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oPInIonstudents should attend guest talksOutside-of-class lectures can provide new outlooks on topics. (Page 3)

sPorTsHarvesting talent from Lonestar stateFive players on the OU men’s basketball roster are from Texas. (Page 5)

LIfe & ArTsZombies shuffle onto the dance floorCouch Restaurants hosted a prom for the dead Saturday. (Page 7)

oPInIonopen up advisory committee meetingsSmoking ban discussions need more transparency from both sides. (Page 3)

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Senior middle blocker Carlee Roethlisberger (7) tips the ball against Baylor during OU’s 3-1 loss to the Bears on Saturday at McCasland Field House. It was OU’s fourth-straight loss. (Page 4)

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Freshman guard DaShawn Harden (22) steals the ball for a fast-break layup early in the first half to start a Sooner scoring avalanche during OU’s 117-55 win against Sacramento State on Sunday at Lloyd Noble Center. The OU women’s basketball team set a program record with 69 first-half points. The previous record was 66 against Midwestern State on Jan. 16, 1984. (Page 5)

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KATHLEEN EVANSSenior campus reporter

OU officials are investigating a professor based on stu-dents’ claims that he experimented on them, broke re-search rules and practiced in unhygienic conditions.

Since May 2011, the OU Institutional Review Board has been investigating the practices of health and exercise sci-ence professor Chad Kerksick. One of his former graduate students, Patrick Dib, was the one who spurred the exami-nation of Kerksick.

“It was the worst experience of my life,” Dib said. “I wouldn’t wish it on my enemy.”

Though other students were involved in the accusation as well, Dib said he offered to represent the group and spare them from having to continue discussing it.

Dib began his doctoral work at OU in August 2010 in Kerksick’s lab. The group’s first study began in November 2010, when it entered into an agreement with supple-ment company ThermoLife to study the ef-

fects of its creatine nitrate exercise supplement.The Institutional Review Board approved the study’s pro-

tocol, and the group officially started in February 2011 with Kerksick as the primary investigator and Dib as the student coordinator, he said.

THE STUDIESFrom the beginning, Dib said he noticed things that

made him uncomfortable, including Kerksick wanting to enroll himself in the study to speed up results, which is against research rules.

“He should know this stuff,” Dib said. “He’s the head of a research committee of a sports organization. There’s no excuse whatsoever for this type of behavior.”

Though Kerksick said he was unable to provide any com-ments, The Daily obtained the review board document that outlines the allegations and Kerksick’s responses. In it, Kerksick states he did not know it was against the rules to enroll himself. Usually it is hard to find people to partici-pate in studies, and he wanted to help his graduate students gather data for their research, according to the document.

Besides enrolling himself in the study, Kerksick also wanted Dib to enroll untrained students who did not meet the research guidelines to get better results, Dib said.

In its audit, the review board found four of seven students

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Items in the U.S. do not a l w a y s c o m e c h e a p t o American students.

A gallon of gas in Oklahoma is $3.25. A 13-inch MacBook Pro is $1,199.

But for exchange student Aris Phylaktou , coming to the U.S. actually saves money.

Phylaktou, an aerospace engineering student from Cyprus, has experienced this first-hand.

“My old computer broke, and it was cheaper to buy one now than to fix it and buy another one in Europe,” Phylaktou said. “I bought it

for $1,000 instead of 1,400 euros (about $1,895).”

In addition to some elec-tronics being cheaper, the euro has been significantly stronger (between 1.30 and 1.45 on the dollar) during the

past few months , which gives Europeans the equivalent of a 25- to 30-percent bargain on everything they buy.

And this is an opportunity Victor Vimeney , a French student in logistics manage-ment, doesn’t miss.

“I bought a MacBook Pro, a Nikon D7000 and a high-quality Bose headset,” Vimeney said.

On those items, Vimeney said he saved about $760 compared with the price he would have paid in France.

“I didn’t buy any expen-sive product before coming here on purpose. I waited all along to be in the U.S. to buy everything here; I consider it a long-term investment,” Vimeney said.

The appeal for cheap

electronics doesn’t even need the person to be there.

Francesco Simonato, an Italian business graduate stu-dent, is helping his friends back home .

“I’m going to buy the last iPhone for a friend back in Italy who asked me to,” he said.

But electronics are not the only things exchange stu-dents come looking for. Simon Cantarel , a French economics student, was able to advance his music interest.

“I had the same guitar for seven years, and I knew if I wanted to by a new one, it would be in the U.S.,” he said.

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AT A GLANCEPrice differences» One gallon of gas:U.S. — $3.19France — about $7

» MacBook Pro (13-inch):U.S. — $1,080France — about $1,560

» Levi’s jeans:U.S. — $39.99France — about $121

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Euro worth more than U.S. dollar

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today around CampusOU IT’s eight-week sale continues today. every week, the ou it store will put a new item or group of items on sale. the sale will run until dec. 23. this week, current-generation macBook pro computers are 5-percent off.

A blood drive sponsored by the oklahoma Blood institute and sooner sports properties will take place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the rotC armory. the blood drive is the Bedlam Blood Battle, a competition between ou and osu to gather the most blood donations.

