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OU attempts to collect 18 pounds of recycled material per person in race to win RecycleManiaCASSI TONEYDaily Staff Writer
A national championship is still within OU’s reach, but the Sooners are still nearly 150 tons shy.
OU is competing in RecycleMania, a 10-week competition between 500 U.S. colleges and uni-versities to measure campus recycling and waste reduction, for the second year, according to an OU press release.
“RecycleMania helps campus recycling pro-grams rally student, faculty and staff participa-tion in recycling and waste-prevention programs while offering bragging rights and special awards made out of recycled materials to the winning
schools,” Amanda Toohey, Physical Plant spokes-woman, said in the release.
Toohey said the university hopes to recycle 18 pounds per person, 200 tons total, during the 2010 competition, which ends March 27. In 2009, OU recycled 14.25 pounds per person in its first year in the competition. OU is currently at more than 50 tons, Toohey said, which is close to 4 pounds per person.
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OU professor hopes Winter Olympic coverage of the sport will help get of! cial group on the iceCHARLES WARDDaily Staff Writer
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, as the saying goes.
Fortunately for curling enthusiasts, that prohibi-tion refers to hypocrisy, not throwing stones while inside the Plexiglas walls of a hock-ey rink.
This is good for Jonathan Havercroft, political science professor, and his hopes for starting a curling club in central Oklahoma.
Curling has caught the attention of more than 300 people interested in help-ing get the group, OK Arctic Curling, off the ground, Havercroft said.
He said there is a core group of about 10 members who used to live in Canada or the nor thern United States who brought their love of the sport with them to Oklahoma.
However, the coverage of the sport during the ongoing Winter Olympics is fueling most of the interest, he said.
“Most people have kind of seen it on TV and want to give it a whirl,” he said.
While the “Hey, I can do that” appeal of curling draws people to the sport, it’s not an inexpensive past time. Ice time at Oklahoma City’s Arctic Edge Ice Arena costs $285 an hour, according to the Arctic Edge Web site.
E a c h g a m e l a s t s t w o hours, Havercroft said.
Then there are the curl-ing stones, the 40-pound granite weights that curl-ers slide across the ice. The club is ordering 64 used rocks, enough to play two games simultaneously, for a price of more than $10,000, Havercroft said.
Those factors lead to the club’s $200-per-person membership fee, which cov-ers eight weeks of curling once a week, he said.
The club also has a stu-dent team in the works, Havercroft said, and he hopes to offer membership on that team for a lower rate.
Havercroft grew up in Montreal and picked up
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Head of Gaylord Entertainment Company shares wisdom with students at College of BusinessMATTHEW MOZEKDaily Staff Writer
Students should investigate company culture when seeking jobs after graduation, a CEO said Thursday at the Price College of Business.
Colin Reed, the head of the Gaylord Entertainment Company, said graduates should pick a com-pany that cares about people.
“That is a company that’s grow-ing, not (deteriorating),” Reed said. “And it’s not an organization that’s focused on the almighty dollar.”
The Gaylord Entertainment Company operates numerous hotel and media companies and is a long-time benefactor to OU. Reed has been chairman and CEO of the company since 2001 and president since 2005.
Establishing a culture of support and commitment is the key to suc-cess in this struggling economy, Reed said, and establishing this support requires the maximum
effort of everyone on board.“When you build the right cul-
ture in an organization, you can deal with basically anything that’s thrown at you because every one of your people are committed to the cause,” Reed said.
However, Reed said, building the right culture in an organization doesn’t happen overnight.
“This is not something that you can do by standing on the top of a mountain and say ‘Hey you guys and gals, we want you committed to the company,’” he said. “You do it by literally spending years before
that building the right culture in the business.”
Reed, who served as a member of the three-executive Office of the President of gaming company Harrah’s Entertainment Inc., got into the hotel and casino business at an early age and was named chief financial officer of a big hotel in London when he was 27, he said.
“I wasn’t born into affluence and wealth,” Reed said. “I lived on the other side of the railroad tracks.”
In his youth, Reed worked in London for five years in an invest-ment banking business. That’s
Company culture central to business success, CEO says
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OU community to hear about leadershipin America from national security heads, including CIA directorCAROLINE PERRYMANDaily Staff Writer
A CIA director and two former U.S. national secu-rity advisers will speak at a foreign policy conference March 8 at OU.
