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opinion: OU Teach-In event enhances public engagement and discourse. (Page 3)
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U gave out almost 52,000 parking citations last year, then dismissed almost a third of them. But you won’t find out here whether athletes, student leaders, faculty or any other special interest group got special treatment. The reason? OU won’t release the records.
OU’s Open Records office and state and federal experts disagree whether student parking citations are exempt from a federal privacy law. OU officials cite both the Oklahoma Open Records Act and The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, known as FERPA, as reasons to withhold student parking citations. A total of 51,987 citations were issued at OU in fiscal year 2012, with 14,258, or 27.4 percent, of those citations being dismissed. The Daily filed an open records request in September 2012 for all student parking citations issued so far that year in an attempt to verify the fairness of the parking system. OU’s Open Records office denied The Daily’s request in September 2012 and again in December 2012, citing FERPA. According to Daily archives, the university also cited FERPA in 2010 when withholding student parking citations. FERPA is a federal law protecting the privacy of students’ educational records. The law establishes students have the right to expect such records will be kept confidential unless they consent to their release. Open Records office director Rachel McCombs said the university considers parking citations as on of these academic records protected by FERPA. “Any record that contains information that is directly related to a student and is maintained by the university is protected by FERPA,” she said via email. In an email from his office in Washington D.C., Student Press Law Center executive director Frank LaMonte said records covered under FERPA are those containing confidential information identifying a particular student. “If the record is maintained in some type of central storage facility or location and directly relates or refers to the student,” he said. “The courts have been very, very clear that not every document that names or refers to a student is a FERPA record and have typically limited the reach of the statute in a common-sense way to records that have something to do with educational activity.” The Open Records Office provided information about the number and type of violations on campus but would not provide a list of violations connected with student names. Without identifying information, it is impossible to verify that
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different groups of students are receiving similar treatment “It defies logic to say parking tickets are no longer public from the parking office. records in the hands of the university,” he said. “I don’t think FERPA was intended to protect parking tickets.” Are parking citations student records? Senat said parking tickets have nothing to do with a stuMcCombs said parking citations given to students are re- dent’s education. cords that relate to enrolled students and are maintained by “Oklahomans are entitled to know what tickets are being paid, what tickets are not and if any special favor or favoritism the university. “Thus, they are education records and are confidential is shown,” he said. under FERPA,” she said. The records requests for parking tickets at the University LaMonte said parking tickets are almost certainly not of Maryland and the University of North Carolina not only FERPA records. sparked court cases that found parking tickets were not pro“The U.S. Department of Education has never said so,” he tected under FERPA, but also turned up evidence of favoritism said. “And courts in Maryland and North Carolina have said shown toward student-athletes. In a telephone interview, Norman Police Department Capt. they are not.” LaMonte said a parking ticket is not considered an educa- Tom Easley said citizens in Norman filing an open record retion record for several reasons. quest for hard copy parking tickets “probably” would have “Most importantly, be- their request filled, as long as the individual is referenced in “Would the college cause anyone can get a park- the Norman Police Department database. put your report card ing ticket, not just a student,” “The problem with parking tickets is that they are given to he said. “Tickets are issued automobiles, not people,” he said. “The car gets the ticket not underneath your to cars, not people. The tick- the person.” windshield wiper, et is not a record belonging Easley said people could get parking tickets from the to and directly relating to the Norman municipal court. “You will get the tag, vehicle, date or a copy of your student.” and time of the offense, location of the violation, nature of the LaMonte also said parking offense, but not the name,” he said. transcripts?” citations are not confidential Easley said citizens could request information on an indiFRANK LAMONTE, because of where they’re left vidual through a master records name check with the Norman STUDENT PRESS LAW CENTER — in public where anyone Police Department, barring certain circumstances such as EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR can easily look at them. suspect information and mental health. “A parking ticket is left stuck on the window of a car where passing pedestrians can look at How citations are handled OU Parking Services spokeswoman Vicky Holland said after it,” he said. “Would the college put your report card undera parking citation is issued, it is placed