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WHO’S NEXT?

Questions of qualification

Ex-oil exec may lead OU

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he OU Board of Regents’ presumptive selection for OU’s 14th president does not meet many of the higher education qualifications outlined early in the search process.

Within the presidential profile produced by the search committee tasked with finding President David Boren’s successor are qualifications the search committee hoped for in the academic background of OU’s next president.

James Gallogly, the expected selection, misses the mark on some of those qualifications.

The profile was created by the committee and the search firm hired to assist in the search after holding several forums with OU students, faculty and alumni. Among the academic qualifications included in the profile, the committee was seeking a “distinguished record of executive level accomplishments, preferably in higher education, and a strong commitment to excellence in teaching, scholarship and research.”

The profile also seeks someone who has “notable scholarly accomplishments” and “preferably an earned doctorate or its equivalent.” It also says the candidate should have a deep knowledge of issues occuring in higher education at a state and national level.

Though Gallogly has a juris doctorate degree from OU’s law school, he does not have a PhD or further graduate work. Gallogly has also worked outside of higher education in the private sector for his entire career, serving in executive positions at ConocoPhillips and as CEO of LyondellBasell Industries. He has made significant gifts to both OU and the University of Colorado, where he also sits on the board of directors of the University of Colorado Foundation.

Cameron Burleson, undergraduate student representative on the search committee and a public relations senior, said though he could not confirm whether or not Gallogly is the selected candidate or that the search committee looked at Gallogly and recommended him, Burleson said he considered many different qualifications, not just educational background.

“I was looking for someone that, with the criteria the students gave me, has the ability and the vision to lead a large university. Someone who is going to be a representative of all of the students,” Burleson said. “Someone who doesn’t have a PhD but does have extensive experience in other areas and is compassionate and loving and has a heart for others, may be better than someone who maybe missed a couple boxes on the checklist.”

While Gallogly offers experience with some listed qualifications such as experience in financial and fundraising matters. Judith Wilde, an academic who studies presidential searches at George Mason University, said choosing a businessperson to serve as a university president brings mixed results.

“Mr. Gallogly’s appointment will be among the more interesting to follow in terms of the differences between corporate and academic cultures,” Wilde said. “President Boren, as a former US Senator, had some understanding of the need to work in a collaborative and collegial manner. At least some CEOs, tend to work in a much more top-down manner. Seeing how Mr. Gallogly approaches his new role in the coming days will be of great interest. Historically, CEOs (and other high-level corporate executives) who become university president seem to follow one of two paths: high success or great failure.”

Of the 10 schools in the Big 12, there are only two current university presidents who do not have doctoral degrees.

Wilde said recent confidential searches resulting in presidents from the private sector have led to scandal within their respective institutions.

“Then, there is the issue of a secret search process resulting in the selection of a non-traditional candidate,” Wilde said. “This has not played out well at other institutions over the past

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Jim Gallogly speaks during the Gallogly Hall groundbreaking ceremony April 6, 2017 in Devon Energy Hall. Gallogly is expected to be the next president of the university.

several years — the University of Iowa, Kennesaw State, and most recently Michigan State come to mind. At both Iowa and Michigan State there were votes of no confidence in the governing boards.”

Burleson said he hopes the candidate selected cares for the university and promotes diversity on campus.

“You have to look at the whole person. You have to look at everything that encompasses a person, their values,” Burleson said. “I don’t think you’ll ever find someone that checks off every single box on the list.”

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U is expected to name former business executive James Gallogly the university’s next president, several administrative and faculty sources have confirmed to The Daily.

Gallogly, 65, is a former ConocoPhillips executive vice president and former CEO at chemical and refining company LyondellBasell Industries. Several sources from within OU’s faculty and administration have told The Daily that Gallogly, a 1977 OU law graduate and namesake of OU’s Gallogly College of Engineering, will be the university’s 14th president.

OU’s Board of Regents will officially appoint the next president at a 7:30 a.m. March 26 meeting, then will introduce its choice to the public through various announcements beginning at 10 a.m. at Evans Hall.

