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Accommodations in activities, residence benefi t disabled students

MATTHEW MOZEKDaily Staff Writer

To provide all students the opportunity to par-ticipate in campus life, the Association of Disabled Students has been working with various campus

groups to make events, residences and activities accessible for all students, disabled or not.

The group, formed in the early 1990s, is currently focusing on making sure all disabled students can participate in everything, including greek life, said president Colin Bober, business administration junior.

“A lot of students feel like there’s a division line between the disabled population and the rest,” Bober said. “One of my personal chief goals is to

project an environment where you don’t feel like that.”

With that goal in mind, the group has been fo-cusing its effort on making greek life easy for all students, including those with disabilities, he said.

“It’s important to remember everybody has their challenges,” Bober said. “Just because you have a disability, it doesn’t make you different, it just makes you unique.”

To recognize and show appreciation for organi-zations and individuals who go the “extra mile” in making a difference for students with disabilities, Bober and the Association of Disabled Students Board of Directors established an award known as the Association of Disabled Students Extra Mile Award in January.

Alpha Gamma Delta sorority recently received the award after installing a handicapped accessible ramp in the back of their house, Bober said.

“While we don’t currently have any members with these types of special needs, we have mem-bers who have siblings with these types of needs, and grandparents and family who come and visit, and alumni,” said Alpha Gamma Delta president Clara Mitcham, public relations senior. “We want to be able to open our house to members of the community and so we felt that was necessary.”

Mitcham said winning the award is gratifying, but helping those in need is her responsibility as a citizen.

“We appreciate being recognized for it, but we really just wanted to make our house more ac-cessible for everyone,” Mitcham said. “As a greek organization, we try to be accommodating, so I think it’s kind of an expectation, but I think it’s

Man behind the mic also writes newspaper column for seniorsKATHLEEN EVANSDaily Staff Writer

“It’s football time in Oklahoma!”More than 80,000 Sooners fans hear that boom-

ing pronouncement pour across Owen Field and fill Oklahoma Memorial Stadium about 30 minutes before every home-game kickoff, coming from a disembodied voice set on high.

Announcer Jim Miller is the man behind that voice.

“I just thought it was a fun way to start the game,” Miller said. “It took off. It’s amazing that people re-ally identify with that. When I started the game, I thought, ‘You know, that would be a fun way to do it.’”

Miller started working with the OU athletics de-partment in 1988 after earning his master’s degree in education at Wichita State University in Kansas, he said.

He originally filled in for another announcer, before becoming a full-time football announcer in 1996. Now, Miller’s voice booms out at football and

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CAMPUS BRIEFS

OFFICIALS TO ENFORCE BAG POLICY AT GAME

OU officials announced Wednesday that footbal l game management staff will re-emphasize limitations on bags allowed into the stadium beginning with Saturday’s OU-Baylor football game.

Prohibited items include all bags, backpacks or fanny packs, cases for binoculars, cameras or other items, and all other carry items except purses smaller than 10-by-10 inches. All purses allowed into the stadium will be searched.

C o n t a i n e r s m e a s u r -ing 10-by-10 inches wil l be placed at each entry to Gaylord Family–Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

Purses that do not fi t into the container will not be per-mitted in the stadium.

“We are adding the con-tainers to better define the limitations for our fans and simpl i fy the process for our game staff,” stated Joe Castiglione, vice president for Intercollegiate Athletics Programs and director of Athletics, in a press release. “We encourage our fans to bring as little as possible into the stadium to not only streamline their entry, but for everyone’s comfort throughout the stadium.”

CAREER MENTORING, ADVISING OFFERED TO WAR VETERANS

OU is joining with a non-profi t to provide career men-toring to veterans returning from war.

A m e r i c a n C o r p o r a t e Partners is a nonprofi t based in New York that provides career development oppor-tunities to veterans and the spouses of wounded veter-ans.

ACP-selected OU employ-ees will mentor veterans to help them succeed.

ACP is currently accepting applications from veterans that have served in Iraq or Afghanistan. To apply, visit www.acp-usa.org.

AIDS WALK RAISES AWARENESS, FUNDS FOR DISEASE

The AIDS Walk of Oklahoma City will be Sunday at the Myriad Botanical Gardens in Oklahoma City, according to the organization’s Web site.

Registration begins at 12:30 p.m., and the walk begins at 2 p.m.

AIDS Walk is approximately a one-mi le walk around Bricktown to raise awareness, as well as funds. There is no fee to walk, but donations are accepted.

This year, the event will also have a new 5k-run portion in the morning. Registration begins at 7 a.m., and the run starts at 8:30 a.m. The entry fee is $25 the morning of the race.

For more race information, visit www.aidswalkokc.org.

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Group hopes to eliminate nuclear weapons in 20 years

RICKY MARANONDaily Staff Writer

OU students are teaming up with world leaders to combat the threat of nuclear proliferation and terrorism.

