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Boren says political views of donor

has no effect on curriculum, hiring

RICKY MARANONThe Oklahoma Daily

Members of a student activist group at OU have backed away from a controversial petition as OU officials have disputed the petition’s alle-gations and the group’s president has resigned.

Last week, members of Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society circulated a petition to remove the McClendon family name from the Joe C. and Carole Kerr McClendon Honors College. The college was renamed in 2008 after Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon donated $5.5 million to Honors College faculty and programs.

The petition stated “the University administration and the Honors College refuse to answer our questions regarding how the $5.5 million for new academic projects will be spent and offer us no assurance that McClendon’s personal beliefs and politics will not influence the creation and direction of these new projects.”

In the days following the petition’s circulation, Honors College Dean RC Davis-Undiano, OU President David Boren and Aubrey McClendon denied that McClendon’s political views would affect the curriculum or faculty of the Honors College.

“The university has donors of differing politi-cal perspectives,” Boren wrote in a letter to The Daily. “Donors are never allowed to select fac-ulty or staff members. All are chosen through an independent process through faculty gover-nance based on capability and not on political viewpoints.”

Boren also said the idea of establishing an institute for the study of American political history, which was a point of contention men-tioned in the OSDS petition, was his idea, not McClendon’s.

“Mr. McClendon has never tried to use his generosity to tell the university what to do,” Boren said. “If any donor attempted to attach improper strings in conditions for a gift, it would not be accepted.”

McClendon said his political views are less partisan than implied by the petition in an e-mail sent Thursday.

“For the record, I was born a Democrat, became a Republican and am now a registered Independent,” he wrote. “In the last election, I voted for candidates of both parties. I pitch a big political tent and hope that others will as well.”

McClendon said his donation was not an attempt to improperly influence academics at OU.

“My gift to the University of Oklahoma’s Honors College comes with no strings attached,” he said. “I have great respect for President Boren and I agree with his position on the importance of protecting intellectual freedom.”

In a statement released Sunday, OSDS offi-cers said a desire for transparency and dialogue about intellectual issues motivated last week’s petition.

After months of asking Honors College fac-ulty and administrators for information about the McClendon donation, OSDS had yet to hear any definitive answers about how the money would be used.

“After many months of frustration, we decided to launch our petition to remove the McClendon name from the Honors College in order to break the silence surrounding the donation and spur an informed public debate,” they wrote.

They believe more people outside the admin-istration should have an influence on how the money is spent.

“Given that this donation has the potential to dramatically reshape the Honors College curriculum and mission, we believe that OU faculty, staff, and students should not only have access to information regarding the proposed additions, but a voice in deciding how this money can be most productively put to use,” they said.

They said they are no longer pursuing the removal of the McClendon name from the Honors College, but they will continue to push for university accountability in relation to dona-tions.

Honors College petition dies

The event was a precursor for

the group’s letter-delivering

campaign to Congress in June

JARED RADERThe Oklahoma Daily

Hundreds of students gathered at the Oklahoma City National Memorial Saturday and symbolically “abducted” themselves to draw attention to the hundreds of thousands of Ugandan chil-dren kidnapped and forced into military service.

T h e “ab d u c t e d” s t u d e nt s t h e n marched in groups to the State Capitol, awaiting “rescue” in the form of support from either a powerful media figure or influential politician.

Saturday, that “rescue” came from Rep. Mary Fallin, R-Oklahoma City, who pledged to relay the group’s mes-sage to Congress when she returned to Washington Monday.

“Joseph [Kony], I hope you can hear me here in Oklahoma,” Fallin said. “We’re not going to stand for you. And I’m going to take the message back to the United States Congress that the students in Oklahoma, we are standing for some-thing important tonight.”

Kony, leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, is known for organizing the genocide in the region and is wanted for several crimes by the International Criminal Court.

The Oklahoma City rally was one of a hundred “Rescue of Joseph Kony Child Soldiers” events in 10 countries put on by Invisible Children, Inc. Invisible Children is a non-profit organization that strives to spread awareness about the plight of Uganda’s people, especially its children.

Three students from California found-ed Invisible Children in 2005 after filming

a 2003 documentary about the war rag-ing between the Ugandan government and the Lord’s Resistance Army.

In addition to drawing attention to war-torn Uganda, Invisible Children will attempt to organize events and pressure the international community until Kony is apprehended, according to their Web site.

Student leaders of OU’s Facilitating African Rehabilitation program, Mark Nehrenz, journalism senior and former Daily employee, and Michelle Richards, political science senior, worked in coor-dination with Invisible Children workers to organize Saturday’s event.

Students from several Oklahoma uni-versities who either saw the film or heard about the event composed the majority of Saturday’s crowd.

Aubrey Delafield, University College freshman, said she saw the documenta-ry in high school and has been involved since.

“It really just broke my heart and I really wanted to do anything I could for these kids,” Delafield said. She said publicists from Invisible Children came to OU a few months ago to promote the event and get students involved.

Sergio Lopez, University College freshman, said people should feel they have a personal responsibility to aid worldwide events like The Rescue.

“Things don’t just happen here in the United States,” Lopez said. “We can’t fix all of the problems, but we can always do something about it.”

Most attendees brought sleeping bags and food for the night and camped in front of the Capitol. Volunteers en-couraged participants to write letters to Sens. Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn. Students also passed time creating art, playing Frisbee, praying with others and dancing.

But students also understood the seri-ous tone of the rally.

“We want to remember what we’re really here for,” Nehrenz said while ad-dressing the crowd. “Keep in mind why you’re meeting all these people. We can continue to have fun in an attitude of un-derstanding that this is serious stuff we are here for.”

The atmosphere increased when the crowd heard Fallin was on her way from Tulsa to “rescue” the students. When Fallin took the stage amid the cheering crowd to make a statement, she gave the students what they wanted.

“The murdering and kidnapping of the children is wrong and we’re not going to stand for that,” she said. “The war must stop.”

Fallin said Inhofe called her to visit the rally because he had visited Uganda and

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Kevin Barnes, of Montreal front man, performs during the band’s set during the Norman Music Festival Saturday on Main Street. The festival attracted an estimated 25,000 attendants, 10,000 more than last year’s festival.The psychedelic and elaborately-costumed of Montreal headlined the festival, which also featured bands like Man Man, Tea Leaf Green, Other Lives and The Starlight Mints. Performances took place on 12 different stages located along Main Street, a significant increase from last year’s three stages. Local businesses, like Coach’s Brewhouse, the Red Room and The Opolis, took part in the festival by incorporating stages into their buildings. Last year’s festival featured 30 bands and attracted 13,000 people.

