Tuesday, April 24, 2012

RACHAEL CERVENKACampus Reporter

Sometimes a class can prove too difficult for one person to handle on his or her own, something a new OU student organization is working to help.

T h e O k l a h o m a Teaching Alliance is a way for students to form communities within their major to find support and student-led learn-ing, group president Jake Morgan said.

The group officially registered April 16 and is looking for students to serve as academic men-tors to teach groups of other students, especial-ly in general chemistry, zoology and economics, University College fresh-man Morgan said.

The goal is to create long-last ing learning communities for fresh-man students that they can utilize for their entire undergraduate career.

The program lends it-self to freshmen, but it would not be exclusively for them, Morgan said.

“What I hope students find with this is that they have people they can count on in terms of not just their peers, who they are taking the courses with, but also the academ-ic mentors,” Morgan said. “I want them to feel like they always have a lifeline whenever it is.”

Morgan got the idea after taking a statistics for non-majors course in the fall, he said. He had previously taken a simi-lar course, so he knew t h e mate r ia l w e l l , h e said. He started spread-ing the word to his fellow

COCO COURTOISCampus Reporter

S t u d e n t s a r e n ’ t t h e only ones preparing to go abroad this summer or next semester.

Monica Sharp, director of International Student Services, and her husband, Jason Houston, Italian lit-erature professor , will serve as the faculty-in-residence family next year in Arezzo, Italy. OU has a campus and study abroad program in the Tuscan city.

“We’re really happy be-cause the application pro-cess was very competitive,”

Sharp said. Sharp and Houston have

been at OU for seven and eight years, respectively, and are ready for a new environ-ment, Houston said.

But moving out will not be easy, especially with their 1-year-old son, Victor.

“It’s always a big decision,” Sharp said. “There was the house, our jobs, Victor.... But it’s a great opportunity. Victor will learn English and Italian, and Jason is really looking forward to introduc-ing him to gelato (ice cream) and olive oil.”

Houston said he agrees.

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Dorm, food costs could go up 5-7%

EMMA HAMBLENCampus Reporter

Students may be paying up to $282.17 more each semes-ter administrators prepare to cut services and possibly in-crease room and board rates by up to 7 percent.

A 5- to 7-percent increase in OU Housing and Food Services’ room and board rates is likely in the coming academic year and Housing and Food Services’ Cate ala Carte room service will be cut to address increased costs, Housing and Food Services David Annis said.

The potential rate increas-es will address a 3.5-percent increase in food costs and

an increase in labor costs, Annis said.

M e m b e r s of the univer-sity’s Facilities Management department i n f o r m e d Annis of an upcoming $500,000 increase in utilities and a $600,000 i n c r e a s e i n c u s t o d i a l

housekeeping costs in the next year, Annis said.

“So those two f igures alone necessitate us going in and making some adjust-ments to our rates,” Annis said.

Cutting Room Ser vice will save $125,000, which means that with a 5-per-cent rate increase, Housing and Food Services will still face a $170,000 budgetary

shortfall, according to the coming academic year’s rate proposal.

A 6 -p e rc e nt i n c re a s e would get Housing and Food Services above the needed amount, which is why there is an opportunity for an in-crease between 5 and 6 per-cent, Annis said.

“Now at this point in time we’re still looking at other areas where we could save. I

personally would like to keep the rate increase at about 5 percent but to provide all the services that HCSA is want-ing, we may have to go to 6 percent. But I’m not sure of that yet, we’re still working on some numbers there,” Annis said. “And again, it’s a balancing act. We have to balance the income with the

DaviD anniS

Increase likely coming next year, OU official says

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Peers join study forces

Sooners fall into world record

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More than 250 students gather to attempt to break the guinness World Record for the world’s largest simultaneous trust fall on Monday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom. initially, not enough people came to the event, but attendees called on friends and broke the record. The event was hosted by Sooners Helping Sooners, a new student initiative raising money for OU students in financial crisis. The group said it wanted to physically represent the act of support-ing other students as a way to raise awareness about its new program. (visit OUDaily.com to see a photo gallery of the event.)

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OU professors preparing for Arezzo programFamily takes opportunity to experience world culture for upcoming school year

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Monica Sharp (center), international services director, plays with her 1-year-old son, Victor (right), beside her husband, Jason Houston (left), an italian literature professor, in their backyard Friday. They will spend next year in Arezzo, italy, as the faculty-in-residence family.

“It’s great for us as a fam-ily,” he said. “Monica and I thought about raising Victor

AT A gLAnCEWhile Sharp’s away• Monica Sharp will remain director of international Student Services and manage the staff.• Mariana Mircheva will be assistant director and work closely with Sharp to support the offi ce.• in addition, the offi ce has four international student advisers and three student assistants.

Source: Mariana Mircheva

see AREZZO page 3

Student group seeks to provide support for pupils

see GROUP page 2

CHASE COOKManaging Editor

Undergraduate Student Congress’ last meeting of the semester will be filled with executive elections, awards and an agenda packed full of legislation.

Student Congress’ 7 p.m. meeting today in Adams Hall, Room 150 will begin with the final reports of the current executive Student Congress members.

This will be followed by the handing out of annual awards and either the se-lection of the new Student Congress chair, vice chair and secretary or voting on legislation depending on the motion by the body, accord-ing to the agenda.

Congress will vote on nine pieces of legislation, accord-ing to the agenda. The most notable piece of legisla-tion on the agenda is UOSA President Joe Sangirardi’s Department Consolidation Act, which would elimi-nate UOSA’s Academics, Off-Campus Living and Transportation and Health departments.

The responsibilities of

bilingually, but it’s a hard thing to do in the U.S. We have no fear going in Italy.”

The transition to Italy will be a little easier because it is not Houston’s first time in Italy or even Arezzo.

“I’ve lived in Arezzo before (nine months in 2000), so it’s a coming back to old friends and colleagues,” Houston said. “I know the roads around Arezzo better than I know the roads around Norman.”

The family will live in a building for the faculty-in-resi-dence across from the student center, and both will teach classes in the summer, fall and spring.

This summer, Sharp will teach the international intern-ships in Arezzo for OU students, and Houston will lead OU in Arezzo’s 2012 and 2013 summer programs.

Throughout the year, Sharp also will assist with the planning and execution of the “Getting to Know Arezzo” course, which is offered every semester, she said.

She also will teach “Italy at the Crossroads: Immigrant Experiences in Italy,” a course studying immigration in Italy since 1880, including historical emigration from Italy and immigration to Italy, she said.

In the fall, Houston will teach the “World of Dante,” a course about his favorite Italian author, Dante Alighieri.

“Dante was from the area around Arezzo,” he said. “We’re going to do small trips to read it in the battlefields he fought, in the churches he visited ... to see the world Dante lived in.”

