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Copelins has you covered for your back-toschool needs. It spans a long history of time in the City of Norman and is nostalgic for returning students. What does it offer and how is it helping Moore tornado efforts this year? Read on.
Editor-In-Chief Kelli Smith Art Director Kelli Smith Copy Editor Ashley Roy Photography Mark Doescher Carey Flack Contributors Stillman Bartel Jen Herrmann Chris Joseph Kelli Nicole Shelby Simpson Lacey Swope Advertising Representatives Joe Wilhite Publisher Joe Wilhite

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Finally, the world is made right. Campus and the entire city of Norman are both buzzing with people again. Schools back in session! If thats not exciting enough, its officially football season as well! This summer has been one for the history books here in the Sooner state. If youve been away, let me just tell you what youve missed. Weve had only one afternoon with temperatures above 100 degrees (theres only one) and enough rain to make this summer the sixth wettest on record. The drought has been completely washed away, and for the first time in years, people who dont water actually have to mow their lawns in August. Yes, everything is still as green as it was in May and the area around Lake Thunderbird looks like a mini jungle. For any of you outta-staters, this is probably the greenest you have ever seen Oklahoma during back-to-school time. Its always weird for me this time of year; I still get a little excited about school starting and a little nervous as well. Im not sure when that will completely fade away considering I graduated from OU three years ago. All August really brings for me now is the start of OU football and the kick off of my deer-scouting season. This year, being in the great outdoors is much different than before. As we work to get our food plots in the ground and our stands fine tuned, it seriously feels like we are in another country. It feels like we have decided to hunt somewhere tropical, like a legitimate rainforest. There is so much underbrush and the trees have skyrocketed in growth. There are nearly world-record numbers of mosquitoes and gnats to go along with it. The ponds, creeks and even rivers are all full to the max. Now we are all anxious to see what this will mean for the deer population and movement patterns. Only time will tell, but I think this season will be one we tell our grandkids about. We still have some hot, dry weather in store this month, but the rain weve seen lately will help keep the ridiculous summer heat at bay. Yes, this fantastic weather is hanging around and the stats from this summer will go down in the history books. May this school year, and football season, be one of the best to date as well! BOOMER SOONER!

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FILM & TV
Why simply watch a movie when you could infuse some competition into the event? Here are some ways to spice up your movie night and movie synopses for upcoming releases.

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SPORTS TALK

Former quarterback Landry Jones is gone and now the Sooners need to fill the position. Here Chris lists the possibilities and his guess for this season.

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CULINARY ADVENTURES
Kellis recipes are back! For this issue she has posted tempting desserts - tart lemon cake balls and rich, delicious cake batter cookies. Yum!

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Going Back
This years mild summer weather has been like a wormhole through time back to my youth in Norman. Perhaps its due to certain scents in the air or changing angles of the sunlight as it strikes through branches and leaves on my drive home down Main Street. Going back to school at Truman Elementary meant cooler weather and brand new adventures. It also meant buying brand new school supplies and desperately pleading with my parents to buy me the hottest pens (jelly rollers, the swirly wiggle pens and the multicolor pushup pens), binders (Trapper Keepers), pencil grippers and toppers (neon grippers, rainbow hair troll toppers), notebooks (Meads Five Star with tie-dye design) and Lisa Frank everything. I never got any of it, of course. My parents were too puritan. Nevertheless, the back-to-school season was always filled with intense excitement and electricity for the new schoolyear and the new world that was to come. Copelins Office Center began serving the community of Norman the same year that I was born into it, in 1983, one mile away at Norman Regional Hospital. Six years later I made my first trip to Copelins. From my time at Truman Elementary through my days at Whittier Middle School, my years at Norman North and finally all through my undergraduate and masters at OU, I can remember each back-to-school season roaming the aisles of Copelins. I was mesmerized by the stacks of blank notebooks, each offering a portal into a new and different world, all my own. I remember the smells of fresh ink and paper, warm popcorn and cookies. When I was 10 I saw my first real celebrity there: Clint Eastwood, with his wife and kids. It was all anyone could talk about at school that year. Copelins was where I found and fell in love with the perfect pen, which is a very important and emotional event for a young writer. Copelins takes me back, and not just to school. Copelins is more than just a center for nostalgia. Copelins offers the best in quality and savings for both back-to-school and office supply needs. This 30-year staple of the Norman community (as well as engaging approximately 2,500 business accounts across the state of Oklahoma) is a member of the TriMega Purchasing Association, a non-profit cooperative that brings small businesses across the country together, allowing Copelins to maintain pricing that is competitive with big business models. That means that they can pass the savings on to the customer, so that you pay less for greater quality goods and friendly, personalized service. This cooperative represents over $3 billion annually in office product sales, enabling its members to obtain products from all major office and education product manufacturers at the lowest prices available. Make your back-to-school shopping easier at Copelins, where everything your child needs for the coming year can be found on one aisle. Dont fight the crowds and long lines. Make it easy on yourself. Copelins has also set up an account to help restock needed supplies for the classrooms of Briarwood and Plaza Towers schools in Moore that were destroyed by this seasons devastating tornado. You can donate online at Copelins.com or call 405-364-7070. All donations will be evenly distributed between the schools.

