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Final stand for traditional rivalry?With the Cornhuskers jumping into the Big Ten
next season, the fi nal Big 12 Championship may be the last OU-Nebraska meeting for a decade
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‘Goodbye Girl’ hits the stageSooner Theatre’s production of the Neil Simon and Marvin Hamlisch musical opens Friday evening
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Free flu shots given at Goddard Health Center
Starting today, students, faculty and staff can get free fl u shots at the Goddard Health Center.
The 2010-2011 vaccine will protect against an infl uenza A H3N2 virus, an infl uenza B virus and the 2009 H1N1 virus, otherwise known as the swine fl u virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website.
Flu shots are free with a valid OU ID or $25 for patients without one. The clinic is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Friday. No appointments are necessary, and patients must be 9 years old or older, according to the Goddard Health Center.
Any Lab Test Now, a local medical lab testing and health care center in downtown Norman, offers the vaccine for $19.99, and Walgreens administers it for $29.99.
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Voter registration forms due Friday
The last day to mail out voter registration forms for the Nov. 2 elections is Friday.
“There are no residency requirements in the state of Oklahoma, so even OU students who are from out of state are eligible to apply,” said Anette Pretty, Cleveland County Election Board secretary.
“However, students have to be careful if they’re on scholarships or grants that are based on their original state of residence.”
Any person who is a citizen of the United States, a resident of Oklahoma and 18 years of age or older is eligible to register.
Registration forms are available at the County Election Board office at 641 E. Robinson St., Suite 200, as well as at all tag agencies, public libraries, post offices and can find the link online at OUDaily.com.
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Zoning law could affect college students living in single-family neighborhoods if reported
LILLY CHAPAThe Oklahoma Daily
Editor’s note: The names used in this story have been changed to protect the identities of those living in violation of the law.
Norman residents who live with more than two people they are not related to may want to get on their neighbors’ good sides soon. The city of Norman will begin enforc-ing a little-known ordinance that is inher-ently up to their discretion.
The Three Unrelated Persons ordinance, which has been in place since 1954, limits single-family dwellings to residents who are family members, or to no more than three unrelated people living together. The City of Norman Revitalization Division
manager Linda Price said the law is in place to control traffic, noise and parking problems.
“I’m sure there are hundreds of house-holds in Norman that violate the ordinance, but if they never get complained about, there’s nothing negative about it and there’s nothing we can do,” Price said. “But we do have a number of households that we re-ceive complaints about fairly often, and that’s when we start investigating.”
Residents may fill out a complaint form if they believe the ordinance is being broken in their neighborhood. The owner or prop-erty manager of the dwelling will be con-tacted, and they will be asked to correct the situation within a designated time frame without being issued a citation. If a citation is issued, there will be a fine of up to $500 per day in violation.
SEE ZONING PAGE 2
ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHANIE ROACH/THE DAILY
The Three Unrelated Persons ordinance does not allow more than three unrelated persons to occupy a single-family dwelling in certain zones. Violators could face fines if they are reported.
Zoning ordinance
SHACK-A-THON | STUDENTS RAISE MONEY FOR CHARITY
HELEN GRANT/THE DAILY
Jake Rupert, international and area studies junior; Myron Jacobs, human relations junior; and Trayvion Jones, communications sophmore, do their part to raise funds for Habitat For Humanity on Wednesday during Shack-A-Thon at the South Oval. members of 28 student organizations lined the lawn of the South Oval to celebrate Shack-A-Thon, making it the largest participation year in the event’s history, Shack-A-Thon chairwoman Kathryn Hamstra said. The event raised about $4,500. Delta Delta Delta and Alpha Tau Omega collected $381, which was more than any other participating group.
Visit OUDaily.com to watch a video of the Shack-A-Thon
School of Meteorology refl ects on fi rst 50 years this weekend
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Events hosted Friday, Saturday to celebrate history of program
TREVOR SHOFNERThe Oklahoma Daily
Fifty years ago, after seeing the need for and relevance of a meteorology program in Oklahoma, two professors from Texas A&M University made the move north to OU to found OU’s School of Meteorology.
To recognize and celebrate this history of success, the School of Meteorology is hold-ing events this weekend at the National Weather Center.
Friday morning includes symposiums in the David L. Boren Auditorium covering the history of the School of Meteorology.
In the afternoon, there will be a three-part historical overview of the fields of storm-chasing and tornado research, radar
meteorology and observations and numeri-cal weather with John Lewis.
The day concludes with a dinner and re-ception at the Embassy Suites. Jack Hayes, the director of the National Weather Service, will speak at the dinner.
An open house exhibit and tours of the National Weather Center and radar facilities begin Saturday morning. After lunch in the center, attendees can spend the afternoon listening to the “Reminiscing Sessions” of individuals from the program’s past that humorously revisit the school’s history one decade at a time.
Saturday wraps up with another recep-tion, followed by a barbecue dinner.
National Weather Center history» 1960 — Two Texas A&M professors, Walter Saucier and Yoshi Sasaki, began teaching at OU.
» 1963 — The fi rst government meteorology laboratory moved to OU under the direction of Ed Kessler.
» 1969 — The meteorology program came into its own department, after previously being offered
through the Engineering Physics and Civil Engineering and Environmental Science programs.
» 1978 — The Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies was established after
previously being funded through the Provost’s offi ce.
» 1988 — A proposal was approved for funding for an 11-year National Science Foundation Science
and Technology Center.
» Early ’90s — The Oklahoma Mesonet, a network connecting 115 other stations, was created. It was
one of three U.S. Department of Energy sponsored sites across the world.
