Wednesday, September 7, 2011

UNY CHANCampus Reporter

Oklahoma wildfires have damaged more than 20,000 acres of land, burned homes and destroyed a church.

This summer, there has been 567 fires across 18 main areas in Oklahoma’s 77 counties. The fires dam-aged 20,685 acres of land. Last week, one of the biggest fires in northeast Oklahoma City destroyed more than 25 homes and burned down a church, said Hannah Farley, Oklahoma Forestry Services spokeswoman.

Oklahoma City fire chief Marc Woodard said the

extreme heat, which caused a record drought, made it possible for fires to start from events as simple as sparks from a lawn mower.

“It seems like it gets worse every year,” Woodard said.

Despite the cooler weather, Oklahoma’s government has a burn ban in effect for 63 of the 77 counties, according to the Forestry Service .

Cleveland County is under a governor-declared burn ban, which limits the kind of fires residents can legally start by prohibiting campfires, trash burns and other ac-tivities that could potentially start a wildfire.

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SPORTSSooners spike Razorbacks, 3-1After a slow start, the volleyball team ends with a win Tuesday. (Page B3)

LIFE & ARTSSix tips to make weight loss easyShed summer pounds by learning what makes your body tick. (Page B5)

MULTIMEDIAThe man behind the 50-yard strutJunior Zack Hedrick as the Pride’s drum major. (OUDaily.com)

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OU-TEXAS

Ticket sales slower than usual

ANGELA TOCampus Reporter

It was 7:10 a.m., and po-litical science senior David Tidwell was struggling to buy his OU-Texas ticket after

the tickets went on sale at 7 a.m. Tuesday

Luckily for Tidwell, slow-er ticket sales made it pos-sible for him to buy the tick-et, even after experiencing technical difficulties.

Tidwell said he woke up at 6:45 a.m. to prepare to buy the tickets, but could not buy tickets as quickly as he had

hoped after sales went live. Tidwell called the OU

Athletics Ticket Office to see if they could help with the problem, but the ticket office couldn’t find any problems with the website and told Tidwell his Internet may be causing the problem, likely because he was living in stu-dent residential housing.

Even though the Internet-purchase option was not working for Tidwell, the ticket office would not allow him to purchase tickets over the phone.

Many OU student foot-ball fans like Tidwell woke up Tuesday morning to get their hands on some of the 5,400 designated OU student

tickets for the OU-Texas game, also known as the Red River Rivalry. Tickets be-came available at 7 a.m. for online purchasers who hold season tickets, and the ticket office opened its doors at 10 a.m. for students not wish-ing to purchase their tickets

OU’s No.1 ranking does not hurt, help purchases

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Oklahoma City sculptor David Phelps constructed the Pastoral Dreamer, a two-piece sleeping man. This statue travels around campus, currently calling its home the lawn between the Fine Arts and the Performance Arts buildings on the North Oval.

Statue kicks back at new home

VICTORIA GARTENCampus Reporter

The third time’s a charm for a 25,000-pound campus landmark that has finally found its resting place.

The Pastoral Dreamer, a two-piece bronze statue of a man lying leisurely in blue jeans, jacket and ball cap was pur-chased with a $12.2 million grant used to renovate and restore Holmberg Hall in 2003.

The statue was placed in front of the vis-itor center until renovations to Holmberg Hall were completed. However, after a stint in front of Holmberg Hall, construc-tion on the nearby Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art forced the statue to be moved back

to the visitor center, housed in Jacobson Hall.

After its second relocation, the statue became known to many on campus as the “moving statue.”

“It’s not a moving statue; it’s a statue that belongs in one place its just two different construction projects caused it to move to Jacobson Hall, said Robyn Tower, director of development.

Moving the statue requires a fork lift and a flatbed truck, said Michael Nash, OU press secretary.

Although the statue appears to be below ground, when installed it sits above ground in two separate pieces that must be lined up with one another.

The creator of the Pastoral Dreamer and OU alumnus David Phelps could not name the various places the Dreamer had been, but he said the statue is one of

his favorites because it’s personable and approachable.

“It’s a large-scale piece, but I think peo-ple still feel connected to it because it’s not towering over them,” Phelps said. “Even though it still has the impact of a large scale, it doesn’t have that kind of intimidation.”

President David Boren pursued the statue after he saw a smaller version of the Pastoral Dreamer at an exhibit in Santa Fe, N.M., Phelps said.

“I wanted people to identify with that kind of feeling of being at ease and being able to relax and feel at peace with yourself and the world,” Phelps said.

Phelps was asked to create a much larg-er version of his original piece for the uni-versity, and after six casts Phelps sculpted the Pastoral Dreamer we see today at its home between Holmberg Hall and the Fred Jones Art Center.

WEATHER

Heat sets state marks

KEDRIC KITCHENSStaff Reporter

Oklahoma is now re-treating from triple-digit temperatures, this sum-mer was a scorcher for the history books.

The Oklahoma sum-mer spans from June 1 to Aug. 31 and posted re-cord high temperatures in 2011.

The average tempera-ture for the Oklahoma City area was 87.5 de-grees. This comes in at

Professor receives $1.5M grant

RESEARCH

KATHLEEN EVANSSenior Campus Reporter

An OU Health Sciences Center researcher and professor is the recipi-ent of a national grant to study the specific causes of prostate cancer.

The National Institute o f H e a l t h a w a r d e d a $1.5 million grant to Ralf Janknecht to study pros-tate cancer over the next five years, according to a press release. Thousands of researchers apply for research project grants from the institute, but about 20 percent receive one, according to the 2010 NIH Data Book.

“There is a dire need to explore the molecular mechanisms involved in prostate tumor genesis if we are to ultimately im-prove detecting, prevent-ing, confining and curing this disease,” Janknecht said in a press release.

87.5 degrees was average for OKC area this summer

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SEE GRANT PAGE A2

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A wildfire burns Monday near Smithville, Texas. Blazes have spread across Oklahoma and Texas, aided by winds from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee. (Page A3)

Money awarded to study causes of prostate cancer

The Pastoral Dreamer has been rotating since 2003

Janknecht’s lab studies two specific proteins, ETV1 and JMJD family proteins, to better understand the role they have in triggering the formation of tumors, he said.

ET V1 is often over-ex-pressed in prostate cancer and may be related to its formation, he said.

Janknecht’s lab has iden-tified possible targets of the protein. ETV1 is shown to work with JMJD2A proteins to form tumors. His lab will study how these two pro-teins interact to form pros-tate tumors, he said. The goal is to identify a target they could block with drugs to prevent tumors.

