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RACHEL CERVENKAThe Oklahoma Daily

Applications for The Big Event 2011 are avail-able today to students, faculty and staff.

Since its inception in 1999, The Big Event has been a student-led effort to promote volunteer-ing, event chairman Taylor Krebs said.

“Our goal is to help volunteers make con-nections to the organizations, understand their meaning and to make it more than a one-day service project,” Krebs said.

More than 4,000 OU students, faculty and staff unite one day each spring in an effort to say thank you to the community for its support of the university, according to the event website.

In 2009, The Big Event had a record 4,992 volunteers sign up to work at 162 job sites, ac-cording to event’s website.

Volunteers work with city park departments, neighborhood organizations, school districts and any other group that plays a vital role in the community, Krebs said.

Big Event administrators pro-vide volunteers the majority of the tools necessary for work in-cluding landscaping, making care packets, cleaning parks and other special projects, Krebs said.

In preparation for The Big Event, 102 nonprofit and com-munity-based organizations have signed up to be job sites for this year’s event.

The deadline to apply as a job site is Friday.

The Big Event is an amazing resource for those organizations that lack the tools and manpower to get projects done, Krebs said.

Health For Friends, a local health center that provides health services to low-income citi-

zens, has participated in The Big Event since its inception.

The organization depends on The Big Event each year for help with its largest projects, Health For Friends CEO Brian Karnes said.

“We have a lot of needs that need to be met, and to have The Big Event come in for free is phe-nomenal,” Karnes said.

Volunteer applications are due March 4. Students can apply as individuals or as groups, according to the event website.

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Above: Norman resident Kristi Hanusch piles on University College freshman Gwyn Stackable and sociology junior Taylor Crowder as they walk down Lindsey Street on Wednesday. OU canceled classes for four days after a winter storm hit early Tuesday morning.

Top right: A fountain in front of the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium’s north entrance is frozen over Tuesday.

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University College freshman Branden Katona sleds down stairs on a pizza pan Thursday afternoon at Nielsen Hall.

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No make up classes allowed after days offFaculty is asked to make up lost class time in remainder of class period, vice president says

CHRIS MILLERThe Oklahoma Daily

After four consecutive days of campus closures last week, the spring semester is once more under way.

Despite the number of classes canceled, professors must use re-maining lectures to cover material and cannot schedule additional

classes, OU Vice President and Provost Nancy Mergler said.“The faculty is asked to make up that lost time in the remainder of the class

period,” Mergler said. “They should cover the same material without scheduling additional classes.”

The way professors decide to tweak their syllabuses and class outlines de-pends on the class, and the university leaves it to the discretion of the professor, she said.

While students spent their unanticipated free time catching up on schoolwork, sleeping in, playing video games and watching movies, Facilities Management Director Brian Ellis said his department undertook an unprec-edented campus cleanup in the wake of the winter storm.

“I’ve been running on about two to three hours of sleep recently,” Ellis said Thursday. “It’s been a very stressful few days.”

Facilities Management did its best Tuesday and Wednesday to clear campus, but the roads in and around Norman weren’t safe for travel, Ellis said.

University College freshman Dan Phillips said he spent his time off practicing piano in the Cate Center social lounge.

A St. Louis native, Phillips said he had never experienced anything like a six-day break from school in the middle of a semester.

“This isn’t the most snow I’ve seen, but it’s definitely the longest break I’ve ever gotten,” Phillips said.

University College freshman Kenyon Calcote said he missed more than school. Calcote said he is originally from the Fort Worth, Texas, area and was planning on traveling home for the Super Bowl.

The National Weather Service website predicts another winter storm will hit Norman this week, with more snow likely Tuesday and Wednesday.

Hookah contains more nicotine than cigarettes, professor says

CARMEN FORMANThe Oklahoma Daily

Cigarettes may not be the only legal smokable substance posing a health hazard for users.

Hookah bars across Oklahoma offer smokers alternatives to ciga-rettes and cigars. However, Laura Beebe, epidemiology professor and co-chair of the OU Cancer Institute Outreach Advisory Committee, feels hookah is just as threatening as cigarettes.

“The scientific studies that have been done on the hookah have demonstrated that the dose of nicotine is just as high, if not high-er, because of the longevity of the smoking session, as compared to cigarettes,” Beebe said.

In Oklahoma it is legal to own and operate a hookah bar where patrons order a hookah and share it amongst themselves. Moe Davani, who owns Moe’s Hookah Bar, says the water in the pipes protects users.

“For the filtration they use a pure water, and [the smoke] goes through the water and it will filter it,” Davani said.

