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1931 PIPE ORGAN RESTORED TO GLORY Historic instrument finds new home in Catlett MATTHEW MOZEK The Oklahoma Daily

The American Organ Institute at OU recently finished restoring a one-of-a-kind instrument it first acquired in 2006.

The instrument, a 1931 M.P. Moller Opus 5819 theatre organ, is

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The organ sits on stage in the front of Paul F. Sharp Hall inside the Catlett Music Center.

considered especially unique because of the quality of workmanship and materials used.

“What we have is a priceless national treasure which must be saved for the benefit of future generations around the world.” said John Schwandt, professor of organ and director of the American Organ Institute.

B u i l t b y t h e M . P. M o l l e r Company, the organ was completed and installed in the Philadelphia Municipal Auditorium in 1931. For two years, it faced imminent danger as the ensuing demolition of the auditorium in 2004 threatened its preservation.

In October 2006, the institute acquired the instrument, where it was stored in the institute’s 8,000 square-foot organ shop facility.

Upon completion of the restoration project this spring, the 50-ton organ was fully restored and installed.

Under the direction of the OU Board of Regents and President David Boren, the institute’s foundational task was to provide the university with a world-class pipe organ to hold in its primary concert venue, Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall.

“We are very thankful for the support of President Boren,” said John Riester, shop manager for the institute. “He’s really the one who got this project off the ground.”

In October, a variety of participants — including graduate students, paid student technicians

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Drew Mangus (left), french horn performance senior, and Dan Sliger (right), music education senior, work together to fix a wind trunk inside one of the organ chambers. and members of OU faculty — began the restoration project.

The process included replacing perishable materials as well as repairing the worn piping.

Installation in the Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall began in the fall and was completed in the spring.

“Simply put, this organ is one of the greatest musical instruments ever created,” pipe organ historian

Jeff Weiler said in a statement.

With the successful acquisition, restoration and installation of such an historic American pipe organ, the institute is gaining recognition and praise as a major developmental program for organ enthusiasts “The American Organ Institute, and thus the University of Oklahoma, is heir to a musical

legacy of inestimable value,” Weiler said. “It is an appropriate and enviable centerpiece for a world-class program of organ instruction and is highly deserving of a careful and historically informed restoration.”

For more on the restoration projects of pipe organs by the American Organ Institute at OU, visit aoi. ou.edu/gala.

OU engineering professor receives presidential award Cerato the only civil engineer to win honor

director for the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

When asked what the award meant to her, Cerato was overtakMAT THEW MOZEK en with excitement.

The Oklahoma Daily “I was the only civil engineer in the whole country to get this An OU professor was among 100 award,” Cerato said. “It’s given me beginning researchers honored by a lot of visibility which makes rePresident Barack Obama with the cruiting graduate students much Presidential Early Career Award easier.” for Scientists and Engineers.

In addition to being the only A s s i s t a nt e n g i n e e r i n g p ro c i v i l e n g i n e e r i n t h e c o u nt r y fessor Amy Cerato received the awarded for her work, Cerato is award July 9, which followed her only the second geotechnical en$400,000 grant from the National gineer in the country since 1996 to Science Foundation. get the award.

“I knew when we were recruit“That kind of sets me apart from ing her that we had someone special,” said Robert Knox, director of the rest,” Cerato said. “It will make the OU School of Civil Engineering it easier to get students who want and Environmental Science. “She to come work with me.”

For the College of Engineering, has worked very hard over the past the affects of having a presidential four years and is most deserving award winner on its faculty list are of this recognition.” substantial.

In 2007, Cerato wrote a pro“Amy Cerato is highly regarded posal to the National Science by her students and faculty peers.

Foundation.

By taking soil samples from National recognition was sure to follow suit,” around Oklahoma, the assistant engi- “I think it was a great honor to C o l l e g e o f Engineering neering professor be recognized for all my hard D e a n was researching work and my research ideas, T h o m a s L . how to predict how Landers much the soil was but you don’t win awards by going to swell and yourself. It’s great for me, but s a i d i n a statement. how to build foun- it’s also great for my group” “We are very dations that alleviproud of her ate the movement AMY CERATO - ASSISTANT ENGINEERING accomplishof homes in order PROFESSOR ments and to prevent damage. grateful for “I wanted to be the recogable to tell homnition she eowners, contracbrings to our tors, department of transportation engineering college.” workers and anyone that builds While the achievements made any structure that you see how to by Cerato in her research have build foundations when you have been acknowledged nationwide, expansive soils,” Cerato said.

Cerato received $400,000 to con- she gives much of the credit to her tinue her research. With a grant fellow colleagues at OU. “I think it was a great honor rated so highly within the NSF, she to be recognized for all my hard was nominated by her program

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JourneyChurch.tv is moving its East campus into the old Norman AMF Norman Lanes bowling Alley on Lindsey Street to improve the church’s ability to minister to students at OU.

