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SpORTSFreshman tennis player climbing up the rankingsDane Webb is having a solid fi rst year for the Sooners, holding down the No. 1 singles and doubles spot. (page 7)

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Former OKc mayor may become next OU regent

STAFF REPORTThe Oklahoma Daily

OU alumnus and former Oklahoma City Mayor Kirk Humphreys is set to become the newest member of the OU Board of Regents.

The Oklahoma Senate Education Committee voted unanimously on Monday to approve Humphreys’ ap-pointment to the seven-member governing body of OU, Cameron University in Lawton and Rogers State University in Claremore.

His confirmation awaits approval by the full Senate.

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Oklahoma City native who graduated from Northwest Classen High School and

e a r n e d a business fi-nance bache-lor’s from OU in 1972, ac-cording to the O k l a h o m a C i t y m u -nicipal gov-e r n m e n t website.

G ov. Ma r y Fa l l i n a p -p o i nt e d Hu m p h re y s t o replace Dr. John Bell, an

Committee approves Humphreys, awaits full Senate confirmation

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Professors use unique methods to boost creativity

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Bryce McCarthy, architecture senior, participates in the “door” exer-cise Friday. This exercise requires students to draw themselves as a door in order to exhibit how memories and emotions effect their design and creativity as aspiring architects.

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ARIANNA PICKARDCampus reporter

Architecture and interior design professors have begun to use positive emotions and personal memories as im-portant aspects of the cre-ative design process.

OU architecture profes-sor David Boeck and interior design professor Hans-Peter Wachter have started to in-corporate exercises in the classroom to encourage cre-ativity in design and help stu-dents understand their own design style.

“Neurobiologists and neuroscientists say if you’re happy and open, you’re more

creative,” Boeck said.The professors use differ-

ent exercises to make stu-dents feel more at ease and open to the creative process, Boeck said.

These exercises could be used for anything, Wachter said.

These exercises make stu-dents aware of their own memories of past places, which Boeck and Wachter believe can influence their design style.

In one exercise, they ask students to think of a door from their past they liked and a door they hated. Next, they ask students to think of a door right now they like and a door they hate.

Finally, they ask students

Past experiences influence design, professors say

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Mechanical engineering sophomore Steve Brunk eats expired easy Mac for dinner Thursday while playing Mario Golf on a Nintendo 64 in his friend’s room in Adams Center. Brunk and other dorm residents are paying 62-percent more for their dorms than their counterparts 10 years ago.

Costs climb 60% in 10 years

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Increases outpace cost of living SARAH MARTINCampus reporter

The competitive apartment market in Norman has kept university-run apartment rates low, but dorm rates have continued to increase steadily over the past 10 years.

Dorm rates in the towers have risen at 10 times the rate of two-bedroom apartments in Traditions Square since the complex opened in 2005, according to records re-quested by The Daily. Rates for four-bedroom apartments have not risen at all since the complex opened, according to records.

Housing rates in the dorms are increased each year to finance in-creased fixed costs, food costs, renovations and maintenance, Housing and Food director Dave Annis said. Housing and Food re-quested a 3 percent rate increase in June 2011 under that rational to maintain improvements on campus and services to students, according to the June 2011 regent’s agenda. That 3 percent increase ended up partially funding re-pairs to elevator motors in Couch Center, Annis said.

The apartment rates have been more stagnant because of the competitive apartment market in Norman, Annis said.

“There have been no increases at all in the Traditions rates,” Annis said. “That is a direct response to what is hap-pening in the community.”

OU Housing and Food Services considers rates at apartments in the community when setting rates for Traditions Square, Annis said. Traditions only had a one-time 3 percent rate increase for two-bed-room units between the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 academic years, ac-cording to records.

Crimson Park apartments do not increase apartment rates more than 5 to 10 dollars or 1 to 2 per-cent per month in a year, said Brent Nungesser, leasing professional at the apartments .

“Over the years we have not felt we have been able to increase the Traditions rates and be competitive,” Annis said.

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Source: OU Housing and Food Services price data

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to draw themselves as doors.“The doors exercises helped to open

your mind and get the creative juices flowing,” architecture senior Elizabeth Pearcy said.

When a teacher tells you to start de-signing something specific, your brain shuts down, Pearcy said. But when you are told to sketch something indirectly related to your main project, it opens up your mind and helps you find inspi-ration, she said.

