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past could have impact on stress Camp Bad backgrounds tame young adults’ stress, study says CHASE COOK

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The psychological stress brought on by final exams and projects may be better managed by young adults with a troubled past, according to

research by an OU College of Medicine professor.

Research done at OU’s Health Sciences Center shows adults with adverse backgrounds — including being mugged, robbed, sexually assaulted or separated from ones parents before the age of 15 — had lower heart rates and cortisol levels when exposed to psychological

stress.

These results could allude that adults with adverse backgrounds have adapted to stress in a different way than other people, said William Lovallo, psychiatry and behavioral sciences professor.

These people could be “more stress-hardy.”

While being more resilient to stress sounds like a good

thing, Lovallo said any alteration in the normal biological responses of the body could be cause for concern. “[These] systems built into our body for stress are essential to our survival,” he said.

The stress tests were performed on a total of 354 healthy, young adults both

AT A GLANCE stress symptoms • your heart rate increases • you begin to breathe more as the lungs dilate • you feel less hungry as digestive activity decreases Source: simplypsychology.org

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group takes walk Protesters picket Main Street bank over 2008 bailout

“dr. Indestructo” saYs GoodBYe

COCO COURTOIS Campus Reporter

Despite the biting cold, Occupy Norman took its message on the move Wednesday on a walk from its headquarters at Andrews Park to Chase Bank on Main Street. “[JPMorgan Chase & Co.] is one of the biggest recipients of the government bailout. They were directly involved in the economical crisis,” said Grant De Lozier, political science and geographic information see WALK paGe 2

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Issues brought above ground Sooner state has experienced 1,047 quakes in 2011 KinGsLey Burns/tHe daiLy

Physics professor Stewart Ryan, dressed as “Dr. Indestructo,” blows clouds of liquid nitrogen in Nielsen Hall on Wednesday. The physics professor, known among both students and faculty for his zany costumes and lively demonstrations, is retiring this semester and has been recognized with the title of professor emeritus. “I’ve been here for 150 years,” Ryan said. “It’s time to let someone else come in and do this.”

Campus Reporter

“Dr. Indestructo” is finally hanging up his hero attire after a 35-year teaching career.

Longtime OU physics professor Stewart Ryan will retire at the end of the semester; however, Ryan isn’t leaving quietly.

During last week’s Board of Regents meeting, Ryan was presented with the David Ross Boyd Professor Emeritus award for his unusual, but effective, student-oriented style of teaching.

Ryan said he could not have been more surprised after he was invited to the meeting for what he thought was the announcement of a gift to the physics department.

“I’m retiring, and normally all awards like this were given in April,” Ryan said.

The award was established in 1945 to recognize superior teaching ability, leadership and student guidance, named after OU’s first president, university spokesman Michael Nash said.

Ryan has traveled throughout the state giving about 500 shows of his famous alter-ego “Dr. Indestructo” skits, sharing his love of physics not only with university students but high school and elementary students as well. His alter ego was made famous by his multi-colored wigs and science-oriented attire.

Ryan is lauded as one of the best educators at OU, physics department Chairman KinGsLey Burns/tHe daiLy Gregory Parker said.

Parker said he has enjoyed watching Dr. Dr. Indestructo (retiring associate professor of physics Stewart Ryan) lies on a bed of nails in Nielsen Hall. Ryan has taught for 35 see INDESTRUCTO paGe 3 years and is retiring at the end of the semester.

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Record seismic activity has highlighted the use of hydraulic fracturing in Oklahoma, which houses a growing number of active fracturing wells.

T h e r e a r e 2 4 0 c u rrently active fracturing wells. Apache Corp. built 20 wells between January and March 2011, while BP has started the operation of 13 wells between June and October in eastern Oklahoma, according to Frac Focus, the Chemical Disclosure Registry.

Chesapeake currently leads the state in fracturing activity, operating 155 active sites, with 94.1 percent of them located west of Interstate 35.

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Today around campus An exhibit of students’ photos will be on display all day at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Lightwell Gallery. The display is a presentation from the F-Stop Society, a new student-art organization.

The exhibit will be on display until Dec. 9.

A holiday grab bag sale is being held from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Muse, the store within Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Grab bag discounts will range from 15 to 20 percent.

A free holiday harp concert will take place from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Catlett Music Center’s Gothic Hall.

The men’s basketball team will play Oral Roberts at 7 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center.

A lecture on preparing for veterinary and medical school interviews will take place from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Oklahoma Memorial Union, Suite 323. Free Raising Cane’s and cookies will be provided.

A free chamber concert will take place from 8 to 10 p.m. at Catlett Music Center’s Pitman Recital Hall.

Friday, Dec. 9 Final day of classes.

Final day for thesis defense.

Final day for oral defense of dissertation.

Final day for comprehensive exam.

A lecture on antisemite beliefs and actions of Oklahoma’s politicans will take place from 6 to 7 p.m. at OU Hillel. A Shabbat service and kosher dinner will follow. The lecture is free.

A performance of “The Nutcracker” will take place at 8 p.m. at the Fine Arts Center’s Rupel J. Jones Theatre. For more information, contact OU Fine Arts Box Office at 405-325-4101 or online at theatre.ou.edu.

