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Students encouraged to vote in local elections Despite thousands of registered voters on campus, not many vote on a local level KAITLYN UNDERWOOD Campus Reporter

Norman City Councilman Stephen Holman encouraged students to take initiative and vote in local elections at an Undergraduate Student Congress meeting on Tuesday.

Voter turnout in Norman is very low, and part of that is due to the fact that many OU students don’t realize they have the ability to vote in local elections, Holman said.

“If you’re a student at OU and you’re going to be here for

several years, what we do over at City Council affects you a lot,” Holman said.

Holman, who was elected to Norman City Council in April, was brought in to speak with members of OU’s Undergraduate Student Congress on Tuesday.

Holman listed recent City Council passages of bike lane initiatives, Lindsey Street construction projects and a high-volume student housing development on Classen Boulevard as examples of how City Council decisions tangibly impact students’ lives.

Holman represents Ward 7 of Norman, which is bounded by Classen Boulevard to the east and Chautauqua Avenue to the west. Much of OU’s campus is in Ward 7,

including the dorms and the Stephenson Research Center.

Students interested in politics should look into getting involved in local government, such as running in City Council elections, Holman said.

There are thousands of registered voters on the OU campus who don’t know they can vote in city elections, Holman said.

“The SGA President gets more votes than some of the City Councilmen,” said John Montgomery, Undergraduate Student Congress chair and multidisciplinary studies senior.

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FREE FRENCH FOOD

Oh crepe! Students prepare pastries Various groups come together teaching how to make crepes HEATHER COWAN Campus Reporter

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Students line up in Kaufman Hall for the French Club’s ‘Make French Crepes’ Event, Tuesday afternoon.

Whether they were filled with fruit, slathered in Nutella Hazlenut Spread or sprinkled with cinnamon, the free crepes in Kaufman Hall, Room 230, went fast Tuesday afternoon.

Students interested in not only eating fresh crepes, but also learning how to make them, attended the food friendly event, which was one of many International Education Week had scheduled Tuesday.

At the event, student chefs representing OU French Club, Student Government Association and the Language Learning Center demonstrated crepe making to an overflowing room of visitors.

Emmanuelle Chiocca, a French language graduate student, said French people typically drink apple cider to follow their crepes.

Chiocca explained that there are different ways people eat crepes: by rolling them like burritos or folding them into quarters.

Stephanie Eyocko, a native of Marseille, France, and an international studies sophomore, said she prefers her crepes with lemon zest and raspberries.

Some students, like international studies sophomore Derek Nguyen, attended the event to receive credit for a cultural event for his French class.

Nguyen said crepes with Nutella and strawberries are his favorite.

AT A GLANCE International Education Week 2013 event schedule: Wednesday: • Study Abroad Fair: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Will Rogers Room • Places Unseen with 2016 Sophomore Study Abroad Event: 1 to 2:30 p.m. Governors, Regents and Associates Rooms, Oklahoma Memorial Union • Global Concepts of Beauty: 3 p.m.

Traditions Room, Oklahoma Memorial Union • Careers with the Dept. of State: 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Traditions Room Thursday: • Scripts of the World Writing Booths: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Main Lobby • Education Abroad Information Booth: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. South Oval • “The Dialogue” Film Screening: 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Zarrow Hall 145 • Leveraging Study Abroad for the Job Search: 4 p.m. Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Crimson Room

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Connect-U brings personalized mentoring to new students Upperclassmen pass on wisdom to OU newbies REAGAN MARTIN Campus Reporter

New Sooners wanting to learn the ins and outs of campus life from someone who has already experienced it can join Connect-U, a new mentoring program this semester.

Founded by Emily DeSantis, fine arts visual communications sophomore, and Dillon Brown, religious studies junior, Connect-U is a mentoring program that matches new freshmen and transfer students with upperclassmen.

DeSantis and Brown came up with the idea for Connect-U in the spring

when they were reminiscing about their various freshman year experiences in greek life and the President’s Leadership Class. Both loved the positive interaction in their different activities—especially the opportunity they had to network with other students.

