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Sam Bradford made his long-awaited return Saturday against Baylor. Find the recap inside.PAGE 6

Read what one student thought about the

Oklahoma Repertory Theater’s production of “The 25th Annual

Putnam County Spelling Bee.”

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The Susan G. Komen Race for

the Cure took place Saturday

morning in Oklahoma City.

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CAMPUS BRIEFS

TRAFFIC, PEDESTRIAN FLOW CHANGES FOR U2 CONCERT

GRANT FROM EXXONMOBIL CONTRIBUTES TO PROGRAMS

owl.ou.edu

OU Athletics Department offi cials announced traffic and pedestrian flow changes will be implemented today to allow for preparation for the U2 concert at The Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium Sunday.

Beginning Monday morning, north-bound Asp Avenue, north of Lindsey Street, will be closed. All traffi c bound for the Asp Avenue Parking facility can access the garage by turning north on Van Vleet Oval, which is one block west of Asp. The southbound lane of Asp will remain open for drivers exit-ing the parking facility. During this time period only, no vehicle park-ing is allowed on Asp Avenue from Lindsey north to Brooks.

In addition, pedestrian traffic through the south end zone of the sta-dium will be prohibited. Individuals are encouraged to use sidewalks along the south edge of the stadium along Lindsey Avenue or the Brooks Mall north of the stadium.

The U2 concert will take place Sunday and regular routes will re-open Thursday, Oct. 22.

—Daily staff reports

Until completion of renovations,

gymnasts adjust to small warehouse

RICKY MARANONDaily Staff Writer

The OU men’s and women’s gymnastics teams are enduring the use of a small ware-house as a temporary practice facility while they wait for construction and remodeling of their on-campus home to finish.

The Sam Viersen Gymnastics Center, located north of the Lloyd Noble Center, is under construction to expand the square footage of the building and also add soft foam pits and other ame-nities that will help gymnasts better train for competitions.

“When this building is complete, it will be the premiere collegiate gymnastics facility in the nation,” said K.J. Kindler, OU women’s gym-nastics head coach.

Kindler said the renovations being made to the Viersen Center were more of a necessity than a project to advance OU athletics.

“We only had one soft foam pit in the old building, and in the new building we will have 18,” Kindler said.

She said gymnasts use soft foam pits to practice learning new techniques, and because the old building only had one, it limited both the men’s and women’s teams training abilities.

While the Viersen Center is under con-struction, both gymnastics teams are

practicing in a warehouse located north of the Max Westheimer Airport at 2601 Venture Drive. The warehouse is an old gym formerly used for competitive cheer-leading training, said Daniel Furney, OU men’s gymnastics assistant coach.

Kindler said the warehouse, at 12,000 square feet, is half the size of what the newly expanded Viersen Center will be. When open, the $3 million gymnastics center will be 23,000 square feet.

“This is a renovation fully funded by pri-vate funds,” said Phillip Rogers, OU wom-en’s gymnastics team spokesman. “We made the move up to the temporary facility

in the summer.”The coaches and the athletes

have had to adjust to the changes a new building brings.

“Anytime you’re forced to move, it’s tough at first,” Furney said. “We had some trouble adjusting to the new building at first, and occasion-ally we have some difficulties with the building.”

While the teams were practicing Thursday, they spent the first 20

minutes of practice in the dark and without air conditioning. Electricity was restored to the warehouse after the teams completed warm ups.

“We’re really excited for what the new building will give us,” Furney said. “We are only here [in the warehouse] for a little while, and we are making the best out of it. We’ve actually become used to the building,

Gymnastics teams await remodeled facility

OU has received $54,800 in departmental grants from ExxonMobil Corporation in support of academic areas in the Michael F. Price College of Business, the Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy and the College of Engineering, as well as support for OU’s Career Services.

The ExxonMobil grants allow selected academic departments to allocate funds for various educational purposes, including scholarships, fi eld trips, visiting speakers, equip-ment purchases, student and faculty travel to academic-related activities and other educational projects.

ExxonMobil has contributed $2 million in departmental grants this year to 87 colleges and universities throughout the country to support various academic programs.

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In the passive water treatment system near Commerce, shown shortly after completion, contami-nated water flows between 10 man-made ponds that remove metal and contamination. Water enters the system orange and exits clear. Plants and grass now surround the once-barren area.

OU students help with projectto clean up Tar Creek areaArea deemed ‘irretrievably

damaged’ now able to support life

HAILEY R. BRANSONProjects Editor

COMMERCE — The water here is toxic.This was discovered in 1979. George

Mayer, a rancher who lives just outside this northeastern Oklahoma town of about 2,500,

noticed that his horses’ hooves, tails and bel-lies were becoming stained a sickly orange.

In his pasture, water filled with heavy met-als welled from the ground, bursting from century-old mining bore holes that had fi-nally filled to the top.

Thirty years later, OU researchers are cleaning up the contaminated water on Mayer’s ranch with an organic water

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‘LITTLE RASCALS’ STAR ON CAMPUSStudent reminisces about his

childhood role as ‘Porky’ in fi lm

JORDYN GIDDENS AND KAITLYN BIVINDaily Staff Writers

Not everyone has the opportunity to turn on the television and get paid for it.

Finance sophomore Zac Mabry does. At the age of three, Mabry had a brush with

Hollywood fame with his role as Porky in the 1994 film “The Little Rascals.” Every time the movie is played on television, Mabry said he re-ceives a small kick-back.

Mabry said he landed the role during a family trip to Dallas.

“My parents heard about the au-dition from my grandma,” Mabry said. “They thought [having me try out] would be a fun thing to do while we were there.”

Little did his family know that three-year-old Mabry would land the role as the youngest cast member of the “Rascals.”

“I was a loud, obnoxious kid,” Mabry said. “I wasn’t shy. I was just a kid from Oklahoma in a crowd of kids with professional headshots. It had

to be luck.”After securing his role, Mabry said he was

flown to Los Angeles where he and the other cast members lived during the four-month shoot.

During filming, Mabry established friend-ships with several of the cast members.

“I haven’t spoken to many of them in awhile,” Mabry said, “but Courtland Mead [Uh-huh] and Juliette Brewer [Marianne] and I have stayed the closest.”

Mabry said he learned his lines after hearing his mother read them through once.

“There would be times when the writers would make small changes to the script, and I would be

the first to correct them when the changes occurred,” Mabry said.

After “The Little Rascals,” Mabry said he did eight commercials, but hasn’t acted since.

“‘Rascals’ has always been a good conversation piece for me, and I’ve always looked at it as something to top in my life,” Mabry said. “I’d like to think that the coolest thing that will happen to me didn’t occur when I was three years old.”

