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Congress to fill empty seats Plans to reach out to student voters, reform voting process will go into effect in the spring, election chairwoman says CHASE COOK

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Student Congress plans to fill its eight empty seats before reaching out to students and trying to get them more involved as voters, said a Congress spokesman.

Brett Stidham, Student Congress chairman and human resources management senior, said the UOSA bylaws state Congress has to fill these empty seats by the fourth meeting in

the spring semester. According to the meeting calendar, these seats should be filled by Feb. 15. Congress’ first meeting will be Jan. 25.

The effort to get more students involved will occur after all the seats in Congress are filled, Stidham said.

“If we begin on a micro-level, we can get macro-results,” Stidham said.

Stidham said Congress members will be working closely with the UOSA public relations department to reach out to colleges and departments to get more students interested in being candidates. They will begin accepting applications for the empty seats when Congress returns from winter break.

Natalie Jester, election board chairwoman and international security studies junior, said she will be working over winter break and the beginning of spring semester to write legislation that makes changes and encourages more students to vote.

The Daily reported Nov. 17 that Jester would work on her legislation this semester.

While Jester said she is working on plans for the spring semester, she wasn’t able to draft legislation before Congress held its last session on Nov. 30.

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Music Norman feeds homeless festival plans increase iPhone app, extra day, will draw more to Norman Music Festival, organizers say

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Spring books not all available Most professor book orders already submitted, University Bookstore spokesman says CHASE COOK

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More than 38,000 people attended the 2010 Norman Music Festival, but planners want to aim for 40,000 in 2011 and put Norman on the map for music gurus across the country.

About 37 percent of the 2010 participants were not from Norman.

“By showcasing music from all over the country, we have a lot of bands that bring a fan base with them that isn’t necessarily from Norman,” said Erinn Gavaghan, executive director of the Norman Arts Council.

To keep up with this growing popularity, organizers are making a few adjustments: a new iPhone application, an extra day and a stage change for the April 2011 festival.

The app will make it easier to navigate and find information, said Justin Peabody, a developer of the app and a student at John Brown University.

“In the past, I did find confusion in locating different venues or set times, and I can only imagine how hard it would be for an out-of-towner,” Peabody said.

“This app will remove the confusion on finding venues with an interactive map.”

Peabody said he hopes a virtual lighter included with the app will encourage the festival participants to wave their phones high in the air during tender festival moments.

The app is still in development so all the details are not finalized, but Robert Ruiz, festival chairman, said they “are trying to make

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Bill Chissoe, retired electron microscope lab researcher, serves lunch to more than 100 people Monday at Food and Shelter for Friends, 104 W. Comanche St. The McFarlin United Methodist Church members prepared and served spaghetti, corn, bread, salad and cookies from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

10-year plan to decrease number of homeless halfway complete Cleveland County applies for two additional federal grants that total $65K TREVOR SHOFNER The Oklahoma Daily

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s part of the Cleveland County’s 10 year plan to reduce the number of homeless people in Norman, five non-profits applied for federal grants that are expected to total about $65,000.

The two grants are part of the Continuum of Care, a program within the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and will be additional support for Norman non-profits that already receive three other renewable grants.

Lisa Krieg, city grants planner said the new grants will help the county meet their “ten-year” plan to combat homelessness.

“We apply for everything that’s available,” Krieg said. “The [Continuum of Care} is our largest

source of funding and we work to improve what we do.”

The agencies received a total of $185,000 in grants in 2010 and roughly the same amount in 2009 from Continuum of Care, a nationally competitive grant.

FIVE YEARS IN, COMMITTEE SEES PROGRESS Five years ago, Norman set in place a “ten-year plan” to combat the problem of homelessness by organizing different county groups that address various aspects of the issue, such as mental health clinics, substance abuse support groups, kitchens and shelters.

After five years the city has seen improvement with the plan, Krieg said.

“While each of the organizations involved [had] a target area, instead of being in competition with SEE PLAN PAGE 2

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Ceremony honors education’s importance, Boren says Speaking about renovations to the College of Education, Boren says college touches more lives than any other RENEE SELANDERS The Oklahoma Daily

Alumni, students and administrators dedicated the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education’s renovated facilities Monday afternoon, recognizing the donors who enabled the overhaul of OU’s first college named after a woman.

President David Boren and College of Education Dean Joan Smith recognized the family of Jeannine Rainbolt and also Sandra O’Brien, major donors to the college and its renovation. O’Brien donated the 3,000-pound bell that hangs in the college’s new tower.

Boren said financial support from donors ensures the success of education improvements in an economic recession, and contributions from the Rainbolts, O’Briens and others enable the College of Education to achieve its main goal: teaching and training future educators.

“We are turning out people who will make a difference (in education),” he said.

The college’s namesake, Jeannine Rainbolt, is an ideal role model for future educators, elementary education senior Skyler Mulder said. Mulder is the College of Education’s outstanding senior. She has received the Jeannine T. Rainbolt Scholarship the past two years and plans to work in inner-city schools before pursuing a graduate degree in counseling or administration.

Jeannine Rainbolt, who died September

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2007, was an elementary school teacher who worked in low-income schools. Her husband, Gene Rainbolt, remarked on Mulder’s goal to work in inner-city schools, an area of education in which his wife strove for equality.

“It’s more of an inspiration to what I can aspire to be,” Mulder said.

Jeannine’s husband, Gene Rainbolt, said Mulder’s goal to work in inner-city schools — an area of education in which his wife strove for equality — makes her the perfect person to receive the award.

Boren, who said teachers have affected his life most, said no other area of the university reaches as many lives as the education college.

“If you don’t have an equal opportunity for education, you don’t have an equal opportunity for life,” Boren said.

