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University group helps Saturday parade struggling to fi nd fl oats; funds
SARA GROOVERThe Oklahoma Daily
Despite a lack of resources, OU graduates and current staff are working together to save the 17th annual Norman Mardi Gras Parade on Saturday.
The parade was canceled due to a lack of funds from donors, The Norman Transcript reported Feb. 9. OU alumna Aimee Rook joined with OU staff member Amy Kercher and several Norman and OU community members to save the parade.
Kercher has worked with the parade since it originated 17 years ago. She said the group is mo-tivated by the bands and floats in the line up and, most of all, their love for the parade.
The parade attracts people from across the state and generates revenue for local restaurants and businesses, Rook said.
“We want to make it very accessible to the com-munity and family friendly,” said Amy Kercher, OU School of Drama costume shop seamstress.
The parade also provides an ideal opportu-nity for Jazz in June Inc.’s spring fundraiser. The organization’s fundraiser, “Meet Me on Bourbon Street” occurs Saturday during the parade.
“We are having our Jazz in June spring fundrais-er at the same time as the Norman Mardi Gras pa-rade.” said OU alumnus and Jazz in June President
Farrel Droke.The fundraiser for Jazz in June costs $25 in ad-
vance or $30 at the door. The ticket includes free food from Café Plaid and drinks provided by Coach’s restaurant, Droke said. The University of Central Oklahoma’s “Civilized Tribe Dixie Band” will perform at the event.
“There are hundreds, if not thousands, of peo-ple that come out to the parade and have fun,” said Debra Levy Martinelli, the owner of local public relations agency LevyMart.
The Mardi Gras parade is still new to Norman because students still don’t know about it, said Kara Joy McKee, 2007 OU graduate.
With only 10 to 15 floats, the float lineup is smaller than previous years. Rook said the two days the parade was canceled caused the smaller lineup.
Last year, the parade had about 36 floats, Kercher said.
Rook said she encourages the OU community to participate because students and faculty are a major part of the Norman family. Applications are due late Friday, but Rook said they will take appli-cations until the parade lineup fills.
The parade begins at 6:45 p.m. on Jones Street in downtown Norman. The Jazz in June fundraiser will begin at 6 p.m. in the Santa Fe Train Depot.
The parade is sponsored by the Norman Arts Council and Party Galaxy. The cost to enter the parade is $20.
OU Parking and Transit now enforcing parking rules in Asp Avenue garage
RUSSELL TAYLORThe Oklahoma Daily
OU parking rules are being enforced fully this semester now that most of the construction across campus has been completed, a parking spokeswoman said.
Students using the Asp Avenue parking ga-rage received warnings the first week of the semester instead of citations to alert them the rules in the garage would be enforced, said Vicky Holland, OU Parking and Transit spokeswoman.
The signs displayed in the Asp Avenue park-ing garage were replaced recently, but they have always stated the meter must be paid or a permit must be displayed from 5 to 9 p.m. during the week. This is the first semester that those rules are being enforced because of the construction, Holland said.
“Since most of that construction has ended, we are now enforcing that rule,” Holland said.
Interior design sophomore Allyson Bristow said she was unaware of the changes.
“I parked in the Asp parking garage every week last semester for my evening class, and I never had a permit or paid the meter, and I never got a ticket,” Bristow said. “But this se-mester I got a ticket on the second night class
that I had and another one on the following Wednesday.”
Parking and transportation has issued 7,796 tickets and generated $143,240 this semester, Holland said. This number is lower than the first six weeks of the spring 2010 semester when 8,955 tickets were given, Holland said.
The department uses citation money to cover operating expenses and maintain its self-funded status, Holland said in an e-mail.
Students can avoid violations in the Asp Avenue garage by purchasing an evening pass from the Parking and Transit website. Typically, the evening pass costs $34.50 per semester, but it can be prorated and will cost less when pur-chased for the remainder of the semester.
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Pairs on presidential ticket collect campaign ideas while collecting signatures
KATHLEEN EVANSThe Oklahoma Daily
For UOSA president and vice president tickets to run in spring elections, candidates must first pay a $150 fee or obtain 501 stu-dent signatures. This year, all candidates turned in more than their required signatures.
U O S A E l e c t i o n B o a r d Chairwoman Natalie Jester said both UOSA tickets turned in more than the required signatures, and no one opted to pay the fee. This is typical of elections, Jester said.
Presidential candidate and political science junior Forrest Bennett said he does not know how many signatures he got but doesn’t think the number is important.
“I know we got more than 501 signatures, and that’s what counts,” Bennett said. “The big thing I ran into when collecting signatures was that I started talk-ing with people about their ideas, and we ended up having great conversations. I would get five or six signatures instead of 10 to 15.”
However, Bennett said the trade-off was worth it, as the dia-logue with students helped gen-erate ideas and form friendships.
To collect signatures, Bennett and his running mate journal-ism junior Katherine Borgerding went to friends, classmates and some strangers who became friends.
“Those strangers we did get them from became acquain-tances because we talked to them before or after we asked them for their signature, telling them who we are and what we are up to,” Bennett said. “It was a really fun opportunity to build relationships.”
Bennett and Borgerding filed later in the week because of their busy schedules and because that was when they had the time to go together, Bennett said.
Now, the pair is gearing up for campaigning.
“This campaign, to us, is about educating and empowering stu-dents,” Bennett said. “We are ready to do that. I have truly en-joyed just meeting new people and hearing their stories, listen-ing to their ideas. There are a lot of great ideas out there. To me, that’s what this is about — un-earthing those ideas and making something out of them.”
Bennett and Borgerding’s op-ponents in the UOSA presiden-tial election, public relations and political science junior Hannah Morris and zoology junior Laura Bock, filed 1,042 signatures 8:30 a.m. Monday.
Election hopefuls gather names
MARDI GRAS | RESIDENTS PROMOTE PARADE
MERRILL JONES/THE DAILY
Kara Joy McKee, Oklahoma Food Co-op general manager and Mardi Gras parade participant, hula hoops at the Santa Fe Depot on Jones Avenue where the Mardi Gras parade will be held Saturday. McKee was among other parade volunteers who grouped together to save the parade for its 17th year.
Askins accepts position at Health Science Center
Former Lieutenant Governor Jari Askins was appointed associate provost for external relations at the OU Health Sciences Center, President David Boren said in a press release Wednesday.
Askins will serve as spokeswoman and advocate for programs such as the Peggy and Charles Stephenson Oklahoma Cancer Center, the Harold Hamm Oklahoma Diabetes Center and the Tisdale Clinic, according to the press release.
