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State higher-education funding could be on the chopping block if lawmakers’ plans to eliminate the state income tax are passed.

David Blatt, political analyst

and director of Oklahoma Policy Institute, said he is concerned higher-education funding will not withstand the major budget cuts that would accompany eliminat-ing the income tax.

If lawmakers passed the most radical plan to com-pletely eliminate the income tax in seven years, higher ed-ucation would be devastated, Blatt said.

“ The competit ion for scarce dollars would become even more fevered, and K through 12 [education] and transportation and health care would win out,” Blatt said.

However, four lawmakers have outlined $90 million in higher-education fund-ing that could be eliminated over two years in order to make room in the budget to

eliminate the income tax. Higher education was

just one area of government spending among $853 mil-lion in spending cuts sug-gested by Rep. Leslie Osborn, R-Mustang; Rep. Tom Newell, R-Seminole; Rep. David Brumbaugh, R-Tulsa; and Rep. Charles Ortega, R-Altus. The state government could save at least $90 million by resolving inefficiencies in the

higher-education system, Brumbaugh said. These inef-ficiencies are created when multiple colleges within the state offer the same services, Brumbaugh said.

He said there are multiple administrators and instruc-tors performing the same services within the state that could be consolidated and, in turn, cut costs in higher education.

“Higher [education] is a monster. It is out of control,” said savings plan propo-nent Rep. Jason Murphey, R- Guthrie.

For reduced spending in statewide higher-education funding to become reality, Murphey said the state first needs to come up with a fair system for evaluating the

ChRis MilleRAssistant Campus Editor

OU student representa-tives stressed the impact of tuition and fee raises on the campus community to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education dur-ing the group’s Thursday meeting.

The addresses came during a public hearing fo-cused on tuition and man-datory fee limits for under-graduate, graduate and professional programs, according to the regents’ agenda.

UOSA President Joe Sangirardi participated in the hearing and said he wanted to bring the long-term consequences of tu-ition raises to the regents’ attention.

During what he called a r e f l e c t i v e a d d r e s s , Sangirardi asserted that the higher education sys-tem is one of America’s greatest institutions.

“A lot of [the public hear-ing participants] spoke about the immediate im-pact of tuition and fee rais-es,” Sangirardi said. “When I spoke, I took a little dif-ferent approach. I spoke about the long-term effect of raising those fees.”

Members of the State Regents expressed the group’s desire to keep any potential tuition raises minimal, but even con-sistently small increases can add up over time, Sangirardi said.

Sangirardi made it a point to state the case for higher-education funding as a crucial aspect of the nation’s future, he said.

“If there’s one thing we should be investing in, it’s higher education,” Sangirardi said. “That is the foundation of a society.”

The regents will not act

hillARy MClAiNCampus Reporter

Ennis Koonce never left a day of work without stop-ping by each coworker’s desk to say goodbye.

Those same coworkers now walk past the same neatly kept, now-vacant desk as a reminder of his untimely passing April 5.

Koonce had a multi-faceted career at OU. He served as an Adams Center resident director, higher education administra-tion graduate student and Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity member.

Those who worked with him said he had a passion for helping others.

“He loved helping stu-dents, mentoring, just stopping and talking to people,” resident director Lauren Carter said.

B e f o re h i s pa ssi ng, Koonce helped develop a program intended to help transport injured stu-dents living in residence halls to and from classes, said Jennifer Doughty, Housing and Food direc-tor of operations.

Koonce’s fondness for amusing wordplay in-spired him to push for the name “Lending a Limb,” Doughty said.

Colleagues said he was clever and had a sharp wit.

“He created words, he coined phrases that be-came parts of his peers’ vocabulary,” said T. Elon Dancy, higher education professor . “He was very creative.”

Koonce was at OU to study higher education administration, and his dissertation was focused on African American male performance in college,

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Junior Jacob Dalton crosses over on the high bar during the second session of the NCAA qualifying round Thursday night at Lloyd Noble Center. The Sooners finished second in the session behind Illinois but advance to tonight’s NCAA team champi-onship finals. OU rested several key contributors, including all-arounders Dalton and freshman Dylan Akers.

Primed for championship

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The No. 1 OU Sooners advanced to the NCAA team finals by finish-ing in second place in the 7 p.m. session of Thursday’s qualifying round.

Oklahoma finished just behind first-place Illinois (356.25) with a total team score of 356.2. California rounded out the top three and took the final spot in tonight’s champi-onships with a 351.15.

The three teams will join the top three teams from the 1 p.m. ses-sion — Michigan, Penn State and Stanford.

Oklahoma and Illinois made it clear from the first rotation that they would be the teams to beat in the second session of Thursday’s qualifiers.

With one competitor left for each team in the first rotation, the squads were deadlocked at the top with 58.85 points each. The Sooners still had their ace in the hole, though.

Junior Jake Dalton was the final competitor for OU on the parallel bars, and he made the most of his position at the anchor spot, scoring a 15.4 to lead all competitors and give the Sooners the early lead.

