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When management ju-nior David Postic came to his first advising appoint-ment as an OU freshman, he was completely unpre-pared to choose a major.

The adviser, handing him a thorough list of ma-jors, pointed to “business” and essentially chose his major for him. Thus began a meandering journey from business to manage-ment, then from account-ing back to management.

P o s t i c ’s m a j o r h a s changed at least six times, and three of those changes were results of miscom-munication with advisers.

“I think somewhere along the way I was a fi-nance major,” Postic said.

To help students choose a fitting major, OU is put-ting forth a new initiative through the Assessment Center in Wagner Hall, where students can meet with major exploration coaches to identify their personal strengths, said Joyce Allman, associ-ate provost for academic advising.

“When a student is in the right major, they’re happy with their classes, … they’ve found their pas-sion and they’ll graduate,” Allman said.

Anecdotal evidence typically reveals that col-lege students change their major an average of four times, she said.

The student’s level of maturity and level of expo-sure to other subjects are key factors that affect the choice of a major, Allman said.

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An Oklahoma House committee will hear Gov. Mary Fallin’s income tax reform plan next week, which could result in no state income taxes for low earners and reduced rates for other tax brackets.

During her Feb. 6 State of the State address, Fallin introduced her tax reform plan which aims to sim-plify tax brackets, reduce current state income tax rates and eventu-ally phase out the state income tax, according to a press release from her office.

Oklahoma currently has seven tax brackets ranging from a 0.5 per-cent rate on salaries of $1 a year to 5.25 percent rate on those making $8,701 or more, Fallin office spokes-man Alex Weintz said. The gover-nor’s plan would create three brack-ets and redefine income levels.

Individuals earning up to $15,000 would not pay income taxes; those making $15,000 to $35,000 would pay a 2.25 percent rate; those

earning more would pay a 3.5 per-cent rate, Weintz said.

The rates would decrease by 0.25 percent every year the state has a 5 percent growth in revenue, eventu-ally phasing the income tax out if the state continues to grow, Weintz said.

“ We t h i n k t h i s w i l l m a k e Oklahoma more competitive, which will bring more jobs and businesses here,” Weintz said. “It will make an

effect on how much money people can keep, which will be appreciated by Oklahomans and also help stim-ulate the economy as they put that money back in the economy and spend it.”

Income tax revenue makes up about one-third of the state’s bud-get, Weintz said. The plan would eliminate about $1 billion in the

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Aslan Maleki, University College freshman, checks the stockmarket in Price Business College. He checks it daily on his phone and laptop, and he occasionally also uses school computers. Maleki and a business partner plan to start a social event website with accompanying mobile apps.

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In middle school , Aslan Maleki didn’t crave childish pursuits: He was too busy selling cars.

As a high school junior, he didn’t have time for angst : He was seeking to un-derstand the complexities of the stock market.

Now a University College freshman, Maleki and his business partner, University College freshman Neal Walia , have already entered the formal business world.

The duo submitted plans for their product, an online event database called “Chalked,” to OU’s Startup Weekend , an entrepreneurship conference and show-case held earlier this month.

Maleki’s roommate, University College freshman Bryce Fugate , said they seldom share a dull moment together.

“Whether he is starting a new company or staying up until 4 a.m. drawing the de-sign of a website, I’m glad I am his room-mate,” Fugate said.

Having grown up in a structured, busi-ness-minded family, Maleki was sur-rounded with an ideal environment to pre-pare for the world of entrepreneurship.

“The family culture was always profes-sional to the max,” Maleki said.

Maleki’s father, owner of a car dealership and a real estate broker in Oklahoma City,

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exposed his son to the world of business and marketing from an early age.

“I would to go to my dad’s car dealership from the time I was 8,” Maleki said. “At first he would never let me take customers and talk to them alone. Then I turned13.”

To capitalize on these ex-periences, four months ago Maleki and Walia first began preliminary planning for a social event website with an accompanying iPhone and Android apps.

