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Boren points out improvements at OU, tuition and fees to be discussed next

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The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education held its first meeting on OU’s cam-pus since January 2008 Monday in Wagner Hall.

The regents — which oversee the state’s

higher education system — opened the meet-ing with an address from OU President David Boren, who discussed the advancements made at OU since he took office in 1994.

Boren pointed to improvements in gradu-ation rates, ACT test scores, library acquisi-tions, faculty salaries, endowed chair posi-tions, scholarship availability for students and National Merit scholarship recipients on campus as indicators the university was doing well.

After hearing from Boren, the state regents voted to certify statements necessary to refi-nance university debt obligations. Under the plan, the university will issue bonds to raise $73.8 million.

In other OU business, the state regents ap-proved changes to the requirements for the Master of Education in Special Education,

Bones will be used to build natural history museum’s Apatosaurus exhibit

HILLARY MCLAINThe Oklahoma Daily

An OU student is painting histo-ry as he works with the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History to cre-ate and build the museum’s first juvenile Apatosaurus dinosaur exhibit.

Garrett Stowe, sculpting gradu-ate student, was hired by the mu-seum as temporary help to give the “Little Apatosaurus Project” a jump-start. Stowe has been sculpt-ing, modeling and painting bones to take on the appearance of real fossils.

Other students have volun-teered with the project to learn the process.

So far, the project has been

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OU men’s basketball coach Lon Kruger and Athletic Director Joe Castilione walk in to a crowd of students Monday afternoon at McCasland Field House. The university announced Kruger as its new men’s basketball coach Friday and held a rally and press conference Monday.

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Student sculpts dinosaur bone models

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Garrett Stowe, sculpting graduate student, smooths out clay to make a bone model for a baby Apatosaurus at the Sam Nobel Museum of Natural History. Stowe is helping create and paint the bone models to construct a juvenile of the species for the museum”s “Little Apatosaur Project.”

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Freshman football player resumes active role after suffering concussion

RENEÉ SELANDERSThe Oklahoma Daily

Taking hits is defensive tack-le Daniel Noble’s job, but one blind-side hit in the first half of the Oct. 16 Iowa State football game packed a punch he wasn’t expecting.

The University College fresh-man remembers chasing down Iowa State’s quarterback before an offensive lineman brought him down. The next couple of plays are a foggy blur, Noble said, recalling the moments leading up to a physical and neurological as-sessment that di-agnosed him with a concussion.

No b l e’s c o n -cussion was one of 12 total con-cussions for the Sooner football team in the 2010 season that resulted in six missed games, 53 missed practices and 222 missed days, according to an OU report submitted to the NCAA and Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research and Prevention.

After the hit in the Iowa State game, Noble said he remembers feeling disoriented and unsure of what he was supposed to be doing. He said he turned to team-mate Adrian Taylor while still on the field, and Taylor got the atten-tion of OU trainers.

At that time trainers and team physicians led Noble off the field and performed and assessed his cognitive function, memory and limb movement.

He had an X-ray immediately after the game, and eventually had two MRIs, an EEG, a com-puter exam that tested his reflex-es and memory and a written test that examined his ability to mem-orize sequences.

Noble was out for the rest of the season recovering from a con-cussion. He underwent repeated tests, physical and mental exami-nations and rehabilitation.

The last two months of the se-mester were particularly difficult, Noble said. He hadn’t expected his concussion to keep him out of the game for so long. Once it be-came apparent that he wouldn’t be back on the field the rest of the season, he focused on his school-work and recovery process.

“It just felt like time went by real fast. Like it felt like days and it had been weeks,” Noble said. “You just kind of lose track of time. I was just trying to keep up with my school work and that was it.”

The recovery time from a con-cussion varies among individual cases, said Brock Schnebel, OU Athletics head physician. Because concussions are a risk in any ath-letic sport, a routine procedure is in place to assess the severity of the injury.

Schnebel said he and a team of physicians and trainers first make sure athletes are safe with what-ever cognitive deficit they may have and are able to breathe and function properly.

Next, once the concussion has

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under way for nearly two months. In that time, Stowe and Kyle Davies, museum pre-parator, have worked to give the dinosaur as realistic an appearance as possible.

The Apatosaurus is a long-neck sauro-pod from the Jurassic Period, said Nick Czaplewski, vertebrae paleontology curator.

Formerly known as the Brontosaurus, the Apatosaurus could reach up to 75 feet fully grown, according to the National Geographic website.

This Apatosaurus is estimated to be one to two years old, and will be about 12- to 13-feet long from head to tail, Davies said.