“[OU] is extremely proud to have Dr. Janknecht as a key member of the research

team at the Stephenson Cancer Center,” President David Boren said in the press release. “This well-deserved grant is further recognition of the rapidly increasing stature of the OU Health Sciences Center and Oklahoma’s Cancer Center.”

Janknecht has studied tumor formation in prostate cancer for the last 10 years, he said.

Work for this specif ic project and grant began last year after a fundraiser dedi-cated to cancer research, a c c o rd i n g t o t h e p re s s

release.“We very much appreciate

the efforts of Gene Rainbolt and other Oklahomans, whose generosity has al-lowed the Cancer Center to support new and innova-tive cancer research proj-ects like this one,” Center Director Dr. Robert Mannel said in the press release.

This year, the American Cancer Society estimates that more than 240,000 men will be diagnosed with pros-tate cancer and 33,000 will die, according to its 2011 Cancer Facts and Figures guide.

online.The tickets were sold on a

first-come, first-serve basis, said Kenny Mossman, athlet-ic department spokesman.

Tickets sold slower this year than in 2009, when the ticket office sold out of tickets in about 30 minutes. In 2008, tickets were on sale for about two and a half hours before selling out.

Most of this year’s tickets were sold online, Mossman said. When the ticket offices opened for walk-up sales options, Mossman said he didn’t see anyone ready to purchase tickets.

By 10:30 a.m., after both

options were available to students, about 4,000 of the 5,400 tickets had been sold.

Tidwell was one of the 4,000 who were able to buy a ticket during that time. He said he quickly switched to using his cell phone’s 3G network, hoping for better results.

“I was having all these is-sues. I don’t know if it was the Internet or the website or if it was my Internet in my apartment,” Tidwell said.

“I messed around with that for about 10 minutes, then I tried to use my phone, so I turned the Wi-Fi off on my phone and just used the 3G network, and then I was able to buy it.”

Some students didn’t have any problems buying tickets.

Aviation management senior Andres Charry had marked his calendar a week in advance to ensure his spot at the big rivalry game.

“I woke up at 6:50 a.m.

and I made sure my com-puter was connected to the network with the Ethernet connection,” Charry said. “I didn’t rely on the Wi-Fi and pretty much logged onto SoonerSports.com and went through all the log-in stuff, and stayed there for five min-utes constantly refreshing till I got to the 7 o’clock mark.

“I was pretty sure I got the first ticket available.”

Charry said he actually knew a few people who were already selling their ticket because they cannot go be-cause of work or prior family engagements.

The highest price so far was $142, not too far off from the school’s $110 face value, Charry said.

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TODAY AROUND CAMPUSThe Union Programming Board will host a putting contest at 11:30 a.m. on the first floor of the Oklahoma Memorial Union. The winner will receive free parking in the union garage.

The Union Programming Board will provide Mid-Day Music at 11:30 a.m. in the union’s food court. Artist Joey Hines will play guitar.

The Student Success Series will teach about “Demystifying OU Websites” from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Muldrow Tower of Adams Center.

The Delta Gamma Anchor Splash will take place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Murray Case Sells Swim Complex. Tickets are $5 in advance from any Delta Gamma member or $6 at the gate.

A general interest meeting for the Union Programming Board will take place from 9 to 10 p.m. in the union’s Scholars Room.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 8The OU Assessment Center’s director will give a talk on choosing majors and minors from 2 to 3 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245.

The Norman chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays will meet at 7 p.m. at St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church.

Free Concert: Breathe Electric will take place from 8 to 11 p.m. at the union’s east lawn.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 9The Union Programming Board will provide Mid-Day music at 11:30 a.m. in the union’s food court. Artist Joey Hines will play guitar.

A lecture about “The Definition of Marriage” will be hosted by the Department of Philosophy from 4 to 6 p.m. in Copeland Hall, Room 246.

“The Hangover Part II” will be shown at 6 p.m., 9 p.m., and midnight for free the union’s Regents Room.

A Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art lecture about Georges Seurat’s pointillist-style painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.

TICKETS: Most sales occur online, official saysContinued from page A1 “I woke up at 6:50 a.m. and I made sure my

computer was connected to the network with the Ethernet connection. I was pretty sure I got

the first ticket available.”ANDRES CHARRY, AVIATION MANAGEMENT SENIOR

GRANT: Project work began last yearContinued from page A1

almost two degrees high-er than the previous re-cord of 85.9 degrees, set in 1980, according to the Oklahoma Climatological Survey.

Oklahoma City set sev-eral additional weather records in 2011.

These include 61 days at 100 degrees or more, 21 days at more than 105 degrees and three days at 110 degrees or warmer, according to the Oklahoma Climatological Survey.

The blazing summer ended strong with August being the hottest of all.

In August the average high was a sweltering 102.2 degrees and includ-ed eleven days of tem-peratures over 105, ac-cording to the Oklahoma Climatological Survey.

For the time being, the record-setting heat seems to be behind Oklahoma, but with 61 days of 100-plus highs the heat may have a lasting effect.

BY THE NUMBERSHot weather

87.5 Average temperature

during the summer

61 Days above100 degrees



Source: Oklahoma Climatological Survey

HEAT: August’s average was 102.2Continued from page A1

“There is a dire need to explore the molecular mechanisms involved in prostate tumor genesis

if we are to ultimately improve detecting, preventing, confining and curing this disease.”

RALF JANKNECHT, OU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER RESEARCHER

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AUSTIN, Texas — More than 1,000 homes have been destroyed in at least 57 wild-fires across rain-starved Texas. Most of the fires are in one devastating blaze near Austin that is still raging out of control, officials said Tuesday.

Speaking at a news con-ference near one of the fire-ravaged areas, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said more than 100,000 acres have burned in the drought-stricken state.

The Texas Forest Service says nearly 600 of the torched homes were in Bastrop County, some 25 miles from Austin. The agency said that blaze was still not contained as of Tuesday. It was the most destructive fire of the year in a state that has had more than 3 million acres burned, said state emer-gency management chief W. Nim Kidd.

The number of destroyed homes is expected to go higher as officials assess hard-hit areas, Kidd said.

Perry, who interrupted his campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination, toured one of the fire-ravaged neighbor-hoods Tuesday morning.

“Pretty powerful visuals of individuals who lost ev-erything,” Perry said. “The magnitude of these losses are pretty stunning.”

Calmer winds Tuesday were expected to help in the battle against wildfires that flared up when strong winds fed by Tropical Storm Lee swept across Texas over Labor Day weekend.