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Amy Cerato holds a handful of soil Tuesday on the South Oval. work and my research ideas, but you don’t win awards by yourself,” Cerato said. “I’ve had a lot of help from my colleagues at the University of Oklahoma, and without that collaboration I don’t think I would’ve had the time to put into winning this award. I think you really need to like your job to be able to do the best work you can to be productive and my colleagues have really helped me in that respect. It’s great for me, but it’s also great for my group.”

As to what the future holds for Cerato and her research study, there is much progress to be made, she said.

“I think that part of being a civil engineer is being a spokesperson for the public, and what I need to do is take all of this research and try to have the public implement what we’ve been working on,” Cerato said. “My goal is to keep Award Continues on page 2

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A place that was once a location where one could go to play a few rounds of bowling is taking on a higher calling.

JourneyChurch.tv is set to move into the old AMF Norman Lanes bowling alley on East Lindsay Street this fall.

“We are relaunching the new east campus in the early fall,” Bryan Waldenville, JourneyChurch.tv east campus pastor, said.

According to Waldenville, JourneyChurch.tv decided to move it’s east campus congregation, currently located at 36th Ave. NE and East Robinson Street, into the former bowling alley when the church experienced a jump in membership and attendance.

“We have experienced a lot of growth and momentum, and at the same time, we saw that the AMF blowling alley was looking to break their lease,” Waldenville said.

“We looked at the building and saw the the proximity to campus and other potential benefits, but one of the main reasons for moving was to be closer to campus.”

He said the building being close to OU and student apartment complexes would increase the ministry opportunities to students, and the building would have an option to increase the number of seats in the auditorium to more than 400 seats.

“Aside from a new coat of paint on the outside, most of the construction will be taking place inside of the building,” Waldenville said. “We are currently doing renovations on the inside. When it’s finished, you’ll be able to walk in, and it will be set up like a church.”

JourneyChurch.tv is hoping that the new east campus location will help them minister to students every day of the week as opposed to just being able to reach out to students during regularly scheduled Bible studies.

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Corner, and we have a Bible study up there every Tuesday. It’s also a great place for students to just come and hang out in during the week,” said Adam Barnett, JourneyChurch. tv college missional pastor.

“With the new location just off campus and that location having convenient Sunday experience times, students can have a place to come to and worship and join a small group that is perfect for their lifestyle and schedules.”

When the east campus is open, Sunday experience times will be at 10:30 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.

“Students can literally roll out of bed at a reasonable time that isn’t early in the morning, hop on their bikes or get in their cars and worship at the east campus,” Barnett said.

Barnett said there was one exception to the east campus relocation in relation to JourneyChurch.tv’s college ministry.

“When the east campus is open, we will still hold our Tuesday night Lifestream Bible study at the North campus until further notice,” he said. “We won’t be able to actually get a grip on our full potential at the east campus until we actually open the doors and see how things are going.”

OU students who attend JourneyChurch.tv are also feeling the excitement and momentum of the relocation.

“I’m excited we are moving closer to campus,” said Allie Elkins, communications junior. “Our current location is very far away, and I know that makes it difficult for some students to attend.”

Elkins said the move creates the potential for other students to be apart of her church, and she is glad to see her church play a bigger role in her community.

“I can’t wait to see what kind of community service projects we will be able to do since we are closer to school and the city of Norman,” she said. “Journey Church has style, and I’m glad we are becoming a place where students want to come and be apart of.”

Zac Miller, communications junior, said he enjoys going to JourneyChurch.tv and was looking forward to seeing students be apart of something that has touched his life.

Miller said the new location will make it easier for all students to attend church on Sunday, and because of the convenience of the new location, he looks forward to meeting new students.

“I love coming here and being apart of this church,” Miller said. “This place has really helped me with my faith, and I’m glad to see that other students will have the same opportunities that I’ve had with this church.”

For more information about JourneyChurch. tv ’s east campus relocation, you may contact Bryan Waldenville at br yan.waldenville@ journeychurch.tv, and for more information about JourneyChurch.tv’s college ministry, you may contact Adam Barnett at adam.barnett@journeychurch.tv.

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Pepe Delgado’s finds new home DANIEL PUMA The Oklahoma Daily

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Pepe Delgado’s a popular Campus Corner restaurant was shutdown July 17 by the Oklahoma Tax Commission and is relocating a few doors away from its current location.

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working on projects that can help society. I’m really into the alternative energy field as well as helping society live with nature.”

As for the impact that e n g i n e e r s h av e o n t h e world, Cerato said the developments made in the field of engineering hold just as much significance as any other field of study.

“Our message to young engineers is that engineers can change the world,” Cerato said. “We are the innovators of tomorrow, and we have to keep striving to work on new innovations and new ways of building as we learn new technologies to help society. We always want to move forward and when we move forward we want to take the environment into consideration. “ I t h i n k y o u h av e t o

always keep in the back of your mind that engineers can make a world o f d i f f e r e n c e ,” C e r a t o said. “Everything you see around you is engineered, whether it is your Xbox, your computer or the roadways we drive on.”

