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Program to admit fewer scholars OU to decrease number of non-resident National Merit Scholars by 15 percent ALYSSA GRIMLEY The Oklahoma Daily

OU will be admitting 5-to-10-percent fewer National Merit Scholars than it did in the previous academic year due to recent budget cuts.

This decision was reached after the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education approved a measure to admit 5-percent fewer out-of-state National Merit Scholars by the year 2013, according to the regents’ agenda.

“While we do not yet have a final number of

enrolled National Merit Scholars for fall 2011, we will enroll slightly fewer than last year’s record-high of 225,” said LeeAnn Victery, National Scholars Program director.

It is typical for the number of enrolled National Merit Scholars to vary slightly from year to year, Victery said.

In previous years, the Academic Scholars Program, which awards scholarships to National Merit Scholars, awards 25 percent of merit scholarships to out-of-state students, according to the agenda. If the Academic Scholars Program continues to award scholarships at the rate of 25 percent, the fund will have a deficit of more than $500,000 by fiscal year 2013.

By cutting the number of nonresident students admitted to 20 percent, the Academic Scholars Program will save more than $500,000, according to the agenda.

Kynsey Lira, a criminology senior and a National Merit Scholar, said in an email she believes OU’s decision to limit the number of National Merit Scholars is a poor one.

“I feel that by admitting fewer National Merit Scholars to OU, the university is turning away a number of students who could bring a lot to the university, both in terms of academic success and involvement in student life,” Lira said.

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Ozone Alert prompts free rides on CART The Cleveland Area Rapid Transit system is offering free bus rides today due to high levels of pollution.

Every route is free to all Norman residents because the company made the decision to provide free service to help promote a cleaner environment, CART spokeswoman Vicky Holland said.

“It’s a way for [CART] to be good stewards of the environment,” Holland said.

An Ozone Alert is announced when the state determines the air has too much pollution, said Skylar McElhaney, Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality spokeswoman. Today is the sixth Ozone Alert this year.

“We look at air quality monitors across the state and look at the forecast to see what the weather is going to do,” McElhaney said.

Carpooling also is recommended on Ozone Alert days to cut down the number of cars on the road causing pollution, McElhaney said.

— Brendan Coughlin/The Daily

Pride accepting audition applications

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Oklahoma City residents John McLaughlin, center, and Kim Page check out at Native Roots co-owner Matt Runkle. McLaughlin said he is excited for the Oklahoma City location of Native Roots to open.

Organic food chain to open in Norman New natural market good for city, won’t hurt current businesses, owners say ALYSSA GRIMLEY The Oklahoma Daily

With the upcoming opening of a Colorado-based organic food chain store, other organic food businesses in Norman say they don’t feel threatened by the similar business opening its doors.

Natural Grocers is scheduled

to open on 1918 W. Main St. in Norman in late July, according to the Natural Grocers website.

Matt Runkle, co-founder of Norman organic market Native Roots, said the opening of an organic chain store is good for the city of Norman.

“We think it’s great,” Runkle said. “Norman needs more stores.”

However, Runkle emphasized Native Roots’ commitment to only provide local products, which

Grocers chain because their values and goals differ.

“We’re not a discount store,” » Links: More information on Natural Runkle said. “They’re a discount Grocers and organic food stores organic store.”

Runkle said in Native Roots’ Natural Grocers will not neces- three-and-a-half years of exissarily follow. tence, the store has put more “Hopefully people will see the than $675,000 back into the state drastic difference in what we do,” of Oklahoma by selling local Runkle said. products.

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TRAGEDY

Any incoming or returning students interested in auditioning for the Pride of Oklahoma, the Sooner marching band, can now register for auditions on the band’s website.

The auditions will be held Aug. 15-17, and the last day to register for the auditions is Aug. 8. However, in order to live in university housing during the audition process, students must register by July 15.

The audition material will be the same for every student depending on the family of instruments.

Students do not need to be music majors to audition, Pride director Brian Britt said. Everyone, including returning members, audition for membership, and 100-120 incoming freshmen earn positions in the Pride each year, Britt said.

After auditions are concluded and the Pride membership is selected, rehearsing will continue Aug. 17-21, Britt said.

