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On-campus restaurants will begin educating patrons with calorie information posted on menus, of! cial saysJESSICA SHEETSDaily Staff Writer

For students counting their calories while also counting their pennies, the quest for healthy and cheap living is about to get easier.

Campus restaurants are in the process of making their menus more user-friendly, said Lauren Royston, OU Housing and Food Services spokeswoman.

“Customers of chain restaurants operated by OU Food Services will see the additional calorie information incorporated into menus on cam-pus, just as those details will be incorporated nationally,” Royston said by e-mail.

Recently passed federal health-care legis-lation requires restaurants with more than 20 locations to post the amount of calories in their menus’ items just as it would list the price of the meal.

Chelsi Welch, Oklahoma City University nutrition professor and former OU basketball player, said she has mixed feelings about the

law because of the potential harm in counting calories.

“It’s not about the calories,” Welch said. “A calorie is a calorie; we don’t know if it’s a good calorie or a bad calorie or if it’s helping us or hurting us. We don’t know that by knowing how many calories we are putting in our body.”

Welch said she thinks the law could help raise awareness and help people know a little more about what they are eating, but that most people don’t even know what a calorie is.

However, Morgan Mayhall, elementary edu-cation sophomore, thinks the law is a good idea and that it will help her out.

“I think it would be a wise idea to put the calorie information next to the food items on menus,” Mayhall said. “For me, it would help me make healthy decisions on what I choose to eat. I think it would be more convenient for the calorie information to be on the menu be-cause I usually ask the waiter for the informa-tion anyway.”

Kaitlin Bankston, English writing junior, said she will still eat the same things, regardless of the calorie information.

“I will still go to McDonald’s and order a dou-ble cheeseburger and not a salad or parfait,” Bankston said. “People want what they want;

you can’t just change your taste buds. I go to places like McDonald’s or Taco Bell because I want the french fries and burritos not because I’m trying to diet.”

Welch said the best way to become healthier is to focus more on your overall diet.

I’m not talking about the on-and-off ‘I’m on a diet this weekend; I’m off a diet now.’ I’m just talking about what you eat and drink,” Welch said. “How do you feel when you eat? How do you feel after you drink too much alcohol? Heightening that focus on our diets is the best way to improve health.”

Welch also suggests paying attention to the nutrients in your food rather than the amount of calories.

Royston said Housing and Food is providing students with other ways to count their calories without just looking at a menu during meal time.

“Customers may currently review menu in-formation at booklets in each campus restau-rant, or they may learn about ingredients and nutritional information for on-campus options online with the Nutrition Calculator,” Royston said.

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Conference discusses state immigration policy

Isolation major concern for east Norman residents CASEY WILSONDaily Staff Writer

Residents of eastern Norman

gathered Monday at Little Axe Elementary School to voice con-cerns about the effects of the area’s distance from the center of Norman.

Mayor Cindy Rosenthal said she asked Norman’s Human Rights Commission a few years ago to take up the task of having the Inclusive Community Discussions.

Rosenthal said the Inclusive Community Discussions remind city leaders that Norman has to reach out to different groups.

Michael Ridgeway, of the Human Rights Commission, told those gathered that the discussion was their opportunity to voice their concerns, and was the city leaders’ opportunity to listen.

“This is not an opportunity for the city to defend itself,” Ridgeway said. “This is an opportunity to speak.”

George Childers, who oper-ates a ballpark in the area, said he has asked the city to expand the ballpark.

“And we’ve been told by the parks administration that we are land locked,” he said.

Childers said parents in the area have been sending their children to baseball programs in other cities because of the deficiencies of the ballpark.

“We are pushing people out in-stead of bringing them in,” he said.

Bob Swisher said the area does not have an easily accessible place for residents to take recyclables.

Swisher said he has to take his re-cyclables into the city, and that un-like residents in the city, they do not have weekly recycling pick-up.

Murdock Miller, who operates a Sonic in the area, said the city of Norman will only pick up trash at his Sonic once per week, and that he needs trash picked up at least two times per week.

Miller said the overflow of trash from the Dumpster is a health issue.

The city promised to develop the area when Little Axe was incorpo-rated into Norman, Miller said, but he wonders when those promises will be fulfilled.

Among other things, Childers said the area needs an adequate library and improved roads, as op-posed to temporary patches on the roads.

“At what population do we have to be at before those benefits come in?” Childers said.

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Speakers discuss House Bill 1804, viable options to reduce illegalityRICKY MARANONAssignment Editor

The effects of Oklahoma’s policy toward illegal immigration were examined by jour-nalists from across the nation Monday at OU.

