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interfaith group prompts Muslim Q&A Class OU community may learn about Muslim beliefs and Islamic stance AJINUR SETIWALDI Campus Reporter

An interfaith student association at OU is holding its first weekly discussion about Islam on Monday to generate better understanding of Muslims and Islam.

The Interfaith Dialogue Student Association organized “Questions About Islam” to allow members of the OU community to ask questions

about what Muslims believe and Islam’s stance on issues like terrorism, women’s rights and democracy, according to an event flier.

There are about 7 million Muslims in America, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in America and around the world.

Students can also come to the weekly sessions to share their own beliefs, Osman Bayindir, a member of the association said. These discussions may reveal that Islam, Christianity and

IN DEPTH topics to be discussed · God in Christianity and islam

· terrorism · democracy and islam · Women’s rights

· the difference between sunni and shia

· Christianity, Judaism and islam

· Jesus and Mary in islam

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A group of OU students clad in costumes get funky in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s food court thursday afternoon. the group, in conjunction with the Union programming Board, performed the “harlem Shake”, a popular new flash dancing trend sweeping the world.

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Unexpected dancing overtook the Oklahoma Memorial Union Thursday when two flash mobs broke out back-to-back.

The first flash mob was organized as part of V-Day, the 15th anniversary of the play the Vagina Monologues, said Emma

Newberry-Davis, Women’s Outreach Center intern who organized the event.

The dancing took place in the food court of the Oklahoma Memorial Union on Feb.14 at noon.

Despite underwhelming turnout, the enthusiasm of the dancers was obvious - one student danced in fluffy, red wings and at one point a bout of unexpected line dancing broke out.

This is the first event of its kind in coordination with V-Day, said Newberry-Davis, who also noted several similar flash mobs

have been happening all day, all around the world.

“We want women, we want dudes ... we want human beings here dancing,” she said before the event.

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Sooner seniors see basketball program come full circle DILLON PHILLIPS Sports Editor

Crimson-and-cream clad fans cascaded over the wall separating the student section from the floor at Lloyd Noble Center on Saturday.

They knocked over folding chairs and dodged security guards as they spilled onto the court after OU’s 72-66 win against then-No. 5 Kansas.

In the wake of the Sooners’ first win against the Jayhawks since 2005, fans mobbed the players near halfcourt and danced together to the tune of House of Pain’s “Jump Around”. But as the song ended and the party on the court began to die down, another less-noticeable celebration took place near the 3-point line

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toward the south end of the floor.

Senior forward Andrew Fitzgerald and senior guard Steven Pledger — whose arms had been draped over each other’s shoulders for much of the postgame celebration — stopped and wrapped their arms around each other tightly in an emotional embrace.

It was a hug that encapsulated the toil of four turbulent seasons into one cathartic moment.

“We’ve been through a lot the last four years, and it’s really brought us closer,” Fitzgerald said. “I mean, he’s my brother for real. It’s just really crazy how time flies by, and we’re just enjoying every moment of it.”

“Blood couldn’t make us any more closer than we are,” Pledger said.

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basketball was on the top of the world. Fourth-year coach Jeff Capel and power forward Blake Griffin — who would go on to be the top pick of the 2009 NBA Draft — had led the Sooners to the program’s seventh Elite Eight appearance and first since now-Houston Rockets assistant Kelvin Sampson last took them there in 2003.

For his encore effort in 2010, Capel assembled one of OU’s top basketball recruiting classes in recent memory. Five-star center Keith “Tiny” Gallon and four-star guard Tommy Mason-Griffin headlined the class, and fourstar Fitzgerald, three-star Pledger and three-star forward Kyle Hardrick rounded it out.

Rivals.com ranked it as the nation’s No. 7 class, and astrud reed/tHe daiLy it seemed poised to build Steven pledger (left), senior guard, and Andrew Fitzgerald, senior upon the foundation laid by

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A new student organization has grown out of an English class, where students were inspired by a question with a complex answer.

C u l t u r a l Misrepresentation is a new club on campus that focuses on discussing issues of stereotypes portrayed in the media.

The question that was asked by English professor Eve Bannet, now the club’s adviser, in her Introduction to Critical Reading and Writing class this semester was “What is feminism in the modern day world?”

This sparked a discussion among five English majors in the class and led to the crea t i o n o f t h e Cu l t u ra l Misrepresentation club.

The five founding members include President Lily Coleman, Vice President Kylie Gibbons, Treasurer Brittney Berling, Secretary Chelsea Greer and Public Relations Representative Liana Willis.

“We all have different reasons for founding this club,” English literature sophomore Liana Willis said.

Founders of the club hope to clear up confusion about what it means to be a feminist, a term many people try to avoid talking about, Willis said.

“Women and men don’t really know or want to talk about feminism,” she said.

