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LINDSEY RUTACampus Reporter

A student organization partnered with a local non-profit organization to host

a blood drive on campus Monday.

Alpha Phi Omega — a co-ed honors fraternity — partnered with the Norman chapter of the American Red Cross to host a Heisman-themed blood drive in the Cate Center lounge.

A dozen students waited in the lounge at 1:30 p.m.

— the wait time was 45 min-utes. Rebecca Hooper, in-ternational and area studies sophomore and event volun-teer, said that wait was about average throughout the day, aside from a slow stint in the morning.

Hooper helped check in students who came to donate blood.

Students who participat-ed were given a Heisman-themed shirt as part of the Red Cross’ ongoing theme this semester, said Amanda Tran, chemical biology sci-ences sophomore.

Red Cross coordinators reached out to Alpha Phi Omega about the partner-ship, Tran, the organization’s

volunteer coordinator for the event, said. The group has partnered with the Red Cross in the past, she said.

Tran said she thought their location helped encourage student participation. Last semester, the two organiza-tions hosted a drive in the

Heisman-themed drive was held in Cate Center lounge


O n e s c h o o l ’s w e b -site has been restored after being hacked this weekend.

A hacker identifying as “Blackeyes” gained un-authorized control of the Peggy Dow Helmerich School of Drama’s web-site and blocked informa-tion related to the upcom-ing show “Julius Caesar,” as well as a later show, “In the Next Room” (or ‘The Vibrator Play’).

I n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t show times and dates, as well as lists of produc-tion staff, were replaced by large blocks of text that repeatedly stated, “You have b e en hacke d by Blackeyes.”

This is not the first time the school’s website has been hacked, said Tom Orr, director of the school. The school has had is-sues with the same hacker twice before during the last several years, he said.

O U ’s I n f o r m a t i o n Technology does not ac-tually host or manage the school’s website, said Becky Grant, the OU IT communications man-ager. The IT department worked with the school’s webmaster, professor Chris Sadler, and the site host to fix the issue, she said.

The school hosts its website through a third party based in New York because the OU network does not have the band-width to support the site — which holds numerous

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An OU fraternity returns to campus this semester after three years of absence.

S i g m a Nu i s b a c k o n campus this semester after a voluntary leave of ab-sence to build up financial and alumni support, said Spencer Montgomery, the expansion and recruitment

consultant for Sigma Nu. The chapter was small, so

alumni decided to pull the charter — which temporar-ily suspended activity — so they could network with other alumni and bring the group back to campus with more funding and support, he said.

Montgomer y, a Sigma N u a l u m n u s f r o m t h e

University of South Florida, travels around the country helping fraternities look-ing to start up again, recruit and rebuild their leader-ship. Last year, he helped 27 other chapters around the nation with recruitment, he said.

The OU chapter is active again this year and under new leadership. The frater-nity has recruited 44 mem-bers so far and is continuing to recruit over the next two weeks, he said. Its goal is to

have 60 new members by next semester.

Members and leadership aren’t the only new features for this fraternity. The con-struction of a new fraternity house will be underway this spring. The previous house was very old, Montgomery said, so the chapter is build-ing a brand new house lo-cated on 1300 College Ave.

The construction for the new house is expected to be completed in early summer 2014, Montgomery said.

Members of Sigma Nu plan on moving into the house in August of 2014. This project will cost approximately $5 million to $6 million. Part of the funds for the project came from alumni dona-tions; the rest came from selling of half of the property lot to Alpha Tau Omega, he said. The house will be three stories and have enough room for 46 members.

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Web journalist rob Curley holds a smartphone while discussing the changing face of media during his keynote speech in Oklahoma memorial union’s meacham Auditorium on monday. Curley, an editor with the Orange County register, encour-aged attendees to rethink their conceptions of media and to tailor news content to the interests of readers.

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For newspapers to connect with their readers they must learn to be playful and passionate, to be per-sonal and practical and they must have porn — but not the naughty kind, a Pulitzer Prize-winning jour-nalist told students Monday night.

Rob Curley, metro editor of the Orange County Register, discussed media in a digital age as part of the kick-off event for Student Media’s semester-long study of campus media.