Nowadays, Mabry said he finds life fairly

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Tickets still availablefor U2 360° concertCHARLES WARDAssistant Managing Editor

Tickets have not sold out for Sunday’s upcoming U2 concert at the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, according to U2’s official tour Web site. A quick look around the Internet, combined with a discussion with a Norman ticket re-seller, revealed a pair of tickets for sale for as low as $49. Red Zone seats can be found for more than $1,500 for two seats when ticket broker fees are factored in. Red Zone seats are reserved spots close to the stage with complementary refreshments and other goodies, said John Keele, manager of Norman’s Tickets Unlimited and its compan-ion Web site, oklahomatickets.com. For a look at a range of pric-es, as well as how Norman ticket sales are stacking up with other cities and reasons for reduced demand, read on:

DEPRESSED DEMANDDemand is down for this show when compared to the 1997 Rolling

Stones concert, which has also at the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, Keele said. He offered several reasons for this, including:

- The U2 concert is the day after OU-Texas. “A lot of people, eco-nomically, needed to pick one or the other ... and the Texas game is ingrained in our culture.”

- Despite OU’s two losses on the season, OU is still much better now (3-2) than it was on Oct. 28, 1997 (3-5, en route to 4-7) when the Rolling Stones played at the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, mak-ing football a larger economic and time priority today.

- The fi eld seating is general admission, while stadium shows typi-

TICKETS CONTINUES ON PAGE 2

JEREMY DICKIE/THE DAILY

Zac Mabry, finance sophomore, enjoys his time at OU as much as he can. Mabry played the character “Porky” as a child in the movie “Little Rascals.”STAR CONTINUES ON PAGE 2

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normal. He said most people don’t look at him and make the connection to Porky and that the information is usually passed through his friends.

“The first couple of times I introduced him as ‘Porky,’ he was embarrassed,” said Robbie Miracle, University College fresh-man and Mabry’s fraternity brother. “Now he just expects it.”

Nevertheless, Mabry is still humble about his fame.

“I find comfort in the fact that the movie is still $7.50 at Walmart,” he said. “It hasn’t reached the $5 bin yet.”

Although he is not currently interested in professional acting, Mabry said he has found ways to channel his creativity by joining University Sing with his fraternity.

“[U-Sing] was cool to try out for because it involves both acting and singing,” Mabry said.

Although Mabry does not plan on act-ing soon, he has kept his membership to the Screen Actors’ Guild, mainly because of its affordability, but also for benefits, he said.

“I’m still thinking about requesting my invitation to the SAG awards,” Mabry said.

In contrast with the movie, Mabry said he does not like pickles, and his “mama” no longer makes him eat them.

Meredith Moriak, managing editordailynews@ou.edu • phone: 325-3666 • fax: 325-6051

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and we’ve made changes to make the building seem like the old building.”

Furney said the installation of makeshift foam padding along with other measures keeps the gymnasts safe and comfortable as if they were practicing in the Viersen Center.

Rogers said all equipment was moved and set up in the warehouse.

The gymnasts are adjusting to the tem-porary building as well and said the move has not affected their performance.

“It’s a little further than the old building, and all summer we practiced without air conditioning,” said senior Corey English. “We know this is only for a little while, and we are also excited about what the new building will give us.”

The temporary practice facility is lo-cated six miles from the Viersen Center, but the gymnasts said the commute to practice is a small price to pay for a while during construction.

“I have to manage my time better get-ting back and forth from practice to class, but in the end I just look forward and say it will all be worth it later on,” said sopho-more Megan Ferguson.

Redshirt junior Ian Johnson said he is looking forward to the new facilities.

“You’ve got to do what you’ve got to do,” Johnson said. “We don’t get to sleep in that extra five minutes like we used to,

but we’re a team and we’re going to get through this transition together.”

Kindler said construction should be fin-ished before the spring semester begins, and the team hopes to move back on cam-pus into the Viersen Center during winter break.

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cally offer seats on the fi eld as a premium. Keele said many people, especially in an older demographic, want an ensured place to sit.

- U2 has been touring on a more consistent basis than the Stones had been, at the time of the 1997 concert.

- The Stones were the fi rst concert on Owen Field in about 20 years, compared to 12 years between the Rolling Stones and U2.

Sources: John Keele, soonersports.com, OU Daily archives

NEED TWO?Tickets for the U2 concert are still available from a wide variety of sources. Listed prices are for a pair of

tickets as of Sunday afternoon.

- TICKETMASTER (LIVENATION, U2’S CONCERT PROMOTER, SELLS TICKETS THOUGH THIS SOURCE)

- Most expensive: $547.80 including required fees, not including shipping, for a pair in Section 32, Row 11 (east side of the stadium at about the south 30-yard line).

- Least expensive: $78.50 including required fees, not including shipping, for a pair in Section 7, Row 67 (west side of the stadium, at about the north 30-yard-line)

- OKLAHOMATICKETS.COM

- Most expensive: $1,064.25 including 7.5 percent sales tax, not including shipping, for a pair in Section 32, Row 31 (east side of the stadium at about the south 30-yard line).

- Least expensive: $193.50 including 7.5 percent sales tax, not including shipping, for a pair of fi eld general admission seats or for seats in Section 3, Row 61 (west side of the stadium at about the south 10-yard line)

- oklahomatickets.com is affi liated with Tickets Unlimited, located at 2215 W. Lindsey St. in Norman. Keele said he had tickets for sale ranging from about $170 for a pair to $752.50 a pair, including sales tax.

- EBAY (BUY IT NOW PRICES)

- Most expensive: $1,299, not including shipping, for a pair in the Red Zone (reserved stage-side seat-ing).

- Least expensive: $49, not including shipping, for a pair in Section 11, Row 57 (northwest corner of the stadium).

- STUBHUB (OWNED BY EBAY)

- Most expensive: $1,509.20, including required fees, not including shipping, for a pair in the Red Zone (reserved stage-side seating).

- Least expensive: $85.80, including required fees, not including shipping, for a pair in Section 105, Row 4 (west side of the stadium in the upper deck, between the 20- and 30-yard line).

- TICKET CITY

- Most expensive: $1,525, including required fees, not including shipping, for a pair in the Red Zone (reserved stage-side seating).

- Least expensive: $82.96, including required fees, not including shipping, for a pair in Section 1, Row 67 (southwest corner of the stadium).

Sources: 360.u2.com, ticketmaster.com, oklahomatickets.com, John Keele, ebay.com, stubhub.com, ticketcity.com

STILL SOME EMPTY SEATSOf the seven shows remaining on the North American portion of U2’s 360 Tour, three are sold out:

- Las Vegas (Sam Boyd Stadium, football capacity 36,800, expandable seating more than 40,000), Oct. 23- Los Angeles (Rose Bowl, football capacity more than 90,000), Oct. 25- Vancouver, British Columbia (BC Place Stadium, full amphitheater concert seating 55,000), Oct. 28

Four still have tickets for sale:

- Dallas (Cowboys Stadium, fi xed seating 80,000 expandable seating to 100,000), Monday- Houston (Reliant Stadium, offi cial capacity 71,500), Wednesday- Norman (Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, offi cial capacity 82,112), Sunday- Phoenix (University of Phoenix Stadium, offi cial capacity 63,400, expandable to 72,200)

Sources: unlvrebels.cstv.com, rosebowlstadium.com, bcplacestadium.com, stadium.dallascowboys.com, reliantpark.com, soonersports.com, universityofphoenixstadium.com.

Note: listed capacities do not include fl oor or fi eld seating.

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- In the dock scene where Porky falls in, it is actually a little person who falls into the water because Mabry couldn’t swim.

