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PAIGHTEN HARKINSCampus Reporter

Students learned about sexual violence affecting the GLBTQ community on Tuesday as part of a series of

Sooner Ally events this week.Almost two-dozen hungry

people sat in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Crimson Room to hear doctoral candi-date Adrienne Brune discuss intimate partner violence — which is defined as “a pattern of behavior where on intimate

ELYSSA SZKIRPANCampus Reporter

OU ’s Goddard Health Center switched to an elec-t ro n i c m e d i ca l re c o rd s system last month to im-prove productivi ty and communication.

Students who visit Goddard in the upcoming months will

be required to fill out new forms to register with the new records system at the time of an appointment.

Implementation of the system began last summer and will eventually replace paper charts in the clinic, said Maggie Pool, Health Promotion Coordinator for OU Services.

Approximately 74 percent of community clinics in the

MELODIE LETTKEMANCampus Reporter

As another student stepped onto the property, University College freshmen Bradley Quy and Seth Heinzig were quick to greet him and ask where he was from.

Smoker or not, every visitor to Cancer Corner — named by the smokers who inhabit it — was welcomed in a similar fashion. Those resting on the stone bench were quick to offer their seat to newcomers. Friendship is not hard to come by on this section of Stubbeman Place, where the residents of OU’s dorms congre-gate for conversation and a smoke

break.Conversations flowed through

the smoky air, sometimes paus-ing as a lighter or cigarette was borrowed, but the laughter rare-ly stopped. Those who stop by become fast friends, discuss-ing coursework, hobbies and hometowns.

The friendly attitudes don’t

always extend to those who pass by. Drivers often glare as they pass. S ometimes the y make rude comments, said University College freshman Vance Jones.

Heinzig said they tr y to be friendly toward people who pass by but are usually ignored.

“People look at us like we’re meth heads, but we’re not drug users,” Jones said.

Despite the negative reputation the corner has with some people, for some of the men and women who turn to Cancer Corner for a smoke break, it is an important part of their social lives.

“I’m glad I found this place,” Heinzig said. “If it weren’t for the tobacco ban, I might not have met all these great people. It isn’t ‘man, I could go for a smoke right

EMMA HAMBLEN Campus Reporter

Two professors at OU are preparing to teach a pilot course for graduate students about scholarly writing.

The seminar, “Writing for

Publication,” was designed to help graduate students write articles that can be submitted for peer review and publication, according to the course website.

The course will be taught by History of Science profes-sor Peter Barker and English professor Ron Schleifer, ac-cording to the course web-site. Schleifer said they hope

to make the course a perma-nent part of the Graduate College’s course catalog.

In 1997, Schleifer became graduate director of the OU English department. He felt that a course on scholarly writing would be very help-ful for English graduate stu-dents and began teaching such a course, he said.

S c h l e i f e r a n d B a r k e r

began working together around ten years ago to teach the course for both the History of Science de-partment and the English department. One semester they would teach it through the English department and the next semester they’d teach it in the History of Science department — mak-ing it available to students

from both graduate pro-grams in each instance, Schleifer said.

Then, in 2006, they taught a three-day version of the course at a graduate con-ference in Denmark. This conference proved how valuable the seminar was to students who weren’t even having their own work cri-tiqued, Barker said.

Schleifer and Barker con-tinued to teach the seminar in Denmark each year for the next five years, Barker said. This spring, the course combines the structure of the seminars they’ve previ-ously taught at OU and the seminars they’ve taught in Denmark, he said.

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Bradley Quy, University College freshman, exhales smoke while sitting at Cancer Corner on Tuesday. The corner of Third Street and Maple attracts smokers throughout the day and has become a place for socializing and making friends.

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TODAY AROUND CAMPUSA workshop titled “How to Find and Make the Most of an Internship” sponsored by Career Services will be held from 12:30 to 1 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Traditions Room.

A Student Success Series seminar about effective time management will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245.

A lecture titled “AIM for Sovereignty: Native Activism Through Powwow Music and Dance” and part of Norton Lecture Series will be held from 5 to 6 p.m. in Catlett Music Center, Room 131.

The volleyball team will play against Kansas State at 7 p.m. in McCasland Field House.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 20A workshop titled “Using Social Media in Your Job Search” sponsored by Career Services will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Sooner Room.

Mid Day Music will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s food court. Dillon Gourd will play the piano.

A free premiere of the film “Pitch Perfect” sponsored by Campus Activities Council and Union Programming Board at 9 p.m. Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium.

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now,’ for me. It’s ‘I think I’m going to go hang out with the guys.’”

As an important place to them, some visitors try to keep up the appearance of the area. As Heinzig arrived at the corner of Maple and Third Street, he and Quy began cleaning — pick-ing up cigarette butts and bottles littered across the ground.

“We try to keep it clean. We brought a bucket for butts, but we may have to laminate the sign,” Heinzig said.

While some smokers try to keep the area clean, ef-forts sometimes fall short.

Their cleaning efforts are part of an attempt to be

good guests on the property, managed by Judy Hatfield, president and CEO of Equity Realty. Hatfield said she re-ceived a complaint Monday about cigarette butts that had fallen near a trash can outside Party Pics.