However, Illinois soon made the lead a moot point. After two events, the Illini had captured a 119.7-117.6 lead that they would not re-linquish until the final rotation of

the night.Both teams competed in their

best events for the third rotation, with the Sooners grabbing a 60.15 on the floor even without Dalton,

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1st session1. Michigan2. Penn state3. stanford4. Ohio State5. Nebraska6. Iowa

2nd session1. Illinois2. oklahoma3. California4. Minnesota5. Temple6. Air Force

Bold advanced to today’s team � nals

AT A GLANCE Qualifier results

Sooners advance past qualifier round to tonight’s team finals

stUDent lIfe

SoonerleavespositivelegacyResident director remembered for kindness, lessons

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tUItIon

Reps address regents on feesUOSA president stresses long-termeffects of raises

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AJiNUR seTiWAldiCampus Reporter

A recently published book by an OU professor hopes to shed insight on the main-stream media’s impact on American Indian history, cul-ture and communities.

“American Indians and the Mass Media,” by Gaylord Family Endowed Professor Meta Carstarphen , asserts that stereotypical images of American Indians are so widespread and interwo-ven into the fabric of the American life that many hardly notice them.

The initial inspiration for the text came from ques-tions raised during a Gaylord College of Journalism and M a s s C o m m u n i c a t i o n “Native Americans and Mass Media: Issues and Answers” s y m p o s i u m i n 2 0 0 4 , Carstarphen said.

To get the project on track, Carstarphen accessed mi-crofilms of American Indian newspapers published be-fore Oklahoma’s statehood t h ro u g h t h e O k l a h o ma Historical Society.

Carstarphen initially began the project with Peter Gross, a former OU journalism pro-fessor who now teaches at the University of Tennessee . After Gross left the proj-ect, Carstarphen said she reached out to John Sanchez, a professor at Pennsylvania University, who became her coeditor.

“We have known each other for 15 years, and we are both interested in diversity issues and media impacts on American Indian cultures,” Sanchez said.

The point of Carstarphen’s book is not to eliminate his-toric and cultural images of American Indians but to depict them in a contempo-rary light in modern media, Carstarphen said.

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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 Tuesday life & arts story, “Mosque near campus opens doors to Muslims, residents,” misidentifies Omar Alamoudi as president of the Islamic Society of Norman. He is president of the Muslim Student Association.

A Thursday photo caption about the OU Queer Royalty Pageant misreported that Wednesday’s event was GLBTF’s inaugural drag show. The group has hosted an annual drag show for several years, but Wednesday’s event was the organization’s first pageant.

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

todAy Around CAMPusA symposium about art of the American west such as furniture, pottery and saddles will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Mary eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium.

A lecture by former senator and presidential candidate George McGovern will be held at 3 p.m. at the thurman J. white Forum building.

La Tomatina water balloon toss, hosted by the ou spanish Club, will take place at 3 p.m. on the walker-Adams Mall. there will be free snow cones.

An open house at The Oklahoma Daily will be held at 5 p.m. in the newsroom (Copeland hall, room 160).

The baseball team will play Alabama state at 6:30 p.m. at l. dale Mitchell Park.

The softball team will play Missouri at 7 p.m. at Marita hynes Field.

The men’s gymnastics team will compete in the team championship finals at 7 p.m. at lloyd noble Center.

A concert featuring russian folk and classical songs, dances, arias and poetry will be held at 8 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Pitman recital hall. Admission is free.

sAturdAy, APril 21The women’s tennis team will play texas at noon at headington Family tennis Center.

The baseball team will play Alabama state at 2 p.m. at l. dale Mitchell Park.

The softball team will play Missouri at 2 p.m. at Marita hynes Field.

The men’s gymnastics team will host nCAA individual championship finals at 7 p.m. at lloyd noble Center.

sundAy, APril 22The women’s tennis team will face texas A&M at noon at headington Family tennis Center.

The baseball team will play Alabama state at 1 p.m. at l. dale Mitchell Park.

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unique functions of each state higher education insti-tution. Once there is an eval-uation system, there would be a means to measure which universities should be closed or consolidated with other in-stitutions that offer the same services in the same region.

Universities like Rogers State University, Cameron University and Langston University offer similar ser-vices and graduate a small percent, which adds to the cost relayed to taxpayers and students, Brumbaugh said.

While these colleges are all in different areas of the state, Murphey said the state could save money if smaller univer-sities were consolidated into either the OU or Oklahoma State University systems.

Under this model, a few universities would take a re-gion of the state and have several branches within that region, Murphey said.

“Then you won’t have all of these small l i t t le spl in-ter universi-ties compet-ing,” Murphey said.

The num-ber of public higher-education institu-tions in Oklahoma is cur-rently comparable or below the number in surrounding states.

The state has a total of 29 public colleges and univer-sities, which ranks below the U.S. average of 32 public high-er-education institutions, ac-cording to the National Center for Education Statistics.

Kansas and Arkansas, both with lower overall state pop-ulations and lower higher-education enrollment num-bers, have more public high-er-education institutions than Oklahoma, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

Consolidation of state universities is just one of the

Dancy said. “He saw himself in a pro-

fessional role of serving this population of students, ei-ther through mentoring or broader student affairs work,” Dancy said.

Koonce practiced kindness to those around him, but in a humble manner.

“He did it in such a way that it wasn’t a big show, being kind,” Doughty said. “He was very quietly and pri-vately kind, like leaving notes on your desk.”

Doughty said Koonce never left the office with-out saying goodbye to each employee, and his loss is devastating.

“It sounds like such a small thing, but it’s really meaning-ful when someone takes the time out from everything else that’s going on,” Doughty said. “Every single day.”

