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Big Event ’12 attracts more students Nearly 300 additional volunteers register RACHAEL CERVENKA Campus Reporter

The implementation of online registration and an increased awareness of community service on campus have helped Big Event organizers

add nearly 300 volunteers to last year’s record participation, the event’s chairwoman said.

Big Event 2012 has accepted 5,739 registrations, event chairwoman Rachel Tyrrell said.

The event drew 5,464 volunteers in 2011 and 4,944 in 2010, Tyrrell said.

The increase in volunteers allows Big Event to provide a

greater service to the community, and online registration helped administrators process registrations more efficiently, Tyrrell said.

In the past registration was done through paper applications and emails, she said.

“That saved us countless hours, probably like 400 literal hours,” Tyrrell said.

Coupled with the increase in volunteers, 35 first-time job sites have requested assistance during Big Event’s community-service activities, which are scheduled for April 14.

Job sites are also requesti n g m o re v o l u n t e e r s t h a n ever before, Tyrrell said. So

AT A GLANCE Big Event The Big Event began as an annual day of service at Texas A&M in 1982. OU held its first Big Event in spring 1999. More than 60 universities nationwide now have similar events. It has become a tradition at OU, and its numbers grow each year.

Source: Big Event website

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MEN’S TENNIS

FOREIGN LANGUAGE COURSES

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Kelsey Gusdin, University College freshman, takes a short quiz Monday during her beginner-level Spanish class taught by Yolany Martinez. The class is just one student short of being full. Nearly 55 percent of OU students taking language classes in spring 2012 are enrolled in Spanish classes.

Spanish most-taken language at OU Students get more hands-on attention in smaller classes, Russian professor says COCO COURTOIS Campus Reporter

The OU Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics is the largest department on campus with 54 teachers, almost 5,000 students and 40,000 credits hours a year.

It serves students from those fulfilling a language requirement to those learning a new culture, department chair Pamela Genova said.

“We’re really trying to highlight the visibility of all our languages,” Genova said. “Having a second language — no matter what — is always valuable.”

Although some students choose to major in a language, the majority enroll for language requirements.

In Spanish classes, the latter makes up 80 percent of students, Spanish professor Shawn Gralla said.

“You had two years of Spanish in high school, and (when) you arrive at OU, you

have to take 13 hours of language total.

What are you going to chose?” Gralla said.

Oklahoma’s Spanish-speakers are 5.2 percent of the total population compared to 34.6 percent in Texas, according to a 2004 survey by the American Community Survey.

“Spanish language increased dramatically these last years,” Gralla said.

“Twenty-five years ago, there were no Spanish radio or newspapers in the U.S. Nowadays, in any type of business, you are going to use Spanish at some point in your career, 100-percent sure.”

With around 100 Spanish majors and 500 Spanish minors, a lot of students don’t take time to study Spanish in depth but choose it because it saves time and money, Gralla said.

However, learning rare languages can be an asset and make students look smart and unique, Russian professor Emily Johnson said.

“Sometimes, making the unusual choices will take you to a wonderful SEE COURSES PAGE 3

Student enrollment in language classes 2.53% 0.85% 3.89%

4.74% 4.79%

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54.96% 7.05%

14.17%

Spanish

German

Arabic

French

Chinese

Russian

Italian

Japanese

Hebrew

Note: Native American language studies are considered part of the anthropology department.

SOURCE: OU INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND REPORTING (SPRING 2012); GRAPH BY JAMES CORLEY/THE DAILY

The No. 31 Oklahoma men’s tennis team continued its recent momentum by defeating the No. 41 Louisville Cardinals, 6-1, on Monday at Headington Family Tennis Center.

The Sooners’ No. 1 doubles team of freshman Dane Webb and Junior Costin Paval won its match, 8-3. Sophomores Peerakit Siributwong and Tsvetan Mihov won their doubles match, 8-3. To finish it off, sophomore Guillermo Alcorta and senior David Pultr won, 8-7, to secure the doubles point.

Coach John Roddick has reiterated all season that the team’s strength has been its doubles teams, and the Sooners made that evident Monday by sweeping the doubles portion of the match for an early 1-0 lead.