However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information contradict-ing Davini’s statement.

According to the CDC, the char-coal used to heat the substance increases the health risks by pro-ducing high levels of carbon mon-oxide, metals and cancer-causing chemicals.

The smoke then passes through water, but that doesn’t stop the smoke from delivering these chemicals into the body. Irritation from exposure to tobacco juices increases the risk of developing oral cancers. The irritation by to-bacco juice products is likely to be greater among hookah smokers than among pipe or cigar smokers because hookah smoking is typi-cally practiced more often and for longer periods of time.

Beebe feels smoking a hookah also presents other problems.

Smokers tend to smoke a hoo-kah for much longer periods of time than they would smoke a cigarette, Beebe said. On average a person may smoke a cigarette for five to seven minutes, while a person smoking a hookah pipe smokes for upward of 40 minutes, Beebe said.

Another overlooked problem with smoking a hookah pipe is second-hand smoke, which is just as much of a problem with smok-ing hookah as it is with smoking cigarettes, Beebe said.

Sharing the hookah pipe can be dangerous, Beebe said. The warm, moist environment of the mouthpiece can easily share bac-teria or germs from one smoker to another.

The health hazards that come with smoking a hookah pipe don’t stop some students, zoology ju-nior Lauren Beltran said.

“Smoke isn’t going to be good for you no matter what, but I think everything in a certain amount of moderation is OK.”

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I’ve been running on about two to three hours of sleep recently. It’s been a very stressful few days.”

—BRIAN ELLIS, FACILITIES MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR

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Welcome back to the spring semester.We enjoyed the time off — snow days often make us feel

like we’re back in elementary school. But by day four of no classes, we were actually aching to get back to school and learn something.

And after a six-day weekend, many professors are going to be struggling to keep students on schedule.

People can go back and forth on whether the university should have can-celed school Friday and whether law-makers should invest more in the state’s road-clearing abilities. But the fact is we have now missed an entire week of school.

As we mentioned in our Jan. 21 edito-rial — after OU’s campuses were closed because of a much less severe snow-storm — canceling classes means students and parents aren’t getting what they’ve paid for. We have paid tuition and fees that were meant to cover the cost of 16 weeks of

school. Because of the weather, this semester now only has 15 weeks of classes.

Students pay set tuition and fees for classes, and when you divide it out over 16 weeks, each day missed can cost resident students more than $25.

Administrators and professors, howev-er, are literally paid to stay at home. Could we make it fair and have the administra-tion give students a refund for their lost week?

If this isn’t a possibility, it needs to be a requirement that faculty and staff start thinking about creating backup plans for conducting class online as much as possible.

Students pay a significant amount in technology and connectivity fees, and

there’s no reason that professors couldn’t use the Web to keep students up to date on assignments and lectures.

Some professors do a decent job of using the resources

available to them and updating students on class assign-ments through e-mail and Desire 2 Learn, but many simply wait for the next day of class to begin again. Assignments and lectures are either eliminated or crammed into an in-adequate amount of class time.

We’re fine with professors not engaging students dur-ing one random snow day. But in the event of weeklong weather, professors should be required to e-mail their stu-dents at least once a day, suggesting work for students so everyone can be prepared when classes resume.

Professors can use technology in unique ways as well, such as recording lectures and posting them as MP3 files on D2L.

Something needs to be done. If there’s not enough money at the city level to get enough snow plows out to clear the roads, then the university needs to make an effort to keep classes going as much as possible, even if students are stuck at home.

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Seniors balance relationship with life inside popular role-playing game

A.J. LANSDALEThe Oklahoma Daily

With more than 12 million subscribers worldwide, “World of Warcraft” has a stranglehold on the online-gaming market. Since Blizzard released

the original title in 2004, the game has continued to evolve. As time went by, new expansions came out — most recently, “World of Warcraft: Cataclysm” in December.

The game follows most of the conventions of the multi-player online-gaming genre — choose a faction, create a character, complete quests and dungeons, level up, get bet-ter gear and repeat the process while making new friends and allies to assist you in your adventures.

Unfortunately, the game has a reputation in our culture for attracting the lazy nerd who doesn’t have much of a life outside of their individual game. South Park’s episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft” directly satirizes the game and its players. Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny become fat and lazy while they try to defeat a notorious, high-level character who stalks them.

These negative stereotypes are common, but the game’s large subscriber base renders these insults moot. Examples of this are Miranda Thomas and Alex Schaefer — two World of Warcraft players in a relationship with each other and ac-tive OU students.

