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BENNETT HALLCampus Reporter
OU received funding for a new prac-tice center for the women’s rowing team, a new water research laborato-ry and new radar equipment as part of the 19 motions passed at the OU Board of Regents meeting yesterday at the National Weather Center.
The Varsity Rowing Practice Center, which will provide approximately 24,000 square feet of space for the team to train indoors, will be located south of
the rugby and soccer fields on the south side of Blankenship Boulevard, accord-ing to a press release .
An architectural firm will be select-ed to draft a building proposal for a Water Innovative Research Laboratory on campus, which will house water re-search laboratories, classrooms, testing facilities and public learning spaces.
This selection process will help the university gauge the probable budget of the construction project, but as of right now, tangible plans are in the early stages, said Nick Hathaway, executive vice president of administration and finance .
“Water is one of the strategic areas of research focus here at the university,
and this research center would generate things like government water agency in-terest in OU’s studies,” Hathaway said.
A motion was passed to proceed with purchasing radar equipment needed to improve the facilities at OU’s Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms based at the National Weather Center on the research campus.
The next meeting of the OU Board of Regents currently is scheduled for March 27 and 28 in Oklahoma City, ac-cording to a press release .
Regents move forward with center, water research lab, radar
to live on?OU products give wages
CEDAR FLOYDCampus Reporter
With a trip overseas fresh on their minds, students petitioned the OU Bookstore to purchase the majority of its apparel from companies that pay a living wage.
The living wage apparel would be of equal quality and cost the same or less than the brands currently in stock, such as Nike and Champion, said Jessica Distelhorst, president of the Student Organization for Fair Trade.
The difference is the factory workers employed by Champion typically make around 20 cents a day — only enough
money to eat — and tend to get trapped in an inescapable cycle of debt, she said.
Alta Gracia, a living wage factory in the Dominican Republic, pays its workers
more than three times the industry average, allow-ing workers to afford nu-tritious food, school for themselves and their chil-dren, adequate housing, transportation and have savings, she said.
“ I t h i n k [ s w i t c h i n g to Alta Gracia Apparel] would provide a wonder-
ful opportunity for us,” economics senior Clay Burns said. To be associated with justice, fairness and taking care of people around the world is good for the image
“She worked for this, and she earned it,
and she’s building it. It was a wonderful
moment.”ClAY BURnS,
eCOnOMICS SenIOR
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Scorpion hair used to complete studyReseaRCH
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The photo provided (above) is a screenshot from a video explaining the research and the process of elizabeth Knowlton and Douglas gaffin, department of zoology, as they research the hairs on the legs of scorpions.
DeFIneDLiving and minimum wage in the Dominican Republic$2.85 (USD)suffi cient for nutritional food, transportation, schooling, adequate housing and savings.
$0.84 (USD)typically enough for food and possible transportation for a single day.
Source: Alta Gracia website
Fair trade activists work to eliminate foul pay
MORGAN GEORGECampus Reporter
A biology sophomore will be working closely with scorpions next fall as a result of OU’s new undergraduate research initiative.
Randall Proctor, a soph-omore from Jacksonville, Fla., will conduct research to investigate hairs on the legs of scorpions and their role in water detection.
Proctor became inter-ested in research while taking Introduction to Z oolog y w ith biolog y professor Doug Gaffin, Proctor said. Gaffin told Proctor about a class with the University College called Research Sooner!, which introduces students to research at OU and pre-pares them to begin the research process.
A f t e r t a k i n g t h e University College course,
Proctor approached Gaffin about researching alongside him in his study of scorpi-ons, Proctor said. Thus, in fall 2013, Proctor will begin his study of scorpion leg hair’s role in water detection with Gaffin as his mentor.
The Research Sooner!
course, offered exclusive-ly to freshmen in the fall and opened to all students in the spring, is part of a broader undergraduate re-search initiative at OU called UResearch, said Joy Pendley, OU Undergraduate Research a n d C r e a t i v e A c t i v i t y
Coordinator. UResearch is a new system of assistance and support to help under-graduate students conduct research.
