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homeless person may stay in Union Senior No plans made to evict homeless group member ARIANNA PICKARD campus editor
A week after The Daily discovered someone was living and drinking in an office in Oklahoma Memorial Union, it seems as if the person will get to continue living in the office for almost another month.
The Daily received a tip that someone had been drinking and possibly living in the Students for a Democratic Society office on April 4 and after further investigation, confirmed the information. After running a story about the situation in Tuesday’s paper, OU administration and the Student Government Association president - who has authority over who stays in the office – are not making plans to remove the
organization’s hold over the office, or evict the man living in it. After finding out the person living and drinking in the office was actually homeless, SGA President Joe Sangirardi said he didn’t want to be the person responsible for depriving someone of a place to stay. “I refuse to be put in a situation where I’m the person to force someone to be literally homeless, because it’s clear that the organization
is not going to support their own member,” Sangirardi said. “For an organization that’s known to advocate so much, they’re not even advocating for their own member … Instead forcing their member to live on an inadequate, small couch in an office for several months.” Sangirardi said he’s leaning toward letting the person stay in the see HOMELESS PAGe 2
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Proactive intervention addresses stress AJINUR SETIWALDI campus Reporter
Distressed students, faculty and staff on the Norman campus may start receiving more attention as an intervention team works with the university community to reach out to individuals sooner to find them help. “There’s some people on campus who care about you, and they are concerned about you,” said Susan Sasso, chairwoman of the Behavior Intervention Team, describing how the team may approach individuals. “Would you be willing to come in and talk with us and see if there is some way we can help you?” The team was formalized in October 2012, to promote student, faculty and staff success and campus safety by identifying individuals who show signs of possible disruptive or violent behavior and intervening early on, according to the team’s website. Behavior intervention teams have become prominent on national campuses in the post
2007 Virginia Tech shooting era, according Kent Ray, OUPD captain, Joyce Allman, associto the National Behavior Intervention Team ate provost for academic advising, Katy Powers, Association. While care and behavior interven- OU Cares coordinator and Linda Patison, stution teams existed on camdent affairs financial ser“This is not a puses before Virginia Tech, vices director. The chair and their functions are dramatdisciplinary force or vice chair have received ically shifting to proactive training through National about being in trouble. Behavior Intervention Team prevention. O U h a s h a d a T h r e a t It’s about making sure Association, and there will be Assessment Review training this semester. we’re taking care of more Committee since the time of There are many dethe Virginia Teach incident, each other and helping p a r t m e nt s a ro u n d c a m Sasso said. The focus of OU’s pus and programs like each other.” Behavior Intervention Team Threat Assessment Review SuSan SaSSo, is to care and have concern for Committee and OU Cares that behaVioR inteRVention teaM members of the campus comcare and may have concerns chaiRwoMan munity who may be in distress. about individuals within the “This is not a disciplinary community, said Miller, vice force or about being in trouchairman of the team. ble,” Sasso said. “It’s about making sure we’re “The biggest value of [the team] is that it’s a taking care of each other and helping each other.” kind of central location any department can Sasso is associate vice president and asso- speak up and say ‘we’re concerned about someciate dean of students and member of Threat body,’” Miller said. “We can make sure they are Assessment Review Committee. OK and get them connected to resources.” Other members of the team include Scott Miller, University Counseling Center director, see BEHAVIOR PAGe 3
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Tibetan monks visit Norman, promote peace Local church has hosted the monks for the last five years KAITLYN UNDERWOOD campus Reporter
Two Tibetan monks stood in the center of a large room, hunched over a pile of colored sand, meticulously arranging the individual grains to form an intricate pattern—a sand Mandala, an ancient Tibetan art form. As they worked, the monks, dressed in crimson and gold robes, only looked up periodically to switch out the colored sand they were placing. They worked in front of a colorful shrine to the Dalai Lama, decorated with flowers and images of “His Holiness.” Fabric prayer flags in myriad colors hung overhead, and the sound of other monks chanting drifted in from a room to the rear. To their right sat a table holding bowls of the vibrant, rainbow sand they were using to craft the Mandala. They had brought color and a sense of life into the otherwise empty, brown room. These two monks were from a group of nine that have come to Norman to share
