Wednesday, January 30, 2013

CEDAR FLOYDCampus Reporter

Cit izens of C leveland County dropped a record amount of change into the Salvation Army’s red kettles during the 2012 Christmas season, ac-cording to a press release.

Bell-ringers and volunteers col-lected $164,967 between Nov. 23 and Dec. 24 in Cleveland County alone, about $50,000 more than the pro-jected collection goal for 2012 and $10,000 more than was collected for

the 2011 Christmas season. Oklahoma as a whole collected $651,717, almost $100,000 more than the goal and about $5,500 dollars more than last year, according to a press release.

The increase in funds largely was because of an increase in volunteers and kettle locations, said Richard White, executive director of the Salvation Army in Oklahoma.

A record 6,400 Oklahomans donat-ed 17,477 hours of their time to the Salvation Army this Christmas season. Almost three times as many people volunteered for almost twice as many hours as in 2011, according to a press release.

The numbers were a bit unexpected,

White said, because collection for the season was limited to 38 days. Locations like Wal-Mart and Hobby Lobby, which tend to generate the greatest donations, have a policy that the bell-ringers only can solicit do-nations after Thanksgiving. In the past, the stores in Norman and the surrounding areas have been willing to bend the rules and let collections start early, but for the 2012 season, the Salvation Army’s national directors made an agreement that laid down the law: no early ringing, White said.

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As a little girl passing hours sitting within the walls of a telecommuni-cations company in Iran, her passion was ignited through listening to the clicking machines com-municate with one an-other and wondering how they worked.

Those were the week-ends Maryam Sabeghi, mechanical engineering senior, recalls of her child-hood. When she thinks of accompanying her father to work, she can’t help but smile. It was those week-ends when she developed a fascination with how things worked.

“ I s t a r t e d t h i n k i n g about those devices — how they work and how they communicate with each other, as a system. From there, I started to

[look at] the wires, and my d a d w ou l d b r i ng h o m e wires, colorful wires. Those were my tools,” she said. “I really liked to work with them and play with them. But I always liked to know how different machines worked, and all the gears al-ways fascinated me.”

From her early days in Iran, the array of rainbow colored wires was among t h e m a n y t h i n g s t h a t sparked her fascination with engineering. To help spark that curiosity in other people, Sabeghi is planning to one day teach mechan-ical engineering, which is supplemented through her participating and conduct-ing various research proj-ects, both at OU and across the country, she said.

For Sabeghi, her first en-counter with research came when an industr y do or closed on her, forcing her to find other options, she said.

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NADIA J. ENCHASSI assistant Campus editor

The campus was alive yesterday with the sight of slick raincoats, sway-ing umbrellas and squeaky rain boots as a barrage of warm temperatures and a cold front passed through the state, causing unseasonably stormy weather, including dark clouds, a downpour of rain and a tornado warning.

Steven Cavallo, assistant professor in the School of Meteorology , said this type of weather isn’t highly abnormal in Oklahoma – except when it hap-pens this early in the year.

“Severe weather usually gets going here in March or even April and peaks in May,” Cavallo said. “This is season-ally uncommon for January.”

Cavallo said the cold temperatures following the warm temperatures

are causing the random rain and humidity.

The weather was caused by a strong cold front, which corresponds with low air pressure. That combining with the warmer moisture in the air from the Gulf of Mexico is causing this warm, moist air and the strange weather, Cavallo said.

Matthew Day, meteorologist at the National Weather Center , said yester-day’s high of 69 degrees fell only a few degrees short of reaching last year’s record high of 76 degrees around this time.

The moisture and warm air won’t stick around for long though. The weather is expected to be dryer and cooler within the next week, Day said.

“It is unusually warm right now,” Day said. “But, I’d tell students to keep their jackets close, because tempera-tures may drop to as low as 20 degrees soon.”

This is a fast moving system that is expected to clear out in a couple of days, heading East towards Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi, Cavallo said.

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Brandon Kitchens, University College freshman, rings a bell beside a salvation army kettle Nov. 28, 2011 outside Dale hall.

