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Sophomore outfielder Destinee Martinez is up to bat Sunday against Indiana. The Sooners beat the Hoosiers, 4-1, to win their 10th straight game after sweeping the rest of their competitors during a weekend tournament. (Page 3)

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FROM STAFF REPORTSThe Oklahoma Daily

S t u d e n t M e d i a ’ s Publication Board on Friday hired the students to lead The Oklahoma Daily and Sooner year-book in the upcoming summer, fall and spring semesters.

Board members voted unanimously to select Laney Ellisor as The Daily’seditor in chief for fall 2012 and spring 2013. Ellisor, profession-al writ ing j u n i o r, i s The Daily’sc a m p u s editor this semester.

Cu r re nt e d i t o r i n chief Chris Lusk, journal-ism senior, was hired to the same position for the summer. The board also selected journalism soph-omore Teegan Burkhard as Sooner yearbook’s edi-tor in chief for next year.

Ellisor said she applied for The Daily’s editor po-sition in order to keep the organization moving forward.

“The Daily has made great strides this academic year toward becoming one of the best student news-papers in the nation,” she said. “My goal as editor is to maintain that success and improve upon the work we have done.”

Ellisor ran for the job uncontested. Sooner year-book’s editor in chief po-sition featured two appli-cants, as did The Daily’ssummer editor job.

CHASE COOKManaging Editor

Student government can-d i d a t e s f o r t h e UOSA spring 2012 election can begin p l a c i n g s i g n s , passing out fliers and cam-paigning today.

Candidates submitted

their campaign material registration forms and pre-sented materials Friday at UOSA’s office to ensure they are within election guide-lines, UOSA election board chairman Cole Jackson said.

Candidates are required to submit the forms, or they will not be allowed to use any

materials when campaign-ing, according to UOSA’s Code Annotated. Otherwise, the candidates only can sub-mit an official profile and campaign orally.

While candidates can begin campaigning today, Jackson said he thinks the candidates will do most of their campaigning after spring break.

The candidates don’t want to put all their signs up and

risk losing them or having to pick them back up before spring break starts, Jackson said.

Voting for spring 2012 UOSA candidates will take place April 3 to 4. Candidates can campaign until the polls close April 4, but they cannot campaign within 50 feet of any polling locations or uni-versity computer labs during the voting days, according to the Code Annotated.

Students will vote in April for the following positions:

Uosa president and vice president — juniors Joe Sangirardi and Rainey Sewell

campus activities council chair – senior John Fraser and junior Vicky Vargas

student bar association president – graduate student Camal Pennington

housing center student association chair – senior Allie Kallmann

Source: UOSA election fi ling

AT A GLANCE spring election candidatesCampaigns expected to wait until after students return from spring break

Board selects 3 future editors

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University College freshman Marcus Peasant, Peruvian Student Association member, (right) ends the “Anaconda” dance, which celebrates the great anaconda of the Peruvian Amazon. The anaconda is both feared and honored, and it is celebrated to bring good fortune for crops. The fourth annual Peruvian Culture Night was held Saturday in the National Weather Center and drew a large crowd to get a taste of Peru’s vibrant music, dance and food.

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Middle East course not at full capacity

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Reid Coffman, landscape architecture professor, talks Friday about the rain gardens he is overseeing. The Oklahoma Conservation Center spon-sored a grant for his team to monitor the water through this division.

Local homes to be test subjectsresearch

BENNETT HALLCampus Reporter

An inaugural Middle East study-abroad program has not yet met its participant limit, though an Education Abroad

administrator said the trip still will take place wheth-er more students apply.

Sixteen students have applied to take part in OU’s Journey to the Middle East program, though admin-istrators had intended to allow up to 20 students to participate, Education Abroad director Alice Kloker said.

“We have a goal of run-ning this program with

16 students, although the program is going to happen at this point regardless of how many end up committing,”

PAIGHTEN HARKINSCampus Reporter

In an unassuming residen-tial development in north Norman, 17 homes are being used in research to com-bat ecological problems in a major local water source.

The houses look no dif-ferent than those on sur-rounding streets. They are colored in varying shades of neutral tans, each with a two-car garage and a care-fully manicured front lawn. What makes them distinct is the subtle placement of a re-directed down spout on the house and a flower bed on the edge of the house’s lot and the street.

These small differences are components of a rain gar-den and are part of research

being done by OU associate landscape architecture pro-fessor Reid Coffman in con-junction with The Little River Best Management Practices Project, Coffman said.

The goal of the project is to clean up Lake Thunderbird

and reduce or eliminate the hazards of developing land for residential use, Coffman said.