According to its Web site, Global Zero is a global campaign that com-bines high-level policy work with glob-al public outreach to achieve a binding agreement to elimi-nate nuclear weapons through phased and verified reductions.

“Our mission state-ment is to have all nukes gone by 2030,” said Spencer Pittman, Global Zero OU chapter founder and criminology senior. “Many people say it is impossible, but we want them to know that it is possible.”

Pittman said he heard of Global Zero while interning in Washington, D.C., last summer.

“Global Zero started out with four employees working out of a cubicle, but now it has grown into an organiza-tion with 80 employees,” Pittman said.

According to its Web site, Global Zero was founded in December 2008,

but the OU chapter of Global Zero launched on Sept. 26, Pittman said.

On Sept. 26, President Barack Obama endorsed Global Zero and their mis-sion before the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council.

“We are an organization that pro-motes awareness,” Pittman said. “We are an active organization that is just getting started on campus, and we’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback and response from [OU’s International and Area Studies] students and faculty.”

Because the group is a little more than 1 1/2 weeks old, members are still plan-ning events.

“The group is pretty new so events are still being planned,” said

Issac Freeman, UOSA coordinator for international activism and interna-tional security studies senior.

Freeman said students should join the group because it is a noble cause that is relevant to global affairs.

“This is an easy cause to join,” Freeman said. “It is a cause that ad-dresses a big issue currently taking place in the world. The U.S. and other countries need to stand up against the spread of nuclear weapons in the world.”

New campus organization seeksto raise awareness of nuclear threats

Tulsa-based church holds services for students under 30CHARLOTTE LUNDAYDaily Staff Writer

If one were to walk into the Sooner Theatre at 9 p.m. Monday at 101 E. Main St., it would be hard to tell if the theater had been turned into a poetry slam in a cof-fee bar or a techno/hip-hop club.

In fact, each Monday the the-ater morphs into neither — it in-stead becomes Sub30, a church service started by Tulsa-based Guts Church with the goal of keeping college students under 30 years old connected to a church, according to Elliot Blair, petro-leum engineering junior and Sub30 volunteer.

“It’s a college church service where we try to find the most in-tense, high energy atmosphere with a relevant message that is easy to apply into our everyday lives,” Blair said. “What we have is a team that comes down from Tulsa to help us out and get us started, but eventually we want to phase out and let OU students

take over. ‘We call it college run, college done,’ where Pastor Bill just comes down to speak on Monday nights.”

Upbeat music plays constantly at Sub30, including music by rap-pers such as Kanye West, food is served after service and games are played during transitions.

S u b 3 0 m a k e s u s e o f s o -cial networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and other new technologies.

“The media is important be-cause that’s where our generation is,” said Brooklyn Scheer, com-munications junior and Sub30 organizer. “It seems to be very effective.”

Scheer said people all over the world can listen to a podcast, read sermon notes online, com-municate with staff and leaders through the Web site and stay updated through Facebook and Twitter.

Bill Scheer, Guts Church senior pastor and Sub30 speaker, said his personal history affects the way he formats his services.

“I was a sinner, and now I’m a Christian,” Scheer said. “I don’t

Nontraditional church service attracts students

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Jim Miller, OU football game announcer, talks about his job during an interview at his home Tuesday afternoon.

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Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, one of the recipients for the Association of Disabled Students Extra Mile Award, is one of the sorority houses on campus that is handicapped accessible.

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Guts Church pastor Bill Scheer preaches to members of Sub30, a Christian organization targeted to people under the age of 30, Monday evening at the Sooner Theatre.

men’s basketball games.“ Those two are the only

[sports] I really like and really care about,” Miller said. “When I got the football job full-time ... I walked away from everything else.”

Miller also said he makes it a point to stay profession-al in all of his announcing and stay away from the growing trend of yelling and being disrespectful to officials and players.

The job has allowed Miller to participate in im-portant events in OU’s history, such as the 2000 game against Nebraska, which Miller said was his favorite game to announce.

“They were ranked [No. 1], and we were ranked [No. 3], and we won the game,” Miller said. “The crowd stormed the field

and tore the goal posts down. The atmosphere was electric. That was the greatest game. That was the best moment.”

Miller also lent his voice to the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, announcing for the artistic gym-nastics competition.

Although Miller may be best known to OU fans for his voice, he actually spends much more

time as a writer. Miller’s primary job is writing a newspaper col-umn, Savvy Senior, that provides information for senior citizens, he said.

The segment began after Miller started writing the col-umn for Rivermont Independent

Living Community in Norman, which grew into a column syndi-cated to 400 newspapers across the country.