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December intersession books are available at the University B o o k s t o r e a n d R a t c l i f f e ’s Textbooks, but not all spring semester books are available as the bookstores process book orders from professors.

University Bookstore Assistant Manager Jason Gentry said he hopes to have spring books ready by Jan. 1.

Charissa Siebert, Ratcliffe’s manager, said she is not sure the exact day when her store will have spring books ready.

Gentry said about 95 percent of the professors’ book orders have been submitted, and the University Bookstore will receive products in the next two weeks.

Gentry said he was impressed with the submission rate. He did not know how many submissions the store had last year as this time, but said the number is typically a lot lower.

Oct. 15 was the deadline for spring book orders, but there are reasons why they may not get turned in on time, said Nancy Mergler, senior vice president and provost.

“Some of the acceptable reasons professors miss the deadline is the professor hasn’t arrived at the university yet or they are waiting for a particular book to be published,” Mergler said.

If books change editions, publishers run out of supply, last minute changes to syllabi are made or a professor falls ill, it can prevent a student from being able to get their book, Siebert said.

The bookstore relies on the book orders from professors and employs members of the textbook department to get them from professors that haven’t submitted them, Gentry said.

“If we don’t get the book order, we can’t get the book,” Gentry said.

Students who don’t get their books are typically the minority, which is a feat considering how many books are re-shelved, said Jason Hale, Ratcliffe’s employee. “ The bookstore changes thousands of products each semester,” Hale said. “It’s almost a miracle that we get it done each semester.”

Siebert said students waiting for their spring textbooks should keep checking Ratcliffe’s and other stores for availability.

“There are hundreds of book orders in the back, and we go through them every day,” Siebert said.

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PLAN: City organizations provide support Continued from page 1 each other for funding, they look for and target gaps in the system,” Krieg said.

“They’re not afraid to assist another agency when the need comes up.”

Today around campus » Christians on Campus will host a Bible study noon to 1 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Traditions Room. » Union Programming Board’s Mid-Day Music will feature Thomas Glenn from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Union’s Will Rogers Room. » Student Success Series will hold “Managing Stress” from 4 to 5 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245.

Wednesday, Dec. 8 » Society of Chinese Students and Scholars will meet 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Union’s Traditions Room. » Union Programming Board will host “Late Night Breakfast” from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Union’s Will Rogers Room. » Student Success Series will present “Final Exams — Test Management” from 2 to 3 p.m. in Adams Tower’s Housing Learning Center. » Christians on Campus will host a Bible study from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the Union’s Traditions Room.

Thursday, Dec. 9 » Union Programming Board Mid-Day Music will feature Anthony Nagid from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Union’s Will Rogers Room. » Women’s Mentoring, hosted by Student Affairs, will take place 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Union’s Sooner Room.

Friday, Dec. 10 » Union Programming Board will screen “The Town” at 4, 7, 10 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. in the Union’s Meacham Auditorium. » African Christian Fellowship will meet 7 to 10 p.m. in the Union’s Heritage Room. » Holiday Dance Club will meet 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. in the Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom.

Saturday, Dec. 11

HOMELESSNESS NUMBERS IN CLEVELAND COUNTY Getting an accurate count of the homeless has been difficult because many don’t seek help, or are “couch-surfers” — still staying with friends and family — said Linda Price, Norman revitalization manager.

Their estimates are dependent on a “pointin-time count” in which all homeless traffic in a 24-hour period is assembled with reports from the police, hospitals, shelters and other involved organizations.

“Just trying to get to get everyone to participate every year has been a challenge,” Price said.

Continued from page 1 One of Jester’s main focuses is to look at Title VII of UOSA’s Code Annotated, which houses election policies and guidelines, and revise it. Jester said she plans to use other Big 12 schools as references and adopt policies she feels would be more effective.

However, she has not started the research at this time to determine the

» Fowler Volkswagon and Nice People will host a free holiday concert featuring many local acts 7 to 11 p.m. in the Union’s Meacham Auditorium.

it free as well.”

Instead of 2010’s two day schedule, the event will stretch over three half days; Thursday and Friday will have evening events, while Saturday’s activities will start at noon and end that night.

“The biggest news is that we’ll be swapping the location of the main stage to Porter and Main Street,” Ruiz said.

Festival organizers are trying to be sensitive to the needs of downtown business owners, since they often see a drop in sales while the streets are blocked off for the festival.

“We want to organize what’s called a carrot mob on one particular day, in which we try to get all of the supporters of the festival together to make the purchases that they would normally make, only they will purchase them from downtown retailers,” Ruiz said.

Currently, the festival organizers are holding an open call for bands, which will last until Jan. 9. They are looking for locally oriented bands that play original music only. The festival will feature approximately 200 bands.

The Norman Music Festival will take place April 28 through April 30.

» Society of Chinese Students & Scholars will meet 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Union’s Sooner Room.

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

Tuesday, Dec. 14 » The Mission of Voices of Oklahoma will meet 7 to 9 p.m. in the Union’s Sooner Room. » The Transfer Student Advisory Board will meet 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Union’s Bartlett Study Room.

» This day in OU history

Dec. 7, 1933 Felgar addresses association of professors Dean J.H. Felgar, the namesake of Felgar Hall, which was renamed in his honor in 1952, addressed the American Association of University Professors on the subject “Trends in Engineering Education.”

Felgar’s speech followed a formal dinner that featured songs performed by Emily Stephenson on vocals and Margaret Vail on piano.

Felgar retired in 1937. *Source: The Oklahoma Daily archives

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“All the focus and funding is going toward homeless prevention.”

Food and Shelter offers breakfast and lunch six days a week, and between 100 and 150 attended Monday’s lunch. George expects this number to continue to increase as the weather worsens.