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the 2011 Christmas season. Oklahoma as a whole collected $651,717, almost $100,000 more than the goal and about $5,500 dollars more than last

White said, because collection for the season was limited to 38 days. Locations like Wal-Mart and Hobby Lobby, which tend to generate the

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Maryam sabeghi, engineering graduate student, studies the dynamics of solidification in aluminum nano particles at the National Institute for standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md., where she worked before attending graduate school at OU.

one of [the internships I ap-plied for], and I could not get in,” recalled Sabeghi.

Discouraged, Sabeghi consulted her now-mentor Farrokh Mistree, director of the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Mistree suggested that in-stead of looking for indus-trial internships, she should try research, she said.

So she did. H e r f i r s t e x p e r i e n c e

w a s i n t h e O U S y s t e m Realization Laboratory, a computation lab nestled on the second floor of Carson Engineering Center, run by Farrokh Mistree and his wife Janet Allen, engineer-ing professor.

Sabeghi began her re-search dismantling a device essential to most people: a cellphone, she said.

Through opening up the phone, or reverse engineer-ing it, she was able to learn about the parts, estimate their costs, understand the components of the design and how they work and fig-ure out if the material could be recycled, said Sabeghi. It was during her time in the lab that Sabeghi was adopt-ed by her mentors Mistree and Allen into their aca-demic family, she said.

“In our laboratory, we take people and we say that we will adopt them as our academic child, and ask whether they would be will-ing to be adopted, and adopt us as their academic par-ents,” Mistree said. “That’s a very important connection.”

Th i s a ca d e m i c a d o p -tion soon became a cru-cial part of the decisions Sa b e g h i w o u l d hav e t o m a k e c o n c e r n i n g h e r

research. She had to decide between three summer re-search programs, one at Harvard, the other at the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network and the third at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, she said.

Ta k i n g h e r academic par-e n t s’ a d v i c e , Sabeghi chose the undergrad-uate research f e l l o w s h i p a t t h e N a t i o n a l I n s t i t u t e o f Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, M d . S h e w a s one of only 170 students cho-sen nationwide, Sabeghi said in her personal report.

Later, she was chosen as one of 16 students to go on an entrepreneurship trip as part of the college of engi-neering to Austin, Texas, to

visit engineering companies like Dell, IBM and National Instruments, she said.

Mistre e b el ie ves that Sabeghi’s research experi-ence broadened her under-standing of the distinctions between research and de-velopment, he said.

“Through her [ re s e a rc h e x-periences] she recognizes that r e s e a r c h i n -volves the cre-ation of knowl-edge, it is not the application of knowledge. The application of knowledge is development,” Mistree said.

Sabeghi plans to use her re-

search experience to impact future students when she’s a professor, she said. The yearning to teach has been a part of Sabeghi’s life since she was a teenager.

As early as middle school,

a friend’s parents asked her to tutor a fellow student in math, and when she went to Oklahoma City Community College before coming to OU, she was tutoring stu-dents and was asked by one of her professors to join the math department as a sup-plementary instructor, she said.

All of her experience in teaching showed her she loved it, said Sabeghi.

“I think that any other job that I could [be] in, for example, industry — I will do one thing and the value is just there. But, I look at being a professor as creating and sharing my knowledge. I am helping hundreds and hundreds of students to go into society and be suc-cessful and create value,” Sabeghi said.

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a day after thunder-storms brought a tornado watch to norman, ou will test its ability to warn students of potential dangers on campus.

ou will conduct a full test of its emergency communication systems on the norman campus today, including the new outdoor speaker system.

the new system will broadcast a mes-sage across the entire campus. this initial test will allow for tuning and calibration of the speak-ers, so in the case of an emergency, all students, faculty and staff will hear and understand the broadcast, according to a press release.

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$30,000 short of last year’s collections. Instead, the Salvation Army ended up breaking the all-time record by focusing on recruitment and increasing the amount of time ringers were at their posts, White said.

“We went out earlier and stayed out later,” White said.

D onation totals w ere nudged higher by contribu-tions collected in campus kettles, manned by 11 so-rorities and fraternities who collected a total of $2,900, according to a press release.

Beta Theta Pi was the Campus Champ fraterni-ty for the season, raising $1,050. The Salvation Army presented the fraternity with an award on Jan. 24, according to a press release.

