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UOSA PRES CANDIDATE: 457 ELECTION BALLOTS IN QUESTION Jess Eddy says presidential voting system was unclear because students were unaware they could rank candidates on election ballots TROY WEATHERFORD Daily Staff Writer

A UOSA presidential candidate is asking UOSA Superior Court for a run-off election.

Jess Eddy claims that the announced winner, Ally Glavas, did not receive a majority of the ballots, as required in the UOSA constitution.

The election used the Meeks voting system in which voters rank the candidates. The system eliminates the candidate who receives the least number of votes and then adds the voters’ second choice to the remaining candidates’ totals. Iterations of this system were used until only two candidates remained and Glavas received a majority vote.

At a meeting March 5, all of the candidates agreed to use a ranking system instead of a runoff election, said Jeff Riles, election chairman.

Eddy said his complaint stems from two main points: That Glavas did not receive a majority off all votes cast and that voters did not

understand the ranking method.

Out of 5,282 total ballots cast, 2,246 voters chose Glavas as their first choice. This means 43 percent of voters voted for Glavas as their first choice. UOSA election rules require that the president receive a majority of ballots cast.

In the final iteration of the electronic run-off system, after a voter’s second or third choices were added to the remaining candidates’ totals, Glavas received 2,544 votes and Franz Zenteno received 2,281 votes.

Riles said 457 ballots were not counted in this iteration because these voters did not rank all of the candidates to the third choice.

This means that even with voters’ second and third choices added to Glavas’s total, she only received 48 percent of the total ballots cast.

Riles said Glavas received a majority because she received 53 percent of ballots still present in the final iteration, which did not include 457 ballots.

In the past, the election Web site included a notice at the top explaining to voters that they could rank their selections from first to last choice, Eddy said.

Riles said he did not know whether past elections included instructions to rank all of BALLOTS CONTINUES ON PAGE 2

Bill adds OKC bombing to education curriculum Oklahoma schools will be required to teach the events of April 19, 1995, in all history classes RICKY MARANON Assignment Editor

OKLAHOMA CITY — It is now state law that school children must learn about the events that occurred April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma City.

At a signing ceremony Tuesday at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, Gov. Brad Henry signed House Bill 2750 into law.

The bill mandates that the Oklahoma City bombing be taught in Oklahoma, U.S. and world history classes as a required element in state curriculum.

“Although the events of April 19, 1995 may be etched in our minds and in the minds of Oklahomans who remember that day, we have a generation of Oklahomans that has little to no memory of the events of that day,” Henry said. “We are enforcing something that teachers have been explaining to their students since April 20, 1995.”

Henry said the bombing, which killed 168 people, forever changed Oklahomans, and the United States learned lessons from the events of that day.

“It told this country that terrorism can strike anywhere,” Henry said. “We owe it to the victims, the survivors and all of the people touched by this tragic event to remember April 19, 1995 and understand what it meant and still means to this state and this nation.”

The state law will not mean more content will need to be covered by teachers, but instead makes it a state requirement instead of a suggestion, said Kelly Curtright, social studies curriculum director for the Oklahoma Board of Education.

“This will not add any extra requirements to teachers nor drastically change textbooks,” Curtright said.

Henry said the new requirement would go into effect in July, causing the new addition to school

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Ahmad Khattab, biochemistry senior, and Mohamed Ali Elyazgi, University College freshman, sign a special passport for Tylor Dallam (right), human relations sophomore, while she gathers food Tuesday night during the Taste of Islam cultural event at the Henderson-Tolson Cultural Center.

Students get a taste of Islamic culture Annual event puts collection of food from Middle East countries in front of attendees CASSI TONEY Daily Staff Writer

OU students left the Taste of Islam culture and food Tuesday night at the Henderson-Tolson Cultural Center with a full stomach and a broader understanding of diversity in Islam.

Approximately 150 students attended the annual Taste of Islam, which is hosted by the Muslim Student Association, as part of Islam Awareness Month.

There were dishes from around the world,

including Turkey, Pakistan, Iran, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Egypt and Bilad al-Sham, which includes Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine. Attendees got a “passport” stamped when they visited each area’s table.

“The main purpose is for students to learn about diversity of Islam,” said Khadeeja Elyazgi, professional writing junior. “Islam is a very universal religion and we wanted to represent that with different cultures of Muslims around the world, and of course the best way to draw people in is food.”

Elyazgi, public relations chairwoman for the association, said the event is one of its most popular events and attracts more people than

lectures and panels.

Elyazgi said the organization hopes to make Taste of Islam a well-known annual event like the Think Fast event during Ramadan. She said the event is more about learning the different cultures of Islam than in the previous year’s Taste of Islam events.

Iman Abdallat, international and area studies and pre-med freshman, said she helped decorate the Jordan table because she is originally from Jordan. She said she hoped everyone enjoyed the event and learned something new to spark an interest. “[The purpose is] to show the cultural aspects of it, the food, decorations, clothing and ISLAM CONTINUES ON PAGE 2

Everybody gets caught, says ex con Students gather in the union to hear Frank Abagnale talk about experiences scamming people DANIELA MCCORMICK Daily Staff Writer

The man who inspired the Stephen Spielberg movie, “Catch Me if You Can,” told students about his infamous past as a con artist Tuesday night in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Frank Abagnale talked about his beginnings as a con artist at age 16 after he found out his parents were divorcing. He said in the 1960s it was cool to run away so he did and applied to many jobs. However, he said he realized that no one was going to hire a 16-year-old and pay him enough money to support himself. Therefore, he changed his birthday from April 1948 to April 1938 to make people think he was older. He said his friends thought he always

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looked older anyway, being 6-foot 2-inch with some gray hair.

He said his first job was as a pilot for Panam, despite not having training.

He said he saw a pilot and his crew and thought it would be perfect because people would give him checks to use. Abagnale said at first he didn’t understand the jargon pilots and other crewmembers would use. One time, he said, he was asked which equipment he was on, which meant “Which airline are you flying with?”