The conference, “A New Kind of Leadership: America and the Rise of the Rest,” will include key-note speakers Leon Panetta, CIA director, and Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft, former national security advisers. This will mark the eighth national security conference held at OU, according to an OU press release.
“This conference will give all Oklahomans and the
OU community a rare opportunity to hear directly from leading architects of U.S. national security pol-icy at a time of major challenges to our country,” OU President David Boren said in the release.
Panetta will speak at the luncheon on “Major Challenges to National Security,” and Brzezinski and Scowcroft will speak at the dinner on “The Major Challenges Facing the U.S. Around the World and How We Should Respond to them.”
The public is invited to a lecture on “The Architecture of American History,” featuring David Sanger, the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, at 10 a.m. in Beaird Lounge of the Oklahoma Memorial Union. The public is also in-vited to a lecture on “An Assessment of U.S. Policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” featuring Matthew Hoh, a former combat Marine in the Middle East, a Foreign Service officer in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2009 and a
Foreign policy conference brings high-profile speakers to OU
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Jonathan Havercroft, political science professor, demonstrates the fundamentals of sweeping in curling Thursday afternoon in the hallway of the Dale Hall Tower. Havercroft is responsible for organizing OK Arctic Curling.
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environmental campus group OUr Earth, said he thought OU could reach its goal because the campus is getting more recycle bins. Approximately 2,000 Crimson and Green commitments last semester raised $2,000 for OU to buy new recycling bins, Applegate said.
“It’s just proving that OU is still learning to work in a sustainable way and providing students more access to recycling and making it easier for them to recycle,” Applegate said.
Katharine Williams, professional writing sophomore, said recycling on campus is a necessity and it is easy be-cause of all the different facilities on campus for recycling. She said she keeps two separate trash cans in her room to make the recycling process more convenient.
“Even if you’re not a big environmentalist it’s good to not be wasteful in general as a human being,” Williams said. “I don’t see why people have something against [re-cycling] if it’s easy and good for everybody.”
Philip Barnett, University College freshman, said he wished OU had more recycling options for glass and cardboard.
Barnett said he worked with the Cate Resident Student Association to make a video for RecycleMania’s video competition. The winning video receives $1,500 and serves as the advertisement for the university’s recycling program, Barnett said.
RecycleMania began with three schools in 2001, Toohey said. This year’s competition has the largest number of schools with a 25 percent growth from 2009.
The competition is based on which university or col-lege recycles the greatest percentage of its solid waste. It includes the amount recycled per capita and waste mini-mization per capita.
The results from each week are posted online at for all universities to see.
“Recycling just gives you a very good boost of confi-dence that you’re doing something good for the environ-ment,” Barnett said.
OTHER WAYS TO BE MORE ECO-FRIENDLY• Shut off lights or laptop when not in use• Take shorter showers• Join OUr Earth, an environmentally focused group• Contact UOSA Of! ce of Green Initiatives or the Environmental Concerns Committee• Re-use materials when possible• Visit ou.edu/recyclemania• Visit recyclemaniacs.orgSources: Chris Applegate / Katharine Williams
the game when he was 12 years old, playing the game throughout his high school and undergraduate years. He earned his doctorate at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, whose twin city, St. Paul, has the United States’ largest curling center.
S i n c e m o v i n g t o Oklahoma three years ago, however, Havercroft said he has had to travel to Dallas to find the closest curling club.
“I’ve been going down there for the last two years to play but also just to kind of learn what they’ve done,” he said.
The DFW Curling Club launched after the 2002 Winter Olympics and is one of three clubs in Texas, said Judy Willingham, the club’s president. There also is a club in Kansas City and, when OK Arctic Curling launches, those five clubs will form the at-large
region of clubs recognized by the United States Curling Association.
Havercroft said he is look-ing for his club to begin play in mid-March, which will be enough time for stones to arrive from Canada and for Arctic Edge to mark its hock-ey rink with curling lines and circles.
If the club succeeds, it will spread the sport to a 34th U.S. state and it will add a few more curlers to the ap-proximately 1.5 million worldwide, according to the U.S. Curling Association’s Web site.