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Tigers Season Preview

The Norman Tigers head into the 2013 season looking to replace the three-headed monster in the offensive backfield and will hand the reigns of the offense over to Jacob Dean, a converted wide receiver. Coach Nation and his Tigers were able to pick up a first round playoff victory last year and look to continue to build a successful football program at the tradition-proud Norman High. 2013 starts with the big rivalry matchup against Norman North at Owen Field. The Tigers look to regain the Cross Town Clash edge after falling to the Timberwolves last year. A traditional matchup against Moore followed up by the final non-district game against Yukon should have the Tiger nation aware of what kind of team they will have this year. The start of district play has the Tigers facing the Mustang Broncos and their new coach, Jeremy Dombek. The Edmond Memorial Bulldogs and Warren Wand are followed by the Choctaw Yellow Jackets and their new coach, Todd Dilbeck. The Tigers then face what should be a much better South Moore team, followed by what some in the state call the best of the west in Edmond Santa Fe. A cakewalk game with PC West is followed by the season finale with Lawton High.

Timberwolves Season Preview

For the Norman North Timberwolves, there will be a lot of questions to be answered and holes to be filled going into this season by the vacating 32 seniors that set all kinds of records for the Timberwolves in their run to a state championship game appearance. The 2013 Timberwolves have big shoes to fill, and it will all start on September 5 at Owen Field with the Cross Town Clash against their main rival, the Norman High Tigers. Just last year the game had ended with a ton of excitement and the Timberwolves pulling off a thrilling victory. The Timberwolves continue their non-district play on September 13 against 5A foe, the Del City Eagles, followed up by a matchup against the Westmoore Jaguars a team that gave the Timberwolves their only loss in the regular season on a rainy, cold night in September. District play kicks off against the once mighty Midwest City Bombers, who were anything less than spectacular last year. Follow that up with a matchup against a tough Yukon Miller squad, then, I hate to say, a cupcake in US Grant. Edmond North, PC North, Moore and finally Lawton Ike wrap up the season. North should be in the playoffs and should still be favored to win its district. Bison Witches Blue Bonnet Bar

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Movie Reviews
The Worlds End August 23 From the team that created Shaun of the Dead comes this new apocalyptic comedy about the reunion of five friends. After attempting and failing a pub-crawl that would lead them finally to local pub The Worlds End, they reunite decades later--only to realize that the title is more fitting than they could have imagined.

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Getting together with friends to watch a movie is a classic way of hanging out, but sometimes you want more than just sitting next to each other and watching the story unfold. Here are a few movie games to make your movie night a little more exciting and more fun. The Heartwarming Game To decide who gets to pick the movie for the night, play the heartwarming game. To do this, go to a video rental store or site and search the childrens section. The first person to find a movie without the words heartwarming or heartwarmer anywhere in the synopsis or reviews gets to decide the movie for the night. No repeats of movies youve used before! Murder Mystery Find a movie that doesnt fall under the murder mystery category. Watch it as though it is a murder mystery, taking bets with each other about who will be the victim and who will be the murderer. Pull out random details from the movie to corroborate your version of the plot, and see who can build the best case before you reach the ending. The more elaborate, the better. If you want to extend this past movie watching, you can transition into a murder mystery game in which you play different characters from the movie. Laugh Tracks No one is ever funnier than you are, right? Watch the movie on mute, and create your own dialogue for the characters based on their actions and expressions. You can even toss in someone as the DJ master to create a soundtrack for the movie. It doesnt really matter what movie you choose for this one, but the more dramatic is usually the better. The Big Finish Everyone pick a different childrens movie and see who can find the one with the highest number of dramatic climaxes. This one can usually last you all night, since childrens movies are a little bit shorter. If you want to get really fancy and competitive about it, you can pull out the calculator and see whose movie has the highest climax-to-running time ratio. Guess-the-Ending This game is exactly what it sounds like. Depending on how confident you feel, set a time by which everyone needs to guess the ending. Ten minutes usually makes for some interesting variations. For a little variation, pick a minor character and guess their fate by the end. This works with most movies except historical dramas - though if you get those ones wrong, you might be able to make the game even more interesting. So, get some popcorn and some prizes for your arbitrary winners, and get to it!

