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Sooners sign 10-year deal with FOX

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OU athletics will be shown in four states and in regional markets toBi NEiDY

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OU and FOX Sports Network have entered a 10-year partnership that will distribute at least 1,000 hours of OU athletics annually on a variety of FOX Sports channels, according to an announcement made

Wednesday.

The program will reach approximately 9 million TV homes in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana and will televise several Sooner sporting events, including football, men’s and women’s basketball and several studio shows such as OU’s weekly

“As we began this process, our goals were to develop a network that was widely distributed and sustainable.”

a network that was widely distributed and sustainable,” OU athletic director Joe Castiglione said. “We accomplished those goals by placing Oklahoma programming on visible platforms and in a model that allows us to remain strong and viable JoE CAsTiGLioNE, for a long period of time. oU ATHLETiC DirECTor Outside the four states, Sooner Sports TV also will football press conference. appear on national chan“As we began this process, nels such as FOX College our goals were to develop

Sports, which is distributed by cable providers or on regional sports packages offered by satellite providers.

Most of the content, including a web-exclusive component that features live and archived games, will be produced by OU’s in-house production unit, SoonerVision. tobi Neidy tneidy@gmail.com

Scholarships distributed directly to bursar chaSE cook Campus reporter

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Students may notice a more consistent distribution of their federal loans next spring as OU officials work out the kinks in the university’s new scholarship distribution system.

Scholarships distributed by the OU Foundation and the Regents’ Fund have been applied directly to students’ bursar accounts since August. Previously, these scholarships were awarded in check form, and students had the freedom to cash the check and could use the money for whatever they wanted, even though the check was intended for educational purposes.

Now the scholarships pay for any charges on students’ bursar accounts before the money can be withdrawn. The only scholarships from those funds that don’t go directly to the bursar are those targeted toward specific items such as computer equipment.

This new system ensures these checks are used for educational purposes before anything else, said Brad Burnett, enrollment and student financial services associate vice president.

“I like that it gets students’ accounts paid down,” Burnett said. “I absolutely think it’s the right thing to do and is beneficial for students.”

Applying the scholarships directly to the student’s account also helps OU stay in line with federal

Performance Art

OU still ranked 101st in nation Three colleges tied OU for this spot on the list aRiaNNa PickaRD Campus reporter

OU held its position from last year as 101st among national universities as the U.S. News and World Report released its Best Colleges Rankings for 2013 on Wednesday.

OU shares the spot with Iowa State University, University of California – Riverside, University of Nebraska – Lincoln and the University of Tennessee, according to the report.

“We are pleased but not surprised by the latest rankings in the US News and World Report,” OU spokesman Michael Nash said. “While we do not place great emphasis on these rankings because they’re not based upon the actual evaluation of the quality of our academic programs, the University of Oklahoma has continued to grow in the number of highly-ranked academic degree programs offered to our students at an affordable cost.”

The rankings are based upon a methodology that quantitatively scores universities in various areas, according to new organization’s website.

Undergraduate academic reputation, retention, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources, graduation rate and alumni giving rate each represent a specified percentage of the score.

arianna Pickard arianna.j.pickard-1@ou.edu

AT A GLANCE OU rankings Top public schools: 46th Grad School Rankings public Health: 25th library and information studies: 22nd best law schools: 82nd Source: US News & World Report

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Students in the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts’ performance & sound course crawl across Boyd Street carrying flowers and sparkling grape juice as part of a performance art piece Wednesday. Two groups of students crawled from evans Hall to McFarlin Methodist Church, stopping along the way to perform rituals they said symbolized subservience to forces of government, administration and religion. Visit OUDaily.com to view a video of the performance.

DreAM COUrSe

Multiple colleges combine to teach course 134 students enrolled in the course for fall SaRah SMith Campus reporter

With aid from a university program, three OU professors of law, religious studies and biology have organized a new class in an attempt to bend the minds of their students.

Professors Joseph Thai, Tom Boyd and Douglas Mock applied for Dream Course funding last year for a course entitled “MindBending: Religion, Law, and Science.”

President Boren initiated the Dream Course program in 2004-2005 to grant courses extra funding to bring in guest lecturers who are experts in the field of the course, according to the

Provost’s memo on Dream Courses for the 2012-2013 academic year.

Thai, Boyd and Mock found themselves drawn together last year in a capstone seminar, Thai said.

