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School grading system ‘unethical’ Joint panel condemns A-F scale for schools MATT RAVIS

Campus Reporter

Oklahoma’s current means of evaluating schools is inadequate and flawed, according to a recent report authored by researchers from two Oklahoma universities.

The panel, made up of researchers from OU and Oklahoma State University , co-authored a report slamming the current “A-F” scale used to assess schools’ performances in Oklahoma. The research was commissioned by the Cooperative

Council for Oklahoma School Administration and the Oklahoma State School Boards Association, according to the report’s press release.

The current system assigns a single letter grade to schools based on four numerical elements: student achievement, student growth, growth of the bottom 25 percent of students and whole school performance, according to the A-F Report Card FAQ, issued by the Oklahoma State Department of Education.

The research found this system “contains serious threats to validity and reliability and is not salvageable in its current form,” said Patrick Forsyth, coordinator of the project

and OU education professor, in an email. “[Of the components], all have psychometric and/or conceptual flaws, rendering them invalid ... and unreliable,” Forsyth said.

The research found the system is unsalvageable. This conclusion was endorsed by Robert Linn, a former chair of the Testing and Assessment Board of the National Research Council.

In a letter to The Oklahoman, Forsyth and fellow researcher Curt Adams called the system “so indefensible that their use is at least unethical, if not illegal.”

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Private gifts to OU rise to new heights in 2013 ou has recorded nearly $140 million in private gifts in a six-month period for the first half of the 2013 fiscal year, an all-time high in both the number of gifts and their total amount, according to a press release. ou received $139,709,883 during this six-month period, 63.6 percent more than the $85,395,552 they received during the same period last year, according to a press release. “in this time of tight state budgets, private gifts to the university mean even more,” ou president david Boren said in the press release. the number of private gifts has risen 7.2 percent, from 25,734 to 27,585, according to the press release. the private gift report was given at the ou Board of Regents meeting on Jan. 24.

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Buck (left) and Clint (right) Vrazel founded OU improv during their undergraduate years at OU and went on to create OKC improv. Here, they improvise lighthearted jokes as they introduce the next speaker.

TEDxOU returns as catalyst for ideas OU hosts event to prompt creative academic discussion BENNETT HALL Campus Reporter

TEDxOU returned to OU for its second year this past Friday and transformed the second floor of Oklahoma Memorial Union into a hub for multiple generations of students, teachers and community members to gather and spread academic and social ideas.

TEDx is an independently-organized event, providing a one-day forum for creativity through speeches, presentations and videos on a variety of topics in order to spark innovation and discussion in the immediate community and beyond.

Ideally, TEDx is supposed to leave a legacy of thoughts and discussions that extend into the community long after the event has ended, event curator Adam Croom said.

360 individuals, 200 students and 160 other

community members crowded into Meacham back-and-forth bantering humor while hostAuditorium, Croom said. ing last year’s TEDxOU event.

“Our vision for TEDxOU is to bring together “We keep the audience involved in the exbright, curious and energetic people from di- perience with our improv,” Clint said. verse backgrounds and disThey said they insist on “I realized that my own designating ciplines to foster authentic the periods dialogue about important between speaker sessions college story — not issues,” Croom said. “non-break breaks,” knowing what I want to as C ro o m s a i d h e t o o k where nothing is happenplanning cues from last do with my life, bouncing ing on stage and the crowd year’s TEDxOU curator, around between many can disperse and walk Ken Stoner, as he headed around outside the audimajors, feeling like the torium. These breaks are the day’s events. He said the theme of the day, “Live courses I’m taking are a part of the TEDx philosoOn,” is a statement in the which says these are waste of time — is not phy, spirit of the ideas the day opportunities for active just my story.” would bring. thought, discussion and The event, which networking.

DAViD POSTiC, ReLiGiOUS STUDieS spanned seven hours, was As the day unfolded, SeniOR hosted by brothers Clint business and religious and Buck Vrazel, a duo of improvisation co- studies senior David Postic delivered a talk on medians who are the artistic directors at OKC the tedium of general education requirements Improv and previously used their brand of see TEDXOU pAGe 2

Sports: saturday, the women’s team lost to no.

1 Baylor in Waco, and the men’s team lost to no.

3 Kansas in Lawrence.

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tedXou: Speakers share thoughts, experiences

Today around campus The Union Programming Board Daily Event will be Putt 4 Parking where students can compete for a chance to win free parking in the Union parking garage from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s first floor lobby.

