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INDEXCampus .............. 2Classifieds .......... 6Life & Arts ........... 5Opinion .............. 4Sports ................ 7
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Muggles tackle Quidditch Read a fi rst-person account of Saturday’s
fi rst Quidditch tournament at OU, where two teams advanced to regional play
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Classic farce a crowd-pleaserUniversity Theatre’s production of “The Man Who
Came to Dinner” features brisk comedy from drama senior Curry Whitmire (shown left)
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Research vice president promotes scientifi c development on National Science Board
RENEÉ SELANDERSThe Oklahoma Daily
President Barack Obama announced his inten-tion to renominate OU’s research vice president to the National Science Board in a presidential press release Friday.
Research vice president and meteorology pro-fessor Kelvin Droegemeier completed his first six-year term as a member of the board in May.
The National Science Board is the governing board of the National Science Foundation, which is a government agency that promotes non-medical
scientific research in the United States and advises the president and Congress on research and sci-ence issues.
The National Science Foundation supplies ap-proximately one third of the research funding on OU’s Norman campus, Droegemeier said.
In his first term, Droegemeier co-chaired the Committee on Hurricane Research after
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and chaired the Committee on Programs and Plans, which re-views major grants from the National Science Foundation and works to promote research that focuses on science, technology, engineering and math advancements.
Droegemeier said the opportunity to identify research and education that promote technologi-cal improvements in the U.S. has been a fulfilling experience, one that he hopes to pursue in a sec-ond term.
The National Science Board works to com-petitively improve America’s scientific and
ONLINE AT OUDAILY.COM» Link: Press release announcing President Barack Obama’s intention to renominate OU research vice president to the National Science Board.
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OU will continue to accept donations for the 2010 United Way campaign until Dec. 10
CHASE COOKThe Oklahoma Daily
Cheers erupted and guests stood up out of their seats in the Embassy Suites University Ballroom as the red donation meter burst through the top.
OU’s United Way campaign didn’t reach their goal, but that didn’t keep the United Way of Norman from announcing they surpassed $1.9 million at Friday’s luncheon. Their final total was $1,967,597.
Jeff Bryant, who co-chaired this year’s campaign with his
wife, announced OU’s $205,173 total Friday.
He didn’t mention OU’s cam-paign not meeting their goal of $215,000 but did say their deadline had been extended to Friday.
“We are so thankful for the leadership and support of our wonderful university,” Bryant said.
While OU didn’t meet their goal before the United Way’s vic-tory luncheon, Anil Gollahalli, law professor and co-chair of OU’s campaign, said some of the recent donations haven’t been counted.
G o l l a h a l l i a t t r i b u t e d t h e poor economic climate as the main factor keeping them from
reaching their goal, but said OU offers multiple ways for staff, fac-ulty and students to donate.
B e s i d e s f u n d r a i s e r s a n d straight donations, staff and fac-ulty can sign up for payroll de-ductions, Gollahalli said.
T h e f o r m i s ava i l a b l e o n -line and spreads larger dona-tions throughout an employee’s paycheck, according to OU’s website.
E m p l o y e e s d o n ’ t h av e t o choose United Way; they can select any program, donate di-rectly to the Sooner Heritage Scholarship or give the university the freedom to send the money where it is needed.
Gollahalli volunteered for the his co-chair position and said he
was proud of the results.“We are very fortunate and
proud of the contributions by OU,” Gollahalli said.
L a s t y e a r, O U ’s g o a l w a s $210,000, and the campaign ra i s e d $ 2 2 0 , 0 0 0 . E a c h y e a r, OU sets a goal that anticipates the need of the community, Gollahalli said.
“We set aspirational goals,” Gollahalli said.
While OU didn’t meet these goals before the victory celebra-tion, Jed Dembowski, United Way of Norman vice president of marketing and communica-tions, said OU is still the biggest
United Way reaches goal despite OU falling short
SEE GOAL PAGE 2 SEE GSS PAGE 2
MATT CARNEY/THE DAILY
The football team celebrates its 23-20 victory over Nebraska in the Big 12 Championship on Saturday night at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The Sooners defeated the Cornhuskers to win their seventh Big 12 title and bring their series lead to 45-38-3. The No. 7 Sooners will play the unranked Connecticut Huskies in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl Jan. 1 in Glendale, Ariz.
For full coverage of the game and a look at the BCS bowl, see page 7.
UOSA Webmaster Act creates a position in charge of updating all UOSA websites
DANNY HATCHThe Oklahoma Daily
Sunday’s Graduate Student Senate meeting wrapped up the fall semester’s business, con-firming the UOSA Webmaster Act of 2010.
T h i s a c t will instate a single person to be respon-sible for up-dating UOSA’s websites.
The position will be a student clerk position, and the webmas-ter will report to Student Affairs. The act passed by unanimous consent.
Five other bills were present-ed, all of which passed. Four passed by unanimous consent.
The Undergraduate Student Congress passed the bills earlier in the semester. They will now go into effect.
The other bills passed includ-ed the Budgetary Procedures R e f o r m A c t o f 2 0 1 0 , O U Constitutional Amendments Resolution to the Board of Regents, Emergency Allocation No. 5 of 2010 and two acts to compensate those who worked for congress’ recent elections.
The Budgetary Procedures Reform Act of 2010, which was sent to the Ways and Means Committee Nov. 14 for review, passed by a placard vote.