- In that same scene, the shoes of both Porky and Buckwheat were attached to the platform to produce the leaning effect.

- The pickle Mabry is holding during his scene with Buckwheat is fake. Mabry couldn’t grip the actual pickle, and it grossed him out.

- According to Mabry, the bullies in the movie, “Butch” and “Woim,” were the two nic-est people on set.

- A 6.8 earthquake hit Los Angeles during fi lming. Mabry slept through it.

- The Spice Girls stayed in the same apart-ment complex as Mabry during fi lming.

LITTLE KNOWN FACTSPHOTO PROVIDED

AMY FROST/THE DAILY

Junior Natalie Ratcliff performs during a competition for the 2008-2009 season. The women’s gymnastics team currently prac-tices in a warehouse located near the Max Weistheimer Airport at 2601 Venture Drive.

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treatment system that, after almost a year of use, they are calling a success.

TAR CREEKAn area roughly 40 square miles that in-

cludes portions of Commerce and the towns Pitcher, Cardin, North Miami and Quapaw is known as the Tar Creek Superfund Site.

The federal government in 1980 passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, creating a trust fund for the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up sites deemed environ-mentally hazardous.

Tar Creek was put on the National Priorities List in 1983.

From the early 1900s through the 1970s, the area was mined for lead and zinc ore, ac-cording to the Oklahoma Plan for Tar Creek.

The process left a waste product, called chat, that looks like limestone gravel. It was piled into grey mountains, some up to 200 feet tall, that now tower above the small towns and blow lead-filled dust in the wind.

The process also left miles of underground tunnels, bore holes and mine shafts, which, over time, filled with water and surfaced. The water mixed with the metals, becoming acidic.

The water — which has high concentra-tions of lead, zinc, iron, cadmium and arse-nic — has killed fish and plants and has con-taminated the soil around it.

OU RESEARCHWhen William Strosnider, an OU environ-

mental engineering doctoral student, first walked on Mayer’s ranch about four years ago, he sank into the orange sludge that cov-ered the ground and was, in some places, waist-deep.

Today, the sludge is gone. Flowers and grass now grow on the land that was without any vegetation a year ago.

And on the site runs the result of years of research and planning: the nine-acre passive water treatment system that OU researchers designed with the engineering firm CH2M Hill.

The system builds on natural processes that were cleaning the water on a much smaller level.

“Nature was kind of doing the work, but we’ve set the stage for nature to do it a little more efficiently by confining it,” Strosnider said on the ranch Wednesday.

CLASSROOM ON THE SUPERFUND SITEThe project has been funded by the EPA

and the U.S. Geological Survey through the Oklahoma Plan for Tar Creek, a multi-agency plan designed to address issues in the area.

Multi-year research and work on the site

was funded by two different research grants with total agency funding of over $6.1 million over five years, said Robert W. Nairn, an OU engineering professor who has helped lead the research.

The contracts run out next year, he said, and he and others are writing proposals for more.

OU has given approximately $156,000 in tuition reimbursements to graduate students involved in the research, he said.

About a dozen OU engi-neering graduate students currently monitor the sys-tem with Nairn, who has brought many students to the site for research over the last decade.

At least 30 theses and dissertations have been written about the site, Nairn said.

“We look at this as a liv-ing laboratory,” he said. “If you’re going to be doing environmental work, you have to get out in the environment.”

Small groups of students make the three-and-a-half-hour drive to the site at least once a month for monitoring and maintenance.

When they do not have enough research grant money for hotel rooms, they camp in tents in a state park nearby.

Strosnider has been coming to the site for four years.

“To me, it’s especially cool because I was here when it was just a sludgy wetland,” he said. “It’s completely different now.”

CLEANING THE WATERNairn and Strosnider led a group of local

residents, city government officials and re-porters through the area last week.

The system, which cost $1.2 million to de-sign and build, was completed in November 2008. It consists of a series of 10 ponds, each of which has a specific function in the clean-ing process.

Water flows between the ponds naturally via gravity.

Once the orange water comes out of the ground, it enters the first pond, which is U-shaped.

The air around it smells musty and metal-lic, like the inside of a charcoal grill long after the fire has burned out.

The smell is rust, Nairn said.Water flows into this pond at a rate of

about 150 gallons per minute, Nairn said. The 4-foot-deep pond is designed to remove the iron from the water by letting it solidify into rust so it can settle to the bottom of the pond and separate from the water.

Nairn said the pond is built to last 30 years before the solid iron has to be recovered. Students are trying to determine if the mate-rials will be able to be used, he said.

“Even if we can’t recover that material,

we’ll have a positive environmental impact,” Nairn said.

After water is filtered in that pond, the flow is split, and water drains into two identical shallow ponds, which act as wetland filters. The rest of the iron settles in these ponds.

The water flows from these ponds into two more identical ponds that are filled with organic compost. These ponds are called vertical-flow bioreactors.

Water flows into the pond through valves and has to pass through the compost and a layer of limestone at the bottom, both of which continue to filter the water.

In these conditions, mi-crobes that digest the metal particles grow naturally.

“They grow and prosper and are happy, and they help us clean the water,” Nairn said with a smile.

By the time the water reaches the bottom, it is free of zinc, cadmium and lead.

In the next two ponds, oxygen is pumped back into the water since it is removed in the underground process in the previous ponds.

Pumps, much like those in fish tanks, bub-ble in these two ponds. The pumps are pow-ered by wind power from a 20-foot windmill between the ponds and by solar-charged batteries.

Water flows from these ponds into two beds of limestone targeted at zinc removal.

The zinc, Nairn said, is the most difficult to remove.

As water moves horizontally through the limestone, the zinc hardens, and the water is filtered.

From here, the parallel water structures

are joined, and all of the water flows into one final pond, where most particles that remain settle.

The water from this pond is discharged through a pipe and released back into the ecosystem. It drains into an unnamed trib-utary and, eventually, into the Tar Creek stream.

It takes about three weeks for water to flow through the entire system.

After it does, the once-orange water is clear.

BACK INTO THE ECOSYSTEMThe system is designed to remove about

105,000 pounds of iron, 6,000 pounds of zinc, 500 pounds of nickel and 200 pounds of alu-minum every year.

It also removes 40 pounds of arsenic, 33 pounds of lead and 8 pounds of cadmium.

The tributary into which the water flows has seen the return of plants and animals.

The system cleans about 20 percent of the contaminated water in the Tar Creek water-shed, Nairn said.

Nairn and other OU researchers up-date the EPA four times a year with project results.

“We’ve been keeping them well-in-formed,” he said.

He said he hopes the project, which he called a demonstration project, will be seen as proof that the water can be cleaned nat-urally and that cleaning can be done on a larger scale.

“We are committed to monitoring and try-ing to understand the system over a lifetime,” he said.

Nairn said that the EPA deemed Tar Creek “irretrievably damaged.” This project, he said, will “hopefully influence them to change their tune.”

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HAILEY R. BRANSON/THE DAILY

Robert Nairn, an engineering professor who has helped lead the research on a passive water treat-ment system near Commerce, explains how the system works.