Wachter and Boeck also use place-memory exercises to help students discover a design style their clients will prefer. To design a pediatric cen-ter, they asked students to remember every time they went to a doctor’s of-fice growing up and the specific char-acteristics of the offices that created positive and negative emotions.

The pediatric exercise was helpful because it put students in the mindset of the clients and reminded them how it felt to be 5 years old in the doctor’s office, OU architecture senior Amber Hovorka said.

Pearcy generally prefers designing in a stark, modern style that might not make children feel the most comfort-able, she said.

This exercise helped her transition to the mind of a child so she could de-sign a place where children would feel at ease.

These exercises also help students get in touch with their own design styles and help them realize how their pasts influence that style, Wachter said.

“You come into every design with

a bias — you don’t come in fresh,” Wachter said. “Your experience in your subconscious creates bias that drives your design.”

Encouraging students to open up their memory and discover that bias in their subconscious helps them un-derstand why they design the way they do, Wachter said.

“I realized my environment until I was 15 [years old] influenced the kind of design I do and the kind of architec-ture I like,” Boeck said.

Boeck presented his research and incorporation of these exercises at the OU college of architecture Research and Creative Activity Day last month.

He wrote a paper on the outcome of these exercises and how they helped design students to use positive emo-tions to develop their design process, Boeck said.

The paper also discussed the next step in the research process – measur-ing how much managing emotions and developing improves creativity in the studio design process, Boeck said.

“It all comes back to we do best what we like to do, and we like to do what re-flects our past,” Wachter said.

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today around CampusThe Foundations Exhibition will be on display from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. museum of art’s Lightwell Gallery.

A tuba and euphonium concert by professor Brian dobbins will take place at noon in the Fred Jones Jr. museum of art’s sandy Bell Gallery.

A seminar about how to avoid committing academic misconduct, hosted by student success series, will take place at 4 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 245.

The Write Club Creative Writers will hold its weekly meeting for writing encouragement at 6 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 280.

A free concert benefiting the organization playing for Change will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. at Café plaid.

The baseball team will face arkansas at 6:30 p.m at L. dale mitchell park.

Wednesday, apriL 11The Foundations Exhibition will be on display from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. museum of art’s Lightwell Gallery.

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DOORS: Students’ pasts influence current stylesContinued from page 1

The “door” exercise, which requires students to draw themselves as doors, helps open the mind to influences and biases from the past, OU architecture professors say.

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Architecture professors Hans-Peter Wachter (left) and David Boeck (center) observe Bryce McCarthy, architecture senior, participate in the “door” exercise Friday. The professors also use place-memory exercises to help students discover their unique design styles.

There is not the same com-petitive market for dorms in Norman.

All single freshmen under the age of 20 must live in the residence halls unless they have more than 24 hours of credit, according to the OU Housing Policy. Exemptions are granted with special per-mission if students petition the vice president for Student Affairs.

With a meal plan includ-ed in the total cost, rates in the towers has risen nearly 62 percent for double rooms and nearly 66 percent for sin-gle rooms in the last 10 years and by 54 percent in Cate Center for single and double rooms in the last 10 years, ac-cording to records. The cost of living in the towers has in-creased more rapidly because Housing and Food Services has wanted to maintain Cate

Center as a more affordable option for students and be-cause the towers underwent renovations during the last 10 years, Annis said.

Once newly renovated rooms began to become available, they were offered at a higher rate than non-ren-ovated rooms, accounting for some larger jumps in pricing, such as an 11 percent spike in rates from the 2002-2003 aca-demic year to 2003-2004 aca-demic year, Annis said.

Rates in the towers have increased by an average of 5.5 percent each year, outpacing cost-of-living increases in the U.S., according to records. The consumer price index in the U.S. has risen by an average of 2.5 percent each year over the last 10 years, ac-cording to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The consumer price index is used as a cost of living indi-cator because it factors price changes in items commonly

purchased by American families.

Housing and Food Services determines rate increase by considering yearly pre-de-termined costs, any increases in set costs and predictions of the number of residents, Annis said.

“We will just usually go in and say we will budget a 3 percent increase unless we know that there is going to be something unusual happen,” Annis said.

Housing and Food Services administrators collaborate to

set the residence halls’ costs and send their recommenda-tion to OU President David Boren, Annis said. Once Boren and Housing and Food Services agree upon any pro-posed increases, the recom-mendation is sent to the OU Board of Regents for approv-al, Annis said.

Oklahoma State University is currently the only univer-sity in the Big 12 with lower dorm rates than OU, Annis said.

