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FUTURE SOONERS TAKE OVER CAMPUS Incoming freshmen arrive in Norman for Camp Boomer KYLE WEST The Oklahoma Daily

Hundreds of incoming freshman are coming to Norman this week for the first session of Camp Crimson, the three-day orientation program that introduces new students to OU. The camp takes place over three weekends in July and August, and students spend three days and two nights getting to know other incoming freshman, learning about Sooner traditions and participating in OU-themed activities.

About 1,500 students are expected to participate in the three camps this year, with about 500 attending each session, Camp Crimson director Zac Stevens said.

Stevens said there were about 150 more students enrolled in the camp than last year, which is why a third camp session was added this year.

The first camp, “Camp Boomer,” begins Thursday and lasts through Saturday.

Kathryn Jackson is traveling all the way from Singapore to take part in Camp Crimson, and said her family planned its summer schedule around it.

“I think it’s an awesome way to meet people and learn a lot about OU that I didn’t already know,” Jackson said.

She said her grandparents, who live in Oklahoma, joked with her about coming to OU. But when she saw the campus for the first time, she said she felt right at home.

“Since I’m from overseas, I really wanted to find a home away from home,” Jackson said. “It was all my grandparents.”

Incoming freshman Austin Pugliese is traveling from Houston.

“It’s going to be good to meet a bunch of new people,” Pugliese said. “Norman’s just a college town. There’s no college in Texas like it. I had to be here.”

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Camp counselors do their best imitation of the OU drum major strut during the closing events of the 2008 Boomer session of Camp Crimson.

Jared Schmidt is coming from Willows, Calif., to take part in the Boomer Session of Camp Crimson.

“Coming from California, I really don’t know a lot of people,” Schmidt said. “I want to get to know some people and hang out with people before coming in.”

Schmidt is looking forward to football season and meeting new people, he said.

“Sooner football, it doesn’t get any better than that,” he said. “I’m going to like being out on my own and meeting

lots and lots of new people. Just being far away from my family is going to be the hardest thing. You’re so used to the ‘Bank of Dad.’ It’s going to be tough with the independence and being far from your family, but I will enjoy the independence and learning on my own. It’s really exciting.”

Kaylynn Presley, an incoming freshman from Tuttle, also said she is excited about being on her own, but is nervous about the size of OU.

“I’m really nervous about the size,” Presley said. “My high school was very small. I had about 100 kids in my class.

But there’s a sense of community at OU, like everyone’s here to help everyone else. I think it’s a great school and I’m really ready to go.”

Presley said she is looking forward to taking a seminar about leadership during the semester, and meeting other freshmen during Camp Crimson while learning about OU traditions.

Main Street bank robbed three times since June RICKY MARANON The Oklahoma Daily JACOB VOGT / THE DAILY

Campers fly their homemade kites outside at the Sooner Flight Academy Tuesday afternoon. The Sooner Flight Academy offers summer camps for students ages 4-18.

OU Aviation camp gives kids wings Sooner Flight Academy teaches basics of flying RICKY MARANON The Oklahoma Daily

While some kids go to grandma’s house, Disneyland and to the lake, others spend their summer coming to Norman to take to the skies.

Originally known as the Oklahoma Aerospace Academy, the Sooner Flight Academy is an aviation school and summer camp located on the OU north research campus at the Max Westheimer Airpark, and holds summer camps for kids and teenagers wanting to learn more about the science behind airplanes.

“We are a hands-on math and science camp,” program director Lauren Mitchell said. “We like to teach kids about aviation and the physics behind it through learning projects, field trips and even letting the kids go flying during the week.”

Mitchell said the program brings in aviation students from across the Midwest.

“Many of our students are not from Norman, and we have a few students who are from Houston and Lawton,” Mitchell said. “Some of our students have stayed in hotels during the camp, but some of them commute long

distances to camp daily or just stay with their relatives that live in the area.”

Mitchell said students who come to the camp are enthusiastic about learning aviation, and take the camp as a serious learning opportunity rather than a summer get away.

“For some students this camp is a reward for working hard in school and getting good grades,” she said. “For others, the parents appreciate the opportunities we offer to their kids in both learning and letting them explore their dreams, and they keep bringing their kids back year after year. We have some students who have been in the program since they were four and five years old.”

The Sooner Flight Academy is in its’ 15th year of operation at the Max Westheimer Airpark, and five of the campers have attended for 10 years.

The program offers campers the opportunity to pilot the same airplanes they are learning about.

“If the campers are eight years old or older, we let them go flying, and they can see the city and experience what it is like to be in a plane,” Mitchell said.

“If they are 12 years old or older, we will actually let them pilot the plane themselves.”

