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oU slashes ticket prices by 70% RJ YOUNG

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Students will save $100 for purchasing season tickets to the Sooners’ basketball games this year, men’s coach L on Kruger announced Thursday at the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Prices for student season tickets have been dropped from $140 to $40, and single-

Students can purchase $140 season tickets for $40 after athletic department cuts cost game student tickets have been dropped to $5, Kruger said.

The price reduction is the result of a joint sponsorship between The Reserve on Stinson and Sooner Sports

Properties, with The Reserve paying $100 of the cost, Kruger said.

“Hopefully, that will peak people’s interest,” he said.

“We’re talking about a $40 [season] ticket.”

Kruger said after he visited with many students who told him the ticket price was a sticking point, the OU athletic department and Sooner Sports Properties partnered to reduce the cost.

“We felt this would be a great opportunity to get a message out,” Kruger said.

“We need students in the building to create the atmosphere that we hope to have.”

The atmosphere in the union could be a great template for what Kruger hopes to experience in Lloyd Noble

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Grad rates under review Post-graduate employment reports to change BLAYKLEE BUCHANAN Campus Reporter

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Electrical engineering doctoral student Serkan Ozturk and physics doctoral student Hasan Serce play a game of backgammon known in Turkey as Tavla. Ozturk and Serce are two students studying for free in the United States who benefit from a scholarship program that sponsors Turkish citizens.

Grads work for free ride Turkish transfer students earn degrees with aid of sponsors UNY CHAN

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An international engineering graduate student could pay more than two times what it costs Oklahoma students to attend OU, but a group of Turkish students have found a way to attend for free.

And it did not cost OU a dime to pay for their financial aid.

Since the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi won the Turkish election in 2003, the government began to prioritize sending Turkish students

overseas for graduate studies by sponsoring their studies in full for five years.

If the students choose to go to the U.S., the scholarship would generally be used for two years for a master’s, two years for a doctorate and one year for professional research.

There are 1,000 availabilities within the program every year, according to Semiha Caliskan, an OU geography graduate student who obtained her bachelor’s in Turkey and two master’s in Sweden and Germany, respectively.

Most of the scholarships are co-sponsored by a Turkish company and, in many cases, See TURKEY page 2

“In Turkey, we have a tightly knitted life because we live in apartments.

But here, people live in houses. That is why I think the distance has created some individualistic people here.”

SEZER SEVINC, GEOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT FROM TURKEY

Students applying to law school soon may notice a rankings shuffle after changes are made to how schools report post-graduate employment rates.

The American Bar Association has changed the regulations guiding law school graduates’ employment information.

The change requires accredited American Bar Association schools to provide additional information on employment and placement of graduates after receiving their degree, according to a press release by the association.

For law schools, this means rankings could fluctuate depending on how they have been reporting employment rates — a factor for school rankings.

The U.S. News ranks OU No. 71 out of the hundreds of law schools in the country with a 55.2-percent employment rate at graduation. The school in the No. 1 spot, Yale University, has a 94.5-percent employment rate at graduation.

But OU College of Law Dean Joe Harroz said numbers and rankings do not always reflect the merit of the law school.

Sometimes some of these schools falsely report employment, Harroz said. In fact, some schools have been known to allot funding to employ students, making it look as if See LAW page 3

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oU-Texas needs to consider holy day

U-Sing performers usher in the holidays

Red River Rivalry should factor Yom Kippur when scheduling. (Page 4)

Softball closes fall season with upset

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OU upsets National Pro Fastpitch all-stars to stay undefeated. (Page 5)

lIFE & aRTS

Students gather to take back the night

New fast food chain opens Monday

Sooners rally against sexual violence Thursday. (oUDaily.com)

The Daily tries out the new Five Guys Hamburgers and Fries. (Page 7)

Cancer survivor writes for well-being Professor models stranger’s good will

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Members of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and Delta Upsilon fraternity perform “Rudolph” during Wednesday’s dress rehearsal of University Sing 2011: “The Underdogs.” (Page 8)

OU Health Sciences professor Arvind Chaturvedi had no idea who the stranger was, but the man noticed Chaturvedi’s tires were low.

“He said, ‘Your tires are not in good shape. Give me the key, and I will get them fixed,’” Chaturvedi said. “He went and replaced all four tires at his own cost. I never

knew him.”