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Protesters converge on the steps of the Capitol building for “The Rescue of Joseph Kony Child Soldiers” event. The Rescue intended to raise awareness for child soldiers and slavery in Uganda.

NUNLEY WITHDRAWS FROM CAC ELECTIONKely Van Eaton is running unopposed for Campus Activities Council

Chairman.Tyler Nunley withdrew from the election Sunday evening.John Jennings, Student Congress Chairman, said the Graduate Senate

passed a bill Sunday evening approving an alternate CAC Election for May 6 and 7. But, since Nunley withdrew from the election, Van Eaton is now running unopposed for the position.

The bill will go to Student Congress Tuesday evening and if it passes will go to UOSA President Katie Fox Wednesday morning for her signa-ture. Van Eaton will become CAC Chairman if the bill is signed.

Nunley called Van Eaton Sunday evening to inform him of his resigna-tion, Van Eaton said.

“I respect him and his decision,” Van Eaton said.Nunley released a statement offi cially announcing his decision to

drop out of the race and stated that he ran a campaign he is proud of.“I am not leaving this race because of foul play. I ran a fair campaign,

by the rules set forth in the Student Code. I am leaving because I do not have it in my heart to fi ght a fi ght that I believe will negatively impact this organization I care so deeply about,” Nunley stated in his resigna-tion letter.

Jennings said UOSA General Council began to work to fi nd a way to hold an election before the school year is over after the UOSA Student Superior Court released their decision last Thursday.

— Cadie Thompson / The Daily

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All-Greek Boxing Tournament

draws crowd of 650

LESLIE METZGERContributing Writer

Taylor Clipper set out to make his fra-ternity proud in Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s annual All Greek Boxing Tournament. In his first year at OU, and with no experi-ence, Clipper strapped on his gloves and faced his first-ever opponent in the ring.

“I was so nervous, like I didn’t know what to expect from who I was fighting in the first match,” said Clipper, University College freshman.

On a hot, sunny afternoon, he stepped into the ring and beat his first opponent by a unanimous vote. With confidence building as the day went on, he was ready to take on his next opponent, the only person standing between him and win-ning the 140 to 149 pound weight class.

Punches flew, sweat poured, the crowd

cheered. Swing after swing, the intensity built as the final two duked it out. The bell rang and by another unanimous decision, Clipper took the prize.

Although Clipper won his weight class, he is not the only one to come out ahead. Money raised at Friday’s tournament went to the Children’s Miracle Network.

Jo h n Sw e e d e n , S A E boxing chairman, said the event was a success with about 650 attendees, 21 boxers and more money raised than during previ-ous years.

“It’s another way to let people know that fraternities aren’t just all stereotypes and what you see on TV,” Sweeden said. “We actually try to per-form scholastically as well as trying to do things like this and give back to the community.”

Josh Groves, a two-time participant

and multidisciplinary studies senior, said he likes fighting for charity.

“It’s an unlikely combination, which is probably the reason I l ike i t ,” Groves said. “Who would think you would get to raise money for charity while you are fighting, so I think it is a really cool concept and I enjoy supporting it.”

Organizers created a trophy this year called the Oklahoma Kappa Cup, to be given to the house with the most points. It will go from house to house each year and the frater-nity that wins will have

its name inscribed on it. Phi Beta Sigma is the first to get its name on the trophy.

“I was just super nervous you know be-cause I had never boxed before,” Clipper said. “It was like a big sigh of relief to know that I won ... and I had unanimous decisions both times.”

Fraternity members fight for charity fundraiser

WALK RAISES FUNDS FOR CANCER RESEARCHEighty-nine OU Relay for Life teams raised more than $80,600 for the American Cancer Society this year, a feat which culminated in this week-end’s Relay for Life 12 hour walk-a-thon.Relay team members walked and camped out on the North Oval from 7 p.m. Saturday to 7 a.m. Sunday, fulfi lling the pledges they made to spon-sors who donated money to their cause. Danny O’Donnell, Relay for Life recruitment co-chairman, said this year’s event was very successful with such a high contribution total.The OU teams raised enough money to win the unoffi cial friendly compe-tition with Oklahoma State University’s Relay for Life event, which raised about $79,000.

— Reneé Selanders/The Daily

AUTHOR TO RECEIVE NATIONAL LITERATURE AWARDOU Press author and creative writing professor Rilla Askew will receive an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters at their annual ceremony in May in New York.The $7,500 award is one of several Askew won in 2008 for “Harpsong,” an novel set in Depression-era Oklahoma. She also received the Willa Literary Award for Best Historical Novel, the Violet Crown Award for Fiction, Book of the Year from ForeWard Magazine and the Oklahoma Book Award

for Best Fiction from the Oklahoma Center for the Book.Askew, a Oklahoma native, also wrote two other award-winning novels: “The Mercy Seat” and “Fire in Beulah.”

— Staff Reports

STUDENTS LAUDED AS HONOR SOCIETY INDUCTEESSix undergraduate students in the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences will be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, a national honor society, for outstanding academic achievements.“I congratulate each of these students for their outstanding perfor-mances in their undergraduate programs,” said John Snow, dean of the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences. “These students are among the very best at OU. To have this many of our students selected for Phi Beta Kappa in one year was a very pleasant surprise and a real honor to the college and the two academic programs.”There is no formal application process for the society and students are invited to join by a committee. Only 10 percent of the nation’s higher education institutions have Phi Beta Kappa chapters. Each year, about one college senior in 100 is invited to join.OU’s chapter will host their induction ceremony at 3 p.m. May 15 in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium.

— Staff Reports

was very passionate about the crisis there.She admitted she knew little about the crisis in

Uganda until the weekend’s events, but said the events are a good tool for spreading awareness.

“This is a great way to educate the communities about what’s going on and even Congress,” Fallin said. She said these issues are very important to her.

The rallies during the past weekend are meant to set the stage for an event scheduled on June 22 and 23, when Invisible Children volunteers and work-ers will hand deliver letters to the U.S. Capitol.