» 2000 — The weather center became fi nancially independent from the National Science Foundation
» 2006 — The school joined the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences. The school moved
into the $67 million National Weather Center building, which was created after Bill Clinton’s response to
the May 3, 1999, tornados.
*Source: weather.ou.edu
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Today around campus» Slogans for support will be held 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union food court to support breast cancer awareness this October.
» A Business Etiquette class will be held 1:30 to 2 p.m. in the Union’s Governors Room.
» The Assessment and Learning Center will hold Tips for Talking to Your Professor from 3 to 4 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245.
» This day in OU history
Oct. 7, 1972Dorm to initiate movie society
Cross Center residents voted to start a fi lm festival similar to those of Walker and Cate Center’s. The committee chose “Let It Be” for the fi rst showing.
Frank Brown and Jim Krueger were both Cross Center residents and initiated the idea for the Cross society. Brown also served as the chairman for the society.
Posters, furniture among exhibitsExhibits at the OU Museum of Art ranged from original
furniture pieces to posters by famed European and American artists.
James L. Henkle, former OU art professor, had been teaching for 20 years at the time of the exhibition. Henkle presented 15 pieces of furniture and his latest sculpture designs.
*Source: The Oklahoma Daily archives
Friday, Oct. 8» The Baha’i Association will hold an Interfaith Devotional from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Union’s President’s Room.
» The Union Programming Board will hold free screenings of “Eclipse” in the Union’s Meacham Auditorium at 4, 7, 10 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. The 10 p.m. showing will be preceded with a chocolate fountain and free refreshments starting at 9 p.m.
» The African Christian Fellowship will host its Friday Night Fellowship from 7 to 10:15 p.m. in the Union’s Frontier Room.
» As part of the Climate and Energy Week, an Eco-Week Transatlantic Climate Bridge Gala will be held 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Union’s Heritage Room.
Sunday, Oct. 10» The Oklahoma Educational Studies Association will hold a panel discussion 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Union’s Beaird Lobby and Lounge.
» OU Amnesty International will host a meeting 5 to 6 p.m. in the Union’s Heritage Room.
“I don’t really see how it’s fair to kick people out of a house that they are legally renting, just because they are unrelated,” Sarah, an instrument music educa-tion junior, said. “How does one more person living in a house affect the ‘integrity’ of the neighborhood?”
Price said the law is not designed to punish college students. When the law was written in 1954, students were required to live in the dorms. Price also said most cities have a definition of what a single family is.
“The impact of having nu-merous unrelated people is seen through parking prob-lems; trash and overall prop-erty maintenance; and the increased activity level that happens when more than three unrelated people and all their friends are coming and going,” Price said.
Price said because the ordinance is enforced by complaints, there are many households in violation that will never get caught.
“It’s very difficult for us to determine if a house is in violation of the ordinance, so enforcement is based on complaints,” Price said. “The neighbors have to be willing to testify that the household is conflicting with the char-acter of the neighborhood.”
Sarah’s roommate Lauren, an instrument music edu-cation senior, said she’s “not worried [they’ll] get caught because [they] don’t cause problems within the neighborhood.”
Lauren said her neighbor-hood is made up of a mix of traditional families and college students, and that big parties and parking are rarely an issue.
“On our street, the loudest household that causes the biggest traffic problems is not one occupied by college
ZONING: Noise, parking issue main complaintContinued from page 1 students, but by a family
with kids,” Lauren said.Price said the mayor set
up an ad hoc committee to address the zoning prob-lems after OU banned alco-hol on campus.
“After that, ever yone moved off campus and we had issues with rampant partying,” Price said. “For a while it created huge prob-lems. We were getting calls every day from people angry about the parties and traffic caused by these houses, and that’s when we were urged to enforce the zoning ordi-nance more carefully.”
Price said it has taken a while to spread the word about the ordinance, but it’s finally starting to work.
Lauren said she heard a
rumor about the ordinance, but didn’t think it was true.
“Most people I’ve talked to [about the ordinance] didn’t know it existed,” Sarah said. “I don’t think my landlord knows about it, either.”
Price said the law isn’t aimed at students, and she hopes that students will be-come more educated about the law so they won’t violate
it.There have been situa-
tions where there are no stu-dents involved, Price said.
“I think i t ’s truly not aimed at any one group, but it’s aimed at trying to main-tain the integrity of neigh-borhoods. In a single-family neighborhood, there’s an expectation of peace, and we’re trying to protect that.”
The impact of having numerous unrelated people is
seen through parking problems; trash and overall
property maintenance; and the increased activity
level that happens when more than three unrelated
people and all their friends are coming and going.”
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LIFESTYLE
Laughing Tomato’s farmers market brings organic food, fall activities to Walker-Adams Mall on Wednesday
CHASE COOKThe Oklahoma Daily
A public relations specialist dressed up like a tomato to help attract stu-dents to the Laughing Tomato’s spe-cial Farmers Market at the Walker-Adams Mall on Wednesday.
Lauren Royston, Housing and Food spokeswoman, showed her organic support by dressing up in a tomato costume. Normally, The Laughing Tomato holds a farmers’ market every Friday, but Wednesday’s event was aimed at students living in the dorms, Royston said.
Students perused The Laughing Tomato’s special farmers’ market booths, choosing from foods like fresh vegetables, fruits, peanuts, honey and grape juice.
Corporate businesses showed their support for a greener future with a myriad of recyclable prod-ucts. Leadership Development and Volunteerism also set up a booth al-lowing students to enlist in its volun-teer database.
Susan Graff, Crestview Farms pres-ident, provided vegetables from her farm and passed out pamphlets with lists of farms students can visit to buy local goods. Crestview op-erates out of Edmond, Okla. and has been certified organic since 2003, she said. Buying these organic goods l o c a l l y i s g o o d f o r health and the state, she said.