Cerato hopes more students will choose engineering as a career.

“I would just want the young students to keep in mind that engineers are involved in every facet of life, and it’s our responsibility to be the stewards of the technological world,” Cerato said. “We really need to take care of both the human population, but also our Earth. If anything else, I would say ... just be an engineer!”

POLICE REPORTS

The following information is a list of citations and arrests not convictions. The information collected is compiled from the Norman Police Department and the OUPD. All people listed are innocent until proven guilty.

COUNTY WARRANT Dale Eugene Austin, 23, 728 Comanche St., Tuesday POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA Daniel Jhean Cox, 18, 920 24th Ave. SW, Tuesday David Christopher Coon, 18, 2420 Classen Blvd., Monday DISTURBING THE PEACE Presley Alice Juliette Gallup, 22, 2828 Dewey Ave., Tuesday PUBLIC INTOXICATION Elise Janette Grotts, 22, 3300 W. Main St., Tuesday Tony James Powell, 37, 2719 Osage Way, Monday Billy Albert Bailey, 60, Dakota Street, Monday DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE James Robert Hood, 73, 3720 W. Robinson St., Tuesday Jerome Zachariah Murdock, 30, George Avenue, Monday Jennifer Michelle Edwards, 24, 2800 W. Indian Hills Road, Monday

Pepe Delgado’s, 752 Asp Ave., will be moving into a new location sometime in August after the Oklahoma Tax Commission forced the restaurant to suspend all business July 17.

The restaurant will relocate to 750 Asp Avenue, previously the location of Turquoise American Bistro, said Helen Wolney, president of Campus Corner Merchants Association.

“Pepe’s is moving to Turquoise’s old building in the middle of August,” Wolney said.

Both Turquoise Cafe and Pepe Delgado’s are owned

by Emilio Salinas, who was forced to close the two restaurants after receiving orders from the Oklahoma Tax Commission for failure to comply with Oklahoma’s Tax Laws.

It is not known if Turquoise will reopen, or where it will be located if it does. Salinas would not comment when reached by telephone Wednesday.

Neither restaurant can resume operations until all taxes have been paid in full.

Wolney said she did not know what would move into Pepe Delgado’s former location.

MUNICIPAL WARRANT Julie Roze Larson, 30, 201 W. Gray St., Tuesday Brian Charles Young, 39, 2800 Chautauqua Ave., Monday Joshua Scott Barrett, 21, 2420 Classen Blvd., Monday John Jefferson Daxon, 23, 201 W. Gray St., Monday TRESPASSING Delmer Duane Piper, 52, 1805 Asbury Place, Monday POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE WITHIN 1,000 FEET OF A PARK Scott Wikel, 53, 1800 Northcliff Ave., Tuesday POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED DANERGOUS SUBSTANCE WITH THE INTENT TO SELL Trae Emanuel Gaines, 20, N. Porter Avenue, Sunday Letha Nicole Wilson, 28, N. Porter Avenue, Sunday POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA Jose Arnoldo Jurado, 20, 1430 24th Ave. SW, Monday OTHER WARRANT Michael A. Pierce, 21, 2130 W. Brooks St., Monday VICIOUS DOG Lisa E. Wolf, 47, 4400 W. Main St., Sunday

OU LEADS NATION IN TROW SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS

RECYCLING NUMBERS UP FROM LAST YEAR

Two OU students have been rewarded Jo Anne Trow Scholarships from Alpha Lambda Delta, a national honor society, bringing the total of recipients at OU to 15 in the past seven years, a record shared by only two other schools.

Allen Wang, a multidisciplinary studies junior from Hollister, Calif., will receive a $3,000 award, and Morgan Taylor, communications junior from Coppell, Texas, will receive a $1,000 award.

The scholarships, presented by the honor society to first year students, are given to 35 outstanding students across the country.

The competition is open to sophomore members of the society who have maintained the required GPA. Selection is based on academic records, participation in Alpha Lambda Delta activities, applicants’ statements and community activities.

OU recycled 20 percent more material in 2009, and reduced its waste output by more than 13 percent, Amanda Hearn, OU Physical Plant spokeswoman said Tuesday.

The university recycled 932.55 tons in 2009, compared to 774.70 tons in 2008.

“We simply would not have recycled 932.55 tons without a supportive and active OU community,” Hearn said. “The credit for the 20 percent increase in recycled material goes to OU’s committed students, faculty and staff.”

Hearn said this year’s RecycleMania project, a national recycling initiative, helped OU recycle more than 320,000 pounds, exceeding the school’s goal for the event by more than 50 percent.