Miller also wrote a book of the same title and has been featured on talk shows and in several pub-lications, such as Time magazine and The New York Times. He also makes appearances on KFOR Channel 4 to give advice and talk

about certain products.“Savvy Seniors has been

the most gratifying thing,” Miller said. “I’ve been able to reach about 15 mil-lion people. I spend a ton of time on it. I take it very seriously.”

The column is Miller’s main focus, but he still wants to keep sports announcing as part of his life.

“[Announcing the games] is a privilege,” Miller said. “It’s a great honor to be able to do it. I will do it as long as they will have me, however long that is.”

have a church background, so to me this is how church should be. The approach of this church is, ‘come as you are, but hope-fully, you don’t leave the way you are.’”

After six weeks of services, Sub30 is attracting between 150 to 200 students.

Jarred Agimudie, chemical engineering freshman, said his friend invited him to the church.

“I really liked it,” Agimudie said. “It’s kind of contemporary, which I’m not really used to, but this is my second time here, so I’m coming back for it, I guess.”

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something that, often times, might go overlooked.”

Bober said making everyone feel welcome will require a lot of hard work from students who are disabled as well as from students who are not.

“I feel like everybody has an op-portunity to do everything the uni-versity has to offer,” Bober said. “And

if they need help, they need to feel confident that they can ask.”

Presented twice a semester, the Association of Disabled Students Extra Mile Award is an equal oppor-tunity award, Bober said. While the award is not a competitive award, provisions have been set in place to ensure that every student organiza-tion, Greek organization, student, or member of faculty/staff has an equal chance of being selected for the award, he said.

“It’s a great honor to be able to do it. I will do it as long as they will have me, however long that is.”

—JIM MILLER, OU FOOTBALL GAME ANNOUNCER

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Operation Red River Care to collect supplies for Afghan familiesJARED RADERDaily Staff Writer

Afghanistan will feel the heat of the Red River Rivalry this football season with Operation Red River Care.

Operation Red River Care does not involve military ac-tion or football games, however-it is a project created by OU alumna Capt. Katie Illingworth and University of Texas alum-nus Maj. Tobin Griffeth, to provide much-needed supplies for local Afghans using the spirit generated from the famous rivalry.

Griffeth and Illingworth, who were deployed to Afghanistan four months ago, are fiscal and contract lawyers supporting Operation Enduring Freedom’s Combined Joint Task Force 82 in the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan.

“There are a lot of issues concerning supplies that the Afghan families need,” Illingworth said. “It’s very Third World here.”

Illingworth said she and Griffeth enlisted the support of family and friends back home to donate items, such as clothes, school supplies and shoes, awarding points to each university for each package sent.

The two officers give the aid to Army Task Forces on the ground and chaplains of care organizations, who distribute it to villages across Afghanistan.

The University of Texas is currently leading 10-2 over OU, according to Illingworth, but OU students are looking to change that.

Hunter Morris, Illingworth’s brother and a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, is organizing the SAE pledge class to take the lead.

“We’ve had several members step up and take leadership roles,” said Morris, entrepreneurship senior. “We’re going to start trying to put out a couple boxes a week.”

Morris said all of the SAE pledge class and most members of the house will be involved.

“We’re going to roll out and get as many boxes delivered as we can,” he said.

Illingworth said she and Griffeth came up with the idea after chaplains told them they were having difficulty acquir-ing certain supplies for the local Afghans. She said Griffeth

often teased her about being an OU alum-na, and then they came up with the idea to use that rivalry to generate support.

“I’m a diehard Sooner fan, and our ri-valry with Texas generates a lot of energy,” Illingworth said. “We thought it would be great to direct that energy to helping peo-ple here.”

Samuel Huskey, associate professor of classics and letters, who taught Illingworth when she was a student at OU, said he has been spreading awareness of the project as well. Huskey said Illingworth has always been concerned with the needs of others.

“This seems just a natural extension of what she does,” Huskey said. “Even in the middle of a war, she’s thinking about the people who need help.”

Illingworth said the situation for local Afghans is very poor, with many families living in straw and mud huts.

“Afghan kids will come close to the base asking for food, and soldiers will often give out their extra meals to them,” she said. “There is a real crisis in terms of health care as well.”

Illingworth said that Afghans are generally very thankful for the donations, despite the negative perception many of them have of the U.S.

“A couple of situations of donating haven’t gone well,” Illingworth said. “But for the most part, they really are thankful.”

While the U.S. is divided over the war, which reached its eighth year Oct. 7, Illingworth said that students should get involved despite their opinions.

“There are always going to be people out there who think bullets and bombs aren’t the right answer,” Illingworth said. “This project is really an undisputable way to give and assist a nation that really needs this kind of charity and aid.”

She said the project was a personal endeavor between her and Griffeth, and it is not associated with the military or USAID.

“It’s not about the war in any way,” Huskey said. “It’s about helping people in a country who are suffering badly.”

Illingworth said she and Griffeth might spread the idea to other schools next football season.