“Immigration in the Heartland,” a confer-ence hosting 15 journalists who cover events in immigrant communities, discussed the ef-fects of Oklahoma’s laws on undocumented immigrants, the Obama Administration and Congress’ acts toward creating a reformed immigration policy and conservatives’ view of the immigration debate.

The first debate focused on the effects of Oklahoma House Bill 1804, which is cited

as one of the strictest pieces of immigration legislation in the U.S. since it was signed into law in 2007.

“This bill was designed to restore the rule of law and protect U.S. workers that have had their jobs taken from them by immigrant workers who work for less money and who don’t pay any taxes,” said Carol Helm, presi-dent of Immigration Reform for Oklahoma Now. “These people pay little to no taxes on their incomes, and this is lost revenue for the state and the U.S.”

House Bill 1804 requires all employees to verify their employees are citizens or regis-tered in the state of Oklahoma to work. It also requires anyone requesting to participate in state programs to show proof of residency and directs state law enforcement officers to verify the status when making an arrest.

However, other speakers were not in favor of the bill and wished Oklahoma would have

considered other options. Discussion fo-cused on the negative effects the bill has on health care for undocumented immigrants and taxpayers.

“Because of this bill, we have people with cancer who need dialysis but don’t go to get treatment until they feel extremely sick,” said Richard Klinge, Catholic Charities of Oklahoma associate director for outreach, advocacy and legal services. “And when they finally go to get treatment, they go to the emergency room, and no doctor is going to turn away someone because of their status, so the taxpayers are being stuck with the bill. And as we all know, emergency room care is far more expensive then regular care.”

Oklahoma County has 21 free clinics that knowingly treat immigrant communities re-gardless of documentation, Klinge said.

Klinge said Oklahoma is making grave mistakes when it comes to how the state

treats its immigrants.“If we profess to be a Christian nation, we

should love our neighbor,” Klinge said. Klinge said he hopes Oklahoma voters

have a change of heart before the November election in which voters will vote on a ballot question deciding if English should be the official language of the state of Oklahoma.

State Rep. Shane Jett, a participant in the discussion and the only republican to vote “no” on 1804, cites personal reasons for dis-agreeing with the bill.

“My wife is from Brazil, and I had to go through the entire immigration process with her,” Jett said.

Jett said he believed politicians were doing what polled as popular policy in their districts as opposed to finding answers to the solution.

“We should set up a system where these

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Will posted calorie and nutritional charts at campus eating locations affect what you order?

Jenna Porter, University College freshman“For me, probably not because there’s a mini chart at Burger King, and I still eat there.”

Colin Mullens, journalism sophomore“It absolutely would affect the way I chose to eat

things. Pita Pit has a poster, and I choose the lowest calorie food there that is still relatively healthy.”

Katherine Borgerding, journalism sophomore“Yes, absolutely. I would feel guilty if I eat things with more calories because I would know what makes me healthier.”

Lindsey Nadeau, University College freshman“Yeah, for sure, mainly because eating healthy is very important to me, especially because of

the Freshman 15.”

Stephanie Tison, microbiology sophomore“Yes, because it would make you more aware of the calorie content of what you’re eating. It will help you to make healthier choices. Sometimes

what you think is healthy isn’t.”

Victoria Mayer, University College freshman“Probably a little bit, but at the same time, I already have some idea so it wouldn’t change my perception that much.”

WARREN’S WARRANTS FOR SPEEDING TICKET

The municipal warrants for Willie Warren stemmed from a speed-ing ticket, according to Norman Municipal Court documents.Warren was pulled over in February for going 40 mph in a 25-mph zone, according to the court documents.Court documents stated after failing

to appear in court March 1 in regard to the ticket, the two warrants were issued for Warren.The OU men’s basketball team was in Austin, Texas, March 1 playing the Texas Longhorns in a game the Sooners lost.—Casey Wilson/Daily Staff Writer

This online nutrition tool, available at food.ou.edu, assists patrons in planning healthier meals, calculating calories and re-viewing nutritional content of items they’ve already eaten, Royston said.

She said Housing and Food updates the Nutrition Calculator as more items are added to on-campus dining menus.

The Wendy’s in the Oklahoma Memorial Union lists the calories of its meals and has done so for a few years, Royston said.

Students looking to make better choices can find a wide variety of free services on

campus, said Maggie Pool, health promotion coordinator for OU Health Services.

“We have a dietician on staff (at Goddard Health Center), and really, if students just look, there are a lot of great free resources on campus,” Pool said. “Almost everywhere you look there’s something related to health, if it’s at a campus eatery, if it’s through the health center Goddard or through the Rec center, there’s a lot of services students can utilize if they want.”