“What type of equipment am I on?” Abagnale said. “The type of equipment I am on is a stool.”

Frank talked about more jobs he had, including being a pediatrician and a lawyer. He joked that while he avoided giving out health examinations, he’d never deny a female.

“When the girls came by, I gave a through examination,” Abagnale said.

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Abagnale Continues from page 1 course in Louisiana. Abagnale talked about how he scammed people by writing his bank account number on sample deposit slips and putting them back into the bank lobby for other people to use not knowing the slips were tainted.

“I put them back into the lobby and everyone who came in would put their checks into my account,” Abagnale said.

“Sooner or later, you get caught, and I was no exception to the rule.”

Abagnale said he spent time in French, Swedish and U.S penitentiaries until he was released on the condition that he work for the U.S. federal government.

“Last February, I celebrated my 36th year with the federal government,” Abagnale said.

Students came to see Abagnale speak for different reasons.

Zoology sophomore Kevin McManus said he came to hear Abagnale speak because he is impressed by what Abagnale was able to accomplish. He said he enjoyed the movie.

“I think it’d be really cool and interesting to hear the real life account of it,” McManus said.

University College freshman Peter O’Neal said he expected Abagnale to be weirder person than how he portrayed himself

speaking to the crowd.

“I guess I was expecting a more criminal-est person,” O’Neal said. “He seemed like a more real dude than a con father. I thought he’d be more of strange guy than what he was.”

Abagnale said he had little to do with the movie and he was more focused with raising his three sons with his wife in Tulsa.

He said Spielberg went out of his way to not glorify the crimes, but to simply tell Abagnale’s story. Abagnale said, in the end, he and his wife were delighted with the outcome of the film.

Abagnale talked about his love for his family and how they have changed his life since his days as a con artist.

“The truth is, God gave me a wife. She gave me three children and she changed my life,” Abagnale said.

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the candidates.

“The reason there were no instructions is because we felt if we told people they had to rank all four candidates, then we would be forcing them to make a vote that they didn’t have to,” Riles said.

Thalia Nguyen, University College freshman, said she only voted for one candidate because she didn’t know she could rank them.

“On the Web site it didn’t explain anything about it,” Nguyen said. “I was pretty angry [when I found out] because I’m not the only one who didn’t know that.”

Failing to explain the ranking system is a violation of voters’ rights, Eddy said.

Eddy, who received the least votes of the four candidates, said he doesn’t want to give himself another chance, but wants to make sure that all votes are counted.

He said there should be a run-off election between Glavas and Zenteno.

“I want to see a free and fair election where all the ballots are included in the percentage and, as a concerned student, if no candidate receives a majority vote I want to see a runoff,” Eddy said.

Glavas said she respected Eddy’s right to file a complaint but hopes the court makes a decision by next week so she may begin working in an official capacity. She declined any further comment before she talks with legal counsel.

to expose to OU students to that and hope they’re interested to learn more,” Abdallat said.

Genevieve Schmitt, Arabic and linguistics sophomore, said “I enjoyed seeing the different clothing people are wearing, the surplus of colors and richness of culture displayed through clothing.”

Schmitt said events like Taste of Islam are good experiences for Americans who have not been out of the country.

Arabic professor Abdul Kelani said he was very encouraged by the number of non-Muslims at the event.

“The variety of food shows me the diversity of cultures in the east,” Kelani said. “I think students should get the opportunity to attend these kind of events so that they can learn more about the eastern culture.”

Elyazgi said members of the association cooked the food for the event.

Elyazgi said people usually think of Middle Easterners when they think of Muslims, but there are many different Muslim cultures. She said Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world and people are surprised by that.

“We’re at a time where people are very weary of Muslims and Islam as a religion, so we’re trying to spread awareness that Muslims are just like you,” Elyazgi said.

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Gov. Brad Henry (center) completes the signing of House Bill 2750 on Tuesday. This bill would make it a mandatory requirement for Oklahoma schools to teach about the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma City. This bill would require that Oklahoma, U.S. and world history textbooks teach about the bombing and also supply future teachers with resources to teach about the event.

Bombing Continues from page 1 curriculum to take effect this fall.

State Superintendant Sandy Garrett said school districts would not have to purchase new textbooks immediately.

“In this time of economic trouble, we don’t want to add any additional strain a district might feel to their budgets by forcing them to comply with the new law

through the purchase of new textbooks,” Garrett said.

Garrett said districts facing economic trouble could consider virtual and physical alternatives to meet the new requirement.

“We are working with the museum to create a virtual field trip-like tour program that districts can use,” Garrett said. “But we are hoping that all students will have the opportunity to come out here and tour the memorial and see this place for themselves.”

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LANGUAGE FAIR CELEBRATES AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE Students from more than 70 schools come together for a two-day fair involving sports, language contests and performances CASSI TONEY Daily Staff Writer

More than 600 students of all ages and backgrounds celebrated Native American languages and culture at the eighthannual Native American Language Fair held Monday and Tuesday at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.

“What I really wanted to do was focus on how languages are living,” said Mary Linn, fair director. “They are not really objects you can put in a collection. They’re really how people use a language and speak it on a daily basis.”

More than 70 schools participated in the fair and 23 American Indian languages were represented.

“Sports have tournaments and these kinds of things, and French and Spanish have language fairs they can go to as well, but there’s nothing for Native American languages,” Linn said. “We really wanted to give credit and thanks to the teachers who are working really hard to teach [American Indian] languages.”

Linn said the American Indian-language teachers work extra hard because they have no textbooks or curriculum to follow.

National Geographic magazine designated Oklahoma as a language “hotspot” because of high language diversity. The magazine cited the native languages’ critical condition and risk of extinction, which are caused by young children are not learning them as much, said Linn. However, she said it is now more popular to learn American Indian languages than

it was 10 years ago.

