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Dennis Scott and the MLK Celebration Choir perform gospel music for the audience at the Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration Thursday in the Health Science Center’s David L. Boren Student Union.

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n OU policeman blocked traffic as Sooners silently marched across Stonewall Avenue Thursday on OU’s Oklahoma City campus.

Participants keep the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. alive each year with a silent march, a speech and performances organized by the OU Health Sciences Center’s African American Student Association.

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“It’s important to understand where our rights come from and how we maintain them by being engaged politically and socially with what’s going on,” said Margaret Phillips, OU occupational and environmental health professor.

Phillips said she remembers when she was a child and she saw a picture of

King speaking into a microphone with flowers in front of him. She asked her mother why he had flowers in front of him, and she said he had just been released from jail.

“This made me think well gosh, I didn’t think people were honored just out of jail,” she said. “It made quite an impression on me – civil disobedience.”Remembering King caused OU alumna Shontelle Dixon to consider

what her family went through for her to have the opportunities she has today, like getting an education.

“In the 60s, I would not have had this opportunity to complete my master’s degree,” Dixon said.

Members of the association hope the event will encourage people to use Martin Luther King Jr. Day not just to take a break from work and school, but

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1963: organized a demonstration in downtown Birmingham, ala.; the march on Washington 1964: received nobel peace prize; Civil rights act passed

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assassinated in memphis, tenn. by James earl ray

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Volunteer fair showcases ways Monitor Oklahoma for Sooners to serve community connects the gaps Students ‘always welcome’ to help

Professor recieves nonprofit approval on database of K-12 education data

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Local organizations gathered on the South Oval, giving students the chance to volunteer as part of Campus Activities Council’s Winter Welcome Week.

CAC hosted the volunteer fair in conjunction with its A New Year, A New YOU campaign, and Thursday’s theme was “Help Others More.” Volunteer organizadonterio LiGons/tHe daiLy tions distributed informa- Business junior Jose Escapa signs up Thursday to volunteer for tion fliers, stickers, pens and the Community After School Program during the volunteer fair. bracelets at the fair.

The Regional Food Bank food to low-income families, said. of Oklahoma, the Women’s she said.

The fraternity already has Outreach Center, Alpha Phi Representatives from 150 active members.

Omega , the Community the OU Women’s Outreach “We’re basically like a big After School Program and Center were finding vol- family,” Pody said. “We will CAC’s Soonerthon were unteers for their upcom- get together, study, go to among the organizations ing Pink and Black Ball and movies… and of course we that set up will have fun helping our “We’re basically like distributing tables. i n f o r m a - community.”

Volunteers a big family. We will t i o n a b o u t The coed service fraternia r e a l w a y s get together, study, a w a r e n e s s ty will start its Spring Rush welcome events, pro- events Tuesday to recruit a t t h e f o o d go to movies… and g r a m m i n g and inform members, Pody bank, volunof course we will c o o r d i n a - said. teer retentor Melanie “If you can think of a sertion coordi- have fun helping our Adams said. vice project, we’re probably community.” nator Denice Alpha Phi doing it, or as soon as we Hurlbut said.

Omega, the hear about it, we will start riCKy PODy, VOLUNTEEr The Regional nation’s larg- getting people to do that serFood Bank needs students est co-ed service fraternity, vice,” Pody said. to prepare food kits, deliv- attended the fair to attract The Community After er food, as well as grow and students interested in lead- School Program also was harvest food from its garden, ership, friendship and serwhich it uses to send out vice, volunteer Ricky Pody

An online journalism project founded by an OU professor recently received nonprofit status, allowing it to keep providing overlooked information to the public in an organized and accessible way.

OU journalism professor Christopher Krug and his wife Kirstin co-founded the project called Monitor Oklahoma in 2011. The project aims to collect, decode and organize data regarding the primary and secondary public school systems in the state, and then to present that data in an easily accessible format.

“He’s really tackling something he doesn’t think people are writing about or talking about, and that’s K-12 education,” said Chase Cook, former student of Krug’s and researcher for Oklahoma Watch, another journalistic nonprofit.

