Chief Justice John Roberts encourages students to spend more time thinking
CHARLES WARDAssistant Managing Editor
Law students need to spend more time thinking about the topics they study, and worry less about writing or typing every word their professors say, the Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts said to answer a question that was asked following his deliv-ery of the Henry Family Lecture Tuesday at the OU College of Law.
Roberts’ speech at the College of Law was the eighth annual Henry lecture, Robert
Henry said in his introductory remarks. Henry is the chief justice for the 10th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and cousin of Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry. His family sponsors the lecture series.
“ You got into law school at Oklahoma because you are bright minds,” Roberts said. “And yet, when you enter a law school class, ev-erybody becomes a stenographer. You’re either typing away, or writing notes, trying to get down every idea ... law students don’t spend enough time thinking.”
During the question-and-answer period, Roberts said he also is trying to in-crease salaries for federal judges. He said the salaries of judges are low when compared to
the salaries of attorneys in the private sector, which makes it difficult to recruit top legal professionals to the judiciary.
In 2008, federal bankruptcy and magistrate judges made $151,984, while the chief justice of the United States earned $217,400 salary, ac-cording to a July 28, 2008 Senate report on pay for legislative, judicial and executive branch officials. An entry-level salary for an associate at a top U.S. law firm ranges from $140,000 to $160,000, according to a Jan. 24 New York Times article. Partners at those same firms can
make more than $1 million annually, accord-ing to a Jan. 2, 2008 article on slate.com.
Roberts said the pay disparity between the
private and public sector made it particularly difficult to recruit top minority candidates to the federal judiciary, since many of those attorneys are not only supporting their im-mediate families, but members of their ex-tended family as well.
Roberts also fielded a question regard-ing the pool from which potential Supreme Court justices are chosen. All currently sitting Supreme Court justices, including Roberts, served on U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals im-mediately before being tapped to serve on the Supreme Court.
He said that could be a good thing, be-cause Circuit Court justices have experience writing opinions and other things Supreme
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Philanthropy network appeals to womenDay long public symposium
to formally open network
CAITLIN HARRISONDaily Staff Writer
OU may see an increase in financial do-nations made by women with the creation of a new philanthropy network.
The OU Women’s Philanthropy Network will formally open Thursday as part of a public symposium. It has taken three years to get the network off the ground, and was designed to tune in women to the pulse of OU and its needs, Jill Quintana Hughes, di-rector of OU Regional Development, stated in an e-mail.
“Because women typically determine or guide the family’s contributions to their communities and state, the initiative is de-signed to involve more women with OU — as classroom guest speakers, volunteer board members and leaders in a variety of university efforts — so they will eventually consider sharing more of their time and re-sources with OU,” she stated.
The collective income and prestige of women are rising, according to the Women’s Philanthropy Institute. The percentage of women in the workforce has nearly doubled in the last 50 years. Income by females has increased by more than 60 percent over the
last 30 years, while income by the males has hardly increased. The IRS also reported in 2004 that 43 percent of the U.S.’s top wealth holders were women. Top wealth holders are defined as individuals with assets of $1.5 million or more, according to the institute.
In a generation, women have gained much power and amassed much wealth. Many have served on the OU Board of Regents and the OU Foundation Board of Trustees, Tripp Hall, vice president of de-velopment, stated in an e-mail. More than 11,000 women have made major gifts of $25,000 or greater in OU’s history, he stated.
“The national trends tell us more women are getting involved with their alma maters than in the past,” Hall said. “Our goal is to encourage both women and men to engage in the life of the university by offering their time, energy, talent and resources to areas of interest to them.”
President David Boren said in a statement on the network’s Web site that women have always been university supporters, dating back to 1927 when Alice Hurley Mackey helped facilitate OU’s nationally-ranked Western History Collections.
“Molly and I are delighted with the new Women in Philanthropy initiative, which will celebrate the contributions of our women donors and educate and inspire
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STUDENTS FIND WAYS TO PRACTICE RELIGIONS IN NEW SETTINGReligious diversity part of
international students’
experiences, upbringing
NATASHA GOODELLDaily Staff Writer
In the confines of her dorm room, with a picture of Buddha above her bed, Somealea Phoung prays each night.
“I feel fresh [when I pray],” said Phoung, a first-year international student who plans to major in international and area studies and economics. “I feel like I’m going to have luck. There is a passion inside of me and I don’t do it only for myself, but also for my family as well.”
Coming from Cambodia, where 95 percent of the people practice Buddhism, Phoung said she has had a hard time finding a place to do so in America.
“I really want to visit the Buddhist temple [in California] because I miss the feeling of listening to the monks and praying there,” she said. “And if I have the chance, I will go, for sure.”
Phoung said she has met Christians be-fore, the ones who volunteer in Cambodia to teach English.
