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allowing media into his hall to take photos, but the claims were found baseless according to the Housing & Food Living Guide and Terms and Conditions. The guide and terms and condiAJINUR SETIWALDI Campus Reporter tions do not contain any text that prohibits the media from reporting or taking pictures in the facility or the bedEditor’s Note: Steven Zoeller worked as rooms of residents. an opinion columnest for the OU Daily In the only mention of privacy in from Fall 2010 to Fall 2012 the guide, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 is cited, An OU student was told he violated which grants students the right to prihis housing agreement Thursday after vacy of records, both academic and
disciplinary. According to the guide, entry to a room is authorized by the permission of the resident. OU Housing & Food employees refused to let Daily managing editor Kyle Margerum and night editor Blayklee Buchanan take photos in the Cate Center Hume House after the resident, journalism sophomore Steven Zoeller, reported a bed bug infestation and invited the reporters into his room. SEE PHOTOS PAGE 3
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Bus station to be transferred CART station to move, make room for new Walk ATIBA WILLIAMS Campus Reporter
A new bus transfer station, which will be completed by Spring Break, will get city route buses off campus and clear space for the new Scholar’s Walk. The new station, called the Brooks Street Transfer Station, will accommodate the Norman city bus routes that Cleveland Area Rapid Transit service runs, according to Vicky Holland, OU Parking and Transit Marketing Specialist. The current bus route, which loops up the Van Vleet Oval and down Asp Avenue, would be in the way of a paved walking and biking path known as the Scholar’s Walk, which is already under construction. “It’s become impossible to be
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there anymore”, Holland said. During President David Boren’s term as president OU has become an increasingly pedestrian campus, meaning the campus has become friendlier to walkers and bikers, OU Press Secretary Michael Nash said. The Scholar’s Walk, is the third in a series of walkways at OU, following the Michael F. Price Walk on the west side of the South Oval, and the Roy T. Oliver Walk, which is north of Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, Nash said. Before the May 28 transfer station opening, new bus routes will have to be planned and drivers will have to be trained to accommodate the station, Holland said. “But we’re looking forward to it,” Holland said. The campus routes, which include the Apartment Loop and the research shuttles, will not move to the transfer station. Instead,
they will drop students off near the greenhouses on Asp Ave. at another station called the Campus Depo, Holland said. Not all students agree with the move, however. Psychology junior Michael Knapp, a veteran who suffers from congestive heart failure, would have to walk an extra block every day because of the move, he said. “I don’t think they’re thinking about the disabled,” Knapp said. The project meets accessibility standards, meaning it meets all codes for individuals who are disabled, Nash said. Atiba Williams chikechild@gmail.com
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The weeks of waiting were getting to her. Like many seniors, Jazmin Madrigal, a human relations senior, didn’t know where she was going after graduation or whether she would be able to get a job using her degree. However, unlike most, Madrigal was not watching her mailbox for internship acceptances or job opportunities; she was waiting for a letter from the government that had the potential to change her life completely. Madrigal was waiting for her letter of acceptance to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provides certain undocument- J A Z M I N ed immigrants who arrived in the U.S. MADRIGAL before age 16 with a two-year work permit, according to the Immigration Equality website. For Madrigal, who received her acceptance letter in January of this year, it means she’ll be able to apply for a bilingual teacher’s aid position in OKC public schools and, eventually, pursue a master’s in school counseling at the University of Central Oklahoma, she said. For now, she can relax and not have to fear deportation. “I just knew I was going to get my degree and have it not be useful here in Oklahoma where I’ve grown up. It was very sad,” Madrigal said. “I didn’t know where I was going, like most seniors, maybe, but three times worse.” “I didn’t know When Madrigal was where I was going, 9 years old, her parents like most seniors, brought her to the United maybe, but three States in search of a better future, she said. Despite times worse.” b e i n g b o r n i n M e x i c o, Madrigal considers the U.S. JAZMIN MADRIGAL, HUMAN RELATIONS SENIOR to be her home, a home she could be forced to leave if her Deferred Action status isn’t renewed in two years. “It would be much easier on me than on some of my friends because I remember [Mexico]—sometimes they don’t remember or don’t even know the language. I would be able to accommodate that, but I feel like Oklahoma is my home.” There are approximately 25 students at OU who are undocumented, a reality made possible by the fact that Oklahoma public universities do not require students to provide their social security numbers, Madrigal said. Furthermore, anyone who attended an Oklahoma high school pays in-state tuition, a boon for undocumented students who cannot receive financial aid, including loans, of any kind, Madrigal said. SEE DREAM PAGE 2
