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Samantha Wafer chose to become a Sooner during her time at Camp Crimson; four years later, she is helping other future freshmen to become Sooners.

Wafer, a fifth-year philosophy senior, is pre-paring for her fifth round of Camp Crimson, a three-day camp for incoming freshman. She said when she looks back to when she was a camper, she wasn’t sold on OU yet.

“I was kind of shaky and not sure. I also had another college in mind,” she said.

The camp helped assure her that OU was the place she wanted to be.

“I come back every year because I know that there are those students who aren’t completely sold on OU,” Wafer said.

Camp Crimson is held the last three weekends of July, but Wafer has been planning the camp since mid-May.

Wafer was a camper coming into OU, a counselor for two years and an orientation guide for one. This year she is on the opera-tion staff. As her job level goes up, the knowl-edge she gains and the person she has be-come continue to go up as well, she said.

“I learn something about myself every single year, and I learn something different with every single position that I’ve had,” Wafer said.

Each day, Wafer and three others work from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m, preparing for more than 1,400 incoming freshman to arrive. Her daily

tasks include meetings, setting up interviews and holding a presentation each day for stu-dents going through enrollment. Wafer is in charge of sponsorship, food, planning activi-ties and “Voices [unheard].” Added last year, “Voices [unheard]” exposes campers to blogs, news stories and reactions about struggles college students may face, including bully-ing, depression, eating disorders and suicide.

“It’s a call to awareness and acknowledging that here at the University of Oklahoma we all have differences,” she said.

“Voices [unheard]” is the more serious aspect of camp. However, as with each year in the past, Wafer is promis-ing there are lots of exciting things planned.

“This year, our motto is we’re making the ordinary extraordinary,” she said.

Z a c S t e v e n s , C a m p Crimson coordinator, said the staff ’s registration goal is 1,500 campers. As of June 29, 1,458 campers were

registered.The amount of applications for small

group leaders increased as well. Wafer said there were 650 applicants, and she took part in the interviewing process, narrowing down the number to approximately 150 small group leader positions.

“I think that in itself says so much about the program, since people want to come back,” Wafer said.

Wafer said she sees the love for camp grow more each year. Because of the increase, she believes there will be a fourth session added to the camp in the near future.

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Samantha Wafer, philosophy senior, stands in front of Davidson Hall Wednesday before her pre-sentation for “Voices Unheard,” a new program originally developed for Camp Crimson dealing with important issues in student life. Wafer said that though she will be a fifth-year senior this fall, she is fortunate to be able to work at her fourth year of Camp Crimson.

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MEGHAN PARTAINThe Oklahoma Daily

When researching the effects of coloni-zation on Native American tribes, profes-sor Carol Ellick knew just where to look: Aboriginal Australia, and specifically, the University of Wollongong, located in New South Wales, Australia.

Phone calls were made, details were negotiated, and the College of Arts and Sciences Native American Studies Department organized an exchange pro-gram for students from OU and UOW.

The original plans for the program in-volved sending students and a professor from OU to UOW this summer to study the effects of colonization at the Woolyungah Indigenous Centre, located on UOW’s campus. Ellick said she had hoped that eight to 10 students and one professor from each school could participate in the program.

However, the department could not locate enough OU students to send to Australia. But rather than completely cancel the program, three students and one professor from UOW made the trip to Oklahoma to take part in the first exchange between the two schools.

Ellick said that although small, the pro-gram has been successful in its inaugural year and plans are in place for OU students to travel to New South Wales next summer. The program has been accepted by the College of Arts and Sciences for next year and that advertising for the summer ses-sion will begin in the fall.

“This was the pilot, this was the experi-ment to see how it would work ... We hope that next year [the class] will fill up,” Ellick said.

The low enrollment for the program may be directly related to the high cost associated with studying abroad. Ellick said the department realizes that many students want to participate but cannot because of financial difficulties and wel-comes students to approach her or the de-partment with fund-raising ideas. In the next year, Ellick plans to search for grant money and other ways to provide this op-portunity for students.

“This program is unique in that it [al-lows] students to share their cultures and experiences,” Ellick said. “Ultimately what we would like to do is create a program on International Indigenous Issues that al-lows international students to share.”

The class is offered primarily, but not exclusively to Native American Studies students, said Joe Watkins, director of the NAS program, and any students with an interest in the program may enroll in the class.

