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Class about gender roles will explore interactions, attitudes of the sexes, program director saysCAROLINE PERRYMANDaily Staff Writer

OU will offer a new course de-signed and proposed by an OU fresh-man in spring 2011.

Antonin Fusco, University College freshman, brainstormed the idea for a course examining men’s and women’s attitudes toward each other while chatting with friends. He went to the Honors College Interim Dean David Ray, proposed the idea and received approval to pursue the project.

Fusco said the idea is to gener-ate respect of men from women and vice versa. The course is geared toward men and women equally, even though it is in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.

The course is about men and women interactions and how they can better relationships and them-selves, he said.

Fusco turned to Ji l l Ir vine, Women’s and Gender Studies Program director, for help planning the course.

There is a tremendous amount to be learned from examining gender roles throughout history and culture, Irvine said.

“It can tell us so much about our-selves,” Irvine said. “Often, instruc-tors won’t necessarily focus on gen-der roles and relations. They have many other purposes to the course and many other topics that they need to cover, and so this is really a way we will be able to focus on this incredibly important aspect of how we organize our society and how we understand ourselves.”

Students will get a perspective about how gender roles changing over time and will study cultures in various countries, like Ancient Greece, Medieval Europe and con-temporary China, Irvine said.

Throughout the duration of the course, students will learn about dif-ferent sexes and how they are treated and respected in different cultures, Fusco said.

Student’s idea for course comes to fruition

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Mayor Cindy Rosenthal’s main priorities are accessibility, accountability and commitment to

progress, she said.With one mayoral term almost under her belt,

Rosenthal said she has an established record and is committed to thinking about the future.

“Norman can do more to boast efforts to create quality jobs that remain here,” Rosenthal said. “We

can make this an attractive place for future employers.”

Rosenthal said one of her priorities is to protect Lake Thunderbird, the city’s main

water supply. She also supports the Porter Corridor project and other plans that make Norman a fun

place to live.“I’ve had two-and-a-half years of bringing peo-

ple real accomplishments.” Rosenthal. “My cam-paign slogan is ‘Pulling together for all of Norman.’”

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Both candidates said they think this election is about the future of Norman; however, Rosenthal and Ezzell have made some remarks about one another, making this elec-tion about hidden numbers and policies.

In her latest campaign literature, Rosenthal reported Ezzell has missed 51 out of 140 meetings. Ezzell said he is not sure where Rosenthal concluded this number because there have been 395 council meetings since he took the Ward 3 seat in 2007.

“The mayor’s primary criticism is my attendance,” Ezzell said. “It’s very frustrating that she is willing to distort the attendance record. My attendance record is 90 percent to her 93 percent.”

Ezzell said Rosenthal has criticized his refusal to take city e-mails on his personal computer. He responded that since he has confidential law clients, he cannot have his computer subject to the Open Records Acts. His city e-mails are taken through the city clerk’s office.

“Her numbers are highly self-serving, and I think Norman voters are smart enough to see through that,” Ezzell said. “In the real world we get judged on results.”

Campaign criticisms also have been circulating about Rosenthal. Ezzell said Rosenthal is trying to push through a pricey and unnecessary addition to Norman’s Storm Water Master Plan.

“My opponent is not living in the real world,” Rosenthal

said. “He’s totaling up the biggest numbers they can find as a scare tactic. I am committed to thinking about the future, 15 to 20 years into the future.”

Rosenthal said one of her campaign cornerstones is accessibility, yet Ezzell said she has created a sense of faux-accessibility.

According to each mayoral candidate’s official campaign Web site, Ezzell’s personal cell phone number is listed. Rosenthal’s is not.

Sources: Mayor Cindy Rosenthal, www.mayorcindy-rosenthal.org, Ward 3 Councilman Hal Ezzell, halfornor-man.com

Ward 3 Councilman Hal Ezzell wants to take care of what the city already has before anything else, he said. Spending and the economy are the focus points of his campaign for mayor.

Ezzell said he would like to create a public trust to draw in future businesses to the city. In an interview with The Daily, he said the city of Moore was able to supplement funds to bring in a new Target.

“We are not on an island and our com-petitors are being aggressive,” Ezzell said. “The city doesn’t have tools in the toolbox to be competing on projects.”

Also, Ezzell said he wants to take care of the deferred maintenance requests the city has on file instead of pushing new projects forward, like the Porter Corridor project.

Three years on council prior to her two-and-a-half years through her mayoral term

One-and-a-half years on council

Nutrition Calculator assists in maintaining healthy habits, recognizing allergies, specialist saysJIYEUN HEOContributing Staff Writer

Ingredient specialists are available on campus to guide and teach OU students with food allergies to make healthy eating choices around campus din-ing areas.

“The students can utilize the Nutrition Calculator to plan their nutrition intake,” said Lauren Royston, Housing and Food Services spokeswoman.

The Nutrition Calculator can calculate students’ calories, fat and carbohydrates, according to the Housing and Food Services Web site. Students can plan meals ahead of time or review what they have previously eaten to stay on track.

Dorothy Flowers is the general manager of mar-keting and nutritional analysis for Housing and Food Services, and the ingredient specialist on campus. She works with students with food aller-gies to help them choose what they can or cannot eat within the dining options on campus. She also maintains the Nutrition Calculator database in the Housing and Food Services Web Site.

“The Nutrition Calculator is the tool for the cus-tomers,” Flowers said. “They can look up the food

offered at the operations on campus and deter-mine, or put together the best healthiest menus for themselves to plan out throughout the week.”

The Nutrition Calculator is broken down into three steps, the Web site states. First, users can choose a meal and restaurant, then choose a food category and finally look at the meal they have chosen. With this tool, users can configure a meal, search the food and look up the ingredients of the dish they are interested in.

Flowers said it is important for students with food allergies to use the Nutrition Calculator to maintain healthy eating habits and keep track of what they eat throughout the day so they can stay healthy and recognize what kind of food they are allergic to, if any.

“I am allergic to peanuts and it is severe. I can’t be around them, be exposed to them, touch them, eat them, or I will go into anaphylactic shock,” said Lyndsey Ingham, University College freshman.

Anaphylactic shock is a serious allergic reaction and some of the symptoms include dizziness, loss of consciousness, labored breathing, swelling of the tongue, blueness of the skin and if severe it can even cause death, according to medicinenet.com. An immediate emergency treatment is required for this type of shock.

Ingham said she had to make the decision of moving out of her dorm room in Couch Center be-cause of her roommate not respecting her allergic

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is to inform all students and generate their opinions in class. Students will research and present evidence to sup-port or refute their opinions. This is not a course teaching students what to think — it is a course teaching students how to think, Fusco said.

“This course is delicate,” he said. “This is something that everybody will walk in with an opinion on, and a pretty strong one. I mean everybody defines themselves based on their gender roles, at least a little bit.”

The course is designed to benefit anyone, not just women’s and gender studies students. Irvine said it will be a 2000 or 3000 level honors course offered to all students.

Meredith Forbes, pre-nursing sophomore, said she would be interested in taking the course.