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their message of world peace and to raise awareness about the endangered ancient culture of Tibet. On Saturday, they will sweep away the sand Mandala and hours of hard work, destroying their creation to symbolize the impermanence of the material world, according to a press release. The monks are here with the Mystical Arts of Tibet tour, an organization that sends Tibetan monks around the world to share their culture. When the monks are not on tour, they reside at Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc. in Atlanta. A local organization, The Indigenous Cultural Preservation Project, sponsored the monks’ stay in Norman this year. This is St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church’s fifth year to host the monks, and church officials see it as an honor, said Diana Hanson, office manager for the church. “We accept every member of the community,” Hanson said. “We really see it as a privilege to have them here.” The monks kicked off their stay with an ryAn BoyCe/tHe dAiLy opening ceremony Wednesday afternoon, which included a traditional chanting a group of tibetan monks carefully fill in the outline of a tradisee PEACE PAGe 3
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While many students go to parties and spend time with friends during their spare time, one instead stays in a laboratory, working to revolutionize the way we look at major health issues. Madison Easterday, chemical engineering senior, is working with a team of researchers who are trying to create a blood vessel to help c h a n g e t h e w a y d o ctors operate on patients with blocked arteries. Easterday focuses on a small part of research, testing the new tissue for its ability to stand up to the trials of being a part of the human body. “We have not created it so much as prolonged a part of it,” Easterday said. “These cells are already alive. We are not creating life here, we are just taking the potential for it and letting it flourish.” This is just an example of the type of research undergraduates are doing at OU. One of the ways those students are featured is through Undergraduate Re s e a rc h Day , w h i c h gives students the opportunity to do the research in a field they’re interested in and then present it to the general public. For Easterday, it’s more than that. “I think it’s important to the students of OU, because if we want to have graduate students see ARTERIES PAGe 2
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arteries: Research focused on blood vessels Continued from page 1 in these disciplines, you have to make people interested in it enough to do it as a career,” Easterday said. “Doing something like [Undergraduate] Research Day is like an internship. It’s a smaller version of what you would actually be doing, so you can see whether or not that suits you.” Melanie Wright, Undergraduate Research Day’s organizer, thinks it’s important for students to be able to tell people about what they’re researching, in addition to doing the actual research. “We think it’s important for students to have a venue to present their research, so that you’re not just doing work and putting it in a file somewhere that you walk away from it. That you have a public arena for this research. I think that’s great,
Today around campus A keynote talk by novelist Maaza Mengiste will take place at 10 a.m. at Norman North High School’s Nancy O’Brian Center for Performing Arts. Students can take the 9 a.m. Alameda/East bus from the South Oval to Norman North High School. A keynote talk with photographer Phil Borges will take place at 6 p.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. A dinner, fashion show and cultural dance competition for the 43rd Annual Eve of Nations: Colors of the World event will take place at 6:30 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center.
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she said. health,” Easterday said. “I think that I’ve always wanted to help people Shelby Guskin some really concrete way spguskin@gmail.com and what is more helpful than giving them back their
she said it was “potentially good news,” in an email. “This situation has been stressful office until the society has to move for multiple reasons and continues out on May 3 with all the other orga- to be,” said Rodriguez, history junior. nizations who were “The support we’ve not allocated office received in this “The support we’ve space for next year. time of uncertainty, When Monique received in this time of however, has been R o d r i g u e z , t h e uncertainty ... has been uplifting.” Students for a Sangirardi has uplifting.” Democratic Society not yet confronted member who told members of the soMonique Rodriguez The Daily that the Students for democratic society ciety about the situperson living in the ation after walking member office was homeless, by the office several heard the news that times, knocking on the person might be allowed to stay in the door and receiving no response, the office for almost another month, he said. He’ll keep making his rounds
In Thursday’s page B1 story about Campus Activities Council bringing Iron & Wine to campus the amount of money CAC spent on the band is incorrect, the percentage of the budget used to bring the band is incorrect. CAC spent $5,000, only 11 percent of the concert series budget. In Thursday’s page B1 story about CAC bringing Iron & Wine to campus, the bands CAC has previously brought to campus are incorrect. Union Programming Board brought Stoney LaRue and Ben Rector to campus. In Thursday’s page B1 story about CAC bringing Iron & Wine to campus, Taylor Peterson’s title was incorrect. He is the SGA budget chairman. Visit OUDaily.com/corrections for an archive of our corrections
