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LOCAL JACK IN THE BOX STORE TO OPEN MONDAY A fast-food chain with more than 2,100 restaurants will open its first Norman location Monday.

Jack in the Box, 12th Avenue Northeast and Main Street, will be the first location in the Oklahoma City metro, said Brian Luscomb, company spokesman.

There will be a pre-opening event 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday that will include free food samples and a look at the new restaurant, he said.

“It should be a busy day for us ... and one we’ve been looking forward to for a very long time,” Luscomb said by e-mail.

In addition to the new Norman store, the San Diegobased company has two active Oklahoma locations — one in Ada and another in Ardmore — and is building three Oklahoma City-area restaurants, according to its website.

Topics will include possible tuition, fee increases for 2010-2011 school year RICKY MARANON Assignment Editor

OU President David Boren will host a forum Wednesday afternoon to hear students’ thoughts on a potential tuition spike.

The discussion will focus on OU’s budget and possible scenarios related to tuition and fees for the next school year.

The forum will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. in Beaird Lounge of the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Universities nationwide have planned tuition increases, and students have taken part in large protests, but there has been no word yet on what will happen at OU’s campuses.

At the University of Texas, a 5.4-percent hike in tuition and fees was approved by regents in March, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

The Oklahoma Legislature cut the state’s higher education budget by 3.5 percent in February to compensate for a revenue shortfall, according to NewsOK.com.

Boren said he will try to keep tuition and fee increases to a minimum as the budget for the next year is being determined.

In February, Boren said he expected more cuts from lawmakers.

“Looking forward, it appears that the budget agreement will require additional cuts in our budget of 5 to 10 percent for the budget year that begins on July 1, 2010,” Boren said. “We are hoping to keep tuition and fee adjustments as low as possible for next year, and holding budget cuts to the lower end of that spectrum would be very

—Daily Staff Reports

WAR MEMORIAL REPLICA TO MAKE NORMAN STOP

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John Calvin Abney, anthropology sophomore, plays guitar Monday evening at Cafe Plaid for the benefit of Bike & Build, an organization that raises money for affordable housing while cycling across the nation. Bike & Build has donated more than $2.3 million and dedicated 63,500 hours to the cause.

To cycle across the nation, each rider must raise at least $4,000 dollars. This money is used to fund awareness events and projects such as building houses. For more information, visit bikeandbuild.org.

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OUPD, librarians urge safety when studying late Using Safewalk, keeping belongings close are among recommendations for students out at night CASEY WILSON Daily Staff Writer

University police and Bizzell Memorial Library librarians urge students to use safe practices to keep from being a victim of a crime while studying late at night for the next few weeks.

Between midnight and 7:30 a.m. during finals week, all people entering the library will need to show a valid OU ID before entering, which will ensure only OU students, faculty and staff are in the library, said Sarah Robbins, libraries spokeswoman.

“An OUPD officer is in the building from midnight to 7 a.m. and makes regular rounds of the building,” Robbins said.

The library also promotes the OUPD’s

Safewalk program for those leaving the library alone at late hours, she said.

The OU Safewalk program is a service students, faculty, staff and visitors can use free of charge. People who do not want to walk alone can call 405-325-9255, and an escort will arrive in 10 to 15 minutes to escort a person to his or her campus destination, according to the OUPD website.

Additionally, students should remember they should never leave personal property unattended, not even for a few minutes, said Lt. Bruce Chan, OUPD spokesman.

“It is useful to study with a partner from a security standpoint in order to be able to leave books, backpacks, laptop computers and other valuable items with a trusted friend when getting up to go to the restroom or to get a snack,” Chan said.

Otherwise, he said, a person should take all valuable items with them.

“If students see anything suspicious while

they are in the library, I would encourage them to report it to someone who works in the library so security can be alerted,” Robbins said.

While studying the week before finals, Taylor Burgess, University College freshman, said she does not leave the library until 3 a.m.

“I can’t study in the dorm,” she said. “It’s hard for me.”

For late-night studying, Burgess said she usually travels with a group of people to be safe.

Shelbi Lewark, University College freshman, said she will sometimes study late at night for finals, but she said she usually studies the week before so she doesn’t have to study late.

Lewark said she also will walk with other people when out late.

“We never go out by ourselves,” she said.

