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$2.9 million award will help team develop ways to produce biofuels, increase oil reserve yield
MEGAN DEATONThe Oklahoma Daily
Rivals are teaming up in the name of scientific research. OU, Oklahoma State University and the University of Tulsa professors worked together to win a grant that will establish a new Center for Interfacial Reaction Engineering.
Daniel Resasco, School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering professor, directs a team that in-cludes OU professors Jeffrey Harwell and Friederike Jentoft, Tulsa profes-sor Sanwu Wang and OSU professor Khaled Gasem.
“To receive the grant, we had first
a state competition that started last year in which we were selected to compete at the national level,” Resasco said. “At that stage, we were se-lected among 18 states to receive this support for three years.”
The $2.9 million grant from the Department of Energy will aid in the team’s development of a process that uses nano-technology to control chemical reactions be-tween oil and water.
“Resasco’s team manufactures unique nanoparticles that seek out and stick to the interface between oil and water,” Harwell said. “Small clusters of metal atoms attached to the nanoparticles are then used to
control the results of chemical reac-tions that occur at the interface, con-
verting harmful chemical compounds into useful ones.”
The process will have numerous benefits, in-cluding increasing oil production.
“We are working on a variety of areas that in-clude production of biofu-els from switch grass and other biomasses, produc-tion of chemicals from cel-lulose and natural sugars,
enhanced oil recovery, conversion of gas to liquids and upgrading of heavy oils,” Resasco said.
Cindy Rosenthal said. “We felt very privileged to have
the honor of hosting the event,” Rosenthal said.
The city combined its usual Fourth of July celebration with the fundraising efforts that Operation Oklahoma did nationally in order to include some of the addi-tional festivities, such as fireworks,
Rosenthal said. Many in the city came together
to ensure the event’s success.“A lot of local effort went into it
with the local community choir and the extensive local volunteer effort,” Rosenthal said. “We also had just incredible efforts by our Parks and Recreations staff and crews to help get the park in good
shape and to do all of the things that they did.”
Mike Wallace, resident of Norman for 17 years, said he at-tended the commemoration to support all veterans and to reflect on his family members who served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Grenada.
“That’s why I am here, to
support them,” Wallace said. “Having the freedom to stand here like this, that’s thanks to all these guys right here.”
Vietnam veteran Leo Perez performed a song he and his wife wrote to help the healing process
Ceremony relies on community to thank veterans as part of Year of the Vietnam Veteran
SPENCER POPPThe Oklahoma Daily
Hundreds of Oklahoma Vietnam veterans re-ceived an official thank
you for their service in a ceremo-nial commemoration Saturday at Reaves Park, which included keynote speakers, musical perfor-mances, a 21-gun salute and an F-16 flyover.
The event, Operation Oklahoma, sought to pay tribute to Vietnam veterans. It was rescheduled from the Fourth of July because of rain.
Retired Maj. Gen. Toney Stricklin, Vietnam veteran and event keynote speaker, spoke how Vietnam veterans didn’t receive much of a welcome in the 1960s and 1970s on Veterans Day, and how grateful he is that has changed.
“That’s different now, and we’re proud to stand among our World War II, Korean and other veterans who have served this great nation over the years,” Stricklin said.
Lt. Gov. Jari Askins said she is proud Oklahoma consistently opens its arms and says thank you to the men and women who serve in all military branches.
“This is important for me to be here because this is the war of my generation,” Askins said. “The op-portunity to celebrate at any time the Vietnam veterans who are here, who have a chance for us to say thank you, it’s never too late to say thank you.”
The City of Norman was one of three key sites for the various celebrations that were part of Operation Oklahoma and Gov. Brad Henry’s Year of the Vietnam Veteran proclamation, Mayor
Shrek, Donkey visit OKCAlan Mingo Jr. (shown right) stars as Donkey
in “Shrek The Musical,” opening Tuesday in Oklahoma City. Read a Q&A with the actor.
LIFE & ARTS • PAGE 7
OU falls to Cowgirls in title matchThe Sooner soccer team appeared in its fi rst Big 12 championship and lost to Oklahoma State for the third time this season
SPORTS • PAGE 9
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Vietnam veterans celebrated at event
Visitors fl ood weather center for festival
Competing schools join together to receive biofuel research grant
... we were
selected among
18 states to
receive this
support for three
years.”
— DANIEL RESASCO, OU PROFESSOR
Event showcased center, weather organizations with balloon launches, exhibits, visit from storm chasers
DEBBIE DAVISThe Oklahoma Daily
O n Saturday, hundreds of people swarmed the National Weather Center for the Sixth Annual Weather Festival.
“It was fun; it was definitely an experience,”
said Kelsey Bowman, University College freshman and festival attendee.
The festival was organized by OU, the School of Meteorology and the Norman Weather Chamber Committee, said Amy Buchanan, National Weather Center spokeswoman.
“It kind of started out as a way to have an open house to showcase the building and the organizations,” Buchanan said.
OU students volunteered to help run
the festival and some even appeared as “weather superheroes” that walked around the festival.
“We got to pick what we kind of wanted, and then they assigned it,” said Megan Angstatdt, University College freshman. “I’m stoked to see how many people are ex-cited about weather.”
The event included activities and exhib-its on each of the five floors of the National Weather Center.
A parking lot display featured storm chas-er cars and stars from Discovery Channel’s “Storm Chasers.”
In the atrium on the first floor many tables and displays were set up from a wide variety of different vendors.
Exhibits ranged from merchandise to a table where the Oklahoma City Channel 5
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Attendees at Saturday’s Operation Oklahoma listen to keynote speaker retired Maj. Gen. Toney Stricklin at Reaves Park. The formal recognition included an F-16 flyover and speeches from Gov. Brad Henry. The celebration included a display of military equipment, performances from a community choir and the “Governor’s Own” 145th Army Band. “Freedom Boxes” were collected for Stuff the Truck, a community initiative to provide deployed soldiers with care packages.
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SEE VETERANS PAGE 2
Having the freedom to stand here like this,
that’s thanks to all these guys right here.”
— MIKE WALLACE, NORMAN RESIDENT
Newly elected GSS chairman plans to make meetings shorter
The Graduate Student Senate elected Derrell Cox as its new chairman Sunday evening.