“It’s important for everyone,” Graff said. “Money stays in the state, and the food travels a shorter distance.”
The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry facili-tates the relationship between local farmers and schools with the Farm to School program. Chris Kirby, pro-gram administrator, said it helps con-nect local farmers — like Peachcrest Farms and Perennial Produce — to
schools or universities. This provides fresh, local produce to students and promotes a healthier lifestyle, she said.
“I’ve had a great opportunity work-ing with progressive universities like OU,” Kirby said. “The program has been a great success.”
This success gives students like Ashley Sims, biochemistry junior liv-ing in the dorms, an opportunity to enjoy the organic goods. She said her microbiology class warned her about problems with processed foods, and now she tries to avoid them. Wednesday’s event and The Laughing Tomato’s weekly farmers’ market make it easier for her, she said.
While the main attractions were the fruits and vegetables, the green theme carried over into the environ-ment. Corporate companies showed their dedication with biodegradable products.
Coca-Cola had a sign listing the rec yclable products, and David Kamphaus, Solo’s Oklahoma market manager, provided samples of com-
postable and rec y-clable cups and con-tainers. It’s important s o m e t h i n g i s d o n e s o o n b e c a u s e t h e landfills are filled with non-biodegradable products, Kamphaus said.
“I think we will have a mandate someday,” Kamphaus said.
“ W e n e e d t o d o something. It’s not going to be this way forever.”
There are related bills pending in the house and senate: H.R. 5584 Improving Nutrition for America’s Children Act and S. 3307 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.
A n y o n e t h a t m i s s e d o u t o n Wednesday’s event can go to The Laughing Tomato’s weekly farmers’
Farmers market brings local produceONLINE AT OUDAILY.COM» Link: View the wesbites of the vendors from Wednesday’s farmers market
HELEN GRANT/THE DAILY
Above: Pharmacy Freshman, Tkia Robinson decorates a pumpkin between Walker-Adams Mall at the Famer’s Market on Wednesday afternoon. Robinson said, “I’m going to put it on my desk till Halloween.”
Right: Honey jarred from George’s Apiary based in Noble, OK is displayed and sold at the Farmer’s Market Wednesday afternoon in the Walker-Adams Mall. Local farmers brought their goods to campus as part of Climate and Energy Week’s activities.
College is about
fi nding yourself. It’s an
opportunity to develop
healthy habits.”
— DONNA DYE, THE LAUGHING TOMATO SUPERVISOR
market held every Friday. Not all of the goods from Wednesday will be avail-able, but there will be plenty of healthy options, said Donna Dye, The Laughing Tomato supervisor.
“College is about finding yourself,” Dye said. “It’s an opportunity to devel-op healthy habits.”
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Take advantage of research grants
It’s that time of year again. Shirts begin to hide under
sweaters and pullovers. Shorts give way to sweat-pants and jogging pants. And sniffles, tissues and coughs start entering classrooms.
As the blazing heat of sum-mer finally succumbs to the cold winds from the north, OU is coming down with the common cold.
Now, we’ve all been told that there is no cure for the common cold, that we just have to wait it out and drink our fluids. I’d like you to take that advice with a pinch of salt. Literally.
As your grandma may or may not have told you, salt-water gargling actually reduces symptoms associ-ated with upper-respiratory tract infections — the root of
many of the familiar symp-toms of the common cold, including sore throats and congestion.
In a couple weeks, the Mayo Clinic will publish its latest edition of its Book of Home Remedies, in which editor-in-chief Dr. Philip T. Hagen notes that a saline so-lution uses osmotic pressure to pull fluid from swelling in the throat, decreasing the se-verity of the infection.
Five years ago, a prelimi-nary study in the American J o u r n a l o f P r e v e n t i v e M e d i c i n e f o u n d t h a t
individuals who gargled three times a day over a 60-day period saw a 40 percent decrease in upper-respirato-ry tract infections.
In addition, the physical act of gargling loosens the thick mucus build-up in the throat, clearing away in-vading bacteria and easing congestion.
A 2008 study published in BioMed Central Health Services Research reveals a second benefit of this meth-od. The study investigated plain water-gargling as a low-cost means of fighting these infections. The results were very promising. Compared to the control group, the group of water-garglers had over a third less infections.
So, if you’ve got a scratchy throat but would rather pay
for school than meds, don’t fret.
Go to Crossroads. Ask for a water cup. Fill it with water, empty in a few salt packets, stir vigorously and head to the bathroom. Gargle, and spit.
Total cost: the calories it took to walk to the Union.
If you don’t like the idea of gargling salty water for 30 seconds a couple times a day to help kick your cough, add some flavor. Squeeze a lemon, pour in some sugar or even try it with iced-tea instead of water.
— Jay Kumar,
microbiology sophomore
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STAFF COLUMNN
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
View of homeless narrow, ignorant
This is in response to “Shack-A-Thon is an em-barrassment.” First of all I would like to say that the people who run those shacks are not making fun of homeless people. The view that the author has of people in poverty is extremely narrow and pessimis-tic. I have met a few people who have been in and out of shelters for their life, including my own mother. To say that they would be embarrassed is just plain ignorant.
If you are trying to feed your family and get a roof over your head, you are going to be happy with the often little help you can get. When you meet some-one who is in poverty, most of the time they are not a “woe-is-me” sort of person. What the author fails to realize is that the people who are out there for Shack-A-Thon are helping people. These people are trading in the dignity and luxuries they have grown accus-tomed to so someone else’s life can be better.
The fact that the author depicted homeless peo-ple in such a stereotypical manner is as ignorant as his column. Do you know what is happening next month? That’s right, Thanksgiving. And some people will get to spend that holiday because people like me were willing to embarrass ourselves in front of our peers. Now if that is something questionable, let it be, but don’t tell me I am like the KKK. At least I spur on opportunity.