A concert by the ou Chamber singers and norman Children’s Chorus will take place from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at Catlett music Center’s sharp Concert Hall. the concert is free and open to the public.

A concert featuring music professor Hal Grossman and guest artist david Hays will take place from 8 to 10 p.m. at Catlett music Center’s pitman recital Hall. the sutton artist series concert will feature music for two violins. tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students, faculty, staff and senior adults.

tuesday, nov. 15A master class with david Hays for ou school of music’s violin students will take place from 10 a.m. to noon at Catlett music Center’s pitman recital Hall. Watching the class is free, and seating is limited.

A concert performed by the tuba and euphonium studio will take place from noon to 12:30 p.m. at Fred Jones Jr. museum of art’s sandy Bell Gallery. the concert is free and is part of the tuesday noon Concert series.

A gallery tour by professor Jane aebersold will take place from 2 to 2:30 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. museum of art’s eugene B. adkins Gallery. the tour will focus on native american pottery and other ceramics from the adkins Collection.

A seminar on properly sourcing papers will take place from 4 to 5 p.m. at Wagner Hall, room 280. the seminar is free and is part of the student success series.

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enrolled in one study and five of seven in another did not meet the approved stan-dards. Students did not sign consent forms, and Kerksick kept poor records of his re-sults, according to the review document.

These practices made Dib uncomfortable, he said, and he even offered to help imple-ment a better note-taking sys-tem, but Kerksick declined.

In his statement to the re-view board, Kerksick accepts some blame for these prac-tices but also said that as stu-dent coordinator, Dib had a responsibility to make sure the study was done properly.

During this time, Kerksick also wanted his graduate stu-dents to let him and others perform biopsies of fat tissue on them, Dib said. Kerksick had training in biopsies of muscle tissues but not fat. For a new study he was applying for, he needed to know how to biopsy fat and used his grad-uate students for practice.

“I had reservations for doing this, and I made that very clear, even though I had to do

it because he would not leave me alone,” Dib said. “It was constant nagging: ‘When are you going to do yours? Your subjects will appreciate it.’”

In his statements, Kerksick maintains that these biopsies were solely for the education-al purposes of his students, who were not coerced and consented. He also admits to saying in his grant proposal that he knew how to do the biopsies when he did not.

After completing the bi-opsy, Dib said he had mas-sive bruising on his abdo-men, which is documented with pictures. When he told Kerksick, Kerksick recom-mended putting some ice on it. In his statement, Kerksick said this is the first time he

has ever had a complication in his five years of practice.

Other allegations against Kerksick are that he used the same scales to weigh human tissues as he did to weigh the supplements participants would consume. He also used the same instruments to practice on chicken meat as he would to research on humans, Dib said.

THE INVESTIGATIONAt this point, in April, Dib

said he decided to find an-other lab to do research in and talk to a higher authority about what was going on.

“I mean, I trusted [him] to be my mentor, and [he’s] not showing me those character-istics,” Dib said. “I don’t ad-mire [him]. I don’t want to be like [him]. This is not some-thing I look for in a mentor.”

OU officials were receptive of his complaints, and the re-view board terminated all his studies in June 2011, accord-ing to documents obtained by The Daily.

As of Sunday, Kerksick’s lab remains listed on the health and exercise science website.

Dib said the leader of

the supplement company blamed him for the failure of the studies and even sent emails to Kerksick asking for “Dib’s head in a box, please” or “both his thumbs,” accord-ing to emails obtained by The Daily. Kerksick responded he would do what he could “to make it right.”

OU officials refused to com-ment on the investigation, saying it was still ongoing.

“The university takes very seriously any complaints it receives and endeavors to do a thorough investigation of all such complaints,” OU spokes-man Michael Nash said in an email statement. “For pur-poses of protecting both the complainant and the accused in such investigations, strict confidentiality is maintained. Rest assured, the university is dedicated to holding individ-uals accountable for findings of impropriety.”

Dib said he does not fault the university or the health and exercise science depart-ment for what happened to him and other students and is on good terms with them.

“[Kerksick] acted by him-self. I still think OU is great,” Dib said.

oudaily.coMdocument: Letter of termination of researchdocument: Allegations against Kerksick and his responsesdocument: Emails between Kerksick and supplement company

Canadian guitar that cost him about $700.

Cantarel said he thinks he saved one-third of the price than if he had bought the gui-tar in France.

Sara Gil, a Spanish ex-change student in engineer-ing of industrial design, used the savings to update her wardrobe.

“I bought 10 pairs of shoes, and my mom is going to kill me,” she said. “I started buy-ing because I needed them, then I continued to buy be-cause they were cheap and pretty. In Spain, they would have been more than twice the price.”

Luisa Mencacci, an Italian graduate student in foreign language, uses the extra fi-nancial resources to travel.

She acknowledges travel is her biggest expense, but she said this is a precious oppor-tunity to travel within the U.S., and she knew the exchange rate would help her achieve her goal.

Many European students assume that the euro is stron-ger — despite Europe’s cur-rent economic crisis — so they don’t pay attention to the evolution of the rate.

