SArAH MArTIN Campus Reporter

Katie Vanchiere sat in her dorm room with the sealed letter in her hand. Simply holding it up to the light didn’t reveal whether she had received a resident adviser job . Her boyfriend watched as she tore open the seal.

They read the first line: “We appreciate your interest.”Wa s s h e a c c e p t e d ?

Maybe. They both frantically

read to the end of the letter to see where she would be living, investing her time and working next year.

At the bottom of the let-ter, Vanchiere read that she was chosen as an alternate for a resident adviser job.

Vanchiere is one of 114 students on average who take the resident adviser training class each spring. Generally 40 percent of students who take the class get the job, accord-ing to Daily archives.

This year 86 students were offered positions as resident advisers out of the 109 new applicants and 47 returning res-ident advisers who were interviewed, said Amy Buchanan , OU Housing and Food Services spokeswoman.

Vanchiere was surprised and disappointed she did not initially get the job after making it over the first few hurdles in the process, she said.

All students who want to take the class must first apply and be accepted. Students in the class must then apply for the job, and some students will be offered interviews. All the students who had interviews picked up letters Tuesday from Walker Center following the resident adviser training

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Portuguese courses will return to OU in the fall after a two-semester hiatus.

Student interest influenced the decision to reintroduce the courses, which had been discontinued after the spring

2011 semester because of low enrollment numbers, said Paul Bell, College of Arts and Sciences dean.

T h e r e i s a p l a c e f o r Portuguese on campus, OU President David Boren said in a statement.

“It is very difficult to have a

program in Brazilian Studies and not have the language that is spoken there,” Boren said.

The viability of the course, however, will depend on continued interest in the lan-guage, Bell said.

“This is strictly driven by student interest and student demand,” Bell said.

Portuguese was first of-fered as a language in 2001,

and a Portuguese minor was established in 2002, said Pamela Genova, Department o f m o d e r n L a n g u a g e s, Literatures and Linguistics chairwoman.

Brazilian Ambassador to the U.S., Mauro Vieira’s campus visit earlier this se-mester raised awareness regarding the importance of the Brazilian market and economy, incoming interim

chairwoman of the depart-ment Nancy LaGreca said.

“Portuguese being offered to our students would open up a lot of job opportuni-ties for them,” LaGreca said. “And of course, if you know Portuguese, you can explore African, Latin American and Europe with one language.”

Advertisement of the new courses will be essential to increasing enrollment and

student interest, LaGreca said. The department is cur-rently working to improve in-formational material over the languages to better commu-nicate to students the ben-efits of adding a language to their major, she said.

“Our mission in Modern Languages is much in line with the university’s mission

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A series of on-campus treatments for students with arachnophobia has come to a close after seven months.

Researcher Alexandra Wagener conducted the study on nine participants using two treatment meth-ods to gather information for

her dissertation at Wichita University.

Arachnophobia is an ab-normal fear of spiders pro-ducing severe anxiety.

“We know that specific phobia is a pretty common anxiety disorder in college, and arachnophobia is the No. 1 disorder in college stu-dents,” she said.

Cognitive-behavioral and acceptance-commitment therapies were used as the study’s treatment methods.

Both treatments were ef-fective because they work for different reasons, she said.

Cognitive-behavioral ther-apy is based on the idea that feelings and behaviors are caused by thoughts not exter-nal factors, such as people, sit-uations and events, according to the National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists’ website.

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Sophomore infielder Matt Oberste (14) gets a lead off first base during OU’s 4-3 loss to Texas Christian on Tuesday in Fort Worth. The Sooners recorded two errors in the bottom of the ninth inning to aid the Horned Frogs’ comeback.

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A pair of rolling teams tested wills Tuesday in Fort Worth, as Oklahoma faced off against future Big 12 foe, Texas Christian, and lost in gut-

wrenching fashion, 4-3.It took a two-run eighth and two

costly errors from the Sooners in the ninth for TCU to steal the game on a walk-off single from Derek Odell.

Despite the loss, the Sooners are playing their best ball of the season.

OU has won 12 of its last 15, but a win would have done wonders for boosting its weak RPI.

Junior third baseman Max White

continued to tear through every-thing opposing pitchers throw at him, picking apart TCU’s hurlers on his way to recording his 47th and 48th RBIs of the season.

White currently ranks second in the Big 12 in that category and has driven in 18 runs in his last nine games.

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to graduate students who are knowledgeable about cul-tures beyond our own and communicate with people in other languages not with just language but also cultural lit-eracy,” LaGreca said.

The department plans to begin with the first three semesters of Portuguese, LaGreca said. PORT 1115, the first semester of study, will be offered this upcom-ing fall, followed by PORT 1225 in the spring semester. The third semester of study, PORT 2113, and PORT 1115 will be offered in the 2013 fall semester, and the cycle will continue from there.

At this point, LaGreca said there is no measure how many students will end up enrolling in the courses.

“We will accommodate as many students as we can,” LaGreca said. “Supply will meet demand.”

Noel Isom, international and area studies and wom-en’s and gender studies se-nior, said she was studying

OU coach Sunny Golloway gave sophomore Dil lon Overton the green light to pitch over the usual mid-week starter, sophomore Damien Magnifico, after neither pitcher threw in last weekend’s series against Kansas.

Overton opened the game with a pair of strikeouts be-fore White overthrew fresh-man first baseman Hunter Lockwood, allowing TCU’s Jason Coats to reach safely on an error.

White’s error proved to be costly as TCU third baseman Jantzen Witte drove Coats home on a double to left in the next at bat, giving the Horned Frogs a 1-0 advantage.

The error was White’s sixth of the season, but Overton performed some damage control to end the inning — forcing TCU freshman first baseman Kevin Cron to ground out.

Redemption came swiftly for White as he sparked the Sooners’ stagnant offense with a two-run triple in the top of the fourth — giving OU its first runs of the day and a 2-1 lead.

White’s triple came after junior Jack Mayfield and se-nior Caleby Bushyhead re-corded back-to-back hits to lead off the inning.

On the very next pitch, se-nior outfielder Cody Reine scored White on a sacrifice fly and extended the Sooners’ lead, 3-1.

Sophomore hurler Damien Magnifico entered the game in the bottom of the seventh, relieving Overton — who is expected to see action during Bedlam this weekend — after six solid innings.

Overton surrendered one unearned run on four hits

GreG FewellSports Reporter

The Baylor Bears held off the overmatched OU women’s tennis team Friday in the second round of the Big 12 tour-nament, effectively ending all hopes the team had of an ap-pearance in the NCAA tournament and bringing the up-and-down 2012 season to a close.

