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a student newspaper of the university of tulsa september 4, 2012 issue 1 ~ volume 98 Late last semester, Geof- frey Orsak was selected by the University of Tul- sa’s presidential search committee to replace Steadman Upham, who had been TU’s president since June 2004 and who retired on June 30, 2012. Born in Schenect- ady, New York, Or- sak feels spiritually at home in the Southwest. His father worked in Schenectady, but Or- sak eventually moved to Texas where he at- tended Rice University and earned a bach- elor’s, a master’s, and a doctoral degree. From Rice, Orsak immediately went into academia and held faculty positions at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Orsak had his first taste of academic ad- ministration while a tenured professor at George Mason. “I was asked to move into the president’s office as a special advisor to the president,” he said. After a year, Orsak left his position with the president convinced that admin- istration was not the field he wanted to go into. “I went back into doing everything I loved—which was teaching and research.” After relocating to Texas, Orsak was eventually asked to serve as head of re- search in the dean’s office of the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Meth- odist University. Orsak would later serve the engineering school as dean. “By some strange set of circumstances I was on an airplane and I got a phone call. I was asked if I wanted to get back into administration,” Orsak said. “I decided on the flight that I’ve always been an insti- tutional builder, somebody who’s commit- ted to the university. If that was what was good for the university than I was going to step in and do it.” For Orsak, administration proved to be “intellectually stimulating.” While at SMU, Orsak developed an understanding of the problems of academic administra- tion. “The problems are hard. Being an aca- demic researcher is incredibly difficult, but trying to run an academic organization is equally challenging.” In his academic research, Orsak found that he could always solve a related prob- lem if the problem he set out to solve proved insoluble. “But that’s not the case here,” he said. “In administration, you’ve got to solve the problem you’re faced with, and when I show up every day there are issues that are not going to go away unless we deal with them.” Experience working in university ad- ministration has given Orsak a lot to think about on the topic of higher education. “I believe deeply in the fact that a uni- versity’s purpose is to expand people’s un- derstanding of themselves and the world around them,” said Orsak. “TU’s responsi- bility is not to get you to that very first job but to prepare you to be successful across your entire career and to prepare you in ways that even we can’t predict.” It may come as no surprise that Orsak Geoffrey Orsak: TU’s new ideas man KYLE WALKER News Editor WELCOME: Zarrow Center for Arts p. 4 New Football Season p. 2 Cricket Infestation p. 10 Largest Freshman Class p. 4 See President on page 4 After eight years with former president Steadman Upham, the University of Tulsa finds itself with a new face in Collins Hall. The Collegian sat down with President Orsak to discuss his vision for the university. Student Organizations p. 5 TU students were treated to fireworks at the Thursday Activities Fair in conjunction with the rededication of Fisher Hall.
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a student newspaper of the university of tulsa september 4, 2012 issue 1 ~ volume 98
Late last semester, Geof-frey Orsak was selected by the University of Tul-sa’s presidential search committee to replace Steadman Upham, who had been TU’s president since June 2004 and who retired on June 30, 2012.
Born in Schenect-ady, New York, Or-sak feels spiritually at home in the Southwest. His father worked in Schenectady, but Or-sak eventually moved to Texas where he at-
tended Rice University and earned a bach-elor’s, a master’s, and a doctoral degree.
From Rice, Orsak immediately went into academia and held faculty positions at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Orsak had his first taste of academic ad-ministration while a tenured professor at George Mason. “I was asked to move into the president’s office as a special advisor to the president,” he said.
After a year, Orsak left his position with the president convinced that admin-istration was not the field he wanted to go into. “I went back into doing everything I loved—which was teaching and research.”
After relocating to Texas, Orsak was eventually asked to serve as head of re-search in the dean’s office of the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Meth-odist University. Orsak would later serve the engineering school as dean.
“By some strange set of circumstances I was on an airplane and I got a phone call. I was asked if I wanted to get back into administration,” Orsak said. “I decided on the flight that I’ve always been an insti-tutional builder, somebody who’s commit-ted to the university. If that was what was good for the university than I was going to step in and do it.”
For Orsak, administration proved to be “intellectually stimulating.” While at SMU, Orsak developed an understanding of the problems of academic administra-tion.
“The problems are hard. Being an aca-demic researcher is incredibly difficult, but trying to run an academic organization is equally challenging.”
In his academic research, Orsak found that he could always solve a related prob-lem if the problem he set out to solve proved insoluble. “But that’s not the case here,” he said. “In administration, you’ve got to solve the problem you’re faced with, and when I show up every day there are issues that are not going to go away unless we deal with them.”
Experience working in university ad-ministration has given Orsak a lot to think about on the topic of higher education.
“I believe deeply in the fact that a uni-versity’s purpose is to expand people’s un-derstanding of themselves and the world around them,” said Orsak. “TU’s responsi-bility is not to get you to that very first job but to prepare you to be successful across your entire career and to prepare you in ways that even we can’t predict.”
It may come as no surprise that Orsak
Geoffrey Orsak: TU’s new ideas man
Kyle WalKerNews Editor
WELCOME:
Zarrow Center for Arts p. 4
New Football Season p. 2
Cricket Infestation p. 10
Largest Freshman Class p. 4
See President on page 4
After eight years with former president Steadman Upham, the University of Tulsa finds itself with a new face in Collins Hall.
The Collegian sat down with President Orsak to
discuss his vision for the university.
Student Organizations p. 5
TU students were treated to fireworks at the Thursday Activities Fair in conjunction with the rededication of Fisher Hall.
The Golden Hurricane women’s soccer team was victorious in the Tulsa Invitational Championship this weekend with two impres-sive wins over Missouri State and Northwestern State, while the men’s soccer team got mixed re-sults in the Hurricane Classic with an upset of No. 3 New Mexico be-fore falling to No. 4 South Florida.
Friday night saw two thrill-ing overtime matches at Hurri-cane Soccer & Track Stadium. The women’s soccer team finally downed Missouri State in the sec-ond minute of double overtime off a goal from Claire Nicholson, her fifth of the season.
Immediately afterwards, men’s soccer faced off against New Mex-ico, tying up the game with a goal each in the middle of the first half. Tulsa seized victory at the 91:42 mark thanks to a goal from fresh-man Bryce Follensbee.
Tom McIntosh, who is in his 18th season as head coach of men’s soccer, called it “a good win against a very good team.”
The men’s team did not manage
to repeat the trick against South Florida on Sunday night, falling behind after USF nailed a pen-alty kick in the 80th minute. Abe Matamoros posted TU’s lone goal of that match with a 45-yard kick from the right side.
Women’s soccer, on the other hand, was dominant on Sunday, crushing Northwestern State 5–1. Head coach Kyle Cussen called the match “a total team effort.”
“We played everyone that was able to play, and it was good to see some of our young players in
action,” he said.Rebecca Handley and Stephanie
Aitken, both seniors, scored two of Tulsa’s goals, while a junior, a sophomore and a freshman—Lindsay Kirch, Emily Hahn and Lauren King respectively—were responsible for the other scores.
TU women’s soccer heads to Kansas City this coming weekend for the UMKC Invitational, play-ing Florida Gulf Coast on Sept. 7. The Hurricane men will face UCLA that same day at 6:30 on the PAC 12 network.
Sports THE COLLEGIAN : 24 SEPTEMBER 2012
TU opened its football season on the road for the sixth consecutive year Saturday, losing 38–23 to out-of-conference foe Iowa State University.
After going up 16–7 in a domi-nant first quarter, the Golden Hur-ricane died down and the Cyclones started storming, nailing 24 points to the board to take the lead while shutting TU out until the final min-utes of the game.
Tulsa hung on through a score-less third quarter and narrowed the gap to just eight points in the fourth, but an ISU interception-turned-touchdown snapped TU’s last hopeful drive and snuffed out any possibility of an upset.
“We started off great early but then stalled a bit in the second quarter,” said junior running back Trey Watts. “We’d move the ball, move the ball, then shoot ourselves in the foot. Miss a block here, miss a block there, drop a snap. It was a lot of the little things we didn’t do right.”
That said, there were a few big things the Hurricane did right. Watts, who has started in 16 games since his freshman year, was re-sponsible for several of them, with a 77-yard run that set up TU’s last score, and with a 60-yard kick re-turn early in the game.
Tulsa also recorded its first safe-ty since the 2007 C-USA Champi-onship game. After Cole Way’s punt put ISU on their own 3-yard line, defensive end Brentom Todd chased Cyclone Jeff Woody into the endzone, where multiple TU
tacklers closed in and brought him down, nabbing two points.
The safety, which is the rarest score in football, was followed by a Hurricane march down the field for a touchdown and a two-point conversion, the second rar-est score. Up 10–7, Tulsa quickly choked out the Cyclone’s next drive with an 18-yard interception by Marco Nelson, the junior’s sev-enth of his career.