“We seemed to stir up enough controversy at the seminar that we thought it was worthwhile to carry on the conversation and broaden it,” Thai said.

Thai got the idea for the class from a similar course he had seen as a student at Harvard, he said.

“The basic idea really is to get students to think outside of the box,” Thai said.

“That’s really the function of the university -- to get them to think across boxes and to think more deeply and broadly just about basic questions.”

The professors want students to appreciate that

no discipline has the right answer to a question, Thai said.

“Except maybe science,” Mock said.

The main selling point for

“The basic idea is they come in here with an open mind.

They should listen, and they should think and engage.”

JosEpH THAi, miND-bENDiNG profEssor

the class is that there will be no tests, no exam and no reading assignments — only reading suggestions, Mock said.

“The basic idea is they come in here with an open mind,” Thai said. “They should listen, and they

should think and engage.”

Each of the professors will give three lectures during the semester and argue with each other in relation to the class discussion, Boyd said. Each class consists of an hour of what Thai called a “provocateur’s lecture,” in which the speaker says something intentionally controversial or thoughtprovoking, followed by an hour of discussion.

“I like that it’s a safe place where we can have very blunt, very open conversations about things that people are usually too afraid to talk about,” anthropology senior Shaista Fenwick said.

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Lindsey Ruta, campus editor Chase Cook and Jake Morgan, assistant editors dailynews@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666 oudaily.com • Twitter: @OUDaily

Course: Professors to bring in guest speakers Continued from page 1

Today around campus Mid-day music will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in the food court of Oklahoma Memorial Union. Dillon Gourd will play the guitar.

A free music workshop featuring AfroCaribbean music and dance will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Catlett Music Center’s Pittman Recital Hall.

A lecture entitled “Anti-Documentary Ambition in the Art of Alfred Jacob Miller” will be presented by professor Kenneth Haltman of the OU School of Art from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium in Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Do you want to see your organization’s campus event here?

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alumni also have been attending. One hundred sixty-six seats in the class still officially remain unfilled, according to oZONE. The professors also are bringing in guest speakers throughout the semester. The guest lecturers will be presenting topics like “Thinking About Thinking”

by Alan Dershowitz from Harvard’s College of Law and “Nonsense on Stilts” by Massimo Pigliucci from City University of New York’s philosophy department.

“Regardless of the field of study you are in and regardless of what way you began to try to think things through, you’re going to employ your imagination to do it,” said Boyd during the lecture Tuesday, and included examples of imagination in science, law and religion.

“Nothing is off-limits,” Boyd said of the class’s content, so to choose the content for each lecture, Thai said the professors “pick big subjects that each of [them] can hit in [their] own differKYven Zhao/The Daily ent ways.”

Dr. Douglas Mock, biology professor, sits on a desk during a mind-bending course lecture Tuesday at And for Page Grossman,

“Regardless of the field of study you are in and regardless of what way you began to try to think things through, you’re going to employ your imagination to do it.”

Tom boyd, mind-bending professor

Nielsen Hall. Dr. Mock will retire from OU this year and plans to move with his wife to Virginia, where he will pursue his life-long passion of bird-watching.

journalism and art history senior, that idea fills a purpose.

“I always need one class that’s not just structured and very much just about teaching,” Grossman said.

“It’s more about conversation and thinking about the world around me.”

Sarah Smith sarah.c.smith-1@ou.edu

Intramural Update: Regular Season Flag Football Entries | 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Huston Huffman Center front desk, $60 per team (free if all team members live in OU housing). Contact Jonathan Dewhirst, (405) 325-3053, for more information.

Intramural Update: Healthy Sooners 5K Entries | 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Huston Huffman Center, 5K is FREE. Contact Jonathan Dewhirst, (405) 325-3053, for more information.

Intramural Update: Flag Football Captains Meeting | 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Huston Huffman Center front desk, $60 per team (free if all team members live in OU housing). Contact Jonathan Dewhirst, (405) 325-3053, for more information.

Anti-Documentary Ambition in the Art of Alfred Jacob Miller | 7 p.m. in the Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Alfred Jacob Miller is best known for his Romantic watercolors of fur traders and western Indians. He based these works over the decades on field sketches he had executed in 1837 for William Drummond Stewart, a Scottish nobleman seeking a remembrance of his travels in the American West. Miller. Kenneth Haltman, H. Russell Pitman Professor of Art History, History of American Art and the Art of the American West, OU School of Art and Art History will present the lecture.

