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Homecoming Week shifting into high gear all over campus (pages 5, 6)
COCO COURTOISCampus Reporter
The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art is preparing for the opening of a $13 million, four-year project that will provide an 18,000-square-foot expansion on Saturday.
The new Stuart Wing of the museum will include a new gallery to house the Eugene B. Adkins Collection.
This collection of 3,300 works, including more than 400 Native American paint-ings, pottery, jewelry and Kachinas — religious effigies made of cottonwood — is valued at approximately $50 million.
Michael Bendure, direc-tor of the communications for the museum, said OU is sharing the collection with the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa.
OPINIONPlan for your financial futureAs student-loan debt rises, students should be wary. (Page 4)
lIfe & artsPlenty of holiday fun still in storehave a good scare this week at local parties and haunted houses. (Page 7)
sPOrtsOU men’s basketball practice open for allhoops fans should take advantage of Sooners’ open-door policy. (Page 9)
MUltIMedIadomestic violence awareness at OUSpeakers, fi lm highlight education for awareness month. (OUdaily.com)
Students prepare with plenty of pomp
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University College freshmen Tiffany Prentice and Sydney Ore chat while pomping pieces of their homecoming float Wednesday at Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house. (Page 6)
MUseUM Of art
New museum wing to debut SaturdayAddition includes renovations to building’s layout
National student debt rates are rising while credit card debt rates are decreasing ,
according to a report re-leased by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Since 2008, credit card debt has decreased from $860 million to $690 million, an almost 20-percent decrease. However, student debt rates have increased from $440
million to $550 million, a 25-percent increase.
Overall, credit card debt accounts for 6 percent of all national debt, and student debt accounts for 5 percent.
According to the Project on Student Debt , 52 percent of OU students graduate
with debt, and the average was $15,659 in 2009 . Even though students are gradu-ating with five-figure debt, OU’s two-year student loan default rate is lower than na-tional trends.
OU’s student loan default rate is 3.8 percent, which is
an increase from fiscal year 2008’s 3.6 percent , accord-ing to the U.S. Department of Education. The national two-year student loan de-fault rate is 8.8 percent, an increase from the 7-percent
LILLY CHAPA and ANGELA TOCampus Reporters
Norman residents no longer need to trash that empty yogurt cup because the city of Norman is in-creasing the types of plas-tics that can be recycled.
Before the change in policy, Norman limited its residents to recycle only category one and two plas-tics, which include soda containers, water bottles, milk jugs and laundry de-tergent bottles.
Starting in October, recy-cling has expanded to cat-egories one through seven, which include plastics such as margarine tubs and yo-gurt containers, said Ken Komiske, director of the city’s Utilities.
Sanitation division man-ager Scottie Williams said Recycle America, the re-gion’s recycling contrac-tor, allowed categories one through seven to be recy-cled in Oklahoma City ear-lier this year. The Norman sanitation department asked Recycle America if Norman could expand their recycling categories as well, and the contractor agreed.
“We always have citizens calling and asking about re-cycling, so we really wanted to expand the changes to here in Norman,” Williams said. “This will be great for the environment and cuts down on landfill space and costs, so it’s also really help-ful financially.”
Komiske said he believes positive changes will come with the expansion in plas-tic recycling.
“It should add to the amount of material re-cycled,” Komiske said. “Realistically, our contrac-tor says that it should only add maybe 5 or 10 percent to the volume of plastics we collect. But still, anything more we can recycle is bet-ter than throwing it away.”
A n d r e c e n t l y m o r e Norman residents have
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hOMeCOMING Week 2011
pHotos By darian Harmon/tHe daily
Civil engineering senior Cassie Gonzales works on the Engineers’ Club’s chalk art entry Wednesday in the South Oval as a part of homecoming Week. The Engineers’ Club was one of the small groups that entered the contest.
LANEY ELLISORAssistant Managing Editor
The sidewalk running down the South Oval was covered in colorful chalk art Wednesday, a sight that can be seen only twice a year..
Participants in the Campus Activities Council Homecoming Week competition had two and a half hours to complete their side-walk chalk art, and winning would put them one step closer to home-coming success.
Competitors were limited to pastel colors and were not allowed to use hair spray to set the chalk,
a practice allowed in previous years.
“People would use at least four cans of hair spray,” said Autumn Whisenhunt , human relations management junior. “I think it made [the chalk] last too long.”
That event and UOSA elections are the only times that students are allowed to chalk using colors other than white or yellow. Any other time, students must follow the provisions listed on the Student Life website.
Rules include using only water-soluble chalk and keeping mes-sages 10 feet from buildings, ac-cording to the website.
Those restrictions were put
Sidewalk becomes canvas for festivities
Education studies graduate student Jennifer Cox works on a chalk art entry Wednesday on the South Oval as part of homecoming Week 2011.
Groups chalk as part of week’s competition to liven up campus
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Debt rates continue to rise for Sooners
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Norman expands recycling options
OUDAILY.COMVideo: Students are quizzed about the seven types of plastics.
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Pre-approval for chalking must be obtained from Student Life for areas around central campus (north of Lindsey Street). All advertising south of Lindsey Street requires approval from the director of Residential Life.
Only white or yellow water-soluble chalk may be used.
Messages are restricted to horizontal concrete sidewalks and must not be placed under any building overhangs or within 10 feet of any building
entrance.
Messages must contain the name of the sponsoring organization.
Messages cannot interfere with another message that has already been chalked.
Improperly placed chalking is subject to removal by campus personnel at the registered student organization’s expense.
CorreCtionsThe Oklahoma Daily has a commitment to serve readers with accurate coverage and analysis. Readers should bring errors to The Daily’s attention by emailing [email protected].
today around CampusA symposium, titled “the eugene B. adkins symposium: Cross-cultural influences in the art of the american southwest,” will take place from 10 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 3 p.m. in the mary eddy and Fred Jones auditorium in the Fred Jones Jr. museum of art.
Free food will be available on the south oval, sponsored by the Campus activities Council for Homecoming Week. Food is available while supplies last.
A workshop aimed to help student organization leaders learn how to gain funds will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. in ellison Hall, room 132. the workshop, titled “it all makes Cents,” will be led by students with the aid of Kent stroman, a professional nonprofit fundraising consultant.
debt: Students should apply for outside aidContinued from page 1
rate in 2008.The Daily contacted both
the director of OU Financial Aid and the vice president for Student Financial Services for information about OU student debt and ways the university helps alleviate it, but they were out of the office or in meetings and did not
respond to multiple email and phone messages.
The Financial Aid website recommends students apply for federal aid, scholarships, grants, tuition waivers and loans to finance college ed-ucation. Students receiving federal loans are required to take an online counseling quiz to learn about financial responsibilities and other loan information.
37 percent of students in 2009-2010 took out an average of $8,332. The total amount of aid received by the students was $60,292,981.
58 percent of students received an average of $6,726 in grant or scholarship aid. The
aid totaled $76,059,207.
24 percent of students received an average of $3,720 in Pell grants. The Pell grant aid totaled $17,344,363.
Source: National Center for Education Statistics
AT A GLANCE Oklahoma debt statistics
in place so chalk would fade naturally from foot traffic and rain, Facilities Management director Brian Ellis said.
Bright- and dark-colored chalk w il l per manently stain concrete, Ellis said. If they were used, Facilities Management would have to
power wash the sidewalk.“It would be a significant
expense to have to clean up the darker or brighter col-ors,” Ellis said.
Students must receive pre-approval from Student Life to chalk north of Lindsey Street and from Residence L i f e t o c h a l k s o u t h o f Lindsey Street, said Debbie Wells, assistant to the direc-tor of Residence Life.
