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New cars prove to be more effi cient than traditional gas ones; lessen pollution
JESSICA WILDERThe Oklahoma Daily
Whether it’s delivering and retrieving mail or watering and mowing the lawn, OU’s electri-cal vehicles carry out some of the most necessary tasks around c a m p u s a s a part of the uni-versity’s green initiative.
E l e c t r i c a l vehicles have b e e n i n c o r -porated in the Physical Plant’s t r a n s p o r t a -tion fleet to conserve fuel and lessen the amount of pollution released.
“Electric cars have been used on OU’s campus for years and years. Only in the past couple years has the university increased the purchase rate to keep with the University of Oklahoma’s fuel policy,” Fleet Services Manager Leon Fourcade said.
Resembling golf carts, these
Business revenue has increased since starting savings program
SABRINA PROSSERThe Oklahoma Daily
Campus Corner businesses are catering to students and reach-ing out to new clientele with the Tuesdays on the Corner discount initiative.
Tuesdays on the Corner is a one-day-a-week incentive for OU students and the general pub-lic to come to Campus Corner to save on shopping and eat-ing, said Helen Wolney, former president of the Campus Corner Merchants’ Association and The Apothem owner.
T h e C a m p u s C o r n e r Merchants’ Association launched the discount in 2009. Wolney said
businesses and restaurants lo-cated on Campus Corner opted into the program to increase revenue.
There are six business that participate in the Tuesday dis-count, and the Campus Corner board is recruiting others to take part, said Barbara Fite, Campus Corner Merchants Association board member and Antique Garden co-owner.
The discounts range from 10 percent to 20 percent for the retail stores, while the two res-taurants offer discounts on beer pitchers and pints.
Students were a focal point in the decision to create the dis-count day, Fite said.
“Students are our biggest shop-pers and the discounts entice them to buy things they normally would not purchase,” Fite said.
The discount was originally offered on Tuesdays to entice shoppers to visit the Corner on a typically low-business day, Fite said.
The idea has worked for some students, said Mia Cantu, profes-sional writing junior.
“I’m more prone to visiting these stores now on a Tuesday,” Cantu said.
B u s i n e s s re v e n u e h a s i n -creased on Tuesdays since the program began. Fite said she could tell the number of people visiting have increased.
Tuesdays on the Corner ben-efits the shops in more than one way, Fite said. By advertising the discount in Oklahoma City, Campus Corner board members hope to attract business from outside the OU and Norman communities.
Campus Corner off ers Tuesday discounts to entice shoppers
AME AZIERE/THE DAILY
OU accessories are displayed Thursday afternoon at Blush, 566 Buchanan Ave. Blush is one of several businesses on Campus Corner that offers discounts every Tuesday.
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New $3 fee used to educate, enforce Oklahoma motorcyle safety regulations
JUSTIN MAIThe Oklahoma Daily
OU students that choose to ride motorcycles have to con-tend with a new $3 registration fee that goes into effect Nov. 1.
Originating with House Bill 2264, “Gunner’s Bill,” the $3 registration fee will be used to educate the public about mo-torcycle safety and fund law enforcement.
“Motorcycle accidents are a problem whenever, wherever they happen,” said Lt. Bruce Chan, OU Police Department spokesman. “Thankfully, we don’t have very many of them on campus.”
The fee will be added to any-one registering their motor-cycle to be used on roads and highways, according to the bill. The fee will be transferred each month to the Department of Public Safety for deposit in the Motorcycle Safety and Education Program Revolving Fund.
“I suspect the plan to be put together by the Advisory Committee on Motorcycle Safety and Education will be a combi-nation of training and motorist awareness,” said Kevin Behrens, member of the State Motorcycle Safety Administration. “What I mean by motorist awareness is ‘share the road,’ ‘look twice,’ that kind of thing. This money is going to be used to educate both motorcycle riders and automo-bile drivers.”
Bill creates new motorcycle registration fee
Alumnus donates $1M to OU energy program
NEIL MCGLOHON/THE DAILY
Several motorcycles are parked outside the McCasland Field House. A new $3 tax, applying to motorcycle drivers in order to fund motorcycle safety training, will take effect Nov. 1.
Regents also approve cancer institute construction, health center during meeting
KATHLEEN EVANSThe Oklahoma Daily
An OU alumnus donated $1 mil-lion to the Energy Management program in honor of his professor and mentor, V. Ross Brown.
Rod Roberts donated the money with the intention of recruiting leaders as teachers in core Energy
Management Studies classes. Roberts’ donation will be used
to bring in industry professionals to help students learn about their chosen field.
Oil, gas and environmental law; energy production and markets; petroleum geology; petroleum en-gineering; natural gas marketing and trading; and practical issues in energy are among the classes that will benefit from this gift, accord-ing to a press release.
President David Boren presented
this gift at the OU Board of Regents meeting Monday in Claremore.
“It is always very special when our graduates give back in honor of a professor who made a meaning-ful difference in their lives,” Boren said in a press release.
Also at Monday’s meeting, the regents approved an increase of about $3 million to the OU Cancer Institute construction budget. The money will help complete the building’s fourth and fifth floors, which will include patient exam
rooms and administrative offices, according to the agenda.
Currently, construction is esti-mated to end in May 2011.
The board also approved an $11 million budget for construction on the Wayman Tisdale Specialty Health Center in Tulsa, according to the agenda.
