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CAMPUS BRIEFSART AND ENGINEERING COME TOGETHER AT 2,400 DEGREES

The OU sculptor program and the School of Art and Art History will pres-ent Fuego Friday: Halloween Iron Pour and Costume Contest at 5:30 p.m. Friday in the Fred Jones Art Center.

Jonathan Hils, associate professor of contemporary sculpture, said spec-tators can watch student and faculty cast molds of molten iron exceeding 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit.

“This process brings together engi-neering, chemistry and artistry into one of the most unique visual spec-tacles you’ll witness. It’s also really, really hot and that’s just plain cool,” Hils stated in a press release.

The OU sculpture program will also sell small scratch molds for $20 so that students can create their own piece of metal art. OU students will cast the molds during the event. Proceeds will benefi t the sculpture program and the Visual Art Student Association, according to the press release.

A costume contest will begin at 7 p.m. and the winner will receive a new iPod Nano. The iron pour and costume contest are both free and open to the public.

-Troy Weatherford/The Daily

GRANT AWARDED TO STUDY POLLUTION AND ENVIRONMENT

The National Science Foundation awarded an OU professor a research grant focusing on living systems and Earth’s history according to a press release.

Lawrence Weider, professor of zoology, will use the grant money

to investigate h o w a q u a t i c organisms cope with alternative env i ronments caused by nutri-ent pollution.

He will study the effects of long-term pol-lu t ion a t the OU Biological station located

on Lake Texoma in collaboration with two colleagues from Indiana University.

The budget for the three-year proj-ect is $780,000.

The National Science Foundation awarded 61 grants totaling $26 mil-lion to university researchers in the United States.

-Hannah Rieger/Contributing Writer

LARGE PRIZES AVAILABLE FOR BUSINESS PRESENTATIONS

Business students interested in entering the 7th annual Bruzzy Westheimer Presentation Competition must register online by 5 p.m. Friday.

Teams will present a business or university-related topic before a panel of judges from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 6 in Price Hall, room 2065.

All teams that enter will receive cash prizes, with a $4,200 prize awarded to the fi rst place team.

The event is sponsored by Bruzzy Westheimer, president of Valbel West Corporation and Price College board member. Westheimer will serve as a judge for the competition.

For more information, go to http://price.ou.edu/bcc/bcc_westheimer.aspx.

-Claire Brandon/Contributing Writer

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The OU Crew novice team practices a rowing set Monday evening on the Oklahoma River. While the rowing season continues all year, the spring season is the prime time of year for the rowing team. The club team is responsible for raising its own funds since Crew rowing is not an NCAA sport.

Obama appoints Boren to intelligence advisory boardPart-time position

will not include salary

CHARLES WARDAssistant Managing Editor

President Barack Obama tapped OU President David Boren to serve as co-chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, Wednesday.

The board provides Obama with an independent source of advice on the effectiveness of the U.S. intelli-gence community, according to the White House’s Web site.

“I am honored by the presi-dent’s appointment to co-chair the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board,” Boren said in a statement issued by OU. “I appreciate the

opportunity the president has given me to help in the effort to strength-en our national security.”

Boren said the position, which is part-time and uncompensated, will not affect his plans to remain OU’s president.

Boren will co-chair the commit-tee with former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.

“I’m especially pleased that ... Chuck Hagel, for whom I have great respect, will serve as the other co-chair. It is my hope that together, with the other members of the board, we can give candid, thought-ful, and nonpartisan advice, which will be helpful to the country,” Boren said.

Obama made the announcement

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Small fee to contribute

to overseas expenses

RICKY MARANONTROY WEATHERFORDDaily Staff Writers

Students will have the oppor-tunity to vote on a new fee in the UOSA fall general election Nov. 10-11.

If passed, students will be required to pay a $2 fee toward a new fund set up to help stu-dents with the cost of studying abroad.

“We have a great resident that has taken great steps to make ac-cess to study abroad programs easier for all students, but the costs to travel abroad are going up and we also need to prepare for future students who may not have a president that supports study abroad programs as much as [President] Boren has,” said Isaac Freeman, Undergraduate Student Senator from the social sciences district.

Freeman said he understands some students will not use the fee, but said the fee would fund a good cause for students who want to study abroad but do not have the means to do so.

“I know that some students will not use this fee, but there are some things funded by fees that I pay for that I don’t use that other students benefit from,” Freeman said.

Out of six students asked about the proposed fee, five thought it was a good idea.

“I’m kind of interested in study abroad, so I guess some help in paying would be nice,” said Gina Leger, University College freshman.

One student expressed dis-dain for yet another fee.

“They can find money in other ways,” said Andrew Fitzgerald, University College freshman. “It’s just like a redis-tribution of wealth.”

The ballot measure was ap-proved Tuesday at the UOSA Student Congress meeting.

Students will vote to increase study abroad opportunity

Film promotes peace

between Israel, Palestine

SUMMAYAH ANWARDaily Staff Writer

The very first screening of “A Little Town of Bethlehem,” a docu-mentary chronicling non-violent resistance in Palestine and Israel, and will be shown at 5:30 tonight in Meacham Auditorium.

“The viewing tonight is the first public screening of the documen-tary,” said Bekah Stone, president of Sooners for Peace in Palestine.

The film was produced by EthnoGraphic Media, a nonprofit film and media group that pro-motes local solutions to global problems, said Stone, an interna-tional area studies junior. She said EGM contacted Sooners for Peace in Palestine earlier this year about showing the film.

“The directors have an office in Oklahoma City and wanted some extras for a few scenes in the film,”

Stone said. “They wanted some Palestinian looking people, and some Israeli looking people.”

Three current OU students, Abdurrahman Kabani, Rami Beydoun and Yousef Salous, are extras in the film, Stone said.

“The purpose of the film is to spread awareness and increase knowledge of the conflicts occur-ring between Israel and Palestine so that we can promote justice and peace. We need to open up dia-logue,” Stone said.

International security senior Isaac Freeman said he agrees an open dialogue is needed.

“I hope this movie promotes a nonviolent peace movement and creates an understanding that there are so many people who want peace,” Freeman said.

Freeman, a member of Sooners for Israel, said there are a large number of people on both sides who are against this violence.

Shayna Daitch, Oklahoma Hillel

First public screening of ‘Little Town’ plays tonight

Members raise funds, club team

receives no athletic sponsorship

CASEY PARVINDaily Staff Writer

Against a rose-colored sunset, three boats full of Oklahoma Crew rowers glide through the river water at different paces. Between working on slow strokes, listening for their coach’s cor-rections and balancing the boat, the rowers work

up a sweat despite the 50 degree weather.“Even though I’m freezing on my launch

(miniature motorboat), the rowers are actually working out, so they end up sweating by the time they get off the water,” said head coach Heather Patterson.

Oklahoma Crew was established in 2001, but the team has steadily improved in the last four years, said assistant coach Drew Holliday. He and Patterson have put the team on the map, Holliday said.

The program is a club team, unlike OU’s varsity

women’s rowing team. The women’s varsity team is run by the OU Athletics Department.

To be a part of Oklahoma Crew, members must pay a $200 membership fee and also agree to raise $250 from outside sources, said Guy Martin, a rower for Oklahoma Crew.