LESLIE METZGER/THE DAILY

University College freshman Taylor Clipper of Delta Tau Delta waits in the ring for his opponent during the first round of the seventh Annual Sigma Alpha Epsilon All-Greek Boxing Tournament held Friday in the La Luna parking lot. Clipper won the 140-149 lb weight class.

TOURNAMENT WINNERS

First place: Phi Beta Sigma

Second place: Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Third place tie: Delta Tau Delta and Phi Gamma Delta

Source: John Sweeden, Sigma

Alpha Epsilon boxing chairman

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Program celebrates 10 years on campus, accomplished alumni

KATE CUNNINGHAMThe Oklahoma Daily

Bioengineering professor Rong Gan has spent the last week pouring over the contents of her office desk in Felgar Hall. With deliberately organized mounds of papers and official documents surrounding her, it’s crunch time to apply for a grant to help fund her research.

Applying for grants and awards is part of a day in the life of a faculty member working in OU’s bioengi-neering program. Without them, the program wouldn’t even exist.

T h i s y e a r ma rk s t h e 10th anniversary of the depar tment w inning a $ 1 m i l l i o n g r a n t f ro m the prestigious Whitaker Foundation in Washington, D.C. OU matched those funds, and established the bioengineering program i n t h e d e p a r t m e n t o f engineering.

Other professors in the bioengineering program Edgar O’Rear and Harold S t a l f o r d h e l p e d p u s h through the Whitaker grant.

“We had an excellent team put together here,” O’Rear said. “We had ex-perts who were national leaders helping us build the program.”

Since the interdisciplin-ary program began in spring 1999, it has expanded quick-ly. In 2003, the OU Board of Regents approved the es-tablishment of master’s and Ph.D. programs. Between 2003 to 2008, budget ex-penditures increased 30 percent.

HIGH-TECH BIO-TECHBioengineering does

not offer an undergraduate

degree, and it is not an independent department but an interdisciplinary program affiliated with the three schools of the College of Engineering.

The range of their re-search is as diverse as the curriculum, with projects in medicine, food and nanotechnology.

For example, Gan said she and her students research biomechanics of soft tissue in the human ear. To do this, they build 3-D computer models, a technique that she said is on the vanguard of technology around the world.

“We want to improve the model to understand the human ear, both healthy and pathological functions,” said Gan’s student Fan Yang, mechanical engineering graduate student. After she completes her Ph.D., Yang said she plans to continue in the field of research, be-cause “four to five years isn’t

enough to finish this work.”Stalford’s research focus-

es on using nanotechnology to separate DNA from a cell. He compared it to using a miniature blender the size of a red blood cell to split cells and analyze DNA.

O’Rear, the program’s director, and other members of the bioengineering faculty

have developed a method that can break up an artery-clogging blood clot in seven minutes, compared to the currently used methods that can take up to 70 minutes.

FOCUS ON STUDENTSAlso, the bioengineering

program recently started a partnership which pays stu-dents to work in local bio-technology start-ups.

“This is a ‘win-win’ situ-ation,” O’Rear said. “Our students will learn how to function in the corporate en-vironment while the entre-preneurial companies will receive valuable technical

assistance that can help them succeed.”

While the bioengineering program is young, it already has alumni making names for themselves in the bio-technology field.

“It was a wonderful expe-rience in the past four years when I had studied bioen-gineering at OU,” Chenkai Dai, now a research fellow at Johns Hopkins University, said in an e-mail. “I love those courses and the proj-ects. The research projects in Biomedical Engineering Lab lead by Dr. Gan really guided me into a biomedi-cal world.”

Future of science lies in bioengineering

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MERRILL JONES/THE DAILY

Rong Zhu Gan, bioengineering professor, sits with a model of a human ear in her Felgar Hall office Friday. The model was created by Gan and other researchers in the bioengineering program to aid hearing research. The bioengineering program is celebrating their 10th anniversary this year.

“Our students will learn how to function in the corporate environment while the entrepreneurial companies will receive valuable technical assis-tance that can help them succeed.”

EDGAR O’REAR, BIOENGINEERING PROFESSOR

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I don’t have millions of dollars lying around for various philanthropic causes, but if I did, a recent opinion column that was erroneously passed off as a legitimate “news article” published in The Daily would make me think twice about the prospect.

A petition is circulating around campus to re-move the McClendon name from the Honors College after Aubrey McClendon, co-founder and CEO of Chesapeake Energy, donated $12.5 mil-

lion to OU with $5.5 million ear-marked for the Honors College. The Honors College is named in honor of McClendon’s parents.

The former student lead-er of Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society, Sean Hughes, claimed the group is merely trying to hold the univer-sity accountable by demanding transparency with regards to pri-vate donations.

However, the rest of the news article unambiguously exposes the real agenda of the group: to turn away the donations of benefac-tors with whom the group disagrees.

Reading through the petition, one would think members of OSDS have been severely wronged by the decision of a man to selflessly donate millions of dollars to the university.

They attack his support of politically conserva-tive organizations and decry the fact that there are people in this world that do not share the same so-cial and political views of the group.

McClendon has his own political and social beliefs, supporting Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Focus on the Family and Americans United to Preserve Marriage, to name a few organizations.

What sets McClendon apart from most people, however, is the fact that he has the ability to fi-nancially support his favorite organizations with large donations. If he wants to donate large sums of money to organizations that support a certain political agenda, that is his own prerogative.

Certainly, people will disagree with some of his private political activity, but condemning a man and rejecting his generous gift to the university is nothing less than short-sided absurdity.

This is just my opinion of course, but I’m pretty damn impressed that McClendon, and all the pri-vate donors to the university, actually care enough about students to donate their money to support higher education.

After all, nobody held a gun to his head and forced him to donate $5.5 million to the Honors College and $12.5 million to the university.

It is even more impressive when one considers the massive hit McClendon recently took in the stock market.

The recent article in The Daily also quotes Hughes objecting to McClendon’s desire to at-tach certain strings to the money being donated. Obviously Hughes is living in a realm totally sepa-rate from reality, or at the very least, doesn’t pay

much attention to the real world.Some of the $5.5 million has gone to fund the

OU Debate Program and also to establish a new Endowed Chair of Meteorology.

If McClendon has directed the disbursement of these funds, can anyone honestly find fault with this? The man wants to donate money to the university, shouldn’t he also have some say as to where the money is going?

Consider other major projects here on cam-pus: the Devon Energy Corporation committed major funding to help construct a new engineer-ing building.

