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Anti-smoking laws attract attention OU vote shows most students favor campus smoking restrictions; state bill would allow cities to set harsher laws SPENCER POPP The Oklahoma Daily

Despite a vote showing majority support for campus smoking restrictions, Student Congress has no plans to enact new smoking policies.

A 2009 UOSA ballot question revealed that 70 percent of voting students were in favor of a smoking restriction on the OUNorman Campus, Congress Chairman Brett Stidham said in an e-mail.

A campus survey conducted in the spring

concluded that 71 percent of students agree or strongly agree that smoking should only be allowed in designated areas. The same survey found that 48 percent believed smoking should be prohibited on sidewalks, Stidham said.

More research is necessary before any action will be taken by student government to restrict smoking on the Norman campus, Stidham said.

Currently, smoking in all indoor public places in Oklahoma except stand-alone bars, cigar bars and tobacco stores is banned.

A state statute enacted 23 years ago prevents any city in Oklahoma from regulating tobacco use in public places more

restrictively than state law.

Hou s e Sp e a k e r- e l e c t K r i s Ste e l e, R-Shawnee, plans to introduce a bill in the next legislative session that would allow communities to set stricter standards.

“Decisions affecting Oklahomans are better made in Oklahoma City than in Washington D.C.,” Steele said in an email. “Decisions impacting the people of Shawnee are better made at city hall than the state Capitol. That is why we should amend Oklahoma law so citizens can determine smoking and other tobacco regulation in their local communities.”

The Legislative Committee and Board identified the local rights issue as a priority for the 2011 legislative session, according to

a release.

The City of Norman adopted a smoking ban for all city parks two summers ago, but there are no initiatives at this time to change any smoking regulation in the city, Mayor Cindy Rosenthal said.

Steele said one size does not fit all and local officials elected by local citizens are in the best position to determine the level of tobacco regulation needed and desired in their home towns.

“We believe the governing officials that are closest to the people are best able to govern the citizens of their community,” SEE SMOKING PAGE 2

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Boarders bond over high-stakes hobby Integrity Longboarding group meets up with community members to skate weekly in Oklahoma City TREVOR SHOFNER The Oklahoma Daily

The tungsten lights of a parking garage in downtown Oklahoma City reveal not just parked cars but a fearless pack of young men and women, arms sometimes irreverently locked, swaying and leaning together as they glide down the concrete slopes at 15 or more miles per hour.

It sounds dangerous — and it is. But longboarders say the risk comes with great rewards.

“It’s about going fast, man,” University College freshman Patrick Quinn said. “It’s such an adrenaline rush when you take those tight turns, and you’re going so fast and then slide out. It’s so much fun.”

The second meeting of the newly formed Student Longboarding Association continued late into Wednesday night with some scrapes and bruises, more than a few close calls and a lot of stoked young folks, pushing their bodies and boards to the limit.

“For me, longboarding means freedom,” said Spatz Brumm, aviation sophomore and group member. “If I’m having a horrible, sucky day I can just grab my longboard, throw it down The longboard differs from and go. Everything instantly becomes better. All your worthe skateboard in that it’s: ries are way back there. You left » longer them in the dust.” » more flexible University College freshman » wider wheels Danny Nguyen, who started *Source: Student the group, said he got into Longboarding Association longboarding after his bike was member Patrick Quinn stolen three months ago.

Nguyen has since practiced a bit on his board, gotten a faculty sponsor — physics professor Matthew Johnson — worked up a constitution and made the group Student Life official.

While membership is still relatively low, with only about four regularly participating members, the group meets up with other longboarders from the community to board and usually has about 10 people show up to their Wednesday night runs in Oklahoma City.

Nguyen said that when he first started talking to people, he was met with a lot of enthusiasm and quickly got the 10 necessary ID numbers to start the club. Since it was started late into this semester, the group’s activities have thus far consisted of weekly trips to Oklahoma City.

Next semester however, Nguyen has bigger plans to get even the casual campus longboarders involved with workshops on techniques and general board maintenance.