“We brought a bucket for butts, but we need some-where better to dump it. We dump it [at the trash can by Adams Center] but then it ends up looking like a mess,” Heinzig said, pointing at the can, the lid blocked by sev-eral bottles stacked on it.

Hatfield has visited the property to clean and talk to some of the students.

“I told them I would pro-vide a bench, trash cans and a smoking urn while we [Hatfield and the tenants of Stubbeman Place] figure out where to go from here,” Hatfield said.

Cancer Corner visitors are considering paying the hospitality forward by vis-iting other smoking areas around Norman and clean-ing the cigarette butts and garbage that litters them, Heinzig said.

Hatfield said she wants to be accommodating to the smokers but is only willing to help if they can keep the property clean.

“We want to find some middle ground,” she said. “If it continues to be a mess, we may have to pursue legal ac-tion to get smoking banned on the property. For now, we will be monitoring the corner and I will be asking the tenants how they would like to proceed.”

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country now use electron-ic record systems, accord-ing to the National Center for Health Statistics.

Using an EMR system only cannot benefit stu-dents by keeping their records more organized, but it can benefit Goddard staff, too, Pool said.

“Using an EMR improves accurate reporting and documentation, improves workflow and productivity and allows easier commu-nication from within our building,” Pool said. “For example, when a patient receives a test in our clinic, it is automatically pulled into the EMR and the healthcare provider is able to view it on their comput-er in his or her office.”

The transition has not come without its costs though, Pool said. Goddard has incurred approximate-ly $90,000 in software costs to date.

The system will continue to evolve and change over the year with the addition of several new features that students can directly inter-act with, she said.

“Next spring we plan to launch the online student health portal and self-check-in portions of the EMR,” Pool said. “This will allow patients to securely message their providers and “check in” to their ap-pointments with a swipe of an ID card. They will also be able to fill out any health related forms on a computer kiosk rather than with pen and paper.”

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Something that is unique to this class is that it will be open to graduate students from every program at OU and will include eight core students and 16 reading stu-dents, Schleifer said.

The core students will submit one of their own works from a previous class for detailed critiques and suggestions for revision. They also will be required to write peer reviews and will receive three hours of credit for the course, according to the course website.

The reading students will receive one hour of credit for the course by partici-pating in the first peer re-view session reviewing two papers and participating in the seminars where those papers are discussed (three sessions total), according to the course website.

The class is structured this way because it is so writing intensive, Schleifer said. This way, students who cannnot commit such a huge chunk of time to the class still can benefit from the course as reading students.

Additionally, Schliefer and Barker will meet with the reading students to dis-cuss the students’ future writing plans, Schleifer said. Graduate College Dean Lee Williams has committed to having the course available

for the next three years, Schleifer said.

They’re hoping to train faculty all over the campus to teach this course, and by the end of three years, to have four courses available, he said.

Schleifer taught a two-week version of the course in Singapore by himself for junior faculty members in the spring of 2010. Five out of the six junior faculty members had their articles published at the end of the course, Schleifer said.

“Our aim is to profession-alize graduate students,” he said.

Students often have to teach themselves how to apply what they’ve learned i n a p r a c t i c a l w a y , s o Schleifer said they hope this course teaches students how to do that in a system-atic rather than haphazard way.

There is a great deal of pressure to produce pub-lications in the academic world — the problem is no one is taught how to get published, Barker said.

This course addresses two main issues: time man-agement and revision. This course helps students iden-tify weaknesses in their arti-cles and improve efficiency, he said.

Schleifer said he hopes t h i s c o u r s e c a n b e -come a model for other universities.

“I think this can really

change graduate education in important ways,” he said.

Additionally, Schleifer said that this course has helped graduate students complete their degrees.

“OU has been very strong in supporting undergradu-ate students, and proper-ly so, for a long time, and the college is trying to find practical ways to increase support for graduate stu-dents,” he said.

Barker said that this is by far the best seminar he’s taught. As a professor, you hope that everyone will contribute and everyone will appreciate those con-tributions, he said.

“In the writing course, ev-erybody finds their voice…that’s what makes it such a great experience,” Barker said.

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Members of Milo Green, a band from Los Angeles, perform Tuesday in front of The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art during the museum’s student party. The band opened for The Walkmen at the free concert, hosted by the Campus Activities Council and the museum.

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NATION NEWS BRIEFS1. LOS ANGELES

Romney meets with Obama administration for breifing

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has received his � rst regular intelligence brie� ng from the Obama administration during a stop in Los Angeles.

Romney spokesman Rick Gorka says the former Massachusetts governor met Monday with mem-bers of the intelligence community at a federal building. Romney’s brie� ng lasted 2 hours.

The meetings are customary for major-party candidates after their nominating conventions and require a security clearance.

The lack of intelligence brie� ngs drew attention last week when Romney struggled to respond to a violent clash in Libya that left four Americans dead, including an ambassador. Before the deaths were con� rmed, Romney mischaracterized the incident in his initial statement and accused President Barack Obama of a “disgraceful” handling of violence.

2. CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA.

Endeavour’s flight to California is postponed due to bad weather

The beginning of space shuttle Endeavour’s � nal � ight to California has been postponed because of weather along the � ight route.

