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• Sophomore sees future as a baseball trainer

RENEÉ SELANDERS

The Oklahoma Daily

The bench might not be the most desired spot for a mem-ber of the baseball team, but the dugout is one of Pamela Carroll’s favorite spots.

In her third semester as a stu-dent athletic trainer, Carroll, pubic relations sophomore, spends approximately 40 hours a week working with the OU baseball team’s 35 players.

The hours are long, but it’s Carroll’s love of the sport, dedica-tion to the players on the team and her goal of working for Major League Baseball that keeps her committed to her job, she said.

Her love for baseball started at a young age when she would watch her cousin’s games. She began her experience as a student athletic trainer for the football and baseball teams at Union High School in Tulsa.

“I’ve grown up with baseball,” she said. “When I started athletic training in high school, I asked for baseball and they put me on it, and I just loved it. I loved being in the dugout, I loved getting to know the guys on that level, and that’s really when I was like, ‘I want to work with the MLB, I don’t really care what I’m doing.’”

After taking a break from ath-

letic training her first semester at OU, Carroll returned to athletic training in spring 2008 because she missed the experience. She spent that semester as an athletic trainer in OU’s general athletic training room, learning the basics

of general first aid, icing and wrap-ping injuries, and learning how to operate and administer electrical stimulation, a pain relieving treat-ment for athletes, she said.

Now the baseball team’s stu-dent athletic trainer, she works

under the guidance of certified athletic trainer Robert Fulton. Carroll said she is back to work-ing with the sport she loves.

Working as the team’s student trainer and being the only female in the dugout presents an interesting

dynamic, Carroll said. Helping the 40 players and coaches since last fall’s off-season, Carroll formed friendships with team members. She said it’s as though she has

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game against the Houston Huskies on March 10. Carroll started working as an athletic trainer during her freshman year.

• Report ranks Oklahoma among the worst in child homelessness

LEIGHANNE MANWARREN

The Oklahoma Daily

The nearly 6,000 homeless children in Oklahoma puts the state among the worst in the nation, according to a recent report.

The National Center on Family Homelessness recently ranked Oklahoma at 47th for child homelessness and 31st in its current state policies to combat the rising homeless subgroup — homeless families and children.

According to the center’s 2009 report, “America’s Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness,” there

are an estimated 5,592 homeless children in Oklahoma.But the state isn’t alone in its child homelessness prob-

lem. According to the report, one in 50 American children is homeless. Oklahoma is one of 24 states to have received an “inadequate” grade from the center, based on state efforts to decrease the number of children on the streets. Connecticut is the top-ranked state overall, while Texas was ranked last.

Homeless families and children are a growing problem in Oklahoma, but most are unaware of it because people don’t typically see homeless families on the streets, said Ellen Bassuk, president of the National Center on Family Homelessness.

“When we think of homelessness, we think of the ste-

Homeless children unseen victims of recession

• Stimulus money includes $2.5 billion for education

WILL HOLLAND

The Oklahoma Daily

EDITORS NOTE: The Daily’s Will Holland participated in a conference call with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to discuss President Barack Obama’s vision for the future of educa-tion in the United States.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urged state and local education officials to be creative and use the money they

receive from the federal stimulus package wisely while discussing President Barack Obama’s goals for preschool to college education.

The federal administration’s budget focuses on improving education at three levels, Duncan said during a conference call Wednesday.

“This budget addresses our three major buckets of work: early childhood, K to 12, and then the huge emphasis on really transforming access and opportunity to [the] higher education side,” he said.

Duncan said the administration is plac-ing an emphasis on higher education to create more opportunities for those who might not be able to afford it.

“The idea of dramatically, dramatical-ly increasing access and opportunity to

college, millions more students literally receiving billions of additional dollars is huge,” he said. “And as you guys so well know, at a time when going to college has never been more important, it’s also never been more expensive.”

The administration is also aiming to increase the percentage of students who participate in graduate college because more participants would improve the nation’s workforce, Duncan said.

The federal package includes $2.5 bil-lion to help states work with their local colleges and universities to improve grad-uation percentages, he said. The $2.5 bil-lion will be dispersed over five years, the first being distributed early next week.

The administration will see how school districts use the first round of funds to

determine which districts will get addi-tional funding, Duncan said.

“And states that are simply investing the status quo will put themselves at a tremendous competitive disadvantage for getting those additional funds,” he said.

Duncan said he would like to see local officials use the money in the best and most creative ways possible.

“We’re going to do everything we can to make sure every single dollar is spent wisely,” he said. “This is tax payers’ dol-lars.”

OU faculty members are already think-ing of ways to use the stimulus money the school receives. Members of the College of Engineering have made proposals to

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Rank based on average of reading and math profi ciencies

(elementary and high school): 1st

Extent of child homelessness based on number of homeless

children: 17th

Rank based on composite health score (including general

health, asthma, dental health and emotional disturbance): 13th

Rank based on food security: 43rd

Risk for child homelessness rank: 47th

State policy and planning: Inadequate

Oklahoma’s verall ranking: 31st

Source: National Center on Family Homelessness

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use the funding for projects like the development of electric vehi-

cles.Duncan also discussed the

importance of improving education at the kindergarten-through-12th grade levels by rewarding teacher excellence, including incentives for good teachers who choose to teach difficult subjects in tough

locations.“What the president so

clearly understands is abso-lute link between dramati-cally improving the quality of education and ultimately strengthening our economy,“ he said.

reotype — an individual living on the streets, under a bridge,” Bassuk said. “People do not know that there is an invisible subgroup to the homeless population, the families with small children.”

But the causes of homelessness tend to differ for families, the fast-est-growing demographic in central Oklahoma’s homeless population, said Dan Straughan, executive director of Homeless Alliance, an Oklahoma City non-profit group whose goal is to end long-term homelessness.

“In individual circumstances, roughly 48 percent of homeless people are because of mental dis-ability, illegal drug abuse or both,” he said. “However, with families, the root cause tends to be eco-nomic hardships.”

But one of the reasons people might not notice homeless children in the state is because of their attempts to fit in with classmates, said Debra Krittenbrink, executive director of Bridges, a Norman non-profit group that aims to help high school students find housing or pay for school.

“A lot of times, we get most of our students because their school counselors noticed they are wash-ing themselves at school, or they confide in them that something is wrong,” she said. “Most of the time,

these students are too proud to ask for help, and because they are able to look like everyone else, they become invisible.”

Fewer homeless students will remain invisible this year, though.

More students have filed housing requests this year than ever before, possibly because of the recession, Krittenbrink said.

“Before most of the cause was due to meth. Now the root problem has changed,” Krittenbrink said. “More families are starting to send their students to us for help.”

Krittenbrink said homeless high school students don’t resemble the stereotypical homeless adult.

“A lot of times, people think of homeless students as directionless, but really they want fit in and be successful and are very motivated to do so,” she said. “With help, they can achieve a lot, and they have a maturity there from what they have been through that others don’t have.”

In the report, the center suggest-ed solutions like a long-term, state-wide plan to end homelessness and a state government agency on the issue.

But Straughan said Oklahoma established a statewide plan to end homelessness, after Gov. Brad Henry created the Interagency Council on Homelessness in con-junction with the national agency in 2007.

The state’s numbers may be escalating because of Oklahoma’s own economic demographics.

“I believe the big reason why we have such a hard time dealing with homelessness is because we are a state with poor people,” Straughan said. “With so many people in pov-erty, there are no long-term fixes.”

Bassuk said that while there is no hard data from the past six months, the center has received numerous reports from schools around the country detailing how the population of homeless chil-dren is rising.

“Historically, in times of reces-sion, homelessness increases,” she said. “With the huge economic downturn now, this is a very scary situation for a lot of people.”

Bassuk said she hopes the pub-lic will become more aware of the issue after media on Tuesday asked President Barack Obama what should be done in response to the report.

“At least, it is now being talked about and people are acknowledg-ing that it is a problem,” she said.

• Historic home considered architectural landmark

HANNAH RIEGER

The Oklahoma Daily

A world-renowned architectur-al landmark crafted by an OU art professor in the red dirt and prairie grass is getting new life and public attention.

