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Despite poor outings against Utah State, Landry Jones (shown left) says he sees better performances coming in the future from his receivers.

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UOSA works to make laws logical to students Reorganization, updates established by new committee need input from students KATHLEEN EVANS The Oklahoma Daily

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UOSA President Franz Zentano introduces eight new appointees at Tuesday’s UOSA meeting in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Regents room.

In attempts to make it easier for the student body to understand UOSA laws, a committee will reevaluate the Code Annotated, the document which explains the processes of UOSA and its laws.

The UOSA Undergraduate Student Congress voted Tuesday night to create a committee to reorganize and recreate its Code Annotated.

The Code Annotated contains the text of all the laws and

regulations, such as qualifications for running for a position or student organization budget rules.

“We were looking over the [Code Annotated] over the summer and said, ‘you know, this is kind of a mess,’” said Brett Stidham, UOSA Undergraduate Student Congress chair and co-author of the bill.

“This committee will come back at the end of the semester, maybe the end of the year, with a new CA that is hopefully clean-up, spiffedup and be everything you want it to be and more.”

The new Legislative Committee for UOSA Code Annotated Reform will consist of eight members from the Graduate Student Senate and Undergraduate Student Congress.

Co-chairs will be Silas DeBoer, Graduate Student Senate chair, and Stidham, human resources management senior.

The bill passed with unanimous consent. Though letters sophomore Joe Sangirardi tried to change his vote afterward, a move to reconsider voting was not approved by the necessary two-thirds majority.

Changes will include a restructuring of the code and deletions of outdated laws.

“There will be some reorganizing and putting things in a logical order, not just categorically,” Stidham said. “We want to put it in a way that SEE UOSA PAGE 2

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Members of the Jewish community will observe Rosh Hashanah tonight CHASE COOK The Oklahoma Daily

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Professor emeritus George Henderson signs a copy of his book, “Race and the University: A Memoir,” Tuesday evening in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Beaird Lounge. Henderson spoke about his time at OU and of the civil rights efforts during the times.

Members of the Oklahoma Hillel Foundation are hosting newly ordained Rabbi Jean Eglinton to celebrate the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, today at OU Hillel, located at 494 Elm Ave. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. and special services start at 7 p.m.

Keren Ayalon, Hillel executive director, said they are excited to have the new rabbi.

“We are very much looking forward to Rabbi Eglinton [leading] our services,” said Ayalon. “We are expecting a large crowd.”

Rosh Hashanah is also the start of the high holy days, the period of ten days between the new year and the upcoming Jewish holiday Yom Kippur.

Holly McMannes, Jewish student life coordinator, said special

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FIJI house to be dedicated Saturday morning Newest residences on South Greek cost $6 million JOSEPH TRUESDELL The Oklahoma Daily

The Phi Gamma Delta fraternity has a new home on 1200 S. College Ave. that is to be dedicated at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. This is the third house built by the fraternity since the early 1920s.

Phi Gamma Delta has owned the 1200 S. College lot since 1954 when then-members of the house gave up their social funds for two years and bought it for $10,000, said Turner Hardwick, communications senior and Phi Gamma Delta president.

Planning for the new house started in 2007, with fundraising led by OU’s Phi Gamma Delta Alumni Association starting in early 2008. Construction soon began at the end of May 2009 and took approximately 14 months to complete.

“With fundraising, planning

and construction we worked on the house for about two and a half years,” said Lee Allen Smith, Phi Gamma Delta alumni and member of the fundraising foundation.

With construction completed, members were able to move in at 4 p.m. Aug. 17 in time for the fall semester, Hardwick said.

The new Phi Gamma Delta house is 29,000 square feet. It has 36 bedrooms for members, three living rooms, three study halls, three laundry rooms, one dining hall and one kitchen.

The senior hall, officer wing and some bedrooms are oneperson bedrooms, compared to others which are two person bedrooms. The house can hold up to 72 members.

Cost of the house is approximately $6 million, said Smith.

Amenities at the house include Internet, a state-of-the art media room, automated doors and a security system, Hardwick said. The house is also equipped

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The rebuilt Phi Gamma Delta house is pictured Tuesday. The house has 29,000 square feet, 36 bedrooms for members, can hold 72 members and cost approximately $6 million to build. with games including two billiards tables and two pingpong tables in different areas of the house, said Donald Harrell, energy management junior and Phi

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A voter registration booth will be held 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union food court.

Students can use the booth to register to vote in Oklahoma for the first time, change their Oklahoma address or change their political affiliation from previous registrations.

Students that change their address within Oklahoma should make sure any scholarships they receive do not depend on their previous primary address.

Voter registration for the Nov. 2 election closes Oct. 11.

Voter registration forms with instructions are available at any tag agency, the Cleveland County Election Board and at www.ok.gov/ elections.

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UOSA: Congress chair stresses transparency Continued from page 1

Today around campus » A Student Health Insurance seminar will be at 8 a.m. in the Union’s Alma Wilson Room.

anyone can read and recognize. Also, we want to make necessary changes like littleknown laws that don’t make sense anymore in practical application.”

Though the legislative branch of the UOSA will be editing the Code Annotated, other branches can have a say in the proceedings, Stidham said. Meetings will be open, and anyone is welcome to attend.

