oZONE makes it diffi cult for honor society to recruit students, leaders say

JOSH BURKSThe Oklahoma Daily

A national honor society offering scholar-ships to undergraduates is experiencing prob-lems locating potential members due to a re-cent software conversion.

Alpha Lambda Delta membership is avail-able to students who achieve a minimum 3.5 GPA their first year on campus; however, fol-lowing OU’s 2009 switch to oZONE, members of the society have reported difficulties access-ing the information of eligible students.

Alpha Lambda Delta’s membership has

dropped 43 percent since 2009, and the group could face loss of scholarships if the trend continues, faculty adviser Alice Lanning said.

“We depend on the university to sup-ply us with the information for whether or

not students qualify,” Lanning said. “With the change in student information systems from [a customer information control sys-tem] to oZONE it’s difficult accessing that information.”

The switch has caused decreases in enroll-ment for the honor society, but leaders aren’t upset with the system, Alpha Lambda Delta President Jordan Naylor said.

“This is one of those things that you are going to have to deal with when you develop a new system,” Naylor said.

The Alpha Lambda Delta National Council claims an endowment of more than $3 million that provides undergraduate scholarships of up to $3,000 to more than 260 member insti-tutions, according to its website.

Naylor said the OU chapter awarded $6,000 in scholarships last year.

“In the past, we have sent letters to the stu-dents and a copy to their parents, and typi-cally we get a lot of responses,” Lanning said. “The national organization allows us to apply for national scholarships based on how many new members we have each year.”

Alpha Lambda Delta will accept spring membership applications until Feb. 16.

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A New Leash on Life offers volunteer opportunities to work with assistance dogs, student trainers say

It was January 2009 when Jessica Kinsey volunteered to work with a girl named Lauren who was afflicted with ce-rebral palsy.

Lauren’s condition left her unable to perform many ev-eryday activities, and Kinsey — with help from Lauren’s

trained service dog — assisted in any way she could.Through working with Lauren and the service dog, Kinsey

said she learned about A New Leash on Life, a local nonprofit or-ganization that trains dogs to care for and assist those in need.

The first time Kinsey walked into A New Leash on Life head-quarters, she said she knew she had found something special.

“One day I walked in and saw all the puppies; I knew I had to have one,” said Kinsey, an OU junior. “It was love.”

New Leash trainers begin training an assistance dog when they are only two to three months old, Kinsey said. The trainers teach the puppies to sit, stay and pick up objects early on, while assimilating the puppies into everyday life, Kinsey said.

Kinsey said she brings her trainee, Ben, to her lecture classes.“It teaches him to get used to people,” Kinsey said. “As soon as

I get seated he lays down and doesn’t move throughout class.”It costs $10,000 on average to complete a dog’s training, and

because the company is nonprofit all of the operational budget comes from donations, according to the organization’s website.

New Leash on Life service dogs are trained to provide as-sistance to children and adults with disabilities or limitations, including mobility problems, hearing loss, seizures or other health issues. Once fully trained, the dogs are capable of per-forming tasks from picking up dropped items, opening doors or responding to a call for help, according to the website.

The organization also runs a program that entrusts inmates at a correctional facility in Holdenville to train shelter dogs into dogs people can adopt, said Barbara Lewis, New Leash founder.

“It’s a great chance for individuals with disabilities to in-crease their independence,” Lewis said.

Lewis, who has trained dogs for 25 years, said her passion and dedication stem from the love for her work.

After trainers have been with their dog for a year, they part ways and send the dogs away for a second tier of training.

OU law student Grant Frankfurt, a dog trainer who will give up his assistance dog this week, said the temporary situation with A New Leash on Life has benefits for college students.

“It allows college students the opportunity to raise and own a puppy but without the long-term commitment,” Frankfurt said.

As Kinsey nears the one-year mark with Ben, she said it will be hard to part with him, but she understands.

“Of course I’ll miss him — it’s hard,” Kinsey said. “You get at-tached, but in the end you have to think about how it’s going to change a person’s life, and that’s what I am here to do.”

Low membership hurts scholarships

Group raises cash forclinicStudents join educational sponsors to provide Norman residents with medical care

ALLISON NICHOLSThe Oklahoma Daily

An OU student organiza-tion focused on medical ethics has donated nearly $2,000 dur-ing the past two semesters to a Norman-based free health-care clinic.

The Medical Ethics and Issue Discussion Panel is a student organization that provides stu-dents the chance to learn about current medical topics, organi-zation presi-d e n t N i e k i a Franklin said.

Phy s i c i a n s and professors generally lead the group’s dis-cussions and o f f e r e x p e r-tise to students exploring the i s s u e s , s a i d Franklin, zool-ogy junior.

