SHELBY GUSKINcampus reporter

Students gathered Monday to see how their political science careers could pan out during an event sponsored by the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage.

The event was held to show students young, successful political professionals that remember what it’s like to be in college, senior vice provost Kyle Harper said.

The speakers at the event were Jeff Peters, field repre-sentative for a current member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives; Ashley Kehl, director of communi-cations for Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb; Chad Maisel, who works in the office of cabinet affairs for the White House and Kiran Bhatragju, legislative aide for the U.S. House of Representatives. Each of the speakers had some sort of campaign background.

“My neighbor down the street was running for state senate, and I needed an internship.” Kehl said. “I helped out on his campaign and realized I think I could like doing this.”

The speakers gave a realistic view of the work done in the political world.

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OU used more green power than any other school in the Big 12 conference this year, covering about 85 percent of the school’s annual electricity costs through green power.

Green power is electricity produced from “environmentally preferable

renewable resources,” including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and low-impact hydropower, according to the press release.

OU used around 154 million kilo-watt-hours of green power, which is 85 percent of the school’s annual elec-tricity usage, according to the press re-lease. That is the equivalent of avoid-ing carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity use of more than 16,000 American homes annually.

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Agency releases rankings that track the green power usage of each conference, according to the agency’s website.

OU used the second most kilo-watt-hours of green energy behind the University of Pennsylvania, which used a little over 200,000, according to the agency’s website.

OU’s campus-wide effort to use more green energy and help the en-vironment has made OU very proud, university spokesman Michael Nash said.

Ranked second in nation for use of green power

Winners of the campus elections were officially placed in their new positions

EVAN BALDACCINIcampus reporter

The new student leaders for the upcoming semester officially were sworn into their positions following an in-auguration ceremony on Monday.

The ceremony marked the beginning of the careers for the new Student Government Association positions, which were voted upon in campus elections in early April.

The positions sworn in included the following:• Student Government Association president and vice

president• Campus Activities Council chair• Student Bar Association president• Housing Center Student Association president• Graduate Student Senate chair• Undergraduate Student Congress chair

During the ceremony, the 2012-2013 SGA President Joe Sangirardi passed the baton over to the 2013-2014 SGA President Ernest Ezeugo, as a symbol of him pass-ing on the responsibilities of SGA president.

“I’m excited to see the wonderful things they’re going to do,” letters senior Sangirardi said. “Coming to the end of this year, it’s been such a wonderful year. I have no re-grets. I’m just excited for the future.”

Rainey Sewell, the 2012-2013 SGA vice president was not in attendance. Her position was passed off to the 2013-2014 SGA vice president, Madeline Grunewald.

The president and vice president are excited to get their cabinet in place and hit the ground running, both Ezeugo and Grunewald said.

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University College freshman Devin Waddey (left), environmental sustainability senior Madeline Dillner (middle), and biochemistry sophomore Josh Ou (right), plant a tree near the gazebo by Couch Center on Monday in lieu of SGA’s Plant a Tree for Earth Day. Experts speak on political careers ,

offer ‘realistic view’ on political work

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Study focuses on Ohio, New Jersey

HALEY DAVIS, NADIA ENCHASSIcampus reporters

Mo s t u n d o c u m e n t e d children don’t understand their undocumented status and equate it with negativ-ity based on their parents’ attitudes and its portrayal in media, said a sociologist in a conference Monday.

D u r i n g t h e 2 0 1 3 I m m i g r a t i o n i n t h e Heartland Conference, so-c i o l o g i s t Joanna Dreby p r e s e n t e d her research on the lives of immigrant c h i l d r e n based on the t h re e y e a r s s h e s p e n t f o l l o w i n g Mexican immigrant families in rural Ohio and urban New Jersey and comparing the two experiences.

“Undocumented children have major fears of police,”

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The Conoco Student leadership Wing located in the Union. Safe ride vouchers are available on the first floor for students.

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OU’s Student Government Association has denied Students for a Democratic Society office space for next year because the organiza-tion’s application was late.

SGA’s executive branch passed legislation earlier this month allocating of-fice space to student orga-nizations for the 2013-2014 school year, and Students for a Democratic Society was the only organization denied space.

The society traditional-ly has been approved by SGA to hold office space in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Conoco Student Leadership Wing, but it has been denied space for the upcoming fall and spring semesters because its mem-bers submitted a late appli-cation, former SGA President Joe Sangirardi said.