A free screening of “Our Idiot Brother” will take place at 6, 9 p.m. and midnight at Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium. The movie is sponsored by the Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council.

Saturday, Dec. 10 The men’s basketball team will play Arkansas at 2 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center.

A performance of “The Nutcracker” will take place at 3 and 8 p.m. at the Fine Arts Center’s Rupel J. Jones Theatre. For more information, contact OU Fine Arts Box Office at 405-3254101 or online at theatre.ou.edu.

A free recital benefitting Special Olympics Oklahoma will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. at Catlett Music Center’s Pitman Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.

A free showing of “Our Idiot Brother” will take place at 8 p.m. at Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium.

Corrections The Oklahoma Daily has a commitment to serve readers with accurate coverage and analysis.

Readers should bring errors to The Daily’s attention by emailing dailynews@ou.edu.

In Wednesday’s page one headline about hydraulic fracking, The Daily incorrectly stated relationship between the process and the recent earthquakes in Oklahoma. No evidence has been found linking the two together.

Thursday, December 8, 2011 •

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Ground: State home to 240 fracking wells

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

walk: Local occupiers facing cheers and jeers

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Survey expert, published a report in August examining the impact of fracturing on seismic activity in Garvin County’s Eola Field. In his research, he neither confirms nor denies the possibility of fracturing wells inducing earthquakes. His research identifies cases of “enhanced geothermal systems where there is a clear correlation between injection and earthquakes” in Colorado, New Mexico and Australia.

He also identifies cases in Nebraska, Ohio and France with “less clear examples in which earthquakes may not have been triggered by fluid injection at a well.”

“We have been trying to understand those relationships,” Holland said. “Our biggest issue is incomplete data in Oklahoma.”

Oklahoma recently has experienced a massive spike in earthquakes. In the last decade, Oklahoma has averaged about 50 earthquakes a year. In 2011, the state has been shaken by 1,047 earthquakes, according to data from Leonard Geophysical Observatory in the Oklahoma Geographical Survey.Holland said he doesn’t think these earthquakes are relevant to the study.

“The other earthquakes we are talking about are 2 kilometers deep only. But even the aftershocks in Oklahoma happened at a depth of 4-14 kilometers,” Holland said.

Holland argues that Oklahoma’s geology is very complex across the state, and because Oklahoma has rocks near the surface that contain oil, he can’t put a flat line on anything at this depth that equates an earthquake to hydraulic fracturing.

“Back in the ’40s, they were fracturing the well by using explosives,” Holland said. “In my mind, water would the more preferable constituent. Hydraulic fracturing is an incredibly important technology. It’s better than us getting addicted to fossil fuels.”

science senior.

De Lozier said if people place their money in local banks, it would diminish the biggest ones’ power.

That’s one thing Scott Hellman, computer science graduate student, did not hesitate to do.

“I just went there (into a Chase Bank) and closed my checking account,“ Hellman said. “I moved it to the OU Federal Credit Union, a more local bank.“ Hellman said he closed his savings account before he joined the Occupy Norman movement.

“I had been following the movement, and I wanted to move my money so it just gave me the motivation to do it,” Hellman said.

In front of the bank, honks and cheering gave the protesters some warmth while some stopped to ask questions, take a flier or voice a complaint.

But not all have been friendly or cordial toward the movement.

A few hours before the walk, a man intruded into the media room and main living space of Occupy Norman.

“There were four of us, and this guy walks in, shaking

Occupy Norman protesters (left to right) Steven Lanik, Alisa Herring, Josh Wicker, Grant De Lozier, Peyton Gates and Scott Hellman stand outside the Chase Bank on Main Street on Wednesday afternoon, in objection to the bank’s national bailout receival in 2008. coco courtois/the daily

AT A GLANCE Occupy Norman • The Occupy Norman movement will walk to Bank of America at 2:30 p.m. Friday.

• General assemblies are open to anyone every night at 7 p.m. at Andrews Park.

angrily, and asks us where we are from. Right after our answers, he asked, ‘Are you ready to die? Are you ready to die for your liberalism?’” said Peyton Gates, who said

he is still shocked by what happened. “Then we asked him to leave, and he took our hammer. We asked him, ‘Excuse me, sir, are you taking our hammer?’ and he threw it at us. Then we realized he had slashed my tent with it.”

Aside from incidents such as this, most people show the group their full support, Gates said.

The members of the protest walk are not limited to young college students.

“It’s the first time I’m doing that,” said an older woman who identified herself as “Edie.”

What really bothers the 67-year-old retired nurse are the corporations that take so much money when so many people actually need it, she said.

“It’s not just about politics — it’s about having a better world for everyone,” she said.

De Lozier agreed.

“The type of democracy I would like is the grassroots democracy where people actually go in the street, not the type of democracy where you throw a vote every one or two years for a politician who is already bought off by corporate interest,” he said.

Finals: 354 adults involved in testing

Indestructo: Professor receives career award Continued from page 1 Indestructo perform many times.

Ryan has subjected himself to dipping his hand in molten lead, drinking liquid nitrogen and driving on a rocket-propelled bicycle while at the same time using sound scientific fact to justify each demonstration, according to his award.