The Gaylord family donated funds to construct Gaylord Hall, a new building for – you guessed it – Journalism and Mass Communication.

Even more recently, the Zarrow Foundation donated funds for a new building for the School of Social Work.

McClendon wants to endow three additional chairs to establish an institute within the Honors College focused specifically on the American Constitution.

Isn’t it within his right to direct where and how his money will be spent? If McClendon wants to donate money to endow chairs in a particular dis-cipline, I wonder why there is any objection.

I honestly don’t think Devon Energy and the Gaylord family would have made major donations if they could not stipulate where the money would go. Think of it: “Welcome to Devon Energy Hall, home of the history department and with no con-nection to engineering whatsoever!”

You would think the students who signed the petition – many of whom are students in the Honors College and are going to directly and indi-rectly reap the benefits of this donation – would be thankful. Sadly that’s not the case here.

“We disagree with McClendon’s politics, and would just as rather he take his money and leave” is a great message for prospective donors. “Unless you think like us, we don’t want your help!”

I think I can speak for the clear majority of stu-dents here when I say I’m very grateful to all the benefactors of the university, even those I disagree with politically and socially; from those whose names appear on buildings and endowed chairs to those whose anonymous gifts go unrecognized but certainly not unnoticed.

Feel free to disagree with McClendon for his business practices or his politics. Feel free to not support his company, and feel free to disagree with me. However, if condemning a man for being successful in business and a great patron of OU in-stead of celebrating him for his generous contribu-tion is the order of the day, I want no part of it.

To be more succinct, and to borrow words from the eloquent Mr. Hughes, you can take your ab-surd petition, outright bias and self righteous pre-tension and “shove it.”

Joe Hunt is a history and economics senior.

JOEHUNT

An old salty dog once told me, “If you’re a Republican when you’re 20, you’re cold. If you’re a Democrat when you’re 40, you’re stupid.”

I n o t h e r w o r d s , y o u n g e r Americans are swayed by issues of

fairness and older Americans issues of economy.

From estab-lished pundits at mainstream pub-lications to bub-ble-gum chomp-ing airheads on gossip-spewing blogs, many have announced that the GOP has lost

the youth. A New York Times/CBS poll reported the number of peo-ple who identified themselves as Republicans was at a 24-year low (roughly 28 percent). The percent-age of self-identified Republicans under 30 was even scarcer.

The Grand Ol’ Party has become the Grand OLD Party, shaken and stirred as the southern white coun-try club for the un-intellectual and filthy rich, with a splash of fired up evangelicals to keep things

entertaining.The G OP has eloped w ith

big business, big religion, big oil and Billy Bobs south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Meanwhile, the Democrats have elected the consummate 21st century presi-dent. He’s urban, green, uses a BlackBerry, shoots hoops and is making it cool to be an American again.

The flight of young people from the GOP reflects other social trends.

Evangelicals have been central to Republican strategy for years. The evangelicals brought the GOP out of the country club. Now, it seems politically active Christianity is on the decline. According to American Religious Identification Survey, the number of self-identi-fied Christians has fallen 10 points since 1990 to 76 percent.

Newsweek’s April cover story detailed the so-called “End of Christian America.” More than percentages, Newsweek’s assertion is based on culture war losses on such issues as abortion, same-sex marriage and school prayer.

What does this have to do with the youth vote? Sadly, nothing.

Majorities of youth today are pas-sive on abortion, never prayed traditionally in school and have a culturally progressive social net-work – hence the lack of interest in the Republican Party.

Even young evangelicals are disaffected with the GOP. The Washington Times reported in 2007 that only 40 percent of young evangelicals identify with the Republican Party. This is strange but rationale. Young Christian voters are expanding the agenda. Climate stewardship, genocide in Darfur and equal minority rights (beyond race) are being pushed by the new blood.

Democrats have taken advan-tage of this slow-moving elephant.

GOP attempts to update have been half-hearted and unnatural like a stiff parent trying to act “cool” in the presence of their suddenly grown children.

Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele, an African American, has tried to use “hip” language to bridge the gener-ation gap. Frankly, this is an insult to not only hip-hop, but the intel-ligence of young voters.

Yes, we engage in netspeak and

abbreviate everything. Yes, we text, tweet and slip off into our iPod uni-verses. But we recognize a phony. Nothing is more apparent to us than someone who is trying way too hard.

So, in light of all this, should the GOP change its vocabulary and its wardrobe? I do not believe so. What is needed is not the appearance of fake hipness – just an expanded, authentic political tent.

Socially, traditional evangelical issues need not be compromised. However, the new Republicans need to consider that fighting against genocide in Africa is just as noble as fighting against abortion. Plus, there is the bonus of having no domestic opposition.

Youth care passionately about social issues. Convince them that the GOP cares, too, and present a broader consistent rationale for protecting life or caring for the en-vironment and they may survive and convert (or reconvert) those they have lost.

Economically, Republican rhet-oric seems to be catching fire. Tax day Tea Parties showed a renewed interest in fiscal conservatism. However, before Republicans can

advance further, they need to rec-oncile the misleading spending pat-terns of the Bush Administration. They need to own up and be hon-est about past mistakes.

How can we fight federal deficits without taking ownership? Admit and lead the country back again. Forget the blame game – that will only backfire.

Finally, the GOP needs to look the part. A picture of the current leadership could be confused with a picture of the Board of Directors at Augusta National. The party needs a cross-cultural, younger than 50, sophisticated presence.

Watching the current Republican leadership is like watching a “legends” game on NBA All-Star Weekend – interesting, but who would you really choose in a pres-ent day pick-up game: Larry Bird or LeBron James?

If the GOP does not actively expand, it risks, as the New York Times recently noted, “losing a generation.” Such a loss is not only devastating to conservatism, but democracy as a whole.

Matt Felty is a public administration senior.

Struggling GOP needs to regain the youth

OSDS PETITION ABSURDMcClendon controversyturned into big mess

It’s hard to know exactly where to begin with the Oklahoma Students for a Democratic Society debacle.

As our Friday editorial suggested, we commend efforts to initiate dia-logues about generous donations to this university and the strings that are attached to those gifts.

That is, indeed, a fight worth fighting.

We don’t commend, however, the notion that Aubrey McClendon or anyone else should have his family’s name taken off a building because a student group doesn’t agree with his political views.