D e s p i t e h i s p a s s i n g ,

lessons learned from Koonce still linger.

“Like his big heart, it’s still impacting us on a day-to-day basis,” Carter said. “He is still teaching us stuff, even though he’s not physically here.”

Koonce taught her to be honest and true to herself, Carter said. Koonce also in-spired others to do whatever they could to help people.

An avid cook, Koonce also informed Carter that he made the best turkey burger, though she never had the chance to try one.

“I’ve heard nothing but good reviews of all of his food,” Carter said. “If you gave that man a kitchen, he’d make you a meal.”

Still, he taught coworkers other lessons.

Resident director Klint Neal said Koonce taught him to follow his passions and helped him plan out his own career path.

Resilience is another les-son Koonce left behind.

“He hadn’t been well for some months, and he never gave up,” Klint said. “He was still very much involved in pursuing his Ph.D. and com-pleting his classes, on top of his work in Housing and Food.”

A f t e r g r a d u a t i n g , h e planned to work helping students. He was interest-ed in being a vice president of student affairs, directing resident life or deanship of

student life, Dancy said.“He wanted to do work that

mattered to the issues around African American male per-formance in colleges and universities,” Dancy said.

His leadership skills sprang from his strong sense of self, Dancy said.

“He was not the type to succumb to peer pressure,” Dancy said. “He was often the leader in groups because of that.”

This quality made peo-ple want to be mentored by Koonce, Dancy said.

He earned his undergrad-uate degree in his home state of Georgia and left behind a similar legacy there.

“By the time he left Georgia to come to [OU], he left be-hind a countless number of students who missed him very much,” Dancy said.

“He lived life, with not one bad memory,” Carter said. “I can honestly say that he served every day with great purpose.”

faCUltY PUBlICatIon

oU book centers on Indians

bigger ideas put forth for re-ducing higher-education spending.

Lawmakers also are con-sidering eliminating a for-mula the regents use for dis-tributing funds called the peer factor multiplier and reforming faculty workloads, according to savings plan documents.

The number of employees at state higher-education in-stitutions is a specific area of waste, Murphey said.

“There are thousands and thousands of employees in that system that just shouldn’t be there,” Murphey said.

As of fall 2007, there were 11,149 faculty members at Oklahoma public institu-tions for higher education, according to Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education data.

R e p . E m i l y V i r g i n , D-Norman, said OU is a major employer in her district.

If eliminating the income tax is intended to attract jobs, it would make no sense to cut jobs in order to eliminate the tax, Virgin said.

A more educated state would be better for the Oklahoma job market than eliminating the income tax, Virgin said.

“I really don’t think high-er [education] is a waste of money like some of my col-leagues do,” Virgin said.

Virgin said she is glad the state is looking into improv-ing efficiency of higher-edu-cation spending.

“In no way do we think that everything in higher [educa-tion] is perfect, but to attack it as a whole is really unfair,” she said.

state: Consolidation of universities possibilityContinued from page 1

Professor looks to modernize view of American Indians

above: Professor Meta Carstarphen explains how census data in a Cherokee newspaper, shown on the microfilm slide at right, prompted her to look into Native American newspapers. Carstarphen said the data revealed Oklahoman majorities were black and Native American initially, a subject that interested her.

left: Professor Meta Carstarphen points out the portion of a newspaper written in Cherokee on a microfilm slide Tuesday. This newspaper was written in both English and Cherokee so that it was more accessible to more people.

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AT A GLANCE‘american Indians & the Mass Media’

authors: Meta Carstarphen, John SanchezPublisher: OU Press

“I don’t think whatever American Indians bring to the table in terms of their own distinct culture, language and customs should be ignored in the goal of fair portrayal in the media,” Carstarphen said. “But the challenge is to reflect the complexities. There is no ‘one way fits all.’”

The media is a power-ful force in the develop-ment of ideas and images, Carstarphen said.

“If these things are re-peated over and over again through mass media, the rest of us accept them as the truth,” Carstarphen said.

The media influences how we identify people, and the imagery associated with

American Indians through the media is stuck in the past, Sanchez said.

“In a recent study I com-pleted, 100 percent of fourth graders drew pictures of Indians in 17th centur y garb — beads and feathers, breech cloths and standing in front of tepees,” Sanchez said. “American Indians are the only ethnic cultures that continue to have their iden-tities continually shaped by the media as we existed 300 years ago and not as cultures that have evolved or pro-gressed beyond the beads-and-feathers image.”

Carstarphen said that their

KoonCe: Sooner planned to work with studentsContinued from page 1

natIon neWs BrIefs1. CHANTILLY, VA.

Smithsonian museum receives Discovery shuttle for display

NASA turned over space shuttle Discovery on Thursday to the Smithsonian Institution, the first in its orbiter fleet to be transferred to a U.S. museum.

The U.S. Marine Drum and Bugle Corps, astronauts including former Sen. John Glenn and several thou-sand visitors with American flags greeted Discovery.

It will retire as an artifact representing the 30-year shuttle program.

The Associated Press

2. CLEVELAND

Ohio’s Amish plead not guilty when caught in hairy situation

Sixteen men and women pleaded not guilty Thursday in beard- and hair-cutting attacks against fellow Amish in Ohio.

