Last Saturday at the football game, after a week of Homecoming activi-ties, the winners of the homecom-ing competition were announced as Delta Delta Delta Sorority and Kap-pa Alpha Fraternity. DDD and KA were one team, as sororities and fra-ternities pair up for Homecoming.

On Monday night, however, it was revealed that Fisher South, origi-nally placed in third, had actually won Homecoming. The dorm won first place in both the street painting and yard board competitions, while DDD and KA got second in both.

Student Association President

Michael Mancini explained that those in charge of tallying the points “didn’t have everything added up” early Saturday morning, when the results were due.

They were “both up late Friday night and had to come in early Sat-urday morning” to tally points, Mancini said. However, they were still missing the yard board scores.

Although Mancini said, “In retro-spect, I’m not sure announcing was the best decision,” he also felt that there “was really no way to make everyone happy” because “not an-nouncing the winner would have

also angered some.”Homecoming scores come from

points for attendance and the vary-ing competitions street painting, yard boards and pie eating. The yard boards are graded by TU alum-ni, and the results were not in early enough for SA to add them to each organization’s total. The “call was to give (the announcers) the best guess,” said Mancini.

Even without the yard board re-sults, Fisher South should have been announced the winner. The Homecoming tally results, released Monday, show that DDD and KA had 23 points without their yard board score.

Fisher South had 40 points with-out the score, because they attended one more event than DDD/KA and won street painting. If DDD and KA had won yard boards, worth 10 points, Fisher would have still re-mained the overall winner.

Fisher South dormitory, however, did not know the problem with the yard board results over the week-end. Throughout Homecoming week, the Senior Resident Assistant and Resident Director of the build-ing had kept close count of atten-dance and had met all goals.

With the results of the street painting, they knew “mathemati-cally, (Fisher South) had a pretty good chance of placing top two or three,” said Lindsley Aycock, Fisher South’s Senior Resident Assistant.

“At first, it was just kind of dis-appointing (that we got third),” Aycock said, because “we worked really hard, and we thought we’d placed better than that.”

But then she and Resident Direc-tor Zane Hight began to wonder if “maybe something was miscalcu-lated, maybe there was some kind of error in the amount of points”

It seemed like an ordinary homecoming. The students were merry, the streets were painted and the alumni out in force. Late Friday night, as the bonfire threw long shadows across the Quad, no one suspected that in the coming hours, TU would be left wondering about the truth of its homecoming competition. Ringmasters of our media circus Michaela Flo-nard and Renan Kuntz report.

Graphic by Sarah PowerSee The Big Slip, p. 4

The Golden Hurricane men’s basketball team is preparing for another strong season, after an appearance in the NCAA tourna-ment last year. New head coach Frank Haith and some of the players took some time to talk about the season on media day this Thursday.

Coach Haith addressed the media about the team as the start of the season draws near. In his time since being named head coach on April 18th, Haith feels that he has a “good grasp” of what the team has to of-fer this year, but realizes that what he has seen has not yet been in a truly “competitive environment.”

He also recognizes that Tulsa has to play to its strength, which is “our speed and our quickness” when competing against oppo-nents that are bigger, because the personnel

of the Golden Hurricane’s team is fit better for speed than size. Haith stated that “it’s exciting to note, when you have guys like Shaquille Harrison and Rashad Ray, who are really fast and powerful with the ball, that we can get into early offense with those guys.”

The team will play a 4 in, 1 out offense, focusing a lot on ball screens. He feels that the team is well prepared to compete in the conference, and looks to build off of last year’s success.

Tulsa will be the third school that has given Haith the reins at head coach. After spending 18 years as an assistant coach at six different universities, Haith broke into head coaching at the University of Miami (FL) in 2004. He spent seven years there; his best season came in 2007-2008, when Miami made it to the second round of the NCAA tournament.

When the University of Missouri’s head coach Mike Anderson left the program to take the vacant head coaching spot at the University of Arkansas in 2011, Haith de-parted Miami to take the Missouri job. In his first season at Missouri, the team posted a 30-5 record and won the Big 12 Conference tournament.

However, they faltered when it came to the NCAA tournament. A No. 2 seed, they faced No. 15 seed Norfolk State in their first game. In a shocking game, Missouri became the first No. 2 seed in 11 years to lose in the first round of the tournament.

Just two years after the disappointing tournament appearance, Haith’s third sea-son at Missouri was clouded by allegations of improper recruiting that occurred while he was at Missouri.

He was suspended for five games, and Missouri only made it to the second round of the NIT tournament at the end of the sea-son.

Finally, when Danny Manning left Tulsa to accept the head coaching position at Wake Forest, Haith made the move this summer to coach Tulsa.

Of the 6 players that started more than 20 games last year, 4 are returning. The only seniors on last year’s team were guard Bar-rett Hunter, who only played in 10 games,

and guard Tim Peete, who started all but one game.

Junior forward Lew Evans transferred from Tulsa to Wake Forest to follow Man-ning, hoping to stay in the same system.

This year’s team, though lacking seniors, features experience, with 10 juniors on the roster. With only two seniors departing from last year, the core of the team is still in place. The team leaders in points (guard James Woodard), assists and steals (guard Shaquille Harrison), and blocks (forward Brandon Swannegan) from a year ago are all juniors returning with the experience of the NCAA tournament.

This core will help the team to continue where they left off last year, and continue to build chemistry as the season goes.A look to the schedule:

Tulsa’s non-conference schedule has a mix of no-name teams and tough opponents. Challenging away games include the MGM

Grand Main Event tournament that TU will be participating in, and a game in Wichita, KS against Wichita State, a team that went through the entire regular season undefeated just a year ago. There are also some strong non-conference opponents coming to play the Golden Hurricane at the Reynolds Cen-ter, including Creighton and in-state rival Oklahoma.

TU will face some stiff competition in a conference that includes the defending na-tional champion University of Connecticut. The Huskies were a No. 7 seed, and beat a No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 8, and No. 10 seed on their route to the championship.

The conference also features two other teams that played in the NCAA tournament last year: the University of Memphis and the University of Cincinnati. Memphis made it to the second round before losing to No. 1 seed Virginia, and Cincinnati was upset by No. 12 seed Harvard in the first round.

New baketball head coach Frank Haith poses during the media days on Thursday.

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Monday, Oct. 27:Men’s Golf @ Grove Intercollegiate;

Murfreesboro, TN Women’s Golf @ Las Vegas Collegiate

Showdown; Las Vegas, NV

Tuesday, Oct. 28:Men’s Golf @ Grove Intercollegiate;

Murfreesboro, TN Women’s Golf @ Las Vegas Collegiate

Showdown; Las Vegas, NV

Thursday, Oct. 30:Women’s Tennis @ Jack Kramer Invite;

San Diego, CA

Friday, Oct. 31:Football @ Memphis; Memphis, TN,

7:00 p.m.Women’s Volleyball @ Houston;

Houston, TX, 7:00 p.m.Cross Country @ American Athletic

Conference Championship; Tulsa, OK, 10:00 a.m.

Women’s Tennis @ Jack Kramer Invite; San Diego, CA

Saturday, Nov. 1:Women’s Basketball vs. Rogers State;

Reynolds Center, 2:00 p.m.Men’s Soccer vs. UCF; Hurricane Stadium; 7:00 p.m.Women’s Tennis @ Jack Kramer Invite;

San Diego, CA

Sunday, Nov. 2:Women’s Tennis @ Jack Kramer Invite;

San Diego, CAWomen’s Volleyball @ Tulane; New Orleans, LA, 1:00 p.m.

Basketball writer Joseph Edmunds writes about what we can expect from the C-USA 2013 champs this season.

Collegian / Matt Rechtien

Collegian / Matt RechtienFrom left to right: Freshman guard Micah Littlejohn (#11), junior guard Corey Haith (#2) and freshman guard Keondre Drew (Tulsa does have a plethora of guards now) pose for photographs during media days

‘Cane Calendar Oct. 27–Nov. 2, 2014

The Thunder are a lot like Leonardo Di-Caprio. They’re incredibly talented, incred-ibly cool and both played Johnny Depp’s mentally challenged little brother in 1993 … well, the last one might not be true.

The Thunder were never Arnie Grape, but there is one other thing that they have in common. They have both gotten incredibly close to the highest award in their profes-sion (i.e. a NBA championship and an Os-car), but every time they fall short.

The first time they both had a shot was very similar. DiCaprio got nominated for his role in “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” in which he was just ridiculously good. It was probably the best performance of the year, but the voters thought he was too young and gave it to Tommy Lee Jones.

The Thunder team that made the finals in 2012 might have been the Thunder’s most talented with Durant, Westbrook and Hard-en, but they were just too young and inexpe-rienced to beat the Heat. In 2004 DiCaprio got nominated again for “The Aviator,” but lost to Jamie Foxx. In 2013 the Thunder lost Russell Westbrook in the playoffs to a torn meniscus and lost to the Grizzlies. Both of them just had bad luck and could not reach their ultimate goal.

Then take this past year for both of them. DiCaprio loses the best actor award to Mc-Conaughey who was just better and the Thunder lose in the Conference Finals to the Spurs who were clearly the superior team. Both Leo and the Thunder are incredibly tal-ented and have shown how brilliant they can be on the screen and on the court, but it just has not paid off yet.

Can the Thunder finally break their Leo-like ways and become a championship team? They’ve already had one big setback with Kevin hurting his foot, but this could open up the door for other players on the team to step up. The five players to watch on the Thunder are Russell Westbrook, Reg-gie Jackson, Serge Ibaka, Jeremy Lamb and Steven Adams. I will also compare each one of these players to a classic DiCaprio movie because who doesn’t love Leo?

With Durant out, Westbrook and Jackson are the two players who can take over his scoring load. Coach Scott Brooks is insistent on bringing Jackson off of the bench, but he could have more value in the starting lineup on a Thunder team that needs points with Durant out. Phoenix had one of the most ef-ficient offenses last year, running two point

guards on the floor at once, but Scott Brooks does not really like to be innovative. I think Leo’s character in “The Beach” says it best: “I just feel like everyone tries to do some-thing different, but you always wind up do-ing the same damn thing.”

That is the feeling when you watch Thun-der games. Everyone around the league is trying new and inventive things while Scott Brooks is still throwing out Sefolosha and Perkins every night hoping that by some miracle one of them makes a basket.