Ryan said the act started after he and colleague Stanley Babb were asked to perform a show for a group of

schoolteachers. Each performed half of the show, and it was a hit. After the second show, Babb was informed he had a brain tumor and passed away soon after. Babb’s family gave his cap and gown to Ryan, and he wears it for his shows in memory of Babb.

The emeritus award is one of many for Ryan during a long career at OU, but he said the best part of working at the university has been the students.

“Physics can be intimidating, and I want to make it fun for them,” he said.

Campus Brief

Study Abroad

Students now can travel to Israel for summer studies The OU Study Abroad program is offering students the opportunity to travel to Israel for a month in the summer.

The trip begins on June 1, 2012 and ends on June 30.

Continued from page 1 with and without family histories of alcoholism. Subjects were put into a room to read magazines before they were exposed to psychological stress from public speaking simulations and arithmetic exercises, according to the research.

The group of 354 is a much larger group than typical stress tests’, which average from 50 to 70 people, Lovallo said. The larger group was selected to help researchers detect differences in the data, which can be small, he said.

Research participants with and without a family history of alcoholism were selected because the study is part of a broader project, titled the Oklahoma Family Health Patterns Project, Lovallo said.

The project was created to compare data between groups of people with a family history of alcoholism and groups of people with no family history of alcoholism.

The ultimate goal of the project is to “better understand predisposed motivational characteristics of persons at risk for alcoholism,” according to its website.

Lovallo’s stress research has been published online in the scientific journal Biological Psychiatry and will be available in the journal’s print version in February.

Lovallo said more research on this group should be released soon. He said he finished a paper with other researchers recently with data showing that young adults with adverse backgrounds take more risks than others.

The paper currently is under peer review.

KINGSLEY BURNS/THE DAILY

Physics professor Stewart Ryan, dressed as “Dr. Indestructo,” stands with his classroom props — a bed of nails and a rocket bike — in Nielsen Hall on Wednesday. Ryan began his act with colleague Stanley Babb, who later died because of a brain tumor.

To participate in the program, undergraduate and graduate students must have a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or above, have at least sophomore standing and an active passport. Students will receive six credit hours for the trip, professor Nina Livesey said.

“OU is coming in on the second year of this five-year-

long excavation, and we are fortunate to participate with one of the nation’s leading biblical archaeologists, Jodi Magness, from UNC-Chapel Hill,” Livesey said.

The program will be led by the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Livesey, who works in the religious studies department and the College of Liberal

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Participants will live in guest houses close to the site of the dig.

Marissa Pittman, Contributing Reporter

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OU added to iTunes university store with college-specific digital content OU is now on iTunes with the iTunes U store.

The free online service allows students to find a wide variety of course lectures, presentations, university news, departmental and program information, training sessions and guided tours, according to a press release.

The iTunes presence gives departments, colleges, faculty and staff the means to widely distribute digital content.

The collection of content on iTunes U includes the colleges and departments of Journalism and Mass Communication, Engineering, Liberal Studies and International Studies, with categories within subjects.

Students can access OU material by launching iTunes, clicking on iTunes U and searching for OU under “Universities and Colleges.”

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Today around campus An exhibit of students’ photos will be on display all day at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Lightwell Gallery. The display is a presentation from the F-Stop Society, a new student-art organization.

The exhibit will be on display until Dec. 9.

A holiday grab bag sale is being held from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Muse, the store within Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Grab bag discounts will range from 15 to 20 percent.

A free holiday harp concert will take place from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Catlett Music Center’s Gothic Hall.

The men’s basketball team will play Oral Roberts at 7 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center.

A lecture on preparing for veterinary and medical school interviews will take place from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Oklahoma Memorial Union, Suite 323. Free Raising Cane’s and cookies will be provided.

A free chamber concert will take place from 8 to 10 p.m. at Catlett Music Center’s Pitman Recital Hall.

Friday, Dec. 9 Final day of classes.

Final day for thesis defense.

Final day for oral defense of dissertation.

Final day for comprehensive exam.

A lecture on antisemite beliefs and actions of Oklahoma’s politicans will take place from 6 to 7 p.m. at OU Hillel. A Shabbat service and kosher dinner will follow. The lecture is free.

A performance of “The Nutcracker” will take place at 8 p.m. at the Fine Arts Center’s Rupel J. Jones Theatre. For more information, contact OU Fine Arts Box Office at 405-325-4101 or online at theatre.ou.edu.

A free screening of “Our Idiot Brother” will take place at 6, 9 p.m. and midnight at Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium. The movie is sponsored by the Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council.

Saturday, Dec. 10 The men’s basketball team will play Arkansas at 2 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center.

A performance of “The Nutcracker” will take place at 3 and 8 p.m. at the Fine Arts Center’s Rupel J. Jones Theatre. For more information, contact OU Fine Arts Box Office at 405-3254101 or online at theatre.ou.edu.

A free recital benefitting Special Olympics Oklahoma will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. at Catlett Music Center’s Pitman Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.

A free showing of “Our Idiot Brother” will take place at 8 p.m. at Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium.

