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The Sooner Theatre will present “The Wizard of Oz” at 7:30 p.m. The show runs until Sunday and features a cast of 81 children ages 8-13 who have participated in the theatre’s summer production camp.
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OU Summer session presents “Chernobyl Diaries” as part of their free summer movie series. The movie will show at 6 and 8:30 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium at the OU Memorial Union.
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The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Art After Hours will present Encouraging Native American Art: The Studio at 6 p.m. in the Dee Dee and Jon R. Stewart Classroom.
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The Oklahoma City Redhawks will play the Memphis Redbirds at 6 p.m. at the Bricktown Ballpark in downtown Oklahoma City. Tickets range from $6.75 to $20.50.
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Summer Breeze Concert Series will present a concert by Ginger Leigh at Lions Park. The show is free to the public and begins at 7:30 p.m.
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Molotov Solution will play a show at 6 p.m. at The Conservatory, 8911 N. Western Ave., Oklahoma City. Tickets are $14.
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The OU Write club will meet at 6 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 280, to share writing with other members of the club. Poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and all types of writers are welcome.
For a full calendar of events, visit oudaily.com
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OU’s increase more than OSU, less than half of UCO’s hike STAFF REPORTS
“I think the action today reflects that and reflects the sensitivity to OU students will pay 3-percent students and parents’ needs, but more in tuition and fees next year (it) also provides a mechanism to after the Oklahoma State Regents continue to provide a great higher for Higher Education approved in- education opportunity at a very afcreases for 25 of the state’s 26 public fordable cost,” Johnson said. colleges and universities College and university at its meeting Thursday in presidents previously told OUDaily.com Oklahoma City. regents the increases were Continued coverage about the tuition increase. Resident students will needed to offset rising oudaily.com/news pay $216 more tuition costs, including insurance, and mandatory fees for 30 utilities and additional credit hours in two semesters, and faculty needed due to rising enrollnon-resident students will pay $1,116 ment. State appropriations to higher more. education will remain essentially flat The average increase across the for fiscal year 2013, up .04 percent — state’s higher education institutions from $1.008 billion in fiscal year 2012 is 5.2 percent, ranging from 2.8 per- to $1.012 billion for 2013. cent at Oklahoma State University The regents also approved a total to 7.9 percent at the University of higher education budget of $2.66 bilCentral Oklahoma, regents chancel- lion, up from $2.62 billion last year. lor Glen Johnson said. The budget includes $6.5 million for The regents took into account the the OU system. impact that rising tuition has on students and their parents, Johnson The Associated Press contributed to said. this report.
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rmageddon-type films have been quite popular in recent years, but “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World” is different because it’s not about saving the world from its inevitable demise — it’s concerned with what people do with their last days on Earth. The film opens with Dodge Peterson (Steve Carell) and his wife, Linda, sitting in their car listening to the radio announce that the last effort to destroy the 70-mile wide asteroid has failed, and that it will hit the Earth in three weeks. After hearing this, Linda promptly exits the car and runs away, leaving Dodge completely alone. For the next week, he stumbles through his life uncertain of what to do. He continues going to work, where he sells insurance, even though many of his coworkers have left. He goes to a friend’s end-of-the-world party but doesn’t really participate in the festivities. He simply doesn’t know what he should do with his final days. One night, he finds his neighbor, Penny (Keira Knightley), crying on his fire escape. She tells him she was 15 minutes late for the last flight to England, and now she will not be able to see her family before the asteroid hits Earth. When riots break out a few days later, Dodge gets Penny and they leave the city together. They make an agreement that Dodge will get Penny to a plane if she helps him find his long-lost high school love. Along their strange road trip, they run into many