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Jane Smith is a prolifi c author and internationally acclaimed scholar of Islam. Her career includes 10 years as Vice President and Dean of Iliff School of Theology in Denver, and 17 years on the faculty of Harvard University where she currently serves also as Associate Dean. Among her recent publications are Islam in America (revised 2009), a text for the course; Muslims, Christians, and the Challenge of Inter-faith Dialogue (2007); and Muslim Women in America (2006, co-authored with Yvonne Haddad).
The lecture is presented in conjunction with the Presidential Dream Course RELS 3313 World Reli-gions in America, taught by Charles Kimball, Presidential Professor and director, OU Religious Studies. Sponsored by the offi ces of the OU President and the Provost, this event is open to the public at no cost to participants. This event is not funded with state-appropriated funds. For accommodations on the basis of disability, contact Lee Green at (405) 325-3349.
The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution.
The Religious Studies Programat the University of Oklahoma presentsa Presidential Dream Course Lecture
Thursday, October 20, 2011 • 3news
Class of 2012Ring Ceremony
Honoring Dean of University LibrariesSul Lee
For Over 30 Years of Service to the UniversityHonorary Ring Recipient andHomecoming Parade Marshal
3 p.m.Friday, October 21, 2011
Class of 1950 Plazaand
Oklahoma Memorial Union CourtyardIn case of rain, the ceremony will be moved to the Will Rogers Room.
For additional information or for accommodations on the basis of disability, please call (405) 325-3784.The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution.
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PlastIC: New policy keeps residents in mind, director saysContinued from page 1
been throwing things away. Participation in curbside recycling has decreased in 2011. In 2010, 47 percent of Norman residents recycled, and 38 percent have been recycling in 2011, Komiske said.
“Recycling goes through a pattern where it’s new and people recycle a lot, and they put a lot of recyclable materi-als out,” Komiske said. “But after a while, the newness of it wears off, and the partici-pation rate drops off. We are hoping by adding additional plastics that the participation rate will increase again.”
The city of Norman still c ha r g e s i t s re s i d e nt s a monthly fee of $3 whether they choose to recycle or not.
One of the reasons the ad-ditional types of plastics has not previously been recycled in Norman was due to their low worth, Komiske said.
“Our contractor says it’s a different type of plastic and has a different number, so it’s a different formula when you make it,” Komiske said. “For the recycling people, it wasn’t
as valuable of a product … and it reduced the value of recycled products that they have,” Komiske said.
Psychology junior Andrew Stephens said he doesn’t re-cycle much because he never knew what could be recycled and what couldn’t, but he’ll probably recycle more now.
“I didn’t know about the change in the policy, but we’ll probably start recycling more now,” said Stephens, who shares a house with a room-mate. “It’ll be easier now that we can recycle more things.”
Even if Norman residents don’t have recycling ser-vices because they live in an
apartment, they can still re-cycle by dropping off items at one of the three recycling centers in Norman.
The centers are located on Porter and Robinson at the County Fairgrounds, Main Street west of Hobby Lobby and on Lindsey Street in the Hollywood shopping center.
AT A GLANCEWhat you can, can’t recyclein Normando recycle:• Aluminum cans• Clean glass food jars or glass bottles• Most types of paper• Plastics numbers one through seven (look at the stamp on the bottom of the product), including: clean milk jugs, beverage containers, detergent jugs, shampoo and conditioner bottles, prescription vials, plastic trays, cups and plates, and juice, yogurt and dairy tubs.
don’t recycle:• Aluminum foil• Aerosol or paint cans• Mirror or window glass• Ceramics or dishes• Broken glass or light bulbs• Tissues, disposable diapers, wrapping paper and books• Cardboard or chipboard• Styrofoam, packing peanuts and plastic shopping bags
Source: City of Norman website
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OU Recycling employee David Skinner sorts plastic bottles and containers Monday. OU Recycling already processes all seven types of plastics, aluminum cans, paper, newspaper and batteries.
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SChOOL Of DANCE
Students to dance at new wing’s opening
OU School of Dance stu-dents will tie up their bal-let slippers for an evening of fine art and dining.
The school will bring to-gether the visual and per-forming arts to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s new Stuart Wing for the 18th annual “Once Upon a Dream” fundraiser Nov. 3.
The event will honor Dee Dee Stuart for her c o nt r i b u t i o n s t o O U, which helped fund the m u s e u m’s n e w w i n g , according to the press release.
T h e S t u a r t Fa m i l y Foundation made the $3 million contribution in 2008, the 18,000-square-foot expansion will cel-ebrate its formal opening Saturday.
“The Sandy Bell Gallery is a stunning space. I think everyone will enjoy being in another artistic envi-ronment at the University of Oklahoma,” said Holly Schmidt, School of Dance faculty member.
This year’s theme will be “The Fine Art of Dance.”
Those in attendance are welcome to take a tour of the museum’s new wing and watch special perfor-mances from dance stu-dents, including a solo from “The Nutcracker” and School of Dance pia-nist John Fry.
An auction also will be offered at the event to support the OU School of Dance International Touring Program and stu-dent scholarships.
Victoria Garten, Campus Reporter
art: Museum also receives renovations to improve exhibitsContinued from page 1
the Western American art and 30 percent of the Native American art; Tulsa took the rest,” Bendure said. “When people think of Western American art, they usually think of cowboys, but the only difference with Native American art is that they were not Native American artists.”
O U f o c u s e d o n t h e Western art to complement the displays it already offers, Bendure said.
“We chose to focus on the Western American art
because we already have a huge portion of Native American art. We wanted to balance the whole to have a great well-rounded collec-tion of art history,” Bendure said.
Museum director Ghislain d’Humières agrees there needs to be a balance.
“As a university museum, we’re supposed to have a bit of everything — from antiqui-ty to contemporary — but we have a major focus on Native American art and Western American art because they are gifts from collectors, and this is what most collectors
collect here in Oklahoma,” d’Humières said.
At least two-thirds of what will be displayed in the Stuart Wing is new to the public, d’Humières said.
And the collection is not the only new feature.
The museum also made a few renovations, including movable walls that will adapt the space for any exhibition, Bendure said.
“It gives us a lot of versatil-ity, and we’re much more at-tractive on a national and in-ternational scale,” he said.
They also built new offices, completed renovations on all
the three floors and built vis-ible storage so visitors can see what is not displayed.
The new addition was named to honor Stuart Family Foundation and the gift from OU regent Jon R. Stuart and his wife, Dee Dee, a member of the art museum’s board of visitors for several years.
“ Th e c re at i o n o f t h i s wing has been a huge proj-ect involving many people,” d’Humières said.
The university commu-nity pitched in to help with everything from the building plans and budget to keeping the museum’s day-to-day
operations going.“I didn’t want to close the
museum during the con-struction because our aim is education. So we continued the readings, the symposium, the events … it has been four very full years,” d’Humières said.
The high-speed pace is not going to change any time soon.
“We’re about to open the new building, but we already have three years of exhibition planned and all the logistics to take care of … so it will keep me busy, don’t worry about that,” d’Humières said.
Our View: As student debt hits frightening proportions , it’s even more important for students to plan for their financial futures.
Americans are set to owe more from student loans than from credit cards for the first time, according to an Aug. 11 report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
The report also showed the number of students defaulting on their loans has risen continuously since 2003, while de-faults on mortgage, auto and credit card debt have been dropping since 2009.
These startling statistics make us ask: With the economy and job market still in a slump and no recovery in sight, do stu-dent loans make sense?
Obviously, many students can’t go to college without loan money, and it’s hard to argue with the value of an undergraduate degree. But gradu-ate school is a different question.