The hope is a more complete understanding of the way schools run will stimulate and facilitate informed DEFiNED conversation about ed501(c3) status ucation among ordinary citizens — a phenomenon receiving 501(c3) that is currently stunted status from the by the difficulty of finding irs designates the clear, relevant data via a foundation as a Google search, Krug said. tax-exempt nonprofit After reading an ediand thereby enables torial about Oklahoma it to receive taxdeductible donations state schools, Krug said he from individuals and had been unable to find support from big enough data to answer his foundations. 501(c3) questions. organizations must “If I, as a journalism not use any profits for professor, couldn’t find personal interest and information that satislobbying privileges are fies my information need, limited. other people couldn’t either,” Krug said. As the

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Today around campus Women’s Gymnastics will compete against Denver at 7 p.m. at the Sam Viersen Gymnastics Center.

Art Exhibition: The 99th annual School of Art & Art History Student Exhibition opening reception begins at 7 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, followed by an awards ceremony at 8 p.m. The exhibition features art by OU School of Art and Art History students. The exhibition will remain on display until Feb. 10.

Cate restaurants are closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend Final day to register or add a class: Students may add the first week of classes for fall, spring and summer without approval of instructor.

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to let King’s service inspire them to serve their own communities, Dixon said.

“I hope that people can remember Martin Luther King and give back to the community by doing service for every student,” Dixon said.

King’s service to future generations inspires students as they study public health at the OU Health Sciences center as well.

“It goes along with our professions as health care providers,” said Darci Bray, OU medical imaging and radiation sciences junior. “Just remembering what he stood for and trying to apply that.”

Bray said King ’s work affects her personally because of what her mom went through. Bray’s mom remembers having to sit at the back of the bus with her grandmother when bus seating was segregated by race.

“I feel the importance of trying to understand what he stood for and how it’s affected everybody,” Bray said. After the silent march,

Women’s Tennis will compete against Wichita State at noon at the Headington Family Tennis Center.

Women’s Basketball will play Texas at 2 p.m. at the Lloyd Noble Center.

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searching for student voluneteers to participate in literacy tutoring, nutrition and homework help programs, program manager Chloe Kliewer said.

“We look for volunteers who are committed and

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database matures, it will provide context for the issues surrounding Oklahoma’s education system, allowing Oklahomans to better understand those issues and to better answer the question of how well the system educates kids, Krug said.

“A tenet of journalism is providing information to the people so they can self-govern,” Cook said. “So that’s the whole point. I’ve always valued journalism, but I didn’t really understand that value until I met Professor Krug.”

With 1,744 schools in 523 school districts in Oklahoma, there’s no shortage of data to wade through, according to the project’s website. The database is filled with teacher/ student ratios, expenditures per student, administrator contact information and the grades schools receive. All of this must be translated out of obscure, coded spreadsheets put out by the State Department of Education before it can be organized into straightforward data tables anyone can use.

“Our information will only be as good as the original data. It depends on how rigorous we are to make sure it’s accurate,” Krug said.

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speech, each dancer saying choir performance and a one line at a time, finishing speech by Honorable Judge in unison with “free at last” Vicki Miles-LaGrange. and beginning their dance routine. The routine was followed by an energetic gospel

who are good role models,” Kliewer said.

CAC’s Soonerthon chair and vice chair attended the event to promote their March philanthropic event.

Previously known as Dance Marathon , the event benefits the Children’s Hospital Foundation, event chair John Fraser said.

“It’s not a traditional volunteer opportunity, but it’s just as philanthropic as every other volunteer opportunity because everything we do is for the kids,” S o o n e r t h o n v i c e c ha i r Miranda Konowitz said.

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participants walked to the third floor lounge of the David L. Boren Union where the Star Spencer High School Blue Feline Danceline recited King’s “I Have a Dream”

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The Star Spencer High School Blue Feline Danceline perform a dance routine to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.

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individuals, according to its website.

All Monitor Oklahoma financial expenditures are documented cent by cent on the website, both to provide transparency and to help other hopeful nonprofits understand the cost of starting an online news organization, Krug said.