Announcements will also be made at the OU Health Sciences Center student union and the Founders Student Center Merkel Family Foundation Lounge on OU’s Tulsa campus.

When asked to confirm or deny Gallogly’s selection, OU press secretary Matt Epting said he would check with the Board of Regents, then responded in a March 23 statement to The Daily to say that as the board will not meet until Monday, “there is no name to confirm or deny until that time.”

Select OU faculty members will be “among the first to hear about a historic University announcement” at a private reception at 9 a.m. at the University Club of the Oklahoma Memorial Union. OU professor emeritus George Henderson and another faculty member confirmed they had received the invitation.

Current OU President David Boren will retire June 30 contingent on the selection of a successor. The Board of Regents completed seven candidate interviews March 10 after months of meetings and focus groups from the search committee and search firm hired to find candidates.

Gallogly has made significant gifts to OU, including a $30 million donation in partnership with Peggy and Charles Stephenson that allowed OU to expand its engineering department. The upcoming Gallogly Hall, which will house the Gallogly College of Engineering’s new biomedical engineering department, is named for Gallogly and his wife.

Gallogly has also made gifts to the University of Colorado, where he received his bachelor of arts in 1974 and where he serves on the board of directors of the University of Colorado Foundation.

Gallogly was CEO of LyondellBasell Industries from 2009 to his 2015 retirement and made $106 million in the position in 2014. He has also served in executive positions at ConocoPhillips, Phillips Petroleum Company and Chevron Phillips, where he was CEO. Gallogly’s potential appointment to the presidency comes after a presidential search process that has been mostly closed off to OU faculty, staff, students and the public. During the search, OU’s Faculty Senate sent an open letter to the regents arguing for a more open search process, and Suzette Grillot, dean of the College of International Studies, started a petition that more than 300 OU community members signed to allow the community to meet with candidates ahead of the final decision.

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Follow along with The Daily’s coverage all day today on Twitter, Facebook and oudaily. com.

Pick up tomorrow’s special edition of The Daily for full coverage on OU’s new president.

7:30 a.m. Board of Regents votes on new president, 9 a.m. select faculty hear announcement, 10 a.m. official announcement.

Gallogly is the former executive vice president of ConocoPhillips and former CEO of chemical and refining company LyondellBasell Industries.

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OU student teachers protest Sooners team up for statewide walkout JORDAN MILLER @jordanrmillerr

An organization of Oklahoma educators is planning a statewide teacher walkout on April 2, and OU students are getting involved.

The walkout will take place if the O klahoma Education Association’s (OEA) demands, which include $10,000 teacher raises over three years, $5,000 raises for support staff over three years and a $200 million increase in public school funding, are not met by April 1. To fund these demands, which the OEA estimated will cost $812 million in the first year, the organization released a $905.7 million model plan on March 23.

This will be the first time OU has had student teachers in schools while a walkout takes place, said Teresa DeBacker, associate dean for professional education. She said there is no precedent for what student teachers should do. However, the rule she is pointing to for the walkout is for student teachers to always stay with their cooperating teacher, which is the teacher they are assigned to.

“What we usually mean by that is if your cooperating teacher arrives to the office at 7:30 in the morning, you need to, too,” DeBacker said. “We’re expecting our student teachers to have the full teacher day that their cooperating teacher is having. I guess by extension if their cooperating teacher is involved in the walkout if our interns stay with them they will get a very interesting lesson in advocacy and in state politics.”

Early childhood education senior Sterling Barrow, president of the OU student chapter of

OEA and a student teacher, said she supports the walkout and its demands.

“I think they are necessary in order for our state to move forward with public education,” Barrow said. “We are definitely at the bottom of the totem pole with public education, but our cuts are at the top. Something definitely needs to be done, and this is our last resort to get our legislators on board to make education a higher priority.”

OEA members to discuss their goals and decided on the use of snow days.

“After that, we’re not quite sure what the plan is,” Barrow said.

“We are hoping that the legislators make an action before we have to use all nine of our snow days. But the superintendents have made these announcements that they are in full support of teachers, faculty, staff and administrators walking out.”