“Really good bell ringers

make the difference,” White said.

Aaron Murray, petroleum engineering freshman and member of Beta Theta Pi, and his fraternity brothers found a way to spread the enthusiasm of the giving season.

“O n e w a y t o m a k e i t more fun was to sing as we were ringing,” Murray said. “Usually when we sang, people were more enthu-siastic to give. Sometimes, people would come up and sing with us; some would come and say, ‘Thank you.’ Some people, even though they are college students, would drop quite a bit of money.”

The money raised helped provide local families with food, Angel Tree Program toys and clothing during the Christmas season. The remaining funds also will

continue to contribute to the homeless shelter in Norman, the food pantry, youth programs, outreach ministries and emergen-cy needs, according to the press release.

White said he also hopes the Salvation Army some-day may be able to open a Boys and Girls Club in Norman.

“Many of [the Salvation Army’s] values align with our fraternal values. We do this every year; it’s one of our traditions,” Zach Lanier, B e t a T h e t a P i C h a p t e r President and letters and political science senior, said. “It’s about commit-ment to community and giving back to the people.”

Cedar Floyd Campus Reporter

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ou’s norman campus has become a certified Healthy campus, the highest level of certification available.

the campus was given the certification as part of the shape your Future campaign, according to a press release. the campaign, coordinated by the oklahoma turning point council, formed in 1997 to make the public healthier, according to the press release.

the council awarded this certification because of the new healthy initiatives pushed by the university, like Healthy sooners. this program reaches all parts of cam-pus, from students to faculty members, according to the press release.

the Healthy sooners initiative includes:• A wellness incentive program called “Well onTarget,”

offering resources to all members “no matter what their health or wellness level,” according to the press release.

• A weight-loss program open to all members of the OU community. it shows participants how to eat a full plate of food and still lose weight

• Use of the Huston Huffman Fitness Center and the murray case sells swim complex for employees for $10 a month

• Discounted use of selected fitness centers for ou Blue cross members who enroll in the Bluecross Blueshield Fitness program

• Departmental Coed Fun-For-All Basketball games at the Huston Huffman Fitness center

• Weight Watchers at Work“this is an honor and a testament to all the hard work

done to improve campus health and wellness here at ou,” said ou press secretary michael nash.

ou and the other recipients will be honored on Feb. 28 at the cox convention center in oklahoma city.

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a student votes at the poll table Monday on the south Oval. anti-abortion activists set up visuals of fetuses to support their position.

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — An anti-abortion group has filed a federal lawsuit against Oklahoma State University after officials said the group couldn't distribute leaf-lets with graphic images

on campus.Cowboys for Life filed the

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OSU's facilities use policy allows university officials to limit expressive demonstra-tions to avoid disruption, to prevent scheduling two events in the same place at once or to protect the pub-lic order.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Aubrey McClendon, t h e b r a s h a n d e m b a t t l e d C E O o f Chesapeake Energy Corp., will leave the company he founded 24 years ago amid philosophical differences with the compa-ny's new board of directors.

The company announced Tuesday that McClendon will step down April 1 and will serve as CEO until a successor is

named. McClendon will depart even though Chesapeake says a review of his business dealings has not revealed improper conduct.

Chesapeake Chairman Archie Dunham said in a statement the company needs a new leader to help develop the oil and gas assets it has amassed under McClendon.

Shares of the nation's second-largest nat-ural gas producer rose more than 10 percent in after-hours trading. They dropped sharply last year as natural gas prices dropped to 10-year lows and some of McClendon's business dealings called Chesapeake's corporate gov-ernance into question.

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OPINIONA4 • Wednesday, January 30, 2013

In response to in-creasing incidences of mass violence

within the U.S. during recent years, President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious gun re-form policy proposal two weeks ago. President Obama argues it will help address “our first task as a society: keeping our children safe.”

The day after, surging young hip hop artist Chief Keef (Keith Cozart) was sentenced to two months at the Illinois Youth Center in St. Charles.

Cozart received the sentence for violating the parole he received after pointing a gun at a police officer in President Obama’s hometown of Chicago.

A few months after the initial incident, Cozart was found in violation of parole during an interview with Pitchfork Media which took place at a gun range and resulted in the artist being filmed possessing a rifle - the captured pictures were used as evidence in his conviction.

