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Facebook application mobilizes young voters • Rice campaign hopes to tap into wired generation JAMIE HUGHES Daily Staff Writer

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Dustin Gibbs, paleontology sophomore, calls people to inform them why he is voting for Andrew Rice on Thursday in the Clarke-Anderson room of the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Members of Rice’s campaign gave a presentation on how to access political information via Facebook applications.

Supporters of a candidate for the U.S. Senate have traded campaign buttons and yard signs for Facebook and cell phones.

Volunteers for state Senator Andrew Rice’s campaign gathered in the Clark-Anderson Room of Oklahoma Memorial Union Thursday to learn about a new Facebook feature that will help students reach the public.

Matt Tepper, field director for the Andrew Rice for U.S. Senate campaign, taught volunteers how to use the Rice for Senate Volunteer Center application and spread Andrew Rice’s message. The Facebook application offers another way young people can get involved in a grassroots campaign, he said.

“We’re one of only three campaigns in the country using this,” Tepper said during his demonstration.

Volunteers can add the interactive application to their Facebook profiles. The application provides users with a name and phone number, and they are expected to call the person

on the list and follow one of three scripts.

The application’s scripts include one for live conversations, one for voicemails and one for leaving a message with someone else in the household.

Volunteers began testing out the new tool after Tepper’s short demonstration.

Emma Smreker, University College freshman, said she liked the application.

“This is really neat,” she said. “I didn’t know Facebook did this. It makes it more interesting.”

University College freshman Heather Cody said she left a lot of voicemails.

“It’s easy to use,” she said of the application.

“Everyone knows Facebook. [The script] is pretty general so it leaves people open to make a decision and doesn’t push.”

With more campaigns using applications and more politicians creating Facebook pages to promote themselves, it might seem to some that more young people are getting involved in this season’s political climate.

“Senator Rice has a lot of support among young people around the state,” Tepper said.

He said students at OU and Oklahoma State University form a large percentage of Rice’s

support base.

The application isn’t just for college students, though.

“The Facebook population seems to be growing,” Tepper said.

Even people who live in different areas can use the tool, Tepper said during his demonstration.

The Rice campaign has been testing the application for a month and is “rolling it out” for the last month before the election.

“We’re using it to contact the undecided,” he said.

Mina Farzad, public administration and international security studies sophomore, said the application is an easy way to get a daily dose of politics.

“Everyone’s hanging out on Facebook,” she said. “It’s cool to inject politics in daily lives.”

The social networking site offers the younger generation many ways to get involved, and this year politics is a popular topic, Farzad said.

“I think a lot of young people before saw voting as an adult thing,” she said.

But now young people can see for whom their friends are voting.

“It makes it ‘cool,’” she said. “On college campuses, everything is infectious.”

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• OU Votes holds VP debate watch party

Chinese writer honored Chinese writer Mo Yan has been chosen as the winner of the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, sponsored by OU’s Institute for U.S.-China Issues.

The award is presented biannually by the institute, which seeks to advance trust in U.S. and China relations. According to a press release, the award recognizes the prose or poetry that best captures the human condition.

Yan was selected Sept. 30 by a panel of seven literary experts. He will receive $10,000 and a commemorative plaque and is invited to attend an award ceremony and academic symposium at OU in March 2009.

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tudents struggled to squeeze into a vice presidential debate watch party in the Traditions East clubhouse, where they laughed, applauded and whispered comments to each other as the vice presidential candidates debated Thursday night.

The event was sponsored by Traditions East Resident Student Association, Political Science Club and the Carl Albert Center.

Several attendees said they came as part of a class requirement for political science professor Margaret Ellis, others came for free pizza and others attended simply to watch vice presidential candidates — Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin —

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A group of students watch the vice presidential debate Thursday night inside the clubhouse of Traditions Square East.

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Conference examines Russia’s role as political, energy superpower • U.S. presidential candidates increasingly quizzed on Russia AMANDA TURNER Night Editor Today’s conference on Russia, which has been planned for the past year, takes on new significance with recent developments in the region.

“Oil, Gas and Power: Russia and the United States” at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art will examine Russia’s role as a superpower, with international experts weighing in on business, energy and policy. The panels, “The State of US-Russian Relations” and “Energy Superpowers of the 21st Century,” will be followed by a luncheon with keynote speaker Arthur Hartman, U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1981 to 1987.

The U.S. government’s condemnation of Russia’s

recent military action in the Republic of Georgia has returned the two nations’ relationship to the forefront of global diplomacy, said Paul Goode, assistant professor of political science.

“It’s front and center of today’s politics,” said Goode, who will moderate this morning’s panel on U.S.-Russia relations. “Anybody who has been following the news for the past few months or so has witnessed the rapid deterioration of relations of between the U.S. and Russia.”

In August, the U.S. harshly criticized Russia for sending troops into neighboring Georgia, after Georgia attempted to take control of the Russianbacked rebel region of South Ossetia.

The question of how to handle Russia has reemerged as the U.S. prepares to elect a new president in November. Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are now answering questions on Russia, Georgia and Ukraine, said Goode and Zach Messitte, vice provost for International Programs.

“That just wasn’t true four years ago, and that

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Lack of evidence halts Norman nursing home abuse investigation • Police: Case closed unless more information surfaces KATE CUNNINGHAM Daily Staff Writer The Norman Police Department closed its investigation into the alleged abuse of a 60-year-old Alzheimer’s patient at Whispering Pines Nursing Center.

The patient, Carol Crow, was hospitalized with severe bruises in July, Julie Glass, her daughter, said.

Norman Police officer Jennifer Newall said the department found insufficient evidence of abuse or neglect to justify a continued investigation.