Hearn also said the increase in recycling containers on campus over the past few years has helped encourage students to separate their trash.

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SOONER SEASON KICKS OFF IN TEXAS EDDIE RADOSEVICH The Oklahoma Daily

Walking out of last year’s FedEx BCS National Championship in Miami left a bitter taste in the mouths of the Sooner Nation.

Like so many OU fans who had left Miami’s Pro Player Stadium only five years before, last year’s fans left without the sweet taste of victory.

It was the taste of defeat. Again.

After watching “The Chosen One” Tim Tebow and the Gators win their second national championship in three years, many were left in the dark as to where the Sooners program was to turn.

Then it happened.

Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford, along with teammates Trent Williams, Gerald McCoy and Jermaine Gresham, all decided to come back to school.

Suddenly, OU football was poised and ready for a run at the school’s eighth national championship.

Tuesday marked the Sooners turn to take the podium at Big 12 Media Days in Irving, Texas, signaling the start of a new season.

“It’s been a great summer to get away and spend some time with your family. I hope the players have been working,” said OU head coach Bob Stoops while meeting with the media. “We had a good winter and spring leading up to the summer. Hopefully we’ll get leadership out of not only the three or four that came back, but some of our older guys with experience as well.”

OFFENSIVE QUESTION MARKS Saying OU will bring home the program’s eighth national championship is much easier than actually accomplishing it.

Many question marks still remain. “[The offensive line] is a concern because

targets,” Stoops said. “I think one of the best things that Kevin Wilson has done as our offensive coordinator is to be able to play to more team strengths.”

Playing to their strengths is something this team will have to do, as sophomore Ryan Broyles moves to the outside, and fellow hometown favorite Mossis Madu finally gets a chance at the slot position.

Joining the Norman High products will be senior Adron Tennell, junior Brandon Caleb, sophomore Dejuan Miller and sophomore Jameel Owens.

DEFENSE EXPECTS BIG THINGS

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Junior quarterback Sam Bradford answers a question Tuesday during Big 12 Media Day in Irving, Texas. The 2008 Heisman Trophy winner will return to OU this year with the hope of leading the Sooners to the national championship. those guys have played a limited amount,” Stoops said. “You just want to see consistency and see how they work here through twoa-days and work through the season. We’ve got to keep developing those guys. They had a pretty good spring going up against a pretty good defensive line of our own.”

Because the Sooners are replacing four starters from last year’s offensive line that included a first and second round draft pick, it is easy to doubt the inexperience.

But it is also easy to look at the predicament as if the glass is half-full.

Moving Trent Williams to left tackle should be an excellent move as he protects Bradford’s back side. Williams, a 6-foot-5, 318-pound senior has been said among the

coaches as having the potential to be the best that has ever had come through during the Stoops regime.

Ushering in new faces like Ben Habern and Stephen Good across the front has the potential to pay off as both players enter as highly-touted throughout the recruiting world.

Then there is the question mark at wide receiver.

The loss of Manuel Johnson, Juaquin Iglesias and Quentin Chaney have some Sooner fans in an uproar throughout Campus Corner.

But Stoops is excited about the potential there, as well.

“I think Sam will have a good number of

OU is returning with eight starters from the defensive side of the ball; a unit good enough to be in the top-3 of every Big 12 statistical category.

All-American defensive lineman Gerald McCoy echoed those sentiments Tuesday.

“I feel we could be the best defense in the country,” said the Oklahoma City native.

“We’ve worked hard enough to be there and we have so much depth on our team. That’s our mind set.”

Joining McCoy will be ’08 Big 12 Defensive Newcomer of the year Travis Lewis, and a whole host of players across the front of a defensive line that many pundits have as the best in the nation.

It would be easy to say that only a win at the Cotton Bowl separates this team from a trip to Hollywood, but with one of the harder schedules in the nation, the Sooners will have to do what every championship team has done.

Win on the road.

Road games at Miami, Fla.; at pre-season Big 12 North favorites, Kansas and Nebraska; the trek to Lubbock and two neutral site games (BYU and Texas) will all prove tough if a championship is on the near horizon.

Coaches remember Bryan as larger than life Former Sooner tackler played 10 seasons for the Atlanta Falcons CHARLES WARD The Oklahoma Daily

Rick Bryan’s former coaches offered nothing but praise for the former OU All-American defensive tackle, who died Saturday at 47.

One word, however, kept coming up in all of those conversations: big.

“One of the first things coach [Merv] Johnson asked me about him was, ‘Well, how big’s his mother?’ said Tom Beller, the head football coach at Coweta High School during Bryan’s junior and senior seasons. “His mother was not a heavy woman, but she was tall.

And that influenced him. He said, ‘Well, then it’s in the blood.’”

Johnson, now director of football operations at OU, valued Bryan’s potential to add muscle to a frame that stood at 6 feet, 4 inches while still in high school.