Cox, graduate research assistant for the Center for Applied Social Research, plans to streamline meeting times and the number of meetings. He ran against former chairwoman Susan Adams-Johnson and Nicholas Harrison, law student and Daily columnist.
“My goal is not to leave business unfinished,” Cox said. “It’s ultimately to streamline the operation.”
The preliminary official vote did not yield a majority, so a placard vote occurred between Cox and Adams-Johnson, who had the highest number of preliminary votes.
Cox received 29 placard votes to Adams-Johnson’s 24, with 3 members abstaining.
Cox will replace former chairman Silas DeBoer, who resigned Oct. 12, citing financial reasons.
— Danny Hatch/The Daily
Next Senate meeting
The Graduate Student Senate will meet 7 p.m. Sunday in Sarkey’s Energy Center, Room A235.
weather reporters signed autographs to a booth displaying new iPod and iPad applications for new weather radars.
The Flying Cow Café was also open for festival attendees. On the second floor of the National Weather Center, visi-
tors toured the Storm Prediction Center and the Norman Forecast Office. At each stop, a guide informed visitors about each office and answered any questions.
Also on the second floor, attendees could go outside and see radar trucks and an hourly weather balloon launching. The balloons were launched by Fox 25, KOCO-TV, KFOR-TV and Weather Friends.
The third and fifth floors were dedicated to children’s activities that pertained to weather. On the fourth floor, the Oklahoma Comprehensive Water Plan was on display along with a National Weather Service flood table. Rain gauges and hail pads also were for sale.
of soldiers, “Welcome Home Soldier.”
The music set the tone, but there also was military equipment from the war to set the mood: a humvee, a field logistical ambulance and other weaponry.
Not all attendees sup-ported the war, but were still
there to show their support for those who fought.
J.J. Kearns, a Navy veteran who went to Vietnam as a high school senior, said he and his wife attended be-cause they are patriotic.
“I don’t particularly sup-port the war, but I support the troops,” Barbara Kearns said. “Since they didn’t get to do everything July Fourth, we thought it was nice they
went ahead and resched-uled close to Veterans Day.”
While the event’s focus was on a war fought more than 30 years ago, some were there asking for help for those serving the U.S.
Blue Star Mothers, an organization of mothers of deployed soldiers, collected donations of personal items to be put in care packages for troops.
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FESTIVAL: Storm chaser cars showcasedContinued from page 1
Today around campus» A Confucius Institute Lecture will take place noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Frontier Room.
» Ambassador Jianmin Wu will host a presentation, “China-U.S. Relationship in a Changing World” from 1:30 to 3 p.m. in the Union’s Beaird Lounge.
» Student Success Series will host Test-Taking Strategies from 2 to 3 p.m in the Adams Tower Housing Learning Center.
» A Japanese fi lm, “The Face of Another,” will play 7 to 9 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium.
» This day in OU history
Nov. 8, 1986OU professor chosen as state fi nance director
Governor-elect Henry Bellmon named OU economics professor Alexander Holmes state fi nance director. In his recommendation, Bellmon said Oklahoma would continue to see severe budget problems due to the use of $123 million in “one-time” funds for the 1986 fi scal year.
Holmes currently serves as chair of the OU department of economics.
Drug that may help AIDS victims to be tested at HSCThe drug azidothymidine was in the process of
being approved by Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of AIDS (Acquired Immune Defi ciency Syndrome). After approval, the drug would go to OU’s Health Sciences Center to be tested on AIDS victims. Douglas Fine, the center’s chief of infected diseases, said the drug could only be used on patients who had recovered from a rare pneumonia associated with AIDS.
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Tuesday, Nov. 9» Christians on Campus will host a Bible study from noon to 12:45 p.m. in the Union’s Traditions Room.
» Transfer Leadership Class will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in the Union’s Presidents Room.
» Student Success Series is hosting a seminar on Overcoming Procrastination from 3 to 4 p.m. Wagner Hall, Room 245.
» Sooner Ballroom Dance Club will meet 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. in the Union’s Scholars Room.
» Sooner Servants will meet 7 to 8 p.m. in the Union’s Crimson Room.
Wednesday, Nov. 10» Pro-Life Ambassadors will host a Justice For All discussion from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Union’s Frontier Room.
» There will be an Interfaith Coffee and Conversation from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Union’s Beaird Lobby and Lounge.
» Christians on Campus will host a Bible Study from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. in the Union’s Traditions Room.
» Student Success Series will host a seminar, Research Writing II, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 280.
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While the group has a range of long term goals, Har well said they have some short term goals, too.
“Immediate benefits will occur in increased produc-tion of oil from existing oil reservoirs, such as those in Oklahoma, which contain
billions of barrels of cur-rently unrecoverable oil, and in biofuels processing, where expensive process-ing costs make these fuels less competitive,” Harwell said.
The process also has ben-efits for the medical world, such as reducing the manu-facturing costs for pharma-ceuticals, Resasco said.
“The process could allow us to extract products that may be expensive, unstable, and difficult to separate in conventional reaction pro-cesses,” Resasco said.
Both graduate and un-dergraduate students at OU are already helping with Resasco’s research.
The grant money will b e u s e d t o p u r c h a s e
equipment for them to fur-ther explore the process.
“ P e r s o n a l l y , I t h i n k [Resasco] is a real profes-sor, one that not only cares about the results of the stu-dent’s research, but also as a person,” Jimmy Faria, a graduate research assistant, said. “This is a rare combi-nation, and for me, it’s an honor to be his student.”
UOSA candidates to meet with students today on South Oval
Students can talk with the 35 candidates for UOSA Student Congress representative seats from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today on the South Oval.
The meet-and-greet event is called “Best Day Ever,” and allows students to meet the candidates, said Katherine Borgerding, Congress public relations chairwoman.
Tuesday and Wednesday’s elections will fi ll 24 open seats in 10 Congress districts. Only four of the 10 races are contested.
Students can vote at elections.ou.edu starting at 10 a.m. Tuesday or visit booths in front of Dale Hall, the Oklahoma Memorial Union, the residence halls or the bus stop outside Price Hall on the South Oval.
