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UNY CHANCampus Reporter

The Occupy Wall Street movement has come to OU under the more applicable name of Occupy Norman.

Nine general assemblies have taken place for the Occupy Norman movement, including a protest of about 20 participants Saturday.

The Daily invited two

finance faculty members to address some of the eco-nomic issues highlighted by the protestors.

Both professors have ex-tensive teaching and re-search experience in North America and Western Europe – two areas impacted during the global financial crisis.

Evgenia Golubeva teaches investment and internation-al finance.

Bil l Megginson is the chairman of finance at OU.

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SPORTSSooners need to find sense of urgencyOU football has been plagued by slow starts. (Page 7)

NEWSObama to propose student debt reliefPlan by President Obama could give millions of students relief. (Page 5)

SPORTSA Sooner ReunionCoach’s husband returns home after deployment to Afghanistan. (Page 6)

OPINIONOccupy movement like Spanish oneU.S. protesters could learn from Spanish fl aws and successes. (Page 4)

Students take donations to combat HIV and AIDS

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Jen Herrmann, professional writing junior, Alyssa McCollom, anthro-pology sophomore, and Isaac Sung, computer science junior, per-form inside an elevator Tuesday in Walker Center to raise money for FACE AIDS, an organization that fights HIV and AIDS in Africa.

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Occupy movement comes to NormanProfessors debate feasibility of suggested changes

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NATIONAL MERIT

New scholars to receive $16.6M

ANGELA TOCampus Reporter

OU will award more than $16.6 million in scholarships and stipends over the next four years to the university’s

most recent class of fresh-man National Merit Scholar enrollees.

According to OU’s National Merit website, Oklahoma resident scholars will receive a total scholarship package of $46,500. This includes $22,000 for four years to help offset the costs of fees, books, room and board, a $19,500

resident tuition waiver and a $5,000 National Merit stipend.

In addition to the total s c h o l a r s h i p p a c k a g e , National Merit finalists who designate OU as their col-lege of choice also receive a $1,500 laptop allowance dur-ing their freshman year and a $1,500 one-time travel study

stipend. Non-resident enrollees

receive a total scholarship package of $92,000. The scholarship pays for $22,000 for four years to help off-set the costs of fees, books, room and board, a $55,000 non-resident tuition waiver, $10,000 to waive resident tu-ition and a $5000 National

Merit Stipend. Just like resi-dents, non-residents also re-ceive a $1,500 laptop allow-ance during their freshman year and a $1,500 one-time travel study stipend.

OU is home to 207 National Merit Scholars for fall 2011 — an 18-person drop from 225

MEMORIAL

Late profs will be missed

Program lures freshmen with stipends, waivers

BLAYKLEE BUCHANANCampus Reporter

OU has lost several pro-fessors over the past few months who have added to the university and pushed it toward its current height.

Those who have passed away were friends, schol-ars, mentors, writers and people who achieved greatness in both their personal and professional lives.

Gwenn Davis, from the English department, was one of the first women at OU to become a full professor, and she wrote three books on women’s writing.

Davis also was the first director of the honors pro-gram. Despite all the great accomplishments profes-sionally, outside of work she would have gatherings at her home for female graduate students going into the academic field and encourage them in their pursuits.

Her kindness reached other female professors at OU.

“She was an inspiration to me,” professor Joanna Rapf said. “When I came to OU, I was the only other t e nu re d w o ma n , a n d she always had good ad-vice on how to navigate the academic field and Oklahoma.”

The late Melvin B. Tolson Jr. was the first black mem-ber of the Norman campus faculty, and the Henderson-Tolson Cultural Center was named in his honor.

Tolson and OU celebrat-ed the opening of the cen-ter in 2002, according to Daily archives.

“We’re proud,” OU pro-fesor George Henderson said at the time. “We are first class. We’ve lived as second class too long.”

The department of zo-ology’s Walter Dillard was a physiologist and cell biologist.

Current faculty honors legacies of OU professors

See MERIT page 2

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Junior forward Amath M’Baye pushes the ball down the court during Oklahoma’s “Hoops Jam” at Lloyd Noble Center on Oct. 16. Oklahoma players say the junior Wyoming transfer may be the best athlete on the team. However, due to NCAA transfer rules, M’Baye will have to wait until next season to make an impact. (Page 7)

Transfer anxious to make impact for Sooners

RESEARCH

HSC analysts to start medical trial for disorder

KATHLEEN EVANSSenior Campus Reporter

Researchers at the OU Health Sciences Center are starting a new trial to investi-gate a drug to combat Fragile X Syndrome, a genetic disor-der that leads to slower men-tal development.

Fragile X is a disease in

which part of the X chromo-some is damaged, so a cer-tain protein is not produced, investigator Thomas Lock said. This protein normally decreases activity in the brain, so patients with Fragile X have overstimulated brains.

This drug works to decrease activity in overexcited areas

of the brain, Lock said. It has been tested in adults and its use has led to improvements in social and mental func-tions, and researchers are hoping to see better results in children.

“Our hope is that as we move to younger children, we will have more preservation of mental function and hope they will do better in behavior-ally and intellectually,” Lock said. “This is the first time

there has been an attempt to prevent ongoing brain dam-age in this kind of condition. Previous therapies just looked at treating symptoms.”

Fragile X is characterized by symptoms such as delayed motor skills, delayed speech development, avoidance of social settings and repetition of behaviors or words, Lock said.

Jessica Dickerson, moth-er of 7-year-old Fragile X

patient Nolan Dickerson, said it is hard to know what a day is going to be like with her son.

Some days can run very smoothly, with Nolan want-ing to go to school and being excited about his day, she said.

Participants with the genetic disorder Fragile X Syndrome needed for trial

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tOdaY arOuNd caMpuSMid-Day Music featuring John abney will take place from noon to 1 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial union Food court.

HSC Day will take place from 3 to 6 p.m. in the david L. Boren Student union (1106 N. Stonewall, Oklahoma city, Ok 73117).

A lecture by guest thomas Williams, professor of philosophy and religion, will take place from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the union’s Scholars room.

University Theatre will present “Sunday in the park with george” from 8 to 10 p.m. in the reynolds performing arts center.

FridaY, Oct. 28A screening of “harry potter and the deathly hallows, part 2” will take place from 6 to 11:45 p.m. in Meachum auditorium of the union.

A lecture over the effect of stained glass in gothic architecture and its symbolism in Medieval culture by Susan caldwell will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the Norman public Library.

A lecture by Michael Lee about the silent film “Nosferatu” will happen at 7 p.m. in catlett Music center’s Sharp concert hall.

OU softball will play against Odessa college at 7:30 p.m. at the Marita hynes Field at the Ou Softball complex.


SaturdaY, Oct. 29Zombie 5k and Surival Run hosted by the union programming Board will take place at 8 a.m. on the union east Lawn.

OU softball will play against North central texas at 5:15 p.m. at the Marita hynes Field at the Ou Softball complex.

OU softball will play against Murray State at 7:30 p.m. at the Marita hynes Field at the Ou Softball complex.


SuNdaY, Oct. 30University Theatre will present “Sunday in the park with george” from 3 to 5 p.m. in the reynolds performing arts center.

