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Freshman wide receiver Sterling Shepard dives into the end zone for a late touchdown during the OU’s 24-19 loss against Kansas State on Saturday.
Sooner breaks through in loss Receiver Sterling Shepard totaled 108 yards, scored his first career touchdown TOBI NEIDY
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After a disappointing 24-19 loss to No. 15 Kansas State, freshman wide receiver Sterling Shepard didn’t have any time to celebrate his stellar performance. The Heritage Hall star became just the seventh freshman in OU’s history to finish with a 100yard receiving game — Shepard finished with 108 yards — during his first game as a starter. The 108 yards also were good enough to tie Shepard with two former OU wide receiver standouts — Mark Clayton (2001) and Tinker Owens (1972) — for the fourth-most receiving yards by a freshman in a single game. The last freshman to accomplish the feat went on to become the
FBS all-time receptions leader (Ryan Broyles in 2008). Regardless of what historic company he joined with Saturday’s performance, Shepard wouldn’t celebrate his accomplishments because the Sooners didn’t win the game. “I feel like even though I did my job, it’s still a group effort,” Shepard said. “We didn’t a get a ‘W,’ so it didn’t really matter.” Actually, it did matter to the OU offense. Shepard led all receivers with 108 yards on seven catches, averaging just more than 15 yards per catch. Junior wide receiver Kenny Stills finished the game with 60 yards while Kansas State’s Tramaine Thompson — a graduate of Jenks High School in
Tulsa — led the Wildcats with 49 yards to round out the top three receiving performances of the game. S h e p a rd’s f o u r t h q u a r t e r touchdown — a career first — with four minutes left to go in the game put the Sooners within striking distance of KSU. On a personal note, Shepard said getting that first touchdown catch also allowed him to become more confident with his own playing ability. “It’s nerve-racking to go out in front of all those people,” Shepard said. “So, I just tried to take a deep breath and stay calm. I was happy to get that first one, and hopefully there’s more to come.” Shepard’s success also was highlighted by the fact that he was the only bright spot on a Sooner offense that had three turnovers in the loss. On a night when the veteran
offensive playmakers were making mistakes, the freshman continued to step up down the middle of the field to make the catches to keep the offensive drives alive. “I just tried to look them off and get open and it worked tonight, and hopefully I can keep doing it,” Shepard said. He may not have the classification his other teammates carry, but Shepard’s understanding of the game c o u p l e d w i t h S a t u r d a y ’s performance is proof that OU has a star in the making in its newest wide receiver. “He’s playing at a different level than most freshmen, and he’s competitive, fast and strong,” coach Bob Stoops said. “He’s only going to get better.” Tobi Neidy tneidy@gmail.com
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Going into his interview, economics senior Jerod Coker joked that he donned a pink tie because it was soothing. “I was pretty nervous,” Coker said. “I tend to psych myself out, so I just went in there like it was a conversation with friends rather than an interrogation.” After surviving the application process at OU, Coker is one of six current and former students looking forward to competing for the Marshall and Rhodes scholarships. The students were nominated by the university through an application and interview process at the end of August. “The nomination is the easy part,” he said. “[Applying,] that’s the intense part.” Coker said applying for the scholarships has been “quite tedious.” He’s been meeting with faculty twice a week since his endorsement to go over his personal statement and various essays. “It’s safe to say I got frustrated after having two drafts completely demolished [by the advisors],” Coker said. The third time was the charm for Coker, who said he finally let go and wrote his statement as a stream of consciousness. Instead of writing clichés, Coker said he wrote about his desire to study in the “motherland of his two favorite things,” — rock ‘n’ roll and entrepreneurship. “It won’t be stuffy academic prose … at least I can say I wasn’t outing up a façade,” he said. Coker said if he gets one of the scholarships he plans on studying philosophy and economics. Eventually, Coker plans on attending law school and getting his Master’s of Business. After almost missing the application deadline for OU’s selection process, history senior and candidate Scott Renner said he is looking forward to an easier application process for the actual scholarship. “I missed the official meeting,” he said. “And turns out, the morning I set up an alternate meeting
