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Vol. 84, No. 139
NEWS IN BRIEF
THE LIGHTER SIDE
INSIDE TODAY
really into the show," he
Stompdown page 2
Nations
highlights
culture
Nineteen killed in Marine
aircraft crash in Arizona
U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia
to begin moving out
Letter carriers told to walk
after rise in runaway trucks
Ralph Fosfe/The Daily
Children ride an elephant at the 24th annual Medieval Fair at Brandt Parle. An estimated 130,000 to 160,000 people attended the fair
SCANDALS
WINNERS
WHEN
& WHERE
Hear ye! Hear ye!
Gather round and yon town crier shall
proclaim the answer to the plaguing question
of t’age.
Do honorable and pious friars wear Teva-
brand sandals?
I'he answer from the estimated 130,000
The Independent Student Voice
of the University of Oklahoma
Paul Dryden/Ihe Daily
Members of Delta Sigma Theta perform
during Stompdown on Saturday night at
Lloyd Noble Center.
Evont:
Russian
author Andrei
Vosnesensky
When:
7 tonight
Where: 211
Dale Hall
Women's
division:
Alpha Kappa
Alpha, OU
chapter
Mon's
division:
Alpha Phi
Alpha,
Southern
Methodist
University
chapter
Evont:
Russian
author Zoya
Boguslavskaya
When:
4 p.m.
Tuesday
Whore:
Gittinger
Lounge
*
Bush and Moby
played Lloyd
Noble on Friday
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TODAY'S
WEATHER
Today:
Partly Cloudy
Hi 72, Lo 50
Tuesday:
Mostly Cloudy
Hi 61, Lo 47
1st place:
Chi Omega
and Beta
Theta Pi
2nd place:
Pi Beta Phi
and Sigma Phi
Epsilon
3rd place:
Delta Delta
Delta and
Kappa Sigma
Sarah Jennings/The Doily
Communication sophomore Jill Bass and
marketing sophomore led Downing sing
and dance in the Chi Omega/Beta Theta
Pi act in Sooner Scandals.
Keith Diwwiddie
sports@daily.ou
The OU football
team's defense
racked up
12 sacks during
Saturday's
scrimmage.
page 11
The Indonesian
Student Association
won for Outstanding
Cultural Performance.
Cheyenne Hopkins
news@daily.ou.edu
The annual Medieval Fair
at Brandt Park near the
Duck Pond has grown
since its inception in 1976.
. e d u
over the weekend.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The
United States, which has come
under criticism for maintaining mili-
tary forces in Saudi Arabia nine
years after the Gulf War, is moving
some of its 4,000 airmen out of the
desert kingdom, a U.S. military offi-
cial said Sunday.
It was not immediately clear if the
change was linked to a growing
unease in the Saudi government
about hosting U.S troops Besides
Saudi Arabia, other Gulf states have
been criticized by their own people
and by other Muslim nations for
hosting U.S. military bases.
Besides the 4,000 airmen, anoth-
er 1,000 U.S. troops are based in
Saudi Arabia.
The audience danced almost as much as the per-
formers at the 18th annual regional Stompdown on
Saturday.
The OU chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha won
first place in L— ---------------------------
Methodist University’s chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha
won first place in the mens division.
please see ►
to 160,000 visitors to the 24th annual
Medieval Fair probably could be phrased as:
“Who cares?" The fair, the only one
kind sponsored by a university, was
bringing a fantasy world of fun to the area in
Brandt Park near the Duck Pond.
So if the friar shows a little flash of 20th
century mass production or
that she routinely has to turn
booths away.
With the push for space, some have sug-
of the new features at this year’s gested moving the fair away from Brandt
Park. Linn said she didn’t think the fair
would leave the Duck Pond anytime soon.
“None of them (the other proposed loca-
tions) have the magic of the park, she said.
WASHINGTON — The govern-
ment "will do what is necessary" to
reunite Elian Gonzalez with his
father soon,
a lop Justice
official said
Sunday, as
lawyers for
the boy's
Miami rela-
tives warned
that the fami-
ly can't con-
trol protesters
if they stand in the way.
Attorney General Janet Reno
refused to discuss the use of force as
a last resort except to say such plans
have not been presented to her for-
mally.
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MARANA, Ariz. — A Marine
Corps aircraft attempting to land
during a nighttime training mission
crashed and burst into flames, killing
all 19 aboard and aciding to a
checkered history for a new breed
of hybrid plane that can take off
and land like a helicopter
The MV-22 tiltrotor Osprey is
part of a new generation of aircraft
scheduled to eventually replace all of
the Marines' primary troop-transport
helicopters The military began flying
the aircraft six months ago
was part of a group called
OU’s international students cele-
brated the 30th annual Eve of
Nations on Sunday.
Eve of Nations showcases the ritu-
als and cultures of the different coun-
tries represented at OU, said Sohee
Shin, EON public affairs officer.
Seventeen Cleo Cross scholar-
ships were awarded, as well as the
Paul and Rose Sharp Outstanding
International Student Award, award-
ed to Malaysian Student Association
President Raymond Wee-Nam Saw.
The first Sue Williams
International Student Service Award
was presented to Manoranjan Paul,
member of the India Student
Association.
Students performed traditional
songs, dances and childrens games
from a variety of countries.
