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OUPD cracks down on drunken driving Enforcement part of campaign by 10,000 agencies across nation through Labor Day

press release.

Impaired driving is defined as driving over the legal blood alcohol concentration of .08 grams per deciliter.

“Because we’re committed to ending the carnage [of traffic accidents related to alcohol], we’re intensifying enforcement during the crackdown,” OUPD Chief Liz Woolen said.

Anyone found driving over the limit will be arrested, regardless of circumstances, according to Woolen.

“Our message is simple and unwavering,” she said. “If we find you driving impaired, we will arrest

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The OU Police Department cracked down on impaired driving this weekend, part of a weeklong initiative to enforce drunk driving consequences from now until Labor Day. Officers will be looking for impaired drivers throughout the weekend, especially during the night when impaired driving is most common, according to a

Our message is simple and unwavering. If we find you driving impaired, we will arrest you. No exceptions.”

— LIZ WOOLEN, OUPD CHIEF you. No exceptions. Motorists should be aware that the consequences of driving while impaired can still virtually destroy your life.”

This attitude is not just shared by those at OU; the university is one of 10,000 agencies around the nation

participating in the crackdown until Labor Day, Sept. 6.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is leading the campaign with the tag line, “Drunk Driving. Over the Limit, Under Arrest,” according to the release.

Those caught driving impaired can face jail time, license suspension, court and attorney fees and potential job loss, according to the OUPD. Zoology junior Maureen Lewis said she thinks the risk of getting

Alcohol statistics

2.3%

Americans 18 and older who reported alcohol-impaired driving in 2002

11,773

estimated number of people who died in drunken driving-related crashes in 2008

39%

Fatal alcohol-related crashes in 2005

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OU iPhone app release to build on OU2GO OU4YOU to include more features, add functionality JACQUELINE CLEWS The Oklahoma Daily

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Blake Marcum, an artist out of Tulsa, uses a stencil and spray paint to create a portrait Saturday at the Dustbowl Arts Market in Norman. Marcum’s portrait was of the lead singer for Fiawna Forté, who also is his sister. The Dustbowl Arts Market featured local artists and musicians during a daylong festival on Campus Corner. The market was the brainchild of three OU graduates, and was first held in August 2009.

Visit OUDaily.com to watch a video of the Dustbowl Arts Market.

Gaylord students receive opportunity for publication with national network Award-winning journalists assist with multimedia production for website RENEÉ SELANDERS The Oklahoma Daily

Gaylord College of Journalism a n d Ma s s C o m mu n i c at i o n launched its premiere academic network partnership class with ABC News on Friday, in which students will cover the war in Afghanistan and publish multimedia content for the national news network’s website.

“I promise you there is no other class like this in the world in journalism,” said Mike Boettcher, an Emmy Awardand Peabody Award-winning journalist.

Students enrolled in Advanced Multimedia w ill work w ith Boettcher, ABC correspondent

and OU visiting professor, who will be embedded in Afghanistan for the next year beginning Sept.

1. Boettcher, along with his son, Carlos, will follow a squad or platoon of troops, covering its experiences and sending multimedia content back to students to edit and to produce related stories on the home front.

On Friday, Mike briefed students enrolled in the class on the opportunities they will have this semester to produce international content.

“You’re going to take that material and make what will be the premiere website in the world for coverage of the war in Afghanistan, I promise you we’re going to do that,” Mike said. “It’s going to be an amazing

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OU visiting professor Mike Boettcher demonstrates the gear he will wear during his year embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Boettcher will produce content for journalism students to edit and file for abcnews.com.

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A LOOK AT WHAT’S NEW AT View a clip of Friday night’s Ben Kweller concert in the multimedia section at OUDaily.com

If you’ve ever gotten frustrated using oZONE on your iPhone, now there’s an app for that.

A small team of OU IT specialists plan to roll out their new free iPhone app, OU4YOU, within the next two months, although the exact timeline depends on how quickly Apple puts it on iTunes after that.

OU IT spokesman Nicholas Key said they wanted to build upon the first app and give students better tools for day-to-day activities.

“OU2GO was more for outsiders, like prospective students and alumni,” Key said. “OU4YOU is more geared towards current students.”

Launched in August 2009, OU2G0 is an iPhone app which includes a campus map, current weather, news feed, media and campus traditions.

Key said the new OU4YOU app will include parking availability information, a campus map, a directory, Hiresooner career services, Cleveland Area Rapid Transit GPS to track transportation routes and arrival times, My Planner to help students keep track of their own grades, OU libraries to check out books from their phones, D2L and a news feed.

Electrical engineering senior Wascar Bocangel was thrilled about CART GPS, which Key said would resemble subway and metro apps.

“They’re always late,” Bocangel said. “Today I had to wait fifteen minutes and I didn’t know if I had missed it.”

Key said OU’s app remains competitive among other U.S. schools, but that there is always room for improvement and creativity.

“Stanford and Duke’s are more functional, which we’re working on, and I think Northeastern has a laundry app that tells you when washers are available,” Key said.

The group’s iPhone developer, Gray Delacluyse, urges students

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APP: Info at students’ fingertips Continued from page 1 to leave feedback in the suggestion box on the app once it is released.

Key said while IT has the computer know-how, they relied on the Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth, the College of Engineering and the Mobile Development Steering Committee to advise them on content.

University spokesman Chris Shilling, who worked as a student on OU2GO and

helped coordinate the steering committee for OU4YOU, said the groups were pretty unified in their vision.