OU President David Boren and ad-ministrators can put any name they choose on a building or program heavily funded by an individual or company.

If students take issue with that person or company’s affiliations, too bad.

Political affiliations, so long as they aren’t illegal affiliations, have

no bearing on how much or little one can impact the university with dona-tions, chairs and even new political think tanks like the one McClendon will help fund.

The student group claims in a statement to have attempted numer-ous times to contact OU faculty and staff members and inquire about donor details and possible attached strings. If this is true, they should be commended.

The faculty should not have ig-nored the group when it requested answers to some undoubtedly im-portant questions.

Both are to blame.Both should have acted differ-

ently. Faculty should have complied with the request for information from a concerned student group, and the students should have focused more on dialogue than on remov-ing a name from the building. We’re glad they appear to be headed that direction.

DONOR DETAILS MISUNDERSTOODI was puzzled by the recent article about the naming of the Joe C.

and Carole Kerr McClendon Honors College.First, the college is not named for Aubrey McClendon but for his

parents who were both graduates from OU and admirable role mod-els as student leaders.

Joe McClendon arrived at OU with $5 in his pockets and worked his way through college. Carole McClendon was president of Kappa Kappa Gamma and active in many worthwhile organizations.

Second, the university has donors of differing political perspec-tives. Donors are never allowed to select faculty or staff members. All are chosen through an independent process through faculty gov-ernance based on capability and not on political viewpoints.

Finally, the idea for an institute to study the American Constitution did not come from Aubrey McClendon but from the OU administra-tion.

I wrote about the need for more knowledge of our form of govern-ment and the historical and philosophical roots in my book “A Letter to America.” Far too many Americans do not understand the impor-tance of our Bill of Rights and the individual freedoms protected by it. Such a center would have no liberal or conservative bias. At OU we have a clear policy against allowing donors to select faculty or determine our curriculum.

Mr. McClendon has never tried to use his generosity to tell the uni-versity what to do. If any donor attempted to attach improper strings in conditions for a gift it would not be accepted.

Sincerely, David Boren, president

Steven Jones, sports editor

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TRACK AND FIELD

Claye, OU succeed in NormanFreshman excels in jumps,

team sets qualifying marks

at Sooner Invitational

JARROD YOSTThe Oklahoma Daily

Track and field is heading into the latter portion of its schedule, and the participants wearing the OU logo are performing like the meets are becom-ing more important.

Saturday, competing at the Sooner Invitational at its home venue, OU saw several of its athletes move their way up the NCAA and Big 12 leaderboards.

One Sooner who did not disappoint was freshman Will Claye. Claye came in to the event as the nation’s top-ranked triple jumper, and tightened his grasp on the national lead with a jump which would have been the longest in program history, had it not been deemed wind-aided.

Claye was the victim of some un-fortunate weather in the long jump as well, when his original mark was nullified by a high wind reading. The 17-year-old would have had the na-tion’s top number in the long jump if not for the wind reading. Junior Neelon Greenwood finished fourth even after having four regional quali-fying marks discarded for wind.

The top two spots in the Big 12 dis-cus standings now belong to Sooners, after redshirt freshman Luke Bryant and freshman Colin Quirke snagged the top two spots Saturday. Bryant’s throw of 192 feet, one inch landed him a slot at No. 6 nationally, while Quirke’s throw of 186 feet, one inch is the fifth best all-time in OU history.

Junior Buck Sullivan extended his program record with his hammer throw mark of 196 feet, 11 inches.

Junior Mikaela Johansson won the women’s hammer throw while ex-tending her program record with a distance of 189 feet, 11 inches.

In the women’s shot put, junior Amy Backel recorded a regional quali-fying toss of 51 feet, nine inches. The distance ranks third in OU program history, but only was good enough for fourth in the Big 12 rankings and fifth in the tournament.

Freshman Katelyn Penner won the women’s javelin event, with a re-gional-qualifying distance of 152 feet. Penner’s performance was the fifth best in OU program history.

Senior Katherine Johnson tied her own personal record in the women’s high jump, while finishing first in the event. Johnson cleared a regional qualifying mark of five feet, 10 inches, defeating SMU’s Viktoria Leks, the only

other competitor left at that height.Also in the high jump, junior Paul

Gill eclipsed his season best mark of seven feet, 1/4 inches while capturing the event. Gill’s jump ranks him third in the current Big 12 standings.

Freshman Mookie Salaam finished second in the men’s 100-meter dash, but was able to lower his time in the process, recording 10.47 seconds.

Salaam also managed a third place finish in the 200-meter dash, with a time of 20.87, slightly off the pace from his time on April 11.

OU reigned supreme in the wom-en’s 3,000-meter run, with three of its athletes sweeping the top spots.

Sophomore Lauren Watson, freshman Jessica Engel and sophomore Lindsay Pierson took home the first three slots in the competition, respectively.

In a c t i o n e l s e w h e re, j u n i o r Scottesha Miller recorded her season-best time in the 100-meter dash, while competing in the 2009 Penn Relays in Philadelphia, PA.

The 4x400-meter relay team of junior Amanda Mayfield, freshman Tiara Sims, freshman Sherine Wells and senior Leslie Cole also clocked the season’s fastest time, at 3:37.65.

Meanwhile, in Eugene, Ore., four regional-qualifying times were met at the Oregon Relays. Junior Tony Clement, sophomore Scott Cooper, sophomore Rob Sorrell and sopho-more Kelly Waters punched tickets to the 2009 NCAA Midwest Regional.

The regional tournament will be held May 29 and 30, in Norman, at OU’s John Jacobs Field.

OU clinched the Big 12 regular season title this weekend. Read this and more online.OUDAILY.COM

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AMY FROST/THE DAILY

Freshman Will Claye competes in the long jump portion of the Sooner Invitational Saturday in Norman. Claye, who is the top-ranked triple jumper in the country, had multiple would-be record-setting marks thrown out due to high winds.

NFL DRAFT

FIVE FORMER SOONERS SELECTED IN DRAFTFive former OU football players were selected this weekend

in the NFL draft. Here’s a look at the players who had their names called Saturday and Sunday.

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TACKLE PHIL LOADHOLT Loadholt was selected as the 54th

overall pick in the draft during Saturday’s second round by the Minnesota Vikings.

Loadholt is the third OU player taken by the Vikings in the past three years. He’s expected to compete for a starting spot next year, blocking for former Sooner tailback Adrian Peterson.