Friday, Sept. 14

Intramural Update: 4 vs. 4 Volleyball Begins | Matches played on the Huston Huffman Center South Courts, brackets can be found online. Contact Jonathan Dewhirst, (405) 325-3053, for more information.

FREE Movie: “BRAVE” | 6, 9 p.m. and midnight in Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Come and see this summer PIXAR release before its available on DVD! Presented by the Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council.

Religion, Law and Science meets 12:302:30 p.m. Tuesdays in Nielsen Hall, Room 270 Professors: Tom Boyd, religious studies

Joseph Thai, law Douglas Mock, biology Next guest: James P. Carse will present a lecture titled “Why Are There Many Religions But No Such Thing as Religion?” on Sept. 25 Source: Course professors

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Thursday, Sept. 13

University Theatre Season Ticket Sale | Season tickets are on sale now by calling the OU Fine Art Box Office, (405) 325-4101. Tickets are $75 and include admission to nine theatre productions.

AT A GLANCE CAS 4970 MindBending

Friday Continued

Sooner Volleyball: OU vs. SMU | 7 p.m. in the McCasland Field House. Visit soonersports.com for more information.

Masala Concert Series: Grupo AfroCaribeno | 8 p.m. in Sharp Concert Hall, Catlett Music Center. Call the Fine Arts Box Office, (405) 325-4101, for more information.

Art a la Cart | 6 p.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Student teams will race against each other in a new game called PICTO. Designed by OU student Cait Gamble, PICTO uses student drawings to help find original artwork in the museum’s galleries, rack up points and further enjoy the museum’s collection. Live music from BYX- OU A Capella Group, and a short film by deadCENTER: The Assignment (27 min.). Plus short films by OU student filmmakers.

Saturday, Sept Saturday Sept. 15

Intramural Update: Healthy Sooners 5K | Race begins near the union at 7:30 a.m. Contact Jonathan Dewhirst, (405) 325-3053, for more information.

Sooner Volleyball: OU vs. Arkansas-Little Rock | noon in the McCasland Field House. Visit soonersports.com for more information.

FREE Matinee: “BRAVE” | 1 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Come and see this summer PIXAR release before its available on DVD! Presented by the Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council.

Sooner Volleyball: OU vs. New Mexico | 7 p.m. in the McCasland Field House. Visit soonersports.com for more information.

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Exhibition Closing: Oklahoma Clay, Frankoma Pottery | Come and enjoy the final day of this magical exhibition at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.

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Language

New Chinese business course to be offered at OU Nadia Enchassi Campus Reporter

A non-credit language course geared toward acclimating students to Chinese business conversation made its debut at OU this month.

The weekly course, entitled Intro to Business with Chinese, meets on weekends and focuses on the basic skills needed to conduct business specifically in the Mandarin Chinese language, said Sharon Gou, director of OU’s Confucius Institute. Topics covered in the course include formal introductions, dining and lodging, money matters, asking for directions, marketing and business negotiations.

“The class is, basically, a conversational class designed for people who are interested in doing business, particularly with China, by learning some of the commonly used terms in most Chinese business conversations,” Gou said.

The institute made the

decision to start the course because of the recent increase of Oklahoma companies that are doing business with China, Gou said.

“We actually offered the class [at OU-Tulsa] a few years back,” Gou said. “But, then, we had to stop for a couple of years because we no longer had faculty available to teach.”

It wasn’t until last year that Xuetang Yu from Beijing Normal University was invited as visiting faculty, Gou said.

Yu has expertise with teaching Chinese that applies to business settings and eagerly accepted the chance to teach the course, Gou said.

“I am very much enjoying teaching the class,” Yu said.

“The students aren’t shy at all, so they are always asking questions and showing a lot of interest.”

In order to advertise the course to students, a mass email with relevant contact information was sent to the OU student community, Gou said.

Students interested in the course then emailed or

Culture

Chinese Corner course offers more Class teaches culture, language Melodie Lettkeman Campus Reporter

A free cultural class on campus is returning for its fourth year to bring Chinese language and culture to OU students, faculty and staff.

Chinese Corner, an informal class hosted by the OU Confucius Institute, begins Sept. 19 and is open to anyone on campus looking to better their Chinese skills or learn more about Chinese culture.

The program lasts 12 weeks, and each session brings almost 20 people, with some sessions welcoming more, said director Sharon Gou. The activities expose students to various parts of Chinese culture by incorporating various Chinese activities.