He also will teach “Contemporary Literature,” in the spring.

“We’ll have the chance to have Erri de Luca, Dacia Maraini and Andrea de Carlo, the greatest contemporary Italian authors, to come to Arezzo to speak about their books,” he said. “It’s the point of studying abroad — you have access to different resources.”

The students aren’t the only ones accessing different resources, he said. Living in Italy will let him look at 14th-century texts in Florence and Rome for his research.

Sharp, too, will be busy, she said. In addition to teach-ing, she will still keep her role as director of International Student Services, despite the 5,400 miles separating her from OU.

Mariana Mircheva will become the assistant director and work closely with Sharp to support the office, Sharp said.

The family will replace Suzette Grillot, associate dean of the College of International Studies, who has been faculty-in-residence at Arezzo since last August with her husband and daughter.

“I work with Jason and Monica all the time, and I can say without a doubt they’ll be an outstanding faculty-in-residence,” Grillot said. “I don’t even know if they need any advice. They know so much already.”

Houston said the family is ready for the trip.“We don’t realize yet — we’re still taking care of the

visas and the paperwork — but we have this smile deep down because we both know that June 4, we’re going to be on that plane,” Houston said. “I can’t wait for the new students to meet us because they’ll have a blast.”

classmates about a student-led study group he would lead for anyone and every-one interested.

Psychology sophomore Courtney Searles was one of those students begin-ning to feel hopeless and defeated toward the end of the class, she said. She was yearning for an A but felt this was nearly impossible to do alone, she said.

Initially, a small group of students began to meet regularly, and Morgan ex-plained the material in sim-pler terms in hopes of mak-ing it less daunting for the students, he said.

As word began to spread, more and more students began attending the meet-ings, and, by the end of the semester, the group con-sisted of nearly 20 students, including Searles, Morgan said.

“It really helped know-ing that you weren’t alone in the class,” Searles said. “Most of the things you were struggling with, other stu-dents were struggling with as well.”

Searles ended up receiv-ing a high B in the course, she said. If the study group had formed at the beginning of the semester, rather than toward the end, she said she is confident she would have made an A.

Morgan saw a change in the students over the course of the study group meetings, he said. By the end of the semester the students were no longer hopeless and de-feated; instead they were pumped up and ready to succeed.

Morgan thought about bringing this idea to the rest of OU and other courses, he said.

He brainstormed ideas for how to accomplish this and shared the idea with his peers to get feedback.

He also consulted with several professors to gain their insight, including Gregg

Laney Ellisor, campus editorKathleen Evans, assistant campus editor

Chris Miller, assistant campus [email protected] • phone: 405-325-3666

2 • Tuesday, April 24, 2012

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A Monday news story, “Relay for Life raises nearly $100K,” used an outdated figure for how much the event raised. The relay raised $100,349, said Elizabeth Auld, OU Relay for Life chairwoman. The story also misreported the beneficiary of the money raised. The funds go to support the American Cancer Society. A photo caption accompanying the story also misspelled University College freshman Tanner Linn’s name.

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today around CampusA seminar about managing final exams will take place at 4 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 245.

Write Club Creative Writers Writing Group will meet at 6 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 280.

An OU Jazz Bands concert featuring guest artist drew Zaremba, a saxophonist from the university of north texas, will be held at 8 p.m. at Catlett music Center’s sharp Concert Hall. tickets are $5 for ou students, faculty and staff.

Wednesday, april 25A Latin Americanist Lunch featuring marcelo rioseco, assistant professor of spanish literature, will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Hester Hall, room 160.

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grOUp: Struggling students unite for supportContinued from page 1

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Connor Walters, University College freshman, (left) breaks down types of oil and gas resources during a Petroleum Engineering study session Sunday in David L. Boren Hall. The session, organized by University College freshman and Oklahoma Teaching Alliance member Wes Herron (right), was modeled after the types of academic and networking programs the student group hopes to develop next year.

Garn, dean of the Rainbolt College of Education and group adviser, he said.

The world is changing in terms of the global economy and technology, said David Ray, dean of the OU Honors College and supporter of the alliance. Higher education has not necessarily kept up with preparing college stu-dents for this new economy, he said.

“The very best undergrad-uates often times are more aware of what people need to learn than a lot of the older faculty and administrators,”

Ray said. “The idea that OU students would step up and talk about teaching each other, that seemed to me like cutting edge.”

Ray said he thinks there is a lot of intellectual energy at OU that is still untapped, and this idea could be a way to energize students to help save their own education.

There are eight confirmed academic mentors, and Morgan has yet to meet with others who have expressed interest, he said.

Officers in the organiza-tion plan to implement the

first set of learning commu-nities in the fall, said Bryce Fugate, vice president of the organization. However, the exact details of the organi-zation are still being worked out, he said.

“We are a really fluid or-ganization because we are new, and there is nothing like this,” Fugate said. “We are still trying to fully grasp every little detail and put it all together.”

There are a lot of plans in store for the organiza-tion, but for now officers are just going to experiment to see what actually works, he said.

“It’s not a one-hit wonder,” Fugate said. “We really want to establish roots.”

Editor’s Note: Jake Morgan is a campus reporter for The Daily.

“The very best undergraduates often times are more aware of what people need to learn than a

lot of the older faculty and administrators.”DAViD RAy,

OU HOnORS COLLEgE DEAn

arezzO: Professors to teach variety of classesContinued from page 1

StUDent gOvernment

Congress to close out yearAwards, legislation, executive awards to fill agenda

those departments would be distributed through-out the executive branch’s Interior and Exterior de-p a r t m e n t s , w h i c h a r e placed under the executive branch’s Department of the Association, according to the UOSA Code Annotated.

The consolidation legis-lation is part of Sangirardi’s platform he campaigned on with UOSA Vice President Rainey Sewell.

This legislation should make UOSA more effective because we will have fewer people working on projects that happen infrequently, Sangirardi said.

Sangirardi met resis-tance from current Student Congress vice chairwoman Kelbie Kennedy, who dis-agreed with Sangirardi’s vi-sion of consolidating the executive branch, during Sunday’s executive commit-tee meeting.

Cutting these departments limits the ability of future UOSA presidents, Kennedy said.

T h e d e b a t e b e t w e e n Kennedy and Sangirardi b o i l e d d o w n t o a

• Do pass — The committee supports the legislation and thinks the full body should pass it.• no recommendation — The committee has allowed the legislation to pass through committee to the full body, but the committee doesn’t want to influence the decision of the

public body.• Do fail — The committee does not support the legislation. The legislation will not be placed on the fully body’s items to be considered or new business.