“Even though [Christianity] is different, they have the same target,” she said. “They want to help people and educate people to live in a happy way.”
Phoung said she thinks destiny and knowl-edge go together sometimes, and her destiny is to be in this country.
“For me, some people from Christianity make me hate religion,” Phoung said. “Buddhism is a free religion, but Christianity seems to me to be kind of an obligation.”
She said she has found God to be the first one in Christians’ hearts, even before their parents.
“It doesn’t work like that in Buddhism ...” Phoung said. “In Buddhism we think our parents [are] the first God and Buddha is second.”
Phoung said she doesn’t think about not being at the temple.
“To me, to be a good Buddhist doesn’t mean I go to the temple every day,” she said. “I just have it in my heart and follow his philosophy.”
Other international and exchange stu-dents at OU also have to adjust to religion in a different culture, but for some, it’s an enlight-ening experience.
Saleh Alabdullah, a first-year internation-al student studying English, said he is from Kuwait and practices Islam.
“Religion here is fine with me,” Alabdullah
said. “I’m happy that I am actually learning about Christianity and different religious beliefs here because there isn’t a lot of learn-ing about different religions in my own country.”
Alabdullah said he knows a lot, but not a lot about religious beliefs.
“In the movies, everything is a lot differ-ent,” Alabdullah said. “When you experience it, it’s a lot different than what we see in the movies.”
Samantha Wong, a first-semester inter-national student studying entrepreneur-ship and finance, is from Hong Kong, an
international city that has freedom of reli-gion, she said.
“For me, I’m used to seeing different reli-gions,” Wong said. “I am a Jehovah’s Witness and I don’t face any difficulty here because my religion works the same way here as it does there.”
Wong said the main religion in Hong Kong has been Buddhism, but said there are three mainstream religions there now: Buddhism, Christianity and Catholicism.
“They are all very popular,” she said.
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Somealea Phoung, a first-year international student from Cambodia, has decorated her dorm room with pictures that symbolize and remind her of the Buddhist religion. Phoung plans on majoring in international and area studies and economics.
UOSA passes True Democracy Act
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UOSA Student Congress members gather for a UOSA meeting Tuesday night in Adams Hall.
Act addresses recall process,
signature requirements
RICKY MARANONDaily Staff Writer
The UOSA Undergraduate Student Congress passed the True Democracy Act of 2009, which addresses how members of UOSA can be recalled and how many sig-natures are required on a petition to put an initiative on a general election ballot.
Congress took up the issues as suggested by the UOSA Superior Court’s Nov. 11 opin-ions in cases regarding Matt Bruenig’s cases against the UOSA General Counsel Michael Davis.
“Erasing or replacing [the language of the UOSA Constitution] is not something this Court is willing or able to do,” UOSA Superior Court Justice Clint Claypole stat-ed in the court’s decision. “The remedy for any problems ... is not in the hands of this Court, but in the hands of the members of the UOSA.”
The act contains two bills: one amending the UOSA Constitution and one amending the UOSA Code.
“We have had some loopholes that have been exploited and abused by some mem-bers of the student body,” UOSA Student Congress Vice Chairman Matt Gress said.
The first bill of the True Democracy Act
new generations to follow their example of generosity,” Boren stated on the Web site.
Thursday’s day long symposium in the Oklahoma Memorial Union is open to both
women and men, and will include keynote speakers Boren, women’s head basketball coach Sherri Coale and Angela White from Indiana University’s philanthropy institute. Sandy Kinney, a 1969 OU alumna who will speak at the symposium, stated in an e-mail she supports OU because she believes it is the right thing to do.
“I am excited about the upcoming sympo-sium and look forward to meeting outstand-ing women who share my commitment to our great university,” Kinney said.
Hughes said OU expects more than 200 people to attend the symposium. Reservations are required and can be made by contacting the Office of Development at 325-3701.
would only allow members in a given district to recall their own members. Another portion of the constitutional amendment changes the number of signatures required on a ballot to 10 percent of the total number of eligible vot-ers in the district in question. Graduate Student Senate still must approve the measure before it can be voted on by the student body.
“Under these proposals, you have to be in the district of the person you recall,” Gress said.
The second bill would create new requirements for how someone may submit a petition to place a referen-dum on an election ballot.
The bill would set clear requirements and standards for proposing a petition for recall and constitutional initiatives.
The new requirements include a 90-day limit on the collection of signatures, five days given to the UOSA General Counsel to approve the petition and require clear language in the ballot question proposed by the initiative petition. This requirement would mean a student who votes “yes” on an issue would be voting for a measure, and a student voting “no” would be voting against it.
Because the new requirements for petitions are amend-ing the UOSA Code, the bill will become law if passed by the Graduate Student Senate and signed by UOSA President Katie Fox, said Spencer Pittman, Undergraduate Student Congress spokesman.