“We look at this as a living laboratory. If you’re going to be doing environmental work, you have to get out in the environment.”

—ROBERT W. NAIRN, OU ENGINEERING PROFESSOR

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People are supposed to be informed of their rights.

Informing citizens of their Miranda rights is an example of this con-cept, which is embedded deeply into Amer ican political philosophy. Yet, there is one right that the government hopes you re-main ignorant about.

Jury nullification is a right which we are not sup-posed to speak of or know anything about. It is the practice of a jury finding a defendant not guilty by

determining that the law itself is immoral or the application of the law is unjust.

The right of the juries to nullify laws is a result of two powers juries have.

First, jurors are not able to be legally pun-ished for their verdicts.

Second, regardless of how jurors reasoned the decision, people cannot be retried once a jury has found them not guilty of a charge.

As a result, jurors can input moral rea-soning into their decision making, while remaining safe from reproach for their decision.

John Adams famously argued that for a

juror, “it is not only his right, but his duty – to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct oppo-sition to the direction of the court.”

This examination of conscience and moral understanding played an important role in the establishment of the American legal system.

One example is the sedition trials of the American colonists. In the American colonies, jurors refused to find defendants guilty of sedition even though they had violated the letter of the law. The jurors felt that the sedition laws were im-moral, and they effectively nullified the se-dition laws by failing to convict those who were charged with violating it.

A more dramatic example is the jury nul-lification of fugitive slave laws.

These laws required people to return slaves to their owners. Failure to return slaves would result in prison time and/or fines. However, juries nearly always ac-quitted people accused of helping fugitive slaves because many people found the laws

morally repugnant. This effectively made fu-gitive slave laws unenforceable.

Jury nullification hit a wall in the 1890s when juries began to nullify laws that were beneficial to corpo-rations. It was these outcomes that led the Supreme Court to rule in 1895 that jurors do not have to be informed by the judge about their right to nullify.

Even though jurors don’t have to be in-formed of the right, the court still upheld the right of jury nullification.

Recently, the courts have taken a peculiar position on jury nullification. Lawyers and judges cannot inform the juries of this right.

If an attorney attempts to appeal to moral sentiments embedded in the concept of jury nullification, he or she is often held in contempt of court. Yet as recently as 1972, the courts upheld the fundamental right of juries to nullify laws.

The doublespeak from recent court deci-sions is baffling.

Basically what the courts have said is that you have this important right, but you

cannot be informed of it during the only time you can use it (i.e. during jury duty).

In fact, if somebody tells you of this right when it is relevant, he or she will be held in contempt of court. This is not the position to take when it affects citizens’ rights.

How weird would it be to say you have a right to free speech, but you can’t bring that up in a court of law? Effectively that right wouldn’t mean much.

But since our government is not going to inform us about this fundamental right, we must educate ourselves on this matter. I rec-ommend checking out the Fully Informed Jury Association’s Web site, fija.org, as a starting point.

Because we need informed citizens for our form of government to work, I encour-age everyone to educate themselves on this issue.

Recognize that if you are on a jury, you are not bound by the mere facts of the case. You can use your moral judgment and strike down immoral laws.

In fact, according to the people who founded this country, it is your duty to judge the fairness and justness of the law.

Tarrant Carter is a philosophy and psychology senior.

Last Friday, President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his “efforts to

strengthen international diplo-macy” and his goal of achieving a world without nuclear weapons.

Since then, Obama has re-ceived criticism from both the left and the right for having the sheer audacity to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize by a secretive panel of judges he’s never met.

With the cutting insight that has been his hallmark for years, Rush Limbaugh released a state-ment saying that the “elites of the

world” are trying to encourage Barack Obama to “continue his intentions to emasculate the United States.”

Basically, Rush is saying the prize’s judges are encouraging Obama to use America’s military less. He thinks this is bad.

Well put, Rush. A Nobel Peace Prize for Barack Obama is just

Norway telling us to put our military back in our

pants.And Rush is right : What’s with these uppity

Norwegians trying to dictate to us how we can or cannot use our military? Those Europeans are probably just upset because they’ve all got tiny armies. If Norway tried to invade Afghanistan with its military, Afghanistan probably wouldn’t even know it was there.

Norway hasn’t even invaded another country in over a hundred years. It probably doesn’t re-member what it feels like.

Well, we do. Let’s not forget that swinging our armed forc-

es all over the world is part of a long American tradition.

Ever since the mid-19th century we’ve been whipping out our military whenever we feel the need.

Sometimes it’s about the price of bananas. Sometimes it’s about the price of oil.

Whatever commodity we happen to be de-fending, we haven’t been afraid to employ our military and do what it takes to show those other countries who’s boss.

Sometimes just showing it to them is enough. It really is an intimidatingly large military.

But sometimes that’s not enough. And when it isn’t enough, we need someone like former President George W. Bush or former Vice President Dick Cheney. These are people who really know how to handle a military as big as ours.

So, Barack Obama, say “no” to that Nobel Peace Prize.

Rush is right. I don’t know how they do it in other countries, but here in America we don’t listen to anyone else. Especially not when it comes to our military.

The United States has the largest de-fense budget in the world. Most other countries haven’t even seen a defense budget half the size of ours.

Sometimes we’ve just got to get our boys out there and commit to a pro-longed military insertion. And once you’re in there, everyone knows you don’t pull your military out until the job’s done.

Only a Nobel Peace Prize-winning sissy would even think about something like that.

So if you don’t know how to use a mili-tary like ours, you need to step aside and let a real man like Rush show the rest of the world how it’s done.

Chris Dearner is a linguistics and English senior.

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Heisman-winning quarterback Sam Bradford is back for the Sooner football team.

The U.S. soccer team advanced to the World Cup by defeating Honduras this weekend.

Although gay people should be able to fully express themselves every day, Sunday was National Coming Out Day, which provided an organized opportunity for them to do so.

OU students can look forward to an exciting weekend that will feature the annual OU-Texas football game and the U2 con-cert Sunday.

THUMBS DOWN

OU’s red zone offense had some trouble getting into the endzone against the Baylor Bears Saturday.

Lines were long for the too-few ATM machines at the football game Saturday.

Part of Asp Avenue will be closed this week, making it tougher to get around and park on campus.

OU students only get a one-day fall break.

OU has a six-year graduation rate of 63.5 percent, significantly lower than our university’s chief rival, the University of Texas, which has a six-year graduation rate of 78 percent, according to a Sunday article in The Oklahoman.

W h i l e w e u n d e r s t a n d O U President David L. Boren has achieved a lot in this area during his tenure (when he arrived in 1994, OU’s graduation rate was less than half), these numbers still frustrate us.

Whether we like it or not, the fact is, UT’s national reputation is bet-ter than OU’s. There are a number of factors that contribute to this, including that UT is the premier public university in Texas, a state with a much larger population than Oklahoma. That allows UT to attract a higher number of in-state students than OU, which means it can be a little more selective in whom it accepts.

We are not faulting OU admin-istrators or recruiters for this unac-ceptably low six-year graduation rate because we understand strides are being made, and they are doing what they can.

But it is frustrating nonetheless, and we can’t help but turn our at-tention toward Oklahoma’s pre-college public education system.