— Sydney McFerron/The
Daily
To donate
Donations are being accepted at:
» OU’s Armory» Republic Bank lobbies» The Spirit Shop» Castleberry and Associates» Copelin’s Offi ce Supply » Norman fi re stations
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Doug Kennedy, National Severe Storms Laboratory physicist, explains how the weather balloon works before launching it Saturday at the center’s Severe Weather Training Event.
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Coral death due to oil leak?Discovery could prove damage to Gulf resulted from BP Deep Horizon rupture, tests needed to confi rm fi ndings
NEW ORLEANS — For the first time, federal scientists have found damage to deep sea coral and other marine life on the ocean floor several miles from the blown-out BP well — a strong indication that damage from the spill could be signifi-cantly greater than officials had previously acknowledged.
Tests are needed to verify that the coral died from oil that spewed into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, but the chief scientist who led the government-funded expedition said Friday he was convinced it was related.
“What we have at this point is the smoking gun,” said Charles Fisher, Penn State University biologist who led the ex-pedition aboard a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessel. “There is an abundance of cir-cumstantial data that suggests that what happened is related to the recent oil spill.”
For the government, the findings were a departure from earlier statements. Until now, federal teams have painted rel-atively rosy pictures about the spill’s effect on the sea and its ecosystem, saying there wasn’t damage on the ocean floor.
In early August, a federal report said that nearly 70 percent of the 170 million gallons of oil that gushed from the well into the sea had dissolved naturally, or was burned, skimmed, dispersed or captured, with almost nothing left to see.
Most of the Gulf’s bottom is muddy, but coral colonies that pop up every once in a while are vital oases for marine life in
the ocean depths.Coral is essential to the Gulf because it provides a habitat
for fish and other organisms such as snails and crabs, making any large-scale death of coral a problem for many species. It might need years, or even decades, to grow back.
Using a robot called Jason II, researchers found the dead coral in an area measuring up to 130 feet by 50 feet, about 4,600 feet under the surface.
“These kinds of coral are normally beautiful, brightly colored,” Fisher said. “What [we] saw was a field of brown corals with exposed skeleton — white brittle stars tightly wound around the skeleton, not waving their arms like they usually do.”
Fisher described the soft and hard coral they found seven miles southwest of the well as an underwater graveyard. He said oil probably passed over the coral and killed it. The coral has “been dying for months,” he said. “What we are
looking at is a combination of dead, gooey tissues and sedi-ment. Gunk is a good word for what it is.”
When coral is threatened, its first reaction is to release large amounts of mucus, “and anything drifting by in the water col-umn would get bound up in this mucus,” Cordes said. “And that is what this (brown) substance would be: A variety of things bound up in the mucus.”
About 90 percent of the large coral was damaged, Fisher said.
— AP
ENVIRONMENT
AP PHOTO
For the first time, federal scientists say they have found damage to deep sea coral and other marine life in the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon rig, but tests are needed to verify that the coral died from oil released in the disaster. The coral shown is colonized by a type of anemone, shown on the right side of the image, that grows on the dead branches of many species of deep water corals, and is a common natural occurrence.
Freed Chilean miner runs in NYC marathon after training underground
NEW YORK — The New York City Marathon brings out the stars of the running world. This year, one of them is someone who has never competed in any big-time races.
Chilean miner Edison Pena is among the 45,000 people who ran in the event Sunday. The 34 year old is one of 33 miners rescued last month after spending 69 days trapped 2,300 feet underground by a cave-in.
An avid runner, he jogged several miles every day through tunnels, wearing steel-toed boots he cut down to the ankle.
NYC Marathon offi cials heard about Pena’s subterranean training and planned to invite him as an honored guest. But he decided to run the race.
Pena fi nished the 26.2-mile race in 5 hours and 40 minutes.
Hawaii may soon allow gay civil unionsHONOLULU — Hawaii voters opened the way for same-sex
civil unions to become legal next year, with an election that gave victory to a pro-gay rights gubernatorial candidate and rejected many church-backed candidates.
The state House and Senate retained the Democratic majorities that approved a civil unions bill this year before it was vetoed, and Democratic Gov.-elect Neil Abercrombie has said he will sign a similar law if passed by the Legislature.
The move would make Hawaii, long a battleground in the gay rights movement, the sixth state to grant essentially the same rights of marriage to same-sex couples without authorizing marriage itself.
“I’m hopeful, but I would never want to call any shots until the fi nal vote is taken,” said Majority Leader Blake Oshiro.
Hawaii has fi gured prominently in the national gay rights movement’s efforts since the early 1990s when the state Supreme Court nearly legalized gay marriage.
The 1993 ruling would have made Hawaii the fi rst state to allow same-sex couples to wed, but it didn’t take effect until voters were given a chance to decide. They responded fi ve years later by overwhelmingly approving the nation’s fi rst “defense of marriage” constitutional amendment.
The measure gave the Legislature the power to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples, and it resulted in a law banning gay marriage in Hawaii but left the door open for civil unions.
Five other states and the District of Columbia now permit same-sex marriage.
— AP
BEBETO MATTHEWS/AP
Rescued Chilean miner Edison Pena visits the Empire State Building observation deck on Friday in New York City.
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended the Fed’s new $600 billion program to aid the economy on Saturday, rejecting concerns that it will spur runaway infl ation.
Critics, including some Fed offi cials, fear that all the money injected into the economy could ignite infl ation in the prices of bonds or commodities.
Speaking to a conference on the Georgia coast, Bernanke said the new program, announced Wednesday, won’t push infl ation to “super ordinary” levels.
The Fed will buy $600 billion worth of government bonds in a bid to make loans
cheaper and get Americans to spend more. Doing so would help the economy and prompt companies to boost hiring, Bernanke said.
The economy hasn’t been growing fast enough to reduce unemployment, which has been stuck at a high of 9.6 percent for three straight months.
The Fed worries that high unemployment, lackluster wage gains and still-weak home values will weigh on consumer spending, a major drive of overall economic activity.
Because companies hesitate to raise retail prices in this climate, infl ation has been running at very low levels. That gives the Fed leeway to launch the new aid program, Bernanke said.