“There are huge pockets of vibrant undergraduate research happening all over OU, and the Honors College has always been responsible for whatever organization that has happened on cam-pus,” Pendley said. “But, un-dergraduate research is for all students, not just honors students.”
O U u n d e r g r a d u a t e students involved in re-search are doing the work of professionals, Pendley said. They’re published in peer-reviewed journals in disciplines ranging from dance, to biology.
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It is not uncommon for workers to spend all of their remaining money on trans-portation to the factory, only to be sent home again wage-less, Burns said.
“That [money] was basi-cally how they were going to eat that day,” Distelhorst said.
T h e O U A l t a G r a c i a Coalition is currently call-ing for additional student organizations, students and faculty to support the cause, Burns said. The coalition has already held several or-ganizational meetings, de-livered letters to President Boren and Follet’s bookstore manager requesting a great-er presence of Alta Gracia on campus and plans to screen an educational documenta-ry in the near future.
“If there’s a voice for this, if there’s a scream for ‘this is what we want,’ the university
is ours,” Burns said.T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f
Oklahoma Bookstore al-ready has a contract with Alta Gracia and carries two of their unisex products, Burns said. That means it should be a relatively simple process to switch the order around to get a majority of living wage apparel this fall.
“We do also need to un-derstand that this is a busi-ness environment too,” Burns said. “We can see that this is good for all sides. You don’t just have to be an evil corporation, you can treat people fairly, make a good product and it works out well for everyone.”
Distelhorst and Burns are encouraged by the reactions they received from Boren, the store manager and stu-dents, they said.
After the bookstore is s t o c k e d w i t h 5 0 . 1 p e r-cent living wage apparel, Distelhorst said she plans to expand into the community and ask other local business-es to carry the merchandise.
“The way we look at it, the
bookstore is kind of a cata-lyst for change in the com-munity,” Distelhorst said. “If we start there, a lot of other businesses will start to pop up with Alta Gracia.”
Many other universities, such as New York University, Duke, Notre Dame and The University of Texas, already carry a majority of living wage apparel, Burns said.
“ H o n e s t l y , e v e n University of Texas has beat us to the punch. Let’s at least try to beat Stillwater to it,” he said.
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Jessica Distelhorst (left), health and science senior, speaks out about fair trade on campus while standing beside Clay Burns, finance, economics and energy management senior. They delivered a letter to President David Boren Friday.
of the university, Burns said.Distelhorst and Burns
traveled to the Dominican Republic to visit the Alta Gracia factory during the first two weeks of January. They stayed in homes of fac-tory workers and saw first-hand the difference a living wage can make.
“The thing that stuck with me most was when we were there seeing somebody building their own home. They were finally having the money where they could af-ford to put a roof over their heads and not live in a shack made of wood with a tarp over it,” Burns said. “She worked for this, and she earned it, and she’s build-ing it. It was a wonderful moment.”
The Alta Gracia factory currently employs 133 work-ers, which is only about 4 percent of the workers pre-viously employed by the old BJ&B factory, which shut down because of local union formation and efforts to improve human rights in 2007, Burns said. Still, the factory’s presence makes a substantive impact on the community.
“When you start to create a middle class like that, they are finally able to put money back into their community,” Burns said. “When you have more money going into the community, then people are receiving more money for fruit, the bakers are being paid and everybody is able to start to rise up.”
That’s where the Student Organization for Fair Trade and other organizations come in, Distelhorst said. If OU purchases more cloth-ing from fair trade factories, those factories can expand.
On their trip, Distelhorst and Burns also met with union leaders from Haiti and other free trade zones with-in the Dominican Republic. These unions dealt with Gilden factories, which sup-ply Champion Apparel.
Workers in these facto-ries often suffer from swol-len feet, and new mothers with swollen breasts are un-able to return home to feed their newborns, Burns said. Some call center workers were locked inside window-less buildings for the work-day and when fires broke out they were stuck inside suffocating.
In DepThsOFTthe student organization for Fair trade is the organization leading the Alta Gracia campaign on campus. members have long worked for an increase in Fair trade and other non-human rights abusing products on campus. they are responsible for ou serving 50 percent Fair trade coffee.