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Today around campus Attend the UPB Daily Event and pick up a cup of free apple cider, while you cast your vote for Team Jacob or Team Edward 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Oklahoma Memorial Union’s first floor lobby, in preparation of the Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 free screening at 6, 9 p.m. and midnight at Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium. Then, attend Blood, Love & Chocolate, the pairing of the movie and the annual Chocolate Factory 7 to 9 p.m. at Oklahoma Memorial Union’s food court.

Learn about Italian Carnevale 1 to 2 p.m. at Kaufman Hall 230.

Attend an African Studies Brown Bag 2 to 3 p.m. at Cate 1, room 214.

OU’s baseball will play Hofstra 3 p.m. at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

Attend the free Trombone Choir performance 8 to 10 p.m. at Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall.

Saturday, Feb. 16 The University Theater presents “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” by Bertoit Brecht. It will play at 8 p.m. Feb. 8, 9 14 through 16, and matinees will be at 3 p.m on Feb. 10 and 17.

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Judaism has more in common than most people know.

“There is no conflict between these religions,” Bayindir said. “They are all Abrahamic religions.”

The association is hoping to change negative opinions about Islam by offering a peaceful environment where students of all beliefs can discuss Islam, Bayindir said.

Nearly 1/3 of Americans who responded to a survey reported that their opinion of Islam is “not favorable at all,” according to a Gallup Poll conducted in 2011. Americans’ views of Christianity and Judaism were likely to be “very favorable” than “not favorable at all,” according to the same poll.

More than half of Muslim Americans responding to a 2011 PEW Research poll said that it had become more difficult to be a Muslim in America since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Bayindir said he hopes that discussions will help the community understand that Islam and terrorism are incompatible, Bayindir said.

“A Muslim cannot be a terrorist, and a terrorist cannot be a Muslim,” Bayindir said.

As well, it’s a misconception to think that Islam and Democracy are totally incompatible, Bayindir said.

“Human rights, women’s rights, men’s rights, kid’s rights — everything exists in Islam,” Bayindir said. “What I have lived so far — it’s a democracy.”

The association will have speakers from the community come talk about various subjects, Bayindir said.

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Adam Fiegel, political science junior, talks to reporter Evan Baldaccini about the Cultural Misrepresentation Club, of which he is a member.

Continued from page 1 be an activist thing or is it just equal rights?”

Feminism isn’t just about women, she said. The group is dedicated to not only looking at women’s roles and stereotypes in the media, but men’s as well.

“We should talk about men as much as we talk about women, and there shouldn’t be animosity between the two genders,” she said. “I see the future of feminism bridging the gender gap.”

Though feminist issues will be focused on, they will be looked at from different points of view, said Coleman, an English sophomore.

“In order for women to be treated appropriately, men

have to be treated appropriately too,” she said.

T h e f o u n d e r s na m e d their organization Cultural Misrepresentation because they also want to deal with issues beyond feminism, Coleman said.

“We want to deal with anything that is represented in the media at large,” she said.

“It’s very interdisciplinary, it’s open to different majors.”

“We want to critically approach how the media is portraying both genders,” Coleman said.

While the founders are focusing on discussions and documentary showings right now, they hope to eventually get involved with activism, she said.

“We do eventually hope to get involved with maybe some protests, rallies and

letter writing type things, but we don’t have anything on the docket right now,” she said.

Political science junior Adam Fiegel attended the first meeting and said the club is “open and relaxed.”

In the first meeting, the group watched and discussed clips of The Avengers, Fiegel said. Students focused on the character Black Widow and discussed male stereotypes as well as Russian stereotypes.

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Bookstore should give Sooners, wrap it up University students refunds for good grades this condom week W

Our View: National Condom Week is the perfect chance to get educated about proper condom use.

rarely lies. Even if your partner isn’t forthcoming with his or her sexual history, the condom will still be faithful.

Condoms are important. The tiny Laboratory studies show that latex circles of latex stand between sexcondoms create an impenetrable barually active adults and disease and rier to particles the size of venereal pregnancy. disease cells, according to the CDC. So let’s celebrate our cylindrical You can’t slip one past a condom guardians by shouting about congoalie. doms to all who will listen.

Many new OU students, especialNational Condom Week, which ly if they are from Oklahoma, don’t runs from Feb. 14 through Feb. 21, is a know about our little The Our View great opportunity to raise awareness friend. Oklahoma is the majority does not require about safe sex practices. opinion of We at The Daily are taking advanschools to teach sex The Daily’s tage of condom week by bringing you education. nine-member a series of stories about sexual health If they do, schools editorial board and contraception including a visit must promote abto a sex shop, an instructional colstinence, according umn about how to use a condom and to a report by the Council of State the answers to common sex health Governments. And that can get in the myths. way of condom education.