Curley told the audience they needed to be concerned less with

the platform their news was deliv-ered on — print versus digital — and more with the basic principle of how to be essential.

Nearly 100 people filled the Meacham Auditorium to hear the Kansas-native speak. Curley has worked for papers such as the Lawrence Journal Record, the Las Vegas Sun and the Washington Post.

He told the audience one of the main problems with the newspa-per industry is that it is not good at giving its readers the serendipitous guide information.

Curley likened the problem with

the newspaper industry to the movie “Moneyball.”

“Maybe we need to do that,” he said. “Maybe we’re looking at all the wrong statistics, maybe we’re judging ourselves the wrong way...If you look at things differently you can solve problems.”

Journalists need to think about how they can best serve their audi-ence, how to give them what they want, Curley said.

“There’s a big difference between knowing what matters [to your au-dience] and thinking you know what matters,” he said.

Italian exchange student Cosimo Vestito said he was very impressed with Curley’s speech. Vestito, a mass

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JARRETT LANGFORDCampus Reporter

Students and faculty cel-ebrated the 119th anniver-sary of OU’s historical col-lection of government doc-uments Monday.

In honor of Constitution Day, the Bizzell Memorial L i b ra r y c e l e b ra t e d t h e 119th anniversary of the founding of its Government Documents Collection with an open house and series of tours.

The library began cel-ebrating the anniversary of the collection three years ago when librarian Jeffery Wilhite happened to dis-cover the founding date.

“I didn’t even find the exact date of the founding of the collection until I saw it in a book not 30 feet from my desk three years ago,” Wilhite said.

T h e c o l l e c t i o n w a s f o u n d e d i n A u g u s t o f 1893 by Dennis T. Flynn, O k l a h o m a Te r r i t o r i a l Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, accord-ing to the press release.

Since then, the library has hosted an annual event commemorating the anni-versary of the founding of the collection, Wilhite said. Student participation has increased slowly since the first celebration two years ago, he said.

No students attended the first event, largely be-cause the event was held in August before students

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Nearly 100 attend Rob Curley’s speech, kicking off OU Student Media’s semester-long self-study

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media and politics graduate student, said he liked the emphasis on utilizing differ-ent platforms for the chang-ing audience.

He was particularly im-pressed by Curley’s focus on putting the best resources into doing things different-ly, especially on the web, he said.

Vestito said he initially at-tended the lecture as part of a class requirement, but as a student of journalism he is interested in attending fu-ture events.

Curley said he didn’t know what to expect when he was asked to speak at OU. He joked that the only reason

Student Media reached out to him was because they couldn’t find anyone else.

W h i l e t h e y may hav e asked him to speak because of his reputation for digital journalism, Curley made it clear he didn’t do digital journalism.

“I do audience journal-ism,” he said.

If students took away any-thing from his lecture, he said he hopes they walk away with the realization that they need to figure out how to be essential to their readers.

Curley’s speech launches a 12-week study by Student Media to decide the future of media on campus, said Judy

Gibbs Robinson, the faculty adviser to The Daily.

“We’re doing everything we can to get you, the OU community, thinking and talking about media in the digital age,” Robinson told the audience.

Robinson said the study will help the department de-cide what the best course of action is for media publica-tions on campus based on community feedback. Other schools have cut back stu-dent print publications, but Student Media is not com-mitted to any of those cours-es, she said.

Robinson said she thought Curley’s speech did a great job of capturing what was important — and platform wasn’t one of those things.

“I thought he was full of incredible ideas,” she said.

H i s d a t a d r i v e n a p -proach and idea of testing story packaging were ideas s tu d e nt e d i t o r s s h ou l d

appreciate, she said.Robinson said she was

very pleased with the turn-out. She said she also expects the speech to gain a wider au-dience as it will be available online through the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication’s iTunes U account.

The department will host a series of surveys, focus groups and other events as part of the study, she said.

The next event will be a roundtable discussion at 3 p.m. Sept. 25. The discussion, “How Do You Know What’s Going On At OU?” will take place in the Governors Room of the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

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photos from various produc-tions through the years, Orr said.

It is not known exactly what time the site initially was hacked, but The Daily called OU IT to inquire about the hack at 2 p.m. Sunday. This was the first report IT

had received about the hack-ing. The website was fixed by early Monday afternoon.