The latest indictment added allegations that sus-pects tried to hide or destroy evidence, including a dis-posable camera, shears and a bag of hair from victims.

Members of the Amish community who were in court left through a rear enclosed walkway without speaking.


3. NEW ORLEANS

Government grants additional funds to victims of BP oil spill

The Justice Department said more than $64 mil-lion will be paid to about 7,300 people and business-es whose claims with BP’s $20 billion compensation fund were shortchanged or wrongfully denied after the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The department announced Thursday that an in-dependent audit of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility found “significant errors” in its processing of claims.

The auditor also found claimants who were errone-ously overpaid. The department says the GCCF isn’t trying to recover those overpayments.


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“like his big heart, it’s still impacting us on a day-to-day basis. he is still teaching us stuff,

even though he’s not physically here.”LAUREN CARTER,

RESIDENT DIRECTOR

eMIlY VIrGIn

tUItIon: Regents will not act until June 21Continued from page 1

on proposals regarding tuition and mandatory fees until their June 21 meeting at their office in Oklahoma City, ac-cording to Daily archives.

State Regents for Higher Education Student Advisory Board chairman Steve Sichterman said the regents seemed receptive to the concerns raised during the public hearing.

“It was surprisingly good, as all of the speakers — includ-ing myself and Joe Sangirardi — were very understanding that in today’s economy, [the regents] have done every-thing they can to cut costs in the past three years,” he said.

Sichterman’s remarks focused on the impact tuition and fee raises can have on students, even if they’ve budgeted and saved for college for years, he said.

“Students that may have prepared for college may not have foreseen the increases,” Sichterman said. “It’s forcing them to work more outside of class and even take on sec-ond jobs.”

The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education will convene again May 24 and May 25 at their office at 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200, in Oklahoma City.

work also looks to media issues through a historical lens.American Indians were perceived as threats and obsta-

cles to expansion, and our media tried to justify the atroci-ties against American Indians by creating a certain image of them, Carstarphen said.

“Our media depicted them as savages, heathens or simplis-tic,” Carstarphen said.

The book allows American Indians to present stories in their own voices and offers a more accurate view of their identities, said Alessandra Tamulevich, OU Press acquisi-tions editor .

“In a time when the media landscape is changing rapidly through new technologies and social media, it is important for the OU Press to have a book on how this shift affects Native Americans,” Tamulevich said.

OU Press has made an agreement with the Native American Journalist Association to provide copies of the book to the Unity Journalists conference that will take place in August.

Some of the proceeds from the book will go to support the Native American Journalist Association’s scholarships for as-piring American Indian journalists.

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As a broadcast and electronic media major, working

in the film industry is an entirely probable and re-alistic choice for me.

Though Oklahoma is not traditionally thought of as a “movie” state, there have been several signifi-cant cinematic adventures filmed, at least partially, in Sooner land. “Rain Man,” “The Outsiders” and “Twister” were filmed here, as well as part of “The Killer Inside Me.”

In recent years, the film industry here has grown at quite a rapid pace. Opportunities for actors and actresses have become more readily available, and Oklahoma is a cost effective and creatively stimulating place to make movies. The state’s diverse terrain provides a wide variety of locations; scenes can be shot to look like anything from big cities to backwoods with ease.

Unfortunately, two Oklahoma Senate bills threaten to collapse the Oklahoma film industry, just as it is begin-ning to truly bud. Right now, the state offers a tax rebate incentive for production companies filming in Oklahoma, with $5 million — a small sum compared to the total bud-get — set aside in the state budget for this purpose. The program generates jobs and stimulates the economy, and the return is much greater than the investment.

Film is a small industry here, but its rapid development has been promising. If this program is reduced or elimi-nated, it would mean the end of Oklahoma movie making.

Legislators do not see the advantages of keeping the tax incentive because to them the number of full-time jobs in the industry looks small. What they fail to realize is that the majority of jobs in the movie industry are fluid. Professionals work from one job to the next. In that sense, it’s difficult to determine what constitutes a full-time job.

Many broadcasting and production professionals also work on a freelance basis, carefully picking the projects they work on. These situations are not conducive to the traditional “9 to 5” thinking, but are common practice.

The passing of these bills would be detrimental to jobs and state revenue. Proposed legislation suggests that tax rebates for films made in Oklahoma be reduced by half for the first year or two and reduced to zero after that. Right now, one bill is being considered for revisions by the House and has already passed the state Senate.

I understand strictly budgeting the economy, but nick-el-and-diming programs that are helping the state and fostering innovation helps no one. Oklahoma is a beauti-ful place to make movies, and it saddens me to potentially never have the opportunity to work on a film crew here.

Contact your House representative about this issue. Voicing your opinion is crucial. As long as the House has not voted on it yet, there is still time to take action.

Paige Willett is a broadcast and electronic media senior.

From a young age, we are taught to view drugs with contempt. But the older we get, the less ominous they appear.

If the entire American public refused to use them, then prohibition wouldn’t be an issue. But our indecisiveness is working against us. The violence in Mexico is because of a single cause: American demand for drugs.

The battle rages between three main cartel groups all bat-tling for the distribution rights to America’s southern border. The heroin addicts do not carry the weight of this boom-ing underground drug economy alone — the recreational pot smokers, whom many among us are or know, also carry their share of blame. If we had a consensus on this issue, there wouldn’t be such a market, but the fact that we outlaw something that many people use or tolerate gives rise to tragic consequences.