NASA had planned for the 747 carrying the shuttle to take off from Kennedy Space Center on Monday. The � ight is now scheduled to take off at sunrise Tuesday.

Low � yovers are still planned along Cape Canaveral and at NASA facilities in Louisiana and Mississippi. A stop in Houston will be shortened to one day.

Endeavour is expected to arrive in Los Angeles on Thursday for its eventual installation at the California Science Center. Endeavour is the sec-ond of NASA’s three retired shuttles to head to a museum.

The Associated Press

MIKE STOBBEThe Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — A group campaigning against obesity predicts that by 2030 more than half the people in 39 states will be obese — not merely overweight, but obese.

Mississippi is expected to retain its crown as the fat-test state in the nation for at least two more decades. The report predicts 67 percent of that state’s adults will be obese by 2030; that would be an astounding increase from Mississippi’s current 35 percent obesity rate.

The new projections were released Tuesday by Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The two orga-nizations regularly report on obesity to raise aware-ness, and they rely on gov-ernment figures.

But in this case, their dis-mal forecast goes beyond the 42 percent national obe-sity level that federal health officials project by 2030.

About two-thirds of Americans are overweight now. That includes those who are obese, a group that accounts for about 36 percent. Obesity rates have been holding steady in re-cent years.

Trust for America’s Health officials said their projec-tions are based in part on state-by-state surveys by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1999 through 2010. Those numbers come from

By 2030, 39 states to have half of population obese

MARK LENNIHAN/THE ASSOCIATE PRESS

Carlos Gonzalez and Elsa Guzman eat breakfast at a McDonald’s restaurant, Wednesday in New York. McDonald’s restaurants across the country will soon get a new menu addition: The number of calories in the chain’s burgers and fries. The world’s biggest hamburger chain said Wednesday that it will post calorie information on restaurant and drive-thru menus nationwide starting Monday. The move comes ahead of a regulation that could require major chains to post the information as early as next year.

NATION

Obesity rate expected to continue to rise

what residents say are their height and weight when asked by interviewers over the phone. People aren’t al-ways so accurate about that.

The researchers then looked at other national data in which residents were actually weighed and measured and they made adjustments for how much people in each state might fudge the truth about their weight. They also tried to apply recent trends in obesity rates, along with other factors, to make the predictions.

Officials with Trust for America’s Health said they believe their projections are reasonable.

But their outlook suggests that even in the thinnest state — Colorado, where about one-fifth of residents are obese — 45 percent are

predicted to be obese by 2030. That means that every state would have an obesity rate higher than 44 percent.

Perhaps more surpris-ing — Delaware is expected to have obesity levels nearly as high as Mississippi. Delaware currently is in the middle of the pack when it comes to self-reported obe-sity rates.

The report didn’t detail why some states’ rates were expected to jump more than others. It also didn’t calcu-late an average adult obesity rate for the entire nation in 2030, as the CDC did a few months ago when it predict-ed 42 percent overall. But a researcher who worked on the Trust for America’s Health study acknowledged that the report’s numbers point toward a figure close to 50 percent.

CDC officials declined to comment on the new report.

Whichever estimates you trust most, it’s clear that the nation’s weight problem is going to continue, escalat-ing the number of cases of diabetes, heart disease and stroke, said Jeff Levi, ex-ecutive director of Trust for America’s Health.

By 2030, medical costs from treating obesity-relat-ed diseases are likely to in-crease by $48 billion, to $66 billion per year, his report said.

The focus of so much of the ongoing debate about health care is over control-ling costs, Levi said. “... We can only achieve it by ad-dressing obesity. Otherwise, we’re just tinkering around the margins.”

CHASE COOKAssistant Campus Editor

The UOSA president re-started his quest to trim down the size of OU’s stu-dent government Tuesday as his department consoli-dation bill was passed by Undergraduate Student Congress.

S t u d e n t C o n g r e s s passed UOSA President Joe

Sangirardi’s department consolidation bill, which cuts the UOSA executive branch’s Department of Academics, Department of Off-Campus Living and Transportation and Department of Health, according to the bill. These departments’ responsibili-ties will be rolled into other departments and office’s in the executive branch.

Sangirardi was forced to update the bill and pass it through Student Congress after an error nullified the bil l’s passaged through

UOSA’s legislative branch last semester.

“This allows [the offices] to do more work...and allows greater flexibility,” Sangirardi said.

The department consoli-dation act will now go to Graduate Student Senate and must be approved there before the departments will be officially removed from the executive branch.

In other business, Student Congress passed legisla-tion that appointed its com-mittee chairs. Congress

recently struggled to get enough applications for each chair position, but now each chair has been filled with the appointment of Secretary John Montgomery a s t h e C o n g r e s s i o n a l Administration committee chairman.

Congress’ next meeting will be 7 p.m. Sept. 25 in Adams Hall, Room 150.

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CONGRESS

New bill eliminates several UOSA executive branch departmentsConsolidation to allow for greater flexibility

ELECTION

Voter registration deadline nears

The deadline to apply for voter registration for the upcoming presidential elec-tion in November is Friday, Oct. 12, said Jim Williams, Cleveland County Election Board secretary, in a press release.