“The most important part about curling is the commu-nity,” Willingham said. “It’s much like going to church as anything else. It’s about the people, coming together, doing something everybody just really enjoys and really believes in and just enjoying that time together.”
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CURLINGTo learn more about the sport, visit one or more of the following Web sites:USA Curling — curlingrocks.netThe NBC Olympic curling site — nbcolympics.com/curlingThe World Curling Federation — worldcurling.org
To ! nd out more about the OK Arctic Curling Club, visit okcurling.com or e-mail Jonathan Havercroft at [email protected].
when he started making money, he said.
“When I was doing my accounting studies I was poor, really poor,” he said. “Then I got into the hotel and casino business and I’ve been in the hotel and casino business for 35 years.”
In recent years, Gaylord Entertainment Company has relied on its company culture to succeed, Reed said.
“We’re very fortunate. We got a good culture and we got good management in our business that is on top of things,” he said.
Reed also said he believes Gaylord Entertainment Company has stayed suc-cessful in this struggling economy because it has a good connection with its customers.
“Our customers love our company. They believe that we care about them and that we’re not just there to extract money from them,” Reed said.
Choosing the right com-pany to work for is key, he emphasized.
“If you work for an orga-nization that’s cares about people and you’re a good individual — you’re a rea-sonably ‘starved’ person — you’ll get watered and you’ll get nourished to be able to grow and expand your areas of influence,” Reed said.
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frequent guest commen-tator on national media programs, at 2 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium.
As Director of the CIA, Panetta leads the agency
and manages human intelligence and open source collec-tion projects on behalf of the Intelligence Committee. He has served in a wide range of leadership positions includ-ing Chief of Staff to President Clinton.
Brzezinski has served as national security adviser to President Carter and is a popular speaker on world affairs and complex issues facing the Obama administration today. He is praised for his ability to recognize the interre-lations and complexities of seemingly unrelated events.
Scowcroft has served five presidents and is the only per-son to serve as national security adviser to two presidents; Ford and Bush Sr. Scowcroft coined the term and laid the foundation for the “New World Order.”
There is limited seating available for the luncheon and the dinner for OU students, faculty and staff. To reserve a seat at, call the OU Office of Special Events at 405-325-3784. No reservations are required for the W. R. Howell Lectures.
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No love is lost between two of the local rock scene’s brightest young stars, according to The Non guitarist Wil Norton. “I love the Boom Bang’s sound,” he said. “Tommy McKenzie is a master of distorted tones.”
“We try to play with bands that we enjoy,” McKenzie, an OU English sophomore, said. “[The Non is] a great band.”
The Opolis will play host tonight to these two budding bands, though they’re certainly pros of the local scene. “We’ve played there enough times to forget how often we’ve played there, but it’s one of the best venues in Oklahoma,” Norton said. “I love the eclectic design of the place and think that any venue with over-sized cat-head paintings is going to be pretty cool.”
Musically, the bands differ as night from day. The Non’s recently-released second record “Tadaima” is a calculated work of intricate tinker-ing, like a volatile compound mixed in a laboratory. It’s rife with ambience, diverse and sweeping rhythms and mountainous sonic buildup that often climaxes with noisy, distorted guitars and drum crashing. ‘Experimental’ is their work’s most common tag. “I think that experimentation is a great way to keep a childlike fascination with music and its capabilities,” Norton said.
Accompanied by a light show, The Non’s sets are free-form and
sprawling. Absent are any and all vocalists, which clears the stage and prevents distraction from the sonic and visual elements.
“People aren’t really accustomed to hearing instrumental bands,” said Tom Bishop, OU aviation and economics sopho-more and The Non bassist. “Generally the comments are cen-tered around, ‘Wow, I didn’t know I could be that interested in what you guys were doing without a singer. There’s no frontman, which has kind of evolved into part of the point.” He said they try to erase themselves from the stage show.
“We want you to have this experience of this music shaping one way or the other.”
If The Non are musical chemists, then The Boom Bang are
fanboys, part of a recent indie phenomena bent on resurrecting a dated genre: Surf rock.
“It’s so gritty and so identifiable,” McKenzie said. “It’s really nostalgic—Jack White from the White Stripes listens to a lot of blues music, and does his interpretation of it. This is our interpre-tation of [surf rock].”
