Incoming freshmen arrive in

Norman for Camp Boomer

KYLE WESTThe Oklahoma Daily

Hundreds of incoming freshman are com-ing to Norman this week for the first session of Camp Crimson, the three-day orientation program that introduces new students to OU.

The camp takes place over three weekends in July and August, and students spend three days and two nights getting to know other incoming freshman, learning about Sooner traditions and participating in OU-themed activities.

About 1,500 students are expected to par-ticipate in the three camps this year, with about 500 attending each session, Camp Crimson director Zac Stevens said.

Stevens said there were about 150 more students enrolled in the camp than last year, which is why a third camp session was added this year.

The first camp, “Camp Boomer,” begins Thursday and lasts through Saturday.

Kathryn Jackson is traveling all the way from Singapore to take part in Camp Crimson, and said her family planned its summer schedule around it.

“I think it’s an awesome way to meet people and learn a lot about OU that I didn’t already know,” Jackson said.

She said her grandparents, who live in Oklahoma, joked with her about coming to OU. But when she saw the campus for the first time, she said she felt right at home.

“Since I’m from overseas, I really wanted to find a home away from home,” Jackson said. “It was all my grandparents.”

Incoming freshman Austin Pugliese is traveling from Houston.

“It’s going to be good to meet a bunch of new people,” Pugliese said. “Norman’s just a college town. There’s no college in Texas like it. I had to be here.”

Jared Schmidt is coming from Willows, Calif., to take part in the Boomer Session of Camp Crimson.

“Coming from California, I really don’t know a lot of people,” Schmidt said. “I want to get to know some people and hang out with people before coming in.”

Schmidt is looking forward to football season and meeting new people, he said.

“Sooner football, it doesn’t get any better than that,” he said. “I’m going to like being out on my own and meeting

lots and lots of new people. Just being far away from my family is going to be the hardest thing. You’re so used to the ‘Bank of Dad.’ It’s going to be tough with the independence and being far from your family, but I will enjoy the independence and learning on my own. It’s really excit-ing.”

Kaylynn Presley, an incoming freshman from Tuttle, also said she is excited about being on her own, but is nervous about the size of OU.

“I’m really nervous about the size,” Presley said. “My high school was very small. I had about 100 kids in my class. But there’s a sense of community at OU, like everyone’s here to help everyone else. I think it’s a great school and I’m really ready to go.”

Presley said she is looking forward to taking a seminar about leadership during the semester, and meeting other fresh-men during Camp Crimson while learning about OU traditions.

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Campers fly their homemade kites outside at the Sooner Flight Academy Tuesday afternoon. The Sooner Flight Academy offers summer camps for students ages 4-18.

Main Street bank robbed three times since JuneRICKY MARANONThe Oklahoma Daily

Monday’s robbery at the Bank of the West was the third at the branch in the past six weeks, with the last two robberies occurring within three days of each other.

Two of the robberies at the Bank of the West, lo-cated at 2122 W. Main St., most likely were carried out by the same suspect, according to Nor man Police reports.

“Same suspect as last time,” according to the po-lice report about the sec-ond robbery July 10, refer-encing the first incident at the bank on June 3.

The Oklahoma City branch of the FBI also is in-volved in investigating the robberies.

“We believe there is a connection in the first two robberies, because the suspect in both of the in-cidents was wearing a ski mask and used a semi-au-tomatic weapon during the robbery,” FBI Special Agent John McL emore said. “There could be a connec-tion to the same suspect in all three robberies, since the description of the sus-pect in all three incidences is almost the same, but it’s too early to tell.”

The FBI states on its Web site that an unidentified

white male wearing all black clothing approached a teller at the bank and demanded money. The suspect used a semi-automatic pistol and forced tellers to place money in a black and yellow backpack.

According to the FBI, the third robbery, which oc-curred Monday, has different circumstances than the other two. A white male wearing a red and white golf shirt with an OU logo, and a red and white ball cap with an OU logo, approached a bank teller and handed the teller a note demanding money, ac-cording to the FBI Web site.

A Norman Police report states that the suspect in the third robbery walked out with $900.

“We are considering the possibility that the suspect of the three robberies at the Norman bank may be in-volved in some robberies in Oklahoma City, but it is too early to tell,” McLemore said.

Shawn Pearce, politi-cal science senior, is a cus-tomer at the Bank of the West branch that has been robbed.

“I’m grateful that the bank is an FDIC bank. I know my money is safe because of that,” Pearce said. “The fact that the bank has been robbed really does not make a difference to me. They are nice people, and I like the service I get there.”

Pearce said he banks there because there is a branch in both Norman and in his hometown.

Bank of the West said it is working with the Norman Police and the Oklahoma City office of the FBI, and said its customers will not be greatly affected by the

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Camp counselors do their best imitation of the OU drum major strut during the closing events of the 2008 Boomer session of Camp Crimson.

