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President of club encourages

others to try scuba diving

BRITTNEY BROWNDaily Staff Writer

After just one dip into the water with an air tank and some fins, Michael McCarter was hooked. Now, he spends his free time scuba div-ing, getting other people interested and studying to become a certified instructor.

McCarter, entrepreneurship sophomore, is currently a certified Divemaster, one level below an instructor. He uses the certifica-tion to take people on scuba tours, make money and help the Sooner Scuba club, established last year.

McCarter serves as president of the club and said he always tries to get others interested in scuba diving.

Michael Johnson, aerospace engineering sophomore, was recruited for the club and be-came a certified scuba diver last summer.

“He got me interested in the scuba club,” Johnson said.

McCarter said scuba diving gives him the opportunity to see things others cannot by photographing underwater images. He keeps the photographs on his iPhone.

He has dived in the Florida Keys, British Virgin Islands and the Dominican Republic, where he floated through a school of

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CAMPUS BRIEFS

FREE ART LECTURE BY TEXAS-BASED PHOTOGRAPHER

CNBC’S JIM CRAMER TO SPEAK WITH STUDENTS AND ALUMNI

TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS COMMUTER RAIL

DEADLINE FOR UOSA STUDENT CONGRESS SEATS APPROACHES

Free student admission tickets to the taping of CNBC’s “Mad Money with Jim Cramer” will be available from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Cramer will visit OU Oct. 29 to speak with business students and alumni at a dinner, and Oct. 30 he will tape his show before a live audi-ence of OU students.

For more information, contact the Price College Office of Alumni and Development at 325-2500.

A r t pho tog raphe r M i che l e Wambaugh will give a free lecture today at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave.

“From Degas to Abstraction” begins at 10:30 a.m in the Sandy Bell Gallery. Presented by The School of Art and Art History, the lecture is open to the public, but seating is limited.

Wambaugh, a Texas-based artist, is best known for her photographic series “Exposed: The Performer Backstage,” which documented the backstage environment of over 40 major dance, theater and opera com-panies in North America and Europe, including Broadway musicals.

Wambaugh’s other series include “Women and Tribals of India” and “World Signage.”

For more information or to see a calendar of future events, call 325-2691 or visit art.ou.edu.

The deadline to apply for a seat in the fall 2009 election in UOSA Student Congress is 5 p.m. Thursday in the Conoco Leadership Wing of the Oklahoma Memorial Union room 181.

Students can run for open seats in districts that represent their fi eld of study.

Jeff Riles, UOSA fall 2009 general elections chairman, stated the fol-lowing districts have open seats that students can apply for:

2 – Arts1 – Architecture2 – Business1 - Atmospheric and Geographic4 – Communications1 - Continuing Education & Liberal

Studies1 - Earth and Energy4 – Engineering4 – Humanities1 – Languages4 - Life Sciences2 - Physical Sciences4 - University College

—Daily staff reports

The City of Norman’s Transportation Committee will meet at 5:30 p.m. Thursday to discuss a possible com-muter rail service from Norman to Oklahoma City and Oklahoma City to Edmond, according to the meeting’s agenda.

The Assoc ia t ion o f Cent ra l Oklahoma Governments will discuss facilitating a commuter rail study from Norman to Oklahoma City and Oklahoma City to Edmond.

Other agenda topics include CART, SafeRIDE and extended service reports, as well as a review of streets to be considered in the existing fi ve-year street improvements project.

The meeting will be at Norman City Hall, 201 W. Gray St.

Thursday’sWeather

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Michael McCarter, entrepreneurship sophomore and president of the Sooner Scuba club, takes a dive at Davis Reef in the Florida Keys in March 2008. McCarter hopes to become a certified scuba diving instructor and get more students involved in the activity.

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MARCIN RUTKOWSKI/THE DAILY

Revenue will go into athletics

department’s operating budget

CAITLIN HARRISONDaily Staff Writer

OU will receive more than $500,000 for hosting the U2 concert Sunday, with $300,000 for service fees and another $200,000 to rent the field, according to the Aug. 10 licensing contract.

The revenue produced at the concert’s Owen Field venue, part of the band’s “360°” tour, will go into the athletics department’s general oper-ating budget. This has been the case as well for previous concerts hosted at Lloyd Noble Center, Kenny Mossman, OU athletics communications director, stated in an e-mail.

“The OU Athletics Department is one of very few in the country that is self-sustaining,” Mossman said. “Since we generate every dollar we spend, we seek innovative ways to support our initiatives.”

The contract, between the OU Board of

OU to receive compensation, share of revenue for hosting U2 360° concert

Okla., Texas departments of transportation act to ease traffi c backup

TROY WEATHERFORDDaily Staff Writer

I-35 between Norman and Dallas will be construction-free this weekend as thousands of OU students and fans make their way to the Lone Star State for the Red River Rivalry.

Officials in the Oklahoma and Texas departments of transporta-tion say they have prepared for a large volume of traffic.

“This is a huge traffic day,” said Cole Hackett, public informa-tion officer with ODOT. “We’re

definitely aware of it, and we try to work around it.”

All lanes on I-35 will be open be-tween Norman and Dallas, officials say.

“We’ll have all lanes open. Unless there’s an emergency situ-ation, you won’t see any highway workers out there,” said Adele Lewis, Wichita Falls public infor-mation officer with TxDOT.

The high volume of traffic is something that TxDOT is aware of and plans around each year, Lewis said.

“We plan for this every year. We know,” Lewis said. “Sometimes, it’s in the contract itself [to not work on OU-Texas weekend].”

I-35 to be clear of constructionfor OU-Texas football weekend

Th reat of bioterrorism out of the spotlight in recent yearsExpert says bioterrorism receives too much of U.S. defense funding

JARED RADERDaily Staff Writer

OKLAHOMA CITY — While bioterrorism is a valid threat, the amount the U.S. spends for defen-sive programs is unnecessary, a bioterrorism expert told an audi-ence Tuesday at the OU College of Public Health.

C o l . T e d C i e s l a k , t h e Department of Defense’s liaison officer to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, deliv-ered the lecture, titled “Biowarfare and Bioterrorism: A Primer.” The

lecture discussed the history of biological warfare and its signifi-cance today.

Cieslak said bioterrorism is the most significant biological warfare threat, but it is not a threat that warrants the amount of money spent on it.

“Fifteen years ago, this was a lecture that needed to be given, because at the time, it was a valid threat,” Cieslak said. “However, over the past decade, too much emphasis has been put on bioter-rorism, and too many billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted on somewhat dubious efforts for bioterrorism defense.”

Cieslak gave a brief history of

this back m

fish. “If you swim towards them,

they part,” he said, “so if you float, they let you in.”

Kelsey Huse, accounting sophomore and Sooner Scuba secretary, said she likes scuba diving because it ’s a risky activity.

“It’s an adrenaline rush,” she said. “But at the same time, its relaxing to be under the water and be exploring things.”

Because of the risk involved with scuba diving, McCarter has five different certifications and is studying to be an instructor. He said it is a very intense process.

“I’ve literally got 10 books on this stuff,” he said.

In order to become certi-fied as an official instructor, McCarter said he must memo-rize all diving information, from how much oxygen a tank has to have at a certain depth to what happens if you go too deep

without the right mix of air.McCarter said his goal is to

become certified as an instruc-tor, which would help the club cut costs when paying for an instructor to certify the new members.

Currently, club members have to have someone else cer-tify them to scuba dive now, which is expensive, Huse said.

Additionally, McCarter said he would like to become an in-structor because he loves scuba diving.

