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Sandi Troop and Molly Fritch, cofounders of SHOUT, speak about the importance of self-examina-tion at the Young Survivors panel Tuesday afternoon. SHOUT is a group for young cancer patients.

LOCAL CERAMIC ARTISTS TO BE FEATURED IN EXHIBIT

A new exhibit centered on local ceramic artists will open at Dreamer Concepts Studio and Foundation Friday.

Dreamer 22: Slippery When Wet focuses solely on Norman community ceramic artists and will run for six weeks. The open-ing reception is set for Friday from 6 to 10 p.m. at DCSF, 324 E. Main St.

Works can be purchased and taken the same day. For this reason, the exhibit will change throughout its six-week run.

DCSF is open noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday to Friday and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.

For more information, call DCSF at 701-0048 or visit http://www.dreamerconcepts.org.

-Nicole Hill/The Daily

OU FOUNDATION PLANS RETURN TO CAMPUS HOME

After nine months in an off-campus building, the University of Oklahoma Foundation re-opened Tuesday in its on-cam-pus building at 100 Timberdell Road.

While its building under-went $2 million in renovations, the OU Foundation was housed in a temporary location on West Lindsey Street.

The OU Foundation offers private donors a way to invest philanthropic dollars in the future.

-Meredith Moriak/The Daily

AVIATION FESTIVAL TO BE HELD THIS MONTH

The University of Oklahoma Department of Aviation is host-ing its third annual aviation fes-tival later this month.

Members of the OU and Norman communities are in-vited to attend the festival from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 24 at the Max Westheimer Airport locat-ed off Robinson Street and west of Flood Avenue.

The Max Westheimer Airport is a general aviation airport run by the OU.

Activities include tours of the control tower, static displays and an open house.

For more information on the third annual aviation festival visit the department of avia-tion Web site at http://airport.ou.edu.

-Hannah Rieger/The Daily

FREE HEALTH SCREENINGS TO FACULTY, STAFF

The University of Oklahoma and Blue Cross Blue Shield will offer free health screen-ings to university faculty and staff Thursday and Friday on campus.

A medical staff will screen total cholesterol, HDL choles-terol, blood glucose, blood pres-sure and body composition.

Participants can also meet with a health coach to review results and discuss health and wellness resources.

Testing is available by walk-in or appointment from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday at the Armory and Thurman White Forum buildings on campus.

To schedule a screening, visit http://healthysooners.ouhsc.edu.

-Kelsey Witten/The Daily

Women’s Outreach Center hosts panel

to raise breast cancer awareness

NATASHA GOODELLDaily Staff Writer

At age 31, breast cancer was the last thing newly-wed Molly Fritch thought about. She regularly admin-istered breast self-examinations, but didn’t realize this simple act would save her life.

Fritch, professional counselor for the OU Cancer Institute and co-founder of a breast cancer survivor group called SHOUT, was diagnosed with stage 2B breast cancer after completing graduate school nearly three years ago.

“My life changed in seconds and I feel like now it’s my mission to tell women about this,” Fritch told an au-dience of women Tuesday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Governors Room. “If you feel anything, you need to get it checked out. I stand here today and there is no detectable cancer in my body.”

She spoke of her experience about surviving breast cancer at the “Young Survivors Panel” hosted by the Women’s Outreach Center as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

“I went through six months of chemotherapy,” Fritch said. “It was an aggressive process. I just fin-ished everything last year.”

Sandi Troop, also co-founder of SHOUT, had a story similar to Fritch’s.

“I was 32 when I was diagnosed with breast cancer,” Troop said. “I was in the Air Force and I was about to get out.”

Troop said she felt something funny on her breast, almost like a hard pea, and had the doctor check it out.

“It was an aggressive form of cancer,” Troop said.Troop said she has had reconstructive surgery on

both of her breasts, but did not have to undergo che-motherapy because the cancer was caught early.

“You’ve gotta know your body,” Troop said. “If you know deep down something isn’t right, it’s worth fighting for. You are an advocate for your own life.”

BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS TELL THEIR STORIESBREAST CANCER SURVIVORS TELL THEIR STORIES

‘Closer-knit team’ practicing hard for

club, college season

CASEY PARVINDaily Staff Writer

Amid the touch-football and lacrosse prac-tices, an uncountable number of Frisbees fly through air at the back corner of the Intramural Fields. Even though it’s just a warm-up exercise, 30 men continually dive to catch Frisbees car-ried away by the wind.

“Being from Oklahoma, we practice with the wind a lot, so we have an advantage when we go to tournaments in windy places,” said Zach Walchuk, industrial engineering graduate stu-dent. “To work with the wind you have to release the disc at a certain angle and get a lot more spin on the disc.”

Walchuk is a member of the OUltimate Frisbee team that competes during the fall and spring semesters against other colleges. College Ultimate Frisbee season doesn’t start until spring semester, but club season, involv-ing a number of tournaments, is in full swing. OUltimate will host a home tournament Oct. 24 and 25 called Just Plain Nasty, team captain Michael Rice said.

“It is a little more laid-back tournament geared toward fun and we usually encourage some local teams to compete,” said civil engi-neering senior Rice. “This year we are hoping for a high school team from Norman to play.”

To prepare for these tournaments, the team practices every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. The team’s conditioning captain Lyle Clark, criminology sophomore, said the team will start conditioning for upcoming tournaments soon.

Rice said he has high hopes for OUltimate

since they are at the end of a team transition period.