He said they thought opinions would differ on whether to put it all on one app or keep them separate, “but everyone was pretty unified about having two apps to maximize utility.”

The last effort was more about getting an app up, but this one should be more useful to a lot more people than just incoming freshman, Shilling said.

Today around campus » No events scheduled.

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More on Boettcher

Tuesday, Aug. 31 » Sooner Ballroom Dance Club meets today at 6:30 p.m. in the Scholar’s Room of the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Wednesday, Sept. 1 » Sooner volleyball will play against Central Arkansas at 6 p.m. in the McCaslin Fieldhouse.

Thursday, Sept. 2 » No events scheduled.

experience.”

John Schmeltzer, Pulitzer Pr izewinning journalist and professor, also will work with Advanced Multimedia students in class, helping them produce multimedia assignments that will also appear on Routes, an Oklahoma webzine that debuted last semester in the same class.

Mike and Schmeltzer said the content would focus on more personal storytelling to humanize the war in Afghanistan and reconnect the country with a war that has lasted for almost a decade.

“You’ll be going out and talking to the families of the soldiers who are out there and following them over the course of the semester,” Mike said.

Students will file content for abcnews.com, World News, Good Morning America, Nightline and ABC affiliates in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Nashville. Mike said that students’ content may eventually be available to BBC, an ABC partner.

Mara Nelson, journalism senior and Advanced Multimedia student, said Mike and Schmeltzer’s personal approach to covering the war is “10 times more

OU visiting professor Mike Boettcher has worked on two other major projects within Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication. » Spring 2009 — “War and the Media.”

Boettcher delivered live content from Baghdad for a class he co-taught with Dean Joe Foote. » Spring 2010 — Boettcher worked with OU visiting professor John Schmeltzer to create Routes, Gaylord College’s premier webzine. compelling” than basic coverage.

Journalism senior Karen Hudson wasn’t expecting the class to have such far-reaching, impressionable reporting opportunities and is excited about the prospect of having her content presented on abcnews.com or a nightly news program.

“It’s really cool that our stuff could end up on abcnews.com,” Hudson said.

The Sarkeys Foundation is funding the project.

Friday, Sept. 3 » The Union Programming Board will show Sex & the City 2 at 3 p.m., 6 p.m., 9 p.m. and midnight in Meacham Auditorium at the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

» This day in OU history

Aug. 30, 1975 Adams Hall repairs completed Renovations to Adams Hall, prompted by smoke and water damage caused by an arsonist’s fire, were completed today.

The arsonist was not found.

The restoration of the building was partly funded by a $200,000 allocation by the Stage Regents for Higher Education.

Student raped at apartment A 23-year old OU student was raped at her apartment.

The rapist threatened his victim with a knife and covered her head with a pillowcase.

Sooners picked 1st by Sports illustrated Sports Illustrated magazine named the Sooners their No. 1 pick for college football teams.

Historically, the teams Sports Illustrated picks do not finish first.

Students across campus hoped this was the year they changed this notion. *Source: The Oklahoma Daily archives

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Pilot unhurt after plane ends up in Okla. field BARTLESVILLE — A student pilot walked away uninjured after he tried to abort a takeoff and his plane ended up in a field.

Bartlesville officials say the accident happened around 2:20 p.m. Saturday at Bartlesville Municipal Airport.

Fire Department spokesman Bill Hollander says the pilot, whose name wasn’t released, was practicing a takeoff in a Cessna 172 and had applied the

brakes when he realized he had omitted a procedure.

Hollander says when the left brake locked, the plane veered into a path indicator box along the runway and the left landing gear collapsed.

The plane continued across the taxiway and through a field, coming to rest against a chain-link fence.

The Federal Aviation Administration will decide whether an investigation is warranted.

— AP

OUPD: Stops until Labor Day Continued from page 1 caught and the associated consequences will be effective at preventing impaired driving.

“It will definitely be effective,” Lewis said. “If there’s a higher chance of getting caught, you’re not as likely to risk going out drunk.”

However, others said the crackdown might catch people but not actually prevent them from driving drunk.

“It might catch people who are already out [driving impaired], but I don’t think it will actually prevent it,” meteorology junior Brandon Theobald said.

To prevent driving impaired, Theobald said he doesn’t even risk driving after one drink.

Technology helps reveal oil-degrading bacteria in Gulf Technology developed by an OU researcher recently helped show that bacteria are breaking down oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

GeoChip, created by botany and microbiology professor Jizhong Zhou, helped reveal thousands of genes involved in bacterial biological processes that break down hydrocarbons, part of oil contaminants, according to a press release.

Terry Hazen, leader of a research team at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, used the GeoChip in a recent study focused on the Gulf oil plume. The team took more than 200 samples from different sites in the Gulf between May 25 and June 2.

After analyzing the samples with the GeoChip and another technology, the team found that a new species of bacteria had broken down the oil, making it almost undetectable.

These findings suggest that biology could be used as an aid in controlling the amount of oil contaminants and hydrocarbons in the Gulf, according to the release.

— Kathleen Evans/The Daily

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Red River Rivalry tickets on sale Tuesday for Category I students

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DAILY ARCHIVES

Sooner quarterback Landry Jones (12) attempts to pass the ball during the OU-TX football game last fall at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.

OU-Texas tickets go on sale Tuesday morning at 7 a.m. on Soonersports.com.

The highly coveted Red River Rivalry tickets will be made available in shifts according to the category of student season tickets.