OU softball will play against connors State at 2:30 p.m. at the Marita hynes Field at the Ou Softball complex.

MERIT: Program recruiting fewer non-residentsContinued from page 1

freshmen in fall 2010, said LeeAnn Victery, director of the university’s National Scholars Programs.

OU is keeping its prom-ise to admit 5- to 10-percent fewer National Merit Scholars than it did in previous years. The initiative was pushed by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, which stated in its agenda that it aimed to admit 5-percent fewer out-of-state National Merit Scholars by 2013.

OU is currently No. 1 among all public universities in the number of National Merit freshmen enrolled and is No. 5 among all public and private universities, accord-ing to OU’s National Merit website.

There are more than 700 National Merit Scholars cur-rently enrolled at OU, Victery said in an email.

“For the past 21 consecu-tive years, OU has ranked among the top 20 of all pub-lic and private institutions nationwide in the number of freshman National Merit Scholars enrolled,” Victery said in an email.

OU has consistently en-rolled more non-Oklaho-ma residents than resident National Merit Scholars since 2009. In fall 2009, OU accepted 130 non-residents, 150 in fall 2010 and 141 in fall

2011. OU accepted 60 resi-dent Oklahoman scholars in fall 2009, 72 in fall 2010, and 66 in fall 2011 according to Victery.

“ T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f Oklahoma successfully re-cruits approximately 40 percent of all Oklahoma National Merit finalists. Over half of the finalists who attend school in the state of Oklahoma attend OU,” Victery said.

The university’s total scholarship compensation for the fall 2011 and spring 2012 semesters equals more than $38.4 million, accord-ing to the Oklahoma State

Regents for Higher Education budget, though university spokesman Michael Nash said a comparison could not be made between National Merit scholarships and the university’s total scholarship budget because National Merit compensation “in-cludes private gifts and fund-ing not originating from OU.”

Chemical engineering sophomore Alex Long chose OU over his other top-choice s c h o o l s su c h a s B row n University, Northwestern University and Washington University in St. Louis. OU was his final choice mainly because of the large financial

package offered by OU. “Honestly, it was most

of the scholarship pack-age that OU offered me for being National Merit. When I came to visit I met with the National Scholars Program,” Long said. “They were the friendliest people I met in any of my college visits that I applied admission to, and the campus was probably one of the nicest one sout of all of them. I was consider-ing some Ivy League schools, like Brown, in addition to OU. I wasn’t expecting the academic requirements to be quite that high, but I’ve been surprised.”

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Scholarship drive raises goal to $10M

FINANCIAL AID

CAITLIN RUEMPINGCampus Reporter

OU College of Medicine administrators hope to raise an additional $5 mil-lion in the next five years as par t of their S e cond Century Campaign.

Launched in March 2011, the campaign has raised $4.1 million to date in im-mediate and planned gifts.

The campaign was cre-ated to accumulate schol-arships to enable OU to attract top students across the country. It is chaired

by Dr. Dewayne Andrews, senior vice president and provost of the OU Health Sciences Center and ex-ecutive dean of the College of Medicine, and Jonathan Drummond.

“President Boren has been so fabulous about promoting scholarships,” HSC Executive Director of D evelopment Stace y Maxon said. “We’ve had doctors open doors and connect us with our new alumni to find scholarship dollars for our campaign.”

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Q&A: Norman protesters unlikely to succeed with policy changesContinued from page 1

The Daily: During the first general assembly, Norman citizen Brian Husted proposed “ending options/futures trading.” Is it possible to have an equity market without derivatives?

Golubeva: The derivative market grows as people needed to manage risks arising from the increased volatility and as intellectual advancements were made in the field. Derivatives can be used to hedge and to speculate. Usually people get the hedging part, but they believe that the speculation part is evil as it destabilizes markets. However, speculators provide liquidity and price discovery to the market.

Megginson: It is certainly possible to have a well-functioning stock market without organized futures and options trading; this was the state of nature from the beginning of stock exchange trading during the 1600s until the founding of the Chicago Board of Options Exchange in 1973.

However, banning options/futures trading would be counter-productive. Both types of derivatives have grown massively over the past 40 years, overwhelmingly because they allow businesses and individuals to hedge legitimate business risks relating to fluctuating commodity prices, interest rates and currency values.

Like money, guns and ideology, derivatives are val-ue-neutral; they can be used very effectively for crass or speculative purposes.

The Daily: One campaigner, Alaric Moore, has proposed “ending usury” to stabilize the market. Both the Bloomberg “Businessweek” and the International Monetary Fund have hinted that the Islamic finance system has shown stronger resilience during the global financial crisis. Is this because of the lack of usury? Or is this because the countries with an Islamic finance system have little exposure and connection to the financial market in the West?

Golubeva: I would only speculate if I discussed the degree of its connectedness with the financial markets in the West, but that’s not the point. “Weathering a crisis” is the wrong gauge to measure the overall effectiveness of the financial system. There are many other facets to consider besides immunity to systemic risk, but even that is not the point. A social institution, such as the education system, healthcare and the financial market, is a product of culture. People have one system or another because that’s what has worked for them. Just because it wouldn’t work for you and me doesn’t make it wrong, bad or inefficient.

The Daily: Which area in the financial market would you like to see a reform in the most?

Megginson: Rising capital standards for large, systemically important banks would prevent future crises. Limited excess compensation for bankers would also help more than any other single reform.

Banks oppose higher capital standards because these directly limit risk-taking and reduce profitability, but they are simple and effective tools for maintaining competi-tion and financial stability.

These standards have been raised somewhat since 2008, but changes must be agreed upon globally to pre-vent one country’s banks from gaining a competitive advantage.

The Daily: A lot of Occupy campaigners are dissatisfied with the extent of corporate influence in politics. What laws can be implemented to fill this loophole?

Golubeva: Regulators and politicians sometimes don’t know what they are doing because they lack elementary knowledge and expertise. Corporations need to make their cases heard. This is a fundamental need. It is not going away unless we have really wise politicians that create laws that are inherently fair to everybody.

I am from Russia, and I have seen corruption at its worst. Unfortunately, it is a tough enemy to defeat. You can make a case for stricter governance and more

disclosure. However, control is not effortless. The cost of exercising control must be weighed against the benefit of reduced misalignment of resources.

The Daily: Occupy Norman has reiterated in its general assembly that it would not propose any specific policy change. Do you think its protests would eventually lead to any measurable change in the financial market?

Megginson: Probably not. Instead these proposals are more likely to end up as “instruments of political combat” in the upcoming election cycle, with the Democrats embracing, cautiously, some of the less extreme proposals and the Republicans rejecting all of them. Given the current and likely future make-up of the U.S. Congress, the chance of actual passage of any of these proposals is nil.

What the protests might well prompt are prosecutions of some bankers for real or perceived misdeeds during the Bubble Years. Most of these will be unsuccessful – since most of the shadiest practices of the era were in fact legal, if very reckless – but would certainly be wildly pop-ular nonetheless.