The museum is in possession of a few, but not all, of the juvenile’s bones. Missing bones are estimated and sketched by Davies, Stowe said.

Clay models are made and then scanned and printed by 3D machines into hard plastic models in conjunction with OU Engineering, Davies said.

After the plastic models are made, molds are created from the models out of silicone, rubber and plaster. The molds will be used by the museum for up to 10 years, Stowe said. The new models are made and set up with the rubber mold, and Stowe paints them to look like authentic fossils. Other museum staff and volunteers are working to learn this process.

The museum will be making eight of these models and possibly trading them with other museums or selling them, Stowe said.

Because of how fast the project is moving, it is an expensive process, Davies said.

“It is a large budget project, partly be-cause we are pushing it along,” Davies said. “It is based on donated money.”

Bones of the baby Apatosaurus were uncovered in the 1930s and 1940s and have been housed in collections since, Czaplewski said. The casts are now being made because of new funding through donations and an increased interest in dinosaurs.

Stowe said this job has also helped him to refine his technique and further his skills while doing something he enjoys.

“I’ve had a bunch of really crappy jobs, you know like just to support yourself,” Stowe said. “To have a job doing what I’m studying is really rewarding.”

Stowe said he will probably continue to work on this project until the first two skel-etons are fabricated, likely in August.

The casts will be used in teaching a dino-saur class at the museum, and for research of graduate students and visiting research-ers, Czaplewski said.

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Today around campus

» Gray Hale’s Exhibition will be on display from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Lightwell Gallery.

» A librarian will host a “Search Factiva” workshop to provide tips to navigate and search the online Factiva database. It will be from 10 to 11 a.m. in Bizzell Memorial Library, Room 149D.

» A noon pianist concert will be held noon to 12:30 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Sandy Bell Gallery.

» The E. Deane Kanaly Lecture Series presented by Michael F. Price College of Business will feature James R. Young, chairman, president and CEO of Union Pacific Corp. The lecture will be held at 1 p.m in the Union’s Meacham Auditorium.

» The Writing Center and Student Learning Center will hold “Research Writing II” for students from 3 to 4 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 280.

» 2011 Student Film Festival submissions are due at 5 p.m. in the Student Life office located in the Union, Suite 370.

» A member of University College’s action staff, Sarah Swenson, will present a seminar titled “Preparing for Medical School” from 5 to 6 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245.

» OU baseball will play Oklahoma State at 6:30 p.m. at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

» Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Horne will begin her master classes for OU School of Music singers from 7 to 9 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Morris R. Pitman Recital Hall.

Wednesday, April 6

» Gray Hale’s Exhibition will be on display from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Lightwell Gallery.

» OU Fitness and Recreation will feature a health and fitness seminar about designing and sticking to an exercise plan from noon to 12:45 p.m.

» University College’s UC Action Staff will present “Time Management” from 2 to 3 p.m. in Adams Center’s Muldrow Tower, Room 105.

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» In Monday’s Our View, the organizers of the Big Event were incorrectly identified. The event is organized through Student Affairs.

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BONES: First two dinosaur skeletons will be fabricated in AugustContinued from page 1

When it lived

The Apatosaurus is from the Jurassic Period, part of the Mesozoic Era, which is divided into three periods: » Triassic (248 to 206 million years ago)» Jurassic (206 to 144 million years ago)» Cretaceous (144 to 65 million years ago)

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the creation of the College of International Studies, the renaming of the Department o f G e o g r a p h y a s t h e Department of Geography

a n d E n v i r o n m e n t a l Sustainabil i ty, and the a w a r d i n g o f h o n o r a r y Doctor of Humane Letters d e g re e s t o f i v e p e o p l e — G e o r g e He n d e r s o n , Timothy Headington, J. Clifford Hudson, Rev. Dr.

Serene Jones and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

The next state regent’s meeting will be a public hearing on tuition and fees at 10:30 a.m. April 20 on the second floor of 655 Research Parkway in Oklahoma City.

Anyone who wishes to address the state regents regarding tuition and fees must notify the Chancellor’s Office by 5 p.m. April 15.

The Chancellor’s Office can be contacted by calling 405-225-9116.

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Students to write letters to support Africa

A student organization is hosting an event tonight to write letters to an Oklahoma senator concerning foreign aid budget cuts.

The Facilitating African Rehabilitation student organization will partner with the ONE effort to write letters to Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., concerning possible budget cuts to foreign aid, said Erin Weese, University College freshman and organization president.

The ONE effort is a group whose focus is fighting poverty and preventable disease in Africa, according to the group’s website.