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OPINIONFriday, January 25, 2013 • 3
Our View: Administrators can’t punish a student editor in chief for past wrongs.
Events at Florida A&M University under-score the need for student control over stu-dent newspapers.
As we reported in this space Jan. 14, the student newspaper at Florida A&M, The Famuan, had been temporarily suspended for a month of unpaid, “continuing train-ing” after a student filed a lawsuit over a factual error in the paper.
After fighting to bring the paper back from suspension, former editor in chief Karl Etters was not allowed to return to his post.
Etters was made to reapply for his job after continuing training, and the paper’s new adviser, Kanya Stewart, decided not to hire him. The con-
tinuing abuses of student speech at Florida A&M must stop.
Punishing an editor for a crime he did not commit is unacceptable.
Despite the fact none of the current staff-ers were with the paper a year ago when the mistake was made, school administrators held current staff accountable.
If that unjust punishment weren’t enough, school ad-ministrators are now block-ing the paper’s editor from coming back to work.
Stewart hasn’t talked to journalists, but she did not think Etters fit the adminis-trations vision for the paper, Etters said. Etters had given an answer in his interview he said Stewart didn’t like.
“I said something along the lines of ‘we publish the truth whether it’s positive or negative, good or bad,” Etters said.
The watchdog function of a student newspaper is the main benefit of a univer-sity paper.
It is remarkable Etters was not allowed to return, even after the unpaid training
period.After administrators suspended the
paper, Etters created Ink and Fangs, an alternative website where he and others
could publish material. The administration still
tried to interfere.Shortly after the website’s
creation, journalism school Dean Ann Kimbrough, who was responsible for the shutdown, accused Etters of plagiarism.
Kimbrough contact-ed the Student Press Law Center because she thought Etters had taken language from the center and used it
on his website.One of the center’s lawyers, Adam
Goldstein, denied Etters had plagiarized, according to the center’s website.
Administrators should not have direct control over student newspapers funded by advertising and student activity fees. Faculty advisers are there to assist students, not manipulate and punish them.
At The Daily, we have first hand expe-rience with how helpful and supportive a good adviser can be.
We are lucky at The Daily — our pa-per’s decisions are controlled directly by students.
We ask you support our fellow journal-ists at Florida A&M’s paper by contacting Stewart and Kimbrough and asking them to reinstate Etters as editor in chief.
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EDITORIAL
Student voices still under threat at Florida A&M
Walking through OU’s campus, as well as any other
campus, one can’t help but admire the intricate details of the buildings, the beau-tifully cured vegetation strewn along the landscape and an irrefutable cogni-zance each facet of the cam-pus was carefully planned to ensure an environment conducive to higher education.
But as standards of technology and in-frastructure get pushed to new bounds, a reconsideration of our expectations must coincide.
As the number one producer of renew-able energy in the Big 12 conference, OU is participating significantly in raising infra-structural criterion.
But aside from renewable energy pur-chases of wind and natural gas, what im-provements could be tacked on?
Any new infrastructure should push newer limitations.
A good start is Headington Hall , the new residence halls being built across from the current athletic dorms on Jenkins Avenue, which will house almost 400 students .
Its construction has created buzz as it’s considered the final stepping-stone in a 13-year plan to make OU athletic facilities the best in the country.
It also meets pressing environmental standards, such as LEED certification.
But many buildings already are built, and we can’t just start over, so what’s next? It seems safe to say there are two major problems with OU’s infra-structure,
wasted space and wasted water.
In regards to space, a sim-ple walk through campus shows that every building has a flat, stagnant roof that acts as nothing more than a limitation to the building’s potential.
The National Weather Center near Highway 9 has challenged this by imple-
menting an experimental green roof project and is continuing to improve it steadily.
But the main portion of campus re-mains dry in its innovation; few students are aware of the National Weather Center’s green roof and even fewer have seen it.
Furthermore, a recent group of OU grad-uate students working on the EPA Campus RainWorks Challenge , a national compe-tition to solve campus rain runoff, came to the realization that the OU facilities depart-ment has no indication or record of how much water OU uses on campus annually or per semester.