“We have to have probable cause to believe a crime has been committed and know the person who has done it in order to arrest or press charges against somebody,” Newall

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Students watch the vice presidential debate Thursday night inside the clubhouse of Traditions Square East. face off.

“I honestly just want to see the views of Biden and Palin,” undecided sophomore John Schaffner said. “If something happens to Obama or McCain, I want to know the vice presidents’ views. Plus, the free pizza is catchy.”

Kayla Downing, voter registration coordinator for OU

Votes and political science senior, said organizers originally expected 75 to 100 people to show up, but after the unexpectedly large number of students who attended the presidential debate watch party in Gaylord Hall last week, preparations were made for more students.

“The political watch party is a huge way to get students involved with politics,” said University College freshman Deborah Hendrix. “I hope the watch party helps more students get informed about the election and gain more knowledge about the candidates.”

The main reason OU Votes held the watch party was to get students engaged in and talking about politics.

Several times students applauded or laughed at statements made by the two politicians. A constant low murmur of discussion could be heard among students during the debate.

“I hope that it serves as a good way for students to talk to each other about the coming election and be completely engaged in politics,” Downing said.

The OU Votes committee advertised for the event early with chalkings, a news brief, fliers and Facebook announcements.

Despite all the advertising for the event, Matthew Gress, OU Votes programming coordinator and political science and history junior believed there would be fewer people in attendance at Thursday’s watch party than at the one for the presidential debate.

More than 200 students attended Thursday night’s party, almost half as many as at the Gaylord watch party last Friday.

Though attendance was good, Downing said packing the clubhouse wasn’t the most important factor.

“Our goal is to educate students,” she said. “They need to know what each candidate stands for so in the end they can make an educated decision.”

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Nursing Continued from page 1 said. “If more information comes in, we are more than happy to look at it, but it has to be more than just ‘we think this person did it.’”

According to police records, an investigating officer tried to interview Crow, but her condition prevented her from remembering details of the incident. Newall said Crow’s account of the situation was critical to the continuation of an investigation. The case will remain closed until more credible sources come forward with information.

Other than Crow’s family members, no one else affiliated with Whispering Pines has come forward with infor-

mation about abuse at the facility, according to the police.

Wes Bledsoe, founder of A Perfect Cause, an advocacy group for nursing home residents, and Crow’s family said they are not satisfied with the way the authorities have handled the situation.

Bledsoe said he will continue to urge Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn and Okla. Attorney General Drew Edmonson and other authorities to ensure nursing facilities are held accountable for the care they provide.

“The facility is saying that they’re providing good treatment and, from

what I’m hearing, that’s not true,” Bledsoe said.

If more evidence surfaces, Bledsoe and Crow’s family said they will take action in civil court.

Glass wants to see “granny cams,” which would be placed in nursing home residents’ rooms and common areas, in all nursing homes.

As for Crow, her health has improved since the incident in July.

She is now at a nursing center in Muskogee, where she receives 24-hour care from a private nurse.

“She has improved so much. You can tell that she feels safe and has an improved quality of life,” Glass said.

wasn’t true eight years ago,” Messitte.

The 20th century Cold War has been replaced by frosty relations between the U.S. and Russia. Former KGB agent Vladimir Putin stepped down in May after eight years as president, swapping roles with prime minister Sergei Medvedev.

Energy-rich Russia is the largest nation in the world geographically, spanning 11 time zones from Eastern Europe to the Pacific Ocean. Russia’s gross domestic product grew by more than 8 percent in 2007, in the country’s seventh consecutive year of economic expansion, according to the U.S. Government Energy Information Administration. It was a growth primarily fueled by energy exports.

Russia holds the world’s largest natural gas reserves, the second largest coal reserves and the eighth largest oil reserves, said Larry Grillot, dean of Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy.

Russia’s resources give it significant power in today’s economy, said Grillot, who will serve as moderator for the panel “Energy Superpowers of the 21st Century.”

“They have a lot of influence over Asia, they’re a major gas supplier to the European Union, and they have a lot of influence over major oil areas including the Caspian,” he said. “We shouldn’t forget Eastern Russian and Sakhalin [peninsula] where they are developing large natural gas resources that will be, at least, energy supplies to Japan, Korea.”

Messitte said Russia is suddenly relevant again. Soviet Studies was a key element of political science academia through the 1980s, but it became obsolete after the Soviet Union fell apart in 1990, Messitte said.

“In the 1990s Russia wasn’t a focus,” Messitte said. “Russia was considered to be a third-rate power and not an important player on the geopolitical scene, and that has changed significantly in the last decade. Some of it has to do with Putin, and some of it has to do with the power of petrodollars. They’ve become a major player in part because they are energy exporters.”

Messitte said today’s conference is extremely timely.

“The fact of the matter is that Russia — along with China, India and the Middle East — is a region of the world that American foreign policy has to pay attention to,” he said. “When we started planning this a year ago, it wasn’t even as relevant as it is today because of events in the last year in Georgia and the rise of energy prices.”

OIL, GAS AND POWER: RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES Today, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Panel One

“The State of U.S.-Russian Relations,” 9 a.m.

• Greg Guroff, president, Foundation for International Arts and Education • Andrew Kuchins, Center for Strategic and International Studies • Alexey Germanovich, senior vice president, Severstal Moderator: Paul Goode, assistant professor of political science Panel Two

“Energy Superpowers of the 21st Century,” 11 a.m.

• Edward Chow, Center for International and Strategic Studies • Eugene Lawson, Former President of the U.S.-Russian Business Council • Aleksey Shishaev, Head of Economic Section, Russian Embassy • Don Wallette, President Russia and Caspian ConocoPhillips Moderator: Larry Grillot, OU Dean of Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy

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Tons of debris washes onto Texas beaches CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE, Texas — The world’s longest undeveloped barrier island now looks as if people have been living — and dumping — on it for decades.