Askins has received numerous awards for her support of health care initiatives. These include the Friend of Medicine Award, Friend of Oklahoma Children’s Award, Legislator of the Year Award and Patient Advocate Award. She was also named Outstanding Legislator by the Oklahoma Public Health Association, according to the press release.
— Laney Ellisor/The Daily
Jari Askins
Staff gets Mardi Gras parade back on track
Housing and Food prohibits candidates going door to door in dorms; social lounges OK
ALYSSA DUDEKThe Oklahoma Daily
Door-to-door campaigning during the spring 2011 elec-tion campaign is prohibited by the Housing and Food Office, but candidates can use nearby space by working with officials, a spokeswoman said.
Housing and Food has a no-solicitation policy in place, said Lauren Royston, Housing a n d F o o d s p o k e s w o m a n . Candidates can work with the office to use the first floor social lounges and possibly the Cate Main hallway this campaign season.
The office is willing to work with students and faculty if they have concerns about the policy, Royston said.
“If an overwhelming major-ity of residents and faculty were in favor of a policy change, they could bring their sugges-tions to the Resident Student Association representatives and we could open up a dialogue and would be happy to review the suggestions,” Royston said in an e-mail.
Natalie Jester, international security studies junior, is the election chair for the spring 2011 election and enforces the campaign rules outlined in the UOSA Code Annotated.
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Candidates must comply with local center coordinators because campus housing rules supercede UOSA election rules, Jester said.
Bridgitte Castorino, Campus Activities Council chairwoman candidate, said she has no problems with the rules.
“Natalie is doing her best to keep these elections clean and fair,” said Castorino, public relations junior. “My campaign team and I greatly appreciate her efforts to help these elections run as smoothly as possible.”
Hannah Morris, political science and public relations junior and UOSA president candidate, said students’ privacy should be respected.
“We planned our campaigning efforts in respect to the guidelines provided,” Morris said. “We hope to reach as many students as possible within those means.”
The rules strike a balance without letting candidates be-come overbearing, said Melissa Mock, CAC chairwoman candidate.
“It also gives us an opportunity to meet freshman within
an appropriate time frame to educate them on the election process and our own platform so they will be more likely to use their voice by voting not only this year, but also every remaining year in their college career,” said Mock, interna-tional and area studies junior.
The rules help protect the privacy of students in an age where technology makes it easier to invade the private lives of others, said Forrest Bennett, UOSA president candidate.
“Going door-to-door when running for state Legislature or Congress is necessary, but standing on the South Oval or visiting student groups is its equivalent in these college elections,” said Bennett, political science junior.
Greg Emde, CAC chairman candi-date, said the rules won’t hinder his campaign.
“These housing rules are compliant with rules of on-campus campaigning,” said Emde, microbiology junior. “If I wanted to put posters anywhere on cam-
pus, I would need the permission of the building owner. The same goes for campus housing.”
Candidates will begin preparing for their campaigns Sunday. The official start of all campaigning is Monday.
“We wanted to show our team that they had our full commitment,” Morris said. “We wanted to let people know we were prepared and ready to be first.”
From working with current President Franz Zenteno, Morris said she knew she wanted to go above expectations.
“It really takes an effort to make a change,” Morris said. “This year I’ve seen the admin-istration accomplish things it’s never done before because they put in that extra hour and went that extra step. We wanted to start our campaign by doing that.”
To collect signatures, Morris and Bock said they avoided their sorority houses, knowing that relying on friends would be too easy and not the idea behind running
for president.The pair went to freshmen managers first
and got good insight into what freshmen ex-pected from UOSA, Morris said. Then they passed signatures sheets around classes and finally went to friends.
Morris said they are ready to start cam-paigning and hope it’s a clean year with good turnout.
“The last year’s campaign wasn’t the most positive,” Morris said. “We want people to vote for us because they think we are the best candidates, not just the better candidates.”
All three CAC candidates also filed signa-tures instead of fees, Jester said. She does not know how many each received because Student Affairs is in the process of verifying it.
Campaigning begins Monday and contin-ues until elections March 29 and 30.
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CAMPUS
Today around campus» Jim Ehleringer will lecture on “Forensic Applications of Stable Isotopes” at 3:30 p.m. in Sarkeys Energy Center, Room A235.
» OU Health Services will present the lecture, “Managing Stress,” from 4 to 5 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245.
» Aili Tripp, political science and women’s and gender studies professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will deliver a lecture on “Women, Power and Peacemaking in Africa” at 4:30 p.m. in Dale Hall, Room 112.
» Activist-in-Residence Shelby Knox will lecture about women’s history and her own Radical Women’s History Project at 7 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Regents Room.
» OU Opera: Two Stravinsky Operas — Marva and the Nightingale will perform at 8 p.m. in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center.
Friday, March 4» Health Sciences Center “First Fridays” gives OU Health Sciences Center prospective students an opportunity to ask general questions and meet college representatives from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 145.
» Men’s tennis will play Northwestern at 5 p.m. in the Gregg Wadley Indoor Tennis Pavilion.
» Softball will play Auburn at 6 p.m. in the OU Softball Complex.
» The India Student Association’s India Nite will take place at 6:30 p.m. in Catlett Music Center. Tickets are $5 for students.
» Women’s gymnastics will compete against Ohio State, Illinois and Texas Women’s University at 7 p.m. in McCasland Field House.
» OU Opera: Two Stravinsky Operas — Marva and the Nightingale will perform at 8 p.m. in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center.
Saturday, March 5» Sooner Spring Tune Up 10k Road Race, designed to train runners preparing for the 2011 OKC Memorial Marathon and Half-Marathon begins at 8 a.m. at 1401 Asp Ave. Early registration is $20.
» Men’s basketball will play Oklahoma State at 3 p.m. in Lloyd Noble Center.
» Softball will play Illinois-Chicago at 3:30 p.m. and Oklahoma State at 6 p.m. in the McCasland Field House.
» OU Opera: Two Stravinsky Operas — Marva and the Nightingale will perform at 8 p.m. in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center.
Sunday, March 6» Students can attend a concert of classical Iranian music at 2 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall. Tickets are $5 for students and $8 for faculty and staff.
» The Medieval Film Series will show “The Decameron” at 5 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium.
The Oklahoma Daily has a commitment to serve readers by providing accurate coverage and analysis. Errors are corrected as they are identified. Readers should bring errors to The Daily’s attention for further investigation by e-mailing [email protected].
» In Tuesday’s edition of The Daily, Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s names were misspelled.
