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$30m given for cancer research Center’s largest grant will fund cancer trials BLAYKLEE BUCHANAN campus Reporter

The Peggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer Center at O U He a l t h S c i e n c e s Center has received its largest grant in the cancer center’s history.

The Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment

Trust awarded a $30 million grant for research for more effective treatment and diagnostic tools, according to a press release.

The grant will support Phase I Clinical Trials Center at the Stephenson Cancer Center, the only of its kind in Oklahoma, said Jari Askins, associate provost of external relations for OU HSC. The Phase I Clinical Trials Center provides access to experimental therapies that can

be useful for patients who haven’t responded to standard therapy.

This primarily consists of trials with new drugs tested in patients for the first time, Askins said.

Since March 2010, when Phase I trials began, there have been more than 100 patients in more than a dozen trials, she said.

This grant also will bring in some of the top researchers in the nation.

The goal of the Peggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer Center is to obtain designation from the National Cancer Institute, Askins said.

There are 66 National Cancer Institute-designated centers in the nation.

Obtaining designation from the institute goes hand in hand with having the top researchers in the nation, Askins said.

“This ensures the ability to recruit and retain top cancer

researchers in the country. It brings them to our program,” Askins said.

And with an esteemed staff comes more effective research, which results in faster application to the institute, she said.

Center director Robert Mannel said the top-25 cancer centers in the U.S. News and World Report are National Cancer Institutedesignated, so it is important to obtain the status.

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Young Latinos to come to OU Fraternity to host education-focused conference Friday UNY CHAN

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About 400 high school students from Oklahoma City , Norman, Edmond and Tulsa will descend upon OU for a Hispanic college education conference this week.

The sixth annual Tomás Rivera Education Empowerment Conference will be hosted Friday by multicultural fraternity Omega Delta Phi on campus.

The conference will host OKC attorney Michael

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John Grinde, University college freshman, posts fliers thursday in hopes of carpooling with students for thanksgiving who live close to his hometown of Story city, iowa.

Grinde was unsuccessful and instead will be taking a Greyhound bus alone.

Sooners attempt to head off traveling costs Students seeking carpools home for holiday-week trips JAKE MORGAN Staff Reporter

OU students are overcoming distance and cost by any means necessary to flock home for Thanksgiving.

For University College freshman John Grinde , this involved posting campuswide fliers to offer carpooling to northern states.

“I even emailed everyone

under University College and posted an ad on Craigslist,” Grinde said.

The flier, addressed to students from Minnesota, W i s c o n s i n , Io w a a n d Michigan’s upper peninsula, offered to split gas money and driving time.

Grinde started posting the fliers at the beginning of October.

Grinde, whose hometown is Story City, Iowa, said he couldn’t gauge the difficulty of finding passengers because this break is his first time to

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return home during the fall.

Despite Grinde’s multipronged effort, no one accepted his offer, and he decided to take a bus back home.

“Well, I guess Greyhound is cheaper than flying,” Grinde said.

University College freshman Evan Korchnak, a native of Fenton, Mich., said he believes Grinde’s strategy was a good idea for those who planned to make the trek by car.

“It would ... make a very

long drive much less boring,” Korchnak said. “I’m not really sure if there were much else you could do to save money.”

K o r c h n a k ’s f a m i l y has planned to meet in Louisville, Ken., rather than have him complete the 16-hour drive to Michigan.

While Korchnak usually flies home, he said he wouldn’t mind taking a bus back home like Grinde has planned.

at a GlaNce Estimated cost of holiday travel by car from ou • Story city, iowa 606 miles — $154.65 • Fenton, Mich.

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Scholarship, centennial celebrated with barbecue

State cuts threaten education accessibility for all students. (page 3)

T h e U n i t e d Wa y o f Norman is hosting the Victory Celebration to celebrate its accomplishments in 2011.

The event will take place from 11:15 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Dec. 2 at Embassy Suites in Norman. Food will be provided at the celebration.

Part of the celebration is to announce how much the United Way of Norman has raised this year. Currently, it has achieved 78 percent of its fundraising goal, said Jed Dembowski, United Way’s vice president of marketing and communications.

