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minutes. “Scream,” which
1 consider a recent clas-
sic, was thrilling because
after work unnerving.
Furthermore, a hor-
UOSA should drop us
versus them’ mentality
And what was even more
unnerving, the murderer
to
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Jacqueline Clews
Annelise Russell
Cassie Rhea Little
ing in l.ausanne, Switzerland, our cur-
rent destination
Matt Carney is a professional writing and history
junior He Is studying abroad In London this
semester.
Jelanl Sims I* a professional writing and religious
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This is unfortunate. What
could (and should) have been
an article about student activ- yOU CAN COMMENT AT
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irrelevant pro-choice v. pro-life
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TO HEAR MORE ABOUT MATT'S ADVENTURES
ABROAD, READ HIS OCT. 27 COLUMN ONLINE.
trees are the same case.
On an overcast day, northeast
Oklahoma is a dead ringer for the thick
woods of the center of the European con-
visited tinent. And I’m suddenly overcome by
the sense that I'm going home.
Katie Fox, UOSA president, presides over a meeting on Sept 29
in Adams Hall.
Senior Online Editor
Multimedia Editor
Sports Editor
Life & Art* Editor
Editorial Adviser
Advertising Manager
Jamie Hughes
Meredith Moriah
Charles Ward
Ricky Ly
Will Holland
Michelle Gray, MerrHI Jones
for a good jolt, only to
emerge dissatisfied and
you didn’t know who the annoyed. They just don’t
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Th< pas’ures and forests that compose
the south German countryside race past,
and 1 realize that it’s not so different a
scene from rushing up 1-44 between OKI.
and Tulsa.
They share the alternating yellow and
issues in society just as a heavy drama
does.
It should shine a light on the real-life
horrors that exist in the world and encour-
corporated the suspense and tension of a
secluded hotel with a woman at the mercy
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COMMENT OF THE DAY »
In response to Monday's news story, on campus was dumbed-
Reproducthe rights week planned down to a pathetic and
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of her insane husband.
“A Nightmare on Elm Street" was hor-
rifying because everyone has to sleep and
deal with nightmares.
“Rosemary’s Baby was scary because it
played into the anxieties and fears every
woman has about giving birth.
Horror is reality twisted slightly, where
Will Holland, opinion editor
dailyopinlon@ou.edu • phone: 325-7630 • fax. 325-6051
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memories of Oklahoma
We bought crepes from a stand, but
they proved nothing to write home
about. It looks like I’ll just have to wait a
week to have a proper Parisian
one.
Our noses went numb after
I—several hours outside, so we
! retreated into a pub to warm
Pm up and watch the hundreds of
► J rowdy soccer fans pass through
F V Old Town Square waving scarves
k M and banners, all flanked by po-
lice in full riot-control attire.
Night cafne early, and were
it not for the many costumed
tourists out and about, the city
would’ve turned into a gigantic horror
film set, with its endless cobblestone
streets, bell towers, marble arches and
The requirements to run for UOSA
president may soon change thanks to a
bill the Undergraduate Student Congress
will discuss tonight.
If the bill gets approved, students must
serve on UOSA’s executive or I
branches for at least three semesters or
eligible to run for UOSA president.
The consideration of this potential
change, in addition to UOSAs battle
against the Oklahoma Students for a
Democratic Society, a group fighting tor
student government reform, mark the
emergence of a definite “us versus them”
mentality among the leaders of OU’s stu-
dent government.
The “us” in this case would be those
leaders, and the “them” would be the
students those very same leaders are
supposed to represent.
They just don
October is over, and I will miss the hor- doing wrong
ror movie marathons.
1 have been a fan of the genre since 1 can
remember.
1 dashed for the horror watchers today,
section whenever 1 visit- I
ed the movie rental store movie should invoke,
and watched everything
from “The Howling” to
“Scream." 1 even man-
aged to get a hold of those
That is, unless the movie has
Each time I go to a
n, mistake to show horror movie, I go with
such as*“Haiioween" and the monster in the first five my hopes Up, looking
“A Nightmare on Elm
Street."
Coincidentally, it is my self-education in
horror movies and love for the genre that
fodder that is parading through movie the-
aters. 1 find overdone franchises like “Saw"
and time wasters like “The Unborn” that was the person closest
IWibrings'me to my second point. Hl» ro, moMe should speek to dte import
Each time 1 go to a horror movie. 1 go not outrageous gore or 0V®rt^nt“P
with mv hopes up, looking for a good jolt, sters that scare people. It is tho
only u/emerge dissatisfied and annoyed. (Ions closes! to reality that scare peop
They Just don't make honor movies like most p ------ feaIS and defeaI .hour
fuels my disappointment with the current killer was until the end. ma^e horror INOVieS like
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Cows, brown and white, laze around
in the green pastures that border quiet
villages with their crumbling indian-red
stucco roofs. Little farmers huts
hang around outside like outli-
ers, like the kids who didn't get
invited to the party.