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‘Bye Bye Birdie’ to run through Saturday in OKC The Lyric Theatre opened “Bye Bye Birdie” on Tuesday in Oklahoma City, and the show will run through Saturday. “Bye Bye Birdie” is a musical that tells the story of famous rock ‘n’ roll singer, Conrad Birdie, who travels to the small town of Sweet Apple, Ohio, to give a farewell performance and kiss his biggest fan before he is drafted. The Lyric Theatre production is directed and choreographed by Lyn Cramer. OU student Meredith Tyler will star as Kim MacAfee, the teenage fan who is chosen to receive Conrad’s last kiss. Tyler previously played Dot in OU’s production of “Sunday in the Park with George” and Marcy Park in “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” Ticket are $33 to $68. Sarah Wilson, The Daily
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people who are all handling the impending destruction of the world in their own ways. The beginning of the film brings some great dark humor and is really the strongest part of the film. Then as Dodge and Penny take off on their road trip, the film unfortunately turns into more of a romantic comedy. The switch is too drastic and makes the film feel as if it is lacking something. If the dark comedy from the beginning half of the film had been continued until the end of the film, it would have been truly excellent. Carell is wonderful as
“Although Carell and Knightley may seem like a strange pairing, I think it is fitting for the film.” Dodge. He’s excellent at playing sad but likeable guys, and this is no exception. However, I don’t think his comedic ability was used to its full potential. Knightley is adorable as Penny, and her extreme talent for dramatic roles was not wasted in this film. In one scene, Penny is lucky enough to have the chance to speak to her parents on a satellite phone,
and it is incredibly moving. And this was not the only heart-wrenching scene Knightley created. Although Carell and Knightley may seem like a strange pairing, I think it is fitting for the film. In any other circumstance, their coupling probably would not make sense, but as the world is coming to an end, anything could happen. Overall, “Seeking a Friend” is a good film with a very interesting premise. I would at least recommend watching it on Netflix in a few months.
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Raising Cane’s in Adams Center will open this fall Kendra Whitman Campus Reporter
Burger King is out and Raising Cane’s is in as Adams Center’s fast-food option after the OU Board of Regents approved the change Tuesday in Ardmore. The regents voted to award the university’s food-service contract to Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers during their meeting, university spokesman Michael Nash said. “Raising Cane’s was an overwhelming choice for student leaders of Housing and Food Services during the bid process,” Nash said. “[The vendors] also presented a competitive financial offer that included renovation of the dining area.” Nash said the chicken-finger restaurant will be open by the fall semester, but it will not be ready before freshman move-in. Freshman begin moving in Aug. 9. Burger King’s 15-year run in Adams Center will come to an end when its contract expires June 30, said Matt Roberts, OU Housing and Food Services purchasing director. Nine restaurants competed to occupy the Adams Center food venue, and H&F narrowed the decision down to three finalists — Denny’s, Burger King and Raising Cane’s, Roberts said. Vendors from the finalists gave a one-hour presentation to H&F the Housing Center Student Association at Couch Restaurants, and both groups provided input to which vendor seemed most responsive to student needs, he said. The final selection process included a meeting, a financial proposal and an evaluation where officials decided
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Blaze Baugh (left) and his mother Shawna enjoy Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers on Tuesday, June 26. OU students will be able to get the restaurant’s food in Adams Center starting this fall after the OU Board of Regents approved it as Burger King’s replacement.
Raising Cane’s was the best choice, he said. Meal plans will be handled the same way as they were with Burger King — accepting exchanges and points like other on-campus restaurants, said Shawn Henry, H&F general manager of retail Specific meal combinations at Raising Cane’s will work with meal exchanges and the remaining can be paid with meal points, if necessary, Henry said. Burger King was the restaurant were the majority of freshman meal exchanges were used, with 85 to 90 percent of its revenue coming from exchanges, Roberts said. University officials hope
AT A GLANCE Applicants for Adams Center food venue • Au Bon Pain • Burger King • Denny’s • Einstein Bros. Bagels James Richardson/The Daily
Raising Cane’s will open an on-campus location this fall semester.
that number will rise with the addition of Raising Cane’s. The restaurant has exciting plans and will be involved with campus life, he said. “It’s always exciting to see a new venue open on
campus,” he said. “We have high hopes. Raising Cane’s has been a long-time supporter of the university in a variety of facets, and we are looking forward to seeing that continue.”
