JAMES CORLEYSports Editor

A good indication a Sooner player has “ar-rived” is when he is commonly known to OU fans by one name.

Landry. Broyles. Dom. Stills. Sam.In OU’s 38-28 shootout against Missouri

on Saturday night at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, another player made a case for join-ing his peers: Jaz.

Sophomore wide receiver Jaz Reynolds had

an explosive game against the Tigers, catch-ing five passes for 93 yards. It was the first time

he’d been in the spotlight in almost a year and a half.

Jaz had 13 receptions for 256 yards as a freshman in 2009, but he was suspend-ed last year for an insult-ing post on Twitter and was forced to redshirt.

“It was embarrassing,” he said. “It was a humbling

experience. It taught me to grow up and work harder just to get everything back that I worked for my freshman year.”

Since that moment, Jaz said he’s been work-ing to get back under the bright lights. After he didn’t see significant time on the field in OU’s first two games this season, he said he started to get down on himself.

But he got some sound advice that helped him wait.

“My parents told me, ‘Just be patient. Good things come to people who wait.’ I finally got my chance,” he said.

His chance became a possibility when sophomore wide receiver Trey Franks was suspended indefinitely last week for violating

VICTORIA GARTENCampus Reporter

F r a t e r n i t y m e m b e r s strapped on their slingbacks, put on their pumps and strut-ted across South Greek on Friday to join OU Alpha Chi Omega’s campaign to end domestic violence.

The sorority held its first “Walk a Mile in her Shoes” event, an international men’s march to stop rape, sexual as-sault and gender violence.

The national program began in 2001 after a 20-year-old Alpha Chi Omega mem-ber was raped in 1995 and committed suicide on New Year’s Eve of that year.

Friday evening’s event began with Andrea Cooper telling her daughter Kristin’s story.

It was this story that moved so many fraternity members to support the women on campus.

“With so many women present, as well as the fra-ternities that participated in

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Thousands of students line up at the OU book-store or the OU Information

Technology store each se-mester. However, there is al-ways one student who finally reaches the front of the line and mistakenly says, “Charge it to the bursar.”

Students can pay for foot-ball tickets, parking tickets and more with their bursar account, but a new MacBook

from the IT store hasn’t been part of the deal since January of this year.

Federal aid money once paid for anything charged to a student’s bursar account. This changed in July 2008, when the U.S. Department of Education adjusted the na-tionwide cash management

rules.Federal aid dollars can

only be applied to what fed-eral regulations define as “in-stitutional charges,” which in-clude tuition, fees and room and board.

The department imple-mented these changes to limit what federal aid dollars

paid, said Brad Burnett, as-sociate vice president for Enrollment and Student Financial Services.

“They just wanted those federal aid dollars to be paid for education and not other services or items that can be

Learn where your bursar account is accepted at OU

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Sophomore wide receiver Jaz Reynolds (16) hugs fans after OU’s 38-28 win against the Missouri Tigers on Saturday at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Reynolds made his first start since being suspended and forced to redshirt the 2010 season.

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BLAYKLEE BUCHANANCampus Reporter

Every so often, students begin the daily bustle through the South Oval and ask: Why is that kid dressed in a green body suit and try-ing to get me to join a reli-gious organization?

This scene may be un-familiar to some, but on a college campus, it is one of the many ways religious or-ganizations reach out to po-tential members.

Some might think this alternative recruitment would deter students, but many students see this as a positive approach.

The Latter-Day Saints S t u d e n t A s s o c i a t i o n was spreading the word ab ou t i t s F r i d ay b a r-beque on Wednesday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Petroleum engineering senior Edson Cafranca of the association said having a table set up does help in-crease interest.

“Well, what we do is, since I’m a student here, if you’re a friend of mine passing by and you see me, you’re more likely to come,” Cafranca said.

Shane Kammerer, as-sistant director at the OU Baptist Student Union, was outside Dale Hall on Thursday with students of Paradigm. People who walked by could write on a piece of paper who they thought God was and attach it to free-standing boards.

Kammerer said the pur-pose of this activity was not to add more members but to spread the word about the Christian organization’s events.

Religious studies senior Trevor Clark said the fli-ers and table set ups didn’t affect his decision to join Paradigm.

“Really it was more like relationships with people, friendships with people. [My friends] brought me along. Going to Paradigm was part of the relationship building process,” he said.

University College fresh-man Amy Miller said when she makes her way across campus, the promotions don’t get her to go, neces-sarily, but rather just keep her informed.

“Although I rarely go to the event because of the fli-ers, it is helpful because it lets me know that they are having an event. That way I can make the choice to go or not,” Miller said.

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today around CampusStudent Success Series: a forum navigating ou’s colleges will take place from 2 to 3 p.m. in adams Center’s learning center. the forum plans to guide students through academic paths at ou.