College students are particularWe suspect many freshmen at OU ly susceptible to venereal disease. have little or no experience with conSeventy-two percent of doms — some might college students have never have seen a conIn depth had sex at least once, acdom outside the wrapNational cording to a study in the per — so we showed Condom Week Journal of Adolescent you how to use one in Health.

Thursday’s paper.

After starting at the The same study found Condom week is a University of California at Berkeley in 1978, that only 2 percent of chance for all students condom week has students who were sexuto take a hands-on apspread to universities ally active reported ever proach to sexual educaacross the country having a sexually transand even to the United tion and safety.

Kingdom. mitted disease. That Grab a couple free number sounds low becondoms from the cause many of those stuWomen’s Outreach dents are lying, another study shows. Center, break them open and see Almost half of the nearly 19 million what they are all about.

STDs reported each year are in peoWhether you are a man or woman, ple aged 15 to 24 years, according to straight or gay, being familiar with the Centers for Disease Control and condoms will pay dividends. When Prevention. that special time comes, you want So unless college students have a to look like you know what you are special immunity to STDs, there are doing. a lot of us running around with more than a fun time in our pants.

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Opinion Columnist chased new The research in Levine’s or used, book article concluded that stucosts burden students dents who miss class frewith exorbitant prices. quently demonstrate a lack Tuition is already expenof performance and signifisive, but having to addicantly increase their odds tionally spend hundreds of poor grades. of dollars for books each With this small, but efAlex Niblett semester is difficult for fective sort of motivation, alexandra.g.niblett@ou.edu many students. grades could improve.

The estimated cost This would give OU what of books for OU undergraduates in the it wants — an increase in many students’ 2012-2013 school year is $1,200, accord- GPAs. ing to OU’s website. The College Board I am not suggesting this incentive would proclaims $1,200 is the average cost of move mountains, but students would cerbooks and supplies at public colleges in tainly benefit from it and the bookstore the United States. would not have to suffer if a plan was ratioI have a proposal to reduce book nally constructed. costs: The university should collaborate This approach could motivate more stuwith University Bookstore and offer a 5 dents to shop at the bookstore if they qualto 10 percent discount on books to stuified for a discount. dents who missed two or fewer classes Although the bookstore would be makand who maintained at least a 3.5 GPA ing a smaller profit per customer, if there the previous semester. were more customers, the difference in This rewards students who attend profit before and after a discount would class and who maintain certain academ- balance out and possibly lead to an inic standards. crease in overall profit.

Sometimes getting out of bed to go To understand my point, consider this to class is the biggest struggle — #firstscenario: worldproblems. We’ve all been there.

However, if I knew I could only miss • If you have 19 students spending $100 two class periods to qualify for the book each on a book, the bookstore will collect a discount, deciding whether to go to class total of $1,900. wouldn’t even be a question for me.

On the first day of classes, almost all • Now, if students are offered a 5% disprofessors say the same thing — stucount, the book will be $95, right? The dents should come to class if they want students just saved $5 each, and it will only to do well. It is not just teachers who take 20 students to purchase a book at $95 claim this to be true. each to still total $1,900.

Past research has indicated that attendance is significant in improving stuBy an increased difference of one perdents’ grades and performance. son, the bookstore did not lose any money.

“The Effect of Different Attendance Obviously this isn’t the actual amount of Policies on Student Attendance and money or books being circulated, but this Achievement” was an article first prescenario demonstrates the bookstore is sented in 1992 at the Annual Meeting of not necessarily certain to lose money in the Eastern Psychological Association. order for students to receive a discount.

In this article, author Judith Levine disLook at this from a personal angle. Let’s cusses the correlation between student say you spend $400 on books for one seattendance and performance. mester. The discount would yield $20 to Levine’s article declares the impact of $40 in savings — enough to purchase a attendance policy is significant. smaller book.

She notes that when professors enWhen there is a problem, you try to find forced an attendance requirement, 80% a solution. This may not be the very best of the students missed four times or less, solution, but we should motivate students and less than 1 percent missed eight to go to class while also finding a way to times or more. decrease ridiculously expensive book Without an obligatory attendance pol- prices. icy, the numbers decreased. 73 percent of the students missed four times or less and almost 7 percent missed eight times Alex Niblett is a Journalism junior.

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American Indian protests on campus call out consumerism Opinion Columnist

The “Idle No More” protest, initiated by North American Indians, is here in Oklahoma and on the OU campus.

You may have seen what you thought was a tribal uprising on the South Oval Feb. 5. You and everyone Scott Starr else, American Indian or scott.e.starr-1@ou.edu not, should support it.

The roots of the protest started in Canada in the spring of 2011, when members of the First Nations or aboriginal peoples of Canada, including the Metis and the Inuit tribes, took particular issue with omnibus Bill C-45, which they felt was part of a rightwing political agenda.