Every now and again we whizz
right up alongside one, close
enough to notice a little garden
or an old woman wrapped in a
headscarf and thick, blue wool
performing her daily chores.
the city we’ve just passed. No
underrstaund,” responds the
ticket checker with a curt shake of her
head.
le^iu^ with thdr U-ods. OneS p,„vt.sa„ e„o[m00,
bust, though our quack leader did prove
useful by pointing us in the direction
of the nearby supermarket where we
stocked up on cheap food for the morn-
After another visit to a local pub, we
find our way back to the hostel for a short
nap before the too-early wake up call to
check out and catch the train.
Men with guns on their hips and
POLIZEI” emblazoned on ihe arms of
their sweaters interrupt my typing by
" Praguewas our point of departure, and asking for passports. They hassle a near-
in between lay a 14-hour skid through by Canadian before moving along their
the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria way.
and maybe even a few other countries we
won't ever know we passed through.
Prague on Halloween was a spectacle.
We spent the day winding through the
famed Old Town district, starting with
northand vvest moslZeVltav^RiveJ, green grasses, and the fall colors in the
up the countless Old Castle Stairs and
finally to the legendary Prague Castle,
where we idled about for an hour or two,
enjoying the view of the city.
Somewhere along the line we
the Franz Kafka Museum and found an
old train car on display that had trans-
ported Jews across the continent during
the Holocaust.
My companion haggled with a local
store owner over the price of a pair of mit-
tens, eventually settling on 150 crowns.
Die Oklahoma Daily
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Managing Editor
Aiiiitant Managing Editor
Night Editor
Opinion Editor Judy Gibbs Robinson
Photo Editor* Thad Baker
t make horror movies like they used to
itself in the annals of movie history.
Unfortunately, today's horror mov-
ies don’t seem to incorporate suspense,
creepy situations or reality at all.
They just throw 25-year-olds who look
like teenagers into a string of scenes filled
with annoying orchestra music, cheap
scares and nudity that make the watcher
i. laugh at the stupidity rather than jump
On a positive note, movies like the re-
cent “Paranormal Activity show promise
for the horror genre. It won’t exactly prove
to be an iconic classic like movies of the
past, but it does incorporate reality and
Perhaps Hollywood won't get it wrong
forever.
But, until good horror movies are re-
leased consistently, 1 suggest everyone
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takes" I want to remind them about what
made movies like “The Exorcist and Ihe
Shining" masterpieces that still scare
Suspense is the first device a horror
String instruments blaring when some-
one . .. ......
is not scary.
done its work building
movies" I was initially tension beforehand.
banned from watching, It’s a i-------— -
This is definitely not a good thing
Although we think UOSA is often largely I
ineffective, it still must be accountable to
students.
But excluding the vast majority of the
legislative student population from eligibility to run
-------t for UOSA president would definitely be a
on UOSA in the past does not mean he
or she is incapable of doing a good job in
the position.
In fact, bringing in someone with a
lack of UOSA experience may actually
benefit the group because it would allow
UOSA to be led by someone with a fresh,
outside perspective.
We fear that once someone has spent
too much time serving on UOSA, he or
she begins to become disconnected from
the student body.
This disconnect shows
■| itself as UOSA battles
Oklahoma Students for a
Democratic Society in the
group’s attempt to get stu-
I dent government reforms
| on the ballot in November
| for students to vote on.
I All Oklahoma Students
I for a Democratic Society
| wants to do is give stu
3 dents the opportunity to
vote on their proposed re-
forms. But UOSA is try ing
to stifle this effort, which is
I extremely unfortunate.
Maybe the Oklahoma
Students for a Democratic
Society reforms wouldn’t
be successful in making
UOSA more accountable,
but it’s certainly worth a
try-
After all. what U( ISA is
doing right now doesn
seem to matter.
For proof of this, just
take a look at voter turnout
> in UOSA elections. Only a
small fraction of students
vote because most of them
obviously don’t care.
Perhaps potential
accountability minded
mxpcin rotoa-.h the v r >forms would make stu-
qc nts care.
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sticks with you after you
leave the theater. It sneaks
up on you when you have
to participate in the activ-
ity that sent the protago- .
nist on his or her terrible tension to greateffect,
adventure.
A good horror movie
makes commonplace ac-
ingawalkor drivinghome boycott the many duds coming out until
X work unnerving. filmmakers gel the message.
I'm ready to see horror movies made
in the spirit of the classics that received
Academy Award nominations and con-
tinue to scare us decades after their
creation.
Americans doze all around, col-
shirt boasts of surviving a pub crawl.
Another's head is cocked at an uncom-
fortable angle, his face mottled by the
stubble of a long weekend.
We race to the top of a hill, and a
beautiful valley right in the heart of the ‘ngjrain ride.
European continent reveals itself. 1 take
pleasure in enjoying the sight alone, like
it’s some kind of secret treasure.
I'm traveling with a currently uncon-
scious high school friend of mine study-
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