“Right now it’s down in the 20s at night and there are people living in parks or down by the river and all over Norman,” George said.

“Norman’s an extremely generous community so if people got the right mindset about homelessness then they would pitch in and do something about it.”

exact changes she would make.

Jester said she also plans to draft legislation to change the polling sites and hopes to make the sites bigger and put them in better locations for students to use.

Rainey Sewell, UOSA director of interior and business sophomore, is finishing her first semester as a Student Congress member and has plans to help the election chairwoman get

more students involved.

“If you don’t know how your student government is run, other students are making decisions without your input,” Sewell said.

One of Sewell’s ideas is to develop a promotional video to distribute before voting takes place. She said she wants to focus on asking voters to “just vote” instead of having specific candidates asking for votes before elections.

Sewell’s video would be

similar to “Rock the Vote” and would be a part of a campaign a few weeks before the spring elections in April, Jester said.

While all these plans a re b e i n g f o r m u l a t e d , Congress and the election board need to be careful and not wear students out, Stidham said.

“We are going to be putting out the good word as soon as possible,” he said.

“But if we start too early, we can burn students out.”

FESTIVAL: Organizers hold open call for local bands Continued from page 1

» OU women’s basketball will play New Mexico at 2 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center.

ORGANIZATIONS TO HELP THE HOMELESS Food and Shelter Inc., a local organization that provides and housing to individuals in need, began receiving $498,000 in funding from the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-housing portion of the stimulus bill in March.

In light of economic downturn, the city has been forced to deal with a new wave of families facing the threat of homelessness.

“Prevention is the current trend in dealing with this issue,” Bill George of Food and Shelter Inc. said.

SEATS: Congress to learn from Big 12 schools

» University Theatre will be performing “The Man Who Came to Dinner” at 3 p.m. in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center.

Sunday, Dec. 12

The average age of a homeless person is sixyears-old, Price said, and children make up one third of the 617 homeless in Cleveland County as of January 2010.

“The symbol that people think about when they think of homelessness is the guy with ratty clothes on the street,” Price said. “It’s actually families with kids, and that’s really difficult.”

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1. Oklahoma City

Officials award $733,000 emergency contract on Route 66 bridge project State transportation commissioners have awarded an emergency contract on a project being sped up because of deteriorating conditions on a State Highway 66 bridge over Bird Creek in Rogers County.

Commissioners on Monday awarded the $733,000 contract to APAC-Central Inc. to build detour lanes to divert traffic from the crumbling bridge. Oklahoma Department of Transportation officials say the project should be done by Dec. 28.

The bridge was built in 1936 as part of old U.S. Highway 66.

It has needed more than 40 emergency repairs since 2008. ___

2. Miami

Convicted child abuser commits suicide Saturday, prosecutor says A prosecutor says a Miami man has committed suicide after being convicted on a child abuse charge.

Assistant Ottawa County District Attorney Ben Loring said 24-year-old Christopher William Good shot himself in the head Saturday. Loring said Good had been convicted Friday of child abuse by injury and was sentenced to 11 years in prison.

The prosecutor said Good had left the court and was not present when the guilty verdict and sentence were announced.

Good was charged in the April 2006 beating of his girlfriend’s 15-month-old daughter. ___

3. Muskogee

Meeting set over power line proposals Proposals for power-line installation paths in eastern Oklahoma will be the subject of a meeting Tuesday in Muskogee.

Oklahoma Gas and Electric sent out about 3,000 letters to eastern Oklahoma residents who could be affected by the construction of the high-voltage lines along the 125-mile route from a power plant near Konawa in Seminole County to a generating station east of Muskogee.

OG&E spokesman Brian Alford says the power-line construction is not strictly that company’s project. He says projects like the one proposed are coordinated by the Southwest Power Pool, a nonprofit company that manages a nine-state electricity grid that carries power from 56 utilities.

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Televised same-sex marriage hearing attracts audience Appeals court questions Prop 8’s Constitutionality, supporters’ legal stance SAN FRANCISCO — The legal fight over California’s gay marriage ban went before a federal appeals court Monday in a hearing that reached a nationwide TV audience anxious for a final decision on whether the measure violates the U.S. Constitution.

Th e h ea r i ng b e f o re a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also focused on whether supporters of voter-approved Proposition 8 have legal standing to challenge a lower court ruling that the ban was unconstitutional.

The judges did not issue an immediate ruling and no timetable has been set.

C-SPAN piped the hearing across the country, giving the public outside the 9th Circuit headquarters in San Francisco its first direct look at the debate raging in the landmark challenge that could impact gay marriage bans in other states.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked a district court judge in San Francisco from broadcasting the full trial.

Matt Walker, 60, of Los Angeles watched the hearing with about 20 other people at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center in West Hollywood, saying the lives of many of his friends would be affected by the final decision.

Only a few people gathered at the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center to watch the hearing that was broadcast at multiple locations in the city.

“I feel like it’s our civil rights issue of today,” said Jubilee Menzies, a 33-year-

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Left: Jeff Tabaco, left, gets a kiss from Thom Watson during a rally outside of the courthouse before a hearing in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday in San Francisco. The federal appeals court in San Francisco heard arguments about the voter-approved ban known as Proposition 8. A trial court judge overturned the measure as a violation of gay Californians’ civil rights in August.

Right: Nils Nelson holds up a sign in favor of Proposition 8 outside of the courthouse before a hearing in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday in San Francisco. old lawyer who recently passed the state bar exam.

Opponents of Proposition 8 contend it violates the due process and equal protection rights of gays and lesbians under the U.S. Constitution by denying them the right to marry the person of their choice and by singling them out for disparate treatment without a legitimate rationale.