“It’s something that I like to do and I get to learn about my culture,” said Annissa Vasquez, an 11-year-old participant from Anadarko.

Vasquez competed in Wichita dancing and singing for the third time.

The fair consists of different competitions for different age categories including speeches, poetry, songs, film, dance, books and poster art. Linn said many of the children wear traditional clothing for the competitions. “[The competitions] are not judged on accuracy but on amount of language and spirit of performance,” Linn said.

She said it is hard to find judges for each language because some of the languages only have a few fluent speakers left. Linn said all the participants receive a medallion and a T-shirt, and there are first-, second- and third-place prizes for NEIL MCGLOHON/THE DAILY each different age group.

Sydney Prince, 12, from Anadarko, said she wanted to win Arlene David and Clara Selam, students of Riverside Indian her competition because it would be the first girls’ group to School, perform at the 8th Annual Oklahoma Native American win a trophy for the tribe. Prince performed “Amazing Grace” Youth Language Fair on Tuesday. in the Wichita language. and volunteered time for the fair.

“It’s mainly for participation, although people take the Linn said many OU students volunteer as coordinators first-, second- and third-place prizes seriously,” Linn said. and judges for the fair. She said approximately 40 volunteers “Schools can have something to take back to display in their and 53 judges are needed each day. display cases, so they can show they’re doing something.”

When the fair started eight years ago, many students just Neiatha Hardy, 12, performed Choctaw music. This was presented word lists in their languages, but now students her fifth year to participate in the fair. She said she also was are doing full skits that seem to come very naturally to them, excited about seeing the museum. She said she plans to come Linn said. to the fair until she graduates high school.

“The fact that they’re getting up there and really trying and “The best part is all tribes can come to learn different lan- really working at it — I just find it beautiful every day. I have guages and meet people,” Hardy said. chill bumps,” Linn said. “Every time I hear a children up there The Department of Anthropology, American Indian speaking, I realize that is why I do this.”

Student Life and Native American Studies donated money

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Government Documents Librarian Jeff Wilhit will give an overview of the OU Government Documents Collection at 10 a.m. in Bizzell Memorial Library, room 149D.

The Impact Movement will have a Bible study at 9 p.m. in the Adams-Tarman basement.

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Stephen Crynes will speak about time management at 3 p.m. in Wagner Hall.

A librarian will talk about searching the database Factivia at 10 a.m. in Bizzell Memorial Library, room 149D.

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Campus Crusade for Christ will meet at 9 p.m. in the Santee Lounge of the Gaylord Family

Students and Norman galleries will present art and information from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the South

Oval. Freebirds World Burrito will supply food.

STUDENT SUCCESS SERIES The Writing Center will discuss Research Writing at 3 p.m. in Wagner Hall.

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Dominique Poirel will speak about “How Can We Know About St. Francis of Assisi?” at 5:30 p.m. in Dale Hall, room 218.

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PRE-OPTOMETRY CLUB Seniors will discuss the application process and experiences at 6 p.m. in Richards Hall, room 260.

PUBLIC LECTURE Jodi Magness will talk about “Ossuaries and the Burial of Jesus and James” at 7 p.m. in the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.

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Pi Kappa Alpha will have a crawfish boil to raise money for lupus at 6 p.m. at the Pi Kappa Alpha residence. Donations will be received by Oklahoma Medical Research

An OU alumnus now with International Justice Mission will speak on current issues and how to stop them at 8:30 p.m. in the Adams-Tarman basement.

The following is a list of arrests and citations, not convictions. The information given is compiled from the Norman and OU Police Departments. At times, the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Department and the Oklahoma City FBI will contribute to these reports. All those listed are innocent until proven guilty.

PUBLIC INTOXICATION David Casey Bailey, 28, South Porter Avenue, Sunday, also unlawful use of a driver’s license Chance Lee Godwin, 23, South Porter Avenue, Sunday BARKING DOG Nicholas John Brown, 21, 426 Barbour Ave., Sunday

DISTURBING THE PEACE Lynda Ellen Snake, 51, 1350 Creekside Drive, Monday DOMESTIC ABUSE Victor Savage, 70, 2608 Smalley Circle, Monday ASSAULT AND BATTERY Nakia Anna McGregor, 26, South Porter Avenue, Sunday POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA Andrew Barry Lime, 23, 2300 W. SH9 Highway, Sunday AGGRAVATED DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Donald Ted Hopper, 47, Sunrise Street, Monday, also transporting an open container

DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Marvin Q. Browning, 52, Classen Boulevard, Sunday COUNTY WARRANT Michelle Lee Greenfield, 34, 2116 W. Brooks St., Monday Allan Tyler Sykes, 21, 132 W. Hayes St., Monday MUNICIPAL WARRANT Terrence Joseph Handrigan, 55, 201 W. Gray St., Monday Christina Elizabeth Gomez, 25, 201 W. Gray St., Monday Melinda Kay Duran, 36, Moore Municipal Court, Monday

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Plastic dolls make unhealthy idols A philosophical challenge to justification Just after swiping your way into the Huston Huffman Center, you’ll see a giant woman with breasts that seem larger than her 18-inch waist. The mannequin has the dimensions of a life-sized Barbie doll, decked in a lovely pink jacket and feet. This mannequin exemplifies many of the negative connotations that come from the objectification of women.

Barbie, in this instance, is a warning. Don’t try to look like her. It’s not healthy and is a “serious emotional and physical problem that can have life-threatening consequences for females and males,” according to the National Eating Disorders Association.

This is an attempt to raise awareness for women with eating disorders, complete with information on what to look for and where to get help (OU Health Services 405-325-2911 and Women’s Outreach Center 405-325-4929).

However, this fails to look at both sides of the spectrum, because men are not represented. Men also are subjected to stereotypes and can suffer from eating and exercise disorders. Men do not need to look like Ken, a monster of muscles and objectification only surpassed in superficiality by his wondrously dim girlfriend.

