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Katie Acone, piano pedagogy sophomore, enjoys time in Catlett Music Center playing the piano on Wednesday. Acone is one of two undergraduate students taking the piano pedagogy class. Piano pedagogy offers different areas to go into upon graduation.

Piano pedagogy program nationally renowned

PAIGHTEN HARKINSCampus Reporter

One well-hidden major at OU combines two aspects of piano into a neat package, which feeds off of the success of the nationally-renowned graduate program and grooms the next generation of piano teachers.

The piano pedagogy undergraduate program only has two students, while the graduate program normally has about 35 students. The graduate program is known as being the No. 1 program in the country, piano pedagogy professor Jane Magrath said.

The program earned this status through the merit of the professors, and it trickled down to the success of the students in the program, Magrath said.

Magrath wrote the book “ The Pianist ’s Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature,” w h i c h h a s b e c o m e t h e standard for piano teaching literature worldwide, piano pedagogy professor Barbara Fast said.

The program didn’t earn its credentials overnight, Fast said. Its national recognition is based off of the work that’s been done within the program for a little over 30 years since it first came to OU.

“We try to lead. [Fast and I] are always very aware of where the profession is going,” Magrath said.

While the graduate program is nationally ranked, the undergraduate program is relatively unknown because it’s not very well advertised on purpose, Magrath said.

The performance standard within the major is very high, which means that many students may audition for the program, but their playing may not guarantee them a spot. The course work is very difficult because of the amount of coursework required, Magrath said.

Fast and Magrath don’t advertise it for those reasons, but students seem to come to it regardless, Magrath said.

Katie Acone changed her major from zoology to piano pedagogy because she missed the experience of playing piano all the time, she said.

“I have a passion for music and art and what it means to be a musician, what it means to express yourself through that medium,” Acone said. “I think it’s so important to teach … everyone.”

To keep up with the rigorous major, Acone practices about five to six hours a day for her solo repertoire, plays with ensembles and perform as an accompanist, she said.

Acone decided she wanted to try piano pedagogy instead of piano performance because her current major is the culmination of her three loves.

“I love performing and I love collaborative work and I love teaching,” she said.

The piano pedagogy major consists of about 70 percent music course requirements and about 30 percent general education course requirements.

The major leaves the students with three to four hours for free electives, according to the piano pedagogy degree sheet.

Piano pedagogy is one of the alternates people take to piano performance, which also is a demanding major. According to its degree sheet, music course requirements represent up to 65 percent of the classes. The rest are general education requirements. This degree allows seven to eight hours for free electives.

Many of the students majoring in piano performance will decide to pursue piano pedagogy when they get their graduate degree, Magrath said.

The decision to focus on piano pedagogy later on may be reflective of a student’s playing level at the time of his or her audition or the stigma surrounding the coursework, Magrath said.

Another reason students may stray from pedagogy during the SEE PEDAGOGY PAGE 2

ALI HAUSNERCampus Reporter

William Shakespeare’s word will become law next semester in a new course that will feature a series of mock-court cases as a major part of its curriculum.

T w e l v e E n g l i s h a n d 12 constitutional studies undergraduates will have the opportunity to take a Presidential Dream Course called The Shakespeare Moot Court next semester. The course is based on using Shakespearian ideas to present legal arguments in mock trials.

The course will pair the two groups of students together to research and argue a case to a panel of judges, but the students must disregard common law traditions and make arguments based solely off of the “Law of Shakespeare,” according to the course’s description.

The class will focus on five Shakespearian plays. The students will use ideas from those plays to decide what is right in various social and ethical situations, like flag-burning, said David Anderson, English professor a n d o n e o f t w o c o u r s e instructors.

The enrollment of the class was deliberately divided so half of the students bring a background in literature and the other half in law, said Andrew Porwancher, classics and letters professor and the course’s other instructor.

“My primary goal for the course is for each group to appreciate that they have a lot they can learn from the other,” Porwancher said.

The course is modeled after a graduate-level course composed of English and law students offered at McGill University that Paul Yachnin and Desmond Manderson created in 2002.

Anderson took part in the class at McGill in 2003 and said it was the “best grad

class” he’s ever had.A n d e r s o n ’s m e m o r y

o f t h e c o u r s e c a m e u p i n a c o nv e r s at i o n w i t h P o r w a n c h e r, a n d t h e y thought it was a great idea for a dream course at OU, Anderson said.

“Shakespeare understood better than anyone that law and literature could i l luminate each other,” Porwancher said.

The students will spend m o s t o f t h e s e m e s t e r constructing their cases for the trials at the end of the semester, and a panel of judges will decide the cases, Anderson said. The mock-court cases will be open to the public.

Anderson said, President David Boren and Molly Shi Boren have expressed interest in sitting on the judges panel, although they have not committed.

The course also will feature three speakers including Debra Shuger, UCLA English professor, and Paul Yachnin, Shakespeare scholar and English professor at McGill University, Anderson said.

B o t h A n d e r s o n a n d Porwancher said they are open to teaching the course again, but for now the course will be offered only during the spring semester.

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A Student Success Series seminar titled “Leveraging Technology for your Academic Success” will be held from 5 to 6 p.m. in Lissa and Cy Wagner Hall, Room 245.

Comedy Fight Night, sponsored by Union Programming Board, will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium.

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Katie Acone, piano pedagogy sophomore, enjoys time in Catlett Music Center playing the piano Wednesday. Acone is one of two undergraduate students taking the piano pedagogy class. Piano pedagogy offers different areas to go into upon graduation.

undergraduate degree lies in a series of debates decades ago, Fast said.

Most people have the attitude that performance and honing skill should come first before teaching is brought into the equation, she said.

As part of the major ’s requirements, Acone has to teach piano to a class of elementary-level children. She said she sees teaching p i a n o a s p a r t i c u l a r l y i m p o r t a n t b e c a u s e i t ’s a “gateway instrument,” meaning it leads to learning other instruments.

The graduate students p r a c t i c e p e d a g o g y b y teaching the introduction piano group classes required for both piano majors and nonmajors and work closely with the undergraduate students, Fast said.

“ You have to get your performance up to speed and at a certain level, and I think our piano pedagogy program reflects that,” she said.