Anthropology junior Megan Dorame was the sole OU student enrolled in the class this year and said she felt a strong connection to the Australian visitors be-cause she belongs to a Native American tribe in California that is not recognized by the federal government.

Australian exchange fails to attract initial interest

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Participants in a Native American Studies’ exchange program pose Wednesday outside the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Top row, left to right: Joe Watkins, department director; Carol Ellick, Native American Studies instructor; and Reuben Bolt from Australia. Bottom row: Nadia Neal and Maiquilla Brown from Australia; Megan Dorame, OU anthropology junior; and Jeff Talbot from Australia.

SPENCER POPPThe Oklahoma Daily

Nine students from OU and surrounding uni-versities are playing doctor this summer.

The students shadowed physicians from an array of medical specialties, following how they di-agnose, care for and treat patients as part of the six-week Belknap Memorial Pre-Medical Proctorship program.

The proctorship, founded by Dr. Hal Belknap in 1989, allows undergraduate students the opportu-nity to experience various disciplines of the prac-tice first hand. After Belknap’s passing in 2008, his widow, JoAnn, and Dr. Brian Yeaman partnered with Norman Regional Health Foundation to con-tinue the program, according to a release.

Participant Ganga Moorthy, microbiology ju-nior, said the opportunity to work with so many physicians first-hand was an unbelievable expe-rience, and it ultimately helped her to realize that working in the medical field is what she wants to do.

“It helped me solidify that I want to do medicine with patient contact,” she said. “Every doctor I was with told me everyone changes their mind in medical school, so I don’t know if it was deciding my special-ty. But deciding that medicine is what we [the proctorship stu-dents] want to do.”

The students ob-served 28 physicians and medical profes-sionals from emergen-cy room physicians to family practitioners to surgeons, with each student spending two or three days in each discipline.

“I went in knowing I wanted to do something in pediatrics, but every day I shadowed a different doctor I would change my mind,” Moorthy said. “But I had pediatrics as my last rotation and I real-ized all the other fields were really cool, but I want to work with kids.”

Students are selected for the program through an application process and are typically sopho-mores or juniors in college, said Yeaman, chief medical informatics officer at Norman Regional Health Systems.

“It was refreshing to see young people so en-gaged and excited to start their careers in health care,” he said. “It helps [the doctors] all recognize, despite a lot of change right now, we are still in a wonderful profession.”

For Moorthy, just the experience of learning what kind of doctor she should aspire to be made the entire program worth it. Due to the demanding and sometimes exhaustive nature of the profes-sion, she says that it was nice to see doctors still so passionate about their job.

“It was also a lesson in what kind of doctor we all should be when we become physicians,” she said.

OU students shadow doctors for experience

ASHLEY HORNINGThe Oklahoma Daily

Norman’s program for speed tables — also known as speed humps — is being terminated, as a part of the City of Norman’s new set of budget cuts.

Used to regulate traffic speed in Norman neighborhoods, speed tables are a wider ver-sion of speed bumps and were a $200,000 yearly project.

Norman city councilman Tom Kovach said he hopes to introduce different traf-fic regulating techniques to Norman as speed tables have been known to slow emergency re-sponse times.

With the traffic calming funding being cut for the up-coming fiscal year, there will not be any other projects to re-inforce speed in neighborhoods.

Mike Rayburn, staff engineer for Norman’s Traffic Division,

said the discussion of traffic safety prevention will not happen again in the near future.

“Maybe in the year after that, they’ll consider bring-ing back funds, but nothing will be considered for

next year,” Rayburn said.Although she understands the safety of speed tables, Rebecca Laranang, a

Campus Corner employee, said she finds them annoying.

“Sometimes having speed tables on the way to work has made me late,”

Laranang said. “I can understand how these would be beneficial to neighbor-

hoods with small children, but sometimes having multiple speed tables on a street is really

frustrating.”Other tools used to regulate traffic have included

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Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan recently told U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., that she would keep an open mind if the state passed “English Only” legislation and a challenge to it came before the Supreme Court. And this might happen sooner than later.

Oklahoma representatives are trying, yet again, to get the state to vote on “English Only” measures. Spearheaded by Rep. Randy Terrill, the bill would make it illegal for any government organization to print materials in any other language than English.

Yes, illegal. You read that correctly. This amend-ment to the Oklahoma Constitution would make it against the law to print forms in Spanish, French, Russian, you name it. If it isn’t English, it is illegal.

