STUDENTS TO MAKE JOKES FOR SCHOLARSHIP

The Union Programming Board will sponsor a Comedy Fight Night at 7 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s food court.

OU students will get up on stage and compete for the honor of being named the best stand-up comedian at OU. The winner will be awarded a scholarship for being the class clown.

Comedian Michael Palascak will host and emcee the comedy night in the union. Palascak is a working comedian who has been featured on Home Box Office, Comedy Central and the Web site funnyordie.com.

All OU students are able to participate, but must sign up in the union before the start of the comedy show. Students not participating are allowed to watch for free.

-Jono Greco/The Daily

UOSA TO HOST HUMAN RIGHTS WEEK EVENTS

In an effort to promote student activism, the University of Oklahoma Student Association will hold a series of events for Human Rights Week, Monday through Friday.

“Human Rights Week is dedicated to the promotion of human rights awareness,” as stated on the UOSA Web site.

Human Rights Week features a range of events including panel discussions, a film screening and a live concert. For more information search UOSA presents: HUMAN RIGHTS WEEK 2009 on Facebook.

-Jessica Jernigan/The Daily

SPEAKER TO EXPLAIN FAIR TRADE BUSINESS

Norman Fair Trade and OU Department of Geography will host speaker Manish Gupta, founder of Handmade Expressions, at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Monday, Nov. 16. Gupta will speak about his business, which sells Fair Trade certified products, and what Fair Trade has meant to him and Handmade Expressions.

The event will start at 6 p.m. with an involvement fair featuring OUr Earth, Student Organization for Fair Trade, Norman Sustainability Network and the Physical Plant. For more information on Gupta and his business, visit www.handmadeexpressions.net. For more information on the event, visit ourearth.ou.edu.

-Breia Brissey/The Daily

STUDENTS ABLE TO VOTE FOR FREE WEEZER CONCERT

T-Mobile, Motorola and the band Weezer have teamed up to give the school with the most votes a free Weezer concert and a $25,000 donation.

Students can vote for the concert and the donation by voting on Facebook.

The Facebook group’s name is T-Mobile USA. Once in the group, students must click on the CLIQ Challenge and vote for the University of Oklahoma.

It does not cost anything to vote, and does not require any registration. Voters do not have to be a customer with T-Mobile.

As of Thursday, OU was ranked number 40 with 833 votes. The leading school was Florida State University with 7,772 votes.

Voting ends Nov. 30.

-Ricky Maranon/The Daily