Te x a s Fo re s t S e r v i c e s p o ke s w o ma n Vi c t o r i a Koenig said it was too early to say how much progress was made fighting the wildfire in

NATION NEWS BRIEFS1. MIAMI

Hurricane could grow stronger, according to national center

Hurricane Katia is a little weaker but still a Category 3 storm as it moves over the open Atlantic after briefly becoming a Category 4 system.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Katia’s maximum sustained winds Tuesday were 115 mph. The hurricane center said some fluctuation in strength is possible over the next 24 hours followed by slow weakening.

Forecast maps show Katia veering to the northeast away from the U.S. mainland in the coming week.

The Associated Press

2. RICHMOND, VA.

Robert Gates named as chancellor of College of William and Mary

The College of William and Mary in Virginia has named former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates as its next chancellor.

Officials said Gates will become the college’s 24th chancellor in February, replacing retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in the honorary post when her seven-year term ends.


3. LOS ANGELES

Target, Gap reach settlement with group over toxic metal materials

More than 20 major national retailers, including Target Corp. and Gap Inc., have reached a settlement with a California environmental group that would al-most entirely eliminate the use of the toxic metal cad-mium in jewelry and other accessories.

Cadmium is a known carcinogen that can attack the kidneys and bones. Some manufacturers of children’s metal jewelry were using it instead of lead, which Congress had effectively banned.

The legal agreement, approved by a judge Friday, is between the Oakland-based Center for Environmental Health and 26 retailers and suppliers.


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TEXAS

Blazes sweep through state

Bastrop County overnight. The agency says the fire has grown to 30,000 acres.

“It’s encouraging we don’t have winds right now, not like yesterday,” Koenig said early Tuesday.

Even with the encourag-ing conditions, Koenig said it was a “tough, tough fire” that was raging through rug-ged terrain, including a ridge of hills.

“You can still see the hills glowing quite a bit,” she said.

At least 5,000 people were forced from their homes in Bastrop County, and about 400 were in emergency shel-ters, officials said Monday.

School and school-related activities were canceled Tuesday.

In Bastrop, a tow n of about 6,000 people along the Colorado River, huge clouds of smoke soared into the sky and hung over down-town Monday. When winds picked up, flames flared over the tops of trees. Helicopters and planes loaded with water flew overhead, and firefight-ers along a state highway outside the city converged around homes catching fire.

The fire was far enough away from Austin that the city was not threatened, but it consumed land along a line that stretched for about 16

BY THE NUMBERSTexas wildfires

3M Acres burned due to wild� res in Texas.

1,000 Estimated homes

destroyed by wild� res in Texas.Source: The Associated Press

Top: Garrett Quinn sprays water on hot spots at a neighbors home that burned when wildfires swept through Tuesday in Bastrop, Texas. More than 1,000 homes have burned in at least 57 wild-fires across rain-starved Texas, officials said Tuesday.

Right: A fire creeps toward a house Monday in Bastrop, Texas. Later, planes dumped fire retardant on the home. It was still standing at noon Monday. A house down the street was burned to the ground.

ERIC GAY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JAY JANNER/AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN

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Our View: The Department of Defense’s planned social media mining technology is excitingly futuristic, but potentially dangerous.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — the research arm of the U.S. Department of Defense — is looking for new technology to aggregate information from social media to help predict violent uprisings, terrorist attacks, resource shortages, humanitarian crises and other instability.

This new technology could track “lin-guistic cues, patterns of information flow, topic trend analysis, sentiment detection and opinion mining” to predict societal changes, The New York Times reported.

The agency put out a call to develop-ers July 14 as part of its Social Media in Strategic Communication program, which will use social media tactics to track trends, watch the develop-ment of propaganda campaigns and respond with counter-spin, according to the announcement.

As the agency has presented the project, the propaganda programs will be focused on “the en-vironment in which [the Armed Forces] operates,” which seems to preclude domestic activity. But this leaves us with serious questions as to how this program, and these technological developments, will be practically applied here and abroad.

How accurate is this technique? It’s exciting, yes, but if we put too much faith in an imprecise technology — or, more accurately, in the inher-ently fallible human interpretation of raw data — then we could end up overreacting to poten-tial instability. Predictive techniques of any kind can only go so far, and it must be challenging to delineate potentially violent unrest from general dissent.

Anyone who uses social media has seen it used to act out in the most vicious of ways, but that usually doesn’t translate to real-world action. We don’t want to see resources wasted on false alarms.

Beyond the practical question lay the ethical concerns. Yes, information in social media is pub-lic. But we worry that this technology would make it all too easy to take one little step across bound-aries and start restricting rights.

What could the government do with the ability to predict the movements of oppressed minority groups or the rise of protest movements, espe-cially when policy leaders are the ones who get to

decide which groups and movements are potentially dangerous?

We’ve already learned of widespread racial profiling in the New York Police Department; this technology would make that kind of thinking that much easier. That’s a lot of power in few hands. And if the program turns its “counter-

messaging” program on the U.S., it becomes not only incredibly unethical, but also illegal.

Even if the program is only applied abroad, this activity still brings up serious ethical questions.

What right do we have to create these counter-spin campaigns in other countries or act to po-tentially quell civil unrest? Those misinformation campaigns that directly affect the safety of our troops or our success in combat areas are one thing — everything else is a gray area.

We can see the benefit of fighting those voices that strive to incite radicalism. We just don’t want to see the U.S. overstepping its bounds to quell an uprising that might not have turned violent.

It all feels a bit like the movie “Minority Report” to us. But maybe our fear is just a gut reaction. This technology is fascinating, and there are mer-its to the futurism approach.

It may help the U.S. to be more proactive in its threat response — more predictive than reactive. But we must proceed with caution, or our zest for a new approach will overshadow our reason, and we may end up trusting too much in an imprecise technique.

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I am a secular humanist, which technically means I am an atheist. Yes, I am one of those people. I strongly believe in the divide between church and state, and

in most cases I fully support my fellow non-believers in their work to keep that divide strong and wide.

Recently, however, I learned about an issue that has de-veloped at the Sept. 11 memorial site.

A group named the American Atheists has sued the me-morial to have a cross-shaped piece of wreckage removed from the memorial museum. It is a very large piece, and was one of the first things that was put in the museum due to its size. The atheists asked that it be removed or to have a similarly large object put into the museum for non-believers.

The tone the atheist group has taken in this lawsuit is very negative. A member of the organization called the cross an “ugly piece of wreckage” that “does not represent anything ... but horror and death.” These are heavy words to use in this incredibly delicate situation, and I believe this atheist group is really ignoring the true meaning of this specific cross, which like any other object can take on mul-tiple meanings.