Court justices do. However, since the justices all have similar legal back-grounds, that may “narrow the Court’s perspective.”
Sandra Day O’Connor was the most recent judge to ascend to the Supreme Court from somewhere other than a U.S. Circuit Court, Roberts said. Her bi-ography on the Supreme Court’s Web site stated she served on the Arizona Court of Appeals prior to her appoint-ment to the Supreme Court.
Roberts also faced a question about oral arguments in cases. Oral arguments are not a right for parties with cases in front of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, and are only granted at the court’s dis-cretion, according to the rules of the Oklahoma Supreme Court.
Roberts said he did not want to ad-dress oral arguments in other court systems, but he said oral argument was vital to the U.S. Supreme Court’s deci-sion-making. Cases are “not usually” won with oral argument, but he said it’s also not rare for it to happen.
“It’s a very important part of our pro-cess, and I’d hate to see it diminished,” he said.
Roberts’ lecture focused on Abraham Lincoln’s five appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court: Nathan Clifford, Noah Swayne, Samuel Miller, David Davis and Salmon Chase. Chase filled the chief justice slot left by the death of Roger Taney.
“Back then, [chief justice] was con-sidered a desirable position,” Roberts said.
He said one of the most important accomplishments of Lincoln’s appoint-ments was restoring the Court’s stature following both the Dred Scott decision and the Civil War.
Dred Scott v. Sanford held that African-Americans could not be U.S. citizens and invalidated the Missouri Compromise, a legislative plan de-signed to limit slavery, Roberts said.
“The Dred Scott decision deeply tar-nished the Court’s reputation,” he said.
Roberts’ lecture concluded the College of Law’s Centennial celebra-tions, Coats said. The college opened in 1909.
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According to a UOSA post-election report, Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society violated UOSA election rules while campaign-ing for their candidates in the UOSA fall 2009 general election.
The allegations are found in the UOSA post-election report sent out by UOSA fall 2009 Election Chairman Jeff Riles.
In the report, Riles stated there were numerous in f ract ions commit ted by Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society while campaigns were underway earlier this month and during late October.
“In summary, SDS has demonstrated a clear disregard for the rules,” Riles stated. “The group should be prosecuted accordingly and should face sanctions against chalking in the future.”
Many of the violations pertain to chalking.Riles stated many candidates up for elec-
tion complained the group chalked over their campaign advertisements. The group also violated chalking rules by chalking within 50 feet of a polling location and by chalking on a vertical surface, Riles stated.
Other student groups not associated with the UOSA election also complained about chalking over their activity advertisements.
Riles stated the group “Ask about baby feet” was possibly mocked by Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society.
“SDS also has consistently violated the student code by producing unmarked chalk-ings,” Riles stated. “The ‘ask about bear feet’ chalking are self-identifi ed in one case but not all cases. The group even chalked over some of the baby feet on the South Oval and over the top of another chalking about a hockey event. This type of chalking shall not be tolerated.”
Riles also stated the chalked message that stated “recall the BUMS” was approved by Student Affairs.
The issue, however, has been turned over to Student Affairs.
“The Students for a Democratic Society are not candidates, but rather a student organiza-tion,” Kiel Ward, UOSA election board member and University College district representative, stated in the report. “The election board has determined that it does not have jurisdiction over this matter against student organizations and instead has turned over this complaint to the offi ce of Student Affairs.”
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“More of the older people are Buddhist, but the younger ones are Christian or Catholic.”
Wong said she thinks it’s probably more dif-ficult for Muslim students to adjust to religion here rather than those who are Buddhist.
“Maybe once a month [Buddhists] will go to the temple,” Wong said. “But they put their own idol in their house and worship it so they worship in a way that they don’t actually need a temple.”
Wong said her family is Buddhist and her fa-ther can perform all of his customs at home.
“Once a year he goes to Tibet just to visit
those living like Buddhists,” she said.Wong said her family is very strange be-
cause her father is Buddhist, she and her sister are Christian and her mother is in-between the two, seeing good in both sides.
Ana Garcia, a first-semester exchange student studying childhood edu-cation, is from Spain, where the dominant rel igion is Catholicism, she said.
“I don’t practice Catholicism,” Garcia said. “It’s more or less the same though because we are all Christian, but here it’s more Baptists.”
Garcia said she has found young people here to be different from young people in Spain, as far as religion is concerned.
“I’ve seen here that most of the young people believe in God and go to church on Sundays and study the Bible, and we don’t have that in Spain with the young people,” she
said. “In Spain, the young people don’t believe in God.”
Garcia said the el-ders go to church, but the younger generation does
not. “In Spain, the government
doesn’t have a specific religion,” Garcia said. “The majority of people are Catholic, but they don’t say they are Catholic. They give money to the churches and recog-nize the religion, though.”
