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ALTERCATION IN THE UNION SHUTS DOWN NEARBY STREETS Police respond to fights at National Pan-Hellenic party LUKE ATKINSON Contributing Writer

Streets near the Oklahoma Memorial Union were shut down late Saturday evening after an altercation occurred at a National Pan-Hellenic party.

According to OU Police Department Lt. Bruce Chan, there was an event at the union

that more than 600 people attended. At 11:07 p.m., fights broke out inside and moved outside to Asp Avenue. OUPD and Norman police responded to the fight. OUPD said there were no injuries or weapons reported, and Norman police may have made an arrest.

According to a Facebook flier, the party was held by Omega Psi Phi, a National PanHellenic fraternity.

Aziza Kedir, industrial engineering senior, was operating the sign-in table for the event.

“This party goes on every year,” Kedir said. “Once the party began, we had over 400

people in line waiting to get in.”

Kedir said because so many people were trying to get in at once, tensions in line began to become heated.

“When you have that many people in line, there is bound to be some pushing or shoving,” Kedir said.

Preliminary investigation indicates those involved in the altercation were not OU students, Catherine Bishop, vice president of OU Public Affairs, stated in an e-mail.

“The OU group sponsoring the event appears to have followed OU guidelines and

had security present,” Bishop stated in the e-mail. “Additional law enforcement helped because we always want to make sure that we have more than enough security to handle a situation if a problem occurs.”

Vince Winston, former UOSA vice president, posted a short video to his Twitter account after the altercation occurred. There were more than 20 police vehicles present and several officers were directing traffic and patrolling Campus Corner.

-Ricky Maranon contributed to this report.

Improvised comedy videos by students screened in Dale Hall

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(Left to right) Anna Gentle, Jay Edwards and Kenny Madison, film and video studies junior, film an improvised scene about panhandling on the South Oval Saturday evening.

Rushed planning leads to low attendance, production problems TROY WEATHERFORD Daily Staff Writer

Actors and filmmakers took to the streets of Norman to shoot improvised videos Saturday night.

At the first Neutrino film project, four teams, made up of members of O.U. Improv!,

the OU Film Production Club and Red Dirt Improv, shot their own films based on a theme audience members provided. As segments were completed, team members ran their tapes back to the viewing hall in Dale Hall so an audience could watch the continuing narratives. The final video included the characters from all four videos coming together to link their stories.

What this translated into for the audience was a collection of four humorous videos based on the prompt “panhandling,” all

coming together at the end of their narratives with an overarching conclusion.

Since the films are not edited and are being seen for the first time in front of the audience, no one knew where the story might go.

This made the job of providing a musical score for the videos a difficult one.

“Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t,” said Stephanie Bidelspash, physical science junior, who tried to keep up with her keyboard. “I just kind of go with what I see and read the moods and feel for what’s

going on.”

The audience turnout, with fewer than 20 people in attendance, was lower than organizers would have liked, said Tyler Bryce, former artistic director for O.U. Improv! and current Red Dirt Improv member.

“It was a small turnout, but we tried to get it together in a rush,” Bryce said.

He said the only form of advertising they used was Facebook.

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UOSA Graduate Student Senate passes True Democracy Act

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Two bills of act will change recall, petition requirements

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After being passed by the UOSA Graduate Student Senate Sunday evening, the True Democracy Act of 2009 will change how petitions regarding recall and constitutional amendments are accepted and approved by the UOSA General Counsel.

“We are trying to close some loopholes created by the recent [UOSA] Superior Court ruling,” Student Congress Vice Chairman Matt Gress said.

The recent Superior Court ruling stated a students have the right to recall a member of UOSA who is not in their district, and if an election is uncontested, a student may propose an amendment to the UOSA constitution with a single signature.

“When you recall a UOSA official, it is serious,” Gress said. “This is nothing to play around with, and when it comes to

As students drive home to visit their families and friends for Thanksgiving, many international and exchange students are finding ways to celebrate Thanksgiving break in a different way.

Mayra Arauco, a second-semester exchange student from Bolivia studying economics, will be staying in Norman over Thanksgiving break.

“I might be having dinner with an American family,” Arauco said. “It’s someone I know from the international office who asked me to have dinner with her and her family and experience the American way.”

Arauco said this is the first time she has been in the U.S. while it was Thanksgiving.

“Some people in Bolivia also celebrate Thanksgiving, even though it’s an American

tradition. But it’s very well-known worldwide,” she said.

Arauco said she has never celebrated this tradition.

“I know it’s a great opportunity to be with family and those that you love,” Arauco said.

“I’m excited to see how it goes that night.”

International student Youssef Maher said he has been here since the beginning of the semester and has also decided to stay in Norman over Thanksgiving break.

“It’s a pretty cool occasion,” Maher said. “I’m from Egypt, and I’m Christian. We have the date on our Christian calendar, but we don’t really celebrate it back home. We pay more attention to Christmas and other holidays.”

Maher said he w ill probably have dinner with some of his international friends on Thanksgiving, but he said they aren’t planning on doing anything special for it.

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constitutional amendments, the floodgates have already opened.”

Gress said seven constitutional amendments have already been proposed to be considered on the UOSA spring 2010 election ballot.

The True Democracy Act of 2009 is a series of two bills. One bill would amend the UOSA Constitution to allow only students to recall members of UOSA they are eligible to vote on, and would reduce the number of signatures required to submit a petition to 10 percent of eligible voters in the district of the representative in question. The second would amend the UOSA code annotated to have certain requirements for all petitions regarding UOSA. “We don’t need people proposing drastic change to student government with only one signature,” Gress said. “I’ve also spoken with people who filed the recall petitions, and they told me that they weren’t expecting anyone to really be recalled, they were just trying to make a point. Folks, that is not

Some international students partake in Thanksgiving tradition

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OU senior finds home, home on the range KARLIE TIPTON Daily Staff Writer

Racing around aluminum barrels at high speeds on an animal weighing in around 2,000 pounds is a typical Friday night for one OU senior.

Tory Camerer, health and exercise sciences senior, has been doing rodeo since she can remember.

“I was at my first rodeo when I was 2 weeks old, [and] I was on my first horse when I was 2 months old,” Camerer said.

Around the time that most toddlers learn their ABCs, Camerer was learning the ins and outs of barrel racing.

“We built a rodeo arena when I was three or four, and I lived there,” she said. “So I just grew up around it.”

Camerer learned at an early age to deal with situations that might have been frightening for other youngsters.

“A lot of people think it’s dangerous, but I don’t know any better,” she said. “I was on a fast horse when I was five years old, and all I did was hold on tight.”

While developing racing skills over the years, Camerer has gotten a few bumps and bruises along the way.

“I have a lot of scars to show for hitting barrels,” she said.

It’s not just hitting barrels that proves a dangerous occurrence, the horse is not always under control.