And of course, the main reason the representa-tives are behind this bill is because it would “cut costs” by not having to print government materials in other languages. But the problem is: what about those who cannot read English well or speak it?

How will they operate in our state on a government level? Wouldn’t that give people more incentive to be illegal if they cannot even get a license? How are they suppose to become legal citizens if they cannot read the forms they have to fi ll out?

Terrill wants everyone to know English, which is fi ne. It’s like if you go to Mexico, you better know some Spanish or at least have a translation book, because if you don’t, you’ll have a hard time. But the difference is that Mexico isn’t demanding we learn their lan-guage. Oklahoma is demanding that people learn English or they are left out. Anyone who has taken a foreign language knows it is not easy. Oklahoma spends more than $100,000 a year on translation services. Would we be able to use that money to provide classes for foreigners to learn English?

Maybe pass out cheap translation guides for free? We cannot just leave them out in the cold. “You don’t speak English? Sucks to be you! Get out.” How is it American to throw someone out on the

street and not offer to help them?

It sends the wrong word to the world that Oklahoma is a state that doesn’t allow diversity or other cultures. It is also ironic because Oklahoma isn’t even an English word. (Oklahoma is derived from two Choctaw

words. “Okla” means “people or tongue.” “Homma” means “red.” So, Okla homma [Oklahoma] means “red people.”) And how can we demand people know English when many of our own people cannot speak or type it correctly? “Ain’t” isn’t a word. “We is” is incorrect. If we want English only, let’s go all the way and test everyone to make sure they can

adequately speak and write it. Let’s see how many Oklahomans pass that test.

The question that comes to our mind is, “When did Americans get so afraid of everyone else?” We’re trying to get rid of illegals instead of helping them and not trying to get rid of their languages. Even though representatives say this law isn’t meant to be racist, it cannot come off any other way. Terrill and his cronies claim the bill will cut “costs, bur-dens and confl icts … involved with multilingual-ism.” That sounds like a complaint espoused by a freshman student who suddenly realizes their Spanish class is at 8:30 a.m. every day of the week and doesn’t want to take it. The United States is suppose to be a country that accepts other cul-tures and peoples. There are countries that don’t accept people of different cultures, and we are fi ghting them in the Middle East right now.

We’re becoming a nation of hypocrites more than a nation of free men and women.

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So, we’re about a week removed from “Decisiongate,” when LeBron James decided to join Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh on the Miami “SuperHeat.” The triumvirate in Miami has its sights on ruling the NBA for years to come. But what if he didn’t leave Cleveland, or decided to go somewhere different?

The ground rules for my simulations are as follows: The Lakers won the 2010 NBA title, Boozer will go to the Bulls and Amar’e will go to the Knicks. Wade will stay with the Heat, and Bosh will go to Miami with him. All things will be as they were in the hours before LeBron made his decision public. Simulations will be run as if LeBron signed with the Heat, Knicks or Cavs.

REALITY: LEBRON JOINS THE MIAMI HEATWith three superstars in Miami, NBA 2K10

gives them a league-topping 97 rating, while the spurned Cavs have a league-worst 72.

The Heat finished the season with 60 wins and had the best record in the East. LeBron won both the MVP and the Defensive Player of the Year, and the entire triumvirate was named to the All-NBA 1st Team.

The Heat didn’t make things easy for themselves in the playoffs, with all their se-ries going six or seven games. They took on

our Oklahoma City Thunder in the finals, fi-nally winning the series in Game 6, 109-76. LeBron won his first ring and got the Finals MVP in the process.

LOYALTY: THE KING STAYS HOMEIf James decided to remain in Cleveland,

his Cavs would be well within contention, though less proficient than last year at 48-34, winning their division and getting the East’s second seed.

LeBron and the Cavs start slow in the playoffs but improve quickly, sweeping the Denver Nuggets in the Finals. LeBron wins the league MVP, the Finals MVP and the eter-nal love of the state of Ohio.

FAME: JAMES’ ‘EMPIRE STATE OF MIND’Given how the Knicks visibly improved

even without LeBron in the other simula-tions, it’d be reasonable to expect that he’d make the Knicks instant contenders. Despite Amar’e being a walking injury most of the year, James got the Knicks to 50 wins, the third seed in the East and won himself anoth-er MVP award. LeBron’s Knicks went down in seven to the Nets in the second round of the playoffs, who went on to win the title.- AJ Lansdale is a professional writing junior.