Supporters of the ban succeeded in keeping the full trial earlier this year from being televised, saying they feared broadcasts could prompt violent extremists who support gay marriage to attack lawyers and witnesses who would be identified on TV. The U.S. Supreme Court prohibited the broadcasts

with a 5-4 ruling.

The unsigned opinion also said U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker attempted to change the local court’s rules barring broadcasts “at the eleventh hour to treat this case differently than other trials.”

I feel like it’s our civil rights issue of today.”

— JUBILEE MENZIES, CALIFORNIA LAWYER University of Pittsburgh law professor Arthur Hellman, who watched Monday’s hearing in his office, said he understood the reluctance of the U.S.

Supreme Court to allow television coverage of its hearings.

The temptation for media to distort images or comments becomes greater with the high court than with lower courts that don’t attract as much public attention, he said.

“I think it will be some time before the Supreme Court allows cameras,” Hellman said.

Theodore Olson, who argued a portion of the case on behalf of the plaintiffs, said the case involves important civil rights issues.

“I am so glad it was televised, because the American people could see what the issues are,” Olson said.

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Schools, lawmakers cut sabbaticals to trim costs Professors argue that long paid breaks are important to improving teaching IOWA CITY, Iowa — Under pressure to cut costs, state universities and lawmakers across the nation are going after one of the oldest traditions in the academic world: the professor’s cherished sabbatical.

Professors often use the paid breaks from teaching to write books, develop new courses or collaborate with colleagues around the world. But the practice is increasingly being questioned by critics who say it offers little more than a paid vacation at a time when other public employees are being furloughed or laid off.

“Why should the taxpayers of Iowa be paying to basically give these folks a year off from teaching?” asked incoming House Speaker Kraig Paulsen, a Republican whose party won control of the chamber in November.

“It’s as simple as that.”

Some schools are reducing the number of sabbaticals awarded, angering faculty who say their research and teaching will suffer.

The University of Iowa has already cut its sabbaticals in half over the last two years.

Paulsen and other GOP leaders have proposed canceling them completely for a year.

CRIME

Ariz. board fires teacher over student’s death PHOENIX — An Arizona school board has voted to fire a high school teacher after one of his students died after being pulled from the pool during gym class.

Monday’s decision goes against the recommendation of a hearing officer, who ruled the Peoria Unified School District lacked evidence to prove Glendale Ironwood High teacher Tim McKee acted unprofessionally or violated school board policies.

Before the board’s 4-1 vote Monday, McKee’s attorney said the district should have better provided for student safety with lifeguards on duty instead of teachers.

Jesus “Jesse” Prado died May 14, two days after a classmate pulled him from the school pool.

At other schools, sabbaticals have been postponed or eliminated.

Julie Bell, who tracks higher education issues at the National Conference of State Legislatures, said it’s not surprising cashstrapped states would review sabbaticals, faculty salaries and benefits, and the amount of time professors spend teaching.

“In this environment, everything is on the table,” she said.

Defenders of sabbaticals, which are typically awarded every five to seven years, say some of the criticism stems from a misunderstanding of professors’ jobs.

Professors, they say, are not just teachers but also scholars and public servants.

Sabbaticals, they contend, are critical to advancing research, winning grants, publishing books and keeping up with the latest developments in their fields. Then professors can bring that knowledge back to the classroom.

“There’s one word that explains why we’re a city of literature, and that’s ‘sabbatical’,” said University of Iowa history professor Jeff Cox, referring to an award Iowa City received in 2008 from UNESCO, the educational and cultural arm of the United Nations.

— AP

Shooting outside Alabama Walmart leaves 1 dead HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Police say a Tennessee man killed one Walmart worker and wounded another in the store’s parking lot in Alabama then went home and tried to shoot himself.

Huntsville police spokesman Harry Hobbs identified the suspect as 44-year-old Luke Bates of Taft, Tenn.

Police believe Bates shot and killed 25-year-old Stan Ryan Malone on Monday and wounded 41-year-old Martha Ann White of New Market, Ala., outside the Huntsville store.

Police say Bates went to his home, and a family member found him there with a selfinflicted gunshot wound.

Hobbs said White is in stable condition and that Bates is in critical condition.

Hobbs said White and Bates were once in a relationship but were no longer dating.

— AP

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THUMBS UP ›› Norman Music Festival? There’s an app for that (see page 1)

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Silly campaigns worthless

OU Foundation should be more transparent about donations

With the ability to connect with hundreds, even thousands of friends and communicate like never before, social media can be a powerful tool.

At the same time, it can be an incredible waste of time.

Now, instead of just wasting time stalking people you don’t normally talk to or posting status updates detailing your exact location (“Jane Doe just checked into O’Connell’s. LOL”), you can waste time feeling like you’ve accomplished something.

The latest Facebook “awareness” fad is changing your profile picture to your favorite cartoon to raise awareness of child abuse.

No one is sure how the campaign started because, as a CNN story reported on Monday, it doesn’t seem to be affiliated with any actual organization.

Of course this movement has nothing to do with changing anything. It likely developed out of a previous campaign to simply replace all profile pictures of humans with pictures of cartoons, according to analysis by ABC News.

That’s another problem with this campaign. It has become so widespread that professional news organizations are wasting time covering it when the campaign is just about as stupid as Facebook’s new profile layout.

Where’s the call to action? Where are the links to organizations that actually help abused children that could use funds?

OU students could be made aware that there actually is an organization that devotes its time to helping abused and neglected children: Oklahoma Court Appointed Special Advocates.

Campaigns that succeed by getting attention always have the potential to send the opposite message, but if money is actually raised or the numbers of volunteers increase at charitable organizations, they can at least have a point.

Habitat for Humanity’s October event, Shack-a-Thon, caused controversy because some felt it parodied a serious situation. But at least it raised a substantial amount of money and awareness for its cause.