“ESPN likes to cover stuff going on with the troops, so maybe we can shoot out to them,” she said.

The winner of the contest will be announced Dec. 3.

POLICE REPORTS

TODAYOU LIBRARIESBizzell Memorial Library will

have a book sale from 10

a.m. to 4 p.m. on the south

side of the Neustadt wing.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHYDick Nostrand, emeritus profes-

sor in geography, will give a

lecture about “Rebuilding El

Cerrito’s Schoolhouse” at 2

p.m. in Sarkeys Energy Center.

WRITING CENTER

The Writing Center will meet

with international students

who want to practice their

English conversational skills

at 3 p.m. in Wagner Hall.

OU LAB THEATREThe OU Lab Theatre will perform

“A Piece of My Heart” at 8 p.m. in

the Old Science Hall Lab Theatre.

TRANSFER STUDENT ADVISORY BOARDApplications for the the Transfer

Student Advisory Board are due by

5 p.m. in the Student Life offi ce of

the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

SATURDAYOU LAB THEATREThe OU Lab Theatre will perform



SUNDAYOU LAB THEATREThe OU Lab Theatre will perform



CAMPUS NOTESThe following is a list of arrests and citations, not convictions. The information is compiled from the Norman

Police Department and the OU Police Department. All those listed are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

CLEVELAND COUNTY DISTRICT WARRANTJoseph S. Graham, 22, 1300 Jenkins Ave., Wednesday

POSSESSION OF MARIJUANADustin Wade Barnes, 27, Webster Avenue, Tuesday

Sabrina Christine Kellogg, 40, 225 Chalmette Drive, Tuesday, also possession of con-

trolled dangerous substance and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia

Stacey Lynn Tadlock, 19, North Flood Avenue, Wednesday

SECOND DEGREE BURGLARYDouglas Duane Funderburk, 25, 315 E. Duffy St., Wednesday, also county warrant

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Katie Illingworth, an OU alumna, and Tobin Griffeth, a University of Texas alumnus, are both serving together in the United States Air Force in Afghanastan.

School rivalry to generate spirit for charity project

Operation Red River Care Rules:1. Send donations in Flat Rate Priority boxes. Each box counts as 1 point. Please do not send half-full boxes just for the point—they may not be counted. Boxes bigger than Priority count as 1 point and smaller than Priority count as ½ point.

2. Donations must arrive no later than three days prior to the Big 12 Championship game.

Items needed: Children’s clothes (especially for winter), men’s and boys’ clothes, school

supplies, blankets, shoes and basic toys.Please DO NOT send batteries, women’s clothes or religious items.Donations can be sent to:CJTF-82-OSJA APO AE 09354 Sooner fans: address to Katie Illingworth.

Include your name, organization and address so Illingworth and Griffeth can send you a certifi -cate of appreciation and let you know which team wins.

OPERATION RED RIVER CARE RULES

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Our long and arduous wait final-ly came to an end Sept. 28 — with much fanfare, OU IT unveiled its newest creation, the oZONE online “portal.”

I think we’re all still cel-ebrating. I mean, how could we not?

Just watch the video re-leased by OU interviewing students prior to the release of oZONE, available on the home page of the “portal.” One girl goes so far as to say she is “psyched” about the impending release of this magnificent Web site, while the others look as if they can barely contain their ecstasy.

They explain how much simpler and more enjoyable our lives will be with this new technology. No longer will we have to log in to every OU Web site we go to! Finally we can en-roll in our classes 24/7! At long last, we no longer have to spend hour after frustrating hour trying to find information about financial aid!

Unfortunately for oZONE, the only real problem that the vast majority of us had with any of OU’s Web sites was that Enroll somehow seemed to manage to be down literally every time we really needed it.

Thankfully, that problem has been fixed by the ‘portal.’ Enroll was too inconsistent. oZONE solves that — it is completely unusable regardless of when you log on!

If you haven’t tried the enrollment

portion of the new site yet, prepare to be amazed. The last time I used a site so spectacularly impossible to navigate, my mom was screaming

at me to get off the Internet because she had to make a phone call.

Because of this, I could not be more thankful that I only have to enroll in one class for next semester be-fore I graduate. Searching f o r t h e c l a s s u s i n g t h e exact title failed to return any results. The only way that I could find the one class I needed was to scroll

through the entire spring 2010 list of history offerings.

But hey, at least we can all find the page now because it’s in the ‘por-tal!’ I never could remember if the site that you enrolled on was called “Enroll” or “Learn” or “Craigslist.”

The other features of the site are re-dundant at the absolute best. It adds no new content, but does provide convenient links to highly sought-after pages like the OU Student Code and Faculty Handbook. For those of you who used to spend hours trying to get to that stuff, your prayers have finally been answered.