“We are not an NCAA sport, so we don’t get the athletic funding,” said Martin, music junior and exchange student from England. “We get the majority of our money through fundraising. We

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sell water at the student football games. We also volunteer for security on game days, so all the money we earn working there goes straight back to Oklahoma Crew.”

Oklahoma Crew, which consists of both men and women rowers, will partic-ipate in a competition Sunday in Wichita, Kan. This will be the last competition in the head — or fall — season.

“There are three seasons in rowing,” Patterson said. “Head season lasts until the beginning of November, and is for training and recruiting. Winter season is vital to the sport because that’s when we do our major conditioning. Sprint season starts in the beginning of March and is our most important season. That’s when we do our full pressure, 2,000 meter races.”

The team will compete in eight events on Sunday, Patterson said.

Martin is a first-year rower on the team

this year.“Rowing is for people that are prepared

to make an athletic commitment,” Martin said. “We are honoring the people that came before us. We are Oklahoma Crew first and individual rowers second.”

Oklahoma Crew practices Monday through Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Chesapeake Boathouse on the Oklahoma River in Oklahoma City. The team carpools to-gether to practice, Martin said.

“We have to sacrifice some social time, but we are also making great friends through rowing,” Martin said. “The team bonds on and off the water.”

Oklahoma Crew is still recruiting nov-ice members, Patterson said.

If students are interested in join-ing, they can visit the Oklahoma Crew Facebook group or e-mail the club at [email protected], Martin said.

“I always encourage anyone with row-ing experience to join, but if someone just wants to learn a new sport, we will wel-come them too,” Patterson said.

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Wednesday from the Cabinet Room of the White House. Leaders from all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, including Director of National Intelligence Denny Blair, attended the announcement, Obama said, according to a transcript of the announcement.

“Our work is clear,” Obama said. “The [intelligence] organizations represented here have made real progress in recent years. But we all agree that more needs to be done — to improve the collection of intelligence, to ensure that analysis reaches senior decision-makers in a timely way, and to provide strong over-sight to ensure that our intelligence activities are consistent with our demo-cratic values and the rule of law.”

Rep. Tom Cole, R-Moore, said Obama’s selection of Boren was a good decision.

“David Boren is a brilliant leader with an impressive record of service to our nation,” Cole stated in an e-mail. “He has the know-how, the courage of con-viction and the seasoned experience to lead as co-chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. And he has the bipartisan credibility that it takes to generate understanding and support for American policy in a challenging era.”

Boren served in the U.S. Senate from 1979-1994. While in the Senate, he was the longest-serving chair of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (1986-1992). During his six years as chair, he wrote legislation to es-tablish an independent inspector gen-eral of the CIA and instituted major re-forms in the oversight of covert actions after the Iran-Contra affair, according to the release.

T h e P re s i d e n t ’s I n t e l l i g e n c e Oversight Board oversees the intelli-gence community’s compliance with the Constitution and all applicable laws, executive orders and presidential direc-tives, according to the White House’s Web site.

President Eisenhower created the board in 1956, according to the news release.

president, said she hopes this movie sets the stage for a nonviolent peace movement.

“We need to be more open-minded and see the other side,” Daitch said. “Both sides are scared of each other. I’m just waiting for

the day that a Martin Luther King or a Ghandi takes a stand for a nonvio-lent movement.”

Stone said tonight’s viewing will be a test screening for the directors.

“The directors will be there and they want to see how the audience is receiving the film. The actual pre-miere of the film is on Christmas Eve in Bethlehem,” Stone said.

SEASONSHead: From the beginning of September until the beginning of November — Time for team to train and recruit.Winter: Major conditioning season between head and sprint seasons — Vital to the sport.Sprint: Starts in the beginning of March — The major competition season for Oklahoma Crew.Source: Heather Patterson, Oklahoma Crew head coach

MONEY$200 membership fee, per person$250 in outside fundraising, per personAs a club sport, Oklahoma Crew does not receive funding from the OU Athletics DepartmentSource: Guy Martin, Oklahoma Crew rower

PRACTICE6 to 8 p.m. Monday-Thursday3 to 5 p.m. SundaySource: Guy Martin, Oklahoma Crew rower

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Tuesday’s edition of The Daily incorrectly stated the 10th anni-versary celebration of the Women’s Outreach Center will be held Thursday. The celebration will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5 in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s David L. Boren Lounge.

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FOUR STUDENTS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL

According to OU and Norman police reports, four students were taken to Norman Regional Hospital in the past fi ve days for drinking until they became unconscious.

According to Norman police reports, a student who lives in Couch Center was taken to the hospi-tal around 2:50 a.m. Thursday. Two other students living in Couch Center also required hospitalization for alcohol issues Monday morning, according to Norman police reports. A student who lives in Walker Center was also taken to the hospital around 9:45 p.m. Friday, according to a Norman police report.

OU Police also found marijuana and drug para-phernalia hidden in the garden north of Couch Center Tuesday, an OUPD report stated.

BEER THEFT LEADS TO ASSAULT AND BATTERY

Norman Police are investigating a beer theft that led to an assault and battery with a deadly weapon.

According to a Norman police report, two men walked into the CITGO Kwick Stop at 2401 E. Imhoff Road and stole $55 of beer. When the store cashier witnessed the theft, the cashier chased the two men out of the store.

The two men, already in their vehicle, hit the cashier with their car and drove away, the report stated.

The vehicle is described to be a blue ‘80s model four-door car with a crack in the windshield.

KGOU TRANSMITTER BURGLARIZED

OU Police are investigating who broke into the KGOU transmitter building, an OUPD report stated.

According to the report, the KGOU transmitter located at 5300 E. Indian Hills Road was burglar-ized Monday night.

OU Police have no suspects at this time, the OU Police report stated.

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New social networking tool makes plans easier

JORDYN GIDDENSDaily Staff Writer

Facebook and Twitter have dominated the social networking mainstream for a while now. There is a new service joining the scene.

The challenger’s name: FourSquare.Users of FourSquare can send in “check-

ins” from their mobile phones, keeping friends informed on their location.

“Whenever I go out, I always post it up on

FourSquare. That way no one feels left out,” said Kaylee Johnson, University College fresh-man. “Anyone who is my friend can see where I’m at and if I’m open to company.”

The Web site, www.foursquare.com, also offers the chance for users to read and write reviews of bars, clubs, and restaurants in their area. The mobile applications even make suggestions for other places to visit based on past locations.

The more places a FourSquare user goes to and writes reviews for earns him or her more points. The points can then be turned into badges, such as the “Crunked” badge

or the “Player Please!” badge to display on one’s Web page.

When a user has visited a certain place more than any other user, he or she becomes the “mayor” of that place.

“I’m working really hard to become the mayor of this coffee house near my home-town,” said C.R. Reed, University College freshman. “If I make mayor I get free coffee, and you just can’t pass that up.”

FourSquare is mainly for people living in large cities, but users from small towns may find the network useful during trips to the city and on vacations.

