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sTUDENT LIFE
Living as a Jew in Christian Oklahoma
Regents set to confirm director
TECHNOLOGY
EMMA HAMBLENCampus Reporter
A new director has been appointed to a program at OU designed to help fac-ulty improve courses with new technology.
Teaching strategies ex-pert Mark Morvant, a pro-fessor in the department of chemistry and biochemis-try, will be appointed Oct. 1 as the executive director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, as long as the OU Board of Regents ap-proves his appointment at its September meeting, according to an OU press release.
Morvant will work with Michele Eodice, associ-ate provost for academic engagement, to “embed writing strategies with-in disciplines across the campus and increase the use of other high-impact instructional techniques,” according to the press release.
“I think the future for the University of Oklahoma is very bright … I think there’s an excitement among the faculty about improving the education-al experience for our stu-dents, and I’m honored to lead our faculty in improv-ing the students’ educa-tion,” Morvant said.
In 2006, Morvant began teaching at OU as a chem-istry professor and was named assistant chair-man of the chemistry and biochemistry department in 2011, according to the press release.
He will step down from teaching for a few years to build the Center for Teaching Excellence pro-gram but plans on even-tually returning to lim-ited teaching on a routine basis, Morvant said.
Morvant also will be stepping down from his position as assistant chair-man of the chemistry and biochemistry department but will continue to have a faculty appointment in the department, he said.
The university’s Student Learning Center has made changes to its free walk-in seminars to encourage stu-dent participation.
The “Student Success Series” — which is hosted by OU’s Student Learning Center — offers seminars to OU students to help them improve on skills to increase their success in college. Seminar topics include time management, choosing a major or minor and devel-oping a study skills system, among others.
The center increased the number of seminars from 34 to 38 this semester, said Student Learning Center di-rector Mark Walvoord. The increase in seminars came about because of an increase in teachers available to host sessions, Walvoord said.
Now sessions also are of-fered by appointment as
one-on-one study consulta-tions to all students, he said. Another change is the in-crease in technology-based topics for the seminars, Walvoord said.
T h e r e a l s o i s a n e w
seminar on how to pre-pare and apply to graduate school to help upper-class students.
The seminars are interac-tive instead of lecture-based to help increase student
participation, he said.University College fresh-
man Corey Kerrigan attend-ed a seminar on a study skills system and said he found it
PAIGHTEN HARKINSCampus Reporter
As elementary education junior Debra Goss walked across campus one day, a preacher offered her a copy of the New Testament. The preacher was one of the many preachers who fre-quent OU’s campus shout-ing at the students about
salvation. This preacher had been handing out the books for a few days, and Goss had politely declined each time she was asked. Until then, there had been no incident. This time, however, things changed.
“I guess it was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” she said in retrospect.
That day, the preacher grabbed her arm as she walked away and asked her why she wouldn’t take the book.
“I’m Jewish,” she said. “ I d o n ’ t r e a d t h e N e w Testament. I read the Old Testament.”
That’s when he told her she was going to hell.
The exchange didn’t faze Goss as much as it frustrated her.
“It’s just one of those things
that you have to shake your head at, but you shouldn’t have to deal with,” she said.
For people like Goss, the most frustrating thing about life as a member of a minori-ty group is dealing with other people’s ignorance about her beliefs, she said — especially in Oklahoma where Jewish people make up 0.1 percent of the total population, ac-cording to the U.S. Census Bureau.
B e i n g J e w i s h i n a
predominantly Christian state affects things as simple as where Jews can buy their food and how they interact with peers in the classroom.
The thing that bothers Goss the most as a Jewish student is the preachers on campus, she said. For herself and fellow Jewish classmate CJ Mays, the next in line are other students.
Mays, a Judaic studies
sTUDENT DEBT Sooners borrow money as debt spirals out of control
Students paying off private, federal loans long after graduating
CHASE COOKAssistant Campus editor
Eleven semesters of education turned into 20 years of payments.
Ashley Paulus’ parents helped her out during her first year at OU, but after that, Paulus was forced to take out private loans to pay for tuition, fees and other living expenses. She was able to graduate in 2007 after 11 semesters of school. Now she pays an average of $500 a month to pay back her loans while she works in Germany.
“If I could do anything differently, it would be to not take out any private loans for school,” Paulus said in an email. “It’s a constant battle that you feel like you will never win.”
More students are borrowing money than ever before, and OU of-ficials are looking for ways to help students decrease their borrowing. Paulus’ story is a cautionary tale that warns of the danger of borrowing money, especially using private loans. Private loans have higher interest rates and lack the protection of federal loans.
The most recently available data shows that 13,553 students received loans at an average of $9,074 per student in the academic year 2010-2011, according to OU’s Factbook. The number of students is at an all-time high, while the average amount borrowed is a 10 percent decrease from 2009-2010.
The increased number of OU students getting loans comes at a time when the average student debt for 2010 OU graduates is $21,517, which is about $800 above the Oklahoma average, according to a report by The
Project on Student Debt.However, OU’s average debt remains about $4,000 lower than the
national average of $25,250, according to the report.This can be attributed to several things like Oklahoma’s low cost of living and lower tuition prices at Oklahoma institu-
tions, said Matt Hamilton, registrar and Enrollment and Student Financial Services vice president. But even
these factors don’t completely shield families from financial hardship, some of which was
caused by the mortgage crisis, he said.“We are going to see that they have to
borrow more [money] in some situa-tions,” Hamilton said.
