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Senior wide receiver Ryan Broyles lays on the field after a 30-yard reception against Texas A&M on Saturday at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Broyles tore the ACL in his left knee, ending his college career at Oklahoma. He finished his senior season with 83 catches for 1,157 yards and 10 touchdowns.

Broyles’ career stopped short by injury Norman native plays final down as Sooner against Texas A&M JAMES CORLEY Sports Editor

Saturday marked the end of an era for OU football, and the closing stanza of a Sooner great ended in tragedy.

Senior wide receiver Ryan Broyles tore the ACL in his left knee during OU’s 41-25 win against Texas A&M, OU coach Bob Stoops said after the game.

The injury, which will require surgery once the swelling goes down, not only ended Broyles’ season but his career at Oklahoma.

“We are all disappointed for Ryan,” Stoops said. “He is a special, special player that everyone has talked about all year, and for that to happen, it’s just deflating for him and for all of us.”

The Norman native had a measurable impact during his four seasons.

He totaled 349 catches for 4,586 yards and 45 touchdowns.

He holds nearly ever y OU

receiving record of note, including career catches and yards.

He caught the most touchdown passes of any receiver in Big 12 history.

He holds the NCAA record for career receptions and was only a few hundred yards from breaking the NCAA career receiving yards record.

But his pursuit of the last few records he hadn’t already broken ended in the third quarter Saturday at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

He finished with two catches for 87 yards and a touchdown.

“That’s heartbreaking,” sophomore defensive back Aaron Colvin said after hearing Broyles’ career was over. “Ryan is a rock to our team, and that’s a big loss.”

Junior defensive end Ronnell Lewis said Broyles was the team’s impact player. Sophomore wide receiver Jaz Reynolds said Broyles was the focal point of the offense.

Everyone who spoke about Broyles after the game said he will be missed.

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Turkish students bond over quake experiences Saturday shake-up fails to fluster some VICTORIA GARTEN Campus Reporter

Oklahoma’s recent earthq u a k e s h av e n o t f a z e d Turkish exchange student Mehmet Ali Nerse because he’s been there before.

“Mom, are we still moving?” Nerse asked his mother in 1999 after Turkey’s 7.6-

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magnitude earthquake.

“Since I had two big earthquake experiences, 7.2 and 7.4, the one Saturday wasn’t scary,” the civil engineering student said. “I hope Oklahoma won’t experience big ones.”

A civil engineering student, Nerse expressed his concern for building strength to withstand such natural disasters — and infrastructure in his home country has

been put to the test.

Turkey continues to suffer in the aftermath of the country’s most recent 7.2-magnitude earthquake, but Nerse is doing his best to help Turkey from here in Oklahoma through the Turkish Student Association.

“It is not something to joke about; it’s a part of real life. Most houses were destroyed in the 1999 earthquake. If they were alive, the

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Musical variety show a nostalgic time

Sooners curl up with their brooms, stones

Senior reflects on U-Sing experience, enjoys 2011’s performances. (Page 3)

OPiniOn be part of solution, not part of problem Students should end the cycle of animal adoption, abandonment. (Page 4)

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Fathers flock to Ou for weekend fun

legendary sooner coach honored

Sooners host Dad’s Day luncheon and campus tours. (OuDaily.com)

OU dedicated a statue to former football coach Barry Switzer. (Page 8)

people were living in a tent,” said Arif Keceli, geography doctoral student and president of the Turkish Student Association.

The group has offered its help to the people of Turkey by promoting the nonprofit Raindrop Turkish House organization’s Helping Hands donation website. Helping Hands aids the needy affected by catastrophes like the Oct. 23 earthquake in

Turkey . Keceli said they have received numerous donations from the OU community.

It is difficult to relate when you have not experienced it, Keceli said.

He described an image seared into his thoughts from the news of an 11-yearold boy trapped beneath a building that had been

International students make up less than 10 percent of the OU campus, but it’s a growing minority.

The number of active international students has increased by 28 percent, from 1,632 to 2,094, according to the statistics from the Office of International Student Service.

And the growing numb e r o f s t u d e n t s f ro m abroad isn’t just a Sooner trend.

Universities in the United States have been setting records for international student enrollment since 2008, according to several articles published by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

International students become more visible as they are involved in more front-end roles. They are no longer satisfied with merely taking up part-time on-campus employment, but actively seek positions that, in the past, one would naturally expect an American to be in charge, according research by the chronicle.