Source: Undergraduate Student Congress Rules of Order and By Laws, Undergraduate

Student Congress Secretary Sean Bender

AT A gLAnCE recommendation types

By THE nUMBERConsolidation

8 Days UOSA’s Department of Health will have

lasted if Student Congress approves President Joe Sangirardi’s Department Consolidation Act on Tuesday. Former president Hannah Morris created the department April 15.

Source: Former UOSA president Hannah Morris, Undergraduate

Student Congress agenda

philosophical agreement.“I have a different philoso-

phy in how the organization is run,” Sangirardi said.

T h e D e p a r t m e n t C o n s o l i d a t i o n Ac t w a s passed through commit-tee with no recommen-dation unanimously after Kennedy’s initial objection. The decision to pass with no recommendation was made after Secretary Sean Bender raised concerns.

“I don’t feel comfortable just the three of us decid-ing this bill can’t be seen in Congress simply because we don’t like it,” Bender said.

Congress’s other legis-lation features potential changes to the way UOSA advertises positions, further defining the duties of UOSA’s webmaster and resolutions thanking various students, staff and faculty, as well as a resolution regarding poten-tial cuts to OU’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program.

S t u d e n t C o n g r e s s Chairwoman Alyssa Loveless said she will be thanking the body for its service dur-ing her final chair report at the beginning of the meet-ing, especially Kennedy and Bender.

“[This] has literally been the best year I could ask for at college,” Loveless said.

CampUS Brief

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OU magazine to celebrate 350th issue, 85 years Thursday

A bimonthly OU publication will cel-ebrate its 350th issue Thursday by giv-ing away prizes and discounted issues of its magazine at a launch party.

World Literature Today will host the party at 6 p.m. at Café Plaid, 333 W.

Boyd St.The party will feature a drawing to

win a Kindle Fire, as well gift subscrip-tions to the magazine. Discounted sin-gle issues and subscriptions will also be available at the party, and some of the magazine’s authors will attend to sign autographs, magazine executive direc-tor Robert Con Davis said.

The party comes during the maga-zine’s 85th year of publication and will allow the local community to see what the magazine is doing, Davis said.

Although the party is open to any-one, the magazine is trying to target students especially to get them to ap-preciate the work, Davis said.

“I’ve heard from students who didn’t know the magazine was such a big deal until they moved away,” he said.

The magazine staff is trying to change that perception and is thinking of mak-ing the party an annual event where it shows off the best of what’s going on in the magazine, Davis said.

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CHASE COOKManaging Editor

Undergraduate Student Congress’ last meeting of the semester will be filled with executive elections, awards and an agenda packed full of legislation.

Student Congress’ 7 p.m. meeting today in Adams Hall, Room 150 will begin with the final reports of the current executive Student Congress members.

This will be followed by the handing out of annual awards and either the se-lection of the new Student Congress chair, vice chair and secretary or voting on legislation depending on the motion by the body, accord-ing to the agenda.

Congress will vote on nine pieces of legislation, accord-ing to the agenda. The most notable piece of legisla-tion on the agenda is UOSA President Joe Sangirardi’s Department Consolidation Act, which would elimi-nate UOSA’s Academics, Off-Campus Living and Transportation and Health departments.

The responsibilities of

bilingually, but it’s a hard thing to do in the U.S. We have no fear going in Italy.”

The transition to Italy will be a little easier because it is not Houston’s first time in Italy or even Arezzo.

“I’ve lived in Arezzo before (nine months in 2000), so it’s a coming back to old friends and colleagues,” Houston said. “I know the roads around Arezzo better than I know the roads around Norman.”

The family will live in a building for the faculty-in-resi-dence across from the student center, and both will teach classes in the summer, fall and spring.

This summer, Sharp will teach the international intern-ships in Arezzo for OU students, and Houston will lead OU in Arezzo’s 2012 and 2013 summer programs.

Throughout the year, Sharp also will assist with the planning and execution of the “Getting to Know Arezzo” course, which is offered every semester, she said.

She also will teach “Italy at the Crossroads: Immigrant Experiences in Italy,” a course studying immigration in Italy since 1880, including historical emigration from Italy and immigration to Italy, she said.

In the fall, Houston will teach the “World of Dante,” a course about his favorite Italian author, Dante Alighieri.

“Dante was from the area around Arezzo,” he said. “We’re going to do small trips to read it in the battlefields he fought, in the churches he visited ... to see the world Dante lived in.”

He also will teach “Contemporary Literature,” in the spring.

“We’ll have the chance to have Erri de Luca, Dacia Maraini and Andrea de Carlo, the greatest contemporary Italian authors, to come to Arezzo to speak about their books,” he said. “It’s the point of studying abroad — you have access to different resources.”

The students aren’t the only ones accessing different resources, he said. Living in Italy will let him look at 14th-century texts in Florence and Rome for his research.

Sharp, too, will be busy, she said. In addition to teach-ing, she will still keep her role as director of International Student Services, despite the 5,400 miles separating her from OU.

Mariana Mircheva will become the assistant director and work closely with Sharp to support the office, Sharp said.

The family will replace Suzette Grillot, associate dean of the College of International Studies, who has been faculty-in-residence at Arezzo since last August with her husband and daughter.

“I work with Jason and Monica all the time, and I can say without a doubt they’ll be an outstanding faculty-in-residence,” Grillot said. “I don’t even know if they need any advice. They know so much already.”

Houston said the family is ready for the trip.“We don’t realize yet — we’re still taking care of the

visas and the paperwork — but we have this smile deep down because we both know that June 4, we’re going to be on that plane,” Houston said. “I can’t wait for the new students to meet us because they’ll have a blast.”

classmates about a student-led study group he would lead for anyone and every-one interested.

Psychology sophomore Courtney Searles was one of those students begin-ning to feel hopeless and defeated toward the end of the class, she said. She was yearning for an A but felt this was nearly impossible to do alone, she said.

Initially, a small group of students began to meet regularly, and Morgan ex-plained the material in sim-pler terms in hopes of mak-ing it less daunting for the students, he said.

As word began to spread, more and more students began attending the meet-ings, and, by the end of the semester, the group con-sisted of nearly 20 students, including Searles, Morgan said.

“It really helped know-ing that you weren’t alone in the class,” Searles said. “Most of the things you were struggling with, other stu-dents were struggling with as well.”

Searles ended up receiv-ing a high B in the course, she said. If the study group had formed at the beginning of the semester, rather than toward the end, she said she is confident she would have made an A.

Morgan saw a change in the students over the course of the study group meetings, he said. By the end of the semester the students were no longer hopeless and de-feated; instead they were pumped up and ready to succeed.

Morgan thought about bringing this idea to the rest of OU and other courses, he said.

He brainstormed ideas for how to accomplish this and shared the idea with his peers to get feedback.