» Correction
CAMPAIGNS: Rules not a problem, candidate saysContinued from page 1
FEEDBACK: All three CAC candidates also file signatures Continued from page 1
Earhart bone analysis inconclusive
An analysis of a finger bone believed to belong to missing pilot Amelia Earhart has been completed, but results remain unclear, according to a professor’s report.
All samples tested could not produce verifiable human DNA, suggesting there is an insufficient amount of quality DNA or the DNA is nonhuman, according to Cecil Lewis’ report.
“Although the results were inconclusive, the analysis’ results present a lot of very new good and exciting information,” said Jana Smith, director of Strategic Information for Research and Development.
Lewis, working for OU’s Molecular Anthropology Laboratory, analyzed the bone found by the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery on an expedition to find Earhart’s remains on Gardner Island in the Pacific Ocean.
Lewis will present an explanation of the analysis at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Stephenson Research and Technology Center Atrium on OU’s Research Campus.
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“Going door-to-door when running for state Legislature or Congress is necessary, but standing on the South Oval or visiting student groups is its equivalent in these college elections.”
— FORREST BENNETT, POLITICAL SCIENCE JUNIOR
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Students will vote to fi ll top student government slots March 29 and 30
KATHLEEN EVANSThe Oklahoma Daily
Students will take to the polls March 29 and 30 to vote for campus leaders.
The positions up for election are UOSA president and vice president, Campus Activities Council chair, Student Bar Association president, Housing Center Student Association and Undergraduate Student Congress seats.
CAC CHAIRCampus Activities Council is the pro-
gramming branch of UOSA, which plans campuswide events, such as Homecoming and Dance Marathon.
The current CAC chairwoman, public relations senior Valerie Hall, oversees the executive team of CAC, which is composed of General Counsel members and event chairs, according to the CAC website.
This year, CAC held its first fundrais-ing series for student organizations and increased participation and fundraising for Dance Marathon, according to Daily records.
Other changes this year include making a team of CAC volunteers for each event instead of asking for individual applica-tions and starting CAC’s Next Big Thing, which asks students to submit event ideas, according to archives.
Candidates are public relations junior Bridgitte Castorino, microbiology junior Greg Emde and international and area studies junior Melissa Mock.
HOUSING CENTER STUDENT ASSOCIATIONAll OU students living on campus are members of the
Housing Center Student Association, a group that con-nects people within the housing centers, according to its website.
The association has four branches — the executive, the legislative, the judicial and the National Residence Hall Honorary. These branches work together to create events for on-campus residents, look at housing policies and rec-ognize outstanding students and faculty within housing, ac-
cording to its website. Running for president of the association
are public relations junior Joseph Schmidt and meteorology and economics junior Sarah Weiler.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT CONGRESSCongress is composed of 48 representa-
tives from 16 districts, according to the UOSA Code Annotated. Different districts are given a different proportion of representatives based on the student body size.
Congress members alternate when they are elected, so not all 48 seats are up for elec-tion in the spring, according to the Code Annotated.
Congress works with the Undergraduate Student Senate to approve all executive branch ideas and legislation it creates.
Recently, Congress has created a new group to meet with Provost Nancy Mergler about ways to improve advising and has in-stalled more bicycle racks and sidewalks
around campus, according to Daily records.Every year, Undergraduate Student Congress’ Budgetary
Committee allots nearly $500,000 a year to student organi-zations, according to the OU Fiscal Budget.
Leadership positions to be filled
Bridgitte Castorino
Joseph Schmidt
Greg Emde Melissa Mock
Sarah Weiler
Candidates for each position
UOSA president/vice president: Forrest Bennett/Katherine Borgerding and Hannah Morris/Laura Bock
CAC Chair: Bridgitte Castorino, Greg Emde and Melissa Bock
Student Bar Association: Jeff Riles
Housing Center Student Association: Joseph Schmidt and Sarah Weiler
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
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thursday, mar. 3
Intramural Update | 8 vs. 8 soccer entries today at the Huston Huff man Center front desk, $60 per team and free for teams whose members are all students living in the residence halls. Basketball bracket placement meeting today at 8:30 p.m. in the Huston Huff man Center Room 130. All teams with a 3-2 record or better and a sportsmanship rating of 2.5 or greater are eligible for playoff s. A representative from every playoff team is required to attend. For more information, visit recservices.ou.edu or call Jonathan Dewhirst, (405) 325-3053.
Vote Snoop’11 Info Table | 11:30 a.m. in the fi rst fl oor lobby of the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Come by and learn how you can help to bring a FREE Snoop Dogg concert to OU with EA Games and the Union Programming Board! There’s ALWAYS SOMETHING at the union, www.ou.edu/upb.
Student Success Series: Managing Stress | 4 p.m. in Wagner Wall 245. Presented by University College.
Guest Speakers Mark Elam and Alyssa Siler, Mrs. Oklahoma | 7 p.m. in the Frontier Room, Oklahoma Memorial Union. The Oklahomans Against the Traffi cking of Humans presents guest speakers Mark Elam and Mrs. Oklahoma 2010, Alyssa Siler. Free admission, for more information contact Brianna Ellis at (580) 775-1107.
Sutton Concert Series: Opera, Mavra and Le Rossignol, Stravinsky | 8-10 p.m. in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $5 for students, OU faculty/staff and seniors and $8 for adults. Call the Fine Arts Box Offi ce, (405) 325-4101, for more information.
sunday, mar. 6
Intramural Update | Basketball playoff s begin, TBA. For more information, visit recservices.ou.edu or call Jonathan Dewhirst, (405) 325-3053.
Sooner Softball: OU vs. Illinois-Chicago | 11:30 a.m. at the OU Softball Complex. Admission is free with a valid OU student ID. Visit soonersports.com for other ticket information.
Sutton Concert Series: Eldon Matlick, Horn | 3-5 p.m. in the Pitman Recital Hall, Catlett Music Center. Tickets are $5 for students, OU faculty/staff and seniors and $8 for adults. Call the Fine Arts Box Offi ce, (405) 325-4101, for more information.
Sutton Concert Series: Opera, Mavra and Le Rossignol, Stravinsky | 3 p.m. in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center.
Masala World Music Concert Series: Iranian Classical Music | 3 p.m. in Sharp Concert Hall, Catlett Music Center. Tickets are $5 for students, OU faculty/staff and seniors and $8 for adults. Call the Fine Arts Box Offi ce, (405) 325-4101, for more information.
mar. 3 - 6
friday, mar. 4
FREE Flip Flops | 11:30 a.m. in the fi rst fl oor lobby of the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Get some FREE fl ip fl ops and info about our pre-spring break GTL BINGO presented by the Union Programming Board!There’s ALWAYS SOMETHING at the union, www.ou.edu/upb.