Many students reach the end of their four — or five, or six — years of undergraduate study, get scared of entering a diffi-cult job market without a strong plan and decide to pursue graduate study as a default option.
Similarly, many former working adults are flocking back to universi-ties to pursue more education, hoping it will im-prove their job prospects. With the steep rise in college tuition over the past few years — a trend even OU is not immune from — this has resulted in a sharp increase in student debt.
We’re never ones to discourage education. And Sooners are lucky that OU has kept its tuition rel-atively low and stable, eliminating most students’ need for massive student loans. But many stu-dents are coming out of graduate school with an unmanageable level of debt and still are unable to
find a well-paying job. Adding extra debt on top of your undergraduate loans is a risky move, and it doesn’t pay off in every circumstance.
Even if you don’t go to graduate school, the first few years after graduation are filled with loan-related pitfalls that can destroy a graduate’s fi-nancial future. But there are some ways to ensure
your student loan debt doesn’t defeat you:
• Apply for scholarships and grants be-fore you borrow.
• Apply for federal loans before private loans — they’re cheaper and offer better protections.
• Check if your loan qualifies for gradu-ated, extended or income-contingent
repayment to lower your monthly payments. Call early, before you risk default.
• Use your subsidized loan before touching un-subsidized offers.
• Take only as much as you need for education expenses, not personal spending.
• Discuss options to temporar-ily defer loan payments with your lender.
• Research debt forgiveness ben-efits from certain military, medical, legal and volunteer programs.
• Visit the National Student Loan Data System online to access your loan details, or go to StudentLoans.gov for more information.
As student loans, average student debt and de-faults increase, students are going to have to start making some difficult choices. You shouldn’t go into unnecessary debt, but you also shouldn’t be afraid to accrue debt to get a solid education. Just plan ahead, budget intelligently and know your options before you end up defaulting.
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Recently, President Barack Obama de-cided to send 100
military advisers to Uganda to help take down the Lord’s Resistance Army, which is an incredibly violent militia group that wanders central African nations committing atrocities wherever they go.
This group claims to be a force for the Christian God in the region and has been working to topple the govern-ment of Uganda.
The Lord’s Resistance Army actually believes in a blend-ing of Christian ideology and central African mysticism. However, their actions show they don’t follow faith’s mor-als. This group has killed thousands and is estimated to have displaced nearly two million people. The bulk of their fighting force are children who are often taken from their families after massacres and are brutally indoctrinated into the organization. Since the army’s founding in 1987, it has forced more than 10,000 boys and girls into its military.
This group is known for murders, rapes, mutilation, torture and sexual enslavement of women and children. The president wants to try to help the governments of the region bring this group’s atrocities to an end. He has sent these advisers in to help take down the leaders and end the fear and tyranny they have been spreading for decades.
Now I do not usually give much credit to anything that conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh says , but he has recently — and very ignorantly — thrown his support behind the Lord’s Resistance Army because he believes they are Christians fighting Muslims in Sudan. But this is completely wrong. He believes that the president is “targeting Christians” and using U.S. forces to do it.
This offhand comment shows his complete ignorance about the world and the way it works, and it should further show that he is someone who should not be taken seri-ously. He has slightly backed off of these comments after people called into his radio show to tell him to actually learn the facts about the horrifying group.
Zachary Carrel is an international studies and anthropology senior.
In recent Republican presidential de-bates, many candi-
dates have been firm on the military budget not facing significant cuts. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said the apparently un-thinkable decision of “gutting our military” would be tantamount to pointing a gun to our collective head as a nation and shooting.
I have to disagree. In fact, I would go so far as to say that failing to cut the military budget to a degree that could be described as “gutting” would be more compa-rable to national suicide.
It would not be wildly inaccurate to describe our cur-rent budget situation as being somewhere between cause for outrage and cause of apocalypse. Thus, most Republican candidates are more than ready to propose areas to cut.
While I strongly agree with virtually any cut from any program administered by our wasteful leviathan of a federal government, most of the current proposals are peanuts . That’s because aside from Congressman Ron Paul and former governors Gary Johnson and John Hunstman , our potential presidents for 2012 (both President Barack Obama and his Republican challeng-ers) are completely unwilling to seriously discuss slash-ing the military budget.
At Tuesday night’s debate, Sen. Rick Santorum balked at the idea of cutting even “a single penny” from the military budget, on the grounds that “defense is the first order of government.” While I would agree with Santorum in principle that it’s the most pressing concern (in fact, I’d say that a common defense is the only possi-bly legitimate function of government), his point rests on a fundamental misunderstanding.
While common defense is important, this doesn’t mean that it takes less of a toll on the budget than more philosophically indefensible programs. Furthermore, arguments for a theoretical military that only provides a common defense are not arguments for the military as we know it.
Gigantic, staggering cuts could easily be made without cutting anything actually related to defense. In fact, we would likely be safer after such cuts.
American soldiers have now been in Afghanistan for over 10 years. All real, relevant reasons for our presence have long ended, even before the death of Osama bin Laden.
The only thing we do now by having a military pres-ence there, like everywhere we’re situated in the Middle East, is inspire hatred among the people. Consider how you would feel if foreign military troops had been stationed in Oklahoma for 10 years, and you begin to understand how our presence in the middle east ac-complishes the opposite of American defense. It’s even clearer if you imagine how you might feel if someone you knew had been classified as “collateral damage” from that foreign military’s operations.
Keeping the military budget this gargantuan only al-lows more cases of counterproductive adventurism. Most Americans are probably not even aware that we’ve been involved in predator drone strikes over Yemen and Somalia.
In the current economy, it’s also worth noting the un-seen factor of how resources allocated to our costly wars could have been used by citizens. As President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”
Unaddressed in all of this, of course, is the even more pressing issue of the thousands of human lives that have passed since our engagement in the Middle East. But my purpose here is to highlight an unforgivable incon-sistency. Any politician who claims to believe in limited government, fiscal responsibility or taking on the deficit but is not prepared to “gut” the military budget cannot be taken seriously.
Re: “Evolution should be questioned,” a letter to the ed-itor published Wednesday
When David Buckna’s letter was published, i t brought up certain aspects of the controversial topic that are valid points.
However, when he dis-cussed these issues (such as the teaching of evolution in school and the teaching of opposing viewpoints) he did not mention one im-portant fact : Evolution is science.
And as I recall, the class-es I took in high school that
discussed evolution were science classes.
As paid employees of their respective s chool districts, science teachers are required to teach the curriculum provided to them by the school district, which most often includes what is widely accepted in the scientific communi-ty. Evolution is widely ac-cepted across the scientific spectrum.
If schools were to dis-cuss opposing theories of evolution (creationism, for example), then they would
vary from the “science” part of class by definition, be-cause creationism cannot be proven or disproven by means of science.
While I do think that any science-based arguments against evolution should be discussed — after all, what is an argument without concessions? — the fact re-mains that evolution is the best supported and most logical theory to explain current life on our planet, and therefore should most definitely be taught in sci-ence classes.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I am all for free speech. Valid arguments against e v o l u t i o n s h o u l d m o s t definitely be brought up for discussion. But the fact remains that these discus-sions would take place in state-sanctioned science classes.
Therefore, the best scien-tific explanation for a phe-nomenon should be taught, and at the current time and for the foreseeable future, evolution is just that.
Taylor Haas, zoology sophomore
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Homecoming week 2011
Sooners get behind bars for charityLeft: Human relations and African American studies senior Charles Atchison calls out to students passing by to donate to the Childrens Miracle Network Wednesday. Students were locked in a corral until their organization collected at least $200 for the charity.
Bottom: Broadcast journalism sophomore John Gramlich collects a donation Wednesday for the Children’s Miracle Network during the CAC Homecoming Week Hold-Up on the South Oval.