Total expenditures from July 2011 to April 2012 total about $7,000. Aside from a total of two donations from individual donors adding up to about $4,200 so far.

“We’ve just paid it ourselves,” Krug said. “We’re n o n -p ro f i t b e c au s e w e wanted to find a business model that creates jobs for journalists.”

As the dissemination of information increasingly moves from the printed page to the Internet, journalism will be forced to change its business model.

“Good journalism isn’t a commodity, it’s an investment,” Cook said. “What the nonprofit model does is say, ‘you invest in us and we will

provide this service,’ and you can create jobs that way by finding people who want to invest, who want to be a part of it.”

Krug is currently in the process of building the business model for Monitor Oklahoma, planning to upload at least one new data set each week, though five or six have already gone up this week, he said.

If there is data related to a school or school district, the goal is to eventually have it all on the site, Krug said.

Eventually, the founders hope to include a “topics” section of the website, Krug said. These will be wiki-style pages defining and explaining institutions and terms.

Because the ultimate goal of the project is to educate citizens and stimulate conversation, Krug expects social media will play a role once the project takes off, he said. He has recently started a Monitor Oklahoma Google community, and Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus already have a presence on the site.

“Some people do Instagram or blog - my blog is Monitor Oklahoma,” Krug said. “It’s my hobby. If that can help some people and help them learn, then that’s some good I’ve done.”

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Last year, 394 attendees raised more than $10,000 at the ball, said K.C. Moore, a graduate assistant at the Women’s Outreach Center.It will be open to all OU students, faculty, staff and the Norman community. There will be a jazz band performance during for the first hour of the evening, with a disc jockey playing for the remainder of the night.

“We serve heavy hors d’ouevres, mocktails and our ever popular chocolate fountain,” Moore said.

Raffle prizes including a signed OU Bob Stoops football, personal training sessions at Huston Huffman, restaurant gift certificates and a spa day will also be given. Tickets are on sale for $15 in advance and $20 at the door.

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Editorial

Norman civil rights legacy needs recognition Our View: Norman should continue its tradition of

civil rights activism.

Norman has been radically transformed since the 1950s. In that era, the color of your skin determined whether you could buy a house on Chautauqua Avenue or attend Norman High School.

George Henderson joined the OU faculty in 1967 and became the first black person to purchase a house in Norman along with his wife Barbara.

While no formal laws prohibited the sale, informal practices previously had segregated black families.

He has long been an advocate for diversity.

Despite Norman’s long history of civil rights activism, we still do not have a large event celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We at OU should promote our own Martin Luther King Jr. Day events that celebrate him and Norman civil rights efforts.

When we remember King, we must remember the world he lived in and look around at the world we live in today. King was more than a civil rights activist, he was a revolutionary. His day ought to be remembered as the beginning, not the end, of greater racial inclusivity in American life.

The struggle for civil rights was nothing new when King became an The Our View is the majority executive member in the National opinion of Association for the Advancement of The Daily’s Colored People in the 1950s. King nine-member did, however, bring the concept of editorial board peace to the struggle through his leadership in the first nonviolent protest by African Americans in U.S. history.

The bus boycott protests he helped lead in 1956 were the start of an intense struggle for AfricanAmerican rights. King’s home was bombed and his

life was threatened. supporting this event, but we would like to see an But the struggle continued. event on the Norman campus next year.

King worked tirelessly for civil rights causes from When asked about the reason for not having any voting to labor until he was assassinated on April 4, events on campus, the Black Student Association 1968, in Memphis, Tenn., while supporting a sanifaculty adviser Brandon Oldham said students focus attention on Oklahoma City. He went on to tation strike. point out that Martin Luther King Jr. Day someThe story of the civil rights movement is not the story of one man. King’s life gives us a picture of times occurs before classes begin. the work and sacrifice of thousands of We hope in the future students will men and women from all backgrounds demonstrate the need for an on-camGO AND DO who are part of protecting the rights of pus event — and for more campus focus MLK Day Americans. on all kinds of activism — by showing Parade And the struggle continues. their support for the African American Spurred by King’s efforts, activists Student Association and civil rights orWhen: 2:00 p.m. since the 1960s have continued to advoganizations of all kinds.

