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Approval marks fi rst time language will be offered as major in Oklahoma

KATHLEEN EVANSThe Oklahoma Daily

The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education approved a new OU Arabic degree Thursday morn-ing in Oklahoma City.

This is the first time a bachelor’s degree in Arabic will be offered in the state of Oklahoma.

“Arabic is important for many obvious, important reasons,” said Zach Messitte, vice provost of in-ternational programs. “Not only is there national security, but also a major percentage of the world speaks this language.”

Messitte speaks some Arabic, and though he’s not an Arabic pro-fessor, he and a colleague helped establish the Arabic Language Flagship Program at OU.

This program offers funding to students who want to understand

the language. OU currently offers an Arabic

minor, according to the OU course catalog.

Messitte said many students choose to study Arabic, so he ex-pects many will take the opportu-nity to graduate with the degree.

“When they go out to apply and say that not only can they speak the language but also understand the culture, what department won’t be taking a second look at that re-sume?” he said.

According to the Regents’ agen-da, Arabic is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. More than 300 million people in the 20 Arab states speak it today. Also, about 1.3 million Muslims speak it every day in religious ceremonies.

The degree will require 120 hours, according to the agenda. At least 12 people must enroll in the program, and five must graduate by 2014-2015 for final approval by the State Regents.

Students can now earn Arabic degree at OUOther agenda items approved

Also approved at the meeting was a graduate certifi cate in management information systems, in area studies, in global studies and in communication, culture and pedagogy for Hispanic populations in educational settings.

Health information to be kept in disc made by Invisible Bracelet; sewn into jerseys

DHARA SHETHThe Oklahoma Daily

Injured OU athletes will now receive more effective and imme-diate medical care with ICEDOT. A new product will be unveiled at Saturday’s football game against Florida State.

I C E D O T, o r “ I n C a s e o f Emergency” dot, is a form of per-sonal identification technology that will provide emergency care providers immediate access to critical health information about injured athletes. OU is the first university to use this technology.

ICEDOT uses coded discs to hold important h e a l t h i n f o r-mation. These discs can be at-tached to ath-letic equipment a n d a p p a r e l . The eight-dig-i t c o d e e a c h ICEDOT user is assigned can be stitched into apparel as well.

Kenneth Mossman, Athletic Department associate director, said football players will have fabric panels with their ICEDOT identification number stitched onto the insides of their game jer-seys, in compliance with NCAA regulation. Practice jerseys will use washable snaps attached to the jerseys.

While football is the first sport to implement ICEDOT, all sports will utilize the safety device as the year continues.

“It worked out well to start with football since their practices [started] in August, but as sea-sons continue we’ll bring it in to use with our other sports teams,” Mossman said.

Funding for ICEDOT comes from Invisible Bracelet, also known as Docvia.

Flames in ConocoPhillips wing extinguished by sprinklers; no damage

KATHLEEN EVANSThe Oklahoma Daily

The Oklahoma Memorial Union was closed Thursday afternoon due to an electri-cal fire started by a lamp in the ConocoPhillips Student Leadership Wing.

No one was injured in the fire and nothing is reported as dam-aged, university spokesman Chris Shilling said.

In the building’s foyer, a flame burst on a light’s electrical ballast and activated the nearby sprin-kler, which extinguished the fire, said Grant Deason, Norman Fire Department assistant chief.

The Norman Fire Department arrived around 4:25 p.m. but did not know when the fire started, he said.

Students reported evacuating the union at about 4:15 p.m.

Cory Lloyd, UOSA vice presi-dent and advertising senior, was in the wing when the fire started. A light shorted, the alarms went off and the sprinklers started going. There were only about six people in the area, he said.

University College freshman Clint Shepherd was studying in the Will Rogers Food Court when the fire started and stu-dents were evacuated.

“[The sprinkler] was pour-ing water on the light, but the fire was still burning,” Shepherd said. “It was the coolest thing I’ve

ever seen.” University College freshman

Hannah Nicholas also was sit-ting in the Will Rogers Room when the alarms started going off.

“All these people were still just sitting there, and no one was moving,” Nicholas said. “Finally, a guy came in and told us we had to leave. We came outside and could see the fire.”

E v e r y t h i n g b u t t h e ConocoPhil l ips w ing was opened again at 4:45 p.m., but the sprinklers were not shut off until 5:01 p.m.

At 5:34 p.m., water still pud-dled on the ground, but firefight-ers were working on siphoning it out, Shilling said. Less than half an inch of water was on the ground, and it should be cleaned by Friday morning.

Everything looks good, but the wing’s a little soggy, he said.

—Daily staff writers Emily Hopkins and Meredith Moriak contributed to this report

Electrical fi re temporarily closes Union

NEIL MCGLOHON/THE DAILY

Firemen carry a ladder Thursday afternoon into the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s ConocoPhillips Student Leadership Wing. A light fixture in the entrance caught fire and triggered water sprinklers, which ran for about an hour.

[The sprinkler] was

pouring water on the

light, but the fi re was

still burning. It was the

coolest thing I’ve ever

seen.”