Yes, it does represent Christianity in a basic sense, but it also is something more than that. It is an ob-ject that has been infused with history. It is a relic that sat among the smoking de-bris of one of our nation’s most significant events, and it is a symbol of hope, life and overcoming disaster.

It was hard for me to not support this atheist group, but I think in this specific case there is a need for more understanding by both sides. It is important for the non-religious to try to understand the nature and nuance of this object, and at the same time reli-gious people need to stop viewing atheists as villains.

This specific group is only trying to maintain part of the moral substance and equal nature of our nation.

Zachary Carrel is an international studies and anthropology senior.

America has 17 female senators, 77 female repre-

sentatives, three female Supreme Court justices, seven female Cabinet members and one female who has officially an-nounced her presidential candidacy.

America has a sexism problem.

Looking at the numbers alone shows a gross misrep-resentation of women. Though the 2010 Census showed that 50.9 percent of the country is female, just 17 percent of the Senate is female. Just 18 percent of the House of Representatives is female. Just 33 percent of the Supreme Court, just 32 percent of the Cabinet and just about five percent of the 2012 presidential field.

You get the picture. Women are grossly underrepre-sented in our political system. Half of our country is rele-gated to just a few seats in important arms of the national government.

And those women who do make it to Washington, D.C., aren’t treated with equal respect.

It’s easy to see this play out in presidential primaries. Who can forget Hillary Clinton tearing up during a cam-paign stop in New Hampshire? Yet the public crying in-cidents of both President George Bush and his father are usually forgotten.

Sarah Palin has not shied away from calling out the media on its sexist coverage of her. When a picture of

her in running gear was the cover image for a Newsweek story about Palin’s governing abili-ties, she lashed out on her Facebook page.

“When it comes to Sarah Palin, this ‘news’ magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant,” Palin wrote. “The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist and oh-so-expected by now.”

Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is being subjected to the same gender-based, inappropriate scrutiny. In July, it was re-vealed that Bachmann gets migraine headaches that are controlled by medication. She, like a student seeking an excused absence, released a doctor’s note saying that she was in good health.

Where was John McCain’s doctor note, saying his skin cancer wouldn’t interfere with running the country? Where was John Kerry’s when he announced he was being treated for prostate cancer?

This sexism doesn’t stop with presidential candidates. Once elected or appointed, women continue to face obstacles.

In July, Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., got angry at comments made by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and called her the worst thing he could think of: “not a Lady [sic].”

On the cover of the June Vanity Fair, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s job was described as “dealing with Obama (and Bill!), saving the world, sneaking brownies,” presumably because a woman cannot deal with pressure without a little chocolate.

More recently, the editors’ note in the October edition of Mother Jones details the wonderfully inclusive golf in-vitations issued by Bethesda’s Burning Tree Club. Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female Supreme Court justice and a golf aficionado, was the first justice not to be in-vited to golf at the club. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan have been extended the same courtesy.

Sexism is alive and well and living in America. It’s time for the media to stop applying more scrutiny to women than men, and it’s time for Americans to stop buying into the idea that women are the weaker sex.

Politicians, no matter their gender, should be ques-tioned about their ideas and their political histories, not their favorite cookie recipe and designer.

Kate McPherson is a journalism sophomore.

Kate [email protected]

OPINION COLUMNIST

“Women are grossly underrepresented

in our political system. Half of our country is relegated to just a few seats in important arms

of the national government.”

COLUMN

Sexism is alive and well in U.S. politics — it’s time to stop

Zachary [email protected]

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World Trade Center cross represents moreCOLUMN

I applaud your recent edi-torials about the importance of free speech and the right to assemble for peaceful dem-onstrations. I am in complete agreement with you.

As John Stuart Mill elo-quently pointed out in his essay, On Liberty, a univer-sity should be a free mar-ket place of ideas. Our goal must be to maximize free expression.

Following my statement of Nov. 10, 2010, the univer-sity policy has been carefully studied and changed along

the lines suggested in the editorial. Unless structures are to be erected or loud public address systems are to be used, no advance no-tice or permits are required for demonstrations by OU students or OU community groups.

For example, no advance permit is required for dem-onstrations on the South Oval. We do ask that once a demonstration is under way, university authorities be no-tified so that the safety and well being of those involved

can be protected but never for the purpose of limiting free speech.

When the use of interior spaces in buildings is in-volved and when the groups seeking to demonstrate are outside groups with no af-filiation with the university, we do require advance no-tice and the use of a permit policy.

For students and uni-versity-affiliated groups, I strongly agree that a time-consuming bureaucratic process requiring permits

has the tendency to stifle free expression. The new policy was put in place before this semester began. As always, we welcome any suggestions for improvement.

As Justice Brandeis once wrote, “Those who won our independence were not cowards. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty. They had confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning.”

These are words we should never forget.

David Boren, OU president

OU does not require permit for rallyLETTER TO THE EDITOR

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 • A5NEWS

MANILA, Philippines — Its mighty snout wrapped tightly with ropes, a one-ton, 20-foot saltwater crocodile was captured and put on dis-play in a town in the southern Philippines — one of the big-gest such reptiles to be caught in recent years.

But shed no crocodile tears for this colossal captive.

“Lolong,” as it has been nicknamed, is about to be-come the star attraction of an ecotourism park — unless it is upstaged by an even larger reptile that may be still be on the loose.

Residents of Bunawan township celebrated when they captured the croc, with about 100 people pulling the feared beast from a creek by rope, then hoisting it by crane onto a truck. While the beast was safely tied up, they exam-ined its teeth, claws and stub-by legs with fascination.

Their party may have been premature, however.

After the 20-foot reptile was caught over the week-end, authorities said Tuesday an even bigger crocodile may still be lurking in creeks of the remote region in Agusan del Sur province.

The scaly skinned Lolong — which tips the scales at 2,370 pounds — is estimat-ed to be at least 50 years old. Wildlife officials were trying to confirm whether it was the largest such catch in the world, said Theresa Mundita Lim of the government’s Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau.

It was captured alive after a three-week hunt, easing some fears among the lo-cals. A child was killed two years ago in the township by a crocodile, and a croc is sus-pected of killing a fisherman who has been missing since July. Last month, residents saw a crocodile killing a water buffalo.

The party thrown after Lolong’s capture “was like a feast, so many villagers turned up,” said Mayor Edwin Cox Elorde.

Wildlife official Ronnie Sumiller, who has hunted “nuisance crocodiles” for 20 years and led the team that captured Lolong, said anoth-er search was under way for the possibly larger croc that he and residents have seen in the town’s marshy outskirts.

“There is a bigger one, and it could be the one cre-ating problems,” Sumiller told The Associated Press by telephone from Bunawan, about 515 miles southeast of Manila.

