Friday, August 31, 2012

PAIGHTEN HARKINS Campus Reporter

This summer, a team of OU ar-cheologists finished excavating a bison kill site that hadn’t been touched by humans in thousands of years.

The site was last visited by hu-mans in the Folsom Age — which was more than 10,000 years ago, said K.C. Carlson, field director of the excavation.

The team found the skeletal remains of more than a dozen bison, some Folsom points

— weapons used to kill bison — and some of the butchering tools Paleoindians used to cut up the animals, OU archeologist Leland Bement said.

“The last people to see [the bones] were the ones butchering the bison,” Carlson said.

The Badger Hole kill site ex-cavation was a continuation of the OU Archeological Survey’s project to excavate a number of bison kill sites along the Beaver River in Northwest Oklahoma, Carlson said.

This was the second year the team had been excavating the site, so they knew what to expect when they were digging around in the sticky red dirt, but that

didn’t take away from the excite-ment of finding something, she said.

“[Finding remains] is a cool feeling,” she said. “It’s always neat to see butcher marks be-cause that’s the human element of the kills.”

The exact number of remains and artifacts that were found is undetermined at this time

because the team is still analyz-ing its findings, Bement said.

In June the team also was joined by a group of students from the nearby town of Woodward, Okla., who were participating in the Time Team America field school, Bement said.

The students were led through the bone beds in the kill site and made their own spear points, according to the Time Team America website.

As part of the field school, OU’s team butchered a bison using the primitive, stone tools the Paleoindians would have used, Carlson said.

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The university is ex-panding its study abroad programs this summer, including a program to a location not previous-ly available to students, according to program coordinators.

Education Abroad has added two new Journey programs to i ts study abroad options for stu-dents and a third will be added soon. Journey to Brazil and Journey to Tanzania are available to students for the summer of 2013.

While there have been other types of abroad programs to Brazil be-f o r e , t h i s i s t h e f i r s t time OU students have had the opportunity to travel to Tanzania, said Alice Kloker, director of Education Abroad.

“ T h e C o l l e g e o f International Studies felt that it was time to expand journey offerings into other regions of the world where students might not otherwise consider studying,” Kloker said in an email.

Journey programs are four-week abroad pro-grams that are designed to fill a general education requirement, Kloker said. The programs are sup-ported by funding from President David Boren — this financial support helps offset the cost of international airfare, she said.

There has been a 43 percent increase in OU s t u d e n t s w h o s t u d y abroad over the last four years, according to the 2012 International Profile.

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ALYSSA MANNEN Campus Reporter

One of OU’s student-par-ent organizations — created to help support students jug-gling parenthood and stud-ies — won’t be returning for reasons you might expect: Students don’t have time to participate in the group.

Non-traditional students — older students, students reentering school and stu-dent parents — have differ-ent priorities than typical students. Lauran Larson, 22-year-old prevention science

graduate student, discov-ered this difference when she started the Parenting Student Community last fall.

Larson — who has a tod-dler and a newborn — started the organization last year to help support other students like herself.

“Parenting is difficult at times, and it is nice to know you aren’t alone,” she said in an email.

The organization had a low turnout — only 10 students — which she thinks was due to the lack of funding for the organization and the busy nature of the student-parent’s life, Larson said. She decided

not to restart the organiza-tion this year because of the stresses of having two small children and going to gradu-ate school, she said.

Groups for this type of stu-dent can be difficult to sus-tain, said Jackie Foos, advis-er for the Student Parenting Community. They had a great start-up meeting, but not many activities after that, she said.

Soneldo Sta. Iglesia, com-puter science senior and vet-eran, said he also has felt the time constraints of being a non-traditional student. At 47 years old, he already had a house in southern Oklahoma City when he enrolled at OU,

Sta. Iglesia said, and because he has to commute, he has trouble getting involved on campus.

“Living 30 minutes away, it’s hard to get connected,” he said, so he’s not involved in any student organizations. “It’s hard for me to get to cam-pus, and so I don’t get the full student life.”