“I think it would be pretty interesting to see the kinds of ways men and women pur-sued each other throughout time,” Forbes said. “I have come across many guys that are still respectful but there are definitely some out there that aren’t.”

Kenton Panas, chemistry pre-pharmacy sophomore, said it could be a great oppor-tunity to learn.

“If the people going [into the class] are willing to learn and not prove their point and it should probably not be offered as a freshman level class,” Panas said. “Looking at myself and what I thought last year about classes like this and what I think now, I think it would be much more beneficial to upper-division people.”

Irvine said the course has the potential to be more than a mere class in which stu-dents learn about a subject.

“I think whenever you look at a phenomenon or a social characteristic or in this case something like gender roles comparatively, what it tells you most about is yourself,” Irvine said.

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! e Daily asked students if they planned on voting today in the Norman Municipal Elections for Norman Mayor, city council and two bond issues, one pertaining to the city purchasing new tornado sirens.

“I plan to vote. I need to look over what’s on the ballot again, but I plan on participating.”

—Brooke Ramsey, ! lm and video studies sophomore

“I usually try to make an educated decision by studying what is going to be on the ballot, but I didn’t even know there was an election and I don’t want to just vote for people randomly.”

—Yen Le, microbiology and pre-pharmaceutical studies junior

“I don’t see myself in Norman much longer so I personally don’t really see the need to vote in the election.”

—Kate Rocklin, anthropology senior

“I’m not registered to vote in Norman.”—Charlie Flowers, health exercise sciences junior

“I’m not registered to vote in Norman. I’m registered in Texas, but I do know that the candidates are Cindy Rosenthal and Hal Ezzell.”

—Thomas Gibson, energy manage-ment senior

reactions to peanuts. If she had known the ingre-dient specialist earlier she would have made wiser decisions about what she eats and her residence life.

“It would be nice to know what contains pea-nuts and what not on campus dining options be-cause I just had to guess whenever I had a chance to eat on campus so that I am not exposed to it,” Ingham said.

“The only way to not have allergic reaction is to not have the food a person is allergic to and recog-nize what is going on with their body because the allergic reaction can take a day or two to appear,” Flowers said.

The Laughing Tomato in the Oklahoma Memorial Union has some healthier options com-pared to some of the other dining places on cam-pus because it mostly uses the natural and organic products from local farms such as Peach Crest, Flowers said.

Flowers said every year during March and April she goes to different operations to inform the stu-dents about healthier dining options within Food

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E-mail noti! cation to dropped students ‘easy to misunderstand,’ academic counselor saysAUDREY HARRISDaily Staff Writer

A math department policy that allows instructors to drop

students who miss the first two days of class, combined with oZONE policy changes, left a student unaware that she was no longer enrolled in Calculus II.

Ziggie Oleru, arts and sciences sophomore, didn’t know about the policy or that it affected her until she discovered she was no longer enrolled in her Calculus II class several weeks into the semester.

Oleru said she attended the class for weeks, and had even taken several quizzes, when she realized she was no longer enrolled in the course. A couple of days before her first test, she logged onto Desire2Learn to print off a review. The course didn’t show up, and her name wasn’t on the roster. Oleru said she thought she’d been dropped because she changed majors during the first week of school.

“My advisor said I might not be able to stay in some of my classes, and so I was thinking that was what had happened,” Oleru said. “But then I thought about it more, and it’s a math-ematics class so all majors need it.”

Oleru was told by enrollment that she’d been dropped for attendance reasons, but she said she didn’t understand why when she’d been going to class. She contacted Patrick Cross, academic counselor and coordinator of undergraduate math-ematics enrollment and placement, who placed her in the class before her test.

Cross said the math department has a policy for every math class: A student who misses the first two class periods without any notification will be dropped.

Oleru said she missed the first day of class because she was trying to change her schedule. She was late to the second, which caused her to be counted absent. She continued to at-tend class unaware that she had been dropped.

Cross said students are notified automatically via e-mail once they’ve been dropped from a class, but since the switch to oZONE, a few changes have taken place.

“Now, since we’ve gone to oZONE, I personally don’t type in the dropping,” Cross said.

Cross said he sends a list of students who need to be dropped to Enrollment Services and they drop the students. An e-mail is generated when they are dropped telling them they have been dropped.

The e-mail is now a generic one sent from oZONE, and it’s easy to misunderstand, Cross said.

“It’s possible for a student to get one of those and not realize what it’s saying, because the e-mail is triggered by any activity. It just sends out an e-mail and says there was activity on your account, and there’s the schedule [of the student’s classes],” Cross said.

Cross said the old system allowed the department to attach a message telling students they’d been dropped for atten-dance reasons. Students were told to contact Cross or their in-structor if the information was incorrect or they needed more details. But the new oZONE system does not allow messages to be attached, Cross said.

Students who don’t read the e-mail thoroughly may not understand that they’ve been dropped. Cross said Oleru was not the only student this semester who didn’t know he or she

had been dropped from the math department.Breck Turkington, director of Enrollment Services, said

students are going to have to rely on communicating with their instructors and getting copies of the syllabus to see if there are attendance policies for the first classes of the semester.

Some science classes like chemistry and zoology also have attendance policies for the first two days of class, Turkington said.

Caitlin Stover, health and exercise science junior, was in-formed by her Chemistry II instructors both by e-mail and during the first day of class that those who did not attend the first two classes would be dropped.

“They were really straightforward with us,” Stover said. “Even if you came the second week and didn’t come the first, you still couldn’t be in the class unless you had special permission.”

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The Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust approved the proposal of a new adult stem cell research center in Oklahoma City on Feb. 24.

The Oklahoma Center for Adult Stem Cell Research at the OU Health Sciences Center is looking to develop new strategies in cancer treatment that could improve Oklahomans’ health, said John Iandolo, vice president for research at the OU Health Sciences Center. The center will distribute funding to research-ers working with adult stem cells and attract more talent to build expertise in regenerative medicine.

Research already occurring at the OU Health Sciences Center includes the work of Dr. Courtney Houchen, and Shrikant Anant, Ph.D., in the OU Cancer Institute. They are studying how certain stem cell proteins work in the growth of cancer. Developing a drug through this protein or through other markers found could treat numerous cancers, Houchen said.

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Ziggie Oleru, arts and sciences junior, searches for her name in the roster for her math class Sunday evening in the Flint Study Center Computer Lab. Oleru said she was dropped from her math class a day before a test without any prior notification.

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Higher education is incredibly underfunded by our country’s government. There is simply no excuse for it. Forcing univer-sities to find their own ways to stay financially afloat subjects them to the complete whim of anybody with a buck. It is de-stroying the education, values, and creativity of generations of Americans.

There is no doubt that the perceived intent of a university has shifted within the last few decades. For nearly a millennium, universities across the world existed to give their students a very broad and thorough liberal arts education, yet slowly we have seen the goal become vocational training.

Public education was founded in the 19th century in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. It was created for the sole purpose of giving us the tools to economically succeed in a non-agrarian based economy.