She said even though the kids are enthusiastic about learning the science behind aviation, some can be a little nervous about taking their first flight. Even though the camp is fun and

hands-on, the campers do not practice extreme stunts.

“The flying parts are a time when kids experience what flying is like,” she said. “We do not do loops or extreme stunts and maneuvers. The flight portions are not meant to be an air show.”

Anna Tenbrook, aviation and professional pilot junior, has been in the program for eight years and is now an intern at the camp.

“I think it is really cool,” Tenbrook said about joining the camp staff. “I can remember having teachers that I looked up to, and it’s a great experience getting the chance to teach.”

Tenbrook has her private pilot’s license, and uses that and her education and experience to teach the campers.

“It’s really exciting, and I hope we continue to expand,” she said. “[The camp] is a great way of giving kids the chance to get a taste of aviation, and I’m really excited I get to teach in a program I was involved in as a kid.”

Campers receive the guidance of two teachers at all times. The teachers assist kids on field trips to Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City and also in helping in kite making projects that help them study wind.

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Monday’s robbery at the Bank of the West was the third at the branch in the past six weeks, with the last two robberies occurring within three days of each other.

Two of the robberies at the Bank of the West, located at 2122 W. Main St., most likely were carried out by the same suspect, according to Norman Police reports.

“Same suspect as last time,” according to the police report about the second robbery July 10, referencing the first incident at the bank on June 3.

The Oklahoma City branch of the FBI also is involved in investigating the robberies.

“We believe there is a connection in the first two robberies, because the suspect in both of the incidents was wearing a ski mask and used a semi-automatic weapon during the robbery,” FBI Special Agent John McL emore said.

“There could be a connection to the same suspect in all three robberies, since the description of the suspect in all three incidences is almost the same, but it’s too early to tell.”

The FBI states on its Web site that an unidentified

white male wearing all black clothing approached a teller at the bank and demanded money. The suspect used a semi-automatic pistol and forced tellers to place money in a black and yellow backpack.

According to the FBI, the third robbery, which occurred Monday, has different circumstances than the other two. A white male wearing a red and white golf shirt with an OU logo, and a red and white ball cap with an OU logo, approached a bank teller and handed the teller a note demanding money, according to the FBI Web site.

A Norman Police report states that the suspect in the third robbery walked out with $900.

“We are considering the possibility that the suspect of the three robberies at the Norman bank may be involved in some robberies in Oklahoma City, but it is too early to tell,” McLemore said.

Shawn Pearce, political science senior, is a customer at the Bank of the West branch that has been robbed.

“I’m grateful that the bank is an FDIC bank. I know my money is safe because of that,” Pearce said. “The fact that the bank has been robbed really does not make a difference to me. They are nice people, and I like the service I get there.”

Pearce said he banks there because there is a branch in both Norman and in his hometown.

Bank of the West said it is working with the Norman Police and the Oklahoma City office of the FBI, and said its customers will not be greatly affected by the ROBBERY Continues on page 2

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James Lovett, managing editor dailynews@ou.edu • phone: 325-3666 • fax: 325-6051

Video games really are good for children OU researchers compare playing Nintendo Wii to regular exercise CHARLES WARD The Oklahoma Daily

OKLAHOMA CITY — Kids everywhere now have a new talking point when asking, begging or pleading parents for a Nintendo Wii. The Wii system is good for them, according to a new study from researchers at the Harold Hamm Oklahoma Diabetes Center at the OU Health Sciences Center.

The study, which appears this week in “Pediatrics,” a journal issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics, examined the number of calories burned by 23 children aged 10-13 as they played Dance Dance Revolution, Wii Boxing and Wii Bowling. The researchers then compared those rates to the energy output of walking at 3.5 mph on a treadmill, and watching TV. Wii Boxing and level two of Dance Dance Revolution produced levels of caloric output 2-3 times that expended while watching television, similar to the calorie-burning rate of a treadmill. Wii Bowling and the easiest level of Dance Dance Revolution produced an energy output rate that doubled the energy expenditure of watching television.

“We’re not saying that this is equivalent to being on the soccer team, or the basketball team or going for a run outside, but it’s a good way to increase your energy expenditure during those times when you’d otherwise be sedentary, [such as] a rainy day or when they’re playing video games anyway.” said Kevin Short, the principal investigator during the study and an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the OU College of Medicine.

Short said the current recommendation is for children to get at least 60 minutes of moderate-level or greater activity in a day, and that the video games tested would help reach that total.

“The national surveys that have been

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Nintendo’s newest gaming console “Wii” offers gamers a unique combination of exercise and entertainment. done show that young kids are usually pretty good about meeting that goal,” he said. “But sometime during adolescence, in those teenage years, that level drops down and less than half of kids are meeting that goal, in the United States currently.”