“I was 10 at the big barrel race in Marshall, Texas … I was coming out of the second barrel and I had my hands on the reigns, [but]

as I reached back to whip, my horse just took off running and I just kind of flopped off the back of him in front of lots of people,” Camerer said. “Looking back on it, it’s funny now, but there are lots of times like that, just falling off … you just have to get back up and go again.”

Though she may have gotten hurt here and there along the way, Camerer has continued to compete.

“I was in a few pro rodeos … youth rodeos … and then there’s barrel races, which are just the single event,” she said.

Camerer has taken home more than a few prizes from these events.

“I’ve won two saddles, I’ve won lots of buckles … coats — pretty much everything,” she said.

Those that know Camerer believe her involvement in the rodeo has awarded her much more than horse accoutrement.

“The competitions have really made JEREMY DICKIE/THE DAILY Tory a better person,” family friend Brenda Tory Camerer, health and exercise sciences Spence said. “She learned how to lose, how senior, hitches up in front of the statue in the to win and how to get along better with Peggy V. Helmerich Gardens Sunday night. anyone.”

Camerer’s family also understands how been as involved as I was growing up … but this part of her life has deeply affected her now that I’m getting ready to graduate I’m in all aspects. looking forward to getting back into it and “Taking care of animals throughout her going every weekend,” she said. entire life has really made Tory a lot more As for Camerer’s goals, she has high responsible,” said her brother, Laramie, hopes, but just doing what she loves is who doubles as a riding partner. enough for her.

Camerer said she plans to continue im“Ultimately, it would be awesome to proving her abilities once school winds make it to the National Rodeo Finals, not down. even just to win but to get to compete would “This fall has been hard because I haven’t be awesome,” she said.

FORUM PROPOSED TO ADDRESS PROFESSORS WHO “TEACH DOWN” The UOSA Graduate Student Senate is considering hosting an academic forum to address concerns over the watering-down of curriculum.

Senate Academic Affairs Chairwoman Nichole Grooms said she is concerned that OU is cheapening degrees by dumbing-down curriculum so students will be able to pass. She said student leaders must address the issue.

“We are having classes taught by the best in their field, and yet we are telling them that

they should teach down to our students,” Grooms said. “If we stay on the present course of asking the best professors to teach down to their students ... our degrees not be worth the same that they are now as they will be 20 years from now.”

Grooms said professors should be encouraged to be tough, and the forum will help address the situation of classes becoming easier.

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Democracy Continued from page 1 what a recall petition is used for, and we need to change the process.”

Gress accepted a friendly amendment that states “the UOSA General Counsel must approve a petition within a reasonable amount of time.”

Both bills passed by consent. The bill regarding recall jurisdiction will be placed on the spring 2009 General Election ballot, and the overall petition requirements will go into effect when UOSA President Katie Fox signs the bill into law.

Comedy Continued from page 1 A team that accidentally videotaped the entire setup of a shot, just to stop recording at the command “action!,” accentuated the blitz of the event.

Nick Chancellor, film and video studies senior, was a member of that team. He said the problem came about because not everyone on the team knew how to use the camera.

“That’s the problem with this sort of thing.

Everyone has to do every role at some point,” Chancellor said.

He said he had fun, though. He also said the event was a good way for people to test their creative capabilities.

“You kind of get a tunnel-vision thing. You don’t even get to think about what you’re doing before you’re done doing it,” Chancellor said.

Holiday Continued from page 1 Thanksgiving break to travel in the United States.

“I’ll be going on a trip with my friends,” said Ha Eun Kim, a first-semester exchange student from South Korea. “We’re going to Houston; there are five of us going.”

Kim said they will be shopping and seeing the city and the beach there.

“We won’t be celebrating Thanksgiving,” she said. “We’re all international students, and we don’t really think Thanksgiving has that much importance in our own country.

It’s just a trip for us.”

Kim said they do have Thanksgiving back in her country, but they don’t really celebrate it.

Esther Eggink, a first-semester exchange student from Holland, said she and a friend are in California for the break visiting another friend.

“We will spend some time in San Francisco and then drive to Los Angeles and back,” she said.

Eggink said they will be going to a friend’s house to have dinner there for Thanksgiving.

“I think it [Thanksgiving] is really special and really American,” she said. “It’s an overload, and I think it’s really cool to experience it because it’s so American and cultural.”

E g g i n k s a i d t h e re i s n o t h i n g l i k e Thanksgiving in her own culture, and she said she thinks it’s cool to experience a completely American tradition.

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International students adapt to new perceptions of time, spacing Some students say U.S. has stricter view of time than other countries CAITLIN HARRISON Daily Staff Writer

Editor’s Note: This is the sixth part in a series of stories chronicling international students in their experiences at OU and in the United States.

Haiying Kong is never sure exactly what time to arrive when she’s invited to an event.

Kong, a communications graduate student from China, said time is viewed very differently in China, and it has taken her a while to get used to time perception in the U.S. versus that of her country. Usually she asks her American friends for advice when it comes to arrival times.

“I always ask people, ‘Shall I be there five minutes early, or on time?’ People emphasize punctuality ... but sometimes you can be a little bit late for certain functions,” Kong said. “So it’s hard to grasp every time for different functions.”

Kong, who has been in the U.S. for seven years, said people in the U.S. tend to adhere more strictly to time on the clock than in China. She said although more formal events in China usually start at a certain time, less formal social events don’t always have as clear of a timeline. Rather, she said, events take place naturally, as people see fit.

Kong said people in China don’t plan events as far in advance as those in the U.S. “People [in the U.S.] have planners for every day, even for months, for years ahead.

We seldom do that,” Kong said. “Events take

charge. We don’t really say, at this time, we have to do this. We don’t tend to plan weeks or months ahead.”

Kong said she finds it difficult to plan her availability a few months ahead of time, as is common in the U.S. Often, she said, she does not know what to tell people when they ask if she is available for an event far in advance.

Jall Cowasji, a University College freshman from India, said he has found, after being in the U.S. about three months, the pace actually seems slower here. He said things in his country, especially school assignments, are expected to be done on shorter deadlines.

“I get a lot more time to do it here. I feel like it’s a more laid-back atmosphere over here,” Cowasji said. “They have a lot of consideration as to you shouldn’t have too many things due at the same time. Back at home, they just pile it all on you.”

Kong said she noticed the U.S. emphasizes different ideas about space as well as time.

“In this coun- try, people tend to want more personal space compared with a lot of cultures,” Kong said. “In general, [China] doesn’t really emphasize this is my space. People tend to get close to each other.

Over here, I feel like people really know to define their space, and people have a clear idea of what boundary they cannot cross over.”

Kong said people tend to stand closer to each other while in conversation or in public places in China, and people do not emphasize the idea of a personal space bubble as much.