Tons of debris swept up by Hurricane Ike last month were carried by Gulf of Mexico currents hundreds of miles from the upper Texas coast to this ordinarily pristine landscape just north of the Mexican border.

Sections of roofs, refrigerators, loveseats, beds, TVs, hot tubs and holiday decorations litter the more than 60 miles of gently arcing sand in the national park.

Some of the junk is good for a laugh, like the lifejacket-clad snowman someone placed next to a plastic pumpkin, a small but real palm tree and an acoustic guitar.

But it’s no joke to wildlife workers who are worried the trash will harm birds and other animals, including an endangered turtle that nests here in the spring.

“It could have a huge impact,” said Larry Turk, maintenance chief for Padre Island.

The park wants to clean up as much of the debris as possible before the Kemp’s Ridley turtles return, he said, because a debrisclogged beach would make it hard for them to dig their nests.

For two weeks after Ike hit, every high tide seemed to dump a load of debris on beaches, and two weeks into the cleanup, the amount of debris on gulf beaches remains untallied.

One 4-mile stretch had produced enough to fill 2,970 industrial-size trashbags. Farther south at Cameron County’s South Padre Island beaches, Ike’s residue quickly filled seven 30-cubic yard garbage bins.

Some of the Padre Island debris is the stuff of anyone’s weekly garbage, including the garbage can itself. Some smacks of irony: a sandbox in the shape of a green turtle, or an octopus preserved in a jar.

“It’s on all our beaches _ everything, people’s lives,” said Tony Amos, a research fellow at the University of Texas’s Marine Science Institute.

No bodies have been found amid the rubble, although dozens of people remain unaccounted for.

Cleaning up the national seashore is a federal responsibility, but local governments in the area were relieved to also be included in the federal disaster declaration, allowing them to seek cleanup reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management

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‘Race for the cure’ scheduled in OKC • Thousands expected to participate PAIGE LAWLER Daily Staff Writer

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A National Park ranger walks through debris, Tuesday, at the Padre Island National Seashore at South Padre Island, Texas. Debris from Hurricane Ike that was washed from the Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston litters more than 60 miles of the national seashore.

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That was not the case three years ago, when Hurricane Rita smashed into western Louisiana and sent a flood of debris to South Texas beaches, said Javier Mendez, parks director for Cameron County.

Mendez’s department maintains about 9

miles of beach on the island and another 7 miles along the coast south to the Mexican border.

“We just couldn’t handle it,” Mendez said of that earlier storm’s debris. This time Mendez is counting on federal reimbursement.

When Susan G. Komen was dying, her sister promised her she would do everything she could to stop breast cancer for the rest of the world. That promise led to the creation of a national company that holds a race every year to raise money for research.

“Race for the Cure,” a 5-kilometer run and walk sponsored by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation, will bring hundreds of Oklahomans to Oklahoma City Saturday morning to celebrate breast cancer survivors and honor those who lost the battle.

For marketing pre-med sophomore Lindsey Goddard, the race really hits home.

Goddard’s mom passed away from breast cancer last year, and the two normally ran the race together every year.

“This will be my first time to participate without her, so it will be special, but I have a lot of support,” Goddard said.

When her mom was initially diagnosed with cancer, the two women wanted to fight back, so during recovery they decided to run in the race.

Chemical engineering sophomore Chelsea Enochs also said she participates in the race each year.

When Enochs was 11, her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer and has been fighting it for eight years. She said she runs the race every year in her honor.

Race for the Cure’s goal is to reach out to women and men who are affected by breast cancer, said graduate student Tiffany Pirtle, who is participating in the race this year and works for the Women’s Outreach Center.

“Everyone at some point can look

around and feel affected by breast cancer,” Pirtle said.

The foundation has raised millions of dollars for breast cancer research and works to raise awareness about breast cancer around the world, Goddard said.

Pirtle is walking with 28 other women in the race Saturday. Their team, Walk with the Women’s Outreach Center, has already raised $1,016 for the foundation this year.

“We’re very excited about the support we’ve received on campus,” Pirtle said.

Goddard said the race is not just about the Greek community or the college community, but the entire community helping a cause.

Komen for the Cure has made several advances in breast cancer research, but the foundation needs money in order to continue, Enochs said.

“If that money stops coming in the research stops, and people will keep suffering the long-term effects of cancer,” Enochs said.

Goddard has also taken on another project for the foundation. This year she designed a T-shirt to sell to OU students.

The money will go toward the foundation for more breast cancer research.

“I wanted to do something influential for Susan G. Komen and for my mom,” Goddard said.

Race for the Cure will be Saturday at 8 a.m. at the AT&T Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City.

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Bailout hopes rise as more ‘no’ votes switch sides WASHINGTON — Desperate to avoid another market-crushing defeat, House leaders won key converts Thursday to the $700 billion financial industry bailout on the eve of a make-or-break second vote.

President Bush and congressional leaders lobbied furiously for the dozen or so supporters they’d need to reverse Monday’s stunning setback and approve a massive rescue plan designed to stave off national economic disaster.

Anything but reassured, investors sent the Dow Jones industrials plunging another 348 points, suggesting Wall Street is expecting tougher economic times even if the measure is rushed into law. The Federal Reserve reported record emergency lending to banks and investment firms, fresh evidence of the credit troubles squeezing the country.

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pointed out — as if lawmakers needed reminding — and he argued from the White House that the huge rescue measure was the best chance to calm unnerved financial markets and ease the credit crunch. He was calling dozens of lawmakers, a spokesman said.