“I would love to instruct on the weekends after college,” he said.

McCarter said it is his dream to open a scuba shop.

“But I would do it for the love of it, not for the money,” he said.

For students interested in joining, Huse said they should find the Facebook group for more information.

“It never hurts to try it,” Carter said. “If you go and do it and like it, awesome. If not, you don’t have to do it again.”

She said if a contract didn’t include a provision not to work this weekend, they would have given the con-tractor extra days so that the road would be open.

An alternate form of transportation can be found in the Heartland Flyer, an AMTRACK train that runs daily from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth. About 350 OU fans chose this method of transportation last year, according to an ODOT press release.

Round-trip tickets can be purchased for $40 by calling 1-800-USA-RAIL and using the fare code X109, according to the press release.

The train will leave Santa Fe Station in Oklahoma City Friday morning at 8:25 and make stops in Norman, Purcell, Pauls Valley, Ardmore, Gainesville and Ft. Worth before arriving in Dallas’s Union Station at 2:10 p.m.

For up-to-date information, both depart-ments of transportation have Twitter accounts they recommend drivers follow while not driving. Oklahoma’s Twitter page is OKDOT and the appli-cable Texas county Twitter pages are TxDOTWF and TxDOTDallasPIO.

Both ODOT and TxDOT officials caution drivers to leave early and be careful on the road.

“Make sure you leave plenty early so you’re not rushed and can get there safely,” Hackett said.

Regents and Live Nation UTours, also stated $200,000 could be in the form of an endowed scholarship for student athletes if Live Nation chooses to do so. Mossman said the company has either not yet made the decision or not shared it with the university.

The $300,000 service fee in-cludes payment “for the person-nel, services, rented equipment and other services and personnel related to the operations and secu-rity,” according to the contract.

OU often uses Lloyd Noble as a concert venue, but not its foot-ball field. The university hosted its last concert on the field 12 years ago when the Rolling Stones per-formed during the band’s “Bridges to Babylon” tour.

“We’ve been in the concert busi-ness at Lloyd Noble for quite some time, and [U2] was an opportunity

to do a concert on a grander scale, and we felt like it was an opportu-nity we wanted to take,” Mossman said.

UTours will also pay the univer-sity a deposit of $250,000 to replace the football field’s turf after the concert, as defined in the contract. OU will refund any of the money if charges to replace the field are less than that amount.

Mossman said OU looked at similar concerts at other universi-ties and found the high amount of field traffic and equipment kills the grass, rendering the field unplayable.

An Alabama farm will ship the new turf so installation can begin around Oct. 22, Mossman said. He said this is the same company that produced the sod for the National Championship game earlier this year in Miami.

“We found it would be best to get the field replaced so we won’t have any problems for the remainder of football season,” Mossman said.

Meredith Moriak, managing [email protected] • phone: 325-3666 • fax: 325-6051

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Michael McCarter, entrepreneurship sophomore, stands on the South Oval Tuesday morning. McCarter is a certified Divemaster and the presi-dent of the Sooner Scuba club at OU.

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Students leaving for Dallas to watch the OU-Texas foot-ball game may face heavy traffic traveling south on I-35 due to construction on the highway.

biological warfare, dating the first instance back to the 14th century. He said biological warfare could be used for strategic, tactical and ter-rorist purposes.

He said biological weapons are considered a major risk because they are inexpensive to produce and can spread over great distanc-es, sometimes in invisible clouds that are hard to detect until victims begin to show symptoms. The po-tential effects of such an attack in-clude overwhelming medical facili-ties and causing panic.

However, in modern warfare, Cieslak said terrorism is the most common purpose for biological weapons, because very few large-scale weapons exist that could achieve strategic or tactical ends.

“Osama bin Laden presumably does want to rule the world, and presumably will kill millions of

people to do that,” Cieslak said.However, he said there are few

weapons that exist that bin Laden could use for such a purpose.

He said modern terrorists mainly use biological weapons for publicity.

“If publicity is all [the terrorists] are after, anything makes a good weapon,” he said.

Cieslak gave an example of an event that happened April 1997 in Washington, D.C., when a postal clerk opened a letter that claimed to con-tain anthrax. While the letter did not actu-ally contain anthrax, h e s a i d t h e e v e nt made a great publicity stunt because it shut down the U.S. Capitol during rush hour.

“Here’s a terrorist who got every-thing he ever could have hoped for,” Cieslak said. “If he could do that with nothing, imagine what you could do with an eyedropper full of anything you could find in your

microbiology lab at this university, and have access to the salad bar at an inaugural ball.”

He said biological warfare reached its peak during the Cold War when the former Soviet Union created intercontinental ballistic missiles loaded with two highly contagious diseases, smallpox and bubonic plague.

“[Biological warfare] hasn’t been as front and center in the news re-

cently as it was in the early years of this decade,” said Gary Raskob, dean of the OU College of Public Health. “Nevertheless it’s with us and con-tinues to be an impor-tant area for national

security and public health.”Cieslak joined the CDC in 2006.

From 1996 to 2001, he served as the chief of the operational medicine division at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md.

“If publicity is all the terrorists are after, anything makes a good weapon.”—COL. TED CIESLAK

POLICE REPORTS

STUDENT CHARGED WITH LEWD ACTS

TODAYCAREER SERVICES

Career Services will host a

presentation on “Second

Level Interviews” from

noon to 12:30 p.m. in

Oklahoma Memorial Union.

CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUS

Christians on Campus

will have a Bible Study

from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m.

in the Sooner Room of


CAREER SERVICES

Career services will help

students learn job search

strategies, and how to write

resumes and cover letters

from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. in


COLLEGIATE ENTREPRENEURS

The Collegiate Entrepreneurs

Organization will host COO

of the Oklahoma Publishing

Company from 7 to 8 p.m.

in room 3020 of Price Hall.

CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST

Campus Crusade for Christ

will meet from 9 to 10 p.m.

in the Santee Lounge on

the fi fth fl oor of Oklahoma

Memorial Stadium.

GREEN WEEK

Applications for Green

Week 2010 Executive Team

are now available online.

THURSDAYOU NAVY ROTC COTTON BOWL RUN

The OU Navy ROTC will run to

the Cotton Bowl when Coach

Stoops hands off a game

football to a midshipman

at 7:15 a.m. at the Armory.

CAREER SERVICES

Career Services will help with

resumes, cover letters and

job search strategies from

1:30 to 4 p.m. in the union.

CAMPUS NOTES

The following is a list of arrests

and citations, not convictions.

The information is compiled

from the Norman Police

Department and the OU Police

Department. All those listed are

innocent until proven guilty.

POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIAAaron James Anderson, 24,

1616 E. Alameda St., Monday

MUNICIPAL WARRANTArlyn Francisco Franco, 23,

201 W. Gray St., Monday

James Jimi Jackson, 37, 4111

Heritage Place Drive, Monday

COUNTY WARRANTGary Wayne Pierce, 27, North

University Boulevard, Monday

An OU student who has been charged with performing lewd acts with a child will appear next week in court, according to a Cleveland County District Court affi davit.

Isaiah Christopher “Chris” Hamburger, drama sophomore, was charged Oct. 5 for molesting a 4-year-old girl.

The affi davit states Hamburger “denied any wrongdoing and requested counsel.”

Norman Police began looking into allegations of molestation July 6 when the victim disclosed to her mother that “Uncle Chris” had “made her do yucky things.” On July 8, the victim was taken in for forensic review at the Mary Abbott Children’s House where the child confi rmed she was molested while visiting her grandmother’s house in Norman where Hamburger lives while attending OU.