The Bavinger House in east Norman, a unique structure of glass, stone and 200 tons of iron-stone, was designed by Bruce Goff and built by Eugene Bavinger in the early 1950s. It has attracted archi-tecture enthusiasts and designers from across the country.

The house is constructed in a spiraling floor plan with unconven-tional features like circular rooms, an indoor stream that once housed live fish, and a bridge connecting outdoors. Stairs and living areas are suspended from a single col-umn running through the middle of the structure and an art studio on the fourth floor.

The house has won many archi-tecture awards, including top hon-ors from the American Institute of Architects, and is listed in the Oklahoma Historical Society.

Goff directed the school of archi-tecture from 1947-1955. Eugene Bavinger, who died in 1997, joined the art school faculty in 1947, where he taught painting, drawing and design for the next 33 years, son Bob Bavinger said.

“Some architects feel it is the birthplace of sustainability,” Bavinger said. “The fact that it com-bines nature and incredible archi-tecture really makes it unique.”

The house, which was home to Nancy and Eugene Bavinger for 48 years, has been vacant for almost a decade and is in need of renova-tions, Bavinger said. The family opened the home to annual tours

in the 1960s and 1970s.Growing up in such a well-

known house, Bavinger met an array of people, including mem-bers of former President Jimmy Carter’s administration and author Albert Albee.

Now, Bavinger is preparing another generation to take over. He and his son are renovating the house, hoping to again open it to the public. Their plans include expanding the parking lot and cleaning up the landscape.

“We just want to open the house up for tourism and education, to fulfill the wish of Nancy and Gene,” Bavinger said.

The house is one of only a handful of places in Oklahoma on the national register of Historic Places, said Susan Atkinson, City of Norman historic preservation planner.

“Some people consider it a national treasure,” Bavinger said. “We just try to keep the house true to its architecture.”

Bavinger House re-opens to publicadded 40 brothers to her family.

“At first, everyone’s really timid around me,” she said. “They kind of watch what they say, they watch what they do, but now it’s gotten to the point where it doesn’t even matter, they’ll say whatever’s on their mind. It’s like I’m one of the guys now.”

Fulton said Carroll’s positive atti-tude is what makes her interaction with the players work so well.

“It really brings the best out in our guys,” Fulton said. “When you’re around 40 guys and 40 guys get together, it gets a little crazy at times, so I think Pam can settle them down a little bit just by her presence.”

OU pitcher Stephen Porlier, mul-tidisciplinary senior, said Carroll’s optimism, dedication and willing-ness to help the team during ther-apy and to help recovering players with rehabilitation is what makes her not only an asset to the team,

but a great trainer.Porlier, who was recovering

from a shoulder injury, said he was not able to travel with the team to away games. He said Carroll was always available to help recovering players with therapy when the rest of the team was gone.

“She ranks up there as one of

the top trainers of my five-year career, because I’ve been at Tulane University and I’ve been at Oklahoma, and I feel like I’ve seen it all,” Porlier said. “Definitely over everyone, over all the trainers that I’ve had, she’d be the one that I’d want in our dugout.”

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house that remains unchanged. Eugene Bavinger, former OU school of art

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• Instructor volunteers time, travels around the world

RICKY MARANON

The Oklahoma Daily

If you’re looking for a true story of travel, intrigue and war, just find Maureen Taylor.

Taylor has studied in some of the most war-torn regions of the world, like Darfur and Bosnia. She came to OU in 2007 after accept-ing an endowed chairmanship at the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Her international research trips are more than just data collection. Her work helps organizations and govern-ments make sure their international humanitarian aid is actually working.

“I try to help them use social sci-ence methods to show people what they have accomplished,” she said.

Taylor first volunteered to do inter-national research for the federal gov-ernment in 1997.

“It was a good situation for me,” she said. “The organizations that hire

me get the reports they want, and in return, I get to keep the data I collect, which is good for my career, as well.”

The journey beginsTaylor went to Bosnia shortly after

the end of the Yugoslav civil war in 1995 and taught for a semester at the University of Sarajevo as a Fulbright scholar.

“I was there after the war when everything was getting in step again, and that had an impact on me,” she said.

Taylor would spend weekends with the U.S. ambassador, shoveling dirt and sand off houses that were shelled during the war.

“The fact that I was able to help one family come back home was [heart warming] to me because as you dug through the sand and dirt, you would find a teacup or toy,” Taylor said.

A lingering aspect of her time in Bosnia is the memory of land mines, which were hidden throughout the area. She said she still finds it hard to convince herself to walk on grass whether in Bosnia, France or even on campus.

Thanksgiving in AfricaIn fall 2007, Taylor was a part of

a group funded by the University of Pennsylvania to study displaced peo-ple in Darfur.

She recalls her international col-leagues and local guide wanting to treat her to a special meal on Thanksgiving. With only two restau-rants in town, and one being open but out of food, the guide led the group to the local market.

“I would say my favorite exotic food I’ve eaten is locusts,” she said.

Taylor said the locusts, cooked with their eyes, wings and legs still attached, were sun dried and then fried in oil and salt.

“I’ll never forget going to a meeting with U.N. ambassadors with a wing stuck in my back teeth,” she said.

She said she now takes tuna fish and peanut butter with her on interna-tional research trips.

“Darfur is staying with me because it is the hardest place I’ve ever had to go,” she said. “I always thought that I was adventurous, but Darfur taught me that there really are places that really are dangerous.”

Her discussion of Darfur was dark-ened by grief as she received word Wednesday that a colleague was shot and killed there.

Moving onTaylor recently returned from

a spring break trip to the Middle East.

“I went to Jordan to help a gov-

ernment agency of 3,000 bureau-crats become more organized and set up a communication campaign to help the public know what they are doing,” she said.

Taylor will continue to work on that project in upcoming months.

“My experiences are not horrible, but when you do crisis research management, you have to be flex-ible,” she said.

Taylor said her field is like a window and a mirror because she gets to see other cultures, and after viewing those cultures she is able to reflect and examine American values and methods. Taylor says she is motivated to continue her work overseas and at OU because of her desire to see her colleagues and students excel.

“I feel I’m a better teacher, researcher and American because I go overseas,” she said.

Gaylord professor collects research, memories

Amy Frost/The Daily

Maureen Taylor, communications professor, looks over an international

newspaper in her office Wednesday. Taylor has spent time traveling

around the world, including trips to Bosnia and Darfur.

The OU Board of Regents approved Wednesday the

purchase of fi ve new CART buses fueled by compressed

natural gas and the appointment of Richard Taylor as Dean to

the Weitzenhoff er Family College of Fine Art, said Catherine

Bishop, vice president of public aff airs.

The Parking and Transportation Services for the Norman

Campus requested the replacement of three diesel-fueled

buses and the addition of two new buses to accommodate

an increasing number of riders, according to the Regents’

agenda.

Taylor has been an interim director of the College of Fine

Arts since June 2008. As Dean, Taylor’s plans to increase

scholarship funding, create new programs and work vwith

Oklahoma’s public schools to promote art education through-

out the state, according to the agenda.

The Regents also approved the revised design plans and

the $8.5 million budget for the Schusterman Center Library

and Learning Center project in Tulsa, Bishop said.

The design and budget were readdressed due to an

increase in cost estimates, according to the Regent’s agenda.

The revised facility will include group study rooms, reading

areas and an information gallery.

OU President David Boren announced a $5 million gift for

the OU School of Social Work, Bishop said. The gift came from

the Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation of Tulsa as a way

to celebrate Henry Zarrow’s 93rd birthday. The gift will go

toward constructing a new building for the School of Social

Work.

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Cart buses pick up students south of Adams Hall on the South Oval. During Wednesday’s meeting in Oklahoma City,

regents approved CART upgrades.

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It has been said repeatedly in the media that President Barack Obama is a commit-ted Christian, the type that actually lives out the teachings of Jesus as opposed to just claiming Christianity.

Last semester, OU professor Barbara Boyd mentioned people with this view in an opinion article. Ed Dobson, former

pastor and vice president of spiritual formation at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Mich., voiced the same opinion in an interview with ABC.