Just 59 seconds later, TU would capitalize on the pick with another touchdown. Freshman kicker Dan-iel Schwarz’s point-after-touch-down attempt was blocked, giving Tulsa its biggest lead of the game,
16–7, at the end of the first quarter.Sloppy mistakes were the Hur-
ricane’s undoing. TU was penal-ized six times for a total loss of 60 yards. Tulsa also fumbled four times, losing the ball once and los-ing yards and momentum in each case.
Quarterback Cody Green, a transfer student from Nebraska, threw two interceptions, the sec-ond of them a game-ending turn-over for TU. Of that mistake, head coach Bill Blankenship
said, “It was a busted play and he went ahead and threw it when he shouldn’t have.”
Still, Blankenship was gener-ally pleased with Green’s perfor-mance in his first game with the Golden Hurricane, saying “I think we have a quarterback that we can win with, and we have to help him learn how to manage a game. I think his mistakes are going to be very correctable.”
Thomas Roberson and Keyar-ris Garrett both caught for touch-
downs, while Bryan Burnham is shaping up to be the go-to receiver for Green, catching nine passes for 90 yards. On defense, senior DeAundre Brown had a big game with nine solo tackles and two sacks for a loss of 21 yards.
The Golden Hurricane opens C-USA action Saturday with an 11 a.m. match against the Tulane Green Wave at H.A. Chapman Sta-dium. Tulsa leads the series 7–1 and has not lost to Tulane since 1968.
Golden Hurricane gets Cycl-ownedDespite promising plays in the first quarter, TU suffered a loss in its season opener to Big 12 foe Iowa State.
John lepine
SA President
Hurricane waves hello
to TulaneThe Tulsa Golden Hurricane will look to rebound this Saturday from its disappointing loss to the Iowa State Cyclones as the Tulane Green Wave comes to town.Tulsa will be a heavy favorite in its home opener, and has beaten Tulane every year since joining the C-USA in 2005. Expect Cody Green to look much better against the Wave than he did against the Big 12 Cyclone defense.
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Students: 13,400
Mascot: Riptide the Pelican
Record: 0–1
2011 Record: 2-11
Last Week: L to Rutgers 24–12
Last meeting: 2011 TU won 31–3
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Alex Singleton runs into a wall of defenders as Tulsa tries to punch the ball in for a Touchdown on a 3rd and 1 attempt. Although Singleton was not able to move the scrum across the line, teammate Ja’Terian Douglas walked into the endzone on fourth down to give the Hurricane its first touchdown of the season.
J.Christopher Proctor / The Collegian
Wide receiver Thomas Roberson celebrates his impressive touchdown which put TU up 16-7 in the first quarter of play. Roberson had 35 yards on four receptions, and a dramatic two-point conversion that helped keep Tulsa in the game late into the fourth quarter.
J. Christopher Proctor / The Collegian
Head Coach Bill Blankenship directs his players as they head for the line in Tulsa’s weekend opener against ISU.
David Kennedy / The Collegian
Tulsa’s men’s soccer team celebrates their upset victory over No. 3-ranked New Mexico on Friday night.
TU upsets No. 3 New MexicoMen’s soccer bested the New Mexico Lobos in overtime, but lost to South Florida. The women were dominant in a match against Northwestern State.
John lepineSA President
SportsTHE COLLEGIAN : 3 4 SEPTEMBER 2012
TU crosses country, first meet off to-do list
Think you ‘Cane?
This season, Tulsa Golden Hurri-cane football fans may have a dif-ficult time deciding just how high to set their expectations.
In the last few seasons the Gold-en Hurricane has watched a coach and several standout players leave the team. Doubters are sure to say that these losses are only made worse with the Golden Hurricane returning just 13 starters on of-fense and defense.
Nevertheless, Hurricane fans have several reasons to expect an impressive showing from their football team this year.
The loss of a three-year starter and former Conference-USA of-fensive player of the year, quarter-back G.J. Kinnie, provides the big-gest question mark on the roster for the Golden Hurricane this year.
Junior Cody Green, who played his first two seasons at Nebraska before losing his starting job to Taylor Martinez and transferring to TU, will replace Kinnie. Though he played on one of college foot-
ball’s biggest stages as a true freshman, Green still has a few ob-stacles to overcome before leading TU’s elite offense, most notable of which is the drastic change in of-fensive philosophy from the pro-style offense featured at Nebraska to TU’s famous spread offense.
However, Green can expect a significant amount of the offensive load to be taken off his shoulders by TU’s dynamic trio of rushers, featuring junior Trey Watts, junior Ja’Terian Douglas and senior pass-catching halfback Willie Carter.
The Golden Hurricane also lost some of its on-field leaders last season with the departure of line-backer Cornelius Arnick and de-fensive tackle Tyrunn Walker.
However, there are players ready and waiting to lead the team like senior free safety Dexter Mc-Coil, who needs only one more interception to become the TU ca-reer leader, and linebacker Shawn Jackson, who ranked second in tackles for the defense last season.
Despite the unanswered ques-tions and new faces on the roster, fans may have a reason to be opti-mistic when comparing this year’s schedule to last’s. During their 8–5 campaign, the Golden Hurricane faced four opponents ranked in the
top 10, which included conference foe Houston. This year’s schedule features only one preseason top 10 opponent: the University of Ar-kansas.
Last year’s brutal out-of-con-ference schedule aside, the Gold-en Hurricane fared quite well in conference, going 7–1. Combine last year’s performance with the graduation of Heisman trophy contender Case Keenum of Hous-ton, and fans have even more rea-son to hope for a solid conference showing.
The Golden Hurricane, like all of Conference USA, is in a po-sition of transition and change. However, this is nothing new for the Hurricane players, who seem to have become accustomed to coaching changes, player depar-tures and rumors of conference realignment.
If TU can build on the success of last season, while also moving past last year’s non-conference and bowl game shortcomings, then there is no reason TU fans should expect anything less than another bowl or Conference USA Champi-onship appearance for the Golden Hurricane.
New players do not preclude a promising season for TU football.
nicK leWellenStudent Writer
Drew Brees gets shown the money
In July, the New Orleans Saints’ quarterback, Drew Brees, signed a five-year, $100 million dollar contract with $60 million in guar-anteed money. Let’s repeat that slowly. $100 million. $60 million guaranteed.
Don’t get me wrong, Drew Brees deserves to be paid with the best of ‘em; he’s a Super Bowl champ and a statistical god, but that type of contract is difficult to even wrap your brain around.
Let’s try to piece this together. Remember the movie Jerry Magu-ire? The whole movie was based on getting underpaid star, Rod Tidwell, a new contract. Show me the money, Jerry! Well Rod finally gets his dream contract. He could finally provide his massive fam-ily with financial security for the long haul. That contract was worth $11.2 million.
Granted, there is a different pay scale for quarterbacks and wide re-ceivers, and that movie was made in 1996, and it’s pure fiction, but the point I’m making is that Drew Brees just signed for about nine times as much as Ron “Show me the Money” Tidwell.
Perhaps that doesn’t hit home quite so much. Here’s another comparison. The gross domestic product of the entire country of Tuvalu for 2011 was $35,780,000. That figure happens to be just slightly less than Brees’ signing bonus, coming in at $37 million.
A nice version of the global poverty line is two dollars a day. In 2002 (an outdated figure but I’m sure you’ll forgive me) approxi-mately 2.6 billion people made less than two dollars a day. At two dollars a day, that’s about $3,652 for the next five years. This means that Brees will earn as much as about 27,000 individuals at this global poverty line put together.
Yikes! You have to wonder if people in Tuvalu read about Drew Brees’ contract and shouted, “Show me the money!”
Drew Brees signs an epic $100 million contract with the New Orleans Saints.
Sam mortonStudent Writer
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As the sun rose on the morning of Sept. 1, the Tulsa runners were warming up for their first race in a long cross-country season.
Even before arriving for the fall semester, the cross country team had been running hundreds of miles along with countless hill workouts and tempos —long, timed runs.
All of this work was in prepara-tion for the 2012 season, and the Hurricane XC Festival was the first chance for the Tulsa runners to test their training. Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Northwestern State, Missouri State and John Brown University were also pre-paring for the day, in hopes of starting the season on a high note.
The men kicked things off at 8 a.m. with a four-mile race at Mo-hawk Park. The Tulsa men had a great morning with senior James Keilbarth finishing eighth at 20:55, followed by junior Emmett
Cookson (20:58), junior Brian Tabb (21:04), sophomore Adam Johnson (21:22) and sophomore Aaron Thornburg (21:23). They were beaten only by Oklahoma State, which claimed the first sev-en overall places.