“If you’re waiting in line, like shopping, whatever, I have to remind myself, keep a

certain distance,” Kong said.

Mailis Amico, an exchange student from France studying economics, said people seem to touch each other less here than in her country. She said French people typically greet each other with a hug and a kiss, but that is not as common here.

Amico, who has been in the U.S. about three months, said cities also seem much more spread out here than in France, and there is less activity and fewer people in the streets.

“Here, everybody is in their car, and there’s nobody walking in the streets,” Amico said. “I went to Walmart and everybody was in the car, and we were the only people walking. In France, I walk every time.”

Kong said she also noticed there is much more open space in the U.S. “When I got here, everything was so spread out, and I was like, ‘Where are the people?’

There’s too much space,” Kong said. “Houses are so far away from each other. I was used to having people around.”

Amico said people in France tend to either use public transportation or walk, and she finds it inconvenient that public transportation is not as developed here. She said it once took two hours to get to Walmart on the bus.

Cowasji said he has found that cities are actually planned better here than in India, because many parts of India are congested, partially due to a high population density.

“We have the second-largest population in the world,” Cowasji said. “People are just building one building after the next, and it’s just getting more and more congested.”

He said roads in India tend to become narrower over time because the country adds buildings without widening any of the roads.

Cowasji, who will live in the U.S. until he

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Mailis Amico, an economics student from France, discusses some of the differences between the United States and France. graduates from OU, said it has been very difficult adjusting to life in the U.S. in general.

“It’s a very different atmosphere. I definitely get a culture shock,” Cowasji said. “In the beginning I found it hard to socialize ... because everything was so different.”

Kong said although she has been in the U.S. for seven years, she still finds perceptions of U.S. time and personal space to be somewhat foreign entities.

“I still haven’t completely grasped time in this culture,” Kong said.

CRIME REPORT NORMAN POLICE CRACK DOWN ON UNDERAGE TOBACCO SALES Norman Police are cracking down on convenience store clerks who sell tobacco to juveniles.

Norman Police spokeswoman MPO Jennifer Newell stated in a press release Norman Police have arrested 63 juveniles for possession of tobacco since Jan. 1.

“We have also received several citizen complaints about convenience stores selling tobacco to minors,” Newell stated. “Because of this information, the Norman Police Department conducted an operation to see how many clerks would sell [tobacco products] to a minor.”

Newell stated out of 21 stores being investigated, six stores had clerks that would sell to minors.

“In all of the cases where tobacco was sold to the minor, an ID indicating the subject was under 18 was shown to the clerk, but they sold tobacco to them anyway,” Newell stated. “The goal of this type of event is to identify the businesses currently selling

tobacco to those under 18 and deter them from doing so in the future.”

According to a Norman Police report, one clerk was fined at the 7-Eleven located at 2800 Chautauqua Ave. south of Traditions Square Apartments-West for selling tobacco to minors.

TWO ARRESTS MADE IN BURNED BODY HOMICIDE Oklahoma City Police arrested two people in connection to a dead body found in the back of a burned car Nov. 15.

Antonio Cordell Mendoza, 23, and Shelia Renee Starr, 24, of Oklahoma City were arrested by Oklahoma City Police and transferred into Norman Police custody on first-degree murder charges in connection to the death of Julian Ramirez Cazarez Nov. 15.

Police found Cazarez’s body in the trunk of a burning car near the northeast side of Lake Thunderbird in east Norman.

Norman Police spokeswoman MPO Jennifer Newell stated the two suspects will be held in the Cleveland County Detention Center and will be held without bond.

Newell stated formal charges will be filed today.

NORMAN POLICE LOOKING FOR TWO SUSPECTS WANTED IN ARMED ROBBERY Norman Police are looking for two men who robbed a cell phone store at gunpoint Friday.

Norman Police spokeswoman MPO Jennifer Newell stated that two men walked into the Global Mobile around 7 p.m. Friday with a handgun.

“Officers determined that two male suspects entered the store armed with a handgun,” Newell stated. “The suspected fled the area with an undetermined amount of cash and merchandise and remain at large.”

Newell stated both men wore masks and are identified as two black males, one wearing a gray sweatshirt, approximately 6’1” and 250 pounds; the second man was wearing a navy blue sweat shirt and is approximately 5’10” and 190 to 220 pounds.

“No one was injured in the robbery,” Newell stated.

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Rainy Day Fund may solve Oklahoma’s budget problems Last week, the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Department passed a plan to cut 100 jobs and consolidate state mental health services, according to NewsOK.com. The plan would combine two Norman health centers, the site said.

A source in the article cited budget cuts as the reason for the plan, and we understand this. After all, we are dealing with tough economic times, and every department is dealing with the economic consequences.

But it scares us that funding cuts have necessitated this consolidation. Mental health care is already in worse shape than it should be, and these new developments won’t help.

Fewer people who need mental health treatment will have access to it, thanks to these measures, and this is a problem for all Oklahomans, not just those who have mental health issues.

Oklahoma Rep. Wallace Collins,

“I would love to know why OU would allow a 600 person party to happen on their property in the first place.

can stop surfacing?”

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Any word on what the true altercation was so that rumors

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D-Norman, summarizes this well in the article, saying, “In the name of saving money, we will spend more money in the long run. These people will be turned out on the street, and they’ll end up in jail or prison.”

If Collins is right, this would also additionally burden Oklahoma’s prison system, which is dealing with overcrowding and budget constraints already.

But what can be done? We are in an economic recession, which means some budget cuts cannot be avoided.

We don’t, however, like seeing any health care services receive cuts. Perhaps cuts could be made elsewhere.

Or perhaps it’s time we fall back on Oklahoma’s Rainy Day Fund, which has almost $600 million in it, according to another article from NewsOK.com published last week.

If our current situation doesn’t qualify as a “Rainy Day,” we don’t know what does.

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We only have two more days of classes before Thanksgiving break.

Saturday was a tough day for Sooner athletics, as both the football team and men’s basketball team suffered losses.

Thanksgiving is Thursday, which signals the beginning of the holiday season.

A fight broke out at the union during a party late Saturday evening.

The topping-off ceremony of Gould Hall occurred last week, signaling the halfway point of construction on the building.

A report released last week indicated that the OU football program graduates the smallest percentage of players of all Big 12 universities.

The U.S. Senate voted to debate the health care reform bill over the weekend.

Another recent report concluded that Oklahoma was next-to-last in the U.S. in terms of overall health.

ABORTION DISCUSSION

What’s the right approach to abortion?

Being pro-choice makes the most sense in this debate.

Since my last column on sexuality was so well-received by the Christian community at our school, I’ve decided to address a topic that will perhaps push the limits of the whole “love thy neighbor” thing.

The anti-abortionists are going to love this one.