“Two years ago, we had a large portion of our team graduate, and there were only a few experi-enced players left to rebuild the team,” Rice said. “Last year the younger players seemed to keep to themselves more, but this year, we are a closer-

knit team with a lot more mingling amongst the older and younger guys.”

University College freshman Chris Larberg is new to the team this year, but said the team was eager to have him join.

Ultimate Frisbee team has high hopes for competitions

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Ben Breazile, University College freshman, plays Ultimate Frisbee with his teammates during a team prac-tice Thursday at the intramural fields.

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Project to add aesthetic appeal to

campus and neighborhoods

TROY WEATHERFORDDaily Staff Writer

Norman city officials said they will take mea-sures to reduce the impact that construction on Lindsey Street will have on OU as plans to widen the street continue on schedule.

As part of East Lindsey Street Bond Project, construction on Lindsey Street will run from January 2011 through June 2012, said Shawn O’Leary, Norman director of public works.

Main goals of the East Lindsey Street Bond Project include widening East Lindsey Street from Lincoln Avenue to the railroad tracks west of Classen Boulevard, adding aesthetic appeal and installing a sidewalk on the north side of Lindsey Street.

This means the street will be under construc-tion for an entire football season, O’Leary said.

“We’re going to do everything we can to re-duce impact on the university,” O’Leary said.

The bond project, which was approved in March 2005, elicited two letters of objection from OU President David Boren. Since then, an alternate project design was submitted to OU and approved by city council, said O’Leary.

Doug Cubberley, councilmember to Ward 7, which includes the project area, said that the university and the surrounding neighborhoods would benefit from the Lindsey Street project.

“This is one of those compromises where we’re all giving something out and getting some-thing in return,” he said.

OU will get a beautiful gateway into the uni-versity, and the surrounding residents will get a visually pleasing enhancement to the neighbor-hood, Cubberley said.

After the project is over, OU will take over caring for the landscaping included with the

City plans to reduce road construction impact

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Okla. receives failing grade in end-of-life careImprovements in hospice care

may lead to extended survival

JARED RADERDaily Staff Writer

Oklahoma’s low ranking in end-of-life care is due to the lack of hospitals offering satisfactory end-of-life care, an OU alumna told an audience Tuesday at the OU College of Public Health.

Linda Edmondson, co-chairwoman of the Attorney General’s Task Force on End-of-Life Care in Oklahoma, spoke to students and citizens about the need to educate the public and to train more health care providers about end-of-life, or palliative, care in Oklahoma.

“What is palliative care? I would not be surprised if you and others in the communi-ty don’t know,” Edmondson said. “We don’t have a lot of palliative care in Oklahoma.”

Oklahoma received a failing grade for its end-of-life care last year, according to a state-by-state report card issued by the Center to Advance Palliative Care.

“We need to get rid of [Oklahoma’s] failing

grade in palliative care,” Edmondson said.She said palliative care improves the qual-

ity of life for patients and families facing life-threatening illnesses. She also said palliative care prevents and relieves physical, psycho-logical, social and spiritual suffering, and includes assessment and relief of pain and other troublesome symptoms that neither hasten nor postpone death.

Edmondson said improvements in hos-pice care would greatly improve the quality of Oklahoma’s palliative care.

Hospice medical care is designed to sup-port a patient and a family when there is no longer a possibility of curing a terminal ill-ness, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Web site.

“Hospice is the gold standard of palliative care,” Edmondson said.

While Oklahoma has the highest num-ber of hospices per capita, Edmondson said more surveyors are needed to develop inno-vative ideas for hospices, and patients need to remain in hospices longer.

“The bottom line here is that Oklahomans have lots of hospice access in most areas, but most of them are in hospice, however, for a

very short time,” she said. “Increasing the number of patients in Oklahoma that spend more than a week or two in a hospice at the end of life would improve end-of-life care.”

Edmondson also said physicians need to get used to talking about death with termi-nally ill patients.

“In order to make some of these chang-es it’s really important that we get more comfortable talking about the end of life,” Edmondson said. “Every part of our culture sets out to tell us that we may eventually need Viagra or arthritis medicine, but lord knows we’re not going to die.”

Edmondson said terminally ill patients or families of terminally ill patients often resist hospice care because they see it as giving up on life.

“There is a bioethical principle that says withholding and withdrawing care is ethical-ly the same,” she said. “And yet mentally we have such an idea that once we start some-thing we can’t stop it.”

Edmondson said almost 40 percent of deaths in the U.S. are under hospice care, which extends survival for about a month over patients who continue with curative

care.“It is ethically appropriate to withdraw

care if it’s prolonging dying,” she said.In states with higher grades of palliative

care, patients had more access to palliative care, according to the Center to Advance Palliative Care’s report card. Edmondson said patients in these states are less likely to die in the ICU, have fewer admissions in the last month of life and spend less time in the ICU during the last six months of life.

“Experts consider the lesser time patients spend in the ICU as indicators of improving end-of-life care,” Edmondson said.

According to the report card, Oklahoma was one of three states, along with Alabama and Mississippi, that failed to improve from the last report card issued in 2002.

“Whether you are in public health, in medicine, in nursing, or whether you are a social worker or a student, you have a stake in learning to talk more comfortably about what happens at the end of life, because all of us are going to die one day,” Edmondson said.

To prevent breast cancer, Troop said stu-dents should live a healthy lifestyle by eat-ing natural foods and exercising regularly.

“Both of us are grateful for going through our cancer experiences,” Troop said of her-self and Fritch.