Despite losing clear front-run-ner Paula Whiting last year, the women of TU finished strong in the two-mile, putting junior Josie Wilcox (11:07) and senior Jac-lyn Rollins (11:16) in second and third. Sophomore Lacey Erickson ran 11:48 finishing 12th; she was followed by junior Lauren Collette (11:53), and senior Tricity Andrew (12:11). The Tulsa women were narrowly out-scored by Oklahoma State 25-31, but defeated Oklaho-ma, Northwestern State, Missouri State and John Brown.
Overall, this meet was a success for the Golden Hurricane. The performances of both the men and women show great promise for the upcoming 2012 cross-country sea-son.
In two weeks, the Tulsa runners will be heading to Joplin, Missouri for the Missouri Southern Stam-pede, where two years ago the women ran a perfect score, claim-ing the top 5 overall places.
A solid showing at the first cross country meet of the season leaves TU hopeful and proud.
lauren coletteStudent Writer
Lauren Collette / The CollegianTricity Andrew, Josie Wilcox, Lacey Erickson, Jaclyn Rollins and Lauren Collette begin the women’s two-mile at the Hurricane XC Festival this weekend.
Lauren Collette / The CollegianBrian Tabb, Aaron Thornburg, Emmett Cookson, and Adam Johnson bring the heat in the men’s 4 mile as they stick with the No. 2 ranked OSU Cowboys.
VolleyballComing into the season as reign-ing conference champions, the TU volleyball team has a seemingly bright season ahead.
With five seniors who have earned the conference title two of the past three years, there is no shortage of experience on the team. TU isn’t taking it easy, how-ever, as the team faces three top 25 teams in their home tournament Sept. 13-15.
You don’t have to wait until the home tournament to see Vol-leyball in action; Head Coach Steven McRoberts invited the stu-dent body to come out to watch the team play at ORU on Tuesday, Sept. 4 at 7 p.m.
Men’s SoccerThe men’s soccer team dives head-first into top-tier competition this year, with four of their first six op-ponents ranked in the top 10.
The team is ready to fight, with a recruiting class ranked 9th in the nation in addition to strong return-
ing players, including pre-season All-Conference honoree Omar Mata.
The team faces top conference competitor South Carolina on Sept. 2, nationally No. 2-ranked Creighton on Sept. 25 and Mar-shall on Sept. 29.
These games are all at home and Head Coach Tom McIntosh encourages TU students to come out and “make Tulsa the most in-timidating place to play for our op-ponents.”
Women’s SoccerHead Coach Kyle Cussen cites team depth and unity as strengths for the program this year; so far they have done well, with a pre-season win over Oklahoma, wins over Weber State and Nicholls State and a narrow loss to No. 13-ranked Notre Dame in a hard-fought contest.
Home games to look forward to include one against cross-town rival Oral Roberts on Sept. 14 and a Sept. 19 game versus conference opponent Memphis to kick off Homecoming weekend.
Cross CountryAfter graduating a strong class last year on the men’s team the new runners this year have big shoes to fill.
Described by Head Coach Steve Gulley as “quite possibly the best recruiting class I’ve seen in my time at TU,” they seem to be up for the challenge. The returners are coming back strong as well and looking to lead the team to a repeat conference title on Oct. 29.
Having finished just two points behind the victors at last year’s Conference USA Championships, the women’s cross country team is more determined than ever this year.
Be sure to stay tuned as they strive to do what they fell short of last year at the conference champi-onship on Oct. 29.
TennisTulsa Tennis has a history of ex-cellence. The women have won the Conference USA Champion-ship for the past three years and the men have won the conference title six of the last seven years.
Women’s Head Coach Dean Or-ford says the fall season is when the team focuses on individual development and results and that the team hopes to peak for the ITA National Indoor competition in November.
Until then, TU students can see the players in action in the ITA Central Region Championships at home on Oct. 20-25.
Tulsa fall sports kick offTU fall sports have promising prospects for the 2012 season.
renee VanaSSeStudent Writer
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Drew Brees celebrates wildly after finding out that the New Orleans Saints wanted to pay him roughly the GDP of the Falkland Islands for throwing a ball around with his friends for a few months each year.
has some ideas about what TU can stand for, where TU should go, and what TU can bring to its students, the Tulsa community, and the global community to which every TU student belongs.
“Everybody needs to be able to commu-nicate effectively. That’s what leadership is all about. That should be an element of what TU brings to the table,” Orsak said. “It’s also true that students who come to TU and graduate from TU should be able to understand the complexities of the world around us.”
Orsak borrowed a term from humanist psychology to describe what he wants TU to provide to its students: “Ultimately, we ought to graduate people who are fully self-actualized,” he said.
This is an idea, a goal for the universi-ty, that Orsak feels personally obligated to pursue. “That is my responsibility: to make sure the university reaches its full potential, in the same way we want every student to reach their full potential.”
TU faces several potential challenges to the kind of growth and development Orsak envisions, however. “There’s been a half-decade long goal for this institution to be-come a littler bigger than it has been,” he said. But “we are essentially capped right
now because of our residency capacity.”The rising cost of higher education is also
a challenge. Orsak predicts that, for most Americans, “education will become the second-largest investment” after a family’s home. “My priority is to make sure that the cost is affordable and the return on that cost is extraordinary.”
Both of the above challenges can con-tribute to a third: the student drop-out rate. “We’ve got to find more ways to ensure that kids who come here with an expectation of graduating in four years do actually gradu-ate in four years,” Orsak said. “Like most problems there’s not a simple answer and there’s not a simple solution.”
Orsak also expressed a desire to see stu-dents contribute to the vibrancy of campus. “I really wish for this institution that our stu-dents would go out and participate: whether its to go to a play, or listen to student perfor-mances in music, or a poetry reading, or a football game,” he said. “I’d love to be able to go to football games and poetry readings and see rooms overflowing.”
If there’s anything TU’s new president wants from the students of the university it is that “they say to themselves: I can do more. I can be more involved and be more engaged, and I can give more to TU and I can take more from TU.”
NEWS THE COLLEGIAN : 44 SEPTEMBER 2012
The Henry Zarrow Center for Art and Edu-cation, located at 124 E. Brady St., opened its doors this past May as one of the first components of the newly revitalized Brady Arts District.
The three-story, 18,000-square foot cen-ter serves the University of Tulsa School of Art and Division of Lifelong Learning and operates as a satellite location for the TU-managed Gilcrease Museum.
The Zarrow center, named in honor of one of Tulsa’s most generous philanthropists, functions both as a traditional art gallery and as an educational resource for adults, families and children interested in learning about and creating art.
The first floor of the Zarrow Center fea-tures a contemporary gallery setting that will host exhibitions of works from the Gilcrease’s permanent collection as well as works by TU students and Tulsa artists. In addition to gallery space, the Zarrow Center also contains classrooms, studio space and a reception area for both private and public events.
The center provides TU’s Master of Fine Arts students with individual studios as well as access to a print lab, allowing them to collaborate with each other and professional artists based in the Brady Arts District.
The third floor of the Zarrow Center is also the new location for Third Floor De-sign, TU’s student-operated graphic design agency. Opportunities also abound for non-traditional students: TU’s Division of Life-long Learning will conduct personal enrich-ment and continuing education classes at the new center.
The creation of the Zarrow Center is part of a larger effort to revitalize the Brady Arts District and position Tulsa as a thriving ar-tistic and cultural center in the Midwest. The center is located in the renovated Tulsa Paper Company Building, which will also house the Brady Craft Alliance, the Woody Guthrie Archives and parts of the Philbrook Museum’s Native American and modern collections.
Neighboring the Zarrow Center will be the Park on Brady, an urban green space featuring a pavilion, a cafe and performance space, as well as the Hardesty Arts Center. The Zarrow Center will work in partner-ship with other Brady District businesses and studios, such as the Tulsa Glassblowing Studio, in its education programs and exhi-bitions.
According to Cindy Williams, the man-ager of public programming at the Zarrow Center, one of the goals of the Zarrow Cen-ter is to offer a fresher approach to art exhi-bitions.
In contrast to the Philbrook or the Gil-crease, whose temporary exhibitions are usually on view for three to four months at a time, exhibitions at the Zarrow Center will change monthly.
The exhibitions will also be more con-temporary, in contrast to the two other mu-seums. “We need to really be more cutting-edge down here, a little more progressive,” Williams said.
She adds that the Zarrow Center will function as a “strong educational compo-
nent in the Brady District” and in the larger community.
In addition to providing facilities to TU School of Art and Lifelong Learning stu-dents, the center will also conduct outreach programs in nearby public schools, classes for home-schooled children and summer camps. The Zarrow Center features afford-able and educational programming for fami-lies, children and adults.