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My name may be on the byline on The Oklahoma

Daily’s sexual assault series, but this project has been a labor of love between a lot of motivated journalists and brave, willing sources, such as Jordan Ward , Jen Cox and Alicia Smith . We wanted to change the world, but if at least one person better understands the complexity of sexual assault, I say we accomplished our mission.

When I first started this project, I thought I would find out it was one particular person or arm of the machine that would be responsible for the lack of prison time and justice given to rape and sexual assault survivors. I also thought the only thing a survivor needs is to see his or her sexual assault attackers put behind bars. For some reason, I thought those moments would be the remedy to his or her emotional and physical damages.

I was wrong.After several hours of interviews, many more phone calls

and a bunch of documents and studies later, I realized this was a monster that couldn’t be solved in a single story.

It isn’t a black and white issue with survivors getting the help they need and the bad guys going to jail. On the

contrary, neither of those events are always the norm for sexual assaults. What is the norm is survivors need our help to make sure they get the aid they need and to ensure these situations don’t happen to other people, and survivors need to feel comfortable coming forward so the men and women who commit these crimes face the applicable justice.

The purpose of this project is not to cast blame on anyone. We are all culpable in some way when it comes to the lack of punishment seen in sexual

assault cases, whether it’s as a district attorney picking cases we can win or someone not stopping a friend from having sex with a new acquaintance while he or she is drunk.

We are all in this together. It isn’t possible to solve this problem by electing new judges and training police officers. That might help, but we all need to take a renewed approach on understanding consent and standing up for both men and women who have been or may be assaulted.

Because the truly tragic thing is that the impact on an individual doesn’t end after the attack is over; sometimes the most damage comes after the attack, and the attacker may not have caused the lingering damage. This struggle isn’t always visible like cuts or bruises. Broken dignity can be hard to spot.

Survivors have a complicated and difficult road ahead of them, and they need the community’s help to navigate that path.

Chase Cook is a journalism senior.

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Oklahoma open-carry law goes in effect today

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O K L A H O M A C I T Y — With Oklahoma preparing for a much-debated new law that allows people to carry their previously concealed firearms out in the open, state officials say they’ve seen a big increase in the number of residents seeking a handgun license.

Oklahoma’s open-carry law goes into effect today. It allows the estimated 141,000 Oklahomans with a license to carry a concealed firearm to also carry their weapons openly in a holster or belt.

It’s not clear if the spike in handgun applications is due to the new law. But over the past year, the number of residents applying for a h a n d g u n p e r m i t h a s i n c r e a s e d b y a b o u t 4 0 percent, said Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation s p o k e s w o m a n J e s s i c a Brown.

The Republican-controlled Legislature approved the law and Republican Gov. Mary Fallin signed it earlier this year.

Don Spencer, a certified

firearms instructor and t h e d e p u t y d i r e c t o r o f t h e O k l a h o m a S e c o n d Amendment Association that lobbied hard for the new law, said he believes the increase in applicants is connected more to the deadly movie theater shooting in Colorado in July that left 12 people dead and dozens more injured.

“ The interest in open carry is there, but when that (theater shooting) happened, my classes filled up, and I’ve heard the same thing from many other instructors,” Spencer said.

W h i l e t h e s t a t e ’ s increasingly conservative L e g i s l a t u r e h a s b e e n clamoring for open carry for years, the arrival of the new law is causing some c o n s t e r n a t i o n a m o n g l a w e n f o r c e m e n t a n d businesses.

“There certainly is some concern,” said Rogers County Sheriff Scott Walton, who was a Tulsa police officer for 27 years before being elected sheriff. “There’s a lot of unknowns, and the law enforcement profession has a lot of questions about this,

and citizens have a lot of questions about it.”

Wa lton’s b ig g e st fea r is that the required one-d a y t r a i n i n g c o u r s e t o obtain a handgun license is inadequate to properly prepare most people for the dangers associated with carrying a gun. He also said problems could easily arise if someone inadvertently carries a gun into a school or other prohibited place.

“What if a guy went into a school and forgot that he had his gun on?” Walton said. “If you want to see people get in the freak-out mode, mention gun and school in the same sentence, and we’ve all got immediate concerns.”

Most police and sheriff ’s departments have provided additional training to officers on the street to prepare them for the law. Each of the officers in the state’s two largest police departments — Tulsa and Oklahoma City — have received extra training.

Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Lt. Dan Stow said that while officers will be prepared, it still might take a while for some people to get used to armed citizens carrying firearms in public.

“It will be different and maybe a little bit of a culture

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used handguns are displayed Monday, Oct. 22 at Triggers Gun shop in Mills, Wyo. Wyoming gun sales have been strong in the past four years, mirroring national trends, and Wyoming residents applied for a record number of concealed carry permits in the past year.

shock for people to see that,” Stow said. “It will be an unusual visual initially, but we’ll adapt to it.”

Guns still will be prohib-ited, concealed or not, in sev-eral places, including govern-ment buildings and public meetings, bars and taverns, schools, college campuses and professional sporting

events.Businesses also can ban

firearms on their property. Many high-traffic retailers such as banks, restaurants or convenience stores likely will take that course, said Roy Williams, president and CEO of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce.

Applicants for a weapons

permit must be at least 21 and undergo a criminal b a c k g r o u n d c h e c k , i n addition to take the firearms training course.

A little more than 24,000 Oklahomans successfully applied for a concealed-carry permit in 2011. Nearly 1,000 applicants were denied.

greek life

IFC presidential candidates to debate tonight

two students running for interfraternity Council President will square off in a debate at 7 tonight in oklahoma Memorial union’s Will Rogers Room.

biochemistry junior spencer Falcon and marketing and finance

junior Drew Knox will field questions, elaborate on their platforms and address many of the ongoing issues in the greek system, iFC President nick Coffey said.

“they’ll also be prepared to offer ideas on how our chapters can continue to improve academically, mitigate rivalries between chapters and cultivate inter-fraternalism,” Coffey said.

Falcon’s platform is built upon improving academic performance in fraternities and fostering the growth of smaller fraternity chapters,

Coffey said. Falcon filled several positions within his fraternity, sigma Phi epsilon, including intramural chair and philanthropy chair.