Caitlin RuempingCampus Reporter
Desperate pleas are spo-ken from between the bars of a make-shift jail cell con-veniently located on the South Oval.
O n e p r i s o n e r i n p a r-ticular was desperate to raise the money he need-ed to be released from the Homecoming Holdup jail.
“I’m too pretty to be in jail,” human relations senior Charles Atchison said. “I’ll dance for a dollar!”
Despite Atchison’s des-perate pleas for money, he, along with other student or-ganization representatives, volunteered to spend two hours Wednesday afternoon enclosed in a jail made of PVC pipe and rope to raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network.
Each organization had a goal of $200 and the cap-tives would only be released when they either raised the money or the clock struck 2 p.m. Many of the partici-pants set their sights higher than the goal and sought out as much money as possible.
“Our goal is $200, but I want to go above and be-yond that amount,” mar-keting information senior Rianne Dixon said. “I don’t want to put a limit on it.”
In order to reach their goal, the representatives each had a gimmick to draw fellow students in and per-suade them to empty their pockets into the donation buckets. Some chose visual appeal to draw the crowd, donning Disney charac-ter and animal costumes to catch the eyes of passers-by and keep their attention long enough to beg for money.
Photos by Melodie lettkeMan/the daily
Others simply relied on sheer volume to attract donations.
“I’m not shy at all,” sociol-ogy and criminology soph-omore Avery Jaggers said. “I’m not scared to yell at people I know.”
T h e ‘ h o l d u p ’ o r i g i -nated last year when the homecoming committee joined forces with Dance Marathon, an event hosted in the spring to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network. Keeping with tradition, the proceeds of the event will be donated through Dance Marathon, who will then donate it to the Children’s Miracle Network.
“We’re going to tr y to raise a little over $3,000
dollars, and once we donate it through Dance Marathon, t h e C h i l d re n ’s Mi ra c l e N e t w o r k F o u n d a t i o n will double it, turning it into $6,000,” said Tanner T i e d e m a n , c o - c h a i r -man of philanthropy for homecoming.
Tiedeman, a pre-phar-macy sophomore, said he hopes the event will build team spirit while support-ing a charitable cause.
“I think the big thing is homecoming is a big event where students are riled up for the game and are show-ing their spirit throughout campus,” Tiedeman said. “ This is a cool way that homecoming can benefit a great cause, too.”
Students on South Oval raise money to benefit children
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To the Norman Campus Community:You’re invited to a presentation of The University
of Oklahoma’s Draft Bicycle Master Plan.
When: Thursday, October 20th, 2011 from 3:00-3:50 p.m.
Where: Jacobson Hall, 2nd Floor in the Molly Shi Boren
Presentation Room
For more information please call the offi ce of Administration and Finance at (405) 325-5161.
Don’t miss out!
Katherine Borgerding, life & arts [email protected] • phone: 405-325-5189
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Life&artshomecoming week 2011
Pomp up for a fun celebrationSydney AllenLife & Arts Reporter
Chicken wire, lots of colored plastic sheets and power saws litter the basements and backyards of sorority and fra-ternity houses all over campus throughout the months lead-ing up to Campus Activities Council’s Homecoming Week.
All these items contribute to the process of pomping, which transforms into the large, detailed floats for the homecoming parade, said Rachel Krivjansky, homecom-ing chairwoman for the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority.
“Pomping is a little hard to explain,” Krivjansky said. “Basically, you have to choose whether if you want to do macro pomp, which is big, or micro pomp, which is small. Pomp in general is either small squares of tissue paper or
plastic table cloths.”“There are all different
knots and techniques of tying the table cloth to make it look different in appear-ance,” Kappa Kappa Gamma homecoming chairwom-an Megan Marder said. “Pomping is important be-cause this is one of the ways the float gets built.”
Delta Upsilon member Tyler Bridegan said while pomping might seem chal-lenging, it is essential to homecoming.
“Homecoming does a great job of bringing people together,” said Bridegan.
“Whether it’s chalking the south oval or constructing the float, it is amazing so see all the different talents people bring to homecoming.”
Campus groups work for many hours to produce the elaborate designs that end up parading down Boyd Street.
Marder said her house along with fraternities Alpha Tau Omega and Pi Kappa Phi has worked for two months on their float. Krivjansky’s group, which also includes Alpha Chi Omega sorority and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, has been working for five weeks.
While greek groups seem to dominate the homecoming discussion, other organizations do participate in the events. Organizations are placed either in the large or small group category depending on their size.
Engineers Club is one of these non-greek organizations. The club will be participating in the small group category, led by president Logan Klein.
Klein said although his group isn’t the size of a greek organization, many hours go into the preparation of the floats.
“While all 2,300 students of the College of Engineering are in E-Club, we only have about 100 active members,” Klein said. “So we don’t have the manpower of a greek organization.”
Klein, who is also the homecoming chairman for Delta Upsilon fraternity, said the pomping hierarchy is similar in greek organizations.
Members of both greek and non-greek organizations par-ticipating in homecoming have other things in common as well including the mad rush to finish the floats before judg-ing takes place.
“I am not looking forward to the all-night pomp on Friday,” Klein said. “But I’m ecstatic about the parade.”
Despite the challenges of constructing the floats and col-laborating with other groups, both women said they believe pomping, and homecoming as a whole, is an important part of both greek life and student life at OU.
“I believe pomping encourages bonding between fra-ternities, sororities and other organizations on campus,” Krivjansky said. “I know personally that I’ve gotten to know a lot of fun people I would never have met if it weren’t for pomping and homecoming.”
Marder said pomping is a traditional part of homecoming that also allows for a little competition.
“It helps houses come together to show school spirit while also having friendly rivalries in doing so,” Marder said. “I be-lieve it also allows the University of Oklahoma to uphold tra-ditions that have always been around.”
MORGAN BONT/THE DAILY
Amy Slanchik, broadcast journalism sophomore, hurries to finish pomping on Wednesday for Alpha Phi sorority as OU Homecoming draws near. Campus organizations will show their floats during the Campus Activities Council Homecoming parade Saturday.
“Homecoming does a great job of bringing
people together, whether it’s chalking
the south oval or constructing the
float, it is amazing so see all the different
talents people bring to homecoming.”
TyLeR BRidegAn, deLTA UPSiLOn memBeR
Student organizations make floats for this year’s Saturday parade
Thursday, October 20, 2011 • 7Life&Arts
OKC MuseuM Of Art
Whimsy artist paints
photos provided
Franco Mondini-Ruiz’s work hangs in the Oklahoma City Museum of Art in Oklahoma City. Mondini-Ruiz’s exhibit, titled “Poodles and Pastries (and Other Important Matters),” will be on display until Dec. 31.
Alex NiblettLife & Arts Reporter
Internationally acclaimed ar t ist Franco Mondini-Ruiz will bring his art to Oklahoma City’s Museum of Art this season with help from OU students.
Mondini-Ruiz introduced Oklahoma to a unique ex-hibit that opened to the pub-lic in mid-September, which will stay installed until mid-December. The exhibit, titled “Poodles and Pastries (and Other Important Matters),” is an acquired collection of Mondini-Ruiz’s exqui-site works of art that ranges from hundreds of miniature paintings to various small sculptures.
Mondini-Ruiz’s paintings fill the walls of the exhibit in the OKC Museum of Art with splashes of color and touch-es of gold that embellish his ideas of beauty, pleasure, culture and fashion.
Mondini-Ruiz said he likes to name his art with witty, whimsical titles. He said he explores different ar-tistic styles and periods and tries to make his art extra-special.
“If a painting doesn’t sell, I add a cat, and then if the painting doesn’t sell again, I add a chandelier,” Mondini-Ruiz said laughing.