At t h e t i m e, i n 2 0 0 7 , Chaturvedi was in Dallas receiving treatments for a rare type of c a n c e r, s i nonasal nonH o d g k i n ’s lymphoma.

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TodaY aroUNd CampUS An exhibit of artwork by the School of art and art History faculty is on display from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. memoral art Center’s Lightwell gallery. admission to the museum is free today.

“First Friday,” an event by oU Health Sciences Center, will take place at 1:30 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 145 for students interested in pursuing a medical or health career.

University Sing performances will take place at 8 p.m. in the donald W. reynolds performing arts Center’s Holmberg Hall.

Tickets are available at www.stubwire. com.

A concert featuring the bands We Were promised Jet packs, royal Bangs and Bear Hands will take place at 7 p.m. in the oklahoma memorial Union’s Will rogers room. The concert is part of the Campus activities Council and Union programming Board’s Concert Series.

A concert featuring the oklahoma Chamber music players will take place at 8 p.m. in Catlett music Center’s pitman recital Hall.

SaTUrdaY, Nov. 5 An exhibit of artwork by the School of art and

art History faculty is on display from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. memorial art Center’s Lightwell gallery. admission to the museum is free today.

Two University Sing performances will take place with an afternoon show at 3 p.m. and an evening show at 7 p.m. in the donald W. reynolds performing arts Center’s Holmberg Hall. Tickets are available at www.stubwire.com.

OU Football plays Texas a&m for the last time as a Big XII opponent at 2:30 p.m. in oklahoma memorial Stadium.

SUNdaY, Nov. 6 An exhibit of artwork by the School of art and

art History faculty is on display from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. memorial art Center’s Lightwell gallery. admission to the museum is free today.

Keyonte Leggins sat in the back of the union, listening to the announcement.

Center in his first season Leggins said he bought seacoaching the Sooners. OU son tickets to men’s basketfans, students and media ball games last year and will do so again for the crowded into the upcoming season. union’s food court to “I went to the exhihear what the spebition game [Tuesday cial announcement night] and [the team] Kruger alluded to in looked pretty good,” a tweet Wednesday Leggins said. “Much evening was about. improved from last Among them was year, I would say.”

O U s t u d e n t K i m loN Sophomore guard Traylor. Traylor said kRUGER Calvin Newell said he she already bought her student season tickets would be happy to see more before Kruger’s announce- fans at OU games this season. ment and was glad she would Newell was flanked by teammates T.J. Franklin and Barry save $100.

All students who already Honoré in the corner of dincommitted to purchase sea- ing hall after Kruger finished son tickets at the $140 price speaking.

“I think the announcewill be charged $40 instead.

E n g i n e e r s o p h o m o re ment is wonderful,” Newell

Continued from page 1 a state-owned company.

Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklıgı is the biggest sponsor so far, sending a total of 244 students overseas in 2010, according to the company website.

For each year spent abroad, scholarship recipients have to spend double the amount of time working for the sponsoring Turkish company.

Otherwise, they are required to pay for their tuition for the entire duration in addition to a fine.

“I do a two-year chemical engineering master’s here.

So I have to go back to Turkey and work for four years,” graduate student Lutfiye Hacioglu said. “But that also means guaranteed employment back home.”

To qualify for the program, Turkish students are required to take the Akademik Personel ve Lisansüstü Egitimi Giris Sınavı (ALES) exam prior to applying to any graduate program.

Ceyda Gunsel, a chemical engineering graduate student said students list out three companies they want the scholarship from, choose

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link: Purchase student season tickets to the Sooners’ 16 home games said. “You go from $140 to $40 — that’s amazing. I mean, who wouldn’t want to come out?”

Honoré, senior forward, said having more students at the games will be beneficial to the team.

“It’s great when we got that student section right there because in the second half they’ll be at the opponent’s basket,” he said. “It brings all the energy to the game.”

Franklin echoed Honoré’s sentiment.

“We’ve been w orking hard,” said Franklin, senior

TURkEY: Program provides options for future

Men’s basketball will play Washburn University at 2 p.m. in Lloyd Noble Center.

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guard. “This announcement will really help us out, and [fans] will really give us that late push in games. We know the crowd and the whole school is behind us.”