The impact of the 2008 economic cri-sis can be seen in OU’s financial aid data.
Oklahoma’s unemployment more than doubled — from 3 percent to 7 percent — from 2008 to 2010, accord-
ing to labor records. During the 2009-2010 academic year, the number of students borrowing loans jumped 23 percent to 12,879, according to OU’s Factbook. The total dollar value of the loans jumped 25 percent to about $136 million.
These increases in financial aid for students led OU to hold a scholar-ship drive with a current goal of $250 million, which Hamilton said was a “godsend.” This allowed the university to recover from some of the finan-cial losses in 2008, he said.
OU was able to provide $36.8 million in scholarships to 8,643 students in 2010-2011, according to the OU Factbook. While it’s still fewer stu-dents than the 8,665 that received scholarships in 2009-2010, the total dollar value of those scholarships increased by 6 percent.
OU also has given out a record number of tuition waivers with 10,197 students receiving a total of $37.7 million in reductions to tuition, according to the OU
see DEBT pAGe 2
Students share their stories as members of a campus minority
see RELIGION pAGe 3
Lecture-based seminars focuson participation
sArAH CALLiHAn/tHe dAiLy
Finance and accounting students take notes during professor Cindy Cuccia’s Intermediate Accounting One Tutoring on Thursday. The tutoring session took place in Wagner Hall.
At A GLAnCeGlossary:Rosh Hashana: the Jewish new year. typically occurs in september or october
Yom Kippur: the Jewish day of Atonement. typically occurs in september or october
Kosher food: food prepared or produced according to Jewish dietary laws
Source: AP Stylebook
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sEMINArs
Program offering more sessions to help students get through college
Professor chosen to lead teaching project
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Factbook.Increased scholarships and tuition
waivers do not mean all students gradu-ate from OU without debt.
Paulus was forced to take out loans because she didn’t anticipate the “net cost” of college, which not only factors in tuition and fees but also living expenses and books.
After she graduated, Paulus’ loan total ballooned up to $52,000 after the six month deferred payment period. Her loan continued to gather interest during that time.
After five years of payment, Paulus’ loan balance sits at $45,295. The pay-ments average about $500 a month, but it only reduces the loan amount by about $200 dollars each month, Paulus said in an email.
“Having loan payments has prevented me from doing things that I would have loved to do,” Paulus said in an email. “I have a lot of friends, especially here [in Germany], that did not graduate with any debt. The way they live their life is com-pletely different from the way I live mine.”
Situations like Paulus’ where students borrow a higher portion than average students has led the financial aid office to consider warning students when their loans exceed average values.
There are already systems in place like entrance counseling when students take out federal loans, but more communica-tion about the size of the student’s loan
amount can’t hurt, Hamilton said.The financial aid office hasn’t ironed
out any specifics on how that communi-cation would work or what it would look like, Hamilton said.
“We would like to see debt be as mini-mal as possible,” he said. “We know there are things that have occurred in this economy and some students are trying to live lifestyles a little higher than they can afford.”
On top of communicating debt lev-els, the financial aid office has increased the number of financial aid counselors from two to eight this fall, Hamilton said. These counselors talk to students and inform them of available tuition waivers, as well as help them understand the risks and rewards of using loans, he said.
It will take some time to determine whether or not the changes to the finan-cial aid office will impact the financial aid students are receiving. The 2011-2012 data is currently being compiled and isn’t available yet, Hamilton said. However, the 2010-2011 numbers were trending upward, and it’s possible that those num-bers will continue to increase as more students enroll and take advantage of fi-nancial aid opportunities.
The best thing students can do is be informed of their options and the conse-quences of those actions, Hamilton said.
In DepthIs financial aid keeping up with tuition?the percent increase of ou scholarship and tuition waiver dollar values is about double that of tuition and fee increases from academic year 2007-2008 to 2010-2011.
From 2007-2008 to academic year 2010-2011, ou tuition and fees increased by about 3.6 percent per year, according to ou’s Factbook.
during these increases, university officials such as president david Boren have said that scholarships and tuition waivers are being increased alongside tuition and fees to help students continue affording college.
the university seems to have kept that promise as the dollar value of scholarships and tuition waivers has increased by 7.3 percent from 2007-2008 to 2010-2011, according to ou’s Factbook.
the university is still compiling current data so these numbers are based on the most current data available in ou’s Factbook.
DEBT: Students face increasing education costsContinued from page 1
rewarding.“I found the seminar to
be very informative and beneficial,” Kerrigan said. “I learned different meth-ods for studying like study groups.”
Sophia Morren, director
of the McNair S cholars Program, has taught a study skills system seminar for many years.
“Even though technology has changed, students still need the same main top-ics for seminars every year,” Morren said.
She has seen an increase in student participation this
early in the year compared to years past, she said. Morren constantly researches up-to-date study techniques and is always improving the semi-nar, she said.
Morren isn’t the only one improving her seminar. The center is always looking for ways to improve the series, Walvoord said.
After every seminar, stu-dents are given a survey ask-ing them for new ideas to improve each seminar’s suc-cess rate, he said. Students are entered to win a prize after they complete the sur-vey, he said.
An annual walk to raise funds for curing Alzheimer’s disease takes place this weekend.
The Walk to End Alzheimer’s begins at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Bricktown Ballpark Mickey Mantle Plaza.