“We are really optimistic about reaching 100 percent by December,” Dembowski said. “The deadline of a lot of companies to give money is this week. So, we are expecting more to come.”

Dembowski added that OU is the largest donor to the United Way of Norman, f o l l o w e d b y No r m a n Regional Hospital.

Students and volunteers who are interested can RSVP by calling 405-329-2025.

Uny Chan, Campus Reporter

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all invoices related to professor chad Kerksick’s creatine nitrate study — these documents were requested to gather information on Kerksick’s study.

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lack of innovation afflicted the one-time Facebook killer. (page 3)

professor chad Kerksick’s recent employee contract — this document was requested to further understand Kerksick’s relationship with the university.

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crooked crust opens on campus corner despite concerns. (oudaily.com)

Former Sooner helps advocate the release of lab chimps. (page 6)

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J.R. corpening, civil engineering senior, prepares hot dogs with omega Psi Phi fraternity in celebration of the fraternity’s centennial and the creation of the Melvin B. tolson Jr. Scholarship.

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Education: Companies donate to scholarship Continued from page 1

Today around campus A seminar on using the Firefox add-on Zotero will take place from 10 to 11 a.m. in Bizzell Memorial Library, Room 149D. A blood drive sponsored by the Oklahoma Blood Institute and Sooner Sports Properties will take place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the OU ROTC Armory. The blood drive is the Bedlam Blood Battle, a competition between OU and OSU to gather the most donations.

Guess the Score will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union first floor lobby. Students can guess the score of the football game and have a chance to win a Union Programming Board T-shirt.

An Art After Hours event, titled “Form and Process: Lee Mullican and Sam Francis,� will take place from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Dee Dee and Jon R. Stuart classroom.

Free showings of the movie “30 Minutes or Less� will take place at 6, 9 p.m. and midnight at Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium. The movie is sponsored by the Union Programming Board and the Campus Activities Council.

A lecture on medieval controversies about dance and the men and women who performed them will take place from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Norman Public Library’s Lowry Room, 225 N. Webster.

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Jimenez to educate the high school students on immigration issues.

Eli Velazquez, an OU and alumnus of the primarily-Hispanic fraternity, started the conference. The goal of the event is to bring young adults from the Hispanic community to OU and broaden their academic expectations, Velazquez said.

Many Hispanic high school graduates are not inclined to pursue higher education, he said. They believe an investment in higher education is not justified if they are offered a job after graduation.

Organizer William Isaacs said there are multiple reasons why Hispanic students choose not to go to college. “For example, their parents are illegal immigrants. For them to apply financial aid, they may get scared to enter their social security number. They don’t want their family to get deported,� said Isaacs, architecture sophomore.

The conference also will give out scholarships to eligible applicants of Hispanic origin. About 8,500 scholarships, all

campus brief Blood drive

OU falling behind Oklahoma State OU still is looking for a little Sooner magic to make up the deficit in the Oklahoma Blood Institute’s Bedlam Blood battle.

As of Wednesday evening, Oklahoma State University led the competition with 792 participants to OU’s 745.

The Bedlam Blood Battle began Monday and will continue until Friday.

Kelley McPhail, organizer of the blood drive, said OBI is advertising across campus to urge students to donate. “We’re even asking those resting on the beds to get out their phones and use Facebook to encourage their friends to come down to the Armory,� McPhail said.

McPhail said they’ve signed up 199 students since the beginning of Thursday, but she expects business to pick up during the afternoon.

Each donor receives a T-shirt and a chance to win two tickets to the upcoming Bedlam game in Stillwater.

In addition, a football autographed by Bob Stoops will be given to one donor each day of the blood drive. “This turnout [of 199 students] is less than what we had Monday, and I think the cold weather has something

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Home: Food, family justify lengthy treks Continued from page 1 “You would have the opportunity to sleep, be productive or entertain yourself with a book or something along those lines,� Korchnak said. “If you were the sociable type, you might even meet someone on the bus.�

Even students from Oklahoma’s neighboring states are planning their long-awaited holiday trips.