— Kimm Johnson, University College freshman
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Comments in response to Matt Bruenig’s Wednesday column “Shack-A-Thon is an embarrassment”
“God forbid people have fun while raising money for a good cause. The heathens!
P.S. I’d like to see an article that isn’t so pretentious. Its offensive that this author makes the assumption that all of the Greek community are rich. Why must you insist on reinforcing stereotypes? Articles like this create a divide between the Greek community and those who are not Greek within the OU community. Why not help contribute to OU being a less cliquey place?”
— anonymous
Homeless swarm South Oval for “Frat-A-Thon,” throw huge kegger.
— wiggin
“Thank you for removing the wool of good intentions from our eyes. While awareness about homelessness needs to be created, there are more mature and engaging methods available. A friend of mine lived as a homeless person in Venice Beach, CA, for a weekend and photographed the whole experience. He uses the photos and stories of the people he met to convey the desperation and hopelessness he encountered. Perhaps shack a thon could be more like a realistic exhibit instead of a sideshow that fails to address the real issue. I wonder how many shack a thon participants actually know a homeless person.”
— JohnnyReb
“It’s my understanding that the purpose of Shack-a-thon is to raise awareness about housing issues and substandard living conditions. Seems to me that it’s working, however tacky it may be. If the “throng of privileged kids” are impacted by participating in this event then it seems like a success to me. At least they’re trying.”
— kk
“Butthurt GDI whining about something that wont change. Enjoy not changing anything, ever. The greek community is actually doing something aside from whining. If I see you on campus, I’m totally icing you. Be sure to keep a counter ice in your cargo shorts you GDI.”
— fratdaddy69
“How on the mark! Finally some reality on campus.”
— tractorman
COLUMN
Mr. Bruenig must wake up to his realities from the ar-ticle that should not have been put in front of any readers’ eyes. The time has come to realize that raising money and contributions for those who are truly the unprivileged and those stricken with the awful term of poverty need our support more than ever.
The ways in which support can be given are unlimited. We, as Americans, can af-ford to aid others lives and instill hope and a better future for those across the sea and also here at home.
America is a nation greatly privileged with a grand liberty and freedom to pursue our pursuits of making the difference in others’ lives easier than many other citizens in the world.
We are strong enough and we are mighty enough through humble strength and creative minds to create wonderful possibilities to represent a campaign that will benefit society, not tear down or belittle those who we are striving to help.
It is no small thing for a member of the university com-munity and as a student to tap into one’s pockets and
wallets to pull out even a small amount of change to bene-fit Habitat for Humanity or any other humanitarian effort.
Times are tough for students in finances and tough for others around the world.
To see the unheartless effort by students and especially those of the fraternal com-munity, who are seen to be the “privi-leged” by Mr. Bruenig is an example of true leadership and endless love to help those who need our help.
We are not mocking when we dress to impress as we strive to bring in whatever contributions we can muster. We are not harassing, but we are asking for you to
change others’ lives who need it more than us who are “privileged.”
Shack-A-Thon is a way to make the difference that is not embarrassing, but embracing the fact we love those and will care for those, and that is nothing anybody should apologize for.
— Travis Ruddle, political science sophomore
Embracing, not embarassing the poor
We are not harassing,
but we are asking for
you to change others’
lives who need it
more than us who are
‘privileged.’”
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Many students may not know the Honors College allows students a unique opportunity to gain experience doing something usually reserved for graduate students.
In addition to its Honors Research Assistant Program, which is reserved for honors students, the college of-fers the Undergraduate Research Oppor tunit ies Programs for al l undergraduates.
The program provides grants of up to $500 for students who apply and are se-lected to conduct in-depth research on spe-cific topics.
A n y s t u d e nt w i t h a good research idea ought to apply, espe-cially those students who are considering graduate school.
I t ’s i m p o r t a n t t o note that even though the program is funded through the Honors C o l l e g e, t h e g ra nt s aren’t reserved for only honors students — any u n d e r g ra d u at e c a n apply.
We’re not talking about an 11-page research paper for your upper division Western civilization class — that usu-ally requires gathering someone else’s
scholarly articles and using the infor-mation to prove your thesis.
The Undergraduate Research grants are meant to create the kind of re-search more similar to what appears in the scholarly articles on EBSCO.
Take a look at some of the titles of previous research assignments under-graduate students have conducted:
• “Single-Particle Spectroscopy”• “Calculation of Electron and Hole
Energy Levels in Nanostructured Quantum Wires”
• “History’s Legacy? A n t i - J a p a n e s e Sentiment in the Youth of China”
Because our nation is experiencing a reces-sion some have called the worst economic sit-uation since the Great Depression, many stu-dents are opting to at-tend graduate school to stave off the daunting abyss that is 10 percent national unemploy-ment and to improve their chances at secur-ing higher-paying jobs
in the future. In September 2008, more stu-
dents took the Graduate Record Examinations than any month for the eight previous years, according to the
Educational Testing Service.They spend much of their time find-
ing solutions to the problems our gen-eration faces, such as finding alter-native energy or making sure severe recessions like the one we’re in don’t happen again to ending discrimina-tion and promoting understanding among all cultures and nations.
Allowing undergraduates a taste of this experience can only help advance the research continued in graduate school.
This is one example of university money well spent.
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... many students
are opting to
attend graduate
school to stave
off the daunting
abyss that is 10
percent national
unemployment and
to improve their
chances at securing
higher-paying jobs
in the future.”