McKenzie cites influences like the bands Black Lips, Dick Dale and films featuring similar work, like Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds and Pulp Fiction.
Singer James Smith swaggers like Mick Jagger and growls, yo-dels and howls with guttural punk-rock style on “Spies Like Us” from their recent EP, “Pizzapocalypse”. McKenzie’s aggressive guitar work defines the band’s sound while also propelling them through their set.
“They’re a lot of fun to watch,” Norton said. “Especially Tommy, he’ll jump around and make it hard to snap a clear pic-ture of him.”
Tonight the Opolis will play host to a pair of local rock acts both interesting and complementary. Let’s just hope they don’t blast those cat paintings off the walls.
Matt Carney is a professional writing junior.
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An off-campus event headlined by an OU teacher is set to give students an opportunity to experience traditions of other cultures.
Windows into Other Worlds — a multicultural event in-cluding music, food and art — will be taking place at 6 p.m. Saturday at Mission Hill, located just off of NE 12th Ave., between East Tecumseh Road and East Franklin Road .
The music performance will be by Arabesque, a world music duo that combines a number of elements from dif-ferent cultures including Celtic, Asian, Middle Eastern, Indian, Latin American and African. Miranda Arana, world music teacher at OU, and Steve Vanlandingham make up the duo, which they established six years ago.
“It is a blend of a lot of a lot of different traditions from around the world, and we don’t just play a tune from Turkey or Ireland,” Arana said. “But we actually create these fusions that take elements of multiple traditions, and bring out the best of each.”
The musical performance also will include a few guests, to add to Arabesque’s unique sound. The performers will play a number of exotic instruments, including a vari-ety of flutes and string instruments, representing many cultures.
“It’s not the typical concert you’d go to. We’re all ma-ture musicians who have spent a lot of time in our craft, and we’ve done a lot of thinking about how to put things together,” Arana said. “And also because I’m a teacher I already have that sense of including the audience in the whole process of what I’m doing and trying to educate as well as entertain and inspire.”
The event’s art will also exhibit more than one culture, and Arana was excited to recruit the two artists she did: Beverly Herndon and Arisha Burmingame.
“Herndon is an Oriental brushwork painter, and what she’s done is started painting differently, bringing Celtic and other themes into her work just since we talked about this project,” Arana said.
Burmingame does mosaics with glass, and Arana spoke of how these mosaics show her fondness for different cul-tures around the world.
The festivity continues with food provided by “O” Asian Fusion and Himalayas Restaurant. The event begins at 6 p.m. with the performance beginning at 7 p.m., providing guests some time to survey the art and enjoy the exotic food.
“It’s a great experience for me to put something together like this and I’m very excited,” Arana said. “I hope it leads to other things.”
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Zach Zeller and Wil Norton of The Non perform at a gig. The Non will play with The Boom Bang at 9 tonight at Opolis, 113 N. Crawford Ave.
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Thomas Van Dyke came to OU on Tuesday to raise awareness about the terrible human rights violations committed by the state of Myanmar (Burma).
Myanmar and Sudan — these names should ring in every human rights activists’ ear as sad stories and examples for the future. They are stories of huge successful awareness campaigns, and no effective results.
Since the coup in 1988, Myanmar has been plagued by the kind of Orwellian dictator-ship found in Kim Jung Ill’s dreams and have conducted a genocide against the Karen and Kachin and other minority groups.
Since 2003, Darfur, a province of eastern Sudan, has been host to genocide against the non-Arab minority killing approximately
200,000 and displacing more than 2 million people. Its government has been quite dicta-torial, stifling all dissent.
What do these groups have in common other than their human rights atrocities?
They both have a history of great aware-ness campaigns. Myanmar’s awareness campaigns were popularized after 1991 when Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize for her nonviolent opposition to the Myanmar government. Darfur’s campaign was more recent, just a few years ago.
We’re still feeling the after effects of both these campaigns with the occasional speaker like Van Dyke, or a documentary screening on Darfur.
People went out and informed the world.
There were documentary screenings, speak-ers, fairs and fliers. They were publicized with free food and had great turn-outs. Students were edified about these terrible situations, and did nothing.
So what happened? We took these nations with whom we have few economic ties and placed an embargo on them, a token slap on the hand at best.