A recital hosted by the school of music titled “Visiting artists michael & mary Kirkendoll, Flute recital” will take place from 8 to 10 p.m. at the Catlett music Center’s pitman recital Hall.

tuesday, sept. 27Art Adventures is hosting “Beautiful oops!” from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. museum of art in the dee dee and Jon r. stuart Classroom. Children ages 3-5 accompanied by an adult can attend. Contact susan Baley at sbaley@ou.edu or 405-325-3270 for more information.

A noon concert by the ou school of music faculty and students will take place from noon to 12:30 p.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. museum of art in the sandy Bell Gallery. the event is free.

“Rauschenberg: Prints from universal Limited art editions, 1962-2008” will be from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. museum of art at the nancy Johnston records Gallery.

Tet Trung Thu - Lunar Moon Festival 2011 will take place from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the Jim thorpe multicultural Center. admission is $5 for the public and $2 for Vietnamese student association members.

OU’s 2011 Neustadt Festival of international Literature and Culture will begin with a poetry and fiction reading 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the norman train depot, 200 s. Jones st. the Festival will offer events throughout the week until Friday.

Sutton Concert Series: ou symphony orchestra will play from 8 to 9:45 p.m. at the Catlett music Center in sharp Concert Hall. tickets are $9 for adults and $5 for students, ou faculty/staff and senior adults.

The Friends of Music Reception by the ou school of music will take place from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the Catlett music Center in Gothic Hall. the reception is free and open to the public.

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this event, this should inspire women to speak up about domestic violence and en-courage men to help prevent domestic violence when they witness it,” University College freshman and Phi Kappa Psi pledge David McCabe said.

McCabe won “Fastest Stride” in the walk event after he and other fraternity mem-bers marched in high heels for Kristin’s cause.

“Many women told me they were helped by the pre-sentation. I think the men were made aware of the situ-ation a woman may be put into and learned to respect the woman,” said Andrea Cooper, a Delta Delta Delta sorority alumna.

Alpha Chi Omega chapter adviser Katy Bergman said the walk is about tackling a subject that reaches so many people.

“Unlike most issues, ours is unique in that anyone can be affected by it, and only few discuss it. Our chapter is striving to raise awareness and to advocate for those

who may not feel comfort-able doing it for themselves,” Bergman said.

The event raised more than $10,000 for YWCA and the OU Women’s Outreach Center.

YWCA focuses on women’s needs and issues, as well as eliminating racism and em-powering women, and the Women’s Outreach Center empowers and advocates on behalf of women, according to their websites.

“I believe that this year was a start of a new event and raising awareness. After this year, I hope that it will con-tinue to grow and hopefully go from the Greek commu-nity to campuswide to com-munitywide,” said Jennifer Arnold, health and exercise science junior and Alpha Chi Omega philanthropy chair-woman. “I would love to come back in five years and the walk have hundreds of participants.”

Arnold said domestic vio-lence happens to regular people, and it happens to people we all know.

It will take all of us to stop it, she said.

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University College freshman Sanjay Prabhu runs in women’s footwear Friday. Alpha Chi Omega sponsored “Walk a Mile in her Shoes”, an international event that brings men dressed in varying heights of shoes who complete a race without taking the shoes off.

purchased and charged to the bursar account,” Burnett said.

The legislation took ef-fect at OU in fall 2009, when oZONE, the online student portal, was established that semester.

Burnett said items that can still be charged to a student’s bursar account as of now are: tuition, fees, university resi-dence halls and apartments, parking citations and per-mits, athletic season tickets, college print charges, health center charges, additional art supplies, lost library books and fines, disciplinary fines and election violations.

Phone representatives at OU’s bursar’s office said items that cannot be charged to a student’s bursar account are books and, most recent-ly, OU IT store products and services.

Since 2008, purchasing these products was the only change to what cannot be charged to a student’s bursar account, Burnett said.

O U I T s p o k e s w o m a n Becky Grant said unpaid OU IT store purchases made on students’ bursar accounts were causing outstanding balances that prevented students from enrolling,

registering and obtaining transcripts.

Grant said sales haven’t de-creased since the end of pay-ing through bursar accounts.

“Si n c e t h e c ha n g e i n January, sales have actually increased,” Grant said. “Most students have just switched to using a credit or debit card instead.”

Students are able to make purchases at the OU IT store with credit or debit cards

only, Grant said. Cash pay-ments are not accepted be-cause of the danger it impos-es on people carrying large amounts of cash.

University College fresh-man Raechel Karas was not attending OU when stu-dents were still able to make OU IT charges to the bursar account.

Karas said students not being allowed to make OU IT purchases through their

bursar account can be finan-cially inconvenient but un-derstands OU’s reasoning.

“It’s good that we can’t charge everything to our bur-sar because it puts a certain amount of responsibility on us, but at the same time, it’s a pretty big inconvenience because you never really know when your computer is going to break down or when you’re going to need a laptop charge,” Karas said.