What makes this native movement even more unusual is that it was initiated by females. Nina Wilson, Sheelah Mclean, Sylvia McAdam and Jessica Gordon came up with the name “Idle No More” during a teach-in organized in November of 2012 in reaction to Bill C-45.

The bill raised the ire of both Native and non-native people because it is generally understood that the measures in the bill would significantly weaken the environmental protections for all Canadian waterways and also serve as a sneaky way for the Canadian Parliament to make it much easier to gain the assent of aboriginal communities.

This would allow the parliament to assume control of reserve lands set aside by a treaty for First Nations people.

The bill was however, drafted without input or perspective from any Native leaders.

Indigenous and conscientious people all over the world

of the Feb. 5 “Idle No More” protest on the South Oval, are sensitive to tactics Western or colonial powers have mirrored these thoughts. employed to gain control of land bases and resources, so “The issues at hand are not only Native rights and sov“Idle No More” has gained international sympathy and ereignty since all people drink the same water, breathe increasing support.

The amendments of Bill C-45 that sparked the protests the same air, consume the same food and are all put at risk by corporate greed and unsustainable living practicwere all killed in December of 2012. es,” he said.

Yet, the protests have continued to evolve.

Protection and respect of burial places and spiritual or “Idle No More” has become symbolic of the objectives of Native dissent to the ideology of consumerism, support religious freedoms are matters that should concern everyfor the national sovereignty and treaty rights of tribes and one, he said.

Felix S. Cohen, widely considprotections for air, clean water “If ever there was a time to be ered to be the father of America’s and land.

The plan is to further this involved, it’s now. The generation “Indian law” or federal policy towards Indians, compared agenda by putting together passing through institutions of Indians to a particular bird American Indian style leaderin 1953 when he wrote, “Like ship or council structures, orhigher learning today will be miner’s canary, the Indian ganizing messages and media responsible for shaping the various the marks the shift from fresh air to campaigns, developing key issues that will face their children poison gas in our political atspokespersons, creating chapmosphere; and our treatment ters, and establishing ongoing and generations beyond.” of Indians, even more than our dialog with tribal, federal, state Sheila bird, treatment of other minorities, and corporate leaders.

Native American Studies senior Why should you support reflects the rise and fall in our this protest? The environmendemocratic faith.” tal issues that are at stake are not exclusive to American Cohen’s metaphor is clear and no less true today then Indians and should cause great alarm, said Native the day it was written.

American studies senior Sheila Bird.

There are more “Idle No More” actions planned in the “If ever there was a time to be involved, it’s now. The future. generation passing through institutions of higher learning Weryackwe says that although this movement was today will be responsible for shaping the various issues started by American Indians, one does not have to be that will face their children and generations beyond. So Native to support or participate in the cause. when we protest, it’s not just for today and our own pride, You should do both. but for the future of all people,” she said.

Native American studies and environmental science senior, Rance Weryackwe, who was one of the organizers Scott Starr is a Native American Studies Senior.

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Heavy metal band to rock OKC “DIY” band started from scratch, has now toured for seven years ALI HAUSNER

Life & Arts Reporter

Seeker, a heavy metal band from Dallas will play at 7 p.m. tonight at The Parish in Oklahoma City.

Bryce Lucien is the lead vocalist as well as the band’s manager and booking agent.

The Daily: I saw your Facebook page, and I see you’ve had some new music coming out? Tell me about that.

Lucien: We just put out a new song called “Alone.”

It’s definitely our fastest and most technical song yet and a pretty good representation of what our new album is sounding like. Our friend Corey [Bennett] did some guest vocals at the end of the song. Check out his band Bermuda. They’re too good.

The Daily: Seeker is based out of Dallas, Texas.

How did you guys end up forming the band?

Lucien: Our drummer Dustin and I were in a band together several years ago.

We hadn’t talked in a long time, and we just sort of started randomly running into each other at different festivals the band I was in at the time would play [at] when we’d come through Dallas. After my band broke up, I kept hearing from friends that he had been

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jamming with some people and that the stuff they were doing was really awesome, so I hit him up and that was that. We played our first show Oct. 1, 2011 and went on our first tour the next Seeker performs May 7, 2011. The band will play at 7 tonight at The Parish in Oklahoma City. week. Things haven’t really slowed down since.

Three One G, Hydrahead has turned into, however, is Th e Da i ly : Is t h e re a influenced grind and hard- a very independent mindThe Daily: What bands meaning or story behind the core, so when our early set and a very specific idea would you say have been an name Seeker? bands started touring, al- of who we are and what our inspiration to Seeker?