“In the past, we’ve made dumplings and talked about Chinese cuisine; we’ve had Tai Chi performances,” she said.

Previous activities also have included games of Chinese chess, karaoke, films and discussion on Chinese issues, Gou said.

The program began four years ago in response to a need for Chinese conversational opportunities for students from the Journey

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to China program and other Chinese travel programs at OU, she said.

The program also serves as a way to educate people who may have never been exposed to the culture, Gou said.

“We believe Americans do not know about China as the Chinese students know about America,” she said. “Chinese people and American people have a lot in common. We hope to create an authentic environment … for American students to learn about China and … build true friendship with the Chinese.”

Melodie Lettkeman melodie.lettkeman@gmail.com

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called the institute to receive a registration form, Gou said.

More than 20 people requested further information, but few were able to commit because of the course’s $120 cost or time constraints, Gou said.

There are currently six students in the course, and, although that’s not a large number, the size is quite ideal for a conversational course, Gou said “The students are very enthusiastic about it all right now,” Gou said.

Advertising senior Jackie

Xue Tang Yu, a Chinese instructor with the OU Confucius Institute, teaches a business Chinese course Saturday in Cross Center.

Fulkerson said the class has been a great way to focus on one of the most difficult aspects of the Chinese language - listening and speaking.

“A relaxed learning environment has been created to allow all of us to practice speaking while being taught about various Chinese business communications in a welcoming atmosphere,” Fulkerson said in an email.

“It’s an invaluable experience for those of us who want that extra experience outside

Continued from page 1 loan regulations, Burnett said. Federal loans are based on need, and scholarships alter that need. If the students’ scholarships help them meet their financial need as determined by the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, the amount of the federal loan gets decreased, he said.

This led to students sometimes receiving less money in the spring than the fall because the scholarships weren’t always calculated until after the disbursement process, Burnett said. Now that a lot of the scholarships are traveling straight to the bursar, this process should help ensure the amount of federal aid is accurate at the onset, he said.

Once the scholarships are applied to a student’s

account, excess money is applied to a student’s bank account if that student has direct deposit. If a direct deposit is not set up, then the student can pick up a check at the bursar’s office.

“The goal is to get the money into the student’s hands as quickly as possible,” he said.

This should reduce the number of paper checks being cut each year by entities like the OU Foundation, Burnett said.

The OU Foundation is a private entity that manages donations to the university.

The donations are put into the foundation’s account, and the money is distributed according to the donor’s wish — which sometimes includes constructing new buildings and providing scholarships. The foundation spent about $87 million in fiscal year 2011 on university-affiliated expenses ranging from general supplies to salary

BY THE NUMBERS Scholarships

2010-11 $4,263 $36,851,526 in academic scholarships were given

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About how much was awarded to each student.

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that some even stay hours after class just to review and continue practicing,” Yu said.

Gou said the excitement could be felt in the institute as well.

“I think it’s one that can really add value to students’ future endeavors,” Gou said

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of our required classes.”

Because of the positive feedback from everyone so far, Gou said the institute is hopeful that the course will only grow bigger with time, that higher-leveled courses will be soon existent and that the courses may even eventually be offered on actual company sites.

Surprisingly, most of the students in the course are OU students who have majors completely unrelated to business, Yu said.

“Still, they interact so well

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supplements, according to the foundation’s tax filings.

Of that $87 million, about $13.6 million was spent on “student and faculty awards,” which was mostly used to fund student scholarships, foundation president Guy Patton said.

The foundation is able to process payments quickly now, Patton said. The bursar changes -- along with other changes by the foundation -has cut down the time it takes to process 900 requests, he said. It used to take a week, but now it takes about two hours.

There also are fewer checks moving around in students’ pockets, so there should be a smaller number of duplicate checks and stop payments happening due to students losing checks, Patton said.

Implementing the new bursar system came with difficulties, but most of those were relegated to communication, Burnett said. Students weren’t aware of the changes, so they would call and ask

about the scholarships. Most of the time, the students just needed to contact the department giving out the scholarship to get everything squared away, Burnett said.

OU plans to continue distributing scholarships directly to the bursar, and officials will look for changes in the amount of money students are borrowing, Burnett said.

Oklahoma students graduating from public four-year institutions and private nonprofit institutions in 2010 had an average debt of $20,708, according to a report by the Project on Student Debt. The project is an initiative of the Institute for College Access and Success, which is a nonprofit focused on college affordability.

