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State Regents to ask for more funding 5.5 percent budget increase may not help OU enough, spokesman says CHASE COOK The Oklahoma Daily

The State Board of Regents voted Wednesday to present a higher education budget that is 5.5 percent bigger than last year’s budget, a Regents spokesman said.

The State Regents’ fiscal year 2012 budget is proposed at $1.122

billion, which is a $115.6 million increase from last year, spokesman Ben Hardcastle said. They voted for this increase in funding to provide basic needs for growing classrooms, Hardcastle said.

“There has been a increase in enrollment,” he said. “The appropriation request is appropriate for standard operation procedures.”

The budget request is in its very early stages, and there is no way to tell if the Legislature will approve or disapprove it,

Hardcastle said.

C h r i s Sh i l l i n g , u n i v e r s i t y spokesman, said in an e-mail if the budget increase is approved it would help OU but probably not enough.

“This would add approximately $6.6 million to our base from the previous fiscal year, which would be great,” Shilling said.

“However, this amount would still be approximately $3 million dollars behind our [Fiscal Year] 2008 appropriations, so it wouldn’t fully get us back to

where we were.”

OU President David Boren recently addressed the Faculty Senate about potential budget shortfalls, Shilling said. Boren will be taking a 6 percent paycut and OU vice presidents will see a 2 to 3 percent paycut depending on their pay grade. Boren said OU department heads should prepare for budget cuts upward to 5 percent.

The legislature won’t decide on the appropriation increase until they meet in January 2011.

UOSA ELECTION | STUDENTS GET THE VOTE OUT

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University College freshmen Will Robson, Drew Cochran, and Christian Fincher discuss their voting opinions Tuesday afternoon at the UOSA elections voting table in front of Dale Hall. Students voted for Interfraternity Council President and Undergraduate Student Congress representatives during fall elections Tuesday and Wednesday.

To read the full results from the Tuesday and Wednesday’s UOSA elections, visit OUDaily.com.

Cate staff receives thank you from residents Students, staff members mingle at dinner thrown by Cate RSA and Faculty-in-Residence

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Wayne Battiest, a housekeeper in Cate Center’s Neill and McSpadden houses, works Wednesday afternoon to maintain the fourth floor of Cate Center.

Battiest was honored Wednesday night at an appreciation dinner.

A LOOK AT WHAT’S NEW AT Footage from the women’s basketball team’s 85-23 victory over the Cameron Aggies Wednesday night.

Injuries were the reason he eventually quit, he said.

“Scissors, knives, all of it coming at you so fast,” Battiest said. “Your hands were always cut up and TREVOR SHOFNER The Oklahoma Daily bleeding. It’s the hardest job there is. The pain was terrible; it made Wayne Battiest, the housekeeper the long hours even longer.” for Neill and McSpadden houses, A few years later, in 2007, Battiest loves his job. From the time he gets visited a relative in the area and to work at 7:30 a.m. very few stu- applied for a housekeeping job at dents pass by that don’t offer him a OU. He’s been here ever since. greeting or wish him a good mornBattiest’s story is just one of the ing. He said he often takes it upon many of the staff of Cate Center. himself to make sure that they get Because their work is often beup in morning, and many students’ hind the scenes, it is largely unmorning rituals begin noticed and often with a rap on the door unappreciated.

“There are so few from Battiest, telling The Cate Resident opportunities to them “get up.”

Students Association, really let the entire with help and sponThe students are his “kids,” he said, and sorship from Allen staff know that while they’re under they’re appreciated.” Hertzke and his wife his watch, he “makes Barbara Norton of sure nothing bad ever C a t e Fa c u l t y - i n — DAVE ANNIS, happens to them.”

Residence, organized HOUSING AND FOOD “Let me put it this and held the first SERVICES DIRECTOR way, the only reason “Giving Thanks to I’m here is because Those Who Make Cate I love working with the students,” GREAT!” dinner.

Battiest said. “The students are The students and FIRs wanted good to me.” to make the opportunity for Cate At age 13, Battiest left his home housekeeping, maintenance, in Rod City, a small town in south- grounds, food service and the OU east Oklahoma, to work and live police department to relax, meet on his own. He said he “just felt students and eat dinner. like being on his own since he was The walls of the room were 13 years old.” lined with posters covered in He got a job a poultry factory in Broken Bow, where he stayed for the next twenty years of his life.

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Ethics team moves to regional match State competition win qualifies four OU students for Saturday’s Ethics Bowl DHARA STETH The Oklahoma Daily

The OU Ethics Team will travel to San Antonio this weekend to participate in the 13th annual Texas Regional Ethics Bowl.

Gregory Maus, Cody Franklin, Tony Boese and Daily columnist Evan DeFilippis placed first in the Statewide Student Ethics Challenge, sponsored by the Oklahoma Business Ethics Consortium.

At an ethics bowl competition, two teams compete against each other. One team takes the priority position and speaks for the first 10 minutes. The second team then has five minutes to refute the first team. After this, the first team is allotted five minutes to rebut and consolidate its argument. For the second half of the round, the two teams switch roles, with the second team presenting its argument and the first team refuting.

After winning the Oct. 16 competition at the University of Central Oklahoma, the team will compete at the regional competition at St. Mary’s University.

This competition serves as the qualifying event for the nationwide Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl.

Boese, a philosophy, political science and history triple major, will not be able to attend the regional competition due to a prior commitment and will be replaced by Guss Keys, a philosophy senior.

The team will be accompanied on their trip by philosophy professor Steve Ellis, one of four team advisers.

“We actually got compliments from the OK Business Ethics Consortium for having such collaboration in advising,” Bacon said.

This is the first year OU has had an ethics team. The team was initiated by Bacon, OU Integrity Council adviser. The Integrity Council is a student chapter of the OK Business Ethics Consortium.

“We wanted an ethics team because it’s something we’re taking a focus on,” said Breea Bacon, assistant director of Academic Integrity Systems and team adviser.

To prepare for the competition, teams are given cases from which prompts for the competition will be chosen. The state and regional levels of the ethics bowl utilize the same prompts, Boese said.

However, the actual questions asked at the competition will not necessarily be what the team expects.

“The prompts were specific and only tangentially related to the cases,” Maus said.

The judging criteria include whichever team speaks the best, is most appreciable and understandable, and best addresses the ethic issues in play, Boese said.