Stidham stressed that he wants the process to be as transparent as possible with plenty of input from everyone along the way.

“This is not a way to huddle people in a back room and rewrite everything,” he said. “We will send parts to people as they are completed and will have meetings saying, ‘hey, what do you think?

Is this good, as far as being passable and workable?’”

The current Code Annotated can be found on the UOSA website and is 182 pages long.

A town hall meeting for students to express concerns next is scheduled for Wednesday night, Sept. 15 in Wagner Hall.

Other business of Tuesday night included appointing eight new directors to

New Executive Branch Directors » Hannah Moore — Student Organizations director » Rainey Sewell — Association of the Interior director » Samantha Ali — Academics director » Emily Payne — Communications director/press secretary » Blaire Kerwin — Student Finances director » Angel Ochoa — International Affairs director » Joe Sangirardi — Association of Exterior director » Megan Fuzzell — Off-Campus Living and Transportation director

the executive branch. The Congress voted on these as a block and passed the appointments with unanimous consent.

UOSA President Franz

Zenteno said each person went through an application and interview process and that he is sure they are right for the job and will work to make UOSA better.

» Career Services will host a seminar “Professional Dress for Men” at 10:30 a.m. in the Union’s Frontier Room. » Career Services will host a seminar “Professional Dress for Women” at 10:30 p.m. in the Union’s Heritage Room. » Phi Kappa Sigma will host an informational session at 2:30 p.m. in the Union’s Heritage Room. » Career Services will host a seminar “Creating a Winning Resume for the Sooner Showcase Career Fair” at 2:30 p.m. in the Union’s Crimson Room. » Society of Portuguese Speakers will host a meeting at 5 p.m. in the Union’s Heritage Room. » The Muslim Student Association is hosting ThinkFast at the Union’s Ballroom at 7 p.m. The program includes guest speakers, breaking fast together and a delicious dinner. Donations are appreciated. » The Oklahoma Undergraduate Indian Society is hosting its first meeting at 8 p.m. in Lissa and Cy Wagner Hall Room 140.

Thursday, Sept. 9 » Sol Sender will present his marketing campaign for President Barack Obama in the seminar “A Symbol of Change: Branding the Obama Campaign” at 3:30 p.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.

HILLEL: Jewish holiday signifies clean slate Continued from page 1 services take place during this time for Jews to reflect on the past year.

Megan Godwin, health and exercise sciences junior and president of OU Hillel, said it’s traditional for an ordained rabbi to run the special services, which is why Rabbi Eglinton is flying in.

Ian Fullington, economics senior, said there are small, symbolic differences in the Rosh Hashanah service compared to the traditional service.

One of them is a white cover for the Jewish holy book, the Torah.

“It’s a special symbolic slip for the high holy days, which is Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur,” said Fullington. “It’s to signify the new year, a clean slate.”

Godwin added they blow a hollowed-out ram’s horn called a shofar.

“When it was hard to get word around, the shofar was used to tell villages Rosh Hashanah was starting,” said Godwin. “We blow it at the end of the service.”

It is also customary for celebrants to eat apples and honey.

“The apple’s white inside represents renewal and getting a new start,” said Godwin. “The honey is sweet and represents having a sweet new year.”

Godwin said this tradition made Rosh Hashanah a favorite part of her childhood.

“The temple I went to in Tulsa had these huge red delicious apples,” Godwin said. “It was my favorite service.”

The Rosh Hashanah 7 p.m. services are free to everyone, and the dinner is $10 for community members and $5 for children under 12. Students get in free.

Upcoming Jewish holidays » Yom Kippur (Sept. 18) — This day commemorates the day that God forgave the Jewish for creating a false idol. They abstain from food and drink from sunset the night prior until sunset the day of the holiday, nearly 26 hours. They spend this time foregoing physical needs and focusing on time in the synagogue praying and repenting. » Simchat Torah (Oct. 1) — These two days make up a major holiday and most forms of work are prohibited. The Jewish celebrate the completion — and restart — of the annual reading of the Torah, the Jewish holy book. » Tevet (Dec. 17) — This holiday is a time of mourning and repentance for the beginning of the siege on Jerusalem by the Babylonians. Jews abstain from food and drink and offer a special prayer for the victims of the Holocaust. » Pesach [Passover] (April 18 to 26, 2011) — This eight-day holiday celebrates the freedom of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. Jews don’t consume “wheat, barley, rye, oats, spelt or their derivatives.” Processed food and drink can be assumed to contain these ingredients unless they are certified. During the first two days of the holiday, it is customary to eat Matzah bread — unleavened bread — but it is optional the rest of the holiday. *Source: www.chabad.org

» Christians on Campus will host a Bible study at 11:30 a.m. in the Union’s Traditions Room. » CAC will have a general council meeting at 5 p.m. in the Union’s Heritage Room.

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» Colombian Student Association will hold a meeting at 8:30 p.m. in the Union’s Pioneer Room.

Police increase number of DUI arrests in week, weekend before Labor Day

Friday, Sept. 10 » The Women and Business Leadership Conference will be at 8:30 a.m. in the Union’s Governors, Regents and Associates Rooms.

