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“I think Kenneth is a monster. He’s out there doing whatever he can to help his team win”
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Sophomore linebacker Kenneth Murray celebrates in the game against UCLA Sept. 8. The Sooners beat the Bruins 49-21.
DOWN TO BUSINESS Kenneth Murray’s lifelong attitude of respect, hard work evident in everything he does
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e n n e t h Mu r ray ’s l i f e changed at 10 years old. Hi s p a re nt s a d o p ted three siblings, each of them with special needs that require help throughout a normal day. Murray was unfazed — he knew the obligations he and his family would be taking on. “If something were to happen to you,” Lind Murray recalls his nephew saying to his parents, “I’ll take care of them.” Mu r ray , n ow O k l a h o ma’s starting middle linebacker, has always shouldered responsibility. Murray has been an athletic freak since he was born, earning the nickname “Meat” when he was young. But while his physical appearance may be the first thing people notice, it’s the person he is beyond his 6-foot-2inch, 238-pound frame that is most impressive. Growing up as the son of a preacher, he’s learned the importance of patience and discipline. He’s determined to be the best football player he can be, after Lind’s advice and an eighth grade teacher’s fandom. And today, his leadership is a light at the end of the tunnel for an Oklahoma defense searching for direction. “When Kenneth sets out to do something, he gets it done,” said Murray’s father, Kenneth Murray Sr. “He’s always been conscientious. He’s always been serious. He’s always been determined.” RAISED WITH DISCIPLINE Murray stood in line with his
GEORGE STOIA • @GEORGESTOIA kindergarten classmates, waiting to get a drink at the water fountain. But neither he nor his peers, could reach the fountain. So Murray did what any kindergartner would do: He wrote a letter to the principal. Every water fountain at Red Elementary was lowered in the following days. “The one thing I know about Kenneth is that he’s always been a highly disciplined kid,” said Gordon Yancy, Murray’s fifth grade teacher at Red Elementary in Houston, Texas. “Kenneth was always trying to help someone. He was always a compassionate person, thinking about his classmates, teammates, whoever it may be that needed his help.” Mur ray grew up in a “yes sir, no sir” household. He was taught the importance of manners and politeness at a young age. The s on of a preacher, Murray spent most of his free time at the church and the local community center volunteering. But it wasn’t until his parents decided to adopt Nyia, Leonard and James — now ages 17, 12 and 9, respectively — that those core values came to fruition. “Kenny decided early on that this was something we had to do to help take care of them,” said Murray’s mom, Dianne. Murray also has a biological sister, Kimberly, who is 17 years old. “They’re his younger brothers and sister. He’s very proud of them and loves helping out when he comes home … He’s the best big brother they could
ask for.” When Murray was in elementar y school, he would come home and tell his parents which ki d s c ou l d n ’ t a f f o rd l u n ch. Murray Sr. would always take care of it, finding some way to help Murray’s classmates. That embodies who the Murrays are. They care for those around them and are protective of the ones they love — much like Murray is with his Oklahoma teammates. He treats people with respect and affection, taking pride in the way he was raised.
“No nonsense. Nothing would distract him. He was about his grades, he was business-like ... He knew exactly what he wanted. He was on a mission.” DENNIS BRANTLEY, MURRAY’S HIGH SCHOOL COACH
“He’s always looked out for others because that’s something we always taught him to do,” Dianne said. “As a human being, as a Christian, that’s the right thing to do. He always looked out for his sisters and he’s definitely looked out for his little
brothers. That’s just a part of who he is.” STAYING FOCUSED Basketball was Murray’s first love. He was talented and often the most athletic player on the court but he also had one major flaw: Each time he was fouled, Murray would hit the kid that fouled him. “He was no basketball player,” said his uncle Lind, who played defensive back at West Virginia in 1980 and 1981. “He was always wanting to fight … I told him he was too mean for basketball that he has that football mentality.” When Tim Boutte — a former running back at Texas Southern between 2000 and 2004 — showed up to help coach a Pop Warner team one day, he noticed just one kid. The way he looked in his uniform, the way he ran in warmups, the way he tied his shoes — all of it stood out to Boutte. The kid was special, and Boutte knew it from day one. T hat k i d w a s 1 0 - y e a r- o l d Murray. “Sometimes when you see greatness, you can just tell,” Boutte said. “I saw greatness that day.” Thanks to his uncle’s advice, Murray joined the Post Oak Eagles — a local Pop Warner team in Houston — a couple weeks after the season had started. He got his first taste of football almost immediately in a