L u c i e n : N o e x c i t i n g most seven years ago now, band is. We want complete Lucien: The list of bands meaning behind the name we realized very quickly control over every aspect of that we’re influenced by is Seeker. The names Electric that since there wasn’t really our art. I’m not opposed to too much to list out com- W i z a r d a n d L i g h t n i n g a scene that we knew of for the idea of a label or managpletely. We listen to every- Swords of Death were al- that in Texas at that time, we er, but I don’t like having to thing from John Coltrane to ready taken. were going to have to figure ask permission to do someThe White Stripes to Justin out how to do a lot of things thing online, or to take a cerTimberlake to Nasum, so it The Daily: I read that ourselves. tain kind of promo, or do a gets kind of ridiculous and Seeker has a self-proclaimed This whole thing has been certain kind of video or act a changes all the time. I’d say “DIY” mindset? What exact- a very gradual process. It certain way onstage. Being right now our biggest or ly does that mean to you? started out learning how to completely DIY definitely most consistent influencLucien: It means a lot make our own shirt designs allows for the purest expreses are definitely Converge, of things honestly. Our and websites and slowly sion of what we’re trying to The Dillinger Escape Plan, DIY ethics are not some- that turned into booking do. If the right label or manT h e L o c u s t , G o d s p e e d thing that were really ever our own shows, then tours, agement or whatever comes Y o u ! B l a c k E m p e r o r , pre-meditated or thought then tours for us and our along then we’re definitely Watain , Old Man Gloom , out too much. We became friends, self-releasing re- open to anything, but to us, Ion Dissonance, Neurosis, this way out of necessity. We cords, promoting those re- absolute creative control is Rotten Sound and Gojira. came up playing very crusty, cords, and so on... What that the most important thing.

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The Daily: I see that your music is online for free or by donation. What allows you to be able to offer your music for free?

Lucien: It comes back to doing this all on our own.

We control everything about our band, even down to recording ourselves. Since we don’t really have any recording overhead we’re not really trying to recoup any sort of money.

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‘Let It Be’ a Beatles tribute Bach’s music to be showcased

in OU’s biannual performance

New band to play in tribute concert

Hand-picked students to sing

TESS THOMSON

Life & Arts Reporter

A new and younger band is coming to OU to perform the annual Beatles tribute concert this weekend.

The Return, a group of four men from Atlanta, Georgia, will perform a two-part show recreating Beatles concerts Saturday. This will be The Return’s first year performing at OU, said Eldon Matlick, an OU professor of music.

The band, “1964” The Tribute, has performed at the annual tribute concert to The Beatles for the past decade, Matlick said.

Matlick and his colleague, Carl Rath, started The Beatles tribute concert at OU in 1992. Rath retired from OU this year, leaving Matlick in charge with all the tribute making decisions, Matlick said.

“I decided to go into a different direction that is really new and exciting,” Matlick said.

The decision to have The Return play rather than “1964” The Tribute wasn’t just for the want of something new; there were many scheduling and economic roadblocks in having “1964” The Tribute return, Matlick said.

But the essence of “1964” The Tribute won’t be at a total loss. The Return have worked with “1964” The Tribute and perform similar acts, Matlick said.

“They are younger and just as polished as 1964,” Matlick said.

The first act will be a 13 to 15 song set as the members wear distinctive black Pierre Cardin suits or the tan Nehru collard ‘Shea Stadium’ jackets. The second act will feature music from later Beatles albums such as Sgt. Pepper, Abbey Road and more. The Return will wear Sgt. Pepper’s uniforms or later Beatles attire from 1969, Matlick said.

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The Return will perform the annual Beatles tribute concert Sunday at Catlett Music Center’s Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall.

“I am looking forward to the costume changes, though, from this Beatles group,” OU professor of music, Jay Wilkinson said.

Mid-Life Crysis, a band comprised mostly of OU faculty members, will open for The Return. Started in 1994

by Matlick and Rath, MidLife Crysis has performed at the tribute concert almost every year, Matlick said.

Mid-Life Crysis started off as completely recreational — almost a type of therapy for the members — yet as time went on, other OU faculty members joined the band and it became an “unofficial faculty rock-band,” Matlick said.

Wilkinson worked with Matlick and Rath at OU and in the Oklahoma City Philharmonic when he was recruited to join Mid-Life Crysis. The keyboardist will now be performing at his second Beatles tribute concert, Wilkinson said. “ My f av o r i t e t h i n g i s achieving the level of performance I’ve worked for during preparation,” Wilkinson.

Mid-Life Crysis performs

GO AND DO The Return: A Tribute to The Beatles When: 7 p.m. Sunday Where: Catlett Music Center’s Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall Student price with OU ID: $24 in advance and $29 at the door Regular price: $27 in advance, $33 at the door Info: Go to Catlett Music Center’s box office or call 405-3254101 to buy tickets.

at 7 p.m. and The Return performs at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are available now until show time.

“The audience won’t go away disappointed,” Matlick said.

Tess Thomson tthomson@ou.edu

The Accademia Fi l a r m o n i c a a n d O U Chorale will present their biannual concert featuring the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

The concert features concertmasters Gregory Lee and Marat Gabdullin with conductor Richard Zielinski. ”We started this back in 1983,” said artistic director Eugene Enrico. “[The c o n c e r t s h av e ] b e e n going for twenty seasons, and we do two every year.”