Out of the nine combined singles and doubles matches played, the Sooners lost only one match to the Cardinals. In fact, the Sooners won three straight singles matches to close out the match before the Cardinals were able to notch their first point.

After losing a close match to Pepperdine, the Sooners responded well by dominating Arizona and Louisville.

The team looks to continue its recent dominance as it begins a long stretch of eight consecutive road matches heading into conference play.

On Friday, the Sooners travel to Charlottesville, Va., to take on the Virginia Cavaliers before traveling to College Park, Md., to take on the Maryland Terrapins.

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CAMPUS

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TODAY AROUND CAMPUS “By the Bog of Cats,� presented by the Peggy Dow Helmrich School of Drama, will take place at 3 p.m. in Beatrice Carr Wallace Old Science Hall’s Lab Theatre.

An art exhibit called “Where is the Green Sheep?� by Mern Fox will take place from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Dee Dee and Jon R. Stuart Classroom.

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OU President David Boren (right) chats with students during the last year’s Big Event on April 2. This year’s record-breaking number of volunteer sign-ups is because Big Event publicity and Sooner Recruitment teams increased community awareness, organizers said.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 A lecture about adolescent males’ attitudes about singing in choir by Mark Lucas will be held at 5 p.m. at Catlett Music Center, Room 131. “By the Bog of Cats,� presented by the Peggy Dow Helmrich School of Drama, will take place at 8 p.m. in Beatrice Carr Wallace Old Science Hall’s Lab Theatre.

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In a front-page story in Monday’s edition, Tegan Burkhard’s name was misspelled.

COMMUNITY: 431 organizations already registered Continued from page 1 far, organizations have requested nearly 800 more volunteers than last year, she said.

As of Monday, 147 job sites had registered and the forms keep coming in, she said.

Involvement by student organizations has also increased, with 431 campus groups currently set to take part after 401 and 339 groups registered in 2011 and 2010, respectively, Tyrrell said.

There is a maximum of 20 volunteer spots available

GO AND DO 2012 Big Event WHEN: April 14 REGISTRATION: To volunteer, visit bigevent.ou.edu.

per organization due to the capacity of job sites, Tyrrell said. A lot of the non-profits are too small to accommodate large amounts of students, she said.

The increasing participation comes as a result of increasing awareness about the Big Event on campus, she said.

This year executive board members staffed an informational table at Couch Restaurants to educate

freshman about the event, Tyrrell said.

The Sooner Recruitment team also played a large part in increasing student participation, she said.

The team sent emails to all registered student organizations informing them that event registration was approaching, Tyrrell said.

The Big Event publicity team also contacted media outlets across the Oklahoma City area to spread the word about the event, she said.

The Big Event sponsorship team enabled the executive board to create a special funding request for job sites, Tyrrell said.

Non-profit organizations were able to request funding for supplies that Big Event had not been able to

provide in the past, such as paint, flowers and mulch, Tyrrell said.

Nearly $4,700 was allotted to the non-profit organizations, she said.

The Norman community is proud of OU students who are giving their Saturday morning to community service and they want to back the event financially, Job Site Relations vice-chairman Jeff Moseley said.

Moseley said he is really excited about some of the new schools that have registered as job sites.

The state’s future is dependent on the education system, he said. “Big Event is becoming a celebration on campus and people want to be a part of it,� Moseley said.

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COURSES: More Sooners picking Arabic, Chinese

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Continued from page 1 place,” Johnson said.

In smaller language programs, students know each other better, and teachers can offer more personalized guidance, Johnson said.

Often, they are really passionate about the language.

Gralla said he agrees.

“I have a feeling that the ones who choose the more complex languages — Arabic, Russian, Japanese and Chinese — do more of a pro-active choice because they have to learn not only a new language but also an entirely new alphabet,” he said.

These students are more involved in their languages as well.

“Eighty percent of our majors are doing double majors, and 80 to 90 percent of our students go abroad,” Johnson said. “Half of our majors will use Russian professionally, and that is a pretty high number.”

More and more students are starting to choose to study Arabic and Chinese, which are high priority of the American government.