President Obama’s policy announcement had nothing to do with the 17-year-old musician’s gun related trou-bles, but the Chicago youth’s story represents another side of protecting youth from weapons and shows a dan-gerous lack of cultural understanding between the ma-jority of America and inner cities.

Let me preface by acknowledging that Cozart de-serves punishment for his probation violation and is old enough to understand that agreeing to visit a gun range under his restrictions was foolish.

Still, gun violence in cities such as Chicago is not a trivial matter, and Pitchfork’s handling of the subject dis-plays a thorough ignorance of the matter.

Taking a kid from Chicago, a city that saw 506 murders in 2012, to a gun range for an “edgy” interview opportu-nity is a moral misstep, but Pitchfork likely didn’t recog-nize this.

The dangerous element is that several journalists working for an organization based in Chicago itself were so separated from the reality of their interviewee that their interaction landed him jail time.

Unknowingly, Pitchfork was perpetuating the worst parts of “hood” culture and indulging in stereotypes communities have fought for decades.

Stronger regulation of firearm sales and possession is an excellent goal. But just as journalists overlooked the significance of their gun range visit with Cozart, policy makers have failed to pay mind to the most dangerous places within our country while addressing the issue of gun violence.

Children losing their lives to bullets is one of the most tragic and devastating events a country could ever go through. Gun control policies have also failed minors on the other side of the trigger, and tragically, all we think to do is take them to a target range and bring our best camera.

Storm Dowd-Lukesh is an economics freshman.

The civil war in Syria is getting more violent by the hour. As rebels gain more support, the government responds with severe crackdowns. Syria is the next global hot zone — a country that is on the brink of dramatic change. Here are the key events from the past few days and how they impact the future of the country:

Casualties: Dozens of people were bound and shot in the back of the head on Tuesday. In pictures presented by opponents of President Bashar al-As-sad , bodies are seen lined up in a drainage ditch with blindfolds and bound hands . Large-scale ex-ecutions will most likely become more common as al-Assad attempts to tighten his grip on rebels.

U.S. response: President Barack Obama re-leased a video response to the killings promising increased humanitarian aid to Syria . Obama stops short of promising military aid . As the violence grows in Syria, Obama will be under increased pressure to make a firm decision about direct mili-tary aid for the Syrian rebels.

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In his most recent inaugural address, President Obama

articulated an ambitious — though vague — liber-al agenda, advocating an end to “perpetual war,” immigration reform, and affordable healthcare for all citizens.

However, little in Obama’s presidential re-cord matches the image he portrays.

Although he ran in both elections as strongly liberal and committed to broad changes in government, he has re-peatedly shown himself in practice to be at most moderate and often conservative.

One of the president’s most glaring deviations from his titular liberalism is his military policy.

While he claims to advocate peace and the reduction of defense spending, his recently proposed Pentagon spend-ing plan would result in a $36 billion increase in the mili-tary budget by 2017

The wartime ethical record of the Obama administra-tion leaves him little ground to criticize his conservative predecessors. Although the then-Senator decried the lack of due process at Guantanamo Bay during his first cam-paign, he has failed repeatedly to meet his self-imposed deadlines for closing it.

Worst of all is the president’s policy on drone strikes. Although he claims that targets of drone strikes must meet “very tight and very strict standards,” and a leading White House counterterrorism adviser described civilian deaths from drone strikes as “extremely rare,” a report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism indicates 474-881 of

drone strike casualties between 2004 and 2012 have been civilians.

If the president values due process and human rights, he should avoid killing civilians without trial.

The President has repeatedly painted himself as a friend to immigrants and an advocate for immigration reform, but has actually deported 11,922 more people per month than President Bush, in fact more than any other president in history.

One of President Obama’s most touted liberal legisla-tive victories is the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act . Many see the passage of this act as the fulfillment of Obama’s promise to revamp the American health system.

But the act is a far cry from the single-payer health care plan that he advocated when he was running in 2008.

Rather than shifting the management of health care and health insurance to the government, the act requires citi-zens to purchase health insurance from private providers.