The artistic directors collaborate each year, and decide which pieces they are going to do for each concert, Enrico said.

“The idea of this concert is to get a professional-sounding orchestra, which gives our students a chance to play in a professional ensemble composed of students,” said

GO AND DO Accademia Filarmonica and OU Chorale When: 3 p.m. Sunday Where: Catlett Music Center’s Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall Price: $9 for adults and $5 for seniors, OU students, faculty and staff

Enrico.

Challenges of having an orchestra of this size and talent include having so few instruments besides string instruments, Enrico said.

“It’s unusual in that usually we have a larger orchestra with wind instruments,” Enrico said. “It’s all strings so it’s a little smaller. When you’re more exposed like that everything has to be tighter”.

Graduate students are mainly selected to participate in the choir by the

recommendation of professors; however, talented undergraduate students can be chosen as well, Enrico said Musical arrangements include Violin Concerto in E Major featuring violinist Gregory Lee , and Brandenburg Concer to No. 6 in B-Flat Major featuring viola soloists Mark Neumann and Betty Shaohong , according to a press release.

The last concert piece, Cantata No. 150, features the combination of the orchestra and OU Chorale with soprano soloist Donna Mitchell-Cox and concert trio Lauren Trojacek, Jack Swanson, and Dee Steely singing alto, tenor, and baritone respectively, according to a press release.

“It’s wonderful getting to work with [OU Chorale],” said Enrico. “They always work so hard, and we sound great together.”

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First international OU pageant to be held Saturday The International Advisory Committee will host its first ever Mr. and Miss International OU Pageant 8 p.m. Saturday, in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium.

According to the International Advisory Committee website, the event is free and aims to have students share their culture and celebrate diversity while contestants compete in three categories: cultural dress, talent and interview.

In addition to a cash prize, the winners of the pageant will represent the international community for the next year and may even be recognized in next year’s homecoming parade, the website said.

Amy Lantrip, Asian studies sophomore and public relations chair for the International Advisory Committee, said the idea for the pageant came from an abundance of other student pageants at OU, but a lack of diversity.

Lantrip said she hopes people who attend the event use it as a learning experience. If the event generates enough interest, Lantrip said the International Advisory Committee will make it an annual event.

“No matter where you are from, you are definitely going to learn something about another country that you didn’t know,” Lantrip said.

Shannon Borden, Life & Arts Reporter

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The OU men’s basketball team prepares for a Bedlam battle against the No. 17 Cowboys at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Gallagher-Iba Arena.

fitz and pledge: ‘Blood couldn’t make us any more closer than we are.’

Continued from page 1 the 2009 squad. But the immaturity and inexperience of youth turned out to be a disastrous combination for the Sooners.

Heading into February 2 0 1 0 , O U ha d u n d e rachieved in spite of its collection of promising young talent. The Sooners had an unremarkable 12-9 record and suffered blowout conference losses on the road to Baylor and Nebraska. But on Feb. 6, OU picked up a monumental victory at home against then-No. 10 Texas.

It was just the type of signature win the Sooners needed to boost their tournament résumé and build some momentum heading into March.

“It brought a lot of hope back to our team,” Fitzgerald said. “We hadn’t really seen that good an atmosphere like that. It was just great for us to get that win as a freshman. But after that game, I think ever ything went downhill as a team.”

That night, Pledger and Fitzgerald decided to make a trip to Sooner Mall — a decision that would prove to be the turning point of the season.

When the two arrived at the mall, they went into Dillard’s and attempted to shoplift. According to the police report, mall security spotted them in the department store taking clothes off hangers and placing them into plastic bags.

They were arrested, cited for petty larceny and subsequently released. But the damage already had been done.

“It was just being young and stupid,” Pledger said.

Just when the pieces finally appeared to be falling into place for the Sooners, the wheels fell off before they could play another game.

The news broke the next day, and Capel suspended Pledger and Fitzgerald for the Texas Tech game, which resulted in a 72-71 loss to the 15-7 Red Raiders.

The Sooners would go on to lose their remaining nine games and miss the tournament for the first time since 2007 — Capel’s first season at OU. It also was the Sooners’ first losing season in 29 years.

“We started separating even more after that loss to Texas Tech,” Fitzgerald said. “[The shoplifting incident] really hurt our team...We felt like if we played (in) that game, we really (would have) got into a run, like either the NIT or the tournament.”

But that only was the beginning of the Sooners’ w o e s. A f t e r t h e s e a s o n ended, players began jumping ship left and right.

On March 23, MasonGriffin announced via Twitter he would be entering the NBA draft. On April 8, former five-star point guard Willie Warren joined him.