OU Health Services will host a nutrition seminar at noon Thursday in the Goddard Health Center. Lunch will be provided.

To register, call 405-325-4611.Students may set up an appointment with

dietician Dr. Patti Landers by calling Goddard Health Center at 405-325-4441.

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people pay a fine and are put on the track to citizenship,” Jett said. “We are treating this like a border problem, and the last time I checked, Oklahoma doesn’t have any inter-national borders. I don’t think we consider Texas a foreign country.”

Jett said by trying to get rid of people the state sees as illegal, it is not taking care of the solution at hand.

“The way that people treat other people reflects back on us,” Jett said. “The way this state treats people and the way the U.S. treats people all reflects back on us.”

In the afternoon, Jason Riley, a columnist

for The Wall Street Journal, presented his arguments in support of opening the bor-ders. His book, “Let Them In: The Case for Opening Borders,” argues that the free mar-ket, not the government, should determine the level of immigration in the U.S.

Riley advocates viable guestworker pro-grams that would help reduce the number of illegal immigrants.

“Get more ways for people to come legal-ly and fewer will come illegally,” Riley said.

“Immigration in the Heartland” contin-ues today with field reporting in Oklahoma City for the 15 journalists participating in the conference.

—Reneé Selanders and Leighanne Manwarren contributed to portions of this article.

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CAMPUS EVENTS

TODAY BIZZELL LIBRARY“JSTOR by the Numbers” will teach about the academic journal archives at 10 a.m. at Bizzell Memorial Library, room 149D. WOMEN’S OUTREACH CENTERMen’s Breast Health Awareness will have an informational table from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the main lobby of the Oklahoma Memorial Union. CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUSChristians on Campus will host Bible study at noon in the Weitzenhoffer Room of the OMU. WOMEN’S OUTREACH CENTERThe Women’s Outreach Center will host “Smart Start—Part II” career consultation about the gender and wage gap at noon in the President’s Room of the union. OKLAHOMA MEMORIAL UNION“How to Find a Job/Internship in a Tough Economy for Engineering Majors” will be at 1:30 p.m. in the Heritage Room of the union. COUNSELING SERVICESCounseling Services will present the Student Success Series, “Gearing up for Final Exams,”

at 3 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 245. S T U D E N T O K L A H O M A E D U C AT I O N ASSOCIATIONThe Student Oklahoma Education Association will host an administration panel and have the 2010-2011 SOEA officer election with free food at 7:30 p.m. at Sarkey’s Energy Center, room M207. FINE ARTSThe ensemble Zolotoi Plios will present a free concert of Russian folk music at 8 p.m. in the Max Weitzenhoffer Theatre at the Fine Arts Center.

WEDNESDAY WOMEN’S OUTREACH CENTERMen’s Breast Health Awareness will have an informational table from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the main lobby of the union. CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUSChristians on Campus will host Bible study at 12:30 p.m. in the Traditions Room of the union. CAREER SERVICES“How to Find a Job/Internship in a Tough

Economy for Business Majors” will be at 12:30 p.m. in the Crimson Room of the union.

BIZZELL MEMORIAL LIBRARY“Searching Factiva” will teach the basics of Factiva at 2 p.m. at the Bizzell Memorial Library, room 149D. COUNSELING SERVICESCounseling Services will present the Student Success Series, “Changing/Pick a Major/Minor at 3 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 245. OKLAHOMA MEMORIAL UNION“How to Find a Job/Internship in a Tough Economy for A&S Majors” will be at 4 p.m. in the Heritage Room of the union. MUSLIM STUDENT ASSOCIATION“Peace not Prejudice: Film Festival” will take place 7 to 9 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRISTCampus Crusade for Christ will meet at 9 p.m. in the Santee Lounge on the ! fth " oor of the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. IMPACT MOVEMENTImpact Movement will host a Bible study at 9 p.m. in the Adams-Tarman Basement.