The Ethics Bowl serves to challenge participants to explore the ethical issues of the case rather than argue or debate a side.

“Unlike debate, you don’t go in with a canned position,” Boese said, who entered the competition expecting to win.

“You just discuss the issue.”

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Integrity Forum occurs today DINNER: To show students the value Integrity Council hopes to FIR and of integrity and its place in the encourage discourse among world, an Integrity faculty and students about RSA honor professional Forum will be help at 4 p.m. integrity, Bacon said. today in Adams Hall, Room Other speakers participating the forum are Lt. Col. Cate staff 150.“Integrity is not the sexiest inRobert D. Gifford, assistant Continued from page 1

Today around campus » A free art lecture and book signing of “In the Remington Moment” will take place 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. » Paradigm, hosted by the Baptist Student Union, will take place 8 to 10 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium. » Union Programming Board’s Jazz Lounge will take place 8 to 10 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Beaird Lobby & Lounge.

Friday, Nov. 12 » Delta Gamma Fraternity Lectureship in Values and Ethics, presenting Leigh Anne Tuohy (whose story inspired “The Blind Side”), will take place 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom. » Student Association of Bangladesh will meet 6 to 11 p.m. in the Union’s Sooner Room. » “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World” will show at 4, 7, 10 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. in Meacham Auditorium. » The Wire’s Battle of the Bands will take place 8 to 11 p.m. in the Union’s Will Rogers Room.

Saturday, Nov. 13 » Boomer Bash will take place 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Union’s Molly Shi Ballroom. » Student Association of Bangladesh will meet 6 to 11 p.m. in the Union’s Sooner Room. » OU Improv rehearsal will take place 8 to 11 p.m. in the Union’s Frontier Room.

Sunday, Nov. 14 » Students for Ecclesia will meet 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Union’s Weitzenhoffer and Heritage Rooms. » University Women’s Association Fall Event will take place 2 to 4 p.m. at the OU College of Architecture, 559 W. Main. » A Masquerade Ball hosted by the Health Sciences Center Share Dancers will take place 6 to 11 p.m. in the Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom. » Society of Chinese Students & Scholars will meet 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Union’s Sooner Room.

» This day in OU history

Nov. 11, 1975 Union garage study approved by board A feasibility study for a proposed parking garage to be constructed north of the Oklahoma Memorial Union on the current parking lot site was approved by the Union Board of Trustees.

The feasibility study determined needs as to number of parking spaces, utilization estimates during the week and weekends, guidelines for the form and physical characteristics of the proposed parking structure, traffic engineering to insure proper traffic flow, aesthetic and environmental considerations and finances.

City trims trees to deter rapes An area bounded by Symmes, Elm, and Lindsey streets and Berry Road was been outlined as the major area in Norman where reported rapes occurred. The City of Norman Parks and Recreation Department cut low, overhanging trees that lined the streets in that area. The trees blocked much of the light from the street lights.

“I don’t know how effective more light will be in deterring rapes in the area, but trimming the trees would definitely increase light on the streets,” Superintendent of Parks and Recreation Lionel Bentley said.

Wichita Rugby Club shuts out Sooner ruggers The Wichita rugby club shut out the OU ruggers 22-0.

The day after OU fell to KU in football 23-3, OU was again outmatched by a team from Kansas. The loss dropped the rugby team’s record to 7-5 on the season. *Source: The Oklahoma Daily archives

handwritten thank-you’s and anecdotes from the students of Cate.

“It just brought out into the open all the people that are behind the scenes doing everything that we take for granted or need everyday,” Stephen Thorn, professional writing sophomore, said.

“What this dinner did was put faces on all the people who make Cate great.”

Several students, including Thorn, got up to speak to the group, thanking the staff for their work. The staff members each stood up and introduced themselves, receiving grateful applause.

David Annis, director of housing and food services, made a surprise appearance to thank the group.

“There are so few opportunities to really let the entire staff know that they’re appreciated and I think the effort that the Cate RSA and FIRs put into putting this event together has been well appreciated,” Annis said.

The Cate staff members left the dinner full and happy. Battiest, whose cousin attended as his guest, enjoyed the night.

“It was great to hear some thanks from all the students,” Battiest said. “We work hard for them.”

Around 40 students, 40 staff members and 30 of the staff ’s guests attended the dinner, which took place in Davenports of Couch Re st au ra nt We d n e s d ay evening.

subject in the world but it is something that needs to be talked about,” Breea Bacon, Assistant Director of Academic Integrity Systems, said.

A panel discussion featuring Pete Winemiller, senior vice president of guest relations for the Oklahoma City Thunder; Nancy Anderson, director of engineering for Boeing-Global Services and Support; and other Oklahoma professionals aim to promote integrity on campus.

U.S. Attorney and U.S. Army Reserve JAG Officer; Berry Tramel, a sports columnist for the Oklahoman; Ronnie Tipps, former athletic director of Southlake Carroll High School and James Belote, former president of Oklahoma Association for Justice.

The Integrity Forum is hosted by the UOSA Integrity Council and the Oklahoma Business Ethics Consortium.

— Dhara Sheth/The Daily

Organization to host town hall for high school students The Hispanic American Student Association will host an educational town hall meeting at 6:30 tonight at Mount St. Mary’s High School, 2801 S. Shartel Ave., in Oklahoma City.

The event will be conducted entirely in Spanish and teach Hispanic high school students and their parents about the college application process and inform them about scholarship and financial aid opportunities.

HASA President Jason Lugo, energy management sophomore, brought up the idea because he wanted to give back to the community.

“We want to clear up misconceptions that universities are expensive and out of their reach,” Lugo said.

He also wants to show students and parents that there is a Hispanic student community at OU. This is the first year for the HASA town hall meeting.

Speakers will include those affiliated with HASA such as the previous HASA president and Miss Hispanic OU. The meeting will be entirely in Spanish, Lugo said, because most of the students’ parents don’t speak English, and many of the students learned Spanish as their first language.

Many of the high school students in attendance will be first generation college students and don’t have an example to follow when applying to universities.

Lugo said the goal of the meeting is to clear up confusion about the college application process and help students become informed about the steps they need to take to be successful at a university.

Lugo said he hopes to leave students with a sense of hope after the meeting.

— Lauren Casonhua/The Daily

Four finalists compete for environmental excellence award Four finalists from the city of Norman and OU have been nominated for the Keep Oklahoma Beautiful environmental excellence award competition.