Rain gardens look like flower beds but are placed

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Goal to reduce or eliminate hazards of developing landProgram has sports for 20 students

to participate, but only 16 have applied

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AT A GLANCEItineraryJune 10 — Arrive in Istanbul, Turkey

June 25 — Arrive in Tel Aviv, drive to Jerusalem

July 8 — Depart from Tel Aviv for Oklahoma City

at the end of the front lawn, right by the street.

These gardens are filled with plants containing little moisture and surrounded by a bed of rock-like, clay-based engineered substrates made to absorb half their volume with water, Coffman said.

Right now, water flows from homes in developing areas through bulldozed areas, collecting sediment before it runs off into lakes, landscape architecture graduate student Leslie Novotny said.

The purpose of the gar-dens is to slow the water flow, thereby cleansing it at the source, Coffman said.

Regardless of how sim-ple the changes are and how small the effect on the landscape, the team’s re-search is working to prove that the practices are worth implementing.

“It’s code, and the way they’ve always been doing t h i n g s ,” N o v o t n y s a i d . “Builders usually don’t change the ways they do things unless there’s a really good reason [to change it].”

Laney Ellisor, campus editorKathleen Evans, assistant campus editor

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today around Campus“A Young Talent in Oklahoma” will be open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Fred Jones Jr. museum of art’s Lightwell Gallery.

A lecture about course credit through CLep and advanced standing, part of the student success series, will take place from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Wagner Hall.

The men’s tennis team will compete against Louisville at 5 p.m. at the Gregg Wadley indoor tennis pavilion.

A film screening of “prom night in mississippi,” followed by a Q&a with director/producer paul saltzman, will take place at 7 p.m. in oklahoma memorial union’s meacham auditorium.

“By the Bog of Cats,” presented by the peggy dow Helmrich school of drama, will take place at 8 p.m. in Beatrice Carr Wallace old science Hall’s Lab theatre.

A free concert by the ou percussion Chamber will take place at 8 p.m. in Catlett music Center’s pitman recital Hall.

tuesday, marCH 13“By the Bog of Cats,” presented by the peggy dow Helmrich school of drama, will take place at 3 p.m. in Beatrice Carr Wallace old science Hall’s Lab theatre.

An art exhibit called “Where is the Green sheep?” by mern Fox will take place from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in Fred Jones Jr. museum of art’s dee dee and Jon r. stuart Classroom.

Wednesday, marCH 14A lecture about adolescent males’ attitudes about singing in choir by mark Lucas will be held at 5 p.m. at Catlett music Center, room 131.

Historical interpreter Bill Barker will interpret the writings of thomas Jefferson at 5:30 p.m. in oklahoma memorial union’s meacham auditorium.

“By the Bog of Cats,” presented by the peggy dow Helmrich school of drama, will take place at 8 p.m. in Beatrice Carr Wallace old science Hall’s Lab theatre.

abroad: Trip to take students to historic sitesContinued from page 1

Kloker said. The trip will take students

to historic sites, such as the Blue Mosque and Grand Bazaar of Istanbul, and the Temple of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, according to the program’s itinerary.

It is not unusual for new study-abroad programs to face recruitment challenges in their first year, Kloker said.

“There is not a core of re-turned students on campus that can spread the word among their peers,” Kloker said.

Kloker has not heard spe-cific security concerns with the program addressed by prospective participants or parents, she said.

Though there is unrest in the Middle East, Israel gener-ally is stable, OU Judaic and Israel Studies program direc-tor Norman Stillman.

“There certainly is danger and unrest in the surround-ing countries, but Israel is ac-tually an island of stability in the midst of that troubled re-gion,” he said.

Stillman lived in Israel in 2010 with his two grandchil-dren and never would have brought them if he felt it to be a danger to them, he said.

As for security at Hebrew

University, where the pro-g r a m w i l l c o n d u c t t h e Jerusalem segment of its classes, Stillman said security protocols include gated entry to the campus, guard stations and bag checks.

“One never feels unsafe,” Stillman said.

Molly Oberstein is an OU student spending the semes-ter at Hebrew University and said security concerns occur

outside university grounds. “I attended a music festi-

val this weekend, which took place about 20 minutes away from the border with Gaza,” Oberstein said in an email. “The event was originally set to be canceled due to the vio-lence following Israel’s kill-ing of Palestinian militants Friday. Although the festival occurred anyway, it ended two hours early due to the

threat of Katyusha rockets being fired from Gaza.”

The areas closer to Israel’s bordering countries are where the real threats lie, Oberstein said.

“As evidenced by the man-datory draft and the presence of bomb shelters in places such as my apartment, the re-alities of life here are very dif-ferent from those in the U.S.,” Oberstein said.

research: Gardens used to clean run off waterContinued from page 1

Despite conflicting with building codes, Coffman said the research is worth undertaking.