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LONG BEACH, Wash. — It was a long time coming, but the descendants of explorer William Clark have tried to make amends for a 205-year-old theft.

A descendant of the ex-p l o r e r i n t h e C o r p s o f Discovery expedition that opened a land route to the West presented the Chinook Indian Nation with a repli-ca of a canoe that the corps stole in 1806.

Some of Clark’s descen-dants and a few donors stepped forward to pay for the canoe, which was cus-tom built in Veneta, Ore. The five-hour ceremony on Saturday included songs, gift exchanges and the maiden voyage of the replica canoe.

Ray Gardner, chairman of the Chinook Nation’s tribal council, said the return of the canoe is a “good place to begin healing.”

“It’s nice to see a circle completed,” Gardner said.

After completing their journey west and spending a wet and wretched winter at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1806, Clark and Meriwether Lewis found they were short a canoe, so they stole one from the Clatsop Indians who had kept them alive all winter.

The Clatsop later became one of five tribes to form the Chinook Indian Nation.

It has long been a sore subject with the tribes in the Pacific Northwest, who per-ceived the theft as a major insult. Canoes were a sa-cred part of their culture and an important mode of transportation.

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Rare North American ferret grows in population

The only ferret species native to North America is well on its way to recovery since biologists concluded the creatures went extinct in 1979.

Thirty years ago this month, a ranch dog named Shep killed a black-footed ferret near Meeteetse in northwest Wyoming.

Shep’s owner found the dead ferret. Word got out, and it didn’t take long for biologists to find about 100 black-footed ferrets living on a nearby ranch.

A federal captive breeding program has helped to re-establish about 1,000 black-footed ferrets in eight Western states, Canada and Mexico.

Black-footed ferrets are predators that prey exclu-sively on prairie dogs. Ranchers continue to aggres-sively poison and shoot prairie dogs on their land. Plague outbreaks also have taken a severe toll on prai-rie dogs over the past century.

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One person has been killed and two others wound-ed in a shooting at a hotel-casino in Sparks, Nev. that witnesses say involved members of rival motorcycle gangs, the Vagos and Hells Angels.

Sparks police confirmed the fatal shooting at John Ascuaga’s Nugget about 11:30 p.m. Friday, but they have not identified any of the people involved.

Daniel Sharp of Stockton, Calif., told the Reno Gazette-Journal he was in the dance area at the Nugget for the Street Vibrations biker festival when a group of Vagos club members came in.

He says a single Hells Angel then entered, soon fol-lowed by several more. Within five minutes he says a fight erupted and shots rang out.

Police Lt. Pete Krall says they are investigating dif-ferent motorcycle clubs but declined to name them.

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Mylee Wahlgren, 6, left, and her grandmother Donna Sinclair, of Washougal, Wash., bless the 36-foot replica canoe during the canoe reparation ceremony Saturday Sept. 24, 2011, at Fort Columbia, near Chinook, Wash.

William Clark’s family gave a canoe to Chinook Nation

government. Federal recog-nition would make the tribe eligible for economic assis-tance, land, housing grants a n d o t h e r g o v e r n m e n t benefits.

“I cannot help but think, if one family can step forward and right a wrong that has been committed against the

Chinook nation 205 years later,” Gardner said, “it would be nice if the federal govern-ment would do the same.”

Clark’s descendant, Lotsie Clark Holton, said she was overwhelmed by the ac-ceptance of her family by Chinook tribe members.

Holton learned of the

theft while working at a Washington, D.C., non-profit with Gardner, setting Saturday’s events in motion.

“It’s been a wonderful experience. The Chinook people totally accepted us,” Holton said. “After 205 years, it was certainly overdue.”

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Last Wednesday, I watched coverage of Troy Davis’s ex-

ecution in horror. Davis was convicted of killing a Burger King security guard, but doubts about his guilt rose when witnesses recanted or changed their stories. Protests and petitions grew in number as his execution date grew closer.

Lawrence Russell Brewer also was executed on Wednesday. Brewer, a white supremacist gang member, was convicted of chaining James Byrd Jr. to the back of his pickup truck and driv-ing him down an asphalt road. Byrd was recovered in

pieces.I didn’t watch coverage of

Brewer’s execution. I didn’t sign a petition asking for the death penalty not to have been applied.

But I should have.I don’t doubt Brewer

was guilty, and what he did makes my stomach curl. I’m

horrified that Byrd was killed because of his race, and I’m sick that he was killed in such a brutal fashion.

However, Brewer shouldn’t have been killed. He’s a terrible man who did unspeakable things, but Texas was wrong to apply the death penalty to him.

We cannot call for the death penalty to be abol-ished when a Troy Davis comes along but root for death when a Lawrence Brewer does. It’s a double standard. In the eyes of the law, Davis’s crime was no greater than Brewer’s; both should receive the same fate.

Blogger David Henson

puts it simply, “While we rushed to defend Troy Davis ... to give voice to his voicelessness, we ignored the voice of a dogged white supremacist who met the same fate, on the same night as Troy Davis, who became a black man’s brother in circumstance.”