POLICE REPORTS

The following is a list of arrests and citations, not convictions. The information given is compiled from the Norman and OU Police Departments. At times, the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Department and the Oklahoma City FBI will contribute to these reports. All those listed are innocent until proven guilty. ASSAULT AND BATTERYDavid R. Bills, 22, 1357 12th Ave., SundayMadison Lyndell Bryan, 20, 1357 12th Ave., Sunday DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCELonie G. Brewer, 50, North Flood Avenue, SundayAnita Faye Hulsey, 53, West State Highway 9, SundayMichelle Brittani Yarbrough, 21, 600 S. Chautauqua Ave., FridayDaphne Mitchiko Ponds, 20, 100 E. Boyd St., Saturday LOUD PARTYAbdul-Lateef Oluwasseun Ipaye, 21, 1111 Oak Tree Ave., SundayGuillermo Valasco Morales, 21, 1111 Oak Tree Ave., Sunday POSSESSION OF MARIJUANAChristopher Wayne Jennings, 30, 619 Welston Circle, Saturday PUBLIC INTOXICATIONMicah J. Livingston, 26, 901 N. Porter Ave., SaturdayCrystal D. Pledger, 24, 1100 Oak Tree Ave., SundayMaria Augusta Wollmann, 61, 3501 W. Main St., SundayChristian Peter Scherer, 24, 119 W. Constitution St., ThursdaySaneia Nicole Goddard, 18, Lindsey Street, ThursdayArthur R. Bayley, 57, Lindsey Street, ThursdayAustin W. Leippe, 24, 202 Asp Ave., Sunday

457 votes were not counted toward ! nal results so Ally Glavas did not receive majority, representative says

TROY WEATHERFORDDaily Sta! Writer

At a UOSA Superior Court hear-ing, an argument was heard that the presidential elections should be invalidated or a run-off elec-tion should be held.

Josh Edwards and Amber Siddiqui, associate general coun-sels, represented presidential candidates Jess Eddy and Franz Zenteno in the case to argue that the election was invalid.

Mike Davis, general counselor,

and Jennifer Warren, associate general counsel, represented Ally Glavas and Zac McCullock, pres-ident-elect and vice president-elect.

The election used the Meeks voting system in which voters rank the candidates. The system eliminates the candidate who re-ceives the least number of votes and then adds the voters’ second choice to the remaining candi-dates’ totals. Iterations of this system were used until only two candidates remained and Glavas received a majority vote.

In the final iteration of the electronic run-off system, after a voter’s second or third choices were added to the remaining can-didates’ totals, Glavas received 2,544 votes and Franz Zenteno

received 2,281 votes.A total of 5,282 students voted

in the election, and only 4,825 ballots were used to tabulate the final election results.

Not all candidates were ranked in 457 ballots and so those votes were not counted in later itera-tions of the electronic run off.

Edwards argued because of this, Glavas did not receive a ma-jority of the ballots.

The UOSA constitution re-quires that “the student president and vice president shall be popu-larly elected together by majority vote of the ballots cast in an elec-tion for that purpose.”

Warren said those voters did not cast ballots because each it-eraton of an electronic run-off system was actually separate

elections.Davis said voters who did not

rank candidates chose not to vote, and UOSA cannot force anyone to vote in the election.

“The 457 were not counted be-cause there were effectively no ballots cast in the election,” Davis said.

Edwards argued that voters were not properly informed about how the rankings would be used, and were not informed that they would be taking part in multiple elections with their ranking.

The defense, however, said the Web site told voters they could rank the candidates, and it was partly the responsibility of the candidates that voters understood the electronic run-off process.

Davis said an electronic run-off

has been used since 2005, but this is the first time that there has been a question about a candidate re-ceiving a majority vote.

At a meeting March 5, the candidates agreed to use a rank-ing system instead of a run-off election, said Jeff Riles, election chairman.

The petitioners also argued that the Glavas campaign violated elec-tion rules during campaigning.

Davis said he was happy with the court proceedings.

“We have a Superior Court for a reason and we’ll respect what-ever ruling they come down with,” Davis said.

Edwards declined to comment on how he thought the case went.

Riles said the court would prob-ably issue a ruling today.

Candidates argue UOSA election results in Superior Court

I never thought I could miss my country so much. Although I have read many poems and books describ-ing longing for the lost motherland throughout the span of my education in Poland, still, three days ago I was not able to fully understand — it is not comparable with any-thing I experienced before.

At 3 a.m. Friday night, I re-ceived an e-mail from a friend telling me to check the news. While I was loading one of the major Polish portals, I saw the top banner had been changed to black and white and I already knew something bad had hap-pened. When the first headline appeared, I did not believe what I saw: The president had died in a plane crash.

I felt really anxious opening the ar-ticle. I just glanced through the list of victims: the president of the Polish Republic, the first lady, the former pres-ident who was in exile, three vice-mar-shalls of the Sejm (Polish parliament), chief of staff to the president, head of the office of national security (equiva-lent to the U.S. National Security coun-cil), vice-chief of staff to the president, state secretary in the office of the presi-dent, chief of the general staff of the Polish army, president of the National Bank of Poland, operational head of the Polish armed forces, head of the Polish internal forces, head of the Polish land forces, head of the Polish special forces, head of the Polish navy and many more important and influential parliamen-tary representatives.