Orr said he does not be-lieve the school or the pro-ductions are being spe-cifically targeted, but are rather part of a widespread hacking.

The Daily conducted a search online but could not find any information about an individual or group of hackers identifying as “Blackeyes.”


feature accomplishments was advocating the trans-fer of $250 million in city funds from Bank of America to Tulsa-based Bank of Oklahoma. The council ap-proved the transfer April 24, according to City Council

Meeting minutes. Thrastardottir said the

movement had been work-ing to connect with other local chapters.

“We have been in con-nection with the occupation in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Shawnee, Muskogee and [other Oklahoma occupa-tions],” she said. “We’ve also been to regional occupa-tions. People are standing up all over.”

Part of the nationwide movement, Norman oc-cupier Tim Anderson has taken to the occupation in New York, live streaming demonstrations through the website, gonzotimes.com, Thrastardottir said.

While the celebration focused on the success-es of Occupy Wall Street, Norman occupiers also took

a moment to reflect on failed initiatives.

“We’ve b e en w orking against corporate person-hood, and one of our goals was stopping the build-ing of a third Wal-Mart,” Thrastardottir said. “They approved the zoning any-way, so that was a failure.”

But the Occupy Norman camp continues to look for-ward to its other goals.

“We are doing what we can, fighting at the local level to put power in the hands of people and provide informa-tion,” she said.

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A local chapter of the O c cupy m ove m e nt ha d a p re s e n c e o n c a m p u s Monday to reflect on the ac-complishments, setbacks and goals of the national movement.

Celebrating “One Year of Change”, according to flyers handed out by the partici-pants, Occupy Norman took to the South Oval to hand out cake and information about the local and national movement.

O c c u p i e r S o l e y Thrastardottir, a flute per-formance doctoral candi-date, said the reason the group was on campus was to make sure the movement was seen.

“We want people to know we’re still here; we’re not dead,” Thrastardottir said. “Just because [the Occupy movement] isn’t in the mainstream media anymore doesn’t mean we stopped working.”

The flyers offered infor-mation about tasks and goals that the local group has set, including working to pass a resolution against corporate personhood as well as con-tinuing focus on economic issues.

While the national move-ment has fostered dialog on oppression and economic inequality, according to the flyer, Occupy Norman boasts its efforts to foster similar dialog within Norman City Council.

One of Occupy Norman’s

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Mid Day Music will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in the food court of oklahoma Memorial Union. dillon Gourd will play the piano.

A lecture titled “How China Became Capitalist” presented by ning Wang of arizona State University will be held from 3 to 4 p.m. in Mary eddy and fred Jones auditorium in fred Jones Jr. Museum of art.

A Student Success Series seminar titled “finding academic Motivation” will be held from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245.

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The Ou Theatre web site, seen in this screenshot on Sunday, Sept. 16, was hacked over the weekend, and many pages were overlayed with colorful text reading “hacked by blackeyes.”

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armory off Asp Avenue, she said.

The location near the dorms made the drive more accessible to freshmen this semester, Tran said.

Psychology sophomore

Brendan Lushbough was a students who donated blood. Lushbough, an Alpha Phi Omega pledge, said he came to the drive to support the organization and help the cause.

Getting points toward his pledge-ship didn’t hurt ei-ther, he said. Lushbough said

this is his first time to donate in college, but he did donate a couple of times in high school.

Lushbough joined Alpha Phi Omega because he want-ed to be involved in more community service projects, he said. He plans on mak-ing a habit of donating blood

regardless of events, he said.The organizations host a

blood drive every semester, Tran said, and will work to-gether again in the spring.


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in the process of building a new house on campus this semester. The new Alpha Tau Omega house is being built on the site of the old Sigma Nu house.

Alpha Tau Omega re-chartered on the OU campus in 2007 and rented out the Kappa Sigma house until the end of last year, said chapter president Andrew Wenzel. The fraternity members are excited about the construc-tion because this will be the first time Alpha Tau Omega actually owns its property on the OU campus, Wenzel said.

The fraternity has called three different locations home since 1921, when it was first established at OU, Wenzel said. This new fraternity house will be its fourth chapter house at OU.