A member of lambda Chi Alpha, Knox seeks to improve amenities in the fraternity houses and cre-ate a better sense of inter-fraternalism, Coffey said. Knox is the current iFC vice president of programming.

the debate is open to the public.

Elyssa Szkirpan Campus Reporter

OU HSC

Mobile food store in OKC to serve low-income areas

students at the ou Health sciences Center are starting a nonprofit mobile grocery store to provide healthy food to low-income areas.

the oKC Mobile Market aims to provide a sustainable source of healthy and quality foods for areas of oklahoma City where healthy food options are scarce, according to a press release.

the mobile grocery store will carry fruits, vegetables, lean meats, low fat dairy and shelf stable foods to oklahoma City com-

munities that are furthest from grocery stores, according to the release.

the mobile food market still is undergo-ing research, as surveyors are looking at areas of oklahoma City they want to target with the mobile grocery store, said lauren nichols, public relations co-chairwoman for the oKC Mobile Market.

the oKC Mobile Market is a branch of the national Mobile Market that started in nashville in 2011, nichols said.

the national market is a mobile grocery store that provides access to affordable, healthy food in areas with limited food options for a healthy diet, according to a press release.

Arianna Pickard Campus Reporter

Nov. 1-3Thursday, Nov. 1OU Women’s Basketball vs. Oklahoma Christian | 7 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center. FREE admission for OU students with a valid OU student I.D. Visit soonersports.com for more information.

OU Softball vs. NPF All-Stars | 6 p.m. at Marita Hynes Field. FREE admission for OU students with a valid OU student I.D. Visit soonersports.com for more information.

Greek Ally | 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Gamma Phi Beta house. Members of the Greek community can attending this LGBTQ cultural sensitivity workshop to learn more about being an LGBTQ Ally in the Greek system. Members can register at lgbtq.ou.edu

Students’ Choice | 4 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Five students from the OU School of Art and Art History have each selected a favorite work of art from the James T. Bialac Collection. Each student will give a short presentation about the signifi cance of the selected work in an informal gallery talk.

Comedy Fight Night | 7 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium. Come and watch nine student stand-up comedians duke it out for the title of funniest student on campus at the 6th annual Comedy Fight Night, hosted by Myq Kaplan from Last Comic Standing and Comedy Central. Presented by the Union Programming Board. There’s ALWAYS SOMETHING at the union, www.upb.ou.edu.

This University in compliance with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, age, religion, disability, political beliefs, or status as a veteran in any of its policies, practices or procedures. This includes but is not limited to admissions, employment,

fi nancial aid and educational services. For accommodations on the basis of disability, please contact the sponsoring department of any program or event.

Saturday, Nov. 3Zombie 5K 2012 | Race begins at 9 a.m. in front of the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Sign in and on-site registration will begin at 7:30 a.m. Runners can register online at www.upb.ou.edu through 11:59 p.m., Nov. 1 for $10 with the coupon code: FBHalloween. On-site registration will be $20. All Runners will receive the Z5K t-shirt. Trophies will be awarded to fi rst through third place in men’s and women’s divisions and for best costume. The Zombie 5K is USATF certifi ed. For more information, visit upb.ou.edu. Presented by the Union Programming Board. There’s ALWAYS SOMETHING at the union, www.upb.ou.edu.

FREE Movie: “The Campaign” | 8 p.m. in the Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Celebrate democracy and the upcoming election with some light political comedy. Presented by the Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council.

OU Hockey vs. Lindenwood University | 7:30 p.m. at the Blazers Ice Centre, 8000 S. I-35, Oklahoma City, OK. OU students, faculty & staff get in FREE with valid OU ID. General admission is $5 and reserved seating $10. Call the Blazers Ice Centre at (405) 631-3307 or see www.ouhockey.com for more information. Presented by Oklahoma Hockey.

Friday, Nov. 2FREE Movie: “The Campaign” | 6,9, and midnight in the Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Celebrate democracy and the upcoming election with some light political comedy. Presented by the Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council.

Zombie Survival Run | Race will begin at 6 p.m. on the East Lawn of the union, sign in and on-site registration will start at 5 p.m. Decide whether to be a human or a zombie in this zombie-fi lled obstacle dash for survival. The winning human will receive the title of “Most Likely to Survive,” and the winning zombie, “Deadliest Zombie.” There will also be an award for best costume. Register online at http://www.ou.edu/content/upb/events/zombie5k.html. All participants will receive the offi cial Z5K t-shirt. Presented by the Union Programming Board. There’s ALWAYS SOMETHING at the union, www.upb.ou.edu.

Day of the Dead Street Festival | 6-10 p.m. on Asp Street and Felgar Street (East side of the Union). The Latino Student Association and the Hispanic American Student Association are hosting the inaugural Day of the Dead Street Festival. Admission is free and there will be food, arts and crafts, and entertainment. Costumes are encouraged. Donations will benefi t the Latino American Scholarship Fund.

Saturday Nov 3

Friday ContinuedOU Men’s Basketball vs. Washburn | 7 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center. Visit soonersports.com for more information.

OU Wrestling vs. OCU | 7 p.m. at McCasland Field House. Student Night. 250 FREE Ice Cream cups. FREE admission for OU students with a valid OU student I.D. Visit soonersports.com for more information

OU Hockey vs. Lindenwood University | 7:30 p.m. at the Blazers Ice Centre, 8000 S. I-35, Oklahoma City, OK. OU students, faculty & staff get in FREE with valid OU ID. General admission is $5 and reserved seating $10. Call the Blazers Ice Centre at (405) 631-3307 or see www.ouhockey.com for more information. Presented by Oklahoma Hockey.

Our View: Open carry is only dangerous if abused — just like many other laws

Today marks the beginning of State Bill 1733, or Licensed Open Carry, for Oklahomans. Roughly 142,000 citizens who hold concealed carry licenses now can openly tote their guns in public, joining 14 other states that enjoy this privilege.

While guns are dangerous and caution always should be exercised when dealing with guns, a law al-lowing a licensed individual to openly carry his or her firearm will neither encourage nor discourage pre-meditated violence.