“The villagers were say-ing 10 percent of their fear was gone because of the first capture,” Sumiller said. “But there is still the other 90

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Mayor Edwin Cox Elorde pretends to measure a huge crocodile that was captured by residents and crocodile farm staff along a creek in Bunawan late Saturday in southern Philippines. Elorde said dozens of villagers and experts ensnared the 21-foot male crocodile along a creek in his township after a three-week hunt. It was one of the largest crocodiles to be captured alive in the Philippines in recent years.

percent to take care of.”Backed by five village hunt-

ers he trained, Sumiller has set 20 steel cable traps with an animal carcass as bait in nearby vast marshland and along the creek where Lolong was caught.

Sumiller said he found no human remains when he in-duced the captured crocodile to vomit.

Residents of the farming town of about 37,000 peo-ple have been told to avoid venturing into marshy areas alone at night, Elorde said.

Guinness World Records lists a saltwater crocodile

caught in Australia as the largest crocodile in captivity, measuring 17 feet 11.75 inch-es. Saltwater crocodiles can live for more than 100 years and grow to 23 feet.

Philippine laws prohibit civilians from killing endan-gered crocodiles, with viola-tors facing up to 12 years in prison and a fine of $24,000.

The world’s most endan-gered freshwater variety, crocodylus mindorensis, is found only in the Philippines, where only about 250 are known to be in the wild.

About 1,000 of the larger saltwater type, or crocodylus

porosus, like the one cap-tured in Bunawan, are scat-tered mostly in the country’s southern swamplands, wild-life official Glen Rebong said.

Environment Secretary Ramon Paje said the enor-mous crocodile was captured because it was a threat to the community.

Crocodiles have been hunted in the Philippines by poachers hoping to cash in on the high demand in wealthy Asian countries for their hide, which is coveted for products ranging from bags and shoes to cellphone cases.


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›››› Sooner Sampler: What are your thoughts about the GOP presidential candidates?

“Other than what’s on Yahoo!

News, I don’t know anything.

If someone does something nasty, I might read it.” Matthew McFarland,

cheMistry sophoMore

“None of the candidates have really

distinguished themselves at

this point.” aaron GleiberMan,

MarketinG ph.d. student

“I’m not a politics person, I don’t

really know any of the candidates. I don’t have a TV,

so I can’t see any of it.”

sean benedict, university colleGe

FreshMan

“Rick Perry might do well in the debate, but he’s the

candidate I know the least about.” Joey Mulder, enGlish

Graduate student

“In Oklahoma, they’re the only party that gets on the ballot anyway. I’m

trying to choose the least-worst.” parker selby, Middle

eastern studies senior

“The talking points are so

predictable, and they’re not policy

based.” saM day,

architecture senior

Jake MORgaNstaff reporter

Eight Republican presi-dential candidates will spar on stage at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Reagan Presidential Foundation debate.

The debate, located in the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif., will feature former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza Herman Cain, former Speaker Newt Gingrich, for-mer Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), for-mer Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.), Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Texas Gov.

Rick Perry. With Perry’s Aug. 13 en-

trance into the race, atten-tion turns to the Texas gov-ernor as the Republicans anticipate his first debate appearance. OU political sci-ence professor Tyler Johnson said the attention surround-ing Perry has a lot of people wondering what to make of the newcomer.

“Given that Perry’s the newest entrant into the race and that he’s skyrocketed in polls over the last few weeks, I think a lot of voters and elites within the Republican Party will be interested in his per-formance in such a setting,” Johnson said.

Johnson said the candi-dates will likely take advan-tage of President Obama’s vulnerability in the polls and

use his job speech as a tool to target the president’s ideas. Obama will offer Americans h i s j o b s p l a n at 6 p. m. Thursday, and local National Public Radio affiliate KGOU will broadcast the speech at 6 p.m., KGOU Operations Manager Brian Hardzinski said.

On a narrower scope, Johnson said he expects the candidates to take shots at their opponents as well.

“There’s been a lot of spar-ring between candidates this week already, so I woudn’t be surprised to see Perry and Romney, or even Perry and Paul, mix it up a bit,” Johnson said. “Perry’s taken a few shots at Romney’s economic record...[and] many might try to needle Perry on his ex-tensive record as governor of

Texas.”Romney, trying to hold off a

surging Perry, spent Tuesday in Nevada outlining his eco-nomic plan for voters, paint-ing himself as the candidate with the most comprehen-sive economic solution. Part of his plan is adding jobs and tackling the 9.1-percent un-employment rate.

“America should be a job machine — jobs being creat-ed all the time, people look-ing for employees to join their enterprises,” Romney said.

Politico, which is sponsor-ing the debate, along with NBC News and the Reagan Library, will offer viewers the chance to submit yes or no questions to the candidates through Twitter.

Paul, who finished second to Bachmann in the Ames

Straw Poll, reached out to Twitter followers Tuesday asking them to tweet their debate questions with the hashtag #reagandebate.

M o d e r a t e d b y B r i a n Williams of NBC Nightly News and John F. Harris,

editor-in-chief of Politico, the debate will air on MSNBC and CNBC. The news outlet also will stream the debate live on its website at www.politico.com.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

election ’12

Republicans flock to sunshine state

25% Rick Perry, governor of Texas

14% Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts governor

11% Ron Paul, Texas’ U.S. representative

7% Michele Bachmann, U.S. representative from

Minnesota

4% Herman Cain, former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza

3% Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House

3% Rick Santorum, former senator from Pennsylvania

1% Jon Huntsman, former governor of Utah

Source: Gallup Poll

by the nuMbers Republicans who would support these candidates

White House hopefuls look to edge out others

Stoops brothers to face off in FloridaFootball

James CorleySports Editor

The Stoops brothers make up one of the most promi-nent coaching families in football, short of maybe only John and Jim Harbaugh (Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers, respec-tively). So any time they face off, it becomes the talk of the town.

OU coach Bob Stoops’ younger brother, Mark, is the defensive coordinator for the fifth-ranked Florida State Seminoles, who host the Sooners on Sept. 17 in Tallahassee, Fla.

B o b St o o p s s a i d h e’s proud of what Mark has ac-complished and said he’d do things differently a second

time around.“If I’d have known what

I know now, I would have fought [to bring Mark to OU] back in ’99,” he said. “If I had known I was going to be here 13 years, I wouldn’t have worried about some of those nepotism laws quite as much and would have had him here. I wish I had.”

Mark bounced around from university to universi-ty early in his career, always keeping the same defensive-minded principles his broth-ers also hold, until following his brother, Mike, to Arizona in 2004. He joined Florida State’s staff in 2009.