SAN DIEGO — With American troops in the thick of the fi ghting in Afghanistan, the new commandant of the Marines Corps says now is not the time to overturn the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy prohibiting gays from openly serving in the military.
“This is not a social thing. This is combat effectiveness,” Gen. James Amos said Saturday.
Last month, the Pentagon was forced to lift its ban on openly serving gays for eight days after a federal judge in California ordered the military to do so. The Justice Department has appealed, and a federal appeals court granted a temporary stay of the injunction.
Amos said the policy’s repeal may have unique consequences for the Marines.
“There’s risk involved,” he said. “I’m trying to determine how to measure that risk.”
The Corps is exempt from a Defense Department rule that mandates troops have private living quarters except at basic training or offi cer candidate schools. The Marines puts two people in each room to promote a sense of unity.
“There is nothing more intimate than young men and young women — and when you talk of infantry, we’re talking our young men — laying out, sleeping alongside of one another and sharing death, fear and loss of brothers,” he said. “I don’t know what the effect of that will be on cohesion. I mean, that’s what we’re looking at. It’s unit cohesion. It’s combat effectiveness.”
NEW YORK — Thousands of laborers, police offi cers and fi refi ghters suing New York City over their exposure to toxic World Trade Center debris have until today to decide whether to join a legal settlement that could ultimately pay them as much as $815 million.
More than 10,000 people have sued the city and a long list of companies that handled the massive cleanup of lower Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks.
Their lawsuits blame the government and its contractors for failing to provide proper equipment to protect their lungs.
The vast bulk of the litigation could be over today. Paul Napoli, a leader of the legal team
representing most of the plaintiffs, said 90 percent of those eligible had said “yes” to the deal. An effort was made to get the rest to join on, he said.
He said he and other lawyers in the fi rm were being besieged with questions from clients still trying to chose between taking the money, or rejecting it and taking their case to trial.
“A lot of people appear to be making a last minute decision,” he said. “It’s like tax day ... there is going to be a lot of last-minute wrangling.”
Under the terms of the deal, at least 95 percent of the plaintiffs must opt to participate for the settlement to become effective.
$600 billion program to make loans cheaper will help boost economy; won’t cause runaway inflation, says Fed
Repealing ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ too soon could impact combat effectiveness, Marine Corps leader says
Deadline approaches for 9/11 debris case settlement
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These kinds of coral are normally
beautiful ... What [we] saw was
a fi eld of brown corals with
exposed skeleton — white brittle
stars tightly wound around the
skeleton, not waving their arms.”
— CHARLES FISHER, PENN STATE UNIVERSITY BIOLOGIST
— AP
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OUR VIEW
War with Iran would be catastrophic for U.S.
Prior to Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s visit to campus last week, the student government did something unusual even by its own standards. We have come to expect the student gov-ernment to generally carry out the same actions every year: breaking their own bylaws and constitution, breaking state laws and inevitably botching their own elections.
But this year they actually passed a bill which declared that it was Joseph Lieberman Day on campus. Although this is probably the most progress the student government will make this year on any particular issue, the decision to declare the day Joseph Lieberman Day is a questionable one.
Lieberman, I-Conn., is a very divisive political figure whose late career has been marked by failure at almost every step. His vice presidential bid in 2000 tanked; his own party, tired of his neoconservative tendencies, dumped him in 2006; and his presence in John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign fell apart along with McCain’s presidential bid.
About the only thing he does these days is carry on about how we need more war in the Middle East and how we need to step up our support of Israel’s efforts to rack up as many human rights violations they can before the world gets tired of them.
With that said, it is not so much the content of his political views (which I think are pretty dodgy), but that he is a divisive political figure who makes this declaration a strange one. It is one thing to declare a day for some retired 80 year old travel-ing around telling his or her story. It is another thing for a gov-ernment that is supposed to be representative of the student body in general to honor someone whose imperialist tenden-cies put him squarely against many students on campus.
If we are going to just start declaring days for people who come to campus, then I think we should go through the past few years and make good on that for past speakers. Why wasn’t there a day for Doctor Drew, the titan of reality TV that our student government — in its never-ending quest for intel-lectual enrichment — brought to campus last year? Perhaps more plausibly, where was Bill Clinton Day when the former
president came in 2008 to stump for his wife Hillary’s failed presidential bid? His message was no less divisive and partisan than that of the war-hungry Lieberman.
On its most basic level, declaring days for active politicians who have questionable political views is something to be avoided. We should do ev-erything we can to bring them to campus in order to discuss their ideas and have a meaningful conversation. But as part of that process, we should not sit back and glowingly praise them.
They should be brought here, in the spirit of an academ-ic environment, to engage in a critical discussion of their ideas and political opinions. Naming the day after them is entirely the opposite of that, and is an embarrassment for a campus that should make some effort at serious intellectual engagement.
That is not to say that this is entirely unpredictable. After all, for the resume-builders that inhabit most of student government, the best way to further their own future career interests might be to cozy up to the powerful by honoring them and shaking their hands. But this decision was exclu-sionary to those students not interested in honoring divisive war-hawks, and those students interested in treating campus visitors as an opportunity to clash ideas, not swoon over.
I hope that student government takes this into consider-ation next time such a resolution comes up, and as a side note, I would hope that it is too busy for such a waste of time to float into its agenda in the first place.
— Matthew Bruenig,
philosophy senior
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A few weeks ago, I was walking towards the Union when I spotted a man ahead of me standing on a bench and waving a Bible. I’ll admit, I rolled my eyes a little and prepared to power-walk past whatever hellfire, brimstone and intolerance he might be preaching. But just when I got close enough to hear the man’s voice, another student stopped and did something I’m sur-prised I haven’t seen before: he started yelling back.
It started with a simple command to get off our campus, which I’m sure most of us have wanted to yell at least once when passing by these (usually) hateful displays. But this stu-dent didn’t stop there.
He proceeded to go on a profanity-littered, hate-filled ti-rade. How dare this preacher bring his hatred and his gospel to this campus. No one wants him here. No one wants to lis-ten to his anger and judgment. No one needs to be saved.