Playing Jackson and Westbrook could really liven up the Thunder’s offense and make it even more deadly once Durant gets back. I would not be surprised if Westbrook and Jackson averaged fifty points together while Durant was out.

Westbrook is definitely “The Wolf of Wall Street.” They are both crazy and extremely entertaining, and I imagine that Westbrook might partake in some of the stuff that Leo did in that movie.

Reggie Jackson is “Catch Me If You Can” mainly because I feel like that is a re-ally good movie, but does not always get the recognition it deserves. Much like Jackson.

Another obvious key for the Thunder’s season is going to be Serge Ibaka. Ibaka made his value to the team obvious last year when he was out for the first two games of the conference finals. Ibaka is a machine, but he did struggle in the playoffs in 2013 when he was the second option after Durant went down.

Ibaka is very good at two things. He is an amazing shot blocker, and he is money from twenty feet. If he is asked to do more than that, he can struggle, but when he focuses on doing those two things he is a very valuable member of the team.

Ibaka is the anchor of the one of the league’s best defenses and he will have less pressure on him with Steven Adams on the court instead of Kendrick Perkins. I do not expect his role to change much with Durant out.

Serge Ibaka is “Blood Diamond” and not because Ibaka is from Africa, but mainly because it was action packed much like Ibaka’s playing style. And because there is the one line from “Blood Diamond” that I could totally see Ibaka saying on the court: “In AMERICA, it’s bling bling. But out here it’s bling bang.”

I feel sorry for Jeremy Lamb. He never stood a chance. When you are the major piece in a blockbuster, trade expectations are always too high for you. It’s like when you prepared this amazing presentation for class, but the smartest kid gave his right be-fore yours. You do not stand a chance. Ev-eryone still remembers his, and while you are rambling up there all the class is think-ing is, “Man that last guy was a lot better.”

It is like being any Baldwin not named Alec. If Stephen Baldwin shows up to a

party, you are going to get really excited be-cause for a half second you think it is Alec, but then nope it’s Stephen. (Author’s Note: “Bio-Dome” is a great movie.)

Lamb will never be as good as Harden, but he is still a good player who can shoot threes and provide alright defense at either wing spot. He’ll never be a star like Harden or Alec Baldwin, but he can be serviceable like Stephen Baldwin.

Jeremy Lamb is “Inception” because I have no idea what he is going to do each night. He could score twenty points or not play, and I still do not know if Leo is dream-ing or not.

This next sentence is the happiest sen-tence I have ever typed. Kendrick Perkins is no longer the starting center for the Oklaho-ma City Thunder. Scott Brooks finally came to his senses and put Steven Adams in the

starting lineup. Not only does Steven Adams bring an

awesome mustache and a little bit of crazy to the center position, but he also brings something the Thunder have been missing for years at this position: talent.

It is hard to win a championship when one of the players on the court is terrible at what he does. Adams is not really a threat on the offensive side besides in the pick and roll, but this dude hits boards harder than the Power Rangers’ Megazord hit Ivan Ooze in the genital region in the 1995 clas-sic “Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: the Movie”

(Editor’s Note: A great drinking game for this movie is to drink whenever someone is rollerblading or does an unnecessary front flip. You drink a lot more than you would expect.)*

Adams is also an above average shot blocker. The only problem he has is that he tends to get into foul trouble, but besides that he is a major upgrade over Perkins.

Adams is “The Great Gatsby” because it was not really that great, but always enter-taining.

If you were wondering, Perkins is “The Beach” because he is God-awful.

Once Durant comes back, the Thunder should be back to their winning ways and one of the favorites in the deep West. My prediction is that they get the three seed and lose to the Clippers in the Conference Fi-nals, but what do I know? They will prob-ably win it all.

*This is like “Inception” because it’s not actually an editor’s note, but Pat Fox’s note.

Hurricane basketball done with practice, hungry for Big Dance

Our NBA enthusiast Pat Fox, who spe-cializes in the Oklahoma City Thunder, previews the season by comparing every player on the team to a famous character played by Leonardo DiCaprio.

“It’s like when you prepared this amazing presentation for class, but the smartest kid gave his right before yours. You do not stand a chance. Everyone still remembers his, and while you are rambling, all the class is thinking is ‘Man that last guy was a lot better’”

Did you know that the OKC Thunder and Leonardo DiCaprio are the same?

On Wednesday night, the Golden Hurricane Men’s soccer team beat nationally ranked (No. 24) and conference rival Southern Methodist University, 1–0. They followed up that victory with another conference win on Saturday, this time winning 2–1 in over-time against Temple University.

Wednesday’s game began with back-and-forth play from the two teams, as each looked to assert themselves on the field. Twenty minutes into the game, Tulsa earned a corner kick.

SMU goalkeeper Michael Nelson was able to push back Austin Neal’s headed shot, but the ball fell to the feet of Quinn Starker, who put the ball into the open goal

for his first goal of the season, giving TU the 1–0 lead.

Five minutes later, TU took a hit when midfielder Abé Matamoros went down with an ankle injury. He was unable to return to the game.

Tulsa pushed on for the rest of the half, keeping the pressure on the Mustangs. Go-ing into the break, the score remained 1–0, and the Golden Hurricane had a 6–2 advan-tage in shots on goal.

The second half brought much of the same, with Tulsa creating more chances than the Mustangs. Just three minutes into the half, defender Bradley Bourgeois nearly scored on a header he sent towards the top of the goal, but Nelson was able to get a hand on it to tip it over the crossbar. That was as close as either team would come to scoring again for the rest of the game, how-ever, and the game ended with a 1–0 score.

Tulsa finished with a 9–4 advantage in shots on goal, and Golden Hurricane goalkeeper Jake McGuire notched four saves to earn the shutout, his fourth of the season.

In Philadelphia, Tulsa conceded an early goal to the Owls’ forward Chas Wilson a mere two minutes into the game. The score remained 1–0 through halftime and until twenty minutes remained in the game, when Tulsa Akeil Barrett scored a penalty kick to knot the score at 1 each. The goal forced overtime, where Bourgeois got open on a corner kick to head in the game-winning goal for TU.

The Golden Hurricane improved their re-cord to 9–5–1 (4–2 American Athletic Con-ference), while SMU and Temple dropped to 8–4–2 (3–1–2 AAC) and 2–12–2 (1–5–1 AAC), respectively. Tulsa returns to action in a home game against UCF, which is set to start at 7 p.m. on Saturday.

Everyone knows the notorious Power Five conferences are creeping toward crippling autonomy in college football. Power Five programs wield longstanding traditions, immense fan bases, and most importantly lots of dough to spend. The dawn of the four-team College Football Playoff has all but guaranteed postseason berths to Power Five teams. Meanwhile, teams from the other five conferences, known as the Group of Five, tremble at the thought of imminent irrelevance. However, Marshall Univer-sity, has arisen as perhaps this year’s only Group of Five challenger. The Thundering Herd have rumbled to an 8–0 record, though with a schedule devoid of any Power Five opponents. So, if Marshall can manage the rest of its not-so-daunting C-USA schedule, does it deserve a seat at the College Football Playoff?

Conference USA certainly thinks so. C-USA leadership hired a PR firm to pitch Marshall to the American public and the College Football Playoff committee. Es-sentially, the C-USA brass wants Marshall to run the table and earn a berth, bringing an obscene amount of publicity and money to the conference. The Playoff would be a perfect way for the C-USA to move past its breakup with Tulsa, Tulane, and Houston… and just about every team in the American. Now, obviously, there won’t be an issue with C-USA having its refs rig the games in favor of Marshall. Who am I kidding? Break out the tinfoil hats because we’ve got a con-spiracy theory!

Speaking of conspiracy theories, a mys-terious bacterial illness has overcome two NHL teams, the St. Louis Blues and the Minnesota Wild. Coincidentally, both teams have recently played against the Los An-geles Kings and Anaheim Ducks. Chemi-cal warfare has made its way into the visi-tors locker rooms in one of SoCal’s arenas. Symptoms are mostly flu-like, plus a swol-len jaw that makes the afflicted look like Captain Cane … on a good day.

A University of Arkansas offensive line-man broke an unofficial record of heavy-weight hero and former University of Kentucky quarterback Jared Lorenzen (2000–2003). At 6’ 5” and 350 pounds, Se-bastian Tretola completed a six yard touch-down pass against UAB to put the Razor-backs up 28–0. Because Lorenzen hovers around a modest 300, Tretola must be the heaviest player to ever throw a touchdown pass in college football.

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Soccer fan and sports reporter Joseph Edmunds writes about an-other ranked soccer team that Tulsa defeated.

Volleyball Splits the RoadThe women’s volleyball team went 1–1 this past week, sweeping the University of Connecticut Huskies on Friday and falling to the Owls of Temple on Sunday morning. The win over Connecticut was the first conference road win for the vol-leyball team since joining the American Athletic Conference. The split this week puts their overall record at 13–8 with a conference record of .500 at 5–5. They will continue their road trip on Wednesday when they play Houston.

Women Beat the MethodistsThe women’s soccer team beat the Mus-tangs of Southern Methodist University this week by the score of 2–1. TU scored both of its goals in the first half, and the game was not as close as the score shows

because SMU scored in the last 5 minutes. With a win at their final regular season game yesterday, the women stand at 11–7–1 overall, looking to the AAC quarterfinal.

Men’s Soccer Outlasts TempleThe men’s soccer team beat the Owls of Temple University by a score of 2–1 after double overtime. Temple scored their lone goal two minutes into the game when Chas Wilson sunk a cross pass into the back of the net. Akeil Barrett drilled a penalty kick to even the match and draw overtime. In the 103rd minute of the second overtime Bradley Bourgeois put in the golden goal for the Golden Hurricane giving them the second conference win this week. This puts their overall record at 9–5–1 with a 5–2 conference record with one regular season game left at home on Saturday.

Abbreviated Hurricane Recap

Hurricane soccer takes down another ranked team

The 2011 college football season had just come to a close. The Ole Miss Rebel foot-ball team had a 2–10 record, including a 0–8 conference record. While Mississippi State did make a bowl, they did so with a 6–6 record. Meanwhile, South Carolina was ranked ninth in the nation with a 11–2 record, while Arkansas sat at the fifth spot with an 11–2 record of their own, with their only losses coming to BCS National Cham-pionship teams LSU and Alabama.