H o w e v e r, M a t t h i a s Gohrmann is an exception.

The German student in

English and history said he checks the rates almost daily.

“I am interested in the European mess we call ‘euro zone’ right now,” Gohrmann said. “I did not come to the U.S. for shopping, but what I did is I withdrew some big-ger amounts of money from the ATM when the euro was better.”

Paul Raso, a French student in economics made a similar

decision.“ I w i t h d re w w i t h m y

French credit card when the rate was good in order to put the money on my American account,” Raso said.

Sometimes, the evolu-tion of a rate can have direct consequences.

Daniel Forrest, an English international business stu-dent, experienced just that when he paid an entire

semester at once because the value of the British pound was falling.

Sometimes, these conse-quences are for the best — at least for exchange students.

“Two weeks ago, we went to Sooner Mall, and we checked the rate: The euro was 1.45, stronger than the weeks be-fore, so we were like, ‘Keep buying, the euro is stronger,’” Gil said.

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Our View: Meetings of the Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy should be open to public attendance.

On Thursday, the Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy held an open forum to encourage public input on the proposed smoking ban. Later that day, it held a meeting to discuss the re-sults of that forum. This meeting, like all the others, was closed to the public.

We have to wonder why.The open forum was a good attempt to

encourage outside input and give students and faculty a chance to air opinions on both sides.

But because of the nature of the commit-tee and its work, it was impossible to get a real an-swer to any of the questions. Each answer amount-ed to, “That’s a good point. We’ll be sure to take it into consideration.”

Which is exactly the purpose of the advisory committee. But how does the public know their opinions are really being taken into account if they are barred from the meetings?

The university has often stressed its commitment to transparency and student input. It has claimed that this committee’s recommendations will be an important part of any decision made about the smoking ban.

If the administration is serious about these claims, it should be willing to prove them. Prove to us that our opinions are actually being taken into account, and that the committee is actually expect-ing its work to matter. Let us witness these things for ourselves by attending the meetings.

Some members of the OU community have ex-pressed doubt that the committee’s work will mat-ter at all, claiming that the decision was made as soon as Boren announced his support for a cam-puswide ban.

The tobacco committee and the administration have both been insistent that this is not the case.

We call on them to prove it.There’s no obvious reason the committee should

be closed to the public. Yes, technically, these com-mittee meetings don’t fall under the Open Meeting Act, because the committee is not a decision-mak-ing body.

But even outside of legal requirements, the ad-ministration could still choose to open them to public attendance.

We’re not asking for time at every meet-ing for the public to speak before the com-mittee. That would slow down the process considerably. And it would be no more ef-fective than the means people have already utilized to express their opinions.

We simply want the public to be able to attend the meetings and watch the discussions, to ensure those opinions are being taken into account and hold the committee accountable to its promise to consider all sides of the issue.

It’s possible that the committee is worried that the public’s conduct could get out of hand due to the passion evoked by this issue. After all, we can see from the letters and comments we’ve received, as well as the remarks at the public forum, that the smoking ban proposal inspires fervent opinions from both sides.

So students, if the administration decided to open the meetings, you would need to show that this right is important by attending them and re-frain from disrupting the proceedings by remaining respectful observers.

We’re not sure why the administration has cho-sen to keep these meetings closed, but whatever the reason, we urge it to reconsider.

A little transparency in this process could go a long way toward helping both sides better under-stand each other’s arguments, which could lead to an effective compromise — or at least reduce the inevitable bitterness from the losing side.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Health care bill constitutionalFor advocates of the Patient Protection and Affordable

Care Act , a small victory was won Tuesday in Washington, D.C . By a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia upheld the act as constitutional, the third such appeals court that has upheld the law . But the victory is small, as the imminent battle in the Supreme Court will ultimately decide the bill’s fate.

But is the act really constitutional? Before one answers this question, it is important to review the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence over the commerce clause of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution.

The commerce clause states that Congress shall have power “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.” The Supreme Court has long given Congress expansive power under the Commerce Clause. Early 20th century cases such as The Lottery Case and The Shreveport Case confirmed Congress’s plenary power over interstate commerce.

These two cases applied not only a for-malist test of products crossing state lines but also a realist test over the regulation of intrastate activity as a means to the end of regulating interstate commerce.

Then, the decision in Wickard v. Filburn arrived. The Court ruled that production quotas on the purely intrastate consump-tion of wheat were constitutional under the Commerce Clause . This is because this per-sonal consumption affects interstate com-merce in the aggregate by altering supply and demand and that leaving it unregulated would undercut Congress’s “broader regu-latory scheme.”

This ruling stood for decades until the case of United States v. Lopez , in which the Court identified three broad categories in which Congress may regulate interstate commerce: the use of channels of interstate commerce, the instrumentalities of interstate commerce and activities that “substantially af-fect” interstate commerce.

Further cases have added a distinction in the third cat-egory of “substantial affects” of interstate commerce be-tween non-economic activity and economic activity, as the ability to regulate the possession of guns in a school zone is not a matter that can be regulated by Congress due to the non-economic nature of the activity. This third category is extremely important for “Obamacare,” as regulating the health insurance industry is clearly economic in nature.