Corrections The Oklahoma Daily has a commitment to serve readers with accurate coverage and analysis.

Readers should bring errors to The Daily’s attention by emailing dailynews@ou.edu.

In Wednesday’s page one headline about hydraulic fracking, The Daily incorrectly stated relationship between the process and the recent earthquakes in Oklahoma. No evidence has been found linking the two together.

Thursday, December 8, 2011 •

3

Ground: State home to 240 fracking wells

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

walk: Local occupiers facing cheers and jeers

Continued from page 1

Continued from page 1

Survey expert, published a report in August examining the impact of fracturing on seismic activity in Garvin County’s Eola Field. In his research, he neither confirms nor denies the possibility of fracturing wells inducing earthquakes. His research identifies cases of “enhanced geothermal systems where there is a clear correlation between injection and earthquakes” in Colorado, New Mexico and Australia.

He also identifies cases in Nebraska, Ohio and France with “less clear examples in which earthquakes may not have been triggered by fluid injection at a well.”

“We have been trying to understand those relationships,” Holland said. “Our biggest issue is incomplete data in Oklahoma.”

Oklahoma recently has experienced a massive spike in earthquakes. In the last decade, Oklahoma has averaged about 50 earthquakes a year. In 2011, the state has been shaken by 1,047 earthquakes, according to data from Leonard Geophysical Observatory in the Oklahoma Geographical Survey.Holland said he doesn’t think these earthquakes are relevant to the study.

“The other earthquakes we are talking about are 2 kilometers deep only. But even the aftershocks in Oklahoma happened at a depth of 4-14 kilometers,” Holland said.

Holland argues that Oklahoma’s geology is very complex across the state, and because Oklahoma has rocks near the surface that contain oil, he can’t put a flat line on anything at this depth that equates an earthquake to hydraulic fracturing.

“Back in the ’40s, they were fracturing the well by using explosives,” Holland said. “In my mind, water would the more preferable constituent. Hydraulic fracturing is an incredibly important technology. It’s better than us getting addicted to fossil fuels.”

science senior.

De Lozier said if people place their money in local banks, it would diminish the biggest ones’ power.

That’s one thing Scott Hellman, computer science graduate student, did not hesitate to do.

“I just went there (into a Chase Bank) and closed my checking account,“ Hellman said. “I moved it to the OU Federal Credit Union, a more local bank.“ Hellman said he closed his savings account before he joined the Occupy Norman movement.

“I had been following the movement, and I wanted to move my money so it just gave me the motivation to do it,” Hellman said.

In front of the bank, honks and cheering gave the protesters some warmth while some stopped to ask questions, take a flier or voice a complaint.

But not all have been friendly or cordial toward the movement.

A few hours before the walk, a man intruded into the media room and main living space of Occupy Norman.

“There were four of us, and this guy walks in, shaking

Occupy Norman protesters (left to right) Steven Lanik, Alisa Herring, Josh Wicker, Grant De Lozier, Peyton Gates and Scott Hellman stand outside the Chase Bank on Main Street on Wednesday afternoon, in objection to the bank’s national bailout receival in 2008. coco courtois/the daily

AT A GLANCE Occupy Norman • The Occupy Norman movement will walk to Bank of America at 2:30 p.m. Friday.

• General assemblies are open to anyone every night at 7 p.m. at Andrews Park.

angrily, and asks us where we are from. Right after our answers, he asked, ‘Are you ready to die? Are you ready to die for your liberalism?’” said Peyton Gates, who said

he is still shocked by what happened. “Then we asked him to leave, and he took our hammer. We asked him, ‘Excuse me, sir, are you taking our hammer?’ and he threw it at us. Then we realized he had slashed my tent with it.”

Aside from incidents such as this, most people show the group their full support, Gates said.

The members of the protest walk are not limited to young college students.

“It’s the first time I’m doing that,” said an older woman who identified herself as “Edie.”

What really bothers the 67-year-old retired nurse are the corporations that take so much money when so many people actually need it, she said.

“It’s not just about politics — it’s about having a better world for everyone,” she said.

De Lozier agreed.

“The type of democracy I would like is the grassroots democracy where people actually go in the street, not the type of democracy where you throw a vote every one or two years for a politician who is already bought off by corporate interest,” he said.

Finals: 354 adults involved in testing

Indestructo: Professor receives career award Continued from page 1 Indestructo perform many times.

Ryan has subjected himself to dipping his hand in molten lead, drinking liquid nitrogen and driving on a rocket-propelled bicycle while at the same time using sound scientific fact to justify each demonstration, according to his award.

Ryan said the act started after he and colleague Stanley Babb were asked to perform a show for a group of

schoolteachers. Each performed half of the show, and it was a hit. After the second show, Babb was informed he had a brain tumor and passed away soon after. Babb’s family gave his cap and gown to Ryan, and he wears it for his shows in memory of Babb.

The emeritus award is one of many for Ryan during a long career at OU, but he said the best part of working at the university has been the students.

“Physics can be intimidating, and I want to make it fun for them,” he said.

Campus Brief

Study Abroad

Students now can travel to Israel for summer studies The OU Study Abroad program is offering students the opportunity to travel to Israel for a month in the summer.