The construction began in April when Alpha Tau Omega tore down the old Sigma Nu house, he said. The foundation and con-crete already have been laid down, and the house will start going up in October, Wenzel said. The scheduled completion is Aug. 2013 — a year before its Sigma Nu neighbors will be ready to move in.

Several other houses also are undergoing renovations, including Kappa Sigma and Phi Delta Theta. Kappa Sigma began renovations

last April, said president Richard Renteria. Phi Delta Theta began renovations f ou r ye a r s ag o, bu t t h e house will not be finished until 2015, said president Ryan Greenberg.

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A construction crew works on building the new Alpha Tau Omega house on Thursday. The house is expected to be completed by Spring 2013 at 1300 College Ave.

Came back to campus last year after being absent for three years

$6 million Gamma Kappa Capital Campaign begins this semester to build its new house

Completion: fall 2013

Members will move in fall

or spring 2013

Knocking down old Kappa Sigma house and starting new

House will be two stories and house 50-55 members

Source: Richard Renteria, Kappa Sigma President

AT A GLANCE Kappa Sigma

Half-way through the $2.5 million renovations on the Phi delta Theta house

Renovations began four years ago

future renovation plans include: a brick wall surrounding the property, a full size basketball court and adding a sprinkler

safety system

estimated completion date for renovations is 2015

Source: Ryan Greenberg, President of Phi Delta Theta

AT A GLANCE Phi Delta Theta

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returned to school, he said. Last year’s event was held in September and resulted in more student attendance. Wilhite said he decided this year to hold the event on U.S. Constitution Day. Fifteen students and faculty attended the 3 p.m. tour.

Since the collection is tucked into the back corner of Bizzell’s fourth floor, few students are aware of the expansive depository that it has to offer, he said.

The collection is com-prised of not only state and federal documents, but it also contains items from the European Union, the United Nations, NATO and the World Trade Organization,

Wilhite said.Attendees walked through

the stacks as Wilhite ex-plained the way the col-lection was organized, the age of the documents and the history of the collection itself.

“I’ve always been interest-ed in politics,” accounting sophomore Nathan Jackson

said. His interest was piqued when he read about the col-lection’s anniversary.

Of the 2.8 million items contained in the collection, only about 20 percent of the collection was available on-line, Wilhite said.

The digital counterpart continues to grow, specifi-cally with government doc-uments that are currently being released and items more unique to the state of Oklahoma, he said.

The collection contains items of notable interest and value, he said.

“From an aesthetic point of view, we have a ver y large World War II poster collection,” Wilhite said. “From a research point of view, we have a collection

of Smithsonian titles which are great for research.

“Online, we have the best congressional databases available. One of the best databases, ProQuest, con-tains congressional docu-ments from 1789.”

Wilhite said he encour-ages students to use this ex-pansive resource.

“The staff in government documents is avai lable Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. to help you with your research q u e s t i o n s,” s a i d S a r a h Robbins, official library spokeswoman.

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Kelly Thompson a library staff member flips through a book of aer-ial photos in the government document section of the libray. The Government Documents Office can be found on the fourth floor of Bizzell memorial Library.

AT A GLANCEnotable PiecesContains 2.8 million items An extensive World War II poster collection

a collection of Smithsonian titles

Source: Jeffery Wihlite, librarian of the Government Documents collection

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Our View: UOSA has adopted the important mission of encouraging student involvement in the upcoming elections.

UOSA officially began its OU Votes campaign Monday with a well-attended event that brought two Oklahoma lawmakers to speak with students in a personal setting.

This event was an effective way to begin the OU Votes campaign, providing unique access to a pub-lic official from both major political par-ties at a convenient location and time. But more than that, it’s the beginning of an im-portant campaign by UOSA.

Of all the plans on which UOSA President Joe Sangirardi campaigned, a push to en-courage student involvement in the up-coming elections probably is the most im-portant. We’re glad to see him carry through with this campaign promise.

College-aged Americans often have one of the lowest voter turnouts, even in presidential elec-tions. According to U.S. Census data, only 49 per-cent of college-aged citizens voted in 2008, com-pared to 67 percent of citizens 30 and over — and well below the overall average of 57 percent.