My first impulse was to be thankful that someone had fi-nally expressed our joint frustration. But as the raging con-tinued, louder and more intense than the preacher had ever been, I started thinking about hypocrisy.
Ma i n l y , t h e h y p o c r i s y o f c o u n t e r i n g a h a t e -
fueled interpretation of the Bible with more anger and verbal violence.
I would assume that those of us holding ourselves against these preachers do so because of the content of their mes-sage. And if we view ourselves as enemies of hatred and anger and intolerance, then what is it that we do support? Shouldn’t it be love and hope and acceptance?
How is cursing this man, his gospel and his God — and cursing them in the most vile and vulgar language he could — doing anything to counteract his message of hate? And, really, how does that make us any better than them?
And it’s not just this one student, or the others who I’m sure have done the same. Anyone who has expressed the same feelings to friends or in anonymous-feeling pixels is just as guilty of this hypocrisy. I know I’m one of them, and I want to change that.
It’s natural to feel frustrated, even outraged, and I’m not saying we shouldn’t express that. But when we let that frus-tration grow into pointed anger, when we attack these indi-viduals or, worse, their entire belief system, we’re doing noth-ing but adding to the climate of intolerance and hostility on this campus.
We can’t let ourselves become part of the problem. As much as I understand the impulse and frustration that
lead this particular student to such an exchange, I can’t help but note that I felt worse walking away from his screaming than I ever have being called a “whore” while passing a street-preacher on the South Oval. He was louder, angrier and more vulgar than any of the visitors to our campus. And his spiteful words rang in my ears for hours after.
If we’re truly interested in casting out hatred and intoler-ance from our campus, we have to grow up enough to react to these men with our own messages of love. If you have to say something to them, why not a simple “God loves you.” Or how about “I understand that you’re here trying to help us, and I thank you for that much, at least.”
But even better, why interact with them at all? The best way to combat their vitriol is to create an atmosphere of tolerance, love and support on this campus. Instead of judging these (admittedly misguided) men, we should be looking inward to see how we can live these values ourselves every day.
That’s the kind of campus I want to live in, regardless of the occasional shouting visitor.
— Mary Stanfield,
philosophy junior
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Oklahoma’s Vietnam veterans were honored for their ser-vice Saturday at Reaves Park.
The Vietnam War is typically remembered as a U.S. defeat and an example of how not to wage war. Government offi-cials tried covering up the whole story, and it wasn’t until the Pentagon Papers were leaked that Americans truly began to realize the horror of the failing war.
It sounds eerily similar to the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and state secrets being exposed by Wikileaks.
One would think after each botched war, U.S. officials wouldn’t be so quick to put our soldiers in harm’s way unless totally necessary. But it appears we’re on the verge of walking into another war that could cripple our nation.
The newly elected Republican leaders support “bold” ac-tion against Iran, “not to just neutralize their nuclear pro-gram, but to sink their navy, destroy their air force and deliver a decisive blow to the Revolutionary Guard; in other words neuter that regime,” Sen. Lindsey Graham said Saturday at an International Security forum in Canada.
As shocking as Graham’s hawkish comments may seem, none of it should come as a surprise. Many Republicans, and probably some Democrats, have supported the idea of striking Iran for months, if not years. In July, nearly one-third of House Republicans introduced a resolution supporting Israel’s right to use “all means necessary to confront and eliminate nuclear threats posed by Iran,” including military force.
Destroying Iran’s military would give the people of Iran a chance to take back their government, said Graham, R-S.C.
OU students heard similar rhetoric Thursday when Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., spoke about national security issues, including Iran.
“There is an inextricable link between America’s
defenses and the defense of Americas values,” Lieberman said. “Between the spread of its values abroad and its freedom here at home.”
The idea that the U.S. can spread democracy to oppressed peoples is the deceitful rhetoric leaders like Lieberman and Graham use to garner public support for war.
If the U.S. were truly intent on “spreading its values,” why haven’t our leaders sent troops into Myanmar or the Democratic Republic of Congo, where systematic genocide has been occurring for years? The answer is because democratic reform isn’t the No.1 goal.
Nation building hasn’t worked for the U.S. in Iraq. The U.S. was fed ideas that Iraq would embrace American values with open arms once Saddam was taken out, but that didn’t happen. Sectarian violence broke out, because many groups have opposing ideas of how their government should work. The result is an increasingly violent, bloody, unpopular and expensive war .
The U.S. is doomed to the same fate if it chooses to invade Iran. Juan Cole, Middle East historian and commenter, notes oil prices would sky-rocket if the U.S. engaged in any kind of war with Iran in his Nov. 1 post on his blog, “Informed Comment.” Additionally, using the cost of the Iraq war as an estimate, the U.S. would be put at $14 trillion in debt, according to Cole’s July 24 post.
This is important to realize in light of comments made by Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., on Fox News Sunday, in which he indicated Republicans would not end the Bush tax cuts. For the party that wants so badly to reduce the deficit, they would
have no plan to pay for another major war.Cole notes that Iran is three times the size of Iraq, and de-
spite its pro-democracy elements, 90 percent of the popula-tion adheres to the Shiite branch of Islam, the official religion of Iran, and would push back fiercely against a U.S. invasion, resulting in incredible loss of life and even the destruction of Iran’s pro-democracy elements.
If Iran develops a nuclear weapon, what then? North Korea developed nuclear weapons, and the U.S. didn’t strike or invade then.
And even though Iran hasn’t fully com-plied with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s standards, the agency admits there is no evidence that Iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons.
Iran has aimed only at developing nuclear latency, meaning it would have the ability to develop nuclear weapons. Iran is doing this to serve as a deterrent against powers it sees as threatening.
With many Republicans, and likely a few Democrats, supporting the idea of military strikes and invasion of Iran, the new Republican
gains in the House will likely push us closer to the possibility of war. If we want to prevent this, it will be up to citizens to let their representatives know where they stand on this issue.
Americans voted Republicans into power because they wanted more jobs and economic security, not more, expen-sive war.
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Friday editorial, “Oklahoma becoming a laughingstock”
The fi rst amendment already establishes the separation of church and state. SQ 755 is redundant and specifi cally targets members of the Islamic faith. This is why Muslims are challenging the law. In a sense, the law is saying “Religious doctrine shall have no place in the courts...especially those Islams, $%#% those guys!”