The trip begins on June 1, 2012 and ends on June 30.

Continued from page 1 with and without family histories of alcoholism. Subjects were put into a room to read magazines before they were exposed to psychological stress from public speaking simulations and arithmetic exercises, according to the research.

The group of 354 is a much larger group than typical stress tests’, which average from 50 to 70 people, Lovallo said. The larger group was selected to help researchers detect differences in the data, which can be small, he said.

Research participants with and without a family history of alcoholism were selected because the study is part of a broader project, titled the Oklahoma Family Health Patterns Project, Lovallo said.

The project was created to compare data between groups of people with a family history of alcoholism and groups of people with no family history of alcoholism.

The ultimate goal of the project is to “better understand predisposed motivational characteristics of persons at risk for alcoholism,” according to its website.

Lovallo’s stress research has been published online in the scientific journal Biological Psychiatry and will be available in the journal’s print version in February.

Lovallo said more research on this group should be released soon. He said he finished a paper with other researchers recently with data showing that young adults with adverse backgrounds take more risks than others.

The paper currently is under peer review.

KINGSLEY BURNS/THE DAILY

Physics professor Stewart Ryan, dressed as “Dr. Indestructo,” stands with his classroom props — a bed of nails and a rocket bike — in Nielsen Hall on Wednesday. Ryan began his act with colleague Stanley Babb, who later died because of a brain tumor.

To participate in the program, undergraduate and graduate students must have a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or above, have at least sophomore standing and an active passport. Students will receive six credit hours for the trip, professor Nina Livesey said.

“OU is coming in on the second year of this five-year-

long excavation, and we are fortunate to participate with one of the nation’s leading biblical archaeologists, Jodi Magness, from UNC-Chapel Hill,” Livesey said.

The program will be led by the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Livesey, who works in the religious studies department and the College of Liberal

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CL C 2413 Medical Vocabulary (Wagner, CRN 28694)

For addtional information on any of these courses, contact the Department of Classics and Letters at 325-6921 classicsandletters@ou.edu or visit us in the Carnegie Building, room 100

Studies, will be the faculty leader from OU. “We will be in the location of the earliest Christian communities, at the Sea of Galilee, places of Jesus’ adult life and teachings,” she said.

Participants will live in guest houses close to the site of the dig.

Marissa Pittman, Contributing Reporter

Campus Brief technology

OU added to iTunes university store with college-specific digital content OU is now on iTunes with the iTunes U store.

The free online service allows students to find a wide variety of course lectures, presentations, university news, departmental and program information, training sessions and guided tours, according to a press release.

The iTunes presence gives departments, colleges, faculty and staff the means to widely distribute digital content.

The collection of content on iTunes U includes the colleges and departments of Journalism and Mass Communication, Engineering, Liberal Studies and International Studies, with categories within subjects.

Students can access OU material by launching iTunes, clicking on iTunes U and searching for OU under “Universities and Colleges.”

Jalisa Green, Staff Reporter

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animal welfare awareness does. And in many AT A GLANCE cases, since other sancHow to help From the recently passed $3 million bond to tuaries are also strug• Donate directly at www. renovate the Norman animal shelter to the show- gling, the only option GWPark.org. ing of a film about the rescue of chimps used in once resources run • Call 405-665-1003 to OU research in the 1970s, it’s clear that Norman out is to euthanize the organize scrap metal pickup benefitting the can be an animal-friendly community. animals. park.

Animal welfare is certainly a worthy cause, and This would have been • Visit the park. Go to www. we’re sure many of our readers have strong feelthe case with one sancGWPark.org for information ings about the issues of animal cruelty and retuary in Texas, until and directions.

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If courts and activists are going to purBut have you stopped to think about sue the often worthy goal of moving these The Our View where those animals go after their liberais the majority animals to better environments, they opinion of tion? Their wild habitats are disappearing, can’t forget the practical aspects of those The Daily’s movement regulations are strict and these decisions. In a time of such a serious bud10-member breeds require specialized care and habiget crunch, the government cannot afford editorial board to increase federal funding for sanctuartats. The only option for most of these animals is to go to a wildlife sanctuary. ies. So it’s up to individuals to help keep Thankfully, many such facilities exist across the these facilities open and these animals alive.

U.S., such as the G.W. Exotic Animal Park just an Whether you’re a passionate animal welfare achour away in Wynnewood, which houses big cats, tivist, appreciate the need for biodiversity or just primates and many other exotic breeds. But as think tiger cubs are cute, you can help save these federal law tightens and more exotic pets are forc- exotic and endangered animals and give them a ibly turned over to the sanctuaries, resources are chance for a peaceful, natural life. Donate to the stretched thin. park or make a visit on your next free weekend. All These facilities are almost exclusively run by of your donation or $15 admissions fee will go divolunteers and funded by donations, with occarectly to the care of these animals. sional small grants from the government. Their resources don’t magically increase just because Comment on this at OUDaily.com

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t seems that Americans are depressed. According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in 10 Americans takes antidepressants. And a recent report published by the health care company MedCo revealed that 25 percent of women take antidepressants and 15 percent of men take antidepressants. The report also said that antidepressant use has risen steadily since 2001, with an almost 30percent increase in use by men and women.