Obama even refers to himself as such on his Web sites. This is hard to believe, however, based on his definition of sin and how he will force others to sin based on that defini-

tion.In an interview in 2004, Obama defined

sin as anything that goes against his val-ues.

This seems contrary to any historical Christian definition of sin, which generally defines sin as going against the values of God.

According to the historical teachings of Christianity, Obama is committing the same sin that Satan did by elevating his own values above those of God. This would place him on a status higher than

God, thus declaring himself as his own god. That is a view that does not coincide with what Jesus taught.

For the moment, however, let us assume his definition of sin holds.

With this definition in mind, it is inter-esting that he will force others to commit sin.

An example of this is how he wants to pass the Freedom of Choice Act. Obama once claimed this would be one of the first pieces of legislation he would sign into law as president.

If allowed to pass, this act would do away with a clause that allows doctors and hospitals to abstain from performing abor-tions if it goes against their consciences. It would also force taxpayers to pay for many abortions, whether they want to or not.

Many taxpayers, and doctors, consider an abortion to be hideous, legalized mur-der, yet Obama wants to require them to be a part of it.

Would a true follower of Jesus force doctors and others to act against their consciences, thus committing a horrible sin according to his definition?

Doctors will have a choice, though. They can give up their practice or choose to perform abortions. Many Catholic doctors and hospitals have already spoken about this issue.

It is a matter of enough importance

that Catholic hospitals will stop operat-ing if this bill is passed and enforced. Considering this represents more than one-eighth of the nation’s hospitals and healthcare facilities, this cannot be taken lightly. It is not hard to imagine some of the possible ramifications that this would have on an already faltering economy and health care system.

This bill is designed to create division in a country that Obama is supposed to unite with his ideals and hope.

It is hard to find hope, though, in a per-son who has promised to bring disunity to this country.

He was elected on promises that he would bring unity and peace. Instead, he wants to divide and alienate. Many peo-ple say Obama promotes peace and love. Forcing people to commit sins, however, only promotes hate.

From Obama’s belief and how he wishes to act on it, it seems hard to believe that he is a truly devoted Christian.

In the Bible, the place to look for what actually constitutes being a Christian, it says a person following Christ will obey God’s commands.

This provides a different definition for sin than Obama’s. People should be more careful in who they label as a Christian.

Charles Collins is a mechanical engi-neering senior.

In more optimistic times, one might have hoped the outrage displayed by Congress and some members of the general population over the American International Group (AIG) scandal marks a turning point.

Sadly, this is not the case.

The latest overreac-tion by the Democrat-controlled Congress amounts to nothing more than a populist backlash with the over-all intent to increase the size and scope of the federal government.

Unless your spring break itinerary includ-ed a week-long stay on some deserted island, you have heard all about the recent bailout scandal, in which government-controlled AIG paid out $165 million in bonuses to some of its employees. The reaction in the halls of Congress – shrill hypocrisy disguised as legitimate moral outrage – is absolutely disgusting.

The $165 million total sounds like a lot of money – and it certainly is to folks like you and me. However, considering AIG

has received in excess of $182 billion in bailout funding, $165 million doesn’t even register. It represents barely nine ten-thousandths of a percent – a miniscule amount – and that just takes into consid-eration the money given to AIG.

Listening to the hoodwinks in Congress, especially House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., you would think our representa-tives actually have some semblance of fiscal responsibility, but this is sadly not the case.

In one of her hastily assembled press conferences, Pelosi said, “We want our money back, and we want our money back now for the taxpayers. It isn’t that complicated.”

I couldn’t agree with Speaker Pelosi more – I do want my money back, but why stop at the $165 million in bonuses?

Why are Americans only outraged at AIG for fulfilling contractual obligations to the tune of $165 million? As a taxpayer and a laissez-faire capitalist, I want the $173 billion back that AIG received in bailout money.

I don’t want to stop there, either. I want back the $700 billion in TARP funds that the Bush administration wasted, as well as the $787 billion the Obama administra-

tion recently shoved through Congress with nary a debate in sight.

President Barack Obama expressed “outrage” over the AIG incident, calling their actions “reckless and greedy.” What about the actions of the federal govern-ment? This entire bailout debacle is noth-ing but reckless.

I’m outraged at the fact that the Federal Reserve recently announced plans to pur-chase $1 trillion of toxic securities and other assets. I want all the money back that our federal government has fleeced from its citizens.

I want us to return the borrowed money to the countries of origin. I want the federal government to stop printing money around the clock to pay for its promises.

Are Americans so blind now that they think Congress actually cares? The answer is an unequivocal yes, because anyone who freaks out over $165 million, when Congress has recently expanded our national debt in excess of $11 trillion, needs a serious head examination.

The populist pitchfork approach doesn’t end with mere incredulity, either. Our exalted leaders in the House of Representatives hastily passed a bill by

a vote of 328-93 that would tax recipients of the AIG bonuses at a 90 percent rate.

The Constitution doesn’t apply to Obama or this Congress. The same crit-ics who hammered away at President George Bush for the last eight years for ignoring the Constitution are now eerily silent when this administration and its Congressional lackeys ignore it, too.

Article 1 Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution prohibits the federal govern-ment from enacting laws ex post facto, retroactive legislation.

The law simply states Congress cannot pass legislation that retroactively changes the legal status of an action that occurred before the law was enacted. In this case, an argument can be made that the AIG tax bill violates the ex post facto clause of the Constitution.

Congressional leaders don’t care about bills of attainder in the Constitution, either.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Cummings v. Missouri (1866), “any leg-islative act which inflicts punishment without judicial trial and includes any legislative act which takes away the life, liberty or property of a particular named or easily ascertainable person or group

of persons because the legislature thinks them guilty of conduct which deserves punishment qualifies as a bill of attainder and is illegal.”

To detractors that say this legislation does not qualify as either ex post facto or a bill of attainder, the Supreme Court looks at the intent of Congress when the bill is passed. Anyone who watched C-SPAN or listened to Rep. Charles Rangel, D-NY, would conclude that the intent was to punish.

According to Rangel, “We figured that the local and state governments would take care of the other 10 percent. The American people demand protection and that’s what we’re doing today.”

Congress has blown this entire debacle completely out of proportion, while ignor-ing the fundamental failure – the bailouts themselves. It’s time for Congress to put away the hypocritical torches and pitch-forks and quit meddling in the economy.

It’s time for the American people to hold their representatives accountable for destroying any semblance of freedom and liberty in America.

Joe Hunt is a history and economics senior.

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Put away hypocritical torches and pitchforks

Obama’s faith not genuine Christianity In response to M.J. Casiano’s Wednesday column about the lack of upsets in the NCAA tournament

So what’s your point? Are you saying this tournament sucks because there

are no underdogs? Or are you just trying (somehow) to make the fairly obvi-

ous point that power conference schools fi eld better basketball teams than

mid-majors?

I don’t get it.

This thing is wide open. But you’d rather have Dayton, Portland State and

Cal Northridge in the Sweet 16 with all of us knowing that their run is about

to end? No thanks. Lots of people are saying how boring this tourney is. I

think it could be one of the best ever.

- POSTED BY ROYCE AT OUDAILY.COM

Royce, it seems pretty obvious to me that he likes the way the tournament

panned out.

Although, I do wish we could be watching Stephen Curry again.

- POSTED BY LAUREN50 AT OUDAILY.COM

Coffee too close tocorrupt company

It’s not exactly uncommon for government officials to act as if they’re above the law.

Eliot Spitzer, Rod Blagojevich and Richard Nixon are a few who come to mind.

Holding themselves to different stan-dards than those they imposed on the public didn’t work out well for those politicians.

It seems Oklahoma Senate President Pro Tempore Glen Coffee is flirting with putting himself in that not-so-dis-tinguished company. And if his careless actions continue, things might not work out well for him, either.

Coffee failed to pay his income tax from 2006 until a lien was placed on him in November. Lawmakers wanted his job, but Coffee, who paid the debt in full in December, apologized to his caucus to hold on to his posi-tion. (Ironically, Coffee voted in 2003 for a bill that would remove state employees who didn’t

pay state taxes.)He’s in good company. Fellow Republican and

former House Speaker Lance Cargill stepped down last year after not paying taxes.