Some of the programs coming up this fall include “Nano Image Art: Molecular Level Creativity,” a six-week class that utilizes nanotechnology to create mixed media piec-es with microscopic images, and “Mono-print Impressions: Printmaking,” a monthly class in the new print lab.
The function of the Zarrow Center is not completely set in stone, however. Williams says the center is meant to be flexible and adaptive to community needs. As the reno-vations and constructions in the Brady Arts District are completed, Williams believes it will be easier to determine what people in the area want and need, and what role the Zarrow Center will play in meeting those
demands. “As soon as we get a grasp on what’s going on down here, then we’re go-ing to be able to program to the community needs,” she said.
The gallery of the Zarrow Center is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tues-days through Saturdays and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. Currently on display is “America in Ink: Artists’ Representations in History (1774-1809),” a portfolio of con-temporary prints each focused on a particu-lar year and event in American history.
TU’s Assistant Professor of Printmaking, Michelle Martin, whose work is included in the portfolio, will be giving a free lecture related to the exhibition on Sept. 14 from noon to 1 p.m.
The Zarrow Center will also be open from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. for the 1st Friday Art Crawl on Sept. 7th, which coincides with the opening of the Park on Brady. For more information regarding programming or volunteer opportunities, or to RSVP for Martin’s lecture, contact Cindy Williams at [email protected].
This year TU welcomed the largest incom-ing freshman class in its history. Though the official data will not be out until October 15, the latest weekly enrollment report showed a 30 percent increase in enrollment—about 200 more freshmen than last year.
If the suspiciously long lines of hungry students at noon or the long rows of plas-tic dining tables in the dining center are any indication, this surge in campus population heralds some changes for the university.
Many students are worried that there will be insufficient campus space. Study lounges in John Mabee and Lottie Jane Hall have been taped up and turned into dorm rooms.
A number of single suites have been
downgraded to doubles. Parking space is a favorite topic of complaint, and some class-rooms, too, have barely enough seats for all their students.
For a university which prides itself on its small class sizes, students and faculty have voiced similar concerns about their crowded courses.
Including the 130 transfer students, a total of 947 new students are taking classes this semester. In contrast, the number of instruc-tors has not seen a corresponding increase.
However, while some may grumble about the distant walk to McFarlin Library for their quiet study spaces, TU’s Vice President for Enrollment and Student Services Roger Sorochty said “the University continues to make projections about future enrollments and the effect those enrollments will have on the demand for on-campus housing.”
“Every effort is being made to assure that housing will be available for all future students who wish to live on campus,” he added.
In terms of classroom space, the newly constructed Stephenson Hall, which will
house the petroleum and mechanical engi-neering departments, should help reduce the strain on classrooms in Keplinger Hall. Nearby Razor Hall has already been holding computer science and electrical engineering classes since last semester.
In fact, these changes and adjustments do not seem to dampen many students’ expec-tations for the new semester. As one junior engineering student remarked, “I don’t re-ally mind about the change in class size be-cause in any of my freshman classes there was a lot of people anyway.”
A major part of the freshmen class is composed of the international students en-rolled in TU’s English Institute. According to Sorochty, the increase is almost exactly evenly divided between U.S. students and international students, many of whom study through the English Institute.
These students hold most of their classes separate from regular TU courses and so have a limited effect on the size of most oth-er classes. If people have been seeing more Asian international students around campus
recently, it is because a larger portion of in-ternational recruits this year are from China than has been the case in previous years.
When asked about why there was such a significant increase in students enrolling, Sorochty replied that there were just more students who chose to come to TU after be-ing accepted.
The recruitment offices annually re-ex-amines their recruitment plans in order to attract the best students, and the whole uni-versity works hard to maintain its quality of education. “We’re pleased to see that more students have concluded that TU is an ex-ceptional institution that offers a high-qual-ity education worthy of their investment,” Sorocty said
Despite the slight changes from last year, upperclassmen once more warmly wel-comed all new students on campus. During the first Hurricane Thursday event, dozens of campus organizations excitedly vied for new recruits, and a good handful of clubs offered free lunch or dinner to anyone who caught wind of where and when they met.
University of Tulsa admits largest class in school history
magdalena SudibJoStudent Writer
Along with the largest freshman class in university history, TU may be seeing other changes in demographics, class sizes, student housing and other capacity adjustments.
Zarrow Center brings artistic opportunities to Tulsa
From President on cover
haley StritzelStudent Writer
The newly opened Henry Zarrow Center for Arts and Education will provide not only arts education for the public and TU student but will also function as a gallery and arts studio for TU art and graphic design students.
Haley Stritzel / The CollegianThe Henry Zarrow Center for Arts and Education is located in the Brady Arts District and will be hosting some of its first Friday Art Crawl on September 7, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Zarrow center is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
August 21
4:30 p.m.Officers were called to LPC for a missing book bag and laptop. The student stated he left the items in a class-room.
The student noticed he forgot the items and returned to the room and his items were missing. Secu-rity is looking at the video of this building.
August 22
6:25 p.m.Officers were called to the Harvard lot for a possible car fire. When officers arrived there was smoke coming from under the hood of a parked car.
Officers determined that the smoke was from excessive oil on the engine. Tulsa Fire Department arrived and stated there was no
danger at this time. Officers attempted to make
contact with the owner but were unsuccessful so a phone message was left on the owner’s phone.
August 23
1:35 p.m.Officers were called to the Physi-cal Plant for an unauthorized per-son walking around. Upon arrival the suspect was gone.
Officers were advised the sus-pect had exited the area prior to security being called. The report was sent to the Physical Plant for their review.
August 24
6:15 p.m.Officers were called to USS for a domestic violence in progress. Se-curity located the victim and the non-student suspect.
The victim had visible injuries and TPD called. The suspect was arrested and transported to jail for Assault and Battery (Domestic Vi-olence). Security provided the vic-
tim DVIS information as required by law.
10:00 p.m.Officers were returning to campus after patrolling off campus proper-ties when a group of men threw an object at the security vehicle.
TPD officers assisted by secu-rity located the three male subjects who were non-students. TPD ar-rested one subject who had two outstanding felony warrants.
August 25
1:24 a.m.Officers were dispatched to a de-pressed student. Officers were able to determine that the student was only upset with things going on in his life and he was not going to hurt himself.
Officers were able to advise the student of available resources in and around the campus area.
6:30 p.m.Officers conducted a pedestrian check on a female that was pulling a TU Bicycle with a lock chained on the rear wheel. The non-student
gave conflicting stories to security officers.
The non-student was detained for the theft of TU property. TPD transported the suspect to jail after she was banned from campus.
August 27
Lost and FoundA book was found in McFarlin Library.
August 28
12:01 p.m.Officers were flagged down in the Kep-Rogers lot by a TU student that complained they were fol-lowed by another vehicle from Inola.
The second driver stated the TU student had cut their vehicle off, and she became upset that she was unable to tell her off so she fol-lowed the student to the TU cam-pus.
Security advised the suspect they needed to leave the campus or they would be arrested for tres-passing. The road rage suspect
spoke to on scene TPD officers and left the campus without fur-ther problems.
12:20 p.m.Officers were called to Fisher West by a TU worker who stated that someone had removed her purse from a locked closet.
The officers took a report and reviewed the video of the area. There were two males that entered the closet during the time the purse was in the locked closet. Security is attempting to identify the two males.
The investigation is ongoing.
4:27 p.m. Security dispatch dispatched offi-cers to a fire alarm at John Mabee Hall. Officers determined that the cause of the alarm was a clothing steamer. TFD was cancelled and the fire panel was reset.
Lost and FoundA student found a coin in ACAC.
The Collegian does not produce or edit the Campus Crime Watch, except for clarity and brevity.
NEWSTHE COLLEGIAN : 5 4 SEPTEMBER 2012
Involvement opportunities abound
If you have received any amount of advice pertaining to college life you have probably been told to “get involved” at least a few hun-dred times.
However, when it comes to get-ting involved on campus, many freshmen do not take the leap simply because they are not sure where to begin. That is where we at The Collegian come in.
To begin with, we have the mother of all organizations, Stu-dent Association.
This group gives funding for
event sponsorships and travel al-locations, promotes university tra-ditions (i.e. Homecoming, Spring-fest, Service Day) and carries out sustainable resolutions (i.e. the yellow bike program).
While applications for the Judi-cial Branch and Cabinet have al-ready passed, students can still run in senatorial elections. Simply go online to www.orgs.utulsa.edu/sa/ and fill out an application.
Joining Senate is not the only way to get involved. Students can come to Senate meetings, propose bill ideas to senators and of course come to Student Association spon-sored events.
For students with a “change the world” mentality there are numer-ous organizations to join, such as the university’s partnership with St. Jude’s—Up ‘till Dawn: Unite to Fight Childhood Cancer—or Habitat for Humanity.