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Former exchange student continues relationship with OU
Spanish professor
SUMMAYAH ANWARDaily Staff Writer
Growing up in France, student-teacher Marie-Anne Baissac never thought she’d be teaching French or Spanish at a U.S. university.
But she is. Fluent in French, Spanish and English,
Baissac teaches beginning Spanish and French classes to students at OU.
“I never imagined that I’d be teaching French or Spanish at a U.S. university,” she said. “I have not formally studied Spanish, unlike French, so I learn new things about the language while teaching that I did not learn when I was a student.”
Baissac began learning Spanish when she was 14 and continued to study it until she graduated from high school.
“In France, we take languages very serious-ly,” she said. She began studying English at age
12 and was speaking three languages through-out high school.
Then, when she came to OU in 2001 as part of an exchange program, she enrolled in an upper-level Spanish conversation class.
“It went really well,” she said. “The professor who taught that class had become kind of like a host grandmother to me now.”
Since returning to OU in 2004 to attend graduate school and specialize in second-generation Maghrebian literature, she has contin-ued her relationship with her professor, María de Jesús Páez de Ruiz.
Ruiz said she is proud of Baissac and honored to have taught her during her time as an exchange student.
“Marie-Anne was an outstanding student, always ready to participate with a beautiful smile and a positive attitude that help to main-tain a wonderful atmosphere in the class,” Ruiz said. “I am very happy for the opportunity of seeing Marie-Anne again when she came to the graduate school and as a teaching assistant.
My husband and I consider her as part of our family. We call her ‘nuestra nietecita francesa’ (our French granddaughter).”
Baissac said there are a few differences be-tween the Spanish she learned in France and the Spanish she teaches to students at OU.
“There are some minor differences, some words and certain conjugates, between the L a t i n American Spanish being taught in the U.S. and the Spain Spanish that
I learned in France,” she said. “The main thing is
the accent though.”Baissac said she encour-
ages students to be ex-posed to native cultures
and native speakers as much as possible.Stephanie Diaz, pre-dental
hygiene junior and a fluent Spanish speaker, said she is considering taking French next semester.
“I took French in high school for four years,” Diaz said. “I’m going to see if I want to take it this coming semester. There are a lot of simi-larities between Spanish and French so it shouldn’t be that hard.”
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Scholarship, free game tickets available to
only incoming in-state freshman
CASEY PARVINDaily Staff Writer
Throughout the school year, the Oklahoma City Thunder will award five incoming fresh-man with a $1,000 scholarship to OU and four tickets to a Thunder home game in April.
OU spokesman Jay Doyle said the scholarship is only available to in-state in-coming freshman applying for the first time. Transfer students are not eligible.
“The Oklahoma City Thunder primarily markets to in-state resi-dents,” Thunder spokeswoman Regan Lynn stated in an e-mail. “While cur-rent students are important, because t h e scholarship was in need of limitation and because of the Thunder’s target market, the OU/Thunder scholarship com-mittee decided to only offer the scholarship to incoming
freshmen.”The Oklahoma City Thunder and OU started an agree-
ment with one another last year, Doyle said.“When this year came around, we wanted to see how ev-
eryone could benefit from this agreement,” Doyle said. “The Thunder wanted to give back to the community and this scholarship ties into the demographic they were looking to
help.”Scholarship applicants will be evaluated on
both their OU/Thunder scholarship appli-cation and their OU admission application,
Lynn stated.“The scholarship committee is made up of
both parties (Thunder and OU),” Doyle said. “The Thunder wants to give back to the state, even though we have students from other
states wanting to attend the university. Both sides get together and decide who they want to represent
with the scholarship.”Along with the scholarship, recipients also receive four
tickets to an Oklahoma City Thunder home game. Students are required to attend the April 4 home game.
“Each OU/Thunder scholarship recipient will be honored at pre-designated home Oklahoma City Thunder games,”
Lynn stated.The OU/Thunder scholarship has been advertised to pro-
spective applicants through the OU main home page as well as a monthly e-newsletter to high school seniors, said Craig Hayes, director of Prospective Student Services.
“Our recruiters have individually contacted currently ad-mitted high school seniors to ensure they were aware of the application being available,” Hayes said.
Some currently enrolled students have mistakenly applied for the scholarship, Doyle said.
“We have had a couple of people apply by accident, but the good thing is that this scholarship was designed for high school students who are already going through this long pro-cess of applying to the university, so the scholarship applica-tion was only designed to take five or 10 minutes to apply,” he said.
According to the OU/Thunder scholarship Web site, the first scholarship due date is Sunday, and the winner will be announced Nov. 29. The other application due dates are Jan. 10, Feb. 5, March 7 and March 14. One winner will be picked from each application pool.
Students can apply at http://www.thunder-nba.com/pro-motions/scholarship_form.aspx.