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for undergraduates only, Pendley said. Students choosing to present will conduct a 10 to 15 minute presentation to the audience as a video, PowerPoint or oral performance. Those wishing to display their findings in poster form will stand with the poster and answer questions, according to an Honors College email detailing Undergraduate Research Day. Cash prizes will be given for the top presentations, according the email. Students who are approved to participate in Undergraduate Research Day also can take advantage of several workshops to prepare for oral and poster presentation put on by UResearch, Pendley said. Morgan George Campus Reporter
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Many of these undocumented students live with the fear of being deported to a country they may not remember, Tracey Medina, public relations junior and DREAM Act Oklahoma state coordinator, said. Some of these students were so young when they were carried across the border that they have no memory at all of their birth country, and they may not have realized they weren’t U.S. citizens until they tried and failed to get their driver’s license or first job because of their lack of a social security number. Sometimes, these students may not even have a birth certificate, Medina said.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Advanced breast cancer has increased slightly among young women, a 34-year analysis suggests. The disease is still uncommon among women younger than 40, and the small change has experts scratching their heads about possible reasons. The results are potentially worrisome because young women’s tumors tend to be more aggressive than older women’s, and they’re much less likely to get routine screening for the disease. Still, that doesn’t explain why there’d be an increase in advanced cases and the researchers and other experts say more work is needed to find answers. It’s likely that the increase
has more than one cause, of the study trend “but defisaid Dr. Rebecca Johnson, nitely not all of it,” Johnson the study’s lead author and said. medical director of a teen Other experts said women and young adult cancer pro- delaying pregnancy might gram at Seattle Children’s be a factor, partly because Hospital. getting pregnant at an older “The change might be due age might cause an already to some sort of modifiable growing tumor to spread r isk factor, more quickly l i k e a l i f e - “The change might in response style change” be due to some sort to pregnancy or expoof modifiable risk hormones. sure to some Obesity sort of can- factor, like a lifestyle a n d h a v c e r- l i n k e d ing at least a change.” s u b s t a n c e, drink or two DR. REBECCA JOHNSON, she said. daily have STUDY’S LEAD AUTHOR Johnson both been said the relinked with sults translate to about breast cancer but research is 250 advanced cases diag- inconclusive on other posnosed in women younger sible risk factors, including than 40 in the mid-1970s tobacco and chemicals in versus more than 800 in the environment. Whether 2009. During those years, any of these explains the the number of women na- slight increase in advanced tionwide in that age range disease in young women is went from about 22 million unknown. to closer to 30 million — an increase that explains part
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After letting the reporters in, Zoeller was told by three Housing & Food employees that he violated his housing agreement by allowing media into the building to report on the state of the facility, Zoeller said. “They sort of implied that the room wasn’t really mine or my roommate’s and said it may be a violation of privacy,” “While one Zoeller said. Zoeller said he had no intenstudent might tion to violate anyone’s privabe comfortable cy. He had given the reporters permission to take pictures of with a member his side of the room. of the media on Housing & Food Services spokeswoman Amy Buchanan his or her floor, said in an email that she did other residents not know this conversation may not.” had taken place. A misunderstanding of procedures may AMY BUCHANAN, have occurred, she said. HOUSING & FOOD SPOKESWOMAN Housing & Food works to protect the privacy of all residents, she said. “While one student might be comfortable with a member of the media on his or her floor, other residents IN DEPTH may not,” Buchanan said. “We do encourage all of Accessing H&F our residents to report documents any circumstances that make them uncomfortYou can find the able or that they feel need Housing & Food LIving to be addressed.” guide and the Terms
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Housing & Food stands in the way of student’s rights Our View: Students must be allowed to work with journalists in housing health efforts.
