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MIKE BRESTOVANSKYCampus Reporter
An anarchist writer and affiliate of the Center for a Stateless Society will speak at OU Nov. 14 as part of the Students for a Stateless Society’s “Ask an Anarchist Week.”
Charles Johnson’s lecture titled “What is Anarchism?” will teach students about the often misunderstood views of anarchical thought. Members of Students for a Stateless Society will set up tables around campus throughout the week to discuss their political beliefs with students.
The society’s co-founder and anthropology sophomore Grayson English said “Ask an Anarchist Day” was very suc-cessful last semester in raising awareness.
“We did this last year, and people were very respectful,” English said. “People stopped to talk, we handed out liter-ature and it was a pretty good time.”
English founded the society last year with philosophy senior Jason Byas. The club meets every other Tuesday to discuss future events and share ideas in a friendly, like-minded setting, he said.
One of the common misconceptions about anarchism is that it represents chaos, English said.
“People keep asking ‘How can we have a club if we’re anarchists?’ What people don’t understand is that anar-chism isn’t against organization, only a particular kind of organization: that is, coercive organization,” English said.
When asked about the government shutdown while it was still ongoing, English laughed.
“It’s not real,” he said. “It’s just this theatrical thing. None of the functions that I hate about the state are gone.”
English noted that during the shutdown, the military was still getting paid. Congress was still getting paid. He said this type of shutdown reveals the nature of the state and how it will always protect the interests of the few, even
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MELODIE LETTKEMANFor The Daily
A student veteran at OU took a step toward expanding opportunities for camaraderie among veterans at OU and other universities by addressing OU President David Boren with his ideas Friday.
Gabe Sevigny, Student Veterans Association president and environmental design senior, presented Boren with ways to help student veterans succeed in college.
Sevigny wants to repurpose OU’s “Green Zone” program, which is similar to the Sooner Ally program for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals. To become a Green Zone member, faculty and staff participate in a train-ing designed to familiarize them with the issues student vet-erans face and how to deal with those issues.
Stickers on their office doors identify faculty and staff as Green Zone members, but for Sevigny that’s not enough. He wants there to be an easier way for veterans to find them around campus, like identifying members in the legend of the OU Map.
Sevigny also mentioned opening a center on campus where veterans could see psychiatrists and Department of
Veterans Affairs representatives. The center could offer re-sources, such as career fairs, where students would meet representatives from companies specifically interested in hiring veterans.
Sevigny hopes to encourage broader camaraderie among veterans in college by socializing with veteran associations at nearby universities.
OU’s Student Veterans Association members invited chapters from the University of Central Oklahoma and the University of Tulsa to tailgate with them at football games this semester, Sevigny said.
Student Veteran Association plans to increase resources and solidarity
Students get a lesson in organized anarchy
ANARCHY TALKS
Campus group Students for a Stateless Society are ready to correct stereotypes
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An anarchism poster outside the doors of Copeland Hall.
Performers light up stage for Diwali
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Above: Two students dance on stage Saturday night during Diwali Nite at Reynolds Performing Art Center.
Left: Four students perform a skit on stage Saturday night during Diwali Nite at Reynolds Performing Art Center.
The stage was opened up to the public to welcome any performance related to Indian culture.
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SIMENG DAICampus Reporter
Traditional Indian dances and food filled the Reynolds Performing Arts Center Saturday evening, where about 450 people celebrated Diwali, the Festival of Lights.
The stage was opened up to the public to welcome any performance
related to Indian culture, said Dhanya Dharma Rajan, president of the India Student Association and an electrical and computer engineering graduate student.
A dance performed by three young girls from Oklahoma City won a roar of applause and laughter.
The last dance was performed by Sujung Heo, an exchange student from South Korea who visited India last summer.
“I’m so interested in Indian dance and food,” said Heo.
Diwali is a traditional Indian
festival that is “all about celebra-tion,” said Janny Gandhi, public re-lations chair for the India Student Association.
By bringing a Diwali celebration to OU, members of the India Student Association aim to bring Indian cul-ture and awareness of the Indian community to Norman, Gandhi said.
Members of the association pre-pared for more than two months for Diwali Nite.