Students who are enrolled full-time and bought their tickets during the spring sale (April 26-May 14) are Category I, which will have the chance to buy at 7 a.m. from Soonersports.com.

Freshmen and transfer students, whose tickets are Category II, do not qualify to purchase tickets Tuesday. If there are still tickets on Wednesday, Category II holders will be able to buy them at 7 a.m. from Soonersports. com.

Last year’s supply of 4,200 tickets sold out in 30 minutes, two-and-a-half hours faster than 4,000 sold in 2008.

Every ticket, priced at $110 this year, will be charged to student bursar accounts.

This year marks the 105th edition of the Red River Rivalry. Texas leads the overall series 59-40-5, 46-36-4 since the game moved to Dallas.

OU leads the series 6-5 in the Stoops Era but has lost four of the last five, including last year’s 13-16 loss in Sam Bradford’s last game in a Sooner uniform.

—James Corley/The Daily

Season opener tickets available for pick-up online or in-person Students may pick up their purchased Sooner season opener football tickets against the Utah State Aggies this week in person or online.

Students can pick up in-person tickets Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the OU Athletic Tickets Office.

Online pick up started Sunday at 5 p.m. and lasts until Wednesday at 3 p.m.

—Daniela McCormick/The Daily

The Cleveland County CASA is recruiting volunteers to be advocates for children who are wards of the juvenile court.

Court Appointed Special Advocates, or CASAs, are volunteers who work with abused or neglected children caught up in the court system. CASAs work to represent the best interests of the children in the courtroom by investigating their cases and submitting recommendations to the court, according to the Cleveland County CASA website.

CCCASA executive director Kathleen Romero said that in 2009, the program served 222 children in Cleveland, McClain and Garvin counties, and that number will continue to increase this year.

“We have sixty to seventy active members right now, but we’re always looking for more help,” Romero said. “We have college students and people who work full-time jobs ... we’ll take anyone who’s willing to help.”

Romero said CASAs are court-appointed advocates for children in the court system. She said oftentimes, between all the attorneys, judges, parents and other parties involved, there is no objective party representing the children.

“Typically, you have a child who’s been physically or sexually abused, and there are a lot of issues with parenting,” Romero said. “The child is put in juvenile custody, and the court tries to work with the parents so they can correct the issues that led to their children being removed from their care.”

Meanwhile, the children are often placed in foster or group homes, and may have to be switched around every few weeks.

“In the judicial system, things are changing constantly and it’s pretty traumatic on the kids,” Romero said. “They’re shuffled around and the people in their lives are constantly changing - attorneys, social workers, caregivers. Their CASA is that one stable person in the whole process who will always be on their side. CASAs provide stability and permanency to the kids’ lives.”

Taylor Henderson, a third year OU law student, has been volunteering with CASA for two and a half years. Despite her heavy workload from school and her research, she said she still has time to volunteer for CASA. “I love working with the kids,” Henderson said. “You see the kids in distress after being in the court system because they’re on their own and a lot of times nobody thinks about what’s really best for them. They just get lost in the system, and it can change them for the rest of their lives.”

Henderson said the time she puts into the cases varies; some months she checks up on the children’s parents to make sure they’re following programs, while other months the case goes to court and she has to do research and write reports.

“For the busy months, I’ll spend 10 to 15 hours on the

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Taylor Henderson, third year OU law student, has volunteered with CASA for two and a half years. She said it’s not a big time commitment, and she has gotten a lot out of it. case, but some months I just have to check up on the families, and that only takes five to seven hours a month,” Henderson said.

Romero said working as a CASA is one of the most rewarding volunteer opportunities available.

“You can see the changes as it happens, and what an impact your job has on the life of the child,” Romero said.

“Volunteers are appointed to a case by the court so they have a lot of responsibility put on them, because what happens to the child often comes down to what the CASA recommends.”

Henderson said she gets a lot out of working as a CASA. “It’s so great to help the kids, of course,” Henderson said.

“But you can also make a lot of contacts, get courtroom experience, and it really throws you into the real world. It’s not a huge time commitment, and it’s nice to forget about yourself for a bit and help someone else.”

Volunteers must be at least 21 years of age and should attend the free training program beginning August 31. To register for training, call the CASA office at 405-360-5295 or visit www.clevelandcountycasa.org.

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MLK’s message must not Gender-blind become political leverage housing must This weekend, thousands of activists rallied on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for conservative show host Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” event.

Beck’s rally happened to fall on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and in the exact same location.

According to Beck, it was entirely by coincidence.

The rally turned out more like a religious revival than a political event.

Beck encouraged attendees to bring back traditional American values, honor King’s message and pray.

He said, “America today begins to turn back to God.” Nearby a counter rally was held by an actual reverend, Rev. Al Sharpton, and was organized primarily in protest of Beck’s event.

Regardless of whether or not you agree with Beck’s ideology, he shouldn’t act like his ideology aligns entirely with King’s message when it clearly doesn’t.”

The problem that Sharpton and other civil rights activists had with Beck’s event was not necessarily its message, but the one delivering it, and whom he was delivering it to.

Sharpton and the civil rights activists with him protested Beck’s rally because of most attendees’ affiliation to the Tea Party, which has been accused by the NAACP of carrying “racist elements.”

Beck himself has drawn national criticism in the past for encouraging Christians to leave churches that preach social justice,

because Beck believes it is in line with Communist and Nazi ideology.