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“We’re hoping our legislators take public education seriously. That they see our struggles and hear our struggles of what we have to go through on a daily basis just to get our students fed, just to get our students the supplies that they need. I hope this is a huge wake-up call for our legislators, so we don’t have to do this again in 20 or 30 years.”

STERLING BARROW, EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION SENIOR

Barrow said all education majors are required to student teach during their final semester and are placed in districts within 30 miles of Norman. Barrow said she is currently student teaching in the Norman Public School District. “(Norman Public Schools’ teachers) do plan to participate in the walkout,” Barrow said.

“Whether my cooperating teacher decides to actually attend the Capitol or attend other functions is up to her, but I will for sure be attending the Capitol on April 2.”

Barrow said Norman Public Schools will use its snow days, of which there are nine left, during the walkout. Supportive superintendents across the state held meetings with educators and

cently attended a convention in Weatherford, Oklahoma that, among other things, helped them find out how they could support teachers during the walkout.

“One of the main topics was this walkout, and what we as individual chapters can do,” Barrow said. “Not just walking out, but also calling our legislators, being aware of the bills that are still alive in the House and the Senate, and how they’re going to affect us. During that conference, we got a lot of good feedback and ideas of how each specific chapter can go and help make a difference.”

Student OEA members are getting involved even if they can’t walk out, Barrow said.

“A lot of us are student teaching

right now, so we do just have to follow our cooperating teacher,” Barrow said. “We all received emails from OEA, and we are able to keep in contact. I have continuously talked to my SOEA members about contacting legislators, either from here in the Norman district or from whatever district is their hometown.

I’m hoping that a lot of us will be there April 2.”

Doug Folks, OEA communications specialist, said the OEA is trying to help get students involved at colleges throughout Oklahoma.

“We have a student organizer who is contacting the chapters at all the different universities,” Folks said. “It depends on where the the chapter is at, what they want to do. We will support them in their efforts.”

He said he hopes students are inspired to participate in any way they can.

“This is an education community issue,” Folks said. “We welcome all the support from across the state — parents, teachers, higher ed, students at universities. It’s important to all of us because it’s the future of our state.”

Barrow said she hopes there is no need for another walkout in the future.

“We’re hoping our legislators take public education seriously,” Barrow said. “That they see our struggles and hear our struggles of what we have to go through on a daily basis just to get our students fed, just to get our students the supplies that they need.

I hope this is a huge wake-up call for our legislators, so we don’t have to do this again in 20 or 30 years.”

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Bring your blankets and join us for a free picnic lunch celebrating the 2018 OU Arbor Day. The picnic is free and open to the public.

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ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT

Annual College Bowl begins

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Trivia tournament brings varied OU students together

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OU Campus Activities Council’s annual College Bowl gives OU students the chance to come together and share their love of trivia.

College Bowl is a pop culture trivia tournament that is open to all OU undergraduate and graduate students. Students can register for the event in teams of up to four people, or they can sign up individually and be put into teams.

Each trivia game has 60 questions, and each team is guaranteed to play at least three games. From there, winning teams will be put in a bracket to compete for first place.

Nichole Krug, medicinal sciences senior, is the council chair for College Bowl. She said the event is for anyone at OU who has a passion for random and interesting facts. “It provides an outlet for you to really show off your quirky facts and what not,�

Krug said. “This is a place where knowing those random and weird things really pays off and makes you look like the cool one.�

Krug said there are more than 147 teams and 673 people competing in College Bowl this year. She said many students use the event to get away from the worries of classes and

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homework. “In the spring things are so stressful, and to be able to provide an experience or even just an environment for students to get away from their studies and take a little break is definitely needed,� Krug said.

Krug also said the quest i o n s a re e nt e r t a i n i n g .

The questions are created by the 40 members of the College Bowl executive team and are about movies, TV shows, sports, literature and more.