“I want to get those people to come too, so that everyone can trade ideas and tips,” Nguyen said.

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Aviation sophomore Spatz Brumm longboards Thursday afternoon down the South Oval. The Student Longboarding Association is a Student Life recognized group that meets to skate in places around Oklahoma City and Norman.

Task force asks for feedback to improve bike paths Company to use survey data for upcoming projects, campus safety improvements CHASE COOK The Oklahoma Daily

Students’ and faculty members’ chance to add their input to changes concerning campus biking and walking trails ends at 6 tonight.

The survey was implemented

by Alta Design and Planning, a consulting firm specializing in bike and pedestrian trail development, said Kevin Wood, a designer with Alta.

The survey factors into an overall plan for future projects on campus and has received around 2,000 answers so far, Wood said.

“The overall goal of the plan is

to create a system that is safer for biking and walking across cam- ONLINE AT OUDAILY.COM pus,” Wood said.

Alta is also working closely » Link: Take a survey about campus with OU’s bike task force, led by walking and biking trails by 6 tonight Nicholas Hathaway, vice-president of executive and administra- meeting between the committee tive affairs. and Alta.

The task force spends the ma“The committee’s number one jority of its time discussing the priority is assisting the consulcompletion of bicycle networks tants,” Pilkington said. promoting safety for bicycle riders While no specific projects have and pedestrians, Hathaway said. been completed by Alta yet, the “The task force has provided a task force has made changes on forum for faculty, staff and stu- campus, Jonathan Vann, vicedents who are interested in bicy- chairman of Student Congress, cle issues to voice their thoughts said. and ideas,” Hathaway said in an Vann attends the committee e-mail. meetings as a representative of Hathaway’s assistant, Lezlie Congress. He also rides his bike Pilkington, helped distribute Alta’s survey and is also a member SEE BIKES PAGE 2 of the task force. She attends each

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University College freshman Sydney Miller rides in the South Oval’s bike lane. A online poll to determine how much the lane is used and whether it is an effective addition to the South Oval walkway ends at 6 tonight.

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code up for vote in spring Changes would include rehabilitation course instead of suspension DHARA SHETH The Oklahoma Daily

The OU Board of Regents will vote on a new academic integrity system at its Jan. 26 to 27 meeting, said an assistant director to the Academic Integrity Systems.

After a semester of presenting to UOSA and the Faculty Senate, the OU Integrity Council’s new academic integrity system was presented to the OU to the Board of Regents by members of the provost’s office in a private meeting last week. The regents will return in January to vote on the new system, said Breea Bacon, Academic Integrity Systems assistant director.

The Integrity Council spent the semester revising OU’s Academic Misconduct Code, which will be renamed the Academic Integrity Code if the changes pass.

“The new Academic Integrity Code allows the option, at the discretion of the Provost’s office, for rehabilitation in lieu of suspension for students who have violated the code,” said Elizabeth Miracle, Integrity Council chairwoman.

Students undergoing the rehabilitation process would attend a “Do You Understand Integrity?” course.

“The rehabilitative class aims at instilling an appreciation for the value of integrity in students,” said Miracle, political science and international security studies senior.

Bacon said that if they go into effect, the changes to the Academic Misconduct Code would require that the Integrity Council take on more members.

“If the changes [to the Academic Misconduct Code] make it through, we will need more members to man the system,” Bacon said.

The council will focus on their biggest membership drive in April.

Most years, Integrity Council only accepts new members to replace graduating students and invites between 20 and 25 new members to join the council, Miracle said. This is usually about one third of the total applicants.

Because changes to the codes are not finalized, the Integrity Council is unsure of how many additional members they will accept this spring.

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SMOKING: Already banned in public places Continued from page 1 said Carolyn Stager, executive director of the Oklahoma Municipal League. The group represents more than 300 cities and towns in the state.

Stager said she has confidence in Oklahoma’s elected officials to not make any rash decisions that would affect the business environment within their communities, and it is not likely city officials will begin preparations for creating an entirely smoke-free city.