The finalists are the City of Norman, the National Center for Employment Development Conference Center and Hotel, the Green Roof Project at OU’s National Weather Center and OU’s Recycle Like a Champion RecycleMania competition.

Projects were selected because of their efforts in the areas of environmental improvement, beautification and landscaping and environmental education and promotion.

The NWC Green Roof Project is the first experimental green roof at a university in Oklahoma, said Amy Buchanan, spokeswoman for the National Weather Center.

Norman is the first city in Oklahoma and only the 17th nationally to become a “Fair Trade Town,” according to a press release.

The environmental excellence awards and other special honors will be presented Tuesday at Keep Oklahoma Beautiful’s 20th annual awards banquet at the Skrivin Hilton Hotel in Oklahoma City.

“It’s a social networking event,” Wilkinson said.

“Every story is told in a presentation, and we hope everybody is learning and getting ideas to share.”

— Sabrina Prosser/The Daily

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Veterans adjust to life on campus OU veterans office reaches out to students from the military CHASE COOK The Oklahoma Daily

Crisann Dixon, English senior, served five years in the Marine Corps before coming to OU. University life is radically different than military life, she said. She found herself frustrated with students speaking while the professor was talking or digging around in their backpacks.

“I would look at them and say, ‘What are you doing?’”

Dixon said. “The university is a whole other world.”

Dixon isn’t the only veteran student dealing with adjustment.

OU’s Veteran Student Services office handles between 750 and 800 veteran students, veterans coordinator Jennifer Trimmer said. Veteran students can be servicemen and -women who have left the military or dependent students who use their parents’ GI bill benefits to attend school. The Veteran Student Services

What this means »Today is Veterans Day. »The holiday was created to remember the end of World War I and was called Armistice Day »The name was changed to Veterans Day after World War II. »Is always recognized on Nov. 11 »There are currently 25 million living veterans in the U.S. *Source: USA.gov

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Crisann Dixon, English senior, walks to Gittinger Hall after her botany class. She keeps her water bottle and notebook tucked tightly against her body, a habit left over from her military training. She served in the Marine Corps for five years before transferring to OU as a veteran student. office at OU helps these students adapt to the college lifestyle and use their benefits from military service, Trimmer said.

The office also works closely w ith the Readjustment Counseling Service to help them readapt to civilian life.

Dixon found the office’s help paramount during her transition from servicewoman to student. She joined the Marine Corps in April 2004 as a senior in high school.

She served for five years before leaving for family and college in Oklahoma.

Dixon arrived at OU only 10 days after her contract with the Marine Corps was up. She was never deployed, but the training during her service made college intimidating.

After six months, and a few niggling quirks — like tucking her water bottle into the crook of her arm — Dixon said she adjusted and loves life at OU. Oklahoma is a great place for military students, and the services, like the Veteran Student Services office, are great, she said.

Dixon made it clear that

the military may fade from a veteran’s life, but it never disappears.

“I have a friend in Afghanistan that I haven’t heard from in weeks,” Dixon said. “Normally he checks in every week or so, but it has been a while.”

She wants to help other veterans return to the civilian lifestyle. She participates in the Student Ve t e r a n s A s s o c i a t i o n and said she enjoys it immensely.

Dixon urges any students coming into or currently attending OU to take advantage of the resources OU’s Veteran Student Services office supplies.

“I know how hard it is,” Dixon said. “Don’t be afraid to ask for help.”

A s t u d e n t p re p a r i n g to enter the military life may need to heed her advice when he returns from deployment.

Devan Endert, University College freshman, is in the Oklahoma National Guard and will be deployed to Afghanistan in March 2011 as a member of the infantry.

He doesn’t know what city, but he is sure of his

purpose.

“I’ve always wanted to protect people,” Endert said.

“My family supports my decision 100 percent.”

Endert chose the Oklahoma National Guard because of the opportunity to go to college before deploying overseas. His tour will last one year before he can return to finish his college career.

Hi s p at h c o m e s w i t h many risks, but they are all ones Endert takes in stride.

In fact, he welcomes the challenge and worries not about himself but those around him.

“I’m not worried about dying,” Endert said. “I’m more worried about my friends and family worrying about me.”

Once Endert’s year in Afghanistan is over, he plans to return to OU or achieve his ultimate goal of helping single mothers by building them homes. He said he wants to open his own company, but the most important thing is getting it done.

“I will start my own company or work for another company,” Endert said. “It just needs to get done.”

Thai culture celebrated Wednesday Thai students celebrated and shared their culture with other students Wednesday night at the Loy Kratong Festival. The festival is a cultural event in Thailand dealing with the goddess of water.

The event was filled with Thai customs and snacks, and also cultural experiences from other countries.

“We also had two guest speakers from Rwanda and Columbia to exchange their culture related to water. The festival is about floating a handmade raft, and then we make a wish. This will make the wish come true and take the bad luck away,” said Monrada Yamkasikorn, an international studies sophomore.

Loy Kratong originated 500 years ago in the old kingdom of Sukhothai in Thailand. The festival features rafts that are sent out with a wish to show appreciation to the goddess of water.

“Traditionally, there is a beauty contest during this festival.

This was inspired by the lady of the king, named Noppamas, who had created a decorated raft to float in the river,” said Teerawit Prasomsri, president of the Thai Student Association.

Students participated in some Thai dancing, send out a handmade raft, and also watch a role-play about the origins of the festival.

The festival was held at the Union by the Thai Student Association and was free to all students. “[Loy Kratong] is important because it shows Thai Culture to other OU students,” said Arisara Yenjai, a petroleum engineering senior. “It is also when we float away our bad luck, in case you thought you did no good on an exam or something like that.”

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Charity ball benefits Habitat for Humanity The Hearts and Hammers Ball, a charity event held Saturday night to benefit the Cleveland County chapter of Habitat for Humanity, raised between $3,500 and $4,000, said Michael Giesecke, Union Programming Board director.

About 150 students, faculty and community members turned out for the event, hosted by the Union Programming Board for the first time.

“This is kind of like our new thing,” said Megan Gallagher, biochemistry junior and executive member for community service for the board. “This is the first time we’ve done this, but we also do a Pink and Black Ball, so this is kind of like our fall event.”

Among the events at the Hearts and Hammers Ball were a silent auction, a buffet with chocolate covered strawberries and shrimp, among other items, and a live band who played a soulful version of Elliott Smith’s “Miss Misery.”