Democratic and Republican leaders worked over wayward colleagues wherever they could find them.

Rep. Steny Hoyer, the second-ranking House Democrat, said there was a “good prospect” of approving the measure but stopped short of predicting passage — or even promising a vote. Nonetheless, the vote was expected on Friday. “I’m going to be pretty confident that we have sufficient votes to pass this before we put it on the floor,” Hoyer said.

The top Republican vote-counter, Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, did predict the measure would be approved.

Minds were changing in both parties in favor of the much-maligned measure, which would let the government spend billions of dollars to buy bad mortgagerelated securities and other devalued assets from troubled financial institutions. If the plan works, advocates say, that would allow frozen credit to begin flowing again and prevent a serious recession.

GOP Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, said she was switching her “no” vote to a “yes” after the Senate added some $110 million in tax breaks and other sweeteners before approving the measure Wednesday night.

“Monday what we had was a bailout for Wall Street firms and not much relief for taxpayers and hard-hit families. Now AP Photo we have an economic rescue package,” Ros-Lehtinen told The Associated Press. House Financial Services Committee ranking Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala, right, speaks during a

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Dear representatives: Vote no on bailout Dear Reps. Fallin, Lucas and Sullivan: You’ve taken a lot of heat over the past five days for voting against the bailout bill on Monday.

The president of our university e-mailed you and asked you to change your vote, and a group of OUR VIEW Oklahoma business leaders released a statement Wednesday that called you out. is an editorial selected and debated Now that it’s time for a statement of our own, we by the editorial board want to say: Vote no. Again. and written after a The bailout represents a staggering violation of majority opinion is free-market principles. formed and approved by the editor. Our View In a true free-market economy, firms that engage is The Daily’s official in risky behavior suffer the consequences of their opinion. actions when investments go bad.

In this case, firms bought high-risk mortgagebacked securities tied to mortgages offered to individuals who probably shouldn’t have been buying those homes in the first place.

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Now that people are defaulting on their loans, the institutions are watching the value of their assets shrink and some could be facing bankruptcy.

It’s never pretty to watch huge firms fail. But if the government bails out firms that are struggling now, it will undermine the idea that financial institutions must maintain responsible practices and take reasonable risks.

A bailout will not provide companies with any incentive to reform their policies and make better decisions in the future.

We understand that the failure of the bailout bill could send the economy into a recession.

But we think the dangers of recession have been overstated by our president and every other public figure who has invoked the memory of 1929 when talking about this crisis.

The Great Depression is famous because it was such a striking anomaly in the history of American recessions. According to economics experts, most recessions last a few quarters at most.

While a year or so of recession might make life difficult for those in

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certain industries, it won’t usher in a second era of soup kitchens and bread lines.

Oklahoma, with its firm grip on the oil and gas industry, might not even feel a national recession. And it almost certainly wouldn’t find its education, health and safety programs threatened, as the Oklahoma CEOs who released a statement earlier this week would have you believe.

A recession might be just the thing the country needs anyway. It won’t be pretty, but some economic pain might compel Americans to stop living beyond their means and force firms to stop making it so easy to do so.

We appreciate your stand against unjust federal intervention into the economy. We hope that when you have the opportunity to vote today, you cast another vote against the bailout and for fiscal responsibility on the part of this nation’s financial institutions.

Sincerely, The editorial board of The Oklahoma Daily

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Bible not a viable source for condemnation of abortion

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When tolerance isn’t tolerance

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If the price for the death of a woman is death as well, yet the price for the death of a fetus is a fine, then we can infer from these verses that, in the Bible, a fetus was not considered a person.

If a fetus is not a person and if the killing of a fetus is not punished by death, the punishment for murder, then the killing of a fetus is clearly not murder, according to the Bible.

When is a fetus considered a person then? The book of Genesis provides the answer: “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Genesis 2:7).

Interpreting this verse, it seems that the first breath a person takes allows the soul into the body.

Biblically a person does not exist until the breath of life enters their body.

The conclusion that there is no scriptural basis for the denouncing of abortion raises some serious questions about the state of religion in America today.

How many people are passive believers or Sunday Christians?

What point is there in holding the beliefs of a religion if you are too apathetic to actually examine what you believe?

So, believe that abortion is evil and wrong if you must, but do not use the Bible as a basis for condemning those who disagree with you. Stand out in the open and acknowledge that your opinion is just that, your opinion.

Otherwise, you just wind up looking ignorant.

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Tuesday’s Shack-A-Thon event carried out by students passionate about charity As the Habitat for Humanity OU chapter president, I would like to thank the over 300 students who left their warm, comfortable beds to participate in our annual Shack-AThon event Tuesday.

These students, zealous as some of them may be, were there with the best of intentions.

They were there to help the Campus Chapter raise money to start a house build for a Norman family in need. I am not sure how many of you are aware of how the economy has affected the price of building a house, even by our non-profit organization.

Just a year ago a house could be built in Norman for around $47,000. Today, starting a build requires around $60,000.

For a small campus chapter, that $13,000 jump is more than we fundraise in a year. We try to keep our efforts focused on the university.

This limits the scope of our fundraising, as we recognize that students, as we ourselves are, are not financially able to donate as much money as they might like.

Events like Shack-A-Thon provide a won-

derful opportunity for us to involve students on campus and raise money without breaking anyone’s bank.

With that said, I appreciate the dozens of people who have approached me since the end of Shack-A-Thon, thanking our campus chapter for working toward a worthwhile goal.

Each event is a learning experience, as anyone on campus that has ever tried to plan a major event knows. We gain experience every year, pass it on to the next student leaders and hope that every year brings even more success than the last.

On that note, we collected around $5,000.