— Katie Bailey/The Daily

EXPANSION

Friends mourn OU students’ deaths New radar research center promises additional space

Car accident on Sunday claims lives of Sooner couple; Animation Society remembers friend

Facility will cost $12M, feature larger rooms to promote creativity, recruit prestigious researchers, OU director says

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Family and friends of two OU students who recently passed away met at an OU Animation Society meeting to mourn the loss and celebrate their memory with video games.

OU Animation Society president Forest Sharp and University College freshman Ashlie Johnson died Sunday in a car accident outside of Vega, Texas.

Sharp and Johnson were headed to Las Vegas, Nev., when their car left the road and crashed into a parked semitrailer at a rest stop, according to a press release.

Johnson, Sharp’s girlfriend, was planning to visit her father who she hasn’t seen since she began attending OU, Sharp’s mother Gretchen Evans said.

Sharp, 28, graduated from Shawnee High School in 2002. He also earned his bachelor’s degree in anthropology from OU and was pursuing his master’s degree in the history of science.

Sharp was very involved with the OU Animation Society and the Manga Society.

“Forest worked very hard to organize monthly

A LOOK AT WHAT’S ON Oklahoma has experienced recordbreaking heat and is expected to continue to do so for the next two weeks.

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tournaments and made the Animation Society what it is today,” Kyle Reinholt, friend and member of the Animation Society said.

When the new 34,000 square feet Radar Innovations Center is built in Norman, it could help the growth of new ideas because researchers will have more room to work, the Atmospheric Radar Research Center’s director said.

The concept of large, shared rooms will be one of the most innovative and effective aspects of the new building, Robert Palmer, director of the ARRC said.

“We want everyone hanging out,” Palmer said “I think that’s where a lot of scientific ideas come from, people just talking about things that are interesting to them, New ideas don’t usually come from just writing reports.”

The OU Board of Regents approved and initiated planning to build the new Radar Innovations Center in Norman during their June meeting, according to the regents’ agenda.

This new center is going to cost an estimated $12 million. The new facility could help recruit prestigious radar researchers from around the world, according to the agenda.

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Forest Sharp, right, with Ashlie Johnson.

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Be mindful of environment

Our View: Norman’s steps to curb pollution are admirable, but citizens should be willing to help.

acted recently to protect the local environment.

On Wednesday, all CART transportation was made available to the general public free of charge While some homeowners and developers proin response to elevated ozone levels in central tested the Water Quality Protection Zone approved Oklahoma. by the Norman City Council on June 26, the move Both moves are praiseworthy, even if they may should be welcomed by all Norman residents and be incomplete. Half of Lake Thunderbird’s waterOU students. The water quality in Lake shed area is outside the jurisdiction of the Thunderbird, which is where Oklahoma Norman City Council, instead being conThe Our View City and Norman get the majority of their trolled by Oklahoma City or Moore. is the majority drinking water, has been deteriorating for a Likewise, METROtransit, Oklahoma opinion of decade.

City’s public transportation provider, does The Daily’s Chlorophyll-a, a toxic chemical produced not offer free rides on Ozone Alert days. five-member by some algae, has reached 80 micrograms So moves by the Norman City Council editorial board per liter. The standard set by the Oklahoma and CART will not necessarily solve or even Department of Environmental Quality is halt the deterioration of local air and water only 10 micrograms per liter. The toxin-producing quality, but they do represent a good first step. algae has been on the rise in recent years, primarThe Norman City Council’s move to protect water ily because of the availability of phosphorus from quality in Lake Thunderbird will put pressure on fertilizer.

Oklahoma City and Moore to enact similar policies.

The conditions in Lake Thunderbird have deteAny new law or resolution draws attention to the riorated so much that the Central Oklahoma Master unsafe levels of toxins in our drinking water. So Conservancy District is threatening to exercise its the Water Quality Protection Zone enacted by the authority if conditions in the lake do not improve.

Norman City Council is not just a move that reduces In addition to enacting laws like the protection the pollution Norman is responsible for — it also is zone, the district can also levy fines against polluta necessary first step to improving water quality to ing towns and halt all construction in the watershed tolerable levels. area.

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Government betrays Greek people STAFF COLUMN

Zac Smith

Inside the Greek Parliament House, it’s business as usual. Outside is a virtual war zone, where riot police clash with citizens under thunderheads of tear gas.

For the past decade, the G re e k g ov e r n m e nt ha s poured money into luxuries for its administrators, running up $400-billion in debt.