To date, the website has some of its major graphics and logo prototypes devel-oped. The phone component is also making progress.

The website should be up and running in less than two months, said Maleki.

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today around CampusA piano and cello competition will be held at 8 a.m. in the Catlett music Center’s sharp Concert Hall.

Russian Mardi Gras will be held from 11 a.m. to noon in Kaufman Hall, room 229.

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The baseball team will play Hartford at 3 p.m. at L. dale mitchell park.

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saturday, Feb. 25The baseball team will play Hartford at 2 p.m. at L. dale mitchell park.

A free musical showcase by the school of musical theatre will take place from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. the venue has not been announced.

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tax: Phasing out income tax to take 20 yearsContinued from page 1

state’s revenue. The gover-nor must submit a balanced budget, according to the state Constitution, and these losses are offset by eliminat-ing $700 million in spending by cutting various tax credits and deductions.

The rest of the money would come from predicted savings by improving energy efficiency, increasing money through a two-year license plate tag system and tapping into cash reserves, Weintz said.

“In a perfect world, here’s how the governor would bal-ance the budget, but we rec-ognize that … the negotiations

with the Legislature start, and what we arrive at is going to be different from what we propose,” Weintz said.

The idea that cutting in-come taxes will stimulate economic growth is credited to economist Arthur Laffer, who worked with President Ronald Reagan. However, the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy said his ideas and research are misleading, according to a February report.

The institute’s report said Laffer distorted data because he picked numbers that showed economic growth; because population grew in states with no incomes taxes for unrelated reasons; and because states with no

income tax are not better ec-onomically than states with income taxes when looking at certain economic measures.

C r i t i c s , s u c h a s t h e Oklahoma Policy Institute, a liberal think-tank based in Tulsa, said the state should not cut taxes at a time when education, public safety and social services organizations need funding.

By creating different tax brackets, Fallin’s plan creates strong tax rate jumps, accord-ing to a report by the institute. For example, a family earning $29,999 would owe $0, but a family earning $30,000 would owe $675.

State lawmakers in the House and Senate have also proposed similar measures,

which passed committees this week. However, these plans do not all cut lower in-come tax rates, they phase the income tax out quicker and they do not require the state to gain money to cut the taxes.

Key author of House Bill 3038 Rep. Leslie Osborn, R-Mustang, said she sup-ports the governor’s income tax plan, but thinks it would take too long to phase out – almost 20 years – compared to the House and Senate’s proposed 10 years.

R e p . M i k e B r o w n , D-Tahlequah, voted against the House’s tax measure be-cause of questions of from where money would come to fill the budget hole, he said.

application should be re-leased in two to three months and our Android application will start within a month of the iPhone application’s de-velopment,” Maleki said.

Despite the complexities of tackling work-intensive

projects while focusing on school as well, Maleki said he is driven by adversity.

“I see failure as the biggest motivation,” Maleki said. “The bigger the risk, the big-ger the outcome.”

Maleki is involve d in

several campus organi-zations, from Oklahoma Intercollegiate Legislature to Circle K International, a n a t i o n a l c o m m u n i t y s e r v i c e a n d l ea d e rs h i p organization.

Communications senior Danielle Landrum has re-cently gotten to know Maleki and his work ethic through Circle K International’s ac-tivities this semester.

“Aslan is always very pas-sionate about the projects we do,” she said. “Whenever he brings in one of his new ideas, they always aim to ex-pand our club’s influence on the campus.”

Maleki said the energy and finance sectors are where the country’s newest and best opportunities are now oc-curring, and where it’s great thinkers are gravitating.

He said he hopes to even-tually do the same.

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Our View: An Oklahoma bill creating pregnancy resource database merits intense scrutiny.

Despite Oklahoma’s low education ranking and crumbling infrastructure, the legislature has been focused obsessively on social controversies this session. In a showing of election-year politics at its finest, Oklahoma’s lawmakers have proposed everything from fruitless Band-Aids for small problems to radical and dangerous stances.