The Alzheimer’s Association’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s is the na-tion’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research, according to the Alzheimer’s Association website.
Though there is no regis-tration fee, participants are encouraged to set a fund-raising goal and donate to-ward it. Individuals who are interested but cannot physi-cally attend the walk still can register and participate in the virtual walk option, according to the website.
Participating in the walk raises funds for support and research, as well as aware-ness within the community, according to the site.
Previous walks have had good turnouts, with even more participants expected this year, said event coordi-nator Ladonna Williams.
“The walk has grown from 2,500 participants last year to three to four thou-sand this year,” Williams said. “Every year, [the Alzheimer’s Association] gets more [participants] than they are expecting and more participants than they plan.”
Alzheimer’s disease is a disease that affects thou-sands of people worldwide, including approximately 74,000 Oklahomans, Williams said.
The symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease include memory loss, trouble find-ing words, general disori-entation, difficulty making judgments and changes in behavior and person-ality, according to the Alzheimers.gov website.
Other festivities for the walk include face painting, music, refreshments, exhib-itor booths, Big Truck Taco and an Inspiration Walk Celebration with a Promise Garden Ceremony, accord-ing to the press release.
Registration for the event begins at 8:30 a.m. at the
Bricktown Ballpark Mickey Mantle Plaza. Those with questions should contact Ladonna Williams at (405) 488-6998 or [email protected].
junior, shares many of the same classes with Goss — who is a Judaic studies minor. On Wednesday, the two didn’t go to their Judaism: A Religious History class because they were set to discuss the issue of proph-ecy — the act of becoming a prophet.
The two didn’t want to attend because the class is “dominated” by a Christian major-ity, and when you try and refute what they say, “You have all these angry eyes looking at you,” Mays said.
“We don’t feel comfortable going to class,” Mays said.
Ignorant students, however, aren’t even the extent of their problems on campus.
During their time at OU, the two have wit-nessed several instances of hate and insensi-tivity toward their religion.
Last year, the menorah in front of the OU Hillel building was vandalized, Mays said.
“Someone took a bat and just went down the line smashing candles,” he said.
They also regularly have to deal with an onslaught of Holocaust jokes.
After working at a nursing home, in which one of his patients is a Holocaust survivor, and after hearing her stories, he doesn’t find those jokes very funny and doesn’t understand why anyone would trivialize a time in history that put so many people through “hell on earth.”
“I’m the kind of person that will laugh about my-self, but the Holocaust isn’t really a topic that I would touch,” Mays said.
In addition to the ignorance they encoun-ter on a daily basis, Oklahoma hasn’t provid-ed them with as many opportunities to prac-tice their faith as they would like.
While Mays admits the Homelands in town do have a kosher food section, he said it’s so expensive he can’t afford to eat strict-ly kosher foods. A Jewish person living in Oklahoma has limited availability to kosher meat as well, Goss said. They have to get their meats from Dallas or flown in from St. Louis
or New York, she said.“Unfortunately, we don’t have the luxury
of going to the store and getting meat,” Goss said.
This is part of the reason why neither student keeps a kosher diet — it’s just too difficult.
Mays said he hopes to change that once he leaves the state for graduate school. He said if the food was more readily available, keeping kosher is something he could do.
While Goss was raised in a Jewish home her entire life, Mays had a slightly different experience.
Mays was born into an extremely conser-vative Christian home and had almost no exposure to other religions. When he came to OU, he joined OU Hillel and converted to Judaism in 2010.
For Mays, Judaism offered him a home and family, whereas in his Christian faith, he felt a huge disconnect, he said.
“Judaism really had the sense of commu-nity I was really lacking,” he said.
Both Mays and Goss have visited Israel and have found that their experience there has helped them grow in their religion, they said.
Goss’ year in Israel helped her realize much more about the country, she said.
“Israel isn’t just about war and politics,” she said. “It’s a lot about culture, and it made me want to bring that to OU Hillel.”
Mays spent this sum-mer in Israel, which he de-scribed as “the dream of the Jewish people actualized.”
Throughout history, so many countries and peo-
ple have been hostile toward Jews. Israel is a safe haven from those people — where Jews could practice their faith without being scorned for it, he said.
Ultimately though, traveling to Israel as-sured Mays that he’d made the correct reli-gious decision.
“As a new Jew, it solidified my choice to convert to Judaism,” Mays said.
Now the two students are both active in OU’s Jewish community, serving on the
board of Hillel as well as helping out in be-ginning Hebrew classes.
On Sept. 17 Mays, Goss and the rest of the Jewish community will be celebrating Rosh Hashana, which is commonly known as the Jewish New Year.
Rosh Hashana is one of the Jewish holidays in which Jews are required to refrain from work or school. They also use the 10-day period after Rosh Hashana to reflect on the past year and ask for forgiveness and make amends, Mays said.
Rosh Hashana also is the start of the Jewish holiday season, followed by Yom Kippur — the Jewish holiday of Atonement.
Looking forward to the holiday season, despite the hard times they experience as a minority, the two said they still stay strong in their religion.
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4.5K Jews live in oklahoma, making up 0.1 percent of
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rELIGION: Journeys to Israel change students’ views on their beliefsContinued from page 1
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OU Hillel religious chair Matthew Lorch, criminology senior, opens the arc to reveal the group’s Torah scrolls. The group will hold a dinner and religious services at 5:30 p.m. sunday to celebrate the eve of rosh Hashanah.