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… was the morning that the first application was due, so I had to prepare it in six hours, including a 1,000-word personal statement and a letter of recommendation.” Renner said after that morning, the rest of the application process — which includes a couple personal statements, some more letters of recommendation and JErOD then filling out a rather lengthy COKEr digital form — will be “a piece of cake.” Renner, a candidate for both the Marshall and Rhodes scholarships, said although he went through the formal OU application at the last minute, he has been preparing himself as a candidate for several years. “In the summer after my freshman year, I spent six weeks in Italy doing an archaeological excavation on Roman ruins,” Renner said. “We uncovered a floor that hadn’t been used in a SCOTT thousand years, and we got to rENNEr walk on it.” Ta k i n g a d v a n t a g e o f opportunities such as that have helped him diversify his experience and prepare his application in “little pieces here and there all the time,” he said. If he gets one of the scholarships, Renner said he plans to pursue a Master’s degree in medieval history for a year then a doctorate degree the next year. Renner isn’t the only candidate who has prepared himself as an applicant well in advance. G r a d u a t e s t u d e n t H o l l y CHriSTiNE Berrigan, a candidate for both HOAGLUND t h e R h o d e s a n d Ma r s h a l l scholarships, is in her final year of OU’s International Studies Accelerated Program. Berrigan said she also spent the summer preparing in her own way, by participating in the
U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Commission. She said this enhances her application because it shows her “previous interest in the country.” Because she will graduate with a Master’s from OU, Berrigan said if she wins one of the scholarships she plans to apply to the D.Phil program at Oxford in international relations, researching “soft power initiatives and public diplomacy.” OU graduate Christine Hoaglund, who is applying for the Marshall scholarship, said she had an exhaustive preparation process. Hoagland — a Fulbright scholar doing graduate work in Mexico — said she spent all summer reading about her proposed research project — an extra aspect of the application for her because she’s applying for a Doctorate and not just a Master’s degree. “In preparing for the essays, I emailed just about every person I know who has any experience with writing or my topic,” Hoaglund said in an email. “I revised my essays at least 20 times (I lost count a long time ago).” Hoaglund said she plans to study “the use of military force in humanitarian interventions” if she gets the scholarship and currently is “interested in working either as a professor studying international relations or at the U.N. as a researcher/advisor.” Biochemistry junior Mubeen Shakir said the applications are a step closer to help him achieve his career goals. “I ultimately hope to become a physicianscientist at an academic institution,” Shakir said in an email. If Shakir is awarded one of the scholarships, he said he plans to obtain a Master’s degree in Oncology at either Oxford or Cambridge. Scholarship winners will be announced in November. “It’s kind of terrifying to think about the fact that there’s however many universities in [this region] and I’m trying to be one of [the recipients], ultimately,” Renner said. “That’s kind of exciting.”
A woman working to improve the standard of water in Africa was named this year’s International Water Prize winner on Friday. The OU WaTER Center held its third biennial water symposium to discuss water and sanitation issues as well as name Ada Oko-Williams this year’s International Water Prize winner. Oko-Williams, the associate director of Water and Sanitation for Africa, h a s w o rk e d f o r m o re than a decade to improve the standard of water, sanitation and hygiene in Africa, according to the center’s website. The award is allotted to an individual for a lifetime achievement or significant contribution in the field of water and sanitation in emerging regions, said Randall Kolar, associate director of OU WaTER Center. “A d a i s a n a r d e n t believer that the problems of African have African solutions,” said Idrissa Doucoure, chief executive officer of Water and Sanitation for Africa. “Her focus on community engagement in solving Africa’s water problems was a key factor in the decision-making process.” The WaTER Center — or Water Technologies for Emerging Regions Center — works to help establish new and sustainable ways to bring sanitary water to developing countries, according to the center’s website. The center hosted its symposium see PURIFY PAGe 2
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purify: Community invovement solves issues Continued from page 1 Friday followed by a conference from Sunday through Tuesday. The symposium, “Critical Water Issues in Today’s World,” also featured an hour-long panel discussion from six industry experts from around the world. The speakers — whose fieldwork spanned from Latin America to eastern Indian — discussed their variety of work and experiences. Although their experiences were diverse, the speakers all focused on a central theme: The importance of community involvement in solving the world’s water problems. “ The world is littered with the skeletons of wellintended projects that were done for p e ople rather than people doing them themselves,” said Dennis Warner, senior technical advisor for water supply, sanitation and water resources development for Catholic Relief Services. R a v i Ja y a k a r a n , v i c e president of Global Programs, MAP Int e r nat i o na l , s a i d t h e organization’s focus is to “power communities to solve their own problems.” The greatest obstacle in