RECEIVER JUAQUIN IGLESIASThe Chicago Bears selected Iglesias

with the 99th overall pick in Sunday’s third round.

Chicago has also made a habit of drafting Sooners, as they’ve taken 24 Sooners overall and five since head coach Bob Stoops arrived in Norman.

The Bears hope Iglesias can add to what is widely considered a thin receiv-ing corps in Chicago.

SAFETY/LINEBACKER NIC HARRISFormer Sooner safety Harris was

drafted by the Buffalo Bills with the 147th overall pick in the draft. He was selected in the fi fth round Sunday afternoon.

Harris, who, excluding a few games, spent the majority of his time in the secondary at OU, may likely spend time working out at outside linebacker when he arrives in Buffalo.

GUARD DUKE ROBINSONRobinson was also selected in the fi fth

round, going to the Carolina Panthers with the 163rd overall pick.

Robinson, who prior to the 2008 sea-son was considered by many to be a fi rst-rounder in this year’s draft, fell further than some analysts predicted.

With the pick, Robinson becomes the fi rst ever Sooner to be selected by the Panthers. The only team now to never have drafted a player from OU is the Houston Texans, who entered the league in 2002.

RECEIVER MANUEL JOHNSONJohnson was selected by the Dallas

Cowboys in the seventh and fi nal round of the NFL draft, 229th overall.

Johnson became the eighth OU wide receiver to be selected since Stoops arrived in Norman and the seventh since 2005.

The Cowboys were looking for receiver help as they cut their No. 1 receiver Terrell Owens in the offseason. They now have former University of Texas star Roy Williams, and a group of young receivers.— Daily Staff

OKLAHOMA CITY MEMORIAL MARATHONThe ninth-annual Oklahoma City Memorial

Marathon took place Sunday morning and sev-eral winners had ties to OU.

Jordan Kinley, strategic communications graduate student and former Daily sports writer, won the event with a time of 2:27:19.

The female winner was Catherine Odell, a recent OU alumna and former track and fi eld athlete, who was the fi rst woman to cross the line with a time of 3:10:16.

Odell said it wasn’t until after she crossed the fi nish line that she was certain she fi nished fi rst.

“I heard people saying I was the fi rst woman but there was such a cluster of people fi nishing that on a relay or on the half marathon [no one knew I won],” Odell said. “They kept the video camera on another girl the whole race, and then she ended up dropping I think.”— Steven Jones/The Daily

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THE BEST OF THE NORMAN MUSIC FESTIVAL

Trying to cover 95 different bands at one incred-ible festival, let alone pick the best one, is incredibly hard to do. Instead, The Daily chose some of the more memorable performances to capture the best of the fest.

MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED: HERE IS THEREPlaying to a criminally under attended morning

crowd, the band made lemons into lemonade, shim-mying through a powerful set filled with guitar solos and pulsing percussion. With their brand of boxed in chaos, and average age of 19, I am sure we will be hearing much more from them in the future.

BEST ALL-AROUND: MAYOLAThe most energetic set of the entire festival, Mayola

blended the perfect amount of musicianship, show-manship, and local flavor. Bassist Antonio Laster’s crowd interaction made everyone feel like they were part of the show; what more could you ask for at a music festival?

CLASS CLOWN: MAN MANTheir loud, crazy, dysfunctional set left the crowd

on the brink of insanity. Pounding, screeching, smacking, and thumping for a chaos-filled hour, Man Man locked in everyone’s attention like the most bi-zarre court jester there’s ever been.

BEST DRESSED: OF MONTREALOf Montreal’s feathered shoulder pads, smoking

suits, purple velvet, boas, and Coldplay-esque orange suit had the band making fashion statements galore. I have never seen anyone make a tiger mascot head look so chic.

BEST HAIR: THE UGLYSUITWith long flowing locks, ponytails, feather swept

bangs, and something that I can only compare to the mane of Sonic the Hedgehog, the Uglysuit not only blew the crowd away with their gorgeous indie pop ballads, but also with their impeccable hair.

MOST LIKELY TO MAKE YOU SMILE: HUSH HUSH,

COMMOTION Blasting catchy honest power pop throughout the

Sooner Theatre, Hush Hush’s solid set left the crowd grinning like fools, impressed with their old classics and remarkable new tunes.

BEST PERSONALITY: SUGAR AND GOLD Getting the crowd moving and grooving in the late

afternoon, Sugar and Gold was the most pleasant sur-prise at the festival. Their cheeky, fun show was highly entertaining and was the perfect warmup to the chaos that was fixing to ensue. Joshua Boydston is a University College freshman.

The Starlight Mints provide addicting setlist to attract fans new and old

The Starlight Mints contributed their pop-like and rather strange brand of indie rock to the Norman

M u s i c F e s t i v a l Saturday night – and for me – were the highlight of the entire festival.

The concert re-ally started mov-i n g w i t h t h e i r third song “Rhino S t o m p ,” w h i c h – l i k e f e w o t h e r songs I’ve heard – is able to conjure

perfectly the image of its title. For me, I get this image of a

rhino stomping around. Being the Starlight Mints, it was pink rhino tromping around in a candy store. But instead of it being a scary pic-ture, it was a strangely happy one.

The music f rom last night ’s

Starlight Mints’ concert was highly addicting. After you sit through the first two songs, you’re hope-lessly hooked and converted into a Starlight Mints fanboy – or fangirl.

I took two Starlight Mints virgins to the main stage early, in order to get a good spot, telling them noth-ing more than they were like “a can-dy-coated, psychedelic pixies.”

It was fun to turn around and see their stunned faces after being rocked by the Mints waves of sac-charine-laden notes. But after that shock dissipated, they could enjoy the sickeningly sweet music.

Af ter the concer t , I had the “Tra-la-la-la” from “Pumpkin” stuck in my head for hours on end. Combined with dancing puppets from side windows, huge bouncing balls, interpretive dancers weav-ing their way through the crowd, and singer Marian Love Nuñez’s strange use of a traffic cone to sing through and gesticulate with, last night’s concert series was among the weirdest I’ve been to, if not the weirdest – a quality added to by the

concert-goers as much as the music.

T h e n e x t h i g h l i g h t o f t h e concert came with “Eyes of the Night” off the Starlight Mint’s newest album, “Drowaton.”