At first, House Bill 2560 seems to neatly avoid either of those categories. The bill calls for the creation of a user-friendly on-line database of information for women facing crisis pregnancies, including resources re-lated to abortion, adoption and health services. This information also would be available in print-ed form.

Despite being authored by Oklahoma’s resident extremist Rep. Sally Kern, its mandates seem un-usually sane and beneficial at first glance. Kern, R-Oklahoma City, explained that this database would make it easier for women to discover alter-natives to abortion.

In this sense, the bill seems fairly innocuous. Both anti-abortion activists and abortion rights activists most likely would agree that fewer abor-tions would be a good thing. And since the abor-tion rights argument centers on the rights and personal agency of women, they should agree that informing preg-nant women about their options is a top priority.

In fact, we often have wondered why anti-abortion activists don’t devote their copious time and fervor to providing better options for pregnant women and educa-tion about those options. They could accomplish so much more this way, reducing the number of abortions and making many women’s lives easier.

Unfortunately, upon further examination, we are worried that this bill is not what it seems.

On the surface, the bill sounds reasonable. But some of the language stressing ultrasound imaging and heartbeat monitoring — in light of the beliefs of the bill’s supporters and past attempts to use these technologies to shame women — make us wonder if the list conveniently will exclude agencies offering abortions.

If the point of this database is to inform preg-nant women about the options available to them, abortion services are just as legitimate and im-portant to include as adoption services. Putting this information alongside other options is fine, but excluding abortion services simply turns the database into a propaganda tool for anti-abortion activists.

Particularly troubling is the requirement that a search on the site for “abortion” will yield all of the information specified in the bill, regardless of how it is labeled. If this simply means that the search

will include both abortion service providers and legitimate crisis pregnancy centers, then we can understand the benefit.

But this clause could suggest that the motivation behind this database is to foist illegitimate crisis pregnancy centers on women or to offer informa-tion only about those resources.

The bill also calls for the collection of information about the “probable anatom-ical and physiological characteristics” of a fetus at each two-week stage, along with information about common methods of abortion, the potential physical and psy-chological risks of abortion, and the po-tential physical and psychological risks of

carrying a child to term.This information would be available in printed

form and included in the online database. Given the recent history of extreme anti-abortion groups using misinformation and shame, this require-ment has us worried.

The bill specifically calls for information to be “objective, nonjudgmental, and designed to con-vey only accurate scientific information about the unborn child at the various gestational ages.” If lawmakers are dedicated to upholding this re-quirement, it could be an important resource. After all, no decision should be made without hav-ing all the facts.

But given the ideologies of those supporting the bill, it is ripe for abuse. Our charity toward Oklahoma’s more extreme lawmakers is limited. They must prove to us and to all Oklahomans that they are not simply using vulnerable women to push a regressive agenda and energize their voting base.

We’d like to believe this is the détente in the abortion debate that we have been waiting for — the end of polarizing, controver-sial bills and the beginning of a focus on helping women in crisis. But it is possible this is yet anoth-er radical anti-women bill mas-querading as a beneficial, sane proposal.

And it is all the more dangerous for its apparent harmlessness. Lawmakers will vote for it and not give it another thought, assured that its provisions will do nothing more than keep women informed.

In order to keep this bill from turning from an unusually beneficial provision to a dangerous vehicle for propaganda, lawmakers must dedi-cate themselves to the right interpretation of its requirements and remain vigilant in guarding it from abuse.

Lawmakers, you must ask these important questions when this bill comes up for discussion. Before you vote for it, make sure you understand what it is calling for and how those requirements will be implemented. Then, be ready to hold your fellow lawmakers accountable.