Just as these sites can start movements, they can also give the appearance of doing something without actually doing anything. And this has the potential to harm your cause more than help it.

Often a news media site. The need is obviously there.

I even think there’s a chance that media will find a way to break off from almost complete dependence on advertising.

Some experiments are going on now. ProPublica, a non-profit news producing outfit specializing in investigative reporting, shared the Pulitzer Prize last year. The website Spot.us allows journalists to pitch stories directly to the public. They give their idea — or someone in the public can request coverage — and they say how much it will cost to produce. Readers can then choose to give as much as they want to specific stories. Once the journalist has enough money, he or she goes out and produces the story.

I, personally, wonder about an iTunes for news. The music industry hated iTunes at first. They lived off producing bloated albums that forced the consumer to buy a bunch of lackluster songs to get the one or two singles they really wanted. Now, many music critics believe the death of the album may have actually improved the quality of music.

News media are very similar. I really don’t want to read about royal weddings or what self-torture Lindsay Lohan is putting herself through today. But if I pick up a paper, I pay for that coverage. What if I paid a penny a story for what I really did want to read? We used to pay a quarter for a newspaper; I don’t think it’s unreasonable for pay a quarter for 25 stories I really want to read.

It’s just an idea. There will be many, and one or more of them will work.

So, let’s hold off on the wake for now.

On Nov. 30, The Daily requested that the University STAFF COLUMN Foundation provide an accounting of all donations Nicholas during the past five years Harrison — including a listing of the donors, amounts and uses of said funds and all benefits provided to university officers and employees. Within less than 24 hours, that request was flatly denied.

In his response, Foundation Vice President and General Counsel Gary Beadles wrote, “The University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc. is a separate legal entity from the University of Oklahoma. It is not a state agency, does not employ public officials, does not conduct public business, expend, or administer public funds or property. Instead, the Foundation is a private entity and accordingly is not subject to the Oklahoma Open Records Act.” Unfortunately, his response is not unusual. University foundations in most states traditionally claim exemption from state open records acts.

However, this trend has been changing. Legislators in Colorado, Minnesota and Nevada changed their laws to require disclosure. Courts in Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Carolina have ruled that their states’ open records acts apply to university foundations. State attorney generals in Georgia and Texas also have written advisory opinions to that effect.

In Oklahoma, bodies subject to the Open Records Act need not be governmental entities. The law is written very broadly and specifically includes “trusteeships” and “trusts” — terms that the Foundation uses repeatedly on its website. The legal test in the statutes is not whether something is a public or private entity. It is simply whether it is “supported in whole or in part by public funds or entrusted with the expenditure of public funds or administering or operating public property.”

OU is a public institution and the foundation’s primary purpose is to collect private donations on the university’s behalf and administer those funds for the benefit of the institution — which is its exclusive beneficiary.

Although the university People have a does not retain legal title to right to know the contributions, it still has equitable title. about all gifts It retains part of the buntheir state officers dle of rights, and it can even and employees force the foundation to render an accounting. are receiving from Thus, the rule in the maprivate individuals.” jority of jurisdictions is that it still has a property interest — which means, by definition, the foundation is charged with administering public property.

The foundation also is closely affiliated with the institution. University presidents have practically dictated its organization and structure during the years. Its literature prominently emphasizes its connection to the institution — even going so far as to use the institution’s official seals, emblems and crests. Its building is even located on campus and owned by the university.

In his response, Beadles invoked a statute that allows entities to keep information about donors and prospective donors confidential. However, that statute does not allow the institution to keep information about the uses of those funds confidential. All benefits provided to university officers and employees should be public record.

Speaking directly to the issue of disclosure by university foundations in 2002, State Attorney General Drew Edmondson wrote, “the authority of a public body to keep donors’ identities confidential is tempered by the rules of the Ethics Commission.” State officials and employees are still required to be impartial and to “exercise their powers and prerogatives without prejudice or favoritism.”

Furthermore, since institutions are only given discretion to keep this information confidential, they must still disclose it if other law specifically requires it.

Under state ethics laws, anyone who does business with a governmental entity is required to report any gift to a state officer or employee which costs more than $50. The foundation has several contractual relationships with the institution.

However, although it provided more than $20 million in salary supplements last year, the foundation did not report any of the benefits provided to university officers and employees.

Regardless of how much money has been raised from private individuals, OU is a public institution of higher education. It was established by the People of the State of Oklahoma, and it remains subject to public oversight.

Thus, the public has a right to know about all funds that are being expended on its behalf and, even more importantly, people have a right to know about all gifts their state officers and employees are receiving from private individuals.

The foundation, the OU Board of Regents and the administration all need to recognize and acknowledge this fact.

— Sarah Cavanah, professional writing and journalism graduate

— Nicholas Harrison, law and business graduate

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OU blocks any gender-blind efforts If you go to the first floor of the Bizzell Memorial Library, you will find a walkway exhibit that displays books selected by various members of the OU community. In that display, in addition to Bob Stoops selection of a children’s book, you will find President David Boren’s book selection.

Boren has selected for his inspirational book the classical philosophical treatise “On Liberty” by John Stuart Mill. The placard beside the book indicates that the book has significantly informed Boren’s ideas about the nature of interference in the private lives of others.

For those unfamiliar with the text, in “On Liberty,” Mill provides various arguments in defense of extensive personal liberty, and against the right of society to intrude upon that liberty.

He argues that human beings are diverse and have their own needs met in different ways through different kinds of lives.

Additionally, he points out that the fallibility of our own reasoning might lead us to conclude wrongly about the optimal way to live one’s life.

Out of these ideas, he ultimately deduces his famous harm principle. Under the harm principle, the only extent to which society is permitted to restrict the liberty of individuals is to prevent those individuals from harming others. No other reason, be it society’s ideas about the morally correct way to live or society’s ideas about what is the most correct lifestyle, is sufficient to intrude upon the decisions others wish to make.