At the end of the evening, awards
were presented to outstanding inter-
national student organizations.
The India Student Association
won best large organization, and the
African Student Association won best
small organization.
The Outstanding Cultural
Performance Award for song and
dance was awarded to the Indonesian
Student Association.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Letter car-
riers around New England are
being forced to walk more of their
routes and make fewer stops
because of repeated accidents in
which parked mail trucks rolled
away
By May, mail carriers will also
be issued blocks that they will have
to put under their wheels every time
they get out of their vehicles
The southeastern New England
district, which includes Rhode
Island and southeastern
Massachusetts, has had seven inci-
dents in the past 18 months, said
Christine Dugas, a Postal Service
spokeswoman in Providence.
Two Russian writers will visit
OU today and Tuesday. Poet
Andrei Voznesensky and his wife,
prose writer Zoya Boguslavskaya,
will present some of their latest
work at separate events.
“We are all delighted and hon-
ored that two of the most promi-
nent and distinguished contempo-
rary Russian writers will be here for
two days,” said David Clark, associ-
ate editor of WbrZrZ Literature Today.
Vosnesensky will present his
“videoms” at 7 tonight in 211 Dale
Hall. A “videom” is poetry accom-
panied by visual images.
“Andrei Voznesensky is going to
do a presentation Monday night
that will be sort of avante-garde,”
said R.C. Davis, director of World
Literature Today.
Vosnesensky has been one of the
most popular poets in Russia since
the 1960s. However, the topics of
his poems often put him out of
favor with the Russian government.
Voznesensk}' has been criticized by
Soviet leaders for his willingness to
challenge political norms. He was
even threatened with deportation
and had his works banned for sev-
eral years.
“The national art in Russia is
poetry, especially political poetry,”
Voznesensky said. “But it is still
dangerous.”
Voznesensky’s popularity in
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Anthony Odom, civil engineering sophomore
and Stompdown staff member, said everyone did a
Students from Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and ?°°^ j0®- , t .
Missouri filled half of Lloyd Noble Center with
The scary movie phenomenon, the popular
television show Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, the
cartoon icon
Pokes were not
Sooner Scandals.
Sold-out audiences filled Holmberg Hall on
Friday and Saturday to see six skits from 12 OU
organizations during Sooner Scandals, a Campus
Activities Council event.
To ensure that the acts were more individual
and creative, Scandals Director Mary Harris put
limitations on the acts. Ute skits could not be
based on a love storv or a movie, said Harris, let-
ters junior. The acts’ themes and scripts had to be
approved by Harris.
“It helped the direction of the show, so you did
not see the same thing over and over, Harris said.
“All of the acts were incredible. 1 here was so
much talent, and they were so individual. We
pushed creativity thus year.”
Sarah Cavanah
news@daily.ou.edu
Stompdown fills Lloyd Noble
“1 think we entertained the crowd,” said Brad
Johnson, president of OU’s Alpha Phi Alpha frater-
nity.
OU’s Alpha Phi Alpha won second place fol-
lowed by Langston University's chapter of Alpha
Phi Alpha. Second- and third-place winners in the
women’s division were Langston University’s chap-
ter of Delta Sigma Theta and OU’s chapter of Delta
the women's division and Southern Sigma Theta.
Sooner Scandals plays to sold*out crowd
Ann Richard, letters sophomore and Pi Beta
Phi performer, noticed the difference.
“This year’s program was based on showcasing
talent rather than competition,” Richard said.
Twelve awards were presented. The overall first-
place winner was Chi Omega and Beta Theta Pis
Charlie Brown and the Stillwater performance of Charlie Brown combined with
safe from the antics of this year's James Bond.
After the announcement of the winner, Rob
Cunningham, Beta Theta Pi director and zoology
sophomore, hugged the winning trophy.
“We had a good theme, good songs and a lot of
energy,” Cunningham said.
Many Chi Omega performers agreed that their
energy helped them win first place.
“We had a lot of energy that was consistent
throughout the act,” said Alesha Riggle, Chi
Omega performer and public relations sopho-
more. “It’s an amazing feeling.”
The judges consisted of people with musical
backgrounds, former Sooner Scandals performers
and OU staff, said 1'nsha Dean, aviation and busi-
ness sophomore and Sooner Scandals executive
please see ► Scandals page 2
Birds of Prey. In addition to letting passers-
by hold the birds, the group also gives
of its speeches about how the birds were used and
about what’s happened to them since then.
Linda Linn, Medieval Fair coordinator,
said she will start planning next year’s fair
immediately. The fair started in 1976, with a
the Singing couple of booths on the South Oval. Since
Executioners (Smee and Blog) sing parodies then, Linn said, the fair has grown so much
of “Strangers in the Night,” it’s forgiven by
the audience — especially since it’s free.
Noble resident Josie Trevino took advan-
tage of one
fair by holding a live falcon.
was kind of nervous 1 would drop it,”
Trevino said.
I'he falcon
Julia Fiedler
news@daily.ou.edu
Missouri filled half of Lloyd Noble Center with “Usually, in past years, the talent wasn’t as
shouts and cheers in support of the 13 perfor- ^ual, he said.
mances throughout the night. He of thls was in amount of aud1'
The opening prayer, led by Kurtis Massey, Black cn<* Participation.
Student Association president, was the only time ' *’*•’ crow<^ was
the crowd was completely silent.
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