FUTURE SOONERS TAKE OVER CAMPUS

Sooner Flight Academy

teaches basics of fl ying

RICKY MARANONThe Oklahoma Daily

While some kids go to grandma’s house, Disneyland and to the lake, others spend their summer coming to Norman to take to the skies.

Originally known as the Oklahoma Aerospace Academy, the Sooner Flight Academy is an aviation school and sum-mer camp located on the OU north re-search campus at the Max Westheimer Airpark, and holds summer camps for kids and teenagers wanting to learn more about the science behind airplanes.

“We are a hands-on math and sci-ence camp,” program director Lauren Mitchell said. “We like to teach kids about aviation and the physics behind it through learning projects, field trips and even letting the kids go flying dur-ing the week.”

Mitchell said the program brings in aviation students from across the Midwest.

“Many of our students are not from Norman, and we have a few students who are from Houston and Lawton,” Mitchell said. “Some of our students have stayed in hotels during the camp, but some of them commute long

distances to camp daily or just stay with their relatives that live in the area.”

Mitchell said students who come to the camp are enthusiastic about learn-ing aviation, and take the camp as a se-rious learning opportunity rather than a summer get away.

“For some students this camp is a reward for working hard in school and getting good grades,” she said. “For others, the parents appreciate the op-portunities we offer to their kids in both learning and letting them explore their dreams, and they keep bringing their kids back year after year. We have some students who have been in the program since they were four and five years old.”

The Sooner Flight Academy is in its’ 15th year of operation at the Max Westheimer Airpark, and five of the campers have attended for 10 years.

The program offers campers the op-portunity to pilot the same airplanes they are learning about.

“If the campers are eight years old or older, we let them go flying, and they can see the city and experience what it is like to be in a plane,” Mitchell said. “If they are 12 years old or older, we will actually let them pilot the plane themselves.”

She said even though the kids are enthusiastic about learning the sci-ence behind aviation, some can be a little nervous about taking their first flight. Even though the camp is fun and

hands-on, the campers do not prac-tice extreme stunts.

“The flying parts are a time when kids experience what flying is like,” she said. “We do not do loops or ex-treme stunts and maneuvers. The flight portions are not meant to be an air show.”

Anna Tenbrook, aviation and pro-fessional pilot junior, has been in the program for eight years and is now an intern at the camp.

“I think it is really cool,” Tenbrook said about joining the camp staff. “I can remember having teachers that I looked up to, and it’s a great experi-ence getting the chance to teach.”

Tenbrook has her private pilot’s license, and uses that and her edu-cation and experience to teach the campers.

“It’s really exciting, and I hope we continue to expand,” she said. “[The camp] is a great way of giving kids the chance to get a taste of aviation, and I’m really excited I get to teach in a program I was involved in as a kid.”

Campers receive the guidance of two teachers at all times. The teach-ers assist kids on field trips to Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City and also in helping in kite mak-ing projects that help them study wind.

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Campus Corner will host a sidewalk sale this week as part of the “Shop Norman” campaign.

Stores along Campus Corner will host a sidewalk sale begin-ning Thursday and running through Sunday. Hours of opera-tion differ from store to store. Shoppers can take advantage of various discounts and get an early look at the district’s new street renovations that will con-tinue into August on Asp Avenue and White Street. The sale is also part of a “Shop Norman” campaign spon-sored by the Norman Chamber of Commerce. The campaign is an effort by the Retail Trade Committee to promote shopping in Norman.Kyra McMoran with the Norman Chamber of Commerce said that

most people don’t realize the sales tax dollars spent here in Norman stay in Norman to help pave roads, fi x pot holes, main-tain parks and fund several other city of Norman projects and ini-tiatives. “Purchases in Norman also give retailers the ability to donate to you or your child’s civic or non-profit groups. These local busi-ness support local causes which is why it’s so important to sup-port local businesses,” McMoran said. Three cents of sales tax for every retail dollar spent within Norman city limits goes towards the city – 2.3 cents go to the city of Norman’s general fund and seven-tenths of a cent go towards the city’s capital improvements fund.Katy Pearson/The Daily

incidences.“[Our customer’s] money is

100 percent safe, and no one’s balances are affected,” said Karl Gentles, regional spokes-man for Bank of the West. “The only impact custom-ers will face is the temporary closing of the branch to work with local law enforcement and crime scene investigators. The branch will either reopen later that day or the next busi-ness day.”

“If anyone has any infor-mation about the suspect in any of the robberies, please call the FBI,” McLemore said. There is a $2,000 reward for anyone giving information leading to the arrest or convic-tion of the suspect in the Bank of the West Norman branch robberies. Call the FBI in Oklahoma City at 290-3678.