And now we are finally plugged into the “OU Community!” We are invited to relax with some blog called “Unwind.” I checked it out. Featured was a post which claimed that the Backstreet Boys’ latest album isn’t worth our money. Clearly they have

no credibility. There really isn’t a whole lot else

to see. I’ll concede that being automati-

cally logged in to every site at once is better than not, but how difficult is it to enter login information?

Plus, I rarely go to every OU site at once. Typically I just check my e-mail, or if I need to use Enroll or Learn I will go to those places. Only very rarely do I use three or four of the sites in one sitting, so the time saved from logging in is completely negligible.

I can’t figure out why it was neces-sary to spend an undoubtedly large amount of time and money to essen-tially compile a bunch of links and put them on a single page.

And any positive enjoyed by the new site is completely negated by the truly abominable new Enroll in-terface. How anyone could possibly take a look at that system and find it worth a dime is beyond me.

The only problem with the old Enroll site was that it was unable to be accessed during many times stu-dents wanted to use it. Unlike the new one, though, when it was up it actually made sense. The layout was clear and easy to navigate.

Unless large changes can be made with the enrollment interface quick-ly, the oZONE system creates far more problems than it is worth.

Henry Martin is a history senior.

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In the article, “Flavored cigarette ban affects local store,” Dillon Summers is quoted as saying, “Youth were not even the target audience,” and “I don’t see how it’s a big deal with younger people.”

Maybe the big deal is that it will cost Oklahoma $1.6 billion in smoking-related diseases. Maybe it is the fact that 3,600 youth (at age 14 on average) smoke their fi rst cigarette every day. Or maybe it’s the 400,000 deaths that will occur this year as a result of tobacco use.

Are you fi nally ready to take off your rose-tinted glasses?The purpose of fl avored cigarettes is to target youths and gain

more replacement smokers. Big Tobacco has been quoted many times saying this, which

proves its intention to target youth is clear. These quotes include, “The base of our business is the high school student,” or, “It’s a well-known fact that teenagers like sweet products. Honey might be considered,” and “Students are tremendously loyal.” Then again, this isn’t surprising because these are the guys who said that “Gummy Bears are as addictive as cigarettes.”

Every day, the tobacco industry targets youth with various mar-keting techniques such as fl avored cigarettes, enticing youths to use the only product, which used as intended, kills its user.

It sucks knowing that thousands of preventable deaths will happen this year due to cigarettes, secondhand smoke and other tobacco products.

Joshua TropePolitical science sophomore Students Working Against Tobacco

THIS LETTER IS IN RESPONSE TO CAMERON MASINGALE’S TUESDAY COLUMN, “EDUCATION SYSTEM WOULD NOT BENEFIT FROM REMEDIAL-PACED TEACHING FOR LONGER PERIODS.”

While in part I am with Cameron on his opinion to not lengthen the school year, I am a little disappointed about the rash general-izations and faulty extended analogies that he uses to construct his argument.

He works from the point that “Asian” (an incredibly unspe-cifi c term) school years are shorter than those in the U.S., but “students in these countries tend to get better grades.” Cameron believes the reason to be “content.” And it very well may be; how-ever, labeling the gap in test scores between Asia and the U.S. as a byproduct of content ignores the subtle nuances and a whole host of external factors (budgets being one) at play surrounding education policy and implementation.

Cameron then moves into the analogy of a boss not allowing a worker extra hours to “fi gure something out.” He makes the point that since the workplace does not center on the concept of extra time for slower workers than school systems should not either.

Extended analogies, such as this one, always break down. Sure, a boss would not allow extra time for slower workers; busi-ness needs to be completed in a timely manner. But, to follow Cameron’s analogy, I am not sure a boss would allow his or her workers to disappear for three months a year over the summer, three to four weeks during the winter months and one week in March.

Trying to draw an analogy between the workplace and the edu-cation sphere is slippery ground; if we begin to think primary and secondary schools as capitalistic enterprises, things get down right scary.

But in the end, I appreciate Cameron’s position. I appreciate that people are thinking critically about political policy, espe-cially when it deals with our schools. I just ask for more nuanced and thoughtful opinions instead of rushed generalizations.

J. Michael RifenburgEnglish graduate student

oZONE student portal misses mark with minimal pluses

ABORTION INFORMATION LAW UNNECESSARY AND INTRUSIVE

Beth Pearcy is an architecture junior.

The Oklahoma State Legislature passed a bill in April stat-ing, beginning Nov. 1, physicians will be required to provide the state government with specific information on each abor-tion they perform.

According to an article on the Tulsa World’s Web site, House Bill 1595 will require physicians to report: the woman’s age, marital status, education level, number of previous pregnancies, reason for the abortion, method of abortion and payment, cost of the abortion, type of medical health insurance, the nature of her relationship with the father and whether or not an ultrasound was given before the abortion was performed.

The information will also be posted on a state government Web site.