Today, Sudan has driven nearly the entire non-Arab population from Darfur and both China and India are courting Myanmar by giving them a disproportionately large say in South Asian politics.
Simply, they’re doing well.Raising awareness is good, and neces-
sary, but it shouldn’t be the end goal of
activists. After getting people’s attention they need something to do. Everyone knew about Myanmar, and have since forgotten. Everyone knew about Darfur; they are now forgetting.
People remember things they had to work for better than things that were fed to them.
If you want to stop a crisis in the world, try writing your senators and the people in-volved. Or, you could raise money for human rights groups actively improving the lives of the people ravaged in these conflicts.
Education can go only so far without action.
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Actions speak louder than words for activists too
Little baby Sara is born with all 10 fingers and toes. She cries, eats, poops and does ev-erything a perfect little baby girl should. Her parents take her home, blissfully ignorant of the absence of one critical enzyme in their little bundle of joy.
When Sara reaches about six months, her parents start to notice a change. Sara isn’t as playful as she used to be. Her muscles seem weak and her motor skills actually seem to be declining rather than improving. She is easily startled and cannot seem to focus on mama or dada anymore.
Sara was born with Tay-Sachs, a genetic disease that must be recessive in both par-ents. Consequently, little Sara cannot produce an enzyme that prevents fatty compounds from building up in the ner-vous system. The only thing that is certain is that Sara will die. Probably before age five.
It is tragic stories like this one, which prompted the Israeli gov-ernment to institute a practice of voluntary eugenics.
Eugenics is defined as “the study of heredi-tary improvement of the human race by con-trolled selective breeding.” Many automati-cally associate the practice with Auschwitz and Nazi ideals of racial purity. However, for the Israeli people, voluntary eugenics has suc-ceeded in dramatically reducing instances of Tay-Sachs and other genetic diseases that cause a great deal of pain and suffering for pa-tients and families alike.
By encouraging Israeli couples who are having children to submit to genetic testing, parents and doctors have been able to make better-informed decisions regarding preg-nancy. Testing allows potential parents to determine whether they carry the Tay-Sachs gene, and whether they could potentially pass it on to their child. Even when both parents test positive for the gene, it is still their choice to have a child or not. Should they choose to have a child, their doctor is better prepared to conduct prenatal testing to determine if the mutation is dominant in the fetus, and the
couple can decide whether or not to continue the pregnancy. Most often, Tay-Sachs preg-nancies are terminated.
Other countries, like Italy, are using vol-untary eugenics to combat genetic dis-eases prevalent in its own citizenry. Some Mediterranean populations are more suscep-tible to a disease called thalassemia. Although it is not usually fatal, the expense of treatment is a significant burden on both families and health systems. Thus, there is widespread en-couragement in places like Sardinia to submit
to genetic testing. As a result, the rate of thalassemia in Sadrinia has gone from 1 in 250 births to roughly 1 in 4000 births. Still, other Mediterranean islands have taken a more drastic approach.
The island nation of Cyprus was possi-bly the most seriously affected by thalas-semia. With about 18 to 20 new cases re-ported each year, the government decid-ed to implement a prevention program. Since 1980, premarital screening for thala-ssema has been mandatory, and prenatal blood sampling has been standard since
1984. From 1991 to 2001, there were only five reported cases. The Cyprus thalassemia pre-vention program has been a tremendous suc-cess, and undoubtedly has saved the people of Cyprus a great deal of emotional and financial hardship.
I know the very concept of eugenics is scary. However, we need to learn to separate concepts from their darkest hours in order to properly examine them in the light. There is a very important distinction to be made be-tween voluntary and involuntary eugenics. I am not advocating the coercion of any group. Genetic and prenatal tests are simple, safe,and effective. I am only advocating the practice of fully informing potential parents of the risks involved in having a child. Information alone causes no harm, but is always imperative in our striving to make the best decisions for ourselves as well as our children.
Travis Grogan is a political science and communications senior.
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There is no “ideal human” who we must all live up to. Some would say President Barack Obama. Others, Mother Teresa. Hell, some would possibly even say Ebenezer Scrooge is the pinnacle of human existence. Eugenics, the selective breeding of humanity to advance it as a species, is too danger-ous and too rooted in value judgments to be a just and safe practice.