By the way, I use the term “anti-abortion” beTRAVIS cause “pro-life” implies GROGAN any number of things that aren’t necessarily true. I find it laughable that people who support torture, war, capital punishment, even the bombing of abortion clinics, can identify themselves as “pro-life.”

Abortion is not murder.

I’m sure that statement is agreeable to everyone, but just in case, I’ll elaborate.

Murder, by definition, means “wrongful killing,” so to argue against abortion simply by claiming that “it’s murder” raises a question.

The issue of abortion is not a debate over whether killing is involved. It is a question of whether it is “wrongful” killing or not.

Before I get into the heart of the ethics of this I would just like to point out that the idea that a fertilized egg is a human being is ludicrous. An embryo is no more a human being than an egg is a chicken.

A collection of cells undergoing mitosis does not a human make. If it did, then around 80 percent of humans beings end up dying before they are even born as they surf their way out of a woman’s body on a wave of menstrual blood.

Yet, I have never attended a funeral for a single one of these “people.”

If you believe that “life” occurs at the moment of conception, then I believe you should start organizing rescue missions to fish all of the pads and tampons out of the garbage in order to save all of those “lives.”

But let us focus on the “pro-choice” ethics of this, rather than the liberally biased science.

I believe that Judith Jarvis Thomson posed two of the best arguments against taking control over a woman’s body against her will.

She makes her arguments by posing scenarios that entail ethical actions. Think about how you would feel in either of these situations. (My apologies to those in the philosophy/ethics department. I know these are paraphrased. I’d print the entirety if I could …)

Scenario #1: You wake up in a hospital and find yourself surgically attached to a

famous artist. This artist has a renal disease that will cause him to die.

However, the art society, in an effort to save him, has kidnapped you and attached the artist’s body to yours. Your body not only allows the artist to live, it will save his life, if you allow him to remain attached to you for nine months.

Does the artist’s “right to life” supersede your right to have control over your own body?

Now, this scenario is obviously more analogous to situations where rape is involved, rather than the majority of circumstances when abortions are performed.

However, it does seem morally inconsistent to say that abortions are permissible in situations of rape or incest, if you take a general stance against abortion. An embryo certainly can’t control the circumstances of its inception.

Why does it lose the “right to life” that all other embryos have? Does God care about some embryos, but not others?

Scenario #2: You live in a world where “people seeds” drift through the air. If these people seeds take root in your carpet, they grow into children that you are responsible for.

Since you don’t want children, you place a screen on your window, knowing that sometimes screens are defective.

As it turns out, you end up purchasing one of the one in 100 screens that fails, and a person takes root in your carpet. Do you have the moral obligation to give the people plants unrestricted use of your home?

Now I’m about as much of a fan of Darwin as they come. However, even I see the problems involved in treating women as if they were nothing more than disposable incubators for the next generation.

The fact of the matter is that every pregnancy carries a gargantuan list of health risks. Among them are the inability to take certain medications, ectopic pregnancy, diabetes, hypertension, anemia, varicose veins, stroke, heart attack and death.

That whole “death” part really makes it difficult for me to take the “pro-life” label seriously.

So ask yourself, why should “rights” be given to a clump of human tissue, at the expense of the rights of an actual human being in our society?

Author’s Note: I’d like to thank Dr. Puritan for any concept I have of the nature of morality in general. I would strongly endorse his ethics course to anybody who believes that they have a moral theory that is not utterly hypocritical and meaningless.

Travis Grogan is a political science and communications senior.

A compromise is the best way to solve this debate.

I believe the art of politics is compromise. Therefore, why do we refuse to compromise on the important subject of “life,” specifically evident in the case of abortions?

That seems crazy to me, yet pro-lifers seem to refuse to budge an inch, for fear that the prochoicers will take a mile; JOSHUA and visa-versa.

HUFF Therefore, nothing changes.

Pro-choicers get stuck defending the abhorrent practice of partial-birth abortion, and pro-lifers get stuck saying that the morning-after pill is the same as murdering a 2-year-old child.

Often in politics, the best way to ensure you don’t get anything of what you want is to insist on getting everything you want: and meanwhile, unborn babies are dying.

I am pro-life to the core of my being. I am opposed to all unnecessary violence toward any life, but especially human life.

To me, abortion is based on the flawed assumption that violence solves things.

But that’s wrong! Violence exacerbates problems; it never solves them.

Yet, despite being pro-life in my values, I do not vote pro-life. In fact, if I voted, I would vote pro-choice to a degree.

I believe politics should be the art of uniting the state around a particular resolution. In America, a very pluralistic society, these issues are very complex, and we should recognize that others have good convictions, even if they disagree with us.

I don’t believe that there is a single, unambiguous way to settle complex issues – including abortion – in the political sphere.

First, it is doubtful that outlawing abortions is the best way of preventing them. If abortions are highest in places with poverty, then maybe a candidate who is prochoice but has a better economic model would do more to save these lives than a pro-life candidate who doesn’t address poverty.

And is our goal to save lives or is it to vote “pro-life”?

If one wants to take part in the solution to the abortion debate, one needs compromises that could be agreed on by most everyone. Clearly the extremes are not useful for uniting all Americans. So I propose a compromise.

What if we took the legal criterion for personhood at death and reversed it for the beginning of legal personhood? When

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a person’s brain activity falls beneath a minimum threshold, we in American society do not consider them a legal person.

So, what if we agreed that when a fetus’ brain activity rises above this minimum threshold, we consider them a legal person, possessing all the rights of persons in the U.S. (including the right to life)?

Gregory Boyd, a pastor in Minnesota, has proposed this idea on his Web site, and he says, “This occurs around the ninth or tenth week of pregnancy” (though obviously it varies based on individual cases).

I think this situation would work to unite us in outlawing the practice of abortion later. After all, most people (at least that I talk to) intuitively think that the later an abortion is, the worse it is.

Likewise, the more abortions we have, the worse it is. Therefore, under my proposal (or Greg Boyd’s proposal rather), we would have far fewer abortions later, and we would have fewer abortions period.

We would be saving more lives under this compromise than in our current situation. And, I believe we could adopt this proposal. I don’t believe this idea is unreasonable.

Now, I don’t present this idea because I believe that life is valuable with brainwaves above a certain threshold. Nor do I present this idea because I believe souls enter at this time or for other religious reasons.

I simply propose this because I feel the need for compromise in the abortion debate, and I feel this is a good compromise.

Under my proposal, all abortions past the ninth or tenth week of pregnancy (past the brain wave threshold, whatever that is) would be outlawed, but before then, one would be legally allowed to get an abortion.

I make no moral judgments (except to say that I support life at all stages) because the situation is far too complicated to be dogmatic. I believe laws should be based on compromise and natural law that appeals to everyone’s moral intuitions.

Under this compromise (among others), we would work toward what most of us want (fewer abortions) and save more lives of unborn children.