Hamburger posted bond and appeared with counsel Oct. 6, according to the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Department.

-Ricky Maranon/The Daily

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 3A

Boren gives credit for Phase II of Gaylord Hall construction to donorsFeatures of Phase II will ‘create new opportunities’

NATASHA GOODELLDaily Staff Writer

“This all started with a $22 million gift that transformed a school into a college,” OU President David Boren said during the dedication ceremony for Phase II of Gaylord Hall Tuesday.

Boren, along with Gaylord College Dean Joe Foote, Christy Everest, chairman and CEO of the Oklahoma Publishing Company, Editor of The Oklahoman Ed Kelly and Savannah Mobley, advertising senior, spoke at the dedication of Phase II of Gaylord Hall.

Boren credited the building to Edith and Edward Gaylord, who gave money for its construction. Boren also thanked other major donors for the new phase, including the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, the Inasmuch Foundation and the Gaylord Family Foundation. Representatives of all those foundations attended Tuesday’s ceremonies.

“This is a building that never sleeps,”

Boren said. “It’s an exciting place to be.”

Boren said OU’s journalism and mass communications program has never stood at the point of excellence as it is right now, with 1,400 students and 33 faculty members.

“In this time of enormous change, we understand that through it all we must maintain integrity and depth and ac-curacy in communication itself,” Boren said.

Phase II of Gaylord Hall features a student-led advertising and public re-lations studio, a 185-seat auditorium with a studio and sound stage and a video production studio, an OU press release stated.

“Our family is really excited about seeing the vision we had being com-plete,” Everest said.

Kelley, in a post-ceremony interview, said this is a great day for the progress at OU, which he said has come a long way in the last 10 years.

“The commitment President Boren has to not only keep journalism strong, but making sure it’s one of the reasons OU is known nationally is really inspir-ing,” he said.

Kelley said there are few presidents at universities around the nation who really understand journalism like President Boren does.

Foote said OU is fortunate to have had the opportunity to open two new buildings within five years, referring to the phases of Gaylord Hall.

“We are achieving a level of excel-lence few could have imagined a few years ago,” Foote said.

The Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication is credited as being the fourth-largest academic college at OU, Foote said.

Mobley said she remembers when she first toured Gaylord Hall Phase I.

“I never imagined I would see the completion of Phase II,” Mobley said.

Mobley contributed to the new stu-dent-run PR and advertising agency, Lindsey + Asp, that will reside in Phase II of Gaylord Hall.

“It was an honor to have President Boren and Dean Foote speak to all of us,” Stacy Kaplan, journalism senior and Gaylord Ambassador, said in a post-ceremony interview. “This is going to open a lot of doors and create new opportunities for students.”

TEEKO YANG/THE DAILY

Joe S. Foote, dean of the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communications, introduces President David Boren to the audience for the Gaylord Hall Phase II dedication Tuesday.

Student groups to sponsor

event, organized by OU Hillel

RICKY MARANONDaily Staff Writer

Student Congress approved a resolution at its Tuesday meet-ing to fund next week’s cam-pus-wide diversity celebration, CommongrOUnd.

Student Congress approved up to $1,000 for food and enter-tainment at the celebration, and passed a separate resolution agreeing to become a sponsor of CommongrOUnd.

OU Hillel is organizing the celebration, while 50 student organizations will sponsor the event, said Sam Scharff, OU Hillel CommongrOUnd coordinator.

“This is one of the most impor-tant things we will do on campus all year,” said Forrest Bennett, political science and history sophomore, University College district.

“In a state that can be so closed-minded, it is important for our

university and our society to see all of these groups come together.”

Bennett said the 50 groups that have signed up are groups that range from those that support civil liberties to those who support mak-ing the Earth greener.

“By giving CommongrOUnd funding, we are showing universi-ties all over the country that it is how you can unite and bring stu-dents together,” said Brett Stidham, human resources management ju-nior, business district. “We want to send Norman and even the entire state the message that we as a stu-dent body celebrate diversity at this university.”

Stidham and Isaac Freeman, international securities studies se-nior, social sciences district, said the CommongrOUnd celebration is based in part as a “positive re-sponse” to the “negative display” of free speech when the Westboro Baptist Church came to Norman Sept. 18.

“I was very upset when they were here, and I really wanted to go out and show them how angry I was,”

Freeman said. “This celebration of diversity is a great way to respond to what took place.”

UOSA Student Congress Vice Chairman Matt Gress said by Student Congress supporting CommongrOUnd, the event will now have access to catering by food services in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Event coordinators will also have access to other university services.

Members of OU Hillel were pres-ent in the Student Congress meet-ing to share details about the event.

“This will be an event that will support diversity in epic propor-tions,” Scharff said. “We have a lot of speakers, live music and great food. Everyone should come out. It is going to be great.”

Scharff also said the keynote speaker for the event will be David Ray, interim dean of the Honors College.

“With all of the groups that have asked to be apart of this event, [this is going to be] a great display and celebration of diversity,” Scharff said.

UOSA approves funding for diversity celebrationThe UOSA Executive Branch and the

Undergraduate Student Congress are teaming up to urge more people to participate in student government.

The new campaign for student involvement encourages students to run in the fall general election and to also seek other jobs that are open.

“We want people to get involved in their student government,” UOSA President Katie Fox said. “There are a lot of ways people can get involved, and we want as many as we can to sign up.”

Fox said applications for many dif-ferent kinds of offi ces are available in the Conoco Leadership Wing of the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

But the campaign is not necessarily a result of last spring’s election, said UOSA Student Congress spokesman Spencer Pittman.

“Last spring was not necessarily a failure,” Pittman said. “We have many leaders in Congress that have come out of the elections last spring. We are just trying to get more people involved and create a higher diversity in the number of candidates that run for seats in the fall general election.”

Pittman said if more people sign up for any offi ce and not just those up for election this fall, student government will become more diverse to meet the needs of all students at OU.

“If we have a lot of candidates then that gives students a real choice in who they are electing,” he said. “We want to fi ll every seat in Congress with a diverse group of leaders so we can have unique legislation and action taking place that will benefi t all stu-dents.”

Student Congress has launched an interactive Web site at www.ou.edu/congress, and they have also set up a booth in the union so students can ask them questions and sign up for jobs in UOSA.

Jeff Riles, fall 2009 general elec-tion chair, said UOSA is making access to sign up to run in the fall election easier for students.

Applications to run in the fall 2009 general election are due by 5:00 p.m., on Thursday in the Conoco Leadership Wing of the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

—Ricky Maranon/The Daily

UOSA WORKS FOR MORE STUDENT INVOLVEMENT

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Round of Golf for Four PlayersAt the newly renovated Jimmie Aus� n OU Golf Club

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Responsibility and account-ability are words currently thrown

about with less clarity than my eyes without cor-rective lenses. Everybody wants to portray them-selves as relevant, responsible and politically astute. But sometimes in doing so we con-tradict ourselves.

Case in point, the current controversy over re-cent abortion-related legislation in Oklahoma. In April, the state government approved, and a Democratic governor signed, a law which, at the time, seemed highly necessary.

House Bill 1595, as it is available from the Oklahoma Legislature’s Web site, asserts two specific (but pretty clearly connected) purposes: to prevent abortions that are per-formed on the basis of the sex of the child alone, and to require specific and confidential information from both the mother of the child and the doctor performing the abortion.

The first purpose is certainly not a problem for anyone in Oklahoma, particularly feminists. The second purpose, however, has recently been the source of some level of controversy.