“We take it really seriously, and we
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VETERANS
Green Zone program for veterans gets revamp
Student association aims to heighten OU’s cultural awareness by celebrating Indian Festival of Lights
Students as far as Belgium have ex-pressed interest in forming their own chapters, according to their website.
The OU chapter of Students for a Stateless Society has around 30 mem-bers and is expected to grow after “Ask an Anarchist” week in November. Many members are planning to visit Dallas and New Orleans over the next few weeks for anarchist and libertari-an events, English said.
While the group naturally has no real centralized structure, chapters are required to meet certain guide-lines, English said.
For instance, the group recent-ly broke ties with the Belgian chap-ter after Facebook conversations re-vealed aggressively anti-Muslim and xenophobic tendencies, English said.
Although the group does not own the Students for a Stateless Society trademark, they feel it’s necessary to emphasize that they do decide for themselves which individuals, groups and chapters we recognize as being part of our network, Byas said.
“Anarchism … and bigotry are en-emies,” Byas said. “As long as we are anarchists, and as long as we are lib-ertarians, we will push back against those who use our names in the ser-vice of oppression.”
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Today around campusA free concert by Ivan duvet will be held at noon in the oklahoma memorial union’s food court for mid day music.
A cookout will take place from noon to 2 p.m. on the robertson Hall lawn to celebrate Veteran’s day. The cookout is first come, first served, and all ou military faculty, staff and students are welcome.
A five-day performance workshop will kick off at 6:30 p.m. in the Weitzenhoffer Family college of Fine arts. Broadway’s Betty Buckley will present the performance and coaching workshop for students of the Fine arts college. The event is by invitation only, but students can sign up to observe by calling the Fine arts center call Board.
A free performance from norman’s children chorus and ou chorale will take place from 8 to 10 p.m. in catlett music center’s sharp concert Hall.
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stateless: A week of anarchy comes to campusContinued from page 1
GO AND DOCharles Johnson lecture, “What is anarchism?”When: 7 p.m. nov. 14
Where: Governor’s room of the memorial student union
repUrpOse: Boren open to veteran group ideasContinued from page 1
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The OU Veteran’s Memorial outside Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
At the OU-Tulsa game, this tailgating event brought about a very unique ex-perience for Sevigny.
Ten years ago, when Sevigny was in the Army National Guard, he narrowly avoided death in Iraq when the vehicle he was supposed to be on ran over an improvised explosive device and killed the man inside.
Before deployment, the man who died had recently begun mending his relationship with his father, and at the OU-Tulsa game, the man’s father hap-pened across the Student Veterans Association’s tailgate and stopped by to donate.
Sevigny discovered who the man’s son was. Being able to talk with him was just one of the ways he has found healing by participating in the associa-tion’s events, he said.
“I think a lot of us just miss the cama-raderie,” Sevigny said. “And that’s why we need the Green Zones. We just want
an adult to talk to, someone who’s not necessarily our professor.”
The Student Veterans Association was re-established on campus in 2011, said staff advisor Dalynda Evans. The group coordinated OU’s first Student Veteran Orientation event in August 2012, which recruited over 30 new stu-dent veterans.
Since the organization is still rel-atively new, Sevigny said he’s wor-ried that his goals won’t be achieved very quickly. However, he said Boren seemed very open to his ideas.
“Instead of waiting five years for this to kind of happen, we took a top-down approach,” he said. “Boren seemed excited.”
if it has to cut off all other functions.“Isn’t it great, living in anarchy?” he
said.English became an anarchist in
his senior year of high school after reading “Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice,” a com-pilation of anarchist literature edited by Edward P. Stringham.
Upon coming to OU, he met other like-minded students, including Byas, and the two founded the OU chapter of the society.
Students for a Stateless Soceity, a network affiliated with the Center for a Stateless Society, is a project that was started in the past two years but already has chapters in eight colleges, from the University of North Texas to East Tennessee State University, ac-cording to their website.
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Sooners will go up against Oklahoma State University to see who can rally the most blood donors in the annual Bedlam Blood Drive next week.
The drive, sponsored by the Oklahoma Blood Institute, will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 11 through 15 in the OU ROTC Armory, North Armory Room, according to a press release.
“This blood drive is set to especially help those in our area hospitals who will need help through the Thanksgiving holiday,” said Leslie Gamble, director of community rela-tions for the Oklahoma Blood Institute, in an email.