Fritch said she has seen a lot of blessings unfold from this.

“ W h e n y o u f a c e s o m e t h i n g , a l i f e -threatening disease, it makes you value what’s really impor-tant,” Troop said.

Fritch and Troop spoke of how impor-tant it is for young women to be aware of the possibility that they can get breast cancer too, the young-est woman in SHOUT diagnosed with breast cancer being 23 years old.

“It was very moving,” said Caitlin Walker, science education senior. “It defi-nitely made me want to check myself more often.”

Walker said she didn’t realize young people could get this too.

“Having the personal experiences told definitely brought it home and made it

more real,” Walker said.Walker said she has a co-worker who

was diagnosed with breast cancer a year ago, and her co-worker is going through chemotherapy right now.

Kathy Moxley, director of the Women’s Outreach Center, said she had a friend who died from breast cancer four years ago.

“She was a new mom and it was quite a blow to her life,” Moxley said.

Moxley said many college students don’t seem to realize they are still at risk

of being diagnosed with breast cancer even though they are young.

“ B y b r i n g i n g SHOUT in specifi-cally, we can help raise awareness that breast cancer can happen to anyone and there are things women can do now to reduce risk in the long term,” Moxley

said.She said the Women’s Outreach Center

received a grant from Susan G. Komen to do breast cancer awareness on OU’s cam-pus and she said this seemed to be infor-mative for the students.

“I think what we heard our presenters say was good — ‘Know your body and do things for your health: eating well and ex-ercising,’” Moxley said.

enhancements, O’Leary said.The city council also selected an alter-

nate drainage solution to problems on Lindsey and Elm Street.

T h e p r e v i o u s d r a i n -age solution would have delayed the East Lindsey Street Corridor project by six months. It would have sent runoff water into an under-ground pipeline going east and empty into Bishop Creek, O’Leary said.

The alternate solution will send the water south to a de-tention basin and will allow the project on Lindsey Street to continue on schedule, O’Leary said.

Burr Millsap, associate vice president for administrative affairs, represented OU at the meeting. He said that OU would not accept the alternate south drainage solu-tion as it stands.

“There probably is a solution that would work, but it would have to be carefully thought out,” Millsap said.

There are two problems Millsap had

with the plan. He said the detention basin would be unattractive, and he was con-cerned with the long-term impact the basin would have on developing the area around it.

“The drawing on-screen is not accept-able,” Millsap said, referring to a picture of

the alternate south drain-age solution.

O’Leary said that the location of the detention basin was still being de-cided. The site proposed on the map at the session is located at the northeast corner of Fairfield Drive and Imhoff Road.

Despite university con-cerns, city council came to a consensus toward se-lecting the tentative solu-

tion so that the Lindsey Street Bond Project could continue as planned.

“The practical reality is that we have only one solution at this time,” Cubberley said, referring to the alternate drainage solution.

The Council also heard about a steam tunnel OU will be building that will close Lindsey Street west of Jenkins Avenue from June 25 to Aug. 5, 2010.

TODAYCAREER SERVICES

A fi nancial planning workshop will be presented by the Credit Union from noon to 12:30 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Heritage Room.A behavioral interviewing workshop will be held from 12:30 to 1 p.m. in the Union’s Weitzenhoffer Room.“How to Find a Federal Government Job” will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Union’s Heritage Room.

CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUS

Christians on Campus will have Bible study from 12:30

to 1:15 in the Union.

OUR EARTH

OUr Earth will meet from 8 to 9 p.m. in Gaylord Hall room 2030.

CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST

Campus Crusade for Christ will meet from 9 to 10 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium’s Santee Lounge.

THURSDAYPSYCHOLOGY CLUB

The Psychology Club will provide information for students regard-ing mental health awareness from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the

South Oval for National Mental Health Awareness Week.

CAREER SERVICES

Career services will be accepting walk-ins from 1:30 to 4 p.m. in the Union for all students want-ing help with resumes, cover letter and job search strategies.The Construction Science Career Fair will be from 4 to 6:30 p.m. on the third fl oor of the Union.

PARADIGM

The OU Baptist Collegiate Ministry will host Paradigm at 8 p.m. in the Union’s Meacham Auditorium.

The following is a list of arrests and citations, not convictions. The information is compiled from the Norman Police Department and the OU Police Department. All those listed are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

DOG AT LARGEDrew Alan Buesing, 23, 2900 Chautauqua Ave., SaturdayJudy Ray Young, 50, 217 E. Ridge Road, Saturday

MUNICIPAL WARRANTRyan Lee Morris, 28, 222 S. University Blvd., Monday

COUNTY WARRANTLindsey David Powell, 24, 824 E. Symmes St., SundayDaniel Joseph Sinesio, 25, 300 Hal Muldrow Drive, Monday

POLICE REPORTS

CAMPUS NOTES

-Lump, hard knot of thickening.-Swelling, warmth, redness or darkening.-Change in the size or shape of the breast.-Dimpling or puckering of the skin.-Itchy, scaly sore or rash on the nipple.-Pulling in of your nipple or other parts.-Nipple discharge that starts suddenly.-New pain in one spot that does not go away.

Source: Susan G. Komen for the Cure

WARNING SIGNS

“One day, I saw some guys throwing Frisbees and since I played in high school, they asked me to join,” Larberg said. “I felt very welcomed. Everyone is very laid-back. They are all great guys a n d a re m o re than welcome to answer any questions.”