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The university’s physi-cian group opened two new clinics this week to better serve Oklahoma City residents.
OU Physicians — a group made up of more than 560 doctors — part-nered with the Oklahoma City-County Health Department to open a clinic at the department’s headquarters at 921 NE 23rd St. and another at the county’s West Clinic building at 4330 NW 10st St., according to a press release.
Planning has been underway for more than six months, said OU Physicians spokesperson Paul Sund.
The goal of the clinics is to make medical services more readily available to low-income areas rather than limited to a single campus, Sund said.
“The goal has been to take medicine to under-served communities,” he
said.As health care evolves
and becomes more avail-able, a close proximity to patients is essential, Sund said.
“To improve health care access and convenience, we are expanding our pres-ence in area communities and [providing] services in settings close to patients’ homes,” said Brian Maddy, chief executive office of OU Physicians. “We are look-ing forward to working with the Oklahoma City-County Health Department to ex-pand health care offerings, particularly in the area of preventive care.”
The OU Physicians Community Health Clinic
will offer medical ser-vices for both children and adults, according to the press release.
“The goal is to comple-ment each other’s services, not duplicate, and the ad-ditional clinical support that OU Physicians Community Health Clinics brings to the Oklahoma City-County Health Department is a wonderful benefit for our clients,” department direc-tor Gary Cox said. “The more we can do to address the health care needs of our citizens, the better for the community as a whole.”
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Our View: Study showing no negative effects from the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell proves facts are needed in military culture wars.
In the year since the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy was repealed — allowing GLBTQ Americans to serve openly in the armed services — the military has seen no negative effects, a study revealed this week. The repeal may even have improved military readiness.
The results of this study stand as a welcome con-firmation of the logic used by those who argued for the repeal, as well as an affirmation that the U.S. military is healthier than it was before. But in the context of the continued debate about military inclusion — not just for GLBTQ ser-vicemembers, but also for women — these results become even more important.
The study (the first to analyze the effects of the repeal with a scholarly approach) revealed no negative effects on important areas of military readiness, such as cohesion and morale. Recruitment and retention were “unaf-fected,” and the study found only two confirmed resignations because of the repeal. It also found no increase in assaults or harassment.
Conducted by the Palm Center, a research cen-ter focused on sexual minorities in the military, the study was designed and carried out by professors at the U.S. Military Academy, Naval Academy, Air Force Academy and Marine Corps War College.
It included surveys of servicemembers across branches, interviews with nearly 100 servicemem-bers and officials, Pentagon data on recruitment and retention, observations of field unit behavior and interviews with the highest-profile opponents of the repeal (who researches said most likely were to know of evidence of negative effects).
Researchers even reached out to the 553 retired generals and admirals who signed a 2009 letter pre-dicting repeal would “break the All-Volunteer Force.”
In the end, the study concluded not only was there no net negative impact, but also, “In balance, DADT repeal has enhanced the military’s ability to pursue its mission.”
But this progress is not set in stone. This year’s Republican Party platform includes a plank dis-couraging “social experimentation” in the military. Not only would Republicans see Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell reinstated, but they support the current ban on women serving in frontline combat units.
In February, the Pentagon announced it would be opening thousands of new positions closer to the front lines to women servicemembers. But 34 percent of Army jobs and 32 percent of Marine
Corps jobs still are closed to women, according to Pentagon statistics.
This is a critical time in the effort to increase the inclusivity of the military and the equality of oppor-tunities for all servicemembers. The same factless, emotional rhetoric that was used against Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell often is used against women’s access to direct combat positions.
Now that data has shown the fallacy in those argu-ments, it’s time to look more seriously at what kinds of evidence are used in these discussions.
Women are already serving alongside direct com-bat units in intelligence, police and support roles. They serve in many positions that, due to the practical aspects of war, see action no one could deny qualified as combat. And yet, these women’s combat experiences are not recognized.
Leadership positions within the military and the Defense Department are largely re-
served for those with combat experience, so denying all women servicemembers access to this experi-ence (and denying the experiences they already are having) essentially bars them from the upper ech-elons of defense leadership.
Military inclusivity is essential not just to give women equal opportunities to serve and to access leadership positions, but also to ensure that the most qualified servicemembers end up in these impor-tant combat positions — without regard for traits that do not affect their ability to do the job.
The current policy is limiting to the military and insulting to women servicemembers. It is based on an outdated model of sex differences that assumes all men and women have inherently different abili-ties. While general trends about physical ability might be predictable, we now know no such abso-lute statements can be made.
If military leaders want the most qualified candi-dates for the job, they must give women a chance to prove they can do the same jobs men can. If no women meet the qualifications necessary for the job, then no women will fill these positions. But a blanket ban only protects this outdated mindset and fails to give women a chance to prove it wrong.
Those involved in these continuing debates should be sure to read carefully the Palm Center study’s findings and take them seriously. Perhaps then they can participate in a discussion grounded in reality, and the debate about women’s military service can benefit from the facts that have so long been missing from these discussions.
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Republicans did build this harmful lie
One quote at the center of sound-bites and speech
gaffes this election sea-son comes from President Barack Obama.
For the interest of context and addressing how conser-vatives have taken this quote out of context and skewed it, here is the full quote from Obama’s July 13 speech in Virginia:
“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that, somebody else made that happen.”