The tax issue isn’t Coffee’s only eyebrow-raising incident. This session, Coffee has skirted open meeting rules and held a meeting to pass a bill imme-diately after it was voted down in the Senate. Under Senate rules, a measure that is voted down cannot be revisited for at least two years.

Coffee is lucky. In a climate in which two of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet choices were scuttled because

of tax problems, he should be thankful he still holds his powerful position.

He has another chance to get his act together, and if other Oklahoma politicians don’t want to end up in the company of Spitzer, Nixon and Blagojevich, they should follow suit.

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• Five key areas show signs of lifeWASHINGTON — Glimmers of hope for the economy — better home sales and higher demand for goods, plus optimism from the White House and a nearly 20 per-cent rally in stocks — have some people wondering if the worst is over.

Not so fast, say many econo-mists. Layoffs are still mounting and home prices are still falling in an economy shrinking at an alarm-ing rate. A recovery anytime soon doesn’t seem likely.

“We may be seeing the end of the beginning of this recession, but it is not the beginning of the end of the downturn,” said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor’s in New York.

Still, the recent news has been bet-ter than expected. On Wednesday, the Commerce Department said demand for big-ticket manufac-tured goods, which had fallen for six months in a row, actually rose by 3.4 percent in February.

And reports this week have shown sales of both new and exist-ing homes rising by about 5 percent last month.

On Wall Street, the landscape looks better. The Dow Jones indus-trials gained about 90 points on Wednesday to close a fraction of a point under 7,750 — an 18 percent rally from its low point on March 9.

And President Barack Obama struck a more hopeful tone dur-ing his televised news conference Tuesday night. “We’re beginning to see signs of progress,” Obama said, adding that Americans should have a “renewed confidence that a better day will come.”

“The good news is that we don’t have the sort of unrelentingly per-sistent declines we had been see-ing,” said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight, who thinks the economy “may be approaching a bottom.”

The GDP fell at an annual rate of 6.2 percent in the fourth quarter. Behravesh expects an even more severe decline for this quarter, and even a slight positive by the end of this year.

For now, in five key areas of the economy, there are both signs of life

and reasons to believe the worst is not yet over.

Durable goodsThe good news: Orders for man-

ufactured products expected to last at last three years, or durable goods, rose last month for the first time since July. Economists were expect-ing them to fall instead. And orders for nondefense capital goods, a key indicator of business investment plans, surged 6.6 percent.

Reality check: Orders for durable goods are still below their levels of a year ago, and analysts believe they will remain low because of weak demand both here and overseas for cars and other big-ticket items.

New home salesThe good news: Sales of new

homes rose 4.7 percent in February from a month earlier. And the gov-ernment revised January’s figures higher. It was the first monthly gain for new home sales since July — perhaps a sign that developers have slashed prices and construction so much that sales have finally hit bot-tom.

Reality check: Developers still face competition from foreclo-sures, and there’s still a mountain

of unsold homes. The results from February were still the second-worst in records that have been kept since 1963. (January was the worst.) Experts are waiting for several months of increases before declaring the worst is over. “For me to be encouraged, I’d have to see a trend,” said Barclays Capital analyst Michelle Meyer.

Existing home salesThe good news: Sales of previ-

ously occupied homes went up 5.1 percent in February from the month before. Buyers took advantage of a market that pushed the median price down 16 percent from a year earlier. Mortgage rates are histori-cally low, and a new $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers also could further lift sales.

Reality check: It’s too early to proclaim a comeback for the belea-guered housing market. Sales of existing homes are still the low-est they’ve been in a more than a decade. Mounting layoffs are likely to keep many borrowers on the sidelines, and thousands of fore-closed properties have yet to go up for sale in an already glutted market. That’s likely to push prices down even more, analysts say.

Retail salesThe good news: Shoppers bought

a few more necessities in February, offering some hope for stores. Retail sales only dipped 0.1 percent, and they actually rose in January. J.C. Penney and Target both said their same-store sales were down, but not as sharply as expected. That could be a tentative sign that the downward spiral in sales is mod-erating.

Reality check: A lot of the retail industry’s better performance is because of sales gains at Wal-Mart, where shoppers have hunted for discounts in the recession. Take out Wal-Mart Stores Inc., and same-store sales across the industry were down 4.3 percent, according to statistics kept by the International Council of Shopping Centers. Economists worry that spending could deterio-rate further as layoffs mount.

Wall StreetThe good news: The stock mar-

ket has finally caught a break. Major banks such as Citigroup and Bank of America have said they were profit-able in January and February, and Wall Street embraced the details of the Obama administration’s plan to relieve banks of toxic assets.

—AP

Hopeful signs, but economy not out of woods

• Drug demand fuels violenceMEXICO CITY — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday pledged to stand “shoulder to shoulder” with Mexico in its violent struggle against drug cartels, and acknowl-edged the U.S. shares blame because of its demand for drugs and supply of weapons.

She said the United States shares responsibility with Mexico for dealing with violence now spilling across the border and promised cooperation to improve security on both sides.

“The criminals and kingpins spreading violence are trying to corrode the foundations of law, order, friendship and trust between us that support our continent. They will fail,” she told Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Patricia Espinosa. “We will stand shoulder to shoulder with you.”

On Tuesday, the Obama administration pledged to send more money, technology and manpower to secure the border in the U.S. Southwest and help Mexico battle the cartels. Clinton also said Wednesday that the White House will seek an additional $80 mil-lion to help Mexico buy Blackhawk helicopters.

All that is in addition to a three-year, $1.4 billion Bush adminis-tration-era program to support Mexico’s efforts. Congress already has approved $700 million. President Barack Obama has said he wants to revamp the initiative.

Obama said Tuesday he wanted the U.S. to do more to prevent guns and cash from illicit drug sales from flowing into Mexico. But Clinton’s remarks appeared more forceful in recognizing the U.S. share of the blame. In the past, particularly under the Bush admin-istration, Mexican officials have complained that Washington failed to acknowledge the extent that the U.S. drug demand and weapons smuggling fuels the violence.

“I feel very strongly we have a co-responsibility,” Clinton told reporters, adding: “Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade. Our inability to prevent weapons from being ille-gally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians.”

Criminals are outgunning law enforcement officials, she said, referring to guns and military-style equipment such as night-vision goggles and body armor that the cartels are smuggling from the U.S.

—AP

Hillary Clinton: US shares drug war blame

Elaine Thompson/AP Photo

Hannah Teng, who moved from China to Seattle three years ago, wheels a new bicycle she decided to purchase Tuesday

through a Costco store in Shoreline, Wash. Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods unexpectedly rose in

February after a record six straight months of decline.

Daniel Aguilar, Pool/AP Photo

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, meets with Mexico’s

Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa Wednesday in Mexico City.

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NewsThursday, March 26, 20096

• Violence has decreased, but few returning home

HAMZA HENDAWI

Associated Press

BAGHDAD — The streets are calmer now. The fighting between Shiites and Sunnis has largely ceased. But this is not a sign of normalcy in the Iraqi capi-tal. It’s fear that keeps the peace.

Only an estimated 16 percent of the mainly Sunni families forced by Shiite militiamen and death squads to flee their homes have dared to return.

It takes two sides to have a fight, and there’s really only one side left in Baghdad after violence and fear turned parts of neighborhoods into ghost towns.

Families that have gone back are sometimes met with spray-painted threats and other forms of intimida-tion. “Back after a break, the Mahdi Army,” is a Shiite militia’s slogan — playing off the same words that Iraqi television uses as a lead-in to com-mercials.

The findings — based on statis-tics obtained by The Associated Press from U.S. and Iraqi officials as well as AP interviews in key Baghdad neighborhoods in recent weeks — are acknowledged by U.S. military com-manders on the ground. And they point to a troubling prospect.

Baghdad has been much calmer since the massacres reached their peak in late 2006 and the first half of 2007. And a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday that attacks nation-wide had fallen to their lowest level since the first months of the war.