The games can also provide some improvement in children that are already obese, Short said.

“Only about 30 years ago, 5 percent of our children were obese in the United States,” said Dr. Kenneth Copeland, co-director of Pediatrics at the Hamm Center and the section chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at the OU College of Medicine. “And now, one third of our children are either overweight or obese, and Oklahoma is certainly one of the leading states in that dubious distinction.”

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Campus Corner will host a sidewalk sale this week as part of the “Shop Norman” campaign.

incidences. “[Our customer’s] money is 100 percent safe, and no one’s balances are affected,” said Karl Gentles, regional spokesman for Bank of the West.

“The only impact customers will face is the temporary closing of the branch to work with local law enforcement and crime scene investigators.

The branch will either reopen later that day or the next business day.”

“If anyone has any information about the suspect in any of the robberies, please call the FBI,” McLemore said.

There is a $2,000 reward for anyone giving information leading to the arrest or conviction of the suspect in the Bank of the West Norman branch robberies. Call the FBI in Oklahoma City at 290-3678.

Aviation Continued from page 1 “The kids are under the guidance of both a professional pilot and a classroom teacher,” Mitchell said. “The pilot teaches about aviation, and the teacher keeps control of the classroom and helps the pilot plan out their lessons in a way that makes it easier for the kids to understand the concepts.”

Mitchell said the program also shows campers how aviation plays into all career fields.

“We like to tie aviation into all career fields, not just being a professional pilot,” Mitchell said. “We really want to make the kids see how much fun aviation is for doctors and lawyers and any other career you can think of.”

When the summer is over, the Sooner Flight Academy goes to local area schools, and gives classroom demonstrations while preparing for the next summer.

“Preparing for camp is a year round process,” Mitchell said. “We want to have great guest speakers and also improve on teaching and projects and work to improve the experience of the camp.”

Stores along Campus Corner will host a sidewalk sale beginning Thursday and running through Sunday. Hours of operation differ from store to store.

Shoppers can take advantage of various discounts and get an early look at the district’s new street renovations that will continue into August on Asp Avenue and White Street.

The sale is also part of a “Shop Norman” campaign sponsored by the Norman Chamber of Commerce. The campaign is an effort by the Retail Trade Committee to promote shopping in Norman.

Kyra McMoran with the Norman Chamber of Commerce said that

most people don’t realize the sales tax dollars spent here in Norman stay in Norman to help pave roads, fix pot holes, maintain parks and fund several other city of Norman projects and initiatives.

“Purchases in Norman also give retailers the ability to donate to you or your child’s civic or nonprofit groups. These local business support local causes which is why it’s so important to support local businesses,” McMoran said.

Three cents of sales tax for every retail dollar spent within Norman city limits goes towards the city – 2.3 cents go to the city of Norman’s general fund and seven-tenths of a cent go towards the city’s capital improvements fund.

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Childhood obesity’s link to diabetes in adults is becoming stronger, according to Copeland, “This is prevention at its very best,” he said. “First of all, defining how much of an intervention do you have to [do to] prevent obesity, how much of an intervention like the Wii games, the video games, do you have to make to really make a difference on energy expenditure, caloric expenditure.”

Children were excited to participate in the study, according to Lauren Pratt, a co-investigator on the study.

Advertisements that promoted the video games as ways to exercise, along with a previous Health Sciences Center study which used Dance Dance Revolution as an exercise stimulus in schools, provided the genesis for

the study.

“So many companies are promoting these active video games, like Dance Dance Revolution and the Nintendo Wii, that we [asked], ‘How many calories are kids expending when they play these games, or adults for that matter?’” Short said. “And how does this compare to other forms of exercise that we regularly promote.”

Future studies, including one that is currently underway, will determine if these results are consistent across age groups, including adults, and how exercise affects the blood sugar levels in children and adults.

Anyone interested in participating in the studies should contact Lauren Pratt at lauren-pratt@ouhsc.edu.

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James Lovett, sports editor dailysports@ou.edu • phone: 325-7630 • fax: 325-6051

SOONERS SURVIVE, ADVANCE TO NEXT ROUND EDDIE RADOSEVICH

find himself in good position as the weekend looms.

“I like match play a lot better Survive and advance. [than stroke competition] because That’s the name of the game if you do make a double or triple when it comes to the match play bogey it only hurts you one hole rounds of the 84th U.S. Amateur not two or three shots,” said Bryan, Public Links Championship. who won the 2004 6A state chamO k l a h o m a a s s i s t a n t g o l f pionship as a senior at Mustang coach Phillip Bryan and junior- High School. to-be Liam Logan did just that On the other side of the brackWednesday afternoon at Jimmie et, Logan survived a 20-hole duel Austin OU Golf Club. with the youngest player still left Bryan, who was a member on in the U.S. Publinx field.