Kruger has made an effort to get students involved in OU basketball. He passed out donuts when season tickets went on sale in September, has made practices open to the public and has spoken at student meetings across campus.

“As our staff has been communicating to our fans since our arrival in April, this is ‘our team,’” Kruger said. “Our players have been working extremely hard, they’re improving day by day and are anxious for everyone — especially their fellow students — to experience a fun season at the Lloyd Noble Center.”

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AT A GLANCE Price comparison Cost of two years of graduate studies: In state — $12,024 out of state — $25,610 International — $26,582 Source: Office of the Bursar

the subject and institution they want to study in, make 10 choices and prepare to score well on the ALES. “ALES is like the [graduate record exam] in the U.S.,” Caliskan said. “But it’s easier for a Turkish student.”

She said a student from Mi d d l e E a s t Te c h n i c a l University, one of the most

prestigious universities in Turkey, could score 800 on qualitative data on the GRE, but only 300 on the verbal section.

“GRE is like you have to know the Latin root of the word. We are not exposed to languages like this on a daily basis,” Caliskan said.

Despite the need to return to Turkey after graduation, some other Turkish students blend into OU quickly and begin to call Norman home.

Emre Tokgoz has obtained a master’s degree in math, a master’s in computer science, a doctorate in math and is pursuing another doctorate in industrial engineering — all at OU. He also married his wife from Norman, and is now working as a graduate

teaching assistant in the math department.

Sezer Sevinc, a geology graduate student and scholarship recipient, now calls Norman home, but said it’s just different.

“In Turkey, we have a tightly knitted life because we live in apartments. But here people live in houses. That is why I think the distance has created some individualistic people here,” Sevnic said.

But different can be a good thing.

“On the up side, everything is in order in the U.S.,” he said, “I work in a geo-mechanic lab. In Turkey, things would be done randomly. But everything has an order here, and everybody is informed about what they are doing.”

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Congress urges OU-Texas change Student Congress is urging OU, the University of Texas and the NCAA to avoid scheduling the Red River Rivalry on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.

This resolution had no binding effect for OU but was passed to show the Congress’ dissatisfaction that the 2011 Red River Rivalry was not moved from Yom Kippur.

The conflict was a concern for many students, Congress Rep. Shayna Daitch said.

“We are showing a problem that it is unfair to Jewish students, alumni and donors to be surrounded by all the others eating and drinking alcohol in the state fair,” said Daitch, former president of OU Hillel.

Since the resolution is nonbinding, Congress has no plan of action to alter the future scheduling of the OU-Texas game.

Oct. 4, 2014, will be the next time that Yom Kippur and the Red River Rivalry will occur on the same day.

Sarah Bedell, Staff Reporter

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Students gather to speak out against sexual violence

they are employed in the law field.

Harroz said OU does not falsify statistics or facts about the school or employment rates of graduates.

The bar association is trying to prevent false or misrepresented reports with the new regulations. The

book: Memoir served as treatment, support Continued from page 1

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Lauren Zuniga recites her poem, “To the Oklahoma Lawmakers,” at the Take Back the Night event Thursday outside the Oklahoma Memorial Union. The Women’s Outreach Center hosted the event, which was aimed at raising awareness about domestic violence and sexual assault.

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Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar council said the new regulations will help rankings and ratings be more accurate, according to the bar association blog.

In developing proposals, the committee’s objective was to collect and provide correct data that will be sufficient to assist law-school applicants making decisions

whether to go to law school and which school to attend, according to the website.

Law schools also must disclose how many graduates are working in full-time or part-time jobs, whether those jobs are short-term or long-term and how many of them are funded by the school from which the jobholder graduated.

Harroz said he does not

foresee any problems with the new regulations. Even with the new employment data of graduates, OU still should remain about the same with a possible small percentage of employment difference, he said.

“I think we’re going to fall in about a 6-percent difference with employment rates, but it shouldn’t greatly affect us,” Harroz said.

of this stranger was one of many experiences that revealed to Chaturvedi the kind nature of man, he said.

The pharmacology and toxicology professor was diagnosed with cancer in early 2007. Originally, doctors thought he had a carcinoma, an incurable form of the disease, but then found he had a treatable form. Still, he was looking at a long road of treatments, transplants and therapy.

Chaturvedi decided to document that long road with a book detailing his experience and using his background as a pharmacologist to better prepare patients, caregivers and health-care providers.