What Beck fails to realize is that King advocated support for a strong central government that protects equal rights.

Tea Party supporters, such as U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul, have called for the repeal of the part of the Civil Rights Act that requires businesses to abide by the law.

We don’t mean to say Sharpton is right and blameless either. While known for his role in advancing equal rights, he has

had his own share of offensive remarks that contradict King’s message.

In 1991, after a Jewish man ran over a black child in New York, leading to tensions between blacks and Jews in the community, Sharpton said, “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.”

He also referred to Jews as “diamond merchants.”

Regardless of whether or not you agree with Beck’s ideology, he shouldn’t act like his ideology aligns entirely with King’s message when it clearly doesn’t.

And civil rights leaders such as Sharpton should always hold themselves to King’s standards, no matter what.

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End of recession will not eliminate country’s growing budget problems The first thing most of us STAFF COLUMN LUMN learned when we first got a credit card was to never pay just the minimum balance.

Patrick O’Bryan By the time a customer finishes paying off a balance at the monthly minimum, interest accumulated over the years can be as costly as the item itself.

And yet, it is exactly this method of dealing with debt that our political leaders have chosen to emulate.

The national debt as of Friday was about $13.4 trillion, which amounts close to $87,000 for every American worker.

And this is not just the effect of a few years of stimulus spending to bolster the economy through the current recession.

The Congressional Budget Office projects that Barack Obama’s 2011 budget will cause deficits to fall until 2014 and rise afterward as Obamacare benefits begin to be paid out.

By 2020, long after the recession is projected to end, we will still be running a deficit of 5.6 percent of GDP, increasing the public debt to over $20 trillion in 2020, about 90 percent of GDP. However, this problem is compounded greatly by the impending retirement of more and more baby boomers and rising medical costs, especially in Medicare.

By the end of President Obama’s possible second term, the Government Accountability Office has estimated that these factors will combine so that more than 90 percent of all government revenue will be consumed by entitlement spending and servicing the national debt.

The trends fueling this explosion of public debt will only accelerate in the coming decades.

Without any changes beyond ones currently forecasted, government spending will account for 35 percent of GDP by 2040.

Balancing the budget that year (i.e. cutting the deficit to 0 and retaining the same level of debt) would require tax revenues to be increased by 75 percent, or government spending to be cut by 42 percent.

The consequences of failing to corral debt can be extreme. When Russia faced a sovereign debt default in 1998, its stock market fell 75 percent between January and August, inflation topped 80 percent, and the price of food doubled.

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Such a crisis in the United States is by no means unthinkable if we continue with the status quo.

There are no easy solutions to this problem. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may be popular bogeymen, but defense spending over the last decade has been less than any other post-World War II decade save the 1990’s, and have followed a general downward trend since 1945.

Similarly, raising tax revenues is not as easy as simply increasing the tax rate by a certain percentage.

Tax income and tax rates are not related linearly, but in a curve, known as the Laffer curve. As rates go up, economic growth is depressed and taxpayers find methods to evade taxes in greater numbers.

Even before the revenue-maximizing tax rate is reached, all rate increases create smaller and smaller corresponding increases in revenues.

Empirically, marginal tax rates since World War II have fluctuated greatly, but federal revenues We used to have remained fairly constant be a country around 19.5 percent. that strove to The harsh fact is that previous generations have promised create a better themselves more than we will future for our ever be able to pay for. descendants.”

Over the next 75 years, Social Security and Medicare are projected to be underfunded by 46 trillion dollars.

Those who protest reform of entitlement programs as cuts to promised benefits ignore the fact that these benefits will need to be cut eventually.

Delaying reform now means that Americans who are not yet born will have to pay for the retirement of predecessors who lived beyond their means, decreasing their own standard of living before and after retirement.

We used to be a country that strove to create a better future for our descendants.

Today, this attitude has been replaced with one in which citizens who wield their ballots make sure they get what was promised to them, regardless of how much of it they actually paid for or how their decisions will affect the country when they are gone.

— Patrick O’Bryan, economics and letters sophomore

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Male and female stuSTAFF COLUMN MN dents began living in separate suites on a co-ed, upMary perclassman floor in camStanfield pus housing this year. It has only been a week, but so far there doesn’t seem to be a rampant orgy problem.

And honestly, did anyone expect there to be? I know a lot of talk about propriety was thrown around in the debate about this last year — after all, “this is Oklahoma,” as our president was so kind as to remind us — but this is so small a baby step that I hesitate to call it progress except in the most literal sense that it’s a step in the right direction.

Don’t get me wrong. I think it’s a wonderful addition to campus. Even separate from the discussion about gender-blind housing, students should have the opportunity to live in a mixed-gender environment.

It’s a learning environment that more closely resembles life outside the academic bubble than the gender-segregated environment in the rest of the residence halls.

And from personal experience, a mix of genders can often help avoid some of the common interpersonal problems one might face from an all-female or all-male environment.

But a floor where students can live in suites with students of their same gender and just happen to live next to a suite with students of other genders is not a solution to any of the problems students raised last year.

We need to leave It’s a common-sense addition to campus living options; behind ridiculous it just doesn’t contribute anyPuritan fears thing to solving the need for about men and gender-blind housing. women cohabiting, There are students on this campus who do not fit easily, and realize there’s or safely, within the gendera lot more to based housing assignment people’s identities system we use.

That might be because they than ‘male’ and date people of their same ‘female.’” gender or because they have alternative forms of gender expression and don’t fit most people’s idea of “male” or “female.”