“The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own.”
The cardinal mistake Obama made was a slip in grammar. When Obama said ‘that’ he used a singular demonstrative pronoun, instead he should have used the plural demon-strative pronoun ‘those.’ But this is not where Republicans have aimed their critiques and attacks.
Obama’s main thesis of small business startups being fragile and not wholly self-generated is sound. The Small
Business Administration, a bipartisan government agency, cites the failure rate of small businesses in a normal and sta-ble economic environment at 50 percent.
A recent study by Dun & Bradstreet, an economic research firm, paints a stark new picture. The report concluded the average national failure rate for small businesses increased by 40 percent since the onset of the 2007 economic reces-sion. The data extended until the end of the 2010 fiscal year.
At a failure rate of nearly 90 percent, small business own-ers have the will, but that does not mean they are successful.
What Obama couldn’t expect was the malicious, ignorant nature of the Republican camp’s response.
Republicans have skewed this quote to imply that Obama meant to attack small business owners by saying they didn’t build their family’s business. At the forefront of this egre-gious error is Fox News, where pundits have continued this lie to extraordinary ends. Even when Fox News tried to pro-vide context, in order to adhere of their claim of being ‘Fair & Balanced,’ they omitted significant portions of the speech.
The continuation of this lie is not an accident.So when vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan stands on
stage at the party convention in front of a sign reading, “You did build that,” not only is he an unethical liar, but this GOP intellectual leader utilized a non-sequitur logical fallacy.
What makes this situation worse is that it’s not just people on the periphery of the Republican campaign perpetrating this lie — it’s the candidates themselves.
Nolan Kraszkiewicz is a political science and religious studies senior.
It can be said with great confidence that OU athletes
train hard, play harder and win fairly. Sadly, this ethic is one vanishing from the world of sports. Steroid use tarnishes the pride, hardwork and re-spectability inherent in sports.
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency should adopt more stringent policies and uti-lize a top-bottom approach to combat inauthentic ath-leticism and steroid use.
Recently, a sports superstar, idolized by thousands, lost the respect of fans, fellow cyclists and competitors alike. Lance Armstrong’s alleged steroid use rocked the participants and followers of cycling.
The agency has stripped Armstrong of all seven Tour de France titles and has banned him from participating in the sport for life.
As shocking as it was to hear that Armstrong’s record titles were won while supposedly using steroids, it was even more shocking to hear that he was to be stripped of those titles and barred from ever competing again. “It is a sad day for all of us who love sport and our ath-letic heroes,” Travis Tygart, the USADA’s chief executive officer, told The Washington Post.
It is a sad day when our athletic heroes are randomly picked to be scapegoats for the faults of many in the fight to stop steroid use.
How can we justify this punishment being im-posed on one while others do the same thing without repercussions?
The tragic reality is that we have created such a lax environment for sports that it is increasingly necessary for those who are committed to their sport to find an ef-fective way to give themselves a leg up.
Instead of requiring that someone have some level of talent and that they must work for what they get, we let them think they can do anything and deserve a re-ward, even if it hasn‘t been earned. Even in elementary school everyone gets a trophy and everyone makes the team based on the principle of inclusion.
Everyone wins even if you lose. It isn’t uncommon to attend an adolescent soccer match and have a team get a trophy for coming in tenth place.
This has eliminated the “gracious loser” and the ability to accept defeat when it is appropriate. Instead, instilled in our youth is the idea that you are entitled to a positive outcome no matter what — because that‘s what is fair. With this set up, is it any wonder athletes feel it is okay to give themselves an advantage by using steroids?
This advantage poses serious risks to their physical well-being. Because of this, it is necessary that we stop athletes’ use of steroids before it becomes an epidemic.
The majority of efforts in the anti-steroid movement are focused on athletes in a pre-professional position at the high school or junior high school levels. However, those kids still are using them, so we must be working from the wrong angle.
How can we expect high school and college athletes to listen to parents and coaches when their idols are doing the opposite with raging success and without castigation?
A top-down approach would be a better resolution. A clean sweep across the board, of all national sports teams, would be an excellent start. But this will not be possible with the current testing method.
Typically, athletes are subject to a urine analysis, which can easily be cheated. Hair follicles would be a much more reliable testing method, revealing an ath-lete’s drug use history in its entirety.
If a player tests positive for steroids, their contract should be suspended — a strictly enforced zero-toler-ance policy for everyone.
Until that policy is set in place and until the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency is willing to punish everyone who uses steroids, the association does not have the right to pun-ish anyone.
Sarah Sullivan is an English writing junior.
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Senior forward renae cuellar (10) works to advance the ball down the field against oral roberts at John crain Field on Sunday. cuellar is the team’s leading scorer, with four goals and one assist on 20 shots.
Ross stRackeSports Reporter
After a weekend where the Sooner soccer team’s play resembled the bipolar per-sonalities of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Oklahoma is search-ing for a more consistent mentality.
In last week’s game, OU played possibly its best game of the season, beating the pre-viously unbeaten Oklahoma State, 1-0. Then they turned around and lost a Sunday af-ternoon game to Oral Roberts — who, prior to Sunday, had a sloppy (2-3-1) record against weak opponents.
S o p h o m o re d e f e n d e r Molly Richey said the road to becoming more consistent starts with the team’s focus and preparation.