“You could tell he was going to get so big,” Johnson said. “A big, raw-boned guy, [his added size] wouldn’t slow him down one bit, he could be a dominant lineman.”

Among genetics, OU’s weight program and summers spent baling and hauling hay around the family farm, Bryan did get big, hitting 260 pounds for his senior season in 1983. Bryan would be bigger than three of OU’s defensive linemen on the current two-deep roster, and just one pound shy of Jeremy Beal.

That size proved to be the right complement to the speed and quickness that allowed him to play middle linebacker, along with an impressive game of basketball, at Coweta.

“I saw him score, I think, 55 one night,” Johnson said. “He ran

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a bunch of about half-scared guys best. You are going to be the best. out of the gym. They were afraid of Unless you put yourself in a situathe big rascal.” tion [like] you have at Oklahoma, That combo also allowed Bryan where you have got a chance to to become an unlikely half-miler beat Nebraska, you got a chance during his senior season of high to play and hopefully beat Texas. school.

Those kind of games, you’re never “Most track kids, especially dis- going to know. You’re always going tance runners, are maybe 5-9, 120 to wonder whether you could have pounds,” Beller said. “This kid is measured up,’” Johnson said. out there at 6-5, 230 pounds, right Bryan measured up well. He on their heels,” earned playing time as a freshman, Bryan’s ability and capacity for earning spots on the 1982 and 1983 work also proved to be big. Beller All-American teams and all-Big remembered Rick, along with his 8 status three times. The Atlanta brothers Steve and Mitch, coming Falcons drafted Bryan ninth overto the morning half of two-a-days all in the 1984 NFL Draft. He played after working in 10 seasons for the a hay field, leavFalcons. ing practice to He also took on bale more hay, the challenge of coming back to noodling, a form the high school of fishing that for an afternoon isn’t about casual practice and then casting and tying heading home flies. Instead, a to work the hay noodler’s hand is some more be- MERV JOHNSON, OU DIRECTOR OF his bait, when it fore hitting it. reaches into the FOOTBALL OPERATIONS “Work ethic water in hopes of — it’s something a fish mistaking that doesn’t exist a finger for food. today in kids,” Beller said. “Not like When that happens, the fish bites it did then. Those boys knew what the hand and the noodler tries to hard work was, they knew what was grab a hold of the fish before it realexpected of them, and they did it.” izes its error.

Bryan’s work ethic might have Henry Bias, Bryan’s principal come from the farm, but it didn’t and basketball coach at Coweta, stay there when he came to OU. remembered a man whose gener“He just outworked everybody, osity was as large as his frame. and he was strong and tough.”

“He would give his shirt off his Johnson said. “He did everything back,” Bias said. “He liked to help like he was killing snakes. Every people, and he went above and practice. Every weight-room exer- beyond his way to help people. A cise. No matter what you’re doing, good Christian man. A good famhe was the hardest-working, most ily man and just the type of son that aggressive guy in the drill.” you would like to have if you had a Choosing OU over Oklahoma son.”

State came down to Bryan’s desire In the end, Bryan might have to take on big challenges, Johnson been too big. Bryan said last sumsaid. mer that he weighed 325 pounds. “[Barry Switzer] said, ‘Ricky, “Ricky was a big boy anyway,” you are like us. We think you’re the Beller said. “A big man, but I think

“[Barry Switzer] said, ‘Ricky, you are like us.

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Former Sooner defensive tackle Rick Bryan jumps to block a pass in a game against Texas. Bryan, who died Saturday at age 47, was a two-time AllAmerican at OU and played 10 years for the Atlanta Falcons. he was a little bit too big.”

Switzer said Bryan died of congestive heart failure, and Bryan had heart trouble earlier this year, and even underwent a procedure to have his heart stopped and restarted, Bias said.

Bryan’s memory, at least to Johnson, will remain large.

“He’s one of those, that, if you go through this crazy profession for 50

years like some of us have ... people ask you who was the best player you had, who was your favorite player, things like that,” Johnson said. “And you simply can’t shove anybody in front of him. There may be some tied with him ... but he’s one you remember all your life.”

The Associated Press contributed to the story.

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OUR VIEW

STAFF CARTOON

So long, sweet summertime What an interesting summer it has been.

Since we left the spring semester in May, we’ve seen quite a few interesting and intriguing headlines.

Although campus felt empty, and the businesses along Campus Corner began their seasonal slowdown, students were still abuzz with approaching festivals, new political nominations and the promise of a tuition freeze – among other topics.

These events gave us something to talk about, something which is normally uncommon for the doldrums of summer.

Topics like Rep. John Sullivan’s admission to an alcohol rehabilitation center. Pharmacist Jerome Ersland’s involvement with the death of a 16-year-old boy.

A tornado came close to campus in June – the first time to happen since the 1980s. This one little storm casused quite a stir with summer residents who claim they didn’t hear any warning sirens.