The OU Confucius Institute, established in 2006, promotes the development of Chinese language programs for Oklahoma elementary, secondary and higher education schools, according to its website.

“China is paying to send professors to the U.S., and currently 8,000 students in Oklahoma in the K-12 are studying Chinese,” Genova said. “When they’ll arrive to college in a few years, the number of students taking

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Yolany Martinez talks to her class about the weather as her beginner-level Spanish class takes a short quiz at the beginning of class. Beginning-level foreign language courses meet every day. There are 54 foreign language teachers at OU and about 5,000 students enrolled in language classes.

Chinese will explode.”

The Arabic Language Flagship Partner Program by the College of International Studies also promotes the learning of a new language.

But what is a must-learn language right now may change in the future, Johnson said.

“Ten years ago, Japanese was the language to learn, and even before it was Russian, so I would say it’s cyclical,” Johnson said.

Whereas Spanish attracts the most people, Hebrew attracts less than 1 percent of language students at OU. Some, like French senior

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Kyle Carlock, study it for personal reasons.

He has always liked languages and was intrigued by Hebrew having so much culture in it, Carlock said.

Although the number of Americans speaking a second language has increased by 15 million since 1990, but only about 20 percent of Americans regularly spoke a foreign language in 2000, according to the Census Bureau.

Americans may have a mindset they do not need to know foreign languages.

“Historically, it didn’t matter if it was the Roman

Empire, the English Empire or the Spanish Empire,” Gralla said. “When you’re in an Empire, you don’t want to learn other countries’ languages because you’re the most powerful, and people have to learn your language. Currently, we’re in the American Empire — why would [Americans] learn other languages?”

But this mindset is what the languages department, with all its professors, students and courses, is trying to fight.

“That’s why we have to keep trying,” Genova said.

“It’s too important not to.”

Undergraduate Student Congress will hear three guest speakers tonight before the body votes on two pieces of legislation regarding the transition to new leaders in April.

Greg Jungman and Rhett Michael Jones, candidates for Norman’s Ward 4 city council position, will have 10 minutes each to talk about their plans for city council, according to the agenda.

Zac Abbott, who spoke at Congress’ March 6 meeting, is a Ward 4 candidate as well.

Integrity Council Chairman Zekiel Johnson said he will have five minutes to speak to the body about the council’s membership drive and deliver a progress report regarding the Academic Integrity System.

After the guest speakers, Congress will consider two pieces of legislation related to the transition of power between the current UOSA executive branch and new members of the branch elected April 4.

If approved, new UOSA officers will be inaugurated on April 27, according to the Inauguration Date Act. The purpose of this is to provide a transition in which new and previous leaders can work together.

The Transition Period Act creates two definitions to explain how the current UOSA president and the presidentelect can work together to create a consistency between the two administrations, according to the legislation.

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EDITORIAL

Big 12 schools need say in housing issue neutral housing is a controversial issue. Being the first to implement a controversial policy (no matter how necessary for students’ safety) will subject you and the university to a lot of attention and possible President David Boren, your Monday letter decriticism. tailing the steps you will take to address the call for It’s hard to take first steps like this alone, particugender-neutral housing held some good news. It is larly in our politically charged and conservative better for the OU community that this matstate. So why do it alone? ter be resolved in-house, without needing Call on the other Big 12 university presiThe Our View to appeal to the Board of Regents. And it is dents to start their own calm, rational, deis the majority good to know you intend to find a solution to opinion of tailed discussions about the possible need The Daily’s this need in time for next semester. for gender-neutral housing at their own uninine-member But we also noticed you were careful to reversities. All students at those universities editorial board iterate your desire not to rush into a bad polwould benefit from the right to choose their icy. At the March 7 rally for gender-neutral own roommates, just as all Sooners would. housing, you said, “You don’t jump out and be the And those most in need of this policy — the gay, first just for the sake of being first. There may be very lesbian, bisexual and transgender community — good reasons why other institutions have decided to exist at those schools as well. They face harassment not be first.” and discrimination throughout this region and need We agree. We wouldn’t want OU to rush into any to be protected everywhere. policy without carefully considering the effects. And If all of OU’s fellow institutions consider genderwhile we don’t quite understand how three years neutral housing at the same time, it would signifiof discussing this policy at various levels could be cantly decrease the political pressure on any one considered rushing, we fully support the need for a university, even if only a few decide the policy is calm, rational and detailed discussion. right for them. OU still would be leading an imporHowever, it’s clear this is not the only concern tant movement to protect the rights and safety of stuleading you to hesitate. Reasonably or not, genderdents, but it would not be doing so alone.