Principal arguments on “Obamacare” rest on whether Congress has the power to enact the so-called “individual mandate” through its power under the commerce clause.

Opponents argue by drawing an unprecedented

distinction between “activity” and “inactivity” in the mar-ketplace. Their argument is that because the individual mandate compels a citizen who has chosen not to engage in commerce to do so by purchasing a product they do not want, there would be no limit to Congress’s power to regu-late interstate commerce.

However, there are many problems with this perspec-tive. The health insurance market is unique. The possibil-ity to “opt out” of the health-care market is not possible. If an individual gets sick, there is no other choice but to seek medical treatment.

Furthermore, very few individuals can afford to pay for their own care when the time comes. This causes costs to be shifted from the government and hospitals to paying customers in the form of higher premiums whenever these individuals receive care in an emergency room.

This distinction between “activity” and “inactivity” is simply misguided because individuals can-not stay inactive in the health-care market forever and there will be a time that an indi-vidual needs care.

Even if this “inactivity” distinction is rec-ognized, this does not eliminate the indi-vidual’s effect on the market. Because this “inactivity” is a decision that will ultimately shift one’s own costs to others in the form of higher costs and premiums, the substantial effects on the health-insurance market are not negated.

Regulating these effects is an essential part in a broader regulatory activity and is clearly within the power of Congress to reg-ulate under the commerce clause.

Furthermore, the act is constitutional be-cause of how it functions. The penalty that the individual mandate places on individu-als who do not purchase health insurance

collects revenue from part of that individual’s income tax. This will help the government generate revenue that will reimburse the health-care costs the uninsured fail to pay.

If one’s position is that Congress cannot tax for the pur-pose of providing health insurance, one clearly hasn’t looked at their pay stubs recently. This is done already, through programs like Medicare and Medicaid .

Imposing a tax directly on the free riders of the industry who shift costs to other paying consumers is a clear exer-cise of the power to tax. While framing the law in this way is not politically convenient because higher taxes are political taboo, it is exactly what the law does.

Zac Ramsey, Political Science/International and Area Studies Senior

Just last week, I was required by one of my classes to at-

tend a university-spon-sored lecture.

I was completely pre-pared to sit for two hours and listen to someone jabber on and on about something I had little to no interest in.

I mean, I’m all for learning, but sometimes I’d rather just sit at home watching that rerun of “Friends” rather than get up and be “intellectually stimulated.”

However, this particular lecture dramatically changed my opinion of speakers that OU brings to Norman. The lecture I attended was presented by Dr. Maureen Clemmons about how the pyramids were built.

On the flyer I saw, it said she was going to talk about how she believes the ancient pyramids were built with wind power. At the time, I could not even picture how that would work, but I went and I listened.

Clemmons explained how she was just your average Joe with a doctorate in innovative change and an exec-utive MBA — and not someone with a super science-charged background.

Not once did she try to talk over our heads or use big crazy words to convey her educational prowess, as I had expected. Clemmons’ way of presenting things was humorous while maintaining the level of intellect the university wants to see.

During the presentation, she would show us pic-tures of ancient Egyptian artifacts and then relate it to how those objects could be used as tools: A picture of

an ancient onyx next to a modern-day carabineer looked like they could be used with the same pur-pose in mind. Clemmons did this with a few other objects, and I have to say my mind was sufficiently blown.

After that, she showed us video clips of how she moved an 11-ton obelisk with just wind power, kites, ropes and pulleys.

I had never put two and two together like that, and I

thought it was extraordinary that she did.Yet her discoveries were met with much skepticism.

A huge emphasis was placed on the fact that she had to keep going and believing in herself.

Was it stressful at times? Of course. But Clemmons realized that any time you are trying to change the mind of an entire community, it is not going to come without resistance.

Because she kept pressing on, she earned a 2004 documentary on the Discovery Channel, a place on the 2009 Women of Discovery trading cards, a book writ-ten about her and the respect of NASA, CalTech engi-neering professors, the National Society of Engineers and numerous other people around the globe. Her re-search has also helped with new low-cost construction methods in South America.

One of the best things about the lecture was that Clemmons was still down-to-earth and inspirational. All of the work that she put into the project was her time, her effort and her money.

In history class and numerous textbooks, I have al-ways heard about people having that much drive but seeing it in person and seeing it pay off was something I had never been able to experience before.

All in all, this lecture drastically changed my mind about speakers that are brought to our campus. OU ac-tually tries to bring interesting people to help us learn and love to learn.

Although you may be a skeptic at first, try attend-ing one of these presentations. Your tuition is going toward them, anyway. If you are anything like me, they might be a lot better than you ever dreamed they would be.

Either way, just give it a shot; you could be pleas-antly surprised.

Kimm Johnson is an environmental design sophomore.

Kimm [email protected]

OPINION COLUMNIST

“This lecture drastically changed

my mind about speakers that are

brought to campus. OU actually tries

to bring interesting people to help us learn and love to

learn.”

“If an individual gets sick, there is no other

choice but to seek medical treatment. ... Very few individuals can afford to pay for their own care when

the time comes. This causes costs to be shifted from

the government and hospitals to paying

customers.”