There are, of course, many positive ways in which eugenics can be used to prevent potential suffering of offspring. Parents can get genetic tests done or opt for voluntary abortion if there is evidence or danger of a baby with Cystic Fibrosis or Tay-Sachs disease. But even the decision to use eugenics in these cases is based upon the value judgment that a life lived with Cystic Fibrosis is worse than a life never lived. Whether it is right or wrong cannot be answered, just which situation a person prefers.
Eugenics is not a science. It is the use of scientific techniques to act upon one’s views and morals.
Of course, the first example used against the practice of eugenics is Nazi Germany. The idea of an Aryan race. Forced pregnan-cies. Forced sterilizations. Genocide. You name it. All was done in the name of eugen-ics. For the advancement of humanity.
The consequences of eugenics in the modern world are less graphic and frighten-ing, but still equally dangerous.
Take, for example, the effect of a wide-spread eugenics process in modern day China. In China, there are 120 males for every 100 females. Much of this is due to the avail-ability of ultrasounds to expectant parents. Because of the one-child policy, many par-ents would choose to abort the female fetus in hope that the next would be a male.
In cases where the eugenics is not used to prevent a terminal disease, who can say how much a role genes will even play in the life of the offspring? Imagine you are Theodore Roosevelt, our great outdoorsman president. This lover of nature, boxer of men, valiant soldier and president would most definitely
have been described as a strong, healthy adult. However, Roosevelt was an asthmatic, sickly child. If modern day genetic testing had been used on Roosevelt’s parents or on the developing Teddy fetus, who knows if he
would have had test results indi-cating he would have been sickly all his life? Roosevelt’s worked to become healthier. It was his choices and actions, not his genes, which determined the fate of his life.
If eugenics were used to further the intelligence of the human race, which form of intelligence would we choose? Would we choose par-ents with advanced problem solv-ing skills? Would it be those that
are born with great creativity, perfect pitch or an impressive gift for languages? Who decides which form of intelligence is most important? Most likely it would be those in power. Even if an Alpha has a higher IQ than a Delta, who is to say the individual is more intelligent? Who is to say that intelligence is the most important characteristic anyway?
There also are cases where a certain dis-ease will have different penetrance (percent of people actually being affected) and ex-pressivity (degree to which the individual is affected). Parents, if given a chance to see the genetic risks associated with their child would prefer zero risk versus even a 10 or 20 percent risk of a disease. These kinds of op-tions should not be made available to par-ents. There is no guarantee in these cases that the child will even have the predicted disease.
We should allow the asthmatic Roosevelts and Che Gueveras of this world the opportu-nity to adapt and overcome. We are human and it is within us to overcome obstacles. We have no right to attempt to remove every potential stumbling block from the human race.
John Best is a biochemistry and Asian studies senior.
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salt used medicinally
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10 Gloom producer
14 Classical column style
15 Ancient Assyrian city (Var.)
16 Succulent emollient
17 Type of joke 20 “How’s that
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32 Where the pupil sits?
33 Proceed after grace
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Men’s basketball looks to end 5-game skidShort-handed Sooners attempt avenge earlier blowout loss to BaylorCLARK FOYDaily Staff Writer
The OU men’s basketball team takes on the Baylor Bears Saturday for their second to last home game of the season at Lloyd Noble Center.
The last time these two teams met in Waco was a disaster for the Sooners. Junior guard LaceDarius Dunn dropped 28 points on the Sooners in a 91-60 blowout in which OU suf-fered their largest margin of defeat all season long.
The loss broke OU’s 30-game winning streak against the Bears and was just one of a list of prob-lems that plagued OU this season.
The team will be without sophomore guard Willie Warren, who head coach Jeff Capel said will likely sit the remain-der of the regular season with an ankle injury.
The Sooners are currently on a five-
game losing streak and their record has decreased to 13-14 overall, 4-9 in Big 12 play. The team has lost two straight at home after opening the season with a 12-0 home record, Baylor’s last win in
Norman came on Dec. 6, 1977, when the Bears defeated the Sooners 75-67. The last time the Sooners finished with a losing re-cord was in 1981 when they finished 9-18.