A massive population of veterans was grant-ed free tuition with the GI Bill in the 1940s and ’50s. This, in conjunction with the post-World War II economic boom, raised the expecta-tions of white collar America; academic infla-tion reared its ugly head as college became a required extension of public schooling. The diploma became essential to secure your fu-

ture, and higher education was forever altered.Now that college is a function of business, those wishing to

donate money to the university have an ulterior motive: adver-tising and, more importantly, creating the perfect future em-ployee. Unfortunately, colleges need this money badly.

Art, literature, dance, music and language suddenly became costly and unnecessary subjects, so we’ve seen less and less of them. They are being cut because those subjects will not make a profit for your employer — the man who inevitably controls your education. Parents think they are a waste of time too, for, “You’ll never make any money doing that.”

It’s a tragedy we’ve started to agree. How often do we hear complaints about those “boring” gen-ed courses?

What we lose as a university slowly becomes a vocational school is nothing short of our humanity. Humans are naturally disposed to being inspired by music, art, literature, etc. By be-lieving the fallacy that it’s not worth our time to enjoy all the wonders of this world we inherently stifle our growth as free-thinking, cognitive beings.

We are at this time raised to believe (and now universities en-force this belief) achieving financial success is the ultimate goal of our existence. We don’t value intelligence, thought or integ-rity; we value our ability to make capital.

News flash: Everything we do doesn’t have to be about money. Are we humans or are we dogs?

We are breeding selfish, materialistic zombies who have nothing to offer society outside their work because that is where we train people to find fulfillment. Fortunately for the business-men influencing our studies, this is just how they like it.

This is the problem with viewing universities as something that should make a profit. You simply cannot apply capitalism to a college. Without gross government support you wind up with exorbitant tuition prices, generations of people in debt, donors who control the curricula, students who are there for a piece of paper and completely crush the educational drive in everyone involved. We are fashioned to be tools, not human beings.

And i t ’s gett ing worse. The Oklahoma House of Representatives recently agreed to cut higher education fund-ing by 3.5 percent.

The ideal university is lost.Parents also perpetuate the problem, for rarely are they really

interested in their children’s education (no matter how much they disagree) but in their future employment. They are not going to send their child and give their dollars to a school that makes them amazingly intelligent if it doesn’t give them a job.

Being driven by profits, a professor is more valuable for re-search capacity than teaching competence, and a student is only as precious as his wallet is big. If we failed a student who didn’t have the cognitive ability or desire to achieve in a classroom we would lose his or her tuition money and his or her potential fu-ture donations. So, rather than challenging students we lower the academic standards.

We have made college easy for money. Cheat-sheets often ac-company my exams — like manna from heaven. Heaven forbid we have to learn something at school! I’ve made cheat-sheets so successfully someone who had never attended the class could have aced my exams. I didn’t even have to study.

We desperately need to reassess why education is valued in this country. Yes, universities need more money. (And I’ll have none of that “we don’t have any” crap when more than 50 per-cent of our budget is military spending). But more importantly, we need to view edu-cation as something more than job training. Otherwise, we lose the arts, the intellectual drive and the compas-sion to see people as people rather than tools.

President John Adams said, “now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be pos-sessed of all this knowledge ... to assert and maintain liberty and virtue.”

Let our country aspire to be educated beings, not soulless hammers. Let us inspire our hearts.

Jordan Rogers is an industrial engineering senior.

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Our zombie education leads to grade in! ationUniversity of California Berkeley students took to the

streets Friday. They protested higher education budget cuts and subsequent tuition hikes. They were so angry that cars were turned over, dumpsters were set aflame and windows were smashed.

Reminiscent of their 1964 protest, Berkeley students ri-oted. Then they danced, showing you can have fun while making a statement.

Our State Legislature recently agreed to cut funding to higher education by 3.5 percent — and we’ve done nothing.

There were no protests, no demonstrations and no riots. Nothing. We haven’t seen complaints from our stu-dent representatives at UOSA. Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society hasn’t even publicly protested.

OU President David Boren even said he is pleased with the agreement that resulted in these cuts.

None of the people who are supposed to be represent-ing the interests of students are standing up against this. Cutting higher education funding will mean more costs for students and a smaller investment for the future. It’s in the worst interest of the state in the long run and in our worst interest in the short term.

So do something. Protest, get together and stage a

demonstration; call or write your representatives.We aren’t advocating the destruction of property, but

voicing protests when the Legislature rules against your in-terests is a good way of preventing your representatives from behaving this way in the future.

Representatives will act against the interests of their con-stituency when they feel the issue isn’t salient, when they think they can get away with it. And right now they’re get-ting away with it.

As active members of a democracy we have an obliga-tion to let those who are supposed to represent us know of our discontent. We need to let them know their behavior is not representative of us.

College students are stereotyped as being apathetic, separate from the political system. When we don’t stand up to act we give these stereotypes more credibility.

If you don’t like what happens, if you don’t like the Regents raising fees instead of tuition, if you don’t like our legislators cutting funding to higher education, let them know. Follow the Berkeley example and have some fun while you’re at it, but don’t destroy everything in the process.

Get out there and make some noise.


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“Now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all this knowledge ... to assert and maintain liberty and virtue.”

—President John Adams

During a recent trip to Goddard Health Center to pro-cure a prescription for AD/HD medication, I reflected on the utter uselessness of my trip. The very notion of my being required to make this trip seemed absurd to me, and I concluded that the legal requirement of a doctor’s prescription is unnecessary and wasteful.

As mentioned, I was attempting to acquire a prescrip-tion for AD/HD medication. I was on medication for a few years as a child and have struggled with attention prob-lems throughout my time here at OU.

Thanks to the wealth of information available on the Internet, I was able to read up on the disorder and con-clude that I was probably suffering a reoccurrence and should seek medication.

In a truly free society, I would be free to act on this suspicion and simply order the medication of my choice online or from a local pharmacy. Because of health laws, however, I was required to schedule the first of multiple screening/testing meetings at Goddard Health Center, and will not be able to purchase the medication until the process is done, which I was told will take more than a month.

To their credit, the entire staff at Goddard has been both remarkably accommodating and exceptionally friendly to me. It is no fault of the OU health staff that this time-consuming transaction has been forced upon me, and the staff has made it much less painful than I anticipated.

The entire transaction of pursuing a prescription is largely useless. With resources like WebMD.com, which has hundreds of patient reviews for thousands of pre-scription drugs, at one’s fingertips, a trip to the doctor and then to a legally licensed pharmacist is often simply a legal formality.

These unnecessary trips to a doctor force up the de-mand for doctors’ services, which both drives up prices and leads to long waiting times to meet with physicians.

To force someone who can learn the purpose, effec-tiveness, and possible risks of a drug on his or her own time is not only ridiculous, it is wasteful. The prescription requirement associated with drugs should be abolished to eliminate this waste and to further patients’ freedom.