The center will serve patients in north, east and west Tulsa, where life-expectancy rates are 14 years less than those in other neighbor-hoods, according to research by
the OU-Tulsa faculty. Care will in-clude treatment for cancer, diabe-tes and heart disease.
Other items on the agenda in-cluded choosing a construction firm for repairs to L. Dale Mitchell Baseball Park and the softball facility.
Also, the regents approved a de-sign for a new office building on OU’s research campus.
— Hillary McLain contributed to this report
Electric vehicles added to OU fl eet
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Petroleum engineering soph-omore Avesta Ehsan has been riding motorcycles since he was 13 years old.
“I started with a dirt bike re-ally early. Now I’ve had three motorcycles and ride every day. I think the fee is OK as long as it’s just to look out for people,” said Ehsan, who currently rides a black Honda CBR600.
Through the funding from the fee, the Motorcycle Safety Foundation will provide train-ing for new and experienced riders, Behrens said.
“The goal is to see a downturn in crashes and fatalities as a re-sult of this,” Behrens said. “The model that we’re basing this on — education and enforcement — has been proven to have an impact on the crashes.”
To ensure safety on the roads, Chan said those in motor ve-hicles should be more aware when motorcyclists are on the road.
“Motorcycles are small rela-tive to regular vehicular traffic, so people have to pay extra at-tention and be sure to give them
the same courtesy and respect as other motor vehicles,” Chan said. “And even though it’s not required by law in Oklahoma to wear a helmet while riding mo-torcycles, people should still do it.”
Behrens said no matter what level of riding expertise one has, more training is always helpful.
“Anyone can benefit from get-ting training in accordance with their level of riding,” Behrens said. “And of course, a helmet is always a good idea.”
“The reason for the discount idea was to help bring in outside business as well as more student business,” Fite said.
MONEY
Today around campus» The Women’s Outreach Center will register people for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.
» Christians on Campus will host a Bible study at noon in the Union’s Traditions Room.
» OU Libraries librarian Steve Beleu will talk about American Indian websites at 1:30 p.m. in Bizzell Memorial Library, Room 149D.
» Engineering majors can learn about interviewing for engineering jobs at 1:30 p.m. in the Union’s Crimson Room.
» The Assessment and Learning Center will teach students how to take lecture notes at 3:30 p.m. in Wagner Hall.
» The Medical Ethics and Issues Discussion Panel will meet at 5:30 p.m. in the Union’s Heritage Room.
» The Japanese Conversation Club will meet at 6 p.m. in the Union’s Frontier Room.
» The Sooner Ballroom Dance Club will give lessons at 6:30 p.m. in the Union’s Scholars Room.
» A panel discussion about Islam in America and the New York community center controversy will start at 7 p.m. in the Union’s Regents Room.
» This day in OU history
Sept. 21, 1939Military classes to see movies
OU’s military science classes started using fi lms in class. They purchased machines for more than $500 to play the movies, which consisted of a projector and sound equipment.
10 sorority pledges announcedSorority rush had just ended, with Alpha Chi Omega
and Alpha Xi Delta recruiting the most women, with three recruits each.
Only fi ve sororities existed at OU at the time: Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Xi Delta, Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Phi and Phi Mu.
*Source: The Oklahoma Daily archives
Wednesday, Sept. 22» The Women’s Outreach Program will register people for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Union.
» Christians on Campus will host a Bible study from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. in the Union’s Traditions Room.
» OU Career Services will host a free workshop for interview techniques for all JMC majors from 1:30 to 2 p.m in Gaylord’s Hall of Fame Room and one for all Arts and Science majors from 3 to 3:30 p.m. in the Union’s Crimson Room.
» Professor George Henderson will hold a lecture for all students about race and the university from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Honors College Nancy Mergler Library.
» Shack-A-Thon will have an informational meeting from 7 to 7:45 p.m. in the Union’s Alma Wilson Room.
» The Animal Volunteer Alliance will hold a meeting from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Union’s Sooner Room.
» Campus Activities Council’s University Sing will hold a meeting from 9:30 to 11:30 p.m. in the Union’s Heritage Room.
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compact electrical vehi-cles drive more easily and silently than their gas-pow-ered counterparts. Because they are electric, however, they must be charged on a regular basis to carry out their tasks effectively.
“They return to head-quarters around 5 p.m. and are charged daily,” said Beth Gatewood, an ad-ministrator from Mailing Services and Document Production Services, the main user of a large num-ber of the electr ic cars around campus.
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powered vehicles have been driven around cam-pus carrying out the same tasks electr ic cars now complete. By replacing them, the university not only lessens pollution but also increases efficiency, Gatewood said.
These electric vehicles are exponentially smaller
compared to their gasoline-powered counterparts and are able to navigate cam-pus more easily, allowing tasks to be completed more efficiently, in Gatewood’s opinion.
He said OU hopes to e v e n t u a l l y c o n v e r t i t s e n t i re f l e e t t o e l e c t r i c vehicles.
Prestigious grant awarded to Sam Noble Museum
The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History has received a three-year grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services to catalog, database and assign geographic coordinates to specimens in its collection of recent invertebrates.
This prestigious grant was awarded to 179 out of the 500 applicants who applied. The Sam Noble Museum was the only museum in Oklahoma to be awarded for this specifi c program.