The Chronicle for Higher Education reports suggest this is mainly triggered by the increase in purchasing power by the national from the emerging countries, namely the BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

With an increasingly diverse pool of international applicants, how does OU evaluate their applications? As an American student, do these potential international students make competitions tougher?

Max Matthis, assistant director of International Ad m i s s i o n s, s a i d t h e university has no preference for American or international students, but there are two additional requirements for international students.

“They must attain a certain level of English proficiency and satisfy

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Curling club holds first event Sunday KEDRIC KITCHENS Campus Reporter

Dylan Smith doesn’t arm himself with skates, pads and hockey sticks when he takes the ice. Instead, he wields a broom and a curling stone.

Smith, civil engineering sophomore, is the president of the Sooner Curling Club, which held its first ofaustin VauGHn/tHe daiLy ficial club event Sunday at the Arctic Edge Ice Arena in OU Curling Club member Wolfgang Hanft, University College freshEdmond. man, practices his throw at the club’s first meeting of the year.

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The club needed 20 people to pay for and use the arena. A last-minute surge in members put them over that requirement, Smith said.

“It [was] our first-time being out together on the ice as a full club,” Smith said. “Previously, we had only been on the ice together in small groups, providing learn-to-curl sessions for all the new curlers.”

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

Exchange: Entrance factors tough Continued from page 1

Today around campus A seminar on time management will take place at 2 p.m. in the Housing Learning Center in Adam Center’s Muldrow Tower 105. The seminar is part of the University College’s Student Success Series.

A lecture titled “Practice in Context, Context as Practice” will be hosted by the the College of Architecture and the School of Art and Art History at 4 p.m. in Gould Hall’s Joe and Jane Buskuhl Gallery.

A recital by Er-Gene Kahng, University of Arkansas violin professor and Norton Visiting artist, will take place at 8 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Pitman Recital Hall. Tickets are $9 for adults and $5 for students, OU faculty and senior adults.

A workshop titled “Cracking the Hidden Job Market” will take place at 11:30 a.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Beaird Lounge.

Tuesday, Nov. 8 A workshop on learning how to use online data, maps and graphing tools, titled “Measuring Our Nation’s Economy,” will take place at 1:30 p.m. in Bizzell Memorial Library, Room 149D. Reservations are required. To reserve a space, contact Jeffrey Wilhite at 325-1832.

A lecture titled “The Idea of Iranshahr: From the Oxus to the Eupharates; 200-1200 CE” will take place at 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium. The lecture will be given by University of CaliforniaIrvine professor Touraj Daryaee.

A concert by the OU Cello Ensemble and professor Jonathan Ruck will take place at noon in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Sandy Bell Gallery. The concert is part of the Noon Concert Series. Admission is free.

A concert by The Hornsemble and Brass Chamber Choir will take place at 8 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall.

Wednesday, Nov. 9 A workshop offering advice for international studies students on the U.S. Department of State and how to apply to graduate school will take place at noon in Hester Hall, Room 170.

A guided walking tour of Native American art is hosted by art history professor Jackson Rushing at 2 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.

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the immigration requirement prior to coming here,” Matthis said.

Currently, international applicants must obtain a minimum of 550 on the Test of English as a Foreign Language. Applicants with 500 score or above are advised to take one semester, 12 credit hours of English class in the Center of English as a Second Language in the College of Continuing Education before they are eligible for pursuing a full time degree at OU. But test scores are not the only factors for international students seeking entrance.

“As an American institution, we also look heavily at their scope of interest, extracurricular activities, community involvement, and their ability to take initiative to realize their plans,” Matthis said. “GPA has never been the only benchmark for our applicants, American or international.”

But Gedi Yotbarek said, in

his case, his schooling made it harder to apply for school in the United States.

“The system in Ethiopia is designed to test the memorizing capability of students as opposed to testing their thinking ability. That makes it harder for students to score higher results. That usually doesn’t not translate well when applying for a college in the States,” Yitbarek said.

But Yitbarek said OU made applying less of a hassle.

“The admission office is so helpful throughout the process. I thought they understood me, and they did whatever they could to help me be part of this great school,” Yitbarek said.