Rubens String Quartet will perform at 8:00 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall.

Tuesday, Jan. 29 Sign a petition to save Sasquatch starting at 11:30 a.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s food court.

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Wednesday, Jan. 30

Nathan Mellor, CEO of Strata, LLC, stresses the importance of good character in the workplace during his talk.

Bingo! Students can win prizes playing Bingo from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s first floor lobby.

Women’s basketball will play TCU at 7 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center.

Thursday, Jan. 31 A free seminar, as part of the Student Success Seminar, titled Rising from Fall Mistakes will take place from 4 to 5 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 245.

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Record requests The Oklahoma Daily regularly asks for access to public information from OU officials. Here is a list of the most-recent requests our reporters have submitted to the university.

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Construction documents at OU within the last seven years — To see how much money OU has spent on construction

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Energy bills for on-campus housing and the and price breakdown for each resident — To see the difference in cost between what the university is paying and how much students pay for energy per semester

Jan. 15

Visit OUDaily.com/openrecords for a full list of requests

Corrections The Oklahoma Daily is committed to serving readers with accurate coverage and welcomes your comments about information that may require correction or clarification. To contact us with corrections, email us at dailynews@ou.edu.

In Friday’s editorial, we stated that none of the current staff at the Florida A&M University’s student newspaper were working at the paper in 2011, but Etters and the new editor in chief, Caryn Wilson, worked at the paper in 2011.

In Friday’s column about OU water conservation efforts, we stated OU does not monitor its nonpotable water use. This only applies to the National Weather Center.

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“I realized that my own college story — not knowing what I want to do with my life, bouncing around between many majors, feeling like the courses I’m taking are a waste of time — is not just my story,” Postic said. “It’s the story of a lot of students.”

Conversely, philosophy professor Tom Boyd delivered a morning talk about “the big picture” in life. He said academic specialization can give people tunnel vision, where they get lost in the little details of their studies, when a broad understanding of multiple subjects leads to more insight.

“People here are thinking in wildly distinctive worldviews and the topics of interdependence and connectedness are being debated,” Boyd said after his talk.

Not all of the talks were

AT A GLANCE Tweets Of The Day David Postic — @davidpostic “And now, a statistic from my upcoming #TEDxOU talk. I use the words “Taylor Swift” exactly three times. Intrigued?

You’re welcome. #LiveOn” Ernest Ezeugo — @ErnestEzeugo “Dr. Tom Boyd is a man of legend. One of the most captivating TED Talks I’ve ever witnessed. #TEDxOU continues to be amazing!”

Emma Lindgren — @emmgren “Before I die I want to open an orphanage and

abstract. Engineering senior Beth Huggins told the story of her past summer internship in Ghana and how she went with the intention of working in the medical field and wound up helping a mother seamstress get her

make the world a less scary place. #TEDxOU pic. twitter.com/I242uZt6” davidburkus — @davidburkus “@Twinprov Nice. Feel free to continue to paraphrase! Great to connect at #TEDxOU” Maya — @maya7s “This week has literally been one of the most inspiring weeks I have had thanks #TEDxOU & #leadershipsummit i love OU!” Source: Twitter

business off the ground.

“Instead of talking about how she could be remembered herself, Beth talked about her change of plans and her desire to figure out how to lift someone else up so that they can be

remembered,” psychology junior Kristin Pascoe said.

Kristin Walter and Talis Apud-Hendricks presented the foundation and ideals of their non-profit company, FeelGood, a pop-up grilled cheese shop that simultaneously lets college students learn the process of running a business on their campus while donating profits to global hunger efforts.

“The OU community would be very receptive to this program,” economics junior Laura Shapiro said. “I really liked this concept because it promotes the goodness that comes out of even simple ideas.”

Videos of Friday’s 15 talks will be available to watch at ted.com in coming weeks.

Bennett Hall benhall@ou.edu

education: Researchers hope to reform system Continued from page 1

recently-released report, though Forsyth doesn’t think anyone familiar with psychomay result from somemetrics would find the thing not indicative A branch of clinical or current system “valid of the school’s actuapplied psychology or reliable.” dealing with the use al performance, such and application of A Jan. 22 editorias size or zip code, mental measurement al in The Oklahoman Forsyth said. School criticized the findings performance is a mulof the report, claimtifaceted and complex ing that by “applying a subject, and thus canSource: Merriam-Webster website thick layer of statistical not be boiled down to jargon and obsessing one single indicator, over minutia,” the reForsyth said.

