The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 88, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, October 29, 2004 Page: 3 of 16
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• Friday, Oct. 29,2004
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Students face food dare
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A MESSAGE TO THE OU FAMILY
From President David Boren
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Asian Fear Factor Food
Competition contestants ate
cockroaches and maggots.
The open forum
discussion will be
hosted by The Daily,
as the main campus forum for
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DAILY STAFF WRITER
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DAILY STAFF WRITER
Sincerely,
David L. Boren
President
The University of Oklahoma
Alcohol Panel
• 7 p.m. Monday
• 200 Dale HaH
• The panel will include Rennie
Cook, Director of Student Life
associate dean of students,
Norman Police Chief Phil
Cotten, Karie Jacobson,
Panhellenic president, Ryan
Pitman, Housing Center
Student Association president,
Cindy Rosenthal, Norman City
Council member, Dean Spears,
UOSA president, Lee Warren,
The Oklahoma Daily editor,
and Omar Zantout,
Interfratemity Council president.
• OU journalism professor
Kathryn Jenson White will be
the moderator.
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Asian Fear Factor Food Competition
• This was the first event sponsored by the
Asian Student Interest Advocates
• The group formed Io unite Asian students
and those interested in learning about Asian
culture.
• Contestants ate a wide Tinge of strange
Asian foods, including cow tongues, mag-
gots, cockroaches, kidneys, pig intestines
and birds' nests.
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tauts had to choose a platter of different
foods to consume.
I he platters contained the more disgust-
ing fare such as birds nests, made from the
saliva of a bird species, maggots, cow
tongue and caterpillars.
Panel to address
alcohol issues
Alex Vinh, zoology junior, eats maggots at the Asian Fear Factor Thursday night in Dole Hall,
cultures, said Jennifer Tse, ASIA secretary.
“It s just to promote the different cultures
around Asia." Ise said.
The audience responded with cheers
and gasps in reaction to the participants
challenges and (he video projected onto a
screen in front of the auditorium.
Tai Du, law graduate student and one of
three masters of ceremonies, cautioned
audience members of the possibility of par-
ticipants becoming ill during the competi-
tion.
"Were probably going to see barfing
tonight," Du said.
Contestants were disqualified at first if
they finished eating the bitter melon,
orange peel, or salted egg last.
During round three. Freddie Sinsua,
ASIA president and marketing senior, said.
“We’re definitely having this next year."
By round four, the remaining contes-
ever admit that there’s a prob-
lem." he said. “As the indepen-
dent voice of the students and before change can happen.
The event is open to every-
one.
In light of the recent events
involving alcohol-related inci-
dents and the OU community,
The Oklahoma Daily will be
hosting an open forum panel
discussion on alcohol issues
Monday, Nov. 1.
The panel, titled Dialogue of
Healing, will begin at 7 p.m. in
200 Dale Hall.
Many of the panelists who
will be present voiced optimism
that the event will be a time of
healing as well as be informa-
tive.
“I don’t see anything but pos-
itives coming from it." said Phil
Cotten, Norman Police Chief
and panelist. “ The discussion is ways, it was our duty to get peo-
ple talking."
Warren said (he format for the
panel will consist of opening
Housing questions addressed to the pan-
elists, moderated by Kathryn
about real concerns of the
Norman community and not
only the university community."
Ryan Pillman,
Center Student Association
president, finance senior and lenson White, journalism profes-
sor and executive director of the
Oklahoma Scholastic
Media/Oklahoma Interscholastic
Press Association, followed bv a
town hall-style question-and-
answer session from the audi-
ence.
Rennie Cook, director of the
Center for Student Life, associ-
ate dean of students and pan-
Because of the importance of the meaning of commencement ceremonies at an academic institution, I wanted to share with you the
full text of my recent statement on that subject. As we struggle through a crucial period in the history of our country, the university as
an institution is more important than ever.
The community of teachers and scholars at great universities helps us put into perspective the challenges which we face. It is critical
that we find ways to appropriately honor our academic mission and to explain its importance to the outside world beyond our gates.
Over the next few months we will also carefully study ways to appropriately recognize and honor those students who finish their
academic work prior to the spring semester who may not be in a position to return lor spring commmencetnent ceremonies.