“We wanted to make something that anyone could be apart of,” said Brown, vice chair and co-founder of Connect-U. Upperclassmen Connect-U mentors give advice and hang out with their mentees, and the pairs are expected to contact each other twice a month to meet for coffee or talk, REAGAN MARTIN/THE DAILY Brown said.

Energy management sophomore Ryan Shoemaker, a Connect-U campus liaison, and visual communications sophomore “ We w a n t C o n n e c t- U t o b e SEE CONNECT PAGE 2

L&A: See the Holy Lands with a new exhibit in the School of Art and Art History’s Lightwell Gallery. (Page 6)

Emily DeSantis, Connect-U Chair, pose with OU Men’s Basketball coach, Lon Krueger. Connect-U mentors and mentees took a group tour of Lloyd Noble Center on Tuesday.

Sports: The volleyball team hopes to end the season on a high note, beginning with a win tonight against Texas Tech. (Page 7)

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CAMPUS EVENTs

Hummus and pop-up museums? Just another day on the South Oval

Today around campus A study abroad fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s food court. Representatives from OU in Arezzo and OU Journey Programs as well as study abroad program advisers will be present.

A free concert from Connor McBryde will take place at noon in the Oklahoma Memorial Union food court for Mid Day Music.

A sophomore study abroad event will include three, 30-minute breakout sessions at 1 p.m., 1:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. all in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. The sessions will cover financial aid in the Governors Room, study abroad 101 in the Regents Room and peer advising in the Associates Room.

A lecture geared toward graduate piano students’ career decision-making process will be presented by Dr. Hector Landa from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in Catlett Music Center, Room 131.

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Above: Museum worker Jessica Farling (right) shows Tina Onwuka, pre-nursing senior, about the pop-up museum Tuesday afternoon on South Oval.

A free concert from the Sooner Bassooners will take place at 8 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Pitman Recital Hall.

A general meeting for Union Programming Board will be held at 9 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union, Associates Room.

Left: Civil Engineering doctoral candidate Wassim Tabet (right) part of the Lebanese Student Association, gives out hummus and pretzels to Michelle Albert, University College freshman for National Hummus Day Tuesday afternoon on South Oval.

Thursday, Nov. 21 A photography exhibition titled, “Images of the Holy Lands: Photographs by Beatriz Henderson” will open in the School of Art & Art History’s Lightwell Gallery.

A lecture titled, “How to End the Forever War,” will be presented by Yale Law School professor Harold Hongju Koh at 3 p.m. in Anne and Henry Zarrow Hall’s J.J. Room.

A discussion on Afghanistan’s history, culture and lifestyle led by OU student Sebghattullah Noori will be held at 11 a.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Traditions Room.

A symposium titled, “Global Sooner Symposium: Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Tunisia” will take place at 12:30 in Price Hall’s lobby. Ty Isom will talk about his experiences abroad and his new career in the Middle East.

A panel discussion centering on LGBTQ people around the world will begin at 2:30 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Traditions Room.

Panelists from around the world will share LGBTQ perspectives from around the world. Emma Newberry-Davis will moderate and discuss perceptions of LGBTQ in the US and abroad and what students should know when studying abroad.

A Viennese café will be set up from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Kaufman Hall, Room 230. The event organized by the German program will provide coffee and Sacher Torte, a famous 19th-century Viennese specialty. Guests will learn a few phrases of “Café German” in order to request their cake and coffee.

Professor Robert Lemon, a specialist in 19th and 20th-century, Austro-Hungarian literature and culture, will discuss the literary and cultural history of the Viennese café.

A watch party for the Oklahoma City Thunder versus the Los Angeles Clippers basketball game will start at 6 p.m. Oklahoma Memorial Union food court. Refreshments will be provided and one winner will receive two Thunder tickets for their game against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Feb. 5, 2014.

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connect: New Sooners learn from experience Continued from page 1 something that you look forward to—not see it as an obligation.”