FREE Movie: “Tron:Legacy” | 4, 7, 10 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. in Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Presented by the Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council Film Series.
Men’s Tennis: OU vs. Northwestern | 5 p.m. at the OU Tennis Complex. Admission is free for all fancs.
Sooner Softball: OU vs. Auburn | 6 p.m. at the OU Softball Complex. Admission is free with a valid OU student ID. Visit soonersports.com for other ticket information.
Women’s Gymnastics: OU vs. Ohio State, Illinois and TWU | 7 p.m. at the Lloyd Noble Center. Admission is free with a valid OU student ID. Visit soonersports.com for other ticket information.
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friday, mar. 4 cont’d.
GTL (Gym, Tan, Laundry) BINGO | 7 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union Food Court. We’re bringing the shore to you to get prepared for Spring Break in Jersey style! Come and win all the essentials for your vacation: beach towels, sun tan lotion, bump-its, temporary tattoos, party shades and more. We will even have some prizes for those colder spring break destinations! There’s ALWAYS SOMETHING at the union, www.ou.edu/upb.
Men’s Lacrosse: OU vs. SMU | 7:30 p.m. at the women’s soccer stadium. Admission is free for all fans.
Sutton Concert Series: Opera, Mavra and Le Rossignol, Stravinsky | 8-10 p.m. in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center.
saturday, mar. 5
Dodgeball Classic | noon-2 p.m. at the Huston Huff man Center. Come out and rep your class to the fullest, only the best survives. Presented by the Gamma Kappa Chapter of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc. For more information or accommodations on the basis of disability, contact Augustine at [email protected].
Iranian Classical Music Workshop | 2-3 p.m. in the Scholars Room, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Free admission.
Men’s Basketball: OU vs. Oklahoma State | 3 p.m. at the Lloyd Noble Center. Visit soonersports.com for other ticket information.
Men’s Gymnastics: OU vs. California | 7 p.m. at the McCasland Field House. Admission is free with a valid OU student ID. Visit soonersports.com for other ticket information.
Dr. Seuss Party | 7-9 p.m. at Cate Main Social Lounge. Featuring a tongue-twister contest, green eggs, waffl es, and more. For more information, please contact Glenn at [email protected].
Sutton Concert Series: Opera, Mavra and Le Rossignol, Stravinsky | 8-10 p.m. in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center.
Federal lawmakers will vote on another continuing resolution soon, hopefully before the government runs out of money on March 4; and unfortunately, deficit reduction talk is exceedingly popular these days.
Everyone — including President Barack Obama, House Speaker John Boehner, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and all 87 House freshman Republicans — rails against the evils of huge deficits.
Politically, it’s genius. As Obama said in one of his weekly addresses: “All across America, families are tightening their belts and making hard choices. Now, Washington must show that same sense of responsibility.”
Sounds great! If I don’t get my raise or Christmas bonus this year, why should the government continue racking up debt? It drips of fiscal responsibility and an ability to “make tough choices.”
The conservative mantra takes it one step further by blaming the economic problems not on the reckless actions of Wall Street, but on the age-old villain: government debt.
Take this excerpt from Sarah Palin’s Facebook: “[T]he biggest challenge facing our economy is today’s
runaway debt ... It’s at the heart of what is crippling our econ-omy and taking our jobs.”
Talking heads across the spectrum are decrying the evils of public debt, and actual legislators like John Boehner are suggesting the same debt-is-the-root-of-all-evils theory. To solve this debt problem and help the ailing economy, they propose massive spending cuts. As Boehner said on Fox
News “Cutting spending will in fact help cre-ate jobs in America.”
The problem is cutting spending doesn’t create jobs; it destroys them.
If the government tightens its belt, it spends less on things like roads and
education. This means higher unemployment for both pri-vate-sector construction workers and public-sector teachers, which means more people in line to get unemployment ben-efits, and less taxable revenue. It’s doubly perverse.
The real solution, as it has been all along, is to reverse the regressive Bush-era tax cuts. If not for fiscal reasons, think about it in moral terms.
On the balance sheet, tax raises and spending cuts look the same. (Either less red on one side or more black on the other.) However, in the real world they pan out very differently.
The difference between tax raises and spending cuts can literally be the difference between life and death. Raising taxes on the top percent of earners has no impact on their health or physical needs. They may be unable to buy a third vacation home or a new Ferrari, but they won’t be put in peril.
Conversely, the draconian spending cuts currently pro-posed are perilous. For example, the proposal to halve the outlays to the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program from $5 billion to $2.5 billion. While this $2.5 billion in sav-ings sounds responsible, it is a minuscule 0.065% of the fed-eral budget, and a laughable 0.15% of the projected deficit.
These tiny monetary benefits are not worth the human
costs they entail. LIHEAP helps low-income households with children and seniors afford heat in the winter and air con-ditioning in the summer. These households earn less than half the income of the poverty line, and include 1.2 million households with children 5 years old or younger, 1.1 million households with people over 60 and 2 million homes that in-clude someone with a disability.
What a disgusting show of our priorities. Another cut the fiscally responsible House Republicans
should be proud of is the $1.1 billion cut to the Women, Infants and Children program, which “provides Federal grants to States for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breast-feeding and non-breast-feeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nu-tritional risk,” according to its website.
So not only do impoverished children not deserve heat or air conditioning, they apparently don’t deserve adequate nutrition either. No, keeping wealthy people happy is much more important.
We don’t need these kinds of spending cuts. They do re-markably little to decrease the deficit; they destroy jobs and put our most vulnerable citizens in danger.
I’m disgusted. Are you?
— Jerod Coker,
journalism senior
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The debate over Wisconsin public employees’ rights re-flects two recurrent themes heard throughout the current economic crisis; America is broke and someone or some-thing is to blame.
Unfortunately for those affected by the largest financial meltdown since the Great Depression, the sheer size and complexity of the collapse will likely keep us from ever iden-tifying a single culprit.
If we must have closure, we must first stop scapegoat-ing union protesters as “bottom feeders” and “thugs” and instead pursue answers rationally and objectively using the best available data.
In January, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission published its report on the circumstances allowing the eco-nomic crisis to happen. The commission stated, “In our inquiry, we found dramat-ic breakdowns of corporate governance, profound lapses in regulatory oversight and near-fatal flaws in our financial sys-tem. We also found that a series of choic-es and actions led us toward a catastrophe for which we were ill-prepared.”