Michael Li, a University College freshman from China, said success at OU isn’t determined by one’s country of origin.

“In my opinion, it’s not difficult to get an A in either the U.S. or China. The question for students is ‘Do you work hard enough?’ I do believe that students have to challenge themselves frequently,” Li said.

BY THE NUMBERS Students from abroad

302 171 102 89 85 84 76 74 37 36

Number of international students from China

Number of international students from India Number of international students from South Korea Number of international students from Nigeria

Number of international students from Vietnam Number of international students from France

Number of international students from Saudi Arabia Number of international students from Colombia

Number of international students from Venezuela

Number of international students from Canada Source: College of International Studies

Club: State chapter helps students Continued from page 1 Hanft to check out its Facebook page and subsequently the event. And although rare, the sport is not unknown.

Hanft said curling has c o nt i nu e d t o f a s c i nat e him.

“Curling is on my bucket list,” Hanft said.

Smith and several of his friends started the curling club in September 2010.

The Oklahoma Curling Club was founded in 2010 to promote the Olympic sport of curling in the state of Oklahoma, according to the organization’s website.

“It was something I had always wanted to try out, and got the idea to start the club when I noticed OU didn’t have a club,” Smith said.

At the time, as a newer student organization targeting a very niche market, the club faced the adversity of the unknown, Smith said.

“When the club first started, I really had no idea what to expect,” he said. “I didn’t know if it would ever grow, if we would ever even get to curl, or how long it would even last.”

The event also included instruction for newcomers from some top-notch instructors from the statewide Oklahoma Curling Club. The club was absolutely crucial in the creation of the Sooner Curling Club, Smith said.

“It’s huge for the club that

we were able to get enough people out there, and if the event goes smoothly we should be able to have more Sooner Curling days in the future, because Arctic Edge Ice Arena will be much more interested in working with us again,” Smith said.

Fa c u l t y a d v i s e r s Ro n Conlon and Jonathan Havercroft run the Oklahoma Curling Club and have been a huge asset

by providing materials and helping event organization, Smith said.

While the Sooner Curling C l u b at t ra c t e d e n o u g h people to attend Sunday’s event, the club still faces recruitment problems.

“When people hear about the club, they are almost always interested in trying out the sport,” Smith said.

“The biggest problem is that the club just isn’t that well known on campus.”

Turkish: Students group for support Continued from page 1 completely destroyed by the earthquake in Turkey.

“Only his hat and his hand were out of the building,” Keceli said. “But there was another hand over his shoulder, the hand apparently belonging to his dad who died trying to protect his son.”

Keceli moved to Oklahoma three years ago from Turkey to continue his studies at OU. He said he and his family feel the smaller earthquakes here in Oklahoma, but they don’t feel scared.

They wait for it to end and pray, Keceli said.

Communication and international and area studies senior Caitlin Miles, who spent a year in Turkey, said the country is very resilient and pulls together in time of need.

“People have been posting all over their Facebook pages about ways to donate and what people can do to help,” Miles said.

She said she feels a deep connection to the Turkish people in their struggles after interning with the American Turkish Society in Turkey.

“Turkey has been a huge part of many humanitarian disasters, and I think that it is important to stand with them through this like they have stood with so many others,” she said.

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Sooner falls all over again for U-Sing ’11 C

AC’s University Life & Arts Columnist Sing was a chance for me to fit in as a freshmen. A chance to make close friends in my sorority, some of whom I still consider my best friends. A chance for me to be part of a tradition that is loved by this Lauren Duff community. laurenduff@ou.edu Now a senior, being in U-Sing when I was a freshman seems like an eternity ago. I still can’t believe I was once on that stage with an excessive amount of makeup caked on my face, making hilarious facial expressions and hand gestures that could probably be used to direct traffic.

This year, the theme of U-Sing was “Underdogs.” I attended the show Saturday night, and it was a joy to experience once again.

Every single show had some creative aspect to offer, and there was not one show I honestly didn’t love. There were a couple of changes in U-Sing this year that we did not do when I participated in 2008. More singing was involved and the dancing appeared to be slightly more complicated compared with the dance steps we did before. Every act was also required to incorporate a song by the Beatles, something that I particularly enjoyed listening to.