A small television was also arranged in the back of the room, broadcasting the OU-Texas A&M game. The television seemed to be one of the most popular attractions of the night, especially among the older patrons.

Giesecke said the money was raised through ticket sales, table sponsorships and a silent auction that took place in the back of the ballroom. Tickets cost $12 in advance and $15 at the door. The tables cost $300 each, and Giesecke said the Union Programming Board sold 11 in advance.

“We’ve got to support our Sooners,” Gallagher said.

—Danny Hatch/ The Daily

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Thursday, November 11th, 4 pm Adams Hall, Room 150 Brought to you by: UOSA Integrity Council and The Oklahoma Business Ethics Consortium

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Jared Rader, opinion editor dailyopinion@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-7630

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Deficit report too regressive

Abortion myths

Here’s the deal. The federal budget deficit is running at How about a different approach — letting the Bush-era tax about $1.4 trillion and the national debt is at about $13.7 tril- cuts end. We don’t propose this in the interest of inciting class lion. This means about $44,000 in debt owed when divided warfare, but simply as a means to survive as a nation. To illusamong all U.S. citizens. trate what the Bush tax cuts do for the average middle-class Obviously, this isn’t a sustainable trend. How the govern- family making $52,224 a year (according to a Sept. 13 article in ment responds will determine the economic fate of our coun- the Christian Science Monitor) a “one-year increase in their tries for decades. take-home pay of 2.4 percent, or $1,016 is almost enough for A U.S. debt commission released a report Wednesday, out- five nights of camping at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort in lining their design to reduce the U.S. deficit. Their proposals Lake Buena Vista, Fla.” For those in the top 1 percent, disposare disturbing to say the least, because they actually able income rose 5.9 percent, or $72,872 — cut from the biggest spenders — Medicare, Social enough to buy a Jaguar vehicle. ...senior citizens Security and national defense.

Is this worth sacrificing? In the interest of are being forced avoiding total economic destruction and burNeedless to say, some of their proposals aren’t popular, involving raising the retirement age for sodening senior citizens, we think so. to foot the bill cial security from 66 to 68 by 2050, and 69 by 2075.

National defense, on the other hand, is very despite the Think about it — if you’re 16 years old right now, deserving of cuts, even with two wars at hand. fact that Social by the time you’re 66 years old, you would have to The government gives out billions in contracts wait another two years to receive benefits, if lawto private companies that make cool things to Security isn’t in makers strictly adhered to the proposal. Moreover, blow stuff up that are never used. trouble.” someone born today would be 65 in the year 2075, The fiscal commission’s proposal requires 14 and would have to wait another four years for his or her of the 18 commissioners to agree in order for any legislation to benefits. come before a vote in Congress by December. As it stands, this Strangely the report also lowers taxes on income. This is unlikely to happen. sounds like a bizarre move when trying to cut the deficit, even Whatever they decide, ideology cannot be a part of it. if it attempts to compensate by ending breaks in other areas. Ideology gets us nowhere but the situation we’re in. Democrats For the lowest bracket, income taxes would be reduced from often want to spend money and compensate by raising 10 to 8 percent, and in the highest bracket, 35 to 23 percent. taxes and borrowing money at a seemingly endless rate.

The corporate tax rate would also be reduced, from 35 to 26 Republicans want to cut taxes and say they want to cut spendpercent. ing, but because they refuse to cut Social Security, Medicare or Sounds a little regressive to us as senior citizens are being national defense, they are left with making vague promises to forced to foot the bill, despite the fact that Social Security cut pork barrel spending or other domestic programs, which isn’t in trouble. Deficit hawks will point to the fact that Social amount to chump change in the grand scheme of things.

Security is expected to pay out slightly more than it received in Whatever our leaders decide, it needs to be based on ratiotaxpayer funds this year — the first time since 1983, according nality and what is fairest for all. Right now, this is not what the to the 2010 Social Security report. However, the program re- fiscal commission proposes. ceives funding in other ways and is expected to run a surplus until 2024.

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Wednesday’s column by Mariah Najmuddin left me scratching my head. On the one hand, I applaud her logic in suggesting that “Justice For All” promotes access to contraceptives. This is typically not a part of the anti-choice campaign, which is backed by groups that are also notoriously anti-contraception, anti-sex and anti-woman. If most anti-abortion groups had their way, contraceptives would be illegal.

On the other hand, the column is filled with misinformation and myths about so-called “abortion trauma.” The statistics cited come from the Elliot Institute.

The name Elliot was chosen because it means “faithful to God.” Their self-stated goal is to study “unwanted, coerced and forced abortions,” which I imagine do have a negative impact on women. Most abortions in the U.S., however, are not unwanted, coerced or forced.

The Institute’s studies are not published in peerreviewed journals because their methodologies are flawed and biased.

A review of the scientific literature finds that there is no post-abortion trauma. The vast majority of women who have an abortion are confident in their decision and report feeling relief afterward. They do not “live with pain every day” or have a “horrifying” experience.

The only guilt or shame a very few women report feeling is because anti-choice rhetoric constantly paints them as murderers.

Yes, abortion is an emotional experience and the decision to continue or terminate a pregnancy affects different women in different ways. Perhaps if we spent more time supporting women in their decisions instead of criticizing them or painting them as murderers or victims, we could move toward a more common ground.

Respectfully, — Terry Dennison Adjunct professor, Norman campus

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Student veterans deserving of in-state tuition Editor’s note: Sgt. Nicholas Harrison is a non-commissioned officer in the Oklahoma National Guard.

They risk their lives defending our way of life. They serve side-by-side with our parents, siblings, friends, coworkers and children – putting their hopes, dreams, and ambitions on hold for years at a time. They show the same commitment to the state as anyone else.

Indeed, some would say their personal sacrifice shows an even greater commitment to the state.

However, at Oklahoma’s public colleges and universities, some of them are still told that it is not enough. They are classified

as nonresidents and they are assessed out-of-state tuition.

Over the past six years, soldiers in the Oklahoma National Guard have been subjected to multiple overseas deployments. The 1-180th was deployed to Afghanistan in 2006. The 45th was deployed to Iraq in 2007. The Fires Brigade was deployed to Iraq in 2008.

Two agricultural development teams were deployed to Afghanistan in 2009.

And, the 45th is headed to Afghanistan this spring.