However, some plans at Texas A&M University cost about $3,800 depending on residence hall and meal plan, according to Texas A&M Residence Life and Department of University Housing.

Annis said he has a dorm rate recommendation ready for the 2012-2013 academic year and will consult with the Housing Center Student Association before releasing the recommendation.

hOUSing: OU schedules 3% price hike yearlyContinued from page 1

GO AND DOget involvedWHAT: Housing Center Student Association meetings

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President, CEO of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas to give lecture

The Price College of Business’ Distinguished Speaker Series will feature an address by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas president and CEO at 11:30 a.m. today in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium.

Featured speaker Richard Fisher began his career in 1975 at the private bank of Brown Brothers Harriman and Co., where he specialized in fixed-income and foreign-exchange markets. He became assistant to the secretary of the Treasury during the Carter administration, working issues re-lated to the dollar crisis of 1978 to 1979, ac-cording to a press release.

He then returned to Brown Brothers to found their Texas operations in Dallas. Fisher joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in 2005, and in October of 2006 he received the Service to Democracy Award and Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal for Public Service from the American Assembly.

He was inducted into the Dallas Business Hall of Fame in April 2009, according to a press release.

The speaker series presents top-level business executives from a broad range of backgrounds, industries and geogra-phies. It is designed to promote face-to-face interaction be-tween global leaders, the Oklahoma business community and Price College students, according to a press release.

A question-and-answer session will follow the lecture.Arianna Pickard, Campus Reporter

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ophthalmologist from Norman.In 1989, Humphreys began the commercial real-estate

firm Humphreys Real Estate Investments, LLC.The 61-year-old Humphreys served as mayor of

Oklahoma City from 1998 to 2003. As mayor, Humphreys focused attention on the

Oklahoma City MAPS projects and advocated redevelop-ment of the Skirvin Hotel, which had been closed for 10 years by the time Humphreys took office, according to the Oklahoma City municipal government website.

Humphreys resigned in November 2003 to run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Don Nickles, but he was de-feated in the Republican primary by Tom Coburn, ac-cording to the municipal website.

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‘Warrior Spirits: Indigenous Arts’ to feature New Guinea artifacts

A free lecture titled “Snapshots of the Stories New Guinea People Tell Themselves” will take place at 7 tonight in the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.

The lecture will be presented by anthropology profes-sor Karl Rambo, and will focus on the Melanesian ways of life.

Rambo will provide a contextual background for many of the pieces currently on display at the museum, as well as discuss important aspects of the Melanesian people’s lives.

This will be a continuation of the museum’s “Warrior Spirits: Indigenous Arts” exhibit, which features artifacts from New Guinea.

The lecture is free and open to the public. “Rambo will talk about the societies, relationships and

lives of New Guinea peoples,” museum spokeswoman Jennifer Tregarthen said.“With a few comments on how knowing a little about their lives can help us further ap-preciate their handiwork.”

The Warrior Spirits exhibit will be on display at the mu-seum until May 13.

Tim French,Campus Reporter

UOSA eleCTiON

Results OK’d, Sangirardi takes office Monday

UOSA President-elect Joe Sangirardi and vice presi-dent-elect Rainey Sewell will take office Monday after the UOSA Superior Court vali-dated the spring 2012 elec-tion results.

The UOSA president and vice president must be in-augurated a week after the UOSA superior court vali-dates the election results, according to the U O SA Code Annotated. The court released its order Monday validating the elections after the court did not receive any grievances or appeals, ac-cording to the court’s order.

Next week’s inaugura-tion will be followed by a

ceremony on April 27 to symbolize the transition of power, said Alyssa Loveless, Undergraduate Student C o ng re ss c ha i r w o ma n . Other elected executive of-ficers will be sworn in they haven’t already began their work, Loveless said.

The incoming UOSA presi-dent talk about his upcom-ing plans, she said. The cer-emony is also a time for stu-dents to celebrate with family members, Loveless said.

“It’s a place where all our families and friends can come,” Alyssa Loveless.

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Our View: Dramatically rising residence hall prices highlight the need to eradicate mandatory on-campus housing for freshmen.

If you live in a residence hall this year, you paid about 62 percent more than a member of the fresh-man class in 2003. If you lived in the dorms in the last decade you paid an average of 5.5 percent more than students paid the year before to live in the same space.