There needs to be a “valid and reli- searchers purposefully tried to obscure able way to rate schools,” said Gregg the information.

Additionally, the editorial acGarn, dean of Jeannine Rainbolt cused the researchers of bias, saying, School of Education.

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commissioned by administrators would line up so perfectly with the views of those administrators?”

In a response letter, Forsyth said that wasn’t the case and the report was independent of the organizations that commissioned it. Forsyth also believes The Oklahoman’s defense of the letter grade is meritless.

The researchers are hoping to change the current system. The group outlined six recommendations for the future, including developing a report card that uses multiple indicators and embedding assessment throughout the entire school year.

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Landowners net large windfalls from drilling A 2010 study estimated payments from natural gas royalties reached $21 billion KEVIN BEGOS

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Private landowners are reaping billions of dollars in royalties each year from the boom in natural gas drilling, transforming lives and livelihoods even as the windfall provides only a modest boost to the broader economy.

In Pennsylvania alone, royalty payments could top $1.2 billion for 2012, according to an Associated Press analysis that looked at state tax information, production records and estimates from the National Association of Royalty Owners.

For some landowners, the unexpected royalties have made a big difference.

“We used to have to put stuff on credit cards. It was basically living from paycheck to paycheck,” said Shawn Georgetti, who runs a family dairy farm in Avella, about 30 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.

Natural gas production has boomed in many states “We used to have over the past few years as advances in drilling opened to put stuff on vast reserves buried in credit cards. It was up deep shale rock, such as basically living the Marcellus formation from paycheck to in Pennsylvania and the Barnett in Texas. paycheck.”

Nationwide, the royalty owners association estiShawn Georgetti, mates, natural gas royalties dairy farmer totaled $21 billion in 2010, the most recent year for which it has done a full analysis. Texas paid out the most in gas royalties that year, about $6.7 billion, followed by Wyoming at $2 billion and Alaska at $1.9 billion.

Exact estimates of natural gas royalty payments aren’t possible because contracts and wholesale prices of gas vary, and specific tax information is private. But some states release estimates of the total revenue collected for all royalties, and feedback on thousands of contracts has led the royalty owners association to conclude that the average royalty is 18.5 percent of gas production.

“Our fastest-growing state chapter is our Pennsylvania chapter, and we just formed a North Dakota chapter. We’ve seen a lot of new people, and new questions,” said Jerry Simmons, the director of the association, which was founded in 1980 and is based in Oklahoma.

Simmons said he hasn’t heard of anyone getting less than 12.5 percent, and that’s also the minimum rate set by law in Pennsylvania. Simmons knows of one contract in another state where the owner received 25 percent of production, but that’s unusual.

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Shawn Georgetti climbs out of his John Deere tractor on his 167-acre family dairy farm in Avella, Pa. on Saturday. With royalties from a Range Resources gas well on his property, Georgetti has been able to buy newer farm equipment that’s bigger, faster and more fuel-efficient.

By comparison, a 10 to 25 percent range is similar to what a top recording artist might get in royalties from CD sales, while a novelist normally gets a 12.5 percent to 15 percent royalty on hardcover book sales.

Simmons added that for oil and gas “there is no industry standard,” since the royalty is often adjusted based on the per-acre signing bonus a landowner receives. While many people are lured by higher upfront bonuses, a higher royalty rate can generate more total income over the life of a well, which can stretch for 25 years.

Before Range Resources drilled a well on the family property in 2012, Georgetti said, he was stuck using 30-year-old equipment, with no way to upgrade without going seriously into debt.

“You don’t have that problem anymore. It’s a lot more fun to farm,” Georgetti said, since he has been able to buy newer equipment that’s bigger, faster and more fuel-efficient. The drilling hasn’t caused any problems for the farm, he said.

Range spokesman Matt Pitzarella said the Fort Worth,

Texas-based company has paid “well over” $1 billion to Pennsylvania landowners, with most of that coming since 2008.

One economist noted that the windfall payments from the natural gas boom are wonderful for individuals, but that they represent just a tiny portion of total economic activity.

For example, the $1 billion for Pennsylvania landowners sounds like a lot, but “it’s just not going to have a big impact on the overall vitality of the overall economy,” said Robert Inman, a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton business school. “I think the issue is, what difference does it make for the individual families?”