Going into the weekend tournament, the Sooners cer-tainly did not have the credentials of a national title con-tender. Ranked No. 46 in the country, Oklahoma was a mere 10-12 overall and an even .500 in Big 12 play at 5-5.

After losing to No. 6 Texas and No. 24 Texas A&M in back-to-back matches to close out the regular season, the Sooners finished in the bottom half of the conference in seventh place.

Despite all that, the team still had a shot at a bid to the NCAA tournament if it could pull off an upset or two.

“We are running out of time to create an upset in order to make the NCAA tournament,” coach David Mullins said before the tournament. “We will most likely have to pick up at least two wins this week in order for us to be playing in May.”

Unfortunately, creating upsets is something the team struggled to do all season long.

The Sooners started the season ranked No. 25 in the na-tion. However, the team was young and unproven. And the women would soon find out that rankings do not amount to much unless they are earned.

“We’ve got three new people in the lineup and then we’ve got everybody playing a little higher in the lineup than they did last year, the returners,” Mullins said before the team’s first match.

After starting 3-0, Oklahoma went 4-8 in its next 12.Mullins showed faith that his team would continue im-

proving but also said he had concerns about the “extreme lack of toughness” the team displayed.

The Sooners finally seemed to be showing that toughness when it won back-to-back matches against Iowa State and Missouri by a combined score of 13-1. However, Oklahoma followed that weekend by losing four out of five with all four losses coming at the hands of ranked opponents.

The team’s most recent loss, also at the hands of a top-25 opponent in Baylor, ended the team’s season and leaves the young, now slightly more experienced team waiting for next year.

class. When Vanchiere went to

pick her letter up, friends kept asking her if she was excited to find out which dorm she would advise — not whether she had received the job.

“I really honestly thought I was going to get it,” Vanchiere said.

Vanchiere said she ques-tioned what had made her unfit for the position.

“In a regular job it is like, ‘Oh, I didn’t meet the quali-fications’ or ‘I didn’t have the experience’ or ‘I didn’t have the availability,’ but for this it is like, ‘What is wrong with my personality?’” Vanchiere said.

Vanchiere became close friends with the people in her discussion group; they all wanted to be resident advis-ers together, she said.

“It wasn’t like, ‘She is a good candidate — she is competition.’ It was ‘This

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today around CampusA seminar by student success series about summer courses will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 245.

tHursday, may 3OU Write Club will host an open mic night from 7 to 9 p.m. at Café plaid.

OU Juggling Club will meet at 8 p.m. in the Huston Huffman Center, room 140.

Suessical The Musical will be performed by ou school of musical theatre students at 8 p.m. in the Fine arts Center’s rupel Jones theatre.

Friday, may 4HSC First Fridays, an event for students interested in pursuing a health-related degree at the ou Health sciences Center, will take place from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 145.

A lecture about how american artists and critics perceived disney animation as a new american art form will be held at 6 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. museum of art.

ADvisers: Class, interviews aspects of programContinued from page 1

is one of my best friends, I want to do this together,’” Vanchiere said.

As a candidate who was assigned alternate status, Vanchiere could be asked to fill an open position at any time.

Vanchiere couldn’t com-mit to a job she has been of-fered at her church or to look-ing for houses with potential roommates because her first priority would be to take the resident adviser job if it were offered to her, she said.

POrtUgUese: Course availability tied to demandContinued from page 1

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Johnnie-Margaret McConnell, assistant director of Residence Life, dis-cusses the resident assistant selection process during an RA course April 19. Housing and Food accepted only 86 of 156 interviewees.

“I don’t care if I wasn’t going to get any free room and board, I would still want to do it,” Vanchiere said. “I would still want to take on all the responsibility and have this position because I feel so strongly, I love OU and ... I want other people to love it.”

If she were offered the position in the summer or next year, Vanchiere said she would still accept it.

“I think there are probably some people who this is just a job for, and I can imagine that some people who got the [adviser] position just think it is a job, but a lot of people in that class feel like this is way more than that,” Vanchiere said.

In the end, Vanchiere’s hopes of becoming an ad-viser were granted when she received a call that not all the alternates will be lucky enough to hear.

She was offered a posi-tion as a resident adviser in Couch Center and excitedly accepted.

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Sophomore left-handed pitcher Dillon Overton pitches against TCU on Tuesday during OU’s 4-3 loss to the Horned Frogs in Fort Worth. OU led, 3-1, at the top of the eighth inning.

and struck out seven in one of his most dominant outings of the season.

But once Overton exited the game, the Sooners’ lead slowly began to slip away.

In the bottom of the eighth, Magnifico painted himself into a corner by giving up hits to the first three batters he faced, signaling the end of his night.

With ducks on the pond and no outs, junior Steven Okert entered the game in re-lief and walked a run home, cutting the Sooners’ lead to one.

O k e r t f o u g ht b a c k i n the next at bat, forcing the

Horned Frogs into a double play, but TCU still got a run across and tied the game at 3-3.

In the top of the ninth, OU’s offense stalled, leaving the door open for the Horned Frogs’ comeback.

TCU’s rally began when Bushyhead, OU’s shortstop, made an uncharacteristic

error, dropping a routine fly ball that allowed the Horned Frogs to put the winning run in scoring position.

A poor bunt in the next at bat gave Okert the opportu-nity to throw out the lead run-ner at third, but Oklahoma recorded its second error of the inning one batter later, when Mayfield overthrew Lockwood in an attempt to turn a double play to end the inning.

The error gave TCU a win-ning run in scoring position for the second time, but this time the Horned Frogs capi-talized — ending the game on a walk-off single.

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BAseBAll: TCU scores 3 runs in final 2 inningsContinued from page 1

in Brazil over the summer to fulfill her Portuguese minor when she learned that OU chose to discontin-ue the Portuguese language courses.

“It was really frustrating once the program was dis-continued because they can-celed the program and then

bring in an actual Brazilianist to teach about Brazil,” Isom said. “Yet, they weren’t offer-ing Portuguese, which to me, is a huge foundation to the culture.”

Now that the courses are being offered again, Isom said she is surprised that OU can afford the cost consider-ing budgetary constraints.

“I know people who came to OU specifically because they were offering a minor in Portuguese,” Isom said. “I feel like this is going to be re-ally helpful for OU.”

As an international and area studies major, Isom said

Brazil’s role in world eco-nomics and politics draws her to the language. Not to mention, it’s pretty cool to write “Portuguese minor” on a résumé, she said.

“Everyone goes to Europe, everyone goes to France, ev-eryone goes to Germany, Ireland, Scotland. That’s fine and dandy, but I feel like I’ll be able to go there anytime and get by with English,” Isom said. “Studying abroad in Brazil and having to think in another language … is se-rious problem-solving and a thinking outside of the box experience.”