“We’ve actually broken a bunch of codes and laws hav-ing to do this, and it doesn’t look crazy at all,” he said.

In addition to the rain-gar-den research, Coffman is re-searching an ecological land-scape known as green roofs, which he has been working on since the early 2000s.

A green roof is composed

of plants placed on a struc-ture’s roof. This addition can reduce energy consump-tion because the plants help keep the building cool. They also can store and clean rain water or be designed for food production, Coffman said.

“All roofs can benefit from green roofs … Flat roofs of suburban sprawl benefit the most,” Coffman said.

Both rain-garden and green-roof research focus on hydrology, which Coffman

addresses when teaching a green-roofs class at OU, architecture senior Diane Cocchiara said.

“[Hydrology] is a very easy, simple way to fix things. It’s nice to educate people about it,” she said.

Coffman’s work centers on the idea that some of societ-ies’ issues can be solved with sustainability or environmen-tal responsibility if the design problem is framed in ecologi-cal theory, he said.

Reid Coffman, landscape archi-tecture professor, talks Friday about the rain gardens he is overseeing. After three years of research, they will determine if these types of green neighborhoods are worth the added cost. The goal of the program is to clean up Lake Thunderbird and reduce or elimi-nate the environ-mental hazards of developing land for residential use.

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TOBI NEIDY Sports Reporter

The No. 8 Oklahoma soft-ball team (20-3) unloaded on opposing pitchers, ex-tending its winning streak to 10 consecutive games after sweeping all six games in the Oklahoma Spring Festival this weekend in Norman.

The Sooner offense out-scored its opponents, 48-2, including 17 home runs by seven different OU batters.

“We’ve been so anxious to get out there that we’ve been swinging early and swinging at bad pitches,” coach Patty Gasso said. “But this week-end, the team settled in, and the hitting performances were just infectious.”

After posting 19 hom-ers last season before being benched due to ulcerative colitis, junior catcher Jessica Shults posted five home runs, eight hits and eight RBIs in 16 at bats.

The five homers brings her overall season total to seven, putting her back in the hunt to take over OU’s single-sea-son home run record (20) held by Lisa Carey (2000). Shults’ 40 career home runs puts her on pace to break OU’s career home run re-cord (56) set by Amber Flores (2010).

“It’s nice to start hitting the ball hard,” Shults said. “I’ve got the protection of Keilani (Ricketts) behind me, and I’m starting to see better pitches.”

Greg Fewell, sports editorKedric Kitchens, assistant sports editor

dailysports@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666SPORTSOUDaily.com ››� e No. 2 OU women’s gymnastics team posted its second-lowest score of the season in an upset loss to No. 3 UCLA on Sunday in Los Angeles.

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WEEKEND ROUNDUP

BASEBALLThe Sooners � nished

2-2 at the Nike Showcase this weekend in Eugene, Ore., after dropping the � nal game to Oregon State by a score of 11-7.

Oklahoma bounced back from an opening loss to Connecticut by beating both West Virginia and Oregon.

Daily staff reports

M GYMNASTICSNo. 1 OU moved to

11-1 with a win over No. 8 Michigan on Saturday at Lloyd Noble Center. The Sooners won four of the six event titles en route to the 355.5-348.95 victory.

Junior Jake Dalton led Oklahoma with three individual event titles Saturday, while junior Chris Stehl added one on rings.

Daily staff reports

TRACK & FIELDJunior thrower Tia

Brooks won an NCAA indoor championship in the shot put Saturday with a throw of 62 feet, four inches.

The throw makes Brooks second all-time in the event and the second female ever to throw 62 feet or better.

Daily staff reports

W TENNISOU split its matches

with Kansas and Kansas State over the weekend, topping the Jayhawks, 5-2, and getting upset, 4-3, by the Wildcats.

Kansas State ended a 10-game losing streak against ranked opponents when it topped the No. 40 Sooners on Sunday.

Daily staff reports

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Sooners roll in spring festivalSoftball rides hot bats to 5-0 record during weekend

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Junior pitcher Keilani Ricketts prepares to hurl a pitch to the plate during Sunday’s doubleheader against the Indiana Hoosiers. The Sooners won both games, including a 12-1 run-rule in the second game of the day.

Not to be outdone by her battery mate, junior ace Keilani Ricketts also had a volatile offensive weekend,

posting three homers with four RBIs in 12 at bats.

The Sooners opened the Oklahoma Festival with an explosive 27 combined run performance during Friday’s d o u b l e h e a d e r a g a i n s t Wichita State and Indiana.

Gasso wasn’t just pleased to see that her team was able to inflict the 8-after-5 col-lege run-rule; she also was thrilled to see that the team had taken to heart what was

being taught in practice.“We’ve talked about just

not wasting at bats, manag-ing your counts and know-ing what counts to swing in,” Gasso said. “It was nice to see that come out this weekend because this is what we are capable of.”