One of the several causes they cited was the extension of subprime mortgages to under quali-fied borrowers and no one loved these mortgages more than Countrywide Financial. According to the Wall Street Journal, Angelo Mozillo, Countrywide’s former CEO, took home nearly $470 million between 2001 and 2006.
Furthermore, as Countrywide’s stock plummeted and its sale to Bank of America became imminent, Mozillo stepped down as CEO and flew away beneath a $188 million golden parachute.
To be fair, the Securities and Exchange Commission did file a civil suit against Mozillo for fraud and settled with him out of court for $67.5 million. This seems like a reasonable fine at first glance, but even if the previously stated $658 million were all the wealth Mozillo accumulated during his tenure at Countrywide, the fine would only dock him 10 percent.
The bigger problem is Mozillo’s settlement keeps the SEC from indicting him on criminal charges. It also sets a precedent that those who helped create the crisis will not only remain free, but also profit.
The deregulation of the financial market played a large role in allowing CEOs such as Mozillo to get away with a slap on the wrist.
Phil Gramm, who New York Times columnist Paul Krugman referred to as “the high priest of deregulation,” was a senator from Texas who served as the chairman of the
Senate Banking Committee from 1999 to 2001. He was the chief sponsor of the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Billey Act, which deregulated financial service indus-tries. He was also responsible for broadening the 2000 Commodity Futures Modernization Act to include the de-regulation of over-the-counter transactions such as credit default swaps, another cause of the housing bubble.
Gramm opted not to run for reelection in 2002 and in-stead retired weeks before his term ended to become Vice Chairman of the Investment Banking division of the bank UBS. Yes, he left the senate to work for a company he helped
deregulate. Adding insult to injury, Gramm
has since called the American public a “nation of whiners” and asserted that Ed Whitacre, former CEO of AT&T Inc., was “probably the most exploit-ed worker in American history…” be-cause he deserved more than his $158 million severance package upon retir-
ing in 2007 Gramm might have a point though. According to NPR’s
Planet Money team, Americans’ combined household debt was 100 percent of the gross domestic product in 2007.
However, this number soared partly due to the inven-tion of financial instruments such as “No Income No Job or Asset loans”, a.k.a. liars’ loans, which opened the door for companies’ predatory lending practices.
According to the Department of Justice, Beazer Homes, one of the country’s largest home builders, lied to prospec-tive home buyers saying they did not need a down payment because a charity had covered it as a gift when in reality, the down payment was hidden within the price of the home.
In light of this, we must stop blaming public unions and other organizations for falling into the traps set by Mozillo, Gramm and others like them. Instead, we must focus on holding those who understood the consequences of their actions accountable. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission agrees if we do not address these fundamental problems, “it will happen again.”
— Andrew Cook,
English writing junior
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OUR VIEW
OU needs transparency
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›››› Sooner Sampler: What do you think of parking
services recent enforcement
of parking regulations?
“I guess it doesn’t really affect me because I
have a parking permit, but a lot of my friends
depended on having free parking after
five o’clock so it’s an inconvenience to them.”
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“It’s OK I guess to maintain the facility, and there is another parking garage going up.”
JANE UM,ACCOUNTING SOPHOMORE
“If it’s the bottom floor then I’m all for it. The
faculty has to pay for a pass just like everybody
else.”
DAVID BOTTOMS,MANAGEMENT JUNIOR
“I think it’s pretty ridiculous because there are already so few spaces that we can park in.”
JESSE SALAS,HEALTH AND EXERCISE SCIENCE SENIOR
University officials — including President David Boren — continuous-ly claim they believe in transparency and openness.
However, every time we attempt to access upper level administra-tors for comment on campus issues, we are confronted by institutional boundaries
On Wednesday, a Daily reporter seeking comments from Boren about a possible tution increase resorted to
attending Pizza with the President in Walker Center.
It wouldn’t be necessary for report-ers to interrupt designated student events if Boren followed Bob Stoops’ example and held a weekly press conference.
Stoops meets with the media every Tuesday during football season to an-swer questions.
A 30 minute session with report-ers each week would allow Boren to
demonstrate his dedication to trans-parency and enable the media to ob-tain the information needed to inform the public.
If we want Oklahoma to be known as an academic institution and not mere-ly a football school, it’s important the President — a politician familiar with the media — be available.
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The deregulation of the financial market played a large role in allowing CEOs such as Mozillo to get away with a slap on the wrist.”
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LIFE&ARTSLarry Hammett loses weight, reaches goal using healthy methods
MATT CARNEYThe Oklahoma Daily
Professor Larry Hammett clasped his meaty, manicured hands together before the big announcement.
“I weighed 174 pounds this morning,” the 20-year faculty member said, glowing with pride. “I feel like I’m 20 years old. When I look in the mirror, I can’t believe how old I look. Because I don’t feel that old.”
Not bad for a 5’10’’ guy whose excessive weight threatened his life only 18 months ago.
The head of the university’s guitar depart-ment, Hammett was then diagnosed with ob-structive sleep apnea, a potentially deadly dis-order most commonly caused by obesity. His 274 pounds were obstructing his upper respira-tory tract, interrupting his unconscious breath-ing and thereby reducing the oxygen levels in his blood each night.
The disorder increases one’s risk of cardio-vascular disease, high blood pressure, diabe-tes and stroke, something Hammett learned the hard way.
“I think I had a stroke,” he said of a 2008 epi-sode that started with a trip to the coffee shop and ended with a 911 call. “On my way over to [Sunshine Store, on Campus Corner], I just blacked out.”
The experience, Hammett said, prompted a simple lifestyle change that made a big difference. Then another. And then another.
“I would walk four miles a day, which [at first] sound-ed like 50 miles a day,” he said. “But I figured out I could do it in an hour and 50 minutes, so I religiously did not skip a day…about eight months of walking and I lost 40 pounds.”
Hammett would shed another 60 pounds over the next 10 months as he limited his portion size and took up rac-quetball, a sport he loved in his youth but eventually aban-doned as his waistline grew too large.
Sandy Richardson, a registered dietician and a director in the OU Department of Nutritional Sciences, said that Hammett’s experience is a highly recommendable ex-ample of safe, healthy weight loss. “It looks like he’s done fairly well. We’re looking for one to two pounds of weight loss per week and it looks like he did just that.”
“I was watching what I’d eat,” Hammett said. “Just try to put in my mouth about half as much food, and good food—not greasy food. I wasn’t overly concerned about the [quality of the] food.”
Richardson described Hammett’s as “a success story”
Professor sheds 100 pounds — the right way
and said only about 5 to 15 percent of people maintain successful weight loss over two years. “Generally what I find is people lose the amount that they’re going to lose in the first six months [of their attempt] and then it slows down a lot. When that happens, people lose interest in what they’re doing.”