Open carry does not allow all Oklahomans to openly carry a firearm. The following are parameters for the law:

·An individual still must possess a handgun license to carry a firearm — either concealed or unconcealed.

·Any person issued a handgun license from another state also may openly carry a handgun while visiting Oklahoma.

·Business owners without a handgun license may carry a firearm openly or concealed while on their business property.

·Any person without a handgun license may carry a firearm openly or concealed while on private property that is under their control

The author of SB 1733, Anthony Sykes, says open carry will not only “enhance Oklahomans’ ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights,” but that open carry will not negatively affect Oklahoma because “gun owners are some of the most re-sponsible people.”

Gun owners with licenses may be some of the most responsible people. Thousands without handgun li-censes will continue to carry, and some even may be encouraged to openly carry.

How will authorities discern between a licensed gun owner and an unlicensed gun owner on the street? It seems ineffective to rely on a user to present identifica-tion upon a dangerous situation.

The danger is situational. During a shootout, it could be difficult for law enforcement to identify who is a

licensed gun user and who is posing a threat. Fumbling with a license during a dangerous situation can result in longer wait times for law enforcement to assess the situation and the possibility of being presented with a false I.D.

Open carry can be dangerous for those willing to abuse the system — just like any law can be dangerous when abused.

This law will not ignite shoot outs or, as some critics have said, send Oklahoma back to the days of the Wild West. In all actuality, it may do nothing at all — save for putting a few timid citizens on edge while waiting in line at Starbucks.

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To occupy an objective viewpoint often is seen as noble. Apart from the brute facts of existence, life con-tains many shades of grey. A key selling point of a secular university, for example, is it provides a classroom set-ting in which one opinion does not reign supreme over another.

This view is attractive in theory, but it is unattainable in practice. Every individual contains psychological predispositions that knowingly or unknowingly will manifest themselves. Given this fact of the human condition, what methodology should professors adopt when addressing controversial topics within a class-room setting?

Experience as an observer convinced me that students benefit when professors openly express their views beforehand.

Rather than wearing the illu-sory mask of objectivity, openly expressing one’s views allows students to recognize which al-ternative positions may not be given full credit.

Of course, context matters. As stated earlier, brute facts do exist about which opinion and individual impressions are irrelevant. For example, some professors openly express their religious or anti-religious beliefs when teaching the theory of evolution. These opin-ions are superfluous to the subject and can negatively affect the discussion.

Many students already are hostile to the theory of

evolution and likely will be more prone to reject the theory if the professor expresses an anti-religious view.

More relevant courses fall within the humanities, such as ethics. Within these courses, a clear right or wrong answer is not always easily found. The primary purpose of such cours-es is to challenge a student’s thinking, and the opinion of the professor can serve this purpose.

Some people say that if professors are to express their opinion, this should be reserved until the end of the semes-ter. This is partially based on the claim that a professor’s primary duty is to teach the course material as neutrally as possible in order to give fair credit to all positions. Also, stu-dents may not have enough intellectual respect for the pro-fessor or knowledge of the subject to value his or her opin-ion beforehand.

However, students should value the opinion of their pro-fessor for the reasons just highlighted. Without knowing the

opinion beforehand, students are under the false impression the pro-fessor is merely “stating the facts.”

Others may argue if professors express their opinion beforehand, they have highjacked the course to their own personal interest. But ex-perience has shown me most pro-fessors are capable of presenting the strongest possible arguments of an alternative position. Adding their own personal convictions in

no way changes this fact.Thus goes the catch-22. Objectivity is found in the class-

room by the open expression, rather than the suppression, of an individual’s views.

Nathan Cranford is a philosophy senior.

Natural gas is the cham-pion of our needs and will cure our energy hardships. The new advancements in hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’ have come at no inconvenience, given the push for domestic energy. We’ve all seen the “I’m an energy voter” commer-cials praising natural gas for its ability to stimulate the economy and create jobs.

So let’s take a look at this energy savior.Natural gas is not a newfound source of energy, but the

methods used to obtain gas from once-inaccessible pock-ets of the Earth are what have sparked such excitement. Fracking essentially is the act of injecting a mix of water, sand and chemicals into the Earth at high pressure in order to crack open rock and sediment, releasing stored pockets of oil and gas.

What chemicals are used in fracking? This year, for the first time, Congress released the first national inventory of about 750 chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing process. Many of the chemicals are not dangerous, but several are. A few of the worrisome chemicals include car-cinogens like benzene , diesel and naphthalene , as well as detrimental air pollutants, such as hydrochloric acid and toluene . Other harm-ful chemicals include lead , ethylene glycol and 2-butoxyethanol .

S o w h e r e d o t h e s e chemicals end up? Some of the chemicals will re-turn to the surface as wastewater, while oth-ers will alter from under-ground, and some will re-main underground as is.

The potential risks to drinking water is a major concern. Possible risks in-clude leaks in well casings or cement breaks. Gases like propane, methane and ethane also could leak into water systems and wells, creating health haz-ards. So far, only gas leaks have been proven by evi-dence and research. The documentary, “Gasland,” illustates how hazardous gas leaks can be when a particular scene shows families lighting their tap water on fire.

The extent of the risks fracking poses to human health is well-debated and difficult to validate with such a short frame of reference. But economic blowbacks have been scattered around the country.

Drinking water contamination in Dimock, Pennsylvania cost more than $11 million to permanently replace resi-dents’ contaminated drinking water with a new source.

Air pollution from fracking operations in Arkansas’ Fayetteville Shale region imposed health costs estimated at $9.8 million in one year.

Health costs reach $270,000 per day in Texas’ Barnett Shale region during the summer smog season.

And if this boom is anything like the coal and oil booms of the past, the public could be stuck with major blow-back costs like those listed above, far after the end of the boom. For example, Pennsylvania is now stuck with an estimated $5 billion in cost to clean up mining pollution from decades ago.

Additionally, the fracking process can use two to five million gallons of water to frack a single well — a major concern in an era of fragile water supply. However, this could be mediated with simple practices like water recy-cling, and many companies are looking into such outlets.

Andrew Sartain is an interdisciplinary perspectives on the environment and nonprofit management senior.

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BY THE NUMBERSNumbers across the U.S.