Thursday, October 7, 2010 • 5The Oklahoma Daily | OUDaily.com NATION
FELICIA FONSECA/AP
A man walks through a Bellemont, Ariz., backyard Wednesday after a tornado swept through the community west of Flagstaff. Fifteen homes were damaged so badly, the residents were evacuated.
Storms bring damage to northern part of state; no injuries reported
BELLEMONT, Ariz. — Two tornadoes touched down early Wednesday in northern Arizona, derailing 28 cars of a parked freight train, blowing semis off the highway and smashing out the windows of dozens of homes.
A third touched down later, but there were no im-mediate reports of damage or injuries.
T h e f i r s t t o r n a d o h i t Bellemont around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday and the second touched down east of the small community a short time later. The third was re-ported along Interstate 17 just south of Flagstaff around noon.
Fifteen Bellemont homes were so badly damaged that they were uninhabitable and the estimated 30 people who lived in them were evacuat-ed. Authorities were setting up a shelter at midmorning Wednesday, said Coconino County Sher i f f ’s Off ice spokesman Gerry Blair.
No serious injuries or deaths were reported. Two
3 tornadoes tear across Arizona
crew members were on the train when it was cast off the tracks around 6:30 a.m., said Burlington Northern-Santa Fe spokeswoman Lena Kent, but neither was hurt.
The train was hauling cargo from ports in Los Angeles to the east and contained no hazardous materials. The derailed cars are blocking both main rail lines through the area, and
the railroad expects to re-open one of the lines by midnight.
In the Baderville area, au-thorities had to pull a family out of a home where they had been trapped because of damage from the torna-do. It wasn’t known wheth-er anyone was trapped in homes in the Bellemont area, which is about 20 miles west of Flagstaff.
Severe weather is ex-pected to continue through Wednesday, and comes a day after storms swept across the western U.S., dropping record-setting rain in northern Nevada, pound-ing Phoenix with hail, and dumping enough snow at the top of the Sierra to close a mountain highway pass.
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LEBANON, Mo. — A 35-year-old Missouri man was charged with possessing marijuana after his girlfriend called 911 and said she was tired of him smoking pot all day instead of working. Dispatchers in the southwestern Missouri town of Lebanon got a 911 hang-up call Saturday night from a motel room. Police said offi cers went to the motel and were told by the woman that her boyfriend did nothing during the day but smoke marijuana.
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Naked Cowboy briefs New Yorkers about his 2012 presidential bid
NEW YORK — New York’s “Naked Cowboy” is looking for some new exposure as a presidential candidate.
Robert Burck is familiar to many Times Square tourists as the man playing a guitar wearing only tighty-whiteys, boots and a cowboy hat. But he wore a suit and tie Wednesday as he announced his intention to run for president in 2012 as a member of the conservative tea party movement.
Among his policy goals, he listed closing borders, requiring drug tests for welfare recipients, abolishing unions for government workers and cutting capital gains and income taxes. He also said he would work to reverse the recently passed health care law.
His news conference attracted a throng of media, as well as curious onlookers. When it came time for questions, he was asked about his underwear choices and whether he was being dishonest because he wasn’t actually naked when performing.
Child fools pizza delivery driver with ‘mom is in the shower’ scam
HOQUIAM, Wash. — A pizza driver made a delivery Tuesday to a house in Washington where a child answered the door, took the pizza and said his mother was in the shower and would be out to pay soon. KBKW reported the driver waited about 30 minutes before calling police.
Offi cers found the house was vacant and the child apparently escaped with the pizza out the back door.
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MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. — A pregnant, diabetic woman missing for more than a week was found dead in a car outside a New York City police station, apparently from an insulin overdose, authorities said Wednesday.
The Toyota Venza may have been parked on a street near the station for several days, police said. The vehicle had dark, tinted windows that were hard to see through and the victim’s seat was reclined, the New York Police Department said.
The dead woman was identifi ed Wednesday as Gizela Andrade, 32, of Mount Vernon, who vanished Sept. 25 after an argument with her boyfriend. She was four months pregnant and was diabetic. Mount Vernon police Commissioner Carl Bell said the preliminary cause of death was an insulin overdose.
Ellen Borakove, spokeswoman for the city medical examiner, said the offi cial cause and time of death were pending further study.
There seemed to be no signs of foul play, Bell said. As a result, Andrade’s boyfriend was not considered a suspect, “but if the situation changes, obviously that may change,” he said.
Bell said a Mount Vernon offi cer was at the police station in the Bronx on an unrelated matter Tuesday night. He was looking for a place to park when he recognized the car that Andrade was last seen driving, the commissioner said. Paramedics responded and pronounced the woman dead.
“We don’t know when she got to that spot,” Bell said. The NYPD said the car had apparently been there several days.
Bell said there had been no sign of Andrade since she disappeared.
“From the time she left there was no further communications,” he said.
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Exhibit featuring drawings, renderings of architect Bruce Goff on display at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
JOSHUA BOYDSTONThe Oklahoma Daily
Most kids grow up with affection for building and de-signing, whether with Legos or Lincoln Logs.
Famed architect Bruce Goff wasn’t any different, ex-cept that he opted for a more professional approach.
Goff apprenticed at a Tulsa architecture firm at just 12 years old and was commissioned to design his first project at 15. He was a true prodigy — with no formal education in architecture — who would go on to pioneer a style of design that has influence just now coming to the forefront.
“I don’t feel Goff ’s impact was as important to the region as it should have been,” said Mark White, a cu-rator at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art who wrote one of the chapters of the Bruce Goff catalogue. “In some ways, Goff was ahead of his time, and his legacy is still being dealt with in interesting ways. His influence is just now being realized.”
“It’s taken a long time to see the significance of what it was that he was doing.”