The decision to deny re-newal of the society’s office space was made before alle-gations arose in recent weeks regarding the organization’s illicit use of the office space involving a homeless per-son sleeping and drinking

alcohol on the property, according to The Daily’s archives.

Even if the organization had not been found to be misusing the space, the so-ciety was not sufficiently active in the past year, and this is always an important factor in deciding which or-ganizations to allot space to, Sangirardi said.

All the other 19 applica-tions for Conoco Wing office space were approved for the upcoming year, he said.

“ T h e I n t e r f r a t e r n i t y Council, Campus Activities Council , Black Student Association, Big Event and

Panhellenic Council and others prove every year that they really need the space, so we give it to them,” he said.

Campus organizations occupy these spaces for free and use them to hold meetings and have a cen-tral location to easily net-work with one another and other departments on campus, Sangirardi said.

There also is a separate area in the basement of the Union below the food court where student or-ganizations can apply for storage space for supplies and materials, he said.

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in a p. 1 story about the President’s Day of Learning, The Daily was unclear about the dates and locations of the dinners for the event. there was a dinner Friday at the sam noble Museum of natural History and a dinner saturday at the oklahoma Memorial Union’s Jan Marie and richard J. Crawford University Club.

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toDay aroUnD CaMPUsA lunch discussion with filmmaker Luis argueta, director of “el silencio de neto” and “abUsed: the Postville raid,” will take place at noon at the it event space. Lunch will be provided. rsVP to jeff-swanson@ou.edu.

WeDnesDay, aPriL 24A meeting of the Pre-Dental Club will take place at 6 p.m. in Dale Hall, room 125.

A play titled “eclipsed” by irish playwright Patricia Burke-Brogan and directed by Helmerich school of Drama senior Chris Hartman will take place at 8 p.m. at the old science Hall in the Gilson studio theatre.

tHUrsDay, aPriL 25Women’s tennis Big 12 Championships will take place all day at Headington Family tennis Center.

FriDay, aPriL 26Women’s tennis Big 12 Championships will take place all day at Headington Family tennis Center.

Men’s tennis Big 12 Championships will take place all day at Headington Family tennis Center.

A baseball game against texas tech will take place at 6:30 p.m. at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

A softball game against iowa state will take place at 6:30 p.m. at softball Complex & Marita Hynes Field.

A musical titled “on the town” presented by University theatre and the Weitzenhoffer school of Musical theatre will take place at 8 p.m. april 26, 27 and May 2 through May 4 and at 3 p.m. april 28 and May 5 at the reynolds Performing arts Center. tickets are $30 for adults; $25 for senior adults, oU faculty and staff, and military; $15 for students with iD. Purchase tickets by phone or in person at the Fine arts box office (405) 325-4101.

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Ernest Ezeugo (left) and Madeline Grunewald (right) are sworn into office at the Student Goverment Association Inauguration Ceremony on Monday afternoon. Ezeugo has been elected SGA president and Grunewald as vice president.

jobs

Doctoral candidate to lead workshop on equality, justice

the Center for social Justice and sooner Parents are holding a workshop at noon today in oklahoma Memorial Union’s sooner room. the workshop will be about how to integrate strat-egies like knowing the inher-ent injustice incorporated into getting a job, may it be through skin color or gender, said Mallory Gladstein, program coordinator for the Center for social Justice.

“realistically, not every-one is going to be in a job in social justice or jobs histori-cally centered around social justice but there are ways to implement social justice into any job and this is going to give some strategy about how to do this,” Gladstein said.

erin simpson, the center coordinator for Walker Center and adult and higher education doctoral candi-date, will lead the workshop. Her research centers on equality, access and social justice topics, Gladstein said.

Free pizza will be pro-vided.

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Dreby said.She then provided a quote from a moth-

er with undocumented children she met in New Jersey.

“They know about their legal status and sometimes when I see a patrol car, I say ‘po-lice in sight,’ and they know that they have to sit up straight … then they see that it has gone by and the danger is gone, then they relax,” Dreby said, quoting the mother.

Dreby also described a fear of family sep-aration children from both sites feel, as well as the media’s influence on how the children view their own legal status and how the police will treat them.