“He’s had great experi-ences, and there’s a lot to learn, too, when you go

into a difficult rebuilding job like they did at Arizona,” Bob Stoops said. “Obviously, his experiences have done well for him. He’s doing great — he’s doing a little better than I wish he was this week, anyway.”

Because of scheduling, Bob Stoops hasn’t been able to avoid coaching against his brothers like he would like. If OU goes to the Pac-12, Stoops’ Sooners would be put in the same division as Mike’s Arizona Wildcats.

“I wouldn’t like it,” Bob

Stoops said. “I made that point. I don’t like playing Mark in two weeks.”

However, Stoops empha-sized he’d never let his per-sonal feelings about com-peting against his brothers get in the way of what would be best for OU.

“I think our universities are beyond what our fam-ily preference is,” he said. “That’s not something that would be brought up what-soever — it’s something that doesn’t matter. The univer-sity’s going to be here long after myself and Mike.”

T h e W i l d c a t s p l a y Oklahoma State this week-end in Stillwater, and OU has a bye week. Still, Stoops likes to avoid seeing his fam-ily in competitive situations, especially involving the

OU coach dislikes playing against family, keeps it professional on field

see STOOPS page B2

MIKE StooPS

MaRK StooPS

James CorleySports Editor

Students who didn’t get OU-Texas tickets Tuesday morning probably should have — this year’s Red River Rivalry might be the last of the annual competition.

During his lunch press conference Tuesday, OU coach Bob Stoops spoke

with authority to dispel any notion that the Sooners a r e d e p e n d e n t o n t h e Longhorns.

When asked whether he could see OU going to the Pac-12 even if Texas didn’t, his reply was simple: “Sure. Why not?”

Ever since the Big 12 was formed in 1996, the OU-Texas rivalry was the con-ference’s flagship, but its history stretches far before the conference’s creation.

O k l a h o m a a n d Te x a s

always played — as regular as the sun rising in the east.

But if OU jumps to the Pac-12, the Red River Rivalry may be the next casualty of realignment, assuming OU President David Boren and athletic director Joe Castiglione share Stoops’

sentiment.“I don’t think it’s nec-

essary,” Stoops said. “No one wants to hear that, but life changes. If it changes, you’ve got to change with it. If it works, great — I love the game — but if it doesn’t, it doesn’t.”

Beyond the fan experi-ence, OU-Texas is impor-tant for the Sooners because it gives them a chance to showcase the team within the borders of Texas, the biggest recruiting hotbed for the crimson and cream.

However, Stoops said if the game played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas dis-appeared, OU would still be able to recruit effectively in the state.

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Senior linebacker Travis Lewis (28) celebrates a win over the Longhorns with the Golden Hat after last year’s OU-Texas game. The Sooners won, 28-20. During OU coach Bob Stoops’ lunch press conference Tuesday, he said if OU and Texas don’t end up in the same conference, the Red River Rivalry could be cast to the wayside.

Will oklahoma, texas cut ties?

Game could be realignment casualty

ColUMN

OU must look out for itself

Chris [email protected]

SpORTS COLUmniST

The eyes of Oklahoma may be upon Texas, but that

could soon become nothing more than a gaze into the past.

If OU heads to the Pac-12 without Texas, the Sooners wouldn’t automatically con-tinue their rivalry with the Longhorns, OU coach Bob Stoops said during his week-ly press conference.

When the conference shuffling is settled, the OU-Texas game could be left in the dust, Stoops said.

But what about the tradi-tion? The history? The re-cruiting pipeline? Isn’t the annual clash at the Cotton Bowl important to preserve these things?

“I don’t think that’s nec-essary,” Stoops said. “I know no one wants to hear that, but life changes and you’ve got to change with it, to whatever degree. If it works, great. I love the game, but if it doesn’t, it doesn’t. Sometimes that’s the way it goes.”

While that’s something likely to make the crimson-and-cream faithful squirm, the truth is the Red River Rivalry could come to an end — like the OU-Nebraska se-ries — because the Big 12 is shakier than Jell-O.

That’s a shame. This isn’t just a fun weekend in Dallas we get every year in October

If schools separate, matchup might end, Stoops says

Sooners overcome slow start to beat Arkansas

Melodie lettKeMan/the daily

Senior setter Brianne Barker gets ready to set for sophomore out-side hitter Keila Rodríguez during OU’s game Tuesday. (Page b3)

“If it changes, you’ve got to change with it. If [oU-Texas] works, great — I love the game — but if it doesn’t, it doesn’t.”

BOB STOOpS, OU fOOTBaLL COaCH

see RivalRy page B2 see fuTuRe page B2

— we’re talking about 105 games of history thrown by the wayside. This is a rivalry that was born in 1900, when Oklahoma was still a U.S. territory.

But, like Stoops said, things change. The Big 12 has lost Nebraska and Colorado and will see Texas A&M leave at the end of the academic year. With this type of uncertainty swirl-ing around the league, OU President David Boren said last week that the Sooners need to align themselves with a secure conference.

“We are carefully look-ing over all the options, and there is no school in the Big 12 more active than we are right now,” Boren said. “The fact we have so much cohesion in our leadership team at the university — our coaches, our athletics de-partment, our regents, all of them working together with me — I think that gives us a good leg up on anybody.”

Well, three Big 12 schools jumping ship within a year doesn’t exactly scream sta-bility, so Boren now needs to be ready to make whatever decision is in the university’s best interests.

If that means severing century-old ties with the Longhorns, then so be it.

On Monday, Stoops said although he thought realign-ment talks would resurface,

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“I think proximity in re-cruiting matters most,” he said. “We have always re-cruited heavier and stronger more north in Texas than we have in the south and have had a lot of success that

StooPS: Brothers may play annuallyContinued from page B1

FUtURE: If it happens, losing OU-Texas would be a shameContinued from page B1

Kingsley Burns/sooner yearBooK

former Texas Longhorns cornerback Chykie Brown sits on a bench after the Sooners beat UT, 28-20, in last year’s Red River Rivalry. if OU and Texas part ways during conference realignment, OU coach Bob Stoops says he doesn’t think keeping the OU-Texas game is necessary.

he assumed the league would survive through the season.

But Texas A&M — ap-parently so jilted by Texas’ newly launched Longhorn Network — made a mad dash for the door as fast as it could and blew over the Big 12’s house of cards.

This leaves OU debating if it should pick up the Big 12 pieces or bid the conference

farewell and head west.When asked whether

he’d join the Pac-12 with-out Texas, Stoops said, “I’m not lobbying for anything ... whatever Boren and [ath-letic director Joe Castiglione] want, I’m all in.”