There are multiple ways that this information can be interpreted. Some people believe that the reason more Americans are taking antidepressants is because depression is being diagnosed more than it was in the past. Some think that doctors are simply more apt to prescribe them, or that there is more commercial exposure about antidepressants. Antidepressants can also be used to treat conditions other than depression such as obsessive compulsive disorder, bulimia or migraine headaches.

Obviously, there are a variety of reasons why so many Americans could be on antidepressants, but it doesn’t change the reality that so many Americans are taking antidepressants.

So why isn’t antidepressant use talked about more?

Unfortunately, even though American society has made a lot of strides when it comes to discussing difficult topics, this remains something that is still taboo. As someone who has taken antidepressants for three years, this is frustrating.

I began taking antidepressants consistently my freshman year of college, when my mother decided that it was not normal that I was crying four times a day. It took me a

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long time to feel that taking antidepressants wasn’t something that is shameful.

I interpreted my environment’s lack of discussion on the topic as a judgment that taking antidepressants is shameful.

Since I have been taking Janna Gentry antidepressants for quite a janna.f.gentry@ou.edu while, the shock of feeling ashamed at taking them has worn off, and it has just become a part of my life.

When I read about the prevalence of antidepressant use in America, especially among women, it made me feel like I was less abnormal in my struggles — that many women need chemical help to maintain a healthy mental state and this is OK. I do wish I had sought out the community and help that is available at large universities. There is an organization at OU, “Talking Helps,” which supports people who might be struggling with depression or some other mental illness, and Goddard Health Center offers counseling and crisis services.

With the prevalence of antidepressant use in America, it should not be something that can’t be talked about, especially in a university setting.

Janna Gentry is an English education senior.

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s it almost finals week OPINION COLUMNIST again? Time to clean the apartment, call the folks, do laundry and find a new, obscure hobby to pursue. America is definitely the procrasti-Nation. You like that? I came up with it instead of working on an essay.

Jacob Oller Or, for some of us, this jacoboller@ou.edu week is when we do more math than we’ve done all year: calculating the minimum scores needed to pass.

Everyone’s biggest fear is to go into his last exam and find out that somehow, inexplicably, the test is in Mandarin Chinese, and your classmates, who earlier could barely be trusted not to fall down while holding sharp objects, are blazing through it like a plate of hot wings at a frat house. A second fear is that you just completely miss a final. Check your schedules people!

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Imagine your test in its underwear.

Finally, the debate on cramming. I say go for it. Everyone loves a good information binge right before your test, and honestly, when will you ever have to use geology again? Hell, in Japan, there are specialized schools specifically for cramming. These so-called cram schools let students spend up to 18 hours a day studying to take their standardized tests.

Ouch.

I don’t think I’ll be bringing my sleeping bag to the library any time soon, so score another victory for Japanese kids.

The schools enable students to “parrot,” or unthinkingly repeat, information they need just for exams. Sound familiar?

Sure, cramming’s criticized for its lack of critical thinking and analytic training and will probably hurt you in the long run. But wouldn’t you be a walking regurgitation of information for a letter grade higher? Thinking is overrated anyway.

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o you know that OPINION COLUMNIST little bit of freedom you get when you go away to college? Well I’ve discovered that it slowly disappears when you go back home.

But I’m here to say that the “smothered” feeling Kimm Johnson we all have from time to kimm.johnson@ou.edu time is a good thing. It has gotten us where we are, and it is more an act of tough love than we will ever know.

My parents — and maybe all parents — are terrified when their kids go to college. They simply do not know who their children will be anymore. And it troubles them. So they try to handle us like horses. They grip on to the reins so tightly that all we want to do is buck and run wild.

This is not the same grip they had during high school.

Times were different. If they didn’t like or approve of our actions, they could tame us. At least, in my situation they could. They could keep us in the stable. They could choose who we saw (or so they thought). But when their children go to college, they know that none of this is possible.

It bothers them because they have to trust themselves more than they ever have. Our parents have to trust that the times they held us back were not in vain. And when they start to doubt that, they slip back into their old habits of treating you as the high-school “you.” They miss the “you” that could not run “Life is hard. College away legally. They miss the “you” they could guarantee is hard. Work is was safe and sound every hard. You are harder. night. And they want that back.

Don’t you see They want to know you: that? You survived the changing, morphing, confused you. And somehigh school and they don’t really know the things people times how to react to you. You said you couldn’t want all this independence, but you are still under their accomplish.” roof for that short Christmas or summer break. And they know these are the last few months that they will have you living with them.

So maybe when you were away at college, they evaluated their life and yours. Maybe they saw the mistakes that they made, and they just want you to know they still care. Perhaps they’ve noticed that we realized the mistakes we were making back in high school. After all, aren’t we at an age where we are constantly changing?

Therefore, they might be domineering when you come back home, but it’s not that way in their minds. It might just be making up for lost time, which sounds like absolute nonsense to some people.

Think about it. Consider it. Remember it. Remember right now how much you want to be an adult, a complete adult during your Christmas breaks and summers of college. And then breathe. Look at how much you have finished. Look at what your parents and friends and guardians have helped you finish.