in “unpaid, no-name” neath your windshield wiper, or a copy of your transcripts?” LaMonte said if parking tickets were cited under FERPA as status until a second citation. After a second citation issued to the same vehicle, that student records, “then someone should file a complaint with the Department of Education against the college for inade- vehicle’s tag number is sent automatically to the appropriate Department of Motor Vehicles office for identification, quately securing the privacy of FERPA records.” Joey Senat, an Oklahoma State University journalism pro- Holland said. Then after the owner is identified, the citation is billed to his fessor and former Freedom of Information Oklahoma president, said parking tickets in the hands of the police depart- or her bursar’s account. If the owner does not have an account ment are public records. see RECORDS PaGe 2
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Today around campus A panel discussion about the use of various art forms as activism will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hester Hall 170. The panel will include journalism professor Ralph Beliveau, film and media studies professor Andy Horton and dean of the College of International Studies Suzette Grillot. A University Singers concert will take place at 8 p.m. in the Catlett Music Center Gothic Hall as part of the School of Music’s Sutton Concert Series. The program will include Durufle’s “Quatre Motets,” Tavener’s “Song for Athen” and a special arrangement of U2’s “M.L.K.” It will also feature Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Five Mystical Songs” for baritone and choir, featuring Leslie Flanagan, baritone. Tickets are $9 for adults and $5 with student discounts. Do you want to see your organization’s campus event here? Visit OUDaily.com/events/submit to add your entry.
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Every 75 or 80 years, the U.S. reaches a pivotal point in its history: a crisis navigated by a great leader that leads the nation out of the old age and into the new. H.J. Brands, a history professor from the University of Texas in Austin, explained this cycle in a lecture that was part of a day of lessons taught by some of the nation’s top historians on campus Monday. The university’s second annual Teach-In provided opportunities for OU
students and the greater community to understand the political and historical forces surrounding World War II and the Great Depression Era. Understanding the past helps citizens understand the present and future, equipping today’s youth to become the leader-teachers of tomorrow and learn the lessons of the past to prevent history from repeating itself, said President David Boren.
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President David Boren addresses the audience at the Teach-In this Monday in the Catlett Music Center’s Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall.
records: Other states’ courts made tickets public Continued from page 1 with the university, the citation and amount they owe OU are sent to their home address, she said.
What the courts have said
Courts in Maryland and North Carolina have found parking tickets are not considered educational records under FERPA. In 1998, a Maryland appeals court stated in its ruling: “(FERPA) was not intended to preclude the release of any record simply because the record contained the name of a student. The federal statute was obviously intended to keep private those aspects of a student’s educational life that relate to academic matters or status as a student.” A North Carolina judge repeated those sentiments in 2011, “FERPA does not provide a student with an invisible cloak so that the student can remain hidden from public view while enrolled
at (college).” OU’s Open Records office has said FERPA-related court rulings in other states are not relevant to how the university applies FERPA-related policies. McCombs defends that practice. “Under the principle of stare decisis, a court must adhere to prior judicial opinions when they are controlling authority in that jurisdiction,” she said. For Oklahoma state courts, controlling authority includes the Supreme Court of Oklahoma and the Supreme Court of the United States. She said in contrast, opinions from other state courts or federal district courts are merely persuasive authority. “Although they can be considered by Oklahoma courts when deciding an issue of federal law, Oklahoma courts are not required to reach the same interpretation,” McCombs said. LaMonte said even though cases from Maryland and North Carolina are not legally binding in Oklahoma, those rulings will be looked at as informative and will
be influential if a case is filed against the university. “At some point, it becomes an act of bad faith to insist on your own interpretation of the law when there is no legal support for that interpretation and a growing consensus against it,” he said. “At the very least, you can say with 100 percent certainty that the university would be at zero risk of suffering any financial penalty for honoring a public-records request for parking tickets.” LaMonte said the Department of Education would only penalize a college if it issues a notice that FERPA has been violated. “The very worst thing that could happen to the university for honoring a request for these records would be a letter from the DOE telling them not to do that again in the future,” he said. “If the university is claiming that it will suffer financial penalties for fulfilling a public-records request for parking tickets, then the university’s lawyers either are misinformed or they are lying.”