The title “War on Drugs” implies this con-flict is a contest between two belligerents — the United States vs. drugs, which pre-cedes immorality, self-destruction and dirty needles. But in all this struggle, how do you engage a substance, with a rifle or diplomacy? The biggest problem associated with this “war” is that it will not eventu-ally end when two nations reach an agreement.

Mexico is the closest thing to an enemy nation in the war on drugs. According to the United Nations, Afghanistan produces about 90 percent of the world’s supply of opium, which is used to produce heroin, but Mexican production of the narcotic now ranks the country as the second largest ex-porter in the world. The meaning of the war on drugs is lost on us in Norman. But in Mexico, this is an all-out criminal insurgency.

In his book “El Narco,” Ioan Grillo describes a Mexico rav-aged by kidnappings, turf wars and car bombings, all funded by the U.S. and Europe’s obsession with indulgence. . This is a multi-billion dollar industry with military-style tactics,

carrying out raids and heinous murders on their competi-tors and the families of anyone who trifles with them.

Drug usage is not the only aspect of American involve-ment. Another factor is our guns. Cartels pay individuals with no criminal history to purchase these weapons in American to smuggle them back across the border. Mexico has strict gun laws, and 90 percent of weapons recovered from the cartels have serial numbers traced back to gun shops in the U.S. It is the perfect symbiotic relationship: weapons for drugs. And no matter how many seizures or drug arrests the DEA and other agencies makes, this market

shows no signs of losing value.It is a hard decision, but sentencing offend-

ers to years in prison is not a means to correct behavior or cure addiction. Legalization is a dirty word to some, but it would reduce the profits made by the cartels and others who benefit from organized crime. Prohibition was at the time meant to uplift the quality of America as a whole, but in the end it was a fail-ure and the only amendment ever repealed.

Who or what are we defending with anti-drug laws — friends, family, junkies or super-inflated drug profits? This is the single largest underground industry, of which almost everyone on Earth has seen one section.

In the great Mexican-American drug war, drugs look like the victor.

In this case, the law has done more to incite violence than it has to prevent it. The supply and demand of narcotics will always make them extremely profitable, but the most colos-sal mistake of all is not to make an ally of our enemy. We give these drugs notoriety by not speaking about them. Yes, they have the potential to kill an abuser. But if they were legal, the user would be the only one at risk, not the public.

Ricky Williams is an English junior.

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Join unheard in GLBT’s national Day of Silence

Today is the national Day of Silence, or-ganized by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.

OU students will join university and high school students across the country in a pledge of silence, which represents the silence faced by gay, lesbian, bisex-ual and transgender individuals in their struggles.

While some issues, such as gay mar-riage, receive a lot of attention and dis-cussion, many other difficult issues are all but ignored.

And in places like Oklahoma, the dis-crimination inherent in simple social in-teractions can be the hardest to face — and the hardest to talk about.

If you’re concerned with the treat-ment of GLBT individuals in our country — particularly GLBT youth — join in the pledge of silence today.

Then, go to OUDaily.com for a list of things you can do to make it better for GLBT youth.

Sangirardi aims to gain efficiency, decrease staff

New UOSA President Joe Sangirardi has proposed cuts to UOSA’s executive branch. The Student Congress Executive Committee discussed Sangirardi’s bill Sunday but postponed it for a week.

T h e c o m m i t t e e w i l l d i s c u s s Sangirardi’s revised version of the bill at

next Sunday’s meeting.We’re proud to see the student body’s

new president immediately getting to work on his strongest campaign promise. Restructuring UOSA’s executive branch to increase efficiency can only benefit both students and UOSA operations.

And who better to head the restruc-turing than someone with Sangirardi’s experience and knowledge of UOSA?

We urge the committee — and then Student Congress — to approve his plan quickly.

Caucus refuses to hear personhood bill

The Oklahoma House Republican Caucus voted Thursday not to hear the personhood bill, Senate Bill 1433. The controversial bill would define life as beginning at conception and give all the rights of a citizen to unborn fetuses at any stage of development.

H o u s e S p e a k e r K r i s S t e e l e , R-Shawnee, said in a press release the legislation will not be heard because it mimics the message of several other pro-life bills passed by Oklahoma’s leg-islature and “would not have any sub-stantive policy effect.”

Either abortion rights activists are correct and this bill would significantly harm women’s access to birth control, fertility treatment and other rights, or Steele and the bill’s supporters are cor-rect and the bill would have no practical effect and is simply a waste of time and resources.

Either way: We’re happy to see it go.

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times last year, and we lost them all ,” junior pitch-er Keilani Ricketts said. “[Missouri junior Chelsea Thomas] is a great pitcher, and they have a great offense, but we’re definitely looking for our revenge when we play them again this year.”

The Sooners also enter this season’s series with the most offensive fire power in the league.

Junior catcher Jessica Shults is one of the only two Big 12 players to be hitting at or above .400 this season. Shults leads the Sooners with 52 hits, and she is tied for third in the Big 12 with bat-tery mate Ricketts, both with 12 home runs each.

Freshman infielder Lauren Chamberlain gets her first shot at MU ace Thomas this weekend, coming into the series as the Big 12 home run (19) and RBI (54) leader.