The author of the bill, chemis-try sophomore Sean Bender, will now set all budget-related dead-lines at his discretion. Bender is the Undergraduate Student Congress’ Budgetary Committee chairman.
T h e O U C o n s t i t u t i o n a l Amendments Resolution to the Board of Regents passed by unanimous consent. The bill in-volved sending an updated con-stitution to the Board of Regents for review.
T h e F a l l E l e c t i o n Compensation Act of 2010 also passed by unanimous consent. The election board, who orga-nized congress’ recent elections, will be compensated for their duties.
Election Chairwoman and international and area studies
Senate wraps upsemester’s business
Obama renominates prof to science board
Kelvin Droegemeier
ONLINE AT OUDAILY.COM» Link: GSS meeting agenda
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
single contributor in the campaign.
“ It w a s n i c e t o m e e t our goal for the first time i n a c o u p l e o f y e a r s ,” Dembowski said. “It will
help us help other people in the community.”
The United Way raised $ 1 . 9 m i l l i o n l a s t y e a r, but also set a higher goal with $2.15 million, The Oklahoma Daily reported in 2009.
D e m b o w s k i s a i d t h e
United Way of Norman m a d e a n e x t r a e f f o r t this year to reach out to n e w c o n t r i b u t o r s a n d split up duties between employees.
“We can’t just do it and hope money comes in,” Dembowski said.
OU’s United Way cam-paign will accept dona-tions past its Friday dead-line. While any donations received after Friday won’t count toward the United Wa y ’s 2 0 1 0 c a m p a i g n , e v e r y d o n a t i o n h e l p s, Gollahalli said.
junior Natalie Jester will be compensated $200, while all election board members will be compensated $40.
A l p h a P h i O m e g a , O U C y c l i n g a n d t h e Asian American Student Association also will be compensated for operating the polls.
Also passed by unanimous consent was Emergency Allocation for 2010 No. 5, which compensated the OU Pre-Med Professionals Club.
Susan Adams-Johnson was elected the South-Central Regional chair for the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students.
Adams-Johnson and GSS Secretary Esther White re-cently attended the 2010 National Association of G ra d u at e - P ro f e s s i o na l Students conference where A d a m s - J o h n s o n w a s elected.
GSS meetings will resume next semester at 7 p.m. Jan. 30 in Sarkeys Energy Center, Room A-235.
technological advances, work that Droegemeier said is im-portant to the nation’s global standing.
“You never know what basic research will lead to,” he said.
Experience on the National Science Board allows Droegemeier to bring cross-departmental knowledge and information to OU classrooms.
He said his work on the National Science Board helps him advise his meteorology students about future research op-portunities and potential funding.
Droegemeier has also lectured political science students on public policy based on his experience testifying before Congress on matters of scientific research.
“I try my best to bring [the experience] back to campus
and the state of Oklahoma,” he said.As other countries, such as China and India, invest heav-
ily in scientific research, the U.S. is being challenged in its pursuits to advance in technological developments, espe-cially in an economic recession when funding is limited and less accessible, Droegemeier said.
“The challenge is going to be at the budget level for agen-cies like [the National Science Foundation],” he said.
Droegemeier said he looks forward to a second term on the National Science Board to confront the challenges that austere budgeting poses to scientific research.
Once Droegemeier is officially nominated by Obama, he must then be approved by the U.S. Senate, appointed by the president and sworn in to the National Science Board to be granted a second term of membership.
— Sydney McFerron contributed to this report.
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CAMPUS Reneé Selanders, managing [email protected] • phone: 405-325-3666
BOARD: U.S. Congress must approve selectionContinued from page 1
GSS: Also approves budget policy changesContinued from page 1
Today around campus» Baptist Student Union’s Conversation Club will meet 8 to 9:30 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Alma Wilson Room.
» Student Success Series will present “Eat Right for Success” from 1 to 2 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245.
» This day in OU history
Dec. 6, 1985Offi cials consider prosecution for test theft
OU considered fi ling charges against a group of students accused of harassing another student who reported the theft of a fi nal test in spring 1985. Because of the harassment she received for reporting the incident, the student left OU.
Students had stolen the test from a fi le drawer in associate professor Alexander Holmes’s locked offi ce by bribing a janitor to let them into the room. Punishments were dealt to all those involved.
Low fan turnout baffl es coachThe women’s basketball team had not lost a single
game, but fan attendance had nearly bottomed out. Only 94 to 109 fans attended the game where the OU women’s basketball team stomped Creighton 94 to 76.
“Well I’ve always won since I’ve been here,” said Maura McHugh, OU’s women’s basketball coach. “And people still aren’t coming to the games.”
The Sooners were 17th, the highest ranking they had ever received at that point.
*Source: The Oklahoma Daily archives
Tuesday, Dec. 7» Christians on Campus will host a Bible study noon to 1 p.m. in the Union’s Traditions Room.
» Union Programming Board’s Mid-Day Music will feature Thomas Glenn from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Union’s Will Rogers Room.
» Student Success Series will hold “Managing Stress” from 4 to 5 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245.
Thursday, Dec. 9» Union Programming Board Mid-Day Music will feature Anthony Nagid from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Union’s Will Rogers Room.
» Women’s Mentoring, hosted by Student Affairs, will take place 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Union’s Sooner Room.
Friday, Dec. 10» Union Programming Board will screen “The Town” at 4, 7, 10 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. in the Union’s Meacham Auditorium.