That is $5,000 closer to helping a Norman family escape the cycle of poverty housing and, as one shack this year said, give the gift of a home to a family in our community.

Thank you again to everyone who opened their hearts and donated their time and money to Habitat for Humanity.

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from the Bible, and using the Bible as evidence for why abortion should be illegal is a cop out, based solely on misinformation.

To demonstrate that this argument does not come from the Bible, assume for a moment that the conclusion is false. If the conclusion is false, then one of the premises must be false as well.

The Bible specifically claims, “Thou shall not kill” (Exodus 20:13). This is not a verse that is wishy-washy in any way. It’s simple: Do not commit murder.

Therefore, the premise that murder is wrong must be true.

Finding direct references to abortion in the Bible is a daunting task. In fact, in the roughly 31,000 verses that make up the Bible, there are no references to abortion at all.

However, there is one verse that concerns the punishment for causing a woman to miscarry: “If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine” (Exodus 21:22).

The details of this verse are subject to some interpretation, but the overall meaning is fairly clear. If, in the course of a fight, a pregnant woman is hurt and miscarries as a result, then the man must pay a fine, determined by the judges, to the husband of the woman who miscarried.

The next verse goes on to state that, “If any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,” meaning, if the woman dies as a result of the fight, then the man is put to death.

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and says there is no God. It is one of the views I am asked to accept as viable.

What are the atheists giving up in the name of tolerance?

Are they willing to accept the fact that the truth they believe about God not existing may be false?

Are they willing to accept the fact that there may indeed be a God? Are they willing to value the fact that I believe in God? No, they’re not.

Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens are leaders of a movement called New Atheism. Atheism is nothing new, but the approach these men take to the philosophy certainly is new.

They are evangelistic in their cause to create more atheists, JELANI and their main argument is that SIMS religion, Christianity in particular, is dangerous and should be completely eradicated.

In their minds, the freedom of religion clause in the First Amendment is wrong in allowing religion to exist.

The New Atheists say religion should be completely removed from society and that no form of it, monotheistic or polytheistic, should be tolerated.

It doesn’t sound like these atheists are going to budge and start tolerating Christians.

And I’m not going to budge either.

It is time to wake up to the fact that there is a point when tolerance goes too far.

We are at that point.

Richard Dawkins is coming to OU in the spring.

If you’ve spent time heckling Christians for being “intolerant” of those who have different beliefs, make sure you heckle him as well for being intolerant of religion in general.

If you support Dawkins’ cause, your tolerance is just a guise for your desire to strip America of religion and get people with strong biblical convictions to shut up.

There is nothing tolerant about that.

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There are some contradictions going on within the movement toward tolerance and pluralism.

Take the issue of religion, for instance.

I am a conservative Christian. I believe belief in Jesus is the only way to get into Heaven. I believe all who accept him as their savior will receive eternal life, and those who deny him are spiritually dead and will be separated from him forever.

I will share this with anybody, and they can choose whether to believe as well or to walk the other way.

I am not one to criticize or treat anyone differently if they are not Christians.

However, there is a place where I draw the line concerning religious tolerance.

As a result of globalism, many other ideas and world views are beginning to exist within the same spaces.

College professors and cultural experts and many other people promote tolerance and pluralism in order to help these conflicting worldviews coexist in peace.

The tolerance they promote is not merely putting up with and respecting people with different views; it is a tolerance that requires us to value other people’s beliefs as viable and true along with our own.

Pluralism and tolerance require compromise.

Compromise means each party must give up something for the greater good of whatever cause is involved.

I am concerned about who is giving up something and what are they giving up to make a compromise for religious and philosophical tolerance.

Those whose beliefs are monotheistic and exclusive have something to give up. They must give up their convictions of faith and belief in an all-powerful God. They must accept that there is more than one path to God and deny the exclusivity of God. The end result is that the Christian in particular must give up the truth of the gospel that once brought them to salvation.

If they don’t give up these convictions in the name of tolerance, they are maliciously taunted and laughed at. They are called fundamentalists and right-wing conservatives. When they don’t budge, they are then harassed into tolerance.

This is where the contradiction exists. The pursuit of tolerance is intolerant toward Christians.

If religious tolerance can only be obtained by me denying who I am in Christ, then I will not participate in the movement.

Why am I so adamant about this? Let’s take the philosophy of atheism. It flies in the face of monotheism

Near mile marker 178, on Interstate 40 West between the Firelake Grand Casino and the Choctaw exit, is a large yellow billboard that reads, “You call it abortion, God calls it murder.”

Every time I see this sign, I can’t help but be amazed at the level of ignorance of some members of the religious community.

According to a number of Gallup polls, those who are Christian — both Protestant and Catholic — are more likely to believe abortion should be either illegal or usable only in extreme cases.

Those who ZACH are religious and believe HOLDER abortion is wrong believe so because they claim that either God or the Bible says abortion is wrong. According these believers, abortion is murder, and murder is wrong, therefore abortion is wrong.

I would imagine most of the people who use a religious basis for believing in the immorality of abortion got the idea from a pastor or priest who lectured on the evils of abortion one Sunday.

Or perhaps they got the idea from one of the colorful evangelicals who like to descend on campus, much to the consternation of students trying to push past the inevitable group of hecklers to get to class.

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STAFF COLUMN

A view from the What was Major League Baseball’s best story? opponent’s sidelines Yankee Stadium closing The rise of the Rays Editor’s Note: The Daily will be printing guest columns from OU’s football opponent each week. This week features the football writer of Baylor’s student newspaper. fter a bizarre weekend in college football, the University of Oklahoma is on top of the world, or at least the polls.

Barring an unforeseen and miraculous upset, the Sooners should breeze by Baylor without too much difficulty.