The Bears enter Saturday’s game 21-6 overall and with an 8-5 Big 12 record. While o n t h e r o a d i n the Big 12, Baylor is 2-4, with wins against Texas and Nebraska and loss-
es to Colorado, Kansas, Texas A&M and Oklahoma State.
Tipoff will be at 12:30 p.m. at Lloyd Noble. The Sooners then rest for two days before they take on the Texas Longhorns in Austin on Monday night and their last home game will come March 6, when the team takes on Texas A&M.
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Tony Crocker, senior guard, drives to the basket during Saturday’s game against Kansas State. The Sooners fell to the Wildcats 83-68.
After losing to another undefeated team at home, OU looks to recover on the road against TexasANNELISE RUSSELLDaily Staff Writer
The No. 11 OU wom-en’s basketball team is loading up the bus and heading south Saturday to take on No. 14 Texas in what has become a bitter battle of rivals.
The Longhorns and Sooners met for the first installment in Lloyd Noble Center Feb. 2 when Texas stole the win on the Sooners floor.
“It ’s nothing that Texas was doing to make us lose,” junior guard Danielle Robinson said. “It’s all Oklahoma.”
Last time against Texas, OU struggled with maintaining intensity throughout an entire game and keeping people out of foul trouble, Robinson said.
Robinson fouled out of the game and senior leaders Amanda Thompson and Abi Olajuwon both tallied four fouls. The Sooners struggled on defense having their forward and center one foul away from the bench.
Robinson said that game was a learning experience.
“We’ve got to go in to Texas hungry, and we’ve got to be willing to fight the urge to be tired,”
Robinson said.In the Sooners’ last game against Nebraska on
Wednesday, the players looked tired at the end and could not keep up with Nebraska’s offense.
“We didn’t particularly defend Nebraska’s transition like we should,” Robinson said.
Texas is another team with a strong transition offense and getting better at defending it will be key, Robinson said.
Success in Saturday’s game is sim-ple: stick to a game plan, Robinson said.
“I definitely think keys will be fol-lowing the scout and just staying out of foul trouble,” Robinson said.
This game plan takes the entire Sooner lineup, she said.
“I think we just need everybody to stay on the floor,” Robinson said.
Maybe by staying on the floor, the Sooners can clock a win at Texas.
“Its always a huge game playing Texas,” Robinson said. “We know we need to go down there and steal one
on their floor.”But just beating Texas won’t win be enough
for this OU team.“In order for us to have a good postseason,
we need to win out these next three games,” Robinson said.
Those three games include Texas, Texas A&M and intrastate rival Oklahoma State. All three are ranked in the top 25.
Sooners begin their road to the end of the conference season with a 4 p.m. tipoff Saturday in Austin, Texas.
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Amanda Thompson, senior forward, catches the ball mid-air during the Sooner women’s basketball game against Nebraska on Wednesday evening. at Lloyd Noble. OU lost 80-64.
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IN NORMAN THIS WEEKEND
During a time-period domi-nated by men’s and women’s basketball, and to a lesser extent, baseball and softball, the other sports can some-times go under the radar. Here are some of the events going on in Norman this weekend:
MEN’S GYMNASTICSThe No. 2 men’s gymnas-tics team will take on No. 6 Minnesota and the University o f Te xas c l ub t eam a t home Saturday at 7 p.m. in McCasland Field House.
MEN’S TENNISThe No. 26 men’s tennis team will face two different oppo-nents at home this weekend. Friday, The Sooners will face No. 43 Minnesota. Sunday, No. 48 Indiana comes to Norman. OU jumped 18 spots in the rankings after defeating Alabama.
PROJECTED STARTERS
OUPG: Fr. Tommy Mason-Grif! nSG: Jr. Cade DavisSF: Sr. Tony CrockerPF: Fr. Andrew FitzgeraldC: Fr. Tiny Gallon
BAYLORPG: Sr. Tweety CarterSG: Jr. LaceDarius DunnSF: So. Anthony JonesPF: Jr. Ekpe UdohC: Sr. Josh Lomers
WHO TO WATCH FOR
DANIELLE ROBINSON
JUNIOR GUARDRobinson has been a leader for the Sooners all season. Averaging 16.7 points and 5.1 assists, Robinson was recently named one of 30 candidates for the 2010 Women’s Naismith Trophy. The award will be pre-sented at the Final Four.