The library will offer 24/7 access starting at 7:30 a.m. Friday until 9 p.m. May 14, Robbins said.

A replica of the Vietnam War Memorial will come to Norman this summer.

The Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall is a replica of the actual memorial permanently on display in Washington, D.C. The wall is three-fourths the size of the one in the capital and makes stops throughout the U.S. The wall will be in Norman from June 30 to July 4 at Reaves Park.

But before the memorial can be displayed in this area, residents and students have been asked to help with the displaying of the replica. Volunteers are needed in hospitality, ground site, safety and security, program and ceremony, and publicity and accounting.

Those who want to volunteer with the project are invited to a public meeting that will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Norman City Hall Council Chambers, 201 W. Gray St. Representatives from Dignity and from the Oklahoma National Guard will present details about the replica memorial and how citizens can volunteer to help with the event.

For more information, contact the Norman Parks and Recreation Department at 405366-5472.

—Daily Staff Reports

Road construction past deadline Poor weather delays work on Jenkins Avenue, spokesman says RICKY MARANON Assignment Editor

Despite an April 16 completion deadline, construction on Jenkins Avenue is still unfinished, leaving many OU students without a key route between the north and south ends of campus.

Inclement weather delayed construction on an underground maintenance tunnel and moving underground utilities took longer than expected, OU spokesman Jay Doyle said by e-mail. Jenkins Avenue has been closed since Feb. 15.

Doyle said the crew faced unexpected difficulties when public utilities

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Jenkins Avenue is expected to reopen before the fall semester begins, Doyle said.

In January, Doyle said the project would benefit multiple facilities on campus.

“Work will begin on a utility tunnel that will provide chilled water, steam and electricity for new buildings, including Devon Energy Hall, Gaylord Hall Phase II, Old Science Hall and the Student Academic Services Center,” Doyle said.

“In addition, a storm sewer serving the Lindsey Street area will be replaced.

Sections of Lindsey Street between George Street and Jenkins Avenue will be reduced to two lanes beginning Feb. 8. Two-way traffic will be maintained, but turning lanes will be closed.”

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Construction on Jenkins Avenue trudges on as cars are still forced to detour around the avenue. Work on the road has been delayed past its April 16 deadline, said university spokesman Jay Doyle.

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At times, the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Department and the Oklahoma City FBI will contribute to these reports.

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helpful.”

This year, the OU Board of Regents approved fee increases for some courses, particularly in aviation courses and courses at the OU Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, according to Daily archives.

The OU Regents also approved a fee of $13 per credit hour for students who start c l a s s e s a t O U ’s N o r m a n Campus or the College of Law in fall 2010. This fee is up from a similar fee of $10 per hour many students at OU already pay. Current students will not be affected by the increase.

Boren said in January he received about 300 proposals for fee increases from various OU colleges and departments, but did not present most of them to the regents.

“I just felt, given the general situation, for us to come in and raise 300 fees was just not the thing to do right now,” he said.

All students are invited to attend the forum, and no reservation is required.

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YOUNG PROPHETS READING The OU Young Prophets creative writing student group will host a reading of their original works at 7 p.m. in Ellison Hall.

CAMPUS CRUSADE Campus Crusade for Christ will take place at 9 p.m. in the Santee Lounge on the fifth floor of the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

CAREER SERVICES Career Services will host a Student Success Series about Nutrition and Health for Finals Week at 3 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 245.

IMPACT MOVEMENT The Impact Movement will host Bible study at 9 p.m. in the Adams Tower Tarman Basement.

DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Taylor Mikael Cook, 19, 300 W Boyd St., Saturday, also no insurance Rolando Flores, 26, 300 W. Boyd St., Sunday, also transporting an open container POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA Stephanie Diane Buchanan, 36, 1905 Twisted Oak Drive, Saturday, also possession of drug paraphernalia James Andrew Smith, 29,

1700 E. Lindsey St., Saturday Stephen Tony, 19, 340 First St., Sunday, also possession of drug paraphernalia Jay Riley Senor, 19, 340 First St., Sunday, also possession of drug paraphernalia POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA Jacob Ross Dvorak, 22, Iowa Street, Saturday John Samuel Siekierski, 20, Iowa Street, Saturday PUBLIC INTOXICATION Thomas David Horton, 48, 221 Chalmette Dr., Saturday Robert Leach, 19, Jenkins Avenue, Saturday Jennifer Lynn Long, 26, 2800 Chautauqua Ave., Sunday COUNTY WARRANT Michael Todd Renville, 27, 333 N. Interstate Dr., Sunday Shanna Walthall, 43, 1200 Oakhurst Ave., Sunday Donna Ranae Wright, 25, East Robinson Street, Sunday Richard Charles Wheeler, 38, 500 E. Lindsey St., Saturday