After a yearlong application process, the Sam Noble Museum received $149,206 to catalog about half of the holdings of the invertebrates collection, said Janet Braun, acting curator of the collection.
“To try and database as much of the natural history specimen materials in the United States right now is a new program through the National Science Foundation,” Braun said.
The electronic database will provide information to the international scientifi c community, people from individual state agencies and the general public, Braun said.
Physical specimens are always available to researchers, Braun said. Researchers are welcome to visit onsite, or the specimens can be loaned out to the institution for their research.
A catalog of the specimens will be provided at the Sam Noble Museum’s website and other websites, she said.
“Starting with specifi c groups of organisms, we are going to focus on dragonfl ies, beetles, and we have the largest riffl e beetle collection in the world,” Braun said.
The group working on this collection includes Braun, another project manager, two undergraduate students and a full time worker.
—Debbie Davis/The Daily
ELECTRIC: Cars conserve fuel, lower pollutionContinued from page 1
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An OU Mailing Services electric is parked Friday morning outside Buchanan Hall during the office’s daily rounds. The OU Post Office uses ‘all electric vehicles’ to deliver mail across campus.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010 • 3The Oklahoma Daily | OUDaily.com WORLD
1. Veracruz, Mexico
Flooding death toll rises to 16Mexican authorities say at least 16 people were killed during
several days of fl ooding and mudslides across southern Mexico.President Felipe Calderon says the death toll in the Gulf coast
state of Veracruz rose to 12 over the weekend as the remnants of Hurricane Karl caused fl ash fl oods and mudslides.
Local offi cials say two people were killed when their homes collapsed in Guerrero and Oaxaca states.
Calderon spoke Monday during a visit to Veracruz state, which had already been suffering from weeks of widespread fl ooding.
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2. Mogadishu, Somalia
Suicide attack on government failsA Somalian police offi cer says a suicide bomber who tried to
attack the Mogadishu presidential palace was shot dead.Police offi cer Abdi Aden says the attacker jumped on the
back of an African Union peacekeeping vehicle late Monday and managed to pass some security checkpoints at the palace.
Aden says that at the last checkpoint security forces saw the attacker, who threw a grenade but was then shot dead.
Aden says the assailant was wearing an explosives vest, which did not go off.There were no immediate reports of any additional deaths or injuries.
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3. Taipei, Taiwan
Typhoon knocks out power in TaiwanA powerful typhoon made landfall Monday in eastern China
after ripping into Taiwan, fl ooding the southern part of the island, crippling transportation and shutting off power as thousands of residents fl ed mountainous areas prone to landslides.
Typhoon Fanapi was the fi rst major storm to strike the island this year and the 11th typhoon to hit China. It landed in Fujian province at 7 a.m. after crossing Taiwan on Sunday.
Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau said as much as 44 inches of rain had been dumped in southern Taiwan by early Monday.
Military vehicles entered inundated areas to help trapped residents in the southern part of the island, including Taiwan’s second largest city Kaohsiung, late Sunday.
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Philippe Croizon, a Frenchman whose arms and legs were amputated, holds a French flag during a press conference Monday in northern France after crossing the English Channel this weekend using leg prostheses that have flippers attached.
WISSANT, France — Just days after swimming across the English Channel, quadruple amputee Philippe Croizon is planning a new challenge: crossing from Europe to Africa in the Strait of Gibraltar.
Croizon, who swims using leg prostheses with fi ns attached, also has an inspirational message for anyone discouraged or facing diffi culties.
“You only need to want (something), and then it becomes possible to go beyond your limits,” he said two days after crossing the English Channel, which is 21 miles at its narrowest point.
Croizon, 42, reached northern France on Saturday night after only 13 and a half hours.
He uses specially designed leg prosthesis with fi ns to propel himself through the water. His truncated upper arms go through the motions of the crawl, and he breathes through a snorkel.
Upon reaching the French shore, a wave threw him into the rocks, before being pulled out of the water.
“I broke down in tears ... it (was) pure happiness,” he said.
— AP
Amputee to swim from Europe to Africa
Drills carve 3rd escape shaft for men trapped in mine since Aug. 5
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — The Chilean government has done everything within its power to rescue 33 min-ers trapped underground since Aug. 5, but can’t esti-mate when they’ll be pulled out, said Chilean President Sebastian Pinera Sunday.
Pinera spoke as an oil in-dustry drill began carving a third escape tunnel that could provide the first way to extricate the men through a half-mile of solid rock.
“We don’t know when [the drills] will reach them. But we know one thing — with the help of God, they will reach them,” Pinera said. “I can as-sure you we have done every-thing possible. We have done our best.”
The latest drill, a 150-foot-tall structure, can pound through 60 to 90 feet of rock a day. Other machines must bore narrower holes and gradually expand their di-ameter while the Rig 24 can carve a 28-inch-wide shaft — just wide enough to pull a man through — in a single
Chile has done ‘best’ to rescue miners, President Pinera says
pass.Its power increases the risk
of causing underground col-lapses, so engineers are aim-ing it at a point in the mine below the men are holed up.
Once this “Plan C” ma-chine reaches the miners, the rescuers will fortify the walls of the tunnel with iron tubing to prevent it from col-lapsing around the miners as
they are pulled out. Casing the tunnel alone will take eight days, rescue coordina-tor Andre Sougarret said.