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PEACE: Monks share culture with Mandala, 25,000-year-old Tibetan art Continued from page 1 ceremony prior to their creation of a sand Mandala. Th e s a n d Ma n d a l a i s 2,500-year-old Tibetan art form and its purpose is healing, said Nawang Khenrab Tenzin, spokesperson for the tour. The monks spend hours for days at a time placing different colored sands into a detailed, geometric shape before wiping the entire thing away. The sand, created from ground marble, is thought to be blessed by the monks’ hands, so part of the destroyed Mandala will be deposited into a local body of water, where the sand particles will eventually drift to sea and spread their blessing throughout the world, according to a press release. Tenzin explained the purpose of the tour is three-fold. The first is to spread global healing, peace and harmony through art and dance ceremonies, including lectures about how to remove negative energies from human life. Second, the monks hope to raise awareness about the situation facing Tibet and to share their culture with others. Lastly, the purpose of the tour is to preserve Tibetan culture, a culture Tenzin described as based on love and compassion, he said. The situation facing Tibet refers to the Chinese occupation of Tibet. In 1959, communist China invaded Tibet and destroyed all 6,500 of its monasteries. About 250 Tibetan monks managed to escape to south India where they reestablished the Drepung Loseling Monastery. However, Tenzin said the conditions in Tibet have
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A group of Tibetan monks carefully fill in the outline of a traditional Mandala design using tiny amounts of colored sand applied by scraping specialized metal tools.
only continued to worsen, with Tibetans being denied basic human rights and forced to flee their homeland every day. S o m e Ti b e t a n s h a v e begun to protest Chinese occupation through self-immolation, or the act of setting oneself on fire. Since 2009, 112 Tibetans have self-immolated. Tenzin described the self-immolations as a very sad phenomenon, but an act some Tibetans feel they must take. “Two reasons: to have freedom in Tibet and to return the Dalai Lama,” Tenzin said to explain why they self-immolate. The Dalai Lama is both the head of state and the spiritual leader of Tibet. Dalai Lamas are believed
to be manifestations of facing Tibet and to offer Avalokiteshvara, the patron healing through their sasaint of Tibet. The current cred arts. Tenzin explained Dalai Lama has been in exile that the sand Mandala is not in India since 1959. merely something pretty to Tenzin reclook at, it is a o m m e n d e d “On this planet, physical repinterested colresentation of one religion lege students the patience doesn’t work g e t i nvo l ve d and attena n d r a i s e for all. We need t i o n n e e d e d awareness on the path to many different enlightenment. about Tibet by joining “It tells religions.” Students for a about a kind Free Tibet, an Nawang Khenrab Tenzin, of map-way to Tour Spokesperson international reach the state organization of enlightenthat campaigns for Tibetan ment, the state of purity, freedom through education, the state of ultimate peace,” grass-roots movement and Tenzin said. nonviolent demonstrations. Although Tibetan monks The monks who are stay- are Buddhist, the tour does ing in Norman hope to raise not focus on the tenants awareness about the issues of Buddhism. Rather, the
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the greatest impression on me so far is just the number of people in this communiSasso and Miller said they ty who truly care about the have completed about a other people in the commudozen presentations around nity and want them to be succampus to encourage com- cessful,” Sasso said. The team will speak with munity members to be aware the people making the reand show they care. Students, faculty, staff and ports and the individuals it is parents are encouraged to re- concerned about to find out port concerns about individ- what may be going on and the team uals showwill cooring signs of “... if we are able to ate to distress by reach out to people dgeti nthe incalling or e m a i l i n g sooner, they hopefully dividuals the team, never elevate … their connected to resourcSasso said. The phone behavior never escalate e s t o a d line is open to the level of a threat,.” dress those concerns, 24/7. Susan Sasso, Sasso said. In late behavior intervention team The team March, Chairwoman keeps tack the team of reports added an electronic form on the web- on each student to maintain site, Sasso said. The team re- a connection with students ceives an average of five to six and provide further assistance if the needs rises. reports each day. “The idea behind the beA report should be made when an individual demon- havior intervention team is strates a decline in work or if we are able to reach out to academic performance, ex- people sooner, they hopefulhibits disruptive or disturb- ly never elevate … their being behavior, goes through havior never escalate to the dramatic changes in ap- level of a threat,” Sasso said. The reports often come in pearance or mood, abuses alcohol and drugs, acts pieces, Sasso said. A professor may notice paranoid or suspicious, gets angry or frustrated frequent- an outgoing student is sudly or struggles with health denly withdrawn and doing problems, according to poorly in class. An employer OU’s Behavior Intervention may notice he or she is also missing deadlines and not Team’s website. “The thing that has made showing up for meetings. Someone in residence hall