Oh, how the tables have turned.

Mississippi State is undefeated and Ole Miss is a top 10 team in the country, earning the AP Poll rankings of No. 1 and No. 7 re-spectively (the first No. 1 ranking in school history for Mississippi State).

These teams have already beaten the likes of Alabama, Auburn and LSU (in Baton Rouge!) and look to be well on their way to competing for a chance in the first college playoffs, setting the stage for an unprec-edented in-state matchup in the Egg Bowl. So how did these schools find themselves in glory, bouncing back from mediocre (or downright awful) past performances?

On Nov. 7 of the embarrassing 2011 cam-paign, Ole Miss head coach Houston Nutt resigned, effective after season’s end. The new hire was Hugh Freeze, a coach that had

made a name for himself at Briarcrest Chris-tian School (of “The Blind Side” fame—Freeze was coach during Michael Oher’s tenure), coaching from 1992–2004 with nine of those years at the head coaching po-sition. Having already worked previously at Ole Miss at various positions, Freeze set out to rebuild the program.

The results have been something only the most hardcore Rebel football fan would have dreamed of. Freeze used his background as a recruiting coordinator to improve the Ole Miss recruiting class from No. 40 in 2012 to No. 7 in 2014.

The offense this year has been led by the solid play of senior quarterback Bo Wal-lace, who has thrown for 1899 yards and is on pace for a career-high 30 touchdown passes. However, the defense has been the dominant force. The defense has only al-lowed 10.6 points per game so far, which is best in the entire nation. The Rebels aren’t playing slouches, either. According to the TeamRankings strength of schedule calcula-tion, Ole Miss has played the fifth toughest schedule in the nation.

Mississippi State’s coaching job has been a bit more stable, as Dan Mullen has been head coach since 2009. Mullen’s coaching history before the Bulldogs is directly cor-related with that of Urban Meyer, as Mullen was Meyer’s quarterback coach at Bowling Green from 2001–2002, Utah from 2003–2004, and finally Florida from 2005–2008, where he was also offensive coordinator.

Quarterbacks under Mullen during this stint include Utah’s Alex Smith, the first overall draft pick in 2005 and current sig-nal-caller for the Kansas City Chiefs, and a certain someone by the name of Timothy Richard Tebow. I heard he was sort of good.

Mullen’s recruiting record is not as im-pressive as Freeze’s, as Mississippi State’s recruiting rankings are 30, 26 and 37 in the years 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively.

But rankings do not necessarily translate to stardom on the field—star quarterback and current Heisman favorite Dak Prescott was merely a three-star recruit. The Bull-dogs boast an elite offense, ranking ninth in the nation with 41.8 points per game. This is led by the rushing attack, with Prescott and running back Josh Robinson combining for 1,265 yards.

The tide in the SEC has swung from Alabama to its neighbor. College football enthusiast Wade Craw-ford has something to say about it.

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The duo would be 53rd in the nation in rushing yards, above schools such as Flor-ida State, TCU and Notre Dame. The de-fense isn’t too bad either, ranking 19th in the country.

Ole Miss and Mississippi State have shocked the college football world. Old favorites have been defeated soundly, and teams once considered as a “joke” are now competing for the top of the nation’s best conference. Though Ole Miss fell this week to LSU (on the road) they have still shown that football in the Magnolia State is a force to be reckoned with.

Not two months after the beginning of class-es, the University of Tulsa is requiring its students to undergo an online sexual vio-lence education module called Haven.

TU chose Haven because Everfi, the company who developed the module, has been a partner with the White House Task Force on Sexual Assault.

According to Dean of Students Yolanda Taylor, “the course is closely aligned with federal requirements and recommendations.”

Taylor highlighted that other universities have also utilized the same online module in order to prevent sexual assault on their campuses.

“Oklahoma State University, for instance, has implemented the same program for 27,000 students,” said Taylor.

The Collegian also contacted Everfi in order to understand how the module was conceived.

According to Brian Cooley, Everfi’s Chief Marketing Officer, Haven was created and designed by the company’s team of education experts.

“We work with independent researchers. We also have an Everfi coalition, made up of 200 university subject matter experts,” said Cooley. This coalition meets annually to discuss research and share takeaways from said research.

Mr. Cooley said, “Everfi has been in the business for 12 years and the demand for our online modules is massive. There’s been an increase in the demand for Haven recently. Currently, there are four hundred campuses

using Haven.” Recent government initiatives, including

the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act, which requires colleges to accurately disclose reports of sexual violence on campus, have made education on this issue important to colleges.

Cooley added that Haven was also recently updated. “It is frequently updated, but prior to this academic year was completely rebuilt.”

Now the module has a new interface with videos and scenarios that the company hopes will make it more learning-friendly.

The Collegian heard students’ opinions about Haven in the last couple of weeks. They were neither excited about the idea of having a required assignment nor about Haven itself.

One student said, “It was tedious because it was long, and I already knew 95 percent of the content.” Another student pointed out, “The online module was extremely inconvenient for us because it has been implemented during the period of midterm exams.”

When asked if they believe the number of sexual harassment incidents on campus would be impacted after Haven, one student said, “Since most students already know most of the content they just skip through the steps. You do not actually process all that information, but I believe Haven will make us a little bit more aware.”

However, TU students still believe that an online platform is the easiest way to reach most people.

“I really liked that it was online because I could take it anywhere. Also the website was pretty interactive and well designed,” a student said.

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Haven developed by White House task force partner

TU implements widely adopted online sexual assault education module. Staff writers Renan Kuntz and Michaela Flonard report.

What process did you have to go through to become homecoming queen?Any organization can nominate a male or female from their group. My sorority, Delta Delta Delta, nominated me. The Alumni Relations Office makes an application for all who are nominated, along with other things going on during homecoming week, and narrow the candidates down to the top ten males and females. From there, cur-rent Tulsa University alumni interview the candidates and narrow us down to the top five guys and girls. Then, the entire student body votes on who is crowned the king and queen. What was your initial reaction when you heard you had won?I was so shocked. Just being on the court was an honor. I didn’t think I would even make it far enough to be on court. When I was an-nounced homecoming queen, I was kind of awkward. When they called my name, my first thought was, “What do I do now?” But it didn’t matter because I was overwhelmed by the people all around me, handing me flowers, putting the crown on my head, and throwing a slash over my shoulder. What does it mean to you to be crowned homecoming queen?Again, I am overwhelmed. I am flattered that everyone thought I deserved such an honor. My mom said it was her proudest moment of my life. This recognition meant more to me because of what it brought to my par-ents. It’s like I gave something meaningful to them after all that they’ve done for me. What do you think made you stand out from the other candidates? What sets you apart as a positive representation of TU?I have a lot of school spirit. It’s easy to not support your school and the teams with ev-erything you are involved with along with the time you need to study for your classes, but I always tried to find the time to go and support every team we have. I went to as many games as possible. However, all of the other candidates were just as deserving.

What have you been involved with while at TU? How do you spend your free time?Since the very beginning I’ve been involved with my sorority Delta Delta Delta. Over the years I came to be involved with Pres-byterian Leaders and Scholars, TU Ambas-sadors, Public Relations Student Society of America and Mordor Board for Seniors. Outside of school I enjoy supporting OKC’s Thunder basketball, anything outdoors and traveling. I studied abroad this past spring in Brussels, Belgium. One thing I learned while I was there is that no matter what problem I find myself in, there is a way out. I had lost my purse, with everything in it, I mean everything, wallet, house keys, pass-port…everything. It was the biggest stress of my life. But someone turned it into the U.S. embassy. It restored a lot of my faith in humanity. What are your plans after graduation?I plan to move to Washington D.C. next summer where I will have an internship at a law firm. I plan on going to graduate school but after I have worked full time for a while. I already applied to George Washing-ton University where I intend on studying higher education administration. I hope to combine Public Relations and higher educa-tion administration for my career. If you could tell your freshman self one thing, what would it be?Keep up your good work ethic but don’t stress yourself out. Remember to have fun.

What was your initial reaction when you heard you had won?It was an honor to be selected as homecom-ing king. I was excited, and a little bit sur-prised. I knew I had a really good chance, but all of the other nominees had such a strong presence on campus, so it felt like it was a close vote. After they handed me my hat and my scepter I wasn’t sure what do so I waved. They should have told me what to do next. What does it mean to you to be crowned homecoming king?It was nice to know that I am supported by so many people. I was not only selected by

Homecoming queen and king answer questions about the crownSenior communications major Sar-ah Hartley was crowned Homecom-ing Queen. This Norman native met with student writer Shelby Branch to discuss her queen-ship.

a panel of alumni but also by current stu-dents on campus. Interestingly, I was actu-ally nominated last year by the Chi Omega Sorority. I was working as a houseboy for a couple of semesters, so I was probably nominated because all the girls knew me so well. I didn’t feel like I should have won it as a junior, but it was still really nice to have been selected and to advance to Court. What do you think made you stand out from the other candidates? What sets you apart as a positive representation of TU?I think that my involvement on campus definitely helped. It was not just my close friends, a professional organization or my fraternity brothers that wanted me to repre-sent TU, but many people outside of those groups. What have you been involved with while at TU? How do you spend your free time?I am the secretary and recruitment chair for Kappa Alpha Order, the organization that nominated me for Homecoming King. I am also involved with many other groups on campus, including serving as president of University Ambassadors, vice president of the Tulsa Energy Management Student As-sociation, and as president of the Associa-tion of International Petroleum Negotiators. I am also in a couple of honor societies and

I was on the former TU intercollegiate track and field team, winning a conference cham-pionship. I am about to step down from a lot of those positions, so it will be nice to have more free time to take naps. I really enjoy going to different athletic events such as volleyball, soccer and basketball. My friends and I even travel to see football games that are at other campuses. What are your plans after graduation?I have accepted a full time job as a Land-man with Concho Resources, which is an oil and gas company, based in Midland, Texas. But before I move out in June, I will take a five-week trip in Europe. We will start in Athens, Greece, and then travel in much of Italy, Spain, Hungary and Germany as well as many other countries. I have already trav-eled to London and Paris, but it will be nice to visit them again with friends. We don’t have any set plans yet, but I am really look-ing forward to it. If you could tell your freshman self one thing, what would it be?I would say that four years of college sounds like a fun time, but it goes by really fast. En-joy the random moments that happen that you are not expecting. Embrace those. As lame as it sounds, many things will happen that you don’t expect, so embrace them.