The Sooners returned Saturday to complete one game before rain forced of-ficials to postpone the rest of the action until Sunday

evening. OU beat Wichita State, 5-0, after scoring runs in each of the game’s final three innings.

During Sunday’s double-header against Indiana, the Sooners outscored the Hoosiers, 16-2, to complete the sweep of all opponents for the second consecutive weekend.

OU closed out the fes-tival with a 12-1 win that was highlighted by home runs from Shults, freshman Lauren Chamberlain and sophomore shortstop Javen Henson . But all three home runs were outdone by the fourth-inning grand slam by freshman right fielder Erica Sampson .

Sampson blasted her first career home run, a four-run bomb over the left-center field fence, after Chamberlain was hit by a pitch to give OU an 11-point lead.

“It was a big deal for me because [Indiana] hit Lauren (Chamberlain) with a pitch with the bases loaded to get to me,” Sampson said. “It just shows you can’t do that to anyone in our lineup.”

WEEKEND RESULTSOU Spring FestivalGame 1: OU 13, Wichita State 0*

Game 2: OU 14, Indiana 0*

Game 3: OU 5, Wichita State 0

Game 4: Canceled

Game 5: OU 4, Indiana 1

Game 6: OU 12, Indiana 1*

*Ended in � ve innings

UP NEXTJudi Garman ClassicWhen: Thursday through Saturday

Where: Fullerton, Calif.

Info: OU will face DePaul, Michigan, Virginia, Penn State and Washington

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Informal DiscussionFouad Ajami

Fouad Ajami, one of the most outstanding scholars on the Middle East, is the author of The Arab Predicament, The Vanished Inam, Beirut: City of Regrets, The Dream Palace of the Arabs and The Foreigner’s Gift: The Americans, The Arabs and the Iraqis in Iraq. He is a frequent guest expert on the Middle East and the Anderson Cooper CNN news program. He is a widely published essayist whose writings – comprising some 400 essays, reviews and columns of opinion – have appeared in such publications as Foreign Affairs magazine, for which he serves on the editorial board, and New York Times Magazine, as well as other forums in the United States and abroad. He has headed Middle Eastern studies programs at Johns Hopkins, Princeton University and at the Hoover Institute at Stanford.

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Our View: This Sunshine Week, join us in highlighting the importance of freedom of information and transparency.

Today marks the first day of Sunshine Week, a national initiative to spark discussion on the im-portance of freedom of information.

Last semester, we wrote much in this space about the importance of transparency in government and other public operations. We dedi-cated ourselves to focusing on these essential issues, bringing informa-tion to the public and advocating for greater legal protections.

Most importantly, we made it clear this isn’t about journalists having some special, privileged access to in-formation. This is about the public’s right to access, about every citizen’s right to be informed about what their government or public officials are doing.

Public information belongs to all of us. These are our documents and our meetings, detailing actions taken with our tax money by our officials. Public officials have been elected or chosen to rep-resent the citizens who pay their salary and are af-fected by their decisions.

They owe the public transparency — and, thus, accountability — in return for that representative power.

In order to help bring attention to and advocate for this essential right to information, we decided to illustrate how we use open records and to ad-vocate for stronger legal protections. We created a box on our front page to track the records requests we make and how long it takes for these requests to be filled.

Now, we’re going one step further. The current feature allows read-

ers to stay informed only about the most recent records requests that have not yet been filled. But we also want readers to have access to all the requests we make and the amount of time it took for those requests to be filled.

So we have created a new page on OUDaily.com that will house weekly updates about all the re-cords requests made by The Daily.

In addition, in honor of Sunshine Week, we will be attaching a sunshine icon to some of our stories this week to indicate which stories reporters used public records.

In tackling these issues last semester, we also wrote a series of editorials detailing ways the

open records and open meetings laws could be strengthened. We will continue these efforts.

Though few strides have been made toward our most important request — that a specific time limit be placed on filling open records requests in Oklahoma — the legislature has made strides on

another important improvement. The state legislature is expected

to vote next week on House Bill 2379, which would create an online open records request portal through which the public could make faster, easier requests for information . This will save time and money for both the average citizen and the govern-ment, and we urge our legislators to pass it quickly.

Then there is HB 1085, which would apply open records and open meetings laws to the Oklahoma

legislature . Currently, the legislature is unfairly exempt from these requirements. The House will consider the bill later this week, and it must be passed to ensure that Oklahoma’s legislators are accountable to the public.

On the local front, President David Boren has just announced his intention to meet with stu-dents this semester about the possibility of gender-neutral housing next fall.

We call on him to make these meetings open to the public and advertise their time and place so all members of the OU community may stay involved, be informed and have a chance to express their opinions.