Between new and old mem-bers, it is impor-tant to have structure in practice because it builds team unity and chemistry among other teammates, Clark said.

“We are all really close,” Walchuk said. “We hang out a lot and when we go to tour-naments we are together the whole week-end, so we are all really close friends.”

Walchuk said that for some Ultimate Frisbee players, their teammates are their main group of friends.

“Six of us live at Duffy house (a three-bed-room house off D u f f y S t r e e t , north of cam-pus),” Walchuk said. “But there are a few other apartments and houses around

that are just filled with Frisbee players. It really helps on the field to be close to your teammates.”

SurvivorsContinued from page 1

FrisbeeContinued from page 1

ImpactContinued from page 1

“There probably is a solution that would work, but it would have to be carefully thought out.”

—BURR MILLSAP, ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS

“We are all really close. “We hang out a lot and when we go to tournaments we are together the whole weekend, so we are all really close friends.”

—ZACK WALCHUK, INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING GRADUATE STUDENT

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REJECTED REFERENDUMS TO BE APPEALEDUOSA General Counsel rejected petition for

having only one signature

RICKY MARANONDaily Staff Writer

Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society will appeal to UOSA Superior Court to get two referendums on the UOSA Fall General Election ballot that were rejected Monday by UOSA General Counsel.

Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society attempted to place two referendums on the ballot that would amend the UOSA Constitution. One amendment would ensure that any representative who runs uncontested will be automati-cally up for re-election in the next general election and the other would create a new legislating body made up of student organizations.

Michael Davis, UOSA General Counsel, said he rejected the two petitions for ballot referendums because the ap-proval of the referendums could bring chaos to student government.

UOSA’s constitution allows potential constitutional amendments to reach a ballot if a number of students equal to 15 percent of the number of ballots cast in the most recent UOSA presidential election sign a petition requesting it.

“We ran into a problem with the 15 percent requirement because no one voted in the last presidential election be-cause it was uncontested,” Davis said. “This is the first time in UOSA history that there has been an uncontested race for president.”

Davis, a third-year law student, said since the last election did not set a minimum signature number, UOSA is using the

vote count from the 2008 presidential election to determine the minimum signature limit. When that minimum limit from 2008 is put into effect, Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society’s petitions did not have enough signatures to put a referendum on the ballot because their petition to request a referendum only had one signature, Davis said.

“If I would have approved of the ballot initiatives, that would have set precedent until an actual president is elected by the student body for any student to just put anything they wanted on the ballot with only one signature,” Davis said.

He said the ballot initiatives were also a problem.“One of the two submitted petitions proposes a massively

sweeping reform to the student legislature on the basis of a single signature,” Davis said. “In theory, any individual stu-dent on campus, of which there are more than 25,000, could propose any constitutional amendment they want, and the UOSA would be required to put that amendment proposal on the ballot for a student vote. This is an incredible danger to the stability of the organization, the continuity of its constitu-tion, and surely it is contrary to the intent of the framers of the UOSA Constitution.”

Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society have stated on their Web site that they will appeal the UOSA General Counsel’s decision to the UOSA Superior Court.

“The analysis is completely flawed,” said Blake Burkhart, a member of Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society. “The petitions only propose the amendments for the student body to vote on in the next general election. If amendments are bad or cause the UOSA to be unstable, then students won’t vote for them. For the general counsel to decide by himself what all of the students should be deciding collec-tively is contrary to democratic principles.”

Burkhart, University College freshman, said Davis’

perception of what could happen if the referendums were place on the ballot is unfounded.

“The constitution is the law of the UOSA,” said Furzanna Iqbal, international and area studies and letters senior. “To say that we can disregard it because we think maybe the author actually meant something other than what he or she wrote leads us down a dangerous path. The General Counsel should apply the law as it is written, not create new policies because he does not like the plain language of the constitution.”

Davis said if Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society file an appeal to the Superior Court, it would take a week to work out administrative issues.

“If we go to court, I expect we will not only address the is-sues brought up by the petition rejection, but also about an issue that came up with an extra signature on one of the recall petitions.”

There were two signatures on the petition to recall UOSA Student Congress Vice Chairman Matt Gress. One of the sig-natures was rejected because the second person who signed the petition to recall Gress was not in his district.

“We have a Superior Court to sort out things like this,” Davis said. “This is obviously an issue that our constitution does not specifically address, and the court will give us a rul-ing on how things are suppose to go within the [meaning] of the constitution.”

Davis said depending on the outcome of what the court rules, the UOSA Fall General Election could be affected.

“If the court rules in favor of the SDS before Oct. 27, then the ballots will have the initiatives on them,” Davis said. “If the court rules in favor of the General Counsel, the referen-dums will not be on the ballot.”

Election chair compensated

despite one’s disapproval

RICKY MARANONDaily Staff Writer

UOSA Student Congress examined the problems of last spring’s special and general elections Tuesday.

The spring 2009 election chairman Raymond Rushing answered questions members had about problems that hindered the election process last semester.

“I had completed the main aspects of my job before the election began,” said Rushing, human relations graduate student.

Rushing said though members of Congress had problems during their elec-tions last spring, he did his job to the best of his ability.

“I don’t really need the money, I have a job that pays me $60,000,” Rushing saidx.

There were a few problems that occurred during the two elections last spring in which students could vote on representatives that

they did not qualify to vote on, and those same students could not vote on people who actually were representing their district.

Representatives talked about the prob-lems that occurred in the last election and debated on whether Rushing should be penalized in his $500 salary for his work done as election chair.