“Hopefully in the long run it allows students to borrow less,” Burnett said.

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OPINION

A columnist shares her recent reminder that veterans mental health care is not a far off issue. It affects students right here at OU. oudaily.com/opinion

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THUMBS UP: Students are taking the time to attend the Presidential Dream Course, “Mindbending: Religion, Law, and Science,” even without recieving credit. (Page 1)

EDITORIAL

Okla. senator should not have politicized ambassador’s death Our View: The death of Libyan ambassador

like this. Later, after the shock has warn off and his should not be used for a cheap political shot. family and co-workers have had time to grieve, then it’s time to consider what may have led up to On Tuesday, what Pentagon officials are calling a these events and what we can learn from them. planned attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya resulted Until then, the administration should be focusing in the death of Christopher Stevens, the ambassaon the proper immediate response. dor to Libya, and three of his staff.

So even if Inhofe does have a legitimate critique In response to this tragic loss to the diplomatic of the president’s policies (not that it could be community, most politicians followed the tradition found in his remarks), the day after the high-profile of putting aside politics to focus on Stevens’ service death of four Americans is not the time to bring it and the need to bring his killers to justice. forward. No one will take his remarks seriously if it But not our Senator James Inhofe. seems like he is reaching for cheap political points.

In a statement Wednesday, Inhofe, R-Okla., Furthermore, it’s far too early to make any subshamelessly used the death of an American stantial comments on these events. civil servant to attack the president and his This is a developing diplomatic situation.

The Our View foreign policy. is the majority U.S. officials know little about the attack or opinion of “Sadly, America has suffered as a result the identity of the attackers. Some possibilThe Daily’s of President Obama’s failure to lead and his ities can be drawn from details of the situanine-member failed foreign policy of appeasement and tion in Libya, but a senator (or a presideneditorial board apology,” he said. tial candidate) should be the first to know Such lack of compassion and such an unrushed assumptions are dangerous. professional response to a delicate situation is an Such uninformed comments risk worsening a embarassment to the state he represents: our state. complex situation before all the circumstances are Though he did offer condolences to Stevens’ famunderstood and could tie the hands of the adminily, using his death as a platform for cheap political istration and the diplomatic corps as they prepare shots is inexcusable. the proper response. As a member of the Armed Though, to be fair, he simply may have been tak- Services Committee and the Foreign Relations ing a cue from his party’s candidate, who released a Committee, Inhofe should know better. similar statement that morning.

Sooners expect better of our leaders.

Of course, there is a time and a place for serious Comment on this on OUDaily.com conversations about the implications of tragedies

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Parents should not teach creationsim Much like the teaching of creationism that he tried to defend, Steven Zoeller’s article, “Parents should teach creationism if they believe in it,” was the apotheosis of nonsense.

Is he truly trying to aquit 21st century parents of their teaching creationism to children by invoking the overly used alibi that society has no right to question what parents teach their kids, well, because if parents believe the lesson to be true, then they are allowed to teach it to their children?

What about parents who teach their children that gays and lesbians deserve their hatred and contempt? What about parents who teach their children that bigotry toward black Americans is completely justified?

Halfway through his strikingly callow article, Zoeller suggests that truth is what parents are striving for in their teaching of values and how the world works, but maintains an anemic position that truth somehow is relative to what a parent “truly” believes.

Parents who teach this nonsense to children and attempt to slyly incorporate this biblical babble into our school systems should not, as Zoeller seems to want, be let off the hook so easily. They should be met with contempt and facts; the latter being one the religious appear to shrink from.

Douglas McKnight, German and history senior

COLUMN

No president has ever reduced the debt

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OPINION COLUMNIST o cater to voters increasingly concerned about the rising national debt and deficits, both presidential candidates are outlining their plans to balance the budget.

President Barack Obama’s plan involves some spending Mark Brockway cuts coupled with increased mark.d.brockway@ou.edu taxes on the wealthiest portion of the population. Gov. Mitt Romney’s plan promises tax cuts and deep spending cuts to make up the difference.

Both plans seem to have some degree of legitimacy, but don’t be fooled. Neither candidate, despite their promises, will reduce the national debt by a single penny.

This strategy is perhaps one of the more insidious political tricks used by politicians to gain votes. By blaming the other party, both Democrats and Republicans have portrayed their candidate as the only one concerned about federal debt. Unfortunately, both parties are equally to blame for the drastic rise in deficit spending and national debt since 1980.