Some questions in the p a s t h av e b e e n , “ W h a t color was Sharpay’s dress in ‘Bop to the Top?’� and “How many days of summer vacation do Phineas and Ferb have?�

That c h e r C h o n k a, f i n a n c e s o p h o m o re, h a s always had a passion for trivia. He competes on OU Academic Team, and he represented OU in the 2018

“Jeopardy!� college championship, which will air in April. Chonka said he enjoys the casual trivia setting that College Bowl provides and how it brings in students from all majors. “It’s just a great event to bring a lot of OU students together in a way that is just fun, and that’s the goal of it,� Chonka said. “The goal is for it to be something enjoyable for everyone. I think it really brings the OU community together.�

Dylan Rodolf, letters and international studies senior, has been competing in College Bowl since h i s f re s h m a n y e a r a n d hopes to win it all this year.

He said College Bowl gives him the opportunity to test out his knowledge while having fun. “I just like the competitive atmosphere. It’s interesting,� Rodolf said. “On one side it is competitive

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and it’s kind of fun. On the other side, everyone’s just there to have a good time, and no one is too serious about it. It’s a really good mix of that, and it produces this energetic atmosphere that’s nice to be in.�

Rodolf said the event gives OU students the opp o r tu n i t y t o ma ke n e w friends all while answering pop culture questions. “It brings together a lot of different personalities and a lot of different people

from all across campus,�

Ro d o l f sa i d . “ You have people who love film and are studying film, and they come. You have people who love history, and they come for that aspect of pop culture. It really is a very diverse group of people playing trivia.�

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A MESSAGE ON SEVERE WEATHER FROM PRESIDENT DAVID BOREN Dear OU Family, Out of concern for your safety, I ask that University procedures be followed for OU’s Norman campus for the 2017 tornado season. I sought the advice of consultants with special expertise in this area to help develop these plans.

The standard advice, which those of you who have lived in Oklahoma through a storm season have heard many times, remains unchanged: If you observe a tornado / severe weather, you hear tornado sirens sound or receive a tornado warning emergency notification from the University, proceed to the closest building and seek shelter. Get to the lowest level away from glass and put as many walls between you and the outside as possible. Typically, this will be a closet or hall. Do not seek refuge in an automobile.

A tornado warning emergency notification from the University will read similar to the following: OU Alert: A tornado warning has been issued for Cleveland County. Move to a safe area.

Stay away from doors and windows. Do not take shelter in cars.

Remain in your safe area until a message is received from the University that the danger has passed. This “All Clear” message will read similar to the following: OU Alert: The weather danger has passed. You may resume normal activity.

Also in place this season is our 2018 Severe Weather Procedure for days of enhanced risk to safety. When weather conditions appear to be coming together to warrant a threat of significant tornadoes, I may invoke an early closure of the Norman campus to allow people to gather their loved ones and proceed with their personal safety plans.

For these enhanced risk to safety days where sufficient advance warning of impending weather is available, the University has designated Best Available Refuge Areas in select locations for use by students, faculty and staff who are on campus at the time at which they may need to seek shelter. Please see the attachments for the maps of Best Available Refuge Areas.

Sincerely, David L. Boren President

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SPORTS

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OU wins seventh straight title

Gymnastics earns Big 12 while setting program records MITCHELL BARNES @mitchell_e_ou

The Sooners won their seventh consecutive Big 12 title and their 18th of all time Saturday, while also setting a program record on bars.

Oklahoma had already beaten West Virginia, Iowa State and Denver earlier this season ahead of facing them in the Big 12 Championship.

The Sooners came out to grasp a narrow lead of 49.425 in their first event : floor.

Three Sooners put up scores of 9.9 and above — freshman Anastasia Webb, sophomore

Maggie Nichols and junior Brenna Dowell.

Outstanding performances on vault from the entire lineup helped the Sooners keep the lead going into the third rotation. Senior AJ Jackson highlighted vault with a 9.95, earning the Sooners a 49.400 and a narrow lead of 98.825 with Denver following closely at 98.700.

Behind five scores of 9.9 or higher, including a career high 9.975 from junior Nicole Lehrmann, the Sooners set their school record on bars with a score of 49.725. With an all around impressive performance, the Sooners kept the close lead with a score of 148.550, leading Denver (147.900), Iowa State (146.975) and West Virginia (146.575).