One objection to this proposal is that many people do not fully understand the dynamics of drug treatment, especially the interaction between different medica-tions, and abolishing the prescription requirement will

endanger these patients.This is an argument based on fear rather than reason.

Those people who find themselves confused about their symptoms would still have the option to visit a doctor or talk to a pharmacist if they felt it was worth their time.

Indeed, it is rational to expect many still would, espe-cially those with serious afflictions. In many cases, in-dividuals don’t even know what is causing their health deficiency, so of course people would freely choose to

continue visiting doctors for advice and prescriptions.

Another objection to this proposal is that some would abuse and become addicted to powerful painkillers and other drugs that are now available only to those with pre-scriptions. This argument is plainly true, but prescription abolition is still desirable for two main reasons.

First, people should be free to use and abuse drugs if they so choose. People who aren’t free to do whatever they want to their bodies, including ingesting danger-

ous drugs, are not self-owners in any sense. Therefore, the abolition of prescription requirements is an essential requirement of personal freedom.

Second, one must remember that many people al-ready become addicted to pharmaceuticals despite the legal prescription requirement. When these addicts are unable to acquire prescription renewals, they either have to search for their desired drugs through the black market or begin abusing other drugs.

Either way, refusing to allow addicts to legitimately acquire their drugs fuels the black market for drugs. This forces otherwise harmless addicts to do business with criminals. Therefore, abolishing the prescription require-ment will decrease the demand for black market drugs.

In conclusion, the abolition of the prescription require-ments would remove the burden of useless visits from the health delivery system, shortening waiting times and al-lowing quicker diagnosis and treatment of more serious injuries. Americans would remain free to consult with doctors, and many would do so, but all citizens would be free to make their own health decisions.

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CAMPUS EVENTS

The following is a list of arrests and cita-tions, not convictions. The information given is compiled from the Norman and OU Police Departments. At times, the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Department and the Oklahoma City FBI will contrib-ute to these reports. All those listed are innocent until proven guilty.

MUNICIPAL WARRANTShaun Anthony Head, 34, 203 S. Jones Ave., SundayJohnny R. Houston, 37, 400 Ed Noble Parkway, SundayMalisa Suzanne Stevens, 46, 203 S. Jones Ave., SundayMatthew Ian Williams, 30, 203 S. Jones Ave., Sunday

COUNTY WARRANTTimothy Allen Loyd, 53, 400 Ed Noble Parkway, Sunday

WARRANTEmilio Aguiluz, 48, Tecumseh Road, Sunday

AGGRAVATED DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCETanner Leroy Marlow, 29, North Flood Avenue, Saturday

DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCEBobby Joe Jackson, 56, 700 SW. 24th Ave., SundayMatthew Trey Lester, 19, 740 Asp Ave., SundayJeffery Ray Woods, 23, 400 W. Boyd St., Saturday, also driving under suspen-sionAlexandra Maria Pettigrew, 19, 300 W. Boyd St., also transporting an open container and minor in possession of

alcoholKristen Rose Sangirardi, 23, 600 E. Lindsey St., Saturday, also no insur-anceMichael Steven Smith, 19, Lindsey Street and Classen Boulevard, Sunday

OUTRAGING PUBLIC DECENCYMarvin Escobar Hernandez, 32, 920 SW. 24th Ave., Saturday

DISTURBING THE PEACEDonald Tu Phan, 21, 1233 Caddell Lane, Sunday

POSSESSION OF MARIJUANABrian Benjamin Capers, 18, W. Boyd Street, SaturdayJoel Albert Ossom, 20, 3600 W. Main St., Sunday

Jaimit Vashee, 18, 342 F irst St., Saturday, also possession of drug para-phernaliaBilly Ray Hayden, 23, 300 W. Boyd St., Sunday, also driving under the in! uence and unlawful carrying of a concealed weaponCarter Richard Cashman, 19, 300 W. Third St., Sunday, also possession of drug paraphernalia

POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIABennett Ross Weber, 20, 342 First St., SaturdayGregory Cooper Wilson, 19, 342 First St., Saturday

POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA WITHIN PRESENCE OF A MINOR

Corey Michel Guerrero, 18, 1338 Regent St., Saturday, also public drunkennessSchelina Deann Mitchell, 18, 1338 Regent St., Saturday, also public drunk-ennessJoshua Dan Rose, 19, 1338 Regent St., Saturday, also public drunkennessJustin Wayne Taylor, 23, 1338 Regent St., Saturday, also public drunkenness

PETTY LARCENYMichelle Rae Coyle, 43, 3499 W. Main St., Saturday

PUBLIC INTOXICATIONChristopher Howard Davis, 18, 413 W. Hayes St., Sunday, also interference with an of" cial processCody Wayne Potter, 18, 1631 Cross Center Drive, SaturdayZachary James Hensley, 20, 300 W. Boyd St., Saturday

TODAY

CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUSChristians on Campus will have its weekly Bible study at noon in the President’s Room of the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

CAREER SERVICESCareer Services will have a lesson on telephone interviewing at noon in the Crimson Room of the union.

CAREER SERVICESCareer Services will teach about resume writing at noon in the Crimson Room of the union.

ALPHA PHI OMEGAAlpha Phi Omega, a service fraternity, will have a bene" t night for Relay for Life from 5 to 9 p.m. at Chili’s.

EVERETT POETRY SERIESPoets will read work from the collection “Two Southwests” at 7 p.m. in Ellison Hall. A Chicana-Native American poet also will read her poems at 7 p.m. in the National Weather Center auditorium

WEDNESDAYBOOK SALEThe Geology Library will have a book sale from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Sarkeys Energy Center, room 220.

CAREER SERVICESCareer Services will host a luncheon about " nding an internship at noon in the Heritage Room of the union.

CAREER SERVICESCareer Services will discuss interview-ing techniques at 1 p.m. in the Crimson Room of the union.

CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUSChristians on Campus will have its weekly Bible study at 12:30 p.m. in the Weitzenhoffer Room of the union.

CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRISTCampus Crusade for Christ will meet at 9 p.m. in the Santee Lounge of the Gaylord Family Memorial Stadium.

From dinner theater to road trips, opportunities abound for those staying in townDANIELA MCCORMICKDaily Staff Writer

Once the second week of

March rolls around and mid-terms are over, many students will pack up their belongings and leave Norman for spring break. But a number of students will stay in Oklahoma, for one reason or another.

Students staying in Oklahoma may find themselves without ideas for spring break plans, like Jenna Bryan, studio art and print-making sophomore, and Matthew Richardson, University College freshman.

“I am staying in Bartlesville be-cause my family lives there,” Bryan said. “It’s a small town. There’s not much to do there.”

Richardson said he was prob-ably going to Madill where he lives or stay in Norman for a few days.

“I might go to the movies some-time,” Richardson said. “I don’t know what movie I’d see though.”

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relations sophomore, is staying in Oklahoma City due to lack of funds. He said students could go to Warren Theatre in Moore and also participate in other activities.

“You can go bowling, golfing, just normal everyday activities, I suppose,” Brooks said.