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Website may not be what it seems

Some say that no news is good news. I contend

that what society deems “newsworthy” is disgrace-ful — ludicrous stunts often overshadow relevant events happening in the nation. While media out-lets in America are satiri-cal, at times, and laugh-able in quality and scope, the news coverage that is attributed to deceased celebri-ties is completely unjustified.

These bitter sentiments aren’t solely in light of Whitney Houston’s death, which remarkably was reported only 13 days ago. This is hard to believe, since I feel like I’ve been hearing about it for a month. Other celebrities also were given too much time in the limelight after their deaths.

Michael Jackson’s death created a renewed interest in the King of Pop. His “Greatest Hits” CD was released promptly after his passing, and a movie soon followed in theaters. Were these ventures to celebrate the celebrity’s life, or rather for a select few to profit from his death?

Let’s not forget, though, that Jackson was plagued by a scandalous child molestation trial and a long-time depen-dency on prescription drugs. But Michael was the King of Pop, so illegal acts became somehow excusable.

Amy Winehouse, who died last July , had a long history of alcohol abuse. Her blood alcohol content when she died was reportedly five times the legal limit , the coroner said. Even so, Winehouse’s “Back to Black” album sud-denly rose to No. 1 on iTunes just days after her death was announced .

Designer Jean Paul Gaultier tastelessly tapped into the image of Winehouse with his designs for his spring show. Mitch Winehouse , Amy’s father, said, “To see her image lifted wholesale to sell clothes was a wrench we were not expecting or consulted on.” Gaultier admitted he never met Winehouse, but said their styles were similar. What a bold venture, completely motivated for personal profit.

A renewed interest in Houston’s music also was sparked by her death. Sony raised the price of Houston’s greatest hits just 12 hours after she died. Someone at Sony made the executive decision to profit from her death and the public blindly supported it.

Bottles of prescription and over-the-counter medica-tions were found on the scene of Houston’s death — re-portedly including at least Xanax, Lorazepam, Valium, amoxicillin and sleep aids, according to various sources . Some might recall Houston’s public cocaine addiction .

It is sadistic that the west glorifies substance abuse. Call it what you will, but revering the death of a public figure with an addiction, without addressing the actual addic-tion, is permitting substance abuse within our culture.

If I died because I was strung out on drugs, my friends and family would mourn. The general public wouldn’t say, “It’s too bad she died a year before getting her degree and pursuing a law degree or a career as a journalist.” People would shake their heads, ask why an ungrateful girl in the privileged position to go to college would throw that away, and would move on with their lives.

Why is it different if a person with a great talent does the same? They can sing. Houston could belt it out. The sounds that she created with her vocal chords were better than what 99.9 percent of the population can produce. So what? She was a person, just like you and me.

Take all scandalous news reports with a grain of salt. But suppose headlines accusing Houston of dying bankrupt due to addiction are true. It would seem that Americans idolize the very evils that define criminals, con artists and thugs. In what kind of a society are we living?

Maybe that means you will one day be the source of someone’s veneration. Heck, we’re all in college and, if you’re lucky, you might just sidestep a couple thousand dollars of debt. Will anyone roll out a carpet for me to walk on because I’m in debt? It’s ridiculous to suppose that my chances to be worshipped might increase if I were to do drugs. Well, Norman, what if I can sing?

This illogical formula is the very one attached to Houston and the outlandish media craze following her telecasted funeral last Saturday, complete with a Twitter feed at the bottom of the screen. One news source even predicted the debacle would be an “intimate affair.” Right, as intimate and private as Paris Hilton ’s “home movies.”

The fact that you most likely understand this sleazy ref-erence and just as likely aren’t aware of the 300 prisoners who died in a Honduras prison fire last Wednesday proves my point. Learn what you’re pouring your time and money into, expose yourself to various, credible media sources and respect yourself.

Kayley Gillespie is a literature and cultural studies junior.