Oklahoma’s ban on smoking in public appears to be working and he sees no need to eliminate the preemption

Today around campus » Union Programming Board will screen “The Town” at 4, 7, 10 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. in the Union’s Meacham Auditorium.

BIKES: Online survey closes at 6 tonight

» African Christian Fellowship will meet 7 to 10 p.m. in the Union’s Heritage Room.

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» Holiday Dance Club will meet 6 p.m. to midnight in the Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom.

to campus from home, but he prefers walking around campus on foot.

He said the bike racks on campus were outdated so the task force replaced a majority of the bike racks around campus to help prevent theft, he said.

Hester Hall’s bike racks haven’t been updated but there are plans to replace them in Januar y, Wood said.

The funds used to fix the bike racks were provided by the vice-president’s office, Hathaway said. OU is facing budget cuts next semester, but it shouldn’t prevent the task force from making progress, he said in an e-mail.

B u i l d i n g a b i k e t ra i l

Saturday, Dec. 11 » University Theatre will perform “The Man Who Came to Dinner” at 3 p.m. in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center. » Fowler Volkswagon and Nice People will host a free holiday concert featuring local bands from 7 to 11 p.m. in the Union’s Meacham Auditorium. » OU men’s basketball will host Oral Roberts at 2 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center.

Sunday, Dec. 12 » OU women’s basketball will play New Mexico at 2 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center. » The Other Film Club will meet 5 to 9 p.m. in the Union’s Meacham Auditorium.

Monday, Dec. 13 » The Faculty Senate will meet at 3:30 p.m. in Jacobson Hall, Room 102.

All Aboard!

connecting the Norman campus and the research campus is also a top priority for Alta and the task force, Pilkington said.

Vann said some cycling and walking problems on campus aren’t linked to poor development or structure, but a lack of consideration by students.

“Walkers stand in the bike lanes and cyclists ride around without regard to pedestrians,” Vann said.

“They should educate freshmen students during orientation about cycling rules.

That would start helping students get a full understanding about the rules on campus.”

The task force hired Alta six months ago with funds provided by President David Boren’s office, Hathaway said.

language, which allows for smoking policies to be consistent across the state, a tobacco company spokesman said.

“We believe the current statewide smoking law works just fine,” said Frank Lester, a spokesman for North Carolinabased Reynolds American Inc. “Nothing in that law prevents a business owner from going smoke-free if they wish to do so. If an establishment caters to adults only, we see no reason they should not be allowed to have smoking.”

Tennessee is the only other state in the nation with a preemption policy that prevents cities from pursuing their own tobacco regulations stricter than state law.

— The Associated Press contributed to this report

OU talkshow to be taped live Saturday The season finale of Always Oklahoma, an OUTV talk show, will broadcast live Saturday from Gaylord Hall.

Students may be part of the live audience in Gaylord Hall, Room 1140. Taping begins at 2:30 p.m.

Guests on Saturday’s show include Miss OU Alicia Clifton and musician Dylan Chambers.

Always Oklahoma is a student-produced talk show that features prominent Oklahomans and their talents.

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Senate needs to DREAM on Congress is getting closer to passing a bill that could add hundreds of thousands of new, upstanding citizens to our ranks.

The House passed the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act — better known as the DREAM Act — on Wednesday.

Unfortunately, initial reports say that the measure will have a much harder time gaining the 60 votes it needs to pass in the Senate.

Don’t let this happen. Call your senators and tell them that students brought here illegally shouldn’t receive the same treatment as their parents, and that they deserve just as much a chance to succeed as anyone else.

The act would allow children of undocumented citizens who have been in the U.S. for more than five years, arrived when they were younger than 16 and have a high school diploma or GED to begin the process of becoming a legal resident. The process requires immigrants to complete two years of college or two years of military service.

Currently, it can take up to 20 years to obtain a visa granting legal status, according to the U.S. State Department.

This bill may not be the perfect answer to a difficult issue, but what better way could the U.S. encourage an increasingly

innovative work force and strong military than allowing undocumented students — who must meet standards set forth by the Department of Homeland Security — a chance to become legal residents?