For those who find themselves in similar situations, there are some activities scheduled dur-ing spring break in Norman, Oklahoma City and Moore that may be of interest and can be spent with friends and family.

NORMAN• The Sam Noble Oklahoma

Museum of Natural History is hosting daily activities March 15 to March 19 that include art workshops, hiking and scavenger hunts. Museum admission is free with OU ID. Visit www.snomnh.ou.edu for more details.

OKLAHOMA CITY• The Oklahoma City Zoo is

organizing a road trip March 12 to March 14 that includes visiting three major zoos in Oklahoma and Texas. The trip is for ages 18 and up, and the cost is $265 per person and covers fees, meals,

transportation and accommoda-tions. More information can be found at zoofieldtrips.com/road-trip.

• The NCAA Men’s Basketball Division I Championship first and second round returns to the Ford Center March 18 to March 20. Tickets can be purchased at www.ncaaa.org.

• Oklahoma City’s Tornado Alley Rollergirls will host its annu-al St. Baldrick’s Foundation bout against Amarillo, Texas’ Route 66 to raise money for cancer re-search. It will be at the Historic Farmers Market at 7 p.m. March 21 at 311 S. Klein. Admission is $12.

MOORE • The Yellow Rose Theater, lo-

cated at 1005 SW 4th St., is host-ing a Whodunit Dinner Theater themed “A Cruise to Die For!” March 19 and 20. According to whodunit.net, the Whodunit Dining Room hosts murder mys-teries that have seven to nine characters who lay out a mystery the audience can solve using clues from the actors. More infor-mation can be found on its official Web site.

Local spring break fun not out of reach

POLICE REPORTS

I vowed some time ago that I would never again publicly share my opinion on the NFL draft. After embarrassingly pleading with NFL teams to draft former OU receiver Malcolm Kelly high in the 2008 draft, I figured I should leave some things to those people who get paid to evaluate talent.

But today, I’m going to break that vow. Sort of.

As the NFL Combine wraps up in Indianapolis this week, rumors about

the potential of former OU quarterback Sam Bradford being drafted No. 1 have gained steam. Like I said though, I would rather not waste space here trying to evaluate Bradford’s draft stock.

I am not sure that Bradford is the best player in the entire draft—there is simply no way for me to know that. What I do know is that, if the St. Louis Rams do select Bradford first, it could go a long way to rejuvenate that Sooner swagger that has taken such a big hit this athletic year.

It’s easy to forget how good things once were. Just a year ago, the football team played in the BCS Championship, the men’s basketball team’s season finished in the Elite Eight and the women went out in the Final Four.

Bradford, Blake Griffin and Courtney Paris cleaned up during award season, and Bradford and Griffin made OU the first school ever to win the Heisman and Naismith Trophies in the same academic year.

Things change quickly.A year later, injuries, inexperience and, occasionally, a lack

of talent led the football team to an 8-5 record, caused the men’s basketball team to forget its NCAA tournament hopes long ago and left the women (though they have been far more successful than the men) with some questions as the NCA tournament draws near.

After one of the best years for Sooner athletics last season, this one has often been excruciating, at least for the “major” sports at OU.

But a No. 1 overall pick for Bradford can help change spirits.

The thing about Bradford is that even if he did not spend his time at OU destroying team passing records, teams would like him because of the kind of person he is.

Bradford was blessed with an unreal amount of natural talent. What makes him special though, is that, much like Griffin, who was the NBA’s No. 1 overall pick this season, he is humble, hard-working and has an unquenchable thirst to be successful.

Bradford’s family kept him grounded and has been a fierce while respectful competitor from an early age. Even if Bradford couldn’t throw a football more than 10 yards, he possesses everything else NFL teams could want.

It’s his work ethic, his willingness to be coached, his humil-ity, his hunger, his passion, his brains and his general attitude that could make his draft position so important to Sooner na-tion. Not only would every fan feel a sense of pride if Bradford

was taken No. 1, and for a minute take their minds off the struggle that currently is OU sports, but maybe, Bradford’s success will be an example for some current OU athletes.

Athletes with the combination of talent, humility, and work ethic are rare, and OU was lucky to have several at the same time. Bradford and Griffin specifically (defensive tackle Gerald McCoy, another potential No. 1 draft pick, could be put in the same category) spoiled Sooner fans last season. Now, as there are anywhere else, some of the most talented Sooner athletes are selfish, lazy and not fully committed to the university.

But hopefully Bradford’s success can serve as an example.

As much as I believe in Bradford’s talent, there are plenty of reasons to not draft him No. 1 overall, namely, the fact that he spent most of last season nursing his injured throwing shoulder. Still, something draws teams to him even though no team has seen him throw a pass since October, and won’t for nearly another month. Hopefully current OU athletes will take notice of that.

So I have learned from my mistakes about trying to evalu-ate talent. I won’t say that Bradford should be the No. 1 over-all pick in this year’s draft. I will say this, though: For the sake of saving some of that Sooner athletic mojo, Bradford being taken first could be huge.

And if it happens, it’s hard to imagine someone else more deserving.

Steven Jones is a language arts education senior.

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Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford, center, watches drills between fellow quarterbacks, left to right, Appalachian State’s Armanti Edwards, Western Michigan’s Tim Hiller, Northwestern’s Mike Kafka and Troy’s Levi Brown at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Sunday.

Bradford still representing OU at NFL Combine

MEN’S BASKETBALL«

WOMEN’S GOLF IN FIFTH IN ORLANDO

After 36 holes of play, the OU women’s golf team is in ! fth place after posting scores of 298 and 301 Monday at the University of Central Florida Challenge in Orlando, Fla. The tournament is a 54 hole competition featuring 17 different teams. Ahead of the Sooners are Georgia State in ! rst with a score of 591, and Texas A&M, Central Florida all tied for second place with scores of 598. The ! nal round of the tournament is scheduled to begin at 7 a.m. tomorrow. -Daily Staff Reports

SOONERS CONTINUE TO LIMP TO SEASON’S ENDCLARK FOYDaily Staff Writer

Despite leading at half, the OU men’s basketball team fell to the Texas Longhorns 87-76 in Austin Monday night.

As their season winds down and their shot at a postseason tournament is just about out of reach, the Sooners men’s basketball squad traveled to face the Texas Longhorns in Austin.

Earlier in the season, OU was able to come out on top in Norman 80-71. Since upsetting their hated rivals, the Sooners have lost every game, whether the game be at home or on the road.

With one last road game left, the Sooners at-tempted to grab their second true road win of the season. And while they made the game close at times and even commanded several double-digit leads, the Longhorns proved too much while de-fending their home court.

The Sooners started out strong in the first half despite their recent performances. At one time, OU led by as much as 13 thanks to the efforts of junior guard Cade Davis and senior guard Tony Crocker.

Davis had 15 points in the first while shooting 5-7 from the 3-point arc. With 13 and a half min-utes left in the first, the Elk City native hit three 3-pointers in a row and was the lone Sooner-scorer on a 9-1 OU run.