T h e t ra p p e d m i n e r s, whose work includes clear-ing two cubic meters of rocks an hour from the “Plan B” escape tunnel, are in a posi-tive mood, “without anger or rage,” said Claudio Ibanez, a psychologist who specializes
in tending to people in ex-treme conditions.
Ibanez is part of a team of six psychologists who speak with the miners by video-conference twice daily.
“The worst is now over, and they know it,” he said. “To have made it this far “ob-viously works in their favor.”
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CHILE’S PRESIDENCY/AP
In this TV grab taken from a video released by Chile’s Presidency, trapped miners raise a Chilean flag as they celebrate their nation’s independence bicentennial Saturday inside the San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile. The 33 miners have been trapped since Aug. 5.
On July 30, a man broke into the apartment of an impov-erished woman, attempting to rape her in her apartment. He climbed in her window, and she woke up to the terrify-ing face of her would-be rapist, who left only after a physical struggle.
17.6 percent of American women are the victims of at-tempted or completed rape, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. What made this assault different?
It became a YouTube phenomenon.Kelly Dodson of Huntsville, Ala. was interviewed about
her rape by her local news station, WAFF 48, and her angry brother, Antoine, offered a warning to his community.
“Hide your kids, hide your wives, and hide your husbands because they’re raping everybody out here,” he said.
Two months later, Antoine is a relative celebrity.His words became lyrics for a song that hit number three
on the iTunes R&B/Soul chart and gained 121,000 fans on Facebook.
His interview has been viewed on YouTube more than 10 million times; an Auto-Tune remix of it has garnered more than 22 million views and more than 200 video responses.
The video even inspired the North Carolina A&T University marching band to perform an ar-rangement of the song and post it on YouTube.
Comments on these videos, and there are hundreds, range in their messages, but most sound something like this: “This made my day! No, my week! It’s stinkin’ hilarious!”
I’ll admit that I laughed the first time I watched the video. Dodson’s accent and word choice cer-tainly provide entertainment, but remove those idiosyncrasies from the equation, and we’re left with a very serious story about a man who fears for his com-munity and his sister, a young woman whose privacy was breached as a stranger tried rape her.
Why do we find this amusing? Sexual assault isn’t some-thing to laugh about.
Mocking one man’s perspective on his personal brush with sexual assault reveals an astounding lack of under-standing about the pervasiveness of rape as well as rape’s effects.
S exual assault and rape af fect v ir tual ly ever y community.
Last year, three reported sexual assaults affected the OU community; the statistics are similar for recent years.
Department of Justice studies conclude that na-
tionwide, a woman is sexually assaulted every two minutes. One out of every six women will be the victim of rape.
College-aged women are four times more likely to be raped than women of other age groups. In fact, sexual as-sault on and near college campuses is prevalent enough that OU has a support system in place. The OU Women’s Outreach Center has a Sexual Assault Response Team on call 24/7, and it provides many other advocacy groups and events as a way to raise awareness about sexual assault.
However, these numbers do not provide the full picture because approximately 60 percent of sexual assaults go
unreported.The effects of rape are not limited to the phys-
ical. According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, victims of sexual assault are three times more likely to suffer from depres-sion, 13 times more likely to abuse alcohol, 26 times more likely to abuse drugs and four times more likely to contemplate suicide than their non-abused counterparts.
That’s not funny. That’s chilling.Rape is never entertaining. It’s never amus-
ing, and it should never be the punch line to a joke.
Our latest pop culture trend shouldn’t be based on one woman’s recent, horrifying experience.
When we laugh at the vigor with which Antoine Dodson defended his sister, we should remember the women and men who don’t have someone to speak up for them. We should remember the victims too ashamed to report the abuse they’ve suffered or to seek medical or psy-chiatric help.
There’s nothing funny about that.
— Kate McPherson,
University College freshman
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Addressing immigration problem requires re-examination of free trade agreement
Editor’s note: The Daily will run a media literacy column by Sarah Cavanah, interim executive director of Oklahoma Scholastic Media and former Daily staff writer, every Tuesday to give readers a behind-the-scenes look at The Daily and media coverage in general.
Friday’s edition of The Daily included a critique of The Daily’s coverage of the Norman water-rate vote by assistant professor David Vishanoff, who took The Dailyto task for over reliance on government sources for its coverage.
I really don’t know much about Norman’s water sup-ply, but I do know that Vishanoff ’s letter speaks to a long-running debate in journalism about sourcing.
More than 30 years ago, sociologist Gaye Tuchman coined the term “facticity.” Simply put, facticity is in-volved in the tendency of journalists to give greater credence to official sources, like government officials, business executives and other professional communi-cators. The guy with the picket sign about water rates on the corner of Main Street and Flood Avenue? Not so much.
This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Official sources do tend to have a lot of knowledge within their fields.
Tuchman would point out that water board commis-sioners deal with water issues every day, and therefore compile a lot of information about water. We even teach students in journalism classes to make sure that they consult with official sources.
Students also are encouraged to find unofficial sourc-es, but the reality is that we don’t quite push as hard for those sources to be included, and many times, if they are, they come in the form of relatively uninformed “man on the street” interviews.
The danger is that official sources can take over the news.
They often know exactly how to package the info for quick consumption and in formats that are journalist-friendly.
Picket-sign guy? He wants to talk for three hours in the hot sun about pipeline carrying capacity.
In an ideal situation, the reporter would do that. But when that reporter has to talk to three other sources for that story, plus six others for the other two stories he or she is doing that day? At that point, the official source with the condensed news release starts to look really good.