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to graduate students who are knowledgeable about cul-tures beyond our own and communicate with people in other languages not with just language but also cultural lit-eracy,” LaGreca said.

The department plans to begin with the first three semesters of Portuguese, LaGreca said. PORT 1115, the first semester of study, will be offered this upcom-ing fall, followed by PORT 1225 in the spring semester. The third semester of study, PORT 2113, and PORT 1115 will be offered in the 2013 fall semester, and the cycle will continue from there.

At this point, LaGreca said there is no measure how many students will end up enrolling in the courses.

“We will accommodate as many students as we can,” LaGreca said. “Supply will meet demand.”

Noel Isom, international and area studies and wom-en’s and gender studies se-nior, said she was studying

OU coach Sunny Golloway gave sophomore Dil lon Overton the green light to pitch over the usual mid-week starter, sophomore Damien Magnifico, after neither pitcher threw in last weekend’s series against Kansas.

Overton opened the game with a pair of strikeouts be-fore White overthrew fresh-man first baseman Hunter Lockwood, allowing TCU’s Jason Coats to reach safely on an error.

White’s error proved to be costly as TCU third baseman Jantzen Witte drove Coats home on a double to left in the next at bat, giving the Horned Frogs a 1-0 advantage.

The error was White’s sixth of the season, but Overton performed some damage control to end the inning — forcing TCU freshman first baseman Kevin Cron to ground out.

Redemption came swiftly for White as he sparked the Sooners’ stagnant offense with a two-run triple in the top of the fourth — giving OU its first runs of the day and a 2-1 lead.

White’s triple came after junior Jack Mayfield and se-nior Caleby Bushyhead re-corded back-to-back hits to lead off the inning.

On the very next pitch, se-nior outfielder Cody Reine scored White on a sacrifice fly and extended the Sooners’ lead, 3-1.

Sophomore hurler Damien Magnifico entered the game in the bottom of the seventh, relieving Overton — who is expected to see action during Bedlam this weekend — after six solid innings.

Overton surrendered one unearned run on four hits

GreG FewellSports Reporter

The Baylor Bears held off the overmatched OU women’s tennis team Friday in the second round of the Big 12 tour-nament, effectively ending all hopes the team had of an ap-pearance in the NCAA tournament and bringing the up-and-down 2012 season to a close.

Going into the weekend tournament, the Sooners cer-tainly did not have the credentials of a national title con-tender. Ranked No. 46 in the country, Oklahoma was a mere 10-12 overall and an even .500 in Big 12 play at 5-5.

After losing to No. 6 Texas and No. 24 Texas A&M in back-to-back matches to close out the regular season, the Sooners finished in the bottom half of the conference in seventh place.

Despite all that, the team still had a shot at a bid to the NCAA tournament if it could pull off an upset or two.

“We are running out of time to create an upset in order to make the NCAA tournament,” coach David Mullins said before the tournament. “We will most likely have to pick up at least two wins this week in order for us to be playing in May.”

Unfortunately, creating upsets is something the team struggled to do all season long.

The Sooners started the season ranked No. 25 in the na-tion. However, the team was young and unproven. And the women would soon find out that rankings do not amount to much unless they are earned.

“We’ve got three new people in the lineup and then we’ve got everybody playing a little higher in the lineup than they did last year, the returners,” Mullins said before the team’s first match.

After starting 3-0, Oklahoma went 4-8 in its next 12.Mullins showed faith that his team would continue im-

proving but also said he had concerns about the “extreme lack of toughness” the team displayed.

The Sooners finally seemed to be showing that toughness when it won back-to-back matches against Iowa State and Missouri by a combined score of 13-1. However, Oklahoma followed that weekend by losing four out of five with all four losses coming at the hands of ranked opponents.

The team’s most recent loss, also at the hands of a top-25 opponent in Baylor, ended the team’s season and leaves the young, now slightly more experienced team waiting for next year.

class. When Vanchiere went to

pick her letter up, friends kept asking her if she was excited to find out which dorm she would advise — not whether she had received the job.

“I really honestly thought I was going to get it,” Vanchiere said.

Vanchiere said she ques-tioned what had made her unfit for the position.

“In a regular job it is like, ‘Oh, I didn’t meet the quali-fications’ or ‘I didn’t have the experience’ or ‘I didn’t have the availability,’ but for this it is like, ‘What is wrong with my personality?’” Vanchiere said.

Vanchiere became close friends with the people in her discussion group; they all wanted to be resident advis-ers together, she said.

“It wasn’t like, ‘She is a good candidate — she is competition.’ It was ‘This

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Greg Fewell, sports editorKedric Kitchens, assistant sports editor

dailysports@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666SPORTSOUDaily.com ››The Oklahoma men’s tennis team finished Big 12 play with a perfect 12-0 record, capturing the program’s first ever Big 12 championship title.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 • 3

Laney Ellisor, campus editorKathleen Evans, assistant campus editor

Chris Miller, assistant campus editordailynews@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666

2 • Wednesday, May 2, 2012

CaMPuSOUDaily.com ››To help students prepare for finals, the OU Bizzell Memorial Library will stay open around the clock until the end of finals week. A valid OU ID will be needed for entry.

CorreCtionsThe Oklahoma Daily is committed to serving readers with accurate coverage and welcomes your comments about information that may require correction or clarification. To contact us with corrections, email us at dailynews@ou.edu.

A life & arts review of Jack White’s new album, “Blunderbuss,” misreported that White collaborated with the Killer Clown Posse. The name of the group is the Insane Clown Posse.

A news story, “Class observes weather effects on trees’ growth,” misreported that OU professors operate both a national and a university database for qualitative data about tree growth. According to OU professors Kirsten de Beurs and Ken Hobson, the professors only operate a university database.

Visit OUDaily.com/corrections to see an archive of our corrections

today around CampusA seminar by student success series about summer courses will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 245.

tHursday, may 3OU Write Club will host an open mic night from 7 to 9 p.m. at Café plaid.

OU Juggling Club will meet at 8 p.m. in the Huston Huffman Center, room 140.

Suessical The Musical will be performed by ou school of musical theatre students at 8 p.m. in the Fine arts Center’s rupel Jones theatre.

Friday, may 4HSC First Fridays, an event for students interested in pursuing a health-related degree at the ou Health sciences Center, will take place from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 145.

A lecture about how american artists and critics perceived disney animation as a new american art form will be held at 6 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. museum of art.

ADvisers: Class, interviews aspects of programContinued from page 1

is one of my best friends, I want to do this together,’” Vanchiere said.