I understand why Stoops is resistant to lobby for what he would like to see — it does him no good. Stoops has a team to run and games

to prepare for. But I can lobby, and I

would hate to see the Red River Rivalry end up on the chopping block.

Oklahoma needs to walk away from the mess that is now the Big 12, and Texas needs to swallow its pride and follow the Sooners.

Personally, I believe the Longhorns are lying low. Texas knows it has ruffled

enough feathers and could very well be hoping the Sooners deliver the final blow to the Big 12.

If that’s the case, well, then the eyes of Texas are upon you, David Boren.

Chris Lusk is a journalism senior and the editor in chief of The Daily. You can follow him on Twitter at @ChrisLusk.

RIValRY: Stoops says losing game wouldn’t affect recruitingContinued from page B1 way.”

If Texas doesn’t make the jump to the Pac-12 with Oklahoma, the Sooners w o u l d h a v e t w o f e w e r chances to play in Texas with Texas A&M hoping to join the SEC. Stoops again said OU would be fine.

“It may (affect recruiting)

a little bit, but overall I don’t know that it would drasti-cally,” he said.

For many people, October wouldn’t be October with-out the annual migration to Dallas for one of college football’s most respected rivalry games, but Stoops said it wouldn’t be the end

of the world for OU-Texas to disappear because of realignment.

Rivalries come and go, but there’s always another rivalry.

“A l l o f a s u d d e n w e weren’t play Nebraska every year, and now they’re gone and we’re still here. Life

goes on,” he said. “People find other rivalries, you find other fun places to go and enjoy the game and enjoy the experience. I think it’s obvious we’ll always have a great product that’ll be ex-citing to follow.

“Whatever happens, we’ll adjust to it.”

Sooners’ in-state rival, so he said he won’t be going to the game.

“I go to Stillwater when I have to,” Stoops said.

Quotes from Stoops’ press conferenceOU coach Bob Stoops, on the death of Sooner great Lee Roy Selmon…“All of us here at the university and associated with it are just saddened by the death of Lee Roy and want them to know that our prayers continue to be with them at this dif� cult time. Lee Roy was just an absolutely amazing person, and they have an absolutely wonderful family — one to emulate. I know all the Selmon brothers are guys that I have put in front of our football team whenever I have the opportunity because they are what you want to model and emulate.”

Stoops, on junior quarterback Landry Jones’ performance against Tulsa…“Everybody’s looking to (say) he didn’t play so well. He played well — he played very well. We’re so used to seeing Heisman Trophy-like performances — whether it’s [Jones’] or Sam Bradford’s — that we’ve gotten awfully picky here.”

Stoops, on all the uniform changes in college football this season…“I think it’s awesome — for them. I don’t see it happening here. We have one of those brands that doesn’t change.”

bob StooPS

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 • B3SPORTS

Oklahoma sends Razorbacks packing

MELODIE LETTKEMAN/THE DAILY

Sophomore middle blocker Sallie McLaurin gets ready to tip the ball against Arkansas on Tuesday at McCasland Field House. The Sooners lost the opening set but won the next three to beat the Razorbacks. McLaurin led OU with a double-double.

Coach attributes OU’s poor start to unsettled dinner

LUKE MCCONNELLSports Reporter

The No. 18 OU volleyball team overcame a horrific first set by winning the next three to defeat the Arkansas Razorbacks, 3-1, Tuesday night at McCasland Field House.

S o p h o m o r e S a l l i e McLaurin had a monster game for the Sooners, col-lecting a double-double with 12 kills and 11 blocks. Freshman Tara Dunn added nine kills, which was a ca-reer high.

Senior setter Brianne Barker had another double-double, her fifth of the sea-son, with 36 assists and 13 digs. Junior defensive spe-cialist María Fernanda had 17 digs to lead the defense.

A r k a n s a s w a s l e d b y Jasmine Norton, who had 17 kills for the Razorbacks. Kelli Stipanovich had 11 kills and 10 digs while Roslandy Acosta added 10 kills.

The match started with a bit of back-and-forth play. With the scored t ied at seven, Arkansas took control of the set and never looked back. The Razorbacks led by as many as 11 in the set and won, 25-16.

OU was out of sorts in every possible way. The de-fense was slow, and the of-fense wasn’t connecting. The Sooners hit -.036 for the set, a season low.

Coach Santiago Restrepo did not seem too concerned with the Sooners’ rough start, attributing the poor play to too much dinner.

“We needed to digest,” Restrepo said. “Finally after

the first set, we digested our food, and we were ready to go.”

The second set could not have looked any different for the Sooners. OU came out and executed its offense and played much better defense, forcing Arkansas coach Robert Pulliza to burn both of his timeouts with OU leading, 13-7.

OU stretched the lead out to 21-11 before an Arkansas

rally cut the lead to 21-18. However, freshman middle blocker Grace Whitley ended the Razorback rally, and OU finished the set on a 4-0 run to win, 25-18.

The Sooners got back into the match by being more efficient on the fundamen-tals of the game, especially passing.

“It’s all about passing for us,” Restrepo said. “When we settled down and passed

the ball well, we were very effective.”

OU came out of the locker room after intermission and controlled the third set from the beginning.

Whitley and Dunn made huge contributions in the set. Whitley had a kill and two blocks, while Dunn had three kills and a block.

Dunn said always being prepared helped her come in and play the way she did,

even when things were going poorly in the first set.

“Santi has told us from the beginning that we have to be ready at all times,” Dunn said. “It happened this week-end, too, where he called my name and I had to go in, so you just have to be ready at all times.”

OU once again almost let a big lead get away from them as Arkansas cut a 21-14 lead to 21-20 before OU halted

the rally. After a McLaurin kill, Arkansas got within 24-23, but a Suzy Boulavsky kill gave the Sooners the set, 25-23.

M c L a u r i n ’s p l a y w a s the stabilizing force that Oklahoma needed when things got tough, a role she said she isn’t really used to.

“I don’t see myself as that, but I guess I can always keep a positive attitude and keep the team going toward that goal,” McLaurin said.

The Razorbacks started fast in the fourth set, lead-ing by as many as four in the early going. However, OU rallied behind some terrific defensive hustle to take its first lead, 13-12.

Restrepo was extremely pleased with the defensive effort, but he said the block-ing was what pleased him the most.

“Fifteen blocks for our team in four sets is extreme-ly good,” Restrepo said. “I was more pleased with our blocking on the defensive end than anything.”