The organi-zation donated almost $800 to Health for Friends in spring 2010 and $1,055 in fall 2010, and the two organizations have had a strong bond for the past two years, zoology junior David Ahrabizad said.

The money donated to Health for Friends was raised through member donations, philan-thropy dues, and support from Kaplan and the Pr inceton Review, two of the organization’s principle sponsors, Franklin said.

Health for Friends has led dis-cussions for the organization and allows one member from the group to volunteer each day during the semester, Ahrabizad said.

Health for Friends has func-tioned as a clinic for uninsured, low-income Norman residents since 1985, according to its website.

“We continue to raise and donate funds to this great or-ganization because as volun-teers we experience firsthand the immense impact [Health for Friends] has on the community,” said Rachelle David, zoology biomedical sciences senior.

The discussion panel has plans to hold a fundraising week later this semester and hopes it can raise more money than it has donated thus far, David said.

He said the discussion panel will continue supporting Health for Friends for as long as it con-tinues to serve residents in need of health care.

“You get attached (to the dogs), but in the end you have to think about how it’s going to change a person’s life.”

— JESSICA KINSEY, NEW LEASH ON LIFE TRAINER

HELEN GRANT/THE DAILY

Special-needs dog trainer Jessica Kinsey sits on the couch witih her dog-in-traning, Ben, on Monday afternoon. Kinsey volunteers with A New Leash on Life, a nonprofit organization that trains dogs to care for those in need.

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Alumnus to offer Soviet history lecture for students

An OU alumnus will give a free lecture about Soviet history at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 8 in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Frontier Room.

Paul R. Gregory will present “Politics, Murder and Love in Stalin’s Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina,” a story about two lovers in Stalin’s Russia, according to a press release.

Gregory earned two degrees from the OU College of Arts and Sciences and funded an endowment to support a lecture program in his name, professor Emily Johnson said.

For more information, contact Johnson at 405-325-1486.

— Sara Groover/The Daily

Early bird gets financial aid for law school

Students seeking financial aid for law school for fall 2011 are encouraged to start their financial aid packet early, a pre-law adviser says.

All schools have different criteria for financial aid and each school will have a deadline which students should take note of, said Elizabeth Base, pre-law adviser.

Base said she urges students to begin the process now because schools will give first consideration to those who apply early.

If students are unsure which school they want to attend, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, allows students to list up to 10 schools, Base said.

Planning ahead is important for securing a law school loan, Base said.

Students can obtain the free financial aid form and more information online at www.fafsa.ed.gov or from OU’s Financial Aid office in Buchanan Hall.

— Rachel Cervenka/The Daily

Student group meetings required, open to public

The Council of Student Organizations will hold its spring 2011 meetings at 5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Regents and Associates rooms.

A representative from each student organization on campus is required to attend this mandatory meeting on one of two nights, said Tolu Adenuga, council coordinator. However, he said the meeting also is open to the public.

The council meets once a semester to bring student organizations together to learn about campus resources available to them, according to a press release.

Adenuga wasn’t able to say what weight the council holds to make attendance mandatory or how this policy is enforced.

— Laney Ellisor/The Daily

By the numbers

2008 enrollment — 515 students2009 enrollment — 285 students*2010 enrollment — 360 students

*Year OU implemented oZONE

— Source: Jordan Naylor, Alpha Lambda Delta president

ONLINE AT OUDAILY.COM» Link: View Alpha Lambda Delta membership qualifi cations and apply until Feb. 16

How to get involved

Want to help but cannot commit to training a dog for a year?

A New Leash on Life is always looking for volunteers. The organization needs people to groom dogs, clean kennels, take dogs for walks and fi le clerical work.

For more information, call A New Leash on Life at 405-224-7715.

— Source: newleashinc.org

Spring meeting dates

TIME: 6 to 7 p.m.Feb. 1, 15March: 1, 5, 29April 12, 26

PLACE: Henderson-Tolson Cultural Center

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OUR VIEW

Fee consolidation a bad move

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THUMBS UP ›› Student group donates nearly $2,000 to Norman nonprofi t health clinic (see page 1)

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The Daily’s Leesa Allmond offers her keys to success her past freshman year

If you picked up Thursday’s paper, you might have noticed the thumbs up we gave to a decision the OU Board of Regents made about student fees at Wednesday’s regents meeting.

The Board of Regents is the official govern-ing body of the university and makes deci-sions that impact students — including fees.

At the meeting, the regents decided to eliminate more than 1,800 course-specific fees, consolidating them into 12 college-specific fees.

Under this new system, students will pay a flat fee per credit hour.