Inman noted that total gas industry hiring and investment can have a far bigger effect on a state or region, and companies have invested tens of billions of dollars just in Pennsylvania on pipelines, infrastructure, and drilling in recent years.

Personhood

Okla. lawmakers push personhood bills despite rejections Previous bills have caused trouble in Republican caucus SEAN MURPHY Associated Press

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Jim Marak, of Meeker, Okla., gathers signs following an anti-abortion rally at the state Capitol in Oklahoma City on Monday.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Despite court rulings rejecting several anti-abortion measures approved by the Oklahoma Legislature, lawmakers will continue a push for more restrictions in 2013, with bills to grant “personhood” status to fertilized human eggs and limit the ability of minors to terminate a pregnancy without parental notification.

Oklahoma’s legislators already had a reputation for producing some of the most far-reaching abortion bills in the country, and now Republicans hold their largest majorities in the House and Senate since statehood and have an anti-abortion governor leading them. Just last week the anti-abortion group Americans United for Life ranked Oklahoma the No. 2 “most protective state” for its abortion laws.

But while Oklahoma lawmakers are eager to keep pushing for tougher anti-abortion laws, state courts

have soundly rejected several proposed new laws as unconstitutional.

I n D e c e m b e r, t h e Oklahoma Supreme Court struck two previously passed abortion laws — one requiring women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound image placed in front of them while they hear a description of the fetus and another banning off-label use of certain abortion-inducing drugs. The state’s highest court previously rejected as unconstitutional a proposal that would have placed a “personhood” initiative before Oklahoma votes.

A separate Senate-passed personhood bill died in the Oklahoma House last year after Republicans voted privately in caucus not to hear it on the House floor amid opposition from the medical community that it would dramatically limit reproductive medicine, research and the use of certain forms of birth control.

Despite the legal setbacks and the rancor that the personhood bill caused within the House Republican caucus, state Rep. Mike Reynolds has filed a similar bill this year.

“Is that a reason to say

human life doesn’t begin at conception?” said Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City, who said he isn’t deterred by opponents in the medical community or the chamber of commerce who argue such a bill would be a setback to biomedical research.

“I guess they better quit experimenting with human zygotes,” said Reynolds, who said he has another bill that would ban embryonic stem cell research in Oklahoma.

New House Speaker T.W. Shannon, R-Lawton, touted the “pro-life” credentials of the 72-member strong House Republican caucus, but neither he nor Rep. Pam Peterson, the new floor leader in the House, endorsed the personhood proposal when asked about it last week.

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THUMBS DOWN: Okla. state Rep. Mike Reynolds is introducing a personhood bill in the house, a similar bill was shot down by the Okla. Supreme Court last year (Page 3)

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Letter to the editor

End Okla. Anti-GLBTQ speech OU facilities does Our View: GLBTQ individuals

Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender speech against GLBTQ people. In deserve mental health care.

Individuals.” an earlier interview, Kern said: The video is from a Jan. 9 “Not everybody’s lifestyle is Elected officials from meeting of the Oklahoma equal, just like not all religions Oklahoma have begun targeting Conservative Political Action are equal; gays are an even bigger mentally ill GLBTQ people in a Committee. Lankford was the threat than terrorism or Islam, bid to combat “the homosexual keynote speaker at the meetwhich I think is a big threat.” agenda” and “indoctrination” Lankford also has made his ing, and Kern was there to bring in state mental health opinions clear. In a May 15 interthis issue to Lankford’s efforts. State Rep. Sally The Our View attention. view, Lankford said being gay is is the majority Kern,R-Bethany, is leadThe pamphlet was pro- a choice, thus gay people should opinion of ing the charge and has not be protected from workplace vided at a seminar for The Daily’s new support in her fight discrimination. state mental health worknine-member against GLBTQ rights.

Now the two representatives ers, according to Kern. editorial board Kern found a new ally are cooperating in their efforts Kern then describes the in U.S. Congressman to limit the rights of GLBTQ conference: James Lankford, R–Oklahoma, “About 2 percent of the confer- Americans. It is especially unforwho wants to use “the power of ence is dealing with substance tunate that their efforts have tarhumiliation” to inhibit efforts by abuse and mental health issues; geted the mentally ill. the Substance Abuse and Mental 98 percent is doing indoctrinaThose who attempt to help Health Services Administration tion and pushing the homosexual vulnerable citizens of Oklahoma to help those who are mentally ill agenda.” should be encouraged, not lamin the GLBTQ community.