The OU Press hit headlines when several employees were laid off after Boren announced

in a press conference that there wouldn’t be any jobs lost due to internal layoffs.

Camp Crimson brought another class of incoming freshmen and pumping them up for the adventure of a lifetime. Teaching these new students the traditions behind OU is something that will stay with them forever.

Chipotle Mexican Grill decided to make their home on Campus Corner, bringing another burrito spot to the popular area.

Apart from the news, sports saw big stories, as well.

Will Claye won an individual national title and set a triple jump world record.

Unfortunately, the buzz around town also included the untimely passings of national icons and Sooner legends.

Wayman Tisdale lost his fight with cancer, and former football player Rick Bryant died from a heart attack.

As far as summers go, this season has been an exciting one, minus a few unfortunate turns.

But it’s time for our break.

See you in the fall.

Mai-Thao Nguyen is a biochemistry senior.

Government problems cannot be fixed without initiative I have a problem. In the duplex in which I am living in problems until they become inevitable. this summer, we have ants. Not a lot, and not all of the As with all of my articles, I don’t address this mestime, but we have ants. The problem is that every once in sage to any specific political party, religious affiliation, a while, when my roommate or I make coffee, we have a or other group. We can all take a lesson from the ants; tendency to not wash our mugs out well. They sit things don’t get better until YOU do something there for a few days and soon, the mug is crawling about it. with ants.

The American economy is a perfect example.

It’s not a big problem, but it’s frustrating. The Capitalism in general is a sticky situation. It hingworst part is that I know we could avoid the whole es on people having faith enough in their econmess if we just disciplined ourselves to wash our omy and themselves to become active members coffee mugs out with soap and water every time of the economy. The irony is that if the economy we used them. It wouldn’t take much time or efis poor, people lose faith in it. Then, people are fort, but we never do it. Instead, we just wait until no longer active members of the economy and the ants show up, and then we clean the mug and JOSHUA things get worse. It seems like a vicious circle, the counter. one that we are all becoming very familiar with.

WESNESKI It is a bit silly, but it’s true. So, what does this Despite this seemingly endless dance of faith have to do with you? Well, assuming you don’t and failure, our economy is quite salvageable, have ants in your kitchen, the point of this article is to and we don’t necessarily need the government to help talk about looking the other way. I don’t mean this in the us. If everyone (yes, everyone) takes a leap of faith for sense that you look the other way when your co-worker their economy and starts investing and actively trading leaves work thirty minutes early without telling the man- money regardless of the economic environment, things ager; I mean looking the other when you see a problem will get better. Maybe not infinitely better, but we will see and you refuse to address it. improvement.

To be fair, this habit isn’t limited to just Oklahoma I know, I know—it’s not that simple. I whole-heartedly or even to the United States; it’s everywhere. From my agree, but all the government stimuli and bailouts in the apartment to the powers that be in Washington and be- world can’t save us unless WE take a stand and become yond, people have formed an awful tendency to ignore active members in our economy. We can’t wait for the

problem to become inevitable—that future is far too imminent to ignore.

But this article isn’t as much about the United States or its economy as it is about human nature and habit.

We refuse to take action unless someone tells us to or we have no other choice. So long as we believe OTHER people are capable of solving the problem, we will do nothing.

The problem with this is that many times, as with our economy, there is nobody else to solve the problem. I’m not suggesting that you organize a town hall meeting to encourage everyone to spend, spend, spend, but you have to take some initiative if you want things to change.

Don’t wait around for the government, your parents, or your friends to solve your problems for you, because you will be waiting an awful long time.

If we want be helped, we must first be willing to help ourselves.

I don’t know what is going to become of those ants in our kitchen. Maybe someday, we will clean out our coffee mugs and no longer be plagued by our minor ant infestation, or maybe not. One thing is for sure, though: no one is coming to clean out our mugs for us.

Joshua Wesneski is a College of Arts and Sciences junior.

COMMENTS OF THE DAY IN RESPONSE TO TUESDAY’S “END OF RADICAL CONSERVATISM” COLUMN “I find it funny when reading OpEd pieces in The Oklahoma Daily. Here are 20-somethings, who haven’t lived but 5-6 years as adults, and have “all the answers”. They speak of history, as if they’ve lived it, but not realizing that they only recite it based on biased reviews.

The “radical right” was always here, and never didn’t just appear. The look of the “right” has been America for the past few hundred years, but with the onset of liberalism, it appears brighter because of the stark contrast.

You speak of Reagan as if he didn’t believe in conservatives, but he didn’t have to defend traditional marriage, or Christianity in the public view. If you had his back to the corner, he would have done the same as Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh.