It might be because they no longer feel connected to their biological gender and choose to represent themselves in another way. It could be that they fall somewhere in between our strictly limiting ideas of gender. Or it may be some other entirely personal factor.

Whatever the case, or even if it’s just because some girls have more guy friends and vice versa, they are the outliers that the administration needs to think about.

Currently their only real option for on-campus housing (which is required for freshman and incredibly convenient for everyone) is private housing, which is prohibitively expensive.

This is unacceptable.

Safe, reasonably affordable on-campus housing should be available » $3,913: Cost of a double to every student. That room in Walker, Adams or Couch means every student, Towers per semester not just the ones the system was built to » $5,161: Cost of a single accommodate. room in Walker, Adams or Couch And it’s not just about Towers per semester these students who need it. What about the » $3,555: Cost of a double students who simply room in Cate Center per want to room with their semester mixed-gender friends?

One of my best » $4,443: Cost of a single room friends is a man. We’re in Cate Center per semester both clearly adults, and yet the university wants *Source: housing.ou.edu to tell us that we can’t choose to live together.

That’s just ridiculous.

Even if we were in a relationship, what right does the university have telling its consenting adult students they can’t shack up?

I know, I know; this is Oklahoma. But it’s also the 21st century. We need to start fighting for our right to choose our own lifestyle.

This co-ed floor is one small victory; it does not mean we can get complacent, because it is simply not enough.

It will not be enough until the university respects its adult students enough to allow them the freedom to make adult decisions.

We need to leave behind ridiculous Puritan fears about men and women cohabiting, and realize there’s a lot more to people’s identities than “male” and “female.”

We cannot be satisfied until every student can be sure of feeling safe in the place they call home for four years of their life.

That is Oklahoma.

What this means

— Mary Stanfield, philosophy junior

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Comedian still learning as he goes A leading figure in alternative comedy, Todd Barry performs tonight in Oklahoma City JOSHUA BOYDSTON The Oklahoma Daily

By most accounts, Todd Barry is a normal guy.

He lives in a small New York City apartment.

He jokes around about searching for wallets at Old Navy.

W h e n a s k e d w hat h e had been up to the day of the interview, he answered simply, “Just catching up on laundry.”

His persona isn’t that of a comedian, but of an everyday person.

The not-so-everyday part is that Barry is one of the biggest names in alternative comedy today, even if he doesn’t always act like it.

“I run around and do a lot of sets,” Barry said. “Last night, I just went out and performed for about 12 people.

“If you focus, you can try new things and see how things come out of your mouth when you say them,” he added. “You can work it out.”

Getting to be a big name in comedy requires a lot of time, effort and working for free. For Barry, it was no different. The 46-year-old comedian’s first big break was a “Comedy Central Presents” special that aired in 1999.

He parlayed that into guest appearances on numerous television programs, including “Chappelle’s Show,” “Flight of the Conchords” and “Louie,” along with

If you go WHAT: Todd Barry with James Nghiem and Cameron Buchholtz WHEN: 7 tonight WHERE: City Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Boulevard, Oklahoma City PRICE: $25

three full-length, critically acclaimed comedy albums.

Even with all of these projects under his belt, Barry is still figuring out how to be a better comedian.

“It’s just something that you have to have a little innate talent to do, but you keep learning as you go,” Barry said. “It’s just diving in really. You kind of do it and see what works.”

Barry has experimented with a number of different methods while growing as a comedian. He’s acted in movies like “The Wrestler” and the upcoming “Vamps,” appeared on the Food Network with Bobby Flay and directed short films.

Maybe the most peculiar tactic was his early acceptance of collaborating with musicians.

Barry has worked in jokes on Fugazi and band t-shirts on children to his repertoire, but he’s also performed his comedy in musical settings, including festivals and on the road with bands like Mates of State.

“It’s not always easy to mix

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Comedian Todd Barry has released three full-length comedy albums, acted in films like “The Wrestler” and appeared on television shows, including “Chappelle’s Show” and “Flight of the Conchords.” He performs at 7 tonight at City Arts Center in Oklahoma City. music and comedy,” Barry said. “But there’s a long history there. You’re not always sure how it’s going to work.”

“There’s challenges, but it’s fun to do festivals,” he added. “It is definitely less lonely than comedy clubs. I just like to perform in a variety of circumstances.”

Those circumstances are increasingly leaning towards festivals, like an upcoming appearance at All Tomorrow’s Parties, and non-traditional comedy markets like Birmingham and tonight’s performance in Oklahoma City, where

two OU graduates and former Student Media employees, James Nghiem and Cameron Buchholtz, will open for Barry. “[Barry’s] sarcastic delivery is top notch, and his writing is very sharp,” Nghiem said.

Perfoming in a place like Oklahoma City isn’t all that different from performing in places like Los Angeles or New York, Barry said.

“There [are] really cool people everywhere, and awful people everywhere as well,” he said. “There [are] those elitist types who [sarcastically] say ‘Oh yeah, they

There [are] really cool people everywhere, and awful people everywhere as well. There [are] those elitist types who [sarcastically] say, ‘Oh yeah, they are going to love you there.’ But I have no worries about people in Oklahoma.”

— TODD BARRY, COMEDIAN are going to love you there.’

But I have no worries about people in Oklahoma … it’s not like I’m playing for the whole state.”

And just like the normal folks in Oklahoma, the similarly normal Barry — a Florida graduate — wonders

a little bit about Tim Tebow’s habits.