All donors will receive a “Legendary” OU T-shirt, free food, a chance to win a pair of tickets to the Dec. 7 Bedlam football game and the campus that generates the largest number of blood donors will earn a trophy, accord-ing to the release.
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An Emmy Award-winning director and producer will present a screening of her documentary about women who transformed society Tuesday on campus.
Pamela Wagner present a screening of her film, “Makers: Women in America,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Gaylord Hall’s Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation Auditorium.
The documentary highlights women, such as Hillary Clinton and Madonna, “who transformed society,” said English and film and media studies professor Joanna Rapf. At the conclusion of the film, Wagner will answer questions about how the film was made.
Wagner will also participate in several Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication classes Tuesday. She will answer questions about working in the film industry, specifically discussing jobs for women.
Wagner was one of four producers who won a Primetime Emmy Award for “Outstanding Non-Fiction Series” for their series “American Master” in 2001, according to imdb.com.
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The title of the degree was chosen to represent the objective of the program and the college, which is to generate multidisciplinary knowledge about the built environment, according to the release.
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want to make sure to provide quality performance and food,” Rajan said.
The traditional Indian costumes were ordered from Indian clothing shops all over the U.S. and one of them was from New York.
“We are pretty much technical people, but we also want to present our culture,” Rajan said.
Rajan performed two dances at the event, even though her leg was injured.
Sumit Verma, vice president of the association and geo-physics Ph.D. student, said it’s Rajan’s last semester, so she wanted to perform despite the injury.
In a short speech at the beginning of the event, interna-tional and area studies professor Rebecca Cruise reminded attendees to appreciate the differences and similarities be-tween cultures.
“As we enjoy the absolutely amazing Indian culture tonight, as we celebrate Diwali, let us be enchanted by the things we see that remind us of our differences and also recognize the earth similarities in what we are seeing,” Cruise said.
The India Student Association will also hold an Indian cul-ture night in the spring.
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Two students dance on stage Saturday night during diwali Nite at reynolds Performing arts Center.
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Our View: We support Okla. lawmaker Joe Dorman’s proposal to allow death row inmates the opportunity to donate organs — it can save someone’s life.
Imagine this: a sterile, colorless room filled with nothing but a thin bed with straps, a criminal and emptiness. Separating the murderer from the viewers is nothing but brick and glass — the wall that divides the viewing area from the execution room.
The convicted felons who are sentenced to death are strapped to a small, sin-gle-sized mattress, and both arms host an intravenous line drugs will pass through. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections’ web-site states the drugs are injected in sequential order simultaneously by handheld syringes during the process.
Viewers in the viewing area can watch as the criminal is first injected with either sodium thio-pental or pentobarbital — the drug that causes un-consciousness. Then, another executioner injects vecuronium bromide , a drug that stops the per-son’s respiration. And finally, a third executioner injects potassium chloride to stop the heart, and the execution is completed.
This is what death row looks like in Oklahoma, but one lawmaker is proposing an alternative.
Oklahoma’s Rep. Joe Dorman is in the process of developing legislation that would give a citizen on death row the opportunity to donate her or his organs before execution, completely changing the way a regular execution is carried out.
This practice has never been instituted in any U.S. penitentiary, but Dorman has high hopes our state will change that.
Previously reported in an Associated Press re-port, Dorman said, “It’s Christian principles that if you can offer someone a chance at redemption, you should offer that opportunity.”
His stance is based on religion. Our perspective is based on the desire to help others. Regardless of the central intent in allowing death row inmates to donate their organs, it makes sense to support a proposal that can potentially save lives.
It may sound gruesome, but a person con-demned to death row is already set to die, so why not utilize her or his organs in an effort to save someone else’s life? Society already will be losing one life the day the execution is scheduled, let’s not let another life be lost because we didn’t try
hard enough find an organ for someone who needs one.
CEO of Life Share Transplant Services Jeff Orlowski told The Associated Press nearly 1,000 people are on a waiting list for an organ donation in Oklahoma, and as many as 75 people die each year
because they didn’t receive one in time.Dorman’s proposal is fair because those
convicted would not be forced to have their organs donated. Whether a death row in-mate wants to donate her or his organ/s is up to her or him — the proposed program is voluntary.