— CLINT SHEPHERD,UNIVERSITY COLLEGEFRESHMAN

ICEDOT to debut Saturday

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More than 110 attended designer’s explanation of impact on 2008 campaign

TREVOR SHOFNERThe Oklahoma Daily

A logo, simple but deliberate in composition, has the poten-tial to accomplish huge promo-tional feats, explained the de-signer of the popular “O” symbol that branded Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Sol Sender, founder and principal designer at Sender LLC, recount-ed the steps he took to brand

Obama’s campaign to more than 110 people who attended his pre-sentation Thursday at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.

“While there’s nothing formal-ly remarkable about the identity, what was very remarkable about it was the way in which it was used,” Sender said.

A winner of numerous design awards, Sender and his com-pany were commissioned in December 2006 to design a vi-sual identity for a then relatively unknown junior senator from Chicago.

“We had this notion of a new

day, something that fundamen-tally symbolized hopefulness, and we wanted to create some-thing that conveyed this and was compatible on a variety of plat-forms,” Sender said.

Sender outlined the story of his logo’s secret conception, the de-liberation of its symbolism and its ride to becoming a memora-ble icon for a historic campaign. “We saw what was happening and sort of let go. I do think that one of the strengths of it was that

Obama campaign logo designer shares methods

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Today around campus» A student health insurance seminar will be at 8 a.m. in the Union’s Alma Wilson Room.

» The Women and Business Leadership Conference will be at 8:30 a.m. in the Union’s Governors, Regents and Associates rooms.

» This day in OU history

Sept. 10, 1963Car rulings effective soon

New regulations banning student cars from campus between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday soon go into effect. Freshmen ranked academically in the bottom 50 percent are prohibited from possessing a car. Five patrolmen have been added to the OU police to enforce these regulations. A penalty for violating the new regulations will be $20. If paid within 48 hours, the fi ne will be cut to $10.

New dials installedThe university completed a dial system, providing each

student with his or her own dial number. J.D Harder said that OU is one of the few universities in his part of the country with the new student dial service. The installation of the equipment for this new dial service took over 9,000 man-hours to complete.

Ringer, Hammond bid for QB positionMike Ringer and John Hammond, both sophomores,

were named starting and alternative quarterbacks in time for the Sooner’s opener against Clemson. This breaks Coach Bud Wilkinson’s tradition of never starting a sophomore at the helm of the Big Red attack.

Mike Ringer was later drafted by the Denver Broncos in the 1966 draft.

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Saturday, Sept. 11» UOSA will hold a tailgate with free food for all OU students at 11 a.m. at the corner of Lindsey Street and Asp Avenue.

» Union Game Day events will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the Union’s Beaird Lobby and Lounge and the Will Rogers Room.

» The OU football team hosts Florida State at 2:30 p.m. at the Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

Tuesday, Sept. 14» Career Services will critique resumes from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and again from 1:30 to 4 p.m. in the Union’s Room 323. There will also be an evening session from 6 to 9 p.m.

» Christians on Campus will host a free Bible study from noon to 12:45 p.m. in the Union’s meeting Room A.

» Students can take free Sooner Ally training at 1 p.m. in the Union’s Presidents Room.

» The College of Architecture will host a session about creating a resume for architecture and construction sciences majors at 3 p.m. in the Architecture building.

» Alpha Sigma Kappa — Women in Technical Studies will host a sci-fi double feature at 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in the Union’s Crimson room.

Sunday, Sept. 12» Habitat for Humanity will host a meeting at 9:30 p.m. in the Union’s Associates Room.

» The Oklahoma Crew team will host a meeting at 1 p.m. in the Union’s Crimson Room.

Monday, Sept. 13» Career advisers will offer resume critiques at 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in the Union’s Room 323.

» Women’s Outreach Center will be stationed at Couch Restaurants from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to offer information about how students can get involved in breast health awareness, Take Back the Night and LGBTQ events.

» Career Services will host an interviewing workshop at 3:30 p.m. in the Union’s Crimson Room.

» OU Votes will host Pizza and Politics at 4:30 p.m. in the Union’s Regents Room. Norman Mayor Cindy Rosenthal will discuss the upcoming gubernatorial election between Jari Askins, Democrat, and Mary Fallin, Republican.

Guest activist teaches uses of social media in grassroots movements

Twenty-three students will explore social media’s impact on grassroots movements with OU Women’s and Gender Studies activist-in-residence Mona Eltahawy in the program’s exclusive class with this guest professor and award-winning journalist.

Eltahawy, who also is a nationally recognized blogger, is leading a three-weekend course, Women and New Media in the Middle East, beginning this afternoon.

This year’s activist-in-residence program will allow students the opportunity to learn from Eltahawy’s use of social media and blogs in terms of the Muslim American experience, said Stephanie Heck, coordinator for the Women’s and Gender Studies Center for Social Justice.

Heck said students endorsed Eltahawy for the activist in residence position after she spoke at OU in October 2009 for the Women in World Politics Dream Course.

“She has a unique way of getting her point across without being confrontational or offensive,” Heck said. “That really influenced our decision to bring her back.”

Eltahawy’s writing has been featured in The Washington Post and newspapers in Qatar, Israel and Denmark.

She recently appeared on CNN to discuss the debate over the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero.

The class convenes for the first time from 6 to 10 p.m. tonight.

Students will return Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The class takes place the last three weekends of September.