Today around campus Putt-4-Prizes sponsored by Union Programming Board will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the first floor lobby of Oklahoma Memorial Union. Students will have the chance to test their putting skills for a chance to win free parking passes for the union’s parking garage.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 24 Mid Day Music will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in the food court of Oklahoma Memorial Union. Ivan Pena will play the guitar, and Isacc Eicher will play the mandolin. A lecture titled “The Euro, France and the European Union Economy” will be presented by French consul-general Frederic Bontemus at noon in Hester Hall, Room 170. A free lecture titled “How Learning Works” will be presented by Clarissa Thompson of OU’s psychology department at 1 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245. Thompson will discuss different styles of learning. A workshop titled “Acting the Interview: Business Majors” will be held from 2:30 to 3 p.m. in the Sooner Room of Oklahoma Memorial Union. The workshop will focus on helping business majors prepare for the interview process.
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Residents to walk to overcome world hunger The local chapter of a national effort will work with local businesses and residents to help raise funds to battle poverty. The Cleveland County CROP Walk to Stop Hunger will be held Oct. 7 in Norman. The three-mile walka-thon begins at 2 p.m. and will take participants through the OU campus as well as around downtown Norman, according to a press release. Registration will take place at Food and Shelter, Inc. at 1:30 p.m. the day of the event. There is no registration fee, but groups are encouraged to donate, according to the release. CROP — or Communities Responding to Overcome
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solving the water issues in the areas that need it most is effectively engaging with the people who live there, he said. The biggest problem is also the biggest opportunity, Jayakaran said. With community engagement, the world will see a higher level of success in solving water and sanitation issues, he said. “ I f t h e y d o n ’ t hav e a sense that it is their project they won’t have a sense of ownership and won’t feel empowered,” Warner said. “The general issue is to get them involved from the very beginning. It’s not easy, but it’s the only way we know how to develop this sense of local initiative. We need to foster the idea for change.” R . C . D av i s, Ne u s t a d t p ro f e ss o r a n d Wo r l d Literature Today executive director, summed up the theme of the symposium. “Water problems are of course technical problems, but they are also human problems,” he said. The symposium was a prelude to the center’s conference. The International WaTER Conference furthered the
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Poverty — is a national effort to raise money to work to end hunger, according to the organization’s website. There will be an event hosted before the walk, which will include face painting, food and musical performances by members of the Pride of Oklahoma. The walk is dedicated to Food and Shelter, Inc. employee Mike McNeil — who died in a train accident Sept. 1, according to the release. Staff Reports
AT A GLANCE Featured speakers Rita Colwell Ph.D., Chairman of Canon US Life Sciences, Inc. and Distinguished University, Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Ravi Jayakaran Ph.D., Vice President of Global Programs, MAP International
Idrissa Doucoure Director of Water and Sanitation for Africa
Marc Parlange Ph.D., professor and Dean at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Christine Moe Ph.D., the Eugene J. Gangarosa Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation and the Director of the Center for Global Safe Water at Emory University
Dennis Warner Ph.D., senior technical advisor for water supply, sanitation and water resources development for Catholic Relief Services Source: The WaTER Center website
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New courses will help more students study abroad The OU study abroad program in Arezzo, Italy will add two microbiology courses to its offerings for the summer 2013 program. This provides a great opportunity for science majors, who can find it difficult to study abroad. Because of the stringent requirements of some programs and the lack of math and science courses abroad, students in some majors often must choose between studying abroad and graduating on time. While some programs, such as Engineers in Italy, are specifically designed to appeal to these
students, many others offer no classes required for these majors. The Arezzo program already helped bridge this gap and offer a choice for hard science majors by offering two chemistry courses. These two new microbiology courses will expand the offerings even further and give even more students the opportunity to study abroad without postponing their studies. The Education Abroad office should work with other programs and foreign universities to further expand the options for these students.