Regardless of how we feel about the moral judgments, I feel that if we are deciding laws, we should try to work together, to unite with most of the people in society, and come up with a compromise.

Being dogmatic, condemning and judgmental (which I think comes from both sides of the abortion debate) will only result in you not getting anything of what you want, for no one likes someone who has to have everything his or her way.

Joshua Huff is a philosophy and economics senior.

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Prospective students experience potential new life on campus Sooner Saturday brings over 2,500 participants

CAMPUS NOTES TODAY CAREER SERVICES Career Services will host walk-in hours from 1:30 to 4 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

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As part of OU’s Sooner Saturday, prospective students visited OU Saturday to get a taste of what campus and Norman life is like.

Sooner Saturday is an annual event, put on by OU Prospective Student Services, in which high school seniors, transfer students and their families can tour the campus and attend information sessions.

Colleges also offer open houses to showcase different programs and opportunities.

Between 2,500 and 3,000 people attended the event, including family members, said Lauren Royston, spokeswoman for Housing and Food Services. About 800 to 1,000 of those were prospective students.

Attendees were able to eat at the recently renovated Couch Restaurants.

“We worked on showcasing each restaurant concept,” Royston said. “We put together the main entrées from each restaurant so people could get the overall idea of what they each do.”

Sarah Mehner, a high school senior from Edmond, said eating at Couch Restaurants was her favorite part of the day because it gave her an idea of the kind of food she can eat at OU. Mehner said she has been accepted to OU and plans to start classes in the fall of 2010. “[OU] is really good for my major, [dental] hygiene,” Mehner said. “I think Sooner Saturday was a good preview of what to expect here.”

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Prospective students and their families tour the campus during Sooner Saturday, an event that showcases the departments and features of OU to a give a taste of campus life.

Another part of the day included tours of the different residence halls on campus. Besides just showing the model room at each facility, Housing and Food Services asked current residents to show their rooms to prospective students, Royston said.

“The Sooner showroom is just kind of the basics,” Royston said. “It was nice for students to really see the entire finished package about what a student really can do to make their room their own.”

Elizabeth Casteneda, a high school senior from Tulsa, said being able to see each of the rooms was beneficial to her because she did not know anything about the residence halls before Sooner Saturday.

Casteneda said she plans to attend OU in the fall of 2010.

“I was biased against OU,” Casteneda said. “I was like, ‘Oklahoma? No, thank you.’ But I fell in love with the campus.”

Throughout the day, student organization volunteers, as well as residence life volunteers, helped attendees find different buildings and answer questions about OU. “I have been asked everything from if they serve beer on campus to what the different class sizes are,” said Kaleigh Kaczmarek, management and information systems junior.

Kaczmarek volunteered with the President’s Community Scholars to work a booth outside of Couch Restaurants for part of the day.

MINORITY ASSOCIATION OF PRE-HEALTH STUDENTS The Minority Association of PreHealth Students will host a meeting at 7 p.m. in Dale Hall room 128.

TUESDAY CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUS Christians on Campus will host a Bible study from noon to 12:45 p.m. in the union’s Traditions room.

CAREER SERVICES Career Services will host walk-in hours from 1:30 to 4 p.m. in the union.

POLICE REPORTS The following is a list of arrests and citations, not convictions. The information given is compiled from the Norman Police Department and the OU Police Department.

All those listed are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

COUNTY WARRANT Shawna Jean Barney, 33, 820 Owl St., Thursday Dorothy Lorene Box, 50, 901 N. Porter Ave., Thursday Garrett William McCann, 22, 1205 E. Lindsey St., Thursday Laura Sue Cason, 39, 1117 Garver St., Friday Calvin Earl Reed, 42, 1117 Garver St., Friday, also petty larceny Gerald Dale Watts, 50, 213 E. Vida Way, Friday DOMESTIC ABUSE Brian Eugene Beck, 35, 3929

Indian Point Circle E., Thursday Chetara Marie Watkins, 20, 1109 Brandywine Lane, Friday FURNISHING TOBACCO TO A MINOR Lindsay Michelle Cummins, 19, 2800 Chautauqua Ave., Wednesday Ngu Quang Dang, 45, 2132 W. Main St., Wednesday Joe Lee, 39, 320 White St., Wednesday PUBLIC INTOXICATION Jose Velasco Flores, 31, 2100 W. Brooks St., Thursday Charlie Crosby, 19, 800 Chautauqua Ave., Saturday, also minor in possession of alcohol David Edward Diggs, 20, 601 12th Ave. N.E., Friday Neil Anthony White, 20, 333 S. Webster Ave., Saturday

MUNICIPAL WARRANT Lisa Nicole Nardine, 37, 614 N. Jones Ave., Thursday, also county warrant Paul Daniel Babin, 30, 601 12th Ave. N.E., Friday, also petty larceny Joe Curtis Bernard, 33, Flood Avenue, Saturday Robbie Darnell Ray, 37, 203 S. Jones Ave., Saturday DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Brandon Christopher Simmons, 20, Sherwood Drive, Thursday Rickey B. Brown, 31, 2600 W. Main St., Saturday Lexa Jaclyn Burciaga, 21, Classen Boulevard, Saturday Vincent Evan Millsap, 29, 2900 N. Flood Ave., Saturday Carlos A. Sanchez Calderon, 35, 2900 N. Flood Ave., Saturday Lance David Wright, 27, 2900

N. Flood Ave., Saturday, also possession of marijuana PETTY LARCENY Lora Sue Hodges, 39, 1117 Garver St., Friday AGGRAVATED DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Melynda Michelle Rider, 36, 401 12th Ave. S.E., Friday, also transporting an open container of alcohol Katherine Lynn Woolly, 22, Oak Tree Lane, Saturday MAKING/SELLING/POSSESSION/ DISPLAYING ILLEGAL DRUG Alberto Cervantes Rojas, 26, Ed Noble Parkway, Friday, also unsafe lane use and driving without a valid license

OTHER WARRANT Richard T. Crenshaw, 40, East Lindsey Street, Saturday HOSTING, PERMITTING OR ALLOWING A LOUD PARTY Bradley Kyle Edmonds-Faulk, 19, 1601 Jenkins Ave., Saturday

MINOR IN POSSESSION OF ALCOHOL Jaymes Mauldin Lewis, 18, 1601 Jenkins Ave., Saturday Andrew Ryan McGaha, 19, 1111 Oak Tree Ave., Saturday, also possession of marijuana and hosting, permitting or allowing a loud party

POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA Talauna Dawn Ellis, 32, 1432 24th Ave. S.E., Friday

LITTERING Jose Angel Maestre, 54, Buchanan Avenue, Friday

FIRST DEGREE BURGLARY Matthew D. Glass, 21, 1800 Beaumont Drive, Saturday, also malicious injury and destruction of property ASSAULT AND BATTERY William C. Hetherington, 36, 2321 Crestmont St., Saturday, also disturbing the peace

DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCEDRIVER UNDER 21 Christopher Wayne Stolfa, 20, 2900 N. Flood Ave., Saturday, also transport of an open container of alcohol, driving with a suspended license and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia DRIVING WHILE IMPAIRED Quy T. Tran, 21, 2900 N. Flood Ave., Saturday

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AGED PRODUCTION DOESN’T ENDURE One of a series of plays about life in fictional small town Tuna, Texas, “A Tuna Christmas,” has been a holiday regional theater staple for close to 20 years. Maybe it’s time for a new tradition.