An anthropology senior and English literature senior, re-spectively, Thomas and Schaefer met in 2008 on the South Oval while waiting on an apartment shuttle.

The couple met when their shuttle ran late, Schaefer said.

“He made a joke, and I started laughing. We just started

Couple works relationship around World of Warcrafttalking,” Thomas chimed in.

Schaefer has played World of Warcraft since the original came out in 2004. He and others pushed for Thomas to start playing.

“Now she’s horribly addicted and even if we break up, she’s going to be horribly addicted for years and years to come,” Schaefer said jokingly. “I’ve done my work; I have ruined a life.”

As popular as the game has become, it’s not too hard to find people who play.

“Most of the people I know who play WoW, I knew they played before I started playing, or I found out after I met them that they played.” Thomas said.

The main concern people associate with the game is the possibility of addiction. This was a problem for Schaefer, who once played for 36 hours straight.

“When I first started college, I was addict-ed to this game. I didn’t go to class, and I al-most flunked out,” he said. “I’m not going to lie, I still skip class occasionally to play the game if I don’t feel like going. If I’m not in class, at work or hanging out with [Miranda Thomas], I’m probably playing WoW.”

In spite of their common enjoyment of the game, they usually don’t play together on the same server, Schaefer said.

“We tried playing together when I first started, but it just didn’t work very well,” Thomas said.

In their relationship and their lives surrounding the game, the couple has experienced one rough patch.

“He joined one of the top raiding guilds on that server at one point, and he was busy that semester,” Thomas said. “He worked three or four nights a week, and he had a night class one night, and the rest of the nights were raid nights,

and I got pretty ticked because it was like I never saw him and even if I did, he was raiding.”

Schaefer and Thomas said they now don’t have any prob-lems trying to spend time together, with friends or getting anything else done. Their friends are in similar places.

“The best thing about the game is the social aspect of it,” Schaefer said. “I keep coming back because there are times when I’ve had more meaningful conversations with my guild mates than I have with some people in real life. Instead of parties and the like, my guild mates and I get on-line, eat and go on raids.”

Even those with a heavier workload can still find time to enjoy playing the game. William Parker, a business admin-

istration graduate student, also working on a master’s in management and information systems, is a friend of Schaefer and plays the game casually.

“I started playing WoW almost two years ago,” Parker said. “I had always been inter-ested in computer gaming ... I had wanted to play WoW for some time, but I was con-cerned about time management and some of the social stigmas that come along with playing [massively multiplayer online role playing games]. I had a friend move back into town, and he was playing, so I decided to start playing. I was hooked from day one.”

With his obligations as a teacher’s assistant and his grad-uate work, as well as his friends, Parker knows how to man-age his time.

“I try to make sure that I take care of all the things that I need to before I play,” Parker said. “WoW is my stress re-liever; it is what I do at the end of the day after school and work. Most people come home and watch TV, but I come home and play WoW.”

I’m not gonna lie, I still skip class occasionally to play the game if I don’t feel like going.”

— ALEX SCHAEFER, ENGLISH LITERATURE SENIOR

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English literature senior Alex Schaefer, left, and anthropology senior Miranda Thomas, right, sit and play World of Warcraft at Thomas’ house. The students, who began dating in 2008, are both regular World of Warcraft players. The game debuted in 2004 and its most recent expansion, “World of Warcraft: Cataclysm,” came out in December.

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OSU attempts Big 12-best 44 free throws in 81-75 win over OU in Stillwater

JORDAN MARKSThe Oklahoma Daily

S T I L LWAT E R — T h e Sooners fell short in the B e d l a m S e r i e s t o t h e Oklahoma State Cowboys, 81-75, on Saturday. This brings OU to 12-10, 4-4 Big 12, this season.

Free throws played a big part in the loss as the Cowboys scored 36 points from the foul stripe. Early foul trouble for sopho-more guard Steven Pledger and senior guard Cade Davis haunted the Sooners throughout the game.

In total, 70 free throws were shot from 49 fouls called. The 44 free throws shot by OSU are the most by any Big 12 team this season.

“Down the stretch there, I guess we couldn’t play without fouling,” OU coach Jeff Capel said. “And offen-sively in the second half, we struggled.”

The Sooners jumped out to an early 21-6 lead before the Cowboys scrapped their way back to within five by halftime. Oklahoma pushed the lead back up in the sec-ond half, to as much as 12, but were no match for the Cowboys.

OU got as close as two in the final minute of the game, but OU turnovers and OSU free throws sealed the Sooners’ fate.

Oklahoma was led by sophomore forward Andrew Fitzgerald, who scored 18 points and grabbed five re-bounds. Davis also scored 18 points, nine of those in the first seven minutes.