» African Christian Fellowship will meet 7 to 10 p.m. in the Union’s Heritage Room.
» Holiday Dance Club will meet from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. in the Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom.
Saturday, Dec. 1» University Theater will be performing “The Man Who Came to Dinner” at 3 p.m. in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center.
JALL COWASJI/THE DAILY
Graduate Student Senate members vote on the Budgetary Procedures Reform Act at Sunday’s meeting. The vote passed.
GOAL: OU still campaign’s biggest contributorContinued from page 1
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I ran to the middle of the field to grab the quaffle, the ball used to score. Unfortunately, a Fawkes Fighter who was much bigger than me was there too. His shoulder went into my chest as he knocked me to the ground.
I finally started to get the hang of the game when I heard a whistle. I turned and saw a Fawkes Fighter holding the snitch. We had lost 60-0.
It was disappointing, challenging and physical. But most of all, it was fun.
We waited for our next turn on the sidelines, trying to keep warm. Luckily, we got to play again soon, as not every team could show up. We also were short on players, so we took in re-placements from other teams.
The games through-out the day got extreme-ly physical as people started to understand the game better and felt more comfortable on the field.
University College freshman Jeff Levy was even taken to the hospital after a bro-ken broom gave him a gash in his left leg.
By the end of the day, we were down to six players as we dealt with the cold and fatigue. We had fought our way back and ended up in the championship game with the mighty Fawkes Fighters.
We were not too sure how we could play with only six players when our sav-ing grace came.
After receiving staples to the gash in his leg, Levy returned to play for us as our
seeker.“I could’ve gotten it either stapled or
glued,” Levy said. “But if I had it glued, I couldn’t play, so I had it stapled.”
Levy received a standing ovation from the few fans that braved the windy weath-er as he walked gingerly to our team.
We lined up again, ready for a rematch against the only team that had defeated us. The snitch was released and the match began.
We fought hard with the Fawkes Fighters as we now had the experience to keep up with them. Both teams struggled to score, but the Fighters took a 20-0 lead after scoring two quick goals.
Then, the snitch ap-peared. Levy raced alongside his opponent as he chased it down. I continued playing until I heard a whistle.
I turned to see Levy with the snitch in his hand. The game was
over. We had won 30-20.We began celebrating on the field as
the first OU Quidditch champions.Both teams shook hands and Rogers
announced that the top two teams, The Whomping Willows and Fawkes Fighters, would be representing OU at future inter-collegiate Quidditch tournaments. Those tournaments have yet to be determined.
The experience of playing the magical sport was, well, magical. I was sore and tired by the time I got back to my dorm room, but I wouldn’t trade the opportu-nity to play for anything.
Editor’s note: This is a continuation of news reporter Ryan Gerbosi’s fi rst-person account of his experience joining Hogwarts on Campus and competing in OU’s fi rst Quidditch tournament.
woke up Saturday with a sense of anxiety I hadn’t felt in years. I was ready to compete in a contact sport for the first time since I was
a high school freshman.My anxiousness was combined with
the uncertainty of this new game that few had heard of and even fewer had played. I rode over to the Quidditch pitch with members of my team, The Whomping Willows, as we scouted out our competi-tion. We felt from the beginning that we had a shot to win.
Our first match was supposed to be against Team Incendio, but they did not show, leaving us to play the Fawkes
Fighters, a team built around speed.We ran onto the field and into position.
Maggie Rogers, international studies and film and media sophomore and head of Gryffindor, explained the rules a final time. She had us return to our side, take a knee and wait for the golden snitch to be released.
In the Harry Potter series, the golden snitch is a magical ball that flies through the air. When the seeker catches the snitch, the game ends and the seeker’s team is awarded bonus points.
For muggles, or non-magical players, the snitch is a runner dressed in yellow with a ball taped to his back. To end the game, the seeker must grab the ball off the runner’s back.
We closed our eyes as the snitch was released and waited for the signal to start the match.
“Brooms up!” Rogers yelled.
Monday, December 6, 2010 • 3The Oklahoma Daily | OUDaily.com NEWS
Teams earn spot to play in regional competition
BY RYAN GERBOSI | THE OKLAHOMA DAILY
NEIL MCGLOHON/THE DAILY
Top: Communication sophomore Jordan Volino acts as the golden snitch during a match Saturday afternoon during the Quidditch tournament in the Pride practice field north of Kraettli Apartments.
Left: Whomping Willows chaser and Daily writer Ryan Gerbosi, left, prepares to throw the quaffle at one of the goal hoops during the final match.
“I turned to see Levy with
the snitch in his hand.
The game was over. We
had won 30-20. We
began celebrating on
the fi eld as the fi rst OU
Quidditch champions.”
In the furor surrounding the Transportation Security Administration’s new pre-flight screening procedures, some have argued that the body scans and pat downs are invasive, but that they could be worse. In my expe-rience with debate, I have found that any position whose primary justification is “it could be worse” is al-most certainly wrong.
The defense of the TSA procedures rests on the false assumption that these new procedures are actually effec-tive in mitigating the risk of terrorism, which they aren’t and that one’s security risk is higher in an airport than it is anywhere else, which it isn’t. They prescribe a remedy that is far worse than the disease.
Benjamin Franklin had a pithy rebuttal: “those who would give up essential lib-erty to purchase a little tem-porary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Here’s mine:
There’s little evidence to suggest that the newest TSA procedures will be effec-tive at reducing terrorism. Terrorism is innovative while TSA policy is reactive.