When played live, it scares lis-teners with its trademark scream – not to mention the scariness it imbued when Allan Vest started singing about “cookie monsters” and “screaming motorcycles.” But fortunately, the happy melody kept the lyrics from being scarier than they could have been, and no one was trampled in a mad-ness to flee the scene.

By this point, my friends were fully converted, which is quite a feat as one is a punk/metal per-son. For this person, I was a little worried that the Mints’ happy candy spell would fail to sucker him in.

The band closed with a few oldies, including “Popsickle,” off their EP of the same name released in 2001, an admittedly strange song of which I’m not a huge fan. But thankfully, they closed with their two of their lead tracks off their first album, “The Dream That Stuff Was Made Of.”

“The Bandit” has to be one of the catchiest songs I’ve ever heard, and I’ve heard a lot of catchy songs in my day. Hearing it live was a real treat. “Submarine #3”was also a nice way to wrap up my favorite act from the Norman Music Festival.

If I were to have one nitpicky complaint it would be that they did not play “Valerie Flames,” my fa-vorite Starlight Mints song. But for what it’s worth, The Starlight Mints played a fun and quirky show, like a rollercoaster ride through a land of gumdrop forests and ickily sweet pink lemonade rivers.

But unlike those things, with the Starlight Mints, I couldn’t get enough.

Kyle West is a professional writing junior.

KYLE WEST

Local ‘Mints’ don’t disappoint fanbase

ELI HULL / THE DAILY

Allen Vest, lead vocalist and guitarist of the Starlight Mints, plays along with keyboardist and guitarist Ryan Lindsey and drummer Andy Nunez during their set Saturday night on the main stage of the Norman Music Festival.

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My feet really hurt right now. I don’t mean to whine, but it’s not just my feet; it’s my shins, too. Now that I think about it, this pain is not lo-cated only to my shins and

my feet – my q u a d s (o r something) are in on the hurt as well. A n d y o u know whose fault i t is? The Norman M u s i c Festival.

Oh, I had a nice time at the festival. I’m pretty sure everyone did (es-pecially if they saw The Non and Tea Leaf Green). I also ate a funnel cake, which might be the best thing I have ever eaten in my life (it’s definitely in the top three). Additionally, I saw a guy and his girlfriend get into a huge fight (they even kicked each other at one point, which effectively answered my question of “Who the hell kicks people these days?”) be-cause the girl apparently had slept with someone named Jeremy C. This was the third-best act I watched all day.

But man, standing on as-phalt for nearly nine hours is, apparently, very bad for the sole. Though this is not re-ally about my feet — not any-more. At this point, my feet have become symbols for all that is wrong with the NMF. But they are also the festival’s savior. They are Christ-like feet, feet with big ideas and grand ambitions, and I hope they will one day be known as “The Feet That Saved The Music.” My feet have had a great vision, and it is clear as

day and bright as the Star of Bethlehem.

To start the Norman Music Festival on its path to per-fection, it needs a change of scenery. This new location should be larger than its cur-rent home, a field, prefer-ably, located somewhere in Norman. This move is inevita-ble, anyway. Two years, tops, and the NMF with have out-grown Main Street like a two-year-old’s Keds. Of course, a bigger location would call for the rental of additional stages, which all cost money. Coincidentally, the solution to this is the next step in the NMF’s path: sell tickets.

This would kick-start a valuable chain reaction. They wouldn’t even have to cost much, these tickets; twenty bucks a pop would prob-ably be adequate. This money would allow the possibility of multiple outdoor stages, and could also help secure slots for bigger-name bands like My Morning Jacket.

Bigger bands mean larger crowds, which mean more vendors. All of this means more money for the NMF. Let the circle be unbroken.

Now, I realize the NMF is a non-profit event. There’s no reason that this needs to change. Simply donate all profits to a charity.

And I guess that’s it, really. My feet did well. There are surely a few small wrinkles that need ironing out,but my feet are on the job. They will undoubtedly devise a plan to fix any potential issues that arise, thinking clearly as they stand on the soft grass of a music-filled field in Norman.

Adam Kohut is a professional writing

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ACROSS 1 Does a

thespian’s job 5 Wear out the

waiting room carpet

9 California ballplayer

14 Witch feature, stereotypically

15 HHH, in Athens

16 “Adam Bede” novelist

17 Slender instrument

18 “This ___ hurt a bit”

19 Winter runners?

20 “Do You Believe in Magic” band

23 One who responds to a dictator?

24 Blunt sword 25 Be decisive 28 Bar denizens 31 Draws out 33 Campground

residue 36 Jude or

James 39 Poet

Teasdale 40 Oscar-

nominated film for Roman Polanski

44 Reckless 45 Land-and-

sea meeting place

46 Start to salivate?

47 Skater Baiul 50 Backtracking

computer command

52 Marshal at

Waterloo 53 Baseball

threesome 56 Okra soup 60 Where one

is forced to make a decision

64 Gambler’s loss, figuratively

66 Brand that used the slogan “That’s Italian!”

67 Start of something small?

68 Cockney’s challenge

69 “___ go bragh!”

70 Cumber-some crafts

71 Steep-walled land formations

72 Nimble- fingered

73 Hatchling’s home

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assembly no-shows?

2 Northwest Passage seeker

3 Treasure cache

4 Oktoberfest souvenirs

5 Benches, not stenches

6 At the highest point of

7 Wobbly craft 8 Bar in the bar 9 Like some

fattened livestock

10 Slugger

Moises 11 Put out of

place, as a shoulder

12 Wade’s opposer

13 UFO pilots, presumably

21 Lariat’s end 22 Alumni

newsletter word

26 Shimon of Israel

27 Pre-Russian-Revolution leaders

29 Mai ___ 30 Confessor’s

revelations 32 Superpower’s

letters 33 Ohio city 34 Grass

inhabitant? 35 Temper

tantrums 37 Highest

degree 38 Second

person in the Bible?

41 Home loan insurer since ’34

42 This may fol-low directions

43 Log-splitting aid

48 Some bridge positions

49 Diving bird of cold waters

51 Start of a James Coburn film title

54 Out of gas 55 Type of drum 57 Wavy-

patterned cloth

58 Safe places? 59 Keats or

Milton, notably

61 Killer whale 62 “At last, the

weekend!” 63 Easter egg

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

The College of Engineering will host the Spud Gun Competition at 3:30 p.m. in Lloyd Noble Center’s south parking lot.