Critics maintain the bill will encourage illegal immigration, but they’ve only offered talking points and no real evidence.

Not only is the DREAM Act morally upright, it should save the government money. The deficit would be reduced by $1.4 billion in the next decade if this bill becomes law, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Studies have shown that once federal benefits for these students are finally activated, the deficit could begin increasing again. However, a UCLA study concluded Dec. 1 that just 825,000 new citizens could contribute as much as $1.4 trillion in income over a 40 year period. If 2.1 million undocumented citizens are granted citizenship under the DREAM Act, they could generate $3.6 trillion during the same period.

The House’s action was historic, but now it’s time for the Senate to DREAM as well.

graduate school.

I am of the opinion a vast majority of us do not take advantage of the time and opportunities that we have to make our education the continual process that it needs to be.

Even in college. The perfect time to establish these habits.

There are a multitude of interconnected factors, but to apply either correlation or causation is beyond my abilities. First of all, modern institutions treat education as a goal instead of a process. We are expected to jump through a series of hoops, classes and requirements; finally a degree is handed to us. The very system itself shapes a person’s mindset to think of the forest as something to be crossed, not explored.

Second, a vast majority of students think of classes as a wall as opposed to a window. Students talk with each other about how much it “sucks” that they have to go to class, not how excited they are that they are going to learn from a professor who is an expert in his or her field. In the same way that education is an end goal, so class is a multi-hour prison sentence.

In combination, these two modes of thought are counterproductive to a genuine education.

Winter break is fast approaching. No matter how long this break will be for each of you, I beg of you to continue your education. Read a book that one of your classes led you to read.

Or one that has nothing to do with anything you have learned before. Turn future discussions into debates about challenging subjects. Do something to keep your mind moving. The forest of knowledge is bigger than you can even imagine. Start exploring.

— John Best, biochemistry and Asian studies senior

— Mary Stanfield philosophy junior

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There is no ‘War on Christmas’ Something odd that strikes me about Christian America is its seemingly infinite capacity to feel persecuted.

I understand the Bible tells the faithful to expect ridicule, but when your beliefs are shared by nearly 80 percent of the country, isn’t it a bit silly to frequently cast yourself as the victim of discrimination?

Not at all, asserts the religious right. Wherever Christmas sales become holiday sales and Christmas trees become holiday trees, the devil is surely at work.

So the devil must be in Tulsa, where controversy has erupted over the renaming of its annual Holiday Parade When your beliefs of Lights.

The problem? It used to be are shared by nearly called the Christmas Parade 80 percent of the of Lights. country, isn’t it a bit Sen. Jim Inhofe — along with other Tulsa Christians silly to frequently who’ve been tragically marcast yourself ginalized — has declared he as the victim of will not ride in the parade discrimination?” this year unless the word “Christmas” is reinserted.

He calls the change a “shameful attempt to take Christ, the true reason for our celebration, out of the parade’s title.”

Not bothering to account for other religions that might be represented in the parade, Inhofe dared to ask in a later Fox News interview, “Why do they always pick on the Christians?”

That’s a funny question, especially coming from a senator who advocated profiling Muslims as a security measure,

and whose state explicitly targeted Islam with State Question 755.

STAFF COLUMN N Never mind that, even if we ignore the hypocrisy in Steven Zoeller ler his statement, we’re still dealing with the most tyrannical, power-hungry 20 percent of the population America has ever suffered under.

Although I don’t necessarily care for Inhofe, it’s a shame he and those who agree with him will be missing the parade for such petty, paranoid and materialistic reasons.

Petty because all that has changed is the name. Inhofe has emphasized before that changing it broke tradition, but it was never a tradition that had much cultural value to begin with.

Paranoid because only someone very scared and insecure about his or her faith would ever consider something so minor as a threat.

And materialistic. In getting caught up in a name and its connotation, Inhofe and those sincerely set off by the name change are allowing their own inner feelings about the season to change based on what’s going on outside.

This public event shouldn’t bruise their personal beliefs.

Unless their beliefs are actually quite fragile.