The cancer patient with the failing tires had become the Good Samaritan.

The 176-page book, “Facing Cancer: An Unforgettable Surviving Experience,” was released in October by Tate Publishing.

The book began as a suggestion from his daughter and a family friend, and Chaturvedi continued writing throughout treatment.

“It kept me preoccupied throughout the whole process,” he said. “Some people are private and don’t want to Image provided tell the whole story, but when I was writing the book, the concept came to mind that I must tell this thing so that others are educated, are aware of all parts, so others are more prepared to face the challenge.”

Chaturvedi said his pharmacology background made him more knowledgeable about cancer and cancer drugs, something he considered a double-edged sword. Overall, the illness still completely changed his perspective on life and work.

“I sincerely started enjoying tiny, tiny things,” Chaturvedi said. “I started admiring the power of nature, the power of God, even tiny flowers, smiling faces, the rising sun, setting sun.”

He began chemotherapy in March 2007 and underwent two toxic rounds until he found out the cancer was in remission in August 2007. He is now five years cancer-free.

“Initially I was relieved, but immediately I had the fear of what would happen if it relapses,” Chaturvedi said. “Would I have the strength to go through that again? I am not sure.

It would be a death sentence, to be honest.”

It is his personal experience that can be found in the pages of Chaturvedi’s writing, and the book already is garnering positive reviews from health-care providers and patients.

“This book is a rich source of information for cancer patients, caregivers and health-care providers,” social worker Phyllis Yount said. “His personal experience provides a wonderful example of the way support from family and friends can greatly enhance the well-being of the patient.”

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OPINION

“Using Scripture to rebuke and condemn the laws of our country, and other humans ... will in fact, according to Scripture, bring about the same judgement as you have passed on others.”

(04PhiDelt, Re: Liberalism vulnerable to inconsistency)

EDITORIAL

OU-Texas should be inclusive Our View: Everyone should have a chance to participate in Sooner culture. OU-Texas should not be scheduled on Yom Kippur.

it’s only a football game. But that assumption is irrelevant; students should never be forced to make that choice.

Because, ultimately, OU-Texas is not just a footThis year, OU-Texas fell on Yom Kippur, the ball game. It’s a football game so important that OU Jewish Day of Atonement and one of the two holiest schedules its “fall break” around it. It’s a major part days in the Jewish calender. This burdens Jewish of Sooner culture, the one day when even many Sooners with an unfair choice between who don’t care about football obsessively their faith and campus culture, which tweet scores and shout “Boomer Sooner” The Our View shouldn’t be allowed to happen again. is the majority in public.

This year wasn’t an isolated incident. The Between the drive to Dallas, the 111-year opinion of Daily Texan, UT’s student newspaper, relong rivalry and the State Fair of Texas, The Daily’s 10-member ported that the Red River Rivalry has fallen OU-Texas has become a culture in its own editorial board right, as well as an important part of develon Yom Kippur five times before. And it will happen again in 2014. oping and maintaining school pride — for The restrictions of Yom Kippur make it OU and for our rivals. impossible for Jewish students, alumni and donors Jewish students should not be called on to to attend the game or the surrounding festivities. choose between the most important day of the year To prevent future conflicts, Student Congress has for their faith and the most important day for their passed a resolution calling on both universities and team. the NCAA to take the holiday into account when These two cultures are both vital parts of stuscheduling future games. dents’ identities, and though the former is most OU has about 300 undergraduate and 50 gradulikely more central to their lives, OU should stand ate Jewish students, The Hillel Foundation estimat- up for their right to express both. ed. Jewish students make up about 10.5 percent of It’s not difficult to simply take into account what the UT student body, according to The Daily Texan. is a known, significant conflict for many students.

Not to mention the numerous Jewish alumni and In calling for this, we are not suggesting that the donors from both universities. athletic calender be held hostage by every holiday All of them deserve equal opportunity to partici- of every religion. We don’t foresee a never-ending pate in this important tradition. slippery slope of increasingly ridiculous requests to The UOSA resolution is a great first step, but any change the date for minor observances. real results will depend on the administrations of We’re merely asking the people who schedule the both universities taking up this cause. games take into account this major holiday that afIf President David Boren and UT President fects a large group of students at both universities William Powers work together with the athletic di- — and any others like it. rectors of both universities, they can send a strong After all, if OU-Texas landed on a major message to the NCAA that all students should have Christian holiday, would this conversation even be equal opportunity to participate. necessary?