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may notice the same student experiencing distress, Sasso said. “Each of those pieces by themselves might not seem that big of a deal, but when you centralize that information, you go ‘Boy, this is somebody who has had a major shift from what is normal for them,’” she said. “Then you reach out, and you try to get them the help they need.” The team also helps students who are experiencing physical illnesses but can’t afford treatment by connecting with resources who may get them treated, and students struggling with classes because of personal or work related issues by putting them in touch with academic advisors who can help them find solutions, Miller said. The response has been positive, Sasso said. Most people appreciate the care and concern, and the team has been able to positively affect their lives. “You have the right to say ‘You know what I’m not the least bit interested, mind your own business,’” Sasso said. “But that hasn’t happened.”
monks teach meditation, a practice Tenzin said is universal among all religions. “On this planet, one religion doesn’t work for all,” Tenzin said. “We need many different religions.” The monks’ ultimate message is one of peace, both at the macro and micro level, Tenzin said. “Share your love with everybody,” Tenzin said. The monks will share their wisdom by teaching people to focus on the present through focusing on love and compassion rather than material goods, Tenzin said. “The only way to bring happiness within you, within your family, within your community, is through transformations,” Tenzin said.
The creation and destruction of the sand Mandala is a representation of how people should not become attached to material goods, Tenzin said. In the end, it is just sand. The monks will work on the Mandala from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday and will dismantle the Mandala at 4 p.m. on Saturday at St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church. They are also giving lectures on the path to enlightenment at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, according to a press release. All events are open to the public. Kaitlyn Underwood kaitlyn.underwood5@gmail.com
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A fraternity house will kick off its renovation with a ground breaking ceremony on Saturday after five years of vacancy. The Pi Kappa Sigma fraternity house, located at 736 Elm Street, will begin its first major renovation since it was built in 1929, said David Todd, president of the Pi Kappa Sigma Alumni Association. The renovations cost $2.5 million and are paid for by alumni donations, Todd said. “The renovations are necessary, because the building was old and tired,” he said. Students haven’t lived in the building for the last three years, Todd said. However, the fraternity has remained active and members have been living off campus. Members can expect to move back in by spring 2014, Todd said. The building association meeting will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday. The ceremony will begin shortly after, as will lunch, Todd said.
Students can learn about Peruvian culture through dance, geography and food during this year’s Peruvian Cultural Night. The Peruvian Student Association will host the 5th Peruvian Cultural Night from 6 to 9 p.m. on Sunday, April 14 in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom. The event will begin with a show featuring a traditional Peruvian dance called festejo performed by a group from Tulsa and other dances by the Peruvian Student Association, said Pamela Peralta, president of association. The theme of the cultural night this year is the coast of Peru, and will feature elements of the beaches of Peru. The African and Incan aspects of Peruvian culture will be demonstrated in the show, Peralta said. After the show, a Peruvian dinner will be served in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s food court, which will feature Papas a la Huancaina, or potatoes with a spicy sauce, as the appetizer, arroz con pollo, or rice with chicken, as the entrée and alfajores, or cookies with caramel as the dessert, Peralta said. “At this event, people will get to learn about [Peruvian] culture. Many people think we just have Machu Picchu, but we have a lot more,” Peralta said. “We’re going to teach people about the everyday life of Peru and how it’s different from the United States.” Tickets are $8 for students and $12 for the general public when purchased before Sunday, and they will be $10 for students and $15 for the general public on the day of the event. For tickets, contact Peralta at pamelaperalta1@ ou.edu. Morgan George, Campus Reporter
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THUMBS UP: Tibetan monks are working on a Mandala, a type of sandpainting, at St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church to share a message of peace for Tibet. (Page 1)
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Firearm registration a must Our view: Congress should pass gun control bill.