In the capital, however, the calm has been achieved in part because the city is now ethnically divided. Shiites predominate. Sunnis have largely fled.

The situation is somewhat similar to Bosnia after the war of the 1990s — years of calm but no lasting politi-cal reconciliation after its populations divided into different regions and gov-ernments.

“Baghdad has been turned from a mixed city, about half of its popula-tion Shiite and the other half Sunni in 2003, into a Shiite city where the Sunni population may be as little as 10 to 15 percent,” said Juan Cole, a prominent U.S. expert on Iraq.

No accurate census has been taken since the bloodletting. But Cole’s esti-mates, backed up by AP observations and U.S. statistics, hold troubling impli-cations for the future should Sunnis come back in greater numbers.

A Sunni government employee, Mohammed Abdul-Razzaq, fled his home in the Jihad neighborhood of west Baghdad for majority Sunni Amiriyah after Shiite militiamen threatened to kill him. Iraqi police last year forced out the squatters who had moved into his house, but he has no plans to return.

“Security is still fragile,” Abdul-Razzaq said. “I was forced to flee once, and it can happen again. Next time they may kill me.”

Most startlingly, the ethnic divides remain even though the Iraqi and U.S. militaries have driven Shiite militia-men and death squads off the streets.

That suggests Sunnis still do not trust Iraq’s government to protect them in the long run. Their mistrust could hold the seeds of future bouts of violence, especially as the U.S. mili-tary begins to draw down this year.

“The potential for renewed sec-tarian violence is definitely there,” said Capt. Nathan Williams, the U.S. military commander at Hurriyah, a

northern Baghdad district that saw the worst sectarian bloodletting. “We believe if it restarts in Hurriyah, it will spread to the rest of the city.”

Even more remote is the hope of restoring Baghdad’s traditional char-acter as a city where people can live together — though not always in har-mony — regardless of faith or ethnic-ity.

Baghdad’s sectarian violence began as early as 2003 but picked up dramati-cally after suspected Sunni militants blew up a revered Shiite shrine north of the city in 2006. At its peak, dozens of bodies, some decapitated or with execution-style gun wounds, turned up at outlying areas of the city or in the Tigris each day.

Shiite militiamen who led the attacks against the Sunnis are largely thought to have won the sectarian conflict in the capital. The Sunnis, who are generally better off economi-cally than the Shiites, largely fled to Jordan or Syria.

That has given Baghdad a distinctly Shiite character, which becomes obvi-ous during the sect’s religious holidays when traditional Shiite banners are hoisted over most of the city.

In Hurriyah, the signs of sectarian division are still stark.

Attacks on Iraqi and U.S. forces have been rare since they rid the neighborhood of Shiite militiamen and death squads and Sunni militants.

But most of the 18 Sunni mosques remain shut or in ruins. Some are now used as sleeping quarters for Iraqi troops, with attached rooms turned into offices.

A recent prayer held in a Sunni mosque to mark a major religious occasion attracted a meager 48 wor-shippers, according to Iraqi army Maj. Imad Rassoul.

In a hopeful sign, some of the return-ing Sunnis in Hurriyah and elsewhere in Baghdad say longtime Shiite neigh-bors extended a warm welcome.

“They said they could not do any-thing to help us when the Mahdi Army came to force us out,” said Bassem Mahmoud, a 35-year-old father of two, speaking outside his Hurriyah home with his mother next to him. “They said they feared for their lives if they tried to help us.”

Omar al-Jibouri, a taxi driver and father of three, said his Shiite neigh-bors in the Dora district of western Baghdad helped repair his damaged home when he returned a month ago.

“For a whole week after our return,” he said, “they kept giving us food.”

Fear keeps the peace in BaghdadAOIFE WHITE

Associated Press

BRUSSELS — The head of the European Union slammed President Barack Obama’s plan to spend nearly $2 trillion to push the U.S. economy out of recession as “the road to hell” that EU governments must avoid.

The blunt comments by Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek to the European Parliament on Wednesday highlighted simmering European differ-ences with Washington ahead of a key summit next week on fixing the world economy.

It was the strongest pushback yet from a European leader as the 27-nation bloc bristles from U.S. criticism that it is not spending enough to stimulate demand.

Shocked by the outburst, other European politi-cians went into damage control mode, with some reproaching the Czech leader for his language and others reaffirming their good diplomatic ties with the United States. The leaders of EU’s major nations — France, Britain and Germany, among others — largely ignored Topolanek and his remarks.

Obama pays his first official visit to Europe next week, aiming to thrash out reforms to the global financial system with the Group of 20 nations and call on NATO allies to commit more troops to the U.S. war in Afghanistan.

Europeans leaders hope the new U.S. administra-tion will agree with them on tightening oversight over the global financial system — which they see as crucial to fixing the global economy.

Instead, the United States is focusing its efforts on economic stimulus and plans to spend heavily to try and lift itself out of recession with a $787 billion plan of tax rebates, health and welfare benefits, as well as extra energy and infrastructure spending.

To encourage banks to lend again, the U.S. gov-ernment will also pump $1 trillion into the financial system by buying up treasury bonds and mortgage securities in an effort to clear some of the “toxic assets” — devalued and untradeable assets — from banks’ balance sheets.

Obama insisted Tuesday that his massive budget proposal will put the ailing U.S. economy back on its feet. “This budget is inseparable from this recovery,” he said, “because it is what lays the foundation for a secure and lasting prosperity.”

But Topolanek took aim at Washington’s deficit spending.

“All of these steps, these combinations and per-manency is the road to hell,” Topolanek said. “We need to read the history books and the lessons of history and the biggest success of the (EU) is the refusal to go this way.”

“Americans will need liquidity to finance all their measures and they will balance this with the sale of their bonds but this will undermine the liquidity of the global financial market,” Topolanek said.

Stimulus called ‘the road to hell’

Dusan Vranic/AP

Iraqi children sit outside their home Wednesday in the Hurriyah neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq. Eighteen months after the tide

turned in Baghdad, only a small number of Iraqis who had been displaced by sectarian violence are coming back to their homes.

Steven Jones, sports editordailysports@ou.eduphone: 325-7630, fax: 325-6051For more, go to oudaily.com. SportsSports 7Thursday, March 26, 2009

Men’s Basketball

Over the last few years, the major sports teams at OU have given fans almost everything they could ask for. Star players, a multitude of victories and awards, pres-

tige, bragging rights — you name it.But what’s missing from that list? That elusive national championship.The football team gave fans a 12-win season, an all-time great

offense, a Big 12 title, and a Heisman Trophy . . . but no national championship.

The women’s basketball team has given us one of the greatest women’s basketball play-ers in history, an untouchable double-double streak, and high NCAA Tournament seeds . . . but no national championship.

The men’s basketball team has re-emerged into the national spotlight for the first time in years. They have given us McDonald’s All-Americans, a national player of the year candi-date, and a Sweet 16 berth in this year’s NCAA Tournament . . . but the team has never in its history delivered a national championship.

Although the football team must wait until next year to go after the prize, both basketball teams are in the midst of runs at the titles that have been so painfully and noticeably absent.

Realistically, this may be the best chance for years to come for both squads. The Paris twins are seniors, and their absence will no doubt be felt next season. Sophomore forward Blake Griffin has been touted as a near-lock to be the first overall pick in this year’s NBA draft, which means it is very possible that this will be his last collegiate season.

It would be a terrible shame if this great era in OU sports came and went with none of these teams reaching the ultimate goal.

All of the teams mentioned above have accomplished great things, and I acknowledge how hard it is to win a national championship. But when a team is as good as OU’s football and basketball teams are, anything less than No. 1 is a disappoint-ment.

It isn’t good enough for the football team to just make it to a BCS bowl. It isn’t good enough for the women’s basketball team to advance to the Sweet 16. And this year it won’t be good enough for the men’s basketball team to just go a few rounds deep in the tournament.

The bar has been set very high, and hopefully, at least one of these teams will reach it before the window of opportunity closes.

AARON COLEN IS A JOURNALISM JUNIOR.