“Bruce Goff: A Creative Mind” — which debuts at the museum Saturday — displays what made Goff such an important figure in the world of architecture while ex-ploring what made his mind tick through a series of early sketches and computer-generated, 3-D render-ings of buildings that were either destroyed or never constructed.
White said Goff ’s work was a natural extension of the Prairie School architecture led by Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan, an approach in which buildings are designed as a continuation of the landscape that sur-rounded them.
It was Wright himself that advised Goff to not study ar-chitecture at school at the risk of losing what made Goff so special in the first place. Goff obliged, continuing to train through firsthand experience, and indeed, never lost what was so unique about his style.
Not unlike the buildings you might spot in a Dr. Seuss book, Goff ’s de-signs balanced an approach that was equal parts organic and surreal, tracing large, dramatic curves into striking, but well-suited, homes and studios.
“It’s an architecture that looks fair-ly unusual, even to our eyes, 40 to 50 years [after] some of these buildings were built, but if you spend enough time with it, you realize that it is very similar to forms that exist in nature,” White said.
Goff also was a pioneer of green architecture before the green move-ment even really existed. Not only did he design buildings that matched their environments, he utilized recy-cled materials from the surrounding area to bring them to life.
These buildings, entirely unique and innovative, and an undeniable proficiency in the field eventually af-forded him the opportunity to teach at the OU School of Architecture in 1947 — despite a lack of formal educa-tion himself — and he became the school’s chairman just months later, bringing international attention to OU’s ar-chitecture program in that short time.
He left OU after almost a decade and continued with
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This sketch of the Bavinger House is one of the drawings by Bruce Goff on display at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. The sketch was completed in 1950. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright advised Goff not to attend schoo to maintain his unique, progressive architecture designs. Goff balanced his work with the organic and surreal, using large curves in designs for homes and studios.
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The Ledbetter House, designed by renowned architect and former OU professor Bruce Goff, is located at 701 W Brooks St. An exhibit featuring Goff's work and sketches opens Saturday.
his private practice until his death in 1982.Of course, if Goff was limited by anything, it was the
lack of technology architects have at their disposal today, and in using said technology, some of his designs that would have then been impossible have been brought to life through the computer renderings on display at “Bruce Goff : A Creative Mind.”
“[The exhibit] shows just how far out his imagination could extend,” White said. “His ideas were so innovative and so radical in some senses that the tech-nology of the time couldn’t create what he was envisioning.”
White said it is striking just how cap-tivating his works are, even in the time we live in today where seemingly ev-erything is possible.
“We’ve become so used to experi-encing new and unusual spaces in our time period, through various things,” White said. “In the digital age, we are very used to new experiences, but I think his spaces can still surprise us, and many of the renderings show just how novel and interesting his uses of spaces were.”
With world famous structures like The Ledbetter House, 701 W. Brooks St., located just blocks away from campus and The Bavinger House, 730 60th Ave., just miles further, students can see the won-der of Goff ’s structures in person. White said he hopes people will realize just how important what Goff did here is, for his sake and ours.
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“I hope people realize that this incredibly experi-mental and innovative architect was largely a product of Oklahoma,” White said. “He trained here, he had an incredibly avant-garde school of architecture here. It has international dimensions in its significance.
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Keyboard player Michelle Blazer joins local band with marathon setlists that cover music from ’60s
COLE PRIDDYThe Oklahoma Daily
A lot of students start making music to-gether during college or have already been playing with friends since the high school garage band days, but not too many times does one join a ’60s cover band full of mid-dle-aged men and an ex-country starlet.
Michelle Blazer, an OU sophomore, never planned on joining a band with her father and his friends, but after a falling out with some Craigslist auditions, she be-came a necessary addition.
The Blazer Band con-sists of a full arrangement with all six members sing-ing and playing different instruments. Steve Blazer, Michelle’s father, has al-w a y s b e e n p a s s i o n a t e about music since his middle school years and his first band The Knights of Soul.
Everyone in the band grew up with a mu-sical background — Steve’s friends, mem-bers of his church and former country sen-sation Kim Knapp. The Blazer Band’s music is fueled the sounds of Steve’s heyday — the 1960s. Steve spoke enthusiastically about
the British Invasion and the influence of legends like The Beatles, Buddy Holly and Aretha Franklin.
“Poor Michelle had to grow up listening to all of this music,” Steve said.
Unfortunately, only two days before the group’s first show, the band lost its key-board player acquired through Craigslist due to some misunderstanding with the band’s intentions.
Michelle came to her father’s rescue and fell right into place, officially completing
The Blazer Band.“She fit the band like a
glove,” Steve said. Michelle has always had
a strong connection with music and her family, so combining them has made for a new experience, she said.
“[It’s] refreshing because I have always been very shy with music, but having this band that is so goofy and fun and supportive has made me more comfort-able to share my talent with
people,” she said.The band’s popularity has only contin-
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The shows are marathon performances that usually last up to three hours. The group has created four or five separate
setlists and uses several unusual rituals to survive these monster sets — a common pre-show habit includes chugging down hot tea drinks and lead singer Russ Angell will often eat a handful of honey packets.
Every member of the band chooses their own solo based on their favorite ’60s cover song. Michelle’s favorites to play are “One (Is the Loneliest Number)” by Harry Nilsson and her solo “The Peppermint
Twist” by Joey Dee and the Starliters.Often, The Blazer Band’s shows incite
dancing, but even more thrilling for Steve is the experience of making music with his daughter. Playing alongside Michelle makes Steve proud and excited for the fu-ture of the band, he said.
“[It’s] my favorite teenager in the world doing the same thing right next to me,” Steve said.