Some shows that stood out to me were “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” performed by Kappa Kappa Gamma and Delta Upsilon, “Revenge of the Nerds” by Kappa Alpha Theta and Lambda Chi Alpha and “A Bug’s Life” by firstplace winners Delta Delta Delta and Delta Tau Delta.

In “Rudolph,” the costumes were adorable. With the green-velvet tops and suspenders and the candy-cane, knee-high socks, it made me feel like I was in a winter wonderland — too bad it still has been 70-degree weather outside.

With the witty dialogue and hilarious lead characters, “Revenge of the Nerds” made me laugh throughout the

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entire show. The costuming in “A Bug’s Life” was creative, especially that on the lead grasshopper who wore a top hat and walked on stilts.

“A League of Their Own,” performed by Gamma Phi Beta and Beta Theta Pi, “The Newsies” by Chi Omega and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and “Hercules” by Pi Beta Phi and Sigma Phi Epsilon were other shows that had many creative elements and talented singers and dancers.

The most memorable act of the entire show was by the continuity staff of the U-Sing Executive team. The staff members came out dressed like elderly people in a retirement home, with floral muumuus and baby powder in their hair.

While visiting their grandparents at the retirement home, the girls make up an excuse to get away from their lame grandparents for a couple of minutes. All of a sudden, rap music is blasted throughout the theater and the ‘elderly’ staff members begin to “drop it low” and dance hysterically. I was crying from uncontrollable laughter, which lasted for an abnormal period of time after the skit was over.

I loved going to U-Sing. It helped me remember my own experience as a freshman, an experience that I’m proud I was a part of. Congratulations to everyone who was a part of this year’s show.

Lauren Duff is a journalism senior.

Top: Flick and the ant princess embrace during Delta Delta Delta and Delta Tau Delta’s performance of “A Bug’s Life” during Wednesday’s dress rehearsal of University Sing 2011: The Underdogs.

Bottom: Members of Gamma Phi Beta and Beta Theta Pi perform “A League of Their Own” during Wednesday’s dress rehearsal of University Sing 2011: The Underdogs.

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“God bless Brother Ryan. I’m still sick in my stomach over Whaley’s season-ending injury. What a couple of great role models for the kids. . . OK, for the adults too.” (Coach, Re: Broyles suffers season-ending injury against Aggies)

EDITORIAL

Don’t add to city pet problem Our View: Don’t just vote “Yes” for the animal shelter expansion on Tuesday — help end the carelessness that causes the problem.

animal problems.

Shelters near college campuses see a sharp rise in abandoned animals near the end of each semester when students return home or graduate, according to On Tuesday, Norman residents will vote on a bond the Humane Society. This cycle of adoption and reckmeasure to provide funding for improvements to the less abandonment is especially evident in Norman, city’s overcrowded and unsanitary animal shelter. where animals left in parking lots are a common sight Anyone registered to vote in Norman should every finals week. vote “Yes” on this long-overdue, 10,000If students are contributing to the probThe Our View square-foot expansion and modernization. lem, then students should contribute to the is the majority The Norman Animal Welfare Center is a solution. But this property tax will end in five opinion of disgrace. It’s small, unhealthy and unsafe years, while a sales tax could be forever. And The Daily’s and many of its practices are deemed unit’s too late to change the measure without 10-member acceptable by the Association for Shelter editorial board risking the entire initiative.

Veterinarians.

This doesn’t mean students are off the Double-stacked cages force animals to hook. An animal shelter is just a Band-Aid; defecate in the same space they eat and sleep, which only students can address the roots of the issue. contributes to the spread of disease. Even with these Sooners must end this culture of disregard that cages, the shelter euthanizes 40 percent of dogs and leads to animal abandonment. Pets are not animated 60 percent of cats that come through its doors, accord- stuffed animals for your amusement. They are living ing to the Norman Transcript. things, and owning one is about committing to cerThere simply isn’t enough space for all the abantain responsibilities. If you can’t uphold them, then doned and abused animals in Norman, and that don’t take an animal into your life. Leaving them at a population is only expected to grow. These animals shelter, or a parking lot, is not an option. are helpless and blameless, and they deserve humane It isn’t enough that students must vote yes for this conditions. The shelter must be expanded immedishelter and donate to the effort. Sooners have to hold ately and brought in line with standards. each other and themselves accountable.