The information will help lawmakers know how many abortions are being performed in the state so they can pos-sibly adjust policies and reduce the number of abortions in Oklahoma, Rep. Dan Sullivan, R-Tulsa, stated in a press release found on the Oklahoma House of Representative’s Web site.

We think this bill is completely unnecessary and will create an atmosphere of big brother government.

Women should not be required to provide the government with this type of information. It could make women feel uncomfortable and possibly alter their decision to abort.

Although a physician is not required to provide the wom-an’s name, it might not be hard for someone in a small com-munity, which exist all over Oklahoma, to figure out who has or has not had an abortion.

We also feel this law is an attempt to push the state legisla-ture’s political agenda onto the women of Oklahoma.

Physicians are not required to provide the state govern-ment with specific information on other medical procedures, so why should this one be different?

There will no doubt be women who are alienated by this kind of interference into their medical and personal lives and will go out of their way and drive out of state to have the procedure.

Laws aren’t typically made for conducting research. But if this kind of research truly needs to be conducted in Oklahoma,

researchers and sociologists should provide women with voluntary surveys instead of the government requiring their personal information.

We can usually understand the reasoning behind a law, but we feel this law is completely unnecessary, intrusive and is being used as a political tool to limit women’s options.

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OU attempts to rebound against Baylor

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ERIC DAMADaily Staff Writer

Game Essentials:What: Baylor (3-1, 0-0 Big 12) vs. No. 19 OU (2-2, 0-0 Big

12)When: Saturday, 2:30 p.m.Location: Norman, Okla.Venue: Gaylord-Family Oklahoma Memorial StadiumTV: ABC

Quick Facts:– OU has won all previous 18 meetings with Baylor, in-

cluding 10 in Norman.– OU is 7-6 in Big 12 conference openers, and 7-3 under

Stoops.– OU is 28-5 all-time against teams currently in the ACC

conference.

Key Matchup: OU’s passing offense vs. Baylor’s pass defense. The Sooners’ receiving corps took a big hit when it was

announced sophomore wide receiver Ryan Broyles will be out two to four weeks because of a shoulder injury suffered last week against Miami.

The Bears enter Saturday’s game with the No. 19 pass defense in the country, giving up only 166 yards in the air per game. Redshirt freshman quarterback Landry Jones will need solid performances from receivers Brandon Caleb and Cameron Kenney to make up for the loss of Broyles, who has by far been OU’s leading receiver this season.

However, Baylor itself may not be putting up too many points Saturday, as the Bears look to be down to their third-string quarterback (freshman Nick Florence), and starting running back Jay Finley has missed the last two games.

Players to Watch: OU: Junior running back DeMarco Murray. Murray is

OU’s leading rush this year and is averaging 5.4 yards per carry. On the ground he has gained 299 yards and rushed for three touchdowns. He also has 109 receiving yards and one touchdown reception.

Junior defensive back Jeremy Beal. With six sacks in four games, Beal has a shot at the OU season record of 14.

Baylor: Sophomore wide receiver Kendall Wright. Capable of playing both running back and wide receiver, Wright led the team in all receiving categories as a freshman

last year. This year he is averaging 13.4 yards a catch and has two touchdowns.

Senior linebacker Joe Pawelek. The San Antonio native is the nation’s leading active career tackler (313). So far this year he has recorded 39 tackles, 2.5 sacks and one interception.

They said it:– Head coach Bob Stoops on Baylor: “When you look at

their team, in every category statistically, they are better. They’ve improved, they are playing really good defense overall. Even working through the quarterback injuries, like we have had to, they have still managed to be very produc-tive offensively.”

– Offense coordinator Kevin Wilson on the offensive’s play this season: “We’ve been battling. We’ve been close. We’ve been disappointed twice in two close games. As much

as anything it’s been our execution, our planning, and our preparation that’s gotten us where we are. We’re close. We need to plug it in, do it the right way, and roll out in a strong way.”

– Sophomore defensive back Sam Proctor: “We have to play all four quarters. Sometimes we come out and might play three good quarters but if you have a letdown in the fourth quarter, that’s what people are going to remember. They’re not going to remember the first two interceptions or the tackles. Our inconsistency is about finishing the game all four quarters.”

– Freshman offensive lineman Ben Habern on having two losses by one point: “We feel like a couple things just didn’t go our way and if they did we would have won the game. So that’s difficult but at the same time it’s our fault. We didn’t play to our best ability and we have to take that into factor against Baylor and Texas and the teams to come.”

TOBI NEIDYDaily Staff Writer

OU soccer continues Big 12 action on the road this week-end to face the Iowa State Cyclones at 7 p.m. tonight in Ames, Iowa. The Sooners (6-6-1,1-3) will wrap up the weekend trav-el against the Nebraska Cornhuskers at 1 p.m. Sunday.