But this isn’t just The Daily’s fight. We hope other organizations on campus — from student groups

to academic departments to the ad-ministration — will stand with us in declaring a commitment to the pub-lic’s right to know.

Help us educate this community about these important issues and advocate for greater freedom of in-formation protection for Oklahoma’s citizens.

Speaking of citizens, this all comes down to you. This is a fight for your right to know, for your right to hold your public officials accountable.

This is your fight. So educate yourself about freedom of informa-

tion issues, consider making an open records re-quest or attending an open meeting to find out more about your government and be willing to stand up to fight for these essential rights.

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EDITORIAL

It’s your information, too

GUEST COLUMN

Socialized medicine isn’t all badLike usual, I woke up sometime last week with a

stuffy nose and puffy eyes. Like usual, I didn’t do anything about it and assumed both would disap-

pear sooner or later. Unfortunately, things worsened, and I finally realized I had a sinus infection — in Europe! If I had been back in Oklahoma, everything would have been fine; I could have called the doctor’s office, made an appoint-ment, waited 24 hours, then driven to the clinic and left with the same prescription I always leave with.

But I’m in Austria. A vast wasteland of coffee drinkers, bikers, recyclers and, perhaps the worst, government-run health care workers. Austria has a high standard of compul-sory state-funded health care, where all citizens and em-ployers have to contribute to the system — or, if you watch Republican debates, what President Barack Obama sup-posedly implemented in the U.S.

As I was walking the 15 minutes to the doctor’s office, a sudden terror took hold of me as I remembered what Republicans had been telling me for the last several months in interviews and debates: Countries with socialized medi-cine have to limit their care to a certain number of people, they have to let seniors die earlier, and the quality of care plummets dramatically.

I turned the corner and saw the office building just across the street. “Oh no,” I thought, “has Ceftin, my magical sinus infection drug, even made it to this far off, backward land?” I assumed not, since Republicans keep telling me my selec-tion of treatments will be diminished under “Obamacare.”

I rang the doorbell to the office. When the nurse opened it, she asked me if I had Austrian health insurance. Luckily, I had just enrolled in a program the week before for $50 a month, so she told me the visit would cost nothing. “Great,” I said skeptically, thinking what kind of dangers lay behind her nice white outfit and smile.

Then I saw it: the waiting room. The biggest fear of any free market, choice-oriented protector of private health insurance. She gave me a seat near the door and told me to wait a few minutes and the doctor would be with me as soon as possible.

Needless to say, I had the same worries of most conser-vatives: I would never be seen because of the tremendous waiting lists, or even die in the room.

After 14 minutes, I had to go to the bathroom. I was just as shocked as Rick Santorum would be when I found a con-dom machine above the toilet, but I was blind-sided when I heard “McKnight” called from a doctor ready to treat me.

I sat in his office and explained my medical history. He asked me what prescription I normally was given by my home practitioner, and I told him, Ceftin.

“Do you have it here yet?” I sheepishly asked, and he wheeled around to his computer and began typing.

A few minutes later, he printed out and handed me two prescriptions: one for a two weeks supply of Ceftin, and one for a special nose rinse. As he led me out of his office and back through the less frightening Waiting Room, I noticed it was filled with seniors. “How funny,” I thought to myself, because I remember Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., explaining to me how socialized medicine would in fact make seniors “die sooner.”

I left the office and wandered the streets of Graz, Austria, looking for a place to drink a coffee and recycle at the same time (if possible) and was overcome with delight since I had survived my horrid experience with socialized medicine.

Doug McKnight is a German and history junior who is studying abroad in Austria.

My record of more than 17 years at the university dem-onstrates I have great respect for the viewpoints of all of our students. I carefully consider student ideas, whether they come from individual students or from groups, large or small. Great universities are places where there is a free marketplace of ideas and where the right of free speech is strongly supported.

The manner in which ideas are discussed also is ex-tremely important. Sadly, in our country today, we have become overly polarized and have lost the ability to dis-cuss issues with civility and mutual respect. The break-down of thoughtful and civil discourse is a grave threat to our country’s future.

In the debate on housing policies, we in the OU com-munity have a chance to become a role model for others by carefully, respectfully and reasonably discussing the issues involved in a way that will reach the wisest result. We must reject shouting matches, making unilateral de-mands and failing to take adequate time to come to the best decisions.

I intend to engage with students who want changes in a thoughtful discussion. Representatives of the advocates of changes will be invited by me to my office to discuss these issues. I commit to giv-ing serious consideration to every point that is raised. More than one meeting likely will be required.