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They say that New York City is no place to raise a child, and so George Altman, a single father, makes the decision to leave his city life behind and bring his teenage daughter Tessa to the suburbs. Everything about suburbia is unsettlingly perfect, though, and they soon discover how bizarre their new surroundings are. The comedy switches between satire of the American suburbs and engagement with the conflicts between characters. The show was recently renewed for a third season.

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The University of Oklahoma football team has had a tradition of having good quarterbacks in its long history. Jimmy Harris, Jack Mildren, Steve Davis, Thomas Lott, J. C. Watts, Jamelle Holieway, Josh Heupel, Jason White, Sam Bradford and the out-going Landry Jones give you an idea of the quality of talent at the position for the Sooners. This year a quarterback battle has the Sooner nation abuzz with the question: Who will be the starting quarterback this year, and can they produce as their predecessors have? The Sooners are looking to replace the 367 completions at a rate of 66.1% with 4,267 yards and 30 touchdowns, all that from Landry Jones, a player that leaves with a lot of fans split on his career and whether it was a success or not. Here is a look at the guys who will compete for the signal caller spot for one of the most storied football teams in the history of the game.

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The frontrunner is no doubt the Belldozer, redshirt junior Blake Bell from Wichita, Kansas at Bishop Carroll High. Bell has become a fan favorite for his punishing style of running in the Belldozer package, and his size of 66 and 252 pounds, along with good speed, have led to his 24 career-rushing touchdowns. People wonder if Bell can throw the football considering he has more rushing touchdowns than he has pass attempts in his career. Let us not forget that Bell was an Elite-11 quarterback coming out of high school, and I promise that Coach Bob Stoops and Josh Heupel would not recruit a quarterback that could not throw the football. The main question: Can Bell handle an entire game as quarterback and not just the situational duties that he has been asked to handle so far? The young gun is Trevor Knight, the 61 redshirt freshman that dazzled the coaches last year as the scout team quarterback hailing from San Antonio, Texas and Regan High. Knight has more straight-line speed if the coaches are looking to add more of a quarterback run game. In watching him throw the ball, there is clearly a difference in how the ball comes out of his hand compared to anyone else in camp. The main questions on Knight are if he can get the playbook down and if we can trust a freshman. The guy who may have lost a chance is red-shirt sophomore Kendal Thompson, the son of former Soonerquarterback Charles Thompson. Kendal is a tremendous athlete, but his long-looping delivery does not suit the speed of the college game. Breaking his foot on the first day of practice did not help his cause as well. Kendal said when he came to Oklahoma he was prepared for competition, but we may see Kendal move to another position with the likes of freshman Cody Thomas and incoming Sooner Justice Hansen on the way. Bell will more than likely get the start on day one, but if there is a less-than-stellar performance and the offense sputters, then do not be surprised if Thomas gets the call and may not let the position go. No matter who wins the job, the team is in good hands.

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Culinary Adventures Kelli Nicole

Its easy to get carried away with all the blogs out there posting recipes with 50 ingredients and five of them having to be specially ordered from South America. I like to keep it simple sometimes, especially when Im making a cake for a function or gathering and I know my friends will want to get the recipe. Its also just nice to not have to worry about going grocery shopping for a million items before you can even whip up a dessert. So witih that, here are two super simple recipes that you can make without having to go shopping for a ton of ingredients! They are both even made with cake mix! Enjoy!