This is, by no means, a comprehensive list of Oklahoma’s recent military deployments. There have been many more involving a variety of units. And, each

time these units were activated, soldiers had to put their lives on hold — taking a leave of absence from their jobs, dropping all of their classes and bidding farewell to their friends and families for months at a time.

Yet, in spite of these hardships, they are still not guaranteed in-state tuition. They are told that they haven’t demonstrated enough commitment to the state.

OU is happy to waive out-of-state tuition for almost every National Merit Scholar in the country.

However, soldiers who come off active duty and decide to settle in the state and use their Montgomery GI Bill benefits are out of luck — as are those who move to

the state, start college, and join the Oklahoma National Guard.

Veterans coming off active duty have filed state tax returns. They have received state tags and driver’s licenses. And, they have changed their voter registrations. However, they have still been told that they weren’t eligible because there was no proof that they would stay in state upon graduation.

C o n s e q u e nt l y , s o m e of these veterans are now leaving Oklahoma — transferring to other institutions outside the state, feeling insulted and unappreciated by the treatment they received here.

Given the unfortunate

state budget situation, one can certainly understand the need to find creative ways to collect whatever funds one can — increasing tuition and fees, holding accounts payable and financial aid refunds a bit longer, issuing more parking tickets, assessing interest on student accounts, charging a convenience fee for credit card payments and negotiating exclusive merchandising contracts.

However, debts must still be paid — even when those debts are the state’s. And, Oklahoma cannot pretend that the men and women serving in uniform who have risked their lives for this country haven’t done anything for it.

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Nicholas las Harrison son

As a matter of course, anyone who serves in the Oklahoma National Guard should be entitled to instate tuition.

And, any active duty soldier or reservist stationed in Oklahoma and any soldier coming off active duty within six months should also be entitled to the same privilege.

— Nicholas Harrison, law and business graduate

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Abort the abortion debate, or a pimpin’ education And now for a column about how we appropriate STAFF COLUMN MN our resources and what that Bryan says about our values.

Honeycutt Shawn Carter (rapper alias, Jay-Z) knows how to appropriate resources. For an education on quality pimping, look no further than his song and music video “Big Pimpin.” Mr. Carter pimps big with boat rides for friends and showering bikini-clad women in $250 champagne.

Unfortunately, not everyone has the money to pimp big.

Some of us have to pimp on a budget.

Oklahoma voters doomed their public schools to small pimping by voting down State Question 744. This is an excellent opportunity for Oklahoma public schools to evaluate how efficiently they are utilizing their current resources.

In “Brilliance in a Box,” Amanda Ripley writes that the best education systems around the world provide superior education without inflated budgets. These education systems spend more efficiently. They prefer an austere classroom — furnished with wooden desks and chalkboards — to those in the United States, often populated with smarter boards than students. Moreover, teachers at these schools graduate among the top third of their college classes (compared with less than a quarter of American educators coming from the top third).

When a school tightens its budget, which programs are first to get cut? SUNY axed several foreign language departments, University of California shaved five varsity sports, and New York public schools trimmed extracurricular

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athletics. With the ready accessibility of high-speed Internet and sexting, my vote is cutting sex-ed classes.

Especially since Justice For All and the Women’s and Gender Studies Student Association kindly donated their resources for our sexual education this week and last. If their demonstrations taught us anything, we learned that sex is full of blood and noise, signifying nothing.

This month’s sexual education is generating abundant controversies and newspaper columns — arguably cosmic revenge on the OU student body for voting to continue columnist Gerard Keiser’s bread quality debate last semester.

These conversations, not unlike those surrounding SQ 744, fail to address how those in the abortion rights debate are utilizing their resources.

Rather than talk about adoption beneath the shadows of posters, Justice For All should help register volunteers and collect money to support at-risk single mothers and pregnant women. They should donate diapers, baby clothes and food to organizations that support these struggling mothers.

The Gabriel Project is just one example of “an effort by a church community to help women in what might seem to be a crisis pregnancy” (gabrielproject.com). That the Gabriel Project does not yet have a presence in Oklahoma (hint, hint) suggests that Justice For All could be doing something better with its time.

There are battered women’s shelters around Oklahoma that could use the support otherwise lavished on counterprotests.

Rather than spending on kazoos, rattles and other noisemakers, Women’s and Gender Studies Student Association

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should have invested in a bucket of condoms that didn’t run out before 3 p.m. (although they too are a sort of noisemaker). The issues of Oklahoma’s public school budget, OU’s recent abortion debate and even Mr. Carter’s “Big Pimpin” all deal with an appropriation or misappropriation of resources.

The effort to increase education funding misses the point: What are we doing with the resources at hand? We should not be satisfied that over 75 percent of teachers in the U.S. graduate among the bottom two thirds of their class. Universities, such as our own, should not churn out mediocre teachers.

While the abortion rights debate degenerates into a cockpunching match, the constant losers are the very people whom both sides claim to defend.

What would happen if we reinvested the resources spent on the recent demonstrations into orphanages, battered women’s shelters or Big Brothers Big Sisters programs?

And if you want to pimp big, don’t drink Cristal. You have to make it rain.

It is easy to claim that we value the protection of unborn children and women, that we value giving our students the best education possible or that we enjoy big pimping.

How we budget finite resources — time, money, champagne — is a more honest evaluation of what those values really are.

— Bryan Honeycutt, English graduate

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LONDON — Fifty-thousand students, lecturers and supporters marched through London on Wednesday against plans to triple university tuition fees. Violence erupted as a minority battled police and trashed a building containing the headquarters of the governing Conservative Party.

They demonstrated against plans to raise the cost of studying at a university to 9,000 pounds ($14,000) a year — three times the current rate.

Some protesters smashed windows and others lit a bonfire outside the building.

Office workers were evacuated as several dozen demonstrators managed to get into the lobby, scattering furniture, smashing CCTV cameras, spraying graffiti and chanting “Tories Out,” while outside police faced off against a crowd that occasionally hurled food, soda cans and placards.

“We are destroying the building just like they are destroying our chances of affording higher education,” said Corin Parkin, 20, a student at

London’s City University.

The violence appeared to be carried out by a small group as hundreds of others stood and watched. Anarchist symbols and the words “Tory scum” were spray-painted around the building, and black and red flags flew from atop an office block beside the 29-story Millbank Tower.

Rooftop protesters threw down water, paper — and in one case a fire extinguisher — to boos from the crowd below.