The organization took part in a group tour of the Lloyd Noble Center on Tuesday for mentors and mentees and will have an Orange Leaf meet-up on Sunday.

However, the founders are discovering the hardship of getting members to actually participate in a new campus organization.

“We don’t have the name recognition yet, like other organizations. We have had to rely on our advertising and word-of-mouth,” DeSantis said.

D e s p i t e i t s n e w n e s s, DeSantis said they have received many applications from students unknown to them and other members.

With 68 pairings, Brown said he wants to keep the mentoring one-on-one.

“We want our mentors to get to know one mentee pretty well rather than kind of know several mentees,” Brown said.

Ryan Shoemaker, an energy management sophomore and Connect-U campus liaison, joined the organization because of his freshman year experience.

“When I first came to OU, I didn’t know that many people on campus. I found people who had the same interests as me and served as my mentors,” Shoemaker said.

He said he thinks it is essential that people who are new to OU have a mentor to help them out.

“I wanted to help out,” he said.

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environmental sustainability junior, and her mentee, Christina Hamilton, a geophysics freshman from Trinidad, joined the program for different reasons.

Hamilton said she got an email to join the organization, and since she was new to Oklahoma she thought it would be a good idea.

Laurion said she joined because her roommate is on the program’s executive committee.

“I thought it would be a fun thing to do because I don’t know many underclassmen, and I thought I could show them around,”

Laurion said.

Other students, like Bethany Mulanax, joined after being encouraged by upperclassmen.

“My Camp Crimson S GLs told me to get involved, so when I got the email I thought it would be good way to do that,” said Mulanax, a health and exercise science freshmen.

B row n sa i d h e h o p e s Connect-U will grow next year by having more applicants, having more organization-wide events and receiving funding from the Student Government Association.

With extra funding, Brown said he will be able to get a new database to match mentors with mentees and also fund more Connect-U events.

AT A GLANCE Apply for Connect-U Those interested can fill out applications for mentors and mentees online on the Connect-U Facebook page.

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Presidential Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to cost $15 million if continued WASHINGTON (AP) — The House joined the Senate on Tuesday in approving an extension of a program established

by George W. Bush to fight AIDS and other diseases across the world. The measure will now go to President Barack Obama.

By a voice vote, the House approved a bill that extends the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR. Established by Bush in 2003, PEPFAR has been successful in fighting AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, particularly in Africa. The program has focused billions of dollars in aid to developing countries, and currently supports nearly 6 million people receiving anti-retroviral drugs. The program has provided assistance to more than 46 million people overall, including orphans, vulnerable children and pregnant women and provided funding to AIDS research.

The legislation extending PEPFAR, which was first passed by the Senate on Monday, will also increase oversight of the Bush-era program, which had expired at the end of September.

The measure passed by the House on Tuesday was backed by the chairman and ranking member of both the House and Senate committees overseeing the legislation. In the Senate, Foreign Relations Committee Chairmen Bob Menendez, D-N.J. and ranking member Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said the bill would save lives and build on progress in the fight against AIDS. In the House, Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce and ranking Democrat Eliot Engel both backed the bill.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that reauthorizing PEPFAR will cost about $15 million from 2014 through 2018, though that money would have to be approved in a separate funding bill. The cost is primarily for Inspectors General oversight of PEPFAR's various programs.

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Sooners without borders head to El Salvador to improve farming efforts Molly Evans

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A group of 10 students are forgoing the traditional home cooking and extra hours of sleep this Thanksgiving break to build water systems in El Salvador.

Sooners Without Borders members along with adviser Jim Chamberlain and four of his friends and fellow engineers will leave Monday for Ciudad Romero, El Salvador to work on two water projects benefiting the residents of a local village, Chamberlain said.

Chamberlain, an environmental engineering professor, has regularly visited the Central American community for about six years when he was a graduate student at Clemson University, he said.

“In the dry season But this will be the first trip to El Salvador for the Sooners they can’t get Without Borders students, water because who have gone to Potosi, they don’t have Bolivia and other surrounding countries for previous trips, he electricity in said.

The community of Ciudad many places.”