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education is OU Teach-In strengthens Sex not pornography citizen civic engagement W Our view: Understanding complex historical
understand how we overcame adversity and became great in the first place,” President David Boren said, according to a statement on the Teach-In website. The OU Teach-In program is a great way to We fully agree with Boren on the importance demonstrate the importance of higher education. of civic and historical education. The program offers Oklahoma citizens a chance to We are fortunate to have some of the most engage with experts on the Great Depression and important educators in America teaching us World War II in a personal, direct way. about a formative period in U.S. history. David Hearing authorities on American history speak McCullough and David Kennedy are Pulitzer is an amazing opportunity for OU students and prize-winning authors. community members. H.W. Brands of the University of Texas, If you were not able to attend the TeachNoah Feldman of Harvard University The Our View In on Monday, speakers from across the and Christina Romer of the University of is the majority California at Berkeley are authorities in country came to speak on topics like opinion of the Depression and the Constitution, American history, the constitution and The Daily’s President Harry S. Truman and how the economics. nine-member U.S. was victorious in World War II, among Speakers also include OU professors editorial board other topics. David Wrobel and Kyle Harper, who are The topic areas examine a period in experts in American history and the U.S. American history punctuated by war and ecoConstitution. nomic disaster. We would be excited about a chance to learn The economic and military problems faced by from any one of these speakers, let alone all of the U.S. today pale in comparison to the econom- them in one day. ic disasters and global conflicts that gripped the The Teach-In undoubtedly will continue to globe during the ’30s and ’40s. raise the bar of civic engagement in Oklahoma. Still, learning about history helps us learn about Events like the Teach-In get OU students and how to approach modern challenges. We must Oklahoma citizens excited about being involved learn the lessons of the past. in the American experiment. “I believe that a solid understanding of our country’s history has never been more urgent. America cannot remain great unless all of us Comment on this on OUDaily.com processes is important in efforts to meet today’s challenges.
e’ve been reEditor in chief ceiving some feedback from readers on a particular photo in Friday’s paper. In Friday’s editorial, “Former porn actress makes for an apt sex ed. teacher,” we argued OU should folMary Stanfield low in the footsteps of the stanfieldm@ou.edu University of Illinois and create an official sex education course. Given the sad state of many Oklahoma and Texas high schools’ sex education, such a course could be an essential resource. And be honest: Who among us couldn’t use some straight talk and honest discussion about sexual health? In Illinois, former porn star and current author and educator Annie Sprinkle led the seminar. To illustrate our argument that OU needs a similar program, we ran a photo of Sprinkle holding an anatomical drawing of a vagina. Some readers have expressed discomfort with the photo. I understand this kind of photo can be surprising. In this community, it’s not the kind of thing we talk about every day (or, really, at all). We call them “private parts” for a reason. But genitalia, sex and all the medical and social baggage that go with them are undeniably part of our lives. Proper sex education can mean the difference between flourishing and struggling, between wanted and unwanted children, between life and death. Not to mention the myriad of essential social and political issues that demand an open, honest, accurate conversation about sex and reproduction. The photo we ran was no more pornographic than a biology textbook, no more vulgar than the Science Channel. It illustrated sex education by providing sex education. And if such an educational, scientific rendering of a vagina can cause such discomfort, maybe it’s the silence causing that discomfort — not the anatomy.
Mary Stanfield is a philosophy senior.