about the number of gun show weapons that end up being used in crimes on the streets. Definitely don’t When a person buys a car, be it from a stranger or stress about the relative safety with which a person could amass a huge stockpile of weapons for use a relative, the first thing to do is update the vehicle against law enforcement. Just consider the registration to reflect the current owner and risks to the buyer and seller of the weapon, insurer of the vehicle. This registration serves The Our View much like you would consider the risks in many purposes, mainly ensuring the owner is the majority buying and selling a car. has legal recourse to reclaim the vehicle if opinion of The only argument we keep hearing over stolen and giving police departments records The Daily’s of ownership and registration should they nine-member and over for why anyone should oppose editorial board weapon registration and background checks find the stolen car before the owner knows it is that such a database of weapon ownership is gone. and sales “could one day be used to confisRegistration also ensures the previous cate our weapons.” This implies the government (or owner is not charged with crimes committed by someone) is planning to identify and confiscate the the new owner in the vehicle. It alleviates the forweapons of every last American household and then mer owner of all responsibility concerning the use and care of the car. When a person buys a firearm in impose some sort of martial law police state. For many states, no registration or bill of sale is required what purpose one can only imagine. Is this conspiracy theory mentality really the new at all. If a person takes a weapon registered in his or baseline for having a debate about anything anyher name to a gun show and sells or trades it outmore? People are being killed by mentally unstable right, and that weapon is used in a murder or robgunmen with access to unlimited, cheap weaponry bery, the seller is going to have detectives on his or her front porch wanting alibies and proof the weap- these days. Does hypothetical world domination by an evil army of darkness really trump Newtown and on was sold. Aurora? Similarly, a weapon bought at a gun show could If you have an opinion on the matter please conhave its serial number run during a routine traffic stop despite the new owner being licensed to carry, tact your congressional representative and urge him and if the weapon comes back stolen or wanted in a or her to send this bill to the house floor for a vote. crime, then the new owner is going to be spending a The people want it, common sense demands it, and long time figuring out how to prove the weapon was the victims of Newtown, Aurora and others deserve to have the rest of us lift a finger in their memories to bought legally without paperwork. Forget all of the other reasons to have background hopefully curb the conditions that have led us to this checks and registration records for firearms. Ignore crossroads. the ease with which mentally ill citizens can purchase high-powered rifles and pistols and use them to shoot up a school or a movie theater. Don’t worry Comment on this on OUDaily.com
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etween the fervent campaigning, the runoff in the Housing Center Student Association election and the talk about voter turnout, student politics were starting to look like national politics. But OU does not count votes in the same way as the national election. The voting scheme for the seats open in Student Government Association’s undergraduate student congress was not a plurality vote. It was a proportional representation voting.
better reflect the student body. Instead of selecting one candidate, the voter ranks the candidates in order of preference. The vote goes to the individual’s first choice. Then the process really heats up. Before counting begins, a quota is set based on the number of votes received and the number of seats to fill. If a candidate reaches this quota, they are elected. Micah Wormley The proportional representation voting m.wormley@ou.edu system collects the votes are above the quota and distributes a fraction of each Plurality Voting vote to the voter’s next choice. If not all the seats are filled, U.S. citizens are exposed almost exclusively to the pluit takes lowest-scoring candidate’s votes and redistributes rality voting system. In this system, each person has one them to second choice as indicated by each voter. Another vote, they select one candidate, and whichever candidate quota is calculated, and the process starts over until all of gets the most votes wins. While that sounds like a fair sys- the seats are filled. tem, plurality voting has some downfalls. Plurality systems My only hesitation for using this system in student elecdisregard the composition of the electorate by concentrat- tions is so few districts have enough candidates to make it ing the final tabulation into the election of few candidates. worthwhile. While the system will work with as few candidates as the number of seats to fill plus one, it lends itself Proportional Representation System to having a wider array of candidates and is scalable to One alternative to the plurality voting system is the pro- rather large elections. I’d love to one day see it applied at portional representation system. In SGA elections, stuthe national level. dents participated in a single transferable vote election, a type of proportional representation system, which uses Micah Wormley is a professional writing junior. rankings to transfer votes from candidate to candidate to