Lemon Cake Balls

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1 box lemon cake mix, baked as per directions on the box 1 container of white frosting 1 pkg. white chocolate wafers or almond bark for coating 1. Bake the cake as directed on the box. Let it cool completely. 2. Once the cake is cool, cut it up into cubes and crumble using your fingers or a food processor. 3. Spoon about 3/4 of the frosting into the crumbs and mix until well combined. This should hold together rather easily. If its too dry or still too crumbly, add more frosting! 4. Using a small spoon or cookie scoop, form the mixture into balls and place them on a cookie sheet. Try to get them as round as possible. This takes practice! Once youve formed all the balls, place them in the freezer for 30 minutes. 5. Melt the chocolate as directed on the package. 6. Get the cake balls out of the freezer and using a fork, dip them into the white chocolate and coat the whole ball. Using the side of the bowl, gently tap the fork with the cake ball on top so you can get an even coating of the chocolate. 7. Slide of the fork back onto the cookie sheet. Repeat until youre finished!

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1 1/4 C. all-purpose flour 1 1/4 C. yellow or white boxed cake mix 1/2 tsp baking soda 3/4 C. (1.5 sticks) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature 1/2 C. granulated sugar 1/2 C. light brown sugar 1 egg, at room temperature 1.5 tsp vanilla 1 C. chocolate chips 1/2 C. sprinkles 1. In a large bowl sift together flour, cake mix and baking soda. Set aside. In a separate bowl, cream together the butter and sugars on medium speed. Mix in the egg and vanilla until creamy. 2. Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and mix until just combined. Do not over-mix the dough. Fold in the chocolate chips and sprinkles. 3. Cover and refrigerate dough for at least 1 hour. 4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 5. Scoop rounded tablespoons of the cold dough onto an ungreased baking sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes, until edges are slightly browned. The centers will still appear very soft, but the cookies will set as they cool. 6. Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 4 minutes and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
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Feature Shelby Simpson

I-35 & Main Street

Familiar with the I-35 and Main Street interchange construction? It has been going on since January 2013, with orange-signed detours and sharp-toothed bulldozers shining. Its annoying, and to some businesses its detrimental, but its necessary. This article, though, isnt about our ability to deal. This is about a tidbit of construction information you may not know. The information of which I type is, as the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) puts it, a switch in plans. First, I talked to the City of Norman. Capital Projects Manager John Clink was very welcoming and informative. He not only took his time explaining details of the project but also re-explained after dropping into engineering lingo. I-35 was originally four lanes: two running north, two running south. For years ODOT has been working to transition I-35 into a six-lane highway through the metro. Currently theyve accomplished this six-lane transition from the south side of the Canadian River to the Main Street interchange in Norman. According to Clink, all six lanes couldnt fit under the Main Street bridge. This wasnt too much of a biggie because John says it was time for that bridges makeover anyway to meet current standards. ODOT started planning the facelift. They designed in-house instead of contracting. According to ODOT Public Relations office, This Main Street interchange project is not the only I-35 project designed in-house by ODOT, but it is the largest to be designed in-house. It was designed in-house because the staff wanted to design the project. The single-point urban interchange (SPUI) is also a new type of bridge to the state and ODOT wanted to make sure they could remain competitive and design the same things as the private sector. Um OK. I want to perform brain surgery. Yeah, its a big task, but Ive taken an anatomy class.

ODOT decided on a SPUI design, which is pretty awesome. The first and only SPUI in Oklahoma is at I-40 and Morgan Road in OKC (near Yukon). The Morgan Road SPUI was not designed by ODOT. Also, the Lindsey Street SPUI (which is yet to come) is not designed by ODOT either. For the Main Street SPUI, ODOT planned to use the existing I-35 lanes and overlay new concrete to create six lanes. Construction began. Then ODOT caught something. To clarify, no I-35 construction had started yet, just bridge construction. John Clink put it like this: There was a design oversight where ODOT didnt get the required clearance between the bridge and the roadway, so theyre going to be lowering the mainline. In street talk, ODOT caught a flaw in their plan and went, Oh $%#! The clearance is whack. Now theyre not overlaying. Theyre lowering I-35. Even with design oversight, Main Street interchange is due to complete on time in March 2014. Clink: ODOT is estimating it will take about 60-70 days additional work [to lower I-35 for clearance]. They think it will be within the original timeframe. Me: But probably outside the money frame? Clink: Its going to cost a little bit more money. Me: How much more money? Clink: That, I dont know. My next stop was ODOT. This story gets so funny that I had to break it into two bits. The original plans are explained. Its entitled, ODOT: One Thing They Do Know is That They Dont Know.

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