The fees range from $8 per credit hour in the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education

to $26 per credit hour f o r c o u r s e s i n t h e Gaylord Col lege of Journalism and Mass Communication.

What this means is when you look at your bursar bill, the numer-ous fees for things like college activities, build-ing renovations, re-search equipment and speakers and symposia will be rolled into one lump sum.

In the rush of meeting deadlines, this idea of consolidation sounded like a good one to us, so we gave it a tip of the hat.

However, in retrospect, we realized this is actually a very bad idea.

Right now, the fees are already vague, with names like “academic excellence fee,” “events fee,” “enrichment fee” and “assess-ment fee.” Now, it will be even harder to track down where your money is spent.

It seems to us the regents are putting up a wall to make fees harder to understand.

OU President David Boren said this deci-sion came about in response to the “request of students, parents and virtually everyone.” This is strange because we haven’t heard anything about a call to consolidate fees. Students have complained about paying

Right now, the fees are already vague. Now, it will be even harder to track down where your money is spent.”

“ Fa l l Fo r A n y t h i n g ” by C o u r t n e y Summers was released Dec. 21. This teen novel is about the struggles of a young girl named Eddie Reeves who lost her father, Seth, to suicide.

Reeves wants to answer the question of why her father committed suicide.

Narrated by Reeves — a 17-year-old high school senior — the setting cultivates the new world Reeves is forced to live in. It is a world where, not only is her father gone, but in place of her father, Beth, her mom’s best friend, moves in with Reeves and her mom after her father’s death.

Beth and Eddie do not get along, and Beth’s relentless nagging drives Reeves to near insanity. Luckily, Reeves has the undi-vided attention of Milo, her best friend.

But their relationship becomes strained after her father’s death.

“We don’t talk. It’s quiet between us late-ly. All the time. Sometimes I’m afraid my dad’s death has stolen whatever sparked between us back in second grade,” Reeves says.

Still emotionally voided by her father’s death, without a best friend to talk to about it and pressed for answers, Reeves seeks refuge in a new friend, Culler Evans. Culler Evans was Reeves’ father’s photography student.

Though the two had just met, their in-stant connection through Reeves’ father ties them together.

Together, Evans and Reeves try to unlock the mystery of her father’s suicide and an-swer that one nagging question.

Through six black-and-white photo-graphs in various locations stacked neat-ly in a little taped black box that Seth had made before the night of his death, Evans and Reeves find clues to Reeves’ father’s suicide.

Etched on an old piece of rotting wood, in one of Evan’s photos taken of the first pho-tograph — a barn — are two words that send Reeves into a whirlwind of unanswered

questions and mysterious thoughts — “FIND ME S.R.”

I liked how Summers added a plot change toward the end of the novel that I believe no reader would expect. I also like how Summers told her story through the eyes of the 17-year-old protagonist.

Summers made Reeves a likable charac-ter. Reeves’ cynicism and naivety kept me entertained. This novel is great for young college students as it is dark, bold and has a few plot devices that kept the story mov-ing briskly.

Summers’ novel digs deep into a touchy subject tactfully, while maintaining the intricate details of a 17-year-old’s life. Summers’ novel is a quick read. I recom-mend this novel for leisure-time reading.

— Danielle Landrum,

University College freshman

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Novel dark lookat young adult life

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OU to feature dessert, edible art during annual Chocolate Festival

The 29th annual Chocolate Festival will be held 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 5 in OU’s Forum Building.

The festival provides restaurants and chocolate lovers a chance to sample desserts and edible art in one location.

Tickets for the festival begin at $20. Admission includes 10 samples of chocolate. Proceeds from the festival will be given to the Firehouse Art Center.

For more information, contact Carla Chew at 405-329-4523 or visit normanfirehouse.com.

— RJ Young/The Daily

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‘Little’ fees of horror

multiple, undefined fees but haven’t nec-essarily been asking for a consolidation of those fees.

A more helpful approach would be to simply detail in bursar bills exactly how much specific courses cost, and what other fees, like “academic excellence,” actually apply to.

It might mean a longer bursar bill, but the transparency would be helpful for stu-dents trying to make sure their money is well spent.

As Boren said during the meeting, tu-ition is expected to increase this year be-cause of insufficient state funds. In ad-dition, technology fees will increase 10

percent because they have been frozen for the past two years.

Students need to have the ability to eas-ily track their money, because every penny counts these days.

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Sooners seek to stay unbeaten in top-10 matchup with Minnesota

GREG FEWELLThe Oklahoma Daily

The No. 4 Sooner men’s gymnastics team is 4-0 this season, and the team has had to beat three other ranked teams to get to this point.