—Reneé Selanders/The Daily

Etheridge was devoted to students and family, former student says

KATHLEEN EVANSThe Oklahoma Daily

A sign on his door de-s c r i b e d h i m b e s t : “ D r. David Etheridge — Teacher, Mentor, Father, Husband, Reed Wizard, Genius, and pretty much the best damn friend you could ever have.”

David Etheridge, an OU School of Music professor for 35 years, passed away July 28. A celebration of his life will take place 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the Sharp Concert Hall of Catlett Music Center.

“He was like a father fig-ure to me. He always had the student’s interest at heart and viewed you as his child that he wanted to get better,” said Christina Giacona, for-mer student of Etheridge’s and OU School of Music professor.

David, born Sept. 11, 1942, studied clarinet at the

University of Colorado and earned a doctorate at the Eastman School of Music.

Before coming to OU, he taught clarinet at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, N.Y. After nine years, he came to OU, earning hon-ors such as the title of David Ross Boyd Distinguished Professor and a 35-year tenure.

During his first year at OU, he created the OU Clarinet Symposium, an annual event that brings clarinetists from around the world to perform and lecture.

“I was a doctoral student at OU a year after [Etheridge] came to OU,” said Stephen

Curtis, director of the School of Music. “Even as a student, I knew about his reputation as a clarinetist. He had a wide influence throughout and drew people to OU be-cause of his reputation.”

Over the years, his stu-dents have remained devot-ed to him. A CaringBridge website created in his honor has 37 pages full of kind words from students and friends that “paint an excel-lent picture of him,” accord-ing to Cheryl Etheridge, his wife of 47 years.

Another common theme was the enthusiasm and joy he brought to his music and his students.

“He had such a memo-rable laugh — so happy and jolly. If you were walking down the hall, you could hear his laugh around the corner and know it was him,” Giacona said.

Besides playing the clari-net, David enjoyed sail-ing with his family on Lake Thunderbird, snow skiing,

Memorial service plannedSunday for music professor

More info

In lieu of fl owers, memorial contributions can be made to the David Etheridge Clarinet Scholarship, OU Foundation, 100 Timberdell Dr., Norman, OK 73019.

David Etheridge

cooking and traveling.OU trombone professor

and director of graduate stud-ies Irvin Wagner, who has taught at OU for 41 years and was on the committee that hired David, said some of his favorite memories with him involve them traveling to-gether in Europe and sharing music with other cultures.

“We’ve been through a lot together,” Wagner said. “He was a very special guy and will be missed.”

it contained some features of adaptability, but we never imagined it being used in the ways in which it was,” Sender said.

The presentation emphasized the careful process of identity creation and the levels of communication that campaign graphic design must have.

Journalism and visual communications students domi-nated the crowd, taking advantage of an opportunity to learn from a professional.

“I really was impressed by the way he approaches a

design problem. It’s really important to have a concept statement. Once you have that, things start falling into place. It’s very important to do it in that order, especially for the design students,” said Saaniya Shaikh, visual com-munications graduate student.

The event was sponsored by the School of Art and the Graphic Design Association, a student chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

“We’ve had some really good speakers come,” said Eric Anderson, School of Art professor, “but with Sender it’s like he’s right there sitting next to you. It was more about the process for us, which is really inspirational and that’s where student really find their voice.”

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Friday, September 10, 2010 • 3The Oklahoma Daily | OUDaily.com NEWS

1. Tehran, Iran

Iran to release female American hiker after 13 months in jail

Iran’s envoy to the United Nations has confi rmed that a female American held for more than a year will be released.

Iran had announced earlier that one of the three Americans captured by Iran in July 2009 would be released to mark the holidays at the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Bak Sahraei, second counselor of the UN mission confi rmed Thursday in an e-mail that Sarah Shourd would be the one set free on Saturday.

It is common in the Islamic world to mark the Eid al-Fitr holiday by showing clemency and releasing prisoners.

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2. Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Suicide attack in Russia kills 17 A suicide car bomber hit a market Thursday in southern

Russia, killing at least 17 people and wounding 133 in one of the region’s worst attacks in years, offi cials said.

The bomber detonated his explosives as he drove by the main entrance to the Vladikavkaz market, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.

The death toll included the bomber, and 98 people wounded in the explosion were hospitalized, many in grave condition, said Alexander Pogorely of the Emergency Situations Ministry.

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3. Santiago, Chile

Strong earthquake strikes ChileA magnitude-6.1 earthquake hit the same part of Chile that

suffered a catastrophic quake in February. The new temblor caused alarm but no reported damage or injuries.

It struck the regions of Maule, BioBio and Araucani — just where the earlier quake caused the most damage.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the new quake struck at 3:28 a.m. Thursday and centered about 22 miles south of the hard-hit regional capital of Concepcion.

— AP

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WORLD NEWS BRIEFS

Anti-Islamic preacher backs off, reconsider burning the Quran on the anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks

An anti-Islamic preacher backed off and then threatened to reconsider burning the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, angrily accusing a Muslim leader of lying to him Thursday with a promise to move an Islamic center and mosque away from New York’s ground zero. The imam planning the center denied there was ever such a deal.