University College freshman Jonathan Foss, who will be making an eight-hour drive to his hometown of Paragould, Ark., said he’s accustomed to long drives. “When I was in high school, I was in a bunch

of leadership stuff with my church,� Foss said. “We would have to go to Little Rock every weekend, so driving six hours a day isn’t unheard of for me.�

Foss said he also has asked for potential passengers earlier this semester but, like Grinde, had no luck. “I find it pretty sad that no one took [Grinde] up on that,� Foss said. “Taking a bus sounds like a good alternative, but I’d rather not do that myself.�

With his family footing the travel costs, Foss said he’s looking forward to returning home for the first time since arriving at college. “I’ve been saving up on my laundry, of course,� Foss said with a laugh. “Not to mention I’m getting homemade dumplings.�

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Residents needed to donate coats to cold Oklahomans Salvation Army shelters in the Oklahoma City-Norman area are in need of winter coats, according to a press release.

The Norman shelter currently has only about 15 coats in stock, and officials predict it will give out at least 100 this season, employee Margaret Kennell said.

The Oklahoma City shelter has about two racks of coats in supply, and thousands are needed, according to a press release. “We started out with 600 coats in our supply closet, and we are probably down to 30,� shelter spokeswoman Heide Brandes said. “Last year, we gave out about 3,000.�

Donations needed are gently-used coats, especially children’s coats, and other winter-weather wear, including scarves, hats and gloves, social services director Ashley Jones said in a statement.

People wishing to donate in the Norman area can drop coats off until 9 p.m. every day at 318 E. Hayes St. In the Oklahoma City area, donors can bring coats to the shelter at 501 S. Harvey Ave. or to participating dry cleaners.

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to do with it,� McPhail said.

Kelsey O’Grady, anthropology junior, volunteered for OBI by handing out flyers on the South Oval. O’Grady also said he believed that the cold front influenced students’ willingness to give. “Most of them are rushing by with their hands stuffed into their coat pockets,�

O’Grady said.

The Bedlam Blood Battle will continue until 6 p.m.

Friday at the Armory. OBI also has their Bloodmobile outside Oklahoma Memorial Union and a donation site set up at Catlett Music Center.

The winning university will receive a trophy and the spoils of bragging rights.

All blood donated will go to Oklahoma City metro hospitals and more than a hundred medical facilities across Oklahoma.

Jake Morgan, Staff Reporter

at different price levels, will be given out, Isaacs said. Some scholarships are worth $1,000 or more.

BP and Total Environment have donated $5,000, respectively, while Coca-Cola Co. has donated two $500 scholarships, Isaacs said. “Our selection criteria are a mixture of everything.

Academics come into play but not as important,� Isaacs said. “Some of the scholarships depend on their future goals. They can also be based on the community service they’ve done. We honor the fraternity value: honesty, unity and leadership.�

There will be workshops throughout the conference, including a student panel of OU students. Miss Hispanic OU 2011 Brianna Narvaez, advertising senior, will be in attendance alongside former UOSA president Franz Zenteno.

The conference currently is organized by six members of the fraternity, but Isaacs said he believes they can still expand and operate beyond current capacity in the future. “Schools in lower Kansas and northern Texas are on our radar. Eventually, we will grow. The more scholarships we give out, the more lives we are going to be able to change and help the Hispanic community,� Isaacs said.

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State cuts the real threat Our View: Tuition soon may be rising yet again, but it’s the cultural devaluing of public education that is the real threat.

nations ranked by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and that ranking has been falling consistently. If this trend continues, it stands to hurt our economic competitivePresident David Boren recently sent a letter ask- ness and social progress.

Students, lawmakers and taxpayers all must be ing department heads to create a plan to deal with willing to invest in education. Students must be potential budget cuts of up to 5 percent next year, The Daily reported Thursday. If these monwilling to pay for a quality education at ey-saving efforts fail to make up the differan institution with a plethora of research The Our View ence, your tuition could go up. is the majority and academic opportunities. Lawmakers You’re probably not thrilled to hear this must be willing to prioritize education over opinion of news. But it’s not rising tuition you should The Daily’s other issues. Taxpayers must be willing to 10-member be upset about; it’s the anticipated state pay a little more to protect this essential editorial board resource. funding cuts that would lead to it.

In recent years, states have been consisEveryone must value education so at tently cutting higher education funding. least in the short term students who can From 1998-2012, state funding has fallen from 32 pay a little more are willing to. Other students can percent of OU’s budget to 18 percent. In that time, find help through ever-expanding scholarships and tuition and fees have risen 193 percent. At what healthier loan options. point is OU no longer a public institution?