“I spent a lot of time campaigning, and then when I noticed the problems, I called Raymond. When we talked, he said it was his fault,” said Spencer Pittman, humani-ties district representative and criminol-ogy senior. “If he said it is his fault, then he should take the responsibility for the events that took place under his leadership.”

But other members said the mistakes should be acknowledged, but Rushing should still be compensated for his work.

“We should pay him for the work he’s done. It’s that simple,” said Shayna Daitch, humanities district representative. “I had problems with voting in my campaign last spring, but it is not fully Raymond’s fault.”

Daitch, Judaic and international security

studies junior, said despite problems of the last election, it would discourage people from signing up to be elec-tion chairs if Congress did not approve of compensation when a mistake occurs.

“Tonight we analyzed mis-takes made in the last elec-tion, and we are moving for-ward,” said political science and history senior Matt Gress, UOSA Student Congress Vice Chair. “The mistakes made in the last election should not happen again because we have seen the areas in where we need improvement, and we are fixing them.”

Congress approved of com-pensating Rushing $500 for his work.

All members except Pittman voted to approve the compensation.

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Later this month, Microsoft will release Windows 7, another needless operating system. Former Windows programs XP and Vista, despite their problems, still do what nearly everyone needs them to do.

As a result, few will pay its $200 to $320 price, but Dell and Acer will happily install it on your next computer. Software developers a few years from now will assume

that everyone already uses it, just as they now assume nobody could be so barbaric as to still use Windows 2000.

And so the process will begin. Newer versions of software will no longer run properly on versions prior to Vista. Already, Firefox 3 and Adobe Reader do not support anything before Windows 2000, while Google’s Chrome requires XP. If you try to hang on to your current operating system, eventually you will want to look at a file or Web site that is not supported by your software.

At that point, you will read the exciting news that Windows 7 demands one gigabyte of RAM. This may not seem like much, but remember the grand myth that XP only needed 64 megabytes? And why pay $200 for a new version of Windows instead of $400 for a new computer?

Perhaps XP will be supported for a long time. This is possible, given its popularity; however, it entered the market only three years after Windows 98, another wide-spread product, now left behind.

Therefore, no matter how much you like your com-puter, no matter how well it works, no matter how much you dread learning an obnoxious new interface, you will someday be forced to pay a considerable amount of cash for something you shouldn’t need.

Is it such a tragedy that we must upgrade? Surely we can use the increase in performance. But is there really an increase?

Programs are not getting any faster; they are just add-ing useless features, like transparent windows and ani-mated effects, that mercilessly devour processing power, squandering the benefits of faster hardware.

Certainly, there are applications that require mod-ern computers. Video editing, simulations of Martian weather, “StarCraft II” and the development of the next generation of nuclear weapons all need the strength that only the latest and most expensive silicon toys can provide.

But for the bulk of computer users, this is like giv-ing an anti-aircraft gun to a duck hunter. We could be using cheaper, tougher and more energy-efficient hard-ware. Instead, we must purchase overpowered lap-tops to do the work of computers 10 years ago: making spreadsheets, reading e-mail and finding videos on the Internet.

Only they are not overpowered in practice because the newest software is crippled with excess features and bad code. Those inclined to conspiracy theories might even suspect a malicious plot; the software companies write poor programs to force you to buy new hardware.

How bad is it really? Is it a big deal if we have to spend a little extra money every few years?

First, it is not just a little money. The wealth of Bill Gates is legendary, and Michael Dell is a billionaire himself. These people are buying yachts with the money they make us pay.

A more subtle cost, however, lies in the proliferation of outdated electronics, full of heavy metals such as lead and copper. This might not be especially terrible, but since these metals are worth something, the com-ponents are often shipped to developing nations, where their valuable elements are extracted without concern for the environment. Reporters working for National Geographic have found that desperate Chinese villag-es will burn or melt circuit boards, filling the area with toxins.

What must be done about this wasteful system? Unfortunately, individuals are nearly powerless. You can buy Apple products, but while they arguably last longer, they also must be replaced periodically, and the initial cost is much higher.

Others will tell you to try open source, but that can quickly become a bottomless time sink. And software is not the whole problem, as newer hardware often has a rather low life expectancy, wiping out many of the ben-efits of abandoning Windows.

Maybe this will change someday if Microsoft ever finds a real competitor. Maybe hardware makers will stop using this profitable practice and concentrate on reliability over speed, or consumers will unite and de-mand a fairer business model.

For now, we are trapped and must continue to reward them with egregious profits. But let us at least realize the truth and stop praising these companies for selling us things we have no need for.

Gerard Keiser is a classical languages sophomore.

At the end of the 2003 movie “Mother Teresa,” the title character dissolved the board of directors for the association that had been created to support her Missionaries of Charity and their work.

They had been discussing revenue and costs, while she was ashamed of the $3 bot-tles of water. She then interrupted the meet-ing and said that the organization no longer existed. She was going back to her roots, loving and serving the poorest of the poor.

In essence she knew that the people they were working for were more important than the organization itself. The Missionaries of Charity continues to exist as a large orga-nization in many branches with priests, brothers, sisters and lay people working for the same end. Their work emphasizes the principle of subsidiarity, working for the in-

dividual person, not the organization.Subsidiarity is the idea that all human affairs should be

taken care of at the lowest level of organization possible. That is, the federal government should only do what the state cannot do; the state should only do what the local cities and counties cannot do; the local government should only do what the churches and local community cannot do; and the church should only do what families cannot do.