Our View: Boren, ask other Big 12 presidents to join you in housing discussion to reduce political pressure.

If OU were not the only target, it would free you from some of the political pressure and give you more room to offer an innovative housing option that would best address the needs of your students.

It would take away some of the concerns about donors or public opinion and let you focus on who really matters: students.

So, President Boren, send out the call to other Big 12 presidents to consider gender-neutral housing.

Give them the chance to join you in this simply by starting a discussion with their respective student bodies about the potential need or desire for such an option.

We are sure those discussions will lead some of them to recognize the need for a gender-neutral option, both for GLBT students who need it for safety and any other student who wants it for comfort, just as we’re sure your own patient and logical discussion with students will lead you to see the necessity of such housing at OU — no matter what a handful of alumni and conservative taxpayers say.

And when those discussions yield positive results, you and the other presidents can lend one another the support you need to answer this call and bring progress to your universities and the region.

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Is Apple’s partnership with Foxconn unethical?

Of course it is, but our iWants help fund the pitiful problem

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ngry Birds, Words months and definitely Stone OPINION COLUMNIST with Friends and Age-bound by the next year. underpaid child Consider the user-unlabor? One of these things is friendly iPhone battery, not like the other. which is inaccessible to Foxconn, a company that the common Apple addict. builds iPhones and iPads — Because Apple refuses to auamong other techy items, thorize independent iPhone employs more than 400,000 battery replacement cenKayley Gillespie people in a factory where ters, you can ship the phone kayley.m.gillespie-1@ou.edu they sit silently for a standard to Apple, pay $85.95, wait a shift of 12 hours. Rooms are week and kiss all of your data filled with 20,000 to 30,000 workers and talkgoodbye since Apple will erase your phone’s ing is prohibited, Foxconn employees said in memory during the procedure. Or, the attracan interview with Mike Daisey, a monologist tive alternative: Buy a new iPhone. and author. Cameras watch every move of Be consoled that “Apple disposes of your the assembly line. Employees work, eat and battery in an environmentally friendly matlive in the factory, staying in 12-by-12 cement ter,” according to Apple.com. I’m skeptical. rooms that house 15 beds.

Where are all of the disposed and rejected As a side note, Daisey gained entrance into last generation products? Your guess is as Foxconn only after he lied to the company good as mine. and said he was a businessman and potential Apple is a successful business, financially. customer. Armed gunmen guard the gates.

The trouble is that a global business like Apple You’d be kidding yourself if you maintained has a moral responsibility not to fill landfills Foxconn and Apple has nothing to hide. with iPods or unusable iPhones, or expose Unions are illegal in China and anyone people and the environment to harsh toxins, trying to unionize is sent to prison. In the ab- or to create a mentally and economically unsence of unions, employees cannot refuse to stable environment for workers. use a product, n-Hexane, to clean iPhones, Perhaps one of the saddest components even though it’s a harmful neurotoxin. to this nasty narrative is most Foxconn emIn the absence of unions, employees don’t ployees never have seen the finished product. ask for overtime pay. One former Foxconn Chinese children ages 12, 13 and 14 years old employee said the labor are employed to perform board put her on a black“Chinese children ages slave labor, one employee list after she requested dies after working a 34-hour 12, 13 and 14 years overtime pay. The list was shift and to date at least 12 circulated to every compeople have committed old are employed to pany in the area to ensure at Foxconn — and perform slave labor. ... suicide she would not be hired they don’t even know what In the U.S., 12-, 13- and they’re making. anywhere else. Workman’s compensation is unheard of In the U.S., 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds already — employees are replaced 14-year-olds already have have gone through three gone through three iPhone when carpel tunnel debiliiPhone models.” tates their performance. models. It takes Americans Perhaps Apple affiliates nearly one week to work a can sleep at night knowing Foxconn pays 34-hour shift. And Americans only apathetiemployees the equivalent to $298 a month, cally whine about dying so they don’t have to instead of the $50 a month they could make show up to work the next day. in rice paddies. Even still, this measures up to Why do Americans drool over any product less than $10 a day and, considering the 12- to as long as its title is preceded by a lowercase 16-hour work shift, less than $1 an hour. letter “i”? I’m entirely dumbfounded. Maybe Somehow, this is pardonable because it’s you’re forfeiting your individuality, grouping better than the alternative. This standard yourself with other “i”s like you so you’re a wouldn’t fly in the U.S., but outsourcing labor “we.” Maybe you just want someone to talk to makes your 3Gs cheaper, so we must pick our 24/7, and Google is overrated. battles.