Chuyi Wen / CollegianFrom left to right: Zombies Luke Normile, Grace Doyle, Kate Cooley, Student Association President Michael Mancini and Jordan Hoyt growl and hunger for flesh.

Oct. 1311:45 a.m.Officers are investigating a report of a bicycle larceny from Norman Village. A student reported their secured bicycle was taken from a bike rack. There are no suspects at this time.

12:40 p.m.Officers and Tulsa Police responded to a non-injury motor vehicle accident just off campus at 11th St. & College Ave. involving a student and non-TU affiliate. Tulsa Police facilitated the exchange of information.

4:00 p.m.A state issued identification card was found in Pat Case Dining and impounded at Campus Security for safekeeping.

2:40 a.m. Officers located the owner of the suspect

vehicle and contacted Tulsa Police. Officers were able to verify the owner was driving the vehicle and ran from the scene. Tulsa Police issued citations for Hit & Run, No Drivers License, No Insurance and Unsafe Lane Change.

Oct. 149:20 p.m. Officers and Tulsa Police are investigating a hit & run motor vehicle accident in the Mayo Village Lot. The suspect vehicle backed into another vehicle, occupied by the parent of a student. The suspect vehicle left the scene and parked in another section of the Mayo Village Lot where the occupant ran from the campus. Officers identified the suspect as a former student from the vehicle information. This information was given to Tulsa Police for their investigation and the suspect’s vehicle was impounded. Both vehicles suffered only minor damage.

5:00 p.m.Officers and Tulsa Police responded to a non-injury motor vehicle accident at the intersection of 4th Pl. & Harvard Ave. A student, attempting to turn onto Harvard Ave., struck an oncoming vehicle causing major damage to both vehicles. Both vehicles were towed from the scene.

Sarah Power interviewed Bryce Cason, dual energy management and finance major, this year’s home-coming king.

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because “mathematically, we knew it was impossible for three teams (two teams tied for second) to place ahead of us because the possibility to earn those points wasn’t even there,” Aycock said. So the two sent in a re-quest for the points to be recalculated.

“By the time (SA) had everything in, Fisher South had emailed (SA about the dis-crepancy),” said Mancini, and the recount of

points showed that the dorm had won over-all.

Their win “felt really good” because all of their “hard work paid off,” noted Aycock.

Although it is usually a Greek organiza-tion who wins, Fisher South is “the most competitive of dorms … because freshmen have a lot of spirit,” noted Mancini.

One of the other issues in the homecom-ing competition was a mix-up in attendance. Attendance was “tracked on a lot of differ-

ent computers—whoever was working the event used their own computer,” and ac-cording to Mancini, SA “ultimately couldn’t figure out whose computer the street paint-ing data was on.” Instead, the organization chose to not count that event.

This issue is leading SA to consider streamlining next year’s process by using handheld devices instead of personal com-puters. Another consideration for next year, “although it’s nothing definite,” noted Man-

cini, is to have divisions between the large and small organizations. “There are pros and cons to that—the more divisions we make, the more prizes we wind up giving out … but it would fix some issues,” he says.

In the end, Aycock and the rest of Fisher South’s residence hall are just ecstatic to have won. Last year, the dorm placed sec-ond, and this year’s win, after several days of confusion, comes even sweeter.

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Eric Marshall is the founder and CEO of Marshall Brewing Company in Tulsa. Marshall is a fourth-generation Tulsan and graduated from TU in 2004 with a degree in International Business and German Language, while being a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

After graduation, Marshall left to study brewing in Munich, Germany at the World Brewing Academy.

There, he earned the prestigious International Diploma in Brewing Technology. Marshall served as an apprentice in Germany and as a brewer for Victory Brewing Company before forming Marshall Brewing Company in 2008.

How was it growing up in Tulsa?I loved it here, and that’s why I decided to come back. It’s quite a bit different than it is now. When I was growing up, you never went downtown.

Now it’s more of a fun place to live. Tulsa’s a good place to be, the people are great. It’s a great environment to have a business, very small-business friendly.

What made you choose TU as your place of study?I liked TU from the perspective of being local—I had a lot of family ties to it.

My grandparents went to TU, my parents went to TU, my brother … there’s a lot of family history there.

I liked TU being a small environment, small atmosphere, you can get involved in pretty much anything. In state schools, you get so big, and so many people, you get lost in the mix.

What led you to choose your major? (International Business and German)I started out studying Electrical Engineering, probably because somebody told me that’s what I should study, and I found out relatively quickly that it wasn’t something I was particularly interested in.

I also had really wanted to take German. When I started at TU, I started taking German and really enjoyed it.

When I wanted to switch to the business school, (Dr. Mark Collins) was in the class with me, and offered to talk to me about the programs offered and study abroad.

The program gave a general business outlook, with an international focus. I was always very fascinated with culture, and the program was very culturally focused.

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Last week, in an article entitled “Who represents me? A look at Tulsa Rep. Jim Bridenstine’s first two years in office,” we reported that Mr. Bridenstine defeated John Sullivan in 2012’s legislative elections. The story should have said that Bridenstine defeated Sullivan in the Republican primary before going on to defeat John Olson in the general election.

Oklahoma has seen a dramatic increase in earthquakes since 2009, with an exponen-tial rise since 2011. The bulk of these earth-quakes have occurred in central Oklahoma including the towns of Guthrie, Edmond, Stillwater, Prague and Cherokee to name only a few.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there were only one to three earthquakes per year with a magnitude of 3.0 between the years 1975 and 2008. There were 2,800 earthquakes of various magnitudes in 2013 alone; over one hundred have been recorded each week in 2014 so far.

While many of these tremors aren’t strong enough to be felt or cause damage, there are some that continually cause destruction and endanger lives. Earthquakes can be felt at a magnitude of 3.0 and higher. A 5.7 magnitude earthquake in Prague in 2011 was recorded to be the strongest quake in the history of Oklahoma, severely damaging roads, homes and buildings.

Earthquake insurance companies have been selling more and more earthquake policies in recent years. Before 2008, these insurance packages were rarely purchased

by Oklahomans due to the extreme rarity of property-damaging quakes.

One major theory behind the increase in Oklahoma seismicity pertains to the state’s very prominent oil and gas industry. There is a possible link between the greater frequency in earthquakes and wastewater injection into deep underground wells.

This process pumps toxic water from oil and natural gas extraction (including fracking) into wells that are thousands of feet underground for disposal. This causes a reduction in friction along tectonic plate fault lines which, in turn, may cause earthquakes.

The Oklahoma fracking boom led to an increased demand for these disposal wells. There are approximately 12,000 injection wells drilled in Oklahoma; 3,356 of these wells are for wastewater disposal. In 2012, the wells took in about 1.1 billion barrels of water (45.7 billion gallons) from the oil and gas industry operations. There is a correlation between the location of these injection wells and the location of the earthquakes.

Another theory points to aquifers as a root cause of the earthquakes. Aquifers are underground reservoirs through which water passes easily. Many aquifers that were previously empty become suddenly refilled when rain falls with high intensity, an event called ‘‘hydrologic loading.” This

sudden addition of weight is predicted to be a trigger for the quakes.

There is no clear consensus on the cause of the seismic occurrences. It does seem, however, that the earthquakes are not

occurring purely by natural means. The quakes may very well be influenced by human industry. Research on these theories is continually seeking answers to the unusual earthquake occurrences in Oklahoma.

Rise in earthquakes rocks Oklahoma to its coreWhether caused by wastewater injection wells, refilled aquifers or other causes entirely, earthquakes are becoming a larger problem in OK. Lizzie Connor reports.

Graphic courtesy U.S. Geologic Survey

2009 was the first year in recorded history that Oklahoma had twenty earthquakes in one year. It seemed bizarre, but it was nothing compared to what was to come. 2013 had over 100 earthquakes, and as of May 2014 Oklahoma had nearly 150 earthquakes. This rapid escalation shows no signs of slowing anytime soon.

Interview with Eric Marshall, founder of Marshall Brewing Co.Student Writer Wade Crawford sat down with Eric Marshall to talk about growing up in Tulsa, his time as a student at TU and what it’s like to found a brewery.

Any special experiences at TU?The two biggest things that were great from undergrad were my fraternity and study abroad. A lot of people associate fraternities with “Animal House,” and there are some aspects of that. But it really helped put things in place for me, especially on a national level. It helped me to step up and take a leadership role, managing time and people.

As for study abroad, that was, by far, the greatest thing I did in college, from the perspective of independence and viewing the world a different way by the different cultures.

You grow as a person by having the confidence to be able to live independently. It gives you a different view on things and really takes you out of your comfort zone.

How did you end up getting interested in brewing?When I was studying in Germany, I had already done a little bit of homebrewing but fell in love with beer and the beer making process from the culture. Beer is a big part of German culture.

Having the ability to go there and drink fresh beer from the local brewery, and the environment and atmosphere really fascinated me and brought me to brewing.

I picked up brewing after moving back, and saw the need for it here and an opportunity to make a career. My mom was a small business owner, so I grew up in the environment of entrepreneurship.

What were some challenges with starting up Marshall Brewing Company?Oklahoma’s liquor laws are a little “interesting”—in a way, they inhibit the process of starting a brewery.

Fortunately, my brother is a good lawyer, so he can look at the legal aspect and make sure we’re complying.

We were the first to make a strong beer in Tulsa, so nobody knew how zoning and codes worked for our situation.

Once we got started up, this misconception that we weren’t legitimate surfaced for a short period of time. But once we got past the first few months, things were able to take off.

What was the process of growing your very own business?

We’ve taken a slow, controlled growth method. This is a very capital-intensive business, and takes a lot of money to be able to expand.

But the way that everything has grown, there’s an opportunity to double business overnight, and that’s where people get into trouble.

Again, it’s capital-intensive, so you could double capacity but go into debt as a result. You also need to get the equipment and the people to handle everything.

So we’ve taken a step-by-step sort of pace. There’re breweries that have grown faster, but we like the pace we’re growing at.