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Members of the nationwide Occupy movement meet in Oklahoma City on Tuesday, Oct. 11. The protests are part of the New York City-based demonstrations that began about a month ago against what Occupy Wall Street calls corporate greed and other issues.

Our View: OU should justify its spending on the National Merit Scholars program.

Over the next four years, 207 students will be awarded $16,662,000 of OU’s scholarship budget, according to university National Merit enroll-ment and compensation statistics. That’s because those students are freshmen who will benefit from OU’s generous and highly touted National Scholars Program.

President David Boren is fond of citing the fact that OU has the most incoming freshman National Merit scholars of any public institution. The implication is that this program is worth the money invested because it brings significant benefits to the uni-versity. But so far, we don’t see any quantifiable proof to that effect.

If the administration wants to defend the spend-ing on this program, we want to see a clear, fac-tual representation of the benefits to the school. Anyone can crunch the numbers and calculate the costs. For a real evaluation of the program to occur, Sooners must be able to do the same with the benefits.

We want more than anecdotal accounts of stu-dents choosing OU over other good schools be-cause of the National Merit scholarship offerings. We want more than rhetorical arguments about raising the intellectual level of class discussions and bringing in more students prone to having higher GPAs and participating in important re-search. We want to see numbers.

In all fairness, those accounts do seem to have

some truth to them, and it’s not hard to see the logic in the arguments for the program.

LeeAnn Victery, director of the National Scholars Programs, said many of OU’s top lead-ership and academic excellence awards go to National Merit scholars every year, including two of

the 10 members of this year’s PE-ET Honor Society, this year’s Carl Albert Award win-ner and OU’s most recent Rhodes scholar. She also said the average GPA of enrolled National Merit scholars is 3.71.

This is not the start of some vendetta against the National Scholars program — in fact, one of our editorial board members is a National Merit scholar. We readily admit

some of the less quantifiable benefits, including bringing in more academically successful students and attracting young leaders to Norman, are worth investing in.

But any time an individual program is taking up so much of the university’s overall budget, we have to wonder: Is it worth it? In a time when state funding is dwindling and departments have faced university-wide 5-percent budget cuts, would cut-ting the National Scholars program that same 5 per-cent really diminish its effectiveness overall? Would this money do more good broken into many more scholarships of smaller size?

We don’t know the answers to these questions, but now that we’ve seen the numbers, we’re com-pelled to ask them. The administration needs to give a clear answer justifying this hefty spending on a small group of students.

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Occupation must upholdnonviolence

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Although I remain unaffiliated with the Occupy Wall

Street protests, I did take the liberty of attending a general assembly for Occupy Norman two weeks ago. The meeting was pleasant enough — much more organized and less fiery than I had anticipated — until one attendee volunteered to provide Molotov cocktails for igniting police cars.

At this, the assembly burst into mocking laughter. The group then rebuked him until the alleged grenade ven-dor left the meeting. It was unclear whether or not he had been serious — I don’t want to believe anyone at OU really could be that stupid — but it was nonetheless grat-ifying to hear the activists openly denounce his violent methods and turn him away.

In every movement, the superior strategy of nonvio-lence is endangered by a few radicals not unlike that man who either want an excuse to create chaos or be-lieve peaceful means are insufficient to see their ends.

While the Occupy Wall Street movement so far has shown admirable restraint, it’d be foolish and dangerous to as-sume it hasn’t been infiltrated by such radicals.

I don’t think it’s paranoid of me to suspect at least a few people in the crowds across America consciously desire a physical confrontation, and it’s not outlandish of me to

suspect some of them are waiting for an opportunity to trigger one.

These violent individuals are not representative of the Wall Street protesters in any way. They are the fringe. But as history tells us, it only takes a small group of people to hijack an event and discredit the majority.

We saw this just a little more than a week ago in Rome, where a protest held in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street descended into rioting. The majority of the Italian protesters were peaceful, but the actions of a few man-aged to steer the protest toward a violent conclusion. Now, when many Italians think of the Wall Street pro-tests, they no doubt think of vandalism and bloodshed.

If this happened in United States, the movement would lose all credibility. Politicians could criticize it without fear of backlash, and the media would gossip for weeks on end about ‘the savages on Wall Street.’ To pre-vent similar hijackings in the future, the protesters must be vigilant and guard their cause from aggressive indi-viduals who seek to commandeer it.

The best way to weed out violent radicals is to con-sciously look for them: They’re surprisingly easy to spot. Sometimes they’ll be carrying weapons. Often they will purposely situate themselves near cops and antagonize them for no apparent reason. If peaceful protesters rec-ognize this sort of behavior, they might want to consider taking them aside and inquiring about their intentions.

Another way to keep the movement peaceful is by emphasizing the historically ineffective nature of vio-lent protests. It is human nature to empathize with the oppressed, not the oppressor. Accordingly, many Americans who currently identify with the movement would drop their support if they saw protesters on televi-sion using violence. The Civil Rights movement gained sympathy because black people were seen as the vic-tims, not as the aggressors.

It’s also worth noting that if the protests did become violent, politicians would no doubt use the situation as an excuse to further curb the protesters’ freedom of expression under the guise of protecting citizens. Obviously this is counterproductive in the long run.

Despite mounting arrests and some possible instances of police brutality, the Occupy Wall Street movement so far has done a fantastic job of keeping violence to a mini-mum without sacrificing any of the wrath that has made it so famous. As crazies begin to slip into their ranks, I hope those protesters committed to peace will be ready to call them out like the folks of Occupy Norman did.

It might sound paranoid, but believe me — it will pre-serve the movement’s integrity and keep people safe.

Steven Zoeller is a journalism sophomore.

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Occupy must learn from SpainFor more than one

month, people have been gather-

ing in Wall Street, occupy-ing the world´s financial core. This spontaneous demonstration has its roots in another movement that took place this year: The Spanish “Indignants.” And I was there.

On the one hand, there are significant differences between Wall Street and the Spanish movement. In Spain, the economic and political scenario fostered demonstrations. The high unemploy-ment rate (about 20 percent) and the lack of opportuni-ties for graduate students (the youth unemployment rate at more than 40 percent) depicts a complicated situation for Spanish young people. In addition, the lack of political leadership, the high housing costs and the low salaries, among other issues, boosted indignation. In the U.S., the situation is not as extreme.

On the other hand, there are some similarities, includ-ing the demands for regulation of the financial system, the position against bailouts and an overall criticism of savage capitalism. And, of course, there is a common point in the way these issues were raised: occupying stra-tegic public places.

Spain’s occupation of the main squares in the principal Spanish cities lasted for one month. The symbolic point of these demonstrations was in the heart of Madrid, a square called “Sol.”

On May 15, a huge demonstration took place. Afterward, about 20 people decided to camp out

overnight there. The police came and pulled them away, but a mobile phone recorded everything. It showed the police hitting 20 people that were raising their hands while shouting, “No to violence!” Then, someone upload-ed that video on YouTube that eventually became widely viewed throughout the next day. Consequently, another huge demonstration took place the next night. This time it was not only 20 people who occupied “Sol,” but thou-sands. A city was built over the course of one day in the core of Madrid.

