Oct. 16, 2009 I The Clarion
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Homecoming weekend preview
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by Katherine McKittrick
Staff Writer
Voting for Homecoming Court will be
gin this week. All voting ballots will be at
the bar in the lobby in the cafeteria during
lunch and diimer when a CAB member is
available.
The first opportunity to vote will be Oc
tober 21, which is highlighting day. High
lighting day is the day to nominate anyone
you think should be crowned homecoming
king or queen. You do not have to only pick
for your year
The next voting dates are October 22-23.
On these days, the most highlighted names
go on a ballot. During this part of the elec
tion process, you can only vote for your
grade and only vote for one person.
On October 26-27, voting will focus on
the top couples in each grade.
Finally, on October 28 or 29: wiimers
will be contacted.
Other homecoming activity is the dance
on Halloween. The dance is in the Reserved
Diiming Hall from 10:00pm-l:00am. The
dance is a costume teamed best outfit in each
category (best homemade, most unique, best
couple, scariest, and fuimiest) will win a
prize. At midnight, the wiimer will be an
nounced. Our DJ this year is Brooke ‘The
Beast’ Seaman.
Also coming up is a casino night, October
23 from 8 pm-11 pm in the underground.
Look out for more information about
other awesome events happening around
campus.
Obama deserves Nobel Prize for improving international relations
by Slater Rhea
The Oklahoma Daily
U-Wire Content
Since last Friday, people around the
world have expressed confusion and high
emotion over the announcement by the
Norwegian Nobel Committee that it had
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to President
Barack Obama.
Many have ridiculed the decision as
based only on the period of 11 days between
the president’s inauguration and the nomina
tion deadhne.
As it stands, he has presided over the na
tion a mere 10 months upon being awarded
the prize.
Some chalk it up to his “star power” and
his undeniable popularity in foreign capi
tals. That Mr Obama remains yet to achieve
great or final successes in issues foreign or
domestic is scarcely deniable.
But his election is for many clear reasons
a new moment for America and the world.
His approach of strong, deliberate but
unclenched engagement has fostered new
and refreshing relationships with alhes and
foes, and aimounced a new era of interna
tional detente on vital world issues.
Now, many of the criticisms are vahd
if we are to see the Nobel Peace Prize as
strictly an award for lifetime achievement
in peace-making or humanitarian action.
Certainly this is among its purposes.
But this prize, founded to recognize “the
person who shall have done the most or best
work for fraternity between the nations,”
can hardly be limited to the petty station of
recognition.
And in the grave times we live in, the
tmstees of such an award caimot lose sight
of the long-standing broader implications
of its honor
Indeed in these past days, many have cit
ed the 1984 award to Archbishop Desmond
Tutu, who offered dignity and sohdarity to
his people’s cause, and encouraged the re
sistance to and eventual abolition of South
African apartheid 10 years later
Some awards, like the 1978 prize to
Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat and
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
reward a peace still not yet achieved, but
no less needed.
I was among those who feared the early
and gratuitous lionization of then-Senator
Obama, and this remains a concern for me
and many for a variety of reasons.
The president is a man, imperfect in
more ways than supporters would care to
enumerate or consider And considering his
responsibilities and the dense challenges
we face as a nation, he deserves reasonable
expectations.
But in a world starved for vital leadership
and plagued with more problems than can
be enumerated or sanely considered, people
are nostalgic for a time when American will
and reason, matched with that indefatigable
courage and talent could be relied upon for
anything.
Anyone closely following the course of
please see 'Obama' p. 5
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