Univesity College fresh-man Nicole Knox recently volunteered to help him give the exhibit a touch-up by re-furbishing the edges of his paintings.
“He encouraged me to take the paintings off the walls and interact with them in my own way,” Knox said. “His exhibit is not only his works, but also the whims
of its visitors and I love the vibe of openness and casual conversation that permeates that kind of atmosphere.”
Knox said the exhibit is a varied, playful atmosphere and believes it is definitely worth visiting.
Chemistry junior Rebecca Morton is assisting Mondini-Ruiz this season with his “Poodles & Pastries” exhibit. Morton says this experience is benefiting her in many ways, and she expressed her admiration for Mondini-Ruiz.
“This has probably been one of the most beneficiary jobs I have ever had, and I love working with Franco,” Morton said. “He can sit there and accidently spill paint on a canvas and think ‘oh my gosh, I know what I’m going to do with this.’ Most would freak out, but Franco just goes with it.”
Mondini-Ruiz was a suc-cessful lawyer for ten years, but ever since he was a child, he’s always had a passion for art.
“I’d come home and ac-cidently destroy my lawyer suit by painting things all over the house,” Mondini-Ruiz claimed.
Mondini-Ruiz said he has an appreciation for artists like Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol and Giotto di Bondone, who each inspire him.
“I’m a disciple of Andy Warhol,” Mondini-Ruiz said light-heartedly. “Instead of reading my lessons in law school, I was pouring over books, learning about artists.”
Mondini-Ruiz’s art can be found in world-renowned museums, including the S m i t h s o n i a n , t h e S a n Antonio Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Andy Warhol Museum, to name a few.
Mondini-Ruiz offered ad-vice to young artists, saying, “If the universe gives you a gift, take it.”
International artist mixes culture with pleasure for exhibit As cooler tempera-
tures have settled in and fall has
begun to take form, stu-dents are likely contem-plating their own unique costumes for Halloween and anxiously anticipating all the activities the festive holiday has to offer.
Thankfully, this eerie holiday spirit can be ex-pressed as early as this weekend with a wide range of ac-tivities. From spine-tingling trilogies to creepy haunted houses, these pre-nights of fright are sure to serve as the perfect precursor to the approaching holiday.
Horror filmThose who were genuinely startled by the first two in-
stallments of the popular “Paranormal Activity” franchise should brace themselves for more sleepless nights with the anticipated release of “Paranormal Activity 3.” As a member of the increasingly appealing “found-footage” horror sub-genre, the original film — about an invisible demonic entity that terrorizes an unfortunate yuppie cou-ple — dutifully reinstated audiences’ fear of the dark.
Students wanting to get a head start on all the ghostly activities Halloween has to offer, should check out this series’ third chapter, which releases in theaters Friday, promising more pulse-pounding chills.
Haunted houses and eventsFrom ghoulish monsters to legendary horror icons, stu-
dents can witness their deepest, darkest fears shockingly realized in some of the state’s haunted houses.
Those who crave gruesome, visceral thrills will appre-ciate Oklahoma City’s haunted warehouse “Pitch Black,” which opened Wednesday and runs through Oct. 31. The haunted warehouse is a chilling experience, located at the Coca-Cola Bricktown Event Center, providing attendants with a single glow stick on their ominous voyage through. Those brave enough to venture through the building’s perilous corridors immersing themselves in this menac-ing, nightmarish undertaking will surely quench their thirst.
Students who prefer to engage in local affairs should participate in Norman’s “Party of the Damned” Halloween party at 9 p.m. Friday. Hosted and sponsored by The Hidden Castle and OU’s GLBTF members, this oc-casion will include live music, a DJ and an exclusive cos-tume contest for prideful and creative participants.
So, if you were wondering how to sustain your holiday spirit and keep yourself entertained until Halloween, this weekend has plenty to offer in the way of thrills and excitement.
“if a painting doesn’t sell, i add a cat, and then if
the painting doesn’t sell again, i add a
chandelier.”FRAnCO MOnDInI-RuIz,
ARtIst
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Friday, Oct. 21
Adkins Scholars Choice | 11 a.m.-noon in the Sandy Bell Gallery, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Before the Eugene B. Adkins Collection opens to the general public, four faculty members from the OU School of Art and Art History and the Charles M. Russell Center have each selected a favorite work from the Adkins collection. Each guest will give a short presentation about the signifi cance of the selected work in this informal setting.
Guess the Score | 11:30 a.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union First Floor Lobby. Think you know Sooner Football? Prove it at the Union Programming Board’s game day predictions to win great prizes! The winning score from every home game will get a FREE Blu Ray Movie and the winning score from every away game will get a UPB T-Shirt. The overall winner at the end of the season will win a Blu Ray Player! There’s ALWAYS SOMETHING at the union, www.ou.edu/upb.
OU Softball: OU vs. Newman University | 7 p.m. at the Marita Hynes Field. Admission is FREE for students with a valid OU ID. Visit soonersports.com for more information.
Homecoming Pep Rally | 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 7 p.m.) at the John Crain Soc-cer Field. Come and experience the excitement of the fans before the Homecoming Game at the annual Homecoming Pep Rally. This event is free and open to all
Thursday, Oct. 20
The Eugene B. Adkins Symposium | Cross-Cultural Infl uences in the Art of the American Southwest | 10 a.m.-noon in the Marry Eddy and Fred Jones Audito-rium, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. This symposium will explore the confl uence of Euro-American and Native American cultures in the American Southwest and the rich visual culture informed by the often-complex interaction between the dis-parate peoples.
Intramural Update | 6 v. 6 Volleyball Entries | 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Huston Huffman Center front desk, $40 entry fee per team ( team is free if all students are living in OU housing). For more information visit http://www.ou.edu/far or call Jonathan Dewhirst, (405) 325-3053.
FREE Concert | Stars Go Dim | 8 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium: Oklahoma Memorial Union. Presented by the Union Programming Board. There’s ALWAYS SOMETHING at the union, www.ou.edu/upb.
Intramural Update | Flag Football Bracket Placement Meeting | 7:30 p.m. in the Huston Huffman Center front desk, room 130. All teams with a 3-2 record or better and a 2.5 sportsmanship rating or greater qualify for the playoffs, all captains must attend in order to be placed properly on the bracket. For more information visit http://www.ou.edu/far or call Jonathan Dewhirst, (405) 325-3053.
Saturday, Oct. 22
Women’s Volleyball: OU vs. Kansas State | TBA at the McCasland Field House. Fan appreciation day: FREE OU pom poms and FREE admission for all fans. Visit soonersports.com for more information.
Homecoming Parade | begins three hours before kick-off at the corner of Elm Street and Boyd Street. The annual Homecoming Parade is an opportunity to showcase the Sooner Spirit. From royalty and parade fl oats to the spirit groups, the parade will highlight the Sooner Pride and “Paint the Town Crimson”. This event is open to all. Presented by the Campus Activities Council.
Sooner Football: OU vs. Texas Tech | TBA at the Gaylord Family Oklahoma Me-morial Stadium. Visit soonersports.com for ticket information.
OU vs. Texas Tech Watch Party | TBA in Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memo-rial Union. Don’t have tickets? See the game for FREE at the union! Presented by the Union Programming Board.
Sunday, Oct. 23
Stuart Wing Opening Celebration | 1-5 p.m. at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. The opening celebration for the new Stuart Wing includes free admission, artist demonstrations and other special programming for the community! Admission is always free for OU students with a valid ID!
University Theatre Presents: Sunday in the Park with George | 3 p.m. in the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $14 for students, $18 for seniors, military and OU faculty/staff and $22 for adults. Contact the OU Fine Arts Box Offi ce for more information, (405) 325-4101.
students, faculty, staff and alumni. Presented by the Campus Activities Council.