So, back to my point of young editors. I remember when I was your age and felt the same way. But, as we get older, and experience “life”, I promise, you will have a different tone. So, instead of bashing other people’s beliefs, why don’t you resepect them and be tolerant (as you often claim we should be) towards others of opposing views. Because, I promise you, the pendulum will swing back the other way soon. And, one day, you will be in the

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“Is your argument that it is better to hear from selfish, self-centered, jaded oldies? The babyboomers and warmongerers have devastated us financially. The younger generation work more, harder, and have seen many institutions in America tumble like a stack of cards. High and Mighty conservatism just plain sucks, and the new generation gets it.”

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“If I’m wrong, please correct me...

Are you insinuating that those of us that go to TEA parties are part of a minority faction? Each time TEA parties are held they grow by the thousands.

Despite the media writing us of as conspiracy nuts, fear mongers, and racists our numbers are growing.

But somehow we’re just a minority faction.

If we’re such a minority then how can Glenn Beck’s book be the best selling book in America 5 weeks running. Yes, that’s the same Glenn Beck that is a member of far-right. Even though those on the true far-right hate him too.”

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Please don’t preach to me about what a conservative was in the past if you were wearing diapers two administrations ago. The present bitterness and division as it is today in this country began after Clinton shamefully left office and his predecessor was beat in the following election. Since then this country has been divided like it hasn’t been in years.

But even taking into consideration your age and inexperience, liberally influenced public school education, and media guided opinions, let me ask you a few questions. Explain to me how it is “radical” to oppose the killing of over 1.3 million unborn babies per year out of convenience? How is it “radical” to support the rights of citizens to own guns? How is it “radical” to oppose socialized ‘healthcare’? How is it radical to oppose the ever growing government’s hand out of millions of dollars and the bailout of incompetent and corrupt industry? How is it “radical” to refer to this country as a Christian Nation when it is over 70% Christian?

Turn off the TV, step back and look at things objectively and form your own opinions. You don’t have to listen to Ann Coulter or Rush or anyone else. The present GOP is splintered just like the Democratic party was after the Clinton mess. And Sarah Palin may not be Presidential material for whatever reasons, and I don’t think she’ll even run, but if it came down to her and four more years of

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“People, he’s not a liberal!

In fact he seems pretty far right after reading those two “gems.” I think his (poorly communicated) point is that he despises all things unrefined, whether they be on the right or on the left.

If that IS his point, then I can’t say that I disagree.”

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“Clifton’s right. To take this beyond politics, though, this column’s problem is one a lot of writers commit - throwing a reasoned take on a legitimate question out the door in favor of some eye-catching hyperbole. Radical conservatism is as old as modern politics itself and it isn’t going anywhere.

Unfortunately Elijah Lavicky has a tendency to run good editorial ideas straight into the ground.”

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“No more radical conservatism, just the corporate conservatism pushed by both parties. Glory days have come!” bruenig

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Hush Hush, Commotion looks to surprise listeners JOSHUA BOYDSTON The Oklahoma Daily

Oklahoma City-based Hush Hush, Commotion likes subverting expectations. During the band’s tour of the Midwest and East Coast last summer, they had plenty of opportunity to do just that.

“We were playing these shows to some small, and some decent sized crowds,” said keyboardist/guitarist Chris Lusk.

“When the shows would begin, there was a little sense of apprehension from the crowd, but whenever we started playing, these kids would do sort of double take at us.

“I think who we are as a band isn’t what they had expected, and I love to see those double takes.”

Those who have heard of Hush Hush, Commotion might know where those preconceived notions come from.

HH,C started about 2 1/2 years ago. Bassist Dan Adamson and guitarist Andy Adamson came from another band that had grown stagnant, and long-time friend Lusk joined them in the hopes of starting fresh.

Vocalist Scott Michael tried out for the band and fit right in, and after the original drummer left the band to focus on school, Adam Wilkey stepped up to feel the role, Lusk said.

One month after its first show, the band won the March Bandness contest put on by radio station 94.7 The Buzz.

But HH,C found itself grouped into a genre of music that didn’t necessarily match its style, Lusk said.

“We were immediately lumped in with pop bands like Forever The Sickest Kids and All Time Low, and that’s “You can’t make music who we were supporting at that everyone likes, shows,” he said.

Lusk said he wouldn’t and trying to ends in change anything about disaster ... I just want the opportunities March everyone to give [our Bandness awarded the band new album] a chance, and the fan base that those shows garnered it, but those because I think it will preconceived expectations surprise a lot of peoof the band’s sound sort of ple.” took over.

CHRIS LUSK, KEYBOARDIST/ H u s h H u s h’s d e b u t GUITARIST FOR HUSH HUSH, album, “It Could Happen” COMMOTION was the result.

“We had the feeling that we needed to sound a certain way, and some of the record just came out a little forced,” Lusk said. “Don’t get me wrong — I still love that album, but something about it just didn’t feel like we were writing it for ourselves.”