Video game scenarios for Lebron’s heated move to Miami

I miss George W. Bush. That isn’t something I thought I would ever think, but after nearly a year and a half of Barack Obama, I really do.

Things under Bush were so much easier. I could get up each morning, see that there were huge problems in the world and know that they would not get fixed any time soon because Bush was a huge moron. He would get on television, say something funny and grammatically incorrect, I’d laugh, shake my head in a kind of happy-sadness, then go about my day.

Obama is one of the best public speakers this country has ever seen. Even if you hate Obama because you believe he is a fascist, socialist,

Nazi-sympathizing Muslim, you have to admit the guy can make a

speech. Obama inspired millions

to come together and vote him into the White House. People could hear his elo-quent and hopeful words and think, “Well, America is finally getting someone who isn’t a clueless cow-boy to run the country.”

Seriously, Obama could turn anything into a mo-tivational speech. For ex-

ample, this one time I got really upset that I burnt some bacon in a microwave. I slammed the plate on the ground, shattering it and de-stroying the bacon. Obama walked up to me, picked up the pieces and told me about a young man from

Virginia who wanted nothing but to make the best bacon ever, but a severe defect in his brain left him without bacon-making abilities. His words and intonation inspired me to make bacon everyday. And if it’s burnt, I don’t care, because I am a free American. (This story isn’t true, except for the part where I say I make bacon every day.)

And once he was in office, he spoke in beautiful words about all the things he was going to fix: Afghanistan, Iraq, the economy, don’t ask, don’t tell policies. America was no longer that hapless puppy dog dragging its tail through the world. We were the mighty Doberman, standing tall over other countries with confidence, intelli-gence and poise.

And then nothing. Nothing

happened. He kept speaking and kept inspiring hope. Yes we can! Yes we can! Then nothing.

Nothing appears better. We’re still at a war in the Middle East that we need to save our troops from. The economy, while better, is still on the brink of collapse. The BP oil spill is still going.

He did pass health care, sort of. I guess we have that. But oth-erwise, nothing feels better.

America still feels like a nation on the decline. I was used to that under Bush. I had accepted that. Bush never motivated me to do anything except laugh and cry. I miss the days where I expected

nothing and got nothing. Now, all I do is hope and think I can, then feel sadness when hope fades and I feel like I did the first eight years of the 2000s.

But, Obama still g i v e s m e h o p e , but not much. His speeches and de-meanor still inspire me to hold on that maybe, just maybe, he can turn the ship that is his presiden-

cy back around. But I’m barely holding on. I’ve heard what America can be through his words.

Maybe, we can.

- Mark Potts is a journalism graduate stu-

dent and the opinion editor.

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Instructions:Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. That means that no number is repeated in any row, column or box.

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6 8 3 4 9 7 1 2 54 9 7 5 1 2 6 3 85 1 2 3 8 6 9 4 73 6 9 1 5 4 7 8 22 7 5 8 6 3 4 1 91 4 8 2 7 9 3 5 67 3 1 6 2 5 8 9 48 5 6 9 4 1 2 7 39 2 4 7 3 8 5 6 1

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Thursday, July 15, 2010

CANCER (June 21-July 22) - If you truly believe that your ideas or concepts are superior to your peers, don’t hesitate to push them onto others. If you are right, in time events will verify your beliefs.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - Utilize your talents to the fullest by being imaginative, enterprising and resourceful in all your activities, regardless of their importance. The results will be most gratifying and may even be profi table.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - Hang out with companions who are both physically and mentally active. You’ll be far happier utilizing what you have going for you than you would be wasting your time doing nothing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - That signifi cant objective you’ve been eyeing can be achieved if you have the tenacity and grit to pursue it. Lock in on your goal and proceed forward without looking back.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - Talk about your latest interest, which has you completely captivated and absorbed, and you will seize the imagination of your listener as well. If you show passion, they’ll respond.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - Once you establish a specifi c course of action, and if your goal is worthwhile in your eyes, it isn’t likely you’ll let anything or anyone deter you, including yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - Show the courage of your convictions today by not ducking any challenges or making diffi cult decisions and even your close friends will have greater respect for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- A greater portion of your time is likely to be devoted to helping others sort out their problems or complications. However, being able to do so will give you wonderful feelings of self-worth.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - Overall conditions appear to be rather promising for you, but even if something disturbing should occur, you’ll be able to handle it just fi ne and without breaking your stride.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) - Find more reasons to compliment your co-worker than to complain and you’ll discover the magic formula for not only getting along with him/her, but getting that person to work even harder.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - It just might be that time of the week when a break is needed. Your ener-gies are more likely to be directed towards fun activities than they are to mundane or industrious jobs.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - Your efforts to achieve could start to generate that payoff you always knew would be there. However, this is not the time to let up and begin coasting. If you do anything, strive even harder.