— okie11
Whoever wrote this is a mindless heap who has no idea what Islamic sharia law is doing in our own country. If it continues to gain ground here it will subvert our Bill of Rights; which is not the legal precedence for our rights, because our rights are given to us by nature not law or writ, by allowing things such as mutilation of a person as penalty of law.
— SgtB
How many of the <0.1% of Muslims making up this state would choose to be tried under Sharia law rather than American law?
— sniferriple
I’m really sorry to see college-educated people be scared of the perceived big bad Muslim boogeyman, and it’s about time you get educated about your own country and why there’s no reason to believe Sharia Law is even close to an issue.
— eightbitgirl
Misleading editorial. Oklahoma did the right thing and showed foresight and courage as well. In the UK, Sharia courts exist. There is a parallel legal system within an existing legal system. Oklahoma understands the problems and threats this poses.
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Parked in front of the Civic Center Music Hall in Oklahoma City is a large silver Airstream trailer that looks a lot like a baked potato on wheels. Inside the trailer is a mobile re-cording studio that has just one mission according to Eloise Melzer, state supervisor for StoryCorps.
“We want to record the stories of everyday Americans,” Melzer said.
StoryCorps is a nonprofit organization that started in 2003. The stories the organization collects are occasionally presented on National Public Radio and are archived in the Library of Congress.
The process of recording the story is simple — two loved ones sit in the booth and have a conversation for 40 minutes. There are no guidelines or rules; just a human connection
that happens to be documented.“We have our box of tissues
prominently placed,” Melzer said. “People cry and laugh and sometimes even argue a little.”
At this stop in Oklahoma City, which began in late October, there are 140 slots available — half reserved for the general public and half for community outreach members.
“The goal is to have the sto-ries that we gather here as close to the census data as possible,” Melzer said.
Graham Brewer, a profes-sional writing graduate student, took his grandfather to record his story at StoryCorps Nov. 1.
“Lately I have been thinking about how little I know about my family’s history, and I thought this was a really cool op-portunity to have his life documented and [to] share it with future Brewers,” he said.
Their conversation was pretty basic. They talked about his life growing up on a farm and having a rancher for a father, but the dialogue didn’t stop there.
“We kept talking the whole ride home,” Brewer said. “It was really sentimental;
he teared up at
some points, and I have never seen my grandfather cry.”For Melzer, this is what the job is all about. She describes
StoryCorps as more than just an oral history project — it’s also an opportunity for people to honor someone they love
by listening to them, and it is a social service that affirms every voice matters and that communi-ties should be celebrated.
At the end of every record-ing session, the conversation is burned onto a CD and given to the participants.
“I think I am going to make copies of it [and] give it to my cousins for Christmas; it was something really special,” Brewer said.
StoryCorps has two mobile booths — one east of the Mississippi and one west of the Mississippi, as well as three permanent booths in New York City, Atlanta and San Francisco. Melzer started in the San Francisco booth a year and a half ago and joined the mobile tour in July.
“I find this work humbling and an honor,” Melzer said. “I believe in the power of the human voice and that listening really is an act of love.”
Melzer herself has participated in several recording ses-sions with her family and friends. When a pair
of sisters comes in, it makes her want to call her sister; when a mother and
daughter sit and talk, she feels the need to talk to her mom.
“The conservations that hap-pen in the booth don’t happen in everyday life,” Melzer said. “I am consistently reminded that I need to be asking the people in my life these important questions.”
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Independent nonprofit StoryCorps dispatches two mobile trailers, like the one pictured, to cities across the country to collect the stories of everyday Americans. The stories are occasionally broadcast on National Public Radio and are archived in the Library of Congress.
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StoryCorps is collecting stories through Nov. 22 in front of the Civic Center Music Hall in OKC.
A handful of slots remain for those interested in recording with a loved one.
To make a reservation, visit www.storycorps.org or call 1-800-850-4406.
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Monday, November 8, 2010 • 7The Oklahoma Daily | OUDaily.com LIFE & ARTS
The Daily spoke with Alan Mingo Jr., who portrays Donkey in “Shrek the Musical.” He previously portrayed Sebastian in “The Little Mermaid” and Tom Collins in “Rent” on Broadway.
“Shrek the Musical” opens Tuesday night and runs through Sunday at Oklahoma City’s Civic Center Music Hall.
—Leesa Allmond/The Daily
The Daily: How did you get started in the business of acting and singing? Was it in col-lege or before?
Alan Mingo Jr.: It was about 9th grade in high school when I realized I could do this. My junior year of high school, one of my coaches was getting me prepped for college with acting and singing. I didn’t know that Broadway was in my future. It all sort of just happened, by the grace of God.
The Daily: What is your favorite part of being an actor and singer?
Mingo: The whole performance as it is, beyond just loving to do it and a great artistic expression. The types of shows I was doing, I was educating and performing. While doing “Rent,” I was still young and my uncle died. It’s touching peoples’ lives. It’s fine to enter-tain on one side and educate on the other side.
The Daily: What strange incidents have you experienced while acting?
Mingo: Because it’s live, there’s always something that goes wrong. One time, I missed a cue and had to be on stage in two seconds. I was running through the stage, and everyone was in coats, and I just had a T-shirt [on]. One thing I love about live the-ater besides TV and movies, there is always something different because you’re dealing with [it] live.
The Daily: Do you get nervous while auditioning? How does the auditioning process go?
Mingo: I’ve been acting for well over a decade. It’s been a long time. My first show was in the early 1990s. I get more nervous for au-ditions than I do for shows. For me, you never know what they’re quite looking for. You have people behind a table and you don’t know what they want. You do what you do, and then you do a piece for them. I have more comfort in doing a perfor-mance I’ve rehearsed with for weeks. You’re so rehearsed, you’re more confident.
The Daily: What inspires you as an actor?
Mingo: Several things. Again, you can actually reach people. It’s like the radio
— it can begin to lift your mood, change your mood. For acting, it’s not as simple as it is with music. You’re evoking an emotional response. They can see it through your text, but they all pull something away and it sparks something in their spirit.