Ti m e h a s n o t w o r n well on “Tuna” and its gentle satire of simple country folk. While the DUSTY concept and the show’s SOMERS use of just two actors to play more than 20 roles is admirable, most of its small-town humor would be better off staying in the small town.

The Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre production of “A Tuna Christmas” stars Oklahoma City theater veteran Jonathan Beck Reed and CityRep artistic director Donald Jordan in a pair of earnest performances that nonetheless slip into minor variations on the same redneck as the show progresses.

Reed and Jordan spend much of the show in drag, with the varying level of shrillness the only distinguishing factor in most of their female characters. If not for Jane Childs’s wacky costume design, there would hardly be a difference at all.

“A Tuna Christmas” takes place during Tuna’s annual Christmas yard display contest, where big fish in a small pond Vera Carp (Reed) is looking for her 15th straight victory. There’s a yard display vandal on the loose though, dubbed “the Phantom” by the wary townsfolk.

Other peculiar Tuna residents include harried housewife Bertha Bumiller, former wartime riveter Pearl Burris, the town sheriff nicknamed Rubber Sheets and “not-the-marrying-kind” theater director Joe Bob Lipsey (all Jordan), as well as Bertha’s kids — hyper Jody, excon Stanley and petulant Charlene — and crazed weapons saleswoman Didi Snavely (all Reed). Radio station OKKK disc jockeys Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie guide the story along.

There are some potent barbs to be f o u n d a m o n g t h e d i l u t e d s a rc a s m (“Censorship is as American as apple pie,

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so shut up!”) but much of the humor will only tickle the funny bone of those who bust a gut at jokes pointing out differences between Methodists and Baptists. The absurdities of small-town residents may be an easy comedic target, but simply making observations about them doesn’t exactly equal comedy.

Reed and Jordan work harder than most theater productions require, with a flurry of costume changes and a lot of running around involved. Their weariness as the show progresses is understandable, but the comic timing suffers

as the show goes on.

Scenic and lighting design by Don Childs effectively create the look of a rural kitchen, a radio station, a diner and a weapons supply shop.

“A Tuna Christmas” isn’t exactly a lump of coal in your stocking; more like that sweater that would’ve been fashionable a decade ago from your out-of-touch aunt.

The play stages now through Dec. 13 in the CitySpace Theatre at the Civic Center Music Hall in Oklahoma City.

Dusty Somers is a journalism senior.

DETAILS • “A Tuna Christmas” • Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.

• Now through Dec. 13 • CitySpace Theatre in the Civic Center Music Hall • 201 N. Walker in Oklahoma City • Tickets: $30 for evening shows, $25 for student matinees, $8 for student rush • For tickets, call 848-3761

‘Gleeks’ evolve from popular series, soundtrack When I fell in love with Fox’s “Glee” last September, I had no idea the relationship would last longer than a few months. But what once was a simple infatuation has developed into something more — I’ve become a Gleek.

Not only has ALEX this show become EWALD a favorite for many teenagers, its soundtrack has produced some of iTunes’ bestselling tracks this year, including its hit song “Don’t Stop Believin.”

Competing with “Believin,’” however is the cast’s cover of Queen’s “Somebody to Love.”

The show’s New Directions glee club takes the stage for the first time with layers upon layers of the harmonic build-up and climactic finales (enormously boosted by the

big-voiced Mercedes Jones) typical of Queen songs and now classic of “Glee’s” songbook.

The often piano-based big numbers coming around every other track almost overpower the show’s compilation album, “Glee: The Music, Vol. 1,” but then you remember the characters behind the music – the show’s fundamental genius.

The album is just filled with one rousing number after the other.

It’s one thing for a show to have great music, but the stories built around numbers during episodes reinforce “Glee’s,” well, gleefulness.

Star Lea Michele’s voice is perfect for “Glee’s” seemingly endless supply of power ballads like the aforementioned covers. It’s kind of expected that she sing “diva standards” like Celine Dion’s “Taking Chances” and Rihanna’s “Take A Bow.” The Broadway veteran’s voice has the heart and the vocal power and precision that make every

spine-chilling solo satisfying. She could really sing anything. The full-throttle belting from “Defying Gravity” is clearly more suited for her vocals than for co-performer Chris Colfer’s falsetto soprano (though the song’s message is far more suited to his character, Kurt, than hers).

The rest of the cast has just as much talent as its obvious diva.

The only time Berry’s throne as the glee club’s star is threatened is the wildly ironic presence of Kristen Chenoweth’s April Rhodes, who steals the show from the Idina Menzel-lookalike on the smoky and yearning “Maybe This Time” from “Cabaret.”

Songs from the other performers are where the real gems are found.

Cory Monteith’s Finn pretty much is reduced to duets with Rachel, on “No Air,” “Believin,” “Somebody to Love” and “Keep Holding On” (notice a pattern of song choice?), but on his inaugural “Can’t Fight This

Feeling” Monteith’s scratchy-yetsmooth voice soars on the guitarbacked instrumentation.

A self-described “Beyoncé, not Kelly Rowland,” diva Mercedes (played by Amber Riley) evokes more of a Jennifer Hudson-type big voice, evoking some brassy soul on the scorned songs “Bust Your Windows” by Jazmine Sullivan and “Hate On Me” by Jill Scott. I wonder who’s going to be singing “And I’m Telling You” when that song comes in the near future.

The only character who really bothers me is teacher Will Schuester and his tendency to rap in his numbers rather than capitalize on the amazing voice he shows on “Alone” with Kristin Chenoweth. Just say no to “Gold Digger.” Mercedes’ intro is impressive as always, but the rapping of a high school Spanish teacher just makes everything so awkward to listen to and/or watch. Morrison raps well and flows consistently,

but it breaks the character too much for Will to suddenly be a G. “Glee” just invites its viewers for an hour of escapism, as the show’s writing is as much guilty fun as the aurally awesome music, released every week on iTunes in a smart move by Fox. The show holds claim to the specifically on-screen Emma Pillsbury, the school’s guidance counselor, and Cherrios coach Sue Sylvester, both hilarious characters, one with a heart and the other definitely without one.