Now facing a credit-rating collapse and massive disinvestment, the government has turned to its people to pay off its loans.

Greece’s parliament has

Betraying its democratic pretensions, the government has violently suppressed these protests, sending police to attack demonstrators with tear gas, stun grenades, truncheons and rocks.

“I saw riot police officers beat a man who’d fallen to the ground, acting for all the world like a wolf pack falling upon its prey,” a British photographer said. “The only bright spot was the extreme PHOTO PROVIDED bravery of ordinary Greeks Greek citizens gather outside the Greek Parliament House in who defied the brutality of Athens to protest their government’s financial decisions. the police to protest and were capable of the most amazing passed a series of austerEach round of legislation acts of kindness to strangers ity measures raising taxes has been met with outrage even in the worst situations.” and taking deep cuts from from the public, drawing READ THE FULL COLUMN salaries, pensions and social 100,000 demonstrators in ON OUDAILY.COM programs.

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Economic policy won’t help U.S. deficit hardship In 1980, when George STAFF COLUMN H. W. Bush was running against Ronald Reagan Jerod Coker in the primaries for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, he derided Reagan’s economic ideas as “voodoo economics.”

Reagan’s supply-side theory of taxation, which came to be known as “Reaganomics,” suggests cutting taxes would actually increase government revenue because more people would be encouraged to work if their money stayed in their pocket.

It sounds wonderful. Cut taxes, wait for the magic to happen and the budget will be balanced! Does it sound like magic? It is. Hence the name voodoo economics.

No matter how much we want it to be true, there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Conservatives claim to know this better than anyone. We can’t have it both ways — we either raise taxes, cut spending or live with huge deficits.

Unfortunately, what we’re seeing is the return of voodoo economics. This time, instead of making the preposterous claim that cutting taxes will raise revenue, conservatives are making the preposterous claim that cutting spending will create jobs and help the economy.

Once again, Republicans are expecting something for nothing. They can balance the budget (by cutting spending) and make the economy strong at the same time. Sound too good to be true? Once again, it is.

For people so good at making “tough choices” and sacrificing, they sure don’t show it very well. As OU professor David Ray succinctly said: “Deficit reduction hurts.”

Balancing budgets is like eating healthy: If it tastes good, it can’t be good for you. You can’t expect to eat cake all day and get fit, so why do we expect to cut spending and help unemployment? It’s absurd.

The cold hard truth is that reigning in the federal debt can’t help the economy. Raising taxes and cutting spending both hurt the economy. People either have less to spend, or goods and services are in less demand as the government scales back spending.

We need to stop eating cake expecting to get skinny.

Deficit reduction hurts.

— Jerod Coker, journalism senior

LIFE&ARTS

James Corley, campus life editor dailyent@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-5189

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Fair to bring live music, art to Norman

BEYONCÉ “4” (Columbia)

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A year ago, Beyonce decided to take some time off for herself. During that hiatus, she said she experienced “life” in a way she, as an artist, doesn’t get the chance to.

She said she wants to produce music that goes beyond a hot jam in the club — she wants to leave behind a legacy of sophisticated music.

Her new album is the result of these experiences and a shift in the maturity of her music.

The album starts off promising with “1+1,” an upbeat ballad that shows off her vocal range. The third track, “I Miss You,” makes up for the ground lost by the second track, “I Care,” and later tracks like “Party” — a collaboration with Andre 3000 that is probably the weakest track on the entire album.

While we’re at it, “Run the World” was definitely the best choice for the first single because it is unlike anything else on the album.

The greatest achievement on this album, however, is the second-to-last song, “I Was Here.”

While many of the songs revolve around romance and relationships, the simple idea of the song is the legacy each of us leaves behind after we die.

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Beyonce’s new album — “4” — is an impressive growth for the R&B artist, Lindsey Ruta says.

Powerful and passionate, this song achieves everything Beyonce set out to do and makes the entire album worth listening to. Its message echoes one of the greatest fears of humanity and resonates with listeners on a level that is refreshing both for Beyonce and the music industry as a whole.

The greatest strength of this album is the soul behind it. The beats are not poppy patterns but vested notes that compliment Beyonce’s vocal talents with lyrics that achieve the accurate

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This album is an impressive growth for an artist who could spend the rest of her career riding on her sex appeal but instead chose to explore the parts of life many of the rich and famous lose out on.