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Comanche Street, MondayTimothy Scott Grant, 24, East Boyd Street, MondayKeith Anthony Jackson, 19, North Cockrel Avenue, Monday
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCERicky Lee Hyde, 47, 2158 W. Brooks St., Monday
DRIVING UNDER A SUSPENDED LICENSEGaylond Ray Wilson, 50, East Lindsey Street, Monday, also driving with no insurance verifi cation
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Christians on Campus will host a Bible study at 12:30 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.
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Career Services will help with resumes, cover letters and job searching strate-gies from 1:30 to 4 p.m. in the union.
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Career Services will be help students with resumes, cover letters and job searching strate-gies from 1:30 to 4 p.m. in the union.Career Services will host a session on “How to Find a Federal Government Job” from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the union’s Crimson Room.
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The OU and OSU Departments of Modern Languages will jointly present a German-language lecture on the history of the Berlin Wall at 6 p.m. in 206 Dale Hall.
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Trilingual professor encourages students to be exposed to cultures
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French teacher Marie-Anne Baissac stands in front of a French flag in the Kaufman Hall for-eign language offices Tuesday. Baissac started her career at OU as a foreign exchange student.
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Editor’s note: This column refers to Monday’s news story, “‘Gotcha’ program to be expanded to all campus libraries.” To read that article, visit OUDaily.com.
I have been pleading with my mother ever since I left home to come to college with me and monitor
every decision I make to ensure that I am being responsible. Every time I ask, she brings up that time I claimed to have walked the dog (I didn’t!) and turns me down.
Fortunately, Bizzell Library’s new “Gotcha!” policy eliminates the need for mothers on this campus.
According to OU Libraries spokes-woman Sarah Robbins in an article published Monday, “When a student leaves their valuables — whether it be a computer or a backpack — alone for
more than five minutes or so, an employee or security personnel will pick up the item and take it to the cir-culation desk for safekeeping.”
Apparently it is now OU’s job to go on responsibility patrol.
Robbins says that the primary reason for the policy is that “we want to teach students to be responsible with their items in the library.”
Is it irresponsible of me to consider the circum-stances and conclude that I am willing to accept the risk of having my backpack stolen while I track down a book from the stacks?
The second explanation for the program is that “it is better that library personnel take the item where it can easily be picked up by the owner than someone actu-ally stealing the item and it never been seen again.”
Gee, the only thing I can think of that would be bet-ter than that is for no one to take my stuff, like what’s happened the last three years I’ve used the library.
Obviously I realize that there is a chance my things could get stolen while I make a quick trip to the bath-room. The chances of Bizzell employees being as-signed the worst cleanup job of their lives if I don’t use the men’s room seem a lot higher, though.
These “Gotcha!” slips, printed on undoubtedly an-noying, brightly colored paper, say “Gotcha! Can you afford the loss of your property? Next time, it may not be the University Police Department or a staff mem-ber that finds your property left unattended. Security is everybody’s business.”
Incredibly, this is no joke. Hey OU: The security of my laptop is not “everybody’s business,” thank you very much.
What’s next? Students in Walker Center come back to find their rooms completely empty - tough luck, guys. Your door was unlocked. Good thing it wasn’t the bad guys ... this time!
A man comes home from work on his lunch break and finds that the papers he needs for his afternoon meeting are missing - sorry, bro. That key you leave in the petunias? Way too obvious. Thank me later - secu-rity is everybody’s business.
Can I afford the loss of my property? About as much as I can afford to have some overbearing library as-sistant unplug my laptop when I am in the middle of a research paper.
Quick, what’s the only difference between that li-brary worker and a nefarious campus criminal? Only the evil villain would steal my stuff in a non-“Gotcha!” library.
I get it. According to OU Police reports, over $12,000 in electronics was stolen between Sept. 3 and Oct. 3. Obviously, this is a problem that they would like to reduce.
Other campuses have found less invasive ways to send the same message.
According to the University of Chicago’s student newspaper, their program stated that “Officers on patrol who discover unattended valuables will place ‘GOTCHA’ stickers on them to make the owners aware of the need for crime prevention.”
While I still find this practice to be somewhat of-fensive, it is a far cry from physically relocating items belonging to irresponsible citizens like me.
OU’s “Gotcha!” program irrationally assumes that there could never be any possible reason for one to leave his or her belongings temporarily unattended.
Further, it egregiously decides that the best way to teach me a well-deserved lesson is by actually stealing students’ things.
A word of advice, OU: Treat this column as a friend-ly “Gotcha!” and revise the plan before it affects the bad guys.
Remember, stupid ideas are everybody’s business.
Henry Martin is a history senior.
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‘Gotcha’ program oversteps library’s responsibility
Dear faculty and staff of OU Student Media,
The Beta Kappa chapter of the Sigma Chi Fraternity offers its sincerest apologies for taking The Oklahoma Daily newspapers on Sept. 30. The actions taken that day by a group of members were unacceptable and by no means represent the be-havior that Sigma Chi strives to maintain.