But anyone can beat the system. If you’re an unoffi-cial source with a point of view, play the game like an of-ficial source: provide researched facts, try to condense your stance into one page that can be e-mailed to the reporter and call the newsroom.
You might get rejected, but you definitely will if you don’t try.
— Sarah Cavanah,
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Our national discourse on illegal immi-gration should cool down a bit.
Frustration with our nation’s immigration policy reached fever pitch this year when Arizona passed a controversial immigration law in April.
In July, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer falsely claimed on Fox News that law enforcement officials had discovered decapitated bodies in the desert as a result of illegal Mexican immigrants.
This kind of angry rhetoric on immigra-tion, from increased crime to “anchor ba-bies,” has dominated the immigration issue. So when the First Presbyterian Church of Norman held an informative forum this Sunday on why people cross the border from Mexico, it was about time.
The question, “why?” has been over-looked for too long.
It’s obvious immigrants come to America for better paying jobs. But why can’t they get those jobs in their home country?
Part of the problem is the North American Free Trade Agreement, also known as
NAFTA. This was an agreement signed by the U.S., Canada and Mexico that came into effect on Jan. 1, 1994.
This agreement was meant to benefit the economies of all nations involved, and in regards to Mexico and the U.S., was meant to de-crease the number of ille-gal immigrants.
To judge its effective-ness, one needs only look at the effect the trade agreement had on the number of undocument-ed workers in the U.S. after 1994.
According to the Pew Hispanic Center, illegal immigration from Mexico to the U.S. increased after NAFTA was enacted from 400,000 a year in the early 1990s to about 850,000 a year in the first half of this decade.
In regards to Mexico, tariffs on Mexican imports and exports were to be eliminated after NAFTA, making the country more
attractive for U.S. businesses.The goal was for Mexico to get rich off
the investments of U.S. businesses. Mexico would use this revenue, in turn, to improve its infrastructure and education. This would
mean more employment for Mexican citizens and increased income.
But it didn’t happen.Me x i c a n m a n u f a c-
turers protected by the tariffs couldn’t compete with products — like cars, televisions, and clothing — that were made with higher quality at a lower price.
As jobs began disappearing in these in-dustries at an increasingly rapid rate — from 4.1 million in 2000 to 3.5 million in 2004, according to Robert A. Blecker, American University economist — hourly pay for pro-duction workers fell even lower than the hourly pay of workers in the U.S.
The effect on farmers was also devastating.
The U.S. government could give billions in subsidies to more efficient mechanized agribusiness, an option that Mexican farm-ers weren’t given.
This had its greatest impact on Mexico’s corn industry. The Environmental Working Group estimated the U.S. government gave the corn industry $56 billion between 1995 and 2006. This flooded Mexico’s market with cheap corn, leading to the unemploy-ment of thousands of Mexican farmers.
With such a large population of unem-ployed workers, and a much wealthier country relatively close by, what could law-makers expect to happen?
If we are going to find a solution to our immigration problem, we must first look at the root causes.
However, since 2007, illegal immigration to the U.S. has dropped dramatically, but not for the reasons lawmakers want. In light of our nation’s current recession, the Pew Hispanic Center reported Sept. 1 the num-ber of illegal immigrants plunged to 300,000 a year between 2007 and 2009.
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BRIEFS
OU-Cincinnati kickoff time set
The kickoff time for the OU-Cincinnati football game is set for 5 p.m. Saturday. The game will be televised on ESPN2.
The teams will play at Paul Brown Stadium, the home fi eld of the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals.
—Daily staff reports
B-ball tickets on sale today
OU men’s basketball ticket sales for Category I OU students begin online at 7 a.m. and at the OU Athletics Ticket Offi ce at 10 a.m.
Category II OU students (freshmen and transfers) can sign up for tickets at 8 .am. Wednesday either online or in person at the OU Athletics Ticket Offi ce.
Student season tickets are $140 and all charges can be made to the bursar account with a $15 processing fee, associate athletic director Kenneth Mossman said. If necessary, a lottery will take place Wednesday if demand exceeds the supply.
Season and single-game tickets can be purchased at www.SoonerSports.com.
During the season, tickets can be purchased at the Lloyd Noble Center box offi ce.
Tickets will be available on game day as supplies permit beginning one and a half hours prior to tipoff.
Students get in free to women’s basketball games.
— Sabrina Prosser/The
Daily
Freshman tackle solid in debut, Stoops saysAARON COLEN The Oklahoma Daily
All the talk last week was about the unconventional offense the Sooners would face against Air Force.
Senior linebacker Travis Lewis admitted prior to the game that he was not look-ing forward to it. Defensive coordinator Brent Venables made it known that he was relieved to see his team leave that game with a win.
As for freshman defensive tackle Daniel Noble? He got his first game action against the option-running, cut-blocking Falcons offense. And, according to coach Bob
Stoops, he excelled.“He played a heck of a
game,” he said. “He’s tough.”Noble had one tackle and
one assisted tackle Saturday, but he held his own against Air Force, which ran the ball more than 60 times among eight different ball carriers.
Noble said he came to OU with no expectations of play-ing time, and he was just fo-cused on working hard and performing when and if he was called upon.
“I was just determined to work as hard as I could to become as good as I could and to advance as quickly as I could,” Noble said. “I wasn’t going to be disappointed if I
didn’t play, I just wanted to do the best I could.”