Lankford responded to Kern basted by politicians with an Kern and Lankford see proby saying he will help expose the agenda. grams that single out GLBTQ situation using “the The Daily conindividuals for mental health power of humilitacted the offices of Contact care as an effort to further a seKern and Lankford ation.” “They love Sally Kern, R-Bethany cret GLBTQ agenda. Lankford functioning in the by phone, with no 405-557-7348 describes the Mental Health immediate reply. dark,” Lankford said. sallykern@okhouse.gov Administration as “functioning Messages and emails “You put some sunin the dark.” Neither represenwere left with both light on it, that does James Lankford, R-Okla.

202-225-2132 tative’s office responded to rerepresentatives’ ofhelp.” kelly.furguson2@mail. quests for an interview, but we Kern attributes fices. We also sent house.gov believe it is clear from their rethe pamphlet to the their secretaries marks Kern and Lankford see no Obama adminislinks to videos when benefit in assisting GLBTQ peorepresentatives at both offices tration, even though the pample in mental health plans. expressed ignorance of the sitphlet originally was produced Targeting mentally ill GLBTQ in 2001 by the Mental Health uation during the initial phone individuals has no place in Administration when President calls.

Oklahoma politics. Kern and George W. Bush was in office.

Please contact both Kern and Lankford must end their fight.

The use of a public forum for the Lankford and ask them to stop In a video posted Wednesday promotion of hate by elected of- targeting the mentally disabled on ThinkProgress.org, Kern is ficials is unacceptable. Is it really in their efforts against the GLBTQ seen asking Lankford about a community. so difficult for Kern, a state reppamphlet entitled, “A Provider’s resentative, to contact Lankford Comment on this on OUDaily.

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keep track of nonpotable water use

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he Daily strives for accuracy, so I wanted to provide you with a clarification on inaccuracies portrayed in Andrew Sartain’s column printed in today’s paper, “OU building projects should support greener technology.”

In Andrew Sartain’s column, which was published in The Daily on Friday, the article asserted that, “OU facilities department has no indication or record of how much water OU uses on campus annually or per semester,” (not indicating that the researcher’s question was specific to the National Weather Center and not the entire campus) and “iterated that since it is non-potable or well water, there was no necessity to measure the usage.”

Shayna Orr’s research and corresponding open records request was specific to the National Weather Center building.

She requested, among other questions related to the NWC, information on the “non-potable water reads for one year (June 2011-June 2012).”

Because there is no specific non-potable water meter for the National Weather Center, we were unable to provide the specific information she requested.

However, the Department of Facilities Management has 30 meters specific to non-potable water, and 155 domestic water meters that account for every gallon of water utilized on the Norman campus from the wells and purchased from the City of Norman.

These meters are tracked every month. Just this week, Facilities Management provided 2012 domestic water consumption numbers to Daily reporter Ajinur Setiwaldi for an article that ran on Jan. 17, and fulfilled another open records request for domestic and non-potable water.

In 2012, the university consumed 214 million gallons of domestic water, and 376 million gallons of nonpotable water.

We wholeheartedly agree that water conservation on campus is an important issue. It is for that reason that we have invested $1.9 million to install low-flow faucets, toilets and flush valves in our main campus academic buildings.

From the period of 2005-2008, OU’s domestic water consumption averaged 309 million gallons of water per year.

Our current consumption of domestic water is only 70 percent of the average from those years, a savings of 95 million gallons per year.

Brian Ellis, director Facilities Management

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National Public Radio botched report on nonreligious

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wo weeks ago, to the church’s doctrines and opinion columnist National Public their incompatibility with Radio did a series contemporary life. of stories titled “Losing Our Almost all of these people Religion: The Growth of the expressed inner turmoil at ‘Nones.’” I admit, when I having left their faith, and heard it advertised I got pretsome even admitted to being ty excited. jealous of people who still As a nonreligious person participated in religion for Trent Cason living behind contested one reason or another. cason.trent@yahoo.com lines, it’s always nice to have By the fourth segment, one’s locally unpopular the series had taken on a feel point of view given credible attention. of an apology to the still religious.

The series was inspired by a Pew Excuses for large numbers leaving religion Research Center poll that found that onewere given, from a generational disposition third of Americans under the age of 30 do to shy away from community activities to the not identify with any religion. general “secularization” of society.