As numerous media outlets re-port, two Oklahoma women have challenged the bill on the grounds that it is unconstitutional. But the group representing the two women is the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, and the grounds on which they base their case is an assertion that the bill itself covers more than one topic. It’s in-teresting that they don’t challenge the content of the bill itself.

No, that job was left to The Daily’s Our View editorial from last Friday, which blasted the bill for a number of reasons. The three primary argu-ments were that the bill would “cre-ate an atmosphere of ‘big brother’ government,” that theoretically the information about the women could, in a small town, be disclosed, and it “could make women feel un-comfortable and possibly affect their decision to abort.”

I will respond to each argument.First, this is an ironic twist to the

language of the Our View section, which mere weeks ago strongly as-serted that, on the hot-button topic of universal health care, “we are not naive enough to tell you how to feel or which side to support when it comes to this hotly debated issue.”

So, one week opposition is shown to choosing a side on a controver-sial issue which is often character-ized by those who oppose it as “big brother” legislation (government-mandated health care for every U.S. citizen), but accountability for doctors who perform abortions and acquiring information that is confi-dential about the women involved is grounds for speaking out? I’m confused.

Secondly, there also seems to be much sentiment that this bill would reveal personal information and the identities of the women involved.

However, in the only article I could find in which one of the au-thors of the bill was interviewed (a piece by KTUL TV in Tulsa), Rep. Dan Sullivan (co-author of the bill) makes an observation about the issue of privacy itself, asserting that “‘There are only three coun-ties in the state where abortions

are performed. Tulsa County, Oklahoma County and Cleveland County.’ [Sullivan] says there’s no way to trace a women back to the rural county where she lives.”

The bill itself has very strong lan-guage protecting privacy, saying in section 2D that “In every proceed-ing or action ... the anonymity of any female upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted shall be preserved unless she gives her con-sent to such disclosure.”

Third, the argument is that this legislation could be detrimental to a mother’s decision to destroy her pregnancy.

The Tulsa World article that the Our View quotes provides an ar-gument from “Jennifer Mondino, a staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, [who] said, ‘These bundled abortion restric-tions have nothing to do with pro-tecting the people of Oklahoma and everything to do with lawmakers who have political agendas trying to make it harder for women to get abortions and harder for doctors to provide them.’”

But isn’t that what lawmakers by nature have, political agendas?

And since when is it a bad idea to make it more difficult to get an abortion? Ironic that this rugged individualism comes from the left-leaning Center for Reproductive Rights, which readily advocates (along with the president) the ideas of accountability and informed de-cisions on issues of policy in health care. It seems that the issue of abor-tion plays by a different set of rules.

Ultimately, the purpose of the bill is obviously to limit and reduce the number of abortions performed in Oklahoma.

By discovering some of the infor-mation given, we can learn the mo-tive for many of the women behind their decision and provide some accountability to doctors.

But in the end, I hope and pray that this legislation and others will indeed be a step in the direction of remembering the hundreds of thousands of women whose lives, hopes, dreams and futures have been destroyed since Rowe v. Wade legalized the brutality of abortion.

Jon Malone is an English education

graduate student.

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STAFF COLUMN

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COMMENT OF THE DAY »In response to Slater Rhea’s Tuesday column, “Obama deserves Nobel Prize for improv-ing international relations”

“while we’re giving pres obama a nobel peace prize, let’s give quentin tarantino a best direc-tor oscar award for his next, yet unfinished movie.

why do we give obama an award for doing nothing?

except for making some kick-ass speeches....”

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The University of Texas Longhorns are

superior to the OU Sooners.

Dear UT-Norman,It’s our understanding that we will be

participating in a football match with you in the near future. We’re certainly delighted and wish you the best of luck. We would like to do anything we can to accommodate you as you visit us in our great state.

Really, could we spot you a skill po-sition player or two? Perhaps an offen-sive line? What about a victory in a BCS bowl?

Anything at all — we strive to be great hosts.

We still humbly feel that we were more deserving of being in the national championship game last year and are taking every precaution this season to ensure that we will make it to Pasadena. Naturally, one tremendous obstacle we face is our game against your fine univer-sity, namely the negative impact it will have on our strength of schedule. Luckily we have UTEP to balance that aspect of the BCS formula for us — at least they’ve beaten a ranked team.

Texas, like any other state, has been struggling with the economy, thus we sincerely thank the fans at your institu-tion for making tickets available to the game on your side of the field for such bargain prices. Additionally, we thank you for all of our logos that you purchase and place upside down (we really do ap-preciate the royalties). But we do feel your money might be better spent pur-chasing players... oh, it seems you’ve al-ready done that, which is why your pro-gram is on probation right now.

When it comes down to it, we still don’t quite understand why there is such ani-mosity between our schools. We mean, after all, we both have a lot in com-mon. For example, we all applied to the University of Texas out of high school.

But we should really distance our-selves from these petty insults. It gets really old tossing around unfortunate observations about the poor dental hygiene of Oklahomans, the constant embarrassment you cause our confer-ence on the national stage, your inferior academic rankings across all disciplines, the inability to field a team with athletes

actually from Oklahoma and the fact that your state polluted the world by offering it Reba McEntire.

We’re ready to move beyond this child-ish name-calling and simply accept you as the second highest ranked university in a state founded by land thieves.

We’re expecting a very fun and sports-manlike match and are truly hoping this will serve as a good tune-up game for us before we play Central Florida in a few weeks. Of course some of our fans, still enchanted with your lofty and undoubt-edly deserved pre-season ranking, may be dismayed by the actual skill level of your team. Just know that when we chant our fight song we’re not shouting “OU Sucks” emphatically, but rather in a sur-prised sense: “Oh, you suck?”

When you do leave Dallas disap-pointed, know that you’ll have 45,000 burnt orange faithful wishing you a safe trip back up I-35. We’re certainly hope-ful your band of duct-taped 1980 Ford Pintos are able to make the trip back to your sinkhole without fail.

Good luck in the game. Hook em’ horns!

Hugs and kisses,The Daily Texan

Rivalry game looms, trash talking increases Editor’s Note: In preparation for the OU-Texas football game Saturday, The Oklahoma Daily and the University of Texas’ student newspaper, The Daily Texan,

agreed to run an editorial from each newspaper side by side today. The editorials criticize the opposing university.

The OU Sooners are better than the

University of Texas Longhorns.

Hello to all you hippies, nerds, cowboys and criminals down there in Austin.

We too have heard some murmurings about an upcoming football matchup, and we are looking forward to it.

Sure, we’ve had a tough go so far this season. We’ll readily admit a 3-2 start is not what any of us expected. But the season is young, and there’s a lot of football left.

We remember feeling blue after a tough loss last season. Things looked bleak, as our national championship hopes began to fade. But then with one reception and a magical touchdown in last year’s Texas Tech-UT game, something changed.

We don’t know exactly how to describe it, but we’ll do our best. It was like “we dreamed it in our heads.” Weird.

Anyway, we wouldn’t be too upset about your loss to Texas Tech last year. After all, the Red Raiders were really good, and you fought really hard. They almost beat every-one they played. Almost.

But that was last year. This year is a little different. Quite honestly, we’re not used to being the underdogs. With the most wins since World War II, seven national

championships, six Big 12 titles in the last decade and five Heisman Trophy winners, how could we be?

Oh, and speaking of the Heisman Trophy, we have a funny story. OU quar-terback Sam Bradford won it last year. That made us giggle.

Now don’t get us wrong, Colt McCoy is really good, especially when he’s got his good ol’ fishin’ buddy Jordan Shipley by his side. Honestly, we hadn’t heard anything about how Colt and Jordan are so close until last weekend, when the commenta-tors of the Colorado-UT football game let us in on a very well-kept secret: Colt and Jordan are fishin’ buddies!