STAFF COLUMNSooners need national title before window of opportunity closes

AARON COLEN

An introduction to the OrangeThe Sooners will have their hands full

Friday in Memphis as they go up against the third-seeded Syracuse Orange. A

six-overtime win against Connecticut in the Big East tournament, and the fact that head

coach Jim Boeheim is shooting for his 800th career win, means the Orange will have more than enough fuel to succeed Friday night. Here are a few nuggets to help you get to know OU’s Sweet 16 opponent better.

• In 2002, when OU head coach Jeff Capel took his first head coaching position at Virginia Commonwealth, he wanted to know more about the 2-3 zone. His crutch for learning was “Jim Boeheim’s Complete Guide to the 2-3 Zone Defense,” a video blueprint outlining the historic coach’s success with the defensive scheme.If there is anyone in the country who knows how to attack a 2-3 zone, it’s Boeheim, and Friday night the two coaches will go head-to-head, shot-for-shot and foul-for-foul in a battle for a spot in the Elite Eight.• A two seed against a three seed poses one of the most even match-ups in the tourna-ment so far. Syracuse and OU have almost identical team statistics when it comes to free throw percentage, shot percentage, three-point per-centage, rebounds per game, steals per game and blocks per game. If there is anything to be learned from the stat books, it is that Friday night’s game is going to be a dogfight.• The Sooners’ strong points are the Orange’s weak points, however. Sophomore forward Blake Griffin averages a team-high 22.5 points per game and an NCAA-high 14.4 rebounds per game. Griffin’s numbers are equal to the Orange’s starting front court combined. Syracuse junior center Arinze Onuaku and junior forward Paul Harris combine to average 21 points and 10 rebounds per game. • The back court is where the Sooners are going to likely experience most of their trouble. Syracuse guards, sophomore Jonny Flynn and junior Eric Devendorf, combine to average 33 points and 10 assist per game, while OU start-ing guards, freshman Willie Warren and senior Austin Johnson, combine for 25 points and six assists per game.• Syracuse has won five of their last six games and comes into the Sweet 16 with quite a bit of tournament experience, something OU hasn’t had in a while. However, OU has a healthy Griffin and full head of steam of its own.• Boeheim said if Griffin hadn’t gotten hurt, he thought OU would have won the Big 12 tourna-ment and been a No. 1 seed.“They have a deep team and great coach,” Boeheim said. “They have the best player in college basketball and it is going to make for one heck of game.”

DANIEL MARTIN IS A JOURNALISM JUNIOR.

Lynne Sladky/AP Photo

Syracuse’s Jonny Flynn yells during the last minutes of the Orange’s game against Arizona State during the

second-round men’s NCAA college basketball tournament game in Miami Sunday.

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SportsThursday, March 26, 20098Softball

Sooners take down Mean Green, 8-1• OU extends winning streak over North Texas to 16

AARON COLEN

The Oklahoma Daily

The No. 8 softball team closed out its four-game home stand with a decisive 8-1 victory over the North Texas Mean Green Wednesday evening at the OU Softball Complex.

The Sooners’ offense kept up its recent scoring tear, however, in this game the team got some help from the Mean Green defense, which committed three errors in the game.

“I felt like we were women out there today,” head coach Patty Gasso said. “I really felt our good dominance.”

OU got the scoring started quickly with two two-run home runs in the bot-tom of the first inning, one by the Big 12 player of the week, junior shortstop Amber Flores and the other by junior catcher Lindsey Vandever.

North Texas starting pitcher Jennifer Smith gave up all four runs and only recorded one out before she was pulled from the game.

“Amber, [Samantha] Ricketts and Vandever are all doing their job in the lineup,” Gasso said.

North Texas responded with a solo

home run by second baseman Lisa Johnson in the second inning. That home run would be the only hit allowed by the Sooners in the game.

Things got worse for the Mean Green in the third inning when Flores scored on an error by North Texas shortstop Sarah Jones.

The Mean Green continued to self-destruct in the fourth inning, as the Sooners scored three runs on two errors by Jones and a walk. Jones was pulled from the game after her third error. OU’s last four runs of the game were all unearned.

Flores believes that the team’s offense is on an upswing right now.

“I think we’re really starting to climb,” Flores said. “Hopefully we can peak at the right time. I’m excited.”

Senior pitcher D.J. Mathis started for the Sooners, pitching four-and-one-

third innings and giving up one hit, one earned run, and striking out nine batters. She got credit for the win and improved to 8-2 this season. The game was just Mathis’ sec-ond since sitting out for nearly a month with arm soreness.

“We really wanted to get D.J. back on the mound, to get her feeling back,” Gasso said.

F r e s h m a n pitcher Kirsten Allen relieved Mathis for one-and-two-thirds innings and had three strikeouts before fresh-man pitcher Allee Allen finished the last

inning of the game by striking out two more batters.

“What I take the most from the game today is our pitch-ing,” Gasso said. “It was really kind of fun to see the amount of strike-outs we had.”

OU is now 27-8 on the year and has won five straight as they get back to Big 12 play in Austin, Texas this week-end for a two-game series against the Texas

Longhorns. The first game in the series is at 1 p.m.

on Saturday.

Elizabeth Nalewajk/The Daily

Senior pitcher D.J. Mathis (11) strikes out North Texas catcher Caitlin Grimes (33) during Wednesday’s game. The Sooners defeated the Mean Green 8-1,

and extended their all-time winning streak over the Mean Green to 16 games. Mathis pitched four-and-one third innings for the Sooners, struck out nine

batters and got the win.

SPORTS BRIEFS

Legendre named Gymnast of the Week

Sophomore gymnast Steven

Legendre was named the Moun-

tain Pacifi c Sports Federation

Gymnast of the Week Tuesday.

The honor is Legendre’s third

of the year and fi fth of his career.

This past week, during the

Sooners’ meet against Penn State

on Saturday, Legendre won the

fl oor exercise with a 16.000, the

vault with a 16.400, parallel bars

with a 15.100 and the all-around

title by scoring a 92.250.

Legendre’s performance

helped the Sooners soar past the

Nittany Lions, 366.850 - 356.300.

The Sooners’ score was an NCAA

scoring record.

The meet was the Sooners’

fi nal regular-season meet, and

they fi nished 12-0.

They will be in action next at

the 2009 MPSF Championships

April 5 in Palo Alto, Calif.

Baseball moves start time for Friday game

The Sooners’ series opener

against Nebraska Friday night is

now scheduled for 3 p.m. at L.

Dale Mitchell Park.

The series will continue at

2 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m.

Sunday.

Tickets are available at the

gate, or by getting in contact

with the OU Athletics Ticket Of-

fi ce online or at (800) 456-GoOU.

— DAILY STAFF

PLAYER OF THE GAME

In just her second

start since an injury

sidelined her on Feb. 22,

senior pitcher D.J. Ma-

this led the Sooners to

victory on Wednesday.

Mathis pitched four-

and-one-third innings,

giving up one hit, one

earned run, and striking

out nine batters.

D.J.MATHIS

“I think we’re really starting to climb. Hopefully we can peak at the right time. I’m excited.”

Junior short stop Amber Flores

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Sports Thursday, March 26, 2009 9Men’s Basketball

Sooners head to Memphis for Sweet 16• Sooner fans flock to Lloyd Noble to see the basketball team off

PHOTOS BY LILLY CHAPA

The Oklahoma Daily

Left: Sophomore forward Blake Griffin, freshman

guard Willie Warren, and junior guard Tony Crocker

greet the crowd as they board the bus to Memphis.

The men’s basketball team is playing No. 3 seed

Syracuse in the Memphis regional semifinals.

Bottom left: Betty Cummins of Chickasha (left)

and Tyler Deluca (right) cheer as men’s basketball

players load the bus. Cummins said she attends every

football, basketball and softball game, and that she

has been a Sooner fan since the ‘40s.

Bottom right: Norman resident Irene Cook holds a

sign for the men’s basketball team before the Sooners

departed for Memphis. Cook said she graduated from

OU in 1950 and faithfully watches every basketball

game.

The Sooners play Syracuse Friday at 6:27 p.m.