The Rev. Terry Jones generated an international firestorm with his plan to burn the Quran on Saturday, the ninth an-niversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and he has been under intense pressure to give it up. President Barack Obama urged him to listen to “those better angels” and give up his “stunt,” saying it would endanger U.S. troops and give Islamic terrorists a recruiting tool. Defense Secretary Robert Gates took the extraordinary step of calling Jones personally.

Standing outside his 50-member Pentecostal church, the Dove Outreach Center, alongside Imam Muhammad Musri, the president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, Jones said he relented when Musri assured him that the New York mosque will be moved.

Musri, however, said after the news conference that the agreement was only for him and Jones to travel to New York and meet Saturday with the imam overseeing plans to build a mosque near ground zero.

Hours later, Jones said Musri “clearly, clearly lied to us.”“Given what we are now hearing, we are forced to rethink

our decision,” Jones said. “So as of right now, we are not canceling the event, but we are suspending it.”

Jones did not say whether the Quran burning could still be held Saturday, but he said he expected Musri to keep his word and expected “the imam in New York to back up one of his own men.”

Jones had never invoked the mosque controversy as a reason for his planned protest. He cited his belief that the

Quran is evil because it espouses something other than biblical truth and incites radical, violent behavior among Muslims.

But he said Thursday afternoon that he prayed about the decision and concluded that if the mosque was moved, it would be a sign from God to call off the Quran burning.

“We are, of course, now against any other group burn-ing Qurans,” Jones said. “We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it.”

Musri thanked Jones and his church members “for mak-ing the decision today to defuse the situation and bring to a positive end what has become the world over a spectacle that no one would benefit from except extremists and ter-rorists” who would use it to recruit future radicals.

After Jones accused him of lying, Musri said the pastor “stretched my words” at the press conference.

“I think there was no confusion to begin with. When we stepped out of the church, we had an agreement to meet in New York,” Musri said. He added that Jones “said his main reason for stopping the event was that it would endanger the troops overseas, Americans traveling abroad and others around the world.”

Musri said he told the pastor “that I personally believe the mosque should not be there, and I will do everything in my power to make sure it is moved,” Musri said. “But there is not any offer from there (New York) that it will be moved. All we have agreed to is a meeting, and I think we would all like to see a peaceful resolution.”

Musri said Thursday night that he still plans to go ahead with the meeting Saturday.

In New York, the leader of the Islamic center project, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, issued a statement saying he was glad Jones had decided not to burn the Quran but that he had spoken to neither the pastor nor Musri.

—AP

AP PHOTO/KHALID TANVEER

Pakistani protesters rally in reaction to a small American church’s plan to burn copies of the Quran in Multan, Pakistan on Thursday.

Pastor misrepresented Quran-burning deal

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›››› Sooner Sampler: What were your thoughts

after the Sept. 11 attacks?

“I didn’t really

understand. My parents

tried to explain it to me

and at that age I kind of

understood but I was, I

guess, shocked.”

— DEVIN WYATT,UNIVERSITY COLLEGEFRESHMAN

“I thought it was a joke,

until I got to school and

everyone was going

crazy, and then I fi nally

believed it.”

— LISA BALE,PSYCHOLOGY JUNIOR

“I didn’t really

understand what it all

meant at fi rst.”

— MICHAEL BORGÁN,UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FRESHMAN

“I didn’t really get it, but I

was defi nitely scared and

I didn’t know why they

were mad at us. I just

thought everyone (in the

world) was happy.”

— OLIVIA PRICE,UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

FRESHMAN

On Wednesday, The Daily wrote an editorial “demanding” a “more diverse faculty.” After reading the article however, it was difficult for me to see exactly what those demands were. The message was clear however: OU’s faculty is not diverse enough.

So, was the editorial arguing that the university should favor hiring minorities? If so, then they are dead wrong.

I thought this was an interesting quote: “This isn’t to say the OU administration doesn’t actively seek out diverse faculty members — they do. But why can’t they get a more equal number of minority fac-ulty members?” Let us define “equal,” or more specifically equality.

What is equality? Should equality be a direct reflection of state or national demographic numbers?

If we were to use the U.S. Census Bureau’s factsheet on Oklahoma’s demographics, then OU should have a faculty consisting of 78 percent white, 8.1 percent black, 8 percent American Indian, 1.7 percent Asian, 8.2 percent Hispanic, and, don’t forget, 4.1 percent mixed race.

Of course, if you do the math, these percentages add up to more than 100, since 8 percent of the white population is actually white Hispanic. Don’t forget other factors such as that people of “mixed race” might consider themselves more Asian than white, for instance.

If we follow this model, then the first thing OU needs to do is stop hiring white and Asian faculty members immediately! Just look at how overly represented Asians are at OU.

According to the editorial, there were 141 full-time Asian faculty members at OU in the fall of 2009. Asians comprise almost 10 percent of the faculty. That means that they are five times overly represented according to Oklahoma’s demo-graphics. Talk about unfair! We should do something about that, shouldn’t we?

Thankfully, we don’t. Because race does not play a roll in who is chosen as faculty and who is not. These people are chosen based on their merits and ability to perform their jobs successfully. Being black, white, or Asian doesn’t get to be factor anymore in the job process.