When asked what their religion was, they Even higher education was cited as a possaid “none.” Hence the clever name. sible reason. In short, “The Growth of the Overall, the series on NPR was well done. ‘Nones’” cast being a None in a somewhat I recommend giving it a listen. The hosts unfavorable light. interviewed a wide range But I trusted NPR to cover of “none” respondents and the subject with balanced In depth gave them the opportunity justice, and so I reserved Religious affiliation to express their views fully. judgment. Surely they would I’m glad they did the sewrap the series up by talking by age: Unaffiliated ries and I hope it leads to to unapologetic Nones: peo18-29: 32 percent future discussions. ple like myself who had no I did have a few probqualms about their lack of 30-49: 21 percent lems with the direction of faith, who could talk about the series. For one thing, their lack of need for a faith.

50-64: 15 percent everybody interviewed in By the end of the week, this the series had grown up in was clearly the elephant in 65+: 9 percent a religion and then left for the recording studio.

Source: Pew Research NPR totally botched it various reasons.

Center report by interviewing a Christian These reasons became youth minister from Dallas the focus of more than one and a priest from Chicago. segment, and distracted The minister blamed the church for being from the study of the Nones themselves. For archaic, and the priest offered to counsel example, one segment was about people who left their religion because of a traumatic people on becoming more accepting of what the church has to say. life experience.

When the final segment was over, I was a Others left for ideological reasons relating

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bit shocked.

It seems ironic that, following a week of getting interesting perspectives on people who had left their religions, NPR would wrap up the series with the same old dialogue that has divided Christianity for centuries and was cited more than once as the reason for leaving behind religion in the first place.

I have no doubt that many of these Nones have left their religions for external reasons and often lament the passing of their faith.

I’m sure many remain “spiritual” and even retain a belief in some higher power. But when talking about people with no religious

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affiliation, it seems somewhat obtuse to completely ignore those who view their lack of faith as a positive.

I would say the real reason, the main reason, for this explosion of nonreligious representation in our population is that it is finally safe to be open about what we believe without fear of repercussion.

I don’t see that as “secularization;” I see that as a milestone for freedom.

Trent Cason is a literature and cultural studies senior.

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SPORTS

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Sooners blown out by top-ranked Bears OU loses in Waco by 14 despite Ellenberg’s 33

rAPID RECAP OU 65, Baylor 82

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Key stat: 27.8 percent. The Sooners shot an abysmal percentage from the field

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The OU women’s basketball team had absolutely no answer for Brittney Griner and No. 1 Baylor, losing, 8265, for its second conference loss.

The Sooners now are 5-2 in the Big 12 and need to find a better rhythm after shooting a season-low 27.8 percent from the field.

OU will be back in action when it plays TCU at 7 p.m. l.m. otero/ the associated press Baylor senior center Brittney Griner (42) celebrates during Baylor’s 82-65 drubbing of OU in Waco. Wednesday at Lloyd Noble Center.

Griner blocked eight shots during the game, giving her the NCAA career record for blocks with 665.

Key performer: Junior guard Aaryn Ellenberg led all scorers with a season-high 33 points. She shot 9-for24 from the field — including a stellar 6-for-11 from beyond the arc.

Key opponent: Senior center Brittany Griner was a force to be reckoned with, recording 15 points, eight rebounds, eight blocks, an assist and a steal, as she helped the Bears cruise to victory.

It was over when... OU got off the bus. The Sooners had no match for the Griner, and the Bears won their 30th straight conference game.

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OU falls to No. 3 Kansas, drops second Big 12 game Sooners lose second game in three contests

rAPID RECAP OU 54, Kansas 67

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Key stat: 35.6. The Sooners shot 35.6 percent from the field, 25 percent from beyond the arc, in the loss.

Sports Editor

The OU men’s basketball team’s 20-year drought in Lawrence continued Saturday, as OU fell to No. 3 Kansas, 67-54.

The Jayhawks led for almost the entire game, which proved OU still has some work to do.

The Sooners have yet to win a game against a ranked opponent and have lost two of their last three games after starting conference play with three straight wins.

OU plays Baylor at 6 p.m. on Wednesday in Waco.

Key performer: Junior forward Amath M’Baye scored 12 points — tying him with Osby for the team-high — and snagged seven rebounds. He also went a perfect 4-for-4 from the charity stripe.

Key opponent: Freshman guard Ben McElmore led all scorers with 18 points — shooting 5-for-10 from the field (3-for-5 from the three-point line) — and also added seven rebounds.