“The Bible-quotesunder-his-eyes guy?” Barry asked. “I’m sure he’s a good guy, certainly never done anything to me. It is a little curious to have Bible verses below your eyes though.”

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Sufjan Stevens, T.I. on tap for fall album releases The Daily’s Matt Carney and Ryan Querbach preview notable albums releasing this fall.

Robert Plant and Band of Joy “Band of Joy” Sept. 14 Before Led Zeppelin, there was Band of Joy. Robert Plant, being the crotchety, awesome 61-year-old he is, has taken it upon himself to gather a band together, name it after one of his pre-Zepp projects, record some fresh material and trot it out on the road. His voice — shrillness intact — has aged beautifully (see 2009’s Grammy-winning duet with Alison Krauss, “Raising Sand”), so “Band of Joy” is definitely essential for anybody who’s ever played air guitar to “Stairway to Heaven,” myself included.

— MC

of Montreal “False Priest” Sept. 14

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Kevin Barnes and company turned downtown Norman into the weirdest place in the Midwest when they played their bizarre brand of performance art rock at the second edition of Norman Music Festival two springs past.

Judging by a few track leaks and an awesome summer performance of “Sex Karma” with Beyoncé’s sister Solange Knowles on “Jimmy Fallon,” of Montreal is headed in a funkier direction with its 10th studio recording. Toss whitehot superstar Janelle Monáe (who recently tweeted that the band’s album is a “musical masterpiece”) into the mix, and of Montreal is probably in for its most impressive release to date.

— MC

The Roots and John Legend “Wake Up!” Sept. 21 It’s been a while since there’s been a good hip-hop and R&B collaboration album, but the Roots and John Legend will almost certainly fix that. The talented collective’s album, “Wake Up!,” will be sure to keep listeners from dozing off. It should prove to have an excellent concoction of instrumentals and vocals, whether sung or rapped, as can be heard in the songs “The Fire” and “Wake Up Everybody.” The project will probably end up being one of the better albums this year, and is definitely something everyone should check out.

— RQ

Sufjan Stevens “The Age of Adz” Oct. 12 Sufjan hasn’t released a proper studio LP since you were in high school (unless you’re a sixth-year senior, in which case, stop reading this and go to class). “The Age of Adz” (pronounced “odds”) will mark a lot of growth from indie die’ss most sensitive big-time star since 2005’s epic masterpiece “Illinois”.

T h e a l b u m’s fourth song, “I Walked,” is current-

ly available for download at Sufjan’s website, which says that “Adz” shares thematic elements (existentialism, love, loss and the apocalypse) with his recent EP, “All Delighted People,” but sounds entirely different. Expect fewer of the lovely melodies that enthralled listeners of “Illinois” and more drum machines and sweeping, alien orchestration with backing choruses.

— MC

effort on “808s & Heartbreak,” and it will be interesting to see if he can regain praise from some of the loyal fans that he lost from his previous album. He’s definitely got the fans buzzing over the two songs he’s dropped so far, “Power” and “See Me Now,” both of which seem to show West returning to his old self. “Dark Twisted Fantasy” will most likely be a valiant effort, and, as previously mentioned, could prove to be the best hip-hop effort of the year.

— RQ

Kings of Leon “Come Around Sundown” Oct. 19 The singles from 2008’s “Only By The Night” elevated the Followill boys to arena-rock status after two excellent scruffy rock albums about partying (“Youth and Young Manhood” and “Aha Shake Heartbreak”) and another (“Because of the Times”) that built the launch pad for them to explode into superstardom. But if “Come Around Sundown” proves as crass, image-reinforcing and generally skanky as the band’s previous records, it’ll rake in a pile of cash. I’m only hoping they do it while incorporating the shamelessly gross nonsequiturs and scatback rock ‘n’ roll that endeared “Aha Shake Heartbreak” to hipsters everywhere.

— MC

Taylor Swift “Speak Now” Oct. 25

T.I. “King Uncaged” TBA

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The self-proclaimed King of the South is out of prison, and about ready to drop his seventh studio album, “King Uncaged”. T.I. started his new album’s campaign with the promo single “I’m Back” and followed that with the clubready “Got Your Back” featuring Keri Hilson. So far it seems as though the Atlanta rapper is keeping with a similar makeup to his previous albums, having some songs be more street-oriented and some being more club-oriented. Given that his previous albums have done well commercially, this one should do the same, and T.I. will probably not let his fans down with his upcoming project.

— RQ — Matt Carney, professional writing senior — Ryan Querbach, journalism junior

No Mr. West, Taylor Swift will not wait to let you finish.

Swift announced in July that “Speak Now” — one of the year’s most-anticipated recordings — would be a concept cept album, composed of confessions made to real people. e. In a summer video chat with fans, she said that each song ng is composed of “a lot of things I wanted to say in the moment ment that I didn’t.” Such personal admittance is Swift’s gold mine of lyrical content, helping sell more than 10 million copies pies of her self-titled debut and 2008’s “Fearless.” “Speak Now” ow” will easily move than half a million in the first week;; no small feat in the twilight of the recording industry.

— MC

Kid Cudi “Man on the Moon II: The Legend off Mr. Rager” Oct. 26 Kid Cudi is certainly not the most typical rapper, and d in fact can be considered in a league of his own. His twist on hip-hop is both interesting and entertaining, and it will certainly be fascinating to see whether or not his second nd album, “Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager,” will follow his first effort with success. Cudder’s approach h to music has been unique to say the least, but has allowed ed him access to a wide range of fans who love what he brings to the table. His first single ,“Erase Me,” which feaatures label-mate Kanye West, is not fantastic, so it’s hard d to say whether or not he’ll find success, but the album will ll still be worth checking out.