OU’s only Big 12 Championship Sixteen-year old Anders team in 2006, defeated Braxton Albertson pushed Logan to the Marquez of Scottsdale, Ariz., 2 brink after taking a 1-up advanand 1 Wednesday afternoon while tage by way of winning the 480 battling the Oklahoma summer yard, par-4 17th. heat.

Logan’s drive off “I actually played “The thing about the 17th tee went r e a l l y w e l l , a n d match play is every right, and despite Braxton played re- match is different help from spectaally well also,” said the tors in the gallery, and you start over Mustang, Okla., native. his competitor and “My first day I played after every single members of the local pretty well. Yesterday, match.” media, the ball could I played my back nine not be found. well, and today, I kept PHILLIP BRYAN, OU With one down and to my own and was one to play, Logan reASSISTANT GOLF COACH consistent.” sponded on the 584 But the former fouryard, par-5 18th hole. year letterman knows After hitting a he will need to make putts in order mammoth of a drive off the 18th to win his morning match today in tee box, Logan then stuck a 4-iron the round of 32. from 235 yards out to 20 feet, and “I missed a whole lot of putts a putt for eagle. today,” said Bryan following his “I hit the drive really good,” Wednesday match. “It’s kind of said Logan following his gruelthat five to 15 foot range where I ing match. “It was the best drive kept thinking I was going to make all day, and then the second shot it, but I was hitting good putts, and [into the 18th] I hit really solid.”

I’m hoping that they fall.”

Ta k i n g a d v a n t a g e o f a n Even though he missed some Albertson miscue off the tee, putts, Bryan has put himself in Logan then two-putted to force a contention. And with him favor- sudden death playoff starting on ing match play, the former Sooner the first hole. player and current coach could With both players halving the

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OU Men’s Golf Assistant Coach Phillip Bryan sets the ball up for a putt Wednesday morning at the Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club. The second and third round of match play starts Thursday. The U.S. Amateur Public Links ends Saturday. opening sudden death hole, the match moved to the second hole, 170 yard par-3.

“He was hitting driver and 3-woods all day to the green and then two putting,” said Logan, who consistently out drove the young future all-star Albertson. “He was short [off the tee], but you expect someone like that to have a really good short game.”

And when both players missed the green on the par-3, that short game was shown as it had throughout the entire match.

Albertson hit a high flop shot over the right side bunker, and Logan responded with a chip to six feet, forcing tournament officials

to measure who would attempt their par putt first.

Logan would make, and Albertson would miss on the low side of the hole, advancing Logan to Thursday’s matches.

Looking to become the U.S. Publinx champion 10 years after another Sooner, Hunter Hass, won the title in 1999, both Bryan and Logan know there is still a long way to go.

“The thing about match play is every match is different, and you start over after every single match,” said Bryan. “We’ll start again tomorrow morning and see how it goes, but to win the whole thing is getting way, way ahead of

ourselves.”

By Thursday’s end, the field will be cut to 8 players, with the round of 32 and round of 16 being played all in one day.

Players from today’s morning matches will play a second match later in the afternoon.

Bryan is first of the Sooner duo off the tee at 7:54 a.m., when he plays Gene Webster Jr., of San Bernandino, Calif., who advanced yesterday with a 6 & 4 victory.

Logan will tee off at 8:48 a.m. against Jace Long of Dixon, Mo., the tournament’s No. 3 seed overall. Long advances after defeating Ryan Sloane, of Campbell, Calif., 2-up.

OU Hockey Club to benefit from Blazers absence CHARLES WARD

tentative lease with AHL Hockey Club, LLC., which is a preliminary step towards bringing an American Hockey League franchise to Oklahoma City. The deal would allow an AHL OKLAHOMA CITY — Blazers Ice Center recently lost its team to play at the Cox Convention Center in 2010. It might namesake tenant, but the arena and the OU hockey club that also provide the arena with a new anchor tenant. plays and practices there have no plans of disappearing.

“We’re a pretty good practice facility for any team, Blazers Ice Center is not owned by Express Sports, the NHL all the way down,” Donovan said. “We have the company which owned the Blazers. Instead, the Blazers accommodations.” gave their name to the arena as part of a Until and unless that happens, however, marketing and promotional effort, accord- “We’re a pretty good prac- the OU hockey club, along with a club at the ing to Larry Donovan, general manager of tice facility for any team, University of Central Oklahoma, will be the both Blazers Ice Center and the OU hockey NHL all the way down.” highest-level of hockey in the Oklahoma City club. metro area this season.