While this bond measure would provide for an esIf you own a pet, get it spayed or neutered and find it sential project, it seems to be funded in the wrong a good home if you must give it up. If you don’t own a way. The measure would raise property taxes for five pet, think hard before getting one. years to pay for the $3 million shelter — an average inAnd if you decide to get a pet, don’t buy from a pet crease of about $1 a month on $100,000-market-value store or breeder. Adopt from the Norman shelter. properties, according to the Norman Transcript.

You’ll save your new friend’s life and give another aniThis is a reasonable price to pay to end these cruel mal a chance to live long enough to find a home. conditions. However, most students don’t pay propComment on this at OUDaily.com erty tax but are the major contributors to Norman’s

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o note the horrifyand the far left have more in common with each other OPINION COLUMNIST ing displays of pothan with “small government” conservatives or mainlice brutality at the stream liberals.

Occupy Wall Street protests Immigration: As both “small government” conservaat this point would be sutives and mainstream liberals rush to assure voters they perfluous. What was notaare ready to “get serious about immigration,” libertarians ble at Occupy Wall Street — and the far left defend the ever-unpopular freedom of a completely unprovoked movement. decision to pepper-spray The drug war: In contrast to the last several administraJason Byas a random protester — has tions’ iron commitments to keeping the drug trade in the jason.l.byas-1@ou.edu now been overshadowed hands of violent gangs, libertarians and the far left both by the use of tear gas, which understand that it makes no more sense to prohibit drugs would be considered a war crime if used in a battlefield such as marijuana or even cocaine than it does to prohibit setting, and “non-life-threatening,” critically injuring, alcohol, and that whatever personal moral problems with rubber bullets at Occupy Oakland. recreational drug use that one might have (like the author However, this doesn’t stop many occupiers’ goals from of this column) are completely irrelevant to deciding what including the demand that the wealthy pay more to the kinds of things we should imprison someone for. very government that is literally assaulting them. Nor NAFTA and other such “free trade agreements:” serious does the fact that giant corporations effectively own the libertarian knows what the far left knows that such pacts American government phase many who plead for the are really nothing more than managed trade agreements same corporate-owned government to draw up more that enrich already powerful businesses at the expense of financial regulations (which have historismaller competitors and laborers. cally been used to protect already powerful The list could go on and on, from laws “ ... It seems our companies). holding back unions to all victimless best course of That being said, criticisms of the movecrimes, civil liberties, gay rights, free speech ment from nominally anti-government voic- action would be for issues, etc. No matter what shady alliances es have been just as disappointing. Many are libertarians and the either have made — be it libertarians of condescending, asking why the protesters the 20th century frightened by the loomfar left to recognize ing specter of state socialism or those far don’t “just get jobs,” as if that is feasible in the present economy. leftists who truly believed that corporatethey are natural Even more upsetting, many rush to the funded war hawks with warm speeches like allies.” defense of the giant corporations that President Obama actually have the interests the Occupations are protesting, alleging of the poor at heart — there’s a better one “Walmart never arrested anyone,” which, while techniwaiting to emerge. cally true, is beyond simplistic.

The idea isn’t without historical precedent, either.

No blame, they contend, can go to big business, just Proto-libertarian economist Frederic Bastiat sat on the government. However, when Apple Inc. maintains mosame side — the left, incidentally — of the French asnopolies on certain products through modern patent sembly as early socialists like Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. law, various ethically unrestrained firms are contracted Perhaps even more telling, many American anarchists to assist with never-ending wars, and the Federal Reserve of the 19th century, including Benjamin Tucker and prints out paper money at will for nearly any mammoth Lysander Spooner, self-identified as “socialists” but were bank that wants some, it becomes difficult to draw the radically more free market than most modern “small line between government and big business. government” Republicans. Spooner even started the Thus, to the confusion of those stuck in the dominant American Letter Mail Company in direct competition dichotomy, an alliance of sorts has grown from within the to the United States Postal Service to prove the market Occupations of libertarians and the far left. Both are out- could do better despite the USPS’ legally enforced moraged at bailouts, war and the Federal Reserve. Both know nopoly (by the way, he succeeded until it was forcibly that the government has never been, and likely never will shutdown). As recent as the 1960s, radical libertarian be, the friend of the poor. Both know that titanic corpora- economist Murray Rothbard teamed up with Students for tions like AIG never have and likely never will lobby for a Democratic Society President Carl Oglesby, attacking anything close to a free market. centralized power and the Vietnam War. They aren’t alone, either. In 2008, icons Ralph Nader If we are to have serious hopes of dealing with either and Ron Paul signed a statement, called “We Agree,” out- side of the revolving door that is companies like Goldman lining the overlaps between libertarian and far-left ideals. Sachs and their symbiotic partners in government, it In it, they gave four areas in which they, as the title would seems our best course of action would be for libertarians suggest, agreed: foreign policy, privacy, the national debt and the far left to recognize they are natural allies. and the Federal Reserve.