Brewer was certainly guilty. Davis was possibly guilty. Neither deserved to die. Capital punishment in any situation is a mistake, for as Gandhi wrote, “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”

Kate McPherson is a journalism sophomore.

On Sept. 24, presi-dential candi-date Michele

Bachmann was at a Republican debate. The con-gresswoman has a problem: Her poll numbers have taken a slide since Rick Perry en-tered the race, catering to a similar tea party crowd.

Seeking to separate her-self from the Texas governor, she cited an executive order Perry made requiring all adolescent girls in Texas to receive the human papil-lomavirus vaccine, Gardasil, designed to prevent cervical cancer.

Bachmann didn’t just claim this policy violated the rights of girls receiving the vaccine. She didn’t cite health and safety concerns, a common complaint, al-though this particular vac-cine has an excellent safety record. Nor did she bring up another conservative issue that vaccinating against HPV — a sexually transmitted virus — would encourage

promiscuity. No, Michele Bachmann claimed she spe-cifically knew of an individu-al who had become mentally retarded after receiving the vaccine.

This claim sparked quite an uproar among people who, you know, care about facts. Bachmann’s claim wasn’t just untrue — it was ludicrous. Bachmann said she spoke with a woman in Tampa who approached her after the debate and made the claim about her daughter, but the candidate apparently didn’t think to check into the validity of this. Several people who, unlike Bachmann, actually know

things about biology have challenged the claim.

Of course, if Bachmann met a woman who person-ally attests to such an effect, we could always find this mysterious Floridian woman and her daughter. (Though I doubt even she was qualified to correctly make medical statements such as these.) A professor at the University of Minnesota, Steven Miles, is offering a $1,000 reward for the name and medical re-cords of the person so afflict-ed. Another bioethicist has upped the offer to $10,000. Oddly, nobody has collected these yet.

Michelle Bachmann’s statements were irresponsi-ble. They were irresponsible politically, as she attempted to pass off unconfirmed anecdotal experience as ar-gumentative support. They were also irresponsible med-ically, as her comments are taken seriously by thousands of people, some of whom may now choose not to be

vaccinated. Twelve thou-sand women died of cervical cancer last year. A doctor at the University of Chicago Medical Center said 70 per-cent of those deaths were preventable by vaccination. However, the real efficacy of a vaccine is its ability to protect those who weren’t even vaccinated. This effect, called herd immunity, arises because the number of po-tential carriers for the virus drops to be much lower.

By discouraging vaccina-tion and engaging in fear-mongering for personal po-litical gain, Bachmann puts large numbers of people at further risk of becom-ing infected with HPV and contracting cervical cancer. There is, perhaps, a place for debate on the merits of man-datory immunization. But to toss unsubstantiated rumor and hysteria around is nei-ther reasonable nor safe.

Zach Eldredge is a physics sophomore.

Our View: Greek organizations accomplish a lot of philanthropy, but they should focus on their most effective events: those focused on issues important to the OU community.

One feature of the greek community that fre-quently gets lost in discussion is the charity and service it encourages.

Students see so many of these events that it’s easy to take them for granted. Alpha Chi Omega’s “Walk a Mile in her Shoes” event this weekend, to raise aware-ness for sexual assault and gather money for the Women’s Outreach Center by hav-ing fraternity members march down South Greek in heels, illustrates the power of greek organizations to effectively grapple with timely and important campus issues.

We don’t know if the recent discussion of sex-ual-assault issues inspired Alpha Chi Omega to bring this event to campus — or if the event had already been in the works — but either way, the timing is powerful.

The greek community engages in a lot of signifi-cant and beneficial philanthropy, but events like these are especially effective because they relate specifically to the OU community. Student organi-zations don’t often have a chance to raise money or awareness for issues so closely tied to campus, but they can choose events that are relevant to recent campus issues. It’s a way to take part in the community dialogue on these issues and to fur-ther emphasize their importance.

This is especially true for greek organizations that have the resources and structure to carry out

extensive philanthropy, as well as the influence to affect students’ priorities.

Events like these invest the energy of partici-pants into campus instead of spending time and resources away from campus.

It’s important, of course, for student organiza-tions of all kinds to affect the world outside the

college bubble — universities are unique-ly suited to fostering an environment that makes such outreach, service and charity possible, after all. But issues that affect the campus should be a higher priority.

So while we applaud the greek com-munity for all its philanthropy projects, we’d love to see more events like this one that are clearly relevant to the OU com-

munity. And while the impetus and planning for these events originates in the greek community, non-greek students can help make them more ef-fective, too.

All these events are open to anyone, and we have heard greek members encouraging par-ticipation from the rest of the campus. But often nongreek students don’t realize they are welcome to attend these events. Many sorority and frater-nity functions are designed by their very nature to exclude non-members, so members will need to be much more explicit in advertising inclusive activities.