Until our state does away with the death penalty completely, there will always be
someone sitting on death row. In the last decade, there have been 49 executions, and a few are already scheduled to take place next year.
However, the issues raised with this proposal in-volve money and ethical principles.
If this process is allowed, executions wouldn’t look like the norm with three executioners in a formal ex-ecution room.
Organs intended to be donated need to be recov-ered from a deceased individual. This prohibits a person on death row from having their organs do-nated after they’re executed because the drugs used during execution damage the organs, essentially preventing them from qualifying as healthy, trans-plantable organs.
So what does this mean? This means in order for Dorman’s proposal to become a reality, a surgical facility will have to be built, equipped for harvesting organs and keeping inmates on life support until they are executed, Orlowski said to The AP.
Orlowski also claims this program would be sig-nificantly costly for taxpayers. While he may have a good point, considering what our tax money would be paying for, we still support the proposal for now.
There were 55 people on death row in Oklahoma as of Oct. 25, according to OK.gov. That isn’t a large number of people, but it is enough to potentially could make a difference in someone else’s life.
A person’s life can be saved if she or he receives a needed organ, and that outweighs the potential money issue. Until we can be provided with a de-fined estimate of how much this procedure will cost taxpayers, we’re supportive of death row inmates donating their organs, and we support Dorman’s proposal.
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Food waste is a chal-lenging problem to acknowledge in
the U.S.The Environmental
Protection Agency claims that 96 billion pounds of fresh food is thrown into the dumpster every year — ap-proximately 25% of the food we prepare in the U.S.
It comes as no surprise that dumpster diving has skyrocketed in popularity across the country as the economic climate remains fragile. One in four people are struggling to put an adequate meal on the table for their families each day.
To some, resorting to the trash for food sounds ridicu-lous and dangerous. To others, it is a no brainer and a way to save thousands of dollars annually on essential needs.
Lars Eighner, an experienced dumpster diver and author said, “Many times in my travels I have lost everything but the clothes I was wearing. The things I find in Dumpsters, the love letters and ragdolls of so many lives, remind me of this lesson. Now I hardly pick up a thing without envision-ing the time I will cast it away. This I think is a healthy state of mind. Almost everything I have now has already been cast out at least once, proving that what I own is valueless to someone.”
It seems dumpster diving may be good for the soul re-garding the perception of material goods. I have even caught myself taking a perfectly good TV or desk out of the trash pile in my neighborhood, but food is a different story.
Nevertheless, every year, millions of people resort to the trashcan to sustain a diet. Many of which succeed better than the rest of us.
Grocery stores and food chains com-monly toss out perfectly good food, be-cause it isn’t “sell-friendly” or to make room for new inventory. Slightly molded bread, dented canned goods, wilting produce and ripped packages is very common to find in commercial dump-sters. Even frozen meat, milk and eggs getting close or barely at expiration can be collected on almost a daily basis.
Given that knowledge, many may think it is crazier not to collect that food for free instead of spending a couple hundred dollars on groceries — some have even gone as far as to call it stealing.
OU Lean Institute Program Coordinator Marc Jensen commented on the issue, saying, “There is a sense in which dumpster diving is a direct rejec-tion of consumerism, positing an ethos that refuses to buy anything new that can be picked up for free. Given time and a practiced eye, virtually anything can be had for free from the garbage.”
“For many people, it isn’t exactly about wealth or poverty, but about the joy and practicality of reuse, and harvesting wasted goods and putting them back into use becomes a way of living off-grid,” Jensen con-tinued. “The economic and the ecological are tied together here, with no clear line between environmental and per-sonal sustainability.”
The practical and perceptual benefits tied to the act of using what others deem useless is one that is transcending for the person involved. Material value is personally re-interpreted along with the notion of throwing something
away.It becomes clear that nothing “goes away” when tossed
in the trash, and if we were rational about sustaining a strong economy rather than fostering a strictly profitable one, we would reconsider the consequences of tossing something out which someone else can use.
Andrew Sartain is an Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment & Nonprofit Management Senior.
In President Barack Obama’s weekly ad-dress posted Nov. 9,
he addressed Veteran’s Day with a simple, important reminder:
“Veteran’s Day week-end is a chance for all of us to say two simple words: Thank you.”