People still can register to vote past the Oct. 12 deadline, but they will not be approved until after Nov. 6, Williams said.

Individuals must be

U.S. citizens, residents of Oklahoma and at least 18 years old in order to register with the Cleveland County Election Board, Williams said.

Once the registration is approved, voters will receive their voter identi-� cation card that lists the voter’s precinct number and polling place location by mail.

Non-Oklahoman resi-dents and other people not registered with the Cleveland County Election Board must � ll out an absentee ballot from their respective precinct in order to vote.

Voters looking to change name, address, political af� liation or county of resi-dence to Cleveland County must � ll out the Oklahoma Voter Registration Application form and mail it to the election board.

Registration applica-tions can be obtained at tag agencies, public county libraries, post of� ces and the County Election Board of� ce located at 641 E. Robinson, Suite 200 in Norman.

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partner coerces, dominates, or isolates another intimate partner to maintain power and control of the partner in the relationship,” according to the presentation.

This presentation was given during a brown bag lunch, called “Intimate Partner Violence in GLBT Communities,” and was sponsored in part by the GLBTQ Advisory Board, board member Kasey Catlett said.

The presentation aimed to

educate the audience on how intimate partner violence in GLBT relationships differs from heterosexual relation-ships and what can be done to combat this issue.

C a t l e t t a s k e d B r u n e to speak after taking her class over GLBT families in the United States in 2011, she said. In the class, they touched on the issue of inti-mate partner violence and it inspired him to get the word out to other people, Catlett said.

Since this topic is so rarely discussed, Brune said she felt speaking about it was

especially important.“GLBTQ communities are

marginalized in a lot of ways in our society and this is just one more way, and getting the word out that we need to work and do things to create a little bit more equality [is important],” Brune said.

In another effort to pro-mote equality, Sooner Ally is putting on a meet and greet from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. today in the Walker-Adams Mall to introduce first-year students to other students, faculty and staff who support the GLBTQ community, according to a flier.

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Volleyball

oU to face Wildcats in big 12 opener

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Senior libero Maria Fernanda dives for a dig Friday, in the oU volleyball team’s sweep of SMU at McCasland Field House. The Sooners swept all three teams they played on their way to claiming the 2012 oklahoma Invitational title. Fernanda is oU’s all-time leader in digs with 1,901 in her career.

Chris TyndallSports Reporter

The Oklahoma volleyball team begins conference play at 7 p.m. at McCasland Field House against No. 11 Kansas State.

The Sooners swept every performance in a domi-nating performance in the Oklahoma Invitational and are riding a five-match win streak since their last loss against No. 1 Nebraska in Lincoln, Neb.

“ I ’ m e x -cited to play [ K a n s a s State],” senior outside hit-t e r M o r g a n R e y n o l d s said. “We’ve played them before, and

they don’t seem like a differ-ent team, only they’re more mature.”

The Wildcats are on a streak of their own, winning all 12 of their nonconference games to earn the No. 11 ranking.

Kansas State swept the Hurricane Invitational, de-feating two ranked oppo-nents in No. 10 Minnesota (3-2) and No. 20 Dayton (3-0) while sweeping host Tulsa, which the Sooners defeated in five sets earlier this year.

Junior middle blocker Kaitlynn Pelger leads the

Sooners led by captains McLaurin and Fernanda

Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part series tak-ing a look at the history of college football and the cur-rent view of the sport.

College football is in the midst of one of the most scandalous periods in its history: Reggie Bush at USC; a little closer to home, Rhett Bomar; Cam Newton at Auburn (allegedly); Bobby Petrino at Arkansas and, of course, the circus in Happy Valley. The list goes on and on, and it doesn’t seem to be heading anywhere but down.

In times of turmoil like these, before looking to the fu-ture, we must look to the past and how we got here.

According to historian Christopher Lucas, the first or-ganized college football game happened in 1869 between Rutgers and Princeton (not exactly the powerhouses of today). The sport continued to balloon from there on out, until it became a full-fledged phenomenon by the 1880s.

Even at that point, when the national interest in college football neared that of today, it remained just an attrac-tion to universities and a distraction for students and the societal elite.

College football continued to grow in popularity until the early 20th Century; Lucas notes that college football was the primary attractor to colleges and universities.

“It was to an extent that some were unwilling to ac-knowledge,” Lucas said. “Popular support for higher edu-cation drew its strength from the entertainment value of activities formerly consigned to the academy’s outermost periphery.”

Before there was any faculty involvement, professional

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SpoRtS columniSt coaching staffs or an NCAA, college football had been built by students, for students.

The “father of football,” Walter Camp — best known today for lending his name to the award — expressed it as such in 1885.

“Neither the faculties nor other critics assisted in build-ing the structure of college athletics,” Camp said. “It is a structure which students unaided have built.”

Eventually, after many injuries and other problems, in-cluding a death, the NCAA was founded in 1906 to act as a governing body for college sports.

Since then, the world of college sports has been more and more inflated until it reached the point we’re at now.

College football has transcended sport and academia; it has become a culture and a way of life for millions of players, coaches, students, fans and recruits.

But what have we done in response to this elevation? How have we treated this distraction-turned-lifestyle?