Play-turned-musical debuts with updated plot, director says
SYDNEY ALLENThe Oklahoma Daily
It’s 11:30 on a Tuesday night. Stoplights blink plac-idly. Main Street appears deserted, as if the plot of the latest blockbuster post-apocalypt ic movie has come true.
But inside the Sooner Theatre, the cast and crew of “The Goodbye Girl” sings and dances into the night, ignoring the time as they plow through one of their final rehearsals.
“We’ve had a much more condensed rehearsal pro-cess than some of our other shows,” director Brandon
Adams said. “There’s a line between ‘OK, these people have school and lives and need to get home,’ and, ‘This needs to be a good production.’ We have to walk that line. We’d like to take pride in the fact that this theater is one notch below professional.”
Late night run-throughs aren’t the only way this musical penned by play-wright Neil Simon stands out, however.
Like fellow Broadway shows “Hairspray” and “ The Producers,” “ The Goodbye Girl” was a movie first, produced in 1977 star-ring Richard Dreyfuss.
“They did the movie first, and then they contacted Marvin Hamlisch, who did a number of movies and
some musicals, such as ‘A Chorus Line,’ and they de-cided to try this as a musi-cal,” Adams said about the show’s origin.
Featuring the story of an actor and heartbroken single mother thrust to-gether in one apartment, t h e r o m a n t i c c o m e d y went to Broadway in 1993 featuring musical theater goddess Bernadette Peters and comedy actor Martin Short.
Running only 211 perfor-mances, it wasn’t the smash hit one might expect from such well-known actors or a work by Simon.
Adams, who also is pro-duction director for the Sooner Theatre, maintains that any Broadway troubles the show might have had
was not the fault of the show itself.
“[The Broadway director] definitely went with, you know, a Broadway fixture and a well known comedic performer ... and I don’t think it ran particularly long [because] I think it’s really a play with music,” he said.
“A lot of musicals are, ‘We’ll throw some lines in to get to the next song or dance number,’ and this show isn’t like that.
“There’s a lot more meat to the script, and it may have taken a lot of people by surprise, like, ‘Wait, this isn’t what I expecting,’”
Adams has made a few changes from the origi-nal Broadway production, hoping to make the show
more applicable to modern audiences.
“We’ve modernized the show a bit,” he said. “We were rehearsing one scene in particular and the actor playing Elliot asks, ‘Did I happen to stumble across the only remaining pay phone in Manhattan?’ Now he’s calling from his cell phone.”
While the show may not have been what Broadway audiences were anticipat-ing, Adams is confident the masterful writing will be a draw for Norman audi-ences — especially fans of Simon’s other work.
“His fingerprints are all over this,” he said. “The mu-sic’s great, but the reason you’d come to see this is the clever wit of Neil Simon.”
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The Blazer Band poses with their instruments. The band is composed of (right to left) Steve Blazer, Paul Ivie, Matt Slick, Russ Angell, Kim Knapp and OU sophomore Michelle Blazer.
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‘Goodbye Girl’ adaptation comes to Norman
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Shirley Franklin, playing Mrs. Crosby, and Lisa Fox, playing Paula McFadden, rehearse a scene from “The Goodbye Girl” Wednesday evening at the Sooner Theatre. The musical will premiere Friday.
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Bradford impressing St. Louis coaches, national media in fi rst four games of rookie season, still room to improve
ST. LOUIS — Rookies are supposed to struggle and get flustered by defensive strategies.
It hasn’t happened yet with former OU quarterback Sam Bradford. After giving up 289 yards and two touchdowns to Bradford on Sunday, the Seattle Seahawks felt as if they’d faced a seasoned leader.
“We got after him pretty good, we chased him around a lot,” coach Pete Carroll said. “He was able to manage and not make the big mistake with all of the heat that was on him, and he made enough good plays.
“It’s very impressive that he’s able to do this this early and they’ve got be really ex-cited about it. I’m sure they are.”
Four games in, Bradford is probably the best quarterback in the NFC West on a 2-2 team that’s surprisingly tied for the division lead, thriving even though the Rams have a bargain basement batch of pass catchers. Mistakes have been so rare that four games in, the Rams find themselves surprised when the kid actually has a rookie moment.
OU coach Bob Stoops remembers having
that feeling with the 2008 Heisman Trophy winner, who helped set an NCAA scoring record and led the Sooners to 60 points in five straight games.
“The guy just has it all,” Stoops said. “He doesn’t have an ounce of prima donna in him, so he’s a great locker room guy where guys want to play for him and be in the hud-dle with him.”
Humble, yes, but with just a trace of cocki-ness thrown in. Ask him about exotic blitz-ing schemes and disguised coverages that are supposed to furrow his brow and you’ll get the equivalent of a yawn.
“At the end of the day, they have to get where they’re supposed to be, they can only hide a look for so long,” he said. “If you’re a rookie or you’ve been in the league 10 years, that’s what teams do. They’re not going to line up in Cover 2 and say ‘All right, here’s what we’re playing, have fun.’”
There are things he pick can improve.“As we sat there with the offensive staff, it
was like we were disappointed in Sam, rook-ie quarterback, fourth game of his career, because it’s not perfect,” Rams coach Steve Spagnuolo said. “He’s earned that, and he put that on himself, too. He would say the exact same thing, that’s how he operates.”— AP
Bradford making big impact for St. Louis
MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ/AP
St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford, left, looks down alongside wide receiver Mark Clayton in the closing seconds of an NFL football game against the Oakland Raiders Sept. 19 in Oakland, Calif. The Raiders defeated the Rams 16-14.
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If OU and Nebraska don’t make the Big 12 Championship game this December, it will be more than a decade before the teams meet again, barring a bowl game matchup.