“The kids are under the guidance of both a profes-sional pilot and a classroom teacher,” Mitchell said. “The pilot teaches about aviation, and the teacher keeps control of the classroom and helps the pilot plan out their lessons in a way that makes it easier for the kids to understand the concepts.”

Mitchell said the program also shows campers how avia-tion plays into all career fields.

“We like to tie aviation into all career fields, not just being a professional pilot,” Mitchell said. “We really want to make the kids see how much fun aviation is for doctors and law-yers and any other career you can think of.”

When the summer is over, the Sooner Flight Academy goes to local area schools, and gives classroom demonstra-tions while preparing for the next summer.

“Preparing for camp is a year round process,” Mitchell said. “We want to have great guest speakers and also im-prove on teaching and projects and work to improve the expe-rience of the camp.”

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SIDEWALK SALE

OU researchers compare

playing Nintendo Wii to

regular exercise

CHARLES WARDThe Oklahoma Daily

OKLAHOMA CITY — Kids everywhere now have a new talking point when asking, begging or pleading parents for a Nintendo Wii.

The Wii system is good for them, accord-ing to a new study from researchers at the Harold Hamm Oklahoma Diabetes Center at the OU Health Sciences Center.

The study, which appears this week in “Pediatrics,” a journal issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics, examined the number of calories burned by 23 chil-dren aged 10-13 as they played Dance Dance Revolution, Wii Boxing and Wii Bowling. The researchers then compared those rates to the energy output of walking at 3.5 mph on a treadmill, and watching TV.

Wii Boxing and level two of Dance Dance Revolution produced levels of caloric output 2-3 times that expended while watching tele-vision, similar to the calorie-burning rate of a treadmill. Wii Bowling and the easiest level of Dance Dance Revolution produced an energy output rate that doubled the energy expenditure of watching television.

“We’re not saying that this is equivalent to being on the soccer team, or the basket-ball team or going for a run outside, but it’s a good way to increase your energy expen-diture during those times when you’d oth-erwise be sedentary, [such as] a rainy day or when they’re playing video games anyway.” said Kevin Short, the principal investigator during the study and an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the OU College of Medicine.

Short said the current recommendation is for children to get at least 60 minutes of moderate-level or greater activity in a day, and that the video games tested would help reach that total.

“The national surveys that have been

done show that young kids are usually pretty good about meeting that goal,” he said. “But sometime during adolescence, in those teenage years, that level drops down and less than half of kids are meeting that goal, in the United States currently.”

The games can also provide some im-provement in children that are already obese, Short said.

“Only about 30 years ago, 5 percent of our children were obese in the United States,” said Dr. Kenneth Copeland, co-director of Pediatrics at the Hamm Center and the sec-tion chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at the OU College of Medicine. “And now, one third of our children are either overweight or obese, and Oklahoma is certainly one of the leading states in that dubious distinction.”

Childhood obesity’s link to diabetes in adults is becoming stronger, according to Copeland,

“This is prevention at its very best,” he said. “First of all, defining how much of an intervention do you have to [do to] prevent obesity, how much of an intervention like the Wii games, the video games, do you have to make to really make a difference on energy expenditure, caloric expenditure.”

Children were excited to participate in the study, according to Lauren Pratt, a co-inves-tigator on the study.

Advertisements that promoted the video games as ways to exercise, along with a pre-vious Health Sciences Center study which used Dance Dance Revolution as an exercise stimulus in schools, provided the genesis for

the study.“So many companies are promoting

these active video games, like Dance Dance Revolution and the Nintendo Wii, that we [asked], ‘How many calories are kids ex-pending when they play these games, or adults for that matter?’” Short said. “And how does this compare to other forms of exercise that we regularly promote.”

Future studies, including one that is cur-rently underway, will determine if these results are consistent across age groups, including adults, and how exercise af-fects the blood sugar levels in children and adults.

Anyone interested in participating in the studies should contact Lauren Pratt at lauren-pratt@ouhsc.edu.

Video games really are good for children

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ELI HULL / THE DAILY

Nintendo’s newest gaming console “Wii” offers gamers a unique combination of exercise and entertainment.