• IHOP • Game Time Sports Grill • Panda Express • Raising Cane’s • Steak ‘n Shake Nathan Baird, OU purchasing department acquisition manager
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Student Media to revive July print editions University to provide $4,000 in funds to aid yearlong study
Robinson said. The staff meets five days a week to plan content for OUDaily.com, and only after those meetings are there addition discussions about what, of everything already planned for online, should be repurposed or updated for the print edition, Robinson said. “All (the return to print) means is that on four days in July that we weren’t going to do a print edition, we now have a couple of key students who will need to come in and repurpose that content,” she said. “It doesn’t really change that much of what we were going to do.”
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A university department is giving $4,000 in funding to Student Media in response to protests about The Oklahoma Daily’s decision to cancel its July print editions — and the newspaper has agreed to reverse its original decision as a result. The money, provided by Student Affairs, will help fund a yearlong study Student Media plans to conduct concerning the future of The Daily’s news presentation. In light of the unexpected funding, the department has decided to renew the July print editions. Student Media announced on June 14 that it would transition The Daily into an online-only organization for the end of the summer. University officials heard from “a significant number of people” who were concerned about The Daily’s decision to drop the last four print editions of the summer, said Susan Sasso, associate vice president of Student Affairs and associate dean of students. Student Media should wait until its study is completed before making any changes, Sasso said. “Really, it’s mostly about the student experience and how not publishing The Daily will affect the student experience,” she said. “I think there was just a lot of people concerned about it and saying, ‘Gosh, you know, could we get more input before we make a decision this major?’” The money, which will come from funds donated by parents, is generally used to support programs that serve a broad base of students and impact the student experience, Sasso said. “Boy, what’s happening in Student Media and the campus newspaper, that’s just a perfect kind of activity (for the money),” she said.
Wrong decision, editor says The Daily did not directly receive negative feedback about the cancelation from readers, editor in chief Chris Lusk said. Lusk said he is upset Student Media officials agreed to reverse its decision just because they were offered extra funding. “You know, the department’s financial concerns were only one small reason why the idea to cancel the summer paper gained Chris traction — at least with me, any- Lusk way,” he said. The digital-only experimentation was designed to push Student Media into the future and to learn how The Daily could better serve its readers, Lusk said.
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Student Media reversed its decision to suspend print editions of The Daily in July after the department received $4,000 from OU Student Affairs.
“I’m disappointed because I thought we were taking some steps to really challenge ourselves and our department to think bigger, to think into the future, to think visionary,” he said. Newspaper leaders wanted to try the initiative in hopes of gathering information about if the organization was built to exist as a digitalonly product — an important first step of the yearlong study, Lusk said. The summer initiative was a small step that only canceled four papers and would have allowed the department to learn how it would operate in a digital environment, including digital-advertising solutions and improvements to the newsroom’s current Web mindset, Lusk said. “I think there’s great value in the print product, but I thought this was a perfect time to really go away from that and test what we’re doing — not just inside the newsroom and how we approach our coverage but the entire department,” he said. “I think that’s what’s being missed in this sudden move to reverse our decision.” Faculty adviser Judy Gibbs Robinson said reviving the print edition won’t change much for The Daily. Lusk had already designed a summer newsroom that was Web-first and focused the staff ’s attention on its online product,
In August, the department plans to launch the yearlong study of its operation to measure readership and advertising support for a digital-first initiative and to determine its future, whether that means dropping some editions each week or maintaining the paper’s size while emphasizing OUDaily.com, Student Media Director Brian Ringer said. The department wants to learn what’s working for the whole operation, Ringer said. “What do people think of us? With all the devices students have these days, are they going to pick up the paper less and less? Is that how they’re going to read us in the future? That’s what we hope to find out,” he said. Operating for an entire month without producing a print edition would have forced the department to examine how it responds to being digital-only, which would be different from how it already operates, Lusk said. The one-month trial would have armed the department with a month’s worth of valuable information heading into the study in August, Lusk said. Nonetheless, Student Media should strive to sharpen its digital focus, he said. “I don’t think we have really pushed ourselves as a department as a whole to honestly commit to thinking about being a digital-only product,” Lusk said. “The ultimate goal is to create a better version of The Daily — and I know all of Student Media is on board with that. “Hopefully we maximize this $4,000 gift.” With any policy change, there is a variety of perspectives, said Joe Foote, dean of the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communications. “The Daily is important for the university and has been for many years,” Foote said. “It’s not surprising it’s a journalism organization that people care about and value. Strong feedback is a validation of this importance as a communication vehicle and as a training ground for journalists.” Hillary McLain contributed to this report.