Room and board costs in Couch, Walker and Adams centers have risen 62 percent for double rooms and 66 percent for single rooms in the last 10 years, according to re-cords obtained by The Daily. Costs have risen by 55 percent in Cate Center.

This amounts to an average increase of 5.5 percent each year — outrunning the U.S. Consumer Price Index, commonly used to calculate the cost of living, which has risen by an average of 2.5 percent per year over the same time period, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

These constant price hikes have added up over time to greatly impact the price of residence hall liv-ing. Given that residence in the dorms is mandatory for most freshmen, these price increases have unac-ceptably increased the burden on students.

Dave Annis, director of Housing and Food Services, admitted in an interview with The Daily that the reason other university-owned housing, such as Traditions Square Apartments, hasn’t seen similar price increases is because those options face outside competition. Competition from other apart-ment complexes keeps prices low.

But the dorms don’t have that. Because the dorms have a monopoly on freshman-year housing, Housing and Food can raise prices freely.

In his interview with The Daily, Annis said that his department suggests a 3 percent price increase every year, at the bare minimum. After multiple days of research, discussion and browsing through the Housing and Food website, we are having a hard time understanding how this constant increase can be justified.

If there is a compelling reason for these price hikes, we urge Housing and Food to publicize them so that students can make sense of the large dif-ference between the prices in 2002-2003 and in 2011-2012. The administration at large must justify increases in tuition and fees to the student body, so why shouldn’t Housing and Food?

But even if they do justify the increase, it still doesn’t change the fact that many students cannot

keep up with this increasing burden.Many of OU’s poorest students are on scholar-

ships, but many more who do not qualify for aid are still struggling to keep up with the cost of attending OU. It is a simple fact that college is difficult to afford for the vast majority of students, and massive debt abounds. In fact, student debt in the U.S. surpassed

$1 trillion by the end of last year. Despite this difficult reality and the ever-

growing cost of the dorms, OU requires all single freshman students under the age of 20 to live there unless they live with parents within 50 miles of Norman. If this require-ment were lifted, it would release struggling students from this financial burden.

Lifting the requirement also would introduce some measure of competition into that corner of the housing market, which could help deflate costs. At least, it may put pressure on Housing and Food to find ways to increase efficiency and reduce overhead costs, which could lead to a stabilized price for the residence halls.

And if Housing and Food really cannot find a way to lower costs or keep them stable, the dorms still would be used by students who wanted and could afford a more expensive, more convenient option.

Unfortunately, this would force students to choose between an affordable option and the all-important freshman-year experience. Some students view liv-ing on campus as an important part of their first year here, allowing them to make friends, feel involved and connect with campus culture.

But it’s not only that. Housing and Food’s exemp-tion booklet for freshmen requesting special permis-sion to live off campus claims that higher education research shows living on campus the first year makes students more likely to graduate, attend class regu-larly, pursue graduate school, be involved in campus life and have a higher GPA.

The booklet specifically references one study from the American Council on Education that found, “Students who live on campus have a 10 to 15 per-cent better chance of doing well in college than stu-dents living off-campus.”

In light of this and all the important experiences involved in dorm life, the residence halls should be an option for all students. But in order for the dorms to be a legitimate option, they must be affordable. The first step to achieving that — or, at least, giving students a reasonable alternative — is giving all stu-dents the freedom to choose where they reside.

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COLUMN

Peace to come when racism dies So racism is close to

being dead. That is extremely strange to

me. I could’ve sworn I was just pulled over by police a few days ago, unwarranted. When I asked the reason, they responded, “There has been a lot of suspicious ac-tivity tonight.”

What could I say as a black man in Norman?

Welcome to the conflict that happens on a daily basis for some. Being six foot four inches tall has its benefits. But the benefits of that height when added to being a dark-skinned black man turn to slim pickings. Identifying privilege as a person of color is simple; for privileged people, it is a differ-ent story. So let me paint a picture for you.

My parents and family are bothering me one day. I mean, family time is great, but I want some time alone. I am a young man now, I can take a step outside by myself, right? Well, that’s what I choose to do. So, as I dress up to leave, my mom questions where I am going. Feeling like I am almost a man, I tell her that I am only going around the corner to get some snacks.

She begs for me to let her drive me, but I reply, “Ma, it’s only around the corner!” With a heavy sigh, she lets me go.

“You know you have to be careful out there,” my mother says in a worried tone before I leave.