Saturday, Sept. 11 » UOSA will hold a tailgate tent with free food for all OU students at 11 a.m. on the corner of Lindsey Street and Asp Avenue. » Union Game Day Events will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the Union’s Beaird Lobby & Lounge and the Will Rogers Room. » The OU football team hosts Florida State at 2:30 p.m. at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

The OU Police Department racked up a combined total of 34 DUIs with the Norman Police Department between Aug. 26 and Sept. 6, after participating in a nationwide initiative to crack down on impaired driving the week before Labor Day. Those caught driving while impaired face jail time, license suspension and court and attorney fees, according to OUPD. During the DUI crackdown, students had their first weekend in Norman after the beginning of fall classes and the first home football game. Compared to the past two years, 2010 tops the list for number of DUIs issued during the week and weekend leading up to Labor Day.

FIJI: Alumni fund house construction Continued from page 1 gives a good image to Greek life at the University of Oklahoma … it shows that the Greek life at OU is thriving now more than it ever has,” Harrell said.

Phi Gamma Delta is a partner with the University of Oklahoma and this facility gives university students a nice place to live, said

Smith.

“This gives the students a place to study and have a good time also,” Smith said.

Smith added that the current fraternity members will hopefully make good grades, have excellent jobs after school and in 50 years be the alumni donating money and time to build a new Phi Gamma Delta house.

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The Sooners lost 15-2, 15-10 and15-12.

“A couple of the kids were extremely nervous,” he said.

Mennie’s 5-under 69 leads Sooners to 3rd place The OU women’s golf team earned a third place finish in the Roadrunner Invitational in Las Cruces, N.M. Junior Jane Mennie lead the team and shot an astounding five-under in her final round of the tournament to grab third place individually. *Source: The Oklahoma Daily archives

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Indonesian volcano erupts again Tuesday; strongest blast yet since awakening An Indonesian volcano shot a cloud of black ash high into the air Tuesday, dusting villages 15 miles away in its most powerful eruption since awakening last week from four centuries of dormancy.

Some witnesses at the foot of Mount Sinabung reported seeing an orange glow in cracks along the volcano’s slopes for the first time. Vast swaths of trees and plants were caked with a thick layer of ash. “There was a huge, thunderous sound. It sounded like hundreds of bombs going off at one,� said Ita Sitepu, 29, who was among MOISES CASTILLO/AP thousands of people staying in crowded emergency shelters. “Then A man holds on to a rope as he wades through floodwaters to search for people to evacuate during flooding Monday in Santa Ana everything starting shaking. I’ve never experienced anything like it.�

Mixta, Guatemala. At least 45 people have died and many remain missing after days of torrential rains. ___

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Church’s planned Quran burning endangers troops, Gen. Petraeus says

Authorities confirm 25 people dead in the village of Nahuala, at least 20 others elsewhere

On Tuesday, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warned that an American church’s threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book could endanger U.S. troops in the country.

Meanwhile, NATO reported the death of an American service member in an insurgent attack Tuesday in southern Afghanistan.

Gen. David Petraeus said the plans by Gainesville, Fla.,-based Dove World Outreach Center to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11 would be used by extremists to “inflame public opinion and incite violence.�

On Monday, searchers pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and then the people trying to save them.

The deaths raised the confirmed toll from mudslides in Guatemala to 45 as rains pounded the country.

Authorities said 25 people are confirmed dead and at least 15 are be___ lieved to be still buried beneath debris in the village of Nahuala, where a first mudslide buried a bus and 3. Kinshasa, Congo other vehicles, then a second turned would-be rescuers into victims.

At least 20 others died over the weekend elsewhere as a tropical depression saturated the ground and set off more than a dozen landslides Police in southeastern Congo say they have arrested three men around the country, according to the carrying six suitcases full of elephant tusks. national disaster agency.

Anti-smuggling commission coordinator Placide Magungu said The most recent slide, on a highTuesday three Chinese nationals were caught at Lumumbashi’s airport. way in northern Guatemala, killed He says the men said they bought the ivory from antique dealers. one person and injured 26 on Illegal hunting of elephants in central and eastern Africa has Sunday. intensified in recent years, with much of the ivory exported to Asia.

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Congo police arrest 3 men carrying suitcases full of elephant ivory

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about 100 families cut off by massive flooding in the town of Santa Ana Mixtan.

Some residents sat on their roofs waiting to be evacuated, while others tried to drag bundles of their belongings through neck-deep water.

In Nahuala, emergency crews and villagers rushed to the InterAmerican highway on Saturday, picks and shovels in hand, after radio reports of the deadly slide — only to be swamped by the second cascade of rock and earth.

Search and rescue efforts were suspended Sunday for fear that the mountainside could give way yet again, but digging resumed Monday with heavy machinery and fewer workers, said Sergio Cabanas, a Civil Protection director.

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We demand more diverse faculty We hope Tuesday’s book signing of George Henderson’s memoir, “Race and the University,” provided an opportunity for students to learn about his past and continuing efforts to combat racism on campus and in Norman.

Few people have contributed to this university like Henderson has.

He joined the OU faculty in 1967 as the third black professor and was a pioneer in Norman as the first black property owner.

He also founded OU’s human relations department, received three renowned professorships and authored 28 books.

Even if you didn’t get a copy at Tuesday’s book signing, we implore each of you to keep in mind this message — we still have a long way to go until we’re living in an actual racially integrated society.

The numbers tell the story.