We regret the inconvenience and disrespect you incurred that day. We understand that a simple sorry should not be sufficient, but we hope you accept our apology and our future efforts to make amends.
Please be assured that our executive council and judicial board are taking appropriate measures to discipline those who were involved and will not make light of the situation. We fully understand that our actions do not portray how OU and our fraternity expect members to act.
We genuinely regret our actions, and we would like to assure you that we shall never resort to such unethical means in the future.
Sincerely,
The men of Sigma Chi
Letter to Student Media
The Oklahoma Daily ran a special ad-free section Sept. 30. The section covered the five year anniversary of then-OU freshman Blake Hammontree’s death, what, if any, changes had been made to OU’s alcohol policy, the policy’s ef-fectiveness and how the Sigma Chi fraternity has tried to move forward after this tragic event.
This section had been in the works since late August, and multiple Daily staff members dedi-cated extra time to gathering the information pre-sented in the section.
Knowing the section would touch on a few soft spots, we also took extra care in reporting the sto-ries and trying to provide the most accurate and fair information. Unfortunately, students’ access to this information was limited after a few mem-bers of Sigma Chi decided to take more than 1,000
copies of The Daily from our racks. We were angry at first, but who wouldn’t be after
spending so much time and energy? But The Daily is an organization made up en-
tirely of students. We aren’t immune to making mistakes and I’ll be the first to admit that.
And while we take pride in what we do here, we must apply the same understanding to other cam-pus groups, including Sigma Chi.
Sigma Chi has apologized and we sincerely ac-cept that apology. We don’t harbor any ill feelings toward Sigma Chi and hope The Daily, Sigma Chi and other organizations can use this as a learning opportunity.
— Jamie Hughes is editor-in-chief of The Oklahoma Daily and a political science junior.
Letter from the editor
DUI checkpoints a waste of resources
In the interest of public safety, it is necessary to keep the drunken drivers off the roads. However, we believe it could be done better.
Currently, the checkpoints work like this: We drive by a checkpoint, we wait, and wait, and wait, while the police check on people driving ahead of us; then it’s our turn, the officer inquires on our sobriety, and, as-suming we’re sober, lets us go.
The Norman Police Department announced this week that it will set up checkpoints throughout the city this weekend, receiving special funding from the Oklahoma Highway Safety Office.
We are receiving money from the Oklahoma Highway Safety Office earmarked specifically for more check-points. Their goal is hopefully more checkpoints will scare drinkers from driving.
But, it really just tends to scare drinkers from driving on larger roads.
These checkpoints are an intrusion. They make us wait while we could be doing more productive things. They waste our time, which is growing more precious as finals loom ever closer.
These checkpoints also seem to be arbitrarily placed.
Instead of placing them near the bars, downtown or by Campus Corner, they are put in somewhat random locations.
This is an egregious waste of money and resources. It could be more efficiently used to achieve the same end.
Instead of more checkpoints, we could have more police officers patrolling near Campus Corner, or Main Street, where there are more bars. Officers could fre-quent these areas more on the weekends, and less dur-ing the week when only the most dedicated alcoholics drink.
In the middle of an economic crisis, we should be more careful with our money.
We understand alcoholism is a problem on univer-sity campuses and should be fought. College students often overindulge, and have health consequences as a result.
But instead of unnecessarily hassling students, the local police could use information at hand to do their job more efficiently. We should follow Occam’s razor and not make it needlessly difficult. We should keep it easy and use the resources we have.
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The Norman Police Department announced this week that it will be setting up checkpoints this weekend to curb drunken driving.
OU STRUGGLES IN WIN
JAMES CORLEYDaily Staff Writer
The OU volleyball team returns to Norman for the final two home games of the season, hosting Texas A&M Wednesday.
The Sooners (18-8, 11-6) swept the Aggies (14-10, 7-9) last month in College Station, Texas and have won five of their last six matches, four of which have been sweeps. OU has to win two of its final three games to reach 20 wins for the third time in coach Santiago Restrepo’s six years at OU.
With a win over Texas A&M, Restrepo would also grab his 100th win as the head coach at OU.
The Sooners received 13 votes in the latest national poll rankings and have a good chance to break into the top 25 if they down No. 2 Texas in Norman Nov. 25 or No. 8 Iowa State on the road the following Nov. 28.
OU had more players on the All-Big 12 Academic first team announced this week than any other school.
The eight receiving honors were sophomores Danielle Alva, Brianne Barker, Suzy Boulavsky and Caitlin Higgins, juniors Chrissy Disarro, Francie Ekwerekwu and Sarah Freudenrich, and senior Bridget Laplante.