When most would have given up, Hammett bought a pair of athletic goggles and found what he called “the ‘Cheers’ of racquetball clubs” for more rigorous exercise.
“He was pretty big,” Tim Spears, one of Hammett’s racquetball buddies said. “He’s done a good job of losing the weight.”
At 174 pounds, Hammett moves a lot quicker than he did when he first started playing at 220.
“I got to 200 and thought, this is still fat, you know? When I got 180 I was pretty fit, I just wanted the 100-mark,” he said. “I’ve been lifting weights to tone up a little bit, mostly just to beat the guys at racquetball.”
“He’s gotten a lot better,” another racquetballer, Joe Altic
said. “That’s good when he’s your partner.”Hammett’s a prideful guy, in a competitive and funny
way. He said he wanted to get to 174 just so he could say that he dropped 100 pounds. Originally a 44-inch waist (with a stretch band), he made a similar sartorial deci-
sion— just for the heck of it.“I bought 32-inch pants because I
wanted my leg length to be shorter than [my waist length]. I bought a 34 [waist] and wear a boot…so I can actually say my waist is smaller than my leg length.” Sure enough, cowboy boots poke out from the bottom of his straight-leg jeans.
Richardson said Hammett ought to in-tensify his exercise a little if he wants to
ward off the extra pounds, though he’s far from the risk of returning to his previous level of obesity. He’s too com-petitive for that.
“My motivation started off to get healthy,” Hammett said. “Then once I started playing racquetball, my moti-vation became to beat the guys who were beating me. Now I’m beating those guys and it’s fun.”
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MATT CARNEY/THE DAILY
Top: Guitar professor Larry Hammett plays racquetball, which was an effective method of weight loss, he said. Hammett said he continues to play and has a competitive attitude toward the game.
Left: Hammett stands hugging his daughter, Emma, before he lost weight. Hammett changed his diet and began exercising in order to lose 100 pounds.
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“I’ve been lifting weights to tone up a little bit, mostly just to beat the guys at racquetball.
Art collection with 19th, 20th century perspective represents an increased awareness from the period, curator says
EUNSEOK JANGThe Oklahoma Daily
Mediterranea: American Art from the Graham D. Williford Collection opens with a reception at 7 p.m. Friday in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
The exhibit ion w il l showcase the Mediterranean seen through the perspective of artists from the late 19th century and early 20th century.
“To them, it was a new culture,” said Mark White, curator of the exhibition.
The expanded awareness was stimulated by a combination of several factors. The ap-pearance of paddle steamers enabled travel writers such as Mark Twain to go on excur-sions to the middle sea and publish travel books. The rich traveled to Cairo, Florence or other vacation spots. Some artists went on a trip to experience something new.
The artwork of Mediterranea portrays the expansion of this awareness. Thus, not only the romance of travel but also the pleasure of rediscovery is ingrained in each piece.
The paintings have indigenous architec-ture, including archs and aqueducts, and plants such as cypress, a typical long tree in France, Spain and Italy.
The lecture by Charles C. Eldredge, Hall Distinguished Professor of American Art and Culture at the University of Kansas, is scheduled at 6 p.m. before the reception, White said. Eldredge will be talking about the Mediterranean landscape and culture of the 19th century American artists.
Following the opening reception, a live performance, “Frame by Frame,” will be pre-sented by OU School of Dance graduate stu-dents at 8 p.m.
Inspiration of the piece comes from works of Mediterranea, according to the museum’s news release.
Mediterranea: American Art from the Graham D. Williford Collection runs through May 15.
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Student celebrates a holiday each day in 2011 as part of a blog project
JANNA GENTRYThe Oklahoma Daily
As a New Year’s Resolution, Kate Beard promised to celebrate a holi-day every day in 2011. Her journey
through the holidays is chronicled in her blog “The Celebrationist.”
Beard said her friends didn’t believe she could accomplish it, so she took it as a challenge.
So far, the public relations senior has cel-ebrated 61 holidays ranging from the average Valentine’s Day, to the more obscure Thomas Paine Day.
“One of my most favorite holidays so far has been ‘Appreciate a Dragon Day,’” she said. “I went to PetSmart with some of my friends, held a Chinese crested water dragon in my hand and said to it, ‘dragon, I appreci-ate you.’”
Quirkiness runs throughout Beard’s blog. For Bubblewrap Day, she celebrated with her sorority sisters by cutting up squares of bub-ble wrap and giving them each a small square to do with what they wished. After her public celebration, she celebrated more privately at home by making a dress completely con-structed from bubble wrap.
Public relations senior Chelsie Baugh said she often celebrates with Beard.
“I normally help her celebrate the holidays that involve food, because I get to eat the cel-ebration,” Baugh said.
Helping Beard with the blog is professor Mel Odom, with whom she has an hour inde-pendent study to work on the blog.
Odom said he is mostly a sounding board for the ideas that she presents to him, and that the blog is purely her creation.
“As far as me telling Kate what to do, I don’t,” Odom said. “This is her thing.”
Odom even said he believes Beard’s blog has potential to go beyond the Internet.
“Once she gets enough of it up, we are going to approach some agents about getting her blog made into a coffee table book,” he said.
Beard said her blog has been popular with her family and friends and averages around 170 hits per day. She has even tried to get on a television show to promote the site, Baugh said.
“Kate loves Ellen Degeneres,” Baugh said. “We have tried numerous times to get on her show, but she hasn’t called us back.”
Despite the pride in finding a holiday a day and the possibilities of further success, Beard insists her reason for the blog is cathartic.
“I have an absolute blast writing it,” Beard said.
Blogger makes every day a holiday, unique
When OU students Ryan Bates and Ajenda Johnson started blogs centered around interests in mobile technology and college fashion, respectively, neither knew if they’d gain a following.
MOBITUREWhen Bates started reviewing mobile phones and accessories,
he had a hard time convincing companies to send him products to review and saw it as a hobby.
Now, more than a year later, Bates receives more products than he can review in a timely manner and is surprised his site has turned into a money-maker.
“It’s taken over my life,” he said of the writing and editing for his blog, Mobiture, that takes about 40 hours a week.
The website has about 1,000 visitors a day and features reviews of mobile phones, accessories, speakers and tablets.
Bates supplements the blog with video reviews on a YouTube channel and obtains multiple products to review each month.
“I never saw it being a business, just something for friends,” Bates said. “But it became a business.”
Bates said he enjoys the entrepreneurial aspect and aspires to own his own technology company in the future.