In 2009, only 38 of the total fulltime faculty members on campus were black, according to the OU

Factbook Numbers of the other minority groups also pale in comparison to the 1,039 white faculty members.

Only 35 full-time faculty members were American Indians, 47 Hispanic and 141 Asian.

Factbook numbers show that only 20 percent of the full-time faculty members are American minorities.

This isn’t to say the OU administration doesn’t actively seek out diverse faculty members — they do. But why can’t they get a more equal number of minority faculty members?

It’s because there isn’t a large number of minority graduate students. And there isn’t a wide selection because many minority students run into trouble paying for tuition.

In 2003, the last record of OU’s graduation rate, about 64 percent of students graduated.

While there isn’t a record of the demographics within this number, CBS News reported in May that only

43 percent of black students graduate college, compared to 63 percent of whites. And 70 percent of black students said the No. 1 reason for dropping out was their inability to pay tuition.

It would be foolish to assume racism has played no part in this humbling statistic. The disproportionate number of white students who graduate compared to other minorities isn’t an accident. It’s the product of past social policies, institutions, and laws that favored white Americans over minorities.

Look back to 1935 when most blacks were excluded from New Deal benefits and the Social Security Act of 1935 excluded domestic and agricultural workers, the great majority of whom were black.

The Wagner Act of 1935 allowed labor unions to exclude blacks from union membership, reducing competition for white laborers and forcing blacks into work with the smallest wages.

We know this was 75 years ago, but this and the countless years of racism behind it, set the foundation for thousands of impoverished black families.

We have made progress — the fact we have a black president is proof.

But, we still live in the shadow of past, oppressive social policies.

Poverty and low income due to racism still effect minorities seeking higher education.

College is supposed to be a marketplace of ideas. But as long as we remain unaware of the existing problems, we won’t gain a more diverse faculty or student body. And this is a disservice to Henderson’s legacy.

Don’t just read Henderson’s book. Let it inspire you to take a stand. Pledge to combat continuing racism and help us attain the goal of complete racial integration.

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By the numbers black faculty 38 full-time Hispanic faculty 47 full-time Asian faculty 141 full-time AmericanIndian faculty 35 full-time white faculty 1,039 full-time full-time nonresident alien 105 faculty race unknown faculty 26 full-time full-time 1,431 total faculty *Source: OU Factbook

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Conservative rhetoric ignores reality of majority

Cutting education spending unwise

A widespread tactic used by many conservatives lately is r e g a r d i n g t h e O b a m a claiming that the Obama administration is out of touch with administration).

STAFF COLUMN MN mainstream America. Common tea party rhetoric includes Also, let’s not forget the “taking back” America and equates the current administra- humble fact that a majorJerod Coker er tion to the totalitarian regimes of Nazi Germany and Soviet ity of Americans voted for Russia.

Obama for president, knowConservatives paint Washington as a secluded place with ing what policies he would guard dogs and moats, where no common men are allowed. try to implement (Obama beat McCain 53 percent to 46 perThey describe a federal government where a concentrated cent). This majority is more than Bush or his adherents can few liberal elitists devise schemes to take over America and claim from the 2000 election, when Al Gore actually received turn it into a Communist dictatorship. more votes than George Bush.

The rhetoric presents an “us versus them” scenario in In fact, the 2008 election brought about a sweeping vicwhich an elitist liberal minority forces unwanted policies tory for the Democratic party. The Democrats took 59 of down the throats of an oppressed conservative majority. the 100 Senate seats and 257 House seats compared to 178 However effective and appealing this approach may be, it is Republicans. hardly rooted in reality.

This unified Democratic government came Unfortunately for them, this entire menabout because voters wanted the policies that tality is a giant example of confirmation bias. the Democratic Party had to offer. That party is Conservatives They ignore reality, so that when conservanow following through on what it campaigned paint Washington on. How conservatives can deny this majority or tive talking heads say that the health care bill is something that Americans don’t want, they its legitimacy is beyond my comprehension. as a secluded buy it wholeheartedly. They like to think they Do these victories and majorities necessarily place with guard mean that all of the policies the Democrats are are in the overwhelming majority and that the Obama administration simply ignores what dogs and moats, pushing through are great? No, and I’m not trythe majority wants. to say they do. All I’m saying is that the modwhere no common ing To get specific, a June 2010 Gallup poll found erate to progressive majority demonstrated their men are allowed.” desire for a new type of government that would that 49 percent of Americans think of the recent health care legislation as a “good thing” while implement the types of changes that Obama only 46 percent say it is a “bad thing.” With a campaigned on in 2000. The polls show that narrow plurality, this certainly doesn’t conjure up images of Americans favor, if ever-so-slightly, most of the major polian elitist few people cramming unpopular policies down the cies the administration is championing. throats of millions. In fact, not all of the respondents reportConservative rhetoric claiming that they are in the vast ing the bill as a “bad thing” thought it was too progressive or majority and that the Obama administration is therefore igoverreaching; many of them thought it didn’t do enough. noring what the majority wants is simply not true. You can The presidential approval rating is also telling. Obama’s paint yourself as in the mainstream majority and everyone average approval rating, according to Gallup, is 53 percent. to the left of you as a communist if you’d like (i.e. Fox News), This is higher than George W. Bush’s average of 49.4 percent, but that doesn’t make it true. and slightly higher than GOP demigod Ronald Reagan’s average of 52.9 percent. But we didn’t hear theories about a — Jerod Coker, right-wing conspiracy in which these administrations were journalism senior shoving unpopular policies down Americans’ throats (at least they were not near as common as the current claims

Last Wednesday, an article by Tucker Cross arguing against increased education spending ran in The Daily.