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by the elder generations of the 20th century. But this is nothing new. Someone once told me, “When you’re young, you’re a liberal, and when you’re old, you’re a conservative, because when you’re young, you want to change the world, and when you’re old, you just want to come to terms with it.” Intergenerational mistakes are created through intergenerational instruction. So, social change comes when the current generation commits to laying the path rather than following it. To begin that path, Earth Rebirth implemented three programs to legitimize its purpose: Garden Your Own Growth, Homemade Sustainability and Taking H2Ownership. Dylan Joiner, Earth Rebirth vice president and multidisciplinary studies senior, urges people to be open to nonprofits. “We just want people to understand our message enough to want to help,” Joiner said. Recently approved as an OU student organization, Earth Rebirth is progressing steadily toward finding that help. Freshly-planted seeds only can improve the opportunities of those with similar desires within a community. When seeking uniqueness in a crowd of screaming voices, it’s always difficult to find authentic meaning. But the consortium seems to always inspire a better understanding of that meaning, authenticated through the collaboration of different perspectives. This is why, in a society desperate for answers, there is no better solution than blank-slate innovation within the community. The U.S. economy has lost its sense of creativity and hard work; it is time to stop harboring mistakes and start creating answers. So, get started innovating and building. To learn more or get involved with the growth of Earth Rebirth’s programs, please visit earthrebirthnow.com.
hat benefit possibly could come from establishing a business or national organization from Andrew Sartain the ground up, particularly andrew.sartain@ou.edu in a recession? That depends: Have we realized why we are really in a recession in the first place? The U.S. has lost its sense of creativity and hard work. When I founded the nonprofit organization Earth Rebirth, my aspiration was to help people recognize the commonality between the economic and environmental problems experienced individually, nationally and globally. A person doesn’t have to be an environmentalist to be an economist, but one must be an economist to truly be an environmentalist. Earth Rebirth’s mission is to foster a sustainable future that provides environmental restoration through the means of social and economic evolution. Like many start-ups, expansive ambition was consumed by ideas that could “change the world” in a world longing for such change. But as all start-ups learn, changing the world takes far more time than it does for dreams to expand. Nobody teaches you, step by step, how to concoct a perfect recipe; you have to feel it out. As dreams turn to strategy, grandiose achievements become distant hopes in an attempt to tread water. But when the growing gets tough, the great start growing. This is where the innovative nature of humanity shows its capacity. From reformation to technological advancement, true change is made when those fed up with the lack of change stop complaining about the problems and start engaging in the solutions. Andrew Sartain is an interdisciplinary perspectives on the In recent years, the young adult generation coming into environment and nonprofit management senior. the real world has grown intolerant with the decisions made
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hat re ma i n e d of the eighthlargest crowd in OU history stood stunned as the final seconds ticked off the clock in the Sooners’ 24-19 loss to Kansas State on Saturday night. The streak had ended. For the first time under coach Bob Stoops, OU lost a game to a ranked team inside the hallowed walls of Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Before Saturday night, the last ranked team to beat the Sooners at home was No. 15 Colorado in 1998 — OU’s last losing season. Since Stoops arrived in 1999, the Sooners were a perfect 14-0 when playing at home against ranked opponents. And not only did the Sooners win at home, they dominated — outscoring ranked opponents by an average score of 42-16. But Kansas State coach Bi l l S nyd e r, w h o n e v e r had beaten Stoops in the regular season, brought an inspired Wildcats squad to Norman that was dead-set on knocking off the No. 6 Sooners. And his No. 15 Wildcats did just that, shocking the college football world. Not to suggest the Sooners
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Freshman wide receiver Trey Metoyer gets tackled after catching the ball against Kansas State on Saturday. The Sooners lost to a ranked team at home for the first time under coach Bob Stoops.