Obviously not all OU students come from public high schools in Oklahoma, but many do. And these statistics from The Oklahoman are another indicator that Oklahoma’s public education system is deeply flawed. (Yet another indicator was the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs survey of high school stu-dents editorialized in the Oct. 8 Our View. To read that editorial, visit OUDaily.com.)

Many Oklahoma high school graduates are not properly pre-pared when they graduate, and this shows when they get to college.

So what can be done to solve this difficult challenge?

We suggest calling your state leg-islators and telling them to focus on improving Oklahoma’s public edu-cation system.

They are not currently in session, but they can still be reached by phone or e-mail, and if they receive enough complaints from constitu-ents, hopefully it will have an effect in terms of legislation.

Graduation rates show faulty education system

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College of Law project will help

domestic violence victims fi le for

protective order

KATHLEEN EVANSDaily Staff Writer

The OU College of Law is starting a new project to help victims of domestic violence file for protective orders.

The project was started by a student public service group, Students for Access to Justice, with the help of a few law professors. One pro-fessor, Connie Smothermon, used to pros-ecute domestic violence cases and was head of the department in Oklahoma County.

“I used to think when I was prosecut-ing homicides that I was pretty important, but you know, really, if he’s already killed her, what am I doing?” Smothermon said. “What’s really important is that we stop a vio-lent episode when it’s happening or we try to keep the victims in the system safe enough so that it doesn’t happen again.”

The student volunteers will spend a few hours a week at the Cleveland County Courthouse helping any victims who come

in fill out a Victim’s Protective Order, a type of order that sues someone for committing an abusive crime, Judge Jequita Napoli said.

Napoli works at the courthouse on what she called the “Kleenex docket” – working with domestic violence and mental health cases.

Because the law school volunteers are often the first people a victim will tell about the crime, it is impor-tant that they establish a good relationship with the person, letting them know about the process and what resources they have, Napoli said. Also, volunteers are in charge of getting as much infor-mation about the crime and the history as pos-sible because this is what will be used in any future court hearings.

After filling out the petition, volunteers will then help victims go through the rest of the process of filing it and getting a court date, Napoli said.

“This is the first experience I will get [with the legal system],” said Megan Dearth, first-

year law student. “I’m really nervous about it. It’s kind of nerve-wracking that you are in the position to get the facts that will be used in a trial. You also have to think of the victim, but also take everything from an objective standpoint.”

Students interested in the program went to an informational training session on

Saturday. At the session, Smothermon prepared students by telling them facts about domestic vi-olence and by debunk-ing myths people often have about victims.

“I met my first do-mestic abuse victim in 1994, that I knew of at least, and I had a few ideas about victims of domestic violence, most

of which have been shattered,” Smothermon said. “One myth is that domestic violence victims are weak. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. Actually they are some of the strongest people that I have ever met.”

Smothermon also told volunteers that abuse is a pattern, and chances are when

they see a victim it will not be the first time this has happened to them. However, it is important to work with the victim because domestic violence can actually harm the community if a person gets angry enough to commit an act in public, something she has seen in her career as a prosecutor.

Peak times when volunteers are needed to assist victims are Monday mornings, after a long break, during the holiday season, be-fore lunch hour and right before the end of the workday, Napoli said.

The Students for Access to Justice group is now in its fifth year, founder Judith Maute said. She estimates that students have done 77,000 hours of community service. Although she is helping with the new program to help fill out petitions, Maute said that she believes in having students run things and promote public service among their peers.

Student coordinators for the program are fourth-year law student Amy Kamp and third-year law student Kayna Stavast-Piper.

Student volunteers to assist domestic violence victims

If you are a victim of domestic violence, call the state hotline at 1-800-522-SAFE. The national hotline is 1-800-799-SAFE.

“What’s really important is that we stop a violent episode when it’s happening or we try to keep the victims in the system safe enough so that it doesn’t happen again.”

CONNIE SMOTHERMON, LAW PROFESSOR

RICKY MARANON/THE DAILY

Four participants run toward the finish line hand in hand at the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Oklahoma City Saturday.

RICKY MARANON/THE DAILY

Breast Cancer survivors were honored in a ceremony after the 2009 Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure was finished. Cancer survivors were given a rose as they stood on the field of the SBC Bricktown Ballpark in front of a large audience Saturday.

VOLUNTEERS RACE FOR THE CURE IN OKLAHOMA CITY

POLICE REPORTSThe following is a list of arrests

and citations, not convictions.

The information is compiled

from the Norman Police

Department and the OU Police

Department. All those listed are

innocent until proven guilty.

PUBLIC INTOXICATIONKorley Scott Anderson, 31, 909 24th Ave. S.W, Thursday

John Jospeh Bender, 44, 794 Asp Ave., Friday

Robert Wesley Bryant, 33, 1300 Jenkins Ave., Saturday

Jeren Blayne Leonisio, 23, East Lindsey Street, Saturday

Edward Douglas Smart, 33,

747 Asp Ave., Saturday

DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCENolen Omar Atkins, 25, 615 W. Main St., Thursday, also municipal and county warrants

Daniel Craig McCain, 22, East Lindsey Street, Saturday, also possession of drug paraphernalia and driving with a revoked license

Andrew Patrick McCollum, 23, George Avenue, Saturday, also

driving under a suspended license

POSSESSION OF MARIJUANAJonathan Michael Brou, 20, 1712 Hazelwood Drive, Wednesday, also possession of drug paraphernalia

Kime Edward Lowe, 19, 1109 E. Lindsey St., Friday, also pos-session of drug paraphernalia

Dustin Nicholas Donaghe, 20, 2200 Classen Blvd., Saturday, also possession

of drug paraphernalia

Joel Mikhail Jezdan, 18, 750

E. Lindsey St., Saturday

ASSAULT AND BATTERYThomas Munns Burke, 27,

211 E. Main St., Thursday

AGGRAVATED DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCEMattie Amelia Deer, 25, 2520 156th Ave. N.E., Wednesday

Anthony Wayne Burgess, 22, 563 Buchanan Ave., Friday

Keith Robert Hurdelbrink, 24,

2501 Jenkins Ave., Saturday

DISTURBING THE PEACECarol Rae Leslie, 45, 1325 Crown Point Ave., Wednesday

Kathryn Logan Coffman, 21, South Pickard Avenue, Saturday

Kori Ann Ford, 21, South

Pickard Avenue, Saturday

MUNICIPAL WARRANTGary Merle Osborne, 55, 1031 E. Arkansas St., Thursday

Jennifer Lynn Pierce, 35, West Robsinson Street, Wednesday

Quennin E. Tillman, 34, 2007 W. Lindsey St., Thursday

Amber Jo Lewis Barnes, 24, Indian Hills Road, Friday, also county warrants

Jafar Sadiq Bu Mijdad, 22, 201 W. Gray St., Friday

Jameel Asmar Pickens, 26,

201 W. Gray St., Friday

MINOR IN POSSESSION OF

ALCOHOLMitchell P. Vile, 18, 1826 W. Robinson St., Thursday

Cady Kathlene Parker, 18, 2200 Classen Blvd., Saturday

Travis Aldean Strout, 20, Glen Oaks Court, Friday, also pos-session of marijuana and pos-session of drug paraphernalia