Have there been any TU staff that was supportive of you in this process?Dr. Collins for sure—we’ve stayed really close, and he’s been really good about keeping me tied into TU, whether to come speak to classes or something else.

I’ve also stayed close with Professor Udwin of the German Department as well. It’s a small and very tight-knit community, so I’ve been able to keep in contact and work with them extensively even now.

Any words of advice?Something I always like to say is to have an open mind. You may start with a good idea of what you want to do as a freshman, or have no idea. Either way, there’s a good chance your mind could change.

There’s opportunities out there, and if you have an idea or a passion, or see a need or an opportunity, if you prepare yourself you can be successful.

Especially in Tulsa and the TU community, there’re people with a lot of money that want to see young people succeed and cool things to happen in Tulsa.

If you’re prepared and have a well-laid plan or idea, there’s an opportunity to really succeed.Photo courtesy Marshall Brewing Company

Eric Marshall, founder of Marshall Brewing Company.

Europe

SWEdENSwedish armed forces are searching for a foreign underwater vessel that appears to be in their marine territory.

This search began on Thursday, Oct. 16th when Swedish intelligence picked up an emergency radio call in Russian.

Helicopters, battleships and minesweep-ers have been employed in this full scale hunt. The armed forces believe the vessel to be Russian.

They are prepared to bring the vessel to the surface.

The radio transmission was supposedly being sent to Kaliningrad in Russia. Russia has denied having any vessel in the Swedish territory.

Dutch and U.S. officials have also de-clared that they have no submarine-like ves-

sels in the area.Swedish officials have given three possi-

bilities for stealthy Russian reconnaissance: mapping waters for better navigation if hos-tility occurs, equipment installation, or ob-servation of Swedish defense systems.

Asia

INdIA A fireworks factory in Andhra Pradesh, a southern Indian state, exploded on Monday Oct. 20, killing at least 17 people.

Another 10 individuals were sent to a nearby hospital in critical condition. The Manikanta Fireworks factory was destroyed in the massive fire that ensued.

Police officials declared that the fire-works were being made without the correct permits. The factory also had too many peo-ple employed, breaking building occupancy rules.

Fireworks are used frequently in Indian weddings, religious festivals and other cer-

Eye on the world:Lizzie ConnorStaff Writer

emonies. Unintentional explosions at fire-works factories are common.

In 2012, at least 34 people were killed and another 30 injured in a huge fireworks factory explosion in Tamil Nadu. Sixteen people were killed in a blast that occurred in a factory in 2009.

Africa

SOUTH AFRICA Oscar Pistorius is a well known South Afri-can double leg amputee sprint runner.

In February 2013, he shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, who he alleg-edly mistook for an intruder.

On Tuesday Oct. 21st, Pistorius was giv-

en a five year prison sentence for the killing of his girlfriend.

His charge is listed as ‘culpable homi-cide’; in South Africa, this means a person was killed unintentionally but still unlaw-fully.

South African law also declares he will have to serve one-sixth of his sentence be-fore he can request to switch to correctional supervision (house arrest).

In addition to the homicide charge, Pisto-rius was initially given a three year sentence on a firearm charge.

This was suspended for five years pend-ing as long as he is not found guilty of an-other crime involving a firearm.

Slang you should use

Web Editor Sam Chott explores some of the most underrated pieces of slang in the English language.

요즘 한국에는 성형수술이란 미묘한 뜻을 가지고 있다. 한국에서는 성형수술 발달과 성형수술을 하는 사람들이 너무 많아져서 자신이 옛날 진짜 자신이라는 것을 증명하는 증명서가 필요 한다고 한다. 미국에 있는지 6년이 된 나에게는 마치 소설 같은 소식이다. 생각해보면 성형수술은 마술 같은 효과가 있다. 수술한 전과 후의 사진들을 보면 왠지 신데렐라 소설에 나오는 변신과 비슷한 느낌이 난다. 후에 나오는 멎진, 혹은 아름다운 변신을 보며 '나도 저렇게 잘 생겨/아름다워질 수 있어' 라고 생각을 하는 많은 사람들에게는 성형수술은 둘도 없는 선물이다. 하지만, 돈이 없어 수술을 못하는 사람들에게는 '아름다움'이란사회적 차별을 불러일으키는 둘도 없는 고통스러움일 것이다. 아마 이런 물리적 차이는 사회층을 파괴할 수 있을 것 이다. 돈이 있는 사람들, 돈이 없는 사람들. 아름다운 사람들, 아름답지 않는 사람들. 마주치는 얼굴이 사회적 차이를 의미 한다면, 성형수술 보다 더 분명한 사회적 차별은 없다. 하지만, 성형수술이 만들 수 있는 아름다움이란 더 좋고 깊은 뜻을 가질 수 있다. 나의 가까운 친구에게 성형수술의사가 되고 싶은 이유를 물어보았을 때에 그녀는 가난한 나라에서 영양 부족으로 얼굴변형을 가지고 태어난 아이들을 도와주고 싶다는 말을 들었다. 이외같이 성형수술은 많은 사람들을 돕고 일으킬 수 있는 힘을 가지고 있다. 화상, 유방암, 신체변형, 기타 외의 성형수술은 많은 환자들과 사람들의 신체와 마음을 치료할 수 있다. 하지만, 그래도 요즘 한국의 우상숭배를 보면, 왠지 이득보다 해로움이 더 많을 것 같아 걱정이 많다. 점점 더 아름다워지는 한국인들의 모습, 성형수술의 기술 발달, 아름다움의 집념, 외국 나라들의 집중 등을 결합하면 내가 걱정하는 사회문제가 될 가능성이 더 많을 것 같다. 근래 미국에서 오래있었던 한국 친구들이 한국을 방문하고 오면 말해주는 소식 또한 나의 걱정을 확신해준다. 모델 같은 날씬하고 키 큰 몸매. 비슷한 옷차림.

인기 있고 인기 없는 브랜드 혹은 트랜드. 낯선 사람의 칼 같은 몸매와 얼굴의 대한 비난. 미국에 흔하게 찾을 수 있는 개인주의는 한국에서 귀하다. 오히려, 미국에 흔한 개인주의를 한국에서 보인다면 사람들이 흉보기가 쉽다. 아직 대학교에 있고 한국에 오랫동안 거주하지 않은 나는 이런 한국을 비난할 수는 없다. 하지만, 여자로서, 사람으로서, 이렇게 사람의 겉모습으로 사람을 판단하는 한국을 자랑스럽게 나의 본국이라고 할 수는 없다. 직접한국에서 이것을 체험하고 싶어도 솔직히 방문하기 무섭다. 미국에서 나의 삶을 반 이상 산 나에게 한국은 신기하고 무서운 나라다. 과연, 한국을 이렇게 생각하고 느끼는 다른 한국인들은 있을까 하고도 궁금해한다. 하지만, 지금은 그냥 나의 생각에 잠겨있다.

Recent improvements in plas-tic surgery in Korea have lead to some interesting legal and social changes. With the increased popu-larity of plastic surgery, Koreans now need a new type of identifica-tion to prove that they are the same person they were despite drastic changes to their appearance.

For those that have the money, plastic surgery gives them the chance to be classically beautiful, however, for those who are poorer, the intense social discrimination can be devastating. When I asked a close friend of mine why she wanted to become a plastic sur-geon, she replied that she wanted to help kids born in poor countries with deformed face due to malnu-trition.

Plastic surgery has the power to help many people including burns victims and breast cancer patients. However, in the case of Korea’s idol worship, plastic surgery seems to do more harm than good. While I wish to experience first-hand the effect of plastic surgery in Korea, I feel scared to visit. After living away from Korea and attending school in the United States for so long, Korea seems fascinating and horrifying.

As a way of embracing the multicultural nature of the university commu-nity, the Collegian will be printing articles in languages that reflect the unique makeup of our student body. Staff Writer Se Yeon Kim was born in Korea, but has lived in the United States for more than half her life. Here she shares her concerns about the increasing prevalence of plastic surgery among well-off South Koreans and the resulting social stigma surrounding appearance. A short English summary follows the article.

한국인들의 성형수술 심란

Renowned Irish poet remembers Heaney

Paul Muldoon, considered by many to be one of the best modern Irish poets, came to TU this week to pay tribute to his longtime friend and teacher, Seamus Heaney. Staff Writer Adam Lux reports.Paul Muldoon, with a fat tie and disheveled hair, looks like the jol-ly uncle that gives you a sip of his beer on Christmas. His lilting Irish accent makes me feel as if I’m having a cup of coffee with Yeats in downtown Dublin. Yes, he is very much like what we think of when we hear Yeats, or Wilde, and most importantly Seamus Heaney.

The first poem he read was called “The Loaf.” Without spoil-ing too much I’ll just say it was about a particular hole in a very old house Muldoon used to live in. It is both sensually concrete and somehow ethereal. Filled with consonance and onomatopoeia, the poem sounds playful and som-ber coming off his tongue.

Muldoon was good friends with Heaney. He met the poetry master when he was 16. Under Heaney’s

guidance, Muldoon’s first book “Knowing My Place” was pub-lished when he was only 19. He studied formally under Heaney at Queen’s University in Belfast.

He followed this up with one of the many song lyrics he has com-posed, “The Big Twist.” The lyric was far more casual and made me feel more comfortable being around the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot prize winner and Oxford po-etry professor. It was a mixture of traditional structure styling and contemporary pop culture con-tent from “The Maltese Falcon” to “Star Wars.” This odd com-bination made me think of how much importance we put on the relationship between writing style and content and how a whole new realm of opportunities are opened up when we bend and break the rules.

Why was this man, who has been called one of the five best poets alive, here at TU? Well, be-cause we asked him to come—but why did he say yes? Seamus He-aney spoke at TU multiple times.

Heaney was good friends with for-mer TU professor Darcy O’Brien. Heaney would come to the uni-versity, give a reading, and have a drink with O’Brien. Maybe Mul-doon came to help keep the mem-ory of Heaney alive at TU. Maybe he came to begin a relationship with the university himself. I don’t claim to know; I’m just glad he was here.

Muldoon continued with a few of Heaney’s poems. He even opened the mic up for the listeners to read a few of Heaney’s works. Great works of Heaney’s such as “Digging” and “Follower” were read. He ended with an excerpt from a poem in his new collec-tion “One Thousand Things Worth Knowing.” The excerpt was from his poem “Cuthbert and the Ot-ters,” and he chillingly ended on the line “I cannot thole the thought of Seamus Heaney dead.”