Over the next few days, the occupation became bigger and bigger, not only in size but also in spirit. The camp or-ganized itself in different departments, and people start-ed to collaborate. Amid many other actions, a company gave away four portable bathrooms, a restaurant brought liters of “salmorejo” (a Spanish soup) and some people decided to go to the supermarket and buy supplies for the protesters. There was a community spirit that I have not seen anywhere else.

However, there was a problem — it was a horizontal movement. In other words: no bosses. Therefore, people started to ramble. Many concepts were mixed, losing the original focus of the protest. This, in my opinion, is the main risk that Occupy Wall Street has to ensure against.

Overall, Occupy Wall Street has had many successes. In Spain, we didn’t achieve any of our direct goals. We did not change the banking system or reduce our shameful unemployment rate. However, people realized the situ-ation, opened their minds and sent an uncomfortable message to politicians: We are watching you.

Unfortunately, we didn’t change the world, but it was a good first step. Wall Street is the next one.

Adrian Espallargas is a journalism junior.

New war TV show degrades, distortsLETTER TO THE EDITOR

On Tuesday, the video game-oriented network G4 pre-miered its new series “Bomb Patrol: Afghanistan,” which boasts real footage of the day-to-day experiences of a U.S. Navy Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit stationed in Afghanistan.

While G4 justifies the series by waxing eloquently about its quest to “share with [their] viewers all the real-life drama, teamwork, [and] danger” of “real-life heroes put-ting their lives on the line,” I question the channel’s trans-lation of real combat experiences into commercialized entertainment.

Educating the public on war conditions and exposing them to the realities of military operations are laudable undertakings, but with descriptions like “death-defying soldiers” and “real-life drama” and a trailer eerily imitative of “Black Hawk Down,” it seems unlikely that education is G4’s primary aim.

Since the inception of the video game industry, many have expressed fear that the public could confuse enter-tainment with real life, but is there not also a danger in con-fusing real life with entertainment?

Many of us are either related to or friends with someone who has fought in Afghanistan. When I saw the trailer for this series, I saw my cousin and the risk of his death pre-sented to me as entertainment, as a source of profit, and I felt sick to my core.

Commercializing the life and death of soldiers, distorting such a weighty reality through glamorization and degrad-ing the soldiers’ noble risks and sacrifices by presenting them as entertainment is crossing a line.

Show me the Afghan War, but have more respect than to place it to the score of a Hollywood action film.

Jane Dunagin, English graduate student

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A Southern California doctor has been indicted on charges of illegally prescribing drugs to so-called pa-tients at nightly meetings in Starbucks stores.

Prosecutors said 43-year-old Alvin Mingczech Yee saw up to a dozen patients nightly across subur-ban Orange County at meetings that cost up to $600. Prosecutors said Yee barely examined them but pre-scribed drugs including OxyContin and Vicodin.

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College’s drug tests for first-years halted by federal judge’s ruling

A Missouri college’s comprehensive drug-testing plan for students will stay on hold following a ruling by a federal judge.

Linn State Technical College’s program calls for screening all first-year students and some return-ing students for cocaine, methamphetamines, oxy-codone and other drugs. The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit last month, challenging the constitu-tionality of the tests.

U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey in Jefferson City granted a temporary restraining order in September, and issued a ruling Tuesday that extends that order through Nov. 8.


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It looks like Chrysler’s new four-year contract with the United Auto Workers union will be approved by workers.

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Obama promises debt relief

Top: President Barack Obama greets the crowd after speaking about managing student debt during an event at the University of Colorado Denver’s downtown campus on Wednesday.

Left: A protester holds up a T-shirt during President Barack Obama’s visit to the University of Colorado Denver’s down-town campus to speak about managing student debt and his experiences having more than $120,000 of debt with the first lady that took nearly a decade to pay off.

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DENVER — President Barack Obama recalled his struggles with student loan debt as he unveiled a plan Wednesday that could give millions of young peo-ple some relief on their payments.

Speaking at the University of Colorado Denver, Obama said that he and his wife, Michelle, together owed more than $120,000 in law school debt that took nearly a decade to pay off. He said that sometimes he’d have to make monthly payments to multiple lenders, and the debt meant they were not only paying for their own degrees but saving for their daughters’ college funds simultaneously.

“I’ve been in your shoes. We did not come from a wealthy family,” Obama said to cheers.

Obama said it’s never been more important to get a col-lege education, but it’s also never been more expensive. Obama said his plan will help not just individuals, but the nation, because gradu-ates will have more money to spend on things like buy-ing homes.

“Our economy needs it right now and your future could use a boost right now,” Obama said.

Obama’s plan will accel-erate a measure passed by Congress that reduces the maximum required pay-ment on student loans from 15 percent of discretionary income annually to 10 per-cent. He will put it into effect in 2012, instead of 2014. In addition, the White House says the remaining debt would be forgiven after 20 years, instead of 25. About

1.6 million borrowers could be affected.

He will also allow borrow-ers who have a loan from the Federal Family Education Loan Program and a direct loan from the government to consolidate them into one. The consolidated loan would carry an interest rate of up to a half percentage point less than before. This could affect

5.8 million borrowers.Student loans are the No.

2 source of household debt. The president’s announce-ment came on the same day as a new report on tu-ition costs from the College Board. It showed that aver-age in-state tuition and fees at four-year public colleges rose $631 this fall, or 8.3 per-cent, compared with a year

ago. Nationally, the cost of a full credit load has passed $8,000, an all-time high.

Student loan debt is a common concern voiced by Occupy Wall Street pro-testers. Obama’s plan could help him shore up re-elec-tion support among young voters, an important voting bloc in his 2008 election.


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Last year, Brandon Files, an assistant professor of mili-tary science at OU through the ROTC program and an active service member in the U.S. Army, was deployed to Afghanistan for a year.

OU volleyball assistant coach Kelly Files watched as her husband headed out Aug. 11, 2010, for his second over-seas deployment during their marriage. She wouldn’t see him for 370 days.

When men go to warWhile Brandon was in

Afghanistan, he was in charge of an airfield in the southwest province of Farah.

“That involved day-to-day airfield operations, which in-cluded approving aircraft to come into the air space, run-ning the air traffic control tower, as well as working with the local nation and govern-ment,” Brandon said.

Brandon even enabled a commercial airliner to come in to the airfield on a weekly basis in order to promote local commerce and travel.

“It was supposed to bring in commercial trade for the local community and give them an opportunity for public trans-portation,” he said.

Brandon also was deployed to Iraq from September 2008 to June 2009, and he said this deployment to Afghanistan was different in many ways.

“My deployment to Iraq, we were extremely busy,” Brandon recalled. “We flew almost every night, so time flew by, and I didn’t have time

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to focus on what I was miss-ing. This deployment, I just tried to focus on my job a little bit more.”

All quiet at homeMeanwhile at home, Kelly

worried what would happen once the volleyball season was over. The busyness and bustle of the volleyball season kept her mind occupied, but she was worried what she’d do when it ended.

“We finished our season in December, so we had the hol-idays, so it was really January (before things slowed down),” Kelly said. “But he had two weeks (vacation), so we went

to Tahiti at the end of January and beginning of February.”