The Flower Mound, Texas, native had an example to follow when he arrived in Norman, and said he looked to senior defensive tackle Adrian Taylor for guidance.
“I was all over him all over the summer, asking him so many different questions,” Noble said. “I was just ab-sorbing as much as I could.”
Stoops said he has high hopes for the player Noble can become down the road.
“He’s going to be a really good player,” Stoops said. “He already is, but he has a chance to be one of those guys who is really special.”
Show me a man who can run four miles inside of 20 minutes or a woman who can run inside of 12 minutes and I’ll show you some of the most disciplined, driven and resilient athletes walking around campus.
The Sooner men’s cross country team is ranked 12th in the nation. Yes, the team is that good.
In their first meet of 2010, sophomore Patrick Gomez and redshirt freshman Alex Munterfering finished in the top 10. The OU women’s cross country team had two top-10 finishers, Molly Ferguson and Kelly Waters at fifth and sixth, respectively.
Be honest for a second and ask yourself if you knew OU’s cross country teams were this good? Or better yet, do you even care?
The answer to the first
question is most likely “no” and that’s understandable, but the second deserves some of those critical-think-ing skills our professors love to make us use.
It’s football season and no other country in the world gets up for football season, not even the Europeans, like we do. We make it our business to know every de-tail of OU football at a level of efficiency that would make Dexter Morgan (of S h o w t i m e ’s “ D e x t e r ” ) proud.
Because the cross country season conflicts with the first three sacred months of all things pigskin, the teams are
left to train in obscurity rela-tive to the public eye. When they win or are as good as they are, it is mentioned as an aside to whatever else may have happened in Sooner Land that week.
But you know what? These ladies and gentlemen are used to it.
They have been training day in and day out in relative obscurity for most of their athletic lives. They wake up at Dark:30 a.m. every day to run tens of miles before they even have their first meal.
They’ll go through the same full-time schedule as any other OU student and then add that hyphenated “athlete” nomenclature in the afternoon. They’ll run long, grueling intervals at practice and then go run more miles in what they lov-ingly call a “cool down.”
Don’t act like you don’t know cross country athletes run more than you walk. You see them every day on your way to class, running down Lindsey Street or Jenkins Avenue as i f they were Pheidippides, the guy whose run from Marathon to Athens gives us the “marathon.”
They never ask for atten-tion because they are meek with a quiet confidence that is almost regal. They never stand out because most of them are rail thin, lean from the miles and hardened by the elements.
Cross country running isn’t the same as you step-ping on your treadmill or elliptical for half an hour, getting a good sweat in air-conditioning while you talk to your homeboy or home-girl about last night’s party.
It’s probably not a great
idea to chat up a cross coun-try athlete about your P90X workout, because when they laugh, you will only have yourself to blame.
Folks, your cross country teams put in the work every single day. As much respect as I have for the OU football team, they only have two-a-days for one month out of an entire year. The Sooner cross country teams has two-a-days year round.
So the next time some-one says running is easy, tell them about your university cross country team, nation-ally recognized as one of the best programs in the nation, and about those athletes’ work ethic.
I’ll bet they’ll never say running is easy again.
—RJ Young,
journalism grad student
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Freshman defensive tackle Daniel Noble (93) assists linebackers Tom Wort (21) and Travis Lewis (28) tackle an Air Force player Saturday in Norman. Noble saw his first game action Saturday.
Have you ever wondered how your course fees or college technology fees are being u� lized? Here is your opportunity.
The Offi ce of the Senior Vice President & Provost and the UOSA President are pleased to provide a master list of mee� ngs the Norman Campus Deans have scheduled to discuss the FY10 expen-diture of course and college fees including the college technology and college enrichment fees, their FY11 budget plans for this revenue and any proposals for fee increases for FY12.
These revenues are used within each degree gran� ng-college to provide the kinds of specifi c in-struc� onal materials, technology, instructors needed to best deliver the degree programs to the students within each college.
These mee� ngs are a great opportunity to review the wonderful impact this revenue has within each college. Plan on a� ending your Dean’s mee� ng.
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Jim Pappas Aviation Wednesday, September 22 11:45 - 12:45 pm Dept. of Aviation Terminal Classroom
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - Don’t be jockeyed into a position where you won’t be able to bargain from a position of strength. Unless you hold an ace in your hand, negotiat-ing from weakness will cause you to lose.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - Obvi-ously you need to listen to what everyone has to say, but you must bear in mind what they think could be infeasible. Don’t hesitate to say no, if their suggestions are foolish or nonproductive.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - Al-locate a little time to a pleasurable pursuit if you really feel the need to do so, but don’t let it interfere with your obligations or responsi-bilities in any kind of way. It could end up being too costly.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - There are strong indications that you could get involved in a sticky situation from which you might not easily be able to extricate yourself. Be ready to bolt before the molas-ses sets in.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - This is not a particularly good day to talk to someone whose help you need. If they do agree to help, the strings that are attached might be far too numerous to be worth it.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - Someone who is jealous of you whose material status is far less than yours might deliberately misuse what you say to him/her in hopes of bringing you down. Be extra careful.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - Be particularly picky whom you select to team up with, especially if you choose someone for all the wrong reasons. The person might end up being a liability instead of an asset.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) - Im-portant work-related issues should not be based on any hunches or instincts. Trust only sheer logic or bare facts that have come after much cogitation and evaluation.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - Have as little as possible to do with companions who are known troublemakers and can’t be trusted. They’ll pull you down to their level before you know where your head is.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - Because you’ll have a lot of trouble defi ning your goals and will consequently bounce all over the place, it isn’t likely that you’ll achieve anything of substance. It’s apt to be a totally wasted day.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) - Don’t allow yourself to be drawn into a heated debate with a person whom you know harbors views diametrically opposed to yours. It’s totally futile, because nobody will win.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - Verbal agreements aren’t likely to count for anything, so unless you can get what you want in writing, don’t commit to something important or expect the other party to follow through on his/her promise.