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And as for the maintrial, deserves the celeby its monopoly over the scott.a.houser-1@ou.edu jason.l.byas-1@ou.edu But is vocal social media stream media, they’ve done bration it has received. provision of law. presence really the way to a turn along party lines. However, that celebraSince government algo if you’re worried about being targeted Conservative outlets such as Fox New,s tion should be tempered with an under- ways will be the final authority on any case for drone assassination by an increasingly who defended the Bush administration on standing that the real issues at hand are brought against it, it decides how much — authoritarian and decreasingly transpartorture, are actually praising Rand Paul for nowhere close to being fully resolved. if any — restitution its victims receive. ent administration? questioning the abuse of If only foreign lives were The alternative offered by many anThat’s why I got rid of social media all executive power. at risk, you and I might be archists today is one of law and security “I think its also together, and only go outside in a heat-sigLiberal outlets, howevsafe, but the killing of inwithout monopoly. nature-shielding tin foil suit and a large, er, have definitely come nocent people — the minA notable example of this in the past safe to say that urban-camouflaged umbrella. I also am out against Paul. MSNBC’s imum number in Pakistan was the legal order that existed from 930 to Barack Obama of sure to stay within one predator-missile Lawrence O’Donnell acalone is 291 — would 1262 in Iceland. One feature of their sys2007 would be right still be just as horrifying. tem modern Americans would likely find blast radius from the nearest daycare cen- tually went so far as to call ter, animal shelter or hospital. him a “Psychopath.” appealing was no one person or institution down here with me Murder is murder, even All craziness aside, Paul’s filibuster drew President Barack Obama when the flying killer rohad the unchecked authority to kill anyarguing against a lot of mixed attention to a very important is responsible for thoubots are dropping their one they wished. issue. Not only was this an unconventional sands of deaths in drone bombs on people living Also, those who had any problems with this drone-strike message for mainstream politics, but an strikes, according to reon the other side of the their protectors or courts could simply program if he were planet. unconventional method as well. ports by the Journal of choose a new one, without even moving. in the Senate.” We often have heard of filibusters, esInvestigative Journalism. That being said, as dark This accomplished more, and took less pecially by Republicans during the early There also is a very low as it is, this situation is in- effort, than talking for nearly thirteen Sen. Rand Paul, years of the Obama administration, but success rate. About two evitable as long as there straight hours. It also could be done by in his filibuster of John rarely, if ever, did they actually happen. percent of the targets killed Brennan’s nomination to be are large, centralized anyone, not just members of a select class Usually just the threat of a filibuster by a by drones are high profile nation-states. of people. CIA director majority of the party was enough to stop targets, according to a study As long as there are senGiven that our government’s most relegislation. by Stanford Law School ates, they will necessarily cent debate with itself has been about Rand Paul’s filibuster, however, was not and New York University’s end up having to discuss when it has the authority to kill us without the work of any political party, but rather School of Law. violence inflicted against innocent peo- trial, the case for anarchism should be one man who wanted answers. One of those strikes killed a 16-year-old ple in their name. clearer than ever before. The most interesting thing about this American citizen, which a senior Obama One of Paul’s most chilling questions No one ever should have to beg and political stunt is that it seems to be the campaign adviser justified by saying the was, “Are you going to drop a hellfire squirm before any organization for them only issue in recent history that didn’t boy should have had a more responsible missile on those at Kent State?” to mercifully restrain its power to take come down to party lines. Many promfather, according to the Huffington Post. On that note, it should be asked: Why human lives. inent Republicans including Lindsey But politicians and the media still say are there hellfire missiles? Why was Graham and John McCain ridiculed Paul, Rand Paul is a psychopath for demanding there a Kent State massacre? In fact, why Jason Byas is a philosophy senior and vice calling him a “wacko,” while Democrat answers? In that case, #Psychopath2016. was there even a Vietnam War for the president of Students for a Stateless Society, Ron Wyden actually helped to continue students to be protesting? the filibuster. The answer is there is an enforced mo- who will be tabling near crossroads in the Scott Houser is an international business I say thank god we finally have a polinopoly on the provision of law and secu- union Wednesday 9 am to 5 pm as part of senior. their “Ask an Anarchist Day” event. tician who is sane enough to achieve the rity, financed by our taxes.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- You’re likely to derive greater benefits from what you do on the spur of the moment than from something more calculated. Be flexible and alert. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Although you are quite intuitive, you should also be able to accurately size up situations using your fine deductive skills. It pays to use all of your faculties. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Your companions will have an enormous effect on your outlook, which is normal but not always productive. However, today you’ll be pleased by the way they stimulate your thought processes. CANCER (June 21-July 22) -Achievement is within the realm of possibility, as long as you’re both swift and consistent. However, if you hesitate on something, you won’t likely get a second chance. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Some unusual information that comes your way might not fit in your present
plans, but you may be able to use it on some future venture; put it in your pocket. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -Something commercially beneficial could unexpectedly develop through someone who is more of a friend than a business associate. Be sure to check it out. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Do not discount your mate’s flash of inspiration today just because his/ her reasoning isn’t along traditional lines. It’s the concept that counts, and it could be ingenious. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Be sure to put your thinking cap on when at work, because certain ideas of yours could go a long way toward gaining some points with the powers that be. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- There’s a good chance that you’ll run into an old friend whom you haven’t seen in a very long time. The meeting could be a harbinger of something more interesting and exciting to come.