Instead, it was the summer before the weight of missing her best friend really fell on her shoulders.

“The hardest parts were the summer because it was so close yet it was so far away, and when the kids aren’t here and we’re not practicing, it’s just like,” Kelly said as her voice trailed away. “Once the summer rolled around, I was like, ‘I’ve had enough. I’m ready for him to be home.’”

Kelly said she and Brandon worked hard to communicate in the same way they would if they were together.

They watched the same TV shows and read the same books so they could have common things to discuss.

But most of all, they want-ed to know how they were changing as individuals.

“Over time, you change as a person, and if we were both here, we’d be changing together. Stuff with our lives would be the same where we’d talk about it,” she said.

Reunited at lastSince Brandon returned

home on Aug. 16, the couple has been working to come back together and continue to build their marriage.

Things have been easier than expected for them be-cause of the hard work they put in to communicate well during their time apart.

“[Brandon] initiated most of the conversation whenever he had time,” Kelly said. “He did a great job doing that, so I really appreciate that. I really felt that when we did see each other, it wasn’t like we had to reconnect.”

An unforeseen obstacle the Files have had to overcome is that Brandon came home knowing he would no longer have a job at OU because of downsizing by the new mili-tary contractor in charge of

the program.As of Sunday, he was of-

ficially off active duty and back to the role of a part-time member of the Oklahoma National Guard.

“We knew a few months ago that it might happen, and we just found out recently it was for sure going to happen,” Brandon said. “Since I’ve been back, I’ve been assisting with the volleyball team in a few different roles.”

Kelly said her only read-justment struggle is allowing Brandon to reclaim some of the household chores be-cause she has become accus-tomed to doing everything on her own. It’s something she said she’s been better at after this deployment.

“When he comes home, he’s trying to help, and I’m like, ‘I’ve got it,’ not wanting him to do anything,” Files said. “Then if he does do anything, he’s not doing it the way I did it, so kind of stuff like that.”

Through all of the trials and separation, the couple has grown stronger in their commitment to each other. Brandon said married people have to develop skills to per-severe through tough times or the marriage will fail.

“We’ve become better and better communicators,” Brandon said. “We’ve become better at sharing responsibili-ties and valuing each others’ roles.”

Mundane times are some-thing Kelly said they don’t have to worry about. The value placed on time together is huge for her and Brandon.

“We don’t usually get stuck in the everyday, ‘just go to work, come home, same old’ cycle,” Kelly said. “We value our time together.”

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Guess the Score | 11:30 a.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union First Floor Lobby. Think you know Sooner Football? Prove it at the Union Programming Board’s game day predictions to win great prizes! The winning score from every home game will get a FREE Blu Ray Movie and the winning score from every away game will get a UPB T-Shirt. The overall winner at the end of the season will win a Blu Ray Player! There’s ALWAYS SOMETHING at the union, www.ou.edu/upb.

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Intramural Update: Flag Football Championships | 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Huston Huffman Center front desk, $40 entry fee per team ( team is free if all students are living in OU housing). For more information visit http://www.ou.edu/far or call Jonathan Dewhirst, (405) 325-3053.

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RJ YoungSports Reporter

Practice had just started, and Amath M’Baye was al-ready running at top speed.

He streaked down the side-line and spotted up in the corner. His teammate, recog-nizing the defense’s mistake, found him with a crisp chest pass alone on the wing.

M’Baye floated his shot from distance. Swish.

He didn’t take time to ad-mire his work. He put his head down and charged back to guard his man.

But before he could drop into his defensive stance, the ball was stripped and thrown ahead of M’Baye — as if he were already 40 feet down court. And then, in an instant, he was.

M’Baye caught the ball in midstride and finished the play with an alley-oop.

Those are the kind of plays the 6-foot-9-inch junior has made at nearly every practice OU has held.

“He’s got a great motor,” Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger said. “He works so hard every day, and he’s going on all the time. He’s nonstop in terms of competing, and that will be great for everyone.”

But the Sooners won’t ben-efit from his skill on the court this season. NCAA transfer rules won’t allow it.

For now, M’Baye will have to find solace in practice.

“Sitting is going to be hard, but that’s just something I’m going to have to go through,” M’Baye said. “It’s going to make me grow.”

Raw TalentFreshman guard James

Fraschilla said he has been in awe of M’Baye since meeting him.

“I saw his Wyoming high-lights, but when he got here his athleticism really sur-prised me,” he said.

Fraschilla said he’s excited for what the future holds for M’Baye and the team.

“He can jump out of the gym,” Fraschilla said. “He’s got a good jump shot. He throws down ridiculous dunks. He’s the most athletic guy on our team, and we’re lucky to have him.”

M’Baye was raised in Bordeaux, France, and re-cruited to play basketball at Stoneridge Preparatory School in Simi Valley, Calif.

“I went to prep school there because my coach was French and all the players

When the first half of the Texas Tech

game ended, it was clear the OU team on the field was not the same team that took the field in im-pressive wins against Florida State and Texas.

This was true first in terms of the players on the field since the Sooners were without four key starters. The absence of senior cor-nerback Jamell Fleming, sophomore linebacker Tom Wort and junior defensive tackle Casey Walker proved crucial as Texas Tech exploited OU’s interior defense and burned the Sooners’ corners the entire game. For the offense, missing junior Dominique Whaley, the team’s leading rusher, was costly. Despite the play of sophomore Roy Finch, the team lacked a true power running game.

While the injuries didn’t help, the game also marked yet another example of OU simply failing to perform to its fullest capabilities against lesser opponents.

When they played Tulsa, the fact that it was a season opener provided more than enough motivation for the team to come out and dominate.

The Florida State game was talked about nationally be-cause College GameDay was in Tallahassee, Fla. In that game, OU was able to grind out a tough victory. Against Texas, both sides of the football stepped up their play, arguably putting together their most com-plete game of the year.

In its other four games, OU has found itself in an area it doesn’t want to be: beginning games with too little urgency.

Many noted the let-down against Kansas after playing a very intense game against Texas. But the KU game was only one in a string of slow starts for OU. Against Missouri, the Sooners came out flat, showing little urgency on both sides of the ball and found themselves trailing Missouri, 14-10, at the end of the first quarter.

Against Ball State, the offense was unable to generate many points early, leading only 10-3.

Those slow starts have thrown off OU’s rhythm on both sides of the ball. With the offense out of sync, the defense may find themselves on the field more, creating more op-portunities for opposing teams to put points on the board.

In the other games OU has won, the offense and de-fense were able to put it together, overpowering what proved to be inferior opponents. Both sides of the football were able to overcome their respective slow starts and ei-ther pull away entirely or keep enough distance between themselves and the other team to secure a victory.

Against Texas Tech, though, the slow starts that had plagued OU in those other games simply proved to be too much to overcome. The defense looked lost for nearly all four quarters, getting beat repeatedly on plays it had seen throughout the contest.

On offense, it wasn’t until the third quarter that OU fi-nally showed some urgency. After six consecutive three-and-outs, the Sooners began to mount their comeback but were unable to convert when they most needed it.