He doesn’t just miss out on activities but on academic opportunities, such as get-ting to go to study groups and meeting up with other students to work on projects, Sta. Iglesia said. He would like to join the student chap-ter of the Association of Computing Machines,

but he doesn’t have time given the long commute, he

AT A GLANCEOrganizations for Non-Traditional StudentsStudent Veterans Association

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E-Moms and Dads

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A team of students from the OU Archaeological Survey excavate bison fossils and Native-American hunting tools at the Badger Hole excavation site near Woodward, Okla., during this past summer.

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SARAH SMITHCampus Reporter

UOSA is taking steps to help student organizations get the word out about their upcoming events on campus, according to the president.

UOSA will take those steps

beginning with the Council of Student Organizations meeting Wednesday, presi-dent Joe Sangirardi said. At the COSO meeting, they will provide information on ad-vertising resources, as well as tips to student leaders, along with the other informative sessions and guest speakers, he said.

S a n g i r a r d i a n d v i c e

president Rainey Sewell cam-paigned on helping organi-zations, especially smaller groups, improve their ad-vertising strategy in order to help them increase student participation.

UOSA also will work with student organizations to get upcoming events they have onto the events calendar,

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Students from InterVarsity Christian Fellowship hand out fliers to freshmen students Thursday in front of Dale Hall.

“The last people to see [the bones] were the ones butchering

the bison.”K.C. CARLSON,

FIELD DIRECTOR OF THE EXCAVATION

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Sangirardi said. The stu-dent government per-sonally will apply for the calendar admission on ou.edu if the organizations keep them updated on their events, he said. All of this will be covered at the COSO meeting, Sangirardi said.

Aside from the online calendar, to advertise for events via fliers, posters or chalking, student orga-nizations must submit re-quests to Student Life for central campus advertising or to Residence Life for ad-vertising South of Lindsey Street, according to the Student Life website.

“I accept all campus publicity — everything gets approved as long as it fol-lows the correct guidelines with the accommodations statement,” said Carmen Bao, assistant director of Operations and Student Organizations for Student Life, in an email. “All orga-nizations are treated the same way with publicity regardless of their size.”

Jade Pierce, advertis-ing junior and president of the Spanish Club, said that most of the Spanish Club’s event advertising is done through their email list, which students signed up for this year during the Howdy Week Involvement Fair.

“We can do chalking,” she said, “but you have to get a permit for that.”

Pierce also stated that

some of the Spanish Club’s events are hard to adver-tise through email, like the Tomatina water-balloon fight. “It is a huge event, and we spend a lot of money and time on the event,” she said, and added that she would like help from UOSA promot-ing events.

Students also can reach out to Housing and Food market-ing team for advertising help, said Diane Brittingham, as-sociate director of Housing and Food Services and direc-tor of Residence Life.

Requests to advertise in the residence halls are ac-cepted in the Housing and Food office, but fliers cannot be posted on the individual floors of the residence halls, according to the Housing and Food website.

Brittingham, who also has experience as a previous ad-viser for student groups, said time is key when promoting events.

“If you’ve got an event coming up in five to seven days, you really want to get it out there so people can make appropriate plans,” she said.

Residence Life accepts all flier requests from registered student organizations, and usually gets back to students within 48 hours at the latest, Brittingham said.

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experience helped Carlson understand more of what she was seeing when she was examining butcher marks.

“[Butchering the bison] was a really neat experience because we spend so much time in the lab looking at these butcher marks,” she said. “To really make sense of those was really cool.”

Members of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes who do-nated the bison to the team helped butcher the bison, Carlson said.

The sites the team have excavated date back to right after the extinction of the mammoth at the end of the last ice age, Bement said they are important because they highlight the develop-ment of the Paleoindians’ hunting strategies, which stuck with them for the next 10,000 years.

“Bison behave a lot dif-ferently than mammoths

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An archaeologist holds up a folsom point at the Badger Hole excavation site near Woodward, Okla.

said.“If you want to be a com-

puter scientist, that’s the or-ganization to get involved in,” he said.

Sta. Iglesia has considered moving closer to OU because of the long commute, but that wouldn’t be a cost-effective choice — given that he is only planning on attending OU for two years — and the process would be such a hassle, he said.

While non-traditional stu-dents may not have as much time or different priorities than other students, OU of-fers advice on financial aid to help them complete their coursework. Like other stu-dents, there also are federally subsidized loans to consider as well.

