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CHRISTY MARTIN — The Oklahoma Daily
GIVING BLOOD — Red Cross worker Jennifer Jennings draws blood from Rosty
Walker, University College freshman, in the Oklahoma Memorial Union on Thursday
as part of Howdy Week. The activities end tomorrow with the Baloney Rodeo.
Oklahoma Memorial Union.
The event will close Howdy
Week activities.
“Basically, we get on stage
with no preconceived ideas. Our
act comes from the audience,”
union
money will go to
corrupt officials.
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ful,” he said. “It was not the India
I expected, but it was the one I
wanted to see.”
tant to the vice president for
Administrative Affairs.
OU is participating “so that
all the phone books on this cam-
pus don’t go to the landfill,”
Lacewell said.
“Landfills are filling up all
over the nation,” he said. “It’s
not a critical problem here, but
we’ll run out of land before
long.”
Lacewell
“I wrote a bunch of letters to
local businesses explaining the
What Baloney Rodeo,
an improvisational comedy show
When: 8 p.m. tonight
Where: The Will Rogers Room of
Oklahoma Memorial Union
Cultural Solutions, said this is a
great opportunity for college stu-
dents.
“Most of our volunteers are col-
lege students or recently graduat-
Uoyd Noble Center parking lot
(southeast corner)
Firehouse Art Center, 444 S. Rood
Ave.
12th Avenue Recreation Center, 1701
Northeast 12th Ave.
Sooner Fashion Mall, 3301 W. Main
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parts of the union,” said Pitts,
microbiology junior.
Plans for the film festival will
take it to the top of the parking
garage with a more realistic movie
screen, Pitts said. Pitts, also said
he hopes to see this change by the
end of the semester.
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The OU football team will practice in
Tulsa on Saturday. 14
and weekend programming, and
outside is a neat atmosphere,” said
Laura Wegener, union program
coordinator.
The outside film series started
this summer and was called the
Summer Spotlight Series. The
average attendance of 100 was
good for a summer activity,
Wegener said.
“Not only students came this
summer, but local Norman fami-
lies, too,” said Adam Pitts, Union
Programming Board president.
Free popcorn and sodas are
served, and some of the union food
court vendors stay open later on
books, particularly thick ones,
do not disintegrate quickly.
“I’ve seen 40-year-old ones
that were buried and unearthed
that hadn’t begun to deterio-
rate,” he said.
Recycling Assistant Lorene
Hutcheson said OU prefers to
contract with regional companies
to save on shipping expenses.
movie nights, Wegener said.
The film series is sponsored by
theUPB.
Some of the movies shown are
not yet released on video and will
be shown in 16 mm film formats.
The movies, which are already on
video, will be shown by long-throw
video projection.
The series has been scheduled
through Oct. 1. UPB members
plan to continue the series, but a
roofing project for the union will
make the coordinators find a new
home for the Fall Film Festival.
“At different parts of the year,
they will be taking up different
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A rockabilly festival comes to
Oklahoma City Saturday. 15
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Film festival shows movies at union
Free popcorn and
soft drinks will be
served.
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tion.
“There is one part of the rodeo
where we have the audience
Administrator Clarke write down a sentence on a piece
Stroud said. Stroud is one of of paper,” Stroud said.
eight comedians in the Baloney
Rodeo.
sational comedy show in which
the comedians involve the audi-
ence in skits.
The show starts at 8 p.m. in
the Will Rogers Room of the attending.”
Because of it’s improvisational
nature, the Baloney Rodeo
Amy McFall
NEWS@DAILY.OU.EDU
Students spread out on blan-
kets or perched in lawn chairs may
become a familiar sight on the east
side of the Oklahoma Memorial
Union as the Fall Film Festival
begins Saturday.
Shakespeare in Love will be the
first movie shown in the series,
which includes Notting Hill, The
Matrix and Prince of Egypt.
“We wanted to do some evening
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month-long camping trip in 100 him to go.
degree weather, sleeping on the
The football and
basketball
announcer taught in
India this summer.
Stephen Spruiell___
news@daily.ou.edu believe how much I took for grant- costs, Miller said. I"
Jim Miller tMgtrt OngiBh in ed before It was like going on a Homeland grocery stores paid for to women’s empowerment.”
India this summer, but he said he month-long camping trip in 100 him to go. Oommen said. “Eveiy kind of skill
is needed.”