It’s not hard to imagine other areas where libertarians Jason Byas is a philosophy junior.

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Smoking-ban arguments out of fumes The proposition of a campuswide smoking ban presents an opportunity to explore the relationship not only between the students and an administration but also between essentially any populace and governing body.

First and foremost, the seemingly impervious defense for the smoking ban — that smoking is bad for your health — is a clear trespass of the role of an administrative body. To prescribe and encourage better health practices and living styles for OU students is one thing, but enforcing them in a policing manner is quite another. It is the inherent right of the individual, universally, to be self-determinant. This right cannot be overstepped by majority rule nor by executive action.

Simply put, the argument that smoking is harmful to one’s health and thus can and should be banned is not valid.

Furthermore, the second most-poignant argument for a smoking ban concerns beautification costs, and this is a much more valid objection to campus-smoking policy. However, it should be clearly noted that the campus isn’t exactly smoker-friendly. In fact, it’s quite the opposite, thus making it that much more difficult for smokers to refrain from tarnishing the aesthetic appeal of campus. The fact that the university hasn’t gone to any lengths to accommodate the student body in this manner is revealing of the genuine resentment nonsmoker’s possess for smokers. Stemming from a lack of empathetic understanding, animosity should not “Nonsmokers don’t such be considered a legitimate engage smokers. If cause for action.

In regards to the unpleasnonsmokers gave ant offense of smoking in smokers an earful the presence of non-smokevery time smoke is ers, such an offense is inexblown in their face cusable. Not only is secondhand smoke repulsive to or for every tossed the nonsmoker, it is also pobutt, then we might tentially harmful. To stand 25 feet of a door and not have such a big within blow smoke in fellow classproblem.” mate’s faces is a problem.

Smokers can’t claim the moral high ground in this discussion. One party offends the other in a specific way: the unpleasantries of the presence of smokers. The other party seeks to offend in return: encroachment on the rights of the minority.

The answer to this problem, I propose, is for the majority to respect the rights of the minority. It is within the power of the university to make room for the presence of smokers, to provide them with the ability to respect the university grounds and non-smoker’s right to not have to breath smoke. By no means am I encouraging the creation of two or three designated smoking areas around campus crammed with smokers. I propose some of the $45,000 spent yearly on smoker-caused cleanup be diverted to smoker-caused damage prevention. There should be more cigarette receptacles, more clearly defined non-smoking areas and a more-outspoken majority against smoking offenses.

The root of the problem lies in the latter. As enthusiastic as the majority may be about supporting a smoking ban, you simply don’t see much of that in the daily activity of students. Nonsmokers don’t engage smokers.

If nonsmokers gave smokers an earful every time smoke is blown in their face or for every tossed butt, then we might not have such a big problem.

No governing body should settle disputes among its populace by simple majority-versus-minority calculations. That is pseudo-democratic. The problem with a smoking ban is that it further alienates and separates two groups of students, thereby damaging relations among students. It does not bring them together as good policy should. It just increases the distance between smokers and nonsmokers, both physically and interpersonally — the opposite of what suburb-raised Midwesterners need in their college experience.

In agreement with my colleagues who have expressed frustration at the insignificance and ineffectiveness of UOSA, this matter should not be handled there. And any inclusion of faculty sympathies for this issue should be relegated to an entirely different forum. Students pay to be here; faculty are paid. The administration, however, is in a unique position to avoid further encroachment on the lives of students and actually instigate a reduction in smoking offenses.

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OKLAHOMA EARTHQUAKE

Students speak after quake hits ›››› Sooner Sampler: What were you thinking when Saturday’s earthquake happened?

“At first, I didn’t know what it was. I saw things shaking — it was terrible.”

LUYAO WANG, MICROBIOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT

“It sounded like the bass from a party was going off.”