“I think it’s a change in mentality more than any-thing,” Richey said. “I think that we were still overjoyed by the win, and we weren’t as focused or prepared as we
should have been.”As usual, coach Matt Potter
stayed positive. Wednesday at practice, he said that, while he was not pleased with the result, it might not be as bad as one might think at first glance.
“Our mindset and disci-pline in the Oklahoma State game was spot on,” Potter said. “The Oral Roberts game, it was a little looser, and it cost us. Overall, our performanc-es are not as discouraging as we maybe think they are. Film has shown us that there were great moments in the Oklahoma State game, and there were great moments in the Oral Roberts game.”
The Sooners will look to mentally erase their mistakes when they take on the Rice Owls tonight. Sophomore defender Emily Bowman said the team is focusing on repeating its stellar perfor-mance against OSU when the game kicks off at 7 p.m. in Houston.
“We split up the season into phases, and this one is all about consistency,” Bowman said. “So we are
really working on trying to re-peat what we did [last] Friday and really trying to deliver that sort of play, game in and game out.”
Potter said the team has its usual scouting report that it does for every team, but at the moment they are more focused on themselves than anything else.
“In terms of us, we have got to have a more consis-tent performance,” Potter said. “That’s what we can control — we can control our own performance. A thing we talked about is that every game deserves your best ef-fort. That’s the beauty of this game, and that’s why it’s the world’s game. It deserves your best effort every time you step out there.”
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Previewing the best of the rest of the Big 12 Conference
Dillon PhilliPsAssistant Sports Editor
Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series preview-ing the Big 12 football teams.
With the Big 12 football season fast approaching — it of-ficially kicks off with Kansas-TCU on Saturday — The Daily takes a look at all the teams in the conference.
Oklahoma State (1-1)Oklahoma State is fresh off its best season in school his-
tory — during which the Cowboys won their first Big 12 title and made their first trip to a BCS bowl game — but with the loss of school record-holders Brandon Weeden and Justin Blackmon, OSU has experienced a lot of turnover offensive-ly. The Cowboys return junior running backs Joseph Randle and Jeremy Smith, who combined for nearly 1,862 yards rush-ing and 33 touchdowns, but are breaking in a true freshman quarterback, Wes Lunt. Defensively, the Cowboys are a little shaky up front, and the secondary, led by senior cornerback Brodrick Brown, is by far the strongest unit.
No. 16 TCU (1-0)The Horned Frogs are looking to contend for a Big 12
title in their inaugural season in the conference, and noth-ing seems to suggest that they won’t. TCU has garnered a reputation of consistency and disciplined defense, and the Horned Frogs showed both in a 56-0 season-opening win against Grambling State. Junior quarterback Casey Pachall was a perfect 9-for-9 against Grambling State and is one of
the better quarterbacks in a conference known for elite signal callers. Suspensions rocked TCU in the offseason, as coach Gary Patterson suspended four players — most notably, the Horned Frogs’ returning leading tackler, linebacker Tanner Brock — in the wake of a drug bust that resulted in the arrest of 17 TCU students. But despite the dismissals, expect TCU to be in the thick of the Big 12 title race at season’s end.
No. 14 Texas (2-0)Texas was missing three things during its disappoint-
ing 2010 and 2011 campaigns: a Big 12 title, a win against Oklahoma and solid quarterback play. If the Longhorns hope to meet their high expectations in 2012, they’ll need to have all three. After losing twelve games in two seasons, Texas is looking to reclaim its spot among the Big 12’s elite. The Longhorns’ quarterback play has been pedestrian the past two seasons, but despite its struggles under center, Texas has as strong a defense and running game as any team in the nation. The ‘Horns will rely on both to contend for a Big 12 title this season. Texas returns sophomore running backs Malcolm Brown and Joe Bergeron and also adds the nation’s top-rated running back recruit, Jonathan Gray, all of whom will need to contribute this season.
Texas Tech (2-0)After defeating Northwestern in the 2010 Ticket City Bowl,
Texas Tech ended their streak of 10-straight bowl appear-ances with a 5-7 record last season, when they lost seven of their last eight games. But Texas Tech hopes to bounce back in 2012, as the Red Raiders return their top two receivers, in addition to senior running back Eric Stephens — who missed the last seven games of 2011 after a knee injury — and senior quarterback Seth Doege. Doege threw for 4,000 yards and 28 touchdowns last season. Defensively, new coordinator Art Kaufman is the Red Raiders’ fourth defensive coordinator in as many seasons and will need to shore up a defense that al-lowed more than 40 points six times last year.