Jan. 21 While confined to a jail cell for staging cate for racial equality, and these efforts Where: Broadway a nonviolent protest in Birmingham, have incredible impacts. and NW 7th in Ala., King wrote, “If the inexpressible When giving his famous “I Have Oklahoma City cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the a Dream”speech, King did not even opposition we now face will surely fail.” dream of having a black president.

It is not lost on us that King wrote these words in President Barack Obama would not have been able the margins of a newspaper, the only paper he had to vote in some places in the country 60 years ago, access to. As we write this semester, we hope to but now he is our nation’s most prominent leader, continue on the path of social justice and inclusion and discussion of President Obama’s election cenKing walked on. tered on politics, not race.

Our mountain is not as high as slavery or segreMany smaller, but no less significant, results of civil rights activism exist. Children from all backgation, but we must keep climbing to justice and grounds share classrooms and fountains, and there equality.

If you did not attend the rally on Thursday, it is is less stigma associated with interracial couples. not too late. Events are happening all weekend, But more work needs to be done, and OU students are part of this effort. Thursday, OU’s African including a parade on Monday in Oklahoma City.

After attending an event, please contact the Black American Student Association held a silent march Student Association and show your support for an at the Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City to event on campus next year. raise awareness. Some students from the Norman campus also attended the event.

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Twitter support key in the release Students suffer, scrape, sacrifice to support Sooner football, coach of immigration activist’s family OPINION COLUMNIST

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ast Friday, #WeAreAndiola ignited Twitter, amassing support for a DREAM Action Coalition (DRM) advocate and undocumented immigrant, Erika Andiola, whose mother and brother — both undocumented — were detained days before.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) did not ask any questions or present a warrant. The detainees didn’t have a criminal record, they were just in the country without legal documentation.

Detaining undocumented immigrants who do not have criminal records is a strain on U.S. resources and directly violates the Department of Homeland Security’s reforms, which aim to prioritize deporting only those with a criminal record. Social media should continue to serve as a watch dog, enabling communities to quickly share injustices the media and government officials don’t prioritize.

Last week, Phoenix set the stage for protests and outrage from the immigrant rights community, but the injustices spread through Twitter, allowing the entire nation to become involved.

A Facebook group was created, complete with a script for those interested in calling ICE to become

involved. Tweets directed others to the address of the Department of Health and Human Services office to support Andiola in her rally.

Andiola released a YouTube video, pleading for others to become involved.

This is exactly how social media should be used, but we cannot stop here. Real change only can be realized through legislation at the national level.

This happened after the Obama administration made headlines following the release of 2012 deportation numbers. The ICE deported 409,849 immigrants last year, up from 396,906 in 2011. These are record numbers that have gone unmatched since the 1950s.

Though DHS has adopted reforms to prioritize deporting immigrants with a criminal record, many of those deported have clean backgrounds. Deporting harmless individuals is counterproductive to the country’s mission to safeguard the U.S. The Obama administration should not strain resources to detain undocumented immigrants who aren’t dangerous. This does make the country safer, and it demands an astronomical amount of resources.

If the current administration wants to create a safe country, we should be looking at the threat U.S. citizens pose, too. Let’s attend to education, social and economic policy before we focus on ridding the country of undocumented immigrants.

Twitter Feed #WeAreAndiola @benwinograd Had Maria Arreola stayed inside her home, ICE agents could not have lawfully arrested her. @UNITEDWEDREAM 3k signatures for our petition! Thank you & it’s not over yet. We still have to ensure Erika’s family doesn’t get deported. @dreamelder @BarackObama stop separating our families injustice 2 one is unjustice 2 all. @TheADAC We stand behind you Erika! @evrivera88 Not one more family separated! @isaiasreyna #weareandiola we are ready to fight for our friend and the rights of all families @maria4az Please share this petition to release Erika’s mom and brother. @UNITEDWEDREAM If you are in AZ join @ErikaAndiola at 8:30 AM to support her in a rally at DHS office 2035 North Central Ave. @DREAMBigVegas Our families cannot continue to be separated because of antiquated immigration laws that don’t take families into account.