But please, don’t let a product define you Americans fund this pitiful lifestyle, and and don’t let a business’ practices a world they do so tirelessly. Americans are so quick away fool you. to buy new technology as soon as the old is out of date. The kicker? These shiny products are created to fail. Created with obsolesKayley Gillespie is a literature and cultural cence in mind, new technology is obsolete in studies junior.

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hen I started writby local officials and low reOPINION COLUMNIST ing this, I knew turns on agricultural producfew details about tion. Since the workers have the events and practices the right to leave the factory, in question, so I contacted it is up to them to decide the Chinese ambassador in whether it is worthwhile to Texas, Helen Du. She repwork under these conditions. resents Chinese businesses At the same time, it is up to that sell to my father and is a the factory owners and opScott Houser friend to the family. erators to create conditions scott.a.houser-1@ou.edu Within recent months where workers are more proFoxconn, a Taiwaneseductive. Needless to say, emowned assembly company, has been experi- ployee suicides hurt production. The instalencing a string of worker suicides in a factory lation of suicide nets can hurt worker morale in Shenzhen, China. This factory facilitates while not necessarily preventing other meththe final assembly of many different Apple ods of suicide, and news coverage of such an products. As a result, the factory has installed event may dissuade potential customers from “suicide nets” to prevent workers from jump- buying the company’s products. ing to their deaths off of company buildings.

Apple’s actions are not perfect, but critiDu, who has visited similar Foxconn faccisms of the company should be practical, not tories, said the facilities themselves actually ethical. are quite nice in comparison to other Chinese People often look at employer-employee factories. However, the controversy stems relations as a situation where one side loses from how the factories are run. The Shenzhen the other wins, and vice versa. It is entirely factory employs more than half a million peo- possible — and it often is the case — that ple. These workers also live in nearby dormi- both sides can win. Worker suicides, lawsuits, tories, which are part of the factory. The work- suicide nets and bad press are expensive in ers live an extremely regimented life with little terms of production, sales and costs. Why not freedom, Du said. In her own words, “They just take the money that would be lost to these are treated and expected to act like robots.” tragedies, and invest it in making conditions Within the last two decades, China has better for workers? Not only would it cost the taken on a free-market approach to its ecosame, the company would actually benefit by nomic policies, especially in the costal remaking itself a more competitive employer. gions. This means that it is no longer the Foxconn is not a charity. It exists, like all Chinese government who decides who works business, to make a profit. And when workers where and in what position, but rather work- are working by their own free will and cusers have the right to choose for themselves. tomers are buying by their own free will, it is All members of the institution in question are wrong to assert that a company is unethical. there by their own free will.

Du said many of the workers are high school graduates from the rural areas of Scott Houser is an international business China, which are notorious for excessive taxes junior.

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The School of Art and Art History is housing the talent of high school artists from around the state in the “Young Talent in Oklahoma” exhibit.

Lindsey Ruta, life & arts editor Mariah Webb, assistant life & arts editor dailyent@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666

ENTREPRENEUR

Student makes profit with makeup Sooner practices her techiques, looks on friends for portfolio to promote business ERICA ALEXANDER Life & Arts Reporter

A year ago, psychology junior Monét Olorunnisomo was approached by a woman in Walgreens who was attending an upcoming wedding. The woman commented on her makeup and asked if she was a professional makeup artist.