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Dance to change children’s livesIf you follow @DanceMarathonOU on Twitter, or any

other dance marathon in the nation, you’ll notice almost every tweet ends in #FTK — For the Kids. Campus Activities Council Dance Marathon is not raising money for the sake of calling itself a philanthropy. It is raising money for kids with cancer and childhood illnesses through Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

Every dollar raised through registration fees or online giv-ing or our other fundraisers like Homecoming Holdup goes directly to the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Oklahoma and Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

CAC Dance Marathon is not about competition. It has al-ways been about raising money to help children who are not able to enjoy a normal life — kids who have no choice but to remain immobile in a hospital bed all day because they are trying to fight fatal diseases.

Any member of the Dance Marathon executive commit-tee will tell you what the event really is about. In fact, they have put forth a lot of effort to refocus participants’ attention on the cause so that each person will feel connected to the kids who benefit from their generosity.

This year, CAC Dance Marathon has extended the event to 12 hours, not for the purpose of maximizing the amount of hours greek chapters can put in their President’s Trophy

book, but so that participants will understand we stand for children who can’t.

It is important to clarify that participants that stay for 12 hours do not get President’s Trophy points, they get com-munity service hours. At the same time, greek houses do not get the community service hours, individuals do.

CAC Dance Marathon in no way asks the fraternities or sororities to force members to stay for that period of time, but they do encourage every CAC Dance Marathon partici-pant, greek or non-greek, to give 12 hours #FTK. Also, CAC Dance Marathon completely is separate from President’s Trophy. Our philanthropy is no greater and no lesser than any of the other numerous philanthropies held on campus, and it is viewed accordingly in the eyes of the President’s Trophy committee.

If you come to Dance Marathon, don’t come expecting to win President’s Trophy. Come with the intention of chang-ing a kid’s life by contributing to Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and the children of Oklahoma.

As a result, you’ll have the most worthwhile 12 hours you’ve spent in a long time.

Melissa Mock, international and area studies senior and Campus Activities Council Chair

“If the point of this database is to inform

pregnant women about the options available to them, abortion services

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adoption services. Putting this information alongside other options is fine, but

excluding abortion services simply turns the database into a propaganda tool for anti-abortion activists.”

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In the year ahead, more opportuni-ties might become available to you than in the past. As time passes, bet-ter situations and numerous quality chances to do something productive will become viable for you.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Because you’re feeling a little claustrophobic, you’re likely to need more elbowroom than usual in order to function effectively. Try to act independently without smacking anyone in the jaw.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- You should stop and take some time to straighten out an old matter that’s never been handled properly. Even if it doesn’t bother others, only you, it’s worth doing things right.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Although you might not seek or want it, you are destined to play a key role in a group endeavor. Because some members aren’t aware of what’s going on, they’ll welcome your input.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Don’t be surprised if you fi nd yourself to be far more ambitious than usual. You might have to contend with some challenges, but you’ll win out if you use the big guns.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- If you are required to make a critical deci-sion, trade on past experiences for a plan. By using the same techniques that were successful before, you’ll make the right choice.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Another av-enue for material gains could come about through one of your newer relationships. The person in question

likes what she or he sees in you, and wants to include you in something worth checking out.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Chances are you’ll automatically get involved in a partnership arrangement involv-ing something that happens to be your strong suit. With your input, the results will turn out to be good.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- No grass is going to grow under your feet. Because you’ll see what has to be done and know how to do it, you won’t hesitate to get crackin’. This is likely to turn out to be a very successful day.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- With your popularity at a high point, it goes without saying that you’ll be well received wherever you go. Your presence will automatically brighten up any corner you walk into.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Take any opportunity you get to fi nalize an important development. Don’t leave anything up to chance or any loose threads hanging. You may not get another crack at it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Rely on your splendid mental attributes and your innate logic, but don’t totally discount your intuitive perceptions. Each facet has a place in your reasoning, so use your gifts accordingly.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- There’s an excellent chance that certain business matters will be less complicated now than they will be tomorrow. Don’t put off handling anything important.