University Theatre Presents: Sunday in the Park with George | 8 p.m. in the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $14 for students, $18 for seniors, military and OU faculty/staff and $22 for adults. Contact the OU Fine Arts Box Offi ce for more information, (405) 325-4101.
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Instructions:Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. That means that no number is repeated in any row, column or box.
Previous Solution
Monday- Very EasyTuesday-EasyWednesday- EasyThursday- MediumFriday - Hard
ACROSS 1 NASA mod-
ule 4 Like a gnat 9 Monastery
VIP 14 They did
“Don’t Bring Me Down”
15 “Flash-dance” singer Cara
16 Role in Bizet’s “The Pearl Fish-ers”
17 Makeup remover
19 Rags-to-riches author Horatio
20 Sneak ___ (look sur-reptitiously)
21 Belch forth 23 Computer
image 24 Consid-
eration in purchasing a car
26 Up, on maps 28 Reordered
manuscript sheets, e.g.
32 Recede to the sea
35 “Ah, whatev-er” follower
36 Topps rival, to baseball card collec-tors
38 Window-rattling
40 Crockett cap critters
43 Sports broadcaster
44 Islamic dec-laration
46 Entree eaten with a spoon
48 Airline web-site stat.
49 New addi-tions to the family, some-times
53 “Bennie and the Jets” singer John
54 Top-level worker?
58 Give a mighty heave
60 “Junk begets junk” computer acronym
63 Breast-feed 64 Not quite
straight 66 Opaque
drinking ves-sel
68 Illegal lend-ing tactic
69 “... but to no ___”
70 ___ West (life preserver)
71 End, as a subscription
72 Southpaw 73 Needle’s
holeDOWN 1 Aptly named
Renault vehicle
2 Descend a ladder and wed
3 Burrowing creatures
4 Predica-ments
5 Be at fault 6 Seize homo-
phone 7 “Sack” at-
tachment 8 Aden citizen 9 Pie ___
mode
10 Put down 11 High muck-
a-muck 12 Breakfast-
table spread 13 Small glacial
lake 18 Salutation
starter 22 Took all the
marbles 25 Tale on a
grand scale 27 U.K. military
fliers 29 “A long time
___ in a galaxy far, far away ...”
30 Casper is a friendly one
31 Pt. of NYPD 32 North Pole
helper 33 Constrictor
snakes 34 Yellow flower 37 Biochemist’s
letters 39 Inhabitants 41 Degree of
considerable
degree 42 One with
powers of foresight
45 Likely (to) 47 Incorrectly 50 Ship’s visibil-
ity impairer 51 Like some
instincts 52 Motown mu-
sic category 55 Set up an in-
nocent party 56 “How I Spent
My Sum-mer,” often
57 Examine again, as a patient
58 Truck 59 “Major”
animal 61 Collapse un-
der pressure 62 Name of
several Nor-wegian kings
65 Easter egg colorer
67 Baby fox
Universal CrosswordEdited by Timothy E. Parker October 20, 2011
Your chart indicates that there are strong probabilities for profi t in the coming months, from something that is originated by another. Lady Luck could be big factor in that person bringing you into his or her endeavor.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) --Be wary of taking a fi nancial risk on an involvement that you cannot person-ally control. There’s a chance you might end up paying for someone else’s mistakes.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- It’s sad but true that not everyone you deal with will bide by the same high standards you set for yourself. Be careful not to trip over your own naivete.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) --Even though you have a sharp eye for details, it might be diffi cult for you to see the entire picture. You should stand back a bit, in order to take in and analyze the whole view.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Schedule your day so that responsi-bilities are given greater priority over pleasurable pursuits. Unless you think ahead and use reason, you could waste valuable time.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) --Be careful that you don’t base your judgment and decision-making on emotional rather than logical aspects of your life. Needless to say, you would fare better if the emphasis were reversed.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- A project you establish for yourself might look far easier on paper than it actually is. However, once you
discover this, don’t use it as an excuse to dump the effort.ents will take precedence over yours.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- If you promise or give away much more than you should when cutting a deal, you’ll regret it later, when you have time to refl ect. Be fair to others, but make sure that you’re taken care of, too.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Look before you leap when attempting to handle a complex assignment. You could easily misread something and end up making your task twice as hard to accomplish.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) --Make sure you distinguish the difference between positive and mere wishful thinking. The former enhances suc-cess; the latter only invites failure.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- All types of material opportunities hover about you at this point in time, but you might not even recognize them for what they are, owing to an indif-ferent attitude on your part. Be alert.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- It isn’t right to expect others to do things for you that you can do equally well or even manage far more competently then they, unless you’re paying them to do so. Don’t expect any free rides.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) --Even though you’re a rather perceptive individual, you could be taken in and accept something at face value instead of checking things out as you usually do. Don’t be naive.
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OUDaily.com ››OU football coach Bob Stoops says the Big 12’s old scheduling system had its share of flaws like the new one does.
Commiserating soccer fans are wondering just
what happened to Sooner soccer this season.
Following a record-setting season in 2010 that saw the highest Big 12 Conference ranking in the history of the program and its first Big 12 cham-pionship appearance, the 2011 team had high hopes to solidify OU’s name among the conference elite this season.
But without finishing scoring opportunities or stay-ing strong on the defensive lines, this year’s young soc-cer squad is doing a lot of growing through game-time experience.
Or more like baptism by fire.This season, the Sooners have compiled losing streaks
of three and five games each, the most recent coming against Big 12 foes. After maintaining a comfortable 5-6 nonconference record to begin the season, OU has since dropped to 1-4 in the Big 12, a record that is only chal-lenged by Iowa State’s winless 0-5 conference stint.
Several newcomers and second-years are getting to see more playing time, including players like sophomore forward Amy Petrikin, who switched from the defensive position to becoming one of OU’s top scorers.
Taking a closer look at the stats sheet, the Sooners don’t look to be struggling on offense other than overall goal production. OU is out-shooting its opponents 216-178, in-cluding a commanding 119-71 in the first quarter alone.
The team also is not giving up an overwhelming ratio of corner kicks to its opponents, either. While OU doesn’t hold the 80-69 corner advantage, the team does hold a 16-10 goal advantage during first-half action.
It is only in the second half that opponents take over with a 19-9 goal advantage.
The lack of finishing in scoring opportunities has hurt the Sooners this year. But with four forwards on the team with four or more goals, OU has the capability to get the job done on offense.
If the team wants to get back to the Big 12 tournament in consecutive seasons, the Sooners will need to battle their way through the remaining games in their Big 12 schedule and find a way to stand tall on defense.
It’s no secret the conference is loaded at the top with na-tionally- anked Oklahoma State headlining the show, but the middle teams aren’t soft, either.
Texas and Texas Tech handed the Sooners in 2-0 wins each during the first week of October.
Missouri also scored the most goals against the Sooner defense this season with a 5-2 win in Norman last weekend.
The Sooners already have had to deal with the second-ranked team in the country, OSU, during the Big 12 season opener, when the Cowgirls delivered a 3-0 knockout jab Sept. 30 in front of Bedlam-crazed fans in Norman.
And the Sooners’ schedule won’t get any easier from here on out.
With three games left on the schedule, OU will need to find wins against A&M, Baylor, and Kansas — all of which are ahead of the Sooners in the Big 12 standings. A&M and Baylor also are currently the No. 2 and No. 3 spots in the conference.
On the same hand, a win against any or all of the teams left will help improve OU’s standings and could help the team punch its ticket back to the Big 12 tournament.