To work with Up ‘till Dawn, simply join the group, help raise
money for St. Jude’s and attend Up ‘till Dawn events on TU cam-pus. Go to www.stjude.org/utd or e-mail the president of the organi-zation at [email protected].
Joining Habitat for Humanity is just as simple. Send an e-mail to [email protected] to get details about meetings and come assist Habitat for Humanity’s first build on Sept. 15th.
The following organizations represent a small smorgasbord of the numerous special interest groups at the University of Tulsa.
For the humorously inclined, Spiked Punch Lines Improv —TU’s only comedic improv troupe—meets on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. and Fridays at 6 p.m. in Kendall Hall. To contact Spiked Punch Lines send an e-mail to [email protected].
Anyone seeking adventure should check out TU Treks, a group dedicated to promoting awareness of the outdoors and ad-vocating outdoor activities. Those interested should attend meetings at 9:15 p.m. on Mondays in the Mayo Student Activity Center or e-mail [email protected] for more information.
Those who are interested in video-games should get connected with Lanbrew, an organized group that supports the Child’s Play charity by hosting multiple on campus local-area network (LAN) parties throughout the year where students can play PC and con-sole games and donate money to Child’s Play. Go online to www.orgs.utulsa.edu/lanbrew/ for more information.
If any of the aforementioned groups do not pique your interest, go online to www.utulsa.edu/stu-dent-life/Student-Activities for the complete list of organizations on campus or to find information on creating your own organization.
Be sure to stay up to date with the Student Association Event cal-endar, join an intramural or find a club related to your major. Above
all, do not wait to get active on campus because you might miss out on something amazing.
Victoria mcgouranStaff Writer
On-campus student organizations provide ample opportunities for students to work on campus issues, volunteer in the local community, or just have a good time.
Campus Organizations PollMost likely to …Become millionaires: Student Investment GroupGet married: PanHellenic and IFCMake the cover of Rolling Stone: Soccer Club for MenTake over the world: Engineers without BordersBecome vampires: University of Tulsa Blood DriveBe on reality TV: American Association of Petroleum GeologistsBe featured on a comedy roast: Residence Hall AssociationEnd up in prison: TU TastersSave the world: Korean Student AssociationForward annoying e-mails: Student AssociationGet famous by accident: Tabletop GamingHave a sandwich named after them: Hillel @ TULive in a haunted cabin in the woods: TU TreksWin the Nobel Prize: Honors Student AssociationScrew up the space-time continuum: Society of Physics StudentsHave a shared psychosis: Psi-Chi
Photo Courtesy TU Treks
Photo Courtesy Spiked Punch Lines Improv
From left to right: Julanda Alhabsi, Casey Keilbarth, Melanie Erdel, Weston Kightlinger, Taylor Johnson, Babak Akbari. Those interested in outdoor adventure can attend TU Treks meetings held at 9:15 p.m. on Mondays in the Mayo Student Activity Center.
From left to right: Evan Fenska, Charlie Walter, Nick Paulison and Julian FrazierSpiked Punch Lines Improv meets weekly to improve their improv. Join them Wednesdays at 8 p.m. or Fridays at 6 p.m. in Kendall Hall.
After nearly eight years, a classic video game series is back on the market with a new release.
In August, Valve Corporation released “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive,” the long-awaited se-quel to “Counter-Strike: Source,” also developed and published by Valve.
The Counter-Strike series is just one of Valve’s many creations; the developer is also responsible for other popular games such as “Left 4 Dead” and “Portal 2.”
Since the release of the origi-nal “Counter-Strike” in 2000, the “Counter-Strike” games have grown immensely in popularity. With total sales exceeding 28 mil-lion copies across all games and platforms, the “Counter-Strike” series is one of the most popular lines of games ever.
“Counter-Strike: Global Of-fensive” is certainly a big step forward for the series, as well as Valve. While “Global Offensive” runs on the same engine as the pre-vious game in the series, “Source,” the engine has been significantly improved. The graphics, lighting and physics of “Global Offensive” are all stunning and on par with
other contemporary games. Of course, the game looks best
on PC, but the visuals certainly are not lacking on the other platforms. Furthermore, the gameplay of “Global Offensive” has also sig-nificantly improved since previous titles.
More fluid controls and a dra-matically improved user interface make “Global Offensive” a sig-nificantly better-feeling game than the past “Counter-Strike” games. “Global Offensive” also adds new weapons, equipment and game modes.
While all the new improve-ments to “Global Offensive” are a step forward for the series, “Glob-al Offensive” still holds true to “Counter-Strike” roots that fans of the series have come to love.
The exclusively multiplayer game still features the same two
opposing factions, the Terrorists and Counter-terrorists, and the two core “Counter-Strike” game modes, Bomb Defuse and Hostage Rescue. Old fans of the series will certainly still feel at home with the game.
All in all, “Global Offensive” is a worthy addition to the “Counter-Strike” series, which served as inspiration to other high-profile developers, notably Infinity Ward (“Call of Duty” series), Treyarch and Digital Illusions.
“Global Offensive” also re-ceived favorable professional reviews: Metacritic awarded the game 85 out of 100.
“Counter-Strike: Global Of-fensive” is available for the PC through Steam, for the PlayStation 3 through the PlayStation Network and for the Xbox 360 through Xbox Live. Prices vary across platforms.
The latest installment in the “Counter-Strike” series boosts success for the developer.
elliot baumanStudent Writer
variety THE COLLEGIAN : 64 SEPTEMBER 2012
by helen patterSon
Things Freshmen Should Know1. Do not skip classes, no matter how early they are. Set your alarm clock, grab some coffee, and go!
2. There are organizations for pretty much anything you can imagine. Get out there, make some friends and get involved!
3. The professors are not here to make you suffer. Get to know them and take advantage of office hours.
4. Please do not plagiarize. Not only is it ethically wrong, you can be expelled if you are caught.
5. Take care of yourself. Sleep, eat well and try to relax as much as you can.
6. You may be sweating buckets outside, but Collins Fitness Center offers a cool, free way to stay in shape.
7. If you are having physical or mental health problems do not hesitate to contact the Alexander Health Center.
8. No procrastination! The only thing worse than starting a paper the morning before it is due is getting that paper back with an “F” on it.
9. Respect your neighbors, especially in the dorms. No screaming through the halls at 3 a.m.
10. Be spontaneous and step outside of your boundaries. You are in college now!
“Counter-Strike” paved way for other popular titles
Photo courtesy Valve Corporation
Gamers will find that after 12 years, the graphics and gameplay of “Counter-Strike” have tremendously improved. The addition of new weapons, equipment and game modes contributes to the overall feeling of combat.
One of the fantastic benefits of be-ing a college student is choosing what you want to eat and when you want to eat it.
Case in point—I may or may not be eating pretzels and Nutella while writing this article—but I digress.
The problem with this new way of living is slowly realized as you will spend the first few weeks of school in a honeymoon phase.
Whether it involves buying ta-cos at 8 a.m. or having pizza de-livered to your dorm five days a week, you will undoubtedly abuse the privilege of formulating your own meal plan.
Then one day—maybe a week from now, perhaps a month—you will wake up and realize that you have no food in your dorm and no money in your wallet. This will send you into phase two, other-wise known as panic mode.
I am here to tell you that pan-icking, while vastly amusing, is completely unnecessary; I am go-ing to introduce you to the concept of “free food.”
There are several ways to ob-tain free meals, the first which is a religious lunch. No matter what denomination you belong to, I can almost guarantee that at least once a week your denomination of choice is serving up a free lunch. They will be advertised all over campus, but you can figure out where to plug in online at utulsa.edu/student-life/Student-Activi-ties/Religious-Life.
Besides the obvious benefit of
not buying food, this is an oppor-tunity to share a meal and fellow-ship with people who are involved in a similar lifestyle.
Another avenue to pursue is to join a special interest or multi-cul-tural organization. Clubs and soci-eties at the University of Tulsa are always having informal gatherings where food happens to be present. (In fact, the History Club at TU is more commonly referred to as the Pizza Club. It is not hard to guess why).
Now, I am not telling you to join a campus organization merely for the sake of obtaining food, but if you happen to love Tabletop Gam-ing and pizza, there is no good reason to not enjoy them simulta-neously.
The best way to stay up to the moment on where to obtain free food is to follow the SA event cal-endar. Student Association spon-sors entertaining events all over campus where you can habitually gather free food.
Do not feel guilty for showing up to an event just because you want free pierogies. Upon paying tuition you also paid a student ac-tivities fee—this means that tech-nically you have already paid for the food at campus events. Your only job is to acquire it.
Finally, while not exactly free, there are numerous eating estab-lishments all over Tulsa that give student discounts. All students have to do is show their TU stu-dent ID card and they will deduct a certain percentage off your check. This can help you keep cost at a minimum when actually purchas-ing food.