Expecting to be enlightened with an alternate viewpoint on the issue of our education system, I instead got the regurgitation of bits gleaned from the literature of one man — Andrew Coulson.

The basic gist of the article is that we in America need not increase spending on public schools, because they are inefficient STAFF COLUMN MN and filled with far more school employees than Buck are necessary.

Roberson Cross claims that charter schools do more for students with less money, and infers that by “letting this whole issue be handled on a local, free market level,” virtually all of our problems will be solved.

What Cross doesn’t tell you is that Coulson asserts not that there are too many teachers, but that there are too many school employees. If one reads further into Coulson’s work, you will find that he means school bureaucracy more than any other sector of public school employment.

As it turns out, approximately one-third of the jobs added since 1970 have been in this sector; yet Cross writes as if it is exclusively a surplus of teachers that is the problem.

He also points out that approximately $7,420 per student is spent each year. This number is given with absolutely no context, leaving the average reader in a state of shock. Furthermore, the National Center for Education Statistics reports the average expenditure per student is actually $8,586. Assuming a student attends every one of the 180 days in a school year, this amounts to $47.70 per day, which is just about minimum wage if he or she were working the seven hours spent in the classroom.

Cross also doesn’t even bother to mention this includes not simply average students, but special education students as well, who cost around twice as much to educate.

The fact that students with learning disabilities even exist is completely ignored by both Cross and Coulson, for if that were factored into the difference between general public schools and charter schools, the cost-effectiveness difference Administrators would shrink. Charter schools are have cut sports, filled with students both capable and willing to succeed in school, so trips and of course they do more with less. custodial staff In fact, as a general rule the betdown to the ter a student does in school, the less bone, and they’re he or she costs to educate. I’d like to address the meat of the problem not alone.” here: more or less money?

I question whether Mr. Cross has ever attended a rural school in Oklahoma. I can’t speak for the rest of the country, but in my hometown of Ada, state school districts are literally dying. In the Vanoss, Stonewall and Konawa school districts, administrators have cut sports, trips and custodial staff down to the bone, and they’re not alone.

One school district in the area, Stratford Public Schools, was in such bad shape financially that they closed doors for the summer early because they simply ran out of funds.

My own mother is a teacher, and I can promise you there is no such thing as an overpaid public school teacher. Only an idiot would go into teaching for the money here in Oklahoma. Yes, we need reform, but not when times are already tough. This issue needs to be addressed with a chisel, not a sledgehammer.

Our schools are desperate for money, and to cut funding any more simply because there are a few inefficient ones is flirting with disaster.

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Co-ed housing column response lacks logic Editor’s note: this is in response to Gerard Keiser’s column “There is no room for co-ed housing arrangements” which ran Sept. 7 Parker Hubbard is a former employee of Student Media.

For the sake of The Daily, I hope that Gerard Keiser’s opinion column “There is no room for co-ed housing arrangements” is meant to be taken satirically. If not, it is mind blowing that an article so imbued in bigotry and illogical reasoning would be published in the opinion paper of a public university.

There is so much wrong with the article that for the sake of brevity I will focus on one especially troubling section of his column.

Keiser argues that “traditional mores have an uncanny tendency to be right, or at least to have some element of truth.” By “traditional” he evidently means “straight white Christian male” mores. Don’t believe him? “Then, of course, there is the fact that Oklahoma is against it.”

Never mind where this statistic comes from, or what exactly is meant by “Oklahoma.”

His two examples of traditional mores are so irrelevant to the argument that they are almost laughable. Caught up in praise of humble hominy, Keiser forgets to mention other, more problematic “traditional mores.” Was there

“some element of truth” in slavery? Did laws banning women from voting or entering the workplace have any particular “uncanny tendency to be right”?

And my personal favorite: “As a result, making things a little easier on a few homosexual students could have a big [negative] impact on everybody, including those same students.” So rather than offering constructive criticism for improving overall student life, Keiser instructs those who don’t share his unwavering “traditional mores” to learn their place as soon as possible: “If they are mature adults as [Stanfield] says, they should be able to deal with it, and it is surely a realistic preparation for situations later in life.”

In short: accept the fact that you are wrong and unimportant and just pretend to blend in. Life isn’t fair, so the university you pay to attend shouldn’t be either. That, as I understand it, is his solution to the housing debate.

We should be shocked that, in 2010, a piece of this nature is not only written but actually published. We should be shocked, but, as Keiser wryly reminds us: “You know, this is Oklahoma.”

— Parker Hubbard, visual communications junior

Editor’s note: This is in response to Tucker Cross’s Sept. 1 column “Increased education spending won’t solve problems.”

— Buck Roberson, University college freshman

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Sooners expect wide receivers to step up Despite poor outings against Utah State, Jones sees better performances coming in the future from his receivers

and competitive and making plays, and he did play well,” Stoops said. “So it was big to see him step up and become a guy that you can go to and count on.”

