percenteffectiveness? age of these facilities?

It’s OU’s worst-kept secret that drinking is The Our View Clarke Stroud, vice president for Student is the majority still rampant in the greek houses. We’ve seen Affairs and dean of students, said these it with our own eyes, and greek students opinion of The Daily’s checks are designed to dampen the culture aren’t shy about admitting it. The only thing 10-member of “large, dangerous parties,” which might the current policy seems to have accomeditorial board plished is forcing greeks, and other students, explain why sororities are left out. Sororities have their own local and national policies to move their parties to unregulated and self-regulating alcohol. possibly dangerous off-campus locations.

But is that any reason to simply trust them, espeOf course, the university should maintain, even cially when we don’t offer the same trust to fraterstrengthen, its alcohol education requirements for nities? If the administration is really serious about incoming students and its programs like SAFEride. maintaining a dry campus, shouldn’t it check every These efforts are much more effective in ensuring greek house? alcohol-related accidents don’t happen in the fuExcept, of course, OU isn’t really an extremely dry ture, and they help students build and maintain safe campus. Alcohol flows freely at certain Oklahoma drinking habits for “real life.”

Memorial Union events, even those sponsored by But the gap between OU’s words and actions is rife student organizations, with regulations only to enwith hypocrisy here: Either it’s vital to students’ safety sure that minors don’t drink. that we ban drinking from campus, or it isn’t. Either And then there are the Saturdays when football we should have this policy and rigidly enforce it, or fans descend on campus, bringing coolers full of beer we should recognize that it’s ridiculous to limit the with them. After all, limiting alcohol on game days perfectly legal actions of adults. would not only make the experience less enjoyable OU should abandon its quasi-dry campus policy. for fans, it might discourage some of those donating Maybe then the administration could focus its realumni from feeling the Sooner spirit. sources on teaching students safer alcohol habThis lackadaisical enforcement and the frequent its instead of trying to regulate them into being exceptions show a significant lack of concern or sup- responsible. port for the alcohol policy at OU. And if no one can Comment on this at OUDaily.com be bothered to actually enforce it, then OU should

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Tests not the answer for schools

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t seems like people love to talk about how terrible I believe that education OPINION COLUMNIST things are in America. The economy stinks, unis vitally important to the employment is high and our public schools are in health of a country and its need of saving. Regarding the last gripe, public education, citizens, but are standardpeople often cite America’s performance on standardized ized tests even an adequate tests in comparison to other nations as an indicator of our measure of the educational failing system. And if standardized tests are what America experience an American should judge the quality of its education on, then we are child has from kindergarten failing. through 12th grade? What Janna Gentry Last year, results were released from a standardized about the social skills built janna.f.gentry-1@ou.edu test called the Programme for International Student through the various extraAssessment (PISA). On this test, American stucurricular acdents’ average performance ranged from 17 tivities an American child can participate in?

“We should below the top score in reading to 30 below the Are these experiences of no value to students? instead be top score in math.

Even if standardized tests are an adequate concerned with measure of the educational experience a child Countries who scored exceptionally well were Asian countries such as China, Singapore has, is a child’s ability to read and do math the their overall and South Korea. These high-performing only things we should be concerned with? happiness and countries are becoming known worldwide for I believe that instead of focusing on the pertheir strict approach to education, and their quality of life.” formance of America’s students on standardcultural emphasis on educational achievement ized tests, we should instead be concerned is reaping its benefits. with their overall happiness and quality of life. In our sociWhat annoys me about critics who point to the lack of ety, being educated is a part of being concerned with this achievement on standardized tests as an indicator of the happiness, but this type of education is not something you health of our country’s school system is that they are placcan measure with a standardized test. ing an incredible amount of emphasis on something that is important, but not necessarily the most important thing.

Janna Gentry is a English education senior.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Right wing still falls to inconsistency Re: “Liberalism vulnerable to inconsistency” “Please, consider your world view and do not settle for an inconsistency born of truth decay.” This is the message for which you use your rants of non sequiturs.

I find it ironic that you, as a Christian, are accusing others of inconsistencies. What makes you qualified to cast the first stone here?