TSA modifies its proto-col on the basis of terrorist plots that have already hap-pened, while an intelligent terrorist knows not to dupli-cate the failed efforts of past terrorists.
Indeed, security expert Bruce Schneier said that there is nothing that can conceivably be done to stop a well-financed al-Qaeda-like plot from materializing — they’re too innovative and TSA is always playing catch-up.
Schneier also noted that international terrorists have
already started smuggling weapons through body cavi-ties, which can’t be detected through either X-rays or pat-downs, which means that any terrorist using that tech-nique would instantly render both of our new procedures useless.
It’s nonsense to believe that this technology will save us from terrorism, yet we’re sacrificing our privacy in the name of securing something that isn’t achievable: perfect safety. And in the search for perfect safety we have ended up debasing the very life such procedures were intended to protect.
If preserving security and protecting human life are worthwhile en-deavors, then, statis-tically speaking, TSA resources are woefully mis-directed. The odds of dying on an airplane as a result of a terrorist hijacking are less than 1 in 25 million — which, for all intents and purposes, is effectively zero — accord-ing to Paul Campos, a law professor from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
By comparison, the odds of dying in a normal airplane crash, according to the OAG Aviation Database, are 1 in 9.2 million. This means that, on average, pilots are respon-sible for more deaths than terrorists.
In the same vein, the av-erage American is 87 times more likely to drown than die in a terrorist attack, 50 times
more likely to die in a light-ning strike, and eight times more likely to be killed by a police officer, according to the National Safety Council’s 2004 estimates.
I can go on, but the point is this: the risk of a terrorist attack is so infinitesimal and its impact so relatively insig-nificant that it doesn’t make rational sense to accept the suspension of liberty for the sake of avoiding a statistical anomaly.
The $338 million spent so far on body scanners by the TSA could have instantly had larger social benefit had it been invested in almost any-thing else.
It’s as if our collective memory has been recon-structed around the fulcrum of Sept. 11, such that terror-ism is now defined by that event, and not by the myriad other ways in which terror-ism has historically been executed.
If we can justify the im-position of force and the volitional sacrifice of rights based upon a single histori-cal aberration, where do we draw the line the next time a terrorist attack happens? Would it be appropriate for the TSA to populate public parks, restaurants, casinos, zoos and public transit, all in the name of security?
After al l , in 2006 the
Department of Homeland Security listed those places as “top terrorist targets.” And if we were to use the same logic forwarded by TSA proponents, we would say that because people aren’t required to go to these places, it’s OK to co-erce them into abridging their rights. It’s their choice, after all.
Y e t , w e o b v i o u s l y wouldn’t accept such a sys-tem if it were implemented, so why do we accept the same system at airports?
The inconsistency of our outrage is instructive — it shows that our perceptions of safety and security are
not reflective of real-ity but are instead dic-tated to us externally by demagogic politicians who have a vested in-terest in our fear.
We are a passive au-dience trapped in a theater of the absurd — apparently too ab-sorbed in brilliantly orchestrated drama to
realize it’s just a play.E v e r y t i m e w e c o n -
vince ourselves that things “aren’t that bad” and thus not in need of change, we are training ourselves to be docile in the face of injus-tice, and we are weakening our capacity to challenge those forces most in need of change.
It could always be worse, but that doesn’t mean we should surrender the op-portunity to make it better.
— Evan DeFilippis,
political science and
economics junior
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It appears we’re inching closer to a brave new world.In the wake of WikiLeaks’s latest release of thousands
of cable records from multiple U.S. embassies, the gov-ernment is revealing just how little it thinks of the First Amendment.
S t u d e n t s a t C o l u m b i a U n i v e r s i t y ’s S c h o o l o f International and Public Affairs were warned by an alum-nus now working for the State Department that posting documents leaked by WikiLeaks, even talking about them, could threaten their prospects for serving in the federal government.
In an e-mail sent to students, Columbia University’s Office of Career Services said this:
“[The official] recommends that you DO NOT post links to these documents nor make comments on social media sites such as Facebook or through Twitter. Engaging in these activities would call into question your ability to deal with confidential information, which is part of most positions with the federal government.”
Basically, even though this information is out, and the media have already published it, you had better keep your mouth shut. No public discussion allowed. No free flow of ideas. No dissent. No calling into question the actions of the government. Just stick your head in the sand and trust them, obey them.
While an official statement from the State Department denied that the federal government was involved in di-recting officials to send these messages along to students, it seems other universities might be sending out similar messages. In a comment on the news story at The Arabist website, a user stated that students at Georgetown University had received a similar e-mail. Additionally, the State Department has forbidden its own employees from accessing the WikiLeaks site.
It seems the government can’t quite make up its mind about this whole situation. All at once, offi-cials have condemned the leak, saying that lives could be harmed in the process, while at the same time scoffing that the leaks being made public won’t change anything and admitting that they can’t prove anyone has actually been harmed by the leaks.
One thing is clear though, the government is taking
OUR VIEW
Don’t talk about WikiLeaks, Big Brother says
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OPINION Jared Rader, opinion [email protected] • phone: 405-325-7630
THUMBS UP ›› United Way hits its December goal (see page 1)
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks during a news conference Nov. 4 at the Geneva press club in Geneva, Switzerland. Assange is a former computer hacker who has embarrassed the U.S. government and foreign leaders with his online release of a huge trove of secret American diplomatic cables.