The hope is to complete at least 50 letters by the end of the event, Weese said.

The budget cuts would affect organizations working to alleviate hunger problems and provide vaccinations to people in Africa, Weese said.

Weese said her student organization has invited other student groups across campus to participate in the event and expects to have several members from those groups participate.

The event will begin at 7:30 tonight in the Henderson-Tolson Cultural Center. All students are welcome to attend.

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been diagnosed, athletes are protected from loud noises or other stimuli. A gradual, repeated succession of tests track athletes’ recovery progress, and athletes’ teams also work to ensure they are keeping up with their academics.

“They may have some cognitive function that slows down their ability to take tests and function academi-cally,” Schnebel said.

Noble said he was able to maintain a high grade-point average, but simple tasks like working on a computer were difficult due to a high sensitivity to light. He also said frequent throbbing headaches persisted throughout his recovery time.

Physicians and trainers associated with Sooner foot-ball have been learning more about the causes and effects of concussions that occur on the football team.

The Head Impact Telemetry System is a technology re-search tool that allows OU football trainers and physi-cians to analyze forces that may result in concussions. The HIT System gathers data from a tiny computer sensor in a helmet, and allows trainers on the sidelines to monitor the impact of certain hits taken in a practice or game.

The technology is a research tool, and not an instrument for diagnosis, head football train-er Scott Anderson said. The team implemented the tech-nology in 2004 to gather more information about con-cussive forces.

“It isn’t going to dictate to us that we hold a player out, and it isn’t going to help us particularly in our return-to-play decision,” Anderson said. “It’s really a research tool, and we have used it for that. We take our data and put it into a body of data, just seeing what we can learn as much as anything at this point.”

Noble is back in the game this spring. He began prac-tice once classes resumed after spring break. He credits the football training staff with his recovery.

“They held me out when, of course, us players want to get back in there,” he said. “But they told me I couldn’t. I listened to them and I’m thankful for that.”

He also said the athlete’s academic center psychia-trist gave him lots of support, since being out of practice and away from his teammates was difficult. Though the nature of football puts Noble at risk for other injuries, including another concussion, he said he’s ready to be back in the game.

“I’m not gonna change the way I play,” Noble said.

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Aaron Blackerby, management information system systems and finance senior; Kylie Cowan, human relations junior; and Brianne Barker, communications junior, carve their names into the 2011 OU Leadership Table on Monday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Many campus organizations leaders and OU athletics team captains were invited to carve their names into the table, which will be stained, varnished and placed in the union’s Clarke-Anderson Room with a plaque, according to a press release.

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— DANIEL NOBLE, FRESHMAN DEFENSIVE TACKLEExposure should help native language’s

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A traditional Native American language recently met the technological cutting edge when the search engine Google allowed users to read, write and access in-formation in Cherokee.

Google users can now select Cherokee from the website’s language tools page to translate all text accessed through the website into the Cherokee language.

“I think it will give positive impact, es-pecially for the younger members of the Cherokee nation who are more comfort-able with using computers and more fa-miliar using that kind of equipment,” said OU history professor Fay Yarbrough. “In order for the language to continue to exist, there has to be many different ways for people to access the language as often as possible.”

Access to the Cherokee language through Google is im-portant for Oklahoma because of the numerous members

of the Cherokee nation who reside in the state and support their culture and history, Yarbrough said.

“The Cherokee members living in Oklahoma can bring attention to some of the unique and interesting compo-nents of the state and their history,” Yarbrough said.

Charles Foster said he has been teaching Cherokee for nine years at OU and is excited about Google support-ing it because of the increased visibility it can lend to the

Cherokee nation. Spoken Cherokee has been around for

millennia, but the written language has only been around for an estimated 200 years, Foster said.

With the implementation of Cherokee by Google, Foster said he feels positive-ly about the continued existence of the Cherokee language.

Mary Linn, associate professor of an-thropology, said Google’s support can help support a revival of the language.

“Also not just Cherokee nation, but other people can get interested in the na-

tive culture through the avenue of language, so I think it is really important and vital that Google is doing this,” Linn said.

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The Cherokee members living in Oklahoma can bring attention to some of the unique and interesting components of the state and their history.”

— FAY YARBROUGH, HISTORY PROFESSOR

Last September, pastor Terry Jones planned to hold a pub-lic burning of the Quran, the Islamic holy book. Due to public outcry condemning the Florida pastor, he decided to forgo his book burning.

Fast forward six months later. Jones carried out his pub-lic condemnation of the Quran. To further prove his point, he even held a mock trial, which found the Quran guilty of crimes against humanity. The punishment: death by fire.