We couldn’t believe our ears! Two teammates who are also fishin’ buddies!? Who’da thunk it?

We heard that one time Jordan even hopped on a boat and Colt done did throw him a football from the shore! That made us giggly giggle too!

But let’s put football aside for a second. While we don’t doubt that everything in

your editorial was well researched, we do take issue with one statement. You said, “we all applied to the University of Texas out of high school.”

Did we now?We think you might be taking for granted

that everybody aspires to attend a massive university that provides its students with little-to-no personal attention in a big city. Personally speaking, we like OU.

A lot. Here’s why: It’s located in a relatively

small college town that doesn’t feature maddeningly molasses-like traffic. We actually know our professors, and we at least recognize or know most of the other students in our majors. We can walk any-where on campus in less than 30 minutes. The price of living isn’t astronomical. And even though Norman is a smaller city, we are only 30 minutes away from a large met-ropolitan one, Oklahoma City.

These are just a few of the many reasons why we chose to attend OU. And, as a uni-versity, we would like to thank the good ol’ Lone Star State for oh-so graciously giving us some of its best and brightest.

Good luck in the game. BOOMER SOONER!

The Oklahoma Daily

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Quarterback Sam Bradford prepares for the snap during the last game against Texas, Oct. 11, 2008.

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A TALE OF TWO GOLIATHS: BRADFORD VS MCCOY

• 135-184 completions• 1,410 passing yards •10 passing touchdown• 6 interceptions• 149.2 passer rating• 35 carries for 58 yards• 1 touchdown

•Finished second in the Heisman race

last year

•Career record vs. OU: 2-1

SAM BRADFORD• 37-63 completions• 485 passing yards• 2 passing touchdowns• 0 interceptions• 133.9 quarterback rating• 3 carries for -5 yards• 0 touchdowns

• Missed three games due to a right

shoulder sprain

• Career record vs. Texas: 1-1

RIVALS ON THE FIELD, FRIENDS OFF THE GRIDIRON

– OU junior quarterback Sam Bradford on his relationship with Texas senior Colt McCoy.

“Colt’s a great guy. I think him send-ing me text messages after I got hurt told me he was praying for me, stay with it and keep my head up, that just says a lot about the type of guy he is.”

“If we win I’ll probably send a text and say something, and I’m sure if he wins he’ll say something to me. It’s all in good fun.”

•Jordan Shipley, 47 receptions for 583 yards•3 touchdowns

Doesn’t spread the ball around. You know where he is throwing too often. See above.

Hasn’t proven he can take a hit. Hanging onto the ball for too long against Texas may result in more than just a bum shoulder.

Coverage of the Red River RivalrycontinuesThursday.

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COLT MCCOY

The Daily’s Jono Greco breaks down the matchup at quarterback between the Sooners’ Sam Bradford and the Longhorns’ Colt McCoy.

•Brandon Caleb, 21 receptions for 340 yards•2 touchdowns

Avoid the quickness of OU’s defensive linemen and exploit the slow linebackers.

Get the ball to stay in as many players’ hands as possible.

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KEYS TO SATURDAY


Two months ago, new Denver Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels had already put himself on thin ice without even starting the season.

He traded franchise quarterback Jay Cutler to the Chicago Bears based on unhappiness and disagree-ments, and followed the bold move with another by sus-pending dynamic wide receiver Brandon Marshall for poor behavior.

Five games into this season, McDaniels and team hold an undefeated record and have arguably the tough-est defense in the league.

Thus far, the defense has shut out teams known for scoring like the New England Patriots, Dallas Cowboys and Cincinnati Bengals. Not to mention a league best 43 points given up, just a little over eight points per game.

Have we ever seen such a young coach do something like this? He’s one of the first coaches to ever start 5-0.

Quite frankly, he’s just executing per-fectly and making a name for himself.

All of this years success noted, he’s just 33 years of age.

Only a few years ago he wasn’t allowed to drink alco-hol, and he looks so young, it wouldn’t surprise me if he still gets asked for identification at the casino. There are even a handful of players who are older than him on the active roster.

McDaniels was in New England for eight years with the Patriots, and the rise of Orton reminds me a lot of Tom Brady when he broke out.

The comparison, of course, reflects the ability to win and rarely making mistakes, as Brady did in McDaniels’ early days. Orton has seven touchdowns and only one in-terception this season, while Cutler has already thrown four interceptions and fumbled four times.

Orton is starting to look like a good decision. If he was a pitcher, he would win the Cy Young Award because he’s 26-12 career as a starter and has beaten names like Brady, Tony Romo and Carson Palmer this year.

When McDaniels stepped in, sent Cutler packing and claimed Orton as his starting quarterback; he was feel-ing the negative heat of the media.

Now, he and Orton have gone from one of the most doubted, to one of the most respected coach-quarter-back tandems in the entire league.

And they deserve it.

MJ Casiano is a broadcast and electronic media junior.

McDaniels, Orton perfect for Denver

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SOONER SAMPLER »THE DAILY’S JAMES CORLEY ASKED SOONERS AROUND CAMPUS WHAT

THEIR PLANS WERE FOR THE UPCOMING OU-TEXAS WEEKEND.

“I’m probably just going to spend the weekend with some friends. I don’t know exactly if I’m going to watch the game.”

-RILEY PIERCE, DRAMA FRESHMAN

“Of course, I’m watch-ing the game. I might go to my boss’ place because he’s going to have a few people over. Otherwise I’ll watch it at a bar or at my place.”

-JORDAN CAIMANO, PHILOSOPHY SOPHOMORE

“I’m going down to Dallas.”

-KARA KOHBAS, PRE-DENTAL SOPHOMORE

“I’m going to Dallas. I’m looking forward to the game. Honestly, I think Texas will win.”

-ALLY TURLEY, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND FINANCE SOPHOMORE

“I think I’m going to stay in Norman and see if there’s some-thing going on this weekend. To be hon-est, I probably won’t even watch the game. I’m just not really foot-ball oriented.”

-ANDREW BAER, LETTERS SENIOR

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Written more than 400 years before the birth of Christ, Sophocles’ “Antigone”

still holds a remarkable amount of relevance for a play that’s pushing 2 1/2 millennia.

Its prominent theme of the morality of civil disobedience against un-just rule carries plenty of philosophical weight.

R e d u x i o n T h e a t r e C o m p a n y o p e n e d i t s second season with the tragedy last week, but

although it’s an earnest production highlighted by several exceptional performances, its bare-bones approach tends to dull some of the material rather than give it the raw quality that was l ikely intended.

Drama junior Aimee C r o w t h e r s t a r s a s Antigone. Her brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, have both died on the battlefield leading rival armies in the Theban civil war. The king of Thebes, Creon (Wil l Gardner), has issued an edict pro-h i b i t i n g t h e b u r i a l o f Polyneices, but Antigone ignores the rule and the pleading of her sister Ismene (drama sophomore Hannah Broom), and buries her brother anyway.

When Creon learns of the disobedi-ence, he is livid and determined to dis-cover the perpetrator. Complicating matters, his son Haemon (journalism alumnus Addison Miller) is engaged to

Antigone, which divides loyalties severe-ly when Creon discovers it was she who illegally buried the enemy of the state.

The action takes place on top of an unimaginative collection of triangular structures with nary a scenery change to be found in the entire show, which runs without an intermission.

The subtle lighting design by Steven Gillmore does help lend a better sense of progression to his own monotonous sce-nic design, however.