No. 9 West Virginia (1-0)Like TCU, West Virginia is looking to make the most out of
its first season in the Big 12. Last year’s Big East champs, the Mountaineers’ success will sink or swim based on the ability of coach Dana Holgorsen’s high-powered air raid offense to light up the scoreboard. West Virginia’s offense returns eight starters from a unit that scored 70 points on Clemson in last season’s Orange Bowl, most notably, senior quarterback — and Heisman contender — Geno Smith. Smith should rack up the yards thanks to two explosive receivers — junior Stedman Bailey and senior Tavon Austin — who combined for 2,465 yards and 20 touchdowns receiving last season.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
Some positive transformations in your social life could be in the offi ng in the year ahead. Old relationships could be revised or new friends acquired, creating numerous ad-ditional close, emotional bonds.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- You’ll sparkle if you’re involved in some kind of creative endeavor. This will be especially true if you have an imaginative partner who is as bright as you are.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Rather than leave important matters up to the capriciousness of fate, take charge of events yourself. You are the fi nal arbiter of your own affairs.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Be a good listener, especially if you’re with a group of friends who are discussing some new topics. There’s a chance that what you learn can be used to your advantage.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Conditions in general should be quite favorable for you over the next couple of days, especially where your material interests are con-cerned. Do something meaningful.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Knowledge gained from personal experience is one of our great-est assets. If you’re stymied with something you’re doing or with someone you know, look into the past for answers.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Your commercial affairs are best conducted in a secretive atmosphere, with only the people involved pres-
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PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- If there is something pleasant you’d like to do, contact your closest friends fi rst to see if any of them are interested in joining you. Hard feelings would result if you don’t.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Cozy up to a friend or family member who can help you advance a career objective. The ladder to success will be much steadier with this person’s cooperation.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Because you’re an exceptional organizer, take it upon yourself to help an associate who is fumbling with a situation that you’re familiar with. Share your knowledge, and everyone comes out ahead.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- You’re the catalyst who can unite the family to take on a common mission. The changes your clan will be able to effect will bring greater harmony to the entire household.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- It’s an excellent day to discuss a critical matter with your mate. Reaching a collective conclusion will be far better than any answer arrived at individually.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- You should now be able to feel the effects of some infl uences that could be having a stabilizing effect on your family’s fi nances. The changes will be obvious and worthy of further development.
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Copyright 2012, Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
ACROSS 1 Org. for
doctors 4 Overthrow
plotters 9 “Li’l” guy of
Dogpatch 14 Yule drink 15 The ___ of
defeat 16 Hillary pre-
ceded her 17 Three clubs 20 Cream-filled
cookie 21 Posh retailer 22 Spins the
same yarn 26 Night time,
poetically 27 “You never
___ it so good!”
30 Sitcom in-terruptions, sometimes
31 Cry of distress
33 Type of auto collision
35 Defeat an incumbent
37 Arm bone 38 Two clubs 42 It’s picked
from a pocket
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47 At hand 48 Place of
therapeutic waters
51 Make tracks on a moun-tainside
52 Reel
companion 54 Supports a
charity 56 Falter on
your feet 59 Shopper’s
reminder 60 Three clubs 65 More than
fat 66 Place with
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68 Used hip boots
69 Cake segment
70 ___ of Galilee
DOWN 1 Goat or
rabbit wool 2 Secured 3 Metal lace
ends 4 It may be
called on account of rain
5 Earlier 6 “You stink!” 7 Egyptian
symbol of enduring life
8 French high school
9 College fund-raising targets
10 Cause of ruination
11 Few words, figuratively
12 Miscalculate 13 Manta ___
(large fish) 18 Opponent
19 Rock groups?
23 Loretta of song
24 Be an un-successful gambler
25 Inflate with pride
28 First-rate 29 Modern
means of ID 32 Jacob’s
father-in-law 34 Tear conduit 35 “Do ___
others ...” 36 Out of
breath 38 Rifle’s recoil 39 Privileged 40 Goodbye, in
Genoa 41 Kitten’s
plaything 42 Article for
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48 Subway station sights
49 Grinding tool used with a mortar
50 Breathing inhibitor
53 Car window decoration
55 Pie ___ mode
57 ‘What ___ can hap-pen?’
58 Flightless South American bird
60 Respond to an ovation
61 Org. for attorneys
62 Make the effort
63 Move quickly
64 Suffix for “command” or “profit”
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A local boutique, Stash, on Main Street will hold its second birthday bash from 6 to 10 p.m. tonight. The birthday bash will feature local musician Jacob Abello and food from Big Truck Tacos.
Emily hopkinsLife & Arts Reporter
A 2 6 - yea r- o l d l o ca l screen printing company is celebrating the grand opening of its retail store today.
Massive Graphics is opening a retail store, Massive Downtown, at 301 E. Main St., and the grand opening will take place from 6 to 10 p.m. today during Norman’s 2nd Friday Circuit of Art.
“It’s just a natural fit,” owner Kent Johnson said. “We’re an artsy, creative kind of place, and an art walk seemed like the ideal time to open. It’s the great-est exposure for down-town Norman, so the tim-ing was perfect.”
Not only will the shop sell Doin’ Fine Clothing Company products — Massive’s line of pre-print-ed T-shirts — but it also will carry disc golf prod-ucts and feature a full-ser-vice hair salon.
Disc golf products may seem like an odd fit with a clothing and accessories boutique, but Johnson said he noticed a void in the market and decided to fill it.
“Disc golf is a passion of mine, and I played pro-fessionally for five years,” he said. “We had a little extra room in the store, so
mEgan DEatonLife & Arts Reporter
After two years of support from the community, local boutique Stash is saying thanks to local supporters.
A birthday bash at the store from 6 to 10 p.m. today will combine food, art and music into a memorable birthday.
S t a s h o w n e r s D e l l a Patterson and Rebecca Bean held their grand opening in September 2010. Their mer-chandise focuses on prod-ucts made in the U.S. or items ethically made else-where, most with a vintage vibe.
“We wanted to share what we love,” Patterson said. “It’s a mix of well-made, well-cu-rated and long-lasting items with a lot of support for local artists.”