James Corley, sports [email protected] • phone: 405-325-3666

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SPORTSOUDaily.com ››Stanford and Boise State lost, but OU still has work to do in the BCS to make a trip to New Orleans, The Daily’s Greg Fewell says.

Volleyball

bears hand oU fourth-straight loss Wrestling

Oklahoma remains undefeated at 13th Brockport tournament

The No. 10-ranked OU wrestling team remained un-defeated by winning its first tournament of the season at the Brockport/Oklahoma Gold Classic on Saturday in Brockport, N.Y.

OU remains the only team to win the tournament, which has been held annually for the past 13 years. After opening its season with a 33-6 victory over Oklahoma City University, the Sooners earned five individual titles en route to the team victory in Brockport.

Junior 125-pounder Jarrod Patterson, senior 133-pounder Jordan Keller, sophomore 141-pounder Kendric Maple, sophomore 157-pounder Matt Lester and junior 184-pounder Erick Schmidtke all finished in first place in their respective weight classes to pace the Sooners. OU also had five top-five individual finishers, culminating in an easy victory over second-place Maryland.

Rutgers, Army and Clarion rounded out the top five in the tournament.

The Sooners will be back in action and looking to stay undefeated Friday, when they host Missouri at McCasland Field House.

Greg Fewell, Assistant Sports Editor

Cross Country

Men qualify for NCAA Championships with second-place finish in regionals

The OU men’s cross country team, currently ranked fifth in the nation, earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships by finishing second in its regional Friday in DeKalb, Ill.

The Sooners were barely edged out of first place by in-state rival Oklahoma State. The Cowboys, currently the top team in the country, beat the Sooners by three points to take the regional crown.

Senior Kevin Schwab paced the Sooners with a time of 31 minutes, 22.10 seconds. The finish was good enough for Schwab to land in second place in the regional for the second year in a row. The Sooners, mean-while, will be heading to their third consecutive NCAA Championship.

While the women’s team did not qualify as a unit, junior Jessica Engel finished in fifth to earn a spot in the women’s championships. She finished with a time of 21:04.33.

The men’s cross country team will aim for a national championship Nov. 21, when it travels to Terre Haute, Ind., for the NCAA Championships.

Greg Fewell, Assistant Sports Editor

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sophomores sallie Mclaurin (14), middle blocker, and Keila rodríguez, outside hitter, try to block a Baylor player during ou’s 3-1 loss to the Bears on saturday at McCasland Field House. ou has lost four straight.

Luke McConneLLsports reporter

In a close match, every lit-tle thing matters.

The OU volleyball team didn’t do enough of the little things Saturday night against Baylor, committing 12 service errors and 26 at-tack errors to drop its fourth-straight match, 3-1 (28-26, 25-27, 22-25, 22-25).

“We w ere not able to keep the ball in play when it counted the most,” OU coach Santiago Restrepo said. “At crunch time, we didn’t come through, and we made way too many mistakes on our side.”

Senior right side Suzy Boulavsky led the offense with 19 kills, and senior m i d d l e b l o c k e r C a r l e e R o e t h l i s b e r g e r h a d 1 5 kil ls with a .652 hitt ing percentage.

Boulavsky said the team has to learn how to play with a better sense of urgency and learn from the tough time they’re going through.

“We keep saying every match, ‘We need to win this to help with our position for the tournament,’” Boulavsky said. “It’s going to be tough to swing the momentum from where it’s gone.”

Senior setter Brianne Barker played through a hand injury suffered Wednesday against Kansas State and contributed a double-double with 43 assists and 20 digs.

Briana Tolbert led Baylor with 19 kills, and Zoe Adom added 15 for the Bears, which also had five players record double-digit digs.

Tolbert had most of her kills of the slide, an offensive scheme that has given OU fits this season.

“It’s all about us defending and putting the right people in the right place at the right time,” Restrepo said.

The S ooners w on the hard-fought opening set, 28-26, but dropped the next three sets to lose their fourth-straight match.

Restrepo said Oklahoma

struggled against Baylor’s stepped-up defense.

“We have a good offense,” Restrepo said. “But teams are digging us a lot more, and we are not responding very well to the challenge.”

After taking the final three sets, Baylor handed OU its second home loss in as many games.

Roethlisberger said lead-ing by example was the only way to keep the rest of the

team mentally focused.“As seniors, you have

t o l e a d b y e x a m p l e ,” Roethlisberger said. “You have to communicate with them and show you have confidence in them. As a team, we have to play to-gether and be confident in each other.”

The Sooners return to ac-tion at 6 p.m. Wednesday when they face the Kansas Jayhawks in Lawrence.

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The OU women’s basket-ball team set a school record during a 117-55 win against Sacramento State in its regu-lar-season opener Sunday.

OU led the entire game and scored 69 points in the first half. The previous record for points in a half (66) had stood since 1984.

“I thought the first half, we were extremely difficult to guard,” OU coach Sherri Coale said. “You play like that, you play together and you share the ball like that, change sides of the floor, you’re going to be hard for anyone to guard.”