We would like some awareness raised about men’s objectification as well.

Do not try to look like plastic dolls.

But not only is it a risk, it also is a mental illness, one of the few potentially fatal mental illnesses.

It’s unhealthy to strive to look like Barbie or any other objectified image of a man or woman. Selfinduced vomiting, skipping meals and excessive exercising are unhealthy and could potentially be fatal.

We hope all who read this will be good friends and keep an eye out for warning signs of an eating disorder and will help their friends in seeking treatment.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR I am both stunned and disappointed by The Daily’s complete avoidance of a devastating national news story centered right here in Norman.

Keith Kimmel, a gay rights activist who was recently in the news for suing the Oklahoma Tax Commission after being refused a novelty license plate which stated “I’M GAY,” was found dead in Norman on Wednesday morning, only a few days after having allegedly been a victim of police brutality outside of a gay bar in Tulsa. Kimmel had filed a formal complaint against the Tulsa Police, accusing them of having verbally harassed him for his weight and sexual orientation during the

acts of physical violence which resulted in his being taken to an emergency room on Saturday morning. With so many important issues at hand in a single local news story, The Daily’s failure to bring this to the attention of the student body is an outrageous oversight which seems to be indicative of the overall journalistic quality of the paper.

Daniel Helm Arts and Sciences Senior

STAFF COLUMN

In his Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, Thomas Taylor the Platonist, following Wollstonecraft’s famous works, admirably demonstrated the equal rights of animals as long ago as 1792, and still many disregard his blinding insight. It is therefore with the greatest trepidation that I follow his word at the end of that worthy model, and attempt to show the world the rights of all things, banishing at last all of the oppressive, Medieval notions of hierarchy and precedence.

For what is it, really, that makes us all special and unites us? Is it our reason? If so, define it and prove its existence in a way that everyone will agree on. The senses and locomotion? Tell me what is so special about them, or you are simply a chauvinist, trying to put your own qualities above those of others. Life? GERARD Another arrogant assertion; conduct an experiment KEISER or take a measurement showing that life is better than nonlife. No, the fundamental thing, the universalizing principle, the transcendent force, is being itself.

It is the most wonderful thing in our world: Existence. It places actual objects into reality, it hurls us into a vortex of things and places, it takes nothing and from it makes something — and that something is beautiful.

Where would we be without it?

So, how can we deny existence to anything? How can we be so presumptuous as to make ourselves judges of what deserves to exist and what does not, flinging innocent, inanimate objects that never hurt anyone into the dark, never-ending void of nonbeing? So what if it doesn’t feel it? So what if it doesn’t know? Does that mean you can just go around stealing things from babies as long as they never notice?

And perhaps you want to be an atomist, denying you are really destroying anything, but instead simply altering the relations between subatomic particles. In that case, killing babies is simply altering the relations between subatomic particles, and your argument got you nowhere, unless you can show how babies have more special subatomic relations than other things.

Do you want to contest this on pragmatic grounds, whining about how hard it will be for poor you to stay alive without brutally destroying thriving swarms of plants, microbes, skin cells and oxygen molecules? That is like saying it would be fine to eat babies if you had nothing else. Your petty, self-absorbed needs do not change the morality of actions.

Do you notice how other things are always cruelly destroying each other, and think that gives you the right to do the same thing? Of course, just the same way you can murder babies if other people are doing it. You can use your reason to discover what is right and pursue it, and not simply follow everything else in their ignorant evils.

This will be an unpopular thesis. Many will simply laugh at it. But, more than two centuries later, Thomas Taylor, whose book was sadly mistaken for satire in his own day, is every day gaining more followers to his enlightened vision of justice and equality. And so I have hope, while it could take centuries, we may someday conquer our blind selfishness and come to an all-inclusive vision of universal harmony, a new era of peace and love for all things that exist, no matter where they are on the chain of being, whether they be rational or irrational, sensible or insensible, life or nonlife, actualities or potentialities, concrete or abstract, active or passive, leavened or unleavened, or whatever artificial, constrictive labels you want to stick to things.

Let us forget our differences, and be.

Gerard Keiser is a classical languages sophomore.

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A Team of Rivals should be a part of your life In honor of the announcement that Doris he did. I’ve often said the most important Kearns Goodwin will give the keynote ad- thing a president can do is create a good staff. dress at this year’s commencement, I thought These people were brilliant, cared about the country and were the ones supplyit necessary to discuss something ing Lincoln with much of his inforvery relevant to this university’s stumation. It was because they all had dent body — a very important lesa common goal, that being the best son we can all learn from Abraham interests of America, but viewed the Lincoln and Goodwin’s most recent world through educated, but differbook, “Team of Rivals: The Political ent, political spectrums. This gave Genius of Abraham Lincoln.”

Lincoln the ability to make very Lincoln ran on the Republican balimportant decisions correctly and lot in 1860 and won the party’s nomiaccomplish so much. nation — beating out three other JORDAN This lesson must be understood Republicans. All of them resented ROGERS by every person on our campus.

Lincoln to some degree, but what did Our state is struggling, our country our 16th president do when assembling a cabinet? He appointed each of those is struggling, our education, our community Republicans, along with three Democrats, to and our children, struggling. Why? We don’t understand how important it is for us to be his team. A team of rivals was born.

Why would Lincoln appoint his enemies educated and constantly surrounded with from both sides of the political spectrum to people who think differently. If we want to his staff — people who work with him every accomplish anything of significance, from day and advise him constantly? Lincoln was political reform to personal enlightenment, we can only do so by assembling a team of brilliant and knew how to lead.

As John C. Maxwell, author of “The 21 rivals.

It reminds me of a comic I saw years ago.

Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” writes, “good leaders know that one secret to success is to The comic was one panel and showed two staff their weaknesses ... but it’s crucial to rec- elephants — one father, one son. The father ognize that people who are different will not was saying to the son, “Yes son, we’re republicans.” That comic, so simplistic, displays an be naturally attracted to you.”