— Meredith Moriak/The Daily
THE TWIGGY Johnson said she began her blogging adventure about a year
ago as a de-stressing outlet from her workload. Johnson’s sister set her up with a Blogger account and ordered
her to get the creative juices flowing.Her blog, The Twiggy, is a visual journey into world of a college
fashionista. She said she chose the distinctive name for three reasons: the idea of “giving the skinny” on her inner thoughts, a description of her twig-like figure and as an homage to one of her fashion idols, 1960s British model Twiggy.
The blog receives about 200 views a day, though Johnson said she strives to focus less on the quantity of her readers and more on the quality of her work.
“My content is always driven by my fashion choices,” she said. “I absolutely love clothes as the artwork they are. The walking, living, daily artwork we use to express our personalities. The things that I choose to feature are always those items or outfits that make me happy.”
Though Johnson doesn’t envision The Twiggy to be her main profession, she hopes it will continue to evolve and remain in her life, both in a personal and professional realm.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) - More opportunities than usual may be coming your way during the next couple days. Take advantage of as many of them as you can, and waste no chance.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - Your leadership qualities will be very much in evidence, so don’t be surprised if persons in your peer group look to you for guidance and counsel.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - If your ears are ringing, it’s because people are talking about you. But there is nothing to worry about, because, fortunately, if you could hear what they are saying, you’d swell with pride.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - Ac-quiring a new friend should come easy for you, if you are sincere and friendly. You don’t have to use fl attery or manipulations, just be yourself.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - Certain conditions that could affect your mental, physical or material well-being are in better balance than usual. Take advantage of these steady hours, and don’t rock the boat.
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Thursday, March 3, 2011 • 9The Oklahoma Daily | OUDaily.com
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Sophomore propels Sooners to 3-0 win over Mean Green
TOBI NEIDYThe Oklahoma Daily
Sophomore ace Keilani R i c k e t t s l e d t h e No. 1 0 S o o n e r s ( 1 3 - 5 ) o n t h e mound to a 3-0 victor y over North Texas (6-6) on We d n e s d ay i n D e nt o n , Texas.
Ricketts (6-2) was two hits from a perfect game, strik-ing out eight and allowing just one walk through seven innings.
Ricketts cracked into OU’s top-10 shutout list, collect-ing the 16th of her career against the Mean Green.
Jill Most (1994-97) leads the program with 38 career shutouts.
OU improved to 13-5 for the season after leading off with a 11-1 record. After going on a four-game win-less streak, the Sooners are back on track, collecting two
Seniors shine in fi nal regular game at Lloyd Noble in 81-66 win
ANNELISE RUSSELLThe Oklahoma Daily
The No. 18 OU women’s basketball team sent its se-niors out in style Wednesday night with an 81-66 win over Oklahoma State in the Sooners’ final regular-sea-son home game.
It was Senior Night, but somebody forgot to tell freshman Aaryn Ellenberg. The guard had 23 points and was 5-of-10 from the 3-point line.
“That’s Aaryn’s personal-ity — when’s she open she’s going to shoot it. When she’s not open she’s going to shoot it,” senior guard Danielle Robinson said. “We’re proud of her how she’s played this whole season.”
OU’s veterans certainly made their own contribu-tions, though.
Senior forward Carlee Roethlisberger ended the night with 14 points, and Robinson added 13 points and a care er-high nine rebounds.
Senior guard Lauren Willis was a perfect 2-for-2 from behind the arc for six points.
For Senior Night, it was fit-ting Roethlisberger opened the game for OU with a 3-point basket.
“I thought Carlee got us started early, and Danielle really controlled the tempo of the game,” OU coach Sherri Coale said. “Just a re-ally great night for all three of the seniors.”
OSU briefly took a 20-19 lead with 10 minutes to play
OU says goodbye to seniors
in the half, but the Cowgirl advantage was short-lived when Robinson completed an and-one layup on the other end.
OU maintained its lead throughout the half and sent
the Cowgirls to the locker room down, 36-30.
Oklahoma was 7-of-17 from 3-point range in the half, and Ellenberg led all scorers with 13 points.
The Sooners opened up a 13-2 run in the opening minutes of the second half to extend the lead to 17, 49-32.
By midway through the second half, OU had further extended its lead to 62-40.
T h e C o w g i r l s n e v e r trailed by more than eight in the first half but allowed the lead to balloon in the sec-ond. OU led OSU 72-53 with
five minutes to play.With less than two min-
utes to play and the Sooners leading, 80-64, OU coach Sherri Coale pulled her se-niors for the final time.
OU was 14-of-28 from 3-point range and finished the game shooting 43.3 per-cent from the field.
“[OU is] just a heck of an offensive team. You just kind of pick your poison,” OSU coach Kurt Budke said.
With the win, OU is 2-0 this year against its Bedlam rival.
“It’s always easy to get up for Bedlam,” Robinson said.
SOFTBALL
Ricketts’ strong pitching overpowers North Texas
wins before returning home to face Auburn on Friday.
The Sooners scored three runs on five hits, led by sec-ond baseman Cierra Hughes with a two-run double in the top of the second inning.
The freshman Midwest City native is batting a .417 average to earn her sec-ond starting position this season.
Hughes has played in 17 of the Sooners’ 18 games but has been in the starting lineup only twice.
OU coach Patty Gasso also shifted senior infielder Chana’e Jones to first base, which was previously de-fended by freshman Brittany Williams.
Jones hit a home run with two outs left in the top of the fourth to increase the Sooner lead to three runs.
W i t h J o n e s a t f i r s t , Williams was the desig-nated player for the game and continues to lead the Sooners on offense with a .429 batting average.
What’s next
WHAT: OU vs. Auburn
WHEN: 6 p.m. Friday
WHERE: Marita Hynes Field, Norman
INFO: Auburn is No. 24
» Year: Sophomore
» Position: Left-handed pitcher
» Hometown:San Jose, Calif.
» Game stats:7.2 innings pitched, two hits allowed, eight strikeouts, one walk
» Notes:Earned 16th shutout of her career, moving into 10th on OU’s all-time program list
Top performer
KEILANI RICKETTS
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Red Raiders romp Sooners
LUBBOCK, Texas — Senior guard Cade Davis scored 21 points, but it wasn’t enough to keep Texas Tech from drubbing the Sooners, 84-58.
OU (12-17, 4-11 Big 12) shot just 32.8 percent from the field and suffered its eighth loss in a row.
“I’m really embarrassed about our performance,” Sooners coach Jeff Capel said. “I really felt that we would have come out ready to fight, desperate for a win. We came out the opposite and Texas Tech came out that way and knocked us back early. We were never in the game.”