Blake Ryan Wilbanks, 18, 2200

Classen Blvd., Saturday

DOMESTIC ABUSERonald Slade McDermott, 37, 2404 Hunting Horse Trail, Friday

Samuel Gbadeyan Adeoye, 32,

1437 Deer Chase Drive, Saturday

TRESPASSINGTaylor Nicole Anderson, 19, 2200 Classen Blvd., Saturday

John Joseph Davis, 21, 2200 Classen Blvd., Saturday

Jamie Rebecca Jones, 19, 2200 Classen Blvd., Saturday

Megan Adele Kennedy, 20, 2200 Classen Blvd., Saturday

Kristen Elizabeth Kepka, 19, 2200 Classen Blvd., Saturday

Aaron Daniel Leddy, 24, 2200 Classen Blvd., Saturday

Dean Emerson Mackert, 24, 2200 Classen Blvd., Saturday

Chelsa M. Martin, 24, 2200 Classen Blvd., Saturday

Preston Gerald Martin, 25, 2200 Classen Blvd., Saturday

Justin Andrew Rutherford, 22, 2200 Classen Blvd., Saturday

Candace Renae Square, 19, 2200 Classen Blvd., Saturday

CAMPUS NOTES

TODAYCAREER SERVICES

Career Services will host Interviewing 101 at

noon in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Career Services will have walk-in

hours at 1:30 p.m. in the Union.

TUESDAYSOWER MAGAZINE

Sower Magazine will have a table to

answer questions about the new edi-

tion at 10 a.m. in the South Oval.

CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUS

Christians on Campus will host a Bible

study at noon in the Union.

CAREER SERVICES

Career Services will have walk-in

hours at 1:30 p.m. in the Union.

MARK ALLEN EVERETT POETRY SERIES

The Mark Allen Everett Poetry Series will host a

poetry reading presenting OU English & Native

American Studies professor Dr. Kimberly Roppolo

at 7 p.m. in Jacobson House Native Art Gallery

on the corner of Boyd and Chautauqua.

STATE BRIEFS

MAN IN WHEELCHAIR DRAGGED BY SCHOOL BUS

ALTUS — An Altus school bus hit a man in a motorized wheelchair and dragged him more than 20 feet.

The bus turned right at a red light as the man was motoring across the street. The bus first pushed him, then it dragged him 23 feet. Police say students sitting on the right side of the bus saw the man and screamed for the driver to stop.

The man’s legs were abraded and he was checked at a hospital after initially refusing treat-ment. Police say the driver was cited for failure to yield to a pedestrian.

OFF-DUTY TULSA POLICE OFFICER AMONG 3 SHOT AT BAR

TULSA — An off-duty Tulsa police officer was among three people wounded early Sunday when shots were fi red into a bar from outside.

“All sustained signifi cant traumatic injuries and were reported to be in serious condition when paramedics transferred care to hospital person-nel,” the Emergency Medical Services Authority said in a news release.

Police were called to Kenny Mac’s Bar just before 3 a.m.—AP

Annelise Russell, sports editordailysports@ou.edu • phone: 325-7630 • fax: 325-6051

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BRADFORD’S RETURN LEADS OU TO WINJONO GRECODaily Staff Writer

It was not perfect, but Heisman-winning junior quar-terback Sam Bradford’s much awaited return to the grid-iron Saturday was nothing short of spectacular.

Bradford, who missed the No. 20 Sooners’ last three games with an AC joint sprain in his right, throwing shoul-der, completed 27 of 49 passes for 389 yards and a touch-down. This was the 13th time he has thrown for more than 300 yards in a game in his career, which is one 300-yard game short of OU’s all-time record.

“He played really well,” head coach Bob Stoops said. “To have been off as much as he has, to go out there in his first go at it, [and] to play as well he did, I thought he played great.”

One of the most encouraging things about having Bradford back under center was that the offense was able to find a consistent rhythm with its hurry-up offense.

“We just went a little faster,” offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson said. “I think Sam having played is just maybe a little bit quicker in the communication part and spinning it out, telling the big guys what’s going on. I think the real deal is with his confidence, calmness and experience I think he was able to work the line of scrimmage a little bit quicker.”

Another thing Bradford brought to the table Saturday that the Sooners were missing during his absence was the ability to spread the ball around to multiple receivers. He connected with nine different receivers, and seven receiv-ers had at least two catches.

“Having Sam back, that’s a boost,” junior wide receiver Brandon Caleb said following his 139-yard performance Saturday. “He’s a great player. I was excited to see him out there.”

Even though more receivers got their hands on the ball, there were many instances when they let balls slip through their fingers. The receiving corps dropped at least eight catchable balls, and let three or four more difficult passes fall to the ground.

Despite the lack of support from his receiving corps at times, Bradford still feels it can improve this late into the season.

“I still feel like our receivers made some great plays,” Bradford said. “I loved the energy that they were play-ing with. I’m sure we’re going to eliminate some of those drops down the road, but I thought they played great [Saturday].”

The biggest thing the Sooners can take away from Saturday’s game is that their leader is back to form. He

played a smart game, and did not make any mistakes that should be a cause for concern.

The question remains whether or not Bradford’s shoul-der will be sore over the course of the next few days. He threw 49 passes, which is the most he’s thrown in a single game since throwing the same amount of passes in last season’s Big 12 Championship game against the Missouri Tigers.

“[My shoulder] feels really good,” Bradford said after the game. “It’s felt a lot better this week compared to last

week.”Bradford and OU’s offense should feel good about itself

after putting up 592 yards.Wilson said the offense has found some confidence

heading into a big OU-Texas matchup on Oct. 17.“We need some positive mojo,” Wilson said. “I think the

way we finished was a nice statement more than anything else. That showed me that we’re pointed and moving in a better direction offensively.”

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Quarterback Sam Bradford passes the ball during Saturday’s game against Baylor. OU won the game 33-7.

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Florida State vs. Georgia Tech

Arkansas vs. (17) Auburn

(21) Nebraska vs. (24) Missouri

(12) Iowa vs. Michigan

(4) LSU vs. (1) Florida

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Volleyball falls to Big 12 rival Soccer caps weekend with mixed results

JAMES CORLEYDaily Staff Writer

The Sooner volleyball team lost a hard-fought battle at No. 2 Texas Saturday in three sets (25-27, 24-26, 15-25).

OU (11-6, 4-4) forced extra points in the first two sets but couldn’t gain enough momentum to take a set from the Longhorns (12-0, 7-0).

In the first set, the Sooners trailed by as many as eight but fought back to a 25-25 tie. But back-to-back kills by the Longhorns closed the game 27-25.

OU led early in the second set and controlled the game 20-18. Texas re-sponded to tie it up 24-24. Again, the Longhorns scored two consecutive points to close the set 26-24.

In the final set, OU continued its trend of lackluster starts after the break. Texas took advantage and never trailed the Sooners, building a lead that peaked at 22-11 that the Sooners couldn’t over-come. UT closed the match with a 25-15 third set win.