The Daily has a long-standing commitment to serve readers by providing accurate coverage and analysis. Errors are corrected as they are identified. Readers should bring errors to the attention of the editorial board for further investigation.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Someone you’ve always been there for may not be the one who can help you at this time, but in his or her place you will fi nd the right person to help. It’s your reward.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Motivation and hard work are the keys to success. If an objective is meaningful enough, you won’t have any trouble expending the necessary effort to achieve your goal.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- What makes the probabilities for success so inevitable is an innate ability to apprise matters realistically before you take them on. Sound judgment cuts through all obstacles.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- When you work your will, the unworkable can begin to work. So instead of allowing negative conditions to prevail, make a concerted effort to overcome them and induce a positive change.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- You’ve got the inner strength to exert extra patience and tolerance when dealing with a sensitive friend who is being diffi cult. By doing so, you will bolster his or her ego and get this person to smile again.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Now is the time to tackle those long-delayed tasks that have been too distasteful to handle. You’ve got the patience and fortitude to attack them.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- The best way to show your feelings to loved ones is not by what you say but what you do. Deeds speak the vol-umes that words cannot convey.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Positive changes can be made in the household when you make sure that your deeds are accomplished with each person’s best interests in mind. Even the most hardhearted will succumb to kindness.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Anything you do as a team is likely to turn out to be more successful than that which you attempt independently. This is especially true where everyone is striving for the same objec-tive.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- The opportunity to produce added and sustained earning power within your fi eld of expertise could cross your path at this time. If you’re alert, you’ll spot it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- It’s OK to treat lighthearted issues with frivolity, but only as long as you give serious involvements the respect they deserve. Know the difference.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- If an occasion should arise that requires a small sacrifi ce on behalf of someone for whom you’re responsible, do so with a smile. Don’t make a big thing out of it, and it won’t be one.

HOROSCOPE By Bernice Bede Osol

Copyright 2008, Newspaper Enterprise Assn.

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EDDIE RADOSEVICHTh e Oklahoma Daily

Survive and advance.That’s the name of the game

when it comes to the match play rounds of the 84th U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship.

O k l a h o m a a s s i s t a n t g o l f coach Phillip Bryan and junior-to-be Liam Logan did just that Wednesday afternoon at Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club.

Bryan, who was a member on OU’s only Big 12 Championship team in 2006, defeated Braxton Marquez of Scottsdale, Ariz., 2 and 1 Wednesday afternoon while battling the Oklahoma summer heat.

“I actually played r e a l l y w e l l , a n d Braxton played re-ally well also,” said the Mustang, Okla., native. “My first day I played pretty well. Yesterday, I played my back nine well, and today, I kept to my own and was consistent.”

But the former four-year letterman knows he will need to make putts in order to win his morning match today in the round of 32.

“I missed a whole lot of putts today,” said Bryan following his Wednesday match. “It’s kind of that five to 15 foot range where I kept thinking I was going to make it, but I was hitting good putts, and I’m hoping that they fall.”

Even though he missed some putts, Bryan has put himself in contention. And with him favor-ing match play, the former Sooner player and current coach could

find himself in good position as the weekend looms.

“I like match play a lot better [than stroke competition] because if you do make a double or triple bogey it only hurts you one hole not two or three shots,” said Bryan, who won the 2004 6A state cham-pionship as a senior at Mustang High School.

On the other side of the brack-et, Logan survived a 20-hole duel with the youngest player still left in the U.S. Publinx field.

S i x t e e n - y e a r o l d A n d e r s Albertson pushed Logan to the brink after taking a 1-up advan-tage by way of winning the 480 yard, par-4 17th.

Logan’s drive off the 17th tee went right, and despite help from specta-tors in the gallery, his competitor and members of the local media, the ball could not be found.

With one down and one to play, Logan re-sponded on the 584 yard, par-5 18th hole.

A f t e r h i t t i n g a mammoth of a drive off the 18th tee box, Logan then stuck a 4-iron from 235 yards out to 20 feet, and a putt for eagle.

“I hit the drive really good,” said Logan following his gruel-ing match. “It was the best drive all day, and then the second shot [into the 18th] I hit really solid.”

Ta k i n g a d v a n t a g e o f a n Albertson miscue off the tee, Logan then two-putted to force a sudden death playoff starting on the first hole.

With both players halving the

opening sudden death hole, the match moved to the second hole, 170 yard par-3.

“He was hitting driver and 3-woods all day to the green and then two putting,” said Logan, who consistently out drove the young future all-star Albertson. “He was short [off the tee], but you expect someone like that to have a really good short game.”

And when both players missed the green on the par-3, that short game was shown as it had throughout the entire match.

Albertson hit a high flop shot over the right side bunker, and Logan responded with a chip to six feet, forcing tournament officials

to measure who would attempt their par putt first.

L o g a n w o u l d m a k e , a n d Albertson would miss on the low side of the hole, advancing Logan to Thursday’s matches.

Looking to become the U.S. Publinx champion 10 years after another Sooner, Hunter Hass, won the title in 1999, both Bryan and Logan know there is still a long way to go.

“The thing about match play is every match is different, and you start over after every single match,” said Bryan. “We’ll start again tomorrow morning and see how it goes, but to win the whole thing is getting way, way ahead of

ourselves.”By Thursday’s end, the field will

be cut to 8 players, with the round of 32 and round of 16 being played all in one day.