Larson received funding from scholarships for her un-dergraduate work, and she currently has Stafford loans, she said. Sta. Iglesia receives funding because of the GI Bill, he said.

Some scholarships, such as the Alvin Terrell Dixon Me m o r i a l S c h o l a r s h i p, t h e M i c h a e l F l a n a g a n Scholarship, the Joanne Hendrick Early Childhood Endowed Scholarship, the Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy undergradu-ate scholarships and the Osher Reentry Scholarship Program Tuition Waiver favor students with children, single parents or older students, ac-cording to The University of Oklahoma 2013-2014 Scholarship Guide. OU also

waives the resident tuition for Oklahoma residents over age 65 who audit courses.

For Sta. Iglesia, the main goal in going back to school outweighed the short-term time, social and financial challenges.

“Getting a job is the biggest thing, he said. “That’s the rea-son you get a degree.”

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Kloker said the growth in student participation in abroad programs, as well as the increase in customized, faculty–led programs have been some of the biggest changes she’s seen since becoming a study abroad adviser in 2007.

Journey to Afr ica is a brand new program this year, she said. Professor Andreana Prichard pro-posed the program last year and received approval from the Africa Regional Advisory Committee, Kloker said.

There have been other programs to Brazil, but this is the first time the Journey to Latin America has gone to Brazil, she said.

Kloker said she is excited about offering these new programs to students.

“Brazil and Tanzania are not necessarily countries that would be accessible to the average student without a great deal of on-site ac-companiment and support,” she said.

International area stud-ies junior Hunter Brunwald will be one of the many stu-dents attending the Journey to Brazil trip in the summer of 2013.

He said he is most excited about students’ opportu-nity to work with non-gov-ernmental organizations through the program to help alleviate poverty in certain regions of the country.

“The goal of Journey pro-grams is to introduce OU

students to world affairs through the lens of a par-ticular country or region,” Kloker said.

Education Abroad also will be adding a new Journey to Turkey program as of this summer, she said.

S t u d e n t s h a v e u n t i l February to apply for the Journey programs, accord-ing to the Education Abroad website.

Lindsey Ruta contributed to this story.

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ABROAD: Applications due by late FebruaryContinued from page 1

AT A GLANCENew Journey ProgramsJourney to Africa: Tanzania

Journey to Latin America: Brazil

Coming soon: Journey to Turkey

Application deadline: Feb. 22

Source: Education Abroad website

UOSA: Options include fliers, posters, chalkingContinued from page 1

NON-TRADITIONAL: Scholarships target certain studentsContinued from page 1

FOSSILS: Program gave hands-on experienceContinued from page 1

do. [Paleoindians] had to hone their style of hunting,” Bement said.

The Paleoindians de-veloped a hunting strategy where they chased a herd of bison into a dead end gully.

From there, the Paleoindians would kill and butcher the bison, Bement said.

The team is finished with excavating the Badger Hole site for now, but they will continue to monitor the area

for any new discoveries that are made, Carlson said.

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“[Butchering the bison] was a really neat experience

because we spend so much time in the lab looking at these

butcher marks.”K.C. CARLSON,

FIELD DIRECTOR OF THE EXCAVATION

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QUOTABLE:“Parenting is difficult at times, and it is nice to know you aren’t alone,” said prevention science graduate student Lauran Larson about a group for student parents. (Page 1)

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Our View: The sexual misconduct online training is effective but needs more in-person training.

Among improvements made to the sexual mis-conduct policy is a mandatory online training for students. This training is an effective tool in the effort to educate students about sexual misconduct and safety. But the addition of a few simple components would make the current program even better.

The training begins with short readings and situ-ational questions. These sections ex-plain different kinds of sexual miscon-duct, such as violence, coercion and stalking. They also give important sta-tistics about the occurrence of miscon-duct, a specific definition of consent and resources for students.

It includes important facts that may not immediately occur to students, such as sexual misconduct can occur between people of any gender, many college-aged people have been victims, and men can be harassed, assaulted or coerced just as women can.

Some of the concepts covered in this section al-ready will be familiar or seem like common sense. But students likely will find some of these facts sur-prising, and some concepts they assume they know

are actually different.This online training is the per-

fect tool to draw students’ atten-tion to these disparities and edu-cate them about the facts.