And on April 20 — amid allegations of improper benefits, which eventually resulted

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Senior forward Andrew Fitzgerald, rear, hugs teammate Steven Pledger (2) following a 72-66 victory against Kansas. Pledger scored 15 points on 6-for-14 shooting.

Fitzgerald came off the bench to score six points and grad two rebounds.

PLAYER PROFILE Steven Pledger Year: Senior Position: Guard Statistics: Leads the team in 3-pointers made and averages 10.6 points per game

in NCAA sanctions for OU — Gallon became the third OU player to declare for the draft. “[Those three leaving] affected us ‘til now,” Pledger said. “[Fitzgerald and I] were thrust into the limelight.”

“Freshman year it was all about Tommy, Willie and Tiny, and now that they left, the only people here — literally, the only people here — were me, Fitz and Cade (Davis).”

Sophomore Year With the departure of three underclassmen to the draft, Pledger and Fitzgerald were forced to sink or swim during their sophomore campaigns.

“We reacted to the pressure right after our freshman year,” Fitzgerald said.

“We had to respond to it fast.

It was tough for us at certain points ‘cause we weren’t really just used to it. We wasn’t thinking like Tommy would leave, Tiny would leave.”

In order to fill the voids, Fitzgerald was forced to play a more prominent role in the offense, and Pledger was called on to play a position he hadn’t played since ninth grade: point guard.

“Steve never played a point guard position (in college) before,” Fitzgerald said.

“I don’t think he really (was)

mentally prepared to play the Sooners were left in point guard at the University limbo. of Oklahoma. He was up to “There was only a couple it, but I don’t think he was of us here,” Pledger said. “It ready for that job yet.” was us two, Cam and Roe The Sooners’ inexperi- (and Calvin Newell). We ence showed again in 2011. were really just working out.”

OU struggled mightily, finBut it wouldn’t be long ishing with a dismal 14-18 before OU’s vacant head record — its second straight coaching position would be losing season and first back- filled. to-back losing seasons since A New Coach 1967.

“It took a lot,” Pledger said. “We had to grow up fast Once a short list of canon the court.” didates emerged, the playAlthough the 2011 sea- ers and their families and son provided Fitzgerald and friends began to follow the Pledger with valuable expe- search for the new coach rience, it resulted in Capel closely. receiving a pink slip.

“When they started narOn March 14, OU fired rowing it down, and (we Capel just two years after heard) they were bringing reaching the Elite Eight and out Lon Kruger, some of my with five years still remain- family from back home, my ing on his contract.

AAU coach, my high school The Sooners now were a coach, really looked into it,” team without a coach.

Fitzgerald said. “(They) said “ We ca m e a c ro ss t h e he’s a really good coach, and country for he was really a school and going to ben“So my first a coach, and help my inkling, my first efit, the school let game, help the coach go,” thought process our game as a Pledger said. team.” was ‘I’m not “So my first inKruger had about to stay kling, my first an impressive thought pro- after they let my track record, cess was ‘I’m but when he coach go.” not about to first arrived, stay after they the players steven pledger, let my coach were taken senior guard go.’” aback by his But uldocile nature. timately, “He doesn’t Pledger and Fit zgerald do yelling,” Pledger said. agreed to stay.

“He was too nice when we “We waited, and we de- first met him.” cided we started here, so And with a different perwe’re just going to end it sonality came a different here,” Fitzgerald said. philosophy.

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down low,’” Pledger said. “ That wa s his philos o phy. With Kruger it’s more up-tempo. We all got to be able to run.”

In 2012, the Sooners saw marked improvement.

Pledger and Fitzgerald had their most productive seasons to date — ranking first and third on the team in scoring, respectively — but it wasn’t enough to put OU over the edge.

A 1-8 record in February burst their tournament bubble and resulted in OU’s third straight losing season.

But as Kruger brought in his first recruiting class — led by four-star guards Buddy Hield and Je’lon Hornbeak and three-star guard Isaiah Cousins, all of whom have received significant playing time — and OU returned five seniors, most notably Pledger — the Big 12’s leading returning scorer — it looked like this was the year the Sooners would

With the arrival of three touted freshman guards and Wyoming-transfer junior forward Amath M’Baye cleared to play after sitting out the 2012 season, Pledger and Fitzgerald were asked to take a backseat and accept reduced roles.

While some players would have thrown a fit or refused to sacrifice playing time, they both took it in stride.

“As long as we’re winning,” Pledger said. “We’ve won more games so far in a quick span than we’ve done since we’ve been here, so as long as we’re winning, we’re fine.”

Pledger still starts but has seen his role in the offense relegated to that of a jump shooter. Fitzgerald, though, has had to adjust to coming off the bench.