I imagine this all sounds quite good to most readers, and I am certainly glad that Boren chooses to display this important book so that others might read and learn from it as he and countless others already have. What interests me however is the contradiction between Boren’s claims that the book informs his views on liberty and Boren’s actual behavior as university president. In particular, I am interested in his consistent refusal to entertain the idea of new housing options for student residents.

Last year, the student group Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Friends pressed the administration to include a completely voluntary opt-in housing option that would permit individuals to live on floors and suites with members of their opposite sex. They reasonably argued that sex-segregated

floors do not fully meet the STAFF COLUMN need of every student on campus.

In addition to their plea, Matt Bruenig a faculty-led teach-in was hosted in support of such a move, and the Undergraduate Student Congress unanimously passed a resolution calling on the university to implement these new housing options. Across the country, at least 54 universities have already added these kinds of housing options for their student residents, with Columbia University being the most recent.

Despite all of this, Boren and his administration continue to block any effort towards additional housing options. When asked publicly earlier this year why he will not allow more housing options, he said simply, “This is Oklahoma.”

That’s right, Boren claimed that this state was so backwards that it would become angry at a state university which allowed for more extensive housing options that (gasp) even allowed members of opposite sexes to be on the same floor, and even rooms!

Whatever one thinks of Boren’s assessment of the mentality of Okies, this kind of answer is exactly opposite of what a Mill follower should have said. Providing completely optional housing opportunities for adults to choose from does no harm to anyone else who does not want to take part. Thus, even if this is Oklahoma, society should not be permitted to tyrannize over the private lives of students who want different housing arrangements.

In “On Liberty,” Mill states that “There is no reason that all human existence should be constructed on some one or some small number of patterns.” But Boren’s stubbornness on campus housing options has done exactly that for student residents.

— Matt Bruenig, philosophy senior

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Media aren’t dying — at least I hope Editor’s note: The Daily runs a GUEST COLUMN media literacy column by Sarah Cavanah, interim executive director Sarah of Oklahoma Scholastic Media Cavanah and former Daily staff writer, every Tuesday to give readers a behindthe-scenes look at The Daily and media coverage in general.

The media aren’t dying. At least I don’t think they are.

You’ve probably bumped into the idea once or twice.

Newspapers are closing. Network television is telling Congress it needs to be on cable (which you pay for) rather than broadcast (which you don’t). Newsweek magazine was sold for $1 and now is going to be run by a second-tier blogging site.

I have no doubt the media will change. I don’t think much of it will look like it has in the past in the very near future.

Newspapers, I’m sad to say, are probably on their last legs, at least in the printed form. I’ve literally seen people choose to log on to oudaily.com rather than walk 5 feet to pick up a free copy of The Daily. That’s not a good sign.

Newspapers seem to be slowly finding ways to exist and make a profit online, and I think they have a better chance than broadcast news of doing so. (I really think the two will merge, despite some recent failures in that area.)Advertisers have problems with paying substantial rates for online advertising, but they have an even bigger problem when everyone is getting their content from Netflix. By definition, advertisers need a place to advertise, and that’s a good sign for online media.

Society also needs the kind of content only news media produce. You may get most of your news from posts on Facebook, but when someone mentions an injustice, an astonishing occurrence or an unexpected sports score, where do they link to?

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By the numbers

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The Sooners’ season-ending opponent is anything but typical for a BCS bowl.

This year, the Connecticut Huskies (8-4) will represent the Big East and face the Big 12 champion Sooners in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 1.

It will be OU’s seventh appearance in a BCS bowl and UConn’s first.

In fact, the Huskies have only attended four bowl games in program history.

This year’s BCS bowl will make it four straight seasons the Huskies have been to a bowl — a remarkable feat considering they were an FCS (then, Division I-AA) team for years until jumping up to FBS stature (then, Division I-A) in 2000, when OU was winning its most recent national championship.

While the Huskies’ history is short, they have climbed the ranks quickly, earning a spot in a BCS conference just two years after being recognized statistically by the NCAA in 2002.

T w o y e a r s l a t e r, t h e Huskies were on their way to their first bowl game.

UConn currently holds a 3-1 record in bowl games with their only loss coming to Wake Forest in the 2007 Meineke Car Care Bowl.

Since then, UConn has won two straight — the International Bowl in 2008 and the PapaJohns.com Bowl last year.

Eleven seasons into their FBS tenure and the Huskies

1,202

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Passing yards per game for Connecticut, which ranks 112th nationally

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Carries for Todman this season, 232 more than the next leading rusher

19.8

Points allowed per game by UConn, which ranks 23rd nationally

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Connecticut’s Jordan Todman (23) celebrates a touchdown with teammates in the fourth quarter of UConn’s 38-17 win over Cincinnati on Nov. 27. The Huskies earned their first-ever appearance in a BCS bowl after winning the Big East Conference.

are already in their first BCS game; not many teams can say that.

The Huskies have been led all season by junior running back Jordan Todman, who has accumulated 1,574 rushing yards and 14 touchdowns so far in a run-heavy UConn offense.

While Todman leads a rushing unit that features four backs with 25 or more carries and 20 total rushing touchdowns, the Huskies’ passing game has netted just

10 touchdowns and their starting quarterback, senior Zach Frazer, has thrown for only 1,202 yards.

To put that into perspective, OU junior receiver Ryan Broyles alone has 1,452 receiving yards this season.

Todman leads a unit that averages 179.9 rushing yards per game — good for 31st nationally — while its passing attack nets just 145.1 per game and ranks 112th.