“It was kind of a mutual thing,” Donovan LARRY DONOVAN, BLAZERS ICE “People know we were here, and they eisaid. “They needed the exposure, we needther went to a Blazers game, or they came ed the exposure, so it was a good working CENTER GENERAL MANAGER here,” Donovan said. “Now we’ll have, obvirelationship.” ously, more people coming to an OU hockey The Blazers suspended operations July game. That’s a good plus for us. It will be an 1, citing the current economic downturn exciting atmosphere here at the games, beas the reason in a statement that appears on their Web site. cause there will be more people watching.”

The team practiced at Blazers Ice Center, renting ice time Blazers fans are purchasing and asking about season and storage space from the arena. tickets to OU hockey games, Donovan said. Season tickets “We’re just going to have to find something else to fill the are $126, with OU students receiving free admission. void,” Donovan said. “We’re going to have to get creative The OU club team, which participates in the American marketing.”

Collegiate Hockey Association, will begin its seventh The professional hockey void in Oklahoma City might season Sept. 25 by hosting defending ACHA champion be short-lived. The Oklahoma City Council approved a Lindenwood (Mo.) University.

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SPORTS BRIEFS STADIUM RENOVATIONS TO COMPLETE IN AUGUST OU is nearing completion on Phase IV of the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium renovation project, bringing the total for all improvements to the stadium and its support areas to more than $125 million since renovations began in 1998.

Phase IV included $15 million in upgrades to the locker rooms, training area, meeting and equipment rooms and the SoonerVision studio.

“The generous support of our donors and fans has driven our ability to plan and complete projects in a timely, well-conceived manner,” OU Athletic Director Joe Castiglione said in a statement. “We have devoted consistent attention to our facilities in a man-

ner that allows us to allocate the financial resources we develop in a cost effective manner, while expanding and improving at an appropriate pace.”

School officials expect the current work to be completed in August.

COALE PARTICIPATES IN MOCK BRACKET EXCERCISE Women’s head baskeball coach Sherri Coale is participating in a mock selection exercise at the NCAA national office in Indianapolis this Thursday and Friday.

Coale joins 15 other Division I women’s basketball coaches in the exercise, intended to educate coaches in the selection, seeding and bracketing of the NCAA women’s basketball championship.

“When the championship bracket comes out and it has some twists or turns, sometimes coaches don’t understand the process and come to conclusions that have no basis,” Coale said in a statement released by the OU athletics department. “For most of us, we’re involved with the development of our team and controlling those factors that enable us to control our own destiny.

We don’t take the time to understand what the committee’s charge is. In order to fully understand it, you have to go through it.”

The NCAA began trying mock selection exercises in 2007 in an attempt to shed light on the process that the NCAA selection committees undergo each March when brackets are determined.

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HOROSCOPE

By Bernice Bede Osol

Copyright 2008, Newspaper Enterprise Assn.

Thursday, July 16, 2009 CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Someone you’ve always been there for may not be the one who can help you at this time, but in his or her place you will find the right person to help. It’s your reward.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Motivation and hard work are the keys to success. If an objective is meaningful enough, you won’t have any trouble expending the necessary effort to achieve your goal.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- The best way to show your feelings to loved ones is not by what you say but what you do. Deeds speak the volumes that words cannot convey.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Positive changes can be made in the household when you make sure that your deeds are accomplished with each person’s best interests in mind. Even the most hardhearted will succumb to kindness.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- What makes the probabilities for success so inevitable is an innate ability to apprise matters realistically before you take them on. Sound judgment cuts through all obstacles.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Anything you do as a team is likely to turn out to be more successful than that which you attempt independently. This is especially true where everyone is striving for the same objective.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- When you work your will, the unworkable can begin to work.

So instead of allowing negative conditions to prevail, make a concerted effort to overcome them and induce a positive change.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- The opportunity to produce added and sustained earning power within your field of expertise could cross your path at this time. If you’re alert, you’ll spot it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- You’ve got the inner strength to exert extra patience and tolerance when dealing with a sensitive friend who is being difficult. By doing so, you will bolster his or her ego and get this person to smile again.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Now is the time to tackle those long-delayed tasks that have been too distasteful to handle. You’ve got the patience and fortitude to attack them.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- It’s OK to treat lighthearted issues with frivolity, but only as long as you give serious involvements the respect they deserve. Know the difference.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- If an occasion should arise that requires a small sacrifice on behalf of someone for whom you’re responsible, do so with a smile. Don’t make a big thing out of it, and it won’t be one.

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Luke Atkinson, opinion editor dailyopinion@ou.edu • phone: 325-7630 • fax: 325-6051

OUR VIEW

STAFF CARTOON

Housing should reconsider assignments Housing and Food Services released housing assignments Monday which created quite a buzz among residents.