Mike Singletary and David Tairu scored 17 points each for Texas Tech (13-17, 5-10), which hit 11 of 21 3-pointers and led the whole way — much of it by double digits. .
Texas Tech opened the game with a 14-3 run, in-cluding two 3-pointers by Reese, while Oklahoma shot abysmally.
Things didn’t change much later in the half as the Sooners endured a field goal drought of more than 8 1/2 minutes. Oklahoma shot 27.6 per-cent in the first half and trailed 40-20 at the break.
Oklahoma’s points were its second-lowest first-half total this season. The Sooners had just 19 points against Texas in January.
Tech scored five unan-swered points to start the second half to go up 45-20.
A few minutes later, Reese hit a 3-pointer to bump the margin to 53-27.
Oklahoma made a few small runs but never got within striking distance.
Capel said his team shouldn’t have felt overconfident from the Sooners’ 83-74 win over the Red Raiders in January in Norman.
“We’ve lost seven in a row” coming in to the game, he said. “You would think that we would be desperate. If we were overconfident, then we’re the dumbest team in America.”
Texas Tech outrebounded Oklahoma 46-37 but had more turnovers, 16, than the Sooners’ 12. But Oklahoma got just 11 points off the turnovers, while Texas Tech scored 21 points off Sooners’ turnovers.
— AP
» Year: Fresh.
» Position: G» Game stats:23 points, 3 assists, 5-of-10 from 3-pt range
Top performer
AARYN ELLENBERG
What’s next
WHAT: OU vs. OSU
WHEN: 3 p.m. Saturday
WHERE: Lloyd Noble Center, Norman
INFO: Senior Night, will honor guard Cade Davis
ISAAC BLAXTON/THE DAILY
Senior guard Danielle Robinson dribbles the ball against Oklahoma State in OU’s 81-66 win over the Cowgirls on Wednesday in Norman. Robinson scored 13 points and grabbed nine rebounds.
10 • Thursday, March 3, 2011 The Oklahoma Daily | OUDaily.comSPORTS
Sports Illustrated and CBS News conducted a six-month investigation into the criminal records of college football players at top pro-grams in the country.
The investigation, re-leased Wednesday, checked the criminal backgrounds of the magazine’s 2010 pre-season top-25 teams’ play-ers — all 2,837 of them.
Oklahoma, which had nine players with criminal records, was tied for sev-enth-most on the list.
OU and TCU — which had no players with crimi-nal records — are the only schools on the list that do background checks during the recruiting process.
However, neither school delves into players’ juvenile records, but the study did.
Coaches interviewed by the magazine said the prima-ry reason they don’t do thor-ough background checks is because they expect the high school coaches to provide that sort of detail.
That approach would work if the high school coaches valued honesty over landing their players prized scholar-ships with prestigious col-lege football programs — but most don’t.
I am all for giving people second chances, but it seems like most coaches don’t even know they are giving some players second chances.
On the other hand, some coaches do know what their recruits have been involved in and plow forward with-out so much as batting an eyelash.
I understand a coach’s job is to win, and to do that
he needs good players. However, I guarantee the same fans that want Florida to win national champion-ships are equally embar-rassed when they see the Gators’ arrest record.
Sooner fans also want
nothing but success, but when freshmen Kenny Stills and Tony Jefferson were ar-rested for a DUI and inter-fering with official process, respectively, fans lit them up.
Oklahoma isn’t known as a team that recruits a bunch of criminals or one with an arrest record a mile long, but this study shows maybe the Sooners fit that bill a lit-tle more than many think.
The most glaring issue in this study is that winning has become more impor-tant than character, integri-ty and morals in the players that make up a program.
It’s understandable with the way college athletics — especially football — are these days. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t sad.
— Luke McConnell,
journalism junior
NEIL MCGLOHON/THE DAILY
Freshman defensive back Tony Jefferson leaps to tackle Colorado quarterback Cody Hawkins on Oct. 31. Jefferson is one of nine OU players with criminal records, according to a recent study.
COLUMN
OU 7th in players with records
ONLINE AT OUDAILY.COM» Link: “College Football and Crime,” Sports Illustrated
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Luke McConnell
Weekend tournament brings Sooners’ fi rst match against ranked opponent
RYAN GERBOSIThe Oklahoma Daily
OU baseball is look-ing to stay perfect as they travel to San Diego, Calif. today for the University of San Diego tournament.
The No. 2 Sooners are coming off of their first road game of the season, a win against the University of Texas at Arlington. OU was down early but fought back late, scoring on a homer from senior Casey Johnson and another by sophomore Max White on a bases-loaded wild pitch.
The win gave OU a 10-0 record, its best start under head coach Sunny Golloway. It also is the best start for an OU team since 1998 (12-0).
Oklahoma will play three teams over four games in the tournament — San Diego State Thursday and Sunday, USD on Friday and No. 14 California on Saturday.
Pitching for the Sooners on Thursday will be senior right-hander Michael Rocha. In his last start, Rocha threw seven innings, giving up two runs on seven hits with seven strikeouts to earn his second win of the season.
OU will face a San Diego State squad that has gone 1-6 thus far. The Aztecs are coached by former San Diego Padre great and San Diego State alumnus Tony Gwynn. The team went .500 last season, posting a 28-28 record.
Senior right-hander Steven Moranda will start for the Aztecs Thursday. Moranda is 0-0 with a 5.06 ERA this the season.
SDSU freshman T.J. Kendroza will start on Sunday, bringing in a 1-1 record and a 7.45 ERA.
Saturday’s game against USD will be OU senior Bobby Shore’s third start of the season. Shore is 1-0 with a 6.57 ERA early this season.
The Toreros (3-4) will send sophomore Calvin Drummond to the mound on Saturday. Drummond is 1-0 with a 2.45 ERA.
Sunday’s game will be OU’s first game against a ranked opponent this season. The Sooners will battle the No. 14 Cal Golden Bears.
Despite being a ranked collegiate team, Cal’s baseball program is being eliminated by the university after this season.
The Golden Bears (5-1) will send out sophomore south-paw Justin Jones, who has a 1-0 record and a 1.93 ERA.
The Sooners will have junior Burch Smith on the mound. Smith has been strong this season, posting a 1-0 record with a 2.45 ERA and 15 strikeouts thus far.
BASEBALL
Team seeking best season start
» Year: Sophomore
» Position: Infi elder
» Hometown:Durant
» Season stats:.469 batting average, 1 home run, 8 RBI, 14 runs
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