493,000 active natural-gas wells in U.S. in 2009

5 states where gas has seeped into

underground drinking-water supplies

10-40% of water send down well returns carrying drilling chemicals, very high levels of salt and naturally occuring radioactive material

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Permissive open carry: These states permit open carry to all law-abiding citizens without a criminal record without any special permit or � rearms license. The states that allow this are Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Virginia, Alaska and Kentucky.

Licensed open carry: These states allow open carry to all law-abiding citizens once they apply and are approved for a permit or � rearms license. The states that require a permit or license for open carry are Utah, North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Indiana, Tennessee, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Hawaii and Massachusetts.

Anomalous open carry: Open carry generally

is lawful, but the state itself may have other stiff restrictions that either lack preemption or do not allow unlicensed open carry inside a vehicle. These states are Washington, Oregon, Nevada, California, Colorado, Missouri, Kansas, Louisiana , Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maine, Delaware and New Hampshire.

Non-Permissive open carry: These states don’t allow open carry of � rearms or is only lawful under very limited situations such as hunting, traveling to and from a hunting site or in self defense. These states are Texas, Washington D.C., Arkansas, Illinois, South Carolina, New York and Florida.

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YUMA, Ariz. — Suspected smugglers who tried to use ramps to drive an SUV over a 14-foot-tall border fence had to abandon their plan when the Jeep became stuck on top of the barrier, authorities said Wednesday.

Agents patrol l ing the U.S.-Mexico border near the Imperial Sand Dunes in California’s southeast corner spotted the Jeep Cherokee teetering atop the fence early Tuesday, Border Patrol spokesman Spencer Tippets said. The vehicle was perched about five miles west of the Colorado River and the Arizona state line.

T w o s m u g g l e r s o n the Mexican side of the border were trying to free the Jeep when the agents approached, Tippets said. They ran further into Mexico and escaped.

The Jeep was empty, but agents said it was probably filled with contraband like bales of marijuana before it got high-centered atop the fence.

The smugglers had built ramps to drive up and over the fence, something that has been tried at least once before. In April 2011, agents found a truck that had ramps

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In this photo provided by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a silver Jeep Cherokee that suspected smugglers were attempting to drive over the U.S.-Mexico border fence is stuck at the top of a makeshift ramp early Wednesday near Yuma, Ariz. U.S. attempted to illegally drive across the border. The two suspects fled into Mexico when the agents arrived at the scene.

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NATION NEWS BRIEFS1. FORT MOHAVE, ARIZ.

Three Oklahoma teens, one 23 year old arrested in northern Arizona

Authorities say a Fort Mohave man and three runaway juveniles from Oklahoma have been arrested in northern Arizona.

Mohave County Sheriff’s deputies say 23-year-old Dustin Aaron Schafer was taken into custody early Tuesday along with a 17-year-old girl, a 15-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl. They say all the juveniles are from Norman, Okla.

Authorities say the teens and Schafer were in a car that was reported stolen in Oklahoma.

Deputies say Schafer allegedly had a plastic bag containing methamphetamine and was arrested on suspicion of possessing dangerous drugs.

The teens were booked into the Mohave County Juvenile Detention Center on suspicion of unlawful use of means of transportation. The 15-year-old boy also had an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in court.

Deputies noti� ed the teens’ parents in Oklahoma.The Associated Press

2. JANESVILLE, WIS.

Ryan’s opponent accuses him of abandoning local race

Rob Zerban was ready for a brawl when he decided to run for Paul Ryan’s congressional seat in southern Wisconsin. Mitt Romney changed all that when he picked Ryan as his running mate.

Ryan still is running for the seat he’s held for seven terms, but the national race has consumed him. Aside from a stream of generic television ads, Ryan hasn’t campaigned for his seat since Romney tapped him.

Zerban has accused Ryan of abandoning his district. Last week, the Kenosha Democrat launched a “Focus on the First” mini-campaign of volunteer works to play up that he cares about the locals. But Ryan’s absence doesn’t appear to have hurt him. Even Democrats aren’t optimistic about Zerban’s chances of winning.

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HURRICANE SANDY

After surviving Sandy’s wrath, communities begin recovery

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A New York Air National Guard helicopter flies above the George Washington Bridge towards Manhattan, Wednesday in New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, and local officials took the flight over the city, Nassau and Westchester counties to get an assessment of damages from superstorm Sandy.

ADAM GELLERThe Associated Press

NEW YORK — Two major airports reopened, and the floor of the New York Stock Exchange came back to life Wednesday, while across the river in New Jersey, National Guardsmen rushed to rescue flood victims, and fires still raged two days after Superstorm Sandy.

For the first time since the storm battered the Northeast, killing at least 61 people and inflicting billions of dollars in damage, brilliant sunshine washed over the nation’s largest city — a striking sight after days of gray skies, rain and wind.

At the stock exchange, which was running on generator power, Mayor Michael Bloomberg rang the opening bell to whoops from traders on the floor. Trading resumed after the first two-day weather shutdown since the Blizzard of 1888.

New York’s subway system was still down, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo said parts of it will begin running again on Thursday. He said some commuter rail service between the city and its suburbs would resume Wednesday.

Kennedy and Newark Liberty airports began handling flights again just after 7 a.m. New York’s LaGuardia Airport, which suffered far worse damage and still had water on its runways, remained closed.

Restoring the region to its ordinarily frenetic pace could take days, and rebuilding the hardest-hit communities and the transportation networks that l ink them could take considerably longer.

More than 6 million homes and businesses were still without power, mostly in New York and New Jersey. Electricity was out as far west as Wisconsin and as far south as the Carolinas.

The scale of the challenge

could be seen across the Hudson River in New Jersey, where National Guard trucks rolled into heavily-flooded Hoboken to deliver ready-to-eat meals and other supplies and to evacuate people from their condo high-rises, brownstones and other homes.

The mayor of the city of 50,000 issued an appeal for people to bring boats to City Hall to help with the evacuation.

And new problems arose when firefighters were unable to reach blazes rekindled by natural gas leaks in the heavily-

hit shore town of Mantoloking. More than a dozen homes were destroyed.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie issued an order postponing Halloween trick-or-treating until Monday, saying floodwaters, downed electrical wires, power outages and fallen trees made it too dangerous for children to go out.