“I’m from Lawton, and it isn’t listed on the site,” said Kayla Weaver, University College freshman. “This summer, though, my fam-ily went to Kansas City on vacation and FourSquare made the trip really fun. We went to a lot of places we would have never found on our own.”

FourSquare is not only a great way to dis-cover new hangouts, it is also an excellent way to learn about your friends.

“It’s way easier to make plans with friends now that I know where they like to go,” said Johnson. “I would definitely recommend everyone give FourSquare a try.”

FourSquare begins to emerge in a Facebook and Twitter world

JARED RADERThe Oklahoma Daily

Dr. Alan Blum, director of the Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society at the University of Alabama presented “A Call to Action: Countering Tobacco Industry Tactics” at the OU College of Public Health Wednesday.

He later spoke to The Daily’s Jared Rader about a recent court decision against the tobacco indus-try, and where his struggle against tobacco use is headed.

Q: What is the significance of the federal court decision find-ing tobacco companies guilty of racketeering being upheld on appeal?

A: “People who have been fight-ing against tobacco companies have been fighting against a rogue industry. Tobacco companies were convicted in a federal court of racketeering. Judge Gladys Kessler found them guilty in a 2006 in U.S. Justice Department case, and this year, a federal ap-peals court upheld the ruling that they were guilty of racketeering for 50 years.

“Cigarettes are consumer fraud. That means tobacco companies are perpetrating fraud on the pub-lic. That’s why it’s a different game. Now the industry can’t say we need more research.

“Soon, we’re going to see how lobbyists do representing people who were convicted in court of law. If a lobbyist is representing a health organization, we’re going to take a look at what they’re representing. We’re going to take a much closer

look at the people representing the tobacco industry, because they’re not representing the health insur-ance of Oklahomans.”

Q: Aren’t many companies guilty of lying?

A: “The difference is tobacco companies were found guilty in a court of law of lying over a 50-year period. We’re talking about an issue of fraud. It matters that from now on, when you talk about tobacco companies, you’re talking about people who have been found guilty of racketeering. ... People should know what the cigarette industry really is, and I am no longer going to be able to be sued for libel for saying that. We can no longer af-ford the luxury of having cigarette companies being treated like any

other industry with health costs rising as they are.”

Q: Why is tobacco use still a pandemic?

A: “Basically 45 years after the surgeon general’s report, which was supposed to mark the end of doubt on the effects of smoking, we’re still begging the state legisla-ture to pass pre-emption. The state can pre-empt any local community to pass a bill combating tobacco use. The state says the community can’t be stronger than the state, and that weakens the opportunity for a community to go further.

“We had 15 million people smoking in 1964 and we still have 15 million people smoking today, and we have younger groups smoking today than ever before.

People aged 21-35 have not had a leveling off, but an increase in tobacco use. College students are heavily marketed to in clubs, on Internet sites, etc. College stu-dents are even being recruited by the tobacco industry to be ciga-rette vendors at their fraternities. They used to be focusing a lot on children, now they focus much more on people ages 21-35.

“Tobacco companies have been on upwards of 35 campuses across the country at career fairs, and when students are looking for jobs, they’re big employers. Universities that host tobacco industries are part of the problem.”

Q: What can health care and public health care practitioners do to fight the tobacco industry?

A: “I think we’ve got to look at the allies of tobacco indus-try in 2009 and say enough is enough for the legislature, or a university, or any other legiti-mate pharmaceutical company to be working hand-in-hand with tobacco industry. It’s like the detective taking money from the mob for a [legislator] to take money from a cigarette company in 2009. Smoking is the lead-ing cause of death that is pre-ventable in society. I feel health forces in Oklahoma are rising up and make a point singling out the nine lobbyists who are lobbying the Oklahoma legislature. We call them the ‘Nincompoop Nine.’

“I think you’re going to see a real stepping up of activism from pub-lic health physicians and the com-munity. This is an industry that has [gotten] away with murder for too

long, and pharmaceutical chains still selling tobacco products along-side health products will be called out for their irresponsibility. It’s not OK to just beat up on big tobacco; you also have to tackle those com-panies that work hand-in-hand with them. We need to ostracize tobacco industries and ostracize legislators of other institutions who accept money from the tobacco industry.”

Q: How will we get to zero tol-erance for secondhand tobacco smoke pollution in workplaces?

A: “Education is going to come about and people are going to take a look at and realize it’s not a mat-ter of freedom of choice; it’s a mat-ter of how freedom of choice can affect another person. And I don’t think people who smoke have been properly educated either. Students might think it’s safer to smoke fil-tered cigarettes, but the filter is just another product, it isn’t safe. We need to do a better job of educating people.”

Q: What is the behavior of tobac-co industries today? And what will it be tomorrow?

A: ”Their behavior is to let lobby-ists handle everything. They fund supported FDA regulations that are just full of loopholes, and they are sitting in the driver’s seat today. They are still an extremely power-ful industry, paying legislators and lobbyists.

“I think we can finally defeat them, but we are many, many years too late. Cigarette companies are going to get sick and die, but right now, we still haven’t defeated them.”

TOBACCO COMPANIES FACE OPPOSITION, COURT FIGHTS INDUSTRY

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Dr. Alan Blum, director of the Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, speaks about society’s use of tobacco. Blum said the United States has known about the dangers of tobacco use since the early 1900s.

On Oct. 6, U.S. Sens. James Inhofe and Tom Coburn, both Republicans from Oklahoma, along with 28 other

Republican senators and no Democrats, v o t e d a g a i n s t D e m o c r a t i c S e n . A l F r a n k e n ’s p r o -p o s e d a m e n d m e nt to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill; appropriately nick-named the anti-rape amendment.

Stil l , the amend-ment passed 68 to 30.

In 2005, Jamie Jones was an employ-ee of KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, which uses tax dollars to do contractor work in Iraq. While working in Baghdad, Jones was drugged by her co-workers, gang-raped, brutally beaten and then locked in a shipping container for more than 24 hours without food or water.

We all recognize the horror of what happened to Jones, but what makes it worse is that this is not an isolated incident.

When Jones returned from Iraq, she learned in the fine print of her KBR con-tract that she’d signed away her right to sue KBR and those who’d injured her. Arbitration was the only recourse offered by her contract.

KBR almost always won the cases it arbitrated.

This has led to a culture of impunity. KBR employees are not worried about raping women they work with because KBR will protect them with contracts and expensive lawyers.

Sen. Franken’s amendment would

deny defense contracts to companies like KBR that prevent their employees from going to civil courts for issues of sexual assault, battery and discrimina-tion. Mind you, the U.S. already has all of these laws to protect its citizens, but cor-porations like KBR don’t want to be held liable for them outside the country, even when they’re being paid by this country.

I don’t understand why anyone would vote against this, much less three-fourths of the Republican Party, especially our “family first” Oklahoma senators.

So I called Sen. Inhofe’s office and asked. I spoke to three of the senator’s aids. Each told me Inhofe voted against this bill because it’s too broad, espe-cially with the part about discrimination.

T h e a m e n d m e n t brings up discrimination in terms of Title 7 from the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

I asked what specifi-cally should have been removed from the part about discrimination or the amendment in gen-eral; the aid didn’t answer the question.

The aid said the senator didn’t like how Jones was being used to gain sup-port for the amendment.