But even though Sooner fans have already started preparing for what is gearing up to be a fantastic Red River Shootout, overlooking the Bears should be done cautiously.

Baylor head coach Art Briles has instilled a swagger into the Bears program that has been absent for years, and just the thought of knocking off the No. 1 Sooners has the Bears brimming with excitement.

JUSTIN Even though Oklahoma features Heisman canBAER didate Sam Bradford, a stout defense and virtually no weaknesses, Baylor isn’t intimidated — or at least isn’t showing any signs of fear.

“Their rankings and all of that is going to be hyped up without us getting involved in all of that,” Briles said. “What we are going to try to do is be a better football team than we were against Connecticut. We are going to get on our home turf and represent Baylor University. We’ve got our guys, our people, our university, so that is the way we are approaching the football game.”

As cliché as the saying is, in order for Baylor to stand a chance Saturday, the Bears will have to play their best game while the Sooners play their worst.

Bradford is coming off a career day last weekend against TCU, in which he threw for 411 yards and four touchdowns.

With a Baylor defense that features a vulnerable secondary, Bradford is apt to produce big numbers against the Bears. “[Bradford] is calm, he is poised and he protects the football and plays very intelligently,” Briles said. “He has been very productive on the field. I think that goes without saying over the last two seasons. He does a great job for what they’re asking him to do for their offense.”

One optimistic point for Baylor is the resurgence of a running game. Freshman quarterback Robert Griffin has sprinted all over teams, running for 334 yards and five touchdowns with a 6.1 yards per carry average.

With an ailing DeMarcus Granger, the Sooners could have a tough time stopping the tandem of Griffin and Jay Finley, a sophomore running back who has emerged as a serious threat from the backfield.

But even without Granger, the Sooners have a potent defense with a lot of depth. Auston English is a first team All-Big 12 defensive end, while freshman Travis Lewis has stepped up at linebacker, leading the team with eight tackles per game.

As heavy favorites, Oklahoma would shock no one to come out with a win Saturday. But that’s how USC was last week and the University of Michigan was last year against Appalachian State.

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ow that the Major League Baseball season has ended, we can reflect on several very intriguing storylines that developed during the 160-plus games.

Some teams have greatly exceeded expectations, proving small markets can compete with the big boys. Other teams underachieved, showing wins can’t be bought.

The storyline that has most captured my attention this season has been the surprising emergence of the Tampa Bay Rays, the team that won the American League East by two games over the Boston Red Sox and finished eight games above the New York Yankees.

The Rays — formerly known as the Devil Rays — have been one of the worst teams in baseball for their entire history.

Since they became a professional team in 1998, the Rays had only finished out of last AARON place one time, and that year they finished COLEN next to last.

However, in 2008 the Rays came out of nowhere with one of the lowest payrolls in the league and became one of the top teams.

The team clinched its first playoff berth with a 7-2 win over the Minnesota Twins, a historic event in the franchise’s short history.

The Rays, who according to ESPN.com have a payroll of $43.4 million, are led by young talent like Carl Crawford and Evan Longoria.

James Shields — who has gone 14-8 this season — sits atop their pitching rotation, joined by Scott Kazmir, Matt Garza and Andy Sonnanstine. Kazmir, Garza and Sonnanstine combined to go 36-26.

Troy Percival, the team’s closer, is ranked ninth in the American League in saves with 28.

The Rays are a team that lacks the big-name superstars of other teams in the AL East, which boasts names like David Ortiz and Alex Rodriguez.

But with Rodriguez, the Yankees are enjoying an early offseason with their $200 million payroll. It’s refreshing to see a team seemingly devoid of superstars rally to the top together.

I don’t think I’m alone in saying I almost always have a softspot for the underdogs and the little teams. It has always been much more interesting to me to see the “little team that could” defy all the odds and take down the giants of their sport than to see a dynasty drag on.

I’m also a little tired of trying to get excited about the Chicago Cubs and their attempts to break the curse of the billy goat or more recently the Steve Bartman curse. And since the Red Sox broke their curse, there’s nothing interesting to me about their yearly success.

So while I’m not a Rays fan by any means, I will be hoping they advance in the postseason for the simple fact that I don’t want the most interesting story of this baseball season to end.

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— JUSTIN BAER IS THE FOOTBALL WRITER FOR THE BAYLOR LARIAT.

— AARON COLEN IS A JOURNALISM JUNIOR.

Sooners ready to take on Baylor just as if we’re playing a Texas or Missouri.

We prepare for every team the same.”

At this time last season, the Sooners were in a very similar situation. They were preparing for a challenge on the road the week before playing Texas, and ended up KYLE BURNETT Daily Sports Writer losing to Colorado 27-24.

McCoy remembers last year’s loss, and For the first time in five years, the is determined to avoid a similar fate this Sooners are entering a weekend ranked season.

No. 1 in both polls. But the team’s focus “We don’t want to lose, so we got to this week has been ignoring that ranking keep the same intensity,” McCoy said. “We and focusing on the Baylor Bears. don’t want to lose, home [or] away. We The Sooners have won our first game on dominated Baylor the road so we want more than any other to continue that.”

Big 12 team. The Bears McCoy isn’t the have never beaten the only one who realSooners in their 17 izes the importance meetings since 1901. of staying focused OU is the only team on each individual Baylor has played five game. times or more without “You look too far at least one win. ahead in the schedDespite that domiule, then the team — Senior wide receiver that you possibly look nance, sophomore defensive tackle past can beat you,” Quentin Chaney senior wide receiver Gerald McCoy emphatically denied the posQuentin Chaney said. sibility that OU has “You can’t look past looked past Baylor. anyone. And since we’re Oklahoma, every“We don’t overlook anybody,” McCoy one is coming out for you.” said. “We prepare for every team we play Poor play on the road became a trouble-

• Players being careful not to overlook Bears

“You can’t look past anyone. And since we’re Oklahoma, everyone is coming out for you.”

some trend last year. Two true road games followed the loss at Colorado, and the Sooners struggled against Iowa State and lost to Texas Tech.