We have abused this hallowed game, taken for granted what our predecessors created and handed down to us as a gift and privilege.

So, at this point, the question remains: how do we view college football and its scandalous present? And, more importantly, what are we going to do about it?

Kedric Kitchens is a journalism junior and sports editor for The Daily. You can follow him on Twitter at @KedricKitchens.

ColUMn

Understanding the history of college football before looking to its future

Women’S BaSketBall

Five Oklahoma regular season games selected to be televised nationally on FOX Sports Net

the sooner women’s basketball team will have five games televised on Fox sports net (Fsn) this season, the big 12 Conference anounced tuesday.

OU’s games against texas, defending national champion baylor, conference newcomer west Virginia, in-state rival Oklahoma state and iowa state will all appear on Fsn this season.

the dates of the sooner’s matchups with west Virginia and iowa state both had to be changed to fit into Fsn’s coverage schedule.

the west Virginia game, previously scheduled for Feb. 2, is now slotted for sunday, Feb. 3. the game against iowa state, previously slotted for Feb. 13, now will be on thursday, Feb. 14.

Staff Reports

Wildcats with 3.53 kills per set, .361 hitting percentage, 184 points and 144 kills.

Pelger was named the AVCA National Player of the Week for her performance

in the Hurricane Invitational where she averaged 4.18 kills.

Coach Santiago Restrepo plans on “double block-ing” Pelger to neutralize the Wildcats’ star.

“She’s extremely talented,” Restrepo said. “But we’re up to the challenge.”

A pair of captains lead the Sooners: junior middle blocker Sallie McLaurin

— who boasts 2.68 kills per set and a .385 hitting per-centage — and senior libero Maria Fernanda — who has 253 digs.

McLaurin was named the Oklahoma Invitational MVP for the second straight year and is second in the nation with 1.68 blocks per game. Fernanda is the Sooners all-time leader in digs (1,901) and is sixth on the all-time

Big 12 digs list.Oklahoma is 7-9 in Big

12 openers, and 8-8 in con-ference home openers. The Sooners have won six-straight conference openers, including five at McCasland Field House.

R e s t re p o h a s l e d t h e Sooners through each of those conference-opening win streaks since 2006 when the Sooners swept Texas

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Our View: In this election, it’s clear which candidate understands more about student debt.

Student debt may primarily affect a certain de-mographic, but it certainly is not a niche issue. The grim picture painted by the most recent data is be-coming a major talking point in the presidential election.

With good reason — This year, student debt soared past credit card debt, and some institutions estimate that the total student debt has risen above $1 trillion. At the same time, long-term delinquency rates are close to 9 percent, according to the Federal Reserve.

Given the importance of this issue not just for students but for the economic health of the nation, it’s important to understand both candidates’ plans for curbing the debt and helping students pay back their loans.

Barack Obama:President Barack Obama’s track record

on student debt speaks for itself, and his planned policies for the next four years largely are a continuation of this record. He is focused on in-creasing federal aid to ensure everyone has access to higher education and improving loan regulations to make it easier for graduates with debt.

• Obama has introduced the “Pay As You Earn” plan, which limits monthly payments on federal student loans to 10 percent of monthly discretion-ary income. This plan acknowledges the reality that many students will need to take low-paying jobs ini-tially after graduation. The plan has a built-in grace period for those students who don’t find work right away, while also ensuring that students can begin paying back their loans as soon as they get their first job — and still be able to pay rent.

• Obama has supported debt forgiveness plans that would allow students in extreme circumstanc-es or those with significant public service to have their debt forgiven after a certain amount of time. Currently, student loans are one of the only kinds of debt that cannot be discharged under bankruptcy, so there is little recourse for those with student debt facing economic challenges. Under a current execu-tive order, some graduates can see their outstanding debt forgiven after 20 years.

• He recently fought to protect pell grant funding, which helps the most economically disadvantaged students afford college. He has expressed support for doubling pell grant funding and expanding the pool of recipients by 50 percent.

• In response to Romney’s suggestion that stu-dents borrow money or shop around to afford col-lege, Obama acknowledged most students can’t simply borrow money from their parents. At the same time, he has firmly argued every student should have access to higher education, without money as a barrier.

• But his focus is not only on what the federal gov-ernment can do for students. Obama has sternly warned colleges not to rely on tuition increases to make up for plummeting state funding, or they could lose federal funding. He also has urged stu-dents and parents to lobby state governments to in-crease funding for higher education.

Mitt Romney:In May, Republican candidate Gov. Mitt Romney

unveiled his higher education plan, “A Chance for Every Child: Mitt Romney’s Plan for Restoring the Promise of American Education.”

While his plan shows that he under-stands the factors contributing to the cur-rent debt crisis, the majority of his points show a lack of concern for the problems facing students and the importance of higher education for Americans’ futures.

• Romney’s plan rejects debt forgiveness and plans that would cap monthly pay-

ments based on student income. He also strongly rejects any increase in student aid from the federal government, which includes programs like the pell grant. His running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, (R-Wisc.) even supported cutting the pell grant program entirely.