The Sooners shot 61.1 per-cent from the field, 50 percent from beyond the 3-point line and 84.2 percent from the free-throw line. OU held the Hornets to only 25.6 percent from the field and 26.7 per-cent from 3-point range to head to the locker room with

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Everyone is more athletic in Texas, or so players from Texas say.

But the abil i t ies and achievements of sophomore guard Cameron Clark can il-lustrate that. He’s at his best with the ball in his hands and defenders in his way.

He’ll be asked to drive the ball toward the basket more this season, but he has a sweet pull-up jumper in his repertoire he can pull out if the game dictates.

He started all 32 games last season for the Sooners and averaged 9.3 points per game as a freshman, shoot-ing a shade under 50 percent from the field at 47.4.

Before donning the crim-son and cream, he was rated as the fifth-best prep small forward in the country by Rivals.com. He was ranked the No. 32 prep ballplayer in his class by ESPN.com and was a two-time, first-team All-State player at Sherman (Texas) High School.

He averaged 23.7 points and nine rebounds per game as a high school senior.

It’s no wonder he’s from the state of Texas. After all, Texas is one of the most ath-letic states in the country.

Earl Campbell was born in Tyler, Texas. Ernie Banks was born in Dallas, as was Grant Hill.

The state is home to nine professional sports franchis-es: one MLS, one NHL, two MLB, two NFL and three NBA teams. Two of those franchis-es competed for world cham-pionships in the last calendar year (NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and MLB’s Texas Rangers), won of which brought home the trophy (Dallas).

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texas athleticism abundant on OU rosterSooners possess heaping helping of Lonestar players

“Texas is on the rise, man,” Clark said. “Texas is coming up in football, basketball. I mean, Texas is what it is right now, man.”

A third of Oklahoma’s men’s basketball roster hails from Texas — junior guard Carl Blair (Houston), sopho-more guard Cameron Clark (Sherman), senior guard T.J. Franklin (Fort Worth), fresh-man guard James Fraschilla (Dallas) and senior forward

Barry Honoré (Garland). Only two Sooners are

h o m e - g r o w n : s o p h o -more forward Tyler Neal (Oklahoma City, Putnam City West) and senior forward C.J. Washington (Stringtown).

The players on the roster from Texas were recruited during the Capel era, but Kruger likes the idea of re-cruiting Texas, and he ex-pects to delve into the state’s abundance of athleticism in

the future. “There’s a ton of students

at OU from Texas, so it’s a very natural recruiting base,” Kruger said. “We certainly want to establish, initially, the home state, the players in Oklahoma. We want to get after them very aggressive-ly. But ... we want to go into Texas aggressively.”

A n d w h y n o t ? 1 3 o f ESPNU’s top-100 prep play-ers in the 2012 recruiting

class are from Texas. Players in the state benefit from de-veloped high schools and in-volved AAU programs.

Texas Express Basketball Club owns six AAU national championships since it was first formed in 1995, accord-ing to the club’s website. Over 130 players — boys and girls — who have played for the club later played collegiate basketball.

Those who are from the

state aren’t shy about brag-ging about it, and the Texas natives on the men’s bas-ketball team aren’t any different.

“We always joke about it in the locker room,” Honoré said. “We’ll gang up on peo-ple and say, ‘Don’t want none of the Texas boys’.”

H o n o r é w a s n a m e d S o u t h w e s t e r n At h l e t i c Conference Freshman of the Year for the 2007-08 sea-son at Southern. He, too, said it would be prudent for Oklahoma to recruit his home state.

“I think [Texas] is one of the most underrated states as far as basketball players because it’s so big, it’s easy for people to get lost,” Honoré said. “It’s so many players and so many schools and teams.”

Blair said he joins in the fun of the interstate rivalry among his teammates. He’s entering his second season at Oklahoma after playing his freshman year at New Orleans.

“I know it’s a lot of great talent where I come from, a lot of guys you’ll never see because they messed up in high school or something,” Blair said. “I know all over the state, it’s great players in Dallas, everywhere. You can even see it on the football team. I mean, Texas is a great pool for athletes.”

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Sophomore guard Cameron Clark (21) guards a Washburn player during OU’s 85-59 exhibition win Nov. 6. Clark is one of five players from Texas on the OU men’s basketball roster, and OU coach Lon Kruger said he hopes to recruit more aggressively in Texas.

PLAYER TO WATCHCameron ClarkYear: Sophomore Position: Guard Hometown:Sherman, Texas2010 stats: 9.3 points per game, 1.0 assists per game, 0.8 steals per game, .373 3-point percentage

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sophomore center Nicole Griffin was a perfect 6-for-6 from the field in her career-high-tying 14 points.

OU held junior guard Kylie Kuhns, All-Big Sky honorable mention and the Hornets’ best player, to just six points.

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Sophomore guard Aaryn Ellenberg drives the ball against Sacramento State on Sunday. OU won, 117-55, and Ellenberg led OU with 28 points.

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Students dance their hearts out on Saturday night at the Resident Student Association Zombie Prom. The Prom was held in Couch Restaurants and was attended by students dressed up as zombies and humans.