“They don’t learn their perceptions from their own experiences — they learn this from what they see and hear on TV,” Dreby said.

Through this process, undocumented children begin equating immigra-tion with illegality, she said.

“Most of the children that I interviewed didn’t really understand what an immi-grant is,” Dreby said. “Being an immigrant had this type of stigma and negative con-notation to it.”

Jarrel Wade, enterprise team report-er for the Tulsa World and fellow of the Institute for Justice and Journalism, said the Oklahoma House Bill 1804 of 2007 was a brief point of conversation at the confer-ence on Monday.

“It was the gold standard of anti-immigra-tion at a time when Oklahoma had the stron-gest law in the nation against undocumented immigrants,” he said. “It made them scared of being a part of our community … However, that’s changing, and the law isn’t the stron-gest around today.”

According to Dreby’s research, only 27 of 110 children interviewed across the sites said they were proud of their immigrant heritage. However, children in New Jersey felt the need to hide their ethnicity and protect their legal reputation more than children in Ohio.

“Illegality matters to children in Ohio, but it doesn’t come up in their daily lives,” Dreby

said. “This idea of depor-tation scared them, but it didn’t affect them as mem-bers of their local communi-ties. Race and ethnicity were more important while fears of deportation were limited to their individual families.”

Warren Vieth, professor of journalism at OU, senior fel-low of the Institute for Justice and Journalism and direc-tor of Immigration in the Heartland, said the program

was started four years ago because the new phase of immigration is shifting from com-mon places like California, Arizona and Texas into our neighborhoods — in Oklahoma.

“The population of Hispanic immigrants, mostly Mexican, rose from 1 percent to 10 percent recently,” he said. “This growing phenomenon will transform our state, as it already has some places.”

Vieth said the focus is particularly on fam-ilies and children this year in efforts to help smooth out the cultural assimilation process.

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“It’s not glamorous. This isn’t The West Wing. You’re making phone calls, you’re knocking on doors in miser-able hundred degree weath-er, you’re walking in pa-rades, you’re putting signs up all over the state.” Peters said. “It seems like menial

work, but it’s important.”The panel was for stu-

dents to understand that it is possible to get into politics, but it takes hard work.

“Don’t be discouraged by the often frustrating cur-rent political situation,” said Andrew Porwancher, clas-sics and letters professor.

“They don’t learn their perceptions from

their own experiences — they learn this

from what they see and hear on TV.”

joanna Dreby, sociologist

that will benefit the state, community and universi-ty,” political science sopho-more Grunewald said.

The ceremony helped show Ezuego the results of the election were real, he said.

“As I was about to start speaking, it really hit me pretty hard, and I almost started crying. I cannot be more thankful for all of my friends, and all of the peo-ple who have helped me throughout,” political sci-ence junior Ezeugo said.

Sam Kiehl, the newly ini-tiated CAC chair, was left with a great foundation and wanted to develop the pre-vious success of the group, he said.

“Right now, we’re trying to build on top of that and do a lot of cool things,” said Kiehl, social studies educa-tion senior.

Kiehl wants to revamp the seminar series, publi-cize applications more and reach out to more organiza-tions on campus to help or share knowledge, he said.

The Registered Student Organization Awards of Excellence were given out after the inaugural ceremo-ny, once the newest officers were sworn in.

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Our view: SGA officials are responsible to students after election victory.

With the elections over, and the inaugura-tion Monday, Student Government Association president and vice president Ernest Ezeugo and Madeline Grunewald should be held up to the high standard set by their campaign. The votes of thousands of students demonstrated support for Ezeugo and Grunewald’s platform centered on higher education funding and SGA inclusiveness.

All of us should expect big things from Ezeugo and Grunewald during the next two semes-ters. Involving students will be the key to their success.

Students also should hold Ezeugo and Grunewald accountable. When The Daily endorsed them, we also committed to tracking their progress next semester on several key issues and campaign promises.

Ezeugo and Grunewald ran as champions of higher education funding reform. We expect them to use the summer break to establish specific plans for mobilizing students to lobby for increases in state funding and decreases in student fees.

Ezeugo and Grunewald’s campaign promise to educate students about where their money goes is the first step in this process. When students return in August, SGA should hold scheduled seminars and speeches concerning education funding. OU has many experts in this area who could speak on a panel or assist in answering student questions about education funding. SGA should set up an email account students could submit questions to or regular town hall meetings to answer student concerns about where their money goes and where it comes from.