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e are all members of the community, and the members of the community must take care of one another in order for it to flourish and remain an enjoyable community to live in. I think we can all agree with this. The members of Friends and Friends, a community service organization based on the Religious Society of Friends’ (Quakers) principles of peace, equality, simplicity and truth, feel The Daily painted an inaccurate and negative image of Students for a Democratic Society in their Tuesday article as well as endangered and estranged a member of our community. In the past, Friends and Friends and the democratic society have worked closely on important campus campaigns such as the Gender Neutral Housing Coalition. The Society also assisted in a successful proposal to Student Life allowing for Friends and Friends to function as a non-hierarchical student organization — an integral part of the Quaker principle of equality and Quaker business practice. Without the help of the democratic society, Friends and
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in which the democratic society, as well as student organizations without an office space, can prepare for on-campus activities. The members of Friends and Friends also feel the article potentially endangered a member of the community. The social stigma of poverty and homelessness is nothing to take lightly, as it perpetuates the cycle of poverty. The writers of Tuesday’s article did not put much consideration into this social stigma. They went out of their way to identify the individual’s first name and age. In our opinion, this was pure carelessness. Not only did they mention the individual’s name, but they also failed to take any action in ensuring his or her safety before publishing the article on the front page of The Daily. We can only wish them the best and extend a helping hand. If assistance is needed, Friends and Friends is willing to do what we can to help you find shelter and food. In peace, The members of Friends and Friends
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OU ’s Nonprofit Leadership Student Association and the Association of Fundraising Professionals are par tnering up today to present “NonFilm,” an event benefiting the Camellia Network and aged-out foster children. A series of short clips will be presented at the event, with discussion about kids placed in foster care between each screening, he said. “ [ B y s h o w i n g s e v e ral clips], this will give us a chance to see the subject of foster children from several different points of view,” said Hayley St. John, public relations sophomore and Nonprofit Leadership Student Association secretary. “The clips are all about foster kids, which is so important because it’s an issue that most people don’t even
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realize exists.” These clips will help viewers understand how the foster system works, as well how the Camellia Network works and why it’s so important, St. John said. OU ’s Nonprofit Leadership Student Association has hosted a similar event every semester for the past five years, said Tanner Golden, anthropology senior and the association’s “NonFilm” event chairman and treasurer. This year’s event will be held from 6 to 7 tonight at Second Wind Coffee House on Campus Corner, according to the event’s flier. “[This year] our goal is to raise money for Camellia,
foster youth with basic survival needs and support to live independently, according to the Camellia Network’s website. Mollie Rischard, vice president of philanthropy for the Association of Fundraising Professionals, said the association held a raffle Thursday on the South Oval in conjunction with Advocacy Week. The raffle included a c o o k i e d r o p, m e a n i n g that for $1, students had the opportunity to purchase a package of cookies, Rischard said. Some of the packages came with a dot on the bottom, making recipients of those packages winners of various prizes including gift cards to Starbucks, 7-Eleven and other places. The Nonprofit Leadership Art provided Student Association and From “Camellia Network: The Challenge We Face,” a YouTube video about the nearly 30,000 youth Association of Fundraising who “age out” of the U.S. foster care system every year. Professional’s goal is to raise at least $500 for Camellia, Golden said. but we’d mostly like to see A donation jar will be Network. people engaged and learn- present at the screening, The Camellia Network is ing about the network,” Golden said. All profits a national organization that Erica Laub ericalaub@ou.edu Golden said. will benefit the Camellia works to provide aged-out
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Open your eyes to the gender issues across the world as you step into the shoes of women from around the globe in the Phil Borges exhibition, which opens to the public Saturday. This new photography exhibition, “Stirring the Fire: A Global Movement to Empower Women and Girls,” is part of the Puterbaugh Festival, put on by OU’s World Literature Today magazine. The exhibition will show the stories and lives of individual women who have overcome great odds to achieve their goals, said Daniel Simon, assistant director and editor in chief of World Literature Today. The women in the
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photographs have gone wants people to see how through a variety of obsta- these women have chosen cles relating to education, to overcome these circumthe economy, patriarchy, stances and have made religious oppression and their voices heard in the domestic violence, Simon oppression and adversity said. The photographs are they’ve been faced with, he accompanied said. with a script “When you or caption that s e e t h e p o rallows people traits up close to read about and in large what each format they are woman has really breath experienced. For people who taking,” Simon “The stories said. experience the behind the At 6 tonight, photographs power of these B o r g e s w i l l give a sense of give the enstories, they what each intire back-stowill walk away r y a b o u t h i s dividual has gone through,” exhibition inspired...” Simon said. and his work Daniel Simon, Borges travaround the elled all over Assistant director and world to bring t h e w o r l d editor in chief of World these portraits Literature Today and didn’t to life at the just focus on Fred Jones Jr. one age group of women, Museum of Art Association but instead photographed opening of the galler y. young girls to women in “Stirring the Fire” will open their 70s and 80s. Simon to the public Saturday.