Both programs also ride the coattails of their re-spective, dominant pitch-ers in Ricketts and Thomas. Ricketts leads the Big 12 in strikeouts (259) and shutouts

(10), while Thomas currently has the best ERA (0.97) in the league through 24 games.

With only five returning starters who faced Thomas during last year’s clash, Gasso chose to be creative with practice techniques this week to get her team ready.

“We’ve had (senior pitch-er) Kirsten Allen simulate Thomas’ release in practice,” Gasso said. “It’s really helped our girls see the ball deliv-ery to better prepare for this team.”

OU will face Missouri for the second-round contest at 2 p.m. Saturday before con-cluding the series action at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

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The No. 5 Oklahoma soft-ball team (36-6, 11-3 Big 12) seeks its final revenge against SEC-bound Missouri (33-8, 10-5 Big 12) in a pivotal three-game series beginning at 7 tonight in Norman.

A season-high four errors by OU helped Missouri crush the Sooners’ chances of win-ning a second national cham-pionship during last year’s trip to the Women’s College World Series.

However, Oklahoma will look to defend its current No. 1 Big 12 ranking in the friend-ly confines of Marita Hynes Field during this weekend’s series.

“Missouri will want to come in and go out with a bang,” OU coach Patty Gasso said. “What we have to do is take care of business on our home field. We’ve got two tough opponents coming up in both Missouri and Texas, but both series are here, and that means we just need to defend our territory.”

OU leads the overall se-ries with Mizzou, 49-40, and the two programs combine for 285 wins over the past three seasons with three Big 12 titles and four WCWS appearances.

Missouri is looking to cap-ture its third Big 12 title in four years and make its fourth consecutive WCWS appear-ance, but the Tigers will have to go through the Sooners, who still remember last year’s series sweep, to get there.

“We faced Missouri three

dilloN PhilliPsSports Reporter

Oklahoma has an op-portunity to extend its five-game winning streak this weekend against Alabama State and head into Bedlam on an eight-game tear if the Sooners can sweep the Hornets.

After a disappointing start to the season, the Sooners (23-14, 7-8 in Big 12 play) have begun to turn the tide thanks to a 4-0 blanking of No. 17 Arkansas on April 10.

Since then, the Sooners have rattled off five straight victories — outscoring their opponents, 29-16.

Sophomore Jordan John is slated to pitch Friday n i g h t , a n d s o p h o m o r e Dillon Overton is project-ed to start Saturday. Coach Sunny Golloway has yet to announce Sunday’s starter.

H o w e v e r, o n e o f t h e potential starters for the Sooners is Big 12 Newcomer of the Week, sophomore Damien Magnifico.

Magnifico shut out the Razorbacks in an impres-sive outing last week, but he most recently pitched against Oral Roberts on Tuesday night.

A rejuvenated Sooner

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Sooners look to continue win streak against HornetsJohn, Overton to start in Friday, Saturday games

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lineup is clicking and pro-ducing offensively at a high-er level than it has all year.

According to Golloway, d e s p i t e a f e w m i s s e d

opportunities earlier in the season, the team is now playing its best baseball.

“We understand that now we can score runs (because) we’ve got hitters in better positions,” Golloway said. “I’ve said it all along: There’s five or six games [during the season] where we just didn’t finish. If we win those games, I bet we’re in every-body’s top-12, top-10.”

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the nation’s best on the event, in the lineup and the Illini countering with a solid 60.1 on high bar.

The back-and-forth between the two teams continued, but Illinois slowly began to build a lead over the favored Sooners.

Next up for OU was the pommel horse, the team’s weak-est event this season. Prior to Thursday night, the Sooners had failed to score above a 59 on the event, but they came through when it mattered, coming up with a 59.1 be-hind freshman Dylan Akers’ 14.9 and junior Troy Nitzky’s 14.85.

Coach Mark Williams said he was pleased with the way his team handled the nerves of the event.

“I was really happy with that,” Williams said. “They did really, really well there, and that’s what we have to do to-morrow if we expect to stay in the hunt.”

After their highest score of the season on the event, the Sooners were right back in the hunt for the No. 1 spot head-ing into the finals. However, two events still remained and Illinois was not done.

Going into the final rotation of the night, OU was down by two points. After battling back to take the lead with only one Illinois competitor remaining, it seemed as if the Sooners might claim the No. 1 spot after all.

As close as the team came, there was little disappoint-ment from the Sooners at the end of the meet. After all, the goal was to make the top three and have a chance for a na-tional title on the big stage tonight.

“All we wanted to do is make tomorrow, just hit our routines,” Dalton said. “We didn’t put our full lineup out there, so we went out there and did what we wanted to do today.”

The Sooners knowingly left a lot of points out on the floor in order to rest all-arounders Dalton and Akers, both of whom will be competing full out tonight.

The Illini, on the other hand, went with their full lineup and had a much higher start value than OU. Though the Illinois edged out Oklahoma by a slight margin, it’s a good omen for OU heading into the day that really matters.

“Jake and I will both be doing all-around, and we’ll have it readjusted to where everybody is comfortable compet-ing,” Akers said. “So, I’m really excited. It’s going to be a fight to the finish, but I have a good feeling about what we can do.”