What Jones didn’t plan for was the ex-tent Afghan protestors were willing to go to condemn the pastor’s actions. After news of Jones’ actions reached Afghanistan, mobs formed protesting the Florida pastor and his congregation. Violence broke out, kill-ing more than 20 individuals and injuring more than 150, all because one preacher chose to burn another group’s religious text.

Despite how deplorable Jones’ actions were and how dire the consequences are for his choices, the burning of the Quran is protected by the First Amendment defining it as symbolic speech.

In 1984, Gregory Lee Johnson stood outside the Republican National Convention in Dallas and set fire to an American flag. Johnson was protesting Ronald Reagan’s platform issues and wanted to destroy a symbol of America in response. Johnson was initially convicted of desecrating “a venerated object,” which violated Texas statutes, according to court documents.

The case was appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court where it ruled Johnson’s actions were protected as symbolic speech under the First Amendment. The decision

includes some very pertinent language in regards to Jones’ ac-tions: “the Government may not prohibit the verbal or non-verbal expression of an idea merely because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable.”

We believe a majority of citizens would agree the burning of the Quran is offensive and disagreeable, but even this deplorable act is protected by the precedent set by Texas V. Johnson.

Even though President Barack Obama and U.S. General David Petraeus have publicly condemned Jones’ trial and ex-ecution, Congress has yet to address the issue. Meaning, until an amendment is added to the Constitution, the burning of religious texts will be protected by the United States.

As Americans we should be careful how we use our free-doms. Just because we have the ability to burn a religious text doesn’t mean we should use it. As Jones has proven, even though our government will protect our freedom of speech, it does not mean other country’s citizens will look at symbolic speech in the same way.

Instead of using our rights to free speech to push people’s buttons, we should look to extend an invitation to discuss our differences and create understanding among our global community.

While Jones should be condemned for his actions, mur-dering innocent bystanders only reinforces stereotypes and makes discussing the topic of religious understanding that much harder.

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Imagine you are responsible for hiring someone to run a company and you are try-ing to determine how much to pay them. How would you calculate what a fair wage would be? Here’s one way to do it.

Consider the fact that Americans have deemed the minimum value of one hour of labor from one individual to be worth $7.25 per hour. This is the labor cost for someone with minimal education and minimum experience.

Now as you want the company to be a success, it is prob-ably prudent to hire someone who has more than just a high school diploma. In fact, someone with a Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree is probably preferred. As higher educa-tion costs time and money, your new executive should be compensated for undergoing these expenses. For argu-ment’s sake, let us assume the labor of someone with this level of education is worth five times the labor of someone with no education. This works out to be $36.25 per hour.

As you will probably want to hire someone who possesses both an educa-tion and experience, we must determine what the experience is worth. In this case, we’ll say it’s worth double the sal-ary of someone with an education and no experience. This brings the hourly wage to $72.50.

The position you are hiring for is one that is potentially stressful so we’ll com-pensate our new executive by paying him or her an extra $36.25 hour. This brings our total hourly wage to $108.75 — which is a pretty decent wage any way you look at it.

As the job will probably entail many nights of working long hours, we should probably pay our new hire more than he would make if we only expected him to work 40 hours per week. As it is difficult to estimate just how many hours per week he will work, we’ll just assume that he works 24 hours a day, seven days per week, and does not receive vacation days or sick days. This brings the yearly salary to just under a million dollars a year ($952,650).

Every time our executive sleeps for eight hours, we can as-sume that his dreams are more productive than 120 hours of labor by a minimum wage employee. By the time the year is over we can assume his productivity is worth more than the work of 63 minimum wage workers. In fact, his annual pro-ductivity should be twice that of the U.S. President, five times that of a congressman, 11 times that of a chemical engineer,

12 times that of a university professor, 18 times that of a police officer, 20 times that of a teacher or 26 times that of a U.S. army sergeant., according to figures provided by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Other than Hercules, it is difficult to be-lieve that an hour of one man’s labor can be

worth that of 15 men, let alone 63. The compensation given to executives isn’t because of their intelligence, as this would suggest executives are smarter than chemical engineers and professors. It’s not compensating for stress, as this would imply CEO’s undergo more stress than the president, police officers and combat soldiers. It’s not compensating for their contribution to society, as this would imply they contribute more to society than teachers. Lastly, it’s not compensating for experience as, this would suggest they have more experi-ence than the perpetually elected members of Congress.

Corporate executives are not even paid in relation to their contribution to the company’s success as most compa-

nies rely on the engineers and the sales people to invent and market the prod-ucts that bring the company a profit. Companies can exist without a compe-tent CEO, but no company can survive if it doesn’t have competent sales people and innovators.