T h e S o o n e r s a n d Razorbacks exchanged leads for the next several points before OU took a 21-18 lead, forcing Arkansas to call its second time out. OU length-ened that lead to close out the Razorbacks, 25-20.

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of the foods that will help you do that, but I will add a few more items I have found beneficial in kick-starting y o u r m e t a b o l i s m f r o m hibernation.

Side note, I want to add that increased exercise is important for this to work. Ditch your car and pick up your bike. Take a jog on the weekends. Enroll in a yoga

class. Or just do 30 minutes on the treadmill every other day.

Also, eat breakfast. Not just a Pop-Tart or doughnut, but an actual meal. Eating breakfast has proven to be one of the best ways to jump start metabolism.

Six tips to help keep your metabolism burning like a furnace:

If you want to burn more calories, you s h o u l d e a t m o r e often.

No, really, one of the best ways to help your body burn more calories — and mostly fat — is to incorporate eat-ing six to eight small meals each day two to three hours apart.

E a t i n g s m a l l m e a l s throughout the day does not allow your body’s metabo-lism to get lazy. This way, it will always have energy to burn throughout the day.

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regularly will help increase the rate you burn energy through activity.

The rate you burn calo-ries through digestion can be manipulated by having something for your body to burn. Hence the reason you should eat smaller meals throughout the day.

It’s your metabolism that helps your digest the Sbarro you had for lunch or the Jimmy John’s you picked up for dinner.

For some, this processes is rather quick while others have slowed processes be-cause of lack of exercise or unhealthful eating.

What’s great about your metabolism is that with more healthful eating and just some exercise every once in a while, you can eas-ily burn calories without much difficulty.

The previous article was great to highlight just some

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Drink water — Water is one of many essential ingredi-ents to a high-functioning body. If your body becomes even a little dehydrated, you are giving your metabolism cause to slow down.

Chopped red peppers and cinnamon have compounds in them that can help kick any metabolism into gear.

Protein is much harder for the body to break down dur-ing digestion than fat or carbohydrates, which means your metabolism has to work harder and must speed up.

The caffeine in tea acts in much the same way most spic-es do, helping make you more alert and your metabolism burning hot.

Eat a healthful breakfast

RJ Young is a professional writing graduate student. Young has a bachelor’s degree in exercise and sports science from the University of Tulsa and previously has worked as a personal trainer.

Eat more spices

Eat meat and fish

Drink more tea

Cayenne pepper – While not technically a “food,” I’ve found that this spice is incredibly effective in awakening your metabolism. Add it to the grilled chicken Young men-tioned or some chili during the winter months.

Avocados – For those already worried about their cho-lesterol levels, grab this fruit (yes, it’s a fruit) when you go to the grocery store next. Studies have showed that those who ate avocados saw significant decreases in their cholesterol levels after just a week! Enjoy with some sea salt but not as guacamole as many usually enjoy it.

Greek yogurt – While any yogurt is great to burn fat, Greek yogurt is especially effective in that it contains much more calcium with decreased sugars you may find in other yogurts. Enjoy three times a week to help regulate your di-gestive system. Add in lots of fruits. Bananas, strawberries and walnuts are what I’m mixing with Greek yogurt these days.

Eggs – I seriously can’t stress any food more than I do eggs. They are so versatile, and you can enjoy them any time of the day. Not only do they speed up your metabolism but also aid with eye health.

Green tea – Also, not a food, but it is an important bev-erage for anyone looking to lose weight with little effort. While coffee is great to wake up your brain, switch on and off with green tea. It’s also a great antioxidant.

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Eat a healthful breakfast — During sleep, your body is fasting. It’s burning most of the calories you have consumed the day before and needs to be refueled each morning. The longer you go without eating, the slower you allow your me-tabolism to become.

Going longer without eating also signals your body to begin storing more fat so that it has calories enough to func-tion, and you don’t want to store more fat.

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peratures, family-oriented holidays and the anticipated Oscar season supply a few of those pleasures. However, before we can relish and in-dulge in all the joys the fall season has to offer, we must stop and reflect on the gifts the parting season contributed to our delight and satisfac-tion. Entertainment-wise, August served as the most enjoy-able month for movies. Provided below is a list of the most memorable entertainments offered for the month.

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Above: Emma Stone as “Skeeter” in this summer’s “The Help.” Based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett, the film sends a strong civil rights message despite the controversy surrounding the por-trayal of minority characters.

Right: This summer’s “The Debt,” a tale of mystery and deception, stars Dame Helen Mirren.

The Help

In spite of the recent controversy surrounding the portrayal of the mi-nority characters, Kathryn Stockett’s engaging best-sell-ing novel “The Help” makes for an equally stirring civil rights drama of the same name.

Depicting the l ives of African-American domes-tic servants during the ’60s and the spunky, ambitious writer who ensured their voices were heard, the film is by turns humorous, heart-warming and deeply involv-ing, much to the credit of a blisteringly powerful per-formance by Viola Davis (“Doubt,” 2008).

The DebtJohn Madden’s absorb-

ing, suspenseful and power-fully acted espionage thrill-er, “The Debt,” solidifies the reputable talents of Dame Helen Mirren.

The film weaves an intri-cate web of mystery, lies and deception across two time frames.

The story centers on a trio of young heroic secret agents whose mission is to capture a sadistic Nazi war criminal in East Berlin and bring him

to Israel for trial. This taxing undertaking

comes with its share of con-sequences, permeating into their old age, and leads to some haunting and unex-pected revelations.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Those disappointed in Tim Burton’s 2001 re-imag-ining of the classic science fiction franchise “Planet of the Apes,” appreciated an honorable return to form in Rupert Wyatt’s exciting re-boot “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.”

Even with an admirable performance by the great John Lithgow and the warm presence of young talents James Franco and Freida Pinto, this is the apes show.

Most notably, Andy Serkis, whose mesmerizing per-formance as Caesar, the in-telligent chimpanzee that leads an extraordinary revolt against the savage human race. With stylish direction and astonishing special ef-fects, the apes return to the silver screen in smart and exciting entertainment.

Fright NightIn 1985, the cult clas-

sic “Fright Night” cleverly

merged humor and thrills, while showcasing a memo-rably creepy performance from actor Chris Sarandon.

The story of the nerdy, f i lm addict teenage l iv-ing next to a charming, yet blood-thirsty vampire gets an impressive and stylish update in director Craig Gillespie’s remake.

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Now set in contempo-rary Las Vegas, Colin Farrell embodies the seductive, blood-sucking villain who terrorizes the unfortunate

bystanders on his block. Chock full of clever, self-

referential dialogue, hu-morous performances and spine-tingling thrills, this is

a story worth revisiting.

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