“I know ma, I got to remember where I am.” I hate when I have to hear that. Can’t I just be me? I guess now isn’t the time in the U.S. Hopefully soon. But let me hurry and go to the corner store and get some snacks before it is too dark.

As I am walking to the store, I start thinking about the usual: newest clothes, women, music and my future. Arriving at the store, I see a few people milling about. Walking in the door, I feel multiple eyes dart to me. Yet, one set of eyes scares me the most: the police officer’s glance. “You know you have to be careful, out there.” My mother’s words bounce off every angle in my brain. While checking

out, I feel the glare of the officer burning through my hoodie. I attempt to leave calmly, when the officer gets a call on his radio — something about suspicious activity.

Hopefully, he didn’t think something was wrong when I stuffed my snacks in my hoodie. I remember that my mother told me they fire on black men who may look like they have a weapon. I make it out of the door. At least it’s not me today. Lord, let me just get home safe, please.

Thank you, Lord. I am back in my neighborhood. The gates can keep out any impending danger. No one can get me now.

“Freeze! Don’t move!” I turn to see a man pointing a gun at me. What did I do?

“Please don’t do anything!” I don’t know if he is even hear-ing my words. What does he see in me that threatens him?

Then it all catches up with me. My mother told me to be careful out here, but even she knows that I cannot be care-ful about being black. I can’t do anything. I’ve been caught being too black. As I scream for help, I see no one coming to my rescue. Before I can say anything else, my voice is si-lenced. I wonder if my body falling to the cold, rainy ground will even mean anything.

This is not my story. But it’s the story of a young black man no different than me.

Rest in peace Trayvon Martin. People may think this event is an isolated incident. We

should know by now that this is not the case. Rather than constantly looking for an excuse or exception to the rule, why not finally identify what the problem is: Racism still ex-ists and is becoming an accepted institution.

Until we admit and fight this, we will lose more people like Trayvon Martin. And there will be even more unpublicized cases closer to us than we know.

We must admit there is still injustice. Still inequality. Still the staggering stratification of races. Until then, there will be no peace for us.

Peace and understanding for all.

Jason Quaynor is an English writing senior.

Students for a Democratic Society wants you

to rant with us Thursday. So why the ranting?

The fact is that there is more going on (and going wrong) at our university, but there’s no way a single student organization can know about — much less act on — everything at once.

My fellow organizers and I think our fellow students have the best ideas about what needs to change to keep OU a thriving, dynamic community.

Last week, OU held a profoundly uncontested round of university-wide elections, from student body president to various posts in Housing Center Student Association and Student Congress.

I have no doubt that these representatives will do good work, but they are going to need more active stu-dent engagement to keep them focused on the policies that affect students every day.

A lot of that engagement is going to occur offline and outside of Adams Hall, Room150, where Student Congress meets each Tuesday .

And that doesn’t mean griping about parking short-ages or long waits at Crossroads Restaurant; there are more serious issues facing this campus community.

Each year, expenses rise and state allocations fall — and the university has to make decisions about where to cut funding.

Unsurprisingly, those in power look for easy targets: academic programs without endowed chairs or with “low” enrollments.

Often, language departments and segments of the social sciences are among the first and deepest hit.

This year, women’s and gender studies could poten-tially face cuts extreme enough to set the program back 10 to 15 years, according to women’s and gender stud-ies senior Lindsey Vandeventer .

Language, gender and ethnic studies are crucial to the academic rigor of this university, and students can and should stand up to defend them.

On the other end of university machinations, the university engages in some questionable contracting practices.

Surely most of us have noticed the “Shame on University of Oklahoma!” banner stretched out on the North Oval for several months now.

The Carpenter’s Union has been protesting be-cause our university subcontracts building projects to companies that do not pay area-standard wages and benefits at all their work sites, depressing wages in an area for workers already on the losing end of the latest recession.

Students should demand justice for these workers by advocating for policy change.

Those are just two of my ideas. But SDS’s Speak Out: Student-Led Vent-a-Thon is about your ideas. What do you see that needs changing?

Too often, older generations assume students and young people are apathetic, selfish and lazy.

This is manifestly untrue, as the huge student mobi-lizations in support of justice for Trayvon Martin, stu-dent involvement in President Obama’s 2008 campaign and Occupy movements have all demonstrated on the national stage.

You can see this on our campus, too. From the successful, direct actions taken to change

our sexual assault policy last year to the gender-neutral housing campaign, students nationally and locally can and do act.