Students are unhappy with the decisions of Housing and Food to place them without their requested roommates, not honoring same room requests and not answering their questions.

The limited responses have been difficult for the students, as well as The Daily. We haven’t been able to reach anyone who assigns OU Traditions Square housing to ask them how assignments are made and if there are any plans to fix the current complaints.

Lauren Royston, marketing and public relations specialist for Housing and Food, said she wasn’t in charge of assignments for Traditions, but could tell us they are developed based on roommate requests and other factors.

Travis Darling, meteorology junior, was given the room I wanted, but not his roommate. He was also affected earlier in the summer by Housing and Food when they moved him out of his apartment to house National Weather Center interns.

As the comments on OUDaily.com stream in, it seems more residents have

not had their priorities honored in their contracts, even the students who have lived within university housing for several years.

Has Housing and Food changed their assignment process? Are there no benefits given to loyal residents?

Housing and Food offers residents a chance to switch rooms in a “Move Around.” A downside to this program is it costs $75 and students must wait until Sept. 7 to request the move, according to Traditions’ Web site. This also depends on the availability of rooms.

In a situation like this, where so many students are angry and affected, Housing and Food should reconsider the assignments and re-assign the rooms of Traditions.

It is understandable if you can’t get the room you want, but loyalty should allow you a better chance at your choice, and roommate matches should always be honored.

Housing and Food plays a large role in student life, and the recent confusion isn’t beneficial to their image. Students need an explanation as to why the confusion has occurred, and hopefully a remedy to the situation.

COMMENTS OF THE DAY

Mai-Thao Nguyen is a biochemistry senior.

OPINIONATED?

IN RESPONSE TO TRADITIONS ROOM ASSIGNMENTS: I am so sick of dealing with the Traditions people. Everything I have ever tried to do has been a problem for them. I would go into the housing office to speak to someone and they tried to send me away and do it on the computer. When I finally do talk to someone, I get the runaround. I ask for a guarantee I will get my preferences and they won’t give me one. I ask if it’s probable and they tell me that they don’t know because the computer does it. I ask if people have gotten what they wanted at this time in the past, and I’m told someone else had this job last year. It’s ridiculous.

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-brettmarley

Experience over 3 years in traditions west: I am a grad/phd student and living in Traditions for 3 years. I can only say when Daisy Patton used to manage traditions assignment, things were different. It was better, much better. The service and gestures of the managers and housing people associated with traditions only have gotten worse. The free food has gone to nothing.

Also this year as a returning grad i wanted a room and I DID NOT get any. because i missed the deadline to secure my same room. yes, i think there is no recognition here for returning.

Last year my stuff was misplaced and stolen while I was moving from one apt to other (inside traditions) since the manager let the cleaning crew in (inside my bedroom) before I checked out!!

My conclusion is , the traditions have only gotten worse due to the lack of good credentials of the people who handle this apartment complex.

-somad

I can understand not getting the floor plan you wanted but not getting the roommate you wanted when you both requested each other is ridiculous.

-ricflair

I’ve lived in Traditions quite happily for going on 3 years now. To be honest I have yet to really run into any issues. I didn’t get the apartment I wanted the first year I lived there, but I have since that time.

I filled out my paperwork really early, so I’m guessing these people complaining probably didn’t. My only complaint is that it took so long to get an assignment. I guess what I’ve learned at this point is that the earlier you fill stuff out, the better off you are.

-TheJR

My girlfriend has had constant trouble getting any of her requests honored. She had to go down there before summer because her entire contract was botched. After being reassured that these kinds of problems were a one-time thing, she assumed they would take care of it. Now, she’s gotten her fall assignment and they have still not given her the 2 bedroom/1 bathroom that she wanted. Getting a lease at another complex is so much easier than this - the housing office is completely mismanaged, as you can tell by the boilerplate non-speak coming from Royston.

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Role models don’t just live in Hollywood As ironic as it may seem, I am not a very opinionated person. I mean, I have opinions, but I rarely engage in thoughtful debate with others about my beliefs or ideas. Even on issues where I have opinions, I do my best not to JOSH express them too firmly WESNESKI or obstinately. However, there is one exception to the rule, and it is this: I HATE TMZ. For those of you unfamiliar with the show, Thirty Mile Zone is a program that spends its entire time slot reporting, critiquing, and making light of the lives of celebrities. The things that pass for “news” on this show are absolutely absurd. For example, the other day, TMZ ran a news clip of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo leaving a club with his friends. The narration claims that this clip definitively proves how lonely and sad he is about his break up with Jessica Simpson.