Romero asked the Sooners to Jim Chamberlain, build a solar-powered irrigaenvironmental tion system to improve their engineering professor farming efforts, Chamberlain said.

“In the dry season they can’t get water because they don’t have electricity in many places,” Chamberlain said.

The farming community is working with groups like Sooners Without Borders to build an infrastructure compatible with the region’s climate and topography, according to a press release.

The village was founded in 1991 by approximately 300 families of former refugees from the Salvadoran highlands returning after 10 years of exile in the Panama jungles, according to a press release.

The group will also collect data for the island community of Isla Montecristo by locating water well sites and analyzing water quality to provide an improved source of clean drinking water on the coast, Chamberlain said.

El Salvador is the most densely populated country in Central America as well as the most deforested, Chamberlain said, which has meant for several years that there has not been adequate clean water for the population or the land, Chamberlain said.

Chamberlain said this project also benefits the students

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SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman’s girlfriend said he tried to choke her about a week ago during an altercation that was not initially reported to police, a prosecutor told a judge Tuesday during Zimmerman’s first court appearance on domestic violence-related charges.

Samantha Scheibe feared for her life because Zimmerman mentioned suicide and said he “had nothing to lose,” according to Assistant State Attorney Lymary Munoz.

After the hearing, Zimmerman’s public defenders said he did not appear to be suicidal and expressed confidence he would be acquitted of any wrongdoing.

Hours later, Zimmerman was released from jail after posting $9,000 bond. He was seen walking out of the jail smiling and getting into a car.

Judge Frederic Schott ordered him to stay away from Scheibe’s house, wear a monitoring device and refrain from contact with her. He was forbidden from possessing guns or ammunition or traveling outside Florida.

Zimmerman has been charged with aggravated assault, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

He also has been charged with battery and criminal mischief, both misdemeanors. An arraignment was set for Jan. 7.

Schott said Zimmerman’s previous brushes with the law were not a factor in the conditions he imposed, but he did cite the new allegation of choking as a reason for the bond amount.

Earlier this year, Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges in the fatal shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin in a case that drew worldwide attention.

Zimmerman, 30, wore gray jail garments and handcuffs during the hearing and spoke only when answering yes or no to the judge.

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Students should vote in local elections because the decisions at the city level affect them, Montgomery said.

It’s important for students to hear from local g ov e r n m e nt o f f i c i a l s because it’s a mutually beneficial experience, Montgomery said.

Students learn what is happening in their city’s government and City Council members get to hear from their constituents, he said.

Politicians and constituents can develop more personal relationships at the local government level, Holman said.

Holman said at this Kaitlyn Underwood/The Daily point he has no desire to move beyond local Norman City Councilman Stephen Holman, Ward 7, speaks at the SGA meeting Tuesday evening. government.

“Why I like City Council is because you’re close to everything, you’re part of the fabric, and the people who elected you can hold you accountable,” Holman said.

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Rachel Rogers, an engineering physics senior, attended the 2011 Bolivia trip and has been a member of Sooners Without Borders since it began as Engineers Without Borders a few years ago, she said.

“I’m looking forward to working in-country and figuring out how to get stuff done,” Rogers said.

Sooners Without Borders will not complete the two tasks during the weeklong trip, Chamberlain said, but he expects the group will be able to install one or two solar panels and have data collected concerning the water quality for the wells project, Chamberlain said.

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NYC tobacco law will be ineffective Our View: Eighteen is a reasonable legal age to purchase tobacco; it doesn’t need to be 21.

at City Hall. All they needed to snuff out the current tobacco purchasing age was Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s signature, and they got it.