— Steven Zoeller, University College freshman

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Explore the forest of knowledge For all of us, today is the last day of classes.

For some, this is the last day until spring semester. Others, like myself, are experiencSTAFF COLUMN UMN ing our last class of our college career on this beautiful day. This transition period gives a John Bestt new perspective on educational experiences.

Whether it is for the next month or for the rest of our lives, the institutionalized university education system has now been paused. It is our own personal choice what direction the continuation of our education will take. The debate between education as a right or a privilege is irrelevant.

I am talking about education as a process.

Education as a process is best compared to a small child wandering through the woods. It is not genuine wandering, but one is easily distracted, and new goals and destinations are formed almost constantly. One enters the forest not knowing where to end up, but all along knows that the destination is deep in the forest. Children move through the woods, exploring trees, leaves, frogs, berries, dirt and a whole multitude of other wonderful creations.

A genuine educational experience follows the same basic form. I may read and discuss a book on democracy that will lead to a debate about civil liberties, which may lead me to read Walden, and then a book about early U.S. history, finally to explore the legacy of slavery in black society.

The best evidence of a successful class is not how engaged the students are during class, but how interested they are in the subject outside of class. If the teacher is able to inspire students to continue their education in either the subject of the class or a related subject, then I say it has not been a waste. But if the class does not carry on after the imaginary bell tolls, then it has failed both the students and the educational process.

Although some may often feel it to be this way, college never lasts forever. High school didn’t and neither will

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Congress must take last chance to repeal ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ The military has this little policy called “don’t ask, don’t STAFF COLUMN MN tell” that bars gays and lesbians from openly serving in the Mary military. A Pentagon report Stanfield released on Nov. 30 is just the latest in a mounting pile of research and expert opinion urging a repeal of the policy. In spite of the positive findings in the report, Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would end the policy on Thursday.

The bill has already passed in the House, but between a Republican filibuster and infighting over “procedural issues,” the Senate has not been successful in any of its attempts to pass it. It’s too late for the funding bill that the repeal has been attached to, and if Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., is not successful in his attempts to get a freestanding version passed, it’s too late for the repeal.

Republicans — recently led by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz — have always worried about the effects of a repeal on troop cohesion and combat effectiveness, stressing that we need more information on the likely repercussions before we go ahead with overturning the policy.

Well, now they have the information they’ve been calling for, and (surprise, surprise) they haven’t changed their tune.

The Pentagon study reported that 70 percent of servicemen and women believe repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” would have a positive, mixed or no effect on their unit’s ability to function.

After considering the potential impact on all factors of military effectiveness — from family readiness to retention to unit cohesion — the report concluded that there was no reason the ban should not be repealed in a timely manner.

However, continued supporters of “don’t ask, don’t tell” point to another statistic from the report. Nearly 60 percent of heavy combat troops in the Marine Corps and Army reported that repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” would have a negative impact on combat operations.

This would be a pretty damning point considered on its own, especially when our military is committed to combat operations on two fronts. But McCain and the others are taking this number out of context.

That 60 percent was responding to a question about what they predicted would happen if the ban were lifted. When asked about actual experiences with suspected or confirmed gay members of their unit, 89 percent of combat troops in the Army and 84 percent of combat troops in the Marine Corps said they noticed no impact on their unit’s morale or effectiveness.

When considering all military personnel, that number jumps to 92 percent.

So what can we take away from these differing results? That the concerns and fears of servicemen and women do not match up with the reality of their experiences. They are concerned that lifting the ban will have all kinds of negative effects that, in practice, serving alongside gay soldiers just doesn’t have.

And can you really blame them for being so concerned?

Considering the wild prophecies of rampant gay sex and constant discrimination lawsuits that supporters of the ban have been spewing for decades, I’d be a little concerned too.

But the Pentagon study rightly pointed out that existing military policies would apply equally to heterosexual and homosexual personnel. So those anti-fraternization laws and all the current policies that have kept our military working as a disciplined unit will still be in place to keep McCain’s nightmares from coming true.