— Lindsey Ruta/The Daily VISIT OUDAILY.COM TO READ A REVIEW OF “LAST SUMMER” FROM FIERY FURNACES’ ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER

Live music, food vendors, children’s art activities and more than 30 artists will be featured Friday and Saturday at Lion’s Park, 400 S. Flood Ave. in Norman, for the 34th annual Midsummer Night’s Fair.

The event, hosted by Firehouse Art Center, also will provide demonstrations of drawing and crafting techniques with jewelry, pottery and wood.

Headway and the Aaron Squirrel Band perform Friday, and Brittani Moon and Zach Miller play Saturday.

— Daily staff reports

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- There is a chance that your first ideas might not be your best ones, but if you are prepared to make adjustments, everything will work out great.

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SPORTS

Friday on OUDaily.com ›› The Daily’s James Corley gives his thoughts on what adjustments OU must make at linebacker after the death of Austin Box

James Corley, campus life editor dailysports@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666

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U.S. soccer poised for victory

OU gymnasts earn silver at Japan Cup

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Three former or current OU gymnasts helped lead the United States men’s gymnastics team to a silver-medal finish at the 2011 Japan Cup on Saturday.

Former OU gymnast and Olympian Jonathan Horton, recent graduate Steven Legendre and OU junior Alex Naddour helped the five-man squad earn a 267.250 team total and the United States’ best-ever finish at the Japan Cup. OU coach Mark Williams also served as Team USA’s coach.

“I was extremely pleased with Team USA’s silver-medal performance today,” Williams said. “This was a great confidence booster going into the qualifications to the 2011 World Championships and the 2012 Olympic Games.”

The U.S. finished just 0.9 points behind firstplace Japan and 3.7 points ahead of thirdplace Great Britain.

Naddour posted the highest score of any competitor on pommel horse, and Legendre had the competition’s highest floor score.

“Oklahoma’s representation at this event was outstanding,” Williams said. “I’m very proud of Alex, Jon and Steve’s contribution to this team’s success.”

RJ Young

Don’t look now, but the United States’ No. 1 women’s team in the world is playing good enough soccer to raise more than a little stink in the knockout stages of the World Cup for the first time since winning it all in 1999.

Among the U.S. women’s national team forwards, Lauren Cheney and Abby Wambach have looked brilliant up top, Shannon Boxx has been the consummate ball-winner in the midfield and goalkeeper Hope Solo has been the linchpin holding it all together.

As a team, they have consistently played better soccer in the second half, which speaks to their fitness and mental toughness.

This team is not loaded the way it once was with the likes of the Fab Five, but this 2011 national team is the product of that generation.

They are among the women who grew up watching Mia Hamm, Michelle Akers, Julie Foudy, Kristine Lilly, Briana Scurry, Brandi Chastain and others do the improbable on U.S. soil.

They are a team with something to prove.

This team has to prove the hard work their predecessors have done isn’t for naught.

Lest we forget, just years after the U.S. national team’s historic win, many tried to capitalize on their success with the formation of an eight-team league called Women’s United Soccer

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United States’ Alex Krieger and Sweden’s Amy Rodriguez challenge for the ball during the group C match between Sweden and the United States at the Women’s Soccer World Cup on Wednesday in Wolfsburg, Germany.

More info » The U.S. was 15-0-2 before losing to Sweden Wednesday. » Sweden beat the U.S. twice this year. » The U.S. will play Brazil in a quarterfinal.

Association in 2000.

But under stress from sponsors and the inevitable let-down of soccer euphoria in the U.S., the league folded just three years after its inaugural season.

In its stead, a six-team league called the Women’s

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Professional Soccer league was created in March 2009.

T h e W P S h a s s m a r tly taken a grassroots approach to the league with lower expectations than the top-down business model employed by the WUSA. But fans would be remiss

if they thought the WPS is not depending on the U.S. women’s national team to do well and — somehow — rekindle the bonfire of enthusiasm that once engulfed us all.

And it just might.

This U.S. team has looked stout, if beatable at times, in a group that should have given them more problems.

But on Wednesday, in their final match of group play, Sweden handed the Americans their first-ever loss in the group play.

But for the first time in

12 years, the U.S. has the tools to beat the best in the world.