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“This Is Happening” 10.0/10.0 Key Tracks: “Drunk Girls,” “Home” A younger James Murphy feigned worry on the first track of the B-side to his band’s eponymous debut album, “LCD Soundsystem”. “I’m losing my edge to the Internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978,” he delivered in 2005, his deadpan sarcastic drone backed by electronic thudding and thumping, synths shimmying and splattering. Now 40, potbellied and more in love with music than even in his record-store-clerk days, Murphy’s recorded his allegedly final LCD album, “This Is Happening.”

After a handful of listens to the new record, it’s clear that Murphy doesn’t care anymore. He doesn’t care about recording hits or calling out scenesters or conjuring nostalgia for the simpler times before post-modernity infected dance music. He’s hit a rich, well-harnessed and devastatingly creative period of songwriting and he just wants everybody to hear about it. “You wanted a hit, but that’s not what we do” Murphy plainly says on the back end of the record.

A perfectly cyclical, complete recording, “This Is Happening” melds the debut’s irresistible dance grooves with the endearing sentiment of 2007’s “Sound of Silver.” There are moments when he succeeds at synthesizing “Someone Great” with “Yeah” in brilliant fashion. Unlike both previous records though, “Happening” avoids falling off any apexes because the whole thing is one long highlight. And if the last album rumors turn true, “Home,” with its whistling-synth rhythms and uptempo groove, is a graceful curtain-drawing on dance-punk’s most important act.

Pushing nine minutes, “Dance Yrself Clean” warbles and teeters along at the start, Murphy muttering about his terrible friends until one third of the way in when a massive blast of electro power let’s you know what you’re listening to. It segues into the raucous, and frankly hilarious “Drunk Girls”, one of the most polarizing songs in recent memory. It’s impossible not to giggle at lines like “drunk girls know that love is an astronaut/ it comes back but it’s never the same” or that they “wait an hour to pee.”

Party anthems have a new gold standard.

The dank Euro-trash of “One Touch” (recall that Murphy cofounded DFA —Death From Abroad — Records) transitions into the soul of the record where Murphy explores his feelings.

“All I Want,” “I Can Change” and “You Wanted a Hit” are lyrical bare-all, propelled by beautiful and omnivorous sounds.

Lyrically, funny-cause-it’s-true and you-know-what-it’s-likewhen songs are Murphy’s greatest strength and much like the

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meaty existential centerpiece of “Sound of Silver” (“Someone Great” and “All My Friends”), the latter take center stage by the fourth track of “This Is Happening.” Much like losing somebody you admired and missing your friends, “I Can Change” deals in the universal experience of altering your life to suit that of a lover.

“Never change, never change, never change, never change” he sings to her in one chorus, only to plead back later by echoing the song’s title.

It’s the universality of the songwriting that endears LCD Soundsystem to everybody from the New York-mediated dancing elite to Midwestern college students who don’t know The Rapture’s “House of Jealous Lovers” from Chromeo’s “Destination Overdrive.”

“This Is Happening” is dance-punk’s “London Calling,” an omnivorous, genre-bending record stuffed thick with observation and personal sentiment. Electronic interludes mix right in with a beautifully-toned guitar in “All I Want,” propelled along by snappy, clappy drum-kicks and rolls. It ends with Murphy digging into his core, “cause I just want what I want/ take me home” while background singers supply ooh-la-la-las amidst sonic madness.

After the ridiculous sonic virtuosity and funny disco-dance call and response on “Pow Pow,” “Somebody’s Calling Me” is the only meh-worthy song on the record (it’s literally about his girl texting him), but things wrap up beautifully with “Home.” “Grab your things and stumble into the night,” Murphy says, inviting us to join him to examine the necessity and beauty of a good night out. The high-hat snaps and synths whistle as he beckons to “break the rules like nothing will last.” It’s like somebody transported 1975 Bruce Springsteen to the future so he could record “Born to Run” with a bunch of computers.