As a candidate who was assigned alternate status, Vanchiere could be asked to fill an open position at any time.

Vanchiere couldn’t com-mit to a job she has been of-fered at her church or to look-ing for houses with potential roommates because her first priority would be to take the resident adviser job if it were offered to her, she said.

POrtUgUese: Course availability tied to demandContinued from page 1

nikki selF/tHe daily

Johnnie-Margaret McConnell, assistant director of Residence Life, dis-cusses the resident assistant selection process during an RA course April 19. Housing and Food accepted only 86 of 156 interviewees.

“I don’t care if I wasn’t going to get any free room and board, I would still want to do it,” Vanchiere said. “I would still want to take on all the responsibility and have this position because I feel so strongly, I love OU and ... I want other people to love it.”

If she were offered the position in the summer or next year, Vanchiere said she would still accept it.

“I think there are probably some people who this is just a job for, and I can imagine that some people who got the [adviser] position just think it is a job, but a lot of people in that class feel like this is way more than that,” Vanchiere said.

In the end, Vanchiere’s hopes of becoming an ad-viser were granted when she received a call that not all the alternates will be lucky enough to hear.

She was offered a posi-tion as a resident adviser in Couch Center and excitedly accepted.

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Sophomore left-handed pitcher Dillon Overton pitches against TCU on Tuesday during OU’s 4-3 loss to the Horned Frogs in Fort Worth. OU led, 3-1, at the top of the eighth inning.

and struck out seven in one of his most dominant outings of the season.

But once Overton exited the game, the Sooners’ lead slowly began to slip away.

In the bottom of the eighth, Magnifico painted himself into a corner by giving up hits to the first three batters he faced, signaling the end of his night.

With ducks on the pond and no outs, junior Steven Okert entered the game in re-lief and walked a run home, cutting the Sooners’ lead to one.

O k e r t f o u g ht b a c k i n the next at bat, forcing the

Horned Frogs into a double play, but TCU still got a run across and tied the game at 3-3.

In the top of the ninth, OU’s offense stalled, leaving the door open for the Horned Frogs’ comeback.

TCU’s rally began when Bushyhead, OU’s shortstop, made an uncharacteristic

error, dropping a routine fly ball that allowed the Horned Frogs to put the winning run in scoring position.

A poor bunt in the next at bat gave Okert the opportu-nity to throw out the lead run-ner at third, but Oklahoma recorded its second error of the inning one batter later, when Mayfield overthrew Lockwood in an attempt to turn a double play to end the inning.

The error gave TCU a win-ning run in scoring position for the second time, but this time the Horned Frogs capi-talized — ending the game on a walk-off single.

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Sooners’ sub-par season comes to close with defeatOU eliminated by Baylor Bears in second round of Big 12 tournament

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Now that the courses are being offered again, Isom said she is surprised that OU can afford the cost consider-ing budgetary constraints.

“I know people who came to OU specifically because they were offering a minor in Portuguese,” Isom said. “I feel like this is going to be re-ally helpful for OU.”

As an international and area studies major, Isom said

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“Everyone goes to Europe, everyone goes to France, ev-eryone goes to Germany, Ireland, Scotland. That’s fine and dandy, but I feel like I’ll be able to go there anytime and get by with English,” Isom said. “Studying abroad in Brazil and having to think in another language … is se-rious problem-solving and a thinking outside of the box experience.”

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Our View: Norman animal shelter needs a community-cats program.

The end of the semester is a bad time for pets. The Humane Society reports that shelters near college campuses see a sharp increase in the number of aban-doned animals at the end of each semester, when students return to their hometowns or graduate . But Norman could reduce this problem by taking a page from the Oklahoma City Council .

Tuesday, the council consid-ered a change to city law that will make it easier for the city shelter to launch a community-cats pro-gram, assigning the proposal to a May 15 public hearing. This pro-gram would allow the shelter to release stray or “loosely-owned” cats back into the neighborhoods where they were found, after being immunized, sterilized and marked.

Community-cats programs recognize the fact that some cats might not have a true owner but loosely belong to and are taken care of by multiple households in a community. This arrangement is a reality in many college towns, and we’ve witnessed such com-munity-owned cats in Norman, too.

This program would allow adult, healthy cats to live in a safe environment while also ensur-ing they do not spread disease or procreate and make more stray cats. It also would keep them out of the shelter system, which nationally spends more than $2 billion a year sheltering and eu-thanizing eight million to 10 mil-lion adoptable pets, according to the Humane Society .

The Norman Animal Welfare Center euthanizes 40 percent of dogs and 60 percent of cats that come through its doors, the Norman Transcript reported in November .

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Body-image petition important Seventeen Magazine

has been received in a plethora of dif-

ferent ways. From telling adolescents the “5 Things to Make Boys Go Crazy” to pages littered with adver-tisements to articles about the “8 Ways to Get the Body You Want in 10 days!,” the sexualization of girls barely hitting puberty is accelerating at a rapid pace.

I don’t need to tell you that “the perfect body” is plas-tered on the pages of magazines like Seventeen and those for older audiences. For a long while now, our society has swept under the rug the fact that this angers us — but not anymore.

Thirteen-year-old Julia Bluhm is petitioning Seventeen on Change.org to publish one non-Photoshopped photo spread a month . According to statistics on ExperienceProject.com, she is one of 77 percent of all women and 33 percent of all teenage girls who believe that beauty magazines lower self-esteem.

But it’s not just the editorial content of these magazines: Even the advertisements make women squirm. More than half of advertisements are about looking perfect, and about 37 percent of articles are about the same thing, according to the National Institute on Media and the Family .

By the time girls reach the age that this magazine is named for, a whole 78 percent will report that they are “un-happy with their bodies,” the institute reported.

In 2004, Dove began its “Campaign for Real Beauty” in the U.S. in which they used women who were not models for commercials and other forms of advertising .

The reception of this was welcomed by media big-wigs, such as Oprah, CNN and the cast of “The Today Show.” As of 2012, Dove is now implementing a similar program in the U.K. for teenaged girls, called “Growing Up,” to educate young ladies about the value of self-esteem. This is the first positive body image campaign by Dove outside of the U.S.

While Bluhm is trying to follow in the footsteps of Dove and stop the body distortion, these kinds of stands sol-emnly work. Federal petitions submitted to the National Association of Attorneys General usually have about an 18 percent success rate.

Out of the hundreds and thousands of petitions on the Change.org website, there are only a mere dozen in the Recent Success Stories category dating back to September 2011.

Her goal is to reach 25,000 digital signatures, and as of Tuesday, she had 19,867 .