OU athletic director Joe Castiglione said the Sooners and Cornhuskers are looking at a possible home-and-away se-ries in 2020 and 2021, with the latter being the 50th anniver-sary of the “Game of the Century.”
Still, 10 years without OU-Nebraska doesn’t sound like college football at all.
The teams have adjusted to life without the other since the formation of the Big 12, only playing twice every four years. It wasn’t often, but they still played.
Next season will be the first time in 90 years OU and Nebraska aren’t in the same conference. Starting in the Missouri Valley Conference in 1920, the teams stuck
together through the move to the Big Six, the expansion to the Big Eight and the final tran-sition to the Big 12.
But with Nebraska leaving for the Big Ten at the end of the season, the traditional rivalry of the two teams will end abruptly, closing the book on what has been one of the most prominent ri-valries in college football.
The OU-Nebraska game used to almost practically be a play-in game for the national championship. In 18 different matchups, both teams brought top-10 rankings with a pair of No. 1-No. 2 games (1971, 1987).
In 12 of those games — OU seven times, Nebraska five times— the winner went on to win the national champion-ship. The Big Reds had the most consistently competitive
rivalry in the last 50 years.Recently, though — especially since join-
ing the Big 12 — much of the focus for both schools has shifted from the once-great ri-valry. OU has the Red River Rivalry. Nebraska has been seeking a consistent North Division
foe.Although it will be sad to see the Huskers go, it’s quite fit-
ting that No. 6 OU (5-0) and No. 7 Nebraska (4-0) seem to be on a collision course to meet at Jerry World for the last conference championship in the Huskers’ last year with the Sooners.
—James Corley,
journalism senior
Traditional rivals OU, Nebraska on collision course
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Sooner softball, 5-0, looks to maintain winning streak, defend perfect fall season tonight
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OU softball prepares to defend the team’s six-game win-ning streak for the 2010 fall season with a home matchup at 6 tonight against Seminole State at the OU Softball Complex.
The Sooners have outscored their opponents 75-5 during this season’s games.
The team won all five of its games as the hosts of the OU Fall Festival on Sept. 24 to 26. After downing Rose State and St. Gregory’s by a combined score of 24-3 in the first two games, the Sooners topped Wichita State in a 3-1 defensive battle. OU closed out the tournament with 19-1 and 10-0 wins over Odessa and North Central Texas, respectively.
The OU pitching staff continues to dominate in the pitch-ing circle. Sophomore starter Michelle Gascoigne allowed just one hit against North Central Texas, and junior Kirsten Allen matched the effort in relief pitching.
Seminole State earned the fourth spot in the nation for ju-nior colleges last year after losing a 4-2 decision to Wallace State-Hanceville in the National Junior College Athletic Association National Tournament.
The Sooners wrap up their fall schedule with a highly tout-ed matchup against USA’s National Professional Fastpitch team, which features former Sooner All-Americans Amber Flores and Samantha Ricketts.
The matchup begins at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 15 at the OU Softball Complex.
NEIL MCGLOHON/THE DAILY
Sophomore pitcher Keilani Ricketts (10) pitches the ball toward home plate during the OU-Northwestern Oklahoma State game Sept. 23, 2009. The Sooners won 18-2. OU hosts Seminole State tonight and hopes to stay undefeated for the fall season.
Team seeks to continue perfection
JESSICA SHULTSHometown: Valencia, Calif.Year: SophomorePosition: Catcher
Sooner player to watch
The sophomore catcher has stepped up big time for the Sooners at the plate and continues to be a leader in practice.
Sooner volleyball sweeps K-StateThe OU volleyball team beat Kansas State in straight sets
(-22, -23, -21) Wednesday in Manhattan, Kan. The Sooners had not swept a team since Colorado on Sept. 15.
The Sooners, though playing well over that stretch, struggled with putting matches away. Wednesday, however, they did not have that problem.
OU pulled away in the third set to fi nish off the Wildcats and earn a valuable conference road win.
Junior hitter Caitlin Higgins led OU with 12 kills and 15 digs. Freshman middle blocker Sallie McLaurin led the Sooners at the net with fi ve blocks.
With the win, OU moves to 12-5 on the year and 4-2 in the Big 12.
— Greg Fewell/The Daily
Women’s golf finish 2nd again The OU women’s golf team brought home another
second-place fi nish Tuesday at the Johnie Imes Invitational in Columbia, Mo.
After the fi rst two rounds, the Sooners sat in third place with a team score of 588 (+12). OU fi nished strong in the last round to jump up to second place, the Sooners’ third straight top-three fi nish.
“The girls played solid again,” coach Veronique Drouin said. “We saw a lot of improvement and a lot of effort. They fought all the way to the end.”
Senior Ellen Mueller led the Sooners with a career-best performance, shooting a 69 (-2). Mueller tied for third place with Oklahoma State’s Courtney McKim.
Freshmen Chirapat Jao-Javanil and Anne-Catherine Tanguay tied for 15th with a three-round total of 223 (+5).
The Sooners wrap up their fall schedule Monday in Tulsa for the Dale McNamara Tournament.
— Jenni Cochran/The Daily
Box, Finch eyeing return next weekOU football coach Bob Stoops expects junior linebacker
Austin Box and freshman running back Roy Finch to practice this week and possibly play for the No. 6 Sooners in their next game against Iowa State.
Both players are practicing again after missing the fi rst fi ve games of the season for Oklahoma (5-0, 1-0 Big 12), Stoops said Tuesday.
Box, who was expected to start at middle linebacker, has been out after a back injury fl ared up in the preseason. Finch has been sidelined by a hairline fracture in his ankle.
Stoops says he isn’t sure how either one will be integrated into positions that are already fi lled by others, and their roles against Iowa State depend on how they progress during the next two weeks of practice.
— AP
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