And that was in a year that saw the highest voter turnout since 1960. Over the last 40 years, the av-erage college-aged voter turnout was closer to 40 percent.

This is likely partially because of voter apathy but also factors like scheduling conflicts, access to polling locations and the inconvenience of voting absentee (for those still registered in their home-town). Regardless of the reason, this low voter turn-out leaves students underrepresented at the polls.

But students have the potential to be a powerful voting group. As members of a community devoted to knowledge and education, students are especial-ly well-situated to educate themselves on the rel-evant issues — if they are willing to put in the effort.

With so many systems in place to aid student organizing and access to their peers, students can easily campaign for their candidate of choice and facilitate a free, local dialogue about the issues

most important to them.And student votes help make the election results

a more accurate reflection of the beliefs and po-litical affiliations of an area. Election results, even when the overall winner is a foregone conclusion, help to formulate the identity and perceptions of an area.

In that way, it is essential to encourage students to participate in elections. Who better to do that than fellow students?

For the majority of students on this cam-pus, this will be the first presidential elec-tion in which they can vote. It’s a good one to start with.

It may seem this way in the days leading up to every election, but it seems like more than usual is at stake this November.

Though both candidates share certain ideals (sometimes to the consternation of their strongest supporters), President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney have made it clear they offer very different visions for the fu-ture of the nation.

Even if neither man is your ideal candidate, you have a real choice this November — and your vote can have a real impact.

UOSA has recognized the power of students’ votes with the OU Votes campaign. But there’s more to do.

They can help by continuing to plan events that give students access to lawmakers and emphasize the importance of voting. You can help by encour-aging friends, acquaintances and classmates to get involved and get ready to vote.

If you’re not registered or are registered in your hometown, stop by any of the tabling events held during the next few weeks (by the Women’s Outreach Center, UOSA and others) to register here in Norman.

Keep an eye out for upcoming OU Votes events and read The Daily’s continuing elections coverage to get informed. Then, in November, it’s time to cast your vote.

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Neither party protects civil liberties

In the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, each

party’s remarks created a stir.

Former president Bill Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama gave two well-received speeches. Paul Ryan caught some flak for allegedly misrepresent-ing facts in his speech, and Clint Eastwood stole the show for the worse when he talked to an empty chair.

It seems now, especially in the eyes of young people like my peers, Republicans have become the party of crazy people and radical ideas, while Democrats are the party of sensibility.

I agree Republicans had some crazy things to say, but perhaps more unsettling is what Democrats refused to say.

The Democratic Party has removed from its 2012 platform several important posi-tions regarding civil liberties which ap-peared in its 2008 platform.

These positions, summarized in 2008 party statements, include:

• We support constitutional protection and judicial oversight on surveillance pro-grams involving Americans.

• We reject illegal wiretapping of American citizens wherever they live.

• We will revisit the PATRIOT Act and overturn uncon-stitutional executive decisions issued during the past eight years.

• We will respect the time honored principle of habeas corpus.

In the 2008 election, President Barack Obama was per-ceived to be the candidate for peace. Bumper stickers and T-shirts depicting the “O” in “Obama” as a peace sign are still prevalent despite the president and the Democratic party’s continued disregard for civil liberties and human life in foreign and domestic wartime policy.

Not only has Obama continued most of the misguided wartime policies from the Bush era, such as the Patriot Act and the use of Guantanamo Bay, he has degraded civil liberties further by signing the National Defense Authorization Act, which codifies indefinite military de-tention into law.

Obama even has authorized the assassination of an al-Qaida affiliated American citizen abroad by means of targeted drone strike, with no consideration of habeus corpus.

Though I do not associate with the Democratic Party, I always havefound its past stances regarding civil liberties and foreign policy to be admirable.

In the words of Benjamin Franklin, “Those who would give up liberty for secu-rity deserve neither.”

Unfortunately, it now seems that neither Republicans nor Democrats are making any real effort to protect our civil liber-ties against misguided national security policy. Avoidance of war and the preserva-

tion of civil liberties are very important issues for me and many other Americans.

I urge those who feel similarly not to vote for a lesser of two evils in this coming election, but rather to find a third party candidate with whom you agree.

Scott Houser is an international business senior.