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s a full-time stuBut students who do not Opinion Columnist dent, I don’t have have season tickets, or those all the money students who work one, two in the world to spend on and sometimes even three things. I have to be frujobs each semester just to gal with the little money make enough money to pay I’ve earned from my past for tuition, food and other jobs so that it’ll last me important necessities may throughout the school be unable to afford a couple Alex Niblett year. It’s not like I have the of football tickets. It’s not fair alexandra.g.niblett@ou.edu salary of a football coach. to them.

College students have Since students keep the a lot of important things to pay for, but university running, they should be considevery student deserves to splurge on ered and student ticket prices should be something fun every once in a while. lowered.

College football games fall into the More times than not, OU football games fun category. All college students should are completely worth attending, even if just have the opportunity of experiencing at once. In the stadium, the Sooner spirit is so least one game, but some students who powerful and captivating. It is awesome to are tight with money may not be able to see how so many people come to life and afford them. cheer throughout the game.

Student football tickets vary in price; Even if you are not a football fanatic, you sometimes they are around $25, while should definitely try to experience an OU others are worth up to $75. The universifootball game during your time at OU. ty puts a lot of attention toward encourOf course, football games are not the only aging Sooner pride but limits student ac- games students should experience at OU. cess to sporting events that are a key part If students can save $5 on a football ticket, of the student experience. they can use that money If student ticket prices elsewhere, like at a men’s decreased, more students basketball game.

In depth could afford to attend a The decrease in football Coach’s salaries game or two a season. ticket costs could give stuIt is disappointing that dents the additional opporOU football coach prices are so high, espetunity to support more than Bob Stoops was paid cially when a portion of just one sports team at OU $4.55 million in 2012. that ticket purchase conwhile staying within budget.

If you think that’s tributes to the exorbitant Lowering ticket prices for a lot, consider the yearly salary of the footstudents is not asking too highest paid coach in ball coach. much. If OU paid Stoops a the U.S., Alabama’s coach Nick Saban.

The average salary for smaller salary and put the He was paid almost college football head available funds toward tick$5.317 million in 2012 coaches in America is ets, students could secure a alone, according to $1.64 million. greater opportunity to attend USA Today’s database If head coaches get more football games thanks of college football paid millions of dollars to affordable football tickets. coaches’ salaries. per year, students should Students are the key to not have to pay as much change. If students demand for a football ticket. If lower ticket prices, the athOU can afford to pay Bob Stoops a rather letic department will listen. large salary, the school clearly has the We might not be donors or alumni, but we funds available to allow a decrease in tick- cheer and yell the loudest. et prices.

Use that voice to ask the athletic departSome people are not football fans, and ment for lower ticket prices next season. they probably couldn’t care less about the price of a ticket because they will never Alex Niblett is a journalism junior. buy one.

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ooner football is on the rise.

Don’t believe me? I don’t blame you.

It’s hard to put a positive spin on the 41-13 drubbing the Sooners suffered at the hands of Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl Classic, especially when you consider OU soundly beat essentially the same team — minus, of course, the Aggies’ Heisman-winning freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel — last season, 41-25.

But as good as Manziel is, his presence alone shouldn’t create a 44-point swing.

So how do you handle such a sour end to an otherwise successful but disappointing season? Relax and look forward to next year.

The knee-jerk reaction is to clean house.

Fire everyone. Start anew.

But let’s be real: You don’t fire a coach who’s won 147 games, eight conference titles and a national championship — you give him the benefit of the doubt.

OU isn’t going anywhere. The Sooners are still one of the best programs in the nation, and they’re only going to get better.

Hear me out: There’s no arguing the Sooners lost their fair share of talent, namely the early departures of juniors Kenny Stills and Tony Jefferson and the graduations of quarterback Landry Jones, offensive tackle Lane Johnson, defensive lineman David King, cornerback Demontre Hurst and punter Tress Way.