Police said eight people, a mix of protesters and police officers, were taken to hospitals with minor injuries.

Organizers condemned the violence. Sally Hunt, general secretary of faculty group the University and College Union, said “the actions of a minority, out of 50,000 people, is regrettable.”

Elsewhere, protesters were peaceful.

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True freshman makes early impression Despite late start in the sport, McLaurin has already earned a starting spot and conference honors in collegiate career GREG FEWELL The Oklahoma Daily

Sallie McLaurin is making her name known around the Big 12 Conference after starting the year unsure whether she’d even get to play this season.

The freshman middle blocker from Midwest City has played sports as long as she can remember. But it wasn’t until her sophomore year of high school that she knew she wanted to play collegiate volleyball — mostly because that’s when she started playing the sport competitively.

“I knew that I wanted to get a scholarship, and I loved playing the game,” McLaurin said. “I didn’t know I had the opportunity to have a scholarship until my sophomore summer, though. That’s whenever I knew I wanted to play in college.”

Even though McLaurin began her volleyball career later than most — many of whom start in middle school or earlier — it didn’t take her long to make an impact.

In her first season at Carl Albert High School, she was named the team’s most improved player on the way to helping the Titans to their first state tournament appearance. She received first-team all-conference honors her junior and senior seasons, and was also named a Prepvolleyball.com All-American her senior year.

McLaurin knew she wanted to stay close to home but did not have her sights set on any particular college. However, she said the atmosphere at OU felt right.

“I knew I wanted to stay close to home, but I didn’t think OU was an option for me,” McLaurin said.

“I didn’t want to come here since my sister was here, but then doors opened up

and I loved everything about this SALLIE MCLAURIN campus.”

McLaurin found it easy to Year: embrace OU as her new home.

Freshman However, she said adjusting to the level of play from high Position: school to college was more of a Middle challenge. blocker For the first part of the season, she did not even know if or Height: 6 foot, 2 inches when she would play. In fact, she didn’t know until the pre-match » Second on the team warmups that she would be seewith 194 kills this season, ing her first collegiate action.

“I didn’t know until I was on the averaging 2.18 kills per set court that I was playing,” McLaurin with a .324 kill percentage said. “Francie (Ekwerekwu) told me that she wasn’t going to play » Leads the team with 114 that game, and I was like, ‘Well, I blocks (24 solo, 90 assists) guess I’m the only option that they and averages 1.28 blocks have left.’” per set She led OU with five blocks in that match against Wichita State, and her production has steadily improved.

In October, once the Sooners set a consistent lineup that included McLaurin, she broke out. Against Missouri on Oct. 9, she recorded her first career double-double with 16 kills and 12 blocks.

She followed that up by helping pace the Sooners with nine kills and a match-high seven blocks in their nationally televised match against Texas on Oct. 13.

Those matches were enough to earn McLaurin her first newcomer of the week award. She claimed the award the next two weeks, and now she no longer has to worry about whether she will be playing from match to match.

Although she appreciates the honors, she has her sights set higher.

“I want to be an All-American,” McLaurin said. “I want to be offensive player of the week, and why not rookie of the week again?”

With the Sooners on track to finish this season with their best ONLINE AT OUDAILY.COM conference record since 2006, it » Story: A game recap of the seems that the sky is the limit for Sooners’ 3-0 win on Wednesday not only McLaurin but the whole over the Colorado Buffaloes Sooner volleyball team.

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Carter IMPACT semifinalist Senior safety Quinton Carter was named one of eight semifinalists for the Lott IMPACT Trophy.

The trophy is awarded annually to the college football player who has the biggest impact on his team on and off the field.

Big 12 Conference players Sam Acho, senior defensive end from Texas, and Prince Amukamara, senior cornerback from Nebraka, join Carter on the semifinalist list.

Men’s gymnastics program signs 4 The OU men’s gymnastics team received four National Letters of Intent on Wednesday.

Dylan Akers, Jacoby Rubin, Danny Berardini and William Clement will join the Sooners next season.

“This could be one of the better groups that we have had in a couple of years,” coach Mark Williams said.

“I think that says a lot when you consider the talent we have recruited here in the past years.”

Wrestlers open with shutout OU blanked the University of Central Oklahoma 39-0 on Tuesday at McCasland Field House.

Sophomores Jarrod Patterson, reigning Big 12 champion, and Chase Nelson gave the Sooners two pins over the Bronchos.

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On the strength of aggressive defense and sheer, hardwood hustle, the Sooners dispatched the Cameron Aggies at 85-23 Wednesday at Lloyd Noble Center.

From the opening tipoff, the Aggies were outgunned by a bigger, faster and more physical OU team.

On the strength of senior guard Danielle Robinson’s dribble penetration and t h e i n s i d e p re s e n c e o f sophomore center Joanna McFarland, the Sooners opened the game with an 11-0 run.

Robinson scored nine of the Sooners’ points in the first seven minutes of play.

She led all scorers with a game-high 20 points on 8-of12 shooting, 4-of-6 from the charity stripe.

In the paint, McFarland made her presence known with 10 points and seven rebounds. Freshman guard Morgan Hook came off the bench to contribute 10 points for OU. The Sooners went five minutes without scoring a field goal later in the half, but their defensive play didn’t slip.

OU’s stifling man-to-man defense held the Aggies to seven total points on 2-of-19 shooting in the first half. The Aggies went without a single basket for the first 15 minutes of regulation.

This athletic brand of defense by OU put Cameron in the bonus with eight minutes left to play, but it also led to 25 first-half turnovers by Cameron, 43 total.

OU made a habit of picking the Aggies pockets with 13 first-half steals, 25 total.

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Senior guard Danielle Robinson shoots a layup in the Sooners’ 85-23 win over Cameron on Wednesday. Robinson had 20 points. of grand larceny with four.

Robinson ignited the offense with back-to-back layups and back-to-back steals to help OU start the second half with a 7-0 run, increasing the lead to 42-5.

The Aggies scored with increasing regularity once the game was put out of reach at

70-18.

In waning minutes of the game, coach Sherri Coale called off the dogs by putting the Sooners into a 2-3 zone.

In their final exhibition game, the Sooners have shown they are taking no prisoners this season and are welcoming all comers.

Sooners get 4 early letters of intent The OU women’s basketball program received four National Letters of Intent on the first day of the early signing period Wednesday.