Fortunately, we are not under any artificial time deadline. The administra-tion can make changes in the implementation of housing policies without any require-ment that they be approved by the OU Board of Regents. The general regent’s policy only requires first-year students to live on campus, except for special circumstances. I see no reasons why I cannot reach a decision and announce it well before our stu-dents enter housing in August for the fall semester. When I make that decision, I will publicly announce it and give the reasons for it.

Our goal is not to adopt a policy as quickly as possible. Our goal must be to enact the wisest policy and to have it in place for the fall semester.

During the past two years, those in charge of housing administration already have acted — at my direction — to resolve many difficult situations for individual students. We must be clear that our first priority is to find ways to make each OU student feel valued, respected, comfort-able and, above all, safe. With that priority clearly in mind, we must seek the best method to accomplish this goal. Even among those schools who have adopted some form of what is known as gender-neutral housing, there is huge variation in the methods used.

We also must be sure that we do no harm. One student recently said to me that we must be careful not to re-seg-regate our campus. We must not unintentionally lose the human-rights gains we have made. When I first became president, students could pick their roommate, suite-mates, hallmates and residence halls. The result was de facto segregation by race, religion, economic status, sex-ual orientation and social prominence. I changed those rules because I deeply believe diversity is a great strength. When we live with and associate with people unlike our-selves, we come to no longer think of them in stereotypi-cal terms and prejudices are cast aside. Whatever we de-cide to do must not move us backward.

I am very proud of the spirit of our university commu-nity. OU can be an example to our country by the careful, civil and thoughtful way with which we come together to make decisions.

David Boren, university president

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If there’s anything we’ve all seen mov-ies about, it’s the

crazy teen party.One would think we’d

tire of them by now, but there’s something inher-ently entertaining about watching a group of kids, usually nerds, put togeth-er a party that gets out of control.

The plot is simple. It’s high school student Thomas’ (Thomas Mann) 18th birthday, and for whatever reason, his parents have decided to leave him home alone for the weekend. His two best friends, Costa (Oliver Cooper) and JB (Jonathan Daniel Brown), decide to throw him the party of the year, hoping to bring themselves out of nerd-dom and into the land of the cool kids.

With the help of their cameraman Dax and a few FIip video cameras, they set out to document the experience, resulting in the movie you see in theaters.

At more than one point, I thought, “all right, surely that’s it. Nothing crazier can happen,” only to be defied again and again. With a pounding soundtrack and what had to be over a thousand teenage extras, this movie really does rep-resent the “most epic party of all time!”

In the end, you can’t deny the entertainment value of this movie. It’s well made, well-paced, well-acted and genuinely funny. It walks the fine R-rated comedy line be-tween hilarious and disgusting with grace.

When all is said and done, you’re sure to walk out of the theater satisfied, and, above all else, wishing you could have been at that party.

Erin Roberts is a University College freshman.

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Singers remember Guthrie

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All the performers of the Woody Guthrie Centennial Concert, including Taylor Hanson, Rosanne Cash, Nora Guthrie, John Mellencamp, Arlo Guthrie, Del McCoury, Tim O’Brien and Hanson perform “This Land is Your Land” Sunday at the Brady Theater.

Walking through the Brady Arts District in Tulsa

transported me back to another time, and when I entered the theater, I was in an old opry that was filled to the brim with fans wait-ing patiently for a spectacu-lar night to begin. There was no dress code, but many people were in their Sunday bests, torn up blue jeans and cowboy hats with starched Wranglers.

The audience was mostly made up of older folks, with a few college-age people scattered through-out the historical Brady Theater. There was not an empty seat in the house. These were the people of Oklahoma, and they were ready to pay tribute to one of the state’s greatest artists, Woody Guthrie.

Michael Wallis, an Oklahoma poet, started the evening off by reading some of Guthrie’s own words. The reading set the red-dirt-Oklahoma-folk tone that would carry the audi-ence through the rest of the evening.

Guthrie’s son, Arlo Guthrie, kicked off the show with “Talking Dust Bowl Blues,” and everyone cheered and sang a long. Guthrie explained how his father would sing his songs sometimes by talking at you.

He then welcomed Old Crow Medicine Show to the stage. The band played their cover of Guthrie’s “Union Maid,” which ap-pears on its album “Big Iron World.” The big bluegrass band’s performance was a great rendition and ener-gized the crowd.

From there on various artists such as Tim O’Brien, Jimmy LaFave, Rosanne Cash and The Del McCoury Band paid their own hom-age to Guthrie with covers of his songs.

With every act, I felt an overwhelming sense of

pride that brought a smile to my face. Each act was a great tribute, and the crowds increasing applause confirmed they thought so too.

The second half of the show began with a plaque dedication to Guthrie’s hometown, Okemah, fol-lowed by a performance of The Flaming Lips.