The lack of urgency on both sides of the ball was an issue the Sooners had been able to overlook during the season with wins in all of those games. It was bound to catch up to the Sooners eventually, which is what hap-pened in the loss against Texas Tech.

After Saturday’s performance, it would be expected that both sides of the ball would come out with a different intensity against Kansas State. In a game featuring top-10 teams, there is no reason for the Sooners to come out as flat as they did against Tech.

Against a Kansas State team that has stayed unbeaten by exposing opposing teams’ weaknesses, Oklahoma must begin the game strong to have any hopes of keeping a Big 12 championship within its sights.

Jordan Jenson is a film and media studies senior. You can follow him on Twitter at @oujordanjenson.

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were French or from over-seas,” he said.

His skill was acknowl-edged while competing on the French under-20 nation-al team in the 2009 under-20 European championships. His team finished second.

Recruiting letters came his senior year of high school, but M’Baye said he had al-ready decided to attend the University of Wyoming. “I think there were three of us [at Wyoming] from my prep school and one of my best friends was there, so it was an

easy choice for me,” he said.He averaged 12 points and

5.7 rebounds per game as a sophomore while playing in all 31 of Wyoming’s games last season.

But the Cowboys won just 10 games, only three in the

Mountain West Conference.“Stuff started happening,”

M’Baye said. “We started los-ing games. Coach got fired, and I thought it was time for me to get a new start. Sometimes you think ‘It’s time for a change and time to go somewhere else.”

M’Baye began looking for another school to finish his NCAA career.

“I was supposed to visit the University of Washington,” M’Baye said. “Kansas called me, but as soon as I left from [Oklahoma] on my visit, I knew this was the place for me to be.

“When you go to col-lege, you want to choose the coach you play for. And coach Kruger has always been somebody I wanted to play for. I got to see him a lot at UNLV, and every time he talked to me, he was nice to me. I was really excited when I heard he was inter-ested in me to come out [to Oklahoma].”

Turning CrimsonMoving to the center of

the United States has been a tough transition for M’Baye. He said he can only go home

over the summer.“My whole family is in

Bordeaux,” he said.B u t t e a m m a t e s h a v e

stepped in to fill the void.“I can say I have some-

thing in common with every single one of my teammates,” M’Baye said. “That’s some-thing great, man. I’ve never been on a team like that be-fore. I don’t even feel like a newcomer.”

Junior forward Romero O s b y i s o n e t e a m m a t e M’Baye has bonded with. Osby sat out last season due to the same NCAA transfer rule that forbids M’Baye to play this year.

“It ’s tough sitting out games,” Osby said. “I try to give him a little feedback and make him feel good about himself. He needs that be-cause he played a lot at his last school and started. It’s hard going from that to this.”

An hour later, practice ended, but M’Baye was still shooting jumpers.

“I live for this game,” he said. “I love basketball. I wouldn’t be anywhere with-out basketball.”

Next year, he’ll get a chance to play. Next year.

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Junior Amath m’Baye goes up for a dunk during oklahoma’s “Hoops Jam” at lloyd noble Center on oct. 16. After transferring from Wyoming, m’Baye will have to sit out a season before contributing at ou.

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5 “... to thine own ___ be true”

9 Demolishes, as a building

14 Topological shapes

15 Colored part of the eye

16 A-list group 17 Egyptian

goddess of fertility

18 Bit of fishing gear

19 Backyard border

20 Nixon delivered it in 1952

23 Awful dancer 24 Jug part 25 Crowd that

needs con-trolling

28 Pomeranian barks

31 Sale entice-ment

36 Longfellow’s bell town

38 Fiddler’s place?

40 Chalet over-hangs

41 Moving form 44 “Siddhartha’’

author 45 Add to the

faculty 46 Art deco

illustrator 47 Welles and

Bean 49 Javelin paths 51 Job-applica-

tion datum

(Abbr.) 52 And so on,

for short 54 ___ de Ja-

neiro, Brazil 56 Rebuke from

a wife to her husband

64 Child of Japanese immigrants

65 Sticky semi-liquid

66 Beat a path 67 Type of train-

ing 68 Start to

freeze? 69 “Great Cae-

sar’s ghost!’’ 70 “The agony

of de feet” 71 Take five 72 “I changed

my mind” on a computer

DOWN 1 Applying to

ears 2 Luxuriously

fashionable 3 One of the

Great Lakes 4 Kid who rode

Diablo 5 Like guns

that shoot every time?

6 “Be it ___ so humble”

7 Wine dregs 8 “F” on a quiz 9 Acted as

arbiter 10 Away from

the bluster 11 “From A to

___” (multivi-tamin ad line)

12 Apply acid artistically

13 “Didn’t I tell you?”

21 Mary ___ (cosmetics name)

22 Avoid a bogey

25 Hardly a sissy

26 Catchall category

27 Military mucka-mucks

29 Winnie-the-___

30 Director Coppola

32 Expose 33 Alleges as

fact 34 Items often

passed 35 German

birthplace of Big Bertha

37 “___ many words”

39 Klinger portrayer on “M*A*S*H’’

42 Science of heredity

43 Dilapidated 48 Grand

Central, e.g. (Abbr.)

50 “___ ’im, Fido!”

53 Practi-cal joker’s exploder

55 Aquatic critter

56 “Adios” 57 1984 Sum-

mer Games boycotter

58 Horse’s restraint

59 Second to ___ (tops)

60 A whole bunch

61 Cajole 62 Area be-

tween the shoulders

63 Caribbean taro

64 Peacock network

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There is likely to be a noticeable improvement in your social life in the year ahead, stemming from palling around with a new group of people while still doing things with your old group. Keeping busy will be good for you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Don’t put yourself down or be sarcastic if your companions have far better ideas than what you can come up with. On the contrary, be supportive of anything and everything that is superior.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Let bygones be bygones. Don’t let a past grievance or a misunderstand-ing continue to disrupt how you would normally treat another. Begin again with a fresh scorecard.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- You can’t rely on outside circumstances to improve your lot in life; you can only bank on yourself. If you’re enterprising and industrious, you can make good things happen.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Smart people perceive their duties as opportunities to get ahead, not dull obligations. What might appear to be burdens to some could be scads of lucky breaks in enterpris-ing hands.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- There is a time to push and shove, and a time to hang fi re and fall back. A smart person knows the difference. If you’re aggressive when you should be diplomatic, you’ll lose out.

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something for the better that shouldn’t be too diffi cult to imple-ment, by all means give it a try. If it’s a problem, forget it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- It may be regrettable, but don’t hesitate to withdraw your support from an associate who you feel is handling a joint matter in a way that could discredit him or her, as well as you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Don’t expect things to run too smoothly if you’re handling a matter in a way that tends to favor only you. Include others in your thinking, and watch how everything changes.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- To your credit, you rarely hesitate to help out wherever and whenever you can. Today, however, make sure you don’t volunteer to take on something that’s more than you can handle.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Instead of distributing and delegating work, you might inadvisably attempt to do everything yourself. When you discover you’re overextended, don’t hesitate to ask for help.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Don’t panic; your problems are likely to be more gigantic in your mind than they actually are. Once you get on top of things, you’ll quickly realize your fears were unwarranted.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- This isn’t likely to be a good day for borrowing a treasured something from another, nor to lend anything you value. Small accidents could be more prevalent than usual.