And in the long term, lawmakers must be willThis shrinking state funding is the symptom of a ing to save public education funds by either raising broader problem. Public education itself has been taxes slightly — Oklahoma has some of the lowdevalued in the national consciousness. Sure, poli- est taxes in the nation — or cutting less important ticians pay lip service to the importance of public areas when the budget is tight. How about closing education, but it has fallen so far down the priority some tax cuts or loopholes to businesses that are list that it is often one of the first areas to be cut. clearly not using those resources the way they were But public education is one of the nation’s most intended? important investments and should be at the foreThe bottom line is: Education is valuable. front of policy decisions. It’s public institutions that Oklahoma, and the nation, can’t afford to forget allow everyone access to an education. Partially that. And everyone must be willing to fight for it — funded by the state, public institutions can offer and pay for it. lower tuition and less stringent competition for adWe need to change the discourse on education mission than their private peers can. so that we’re not still complaining about tuition inA strong educational system is vital to the creases 10 years from now.

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was right.

I’ve always wanted to start off a column like that. Now, what exactly was I right about? I was right about Google

So, what could Google have done differently to achieve victory? Or rather, Plus. what will the next challenger At the start of the semester, I wrote that Google’s foray into to Mark Zuckerberg’s behesocial networking felt a little uninspired. It did have good moth have to do? ideas — prompting users to sort friends into circles was one of One thing is taking Steve them — but the site did not have anything that compelled me Yegge’s advice: Give outside to abandon Facebook, which already served my needs well. developers access at launch.

Steven Zoeller More importantly, Google Plus did not compel many of my Don’t be so cautious that you steven.v.zoeller@ou.edu friends to leave, either. Had a large number of them decided to ignore one of the best ways migrate, I would’ve followed, but the majority of them stayed, to encourage early adoption. and those who left eventually returned.

Also, be flexible when it comes to brand pages. That’s crucial.

But despite very impressive initial growth, traffic to the site Early adoption will always be the most important thing to has been in decline for some time now. Users simply don’t keep in mind when setting up a social network, and though its feel motivated to keep coming back. And Google must know invite system did work wonders at first, Google Plus failed to this, as evidenced by last month’s not-supposed-to-go-public give users a reason to keep coming back. statement by one of its engineers, Steve Yegge.

Now, I expect some Google defenders will berate me, “Google Plus is a prime example of our complete failure to claiming that it’s the users’ fault if they can’t find anything to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive do. But that’s silly. If users need to be told how to have fun on a leadership down to the very lowest leaf workers,” Yegge said. networking site, then the site itself is flawed. Period.

He went on to call Google Plus “a pathetic afterthought” for I’m not declaring Google Plus dead — I’m sure plenty of launching without an application programming interface. folks will continue to enjoy it for what it is. I’m just pointing I think the brunt of Yegge’s full rant was accurate: Google out that those who wanted a ‘Facebook killer’ had better keep chased after Facebook’s success rather than innovating and searching. creating its own. And now, it does not appear to me that the search engine giant has any hope of beating its chief rival.

Steven Zoeller is a journalism sophomore.

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OU wellness depends on tobacco ban Contrary to recent popular and misguided beliefs, tobacco use is a deadly and serious problem that plagues our nation and campus.

Tobacco is the “single most preventable cause of disease, disability and death in the United States,” causing more deaths than HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries and murders combined, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Unlike alcohol, which when used correctly and in moderation is fine, tobacco use, no matter the amount, can cause serious health hazards, including coronary heart disease (the leading cause of death in the U.S.), lung cancer, stomach cancer, pharynx cancer and even death.

Secondhand smoke is just as bad, because when you inhale smoke from a cigarette, you are breathing in all the same chemicals breathed in by a smoker. A cigarette and its smoke produces more than 4,000 chemicals, including: napthalene (moth balls), butane (lighter fluid), arsenic (rat poison), acetone (nail polish remover) and lead (batteries) just to name a few.

Mind you, this deadly product comes from the same tobacco companies who said, under oath, that “cigarettes were just as addictive as gummy bears.”