Jones said the amendment passing the Senate “means the world to me.” She ob-viously doesn’t have a problem with her story being used to prevent rape. It’s Sen. Inhofe who has a problem with it.

The aid explained how these liberal senators don’t like arbitration; that this amendment is an attack on business arbitration and a line has to be drawn.

However, the aid also told me there was no part of this amendment preventing arbitration; it just ensures that is not the only option.

This, obviously, doesn’t make any sense.

Justice for rape, abuse and discrimina-tion are basic family values.

So, how could so many senators who campaign on “family values” vote against this?

I a s k e d . I d i d n ’ t g e t a s e r i o u s response.

This amendment forced the GOP to choose between two of its favorite things; family values and preventing government interference with business’

interests. Three-fourths of the GOP, both of our senators included, chose business.

In part because of the publicity of Jones’ story, civi l courts are now hearing Jones’ case; one of the rapists is on trial. The other rapists have not been identified and are more than likely still

working for KBR in Iraq.Women who work for KBR are in dan-

ger, and there is no support from our senators to protect them.

They actually are fighting against this amendment, against their protection.

Our senators don’t want these rapists tried in court.

I have never been so ashamed of the people who are supposed to represent me and my state.

Max Avery is a political science and history senior.

MAX AVERY

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COMMENT OF THE DAY »In response to Jon Malone’s Wednesday column, “Obama administration not handling criticism well”

“Perhaps the author can also explain why the Bush admin-istration frequently boycotted the New York Times, blaming the times for “liberal” bias. At least the NYT is a real news source and not a whiny propa-ganda machine that cries to their mommies every time they

don’t get invited to the White House.”

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Okla. senators vote against family values

To the editor,At some point in the distant past, student govern-

ment used to welcome the involvement of average students. If you were unhappy with the way things were going on campus, if you didn’t like the parking system or the fi nancial aid process, if you didn’t think it was right that student leaders never did anything about the dead week or the sexual orientation refer-endums that the student body passed by overwhelm-ing majorities, you could pick up an application in the student government offi ce, fi nd a running mate, collect enough signatures and run for student body president.

You may not necessarily have had a very good chance of being successful. But, it was your student government, and you could always put your money where your mouth was and try to make a difference at OU.

However, that all changed when Jason Robison got into Student Congress during the unpublicized, uncontested “elections” which occurred at the end of last year. He’s authored the “nobody but us” rule which says, in effect, that if you wanted to run for student body president this year you’d better have already been involved in student government because “nobody but us” can run anymore.

It’s a sad day when people who were never elected start telling the student body that they’re going to have to pick their leaders from among them because they’ve somehow gotten “dibs” on everything in the future by keeping the fi ling period a secret.

In the fi rst fi ve sentences of its constitution, the student association claims three times that students can participate in “any level” of student government. But, I ask you, is that really the case? If the aver-age student can’t even hold an offi ce, then does that offi ce really even represent them anymore?

Nicholas Harrison JD/MBA student

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

There has been a lot of discussion lately regarding climate change. I think this is great, and we need to have more, but I would like to identify one issue that is continually perpetuated in the debate that I feel is unwarranted.

This issue is the inability of science to prove climate change is impacted by humans. Sen. Jim Inhofe, our “environmental” representative, has repeatedly voiced his doubt of the science and predicted outcomes regarding climate change. His spokesperson claims that scientists are merely trying to politicize the issue.

I feel nothing could be further from the truth. Actually, I submit that Sen. Inhofe is in fact the one politicizing the issue. After all, that’s kind of his job.

His spokesperson claims that the science behind climate change is based off of unproven models, and the predictions are exaggerated. Well, a good major-ity of science is based off of models as it is currently impossible to predict the future, and this science is accepted by an international panel of over 2000 scientists, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

What will happen in the future though, ultimately comes down to four scenarios: 1. We don’t do any-thing about climate change, and catastrophic events occur. Whoops!

2. We don’t do anything about climate change, and nothing happens. No harm, no foul.

3. We do something about climate change, and catastrophic events occur, but we’re prepared

4. We do something about climate change, and nothing happens. We live in a cleaner, more techno-logically advanced world.

Ask yourself which scenario you want your kids to live with and whether so called climate change skeptics are truly concerned with the future of the human race.

Danny TerlipElectrical engineering senior

Justice for rape, abuse and discrimination are basic family values. So, how could so many senators who campaign on “family values” vote against this?

During the UOSA fall general elections on Nov. 10 and 11, students will have a say in whether or not another fee is added to the list of costs already paid to attend OU (see page 1 for details). The fee, which would cost students $2 per semester, would help pay for financially strained students to study abroad.

At first glance this may seem like an addi-tional fee for cash-strapped students, but we encourage members of the OU community to approve this one.

First of all, $2 per semester is not a

significant financial burden. Of course all students are in different financial situations, and to some, even a small fee may be tough to swallow. But compared to many of the fees students must pay, this one is relatively small. It’s only $16 over four years.

Second, the money would be collected for a great cause. The opportunity to study abroad is one every student should have. But it can be hard to pay for, especially for stu-dents who are in a tough financial situation. If this fee gets approved, it would help alle-viate the financial strain for some students

who want to study abroad but could not af-ford to.

Some who oppose the passage of this fee might say they don’t want to pay more money to OU, especially if the money they pay does not directly benefit them.

Why should more affluent students pay to allow students with less financial security to study abroad?

Well, we believe we are all members of the OU community, and we should help one another out. This fee would provide an op-portunity to do this.

Finally, we are in favor of this fee because it would help solidify a legacy of significant study abroad opportunities at OU.

President David Boren has done a lot to improve OU’s study abroad program. But Boren will not be here forever, and we don’t know who the next president of OU will be, let alone his or her attitude about studying abroad.

If this fee were passed, we would know there is a future for OU students to study abroad. The money would already be there.

Students should approve study abroad fee in November elections

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“It is a good idea. Students want to study abroad, so why not help them? If I wanted to study abroad, I would hope that someone would help me.”

-KATHY LOPEZ, MICROBIOLOGY SOPHOMORE

“I think it’s good if it helps people who can’t afford to go. This would make it more likely for me to study abroad.”

-JAMIE TACKER, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FRESHMAN

“If we’re going to have an increase in tuition, it is a good way to spend it. Even students who can’t afford it should be able to study abroad.”

-ASHLEY HAINES, PSYCHOLOGY JUNIOR

“I think we have an excellent study abroad program and I’m all about supporting it.”

-CHELSEA MOONEYHAN, ZOOLOGY JUNIOR

“With all the fees we already pay, I’m indifferent to where our fees go. I’m used to pay-ing them.”

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THE DAILY’S JACQUELINE JOHNSRUD ASKED STUDENTS, “THE UOSA IS CONSIDERING A $2 FEE PER STUDENT TO GO INTO A STUDY ABROAD FUND FOR STUDENTS WHO CAN’T AFFORD TO STUDY ABROAD. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS AS A STUDENT?”

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Life-long love of sports leads OU student to wheelchair basketballAdaptive Sports Club provides

opportunities for students with

physical disabilities

CAITLIN HARRISONThe Oklahoma Daily

After a three-story fall left him in a wheel-chair four years ago, Jordan Gingrich never thought he would play sports again.