It’s also not like it’s the first time military personnel have been asked to adjust to policy changes stemming from social progress; these same fears were tossed around when the military racially integrated and when women were first allowed to serve. And, as the study pointed out, our military managed to make those changes as efficiently and smoothly as possible.

The report predicts this will also be the case in the event of a “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal.

So, basically, all of the Republicans concerns have been answered. The troops are supportive of repeal, the risk to combat effectiveness is low and, in a Senate hearing Dec. 3, the leaders of every branch of the military stated they were confident their branch could handle the repeal effectively and with little disruption to operations.

In fact, they put aside their concerns about making this change in a time of war and joined Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in urging Congress to take action now and repeal the policy so that Congress could control the timeline for implementation and give the Pentagon the time it needs to make adjustments.

Repeal is not likely to be entertained next session by a Republican-controlled House. The Senate’s refusal to act before the congressional session ends means a Supreme Court decision on the policy’s constitutionality will most likely force a too-sudden turnover.

If these politicians are so worried about our military, perhaps they should have listen to its leaders and helped make this inevitable adjustment just that much easier. Instead, they played to partisan politics and let technical issues stand in the way of a long-overdue change that would strengthen our military and save us millions of dollars.

I think the words of one member of the special operations forces, quoted anonymously in the report, sums it up nicely: “We have a gay guy. He’s big, he’s mean and he kills lots of bad guys. No one cared that he was gay.”

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - There is an excellent chance that a big change in your affairs could take place that will make it possible for you to realize a huge improvement in your financial prospects.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - It isn’t all that often that you can cash in with a family member, but it might be one of those times, especially if it involves a special arrangement with a relative in which you have a vested interest.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - By focusing your thoughts on optimistic events, you’ll be able to create opportunities or conditions that will be the envy of everybody, especially your competitors.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -You might be required to make a meaningful decision that will have far-reaching effects. Do what you think is best as you envision it, and all should go smoothly for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - A major change for the better could occur in an area that has been producing sparse returns. This is likely to come about through some changes that you didn’t inaugurate or anticipate.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - You won’t be denied the fruits of your assertiveness if you go after something that’s meaningful with all the gusto that you’ve got. Have faith in your abilities to do what you believe to be right.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -It could be rather easy for you to find someone who will operate on your wavelength to join a new endeavor.

It’ll be a collective success.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Friends with whom you come in contact could prove to be fortunate in several ways. Relax and just be yourself, and they will offer a bevy of good things.

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You have a choice of spending your time on accomplishing many small objectives, or running with the big dogs instead.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - Lady Luck might be a bit tardy initially, but she will make up for lost time in a hurry when something meaningful is at stake. Be hopeful regarding the outcome of events.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Involvements you have with a positive-minded individual, who isn’t afraid to take a chance, could bring you more success than you’ve had in a long time. Hang out with someone of this ilk.

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‘ Centipede’ crawls out of Redbox and dies

Fine, I’ll graduate, but I don’t have to be happy about it

Editor’s Note: Redbox machines are full of terrible B-movies.

You know it. I know it. Each week, a brave Daily staffer will take the plunge and watch one of them so you don’t have to.

The final Redbox column of the fall semester falls on my shoulders ... or keyboard. Whatever. Just by reading the film’s title, I picked “The Human Centipede (First Sequence)� to ridicule. Aside from a waste of 90 minutes of my afternoon, I didn’t know what to expect.

Despite the name, this movie isn’t about a mutant with 100 legs, but a mad German doctor, Dr. Heiter, who sews Lindsay and Jenny, two American tourists, to a Japanese guy named Katsuro, mouth-to-posterior, having unsuccessfully tried this before on three dogs.

Cutting off various pieces of their bodies, Heiter succeeds in sewing them together: Katsuro in the front, Lindsay in the middle and Jenny in the rear. Heiter tries to keep them as a pet as much as an experiment, but this does not work incredibly well, as Katsuro fights back at every turn and the girls cry constantly, keeping the doctor awake.

Eventually, two German police officers, Kranz and Voller, track the missing girls to the doctor’s house.