I refer you to the “Reason Project,” which has artfully compiled a vast array of Biblical contradictions.

I do agree with you on the plight of special needs children. My mother was an aide in a special education program in Tulsa. I often visited her and volunteered in the

classroom, and those kids are amazing.

If you hold to Christian belief, you have to accept that your God inflicts children with unbearable circumstances on purpose. If there is a creator doing this, it is evil incarnate.

Your overview of the liberal mindset is Fox -News biased. The religious right overlooks the three major points of the abortion debate.

1. If all Christian denominations allowed birth control, such an invasive procedure would not be needed.

2. How do you define a person? Inception, heartbeat, brain activity? The scientific community has no consensus.

3. These generalizations concerning morality ignore the point of view of the person making the choice.

What about cases of rape or incest? When the mother’s life is at risk? When does the justification for depriving a self-sustained person their constitutional rights become outweighed by a collection of about 300 cells – the same amount that dies when you scratch your skin?

The world population just hit 7 billion over the weekend. The quality of life for the majority of these people is substandard. Why do we not worry about the ones that are already here?

We want to afford embryos all of these rights, but once

the baby is born, we want no rights to maintain it: no health care, no welfare and especially no handouts. This is definitely not in line with Jesus, but with the corrupted and selfish cult of Ayn Rand.

As Stephen Colbert rightly put it: “If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus is just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition. And then admit that we just don’t want to do it.”

Nolan Kraszkiewicz, religious studies and political science junior

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Society needs to focus on its attention span

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hursday marked OPINION COLUMNIST six months since an EF-4 tornado swept through Tuscaloosa, Ala., killing 49 and injuring 600.

Did you read about the milestone last week?

Did you see more than Kate McPherson a minute devoted to kmcpherson@ou.edu Tuscaloosa on the news?

I didn’t think so.

Our society tends to forget about disasters two weeks after they happen. We see pictures of the initial destruction, we talk about the lives lost, and we move on to Kim Kardashian’s wedding woes. We have a collectively short attention span for tragedy — unless, of course, it happens to us.

That’s a shame.

The Wesley, the United Methodist group at OU, took a mission trip to Tuscaloosa three weeks after the tornado. I was on that trip. My group saw the lots where houses used to stand. We picked up rotting, maggot-filled meat from abandoned houses. We talked to people whose homes were deemed uninhabitable, people who lived in a trailer park whose homes were barely standing. Despite everything, these people were optimistic.

I wonder if they’re still optimistic. I wouldn’t be.

Media drive donations to disaster areas. Stories, pictures and videos compel people worldwide to send donations to affected areas.

April, coverage of the “We see pictures Since Tuscaloosa tornado has esof the initial sentially dried up and donadestruction, we tions have slowed substantially, according to The Crimson talk about the White, the University of lives lost, and Alabama’s student newspaper.

Certainly, other important we move on to events are being covered, such Kim Kardashian’s as relief efforts after a EF-5 torwedding woes.” nado devastated Joplin, Mo. In further covering disasters, I do not suggest media organizations ignore their duty to report the news; I suggest they ignore their desires to make money by reporting on celebrity gossip.

Media organizations have an opportunity to raise awareness of real issues in the world. Despite this, famine, disaster, protests and discrimination often take a backseat to inane pop culture and endless analysis of Rick Perry’s latest gaffe.

What happened in Tuscaloosa, what happened in Joplin and what happens in disaster zones worldwide deserve media attention. More importantly, disaster zones deserve our attention.

We must pay attention to things like Forget Us Not Tuscaloosa, a Facebook group started by Tuscaloosa News reporter Chase Goodbread that aims to raise longterm volunteerism and donations. The group’s goal is to recruit one donor a day from June 1, 2011 to June 1, 2012.

Goodbread told The Crimson White he started the group because he knew short-term aid would be gone two to four months after the tornado. Goodbread said he wanted to ensure long-term aid would be widespread in Tuscaloosa.