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CAMERON STROCKSports Reporter

Undefeated and ranked as the No. 4 men’s tennis play-er in the nation, OU junior Costin Paval has reached a new height in his career.

Paval said his work ethic and competitive nature have allowed him to quickly as-cend the national individual rankings, but the fact that he has helped the Sooners reach No. 19 as a team is a source of pride for the Romanian.

The reason for his success is because he is just as com-petitive off the court as he is on it, coach John Roddick said. In short, Paval hates losing.

“What makes Costin so great is that he cannot stand losing in practice and in matches,” Roddick said.

Paval’s competitive drive allows him to play at such a high level, Roddick said.

When Roddick was hired in 2009, one of the most crucial moves he made was securing Paval’s commitment to the Sooners, he said. Maybe the hardest part about getting Paval to become a Sooner was getting him to come on an of-ficial visit to the campus.

It took numerous phone calls to lure him to visit the Sooner state, Paval said.

“I didn’t want to come to college in the first place be-cause it had a bad rumor overseas that if you play col-lege tennis, you will never be able to turn pro,” Paval said.

Paval said the prospect of having better facilities to train in, better coaches, bet-ter playing partners and, ul-timately, better competition eventually lured him to OU.

Being from overseas, Paval said he first heard about OU through other Romanians who had played for the Sooners. Other tennis players who went to other American colleges also helped spread the word about playing in the United States, he said.

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“It’s sad because many people over there don’t even know what college is,” Paval said.

His decision to come to America seems to have paid off thus far. However, he had his struggles when he first ar-rived in America.

While Paval said he loves living in America, he had a hard time at first adjusting

hone his skills, he did not have the same quality of life in Romania as he does here.

“It’s a lot harder living in Romania because here, you have everything you’d ever need,” Paval said. “America is everything that I’ve ever dreamed of.”

Focusing on developing his natural ability allowed Paval the opportunity to play his game on the collegiate level, he said.

And as for the rumored risk that a stint in college hinders tennis players’ ability to turn pro, Paval said he doesn’t re-gret his decision at all.

Paval said he hopes to se-cure a championship not only for himself but for his team, too.

The men’s tennis team will look to tackle another chal-lenge on its quest for a title this weekend when the No. 12 Pepperdine Waves roll into Norman.

The Waves pose a stiff chal-lenge for the Sooners to knock off, Roddick said. Pepperdine won a national title in 2006 and has been used to being ranked in the top 10 every year since then, he said.

“There are going to be some matches where we are the underdogs,” Roddick said.

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Junior Costin Paval prepares to return a serve in the Sooners’ match Sunday against No. 25 Indiana. Paval, the nation’s fourth-ranked singles player, has given up only one set in five matches this season. He and freshman teammate Dane Webb also are 4-1 in doubles play this season.

PLAYER PROFILECostin PavalYear: Junior Hometown:Bucharest, RomaniaSeason stats: Paval is undefeated in singles play this season.

to the work load that came along with his new role.

“It was kind of hard in the beginning to comply with all the demands of being a stu-dent-athlete,” Paval said. “But slowly I adapted and became more comfortable here.”

Past and presentBecause both his parents

were athletes, sports were a constant feature in Paval’s childhood. His father played

rugby, his mother played tennis and Costin showed interest in both sports.

However, he said he didn’t like how physical rugby is and decided to pursue tennis.

From that point, Paval progressed from a specta-tor at his mother’s practices to becoming a tennis player himself.

While Paval had a good life and two parents who helped

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W h e n t h e ra n k i n g s for women’s gymnastics switch over to the regional qualifying score (RQS) sys-tem, the Sooners are ex-pected to be No. 1.

RQS averages teams’ six best scores, three of which must be on the road. OU has posted four team scores above 197, all on the road, and leads Florida’s average by .07 going into tonight’s meet.

But coach K.J. Kindler and her team aren’t wor-ried about rankings or numbers.