Editor’s note: “thole” is an old Scottish word meaning “to endure without complaint or resistance.”

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Slang words are the Christopher Walken of language—they play a relatively minor role, but without them the whole experience would fall flat. Slang freshens up our vo-cabulary, allows us to express nov-el ideas succinctly, and, much like staring out a window while drink-ing scotch, makes us seem much more interesting than we actually are.

With that in mind, take a trip with me to experience the slang of the past, the present and the future. We’ll also be taking detours into the future that never was, the pres-ent that almost could be, and the past that almost was but not quite.

Buckle up.

IceWilliam Gibson was a revolution-ary author, not for the raw quality of his writing, but for his frighten-ingly accurate predictions of the future. He predicted, among other things, the Internet, reality televi-sion and weird Japanese virtual pop stars. He called computer se-curity systems “ice” before the first computer virus was released into the wild, but we make com-

puter secu-rity sound like paperwork. I, per-sonally, would rather reinforce my ice than update my antivirus.

“That system’s got black ice protecting it. It’s uncrackable for anyone but a true console cow-boy.”

Butter Upon Bacon This Victorian slang has regained some relevance, now that we’re in the middle of a bacon boom. As an idiom, it’s almost self-explanatory. It describes something that’s re-dundant to the point of ridiculous-ness. If you actually eat bacon and butter at the same time, please seek medical help.

“Oh, you had the servants put the good silver on the lace table-cloth? Isn’t that putting butter upon bacon, dear?”

CoveThis is a word taken from thieves’ cant, which was a jargon used by thieves in Great Britain in Eliza-bethan times. It was originally used to make their language so slang-ridden that the authorities wouldn’t be able to understand them. The word means “man,” and its first known use in writing was in 1566. Thieves’ cant has report-edly made a resurgence in English prisons.

“Oi, cove! Nick that shilling quick—the copper’s almost here!”

BrahmsBrahms comes from a set of slang

known as Cockney rhyming slang. It was constructed by taking the word “pissed,” which means “drunk” in England, and rhym-ing it with an unrelated word or phrase, in this case, “Brahms and Liszt.” The phrase is then cut off in the middle, leaving no way to understand the slang unless you’ve heard it before. If you squinted re-ally hard, you could probably re-late the word construction to the kennings used in Old Norse po-etry, but it’s really just a fun set of slang words.

“You might want to make sure they get home safe. They were both brahms like an hour ago.”

FyrePronunciation: Slur the “y.” Think “fur” combined with “far.”

A stoner I knew tried to force this word into use. I assumed that he had failed, until about a year later, when I heard a homeless lady use it. I’m not really sure what the chain of connection was between them, but this is one fine slang word, used in the same manner as “dank.” Unrelated to “first year residential experience.”

“Who was the opener at that concert? They were pretty fyre.”

BlightyMost slang that emerges during wars either applies only to war, or worms its way into the mainstream lexicon as soldiers return home. However, there are a few other interesting words that emerged from places of senseless death and terror. “Blighty” was originally used as a term for Great Britain by English soldiers, but it soon came to refer to a serious but non-lethal

wound, since the injured soldier would end up being sent home.

“Quit complaining about your missing leg. I wish I could get a blighty like that.”

darbSlang from the 1920s is a mixed bag. Most of it has been absorbed into our normal lexicon, often so much so that we don’t notice it, like “absolutely” or “crush.” Other parts of it seem old-fashioned, like “cat’s pajamas” or “gams.” But the decade that witnessed some of the most radical cultural shifts in our country’s history still holds some hidden gems. “Darb” originally referred to someone who would always be willing and able to pick up the check, but expanded to mean anything or anyone that was excellent.

“Oh, you found a new speak-easy after the last three got shut down? You’re a regular darb!”

Word Is BondWell-known slang phrases “repre-sent,” “peace” and “break it down” are linked superficially by their use in hip-hop, but the true connection is deeper. All of them derive from teachings of the Five-Percent Na-tion, a religious group founded by a former member of the Nation of Islam. The Five-Percent Nation then found popularity in hip-hop culture, hence the terms’ migration to rap. “Word is bond” as a phrase derives from the teachings of the religion, and implies that what you’re saying is unimpeachably true.

“I saw it all. He was singing Taylor Swift, word is bond.”

SpeyPronunciation: Rhymes with “hay.”Not to be confused with the identi-cally pronounced “spay,” this term is short for “respect.” It originat-ed at the finest high school in St. Louis and was quickly picked up by the most discerning and elite of slang users.

Rumors abound of a stunningly handsome Collegian writer who witnessed the birth of the term and brought it to TU, like Channing Tatum in that one movie where he carried the thing, but with bet-ter hair and a stronger jaw. I’m not saying that I am that person, but if I were, I would say that you should add “spey” to your vocabulary im-mediately. The conductor of the spey-train is blowing the whistle, and you better get on board before it leaves the station.

“You found my cell phone? Spey that, thanks.”

“Did you just punch her? No spey! You need to calm down.”

Your Own SlangSometimes we forget that the English language, or whatever language you speak, is organic. Having common grammar and vo-cabulary isn’t a matter of objective truth, it’s a matter of convenience. Changes in a language start as slang, and make their way into formally acceptable usage, as can be seen with the rise of “they” as a third-person gender-neutral singu-lar pronoun. For our language and communication to improve, thus, we need more slang. The only way that can happen is if people start creating and using slang. I’d cer-tainly spey that.

“So who here likes dildos?” asked stand-up comedian Laura Weider-haft, waiting for a response from her audience. “If nobody at a Soci-ety for Gender Equality event likes dildos, what hope is there for the rest of us?”

Don’t take Weiderhaft’s humor-ous joke as indicative of the whole Open Mic Night, which featured various performances. The event, hosted by TU’s Society for Gen-der Equality, included mostly po-etry readings, but there were also a couple of musicians with guitars in addition to the aforementioned standup comedian.

There were only a handful of TU students, with the majority of the performers coming from else-where around Tulsa. Most of the subject matter was what you might expect from a gender-focused open mic night—poetry about re-covering from sexual assault, gen-der-neutral love poetry and a song about not knowing what to say to pretty people, among other things.

One of the things that was most striking, at least to me, was

the atmosphere of the event. I’ve never been to any kind of poetry reading, let alone a public open mic night. The event was held at the Phoenix, a coffee house that I might describe as “excessively trendy” even before it was filled with flannel-wearing, poetry reading twenty somethings. Wearing a hoodie that I got for free from a university event, I felt how I imagine out-of-towners feel in Portland.

The actual performances were a mixed bag. I mentioned that the subject matter was what you might expect, but some of the poetry was also exactly what you would ex-pect. It seemed like it was made to be heartfelt, but came off as trite and cliched. I wanted to like it, but it seemed raw, and not in an angry, emotional explosion kind of way but in a “poetry is trendy, I should write a poem sometime” kind of way.

Other performances were dif-ferent, however. The musicians were good, and one had a pretty nice whistling solo. The stand-up was funny, and Weiderhaft’s jokes honestly seemed more relevant than some of the poetry. The best performance was by TU student and slam poet Nick Weaver. He switched between humor and seri-

ousness quickly, almost impercep-tibly, and rather than resulting in emotional whiplash, it only served to highlight how multifaceted the situations he described really are. I’ve never heard slam poetry be-fore, but I’m now a fan.

As far as I know, SGE doesn’t have any set plans to host any other open mic nights. If there are more, I recommend you attend, because of the quality performanc-es and the exposure to a set of val-ues that’s possibly different from your own. Coming from a primar-ily Catholic background, I’d never heard a poem that’s edited on the fly because the subject of the poem recently changed the pronoun they refer to themselves with, and that’s certainly a potentially enlighten-ing experience. I’m a hot choco-late guy, but apparently the coffee

The second law of thermodynam-ics—the mere mention of this sin-ister specter elicits as many cries of horror as it does confused shrugs. Well, if you don’t understand the implications of this tragic cosmic disease, then I will lay them out for you.

You know how the sun heats the Earth? And how that’s a good thing? That’s an example of heat transfer, and it’s the entire reason we are able to exist as organisms in our human form. If that doesn’t sound like a good thing to you, then just remember that without heat transfer, we would have no excuse to cuddle with other cold humans on snowy winter nights; without heat transfer, your coffee would never be cool enough to drink (not to mention you could never get it to be that hot in the first place (ev en though you would never even exist to be witnessing these impos-sible things in the first place)).

The second law of thermody-namics (probably) implies that, over time—we’re talking millions upon billions of years here—all this heat transfer is eventually go-ing to stop happening, or some-thing. There will be no more temperature differences left in the universe which can be exploited to

perform work (thanks Wikipedia). Basically that means we’re dead, if we didn’t already die out as a race eons before then.

So that sucks. Our existence, as a species, as biological life at all, has a date with the guillotine of uniformity.

But this is all remarkably cheer-ful compared to the reality of things. The truth is, the universe is on a collision course with nothing-ness. How can nothing and some-thing collide, you ask? Well, they can’t. Which is what is so damn scary about the whole thing. Once there is nothing happening in the universe anymore, it just kind of … I don’t know.

Of course I don’t know. I can only know and describe the real-ity in which I, as a human, have evolved. And after that, I guess the universe will just sort of stop existing, either in a Big Crunch or in a Big Freeze, or a Big Bird, or a Big Gulp. And then it will have returned home whence it came, wherever that is.

So the heat death of the universe and the second law of thermody-namics are just processes within a universe that is itself an infinitesi-mal part of the much larger scale of reality/non-reality, which is The Void. There is nothing that anyone can do to describe it or know it, but sensing the creeping influence of its presence is infinitely worse than a pretty cool scientific con-cept that justifies eating ice cream in the summer.

SGE hosts open mic nightWeb Editor Sam Chott shares his thoughts on the Society for Gender Equality’s recent Open Mic Night. Just pretend he was wearing flan-nel the entire time.

“Oklahoma … Oak-claw-home-ahhhhhhhhhhhh,” a man in a red body suit and a fedora repeated over and over at the beginning of Tuesday’s of Montreal concert, pantomiming each syllable of the name of the state in which his band was performing.

Some hard rock bands take themselves too seriously. Of Mon-treal is not one of those bands.