President Barack Obama planned to visit Atlantic City, N.J., which was directly in the storm’s path Monday night and saw part of its historic boardwalk washed away.

Outages in the state’s two largest cities, Newark and Jersey City, left traffic signals dark, resulting in fender-benders at intersections where police were not directing traffic. At one Jersey City supermarket, there were long lines to get bread and use an electrical outlet to charge cellphones.

A m i d t h e d e s p a i r, t a l k o f r e c o v e r y w a s a l r e a d y beginning.

“It’s heartbreaking after being here 37 years,” Barry Prezioso of Point Pleasant, N.J., said as he returned to his house in the beachfront community. “You see your home demolished like this; it’s tough. But nobody got hurt, and the upstairs is still livable, so we can still live upstairs and clean this out. I’m sure there’s people that had worse. I feel kind of lucky.”

“You see your home demolished like this; it’s tough. But nobody got hurt, and the

upstairs is still livable, so we can still live upstairs and clean this out. I’m sure there’s people that had worse. I feel kind of lucky.”

BARRY PREZIOSO, POINT PLEASANT, N.J.

Hurricane’s effects felt from Carolinas to Wisconsin

BORDER CRIME

Smugglers’ Jeep gets stuck on border fence in Yuma, Ariz.Vehicle found perched at top of makeshift ramp

built onto it and had driven up to the border fence. A pickup had driven up and over the fence, but it was spotted and its occupants were captured, Tippets said.

T h e a g e n c y ’s Yu m a sector has seen a 95 percent r e d u c t i o n i n h u m a n smuggling in recent years, freeing up agents to focus on drug smugglers.

“ B e c a u s e o f h o w successful we are we don’t

have all the clutter like we had in years past,” Tippets said. “Now that all the clutter is gone, we’re able to focus on things that are bigger threats.”

The terrain in western A r i z o n a a n d e a s t e r n C a l i f o r n i a h a s l i t t l e vegetation and is much less rugged than the land in southeastern Arizona, so smugglers have a harder time making it into the U.S. without being spotted.

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women’s basketball

sooners to exhibit depth against eagles

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Junior point guard morgan Hook (10) handles the ball and searches for an open teammate in a game against texas a&m on Feb. 21. the sooners won the game, 64-55. Hook returns to oU after being the third leading scorer last season at 10.9 points per game.

Kedric KitchensSports Editor

The Oklahoma women’s basketball team kicks off its 2012-2013 season in a tune-up game against Oklahoma Christian at 7 tonight at Lloyd Noble Center.

Although the Sooners are heavily favored and should get little resistance from the Division II Eagles, coach Sherri Coale said that her team will approach every game, exhibitions included, with a purpose.

“Well, we really approach [the exhibition game] as it’s serious and it matters,” Coale said. “Obviously, it is a tune-up for ‘real’ games, but we try not to approach it that way. We try to approach it as everything is significant.”

The Sooners return five starters from a season ago, including their three top scorers, junior guards Aaryn Ellenberg and Morgan Hook and senior guard Whitney Hand who scored 15.5, 10.9 and 13.3 points per game, respectively.

OU also added a major recruiting class, signing All-American guard Nicole Ko r n e t , Iowa Gat o ra d e Player of the Year guard Maddie Manning and junior college All-American trans-fer forward Portia Durrett.

Senior guard Jasmine Hartman also returns after missing all of last season with a torn ACL.

Hartman, with her first game back from injury loom-ing said she is ready to play.

“I’m ready,” Hartman said.

“I don’t think it gets any bet-ter than how I feel right now. I ’m moving well; ever y-one says that I look good, so all we can hope for is the best.”

Coale said at local media day that depth would be a strength for her team and depth is something that will be on display tonight.

“What we’re looking for

is balance, a lot of people scoring, everybody showing up in the stat line, making a difference when they play,” Coale said. “Rebounds, as-sists, hopefully not a lot of turnovers, everybody getting into the scoring column be-cause everyone can score.”

Last season, the team re-lied heavily on Hand and Ellenberg on offense, with the two accounting for near-ly 38 percent of the team’s scoring. Coale said that level of scoring discrepancy is not what she wants or expects

against the Eagles.“If the game is over and

I look up and [Hand] and [Ellenberg] each have 25 (points) and everybody else has four or five, that’s not re-ally going to be what I need-ed to see,” Coale said. “I need to see production from the post, I need to see balance from at least five guys, and I expect to have more than that.”

Durrett, who averaged 1 5 . 4 p o i nt s a n d 7 . 8 re -bounds per game at Walters State (Morristown, Tenn.)

Community College last season, will be a major part of the post game for the Sooners after sophomore forward Kaylon Williams ruptured her Achilles’ ten-don in the second practice of the season. Durrett said that she will be a big help on the glass for the Sooners and that she will be a big re-bounder for the team.

O k l a h o m a C h r i s t i a n made the jump from NAIA to Division II this season and looks to make a mark in their new surroundings.

Oklahoma returns five starters and top seven scorers

OU at Creighton:

1:30 p.m. Nov. 10 in omaha, Neb. Creighton emerged from obscurity last year when it made the NCaa tournament and was one buzzer-beater away from becoming the first 14 seed to ever upset a three seed.

OU vs. UCLA:

7 p.m. Nov. 14 at lloyd Noble Center

UCla was picked to finish third in the pac-12 by the conference’s coaches after failing to make the postseason last year.

OU vs. Arkansas:

7 p.m. Nov. 23 in honolulu

arkansas finished the year as a sixth seed in the NCaa tournament, advancing to the second round before falling just two points shy of upsetting third-seeded texas a&M.

OU vs. Vanderbilt:

2 p.m. Dec. 16 at lloyd Noble Center

Vanderbilt was the first team to claim a win against the Sooners last year when they beat oU in Vandy’s thanksgiving tournament.

AT A GLANCE Games to watch in first half of season for oU

Eagles coach Stephanie Findley is the winningest women’s basketball coach at a four-year university in the history of the state of Oklahoma with 521.

Both Coale and OU assis-tant coach Jan Ross attend-ed Oklahoma Christian, and Coale played for Findley for two seasons.