I know that finding free food on campus, while not a difficult task, can be time-consuming. If all else fails, e-mail self-proclaimed complementary dining expert Rick Shipley at [email protected].
Free food for allNew to campus? Interested in free food? Check out the weekly religious luncheons and SA events to satiate even the hungriest appetite.
Victoria mcgouranStaff Writer
Fall film lineup: some will thrill, others disappoint
Despite the end of the sweltering heat and the summer blockbusters, there is a solid line-up of fall mov-ies headed our way.
Some films are clearly going to be commercial successes. Re-gardless of the puzzling decision to stretch “The Hobbit” (Dec. 14) into three films, everyone will be forking over money. Not to be outdone, “Breaking Dawn Part 2” (Nov. 16) is sure to have a happy ending for Bella, Edward and Summit Entertainment, no matter how awkwardly Stewart and Pat-tinson behave in public.
On the action front, Bruce Wil-lis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star in “Looper” (Sept. 28), a sci-fi time travel flick, and Daniel Craig returns as the iconic 007 in the 23rd
James Bond installment, “Skyfall” (Nov. 9).
For those more into dramas of varying historical accuracy, Spiel-berg directs, and Daniel Day-Lewis stars in “Lincoln” (Nov. 9), and Tarantino directs Jamie Foxx, who plays a slave seeking to save his wife from a brutal captor in “Django Unchained” (Dec. 25).
Everyone with a soul should be looking forward to the adaptation of “Les Miserables” (Dec. 14). Go directly to YouTube and watch the trailer with Anne Hathaway sing-ing “I Dreamed a Dream.”
Other adaptations include Em-ily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” (Oct. 5) and Tolstoy’s “Anna Kar-enina” (Nov. 16), staring Keira Knightley.
Be sure to look for Emma Watson in “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” (Sept. 14), based on a novel by the director, Stephen Chbosky.
In an interesting illustration of how commercial and family-friendly horror, death and the un-dead have become, animated mov-ies “ParaNorman” (in theaters), “Hotel Transylvania” (Sept. 28), and “Frankenweenie” (Oct. 5) are all out this fall. “ParaNorman”
has good reviews, and who does not want to see Adam Sandler as Dracula? With Burton at the helm, “Frankenweenie” is sure to have a cult following and a Hot Topic T-shirt line before finals strike.
For those into more grown-up chills, “The Possession”—based on a “true” story—is currently in theaters; however, many critics have given it two thumbs down.
To round it out, there are some films that were made for incom-prehensible reasons. First, “Taken 2” (Oct. 5). After the shocking abduction of his daughter, Bryan Mills (played by Neeson) vaca-tions in Istanbul, where he and his family are easy prey for vengeful traffickers. Although we all love Liam Neeson, the premise of the film is hard to swallow.
We also have “The Paperboy” (Oct. 5), staring Nicole Kidman, a.k.a. box office poison, and “At-las Shrugged Part II” (Oct. 12) because—what the heck—it can-not get any worse.
And of course, “Finding Nemo 3D” (Sept. 14) and “Monsters Inc. 3D” (Dec. 19) in a shameless at-tempt to get two times the money for the same movie.
helen patterSonStaff Writer
As school gets off to an exciting and fast-paced start, students will find the need for a study break. Grab a friend—there are some interesting new films due out this fall.
Photo courtesy Metro-Goldwyn Mayer
Fans of Peter Jackson’s theatrical interpretation of Tolkien’s classic trilogy, “The Lord of the Rings,” are eagerly anticipating his rendition of “The Hobbit,” which is just one of many new films to be released this fall.
Hello, TU students, faculty and friends,
Wherever you are as you read these this issue of The Collegian, I hope that you find yourself enjoy-ing it. I also hope that you are get-ting more sleep than we, the mem-bers of The Collegian’s staff, are.
From where I now sit, in the newspaper’s office in Oliphant hall, it is 1 a.m. on a Monday morning. Sleep gets shunted to the bottom of the priorities list when there’s a paper to produce!
For three years now, it has been my pleasure to work with the eclectic, eccentric and brilliant staff that works tirelessly behind the scenes to plan, write and de-sign The Collegian for your infor-mation and entertainment.
Whether you are getting cof-fee at McFarlin’s Dietler Cafe or lounging around the lobby of Fisher South, The Collegian will
always be there for you to browse (or use as a napkin).
We at The Collegian are quite proud of the dramatic transfor-mation that our publication has undergone over the past year. We have sought to break out of the tra-ditional bounds of a campus news-paper, bringing you more dynamic design, more in-depth stories and more cutting-edge content than ever before.
We hope to continue this evolu-tion, pushing the envelope of col-legiate journalism--sometimes all the way off the edge.
For those of you who enjoyed our April Fools’ issue last year (“ExxonMobil buys TU”), we present The Collegian’s more—shall we say, “unexpected” alter ego—the “State-Run Media.” Flip to the back cover for the real scoop.
We want The Collegian to speak for you; therefore, we need you to speak for us. We are always looking for talented and (more importantly) willing writers and photographers. Drop by our office any given Sunday, or e-mail us at [email protected]. You don’t have to be a journalism student—just a student!
Creating a newspaper for a world-class university is, at times, a daunting task, yet it remains my absolute privilege to be a part of it.
Happy reading.
-Kalen J. Petersen Editor-in-Chief
opinionTHE COLLEGIAN : 7 4 SEPTEMBER 2012
The University of Tulsa’s sports attendance is disturbingly low. Attendance statistics have shown a significant downturn recently. Basketball attendance dropped by over 20 percent between the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons.
At its highest, football atten-dance filled just two-thirds of
H. A. Chapman Stadium. And those are only the sports that got prominent billing in the orienta-tion slideshow. This is a strange situation for a Division I school that offers free tickets for students.
The lack of enthusiasm may be evident, but is it easily explained? In defense of these low numbers, Tulsa is the smallest Division I school. Even if TU packed a de-cade’s worth of graduates into the stadium, there would still be emp-ty seats.
Moreover, Tulsa faces fierce competition for attention from larger state schools, including the University of Oklahoma and Okla-homa State. When those schools play each other, it is serious busi-ness. When they play Tulsa, the only people who care are those di-rectly associated with TU.
However, even the people who do attend games often neglect to
show school spirit. Other schools’ fans decorate their cars with flags and bumper stickers—a practice rare at TU.
There is a weaker emphasis on sports at TU than at other, larger schools. Instead, the focus is on having a diverse group of strong students and on the rising college rankings that come with them.
Unfortunately, American foot-ball has not yet gained internation-al appeal. Just as I take little in-terest in my Angolan suite mate’s favorite soccer team, he does not
passionately follow Golden Hurri-cane football. However, one thing is certainly true—we both take our classes seriously, which can make
sports a low priority.TU’s group of students is very
academically minded, and attend-ing a two-hour soccer match or four-hour football game takes a toll on one’s study schedule. Any TU student could have chosen a college with notable athletic pro-grams, but instead each chose a cozier, tight-knit campus with smaller class sizes.
TU students would rather have meaningful interaction with pro-fessors than have class in an au-ditorium where they would have to squint to see the graduate assis-tant. It is a university, after all, and everyone realizes it would be fool-ish to not make the most of this educational opportunity.
TU’s attendance problems are actually a hidden blessing. These numbers represent a balanced student population. Attendance records are not being broken, but this keeps retention rates higher.
What TU does possess is a stu-dent population that takes a mild interest in sports but knows when to bust out the flashcards. While there may not be any threats to oc-cupancy limits, Tulsa’s lack of die-hard support for our athletic teams reveals that we are not afraid to be Oklahoma’s well-rounded, intel-lectual students.
Although sports attendance is low among students, TU is more concerned with academic performance.
Low attendance at games due to academic priorities
“TU’s attendance problems are actually
a hidden blessing”
eric
digiacomo Student Writer
Xiaowen Li / Collegian
More than half of the stands were empty at the mens’ soccer stunning upset against No. 3 New Mexico on 31 August at TU’s Hurricane Track and Soccer Field.
Until recently, residents of Tulsa collected their rubbish in giant plastic bins. Every so often, they dragged the enormous bin (or bag) to the curb, and a trash truck came and took it away. That trash truck used to come twice a week. Not anymore.
The City of Tulsa had contract-ed Tulsa Refuse to provide gar-bage pickup services twice a week, but that contract ended in July. The
City Council, Mayor and Tulsa Trash Board took this end of con-tract as an opportunity to change the system.
Despite protests from residents and public service personnel, the City chose to cut pickup services to once a week and to increase the
pickup service fees by charging by bin volume.