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“For people who experience the power of these stories, they will walk away inspired and will hopefully find moments that encourage them in their own lives,” Simon said. Tess Thomson tthomson@ou.edu
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Bullpen driving force behind Big 12 success ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
and doing what they brought us in here to do — just throwing strikes and letting our defense work behind us,” Year: Evans, who has a 0.56 ERA in Freshman 32 innings this season, said. The other freshman Position: Golloway likes to turn to is Closer righty Ralph Garza Jr. Garza Jono Greco Statistics: has made one start this year jonogreco13@gmail.com Boasts a — a complete-game victory 0.56 ERA in 32 innings he No. 9 Oklahoma against Oral Roberts — that this season to go along baseball team has has given Golloway the trust with six saves received a lot of atin him to send him out there tention for its starting pitchagainst tougher opponents ing, but its bullpen has done the late innings in a long on weekends. more than hold its own since time. This past weekend, Garza the start of Big 12 play. And what’s surprising is threw three shutout innings As the Sooners (27-6, 7-2 the fact a lot of the team’s while allowing one hit and Big 12) enter their fourth bullpen production is comstriking out two batters conference series — against ing from younger players against Texas. Baylor starting at 6:35 toand newcomers. Other than turning to the night in Waco — the bullOU’s current young arms, “They can throw two pen has another shot to closer, Jacob Golloway has every pitch prove it has been almost as Evans, was a been putting his dominant as the weekend dominant high trust in senior refor a strike, rotation. school pitchliever Jake Fisher and honestly, and junior transIn nine Big 12 games, OU’s er at Broken bullpen has thrown 32 inArrow High I feel like our fer Billy Waltrip. nings in seven appearances School — postTexas, guys do better Against while holding opponents — ing a 10-0 rethe two comTCU, Kansas and Texas — to cord and 1.83 with pressure bined to throw seven runs (six earned). It ERA during situations. We 2 2/3 shutout also has struck out 23 batters his senior seainnings while have a lot of allowing one hit and has allowed 28 hits. son — but now “It’s been pretty good to he’s one of the guys doing their and striking out have options, to know how first players five Longhorns. they match up the best,” Golloway turns part; that’s what Waltrip coach Sunny Golloway said. to in tight situ- makes this team earned a win to “We’ve gotten to know our ations. Evans improve to 2-1 so special.” bullpen better.” has gotten out in the Sooners’ A dominant bullpen is of multiple series-clinching HECTOR LORENZANA, something the Sooners have bases-loaded, JUNIOR SECOND victory Sunday BASEMAN been missing the last few no-out jams in Austin. years. Although the team has this season While the bullhad quality relievers — forwith no trouble, pen has been mer OU hurler Jeremy Erben which is why Golloway has solid, people cannot forget was virtually unhittable besaid on many occasions that what the weekend rotation is tween 2008 and 2010, and the young lefty has ice water doing to help. former closer Ryan Duke running through his veins. During Big 12 play, Friday holds the program’s records “[Pitching] coach [Jack] and Saturday starters, jufor saves — the Sooners have Giese has drilled into our niors Jonathan Gray and not been this dominant in heads to just go out there Dillon Overton, have gone
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Junior left handed pitcher Dillon Overton delivers a strikeout pitch in OU’s 2-1, 10th-inning, walk-off win against Kansas on March 29. Overton went 6.1 innings, struck out six, gave up only 4 hits and allowed one earned run. Overton is 6-2 in eight starts this season with a 2.35 ERA.