Maxwell also writes, “every leader’s po- incredibly powerful message that is imperatential is determined by the people closest tive we understand.

We grow up in Christian, right-wing to him.” We see this every day. We factionalize into groups who think like us, act like us, Oklahoma, and what are we? Generally, and are like us. We constantly undermine our Christian and right-wing.

All of us would like to think we are so free potential to be great because of whom we and individualistic, but the fact of the matter choose to associate with: Ourselves.

Without his staff, it is certain Lincoln is our beliefs are directly tied to those of our would not have achieved the level of success parents and communities. And those beliefs

are constantly being reinforced by the one side. Republicans watch Fox News because they already know they don’t agree with leftwing media. They hang out with Republicans, read Republican books and papers, and all this gives them the certain knowledge that health care reform and so many other issues are bad.

Oklahoma is steadfastly Republican because there is no other side being prominently voiced in our state, not because conservatism is correct.

But we cannot, absolutely cannot, feel confident in our opinions, and definitely feel comfortable vocalizing them, until we understand the other position. We must listen to the voice of dissent — it might be right. No matter how convinced or passionate you are of a position, it is impossible to know you are right without spending an immense amount of time studying other positions. People who think and believe differently will challenge you to think about things in a new way, and if you legitimately listen, they’ll force you to reflect on your opinions.

This argument is not confined to religion and politics, but that is where it might be most important. It has broken my heart to see Christianity torn down to something that symbolizes closed-mindedness and stupidity. Most of us are Christian because America is and not because we are passionate about the religion itself. Many of us who are passionate don’t read or think about what it means to be Christian, but merely join the ranks with the leaders of this country — leaders who don’t know what it means to be Christian either.

I’ve talked to people who are afraid of

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reading about evolution because it might make them atheist. Others argue how stupid it is to think we came from monkeys, and after a bit, you realize they have no real understanding of the theory itself. They never took the time to read the other position because they already knew they didn’t believe it and walked away looking like a loud-mouthed moron. This is important. These are the same people banning Thomas Jefferson from public schools — they have power.

From a Christian perspective, the one thing God thought worth giving us, though it meant the certain damnation of an entire people, was the ability to think. Why are we so afraid of using our brains, of exploring the world, of investigating issues? Is it too hard?

Are we too afraid we might, heaven forbid, change? And for the better, perhaps? This factionalized ignorance has gone on too long, and it’s starting to cost us too much.

It is only by deliberately associating ourselves with people who think differently that we start to break free from the chains of a mindless society. We need to start being like Lincoln. We can be a people who understand both sides of issues and, with knowledge as our rudder and free-thinking as our sail, make good decisions and change the world.

What’s more, some day, if you take that path, you will wake up, breathe deeply and realize you are free. You are an individual. It comes with work. It comes with education. It comes with a team of rivals.

Jordan Rogers is an industrial engineering senior.

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Sophomore third baseman Garrett Buechele hits the winning solo homerun against South Florida Saturday afternoon. The No. 17 Sooners swept the Sooner Classic tournament, finishing 4-0.

Sooner baseball team breaks losing streak in win over TCU OU recovers from being swept at home against Texas MJ CASIANO Daily Staff Writer

After a weekend of three-straight home losses to No. 7 Texas in which OU was outscored 16-3, the team performed at its highest, beating No. 11 TCU by a score of 4-2 on Tuesday night in Fort Worth, Texas.

OU (23-6 overall, 3-4 Big 12) never saw a deficit against the Horned Frogs, and junior second baseman and leadoff hitter Danny Black's RBI in the ninth sealed the win.

The team collected 11 hits, all of which were distributed pretty evenly. Sophomore third baseman Garrett Buechele, sophomore right fielder Cody Reine and junior left fielder Casey Johnson led the team with two hits a piece.

The team did record two errors, one of which was by sophomore shortstop Caleb Bushyhead who also struck out twice.

Senior pitcher Jeremy Erban earned the win from his 7.2-inning, six-hit, one-earned run, and nine-strike out performance. Erben has an outstanding 5-0 record and a 0.73 ERA this season.

Junior closer Ryan Duke earned his ninth save Tuesday, giving up two hits and zero earned runs in 1.1 innings of work.

TCU had a a few players that recorded two-hits Tuesday, including junior second baseman Jerome Pena, sophomore left fielder Jason Coats and Featherston.

Sophomore center fielder Brance Rivera had a sour night, striking out three times.

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Just look at OU’s major teams’ seasons for example.

The football team, after making a national championship appearance during the 2008 season, was unable to withstand a barrage of injuries to key players in 2009 and finished the season in the Sun Bowl.

The men’s basketball team backed up its Elite Eight run in 2009 by missing the post season entirely in 2010 after playSTEVEN ing without National Player of the Year Blake Griffin, who left JONES for the NBA and pre-season AllAmerican Willie Warren, who missed half the season due to injury.

Then there is the women’s basketball team, who finished last season in the Final Four, lost the Paris twins to graduation and the 2009 Big 12 freshman of the Year Whitney Hand to injury and ended the season … well, they turned out OK, actually.

It is interesting that the women’s basketball team, who dealt with just as much adversity as other Sooner squads, was able to make it back to the Final Four this year.

The answer to the team’s success may have been revealed the post-game press conference following OU’s loss to Stanford on Sunday night.

While the Sooners exceeded most everyone’s expectations this season, they did not talk about their success after the game, but rather discussed the disappointment of not getting a chance to play for a national championship.

This team really believed it could be

Stanford, who many thought was women’s basketball clear-cut second-best team in the country. Even when the Sooners were down by 18 in the second half against the Cardinal, they expected to win.

The way the players spoke after the game, they sounded like they honestly thought they would have had a chance at taking down unbeatable Connecticut, too, if they had gotten past Stanford.