The Daily: Were you a fan of the “Shrek” movies before you were involved in the musical?
Mingo: Well I never saw the musical, which I thought would have handicapped me. I love animation but never saw the Broadway show. I went into the audition while giving my take on Donkey. I had no idea what I was getting into. At first, I thought it was a handicap, but it was probably the best thing for me.
The Daily: Do you have a special rou-tine or anything when getting ready to play Donkey?
Mingo: When I deal with animated char-acters, I have to put them in reality. It still has to be real to the situation. I almost approach it like I would portray a real person except it’s a little heightened. Specifically with Donkey, it’s more physical than I thought. You’re actually being him, compared to Eddie Murphy. I get one chance. I just add
physicality to it, on top of the vocal aspect of it — add-ing the physical touch with-out going overboard.
The Daily: Having per-formed on Broadway and been a part of traveling per-formance, what is the main difference? Do you prefer one over the other?
Mingo: The Broadway show changes because it’s live theater — they tend to be bigger in terms of set pieces because they don’t move. You don’t deal with a new set of dressers and support-ing staff. With Broadway, houses are around 1500 to 2000 people. On the road, you could reach a bigger audience and also, your set
has to fit in every theater, big or small. I still like the road, I love it. We reach a
broader audience and [are] dealing with a whole new set of excitement. You have to deal with teaching people a brand new show. You have to have a lot of patience and little sleep.
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Alan Mingo Jr. stars as Donkey and Eric Petersen stars as Shrek in the national touring production of “Shrek the Musical,” which opens Tuesday night at Civic Center Music Hall in Oklahoma City.
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Stare Stare Stereo, an exhi-bition organized by student curators, opened Friday at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
Student curators Lauren Barnes, Sherwin Tibayan and Ken Sims created unique pieces for the show by plac-ing two separate images to-gether that can complement or contrast with each other differently depending on the perception of the viewer.
“We were looking for con-nections between images, but we didn’t want to tell visi-tors what to see,” Sims said.
Organizing the exhibit took about a year to com-plete. The curators, picked by professors in the School of Art, began the process by filing through the museum’s
large archival boxes.“The hardest part was
choosing the images, [but] this was also the most fun,” Sims said. “The process was at times challenging, but was always exciting.”
The photos needed to capture an element of archi-tecture to compliment the Bruce Goff exhibit also cur-rently on display at the mu-seum. There are 10 pairings currently on display, and the images will change in the spring semester.
The exhibit also features image boxes that allow view-ers to move the focus on the image, resembling the cam-era adjustments used when taking a photograph.
The pieces aim to start a discussion among view-ers about their personal interpretations.
“The goal is to present a
way of looking at images,” Tibayan said. “It forces you to look at both images to-gether and each viewer has his or her own response to the images.”
The title of the exhibit works as an instruction man-ual for viewing the show, Tibayan said. Stare at one image, and then the next to “stereo” the combination.
The Stare Stare Stereo ex-hibit is one of the first times that the museum has al-lowed students to curate an entire exhibit.
Stare Stare Stereo aims to reach ever yone, not just those interested in photography.
“Photography is a me-dium that is approachable by all students from all back-grounds,” Sims said. “This show was curated by stu-dents for students.”
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - Time isn’t necessarily your ally regarding something important, so try to wrap matters involving a partnership up. Don’t leave things dangling in the breeze.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - The only way your tales will be believed is if you forgo embel-lishment in hopes of impressing others. Simply tell it like it is if you want to be taken at your word.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - That strong streak of extravagance in you might rear its ugly head if you’re not careful. It will impel you to waste your hard-earned resources in foolish ways. Get a grip!
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - Be explicit regarding your objectives, because if you go about things in a hugger-mugger fashion, you could muddle things up and never get back on track.
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Bedlam rivals battle in Big 12 Conference Championship title game; Cowgirls win in shootout
TOBI NEIDYThe Oklahoma Daily
OU dropped a tough match in pen-alty kicks to Bedlam rival Oklahoma State in the Big 12 Championship final Sunday in San Antonio.
“I was proud of the way we came out and got an early goal,” coach Nicole Nelson said. “It was a great build-up and a great goal.”
OU got off to a quick start in the program’s first championship ap-pearance with freshman forward Annalisa Hall scoring just over a minute into the contest.
After falling to OSU 1-0 on Aug. 22 and 2-0 on Oct. 29, OU led for over 67 minutes Sunday with the first goal against OSU’s goalkeeper Adrianna Franch in three games this season.
The Sooner defense spent most of the second half battling shots from the defending conference champi-ons, leading to a miscue by sopho-more goalkeeper Kelsey Devonshire
that left the net wide open for OSU. The score by OSU junior forward
Kyndall Treadwell was the first goal allowed by Devonshire during the tournament.
In the 80th minute, sophomore forward Dria Hampton had a chance to put the Sooners back in the lead, but Franch made a diving save to force overtime.
After two extra periods couldn’t decide a winner, the teams went to penalty kicks.
It was a save by Franch against OU junior midfielder Jordan White
in the third pairing that gave the Cowgirls the edge the team needed.
OSU junior forward Krista Lopez sent the game-winning shot past Devonshire to give the Cowgirls their second conference win and an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
“You have to commend Oklahoma State for a great fight and congratu-late them on the win,” Nelson said.
The Sooners await the NCAA se-lection at 3:30 p.m. today to see if their 12-7-3 record is enough to earn the team a spot in the field of 64.
Regardless of the loss to Oklahoma State, the 2010 OU soccer team’s performance in the Big 12 Championship allowed the program to emerge from behind the shadows of a dominant conference.
The Sooners, who were a 3-14-1 team in 2008, weren’t considered a threat in the Big 12 tournament, having never advanced to a final game in the program’s history. OU was 1-5 in postseason ac-tion coming into this year’s tournament.
Sooner fans had to go all the way back to 2000 to re-member what a postseason victory felt like. That year, the Sooners upset Texas 2-0 before falling prey to a stout A&M defense in a 1-0 loss in the semifinals.
It was the first and only time the Sooners made it past the first round — until this season.
OU entered its first-ever
conference championship final after beating two ranked teams: No. 6 A&M and No. 21Texas.