The bash coincides with Main Street’s 2nd Friday Circuit of Art. Music from local artist Jacob Abello, art from Oklahoma native Tammy Brummell and food from Big Truck Tacos will
headline the event. Norman restaurant, Local, will be ca-tering the bar at the event.
“We really just want to show our appreciation, and this is a fun way of doing that,” Patterson said. “The past two years have been ab-solutely amazing and more than I ever could have imag-ined and hoped for.”
I thought we could provide a place where local players can get advice and get the right equipment and have it all downtown.”
The idea for a hair salon came about because the building used to be a res-taurant, and Johnson said the space was perfect for a salon.
“We kind of wanted to make a lifestyle destination point to where you could get your look on, including your hair, and get some locally-made, really cool clothes,” he said.
The grand opening will feature work by local digital and analog artist Anthony Roberts, a good friend of Johnson’s. Roberts is in-ternationally-known and does a lot of CD jackets for European bands, Johnson said.
“I talked him into putting some of his work out be-cause the local area rarely gets to see any of it,” he said. “Our goal is to feature differ-ent artists every month and have that kind of be a re-volving show, and obvious-ly local artists is what we’re after, especially hidden gems like Tony.”
The grand opening will have food provided by Local and music by Norman sing-er-songwriter Chelsey Cope, as well as selected mark-downs and drawings for free giveaways.
Stash to hold birthday party with local music, art
Attendees can make own printsmolly EvansLife & Arts Reporter
The closing reception for a printmaking exhibition by an OU professor will be part of Norman’s 2nd Friday Circuit of Art today.
The closing reception for Curtis Jones’ “Circles and Squares” will be from 6 to 10 p.m. today at Mainsite Contemporary Art Gallery. The exhibition by the gradu-ate coordinator for the OU
School of Art & Art History includes both simple, black and white pieces and bright-ly-colored geometrics, said Joshua Boydston, Norman Arts Council communica-tions director.
The exhibition is strictly printmaking, but the piec-es are strikingly patterned and impressively layered, Boydston said.
Jones will participate at the gallery reception by helping visitors create their own prints for $5 as souve-nirs, Boydston said. Visitors
can bring materials, such as a canvas from home, or use materials provided at the re-ception, he said.
This printmaking may be-come a staple of Mainsite’s monthly 2nd Friday event, Boydston said. The prints would coordinate with the gallery’s current exhibition, he said.
Guests can see the ex-hibition until Sept. 22 at Mainsite, 122 E. Main St.
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Calling all ye lords and ladies, Norman’s Medieval Fair is holding auditions this weekend for members of the Fair Court. Though the fair is not until the spring, the di-rectors are looking for peo-ple willing to be transformed into medieval nobles and townspeople.
Assistant director of the court Cody Clark said there will be spots for everyone interested in being part of the court. He is looking for people to play everything from royalty to rat catchers and said no previous acting experience is required.
“We want people to bring new blood and to bring ex-citement,” said Clark, who also is an OU Housing and Food Services courier.
“We need people who re-ally enjoy putting smiles on the faces of people.”
The court’s responsibilities include dressing in costume, speaking in medieval tongue and acting as the hosts of the fair. Clark assured there are plenty of roles, and no one will be turned away if they want to participate.
Medieval Fair coordinator Ann Marie Eckart warns that participating in the fair can be addictive.
“Once you start Medieval Fair, it’s very hard to get away,” Eckart said. “There’s just a whole lot of fun to be had in making people laugh.”
Norman resident Carrie Bowden has been involved with the Medieval Fair for
about five years and plans to audition this year as a lady in waiting to the queen. She admitted she is not fa-miliar with Shakespeare or medieval speak before auditioning.
“As I spend my time in ser-vice, I should become more comfortable in my duties,” Bowden said. “To serve my queen is the highest honor for any lady.”
The directors are looking for people to fill the roles of some familiar historical characters, including English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
Clark, who has not missed a fair since the first one in 1977, will be playing the
ro l e o f Ki ng E d w a r d I I I , though he has played many characters in the past.
“Just about any hobby you c o u l d h a v e today, there is a medieval equivalent,” C l a r k s a i d . “ I f y o u c a n juggle, let us k n o w . E v e n if your hobby today is working on a com-puter, there’s an equivalent for that.”
“Be yourself, because if
you try to put on an act to get something that you’re going to have to live with for at least 10 hours a day over a three day weekend, you’re
n o t g o i n g t o b e a b l e to keep that u p ,” C l a r k advised.
Actors will bear a time c o m m i t -ment to the fair, but Clark said he aims to be flexible with sched-ules and esti-mates about three hours o f p ra c t i c e
every other weekend until the few weeks leading up to the Medieval Fair, which is scheduled for April 5, 6
and 7. Participants also will be expected to make their own costumes, but they will have plenty of help, he said.
“ W h a t d o e s a n y l a d y truly love?” Bowden said. “Spending her lordship’s coin in the ample number of shops. However, a good joust, lively music, a human chess game and the Royal Gauntlet provide an abun-dant source of delightful blissfulness from everyday castle life.”
Cody Clark, courier for OU Housing and Food, acts out his character as King Edward III in Norman’s Medieval Fair. The auditions for the fair will be held from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the public library.
Auditions to be held Sunday at Norman library
Go and do1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday
norman Public library, 225 n webster
TipsShare your talents
be relaxed
be yourself
don’t bring a prepared routine
AT A GLANCE Medieval Fair Auditions
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