It is cliché, but it has to be that belief and that confidence in teammates that took OU so far this season. No one had high expectations for this year’s women except for the women themselves. When they faced adversity, though, that confidence is what was able to push them through.

When the football team faced adversity this year, it consistently came up a few points short of victory. When the men’s basketball team was not living up to expectations, it crumbled.

But when the women were up against the wall this season, they continually found ways to win. Their success speaks to how important team camaraderie can be.

Players can have abundant confidence in themselves, but until they trust their teammates, success is hard to find.

That is what women’s head coach Sherri Coale has consistently created in Norman, regardless of her players. Media and fans were unsure what to expect in the post-Paris era, but the Sooners have shown while parts may change, the results do not.

Coale continually puts together teams of talented players who honestly believe not just in themselves, but in their team.

And that may just be the elusive secret to consistent success in college athletics.

Steven Jones is a language arts education senior.

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Dani Dobbs (21), prepares to swing at the ball during the women’s softball game against North Texas on March 10 at the OU Softball Complex. OU is 29-8 on the season, and 3-1 in conference play.

Sooners turn attention toward Bedlam TOBI NEIDY Daily Staff Writer

The Sooners are lead on offense by Flores. During the series against Iowa State, Flores hit her 49th and 50th home runs to clinch the OU career home-run record. The record The No. 11 OU softball team continues Big 12 confer- set at 48 was previously held by Samantha Ricketts, a former ence play on the road with a Bedlam rematch against No. 12 teammate of Flores. Flores’ success on base has also moved Oklahoma State at 7 p.m. today in Stillwater. The Sooners are her to the lead off position in the batting lineup, after leading coming off of a two-game sweep over the Iowa State Cyclones the team in on-base percentage (.565), including drawing 23 in Ames, Iowa. walks and 15 hits by pitch.

The Sooners (29-8, 3-1) and the Cowgirls (32-7, 4-0) met “To be honest it really wasn’t on my mind,” Flores said earlier this season during The Preview, featuring Bedlam about breaking the record. “It was good to go out and hit the at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium. During the first match-up, ball hard, but it was really an honor to do it and a humbling OSU starting pitcher Anna Whiddon experience.” delivered a one-hit game in the 1-0 On the mound, the Sooners continue defeat of the Sooners. The Bedlam “Every game is special as a to be led by left-handed pitcher Keilani opponents come into today’s game senior and you’ve got to take Ricketts. The freshman is 18-7 for the ranked No. 11(Sooners) and No. 12 advantage of all the memories.” season with a 1.44 earned run average (Cowgirls) in the national polls, with and 176 strikeouts. Ricketts needs just the Cowgirls tied for the lead in the Big five more strikeouts to begin the climb 12 conference with a 4-0 record. OU’s AMBER FLORES, SENIOR INFIELDER up the single season records list for the only loss was to Missouri on March 27 Sooners. With 15 complete games and in Norman. Going into tomorrow’s seven shutouts, Ricketts also leads the re-match, senior second baseman OU pitching staff in holding opposite Amber Flores said the team is prepared for the sold out crowd teams to a .157 batting average. in Stillwater.

“Every game is special as a senior and you’ve got to take “It’s such a great atmosphere in Stillwater,” Flores said. advantage of all the memories,” Flores said about today’s “We weren’t prepared for the first game (against OSU), but game. “This game is more meaningful for our Oklahoma it’s always great to go and get a second chance against a team players because they grew up around it, but having been from that’s beaten you.“ California, I still understand how important the rivalry is to The all-time Bedlam series is tied at 67 wins for both teams. the team.”

OU is 38-10 against the Bedlam rivals under head coach Patty The Sooners continue conference play against Texas Gasso, and is currently on a six-straight conference-series win A&M this weekend at 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon in College streak. The March 6 win over the Sooners was the first win for Station.

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Sooners hope to wrangle Cowboys again DANIELLE ALVA Daily Staff Writer

The No. 19 OU men’s tennis team will attempt to get its first conference road victory when it faces Oklahoma State on Wednesday in Stillwater.

After six days of rest, the Sooners (13-4, 0-2 Big 12) will face the No. 49 Cowboys. OU is coming off a win against Tulsa last week.

Junior Ionut Beleleu said he knows his team is up for a challenge, and they will be up against a tough crowd.

“This game is going to be a tough

one,” Beleleu said. “In Stillwater it’s always loud and a lot of fans come out to support them. I think we have prepared well for this, and will come out with a win.”

The Sooners have already defeated Oklahoma State, 4-3, earlier this season. It was the first time OU had beaten OSU in more than 15 years. Beleleu said the team hopes they can claim the second win on Wednesday in Stillwater.

“The pressure is on,” Beleleu said.

“The first time we beat them I think a lot of people thought it was luck. We need to win to prove that we are better.”

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Beleleu has played a key role for the Sooners this season. He has dominated in doubles with his partner, David Pultr, and prevailed in singles play as well.

In the last encounter with the Cowboys, Beleleu clenched the win for OU by defeating OSU’s Anton Bobytski.

“This match has many advantages in that we already know how each other plays,” Beleleu said. “We have worked really hard in practice and are ready to win.”

The match is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Stillwater, Okla.

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Queer perspective focus of month-long event April film series hopes to open eyes to new points of view, host says

homosexual experience, as well as looking for films that were both produced by queers and that had been well-received within the LUNDEN ENGLAND queer community,” Davis said.

Daily Staff Writer Tonight’s feature, “Show Me Love,” directed by Lukas Moodysson and released Affording the OU community the op- in 1998, relates the story of Elin and Agnes, portunity to experience a genre oftentimes two seemingly different teenage girls in overlooked in favor of more mainstream Sweden who find themselves drawn to one cinema, “Queer Films in another through their budApril” will see the start of ding sexualities.

QUEER FILMS IN APRIL its month-long run at 8 “Queer Films in April” tonight with a screening may be seen as a positive reWhat: “Show Me Love” of the Swedish film “Show flection of the department’s - 8 tonight Me Love.” recent transformation.