So what is equality in our country? Is it equality of opportu-nity? Equality of wealth? Equality of skills?

No — what makes this country so special, so wonderful, is that we are all equal under the law. No court of law in this country is allowed to rule in favor of or against someone be-cause of his or her color. That’s a great thing! That means that nobody can use the law to stop someone from, say, opening a restaurant in a city just because they are black

That has not always been the case. Throughout our coun-try’s history, both the federal and state governments have drafted legislation which barred peoples of different ances-

try, beliefs and colors from pursuing their own personal interests of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But those days are over. The government no longer has the legal authority to prohibit any race of people from pursuing their self interests.

But that’s as far as the government should go. We all now have full equality under the law.

Cherish that, please, I beg of you. If Oklahoma created a law which made it mandatory to have a certain number of minorities working at OU, then we would no longer enjoy that legal equality. A set number of positions at the university would be reserved for a specific group of people based solely on the way they were born.

That, readers, would be a legally favored class.The editorial also argued that minorities have difficulties

getting into graduate school because of financial concerns. But if you really want to pursue a career in academia in this country, you can. There are hundreds of ways for low-income students, especially minorities, to receive financial aid for both undergraduate and graduate studies. And if you can’t get a full ride, you can always take loans.

Yes, that’s right. Sometimes, in order to succeed in this country, you have to take risks. Borrowing money for school is a risk. It is a risk that I myself will soon take. But if I work hard, those risks will be rewarded. That’s the beauty of America. We all have the right to take risks, to either profit from those risks or not.

Some of us will fail, and some will succeed, regardless of our skin color.

— Tucker Cross,

letters senior

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Editor’s note: Sgt. Nicholas Harrison is a non-commissioned offi cer in the

Oklahoma National Guard

I was at Fort Richardson — just outside of Anchorage, Alaska. I had taken a break from college and enlisted in the U.S. Army. After finishing up basic training, Advanced Individual Training and airborne school, I was settling into my second month at my first duty station — assigned to a small airborne unit with a long, rich history.

When you’re in the infantry in Alaska, they like to kick you outside when there’s a lot of snow on the ground for some reason. So, that morning, my company was scheduled to go out on a long field exercise.

It was going to be miserable, and we weren’t looking forward to it. However, we were looking forward to the late wake-up call that day — an extraordinary boon that few people outside the military ever fully appreciate.

Then came the thunderous pounding on the door at five in the morning.

I need not recount the events that we all witnessed on tele-vision that day. Those surreal moments will forever be etched on our collective consciousness.

As a soldier, my most poignant memory was the frustra-tion I felt — feeling that those who attacked the United States should have come through me.

Almost a decade after that day, the memories remain just as vivid as they ever were. I returned to college, finished my bachelor’s degree and started law school. I also served for a year overseas in Afghanistan and, in the spring, I will graduate with a JD / MBA and head back there with the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.

It’s easy for people safely ensconced in their living rooms

to take sides — pushing one ideological view or another. However, as people remember the World Trade Center, it is also important to remember that American soldiers are the ones who ultimately bear the burden.

They are the ones caught in the middle. They are strangers in a foreign land trying to convince people that the West is not at war with Islam.

And, when people overseas see Americans at home protesting an Islamic community center in Manhattan or burning a pile of Qurans in Florida, they will be the ones to pay the price — struggling to counteract a racist message they don’t agree with, putting their lives on the line and implicitly defending the right to express that message.

Few who have not served in the mili-tary will ever truly understand the soldiers’

sacrifices. They put their lives, their families, their careers, their

hopes and their dreams on hold for years at a time to advance American interests abroad.

And when they come home, they can never pick up exactly where they left off.

So, as we commemorate the 9th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center this weekend, I would encourage you to thank the servicemen around you — particularly those who have deployed overseas in the past and those who will deploy this spring.

— Nicholas Harrison,

law and business graduate

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Affi rmative Action not the answer

Tucker Cross

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Three days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 the House of Representatives voted 420-1 to pass a resolution authorizing President George W. Bush to use force against those responsible for the attacks.

The lone dissenter was Rep. Barbara Lee, D-California.Lee’s reason for voting “no” was that she felt “convinced

that military action will not prevent further acts of inter-national terrorism against the United States. This is a very complex and complicated matter.”

Lee advocated restraint and encouraged leaders to “think through the implications of our actions today, so that this does not spiral out of control.”

Her warning went unheeded. Nearly 3,000 American citi-zens had been senselessly and brutally murdered in the at-tacks and our nation craved justice.

Bush quickly prepared to attack Afghanistan with the purpose of finding Osama bin Laden and taking out the Taliban, who allowed al-Qaida to recruit and train terrorists there. The nation united, and we trusted our leaders to lead our troops into battle with the utmost care and concern.

On Oct. 7, 2001, the war began. The Taliban were quickly toppled and it was reported that

bin Laden was cornered in the Battle of Tora Bora.However, he was never caught. Some military analysts say

this was due to the absence of adequate special operations

troops as the Bush administration had already begun to shift its focus from Afghanistan to Iraq.

Why the Bush administration decided to shift focus to Iraq is the subject of intense debate. It’s undoubtedly the gravest failure of our leaders’ response to Sept. 11.