While I don’t follow the world of celebrities very much, I know that some people do with great volition, and that’s fine. The problem

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is when the media (if you can call TMZ the media) sets such lofty standards for celebrity behavior that no actor, musician, or athlete could ever meet. For example, there was a huge stir in the media when it was discovered that Michael Phelps smokes marijuana. I agree that as a role model for youngsters, this is unacceptable behavior. At the same time, however, our media seems to think that getting high is something that only drug junkies and die-hard stoners do. Speculations that Michael Phelps swam in the Olympics high began to run rampant through the media and now people seem to believe that Michael Phelps smokes weed 24/7.

Maybe he does, or maybe he doesn’t, but the point is that thousands of people smoke weed in the United States. That doesn’t make it right, by any standard, but many of those thousands of people are also successful college students, educated businessmen, and respected members of their community.

Smoking weed or doing other illegal drugs isn’t a good habit for role models, but does that mean that we ought to condemn the entire career and image of Michael Phelps because we have evidence that he got high once?

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I know lots of people that have gotten high once or twice. I also know some other people that get high somewhat frequently, but I don’t doubt their character for it. The difference is that Michael Phelps is a celebrity and our society sets the bar incredibly high for him and other celebrity. And the justification that TMZ and other celebrity bloggers give for such harsh standards? They claim that celebrities are social role models and should therefore be held to a higher standard.

I don’t disagree with this one bit, but have you have stopped to think that perhaps everyone is a social role model? I guarantee you that the habits and actions of parents have a much greater impact on their children than the actions and habits of Michael Phelps. And it doesn’t just go for parents. As a member of this community, you are a role model for your friends, family, coworkers, employees, and even employers.

It’s true that celebrities set the social standard to some level, but if you really want to ensure that your community has good role models, you should start with yourself. It’s okay to say that Michael Phelps shouldn’t smoke weed as long as you set that same

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Celebrities, although they are often in the limelight, are very much detached from society. It may negatively impact a child to find out that his or her favorite celebrity gets drunk on a regular occasion, but it pales in comparison to the impact of finding out that a parent or a best friend gets drunk on a regular occasion. Kids don’t watch TMZ and then go emulate these celebrities in their room, they watch their parents and other community role models and go out to emulate those people with their friends.

It’s fine to follow celebrities if that’s what you’re in to, and it’s fine if you demand that those celebrities act as good role models for society, but don’t forget that you and everyone you know is a role model too. Instead of worrying about what Michael Phelps or Tony Romo does on the weekend, you should worry about what you and your friends do on the weekend. We all have a tremendous impact on those closest to us; let’s make sure that we are making a positive impact.

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Dining out of dumpsters for the environment MEGAN MORGAN The Oklahoma Daily

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But Tresemer doesn’t just go diving for food — he said he goes to dumpsters in construction sites to look for materials for his art For dumpster divers, one man’s trash is instead of going to a hardware store. another man’s dinner.

He also doesn’t always eat all of his finds Studio art junior Mick Tresemer said he himself, sometimes serving friends without goes dumpster diving for food about twice a their prior knowledge. week.

“I usually don’t tell [my friends] until after “I feel better because I’m not spend- they’ve eaten it,” Tresemer said. ing money, and I’m not hurting the earth,” No one has gotten sick or thrown up Tresemer said. from food that he has given them, he said.

Tresemer has been diving for about a year Sometimes his friends give him weird looks, and has gone more frequently starting last but others get used to the idea, he said. semester. His roommates introduced him to Danny Terlip, electrical engineering sethe practice, he said. nior, is a friend of Tresemer’s who also goes “I lived with people that did it, and I was dumpster diving. a little sketched out at first, but then I finally “I dumpster dive to reduce my impact on went out with them and ended up with a lot the planet because the stuff I take out of the of non-perishable food, like granola bars,” dumpster isn’t part of the system anymore,” Tresemer said. “It got me hooked and it got Terlip said. “If I can feed myself on stuff that’s me thinking about how been taken out of the much money gets thrown “It’s great to sit down to a equation that was going to away.” a landfill anyway, then it’s Tresemer said he feels meal and say, ‘I didn’t pay out of the whole consuma lot of good food is sim- for any of this.’” erism picture.” ply tossed out, and that he Terlip said he first often finds bread, produce MICK TRESEMER, STUDIO ART JUNIOR became interested in and even dairy products, dumpster diving out of but sometimes he discovcuriosity. ers rarer items.

“I worked at a grocery “The best thing I ever store and I saw what was thrown away,” found was two full cases of Bagel Bites that Terlip said. were still frozen. They lasted for weeks,” he While some people may think that divsaid. ing for food is gross, it’s also not quite what When Tresemer goes dumpster diving, people may think, he said. he said he usually searches with one or two “Most of the stuff we find is still in the box friends, and their adventures hardly do any in the package,” Terlip said. “It’s not like we’re harm to the environment. eating trash infected with maggots.”