It may seem obvious that religious students would choose a holy day over OU-Texas — after all, Comment on this at OUDaily.com

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Bible does not justify GLBT life

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recently read an article about a Muslim woman condemning scriptures OPINION COLUMNIST named Ani Zonneveld who could be considered by in an unorthodox way. some as a “progressive Muslim.”

Though I am sympathetic She’s an advocate for gay rights in her community and with these people, I think the equal treatment of men and women, and she cothis is an attempt to reconfounded an organization called Muslims for Progressive cile one’s sexual identity Values. and religion when they are What makes Zonneveld so fascinating is her stance on not easily reconciled. homosexuality. American Muslims are generally more The typical argument Janna Gentry liberal than their Middle-Eastern counterparts, and it for homosexuality within janna.f.gentry-1@ou.edu might not be unusual to find American Muslims who Christianity and Islam is to disagree with how women are sometimes treated within say that the types of homoIslam, but it is unusual to find a Muslim who not only tol- sexual relationships that were condemned by God were erates homosexuality but also celebrates it. not consensual, loving, homosexual relaIslam has traditionally condemned ho“I think this is an tionships, and this is why God condemned mosexuality as a sin. Its basis for this stance them. Proponents of this view argue that the is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah attempt to reconcile story of Sodom and Gomorrah was evil beone’s sexual identity cause the citizens were attempting to rape

by Allah because of their homosexual practices. In many Middle-Eastern counand religion when someone, not because they wanted to have tries, homosexuality is illegal, and penalgay sex, and that Paul condemned homosexthey are not easily uality because the types of homosexual relaties range from simply being fined to being flogged or killed. tionships practiced in his time were between reconciled.”

Christianity has also traditionally conmen and boys. demned homosexuality, and it has more scriptural jusReligious scriptures are often very cryptic, and so it is tification for its beliefs than Islam does. In the Book of possible that these interpretations of scriptures regarding Leviticus in the Old Testament, God lists homosexuality homosexuality are what God meant, but it is also possible among a long list of sexual practices the Israelites are not that God really was condemning homosexuality. What if to do, and in the New Testament, Paul lists homosexualhe was, and someone who is gay finds themselves to be ity as one of the many sins that will keep people from the both gay and deeply religious? kingdom of heaven.

There is not an easy answer to this question, but I don’t Within historically orthodox interpretations of both think an honest answer is to try to conform religion into Islam and Christianity, homosexuality is wrong. Yet, what we want it to be. there are Muslim and Christian individuals who justify their sexuality within their religion by interpreting Janna Gentry is an English education senior.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Take away cigarettes, but not my pipe I suggest to President David Boren and his smoking-ban committee that students and faculty should be allowed to continue smoking their pipes on campus.

Boren cites litter cleanup costs and serious health concerns as the primary reasons to ban smoking on campus.

Neither of these applies to pipe smoking. When one is

done smoking a pipe, he or she simply taps the remaining bits of tobacco leaves (known as “dottle” to pipe smokers) on to the ground.

This hardly constitutes littering.

The health effects of pipe smoking are negligible.

Granted, this is only a correlation, but it serves to demonstrate that pipe smoking

does not constitute a serious health risk.

The pipe is featured on our state flag, and a statue of a Native American holding his pipe has stood on the North Oval for years.

Pipes are classy, dignified and a symbol of intellectual thought. If a university could manifest all of its ideals into a person, that person would

smoke a pipe.

Albert Einstein said, “I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs.” I hope that such calm and objective judgment will keep this campus friendly to pipe smokers for years to come.

Dominic Granello, history sophomore

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Men’s health a hairy issue this month

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ovember, fiOPINION COLUMNIST nally. No more sexist costumes, poorly carved jack o’ lanterns, spooky puns or ‘scary’ movies plaguing our television. Sadly, you’re still going to have to dread Jacob Oller any potential employer jacoboller@ou.edu stumbling upon those Facebook photos of your sexy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles outfit. But this month is better for more reasons than Turkey Day and a break from school. Whether you find it follicly liberating or a scourge upon the faces and legs of humanity, it’s NoShave November.