• Instead, Romney focuses on encouraging schools to cut tuition. This is certainly a good point — one Obama could make more vehemently — but it ignores the role that plummeting state funding plays in rising costs. And the plan offers no solu-tions for schools or states to resolve this tension.

• His plan also fails to offer solutions for students. Though it is unclear whether Romney’s infamous “borrow money from your parents” advice refers to getting an education or starting a business, it is clear that Romney has suggested students merely have to “shop around” to find an affordable college. This statement clearly ignores the reality of tuition rates across the country. With little support for aid programs or loan reform, his plan offers no better advice for students.

• Romney did agree with Obama in supporting an extension on a discount to the interest rate of government-subsidized loans. It was a close call in a divided Congress, but the extension will help keep loan repayments affordable and reduce defaults.

• Romney’s plan downplays the importance of making higher education accessible for all students. He claims that focusing on college accessibility has distracted from the importance of college comple-tion. While it’s true graduation rates are an impor-tant education issue that needs attention, the an-swer is certainly not restricting access to education.

• One of the major positive changes in his plan is to “make it clear” that the federal government sup-ports institutions that work to drive down costs and could penalize those that rely on massive tuition hikes (a point Obama already has made in an exec-utive order). The other is to “refocus” the pell grant program toward the most needy students — a wor-thy goal, unless “refocus” is code for restrict access and lower the number of recipients.

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Legislative ‘War on Women’ not over yetIt is very important that women and their caring partners

become familiar with the last legislative session and vote in this next election.

The previous state legislature joined the War on Women and tried to pass a Personhood Bill. If passed, rape sperms would be elevated to sainthood and impregnated rape vic-tims would be on their own with the admonition that they had better just get over it and take good care of that invasion to their bodies.

To those legislators, a woman’s mental and physical health and plans for her future are not as important as pre-serving a rapist’s sperm.

Women and their caring partners must know that the Personhood Bill could have prevented them from buying

birth control medications or obtaining in vitro fertilization. Those who write such bills do not understand that in addi-tion to preventing pregnancy, birth control medications are also used to alleviate women’s medical problems.

Sadly, the war isn’t over. There are plans to continue the same war after the next election. The War on Women is another example of how some men do not understand the health problems of women but want to control something about which they have no clue.

Therefore, it is imperative that all citizens take the time to register, get informed and vote in this next election on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012.

Nadine Jewell, OU alum

Sports has re-mained fairly equal over the

past few decades when it comes to gender. There are male and female teams in basketball and soccer. Women play softball, while men play baseball.

It all seems impartial when laid out on paper, and the sports community has made strides toward equality. But the recent induction of two highly influ-ential women into the previously all-male Augusta National Golf Club prompts many to question whether the induction was genuine or a move for good publicity.

If men and women were truly treated equally in sports, then women would have the option to play foot-ball or baseball and someday be drafted by the New York Giants or the Oakland A’s.

Of course, there are obvious risks if men and women are playing on the same teams, but shouldn’t we have that option?

Playing softball sounds like a better choice for me, but it would be nice to know I had the option to play on a baseball team with a bunch of men.

This quasi-segregation among men and women in the sports world was spotlighted by Martha Burk, a women’s rights advocate, when she challenged the Augusta National Golf Club’s policy that prohibited fe-male members.

The Augusta National Golf Club was founded in 1932 and has been the home of the Masters Tournament since 1934.

In the club’s 80 years, it had yet to induct any female members until last month when Augusta National Golf Club announced that Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state, and Darla Moore, vice president of Rainwater Inc., would be permitted to don the golf club’s exclusive green jackets.

Both women will be presented to the other members of the club when it opens for the season this October.

With the club’s opening mere weeks away, is the in-duction of these two highly influential women a genu-ine attempt to end 80 years of exclusion or a shot at good publicity in time for the season’s opening?

The integration of women into predominately male sports goes as far back as the 1970s with the First National Archery Championship, in which 20 women participated. Women have been allowed into golf clubs since 1867 at St Andrews in Scotland. Why, then, is one of the most prestigious golf clubs so late in allowing fe-male members?

My guess is that it is simply because Augusta National Golf Club did not want to include women. At a golf club that is run by men for men, there is no need to consider the unjust exclusion of the opposite sex.

That was true until Burk and her women’s advocacy group decided someone should start considering it. Sadly, Burk’s efforts were initially criticized.

The public paid attention to the segregated golf club only after White House Press Secretary Jay Carney re-leased a statement last April, on behalf of President Barack Obama, maintaining women should be allowed into the club.

With the enduring scrutiny of Augusta National Golf Club, it seems obvious why the club would offer mem-bership to Rice and Moore now. What better way to start the season than with the very public admittance of two well-known women?

I wish I could offer a congratulations to Augusta National Golf Club for making strides in the golf com-munity by its action, but I cannot. All eyes will certainly be on the club in the future, though, to see if any other female members are invited.

Only then will we know if it truly wanted to break down sexist barriers or if the club just wanted to give its reputation a boost in time for the new season.

As of right now, it would seem that Augusta National Golf Club has made an air shot when it comes to wom-en’s rights.

Sarah Sullivan is an English writing junior.

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The opera begins in mid-October, however, Bray has to know her lines and songs before then in order to stage the piece with Ferrara and to rehearse the music with the conductor.