After all, it doesn’t matter how much chalking greek members do to welcome students to their events — if students see those greek letters, they think it means “stay away.”

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With the execution of Troy Davis — a Louisiana man sentenced on the basis of what many believe to be dubious evidence — doubts are finally surfacing about the United States justice system, and more specif-ically, the death penalty.

Many people have never considered this issue, and quite a few don’t be-lieve it to be an issue at all. But in anticipation of re-newed national debate, I’m going to lay out why I be-lieve we should move to abolish capital punishment.

The most common argument against my position is that the threat of death is a good deterrent against hei-nous crimes.

However, the findings of social scientists have tradi-tionally suggested this is not the case. According to a 2009 study by the Northwestern University School of Law, 88 percent of leading criminologists do not be-lieve capital punishment has a deterrent effect.

Also, because many, if not most, capital crimes are committed while the criminal isn’t thinking clearly — when he or she is panicked, impassioned or intoxicated — it simply doesn’t make sense to think a steeper pun-ishment would matter to them.

Thus, life imprisonment would appear to be the bet-ter option: Nobody else gets killed, and society doesn’t have to see the criminal’s face ever again.

At this point, some readers are possibly asking why taxpayer’s money should pay for a murderer to spend the remainder of his or her life in prison. What they may not realize is that killing the murderer is actually the more expensive option.

Sending a criminal through the long appeals process, paying experts to testify and dealing with procedural safeguards is costly, so much that some lawmakers are using the death penalty’s expense to argue for its abolition.

For example, a death penalty case in Maryland costs roughly $1.9 million more than a case in which the death penalty could’ve been sought, but wasn’t, ac-cording to the Urban Institute.

Beyond these cold, pragmatic questions, however, is the most dire concern facing capital punishment: its tendency to ensnare innocent people.

Ideally, we would want every person that’s shipped to death row to be guilty, but that’s sadly not the reality. In the recent past, we’ve seen a chilling number of in-nocent people sent to death row.

Fortunately, most of them, like John Thompson and Leroy Orange, have been exonerated by DNA evidence.

Others weren’t so lucky. We have good reason to be-lieve the state has executed innocent people. Cameron Todd Willingham, whom I wrote about last week, and perhaps Troy Davis, fall into this camp. I urge readers to explore these cases for themselves.

My final argument in favor of abolition is something of a cliché, but I think it still has merit: the death sen-tence constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

The French philosopher Albert Camus, once claimed “For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date on which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months.”

This is certainly a nightmarish scenario to contem-plate. I’ve personally had the experience of reading let-ters addressed from death row, and the misery of the inmates is heart wrenching.

It is a common misconception that execution takes only a day to inflict, but it’s really a process of several years, most of which is spent waiting in dread, watching fellow inmates go to the grave one by one.

Surely, this is cruel and unusual. Yet this argument might be the weakest of the four because it’s hard for some people to have any sympathy for murderers and child molesters.

I understand this reluctance, but I do not think it weakens the point or justifies what Camus called “the most premeditated of murders.”

Hopefully these reasons, in addition to personal reflection, are enough to convince other people to stand against popular opinion and oppose capital punishment.

Steven Zoeller is a journalism sophomore.

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University Theatre’s “Dracula” is

nothing like “Twilight” or “The Vampire Diaries” story crowds might have expected — and that’s a good thing.

The show opened Friday to a packed audi-ence, a standing ovation and a stunned silence at the end.

While some of the show’s elements were unrefined, such as the near constant ear-splitting screams, accent troubles and awkward staging when a character was bleeding, “Dracula” was still one of the most technically advanced shows to come out of UniversityTheatre.

Tricks such as a floating body, lightning-fast character changes and a multitude of trap doors added mystery and professionalism to the performance. The set, created by de-signer Hana Goff, gave a feeling of spookiness to the stage.

Fight coach Matthew Ellis also taught the cast very effec-tive stage fighting sequences. Every slap and punch seemed vivid and caused the audience to wince in sympathy.

Leads Brad Brockman, Stella Highfill and Madison Niederhauser as Dracula, Lucy Westphal, and Abram van Helsing, respectively, appeared convincingly natu-ral as they expressed the fear, danger and desire of vam-pirism. Van Helsing’s elderly appearance and accent was also impressive and realistic.

But it was Kevin Percival as Robert Renfield — Dracula’s unwilling and in-sane assistant — who stole the show. He gave a master-ful performance that was just as frightening as the murder

scenes. His rapid-fire line delivery accurately portrayed a mental patient consumed with the thoughts and orders of a senseless murderer.

Some of the audience who expected a sexier show straight out of a teen fiction novel might feel alienated by the serious-ness and horror of the show. The subject matter and atmo-sphere of this show is definitely not one for children.

But most good theater should scare people.

Sydney Allen is a broadcast and electronic media sophomore.