“I told her, ‘No, I’m not a makeup artist, I just like to do makeup,’” Olorunnisomo said. “She said, ‘Well I wish I had a card from you or something, because I would definitely love your services.’”

The idea took root from that brief encounter and blossomed from there. Olorunnisomo said she left that Walgreens and began thinking about how it would be nice to make some money for doing something she enjoyed.

Then, after being invited to do makeup for the bridesmaids at her cousin’s wedding, Olorunnisomo said she made up her mind: She was going to develop her own makeup business.

Despite her optimism, she said she had to take a realistic approach to the situation. It was not something to make a career out of, but a way to supplement her income while in school, said Olorunnisomo, who works part time as a waitress.

“It’s something I feel like — with more exposure, especially — I can get more clients, and I can do it and use it as my side job,” Olorunnisomo said.

In order to get started, Olorunnisomo said she researched makeup techniques and began practicing on her friends. She used word of mouth to market herself, but the biggest advertisement was through her own “There’s always everyday makeup, she said.

Olorunnisomo said something new to women would stop her on learn. Every season campus to ask her about her there’s always a new makeup. After scribbling trend; there’s always her information on scratch paper one too many times, a new technique. she decided it was time to There’s just always invest in business cards.

Since embarking on her something you can entrepreneurial adventure learn, and if I’m not last spring, Olorunnisomo doing, I’m learning.” said she is slowly starting to find her footing.

MONÉT OLORUNNISOMO, “I take clients just when PSYCHOLOGY JUNIOR they come,” she said. “I get [busier] during prom season, and then during the summer it might be really dry.”

When business is slow, Olorunnisomo said she keeps honing her skills through regular practice and education.

“There’s always something new to learn,” she said.

“Every season there’s always a new trend; there’s always a new technique. There’s just always something you can learn, and if I’m not doing, I’m learning.”

To polish new techniques, Olorunnisomo said her friends let her practice on them to see what works and what she can improve, and her friends let her take photos so she can record her work, she said.

“I’ve actually star ted working on a por tfolio,” Olorunnisomo said. “I do my friends’ makeup so much, but I never think, ‘Oh, let me take a picture of this.’”

Monét Olorunnisomo, psychology junior, looks at her makeup after applying eyeshadow. Olorunnisomo said after being approached several times by women interested in her makeup, she decided to use her skills and her love for makeup to start her own business as a freelance makeup artist.

To increase her skills and develop relationships GO AND DO w i t h p o t e nt i a l c l i e nt s, Fashion show Olorunnisomo said she is looking to get a job as a WHEN: 7 p.m. March 29 makeup artist at a department store or a boutique, WHERE: Fred Jones Jr. while continuing her freeMuseum of Art lance work.

“I feel like that is where PRICE: $5 in advance, $7 at I’ll receive the most expothe door. sure and opportunity,” she said.

Olorunnisomo said she continues to work weddings, as well as volunteer for any on-campus events where makeup is needed. Her upcoming projects include OU’s Vintage Mahogani and Delta Sima Theta’s “Fashion Goes Red” fashion show March 29. All proceeds from that event go to The American Heart Association.

Olorunnisomo said she tries to keep her skills versatile so she can meet any client’s need.

“I want to be able to cater to the needs of anyone,” she said. “If someone approached me and they’ve never worn makeup in their life I would never do knock-out makeup because they wouldn’t feel comfortable with that.”

Olorunnisomo said she respects her clients’ visions for themselves when approaching each freelance job. She PHOTOS BY CAREY FLACK/THE DAILY said she wants clients to look like themselves but better.

“Makeup does not make a person beautiful, but it does Monét Olorunnisomo, psychology junior, applies makeup to Yordanos enhance what you have,” she said. “If you feel beautiful, Wudeneh, public relations junior. Olorunnisomo said she often does test makeovers on her friends so she can build up her portfolio. you will look beautiful.”

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Eight members of the Oklahoma track and field team earned All-American honors following their performances at the NCAA indoor championships.