The administration worked hard to link Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida, and convince the public of his possession of weapons of mass destruction, but subsequent reports re-vealed that none of it was true. Even Bush explicitly stated in Sept. 2006 that Saddam Hussein had no connection with those responsible for Sept. 11.

For the first time since the Afghanistan War began in 2001 and the Iraq War in 2003 began, we finally have a clear view of the impact of our wars in response to Sept. 11 — and the view is terrifying.

Instead of ending terror, the “War on Terror” has, at best, prevented more terrorist attacks on American soil. At worst, it has resulted in a stunning amount of bloodshed — the true extent of which is not reported in mainstream media, and has served as a recruiting tool for terrorists.

More than 5,000 of our brave soldiers have died in the war effort. And this number doesn’t include the record-high number of soldiers who have committed suicide due to post-traumatic stress disorder upon returning home.

Estimates for civilian deaths as a direct and indirect result

of U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq are upwards of 1 million. Americans are shocked and sorrowful at the nearly 3,000 lives lost on that day nine years ago. Imagine the sorrow and anger of Iraq and Afghan civilians who have suffered the rough equivalent of Sept. 11 happening three times every month for nine years.

Nothing can cushion the tragedy of this loss of life. And we are made angrier knowing that any progress made has been discounted with far greater regression.

This June, CIA director Leon Panetta said there are less than 100 al-Qaida members in Afghanistan, undermining President Barack Obama’s decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan to bolster the new government and “disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida.”

In April 2006, the Bush administration’s own National Intelligence Estimate reported the Iraq War became a “‘cause celebre’” for terrorists, and “is shaping a new gen-eration of terrorist leaders and operatives.”

There’s no reversing this. We must learn from our leaders’ mistakes and petition them to bring our troops home.

If America suffers an attack like Sept. 11 in the future, we should remember Rep. Lee’s words and demand our lead-ers think through the implications of their actions.

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9 years after tragedy — what we’ve learned

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LIFE&ARTS Dusty Somers, life & arts editordailyent@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-5189

OUDAILY.COM ›› Plan your weekend with the help of The Daily’s Weekend Update video

EDITOR’S NOTE: Redbox machines are full of terrible B-movies. You know it. I know it. Each week, a brave Daily staffer will take the plunge and watch one of them so you don’t have to.

Given my penchant for watching terrible horror movies, and my luck of finding not one but two flicks featuring murderous infants in-side my local Redbox, I had no choice but to make this a double feature.

Part one, “It’s Alive,” is a remake of a 1974 film. It takes the mutant route, citing “natu-ral miscarriage” pills from the Internet as the cause for baby’s thirst for blood.

Lenore (Bijou Phillips) is a college student who drops out to raise her baby with boy-friend Frank (James Murray). When the baby grows at an alarming rate, she must deliver early by c-section. Conveniently, Mommy is sedated for the procedure, so she doesn’t witness the bloodbath created by her newborn son.

After some police questioning, she is al-lowed to go home — who would suspect a baby of murdering a room of medical staff?

But home is where the trouble starts. Sure, Demon Baby grows crazy fast and sports teeth, but Lenore writes this off as being “special.”

So special, in fact, that he is soon able to leave the house and hunt wild animals. Lenore is ini-tially grossed out, but she learns to accept and hide her precious child’s dirty work, even when he starts murdering relatives.

Finally it becomes obvious that something is terribly wrong, but it’s too late. Somehow, the house is on fire. Frank flees, but Lenore refuses to join him. She takes the baby into the flaming house and they die together in a blaze of glory.

Compared to part two of this double feature, “It’s Alive” is pretty straightforward. “Grace” of-fers up a lot more intrigue.

Although she miscarries in a car crash (which also kills

her husband), M o m m y M a d e l i n e ’s (Jordan Ladd) crazed grief and baby fever leads her to de-cide to carry to term anyway.

This decision is supported by her midwife, former teacher (who reportedly “revolution-ized women’s studies,” whatever that means) and ex-flame Patricia (Samantha Ferris).

When Madeline delivers her stillborn baby, it’s pretty gruesome. (My notes say, “OH MY GOD, SO MUCH BLOOD.”) But she wills it back to life with ... love? Hope? Women’s stud-ies? The dead baby becomes Grace.

The scariest part about this movie isn’t the bloodthirsty baby, if you can believe it. Sure, flies are oddly attracted to her, and she drinks Mommy’s blood instead of milk (“She’s special. She needs special food,” the rationalization

goes), but she’s more like a catalyst for the real horror show of the other characters.

Like Madeline’s mother-in-law, Vivian (Gabrielle Rose). Viv deals with her grief over her son’s death by developing an obsession

with breastfeed-ing. I don’t have to tell you it’s creepy. Especially when she actually begins to lactate. This fuels her mission to get Grace and raise her.

But to do that, Madeline must be proven unfit. So Vivian sends her doctor over to check the sitch. After he deems her badly

anemic (duh), the doctor is murdered by Madeline to protect herself and feed Grace with his blood.

She also kills Vivian, who shows up shortly after, inexplicably carrying a hammer.

In the end, all is ... well? Patricia, who has been lurking outside Madeline’s house since Grace’s birth, has bought an RV. The two dye their hair, to hideous effect, and hit the road. Patricia is optimistic: “We keep your blood lev-els up, and we can do this.”