Electronic music has never sounded as intimate as “This Is Happening.” Lyrical bare-all plus computer wizardry times the apex of self-awareness equals what’s likely Murphy’s final album under the LCD moniker, a brilliant send-off to fans of dance music and the culture surrounding it.

-Matt Carney, professional writing junior

B.O.B.

“B.o.B. Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray” 8.0/10 Key Tracks: “Past My Shades,” “Nothin’ on You” “B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray,” a 12-track effort, is an impressive and versatile debut from the Atlanta rapper B.o.B., who matches smooth flow with excellent rhyming, and even sings a hook here and there, too.

He was able to gather quite an interesting collective of guests for the album, including Lupe Fiasco, Eminem, Hayley Williams (Paramore), Rivers Cuomo (Weezer), Janelle Monáe, T.I., Playboy Tre, Ricco Barrino and Bruno Mars.

The versatility of the album is shown by the above list of featured guests, and the songs on the album blend a large collection of genres.

There are the more club-ready, upbeat songs like “Bet I,” which features T.I. and Playboy Tre, and his first single “Nothin’ on You,” which features Mars.

Then there are the slower, more issue-driven efforts like “Airplanes,” featuring Williams, and “Kids,” which featuring Monáe. The latter features a chorus excellently adapted from Vampire Weekend’s song “The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance.”

It’s clear that B.o.B doesn’t want to be lumped with any particular genre, and especially not mainstream rap.

Probably the best song is “Past My Shades,” a stellar collaboration featuring Fiasco. The song features an excellent beat, great verses from both rappers, and a hook sung by B.o.B. The duo, both Atlantic Records and tour mates, have obvious chemistry on the track.

Perhaps the biggest knock against the album is it’s short length, as it would’ve been nice to hear a couple more tracks.

However, the album is a great way for the young rapper to get his career going, and if he continues to let his talent show he certainly will be around for a while.

President David Boren

Invites All Students

To an open discussion of the University’s budget, including possible scenarios related to tuition and fees for the next school year.

2 to 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 5 Beaird Lounge Oklahoma Memorial Union For accommodations on the basis of disability, please call the Office of Special Events at (405) 325-3784.

The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution.

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Annelise Russell, opinion editor dailyopinion@ou.edu • phone: 325-3666 • fax: 325-6051

YOUR VIEW

OUR VIEW

It’s time to take tuition seriously OU President David Boren will host a forum from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday afternoon to discuss proposed tuition increases.

Students, this is your chance to voice your opinion.

Tuition is an inevitable part of college, and the costs continue to climb, but as students it is our responsibility to take an active role in our education. Students complain about writing the big check at the beginning of the semester, but many students do not even take the time to find out where their money is going.

Students are many times left out of major discussions about the cost of their education, with big decisions revolving around the Oklahoma Legislature, OU Board of Regents, Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education and Boren. This time, students are getting a chance to be involved in the process.

Some might say these types of events are simply public relations stunts to make students feel like they are a contributing source,

Actually going green Editor’s Note: The following letter to the editor is in response to Monday’s column “Embrace the Earth.”

I would like to congratulate you, Brooke, for being green, and taking all of your criticisms to heart. I’m incredibly impressed that, since you’re against all of the oil being used, you refrain from driving or even riding in cars.

Equally impressive is your choice not to live in a home that was built where trees once were. So many trees have been knocked down to build houses for people that I respect your choice to boycott houses.

The very sad truth is that most of us prefer the destruction of our precious nature.

We selfishly want desks, tables, chairs and other furniture that requires wood. We inexplicably crave deforestation resulting in better highway systems throughout our country. We fail to understand that saving nature should be more important than a textbook for science class.

On a day-to-day basis, we as a whole ignorantly attempt to utilize nature for our own petty wants. It’s

but students have the power to change that perception.

Last semester, OU hosted oZONE forums so students could ask questions and voice concerns about the new enrollment program that caused numerous headaches for students, faculty and staff.

Students complained and griped, but when push came to shove, one forum saw only three students attend.

This kind of low attendance makes events like this look like public relations stunts.

If hundreds of students showed up to voice their opinions and concerns, maybe the administration would take students’ opinions seriously.