Sometimes we are so busy that we are just looking forward to the next flight, the next conference, the next board room, the next time when we feel like we are doing something that matters. But don’t you realize that you have finished something that many people couldn’t even start in the first place?

Life is hard. College is hard. Work is hard. You are harder. Don’t you see that? You survived high school and the things people said you couldn’t accomplish. So remember that next time your visit home makes you feel like an awkward teenager again. Your accomplishments make you an adult. You don’t need anymore validation than that.

So breathe. Praise the God-of-your-choosing for all the craziness He or She brings you through. And be patient. Maybe your parents weren’t the ones who made it all happen, but someone did. You did. That’s right. Give yourself some credit, and do not be so hard on yourself — or on them. They love you more than you can know.

Kimm Johnson is an environmental design sophomore.

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Sheriff’s deputies are still measuring how, exactly, the cannonball flew from a bomb range in the rolling hills flanking a suburban San Francisco Bay area neighborhood and rocketed into the front door of a home and through a bedroom before landing in a neighbor’s parked minivan.

Hosts for the Discovery Channel show fired the cannonball Tuesday as they filmed an episode testing whether other types of projectiles shot from a cannon would pick up the same speed and have the same impact as the steel ball.

Instead of hitting a string of water-filled garbage cans, the cannonball passed over the barrels, crashed through

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a protective cinderblock wall and careened off the hill behind it, said Alameda County Sheriff’s Department spokesman J.D. Nelson.

No one was injured, and the home’s residents didn’t even wake up until the broken drywall settled on top of them, Nelson said. Once it was launched, the cannonball traveled 650 yards, tore

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The projectile then bounced at least once more and crossed the road before smashing the window and dashboard of a gold minivan, where it came to rest.

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A federal judge has sentenced Rod Blagojevich to 14 years for corruption that included trying to sell or trade an appointment to the Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama.

It’s one of the stiffest penalties for corruption in a state with a history of crooked politics.

Blagojevich’s attorneys had said the sentence of 15 to 20 years prosecutors wanted was too harsh.

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Game on as GOP attacks target Gingrich’s marriage history Republican Mitt Romney is emphasizing his 42-year marriage in a new ad airing in early voting states, a contrast with thrice-married Newt Gingrich, who leads in Iowa and is closing on Romney in New Hampshire.

The commercial marks a new phase in the GOP presidential nomination campaign, one focused more on character issues than their policy differences.

Romney’s ad is a montage featuring the former Massachusetts governor, wife Ann and their children and grandchildren.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A federal appeals court agreed Wednesday to take another look at whether a St. Louis suburb can enforce a funeral protest ordinance drafted in response to the picketing of an anti-gay Kansas church — a move that could push the issue closer to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The full 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis will meet Jan. 9 to reconsider a three-judge panel’s October ruling in favor of members of Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. In the nowvacated ruling, the panel upheld a district court ruling, saying peaceful protests near

funerals are protected by the First Amendment’s right to free speech.

Tony Rothert, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, said the decision to rehear the case wasn’t surprising given that the circuit courts have been divided over the constitutionality of the laws that have been cropping up since Westboro members began protesting at military funerals.

Last year, a federal judge in Kansas City, Mo., struck down Missouri’s funeral protest statute as unconstitutional and an appeal has been filed to the 8th Circuit. A ruling in the 6th Circuit in Ohio

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The suburb of Manchester adopted its ordinance banning peaceful funeral protests in 2007. The 8th Circuit panel’s October ruling meant Manchester could no longer enforce the ordinance and stalled a Nebraska funeralpicketing law. The 8th Circuit panel found a district court

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Oklahoma assistant basketball coach Chr is Crutchfield will coach against the team he helped build — Oral Roberts — at 7 p.m. Thursday at Lloyd Noble Center.

Crutchfield spent four years as an assistant coach for the Golden Eagles before accepting his position at Oklahoma last April. While in Tulsa, Crutchfield helped Oral Roberts average 20 wins per season and earn postseason appearances in the 2008 NCAA tournament and 2011 CollegeInsider.com Tournament.

Crutchfield helped coach and recruit many of ORU’s roster, and, with him courtside, Oral Roberts finished no worse than third in the Summit League.

“As many jobs as I’ve had, this will be the first time I ever had to go play against a team that I’ve been involved with,” Crutchfield said. “It’s going to be different. It’ll probably be a little emotional in the beginning, but it’s going to be another ball game once it does start.”

Oklahoma (5-1) beat its last opponent like it stole something. Its 82-53 shellacking of Sacramento State at home was one of its best of the early season and shows the team can play down a man.

The Sooners’ game against Oral Roberts will be just its second without sophomore guard Calvin Newell, who informed coach Lon Kruger he will transfer at semester’s end. The team responded to the news with its fifth win of the season.

“We miss Cal [Newell] because he was guy who could

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Junior guard Steven Pledger (2) drives to the basket during OU’s 92-65 win against Coppin State Nov. 18 at Lloyd Noble Center. Pledger is the Sooners’ offensive leader, averaging 17.2 points per game this year.

really score the ball and another good athlete coming off the bench in the rotation,” Kruger said.