If a tobacco ban wasn’t justified, we wouldn’t see places making great strives to increase public health, including

bans at airports, public parks and the work place, increased insurance premiums for smokers and the immediate cultural shift.

If a person wants to smoke, that is his own personal choice. However, the health effects that come with it affect nonsmokers, from the secondhand smoke to litter, and cause just as much damage to the people around them, something that cannot be ignored.

Lastly, tobacco use is not protected by the Ninth and 14th amendments. The Supreme Court ruled only implicit rights are guaranteed personal liberties — something tobacco use is not.

In addition, smokers are not a protected group of people, which the Supreme Court has also said, with respect to the equal protection law, because smokers are not born as smokers.

Every ruling in the courts has gone against tobacco users’ claims, making tobacco and smoking bans legal and constitutional.

“Ignorance of the law” is not a good excuse to be ignorant of health hazards and the people around you.

Tobacco bans are necessary for health and, as shown numerous times, would be upheld in the courts.

Joshua Trope, political science and history senior

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Crisis created by banks, loan recipients Editor’s note: This is in response to “Letter from Obama insults its recipients,” a column by Zac Smith that was published in Tuesday’s paper.

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irst and foremost, I am no fan of President Barack Obama’s idealism and neo-liberal outlook on international relations theory. I accept and appreciate him as an American and reserve the right to disagree with his policy initiatives.

The problem is people who have or do purport to support Obama and have essentially abandoned him because not everything has happened over the past few years has been precisely as they imagined. “No plan survives the first contact with the opposition.”

Assertions that people in lower income brackets are incapable of breaking from them have consistently been proven false. Stories of this very thing happening are among the most coveted folklore stories of the United States and are a vital part of the American Dream, that apparently quite a few Americans are pessimistic about even existing anymore as per a recent poll.

This is the attitude we do not need, and I would be glad to see not exported to other countries. Grandiose statements such as these ignore the previously mentioned stories, and more importantly ignore what Obama said in that letter, with regards to his own post-graduate situation.

Like cellphones, loans work two ways. The bank offers it, a person signs it. Simple as that.

Going by the ideal that your hands must be clean before pointing fingers, it should be asserted that anyone who has borrowed money can not criticize these banks, as this is precisely what Troubled Asset Relief Program did for the banks. It is important to note that most of these institutions have paid back their money, plus a little gain despite early predictions of a likely loss for the government.

The people among the one percent who control these entities are surely sorry that they dared be in charge of entities that sought to make money, not unlike a number of other human beings would. The banks made their choice in offering these loans, they took a risk. Without question, it was also of free will that people accepted these loans.

In so far as the executive appointments go, do not forget Timothy Geithner, known for his taxation problems. If I am not mistaken, that appointment was approved by a Democrat-held Senate. Seeking to appoint people familiar with the respective fields of work is not a new concept.

I would loathe the prospect of a geologist unfamiliar with the financial system in charge of the Treasury or even any of the positions mentioned in the column. More importantly, it is an ad hominem statement to suggest that, because these people worked for Goldman Sachs, their legitimacy in handling financial affairs is to be questioned.

Wall Street needs no accountability to the public save for the assurance that their products work and that they follow the governmental rules and regulations, which, thanks to us not being Venezuela, does not entail government control over these corporations.

The accusation that government debt is the result of bailing out the banks is ridiculous. I recall TARP being implemented before Obama’s term, and more importantly recall another stimulus, widely known to be lacking in delivering on its promises, that has helped debt problems.

It is a compound issue. Placing blame on a few hapless bankers is too easy and too uninformed. Economic downturn was inevitable. Growth is not infinite, or at least not guaranteed to always be occurring.

My assertion would be that quite a few of this author’s propositions stem from anger, an element of human nature that often does not have a regard for good decision making.

This is precisely what is wrong with American politics and the fringe elements. It is important to note this kind of anger is not unlike that which gave rise to the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution and the uprising of Nazi Germany, all of which are institutions I would loathe to see here in the United States.

Bailing out the banks was something former President George W. Bush also expressed qualms about in his book, “Decision Points.” Very few liked the concept, but hard choices had to be made. Again, no small irony that Obama writes in his letter that it takes “hard choices” to solve problems. Even working to implement the choices is hard.