As students, we should play a greater role in our education rather than fork over thousands of dollars each year and go through the motions. The quality of our education and our experience is partly defined by what we make of it.

painfully obvious that in order to solve the problems of the non-developed countries that you talk about, we ourselves should remain undeveloped.

Why only you and I seem to be able to understand this is beyond me.

While we as a nation are making what most people feel to be an impressive attempt to become more “green” (hybrid cars, increased recycling stations and more efficient light-bulbs all come to mind), you correctly point out that this nowhere near enough. It seems the only acceptable answer is to completely abandon technology, and back to a more natural way of life.

After reading your article, it is clear that you have already done this, so I thank you. We should all commend you for not taking advantage of our Earth.

I’ll be sure to think of you the next time I destroy the Earth by driving to Wal-Mart.

Eric Smith is a letters sophomore.

YOUR VIEW

Remembering Kent State: How can you run when you know?

Allison Krause was an honors student and 19 years old.

She died from a single rifle bullet that entered the left side of her body and fragmented. Jeffrey Miller was 20 years old; a gunshot wound to the head killed him instantly. Sandra Lee Scheuer was also 20 and a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority when a bullet through the throat killed her as she was walking to class. William Schroeder, 19, a psychology student who had earned two Academic Achievement awards, also was walking to class when a single bullet entered his back. He died in surgery.

These students all died on May 4, 1970 — 40 years ago today. They were killed at Kent State University during a protest against the Vietnam War. They were shot by Ohio National Guardsmen, many of whom, no doubt, were the same age as they were. And many of whom, no doubt, were in the National Guard to avoid being drafted into the Army and being sent to Vietnam. Ironic.

In the early morning of May 15, 1970, two students at Jackson State College (now University) were shot and killed by city and state police during a protest against the war and the deaths at Kent State.

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“With English only gaining acceptance in Oklahoma and due to the recent passing of HB 1804, political views and apparently views on campus seem to favor this ignorance, which makes president Boren’s involvement doubtful.

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It is probably difficult, if not impossible, for OU students to imagine what it was like to be a student in the late 1960s and early 1970s. If you were male and not in college, you could be drafted into the military. You could be sent to fight a war in Vietnam. This was not voluntary. If you were in college, you could be drafted as soon as you graduated. A job or graduate school could come later. If you were at Kent State on May 4, you could be shot. If you were at Jackson State on May 15, you could be shot.

The newspapers and TV reported on the war day after day after day. Too many servicemen (they were almost all men) died every day to list; it was not two in a Humvee blown up by an IED — it was tens, hundreds killed in major military battles. American soldiers, Vietnames soldiers and thousands and thousands of civilians. It was napalm. And Hueys.

And Tet and Cambodia. And My Lai and the “domino effect.”

It was not a movie; it was real. Real people were being killed.

An appropriate description of the mood on college campuses (including OU) was rage. The term “Days of Rage” coined in 1969 turned into weeks, months and years of rage.

But all this is ancient history, right? It happened 40 years violation of human rights; discrimination on the sole basis of racial profiling is an insult to America’s civil rights. This law not only breeds ignorance but attempts to fuel fear in human beings.

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ago; you, the reader, probably weren’t even born, and quite possibly your mother and father weren’t born. However, to many of the faculty and staff at OU, Vietnam is not ancient history. Whether we fought or watched, it is part of our personal history. We know what napalm, Hueys, Tet, My Lai and the “domino effect” are. And for many of us we still feel at least a little bit of rage.

But what about the lessons? Did we learn anything from the Vietnam/student protest era? I am reminded of one line from Neil Young’s song “Ohio” — “How can you run when you know?” It was and still is a call to action – how can you ignore injustice anywhere in the world when you know it exists? Are you so comfortable that you can be at peace with yourself when others around the world live lives that no American could dream of? The student protestors of 40 years ago saw an injustice — a criminal war carried on in their names — and they fought against it. And some of them, like so many of their agemates who were soldiers, died as a result.

Neil Suneson is a member of the Oklahoma Geological Survey.

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Practicing safe text on the road or in the classroom This column is not directed (or dedicat- “the typical American teen sends 50 texts a ed) to any freshman comp class in particu- day” (npr.org) from these life-threatening communication devices. If horror movlar, honestly.