I’m fairly new to of Montreal. My more experienced friends had told me in advance that of Montreal’s concerts consisted of a delightfully weird combination of

high-energy rock and performance art. I thought they were overstating the weird part. I was wrong.

Throughout the concert, three band members devoted them-selves entirely to bouncing about the stage in a series of elaborate costumes, from wailing babies wielding feather guns to a danc-ing four-winged masked angel to zombies toting strobe lights. In some cases, the performers even blurred the line between costume and set piece, like when all three of them bounced with the music under a single amorphous mem-brane or combined props to form a plump skeleton with grotesquely huge arms.

The pomp and silliness actually did a good job complementing of Montreal’s music, which was bouncy and teasing even as it

delivered the energy and the shredding you’d expect of a hard rock band.

The band also incorporated a va-riety of influences into their show, with a few highlights including the ’70s-jam-flavored “Fugitive Air”, the bluesy “Obsidian Currents” and the disco-like “Suffer For Fashion,” Of course there were also some pretty great straight pop songs like “Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse” and “Coquet Coquette”.

It’s a shame that such a great show drew only a tiny crowd, with only about a quarter of the Cain’s Ballroom floor filled. Then again, of Montreal has always been a band that has polarized listeners between believers and doubters.

As of Tuesday, you can count me as a believer.

Managing Editor Conor Fellin recently attended an of Montreal concert. After not knowing what to expect, he was pleasantly sur-prised by the strange costumes and props that complemented the band’s hard rock energy.

In this week’s edition of the Void, Existentialism Editor Will Boogert examines the second law of thermodynamics, the inevitable heat death of the universe and concludes with ice cream.

of Montreal delightfully weird

Heat Death isn’t that scary

Right: Laura Wiederhaft performs stand up comedy.

Far Right: Nick Weaver performs slam poetry about body image and the meaning of “sexy.”

Below: Bay Ivy opens open mic night with poetry in front of the Phoenix crowd.

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at the Phoenix is pretty good too. Just remember to wear something trendy.

SGE meets every Thursday night at 8 p.m., at the Little Blue House behind Chapman.

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“Alcohol-related unintentional in-cidents are a leading cause of death among young people living in the U.S.” according to the Medical Amnesty Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to develop-ing and advocating for the passage of medical amnesty legislation.

Medical amnesty laws protect people who seek medical atten-tion in response to illegal actions, specifically underage alcohol consumption. These policies are spreading across the United States, and affect colleges especially.

Medical amnesty laws are state-wide laws that give intoxicated mi-nors some level of legal immunity,

which varies state to state, when they seek help for either them-selves or another individual who need immediate medical attention due to alcoholic consumption.

Cornell University conducted a study and concluded that while 19 percent of college students admit-ted help should have been called for a person who was highly in-toxicated, only 4 percent made that call.

Sixty-eight percent of teenag-ers report being afraid of getting in trouble, either with the law or with their legal guardians, when they drink.

Medical amnesty laws help re-duce that fear so that when some-one is severely intoxicated and needs medical attention, underage drinkers are more likely to call for help.

Currently, 21 states have medi-cal amnesty laws that provide un-derage drinkers with some degree of immunity. These levels of pro-tection vary state to state.

After one medical amnesty pol-icy was implemented, the amount of alcohol-related EMS calls in-

creased nearly 700 percent. 911 calls also increased, while fear of judicial repercussion decreased, according to the Medical Amnesty Initiative.

While noted concerns include the fear that these policies endorse drinking and would cause an in-crease in underage alcohol con-sumption, studies show drinking levels stay the same after medical amnesty laws are passed.

Oklahoma passed a medical am-nesty law that became effective on Nov. 1, 2013.

The law states that “a peace of-ficer may not take a person into custody based solely on the com-mission of an offense involving alcohol … if the law enforcement officer has contact with the per-son because the person requested emergency medical assistance for an assistance due to alcohol con-sumption.”

This means if you have con-tact with a police officer because you or a friend needed emergency medical assistance due to alcohol consumption, you cannot be taken into custody.

This only holds true, however, if you provide your full name and any other relevant information the law officer asks for, if you stay with the individual who needs medical help until emergency medical assistance arrives, and if you cooperate with both law en-forcement officers and emergency medical assistance personnel.

If you follow those steps, you are immune from criminal pros-ecution in the state of Oklahoma, in this specific circumstance.

This only holds true in Oklaho-ma. Other states may have varia-tions of, or no medical amnesty laws.

To read Oklahoma’s official amendatory legislature in its en-tirety, see medicalamnesty.org.

State-wide laws save lives, but what about university rules? Stu-dents may be scared of expulsion or other academic penalties their school may dole out if students are caught drinking.

Universities can have medical amnesty policies as well. The Uni-versity of Delaware, Cornell Uni-versity and many others have such

policies in place to encourage their students to call for medical as-sistance when it is needed. These policies keep students from being too paralyzed by fear to get the medical attention they or a friend might need.

The University of Tulsa has no such policies listed in their alco-hol policy. A first alcohol violation can result in a $150 fine, semester long probation, a required educa-tional workshop and parents being informed by a letter, among other things.

Penalties increase per offense, with a third offense resulting in a suspension from TU for one se-mester.

There is no mention of excep-tions to be made if a student was caught because they sought out medical assistance.

The University of Tulsa would benefit from a medical amnesty policy. Anything that makes stu-dents more comfortable seeking out emergency medical assistance is beneficial for both the students and the university.

Oklahoma is number one! ... at ed-ucation cuts. A new report shows that Oklahoma has slashed per pu-pil spending by 22.8 percent, the highest per pupil spending cuts in the nation. Alabama follows not far behind us with 20.1 percent, followed by Arizona with 17.2 percent.

However, not all states are cut-ting into their education budget. In fact, Wyoming is increasing its budget by 7.2 percent, Connecti-cut by 7.5 percent and North Da-

kota by a whopping 27.2 percent. While the difference between the costs per pupil in our state com-pared to other states cannot be measured accurately because of factors such as average household income and cost of living varying from state to state, the amount we are spending on students seems ir-responsible compared to the high-est amount states are spending on education. The highest amount found for per pupil spending per year by researchers for Oklahoma is $7,000.

Oklahoma dedicates 3.1 per-cent of its state taxable resources to public funding, ranking 36th in the nation in that category. These cuts at the state level means local school districts have two options: raise local taxes or reduce the ser-vices they provide. Raising local taxes is harder than one might as-

sume, especially in lower income neighborhoods, meaning the gap between how much a school used to receive from the state and how much it now receives from the state is unlikely to be filled.

The most important of these re-sults is the recruitment of future teachers and the retention of cur-rent teachers to keep class sizes small, so that students may receive more individual attention, en-abling them to succeed in school. Since the recession, Oklahoma has 1,500 fewer classroom teachers and 40,000 more students. Politi-cians have made new testing and accountability mandates, but with-out more funding, which doesn’t add up very well. One might wonder what these politicians and people in charge could possibly be thinking.

Janet Barresi, the state super-

intendent, had a sophisticated response to this report regarding educational expenses: She said she had not read the review. (We will dearly miss you, Barresi, when you leave office.) In addition, the governor’s communications direc-tor, Alex Weintz, said education remained a “priority” for Fallin. I believe that, because she cut edu-cation spending by 4.1 percent in 2012, a decrease of $97 million in funding for common education. Yes, education definitely seems to be a top priority for everyone.

“Why should I care?” I’m glad you asked! Because you are self-ish. Stay with me here—if you care about the competence of the people you will be working with in the future, or even if someone is capable of getting your triple, venti, half sweet, non-fat, caramel macchiato Starbucks drink just

right, educational standards should be of high relevance to you.

Educated and skilled workers are essential in our state and nation to compete globally in the upcom-ing years. Cuts are not helping this issue. With few exceptions, states where workers earn the highest wages are states with the most col-lege graduates, while states with the lowest median wages are those with the least college graduates. Higher wages is likely to mean more profit for businesses, mean-ing the economy is being stimu-lated. Therefore, these cuts save us money now but they are hurting our economy for the future. The best way to ensure a secure future is by investing in young people. Let’s invest in students and in re-turn, invest in our future.

Interactions between international and domestic students leave a lot to be desired. This isn’t anyone’s fault, but it needs to change.

The similarity-attraction hy-pothesis states that people are more attracted to those they perceive as being similar to them. It’s easy to like someone who looks, talks, and thinks similarly to oneself, but all of these factors—facial features, language, and viewpoint—are bio-logically determined and cultur-ally learned, respectively. So it is that even as TU accepts more and more international students, cross-cultural interactions are minimal.

That’s not to say that intercul-tural relationships don’t develop here, or that if they don’t, it’s be-cause everyone’s racist. Both do-mestic and international students may feel they don’t know how to approach people in the other group. There’s a language barrier and a cultural barrier, and the two together inscribe individuals with-in their comfort zones.

Nevertheless, Christopher Vi-ers, the associate vice president for international services at In-diana University, developed an International Student Barometer survey, and found that compared to relationships with other inter-national students (whether or not they were from the individual’s home country), international stu-dents rated relationships with

American students as more im-portant to them. The idea is that these students wouldn’t come here if they weren’t also at least some-what interested in this country and its people. This is the same reason for which American students study abroad.

Still, it’s hard to orchestrate meaningful interactions. That’s the problem too, that interactions between international students and domestics are too often “or-chestrated.” They tend to revolve around big once-a-year events, like Chinese New Year or Holi or an independence day. Viers says that these programs are not as meaningful in the long run com-pared to smaller, mixed groups meeting regularly over common interests.

As members of the TU commu-nity, we should not only recognize what a privilege it is to be able to interact with people from the oth-er side of the world—we should make long-term efforts to act on this realization.

Larry Braskamp, president of the Global Perspective Institute, has identified three reasons for why cross-cultural communica-tions on campuses are vital.

The first is simply that there are so many international students on American campuses these days that a continued, nationwide dis-connect between them and domes-tics would be like flushing gems of knowledge down a toilet.

Second, universities especially are interested in preparing their students to be globally competent, and rightfully so, as different cul-tures and ethnicities come into in-

creasingly close contact. Finally, most international stu-

dents have to pay full tuition. Yung-Hwa Anna Chow, Global Engagement Commission Chair at Kansas State University, has linked the recent boom in inter-national student enrollment at American universities to the 2008 economic crisis and federal bud-get cuts, since institutions find that these students generate more revenue. Such a profitable trend is likely to continue.