Though OU does not have a group actively raising money for Tuscaloosa, an OU student started a group to raise money for tornado recovery in Joplin. Senior Danielle Barker, a Joplin native, started OU Loves Joplin, MO, after a friend of hers was killed in the tornado. OU Loves Joplin, MO, brought two pickup trucks full of donations and supplies to Joplin in May. The group now raises money by setting up tables in the Oklahoma Memorial Union and at last weekend’s National Weather Festival. The group is also planning a trip to Joplin on Dec. 17 to provide Christmas for children affected by the tornado. Barker said in an email she also plans to ask local elementary schools to write letters to children in Joplin.

Society has a duty to support charitable endeavors such as Barker’s and Goodbread’s, particularly in the face of media undercoverage. We must remember places like Tuscaloosa and Joplin as they rebuild. One day, they may need to remember us as we recover.

Kate McPherson is a journalism sophomore.

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November is recognized as Native American Heritage Month — and as such, organizations in OKC and Norman will host a variety of events to celebrate and recognize the value of tribal culture.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art and the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum are teaming up for a fifth consecutive year to present a Native-American display.

This year, the collaboration will present a NativeAmerican film showcase beginning Thursday at the museum’s Noble Theater, 415 Couch Drive.

The film showcase will begin with Billy Luther’s Sundance Film Festival entry, titled “GRAB,” according to a press release.

Other entries titled “GOOD MEAT,” “The Storm” and “A GOOD DAY TO DIE” will be among a few of the featured short films. according to the press release.

Museum Film Curator Brian Hearn said this event showcases a lot of great talent.

“One of the films, ‘GOOD MEAT,’ is about an American Indian’s journey and demonstrates how going back to his native culture saved his life,” Hearn said. “It’s rare to learn about things like that.”

Hearn also said Native-

Oliver Plumley, a Native American studies senior, leads fellow students in song Wednesday at The Jacobson House Native Art Center.

The group practices for its performance Friday at the Jim Thorpe Multicultural Center. The Jacobson House Native Art Center provides a place for students to practice their performance.

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American heritage is a huge part of Oklahoma’s culture, with 39 tribes in the state. “ Yo u l e a r n a b o u t things that you other wise wouldn’t, and you’ll leave with a deeper perspective of the Native American community,” Hearn said.

Jacobson House employee Kelly Alvarez said she thinks the Native American Heritage Month holds just as much significance.

“There’s a Black History M o n t h a n d a Hi s p a n i c History Month, so I think having a Native American Heritage Month is just as important,” Alvarez said.

It’s not just Oklahoma City that will be celebrating the Native American Heritage Month.

Colle g e of Education graduate student Noetta Harjo, a member of the Osage Nation, said she will be celebrating her heritage as well. Harjo said believes it’s important to recognize her heritage because the cultures are being lost.

Harjo said in the past, OU has considered April as being the American Indian Heritage month, however this year OU will hold

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More Online Visit OUDaily.com to read the complete story and see a list of eventsart events recognizing Native American Heritage in November for the first time.

“There is so much that we could all learn from one another and our cultures,” Harjo said. “The more youth that get involved with their culture, the easier it will be to preserve it. I didn’t grow up around my culture, so now that I have the opportunity to learn more, I feel a sense of identity that I never had before. I know better now about who I am and where I come from.”

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SPORTS

OUDaily.com ›› OU men’s basketball coach Lon Kruger expects Romero Osby to take on much of the responsibility in the low post.

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

Volleyball

OU suffers first home loss of season Iowa State beats No. 25 Oklahoma in three sets Luke McConnell Sports reporter

Players were flying all over the court Wednesday night as No. 13 Iowa State defeated No. 25 Oklahoma, 3-1 (18-25, -23, 21-25, 21-25) in a match that boasted a tempo faster than the William Tell Overture.

“We already knew that it was going to be this fast,” OU coach Santiago Restrepo said. “Unfortunately a couple of rallies here and there took a lot out of us.”

It was the Sooners’ first home loss of the season.

Freshman outside hitter Tara Dunn led OU with 18 kills and added 10 digs.

Senior right side Suzy Boulavsky had 17 kills.