The stars were in line for the Sooners to bring the trophy back to Norman, but history was riding on the Cowgirls’ bench to win back-to-back championships.
OSU won in penalty kicks, but the Sooners don’t have much to hang their heads about.
After getting past the quar-terfinal stage only once be-fore (2000), this year’s team continued to rewrite the program’s history with every minute played.
The Sooners didn’t let the top-seeded Aggies, or the fact that OU had only one win in the program’s history over A&M, affect them.
This team found a way to overcome the odds to make it to Sunday’s match. And although the Cowgirls get to hoist the crystal trophy into their display cases, OU now has a good reason to hope for its own in the next few years.
Nelson has given Sooner fans a reason to believe in her direction at the helm of OU soccer and its credibil-ity against tough opponents. The Sooner bench has given Nelson a stout depth chart, and the Sooners have proven just how much a lot of heart and hard work has given them.
OU, nationally known for its tradition of athletic excel-lence, might have just found another team to brag about, but only the members of the OU soccer program know if they are ready to accept that challenge.
— Tobi Neidy,
public relations senior
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Seniors Whitney Palmer and Lauren Alkek, with sophomore Dria Hampton, were named to the Big 12 All-Tournament Team.
Previously, only one other Sooner in program history earned the honor (Bridgette Smith, 2000).—Tobi Neidy/The Daily
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There are plenty of similarities between this OU football team and last season’s.
The Sooners started off the season 6-0. Not all of the wins were pretty, but they were wins nonetheless.
However, as those games went by, coaches and players expressed consistent concerns, including tackling, kicking and the ability of the team to win on the road.
They hoped those areas would improve this season from last season, and that improvement would continue as the season went on. But in both of OU’s losses, it seemed to fail in those three aspects.
This season, OU has gone undefeated in Norman, win-ning by an average of 25 points per game in five games. In two neutral-site games, the Sooners are 2-0, beating Cincinnati by two points and Texas by eight.
On the road, things get worse. OU is 0-2, giving up 34.5 points per game and losing by 11.5 points per game. The road woes the team was so focused on overcoming still haunt the Sooners.
The other high-profile problem OU has dealt with the past few years is kicking. All season, kicking duties have been divided between junior Jimmy Stevens and sopho-more Patrick O’Hara, yet neither is consistent.
In the loss to Missouri, Stevens missed a 30-yard field goal. Saturday against Texas A&M, though O’Hara made a 45-yard field goal in the third quarter, he shanked a 36-yarder in the fourth. The search for stability continues.
The Sooners’ poor tackling also is not to be overlooked. While it may not have received as much attention as the other two issues, it is just as — if not more — detrimental to OU’s success.
Against A&M, OU repeatedly missed tackles that turned no-gainers into big plays and big plays into touchdowns.
Even if all those problems remained, OU could have won had they taken advantage of scoring opportunities. Sophomore quarterback Landry Jones overthrew wide-open freshman receiver Kenny Stills on what would have been a sure touchdown.
On a fake field goal, junior tight end James Hanna let a perfectly thrown touchdown pass bounce right off his hands. And that’s not to mention the three times OU was unable to score on the goal line.
No one seems to know the reason why OU is such a dif-ferent team on the road. But until the team figures it out, multiple-loss seasons will be the rule rather than the ex-ception for this group of Sooners.
—Aaron Colen,
journalism senior
By the numbers
221 Career catches for Ryan Broyles,
tying Mark Clayton’s record
136 Yards receiving for A&M’s Ryan
Swope from eight catches
4 Straight true road games OU has lost,
dating back to Nov. 7, 2009, in Lincoln, Neb.
0 First-half points for OU, the fi rst time the
Sooners failed to score in the fi rst two quarters since Oct. 20, 2007, in Ames, Iowa
Missed opportunities plagued team in loss to Texas A&M on the road
CLARK FOYThe Oklahoma Daily
In the Sooners’ 33-19 loss Saturday at Texas A&M, a lack of execution was appar-ent from the first OU snap.
The wild snap sailed past sophomore quarterback Landry Jones through the back of the end zone, result-ing in a safety. After just 11 seconds, the Aggies were al-ready enjoying a 2-0 lead.
“We started off the game in a horrible way,” coach Bob Stoops said. “Within three minutes, we were down 9-0.”
After driving all the way to the Aggies’ 32-yard line and being forced into a fourth down, a fake field goal pass from fourth-string senior quarterback John Nimmo bounced off the hands of ju-nior tight end James Hanna for what would have been a touchdown.
“I felt like we prepared well,” true freshman wide re-ceiver Trey Franks said. “We just couldn’t connect on that one big play. I feel like we were still in it and could have come back. We just didn’t fin-ish it in the end.”
The numbers were not heavily in favor of either team in the end, but missed oppor-tunities do not appear on the stat sheet.
OU found itself inside the five yard line three times, and three times the Aggie defense stuffed the Sooner rushing at-tack on four straight downs.
In every case, the Sooners stuck with running senior DeMarco Murray between the tackles.
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Old issues still haunting OU
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Sooner offense stopped short
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Offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson said he consid-ered changing up the goal-line play-calling a couple of times but stuck with the run.
“When it was that close, the comment was, ‘Hey, it’s only six inches,’ or ‘It’s only a foot,’” he said.
Three trips inside the five yard line yielded zero points and three failed fourth-down attempts.
“I thought we could slam it in, and we didn’t,” Wilson said. “It was some bad choic-es and bad calls on my part. We left a lot of points out there.”
But the missed opportuni-ties don’t end there.
Kenny Stills had it made in
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OU freshman fullback Trey Millard (33) is stopped just short of the end zone on fourth down during the fourth quarter Saturday in at Kyle Field College Station, Texas. Texas A&M won 33-19.
the first half when a corner blew his coverage and left the true freshman receiver streaking down the field alone. But Jones overthrew him.
Instead of a certain touch-down, OU was forced to punt a few plays later.
That — with the fake field goal drop and the three goal-line goose eggs — makes five times the Sooners could have gotten points but failed to do so because of a lack of execution.
“We’ve got to look at what we’re doing and put our guys in better places, because the plays we did didn’t work, so that’s our fault as coaches,” Wilson said.