I also observed in the president’s letter that he invited the people to join him in fixing the status of affairs. The time wasted deliberating on this — the time I expended here — is time that should have been spent on developing a small business, studying or something more productive.

John Montgomery is an international and area studies sophomore.

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SPORTS WEEKEND PREVIEW MEN’S BASKETBALL Oklahoma

Coppin State

VS.

Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III, who has led the Bears into a new age of relevance, will face the Sooners in Waco for the third time, having never faced OU in Norman.

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

WRESTLING

Sooner preparations ‘pretty rough’ Team to host Mizzou in last home match for almost 2 months

GO AND DO OU vs. Missouri WHEN: 7 tonight

RJ YOUNG

Sports Reporter

» When: 7 tonight » Where: Lloyd Noble Center, Norman The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference team lost to OU, 77-75, to open 2010 and finished 16-14.

With starting guard Steven Pledger back from a one-game suspension, Oklahoma hopes for a less competitive game after fighting Idaho State to the wire Nov. 11 for a 78-74 win without Pledger. » Player to watch: Junior guard Steven Pledger » Visit OUDaily.com to read a full preview.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Oklahoma

New Mexico

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» When: 3 p.m. Saturday » Where: Albuquerque, N.M. The injury-plagued Lobos have struggled so far, starting the year 0-2.

They are without key player junior guard Sara Halasz for the second straight year after she re-injured her ACL. With a host of other injured players, the Lobos are struggling to put a competitive team on the court, something the Sooners — off to a hot start this season — will look to exploit.

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It’s 2:25 p.m. Thursday in the lounge of the Port Robertson Wrestling Center in McCasland Field House.

The lights are off as four of Oklahoma’s wrestlers relax on the couches watching the climax of “Joyride” on TV. The movie on FX ends and is immediately followed with the start of another movie about love in Forks, Wash.

The four wrestlers lazily stand and leave the room as redshirt freshman Dax Perrier hits the lights.

“You guys don’t want to watch ‘Twilight?’” redshirt freshman Ian Fisher jokes.

The others don’t even bother answering. They have scrapping to do one day before they host No. 9 Missouri.

The match against the Tigers will be Oklahoma’s last home match of the calendar year, and the conference opener also is its first against a top-10 opponent.

The Sooners have a long road stretch ahead, and they won’t compete at home again until Jan. 12 against Iowa State.

At 3 p.m., Oklahoma coach Mark Cody begins practice with a wrestler’s warm-up.

Players throw cart wheels, perform forward and back rolls and simulate takedowns — all while running in circles around the wrestling room.

“Whenever we do our conditioning, it’ll drag out,” Perrier says. “It’s pretty rough.”

WHERE: McCasland Field House, Norman

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OU junior Patrick Graham (right) works to take down an Oklahoma City University opponent on Nov. 3 at McCasland Field House. The Sooners host No. 9 Missouri in their last home match for almost two months.

So rough, in fact, that junior Keldrick Hall and a teammate bumped heads earlier in the week and caused Hall to need stitches above and below his right eye.

“We both shot at the same time Tuesday at practice,” Hall says.

Hall is on the mat with his teammates two days later shuffling his feet, moving his

hands and constantly changing levels during Oklahoma’s team drills.

Wrestlers must always keep moving if they are going to win.

“If you stop moving your feet for a second, you’re an easy target,” Cody says from the middle of his drilling wrestlers.

He is trading time between coaching the team and getting down on all fours to show his team how he wants them to wrestle. In red and gray sweats and black wrestling shoes, he barks instructions to the team, and they, in turn, transform his words into actions.

“The shot and opportunity

is there for only a half of a second,” Cody says. “When you see it, you gotta go.”

Cody continues to instruct as the mother of redshirt freshman Derek Geiges watches from the wrestling room bleachers.

Hands clasped below her chin, Christa Geiges studies her son and the team. She is impressed with their work ethic.

“They made it this far, and not because this is something they’re looking to put on a résumé,” she says. “They want it.”

At 4:18 p.m., the team is given its second two-minute water break, and Cody proclaims, “We’re going hard for the next six minutes.”