Unsurprisingly, public senti-ment is now less than favorable to-ward the trash service. Who likes to watch garbage accumulate and to deal with the stronger odor?
Larger families are having the most trouble. Under the new trash collection system, big families are finding themselves in a catch-22. The once-a-week collection means more garbage buildup, but those with more garbage incur higher collection fees. The City of Tulsa essentially is penalizing residents for a byproduct of the City’s uni-laterally imposed policies.
Tulsa has been in a transition toward a new pickup system, and supporters of the city’s changes point at this fully developed gar-bage pickup system, which will be implemented in October. Propo-nents applaud the recycling com-
ponent, observing that San Anto-nio has used the same system with great success.
Of course, recycling is a won-derful thing to do, but at what cost is it implemented? It turns out that the costs and benefits of recycling
do not justify a new system. The recycling component will make the trash pickup service more inef-ficient. It will not be much better for the environment than if Tulsa had continued with its current re-cycling programs.
While Tulsa residents are held in limbo between the new and old systems, they can contemplate the unsettling future of trash in Tulsa. Some are faced with a larger pick-up fee. Many are wondering how much better for the environment the new system will be.
Almost everyone would agree that the Tulsa garbage collection service could benefit from some improvement, yet as is too often the case, the government’s chang-es are like Facebook’s: unhelp-ful. It is not an improvement. It is just a new and unwanted animal that Tulsa residents must learn to handle.
Changes in trash pick-up disgust some due to the rise in prices. Others point to free recycling as a positive aspect, but sources are iffy about recycling’s efficacy.
oScar hoStudent Writer
Tulsa trash in the dumps
“The City of Tulsa is penalizing residents for a byproduct of the City’s
unilaterally imposed policies.”
Graphic by Jill Graves / Collegian
president
Opinion THE COLLEGIAN : 84 SEPTEMBER 2012
On August 11, Paul Ryan was an-nounced as the GOP’s choice for vice president. Though he has a very polished, likable demeanor and a “dazzling” speech style, ac-cording to Fox News, Ryan repre-
sents a neoconservative extremism that alienates all but the richest and most conservative college-aged voters.
Ryan hopes to cut $200 billion from the Pell Grant program. This would effectively take a million students off of the program over the next decade, which disempow-ers many low-income American students.
Ryan’s reasons for doing this come from his belief that the grants do not go to, in his words, the “truly needy.” This is despite the truth that college is quickly be-coming a fiscal impossibility for millions of American students.
Between 2008 and 2010, tuition
costs rose, on average, between 15 percent and 40 percent, depending on the state. Ryan obviously does not have the average college stu-dent’s needs in mind, despite soar-ing student loan debt.
Concurrently, Ryan has been promoting The Path to Prosper-ity, commonly known as the Ryan Plan. While his desires to cut taxes for the richest in the nation and si-multaneously increase the tax bur-den of the middle class is distress-ing, the most polarizing aspect of his plan is that, according to nonpartisan think tank Economic Policy Institute, it will not work.
EPI predicts that over 4.1 mil-lion jobs will be lost in the next
two fiscal years due to the drop in demand that would come from the more than $400 billion in program cuts. Ryan is not providing a good economic future for constituents facing mounting debt.
Ryan’s extreme beliefs about abortion reveal how out of touch he is with a contemporary Ameri-ca. Over 75 percent of Americans think that abortion should be al-lowed in instances of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is in danger, but Ryan has a personal no-tolerance policy.
His own personal beliefs will reduce the personal agency of about 50 percent of the U.S. popu-lation, for better or for worse. This
hatred of abortion generally comes from some sort of compassion for the unborn fetuses.
However, this is incompatible with Ryan’s self-declared Objec-tivist philosophy, which espouses compassion for others as some sort of weakness.
Ryan’s philosophical incon-sistencies do not set a good intel-lectual example for young people. In today’s business climate, when poor ethics have been so promi-nent, college students should be learning good ethical practices. Ryan’s Objectivism and disinter-est in the middle class do little to make him an ideal candidate to vi-tal college-age voters.
Freshman orientation potentially disorienting
This year’s freshman class is the biggest on record. Of course, this also meant the largest freshman
orientation ever. Fork shortages at the “Caf” aside, many found the week exciting and worthwhile. Others, however, had a different experience.
A common refrain among fresh-men over the past two weeks has been, “Oh! There are just so many people to meet. So if orientation was meant to introduce people, it succeed wildly.
However, if it was meant to start building connections for last-ing friendships, it largely failed. A week later the names are fading into a blur and some who were not able to connect during the orienta-tion are struggling to make friends.
Some people thrive in dynamic environments where there are peo-
ple to meet and things to do. For them, orientation was a great ex-perience.
For others, it may actually have been more of a hindrance. Orienta-tion groups were designed to help freshmen begin making friends. However, there was no guarantee that one would see these people regularly, and even less likely would they become part of your particular social mix.
For some it is enjoyable meet-ing strangers; for others it is un-comfortable and even frightening. In student activities—even class-es—it is simpler to people with similar interests, tastes or person-alities than in a hodgepodge mix of people.
Compounding the issue was a sense of obligation to the orien-tation groups. It seemed wrong to interact with people outside one’s own group. Eating meals to-gether, playing games and explor-ing Tulsa, students spent a lot of time was spent with their groups, and chances to interact with oth-er groups were rare. Events like “Playfair” and camp helped break down some of the barriers, but it was still hard to make connections.
On the other end of the spec-trum, there are those who left ori-entation with many more names than connections. Some students felt an electric urge to try to meet everyone —a truly impossible task.
Of those super-extroverts, some
likely left without any real friend-ships for completely opposite rea-sons. They simply did not have enough time to make any lasting connection with anybody before the urge to meet someone new kicked in. They might have gotten a lot of names and numbers, but ask them now to match the name and the face and they are stumped.
The vast majority of freshman will say that the orientation was definitely worth it, but some of the people that the orientation was meant to help were left in the dust.
Eventually, we freshmen will build lasting college friendships. Only time will tell what impact, if any, freshman orientation will have on this process.
Freshman orientation does not make good use of students’ time. Most of the time spent is superficial and does not assist freshmen in making solid friendships.
Dear Students, Faculty, Staff and Otherwise,
I don’t know about you, but it’s been a long two weeks for me as a TU student without any Colle-gians to read over lunch at Chick-Fil-A or with my morning coffee from the Cort & Martha Dietler Café. I’m glad to have the Colle-gian back, and it’s a privilege to be able to address you weekly in our campus newspaper and keep you updated about what’s happening in your Student Association.
I use the phrase “your Stu-dent Association” so much that I think I’ve made my friends sick of it, but let me explain why SA truly is yours. SA is chartered by the University of Tulsa Board of Trustees to be the representative body of the students in the eyes of the administration. Every full-time student, even in the Graduate and Law Schools, is a member of the Student Association by virtue of paying student activity fees. Your fees support SA and your voice, especially through elections, gov-erns what SA does and says to make the student experience at TU as good as it can be.
So I encourage you to make the most of your membership in SA. Get informed about the upcom-ing Senate elections (campaign-
ing starts Wednesday), come out and get a free tank top at the first home football game this Saturday, stop by and chat with me in my of-fice in ACAC (I’m there Mondays at noon and Thursdays at two). There’s a lot of ways that your ac-tivity fees go to making this a bet-ter, more exciting campus—don’t miss out!
Finally, you’re always welcome at our weekly public meetings. The SA Cabinet discusses events and programming every Tuesday at 5 p.m. in the ACAC meeting rooms, and SA Senate discusses organiza-tion funding and legislation every Tuesday at 9 p.m. in John Rogers Hall 202. Hope to see you there!
Best, John Lepine SA President
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Paul Ryan a poor choice by the GOPPaul Ryan’s extreme views alienate collegiate voters, due to fundamental philosophical contradictions.
Melodrama aside, the identity shift our beloved Hut has undergone—a transformation from an American bar and grill to a quasi-Mexican restaurant —does not constitute a crisis situation.
While the moniker Hut Cantina leaves much to be desired, sig-nificant improvements have been made, especially for students with dietary restrictions.
If you can ignore the apparent multiple personality disorder and lay aside prejudice, you may find the Hut Cantina is worth the wait.
Now you may be thinking to yourself “But what is the point?
The pizza was pretty good, so why get rid of it? It makes no sense.” If those are your sentiments, never fear. You are not alone. Change is hard. We will get through this to-gether.
“But really, why?” you ask.Presumably, in the name of di-
versity (the only term more pop-ular than “networking” around campus), the Hut Cantina finds its
legitimacy. Linguistically, the new menu is a disaster. However, the content is much improved.