But what other methods can we appeal to? The legisla-ture cannot possibly regulate the kinds of images compa-nies put out without stepping on First Amendment rights.

This petition is one of the best solutions since the Dove Body Campaign.

Don’t get me wrong, signing the petition on Change.org will do more good than reposting a KONY 2012 video. The readership of magazines have buying power.

In a world of supply and demand, we have the power to change the magazine industry into what we want to see.

As for Bluhm, maybe one day she will see an untouched photo shoot grace the pages of beauty magazines, so she can finally look up to someone who is real.

Kimm Johnson is an environmental design and professional writing senior.

Being a student at this university and a lifelong Sooner fan, recruiting season for athletics is definitely one of the more exciting times of the

year for me. As it recently ended, the idea of where the team’s fu-

ture is headed is on a lot of people’s minds, including mine.

After coming across articles by Frank Deford and Oscar Robinson discussing how college athletes need more financial benefits, it raises the question: How much is enough?

Do student athletes really deserve all they’re given already, or should they be given more?

I think we should leave the system as it is.Scholarship negotiations and benefits given to stu-

dent athletes do affect me, and I believe they are not fair.

Athletic directors, university presidents and coaches all try to reinforce the fact that student athletes are just that: students. School comes first and that’s what they’re here for.

If I had a dollar for ever commercial the NCAA paid for during an ESPN broadcast of College Gameday tell-ing me that “70 percent of student athletes go pro in something other than sports,” I would have my college paid for just like them.

However, they’re not fooling anyone. They’re here to play sports, and if they have the tal-

ent, that’s where their college career ends. Acing their pre-calculus final isn’t going to matter to Bill Belichick when he’s searching for a starting safety of the New England Patriots.

If athletes in big-name sports like football and men’s basketball aren’t really going to care about their edu-cation, why should people care about financing their schooling?

Talented athletes put the spotlight on universities, giving great publicity and serious cash, justifying the waiver of their tuition.

But scholarships should be the end of their benefits, so as not to create an inequality among students.

Though I believe student athletes do deserve every penny legally given to them, I think that should be the extent of a university’s gifts.

If I’m looking to receive extra cash from OU, then I’m going to end up working the Mexican line at the Cafeteria.

If athletes look to receive more “spending money,” nice cars and good apartments through no cost of their own, they should be standing right there with me, since in theory they are the same as me — unless they’ve got an awesome job lined up with former owner of Big Red Sports and Imports Brad McRae and their name’s Rhett Bomar.

Though it is understandable that athletes are far bus-ier than the average college student and are limited in time for extracurricular activities — mainly, a job — it is still not justifiable to give them extra benefits.

In the end, like everything else in the world, schol-arships and currently impermissible benefits are all about equality.

All students are supposed to be treated the same, right?

If the school pays Landry Jones to win a Big 12 cham-pionship, shouldn’t they pay me to pass physics?

No, I’m not exactly famous and no one likes physics, but I work just as hard as he does.

We all know that regardless of what guidelines the NCAA sets in place, student athletes always will be treated differently than regular students like me.

Tony Jefferson always will have a crowd of fans around him at Fuzzy’s on Thursday nights and no one really stops and stares at me as I walk down the South Oval.

I was once on the cover of the sports section of the Norman Transcript, photographed at my high school’s football game, but I am clearly not frequently pictured in any major news source.

Some people may resent student athletes for their fame and future fortune, but I don’t and never will.

They’ve worked hard to get where they are, just like I have.

I’ll never blame my peers for not being fascinat-ed with my life like they are with Steven Pledger or Whitney Hand, because frankly, I’m really boring. A few more Twitter followers would be nice, though (@laurendhall, anyone?).

But that fame and interest should be the end of their extra benefits. Scholarships and mass-appeal are enough.

Lauren Hall, University College freshman

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happy cats into the shelter sys-tem — costing the city money, resulting in needless deaths and taking up space that could be used for animals that don’t have healthy situations and need to be adopted — the Norman shelter should look into creating its own community-cats program. And the Norman City Council should

show the same willing-ness to assist in any way it can.

The program also would save the lives of outdoor cats that cur-rently can be caught up in the shelter system.

Since outdoor cats typically roam for days at a time, owners may not be aware their cats have been taken into the shelter until it’s too late.

The Oklahoma City shelter’s community-cats program will be funded through the por-tion of adoption fees the shelter keeps and will be instituted with

help from the local chapter of the Humane Society . A similar setup would be beneficial to the Norman shelter as it builds this program.

This program would not be a free pass for abandoning a cat at the end of the year, and it wouldn’t absolve students of their part in the stray animal problem. But it would be a prac-tical solution to lessen the bur-den on the city shelter, decrease the number of euthanizations and keep cats in happy, safe situations.

Norman passed a $3 million bond measure last November to renovate and expand the aging shelter . The improvements should not stop with a new build-ing. The shelter should take this chance to develop an innovative new program that will address the needs of this community and make its own work more efficient.

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A kitten looks pleadingly at visitors in November at the Norman Animal Welfare Center. The Oklahoma City Council considered a change to city law that would make it easier to launch a community-cats program, and Norman should follow suit.

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NATION NEWS BRIEFS1. SAN DIEGO

GPS tracker sheds new light on missing American yacht

A website that tracks boats by GPS shows that an American yacht mysteriously destroyed during a Pacific Ocean race left a track landing on the rocky shore of an island off Mexico’s northern coast.

The GPS track potentially undercuts the theory of a collision with a ship.

A U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said Tuesday that investigators have not recovered the GPS device from the yacht but that they would consider the coordi-nates it recorded.

Three members of the boat’s crew were found dead and the fourth remains missing.

The Associated Press

2. FLINT, MICH.

Man charged with several of stabbings in Michigan

Prosecutors and lawyers for a man charged in a string of stabbings that terrorized Flint, Mich., two summers ago are interviewing potential jurors for his first murder trial.

Kimberley Minor had her brother Arnold Minor’s ashes with her Tuesday and says she plans to bring them to every day of Elias Abuelazam’s trial.

The trial centers on Minor’s death. Separately, Abuelazam is charged with murdering two other men and trying to murder six other people. Prosecutors believe he attacked 14 people that summer before he was arrested trying to flee to his native Israel.

The Associated Press

3. CONWAY, ARK.

Officials use bouncy houses to get bear down from tree

When a black bear climbed a tree in a central Arkansas city and refused to come down, authori-ties turned to unconventional rescue tools: bouncy houses.

Conway Police spokeswoman La Tresha Woodruff says Foster the Bear is named for the residential street where he holed himself up in a tree, straddled a branch and wouldn’t budge.