Better than February’s themes such as International Boost Your Self-Esteem Month, International Embroidery Month, Library Lovers’ Month, National Cherry Month, National Snack Food Month and Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month — seriously, this is what Black History Month has got going on at “But this month the same time — this month’s is better for more theme allows for a fantastic charitable cause to be aided. reasons than Movember is an organizaTurkey Day and a tion and a movement that break from school. allows men (and presumwomen) participating Whether you find ably in No-Shave November to it follicly liberating raise money and awareness or a scourge upon for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and other the faces and less-publicized cancers that legs of humanity, typically affect men.

Once registered at www. it’s No-Shave movember.com, men start November.”

Nov. 1 clean-shaven. You can even sign up as a team, if you have a particularly close group of bros you’d like to channel Burt Reynolds with. As the month continues, these men, now known as “Mo Bros,” groom, trim and wax their way into the annals of fine moustachery. Mo Bros effectively become walking, talking billboards, strutting their posh ‘staches around the world. Through their facial hair and activism, they raise awareness by prompting private and public conversation around the often ignored issue of men’s health.

The foundation, started in Melbourne, Australia, has become a global initiative attempting to get men to stop being so squeamish about these awkwardly located diseases. Men are all about saving breasts, but tend to get a little touchy when testicles come in to the equation.

They’re a sensitive subject, literally. But don’t worry, ladies, you can support anyone participating in the moustache festivities as a “Mo Sista,” helping the Mo Bros raise funds by seeking out sponsorship for their lip-bandit growing efforts. Last year, over 64,500 Mo Bros and Mo Sistas got on board in the United States, raising $7.5 million for the Prostate Cancer Foundation, LIVESTRONG and other programs.

At the end of the month, the Mo Bros and Mo Sistas celebrate their gallantry and mustachioed valor by either throwing their own Movember party or attending one of many organization-sponsored Gala Partés held around the world. This contributes to raising both funds and awareness of the cause, and also has the added value of being a party full of people with classy handlebars.

The college community has historically been a great advocate of the moustache during past years, with staff and students from all around the U.S. supporting Movember. This year, Movember is looking to kick the challenge of growing a moustache up a proverbial notch. The organization is inviting students from college campuses across the country to participate in The Big Moustache on Campus competition to find the highest fund-raising college student. Imagine if our already ‘stached quarterback Landry Jones got a corporate sponsor for his face fuzz. If he were involved, we could put that thing to some use, and Landry would inspire more discussions about cancer than the Dallas Cowboys’ pink uniforms. If you’d like to donate, head on over to the Movember website.

Jacob Oller is a management information systems sophomore.

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The No. 13 Sooners shot down the Oklahoma City Stars in their opening dual meet of the season 33-6 in McCasland Field House Thursday night. 133-pound sophomore Jordan Keller and 197-pound junior Keldrick Hall highlighted Oklahoma’s victory with pins of their opponents in the first period of their matches.

Keller, ranked No. 13 in his weight class, accounted for six of Oklahoma’s 33 points.

“An opportunity presented itself to put [Gage Harrison] on his back and finish him, and I went ahead and worked for that instead of working on some more takedowns,” Keller said. “It’s a good first match for me to have, but obviously this isn’t the end result. We want to be at the top by the end of the year, and that’s what we’re all working for.”

OCU will work toward its own national championship this season in NAIA competition. Six of its 10 wrestlers are

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Junior Nick Lester fights to get out of his Oklahoma City University opponent’s hold Thursday night at McCasland Field House. The Sooners won their first dual meet of the season, 33-6.

ranked in the top 10.

Stars coach Archie Randall said he was pleased with his team’s performance, despite earning just two individual victories over OU. “They wrestled real hard,” he said. “All the older kids did real well. In a couple of matches, at one point, we

were in the game. My poor freshmen though, they kind of got a little bit freaked out.

It’s tough on a freshman to come in and wrestle.”

The win was the first of OU coach Mark Cody’s career as a Sooner. Cody said he appreciated OCU for its desire to win.

“I’m glad Oklahoma City University came out and wrestled hard, because this enables us to see our weaknesses and try to work on them,” he said. “They came ready to scrap. They’re team was in really good shape, and there was no fear in their eyes.”