First, I should clarify a few general issues about the debt.

Contrary to popular belief, foreign governments do not primarily hold the debt. They make up about one-third of the pool. China and Japan, our two largest debtors, make up approximately $2.3 trillion of the $15 trillion total debt.

The U.S. government holds most of the debt. The government borrows money from different agencies and trusts, most notably the social security trust taxpayers pay into.

Also, U.S. debt is not the same as a car or a home loan. The government sells treasury securities as an investment that pays a small amount of interest over time. Many entities hold these securities to make interest.

In short, the national debt is simply not as horrible an issue as the candidates lead on. The debt is important because it reflects greater interest payments and potential for

future pitfalls, but the Statue of Liberty will not be repossessed because we didn’t make a payment for three months.

So now that we’ve calmed the fire a bit, let’s ask who, among the two candidates, will decrease the national debt.

In order to reduce the debt, Obama or Romney would have to do something that no president has done. Even former President Bill Clinton, who won praise for his balanced budget, did not pay the debt down in any significant way.

Former President Ronald Reagan, who many claim is the messiah of conservative economic policy, nearly tripled the debt during his eight years in office.

ABC News has released a short, competent analysis of six key points in national debt history from 1917 to present that I strongly encourage anyone interested in this topic to read, which you can find on OUDaily.com.

The most striking aspect of these events is the bipartisan nature of debt increase. Both parties have increased the debt over previously established ceilings.

We like to believe our vote matters, especially during hotly contested presidential elections. When we enter the ballot box, we believe we have some small amount of power to influence the course of our nation. In reality, when choosing someone to lead us out of high national debt, our power is nonexistent.

When making your decision to vote, do not fool yourself.

Both candidates will spend your money like a teenage heir to a Russian oil kingpin.

There is no silver lining here. You cannot write to your congressman or stage a protest. Apparently the one thing you can do is pay down the debt yourself, according to the Treasury Department. Right on the home page is a link that encourages you to make a contribution.

So if you happen to have an extra trillion dollars lying around, send the government a check.

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olely accountOPINION COLUMNIST ing for about 0.1 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, the Athabasca oil sands that feed the Keystone XL pipeline are far from an advanced solution to the energy Andrew Sartain dilemma lingering over andrew.sartain@ou.edu the world. More realistic and profitable solutions lie in energy diversity and a reconceptualization of how we get and use energy.

But in the spirit of open mindedness, let’s envision the glass half full.

The Keystone XL transports synthetic crude oil from the tar sands in Alberta, Canada, through the Midwest U.S. to outlets including Houston, Texas, and Cushing, Okla. Many have claimed this will allow the U.S. to wean off our energy dependence on the Middle East. To distinguish the truth behind such a claim, we must better understand the source, distribution and destination behind the process.

The Canadian tar sands consist of a molasses-like mixture made up of about 90 percent sand, clay and water, as well as about 10 percent bitumen. Bitumen is a sandy tar mixture that can be purified and refined into crude oil.

The oil sands lie beneath a vast network of boreal forests and rock that make the bitumen expensive to attain, difficult to access and even more so to refine and transport.

All in all, the original Keystone project cost $5.2 billion, and the new additions will tack on $7 billion to the project.

Keep in mind, mining and refining the tar sands is three times as conducive to greenhouse gas emissions in comparison to average oil production.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers projects tar sands production to reach 4.7 million barrels of oil per day by 2025, less than one-third of Saudi Arabia at full capacity.

Canada uses around 2 million barrels per day, which means only 2.7 million barrels are available for export per day. Even if the U.S. attained 100 percent of Canadian exported oil from the tar sands, which is irrational, the U.S. only would be able to sustain about 11 out of 19 million barrels per day.

Realistically, the U.S. likely will be able to import no more than 1.3 million barrels per day from Canada.

Does this sound like energy security?

The XL expansion that would “be of such great benefit” to the economy will pass through six states down to the Gulf — an appealing stimulus if those states actually were to benefit from the oil pipeline.

However, an independent study by the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations Global Labor Institute revealed the crude oil going to the Gulf of Mexico has little intention of U.S. use and will be shipped to Asia. This is due to the profitable return possible from the sale of the oil outweighing the potential return from using it.