Akers and the rest of the Sooner squad have every right to have a good feeling. Going with a low-scoring lineup and still grabbing the third seed in the finals, along with being in the comfort of Lloyd Noble Center, where the team is undefeated in NCAA finals, gives OU a big advantage.

“I think Sooner fans across the state know tomorrow’s a big deal for OU athletics, and it’s just a great opportunity,” senior Patrick Piscitelli said. “It’s a good atmosphere to contend for a national title.”

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56 Wield a swizzle stick

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58 Big name in luxury autos

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A couple of major changes could be in store for you in the year ahead. One could pertain to an excellent ca-reer shift, while the other might have to do with a change of residence. Both could be rather unexpected.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- It’s OK to take on a new project as long as it doesn’t interfere with what you already have on your plate and you can devote quality time to both.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- You may feel you’re ably taking care of something that you promised friends you’d handle, but if it doesn’t look that way to them, your pals will feel manipulated.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- In order to achieve an important as-signment, you must give the powers that be the impression that you are totally dedicated to doing the job right. Anything less will not go over too well.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) --Your associates are likely to have a strong infl uence on your attitude and performance. If they tend to be negative thinkers, you will be one too. Try to hang out with positive types.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- It doesn’t matter if you’re managing an important fi nancial matter for another or for yourself, in both in-stances it must be skillfully handled. Anything less won’t suffi ce.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) --Be supportive of your mate instead of locking horns. A lack of allegiance

may cause your spouse to behave in a poor manner when you need bolstering at a later date.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Noth-ing constructive will result if you at-tempt to get others to handle certain responsibilities that are exclusively yours. If you don’t want to do these tasks, why should your friends feel differently?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- It might prove wise to reject being treasurer for your club or a group activity. If you have trouble collect-ing the funds, you could get blamed for the venture falling apart.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) --Be as tactful and diplomatic as you can when it comes to handling things for your club. If you’re not, you’ll catch a lot of heat for being too pushy and assertive.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -No matter how hard you try to be purposeful and methodical, certain of your projects might still look like they were handled in a slipshod fashion. Let others do some of the work.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) --Try to make some kind of arrangement to clear up an obligation you have to a friend. Not only will small tokens have a way of adding up, they’ll make your pal feel appreciated.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) --Some-one who is usually agreeable might do an about-face and could handle things in a manner that would cause problems, just to get even with you for ignoring him or her lately.

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Hellogoodbye says ‘hello’ to SoonersEditor’s Note: This interview was conducted via email because the band is still on the road.

I think I can speak on the behalf of most females my age when I say Forrest Kline’s catchy, innocuous lyrics to “Here in Your Arms” and “Oh, It Is Love,”

at one point or another, became a relationship or two’s “song.”

Hellogoodbye released their first album “Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!” in the midst of our peak-ing hormones and fruitless search for indie-pop bands to provide relevant lyrics for our endless strife in love.

At 8 tonight on the Oklahoma Memorial Union lawn, Kline and his fellow Huntington Beach, Calif., band mates will perform those all-too-familiar power pop bal-lads from their 2006 album, along with material from their newer album, “Would It Kill You?” (2010).

Don’t forget to practice your best shimmy-shimmy quarter-turns.

the Daily: What is the origin of your band’s name?Kline: I was a senior in high school at the time, and it

was about opportunities and people coming and going. Everything in the band has always represented an informal reminder for me, so this was a little note-to-self to try to take advantage of and enjoy the moments you have at hand.

the Daily: How did everyone in your band come together?

Kline: Well, we’ve been through many, many incarnations at this point. Originally, I started recording things in my bedroom; I wasn’t really trying to start a band. I built up enough songs that we got some chances to open up some shows, and I got my friends together to do it.

the Daily: What are the goals of Hellogoodbye?Kline: I would love to be able to do this for a long

time. Creating something — especially music — is really, really rewarding, and everything else that comes along with that is awesome.

the Daily: What would you be if you were not a musician? Why?

Kline: To be honest, I’m not sure. I freelanced as a graphic designer for a little bit after high school, and I’ve got a hobbyist’s passion for nerdy coding sort of stuff, but I’m probably really only good at that by pre-2000 standards. I’d never land a job in this market.

the Daily: What is your music writing process like?Kline: First, you wait until something strikes you — a

melody or words or whatever — and then it’s just a lot of work to build up the rest of it to be worthy of that first bit. I built a studio in my garage, so I have access to everything I need: drums, guitars, keys, toys, etc.

the Daily: What has been your best experience with

music?Kline: There’s something kind of magic about

festivals. Sometimes they’re crap, but sometimes they are just ineffable. You get the opportunity to play with bands you might never get to outside of a fest environment, and there’s something unique about festival performances, like it’s an important occasion for the band, too.

the Daily: What kind of crowd is your favorite to perform in front of?

Kline: I’d like to say I’m cool with real mellow crowds, and I am to a degree, but when people give you energy, it makes all the difference in the world.

the Daily: Do you guys have any superstitions or pre-show rituals?

Kline: Just to remember to pee. I usually sort of want to have five minutes to chill out, get a headspace going, but that usually doesn’t happen.

the Daily: What are Hellogoodbye’s favorite touring snacks?

Kline: I eat Ritz and peanut butter just about every night.

the Daily: Have you guys performed on other college campuses?

Kline: Yeah, we’ve got quite a few under our belt now. They’re always a special treat.

the Daily: What do you guys think about the Norman music scene? How does it compare?