They will find this out quickly in the final question section, which tests students on the knowledge

they gained from the readings. This serves to ensure students paid attention and to highlight where the intuitive answer is incorrect.

Between that and the realistic situations pre-sented, students are unlikely to make it through the training without engaging their minds.

That said, online training is not always the most ef-fective tool. Students are used to spending much of their time online, but not much of that time is spent carefully reading and comprehending material. Students could approach this quiz with the same focus as mindlessly checking their Facebook wall.

And let’s face it, anyone who has taken these kinds of quizzes knows it can be easy to fake it.

OU’s sexual misconduct quiz is designed to avoid

these pitfalls as much as possible.Students either have to read the material or be fair-

ly well versed in this subject already in order to pass the quiz. And the information is presented in a way that is likely to catch students’ attention and stand out from the flood of other digital data.

Still, the digital approach can only get the univer-sity so far. This training is great as a component of a larger initiative to educate about sexual misconduct and violence; it cannot stand alone.

And it doesn’t. Students have many opportunities to learn more about sexual misconduct by participating in events or initiatives on campus. Greek students and student-athletes are given training on this topic during ori-entations to those programs.

Even the mandatory alcohol training covers some of this information.

Given the importance of this subject for every student, this coverage is not enough. OU officials obviously recognize this training cannot be left to voluntary events or aimed at specific groups — that’s why the online program is required of all.

But research, like the 2007 Journal of American College Health study, shows that in-person training is much more effective at preventing sexual assaults.

Since the resources and time for the alcohol train-ing already exist, the sexual misconduct material already included in that training could be expanded into a full program to run alongside it. OU could package them together as necessary life skills, ex-pand the time allotted for the training and fully cover both important topics in-person with all students.

An in-person training will allow for discussions among students that will encourage critical thinking about the boundaries of consent and what consti-tutes healthy sexual behavior. Not to mention it will better capture students’ interest and attention.

Most importantly, it will ensure students have the tools to recognize dangerous, coercive or exploit-ative behavior. Once this behavior is identified, stu-dents will feel more comfortable reporting incidents and calling it out when they see it in social situations.

So, while we laud administrators for designing an effective online training tool that will reach all stu-dents, we urge them to consider adding an in-per-son component.

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There is no statute of limitation for policy It is important for readers to be aware of a few needed clari-

fications to the Aug. 28 column, “Sexual misconduct policy not enough for OU students:”

The sexual misconduct policy has no statute of limitations. For purposes of an effective and timely investigation, report-ing within 365 days of the incident is encouraged, but is not required.

In addition to online training, the university, in fact, pro-vides in-person training to students. For example:

• The mandatory student in-person alcohol training in-cludes sexual misconduct training

• Student-athletes’ and international student orientations• Gateway courses• Fraternity and sorority presidents• All new Greek members

• Resident advisers and resident directors• Registered student organization leadership• Step In, Speak Out program• Sooner Safety Week• Rape Awareness Week• Take Back the Night• Sexual Assault Awareness Month• Red Flag campaign• OUPD safety trainingThe university will continue to seek out and provide in-

person sexual misconduct training to all of its students. The safety of the university community is a top priority for the president and university.

Laura Palk, institutional equity and Title IX coordinator

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg held

a press conference after the recent shoot-out in front of the Empire State Building, where he noted that “there are an awful lot of guns out there.”

This might seem like a bizarre non-sequitur in a city with some of the strictest gun laws in the country. But there is an unin-tended kernel of truth to his point: There are an awful lot of police out there, able to use their weapons completely unchecked.

Reports have confirmed all nine of the innocent bystanders injured were hit by the New York Police Department, who were “shooting randomly,” one victim told The Guardian. It appears that the last shot fired by the man they were targeting was nearly an hour earlier at Hazan Imports, where he murdered his former employer.

While there have been a few people using the story as a way of highlighting a systemic gun violence problem, little has been said of it in relationship to a systemic police vio-lence problem. Even the horrifying spectacle of police in-juring nine people while firing aimlessly at a single target, has failed to provoke any serious discussion about police power and its abuses.