The men each take a swig of water and get back on the mat with a partner. On Cody’s call, they contort, twist, push and pound each other into the crimson mat below.

Six minutes end mercifully, and time is called. Cody emerges from the mat after wrestling with junior heavyweight Elijah Madison and tells his team to cool down.

At 4:37 p.m., practice is over. Among his easy-jogging, tired wrestlers, Cody still is a portrait of sparked enthusiasm. “ W h o’s re a d y t o b e at somebody up?” he says.

» Player to watch: Freshman guard DaShawn Harden » Visit OUDaily.com to read a full preview.

VOLLEYBALL Oklahoma

Texas A&M

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Life&arts

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Sooner saves monkey from research Graduate student opens business on Campus Corner to help primate Megan Deaton

Life & Arts Reporter

He wasn’t human, but he could feel sadness, experience pain, know happiness and give love. His name was Nim, and his connections to Norman finally are being honored.

Born in an OU research lab, Nim was taken from his mother to be part of a study that taught him sign language and allowed him to live with a human family for a few years, said Aimee Rook, art therapist and community builder. However, when the study ended abruptly, Nim was sent back to the OU research lab.

Rook said she hopes to share Nim’s story with the people of Norman through a showing of the documentary “Project Nim” at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, today.

The film was directed and produced by the men behind the Academy Award winning documentary “Man on Wire,” according to the FJJMA website.

Guests can gather for a

Nim Chimpsky smiles at the camera in the movie poster to promote the documentary film about his experience in an OU research lab in the 1970s, “Project Nim.” The film will be screened at 7 p.m. today in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.

“When those chimps retire, what are you going to do with them? Was it OU’s responsibiliity about where these chimps went?” elizabeth hess, ‘nim chimpsky’ co-author

short Q-and-A at 7 p.m. with Bob Ingersoll and Elizabeth Hess, author of the book “Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human.”

Local artist Tom Palmore will also be present.

Ingersoll said he thinks that the documentary represents a turning point in the way today’s culture views animals.

“I think our culture’s changing in the way we deal with animals,” Ingersoll said.

“Awareness of all the animal issues is heightened because of the language studies in chimps. We pointed out that animals actually have feelings.”

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More Online Visit OUDaily.com to read the complete story “He went from couch to cage in a day,” Rook said. “He was angry and frustrated because he knew what ‘free’ was when other chimps didn’t.”

Many current OU students

do not realize that OU had a large role in primate research during the 1970s, Rook said.

The chimps in OU’s lab were taught sign language and could communicate most of their needs and feelings.

After the OU lab ran out of funding, Nim and his fellow OU primates were sent to an invasive hepatitis research lab.

“The Norman chimps had more of a social swagger,” Rook said. “Imagine the frustration they felt when they tried to sign words to people, and they couldn’t understand them.”

An OU graduate student at the time, Ingersoll saved Nim and many others from the hepatitis lab and helped make sure that his future was secure at an animal

sanctuary.

Rook said she wonders why OU has never taken responsibility for what happened to the chimps in the OU lab.

“There was a lack of ethical science that focused on long-term effects,” Rook said.

“When those chimps retire, what are you going to do with them? Was it OU’s responsibility about where these chimps went?”

college students, back to basics. We’re basically doing this for the students.”

Ray Reyes, owner of the Norman and Stillwater sites, said he is really excited for students about the series.

“I think it will be a great

spot for students to listen to some music and enjoy great food,” Reyes said. “We’re open to any style of music.

We’re going for acoustic right now due to space.”

Sydney Allen, Life & Arts Reporter

entertainment brief Campus Corner

sandwiches to students Friday nights.

The eatery will begin hostLocal eatery ing a concert series Friday serves up music nights from 12:30 to 2:30 Campus Corner restau- a.m. beginning Friday. rant The Pita Pit will soon “Pita Pit Live” will feature be serving more up than artists from the Norman

area, said Jake Blocker, Pita Pit marketing intern and recent OU graduate.

Local singer Jordan Law will be the first featured artist, according to the store’s Facebook page.

Blocker said the restaurant

hopes to draw more students in with the concerts and with the sale of beer until 2 a.m.

“The Pita Pit was the place to be on Campus Corner for a while,” Blocker said.

“We’re trying to get back to

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