Kline: Sadly, the only thing I know is that The Flaming Lips are from there. Luckily, that’s enough to say it’s better than most places ever.

the Daily: What is the extent of your experience with Oklahoma? What do you think?

Kline: It’s real pretty, and people are real nice. You guys get some scary weather, though!

the Daily: If your music was a type of food, what would it be and why?

Kline: Probably something sweet, but I think it’s the sort of food that comes with tons of dipping sauces and toppings.

the Daily: Name one thing you know about the University of Oklahoma.

Kline: I know you guys just had a tornado, and I hope everybody is OK. And that, if they are, they’ll hopefully invite us to the cool kids’ party after the show.

Courtney Goforth is a journalism senior.

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Electronic-pop band Hellogoodbye performs at 8 p.m. on the Oklahoma Memorial Union lawn tonight. The Huntington Beach, Calif., band released its first full-length album, “Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!,” in 2006 with Drive Thru Records. Since then, the band has released two more full length albums including, ““EP/DVD Split” and “Would it Kill You.” Hellogoodbye frontman Forrest Kline (middle front) chatted with The Daily about the upcoming show and what he knows about OU.

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HellogoodbyeThe Hellogoodbye

concert is tonight on the lawn of the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Relive those memories of high school sweet-hearts and raging hor-mones. The concert starts at 8 p.m.

— Courtney Goforth

’89er dayThis weekend is a great

time to celebrate, not only Oklahoma history, but also our mascot’s namesake.

Celebrate the land run and the original Boomers and Sooners on ’89er Day this Saturday.

The ’89er Day Parade will take place at 10 a.m. in downtown Norman on Main Street.

— Westlee Parsons

record store dayRecord Store Day is a

must this weekend. There are crazy deals at all the Guestroom Records loca-tions. Doors open at 11 a.m. Saturday

— Shawn Stafford

“tHe lucky one”Grab a date and go see

the new Nicholas Sparks novel inspired movie, “The Lucky One.”

I have read the book, and I really hope the movie lives up to it be-cause I never know with Nicholas Sparks novels-turned-movies.

Go and see for yourself; it’s the perfect movie for couples or for a bunch of girlfriends.

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game review

‘resident evil’ trailer disappoints

Many fans of the “Resident Evil” franchise were

no doubt excited by this month’s trailer showing off the latest installment, “Resident Evil 6.” But I imag-ine some came away very disappointed.

I know I did.The trailer showcased a

very different kind of game than the one for which my-self and other fans were hop-ing. Aside from some semi-eerie environments and the usual body horror, it was devoid of elements that dis-tinguished earlier “Resident Evil” games as part of the sur-vival horror genre.

There was no real tension or isolation. Rather, we got what resembles a squad-based shooter starring monsters.

From the looks of it, “Resident Evil 6” won’t be the much-desired return to the series’ roots. Rather, it will continue the same sort of action-oriented game play that took prominence in “Resident Evil 4.”

To be clear, there’s noth-ing terribly wrong with this game-play style — most fans at least agree “Resident Evil 4” was good.

However, it’s just not what the series is supposed to be, and if the focus on action continues to escalate as it’s done since “Resident Evil 4,” then pretty soon there will be little to distinguish it

from the multitude of other pretty shoot-’em-ups on the market.

For better or worse, pub-lisher Capcom seems to acknowledge this. The team refers to “Resident Evil 6” as a “dramatic horror” game, whereas previous entries had purported to simply be sur-vival horror.

After seeing the trailer, I’m sure this is a euphemism for “action game with some hor-ror elements thrown in.”

In an interview with Gamasutra, Capcom pro-ducer Masachika Kawata jus-tified the shift by citing sales data, pointing out the market for survival horror was small.

“Looking at the market-ing data [for survival horror games] ... the market is small, compared to the number of units ‘Call of Duty’ and

all those action games sell,” Kawata said. “A survival hor-ror ‘Resident Evil’ doesn’t seem like it’d be able to sell those kind of numbers.”

That sentence alone has more scares packed into it than any of the recent “Resident Evil” games.

First of all, why should “Resident Evil” aspire to the earning heights of shooters like “Call of Duty”?

Though I admire Capcom’s ambition, it’s not reasonable to think any series ought to undergo a genre-switch in order to compete with one of the big-gest shooters in the market.

Furthermore, what about the art form? While this issue is distinct from the all-im-portant matter of profit and loss, I don’t think it’s wholly irrelevant to point out the

damage Capcom is doing to the industry artistically.

For years, “Resident Evil” was looked to by other sur-vival horror series for guid-ance and inspiration. Now that its transformation into an action game is complete, we can expect other horror developers to follow suit.

This is just sad. As games like “Amnesia: The Dark Descent” have shown, sur-vival horror still has a place in gaming culture and the capa-bility to sell well. All the genre needs is leadership and an-other chance.

Instead, “Resident Evil” is jumping ship in the hopes it will land on another, more profitable boat.

Steven Zoeller is a journalism sophomore.

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the game trailer for the newest installment in the “resident evil” franchise seems to show the october release will be the next step down a path away from the franchise’s early game-play style toward the mass of shoot-’em-ups on the market, The Daily’s steven Zoeller says.

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release date: oct 2

company: Capcom

available platforms: • Xbox 360• Playstation 3• PC

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