The dancing

Students, ‘zombies’ dance at Zombie Prom in CouchAlex NiblettLife & Arts Reporter

Couch Restaurants was taken over by human and zombie OU students at a Zombie Prom on Saturday, as some students came dressed as zombies while others just as themselves.

The Zombie Prom event was put together and spon-sored by all of the Resident Student Association offices.

The dance lasted from 8 to 10 p.m. Most students stayed the whole time, en-joying the free pizza, loads of glow sticks and the ener-getic music played by a disc jockey in the spirited atmo-sphere. Students danced the night away, with “fake” blood trickling down their faces.

Pre-physical therapy soph-omore Brianna Versteeg, Traditions West Resident Student Association presi-dent, was responsible for the Zombie Prom idea.

“I went to the Party Galaxy store and saw zombie things and thought, ‘Oh hey, it’d be really cool to have a zombie-themed event!’” Versteeg said. “It went really well, re-ally smooth.”

Versteeg said her favorite part was seeing everybody dance and not afraid to get on the dance floor. It wasn’t just Versteeg who was happy

about the Zombie Prom’s outcome.

Management sophomore Angela Bullock said she en-joyed the dancing too.

“My favorite part was dancing with friends and just seeing everybody have fun,” Bullock said.

Besides the dancing, the fact this event was free and on campus eased the mind of microbiology junior Andrea Osunbor.

“Events in school like this are safer, because there’s al-ways more of a risk of people getting into fights, for ex-ample at events off campus,” Osunbor said. “Parents will feel their kids are safer, and the students feel safer as well.”

It also was a nice break for students who are busy study-ing, with just five weeks left of the semester, Versteeg said. Versteeg said the Zombie Prom event may not occur next year.

“We’d like to try something similar, but we like to change

[the events] every year,” Versteeg said.

Osunbor said this Zombie prom was without a doubt a great success she said the only thing that could’ve made it even better would’ve b e e n a l a r g e r s h o w o f people.

“It was a lot of fun, but I’d like to see more people come to events like this. It’s a nice way to meet other peo-ple and make new friends,” Osunbor said.

Bullock said that she went to the prom “to go socialize and have fun.”

E n v i r o n m e n t a l Sustainability sophomore Abby Skinner said she en-joyed herself and commends everyone who put this event together.

“I think Brianna did a great job,” Skinner said. “It was a great collaboration of all of the RSA’s. I had a blast.”

According to the RSA of-fices RSA plans to hold more social events, as well as aca-demic events in the future.

“i went to the Party Galaxy store and saw zombie things and thought, ‘Oh hey, it’d be really cool to have a zombie-themed event!’

it went really well, really smooth.”bRiAnnA veRSTeeg,

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Fraternity to host weeklong events, poetry slam

Students will battle it out with poetry during Omega Delta Phi’s Poetry Slam in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Beaird Lounge, as part of the fraternity’s ODPhi Week.

Th e c o mp e t i t i o n w i l l begin Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. and will offer a $250 cash prize to the winner, as well as cash to the second- and third-place contestants.

“It is an opportunity for students to be able to express their creative side through recitation and enactment of

poetry, while giving them the opportunity for competition and a chance to win cash prizes,” fraternity President Jason Lugo said.

Interested Students must sign up by Nov. 15 at 5 p.m. and submit the application to the ODPhi mailbox in the Student Life Office in the Union.

The Multicultural Greek Council fraternity will host several other events during ODPhi Week. A benefit night at On the Border from 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday will earn funds for ODPhi’s national phi-lanthropy, Court Appointed S p e c i a l A d v o c a t e s f o r Children. A Thanksgiving Mixer at the Henderson-Tulsa Cultural Center at 7

p.m. Thursday will give stu-dents the opportunity to make holiday cards for ele-mentary school students.

The week will close Friday w i t h t h e To m a s R i v e ra Educational Empowerment Conference.

“The goal of the TREE Conference is to empower high school juniors and se-niors by educating them over the numerous oppor-tunities available to them as they pursue a higher educa-tion,” Lugo said.

The TREE Conference will bring in more than 400 stu-dents and award more than $10,000 in scholarships, Lugo said.

Megan Deaton,Life & Arts Reporter

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OU Lab Theatre’s re-imagined “The Two Gentlemen

of Verona” could be called an average teen comedy — if every average teenage comedy featured William Shakespeare’s complicated, verbose dialogue.

The show was a lively affair; complemented by the perfect ’60s soundtrack, this beach-bum take on Shakespeare worked surprisingly well. The set, designed by University College freshman Catherine Diaz, was garish yet appropriate for the beach setting. At times, however, it was hard to tell when locations changed.

The play, often regarded as the Bard’s first work, tells of falling in love, falling out of love and lusting for your best friend’s girl, with some traditional Shakespearean cross-dressing thrown in for good fun.

Proteus, played by performance senior Mitchell Reid, is a hopeless romantic considered foolish by his love-scorning buddy, who is, appropriately enough, named Valentine.