I firmly believe that one factor that scares students away from mobilizing and advocating for dearly-held causes is a very real disenfranchisement.

On a national scale, New Hampshire , South Carolina and Wisconsin are among many states attempting to hamper students’ ability to vote.

At nearly every scale, students simply don’t know where or how to access information about policy mak-ers — because it is to their advantage to keep our his-torically strong voices as muted as possible.

Thus, SDS wants to equip you to understand the power structures of our university and how to effective-ly use them to make the changes you want to see.

So, show up at 7 p.m. Thursday to Adams Hall, Room 304, and be prepared to vent, learn and — most impor-tantly — act.

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Sex, drugs and Ramen noodles bowls, the college experience

at its finest. Ramen has been thought of as the quintes-sential poor-college-student food for as long as I can remember.

Hailing from Japan, the instant noodle appeared in the late ’50s and has been holding its position as the most noodle of the noodles since. Everyone loves them and other noodles want to be them.

Now that we have paid proper respect to the noodle, it’s time to bring up the sad truth — they’re popularity hinges less on their quality and more on the fact that, well, they’re cheap. That being said, after a few too many meals consisting of just noodles and super so-dium broth, there comes a point where you feel like you might snap if you don’t eat something else.

We all have been there — whether it was out of the ‘instant’ convenience or be-cause our wallet was feeling a little empty at the time — either way, many college stu-dents have hit that Ramen-binge, if only for a week.

The good news is, if you are reading this, there’s still hope. If you’re living on a Ramen-only diet — however

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an egg can be a great addition to your ramen. Heat the water to a boil, and add in your noodles and sea-soning like you normally would. then you can either crack an egg straight into the ramen for a sunny-side addition or scramble a couple before pouring them in for an egg-drop-soup style dish.

temporary — there are some basic tricks you can use to spice up your meals and make it through the week feeling a little more fulfilled in the palette.

So I give you Ramen 101:MondayThe easiest and probably

the cheapest way to go about this is to toss an egg in there. For those who may be a little weary of the whole raw egg thing, there’s no worry. Your super-hot soup will cook that egg to a nice sunny side up state that makes for a nice break from the norm. Or you can scramble a couple of

eggs and pour them in for an egg-drop-soup take on your Ramen.

TuesdayYou still need more vari-

ety. I understand because they say variety is the spice of life and who doesn’t like their life spicy? So add some veggies. For a cheap route, grab whatever you have in your refrigerator right now. Chop them up and throw them in to cook with your broth. Craving some literal spice? If you don’t have them on hand, peppers and on-ions are affordable produce that won’t break the bank.

WednesdayNow you’ve tried the veg-

gies, so cater to your sweet tooth and add some fruits instead. I recommend apples or pineapples. Both these fruits are notorious for blending well with salty items: Think about pork chops and apples or sweet and sour chicken.

ThursdayThere’s an age-old axiom

I like to live by: If it’s not good put cheese on it. Who doesn’t have some cheese in the fridge? Toss some of that goopy goodness on your noodles to create a

delicious Frankenstein Mac ’n’ Cheese-soup hybrid that will taste much better than my word choice sounds.

FridayOne of my favorite things

to do with noodles when I need a change of pace from soup to solid is to make a Ramen stir-fry. Just cook up the noodles as normal then throw them in a fry pan along with any mixture of things you have left in your fridge. A little soy sauce and sometime later you will be the talk of your apartment. Or to give it a little flair, throw in some peanut butter for your very own Thai-inspired creation.

SaturdayWe don’t have to stop

there, either. It’s officially the weekend, so why not add a fancy flair to your Ramen — Italian style. You can make Ramen and meatballs with any leftover ground beef you have. Don’t have sauce? Try a little butter and any sea-soning you may have.

SundayCome Sunday you may be

ready for just a bowl of good old fashion Ramen. If not, use your uncooked noodles as a snack — think of it as a huge chip. Just break off pieces of the noodle brick, dip it in a salsa or dip and munch away.

So if you find yourself in a Ramen binge, don’t settle for bland sodium broth and noodles. Use these tips to think outside of the bowl — or cup if that floats your boat.

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In the year ahead, you are apt to be-come involved with three individuals whose philosophy and politics differ considerably from yours. Neverthe-less, in each instance a powerful and strong friendship will develop.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) --Because you will be able to translate your ideas into action much faster than any of your associates, you’ll get out in front of the pack long before they’re able to fi gure out what happened.