Players from today’s morning matches will play a second match later in the afternoon.

Bryan is first of the Sooner duo off the tee at 7:54 a.m., when he plays Gene Webster Jr., of San Bernandino, Calif., who advanced yesterday with a 6 & 4 victory.

Logan will tee off at 8:48 a.m. against Jace Long of Dixon, Mo., the tournament’s No. 3 seed over-all. Long advances after defeating Ryan Sloane, of Campbell, Calif., 2-up.

SOONERS SURVIVE, ADVANCE TO NEXT ROUND

SPORTS BRIEFS

STADIUM RENOVATIONS TO COMPLETE IN AUGUST

OU is nearing completion on Phase IV of the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium renovation project, bringing the total for all improve-ments to the stadium and its support areas to more than $125 million since renovations began in 1998.

Phase IV included $15 million in upgrades to the locker rooms, training area, meeting and equipment rooms and the SoonerVision studio.

“The generous support of our donors and fans has driven our ability to plan and com-plete projects in a timely, well-conceived manner,” OU Athletic Director Joe Castiglione said in a statement. “We have devoted con-sistent attention to our facilities in a man-

ner that allows us to allocate the fi nancial resources we develop in a cost effective manner, while expanding and improving at an appropriate pace.”

School offi cials expect the current work to be completed in August.

COALE PARTICIPATES IN MOCK BRACKET EXCERCISE

Women’s head baskeball coach Sherri Coale is participating in a mock selection exercise at the NCAA national office in Indianapolis this Thursday and Friday.

Coale joins 15 other Division I women’s basketball coaches in the exercise, intended to educate coaches in the selection, seeding and bracketing of the NCAA women’s basket-ball championship.

“When the championship bracket comes out and it has some twists or turns, some-times coaches don’t understand the pro-cess and come to conclusions that have no basis,” Coale said in a statement released by the OU athletics department. “For most of us, we’re involved with the development of our team and controlling those factors that enable us to control our own destiny. We don’t take the time to understand what the committee’s charge is. In order to fully understand it, you have to go through it.”

The NCAA began trying mock selection exer-cises in 2007 in an attempt to shed light on the process that the NCAA selection com-mittees undergo each March when brackets are determined.

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OU Men’s Golf Assistant Coach Phillip Bryan sets the ball up for a putt Wednesday morning at the Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club. The second and third round of match play starts Thursday. The U.S. Amateur Public Links ends Saturday.

CHARLES WARDTh e Oklahoma Daily

OKLAHOMA CITY — Blazers Ice Center recently lost its namesake tenant, but the arena and the OU hockey club that plays and practices there have no plans of disappearing.

Blazers Ice Center is not owned by Express Sports, the company which owned the Blazers. Instead, the Blazers gave their name to the arena as part of a marketing and promotional effort, accord-ing to Larry Donovan, general manager of both Blazers Ice Center and the OU hockey club.

“It was kind of a mutual thing,” Donovan said. “They needed the exposure, we need-ed the exposure, so it was a good working relationship.”

The Blazers suspended operations July 1, citing the current economic downturn as the reason in a statement that appears on their Web site. The team practiced at Blazers Ice Center, renting ice time and storage space from the arena.

“We’re just going to have to find something else to fill the void,” Donovan said. “We’re going to have to get creative marketing.”

The professional hockey void in Oklahoma City might be short-lived. The Oklahoma City Council approved a

tentative lease with AHL Hockey Club, LLC., which is a pre-liminary step towards bringing an American Hockey League franchise to Oklahoma City. The deal would allow an AHL team to play at the Cox Convention Center in 2010. It might also provide the arena with a new anchor tenant.

“We’re a pretty good practice facility for any team, NHL all the way down,” Donovan said. “We have the accommodations.”

Until and unless that happens, however, the OU hockey club, along with a club at the University of Central Oklahoma, will be the highest-level of hockey in the Oklahoma City metro area this season.

“People know we were here, and they ei-ther went to a Blazers game, or they came here,” Donovan said. “Now we’ll have, obvi-ously, more people coming to an OU hockey game. That’s a good plus for us. It will be an exciting atmosphere here at the games, be-

cause there will be more people watching.”Blazers fans are purchasing and asking about season

tickets to OU hockey games, Donovan said. Season tickets are $126, with OU students receiving free admission.

The OU club team, which participates in the American Collegiate Hockey Association, will begin its seventh season Sept. 25 by hosting defending ACHA champion Lindenwood (Mo.) University.

OU Hockey Club to benefi t from Blazers absence

“We’re a pretty good prac-tice facility for any team, NHL all the way down.”

LARRY DONOVAN, BLAZERS ICE

CENTER GENERAL MANAGER

“The thing about match play is every match is different and you start over after every single match.”