That is an extremely simplified explanation of subsidiar-ity, but the idea is that social justice can be best achieved on a personal level. This helps keep the dignity of each individ-ual person who would otherwise be lost in a huge bureau-cracy. The practice of subsidiarity also allows local govern-ments to operate without undue pressure from the federal government.

While the idea of subsidiarity is primarily prominent in

Catholic social teaching, it has also been discussed in the or-ganization of the European Union.

However, it is not as much about the bigger government taking charge where the smaller ones lack, as it was primarily emphasized in the EU constitutions. Rather, it is about defer-ring to the smallest capable organization or person.

Here in the United States, it comes into play under the guise of states’ rights and the discussion of the government’s role in the education and the health care systems. Well, at least we should be discussing subsidiarity when talking about health care and education.

For example, parents have the first rights in choosing how their child is to be educated. Since most parents do not have the time or the means to educate their child, the local church-es and cities have schools to assist them.

The state and the federal government can provide stan-dards, but in the end, individuals must decide where and how they can get the best education for their children and themselves.

That is why it is important to encourage the existence of home, private, charter and vocational schools along with the public schools. This facilitates individual choice and compe-tition to give the best quality education.

Subsidiarity should also be discussed in the health care debate. Many people feel, often instinctively, that injecting the federal government into the health system will create a monolithic bureaucracy and a depersonalization of care and treatment. This fear is not unwarranted since too much fed-eral control would be overstepping government bounds.

While the government has the purpose of promoting the common good, it cannot supply every need on its own with-out overstepping its established rights.

The question that Congress should be considering is not, “how should Washington step in and set everything

right?” but rather “how can the federal govern-ment aid doctors, insurance companies and pa-tients in making health care more affordable and compassionate?”

Reform should start with the states, which can regulate the laws for insurance companies and malpractice suits. Washington should only step in when the states cannot agree on how to regulate its own health system.

Doctors and other health care providers must be at the forefront of any change because they deal directly with the patients. However the practical implications of applying subsidiarity to health care reform pan out, change for the better will be impos-sible if the federal government insists on too much control.

This discussion only skims the surface of the full implications of subsidiarity, but it deserves a much wider discussion outside Catholic and philosophi-cal circles.

It should be important in discussing the role of government, especially in this day and age when the terms “socialist” and “capitalist” are used as dirty words to describe the opposite party.

Abraham Lincoln himself recognized the prin-ciple of subsidiarity, when he said, “The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can-not do at all or cannot so well do, for themselves — in their separate and individual capacities.”

In short, subsidiarity is about keeping human af-fairs, well, human.

Sarah Rosencrans is a zoology and biomedical science senior.

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The U.S. Supreme Court is in the process of hearing a controversial case involving free speech and ani-mal cruelty, specifically focusing on a 1999 law that bans people from selling videos containing cruelty to animals, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review story.

Robert J. Stevens was convicted of selling dog-fighting videos in 2005, but appealed the case on the basis of free speech.

We think animal cruelty and selling videos of animal cruelty for personal profit are completely abhorrent, but we hope the law Stevens broke gets struck down by the Supreme Court because it infringes upon free speech, one of the bedrock principles

on which this country was founded.Obviously, like most, we think

dog-fighting and other instances of cruelty to animals are disgusting, but it’s a slippery slope once the govern-ment begins telling people what they can or cannot watch or show.

This case focuses on Stevens, who sold videos in an underground dog-fighting magazine, the Tribune-Review’s article said. But we worry about the potential expansion of the regulatory law.

What if a newspaper published a photograph of dog-fighting to ac-company a story about a local dog-fighting ring that was uncovered?

This is a hypothetical situation, but it could, under the current law,

be illegal. Instead of focusing on the people

who make videos or take pictures depicting images of animal cruelty, we would encourage the federal government and authorities to turn their attention toward punishing the people who are actually being cruel to animals.

Hopefully, stricter punishments for animal cruelty would deter people. And as a positive side effect, maybe that would eliminate video images of the cruelty too.

We are not in favor of animal cru-elty, but we also don’t think the gov-ernment should be choosing what we can or cannot view.

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A few months ago at a press conference, Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre (it’s still hard to call him a Viking) said he didn’t have anything left to give.

It was hard to argue against that. At the time of the press conference Favre had prolific statistics, prestigious awards and a championship ring on his hand and was finishing his eighteenth year in league.

His numbers had been con-sistently falling every year. It seemed that this was going to be the last retirement from Brett Favre, the final chapter in

his book.But it wasn’t. Weeks before this season

kicked off, Favre announced he was ready come back again.

And now he turns 40 years old this week, but his arm is as strong and accurate as it was in the 1992 season, his first year in Green Bay.

Favre was the missing piece in Minnesota and has led a Vikings team to an early 4-0 record.

So far this season he has eight touchdowns and only one interception for 837 yards includ-ing a final second, winning drive, touchdown pass against the San Francisco 49ers in week three.

Not to mention an 85.7 percent completion percentage and a 104.6 quarterback rating, both career highs.

His resurgence is phenomenal, something that nobody is familiar with.

It’s not a normalcy for a 40-year-old player to be the frontrunner for the MVP trophy. It wouldn’t be surprising to see the Vikings make a run at the Super Bowl this season if Favre continues the success we’ve seen thus far.

Even with his illustrious career, people love to hate Favre.

Sure, it became a tad annoying seeing him retire and unretire several times over the last five years, but we’re lucky to see him play. We may never see a quarterback as fun to watch the rest of our lives, and I’m happy to say Favre’s back.