Health effects from cigarette smoking account Bloomberg signed the piece of legislation for more than 440,000 deaths in the U.S. Tuesday, making New York the first large every year, according to Centers for Disease city in the U.S. to prohibit tobacco sales to The Our View Control and Prevention. That’s nearly one young adults under the age of 21, accordis the majority of every five deaths in America. ing to a report by NBC New York. opinion of We all know smoking or inhaling secThis is an initiative to reduce the smokThe Daily’s ondhand smoke is unhealthy, but no one ing rates among young adults, according to nine-member wakes up one day suddenly addicted to editorial board the city health officials. The legislation’s intobacco. By you choosing to smoke, you’re tentions aren’t unfavorable; smoking leads enabling that chance. However, the choice to lung cancer and heart disease, among to purchase tobacco when an individual is an adult other sicknesses. However, if a 16-year-old can should not be regulated anymore than it already own a driver’s license and an 18-year-old can vote, is. In Oklahoma, the legal age to purchase tobacco 18-year-olds in any American city should be able to is 18. Eighteen is a reasonable age, but any older is purchase tobacco is she or he wishes. unnecessary.

NYC City officials think this effort will decline the City lawmakers in New York City approved raisnumber of young adult smokers, but history has ing the minimum legal age to buy cig- proven it won’t. arettes on Oct. 30, with a Why do you think we have a War on Drugs? Drug 35-10 vote dealing is a profitable market, and tobacco companies make millions every year from selling their products. There will always be a market in demand — tobacco is profitable.

The War didn’t manifest

overnight. Laws restricted drug trading and people found ways around it, creating the mess we’re in today.

When our government restricts people beyond reasonable limits, people will eventually refuse to follow the rules. Young adults in NYC will find alternative places to buy tobacco, whether from street dealers or neighboring cities. They shouldn’t have to though.

If an American citizen can enlist to serve our country at 18, it makes no sense for those individuals to be prohibited from buying a pack if she or he wants.

Because this legislation will cause a decline in the number of tobacco purchases, the cost of nicotine products is likely to increase for those old enough to buy them. The new tobacco purchasing age in NYC won’t be effective enough to be worthy enough to be legalized.

Nearly 20 percent of the world’s population smokes cigarettes, including 800 million men and 200 million women, according to The Tobacco Atlas. We aren’t condoning that smoking is OK, but we encourage Oklahoma lawmakers not to follow in NYC’s footsteps.

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o be honest, I always assumed that I was outside the American trend of buying into stereotypes about other cultures that are promulgated by the media, but on a warm summer night last summer, I realized I was not immune to this tendency.

Thanks to the University of Oklahoma’s encouragement of international studies, I was presented with an enlightening and humbling experience that rattled my preconfigured notions about gender relations in the Middle East.

On a Friday evening last June, I met three male Saudi Arabian foreign exchange students who were studying at OU when they invited my friends and me to smoke hookah with them around the pool at our apartment.

After the pool closed, I invited them to come join us on my patio so that we could continue spending time with each other. As we settled ourselves on the patio, a friend and I played rock-paper-scissors for rights to the last available chair. One Saudi Arabian student made the comment that the game we played reminded him of a game he played back home. Always interested to learn a new party game, I asked him the rules.

He shyly looked at me and told me that in Saudi Arabia women weren’t allowed to play.

My feminine and equal rights sensibilities went into overdrive and I was horribly offended that women weren’t allowed to play a simple game in Saudi Arabia. Every story I had ever heard about women being mistreated or viewed as politically or socially lesser in the Middle East flooded my memory, and I became defensive about the predicament of women in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the

ageantry at the GUEST COLUMNIST OU is not an unknown avenue; there is a pageant for almost everyone on this campus. Miss and Mr. Black OU, Miss Hispanic OU, Miss Asia OU, Miss Black and Gold… OU Tracey Iroanya even has a Mr. and Miss tracey.c.iroanya-1@ou.edu International OU. It seems as if OU is just open with opportunities for girls who would like to put on a glitz dress, flawless make up, shellac nails and graciously compete for a crown that looks like an imitation from Swarovski’s fall collection.

Obviously, all of these pageants have principles they stand for and requirements their contestants need to meet. For instance, to compete for the Miss Black and Gold title, a contestant must have a platform that makes her seem like the next Oprah of our generation, along with other gracious qualities.

So when I decided that it was time to dip my foot into this amazing world of beautiful women trying to make a change with their God given (or surgically enhanced) looks, I was surprised when “you can’t” was my reply.