“It wasn’t really scary, but it was a different kind of experience.”

ANTHONY VOGT, LATIN AND COMMUNICATIONS SOPHOMORE

BOMAONYE TIENABESO, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FRESHMEN

“I thought my bed was just moving until my ceiling lamp started to shake.”

“We were at our apartments, and I thought it was people running around upstairs.”

ASHLEY GROSZE, GRAPHIC DESIGN SOPHOMORE

WOLF LEITKA, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FRESHMAN

“It was the scariest thing that has ever happened to me.

I just stood there and didn’t know what to do.”

KAYCEE NEWSOM, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FRESHMAN

Tale of Tremors: 2011 Earthquakes Saturday night’s earthquake was the strongest recorded earthquake in state history — besting El Reno’s 5.5 quake in 1952 — but it was relatively small compared to others across the world this year.

7.0 Santiago del Estero

Argentina Jan. 1

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5.1 Norman, Okla.

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Japan

7.1 Eastern Turkey Oct. 23

4.7 Prague, Okla.

Nov. 5 2:12 a.m.

5.6 Sparks, Okla.

Nov. 5 10:53 p.m.

March 11 Sources: Oklahoma Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey

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SPORTS

OUDaily.com ›› The OU men’s basketball team vanquished Washburn, 85-59, in OU’s final exhibition game this year Sunday at Lloyd Noble Center.

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Belldozing the Aggies

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Freshman quarterback Blake Bell (left) rushes up the middle for a first down during OU’s 41-25 win against Texas A&M on Saturday at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Bell rushed 12 times for 37 yards and two touchdowns, mostly in short-yardage situations out of a Wildcat-like option formation, earning him the nickname, “Belldozer.”

BROYLES: Sooners will need several players to step up, Heupel says Continued from page 1 trainer indicated to Broyles what might be wrong with his knee. The senior hung his head and tears welled up in his eyes. He knew he’d likely played his final down for Oklahoma, something he expected to happen in January instead of November.

But Stoops said Broyles’ spirits perked up by the end of the game.

“He had a smile on his face (in the locker room),” Stoops said. “He’s upbeat. He knows he has a challenge in front of him, and he’ll face it.”

Junior quarterback Landry Jones, who is a close friend of Broyles, said the receiver will deal with what happened in his own way.

“Ryan’s not defined by what he does on the football field,” Jones said. “He’s a man of God first, and he’ll definitely lean on that as he’s working through this process.”

Though Broyles will certainly be missed, the Sooners also understand they have

three more games and a bowl to play this season — and they’ll have to do it without Broyles.

“With Ryan going down, everybody just has to step up,” Reynolds said. “We have to step up because if he’s not there, somebody has to make the plays.”

Co-offensive coordinator Josh Heupel said no player on OU’s roster has the capability to fill Broyles’ shoes alone.

“We’re going to need multiple guys to step up and make plays,” he said. “They can’t take someone’s role, but they can become a playmaker, take advantage of the opportunity.”

The eyes of the Sooner nation will be on senior Dejuan Miller and sophomores Reynolds, Kenny Stills and Trey Franks. The receivers understand better than anyone what the loss of Broyles means for them, and Reynolds said all they can do is push forward.

“To lose (Broyles) is tough, but we just have to keep going,” Reynolds said.

BY THE NUMBERS Broyles’ career

349

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316

Career catches

by Purdue’s Taylor Stubblefield, the NCAA record Broyles broke against Kansas this season

4,586

Career receiving yards for Broyles (1,157 in 2011; 1,622 in 2010 single-season best)

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Receiving yards Broyles needed to become NCAA leader in career receiving yards (5,005, Nevada’s Trevor Insley, 1996-99)

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OU’s record during Broyles’ career (2008-11), including a 23-7 record in Big 12 conference play Source: OU athletic department

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Football

Legendary coach enshrined in bronze Switzer honored with on-campus statue Saturday RJ Young

Sports Reporter

In the chilly November air Saturday, OU dedicated a statue to one of its most prominent sons: legendary football coach Barry Switzer.

An hour before the unveiling ceremony, fans, friends and family of Switzer had overrun the grass patch in front of his velvet-covered likeness. The bronze sculptu re s t a n d s BARRY no more than SWIZTER 100 feet from a building that already bears his name: the Barry Switzer Center.