Unfortunately, this is unsurprising. When hundreds of people protested a recent outburst of killings and brutal-ity by police in Anaheim, Calif., in July, there were some murmurs out of the respected news giants but not much more.

The particular incident that sparked those protests was the death of the unarmed 25-year-old Manuel Diaz, who was shot for “avoiding arrest.” Among the protesters’ chants were “The whole system is guilty” and “Am I next?”

The officers who killed Diaz were given paid leave.Even more silence followed an encounter in Tacoma,

Wash., in August that is honestly excruciating to read. Lashonn White found herself inexplicably tased and ar-rested after contacting 911 about being attacked in her home, a local Washington TV network reported.

White had used a special video phone to reach them in American Sign Language, due to being deaf since birth. In the 911 calls, her condition is mentioned multiple times. The dispatcher told her to go outside, and after she did, the police verbally asked for her to stop. When she didn’t respond to their verbal demands for obvious reasons, she was tased, handcuffed and taken into custody.

Nothing was explained to White at the time of her tas-ing and arrest, as none of the dispatched officers spoke American Sign Language (though a neighbor yelled to the police “She’s deaf and can’t speak!”). Furthermore, she spent 60 hours bruised, bloodied and detained without an interpreter. She managed to escape her stroll through hell with no charges filed against her.

An investigation is underway regarding the Tacoma Police Department’s behavior. To state the obvious, if pe-nalized at all, those officers involved probably won’t face assault and battery charges, let alone kidnapping charges.

And what will happen to the officers who shot and injured nine people right in front of the Empire State Building? Whatever happens, it seems unlikely they will be made to pay full restitution to their victims.

Returning to Bloomberg’s press release, Bloomberg rightly commended the man who reported the gunman to police, saying “he saw something, he said something.” The same gratitude is not typically extended to those who “see something and say something” about police violence, es-pecially those who get evidence.

Adam Mueller of the police accountability organiza-tion copblock.org recently was put on trial for felony “wiretapping” charges due to his recording conversations while investigating a police brutality situation at a New Hampshire high school.

Antonio Buehler of the Peaceful Streets Project, which films police to prevent and raise awareness of brutality, was recently arrested while filming police officers detain-ing an intoxicated man.

Even with the risk of arrest, active citizen involvement is necessary. The abuses of power discussed in this col-umn are far from isolated incidents, they’re just the most egregious ones of the last three months. The problems are systemic and concerted. Organized action is required to expose and address this criminal behavior.

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Gun control laws don’t endanger citizensEditor’s Note: This letter is in response to Monday’s guest column, “Laws only control the law-abiding.”

I do not see the author making a very strong point in favor of the benefits of possessing a firearm at all times. I can see the benefits of possessing a firearm if one is trapped in a mass-shooting, such as the one in Aurora, Colo. However, the probability of finding oneself in that type of situation is rather low. What about other, more common situations?

If someone makes the choice of carrying a firearm, he/she will have to think about it in terms of risks and benefits, and think about all the situations they find themselves in throughout their everyday lives. But that’s a personal deci-sion to make.

My main doubt comes down to the distinction between criminals and law-abiding citizens. The shooters in these last incidents were law-abiding citizens up until the attack;

that’s what allowed them to get access to firearms (and sure, I agree that criminals will find a way to get a firearm no mat-ter what).

That’s one additional risk that comes with giving easy ac-cess to firearms to citizens. They can be as law-abiding as you want, there will always be a risk that they will misuse their guns.

And finally, I am thinking about the Trayvon Martin case. Both Martin and George Zimmerman were law-abiding citi-zens at the time of the incident. Regardless of the outcomes of the case, I do not agree with you that “gun-control laws only endanger lawful citizens.”

Martin, a law-abiding citizen at the time, was killed. Zimmerman, a law-abiding citizen at the time, might end up in jail for having had a gun that night.

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FEATURE

Zombie vs. Shark: Educated on music scene

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MOVIE REVIEW

‘Lawless:’ Career-making gangster film for Shia LaBeouf

After leaving the the-ater, the only thing you will think of is

how brilliant the acting is and how impressive the dif-ferent scenes are.

The world of “Lawless” takes place in the midst of Prohibition during the 1930s in Virginia. Prohibition has created a die-hard, cut-throat business out of mak-ing moonshine and bootleg-ging it out of the state.