The first item on the itinerary
was a three-day stay in New
Delhi, the capital of India, for an
orientation to the program.
Miller’s group had 25 people.
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encourages audience participa- Tuesday through Project
ReDirectory, a cooperative ven-
ture between OU and
Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages.
A collection bin will be at the
southeast comer of the Lloyd
Noble Center parking lot, said
Randy Lacewell, special assis-
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Slobodan Milosevic said the United
States had a role in Serb deaths. 10
as well as a 25 percent monthly
surcharge on cellular telephones,
investors dumped Some experts estimate the mea-
sures could raise $20 billion a year.
The proposal would also give
Laughs, Baloney-style,
ride into union tonight
The comedy troupe
Baloney Rodeo will
perform at 8 p.m.
Natasha Crespo
N EWS@DAILY.OU.EDU
The audience will decide the
fate of a group of comedians par-
ticipating in the Baloney Rodeo
tonight.
Courtesy of Jim Miller
SIT BACK — Jim Miller, OU football and basketball announcer, sits with several of the children he taught English and physical education in India this summer.
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Saturday Shakespeare in Love
Sept 3 Notting Hill
Sept 10 The Matrix
Sept 24 Prince of Egypt
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All movies are free and begin at 9 p.m.
Justin DuBois, vice chairman
for Howdy Week, said he has
seen the Baloney Rodeo program
Baloney Rodeo is an improvi- before and eryoyed it.
“They stay clean for a little
while, but then it’s no holds
barred,” DuBois said.
“It was definitely worth
Project ReDirectory recycles phone books
BuzzyHaMrick ________
NEWS@DAILY.OU.EDU
Students can recycle their
outdated telephone books until
' through
Such falls are not unusual dur-
ing major crises in Turkey, and proposals have been passed by
experts expected shares to recover, parliamentary committee and
The death toll in the quake rose widely expected to be approved by
to 13,040 dead and 26,630 injured the full assembly. The government
Thursday. Thousands of people are holds a strong minority.
believed still buried underneath The new taxes were met with
the rubble. suspicion. Although Prime
A small 3.7 magnitude quake Minister Bulent Ecevit is widely
hit the ravaged town of considered to be honest, many
Adapazari Thursday evening, fol- previous Turkish governments
lowed 14 minutes later by anoth-
Today — Party cloudy Hi 96 Lo 73
Saturday — Partly cloudy Hi 94 Lo 68
learned more than he imparted.
“It was exhausting and beauti- ground and eating nothing but
rice. It was tough, but it was an publicity opportunity,” he said,
adventure.” “Homeland thought it was a good
Miller went to India for most of idea and covered the cost of the
Miller, the stadium announcer July on an exchange program trip.”
for OU football and basketball through Cross Cultural Solutions, Sunil Oommen, communica-
a nonprofit organization that tions coordinator for Cross-
tion and more like a cure for an sponsors trips to India, Peru and
affliction that affects many college Ghana.
students — feeling broke. On the trips, volunteers teach
“It really makes you appreciate skills and American culture at
what you have so much more,” he local schools. Anybody can volun-
said. “When I got back, I couldn’t teer, as long as they can pay for the ed, but we have a program or pro-
He said ject for everyone, from health care
> women’s
Turkey approves
quake-relief tax
Some worry that the Anatolia news agency said. There
was no reports of injuries or dam-
age.
In the same town, an argument
between two families over whether
a quake-damaged building should
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Turkish be tom down led to a shootout that
lawmakers have approved new left two people dead, Anatolia said,
taxes to help pay for the earth- Desperate for cash, the govem-
quake that ravaged the country’s ment proposed a 5 percent tax hike
industrial heartland, but some on corporations, the self-employed
Turks worried Thursday that the and the wealthy late Wednesday,
funds will be siphoned off by cor-
rupt builders and officials.
Worried
shares in Turkish companies on
Thursday, sending the stock mar-
ket index plummeting about 10 the government the authority to
percent on its first day of trading increase taxes on gasoline, tobacco
since the Aug. 17 earthquake. and alcohol, but does not immedi-
Such falls are not unusual dur- ately call for such increases. The
ing major crises in Turkey, and proposals have been passed by a
experts expected shares to recover, parliamentary committee and are
Voice of OU back from India
were plagued by allegations of
er with a 4.1 magnitude, the corruption.
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