To qualify, student-athletes had to maintain a 3.2 or better grade-point average cumulatively over the pre-vious two semesters and must have participated in at least 60 percent of their team’s scheduled matches.
Wednesday’s match is also student night. There will be 50 -cent hot dogs and Cokes for all students.
The entertainment also will not end after the women finish playing. Following the match, the Matt Boggs Band, led by former OU student Matt Boggs, will per-form live.
The match will begin at 7 p.m. in McCasland Field House.
CLARK FOYDaily Staff Writer
The Sooners managed to pull out a 72-61 win against the Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks despite a careless first half where OU shot 34 percent from the field and com-mitted nine turnovers.
The Warhawks started off red hot from downtown and communicated right off the bat that they were in love with the three-ball. However, they eventually cooled off as the Sooners held them at 4-11 for the half.
The Sooners played a sloppy game, head coach Jeff Capel said. For the game, they committed 13 turnovers and shot 6-17 from the arc after a 1-7 first half start.
“A win is a win, it wasn’t pretty,” Capel said. “We didn’t come out with the energy that we need to come out with. It took us getting down and getting punched in the mouth for us to start finally punching back.”
“It’s a great lesson for our guys because we played early in that game like we practiced yesterday,”Capel said.
Sophomore guard Willie Warren had himself a game with 24 points and four assists, further proving why he is a National Player of the Year candidate.
Warren was one of the few Sooners who were on their game the entire night.
Junior guard Cade Davis came off the bench and gave the team a huge lift, Capel said.
He was talking and showed great leadership while hit-ting a several key shots and finishing with nine points in
28 minutes.Freshman center Tiny Gallon put up good numbers
again, but looked a little tired and needs to work on his conditioning, said Capel. He had just 3 points tonight but grabbed 10 rebounds.
Senior guard/forward Tony Crocker had his biggest game of the season with 13 points and three boards. Crocker had a great night after only putting up four points Saturday against Mount St. Mary’s. He saw a lot of his 34 minutes in at forward, covering some of the bigger guys for the Warhawks.
“It’s a confidence builder going into the next game knowing what you can do,” Crocker said. “It just helps out your confidence really and gets you going and that way you can bring more energy and help out the team.”
Freshman guard Steven Pledger put up eight points after a 21-point performance on Saturday.
And while he didn’t play like he did this past weekend, Capel had a lot of good things to say about him.
“He’s still going to shoot it and we need him to shoot it,” Capel said. “But the thing I love is that you can coach him. HJe doesn’t sulk, doesn’t drop his head. He had 16 minutes tonight and he was just as happy as can be about that. We need a team full of guys like that.”
The Sooners wait to play their next home game against a tough Arkansas team Dec. 2.
The team will continue season play with a road match-up at Virginia Commonwealth Saturday.
New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick may not have understood just
how good Indianapolis Colts’ quarterback Peyton Manning is until Sunday.
Peyton is the man —no pun intended with his last name — and he very well may be the best quarterback and team leader the league has ever seen.
Manning is especially good when put in a come-back situation. Therefore, when Brady and Co. are up
six points in the fourth quarter on 4th-and-two with 2:08 minutes left at their own 27-yard line, it’s probably not the best decision to go for it.
Sure, if the pass wasn’t bobbled from Brady: ballgame. It would’ve sealed the deal. But an average punt would’ve set the Colts at about their own 30-yard line, which would make for a difficult 70-yard drive.
That of course compared to the Colts taking over at the Patriots’ 29-yard line with around 2:00 remaining.
“The same thing I said after the game,”
Belichick said at his regular Monday news conference. “I thought it was our best chance to win. I thought we needed to make that one play and then we could basically run out the clock. We weren’t able to make it.”
I have news for Belichick: even OU quar-terback Landry Jones could’ve led a 29-yard scoring drive.
And, as previously stated, it was the most dangerous team in the league taking over the ball. Not to mention the success the Colts have had all season, and in games past with the Patriots.
The Colts had won three out of the last four games against the Patriots. With that said, Belichick should understand the de-livery Manning brings when put in a clutch situation.
Even former Belichick players Rodney Harrison and Tedy Bruschi went as far to say it was Belichick’s worst coaching decision and it boils their blood.
Quite obviously this play will live in infamy, but there’s no doubt in mind that Belichick will learn from this mistake and continue the Patriots’ success this season, ultimately taking them deep into the playoffs.
MJ Casiano is a broadcast and electronic media junior.
Murray confi dent he should return for the 2010 season
Junior running back DeMarco Murray said he has not made a fi nal decision on his future as a Sooner, but he is confi dent he will be wearing the crimson and cream next season. “Something that my family and I will look into,” Murray said. “I’m pretty sure I’ll be back here next year.” In three years at OU, Murray has rushed for 2,358 yards with 32 touchdowns and has caught 78 passes for 924 yards.