A year ago this week, I became a vegetarian.

Since transitioning into an awkward dinner guest at Thanksgiving din-ner, I have encountered a variety of interesting yet misinformed objec-tions against a vegetarian philosophy.

Vegetarians often are equivocated to radical animal rights activists who be-lieve that fleas posses the same right to life as cattle. This equivocation fails to recognize the distinction many veg-etarians make.

Animals possess a very limited capacity to reflect upon their behavior and do not recognize a life worth having. The concern is not whether it is morally permissible to kill an animal, but how we ought to treat sentient crea-tures with an equal capacity to suffer.

For example, some animals have surprisingly high capacities for reason. Some humans, such as those with a serious injury, a mental handicap or a mental illness, have a low capacity for reason. But we would, of course, never condone the abuse or ill treatment of any human, regardless of mental ability.

We might, however, not have the same objections to the abuse of animals with similar (or even higher) men-tal capacities. There is no reason why one sentient be-ing’s suffering is less severe than the other.

A less-sophisticated argument against vege-tarianism is that the same line of reasoning could be used to prevent the consumption of plants. Moral consideration is hallmarked by the capac-ity to suffer. Plants, of course, do not posses this capacity.

The amount of pain a flea experiences is of less consideration than the pain experienced by a sentient cow. If it were

discovered plants do feel pain, then we would be in a po-sition to choose the lesser of two evils.

An intuitive objection to vegetarianism is why should we not harm other animals, given that animals harm each other. This argument would suffice if non-human animals had a choice in the matter. Should our moral choices really be determined by the actions of other animals?

The most common objection against a vegetarian diet is protein deficiency. Contrary to popular myth, the amount of protein needed is well within a vegetarian diet. The amount of protein recommended a day by the National Institute of Health is 56 grams. The average veg-etarian diet consumes about 71 grams of protein per day, according to the Vegetarian Resource Group.

The last criticism of a vegetarian diet is not so much an objection as it is a concern. Many grant the arguments for vegetarianism are sound but argue that meat is sim-ply too palatable to live without.

I can empathize with this point, but it is no less vexing. The pleasure found in an omnivore diet is trivial in com-parison to the suffering inflicted upon animals in factory farms. Given most students are in a position to do other-wise with little to no personal cost, I see no reason why a vegetarian diet is not morally obligatory.

Granted, students are not directly responsible for the suffering inflicted in factory farms, but this does not ne-gate the fact that high meat demand is indirectly respon-sible for something that is not only wrong but morally repugnant.

Students who consume meat should take interest in whether the means used to purchase the meat within their refrigerators are worth funding.

Students who agree with vegetarian reasoning, yet are not ready to take the full plunge, can contribute greatly by simply reducing meat consumption to one meal per day. Others considering adopting a vegetarian diet can take interest in the vegetation station and various meat substitutes available at Couch Restaurants.

Nathan Cranford is a philosophy senior.

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Brent StenStromLife & Arts Reporter

The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art will host an OU stu-dent preview tonight of two new art exhibits that are set to open this weekend.

The festivities will kick off at 6 p.m. with free food and the opportunity for students to check out the two new exhibitions in the muse-um, both part of The James

T. Bialac Native American Art Collection. The exhibi-tions, Selected Works and Indigenous Aesthetics, con-tain more than 4,000 works depicting indigenous North American peoples.

As a part of the celebra-tion, The Walkmen will play a free concert at 7 p.m. out-side the museum.

The East Coast indie-rock band was a headlining band at Norman Music Festival in 2011, and this is its first show in Norman since then.

The event is a collabo-ration of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, OU Housing a n d Fo o d S e r v i c e s a n d Campus Activities Council Concert Series.

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Courtney AldridgeLife & Arts Reporter

Art with varying themes from graduate students in the OU School of Art & Art History is displayed in an exhibition in Lightwell Gallery.

T h e s e s t u d e nt s a re seeking Master of Fine Arts degrees while work-ing with various medi-ums, including photogra-phy, sculpture, painting and media art.

Sarah Engel is study-ing photography through OU’s School of Art & Art History. As part of the O k l a h o ma Bi o l o g i ca l Survey, which assists in the protection and preser-vation of the natural heri-tage of Oklahoma, Engel’s work reflects her aware-ness of environmental hazards.