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“Now, learning and re-hearsing something at the last minute, that is just a free-for-all,” Bray said. “I’ve acquired a certain knack for learning quickly. I am no stranger to the idea, though I am unsure if it prolongs your life through the excite-ment or shortens it by at least a couple days.”

One of her experiences involved switching from the mezzo range to the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem at Carnegie Hall in New York City within a week.

“I will reach out to all of my extraordinary colleagues and teachers to make sure I do my job to prepare,” Bray said. “But then, hopefully I can forget all of that.”

Bray said she’d do all she could to remember all of the words and notes when it comes time to perform.

“It ’s all about f inding what’s behind the notes and creating an extravagant musical and emotional tap-estry for our audiences to feel something, everything, to deliver that at any cost. That’s my work, and there’s no better place to be.”

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For Courtney Bray, OU’s production of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Iphigénie en Tauride” could be haunt-ing the hallowed stage of the Reynolds Performing Arts Center too soon.

This particular opera was cast in April, giving the cast members ample time to look over their roles and prepare. However, the woman cast as the title role for “Iphigénie” was re-cast four weeks ago.

Bray, a second year grad-uate student, is now in the memorization process for her role as Iphigénie.

She was five days into driving from Washington to Norman for the start of the new school year when she got an email. The origi-nal Iphigénie no longer was available to perform the role because of personal rea-sons, so Bray was asked to audition.

Two days later, she was buried in the musical score, and life was all about Greek family drama.

“In addition to being a wonderful singer and a quick study, she is an imaginative and gutsy ac-tress,” stage director William Ferrara said. “We are having a blast.”

Rehearsals already have started with the principal cast and chorus members rehearsing throughout the weeks to nail down the French opera.

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Stephenson Life Sciences Reseach Center

101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, OK

David Ross Boyd Professor has retired.

Carmen Forman, life & arts editorWestlee Parsons, assistant editor

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Courtney Bray received lead role four weeks ago

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Courtney Bray received the lead role in OU’s production of “Iphigénie en Tauride” four weeks ago when the rest of the cast had the summer to prepare for the opera.

Opera

Student uses short time wisely to prepare for opera

GO AND DO‘Iphigénie an Tauride’When: 8 p.m. oct. 17-19 and 3 p.m. oct. 21

Where: reynolds Performing Art Center’s holmberg hall

Contact Info: oU Fine Arts Box office

(405) 325-4101

‘Lincoln’ to hook, line and sink Academy Awards

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The trailer for Steven Spielberg’s epic

Abraham Lincoln biopic dropped last week, and “Lincoln” already looks like it will be a top con-tender at next year’s Academy Awards but only because the movie was made specifically for that purpose.

The world-class cin-ematography by Janusz Kaminski is immediately striking.

Daniel Day-Lewis, as the 16th president lead-ing the all-star cast, gave an impassioned speech that left me with chills as I watched the trailer come to a close. But I also was left with a more pe-culiar impression as the image faded out on ol’ Honest Abe: Spielberg’s “Lincoln” is pure Oscar-baiting.

I immediately had flashbacks to last year’s “J. Edgar.”

Films made for awards are just as reprehensible and artistically lax as films made as shameless cash grabs. The reason is in both cases you have an objective to be achieved which constrains full artistic potential. A film shouldn’t be made just to garner awards or satisfy a filmmakers’ ego.

Perhaps Spielberg genuinely wants to tell the story of Abraham Lincoln’s life, but will the film add to or challenge our perception of the great emancipator, or will

it merely reinforce what we already believe?

Will it be technically in-novative in any significant way? Will it be remembered 10 years from now? One year from now? Doubtful.

Take a film from the op-posite side of the spectrum: “The Avengers.” I think we can all agree that, while “The Avengers” was crack-ling with entertainment and made a gazillion dollars this summer, it is unlikely to gar-ner any awards come Oscar season.

It’s pure popcorn entertainment.

The trailer for “The Avengers” features explo-sions, superheroes duking it out, computer-generated action sequences and more explosions. The script doesn’t necessarily have to make sense, people are fair-ly forgiving of plot holes as long as there’s some quippy dialogue … and a bunch more explosions of course.

Now consider this: Are the flashy cinematography and top-notch actors and chill-inducing dialogue of the “Lincoln” trailer that much different that the ex-plosions and chill-inducing computer-generated spec-tacle of “The Avengers” trailer?

Tony Beaulieu is film and media studies junior.

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“I’ve acquired a certain knack for learning quickly. I am no stranger to the idea.”

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Religion

Jews celebrate High Holidays, Jewish new Year

Racey BuRdenStudent Yearbook

Hillel’s service for Rosh Hashanah began with the congregation reciting a prayer that revealed what the Jewish holiday, the be-ginning of the Jewish New Year, is about: change.

“For leaves, birds and ani-mals, turning comes instinc-tively,” echoed members of Hillel’s congregation during prayer.

“But for us, turning does not come so simply. It takes an act of will for us to make a turn,” the group said in uni-son following the lead of stu-dent rabbi Joshua Herman, a visitor from Hebrew Union College, a Jewish institute of religion in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The two central Jewish holidays that happen once a year are Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, which comes 10

days after Rosh Hashanah, Herman said.