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“Show Me Love” - 8 p.m. April 28 include the screening of a of the department’s student screens at 8 tonight and is the first of four screenings for the “Queer Films in April” film series. queer film at 8 p.m. each association. “The departWhere: Robertson Hall, room 101 Wednesday this month in ment recently switched Bitty Titty Committee” and “Brother to while the queer experience is unique to the Women’s and Gender over from Women’s Studies Brother,” respectively. being queer, it touches on their own experiStudies Library, Robertson Hall, room 101. to Women’s and Gender Studies this year, Light discussion, although optional, will ences in many ways: when it comes to idenThe event’s four featured films, Davis and part of that is that we need to encom- follow each of the four film screenings. tity, when it comes to love, when it comes to said, were chosen by reading reviews of pass a wider variety of issues, especially Davis said he wants the event to serve as ways of being the world,” Davis said. queer films and looking for a good mix of those concerning queer individuals.” a way to break down many of the stereoDavis said he hopes people will underinternational and national queer films.

The event, which is free for all attend- types that surround queer culture. stand the importance of queer films. “(We searched for) a good mix of films ees, will continue April 14, 21 and 28 with “I hope that the audience would come “The stories that queers have to tell are that represent both the male and female screenings of the films “Bear Cub,” “Itty away from this event with the feeling that, very important and very powerful,” he said.

Norman Music Festival lineup nears completion JOSHUA BOYDSTON Daily Staff Writer

Several of the remaining stage lineups were released this week, leaving only the Saturday night ACM and comedy showcases at Red Room unannounced.

The full lineups for The Dreamer Concepts Stage, Sonder Music Stage and Michelangelo’s Coffee & Wine Bar Stage were released with names including Camille Harp, Ivan Peña Trio and Tiger Blood among the list of bands.

Saturday night at The Dreamer Concepts Stage will include a performance by four musicians of the Oklahoma Electronic Music Consortium, as well as a singer-songwriter showcase and slam

poetry exhibition, while Sunday favors the normal band and singer setup.

Sonder Music Stage will play host to several jazz acts, including Off Boyd Jazz, on Saturday night only.

Michelangelo’s Stage will showcase singersongwriters both days.

Love Collector and White Girls were added to The Guestroom Records Stage as well.

Also, a fundraising show for Norman Music Festival will be held at 9 p.m. Saturday at Opolis, 113 N. Crawford Ave. Tickets for the show are $7 and 8 Bit Cynics, Copperheads and Bradley Fielder will perform.

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School has been unconventional but rewarding for Jared Flaming and his path toward identity MATT CARNEY Daily Staff Writer

Jared Flaming’s hairstyle settles somewhere in the rarely-tread follicular void between the rat-tail and mullet. His odd manner of dress — the hooded sweater lacks sleeves but boasts what appears to be a homemade patch proclaiming his love for bicycles — appreciation for noisy, unconventional bands like the obscure Lightning Bolt, Hella and Mogwai, and studio art major all qualify him as a representative of an alternative culture. His path to a degree has been correspondingly alternative, though that’s not to say that’s for the worse or better. Just different, and necessary he says, for his development as an artist and as a person.

“A large part of my undergraduate career was really confusing, really struggling and frustrating,” the fifthyear senior said of his college experience, which began with a year at Tulsa Community College before he enrolled at OU. “I had to shake things up a couple times.”

Also included in his tenure were six months spent studying abroad in Reykjavík, Iceland and a year off.

But that’s not to fault the university’s school of art, quite the opposite Flaming insists. When asked about the university’s attitude toward his sub-cultural artistic leanings, he praises his professors as invaluable and formative.

“I wouldn’t be going off to grad school or making the caliber of work I am making now if it weren’t for the [art] school,” Flaming said.

But what about conventional expectations?

“I’ve been more interested in street art and guerilla style tactics,” he said before gesturing to a professor’s woodcut hanging immediately above his head on the wall at Gray Owl Coffee, next to one of his own paintings.

“I have the coolest, smartest professors I could ask for, and my professors never hesitated in supporting what I’m interested in doing.”

Flaming’s interests and existence within the youth sub-culture manifests within his art, particularly in his handiest medium, printmaking. Here his work blends the surrounding culture with an element of tribalism, wherein wolves and ceremonial feathers accompany skateboarders, drummers and headphone-wearers. He says that printmaking, one of the world’s oldest artistic forms, allows him a lot of freedom to exhibit his work publicly and creatively by adding texture and depth to art that would otherwise remain part of a canvas.

Sometimes even the canvas gets enveloped into the message, as when Flaming printed a pattern and drawing on a skate ramp for a school project.

When asked about his creative process, Flaming admits to initial uncertainty. “It’s intuitive … it’s doing things and creating things before you understand it,” he said. “It’s a physical understanding before it’s a

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Jared Flaming, a studio art senior, stands by his artwork on Tuesday afternoon in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.

cognitive, literal process.”

As a young producer of sub-culture and alternative culture, Flaming has an excellent perspective on mass culture, able to pick through and choose what he values and enjoys.

“I see culture as this beast, it’s own entity,” Flaming said. “I have faith in the workings of mass culture and counter culture/sub-cultures, because they’re interwoven within each other.”

He cited the punk movement of the late 1970s that eventually developed into the highly-marketable Blink-182type bands many grew up on, and expresses his admiration for individualist musicians like Lady Gaga and Jay-Z. Flaming said he doesn’t have any exhibitions or shows planned for the immediate future because he’s concerned with graduating and his final senior show before he moves to Lawrence, Kan. to attend the University of Kansas’ graduate school for art. It’s just one more stop on a road that’s wound around through many and unexpected places.

“There’s no one path, no pre-prescribed method of becoming [what you want to be],” he said, offering advice to younger students. “You’ve got to figure out what’s best for you.”