With Nichols anchoring a 9.9 in the final event, beam, the Sooners managed to topple WVU, Denver and ISU on the road to earn another Big 12 title with a score of 197.775.

Denver took second place with 197.075 with ISU (195.650) scoring third and West Virginia scoring last with 195.625.

For seven straight seasons the Sooners have continued to dominate the Big 12 conference. They will look to do the same at the NCAA Regional on April 7 as they go for their ninth consecutive regional title and their 11th in school history.

Mitchell Barnes

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Sophomore Maggie Nichols hugs sophomore Bre Showers after her beam routine March 9. The Sooners won their seventh straight Big 12 Championship title with a score of 197.775.

Trae Young declares NBA draft intentions Freshman guard goes pro after first collegiate season JADYN WATSON-FISHER @jwatsonfisher

Freshman guard Trae Young announced on March 20 he is declaring for the NBA Draft after one year with the Sooners.

Young leaves Oklahoma (18-14, 8-10 Big 12) after leading the nation in points (27.4) and assists (8.7) per game, becoming the first Division I player to ever do so. Despite ending the season without a solid NCAA Tournament run and losing

nine of the last 11, he helped the Sooners to big wins against USC, Wichita State and Kansas and made history during his rookie season.

Here’s what he had to say to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN: Coach Lon Kruger and his staff started to recruit me as a ninth-grader at Norman North High School, and I trusted him from the beginning. As much as anything, Coach Kruger taught me about poise, about handling pressure and difficult circumstances with calm and clear-mindedness. My teammates at OU were incredible.

Sometimes, they absorbed criticism that was beyond unfair. The double- and

triple-teams that swarmed me at Oklahoma forced me to become tougher, smarter and more determined as a player and person.

Before we arrived, Oklahoma had an 11-20 season, so I am proud of the success we had this season.

We won a lot of big games and made the NCAA tournament. I’ll never regret a moment I spent at the University of Oklahoma, or my decision to stay home and become a Sooner for life.

However, I will regret that I didn’t help the Sooners win a national championship. I have always wanted to honor the legacies of Wayman Tisdale, Blake Griffin and Buddy Hield, OU legends

who led the program to Elite Eights and Final Fours. I wanted to take the Sooners the distance — all the way to a national championship.

When I chose OU, I imagined I’d have more than one chance at the NCAA tournament, but things changed and this season became my only opportunity.

In the end, I have to make the decision that I believe is best for me, but it doesn’t mean I do so without a heavy heart, without some regret that we won’t get to run it back together next season.

Jadyn Watson-Fisher jlfwf96@gmail.com

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Freshman guard Trae Young claps during the game against Texas Tech Jan. 9. Young announced he will enter the 2018 NBA draft.

Sooners triumph in Big 12 opening games Oklahoma baseball secures victories over West Virginia

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Oklahoma (17-9, 3-0 Big 12) swept its series against West Virginia (10-11, 0-3 Big 12) during opening weekend of conference play, beating the Mountaineers 2-1.

The win was the Sooners’ smallest margin of victory of the series, beating West Virginia 19-6 Friday night and 10-2 Saturday afternoon.

Junior outfielder Cade Harris led-off for the Sooners with a double to left center and later scored on a ground out to take a 1-0 lead.

Sophomore right-hander Nathan Wiles kept West

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Junior outfielder Cade Harris swings the bat March 10. The Sooners won their series against West Virginia 2-1.

Virginia from driving in a run until the sixth inning when the Mountaineers were able to tie the game at 1-1. Wiles pitched five and one-third innings, allowing one run on three hits and striking out five.

Oklahoma regained the lead in the bottom of the sixth inning when a walk to sophomore outfielder Kyler Murray put the go ahead run at first to later be driven in on

a single by junior infielder Brylie Ware. The win marks the Sooners third consecutive and seventh of their last 10.

The Sooners will play their next game at 6:30 p.m. CT on Mar. 27 when they host Oklahoma State for a midweek matchup.

Charlene Ainsworth charleneainsworth18@ gmail.com

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