Then, they played “Do You Realize,” and everyone

under the age of 40 swayed and hollered for it. It be-came the Flaming Lips show for 20 minutes with no tribute to Guthrie other than two distorted songs that were so abstract no one could tell what Guthrie songs they were.

Arlo Guthrie and his two sons took the stage to play a Leadbelly song. Leadbelly was a longtime friend to Guthrie. Arlo Guthrie then shared stories of his father. One of my favorite stories told how Guthrie wrote a song after reading “The Grapes of Wrath.” Soon after the song came out, he received a letter from John Steinbeck saying, “You little

bastard, it took you 12 vers-es to say what took me an entire novel.” The audience roared in laughter.

There was no more space on the Brady Theater’s stage for the closing act, as every performer of the night came out to sing “This Land is Your Land.” Not a person in the audience was sitting down for this final number.

Guthrie’s legacy still is alive and well and has con-tinued to inspire musicians.

Westlee Parsons is an English literature senior.

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Because you’ll be extremely capable of realizing an ambitious objective, the progress that you’re looking for can be made in the year ahead, albeit with a bit of hard work and a lot of effort on your part. Move onward and upward, and don’t stint the elbow grease.

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The game series began with 151 original Pokémon in the � rst generation installments. Each creature was inspired by real animals but weren’t exact copies. For instance, Pikachu (above) shares a lot of the same characteristics with a mouse, but its coloration, tail, and long ears make it clear it isn’t a mouse.

As later generations added more and more Pokémon — the most current featuring 649 — the designers got lazy. Here are a couple of the good classics compared to new disasters.

The GoodWartortle: This is a badass turtle with a cool tail and ears. It exudes toughness. It’s from the � rst generation.

Scizor: This Bug/Steel-type Pokémon is memorable because of its sleek design and crimson coloring. It’s from the second generation.

The BadCombee: This is an awkward fusion of a honeycomb and a bee. It’s too strange to be truly cute yet too cute to be taken seriously. It’s from generation 4.

Vanillish: This Pokémon is designed after an ice cream cone. Nothing admits that your game designers are out of good ideas quite like a sentient ice cream cone. This monstrosity is from generation 5.

Compiled by Steven Zoeller

sleek, but they play like they were originally designed for an 8-bit system.

While one struggles to find any major improvement made to the series formula by the most recent Pokémon games, it’s not at all hard to spot instances of decline.

For example, the plot, which formerly was passable, has been awful ever since Team Rocket was replaced by other more gimmicky, badly dressed villains with hilariously stu-pid motives.

Readers who remember Team Aqua and Team Magma from the third generation will know what I’m talking about.

Pokémon designs, too, have gotten noticeably worse. The classic designs merely took inspiration from real-life animals, whereas the modern de-signs outright copy them and swap their colors. As a result, many of them look bland or ugly.

I think these examples of degeneration stem from a general lack of enthusiasm on the developer’s part. My only suggestion to remedy this is to cut down on the too-fre-quent releases.

It’s hard to be excited about a game series if a new installment comes out every year.

Like many gamers, I love the Pokémon formula, and it always will remain a cher-

ished part of my childhood. However, just because our best memories of the franchise are from a decade ago, that doesn’t mean it should remain stuck in that era.

I hope that when Nintendo releases its next two Pokémon games, Pokémon Black 2 and Pokémon White 2, this fall, it will include some real innovations.

But I shan’t hold my breath.

Steven Zoeller is a journalism sophomore.

LIFE&ARTS Monday, March 12, 2012 • 7Monday, March 12, 2012

Pokémon fails to evolve

Game series lacks innovation despite more than a decade to solve problems

Like many students my age, I have fond childhood memo-

ries of trapping animals and training them to fight other animals for sport.

I am, of course, referring to the countless hours I spent playing the Pokémon role-playing games on my Game Boy Color.

I vividly remember play-ing through “Pokémon: Red Version” for the first time. It was a glorious addiction. I earned all the gym badges, trained most of my Pokémon team to level 100 and acquired all of the original 151 pocket monsters by a grueling process of walking back and forth in tall grass for hours on end.

The subsequent installments in the series also were big during my childhood and even well into my adolescence. In the final analysis, I’ve probably clocked in about 1,000 hours of playtime for the series total.

That said, that number likely won’t increase in the fore-seeable future. Alas, I no longer play the Pokémon RPGs.

No, it’s not because I’ve outgrown them — I’ve just grown weary of the brand’s refusal to innovate.

We might as well face it: The Pokémon franchise is in de-cline. After more than a decade of installments, the core for-mula has become stale and boring.

The newest games haven’t made any major positive changes, and, in some ways, they’ve actually made it worse.

It’s maddening how many of the same problems that hurt the first Pokémon games also plague the new ones.