HOROSCOPE By Bernice Bede Osol

Copyright 2010, Newspaper Enterprise Assn.

Annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival honors

controversial, prolifi c Oklahoma musician

HELEN DIRENZO-GRANTThe Oklahoma Daily

From today until Sunday, the town of Okemah will host hootenannies and hoe-downs.

The 13th annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival kicks off Wednesday in Okemah, a town of 3,000 that lies 70 miles east of Oklahoma City. The festival provides a venue for Woody Guthrie fans from across the world to celebrate the life and legacy of Okemah’s native son.

The festival features a wide variety of musical groups playing blues, folk, country, rock and more. “At Last, Okemah!” a film directed by Chicago filmmaker Michael G. Smith, will be screened during the festival. The comedy is about one man’s goal to get to Okemah for the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival.

Art director Rebecca Fernandez said the controver-sial Guthrie was an idealist most of all.

“Woody had a lot of ideals,” Fernandez said. “A lot of people thought he was communist because of his writ-ing, but he had a lot of ideas about freedom, govern-ment and all kinds of things that are actually hot topics now. And a lot of his music still applies today.”

Media chairwoman Karen Zundel said many singers and songwriters consider Guthrie to be a pivotal figure. Artists are inspired by the spirit and legacy of Guthrie’s music, his vision for social justice and the way he spoke for those without a voice, she said.

Guthrie was a prolific writer, and there are thousands of lyrics in the Woody Guthrie Archives in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. An album called “Mermaid Avenue,” recorded by Billy Bragg in collaboration with the band Wilco, came about because of the vast wealth of lyrics in the archive, many without accompanying music.

Guthrie died in 1967 at age 55 of Huntington’s disease.

Zundel said organizers try to bring in new acts each year, although Okemah’s own John Fullbright, now 21, started playing the festi-val when he was 16.

“This year he went to the Folk Alliance Conference, and it’s been said that he’s kind of the buzz of the con-ference,” Zundel said.

Fullbright said he likes a quote by Joe Rafael: “Will Rogers is the most famous Oklahoman in America, but Woody Guthrie is the most famous Oklahoman in the world.”

Fullbright said he’s just now getting into Guthrie’s music, and his lyricism and writing influence his song craft more than Guthrie’s musicianship.

“If you went to Okemah 30 years ago and asked ‘Where’s Woody’s house?’ they’d look at you pretty funny,” Fullbright said. “He was always kind of consid-ered ‘that communist bastard who took off and good

riddance.’ But his fame spread throughout the world and the last place to find out about it was Okemah, Okla.”

Fullbright said people are more open-minded about Guthrie’s life and legacy today.

“I’m just now starting to figure out what he stood for, who he was and how he did it,” he said, “The genius of Woody was how he said what he said. He said it unlike anybody else. He had a clear message in his songs and he said it as profoundly and simply as he could.”

When he’s driving 16 hours to a gig through a desert, Fullbright said he often thinks about Guthrie’s life and travels. Fullbright said his first experience with the festival was play-ing it.

“If I could take anything out of what Woody Guthrie lived for or wrote for,” he said, “it would be that we can actually change something, but we have to do it together. We

can’t take it on by ourselves. And we got to learn to do that now and Woody supplies the handbook.”

Fullbright said the festival is like a family reunion; people come back every year to play the festival. He said they do it out of the goodness of their hearts and from their love and respect for Woody Guthrie.

The festival also includes poetry readings, lectures on Guthrie, a guitar workshop a children’s festival with music, face painting and pony rides and an open-mic stage for aspiring musicians to play a few songs.

For more information, visit www.woodyguthrie.com.

Festival celebrates legacy of folk legend

4 Thursday, July 15, 2010

PHOTO PROVIDED

A statue of Woody Guthrie in downtown Okemah includes the famous saying on his guitar, “This machine kills fascists.”