Dunn and Boulavsky accounted for 101 of the 181 total attacks from the OU offense, an uneven distribution that normally isn’t seen from OU. “Their (Iowa State) middle blockers are very good,” senior setter Brianne Barker said. “They seemed to get a lot of touches on the ball today so it was more of our outsides.”

Five Sooners tallied double digit kills, led by junior libero Maria Fernanda’s match high 26.

Libero Kristen Hahn had 24 digs to lead five Cyclones in double-digit digs.

“We have to be better blockers and we have to be better defenders,” Restrepo said. “They had 12 more digs

than we did. Our opportunities are there, but we have to finish the play.”

The tempo was extremely fast on both sides of the net.

Oklahoma plays at a fast pace, but seldom faces an opponent that can match its speed. Iowa State jumped on the Sooners early, forcing an OU timeout leading 12-8.

ISU continued to pour it on behind great defense and seven kills from Jenson, winning the set 25-18.

The tempo stayed constant in the second set. OU came out with more intensity and led most of the set, going on a 5-0 run to open the lead to 20-14. ISU came back to tie the set at 23, but OU scored the last two points to take the set, 25-23.

The third set was back and forth until a controversial call with OU down 21-19. An OU kill appeared to hit the floor, but the officials didn’t agree.

Iowa State took the point.

OU unraveled emotionally after that, and the Cyclones took the set, 25-21.

The Cyclone offense gave OU ’s defense problems throughout the night, hitting far off the net and confusing the OU middle blockers.

“We didn’t know where they (ISU hitters) were going,” sophomore middle blocker Sallie McLaurin said. “It’s just disappointing and frustrating.”

Iowa State grabbed the early momentum in the fourth set on another controversial call on OU outside hitter Kelia Rodriguez. From there, the Cyclones wouldn’t Aubrie Hill/The Daily trail the rest of the set, finish- Senior outside hitter Suzy Boulavsky goes up for a kill against No. 13 Iowa State Wednesday at McCasland ing the Sooners off, 25-21.

Field House. The Cyclones handed No. 25-ranked Oklahoma its first home loss of the season.

Women’s basketball

Sooners notch exhibition win Team overpowers Central Oklahoma despite sloppy play Kedric Kitchens Sports Reporter

Strong rebounding and 10 3-pointers helped the Sooners roll over the University of Central Oklahoma on Wednesday, despite weak defense and allaround sloppy play that led to

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The OU women’s basketball team beat the Bronchos easily in a 86-52 contest at Lloyd Noble Center. UCO was outmatched, but the Sooners did nothing to make it easy on themselves.

The biggest questions facing the Sooners coming into the game was how well the point-guard play would be after losing Danielle Robinson and how Whitney

Hand would play after being back at 100 percent health.

Hand led the team in minutes with 30 and she said after the game that she felt fine.

Hand, like everyone else, was unimpressed with the teams performance, however.

“There wasn’t enough effort,” Hand said. “Everyone was kind of dazed. Then we got tired and we gave into the see basketball page 8

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basketball: Sooners give up 26 turnovers Continued from page 7 fatigue pretty easily.”

The defense was where Hand really noticed a lack of effort from the squad, calling it terrible at best.

Team cohesion was questionable, as evidenced by the 26 turnovers OU gave away in the contest. The Sooners felt the loss of their leader from last year, Hand said.

“I think it was more awkward than we kind of expected it to be,” Hand said. “You miss that voice in the huddle.”

As far as point guards go, both sophomore Morgan Hook and freshman DaShawn Harden saw quite a bit of time at the position, 24 and 18 minutes respectively.

“Well, I’ll tell you, I think Morgan Hook was pretty good,” head coach Sherri Coale said.

Hook appeared to be the more comfortable player at the position. She ended the night with 11 points, six rebounds, five assists, three steals and only one turnover.

Hook also shot 100 percent from three.

Harden struggled, giving up nine turnovers compared to one assist. She scored 12 points, but had a .222 assistto-turnover ratio.

“DaShawn needed the minutes, she needed the exposure,” Coale said. “She needed to see some things and she’ll learn from that.