The Cyclones are 6-3-4,1-2 after wins against Oklahoma State (2-1) and Northern Iowa (1-0). Iowa State also leads the all-time series against the Sooners, 8-3-2. The Sooners remain winless (0-6-1) in Ames.

Sunday’s matchup against Nebraska will feature the top two goal scorers in the country. Nebraska’s Morgan Marlborough and OU’s Whitney Palmer will be the key play-ers to watch in the contest. Palmer is currently tied for second on OU’s all time scoring list with 26 goals and ranks second on the Sooner’s single- season scoring list with 12 goals, which is currently second in the nation.

The Huskers are 7-2-3 for the season, including a 1-1-1 record in Big 12 play. The Huskers are also coming off a pair of wins last weekend against Oklahoma State (2-0) and Wisconsin-Green Bay (3-1).

A win this weekend will break OU’s four game road losing streak. OU will be back home next weekend to face Kansas at 7 p.m. Oct. 16 and Missouri at 1 p.m. Oct. 18.

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Junior running back DeMarco Murray runs the ball into the end zone for a touchdown during the Sooner’s game against the Tulsa Golden Hurricane Sept.19. Murray is the leading rusher for the Sooners so far this season with 299 yards and three touchdowns.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Don’t pretend that serious issues will rectify themselves without you taking the appropriate action to eliminate them. Be realistic about those things that are severely affecting your personal interests.

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History gets a lot more personal in the quietly moving “A Piece of My Heart,” now on stage at OU Lab

Theatre through Sunday. Led by a talented sextet of actresses, this ensemble drama sheds light on an undeser vingly obscure corner of a major event in America’s his-tory — women who ser ved in Vietnam.

More than 265,000 women served in the Vietnam War, according to the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation, and “A Piece of My Heart” asks us to imagine just six of them. The play, written by Shirley Lauro, is based on a book by Keith Walker that recounts the true-life tales of women Vietnam veterans.

Presented mostly in rapidly in-tersecting monologues, “A Piece of My Heart” paints a vivid picture of women not necessarily united by proximity, but by common experi-ence — a piece of each her heart will not only be connected to her time in Vietnam, but also to others in some way.

Each filled with at least a small slice of idealism, three military nurses (musical theater senior Marisha Castle, drama junior Jessie Downs, drama sophomore Anna Fearheiley), an officer (drama sophomore Candace Chéri Jordan),

a Red Cross volunteer (drama se-nior Mary Black) and a folk singer (drama senior Lindsey Newell) are all plunged into the horrors of war.

Their lives are changed by what they witness and their shattered ex-pectations. Some fall for men they end up losing, and some find them-selves disrespected and violated by men, either sexually or intellectual-ly. (The revolving door of male roles is filled by drama senior Jonathan Hooks-Abadom and drama junior Ross Johnson.)

The return home to the United States turns out to be even more dif-ficult in some ways, as each has to come to grips with how she’s been fundamentally changed by war.

At Wednesday night’s opening performance, the show’s palpable tension was undermined by a first act filled with sloppy execution. The rapid-fire nature of the show, with characters jumping in quickly one after another, resulted in actors stepping on other actors’ lines and lighting that couldn’t seem to keep pace.

Fortunately, things felt much more assured in the second act with a more stable sense of blocking and less chaos.

Even through the first act difficul-ties, the small ensemble shined with each actress pulling equal weight in a cast with some OU theater heavy-weights. I expected good things from the naturally affable Downs and the talented Black and Newell, all of whom have excelled in various

productions, but the rest of the cast kept up just fine.

Castle, normally found in musi-cal comedies, showed some serious dramatic chops as an impassioned anti-war hippie, and sophomores Fearheiley and Jordan showed us what we have to look forward to in the future of OU theater with their

steady performances.Directed by Lou Antonio, an

OU alum with experience with heavyweights like Elia Kazan and Elizabeth Taylor, “A Piece of My Heart” effectively uses stark, mini-malist imagery and the confidence of its cast to create an involving production.

“A Piece of My Heart” is on stage at OU Lab Theatre in Beatrice Carr Wallace Old Science Hall. Performances are 8 p.m. tonight and Saturday, and 3 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for students.

Dusty Somers is a journalism senior.

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A scene from “A Piece of My Heart,” a theater production that focuses on the lives of six women in the Vietnam War.

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‘TOY STORY 3-D’ REVIEW

I’m not much for buy-ing into obvious marketing strategies, but how cynical can you be when it comes to delightful talking toys that simply want to be a kid’s best friend?

The “Toy Story 3-D” double feature’s two-week engage-ment is a smart piece of advanced adver tising to keep raising excitement for the upcoming “Toy Story 3,” to be released in summer 2010 and will also be fea-tured in 3-D.

For the price of one ticket, you get to see both “Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2,” both shining gems in Pixar’s impressive oeuvre, and the 3-D facelift both fi lms have been treated to allows for a whole new perspective.