“We’re focused on the performance,” Kindler said. “I think they’ve earned the score sever-al times this season, but what I’m interested in is seeing them elevate their performances.”

The Sooners host 21st-ranked Michigan and TWU at 7 tonight at Lloyd Noble Center.

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The new Warren Theatres IMAX auditorium is ready for Thursday night’s VIP reception. The new theater, which boasts a six-story screen and 601 seats, opens today.

MARIAH WEBBLife & Arts Reporter

The Warren Theatre in Moore officially is opening its new IMAX auditorium to the public today.

The $10 million addi-tion features a 60-foot-plus screen and stadium seating for 601 people, according to NewsOK.com.

In an effort to attract au-diences for i ts opening week, the theater is offer-ing half-price showings of “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” and “The Dark Knight” through March 2.

The theater is doing well and ticket sales are rising, Warren Theatres spokesman Dan Gray said.

The same might not be true for the movie industry as a whole, though.

National movie ticket sales plummeted 4.2 percent from 2010 and 2011, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com. In 2011, ticket prices hit an all-time high of $7.93 per ticket.

Increasing ticket prices aside, there are several other

factors that could be contrib-uting to the decline in movie theater attendance, film and video studies professor Katrina Boyd said. The prob-lem stems from the artistic side of film clashing with the business side, she said.

“In the ’70s, the huge pro-duction companies started to notice they could gain repeat customers with spectacu-lar, expensive films like ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Jaws,’” Boyd said.

These high-concept, eas-ily marketable films have become the norm in major theatrical showings, a trend Boyd said actually is narrow-ing the target audience.

“They think these films are marketable to a wide audi-ence; however, they are re-ally for young men,” she said. “This is why we have seen a tremendous rise in popular-ity of independent ‘niche’ films.”

There are other films tar-geted at demographics other than young males, but they still present a potential prob-lem, Boyd said.

“There is a major difference in today’s films to that of their ’70s counterparts,” Boyd said. “The average main character has morphed over time from an adult to a teenager, which middle-aged people are not so interested in. The middle-aged demographic is being underserved.”

Boyd said this could ac-count for the box office de-cline, since middle-age adults are more likely to find a trip to the movies a feasible cost in their budget as opposed to a

16-year-old kid.Boyd also said she thinks

the rise of 3-D movies is con-tributing factor.

“Honestly, students tend to dislike it,” she said.

Aside from the ticket price increase — a 3-D movie ticket at Warren Theatres costs $13 as opposed to a $7 student ticket — Boyd said she thinks the whole experience is ru-ined by 3-D.

“The problem with 3-D is that it totally changes the intended dynamic of many

films,” she said. “Most movies in the U.S. are representation-al. When all of a sudden the story is jumping out at you, it challenges the represen-tational dynamic and makes the story more confusing.”

Boyd said she hopes ticket sales increase in 2012 be-cause she believes attend-ing the movies is a tradition worth preserving.

“Theatrical viewing pre-serves a degree of com-mon culture that would be a shame to see disappear,” she said. “Watching a film in an audience promotes a sort of wrapped attention, which al-lows complete immersion in the story. It is private and uni-fied at the same time.”

Boyd jokingly calls herself a “cinema vampire” because she feeds off of the reac-tions of those around her in theaters.

“That is why I still enjoy watching films I’ve seen a hundred times when I’m in a viewing with students,” she said. “The reaction of the peo-ple surrounding you is vital to a cinematic experience.”

The nat ional average for ticket price is $7.83, down from 2011, according

to B oxOff iceMojo.com. However, only two months into 2012, the numbers are not truly indicative of an improvement.

For students on a budget who may find cost to be the biggest factor keeping them clear of the theaters, many movie theaters offer rewards programs.

AMC Theaters offer their Stubs card, which has an up-front fee of $12 per year but gives a $10 reward for every $100 spent — roughly a free movie for every 10 you see — as well as free food upgrades, waived online ticket ordering fees and other perks that can help cut costs.

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