Crocker added his own 15 points to the mix on 5-8 shooting in the first and was 2-4 from 3-point range.

The Longhorns were not going down easily, though. At the half, UT clearly had the momentum

and the Sooners were hanging on to a 40-38 lead after Longhorn forward Damion James took con-trol of the game.

But the start of the second half was all OU once again.

A 9-0 run started the Sooners off as they quickly built an 11-point lead and forced a quick Texas timeout. The lead was short-lived, as UT would host an 11-2 run right back to make the game 51-49 with 13:40 left.

While OU had a strong showing at first, the Longhorns would respond again, this time with a 20-6 run.

The Longhorns carried the momentum through the rest of the second half, led again by James.

Davis finished with 22 points on 6-11 shooting, 6-10 from downtown. Crocker, who left the game for a short amount of time with a rolled ankle, finished with a team-high 24 points on 8-13 and managed to grab five rebounds as well.

Freshman guard Tommy Mason-Griffin fin-ished with 10 points and seven assists after having just two first half points. The Houston-native shot poorly for the second straight game, hitting just three of 10 field goal attempts including 1-4 from the 3-point arc.

The loss increases the Sooners’ losing streak to seven and leaves them at 13-16 on the season, 4-11 in Big 12 play. It also guarantees the Sooners will finish below .500, which is the first time for a Sooner men’s basketball team since 1981 when OU went 9-18.

OU's final game will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Lloyd Noble Center against the Texas A&M Aggies.NEIL MCGLOHON/THE DAILY

Ryan Wright, senior forward, grabs a rebound in the game against Texas on Feb. 6. The Sooners won 80-71.

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JONO GRECODaily Staff Writer

The No. 20 baseball team will play its first home game of the season at 3 p.m. Tuesday at L. Dale Mitchell Park against the University of Texas at Arlington Mavericks before kicking off the week-long Sooner Classic tournament on Thursday.

The Sooners (6-1) will play a stretch of five home games in six days starting Tuesday, and here’s a look at the potential starting lineup for the first home stand of 2010.

FIRST BASE: SOPHOMORE CAMERON SEITZER

Seitzer has a good glove at the corner and can make a pick in the dirt when the time calls for it, but his biggest impact will be when he steps to the plate. He is hitting .316 with three RBIs, and fans should be on the lookout for his home run power.

SECOND BASE: JUNIOR DANNY BLACK

The Feather River College transfer has been a nice addi-tion to OU’s lineup and has been productive hitter and field-er. Black’s hustle and team-oriented mindset will win the Sooners a couple of close games later on in the season.

SHORTSTOP: SOPHOMORE CALEB BUSHYHEAD

Bushyhead’s batting average took a slight hit this past weekend in Jacksonville, but returning home may be what

he needs to get back into a groove. Also, his range up the middle has been impressive, making fans forget how big of a concern it was trying to replace former OU shortstop Bryant Hernandez.

THIRD BASE: SOPHOMORE GARRETT BUECHELE

Despite taking a ball off his eye in the season-opening se-ries against San Diego State, Buechele has started the season red hot at the plate. He’s hitting .500 with two home runs and eight RBIs. Fans can expect to see his power numbers to in-crease by returning to the hitter-friendly confines of L. Dale Mitchell Park.

LEFT FIELD: JUNIOR CASEY JOHNSON

Even though Johnson’s .250 average is among the lowest on the team, he has been hitting the ball squarely and has fallen victim to having almost each of his hardly hit balls find-ing its way into a fielder’s glove.

CENTER FIELD: JUNIOR ELLIOTT BLAIR

Blair has started just three games this season, but it is hard to justify not keeping someone who is hitting .455 in 11 at-bats out of the lineup. You can’t go wrong with starting junior outfielder Chris Ellison at center, either, but he is hitting al-most .200 points fewer than Blair.

RIGHT FIELD: JUNIOR RICK EISENBERG

Like Black, Eisenberg has been an immediate contributor to his new team. Eisenberg is hitting .292 and has the speed to steal bases if the Sooners need a runner to get himself into scoring position.

DESIGNATED HITTER: SENIOR KALEB HERREN

Herren has been putting some good bat on the ball to start the season even though he has only appeared in four of the Sooners’ seven games. He has gathered five hits in 10 at-bats, and three of those hits have gone for extra bases.

PITCHER: FRESHMAN RYAN GIBSON

Gibson was one of the biggest surprises in the Sooners’ opening series against San Diego State. He pitched five shut-out innings and struck out five batters in his first career start, and he could find himself in the weekend rotation if he can consistently put together some quality midweek starts.

CATCHER: SENIOR ROSS HUBBARD

Even though OU has used three different catchers this season, Hubbard would be the right choice to start at catcher with Gibson on the mound. He handled the freshman pitch-er well in his first start, and trying to maintain that pitcher-catcher chemistry may result in similar results.

SOONERS TO OPEN HOME SEASON TODAY BASEBALL«

ANNELISE RUSSELLDaily Staff Writer

The Sooners are not done with the state of Texas yet.The OU women’s basketball team is gearing up for a

round two romp with the Texas A&M Aggies tonight in College Station, Texas.

The conference game features the 11th-ranked Sooners and 12th-ranked Aggies, with both teams look-ing for wins as the season winds down.

The Aggies are 8-6 in the Big 12 this season and fresh off a win over conference cellar-dweller, Colorado.

The Sooners are going into the matchup with a big win over Texas on Saturday that saw junior guard Nyeshia Stevenson lead OU with 28 points to a 75-60 victory.

When playing the Aggies, OU has faired pretty good this season.

The Sooners faced off against the Gary Blair squad in Norman and took the 74-65 win, but Sherri Coale’s team has not won in College Station since 2006.

One of OU’s assets going into this game is the

leadership from the point of junior Danielle Robinson. She has been a Sooner for this OU team throughout the season and now is being recognized for her skills on the court.

She was listed in consideration for All-Amerian honors, as well as Naismith, Wooden, and Lieberman awards.

Robinson is averaging 16.7 points per game and 5.2 assists per game, which is comparable to previous Lieberman award winners such as Renee Montgomery of Connecticut and Kristi Toliver of Maryland.

Even with Robinson running the Sooner offense, the Aggies will be a tough bill.

Texas A&M senior guard Tanisha Smith averages 15.1 points a contest and 5.4 rebounds per game. Her tough play resembles previous Texas A&M greats such as Danielle Gant and Takia Starks.

Luckily for OU, the Sooners have numerous defensive weapons and four Sooner starters averaging in double figures to combat the Aggies’ offensive front.

The Sooners and Aggies take to the court for a 7 p.m. tip-off tonight at Reed Arena in College Station.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL« OU to play ! nal regular season road game against No. 12 Aggies

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Danielle Robinson, junior guard, looks to pass the ball against Nebraska Feb. 24. The Sooners lost 80-64.