After Heiter tries to drug the officers, they go back to the precinct to get a search warrant.

Aside from the physical impossibility and sheer disgust of sewing one person’s lips to another’s rear end, the acting is terrible, particularly from the two American females, whose voices resembled that of dying harpies, at least until their mouths were sewn shut.

It seemed like the best acting was done by the nonEnglish-speaking characters, although I’m not familiar enough with German or Japanese to know if they were effective actors. I’m going to assume they weren’t. “Centipede� had some decent editing and camera work, but the movie itself is an eyesore. It’s one thing to be a torture film, a la “Saw� (which I’m not a big fan of anyway), or to be just a terrible B-movie, but being both terrible and disgusting takes a great deal of “talent.�

The most disturbing thing about all of this is that the director has already shot a sequel, scheduled to be released in 2011. I’m not interested. — AJ Lansdale, professional writing senior

French exchange student is actually A couple of years ago, I shoved all of my Caitlin the Oklahoman con artist. Still belongings into my Mazda ProtĂŠgĂŠ and bringing ĂŠclairs to the end of semester STAFF COLUMN MN drove 1 hour and 45 minutes south. party though!

I spent one year in transition, the next Caitlin Right before I graduated from high year in hiding, the year after that I was ineTurner school, I had a monthlong panic attack briated and the final year I was in over my that centered on choosing a college to athead. tend. Believe it or not, it was between OU In one week, this whole glorious hell ride and Stephens, a women’s college in Columbia, Mo. will be over, and I am not really sure where I will fit in after About once a semester, I think about who I would be if I that.

I want to say that I am excited, relieved and ready to had made a different decision.

Sadly, I think the number of guys I dated would remain move on with my life. But I am about as good at accepting the same. But surely my major or my career goals or my change as I am at accepting the fact that I will never be a child star. I still don’t know how to forgive my mother for political views or my dress size would be entirely different than what it is now. that one.

But this semester, I didn’t think once about what could The question that keeps peeing on my face and keeping have been. Because I am here, and I am forcing this cap me awake at night is this: “Who am I if not a mediocre colon my head and cutting my bangs accordingly. Because lege student?�

I am not the mediocre high I already picked out the case of champagne I am popping school student I was before this next Friday night. Because no matter how much you freak Because no and I don’t have a mediocre job out and feel lost, you still have to stand up when they call your name and smile when they take your picture. matter how much to do after this.

What’s next? I really don’t know, and I really don’t care Without those options, I deyou freak out and if that is my final answer. veloped a few alternative life feel lost, you still Thanks for reading. Happy graduation y’all! plans. have to stand • First, I could go all “Eat, up when they Pray, Loveâ€? on my own ass — — Caitlin Turner, travel to beautiful places and letters senior call your name rediscover my own chewed-up, and smile when gin-soaked soul. they take your But I don’t know if I have picture.â€? the self-esteem to handle that many TSA agents touching me, and I always think about inappropriate things during moments of silence. • Second, as my generous, neurotic mother reminds me every day, I could move back home.

Moving back to Jenks, America wouldn’t injure my pride as much as it would injure my connection with people under the age of 50.

None of my friends live there anymore, and the ones who do have their own babies — I mean friends — now. • Third, I could stay right here in Norman, of course.

Maybe sit in on a few classes and hit on freshman boys and some TAs — one of them will be jazzed to learn I’m not a student and the other will feel a little used.

That might get old really fast though, especially since I already implemented this plan a year ago, but with more lies. Sorry, gentleman of ENGL 2123 001, but Elodie, the

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Sooners cap underdog season with Sweet 16 game against Penn State

Team hopes to add New Mexico Lobos to list of teams downed in Norman

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The Sooners face three-time defending national champion Penn State at 6 tonight in University Park, Pa., in OU’s third-ever appearance in the Sweet 16.

The two teams have met only one time previously — 1981 — and Penn State swept the match.

Penn State has been considered a national powerhouse in volleyball for years, winning four NCAA championships.

The Sooners, on the other hand, have only recently raised their program to the national stage.