He also consulted with several professors to gain their insight, including Gregg

Laney Ellisor, campus editorKathleen Evans, assistant campus editor

Chris Miller, assistant campus [email protected] • phone: 405-325-3666


CaMpus

CorreCtionsThe Oklahoma Daily is committed to serving readers with accurate coverage and welcomes your comments about information that may require correction or clarification. To contact us with corrections, email us at [email protected].

A Monday news story, “Relay for Life raises nearly $100K,” used an outdated figure for how much the event raised. The relay raised $100,349, said Elizabeth Auld, OU Relay for Life chairwoman. The story also misreported the beneficiary of the money raised. The funds go to support the American Cancer Society. A photo caption accompanying the story also misspelled University College freshman Tanner Linn’s name.

Visit OUDaily.com/corrections to see an archive of our corrections

today around CampusA seminar about managing final exams will take place at 4 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 245.

Write Club Creative Writers Writing Group will meet at 6 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 280.

An OU Jazz Bands concert featuring guest artist drew Zaremba, a saxophonist from the university of north texas, will be held at 8 p.m. at Catlett music Center’s sharp Concert Hall. tickets are $5 for ou students, faculty and staff.

Wednesday, april 25A Latin Americanist Lunch featuring marcelo rioseco, assistant professor of spanish literature, will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Hester Hall, room 160.

CAMPUS Tuesday, April 24, 2012 • 3

grOUp: Struggling students unite for supportContinued from page 1

Kingsley Burns/tHe daily

Connor Walters, University College freshman, (left) breaks down types of oil and gas resources during a Petroleum Engineering study session Sunday in David L. Boren Hall. The session, organized by University College freshman and Oklahoma Teaching Alliance member Wes Herron (right), was modeled after the types of academic and networking programs the student group hopes to develop next year.

Garn, dean of the Rainbolt College of Education and group adviser, he said.

The world is changing in terms of the global economy and technology, said David Ray, dean of the OU Honors College and supporter of the alliance. Higher education has not necessarily kept up with preparing college stu-dents for this new economy, he said.

“The very best undergrad-uates often times are more aware of what people need to learn than a lot of the older faculty and administrators,”

Ray said. “The idea that OU students would step up and talk about teaching each other, that seemed to me like cutting edge.”

Ray said he thinks there is a lot of intellectual energy at OU that is still untapped, and this idea could be a way to energize students to help save their own education.

There are eight confirmed academic mentors, and Morgan has yet to meet with others who have expressed interest, he said.

Officers in the organiza-tion plan to implement the

first set of learning commu-nities in the fall, said Bryce Fugate, vice president of the organization. However, the exact details of the organi-zation are still being worked out, he said.

“We are a really fluid or-ganization because we are new, and there is nothing like this,” Fugate said. “We are still trying to fully grasp every little detail and put it all together.”

There are a lot of plans in store for the organiza-tion, but for now officers are just going to experiment to see what actually works, he said.

“It’s not a one-hit wonder,” Fugate said. “We really want to establish roots.”

Editor’s Note: Jake Morgan is a campus reporter for The Daily.

“The very best undergraduates often times are more aware of what people need to learn than a

lot of the older faculty and administrators.”DAViD RAy,

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Congress to close out yearAwards, legislation, executive awards to fill agenda

those departments would be distributed through-out the executive branch’s Interior and Exterior de-p a r t m e n t s , w h i c h a r e placed under the executive branch’s Department of the Association, according to the UOSA Code Annotated.

The consolidation legis-lation is part of Sangirardi’s platform he campaigned on with UOSA Vice President Rainey Sewell.

This legislation should make UOSA more effective because we will have fewer people working on projects that happen infrequently, Sangirardi said.

Sangirardi met resis-tance from current Student Congress vice chairwoman Kelbie Kennedy, who dis-agreed with Sangirardi’s vi-sion of consolidating the executive branch, during Sunday’s executive commit-tee meeting.

Cutting these departments limits the ability of future UOSA presidents, Kennedy said.

T h e d e b a t e b e t w e e n Kennedy and Sangirardi b o i l e d d o w n t o a

• Do pass — The committee supports the legislation and thinks the full body should pass it.• no recommendation — The committee has allowed the legislation to pass through committee to the full body, but the committee doesn’t want to influence the decision of the

public body.• Do fail — The committee does not support the legislation. The legislation will not be placed on the fully body’s items to be considered or new business.

Source: Undergraduate Student Congress Rules of Order and By Laws, Undergraduate

Student Congress Secretary Sean Bender

AT A gLAnCE recommendation types

By THE nUMBERConsolidation

8 Days UOSA’s Department of Health will have

lasted if Student Congress approves President Joe Sangirardi’s Department Consolidation Act on Tuesday. Former president Hannah Morris created the department April 15.

Source: Former UOSA president Hannah Morris, Undergraduate

Student Congress agenda

philosophical agreement.“I have a different philoso-

phy in how the organization is run,” Sangirardi said.

T h e D e p a r t m e n t C o n s o l i d a t i o n A c t w a s passed through commit-tee with no recommen-dation unanimously after Kennedy’s initial objection. The decision to pass with no recommendation was made after Secretary Sean Bender raised concerns.

“I don’t feel comfortable just the three of us decid-ing this bill can’t be seen in Congress simply because we don’t like it,” Bender said.

Congress’s other legis-lation features potential changes to the way UOSA advertises positions, further defining the duties of UOSA’s webmaster and resolutions thanking various students, staff and faculty, as well as a resolution regarding poten-tial cuts to OU’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program.

S t u d e n t C o n g r e s s Chairwoman Alyssa Loveless said she will be thanking the body for its service dur-ing her final chair report at the beginning of the meet-ing, especially Kennedy and Bender.

“[This] has literally been the best year I could ask for at college,” Loveless said.

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A bimonthly OU publication will cel-ebrate its 350th issue Thursday by giv-ing away prizes and discounted issues of its magazine at a launch party.

World Literature Today will host the party at 6 p.m. at Café Plaid, 333 W.

Boyd St.The party will feature a drawing to

win a Kindle Fire, as well gift subscrip-tions to the magazine. Discounted sin-gle issues and subscriptions will also be available at the party, and some of the magazine’s authors will attend to sign autographs, magazine executive direc-tor Robert Con Davis said.

The party comes during the maga-zine’s 85th year of publication and will allow the local community to see what the magazine is doing, Davis said.

Although the party is open to any-one, the magazine is trying to target students especially to get them to ap-preciate the work, Davis said.

“I’ve heard from students who didn’t know the magazine was such a big deal until they moved away,” he said.

The magazine staff is trying to change that perception and is thinking of mak-ing the party an annual event where it shows off the best of what’s going on in the magazine, Davis said.