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right: Cast members stand behind bars on stage in “Dracula.” The play’s script is based on Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” and will run through Oct. 3.

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OUDaily.com ››After OU’s 38-28 win against Missouri on Saturday, the Sooners were spouting doom and gloom — but everything is still on track for the team to achieve its goals, The Daily’s Chris Lusk writes.

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Junior defender Brianna Turang (left) chases down New Mexico senior forward Jennifer Williams during OU’s 2-1 loss to the Lobos on Friday in Albuquerque, N.M. It was OU’s last nonconference game of the year.

Tobi NeidySports Reporter

The Oklahoma soccer team (5-6) dropped its final non-conference contest of the 2011 season to the New Mexico Lobos, 2-1, on Friday in Albuquerque, N.M.

After staging a second-half comeback to tie the game at 1-1, UNM’s Jennifer Williams scored on a long pass assist by Brooke Ellison in the 85th minute to give the Lobos their final lead of the game.

“It’s frustrating to keep possession 70 to 80 percent of the time and give up the type of goals that we are giv-ing up,” OU coach Nicole Nelson said. “We have to continue to get better de-fensively, and we need to put together another full minutes of quality soccer like we did against BYU last weekend.”

Williams was the catalyst for the UNM offense, scor-ing the first goal in the 12th minute of the contest. The Sooners hadn’t secured a comeback win this season, and Friday’s game ended in OU’s fourth one-goal loss this season.

The Sooners held a 9-6 shot advantage during the first half of action but fell to a 8-2 Lobo advantage in the second half. New Mexico capitalized with six corner kicks in the second half to hold a 6-1 corner advantage during the game.

J u n i o r f o r w a r d D r i a Hampton redeemed the

Sooners with a goal in the 79th minute — her fourth of the season and 12th of her career — after collecting a deflected ball in the box to send it past New Mexico goalkeeper Kelli Cornell.

Hampton provided most of the OU attack against the Lobos, taking a game-high six shots and scoring the lone goal for the Sooners while the rest of the offense managed just five shots dur-ing the game.

Cornell was instrumen-tal for New Mexico in goal, making five saves and al-lowing just one goal.

The loss dropped the Sooners’ record below .500 while junior goalkeeper Kelsey Devonshire fell to 3-6 this season.

OU returns home to host No. 2 Oklahoma State for the first conference game of the season. Kickoff is sched-uled for 7 p.m. at John Crain Field.

Key PeRFORMeRDria HamptonYear: Junior Position: Forward Hometown:PiedmontSeason stats: Four goals, four assists, .476 shots-on-goal percentage

Sooners drop final nonconference contest Friday

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Texas A&M’s athletic conference future appears to have gained clarity after SEC presidents voted unanimously on Sunday to accept the university.

A&M will officially join the SEC on July 1, 2012, and A&M athletic teams will begin competition with the new confer-ence in the 2012-13 academic year.

University President Bowen Loftin said he was excited to join the “premier athletic conference” and reiterated his belief that the move will benefit A&M’s visibility as one of the nation’s top institutions.

“The Southeastern Conference provides Texas A&M the national visibility that our great university and our student-athletes deserve,” Loftin said. “This is a 100-year decision that we have addressed carefully and methodically, and I believe the Southeastern Conference gives the Aggies the best situation of any conference in the country.”

A&M has 20 athletic teams and competes in every sport sponsored by the SEC except gymnastics. The SEC offers every sport A&M competes in except equestrian.

Bernie Machen, chairman of the SEC Presidents and Chancellors and president of the University of Florida, said in a statement that the board is “pleased to welcome” A&M as the 13th member.

“The addition of Texas A&M University as the SEC’s 13th member gives our league a prestigious academic institu-tion with a strong athletic tradition and a culture similar to our current institutions,” Machen said.

SEC Commissioner Mike Slive said in a statement that the addition of A&M bolsters the league’s reputation across the nation.

“On behalf of our presidents, chancellors, athletics direc-tors, students and fans, I welcome Texas A&M University to the SEC family,” Slive said. “Texas A&M is a nationally prominent institution on and off the field and a great fit for the SEC tradition of excellence — athletically, academically and culturally.”

Loftin told the Dallas Morning News and CBSSports.com at halftime of the OSU game Saturday he thought the legal issues were “basically done” and that the Big 12 was “committed to going forward without us.”

Porter Garner III, president and CEO of the Association of Former Students, released a statement thanking Loftin for leading A&M’s conference negotiations. Garner af-firmed his belief in Loftin’s leadership throughout this process and said Loftin “acted in the best interest of Texas A&M.”

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Junior running back Dominique Whaley evades a Missouri defender during OU’s 38-28 win against the Tigers on Saturday at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Whaley finished with 82 rushing yards from 16 attempts and 82 receiving yards from five catches, adding a touchdown on the ground.

Sooners slip past mizzouCHrIS lUSKEditor in Chief

OU rallied from an early deficit and scored 28 un-answered points to beat Missouri, 38-28, on Saturday night in Norman.