“Together, they form this unit that is all based on that as you begin the New Year, you try to repent of those bad things you did last year,” Herman said. “You sort of start fresh for the new year.”

Rosh Hashanah is the start of the 10 days of repentance, a time for Jewish individu-als to convince God they will follow his commands, and their names should be written in the Book of Life so they may enter heaven, Herman said. Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement, when their fates are sealed and the book is closed.

The service and dinner at Hillel on Sunday were only the beginning of the holiday, which will continue until Yom Kippur on Sept. 26.

“This [holiday] is about happy stuff,” theatrical de-sign sophomore Eliott Kahn said. “A lot of the other ones are not so happy. [Jewish

holidays] are all celebra-tions, but generally it’s when bad stuff happens and then something good happens after.”

To continue the celebra-tion of Rosh Hashanah, Hillel will host services up to Yom Kippur. During the morning services Monday, the ceremonial shofar (a ram’s horn) was brought out and blown to signify usher-ing in the New Year.

The congregation also participated in the Tashlich service, where Jews throw pieces of bread (symbolizing sins they want to let go of ) into running water, where they are washed away.

The final Yom Kippur ser-vice will be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26 in Hillel’s sanctuary.

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Jason oruch, Hillel’s director of student life blows the shofar at Hillel’s celebration of Rosh Hashanah on Sunday.

If you’re a fan of com-ics, video games or even good television,

chances are you’ve heard of “The Walking Dead.” Known for its gruesome violence, well-developed characters and an everlast-ing shade of moral gray, Robert Kirkman’s critically-acclaimed comic book se-ries since has expanded into a video game based off of the comics, and even a first person shooter game to be released in 2013.

Telltale Games’ “The Walking Dead” is a point-and-click game that hinges on your investment. Like the

comics, this game doesn’t focus on zombie killing or the very horror of zombies. Instead, the game fo-cuses on the characters, on what it takes to survive and the tragedy that befalls those still surviving.

In other words, “The Walking Dead” is a game that focuses on presentation and story. Even after start-ing the game, a title card will appear before the start of each episode stressing the importance of story by declaring that “this game series adapts to the choices you make. The story is tai-lored by how you play.”

You, the gamer, play as Lee Everett, a man who’s been convicted of murder-ing a state senator sleep-ing with his cheating wife. You’re on your way to prison by cop car when the zombie apocalypse hits. After es-caping some “walkers” (as they are called in the series), Lee runs into a young girl named Clementine and de-cides to take responsibility in protecting her from this new world of monsters.

Of all the characters the game delivers, Lee and Clementine are the most three dimensional. Both are smart in every situation

the story puts them in, from dealing with an undead babysitter to escaping a pharmacy. Neither of them comes off as annoying or as archetypes. As the story progresses, they feel like human beings, and players

will start to care about their well-being.

While the game is pri-marily point and click, there are many occasions where Lee is asked a direct question from one of the other characters or has to say something during a conversation/argument.

Every instance this hap-pens, the player is given four different options of what to say, with silence sometimes being an option.

Many games have done the multiple conversation paths before, but Telltale adds a simple twist: A timer. Every time you have

to make an important de-cision, every time there’s a heated argument, even when you’re asked a heavy question, there’s a timer.

You only have enough time to read your options and then quickly pick one.

Kaylan Paizis is a film and media studies sophomore.

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presents...You Are Invited!

“Critical Water Issues in Today’s World”

The WaTER Center Symposium will include discussions with a distinguished panel of jurors for the University of Oklahoma

Water Prize. The University of Oklahoma Water Prize Recipient will give the Plenary Lecture at the 2013 OU International

WaTER Conference to be held September 23-25, 2013.

Friday, September 21, 2012Molly Shi Boren BallroomOklahoma Memorial Union

The symposium is free and open to the public. For catering purposes, we ask that you pre-

register online at the OU WaTER Center website http://watersymposium.

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TIME TOPIC

1:30-1:45 Overview of Water and Sanitation Issues and Panel Introduction1:45-2:45 Opening Statements

3:00-4:30 Questions and Answer Session with Panelists

4:30-5:00 Announcement of University of Oklahoma Water Prize Recipient

2:45-3:00 BREAK

Rita Colwell, Professor, U. of Maryland, former National Science

Foundation (NSF) director

Dennis Warner, Senior Technical Advisor, Catholic Relief Services

Christine Moe, Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation, Emory

University

Ravi Jayakaran, VP, Global Programs, MAP International

Idrissa Doucoure, Director, Water and Sanitation for Africa, formerly

WaterAid

Marc Palange, Professor of Hydrology and Dean, Ecole Polytechnique, Switzerland

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Andrew Tsihnahjinnie (U.S., Navajo; 1916-2000) Slayer of Enemy Gods - Nayeinezani (1962) from the James T. Bialac Collection.

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Join us as we celebrate the gift of the James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection.

Helen Hardin (U.S., 1943-1984) | Winter Awakening of the O-Khoo-Wah | (1972) from the James T. Bialac Collection. | © The Helen Hardin Estate

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celebration Sept. 23, 2012,

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visitors at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Works

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to Jan. 6, 2013.

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