But OU still returns 14 starters — eight on offense and six on defense — from a team that won 10 games and a conference title.

Perhaps the biggest concern for the 2013 squad will be replacing Jones. But the Sooners will have a stable of productive running backs, a bevy of talented receivers and four-fifths of an offensive line with a year of playing together under its belt to ease the transition of whomever succeeds Jones under center — most likely sophomore Blake Bell, but redshirt freshmen Kendal Thompson and Trevor Knight both have an outside chance of winning the job.

Defensively, there are plenty of question marks: The Sooners will have to retool an already thin defensive line, find some semblance of a linebacker corps and replace half of a secondary that was the strength of the defense.

But another year of familiarity with Mike Stoops’ “simplified� defense — which, obviously, wasn’t quite as simple as it was billed, made evident by the excess of timeouts called to make sure everyone understood their “simple� assignments — will bode well for next year’s defense.

So in 2013, OU will boast a more experienced offensive line, return a deep backfield and receiving corps, field a defense that better understands its scheme and introduce a true dual-threat quarterback.

Sounds like a recipe for success.

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f Sooner Nation is good at anything, Although the offense is in a better sitit’s overreacting when something goes uation than the defense, it will have to go wrong with the football team. through a transformation with a new startSo, here’s a possible overreaction. ing quarterback under center.

Things are not looking good for the proWhether sophomore Blake Bell, redshirt gram that is coming off an embarrassing freshman Trevor Knight or a dark horse loss against Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl emerges as the starting quarterback, this ofClassic. fense is going to have to go through changes Although that one game is not a reason with a focus on its QB’s running abilities. to complain about the team’s possible diAlso, if college football has taught us rection, there was enough anything in terms of ofevidence during the last few fense, a program needs to games of the season that have some form of running could hint at some growing game — whether it’s from Check out Dillon pains during the next few the running back corps or a Phillips and Jono seasons. running quarterback. Teams Greco’s Friday The most obvious probthat are able to run tend Face-off podcast lem facing this Sooner to be playing for national for more in-depth squad is the defense. championships.

In OU’s last five games Just look at former college discussion about — against Baylor, West players like Tim Tebow, Cam the state of Sooner Virginia, Oklahoma State, Newton and the group of football.

TCU and Texas A&M — the running backs Alabama has oudaily.com/sports defense allowed 189 points produced the last four years: and 2,675 yards, which defiThey all have proven a pronitely are not numbers you want your degram needs to be able to run the ball. fense allowing as the season progresses.

OU, on the other hand, has struggled Although the team went 4-1 during that on the ground since 2008. You can blame stretch, it hardly can be proud of what it put the backs, the offensive line or the team’s on the field those nights. If anyone says so, scheme, but the simple fact is OU has not they’re lying to either themselves or to you. been much of a running threat since forBy the end of the year, players were out of mer OU running backs Chris Brown and position more than they were in position, DeMarco Murray roamed the backfield. and if they were in the right spot, they could This trend does not seem to be changing not complete the play and make an openanytime soon — the offensive line is built field tackle. for pass protection, and the primary back And the fact Tom Wort and Tony Jefferson has been a revolving door of flavors of the have declared for the NFL Draft says things month. may not be great in Soonerland.

OU fans, you can be concerned about the They could be jumping ship solely for offense or the defense, but either way, things starting their pro careers and earning a pay- could get a little rough in 2013. Expect a check, or they could have seen what was in 2009-esque season rather than a 2010-like store for the defense in 2013 and wanted year. out.

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When: 3 p.m. Saturday in Manhattan

When: 7 tonight at Lloyd Noble Center

Who: Texas

Who: No. 16 Kansas State

Who: No. 11 Denver

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When: 7 tonight in Cedar Falls, Iowa

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Women’s tennis When: Noon Saturday at Wadley Indoor Pavilion Who: Wichita State

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Show will benefit Mongolian children Eclectic concert to be hosted in OKC

GO AND DO Jeff Mangum and Tall Firs

Briana Hall

Life & Arts Reporter

An upcoming “fuzz” folk concert in Oklahoma City w ill benefit Mongolian children.