That changed when he came to OU in 2007.

Gingrich plays wheelchair basketball with a Norman city team and is part of OU’s Adaptive Sports Club, a 12-member student organization that brings together students with an interest in sports regardless of their physical abilities.

“It kind of enables people with physical disabilities to have something to do,” said Gingrich, business management senior. “It gives us a chance to get together, have a club and play.”

Gingrich, who is also the club’s presi-dent, said the organization consists of both

disabled and able-bodied students, and membership is open to anyone. He said only he and one other club member, Marcus Brown, are disabled.

Gingrich said he has been playing basket-ball since he was old enough to dribble a ball, and always loved sports in high school, in-cluding track and cross country.

“It ’s just the competitiveness,” G i n g r i c h s a i d . “I’ve been play-ing in sports my entire life, espe-cially having an older brother who was pretty good at sports himself. Even if I play video games, I don’t like to lose. Just whatever it is, I like to do as good as I can.”

Shooting fundamentals and strategy are essentially the same in wheelchair basket-ball as they are in the able-bodied version, he said.

“The hardest part is just chair position-ing,” Gingrich said. “That’s what gave me the biggest problems [was] learning where to put my chair.”

Gingrich and Brown initially played for OU’s wheelchair basketball team, which stopped competing as a university team in

2007 when several students trans-ferred or gradu-ated and student i nt e re s t i n t h e team declined.

The pair now p l a y s w h e e l -chair basketball through a Norman city team instead, not the club itself,

said Garry Armstrong, club adviser. They are the only members of the OU Adaptive Sports Club who play wheelchair basketball, he said.

“The people get to be part of their organi-zation are friends who want to help them,” Armstrong said. “We have people come keep

score for us [and] help out with fundraising.”Armstrong said the club does its own

fundraising for traveling money and other expenses. It does not receive funding from the university.

Wheelchair basketball players need not necessarily be in a wheelchair, Armstrong said. He said anyone with a physical disabil-ity, such as a knee injury or birth defect, likely meets the requirements to play.

Gingrich said his team practices at a bas-ketball court at Max Westheimer Airport, and the season began about two weeks ago and continues through March. They will play other college teams in about six to nine tournaments this season from locations like Arkansas, Stillwater, Kansas and Nebraska.

Gingrich said he loves playing wheelchair basketball, and that being in a wheelchair has opened his eyes to many different sports opportunities he was unaware of before.

“They’re just coming up with all kinds of different ways to play sports,” Gingrich said. “You happen to be in that situation, and you’re like, ‘Wow, there’s all kinds of opportunities.’”

“They’re just coming up with all kinds of different ways to play sports. You happen to be in that situation, and you’re like, ‘Wow, there’s all kinds of opportunities.’”

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DALLAS — American Airlines will close a maintenance base in Kansas City, Mo., and shrink other repair shops next September as the slump in travel leaves fewer planes to maintain.

The moves will eliminate up to 700 jobs nationwide, about 5 per-cent of American’s maintenance work force, the company said Wednesday.

Maintenance senior vice presi-dent Carmine J. Romano said in a letter to employees that the clo-sures were “a difficult but impor-tant step” to reduce maintenance operations as American cuts back on flights due to the yearlong slump in travel.

American also has major main-tenance bases in Tulsa, and Fort Worth, Texas. It has considered closing one of the bases for several years, but held off after picking up work on other airlines’ planes in Tulsa.

The airline said Wednesday that by next September it will also close smaller maintenance stations at airports in Kansas City, Detroit, Minneapolis and San Jose, Calif., and shrink stations in St. Louis — where it is sharply cutting flights — and San Francisco.

American’s fleet has dwindled from more than 900 planes to

about 600 over the past decade as it has been rocked by the 2001 ter-ror attacks, two recessions, more competition from low-fare carri-ers, and a sharp decline in busi-ness travel.

American parent AMR Corp., based in Fort Worth, has lost $1.1 billion so far this year after losing $2.1 billion last year. Revenue is down 19 percent this year.

American officials said they tried

to keep the Kansas City base open by finding work repairing planes for other airlines. Spokesman Tim Wagner said the company had made about a dozen bids in the past 10 months, but “we just didn’t win any of them because our labor costs are too high compared to off-shore” shops.

The airline signed a 25-year lease on the building in 2005 that called for annual rent of $1 million,

with the payments rising if em-ployment fell below 700 workers. The city was to issue at least $40 million in bonds for renovations, with another $37 million in bonds available if American needed fu-ture upgrades.

Mayor Mark Funkhouser said he didn’t blame American for leaving — “We understand in this recession these sorts of things will happen” — but the city ex-pects American to honor lease payments of more than $1 mil-lion a year through 2029. He said American wasn’t violating terms of the incentives by leaving.

The huge, saddle-shaped build-ing has been an economic fixture in Kansas City since the 1950s and was operated by TWA before AMR bought that airline out of bank-ruptcy in early 2001. At its peak, be-fore TWA began its death spiral, the base employed 10,000 workers, but that is down to about 500 now.

The beneficiary of the Kansas City closure could be Tulsa, where American has about 7,000 workers. The airline recently opened a new maintenance hangar there.

American executives sug-gested this spr ing that they might not need three big main-tenance bases. Local leaders of the Transport Workers Union,

which represents American’s mechanics, had acknowledged that because of its smaller size, the Kansas City base could be a candidate for closure.

The Transport Workers Union has had friendlier dealings with American than have pilots and flight attendants, and union lead-ers were muted in their criticism of American. They blamed the closures on factors from cut-throat competition to airline deregulation.

John M. Conley, an official with the union, said he hoped the air-line industry would rebound by September so the workers could find other jobs at American.

The airline offered severance payments of $12,500 for experi-enced employees in Kansas City and St. Louis who quit before next September.

Frank Lenk, research director for the Mid-America Regional Council in Kansas City, said the loss of the base will have a big effect on the area because it brought high-pay-ing jobs and created sales for sup-pliers in the region.

Lenk estimated that each job lost at the base will cost two or three other jobs at suppliers and local businesses.—AP

American Airlines will close Kansas City base

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Corie Geller checks in for her flight to Kansas City with her dog Rocky in tow, at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. A dog or cat can travel with you in your cabin, but it is going to cost you. You’ll pay even more on some airlines if you check your pet so it is secured in the belly of the plane where checked luggage is held.

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HASKELL CO. SEEKS REVIEW OF 10 COMMANDMENTS RULING

OKLAHOMA CITY — Attorneys for Haskell County commissioners are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling that a Ten Commandments monu-ment on the courthouse lawn in Stigler was uncon-stitutional.

Attorneys with the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund on Wednesday asked for the review.

Appellate judges with a federal appeals court in June agreed with the American Civil Liberties Union and a local resident that the monument violates the Constitution because its primary effect is to endorse religion. After the commissioners asked the full court to reconsider the decision of the three-judge panel, the judges split 6-6 on July 30, falling short of the necessary seven votes needed to overturn the ruling.