“I think for my role they still want me to be aggressive boarding and scoring points for us,” Fitzgerald said. “But I had to sacrifice a lot for this team, and I was willing to do that, so we could become a better team. I think it’s really playing out for us in the long

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Sooners start season at home

Oklahoma looks to stay unbeaten at weekend meet

Four-game series will test pitchers Jono Greco

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The No. 19 Oklahoma baseball team opens its 2013 slate against Hofstra at 3 p.m. today at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

The last time S o oner Nation saw the Sooners, who won 42 games in 2012, they were playing in the rain about to be eliminated by the then two-time defending national champion South Carolina Gamecocks in the Columbia Super Regional.

And seven months later, it’s time for OU — who was picked to win the Big 12 by conference coaches — to return to the diamond. “We’ve been waiting for this moment a year since we left South Carolina,� junior pitcher Dillon Overton said.

The key for the Sooners’ season is being strong on the mound, and this weekend series gives people a chance to see how strong it can be, even if it is not against one of the better teams in the nation.

Overton is tabbed to open the season on the mound.

He went 6-3 with a 3.15 ERA while striking out 126 batters in 2012 and has a 14-7 career record and 2.83 ERA during his two years at OU. Junior Jonathan Gray enters his second year at OU after a year he went 8-4 and boasted a 3.16 ERA. He is scheduled to start in Saturday’s first game of a double-header.

While junior Billy Waltrip is listed as the starter for game three — Saturday’s second game of the double-header — the Sunday starting pitching position still is up for grabs, coach Sunny Golloway said.

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Junior pitcher Dillon Overton winds up before throwing a pitch last season. Overton leads an experienced pitching staff that will be the strength of this year’s Sooner squad.

Waltrip will make his OU debut Saturday after he went 7-2, posted a 1.60 ERA and recorded 95 strikeouts last season at Seminole State.

Waltrip’s transition to OU has been a smooth one because of Overton and Grey. “Both of them really want it and really want to win, that’s what they’re rubbing off on me,� Waltrip said. “We’ll go in after everyone leaves, and we’ll work on stuff just between us three. Some other people will come, and now more people are coming.�

Freshman righty Corey Copping will start Sunday’s finale and will be competing with Waltrip for that final spot in the weekend rotation. “We’re going to evaluate Waltrip on Saturday in game

“We’ve been waiting for this moment a year since we left South Carolina.�

Dillon Overton, junior pitcher

two [of the double-header and] Copping on Sunday in game four,� Golloway said. “Right now, there’s a battle for the No. 3 spot. Waltrip seems to be the odds-on favorite, but — boy I tell you — there are two freshman arms in there in Copping and [freshman Adam] Choplick that are pretty special.�

This weekend’s weather conditions, especially today’s weather, are not ideal for baseball.

But the cold is just something the players are going to have to work through and probably won’t be something they notice too much, Overton said. “I think we’re all going to be so hyped that it really won’t matter that much,� he said. “Whether it’s cold, warm, rainy, hot, it really doesn’t matter. We’re just coming out here having fun playing a game of baseball.�

The series will continue with a double-header at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday — and will conclude with a 1 p.m. first pitch Sunday.

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The No. 2 Oklahoma women’s gymnastics team will attempt to keep its perfect record as it takes on No. 16 Boise State, Brigham Young and Texas Woman’s University at 7 p.m. Friday night in The Perfect 10 Challenge at COX Convention Center.

The Sooners (11-0) are coming off of a decisive win over Iowa State last Friday that marked the 11th straight Big 12 regular season win for OU and earned them the third-highest team score in program history. “It was awesome,� sophomore Erica Brewer said. “Even with so much room for improvement, that score is just a huge accomplishment.�

Even with these triumphs, the Sooners know that it is important to keep improving. “It’s all down to the small details,� Brewer said. “The pointed feet and making sure you stick your dismounts — that’s what it’s coming down to.�

Junior Taylor Spears currently is ranked No. 1 in the country on beam after receiving a career-high score of 9.925 against the Cyclones. “I knew it was a good routine, and I hoped that they’d reward it,� Spears said in a news release. “It was really cool, and the reaction from my teammates was cool too, seeing their pure happiness for me.�

Spears leads Oklahoma in its No. 1 team ranking on beam for the fourth-straight week.

This week, OU swept the Big 12 weekly gymnastics awards. Spears received her sixth Gymnast of the Week award while Mooring and Keeley Kmieciak received Event Specialist of the Week and Newcomer of the Week honors, respectively. “This just kind of shows what our program is like here at Oklahoma,� Mooring said. “I think we are getting better and better each year, and I hope that it keeps going up that slope.�

None of the three teams the Sooners will face this weekend have put up points anywhere near that of the Sooners season-high team score of 197.625. However, the Sooners won’t be taking this meet lightly. “We’re feeling confident, but it isn’t going to be a super easy meet,� Mooring said. “We still have to stay focused and keep our head on straight.�

Cecily Tawney, ctawney@ou.edu

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