After scoring a career-h i g h 2 5 p o i n t s a g a i n s t

Free throws drop Sooners in Bedlam

Women rebound from tough Baylor loss by edging Iowa State

ANNELISE RUSSELLThe Oklahoma Daily

The Oklahoma women’s basketball team pulled off a 65-62 nail-biter against Iowa State on Saturday after blow-ing a 14-point halftime lead to trail in the final minutes.

With less than a minute remaining and OU down by one, sophomore guard Whitney Hand forced a Cyclone turnover, and senior guard Danielle Robinson took care of business at the free-throw line.

“I was confident the whole time, and I was confident in the A&M game, but it just didn’t fall,” Robinson said. “I just knew I wasn’t going to make the same mistake twice and went up there and knocked them down.”

A missed 3-pointer by Iowa State and two OU points at the free-throw line by junior guard Jasmine Hartman left the Cyclones down 65-63 with eight sec-onds remaining.

Unlike the pressure at the end, the first half was all OU.

Robinson opened the game 3-for-3 to kick-start a lead that OU would not relin-quish in the half. Robinson finished the half with 10 points.

The Sooners shot 50 per-cent in the first half, and the Cyclones just trailed at 45 percent, but unlike OU, Iowa State had nagging turnover troubles.

The Sooner defense forced the Cyclones to commit 15 turnovers, which led to 16 points off turnovers for OU.

“I felt l ike we rushed

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OU survives the Cyclones

them, pressure on the point guard… just making them play a little faster than they wanted to play,” OU coach Sherri Coale said.

Despite the Sooner de-fense, the Cyclones closed to within three, 24-21, but with four minutes remain-ing in the half, senior for-ward Carlee Roethlisberger o p e n e d i t u p w i t h a 3-pointer.

The Sooners took a 14-point lead into halftime.

Iowa State started the sec-ond half on a 6-0 run to close to 38-30, but two points from freshman guard Aaryn

Ellenberg cut the rally short.Hand pushed the Sooner

defense early in the second half, forcing two consecutive turnovers by Iowa State that resulted in buckets for OU to put the Sooners up, 54-44.

The Cyclones didn’t stay down long, though, when a 3-point basket from the visi-tors cut the lead to five and then to three, 54-51, on the ensuing possession with 8:38 to play.

Iowa State put the Sooner offense on ice — OU shot 29.6 percent in the half — and the Cyclones carried the 13-2 run under five minutes

to play, taking the lead at the free-throw line, 57-56.

“I thought our looks were good; we just went cold,” Coale said.

R o b i n s o n e n d e d t h e drought with a pair of free throws to reclaim the lead, 58-57.

But the back-and-forth basketball began, and that is how it would finish.

Robinson ended the game with 20 points and Ellenberg added 15.

Next stop for the Sooners i s a We d ne sd ay tr i p to College Station, Texas, to face Texas A&M.

MARCIN RUTKOWSKI/THE DAILY

Senior guard Danielle Robinson (13) dribbles against an Iowa State defender in OU’s 65-62 win over the Cyclones on Saturday in Norman. Robinson scored 20 points.

B a y l o r o n We d n e s d a y , freshman wing Cameron Clark went scoreless in the game.

“We didn’t lose the game because of him,” Capel said. “We lost the game because of our inability to make tough plays. One of the things I told our guys com-ing in was that the team that usually wins this game, with this rivalry, is the tougher team, and I thought they were a little bit tougher.”

Sophomore Carl Blair scored 13 points with no as-sists despite turning the ball

over six times. Going into Saturday’s contest, Blair was second in the confer-ence in assists, averaging 5.3 per game.

Oklahoma is hoping to learn from this experience as it gears up for the tough-est stretch of its season.

Next up for the Sooners w i l l b e a n o t h e r r i v a l -r y matchup against the Texas Longhorns at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Lloyd Noble Center.

The Associated Press con-tributed to this story.

Friday

TRACK & FIELD» Six Sooners notch season-bests in New York CityAt the New Balance Collegiate Invitational, the OU

women’s sprints and jumps groups set six season bests and broke OU records.

Junior college transfer Shelleyka Rolle won her first collegiate title with OU in the 500-meter dash.

A pair of Sooners finished with top-five OU times in the 60-meter dash, topped by junior Candyce McGrone’s 7.29 seconds, the third-fastest time by a Sooner.

Junior Shawna Anderson’s 7.33 was the fifth-fastest in OU history.