The Eagles were plagued by injury a season ago, with six players missing most or all of the season and finished with a record of 9-21.

The Sooners have an-other exhibition against Henderson State at 7 p.m. Tuesday before beginning the regular season against Creighton on Nov. 10 in Omaha, Neb.

The matchup against Creighton will be a big one for OU, but Coale said she is concerned about her team, and the nonconference test is far from her mind.

“I haven’t even thought about Creighton yet; I proba-bly should be, but I haven’t,” Coale said. “We’re just wor-ried about us right now.”

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Tobi NeidySports Reporter

T h e 1 2 t h - r a n k e d O U football team isn’t letting i t s e l f g e t c a u g h t u p i n the moment of having to trudge through another practice week following a disappointing loss.

This week arguably is a perfect time for the Sooners to throw in the towel after a big-game defeat and then having to head up to Ames to face an unranked Iowa State team the Sooners have a history of slapping around.

But the players don’t see it that way.

“Sure, the championship may be out of the picture, but there’s still a lot of Big 12 (games) left, and that’s s ome thing to play for,” junior wide receiver Kenny Stills said. “We’ve only lost one conference game so far, so we just have to go out and continue to play hard.”

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Sooners not overlooking Iowa StateCyclones only have won five times in series between teams

SoFtball

OU to take on professional All-Stars at home

The mantra in Norman is s imple: OU plays for national and conference championships. So when the team has to turn around and figure out how to accept the fact it doesn’t have a

shot at the crystal ball and will need help from outside forces to come out on top of the conference standings, t h e a t t i t u d e q u i c k l y changes into protecting the “Oklahoma standard.”

“I don’t think we are going to shut it down and say, ‘Alright, let’s just call it quits the rest of the year,’ but there is some adversity coming w i t h l o s i n g g a m e s a n d coming with different goals

being out of the picture for sure,” senior quarterback Landry Jones said. “We are a prideful program, and when game day comes around, we are going to put our best guys on the field, and we are going to play hard.”

The Sooners are 69-5-2 all time against Iowa State, one of the most lopsided series records in college football.

After hearing last week how Notre Dame had such a stranglehold on the OU program during a handful of years before most of the current players’ parents were born, the Sooners find themselves on the winning side against this week’s opponent — one that also hasn’t beaten the Sooners in Ames since Nov. 5, 1960.

But regardless of past history, the OU coaching staf f said i t knows that walking out of ISU’s stadium with a win won’t be a piece of cake.

“(Iowa State) is playing (defensively) as well as anyone in the league,” co-offensive coordinator Josh

Heupel said. “They’re good at creating turnovers; they’re physical and fly around to the football.”

And after dropping two games so far this season, t h e p l a y e r s s a i d t h e y understand they can’t take any upcoming opposition lightly.

“ISU plays really hard, really sound, and they’re very well coached,” Stills said. “We’re going to have to go out and take this game seriously.”

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Junior fullback trey Millard (33) fights off a tackle during a run against Notre Dame Saturday. the Sooners lost 13-30 with Millard rushing for just 11 yards in the game.

“We are a prideful program, and when game day comes around, we are

going to put our best guys on the field,

and we are going to play hard.”LandRy JoneS,

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Tobi NeidySports Reporter

The Oklahoma softball program says it’s ready to validate its fall campaign.

Several weeks ago, the S o o n e r s w e r e g e t t i n g acquainted with the new freshmen, and the veterans were meeting for the first time since the 2012 Women’s College World Series.

After facing six teams during the brief fall slate, OU is ready to see if it’s capable to play with some of the best players in the nation when the National Pro Fastpitch All-Stars roll into town for the matchup at 6 tonight at Marita Hynes Field.

“I purposely schedule this game as our last because I want to see our progression throughout the fall,” coach Patty Gasso said. “This is really our grand finale, and we should be in a good place to win.”

Last season, the Sooners knocked off the softball goliaths, 2-0.

The win was the first time in 42 games that the All-Stars fell to one of their opponents on the annual Back-to-School tour.

A l t h o u g h p l ay i ng t h e A l l - S t a r s will give the S o o n e r s a n opportunity t o p e r f o r m against some of softball’s elite, Gasso said she wants her players to concentrate on their own level of play and not get frazzled by the level of competition the newcomers will see during the game.

“Our freshmen will be able to see how fast these athletes play, and that will be important for our guys to learn,” Gasso said. “We’re preparing like it’s a Big 12 team, and we know enough about the pro team that we can take the right steps to prepare for them.”

This year’s NPF cast boasts several Olympians, including outfielder Caitl in L owe and third baseman Andrea Duran.

Lowe, a four-time All-

Oklahoma only college team to ever beat pros

American and the 2009 WCWS Most Outstanding Player, won back-to-back national championships at Arizona (2006-2007) and was a member of the silver medal team from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Duran was a teammate of Lowe’s in Beijing and w o n a p a i r o f n a t i o n a l championships (2003 and 2004) during her time at UCLA.

But the Sooners have a weapon of their own with senior left-handed pitcher Keilani Ricketts.

R i c k e t t s w a s n a m e d the 2012 Honda Softball Player of the Year, 2012 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year and the 2012 Big 12 Player of the Year for

her accomplishments last season. The San Jose, Calif., native posted a 37-9 record, finishing with a 1.08 ERA and 457 total strikeouts last year.

Ricketts also has been a member of Team USA, and after playing in games all over the world, the veteran said she knows how important a quality matchup like this can be to a team looking to play for the national championship.

“Playing against this team is like the unofficial start of our season because it will show just how well we mesh and how well we can step up together against high competition,” Ricketts said.

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MUSIC

Mid-Day Music: Union staple for years

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Dillon Gourd, geography junior, plays piano in the Oklahoma Memorial Union as a part Mid-Day Music on Sept. 20. Musicians get paid $25 to play for the noon to 1 lunch hour. The performances have happened Monday through Friday for several years and includes guitarists, pianists and players of other instruments.

MOLLY EVANSLife & Arts Reporter

Playing the piano, gui-tar or bass during the lunch hour could buy you six slic-es of cheese pizza at Sbarro, eight chicken sandwiches from Chik-fil-A or 13 sides of apples and peanut butter at The Laughing Tomato.