With each consecutive title, the anxiety kept growing in me. Every rec-ognized name and every familiar face added further distress. I went through the articles, I watched video clips on the largest news television Web site (tvn24.pl), browsed published pictures

and checked the Reuters coverage. All of this drilled in me, but the worst mo-ment came when I finally put my note-book away and tried to fall asleep.

I have been studying abroad for three years, yet the tragedy helped me realize how much I want to be home. Not particularly for sake of unifying with oth-ers in mourning or for visit-ing my friends, I wanted to go home to be in the place where I belong. A number of my Polish friends study-ing abroad feel the same way and have displayed it openly.

The reason the officials were traveling to Russia was to com-memorate the Soviet crimes in Katy — where more than 20,000 Polish officers being held as prisoners of war were ex-terminated by the Soviet Union. Now, more than 70 years later, the same place once again takes away the Polish elite. Both losses are irreplaceable and highly influential for Poland.

Consequently, the tragedy will shape history in many diverse ways. The most prominent loss is the president.No matter whether people agreed with his politics or not, he was a respected and morally exemplary public figure. Further issues involve the replacement of the president of the National Bank of Poland, who had been opposing politicians and defending the inde-pendence of the National Bank. In ad-dition, the military has been hit enor-mously by losing so many of its head commanders.

All in all, we have to wait for a long time to understand the full effects of this disaster. Polish politics, military and economy will undergo a difficult period for the time being.

Marcin Rutkowski is an international student from Poland and a University College freshman.

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An International Monetary Fund report on 2009 gross domestic product per capita (oth-erwise known as Purchasing Power Parity) places the United States sixth relative to other nations.

As one measure of prosperity that is quite good, although we should note it does not take into account any disparities in actual average wealth resulting from other specific social features as income inequality.

Disparities and other factors aside, we in the United States must admit we live quite well relative to inhabitants of other nations. Take for example the constant struggle many engage in trying to find parking spots on a daily basis here at OU, which is but one obvious testament to our student body’s overall fortune: Most of us have cars.

Personally, my entire set of pots and other cooking implements are hand-me-downs, but hey, they are in very good condition and I have more than I ever actually use.

Who really worries about not having what they want? Surely with all our cars, air con-ditioning and pearly white teeth we are all in relative heaven?

Interestingly, having access to of wealth does not necessarily mean we are satisfied. Just look at the debate over executive compensa-tion, or food consump-tion and average obe-sity rates. Obviously, there are people for whom a giant burrito loaded with a half-pound of animal fat is not enough to sate the beast within.

Access to wealth does seem to change our perception of value, however. Giving up something for Lent, comes to mind here.

Complaints of: “I gave up caffeine! It’s sooo hard, YOUHAVENOIDEA!” and “Sheesh, not calling people hilariously awful names anymore is sure getting me down” come to mind.

Please. My face is bruised from all the times I’ve smacked it with my palm. Want something hard? Try giving up texting for a month — I’m sure it would be absolutely ex-cruciating for some out there.

Here’s a more worthy example of people who have endured actual hardship: A World Health Organization report dated May 2009 concerning the situation in the Gaza strip de-tailed major loss from military attacks.

“The consequences [of the December 2008 attack] for many families were severe indeed:

1,700 households lost their breadwinner from death or injury, and over 15,000 homes were totally or partially destroyed. 100,000 people

fled their homes and neigh-bourhoods due to the military attacks, half of whom were taken in by UNWRA-organized shelters.”

Tell me, would you rather live in, say, the United States, where you have a several hun-dred times higher chance of dying in a car accident than a terrorist attack, or in Gaza? How about a nation such as Uganda in which roughly one-

third of the population does not have daily access to clean drinking water and children have been known to be abducted for military service in a guerrilla army?

Sadly, not many people are confronted with the inequity that exists around the world. Few of those who have such experiences actually come to understand or care just how difficult

it is for those less fortunate. Most of us go on happily day after day, complaining only about trivialities such as the guy in the library who had the audacity to take up an entire group study room for himself.

Even if we don’t actively devote our time to provid-ing aid to the derelict and the destitute, we should at least

try to do a better job of admitting we have it so good. The principle I follow, at least in the-ory (hey, I’m normal. Like most people, I’m also a hypocrite sometimes), is exemplified by what a Zen priest named Shunryu Suzuki said more than 40 years ago.