Simmons and Caleb expected to play against Texas Tech Saturday
Head coach Bob Stoops said senior offensive lineman Brian Simmons and junior wide receiver
Brandon Caleb will play Saturday in Lubbock, Texas, against Texas Tech. “[Simmons] practiced yesterday,” Stoops said. “So he is set to play this week, provided everything goes as it should this week.” Simmons injured his right leg against Baylor, and has not played in the Sooners’ last five games. During that time the offensive line has thinned down to seven healthy players, but his return should give the offensive line depth and experience since he will be one of two seniors starting on the line. Caleb suffered an ankle injury Oct. 31 against Kansas State and has missed two games because of it. He has been practicing the past two weeks, and should be ready for Saturday’s game.
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Defensive specialist Maria Fernanda hits the ball during the women’s volleyball game against Colorado Oct. 28. The Sooners won the match 3-0.
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Freshman guard Tommy Mason-Griffin (11) dribbles the ball down the court during the Sooner men’s basketball game against Louisiana-Monroe Tuesday evening in Lloyd Noble Center. OU won the game 72-61.
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Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- You have wonderful possibilities for material acquisition. The problem is that you also have great possibilities for the misuse of funds. Enjoy yourself, but know when to stop spending.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- That optimistic attitude will serve you well, but only as long as you hold onto it. If negativity brings doubts, you’ll end up a loser.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- You could be your worst enemy by putting the kibosh on a good suggestion just because it comes from someone you dislike. Rise above your shortcomings.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- A bad, long-neglected situation will continually fester until you take ownership. When it again vies for attention, step to the fore and get it done once and for all.
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T h e c o n c l u s i o n o f “The List” story arc sees Norman Osborn finally reach the last item on his
d i a b o l i -c a l t o - d o l i s t : k i l l S p i d e r -Man.
A s w e al l know, O s b o r n (a.k.a “The G r e e n G o b l i n ” ) h a s b e e n t r y i n g t o
kill Spider-Man since the Green Goblin’s first ap-pearance in the early ‘60s and, of course, has always failed, so this isn’t any-thing new.
Everybody knows that Marvel will never kill off its trademark character, Spider-Man.
W i t h a l l s u p e r h e r o comics, the heroes never die, and even if they do, they always come back. Just look at Superman, the original Green Lantern, Ha l Jo rd a n , a n d (e v e n t h o u g h h e i s n ’ t b a c k from his death just yet) Batman.
Despite know ing the l i k e l y o u t c o m e b e f o r e even picking up the comic, w h e n e v e r O s b o r n a t -tempts to kill Spider-Man it always makes a great
read. T h i s o n e b r i n g s o u t
great talent (superstar art-ist Adam Kubert draws) and as usual the Green Goblin will probably do something to traumatize our hero as he’s done in the past, e.g killing Gwen Stac y, paralyzing Flash Thompson and so on.
I f y o u ’ re l o o k i n g f o r what is probably going to be an action-packed fina-le to a well-written series buy this.
“DR. HORRIBLE #1”
The origin story of the tragic hero Dr. Horrible from last year’s Internet p h e n o m e n o n “ D r . Hor r ible’s Sing-Along-Blog” hits stands today.
J o s s W h e d o n f a n s can stop trying to watch “Dollhouse” and rejoice.
The series is a one-shot that explores what drove Dr. Horrible to a l i fe of crime and like the above comic, it features a battle b e t w e e n a c o m p e l l i n g protagonist (Horrible) and a grade A jerk (Captain Hammer).
It also features a wide array of characters you’ll remember from the web-series like Penny, Moist and many others.
Obviously this book is for fans of the series and of Whedon, so if you didn’t watch the series or hated
it, you probably shouldn’t plan on picking this up.
“PUNISHER #11”
A f t e r b e i n g s l i c e d t o pieces by Dark Wolverine at the end of his “List ” one-shot, Frank Castle’s re ma i n s a re re c ov e re d by the Moloids and Man-Thing, and put together to form Franken-Castle.
That’s about all I know a b o u t t h i s i s s u e , b u t even this brief plot sum-mary suggests that we’re in for the biggest “W TF” moment of any Punisher comic book – including the MAX imprint.
I have no idea where the writers of the Punishers are going with this and d o n ’ t t h i n k i t ’s a g re at idea.
But I will admit that it seems very interesting and I have to give them credit for killing the character in one of the best one-shots I’ve read this year.
I ’ l l p ro b a b l y e n d u p picking this issue up be-cause it’s drawn by origi-nal “The Walking Dead” a r t i s t To n y Mo o re a n d written by “Ghost Rider” w r i t e r R i c k R e m e n d e r (and, if I’m being honest, out of ser ious sense of curiosity).
Osi Aken’Ova is a film and video studies senior.
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» The Daily’s Osi Aken’Ova reviews three of this week’s new comic books.
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