Valentine, played by performance senior Jordan Blount, travels to Milan without Proteus, who stays to pursue his love, Julia, portrayed by performance senior Emily Jackson. But Proteus’ mother arranges for him to go to Milan anyway, and, after a tearful goodbye with his ladylove, Proteus is off.

Unfortunately, Proteus discovers that Valentine has fallen in love with Silvia, played by performance senior Tiffany

Mack, and that’s where all the trouble starts. Proteus also falls for Silvia, vowing, “Julia is dead to me.” Harsh. At the same time, Julia is plotting to join Proteus in Milan, dressing as a man to stay safe on the journey.

Of course, by the end of the show, all the mess is righted. Proteus realizes he still loves Julia, Silvia is allowed to marry Valentine and everyone goes home happy — including the audience.

Although the dialogue was rushed at times, all the ac-tors seemed well-practiced on how to effectively deliver the complicated verses, especially performance sophomore Tatum Price, who managed to infuse her character, silly ser-vant Speed, with energy and enthusiasm through her voice.

Another impressive performance came from Blount, who

made us see his mental anguish at being torn between his love, his best friend and his best friend’s girl.

And, of course, drama professor Alissa Millar’s dog, Daisy, stole the show as Crab, an unfeeling dog that refuses to weep for its owner. Daisy played the part stoically, not let-ting one puppy whimper free.

“The Two Gentlemen of Verona” is a charming work that defies any notion of Shakespeare not being accessible to a young audience.

He wrote the book on love triangles before any teen ro-mantic comedy.

Sydney Allen is a broadcast and electronic media sophomore.

Megan DeatonLife & Arts Reporter

When two local artists formed their band, neither of them could have known that its music would soon be claiming radio airtime in far-off places like France and Australia.

In d e p e n d e nt s i n g e r s and songwriters Gabriel Marshall and Bryon White joined to create The Damn Quails. Both talented artists, the men combined efforts to create a folk, Americana, rock ‘n’ roll sound that tran-scends stereotypical band genres.

The Damn Quails will soon tour in Texas, Missouri and Kansas, but Norman music lovers will have chances to hear them Monday night at The Deli before they go abroad.

The band recently re-leased its new album “Down the Hatch,” which has re-ceived high marks for its unique sound.

“Seven of the songs are songs that I wrote and sang lead vocals on, and seven are Gabe’s,” White said. “It’s a joint effort, but we are each independent songwriters.”

People often confuse The Damn Quails as a political band name, Marshall said, but the name actually has much simpler origins.

“It’s actually because of Christmas tree ornaments,” Marshall said. “We would come in at night, and there was this Christmas tree with these quail ornaments, and we’d always end up knock-ing them off and saying, ‘Those damn quails!’ We were just sitting around one night, and I said, ‘The damn quails. That would be a good band name.’”

The Damn Quails regu-larly play at The Deli in Norman but have also re-ceived attention interna-tionally. A French radio

show, “Big Cactus Country,” featured the band as artist of the week and regularly plays its tracks.

“It’s kind of odd because we’re not doing anything dif-ferent than before,” Marshall said. “It’s weird to think that people that far away are lis-tening to us.”

White chuckled when asked if he had any crazy stories about being on the road and touring and said there were too many to count.

“Touring is some of the most fun for us on a person-al level,” White said. “Getting to hang out with people and hearing what they have to say about us is awesome.”

The musicians pull inspi-ration from Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty, Marshall said.

“They’re the people that we grew up listening to,” Marshall said. “We don’t copy anything, but we can definitely take some point-ers from them.”

The Damn Quails empha-size their availability to fans and can be reached through their website, Twitter profile or Facebook pages.

GO AND DOFind them online

WEBSITE: www.thedamnquails.com

TWITTER: @thedamnquails

FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/thedamnquails

ThosedamnquailsLocal singer-songwriters attract fans from around the world with transcendent sound

Two many gents Left: Performance junior Kelcie Miles, holds a dog onstage during rehearsal for The Two Gentlemen of Verona. The pro-duction opened in Old Science Hall Wednesday and finished Sunday.

Right: Performance senior Emily Jackson, reacts to performance junior Lindsey Kite during rehearsal of The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Gabriel Marshall and Bryon White make up local band, The Damn Quails. The band wil perform today at The Deli before going abroad for their current tour.

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Celebrate international GIS Day -- a day of education about geographic information science!

Sponsored by the Geoinformatics Program, Center for Spatial Analysis and Oklahoma NASA Space Grant

Date: Monday, November 14th through Wednesday, November 16th during the hours 8:00 am to 5:00 pm only.

Eligibility: Any OU student (students employed by CSA/ Geoinformatics not eligible)

What is geocaching? It’s a high tech scavenger hunt using GPS units.

How to Play? -Go to the Oklahoma Memorial Union and check out a GPS unit with valid student ID from 10 am to 2 pm on Monday, November 14th or Wednesday, November 16th. We’ll even give you a quick lesson! You can also use your own GPS or GPS enabled cell phone Monday, November 14th through Wednesday, November 16th 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.

-Find your way to three locations on campus using the latitude and longitude coordinates and hints below.

-When you are near the location look around for the hidden geocache container – the containers will be clearly marked.

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