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NEED MORE L&A? CHECK OUT OUDAILY.COMArmed man arrested at ‘DWTS’ studioLOS ANGELES — A restraining order has been issued against a man authori-

ties say tried to break onto the set of “Dancing With the Stars” to meet Shawn

Johnson.

Court records show an order was issued against Robert O’Ryan, who was

arrested by Los Angeles police on Tuesday. According to documents that ac-

companied the restraining order application, O’Ryan was stopped by security at

CBS Studios, where “Dancing With the Stars” is produced, after he jumped on a

fence on Monday afternoon.

Police later searched his car and found two guns and duct tape, according to

the documents.

A police spokeswoman said she did not have any more details about the

arrest.

Johnson, 17, is a gold medalist in gymnastics, and one of the celebrity

contestants on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars.”

She is “in fear of her life,” her parent’s attorney wrote in a restraining order

application.

Her parents requested and were granted the restraining order on Wednes-

day. A hearing on whether to grant a lengthy restraining order will be held on

April 14.–AP

WEEKEND UPDATE

Surfs up! The Beach

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All of the excitement of March Madness is coming to

the Ford Center in Oklahoma City when the Big 12

Conference plays host to the NCAA Division I Women’s

Basketball Regional on March 29 and March 31, 2009.

The No. 1 seed Oklahoma Sooners face the No. 4 seed

Pittsburgh Panthers 9 p.m. Sunday.

The ‘Norman Music

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Tickets are $5.

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Author Chuck Klosterman to visit OUPop-culture journalist and author Chuck Klosterman will visit the

Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication on April 14 and

15, according to a university press release.

Klosterman, who is best known for his 2003 pop culture essay col-

lection, “Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs,” will speak on April 14 about his

writing experiences for magazines such as “GQ,” “Spin” and “ESPN,” and his

personal thoughts on pop culture.

The Gaylord Ambassadors, the student representatives of the Gaylord

College, chose to bring Klosterman to campus because he has experi-

ence in multiple areas of media, according to Chris Borthick, student and

Ambassador advisor.

“The ambassadors feel that he is a good representation of journalism;

[Klosterman] does a little bit of everything -- he does blogging, he does

novels, he does magazine articles. He’s pretty varied,” Borthick said.

Klosterman, a University of North Dakota graduate, has written 4 other

books in addition to “Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs” and is the Picador

Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig’s Institute for

American Studies in Leipzig, Germany.

–ADAM KOHUT/THE DAILY

L&A BRIEFS

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2:00-3:00 p.m. FRIDAYCopeland Hall, Room 146

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Speak ‘L33T’Ever wonder what the internet jargon your roommate uses when he’s playing Counter Strike means? It’s called ‘leet’ and The Daily’s Life & Arts editor Luke Atkinson has the definitions for you, so you’ll be pwning noobs in no time.

ROFL [raw - full] -v.origin: rolling on the floor laughing• Form of describing how humor-ous a situation is. When in moments of extreme laughter, a ROFLCOPTER (see photo) often appears in the chatlog.“I ROFL’d hard at the snow angel video.”

Pwn [pn] -v.other variations: pwned, pwnage, pwnsauce; origin: Own• 1. The act of dominating an opponent. 2. In ‘Warcraft’ games, a map designer misspelled the word ‘owned’ and ‘pwn’ swept the internet gaming world.“You got beat so bad, you got pwned!”

Noob [nüb] -n.also spelled: newb, nub, n00b; origin: Newbie• Noobs are new to the gaming world and show lesser skill during gameplay.“If you are reading this, you are a noob.”

Hax [hăcks] -n.

also spelled: H4X, haxxor; origin: Hacks, Hackers• When a player does something game-defying, he must be cheating by hacking.“Why didn’t Adrian Peterson ever win a Heisman? Hax.”

FAIL [fl] -v. origin: greek phelos• When someone performs an action of stupidity, those who witness the action yell , “FAIL!” The term is used to

demean the person who committed the failure.see photo.

QQ [cyü - cyü] -v.other variations: TT• 1. Complaining about getting ‘pwned’ will cause others to become upset with your whining. 2. Using the letters ‘QQ,’ to represent crying eyes, can express sympathy, sar-casm or frustration with complaints.“Texas didn’t go to the national championship game. QQ”

Nerf [nurf ] -v.origin: “World of Warcraft”• In “World of Warcraft,” developers would release updates to specific skills controlled by character class. When those skills were demoted or decreased, they were being ‘ner-fed.’“Organic chemistry got nerfed so all the noobs could pass.”

FTW [for-the-win] -prep. phraseantonymn: FTL (for-the-loss)• When declaring a victorious action, gamers describe the effort by ending the sentence with ‘for the win.’“Sam Bradford FTW!” or “Colt McCoy FTL.”

Leet [lēt] -n.

also spelled: l33t, 1337; origin: Elite• When a player reaches the highest skill level, they can be refered to as ‘elite’.“He beat the boss on his own? He’s leet.”

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Universal Crossword

“EAT AROUND THE CLOCK” by Alice Walker

ACROSS 1 Kelpies herd

them 6 Suffix with

“soft,” “hard” or “share”

10 Area map 14 Co-creator

of “The Flintstones”

15 Cheese type 16 City on

seven hills 17 Yale of Yale

University 18 Aggressive

witticism 19 Athena’s

breastplate 20 Traveler’s

accom-modations, sometimes

23 USO user 24 Smaller than

small 25 One-time

protest site 31 Brothers of

soul 32 Island-

hopper’s stop

33 Pub feature 36 Absolute

must 37 Mushroom

stem 38 Thorn in the

flesh 39 Leave the

straight and narrow

40 “I ___ Song Comin’ On”

41 Bridge directions

42 Fancy dining wear

44 Just say yes 47 Ancient

flood insurance

48 Objects of some raids

55 Alka-Seltzer sound

56 “Waiting for the Robert ___”

57 Dazzling effect

58 Roll-call yell 59 Reporter’s

quest 60 Fuel-yielding

rock 61 Word of

hearty concurrence

62 Till section 63 Creedal

statementDOWN 1 “The Purple

People Eater” singer Wooley

2 Sound and healthy

3 “Idylls of the King” character

4 Like some digital pictures

5 Corpulent 6 Friday on TV 7 Jewish

calendar month

8 Like the spotted owl

9 Fortify, as a town

10 Fancy 11 Boston’s

airport 12 Astray

13 Quick to be ticked

21 Happy associate

22 Stem-to-stern part

25 Salesman’s stock

26 ___-friendly 27 Cub or Met,

for short 28 Granolalike 29 Being of

service 30 Like some

stock 33 Tedious

undertaking 34 Kick in to a

pot 35 Royal pain 37 Feeling 38 It could

cause one to lay down on the job

40 Huckleberry or Mickey

41 Heartfelt 42 Intensify

43 Book after Heb.

44 Omega’s antithesis

45 City of witch hunts

46 Part of some chains

49 Open delight 50 Chopped 51 Role for

Nastassja 52 Family group 53 Crinkly

cabbage 54 Leave in

PREVIOUS PUZZLE ANSWER

Edited by Timothy E. Parker March 26, 2009

© 2009 Universal Press Syndicatewww.upuzzles.com

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POLICE REPORTSNames are compiled from the Norman Police Department and OUPD. The reports serve as a record of arrests and citations, not convictions. Those listed are innocent until proven guilty.

AGGRAVATED DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCERebecca Elaine McMichael, 44, 10808 E. Alameda Drive, Tuesday

PUBLIC INTOXICATIONWilliam Jay Trumbo, 44, 1430 24th Ave. SW, Tuesday

COUNTY WARRANTJonathon Ray Arnold, 33, 555 W. Main St., TuesdayJeffrey Shawn Bixler, 27, 300 Hal Muldrow Drive, TuesdaySandra Lee Brown, 50, 1200 Westlawn, TuesdayTuhtaka Neshoba Wilson, 36, East Lindsey Street, Tuesday, also assault and battery; eluding a police officer

MUNICIPAL WARRANTHeather Annette Contreras, 25, 3212 Caddo Lane, TuesdayBrehan Alicia Hotopp, 26, 2803

Brompton Drive, Monday

PETTY LARCENYBlake M. Barnes, 18, 3499 W. Main St., MondayPreston Michael Volz, 18, 3499 W. Main St., Monday

POSSESSION OF MARIJUANAEric Richard Jazzar, 18, North Berry Road, Monday, also possession of drug paraphernaliaSteven Wayne Tannehill, 19, 2272 W. Lindsey St., Tuesday, also interference with official process and municipal war-rant

CAMPUS NOTES

TODAY

CAREER SERVICESCareer Services will hold a presentation on finding scholarships at 1:30 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union.