“Glee’s” quirky, often racy, plots should be enough incentive to become a “Gleek” alone. What other show could have teenage pregnancy, faked pregnancy, cupcakes laced with pot and lots of unrequited love?

The show’s soundtrack is now available and new episodes of “Glee” air at 8 p.m. Wednesdays on Fox. Alex Ewald is a University College freshman.

Monday, November 23, 2009

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Bottled brews of Mustang Amber Lager ready to please local taste buds ASHLEY BERNTGEN Daily Staff Writer

Strong winds, OU football and country music stars are a few of the things people relate to Oklahoma, but local businesses might be one of the most common things seen on streets in the Sooner state.

But this week, Okies can celebrate one of the newest

local businesses in the state — Mu s t a n g B re w i n g C o. o f Mustang.

The brewery began last year as an idea in the minds of current president Tim Schoelen and a friend.

The brewing company launched its first beer, Mustang Golden Ale, in July to local bars and restaurants.

By September, the Golden Ale was available in bottles.

This month, Mustang Brewing Company marked another important milestone: their second beer.

The new brew, Mustang Amber Lager, was launched

at James E. Mcnellie’s Public House in Oklahoma City last week.

“We did pretty good. We sold 215 pints in about an hour, so not too bad, especially on a cloudy, wet [night].” Schoelen said.

The brewing company is not finished creating new products though.

There are plans to release another beer in early spring of 2010 and to brew the Golden Ale in cans. “ We’ re p ro b a b l y g o i n g t o put up on our website a fan vote for two different beers,” Schoelen said. “We’ll either do

an American Pale Ale, what I call my Okie Pale Ale, or we’ll do a wheat, probably closer to March.”

The ultimate goal of Mustang is to eventually move all of their brewing operations to Oklahoma.

Although the company creates all of its own recipes for its beers, they currently outsource the brewing process to breweries in Wisconsin and Missouri.

“Phase one of our brewery plan was to take our recipes and farm them out to larger breweries that can help manufacture our product, and bring it back in,” Schoelen said. “The idea for

the first two beers was to get a couple of products out, generate some revenue, and we can end up bringing them back and building a brewery here locally, and that’s phase two, which starts in January.”

By leaving the decision of what its third beer will be up to its loyal drinkers, Mustang Brewing Company is giving the consumer the opportunity to voice his or her opinion.

Schoelen said drinkers of Mustang’s brews will be helping to solidify the company as something that appeals to everyone, but is uniquely Oklahoman.

COMPOSER, PIANIST TO JOIN OU WIND SYMPHONY IN CONCERT The OU School of Music will present the Sutton Concert Series with composer and pianist Carter Pann, who joins the OU Wind Symphony at 8 p.m. in Sharp Concert Hall.

OU’s Symphony Band will perform

“Games, Dances and Celebration,” a fanfare by noted video game composer from Japan, Wataru Hokoyama, as well as “Allerseelen,” a German art song compsed by Richard Strauss.

In addition to Pann’s “Concerto Logic,”

the OU Wind Symphony will perform “Wedding Dance” from Hasseneh Suite

by Jacques Press, and American composer John Mackey’s newest composition, “Aurora Awakes.”

The concert will take place at OU’s

Catlett Music Center, 500 W. Boyd.

St.Tickets for the event are $8 for adults and $5 for students, OU faculty/staff and senior adults.

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Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- If you’re not careful, your strong interest in members of the opposite gender could turn your head and place you in a forbidden relationship fraught with complications.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Both your attention span and stick-to-itiveness are at low levels. Thus, the moment you lose interest in something is the moment your work ethic will go out the window.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Listen to the advice of wellintentioned friends, but verify all that you hear before acting on anything, especially if money is involved. Something told to you could prove detrimental.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- A lot of patience might be required with regard to something another has promised you. If you ride this person, he or she will scratch the project altogether.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- If you take things for granted, you may not fully capitalize on new opportunities that cross your path. Unless you check out what is being offered, you could be looking a gift horse in the mouth.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -Don’t expect Lady Luck to help if you are leaving all the heavy lifting to her. She wants to work with you, but you need to share the burden.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- You’re able to work well with peers as long as there is no outside interference. The moment an outsider gets into the act, cooperation will go downhill.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Be careful about accepting the word of someone who has previously betrayed you. Anyone with a history of breaking important promises is likely to do it again without batting an eyelash.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- You have a wonderful, generous nature, but this may hold true only up to a point. If you begin to feel someone is taking advantage, you’ll instantly put a lock on your holdings.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -Putting on airs or affectations is totally unnecessary when in the presence of your friends. If you feel the need to use pretense or to try to be someone you’re not, chances are you’re with phonies.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Financial conditions could be tricky, so don’t trust your luck and risk your hard-earned holdings. To be on the safe side, put your money only on that which is a sure thing.

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9 Little League rules item 10 Sunbather’s goal 11 Arranges a prize fight?

12 Crazy about 13 Like a posteruption

landscape 18 Last state admitted in the 1800s 19 Constitution’s composition 24 Bellyaches 26 Supernatural life forces 27 Carpenter’s grooves 28 Hebrew alphabet start 29 Show uncertainty 31 Arizona Native Americans 33 Like the boonies 34 Amphitheater features 35 Opposite of wild 37 Canary’s relative 39 “Can you hear ___?�

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power 43 Yale’s home 48 Bit of fowl language 50 Lily with an edible root 53 Oldfashioned 55 Upper New York Bay island 56 Auto loan figs.

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Monday, November 23, 2009

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SOONER DEFENSE MIA IN LUBBOCK JONO GRECO Daily Staff Writer

LUBBOCK, Texas – Disappointing. Bad. Flat out beaten.

These are some of the phrases OU players and coaches used to describe Saturday’s 41-13 dismantling by the Texas Tech Red Raiders at Jones AT&T Stadium, a place where the Sooners have lost their last three games.

“We didn’t play well on defense,” junior defensive tackle Gerald McCoy said. “I don’t know what was going on. We couldn’t get anything going; we couldn’t get any stops.”

What is most discouraging about Saturday’s defensive problems is that there have not been any signs of this defense cracking all season.

“When the defense has been playing so well throughout the whole year, it’s disappointing to come in here and have a performance like this. It’s always disappointing,” junior defensive end Jeremy Beal said.

Texas Tech was statistically the best offensive team the Sooners’ defense has lined up against this season, but this was easily the squad’s worst performance.

It gave up 549 total yards, 388 passing yards and 161 rushing yards – all of which are season highs.

“They moved the football on us,” head coach Bob Stoops said. “In the end, they balked us, ran the football, broke tackles, so you’ve got to give them the credit.”

Coming into Saturday’s game, the defense had allowed its opponents to convert on 32.3 percent of their third-down attempts, but the Red Raiders were able to make eight of 17 third downs.