Since Prohibition start-ed, the low-end bootleg-gers are getting pushed out of the picture by the big boys in Chicago or New York City, but there is one

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LIFE & ARTS COLUMNIST

Two members of local punk rock band teach at OUMOLLY EVANSLife & Arts Reporter

One summer night in a Paris club several years ago, French fans of The Flaming Lips believed frontman Wayne Coyne was sitting at their neighboring table. This Wayne Coyne, with a doctor-ate in French History, was doing research at a Parisian archive at the time.

This Wayne Coyne was actually Robert Scafe of the OU Expository Writing pro-gram and a guitarist in local punk rock group Zombie vs. Shark.

Now, five years as a four-piece band with three doc-torates and two new singles, Zombie vs. Shark is well-ed-ucated in Norman’s music scene.

The band’s punk roots reach back nearly five de-cades to Debris of Chickasha, Okla., and stretch to Denver’s The Fluid, San Francisco’s D e a d K e n n e d y s a n d BRONCHO of Oklahoma City, which all influenced Zombie vs. Shark’s sound.

The collaboration among the Zombie vs. Shark mem-bers includes Ron Haas’ alternative-country, rock of Austin, Matt Bokovoy’s noise rock of California’s Paisley Underground and vocalist Jeremy Gragg’s pop and R&B personalization creates an American version of punk. “Punk ‘n’ roll,” Scafe called it.

Zombie vs. Shark has

played Norman venues like Bill and Dee’s, the Deli and the Opolis, but it took intro-ductory shows at Star Skate on Lindsey Street, a barn in Maysville, Okla., and Scafe’s own house before crossing the threshold to get there.

During his six years at OU, Haas has taught Legacies of the 1960s, and he currently teaches Counterculture: F r o m J e a n - J a c q u e s Rousseau to Johnny Rotten in Expository Writing.

Scafe teaches Violence and the Sacred and Music, Sound and Noise.

“I talk to my students about music all the time,” Haas said. “The ’60s class in particular attracts a lot of students who are into music and invested into a particu-lar scene.”

Political subtext and tra-ditional rock ’n’ roll themes, such as alienation and intro-spection feed into Zombie vs. Shark’s music because everyone essentially writes songs, Scafe said.

”All of our songs are ei-ther dead-on serious or so-cial satire without anything in between,” Bokovoy said. “In punk rock music, there’s a mix of the political and emotional.”

Zombie vs. Shark record-ed its latest singles, “Dogs & Guns” and “Cold Machine” to accompany its 2010 debut album, “Wartime Sugar.” All three-vinyl records are self-published on the band’s

l a b e l , Mo d e r n Pe a s a n t Records, which Scafe co-cre-ated with a band mate from a previous band.

Trent Bell, who has oper-ated the Norman studio for more than 15 years, supports local start-up bands like Zombie vs. Shark by helping them make great records, he said. Zombie vs. Shark is a classic, straightforward rock band willing to try new things, Bell said.

“You never know who’s

going to be the new Flaming Lips or The Starlight Mints,” Bell said. “Sometimes you get so surprised, and that’s always fun and exciting for me.”

In five years, the Zombie vs. Shark members have cre-ated a downtown arts and music venue, played various festivals, launched a label and kept their day jobs.

The next five years might bring shows in Texas, a s o p h o m o re a l b u m a n d

an expansion of Modern Peasant Records, according to the band.

“Living a normal life is the source for the music, deal-ing with the problems and pathos of life,” Bokovoy said. “So I guess it goes back to the punk rock ethos; work and play music, and get in the van … and go back to your day job.”

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similar movie in 2005, called “The Proposition,” which chronicled a band of broth-ers fighting back against the law as well. But “Lawless” easily outdoes Hillcoat’s for-mer film.

LaBeouf’s character, Jack, is the youngest of the three Bondurant boys, but his role in this movie is a career maker. After his performance in this movie, I have a feeling LaBeouf is going to be the next Leonardo Dicaprio.

Fresh off his work as Bane

in “The Dark Knight Rises,” Hardy plays the eldest of the Bondurant brothers and plays the leadership role very well. As the oldest, Hardy does a ruthless job making sure anyone who crosses his family does not walk away without knowing the Bondurants run Franklin County.