SGA should also prepare a financial pamphlet over the summer to educate incoming freshmen about student fees, loans and where the university receives funding from.

After education, students can be mobilized to enact change. OU’s over 20,000 undergraduate students represent a huge voting block. Ezeugo and Grunewald must find a way to mobilize these

students toward higher education funding reform. SGA voter registration efforts already have gone

far in getting students involved in politics but, in order to be heard, students need to move from passive voters to active advocates. By the end of the first semester, Ezeugo and Grunewald should be spearheading a campus organization or SGA committee to organize students to make calls, write letters and attend meetings to advocate for higher education.

As the next SGA president, Ezeugo can represent the voice of students at President David Boren’s

open forum on the OU budget usually held in May. Ezeugo also can attend each State Regents for Higher Education meeting to discuss students’ financial difficulties. he must be the voice of students at OU and in state government.

Higher education funding is not the only way Ezeugo and Grunewald can engage

students. In their campaign, they spoke about im-proving the website to advertise SGA meetings and holding a “South Oval Office” to hear the con-cerns of students. These are two efforts Ezeugo and Grunewald should have accomplished before the end of September. SGA must actively advertise meetings to students. It is not enough to assume only interested students will get involved in SGA meetings. Students can get motivated about SGA events if Ezeugo and Grunewald reach out and ac-tively asks students to attend. We encourage SGA to record their meetings and post the videos online in this effort.

By the end of the first semester, it should be clear to every student on campus where and when SGA meetings are and why they should be attending them. Ezeugo and Grunewald have a tall order of campaign promises to live up to. If they start work-ing now and establish plans over the summer to implement immediately when the fall semester be-gins, we have no doubt they can achieve significant progress.

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Earth Day provides the perfect oppor-tunity for passion-

ate, like-minded individuals to interact in simple ways or admire the efforts of others in their community.

Organizations from non-profits to state agencies ea-gerly awaited the plethora of different people strolling throughout the day.

Reusable “Green Norman” bags check-ered Reaves Park while kids ran energetically to pet puppies, check out the foldable solar panel and grab small giveaways. Parents and couples showed excitement over the inter-esting information at hand while kids lit up at the sight of wondrous, new technologies and fun mini games.

But the Earth Day Fair provides far more than just excitement and education for fam-ilies, it offers a prime opportunity for groups to network and find ways to work together.

At the Earth Rebirth table, it seemed ev-erywhere we turned and everyone we talk-ed to was eager to point in the direction of a promising resource or similar interest group. People of all ages took the time to go table-by-table and listen, ask questions and find out about the groups that are working so hard to do what they do.

It is an optimistic feeling to see so many people interested and talking about what they can do to make the world and their lives better.

A fundamental part of the environmental movement

is the caring aspect of progress, and the Earth Day Fair demonstrated supremely that the Norman communi-ty cares.As Earth Day comes to an end every year, most passionate naturalists ask themselves the same question, “Why can’t every day be Earth Day?”

For those who attended the Earth Day Fair and experi-enced the promising energy, reflect on what was seen and try to incorporate the easiest steps into your lives first; but the first step is always taking one.

If you went about your normal routine on Earth Day, hopefully the place you inhabit crossed your mind at least

once. You don’t have to be a tree hugger to understand that the environment is pivotal to life. You don’t even have to sacrifice parts of your life to protect the planet — you just have to better understand the situation.

Or take the cynical route. If need be, turn off electricity in peak hours to reduce your energy bills for the extra money, not carbon emissions. Eat healthy to live longer rather than to stop large food corporations.

Do what is best for you because that action is also what is best for the environment. It’s impossible to have economy without ecolo-gy. Kudos to the Norman Earth Day Fair for a well executed event and for providing such great entertainment and opportunities for so many people.

Make sure you strive everyday to live smarter, not just cleaner. It is not just a mat-ter of bettering the world; better yourself.

Andrew Sartain is an interdisciplinary perspectives on the environment & nonprofit management senior, founder and president of Earth Rebirth.

Guantanamo Bay. Do you remember how

President Barack Obama promised to close this nightmare of a prison in 2008? Well, guess what, it’s still open and now inmates are protesting. Guantanamo needs to be shut down for good, some prisoners need to be released and others need to be transferred to maxi-mum-security prisons in our own country.