Senior Ti’Anca Mock continued a streak of winning the long jump event, extending her season mark. Mock has not lost to a collegiate athlete in the last four meets.

Sophomore Chenale Smith matched her personal best in high jump but finished second in the event. Fellow sophomore Kristen Rice finished seventh.

» Singh, Miller shine at Husker InvitationalSenior K.P. Singh took home the weight throw title from

Lincoln, Neb., for his first event title of the 2011 season.Senior Scottesha Miller won the 60- and 200-meter

dashes, both qualifying times.Junior pole vaulter Alexandra Acker, who laid down the

fourth-best height in OU history, became just the fourth Sooner female pole vaulter to clear 13 feet.

Junior thrower Bailey Wagner recorded the second-longest throw in OU history, improving her previous best by more than a foot.

Saturday

CROSS COUNTRY» Poland fi rst Sooner named to national cross country team Freshman Ryan Poland earned a spot on the U.S. Junior

National Cross Country Team with his performance at the U.S. Cross Country Championships in San Diego.

Poland is the first Oklahoma cross country member to be named to the team.

WRESTLING » OU wins third straight Big 12 contest

The 10th-ranked Sooners beat No. 12 Missouri, 18-12, at McCasland Field House to win their third straight Big 12 conference bout for the first time since 2002-03.

Senior Zack Bailey, ranked sixth nationally, notched his 100th career win after beating 12th-ranked Todd Schavrien of Missouri, 9-6.

MEN’S GYMNASTICS » Dalton wins 2011 Winter Cup

Sophomore Jacob Dalton won the all-around title at the 2011 Winter Cup in Las Vegas to retain his position on the U.S. Senior National Team.

Dalton follows current OU graduate assistant coach Chris Brooks to become the second straight Sooner to win the Winter Cup all-around title.

Brooks, sophomore Alex Naddour, senior Steven Legendre and former OU star — and Olympic silver medalist — Jonathan Horton round out the Sooners, past and present, on the U.S. national team.

The five current and former Sooners make up a third of the national team, giving OU the most members from the same NCAA Division I men’s gymnastics program ever on the senior national team.

TRACK & FIELD» Sooners rewrite four top-fi ve record times in 3,000-metersSophomore Kevin Williams broke the OU record in the

3,000-meter run with the fastest Big 12 time this season.Williams finished fourth in the event at the GaReat

Collegiate Invitational in Geneva, Ohio.Sophomore Kevin Schwab, junior George Alex and

sophomore Bill Kogal followed by clocking the third, fourth and fifth-best 3,000-meter run times in OU history.

» Shump, Brooks reach qualifying marksSophomores Karen Shump and Tia Brooks hit NCAA

automatic qualifying marks in the women’s shot put after finishing first and second, respectively, at the Husker Invitational.

Sunday

WOMEN’S TENNIS » Sooners upset Razorbacks with surging singles play

The 31st-ranked OU squad upset No. 14 Arkansas, 4-3.Oklahoma claimed the doubles point and three singles

overthrows.

WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS » No. 5 Oklahoma stays unbeaten against Huskers

The Sooners posted a season-high score against No. 10 Nebraska in Lincoln, Neb.

OU’s 196.300 secured the fifth win over a ranked opponent in eight contests this season.

— Daily staff reports

Weekend Update

ZACH GRAY/THE O’COLLEGIAN

Senior guard Cade Davis (34) posts up on an Oklahoma State defender in the Sooners’ 81-75 loss to the Cowboys on Saturday in Stillwater. Davis scored 18 points to help lead the Sooners with sophomore forward Andrew Fitzgerald, who also scored 18.

By the numbers

21-6 Lead OU held over Oklahoma

State before the Cowboys charged back

44 Free-throw attempts for Oklahoma State,

the most by any Big 12 team this season

.923 Free-throw percentage for

the Sooners, who made 24-of-26 from the charity stripe in a losing effort

18 Points each for sophomore forward

Andrew Fitzgerald and senior guard Cade Davis to lead OU

0 Assists for sophomore point guard Carl Blair,

who entered the contest averaging 5.3 dimes a game in Big 12 play this season

0-3 Field goal shooting for freshman

guard Cameron Clark after he scored a career-high 25 points against Baylor on Wednesday

6 Points for junior forward Barry Honoré, who saw

his fi rst action in six games off the bench with 13 game minutes against OSU

10 Turnovers committed by Oklahoma in the

losing effort, good for the second-fewest this season

.071 3-point percentage for

Oklahoma State (1-of-14) in the contest after the Cowboys hit 50 percent (14-of-28) last year in Stillwater

— Source: OU Athletic Department

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