PHILLIP BRYAN, OU

ASSISTANT GOLF COACH

As ironic as it may seem, I am not a very opinion-ated person. I mean, I have opinions, but I rarely engage in thoughtful de-bate with others about my beliefs or ideas. Even on issues where I have opin-ions, I do my best not to express them too firmly or obstinately. However, there is one exception to the rule, and it is this: I HATE TMZ.

For those of you unfamiliar with the show, Thirty Mile Zone is a program that spends its entire time slot reporting, critiquing, and making light of the lives of celebrities. The things that pass for “news” on this show are absolutely absurd. For example, the other day, TMZ ran a news clip of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo leaving a club with his friends. The narration claims that this clip definitively proves how lonely and sad he is about his break up with Jessica Simpson.

While I don’t follow the world of celebrities very much, I know that some people do with great volition, and that’s fine. The problem

is when the media (if you can call TMZ the media) sets such lofty standards for celebrity behavior that no actor, musician, or athlete could ever meet. For example, there was a huge stir in the media when it was discovered that Michael Phelps smokes marijuana. I agree that as a role model for youngsters, this is unacceptable behavior. At the same time, however, our media seems to think that get-ting high is something that only drug junkies and die-hard stoners do. Speculations that Michael Phelps swam in the Olympics high began to run rampant through the media and now people seem to believe that Michael Phelps smokes weed 24/7.

Maybe he does, or maybe he doesn’t, but the point is that thousands of people smoke weed in the United States. That doesn’t make it right, by any standard, but many of those thousands of people are also successful col-lege students, educated businessmen, and respected members of their community. Smoking weed or doing other illegal drugs isn’t a good habit for role models, but does that mean that we ought to condemn the entire ca-reer and image of Michael Phelps because we have evidence that he got high once?

I know lots of people that have gotten high once or twice. I also know some other peo-ple that get high somewhat frequently, but I don’t doubt their character for it. The differ-ence is that Michael Phelps is a celebrity and our society sets the bar incredibly high for him and other celebrity. And the justification that TMZ and other celebrity bloggers give for such harsh standards? They claim that celebrities are social role models and should therefore be held to a higher standard.

I don’t disagree with this one bit, but have you have stopped to think that perhaps ev-eryone is a social role model? I guarantee you that the habits and actions of parents have a much greater impact on their chil-dren than the actions and habits of Michael Phelps. And it doesn’t just go for parents. As a member of this community, you are a role model for your friends, family, coworkers, employees, and even employers.

It’s true that celebrities set the social stan-dard to some level, but if you really want to ensure that your community has good role models, you should start with yourself. It’s okay to say that Michael Phelps shouldn’t smoke weed as long as you set that same

standard for every other role model in your community.

Celebrities, although they are often in the limelight, are very much detached from society. It may negatively impact a child to find out that his or her favorite celebrity gets drunk on a regular occasion, but it pales in comparison to the impact of finding out that a parent or a best friend gets drunk on a regu-lar occasion. Kids don’t watch TMZ and then go emulate these celebrities in their room, they watch their parents and other commu-nity role models and go out to emulate those people with their friends.

It’s fine to follow celebrities if that’s what you’re in to, and it’s fine if you demand that those celebrities act as good role models for society, but don’t forget that you and every-one you know is a role model too. Instead of worrying about what Michael Phelps or Tony Romo does on the weekend, you should worry about what you and your friends do on the weekend. We all have a tremendous impact on those closest to us; let’s make sure that we are making a positive impact.Josh Wesneski is an education senior.

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Housing should reconsider assignmentsHousing and Food Services released

housing assignments Monday which created quite a buzz among residents.

Students are unhappy with the deci-sions of Housing and Food to place them without their requested roommates, not honoring same room requests and not answering their questions.

The limited responses have been dif-ficult for the students, as well as The Daily. We haven’t been able to reach anyone who assigns OU Traditions Square housing to ask them how as-signments are made and if there are any plans to fix the current complaints.

Lauren Royston, marketing and pub-lic relations specialist for Housing and Food, said she wasn’t in charge of as-signments for Traditions, but could tell us they are developed based on room-mate requests and other factors.

Travis Darling, meteorology junior, was given the room I wanted, but not his roommate. He was also affected ear-lier in the summer by Housing and Food when they moved him out of his apart-ment to house National Weather Center interns.

As the comments on OUDaily.com stream in, it seems more residents have

not had their priorities honored in their contracts, even the students who have lived within university housing for sev-eral years.

Has Housing and Food changed their assignment process? Are there no ben-efits given to loyal residents?

Housing and Food offers residents a chance to switch rooms in a “Move Around.” A downside to this program is it costs $75 and students must wait until Sept. 7 to request the move, according to Traditions’ Web site. This also depends on the availability of rooms.