“Thus we should be ashamed of doing something proudly, vigorously, with some ecstasy even, ignoring the other side of the world, the dark side of our life,” Suzuki said.

Though perhaps Suzuki meant this solely in terms of self-reflection, I find it is equally ap-plicable to our conception of all humanity.

If we wish to count ourselves as human we must always seek the courage and respect to face the reality that is the “dark side” of our existence. We should endeavor to distinguish proper needs from selfish desire, and to not let ourselves become complacent by being too comfortable.

James Green is a computer science graduate student.

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“Thus we should be ashamed of doing something proudly, vigorously, with some ecstasy even, ignoring the other side of the world, the dark side of our life.” —Shunryu Suzuki

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MARCIN RUTKOWSKI

Polish tragedy hits home

OU has close ties with Nike Inc. The com-pany’s logo is on our sports jerseys and adver-tised just about everywhere OU athletics can be found. It promote itself as a symbol of ath-leticism and independence.

However, Nike stands for much more than what its advertising company in Portland, Ore., would have you believe. It also stands for low wages and poor working conditions in its outsourced sweatshops.

The University of Wisconsin at Madison an-nounced Friday it will cut ties with Nike after Nike’s subcontractors — the people who actu-ally make the company’s shoes and clothing

— closed two factories in Honduras without giving the workers notice or severance.

But there are many stories like this in Nike’s history — stories of underpaid workers in de-veloping nations being oppressed by their em-ployers. Whether it’s a subcontract of Nike, the company is still party to unfair labor policies.

And through OU’s contracts with Nike, our school also is party to these unethical business practices. Is that what this university should promote?

No. OU should follow Wisconsin’s example. In fact, other universities should, too.

If more universities would end their

agreements with Nike, the company will have strong financial incentives to change its policies.

It may not have listened to ethical incen-tives, but we believe Nike will listen to financial incentives.

OU should cut the contract now, while Wisconsin’s decision is still fresh in the minds of Nike’s top executives. This would send a message to Nike and other companies engag-ing in unfair trade policies: Colleges will not participate in unethical business practices.

No, terminating our contract won’t end the world labor system of oppressing workers in

economically underprivileged countries, but it could definitely be a step forward to change it.

This isn’t going to stop Apple Inc. from em-ploying children to make iPads, iPods, iPhones or iMacs, or the hundreds of other businesses that use nefarious labor policies. But it will send the message that these policies are not in their best interest morally or financially.

We have a chance to voice discontent with this problem in a manner that would make headlines. We should take advantage of it.

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Sooners, Cowboys face off in ! rst Bedlam matchup on campus since 1996

JONO GRECODaily Staff Writer

The OU baseball team had a productive weekend at L. Dale Mitchell Baseball Park, even though head coach Sunny Golloway left the diamond upset after the series finale Sunday.

Now, the No. 11 baseball team will try to build off winning two of three against Missouri with a one-game set with the Oklahoma State Cowboys for a non-conference installment of the Bedlam game at 6:30 tonight in Stillwater, marking the first Bedlam game played on campus since 1996.

The Sooners (25-7, 5-5) will continue with the somewhat new-look lineup Golloway has gone with since his team was swept and held to a .125 batting average against the Texas Longhorns two weekends ago.

The biggest change Golloway has made in the lineup has been the introduction of freshman Max White, who has start-ed in both the outfield and infield, as the leadoff hitter. White has started all four games OU has played since the Texas se-ries at the top of the lineup, something White said he has not done since early in his high school career.

In three of those games, all against Missouri, he led off the Sooners’ half of the first inning with doubles, giving OU some power at a leadoff position that was previously occupied by sophomore center fielder Chris Ellison. Ellison is primarily a singles hitter even though he has displayed some power at the plate, but Golloway wanted to try something new.

Golloway said he wanted to have opposing pitchers fear the leadoff hitter and feel that they had just gone through a tough battle with the very first batter they faced.

Golloway’s new experiment has worked out in more ways than just the fact White has reached scoring position to start three of the last four games in the first inning.

White is hitting .500 with two home runs, three doubles and six RBIs out of the leadoff spot, and he has proven he can put fear into opposing pitchers.

Missouri tested that fear in one at-bat Sunday, and failed. In the series finale against Missouri when the Tigers led 2-1

in the fourth inning, White had a double and single in his first two at-bats, and was coming to the plate for a third time. Two

runners were on base, and Missouri’s pitching coach had just come out to talk to the pitcher to calm him down and decide how to handle the red-hot White.

The visit to the mound did not faze White, who came out swinging on the first pitch. He missed, but on the next pitch he swung again and drove a no-doubter, three-run home run to left-center field.