PHOTOS PROVIDED BY JIM DIRDEN

David Amram (above) and John Fullbright (below) perform at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. Okemah musician John Fullbright

said he likes a quote by Joe

Rafael: “Will Rogers is the most

famous Oklahoman in America,

but Woody Guthrie is the most

famous Oklahoman in the world.”

Fan fi ction has always been one of those things that I’ve associated with disgruntled “Battlestar Galactica” nerds dissatisfi ed with the Starbucks’ dialogue, or 12-year-old girls fantasizing about the adven-tures of Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask on fi rst base.

For many years, a friend of mine has been trying to con-vince me to log on to www.fanfiction.net. But because I was very busy and had a life, I refused until May 23. You’re a bastard if you don’t realize this is when the last epi-sode of “LOST” aired and the Internet broke because of fans’ angry reaction to the fi nale. I, too, felt the finale didn’t live up to my expectations, despite how low they were, so I did something I thought I would never do - I went to www.fan-fiction.net. I was surprisingly impressed.

The website is one of the most popular sites for fans of the genre to read and publish their stories. Television fan fi c-tion is awesome because if, like me, you hated an episode or plot thread in a television show, you can just fi nd a new one.

Fan fi ction isn’t just a chance for angry people to change the alleged mistakes their favorite writers made in their various works, but the chance to cre-ate their own stories with other

peoples’ ideas. Sometimes the stories you read end up being terrible and you wish you never laid eyes on them, but most of the time you get what you

expected: most of the writers aren’t professionals, but are honing their writ-ing skills.

Slash is the raun-chier side of this medium. Slash refers to a sexual relation-ship between two same-sex characters.For some odd reason, there is an abun-

dance of Kirk and Spock slash out there to piss off Trekkies concerned about continuity. But I’m not into that kind of “fanfi c.”

Don’t shove the website in the box of completely useless ideas; it actually has been used as a medium for up-and-com-ing writers to hone their skill to an audience. For instance, a few established science fi ction writers, such as Marjorie M. Liu, the co-writer of Dark Wolverine and a published science fi ction writer, have authored some fanfi c.

No matter how you try to color it, however, it still feels like a waste of time because it isn’t exactly canon-worthy material. You have to admit you could spend more useful time reading a book or organizing your fi lthy, fi lthy life.

But it’s just so much fun.

-Osizimete Aken’ova is a film

and video studies senior.

COLUMN: ONLINE FAN FICTION A GUILTY PLEASURE OF SUMMER

OSIZIMETEAKEN’OVA

A friend of mine who is getting married in August forced me into a whirlwind of conver-sations about linens, invitations and rules of etiquette. I’m sure I’m not alone here. It’s summer, which means it’s primetime for weddings.

It doesn’t hurt to be mindful of summer wedding etiquette. Even if you’re not attend-ing a wedding this summer, take a look at some tips I’ve come across.

ACCOMMODATIONS AND TRAVELThis is their day, not yours. You are

responsible for your travel and overnight accommodations, if necessary. Even if you are a bridesmaid or groomsman (called a wedding attendee), don’t expect the bridal party to accommodate you.

Arrange for your own transportation. This may mean that you take a cab from the air-port to your hotel or wherever you’re staying. Just because you fl ew in from North Dakota

for your cousin’s wedding doesn’t mean the bride and groom have time to catch up with you. Be respectful that they have a million things on their minds, and you can catch up

after the ceremony.

GIFT-GIVINGYou should send a

gift whether you are attending the wed-ding ceremony or not. Sometimes there is more than one shower or party and gift-giving etiquette gets compli-cated.

Engagement parties aren’t overly common,

but if you are invited to one, you aren’t expected to bring a gift. Think of it as a “cel-ebrating-the-announcement” party.

Bridal showers typically involve games,

food and watching the bride-to-be open presents, so it’s customary to bring a gift. It’s common for the bride to open her gifts in front of the guests, so it could be an awk-ward situation if you decide not to bring one to the shower.

Bachelorette party gifts are generally more humorous. Don’t stress about this one. It’s not required that you bring one, and it’s supposed to be fun.

Finally, even if you brought a gift to the bridal shower, you are still expected to give a wedding present.

DRESS CODEIt’s summer and understandably hot

outside. Ladies, it’s OK to wear a sleeveless dress and show off your tan.

Column: Ready your etiquette for summer wedding season

To read this full article, log on to OUDaily.com.

AUDREYHARRIS