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The OU Men’s Tennis Team is currently playing its best tennis of the season so far. The team has had its fair share of struggles early on, losing a handful of close matches to Ole Miss, Pepperdine and Virginia.

In those losses, the team had late leads but failed to close out the competition and hold on for wins. OU coach John Roddick empha-sized that weakness of the team in practice following the home loss to Pepperdine in hopes of avoiding similar losses in the future.

“ A f t e r w e p l a y e d Pepperdine, we have really focused on staying aggres-sive with the lead,” freshman Dane Webb said.

Webb called the loss to pe-rennial power Pepperdine a turning point for the Sooners

this season, saying it taught the team how to be more ag-gressive and compete with the top teams in the country. That attitude has been re-flected in the team’s record.

The Sooners are currently on a seven-match winning streak, with all of the wins coming on the road. They beat Maryland, Florida State, TCU, Tulsa, No. 13 Texas, No. 25 Texas A&M and Rice all in blowout fashion. The closest margin of victory was 5-2.

“Everyone is more confi-dent and really finishing our

matches well,” Webb said.A large part of the Sooners’

recent success is due to the team’s overall mindset since suffering through early-sea-son losses.

R o d d i c k s a i d h e h a s been pleased with the way his team has been scoring points early and often over the last couple of weeks.

“We’re doing a much bet-ter job at closing out sets in matches and aren’t letting teams hang around any-more,” Roddick said.

Of course, the increased level of play is not due strict-ly to a better mindset. Quite simply, players have been playing better.

“Costin, at the No. 1 spot, o bv i ou s l y , ha s ha d t h e toughest task having to play the best player on the other teams,” Roddick said. “Dane has only lost one singles match all year. Willy Alcorta has really stepped up and started to play well.”

Seemingly everyone on the OU team has stepped up in recent weeks. However,

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BaseBall

Sooners to host 11th-ranked RazorbacksOklahoma looks to rebound after three-game loss to Aggies last weekend

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Oklahoma plays its fourth consecutive game against a top-10 opponent Tuesday night, when the Sooners take on the No. 11 Razorbacks 6:30 p.m. in Norman.

OU is coming off an Easter weekend series against No. 3 Texas A&M that saw the Aggies sweep the Sooners three games to none, despite Oklahoma leading in all three games.

One of the few bright spots from the weekend’s sweep was the perfor-mance of senior outfielder Erik Ross.

Ross went 5-for-13 in the series against the Aggies and now is riding a nine-game hitting streak.

If Ross hits safely against Arkansas and extends his streak to 10 games, it will be the longest hitting streak of his career.

I n j u s t h i s s e c o n d start of the season, hard-throwing junior pitcher Damien Magnifico will take the hill against Arkansas in search of his first win.

The bulk of Magnifico’s work this season has been as a reliever — he’s tied for fifth in the Big 12 in saves — and his last start came in an 11-7 loss to No. 22 Oregon State at last month’s Nike Showcase.

Against the Beavers, Magnifico pitched 4 2/3 innings, giving up three runs on six hits with three walks and two strikeouts.

The Sooners will need a big game from Magnifico and plenty of support swinging the sticks if they expect to have a chance at beating the Razorbacks on Tuesday.

Oklahoma has a three-game series against conference foe Missouri at 6:30 p.m. Friday at L. Dale Mitchell Park, as the Sooners look to improve their pedestrian 4-8 record in Big 12 play.

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Freshman Dane Webb defends the net March 12 during the Sooners’ victory over the Louisville Cardinals. Webb began the season unranked. However, he has been steady for Oklahoma at both No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles this season and has steadily climbed the national rank-ings. The freshman is ranked No. 13 with doubles partner junior Costin Paval and No. 94 in singles competition.

PLAYER PROFILEerik RossYear: Senior Position: Outfield Hometown:McKinney, TexasSeason stats: The senior is on a 10-game hitting streak, the longest of his college career.

freshman Webb arguably could be the biggest catalyst for the team’s success.

Coming from Richardson High School in Richardson, Texas, Webb has had no problem adjusting from the high school level to Big 12 level tennis. The freshman

PLAYER PROFILEDane WebbYear: Freshman Position: No. 1 singles, doubles Hometown:Richardson, TexasSeason stats: Combined 13-1 in OU’s last seven matches

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MILWAUKEE — Russell Westbrook scored 26 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder won their second straight game, beating the Milwaukee Bucks 109-89 Monday in a game that featured seven technical fouls and an ejection of Bucks backup forward Larry Sanders.