weren’t prepared to play Kansas State, but you’d be hard pressed to find a single person inside Oklahoma Memorial Stadium — Kansas State fans included — who honestly believed the Wildcats had a chance of winning. Hold on, l e t ’s t a l k about that for just a second: How insane is that? A top-15 team comes t o t o w n t o Bob t a k e o n a n Stoops untested Sooners squad t h a t ’s s h o w e d s i g n s o f weakness in both games prior to Saturday, and no one even bats an eye. Everyone, myself included, was ready to go ahead and give the Sooners
the “W� and move on to the next week. T h a t ’s t h e c u l t u r e Stoops has built around his program: Wins against ranked teams are not only expected, but at home, they’re a certainty. For all the criticism Stoops receives, he operates his program at the highest level: A national championship is the perennial expectation and anything less is a disappointment. So while message board lurkers and radio show callers demand coaches be fired and go wild with kneejerk reactions, I admonish the OU faithful to keep a level head. Try to gain some perspective. Maybe it isn’t all senior quarterback Landry Jones’ fault. Maybe Josh Heupel actually knows what he’s
doing. Maybe the Wildcats are just a better football team than the Sooners. OU was outplayed and o u t- e x e c u t e d Sat u rd ay night, and that’s really all that matters. It just so happened to be the Sooners’ first home loss against a ranked team with Stoops at the helm. Give him a break. Other than that salt y coach who calls Tuscaloosa, Ala., home, Stoops is the top head honcho in college football. OU fans need to realize just how spoiled they’ve become. Dillon Phillips is a journalism junior and assistant sports editor for The Daily. You can follow him on Twitter at @DillonPhillips_.
The OU soccer team’s struggles continued as it fell to Texas, 1-0, Sunday in a game that didn’t seem to get the best effort, concern or focus from the Sooners. Coach Matt Potter said the intensity level his team played with in such a rivalry game surprised him. “We didn’t do much talking as a coaching staff before the game because we had heard about the rivalry,� Potter said. “We expected to see our team come out there with a spark because of that.� However, after Texas sophomore midfielder Sharis Lachappelle headed in a ball in the first 10 minutes, the Sooners showed little to no effort, playing from behind the rest of the way. Consistency has been a problem all year for the Sooners, and it applies to the games they’ve won and lost. Senior defender Katharine Nutman said the team is working on their inconsistent play. “We have a habit of getting ourselves in difficult situations and then having to work out of it,� Nutman said. “To try and fix that consistency is something we need to work on, but that’s something that we need to come together as a group and take responsibility for so we can change it next week.� Sundays have been a reflection of the Sooners’ inconsistent play, having only won one Sunday game so far this season. “We’re not being smart about how we go about the game,� Potter said. “Whether it be a fatigue issue, whether it be a work rate issue, whether it be a smarts issue. Then when you are playing catch up on Sundays, that’s tough to break.� Losing to Texas hurts the Sooners considering how tough the Big 12 is. Their next two games are against Texas Tech and No. 7 ranked OSU. Tech is solid and has been receiving votes for the top 25. If OU plays with the same lazy effort that is coming to be expected of them, it will get embarrassed in Lubbock. Ross Stracke, ross.stracke@ou.edu
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The road band members of “Red Wanting Blue” have made traveling across the U.S. their full time job as they promote their style of American rock ‘n’ roll. After playing at Norman Music Festival earlier this year, they are returning to Norman to play at 8 p.m. Monday at the Opolis. The Daily’s Megan Deaton conducted a phone interview with the band’s lead singer and songwriter, Scott Terry, while he and his band traveled through what he described as the middle of nowhere. The Daily: How would you describe your music? Scott Terry: For us, I guess, the best way that I could describe our music is that it’s American rock ‘n’ roll. I don’t think there are a lot of people out there or nearly as many anymore that are really playing it. We were all raised listening to the radio, and at least where I grew up, there was no undercurrent of indie-progressive music out there that I was aware of. When I was a kid growing up and there was no Internet, you were pretty much left with MTV [or] whatever was on the radio, and if you were, like, really hip, you would get the magazines. I think that we were raised on popular music, and that’s kind of something that we all have that we can all agree on. If we could emulate a band, it would probably be Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. They’re about song. They’re about writing soundtracks of people lives. It’s never been about being in a music scene or being in a clique.