But she’s in for a surprise. “She needs more now,” Madeline says. “She’s teething.”

Cut to torn-up bloody chest, and roll credits. Wow.

So what lessons do “It’s Alive” and “Grace” teach us? Don’t order shady pills online — they’ll make your baby a mutant? Veganism is the answer? Women are so dead-set on being mothers that they’ll stop at nothing to protect their offspring, no matter how evil?

We may never know, but in the meantime, take heed of “special” babies. They may just eat you.

— Annika Larson,

professional writing junior

Twin tot terrors comprise disastrous double feature

When Eve Posh Lounge and Bar opened its doors to the public during its Back-to-School Block Party, people came from all over Norman to cure their curiosity.

No, it’s not a rave, a strip club or a gay bar. It’s new, it’s edgy and it’s one more place for students to turn their Friday nights into a drunken mistake. However, like a shiny new toy, the glamour fades and Eve looks like just another bar on Campus Corner.

Why? After an initial glance around the place and acclimation to the almost concert level sound of the speakers, it becomes apparent that nothing really stands out. Customers

have the option of chilling in the spa-cious downstairs area or they can head upstairs and lounge on a vari-ety of cozy couches. After all, it promises to be the go-to place when you need to have a few drinks and relax, but that’s about it.

Like all other smart bars, Eve offers a pretty extensive food and drink menu at broke-college-student-compatible prices. However, the drinks and shot lists aren’t quite up to par with some of the heavy hit-ters on the corner just yet. It’s a fresh

start though, so the jury’s still out. While the staff, the setup and the

overall atmosphere seem great, it’s the crowd Eve attracts that could ultimately make or break it. The biggest promoters for the club right now are its scheduled DJs and live music shows. Unlike Brothers and The Deli, Eve can’t

quite fit a band in its loft-sized space, but it does have a lot of room for peo-ple to come and go outside. That fea-ture is something the bar is going to have to use to its advantage if the place

ever gets packed, because its inside is basically Claustrophobia-R-Us.

When it comes to Eve Posh Lounge and Bar, what you hear is essentially what you get: a fancy new spot to dance and get drinks.

Listen to your friends and anyone else you know that went to the Block Party and decide whether to seek out old comforts on the weekends instead or give this new spot a try. I’ll go with the latter, mostly because it just might end up being what Seven47 never could.

— Lauren Abram,

broadcast journalism senior

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Sooner players keep memory of 2000 National Championship team fresh as team prepares to face Florida State

AARON COLEN The Oklahoma Daily

When the OU football team takes the field against Florida State on Saturday, it will be the first time the two teams have faced off since the 2000 Orange Bowl when the Sooners won the national championship.

That fact isn’t lost on OU players and coaches, especially not coach Bob Stoops and quarter-backs coach Josh Heupel, who was the starting quarterback for OU’s most recent championship team.

Before the 2000 title game, OU hadn’t won a national championship since 1985, and the program had been relatively down. The win launched Stoops’ career and returned the pro-gram to national prominence.

“You look at this place, and it wasn’t built on just one team,” Heupel said. “But that game defi-nitely jump-started the success we’ve had in this decade.

Stoops said he developed a respect for Florida State’s football program early on in his coaching career, saying he even followed them when he was at Kansas State.

When he was defensive coordinator at Florida from 1996-98, Stoops said he saw Florida State up close every year and gained a familiarity with the style of the program.

“They’re different now, because that was a long time ago,” Stoops said. “But you sure get an understanding of their personality.”

This year’s players also understand the importance of that cham-pionship game played almost 10 years ago, and the meaning it adds to Saturday’s game.

Junior linebacker Travis Lewis was in elementary school when the Sooners won their last national championship, and while he said he doesn’t remember it, he also said it adds to the excitement of the marquee game.

“That’ll spice it up a little, put some jalapeño on it,” Lewis said. “None of us (players) played in that national championship game,

but some of the coaches were there so it is a pride thing.”

Even without the history between the two teams, Saturday’s game is important on the national scale for several reasons. Two ranked teams with champi-onship aspirations will collide in Norman, with the loser falling behind in the BCS race.

For OU, it will be a game that will give the play-ers an opportunity to show they can play better than they did in the opener against Utah State, and also to defend the home field, where the Sooners have won 31 straight games.

“Any team that comes into our stadium; that’s per-sonal,” Lewis said. “We don’t want to disappoint the fans or each other, and we don’t want to lose. We be-lieve that in that stadium, we’re unbeatable and it’s no different when Florida State comes in here.”

Lewis said he and the rest of the team are aware of the home win-ning streak that is on the line Saturday.

“I haven’t lost at home since I’ve been here,” Lewis said.The Sooners will defend their home winning streak and look

to keep their championship hopes alive at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

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A decade later: 2000 champsThe Daily’s Aaron Colen takes a look at some key players from OU’s last national championship team

JOSH HEUPEL Then: QuarterbackNow: The Sooners’ quarterback coach

Heupel made the most of his two years at OU. The South Dakota native led the Sooners to the national championship, and fi nished second in Heisman voting to Florida State quarterback Chris Weinke.