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Top: Residents of Adams Center decorate their hallways for Safe Trick-or-Treat on Tuesday. The residents passed out candy to children, who were allowed to trick-or-treat in the Adams Center’s towers. Safe Trick-or-Treat gave the children a safe way to enjoy the spooky holiday with family members.

Bottom: Residents of Adams Center decorate the hallway outside of the elevators for Safe Trick-or-Treat on Tuesday. The res-idents will dress up in Halloween costumes, hang out with friends and eat candy for the holiday.

OU students will celebrate Halloween by dressing up in costumes for class, spending time with friends, eating different types of holiday candy and having a spook-free time on campus

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DUSTI GASPAROVICLife & Arts Reporter

Halloween is fast approaching, and freshmen and resident advisers aren’t missing a scream.

The halls in Adams Center are littered with spooky ghosts and scary goblins, the skies are covered with hooting owls and blood-sucking bats and the air is filled with screams, howls and spontaneous giggles.

The doors on the fifth floor of Muldrow Tower are covered with caution tape warning visitors of the creepy crawlers with eight legs that live in the cob-webs spun from the ceiling.

The sixth floor of Muldrow Tower has taken decorat-ing to the next level, with cobwebs lining the ceiling, a black ghost that floats at the entrance and warnings all throughout the hall saying, “Turn Back Now!”

University College fresh-man Charlsi Rowell said she is turning off the lights, playing some creepy music and dress-ing as a Spice Girl to greet her guests.

Some students such as University College freshman Emily Harris have decided to wear their costumes to class for Halloween on Monday.

Harris said she plans to dress up as her former Marine trainer.

University College fresh-man Kristina Crumpton said she loves Halloween because it gives her the opportunity to dress up as whatever she wants.

Jamie Hannan, pre-nursing junior , said she’s not a big fan of the holiday .

“I grew up ‘celebrating’ Halloween, but my parents made sure I knew the witches were not OK,” Hannan said. “ I’m definitely not against the

dressing up, hanging out with your friends, having fun and eating candy side of it, but I am still hesitant to say I’m completely open to everything that Halloween represents.”

University College fresh-man Chandler Flowers said Halloween is a holiday that s t i l l cau s e s h i m t o have nightmares.

“It’s a frivolous, frequently macabre holiday that haunts little kids, and we don’t even really know what we are cel-ebrating,” Flowers said. “I still have nightmares of the first time I went trick-or-treating in the fifth grade.”

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Halloween

Tricks and TreatsFrightening Films

Creepy Costumes

Terrifying Tunes

Halloween would not be complete without a hefty serving of frightening

cinematic goodies to satisfy audiences’ appetite for undying thrills and exhilara-tion. Despite the heaping pile of medio-

cre-to-god-awful films that have recently populated the horror genre, there are still

a few gems worth revisiting to make the process of turning one’s lights off at night

a practice met with extreme apprehen-sion. With a holiday that welcomes mon-sters, supernatural entities and homicid-al maniacs as honorary guests, the likeli-hood for heart-pounding jolts are quite

promising. When watched consecutively, these memorably terrifying films func-tion as a recipe for instant nightmares.

“SIGNS” (2002)

Before director M. Night Shyamalan and actor Mel Gibson were two of the most reviled people in Hollywood, they worked to-gether on the spine-tingling film “Signs.” With the film’s ominous rural setting, me-ticulous focus, steady pac-ing and mounting sense of dread, Shyamalan’s direc-tion was comparable to the great Alfred Hitchcock. The film earned its scares, cre-ating an eerie atmosphere, sympathetic characters and creatures that provoke high anxiety even upon a brief glimpse.

“ T H E E X O R C I S T ” (1973)

Is there anything more terrifying than watch-ing children surrender to the seductive powers of a demonic presence? You might think so, but then again, you have probably never watched Linda Blair’s haunting performance in “The Exorcist.” From the chilling score and the sinister cinematography to the grotesque makeup, “The Exorcist” reveals sear-ing passion and visceral thrills. William Friedkin’s horrifying American clas-sic became the standard by

which all other horror films would be evaluated.

“A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET” (1984)

In 1984, fear was personi-fied by a severely burned child murderer sporting a grimy fedora, a tattered Christmas sweater and tarnished knives for finger-nails. As if those descrip-tions are not unsettling enough, this deranged psychopath terrorized his victims in their dreams, giving insomniacs much to be grateful for. His name is Freddy Krueger (bril-liantly performed by Robert

Englund) and he is just one of the diabolical delights of the film’s visionary and stylish production. If you ever freaked out before drifting into a coma, you have Wes Craven to thank.

“HALLOWEEN” (1978)

There is something very unnerving about a tight-lipped serial killer that hides behind a blank white mask, obscuring any insight into his wicked de-meanor. Unlike the men-acing chatter of Freddy Krueger, the iconic Michael Myers represented a more subtle, lingering menace

reminiscent of a preda-tory shark approaching his defenseless prey. Cheaply produced in a mere 21 days and introducing actress Jamie Lee Curtis as a horror film “scream queen,” John Carpenter’s masterpiece “Halloween” proves that it doesn’t take elaborate set designs and special effects to scare the hell out of an audience.

“THE CRAZIES” (2010)

For those who have grown tired of the influx of “zombie films” over the last decade, the bloodcur-dling “The Crazies” took

the familiar aspects of the sub-genre, blew off the dust particles and added some much needed polish. The film is an improvement on George A. Romero’s acclaimed 1973 version, displaying impressive production value that is small and confined, dark and ominous, tranquil and lurid. For audiences to miss out on this shamelessly ef-fective and well-crafted splatterfest would be, well, crazy.

Laron Chapman is a film and media studies senior.

This is Halloween. But “This is Halloween” will have no place on this Halloween play-list. Neither will “Thriller,” so prepare to branch out a bit and open up your mind to some equally creepy, ghoulishly great tunes.

“I Put a Spell on You” by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins

I usually try to avoid clichés, but there’s no avoiding this song when it comes to Halloween. There are few things scarier than the singer’s screams and maniacal laughter. They don’t call him “Screamin’” for nothing.

“Psycho Killer” by Talking Heads

Sure, zombies and other creatures can be frightening, but what’s more terrifying than a killer among us regular humans? Stew on that for a while.

“Dracula’s Lament” by Jason Segel

OK, so this is not really scary — at all. But it is hilarious, and there’s only so much terror most people can take before they need a little bit of comic relief. Enjoy Jason Segel’s Dracula im-pression from “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” Thank me later.

“They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From the Dead!! Ahhhh!!”

by Sufjan Stevens

I’m going to be honest with you. I saw the ridiculous title of this song and immediately added it to the playlist without lis-tening to it. However, I did go back and listen, and I think the song earns the title. Mostly.

“She’s Not There” by The Zombies

First of all, the name of this band is The Zombies. However, this song is also unexplainably creepy. Who is “she”? Where did “she” go? These are the questions that haunt me.