A local skates on a ramp overlayed with one of Flaming’s prints.

LOLLAPALOOZA LINEUP ANNOUNCED After weeks of rumors, the Lollapalooza 2010 lineup has finally been revealed — and Lady Gaga will be among dozens of other acts performing at the Grant Park festival in August.

As expected, Gaga, Green Day, Soundgarden, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Yeasayer, Hot Chip and The xx are all slated to perform, but as Time Out Chicago pointed out, some surprises within the lineup (Erykah Badu, Jimmy Cliff and gospel legend Mavis Staples) makes the event the “most soulful Lolla yet.”

Some other exciting additions? Social Distortion, The New Pornographers, the Black Keys, AFI and many more.

Check out the full lineup at lollapalooza.com.

Lollapalooza is August 6 to 8 at Grant Park in Chicago.

Cost of wristbands for the festival start at $215.

-AP

Check out tomorrow’s paper for previews for a pair of campus concerts happening this weekend.

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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

S.H.I.E.L.D #1

Ok, it’s hard for me to hide the excitement I felt when I heard that Jonathan Hickman’s “S.H.I.E.L.D” book was not coming out during the summer, but this week. To say I had a nerdgasm is an understatement.

Let’s just say I had a nosebleed and promised to name my first-born child Jonathan “Hickman is My Messiah” Aken’Ova. So, Hickman might not really be my messiah but he is by far the most OSI promising comic book AKEN’OVA writer out today, surpassing his peers with each series he writes. Hence the man crush.

In true Hickman form, he takes on the history of S.H.I.E.L.D, showing us how key historical figures like Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton helped mould the greatest government agency on the planet.

Hickman is at home when it comes to history; his confidence in his research is apparent as he takes calculated risk with characters and story elements that are set in stone.

In “Pax Romana”, he rewrote history starting from the reign of Constantine in Rome onwards, while in “The Nightly News” he used actual facts about the news media to expose the hypocritical and profit-based nature of it’s current incarnation.

Everything Hickman touches turns to gold and you must be crazy if you don’t want to get in on this action. If you still aren’t sold, you at least have to read “The Nightly News.”

INVINCIBLE RETURNS #1

Yay! Today Invincible returns to his original yellow and blue costume today and I must say, I couldn’t care less — not about the book, but the costume change. This issue is meant to bring new readers up to date with what’s going on in Mark Grayson’s (Invincible) hectic life just before the Viltrumite War begins, sort of like the calm before the storm.

For new readers out there, this is a blessing; they don’t have to shift through 50 plus issues of Invincible right before the biggest event in the comic’s history. While us old readers have to deal with a trite story about a silly costume change. Sigh.

Well we can take comfort in the four amazing variant covers by different artists, and one of them is by the consistently wonderful Darwyn Cooke (Justice League: New Frontier). Buy it if you’re a new reader looking for an easy way in or just have to get your mitts on anything with Invincible slapped on it.

Sadly, I fall into the latter category. Double sigh. I wish I wasn’t such a materialistic hussy.

A FEW TRACKS

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LOOKING TO MAKE A SPLASH THIS SUMMER

Spring breezes and warm weather have finally returned, and as we turn off our apartment heaters and turn on the AC, it seems like summer is just around the corner. And with summer comes the big summer music hit. That one perfect summer song can make an artist’s career, just as it did for M.I.A. with “Paper Planes” and Phoenix with “1901.”

And with singles for upcoming summer albums starting to leak out to the public, so comes the time to predict 2010’s breakout summer star.

There’s a host of artists — from seemingly every genre — poised to have their single be the newest summer soundtrack, but here’s a few of the most likely candidates.

JANELLE MONÁE - “TIGHTROPE”

The frontrunner for the slot seems to fall with the awesomely dressed, equally amazingly coifed Monáe. “Tightrope” takes the sort of soulful stylings of Amy Winehouse — toning down the drug use — and throwing that over a tribal, bouncy percussion roll. It’s the sort of “just got to dance” track that will have everyone across the country shuffling their feet and nodding their heads in no time.

Add in an established artist cameo (Big Boi of Outkast), and you’ve got the perfect formula for a summer smash. And with her album, “The ArchAndroid,” coming out in early May, all the momentum seems to lay with Monáe.

THE DRUMS - “LET’S GO SURFING”

What’s more summery than surfing? Not much, and there’s no false advertising with The Drums’ first single, “Let’s Go Surfing.”

It’s definitely of the simple sort, but nothing’s wrong with dumbing it down a little, especially when those elementary elements add up to a crazy catchy track.

The Drums play straightigh ghtforward guitar pop p with slight alternative leanings; a sort ortt of Beach Boys of tthee new millennium niium (strong ... I know). now ow). ).

And it may be a bit subversive to really catch on, but people who have gave it a listen know just how addicting this watery burst can be. Its debut coming out sometime this summer should only help.

NEON INDIAN - “DEADBEAT SUMMER”

Points go to Neon Indian for keeping things literal. The Austin product’s “Nintendo loops meet ’70s disco beat” were the talk of the town in the fall when his debut, “Psychic Chasms,” was released. No single ever quite took off, but M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” had been out almost a year before it launched.

With its loose, “terminally chill” vibe, don’t be surprised if “Deadbeat Summer” makes its way pool side

TOKYO POLICE CLUB- “BREAKNECK SPEED”

The band was one of 2007’s hottest offerings. The ‘Club never quite hit capacity, but three years later it might just find that huge crowd.

It’s a longshot, but “Breakneck Speed” has certainly hooked its claws into Tokyo Police Club devotees already. Full of oohs and shimmering guitar riffs, the track is a perfect fit for blazing cross country drives and car ride choruses.

It’ss would be a long time coming, but It “Breakneck Breakneck Speed” might jerk the band into the he mainstream.

-Joshua Joshua Boydston, psychology junior.

Osi Aken’Ova is a film and video studies and communcation senior.

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