The facilities department iterated that since it is non-potable or well water, there was no necessity to measure the usage.
Shayna Orr, one of the graduate students working on the study said.
“Even though it is well water doesn’t mean we shouldn’t measure it. Just be-
cause we don’t drink it, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t conserve it.”
The economic incentives to improve the amounts of rainwater wasted from stag-nant roofs, impermeable surfaces and the amounts wasted or unmonitored by land-scaping practices are quite significant.
Solutions that remain relatively cheap, such as rain barrels or liners to collect run-off, would conserve thousands of dollars in water, in contrast to the $75 million being spent on Headington Hall alone.
Even just planting more native grass-es instead of turfs would save significant amounts of water. Other options include higher caliber investments like solar pan-els and mini wind turbines for buildings, or even additional green roof schemes or vertical wall gardening projects to inspire student interest.
An in-depth analysis is critical in deter-mining which improvements are best for each campus. But basic improvements seem like logical steps in the right direction.
It is difficult to optimize water consump-tion without a statistical breakdown of what you are currently consuming. It is hard to entice a committed betterment to student life when ventures remain unseen to the student body.
What a plentiful world it would be if each building on campus produced at least
one-fourth of its own ener-gy, collected at least 10
percent of its
rain run-off and had an independent roof project, unique to its space, for student benefit.
It may seem far-fetched but it is just a matter of progress.
With a little funding, devotion and eager-ness to better your campus community we could collectively improve our production, reduce our consumption and enlighten our sense of both higher learning and living.
Andrew Sartain is an Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment & Nonprofit Management Senior, Founder and President of Earth Rebirth.
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21 Ending for “puppet” or “profit”
24 Numbered musical piece
25 Where a King marched
27 “Benjamin Button” star Pitt
28 Tour de France perch
29 More quick to the helm
31 Old-fashioned argument enders
33 Where worms may be served
34 32-Across, for one
35 Ruffles feathers
37 Blackthorn fruits
40 Utter indistinctly
42 Didn’t use scissors
46 Focuses (on) 49 Small piece
of cloth or paper
50 Storage building, on a farm
52 Absorbed the cost of
54 Clusters of grass
56 What an unrequited lover carries
57 Buying binge 59 Give off, as
light 61 Dads or pops 62 Words
spoken in front of witnesses
63 Swift-running Aussie bird
64 All-you-___-eat
65 Approx. landing time
66 White vestment
Universal CrosswordEdited by Timothy E. Parker January 25, 2013
Could graphic content affect future blockbuster success?
Graham DuDley Life & Arts Reporter
A l t h o u g h “ D j a n g o Unchained” and “Zero Dark Thirty” are very different films made by very different directors, there’s no denying both movies have an R-rating for violence.
Despite this, box office re-turns suggest film audiences are seeing these movies by the thousands.
Film and media studies professor Katrina Boyd said this is because of the dif-ference between “strong” and “weak” violence in the American film tradition.
Boyd said “weak violence” is what the moviegoer is used to: cut-and-dry, black-and-white acts where the good guys and bad guys are clear-ly defined, and the viewer always knows how to feel. Violence in real life is obvi-ously not like that at all, Boyd said.
Sometimes, movies will employ “strong violence,” set-ting its acts in very real-world situations where morality and heroism aren’t so obvi-ous to the viewer, Boyd said. The result often makes ensu-ing violence more disturbing because no one quite knows
how to feel about it.While the violence in
Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” and his other films is undeniably graphic, given these criteria, it is usu-ally quite “weak.”
“To my mind, Tarantino’s work doesn’t reference real life so much as it does other films,” Boyd said.
B u t w i t h t h e events of the past year fresh on ev-er yone’s mind, some have called on directors like Tarantino to tone it down a bit in fu-ture movies. Film and media stud-ies junior Jacob Campbell said such a suggestion is ludicrous.
“[Tarantino] would never tone it down,” Campbell said.
Campbell said he con-tends a director’s vision is more important than tempo-rary public pressure.