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Sooners upset all-star team O k l a h o ma e n d e d t h e National Pro Fastpitch Allstars’ 17-game winning streak Thursday night courtesy of a two-run homer

by sophomore outfielder Brittany Williams.

The All-star team, which is made up of players from the NPF’s four professional teams, was 17-0 heading into Thursday’s game against the Sooners. The Sooners were also unbeated, sitting at 7-0.

Junior pitcher Keilani

Ricketts was fantastic for the Sooners, holding a team that featured six former Olympians scoreless for an entire game.

The Sooner offense was stagnant through four innings but hit big in the fifth.

Ricketts smashed a line drive into right-center for a

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sports columnist veryone loves and hates puzzles.

The thrill of trying to figure something out and working the cerebral muscles is quite exciting.

Other times, puzzles can be extremely frustratLuke McConnell ing, such as when your lukemcconnell1@gmail.com dog eats that one last piece.

The Oklahoma volleyball team is the frustrating kind of puzzle.

The Sooners are sitting in fourth place in the Big 12 with a 6-4 conference record. No one on the team saw the Sooners sitting there at this point in the season.

The frustrating aspect is that OU has played well enough to win several of the matches it has lost.

The team’s downfalls have varied in each loss. Against Texas A&M, OU lost all semblance of momentum by choking up a 2-0 lead on the road. Against Iowa State the first time, OU had 28 attack errors. Last night, the Sooners couldn’t stop the Cyclone offense, particularly outside hitter Carly Jenson, who had 25 kills. Against Missouri, the Sooners simply failed to execute in crunch time.

Coach Santiago Restrepo placed a lot of emphasis on winning the conference at the beginning of the season.

Then, they set things up nicely for themselves by defeating Texas, the main obstacle, on Sept. 28 in Norman.

OU appeared ready to step up to the big time, but an inability to finish matches, and inconsistencies on both offense and defense have plagued the Sooners and prevented them from reaching the next level.

The season is not a lost cause, though. There is still the NCAA tournament, something the Sooners will definitely be a part of. Another OU goal this season was to make it to at least the Elite Eight. The Sooners can improve their chances of that by getting a good draw in the tournament.

The only way to do that is to start winning matches.

The talent is there, and the passion is there in a big way. I’ve never seen senior setter Brianne Barker as frustrated after a match as she was last night. Sophomore middle blocker Sallie McLaurin even broke down in tears during postgame interviews.

These players knows they are good, and they have the ability to make a run through the rest of conference play.

The frustration can still turn into a thrill.

Luke McConnell is a journalism senior.

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to be seen as I waited in the quickly moving line to order my meal. The menu was small and simple, offering exactly what you would expect at a burger joint: burgers, french fries and a few other choices such as grilled cheese sandwiches, hot Megan Deaton dogs or veggie sandwiches meggiejennie@ou.edu for our vegetarian friends.

I ordered a Little alking into Five Cheeseburger, a regular Guys Burgers order of Five Guys Style fries and Fries and and a fountain drink. My jaw away from the cold wind nearly dropped when the outside was a welcome relief. polite cashier said it would I could smell the aroma be about $9. Still, I kept my of some good ole American mind open and hoped that food and hear the loud roar the food would be worth the of a crowd of customers. price.

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With the servers yelling out order numbers and Bennie and the Jets playing in the background, the place CHASE COOK/THE DAILY was lively, though it got a Kathy Wiman, Five Guys Burgers and Fries manager, assembles a customer’s burger Thursday in Norman. little loud sometimes. Next Five Guys opened its first restaurant in Norman on Monday. time, I’ll take my order to go.

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Owl City, the chart-topping electronic musical project, will perform at 7:30 tonight at the Diamond Ballroom, 8801 S. Eastern Ave. in Oklahomal City.

The band released its second major-label EP, “All Things Bright and Beautiful,” in June.

Adam Young, the mind behind music, spoke to The Daily via email.

The Daily: When you’re on tour, how does your music — with overlapped vocals, synthesized pianos and extended instrumentals that all require more than just multitasking — differ from what we hear on the album, specifically when you have a primarily instrumental work?