Last summer, when Hush Hush was at the tail end of their

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Oklahoma City-based Hush Hush, Commotion is looking to take preconceived expectations about the band for a spin with its newest release, “In Control.” The band will headline an album release party at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8 at Bricktown Live. summer tour in Shamokin, Pa., the band members started to discuss where they were at and where they wanted to go. It didn’t necessarily mesh perfectly with what they were doing, Lusk said.

They decided trying to write a song that sounded like a certain band or track would never work, so they took a natural approach, and let the influences of the band just bleed through on their sophomore outing, “In Control,” he said.

Bands like Kings of Leon, Wilco and Limbeck are some of the band’s favorites, and these influences brought in a sort of Southern kick to some of the newer songs, Lusk said.

With “In Control,” HH,C is attempting a balancing act. The band wants that fun, poppy element to songs, but they want a more honest, rock ’n’ roll aspect to the sound as well. Lusk

THERE’S STILL TIME TO ENJOY SUMMER I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but folks, we’ve all got to face the facts.

Summer is fading fast and Aug. 24 looms ever closer.

B u t d o n ’ t f e a r.

There’s still time to try something new before classes begin.

Why not give locally grown food a chance this summer?

The Norman Farm MEGAN Market, located at the MORGAN Cleveland County Fairgrounds at 615 E. Robinson St., is open every Wednesday and Saturday morning from 8 a.m. to noon.

Featured in July and August are nectarines, okra, eggplant and squash.

There are also many options for exploring Oklahoma.

The Toy and Action Figure Museum in Pauls Valley will certainly set the inner dork in all of us free, while the Gene Autry Oklahoma Museum in — fittingly — the small town of Gene Autry will satisfy history buffs or singingcowboy-wannabes.

Hikers and campers who visit the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge could have a chance to see elk, bison, deer and longhorns in an open-range environment, but the Web site warns that “visitors must be prepared to meet nature on its terms.”

It could be worth the drive (which takes about an hour and a half from Norman) just to find out exactly what that mysterious admonition means.

For those not wanting to venture

is anxious to hear what listeners think, he said.

“We definitely fall into a sort of gray area with ‘In Control,’ but from the positive responses we’ve gotten from our fans already, I’m really excited to see what happens,” Lusk said.

“I just want everyone to at least listen to the songs once.

Whether or not you like them, that’s fine. You can’t make music that everyone likes, and trying to ends in disaster. But I just want everyone to give it a chance, because I think it will surprise a lot of people,” Lusk said.

Listeners will get a chance to be surprised at Hush Hush, Commotion’s album release party 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8 at Bricktown Live, 103 Flaming Lips Alley in Oklahoma City.

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Thursday, July 30, 2009 LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -Today’s developments are apt to be to your liking. They’ll involve just enough risks to make things interesting, but they will not be beyond your abilities to control things should something go awry.

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Josh Kraft, museum manager, adjusts action figures in the Adult Collectors Bedroom Diorama in the Toy and Action Figure Museum in Pauls Valley. outdoors in the late-summer heat, there is also the alternative of renting a movie ... for free. With a library card, movies are available for check out from the Norman Public Library. All OU students are eligible for a library card.

If you’re feeling lucky, you could try to get Paul McCartney tickets for his Aug. 17 concert at the BOK Center in Tulsa. The concert is sold out, but other tickets may be released, and some radio stations are still awarding tickets to listeners (Magic 104.1, 92.5 KOMA).

Norman also has many avenues for volunteering. Local organizations such as East Main Place, Food and Shelter for Friends and Habitat for Humanity claim to always welcome volunteers.

The Norman Public Library’s literacy program is another way for students to get involved in the community.

And what better way to celebrate summer than baseball? Throughout the beginning of August, the Redhawks, Oklahoma City’s minor league baseball team, are scheduled to play a good number of home games at the Bricktown Ballpark downtown.

Tickets can be purchased for as little as $7. Hot dogs not included.

Of course, there’s always the OU football season to get ready for. It’s never too early to get mentally prepared. Maybe the fall semester won’t be so bad after all.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- It’ll be important to associate with persons you consider progressive and imaginative. You may need to bounce ideas off others in order to tailor things to your personal needs.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- A financial situation that didn’t look too hopeful may surprise you and make a profit instead.

It will prove that you should give things a chance and never toss in the towel too prematurely.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -Having know-how is one thing, but knowing the right people is another. Coupling knowledge with contacts, you will do quite well for yourself.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) -There’s a good chance that you will be pioneering something that won’t be conducted along conventional lines. Handling it in a unique way will make everyone take notice.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- An unexpected development could force you to form a partnership with an individual you would never team up with under normal circumstances.

It’ll turn out OK.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- You’re always willing to think SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. out of the norm, and gambling 21) -- It’s imperative to be on a situation that needs persistent, because what you’re both your imagination and searching for might not be resourcefulness will get your found in the usual places. What juices flowing. The returns could you’re looking for is apt to be in be bigger than usual. a surprise location.

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