the distance twice, giving the pen a welcomed rest for the rest of the weekend. Also, the fact the Sooners have not played a midweek game the past two weeks — their midweek matchup against Oklahoma State was rained out last week — also has helped keep the bullpen’s arms fresh. “It helps out a lot,” Fisher said. “Keeping our arms fresh is a big thing. And coming out of the pen — let’s
say I come out of the pen on Friday and get a day off on Saturday then come out of Sunday — it’s huge.” It’s not only the coaching staff and relievers who have confidence when taking the mound, but the eight position players already in the game don’t worry about whoever comes in to pitch at any point in the game. “They can throw every pitch for a strike, and honestly I feel like our guys do
better with pressure situations,” junior second baseman Hector Lorenzana said. “We have a lot of guys doing their part; that’s what makes this team so special.”
Jono Greco is a journalism graduate student and assistant sports editor at The Daily.
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Spring game will showcase new-look Sooners OU has newcomers on both sides of ball Julia Nelson Sports Reporter
When Oklahoma takes the field for the Red-White game Saturday, it will be a very different team than the one fans saw at the Cotton Bowl in January. Since the end of last season, the Sooners have lost a starting quarterback, an offensive lineman who is a top 10 NFL draft prospect, two starting wide receivers and the majority of their defense. And if that wasn’t enough, three new assistant coaches have been added — Bill Bedenbaugh, Jay Boulware and Jer r y Montgomery. Yes, the team that takes the field on Saturday will look very different in almost every aspect. Offensively, a quarterback battle has been waging this spring between junior Blake Bell, redshirt freshman Trevor Knight and sophomore Kendal Thompson. Not only is this the first true quarterback competition Oklahoma has had in six years, but all three of them are much more mobile than Landry Jones or Sam Bradford ever was. A mobile quarterback is a relatively new concept for Oklahoma during the Stoops era, although fans did get a taste through the Belldozer package implemented two seasons ago. This could give Bell a leg up in the competition, but coach Bob Stoops remains adamant that there is no frontrunner. All three quarterbacks continue to grow and progress, and in that process, mistakes will be
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made. “What all of them have to learn to do is not have the really bad play that changes the game,” he said. “You can’t just gamble and try to make the big play and make the bad one. “They’re doing a pretty good job, but it seems like every day or scrimmage or team session there will be one or two plays that it’s ‘Ah, you better reevaluate that one.’ And it’s all of them. I’m not sitting here saying they’re doing a bad job, they’re doing a really good job. “But some of those plays can be game changers, and you can’t make them and gamble with the ball.” On the other side of the
ball, defensive coordinator Mike Stoops looks to revamp a defense that struggled late last season. Not only was the unit embarrassed on several different occasions, it also looks to replace key starters in the secondary, Tony Jefferson, Demontre Hurst and Javon Harris. “Our defense is good,” junior linebacker Aaron Franklin said. “We’re not going to be dependent on offense. I know people think we’re going to be down because we lost eight seniors last year, but we’re trying to prove to people that we can play defense.” Franklin also thinks lack of playing time last season won’t hurt this year’s
linebacker corps. Instead, he expects them to shine. “I think the strength of [this defense] is the linebacker corps,” Franklin said. “We have a lot more experience, and we’re going to be older with me, Cory [Nelson] and Frank [Shannon].” It’s been an offseason of change for Oklahoma, and the team is still a work in progress. But the spring game will offer a glimpse of what to expect next season. No t m a n y t h i n g s a r e set in stone yet, but one thing is for sure — it will be different. Julia Nelson julia.nelson@ou.edu
At a glance Coaching staff’s new faces OU hired three new coaches during the offseason — offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh from West Virginia, tight ends coach Jay Boulware from Auburn and defensive line coach Jerry Montgomery from Michigan. The trio replaced former offensive line coach James Patton, former tight ends coach Bruce Kittle and former defensive line coach Jackie Shipp — all of whom were fired in the wake of OU’s embarrassing 41-13 blowout loss to Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl.
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