— RQ

Norah Jones “…Featuring” Nov. 2 Sweetie singer Norah’s been holding out on us. She’s he’s been hanging on to recordings from nearly 10 years ago otathat’ll finally see the light on “…Featuring” including notable duets with indie darlings Belle and Sebastian, M. Ward son and Gillian Welch. She might actually be the only person on the planet awesome enough to record with Q-Tip and the Foo Fighters on the same album. Willie Nelson, OutKast Kast aveand Dolly Parton all make appearances, as does the gravedwelling Ray Charles.

— MC

Kanye West “Dark Twisted Fantasy” Nov. 16 Alright rappers, Imma let you finish, but Kanye West could prove to have the best hip-hop album in 2010. West ster has a lot of pressure on him to recover from his lackluster KID CUDI (PHOTO PROVIDED)

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Student returns to football field one last time Sooner born and Sooner bred.

After receiving a battery of health tests, I The core of our university’s chant de- arrived at the Barry Switzer Center that afscribes me well. I was born to a crimson- ternoon and settled among the more than bleeding, Aggie-hating, Hang-‘em Horns 25 other young men. family. I was raised to hate orange, praise The question, “Are you trying out for kickOU’s great coaches and exhibit extreme er?” was frequently asked and was often folemotional swings based on the team’s per- lowed by a comically surprised look from formance. So, naturally, as a kid I dreamed a lineman-hopeful or potential running about becoming the next great Sooner back, physically unbelievable candidates legend. for kicker.

To sum up my football experience in high We were greeted by the coaches and staff school, let’s just say I was an average player who gave us a minor pep talk peppered with on an average team. phrases to keep us from getting our hopes I was an offensive lineman who certainly up too high. They already needed to cut saw his share of the gridiron and, in my ju- their roster down without the addition of us nior year, had an injury to my football-hopefuls. knee that nearly crumbled We g o t o n t h e f i e l d a n d I’ve put my my hopes of ever becoming warmed up, then split off into a Sooner. After returning my dreams of Owen different groups. senior season, it was deemed They slapped a strip of creamField in the past. colored that I would not move on to athletic tape name That is, until last tag on our chests and sent us Division I football for my favorite team.

Thursday morning out to demonstrate our ability.

Oh, well. Sometimes dreams when I decided to Naturally, since I played on the don’t come true. offensive line in high school, become a walk- you think I’d try out with the Flash-forward to today. I’m on.” in the best shape of my life, but linemen. But having lost the main terms of playing football, jority (read: all) of my defensive let’s say I’m, well, washed up. I’ve put my tackle-dominating bulk, I wasn’t sure where dreams of Owen Field in the past. That is, to go. (Damn this collegiate “get healthy” until last Thursday morning when I decided craze.) to become a walk-on.

I stuck with my line brothers, but at a difYes, a walk-on: the guys who either have ferent position: deep snapper. talent and didn’t get noticed or — in my I’ll be honest, I’m no deep snapper. Dad case — the guys who are hopelessly in love always told me, “You should get experience with the team and want to be a part of it in deep-snapping the ball. Everyone needs any way. good special teams members.” He probably Our sports editor jokingly suggested I try started saying this once I stopped growing it while we were working late the night be- at age 16 when I was 6-feet tall and weighed fore the tryout. As infinitesimally small the 225 pounds, too small for the big leagues. chance I’d have success was, I filed it away My audition wasn’t the caliber they were in my mind. looking for. In fact, I stunk. I didn’t get the The following morning, I woke up, opened call to come back Friday to practice with the my laptop and submitted my application in team. a flash of impulsive decision-making.

Did I really expect for some Sooner Magic Thursday was spent printing and signing to assist me in my quest to be a walk-on? Not documents with titles like “Head Injuries” really. It was just an experience I had always and “Waivers.” I was too excited to really wanted to have. Now I’ve finally received a read them; I mean, I scanned them, but I little closure. But for those two hours, I was had limited time to prepare. back in my childhood dreams.

The requirements were simple: Bring I’m Sooner born and Sooner bred, and I’ll workout-appropriate clothing, a pair of ten- be a Sooner when I’m dead. nis shoes and cleats. Luckily, my roommate had some cleats, even though they may have — Luke Atkinson, been a size too small. broadcast and electronic media senior

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Top: Daily sports columnist Luke Atkinson waits before walk-on tryouts for the OU football team Thursday afternoon outside the Barry Switzer Center. Atkinson did not get called back.

Right: Luke Atkinson approaches the Barry Switzer Center before Thursday’s football walk-on tryouts.

No walk-on spots offered OU football coach Bob Stoops said Friday he doesn’t expect any of the participants from Thursday’s tryouts will be offered a spot on the team’s roster.

“I appreciate the guys who came out. We don’t take their time for granted. But none of them will be playing for us this season,” he said.

— Daily staff reports

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Midfielder Zoe Dickson battles for the ball against Stephen F. Austin University sophomore Jordyn Young Sunday night at John Crain Field.