Sharane Campbell (Star Spencer High School), DaShawn Harden (Olathe, Kan.), Kaylon Williams (Midwest City High School) and Katherine Zander (Altamonte Springs, Fla.) will join the Sooners in 2011.

The Sooners have been preparing all week to make up for last season’s 41-13 loss to Texas Tech on the road.

Tech senior running back Baron Batch rushed for 136 yards and two touchdowns last season and is having another productive year.

Tech senior receiver Lyle Leong leads the nation in touchdown receptions (15), and Tech has long been respected for its high-power, explosive offense.

And for the second straight week, the Sooner defense is unsure which quarterback to prepare for — seniors Taylor Potts or Steven Sheffield.

But coach Bob Stoops said the quarterback question would not make much of a difference for Saturday’s game.

“Their offense is really the same,” Stoops said. “When the quarterback changes and the offense doesn’t, (the preparation) doesn’t change that much really.”

While freshman defensive tackle Daniel Noble is still out with an injury, defensive ends coach Bobby Jack Wright said the team will have sophomore defensive end Ronnell Lewis back by Saturday.

“Ronnell is back at full go and is looking good,” Wright said. “It’s good to have him back. He’s right in the middle of the rotation, and I expect him to play quite a bit come Saturday night.”

After Saturday’s 33-19 loss to Texas A&M, the defense is still seeking consistency.

OU allowed 14 straight Aggie points to put the game out of reach in the fourth — a recurring problem all season.

“We didn’t perform very well,” Wright said. “We got beat and gave up too many points, so certainly it’s not anything to be proud of by any stretch of the imagination. The thing that disappoints us the most is that we give up so many points in the fourth quarter when we could have won the football game.”

The Sooners hold homefield advantage this weekend, but Tech hasn’t changed much from last year, Wright said.

“Offensively, they are still very much what they’ve been in the past,” he said. “They’re still a four-wide offense, spreading everybody out and throwing the ball all over the yard.”

Last year, Tech racked up 549 yards and 32 first downs on the Sooners. It averaged over six yards per play and relentlessly pushed the game more out of reach for OU. Wright said Tech’s running game was key in last year’s loss, and the Sooners aren’t much better this season.

OU has allowed 138.9 rushing yards per game (80th), and if the Sooners aren’t careful, Batch could get going again, Wright said.

“Batch is a heck of a running back, and we have to do a lot better of a job of stopping the run game and keeping him under control,” he said. “I’ll be the first one to admit that we have not done a very good job at that at all.”

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Bloggers want to see Norman hip-hop scene grow Norman residents disseminate music on blog, organize shows, represent artists RYAN QUERBACH The Oklahoma Daily

It’s no secret there’s not a large hip-hop base in Norman, but the operators of locally operated blog Pairadime aim to fix that.

The blog — pairadimemusic.com — was founded by friends and roommates Gray Thomas, a former OU student, and Daniel Sewell, a communication senior, in February.

Now, nine months later, they’ve been able to build a network that includes local rappers, producers and DJs, and has given them more freedom for expansion.

On Feb. 2, after deciding on the name “Pairadime,” Thomas and Sewell established the blog. Their main goal at first was to showcase the music they liked and felt others would like, but with time, the project grew substantially.

The site now regularly gets 800 views or more in a day, a huge step up considering the guys used to find excitement in view numbers in the 50s, Thomas said.

“Initially [we] put music we liked up, and then people starting contacting us about shows and things like that,” he said.

Since then, the bloggers have expanded their presence by managing local artists, booking shows and promoting artists — whether they represent them or not.

Artists that they either fully or partly represent include local rappers Myke Brown and Josh Sallee, Austin-based rapper Roosh Williams and local producer Zach Miller, who is part of the local hip-hop group Hi-PoP!.

The blog has facilitated a growth in the hiphop community in Norman and surrounding areas.

“I’m a big Oklahoma loyalist; I really love anything that comes out of Oklahoma,” Sewell said. “And the fact that we love hip-hop so much and there’s talent that we know we can actually help achieve to get better, I think is extremely important.”

The guys from Pairadime have helped bring in big names like Kidz in the Hall, Johnny Polygon and XV for local shows. They’ve also been able to book smaller shows, helping out artists like Myke, Sallee and Hi-PoP! “It is the most fun I’d ever had, while feeling

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Daniel Sewell (left) and Gray Thomas, the creators of Norman-based hip-hop blog Pairadime, work on uploading material to the website. Sewell and Thomas have expanded beyond simply posting music on their blog to helping book shows and representing hip-hop artists from the area. like accomplishing something too,” Thomas notoriety in the Norman area, due in large part said. to Pairadime.

Myke Brown, human relations junior, is fully “It’s a credible source at this point,” Myke said represented by Pairadime but has also become of the blog. “So anything that they say about me good friends with the guys, a friendship that or about anything going on here musically, you began before he started to got to accept that, which is seriously pursue rapping. huge.”

Myke recognizes the Before starting the blog, I’m a big Oklahoma loyalist; growth of the blog and Thomas admits he had no I really love anything that other entities as imporknowledge of any Oklahoma comes out of Oklahoma.” tant steps toward further rappers, but upon discoverdeveloping hip-hop in ing them more and more, he — DANIEL SEWELL, Oklahoma, he said. immediately saw the impor“I think it’s huge, espetance of promoting them on PAIRADIME BLOG CO-CREATOR cially because they’re rethe blog. Hi-PoP! was the first ally the only ones doing act he and Sewell discovered anything here and progressively moving,” in the area, and following a good relationship Myke said. with the rap group, the bloggers began to exMyke has been seriously rapping since last pand their network with local talent. semester, but he’s always had interest in the “With there not being much of an appreciamusic. He’s from Austin, but has gained some tion for the music initially and not many people

knowing about the local scene, it’s crucial to try and help fuel that and get people aware, because how else will they succeed if they don’t have the support from home?” Thomas said.

Spencer Livingston-Gainey, political science senior and rapper from Hi-PoP!, likes the idea of expanding the local scene, and thinks a collaboration of all the talented people in the area will be the best way to accomplish that.

“We use our strengths and talents to kind of help each other out pretty much,” LivingstonGainey said. “And that’s what’s up, that’s how you build a music scene right there.”

The collective realizes the difficulties in trying to develop a good hip-hop presence in Norman and the rest of Oklahoma alike, but they are determined to tackle the daunting task.