What really shocked me about this movie was the setting. When I think of Virginia, I don’t think of the rolling hills and rural

roads with swampy lands, but the landscape footage in “Lawless” makes the film feel more realistic.

The 1930s setting is por-trayed perfectly with its vintage signage and visible gas pumps. The towns are somewhat tranquil until the sawed-off shotguns, Thompson machine guns and brass knuckles com-bine to make a cocktail of death that leaves the citi-zens cleaning up after brutal shootouts.

“Lawless” is a movie that holds nothing back, and for that reason, there is a lot of violence that adds to the situation. If you don’t mind the violence, then this is the movie for you, because it is beautifully shot and has out-standing acting with a plot that will drive you crazy until you find out what happens next.

Brent Stenstrom is a broadcast and electronic media junior.

family who doesn’t give into the pressure.

The Bondurant boys — Jack (Shia LaBeouf), Forrest (Tom Hardy) and Howard ( Ja s o n C l a r k e ) — h av e been successfully making moonshine and bootleg-ging in Franklin County, Va., for years, until one day, a big-shot “special” deputy, Charlie Rakes, (Guy Pearce) c o m e s i n t o t o w n f r o m Chicago to bust all the local moonshiners so his boss can reap the benefits.

The Bondurant boys are legends for being indestruc-tible and are put to the test as they try to sell as much moonshine as they can with-out the sinister Rakes catch-ing them or finding their stills.

“Lawless” is based on “The Wettest County in the World,” a 2008 novel by Matt Bondurant, a descendant of the main characters. Director John Hillcoat directed a

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SPORTSOUDaily.com ››Listen to The Daily’s sports desk preview the Sooner football season opener against UTEP this weekend in El Paso, Texas.

2011.And with that type of sea-

soned talent returning to the field for the Sooners, UTEP coach Mike Price sees Saturday’s matchup as an opportunity for his own pro-gram to go up against one of the nation’s best teams.

“It’s a chance of a lifetime for us to play a great OU team,” Price said. “This team has no weaknesses, and they’ve got the guys with at-titude who like to hit.”

UTEP returns 43 letter win-ners and 13 starters from the team that finished with a 5-7 overall record that finished 2-6 in Conference USA action last season.

Senior Nick Lamaison re-turns for his final season as Miners’ starting quarterback after completing 58 percent of his passes for 1,718 yards and 12 touchdowns last season.

UTEP’s offense primarily relied on its running game a year ago but will need a play-er like sophomore running back Nathan Jeffery — who finished with 166 yards last season as a true freshman — to replace a trio of gradu-ated backs that accounted for 1,634 yards.

But King said OU’s defense will be prepared for whatev-er type of offense the Miners bring to the field.

“They like to run the ball and their quarterback is pretty good too,” King said. “I think [Lamaison] said he wants to outdo Landry (Jones).

“So we have to come out and make sure that doesn’t happen.”

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Sooners to open 2012 season in El Paso

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Junior running back brennan Clay (right) stiff arms an Iowa defender (left) in the Insight bowl against Iowa on Dec. 30 in Phoenix. the Sooners won the game, 31-14. the oU football team kicks off this season against UtEP at 9:30 p.m. Saturday in El Paso, texas.

Tobi NeidySports Reporter

The OU football team will open its season away from Norman for just the third time under coach Bob Stoops when it faces UTEP at 9:30 p.m. Saturday in El Paso, Texas.

History dictates that this season opener should be a cakewalk for the Sooners, who own a 2-0 series record over the Miners, including a convincing 55-14 victory in 2000 en route to OU’s seventh national title that season.

But this year’s team says it isn’t relying on past perfor-mances to predict the out-come of Saturday’s game.

“We’re definitely not tak-ing UTEP lightly at all,” senior punter and captain Tress Way said. “We know they can play.”

O n e f a c t o r Wa y s a i d changed the attitude of this year’s team was going through the humility process of losing multiple games last season.

“We know we can win Big 12 championships, the na-tional championships or a BCS game,” Way said. “But in order to (get to those games) we have to be great in practice and be detailed and precise in everything that we do.”

The Sooners return a com-bined 24 players with 339 career starts that finished with 10-3 overall record last season.