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sound 14 Luxuriant, as

vegetation 15 Garden

worker, at times

16 Do more than apologize

17 Totally enjoying

18 Shroud of mystique

19 Good-fer-nothin’

20 Rule- breaker’s mantra

23 Candy store buy

24 Zebra’s cousin

25 Creeper keeper

29 Blackjack option

31 Beginning for “while”

33 Direction from L.A. to KC

34 Airplane walkway

36 Discoverer’s cry

39 Risk-taker’s credo

42 Chilled dessert

43 Get ___ start (be tardy)

44 Bit for the dog bowl

45 Plum NASCAR position

47 Bit of offshore land

51 Ache reliever 54 “Fire!”

preceder 56 Holiday

minus one 57 Personal

trainer’s slogan

60 Fancy balls 63 Broadway’s

“Sweeney ___”

64 “Winning ___ everything!”

65 Wombs 66 Big-mouthed

pitcher 67 Polish leader

Walesa 68 Number of

deadly sins 69 Calcutta

clothing 70 War god on

OlympusDOWN 1 Emulates ivy 2 Expire, as a

subscription 3 Breathing

problem 4 “Just a

minute there!” 5 Deceptions 6 Advises 7 Aviation

prefix 8 Rough

write-ups 9 Bargain-

hunter’s goal 10 Great Barrier

Reef sight 11 Baseball

manager Piniella

12 Connections, of a sort

13 She played a Partridge

21 What r can mean, in geometry

22 Nicaraguan president Daniel

26 Eye with desire

27 Like a nerd’s shirt pocket, stereotypically

28 ___ legs (nautical steadiness)

30 Acts shrewish 32 Having to

do with the kidneys

35 Increase, as production

37 In the preceding month

38 Agile deer 39 “A Doll’s

House” protagonist

40 On the ___

(unfriendly) 41 Ornamental,

poisonous shrub

42 Cousin’s aunt, perhaps

46 Speaks with pomposity

48 Renter 49 Demonstrate

clearly 50 Dimes to a

dollar, e.g. 52 Animal trap 53 Certain red

dye 55 Madagascar

primate 58 Davenport

state 59 Reptilian

“monster” 60 “50 Ways

to Leave Your Lover” bus-hopper

61 Breakfasted, e.g.

62 “My Name Is Asher ___”

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PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Your natural abilities to listen and detect are extremely sharp. If you feel deprived of essential information in certain situations, now is the time to probe and investigate.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- An important relationship is likely to require some tactful treatment; fortunately, you’re up to making these concessions to this person, which you might not make for another.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- If you don’t utilize your time in productive and constructive ways, your self-esteem might suffer. So make sure that you don’t waste time on frivolous pursuits.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Some kind of joint endeavor will do far better if you step forward and take a more active role. Colleagues will do what they can, but they don’t possess your creativity.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Once you visualize the type of results you want with regard to something important, you will put forth whatever effort is necessary to fulfi ll your vision. Use this talent.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Because you are both physically and mentally restless, you won’t let any grass grow under your feet. You might even take on something that requires learning new knowledge.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Your chances for material growth look especially good, mainly because making money to acquire a desired item will be more fun than usual.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Don’t hesitate to assert yourself in situations that require assertiveness in order to achieve your goals, but don’t ask the same of others. Each person must be allowed to do his or her own thing.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- You’re likely to feel obliged to make a small but signifi cant sacrifi ce for someone who means a lot to you -- and know that it will mean the world to this person.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Put some old projects on the back burner for the moment, and place your new interest front and center. Its input and completion could make everything else easier to accomplish.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- When properly motivated, you are capable of outstanding accomplishments. But when motivation is lacking, it’s usually just another ordinary day for you. Make today count.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- It’s an excellent day to share your philosophical beliefs because people in general are likely to have more natural insight than usual. Spend time with those who want to elevate their aspirations.

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Two more names have been added to Norman Music Festival lineup.

Oklahoma legend Leon Russell was announced as the headliner of the Jägermeister stage.

Originally a session musi-cian working with the likes of Eric Clapton and B.B. King, Russell has found success of his own as a solo artist, though he still writes with other musicians, including a recent turn with Elton John.

Local hip-hop act Jabee was added to the main stage

lineup, where he will per-form after Dead Sea Choir.

Jabee, known for his con-stant stream of recordings, appeared on the Red Room stage at last year’s festival.

The two acts will join a lineup that includes Dirty Projectors, Electric Six, The Sword, Edan, Grupo Fantasma, Dead Sea Choir, Evangelicals, The Non, Gentle Ghost and Mayola.

Norman Music Festival will be held April 24 and 25 in downtown Norman and will be free to the public.

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Leon Russell is the latest addition to the Norman Music Festival lineup. He will headline the Jägermeister stage.

Russell, Jabee added to Norman Music Festival

» This week’s edition of New Music Tuesday looks at two indie groups with contrasting styles. One favors dreamy tones and lush chords as the other looks to dirty things up.

BEACH HOUSE“Teen Dream”7.5/10Key Tracks: “Norway,” “Walk in the Park”

Beach House’s third album, “Teen Dream,”

has left us wanting to sleep just a while longer. The duo that is Beach House consists of

Victoria Legrand, who plays organ and sings with a voice that can only be described as infec-tious, and Alex Scally, who soars through tracks with blissful keyboard and guitar riffs.

In songs like “Norway,” Victoria’s vocals emerge through a haze of up-beat indie pop sounds and leave a kind of pleasantly surprised feeling.

Other songs like “Walk in the Park” are softer, but with powerful moments that make you want to only hear more.

The album plays into the theme of a day-dream state of mind and shows that Beach House is dreaming of something better.

Cole Priddy is a University College freshman.

THE SOFT PACK“The Soft Pack”8.1/10Key Tracks: “C’Mon,” “Answer To Yourself”

For a band formerly known as The Muslims, The Soft Pack comes across posi-tively preppy in its self-titled debut.

Originally known as rebellious garage rockers in the vein of The Black Lips, The Soft Pack boasted a sound and attitude that fit the bill.

However, its first proper record sounds more J. Crew than vintage digs.

But don’t be mistaken, this isn’t a strike against the band. If anything, the new preppy

polish complements their rebellious West Coast demeanor. “The Soft Pack” is a glimpse at a band that can very easily break into the mainstream or be just as happy playing to crowds of handfuls.

At times, the band feels a bit uncomfortable nipped into a suit and jacket, but when it loosens its tie a bit — as it does in “C’Mon” and “Answer To Yourself” — you’ve got the perfect balance of mischief and melody.

The western swagger of “C’Mon” hops with a hook that would do both Joey Ramone and Johnny Cash proud while “Answer To Yourself” boots a Smiths’ riff with a pair of steel-toed boots.

But band still does dirty as well as ever, as evi-dent in the fuzzy buzz of “Down On Loving” and “Parasites.”

A bit of growing will suit these deviantly dap-per lads well, but trustworthy sensibilities make their initial take worth a listen, or four.

Joshua Boydston is a psychology junior.

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MATT CARNEYDaily Staff Writer

“You have to want to do it to make it worthwhile,” says Tom Bishop, an OU sophomore double majoring in aviation and eco-nomics. “You just gotta want it.”