A nude awakening — TSA and privacy
COLUMN
As an alumni watching the Big 12 championship game from out of state, I must somewhat plagiarize a popular series of TV commercials to describe my opinion of the Nebraska-OU game and the entire 2010 OU football season:
1 for 16 third-down conversions: $1.Calling the same play in a row when it didn’t work
the first time, game after game: $10.Passing unsuccessfully on 3rd and 5 behind your
own ten yard line, when it didn’t work the previous time: $100.
Not calling plays that could run down the clock when you’re up in score and there are only minutes left, game after game after game: $10,000.
Getting rid of certain coaching staff who don’t un-derstand common sense, and game after game re-peat the same mistakes: Priceless.
— Scott Franke,mechanical engineering alumnus
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a much more proactive approach in shutting dissent down. After an aide of Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., contacted Amazon.com, which provided services to de-fend the site against hackers, Amazon pulled its support. Amazon denied that political pressure was involved in its
decision.Lieberman, a known war hawk,
praised the company’s actions and has introduced legislation to make it a federal crime to publish the name of a U.S. intelligence source. Yet again, more power for the gov-ernment to keep its secrets and get away with murder.
We hope this disease against free speech doesn’t spread to OU.
With OU’s growing international and area studies pro-gram and our own President David Boren having served as head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, we can imagine this topic has come up quite a bit among staff
and that Boren is well aware of the WikiLeaks situation.If Boren were encouraged to pass a similar message to
OU students, we certainly hope he would reject it on the grounds of our basic civil rights.
Even more, we hope Boren lets his old friends and contacts in the government know just how damaging their efforts are to the prospects of a free and demo-cratic society. As a member of President Barack Obama’s Intelligence Advisory Board, he ought to recommend the administration scale back its iron-fisted efforts to censor discussion.
This can all be done without endorsing the actions of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. We recognize the need for confidentiality in certain aspects of our gov-ernment’s dealings with other nations.
But after several years of war, declining world stability and increasing loss of life in Afghanistan and Iraq, you can’t blame people for wanting answers. If this is how it happens, then it happens. Don’t punish the students for having an opinion. Do not punish them for their desire to understand our government’s crucial role in global security.
Who’s to say that students who read the material and comment on it aren’t fit to serve in the State Department? As Hugh Sansom, a master’s student from New York, said in an article in The Huffington Post about this issue: “They seem to be unable to make the distinction between having an opinion and having a contractual obligation to keep a secret.”
After reading some of the leaked documents and dis-cussing them, some students may be inspired to work in such a civil service job to inject some humanity back into the system. If the State Department finds comments about WikiLeaks material on someone’s old Facebook or Twitter posts, it would be foolish to assume that it means they would intentionally leak government documents.
Students need to band together and make it clear they will not stand for the government’s reactionary efforts to stop discussion about its role in international affairs.
As American revolutionary Thomas Paine said, “It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.”
Let’s hope we’re not blacklisted for this editorial.
Comment on this column at OUDaily.com
Basically, even though this
information is out and the media
have already published it, you had
better keep your mouth shut. No
public discussion allowed.”
It’s nonsense to believe that this
technology will save us from
terrorism, yet we’re sacrifi cing
our privacy in the name of
securing something that isn’t
achievable: perfect safety.”
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insults at those who dare to get a word in edgewise.
Whiteside, who is strand-e d i n s m a l l - t o w n O h i o due to a hip injury, seems to have only one concern throughout the play: the po-tential loss of his loyal secre-tary, Maggie Cutler (drama freshman Victoria Hines) to her true love, writer Bert Jefferson (Brad Brockman, drama sophomore).
H i n e s , m a k i n g h e r University Theatre debut, seemed comfortable in the realm of college theater, successfully portraying both the well-worn assistant and the iconic woman swept off her feet.
Concerned that Cutler will leave him for good if married off, Whiteside calls in an old friend, actress and seductress Lorraine Sh e l d o n (d ra ma s e n i o r Kristina Doelling), to throw Jefferson off Maggie’s scent. Doelling cunningly acts the role of the woman we love to hate.
What do you want for Christmas? Various mem-bers of your family are al-ready asking you this ques-tion and you never really have the right answer.
Dec. 25 is going to roll around and three Starbucks gift cards and two “As Seen On TV” items later, you’ll re-ally wish you had come up with something when they asked.
Two holiday seasons ago, I finally had an incredibly inspired gift need — a GPS. You see, I was born with that one disease where you get in your car, pull out of your driveway and look up and see you are at the state line and can’t really explain why.
Gifts should be something
you would never spend money on but desperately want and that was exactly what the GPS was for me. We spent one and a half beauti-ful years together and then my car was broken into by some punk-ass kids, who will one day receive their pun-ishment in a dark alley with a grease Dumpster in it.
Last weekend I was forced to embark on a road trip sans TomTom the GPS. I was making my way to Stillwater to see the 6A football state championship game be-cause I just love young boys and organized sports.
S o m e w h e r e a r o u n d Guthrie, the Google Maps application on my phone told me to take a right turn onto a highway, which I am pretty sure was labeled 666. About 15 minutes down the road, I was violently aware that I was in the middle of nowhere — and it felt noth-ing like that Hanson album.