TUESDAY

PROFESSIONAL WRITING STUDENT ASSOCIATION

The Professional Writing Student Association will hold a meeting at 10 a.m. in Copeland Hall.

CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUS

Christians on Campus will host a Bible study at noon in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

OU HILLEL AND SOONERS FOR PEACE IN PALESTINE

OU Hillel and Sooners for Peace in Palestine will host a panel discussion at 4:30 p.m. in the union.

CAMPUS ACTIVITIES COUNCIL

Campus Activities Council will host a showing of “The Band’s Visit” at 8 p.m. in the union.

Names are compiled from the Norman Police Department and OUPD. The reports serve as a record of arrests and citations, not convictions. Those listed are innocent until proven guilty.

AGGRAVATED DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCECade Siler Kauffman, 22, 1600 W. Lindsey St., Saturday

DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCEDarren Cole Bishop, 28, West Main Street, Wednesday, also driving with a suspended license

Bret Shelby Chapman, 19, Durham Place, Thursday, also minor in pos-session of alcohol and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia

Jacob Elijah Self, 27, Clear Bay Avenue, Thursday

Jeffery Scott Ellison, 25, 1300 E. Lindsey St., Saturday

Ladonna K. Impson, 36, North Porter Avenue, Friday

Jesse Allan Rodriguez, 25, South Porter Avenue, Friday, also pos-session of a controlled dangerous substance and county warrant

COUNTY WARRANTRussell Romer Chandler, 33, 1200 Clearwater Drive, Thursday

Katie Anne Crane, 19, East Cedar Lane Road, Thursday

Quincy Toliver Taylor, 38, 201 W. Gray St., Saturday

Fegan Gillie, 53, East Robinson Street, Friday

MUNICIPAL WARRANTAndario Dewayne Cheadle, 33, 201 W. Gray St., Thursday

Elizabeth Ann Hedrick, 42, 201 W. Gray St., Thursday

Jimi Levern Holt, 33, 201 W. Gray St., Thursday

Daniel Andrew Young, 23, 201 W. Gray St., Thursday

Gregory Alan Curry, 47, 3301 Santa Rosa Court, Saturday

Franklin Tabor McDonald, 18, 4002 Ridgeline Drive, Saturday

Maureen Ann Hall, 44, 814 E. Symmes St., Thursday, also escape after lawful arrest and assault and battery

TRESPASSINGRichard Miles Crawford, 22, 3200 S. Berry Road, Thursday

Colin Stuart Williams, 21, 3200 S. Berry Road, Thursday

POSSESSION OF ALCOHOLAdam Kimrey, 19, Durham Place, Thursday

Justin Warren McConnell, 19, 1500 Creekside Drive, Thursday

DISTURBING THE PEACEHoward Eugene Parris, 57, 3101 Troon St., Thursday, also interfer-ence with offi cial process

ASSAULT AND BATTERYRyan Nelson Buck, 21, 114 W. Main St., Friday

POSSESSION OF MARIJUANADyrreco Andrew Beavers, 21, 1300 Crown Point Ave., Thursday

Russell Terrill Brown, 19, 1121 Biloxi Drive, Thursday, also pos-session of a controlled danger-ous substance and burglary

PUBLIC INTOXICATIONMaria Kathryn Fairchild, 47, 201 W. Daws St., Friday, also interfer-ence with offi cial process

Ty Landan Morgan, 41, 3100 W. Rock Creek Road, Friday, also interference with offi cial pro-cess and assault and battery

Dana Leigh Alice Williams, 40, East Alameda Street, Thursday

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Usually, you’re good about handling money, but a need for personal gratifi cation may overwhelm you. Unfortunately, you will have to do without something you want.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- If you resent doing a favor for another, it might simply be better to just say so. The probability is that you wouldn’t do a good job anyway because you’re heart isn’t in it.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- It won’t do any good to try to impose your opinions or beliefs on companions. If they can’t see things your way, coercion isn’t going to change their minds -- but it could make them mad.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- For someone whose claim to fame is self-reliance, uncharacteristi-cally, you could become quite demanding and attempt to force another to do your bidding. It’ll ruin your reputation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Preparation will become extremely important when attempting to do something that requires minute detailing. If you are impatient and unprepared, your project will fall apart.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Errors must be promptly corrected, or you will compound your problems. Instead of ra-tionalizing and trying to makes alibis for your mistakes, rectify them as soon as possible.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- It’s OK to take a little downtime with a friend if it doesn’t interfere with your obligations, but don’t spend your money in the process. This is carrying things too far.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Be extremely careful about taking advice from someone who has the talent to convince others that the sky is falling. There are strong indica-tions that you’re apt to listen to this terrible advice.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- When taking on a job that requires new and unfamiliar tools, school yourself carefully before beginning. Better yet, call in an expert to do it for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Adopting a possessive attitude will become immediately notice-able to everyone, and they’re not likely to fi nd it appealing or attractive. If you notice others becoming hostile, you’ll know why.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Normally, you’re an extremely adaptable person, but there’s a good chance the changes you need to make could be for all the wrong reasons. Use your smarts with regard to necessary alterations.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- You usually try to be consider-ate, diplomatic and fair, yet for reasons known only to you, these splendid virtues could be totally absent. Get a hold of yourself, and get back in character.

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NORMAN MUSIC FEST » The second annual music extravaganza attracted nearly 25,000 spectators Saturday. Sponsored by the Norman Arts Council, the festival featured 95 performers on 12 different stages. For more photos, check out OUDaily.com.

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Norman Music Festival volunteer Jack Burdett paints a flower on two-year-old Claudia Cotton's face Saturday afternoon. This year’s festival featured a “Little Rockers” stage and hosted music and activities for children.

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The Absolute's lead singer Phil Ross and bassist Winthrop Ellsworth (above) perform on the Main Stage at the Norman Music Festival Saturday afternoon. This is the first out-of-state show the Los Angeles-based band has performed.

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Josh Onstott of Other Lives, sings back-up vocals at the Norman Music Festival on the Main Stage Saturday on Main Street. Stillwater native Other Lives performed new music from their recently released self-titled debut album.

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Jamie Husband (right), bassist for of Montreal, plays during the band's featured performance on the Main Stage of the Norman Music Festival Saturday. The festival roped in double the attendance of last year.