She says officials shot Foster with tranquilizer darts late Monday, causing him to fall asleep. They inflated two bouncy houses — usually reserved for children’s parties — beneath the tree. And then firefighters let loose with water from a fire hose, knocking the bear from his perch.

The edge of the inflatable houses broke Foster’s fall.Woodruff says Foster wasn’t hurt. Wildlife officials

plan to release him back into the wild.The Associated Press

4. COLUMBUS, GA.

Homeless man gets arrested intentionally to go back to prison

A homeless man in Georgia was hungry, so he de-cided to get thrown in jail by hurling a brick through a glass door at the Columbus courthouse building.

Lance Brown spent nine months in jail before his April trial. He was sentenced Tuesday to another month behind bars.

Brown’s case illustrates the struggle prosecutors face when dealing with homeless defendants who resort to crime to seek the safety of prison. They weigh whether to devote scarce resources to prosecuting a lower-level offense with the burden that comes with upholding the law and deterring others from breaking it.

U.S. Attorney Michael Moore says he had little other choice than to charge Brown.

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Americans Elect candidates still short required support

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Former Louisiana Gov. Charles ‘Buddy’ Roemer gestures during a news conference March 3 in Baton Rouge, La. A group clearing the path for an independent White House bid on Tuesday canceled the first phase of its search for a bipartisan ticket because declared and draft candidates aren’t mustering enough preliminary support.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A group clearing the path for an inde-pendent White House bid on Tuesday canceled the first phase of its search for a bipar-tisan ticket because declared and draft candidates aren’t mustering enough prelimi-nary support.

Americans Elect, which has drawn the support of several prominent figures, including OU President David Boren, scrapped a virtual caucus that had been planned for next week. Another round of voting set for May 15 also is in jeopardy; a third is to be held on May 22. Candidates must meet a certain threshold of support to be eligible for the caucuses.

Ileana Wachtel, a spokes-woman for the group, says no one gathered enough online “clicks” to qualify. Candidates must show they have the backing of at least 1,000 peo-ple in at least 10 states. Some candidates must reach a threshold of 5,000 support-ers in each of 10 states be-cause they haven’t held high enough office before under the Americans Elect bylaws.

“It is their responsibility to get the clicks,” Wachtel said. “We are just merely the plat-form for them to run on.”

Americans Elect, which in the eyes of the law isn’t con-sidered a third party, is note-worthy because it has plowed months and many dollars into securing ballot space in all 50 states and is more than halfway to its goal. Its rules require the nominee to field a bipartisan ticket.

Because Americans Elect isn’t a political party, it doesn’t have to file regular campaign disclosure reports with regulators. The one time it offered a glimpse through an IRS filing — in fall 2010 — the group reported raising more than $1.1 million and spending almost $1 million.

Organizers say the lack of party status gives them easier access to state ballots but also restricts them from advocat-ing on behalf of any issue or candidate.

Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, who

has the second-most support among two dozen declared candidates, is still well shy of the number he’d need to move along.

Anderson said the group set its bar too high.

“It’s incredible to me that they’ve worked so hard and spent so much money getting ballot access and yet they’ve set up the system that those with the greatest amount of support won’t qualify for the first round of voting,” Anderson said.

Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer leads the

pack of declared candidates but still hasn’t qualified for the caucus process. Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a Republican presidential candidate, is the leader among candidates supporters hope to draft ; he has been dismissive of a third-party bid.

Americans Elect plans to decide a nominee in June after an online national convention.

Delegates are permitted to vote only once and must pro-vide certain data to ensure ballot integrity.

The Associated Press

Group cans initial virtual caucus due to ‘clicks’ shortfall

Old grudge drives man to murderCRIME

MADISON, S.D. — A 73-year-old South Dakota man accused of fatally shooting his long-ago classmate will plead guilty but mentally ill to a second-degree murder charge, his attorney said Tuesday.

Carl Ericsson has been charged in the Jan. 31 kill-ing of retired Madison High School teacher and track coach Norman Johnson. Johnson was shot twice in the face after answering his door. Johnson’s wife, Barbara, found him lying on the floor and saw a man walking to a dark sedan parked outside.

An arrest affidavit sug-gests the incident might have been sparked by a de-cades-old grudge stemming

back to when Johnson and Ericsson were students at Madison High. No new details emerged during Tuesday’s court hearing.

Ericsson, bearded and with gray hair, sat in the courtroom wearing gray and white prison scrubs and headphones to ampli-fy the judge’s and lawyers’ microphones.

He pleaded not guilty to a first-degree murder charge in February and requested a jury trial. That charge can carry the death penalty if prosecutors choose to pur-sue it. The second-degree murder charge to which Ericsson is to plead guilty carries a mandatory punish-ment of life in prison.

A defendant can be sen-tenced to the state peniten-tiary under South Dakota’s “guilty but mentally ill” law. Treatment for the mental

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Carl Ericsson (left) is escorted into court Feb. 2 in Madison, S.D. The 73-year-old South Dakota man accused of fatally shooting his long-ago classmate will plead guilty but mentally ill to a second-degree murder charge.

illness can be given in pris-on, or the inmate can be transferred to other facili-ties under the jurisdiction of the Department of Social Services for treatment and then returned to the peni-tentiary to complete his or her sentence.

Defense attorney Scott Bratland said during the hearing that Ericsson has been examined by a psy-chiatrist but an affidavit has not been finalized. He was not available for comment afterward.

The Associated Press

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11 Did some crunches?

14 Craft project bonder

15 Be in a sticky situation?

16 “Friend” Courteney

17 One place to drink on vacation

19 “___ Tac Dough” (old game show)

20 Only Super Bowl won by the New York Jets

21 Escape clause

23 Does a checkout chore

26 The “p” in rpm

27 Head hawk on Olympus

28 Art that re-quires a folder

30 Anti-seniors people

32 One of the Bobbsey twins

33 Assign to a role

36 Software that includes accounting and inventory programs

41 Monogram letter

42 Hosp. hot spots

44 Any Bryn Mawr grad

47 Merchant ship fee

50 You need a good deal here

51 Response when some-thing hits you?

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54 Compliant 57 “Culpa”

preceder 58 Python’s

cousin 59 Beverly

Hilton amenity 64 “Walk-___

welcome” 65 Angora yield 66 Devil’s forte 67 Yes, on the

briny 68 Position on

an issue 69 Baseball

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Niger 6 Unseemly

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base site 8 Voice above

a baritone 9 “Cogito, ___

sum” 10 Type of fly ball 11 They’re seen

in casts 12 Lavatory

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Kudrow 22 Port-au-

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country 23 Simba, to

Mufasa 24 “Hermit”

crustacean 25 Aboriginal

Japanese 26 (Var.) 29 Obsessive

enthusiasm 30 Wedding

pathway 31 Up-to-date

antelope? 34 Tire-pressure

abbr. 35 Port near

Kobe 37 ___ Says

(kids’ game) 38 Place that

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39 Go like lightning

40 10 million of them equal a joule

43 Word in a classic Hem-ingway title

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46 Restlessness 48 “Be it ___ so