The tougher-than-expect-ed victory slipped Oklahoma down to No. 2 in the AP poll Sunday. The Louisiana State Tigers took over as the top-ranked team in the poll.

After 20 straight home games without trailing, the Sooners found themselves in an 11-point hole nine min-utes into the first quarter.

Missouri got the scoring started with a seven-play, 76-yard drive after holding the Sooner offense to a three-and-out on the game’s open-ing possession.

Freshman kicker Michael Hunnicutt put OU on the board with a 26-yard field goal. But Missouri promptly responded when sopho-more quarterback James Franklin fired a 45-yard touchdown pass to L’Damian Washington.

“Ever ybody just knew that we had to step up, that we don’t play like this,” ju-nior safety Javon Harris said. “When we were down 14-3, I think it turned the game around.”

The Sooners shook off the initial shock, and junior quarterback Landry Jones drove the offense down the field, putting OU in the end zone for the first time with a 24-yard touchdown pass to senior receiver Ryan Broyles.

Oklahoma followed with a 10-play drive that also ended with a Broyles touchdown grab to give the Sooners the lead for good. Broyles had 13 catches for 154 yards and three touchdowns as the Sooners rallied to win their conference opener.

But while OU got on track offensively, the defense gave up 532 yards to Missouri and allowed the Tigers to finish

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the game with two 100-yard rushers — Franklin and run-ning back Henry Josey.

D e f e n s i v e c o o r d i n a -tor Brent Venables said the Sooners were plagued with mental busts.

“Guys are going to be em-barrassed about what we are going to have on tape, and I know I am as a coach,” Venables said.

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Jones said he felt off rhythm and inconsistent against the Tigers, but he connected for three touchdowns Saturday

T he Missouri Tigers won again.

Sure, this time it wasn’t reflected on the scoreboard — the Sooners beat Mizzou, 38-28, on Saturday — but the Tigers still accomplished one of their goals coming into a game with Oklahoma: Knock the Sooners out of the nation’s No. 1 spot.

With a 36-27 win against OU last year, Mizzou knocked off the freshly crowned BCS No. 1 Sooners.

By refusing to be blown out Saturday, the Tigers knocked off the reigning AP Poll No. 1 Sooners, as Sunday’s newest poll results showed.

OU didn’t lose, but the Sooners went from receiving 37 first-place votes to just 12 and dropped to No. 2 behind an-other group of Tigers, LSU.

No. 2 LSU previously blew out No. 16 West Virginia, 47-21, in Morgantown, W.Va., in front of an audience of ESPN’s “College GameDay” that included most of the AP voters.

One could argue the voters were merely waiting for the Sooners to show weakness — beating No. 5 Florida State on the road threw a kink in their plans — to crown the Southeastern Conference’s shining child as the country’s new best and brightest.

Perceived SEC bias or no, Oklahoma didn’t look like a No. 1 team Saturday, something coaches and players read-ily admitted in the post-game interview room.

“I’m disappointed in myself as a captain and a leader of the defense,” senior linebacker Travis Lewis said. “And I’m disappointed in the guys. It’s fortunate that we won be-cause we shouldn’t have won that game.”

All is not lost for the Sooners, however. With Oct. 8’s Red River Rivalry aside, OU enters an easy stretch of its sched-ule in the next few weeks with games against Ball State, Kansas, Texas Tech and Kansas State.

LSU, meanwhile, has home games against No. 12 Florida and defending national champion Auburn in the weeks leading up to a crucial road game against No. 3 Alabama.

There’s no reason the voters couldn’t change their minds again. After all, the Sooners spent the preseason and first four weeks atop the polls and haven’t lost yet, and it’s unlikely LSU will continue playing at such a high level without faltering even once, especially in the tough SEC West Division.

But maybe this is what the Sooners needed to stay sharp heading into a stretch during which few would fault them for slacking off a bit.

“I’m happy that this happened,” Lewis said. “We get to go back to work [this week] and rebuild.”

James Corley is a journalism senior and the sports editor for The Daily. You can follow him on Twitter at @jamesfcorley.

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Redshirt freshman kicker Michael Hunnicutt kicks an extra point during OU’s 38-28 win against the Missouri Tigers on Saturday in Norman. Hunnicutt started in place of senior Jimmy Stevens.

GreG FewellAssistant Sports Editor

OU coach Bob Stoops began a lot of speculation Saturday night when he started redshirt freshman kicker Michael Hunnicutt over senior Jimmy Stevens, who hasn’t missed a field goal yet this year.

Although Stevens has made 4-of-4 field goals this season, including the game-clincher two weeks ago at Florida State, he has strug-gled during his three sea-sons at Oklahoma. Stevens is 42-for-52 overall with a long of 42 yards.

When questioned about whether Stevens’ absence from the game Saturday meant Stoops had found a more reliable kicker, the coach said i t was more about nursing an injury and making sure more than one kicker was ready.