Housing and Food employees said Zoeller could not provide them to the paper. Housing & Food employees did not directly Editor’s note: Steven Zoeller is a former Daily threaten Zoeller with a citation, but their actions columnist. were still inappropriate. “They didn’t come out and say it, but it was very ominous and made me One of The Daily’s responsibilities is nervous,” Zoeller said. advocating for student health and safety Amy Buchanan, Housing & Food spokesThe Our View woman, did not give us copies of the housthrough the quick dissemination of inforis the majority mation, but Housing & Food Services eming lease agreement and declined further opinion of ployees stopped us from getting that inforcomment on the contents of the agreement. The Daily’s mation Thursday. We looked at every section of the agreenine-member On Friday, we reported on a possible bededitorial board ment and no clause in the housing guidebug infestation in Cate Center residence lines or lease agreement suggests a student hall. Cate resident Steven Zoeller went to couldn’t give photos to student media. In Goddard Health Center and was told bedbugs fact, the Housing and Food community Living might have bitten him. Guide prints The Daily’s phone number under the Zoeller informed Housing & Food about the pos- health services section. sibility of bedbugs in his room and Housing & Food We also did not find any reference to allowing responded by treating his room. While the treatjournalists in the residence halls or allowing jourment was going on, Zoeller invited Daily night ed- nalists to take pictures. It is clear the statements itor Blayklee Buchanan and managing editor Kyle made to members of our staff and Zoeller were not Margerum to his room to take pictures. based in any housing policy. Then the trouble began. After asking Buchanan It is incredible that employees from Housing & and Margerum a series of questions, two employFood would misrepresent housing guidelines in an ees told us that we had to go through the propattempt to block students’ access to information er channels to take pictures of Zoeller’s room, about dorm safety. If housing employees can’t be even though he was present and had given us trusted to know what is and what is not in student permission. lease agreements, how can students trust Housing Housing & Food explained no bedbugs & Food to give them the information had been seen, Zoeller said. they need? Contact Students have the right to know what Students have the power to change President’s is going on in their residence halls, espeHousing & Food practices. action line cially concerning an issue as serious as If you live in the dorms, or are conbedbugs. Absent a specific prohibition cerned with dorm health and safety, (405) 325-1212 in the housing contract, students have please contact President David Boren the right to enter another student’s room and voice those concerns. and take pictures. Housing guidlines Also, if you have any problems with only require residents to accompany visitors. residence hall conditions, please let us know so we During the confrontation at Zoeller’s room, hous- can communicate your concerns with other stuing employees said Zoeller was in violation of his dents. Students need to stick together to make sure housing agreement because he is not allowed to let health and safety information is given out quickly reporters into his room to take pictures. Housing & to those that need it. Food employees argued with us about who could and could not take pictures in a student’s room. We even gave Zoeller the camera to take pictures, but Comment on this on OUDaily.com
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Don’t believe the hype, sequestration cuts are a small fix to a bigger budget problem
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he sequester is Opinion columnist here, and depending on what media outlet you get your news from, it may or may not be the apocalypse. But what exactly is sequester? It’s actually a French word that translates Scott Houser directly to “fiscal cliff,” also scott.a.houser-1@ou.edu synonymous with “debt ceiling” and “partisan drama.” That’s right, that thing that we did twice in the last three months? Yeah, its happening again, and just like the last two times, the media is gonna blow it up. So what does it mean for you? Well, depending on how ballsy the Republicans are feeling this round, you might actually be treated to a good show. However, if you want to get into serious facts and data, it just isn’t that big of a deal. The sequester was an agreement between the legislative and the executive branches to force needed cuts in spending and to make a serious attempt at deficit reduction. Essentially, it’s a deadline that says “If no deficient reduction attempts are made before the sequester deadline, X spending programs will take an automatic cut.” Because why do your job now, when you can just kick the can down the road? So how big is the cut? What programs are on the line? How much food and ammunition should I stock my bunker with? The sequester cuts total a whopping $85 billion. Considering the estimated budget deficit for the 2013 fiscal year is $845 billion, the sequester cuts are not sufficient.