And he’s back playing like it’s the 1990s.

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Bradford breaks his silenceJONO GRECODaily Staff Writer

Heisman-winning junior quarterback Sam Bradford said he is uncertain whether he will be playing in the No. 19 Sooners’ Big 12 opener against Baylor.

“I think I have a big percentage in that deci-sion, but I think overall the coaches are going to have to watch the way I practice this week,” Bradford said. “Ultimately, they’ll probably decide if they feel like I’m ready [and] if I can help this football team win this week.”

Bradford has been practicing with trainers and the team for the past few weeks, and said he thinks doctors have cleared him to play.

“I guess I’m clear,” Bradford said. “I really just have to go through a week without any excess soreness after throwing. I have to be able to make it through a week without tak-ing any steps back.”

That excess soreness is what kept Bradford out of last week’s 21-20 loss against Miami.

“I just didn’t feel comfortable with the amount of preparation that I had,” Bradford said. “I think our coaches will tell you the same thing. They just didn’t feel comfortable with the reps I’ve been able to take and the throws I was able to make last week.”

One of the major questions after Bradford suffered the injury in the season opener against Brigham Young University was whether or not his shoulder required sur-gery. Bradford said he has not ruled out the possibility of having surgery later on .

“There still is a possibility [during the off-season],” Bradford said. “It’s all a matter of how my arm reacts to the amount of throws that I have and the stress of going through a

season.”Because of the possibility of surgery,

Bradford said he cannot make a 100 percent commitment to return to the field this season, but he does feel like he will don the crimson and cream before the end of the season.

“From all of the doctors I’ve talked to, it’s all a matter of how my arm reacts,” Bradford said. “Until I get out there, until practice, until I make all the throws, until I play in a game, I’m not going to know.”

Despite OU falling to a 2-2 record with Bradford on the sidelines, he feels the team still has a possibility to make a national championship run. For that reason he said he has not given up on either the team or this season.

“What happens if we win nine straight games, and we win the Big 12?” Bradford said. “There still is a possibility. I still think there is a lot in front of this team, and I think it would be extremely selfish for me to say, ‘Oh, the possibility of a national championship is slim, now. So why come back?’ I’ve spent so many hours with these guys for me to say, or even think, something like that is extremely selfish.”

The next two days before practice will say a lot about whether or not Bradford will take the field Saturday, but for the moment he does not know when he will be allowed to play.

“I think these next two days are important just for the fact that this is when we get the most work in against our defense,” Bradford said. “During those periods we get to as close to a game-like experience as we get. It is going to be important for me to get those reps.”

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OU volleyball faces ranked opponent from Big 12 NorthJAMES CORLEYDaily Staff Writer

The Sooner volleyball team will host its second ranked opponent in a row.

The No. 14 Iowa State Cyclones (12-3, 4-2) are off to their second best start in the program’s history and are riding a three-game win streak.

The Cyclones have a potent offense, aver-aging a .243 attack percentage this season. Iowa State has also hit over .300 in three of their six conference games.

Iowa State senior Kaylee Manns leads the country in assists, and freshman Jamie Straube has hit .414 the last five matches.

On defense, the Cyclones lead the Big 12 in digs, just edging out the Sooners.

But Iowa State has struggled on the road this season, going 3-3 away from Aimes,

while the Sooners are 2-1 at home and hold a 21-7 series lead against ISU in Norman.

The key to victory for the Sooners will be strong defense.

OU (11-4, 4-2) is second in the confer-ence in opponent hitting percentage al-lowed because of its unyielding defensive play.

The anchor of the Sooners’ defense, freshman María Fernanda, was named Big 12 Rookie of the Week Monday after being named conference Defensive Player of the Week two weeks ago.

Oklahoma is chasing its first win over a ranked opponent at home in almost two years, and a big win over Iowa State could give the Sooners a big enough push to break into the top 25.

The match will begin at 7 tonight at McCasland Field House.

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ACROSS 1 Part of a

jukebox 5 “Follow ___

car!” 9 A scythe

may cut one 14 Edible tuber 15 Engage in,

as war 16 Turkish rank

of honor, once

17 Popular cookie

18 Land on the Persian Gulf

19 Type of alcohol

20 Weekly since 1955 (with “The”)

23 Art studio fixture

24 Road shoulder

25 X-ray measurements

29 Like operating rooms

31 Michigan State athlete

33 Alternatives to creams

35 Health club feature

36 Community summit

42 On ___ (reveling)

43 Utter a loud, harsh cry

44 Treacherous person (with “double”)

47 Did another take of

52 Encl. with a manuscript

53 One-horse carriage

55 ___ ear and out the other

56 Film that includes the line “I made a cow!”

59 A chorus line? 62 Autocrat of

yore 63 Leave

___ (act gratuitously)

64 Hotel queen Helmsley

65 “Dennis the Menace” cartoonist Ketcham

66 Puerto ___ 67 “Seinfeld”

character Elaine

68 USNA students

69 Eight, to Hans and Franz

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points? 2 It goes around

in a roundup 3 “You’ll regret

it otherwise!” 4 Leatherwork-

er, at times 5 Kindling

component 6 Blue-flowered

perennial 7 Tequila

source 8 Domingo

and others 9 Design detail,

briefly 10 “Wind in the

Willows” rodent

11 Grate build-up

12 “... ___ will

be done” 13 Unhinged

computer of film

21 Touches down

22 Rambunc-tious child

26 Container for small toiletries

27 “Blinded by the Light” singer

28 Catch on a nail, say

30 It’s suitable for grazing

32 Free from germs

34 Full of cunning

36 Some O’s and X’s

37 Another, in Madrid

38 Apt rhyme for “pursues”

39 Apollo part 40 Black-eyed

Susan state

41 Animal that sounds exactly like you?

45 “To the max” indicator

46 A drummer should have it

48 Capital of Turkey

49 Kind of license or justice

50 Add vitamins and minerals to

51 Absolute ruler 54 Allegro ___

(very brisk, in music)