The Sooners have a lot of growing up to do, but when the team starts finding a way to complete its offensive runs, opponents better be ready on the other side of the ball.
Tobi Neidy is a Multidisciplinary studies senior. You can follow her on Twitter at @TobiAnn.
I dare you to walk into one of Oklahoma basketball coach Lon
Kruger’s practices and leave without thinking it was worth your time and effort.
For starters, it’s free.Practice in college athlet-
ics is underrated. So much money and marketing is put into game days and that overshadows what student-athletes do in the weeks and months leading up to those games.
Fans come to games and expect to see a bunch of 17- to 23-year-old kids playing a sport at their peak poten-tial. And that is as it should be; you’ve likely paid good money for tickets, and in turn, you should be able to watch a superior product.
But practice is where that product is built, shaped and sanded into the aesthetic artistry you’ll witness.
Kruger and his staff are making a concerted effort to include you — the fans — in that process, and folks, you’d be wise to take him up on his offer.
Then again, some of you already have.
Gary Brookshire is a long-time OU basketball fan and follows the team with great interest.
He sat next to me at prac-tice Monday afternoon in Lloyd Noble Center, watch-ing each of the players and commenting to me as he saw fit about which he believes should start and which he thinks should sit.
I spoke to him at length about OU basketball, the city of Norman and even The Daily — a publication in which he said he has run an ad for his business from time to time.
“I’ve never been to a Division-1 basketball team practice,” he said. “It’s a treat for me just to be here. I get a kick out of just watch-ing [Oklahoma] workout.”
So do I, Gary.Gary, myself and a hand-
ful of other fans were treated to watching 15 top-shelf student-athletes run up and down the floor like their hair was on fire. We watched the team play the game as Dr. Naismith meant for it to be played — passing, moving without the ball, solid defense — for three hours.
Let me write that again: Three hours of basketball.
An NCAA college basket-ball game lasts for two 20 minute halves, or two hours
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Sophomore guard Cameron Clark (right) stretches before practice Monday. OU coach Lon Kruger made all Sooner men’s basketball practices open to the public this season.
real-time — if you’re lucky. Oklahoma runs drills and scrimmages at full-speed for an hour longer with one- to two-minute breaks sprinkled in between.
Strategically, the empha-sis at practice is on running the floor full-speed but with control, while the coaches encourage hard-nosed defense.
Coaches teach players, challenging them with every dribble to become better basketball players. And as those coaches teach, players and fans learn.
Coaches don’t berate players, and players aren’t disrespectful, so a parent bringing their child to prac-tice wouldn’t be a problem.
At the end of practice,
you might hear the team break its huddle with the word “family,” which might surprise you once more.
The players will walk into the stands, seek you out, thank you and shake your hand. If it’s your first time to attend practice, they will in-troduce themselves — and ask you your name.
Maybe other programs have an open-door policy for practice. Maybe they don’t.
Oklahoma basketball does, and it is quick to say, “Welcome.”
RJ Young is a second-year professional writing graduate student. You can follow him on Twitter at @RJ_Young.
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League talks run long once again, even after David Stern leaves
NEW YORK — NBA owners and players are continuing another lengthy bargaining session despite the departure of Commissioner David Stern.
Stern left after talks surpassed the seven-hour mark Wednesday to attend an own-ers’ planning committee meeting at an-other hotel. It’s unclear whether he plans to return later Wednesday night.
The two sides are hoping to make prog-ress toward ending the 111-day lockout.
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Baylor Bears favored to win league KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Baylor women’s basketball
team is the preseason favorite to win the Big 12.Coach Kim Mulkey isn’t worried about her team be-
coming complacent after last year’s season ended with a 34-3 record and a loss to eventual national champion Texas A&M in the NCAA tournament.
After beating the Aggies three times, the Lady Bears fell one game short of the Final Four and lost to A&M.
Baylor has four returning starters, including player-of-the-year Brittney Griner. It will be the final year before Texas A&M leaves for the Southeastern Conference and Missouri is also considering a departure from the Big 12.
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UNC Tar Heels picked as ACC favoriteCHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina is the favorite to
win the Atlantic Coast Conference, while Tar Heels soph-omore Harrison Barnes is the league’s preseason player of the year.
The Tar Heels were picked first on 57 of 59 ballots from media members during Wednesday’s ACC Operation Basketball event. In addition, UNC’s John Henson and Tyler Zeller joined Barnes — a unanimous pick — as the top three vote-getters on the all-ACC team.
UNC returns all five starters from a team that won 29 games and the ACC regular-season title before falling a game short of the Final Four with a loss to Kentucky.
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Terrell Owens ready to play, agent saysTerrell Owens is ready to return to the NFL.The veteran wide receiver has been rehabilitating a
left knee injury that required surgery. He is a free agent and agent Drew Rosenhaus says he will begin contacting teams immediately to let them know Owens is healthy.
Rosenhaus said Owens could play Sunday.“We are open to any team at this point,” Rosenhaus said
Wednesday. “There have been several teams showing in-terest thus far, but I won’t identify them at this time.”
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10 • Thursday, October 20, 2011 sports
Griffin pulls out of event after cutting foot while swimming in the ocean
OKLAHOMA CITY — Los Angeles Clippers All-Star Blake Griffin has pulled out of a charity basketball game in Oklahoma City this weekend because of a cut on his right foot.
Griffin’s agent, Sam Goldfeder, said Wednesday that Griffin was hurt while swimming in the ocean but that it’s a minor injury and he should be back on the court soon.
Organizers of the US Fleet Tracking Basketball Invitational announced several additions to the Sunday night game ex-pected to include All-Stars Kevin Durant, LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Amar’e Stoudemire and Russell Westbrook.
Oklahoma City’s Kendrick Perkins and James Harden, Portland’s LaMarcus Aldridge, Atlanta’s Jamal Crawford and Damien Wilkins, Minnesota’s Michael Beasley and Houston’s Jonny Flynn have committed to play.
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Former Sooner star to miss OKC charity game with injury
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Former oU basketball player Blake griffin stands on the sideline during the oU-texas football game oct. 8 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If any school has been cast as the villain in the chaotic re-alignment of the Big 12, it’s Texas.
When Nebraska left for the Big Ten last year, it made no secret of its resentment of the way the Longhorns kept t r y ing to g et their way. Texas A&M was criti-cal of the Longhorns and
i t s L o n g h o r n N e t w o r k when the Aggies decided to go to the Southeastern Conference. O klahoma president David Boren and Oklahoma State benefac-tor T. Boone Pickens both expressed frustration with Texas recently and openly said they might head out to the Pac-12.
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G o e s t e n k o r s s a i d Wednesday at Big 12 media day that the L o n g h o r n s should not be singled out, and that it’s not an issue w i t h h e r players.
“ W e r e -a l l y d o n ’ t talk about it,” she said. “We know we’re going to stand strong and we know we’re
in the Big 12 and the Big 12 is always going to remain strong, and we feel good about it.”
G oestenkors said the Longhorn players don’t dis-cuss anything people out-side the team have to say.
“Everybody’s going to try to find a villain, but that’s their business,” she said. “We don’t feel like the vil-lain. We know we’re not the villain. So we’re just going to play ball.”
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’Horns not to blame for conference uncertainty, basketball coach says
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Thursday, October 20, 2011 • 11sports
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Nobody is too special to play special teams at Kansas State.
I f quar terback Col l in Klein covered punts better than anyone else, coach Bill Snyder mused this week, he would be on the punt cov-erage team. Snyder paused and tilted his head slightly, appearing to contemplate that idea and then allowing a subtle smile.
“That might be a stretch,” he admitted, “but you get the picture.”