The team’s resolve will be further tested against an Oral Roberts team that claims four starters who average double figures in scoring and scores 70 points per game as a team.

Senior forward Dominique Morrison leads the Golden Eagles with 16.4 points per game. The 6-foot-6-inch forward was selected to the 2011 All-Summit League First Team and has started every game for Oral Roberts this season.

Oklahoma matches up in the scoring categories with three of its own players averaging at least 10 points per game.

Ju n i o r g u a r d S t e v e n Pledger has helped the Sooners average 79 points per game with 17.2 of his own on average.

“We’ve got to continue to improve defensively, and we’ve got to continue to be aggressive offensively,” Kruger said. “We’re getting good shot selection, rebounding the ball aggressively right now. We’ve got to keep getting better every day.”

GO AND DO OU vs. ORU WHEN: 7 tonight WHERE: Lloyd Noble Center INFO: OU assistant Chris Crutchfield faces a former team for the first time.

Senior guard Danielle Robinson claims the tipoff and drives the lane for a quick two, followed by freshman guard Aaryn Ellenberg, who lays it in off the turnover.

That was the scene last year when the OU women’s basketball team hosted Fresno State for an easy 84-66 Sooner win.

But that season is history; Robinson is gone, and so too are the easy buckets.

This time, when the Sooners face Fresno State on the road Thursday, they enter with a 3-2 record and a starting five with three sophomores and no seniors.

Sophomore Morgan Hook has taken over the point for OU, and not only does she set the tone for the offense PLAYER TO WATCH but, more importantly for Morgan Hook the Sooners, also the defensive attitude.

Year: Hook said a tremenSophomore dous and improved effort Position: on defense will be necGuard essary against the offenHometown: sive-minded, long-range Lowell, Ark. Bulldogs.

Season stats: “Oh, they shoot so many 14.6 points 3-pointers,” Hook said. per game, 3.6 assists per game, 1.8 When OU hosted the steals per game Bulldogs last season, Hook was a freshman reserve, with nine points in the contest and four turnovers.

Hook said she learned after last year’s game with Fresno that they come to play and work hard.

OU’s goal will be to meet that effort, and for Hook, she said that means pushing the ball and staying together as a team.

Luckily for Hook, she has a couple people to rely on.

Ellenberg, now a sophomore, is averaging 20 points through five games, and junior guard Whitney Hand is averaging more than nine points each game.

OU is coming off a 69-63 loss to No. 18 Ohio State on Sunday at home, where the Sooners could not finish a second-half comeback because their first-half struggles were too much to overcome.

The Sooners have the opportunity against Fresno State to correct and learn from Sunday’s mistakes, and that starts with Hook.

Football

OU extends streak on All-Big 12 team Six OU football players were honored on the All-Big 12 first team, the league announced Wednesday.

Four players earned second-team nods, and nine received honorable mentions.

Oklahoma extended its streak of placing at least one player on the all-conference first team every season for 86 years, dating all the way back to 1926.

S enior defensive end Frank Alexander became the second consecutive Sooner to win Big 12 Defensive Lineman of the Year (Jeremy Beal, 2010).

Alexander shares CoDefensive Player of the Year honors with Iowa State linebacker A.J. Klein.

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Left: The exhibition is located in the Lightwell Gallery in the Fred Jones Jr. Memorial Art Center.

Show features variety of art media Society closes its first exhibit Friday Brooke Buckmaster Life & Arts Reporter

This Friday marks the ending of a whirlwind journey for the F-Stop Society as it closes its first art exhibit in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. “‘Society Debut’ is your run-of-the-mill art exhibition with a twist,” F-Stop President Ryan Harris said.

“The majority of the pieces are heavily based in media and will allow the audience to view a moving picture in a

static state.”

The exhibit, titled “Society Debut,” represents the student photo organization’s start on OU’s campus.

“It’s a significant indicator of [our club’s] potential capacity of what could be achieved,” F-Stop Officer of Records Tyson Manning said. “It also highlights the amount of talent we have as a club.”

The exhibit, located in the Lightwell Gallery, features many different works, including both photography and video. The exhibit features a variety of work in many different media.

Top right: Shannon Shepherd, liberal studies junior, and OU alumnus Craig Dodds discuss photos Monday.

“It’s a significant indicator of [our club’s] potential capacity of what could be achieved.”

Tyson Manning, F-Stop Officer of Records

“[The best part about the exhibit is] the diverse work that’s included; there’s no requirement on subject or scene,” Manning said.

“Seeing how the pieces relate to each other, it’s diverse all together and creates a well-rounded exhibition.”

The F-Stop Society, which

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began its journey this semester, provides a good opportunity for students interested in photography, Manning said.

“Although the organization

is still in its infancy, the F-Stop Society is already demonstrating its potential to provide this opportunity and hopefully similar future opportunities to students

Bottom right: Ryan Harris’ “The Creation Process,” a piece with photographs printed on blocks of wood, sits in the center’s Lightwell Gallery.

that may otherwise be difficult to come by, especially for new undergraduates in the beginning phases of the college career,” Manning said.