He’s right. We all need to share our appreciation for
those who have served our country. Regardless of sexual-ity, gender, age, and even amount of time in the service, these people put their lives on the line for you and me, and they deserve our respect.
Today, vets will be honored at various locations across the country. They’re eligible to receive free meals, free ad-mission to certain national parks and even free oil changes in some places. It’s great that businesses are acknowledg-ing our veterans on this national holiday, but if you come across a vet, make sure they receive a thank-you as well.
These people worked hard to protect our national se-curity, it’s our turn to watch over them here on the home front. They risked their lives to protect our homes, yet so many are homeless. We need to help get them off the streets. Many vets witnessed or experienced psychological torture just to ensure that we at home have peace of mind.
In his address, the president added, “Now that they’re coming home, we need to serve them as well as they served us, and that requires more than a simple ‘thank you,’ especially from those of us who’ve been elected to serve.”
These veterans fought for our country’s future, for us. Find different ways to say thanks.
Fly your American flag proudly, buy a meal for a home-less vet, and if you tweet #thankavet on twitter, the History Channel will donate $1 to the @TeamRubicon Thank-a-Vet campaign.
Remember, veterans don’t just protect us one day of the year, they work around the clock. Don’t just say thank you today, say thank you any and every day of the year.
Alex Niblett is a journalism senior.
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Take hold of your life in the coming months. Take time to cultivate your inner talents and explore new possibilities. Delve into different cultures and incorporate innovations into your lifestyle.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Changes at home will inspire you to take on a new project. You may have to work on your presentation skills. Improvements to your methods will pay off handsomely.
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LIFE & ARTS EDITOR
Unless you’re a regular public transportation user, you don’t know
anything about riding the bus. You may think you do, but you
don’t. The bus system in Norman and at OU is a tiny ecosystem
in itself. The rules of the regular world are cast out — bus law is supreme. If
you’re new to taking the bus, or even if you’re a regular user (believe me, some
of you still need to learn the rules), here are some tips to help you get by:
The times you spend waiting for the bus may be the most boring and awkward parts of your life.
1.) Don’t make eye contact. It’s a strange thing, but at 8 a.m., when I’ve been ousted from a restful slumber by my manic iPhone alarm, I’m not looking to make friends. Maybe someday we’ll meet in a more appropri-ate setting, but unless you’re a gorgeous, six-foot-two stunner from Norway, I’m probably not interested in having a half-asleep conversation.
2.) Don’t cut the line. I don’t enjoy having to give peo-ple the “I will destroy you and everything you love” look often, but when I do, it’s usually because someone has cut the bus line. I don’t know why the general popula-tion still seems to be struggling with the concept of wait-ing in line, but it’s a problem that continues to plague us.
Getting on the bus requires some risk-reward thinking.
1.) Survey your options. Bus drivers (bless them) are interested in getting as many people onto the bus as pos-sible. This means if you’re looking at a long line, you may end up standing on the bus as it careens around corners, clinging for your life to some germy metal bars. I’ve fall-en onto someone while standing on the bus. I think I enjoyed it much less than the questionable looking man whose lap I fell into. If you’ve got time, you might as well wait for the next one.
Bonus tip: Unless you want to be screamed at like you’re carrying some sort of atomic weapon, do not bring open containers of food or drink on the bus. Bus drivers follow this rule with an almost frightening degree of religion. We need to put these people in charge of the military. (I’m only sort of joking)
2.) Second rule: Don’t be creepy. For the love of all that is decent, if there are still open seats on the bus, don’t sit next to someone. Even if your intent is innocent, sitting next to anyone on a mostly empty bus opens up a world of questions. Who is this creepy guy? Is he going to try to talk to me? Should I call my mom? How close can I get to the window so our legs don’t touch? Why is this happening to me? You get the gist.
Getting off the bus is more complicated than it may seem.
1.) Wait your turn. By the way people try to hurl them-selves off the bus, you’d think someone was waiving a gun in the center aisle. You made it this far. You waited. You chose a seat. You didn’t vomit, despite the fact that some drivers hit the brakes like there’s a puppy in the road. Now, be a human, and exit the bus in an orderly fashion.
2.) Thank your driver. Being a bus driver can’t be the most thrilling or gratifying occupation. If you pass the driv-er’s seat, be sure to throw out a quick “Thank you.” You may be a surly, good-for-nothing college kid, but you might make someone’s day.