Right now we’re keeping all sharp objects away from her

Sports Brief Golf

Men’s golf team has strong showing in Dallas to finish the fall season The OU men’s golf team wrapped up its fall season on a good note Tuesday, finishing in third place at the Royal Oaks Intercollegiate in Dallas. The Sooners, ranked as the No. 33 team in the nation by Golfstat.com, finished the two-day tournament with a three-round total of 845.

Texas A&M took first with an 830, and Duke finished one place ahead of OU in the fourteen team field with a total score of 831. On top of the top-3 team finish, the Sooners also had three top-15 individual Riley finishes. Senior Riley Pumphrey finished Pumphrey 11th with a total score of 210, and junior Abraham Ancer and freshman Michael Gellerman tied for 13th with a score of 211. The team begins its spring season on Feb. 13 in San Antonio.

Daily staff reports

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Sophomore guard Aaryn Ellenberg drives around a defender and pulls up to score with a mid-range jumpshot during the first half Wednesday against the University of Central Oklahoma Bronchos.

in the locker room.”

The Sooners appeared more comfortable with the ball in Hook’s hands. When OU struggled under Harden’s leadership, Coale sent Hook back in the game to calm down the team.

The OU women will play their last exhibition game at 7 p.m. Nov. 10 against Grand Canyon.

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Dads’ Day National Weather Center Tour | 1 p.m. at the National Weather Center located at 120 David Boren Blvd. Go behind the scenes and see the newest technology in action as you speak with meteorologists. Tours start at 1 p.m. and space is limited, call (405) 325-1147 for reservations.

Dads’ Day Guided Legends Lobby Tour with Merv Johnson | Merv Johnson, OU’s Director of Football Operations has been with the Sooners since 1979. You won’t want to miss this opportunity for a first-hand look at the history of Sooner football, as he guides an hour-long tour through the Legends Lobby at the Barry Switzer Center. If you can’t make this tour, Legends Lobby will be open all day for normal hours (see below for more details). Space is limited, please arrive early.

FREE Movie: “Captain America” | 3, 6, 9 p.m. and midnight in Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Come on students OU Dads and family to see this summer blockbuster courtesy of the Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council.

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Hockey: OU vs. Lindenwood | 4 P.M. at the Blazers Ice Centre, 8000 S. I-35, Oklahoma City, OK. Call the Blazers Ice Centre at (405) 631-3307 or see www. ouhockey.com for more information.

CAC’s Lil Boomer Bash | Three hours before kick-off on the South Oval. Do you have children? Younger siblings? Feel free to bring all your “Future Sooners” to the Lil’ Boomer Bash! This free event will have carnival style games and activities to keep young kids entertained before the game!

UOSA Tailgate | Two hours before kick-off at the Southwest corner of Asp Avenue and Lindsey Street. Come and enjoy free food, drinks and live music before you head over to the game or Dad’s Day Watch Party! Get pumped up with your fellow Sooner Fans! BOOMER SOONER! Sponsored by the University of Oklahoma Student Association.

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CAC Dad’s Day & Sooner Parents Watch Party | TBA at Gaylord Hall. CAC Dad’s Day and Sooner Parents are hosting the best watch party in town! Come watch the game on the big screen, eat your favorite game day foods for free, and cheer with your fellow Sooner fans! The “Kids Corner” will keep your little Sooners entertained while you enjoy the game.

Sunday, Nov. 6 Daylight Savings Time Ends | Remember to set your clocks back one hour as daylight savings time comes to an end.

CAC Dad’s Day Weekend | Visit http://cac.ou.edu for a full schedule of events happening all weekend for OU Dads and families. Presented by the Campus Activities Council.

CAC Dad’s Day Brunch hosted by the Student Alumni Association | 9-11 a.m. in the Molly Shi Boren Ballroom, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Bring dad and the rest of the family to a free, full brunch to close out the weekend in style! This event will feature the CAC Dad’s Day Father of the Year 2011 presentation as well as easy listening musical entertainment. It’s the perfect ending to a fantastic weekend with Dad! Presented by the Campus Activities Council, the Student Alumni Association and sponsored in part by the Union Programming Board.

Men’s Basketball: OU vs. Washburn| 2 p.m. at the Lloyd Noble Center. Visit soonersports.com for more information.