Consider the average CEO of a Fortune 500 company makes $12.8 million a year. This is the equivalent of the combined

labor of 848 minimum wage workers. If the CEO of a chemi-cal company is compensated at this amount, the company is essentially stating that the work of this one man is worth more than the combined contributions of 151 of its chemi-cal engineers — the same engineers that keep the company competitive by developing new products.

The outrageous salaries of CEO’s are being driven by a runaway executive compensation system where the corpo-rate boards setting the salaries of executives benefit by see-ing their own salaries increase as well.

Anyway you look at it, there is no justifying how these ex-ecutives are paid in relation to their education, stress, intel-ligence or productivity.

— Tom Taylor,

political science graduate student

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Footage of people protesting cuts to el-ementary school edu-cation from Wisconsin to Texas has dominated the airwaves lately, but primary education isn’t the only thing facing cuts. Recent proposed legislation to cut higher education budgets has been remarkably misguided.

In a budget crunch like the one we’re currently in, it is understandable some of the money currently al-located for education will be cut. Tuition will probably rise. Programs might be downsized. It’s unfortunate but expected in today’s economic climate.

However, some of the proposed time and money-saving efforts in the area go too far, including one intro-duced piece of legislation in Oklahoma.

State Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City, pro-posed a bill on March 1 re-quiring full-time university faculty to spend at least 20 hours a week interacting with students.

Though the proposal will not go to the Oklahoma State House floor, the fact Reynolds considered this to be a good idea is indicative of a larger problem: the government is meddling in education affairs it does not truly understand.

On the surface, Reynolds’s proposal seems like a great idea. I, like most people, am al-ways in favor of more accessi-ble teachers, but to require pro-fessors to spend a minimum of 20 hours in a teaching capacity is absurd. Although professors’ primary purpose is to educate students, they serve their uni-versities in many other ways.

Professors serve on com-mittees that essentially run the university. A quick glance at

the College of Arts and Sciences’s website shows fac-ulty members hold eight positions on OU’s Executive Committee as well as 31 positions in committees deal-ing with courses and curriculum, teaching and research support, information technology, nominations, student scholarships and awards. Faculty members can also serve in the Faculty Senate. All of these committees are essential to the way OU is run, and they take up sub-stantial amounts of professors’ time — time Reynolds apparently thinks is plentiful.

After teaching, perhaps the most important thing tenure-track faculty do is research. It is this research that not only can further knowledge in a given topic but also bring prestige to a university.

Professors who are well known for their research have the opportunity to lecture at other universi-ties or events or be guest commentators on television and radio shows. They can apply for Fulbright grants, a very prestigious award allowing professors to take a sabbatical to focus on their research in a foreign coun-try. Extensive research can be translated into books or documentaries.

All of these things raise OU’s prestige. Our professors’ high level of research activity led to OU recently being named a Carnegie Foundation Very High Research university, the foundation’s highest designation. OU is the only university in Oklahoma to achieve this designation.

President David Boren said in a press release this award would help Oklahoma grow economically be-cause business start-ups frequently look to be near high-performing research institutions.

Forcing professors to spend less time doing research of this kind would be a mistake affecting not only the university but also the surrounding communities. Though this particular bill has been tabled, we should be cautious and ensure our government leaders con-tinue to respect higher education.

— Kate McPherson,

journalism sophomore

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The limits of free speech

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I have been going to OU for almost six years now. In all that time, Brother Jed or some other group has been call-ing students whores and whoremongers and every other awful word. Sometimes I snicker, sometimes I stop and listen, but most of the time I walk away. What Brother Jed — or anyone like him on campus — thinks is of no con-sequence. They want to simply rile people up in order to spread their form of evangelizing.

I have even seen the best professors debate them pub-licly and win. I was proud of this moment.

However, I was not proud to see the rude, callous and violent behavior OU students displayed toward these preachers. I saw people yell and scream about those preachers going to hell or telling them simply to go to

hell. I saw a man walk right up to a woman and yell in her face I don’t care so loud she physically moved away. This action was cheered for by the crowd. I saw OU students not being scholars or diplomats, but an unruly mob that for a moment I feared would attack a woman.

We are students of the arts and sciences. We are not a device to lynch or persecute people for their beliefs no matter how ridiculous or callous they are.

For the first time, I am more ashamed of the student body than some crazy preacher. I can ignore a crazy preacher, but I have to live with all of you.