The picture of No. 12 Kansas State’s 41-34 win last Saturday included the kick return team spring-ing Tyler Lockett for a pa-tient, zig-zagging 100-yard touchdown return, Raphael Guidry blocking two field goal attempts, and the kick return coverage team limit-ing Texas Tech to an average starting field position of its own 21-yard line.
While the quarterback may not play on special teams, plenty of others do, including wide receivers Tramaine Thompson and Chris Harper, and defen-sive backs David Garrett and Tysyn Hartman. It’s risky to put key components of the offense and defense in that position, but Snyder under-stands the value of it.
And the players have bought into it as the Wildcats head into Saturday’s game at rival Kansas.
“It’s a main part of the game,” defensive end Jordan Voelker said, “and putting your best athletes out there on that helps change the game a little bit because they
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Special teams special for K-State
are, they can be big game changers. They can change the game in an instant.”
Every day, practices begin with special teams work, and more of it takes place later on. After the Texas Tech game, that aspect was the first thing that Snyder ad-dressed in the locker room.
“It’s a very valuable third of what goes on,” he said. “I’ve seen too many ball games won and lost with special teams.”
This focus on special teams is hardly a new concept.
Over the years, Snyder gained a reputation for hav-ing excellent special teams units. Kansas State’s 79 non-offensive touchdowns since 1999, the second-most in the nation behind Virginia Tech’s 82, illustrate
how the extra attention pays off. The list of special teams standouts who have gone on to the NFL is just as lengthy — Darren Sproles, Martin Gramatica, Terence Newman, Andre Coleman, Aaron Lockett, David Allen
and Jamie Rheem, among many others.
Sean Snyder fits into that category, too.
An All-American punter when he played for his dad in the early 1990s, Sean Snyder has been a member of the football staff for 17 years. But much of that time was spent in football operations, and later as associate head coach. This is his first season in full-time coaching, and he’s the guy who is most responsible for the special teams.
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Snyder sees results with best players on special teams
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Kansas State’s Tyler Lockett works upfield against Texas Tech on Saturday in Lubbock, Texas. Lockett scored on a 100-yard kickoff return.
“Putting your best athletes out there on [special teams] helps change the game a little bit because they are, they can be
big game changers.”Jordan VoeLKer, defenSiVe end
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Boise State lineman back after suspension
BOISE, Idaho — NCAA officials have reinstated a Boise State player who served a six-game suspen-sion for taking improper benefits worth $13,600 be-fore and after he enrolled at the university.
S o p h o m o r e d e f e n -sive tackle Ricky Tjong-A-Tjoe returned to the No. 5 Broncos (6-0, 1-0) Wednesday and is eligi-ble to play in Saturday’s conference home opener against Air Force.
Tjong-A-Tjoe is one of three Broncos who were suspended at the start of the season pending an in-vestigation into possible recruiting infractions
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Big East was working on TV rights before deflections
NEW YORK — The Big East was working on a plan for members to hand over their most lucrative television rights to the league before Syracuse and Pittsburgh decided to leave.
Commissioner John Marinatto said the league plans to revive discussions about grant of rights when the conference becomes more stable.
A grant of rights is a contractual agreement between a conference and school that makes switching leagues virtual-ly impossible. The school would have to leave the TV rights for most of its football games behind.
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12 • Thursday, October 20, 2011 advertisement
The University of Oklahoma Announces a Milestone
in the History of Arts in Oklahoma:The Opening of The Stuart Wing
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
Opening Oct. 22, The Stuart Wing provides a new 18,000-square-foot expansion of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art to house the museum’s many collections. Designed by noted architect Rand Elliott, the new addition is named the Stuart Wing to honor a $3 million lead gift from the Stuart Family Foundation made possible by the generosity
of OU Regent Jon R. Stuart and his wife, Dee Dee, a member of the art museum’s board of visitors.
The Eugene B. Adkins Collection�������������������works of American and Native American art from the Southwest, amassed by Eugene B. Adkins who was born in Tulsa, Okla., includes paintings, prints, jewelry, pottery and basketry on display in the new Stuart Wing of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. In 2008, the Eugene B. Adkins Foundation awarded stewardship of the collection of more than 3,300 objects to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa. Nicholai Fechin (U.S., b. Russia 1881-1955) Indian
Girl with Pottery (n.d.) from the Roxanne P. and William H. Thams Collection.
Eanger Irving Couse (U.S., 1866-1936) The Medicine Maker (n.d.) from the Priscilla C. and Joseph N. Tate Collection.
Ernest L. Blumenschein (U.S., 1874-1950) Taos Valley and Mountain (n.d.) from the Richard H. and Adeline J. Fleischaker Collection.
The Richard H. and Adeline J. Fleischaker Collection of approximately 450 major pieces of art, including paintings, sculpture, pottery, basketry and Native American artifacts, was built over several decades by the late Richard H. and Adeline J. Fleischaker of Oklahoma City. It includes works by such notable artists as Thomas Hart Benton, Marc Chagall, Childe Hassam, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro and Pablo Picasso. The Native American paintings, sculpture and pottery include work by such contemporary and historical artists as Allan Houser, Maria Martinez, T.C. Cannon, R.C. Gorman, Stephen Mopope, Fritz Scholder, Jerome Tiger, and Pablita Velarde. Western artists include Ernest L. Blumenschein, E. Irving Couse, Nicolai Fechin, Leon Gaspard and more.
The Priscilla C. and Joseph N. Tate Collection, a gift from Priscilla C. and Joe Tate of Tulsa, includes 12 masterworks by members of the Taos Society of Artists. The collection features paintings of superior quality ranging from Kenneth Adams to Walter Ufer. The Tate paintings do not duplicate the works in either the Thams or the Fleischaker Collections, but add strength and extraordinary depth overall.
The Roxanne P. and William H. Thams Collection of Southwestern art by members of the famous Taos Society of Artists, also known as the Taos Colony, came to the University from OU alumnus William H. Thams of Midland, Texas, in memory of his wife, Roxanne P. Thams, who also was an OU graduate. It includes 31 works by such artists as Ernest L. Blumenschein, E. Irving Couse, Nicolai Fechin, Leon Gaspard, Bert G. Phillips, E. Martin Hennings and Joseph Henry Sharp.
Walter Ufer (U.S., 1876-1936) Going East (n.d) from the Eugene B. Adkins Collection.
The James T. Bialac Collection includes more than 3,700 works representing indigenous cultures across North America, especially the Pueblos of the Southwest, the Navajo, the Hopi, many of the tribes of the Northern and Southern Plains and the Southeastern tribes. James T. Bialac of Arizona gave one of the most important private collections of Native American art in the country to the university’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
You are invited to visit The Stuart WingThe collections housed in the Stuart Wing allow visitors to view works of art that complement the
already outstanding collections held by the museum, including the Weitzenhoffer Collection of French Impressionism, bringing the total to nearly 16,000 works of art.
Helen Hardin (U.S., 1943-1984), Winter Awakening of the O-Khoo-Wah (1972) from the James T. Bialac Collection.
The Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Sandor Photography Collection features vintage works by Bill Brandt, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward S. Curtis, André Kertész, W. Eugene Smith, James VanDerZee, Garry Winogrand and others, including many works depicting people. The collection was given by Ellen and Richard Sandor of Chicago, in honor of University of Oklahoma President David L. Boren and First Lady Molly Shi Boren.
André Kertész’s (1894-1985) Piet Mondrian, Paris (1926) from the Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Sandor Photographic Collection.
The museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. The museum is closed on Monday.
The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution.
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of ArtFor more information visit www.ou.edu/fjjma
Also housed in the wing are other important works from the collections of Jerome M. Westheimer, Sr., Rennard Strickland, Carol Beesley Hennagin and other works of photography.