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Our View: The OU in Arezzo expansion is worth the money, as long as it doesn’t mean future costs for students.

OU has purchased and is in the process of reno-vating an 18th century monastery in Arezzo, Italy.

The project, which will take $20 million of pri-vate donations to complete, will con-solidate the OU in Arezzo study abroad program by housing students, faculty and program operations in one location.

It may seem strange for OU to be invest-ing in such an expansion during the cur-rent budget crisis, and we’re quick to criti-cize expensive building projects while OU is cutting academic funding to save money. But the Arezzo monastery project balances self-suffi-ciency and benefit to students.

The OU in Arezzo program is an essential part of OU’s study abroad efforts and is one of the most popular options.

Because it is a centrally organized program fea-turing OU faculty and requiring no language skills, it opens study-abroad opportunities for students who might otherwise be unqualified or intimidat-ed by intense immersion programs.

Given the benefits of studying abroad, OU should make sure it is an option for as many stu-dents as possible.

Studying abroad exposes students to new cul-tures and new perspectives. It drastically benefits language learning and retention. It brings maturi-ty, growth and real-world experiences to students.

Not to mention how it looks on a résumé.The new facility will consolidate and improve

the efficiency of operations, keeping students from living scattered across the city.

The dedicated space will make it easier for OU in Arezzo to continue to expand its offerings, as it has with the recent addition of the honors and en-gineering tracks.

Though living in a dedicated space will mean students will lose out on some of the necessary interactions with the local culture, it will help the program offer more organized programs, and it

will encourage students to take part in cultural, language and academic activities. And it will in-crease the safety of students.

This kind of guided, supervised program isn’t for every student who wishes to study abroad.

But it makes the study-abroad experience acces-sible to whole swaths of students who otherwise

wouldn’t — or couldn’t — participate in more traditional programs.

In short, OU in Arezzo is the perfect program to be expanding (especially with private donations) — on the caveat that it remains self-sufficient.

If the upkeep and operation of this new facility is funded with the housing costs

of the students studying there, it won’t increase whatever operating budget the Arezzo program already has.

But it can’t become a tuition burden on unin-volved students, particularly in this time of ever-dwindling budgets.

Targeted private donations are one thing, but as academic departments face difficult choices and courses are on the chopping block, OU cannot af-ford to spend money on a lavish Italian complex that could otherwise benefit academic programs.

Building projects are about more than the initial price: They cost money every year for upkeep and operations.

The OU in Arezzo program is an unusual and highly beneficial program, which opens up op-portunities for many students to study abroad. The new monastery will help it better achieve that goal.

That said, no increase in efficiency or improve-ment in programming is worth taking on more yearly costs at the expense of academic programs that need funding.

So good work, administrators, for supporting OU’s flagship study abroad program.

We just hope any future growth is paid for by do-nations and by the students who benefit from the program — not by everyone.

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Unequal, unsafe laws still exist So, George

Zimmerman might go to jail. Is it cel-

ebration time? Not at all. Just because one person

has gone to jail for a crime, does not mean we have reached the mountain top — I would say we are just put-ting our climbing spikes on.

If we are just happy one person may be brought to justice, then we do not care about justice for anyone else. A wise man once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

With that said, let me paint a picture for you, courtesy of the mind of hip-hop artist KRS-One.

Since my cup does not runneth over yet, I find happiness in the small things, like having spare money after paying my monthly bills. With that spare money, I treat myself to a fast food meal. As most of my friends know, I like to gorge on food every chance I get. Even when I am purchasing off of the value menu, my bill is at least in the double digits.

With my mouth watering and stomach grumbling, I order the works: two bacon cheeseburgers, extra fries, a large shake and a low fat pie — got to make sure I’m not too un-healthful. The cashier takes my bankcard, swipes it and tells me my number.

Now, I wait, impatiently.As I anxiously await my feast, I begin to daydream about

what I will eat first. Before I can even put my meal in order in my mind, it’s ready. I think to myself, “that was fast!” No time to think. It is time to eat.

I sit right down again, with food in hand, and unwrap my first burger. My jaws nearly unhinge as I take my first bite into the patty. Something is wrong. My brow scrunch togeth-er as I discover the problem: halfway cooked burger. Before I lose my cool, I move on to my fries — they would pick me back up.

No. The fries are cold. My eyes shoot toward the milk-shake, the saving meal’s saving grace. I take one sip. How could this be the runniest milkshake in the history of “milk-shakedom?” That was it. Something had to be done.

I storm up to the register, not thinking about how I prob-ably look like I’m robbing the place; that doesn’t matter for now. The male cashier looks startled, and in a stuttering, hesitant tone asks, “May I help you?” I abruptly say, “Yo! All my food was messed up. You better let me see the manager before you see —”

Just at that moment, the manager appears. In an attempt to assuage me, she says, “Why yes, I am the manager. How can I make this experience better for you?”

If my looks could kill, I would be in a criminal lineup. The people in the line waiting to order see my frustration and see that justice must be given to me. So, I guide her over to my seat where the horrific crime scene of inexcusable culinary failure sits.

She takes one look, gasps and blurts out, “We apologize for this mishap. We will set this right. Let me get you free new food. Plus we will fire this cook. He’s been messing up for a while.”

I give no response. I stoically shake my head to show I am pleased. The moment has been officially diffused.

Although many people may feel this situation was eas-ily solved — and it was — the issue is this: It only took a few steps up the proverbial ladder to quiet me in this situation.

It seems to be the same with cases of racial injustice. The racial power structure only gives as much as it sees neces-sary to diffuse the situation; nothing more, nothing less.

In this well-known situation, just to beat a dead horse, I would call Zimmerman the cook who will get fired, the man-ager the sentencing judge, and the jury the crowd of people. Although I seemingly did get what I wanted, it was only for that one moment. It didn’t ensure that this would never hap-pen again.

Moreover, the food chain probably didn’t even adjust its service to uphold its standards, which are supposed to serve me.

That could be translated to everyday laws. The stand your ground law is still here. There still are laws in effect that do not uphold the standards of equality and safety for all.

So, the question now is what to do?We must know that we are dealing with the lower parts of

the ladder I previously mentioned. In the imagined scenario, I didn’t speak to the general manager, district manager or anyone of higher status — let alone did I want to see the CEO, president or franchise owner.

In order to make an effective change that suits all of us, we must be prepared to work all the way up the ladders to fight these injustices.

I charge all of us to find how this law even started. The trail first points to the National Rifle Association. Then, it points to the American Legislative Exchange Council. But I don’t know how far the rabbit hole goes. I do know one thing: It’s not over if and when the cook gets fired.

Jason Quaynor is an English writing senior.

There has been much talk this past week about

the grim employment situation facing college graduates.