Young: The way the music is created, layer upon layer, means that we have to rely on a bit of backing tracks played live from a laptop. Some Avid Pro Tools sessions on my records clock in at over 90 tracks, and since we cannot fit 90 musicians in a tour bus, we have to make do with seven of us on stage and let the laptop handle what we can’t

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The Daily: Here’s a tweet I once favorited by you last year, just because it’s awesome: “Crinkle cut french fries? PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR.” How much time do you spend on

average thinking of what to tweet several times a day?

Young: Zero time. I just tweet. I have no friends.

The Daily: I’m sure the inspiration to start writing and producing your electrosynthpop music didn’t start with a late, sleepless

night when you started composing and uploading your insomia-inspired creations to Myspace. If not, what was it?

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U-Sing Sooners display talents as fathers take center stage this weekend Sydney Allen and Brooke Buckmaster Life & Arts Reporters

Flocks of Sooner fathers will descend upon Norman this weekend for Campus Activities Council’s Dad’s Day celebration, which will feature free food, football and several new events.

Fathers and their families will be able to attend events such as campus and museum tours, and a watch party for the OU-Texas A&M game in Gaylord Hall.

CAC’s University Sing, an annual variety show featuring all-student cast performances, will also be running this weekend in the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center.

Participants and acts in U-Sing were required to create a storyline that foll o w s t h i s y e a r ’s t h e m e “Underdog” in a series of five to six musical numbers, CAC executive member Greg Emde said.

“Everything we do revolves around that idea, bringing what OU is about to our parents.”

Colin Strickland, CAC Dad’s day chairman Photos by MATTHEW GRIFFIN/the daily

Above: Members of Kappa Alpha Theta and Lambda Chi Alpha perform “Revenge of the Nerds” during Wednesday’s dress rehearsal of University Sing 2011: The Underdogs.

Left: The grasshopper, University College freshman Rachel Gormely, lords over the ants during Delta Delta Delta and Delta Tau Delta’s performance of “A Bug’s Life.”

U-Sing Chairman John Fraser said the theme was chosen to be broad enough to allow creativity.

“We chose ‘Underdog’ because it was a pretty

vague theme,” Fraser said.

“I’m impressed with the diversity of the shows.”

Wednesday marked the final U-Sing dress rehearsal before the series of shows

taking place Thurs day, Friday and Saturday.

As of Thursday night, all shows are sold out except the Saturday night awards show, according to StubWire.com.

This year, CAC awarded the Father of the Year award to Dennis Franklin Palmer, father of University College freshman Lindsey Sue Palmer. Palmer received tickets to the OU-Texas

A&M game, U-Sing tickets and other prizes.

New additions to this year’s Dad’s Day will include Dad’s Night at O’Connell’s at 5:30 tonight on Campus C o r n e r, a n d C A C ’s L i l’ Boomer Bash on Saturday afternoon, an event for the younger members of families that will feature facepainting and card-making for dads.

This weekend’s events

will give dads the OU college experience in one weekend, Dad’s Day Chairman Colin Strickland said.

“For two weekends out of the year, Dad’s Day [in the fall] and Mom’s Day in the spring, our parents get to come experience what our college life looks like,” Strickland said. “Everything we do revolves around that idea, bringing what OU is about to our parents.”

a different feel for concertgoers, he said.

“It’ll definitely be the loudest concert we’ve done this year, though it’s not exactly Spinal Tap either,” Boydston said.

Boydston said he also has high expectations for the opening bands. Royal

Bangs recently toured with Colourmusic, and Bear Hands has a sound reminiscent of early MGMT. “It’s definitely a show worth showing up early for and staying the whole way through,” Boydston said.

Megan Deaton, Life & Arts Reporter

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by The Opolis, Campus Activities Council and the Union Programming Board Indoor show this Friday, with opening promises indie, acts Royal Bangs and Bear alternative appeal Hands.

The Scottish band We A free concert featurWere Promised Jetpacks i n g We We re P ro m i s e d will headline the show, Jetpacks will be presented which starts at 6:30 p.m. in

the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Will Rogers Room, with a sound that could appeal to fans of Manchester Orchestra, Jimmy Eat World and Brand New, said CAC Concert Series Chairman Joshua Boydston.

“I think they are claimed by that indie-alternative

realm because of the name and the fact that they are from Europe/Scotland, but it’s really strong guitar-driven rock anthems with a lot of heart without getting sappy,” Boydston said.

Unlike previous shows this year, the concert will be indoors, which will provide