In a situation like this, where so many students are angry and affected, Housing and Food should reconsider the assignments and re-assign the rooms of Traditions.

It is understandable if you can’t get the room you want, but loyalty should allow you a better chance at your choice, and roommate matches should always be honored.

Housing and Food plays a large role in student life, and the recent confusion isn’t beneficial to their image. Students need an explanation as to why the con-fusion has occurred, and hopefully a remedy to the situation.

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IN RESPONSE TO TRADITIONS ROOM ASSIGNMENTS:

I am so sick of dealing with the Traditions people. Everything I have ever tried to do has been a problem for them. I would go into the housing offi ce to speak to someone and they tried to send me away and do it on the computer. When I fi nally do talk to someone, I get the runaround. I ask for a guarantee I will get my preferences and they won’t give me one. I ask if it’s probable and they tell me that they don’t know because the computer does it. I ask if people have gotten what they wanted at this time in the past, and I’m told someone else had this job last year. It’s ridiculous.-brettmarley

Experience over 3 years in traditions west:I am a grad/phd student and living in Traditions for 3 years. I can

only say when Daisy Patton used to manage traditions assignment, things were different. It was better, much better. The service and gestures of the managers and housing people associated with tra-ditions only have gotten worse. The free food has gone to nothing.

Also this year as a returning grad i wanted a room and I DID NOT get any. because i missed the deadline to secure my same room. yes, i think there is no recognition here for returning.

Last year my stuff was misplaced and stolen while I was moving from one apt to other (inside traditions) since the manager let the cleaning crew in (inside my bedroom) before I checked out!!

My conclusion is , the traditions have only gotten worse due to the lack of good credentials of the people who handle this apart-ment complex.-somad

I can understand not getting the fl oor plan you wanted but not getting the roommate you wanted when you both requested each other is ridiculous.-ricflair

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I’ve lived in Traditions quite happily for going on 3 years now. To be honest I have yet to really run into any issues. I didn’t get the apart-ment I wanted the fi rst year I lived there, but I have since that time. I fi lled out my paperwork really early, so I’m guessing these people complaining probably didn’t. My only complaint is that it took so long to get an assignment. I guess what I’ve learned at this point is that the earlier you fi ll stuff out, the better off you are.-TheJR

My girlfriend has had constant trouble getting any of her requests honored. She had to go down there before summer because her entire contract was botched. After being reassured that these kinds of problems were a one-time thing, she assumed they would take care of it. Now, she’s gotten her fall assignment and they have still not given her the 2 bedroom/1 bathroom that she wanted. Getting a lease at another complex is so much easier than this - the housing offi ce is completely mismanaged, as you can tell by the boilerplate non-speak coming from Royston.-JJanowiak

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For dumpster divers, one man’s trash is another man’s dinner.

Studio art junior Mick Tresemer said he goes dumpster diving for food about twice a week.

“I feel better because I’m not spend-ing money, and I’m not hurting the earth,” Tresemer said.

Tresemer has been diving for about a year and has gone more frequently starting last semester. His roommates introduced him to the practice, he said.

“I lived with people that did it, and I was a little sketched out at first, but then I finally went out with them and ended up with a lot of non-perishable food, like granola bars,” Tresemer said. “It got me hooked and it got me thinking about how much money gets thrown away.”

Tresemer said he feels a lot of good food is sim-ply tossed out, and that he often finds bread, produce and even dairy products, but sometimes he discov-ers rarer items.

“The best thing I ever found was two full cases of Bagel Bites that were still frozen. They lasted for weeks,” he said.

When Tresemer goes dumpster diving, he said he usually searches with one or two friends, and their adventures hardly do any harm to the environment.

“It makes a very low impact,” he said. “First, we ride our bikes there. And secondly, companies don’t have to produce any more food for us. And there’s no extra packaging or manufacturing.”

And in addition to the low impact, Tresemer, who described himself as a bit “an-ti-economy,” said a huge benefit of dumpster diving is not spending money.

“It’s great to sit down to a meal and say, ‘I didn’t pay for any of this,’” he said.

Tresemer said on a recent trip to Austin, Texas, he noticed a lot of people dumpster diving.

“I saw tons of people dumpstering down there — everything from Jimmy John’s to this bakery that had tons of cookie dough,” he said. “We ended up making about seven batches of cookies.”

But Tresemer doesn’t just go diving for food — he said he goes to dumpsters in con-struction sites to look for materials for his art instead of going to a hardware store.

He also doesn’t always eat all of his finds himself, sometimes serving friends without their prior knowledge.

“I usually don’t tell [my friends] until after they’ve eaten it,” Tresemer said.

No one has gotten sick or thrown up from food that he has given them, he said. Sometimes his friends give him weird looks, but others get used to the idea, he said.