Additionally, if any sort of accident was to occur in this region, it would be detrimental. The Ogallala Aquifer — a regional water source that serves more than 300,000 people and about 27 percent of the irrigated land of the U.S. — is heavily susceptible to contamination.

TransCanada argued, “the U.S. needs 10 million barrels per day of imported oil,” and that need should not be compared to alternative energy possibilities. We would rather get oil from Canada over Saudi Arabia or Venezuela.

Wouldn’t you rather get off oil altogether? Energy security is energy diversity. Like the alcoholic who orders one more glass or the drug addict who takes one more bump, we are hesitating to move on from a past love — a love we have accepted as deteriorating, disappearing and detrimental to our future.

Readily available is not the top priority; cheap, clean and safe aren’t even applicable in this situation. We must shift our focus from words of short-term value.

Keep in mind availability does not always mean sustainability and neither cheap, costly nor effective mean efficient.

Andrew Sartain is an interdisciplinary perspectives on the environment and nonprofit management senior.

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| FOOTBALL: Senior defensive end R.J. Washington looks to live up to the lofty, five-star billing that he earned coming out of high school.

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Five years after first scouting her, goalkeepers coach Graeme Abel still can recall a save Kelsey Devonshire made that let him know how special a player she was.

“I remember when we recruited her, she was playing against a young lady called Clarissa Wedemeyer, who was a youth U.S national team member,” Abel said. “I remember her striking a ball in the top corner from about 15 yards away and Kelsey getting a hand on it. I was like there was no way that kid should even get close to that ball.”

H o w e v e r, Devonshire, a senior f ro m No r t h Richland Hills, Texas, did. And from that point forGRAEME ward, Abel ABEL said he has only seen her improve.

“I’m proud to have seen how far she has come in the past three or four years,” Abel said. “She’s gotten much better with her feet and she has matured tremendously as a goalkeeper. She gets better and better every day and definitely has a future in the game.”

What makes Devonshire’s success and progress most impressive is her size. While typical goalkeepers range from 5-foot-10 to six feet tall, Devonshire is listed as 5-foot-7 — and that is likely being generous.

Devonshire doesn’t shy away from her size, saying her other skills make up for her height.

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Senior goalkeeper Kelsey Devonshire has started at OU since her freshman year and is on pace to break both the all-time saves and shutout records. Devonshire is undersized for a goalkeeper but makes up for it with athleticism, goalkeepers coach Graeme Abel said.

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Abel said Devonshire’s advanced play despite her size goes against the norm as far as goalies go.

“She’s not your stereotypical goalkeeper, she’s 5-foot-6, 5-foot-7 max, but she plays the position like she’s 5-foot11,” Abel said. “I think she’s broken the mold herself in terms of gaining the reputation as a goalkeeper who is slightly undersized but plays

even when giving up early goals, like when Nebraska scored against the Sooners early in the first half of the season opener.

She recorded eight saves in that game, seven of which came after that goal, and, as a result, she fueled her team to a 2-1 victory.

Devonshire said she attributes these triumphs to her mental toughness.

“You know everyone has a different reaction to a goal,” she said. “There are a couple times where I want to hang my head, but you can’t let it get to you. It’s one of those things where you can’t let it get to you, if you do, then you are going to miss the next one and the next one and then its 5-0 in a matter of minutes.”

Currently, Devonshire is on pace to break OU’s all-time saves record. She came into the season with 289 saves and currently sits at 331. The existing record holder is former OU goalkeeper Catherine Wade (2001-2004) with 345 saves.

Devonshire is averaging 5.25 saves per game, and if she keeps up that pace, she could break the record in three games.

Coach Matt Potter said Devonshire’s work ethic has put her in position to achieve these accolades.

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The OU Chorale and University Singers will participate in the second annual Hymn Festival at 7 tonight at McFarlin Memorial United Methodist Church.

T h e e v e n t f e a t u re s OU choir groups as well as the McFarlin United Methodist Church Chancel Choir.

“It really is a great evening of music and singing as well as reflection,” said Richard Zielinski, director of OU choral activities. “One of the things that’s very special about it is to see younger people singing aged traditional hymns.”

The theme for the evening’s festivities is Come Thou Holy Spirit, which will include a set of antique hymns of significant value, Zielinski said. This will be the second year OU students and staff have participated in the event.

“Of course we’re very excited to have the OU choirs here,” said Ian Gill, associate director of music ministries at McFarlin. “On top of having several OU singers already a part of our choir here at McFarlin, we’ve always appreciated and enjoyed participating with Dr. Zielinski and his singers.”