Final participants in the Asian Fear
Factor Food Competition faced off to win a
$400 cash prize Thursday night in Dale
Hall.
The final two contestants, Alex Vinh,
zoology and biomedical science junior, and
Bao Dinh, University College freshman,
had to consume a platter containing pig
intestines, kidneys and cockroaches.
Dinh, who won the competition, said the
cockroaches were the most difficult to eat.
“It was tough," he said. “They were tough
to chew and the flavor was really nasty."
Dinh said the cockroaches tasted salty
and mud-like.
Vinh, Dinh's final competitor, said the
hardest part of the competition was the
entire platter.
“My jaw was already tired (by the middle
of the last round |," Vinh said.
The second-story auditorium in Dale
Hall was filled with students from all
nationalities to watch the first event spon-
sored by the Asian Student Interest
Advocates.
Student competitors had to complete
five rounds, eating such Asian fare as ant
eggs, eel, duck gizzards, crickets, octopus
tentacles and durian, a stinky Asian fruit.
“Later on, it’s going to be more and more
exotic,” said Scott Nguyen, microbiology
and botany senior, of the round progres-
sion.
Participants in rounds one and two had
to devour bitter melon and orange peel.
Judges required them to open their mouths
to show they had finished the round.
Through the first rounds, the contestants
put on a serious front.
ASIA passed orange peel and salted egg
for the audience to sample as the rounds
progressed.
The dried orange peel had a chewy tex-
ture with a salty aftertaste.
Channara Chea, University College
freshman, was among the brave audience
members to try the salted egg.
“I eat this at home anyway," Chea said,
“It’s nothing nasty."
Local Asian restaurants donated the food
for the competition.
ASIA, an organization new to OU this
year, formed to unite Asian students and
those interested in learning about Asian
“This is why we have only one single commencement ceremony each year where
degrees are conferred. We seek to make it truly special with speakers and honorees
of national and international distinction. Convocations were never intended to
become substitute graduation ceremonies.
“I was not aware until last week that convocations were being held by some
colleges as substitute graduation ceremonies in December. While I am sure that it
was an unintentional oversight, this practice was never presented to the President's
Office for approval. Since I took action to cancel the December convocations which
were being held by some colleges, I have learned that several families had been given
notice of these events several weeks ago with specified dates. In addition, I have
learned that some parents had even saved up leave time and made transportation
and lodging reservations to attend, I do not feel that it would be fair to students
and their families for me to make them bear the hardship of canceling long-made
plans because of an unintended series of actions by the university. For that reason
I will make a one-time exception to allow the convocations which had already been
scheduled for this December to go forward as previously announced.
The University of Oklahoma is an equal opprortunity institution.
“All across the country we see signs of growing fragmentation in our society.
Fewer and fewer occasions and causes bring us together as a community. The recent
election season demonstrates the cancerous impact of increased polarization and the
stereotyping of one group by another.
“As a university we seek to build a strong sense of community. We seek to educate
students, who as citizens and future leaders will work to bring us together as a
people.
“The commencement ceremony is arguably the most important shared ceremony
of the entire academic year. It brings together the entire university family.
Formal ceremonies are important rituals which symbolize our unity, our sense of
community, and our commitment to free academic inquiry. Degrees are granted
by the university as a whole and not by separate colleges. I he commencement
ceremony symbolizes the education of the 'whole person.' A university is more than
just the sum of its academic parts. It is not just a collection of individual colleges
dedicated to different disciplines. It is a unified institution. It is what Jefferson
called the ‘academic village.’
panelist, also said he feels the
problem is not focused directly
on the university campus.
“I wouldn't say there's an
alcohol problem on campus,
but there's room for concern off
campus," he said.
Pillman said the problem
occurs when some students
don't know their own limits,
especially first-year students, elist, said he's looking forward to
He said the panel is a chance for answering students’ questions
student leaders to join together and getting feedback about the
with students and confront a alcohol policies on campus,
growing concern. “As we look at the issue, this is
Lee Warren, The Daily editor, a national issue." he said. "There
English writing senior and pan- are 1.400 alcohol-related deaths
elist, said The Daily created the annually. There’s no cure-all
panel to do just that. solution."
"You have to talk about it Cook said it will take the
because if you don't, no one will whole community coming
together and saying this is an
issue that needs to be addressed
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