With rising tuition costs and student loan debt, many students are fac-ing difficulty when they graduate and enter the job market. Half of new col-lege graduates are either unemployed or underemployed, the Associated Press reported this week.

Simple unemployment is not the only issue; many stu-dents are underemployed, working jobs that do not fit with their level of education. Underemployment is just as much if not more of a problem than unemployment because it devalues the significance of a college education.

Students are led to believe that simply receiving a col-lege degree will allow them to earn more than they would without one. These types of promises lead students to as-sume that they will have a well-paying job when they leave college and loans are taken out based on this assumed fu-ture earning power.

The trouble comes when students attempt to repay the loans and find their post-graduation income insufficient to make the payments. With student loan debt now sur-passing credit card debt , there seems to be little hope of cessation.

While student loans do help and, coupled with grants, can fund nearly all of a student’s college education, not all loans are created equally. The two types of loans, subsi-dized and unsubsidized, have very different impacts and consequences.

Subsidized loans are given by the government based on the financial need of the student and do not accrue interest while the student is enrolled at least part-time in college. The interest on these loans begins upon graduation.

Unsubsidized loans begin gaining and compounding interest from the time they are given while the student is in school. The current rate is 6.8 percent.

In both loan types, students still are responsible for in-terest after they graduate, although unsubsidized loans begin gaining interest earlier.

Because these loans do not take into account the level of income after graduation, they treat all college graduates equally, whether they have gotten a successful position.

Loan companies make a significant profit selling these loans as a good investment, whether they are or not — sound familiar? This is an area in which government in-volvement has the potential to do a lot of good for the col-lege students of America.

The first step would be to apply a subsidized structure to all student loans. Students should not have to pay for in-terest while in school. This would allow the student some breathing room in paying back the loan, at least while still enrolled.

Next, the labor department could take control of the loan program as a whole and eliminate interest payments altogether. Because the government is not a business and does not have any monetary interest in giving out loans, it would be able to fund the loan programs without the need for interest payments from students at any point. Of course, this would involve significant loan enforcement mechanism to regain the principle of the loan itself.

The loan process does offer deferred and lower pay-ments for those in financial need, but these systems are temporary and do not effect the cause of loan trouble di-rectly. By eliminating compounding interest in student loans, graduates will be more able to pay back the loans themselves over longer periods of time.

Many folks are incredibly wary of government involve-ment in these types of financial matters. Libertarians, who seem to have increasing popularity on college campuses, especially tout the benefits of private sector loans systems.

These students ignore the plight of the larger student population that faces unemployment and underemploy-ment upon graduation. OU, like many universities, is a public university that receives much of its support from government sources. There is no reason why greater loan involvement can’t be one of those areas.

How many of the “libertarian” students have received Pell grants or student loans themselves? Just by attending OU, they are engaging in a government-funded institution for their education.

It is time to get off our high philosophical horses and connect with the reality of education funding in the United States. Direct government involvement can benefit stu-dents who are struggling today with the prospect of apply-ing to a highly competitive and dwindling job market.

Mark Brockway is a political science junior.

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services we provide.”Annis and Diane Brittingham, Housing and Food

Director of Residence Life, met with Housing Center Student Association representatives for about an hour April 9 to discuss potential 5-, 6- and 7-percent increas-es, Annis said. He and Brittingham presented HCSA members with options for services that could be cut, and HCSA likewise made its own suggestions, Annis said. Additionally, HCSA presented Housing and Food Services with different services that it would like to be added, Annis said.

The three services and practices Annis and Brittingham proposed eliminating were food delivery Room Service, keeping Cate Center restaurants open on weekends and allowing unlimited card swipes for guests per visit to the Couch Cafeteria, Annis said.

HCSA did not want to close Cate Center restaurants on weekends or limit card swipes, so HCSA’s Food Committee voted to cut room service, Annis said.

HCSA is not opposed to closing Cate Center, but there must be a cheaper or meal points-based option to replace Cate Center in order for HCSA to consider it, Kallmann said. Annis did suggest that Couch Express could replace Cate Center’s ser-vices on the weekends, Kallmann said.

Based on repeated re-quests made by students to the HCSA, members proposed to Annis and Brittingham that meal exchanges be accept-ed at any time during Crossroads Restaurant’s o p e r a t i n g h o u r s , Kallmann said.

Currently, Crossroads does not accept meal exchanges between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. and HCSA requested that the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s restaurant accept meal exchanges all day, Annis said.

“Since Crossroads isn’t a branded concept that we have to pay commissions and royalties on, they thought maybe Crossroads would be the best place to give that a try,” Annis said.

Housing and Food Services is considering this request and the additional costs it might incur, Annis said. HCSA representatives were willing to implement as high as a 6-percent increase to obtain the requested services, Annis said.

Housing and Food Services administrators will request the 5- to 7-percent increase during the Oklahoma Board of Regents’ June retreat meeting in Ardmore, Annis said.

HOUSing: Regents to hear proposal in JuneContinued from page 1

ASTON, Pa. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday em-braced a student loan pro-posal that President Barack Obama is selling on the cam-paign trail and refused to endorse Sen. Marco Rubio’s conservative immigration plan aimed at helping young illegal immigrants.

The two policy positions signaled an effort by Romney to move to the political cen-ter as he works to court criti-cal general election swing voters — including young voters and Hispanic voters — after a brutal primary fight.

“I think young voters in this country have to vote for me if they’re really thinking of what’s in the best interest of the country and what’s in their personal best interest,” Romney said as he stood next to Rubio, R-Fla.

Romney was campaigning in Pennsylvania a day before the state’s primary and an-swered reporters’ questions for the first time since effec-tively securing the GOP pres-idential nomination.

House Republicans op-pose legislation to extend temporarily low-interest rates for student loans. Obama has been pushing Congress for the extension and planned a three-state tour this week to warn stu-dents of the potential finan-cial catastrophe they will face if Congress fails to act.

Interest rates are set to double on July 1, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, on a popular federal loan for low- and middle-income undergraduates.

“I support extending the temporary relief on interest rates for students,” Romney said Monday. He said he sup-ports the extension because of “extraordinarily poor con-ditions in the job market.”

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (right) said he would support extending temporary relief on interest rates on a popular federal loan for low- and middle-income undergraduates.

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romney backs student loan proposal Obama supports

Romney’s language on loans was different from the answer he gave when he was last asked about the issue. Prior to the Illinois primary on March 20, he told a young woman concerned about student debt to “get ready for President Obama’s claim.”

“I know he’s going to come up at some point and talk about how he’s going to make it vanish. And that’s another, ‘Here, I’ll give you something for free.’ And I’m not going to do that,” Romney said.