OU enters the match as underdogs, as all of the experts are picking Penn State to handle the Sooners with relative ease.

It won’t be the first time the Sooners have been in that position, though.

The team has been pegged an underdog most of the season, particularly in the first and second rounds of the tournament last weekend.

The Sooners took down a Wichita State team that had beat them five straight times, and then took out a higher-ranked Tulsa team to advance to the Sweet 16.

Junior setter Brianne Barker said the Sooners like playing the role of the underdog.

“We like the challenge,” Barker said.

“When you’re expected to win, you go out there with a little bit more pressure, because everyone sees it as a huge disappointment if you lose. We’re just going out there with nothing to lose and playing as hard as we can.”

And having nothing to lose may give the Sooners one upper hand against Penn State, but beating the Nittany Lions in their home state will take more than that.

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Penn State sophomore defensive specialist Kristin Carpenter (5) celebrates with teammates during a Sept. 17 win against George Washington. The Sooners face the Nittany Lions tonight in a Sweet 16 match in University Park, Pa. team in the nation for one simple reason — they know how to win.

The Nittany Lions just wrapped up their eighth consecutive Big Ten Championship, and now they are chasing a fourth consecutive national championship.

Nittany Lions coach Russ Rose, in his 32nd season with the program, expects to win every game he coaches.

Rose has a .863 winning record (1,001159) at Penn State.

OU coach Santiago Restrepo said Rose is one of the great coaches in the game, and that beating the Lions is a daunting challenge.

But it is a challenge he said he is

looking forward to.

“I know Coach Rose from when I was coaching at East Stroudsburg, and he does a fantastic job,” Restrepo said. “So, they will always be very well coached, and they are just a great team.”

Restrepo said the challenge of playing against Penn State is like climbing Mt. Everest.

“It’s going to be a huge challenge, but we’re looking forward to it,” Restrepo said.

If the Sooners beat the Nittany Lions tonight, they earn a trip to the Elite Eight against the winner of DukeMissouri.

The Sooners (8-1) continue to defend their seven-game home winning streak as the team hosts New Mexico (6-4) at 2 p.m. Sunday at Lloyd Noble Center.

OU is playing its second home game this week after a 84-57 win over Stephen F. Austin on Wednesday. The Lobos are coming off an 84-60 home loss to Arizona on Tuesday.

Lobos coach Don Flanagan is the winningest coach in the program’s history after directing the team to 12 straight postseason appearances and eight trips to the NCAA tournament.

UNM has been consistently in the top four Mountain West teams since the team moved to the conference.

New Mexico is led on offense by junior Lauren Taylor.

The guard has started nine games for the Lobos, scoring 91 total points with 13 3-pointers during the stint.

Taylor averages 10 points per game and 3.9 attempts behind the arc this season.

Junior Porche Torrance is the biggest contributor on defense for the Lobos, averaging 8.1 rebounds per game, including 26 total offensive rebounds. The guard also leads the team in steals, averaging 2.4 steals per game this season.

The Sooners are led on

OU vs. New Mexico » WHEN: 2 p.m. Sunday » WHERE: Norman, Lloyd Noble Center Player to Watch » OU guard Morgan Hook After being held scoreless against the No. 6 Buckeyes, the freshman responded by draining seven 3-pointers and scoring a career-high 26 points to help lead the Sooners to their seventh home win against Stephen F. Austin on Wednesday. offense by freshman newcomer Aaryn Ellenberg. After missing two 3-pointers and two lay-ups during the first three minutes against SFA, the 5-foot-7-inch guard responded with seven quick points in the second half.

Ellenberg is averaging 18.3 points per game and 15 fieldgoal attempts through nine games this season.

The Sooners are led behind the arc by two freshmen, Ellenberg and Morgan Hook.

The duo has combined for 54 made shots from 3-point range, both averaging three per game.

Hook, the 5-foot-10-inch guard erupted on offense against the Ladyjacks on Wednesday, making 7-for8 from behind the arc after being held scoreless against the Ohio State Buckeyes in Columbus, Ohio.

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