OU’s defense played well against the Longhorns, holding Texas’ powerful offense to a season-low .195 attack per-centage, well below their .321 season average.

But it was the Sooners’ inability to find a consistent offensive rhythm that led to

the loss. Oklahoma committed 27 attack errors.

Sophomore Brianne Barker had her 12th double-double this season for the Sooners, totaling 22 assists and 10 digs. She also added six kills.

Freshman María Fernanda led OU’s defensive stand with 14 digs and added a season-high three service aces.

Sophomore Caitlin Higgins led the

Sooners with 11 kills, followed by seven kills from junior Sarah Freudenrich and six kills from sophomore Suzy Boulavsky. Freudenrich also had three blocks, in-cluding two block solos.

The Sooners’ stretch of matches against ranked opponents continues this weekend in Norman against No. 17 Baylor (17-2, 6-2), who dropped a match to unranked Texas A&M Saturday.

TOBI NEIDYDaily Staff Writer

The Sooners return to Norman after two tough and chilly road games in the Big 12 North with the first road win of the season.

Friday’s 1-0 victory over Iowa State came with the help of the freshman class. Freshman Dria Hampton scored the winning goal against the Cyclones to lift the Sooners. Hampton’s goal came off of freshman Brianna Turang’s as-sist in the 65th minute.

A strong Sooner defense also made the difference in the game. Freshman goalkeeper Kelsey Devonshire supplied strong defense with eight saves, claiming her fifth shutout of the year.

The Sooners came up short against Nebraska Sunday, fall-ing by a score of 2-5. The game featured the top two scor-ers in the country in OU’s Whitney Palmer and Nebraska’s Morgan Marlborough.

After a Sooner lead in the first half by Palmer, the Huskers rallied to score two goals before halftime. Palmer would score another goal in the second half, but the Sooners would come up short in Lincoln as the Huskers scored the final goals in the 76th and 84th minutes.

The Sooners improved to 7-7-1, and return home for three games. The Sooners will face Kansas at 7 p.m. Friday and Missouri at 1 p.m. Sunday at John Crain field.

NEIL MCGLOHON/THE DAILY

Sophomore Setter Brianne Barker sets up Francie Ekwerekwu (11), junior middle blocker, during a game against Nebraska Sept. 30 in McCasland Fieldhouse.

UP NEXT FOR OU:

OU v. KansasFriday7 p.m.Norman

OU v. MissouriSunday1 p.m.Norman

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MILES TO GO by Alice Walker

ACROSS 1 Joint for

clothing 5 Spherical

hammer part 9 Barbecue

feature 14 The case

of the seamstress?

15 Ancient alphabetic symbol

16 Retired general Powell

17 Bible book after the Gospels

18 Parts of joules 19 “Aida”

premiere city 20 Set high

goals 23 Is in

possession of

24 Zebra’s cousin

25 Tropical tree with a thick trunk

29 Barbershop quartet voice

31 Damage the surface

34 Skiing mecca 35 Multinational

agreement 36 “Bet ya

can’t!” e.g. 37 “There is no

ceiling!” 40 Frequently

embroidered pronoun

41 “Ah, yes” 42 Apter for

polar bears 43 Period in a

historian’s

book 44 Team with a

bridge in its logo

45 Hard and cold

46 Capitol Hill figure, briefly

47 Dijon water 48 Positive

mantra 57 Carved entree 58 Awkward

brute 59 Hardly ___

(rarely) 60 Model air-

plane material 61 “An

American Tail” critters

62 Grape’s place

63 Like many a negligee

64 Battle-minded deity

65 Swirl in the stream

DOWN 1 Beaufort

and Bering 2 Create a

permanent impression

3 Manual alternative, briefly

4 Japanese soup

5 Built ahead of time

6 100-cent coins

7 Tech school grad

8 Swift production?

9 Get to, as the Web

10 Goes here,

there and everywhere

11 Dish with some of this and some of that

12 “The Tilled Field” painter Joan

13 Untraceable author, for short

21 “___ God!” 22 Possible

cause of errors

25 One way to come clean

26 “My Name Is ___ Lev”

27 One of four in Wagner’s Ring Cycle

28 Mrs. H.S.T. 29 Kathy of

“Misery” 30 Have pains 31 Mrs. D.D.E. 32 Ursula’s

nemesis in “The Little

Mermaid” 33 Attempt

again 35 Subtle alert 36 Bones that

are rolled 38 Knuckle

under 39 Like Disney-

land at night 44 Pestle’s

partner 45 Browns 46 No longer

de rigueur 47 Draw out 48 Spheres 49 Captain for

40 days and nights

50 Cloth ridge 51 ___ mater 52 Certain type

of film 53 “ ___ Only

Just Begun” 54 All fired up 55 Split with

violence 56 Squirrel’s

place

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2 8 1 31 8 76 3 2 5

1 7 5 2 45 7 8 6

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Monday, Oct. 12, 2009

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Much self-discipline and asser-tiveness are needed to put you in front of the pack, but you can do it, as long as you don’t let indifference get in the way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Something you’ve been mulling over again and again may be put to rest when you fi nally reach a conclusion that makes sense to you. You’ll be right in your determinations.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Have the courage to face things head-on, and you won’t have to dodge people or avoid handling a troubling responsibil-ity. Once you act on your convic-tions, everything will work out wonderfully.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Make plans now about how you propose to execute a critical project with a future deadline. Your mind is sharper than usual, and you’re likely to come up with some clever ideas.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Instead of letting events dictate the day, get moving on things that are important to you, especially if you want to make some constructive changes. Once you get a jump on things, nothing will interfere.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- In order to gratify your restless-ness or feelings of self-worth, you need to do something constructive. Better yet, make it a project that will attract others to your cause.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- This is likely to be a productive

day, because both your mental and physical attributes are apt to be sharper than usual and begging to be used. You can’t help but utilize them well.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- If your plans need the participa-tion of one friend in particular, get in touch with this person early on before he or she has a chance to do something else. He who hesitates is lost.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Rely on traditional methods or means to generate fi nancial gains, and you should do well for yourself. Hard work and stick-to-itiveness will make for a successful day.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- If you plan to engage in something new, mull things over fi rst to work out any potential bugs that could arise. Careful planning and execution will eliminate unexpected trouble.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- When it comes to performing a delicate or demanding task, try to fi nd a quiet corner where you can work uninterrupted. The less disruptions you have, the more productive you will be.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- You’ll get that opportunity to clear up any misunderstanding or misinformation that has been causing you needless trouble lately. Progress can be made once the air is purifi ed and emancipated.

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“Perspectives on Poolaw,” an art exhibit sponsored by the Jacobson House and curated by

Graduate stu-dent Yvonne N. Tiger, presents an illustration in generational bonds with the art of Thomas a n d H o r a c e Poolaw, grand-f a t h e r t o T. P o o l a w . T h e exhibit is from Oct. 9 to Nov.

19.The setting is intimate, pro-

viding an almost metaphoric example of family bonds.

T h o ma s’ a r t i s d i s p l ay e d throughout the house, his style reminiscent of generat ions past, but with a modern twist.