SENATOR CALLS OKLA. ROADS ‘LIFE THREATENING’

OKLAHOMA CITY — The poor state of Oklahoma’s bridges and roads is “life threatening,” and the state can’t afford Congressional bickering that threatens to block federal aid for improvements, Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe said Wednesday.

“We have bridges in Oklahoma that are crum-bling and falling down. People could be hurt,” said Inhofe, the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which has a Friday deadline for reauthorizing spending on road and bridge projects.

Oklahoma could lose up to $30 million if Congress doesn’t act, he said.

“We have to do this,” Inhofe said. “That’s what we are supposed to be doing here.

“Any government that can spend $700 billion to

bail out banks shouldn’t be having the problems that we’re having,” Inhofe said.

Inhofe voted against a $700 billion bank bail-out bill approved during former President George W. Bush’s last year in offi ce.

He spoke Wednesday by telephone from Washington after Oklahoma transportation offi -cials expressed concern about declining federal support for Oklahoma’s road and bridge projects. Oklahoma offi cials say plans to repair or replace hundreds of obsolete bridges and thousands of miles of defective roads will be delayed without federal aid.

ADA PARENT TAKES SON FROM SCHOOL OVER PUNISHMENT

ADA — A woman who took her sixth-grade son out of an Ada elementary school because of how he

was punished says she’s ready to take him back to classes.

Amy Caton says her 12-year-old son Jonathan was told to stand facing the brick school building at Willard Grade Center during recess on Oct. 20. The punishment was for failing to turn in a home-work assignment.

Caton calls the punishment humiliating and disgusting and says neither she nor her son were given an alternative until she raised questions. She says she was assured Tuesday the policy will be re-evaluated and she plans to take her son back to school Wednesday.

School Principal Kevin Mann could not be reached for comment. Ada Superintendent Pat Harrison said Monday the policy had not been questioned before. Harrison could not be reached for comment after Tuesday’s meeting with Caton.

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OU VOLLEYBALL PICKS UP WIN AT HOME

BRADFORD’S SURGERY LABELED A SUCCESS Heisman-winner Sam Bradford’s surgery this morning was a success, according to a press release. Dr. James Andrew performed the surgery in Birmingham, Ala., and Bradford’s father, Kent Bradford, watched part of the surgery. “Dr. Andrews said it was just as we expected,” Kent said in the press release. “It looked great in the end and everyone seems to feel very good about it.” Bradford’s surgery started at 10:10 a.m. and he was in recovery by 12:15 p.m., and his father said he is resting comfortably even though he has some soreness. Bradford went through a limited exercise ses-

sion Wednesday, and will return to Oklahoma within the next 24-48 hours. “The report we got was that everything went about as well as it could and obviously we’re very happy for Sam and his family,” head coach Bob Stoops said. “We look forward to getting him back in Norman so that we can assist with his recovery and rehabilitation.” Bradford has already announced plans to enter April’s National Football League Draft, and will be with on the sideline with the team for the rest of the season. -Jono Greco/The Daily

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JAMES CORLEYDaily Staff Writer

The Sooners survived a sluggish start to sweep the Colorado Buffaloes Wednesday at McCasland Field House [25-20, 25-12, 25-16].

OU was out of sync at the beginning of the opening set, struggling to find a rhythm. Colorado jumped to a 4-1 lead, but the Sooners brought it to a tie behind a flurry of Colorado errors.

The teams played a slow first set that featured several long rallies. Both teams attacked back and forth with little success, and the offenses struggled to produce kills and committed multiple errors to keep the game close. The Sooners eventu-ally settled down and closed the set 25-20.

“The beginning wasn’t as sharp, but that’s going to happen,” head coach Santiago Restrepo said. “We’re just fortunate that we decided to crank it and to play better right away instead of waiting one set or two.”

The second set was all Sooners. OU had a .433 attack per-centage while holding the Buffaloes to just a .030 clip. Redshirt junior middle blocker Francie Ekwerekwu was a perfect 3-for-3 in the set, helping the Sooners to a 25-12 win.

OU completed the sweep with a 25-16 win that gave signifi-cant playing time to Sooner bench players. Senior outside hit-ter Jackie Fotu and freshman outside hitter Morgan Reynolds each had three kills and one block assist in the set. Junior mid-dle blocker Chrissy Disarro also played most of the last set.

“Every game is important, every win is important,” Ekwerekwu said.

The match was less intense than the previous several games, allowing the Sooners to take a breather and just have fun.

“It was just a load off our shoulders,” said sophomore right side Suzy Boulavsky. “The last five games have just been a dogfight.”

Boulavsky led the Sooners offensively with 10 kills and added six digs. Junior middle blocker Sarah Freudenrich had seven kills, one solo block and three block assists. Sophomore outside hitter Caitlin Higgins added six kills and 10 digs, and

senior outside hitter Bridget Laplante had four kills and 10 digs.

Ekwerekwu finished with six kills and a .857 attack percent-age, completing six of her seven attempts.

“[Ekwerekwu] had success against this team when we won in [Boulder],” Restrepo said. “She feels very comfortable at-tacking their defense.”

The Sooners finished with a team attack percentage of .343.

Sophomore setter Brianne Barker grabbed her 18th double-double this season by notching 31 assists and a team-high 11 digs. Freshman libero María Fernanda had three service aces for OU and added nine digs.

OU edged the Buffaloes in digs 49-47, and the Sooners won

the defensive battle by holding Colorado to a .090 attack per-centage in the match.

Colorado committed 20 attack errors and nine service er-rors in the match, while the Sooners only committed seven attack errors and eight service errors. With Baylor and Texas A&M losing Wednesday night, the Sooners (14-7, 7-5) move into a tie for fourth in the Big 12 with the Bears.

“We’ve got to continue playing very tough in the conference, because on any given night anybody could beat anybody,” Restrepo said. “We have to take care of business, regardless of what everybody else is doing in the standings.”

OU needs just one more win to guarantee a winning sea-son this year. The Sooners could get that win when they host Kansas State Saturday at 2 p.m.

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Freshman libero Maria Fernanda dives for the ball during the Sooners match against Colorado Wednesday night. The Sooners won the game in three sets and the team has won three of its last four games on the season.

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The Sooners have had many ups and downs this year, however there has been one constant for the team and that is the defense.

The Sooners’ defense has really played well for the entire season, even in their three losses this year. On Saturday, the Sooners will face Kansas State and with the news of quarterback Sam Bradford being done for the rest of the season due to injury, the Sooners defense will have to continue its strong play.

Kansas State has changed quite a bit from a year ago. The Wildcats lost their star quarterback Josh Freeman to the NFL and have changed their style of play from a passing game to more of a run-

ning oriented game, and it is a good one at that.“They are a physical team, a lot of downhill and two

back sets,” said defensive coordinator Brent Venables. “They don’t make a lot of mistakes, they’re tied for lead in turnover margin.”

The key for the Sooners is going to be stopping the running game of junior running back Daniel Thomas. Thomas is having a great year. He has already rushed for 814 yards and is averaging just under five yards per carry. In every game the Wildcats have won this year Thomas has rushed for at least 90 yards. If the Sooners can con-tain Thomas they will have a good chance of winning the game.