Bishop is one of many very ambitious Norman students who intends to prepare themselves for multiple careers during their time in college, though in one field he’s already a theorist and a working professional.

If you guessed that he’s an airline pilot or an accountant, then try again.

“Well the band started about four years ago,” he says. “Now we record our own material and tour with it.”

The bass player for Oklahoma City-based experimental rock band The Non, Bishop says balancing his studies with a full-time position in a rock band is a struggle that constantly pits the two

against each other, and seldom results in better than a bitter compromise.

“It’s tough,” English sophomore and manic guitar player Tommy McKenzie agrees. “There are even days when I have a test and I can’t listen to any music … I just get way too absorbed in it.”

McKenzie’s band, The Boom Bang, also is based out of Oklahoma City, where they practice their brand of raucous ga-rage surf rock. He says paying for studio space and scheduling practices and shows for four band members who are either in school or working can be a major strain on his education. But that’s not enough to keep him from doing what he loves.

“It’s just the feeling of having people react to your songs the same way you do when you’re writing and performing them,” he says. “That’s the worthwhile part.”

Bandmates in the now-inactive Norman indie rock act, The Neighborhood, visual communications senior Blake Studdard and OU graduate Philip Rice currently play in a band called Visions of Choruses. They say their new project has developed into a consistent venture, and that the struggle to balance work, recording and playing shows with academic study is just part of life.

“You live for those things, they’re awesome,” says Rice, who earned his Letters degree while playing guitar for The Neighborhood.

Studdard, who graduates in May, has worked at Norman’s Blackwatch Studios and as crew for touring bands.

“I’ve done the weekends thing in hotels, doing homework lit-erally bouncing around on the road and not turning homework in,” he says. “I feel like I’m learning and I don’t need to necessar-ily prove that I’m learning by stressing out so much about how some of my schoolwork looks … I think I’m going to get — in the end — exactly what I was wanting and needed to get out of my college experience.”

Seeking a college degree while playing in an active band blurs the boundaries between the two practices. Studying and preparation give way to touring and rehearsals, and careers can’t be clearly distinguished. Whatever it is that drives these OU students to such aspirations can’t be measured and is far from certain, but since when did anything interesting match the opposite of that description?

McKenzie and Bishop wear similar Ira Glass prescription frames on their faces, but McKenzie shakes and jerks so fran-tically while he plays that he sets his aside during The Boom Bang’s Friday night show at the Opolis, a bill shared with The Non. The 45-minute set kicks off and so does McKenzie, whose shoulder-length hipster hair whips around, obscuring his face. Occasionally it settles into its sweaty place long enough to detect a look of intense concentration as he focuses on a particularly complicated guitar riff. The music is deafening — so loud that audience members have to yell into each other’s ears to find out where the afterparty is.

Within the confines of Gray Owl Coffee, the conditions are far more conducive to conversation, allowing McKenzie to confess his desire to keep playing music, and the miry af-fect it has on his more traditional professional aspiration: Teaching.

“It’s almost like I want to just do the degree. It sounds bad, to kind go through the motions with this so I have something in case this doesn’t work out, ‘cause I really do like English and working with kids, but ideally I’d like music to happen before that.” He pauses. “It’s just not logical to throw everything away right now, ‘cause with bands you really never know.”

In person, Bishop is friendly and magnetic, eager to discuss his passions, a general attitude that seems to bubble up from an underlying determination. Posed a question after 20 minutes’ conversation, he grins an ‘Oh, man let me tell you’-grin. “This calls for a cup of coffee,” he says.

Onstage, his demeanor channels itself into a frenetic bob-bing that alters in pace and severity with each calculated cre-scendo and shift in sonic force, aided by the aural light show backing him. In layman’s terms, he rocks.

“The plan was to leave at 5 o’clock in the morn-ing on Friday, drive to Nashville, play the show and then possibly drive to Memphis that night,” he says of a recent weekend gig where the band logged more than 20 hours of road time. The day before, Bishop discovered the Federal Aviation Administration maintains strict regulations for aviation students; regula-tions that prevented him from skipping his Friday class.

“It resulted in an epic word battle with the director of the department,” he says. “Basically, I had to buy a plane ticket out … I actually beat them to the venue by about five minutes. We got to Nashville, the sun had already set, we didn’t even get to see it in the daylight. We were there maybe five hours…we high-tailed it to Memphis to crash. No sunlight was shed on Nashville while we were there.”

When asked about the financial burden of purchasing one-way weekend airfare and 11 hours’ worth of gas, Bishop shrugs. “It’s not why I do it,” he says.

Studdard and Rice both speak carefully, with intent. They don’t scramble to force filler into conversational voids; they act as though they’re comfortable in silences many would consider awkward.

“For me, work is always pointing to-wards something,” Rice says. “Job, music or school — thus far I haven’t had to sacrifice the things that I love just to make money. And I feel like as long as I have that attitude towards it … it’s worth it to be able to do the things that we love to do.”

Studdard shares his friend’s optimis-tic confidence. “It’s [playing in a band] like part of college I wasn’t graded for,” he says. Rice adds that “writing songs in the back of class,” and the like are part of the gener-al connection, the glue of their lives, and they wouldn’t have it any other way.

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“It resulted in an epic word battle with the director of the department,” he says. “Basically, I had to buy a plane ticket out … I actually beat them to the venue by about five minutes. We gotto Nashville, the sun had already set, we didn’t even get to see it in the daylight. We were there maybe five hours…we high-tailed it to Memphis to crash. No sunlight was shedon Nashville while we were there.”

When asked about the financial burden of purchasing one-way weekend airfare and 11hours’ worth of gas, Bishop shrugs. “It’s not why I do it,” he says.

Studdard and Rice both speak carefully,with intent. They don’t scramble to force filler into conversational voids; they act as though they’re comfortable in silences many would consider awkward.

“For me, work is always pointing to-wards something,” Rice says. “Job, music orschool — thus far I haven’t had to sacrifice the things that I love just to make money. And I feel like as long as I have that attitude towards it … it’s worth it to be able to do the things that we love to do.”

Studdard shares his friend’s optimis-tic confidence. “It’s [playing in a band] like part of college I wasn’t graded for,” he says. Rice adds that “writing songs in the back of class,” and the like are part of the gener-al connection, the glue of their lives, and they wouldn’t have it any other way.

Call it a musical ‘je ne sais quoi’, an intangible, propulsive desire for experi-ence and the satiation that renders whatone commonly considers the distinct indistinguishable. Student musicians seek it, and when they do, the means b l u r t h e end.

WILL BYRNE/THE DAILY

Tom Bishop and Tommy McKenzie talk about their concert Friday at the Opolis. Bishop and McKenzie both play in bands and frequently play shows throughout the semester.


Tom Bishop of The Non plays bass Friday night at the Opolis. Bishop says he stays busy managing school and band related work.


Tommy McKenzie of The Boom Bang plays guitar Friday night at the Opolis. Tommy manages to balance school and music during his busy weeks when his band tours.

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