The only things I could see were abandoned trailer homes and little green signs with arrows pointing to cem-eteries. I was running low on gas and my phone “could not activate data.” Obviously this is when my car breaks down and the flesh-hungry zom-bies descend upon my inno-cent young body.
I switched on Girl Talk so if the undead did at-tack, i t would be more “Zombieland” and less “28 Days Later.”
Using my mature, calm voice, I called my father for help. “Hi Daddy, I was just calling to tell you I love you because I am going to die on a deserted highway from zombies!” Insert me hyper-ventilating and crying mas-cara-filled tears.
After my father sorted through every obscenity try-ing to decide which one ac-curately described the situa-tion, he told me he couldn’t
If one entered Holmberg Hall and, being taken aback by the lush, detailed scen-er y, assumed that “ The Man Who Came to Dinner” w o u l d b e s o m e s o r t o f s tarkly real ist ic per iod drama, one would be sorely mistaken.
A m e re g l a n c e at t h e formally dressed penguin presenting a martini on the program is enough to make it clear that the next two hours and 45 minutes will be filled with whimsy, laughter and yes, penguins.
“The Man Who Came to Dinner,” written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart and directed by guest artist Russ Treyz, is a fun-filled farce that hardly misses a beat as the audi-ence is dragged into the madcap world of world-f a m o u s r a d i o s p e a k e r Sheridan Whiteside.
D r a m a s e n i o r C u r r y Whitmire winningly plays Whiteside — a character for whom over-the-top is an understatement. Whitmire milks the role to its full po-tential, channeling a few Hollywood divas from the 21st Century as he air-kisses his famous friends and spits
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All I want for Christmas is a GPS and a zombie-killing batCOLUMN
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Curry Whitmire stars as Sheridan Whiteside, Celia Ross stars as Miss Preen and Kevin Percival stars as Banjo in the University Theatre production of “The Man Who Came to Dinner.”
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really help me.I pulled over in a drive-
way, performed a sobbing, self-loathing monologue and waited for a withered zombie paw to knock on my window.
In the end, the walking
dead never came and it turns out I was going the correct di-rection the whole time. I was just on a route that averaged more covered wagons than cars thanks to my archaic version of Google Maps.
So what do I want for
Christmas? Another GPS please! And if you can find one that dispenses anti-anx-iety medication that would be great.
— Caitlin Turner,
letters senior
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Charmingly hilarious supporting roles played by Kevin Percival, Addie Work and Celia Ross round out what is an all-around good time at the theater. While there were a few stumbles to be had on opening night — a jar of jelly broke open on the stage and the an-tique telephone took a tum-ble — the actors smoothed over the errors and kept
the audience engaged in the main action, which was usually attention-grabbing enough.
“ The Man Who Came to Dinner” is a three-act show, leaving many chanc-es for the play to drag, but, for the most part, the length is masked by con-stant entertainment. Minor problems such as muddy articulation and comedic
moments that were too choreographed are easily overlooked throughout this classic comedy.
Technical elements by lighting designer Curtis Marxen and scenic design-er Paige Hathaway, whose cozy yet somehow open design brought life and a clear distinction of era to the piece, leave those in the audience amazed that this
is not professional theater. If you have a strong ha-
tred for laugh-out-loud comedy or an irrational fear of penguins, stay away from Holmberg Hall for the next two weekends; “The Man Who Came to Dinner” is sure to please all others.
— Sydney Allen,
University College freshman
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7th Big 12 title sends OU to desertSooners confi rm that defense wins championshipsTeam bests battle of defenses in Saturday’s Big 12 conference title game to earn trip to Fiesta Bowl
AARON COLEN The Oklahoma Daily
ARLINGTON, Texas — With their backs against the wall and one half to save their Big 12 title hopes, the Sooners’ defensive players took it upon themselves to make sure OU got the win Saturday night against Nebraska.
The No. 9 OU football team shut out the Cornhuskers in the second half and came back from a 17-point deficit to win the last Big 12 Championship game 23-20.
A field goal by senior kicker Alex Henery with six seconds to go in the first half marked the last time Nebraska scored as a member of the Big 12, as the Cornhuskers managed only 80 yards in the entire second half.
It took a team effort to shut down freshman quarterback Taylor Martinez and the rest of the Nebraska offense, but two individuals who stood out for OU were senior lineback-er Travis Lewis and senior defensive end Pryce Macon.
Lewis, one of the usual leaders for the OU defense, had a stellar game even by his lofty standards. The line-backer, who almost at-tended Nebraska out of high school, finished with two fumble recoveries and one interception.
“These hands ain’t what they used to be,” Lewis said. “But God gave me the gift and I caught it, so it was a huge play.”
Lewis’ interception came in the end zone with the Sooners down 17-7 and Nebraska threatening to go up by three scores again. His fumble recoveries helped prevent the Huskers from getting into a rhythm offensively, and both led to points for OU.
“This is my third Big 12 Championship, and it’s definitely the sweetest,” Lewis said. “They say ‘defense wins cham-pionships,’ and I felt like we got rattled early, but we never panicked and we shut down a pretty great offense.”
Macon was the unexpected hero of the game, however. The fifth-year senior finished the game with five tackles for loss, including three of the team’s seven sacks in the game.
Macon took the long road to getting on the field in his career, and going into the 2010 season, he only had eight career tackles and didn’t even play in 2009. But the defen-sive end said the win over Nebraska made it all worth it.