Not a “maybe” or a “we’ll see what we can do,” but a blunt “no you can not compete.”

What had hindered me from achieving my premature dream? Was it my lack of experience? No. My GPA? Nope. The way I looked? Certainly not, in fact I like to think of myself as a cross between Michelle Obama and Nicki Minaj: a sophisticated ratchet. I wanted a chance to step out of my box.

So what was it that hindered me from fearlessly competing for my fake Swarovski crown? It was my lack of a blue passport. I was not allowed to compete for Miss OU. Apparently, only American citizens are allowed to compete for Miss OU, even though OU admits people from all over the world and takes every dime it possibly can from them. I pay a lot of tuition here — more than the Americans — so I would think every opportunity on my beautiful campus would be open to me. But is it?

No. Instead, I was referred to compete for Miss Black OU. I almost threw a fit when that suggestion came up. I was trying to achieve Miss OU, not Miss Black OU. In addition, competing for titles that seem racially segregated is not my cup of tea. That sounds just as bad as if there was a Miss White OU; the media would definitely have a field day dissecting that and linking it to KKK. The problem is, American citizen or not, Miss OU should be open to every female OU student. If not, the title might as well be changed to Miss American OU or all the requirements should be posted online. That way, mistakes like this wouldn’t come up and premature dreams would be saved. I love my University but that incident turned me into a bitter foreigner.

opportunity: Party game gives lesson in Lost Miss OU pageant is Saudi Arabian gender roles really Miss America T P

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A group of students and guests dance on the stage during the celebration of Lebanese Culture Night at Sam Noble Museum of Natural History on Friday night.

Middle East that women are mistreated.

“Why not?” I asked with gritted teeth.

“I’ll explain, then maybe you’ll agree,” he replied.

The game is very much similar to rock-paper-scissors, at least for the first part.

Each person in the group calls out a multiple of five up to the number of participating players, which is also multiplied by five.

Each player then put out two fists, move their fists up and down three times, and hold out either two fists (0), one fist and one flat hand (5), or two flat hands (10).

The hands are added up and the player who guessed the number that the group would add up to is safe. This continues until the last player is out.

For the second part of the game, the loser must take one slap on the hand without moving it. After that, the loser can move his hand up and down in attempt to make the slapper miss. The order of the slapper is determined by the order in which

the players won their safety.

After the first slapper misses, the next safe player repeats the process and so on and so forth.

Upon understanding how the game was played, the prospect of Saudi Arabian men not allowing women to play made sense. It had nothing to with Saudi Arabian men perceiving women as too incompetent or underneath them to play. It is out of respect and an unwillingness to hit women that they do not allow them to join in this festivity. I must admit, even I was unsure that I wanted to play if there was a chance that I would be slapped by the eight other people on the patio. In order to play while ensuring I wouldn’t get slapped, I turned to my male friend and told him he would take the hits for me if I lost. Everyone laughed, and the tension involving differing ideas of gender relations within the group was immediately eased.

“My mother is just like you,” said the Saudi Arabian

student, “she always wants to play, but my father and I will not slap her if she loses.

So, she always wins.”

While gender relations in the Middle East may not be ideal by American standards, this particular experience reminded me that it is important to understand the perspective of individuals that belong to that culture. Personal contact between peoples of different cultures is the best way to break down barriers and construct new ways to view the world. If it were not for the University of Oklahoma’s encouragement of international studies, I would have missed that enlightening opportunity to interact with those particular foreign exchange students.

Fortunately, I was able to gain a new perspective on gender relations in Saudi Arabia and a good reason why I shouldn’t fall back into the American trend.

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A new exhibit displaying rich photographs of places such as Jordan, Bethlehem, Jerusalem and Nazareth opened Tuesday at the OU School of Art and Art History.

The exhibit is called “Images of the Holy Land: Photographs by Beatriz Henderson” and is located in the School of Art and Art History’s Lightwell Gallery on the second floor of the building.