Following his career at OU, Heupel was selected in the sixth round of the NFL Draft by the Miami Dolphins. He was hampered by injuries and did not make the team. In 2002, he was picked up by Green Bay but was cut by the Packers as well.

Heupel then returned to OU and served as a graduate assistant to coach Bob Stoops in 2004, and has served as the quarterbacks coach since 2005.

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ROCKY CALMUSThen: Linebacker

Now: Owns a landscaping business

Calmus was an All-American during his junior and senior years at OU, and was a key player on the 2000 defense that won the championship. Calmus won the Butkus Award as a senior and was the Big 12 Conference defensive player of the year both his junior and senior years.

QUENTIN GRIFFINThen: Running back

Now: Retired NFL player

Griffi n was a sophomore on the 2000 national championship team. He rushed for 783 yards on 189 carries during the season. His 3,756 career rushing yards in three years was fourth-most in school history. He also fi nished second to Billy Sims in all-purpose yards at OU.

DERRICK STRAITThen: Cornerback

Now: Retired NFL player

Strait was a freshman during the championship year, but he was a signifi cant contributor, starting every game of the season at the right cornerback position. He was selected as the Big 12 newcomer of the year by the Associated Press and a freshman All-American by Sporting News.

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to disappoint the fans or

each other, and we don’t

want to lose. We believe

that in that stadium,

we’re unbeatable ... ”

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Game information

NO. 10 OKLAHOMA» Last week: 31-24 victory over the Utah State Aggies» Key players: QB Landry Jones, RB DeMarco Murray, WR Ryan Broyles and LB Travis Lewis

NO. 17 FLORIDA STATE» Last week: 59-6 victory over the Samford Bulldogs» Key players: QB Christian Ponder, DE Markus White, WR Bert Reed and RB Jermaine Thomas

Why the Sooners could win: The sub par game against Utah State should light a fi re under OU. Plus, the 31-game home winning streak makes an FSU victory a tough task.

Why the Seminoles could win: The matchup of FSU’s Christian Ponder against the Sooners’ secondary could prove to be costly to OU.

The Daily’s Clark Foy outlines what OU must do to win Saturday

Florida State brings a dominant quarterback and a great line on both sides of the ball.

If OU is to keep its school-record-setting 31-game home victory streak alive, as well as make a strong case for a national title run, the Sooners will have keep a few things in mind.

1. NO TIME TO ‘PONDER’Florida State senior quar-

terback Christian Ponder, a Heisman and All-American candidate, has all the tools to be a great quarterback this season.

Although he’s not a Tyrod Taylor or Jerrod Johnson, he’s elusive in the pocket,

surprisingly mobile and he has a rocket arm.

Ponder will move around constantly to create oppor-tunities and confuse the opposing secondary, but he’s more likely to pass than run.

It is imperat ive OU ’s pass rush applies pressure to Ponder, forcing him to throw before he is ready. Sacks are not required, just hurries and pressure in order to take away the time Ponder needs to pick apart the secondary.

2. A BACKUP FOR MURRAYS e n i o r r u n n i n g b a c k

DeMarco Murray proved he is the real deal last Saturday. He makes the perfect feature and home run back, but OU also needs a smash-mouth, between-the-tackles guy.

After missing last Saturday due to suspension, Norman High-product Mossis Madu, also a senior, returns to the lineup as Murray’s backup.

Having a backup tailback is a luxury, one the Sooners could use effectively to keep the chains moving, main-tain possession and keep Florida State’s offense off the field.

If Madu steps up and p rov i d e s Mu r ray s o m e well-needed rest, OU will not only elongate its offen-sive drives but also can rest Murray to keep him at his best.

3. DISCIPLINED SECONDARYLast week left many con-

cerned about OU’s defen-sive back situation. A repeat performance simply cannot happen Saturday against the Seminoles.

Discipline is key for the secondary because Ponder will be moving all over the place.

Senior Quentin Carter and Jonathan Nelson bring experience and leadership to the defensive back po-sition, and both will have to be at their best if the secondary is to hold the Seminoles.

It does help that former Seminole receiver Jarmon

Fortson was kicked off the team in August, but any re-ceiving corps with Ponder as the signal caller always has a chance.

OU has the talent ; they managed to pick off Utah State quarterback Diondre Borel three times last week, one less than he threw all last season.

If OU’s secondary keeps the Seminoles’ receivers in front of them and lim-its big plays for the Florida State offense, the Sooners’ chances to win are signifi-cantly helped.

— Clark Foy,

journalism senior

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SPORTS SCHEDULE

Volleyball to compete in tournament

The OU volleyball team wraps up non-conference play Friday and Saturday in Springfi eld, Mo.

The Sooners will take on Utah, followed by matches against Saint Louis and Missouri State, as part of the Dr. Mary Jo Wynn Invitational.

— Greg Fewell/The Daily

Soccer team looks to extend unbeaten streak

The Sooner soccer team travels Friday to Springfi eld, Mo., for the fi rst game of the weekend against Missouri State.

OU (2-1-1) returns home to host Rice at 1 p.m. Sunday at John Crain Field.

The Sooners have not lost since their season opener against Oklahoma State in Stillwater.

— Tobi Neidy/The Daily

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