Senior quarterback Landry Jones — who has 37 career starts — passed up the NFL to come back for his final tour in an OU uniform after finish-ing with 4,463 yards and 29

touchdowns a year ago.The senior quarterback —

who already owns OU’s ca-reer passing yards (12,379), touchdown passes (93) and

pass completion (1,021) re-cords — needs just four wins to pass Steve Davis (1973-75) as OU’s winningest QB.

And Stoops said he’s al-ready seen a better Jones in this year’s fall camp.

“[Jones] is throwing the ball really well, really accu-rately,” Stoops said. “I think it’s getting there quicker and he’s more mobile.”

To compliment Jones’ progress, junior wide receiv-er Kenny Stills, who capped off his sophomore season with 849 yards and eight touchdowns, will combine with two incoming WRs — senior Penn State transfer Justin Brown and freshman

Trey Metoyer — to be the go-to receiving hands this fall following the graduation of NCAA receptions leader Ryan Broyles.

OU’s running game also gets a boost with the re-turn of senior running back Dominique Whaley, who finished with 627 yards and nine touchdowns before exit-ing last season with an ankle injury.

While it’s still to be deter-mined whether or not Whaley is back to his “pre-injury self,” Stoops is confident that the Sooners will have their star back ready to play.

“Only Whaley and the Good Lord knows if he’s 100

percent or not, but he sure looks it to me in all the ses-sions we’ve been in,” Stoops said.

On the other side of the ball, OU’s defense will be anchored by seniors, defen-sive tackle David King, de-fensive tackle Casey Walker, defensive tackle Jamarkus McFarland and defensive end R.J. Washington, who ac-count for a combined 112 ap-pearances and 30 starts.

With King moving inside to the tackle position, sopho-more defensive end Chuka Ndulue earned a spot on the starting lineup this season, after playing in seven games as a red-shirt freshman in

Team says it isn’t underestimating UTEP’s game

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OU soccer team to play first away game of season

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A f t e r t y i n g a s w i f t Vanderbilt squad, the OU soccer team will try to gain momentum going into Big 12 play with a pair of wins, beginning with their game 9 p.m. Friday at UNLV.

In the past two Friday games, the Sooners got off to sluggish starts, coming out slow against Nicholls State and Nebraska.

Coach Matt Potter said the team is not shying away from that but rather taking the problem head on.

“The first thing is to ac-knowledge we didn’t start necessarily the way we are capable of,” Potter said. “Once we’ve done that, we have to figure out what is it and how we can work at it

and that’s what we’ve been committed to.”

Another problem t h e Sooners aren’t shying away from is their struggle with offense in the game against Va n d e r b i l t , w h e r e t h e Commodores controlled possession for most of the g a m e. Ju n i o r d e f e n d e r Kathryn Watson said that is the focal point of practice this week.

“We’ve b e en w orking in practice on our attack-ers keeping their width and keeping small passes in the midfield to help them suc-ceed as they go forward,” Watson said.

However, Oklahoma’s strength so far this season has been their consistent de-fense, which has saved them multiple times already.

Watson attributes their success on the defensive end to the great team chemistry off the field.

“We all get along really

Sooners focus on offense in practice, defender says

well off the field so it makes it easy on the field,” Watson said.

T h e g a m e marks the first road trip of the season for the Sooners and Potter ’s f irst journey back to the west coast since leaving Wa s h i n g t o n

State for Oklahoma. Potter said this plays to him and his staff’s advantage.

“We have a little bit more familiarity within our staff of knowing UNLV having played them there,” Potter said. “UNLV has two play-ers that spring to mind who have great pedigree, but no one person is going to win

or lose the game. It’s going to take a collective effort on our part.”

Another worry for the Sooners could be the off-field distractions that come with playing in Las Vegas. Junior midfielder Zoe Dickson says this is not the case for the poised Sooner squad.

“This team is good about going on the road and stay-ing focused,” Dickson said. “There are less distractions on the road. You don’t have the crowd behind you, but you aren’t dealing with school or worrying about who’s at the game. You are just focused on the game and the opponent.”

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Senior forward renae Cuellar kicks a ball in a game in norman earlier this season. the Sooners play their first road game tonight in las Vegas.

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