this particular album is so important? Terry: It’s the first record that the band’s made from start to finish under the umbrella of Fanatic Records. We kind of hit the glass ceiling with our independent albums. If we were to continue growing, we needed more help. They came to us and not the other way around, so it felt like a real mutual partnership. The arm of Red Wanting Blue has gotten a lot longer. We’ve gotten a lot of opportunities that I think would have otherwise not been available to us. “From the Vanishing Point” was written on the road. We’re always driving. We’re a road band, and we’ve done this for most of our lives. The road is our home. Our world has opened up to having a national presence, and the record sounds that way. It has a bit more of a feeling of this is a band who has been around for a very long time, and we’re sort of entering the national stage. We wanted it to be a welcoming record for people that have never heard of us before. This record is an introduction to who we are and more importantly who we are now.
The Daily: What kind of reaction have you gotten from fans on your new album? Terry: I’m happy to say that the overall response to the record is really positive. It’s hard, you know, when you become a band that’s not new to you anymore. It’s very difficult to kind of trump yourself and what you’ve already done and make people go, “Ah, this record is better than the last one.” Our fans all have said this is the best record you’ve ever made. This helps with that coming of age. The stuff that we made before was certainly not small time, but I think it was a little smaller and The Daily: Where did your name come more intimate, and this record has a wider from? appeal. The songwriting is a reflection of Terry: The name was formed when we our lives on the road and what we do. were first starting putting lyrics and poetry on scraps of paper. It was going to be a The Daily: Do you have any interesting song, but it never became one. stories from being on the road? It said, “Far too often we’ve been finding Terry: I’d keep you here all day. There ourselves writing red wanting blue.” It’s are really too many to count. We’ve had the human condition. It’s a fight that we everything from getting pulled over were born without wings, but we figured in Mexico because they thought we out a way to fly and we figured out a way were trafficking drugs and illegal aliens. to get to the bottom of the ocean. It’s the Certainly, at least physically, with traveling, human condition and our ability to reach there are obstacles. We’re always amazed beyond our own physical limitations at the kindness of strangers. A lot of the whatever they may be. time you don’t expect it. We get people thinking we’re talking about politics, which we’re not. The Daily: Which songs do you perform The beauty of having a name that’s most frequently? Do you ever play any ambiguous like that is that people can covers? Do you have a set play list? make their own meanings for it. It means a Terry: We try to play the majority of lot of other things to other people now, and “From the Vanishing Point,” and we play I would never want to take that away. Like the majority of “These Magnificent Miles” a song, sometimes it almost ruins it when because those are what’s most current, and an artist tells how a song was created. You those are also records that if you’ve fallen have images in your head about that song in love with our band in the last four years and someone bursts your bubble. those are the albums that would speak to you the most. The Daily: I’ve noticed you have a couple of What is relevant to what’s now. Although pretty well-known venues on your tour list. we’ve been a band for a really long time, Why did you choose to come to Norman? the stuff that is most interesting to people Terry: We were invited to come to the is what is most current. Norman Music Festival. People are so into the scene, and I’m so happy that we were The Daily: What are you expecting from able to be a part of that festival. I don’t playing in a college town? know that we had more fun than we did at Terry: Usually, when you find those towns Norman Music Festival. We got to hang out you know they have a great culture to them, with Portugal. The Man, Other Lives [and] it’s usually because it’s right there with the Wayne Coyne was running around. university. A university or college promotes higher thinking and being educated, and The Daily: Your newest album, “From the usually they go hand in hand. Vanishing Point,” has been described as a “coming of age album.” Why do you think Megan Deaton, meggiejennie@ou.edu
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