— Joshua Drake,educational psychology graduate student

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The compensation given to executives isn’t because of their intelligence as this would suggest executives are smarter than chemical engineers and professors.”

On the surface, Reynolds’s proposal seems like a great idea. I, like most people, am always in favor of more accessible teachers, but to require professors to spend a minimum of 20 hours in a teaching capacity is absurd.”

Even though our government will protect our freedom of speech, it does not mean other country’s citizens will look at symbolic speech in the same way.”

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1. Brussels

U.S. to withdraw strike jets from front-line Libya mission

The U.S. military will pull its warplanes from front-line missions Monday and shift to a support role in the Libyan conflict, a NATO official said.

Britain, France and other NATO allies will now provide the fighter and attack jets to conduct intercept and ground attack missions as they enforce a no-fly zone over this North African country. The hand-over is expected to take place later on Monday, a NATO official said.

2. Kinshasa, Congo

1 survivor in Congo plane crash

Only one survivor has been confirmed among the 33 U.N. personnel and crew members aboard a plane that crashed in Congo on Monday, a U.N. spokesman said.

U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said the plane crashed Monday as it was landing in the city of Kinshasa. Haq did not say exactly how many people were believed killed so it was unclear whether anyone else may have survived.

The cause of the crash was not immediately known.

3. Vienna

Japan crisis a ‘major challenge’

Japan’s reactor crisis poses a major challenge with enormous implications for nuclear power, the head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog said Monday, while separately appearing to criticize the operator of the crippled complex.

Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, also stressed the global nuclear community cannot take a “business-as-usual approach.” Lessons must be learned from the fact that the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant has been leaking radiation into the environment ever since it was hit March 11 by a massive tsunami, he said.

Amano spoke at a meeting for experts from about 70 countries on scrutinizing the safety of nuclear power plants.

4. Acapulco, Mexico

Soldiers, gunmen clash kills 3

Authorities say a clash between soldiers and gunmen in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco left three people dead and caused a fire that destroyed a supermarket, movie complex and stores in a shopping center.

The Public Safety Department in Guerrero state says a soldier and two gunmen were killed in the clash early Monday along a major thoroughfare in Acapulco.

Acapulco police also found two human heads along a main avenue in the exclusive Las Brisas neighborhood.

Factions of the Beltran Leyva cartel have been fighting for control of Acapulco since the December 2009 killing of cartel boss Arturo Beltran Leyva.

— AP

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Swiss court rules company must protect personal privacy before publishing faces, car tags

GENEVA — A Swiss court has ruled that Google Inc. must guarantee ano-nymity before publishing faces and li-cense plates captured in Switzerland for the popular street view service.

The Federal Administrative Court largely sided with Switzerland’s data protection commissioner who claimed that Google was breaching citizens’ right to personal privacy, according to the rul-ing published Monday.

Google said it was disappointed by the

verdict and is considering an appeal to the Swiss supreme court.

The Bern-based court said Google needs to ensure that all faces and vehicle license plates are blurred before upload-ing pictures to the service that provides panoramic views from various positions along the world’s streets.

It also ordered the company obscure other identifying features, such as skin color and clothing, from people pho-tographed in the vicinity of “sensitive establishments,” such as women’s shel-ters, retirement homes, prisons, schools, courts and hospitals.

Google’s right to pursue its commercial

interests does not outweigh Swiss priva-cy laws, the court said.

“What is at stake here is ultimately not a blanket prohibition of Google Street View but merely the publication on the Internet of images of individuals only where they have been made unrecogniz-able or, as the case may be, only where the consent of the individuals in ques-tion has been obtained,” the court said.

It dismissed Google’s argument that if it ensured all photos were unrecogniz-able, it would have to pass on the cost to users.

— AP

Google Street View must offer anonymity

U.N. opens fire in Ivory Coast

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This handout photo provided by the French Defense Ministry on Sunday shows a French soldier patrolling as part of the French Force Licorne on Saturday in Port Bouet district of Abidjan. The United Nations mission in Ivory Coast began moving some 200 employees out of the main city Sunday after repeated attacks on its headquarters, as fighters loyal to the internationally recognized president prepared for a battle to oust the incumbent leader.

Fighters aiming to topple country’s strongman after decade in power

ABIDJAN, Ivor y Coast — The United Nations and French forces opened fire w ith attack helicopters Monday on the arsenal of this country’s entrenched ruler, as columns of Ivorian fight-ers allied with his challenger finally pierced the city limit.

The fighters are aiming to topple strongman Laurent Gbagbo after a decade in power had succeeded in tak-ing nearly the entire coun-tryside in just three days last week, but they faltered once they reached the country’s largest city, where the presi-dential palace and residence are located.