Kenney’s production wasn’t solely on ofAARON COLEN The Oklahoma Daily fense. He also contributed on special teams with a 31-yard kickoff return.

Outside of junior wide receiver Ryan “It’s definitely a great opportunity to have,” Broyles, none of OU’s receivers put up signif- Kenney said. “Certain guys stepped out so I icant numbers Saturday against Utah State. had to get in on the kickoff return and just However, coaches and players alike are tried to make the best of it I could.” confident two of the more experienced Kenney said he has a good comfort zone members of that group, senior wide receiver with Jones, and even though his coaches Cameron Kenney and junior wide receiver said the quarterback was rushing through Dejuan Miller, will improve his checks, he didn’t even that in the near future. notice.

There were definitely a “Dejuan played good for “I didn’t even know he lot of positives. A lot of us last year, and Cameron was rushing, I thought he came out and has obviwas doing good,” Kenney receivers made plays, ously shown what he can said. “If they say he was in DeMarco had a great do around here,” redshirt a rush then I guess he was. game, Landry got the sophomore quarterback But everything felt good Landry Jones said. “They’re out there we just had some jitters out so now it’s going to be good players, small mistakes offensively go-time and everyone’s and I’m excited to see what and defensively that we’re ready to get it going for they can do on Saturday.” going to get changed.” the next game.”

Kenney had two recepDespite all the negative tions for 20 yards and Miller press and publicity that had two receptions for 19 has come from the close — CAMERON KENNEY, yards against the Aggies, win Saturday, Kenney said SENIOR WIDE RECEIVER and neither of them scored his confidence will remain a touchdown. Kenney had a touchdown high and the game will be a building block catch that was called back because of an il- for the remainder of the season. legal motion penalty.

“There were definitely a lot of positives,” Even though it didn’t necessarily show up Kenney said. “A lot of receivers made plays, NEIL MCGLOHON/THE DAILY in Kenney’s statistics, coach Bob Stoops said DeMarco had a great game, Landry got the the Georgia product had a solid game. jitters out so now it’s go-time and everyone’s Wide reciever Cameron Kenney (6) caught a pass in the endzone during Saturday’s Utah State football game. The pass was called back due to an illegal shift penalty. The Sooners won 31-24.

“I’ve noticed him being more consistent ready to get it going for the next game.”

COLUMN SPORTS BRIEFS

Paying tribute to the voice behind football and basketball Bob Barry Sr. is one of in 1956, back when sports journalists still had to hold t h o s e ra re p e o p l e t h a t down day jobs to keep working at their passion. In his STAFF COLUMN UMN not only loves his job but five years prior to joining the Sooner broadcasting team, seems to love it more than he worked as salesman and disc jockey.

RJ Youngg anyone else.

His rise to the upper echelon of Oklahoma’s great That’s just one of the sports journalists was so precipitous that by 1966, in reasons he is among the greatest sports journalist to call addition to his play-by-play work, Barry was the head Oklahoma home. sports anchor for what is now KFOR-TV. Just four years In this, Barry’s 50th and final season as sportscaster, later he was named the station’s sports director, a posiSooner fans are witnessing the swan song of the man tion he held for three years. who is — and will always be — the only sports journalist In the mid-90s he returned to KFOR-TV as the weekto be handpicked by Bud Wilkinson as night sports anchor, a position he bethe play-by-play man for Sooner footqueathed to his son and present KFORAt 79 years young, ball and basketball games starting in T V sports anchor, Bob Barr y Jr. He 1961. retired from working in television in Barry has called some At 79 years young, Barry has called 2008. of the biggest games some of the biggest games in Oklahoma Barry is the quintessential Okie sportsin Oklahoma collegiate caster and the voice of many childhood collegiate athletics history, including athletics history, the historic 2000 football season in memories for nearly three generations which the Sooners won their first naof Sooner faithful. He has called four Big including the historic tional title in 15 years.

12 men’s basketball championships, six 2000 football season He spent a season cover ing that Big 12 football championships and one in which the Sooners one school in eastern Oklahoma that BCS national title. doesn’t seem to know there’s no such He has provided perspective, joy and won their first national thing as a “hurricanes” — only tornaa local charm to the broadcasting occutitle in 15 years.” does — in the great state of Oklahoma pation seldom seen anymore in today’s (Tulsa) from 1973-1974 as well as that 24-hour news cycle atmosphere. gaudy tangerine and white school up north (Oklahoma After 50 years of calling football and men’s basketball State) from 1973–1990. games, you assume he’ll miss it. But his feeling will pale Barry graduated from OU in 1946, where he played in comparison to how much Sooner fans will miss him. baseball and was journalism major, before joining the U.S. Air Force in 1951.

— RJ Young, He began his illustrious career right here in Norman journalism graduate student

THE DAILY’S SOONER SPORTS STOCK REPORT Suzy Boulavsky Junior outside hitter Boulavsky’s 3.31 kills per set is good for ninth in the Big 12, and she’s on pace to break several school records.

Kenny Stills Freshman wide receiver Many declared Stills a savior for the receiving corps. His performance Saturday was certainly a disappointment, but it’s too early to say he won’t still be a game-changer.

Jamell Fleming Junior defensive back Fleming’s stock will only keep dropping if he doesn’t shore up his coverage before Christian Ponder and Florida State roll into town Saturday.