“We never could get the stops when we had them on some third downs,” Stoops said. “We just couldn’t produce the stops that we needed when we needed them.”

The defense looked overpowered the entire game, and by the end of the third quarter, people wondered if it had given up.

“I think it’s the first time all season that our defense has looked that way,” Stoops said. “I don’t think it’s fair to say that they gave up. They weren’t as sharp as they have been all year.”

McCoy said he did not recognize the defense that took the field Saturday afternoon.

“As good as we’ve been playing on defense all year,

Injuries adding up for OU again after Saturday’s game CLARK FOY Daily Staff Writer

Injuries continue to pile up as this OU football season spirals downward to an end.

Freshman offensive lineman Ben Habern went down in the second quarter and had to be assisted off the field as he was unable to put any weight on his ankle.

Head coach Bob Stoops said in the post-game press conference that Habern is out indefinitely for the remainder of the season with a broken fibula.

The falling of Habern marks the third OU offensive lineSOONERS DOWN man to go down this season.

Jarvis Jones is out for the Ben Habern: season with a broken heel out for the season while Brody Eldridge supRyan Reynolds: unknown posedly suffered a sprained AC joint, much like Sam Adrian Taylor: unknown Bradford’s shoulder injury, and will miss the rest of the season as well.

Stoops said he was “not sure” about the status of senior linebacker Ryan Reynolds and junior defensive tackle Adrian Taylor.

Reynolds went down during the second half while Taylor limped off the field with an apparent ankle injury, never to return to action.

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Brian Jackson, senior defensive back, tackles Texas Tech wide receiver Alexander Torres Saturday at Jones Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.

Texas Tech won the game 41-13. and we allow something like that, that’s just no heart, no pride at the end of the game,” McCoy said. “That’s just not good enough; that’s not Oklahoma.”

The Sooners have to come home next weekend to take on Bedlam foe Oklahoma State Cowboys, an offense that averages 32.9 points per game – 34.7 points per road game – and 400.5 yards per game – 455.3 yards per road game.

But the Cowboys may be without senior quarterback Zac Robinson, who suffered a concussion on Nov. 14 against Texas Tech, because he has yet to be cleared to play by team doctors.

“We’ll regroup and you know Oklahoma State’s coming in next week, so go out with a bang,” sophomore linebacker Travis Lewis said. “What a way to go out than play your rival.”

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Loss at VCU highlights OU’s need for leadership

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Junior Forward Carlee Roethlisberger drives toward the basket against Oklahoma Christian Nov. 10.

OU pulls off win over TCU JAMES ROTH Daily Staff Writer

OU was back in action Saturday at the Lloyd Noble when they were able to get the 74-70 win over Texas Christian University; however, the Sooners were not satisfied with their performance.

Both teams got out to a slow start and it was a low-scoring first half. OU started the game shooting just two of 10. The Sooners did shoot 42 percent from the field in the first half, however ,they only put up 34 points.

The Sooners defense kept them in the ballgame forcing 13 turnovers.

“We figured out how to win playing poorly,” head coach Sherri Coale said. “That’s always something you can say you have done, we have it in our pocket and we can pull it out again if we need to.”

Senior center Abi Olajuwon kept the Sooners in the ballgame in the first half. She scored 16 points and gave the team a strong low-post presence. “[Olajuwon] carried us offensively,” Coale said. “She was patient and tough around the basket and did exactly what we needed her to do.”

Sophomore guard Whitney Hand, who is usually an offensive threat, only scored five points in the first half and was forced to sit on the bench due to foul trouble.

The Sooners went into halftime trailing 3634.

The Sooners started the second half with a bang, going on a 10-0 run and retaking the lead, but TCU found a way to answer.

In the second half, the other Sooners stepped up. Junior guard Danielle Robinson scored 12 points in the second half and had 16 for the game. She also finished with eight assists, but also had a team-high six turnovers. Hand scored eight points in the second half alone and finished with 13 for the game.

“I have been passing up shots in the past couple of games,” Robinson said. “I saw those opportunities on film so I decided to take them today.”

With 12.6 seconds left in the ballgame TCU made a comeback and trailed by only two, however it was Robinson who hit two clutch free throws to seal the win.

The Sooners hit the road next week when they travel to the U.S. Virgin Islands for the Virgin Islands Paradise Jam.

The second Blake Griffin committed to OU, he changed the basketball program.

In his two years, Griffin did wonders to show future recruits that OU is a place where you can win games and prepare for the NBA. Since Griffin arrived, three McDonald’s All-Americans have come to Norman.

When Willie Warren announced last season that he would return for his sophomore year, it looked like he was following in Griffin’s footsteps.

It looked like OU was setting up an impressive line of domi- STEVEN nant players; that each year, JONES one guy would pass the torch to another. That, though, is easier said than done.

While the Sooner football team was getting beat soundly in Lubbock on Saturday, the men’s basketball team never led in an 82-69 loss to Virginia Commonwealth. In the game, Warren shot 3-14 from the field, including 0-8 from three, and scored eight points.

The loss is not a total embarrassment, as it was OU’s first road test of the year and VCU has been a solid program for years. However, improvement does not just happen, it is earned.

Between his freshman and sophomore seasons, Griffin matured greatly.

He got bigger, better and learned how to control his emotions on the court. Griffin became a leader.

If OU is going to live up to its preseason ranking this year, the Sooners will need a similar transformation from Warren. Using Griffin’s sophomore year as an example, Warren could make a simple check list of things he must do to become an effective leader: 1. Work hard: Griffin’s work ethic was legendary. He was constantly in the gym, so much so that sometimes the coaches would have to ask him to take it easy. I do not watch OU’s workouts, so I do not know what kind of work ethic Warren

has.

I do, however, know this much.

Griffin’s name was synonymous with hard work. He sent the message to his teammates that success came from work.

Warren, although he has tried to rid himself of it, still carries with him a reputation for being over-confident.

While it is okay for Warren to be his own person a shift in identity would be beneficial.

2. Play smart: Playing smart was easy for Griffin, who made his career on high-percentage shots. Griffin, though, played smart in every way. He knew how to get open, how to box out for rebounds and how to keep his cool.

As a guard, playing smart is more complicated for Warren. But Warren can get to the basket as well as anyone in the country. While I think he has a better long range shot than he has shown this year, it makes no sense for him to live on the perimeter.

3. Lead by example: Griffin was soft spoken, but was still the most intimidating player on the court in every game.

He let his work ethic and his game talk for him. That was the example he left for the young players on last season’s team.

I do not think Warren should change who he is. I do, however, think he needs to be a different player than he was a year ago in order to be the leader this team needs.

While Griffin did a lot for OU by simply doing things the right way, it is up to the players that come after him, like Warren, to follow in his footsteps and continue the progression of the men’s basketball program.

Steven Jones is a language arts education senior.