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ACROSS 1 Fodder housing 5 Acct. ledger entries 9 Delicate pancake 14 Cut the fat 15 All dried out 16 Expands one’s staff 17 “The Godfather� composer Nino 18 “... with a banjo on my ___� 19 White heron 20 Start of a sage thought 23 Part of F.D.R. 24 Performed badly 28 Preposition in poetry 29 Lacking brightness or color 32 AFC Central player 33 High-end hotel offerings 35 He played Ponch 36 Second part of a sage thought 40 Piano chanteuse Amos 41 Dumbbells 42 Having star quality? 45 Average golf scores 46 Oft-mis3/12
punctuated possessive 49 Furthermore 51 Unpopped popcorn 53 Third part of a sage thought 56 Magazine installment 59 The embryo of an invention 60 Source of an artist’s inspiration 61 Kind of common stock 62 Baltimore’s McHenry, for one 63 Winning cards 64 No longer novel 65 Arctic Ocean floater 66 Cozy spot DOWN 1 Take giant steps 2 One with pressing issues? 3 “Stuart ___� 4 Biggest city in Nebraska 5 Invite punishment 6 Choice of courses 7 Allowance after tare 8 No-___ (gnat) 9 Romano or Swiss 10 Physical property of
inflexibility 11 Commit a faux pas 12 The Carolinas’ ___ Dee River 13 Wintertime in D.C. 21 Endow, as with a quality 22 BBQ serving 25 Fairy-tale baddie 26 Depilatory brand 27 Fraternal fellow 30 Basic unit for the elements 31 Jazz genre 33 Concerned with sacred matters 34 Lyric sung by Doris Day 36 Women hate it when they run 37 Dinner
crumbs 38 Associate on the job 39 Enlarged area on a map 40 Can opener 43 Stick 44 Pasture 46 Bring about 47 Acts the coquette 48 Most like a fox 50 Take a whiff of 52 Circus Maximus attendee 54 Pedestal percher 55 Prefix for “sol� or “space� 56 Elected ones 57 AA candidate 58 Whirlpool site
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Even if you don’t get off to a dazzling start, the day’s end could be quite dramatic, desirable and exciting. It’s important to remember that it’s the bottom line that counts. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Your comments are likely to have greater impact on your associates than you might realize. You’re likely to say all the right things, which will strengthen relationships rather than weaken them.
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Emma Hamblen, life & arts editor Megan Deaton, assistant editor dailyent@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666 oudaily.com/life&arts • Twitter: @OUDailyArts
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‘Freak folk’ album breaks molds l&A assistant editor
Megan Deaton meggiejennie@ou.edu
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ith a name like Devendra Banhart, it’s no surprise the artist’s music is a bit out there. Banhart goes out of his way to defy any sense of musical consistency between his albums and creates such different sounds his work is not always easily identifiable. Banhart’s newest and seventh official album, “Mala,” sticks true to his consistently inconsistent style. The “freak folk” or “hipster folk revival” singer fits somewhere in the New Weird America genre, but who really knows what that means, anyway? My first encounter with Banhart was through his upbeat track, “16th &
Valencia, Roxy Music” from the album, “What Will We Be.” The song had me dancing around my bedroom and singing in the shower. None of the songs on “Mala” inspire that playful feeling. Instead, most of the tracks present almost melancholy tones that make me want to drive around on a rainy day and think about past relationships gone wrong. Trying to define Banhart’s ethereal sound would be futile. The artist spent much of his youth in Venezuela, so the songs on “Mala” have a faint but detectable South American vibe. The track, “Mi Negrita,” is sung completely in Spanish, while the next track, “Your Fine Petting Duck,”contains no traces of this Venezuelan influence. I can’t deny listening to Banhart always is an adventure. The song titles alone, such as “Für Hildegard von Bingen” and “Hatchet Wound,” kept me curious enough to listen to the entire album. As for the
At a glance ‘Mala’
Artist: Devendra Banhart art provided
Devendra Banhart stays true to his diverse sound with “Mala,” which releases today.