Jeff Mangum, lead singer of Neutral Milk Hotel, will perform Saturday at The Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma Performance Lab, according to the OPOLIS website.

For each ticket sold, $1 will go to Children of the Blue Sky, a charity that helps remove poor Mongolian children from the count r y ’s ha r s h s t re e t s a n d conditions.

While the singer has been known to take part in other activism (for example, his involvement in Occupy Wall Street), he has consistently been involved in this particular charity, said Martina Radwan, founder of Children of the Blue Sky. Mangum isn’t the only one who will perform in order to benefit the charity Saturday night.

Tall Firs, a band based out of New York City, has been traveling with and opening for Mangum for a string of shows, which will include the upcoming performance in OKC, said Dave Mies, one of the two members of Tall Firs.

Though Mies described their evolving style of music as derived from “different things at different times,” he said it is always dependent

When: 7 p.m. Saturday Where: ACM@UCO Performance Lab 329 E. Sheridan Avenue, OKC Info: This show is currently sold out but check social media for updates.

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Above: Dave Mies (left) and Aaron Mullan (right) of alternative rock band Tall Firs will open for Jeff Mangum at a concert this Saturday.

Left: Logo for Children of the Blue Sky, a grassroots foundation that helps abandoned Mongolian children rebuild their lives.

“Instead of throwing money at a charity, I prefer meeting the children...and providing basic necessities.”

personal, as his wife, a filmmaker, at one point worked with Radwan after shootmartina radwan, founder of children of the blue Sky ing a separate documentary on children in the streets on “neat places and neat other half of Tall Firs, Aaron current tour and Mangum. of Mongolia, Mies said. people,” and its depth is rep- Mullan.

M a n g u m’s r e l a t i o n - Mangum has contributed to resentative of the long-time Mies had nothing but ship with the charity can the charity since its foundbond between him and the good things to say about his be considered somewhat ing in 2008, Radwan said.

Mies said Mangum’s fans are the most sensitive, community-centered and emotionally connected with their music that he has ever seen.

Radwan said the effects of the concert’s monetary contribution to Children of the Blue Sky will undoubtedly be both immediate and long lasting in the lives of the children considering the resources she will subsequently be able to provide.

“I use the money to take a series of trips to Mongolia and help the lives of six or seven children,” Radwan said.

She said she has come to know these children personally, as she takes two to four trips every year. “ In s t e a d o f t h row i n g money at a charity, I prefer meeting the children, giving them livestock, an education, and providing basic necessities,” Radwan said.

Briana Hall briana_hall@ou.edu

Community event

Norman Philharmonic will host American composer Sunday in celebration of first anniversary Norman Philharmonic will celebrate its anniversary with a spring concert featuring a guest composer Sunday.

The Philharmonic will perform three pieces by guest composer Michael Daughtery at the concert, which will start 3 p.m. Sunday at the Nancy O’Brian Performing Arts Center.

Richard Zielinski, artistic and music director for the Philharmonic, said that he talked with several business members of the Norman community about starting a professional chamber orchestra with 25 to 30 players.

“We tried to establish

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this orchestra in kind of a nontraditional way,” Zielinksi said. “There wasn’t one here, and we wanted to make it a nationally known chamber orchestra.”

The resulting celebrated orchestra focuses on more classical composers like Bach. Their vision includes establishing an orchestra, promoting American composers, developing an educational element and getting young people involved in their diverse programming, Zielinski said.

The orchestra will perform Daugherty’s “Raise the Roof” for timpani and orchestra with timpanist

Lance Drege, “Trail of Tears” for flute and chamber orchestra with flautist Valerie Watts and “On the Air.” “[Daugherty] is one of the most performed American composers currently.” Zielinski said. “He’s not only writing for orchestra but for band also.”

Zielinski said he thinks the concert has something for everyone.

“It’s for the community of Norman. What we’re trying to establish is an orchestra that’s the people’s orchestra,” Zielinski said.

Collier McKinnis Life & Arts Reporter

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