It’s not enough, then, to pas-sively tolerate international stu-dents on this campus. Leaving one’s dorm room door unlocked is not the same as actively prop-ping it open, and the same applies

to cross-cultural relationships. Ac-tive cultural appreciation for do-mestic students doesn’t mean try-ing to welcome every person who looks foreign to the United States either, and international students don’t need to go out of their way to only talk to American students. Ideally, every student would have domestic and international friends, and they would meet organically, through shared interests.

Joining any campus organiza-tion is a great way for members of both student groups to bond over commonalities that may not have seemed obvious. There are also campus resources specifical-ly for international and domestic students to meet, such as ‘Cane

Connections and the Cultural Ex-change Coalition. ‘Cane Connec-tions is a program through which students can sign up to receive either an international or domestic partner. When signing up, students can specify whether they would like someone who speaks a certain language or is from a certain area, and participants are paired based on similar interests. The Cultural Exchange Coalition hosts low-pressure events throughout the year, and helps advertise for those bigger, once-a-year programs that the national student groups host. For more information on either resource, you can email giselle-williscuauhtle@utulsa.edu.

OK best in nation at education funding cutsOklahoma has undergone more cuts to education funding than any other state, and this is detrimental to everything from class sizes to attracting businesses.

SheLby branChStudent Writer

Courtesy Fox NewsAcapulco residents took to the streets on Oct. 17 with the pictures of 43 students who went missing after they were arrested by local police in Iguala, Mexico, because they were on their way to another protest. The disappearance is reflective of broader issues with government corruption.

Oklahoma has passed medical amnesty laws that protect underage drinkers from arrest if they call for medical attention. TU should implement its own medical amnesty policies to encour-age safety.

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giSeLLe WiLLiSCommentary/Barricade Editor

It’s easy for students to stick around people like them, but branching out has its perks.

Students choose comfort over intercultural interactions

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Sources confirmed Tuesday that sophomore Stanley Rickman is trying to decide whether or not to attend a guest lecture on Friday for the sake of free food.

The talk being given, titled “Where the Buffalo Roam: Histor-ical Perspectives on Bison Migra-tion in Northern Kansas” has been described by attendees at other universities as “unreasonably long” and “a nightmarish conga line of boredom.”

Despite these foreboding warn-ings, sources say Rickman is giv-ing serious thought to attending based solely on the promise of free food.

“They said in the announcement that there would be pizza. As far

as I’m concerned, that’s a good enough reason to attend anything,” said Rickman, scratching his chin. “Although now that I think of it, I’ve been meaning to do some laundry for several weeks now. Maybe I should do that instead.”

The sophomore, who frequently skips classes because he is “just not feelin’ it,” continues to strug-gle with the question of whether free food is worth two boring hours of his life.

“I’ve been watching Stanley for a while,” said Marsha Winters, a biology major and classmate of Rickman’s. “It’s really quite fasci-nating to see the forces of laziness fight it out inside one man. Well, man-child.”

“Maybe I can just grab the pizza and bail,” mused Rickman. “Wait, what if they don’t serve it until the end?”

At press time, Rickman was still undecided. Most of his friends, however, predicted that he would probably just call it a night after his 2:30 p.m. class.

With ACSU quickly becoming colloquial, several people have pointed out the tangential connec-tion to the Pokemon “Axew” from the 5th Generation of Pokemon. We here at the State Run Media feel it is our great duty to correct this grievous error. The Union is nothing like the odd little green dragon with a freaky overbite. However, it did get us thinking; What is the spirit Pokemon of the buildings on campus?

Keplinger: Mewtwo. Both the building and the pokemon are soulless abominations created by science with the sole goal of crushing everything that comes near them.

Oliphant: Exeggutor. Oliphant is known for having plants on top of the building and several dif-ferent purposes that have little to nothing to do with each other.

Caf: Grimer. One is putrid smelling, a living health code vio-

lation, and causes people to lose their appetite. The other is a poke-mon made out of living sludge.

Rayzor: Metagross. Metagross is a Pokemon known for its super computer-like mind, and its prac-tice of pinning down and crushing its prey as it eats them alive.

Helmerich: Meowth. Team Rocket has a talking Meowth that can con his way out of any situa-tion. Plus this pokemon alway has money on its mind (literally.)

Lottie Jane and John Mabee: Nidoking and Nidoqueen. Intimi-dating, old, but a classic pair.

Lorton Performance Center: Jigglypuff. In the old TV show there was the Jigglypuff who would stalk the main gang and put them to sleep by singing. Judging by the number of people you find sleeping in the LPC, that Jiggly-puff has got to be hiding in there somewhere.

Kendall: Porygon. Both have a minimum of right angles and both have probably caused dozens of people to collapse in seizures.

Chapman: Hypno. Both have creepy designs, and after encoun-tering either one you can feel like you’ve been hypnotized into doing something.

Tyrrell: Arcanine. Arcanine was once a kind of mascot for Poke-mon, kind of like Tyrell was once

one of the most important build-ings on campus. Now both have been mostly forgotten, but still look pretty dang cool.

Zink: Golem. Both have kind of strange designs, and just like you need to evolve Graveler to get Golem by trading with a friend, you need a friend to help you find this building.

McFarlin: Pikachu. Both Pika-chu and McFarlin serve as mas-cots, but secretly have a lot of oth-er useful features besides sitting on one’s shelf and looking cute.

Reynolds Center: Snorlax. Have you seen how huge and round the building actually is? Stick ears and a sleeping face on it, and it’s practically the sleeping giant teddy bear. (Also both have a long track record of making traffic impos-sible on certain days.)

Physical Plant: Magneton. While there are quite a few things we don’t understand about the Physical Plant and Magneton (like why it seems to weigh significant-ly more than the three magnemite that it’s made off) we have to ad-mit, we’d be lost without either.

Pokemon Master Buchele’s notes ended after this. It is believed that shortly after completing this piece he had an unfortunate run-in with some Ratatas in the tall grass.

the State-run Media27 oCtober 2014

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mediaInsists on using the oxford comma.

The ominously looming towers of Keplinger Hall, a horrible monstrosity that will one day destroy us all in a fiery maelstrom of death and pain.

Our resident Pokemon master analyzes our campus and draws comparisons between our buildings and everyone’s favorite magical marketable monsters.

FraSer KaStnerNever pays for lunch

Lord of Creation disappointed yet again

Photo by Sarah Power

Dear puny humans,In my absolute knowledge I

have seen the interior of this paper, including its various music and art reviews, and I have only one thing to say. I, the Lord almighty, am not impressed with your attempts at artistic expression.

Let me tell you, being an om-niscient deity with an exhaustive knowledge of all human and an-gelic creative endeavors sure as hell ruins art.

Take, for instance, the Beatles. You seem to think they’re pretty

great. But if you’d taken the ef-fort to go see the street musicians at the height of ancient Gomorrah, you’d be a lot less impressed.

I mean, really, at least act like you’ve been around a few times.

And all those symphony orches-tras you love, their music seems facile compared to the angelic orchestras, with their inverted french horns and their twelve-di-mensional percussive membranes. Once you understand music, really understand it, you come to realize that violins and cellos are rather uninteresting instruments.

Worst of all, not only can I see all of your creative endeavors, I know exactly how they can be made better. When you human beings want to make art, you just kind of guess at it until you get something that seems right. You revere those who have practiced at guessing long enough to make

guesses that are slightly less direc-tionless than everyone else’s.

But when I look at, say, the Sis-tine Chapel, I can see every single alternative to Michelangelo’s de-sign, including the ones that are objectively better than what he actually did. Seeing him stumble through his inferior design is like watching your seven-year-old sis-ter’s violin recital. It is profoundly disappointing.

Ok, don’t get so hurt. I’ll throw you a bone. There is one creative endeavor of modern humanity that I kind of enjoy: cat videos on the internet. We don’t usually talk about it, but the angels and I love to look at those. They are great when I need a distraction from being Almighty Lord of the Uni-verse. Keep ‘em coming.

Sincerely,The Lord God Almighty, Cre-

ator of Heaven and Earth, etc.

godLord of Hosts, Big Man Upstairs

In response to some recent musical criticism, God Himself has decided to grace us with His own critique of human artistic endeavor and achievement.

Portrait Courtesy of Michelangelo, who got the nose wrong.God sitting through another fucking Bach fugue.

Gotta catch ’em all: if TU buildings were Pokemon

Steven buCheLeThe Very Best

TU Student Stanley Rickman keeps this reporter on his toes with his riveting back-and-forth monologue. No conclusions were reached.

TU student tries to decide whether or not to go to lecture for free food

The University of Tulsa Collegian has released a statement in re-sponse to a recent rash of anony-mous online complaints which allege, among other things, that the publication is too “opinions-based.”

“We’re really not sure where this is coming from,” Lark Week-ly, Editor-in-Chief of the Colle-gian, told the State-Run Media. “Apparently, voting, sustainabil-

ity and poverty are liberal issues. Who knew?”

In a futile attempt to rescue the paper’s plummeting public image, Collegian staff circulated a hastily drafted apology last week in which they promised to produce a paper that was “even more fact-based” and “less interesting” than in pre-vious semesters.

“We recognize that the world of print journalism is changing in many ways every day,” the state-ment read. “There seems to be an emerging consensus that the Col-legian should do more to balance every single niche or fringe inter-est.”

“We’re terribly sorry if we ever reported a fact that conflicts with your world view,” the Collegian staff said.

According to Colin “Liberal Bias” Fenner, the Collegian’s Managing Editor, junior Collegian staffers have been trawling the newspaper’s archives and adding the word “may” or “potentially” to every substantive factual claim ever made by the paper.

A source close to the paper said the Collegian would be imple-menting a new online objectiv-ity education module and a new objectivity pledge. Staff will also be held accountable for any com-plaints posted on anonymous so-cial media sites.

At press time, the anonymous complaints appeared to be the work of a single irate user who didn’t have the time to write a let-ter to the editor.

After a series of courageously posted anonymous online complaints, the liberal stooges at the Collegian scramble to fix the truth.

KyLe WaLKerObjective Journalist

Collegian apologizes for printing facts