Switzer worked the crowd with his trademark smile and charm — the same charm that sealed so many recruits for his national championship teams — taking time to pose for pictures with anyone who knew his name.

In 1973, he was hired to replace Chuck Fairbanks, who left OU to coach the New England Patriots.

Switzer had been an assistant at OU for six years.

“I came in 1966 with Jim Mackenzie,” Switzer told the crowd of well-wishers.

“Enrollment at the University of Oklahoma was 12,000, and they hadn’t beaten Texas in eight years.”

OU beat Texas that year.

Switzer started his career at the helm with a bang, leading the Sooners to back-to-back national championships in 1974 and 1975.

Switzer led the Sooners for 16 years and is the winningest coach in OU football history.

1969 Heisman winner Steve Owens, 1978 Heisman winner Billy Sims and 2003 Heisman winner Jason White made appearances in Norman for the Texas A&M game and Switzer’s unveiling.

Owens took his seat among the dignitaries during the ceremony. His praise was effusive of Switzer following the unveiling.

“I can’t say enough good things about him,” Owens said. “He influenced my life so much — not just as a player but as a friend. Everybody loves Switzer. This is just a great day for him, and I’m so happy for him.”

Sims was recruited by Switzer in 1975 and helped him win a national championship that year. He thought Oklahoma should have sculpted a statue for Switzer years ago.

“It’s about time,” he said.

“I’m always proud of my coach. That’s a no-brainer.”

White is one of two Oklahoma Heisman winners who grew up in Oklahoma under the legend of Switzer’s football teams. The Tuttle High School football star said he was happy to see “The King” memorialized alongside coaches Bud Wilkinson and Bennie Owen.

“He deserves it,” White said. “He’s done a lot for the University of Oklahoma, and he’s a great coach. They have Heisman statues, but the coaches are the ones who make those players Heisman Trophy winners. It’s a great honor for him.”

Several prominent OU and college football officials attended the 12:30 p.m. ceremony, including OU athletic director Joe Castiglione, OU President David Boren, OU coach Bob Stoops and interim Big 12 commissioner Chuck Neinas.

BY THE NUMBERS Barry Switzer

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Winning percentage of former OU football coach Barry Switzer (157-29-4) from 1973-1988

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Big Eight conference titles won by Switzer during his Oklahoma career

3

National titles won

by OU under Switzer (1974, 1975, 1985) Source: OU athletic department

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Barry Switzer stands with his family under the new statue of himself Saturday on the campus of the University of Oklahoma in Norman. The statue was dedicated two hours before the OU-Texas A&M game.

Stoops arrived early to the ceremony to shake Switzer’s hand and congratulate him before taking care of business later in the afternoon.

Castiglione was first up on the podium. He thanked everyone for attending while alluding to Stoops receiving a two-story bronze replica in the years to come.

Boren, in a dark suit, white shirt and candy-cane tie,

praised Switzer for his abilities as a football coach and humanitarian. He spoke about Switzer’s ability to outcoach and out-love any coach he ever faced — on or off the field.

“Above all, we really honor him for the man that he is,” Boren said. “No one in the history of coaching the game has had a greater grasp of the game itself. No one has

had a greater strategic mind as coach. But I think the real secret is the fact is that no coach of any sport has ever excelled better at loving his players and caring about his players.”

Neinas was the Big Eight’s commissioner at the time of Switzer’s hiring. The two have remained good friends, and Switzer asked Neinas to introduce him to the sea

of crimson and cream after learning about the statue artfully sculpted in his honor.

Neinas opened his introduction with fond stories of Switzer and a poem about the legend to commemorate the occasion.

“Barry brings joy wherever he is,” Neinas told the crowd of denizens and diplomats. “If you’ve ever been in a room, and Barry Switzer comes in, the room lightens up. He just makes you feel a little bit better.”

After the crowd was settled and the dignitaries had described the living legend, “The King” stepped up to the lectern before the huddled masses. He told stories about the day he was hired, about his players, about his staff, about his family.

He ended his speech by thanking everyone for coming and gave them all a cheer.

“I just want to say thank you for being here,” Switzer said. “It’s a great day for me and my family. We’ll treasure it the rest of our lives. I love you.”

Switzer descended from the podium to the sound of cheers, but the bronze likeness of him will silently stand tall on campus forever.

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