57 “A miss ___ good as a mile”

58 Really gets to 59 Clerical

garment 60 Confederate

commander at Gettysburg

61 Two thousand pounds

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- In a partnership arrangement, you will have a much better relationship if what you want for yourself is what you want for your partner. Success comes more easily when the goal is a common one.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Putting limitations on your intentions will prove self-defeating, so once you know what you want to do and where you want to go, don’t hold back. Pull out all the stops; don’t plug them up.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Of course, you need to be cautious and prudent in handling your affairs, but not excessively so. If conditions call for taking a calculated risk, you need to seriously consider doing just that.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Keep any casual conver-sations with friends buoyant and breezy. Conversely, when the subject matter turns serious, be as pragmatic and critical as possible.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Take adequate time to care-fully analyze all developments with regard to your commercial affairs. Once you weigh all the alternatives, only then make decisions.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Although your spouse’s modus operandi might be more tedious than yours, the results are also likely to be better. Follow his or her lead.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- When faced with more than one way to make a few extra bucks, stick to the tried-and-true. Familiar methods will bring more fi nancial success.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- You might have the opportunity to get to know a longtime ac-quaintance on a more personal level. You will like what you see, and you could develop a close friendship.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Although you tend to take life in a lighter vein, you will objec-tively view those in your charge with a crystal-clear eye. It isn’t your tendency to be strict, but you might want to correct what bothers you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- A social acquaintance might approach you with a business proposition. Be sure to keep friendship out of the picture, and study matters in a purely systematic and practical man-ner.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- It will be much easier to handle a fi nancial matter -- business or personal -- if you view every-thing in a serious way. You can be both friendly and pragmatic.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Be imaginative in your approach when discussing a serious matter with a friend, and you’ll get further quicker. You’ll know how to make your points without jeopardizing the relationship.

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DAREDEVIL #500 2ND PRINTING

Toward the end of the summer, Ed Brubaker ’s run on the phenomenally written “Daredevil” ended with this giant-sized issue.

I ’ m n o t u s u a l l y a “Daredevil” reader, but this edition boasted a lot of extra features—even an extra comic book—so I had to buy it to keep on file, but before I could, it was sold out.

Now that it’s being re-issued, not only am I going to get it, I’m also going to boast about how interesting I thought it was.

E d B r u b a k e r p i c k e d u p w r i t i n g “Daredevil” after Brian Michael Bendis’ magnificent run on the series and made it his own.

Brubaker is known for his noir style of writing, as seen in “Sleeper ” and “Criminal,” and I guess this is what “Daredevil” needed because it works ex-tremely well.

Although this issue is more than a month old, it probably got sold out on its first printing because it’s one of the best comic writers’ last books.

If you missed it, I’d advice you to get it.

CROSSED #7

Garth Ennis’ and Jacen Burrows’ “Crossed” begins w h e r e i t a l w a y s leaves off : the sur vivors a r e b e i n g chased by the i n f e c t i o n that seem to b e g e t t i ng s m a r t e r and using a c t u a l h u n t i n g s t r a t -egy. This m i g h t seem like a s i m p l e s t o r y , b u t along w ith Garth Ennis’ w e i rd s e n s e of humor and writing s t y l e, i t ’ s v e r y entertaining.

With “ The Boys,” Ennis promised to “out-preach The Preacher” in terms of violence and his disgusting and black

sense of humor. For those of us who read “The Boys,” he hasn’t held up

to that promise, instead, he does that with this comic book,

which is one of the most disturbing things I

have read. To be honest,

I d o n ’ t a c t u -ally buy any of these issues, I j u s t h i d e b e -

h i n d o n e o f t h e r a c k s a t t h e c o m i c

b o o k s t o re a n d f l i p t h r o u g h e a c h issue. I’m n o t s a y -

ing there’s a n y t h i n g w r o n g with Ennis writing or

Burrows a r t , i t ’ s j u s t

t h e violence, gore and sexual deviance

that is a little too much for me.

If you are a hardcore Garth Ennis fan, then you might like this. If not, READ IT AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!

STRANGE TALES #2

“Strange Tales” is what happens when Marvel decides let indie comic book writers recreate their iconic characters in their own “indie” way.

This three-issue series showcases the talents of most indie faves working in the industry today, from Paul Pope (“Heavy Liquid”) to the famous New Yorker car-toonist Michael Kupperman.

The stories contained in each issue are not to be taken seriously and many other reviewers have compared it to MAD mag-azine, which I must say fits perfectly.

It’s always enjoyable to poke fun at famous serious Marvel characters like Wolverine and the Incredible Hulk.

To be honest, the first issue of this un-usual comic book had me giggling like a little girl.

Despite its steep $4.99 price, this edi-tion is still a great book to own.

Also, it only has one more issue left in the series, so I would advise comic book fans to pick their copies up before it’s too late.

Osi Aken’Ova is a film and video studies senior.

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