It is true that nothing predicts an axe to ies contain moral arguments, do we then the face in American cinema better than believe that every iPhone owner is at risk premarital sex. VH1’s documentary “I Love of rusty disembowelment? Assessing the potential dangers of unsafe text the 80s” reported that 89.3 peramong American teens has caused cent of cheesy horror victims are much speculation. killed while basking in the glow of NPR asks if excessive texting non-nuptial coitus. Horror movies stunts social development, and encode moral lessons through the Oprah Winfrey condemned how suffering of immoral people. Here cell phone distractions were reare some other valuable life lessons sponsible for 6,000 automobile found in B-movies: deaths last year. Other theories We’re reminded that outer uglink texting to a heightened risk of liness is really just a reflection of BRYAN HONEYCUTT thumb-cramping arthritis, better inner ugliness in “Hellraiser.” known as “Pacman Syndrome,” or “Nightmare on Elm Street” that it spreads impotence like sexual represteaches us that having dreams is wrong.

“One Missed Call” and “When a Stranger sion in deer mice.

All of this is highly speculative (although, Calls” present an ethical dilemma to 21st “Text Message Breakup” is an early lament century youth: cell phones are deadly.

The Pew Research Center reports that of cell phones impeding maturity) and well

outside my nanoacre of expertise. Hell, when I was a kid, a PEW was the resting position during Catholic calisthenics. What I can speculate about is the effect of texting during class.

OU students, let me “axe” you something.

Is digital note-passing during a class period worth the distraction? Are lectures so boring that only thumb twitching can prevent falling asleep? Are ideas recorded in 250-orfewer characters so fleeting that they will vanish if not immediately expressed?

If college students demand the privileges becoming adulthood then they should endure the responsibilities as well, like sitting still and paying attention. Decrying a professor’s monotone voice as justification for digital escapism is something akin to asking for medicine to be crushed up and mixed in with PB&J. Both excuses are credible from the mouths of toddlers struggling to tie shoelace knots. It sounds awkward emerging from the same voices who petition for

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cheap and easy access to contraceptives.

There is an appropriate time and place for all things, texting being no exception.

Don’t text while operating a motor vehicle, enduring a 50- to 90-minute lecture, having dinner with your prom date (and for the entire duration) or anywhere there is a risk of nasally injecting a meathook.

You may be lucky and not suffer the common horror-flick allergy of a dull deer antler to the neck if you let your voicemail take the call. You may be fortunate enough to hit “send” on a text without repainting your windshield and hood with the blood and brains and collapsed lungs of your neighbor’s child. Hell, you’ll probably still find out “what’s up” during the next boring lecture without punishment.

Even if you are this blessed, unsafe text is still a demonstration of what you value more than your safety or education.

Bryan Honeycutt is an English graduate student.

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The Sooners need this midweek game to recover from the tough weekend series and keep the momentum going as they try to make a move up the Big 12 standings.

JONO GRECO OU is fourth in the conference, and even Daily Staff Writer though tonight’s game will not improve its standings, it can give the team more confiThe No. 15 baseball team will host the dence before they get a chance to make that Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans at 7 tonight at improvement.

L. Dale Mitchell Baseball Park as one of the If history is any indication, OU should have two makeup games on its schedule after two little trouble getting the win against Arkansasgames were canceled earlier this Little Rock before facing the season.

Oklahoma State Cowboys.

PLAYER TO WATCH The Sooners (32-12, 10-9 Big OU defeated the Trojans 12) had the final two games of twice at the beginning of last their series against the Baylor season in Norman by the Junior infielder Danny Black Bears on March 19 and 21 canscores of 11-7 and 16-6. was named the Big 12 Player of celed due to snow, and they However, a loss would be the Week on Monday. needed to replace those two more devastating than a vicLast week, he hit .533 with games . tory would be helpful for the two home runs, a double and a OU scheduled one game Sooners at this point in the triple, and he had a perfect fieldagainst the Trojans (2-21, 5-14 season. ing percentage at second base.

Sun Belt) for tonight and one Even though a win would against Texas Southern on May help keep the team on a path 19 at home. toward a successful end to The first replacement game the regular season and a poscould not have come at a better time. The sible higher seed in the NCAA tournament, a Sooners are fresh off their weekend series vic- loss could dash any hopes OU has of hosting a tory over the Kansas State Wildcats, and have a regional game because it would negatively imbig series against Bedlam foe Oklahoma State pact the team’s RPI, a rating based on a team’s this weekend. strength of schedule.