Megan Deaton is a journalism senior.
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Veteran’s Day cookout: A military appreciation cookout will be held at noon on the Robertson Hall front lawn. The cookout is open to everyone and is being conducted to show appreciation for OU military faculty, staff and students.
Violin concert: The School of Music, in conjunc-tion with the Sutton Artist Series, presents a violin concert performance by Gregory Lee from 3 to 5 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Pitman Recital Hall. Tickets are $9 for adults, $5 for students.
Procrastination workshop: U.C. Associate Dean Lisa Portwood will present a work-shop to students about great strategies to employ in order to avoid procrastination. The free workshop will take place from 5 to 6 p.m. in Wagner Hall 245.
Dad’s Day: Bring dad to campus for Dad’s Day, a day of family activities geared toward OU students and their dads. There will be multiple events all day long. Look for a Dad’s Day preview in the The Daily this week.
Civic Orchestra concert: The School of Music presents OU Civic Orchestra at 8 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall. The concert will be free and open to the public.
Free movie screening: The Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council will host free screenings of the 2013 Matt Damon science fiction film “Elysium” at 6 p.m., 9 p.m., and mid-night in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium.
Chili Bowl Fundraiser: The OU School of Art & Art History will present the sixth annual Chili Bowl Fundraiser from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the School of Art and Art HIstory’s Lightwell Gallery. Buy a handmade bowl to support the art school’s fundraiser.
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ClimbingSama KhawajaLife & arts reporter
Students are casting aside their safety harnesses to participate in a little-known sport called bouldering.
Michael Richichi, a grad-uate student in mechani-cal engineering, explained bouldering is rock climb-ing done without a harness at a restricted height due to safety reasons.
There are boulder ing competitions held twice a semester at the Huston Huffman Fitness Center. The next event, “Boomer! Boulder,” will be 7 p.m. Nov. 21 at the Huff’s rock wall.
One OU class teaches the skill, but some students are pursuing the activity out-side of class by meeting up in groups to use the Huff ’s rock wall.
Bouldering derives its name from the outdoors since most outdoor climb-ing is done over boulders. What sets i t apar t from other types of climbing is that it has a more technical aspect, he said.
“It’s a sport, not just a hobby,” Juan Carreno, bio-chemistry senior and atten-dant at the Huston Huffman Fitness Center rock climb-ing wall, said.
Carreno has been climb-ing for four years and said, for him, climbing is an out-let to clear his mind. He de-scribed bouldering as the “vanguard of climbing,” meaning everyone has tried it at least once.
There are different levels of bouldering intensity with V0 being the easiest and V14 the hardest. Each level has a planned route on a rock wall that challenges one’s mindset and skills.
Richichi said that they are known as “problems” be-cause you need to know the secrets of how to maneuver before you can complete the problem. Interestingly enough, most climbers are science majors and could explain why bouldering at-tracts them.
However, learning tech-nique is just a portion of the bouldering experience. In the end, you need to form your own climbing style.
“You figure out what you can do and what you can’t, and you work with it,” Casey
Patti l lo, a freshman ac-counting major and a be-ginner in bouldering, said.
Bouldering is quite the challenging sport, exercis-ing not only your body but your mind, according to the climbers.
Larissa Mainers, faculty coordinator of fitness and recreation at the Huffman, said it’s a great full-body
workout, exercising your flexibility and giving you a chance to try something different.
Although it is quite com-monly practiced, it seems the majority of people still are not aware of the sport. Richichi said it’s probably because it doesn’t seem too appealing. With all the thinking and pre-planning involved, it almost seems daunting. Carreno added the rock climbing commu-nity is quite small and does not get enough exposure as a sport.
Still, the climbers argued for the positive elements of the sport. Pattillo said once you conquer a level you feel a great sense of accomplish-ment. Climbers are very so-ciable and eager to offer ad-vice, support and motiva-tion, she said.
Pattillo said one aspect she enjoys about boulder-ing is nobody judges you if you’re a beginner.
The number of people that “boulder” is growing. Mainers said she’s been working at the Huff for four and a half years and has seen a gradual increase.