While the Midwestern-style Mexican cuisine may not be what you would find on the streets of Guadalajara, it is a welcome di-version from the usual fare (except perhaps Chick-fil-A). As a part-time vegan, I am impressed that most of the new Hispanic-adjacent dishes are branded with a “Vegan/Vegetarian Option” legend, and appreciate the consideration of our unique student population.
While the Hut Cantina may be
the black sheep of the TU Dining Services family, it has value in its own unique way, apparent in the form of “The Iguana Burrito Challenge.” Through the use of sentence fragments, capitalization and exclamation marks, the menu describes a mission (should you choose to accept it) that promises to be unforgettable, one way or another.
I, for one, am willing to put aside linguistic neuroses (since Spanglish is not a pidgin lan-guage) and give the Hut Cantina a fighting chance.
So succumb with me to the al-luring fragrance of melting cheese and refried beans, with the knowl-edge that anything can happen when you open your mind to the possibility of a new idea. Who knows —you could become more legendary than the “El Famous” burrito.
Hungry? Nacho problemThe replacement for the Hurricane Hut does not disappoint, especially to those with dietary restrictions. It is on its way to becoming a notable part of campus.
Katie
mcgouran Student Writer “While the Midwestern-style Mexican
cuisine may not be what you would find on the streets of Guadalajara...”
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Finally: football returns to Tulsa
Running Back Trey Watts rushes against the Iowa State Cyclones in Ames on Saturday. After a long and exciting offseason, college football has finally returned. Tulsa will look to recover quickly from its opening loss as it starts a three game home stand that includes matches against Tulane, Nicholls State and Fresno State.
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A new study by the Tulsa His-torical Society has revealed that Tulsa’s once-thriving “greaser” subculture is on the decline. Ac-cording to the study, the restless, lower-class young men described in S.E. Hinton’s novel “The Out-siders” have all but disappeared from Tulsa’s diners, dives and al-leys since the book’s 1967 publi-cation.
The study revealed a startling 99-percent drop in traditional greaser activities, including pick-ing fights with rival gangs and at-tending drive-in movies.
The disappearance of the greaser may be a troubling sign for the local economy, as sales of leather jackets, souped-up 1957 Chevy Corvettes, flannel shirts, switchblades and pomade have
plummeted. Additionally, sources confirmed
that the streets of Tulsa no longer have that malt-flavored meanness. “It’s not a thing of pride; the kids just aren’t aiming to maintain this tradition anymore,” said the Soci-ety’s Novelty Support Clerk, Ron Dunlop, in a press conference held at the corner table inside that one pizza joint.
Jack Curtis, grandson of the famous Hinton character Pony-boy Curtis, blamed the end of the greaser on the changin’ times. “I just don’t have the time to get in a rumble or cruise around in a re-stored (Ford) Thunderbird. I have to study for the SAT,” he said.
At the press conference, a weepy Hinton lamented the greasers’ dis-appearance. “I guess that nothing gold can stay,” Hinton said. “Also, don’t forget to buy your copy of the ‘Outsiders’ 45th Anniversary Edition,” she added.
While the greasers may be gone, sources confirmed that the greasers’ rival upper-class social group, known as the “Socs,” was alive and well, with most members attending the University of Tulsa.
At 6’7,” former TU President Steadman Upham was the tallest university president in the nation. Upon learning of former TU Presi-dent Steadman Upham’s planned retirement last year, university officials became concerned about the university’s imminent fall from the top rank of “Tallest Uni-versity President.”
“We are a school that prides it-self on moving up in the rankings, not down,” said Rodger Sorochty, Vice President of Enrollment and Student Services. “What message would it send our students and prospective students, if we were to fall so drastically from out of the
No. 1 spot?”Opinions around campus about
the new President’s imminent surgery are mixed. One freshman agrees that it is important.
“At first when I heard that TU wasn’t going to have the tallest President anymore I questioned my decision to come here, “ he said, “but this seems like a good fix.”
Other students are less con-vinced: “Why does President Or-sak have to be known for the same things that Stead was known for? He could be known for something else… like driving the crickets off campus! That would be a good legacy,” said a junior.
As it stands, the surgery is all set to go as soon as space opens up. Until then, Orsak will have to get by with using stepladders and periscopes to make use of his of-fice designed for a much taller man.
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While you may think that you are satisfied with the liberal-biased Collegian that you have been reading, you have clearly been brainwashed by their clever headlines—blinded from the truth before your eyes.
But not here at the State Run Media!
Here, we have a firm commit-ment to print the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth. This year we will do our best to
combat the lies of The Collegian, giving you news you can trust, opinions you can count on and everything you need to be an obe-dient, law-abiding student at the University of Tulsa.
Please disregard the fact that we have been relegated to only a single page in this vile, doubleplusungood newspaper.
Our grant from the Ministry of Truth was insufficient to cover
launching our own paper, but we will not let our unfortunate loca-tion hold us back, as we do our best to serve your newsly needs this year.
Do not believe anything you read in The Collegian.
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TU to spend millions on height enhancement for
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University officials are confident the pricey and dangerous surgery will be “well worth the cost.”
Welcome subjects from near and farWelcome students, I’m your Czar
I hope you’ve enjoyed your time at TUBut remember I watch you in all you do.
You can’t run and you can’t hideResistance is futile, though none have tried
You will learn to love me in all due timeBesides, who could resist a king with rhyme!
SA elections are coming so remember to voteNot that anyone is opposed —not to gloat
Now go and work hard, study for your testAnd remember always, King John knows best!
King John I
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ORU unleashes insectoid plauge
While some have blamed the scourge of crickets on the summer’s heat, Golden Hurricane intelligence agents are now confident that they were actually sent as an attack by Granville “Oral” Roberts as a desperate attempt to end TU’s occupation of his University.
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Kalen peterSenEditor-in-Chief
Researchers have definitively proven that contrary to popular opinion, Tulsa is no longer filled with 60’s era greasers.
Showing a callous disregard for basic human rights, the interna-tional prayerists at Oral Roberts University have unleashed a hor-rific biological attack upon the University of Tulsa. In reprisal for ORU’s invasion and occupation by TU troops, prayerists have sent a devastating plague of crickets to TU, covering all the campus in a seething blanket of black insects.
On Tuesday, the Lepine admin-istration condemned the attack as “barbarous and inhuman” in a statement issued from a bunker in John Rogers Hall, where student officials have been barricading themselves behind mosquito nets, armed with cans of DEET and old tennis shoes.
“No civilized nation could con-done the use of millions of insects against a civilian population,” said Rick Shipley, Lepine’s Chief of Staff. “However, this vicious at-tack will under no circumstances
weaken our resolve to bring free-dom and justice to the oppressed students of Oral Roberts and the Middle West.”
“Oh, another cricket! There, in the corner! Kill it! Kill it! For the love of God, kill it!,” he added.
It is unclear how ORU man-aged to summon the sky-darken-ing cricket swarm, but sources on the ground confirm that ORU’s founder and namesake Rev. Oral Roberts was sighted rallying the swarm from atop ORU’s Prayer Tower.
The alleged prayerist master-mind was formerly believed to have died in 2009, but TU intel-ligence officials now suspect that he may have been hiding at John Brown University —a close ally of ORU.
“Thou hast invadest my land and oppresest my people,” Roberts said in a homeade video addressed to the students of TU. “Let my people go! And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite thy campus with crickets, which shall go up and come into thy dorms and apartments, and into thy bed thy bed, and into thy minifridges and the endless chirping shall deprive thee of all sleep!”
Accusing President Lepine of “hardening his heart,” Roberts de-manded the immediate withdrawal of TU troops from ORU soil. The Lepine administration, however, has a long-standing policy of re-fusing to negotiate with prayerists.
Michael Mancini, a spokes-man for the administration, urged students on the homefront to endure.“They say the night is always darkest just before the
dawn,” Mancini said, “but if we lose our nerve now, the prayer-ists win. Students—stay calm and try not to imagine an army of jet-black, slimy, many-legged crea-tures crawling up and down your skin,” he said.
Although the endless deluge of insects has wreaked havoc upon TU, Roberts said that the worst was yet to come, threatening to release further abominations upon TU, including a plague of fresh-men boys and a flood of fraternity brothers.
Some in the Lepine adminis-tration have speculated that these curses may already be upon us.
propagandist
Last spring, then-Student Asso-ciation President Grant McCarty declared war on Oral Roberts University over allegations of har-boring international prayerists as part of the so called “War on Prayerism”.
A semester later, despite Lep-ine’s campaign based on “hope and change,” in which he prom-ised to pull troops out of ORU, SA forces have become bogged down in a bitter guerrilla fight in South Tulsa. This article is part of con-tinuing coverage from the embat-tled university.
Tulsa sees sharp decline in greaser population
eric digiacomoStudent Writer
King Lepine cheers on his gladiators as they valiantly fight to the death for his honor in H.A. Chapman Colosseum.