M o n d a y ’s o f f e n s i v e marked an unprecedented escalation in the interna-tional community’s efforts to oust Gbagbo, who lost the presidential election in November yet has refused to cede power to Alassane Ouattara even as the world’s largest cocoa producer tee-tered on the brink of all-out civil war.

The postelection violence has left hundreds dead — most of them Ouattara sup-porters — and has forced up to 1 million people to flee.

Ouattara has used his con-siderable international clout to financially and diplomat-ically suffocate Gbagbo and pro-Ouattara forces before launching a dramatic mili-tary assault last week.

On Monday, the U.N. f i r e d o n t h e A k o u e d o military base at around 5 p.m. local time to prevent Gbagbo’s forces from using heavy weapons against ci-vilians, said the spokesman

for the U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations Nick Birnback.

Explosions resonated from the city’s downtown core a few blocks from the presidential palace and near the base of the repub-lican guard, and those liv-ing nearby barricaded their windows with mattresses. Flames could be seen lick-ing the sky above the home of the staunchly pro-Gbagbo

republican guard.French President Nicolas

Sarkozy said in a statement that he had authorized the 1,600-strong French Licorne force based here to help in the operation following an appeal from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who said that the use of force was necessary to prevent further attacks on civilians.

— AP

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Lon Kruger signed a contract Friday that will reportedly pay him more than $2.2 million per year to take over the OU men’s basketball program.

Aside from the seven-figure contract he’s received, Kruger is a good hire. He has NBA experience and two conference Coach of the Year honors in his pocket. Since taking over UNLV in 2004, the program made four trips to the NCAA tournament, including one Sweet 16 appearance.

The timing of former coach Jeff Capel’s firing was regret-table. In the five years he coached OU, he was asked to do more with less in three of them.

Maybe turning Norman into Krugertown will be just the change needed to bring luster back to the men’s program. However, with the recruiting period for the year nearly over, Kruger will have his start with current team members and a Capel recruiting class.

That’s a tall task, turning a 14-18 team that did not make the NCAA tournament into a contender. The Big 12 isn’t the Mountain West, and Kruger will have to coach with the same fire that led Florida to the 1994 Final Four.

Can Kruger do it again? Of course he can.Adding Central Oklahoma’s Terry Evans, one of the top

Division-II coaches, to his staff wouldn’t hinder his efforts either.

Evans has already said on record he would be more than happy to serve under Kruger at Oklahoma. Plus, an Evans hire would leave the men’s program with a future candidate familiar with the program.

So, Kruger, do us all a solid and hire the man. Evans has proven he can do less with more and has the ability to do what OU couldn’t do last season — win consistently.

— RJ Young,

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SPORTS OUDAILY.COM ›› Burch Smith (shown left) and the Sooners play rare home Bedlam matchup tonight

Sooners on way to the top, Boren says

Kruger receives formal introduction as next men’s hoops leader

JAMES CORLEYThe Oklahoma Daily

The last time Lon Kruger was in McCasland Field House, he was wearing a pur-ple jersey.

The new OU men’s bas-ketball coach was formally welcomed to the university Monday in the same build-ing he competed and lost in as a Kansas State player four decades ago.

“A little bit of a cruel joke, I think, because I don’t have fond memories about this building,” Kruger said.

Kruger returns with 25 years of college basketball coaching experience to re-place Jeff Capel, who was fired three weeks ago after two straight losing seasons.

But Kruger said his tenure as coach will not be a rebuild-ing project.

“This program has got great tradition, so we’re not rebuilding,” he said. “We’re not bringing it back — we’re just hoping to continue what’s been very good here for a long time.”

Even so, Kruger has ex-perience rebuilding teams.

JAMES CORLEY/THE DAILY

OU men’s basketball coach Lon Kruger addresses the media following his official welcome to the university Monday at McCasland Field House. Kruger led UNLV to a 24-9 record last season.

Pittsburg StateGraduate assistant

1976-77

Kansas StateGraduate assistant (1977-78)

Assistant coach (1979-82)

UT-Pan AmericanHead coach

1982-86

FloridaHead coach

1990-96

IllinoisHead coach1996-2000

Atlanta HawksHead coach

2000-03

New York KnicksAssistant coach

2003-04

UNLVHead coach

2004-11

He’s taken four different programs — Kansas State, Florida, Illinois and UNLV — to the NCAA tournament.

President David Boren said the Kruger hire marks a new era for the Sooners.

“OU basketball is on its way to the top,” Boren said.