A work van outside Sam’s Club, 3400 W. Main St., caught fire Tuesday, damaging the roof of the grocery store. Norman Fire Department arrived on the scene at 10 a.m. to respond to the fire, Norman Fire Department Deputy Chief Jim Bailey said. Crews on the scene found a work van that had caught fire and damaged part of the roof lining above where it was parked, Bailey said. Sam’s was evacuated for sbout 30 minutes, and no one was injured during the incident. Following investigation by the Norman Fire Marshall, the cause of the fire was determined to be inappropriately discarded smoking materials, Bailey said. Staff reports
County sheriff donates $30K to fund dance scholarship The OU School of Dance received $30,000 from Joe Lester, current Cleveland County Sheriff, to continue the Juli Busken Memorial Scholarship, named after deceased OU dance student. Lester was the head of OUPD at the time of Busken’s death and has made it his personal mission to honor her with the continuation of this scholarship, School of Dance director Mary Margaret Holt said. Busken was kidnapped from her Norman home and murdered in December 1996, shortly after she completed her degree in dance performance. Holt said the scholarship would not be possible without the efforts of Lester and the Buskens. “We are most grateful to Joe and to the Buskens for their friendship and loyal support of our student’s in Juli’s memory,” Holt said. Nathan Robertson, The Daily
OU expects to have more than $140M in gifts soon The university expects to raise more than $140 million in gifts by the end of this fiscal year, OU President David Boren said Tuesday. Boren is with the OU Board of Regents for the June meeting today in Ardmore. The current fiscal year ends Saturday. The projected total of $141.2 million includes gifts to OU’s Campaign for Scholarships, which is nearing $200 million in gifts, Boren said in a press release. The campaign’s goal is to raise $250 million. Because of the initiative, OU has more than doubled its private scholarships in the past five years, according to the press release. “I am grateful to all the donors to the University of Oklahoma who make so many of our accomplishments possible,” Boren said. “Especially because we continue in an economic downturn, it is remarkable to have donors come forward so generously to provide support for projects and other priorities like scholarships.” Staff reports
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the likes of Allen Iverson, Stephon Marbury, Carmelo Anthony and a 19-year-old LeBron James for leadership; it was a team that lacked motivation. But even before 2004, the question was never, “Who has the best basketball team Dillon Phillips in the world?� The U.S. will dphillips85@ou.edu have the best team on the floor in every game it plays — that’s a given. The quesith the 20th antion has instead become, niversary of “How does this iteration of the 1992 U.S. the U.S. national team stack Olympic basketball Dream up against its predecessors?� Team almost a month away, And that’s how we have to there’s plenty of talk about look at the 2012 squad. what that team meant to the The Associated Press Can this team — whose globalization of basketball. Kevin Durant (5) and the U.S. Olympic basketball team boast a collection of talent that could stand roster has been thinned While the 2012 squad up to the 1992 Dream Team — assuming USA wins the gold medal this summer in London. significantly by injuries can’t match the ’92 team’s to Derrick Rose, Dwight roster, which consisted exclusively of hall-of-famers game stretch, including a 79- the problem with that team. Howard, Chauncey Billups, — minus Christian Laettner point evisceration of Cuba in The inevitable complacency LaMarcus Aldridge and, most recently, Dwyane — it has the opportunity to that came with being the the first game. Hear a breakdown of the capture Olympic gold. best basketball team in the Twenty years later, gold 2012 Team USA roster Let’s be honest — when is still the expectation, but it world had finally set in, and and potential matchups. the original Dream Team the U.S. had lost its stranglecertainly isn’t guaranteed. oudaily.com/sports was assembled in 1992, basIn the past, USA