If White keeps these numbers up, he will put together an impressive case for Big 12 Freshman of the Year, an honor sophomore third baseman Garrett Buechele earned a year ago.

White will continue his campaign toward the honor as the leadoff hitter tonight in the Sooners’ second biggest rivalry game of the season.

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After four agonizing months, I can be “Glee”-ful once again.

I’ve kept myself busy with that darn old school-work, that darn new Pokemon game and that darn crazy Lady Gaga, but nothing is like hearing new

“Glee” songs or watching the new “Glee” episode.

In case you do not have a televi-sion set, a Facebook, a cool friend or none of the above, this underdog of a show returns to the homes of every Gleek at 8 tonight on the Fox Network. And it will be quite the homecoming with all the hype for its back nine, or the new nine epi-sodes of the originally 13-episode first season.

Almost every “Glee” song has in-explicably made appearances on my iPod, but I’ve had this empty feeling knowing I can’t compulsively buy every $1.29 song to fill my musical needs. Fox was smart making songs available on iTunes — it certainly makes bank.

It’s been killing me that I can’t hear Lea Michele’s built-in belting box of a voice or Cory Monteith’s at-tempt to have one.

It’s all pretty much going uphill from here. Not to mention, but I should mention, every

Broadway star under the marquis-sun will strangely show up in Lima, Ohio, until the season ends re-portedly June 8: Idina Menzel (not as the mom of Michele’s Rachel, but the rival glee club coach), Jonathan Groff (Rachel’s future boyfriend/rival glee club lead), Neil Patrick Harris (our glee club adviser Will Schuester’s former classmate), Kristin Chenoweth (again!) and a cameo by Olivia Newton-John.

Madonna-themed and Lady Gaga-themed epi-sodes are in the works, with the former airing next week with an accompanying album, as well as an original-song episode with ballads written by legend Diane Warren.

The premiere episode in September proved “Glee” wasn’t just a passing bedtime story, but an entire storybook of song, dance and romance, with a little spice thrown in several times an episode in the guise of the deadpan wickedness of Sue Sylvester (Jane

Lynch). Did I mention I pulled a Faith Hill (as in, I yelled

“What?” when she lost) when Lynch lost her well-de-served Supporting Actress Golden Globe? Well I did, and if anything, this proves creator Ryan Murphy and his team of epic writers had better upgrade their breakout Cheerios coach’s role in the highly antici-pated “Finally!” to the dramedy.

After all this I think it’s been easily established that yes, I am a Gleek (no shame in liking a great show, right?), and I still will be if this show stays awesome. That should be easy.

Alex Ewald is a University College freshman.

Sure, we’re known for our leg-endarily hot physiques, but the impending degrees of summer may perplex even the most siz-zling human specimens. The summer months can not only improve our natu-ral tans, but can bolster our internal health as well. Just as important, though, is our ability to tame this beast of heat and not find ourselves baking in a fire of health risk.

So, let’s start by get-ting “fired up” about this fast-approaching sum-mer heat. Exercise in the heat im-proves your overall fitness level, develops your ability to exercise, increases your tolerance to heat and helps prevent the intoler-ance of heat that oc-curs with age. Overall, heat needs to receive more recognition for its redeeming qualities.

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It’s not all sunshine and smiles, however, when it comes to blazing summer temperatures. Exercise in hot weather puts extra stress on your heart and lungs. Moreover,

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MGMT“Congratulations”9.1/10.0Key Tracks: “Flash Delirium,” “Congratulations”

In a reactionary effort to avoid a lifetime spent playing sold-out stadiums to hundreds of thousands of adulating fans, MGMT recorded a doozie. “Congratulations” is a nine-track

psychedelic mess complete with cryptic overtones that’s sparked debate amongst critics the world over. 2007’s “Oracular Spectacular” earned the duo hailing from Wesleyan University plenty of mass ap-peal, selling over a million copies thanks to hot singles “Kids,” “Time to Pretend” and “Electric Feel,” though that clearly wasn’t the artists’ aim.

The guys of MGMT are tremendously talented as songwriters, so much so that they earned spots opening for Radiohead and Paul McCartney due to the enormous

popularity of songs they never dreamed would crash the pop charts. “Congratulations” is a direct effort concentrated at alienating casual listeners, a tactic artists rarely employ because, well, casual listening tends to generate a lot of income.

That said, few recordings in recent memory have gener-ated as much anticipation as has “Congratulations,” largely thanks to an aggressive multimedia campaign directed by the band’s management (please forgive my punnery). Savvy commanders of the Internets knew about the album ever since the band started blogging about it shortly after the be-ginning of the new year.