Groups of climbers meet during the rock wall’s open hours. The wall is open 6 to 10 p.m. Sunday, 4 to 11 p.m. Monday and Wednesday, 2 to 11 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday and 4 to 8 p.m. Friday.
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Monday, November 11, 2013 • 7
Women’s BasketBall
Campbell steps up in win over Wichita state
Carson WilliamsSports Reporter
In the second round of the Preseason WNIT, Oklahoma
m a n a g e d t o e s c a p e a r e l e n t l e s s Wichita State team, 89-70.
On a night where Aaryn Ellenberg was not at the top of her game, S h a r a n e C a m p b e l l
was. She stepped up big time as the leader on the court, matching a career high of 24 points includ-ing 6-of-6 from the line. Campbell also grabbed six rebounds.
If Campbell’s level of play continues like it did yes-terday, the Sooners will be hard to beat with her as the No. 2 scoring option.
F o u r p l a y e r s s c o r e d in double digits, led by Campbell’s 24. Fearless guard Morgan Hook re-corded 15 points while Ellenberg and Nicole Griffin each added 14. Griffin also
had 10 rebounds in her third career double-double performance.
“Rebound-wise, I was just kind of reading where the ball was coming from. I had a lot more space to go to the ball,” Griffin said. “Catching in the first half, I got a lot of my points there.”
Post play for the Sooners c o nt i nu e s t o b e o n e o f their best areas. Griffin and Kaylon Williams have been a vital part to the Sooners’ early success.
“You’re right. We will take that anytime. I think that the missing link for them is that their skill sets may be ahead of their attitude.I don’t mean that they have bad attitudes, but I’m talking about that ‘give me the ball’ type of stance —that hunger, that demeanor,” Coale said. “By far this was Nicole’s (Griffin) best rebounding game”
Shots beyond the arcyes-terday did not fall much for either team, with Oklahoma shooting 24 percent and Wichita State shooting 27 percent.
Turnovers continue to be a problem for Oklahoma, as they gave up 22 tonight.
Up by as much as 18 early in the second half, Wichita State rallied to pull with-in nine but could not creep
any closer. Any time the Shockers made a basket, the Sooners would answer right back with one of their own.
Wichita State guard Alex Harden paced the Shockers with 24 points on 50 percent shooting, four rebounds and three assists.
Shockers head coach Jody Adams mentioned one rea-son why Oklahoma was able to counterattack everything Wichita State had.
“I just thought our start-ers got tired,” Adams said. “But it was just missing shots at the rim, and I think that had a lot to do with fa-tigue. I thought we had some athletes that matched [Oklahoma’s] athleticism and matched their skill sets, but we just didn’t have the depth that Oklahoma has. “
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Senior Guard Nicole Griffin goes up for the lay up against Stenson in the first round of the preseason WNIT. The Sooners won that round and moved on to play Wichita State, which they beat last night. OU will take on Gonzaga in the semifinals on Thursday.
Bob Stoops said he would know Friday if he want-
ed to play more Thursday night games.
And after the Sooners’ mid-week disaster in Waco, Texas, the coach may want to stay away from the primetime Thursday matchups.
Nothing went right for the crimson and cream as it lost its second game in the last three years to Baylor — its only two losses in the history of the series.
The Sooners were not only physically overmatched against the undefeated Baylor squad, but also, OU played undisciplined football and was dealt another round of troubling injuries.
While the Oklahoma defense held junior quarterback Bryce Petty and company well below their season average of 63 points per game, the Sooner offense was stagnant and out of sorts against the Bear defense.
OU’s penalty situation didn’t benefit the Sooners either. In front of the blacked-out Bear crowd, Oklahoma com-
mitted a total of 13 penalties that resulted in 97 yards for a Baylor offense that doesn’t need extra help. The undisci-plined outing was not characteristic of a Stoops led team.
The high number of flags against OU put the Sooners behind the chains early and often — a bad recipe for an offense that struggled even when it wasn’t penalized.
And while the Oklahoma defensive side also commit-ted its fair share of penalties, it was another onslaught of injuries that plagued coordinator Mike Stoops’ side.
After already losing two key starters — Corey Nelson and Jordan Phillips — for the season, the OU defense had three key players sidelined with injury before Thursday’s game concluded.