Sanders was ejected after earning a pair of technicals in the second half, while Mike Dunleavy, Brandon Jennings and coach Scott Skiles also were assessed technicals for Milwaukee. Oklahoma City’s Nazr Mohammed and Serge Ibaka also were called for technicals.

Kevin Durant added 19 for the Thunder. Oklahoma City came into Monday’s game trailing San Antonio by percent-age points for the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference.

The Thunder beat the Bucks on the boards, outrebound-ing them 26-15 in the first half and 44-35 for the game.

With Oklahoma City already taking over the game in the first quarter, Westbrook hit a 3-pointer over Jennings — then paused to pantomime blowing smoke off his fingers and putting them back in holsters, a more-exaggerated-than-usual version of his celebration gesture.

Then Ibaka and Dunleavy got tangled up after a shot clock violation, with Ibaka standing over Dunleavy and keeping him down as he tried to get up off the floor. The two were separated and both assessed technicals.

The incidents didn’t do much to slow down the Thunder, who led 35-18 going into the second quarter and 61-47 at the half after Westbrook hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer.

With Milwaukee trailing by 12, Westbrook appeared to carry the ball right in front of the bench but it wasn’t called. Skiles appeared to complain about the no-call and received a technical — as did Jennings immediately afterward.

Durant hit both foul shots, Westbrook scored and the Thunder led 82-66 with just over three minutes left in the third quarter.

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Tennis: Webb stepping up for 13th-ranked OUContinued from page 7

has lost only one singles match all year and is play-ing with Junior Costin Paval at the number one doubles spot for the Sooners.

The tandem has been ranked as the No. 13 best doubles tandem in the na-tion. Paval was expected to have a huge season for the Sooners this season. However, Webb was a ques-tion mark for the team com-ing into the year, having played mostly singles in high school.

“I’ve improved a lot since I’ve got here” Webb said. “I mostly played individual stuff in high school” said Webb. Webb has had to get used to the team aspect this year at OU. “There’s more pressure being on a team, but that’s more fun too” Webb said.

After a 2-0 start to con-ference play, the Sooners are sitting right where they expect to be — at the top of the Big 12 standings. In addi-tion, after the team’s recent seven-match win streak, the Sooners have jumped from No. 31 to No. 13 in the nation.

In that winning streak, Webb and Paval have lost only one singles match, and

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Freshman Dane Webb defends the net during his doubles match against the Louisville Cardinals March 12. Webb and junior Costin Paval currently are the No. 13 doubles tandem in the entire nation. The duo is undefeated in doubles play since the team’s last loss on March 16.

Webb is undefeated in sin-gles play for the Sooners.

Entering the 2012 season, the Sooners showed a lot of promise. The team had questions that needed to be answered, though. There was a lot of talent, but a lot of youth and inexperience

along with it.Now, though, the team ap-

pears to have the attitude of a conference champion and national contender. That coupled with a freshman putting up huge results for the No. 13 Sooners has this team right where it wants

to be. There is still time left in the season, though. And the Sooners are not worried about mid-season rank-ings or what the critics are saying.

“Regardless of what peo-ple say, our goal is to win it all,” Roddick said.

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T h e N C A A S e m i f i n a l pairings were announced Monday following the re-gional qualifiers held around the country last weekend.

OU was selected as a No. 3 seed and will compete during the first semifinal session at 11 a.m. Friday at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth, Ga.

Oklahoma earned the three seed after an im-pressive showing at the Champaign, Ill., regional Saturday en route to a third straight regional title.

Competing along with the Sooners in the first ses-sion will be No. 2 UCLA, No. 6 Nebraska, No. 7 Utah, No. 10 Stanford and No. 11 LSU.

The top three teams from each regional advance to the NCAA Super Six on April 21 for a shot at the NCAA title.

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TRACK AND FIELD

Sooner shatters school record in javelin throw

O U s e n i o r B r i t t a n y Borman set a new school-best mark with her vic-tory in the javelin throw at Saturday’s Sun Angel Classic in Tempe, Ariz.

She set the record in her first throw of the compe-tition with a mark of 194 feet, 11 inches. It tops the

previous record set in 2010 by Amy Backel (182-5).

Most impressive about Borman’s new record is the fact that she did it in her first competition throw in the event all season.

Her throw Saturday set a Sun Angel Stadium facility and meet record and is tied for the 15th best throw in the world this year.

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