“It makes a very low impact,” he said.

Andrew Custis, multidisciplinary studies “First, we ride our bikes there. And secondly, senior, said he hasn’t been dumpster divcompanies don’t have to produce any more ing in a while, but he used to go every two to food for us. And there’s no extra packaging or three weeks. manufacturing.”

“It’s an adventure every time,” Custis said.

And in addition to the low impact, Custis said dumpster diving is definitely Tresemer, who described himself as a bit “an- hit-or-miss. ti-economy,” said a huge benefit of dumpster “Sometimes you wouldn’t find anything, diving is not spending money. but you never know until you go,” he said.

“It’s great to sit down to a meal and say, ‘I Like Tresemer, Custis said he had to warm didn’t pay for any of this,’” he said. up to the idea of dumpster diving before he Tresemer said on a recent trip to Austin, went the first time, and that reactions from Texas, he noticed a lot of people dumpster friends were similar. diving.

“At first, some [of my friends] thought that “I saw tons of people dumpstering down it was disgusting, but then some of them there — everything from Jimmy John’s to started doing it later,” Custis said. this bakery that had tons of cookie dough,” Dumpster diving is allowed in most plache said. “We ended up making about seven es, but some areas post signs discouraging the practice. batches of cookies.”

ENGROSSING STORY PROVIDES REAL MAGIC IN ‘HARRY POTTER’ Diving into the sea of summer cinema, amidst dueling robots, a flamboyant fashionista and tired retreads of animated prehistoric critters, comes yet another blockbuster hopeful.

But — gasp — it seems it’s a blockbuster dependent not on explosions or DUSTY SOMERS outrageousness, but on the previously thought missing link in most of this summer’s films — a story.

Delayed from a November release, “Harry Potter and the HalfBlood Prince” is a well-paced, quietly assured film with pockets of action and humor tucked in all the right places. The end result is a two-and-a-half-hour movie that earns its keep for every one of those minutes.

T h i s t i m e, Ha r r y ( D a n i e l Radcliffe) is back for his sixth year at Hogwarts. Meanwhile, havoc is being wreaked all over the place thanks to the Death Eaters, and it seems as if nowhere — even Hogwarts — is safe.

At the school, Albus Dumbledore (Michael Gambon)

enlists Harry to help find out more about Voldemort’s defenses via Professor Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent), a former potions professor who Dumbledore convinces to teach again. Slughorn taught Voldemort years ago, and holds vital information.

While in Slughorn’s class, Harry finds an old textbook filled with helpful spells that belonged to someone called the Half-Blood Prince.

Romance is also in the air as Hermione (Emma Watson) struggles with her feelings for Ron (Rupert Grint) while he pursues another girl, and Harry falls for Ron’s sister Ginny (Bonnie Wright).

“Half-Blood Prince” manages to combine all kinds of atmospheres convincingly — it’s filled with both a deepening sense of dread and an optimistically strengthening sense of relationship among the major characters. Radcliffe, Watson and Grint have all come into their own, and their rapport is strong and believable throughout the film.

Director David Yates, who also helmed the previous Potter film, “Order of the Phoenix,” and will direct the upcoming two-part finale, “Deathly Hallows,” has crafted a dark and increasingly mature entry into the franchise.

Frightening touches like a cursed girl screaming while suspended in midair and an underground lake teeming with Gollumlike villains defy the PG rating that “Half-Blood Prince” somehow snagged from that most inexplicable of institutions, the MPAA. Yates populates the magical world with lots of nice detailed touches as well, including imaginative PHOTO PROVIDED renderings of an h o u r g l a s s t h a t Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and Professor Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent) confer in “Harry keeps time based Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” The film is the sixth in the “Harry Potter” series. on the quality of Bad guys Severus Snape (Alan disappointed, but perhaps it’s time the conversation around it, and vials of memories Rickman), Draco Malfoy (Tom these people were introduced to a that can be visualized by pouring Felton) and Death Eater Bellatrix different kind of movie magic — a Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter) slowly unfolding dialogue-driven them into a shallow pool. story. On this front, “Half-Blood Any idea that “Harry Potter” is are the ones who triumph.

“Half-Blood Prince” does ex- Prince” delivers. mostly kids’ stuff should be dispensed of with this film — evil per- actly what a film of its kind ought sistently wins in this outing, and the to — cast an engrossing spell on ending is undeniably downbeat as its audience. Movie fans with a feSomers is the Life & Arts editor and things are set up for the big finish. tish for non-stop action might be Dusty a journalism junior.