Her photographs are set in 24th-century Kansas after the abuse to the en-vironment has required c i v i l i z a t i o n t o m o v e underground.

The last photograph shows the destruction that fires, tornadoes and other natural disasters have had on the land, making it unlivable.

Her photos are can-did glimpses into the lives of future citizens who are coping with the

consequences of damage to the environment.

“I hope viewers see the ef-fects of climate change and its implications on society,” Engel said.

Lindsey Allgood is seeking a master’s degree in media art. As a performance artist, her contribution to the exhi-bition is a video that reflects her creative process.

T h i s h a l f- h o u r v i d e o was a personal project for Allgood.

“The video was self-ex-ploratory for me as an artist,” she said.

The use of feminine sym-bolism and scripted action shows the unique process that inspired Allgood.

Curtis Jones, a printmak-ing professor and liaison for graduate students, shared his hopes for the students in the exhibition.

“While it is hard to engage in dialogue with those in at-tendance who are not famil-iar with the language of art, hopefully they can appreci-ate the skill level and creativ-ity shown by the artists here at the university,” Jones said.

The 2012 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition will run through Sept. 28 in the Fred Jones Art Center’s Lightwell Gallery.

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Dear Mr. Kanye West,

Af t e r l i s t e n -ing to G.O.O.D Music’s “Cruel

Summer” nearly on re-peat for the past week, I have something I must say. People usually only say these three words to someone they truly care about.

So, here goes: I’m not impressed.

T h e a l b u m f r o m K a n y e We s t ’ s r e -cord label, G.O.O.D. Music , was medio-cre with a touch of obnoxiousness.

I expected giant egos practically oozing off of every new lyric be-cause the record in-cluded collaborations of some of hip-hop’s big-gest names. But with-out the musical genius you usually have going for you to back up the overwhelming amount of ego, this album just comes off as a self-love fest.

Kanye, maybe this is just me crucifying you, like the media appar-ently are so prone to do, but I expected better.

Songs like “Clique” have choruses that are annoyingly repetitive. I loved the beginning of the song, but then Big Sean starts talk-ing about how no one messes with his clique, clique, clique … We get it already.

Maybe you stepped back from the limelight a bit on this album to give less well-known rappers like 2 Chainz and Ghostface Killah a chance to shine. But you don’t.

Like in “Bliss,” in which you don’t partic-ipate, John Legend and Teyana Taylor make me feel like I’ve been transported back to the cringe-worthy music of the ’80s with the song’s synthesizer-like music.

I’ll grant you that each song has a com-pletely different sound, but some of the tracks l ike “Sin City” end u p s o u n d i n g o ve r -

produced with all of the technical background noise.

I was a big fan of “To the World,” espe-cially the dig at Mitt Romney not paying his taxes. Apparently, you’ve stopped being the “abomination of Obama’s nation.”

“The One,” with slow raps and mellow feel, was great, but there is no chance of this song ballooning into one of the biggest hits on the album. I think the hit is “Mercy,” which was released before the full “Cruel Summer” album.

That alone disap-points me. Before “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” was released, “All of the Lights” was all anyone heard on the radio. But the album contained pure rap gold, like “Gorgeous” and “Lost in the World” that were light-years better than the single. Where’s the gold on “Cruel Summer?”

I’m hoping this album isn’t the start of the Yoko Ono syndrome taking effect on you. Kanye, I’m glad you’ve fo u n d l o ve i n K i m Kardashian, but it could be the demise of your ca-reer. Just look at John Lennon. Yes, you and Kim would have beau-tiful babies together, but you’re Kanye West.

You don’t have chil-dren, and you sure a s h e l l don’t say you love a woman mid-rap.

I don’t buy one o f y o u r a l b u m s t o h e a r a b o u t Kim for the same reason I don’t watch “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” I don’t care. And maybe home movies are differ-ent in your household, but I wouldn’t say some-one is a superstar from being in a porn flick as you did in “Mercy.”

“Cruel Summer” isn’t awful, however, it’s just not up to par with your usual creations. It won’t be one of the albums I go back and listen to over and over again like I do with “Graduation,” “Late Registration” and “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.”