“That’s where the line be-tween filmmaker and artist is,” Campbell said. “It’s his painting, it’s his vision . . . It’s not what [other] people want to see. It’s very him. And it works.”
Campbell also defends director Kathryn Bigelow’s decisions with “Zero Dark Thirty.”
“Why in America, in this day and age, are you pun-ished for touching on a subject that others won’t?” Campbell said, referring
t o t h e d e p i c -tion of torture in Bigelow’s film. “ I f a n y t h i n g , I t h ou g ht t hat would be kind of praised.”
This is why a rating system is in place, Campbell said. The rating tells you exactly what will be in the
movie. “Zero Dark Thirty,” for in-
stance, is R-rated for “strong violence including brutal disturbing images, and for language,” according to the film’s website.
Boyd, however, said she was skeptical about the mes-sage of Bigelow’s movie, con-cerned people would accept it at face value.
“Be critical of films and never think that a movie is showing the world like it is,” Boyd said.
Whatever their feelings, Campbell said he was sure the events of 2012 would have some impact on Hollywood. Campbell cited the year 1999 as an example of a time when Hollywood was changed.
A f t e r t h e e v e n t s o f Columbine shooting in Columbine, Colo., Campbell said, there were lots of parts in movies that were cut out or altered. Even the title of the dark comedy “Killing Mrs. Tingle” was changed to “Teaching Mrs. Tingle” be-cause of the uproar.
Similar changes could occur in the short-term, Campbell said. In the end, though, he said depictions of violence in movies have little to do with the real problem.
“I’m not one for blaming the art,” Campbell said. “I blame the individual.”
On Sunday, the Oklahoma City Farmers Public Market will host Fashion In The Snow 2013 with spe-cial guest Bianca Golden, an America’s Next Top Model contestant.
Golden competed in two seasons of the popular reali-ty TV show, including Cycle 9 and The All-Stars.
The fashion show will be an all-white themed event featuring over 100 models in high fashion, bridal, cou-ture, swimsuits and more, according to a press release.
An OU student will get her shot at the runway Sunday. “I searched for a cast-
ing call , met with the managers and signed with them,” said Ashley Morgan, an advertising junior. “I’ve participat-ed in runway classes and photo shoots [and will b e ] m o d e l i ng D K N Y ” Morgan said.
E xecutive producer and model Kristen Nichol said attendees should expect clothes from big name designers to be fea-tured, but the names will be saved as a surprise for Sunday.
This is the first Fashion In The Snow event.
“We’ve spent about two months planning” Nichol said. “There will be lots of surprises that people will re-ally enjoy”.
Popular music artists will perform at the event. Hip-hop artist and CEO of Video Junkies, L. Eazy, will per-form on stage along with several other surprise musi-cians, Nichol said.
The event will take place from 6 to 11 p.m. Sunday. Ticket packages range from $50 to $150. Exclusive tick-et holders will enjoy access to the wine bar, receive an event gift bag and a meet and greet backstage with Bianca Golden.
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The 63rd NFL Pro Bowl is Sunday, which — I’d be
willing to bet — is news to most of the people reading this.
I don’t mean that as an insult to our readers, but rather a condemnation of how awful the NFL’s pitiful attempt at an all-star game is.
And believe me, it’s bad. Really bad.
Last year’s laugher — a game that was showered in boos from the almost 50,000 fans in attendance — ended in a 59-41 win for the AFC.
Then-Miami Dolphins receiver Brandon Marshall carried the AFC to vic-tory as he caught a Pro Bowl-record four touchdowns, earning him a GMC Yukon Denali for being named the game’s MVP (which I’m sure he des-perately needed).
But Marshalls’ stat line
was more a product of poor effort from the defensive backs who were supposed to be covering him and the limitations placed on the defense (namely, no blitz-ing) than anything he did.
Still don’t think the Pro Bowl is a joke?
Well, how about this: Last season, the NFL not only encouraged players to use social media during the game, it set up a comput-er on each sideline to give players access to Twitter.
Give me a break.If the players playing in
the game won’t take it seri-ously, why should the fans?