“Jimmy has been nurs-ing a pull in his quad, so he didn’t feel very good out there hitting it,” Stoops said. “He really a week ago was trying to fight through it. I should have probably thrown Michael in for that

last kick a week ago.” Stoops said he would

have put Hunnicutt in the game for the last field goal against FSU if the freshman had more kicks in games.

“I knew this week, no matter what, I was getting Michael some kicks,” Stoops said. “ You want to have some of the easy ones under your belt before you have to

hit one that really matters.”Hunnicutt made his only

f ield goal attempt — 26 yards — and was 5-for-5 on point-after attempts against the Tigers on Saturday.

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night. But the scoring didn’t stop there. Jones also finished with a rushing touchdown on a quarterback sneak in the second quarter. That’s 24 of the Sooners’ 38 points.

2 Receiving threats emerged: Ryan Broyles finished

with 154 yards and three touchdowns to keep the Sooners on track, but what

helped OU was the way the players around him stepped up. Nine players recorded a reception Saturday, but sophomore receiver Jaz Reynolds was a vertical threat for the Sooners, snagging five balls for 93 yards.

3 the defensive front: While the Sooner defense let Missouri

gash them for 532 yards,

Oklahoma’s defensive line had a strong game led by Frank Alexander. The senior defensive end continued his tremendous season, recording six tackles, one and a half tackles for loss and a sack. Alexander kept pressure on Missouri as he flew around the field and disrupted the Tigers’ timing.

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Sophomore wide receiver Jaz Reynolds (left) pulls away from a Missouri defender during OU’s 38-28 win against the Tigers on Saturday in Norman. Reynolds finished with five catches for 93 yards.

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Sooner starter to miss 6-8 weeks because of injury to snapping arm

Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops announced Sunday that junior starting center Ben Habern will miss six to eight weeks after breaking a radius bone in his right arm in Saturday’s 38-28 win over Missouri.

While Habern will not be able to play center for six to eight weeks, Stoops said there is a chance he could be able to spend time at guard in four to six weeks.

Sophomore Gabe Ikard, who slid over from guard to replace Habern on Saturday, will continue to fill in until Habern makes it back to the field.

The positive for the Sooners is that Ikard is an experienced lineman with experi-ence at center already under his belt. He took reps at cen-ter all through two-a-days while Habern nursed another injury.

“(Gabe Ikard) is a good center,” junior quarterback Landry Jones said. “He plays really well, snaps it really well. So, we’ll be all right there. It does stink that Ben went down. You hate it for someone like Ben, just one of the better guys on our team.”

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team rules.His chance became a real

opportunity when team doctors discovered sopho-more wide receiver Kenny Stills had sustained a mild concussion against Florida State last week and was not cleared to play against Missouri.

W i t h t w o r e c e i v e r s scratched from the depth chart, OU coach Bob Stoops talked to Jaz.

“When coach called me Thursday and told me I was going to get to start, I got chills,” he said.

The excitement he had to get back out there was bal-anced by the fear he’d do something to lose it again, he said.

“First game back in a long time — (are) fans going to accept me? If I mess up, will they boo me?” he said. “I finally got my moment to shine, but I had to capital-ize on it. I couldn’t let it slip through my hands or else I’d never be back on the field.”

Junior quarterback Landry Jones said Jaz had been ready for a long time.

“He just wanted to play,” Jones said. “He’s been biting his nails just to get in there and play a little bit. I think tonight he proved he can step up and be a really good receiver on our team.”

Co-offensive coordinator Josh Heupel said Jaz spent a lot of time working toward getting back, even when no-body was watching him.

“It’s good to see him get that opportunity and then perform the way he did,” Heupel said. “It’s a credit to guys staying the course, working hard every single day and believing that their opportunity’s coming.”

Heupel said players can’t just sit on their hands wait-ing for a chance to get in,

and he said Jaz’s success was because he didn’t just stand around waiting.

“Preparing for that op-portunity is the key,” Heupel said. “If you wait until that opportunity comes, you’re going to be in trouble.”

Jaz said he never took his skill for granted by assuming he was good enough to bide his time until he took the field again. He made sure he was ready whenever the op-portunity arose.

“I’ve been ready for it and been preparing for it every day, just helping Kenny (Stills) and Ryan (Broyles) prepare for the games,” he said. “This week, it was my time to get prepared.”

For most receivers, the game he had against the Tigers would be plenty as the first game back in almost a year and half, but not for Jaz.

“I’m kind of upset I didn’t

get 100 yards,” he said. “There were a couple of passes — one pass was right behind me, and I got a hand on it, and it would have been my 100 yards.”

Hitting the century mark or not, Jaz said he’s confident

his first big contribution on the field this year will not be his last, and he has lofty goals.

“I’m going to have a cou-ple of 100-yard games,” he said. “All you have to do is toss it up there for me.”

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