Sooners win first road game Friday against Tulsa Soccer defeats the Tulsa Golden Hurricane Friday night, wins 1-0 TOBI NEIDY The Oklahoma Daily

OU soccer collected its first road win of the season, downing Tulsa 1-0 Friday night at the Hurricane Soccer Complex. The Sooners improved to 1-1 for the season and 7-2 in the all-time series against the Golden Hurricane.

“We were happy to come away with a win on the road,” coach Nicole Nelson said. “That is obviously something we stressed in the offseason and it’s nice to see the early result.”

F re s h m a n S a m a n t h a H o w e l l scored the game-winning goal from three yards out on the left side in the 52nd minute, her first career goal as a Sooner.

Howell finished the night with three shots and one shot on goal.

“Sam is one of the most competitive ONLINE AT OUDAILY.COM prospects I’ve recruited,” Nelson said.

“She is a gritty midfielder with ability to » Story: Read the game story from Sunday win balls in the air and on the ground. night’s home opener against the Stephen F. She also does a great job keeping pos- Austin Lumberjacks session in the attack.”

Sophomore goalkeeper Kelsey 18-yard box.”

After going scoreless and outshot Devonshire had four saves on the night. After making some costly errors 5-2 in the first half, the Sooners turned in decision-making against OSU last their offense around in the second half weekend, the sophomore out of North and gained a 6-3 shot advantage.

Tulsa was led on offense by midRichland Hills, Texas, posted a shutout fielder Bradi Hinch with two shots and on the road against Tulsa.

“Kelsey is an exceptional goalkeeper two shots on goal. Golden Hurricane who we are confident will excel as one forward Kelsey Killion had three shots of the top players at her position in the during the contest with one shot on Big 12,” Nelson said. “She is excep- goal.

Both teams ended the contest with tional at reading the game and has the ability to break up potential goal scor- eights shots and three corner kicks ing opportunities in and around the apiece.

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Defensive specialist and freshman Andrea McQuaid serves against the University of Miami Saturday night.

OU takes 2nd at tournament The OU volleyball team opened their season at home this weekend by hosting the Nike Invitational tournament. The Sooners finished second out of four teams.

Wichita State 3, Oklahoma 0

The Sooners committed 26 attack errors and five service errors in a 0-3 (-20, -21, -19) loss to Wichita State, OU’s fifth straight loss to the Shockers.

Junior Brianne Barker had her first double-double of the season, notching 18 assists and 10 digs.

Oklahoma 3, UT-Arlington 1

The team fixed their offensive miscues to beat UT-Arlington in straight sets (-17, -15, -19) Saturday afternoon. Senior Sarah Freudenrich paved the way with 11 kills and a nearlyperfect .917 hitting percentage. Junior Suzy Boulavsky also had 11 kills.

Oklahoma 3, Miami 0

Boulavsky led the Sooners in a solid finish against Miami (Fla.) Saturday night with 14 kills.

The Sooners beat the Hurricanes 3-1 (-21, -23, 16-25, -19).

— Daily staff reports

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Height, game experience a concern for cornerbacks Much has been made of the OU football team’s defense this offseason. Despite the loss of defensive tackle Gerald McCoy to the NFL draft, the Sooners appear to have plenty of talent on that side of the ball.

Coaches say senior defensive tackle Adrian Taylor is recovering nicely from last season’s ankle injury and could see time in Saturday’s home season opener against Utah State.

The linebacker group will be held down by hard-hitters junior Travis Lewis and sophomore Ronnell Lewis.

Deeper in the defensive backfield, seniors Jonathan Nelson and Quinton Carter bring significant experience and athleticism to the safety positions.

The only real question mark for the OU defense in 2010 seems to be at cornerback, where sophomore Demontre Hurst and junior Jamell Fleming will be guarding the edges for the Sooners.

Defensive coordinator Brent Venables has said good defense starts on the inside, but a strong inside for the Sooners will go to waste if the two corners can’t contain opposing wide receivers.

That’s a lot of pressure for a couple of defensive backs who have spent a large majority of their collegiate careers on special teams.

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Two concerns come to mind when considering these two players as starters for OU’s defense: size and experience.

Fleming, from Arlington, Texas, is 5 feet 11 inches.

Hurst, a Lancaster, Texas, native, is only 5 feet 9 inches.

Cornerbacks are often relatively short, but this pair’s height could still be a disadvantage for the Sooners.

Take Florida State, for example. When the Seminoles come to Norman in midSeptember, they will bring a wide receiver group with no one under 5 foot 10 inches, and four receivers over 6 feet tall, including the 6-foot-6 sophomore Rodney Smith.

Talented as the Sooners’ two new cornerbacks might be, a 5-foot-9 defensive back matched up against a 6-foot-6 wide receiver is a tough matchup, and the OU defense could suffer from having to bring extra help from the safeties.

Experience is another concern. Neither corner has had extensive experience at the position, only filling in occasionally as backups while spending most of their time on special teams.

It’s said practice makes perfect, but only game experience will show what these two corners are made of.

How well they handle their new roles will go a long way toward determining how successful the Sooners’ 2010 season will be.

— Aaron Colen, journalism senior

JAMELL FLEMING Junior cornerback — 5 feet 11 inches Hometown: Arlington, Texas 2009: Appeared in 12 games; Second on team in special teams tackles (9); Had a season-high four tackles against Idaho State.

DEMONTRE HURST Sophomore cornerback — 5 feet 9 inches Hometown: Lancaster, Texas 2009: Had a sack for a loss of 15 yards vs. Texas; Broke up a pass against Idaho State; Backup cornerback, started on special teams.

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