“I’m not going to say it’s been easy,” Macon said. “But I just kept grinding, and God had a plan for me. I’m just glad I stayed and stuck it out because I couldn’t see this going any better.”
Defensive coordinator Brent Venables rolled the dice and used the “50” defense again, the same small defensive scheme the Sooners ran against Oklahoma State’s spread offense last weekend.
“I didn’t know how it would hold up, to be honest,” Venables said. “This week was a lot more physical of an op-posing challenge, but we felt like it would give us the best opportunity to win.”
Venables said the win was right in line with how the en-tire season has been for the Sooners.
“It’s very symbolic of what this season has been,” Venables said. “The deck was stacked against us, a lot of it because of our own doing. So coming away with the last Big 12 Championship in a historic year is something you can’t take away, and it’s pretty special.”
» Year: Senior
» Position: Defensive end
» Hometown:Corpus Cristi, Texas
» Game stats: 5 tackles for loss, 3 sacks, 2 forced fumbles
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With win over Nebraska, Sooners set to play UConn Jan. 1 in Glendale, Ariz.
JAMES CORLEYThe Oklahoma Daily
The OU football team will be headed to Glendale, Ariz., for a New Year’s Day game against the unranked Big East champion Connecticut Huskies in the Fiesta Bowl.
The Sooners clinched a berth in the BCS game after beating Nebraska 23-20 on Saturday in Arlington, Texas.
The win also gave the Sooners their seventh Big 12 title in 11 years, the 43rd overall conference title.
The Sooners fought back from a 17-0 first-half deficit. OU did not allow the Huskers to score in the second half and made two field goals in the third and fourth quarters to win the game.
“I’m proud of our play-ers how we stepped up and made plays,” OU coach Bob Stoops. “I told the guys at halftime we just needed to stick with it.”
True freshman wide re-ceiver Kenny Stills led all receivers with 83 yards from just three catches, one for a touchdown.
Junior linebacker Travis Lewis also had a big game for the Sooners, intercepting Nebraska freshman quarter-back Taylor Martinez in the end zone and collecting two fumble recoveries, including the first of his career.
“We wanted this bad,” Lewis said. “This has been a long season. We have been tested in so many ways. We have been with our backs against the wall. We came out here and defense totally dominated.”
The Sooners’ bowl op-ponent, Connecticut (8-4, 5-2 Big East), is the lone unranked team in the BCS bowls, announced Sunday.
The Huskies emerged as the Big East champions with a win Saturday over South Florida.
UConn started its season 3-4, capped off by a 26-0 shutout loss on the road to Louisville.
Despite having a passing attack ranked 112th in the country, the Huskies won five straight games to finish the season, carried by run-ning back Jordan Todman.
The junior has amassed 1,574 rushing yards and 14 touchdowns, accounting for nearly all of UConn’s offense.
In the Sooners’ last three
games — road wins against Baylor, Oklahoma State and Nebraska — the team has done everything but totally discount its struggles in the first part of the season.
Sti l ls, senior receiver Cameron Kenney and ju-nior tight end James Hanna stepped into key roles for OU in the last two games as Biletnikoff finalist Ryan Broyles has seen stiffer cov-erage from defenses.
In the fourth quarter, Kenney — working against senior cornerback Prince Amukamara — caught three straight passes from sopho-more quarterback Landry Jones for two first downs to set up the game-winning field goal.
After overcoming so much already this season to get where they are, the Sooners will have to conquer one last hurdle: w inning in Glendale.
“We realize the last two times out there we’ve not been successful, so it’s moti-vation,” Stoops said.
By the numbers
709 Career receiving yards for Kenny
Stills, breaking Ryan Broyles’ record for receiving yards in a season by a freshman
342 Passing yards in Saturday’s
game for Landry Jones, the most allowed by Nebraska’s defense this season
63 Passes broken up by OU’s defense this
season, a team-high since 110 in 2000
43 Conference titles for OU after the
Sooners won their seventh Big 12 title on Saturday
35 Touchdown passes this season for
Jones, tying Jason White (2004) with his 49-yard touchdown pass to Stills
8 Career interceptions for linebacker Travis Lewis,
tying Sam Allen (1951-52) for the program record
*Source: OU Athletic
Department
MERRILL JONES/THE DAILY
Freshman defensive back Tony Jefferson (1) and junior linebacker Austin Box (12) celebrate after Jefferson sacked Nebraska’s Taylor Martinez in Saturday’s Big 12 Championship. OU won 23-20.
PASSINGOklahoma Comp Att Yds Pct TD IntLandry Jones 23 41 342 .560 1 1
Taylor Martinez 12 24 143 .500 0 1
Nebraska Comp Att Yds Pct TD Int
RUSHINGOklahoma Rush Yds Avg Lng TD FumLDeMarco Murray 17 68 4.0 12 0 0
Roy Helu Jr. 11 91 8.3 66 1 1
Nebraska Rush Yds Avg Lng TD FumL
RECEIVINGOklahoma Rec Yds Avg Lng TD FumLKenny Stills 3 83 27.7 49 1 0
Mike McNeill 4 63 15.8 36 0 0
Nebraska Rec Yds Avg Lng TD FumL
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second kill in a row, and Barker finished things off on the next play to take a 2-0 lead into intermission.
OU had the lead and all of the momentum enter-ing the third set, but Tulsa showed just how quickly a scrappy team can turn things around.