“I think it’d be really great if somehow we could move the music scene in Oklahoma up, especially through hip-hop,” Sewell said.

nov. 11 - nov. 13 thursday, nov. 11 Bruce Goff: A Creative Mind Exhibition | on display now through Jan.2 at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Stare Stare Stereo Exhibition | on display now through May 15, 2011 at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Neuroethology Presidential Dream Course Lecture: William B. Kristin, Jr.| 7 p.m. at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Thinking Like a Leech: Complex decisions in a simple nervous system, presented by William B. Kristan, Jr., Distinguished Professor, Section of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego. This lecture series is co-sponsored by the University of Oklahoma Cellular & Behavioral Neurobiology Graduate Program and the Sam Noble Museum. All lectures are free and open to the public.

Men’s Basketball: OU vs. Coppin State | 7 p.m. at the Lloyd Noble Center. Visit soonersports.com for ticket information.

friday, nov. 12 cont’d.

Art a la Cart | 6 p.m. in the Dee Dee and Jon R. Stuart Classroom, Fred Jones Jr. Art. Live Music presented by the OU School of Music Short Films Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium presented by deadCENTER Film Festival Catedral [Cathedral] (20 min., United Kingdom) Almost 50 years ago, Justo Gallego Martínez promised himself that he would dedicate the rest of his life to the construction of a cathedral. He is now 84 years old and still building. Creation (5 min., USA) This short film is inspired by Ovid’s Creation story in Metamorphosis.

Delta Gamma Fraternity Lectureship in Values & Ethics | Delta Gamma Fraternity Presents Leigh Anne Tuohy, the real life woman behind the movie “The Blind Side,” Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. in the Molly Shi Boren Ballroom, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Lecture will be followed

by Q&A and book signing, attendees will have the opportunity to purchase books for autograph. Presented in association with the Campus Activities Council Speakers Bureau and the Union Programming Board.

Union Jazz Lounge: All that Jazz | 8 p.m. in Beaird Lounge featuring the Jonbear Fourtet. Come and enjoy our laid back concert series and our mocktail bar and potatotinis. Presented by the Union Programming Board, Always Something! Visit www.ou.edu/upb for information about great events in the union.

Battle of the Bands | 8:30 p.m. in the food court, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Doors open at 8, free admission and tons of audience prize drawings all night. To sign up to perform, e-mail wire@ou.edu, band prizes include equipment from Gilliam Music and a demo recording with Ares Studio. Presented by The Wire & OUTV, co-sponsored by the Union Programming Board.

friday, nov. 12

saturday, nov. 13

Intramural Update | Badminton Tournament. All tournaments played on the Huston Huffman Fitness Center south courts. Entries for each tournament can be made at the Huston Huffman Fitness Center front desk and/or prior to the event starting on that particular day. Entry fee is $1 (free to students in housing). For more information, visit recservices.ou.edu or call Jonathan Dewhirst, (405) 325-3053.

Sooner Football: OU vs. Texas Tech | 2:30 p.m. at the Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Visit soonersports.com for ticket information.

FREE Movie: “Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World” | 4, 7, 10 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. in Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Presented by the Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council Film Series.

Women’s Volleyball: OU vs. Iowa State | time TBA at the McCasland Field House. Visit soonersports.com for ticket information.

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Shop sells Sooner gear — from wacky to WACKIER ALEX EWALD The Oklahoma Daily

Any shopper who doesn’t take necessary precautions might find himself or herself blindsided at the Apothem, a forest of crimson and cream garb where everybody knows your name.

That name, shared by millions of people all over the world, is “Sooner.”

Located on Campus Corner, the Apothem welcomes thousands of fans who flock to Norman to celebrate their favorite school, selling Sooner memorabilia as varied as OU-printed bathrobes to backscratchers to T-shirt-shaped koozies.

Named for a Greek math term, the store’s original formula when it opened 20 years ago was to sell apparel geared toward fraternity and sorority members.

Still owned by the same family, the store still has a greeked-out room in the back that includes mostly sorority-related paraphernalia like blankets, water bottles and stationery.

Employee Sarah Faw Faw, health and exercise junior, said the sorority apparel brings in a lot of business to the Apothem because of the huge variety.

“There’s a lot of cute stuff [in the back],” she said, as she rang up a customer while working at the register next to a stack of Oklahoma post cards. “It’s where I bought for like big/little and initiation, [so] it’s a pretty good selection of stuff.”

But to expand its business, the Apothem now caters to the booming needs of all Sooner fans looking to get their fix with game-day T-shirts, hats, seat WHAT: The Apothem cushions and the like.

“People are crazy about their WHERE: 784 Asp Ave. OU [when they come in],” said employee Olivia Gonzalez, a HOURS: Weekdays 10 University College freshman. a.m. — 6 p.m. ; Saturday “It doesn’t matter … if it has OU, 10 a.m. — 5 p.m.; Sunday people will buy it.”

12 p.m. — 6 p.m.

Gonzalez and Faw Faw are two of the five student employees.

Fellow co-worker Taylor Smith said she agreed the store has the most eclectic of memorabilia — and of customers. “[At] all the stores down on Campus Corner, there’s a lot of variety, and this store kind of channels toward some of the weirder OU stuff,” said Smith, motioning toward an OU Mr. Potato Head behind her. “I had someone come in here for a toaster one day …

I’m sure if they existed, we would have them, but we don’t.”

A University College freshman, Smith described the Apothem as more like a home than a business, in part because of its atmosphere of crimson and cream-filled friendliness.

“I think because it’s a family-run business, we’re all kind of family because we’re here all the time together,” she said. “We all know each other really, really well because we all work together on game days and we work throughout the week.”

On both game days and weekdays it’s all OU at the Apothem, she said. As such, the store only allows OU paraphernalia.

“There’s nothing in here that isn’t OU,” Smith said. “It’s pure Sooners.”

That doesn’t include the several (upside-down) Longhorn flags by the door, of course.

If you go

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Top: Sooner gear blankets the Apothem, a Campus Corner shop that exclusively sells OU memorabilia.

Bottom left: Golf balls emblazoned with OU logos are sold in the Apothem. Bottom right: A metal cross displaying the message “God Bless Oklahoma” along with the OU logo hangs on a rack near football-themed paraphernalia.

ONLINE AT OUDAILY.COM » Slideshow: View more photos of wacky Sooner memorabilia sold at the Apothem.

B6 • Thursday, November 11, 2010

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