You don’t need Kim, Big Sean, Pusha T, Jay-Z or anyone else to be a musical genius. Ditch them and go solo like Mr. West should.

Sincerely, Carmen Forman, jour-nalism junior

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Tobi NeidySports Reporter

The OU football team took advantage of its first bye week of the season, spending extra time both in the film room and on the practice field, learning how to pick apart No. 15 Kansas State.

The Wildcats’ offense has produced juggernaut-type numbers during its first three games, amassing 1,364 yards and outscoring opponents 138-43.

With that type of offensive production and the Big 12 conference standings at stake, no one in the Sooner camp is taking the KSU matchup lightly. And being idle last week-end was a way for OU to get a jump start against a quality top-25 opponent.

“Kansas State is a really, really good team, and they play really solid football,” senior quarterback Landry Jones said. “Any chance you can get an extra week on a team like that is always beneficial.”

One way OU took advantage of the scheduled “benefit” was by not deterring from the original practice setup.

“We practiced Monday through Thursday like we would a game week to work our preparation and get our plan in place,” coach Bob Stoops said. “In particular, going against their offense, they’re very complicated with all their differ-ent run schemes and the use of the quarterback run game all together.”

The OU defense spent the bye week prepping for the KSU run game that currently averages 5.9 yards per rush and 251.7 rushing yards per game.

Although stopping the running game will contribute to the Sooners’ overall success against the Wildcats, there are some players who are looking at this weekend as a chance to regain some home credibility against a top-25 foe.

Last season’s loss against Texas Tech at home was the first and only time this senior group lost to an opponent in Norman, and senior defensive end R.J. Washington said losing at home is not something he wants to go through again, regardless of whom the Sooners are facing.

“Historically, we are good at home,” Washington said. “We practice here, and everything just feels more com-fortable here. So it doesn’t matter what the other team’s ranked.

“You don’t ever want to lose at home because you feel tainted to have all those fans show up and then you lose.”

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With the state of the Oklahoma men’s basket-

ball team seemingly on the upswing after a couple of years of mediocrity, I thought it would be a good idea to take a look back at what caused those forget-table years.

Let’s turn the clock back to fall 2009. The Sooners had come off an appear-ance in the Elite 8 and were expected to contend for a Big 12 title. Although they lost superstar Blake Griffin to the NBA, the Sooners re-turned another star in soph-omore point guard Willie Warren and had a top-notch recruiting class, which in-cluded the No. 3 center Keith “Tiny” Gallon and No. 4 point guard Tommy

Mason-Griffin as ranked by ESPN.

After being ranked in the preseason top 25, the team strug-gled mightily

all season, finishing 13-18 — just 4-12 in the Big 12 — and all three players left the program to enter the NBA Draft. So, what happened to those “stars” whose depar-ture started a string of three straight losing seasons?

Warren, who couldn’t

handle being the “big man on campus,” was taken late in the second round by the Los Angeles Clippers. He was sent to the NBA Development League where he excelled, but when called back up, he sat on the bench and was released after the season. The 22-year-old Warren now plays for Maccabi Rishon LeZion in Israel, which I’m sure is ex-actly where he wants to be in his career.

Gallon, whose recruit-ment was later revealed to be illegal because of im-proper benefits and caused the Sooners to be put on probation for three years, was selected with the 47th

pick by the Milwaukee Bucks. He was later released by the team and tried out for the Boston Celtics but did not make the cut. Gallon played well in the D-League in 2010 but currently is not on an NBA or D-League roster.

Mason-Griffin, who struggled because of ma-turity issues, was never drafted and played one year for the Sioux Falls Skyforce, averaging fewer than three points a game. He was re-leased and has not been listed on a roster for the past two seasons.

So let’s recap: Three McDonald’s All-Americans played one college season

together, had a 13-18 re-cord and then decided to go pro. Two of these “stars” were drafted late in the 2010 NBA Draft, and they played a total of one season in the NBA. All three played in the D-League, and now none of them can be found on either NBA or D-League rosters. Also, the school they left had another losing season, which caused the firing of the man who recruited them.

Good riddance.

Chris Tyndall is a university college freshman. You can follow him on Twitter at @Tyndall_Chris.

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