Kruger signed a con-tract Friday worth about $2.2 million a year to come to Oklahoma from UNLV, where he led the Rebels to a

24-9 record last season.He inherits a program that

suffered its first consecutive losing seasons since 1967 and struggled with a dwin-dling fan base — a relation-ship Kruger vowed to repair.

One solution Kruger of-fered was opening practices to fans.

“We have no secrets,” Kruger said. “Our guys are going to work really hard. You guys watch them work,

and you’ll like what they’re doing.”

The Sooners are among tough competition in the Big 12 Conference, but Kruger said he isn’t worried.

“We’re going to be right there and hopefully set the bar for everyone else in the league,” he said. “That’s how it’s going to be.”

— The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Kruger coaching timeline

Kruger should hire UCO hoops’ Evans

OU welcomes new basketball coach

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The Cyclops also is a techni-cal trick that is quite enjoyable to watch.

The text is both the best and worst part of the show. While all of the actors appeared to understand

the meaning of what they were saying, something that is neces-sary when performing old texts, the comedic elements that Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation added seemed too heavy handed and did not appear evenly enough throughout the show.

H e r m e s , p l a y e d b y T y l e r Brodess, performance junior, was charmingly funny, but one co-medic character does not make a comedy. Other actors also at-tempted to recite their lines with a

lighter or funnier inflection.While the comedy may not have

been all that the author desired, “The Odyssey” is worth seeing for the impeccable set and talented cast alone.

The show runs until Sunday and tickets can be purchased in the Catlett Music Center box office, which will be open one hour prior to the production.

— Sydney Allen,

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LIFE&ARTS

THE PAINS OF BEING

PURE AT HEART“Belong”

(Slumberland)

Rating:

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart enjoy juxtaposi-tion. They operate in the art of contrast, and they make most, if not all, of their con-tradictions work.

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart have injected their music with louder guitars and more driving beats since their 2009 self-titled debut, but lead singer Kip Berman’s vocals are still precious and dreamy, almost feminine.

They have a pretty bad band name, to be sure, but it fits them in a lot of ways. Their music has a childlike purity to it, as if these 20-somethings lived in a vacu-um, but their influences are clear.

They sound like a time capsule, capturing all the best things about ’80s and ’90s alternative rock. This fa-miliarity is the album’s big-gest drawback.

The songs are catchy and clever, but they fail to bring anything terribly new to the table.

It’s a nice ride, with songs like “Anne With An E” and the title track showing how good the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart can be when they’re at their creative peak, but here’s hoping that next time these guys use their talents to brave more original paths. — Conor O’Brien/The Daily

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Opening Friday, University Theatre’s “The Odyssey” presented a carefully re-

imagined version of Homer’s clas-sic tale of Odysseus attempting to return to his family after years at sea.

Directed by Matthew Ellis, the play attempts to weave com-edy into the text, and while this isn’t always successful, the show is nevertheless solid and well-performed.

The show opens with a bored woman, performance sophomore Taylor Schackmann, sarcastically mocking Homer’s text until she is inspired by a muse and trans-forms into Athena, who appeals to the gods to allow Odysseus, performance junior Madison Niederhauser, to return home.

Shackmann is perhaps the shining muse for the entire pro-duction, flitting from one role to the next and performing them all well as Athena transforms herself to assist Odysseus. Odysseus acts the title character well, portray-ing the well-worn and witty sailor with strong conviction.

The rest of the ensemble cast is also to be rewarded for their work, comprising four or five roles each and maneuvering the revolving stage element smoothly.

Scenic designer Jon Young also did an excellent job transform-ing the Weitzenhoffer Theatre into an almost ethereal space that felt open and quite suitable for the arena staging that the show required.

Minimal visual obstructions oc-curred due to the audience being on all four sides, but these were easily ignored due to the actors’ clear inflection and acting.

PLAY REVIEW

‘The Odyssey’ lacks comedic value, but has good cast and flawless set

STAFF COLUMN

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Drama junior Tiffany Mack, as Circe, and drama junior Madison Neiderhauser, as Odysseus during a performance of the tale of “The Odyssey.” The University Theatre production opened Friday will run until Sunday.

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YOU ARE INVITED!Public Master Classes

Former Star of the Metropolitan Opera, praised by critics as having “the greatest voice of the 20th Century”

Marilyn Horne

7 p.m.Tuesday, April 5 and

Friday, April 8Pitman Recital Hall

Catlett Music CenterOU Arts District

Free and Open to the PublicFor more information, go to

http://music.ou.edu/home/news.html

- THE PRIDE OF OKLAHOMA