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Although you might have a rather wide range of acquaintances, per-haps your most consistent and most important associations will be with those who share the same ambitious objectives as you. Important bonds will be forged during the coming months.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Something rather exciting could happen if you visit places where you have a chance to make new contacts. Expose yourself to these kinds of occurrences, and the universe will do the rest.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- If you continuously stay positive, an important situation in which you’re presently involved will work out to your satisfaction, or perhaps even better than you thought possible.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Rather than discussing something important over the telephone or even putting it to paper, you’ll be much more effective going over the matter in person, if that’s at all possible.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Financial trends are moving in your favor, so if you have anything important monetarily that needs to be shared with others, do so now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- If at all possible, avoid people who always try to tell you what to do and how and when to do it. Your personal freedom and independences will be of utmost importance to you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) --Your day won’t count for much if you fail to

be compassionate when a situation calls for it. It’s not what you do for yourself as much as what you do for others that’ll afford you the greatest pleasure.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Base your social activities around friends with whom you’re totally at ease. Pretentious people will put you in a negative mood and make yours and everybody else’s day miserable.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) --If you have responsibilities dumped on your shoulders that affect others as much as they do you, take them very seriously. Everyone will suffer if you are indifferent or negligent.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) --Your intuition regarding the outcome of events is likely to be right on the money. If you have to make any projections for the day, keep this in mind and refrain from listening to others.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) --Joint ventures should work out quite satisfactorily, provided nobody tries to rush things beyond their normal pace. Press forward without being pushy.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) --It’s best not to make any important decision that affects the entire family without fi rst talking things over with them. Move on only after they’ve all had their say.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Don’t hesitate to take on something that is a bit beyond what you normally handle. It’s a day when things come easier for you, and that includes handling something new.

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OUDaily.com ››Acting senior Kevin Percival and his scene partner Laurel Sein won the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship, beating nearly 30 college actors.

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Editor’s Note: “Men are Dogs” director Lindsey Ruta is the life & arts editor of The Daily.

The OU School of Drama’s “Men are Dogs” is an

upbeat comedy filled with laughs sure to carry you through the entire show.

Dr. Cecelia Monahan (acting senior Kelsey Ray) is a psychiatrist who gives relationship advice to her patients, although she has her own troubles with men. Ray was impres-sive and accurately depicted the character with great humor. She was perfect for the role and a great lead.

Within the show, Monahan holds group therapy to help her patients get over their issues with the men in their lives. Monahan hires two men to help with group therapy sessions: delivery boy Bob Crowley (acting senior Ross Johnson) and part-time bartender Tony Rumson (acting junior Jack Welborn).

The casting was great for the two males. They played off of and contrasted each other seamlessly.

Allison Taylor (acting junior Lindsey Kite) stole the show. Every time Kite made an appearance on stage, she brought enjoy-ment and witty humor. Not only was Kite funny due to her character’s lines, but she also made nonverbal gestures tie her character together nicely.

Monahan’s patients (acting junior Andrea Lopez, University College freshman Courtney Woltjen and acting sophomore Erika Daly) had great chem-istry. You could tell distinct differences within the three characters. The only thing the characters had in common was their issue with men, and their contrast brought a lot of depth to the show.

Director and acting senior Lindsey Ruta did a great job with the show. The blocking was perfect and worked well with the lighting. Old Science Hall’s E. Frank Gilson Theatre brings unique challenges be-cause the space is smaller and much more personal, but Ruta, the technicians and the ensemble handled it well.

If you’re looking to take your mind off finals, “Men are Dogs” is a great reason to get out of the house.

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ReviewCoMMunity

Businesses ‘Keep it Local’

Courtney GoforthLife & Arts Reporter

For a company still in its infancy, Keep It Local OK already has begun to lat-tice small businesses into the culture of the Norman community.

C o - f o u n d e r s B r y c e Bandy and Chris Branson launched the program in 2 0 1 0 i n O k l a h o ma C i t y to support their love for Oklahoma and the local businesses that perpetually help it grow.

“We love Oklahoma, and our motivation has always been to highlight the cre-ative aspects of it,” Bandy said. “It started with friends or family who would come into town and we would want to show them a new boutique or go to a cool place and eat. So, we are kind of cheerleaders for all of the cool, creative things that go on here.”

Sh o p p i ng l o ca l l y ca n save up to three times the amount of money by fun-neling the revenue back into the community, Bandy said.

Independently owned bu si n e ss e s i n No r ma n , Moore, Oklahoma City, Yukon, Mustang and Tulsa can pay a membership fee of either $50 per month with a 12-month commit-ment or a $500 annual pay-ment, which offers several incentives for both the cus-tomer and the retailer.

T h e m e m b e r s h i p i n -cludes social media promo-tion, a pin on the map in the program’s smartphone app that allows users to view registered local businesses and the Keep It Local cards that draw in customers.

To date, 24 businesses in Norman are a part of the Keep It Local program, with Lollie’s Beauty Bar being the most recent Norman addition, according to the program’s website.

Businesses such as Native Roots, STASH and Campus Corner baker y Crimson and Whipped Cream are all a part of the program.

Crimson and Whipped Cream has been a part of the Keep It Local program for almost two years, em-ployee Alex Ford said. The bakery is a part of the pro-gram because the owners think it is beneficial to the community and the atmo-sphere on Campus Corner, she said.

Ford said the program is popular with the bakery’s regular customers.

“We sell so many Keep It Local cards here all the time

Program launched to support growth of Oklahoma stores

because we have so many regulars,” she said. “We have a group of math pro-fessors that come in three or four times a day and use their local cards.”

The program also helps develop a sense of commu-nity between businesses in various parts of Oklahoma, Ford said.

Native Roots is a recent Norman addition to the program because manag-er Joel Blackmon believes t h e p ro g ra m e m b o d i e s the same mission for the community.

“Since the beginning, we have always been about local people, community,

local farmers and keeping the money in our state,” Bla ck m o n sa i d . “ We’ve been a big part of the local movement of Oklahoma, and we see its importance. Keeping the money here, where we can spend it on ourselves — that makes a better state. The main rea-son is because we want to support our local com-munity and make this al-ready awesome town more awesome.”

Native Roots offers 10 percent off of local goods, which comprise 35 per-cent of the products that are all grown and raised in Oklahoma, he said.