However, the $25 pay-check isn’t the reason some Mid-Day Music performers pick up their instruments for an audience.

Geography junior Dillon Gourd first heard about the program last spring from Atiba Williams, a music composition senior. Before last semester, Gourd hadn’t had formal music lessons for a couple of years or a mu-sical outlet to display his sig-nature genres and styles.

Gourd takes to the piano with a Chicago blues and classic rock appreciation and coordinates a spontaneous set list according to the par-ticular mood of Oklahoma Memorial Union, he said.

Gourd has performed tracks like “Do It Again” by Steely Dan , “You Never Give Me Your Money” by The Beatles and “New York State of Mind” by Billy Joel.

“They do pay us, but it’s more fun than anything,” Gourd said. “I get to see friends at the Union. I get claps from random people I don’t know.”

In order to get the paying gig, musicians must audition before the program’s newest director, Matthew Nash.

“They must first be a stu-dent here at OU,” Nash said. “Then they will be given a very informal audition, where they will play roughly three songs to prove they are a proficient musician.”

Williams achieved that proficiency as a child in Trinidad and Tobago play-ing a Caribbean instru-ment called the steel pan. Williams had his first public performance 2 years old and played professionally until he began studying compo-sition, first at a program in Italy, then at OU, he said. Throughout his music ca-reer and education, Williams has gained proficiency in the viola, guitar, bass, piano and even the Native American flute, which he acquired dur-ing his time at OU, he said.

“I had been kind of touted around like sort of a wonder child, whatever that means,” Williams said. “I stopped doing music professionally to study, which is weird be-cause people normally do it the other way around.”

Williams performs the piano during Mid-Day Music three to four times a month,

he said. The schedule, which is coordinated at the end of each month according to students’ schedules, allows for flexibility and a variety of musicians, Nash said.

The program is designed t o p rov i d e b a ck g rou n d music from noon until 1 for students, Nash said. And, with most students ignoring the music, Williams said he incorporates five minutes of composition practice and improvisation into his set list.

“I make up a song on the spot and try to have a form and come up with motifs,” Williams said.

Williams sang during per-formances last year when he started the program, but a lack of equipment this year has shifted his focus from entertainment to piano and composition practice, he said. That focus is revealed in his typical set list that ranges from old standards like his audition piece, “My Funny Valentine” to “Ordinary People” by John Legend and an upbeat closer like

Coldplay’s “Clocks.” Williams plays in the OU

jazz band, steel band and at gigs around Oklahoma City and Norman.

A staple Union program for several years, Mid-Day Music features music ma-jors and students who play an instrument as a hobby, Nash said.

Nash contacted presi-dents of OU musical orga-nizations, which brought in several candidates for the program that holds three to five performances each week, he said.

“ This year, we have many piano players per-forming, as well as a gui-tarist and national cham-pion mandolin player that play together,” Nash said.

Molly Evans, mollyevans@ou.edu

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step and all genres of elec-tric dance music. Dubstep is so vast and ranges from fast-paced dance music to the dirtiest bass dropping bangers.

Lately, I’ve gotten a lot of flack from people who view dubstep as a negative thing. Either they do not under-stand the purpose of the music or they just think of it as a musical fad like boy bands, grunge or disco.

I suggest for these people to do the same thing I did with country music; try it, if you like it, awesome, but if you don’t, at least you tried and aren’t judging it based on a five or 10 second sound bite from a Skrillex track.

Chances are, your favor-ite musical act or performer has a dubstep or electronic dance music remix to one of their songs. From Radiohead a n d B o n Iv e r t o Ad e l e, all have dubstep remixes

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Open your mind to new music, dubstep

Music is a great w a y t o w i d e n your horizons

and sample new sounds, and listening to new genres of music led me to listen to dubstep, cue drop.

Country music and top 40 reign supreme in Oklahoma, but isn’t there room for more than just one genre.

Growing up listening to the radio and popular music, I thought I had a pretty good grasp of the array of music I liked, but looking back on my formative teenage years, I had been suckered into the trap of listening to com-mercial music on radio and

television.Later in high school, I hung

around people who only listened to country music. Although I didn’t under-stand country music at first, I slowly started to listen to more country music and un-derstood why people enjoy listening to Blake Shelton or

Brent Stenstrombrent.e.stenstrom@ou.edu

Life & Arts CoLumnist“It’s not love for music, it’s passion, and it goes beyond

liking and beyond hobby, it’s about a way of living ... music is essential for my life.”

Armin VAn Buuren, disC joCkey

At A GLAnCeDubstep lingoBasshead: An avid listener of dubstep

Bass drop: a pause in the percussion, usually in silence, followed by an intensity in the music

Electronic dance music: music created usually for a nightclub or dance-based environment

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available on popular web-sites, such as YouTube or SoundCloud.

With Electronic dance music, or EDM, remixes from your favorite performers, it almost would be hypocriti-cal to not listen to the remix version of their song. For in-stance, the song “Lights” by Ellie Goulding has a dubstep remix done by EDM legend, Bassnectar.

The electronic beats in-fused with Goulding’s lyrics make you feel inspired and alive. The build up (part of a dubstep song that happens before the drop) makes you fill with anticipation for the drop (when the music stops momentarily then comes

back with a heavier bass drop), which is the best part of a dubstep track or remix.

The feeling you get when a good drop hits is like a feeling of euphoria, or a pure rush of adrenaline. Nothing else can beat that feeling, because in that very moment you feel invincible, and anything you do is just an electronic cher-ry on top of a delicious EDM sundae.

Popular trance disc jockey Armin Van Buuren once said in an interview: “It’s not love for music, it’s a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, it’s about a way of living … music is es-sential for my life.”

Music lovers of any genre,

whether it’s gospel or folk music, can agree with Van Buuren’s quote. Without music, the world would be a monotonous mess with no vibrancy or passion.

If you have not been per-suaded to at least sample dubstep because of this col-umn, then I’m sorry. But you will have plenty of time to listen because dubstep will be around for the long haul, right there next to your coun-try and top 40 favorites.

Brent Stenstrom is a broadcast and electronic media junior.

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