Actually, the cuts are divided evenly between things Republicans usually favor, like defense, and those Democrats usually favor like entitlements and public services. The idea behind this is that if the cuts went through, both Democrat and Republican interests would suffer, therefore motivating a compromise between the two parties to find other ways to reduce the deficit. Considering the debt ceiling and fiscal cliff sequester debacles have played out the same way since the debt ceiling’s introduction in 1939, I’m willing to predict this one will end similarly. There will be partisan bickering. Last-minute legislation will be introduced. It will be passed because nobody wants to be “that guy.” Then we wait a few months and do the whole thing over again. That’s what’s going to happen. And it is because the Republicans and the Democrats in the legislative branch “cooperate” that we have these problems in the first place. Everybody talks about how the House and Senate need to “do their jobs”, but where has that gotten us? The only things Democrats and Republicans seem to agree on in the past 13 years are two wars, the Patriot Act, torture, extra-judicial drone killings, expansion of the TSA, expansion of entitlement programs, the right to detain American citizens without trial and a list of unnecessary government spending measured in tens of trillions of dollars. I want the legislative branch to do their job the same way I want burglars to do their job. I don’t. So do us a favor, congressmen and senators. Stay home. Take the cuts. You’re already at a 15 percent approval rating. How much lower could it possibly go? Scott Houser is an international business senior.
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mericans are opinion columnist used to getting what they want, when they want it. If you want a burger, you drive to the nearest fast food joint and get one. Thirsty? Turn on your faucet. Need to use Sarah Sullivan the bathroom? Lucky katsar313@netzero.net you! There is always a working toilet somewhere relatively close to you. We expect these luxuries to be readily available to us at all times. Lacking luxuries isn’t a catastrophe, it’s a dose of reality. Recently, an American cruise ship, the Carnival Triumph, lost power due to an engine fire and was stranded with over 4,000 people in the Gulf of Mexico. It was a disgusting situation, and I am truly sorry that those aboard the ship suffered these conditions after planning what they expected to be a wonderful getaway. However, the behavior aboard the ship and the entitlement-fueled reactions from passengers after the fact has me a little concerned. For five days passengers were without power, working toilets and all-they-could-eat buffets. Passengers have described harsh conditions on board including overflowing toilets, long lines for food, foul odors and even the creation of a “shanty town” for sleeping on deck in an attempt to escape the horrid smell. Once the toilets overflowed, passengers were told to urinate in the showers and sinks. Passengers took it upon themselves to leave feces in the hall after they would defecate in their rooms. People got sick, they couldn’t shower and the odor on the ship became unbearable. Americans are so used to having everything done for them, they have forgotten to take care of themselves. Americans live in breakdown the land of the rich and famous, so we forget Tips when your that not everyone is so cruise ship has lucky. The behavior of no electricity the passengers shows this. When a toilet The shock of needoverflows, you ing to use long forclean it up. Don’t leave gotten survival skills it. You are responsible made this situation for yourself in a crisis. atrocious. There is so Grab some towels, clean the floor and throw the much dependence soiled mess below the on outside care that a decks until you can port. switch didn’t flip. Now, At least you won’t have to it is all over and the smell it. pampered passengers are back in their beds You have no with their programmapower. You have ble coffee makers in no running water. The the kitchen and their sinks and showers have drains. Yes, it’s Charmin Ultra Soft in disgusting, but either get their Glade-scented over it or hold it. bathrooms. For the troubles, Why would it ever Carnival announced it be okay to leave was planning to refund your poop in the hallway? the passengers for That’s the source of their trip, the cost of the smell, Sherlock. It’s their transportation to called the poop deck for a reason. Don’t behave get to the ship and for like an untrained puppy, some of the purchasthrow it over. es made on board the cruise ship. Carnival is You are on a also offering a cruise cruise ship, not a credit equal to the foreign wasteland from amount each passena sci-fi movie. There may ger paid for this trip not be water, but there for future use and a are endless supplies of juice, soda and, wait compensation of $500 for it … alcohol. Sorry per person. This stems you didn’t get your filet from the public presmignon and endless sure and media attenshrimp. Food is food, line tion from outraged, or no line. spoiled passengers. Frankly, Carnival shouldn’t have given in to this pressure. It was an accident. The very definition of an accident is that it was an unpredictable circumstance that is not the fault of anyone. Some are insistent on suing the cruise line for emotional damage. Buck up. You lived like that for five days, some people live like that for their entire lives. Your room may have smelled like poop, but you were still sleeping on 900 thread count sheets. To be honest, if you are emotionally damaged from smelling poop, you needed help before your cruise.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013 Several old but good relationships might be revived and revitalized in the year ahead. These wonderful and trustworthy friends will once again play constructive roles in your affairs, with everyone benefiting. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- There are always those times when we turn out to be the victor with something in which we are vulnerable. If you happen to take a beating in the early rounds today, keep this in mind. ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Be as flexible as possible when trying to iron out the snags in an agreement. When you allow everything to be on the table during negotiations, the problems will dissolve.