Way receives Big 12 weekly honors Sophomore punter Tress Way was named co-Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week on Tuesday. The Tulsa native shared the award with Kansas State kicker Anthony Cantele.

In the Sooners’ 31-24 win Saturday against Utah State, Way punted eight times with a 46.6-yard average.

He also kicked an 85-yard punt, the longest in Big 12 history and the longest for OU in 40 years.

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O’Brien award open to fan voting The first round of voting for the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award opened Tuesday and runs through Oct. 24.

OU redshirt sophomore quarterback Landry Jones was named on the O’Brien Award’s watch list this season.

The fan vote counts for 5 percent of the results each round.

The rest comes from a selection committee comprised of journalists, broadcasters and former winners.

Fans can vote once daily at www.VoteOBrien.org.

FSN to air 4 women’s hoops games The OU women’s basketball team announced four games for the upcoming season that will be televised on Fox Sports Net. • Jan. 23 at Kansas (Lawrence, Kan.) • Jan. 29 at Oklahoma State (Stillwater) • Feb. 5 vs Iowa State (Norman) • Feb. 19 vs Texas (Norman) — Daily staff reports

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NINETIES, MAN! TOTALLY AWESOME! Members of three Norman bands combine to create a ’90s tribute band that revisits their decade of youth MARGO BASSE The Oklahoma Daily

2010: the year of the iPad, the addition of “chillax” into the dictionary, two years before the fated end of the world and the birth of a ’90s cover band. It’s about time.

Named after the cult-classic ’90s TV drama “My So-Called Life,” My So Called Band is ready to hit the Norman music scene.

Band members Kyle Davis, Carly Gwin, Aaron Daniels, Ricky Salthouse and Brian Stansberry are bringing an array of songs from two decades past to flash concert-goers back to their former years when plaid reigned supreme and Super Nintendo was the technology of choice.

They tossed around Nirvana White, Crystal Pepsi and White Ford Bronco when first thinking of the perfect moniker to represent the decade of their youth. They eventually settled on a shortened version of their friend’s original suggestion: My So Called Nineties Cover Band.

“It actually kind of started out as a joke,” Gwin said. “But the more we talked about it, the more we thought we really wanted to do it.”

While four of the five members are typically busy taking part in other local bands The Evangelicals, The Workweek and Pidgin Band, they’ve taken the past three months to master more than g includingg hits from Beck, Cake, No Doubt and dozens 40 songs, more.

“We’re really playing a little bit of everything,” Davis said.

“We’re trying to get more hip-hop and country.”

Everything about these guys gives off an effortlessly cool vibe, from the cozy rehearsal space tucked away in Gwin’s house to the nonstop flow of ’90s references that pour out of their mouths.

The band spent most of the interview reminiscing about the Hanson brothers and JNCO jeans while “Karate Kid 3” played in the background. It’s easy to see why the band chose this particular decade to pay homage to.

“We were in kindergarten in 1990, so the ’90s [are] what we know,” Davis said.

The band consists of the basic elements of any great ’90s group: the token rocker chick and four guys all avoiding the drag of day jobs to pursue music. None of them were limited to any one instrument during their rehearsals, switching between guitar, bass, drums and keyboard at their leisure.

“This so far has been less stressful because you’re not writing music,” Davis said. “We can focus more on the performance.”

And while the band is made up of some prime musicians, the members’ main focus is to have a good time with their shows and to allow the audience to look back at a decade of incredibly diverse music, and even sing along.

Each song won’t be just a musical performance, but a chance to reenact a classic ’90s pop culture image, like when Gwin wears a top hat with goggles to mimic the lead singer of the 4 Non Blondes, Linda Perry.

The band hopes to see people of all ages at their show and expects to have a solid college student turnout despite the fact that many current college students likely barely remember the ’90s.

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A FEW RAD SELECTIONS FROM MY SO CALLED BAND’S COVER CATALOG

BECK

“WHERE IT’S AT”

ALANIS MORISSETTE

“HAND IN MY POCKET”

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“ALL MIXED UP”

NO DOUBT

“DON’T SPEAK”

VANILLA ICE “ICE ICE BABY”

SOUNDGARDEN “BLACK HOLE SUN”

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Norman ’90s cover band My So Called Band makes its debut at 9:30 p.m. Thursday at The Deli, 309 White St. The band will play covers of artists including Beck, Cake and No Doubt

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Elijah DeJesus stars as Pearl Carter Scott in the film “Pearl,” opening Friday at the Moore Warren Theater.

Young aviator focus of new film A film produced by the Chickasaw Nation will begin its first commercial showing Friday at the Moore Warren Theater.

“Pearl” tells the true story of Pearl Carter Scott, a Chickasaw girl who began flying planes at 13 and was a commercial pilot by 14 in the late 1920s. Scott died in 2005.

“Pearl” marked the first feature-length film project for the Chickasaw Nation. It was named the best overall film and best Native American film at the 2010 Trail Dance Film Festival in Duncan, and also played at the deadCenter Film Festival in Oklahoma City and the American Film Institute Dallas International Film Festival.

Members of the cast and crew will be in attendance after the 7 p.m. Saturday showing to answer questions and sign autographs. The film will play at the Moore Warren through Sept. 16.