faced teams hold on worldwide basketketball was nowhere near ball supremacy as a result. with one or two NBA playthe global sport it is today. Laettner) plucked from the The team looked to ers; now, teams like Spain, Back then, the NBA had best teams from the best France and Italy boast startonly 21 international playyears from the best league ing lineups filled almost eners. In 2010, the league had from the country that litertirely with NBA talent. South Canadian Valley upped that number to 84, ac- ally invented the sport. If the U.S. team isn’t 100Church of Christ cording to NBA.com. The best-of-the-best-ofpercent committed, there If the Dream Team hadn’t the-best-of-the-best. are plenty of countries eager done what it did in the manWe weren’t expecting to place an arrow straight ner that it did it, the team wins; we were expecting through the bulls-eye paintwould’ve been considered massacres. And massacres ed on its targeted back. not only a disappointment we received. Just take a look at the embut, frankly, a travesty. In Barcelona in ’92, the barrassing 5-3 record comCome join us to learn God’s word. Here was a team made Dream Team averaged a piled by the Larry Brown-led 4VOEBZ B N up of the best professional margin of victory of more squad that won bronze in UI 4VOEBZ Q N 8FEOFTEBZ Q N players (once again, minus than 51 points during the six- 2004 in Athens. Talent wasn’t
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A LETTER TO OU STUDENTS
Dear OU Students, I am writing to update you on the university budget for the next school year which has been adopted by the OU Board of Regents. It includes over $5 million in cost savings this year and an additional $1 million each being contributed to the academic budget by the Athletics Department and the OU Foundation. As you know OU has undergone severe budget cuts over the past four straight years. While holding tuition and fee adjustments to levels near the bottom nationally, the university has absorbed about $90 million in budget cuts and uncompensated fixed-cost increases, including those for health insurance costs, utility increases, and maintenance for new facilities which have come on line. This year we asked the Governor and legislature to cover uncontrollable fixed-cost increases of about $8.4 million and a modest budget increase so we could lift the hiring freeze at the university and avoid more cuts to colleges and departments. Unfortunately the budget adopted by the state did not cover our fixed-costs. Since the state did not act, it will be necessary to make adjustments in tuition and fees and keep compensation for the faculty and staff at the current levels. We have done our best to keep tuition and fees as low as possible without sacrificing the high standards of excellence and the course offerings our students deserve. The final university budget provides for increases in tuition and fees of 3% for resident students and 5% for non-resident students. This will result in increases of $108 per semester for full time resident students. Even after these increases, we estimate that OU will have the second lowest cost for resident students, in a virtual tie with the lowest, and have the lowest cost in the Big 12 for non-resident students. The percentage of OU’s budget coming from the state continues to fall. The percentage from the state is now only about half of what it was 15 years ago. The state share has now dropped to about 17% of our budget on the Norman campus. Our medical school now gets less than 7% of its budget from the state! Over the last several years in spite of increased private giving and research earnings and budget discipline, most of the gap caused by the decline in percentage support from the state has been made up by tuition and fee increases. This trend of declining state participation has been happening across the country. It should be a great concern to all of us because it threatens the continued existence of public higher education not only in Oklahoma, but across the United States. If allowed to continue, the declining support will close the door of opportunity for countless students. All of us need to work together to inform our elected officials about this dangerous trend.