As far as this reviewer can tell, the entire thing lacks a cho-rus, and Wayne Coyne is likely at fault.

When The Flaming Lips hooked up with MGMT in studio last year to record “Worm Mountain,” one of the former’s best tracks from “Embryonic,” one of last year’s best albums, the latter clearly gleaned a template upon which they went about recording. “Congratulations” and “Embryonic” both listen as morbid, cryptic and unrestrained, lacking traditional song structure and instrumental roles.

But they also listen as complete records. From opening song “It’s Working” to the finishing title track, the band pushes through at a beautiful ebb and flow pace, altering vocal effects while spinning a revolving door of funk guitars, synthesizer melodies and acid-drip, muscular bass lines. Every here and there, it pauses a moment to exhibit a clarinet solo or build on a rhythm, as it does to breakneck pace at the end of “Flash Delirium,” the album’s most frenetic and terrifying moment, before being replaced by an organist’s take on the campfire song “I Found A Whistle,” where its imagery gets creepiest.

“Such conviction/to paint all the walls with the blood/of the young and the faithful and the good,” VanWyngarden offers over a serenading wall of sound.

If you find yourself with a free 12 minutes sometime soon, give the album’s anchor, the lengthy “Siberian Breaks” a lis-ten. It alternates in pace and style often enough that they could have probably broken it up into a handful of songs, and the lyrics are consistently difficult to understand.

It’s further evidence of its wish to confuse casual listen-ers of the more straightforward tracks like the anthemic “Time to Pretend” and dancey “Electric Feel” from “Oracular Spectacular.”

To cap it off, the electric tricksters save their least-elaborate track, “Congratulations” for the end of the album, just after the instrumental “Lady Dada’s Nightmare.” It’s a pleasantly morbid cap on a pleasantly morbid record, one that’s consis-tent from start to finish.

True fans fascinated by its strangeness ought to find it massively enjoyable and also find encouragement in the band’s creative range.

If Goldwasser and VanWyngarden figure out how to com-bine “Oracular Spectacular”’s pop sensibilities with their enormous free-form creativity on “Congratulations,” then their next album could well be labeled a modern classic.

DR. DOG“Shame, Shame”8.8/10.0Key Tracks: “Shadow People,” “Shame, Shame”

Toby Leaman and Scott McMicken have discovered some futuristic mechanism to distill and bottle pure charm. The al-ternating lead singers for Philadelphia-based indie pop band Dr. Dog have apparently been chugging away at its particu-lar batch of brew for just over a decade now, and the result is “Shame, Shame,” its seventh studio album.

Of 11 terrific tracks (13 if you buy it on vinyl!), “Shame, Shame” lacks something that constitutes the bulk of most records these days: filler. A rigorous listening reveals it’s without a throwaway or rushed track or maybe something that didn’t get developed in time for the release. The credit goes to their adherence to genre. American indie pop was born out of the catchiest and most creative Beach Boys songs, most notably from the album “Pet Sounds” which registers the longest track at a mere three minutes and six seconds. Why fix what’s not broken?

But into an album lasting just under 40 minutes, Dr. Dog packs a lot. It ranges from lazy psychedelia (“I Only Wear Blue”) to straight-up cymbals-crashing rock and roll (“Where’d All The Time Go?”) and pure pop (“Jackie Wants a Black Eye”) before riding off into the sunset with the title track.

The band immediately endears itself to its listening audience with the happy horns, cooing and handclapping of “Strangers” and Leaman’s lyrical claim that there aren’t any more tricks up his sleeve, though that certainly can’t be said about the band’s songwriting prowess. Flip on “Station” to hear McMicken give a convincing audition to sing for The Band, somewhere between Levon Helm’s country swagger and Richard Manuel’s gentle falsetto.

The album’s greatest strength is the bare-all attitude in Leaman and McMicken’s songwriting. “I used to suffer alone,” the former sings on “Shame, Shame”. “I used to write it all down, hoping someone would read it years from now/ I used to act like I was in a movie, so mysterious and misunderstood.” Even for happy pop, such darker experience is the best stuff for great songwriting (see the eternal example of this in “God Only Knows” from “Pet Sounds”). You can’t rise to the top without starting at the bottom.

“Shadow People” tells a cute story about McMicken’s life in west Philadelphia with all the “crazy, flamboyant characters and a lot of porch life and coffee shops,” as he told Express Night Out in a recent interview. It’s his “Penny Lane,” and it’s absolutely gorgeous, an early highlight on a record packed full of them.

Matt Carney is a professional writing junior.

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