It was over when... McElmore hit a jumper to give the Jayhawks a 6-5 lead with 16:37 left in the first half. OU trailed for the remainder of the game.

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No. 8 Sooners win ITA Kick-Off

OKC loses final game of road trip

OU tops Memphis, Harvard to claim tournament title

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Sam Hoffman Sports Reporter

The No. 8 OU men’s tennis team won the ITA KickOff Weekend tournament Sunday in Norman, beating No. 30 Memphis then No. 2 8 Ha r va rd f o r t h e championship.

The win improves the Sooners’ record to 3-0 this spring and qualified the team for the National Indoor Championships, Feb. 25-28 in Seattle.

“It was a big weekend for us,” coach John Roddick said. “We reacted well to the [mental lapses].

“All in all, I’m about as happy as I can b e w ith the way w e playe d this weekend.”

Saturday the team handled Memphis, 4-0, with strong play from sophomore Dane Webb.

“I think we’ve started off well,” Webb said. “I played really well Saturday and then finished well on Sunday.”

Sunday, the Sooners beat Harvard 4-0, winning the doubles point and three singles points.

OU took the doubles point by winning the first two matches.

The Sooners’ No. 3 tandem, junior Peerakit Siributwong and freshman Leonard Stakhovsky, clinched the point — defeating Harvard freshman Nicholas Mahlangu and sophomore Alex Steinroeder 8-5.

OU then added three more points in singles play, sealing the championship.

Harvard had to forfeit a singles match because of an injury to junior Casey

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Senior Costin Paval and sophomore Dane Webb celebrate after winning their doubles match against Memphis on Saturday.

MacMaster, which gave OU the early 2-0 lead.

In the No. 4 singles match, freshman Axel Llamas won the third point, defeating freshman Kelvin Lam 6-2, 6-0.

The last point came from junior Guillermo Alcorta in the No. 2 singles match.

Alcorta defeated Steinroeder 6-4, 6-3.

Also on Sunday, No. 31 Notre Dame (3-2) defeated Memphis in the consolation

match to finish third in the tournament.

No. 8 is the highest-ever ranking for the Sooners in the program’s 15-year existence, and as a result, the team is playing with a target on its back, senior Costin Paval said.

“There is a lot of pressure being ranked that highly,” he said. “Teams ranked behind us are playing like tomorrow is the end of the world.”

But the high ranking also

has its advantages, Webb said.

“It’s easier if we start off ranked a little higher,” he said. “We just have to play as well as you can and compete to see what happens.”

The Sooners will play the No. 23 Indiana Hoosiers (2-3) at 1 p.m. Friday in Bloomington, Ind. before traveling to Lexington, Ky. for a match against No. 9 Kentucky at noon at Hilary J. Boone Tennis Complex.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant had 21 points, 14 assists and nine rebounds, Steve Nash added seven of his 17 points in the final 5 1/2 minutes, and the Los Angeles Lakers held off the NBA-leading Oklahoma City Thunder, 105-96, Sunday.

Pau Gasol scored 16 points in a reserve role as the Lakers picked up the most impressive victory of their thoroughly unimpressive season, coolly maintaining a small lead down the stretch of their second straight win after a four-game skid.

Los Angeles had lost nine of its last 11 against the powerful Thunder, including four of five in the clubs’ second-round playoff series last spring.

Kevin Durant scored 35 points and Russell Westbrook had 17 points, 13 assists and nine rebounds for the road-weary Thunder, who finished their longest trip of the season at 3-3.

Bryant and Westbrook briefly tangled in the third quarter in an exchange that earned a technical foul for Kobe.

Both All-Star guards entered the fourth quarter needing just one rebound PLAYER PROFILE for a triple-double, but Russell neither got it.

Westbrook Westbrook also missed his first eight shots and Year: 12 of his first 13 before Fifth finding his shot, but the Position: Lakers didn’t wilt down Point guard the stretch.

Los Angeles took the Statistics: lead with 6:15 to play on Scored 17 points on a jumper by Metta World 6-for-22 shooting, Peace, who had 15 points dished 13 assists and and 10 rebounds. The grabbed nine rebounds.

Lakers nursed a small advantage in the final minutes, going up 101-95 on Gasol’s driving layup with 1:09 to play.

Bryant then hit a tough 19-foot jumper with 37 seconds left, and Westbrook couldn’t answer. Durant didn’t have a field goal in the final 6:39, scoring just seven points in the fourth quarter of Oklahoma City’s third loss in 11 games.