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NEW MUSIC TUESDAYRobert Plant and the Band of Joy ”Band of Joy” Rounder Released: Sept. 14 7.8/10
It seems that reprising your first band (or at least its name) for an album and a “glory days” tour with the boys is the fash-ion amongst rock’s greatest statesmen these days.
While the 2008 incarnation of Tom Petty’s Mudcrutch (originally formed in 1970, before Petty hit it big with The Heartbreakers in 1979) included most of its original members, Robert Plant’s Band of Joy is a name-only enterprise, boasting five members, none of whom were among the quintet that formed in West Bromwich, England in 1966, which famously featured a pre-Led Zeppelin John Bonham (God rest his soul) behind the drums.
“Band of Joy” is also the name of the album, which is composed mostly of blues and folk
standards like “Cindy I’ll Marry You Someday,” as well as more mod-
ern covers of various tradition-alist artists like Los Lobos and
Milton Mapes. Judging by the selections
Plant makes here, he’s still rocking
and rolling well into his sixth decade of life.
“A n g e l D a n c e” kicks the album off a p p ro p r i a t e l y by adapting the south Texas blues over to a
folkier, Appalachian-hillbilly style that Plant neatly perfected with t h e l o v e l y A l i s o n Krauss for an Album of the Year Grammy
Award on 2007’s “Raising Sand.” “Raising Sand” fans will be very happy with the country sass of “You Can’t Buy My Love” (Plant’s backed by Krauss stand-in Patty Griffin), which boasts red-dirt
guitar breakdown and uptempo blues soloing.
And for all those Ledheads, yes, Plant trots the devil out for an appearance, but only a brief one that’s free of any worship. “Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down” invokes Jesus to come do the devil in, complete with Plant’s “Gallows Pole”–era wailing that’s so shrill and hard that you’ll think the levee’s gon’ break. This careful song selection is the singer’s wink to the past, a reward for hanging with the record all the way through.
With those signature blonde curls and grizzly white beard, 62-year-old Plant sure looks like hell. He sounds that way too, but trust me, that’s a good thing.
— Matt Carney
John Legend & The Roots “Wake Up!” Columbia Released: Today 8.7/10
The Roots are the royal family of socially conscious hip-hop, churning out quality music that is both current and consistent, even in the midst of its new gig as Jimmy Fallon’s late night band.
Crooner John Legend caught on with audiences in the mid-2000s with his Grammy Award-winning album “Get Lifted” that proved to be one of the first new tastes of old soul for a mass public that hadn’t seen anything in the mainstream like this in quite some time.
The pairing of John Legend and The Roots is nothing short of splendor; Legend’s voice and The Roots’ musicianship is a match made in heaven.
But for those unfamiliar with the release, “Wake Up!” con-sists solely of covers — albeit unknown ones unless you hap-pen to be a connoisseur of ’60s and ’70s soul — most dealing in matters of social and political protest.
The supergroup gives new life to tracks from Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone and more; under less capable hands it could
have been a disaster, but Legend’s voice is serviceable and the vintage stylings of The Roots act like some sort of time warp.
The punchy “Our Generation (The Hope of the World)” and swanky “Compared To What” are certainly the strongest offer-ings, and neither The Roots nor Legend drop the ball at any point.
The merits of a cover album can only go so far, but as their inspirations have either been forgotten or were never really widely accepted, “Wake Up!” feels fresh and new; a delightful product for those pining for yesteryear.
— Joshua Boydston
Maximum Balloon “Maximum Balloon” DGC/Interscope Released: Today 9.0/10
When Dave Sitek (TV on the Radio) announced a solo proj-ect under the moniker Maximum Balloon, it was met with equal parts anticipation and speculation as early singles gave a revealing glimpse at what was happening.
Sitek — in addition to his multi-instrumentalist role in TVOTR — has been one of the biggest, most innovative names in record production of the decade, putting his touch on releas-es from the likes of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wale, Foals and more.
Much like fellow producer Mark Ronson did with his second solo effort, “Version,” Sitek enlists many of the artists he has worked with over the years (Karen O, Holly Miranda), TVOTR vocalists Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone and others.
But unlike Ronson, Sitek maintains clarity, using his guests’ strengths for his own vision rather than bending to theirs, though he could remain even more steadfast in this effort.
Sitek contorts the blippy nature of Little Dragon into a slicker, modern form in “If You Return” and updates the untouchable flair of David Byrne in the immaculate “Apartment Wrestling.”
The comfortable couplings with Adebimpe (“Absence of Light”) and Malone (“Shakedown”) get downright funky com-pared to the sleek, futuristic spirit of the majority of the album, but it’s thoroughly danceable as a whole.