Performances are strong, especially Gardner in his emotionally wrenching concluding scene and Crowther, who

exhibits a serene sense o f d u t y a s t h e t r a g i c heroine.

D r a m a s o p h o m o r e Madison Niederhauser also makes a good im-pression in a dual role that allows for about the only comic character-ization, which comes off well-surrounded by the dolefulness of the rest of the characters.

But despite a technical-ly proficient production, it’s difficult to shake the feeling that it’s anything more than a dramatized reading of the text.

Sophocles’ words are certainly engaging, but a play needs to transcend

a s imple academic exper ience, and Reduxion’s “Antigone” rarely does.

A table reading of the play by these same talented actors would’ve yielded almost the exact same result.

Dusty Somers is a journalism senior.

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“Antigone”

8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays

Now through Oct. 24

T ickets are $15 for adults, $12 for students

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Aimee Crowther, drama junior and “Antigone” lead, posing with wrists tied and ashes in hand.

‘ANTIGONE’ CAST FAILS TO LIVE UP TO SCRIPT

« U2 AT OUSee what U2 fans have to say about Sunday’s concert in Thursday’s Life & Arts section.

ART, DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHER TO SPEAK AT OU

The School of Art and Art History will pres-ent “From Degas to Abstraction,” a lecture by noted art photographer Michelle Wambaugh at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 14 at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave. in Norman. One of her most well-known photo-graphic series is “Exposed: The Performer Backstage.” Wambaugh is the only photog-

rapher to document the backstage milieu of over 40 major dance, theater and opera companies, in North America and Europe, including musicals on Broadway and London stages. Some of her other series include “Women and Trials of India” and World Signage.-Daily staff reports

Calling All Cooks! We need your recipes

to benefi t United Way.

The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution.

Submit your recipe by Oct. 19at www.ou.edu/career/recipe

Cookbooks will be sold for $10 at various locations around campus.

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The Daily’s Osi Aken’Ova re-views three of this week’s most notable comic books.

“DEADPOOL #900”

Yes, “Deadpool #900” comes out today. And no, there haven’t been

up to 900 issues of D e a d p o o l , a n d I d o n ’ t t h i n k t h e re ever will be. But this i s s u e b o a s t s 1 0 4 pages and a variety of Deadpool stories f ro m s o m e o f t h e greatest artists in the industry today to justify its $4.99 price.

O f c o u r s e , t h i s issue is for Deadpool fans, but if you’re into screwball humor and violence this could be the perfect chance to be introduced to one of the coolest characters in the comic book industry.

“THE UNWRITTEN #6”

After Tommy Taylor is wrongly arrested for the massacre at Villa Diodati, he is sent to prison in the South of France where another ad-venture awaits him.

“The Unwritten” is the story of Tommy Taylor, the title character in his father’s Harry-Potter-like book series that is world famous.

After his father’s mysterious dis-appearance, Tommy lives off his fa-ther’s earnings until he is accused of being an imposter at a book conven-tion and characters from his father’s novels show up and try to kill him.

This book contains very random but well-constructed information about some of the most famous novels written in the past 200 years without seeming like a literature class.

The book is full of surprises and many of mysteries surround-ing Tommy’s true identity that should keep read-ers coming back for more.

I w o u l d r e c -o m m e n d “ T h e Unwr it ten” for people who are i n t e r e s t e d i n r e a d i n g c o m i c books but don’t know where to start.

Trust me, it’s a fasci-nating read.

“ASTOUNDING WOLF-MAN #19”

As Gary Hampton

w o r k s u n d e r c o v e r f o r C e c i l Stedman’s government agency, The Faces’ plans for world domination are finally revealed to the readers.

“ Wo l f - Ma n ,” l i k e a n y R o b e r t Kirkman comic, is worth reading for many reasons, but mostly because no matter how central a character might be to a story, Kirkman isn’t afraid to kill them off.

This might seem like a cheap gim-mick but coupled with Kirkman’s writing style, it’s one of the most in-teresting books out there.

Osi Aken’Ova is a film and video studies senior.

OSIAKEN’OVA

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TOP 20 PRIMETIME PROGRAMS IN THE NIELSEN RATINGS

Primetime viewership numbers were compiled by The Nielsen Co. for Oct. 5-11. Listings include the week’s ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses.

1. (1) “NCIS,” CBS, 20.7 million viewers.

2. (5) “Dancing With the Stars,” ABC, 16.35 million view-ers.

3. (3) “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 16.31 million viewers.

4. (2) “Sunday Night Football: Indianapolis at Tennessee,” NBC, 16.02 million viewers.

5. (7) “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” CBS, 14.9 million viewers.

6. (8) “The Mentalist,” CBS, 14.7 million viewers.

7. (14) “60 Minutes,” CBS, 14.54 million viewers.

8. (4) “Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC, 14.13 million viewers.

9. (9) “Criminal Minds,” CBS, 14.05 million viewers.

10. (5) “House,” Fox, 13.74 million viewers.

11. (14) “The Good Wife,” CBS, 13.69 million viewers.

12. (12) “CSI: Miami,” CBS, 13.43 million viewers.

13. (12) “Desperate Housewives,” ABC, 13.42 million viewers.

14. (14) “Two And a Half Men,” CBS, 13.3 million view-ers.

15. (18) “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 12.52 million view-ers.

16. (17) “CSI: New York,” CBS, 12.43 million viewers.

17. (19) “Dancing With the Stars Results,” ABC, 12.42 million viewers.

18. (9) “Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick,” NBC, 12.32 million viewers.

19. (20) “Survivor: Samoa,” CBS, 11.69 million viewers.

20. (24) “The Amazing Race 15,” CBS, 10.52 million viewers.-AP

MORMON LEADER: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AT RISK


The anti-Mormon backlash after California voters over-turned gay marriage last fall is similar to the intimidation of Southern blacks during the civil rights movement, a high-ranking Mormon said Tuesday.

Elder Dallin H. Oaks referred to gay marriage as an “alleged civil right” in an address at Brigham Young University-Idaho that church officials described as a significant commentary on current threats to religious freedom.

Oaks suggested that atheists and others are seeking to in-timidate people of faith and silence their voices in the public square, according to his prepared remarks.

“The extent and nature of religious devotion in this na-tion is changing,” said Oaks, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, a church governing body. “The tide of public opinion in favor of religion is receding, and this prob-ably portends public pressures for laws that will impinge on religious freedom.”

Oaks’ address comes as gay-rights activists mount a legal challenge to Proposition 8, the ballot measure that over-turned gay marriage in California. His comments about civil rights angered gay rights supporters who consider the strug-gle to enact same-sex marriage laws as a major civil rights cause.

“Blacks were lynched and beaten and denied the right to vote by their government,” said Marc Solomon, marriage di-rector for Equality California, which spearheaded the No on 8 campaign. “To compare that to criticism of Mormon leaders for encouraging people to give vast amounts of money to take away rights of a small minority group is illogical and deeply offensive.”

Solomon said the Mormon church hierarchy has every right to speak out, “but in the public sphere, one should ex-pect that people will disagree.”

In an interview Monday before the speech, Oaks said he did not consider it provocative to compare the treatment of Mormons in the election’s aftermath to that of blacks in the civil rights era, and said he stands by the analogy.

“It may be offensive to some — maybe because it hadn’t occurred to them that they were putting themselves in the same category as people we deplore from that bygone era,” said Oaks, a former Utah Supreme Court justice who clerked for Chief Justice Earl Warren at the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Salt Lake City-based Mormon church, or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has shied from politics

historically but was a key player in the pro-Prop-osition 8 coalition. The LDS First Presidency, its highest governing body, announced its support for Proposition 8 in a letter read at every California congregation, and individual Mormons heeded the church’s calls to donate their money and time.