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PLAYER PROFILES Aaryn Ellenberg Year: Sophomore Hometown: Las Vegas Season stats: Fourth in the Big 12 in scoring with 15.4 points per game

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n basketball, teams often are carried by one or a few great players. In her 16 year tenure, OU women’s basketball coach Sherri Coale has had various dominant stars come through her program and take that mantle.

In years past the names of Stacy Dales, Courtney Paris and Danielle Robinson have echoed in the tunnels of Lloyd Noble Center, and their play was deserving of the praise, each taking the Sooners to at least one Final Four appearance.

This most recent incarnation of Sooners has been led by a trio of young guards; they will be the key to the Sooners’ success in this year’s NCAA run and next year’s as well.

Junior Whitney Hand and sophomores Aaryn Ellenberg and Morgan Hook, have been just about everything for the Sooners this season. The trio leads the team in many respects.

They are the top three on the team in minutes played, points scored and assists.

Ellenberg and Hand have been prolific scorers, both hitting the 1,000 career points mark this season, Hand on Feb. 21 and Ellenberg on Feb. 29.

Morgan Hook Year: Sophomore Hometown: Lowell, Ark. Season stats: 10.9 points per game and 3.5 assists per game

Whitney Hand MELODIE LETTKEMAN/THE DAILY

Sophomore guard Morgan Hook (10) drives to the basket during OU’s 83-77 loss to Kansas on March 4.

Hook, sophomore guard Aaryn Ellenberg and junior guard Whitney Hand have led OU to a 20-12 record.

Ellenberg leads the team in scoring with 15.4 points per game — fourth best in the Big 12 — and has been a centerpiece for the Sooners’ offense. She has made 164 3-pointers in her short career, making her the third best in program history in the category — a list she will likely top when her time is done.

Hook had the daunting task this year of filling the shoes of All-American point guard Danielle Robinson, who graduated and left for the WNBA following last season.

Hook has done well in the role, but she acknowledges

that it hasn’t been a mistake-free season.

“There’s been ups and downs, for sure,” Hook said.

“I’ve had some great moments and some terrible games, but I’m satisfied for it being my first year as point guard at the collegiate level.”

Hand had perhaps the biggest challenge of all coming into this season. Not only was she voted by the team as captain, but her two co-captains — junior forward Lyndsey Cloman and senior guard Jasmine Hartman — went down with season-ending knee injuries. Although she struggled at first, it didn’t take her very

long to embrace the job and the team clearly waxes and wanes with the play of their captain.

The play of the three starters is crucial to the success of the team, a fact not lost on them.

“I think we’ve realized that, sometimes we get so mad at the freshman or the young people but if we’re just good, the team is going to be good, regardless,” Hand said. “For us to be on the same page is really important. It gives us a chance; I think every game it gives us a chance.”

The pressure of being part of the trio is just one more

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on the list for Hand, but she knows how to deal with it.

“You just have to not be denied,” Hand said. “I think there has to be a competitive side to all three of us that we have to beat our defender and maybe one more.”

Kedric Kitchens is a journalism sophomore and assistant sports editor for The Daily.

DILLON PHILLIPS Sports Reporter

Oklahoma’s 21st-ranked baseball team (11-5) concludes a five-game road trip Tuesday in Dallas, where it takes on a streaking Dallas Baptist squad.

The Patriots (9-6) currently are on a three-game winning streak but are winless on the road.

They have three highly contested road losses against fourth-ranked Rice and a near upset in an extra-inning loss at then-No. 25 Texas.

The Sooners are coming off a 2-2 split at the Nike Showcase after battling it out with Connecticut, No. 9 Oregon, No. 28 Oregon State and future Big 12 foe West Virginia.

After a four-run ninthinning rally came up one run short against Connecticut on Friday , OU won both games Saturday.

In the first game of their doubleheader, the Sooners took down West Virginia, 5-2, before picking up their first win against a ranked opponent in a 3-2 nail-biter against Oregon.

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He is a widely published essayist whose writings – comprising some 400 essays, reviews and columns of opinion – have appeared in such publications as Foreign Affairs magazine, for which he serves on the editorial board, and New York Times Magazine, as well as other forums in the United States and abroad.

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