Blackmon said he sees customers come in and spend hundreds of dol-lars on local meat, which quickly pays off through the use of the local card. The program not only sup-ports local products but also helps keep these local shops in business, he said.

“ I k n ow a l o t o f p e o -ple who will stop shop-ping at Walmart, Target and Natural Grocers just to come shop here or The Earth and Forward Foods to keep us in business be-cause they know that the lit-tle places like that are more important than the giant chains,” Blackmon said.

Above: Alex Ford works Thursday at Crimson and Whipped Cream. The shop displays the “Keep It Local” card to support local busi-nesses. Ford says she is surprised at how many customers use the card.

Left: A sign at Native Roots Market on Main Street adver-tises “Keep It Local” cards. The cards pro-vide discounts and other promotional incentives to shop at local businesses.

Photos by RicaRdo Patino/the daily

AT A GLANCEKeep it Local

The cards can be purchased for $10 through the registered businesses or on the Keep It Local website.

When the cardholder presents the card at the any of the shops or restaurants, they can redeem a discount that is determined by the retailer.

Source: Keep It Local website

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JERUSALEM — An Israeli military commander who ordered an airstrike against a Gaza Strip home in 2009, killing 21 members of a fam-ily that was fleeing fighting in the area, will not face crimi-nal charges, a military pros-ecutor announced Tuesday.

The attack on the members of the Samouni family — who had been ordered by Israeli soldiers to take refuge in the home hours before it was

attacked — was one of the most controversial incidents of Israel’s 22-day offensive against Gaza militants more than three years ago.

The attack was cited by a United Nations report and several human rights groups as an example of possible war crimes committed by Israel during Operation Cast Lead, which left more than 1,200 Palestinians dead.

After initially denying the incident, Israel launched a criminal investigation that has been pending for more than two years.

In a letter released Tuesday,

military prosecutors said they determined that Col. Ilan Malka’s decision to attack the building was “deficient” but that he did not intentionally target civilians or act in haste or with criminal negligence. His decision was apparently based on a mistaken reading of aerial drone photographs showing some family mem-bers holding firewood, which Malka interpreted as a shoul-der-fired missile.

In a statement Israeli mili-tary said it “found that there were no grounds for employ-ing criminal or disciplin-ary measures against any of

those involved in the inci-dent, and instructed that the file be closed.”

Israeli human rights groups said the decision raised ques-tions about the military’s abil-ity to investigate itself.

“Shirking the responsibil-ity for the deaths of hundreds of other civilians and the im-mense damage caused by Operation Cast Lead dem-onstrates yet again the need for an Israeli investigation mechanism that is external to the army,” said attorney Yael Stein of the Israel human rights group B’Tselem.

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NEWS8 • Wednesday, May 2, 2012

WORLD NEWS BRIEFS

1. BAGRAM, AFGHANISTAN

Defeat of 9/11 terrorist group is ‘within reach,’ Obama says

President Barack Obama is declaring that the de-feat of the terrorists who attacked the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, is finally “within reach.”

In an address to America from Afghanistan, Obama says the tide of the war and U.S. forces have “devas-tated” al-Qaida’s leadership. He singled out the U.S. troops that launched the operation one year ago that killed Osama bin Laden.

Shortly after arriving in Afghanistan, Obama signed a joint agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The president says the deal outlines “a future in which the war ends.”

Obama’s speech — and his entire trip — were aimed at a domestic audience in an election year.

The Associated Press

2. MEXICO CITY

Earthquakes continue to shake Mexico, no injuries reported

A series of earthquakes hit three regions of Mexico on Tuesday, swaying buildings in Mexico City but bringing no reports of damage.

The strongest quake hit off the state of Chiapas at 5:43 p.m. s an initial magnitude of 6.3, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

An earlier 5.7 quake was centered 85 miles from Michoacan state’s capital, Morelia. A 5.0 quake struck 114 miles off the coast of Cabo San Lucas in the state of Baja California Sur.

Civil protection authorities in all three states re-ported no serious damage or injuries.

Many businesses were closed for a holiday in Mexico City, which has been shaken by a series of strong earthquakes and aftershocks in other parts of the country in recent weeks, and offices and streets were largely empty.

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LONDON — It’s the most explosive line in the re-port, and the line that some Conservative lawmakers said they could not cross.

The finding that Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person” to head a major internation-al company led the news in Britain after the release of a report Tuesday by a parlia-mentary committee look-ing into the phone-hacking scandal at Murdoch’s giant News Corp.

The committee unani-mously agreed that three of News Corp.’s senior execu-tives in effect lied to law-makers about the extent of hacking at the News of the World tabloid. Instead of being the work of a lone re-porter, intercepting private voicemails now seems to have been practiced on an almost industrial scale at the newspaper, which Murdoch closed down last summer.

Murdoch and his son James both showed an “as-tonishing” lack of interest or will to get to the bottom of the affair, the report says.

But to then make a judg-ment as to Rupert Murdoch’s fitness to run News Corp. “was wildly outside the s c o p e” o f t h e c o m m i t-tee’s purview, said Louise Mensch, one of the five Conservative Party lawmak-ers on the panel.

In the end, Mensch and three fellow Conservatives withheld their support of the report in a 6-4 vote. (The fifth Conservative, the

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Chairman of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch arrives at his residence in central London. British lawmak-ers released a report Tuesday that stated Murdoch is “not a fit person” to lead the News Corp empire.

ENGLAND

Committee says Murdoch not fit to lead News Corp

committee’s chairman, did not cast a vote.)

“It will be correctly seen as a partisan report, and will have lost a very great deal of its credibility, which is an enormous shame,” Mensch told reporters.

Tom Watson, the Labor lawmaker who has been one of the fiercest critics of

News Corp., defended the report’s scathing criticism of Murdoch.

“More than any individual alive, he is to blame. Morally the deeds are his. He paid the piper, and he called the tune,” said Watson, who once compared News Corp. to the Mafia.

Analysts say that the slam

on Murdoch seemed clearly aimed at influencing Britain’s media regulator, Ofcom. The agency is charged with determining whether News Corp., which has a con-trolling 39 percent stake in British Sky Broadcasting, is a “fit and proper” holder of a broadcast license in Britain. A negative judgment by Ofcom would be a major blow to Murdoch.

An Ofcom spokesman, , said that the agency was reading the report “with interest.”

The Associated Press

Officer didn’t act with negligence or in haste, officials say

“More than any individual alive, [Murdoch] is to blame. Morally the deeds are his. He paid the

piper, and he called the tune.”TOM WATSON, U.K. LABOR LAWMAKER

Executive officials lied about hacking, according to report

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