“I didn’t know [Thomas] was that good, you wouldn’t expect that from K-State,” said defensive linemen Gerald McCoy. “They run the ball pretty well, and they play very well up front. They are very physical.”

The Sooners front four, which has been the highest point of the defense this year, will have to be able to get into the backfield and bring down the running game early.

If the Sooners do allow Thomas and the Wildcats to establish the run game the Sooners will face the same situation they did when they played Miami. The Sooners cannot allow the Wildcats to run the ball on first and sec-ond down and set up manageable third down situation. If they do it will be very hard for the defense to get off the field.

“We have to get in our run-fense and be able to tackle in space,” said defensive back Dominique Franks. “There

are going to have good schemes for us but we just have to be patient and we will be okay.”

The Sooners defense has seemed to find its stride; they continue to improve every week. The Sooners will have to continue to improve this Saturday if they want to make it their second straight victory against Big 12 North teams.

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Junior defensive tackle Adrian Taylor (86) sacks Kansas quarterback Matt Ressing during Saturday’s game in Lawrence, Kansas. The defensive performance helped the Sooners secure a 35-13 win over the Jayhawks.

WASHINGTON — When a recent study con-ducted for the NFL suggested that retired pro football players may have a higher rate than normal of Alzheimer's disease or other mem-ory afflictions, the NFL was quick to point out that the study did not prove a link between concussions and memory disorders.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was to tell Congress on Wednesday that while the research by the University of Michigan was "a telephone survey and not a true medical diag-nosis," the number of players reporting mem-ory-related problems is a concern. In written testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, he said the NFL will offer free follow-up medi-cal work to 56 players who reported dementia,

Alzheimer's disease or other memory-related problems in the survey.

Goodell said the league also will reach out to the players to see whether they are receiv-ing money from the 88 Plan, which provides up to $88,000 a year to former players suffering from dementia, Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, regardless of the cause. A copy of Goodell's testimony was obtained late Tuesday by The Associated Press.

The study's lead author, David Weir, who is among the witnesses for Wednesday's hearing, has said the results show the topic is worth further study but they do not prove a link between playing football and later mental troubles.

"We have directed Dr. Weir to contact in a confidential manner those 56 former play-ers and their families who reported memory problems to see if they are receiving 88 Plan funding and offer them the opportunity to have follow-up medical work done at our expense," Goodell said. "That process has al-ready begun."

Goodell said the health and welfare of all members of the "NFL family, particularly our retired players," is important to him. "Since becoming commissioner, I can think of no single issue to which I have devoted as much time and attention."

As for head injuries specifically, he said medical considerations must always trump

competitive ones, and that the league has es-tablished a toll-free hot line for players if they believe they're being pressured to return to the field before fully recovering from a con-cussion or other head injury.

“All return-to-play decisions are made by doctors and doctors only," the commissioner said. "The decision to return to the game is not made by coaches. Not by players. Not by teammates."

He also pointed to changes in rules aimed at reducing contact to the head and neck, the development of improved helmets, research and education.

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ELDORADO, Texas — A 38-year-old man from a polygamist sect sexually assaulted a teenager less than half his age at the Yearning For Zion Ranch, a prosecutor charged Wednesday to open the first criminal trial since the ranch was raided.

An attorney for defendant Raymond Jessop disputed the allegation, telling jurors there is no evidence Jessop sexually assault-ed the girl in Schleicher County. The location is critical, since prosecutors must prove they have the jurisdiction to prosecute the alleged crimes.

Jessop was one of 12 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints charged after authorities raided the ranch last year and swept 439 chil-dren into foster care. The children were later returned to their parents after an appellate court intervened, but documents and DNA seized during the raid resulted in criminal indictments on charges ranging from failure to report child abuse to sexual assault and bigamy.

All the men will be tried separately.Both sides presented opening statements

Wednesday evening in Jessop’s case after 12 jurors — seven men and five women — were culled from a pool of 300, the largest ever called in this tiny county 200 miles northwest of San Antonio.

Assistant Attorney General Eric Nichols said Jessop was 33 when he had sex a 16-year-old girl, who later gave birth to a daughter. Under Texas law, generally, no one under 17 can consent to sex with adult. Nichols did not discuss the relationship between the two in his opening statement, but prosecutors

have said in court documents the teen is one of Jessop’s nine wives. Jessop has also been indicted on a bigamy charge that will be tried later.

“You will see evidence that establishes that this offense — the offense of sexual as-sault of (the teen) — occurred just down the road from this courthouse at the YFZ Ranch,” Nichols told jurors.

Defense attorney Mark Stevens said pros-ecutors would not be able to show evidence of a crime occurring in Texas, and he urged jurors not to be distracted by the alleged po-lygamy or the religious beliefs Jessop and the church. Broadcast images of women from the church wearing prairie dresses and dis-tinctive braids were impossible to ignore during the weeklong raid in April 2008.

“We don’t try people because of their hair-styles or their clothes. We don’t try people because of their religious practices,” Stevens said. “We try people based on evidence, facts and proof.”

Testimony in the case is scheduled to begin Thursday. Nichols had previously said the trial would take about two weeks. Prosecutors have prepared to call dozens of witnesses, including law enforcement officials, child welfare workers and church members.

The FLDS is a breakaway sect that is not recognized by the Mormon church. It has historically been based along the Arizona-Utah border, but church members bought a 1,700-acre ranch outside Eldorado about six years ago and began building log cabin-style homes and a four-story limestone temple that is visible from the highway that run’s through the town of about 2,000 people.

Sect Leader Warren Jeffs was arrested in 2006 and convicted as an accomplice to rape in Utah for arranging an underage marriage there. He awaits trial on similar charges in Arizona before he can be tried for sexual as-sault of a child and bigamy in Texas.

Fearing possible prosecution for underage marriages, Jeffs allegedly advised Jessop not to take the 16 year old to the hospital even though she was struggling for days in child labor. One of Jeffs’ daughters allegedly mar-ried Jessop at age 15 and is the focus of the separate bigamy indictment.

The Mormon church, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, renounced po-lygamy more than a century ago.—AP

PROSECUTOR: POLYGAMIST SECT MAN ASSAULTED TEEN

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Raymond Jessop, center, the first man to face criminal charges following the raid of a polygamist sect’s West Texas ranch, prepares to go through security as he returns to the courtroom during a recess in the second day of jury selection of his trial in Eldorado, Texas on Tuesday.

Cuba’s Foreign Minister says ready for talks with US UNITED NATIONS — Cuba

is willing to hold talks with the United States “on any level,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said Wednesday in conciliatory remarks aimed at the Obama administration.

Rodriguez said in an interview with The Associated Press the is-land nation was waiting for a re-sponse from Washington to Cuba’s offer to broaden discussions.

His comments came despite a testy exchange between the top Cuban diplomat and a senior U.S. official just before the U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn America’s 47-year trade embargo.

This year’s U.N. vote was 187-3 in opposition to the embargo, up

from 185-3 last year, with only Israel and the tiny Pacific island na-tion of Palau supporting the United States. Micronesia and the Marshall Islands abstained both years.

It was the 18th year in a row that the General Assembly has taken up the symbolic measure, and the first since President Barack Obama took office in January, promising to extend a hand of friendship to Washington’s traditional enemies.