The quarterfinals begin Saturday, and the two-time defending world champion Germans — and tournament hosts — have staked their claim.

It’s going to take a little more than a team full of American arrogance and bravado to beat Germany.

It’s going to take a team with something to prove.

— RJ Young, professional writing graduate student

Sooner football picked to win national title

VOLLEYBALL

Dave Campbell’s 2011 Texas Football magazine picked the Oklahoma Sooner football team to win the national championship this season.

The magazine tabbed the Sooners to beat LSU in the BCS title game next January.

Players’ careers Trip opens Sooners’ eyes cut short of NFL In sports, the longer you STAFF COLUMN play, the stiffer the competition gets.

Luke College is more competMcConnell itive than high school, and only the very best players do well at the professional level.

Every sport has a list a mile long of players who starred at one level but just couldn’t cut it at the next level up.

Yet for whatever reason, whether it was uncontrollable issues, injuries, personal matters, poor work ethics or immaturity, these players never got things going at the next level.

ESPN recently released a list of the top-50 college football players who didn’t make it in the NFL. The list was topped by Archie Griffin, the Ohio State running back who remains the only player to win the Heisman Trophy twice.

Other players who made the list included Nebraska’s Tommie Frazier and Eric Crouch, Florida State’s Chris Weinke and USC’s Matt Leinart.

Four Oklahoma Sooners made the list, led by linebacker Brian Bosworth at No. 6. Quarterback J.C. Watts was No. 34, running back Steve Owens was No. 43 and quarterback Jason White was No. 45.

None of these names were a big surprise. Owens and Bosworth were two-time first-team All-Americans, White and Owens won Heisman trophies and Watts is considered one of the greatest option quarterbacks in college history even though he never won any awards or was named an All-American.

All of their pro careers were short and, for the most part, injury-plagued. Watts didn’t have injury issues, but his problem was no one in the NFL was running the wishbone.

White’s knees were absolutely torn up by the end of his college career, and he never played a down with an NFL team.

Bosworth seemed to have the most riding on his shoulders for a great NFL career.

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Overseas competition teaches volleyball pair to make adjustments LUKE MCCONNELL The Oklahoma Daily

Sometimes opportunities only come around once in a lifetime.

For OU volleyball players Brianne Barker and Sallie McLaurin, one of those opportunities came last month.

Barker, McLaurin and coach Santiago Restrepo spent 10 days in Shonguang and Beijing, China, as part of the USA-China Challenge Invitational.

Restrepo, who is entering his eighth season at OU, was asked to coach one of the teams and asked McLaurin and Barker to consider joining him in the experience.

After arriving in China, the players all encountered an entirely different world, not only on the court but off the court as well.

“Whenever we would go anywhere, people would stop us and ask us to take pictures with them,” McLaurin said.

“They weren’t really used to seeing foreigners.”

However, not all of the cultural differences they experienced were positive.

“It’s sad to see sometimes how different certain countries can be from the United States,” Barker said. “It definitely made me feel blessed

Lewis on watch list for national top LB award Senior linebacker Travis Lewis was named to the watch list for the Bednarik Award, which is presented to the nation’s top college football defensive player.

Lewis has started every game of his career with the Sooners and led OU in tackles in each of his three previous seasons.

Lewis announced his decision to return to Oklahoma for his final season of eligibility not long after the Sooners’ 48-20 Fiesta Bowl win against Connecticut in January.

Semifinalists for the Bednarik Awards will be announced Oct. 31, the finalists will be announced Nov. 21 and the winner will be named Dec. 8.

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A U.S. squad faces a Chinese team during the USA-China Challenge Invitational last month. Two Sooners and OU’s coach participated with the United States. to b e from the Unite d States.”

As for the volleyball, the team experienced an entirely different style of play than they had ever seen before.

The Chinese played a faster, more erratic game and were extremely talented.

McLaurin said learning to adjust to the different style of play taught her a lot about making adjustments on the fly during the heat of action.

“I think this is going to help me watch players and see how they play rather

than focus on the basic performance,” McLaurin said.

One of the biggest obstacles the team faced was trying to build chemistry quickly in order to be successful during games.

The team convened in Anaheim, Calif., for two days of practice June 7 and 8 before departing for China June 9, but that amount of time pales in comparison to the time teams normally spend practicing together.

— Daily staff reports The Associated Press contributed.

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