I’m less than enthusiastic about the wave of 3-D mad-ness sweeping Hollywood these days — I get it; 3-D surcharges are a nice boon for financially struggling studios — but the immersive atmosphere created in both “Toy Story” fi lms showed new details I hadn’t ever noticed watching the movies in the-aters as a kid, or the many subsequent VHS viewings.

Environments look fresh, detailed backgrounds are much more noticeable and character animation reveals never-before-seen details — I never realized Buzz Lightyear’s wings were trans-lucent before.

Pixar has made leaps in progress in regards to its animation capabilities since “Toy Story,” its fi rst feature-length fi lm, came out almost 15 years ago, but reminded of my first time seeing it, I was in awe all over again.

The double feature is only in theaters one more week, and even with several excel-lent new options in theaters, “Toy Story” is the best bet out of them all.

-Dusty Somers/The Daily

POOLAW EXHIBIT TO BE ON DISPLAY AT THE JACOBSON HOUSE NATIVE ARTS CENTER As the doors to the Jacobson House Native Arts Center open at 6 p.m. Friday, attendees will fi nd themselves immersed in a world of Native American culture. The works of Native American artist Thomas Poolaw and the photography of his grandfa-ther, Horace Poolaw, will be on display at the exhibit, located at 609 Chautauqua Ave. “Horace Poolaw is considered the first Native American photographer,” said Yvonne Tiger, graduate student of Native American

Studies and curator of the Poolaw exhibit. “His work is important to Native Americans on a historical, spiritual and inspirational level.” Tiger chose to base the exhibit on the Poolaws, an exit requirement for her gradu-ate program, after a history class in which her professor had Thomas Poolaw come as a guest speaker. Poolaw, an OU alumnus, began painting at an early age. Inspired by his grandfather, Poolaw continued to pursue a career in paint-

ing. Today, Poolaw has had his art exhibited all around the world. He currently has works displayed in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, the Southern Plains Indian Museum, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian collection. The Poolaw exhibit at the Jacobson House Native Arts Center will run from Oct. 9 through Nov. 19.

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“By 2013, 100% of OU’s purchased

electricity will come from

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—OU PRESIDENT DAVID BOREN


We all feel a little lost at sea from time to time with school, but tonight the earthy,

acoustic folk music of Great Lake Swimmers might help you grab some footing when they drift into town.

The CAC Concert Series, Norman Arts Council, Union Programming Board and Neptunz Ltd. will present Great Lake Swimmers with The Wooden Birds tonight in Meacham Auditorium in the Oklahoma Memorial Union, free of charge. Doors

will open at 7:30 p.m. with the show beginning at 8.

Great Lake Swimmers is one of the pre-miere folk-rock groups strumming today. Hailing from Canada, the band has taken the natural, scenic surrounding they grew up in and found a way to translate it into lush acous-tic melodies.

GLS has found a whole new level of success following the release of their newest album, “Lost Channels,” including the opportunity to play for Bob Boilen’s Tiny Desk on NPR, being interviewed by Brian Williams and having “Lost Channels” short-listed for the Polaris Music Prize, an award given out to the best album recorded by a Canadian artist each year.

The Wooden Birds is more of an upstart band, though its leader, Andrew Kenny, is well-known for his mellow indie tunes with his previous band, American Analog Set, and projects with Ben Gibbard and Broken Social

Scene. Its debut album, “Magnolia,” was re-leased to critical praise for its stripped-down beauty and simplicity.

The two bands find parallels beyond their similarly crafted folk melodies. The song-writ-ing process for both bands involved building around the solo material of their GLS and Wooden Birds respective leaders, Tony Dekker and Kenny.

The simple approach works, Kenny be-lieves it might be too simple.

“I’m a fan first. So when I write, I just try to make music that I like. It should be more com-plicated than thisbut it isn’t,” Kenny said.

And the simple approach seems to lead to a more personal touch with the songs as well, as he is inspired by what he knows.

“[My inspirations] are mostly the people I meet. I like writing about people. I don’t follow politics and nobody wants to hear songs about food or buildings,” Kenny said.

Both bands certainly seem to be in tune with the natural, personal world around them, and the songs definitely benefit from that qual-ity of connectedness. The sound of the music comes off as warm and immediate for a won-derful escape from the bleak, misty weather that we’ve been shrouded in all week.

If you are looking for a brief escape from a world of fluttering book pages, crammed note sheets and cold silence, you should saunter over to Meacham Auditorium to fill your ears with some natural, lovely acoustic melodies courtesy of Great Lake Swimmers and the Wooden Birds for just the boost you need to get through another week.Joshua Boydston is a psychology sophomore.

JOSHUABOYDSTON

FOLK FAVORITES COME TO NORMAN

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Great Lake Swimmers pose for a photo. The folk band will play tonight in Norman.

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