-Daily Staff Reports

LIFE & ARTS

8 • Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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Students of all disciplines should engage art Matthew Arnold, the English cultural critic, once defined culture as “knowing the best that has been said and thought in the world.”

Somehow Snooki of “Jersey Shore” seems to fall short of this definition, yet I am sure that more people in the U.S. know of her escapades than of Paul Cezanne’s paintings.

The term “high art” is often met with bored expressions and obvious sighs when spoken among the STAFF COLUMN N “common man.” I know my occasional, isolated exposures Janna Gentryy to art museums or ballets that injected a shot of high culture into my otherwise very normal life did not irreversibly change me.

The seemingly consistent dichotomy between “high art” and the masses throughout history has even led some individuals to take action to reconcile the chasm.

You might say that Jessica Farling is another one of these individuals. The art history senior is the founder of the newly revived OU student organization called The Art Museum Ambassadors. Part of the focus she envisions

for the organization is to encourage students of all disciplines at OU to become involved with the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, contrasted with the former student advisory board that consisted of mainly art school students.

Even though I’m not an art student, I am excited about the museum’s Wanderlust exhibit, now on display. This photography exhibit chronicles the role “American highways and interstates have played in the migratory desires of the American people.”

Hoping to bridge the often seemingly insurmountable chasm between “high art” and the common man (aka everyone who is not an art student), the Art Museum Ambassadors will move forward with the goal to enhance the OU student body by providing it with the opportunity to engage in something higher than themselves, and higher than the poof on Snooki’s hair.

— Janna Gentry, English junior

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Victor Landweber’s “S.N. Ward & Son Mobil Station, Pasadena, CA” is now on display at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art as part of the Wanderlust photography exhibit through Sunday.

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Intrusive relatives the scourge of social media Every day you hear how important it is to be careful about what you post on your social networking sites. After all, employers are spending inordinate amounts of time stalking you on the Internet in order to decide whether or not to hire you as their social media manager. They are looking for the tiniest scrap of evidence that could unravel all of your years of hard work and land you unemployed and unhappy somewhere in the suburbs of your own life.

Sure, I want a great job that I am so passionate about I could marry it. And yeah, I would also like that job to line my pockets with cold, hard cheddar, but I ain’t afraid of no future boss-man/ n/ woman. The people that frighten me most with their use of Facebook, Twitter or the blogosphere in general STAFF COLUMN UMN are family members (or worse, family friends).

Caitlin I encourage managers, supervisors and even Turner human resource departments to go ahead and look through my 2,005 or so pictures, 70 percent of which feature me participating in criminal activity. I hope they have a blast scrolling through my statuses that frequently use phrases such as “riding the struggle bus,” “school is murdering my soul without mercy” or “traded my iPhone for a block of wood and found it in my purse this morning.”

I can handle people I don’t even know browsing through my tweets and passing judgment on me, but the endless parade of inappropriate comments from those who have aged out of the social network is starting to severely cramp my style.

After months of leaving your uncle/former adult classmate/ painfully nerdy older cousin in confirm/ignore limbo, you took the path less traveled and made them your friend or follower.

Your parents stopped pestering you with questions like, “Why

don’t you want to be their facespace friend? Do you have some- so graciously funds my higher education. thing to hide? You know employers are looking at that stuff, If I can’t rant aimlessly on the internet about inconsequential right?” occurrences in my day without being bothered, then I might as And now, after all of that, your super trendy grandmother/ well just get a freaking diary. high school geometry teacher/old neighbor with the tribal tatFinally, there is the invisible comment. This comment is the too has the audacity to comment on your status, or one that by passes the Internet and goes straight to worse, a picture in which other people are tagged your parents or friends.

The endless and consequently forced to endure the shame as A seemingly harmless status such as “I wish well.

I could sleep forever” is interpreted as a suicide parade of By my calculations, there are three types of comthreat. Next thing you know, you are getting phone inappropriate ments these people can leave. calls from your Grandma who is “just making sure comments from everything is OK.” You know what? Everything is First, there is the totally irrelevant those who have not OK, Grams. I am trying to take a nap and you comment. Your status is about tailgating on Saturday and he or aged out of the are the fourth relative to call me to make sure I she leaves you a comment that just wasn’t simultaneously starting my car and closing social network says, “We love you baby girl!!! You my garage door. is starting to are a blessing in our life!”

Picture comments are generally worse. Your severely cramp sister-in-law comments on a photo of you in which Not only does this have absolutely nothing to do with you hanging out with you are vehemently wasted and tells you how my style.” your friends before a football game, but it also much you look like your mom. That just hits a little uses the plural pronoun “we.” How does one pertoo close to home. son’s Facebook suddenly belong to two people? Did they clone Your baby cousin asks if the guy you are kissing in your profile themselves? Or develop another personality? Whatever has picture is your boyfriend and you just don’t quite know how to happened, it is disturbing and uncomfortable. tell her that he already has a boyfriend.

The second type of comment is the condescending comPerhaps the only real solution to this problem is to launch a ment. Once a certain relative of mine who shall not be named counterattack and comment back with a vengeance. Go out into commented on one of my generic “I would rather devour the social media world and comment and be commented on. human flesh than read this essay for class” statuses with a little lecture on why I should be so grateful for my schooling and that I — Caitlin Turner, should be especially appreciative of my hardworking father who letters senior