Often Po olaw w il l scre en print his grandfather’s photo-graphs and paint behind them, providing an effect similar to Andy Warhol’s pop-art prints, but with a native twist.

W o r k s s u c h a s “ K i o w a George” (2007) and “Linda and Corky #1” provide excellent examples of his unique style. T. Poolaw also ventures into the abstract with such works as “Rainbow Road and Red Lightning” (2009), leaving the viewer to decipher the meaning

in a beautiful display of colors and underlying heritage.

Horace’s photography dis-played throughout the exhibit is a testament to family l i fe and the vitality of his people. Often of elders or mother and child, the photos, such as the “Silverhorn” collection, are thoughtful and reflective de-picting color-washed images of his people with rosy cheeks suggesting the vitality of the tribe.

Curator Yvonne Tiger said the arrangement of the artwork was Thomas’ idea.

H o r a c e’s p h o t o g r a p h y i s displayed mainly on one wall of the exhibit providing a poi-gnant example of the bond be-tween grandfather and grand-son. His photography reflects from the back window out to-ward Thomas’ as if he is looking at his legacy.

“Perspectives on Poolaw” is more than just an exhibition of Native American art– it is a tribute to a grandson’s love for his grandfather and the ties that influence creativity with art that is both obvious and abstract.

The exhibit is on display at the Jacobson Native Arts Center, 609 Chautauqua Ave.

Kaitlyn Bivin is a University College

freshman.

KAITLYNBIVIN

LAS VEGAS — The Miss America Organization says Rush Limbaugh will be a judge for the 2010 pageant in Las Vegas. It will be held at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on Jan. 30, broadcast live on TLC. Limbaugh will be on the panel of seven judges that will help decide who will be crowned Miss America 2010.

-AP

STOCKHOLM — Herta Mueller, a little-known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniver-sary of communism’s collapse. The decision was expected to keep alive the controversy sur-rounding the academy’s pattern of awarding the prize to European writers. Mueller, a member of Romania’s ethnic German minority, was honored for work that, “with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed,” the Swedish Academy said. “I am very surprised and still cannot believe it,” Mueller said in a statement released by her pub-lisher in Germany, where she is widely renowned. “I can’t say any-thing more at the moment.”

-AP

EXHIBIT DISPLAYS NATIVE ART, CULTURE

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A piece of the Poolaw exhibit on disply at the Jacobson House Native Arts Center.

LIMBAUGH TO JUDGE MISS AMERICA PAGEANT

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German writer Herta Mueller, center, holds a news conference in Berlin.

HERTA MUELLER WINS NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE

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It ’s a safe bet your middle school was never this fun.

“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” is an abso-lute riot, finding large helpings of humor in the insecurities and idiosyncrasies of a group of ado-lescent spelling bee contestants and the foibles of the adults in their lives.

T h e i n t e r a c t i v e m u s i c a l comedy won a much-deserved Tony in 2005 for its sharp-wit-ted, yet affectionate book, and the Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre production that opened S a t u rd ay n i g h t s u c c e e d s i n bringing it to life in every pos-sible way.

Performed in the intimate CitySpace Theatre inside Civic Center Music Hall, City Rep’s production of “Spelling Bee” is like going back to middle school w i t h n o n e o f t h e aw kw a rd -ness. Well, at least not for the audience.

The show opens in the Putnam Valley Junior High cafeteria, where moderator and former spelling bee champ Rona Lisa Perretti (Renee Anderson) is set-ting up for this year’s bee. She’s joined by vice principal Douglas Panch (Michael Jones), return-ing to the bee to judge after a five-year absence, caused by an unnamed incident.

T h e s p e l l e r s a r e a v e r i -t a b l e c o r n u c o p i a o f n e u ro -s e s — t h e l i s p i n g a n d p o -l i t i c a l l y a c t i v e L o g a i n n e S c h w a r t z a n d g r u b e n i e r r e (Angela Lansdown), hippie-child in homemade clothes Leaf Coneybear (Matthew Bergman), a r ro g a n t a n d a l l e r g y -p ro n e William Barfée (Justin Larman), über-overachiever Marcy Park (Erin Clemons), timid and ne-glected Olive Ostrovsky (Haley J a n e P i e r c e ) a n d p r e v i o u s champ Chip Tolentino (Michael Stewart).

The contestants have their own proven method of spelling words, from outlining the letters on the floor with a foot to going into an involuntary trance.

Joining the actors are three audience members, selected before the show begins and re-quired to spell words just the same — but sometimes on a lower difficulty level. The con-testants’ outrage when an audi-ence member receives “cow” is double-over hysterical.

The spellers drop one-by-one, and when they do, they’re escorted away by the bee’s of-ficial comfort counselor, Mitch M a h o n e y ( Te r r e n W o o t e n Clarke), an ex-con doing his community service. Jettisoned spellers get a juice box, a hug and perhaps, a song for their troubles.

“Spelling Bee” works on a va-riety of levels — there’s loads of broad physical comedy, which the close proximity to the stage only enhances. But the book is also packed with witty barbs and linguistic humor, particularly in the definitions and sample sentences given to amplify the spelling words.

The show also succeeds be-cause of its undeniable love for its characters, as strange and unlikable as some of them seem. The increasingly poignant sec-ond act explores the unfulfilled expectations and the disap-pointments motivating each one to spell and to win.

These moments flow natu-r a l l y a m i d s t t h e a b u n d a n t laughs, which are contributed to by every single cast member’s commitment to his or her char-acter, but are especially induced by Bergman as the flighty and admittedly dim Leaf, Jones as the sarcastically deadpan vice principal whose anger is boiling at the edges, and Clarke, whose golden-throated counselor (and a quick deity cameo he makes) make for some of the show’s most surprising laughs.

C i t y R e p’s p r o d u c t i o n o f “Spelling Bee” is a gut-busting triumph. Expulsion ought to await those who miss it.

P e r f o r m a n c e s c o n t i n u e through Oct. 25 on Fr idays, Saturdays and Sundays at the C i t y S p a c e T h e a t r e i n C i v i c Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave. in Oklahoma City.

Dusty Somers is a journalism senior.

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‘SPELLING BEE’ CAST TAKES VIEWERS BACK TO JUNIOR HIGH

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A scene from the Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre’s production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” Performances will continue through Oct. 25 in Oklahoma City.

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Terren Wooten Clarke, Renee Anderson, Michael Jones, Haley Jane Pierce, Matthew Bergman and Erin Clemons in the Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre’s prodicution of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”

LLOYD WEBER MAKES NEW ‘PHANTOM’ SET AT CONEY ISLANDLONDON — Andrew Lloyd Weber has announced a sequel to his massively suc-cessful “Phantom of the Opera” that will be set at Coney Island. Weber’s new production, “Love Never Dies,” is due to open in London in March of next year.

The musical picks up a decade after the original’s conclusion and has the Phantom trading his hideout beneath the Paris opera house for the Brooklyn amuse-ment park. Weber said Thursday that he wanted to produce a sequel because the conclusion

of the original was too boring. The new musical will be staged in New York beginning in November 2010. The original hit musical featured elabo-rate staging and songs like “The Music of the Night.”-AP