After the measure prevailed, its opponents fo-cused much of their ire on Mormons, organizing boycotts of businesses with LDS ties and protests at Mormon worship places. While some dem-onstrations were peaceful, in others church win-dows were shattered and slurs were hurled at the church’s founding fathers.

Some of the most pointed comments in Oaks’ Tuesday address focus on Proposition 8. Oaks said the free exercise of religion is threatened by those who believe it conflicts with “the newly alleged ‘civil right’ of same-gender couples to enjoy the privileges of marriage.”

“Those who seek to change the foundation of marriage should not be allowed to pretend that those who defend the ancient order are tram-pling on civil rights,” Oaks said. “The supporters of Proposition 8 were exercising their constitutional right to defend the institution of marriage ...”

Oaks said that while “aggressive intimidation” connected to Proposition 8 was primarily directed at religious people and symbols, “it was not anti-religious as such.” He called the incidents “expressions of outrage against those who dis-agreed with the gay-rights position and had prevailed in a public contest.”

“As such, these incidents of ‘violence and intimidation’ are not so much anti-religious as anti-democratic,” he said. “In their effect they are like well-known and widely condemned voter-intimidation of blacks in the South that produced cor-rective federal civil-rights legislation.”

The Mormon church has faced criticism for its past stanc-es on race; it wasn’t until 1978 that the church lifted a prohi-bition that denied full church membership to black men of African descent.

In an interview Monday, Oaks said the Proposition 8 saga was one of several trends that motivated him to deliver the address, but it was “not the trigger.”

“There are civil rights involved in this — the right to speak

your mind, to participate in the election,” Oaks said. “But you don’t have a civil right to win an election or retaliate against those who prevail.”

Fred Karger, founder of the gay rights group Californians Against Hate, said Oaks’ speech is part of a public relations offensive to “try to turn the tables on what has been a com-plete disaster for the Mormon church ... They are trying to be the victim here. They’re not. They’re the perpetrators.”

In his address, Oaks also rejected any religious test for public office. He said that if “a candidate is seen to be rejected at the ballot box primarily because of religious belief or affili-ation, the precious free exercise of religion is weakened at its foundation ...”

In the interview Monday, Oaks said he was referring in part to the 2008 presidential bid of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, whose Mormon faith troubled some evangelicals.

—AP

AP PHOTO

Protesters hold signs in front of the Mormon Church during a “No on Prop 8” rally in Los Angeles to protest the church’s monetary support of Prop 8, Nov. 6. The anti-Mormon backlash after California voters overturned gay marriage last fall is similar to the intimidation of Southern blacks during the civil rights movement, Elder Dallin H. Oaks, a high-ranking Mormon said in a speech delivered Tuesday at Brigham Young University-Idaho.

UCLA student pleads not guilty to attempted murderLOS ANGELES — A UCLA student charged with

slashing a classmate’s neck during a chemistry lab brought a concealed, six-inch kitchen knife into the class and stabbed the woman five times, police said Tuesday.

Damon Thompson, 20, pleaded not guilty to pre-meditated attempted murder for the unprovoked at-tack on a female student standing next to him.

Los Angeles police Detective Alan Behnke said authorities were unable to determine a motive or whether the victim had been chosen at random. The woman, whose name was not released, was in good condition after spending time in intensive care.

Behnke said Thompson was cooperative but de-clined to speak to police about the incident.

The attack was deemed premeditated because Thompson allegedly brought the knife to the lab, but authorities had not determined how detailed his plans were.

“He hasn’t clarified what his motive was,” Behnke said.

Several people witnessed the attack, and a teaching assistant and a professor were able to stanch the blood flow by applying pressure to the victim’s neck.

Witnesses told police Thompson then walked calmly into a student information office and told a staff member he had stabbed someone.

Thompson’s bail was increased from $1 million to $3 mil-lion during his arraignment Tuesday. A call to his public de-fender, Robin Berkovitz, was not immediately returned.

Police found the knife at the scene of the incident — a lab on the top floor of a building in the heart of the university on the west side of Los Angeles. Behnke said the attack lasted about 15 seconds, with the woman stabbed three times in an arm and hand and once each in the back and neck. Thompson and the victim had no known relationship other than working in the same class.

UCLA history professor Stephen Frank told the Los Angeles Times that Thompson wrote several e-mails last year complaining about classmates making offensive comments while he was taking a written exam.

Frank said he was present during the entire exam and saw nothing to support Thompson’s complaints.

Thompson’s relatives have said he is an only child who left his mother’s home in Belize two years ago to attend UCLA. He is due back in court Oct. 27.

—AP

AP PHOTO

Damon Thompson appears during his arraignment hearing, Tuesday, Oct. 13, in Los Angeles. Thompson is a UCLA student accused of slashing the throat of a female student in a lab on campus last week. The arraignment was moved to Oct. 27.

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The Daily would like to clarify part of a story in Monday’s edition. The story “Student volunteers to assist domestic violence victims,” stated a victim’s protective order is an order issued when a victim sues some-one for committing an abusive crime. Judge Jequita Napoli said a person trying to be protected by a VPO is essentially suing to obtain a VPO. A VPO is a court order requiring a person to stay away from another.

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Millions of Americans expose themselvesto noise levels above 85 decibels for hours ata time – the level audiologists identify as thedanger zone. Lawn mowers, sporting events,live or recorded music, power tools, eventraffic and crowded restaurants can sustainthese levels. If you’re around noises likethese for prolonged periods, you’re riskingpermanent hearing loss. For more on the 85dB threshold, and ways to protect yourhearing health, visit ASHA.org.

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Norman Regional Health System received an award from the Oklahoma/Arkansas regional offi ce of VHA Inc. for achieving clinical excellence in the areas of improving overall clinical quality, outstanding performance in infec-tion prevention and outstanding performance in emergency department care.

Norman Regional also won the Superior Clinical Performance Award, beating out 30 other organizations.

“Being awarded the Superior Clinical Performance Award, especially when surrounded by other very accomplished hospitals is a wonderful achievement. This speaks to the dedication of our staff to quality care and patient safety,” said Norman Regional President and CEO David Whitaker in a press release.

The award for improving overall clinical quality is based on Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and joint commission core measures.

VHA Inc. is a national care network based in Irving, Texas, with 17 regions across the U.S.

“By recognizing these selected hospitals with clinical quality awards, we hope to demonstrate that hospitals can overcome the fi nancial obstacles that often stand in the way to achieving clinical excellence,” said Dr. Bruce Naylor, vice president of clinical improvement and medical director for VHA’s Oklahoma/Arkansas region, in a press release.

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NORMAN HEALTH SYSTEM HONORED FOR CLINICAL EXCELLENCE


Group advocates legal downloading to avoid

viruses, legal consequencesCASEY PARVINDaily Staff Writer

With October being Cyber Security Awareness month, one campus group is making a push to inform students about the dangers of pirating music and providing alternative, legal options.

Legal Freaks, a group headed by OU IT, is geared toward promoting legal music downloads and alerting students about monetary fines they may face for illegal downloads.

“We are trying to make sure students know how to be safe and legal on the Internet and how to protect them from two things,” OU IT spokesman Nicholas Key said. “One, to protect them against fines and potential court appearances and two, to protect them from possibly harmful peer-to-peer files that have not been scanned and checked for viruses.”

To catch student interest, the group is marketing them-selves like a typical band with tour dates and concert stops, Key said.

“We want to get people using free and legal music,” Key said.