Prisoners began another round of hunger strikes last week in protest of their captivity. Close to 100 out of the 166 detainees have been given the OK for release, but remain imprisoned in a foreign land thousands of miles from their homes.

Eighty-four prisoners have joined the hunger strike that started in February. Hunger strikes are a regular event at Guantanamo Bay, but this protest is one of the longest.

The protest has gone on so long the health of at least 16 of the prisoners is threatened. Prison officials have required force-feeding by a tube. Detainees are being force-fed so they can continue to be imprisoned for what might be the rest of their lives.

Tension surrounding the protests is mounting. April 13 the protests turned ugly when violence erupted during a raid. Prisoners fought back. They wielded makeshift weapons made of broomsticks and mop han-dles. Prison guards responded by firing rubber bullets at the rioters.

What were officials at Guantanamo expecting? There are men at Guantanamo who have never been brought up on charges and never had a trial. It’s not surprising prisoners resorted to violence — they are being indefi-nitely detained even though they are innocent, or have never seen the inside of a courtroom.

Many prisoners have been at the Guantanamo facil-ity since 2002. The U.S. holding people on no basis is shameful.

We have to release the detainees that have been deemed innocent. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but they have rights.

Obama is taking action on important issues that re-late to our country, but he has slipped on his promise of closing down Guantanamo.

Obama needs to follow through on his promise to close Guantanamo Bay — we haven’t forgotten, Mr. President.

Innocent detainees need to be released, taken back to their families and compensated generously for their wrongful imprisonment. Guilty detainees need to be moved to maximum security prisons within the U.S.

Jeff Black is a broadcasting junior.

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Campus parking is unsatisfactory

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This letter is regarding the unavailability of sufficient parking spots in the University of Oklahoma. While OU depicts its parking system as satisfactory and convenient, the students who make use of this system seem to think otherwise.

As a student of the university and also a car owner, I have been able to experience the full effect of the universi-ty’s parking system. I have used this system for two whole years and can confidently say it is insufficient. Every day, a student uses an average of 10 minutes trying to find a parking spot. Finding a parking spot remotely close to your class is already a hassle. Even when a spot is found, it might not be one you are permitted to use, though you may have a parking permit.

Considering the amount parking tickets cost, the park-ing system should be more convenient. Instead of making student parking more convenient by increasing parking spots, the university invests more in giving parking tick-ets. However, these tickets are not just given to students without the parking permit but also to those with permits. The university gave out almost 52,000 tickets last year. A good amount of those tickets were given to students with permits who just parked at spots not covered by their permits.

Where should a student with, for instance, a north oval permit, park when there are no spots available at the north oval? Therefore, the University of Oklahoma should spend more on creating a better parking system than it should on giving parking tickets.

Joshua Ditep is a petroleum engineering sophomore.

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Joe MussattoSports Reporter

Tonight will be the last time the No. 1 OU softball team faces a non-confer-ence opponent until the p o s t s e a s o n , a s i t t a k e s on North Texas at 4 p.m. at L ovelace Stadium in Denton, Texas.

The Sooners (39-3) are coming off a series victo-ry over No. 7 Texas, and tonight’s contest will be a tune-up for another Big 12 series beginning Friday at Marita Hynes Field versus Iowa State.

Coach Patty Gasso has mentioned the importance of midweek games to avoid long layoffs in the confer-ence schedule.

“[The players] are pretty mature in the way of know-ing that we need to get bet-ter,” Gasso said. “Anytime you play someone in anoth-er uniform, it has a different meaning.”

Hosting the top-ranked team in the nation will be a trying task for North Texas, but the squad is no stranger to facing the Big 12’s best.

T h e Me a n G re e n h a s faced No. 7 Texas, Texas Tech, Baylor and Oklahoma State so far this season. They even notched two vic-tories against those teams, and the Sooners are not tak-ing North Texas lightly.

“We know that anyone can beat anyone on any given day,” sophomore in-fielder Lauren Chamberlain said. “We know if we take a

play off and we aren’t on our game that our schedule is tough, and anyone can jump on an opportunity when they see it.”

Maintaining the same level of focus and intensi-ty the Sooners displayed against No. 7 Texas will not be as easy against the Mean Green.

North Texas sits in 83rd place in the RPI Ratings. But the Sooners know they need to maintain their sharpness against any opposition.