Rather than facing easi-er competition, OU keeps that trend going at 7 p.m. Saturday when it hosts No. 7 Minnesota.

The Sooners started the year by winning the pro-gram’s 12th straight Rocky Mountain Open, demolish-ing No. 9 Nebraska, No. 13 Air Force and Arizona State in the process.

Oklahoma scored a team total of 346.500, and Nebraska was next with 334.500.

The men improved by scor-ing 358.350 to top No. 8 Ohio State by 18 points Saturday. Only two other teams — Stanford and California — have scored higher this sea-son, and those squads are No. 1 and No. 2 in the country.

While the Sooners looked impressive in their open-ing victory, the team looked nearly unstoppable against Ohio State.

MEN’S GYMNASTICS

OU to clash with Gophers

MEREDITH MORIAK/THE DAILY

Sophomore gymnast Troy Nitzky competes on the pommel horse during OU’s win against Ohio State on Saturday in Norman. Nitzky and the Sooners host No. 7 Minnesota this Saturday.

OU won every team event title and five of six individu-al event titles. Jacob Dalton won his second all-around title in as many meets.

The sophomore claimed the individual title on vault, parallel bars and high bar, while also setting a new OU record on vault (16.550).

Dalton also was named the College Gymnastics A s s o c i a t i o n N a t i o n a l Gymnast of the Week for his

efforts, in addition to weekly conference honors.

Senior Steven Legendre had a big night for the S o o n e r s a g a i n s t t h e Buckeyes, scoring 16.250 to win floor and 16.000 to fin-ish second on the vault.

Sophomore Alex Naddour grabbed OU’s fifth individu-al title with 15.250 on the pommel horse.

Minnesota has had suc-cess early this year, and most

recently the team showed it can compete with the best in the country by finishing just behind third-ranked Illinois.

The Gophers also beat Nebraska handily in the same meet.

The Sooners have at least one athlete ranked in the top 10 of all six events, so the team’s confidence is high despite tough upcoming competition.

Team could reach .500 in conference play with win against Iowa State on Saturday in Ames, Iowa

JORDAN MARKSThe Oklahoma Daily

The OU men’s basket-ball team looks to contin-ue its recent Big 12 success and win its first road game since the 2009-10 season at 8 p.m. Saturday against Iowa State in Ames, Iowa.

Oklahoma has won its last two games, bringing its record to 10-9 overall, 2-3 in conference play.

The Sooners will face a Cyclone team that start-ed the season 13-2 before conference play but has since gone 1-5 in the Big 12. In its last home game, Iowa State lost to Texas Tech, 92-83, on Wednesday.

The Sooners wil l be charged w ith s low ing down the high-spaced of-fense of Iowa State, espe-cially senior guard Diante Garrett, the fifth-leading scorer in the Big 12, av-eraging 17.4 points per game.

Opposite Garret, OU sophomore guard Carl Blair will look to feed off his success of late.

Blair is coming off of a 13-point, seven-assist perfor-mance against Colorado on Saturday. He is the fifth-lead-ing assist man in the Big 12.

In Oklahoma’s last win, senior guard Cade Davis made a few hustle plays that sparked life into the Sooners, and he’ll likely have to raise the team’s energy level again Saturday.

If the Sooners do not win this road test, it will only be harder for them to get a road win down the back stretch of conference play.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Sooners’ sights set on Cyclones

FLOOR1. OU (60.225)2. Stanford (60.050)3. Illinois (59.450)4. Michigan (57.750)5. Penn St. (57.267)

HORSE1. Illinois (57.150)2. Stanford (57.125)3. California (57.000)...6. OU (55.525)

RINGS1. Penn St. (59.800)2. Stanford (59.750)3. OU (58.925)4. California (58.500)5. Ohio St. (57.400)

VAULT1. OU (63.775)2. Illinois (63.100)3. Minnesota (62.900)4. Stanford (62.825)5. California (62.525)

PARALLEL BARS1. California (59.300)2. Illinois (58.300)3. Stanford (57.400)4. OU (56.900)5. Michigan (56.450)

HIGH BAR1. California (59.775)2. Stanford (59.400)3. Illinois (58.850)4. OU (57.075)5. Michigan (56.850)

— Source: NCAA

National rankings for team events (as of Jan. 24)

Carl Blair

Diante Garrett

» Year: Sophomore

» Position:Guard

» Hometown:Houston, Texas

» Year: Senior

» Position:Guard

» Hometown:Milwaukee, Wis.

Averaging 6.8 points, 4.5 assists and 2.2 rebounds per game this season

Averaging 17.8 points, 5.9 assists and 3.8 rebounds per game this season

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