Romney also tacked to the right on immigration dur-ing the primary. In recent days, he’s been highlighting Hispanic concerns at events

while leaving out much of the rhetoric he embraced earlier this year. He said Monday that he would outline addi-tional changes to the immi-gration system in the coming months, particularly with the visa system that governs who is allowed to work in the U.S.

“I anticipate before the November election we’ll be laying out whole series of policies that relate to im-migration, and obviously our first priority is to secure the border, and yet we also have very substantial visa programs in this country,” Romney said.

The Cuban-American senator is considered a top

potential pick for vice presi-dent. He’s the latest in a string of possible running mates to campaign with Romney.

Romney declined Monday to say if Rubio was on his list of vice presidential candi-dates. He said his campaign is still setting up the infra-structure that’s required to scrutinize potential nomi-nees, including hiring legal and accounting staff.

The former Massachusetts governor also refused to say whether Rubio is experi-enced enough to serve as his No. 2. Romney often criticizes Obama, who was a first-term senator when he was elected president, as a “nice guy” who is “in over his head,” im-plying that the Democratic incumbent didn’t have the experience he needed for the job.

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“I think young voters in this country have to vote for me if they’re really thinking of what’s in the

best interest of the country and what’s in their personal best interest.”

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In the year ahead, try to arrange your life in ways that allow you to take some brief trips to places you’d like to visit. Excursions of this ilk will attract new people into your life who’ll make a big difference in terms of happiness.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Because material conditions are holding steady at this point in time, there’s a strong likelihood that you could have a little surplus in hand. Why not get yourself something special?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- If you are planning on going someplace where you could run into someone whom you’re anxious to impress, take extra time to primp a bit. Feel good about yourself, and others will too.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Follow your compassionate instincts when they urge you to do something nice for another. However, it’s important that you do so with as little fanfare as possible if you want to make the correct impression.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- A huge hope or an expectation might be fulfi lled through the good auspices of an old friend. Be sure to acknowledge with proper gratitude all that he or she does for you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- There’s a strong possibility that you could learn a very valuable lesson: Happiness is not based on how much you possess, but by interacting with loving people whom you respect.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) --You never underestimate the power of kind

words, and you’ll use them to bolster the spirits of another who is down on his or her luck. What you offer will be the encouragement that is needed.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- One of your biggest breaks will come from being in the right place at the right time in order to profi t from some solid foundations laid by others. It’s a momentary cycle, so make the most of it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- You’ll be amazed at how giving others the benefi t of the doubt actually profi ts you. Its magic works in your favor with all your relationships and on all levels.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) --Take advantage of every opportunity you get that can put you on better terms with co-workers. Now’s the time to amass a huge surplus of goodwill -- it will come in handy later.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) --Cupid is singling you out for special attention by making it possible for you to attract the regard of someone who may have never noticed you previously. Just be yourself and everything will fall into place.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) --There is no one better than you at sorting out complicated developments. Now is the time to fi gure out you need to attract someone who’ll be as focused as you are.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) --Because you’ll coat your requests in a hint of sugar, others will be more likely to do your bidding. However, you’d better follow through or it’ll be the last time such favors are bestowed.

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Spring Specials

Dillon PhilliPsSports Reporter

Oklahoma’s baseball team takes an eight-game win-ning streak on the road tonight when the Sooners travel to Stillwater for a one-game Bedlam preview.

The Sooners are playing their best baseball of the season, outscoring opponents 43-17 during the streak. A key cog in the gear that has propelled OU’s recent success has been hot-hitting junior outfielder Max White.

Last week, White went 8-for-14 with four RBIs and a slugging percentage of .857 during the four-game stretch. White’s .351 batting average ranks sixth in the Big 12, and he also leads the team with 16 multi-hit games.

A solid rotation of pitchers also has contributed to the Sooners’ run, most notably sophomores Jordan John, Dillon Overton and Damien Magnifico.

John threw his second complete game of the season and recorded the Sooners’ first complete game shutout in a 5-0 win over Alabama State on Friday. The Corpus Christi, Texas, native also set a new career high for strikeouts with 12 and picked his team-leading seventh win of the season.

But OU must show signs of improvement at the plate if it plans on picking up another win Tuesday night.

The Cowboys are riding a streak of their own — win-ning four straight since a 2-1, extra innings loss to Wichita State at Wichita — and OU’s erratic lineup will have to start swinging the sticks and conquer its hitting woes.

Both teams’ coaches have listed the starting pitchers as TBA, but the favorite to throw for the Sooners is Magnifico, the Sooners’ mid-week starter three weeks running.

After turning heads with a stellar performance against No. 17 Arkansas two weeks ago, Magnifico will look to re-turn to form when he takes the hill for the Sooners in search of his second victory of the season.

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Junior catcher Jessica Shults gets the pitch call from the bench in a 7-0 Sooner win over LSU on March 2. Shults carries a .374 batting average and a .691 slugging percentage for the Sooners with 12 home runs.

Tobi neiDySports Reporter

No red carpet. No come-and-go reception. No on-the-field acknowledgement during a home game after USA Softball announced its top-25 Player of the Year finalists.

Instead, after learning that the team placed a league-high three players in the fi-nalist group, the Oklahoma locker room operated busi-ness as usual.

“(That type of acknowledg-ment) is really just not in our vocabulary,” OU coach Patty Gasso said. “It’s an amazing honor for the voters to rec-ognize the efforts of all three players within the same pro-gram, but we really don’t talk about it around here.”

B a t t i n g m a t e j u n i o r s Keilani Ricketts and Jessica Shults were recognized on the nation’s top-25 finalist list after being named to the watch list in the preseason.

Both veterans continue to lead the team by example, carrying .391 and .374 batting averages, respectively, while Ricketts also connecting for 274 strikeouts this season.

F r e s h m a n L a u r e n Chamberlain joined the pair as the only rookie on the list, leading the Big 12 with 29 home runs and 55 RBIs while toting a .353 batting average.

With three representa-tives in the final 25, OU ties top-ranked California with the most players represent-ed from a single program. Although that distinction shows the level of athleticism on this Sooner team, Gasso said she hopes that doesn’t end up turning against her top players.

“I’m sure they know about it and read it in the papers, but I have to trust in the ma-turity of the players to not think about it going into a game,” Gasso said. “Because if it’s on her mind, the player will just press it to get it over with, and that’s usually when

Finalists include Ricketts, Shults and Chamberlain

they start making errors.”The wise words coming

from the 18th-year coach shows why Gasso continues to produce quality teams.

And this isn’t Gasso’s first time to coach the nation’s best; she also was the head coach when OU produced its first top-three finalist for the 2007 Player of the Year hon-ors in Samantha Ricketts, older sister of current top-25 finalist Keilani Ricketts.