“We’re expecting their pitchers to bring it, and we’re expecting their team to bring it,” senior oufield-er Brianna Turang said. “I

know they’ve been doing really well lately, so we’re just going to have to come out and fight.”

Gasso is looking for hard-fought at bats above any-thing, she said.

Working the count and staying patient is something the Sooners have been able to do all season.

With the final non-con-ference game this evening, the Sooners wrap up an out-of-league schedule that the team dropped just two

games. The level of focus has not

faltered all season, and the players have made it clear they aren’t content.

“ W h a t w e ’ r e b r i n g -ing to the table right now isn’t the best we’ve got,” Chamberlain said. “We’re just looking for that next game.”

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according to weather.com, rain is supposed to start tonight and con-tinue throughout the day tomorrow.

No makeup replace-ment game has been announced.

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New album reveals posh sound

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French alt-rocker band Phoenix has been blazing its

own trail for over a decade, gradually working its way into the American music consciousness with singles “If I Ever Feel Better” and “Consolation Prizes,” and finally its accessible album, 2009’s “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.”

The Grammy award-win-ning “Wolfgang Amadeus” represented the pinnacle of Phoenix’s journey to the forefront of the global pop-rock scene, and there was much speculation as to how they would follow up such an influential work.

They’ve answered that question today, unequivo-cally, with “Bankrupt!”

Phoenix, like many of its contemporaries, has gone in an entirely new direction in the making of its fifth full-length album, trying not to outdo its definitive record but instead to rede-fine its sound. What results is an evocative synth-filled journey that evokes sounds as diverse as Vampire Weekend, David Bowie, and Swedish pop group a-ha.

Phoenix begins “Bankrupt!” with a song named after a men’s fra-grance, “Drakkar Noir.” The

lyrics are borderline non-sensical, as Thomas Mars sings a chorus about the “jingle jungle/jingle junk-ie/jungle joke on me,” but through the floating synth lines and craziness, we can see the beginnings of a theme.

The album’s second track, “Entertainment,” is the album’s lead single and further elaborates on the oriental sound hinted at during “Drakkar Noir.” Again, I couldn’t tell you what the song is about per

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Phoenix — made up of members (from left) Gordon Tracks, Laurent Brancowitz, Christian Mazzalai and Deck D’arcy — released its fifth full-length album, “Bankrupt!” today.

se, but it’s the most are-na-rock the album gets and pushes Phoenix further back into the domain of the ’80s, where an elaborate message is sometimes es-chewed for the glam-rock-in’ fun of it.

That doesn’t mean, how-ever, that Phoenix doesn’t have something to say.

I look through song ti-tles like “S.O.S. in Bel Air,” “Chloroform,” “Trying to Be Cool,” and particularly “Bourgeois,” where Mars sings “They give you almost

everything/You believed almost anything.” Mars and his bandmates seem to be commenting on the turned-up noses of up-per-crust society — and perhaps the upper-crust of the music industry as well.

Indeed, the album it-self seems slightly bour-geois, a snobby album about snobby people. It’s not nearly as understand-able, predictable or light as its predecessor. I feel as though Phoenix, through all its success, wanted the

indie scene to remember it knows how to make edgy music.

But if all this sounds like a knock, I don’t in-tend it that way — in fact, I think “Bankrupt!” is one of Phoenix’s strongest ef-forts yet. It’s members have found yet another way to differentiate themselves. They’ve gone from one kind of unique to another kind of unique. That’s not easy to do.

Not everything on this album is entirely new or

novel for the band. My favorite song on it, for in-stance, is the title track “Bankrupt!” It’s got a long buildup, and the first lyrics don’t appear until the track is over four and a half min-utes old. But the payoff is worth it.

The song’s meandering instrumentals are evocative of “Love Like a Sunset Part I,” proving that the band hasn’t entirely ditched what works, even when try-ing something new.

Which is good news for Phoenix lovers. They’ve given us something origi-nal to discover and will no doubt be reeling in old and new fans alike. So whether one prefers poppy Phoenix or posh Phoenix, this album should satisfy both.

Graham Dudley is a University College freshman.

AT A GLANCE‘Bankrupt!’

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Artist: Phoenix

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Top tracks:• Bankrupt!• S.O.S In Bel Air• Bourgeois