Andrew Strout, a professor of photography, described the contents and story of the exhibit in further detail.

“These are photographs that B (Beatriz Henderson) took when she traveled to the holy lands in October of 2011,” Strout said. “Soon after she came back, she passed away, so this is both a tribute to her work that she did in the holy lands and also a tribute to B and her lifestyle and her life as a whole.”

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buildings, iconography and gatherings, Strout said.He also said there were some restrictions on what she could photograph, but was not sure what those restrictions entailed.

Arn Henderson, the husband of the late Beatriz Henderson, said the exhibit was meant to honor his wife.

“B had lived with systemic lupus for the past seventeen years, and she died shortly after returning from her pilgrimage in her sleep,” Arn Henderson said. “As a result, I decided that I wanted to put

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“Dome of the Rock” is one of the photos presented in the Lightwell Gallery.

together an exhibition of her work in Israel and Jordan as a memorial to her.”

Henderson had a hand in picking out all of the photographs in the exhibit.

“There are photographs of

the people, the landscape, markets and some of the churches there,” Henderson said. “Me and Lauren Barnes (a graduate of the OU school of photography and a friend o f B e a t r i z He n d e r s o n )

picked out the ones for the some of the most holy places exhibit out of the thousand on Earth look like. or so total that she took.”

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Museum of art will host a thought-provoking panel discussion and musical performance about blasphemy at 7 p.m. Friday.

The event will include light refreshments and a casual atmosphere as panelists speak and answer audience questions about blasphemy. The panel will feature OU assistant professor of art history Robert Bailey, the Reverend Mitch Randall of North Haven Church and OU assistant professor of music in oboe Dan Schwartz, according to a press release.

Schwartz first proposed the “Blasphemy” subject for this month’s talk.

“I thought blasphemy would be a great topic for people to talk about for all kinds of different areas,” Schwartz said.

Schwartz will be performing an original composition during the discussion, a piece he wrote in response to Andres Serrano’s controversial work “Piss Christ.”

“Piss Christ” is a 1987 photograph of a crucifix submerged in Serrano’s urine. It has been a contentious work ever since then,

both because of the subject matter and the fact that it was funded with government grant money.

Schwartz said even though Serrano’s intent was misinterpreted, he can certainly understand the controversy surrounding the work. In the arts community, it’s hard to impose any kind of censorship, he said.

“It’s certainly within the artist’s right to do whatever they want,” Schwartz said.

Schwartz said he wrote his response in early 2012 and intended to use it primarily as a pedagogical piece. He uses extended techniques and false fingerings in the piece to create a mysterious, interesting feel.

“My whole approach was: Things aren’t what they seem,” he said.

Schwartz said he has publicly performed the piece two times since he wrote it and has received largely positive feedback.

“Blasphemy” will be the second installation of the museum’s FREDTalks series, which began in September.

Fred Jones Jr. Museum o f A r t d i re c t o r o f e d u cation Susan Baley said FREDTalks were inspired by the informal, but educational, format popularized

Bassoon group to perform tonight OU’s bassoon performance group will play a free concert at 8 p.m. tonight in the Catlett Music Center’s Pitman Recital Hall.

The Sooner Bassooners are a nine-member bassoon ensemble made up of bassoon students of all ages and even some non-majors.

Bassoon professor Rod Ackmann heads the Sooner Bassooners, and says tonight’s concert is a preview of the performance his group will do for the Oklahoma Music Educators Association in January.

Ackmann said the Sooner Bassooners were chosen by the association to perform at their January conference in Tulsa, a big honor for the group.

“It should give great exposure to the Sooner Bassooners, as well as the OU School of Music and the university as a whole,” Ackmann said.

Ackmann said tonight’s show will feature everything from Mozart to Sousa to Amazing Grace.

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by the TED Talks series.

She said “Blasphemy” is a subject that lends itself to discussion.

“Ever ybody may have different views on what is blasphemy and what is not,” Baley said.

She said she hopes the discussion will draw new people to the museum, since one of the goals of the FREDTalks series is to interest more people in museum events.