But the attitude of being the first OU team to put three team members in the finalist group is something Ricketts, who was nominated to the top-25 list last season, said is expected from a team that has dominant players in the lineup from top to bottom.

“It was exciting to be nom-inated again, but I honestly believe that it also shows how good our team is this year,” Ricketts said. “I wasn’t really

surprised that we have three players on the list because we have a lot of impactful play-ers, and we’re beating some good teams.”

The list will shrink down to 10 finalists before the be-ginning of NCAA postseason action, and the final three players will be announced just before the start of the 2012 Women’s College World Series in early June.

No Sooner has won the Player of the Year award, but there is plenty of opportuni-ty for these three Sooners to make their cases for the cov-eted award,

Until then, Gasso said she wants her players to remain humble about the nomina-tion and not let the overall pressure of being one of the top-25 come back to hurt them in the end.

“You attribute the recog-nition to those athletes be-cause it’s an honor to get to be recognized as one of the nation’s best,” Gasso said. “It speaks volumes for an ath-lete to be on that top watch list, but if it’s meant for you to get it, then you’ll get it.”

Keilani Ricketts

Year: Junior Position: PitcherHometown:San Jose, Calif.

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Year: JuniorPosition: CatcherHometown:Valencia, Calif.

Lauren Chamberlain

Year: FreshmanPosition: InfielderHometown:Trabuco Canyon, Calif.

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Black Dice’s newest album, “Mr. Impossible,” I wasn’t sure what kind of ride I was in store for.

After some time with the album, the mix of minimal-istic drum beats and heavy fuzzy bass makes for a cool rock experience with a few stand out tracks and a grab bag of cool ideas that could have been slightly more fleshed out.

Black Dice has been on the experimental music scene since the ’90s — re-leasing its first major label EP in 2001. Over the years the band has released a handful of EPs and now a total of six albums.

Black Dice’s brand of music is a unique style that mixes hip-hop drum and bass into a long, electron-ica-style song structure, all the while being guided by a synthesizer that can be anywhere on a con-tinuum — from spacey phaser and chorus to super abrasive distortion, switch-ing between these sounds throughout the album.

The song structure re-volves around these few-minute-long dance grooves that appear in almost every track. The movement to

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Black Dice, an experimental rock group from Brooklyn, n.Y., released its sixth album, “mr. impossible,” on April 10. the album doesn’t have a consistent feel; it sounds like a mix between J Dilla and melt-Banana, The Daily’s shawn stafford says.

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album: “mr. impossible”

Released:April 10, 2012

Top tracks:Pinball Wizard, the Jacker, spy Vs. spy, outer Body Drifter, Carnitas, Brunswick sludge

Compiled by Shawn Stafford

Music Review

it might be ‘impossible’ to define, but it’s an album to roll the dice on

the groove Black Dice cre-ates is well done on most of the tracks, as the addition and change of the sounds give a mechanical, straight-forward feel to the band’s tracks. The grooves these songs seem to showcase are in most cases pretty cool — sounding like a much dark-er version of your modern-day dance hit while retain-ing the rhythm that keeps you nodding your head.

The grooves also feel jam-like in their composi-tion. This often leads to the band running with an idea so long in a single song it al-most seems drawn out and monotonous. The tracks where Black Dice avoids this feel complete and really well thought out, notably on “Pinball Wizard,” “The

Jacker,” “Outer Body Drifter,” “Carnitas” and “Brunswick Sludge.”

The problem this album seems to run into is many of the tracks come off as great ideas, but not complete songs. There are a lot of times when I was left think-ing, “Oh, I see what you did there” and then feeling they fell short of what that song could have been.

So out of the nine tracks on the album, five really stand out as complete and stylish pieces of music. You can’t deny the style the other tracks possess, but the lack of completeness makes it hard to make them hold up after a few listens.

It’s hard to nail down just what the Black Dice sound like on this album. The best way to describe this album is like J Dilla, but way heavier; like Melt-Banana, but a little bit tamer; like dance music, but a little more dark. It almost acts as a satire of modern popular music in many ways; listen for the mocking melody on the “The Jacker.”

If you want something different in your day-to-day music listening rou-tine, I recommend “Mr. Impossible.” If you are look-ing for an album to play dur-ing a party, you may want to look elsewhere because the noisier tracks tend to be a little more abrasive than a lot of people are comfort-able hearing.

Black Dice does a good job of playing within its style on this album. While the band doesn’t really step outside of its box or blaze any new trails for the genre, it creates a solid album.

The only things that re-ally hinder this album are the kind-of-gimmicky tracks that feel like cool ideas that needed to be more thought

out. The other hindrance is how some of the jams tend to drag on, making you long for the next track.

This is a good choice for anyone who likes experi-mental music, and I would recommend at least giving some of the stand tracks a listen on one of the free music sites and picking it up if you like what you hear.

Shawn Stafford is an international and area studies junior.

TRain“california 37”(Columbia Records)

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Train reemerged on the scene in 2009 with its fifth release, “Save Me, San Francisco.” The album’s success made it seem the band would never have a dread-ed “sophomore slump.”

The group’s new release, “California 37,” shows it’s never too late to hit the slump.

“Drive By,” the album’s first single, seems to be one of those hits whose radio airtime doesn’t really parallel its caliber — just simply one of those popular tunes due to its barnacle-like attachment to that portion of your brain that likes to hit the repeat button far too much.

“Sing Together,” the seventh track on the album, is cer-tainly a break in the clouds of “California 37” and is easily the best song on the record. Simplistic and sonically hon-est, “Sing Together” is a ukulele-driven, easy-going tune but has a potent emotive element underlying through its duration.

Although “California 37” can claim to possess a radio smash in “Drive By,” quality-wise, it stays far under the masterpieces off Train’s first album.

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JasOn MRaZ“love is a Four letter word”(Atlantic)

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Jason Mraz’s newest album, “Love Is a Four Letter Word,” shows his progression from a pop artist with a folky, bluegrass feel in his first album to the bluegrass folky artist with a hint of pop.

Mraz still uses his writing skills to develop great lyrics, but complex sounds that have appeared on each of his albums. However, in songs like “Frank D. Fixer” and “The Freedom Song,” the lyrics are not as metaphorical as a lot of his songs on previous albums.

The songs are straightforward, much like bluegrass or folk music, but Mraz does vary a bit with songs, such as “Be Honest.” In these select tracks, he breaks with the typi-cal instruments of the album for keyboards, string sec-tions and traditional drums.

In true Mraz fashion, no song on the album sounds the same, but they all sound like Mraz — with a melodic voice blended with a smattering of instruments.

As a whole, the album has a little bit for every mellow music taste. Mraz fans who have not listened to the three previous albums might not find their top-20 hit here, be-cause there is not an overtly catchy song, but the talent still is there with deeper, folky roots.

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