Although they started out the year 1-2, the Huskies

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Stoops at his best this season STAFF COLUMN

RJ Young

Dominance in college football could be defined as winning 50 percent of the conference titles.

Since the beginning of the Bob Stoops Era, the Sooners have won seven Big 12 championships, including four of the last five. Stoops is 84-17 in the Big 12 and 7-1 all-time in the Big 12 conference championship game.

The 15-year history of the Big 12 has brought many gorgeous statistics, prime-time players and Hall of Fame coaches, but Stoops’ staggering number of conference titles has to be the most stunning.

Bob Stoops gave the rest of the Big 12’s football coaches a three-year head start to rack up Big 12 championships.

By 2000, Stoops already had won a Big 12 title and a BCS national championship.

What coaches Bill Snyder, Mack Brown and John Blake couldn’t do in the years prior to Stoops’ arrival in Norman, Stoops did in only his second year as the head coach at OU. That’s not my opinion, just a fact — the man can coach some pigskin.

A case can be made that this was Stoops’ best coaching performance of his 12year reign as OU’s football czar.

After being thrust into the starting position vacated by Sam Bradford due to injury, Landry Jones did not have the most solid 2009 season.

Jones looked unflappable in Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, but on the road — where the crowds are hostile and TV lights seem brightest — Jones struggled.

Leave it to Stoops not to lose faith in his quarterback;

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Coach Bob Stoops, center, celebrates winning his seventh Big 12 Championship with junior linebacker Travis Lewis (28) and OU players after the Sooners’ 23-20 win over Nebraska on Saturday.

to keep coaching him up and whispering words of courage, bravery and valor into the ear of the one player he knew he would need in OU’s last two games of the 2010 season.

In the Bedlam game, when the Sooners could only muster 2.7 yards per carry on the ground, Jones exemplified the attributes of the great OU field generals who have come before him.

He passed for 468 yards and four touchdowns against a team yours truly thought would demolish the Sooners at T. Boone Pickens Stadium.

Mea culpa.

Bedlam turned out to be a dress rehearsal, though.

The last Big 12 Conference Championship game — for what we can only guess will be a very long time — pitted OU against the only team in the North that Sooner fans love to hate: Nebraska.

As fate would have it, the contest between the Cornhuskers and Sooners would be the last great installment in the 98-year history of this rivalry.

Not since Tom Osborne

and Barr y Switzer were coaching on either side of this rivalry were the stakes so high.

Yes, the Sooners stumbled out of the blocks in the first half. Yes, their actions on the field caused some OU fans to wonder aloud, “Have they forgotten how to play football?”

But Stoops knew what he had. He knew what his team was capable of , and — most importantly — the kind of leader and passer his quarterback has grown to become.

The Sooners beat a better, more talented Nebraska football team on Saturday.

Maybe they beat Nebraska because they wanted it more.

Maybe it was because Mr. Momentum suddenly became a Sooner fan.

But I believe it was because of one man — Bob Stoops — who outdid himself this season to get his team this far.

And don’t let anyone tell you differently.

— RJ Young, journalism senior

have managed to turn things around, going 2-2 their next four games and winning their last five, starting with an overtime win over West Virginia.

Much of the Huskies’ late-season success can be attributed to their stellar defensive play, which allowed no more than 30 points all season.

In its last nine games, UConn allowed just 19.4 points per game.

The Huskies have done

a lot of growing up in their first 11 seasons in the big leagues by making it to a BCS game — something most FBS teams will likely never accomplish.

However, the biggest test of UConn’s maturity has yet to come as it will be tested against OU, one of the most storied programs in college football.

I’d suggest you prepare yourself for a plethora of “David vs. Goliath” references in the coming weeks.

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Ranking of the Huskies in the AP Poll; Connecticut is unranked in the BCS

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Straight wins for the Huskies to finish the regular season

62-3

Score of UConn’s biggest win this season, Sept. 11 over the Texas Southern Tigers

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Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010 SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - It always behooves you to be protective of your cherished possessions, but also watch out for all of your belongings. Temptation might be too great for someone with sticky hands.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) There is nothing wrong with taking on a tough assignment, as long as you are as methodical and organized as possible about it. A lack of preparation, however, would invite poor results.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - The probability of a request or favor being rejected is greater than usual, so try to handle things on your own. Don’t put yourself in the uncomfortable position of being turned down.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) - Take great pains to skirt issues upon which you and your mate disagree.

There is a strong likelihood that a small discord could get blown totally out of proportion.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - People in general are more susceptible to accepting advice on important matters without question, so unless you are an expert on something, don’t offer any. It would stink to be wrong.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) - Upon occasion you enjoy a stimulating challenge, which is exactly what is likely to appeal to you at this juncture. Be careful, however, because you could bite off more than you can chew.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - Your splendid characteristic of positive thinking might not be too operative, so if you find yourself in a negative mood, take measures to snap yourself out of it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - That advice you’re giving to others won’t be followed if they see that you’re not following it yourself.

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Bruce Springsteen “The Promise” Columbia Released: Nov. 16 8.3/10 Between 1975 and 1980, Bruce Springsteen released three truly magnificent rock ‘n’ roll records, a streak that started with a pure blast of pop-guitar brilliance in “Born to Run” and ended with a sprawling epic loaded with much of the same and more, “The River.”

Between those records unassumingly sits The Boss’s fourth album, 1978’s “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” wherein the characters of the heartland have given up on “Born To Run’s” dream of escape and settled for a life of small-town mediocrity.

“Some guys they just give up livin’ / and start dyin’ little by little / piece by piece,” he sings on “Racing in the Street,” the album’s saddest, most melodramatic moment.

It’s therefore fitting that “The Promise,” a two-disc set of unreleased songs from the “Darkness” sessions, kicks off with an alternate version of “Racing in the Street,” where Springsteen glitzes and glosses the small-townies’ behavior with his typical enginerevving growl and explosive organ and harmonica.