lyrical differences between Banhart’s songs, “Won’t You Come Over” is a smooth, seductive tune as Banhart croons, “Won’t you come over and love me.” On the opposite end, “Your Fine Petting Duck” seems to have the express purpose of convincing the singer’s ex-lover she’s better off with her new man when he sings, “If he doesn’t try his
best, please remember that I never tried at all.” If nothing else, Banhart has such a smooth, gorgeous voice that listening to “Mala” is worth dealing with a bit of the weirdness. My favorite song from the album is certainly “Never Seen Such Good Things,” a somewhat saddening ballad with a deceiving title. While some listeners
look for a consistent sound from their favorite artists, I enjoy Banhart’s flexible talent in “Mala.” The constant diversity kept me from getting bored, and turned out to be the perfect soundtrack to a great study session. Fans of Cat Power or Andrew Bird might enjoy the singer, but there’s really no placing Banhart in a category with any other artist.
Give “Mala” a chance. If you like it, you can catch the “hippie-folk” singer at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin this week. I’ll certainly be there just to see what the strange fellow will do next. Megan Deaton is a journalism and international studies junior.
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Sooner concert to feature ‘heavenly’ talent Non-music majors to perform tonight Ali Hausner/Kandice Lawson Life & Arts Reporters
The OU School of Music w ill pres ent University Singers “Sing Me to Heaven,” a concert that will allow vocalists to show their true passion for music. “Sing Me to Heaven” will be held at 8 p.m. tonight in Catlett Music Center’s Grayce B. Kerr Gothic Hall. The singers are students selected around campus t h ro u g h a u d i t i o n s a n d come from many different academic areas within the OU community, according to the press release dated Feb. 28. Mark Lucas, choral music education professor, will direct the concert with the
help of Christopher Ganza as assistant conductor. The concert mostly will be a capella and will feature some pieces in Latin, and some more contemporary pieces, such as a U2 song, according to Lucas. Lucas said he feels the U2 song “MLK,” is a unique piece that is sure to woo the crowd. “It’s a special piece, because the hall we are performing in, Gothic Hall, has really great acoustics,” Lucas said. “The song has drone and really low notes that will be sung by the bass section of the choir.” Amanda Ortiz, vocal music education junior, will be a soprano in the concert. “We have more challenging music for this concert than we have had in the past, which is really exciting,” Ortiz said.
Learning the music and getting the choir to sound like one voice wasn’t easy, but she feels like they will be able to pull it off, she said. “We have had a couple of rehearsals out in Gothic Hall, where our concert will be, and it is incredible to hear how different we sound there,” Ortiz said. Kevin Slavin, second time University Singers senior, also expressed his passion for the music they will be
performing. “This concert will show people’s hearts,” Slavin said. The most rewarding part of performing with the singers is being able to give the gift of music, he said.
“I believe the music we will sing is so inspirational,” Slavin said. “It is beautiful, something so beautiful only music can express.”