In spite of budgetary hardships OU is continuing to move forward to true academic excellence. In many ways this has been one of the greatest years in the history of our university. The student body is academically the highest ranked at a public university in state history. We also recorded the highest graduation rate this year of any public university in Oklahoma history. We once again ranked number one among all American public universities in National Merit Scholars enrolled and ahead of such private universities as Yale, Princeton, MIT and Stanford. Our students also won Truman, Goldwater and Udall scholarships. Our debate team again won the national championship, having won the championship in four of the last six years. Once again OU Drama students swept the Kennedy Center awards, and one of our student actors won first place in the nation. OU’s Price College of Business Entrepreneurship program is ranked in the top 10 in the nation. OU City Planning teams also won national honors. Sixty of our student athletes had perfect 4.0 GPA averages this past year. In addition, our students continue to set records in volunteerism. Intellectual vitality has never been stronger. The Honors College has organized over 60 informal student book clubs. Our new College of International Studies has dramatically expanded its course offerings. In the last 10 years, the proportion of OU students studying abroad during their time at OU has increased from 2% to almost 25%. More funds have been raised for scholarships to enable more students to take advantage of study abroad programs. Our faculty and staff members have received unprecedented national and international recognition. Having been recognized last year in the top tier of research universities by the Carnegie Foundation, faculty research set a new record this year. Even in these difficult times, private giving to the University is expected to total over $140 million this year, and our scholarships campaign has reached about $200 million in total gifts. I appreciate the understanding of our entire university community and the sacrifices being made by our faculty, staff, students and their families so that the University of Oklahoma can continue to meet the highest standards of excellence. It means so much to me to be able to share membership in our OU family with you. You make me optimistic about our nation’s future. I look forward to seeing you when the fall semester begins and hope that you have a good summer. Sincerely,
David L. Boren President
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South Oval bus transfer station to relocate Due to construction on the Scholar’s Walk, most buses will be moved to a new transfer station along Brooks Street, a university spokeswoman said. The Lloyd Noble Center shuttle and the research center shuttle will drop-off at a turnaround at the end of Asp Ave., OU Parking Services spokeswoman Vicky Holland said. The turnaround location will be very close to the current drop-off location, Holland said. The city transportation will all be rerouted to the new transfer station. “CART management is currently planning new route times that correspond with the new transfer site,” she said. The new site will be an adjustment for students. “It will make it difficult for everyone to use ... since it is so out of the way,” said Michelle Bui, OU alumna. “You would be required to travel off campus to use it when the convenience of the bus is to be on campus.” Because of the construction, 63 parking spots along Brooks Street will be lost, she said. “There will be a net gain in parking spots,” Holland said. A total of 180 new parking spots will be created, 122 of which will be along Jenkins Avenue between Farmer Street and Stinson Street, she said. Construction on the new parking spots will begin after football season, Holland said. Wesley Wehde, The Daily
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Former professor to stand trial for child sex abuse THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A former OU professor accused of sexually abusing several young girls over a period of years will stand trial, a Cleveland County judge ruled Friday. Dwain Pellebon, who had been facing first-degree rape charges, will stand trial on four counts of sexual abuse of a child and six counts of lewd acts with a child. Pellebon resigned from OU in December. Several young girls testified Friday about their interactions with Pellebon,
55, including a mentally disabled 16-year-old who told the court how the defendant took her to his bedroom and removed her clothes. “He started touching me … where he’s not supposed to,” the girl said. The alleged abuse of the girls who testified began in 2009, prosecutors say, although the former professor was investigated more than a decade ago amid similar allegations. The 16-year-old told the court that Pellebon urged
her not to “tell my mom.” “I only said, ‘OK,’” the girl said. She did not say he raped her. Most of the alleged abuse happened at Pellebon’s home in Norman, although some of the girls say they were inappropriately touched at a movie theater. Pellebon posted bail shortly after his arrest in December and is expected to be arraigned by district judge in the coming weeks. He doesn’t have a prior arrest record, although he was investigated by the state
Department of Human Services in 2001 over allegations of abuse involving the daughter of a former Norman police officer. Court records show that charges weren’t filed because the alleged victim wouldn’t cooperate with investigators. It was revealed in court that Pellebon no longer lives at his home, where his wife and stepson now reside. The defendant has denied the allegations leveled against him since his arrest. Pellebon has described
himself to investigators as an “affectionate, sensual man who liked to hug, kiss, cuddle and stroke young girls that he felt close to,” according to court documents. The ex-professor, free on $75,000 bail, told police during an interview at his house that he’d viewed child pornography “one time” but that he’d never downloaded any. His attorney, David Smith, didn’t immediately return a phone message seeking comment.