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contribution until late in the game. Make some room for her to squeeze into the picture. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- When it comes to your financial affairs, be both careful and prudent by thinking first and acting second. If you reverse this order, you might not be able to clean up your mistakes. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- In negotiating a matter of importance, don’t be too hasty and accept what is first offered. If you aren’t getting exactly what you want, you should be able to improve your position. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -Something that you work really hard on might not turn out as well as you expected. Conversely, that to which you devote little effort could go over like gangbusters. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Try to be tolerant and forgiving in involvements with both your family and friends. When you overlook their shortcomings, they, in turn, will overlook yours.
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6 p.m. - Dinner with Address to Follow Molly Shi Boren Ballroom Oklahoma Memorial Union 8 p.m. - Viewing of the U.S. State Department Collection, “Advancing American Art” Nancy Johnston Records Gallery and Ellen and Richard L. Sandor Gallery Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Friday, March 1 Reservations are required. Please call OU Public Affairs at 325-3784 or email specialevents@ou.edu For accommodations on the basis of disability, call OU Public Affairs at (405) 325-3784. The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution. www.ou.edu/eoo
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I really need to study. Therefore, my only solution is to clean it before starting anything else. “Why I Fail at Mondays” recounts the hilariously unfortunate story of being late to an early Monday class. We’ve all been there, from questioning why you took a class so far away (Sarkeys, why?) to if you should drive because it’s too cold to walk. This leads to questions like: Who is cruel enough to schedule Monday classes this early? And who can function at this hour without coffee? Before you know it, you’re late to class. Or “How NOT to make Christmas Cookies” that includes helpful tips like: do not forget to use flour, do not forget a rolling pin and do not wear socks once you’ve spilled the flour. By the end of the post Benson ends up licking dough off her phone, using a beer bottle as a makeshift rolling pin
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and has only eight or nine cookies because she ate all the dough in the process. Benson also started “The Weekly Grub,” which includes three relevant pieces from TV, the Internet or pop culture. It’s a completely separate website but works as her personal news website that features her commentary on relevant events from the past week. About 70 percent of her posts are about being in the Michigan State marching band. Seriously, she posts pictures, videos and types in
endless caps whenever this subject arises. This is one of the downsides of this blog for me, probably because I have no idea what it’s like to be in the MSU marching band. So, aside from those posts, this blog provides funny, relatable posts that will have you laughing out loud in class. Or maybe that was just me. Jessica Murphy is a public relations sophomore.
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he Internet is a strange place. Things like sneezing pandas, teens’ post-wisdom teeth removal and cats go viral almost instantly. I’m usually a huge fan of viral video sensations, but the Harlem Shake is not something I can support. The Harlem Shake meme made its way through the virtual cesspool otherwise known as YouTube a few weeks ago and has found itself at the forefront of pop culture. According to the official blog “YouTube Trends”, as of Feb. 14, 40,000 Harlem Shake videos had been uploaded and those videos had accumulated over 175 million views. College students, office workers, celebrities (if you consider T-Pain a celebrity), soldiers and puppies are just a few groups of people Harlem Shaking. Everyone and their mom has made a Harlem Shake
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A large group of OU students clad in crazy costumes get funky in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s food time. The Harlem Shake excourt Feb. 14. The group, in conjunction with Union Programming Board, performed the “Harlem pired two days after it started. Don’t be that person Shake,” a popular new flash dancing trend sweeping the world.
video (literally, there are several retirement homes that have made them). These ridiculous 30-second viral dance videos, set to the song Harlem Shake by Baauer, all follow the same pattern. The song starts while one person dances alone, then when the bass drops, it cuts to a large group of people in absurd outfits dancing, or rather, convulsing. These videos are so overdone and
repetitive they actually have me longing for the days of Gangnam Style and flash mobs. The people of Harlem have responded to the Harlem Shake in their own viral YouTube video. The reception of the Harlem Shake was unanimous among those interviewed in the video. People said they felt confused, mocked and disrespected. The original Harlem
Shake dance goes back decades and is considered an art form, according to the video. It has rhythm, style and would make for a cool video, had anyone actually taken the time to do a little research. “It’s not a dance, it’s really a lifestyle,” one man in the video said. Harlem and I have the same message for Harlem Shake video makers: stop. Make better use of your
who comes late to the party. The Harlem Shake is over. Nothing more can be done with it. If you have been bitten by the Harlem Shake bug, contact your doctor immediately. You’ll have to leave a message, though, because the entire office is busy making Harlem Shake: Doctor’s Office Edition.