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OU returns home for first time this month
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Sooners look forward to playing Florida State outdoors in Norman Sam Hoffman Sports Reporter
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he No. 23 baseball team’s biggest strength coming into the season was its starting pitching, especially the one-two combination of juniors Dillon Overton and Jonathan Gray. The two have not disappointed. They have combined for a 7-2 record, 56 2/3 innings, 57 strikeouts and 15 walks. Also, both starters have ERAs less than 3.50 — 2.03 for Gray and 3.30 for Overton. While this team may live or die on how well the Friday and Saturday starters perform, it only will go as far as its secondary hurlers — the Sunday starter and key bullpen members — pitch. As a whole, OU’s pitching staff has a 3.43 ERA while posting an almost three-toone strikeouts-to-walks ratio — it has recorded 143 strikeouts while walking just 52 batters in 144 1/3 innings. Those are not horrible stats, especially considering OU has six pitchers who have ERAs greater than five, including one pitcher — junior transfer Billy Waltrip — who has worked his ERA down almost 10 points since making his first appearance Feb. 16. Otherwise, the Sooners have used eight pitchers — who all have thrown at least four
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Senior pitcher Jake Fisher fires a pitch during OU’s 7-2 loss against Pepperdine on March 2 at L. Dale Mitchell Park. The lefty has made three appearances this season, striking out four in 3.1 innings.
innings — with ERAs less than 3.50. A few pitchers — Sunday starter freshman Adam Choplick, freshman reliever Jacob Evans, Waltrip and sophomore closer Robert Tasin — have cemented their spots as coach Sunny Golloway’s go-to guys in certain roles during the weekend. That means midweek games, like this two-game series against New Mexico State at 6:30 tonight at L. Dale Mitchell Park, are the time for some of the other pitchers to earn their roles, especially before the team starts its conference schedule March 22. Although Golloway has not announced a starter
for tonight or Wednesday night’s games, he has a myriad of options from which to choose. And the pitchers the Sooners send to the mound this weekend — although that could be one of the weekend starters at one point just to get a bullpen session in — cannot afford to struggle. They cannot afford a poor midweek outing this close to the start of conference play, and the team cannot afford many more midweek losses, especially against middle-tier teams. Oklahoma has a 2-1 record in midweek game, with its last one being a 6-1 loss against UT Arlington
Tuesday in Arlington, Texas. The Sooners are nowhere near done with their midweek schedule, but they have to pick up the pace so their record and RPI do not take too much of a hit once the tournament comes around. Now is the time for some of these pitchers who are used mainly during midweek games to step up, not only for their own good, but so the team does not have to travel too far during the postseason. Jono Greco is a journalism graduate student and the assistant sports editor.
After seven consecutive road matches, the No. 6 OU men’s tennis team will play a home match against No. 26 Florida State at 5:30 p.m. today at Headington Family Tennis Center. The Sooners are 10-3 UP NEXT this season and have not OU vs. Florida State played at home since Feb. When: 5:30 tonight 8 against Tulsa. During the road stretch, OU went 5-2, and reached Where: Headington Family its highest-ever ranking of Tennis Center No. 5. Senior Costin Paval looks forward to the match and a weekend spent in Norman not traveling. “I can’t wait,” he said. “I know it’s just different; having people cheer for you feels good sometimes. It’s not really something you should be attached to, but when you get that environment, you’re glad you have it.” Although coach John Roddick said he likes the team camaraderie built when the team travels together, he admits playing at home will be good for his squad. Sophomore Dane Webb agrees. “It’ll be fun,” Webb said. “It’s always more fun to play here, so hopefully we will be playing outside in some sun. We’ve been inside for a long time this year.” Inclement weather prevented the team from playing outdoors in the early part of the spring season. The Sooners, who consider themselves “an outdoor team,” look forward to the opportunity to start playing outdoors. OU is 4-0 at home this year, looking to keep its record untarnished against a Florida State (11-3) team that has only played three matches away from home all year. The Sooners have two doubles teams ranked in the ITA top 60. Junior Guillermo Alcorta and freshman Axel Llamas are No. 42. Paval and Webb are No. 52 and looking to build off their NCAA Final Four appearance from last season. Roddick’s squad also boasts two singles players in the ITA top 125. Paval has cracked the top 40 at No. 39, and Alcorta is not far behind at No. 61. The Seminoles only have one ranked singles player — sophomore Dominic Cotrone at No. 89. Regardless of the rankings, OU expects a hard-fought match tonight in front of a home crowd. Sam Hoffman, samhoffman@ou.edu
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