Tulsa actually held a three to four-point lead for most of the set, but OU came back in crunch time to tie the score at 24.
The comeback fell just short, though, as Tulsa won the set 28-26 to stay alive.
“Volleyball is a game of momentum, and every-body goes through it,” OU coach Santiago Restrepo said. “They have had plenty of games go to four or five games in their conference and non-conference. They are battle-tested. I knew it was going to be extremely difficult, and it showed.”
In a complete role rever-sal, Tulsa jumped out to a
lead and never gave it up.Thanks mainly to de-
fense that simply would not allow OU to get the ball down, Tulsa controlled the set and won 25-20 to force the decisive fifth set.
E m o t i o n s w e r e h i g h going into the final set, and OU seemed to have lost all of the momentum. But the team regained its compo-sure and finished the match strong.
“We had a lot of confi-dence going into the fifth set because we were 5-0 going into, and now we are 6-0 in the fifth set,” Barker said. “So we had a lot of confidence. We just
decided to stay calm, have faith in each other and come out strong, get a big lead going. We felt that was how we were going to beat them, and we did that.”
The Sooners scored the first four points of the final set, and sophomore hitter Morgan Reynolds recorded two quick kills and a block assist with senior middle blocker Sarah Freudenrich to give the team the spark it needed.
After that, Tulsa never had room to breathe.
The Sooners responded to every threat and won the set 15-9 to advance to the Sweet 16.
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After four-set tie, Sooners defeat Tulsa in fi fth set to advance in NCAA tourney
GREG FEWELLThe Oklahoma Daily
The Sooners will return to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2006 after tak-ing down the Tulsa Golden Hurricane 3-2 on Saturday at McCasland Field House.
Paced by assist after assist from junior setter Brianne Barker, who recorded the first triple-double in OU his-tory Saturday, the Sooners jumped out to a lead early.
J u n i o r h i t t e r S u z y B o u l a v s k y a n d f r e s h -man middle blocker Sallie McLaurin capitalized with consecutive kills to force a Tulsa timeout.
The Sooners dominated the first set 25-13 to take control of the match. It was as solid a start as the team has had all year, and it helped the Sooners set the pace, particularly in the first two sets.
“I think [the Sooners] did a great job of digging balls and continually applying pressure, particularly early in the match,” Tulsa coach Ed Allen said. “The first two sets, we didn’t have an op-portunity to apply pressure on our end because we were consistently trying to settle in and dig balls and chase balls.”
After Tulsa took a lead to begin the second set, Barker recorded her third kill of the match to tie things at 3.
McLaurin got back-to-back kills, and the Sooners w e re s u d d e n l y b a c k i n command.
The Golden Hurricane charged back within two at 23-21, but two plays later, the set was over.
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After fi fth straight loss this season, Sooners failed to win as visitor
JORDAN MARKSThe Oklahoma Daily
The OU men’s basketball team failed to win on the road again, falling to the Arizona Wildcats 83-60.
The loss drops OU to 3-5, continuing its five-game losing streak. It also was the Sooners’ last chance to win a road game in this calendar year after going winless in the second part of last sea-son earlier this year.
OU was never able to gain a lead against Arizona, trail-ing from the very beginning. Much of this was due in part to major turnovers, which OU committed 16 times.
S o p h o m o r e A n d r e w Fitzgerald led the Sooners with a game-high 22 points and five rebounds. Junior transfer Nick Thompson also chipped in a career-high 15 points.
Overall, the Sooners strug-gled again on the road, fail-ing to play a complete game against a decent Wildcat squad.
OU returns home to face mid-major Gardner-Webb at 7 p.m. Thursday in Lloyd Noble Center.
OU winless on road in 2010
Opening-round wins send OU to Sweet 16
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The Sooners celebrate after beating Tulsa 3-2 to advance to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2006. OU hosted the opening rounds of the NCAA tournament last weekend, and the Sooners won the sub-regional with wins over Wichita State and Tulsa.
Sooners avenge first season loss against Shockers
After being swept 3-0 by Wichita State in the very fi rst match of the season, OU returned the favor Friday by sweeping the Shockers to advance to the second round of the NCAA tournament.
Even though the team had one of the best regular seasons in years, OU entered the contest with somewhat of a chip on its shoulder, largely due to the fact that the Shockers had beat the Sooners fi ve straight times entering Friday’s matchup.
The teams fought to a 25-25 tie in the opening set, and the Sooners won 29-27.
“The fi rst set is a key set,” junior setter Brianne Barker said. “That’s the set that establishes what you’re about and what you’re going to do, so that was really big for us to go out there and take the fi rst set like we did.”
The Sooner defense forced multiple errors by the Shockers to win the second set 25-21 and go into intermission with a 2-0 lead.
OU coach Santiago Restrepo said this was a sign of his team being tired of being pushed around.
“When a team beats you in the mouth like they have, you’re eventually going to get tired of it,” Restrepo said. “Our girls came out ready to play tonight, and I think that really showed.”
OU dominated the fi nal set and won 25-14 to advance to the second round against the Tulsa Golden Hurricane.
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Freshman guard Calvin Newell Jr. dribbles in the OU-North Carolina Central game Nov. 15. OU won 71-63 in overtime.
What’s next
» OU will play the winner of the Virginia Tech-Penn State match at 6 p.m. Friday in University Park, Pa., and the winner advances to the Elite 8.
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