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include your mom, which if you knew my mom is totally true — even though my mom comments and/or likes everything on my page. Second, Benson lists your high school crushes, whom I even still creep on a little. She also includes the “train Jessica Murphy wrecks,” who are about as jessica.z.murhpy@ou.edu addicting as Jersey Shore or aylor Benson blogs The Real World, and “that “Everyday By Tay: one kid from that one time,” Life of a Spartan” in because even though you what she calls a “life-dump” don’t really know them you where she posts about her find yourself creeping on experiences, thoughts, ideas their profile pictures and and random pictures found learning the names of all on her iPhoto. Benson start- their cats. ed the website as a video Another notably enterblog only to get too lazy to taining post, “The BEST record everyday, so she Ways to Procrastinate,” lists turned it into a blog full three of my favorite things: of easy reads, videos and eating, Facebook stalking pictures. and Netflix. She names Looking through her other activities like sleeping, posts will guarantee a good Facebook stalking yourself laugh, starting with one and cleaning. Cleaning is of my favorites, “The Four my specialty on that list beFacebook friends you will cause my room only seems never delete.” Those listed unbearably dirty whenever
Shannon Borden is a professional writing sophomore.
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Students invited to ’40s dance party
Chinese poet to be honored at OU
Dance on over to a free, exclusive 1940s-themed student party to celebrate the opening of a new exhibit, “Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy” at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. The exhibit does not open to the public until March 2, but the museum planned this event so the students can see it early, according to a press release dated Feb. 14. Michael Bendure, director of communication for Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, said he hopes events like this one will remind students that the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art is their museum. The event will feature swing dancing, mocktails and a photobooth. Those who dress in a 1940s-style outfit will be entered to win an iPod, according to the press release. The event will also offer swing dancing lessons at 6:30 p.m., according to the press release. The exhibit, which is a reassembled version of a 1946 ART PROVIDED exhibit that advanced artistic expression in America at the Anton Refregier’s “End of the time, features works from 10 museums, art collectors and Conference” (1945) oil on other public institutions, according to the press release. canvas will go on display to
The University of Oklahoma Institute for U.S.-China Issues will honor the winner of the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature on March 7. Karina Legradi, graduate assistant for the OU Institute for U.S.-China Issues, said Yang Mu, a Taiwanese poet, is the third winner of the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature and will be honored with $10,000, a medallion and a certificate. The Newman Prize for Chinese Literature is awarded biennially to highlight achievement in prose or poetry that captures the human condition, and can be given to any living author writing in Chinese, Legradi said. An international jury of experts both nominates candidates and selects the winner based upon a voting process. “It’s a really prestigious award,” Legradi said, “And a good opportunity that shows Chinese literature being promoted in Oklahoma.” The reception will be held at 5:30 p.m. and dinner will follow at 6 p.m. in Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Sandy Bell Gallery, according to a press release. Invited guests should respond by 5 p.m. today, Legradi said. Jessica Murphy, Life & Arts Reporter
the public Saturday at the Fred
Shannon Borden, Life & Arts Reporter Jones Jr. Museum of Art as part of “Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy.”
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OUDaily.com ›› The Thunder looks to extend its winning streak to three games at 7 tonight at the Peake when Eric Gordon and the Hornets come to Oklahoma City.