The Recording Industry Association of America is a group that will take legal action against a person for illegally down-loading music from the Internet, Key said.

“A copyright organization contacts OU IT and, from there, the university is bound to try and identify the person that has been illegally downloading,” Key said. “OU IT gets about 1,500 complaints per year and about 50 percent of those are found on OU’s wireless network.”

According to the RIAA Web site, they be-lieve that university leaders have a respon-sibility to acknowledge campus piracy and should take steps to prevent the theft from occurring in the first place. They should also demonstrate leadership in teaching students that music has value and there are right and wrong ways to acquire it.

“College students are at a disadvantage because they are all confined to one space and usually use the university net-work,” Key said. “It is easier to find where the person down-loading and who the person is.”

Philosophy junior Jerod Coker said he uses the university’s wireless Internet network because it has a fast connection, but doesn’t consider the legal aspect with obtaining this music.

“Peer-to-peer downloading is cheap and I’m not even sure that it’s illegal,” said. “The band will survive without my pur-chase. I’m not worried about getting caught.”

If the RIAA does catch piracy, they take ac-tion through the university.

“If they can identify the person download-ing illegally, then the RIAA offers that per-son a settlement document that costs about $3,000,” Key said. “If they person declines, it could cost them up to $80,000 per song.”

Once a student is charged with download-ing music illegally, the matter moves into the

Office of Student Conduct and OU IT no longer deals with the issue, Key said.

“Legal Freaks will be in the South Oval and other high-traf-fic areas around campus to get students interested in how to download legally,” Key said.

‘LEGAL FREAKS’ ENCOURAGES STUDENTS TO AVOID MUSIC PIRACY

Hear what the Legal Freaks have to share from 12:45 to 3 p.m. today in Cate Main. http://twitter.com/legalfreaks

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Uses of grants will include alcohol and

traffi c enforcement and disability

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TROY WEATHERFORDDaily Staff Writer

The Norman City Council approved a receipt of more than $100,000 in grants for use by the Norman Police Department at Tuesday’s City Council meeting.

A grant for $80,500 from the Oklahoma Highway Safety Office will be used for alcohol and traffic enforcement and

advanced collision investigation training.A representative of the police department said the money

will be used to target high collision traffic areas, such as the intersection of Alameda Street and 12th Avenue.

The money will fund enforcement, but will also go toward education about the dangers of drunk driving, the representa-tive said.

Another grant of $43,684 will be split between the Norman and Moore police departments. Norman police will use their portion, $29,170, to purchase 16 Tasers, software licenses and a rifle.

The council also accepted a $103,920 grant to improve CART bus stops to better accommodate those with disabili-

ties from the Oklahoma Department of Transportation. After a citizen attending the council meeting said a CART

stop on 12th Street dropped riders off on a grassy spot with no disability access, Shawn O’Leary, Norman’s Director of Public Works, said the city has been trying to address defi-ciencies. He said the grant will help out a lot.

O’Leary called CART’s accessibility “a work in progress,” and asked for patience.

The council also approved a purchase of 1,500 new poly-cart trash carts at $41.75 each, and accepted a scoreboard donated by a local business, valued at $6,158, for use at the Whittier Recreation Center.

City council approves police department’s use of grants


LAWTON VOTERS TO DECIDE SCHOOL REQUESTS

Voters in Lawton will be deciding on a temporary sales tax increase and a proposed bond issue with money from both to help the Lawton school district.

A proposed five-year, half-cent sales tax increase would raise money for new school buses and to help pay for con-struction in the district.

A $37.3-million bond issue would be used to build new classrooms and to pay for proj-ects ranging from bathrooms to security improvements.

The district is preparing for an influx of students because of federal military base realign-ments that is to send many new military personnel to nearby Fort Sill.

Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.

STATE BRIEFS

HEARING SET FOR TULSA OFFICER ON DRUG CHARGES

A preliminary hearing is set for Nov. 20 for a Tulsa police offi cer facing drug charges.

Offi cer Travis Ludwig appeared in court Monday and pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors have charged the 37-year-old offi cer with possession of cocaine and possession of scales used by drug abuses.

Police say the cocaine was found in Ludwig’s police car dur-ing an unrelated investigation.

Ludwig’s attorneys say the offi cer doesn’t know where the drugs came from but that a sus-pect may have dumped them in the patrol car.

POLICE FIND MISSING ARDMORE WOMAN

Authorities have canceled a Silver Alert after a missing 85-year-old woman was found unharmed.

According to the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, June Brooks was discovered in Davis on Tuesday and was taken to the local police department.

The alert was issued after police said Brooks disappeared f rom her home sometime Monday night or early Tuesday.

ASSAULT LEAVES ONE WOMAN DEAD

The Comanche County sheriff says the rape and murder of a Cache woman and the beating of her husband is one of the worst cases he’s ever seen.

Sheriff Kenny Stradley says Martha Faye Miller died late Monday at a Lawton hospital. Her husband, Carl, remained hospitalized in critical condition and her son, Shawn Monk, was treated for injuries he received while fi ghting with the intruder.

Authorities arrested Mica Martinez on complaints of mur-der, rape, fi rst-degree burglary and aggravated assault and battery. Martinez is in jail with-out bail.

S t rad le y says deput ies responded to a shooting call and an intruder call about 5 a.m. Monday. When officers reached the residence, they found Monk and the intruder fi ghting.

Carl Miller was discovered in a detached garage, and Martha Miller was in a bedroom.

—AP

Marine’s widow gets bipartisan Senate helpNASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Marine’s widow who has

been fighting to remain in the U.S. with her 8-month-old son is now getting bipartisan help from the Senate.

Hotaru Nakama married Sgt. Michael Ferschke by phone in 2008 while he was stationed in Iraq and she was in Japan. He died in combat a month later, but a 1950s immigration rule says the couple’s marriage was not consummated though she was already pregnant with their child. Hotaru and her son have been stay-ing temporarily with her in-laws in Tennessee, but im-migration officials denied her request for a permanent visa.

Sen. Jim Webb, a Democrat from Virginia, and Tennessee Republican Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker announced Tuesday they would sponsor a private bill to match an effort in the House to allow her permanent residency.

Webb said the bill would “right a wrong for a Marine’s family who paid the ultimate sacrifice for his country.”

The couple were together about 13 months before she found out she was pregnant. Not wanting to wait until his tour was complete, the couple agreed on a proxy wedding.

Hotaru Ferschke said she and her husband got their proxy marriage simply by completing the paperwork and their marriage was finalize on July 10, one month before he was shot during a house search.

While the military has recognized her marriage, she was denied when she applied for permanent resi-dency. The Immigration & Nationality Act says that, for the purposes of immigration law, the definition of spouse does not include a “wife or husband by reason of any marriage ceremony where the contracting par-ties thereto are not physically present in the presence of each other, unless the marriage shall have been consummated.”

U.S. Rep. John Duncan of Tennessee first introduced a private bill into Congress this summer. A private bill does not affect immigration policy.

Corker said private bills should only be used as a last resort, but that all administrative and judicial remedies have been exhausted.

“This bill seems to be the only way to honor the wish-es of the late Sgt. Michael Ferschke and allow Hotaru to raise their child in the United States,” he said.

—AP

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Robin Ferschke, right, mother of Sgt. Michael Ferschke, and her daughter-in-law Hotaru Ferschke, stand next to a banner with Michael Ferschke’s photo outside their home in Maryville, Tenn., March 6. Hotaru is holding her son, Mikey. U.S. immigration authorities do not recognize Hotaru’s marriage to Michael Ferschke, even though the military does.

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