Schwartz said he hopes a lot of people attend. With the diverse panel assembled and the casual atmosphere, Schwartz said he expects attendees will have a good time.

“I hope it’s educational, but I really hope it’s just fun,” he said.

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Following a dominating win over the Baylor Bears, the volleyball team seems to be back on track for a strong finish to close out the season.

After experiencing a rough couple of games, the Sooners won their last two matches and regained the same momentum and team chemistry that helped them put together a four-game winning streak last month.

After their impressive performance against the Bears, the Sooners collected their 20th win of the season and will look to improve to 21 when they travel to face the Texas Tech Red Raiders at 7 tonight in Lubbock, Texas.

Texas Tech has had its fair share of struggles this season. They are currently in last place in the Big 12, with a record of 9-20 (2-11). While their record may not be impressive, anything can happen when playing a team in their house.

Coach Santiago Restrepo understands that no win is set in stone, especially when playing a team on the road.

“Texas Tech is a team that has played very well against us,” Restrepo said. “This time, we are playing at their house.

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Senior middle blocker Sallie McLaurin joins the rest of the team to celebrate after its successful game point against TCU on Nov. 13. OU is currently on a two-game win streak and will try to continue its winstreak against Texas Tech tonight in Lubbock, Texas.

home is going to come out and play hard. If anything, in an environment like that, serving and passing becomes very crucial to our success.

It’s something that we need to continue to work on to be better.”

The Sooners have shown improvements in many areas of their game as the season has progressed. Most importantly, their defense has become more solid, which has been a key factor in the last two matches.

Sophomore defensive specialist Taylor Migliazzo and

senior outside hitter Keila Rodriguez, have anchored a defense that recorded 41 digs against the Bears. The balance on both offense and defense will be key if the Sooners want to leave Lubbock with a victory.

Senior middle Blocker Sallie McLaurin recorded 11 kills and two blocks in the win over Baylor and understands how important winning on the road is. As one of the team captains, she continues to stress the importance of hard work to her younger teammates.

“I tell the younger girls to keep working hard in practice,” McLaurin said.

“Whenever you work hard and get great digs or kills, your energy picks up. Energy is very key whenever you play away, so that’s definitely something we’re going to focus on.”

The Sooners have struggled a bit on the road this season, but hopefully they can turn that around by getting a win against the Red Raiders.

Just two days removed from an energy-draining overtime loss to No. 5 Louisville in the Preseason WNIT, Oklahoma now hits the court as it takes on UT Arlington Wednesday night.

Following her outstanding performance in the WNIT, senior guard Aaryn Ellenberg was named the Big 12 Player of the Week, the conference announced Monday.

Ellenberg averaged 21.5 points and eight rebounds in the tournament.

Oklahoma will look to get back on track against GO AND DO UT Arlington, a team that Women’s has yet to find a win this Basketball season.

The Mavericks (0-4) When: 7 tonight come in with nothing to lose against the No. 10 Where: Lloyd Noble Sooners. Mavericks senior Center forward Briana Walker Price: Free with leads the team with 15.8 Student ID points per game, including a 31 point outing in a loss to Houston Baptist in the first game of the season.

UT Arlington has not seen, and will not see, a team like Oklahoma this year. In short term, the game might not be in their favor, but the long-term affect could pan out for the Mavericks.

Walker will have a tough time going up against Oklahoma forwards Nicole Griffin and Kaylon Williams. Griffin is a force to be reckoned with on the glass while Williams’ relentlessness and skills on offense are constantly improving.

Expect the guard play to continue to excel, led by Ellenberg and senior guard Morgan Hook. Because of the tremendous start by Ellenberg, Hook has not received the credit she deserves.

Effectively running the show for a top 10 team is not an easy task, but Hook makes it look so effortless — and all on an injured ankle and a bum hand.

Wednesday will be the Sooners’ final home game before they head off to the west coast for a one-game road trip against UCLA. Tipoff is a 7:00 p.m. Wednesday at Lloyd Noble Center.

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