“Baylor is much improved,” Chaney said. “We know we have to bring the same intensity to an away game that we do to home games.”

OU passed its first road test this season, soundly defeating Washington 55-14. But after last season’s problems, the Sooners are determined to keep their intensity high.

“I hate to say it, but we didn’t play too well on the road last year,” McCoy said.

Baylor (2-2) lost its two games against tough opponents — Wake Forest and Connecticut — earlier this year.

The Bears’ most impressive victory came in a 45-17 drubbing of Washington State.

Baylor is led by true freshman quarterback Robert Griffin, who leads the team in both rushing and passing.

Griffin has yet to throw an interception, has completed 60 percent of his passes and has recorded a total of 12 touchdowns this season.

In order to keep their No. 1 ranking, the Sooners realize Griffin must be contained.

“You’re only number one for one week if you lose,” senior center Jon Cooper said.

“You got to keep pushing to be number one. I’m only thinking of Waco, Texas.”

he recently-ended 2008 MLB season had an abundance of stories that kept fans tuned in and on the edge of their seats over the course of the past six months.

The [Devil] Rays finally made the playoffs, while the Yankees finally didn’t — pause for audience reaction — and Rangers slugger and ex-drug/alcohol addict Josh “the Great Hambino” Hamilton put on a monster show that I doubt we’ll see again at the Home Run Derby.

But, none of these can hold water to the fact that the 2008 season marked the final season of the infamous Yankee Stadium.

Go ahead and argue all you want in defense of Tampa beating out both the Yanks and Red Sox for AL East division championship, but it can’t qualify for the biggest story of the year if no one in St. Petersburg got wind — let alone cared — about it until mid-September.

JONO I’ve only been to the home of the Bronx GRECO Bombers twice during my life — the last of which was a couple of summers ago — and I was surprised about how much of a dump it was, but honestly, what happened in the seats didn’t matter.

It was all about Mickey Mantle running down a ball in the outfield, Derek Jeter pumping his fist rounding the bases as he claimed the “Mr. November” title and Babe Ruth launching a ball into the short porch in right field with a bat the size of an oak tree.

Personally, I’ll never forget what happened on October 17, 1998. The night itself was already special for me for two reasons: it was my tenth birthday and it was the first game of the World Series against the San Diego Padres.

I was wearing my Jeter T-shirt jersey, sporting a World Series hat and I was in awe of everything around me. The game was one Yankees fans could never forget. In the bottom of the seventh inning of a 5-5 game, Tino Martinez launched a grand slam into the right field seats.

I’m not the only one with a memory like that. Yankee Stadium was the site of many unforgettable baseball, religious and boxing events. And it helped bring a nation back together in 2001.

Two popes have given mass on the infield, Muhammad Ali fought Ken Norton under the stadium lights and President George W. Bush threw a perfect strike off the rubber before Game 3 of the 2001 World Series.

The people who saw those events will keep those memories until the day they die.

It was only fitting the Yankees would win the final game there, Andy Pettite would get the final win and Mariano Rivera would throw the final pitch.

It still seems strange that the final home run was hit by a person who still seems weird in the pinstripes after the stadium was christened with a Babe Ruth game-winning home run in the opener in 1923. But, hey, that’s just how baseball is.

The majesty of Yankee Stadium is all about what happened over the course of the past 85 years in the Bronx, not just that final night.

It was the moments, the memories — both good and bad — that put Yankee Stadium’s closing at the top of the laundry list of great stories to come out of Major League Baseball this season.

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— JONO GRECO IS A JOURNALISM SOPHOMORE.

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TODAY INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS A forum about U.S. and Russian relations and energy will be from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. UPB There will be a Guitar Hero night from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Crossroads Lounge at the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

OU SOCCER The team will play the University of Oregon at 7 p.m. at John Crain Field.

SATURDAY AMERICAN ARTISTS FROM THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE The opening reception for a new exhibit will be at 6 p.m. at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. OBVIOUSLY UNREHEARSED IMPROV! The group will hold auditions at 8 p.m. in the Union’s Heritage room.

SUNDAY UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION Fall registration will be at 2 p.m. at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. SCHOOL OF MUSIC The Sutton Faculty Concert series will be at 8 p.m. at Catlett Music Center.

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Arts & Entertainment

Friday, Oct. 3, 2008

Australian guitar legend to perform Sunday You’ve become pretty famous on the Internet.

I’ve noticed you have multiple videos with over two million views.

Yeah there’s a lot on there. I don’t know who does that because I don’t know how to do it.

People have been doing that for years. I didn’t know anything about it until the first time I played Stockholm in Sweden.

My agent rang me and said can we do a sixth show ‘cause the first one’s are sold out. I said ‘Wow that’s amazing. How is that possible, I’ve never been there before.’ So a guy sent me a link to YouTube and I suddenly discovered it. I didn’t know anything about it ‘cause I’m not a computer guy, really. I mean, I carry a laptop on tour but that’s about it. The Internet’s been a great tool for me. It’s great that people can see what you do.

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Tommy Emmanuel will perform at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday at the Nancy O’Brien Center for the Performing Arts in Norman. ommy Emmanuel has been called one of the greatest guitar players in the world by legends such as Eric Clapton and Chet Atkins, and was voted the “Best Acoustic Guitarist of 2008” by “Guitar Player Magazine.” Emmanuel will perform at 7:00 p.m. Sunday at the Nancy O’Brien Center for the Performing Arts, 1809 Stubbeman Ave. He will also lead a workshop at Gilliam’s Music, 2280 W. Main St., from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. on Sunday.