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director for the American Organ Institute, as well as artist-in-residence at McFarlin, first presented the possibility of a hymn event after participating in similar festivals throughout the country, Gill said.

“He was the one who first came up with the idea for a hymn experience like this,” Gill said. “And from the great responses garnered from last year’s Hymn Fest, it was a wonderful idea and turned out to be a really special event.”

The evening also will consist of reflections (poetry, scripture, etc.) that will be conducted by McFarlin senior pastor Linda Harker.

The audience also will have the opportunity to sing along and participate in the evening’s music.

“All in all, the Hymn Fest is a wonderful celebration of deeply meaningful music,” Gill said. “We see a wide range of backgrounds in our audience at an event like this. It’s neat to see them all come together and appreciate this special branch of music.”

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Local serves homegrown art, music Mission to serve Oklahomagrown food expands to artwork Molly Evans Life & Arts Reporter

Local, Norman’s “farm to fork” restaurant, has a commitment to Oklahoma artist’s inspired by its mission to serve Oklahoma-grown food.

The mission of sustainable, local food drives Local’s commitment to Oklahoma artists and musicians, coowner Melissa Scaramucci said. Scaramucci also is a board member on the Norman Arts Council and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. “When we created this restaurant, we wanted to have another opportunity to connect consumers with artists,” Scaramucci said.

Sammi Still, an OU graduate, formed that connection.

Still curates Local’s two main art spaces, the Gallery and the Market, Local’s in-house retail space.

Th e Ga l l e r y a n d s u rrounding walls of Local feature an exhibition of Oklahoma painter, Shelly Lewis Stanfield. Local hosts Oklahoma artists in free, bimonthly exhibitions in the Gallery, participates in Art Walk during the 2nd Friday Circuit of Art and sell merchandise created

by Oklahoma artists in the Market, Local owners plan to build a permanent collection of Oklahoma artists to display throughout the restaurant, Still said.

“I think the restaurant business lends itself to creative, passionate and independent personalities,” Still said. “So, the art hung inside of a restaurant should be there to encourage a

AT A GLANCE Local 2262 W. Main St. Hours: Tuesday to Thursday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Friday to Saturday 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.

Sunday Brunch 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Local Lounge 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday

synesthetic experience.”

Local further features Norman artists with live music on its patio and weekly Saturday night beats from Oklahoma Electronic Music Consortium during Local Lounge, which is for guests wanting a relaxing, urban vibe, Scaramucci said.

The first six months of business for the Main Street restaurant have been built with a mission more than 120 years in the making.

“We named it Local so we would never get away from that mission,” Scaramucci said.

Local opened March 15 with the primary goal of sustainable eating to establish an economic partnership with Oklahoma farmers and the Norman community’s well-being. Sustainable eating protects land from excessive farming, so farmers can provide for their businesses and families, Scaramucci said.

“I love having the farmers come in and say, ‘Well what do you want? I’ll grow it for

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A server at Local reaches for prepared food to serve to customers. The owners created the restaurant to bring homegrown food and art to customers in the “farm to fork” eatery.

you,’” Scaramucci said.

Local’s history in farming and sustainable eating dates back to the Oklahoma l a n d r u n w h e n Wa l n u t Creek Farms of Waynoka, Okla., was established by the Local owners’ uncle, who also was a founding member of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative, Scaramucci said.

The L ocal sisterhood — Melissa Scaramucci, Heather Steele and Abby Clark — spent almost two years planning the restaurant and a year of that was spent meeting with farmers throughout Oklahoma to construct a calendar so local food would be provided year round, Scaramucci said.

Mid-September will bring fall favorites like warm apple compote, pumpkin ravioli and butternut squash cheesecake, Scaramucci

said. But, with the onset of fall, Sooner football has influenced the September selections with, “Eat the Competition,” a special tailgating package available for home games that can be picked up in the Market.

Pre-order packages before the OU vs. Florida A&M game included alligator sausage, spicy Cajun wings, gumbo and pecan pralines, according to the schedule.

The theme of the packages will change with each new competitor, Scaramucci said.

A combination of a seasonal menu, live music reflect the vitality of Local’s various dining experiences, Scaramucci said.

Molly Evans, mollyevans@ou.edu

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An entree waits to be taken out to the dining room at Local, Norman’s “farm to fork” restaurant.

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