The scattered, unpredictable “Groove Me” wouldn’t soni-cally sound all that out of place on “Dear Science,” but paired with the smooth delivery of Theophilus London, it meshes into a flawless piece of pop art.
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FOOD
Gallery displays the art of cookingFrom exploring sewers to mastering the art of walking in high
heels and applying makeup, “Muscogee Daughter: My Sojourn to the Miss America Pageant” is Susan Supernaw’s true story of triumphing in the face of adversity.
Supernaw writes about the many challenges she braved throughout her childhood years in the autobiography. As if it wasn’t tough enough to grow up as an American Indian in a white man’s world, she also had to suffer through multiple abu-sive fathers and a life of poverty.
Life as a child was never easy for Supernaw. She stayed away from her family as much as possible because she feared being beaten by her alco-holic father. For the most part, she was a misfit in school until she made it onto the cheer squad. But even then, friends and their families didn’t accept her because she was American Indian.
But the quest to re-ceive her American Indian name drove Supernaw to perse-vere through all of the unpleasantness in her life. Even such accom-plishments as being named a National Merit scholar and a presidential scholar, and the opportunity to meet President Nixon himself didn’t yet make Susie worthy enough of receiving her other name.
Eventually, Supernaw was nominated by her peers at Phillips University in Enid to compete in their school pageant. She won because of her gorgeous looks and her charming witty demean-or. Winning the Miss Phillips pageant gave her an opportunity to compete in the Miss Oklahoma pageant.
Again, she came out on top, and with another crown under her belt, she competed in the Miss America pageant, but did not win. In the end, Supernaw is finally wise enough to receive her American Indian name — Ellia Ponna.
This autobiography was a quick and easy read, mainly because I couldn’t put the book down. The author’s story is one that is so remarkable and heartfelt, I felt like I became close friends with her. My heartstrings were tugged through the author’s sorrow and through her joy. Supernaw is constantly straightforward with her readers and never whines about the hardships she faced.
This story is charming and entertaining, and readers will find themselves cheering Supernaw on at every pageant she com-petes in. “Muscogee Daughter” is a great choice for anyone looking to learn more about American Indian culture, or for anyone who simply wants to read about the heartwarming rags-to-crowns story of a former Miss Oklahoma.
— Carmen Forman,
University College freshman
[Artspace] at Untitled hosts culinary classes led by variety of chefs from Oklahoma City
LEESA ALLMONDThe Oklahoma Daily
Along with the expected photogra-phy, painting and sculpture exhibits at [Artspace] at Untitled, one might also experience the aroma of art. The non-profit, contemporary art organization located in downtown Oklahoma City offers cooking classes monthly, taught by a local chef and open to the public.
Chef Beau Stephenson of Bin 73 Wine Bar led last week’s Fall Harvest cooking class.
During the classes Stephenson teaches, he wants the students to use their imagination, their culture and their experience to play around with the recipes, he said.
“If you look at these cookbooks I’ve put together, I have the recipe. I have the directions. Hopefully it’s less than 15 lines long but I give them 15 more lines to write out ideas,” Stephenson said. “I want them to engage and ask questions and put what they like in there.”
[Artspace] is the perfect place for this type of involvement because the atmosphere is engaging and the pro-cess is so hands-on.
Stephenson has worked in restau-rants since he was 16, and after at-tending Oklahoma State University and Scottsdale Culinary Institute, he had an apprenticeship at the Ritz Carlton in Florida.
Stephenson has taught cooking classes at Williams Sonoma and has trained at multiple restaurants, in-cluding Houston Restaurants. But it’s never been about the big bucks for him.
“If you get into food to make money, you’ll be disappointed; it’s a starving artist type of deal,” he said. “It’s very ego-driven. I do it to impress.”
Kathy and Katelyn Stephenson, Beau’s mother-in-law and wife, were in attendance at his [Artspace] cook-ing class. They enjoy taking classes on something they’ve never learned and the hands-on approach is attrac-tive, instead of the usual tactic of just watching the chef, they said.
[Artspace] at Untitled has been of-fering cooking classes about once a month for the past year, said Lindsay Hightower, programs administrator for [Artspace].
The cooking classes attract a new kind of clientele, she said.
“I think what we really enjoy about the classes is that they bring in a new audience that wouldn’t walk in here on a day-to-day basis,” Hightower said. “We want people to say that they came and learned something, and that they can take something away with them, and that they would want to come back.” This desire to connect with different people can be seen in the diverse collection of chefs that have taught classes at [Artspace]. The next two classes in the Taste of Art series will be taught by Chefs Cally Johnson and Kathryn Mathis of Oklahoma City’s Big Truck Tacos.
Firsthand look at pageants proves to be entertaining
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Upcoming classes
WHAT: Courses taught by Big Truck Tacos chefs Cally Johnson and Kathryn Mathis
WHEN: 6 p.m. Oct. 13 and Nov. 10
WHERE: [Artspace] at Untitled, 1 NE 3rd St. in Oklahoma City
PRICE: $75 per person
INFO: www.artspaceuntitled.org
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Top: Chef Beau Stephenson (Bin 73) taught a cooking class entitled “Taste of Art: Meat and Potatoes” in May, teaching participants how to perfectly grill a steak. Stephenson and others will teach cooking courses throughout the year.
Right: Chef Eric Smith (Pachinko Parlor, Sara Sara Cupcakes) shows a student how to prepare sushi.