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell already has said if this year’s Pro Bowl doesn’t show marked im-provement from last sea-son’s, he might get rid of the game altogether.
And I’m all for it.Sure, all-star games for
every professional sport are just glorified pickup games in which effort and com-petitiveness are excused
in the interest of enter-tainment and pre-
venting injuries.But remember last
year’s NBA All-Star game?
That’s what a good all-star game looks like.
With the East trailing the West, 96-84, in the third quarter, a
frustrated Dwyane Wade flagrantly fouled Kobe Bryant while he went for a layup, breaking Bryant’s nose and giving him a concussion.
Now as malicious as Wade’s foul was, I can’t help but appreciate it be-cause it transformed the dynamic of that entire game.
Wade didn’t just break Bryant’s nose; he jump-started a game that had one of the most ex-citing finishes in recent all-star game memory — a 152-149 win for the West.
It went from a Globetrotter-esque show of acrobatic alley-oops to a down-and-dirty game of street ball.
And I loved every sec-ond of it.
That’s what the Pro Bowl is missing: a sense of competition.
And, unfortunately, unlike basketball, it takes more than one player to spark the competi-tive juices of the other 21 players in a football game.
Which is why I think the Pro Bowl is as dead as Dillinger.
Dillon Phillips is a journalism junior and sports editor.
When was the last time you watched the
NFL Pro Bowl from start to finish?
I don’t think I have done so since elementary school. Maybe.
It’s usually boring, and there are times you easily can tell when a player isn’t trying.
Honestly, the best use I’ve gotten out of the Pro Bowl — other than vot-ing — is having an excuse to lie down on the couch one Sunday out of the year and take a nap during a meaningless game just to wake up in time to see which conference won and who was named the Most Valuable Player.
But you cannot do away with the country’s biggest sport’s all-star game.
The NFL has done things in recent years to try to create more interest in the game — namely playing the game during the dead week between the confer-ence championship games
and the Super Bowl, as well as moving the game away from Hawaii and bringing it to the mainland.
The Continental U.S. op-tion lasted just one game — in 2010 in a less-than-ca-pacity Sun Life Stadium in Miami, which was the site for that year’s Super Bowl. The game was quickly moved back to Hawaii.
Whether the game is played in beautiful Hawaii or at the site of that year’s Super Bowl, there’s only one good reason to keep the Pro Bowl: The players won’t want to give up that extra paycheck.
The NFL has no incen-tive for the outcome of the game other than the players earning money for being there and an even bigger bonus if their team wins.
Try telling the players, especially the ones who are voted in on name alone, they won’t be making their annual vacation bonus. Last year, players on the winning team were award-ed $50,000, while players on the losing team earned $25,000.
While that seems like chump change in terms of how much NFL stars get paid, the players value every cent they are award-ed for making the trip.
According to a NFL.com blog, San Diego Chargers
tight end Antonio Gates was quoted at last year’s Pro Bowl, saying, “I think guys, for the first few quar-ters, they come out and have a good time. But when the fourth quarter arrives, people start thinking ‘Wow, I’ve been here for a week and I’ve spent this and all the incidentals.’ So another $50,000 seems a lot better than $25,000.”
And for the younger Pro Bowlers who aren’t making jaw-dropping per-year sal-aries, that extra $25,000 or $50,000 means a lot.
Sure, the Pro Bowl may not mean a lot to fans, es-pecially those who cannot go to games, but last year’s game drew 12.5 million viewers.
So, it has to matter, and it has to be a fun game to watch.
Jono Greco is a journalism graduate student and the assistant sports editor.
carried the AFC to vic-tory as he caught a Pro Bowl-record four touchdowns, earning him a GMC Yukon Denali for
I’m sure he des-
in the interest of enter-tainment and pre-
venting injuries.But remember last
year’s NBA All-Star game?
a good all-star game looks like.
WHAT TO WATCH2013 NFL Pro BowlWho: AFC vs. NFC
When: 6 p.m. Sunday
Where: Aloha Stadium in
Honolulu, Hawaii
Channel: NBC
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