OKLAHOMA UNDERGRADUATE INDIA SOCIETYThe Oklahoma Undergraduate India Society will host India Nite 2009 at 6 p.m. in Holmberg Hall.

AMERICAN INDIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATIONThe American Indian Student Association will hold a general meeting at 7 p.m. in Jim Thorpe Multicultural Center.

COLLEGE OF LAWThe College of Law will host a lecture about the world food crisis at 7 p.m. in the College of Law.

FRIDAY

OKLAHOMA UNDERGRADUATE INDIA SOCIETYThe Oklahoma Undergraduate India Society will host India Nite 2009 at 6 p.m. in Holmberg Hall.

UNION PROGRAMMING BOARDThe Union Programming Board will host Comedy Fight Night at 7 p.m. in the union.

SCHOOL OF MUSICThe School of Music will present a Masala World Music Concert with Valerie Naranjo at 8 p.m. in Catlett Music Center.

STATE BRIEFSDemocrats demand Coffee’s tax recordsOKLAHOMA CITY — Democrats in

the Oklahoma Senate on Wednes-

day demanded that Republican

Senate President Pro Tem Glenn

Coff ee make public his income

tax returns and other documents

concerning a federal tax lien fi led

against Coff ee by the Internal

Revenue Service last year.

The lien sought $28,822 in

federal taxes owed for almost two

years.

In a letter to Coff ee, Democratic

Caucus Chairman Kenneth Corn

of Poteau said Democrats believe

releasing the information would

confi rm Coff ee’s explanation of

the lien and its payment and “is

essential to restoring public trust in

your leadership and the Oklahoma

State Senate as a whole.”

Corn’s letter said that “while

some of the requested documents

may not be considered public re-

cords, we believe the extraordinary

nature of this matter more than

justifi es the public’s right to know.

“By releasing supporting docu-

ments to the Senate members,

news media and the public, you

can clear the air and remove any

concern or even the appearance of

any impropriety,” it said.

Oklahoma expects to lose lottery sales OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma lot-

tery offi cials say they will lose sales

when the border state of Arkansas

implements its new lottery.

Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe

signed legislation on Wednesday to

create a lottery as Arkansas joined

42 other states and the District of

Columbia, where such games are

legal.

Jim Scroggins, the director

of the Oklahoma Lottery, was

reported to be out of town and

unavailable for comment.

But Rolla Redburn, the director

of administration for the lottery

in Oklahoma, said he expects

Arkansas will be trying to get its

games up and running as soon as

possible.

“We feel like the Arkansas lot-

tery is going to cost us some sales,”

Redburn said.

—AP

• Human rights groups urge for better regulation RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Visitors to a women’s job training center heard terrified screams — and rushed to see an agent of the religious police dragging a woman by her hair down the stairs of the building.

The woman had apparently run for shelter in the center after the religious police caught her alone in a car with a man she is not related to — a violation of Saudi Arabia’s strict gender segregation, one of the visitors, Nasreen Qattan, told the Associated Press.

Under that same segregation, the male agent should not have entered the all-women center — yet he still barged in and grabbed the woman.

The incident a week ago in the holy city of Mecca is the sort of heavy-handed behavior by the king-dom’s Islamic religious police that many Saudis hoped would end after King Abdullah in February appoint-ed a new chief of the force, billed as a reformer.

But so far, there’s been little sign of change, and complaints against the religious police continue. On Monday, the Saudi National Society for Human Rights, an independent group, issued a report with stinging criticism of the force, accusing it of infringing on civil rights and calling for rules to regulate the religious police.

Currently the police, run by the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, has nearly free rein to enforce king-dom’s strict Wahhabi interpretation of Islamic law. The policemen patrol

public places to ensure women are covered and not wearing make up, the sexes don’t mingle, shops close five times a day for Muslim prayers and men go to the mosque and worship.

They have long been above criti-cism. Two years ago, members of the force were charged with causing the deaths of two men and were put on trial — the first ever such pros-ecution. But eventually Saudi courts dropped charges against the men.

Since then, Saudis have become increasingly vocal in their com-plaints. Many say they are not opposed to the commission itself but to what they see as the agents’ rough methods and their meddling in private lives, such as stopping people to check their cell phones for calls to women or scolding women whose abayas— the black cloaks all women have to wear in public — have embroidery.

The newly appointed commission head, Abdul-Aziz bin Humain, has promised a new tone. Last month, he said the commission will follow the principle of maintaining good faith in people, since “a person is innocent until proved guilty,” the Saudi Gazette newspaper reported.

But so far he has not announced any concrete steps to reform the force, and little change has been seen on the streets.

One Riyadh resident, Mohammed al-Kahtani, told AP he has filed a complaint against the commission after he was beaten up by religious police as he dropped off his wife at a mall a week ago. The agents accused him of being with a woman who was not his wife, dragged him into the street and hit him on the face and back, al-Kahtani said.

—AP

Saudis awaiting change from religious police

Hassan Ammar/AP Photo

Saudi women look at jewelry Saturday at a gold fair in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A Saudi human rights group has criticized the

kingdom’s religious police, saying its members sometimes commit acts that infringe on people’s rights. In the report issued

Monday, the National Society for Human Rights calls for better defining of the powers of the Commission for the Promotion

of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, which runs the religious police.

Details

Universal Crossword

“EAT AROUND THE CLOCK” by Alice Walker

ACROSS 1 Kelpies herd

them 6 Suffix with

“soft,” “hard” or “share”

10 Area map 14 Co-creator

of “The Flintstones”

15 Cheese type 16 City on

seven hills 17 Yale of Yale

University 18 Aggressive

witticism 19 Athena’s

breastplate 20 Traveler’s

accom-modations, sometimes

23 USO user 24 Smaller than

small 25 One-time

protest site 31 Brothers of

soul 32 Island-

hopper’s stop

33 Pub feature 36 Absolute

must 37 Mushroom

stem 38 Thorn in the

flesh 39 Leave the

straight and narrow

40 “I ___ Song Comin’ On”

41 Bridge directions

42 Fancy dining wear

44 Just say yes 47 Ancient

flood insurance

48 Objects of some raids

55 Alka-Seltzer sound

56 “Waiting for the Robert ___”

57 Dazzling effect

58 Roll-call yell 59 Reporter’s

quest 60 Fuel-yielding

rock 61 Word of

hearty concurrence

62 Till section 63 Creedal

statementDOWN 1 “The Purple

People Eater” singer Wooley

2 Sound and healthy

3 “Idylls of the King” character

4 Like some digital pictures

5 Corpulent 6 Friday on TV 7 Jewish

calendar month

8 Like the spotted owl

9 Fortify, as a town

10 Fancy 11 Boston’s

airport 12 Astray

13 Quick to be ticked

21 Happy associate

22 Stem-to-stern part

25 Salesman’s stock

26 ___-friendly 27 Cub or Met,

for short 28 Granolalike 29 Being of

service 30 Like some

stock 33 Tedious

undertaking 34 Kick in to a

pot 35 Royal pain 37 Feeling 38 It could

cause one to lay down on the job

40 Huckleberry or Mickey

41 Heartfelt 42 Intensify

43 Book after Heb.

44 Omega’s antithesis

45 City of witch hunts

46 Part of some chains

49 Open delight 50 Chopped 51 Role for

Nastassja 52 Family group 53 Crinkly

cabbage 54 Leave in

PREVIOUS PUZZLE ANSWER

Edited by Timothy E. Parker March 26, 2009

© 2009 Universal Press Syndicatewww.upuzzles.com

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