The Daily’s James Lovett spoke with the worldrenowned guitarist in a phone interview.

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Do you have a planned set list before you go on stage?

Never. No. I never, ever use a setlist. I walk on stage and start playing. Of course, I know how to put a show together, I know how it works and everything. The only time I ever use a setlist is if I have to play with a band or orchestra or something because they have to know what’s going next. But when I’m doing my own shows I just walk out and start playing. The biggest decision I have to make is what to start with.

Is there anywhere you haven’t played where you’d like to go?

Let’s see, well I haven’t played in Alaska and I haven’t played in Siberia yet. I’ve played in Russia and Ukraine, [but not Siberia}.

You’ve played in Oklahoma several times before.

Have you worked with many musicians from Oklahoma and do you have any memorable experiences in the state?

Oh absolutely. Louis Goldberg, the great piano player from there, I worked with her. When I first started coming there her all girls band was my opening band. They were great, and I got her to play some tunes with me.

What’s on your Ipod right now?

At the box office: the weekend in film ‘BLINDNESS’ hile waiting at a stoplight, a man is inexplicably stricken blind. In hours, his mysterious affliction has begun to spread through the populace.

This is the premise of Fernando M e i r e l l e s ’s “Blindness.” It’s a brilliant idea that plays to America’s current Photo provided apocalyptic atmosphere, but this film doesn’t do justice to it.

The trouble is, almost nothing unexpected occurs during the film. Given what you now know of the story’s premise, I think you can guess with a high degree of accuracy how it unfolds.

The blinding disease sweeps across the nation, and a sinister government agency — one of the most shamefully generic sinister government agencies ever presented on screen, I might add — rounds up those infected and throws them into a quarantined compound.

Now in isolation and struggling with their sightlessness, our protagonists form a rudimentary cooperative society. The leaders — a good-hearted ophthalmologist (Mark Ruffalo) and his wife (Julianne Moore), who is immune to the disease

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I’ve been listening to James Taylor’s “October Road” album lately. And I’ve been listening to some English comedy I’ve got on there right now.

With such a heavy touring schedule, what do you enjoy doing in the little spare time you have?

I enjoy playing the guitar (laughs). Well, I enjoy spending time with my children. I live in Nashville so when I’m home I enjoy doing work around the house.

— JAMES LOVETT IS A JOURNALISM JUNIOR.

SEE TOMMY EMMANUEL When: 7:00 p.m. Sunday Where: Nancy O’Brien Center for the Performing Arts, 1809 Stubbeman Ave. Tickets: For tickets to the concert or reservations for Emmanuel’s workshop, contact Rhonda Smith at the Nancy O’Brien Center for the Performing Arts at (303) 282-5176 or at rhonda@standingovationartists.com.

Adam Kohut, A&E editor dailyent@ou.edu phone: 325-5189, fax: 325-6051 For more, go to oudaily.com.

— differentiate themselves from the others. They make strides, but, of course, it isn’t long before conflict arises, driven by a puckish megalomaniac (Gael García Bernal), and things start to go all “Lord of the Flies.”

Meirelles’s camera avoids either sentimentality or sadism. We view the characters from a distance and, especially in the beginning, they appear like paramecia bumping inside a Petri dish.

This is a refreshing break from the heapings of schmaltz that typically accompany doomsday movies, but as a result the characters don’t engage adequately when the movie’s scope narrows down to the quarantined facility.

Consequently, the film’s two hours feel like a two-hour block of a calculus lecture, and even in moments of theoretical exhilaration, the mood weighs like a ton of bricks.

The sound design and cinematography are frequently good, and Ruffalo, who wore vision-obscuring contact lenses during shooting, proves that his great performance in “Zodiac” was no accident.

It’s also interesting to watch the doe-eyed Gael García Bernal in an atypically villainous role.

However, this isn’t enough to save “Blindness” from its lack of inventiveness and leaden pacing.

Watch “The Day of the Triffids” instead.

— ZAC SMITH IS A UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FRESHMAN

‘CHOKE’ ictor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) is the ultimate ne’er-dowell: a sex addict who cruises support groups for hook-ups and feigns choking in upscale restaurants in order to be taken under the wings of wealthy strangers whom he can later hit up for Photo provided cash.

Sam Rockwell is perfect as anti-charismatic antihero Victor — perhaps too perfect. He fits the part effortlessly, but never magnetizes as he did in “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” as the similarly dodgy but more flamboyant Chuck Barris Anjelica Huston delivers the film’s standout performance as Victor’s mother — once a fearless anarchist with massive tresses of black hair, now feeble and incoherent after years of drug abuse.

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This juxtaposition, made through frequent flashbacks, provides “Choke” with its greatest moments of poignancy.

“Choke” wisely avoids copying the visual ostentation of its predecessor, “Fight Club.” Rather, sets are laid out in the gentle pastels of a rom-com. It’s this friendly and unassuming exterior that makes the film’s surplus of self-loathing and perversity bitingly hilarious.

For a film that revels in its own depravity, however, the sexual content is surprisingly PG-13. There’s no full nudity, and bodily fluids are avoided by the camera, which is quite obtrusive in the scenes that revolve around the expulsion of these fluids. I never thought I’d say this, but here’s hoping for an unrated cut on DVD. The film also cheats a bit in its third act, furnishing quick and tidy solutions to the complications it so gleefully unspooled in the beginning.

“Choke” is certainly worth seeing. It’s hardly your average sex comedy.

— ZAC SMITH/THE DAILY

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