Senior corner Aaron Colvin, junior safety Julian Wilson and freshman linebacker Jordan Evans all sustained inju-ries of some degree in the blowout loss. While the extent of each injury is not known, the Baylor offense capitalized against the Sooner backups.
The depleted defense was no match for the na-tion-leading Baylor attack.
On the offensive side, sophomore receiver Sterling Shepard was also rattled in the game by a jarring hit that was originally ruled as targeting. Upon review, the call was overturned but the effects of the hit lingered with Shepard.
The receiver didn’t return to the game after the knock, and his status is unknown for Saturday’s matchup versus Iowa State.
The Sooners lost big on the scoreboard to the sudden national title contending Bears, but Oklahoma endured bigger losses within the game that could derail the squad as it limps down the homestretch.
Joe Mussatto is a journalism sophomore.
ASSISTANT SpORTS EdITOR
“I think that the missing link for them is that their skill sets may be ahead of
their attitude. I don’t mean they have bad attitudes, but I’m talking about that ‘give
me the ball’ type of stance — that hunger, that demeanor.”
ShERRI COAlE, WOmEN’S BASkETBAll COACh
OU advances to semifinal of preseason WNIT
sharane CampBell
RApId RECApoU 89, Wichita state 70Key stat: 54. The Sooners reeled in 54 rebounds to only 30 for Wichita State.
Key performer: Nicole Griffin had a great rebound game, recording a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds
What’s next: OU will play Gonzaga in the semifinals of the WNIT at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Lloyd Noble Center
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8 • Monday, November 11, 2013 SportS
Sooners take on Mean GreenAfter beating Alabama, OU opens season at home
Men’S BaSketBall
Ryan GeRbosiSports Reporter
After battling Alabama in the Buckets and Boots Showcase Friday, the 1-0 Sooners return to Norman f o r t h e i r h o m e o p e n e r tonight.
Oklahoma faces North Texas in its first appearance in the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic after cruising to a vic-tory down the stretch in the season opener.
Against Alabama, the
Sooners struggled early, but worked their way back in the first half to cut a 16-point Crimson Tide lead to just one at halftime. In the sec-ond half, the teams fought back and forth until the final six minutes when OU pulled, winning the debut 82-73.
After the neutral-site win in a cavernous, nearly-emp-ty American Airlines Center in Dallas, Oklahoma returns to the Lloyd Noble Center hoping to replicate its play in Norman near the end of last year.
The Sooners were dom-inant at home to finish last season and will try to do
the same against the Mean Green. OU has not trailed at home since it was down 14-13 at the 14:27 mark of the first half against Kansas on February 9. For the rest of the upset against then-No. 5 KU, and the four home games that followed, OU did not fall behind.
While OU has lost its three top scorers from last sea-son, don’t expect a drop-off against North Texas.
S o p h o m o r e s R y a n Spangler and Buddy Hield s h o w e d t h e i r l e a d e r -ship and skill in the win against Alabama and will be key in making up for lost
production. Spangler fin-ished with 15 points and 12 rebounds in his first game since sitting out last season due to transfer rules.
Hi e l d , n ow i n a s t a r-ring role, showed plenty of promise against Alabama, leading the team in scoring with 19 points and adding eight boards. The Bahamian guard hit his career high in scoring against Alabama but averaged 25 points in OU’s two exhibition games.
OU should also expect an uptick in production from Cameron Clark. The lone senior in the starting lineup didn’t play his best
basketball in the first half against the Crimson Tide, but surged late, leading the team in second-scoring with 10 points. Clark was the leading scorer for OU in
the exhibition game against Washburn with 26 and led the team in scoring on its preseason trip to Europe (16.8 ppg).
North Texas will be a lit-tle tougher opponent than those on the exhibition schedule, but don’t expect an upset. The Mean Green is 1-0 coming to Norman after defeating NAIA school Northwood 72-67 at home. Against Northwood, the team shot just 36.2 percent from the field but came away with the win by outrebound-ing the opponent 57-41.
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Sophomore forward Ryan Spangler comes down with a rebound against UCO. After playing Alabama in Dallas this week-end, Oklahoma will play the Univeristy of North Texas in its home opener tonight.
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Sophomore guard Buddy Hield tries to make it past a UCO defender. After a successful freshman season, Hield has become a team leader this season.
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