Oklahoma City routed the Lakers at Staples Center 16 days ago, with Durant scoring 42 points and Westbrook adding 27 while Los Angeles played without Dwight Howard and Gasol.

Howard had eight points and 10 rebounds while fighting foul trouble and missing eight of his 10 free throws.

Bryant and Nash led a passionate effort by the Lakers, whose season-long missteps and embarrassments have left them well out of the playoff picture heading into the second half of the season.

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OUDaily.com ›› The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art will feature student artists in its New Media Collective Exhibition.

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ith the help of a local store owner, sprucing up your dorm or apartment for the spring semester has never been easier.

Tammy McCutchen, owner of Green Gables, is no stranger to making things look new and interesting.

She sells home décor items, such as refurbished painted furniture, vintage lighting and original murals and accessories. The store also creates unique furniture pieces using paints.

“It’s not that scary to do,” McCutchen said. “You just have to be creative and willing to start a project to make your home look better.”

McCutchen said she opened Green Gables after word-of-mouth spread about the murals she painted around town.

“I started painting murals at people’s homes, and I kind of just decided to open a unique store based on my interest in home décor,” McCutchen said.

Her painted artwork is her most popular item in the store along with the refurbished painted furniture she sells. Items such as chandeliers, end tables and custom-made portraits she has sold can be viewed on Green Gables’ Facebook page.

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Tammy McCutchen, owner of Green Gables, puts the final touches on a refurbished table.

AT A GLANCE Tammy’s Tips 1. Find something you like. Whether it is on Pinterest or a similar site, find something you think will look good as a decoration.

2. Mimic the item and make it affordable. Copy the shape, color or texture of the item, but use something less expensive than what you have seen.

3. Paint the item a color you like. Use different colors to maximize the appearance of your newly refurbished furniture.

4. Put it on display. Put the furniture you’ve finished in a location that complements the rest of your house.

McCutchen said one of the ways she is able to choose which items to refurbish, paint and display is through Pinterest. She looks to buy and artistically recreate within her store items that are pinned and repinned on the site.

“I opened this particular type of store for one main reason,” McCutchen said. “I really just enjoyed

working with my hands and being able to be artsy in that respect.”

Students who want to find unique items to decorate their space can do it themselves or use stores like Green Gables for guidance.

Located at 131 E. Gray St. in Norman, Green Gables is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturdays. However, customers can call the store’s

phone number to set up a time to shop.

Despite only being open on Saturdays, McCutchen said Green Gables is thriving better than she originally thought it would.

“It’s not what I thought it would be,” McCutchen said.

“A lot of people I don’t even know come in and buy some of my things on the days that I’m open. My business has been spread largely through word-of-mouth.”

This type of store targets customers looking to shop for potential clients or designers looking to find some interesting artwork, McCutchen said.

“I’m always willing to help anyone who needs it,” McCutchen said. “I love helping people who come into the store and ask for advice.”

Collier McKinnis is a University College freshman.

New concert series to begin tonight Students will have the opportunity this semester to explore the history of Ludwig van Beethoven’s string quartets.

Starting today through April 26, OU’s School of Music will present the Beethoven String Quartet Series. There will be six performances this spring.

The Beethoven Quartet Series was made possible with the financial support of the OU Presidential Dream Course and additional help from the Norman Arts Council, said Jonathan Ruck, coordinator of the Beethoven Quartet Series.

The concerts are coinciding with a dream course and a seminar that is being taught on Beethoven String Quartets. These concerts allow students to have the opportunity to study pieces in the classroom, but also to have the experience of seeing them performed live, Ruck said.

There will be professional performances by Rubens String Quartet, Miró String Quartet, Avalon String Quartet and Chiara String Quartet. The School of Music Faculty String Quartet, Holmberg String Quartet and the Honors Undergraduate String Quartet also will perform during the Beethoven String Quartet Series, Ruck said.

The first performance will be by the Rubens String Quartet at 8 p.m. Monday, according to the press release.

The quartet will hold a complimentary public lecture and conversation Tuesday. The lecture will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Pitman Recital Hall, Ruck said.

The first performance is free, but the remaining performances will be $9 for general admission and $5 for students. All concerts will be held in Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall.

Tess Thompson tthomson@ou.edu

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From left to right: Tali Goldberg, Sarah Kapustin, Joachim Eijlander and Roeland Jagers of the Rubens String Quartet.

1/27/13 8:31 PM