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The O klahoma men’s basketball team looks to pick up a big rivalry win as it goes for a season sweep against Texas at 8 tonight in Austin. The Sooners (18-8, 9-5 Big 12) have put together an impressive stretch recently, winning four of their last five games, with the lone setback coming in an 8479 overtime loss to No. 15 Oklahoma State. Much of OU’s success can be attributed to the emergence of senior guard Sam Grooms as a legitimate offensive threat. Despite only averaging 4.3 points per game this season, Grooms has been on a hot streak of late, scoring 18, 12 and 23 points in his last three games. “This is probably the best I’ve played since junior college,” Grooms said. “Right before I came here, I was playing pretty well, then I went through the drought last year, I kind of had a fall-off.” Grooms’ play has certainly helped an offense that has struggled at times during the season, but the team has stepped up its defense as well. “ We ’v e b e e n l o c k i n g down on defense as a group,” freshman guard Je’lon Hornbeak said. “It’s not really been just one player. “It’s been everybody collectively bringing their own
Position: Guard Statistics: Leads the team in assists (66) despite only starting two games this season.
pieces to the puzzle.” The Sooners will need to have a good game from both the offense and defense if they hope to take down Texas (12-15, 4-10 Big 12). The Longhorns are having a rare down year under coach Rick Barnes, but they have looked better than their record suggests at times and have gotten a big boost from the return of their best player, sophomore guard Myck Kabongo. Kabongo has returned from a 23-game suspension for receiving impermissible benefits, averaging 15.5 points over the course of his first four games. The last time the two teams met — a 73-67 Oklahoma victory in Norman — Kabongo was serving his suspension, so this will be the first time that the Sooners match up with him this season. O U h o p e s Ka b o n g o’s speed and scoring ability won’t lead the Longhorns to a victory, as the Sooners had to hold on for dear life to avoid losing in Norman. “He helps considerably because [Texas] is adding a top, elite player,” coach
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Freshman guard Isaiah Cousins blows by Baylor senior guard Pierre Jackson during OU’s 90-76 win against Baylor on Saturday. Cousins played nine minutes and scored two points in the Sooners’ win.
Lon Kruger said. “A guy that does a lot of things, not only offensively, but also very active, very quick defensively. “He creates; he gets in the paint ; he pushes the tempo.” Garrett Holt garrett.holt@ou.edu
Coach Bob Stoops announced Tuesday Michigan defensive line coach Jerry Montgomery has been hired to replace Jackie Shipp. “Jerry Montgomery is a talented coach who further strengthens our staff at the University of Oklahoma,” Stoops said in a press release. “I have closely followed Jerry’s progress as he has ascended through the coaching ranks. I have been impressed by his ability to recruit some of the nation’s top student-athletes and then develop their skills once they arrive on campus.” Montgomery coached the defensive line at Michigan the past two seasons, at Wyoming from 2009 to 2010 and at Northern Iowa from 2007 to 2008. “It’s truly a privilege to join the University of Oklahoma,” Montgomery said in the same release. “Coach Stoops and his staff have an unbelievable reputation in the coaching community, and I’m excited to get to work with them. Staff Reports
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YOU ARE INVITED! TO ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE-DAY PROGRAMS ON AMERICAN HISTORY EVER HELD IN OUR STATE “It has been said that to remain great, Americans must understand how we became great. One of the most important obligations of any university is to prepare our students for the responsibilities of citizenship by making sure that they learn our own history and our own constitutional heritage.” – David L. Boren
Teach-In on The Great Depression and World War II “A Day With Some of the Greatest Teachers in America” Monday, March 11, 2013 Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall, Catlett Music Center 9:30 a.m. – “John Steinbeck's America: A Cultural History of the Great Depression and World War II,” presented by University of Oklahoma Professor of Western History, David Wrobel, Author of Global West, American Frontier: Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism, from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression 10:30 a.m. – “Lessons from the Great Depression for Policy Today,” presented by University of California, Berkeley, Professor Christina Romer, Co-director of the Program in Monetary Economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research 2 p.m. – “The Beginning of the Era That is Just Now Ending” University of Texas at Austin Professor of History, H.W. Brands, Best-selling author and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize 3 p.m. – “The Great Depression and American Constitutionalism” Harvard University Professor of International Law, Noah Feldman, Author of a weekly column for Bloomberg View and contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine
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4 p.m. – Pulitzer Prize-winning historians and authors David McCullough and David Kennedy will join Wrobel, Romer, Brands and Feldman in a panel discussion on “America Transformed: A Panel Discussion on the Impact of the 30’s and 40’s” moderated by Kyle Harper, Director of OU’s Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage. Reservations required for each session. For reservations or accommodations on the basis of disability, call OU Public Affairs at (405) 325-3784 or email specialevents@ou.edu. The University is an equal opportunity institution. www.ou.edu/eoo
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