While the act does contain some new constraints on in-surance companies, it is by no stretch of the imagination a liberal triumph, and will likely be of more benefit to insur-ance companies than to consumers.

None of this is to say Obama is a particularly bad pres-ident. All political figures have to make compromises, and few can live up to all or even most of their campaign promises.

Questions of public policy are never black and white, and what some view as mistakes others will herald as progress. Whether you consider him a good leader de-pends on your political views. But he is by no means the liberal he claims to be.

Hunter Ash is a math and physics sophomore.

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A little over two years ago, millions of Egyptians took to the streets in public squares not just in

Cairo , but across the country, protesting for “bread, freedom, and social justice.” This beginning to the Egyptian revolution was an action for human dignity, and this remains the target of Egyptian revolu-tionaries to this day. While elections have taken place with minimal fraud and a new constitution has been enacted, the inter-action between the citizenry and their “representatives” remains flawed. The relationship between the people and their government is hardly democratic.

Two years on, and revolutionaries see their sacrifices and deaths as being in vain. Hosni Mubarak is gone, but this was never about him as an in-dividual. The Egyptian revolution is not merely a political statement; at its heart is the genuine desire by Egyptians to be treated as humans. The events of the past few days have made it clear that this desire remains, for now, a dream.

President Mohammed Morsi has again implemented the hated emergency laws in several cities. These laws were used for decades under the previous regime to give security forces virtually unlimited power. It seems clear these forces will again have this green light.

Many Egyptians see the current government as a mere replacement of the old regime, giving only lip service to the sizable opposition. Demonstrators are declared

“thugs” and “criminals” unless they support the president. The Muslim Brotherhood or-ganization appears to many to be working for the advancement of its interests at the expense of the interests of Egypt overall.

For these reasons, protests rage and revo-lutionaries chant, “the people want the fall of the regime.” The faces have changed, but the corruption, oppression and economic marginalization remains. The Egyptian peo-ple are openly disrespected and degraded by their own leaders. Opposition leads to claims of lacking true faith in God.

Egypt’s current leadership had nothing to do with the initial uprising that began back on Jan. 25, 2011 . Their early stance against

the revolution foreshadowed their continued resistance to the true goals of revolutionaries. This resistance is perhaps the biggest threat to the Egyptian people accomplishing the dream they have pondered for so long.

But resistance is also the only real hope for the people. As long as they resist the continued corruption, oppres-sion, and censorship of thought, their dream cannot die. And that dream is a human one. The rights we Americans sometimes take for granted are indeed inalienable. After all, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is not so far from “bread, freedom and economic justice.”

The revolution continues.

Chase Smithburg is a political science and Arabic senior.

IN DEPTHEgyptian military governmentEgypt’s army chief said Tuesday the country will collapse if protests and marches against the military government continue, according to a report from USA Today.

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The No. 21 OU women’s basketball team looks to re-bound from a disappointing loss against the No. 1 Baylor Bears when the TCU Horned Frogs come to town 7 p.m. Wednesday at Lloyd Noble Center.

The Sooners are 5-2 in conference play and are hoping to stay consistent as they enter the final stretch of conference games, start-ing with a matchup against a struggling TCU team that is 0-7 in the Big 12.

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PLAYER PROFILEaaryn ellenbergYear: Junior

Position: Guard

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sophomore guard sharane Campbell protects the ball as she drives to the basket during oU’s 69-56 win against texas on Jan. 19 at lloyd noble Center. Campbell won the 2012 big 12 sixth man award.

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her down.She’s currently second

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while assuming more of a leadership role on the team.

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half and shooting only 35 percent from the field.

“ Ka n s a s i s ve r y , ve r y good,” coach Lon Kruger said. “And we have to play much better than we did [Saturday] to compete with them.”

Even though Kruger may not have been happy with the outcome of the game, the team still is looking at it as a learning experience and attempting to grow from it.

“A loss will always hurt a little bit, but we were able to hang in there and play pretty good basketball,” ju-nior forward Amath M’Baye said. “It gave us a little bit of

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“Isaiah is a good player,” M’Baye said. “I’m looking

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my job.”M’Baye and his frontcourt

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Withey dominated the Sooners on both ends of the court, finishing with 13 points, nine rebounds, four blocks and three steals.

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