“I’m Your Boogie Man” by White Zombie

The Boogie Man is real — this song proves it. Only a crea-ture that eats children could have such a terrifying voice.

“D.O.A.” by Bloodrock

Warning: This song is not for the faint of heart. The lyrics are based off of the singer’s real experience in a plane crash, and the results are a bit graphic. This is the creepiest of the creepy, so listen on if you dare.

Megan Deaton is a journalism sophomore.

I have always been a Halloween fanatic. Perhaps because it was how I was raised. When my mom would decorate for Halloween,

our house would be consumed by orange jack-o’-lanterns and fabric ghosts, resembling the Halloween section at Michael’s craft store. I

loved the thrill of getting scared around this time of the year. Walking through haunted houses and peeping in between my fingers while

watching “The Amityville Horror” are things I always did during Halloween. Now in college, I have not been able to show my love for Halloween as I used to. Studying for exams and writing papers have

replaced my adventures through haunted warehouses and pumpkin carving. But this year, I took a vow to get into the Halloween spirit —

or at least try to.

The college years are some of the last in which students can dress up in hilarious costumes and not feel completely ridiculous. Sure, in the real world there are the Halloween office socials and costume parties that typically involve small talk, but college is a time to make the memories last, even when you and your friends are dressed up in the outrageous Halloween costumes that are out there this year.

So what will you dress up as for Halloween this year? There of course are the typical costumes: Lady

Gaga, Marilyn Monroe, the Simpsons. But those are cos-tumes that have been worn before. Let’s think of some-thing original and creative.

After doing a little re-search, I found some of the top Halloween costumes for 2011. The store Halloween Express said some of its top costumes for this year are Pee Wee Herman, Beavis and Butthead, and The Muppets (Who doesn’t love the Muppets?). If you want to make a political state-ment, there is a mask avail-able at Halloween Express called the “Barack Insane Ozombie,” a depiction of

our president as a zombie. Why are zombies so popular lately? That’s something that should be discussed at an-other time.

I am a personal fan of ce-lebrity costumes. According to Ranker.com, the top celebrity costumes this year are Michael Jackson (Yes!), Charlie Sheen, Amy Winehouse, Sarah Palin and the cast of Jersey Shore. If you want to dress up like Snooki or DJ Pauly D, please make sure to not get a real spray tan; you wouldn’t want to be the color of a pumpkin for the next two weeks.

The top college Halloween costumes for this year, according to USA Today, are Nicki Minaj, the ballerina in “Black Swan,” Angry Birds and Beyoncé and her baby.

Other costumes I would like to see this year are Melissa McCarthy’s charac-ter from “Bridesmaids” and Conan O’Brien.

Maybe you already know what you are dressing up as, but if not, I hope this helped you think of some ideas. Happy Halloween, OU!

Lauren Duff is a University College freshman.

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AT A GLANCETop Halloween Costumes:

-Justin Bieber

-Katy Perry

-Where’s Waldo?

-Super Mario and Princess Peach

-Wicked Witch of the West and flying monkey

-Harry Potter

-Captain America

-The Smurfs

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Halloween mood with some upbeat tunes tonight by seeing “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” a musical-horror film with more music than horror. The musical, part of Campus Activities Council Film Series, will be showing at 7 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union courtyard.

Catch the ClassicsRunning now through

Halloween night, ABC Family is holding its 13th annual “13 Nights of Halloween.” Even if you don’t like being scared, start the weekend off with

watching other people jump out of their skin on “America’s Funniest Home Videos” on Friday followed by “The Addams Family.” Saturday and Sunday are full of shows that bring back memories, consisting

of “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” “Scooby-Doo,” “Casper,” “Hocus Pocus” and more. In case you didn’t catch some of the classics Saturday or Sunday, “Hocus Pocus” and “Casper” will be showing on Monday night to get you in that Halloween mood. Go to ABCfamily.com for a complete sched-ule of showtimes.

Haunt the Zoo The 28th annual Haunt

the Zoo at Oklahoma City Zoo will run through Monday, Oct. 31 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. This attrac-tion is kid-friendly, with

Thursday, October 27, 2011 • 11Life&Arts

It’s that time again to bring out the ghouls and ghosts, haunted housesw and scary masks.

While most relish in which haunted houses will scare them the most or which scary movies to watch on Halloween night, some shiver at the mere thought of a man in a mask chasing them with a chain saw.

Halloween is not for ev-eryone. Or is it?

Perhaps not all look for-ward to getting scared silly when seeing “Paranormal Activity 3,” but there are other aspects of Halloween that don’t jump out at you unexpectedly. Tap into the fall festivities without all the fright by checking into these Halloween attractions.

Pumpkin PaloozaThis might seem re-

motely elementary, but it is a fun way to bring out your inner Halloween spirit. Something as simple as purchasing a pumpkin from Walmart for fewer than $5 is a fun way to spend Halloween night with your roommate or friends. TG Farms Pumpkin Patch in Norman is a great place to pick out a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch. If you’re in the mood for a little out-door fun, TG Farms is great for a peaceful, yet fun night out. It features a hayride, corn maze, pick-your-own pumpkin from the patch and more. Tickets are $10 for nights and weekends and $8 for weekdays.

Spooky MelodiesLighten that dark

Spook-free Halloween options abound

“There are other aspects of Halloween that don’t jump out

at you unexpectedly. Tap into the festivities without all the fright

by checking into these Halloween

attractions.”

Carve a pumpkin or watch classic movies, shows

just the right amount of fright. The event is hosted by the Children’s Hospital Volunteers and Kohl’s Cares

for Kids.

Brooke Buckmaster is a University College freshman.

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Left: Pumpkins are just one of the ways you can enter-tain yourself on Halloween without getting scared. After you’re done carving your pumpkin, use the inside to bake a pie or a cake. You can even toast the seeds for snacks.

Bottom: Scooby-Doo and his team of meedling investiga-tors is just one of the Halloween-themed cartoons showing on TV this weekend. Other Halloween television classics include: Casper, Hocus Pocus and The Addams Family.

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Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Opportunity (ID-UROP)

Call for Proposals

The College of Engineering is seeking proposals for interdisciplinary research. A team involving a minimum of two students from two different disciplines is

required; one must be an engineering student.

Up to $2,000 will be awarded to each team. "

Please visit www.ou.edu/coe/idurop

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Applications are due:

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Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Opportunity (ID-UROP)

Call for Proposals

The College of Engineering is seeking proposals for interdisciplinary research. A team involving a minimum of two students from two different disciplines is

required; one must be an engineering student.

Up to $2,000 will be awarded to each team. "

Please visit www.ou.edu/coe/idurop

for application and more information

Applications are due:

November 16, 2011 by 5:00 p.m.

For additional information, please contact: Karen Horne, College of Engineering

Email: [email protected]

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Speaking on “Afghanistan, Pakistan and other Foreign

Policy Challenges”

Former U.S. Senator Chuck HagelCo-Chair of President’s Intelligence

Advisory Board

The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution.

Chuck Hagel is the author of America: Our Next Chapter, which provides a straightforward examination of the current state of the nation and offers proposals to address the challenges of the 21st century.

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