That change in approach has been noticed by Havana, Rodriguez said.

“We are prepared to have a dia-logue with the government of the United States at any level,” the for-eign minister told AP after the vote, adding that such talks must be held on the basis of mutual respect and sovereignty.

He reiterated that Cuba formally offered in July to hold expanded talks with the United States to co-operate in combatting terrorism and drug trafficking, and to work together to fight natural disasters, among other things.

“We are waiting for the North American response,” Rodriguez said. He also said Cuba has been pleased by progress of ongoing talks on migration and re-estab-lishing direct mail service. He called those discussions “produc-tive and respectful.”

“The blockade is an uncul-tured act of arrogance,” Rodriguez said. He likened the policy to “an act of genocide” that is “ethically unacceptable.”—AP

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A man repairs shoes inside an old building in Havana, Wednesday. The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly condemned the 47-year U.S. trade embargo on Cuba.

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First rule, no purchased costumes are allowed.

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outfit on something, or someone, in pop culture.

Connect on a few key points and you are on your way to being current and creative.

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You can craft one of her bizarre dresses using a few pieces of card-board, glitter, mirrors and black spray paint to create her bizarre, geometrical garments.

For the guys, you are just a pair of Venetian blind shades and an over-sized ego away from becoming Kanye West. A bottle of Henney and an Etch A Sketch haircut only help.

Going in a group? Well, becoming the boys of “The Hangover” is all too simple.

Dressing as Phil is as easy as a

buttondown shirt and aviators. Stu merely needs a Polo, glasses and

a missing tooth. Alan makes or breaks the ensemble,

but with a wildlife tee, beard, potbelly and yes, the man purse, you’ll have it made. Add some dirt, scratches and bruises to each of you to top it off.

3. ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE AND POLITICS

You can get your political statement on by dressing as a political figure.

Sure, tons of people will go as Barack Obama or Sarah Palin, but dig a little deeper and you’ll have something much better.

Becoming Mark Sanford is relatively simple—all you need is a hiking outfit, a “map” of a woman’s torso and some strategically placed lipstick stains.

Be wery of dressing up as Glenn Beck though.

Replicating his behavior is a surefire way to land yourself a public intoxica-tion fine.Joshua Boydston is a psychology sophomore.

COSTUME GUIDE» Wait until the last minute to decide on a Halloween costume? The Daily’s Joshua Boydston made a guide for quick and easy costumes.

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Homecoming Week | Papa John’s Pizza on the South Oval. Presented by the Campus Activities Council, visit http://cac.ou.edu for a full schedule of events.

EA Sports Demo: FIFA 2010 | 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in Crossroads Lounge. Demo the game and get some EA swag! Presented by EA Sports and the Union Programming Board.

Guess-The-Score | 11:30 a.m. in the union food court. Think you know Sooner Football? Prove it at the Union Programming Board’s pre-game predictions for a chance to win great prizes. Play every Friday during football season to earn points and increase your chances of winning. There’s ALWAYS SOMETHING at the union!

Free Movie: “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” | free screenings at 4, 8 & 11 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Presented by the Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council Film Series.

Student Alumni Association Ring Ceremony | 4 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union Courtyard.

Art After Hours: Odilon Redon | 6 p.m. in the Dee Dee and Jon R. Stuart Classroom, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.

Homecoming Parade | Parade will begin at 3 p.m. at the intersection of Boyd and Elm Streets. Presented by the Campus Activities Council, visit http://cac.ou.edu for a full schedule of events.

Women’s Volleyball: OU vs. Kansas State | 2 p.m. at McCasland Field House. Visit soonersports.com for ticket information.

UOSA Tailgate | 2 p.m. on the Southwest corner of Lindsey Street and Asp Avenue. Free food, music and giveaways with a VALID OU STUDENT ID. EA sports will also be on hand to demo games! Presented by the University of Oklahoma Student Association & Housing & Food Services.

Sooner Football: OU vs. Kansas State | 6 p.m. in the Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Homecoming Royalty Coronation will take place during halftime, presented by the Campus Activities Council and Housing and Food Services. Visit soonersports.com for ticket info.

University Theatre: “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” | 8 p.m. in Rupel Jones Theatre. Tickets are $22 for adults, $18 for seniors and OU faculty/staff and $14 for OU students. Call the Fine Arts Box Offi ce for more information, (405) 325-4101.

University Theatre: “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” | 3 p.m. in Rupel Jones Theatre.

Sonic’s Spooky Saturday | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Free museum admission all day, courtesy of Sonic, America’s Drive-In.

Free Concert: Owl City | 7 p.m. at McCasland Field House. Presented by Campus Activities Council Concert Series.

Homecoming Week | Banner competition, 10 a.m. at the Oklahoma Memorial Union Parking Garage. Presented by the Campus Activities Council, visit http://cac.ou.edu for a full schedule of events.

Intramural Update | Badminton, pickle ball and table tennis entries today! For more information visit recservices.ou.edu or call Jonathan Dewhirst, (405) 325-3053.

Mid-Day Music | noon in the Oklahoma Memorial Union Food Court featuring Ted Jurcsisn. Presented by the Union Programming Board.

Student Success Series: Get Ready to Enroll | 3 p.m. in Wagner Hall 245. Presented by University College.

Masala World Music Series: Oklahoma Fancy Dancers | 8 p.m. in the Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students, faculty/staff and senior adults. Please call the Box Offi ce at (405) 325-4101 for more information.

University Theatre: “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” | 8 p.m. in Rupel Jones Theatre. Tickets are $22 for adults, $18 for seniors and OU faculty/staff and $14 for OU students. Call the Fine Arts Box Offi ce for more information, (405) 325-4101.

Homecoming Pep Rally | TBA in the McCasland Field House. Presented by the Campus Activities Council and the Student Alumni Association.

Potter Palooza | 9:30 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium Lobby, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Before the 11 p.m. screening of the new Harry Potter movie, enjoy free food and HP activities including a costume contest and trivia contest. Don’t forget to bring donations for “Clothes for Dobby,” to benefi t Goodwill. Presented by the Union Programming Board.

University Theatre: “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” | 8 p.m. in Rupel Jones Theatre.

Women’s Soccer: OU vs. Baylor | 7 p.m. at John Crain Field. Visit soonersports.com for ticket information.


WEEKEND UPDATE» The Daily’s Life & Arts Staff put together a list of some of the things happening this Halloween weekend.

CONCERT

Resident Funk will perform at the Pre-Halloween Party at 10:30 p.m. Friday at the Deli, 309 White St. in Norman.

FREE MOVIE

The Union Programming Board will show “Harry Pot ter and the Hal f Blood Prince” at 4, 8 and 11 p.m. Friday in Meacham Auditorium in the Oklahoma Memorial Union, 900 Asp Ave. in Norman.

IRON POUR

A Halloween iron pour and costume contest will take place at 5:30 p.m. Friday in Fred Jones Art Center 555 Elm Ave.

CONCERT

W i l l H o g e w i l l perform Friday at t he Wormy Dog Sa loon , 311 E . Sheridan Ave. in Oklahoma City.

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