It’s a fun, but bombastic early take on a truly marvelous song that could well have ruined the mood of the whole album were Springsteen any less disciplined an artist.

The characters in “Darkness” aren’t the commercially appealing happy faces “steppin’ out over the line” in “Born to Run”.

“The Promise” confirms both Springsteen’s talents as a songwriter and song selector during this era, as he cut a few tracks off “Darkness” that likely would have charted as singles at the cost of disrupting the album’s artistic themes.

“Fire” would’ve surely been a top makeout song for our parents’ generation (eww, sorry for that mental image), and the “We ain’t got money, but we don’t care” lyric from “Gotta Get That Feeling ” is classic Springsteen — over-the-top and reveling in it.

Other highlights include

an alternate version of “Because The Night” (cowritten with Patti Smith, the song was one of her greatest hits), “Candy’s Boy” (an early sketch of “Darkness’s” most successful single, “Candy’s Room”) and the title track, “The Promise,” wherein The Boss revisits a much sadder highway than “Thunder Road”.

“The Promise” is probably the perfect Christmas gift for your dad, but there’s nothing in there that he couldn’t have lived without for the last 32 years.

— Matt Carney, professional writing senior

Curren$y “Pilot Talk II” Roc-A-Fella Released: Nov. 22 9.0/10 Though his name, which paints the picture of a fauxgangster rapper, doesn’t do the Big Easy-based artist justice, Curren$y’s followup to “Pilot Talk” (released this July) does.

To quote A Tribe Called Quest, his jazzy flow is “smooth like butter,” and he layers it on thick through a baker’s dozen of the finest swampy but sophisticated tracks of the year. He takes his down-home inclinations and transports them to the city, where they form a modern, but soulful, overlay of jazzy beats and his masterful voice.

Surprisingly enough, Curren$y was once a protégé of Lil’ Wayne, but instead of occupying a space somewhere between Earth and Mars, Curren$y comfortably resides on the ground.

The only thing tying him to Weezy is a love of a weed — they both fly sky high in that regard — but Curren$y opts for more levelheaded samples than the cosmic variety Lil’ Wayne has taken to, casually dashing between the water (“Airborne Aquarium”) and clouds (“Flight Briefing”).

“Pilot Talk II” — just like the original — is understated and unassuming; one track effortlessly cedes into the next, with the smoky “Michael Knight” being the only one that threatens to steal any shine from the others.

That’s not a detraction, but a compliment. Just two

albums in, Curren$y is positioning himself as one of the few breathing rappers focused on consistency instead of one-off singles, and the only point to argue is whether he did that better on the first or second goaround.

— Joshua Boydston, psychology junior

My Chemical Romance “Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys” Reprise Released: Nov. 22 7.9/10 My Chemical Romance — a (not so) guilty pleasure for most of those who spent their formative years in the mid-2000s — has made a career out of coping with life struggles through song, but “Danger Days” represents the first time those struggles have come up in the music itself.

It’s been four years since the laude d “ The Black Parade” and six since its breakout album, “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge,” and the group has reconvened with an album unlike anything it’s ever done.

At this point, the “emo” label has no bearing (not that it ever should have; MCR has a lot more in common with Smashing Pumpkins than Fall Out Boy). “Danger Days” is a step out in several directions, ranging anywhere from Queen to Third Eye Blind in any given song while rarely cutting a noise in the vein of Taking Back Sunday.

But while moving on and out is great, maintaining an identity is key, and at points, it’s lost here.

The band borrows generously from ’90s alternapunk, mimicking “Dookie”era Green Day at a base level, but it brings that sound into modern times with its first experiments with synthetic electro noise.

It’s these changes, though, that sometimes has the band sounding less like My Chemical Romance and more like (an albeit better version of) The Bravery.

The leadoff single/righteous anthem “Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)” is impressive and catchy across all demographics,

with chugging guitars bouncing off the walls and lead singer Gerard Way hollering like he’s enjoying himself for the very first time.

If the band had bottled that in every song, “Danger Days” would have rivaled any of its previous albums.

A l a s, i t d o e s n ’ t. T h e watered down-MCR on “Bulletproof Heart” and Cobra Starship impersonation on “Planetary (GO!)” expose a few hairline fractures.

Th e ba n d i s g row i ng toward something bett e r t h o u g h. “ T h e O n l y Hope For Me Is You” and “Summertime” are pleasantly mature ballads and satisfying pop-punk anthems (“Party Poison,” “Destroya”) continue to show up through the duration.

The next effort — if mixing vintage MCR and the band’s newfound talents — could rival “The Black Parade” as its masterpiece.

— JB

Air Waves “Dungeon Dots” Underwater Peoples Released: Nov. 30 8.1/10 Air Waves — the brainchild of Brooklyn-based singersongwriter Nicole Schneit — is already positioning itself for a run at 2011’s next big thing with its debut album, “Dungeon Dots,” a modest, but assuring effort of lo-fi indie pop ballads.

Schneit’s androgynous vocals are probably what set Air Waves apart most as the songs turn over from boyish (“Knock Out”) to softly feminine (“Humdrum”), depending on the inflection of her voice.

The well-developed, rainy picture of “Lightning” is a beautiful place to linger in, going from light guitar sprinkles to full bass and throttle thunder at the bridge before the storm clears. The Renaissance flair in “Waters” is charming, and the shivering “Radio” beams brightly.

Though sometimes sleepy, “Dungeon Dots” should prove to be a listen that grows upon each previous one; it’s a pretty simple take on indie-pop but looks to be the sort with surprises left to be found.

— JB

Dusty Somers, life & arts editor dailyent@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-5189

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