Danny Terlip, electrical engineering se-nior, is a friend of Tresemer’s who also goes dumpster diving.

“I dumpster dive to reduce my impact on the planet because the stuff I take out of the dumpster isn’t part of the system anymore,” Terlip said. “If I can feed myself on stuff that’s

been taken out of the equation that was going to a landfill anyway, then it’s out of the whole consum-erism picture.”

Terl ip said he f irst became interested in dumpster diving out of curiosity.

“I worked at a grocery store and I saw what was thrown away,” Terlip said.

While some people may think that div-ing for food is gross, it’s also not quite what people may think, he said.

“Most of the stuff we find is still in the box in the package,” Terlip said. “It’s not like we’re eating trash infected with maggots.”

Andrew Custis, multidisciplinary studies senior, said he hasn’t been dumpster div-ing in a while, but he used to go every two to three weeks.

“It’s an adventure every time,” Custis said. Custis said dumpster diving is definitely

hit-or-miss. “Sometimes you wouldn’t find anything,

but you never know until you go,” he said. Like Tresemer, Custis said he had to warm

up to the idea of dumpster diving before he went the first time, and that reactions from friends were similar.

“At first, some [of my friends] thought that it was disgusting, but then some of them started doing it later,” Custis said.

Dumpster diving is allowed in most plac-es, but some areas post signs discouraging the practice.

“It’s great to sit down to a meal and say, ‘I didn’t pay for any of this.’”MICK TRESEMER, STUDIO ART JUNIOR

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Diving into the sea of summer cinema, amidst dueling robots, a flamboyant fashionista and tired

retreads of ani-mated prehistoric critters, comes yet another block-buster hopeful.

B u t — g a s p — it seems it’s a blockbuster de-pendent not on e x p l o s i o n s o r outrageousness, but on the pre-viously thought

missing link in most of this sum-mer’s films — a story.

Delayed from a November re-lease, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” is a well-paced, quietly assured film with pockets of action and humor tucked in all the right places. The end result is a two-and-a-half-hour movie that earns its keep for every one of those minutes.

T h i s t i m e, Ha r r y ( D a n i e l Radcliffe) is back for his sixth year at Hogwarts. Meanwhile, havoc is being wreaked all over the place thanks to the Death Eaters, and it seems as if nowhere — even Hogwarts — is safe.

A t t h e s c h o o l , A l b u s Dumbledore (Michael Gambon)

enlists Harry to help find out more about Voldemort’s defenses via Professor Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent), a former potions pro-fessor who Dumbledore convinces to teach again. Slughorn taught Voldemort years ago, and holds vital information.

While in Slughorn’s class, Harry finds an old textbook filled with helpful spells that belonged to someone called the Half-Blood Prince.

Romance is also in the air as Hermione (Emma Watson) struggles with her feelings for Ron (Rupert Grint) while he pursues an-other girl, and Harry falls for Ron’s sister Ginny (Bonnie Wright).

“Half-Blood Prince” manages to combine all kinds of atmospheres convincingly — it’s filled with both a deepening sense of dread and an optimistically strengthening sense of relationship among the major characters. Radcliffe, Watson and Grint have all come into their own, and their rapport is strong and be-lievable throughout the film.

Director David Yates, who also helmed the previous Potter film, “Order of the Phoenix,” and will di-rect the upcoming two-part finale, “Deathly Hallows,” has crafted a dark and increasingly mature entry into the franchise.

F r i g h t e n i n g t o u c h e s l i k e a c u r s e d g i r l screaming while suspended in mid-air and an under-ground lake teem-ing with Gollum-like villains defy t h e P G r a t i n g that “Half-Blood Prince” somehow snagged from that most inexplicable of institutions, the MPAA.

Yates populates the magical world with lots of nice detailed touches as well, includ-ing imaginative renderings of an h o u r g l a s s t h a t keeps time based on the quality of the conversation around it, and vials of memories that can be visualized by pouring them into a shallow pool.

Any idea that “Harry Potter” is mostly kids’ stuff should be dis-pensed of with this film — evil per-sistently wins in this outing, and the ending is undeniably downbeat as things are set up for the big finish.

Bad guys Severus Snape (Alan Rickman), Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) and Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter) are the ones who triumph.

“Half-Blood Prince” does ex-actly what a film of its kind ought to — cast an engrossing spell on its audience. Movie fans with a fe-tish for non-stop action might be

disappointed, but perhaps it’s time these people were introduced to a different kind of movie magic — a slowly unfolding dialogue-driven story. On this front, “Half-Blood Prince” delivers.

Dusty Somers is the Life & Arts editor and a journalism junior.

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Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and Professor Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent) confer in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” The film is the sixth in the “Harry Potter” series.

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