For one, movement on the world map still is restricted to a grid. Also, random encounters with wild Pokémon still occur when walking through tall grass or swimming.

Worst of all, HMs still are a thing — why do I need to teach my Lapras how to use “surf” or my Scyther how to “cut?”

These are problems that have plagued the series since its inception, but they have yet to be addressed.

By now, the avatar should be able to move in more than four directions. We should be able to discern where Pokémon are hiding by their rustling in the grass. And birds should be able to fly, with or without an HM.

Gameplay elements aside, there are bizarre cosmetic traits that also have seen little to no update between games.

Pokémon cries still sound cacophonous and tinny. Towns and cities still are unrealistically small and disorganized. The Pokedex entries still are written at the first-grade level. I could go on.

The Pokémon series has refused to evolve. Rather than adapt to modern technology to fix its long-

standing problems, the franchise continues to carry the stamp of its lowly origins. The latest generations may look

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AT A GLANCE Evolving look of Pokémon

“The Pokémon series has refused to evolve. Rather than adapt to modern technology

to fix its longstanding problems, the

franchise continues to carry the stamp of its

lowly origins.”

AT A GLANCE Pokémon timeline (U.S. releases)

1998: “Red” and “Blue”

2000: “Gold” and “Silver”

2004: “FireRed” and “LeafGreen”

2007: “Diamond” and “Pearl”

2010: “HeartGold” and “SoulSilver”

2011: “Black” and “White”

Fall 2012: “Black 2” and “White 2”

2003: “Ruby” and “Sapphire”

1999: “Yellow” 2001: “Crystal” 2005: “Emerald” 2009: “Platinum”

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In a speech to Caroline, Hester mentions there are two sides to her feelings to-ward the girl. The first loves her as the innocent child she once baby-sat. The second side could allow Hester to slit her throat and not feel an ounce of guilt.

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The O U S cho ol of Drama in conjunc-t i o n w i t h Wo r l d

Literature Today produced “By the Bog of Cats” by Irish playwright Marina Carr this weekend as part of the 2012 Puterbaugh Festival. Director Susan Shaughnessy very successfully executed this beautifully written play, loosely based on the tragedy of “Medea” by Euripides.

This play was a very diffi-cult one. Not only in subject matter, but also in age range. The characters’ ages varied from seven years old to el-derly. This can prove very challenging for a university in the casting process. It be-comes even more difficult, however, in a lab theater when audience member are only feet away from the ac-tion and can easily see the makeup.

These difficulties, however, were simply non-issues for the cast of this show. Flawless makeup, in addition to suc-cessful movement work, left no question in my mind as to the age of each character.

Although the entire cast performed excellently in each of their roles, Anna Fearheiley was a standout in the role of Hester Swane. Her performance was bone-chill-ing in every aspect, from her precise Irish dialect to the in-tensity of acting.

Another stand out was Chandler Ryan in the role of The Catwoman. Every as-pect of her character was be-lievable. She was hilarious at times and effectively tragic at others. It is not a simple feat to effectively play an old blind woman, but there was not a second she was on stage when I believed otherwise. Her dynamic with every character was unique and perfect, specifi-cally, with Kevin Percival as Father Willow and Fearhiley as Hester.

Other noteworthy perfor-mances include Alli Trussell as Caroline Kennedy and

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Gritty ‘Bog of Cats’ captivates audienceLeft: Afraid of losing her daughter, Josie — played by Jennifer Pearson — Hester, played by Anna Fearheiley, murders her. Hearing Hester’s mournful cries, The Catwoman, played by Chandler Ryan (left), rushes to her side. “By the Bog of Cats” was part of this weekend’s Puterbaugh Festival. Marina Carr, the play’s author, was selected as this year’s Puterbaugh Fellow, in conjuction with World Literature Today.

Bottom: Drunk and mad with rage, Xavier Cassidy, played by Phillip Wiles (left), threatens to kill Hester Swane, played by Anna Fearheiley, in a performance of “By the Bog of Cats” Friday evening.

Mariah Webbmariahwebb@ou.edu

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Photos by ty Johnson/the Daily

hester Swane — Anna Fearheiley

Carthage Kilbride — Samuel Boeck

Josie Kilbride —Jennifer Pearson

Mrs. Kilbride —Kourtney Kimbrough

Monica Murray —Christa Ruiz

The Catwoman — Chandler Ryan

Xavier Cassidy —Philip Wiles

Caroline Cassidy —Alli TrussellThe Ghost Fancier — Alexander Ferguson

The Ghost of Joseph Swane —Tyler Brodess

Young Dunne —Matthew Percival

Father willow — Kevin Percival

waiters —Matthew Holmes, Zach Whitman

Swing —Lindsey Marsland

AT A GLAnCe ‘Bog of Cats’ cast list

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