tackling drill, when one kid — who outweighed everyone by about 50 pounds, according to Boutte — kept knocking Murray down. Boutte pulled Murray — who was crying at this point — to the side and gave him two options. “I said, ‘Either you’re going to hit him, or I’m going to hit you,’” said Boutte, who still trains Murray today. “He quit crying, wiped his nose and smacked the crap out of that dude.” Murray never looked back, falling in love with the game and focusing all of his attention toward it. When he got to Elkins High School in Missouri City, Texas, his freshman year, he rode his bike every day to practice, making sure he never missed a workout or meeting. Coaches would find him running sprints on the field early in the morning and when asked what he was doing, he’d simply reply with one word: “Preparing.” “When Kenneth walked in as a freshman, he was focused on being a college football player. I’m talking day one,” said Dennis Brantley, Murray’s high school coach. “No nonsense. Nothing would distract him. He was about his grades, he was business-like ... He knew exactly what he wanted. He was on a mission.” Murray’s work ethic paid off, becoming a three-star prospect and ranked the 35th best player in Texas in the 2017 class, per See MURRAY page 2
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Sermon emerges as rush leader Sophomore back steps up in close game against Army CALEB MCCOURRY @CalebMac21
W h e n Ky l e r M u r r a y found out on Monday Trey Sermon rushed for more yards than him in their overtime win against Army on Sept. 22, he was surprised. “He did?” Murray said with a smile on his face. Sermon’s 119 yards to Murray’s 79 marks the end of Murray’s reign on top of the team’s rushing leade r b o a rd s i n c e Ro d n e y Anderson’s season-ending injury in week two against UCLA. “It gets me going,” Murray
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Rivals. He received early offers from Kansas, Houston, Te x a s A & M a n d Te x a s, among others. But when Oklahoma came calling in the spring of 2016, Murray knew his decision. His family thought he was leaning toward then-Texas coach Charlie Strong and the Longhorns, but Oklahoma was his dream school. He fell in love with the Sooners in eighth grade, thanks to his teacher at YES Preparatory School, who just so happened to be an OU alum. “We, as a family, were situated with Texas, but when Oklahoma offered and after we went on an unofficial visit to Oklahoma, it was over from then,” Murray Sr. said.
said. “When (Sermon) gets going ... obviously it fires me up.” Ser mon had his most prominent role of the seas o n Satu rd ay , ca r r y i ng the ball 18 times, the most he’s carried so far in 2018. Anderson was expected to be the team’s go-to guy this year after an offseason of the coaching staff still deciding who stands where in the rushing roster. Since he’s out, Anderson has become a source of advice for Sermon, who may be this year’s leading rusher for OU. “He helps me out a lot,” Sermon said. “Calling me before games, just talking to him ... telling me to really just play my game and that I’m here for a reason.”
“He then told me something he never told me before: He said, ‘Dad, Oklahoma is my dream school. That’s the school I’ve always wanted to go to since eighth grade.’” BECOMING A MONSTER Murray stands on the 22yard line. Exactly 10 yards away is Georgia running back Sony Michel. Everyone knows what happens next: Mi c h e l t a ke s t h e s nap, Murray takes a bad angle and Michel walks into the end zone untouched, ending Oklahoma’s season in overtime at the 2017 Rose Bowl. Murray says he’s watched that play, and game, 128 times. His freshman season, where he star ted all 14 games at middle linebacker and won Big 12 Freshman Defensive Player of the Year, came to a sour end. Murray
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Sophomore running back Trey Sermon runs the ball in the game against Army Sept. 22. Sermon rushed for more yards than quarterback Kyler Murray at the game Saturday and is poised to be the team’s leading running back.
Sermon is poised to be the Sooners’ back field leader on the ground. Although Anderson was OU’s leading rusher last season, Sermon
was still a useful closer for the Sooners and is a nuis a n c e f o r t a ck l e r s w h o bounce off him, which was clear on Saturday night.
spent his entire offseason working on his game. W h e n h e’s n o t i n t h e weight room, he’s in the film room, and vice versa. He studies film with former Oklahoma linebackers Teddy Lehman, Curtis Lofton and Rufus Alexander, trying to soak in every bit of information he can. He has become a student of the game, attempting to keep what happened in 2017 from repeating in 2018. “His overall growth from last year, to this year has been amazing to watch,” said Alexander, who played at Oklahoma from 2003 to 2006. “He has a certain calmness this year and it allows his personality to come out … I think Kenneth is a monster. He’s out there doing whatever he can to help his team win.” Murray has become the unquestioned leader of
Oklahoma’s defense. He was voted a team captain as a sophomore, something that’s only been done four other times and only once by a defensive player (QB Trevor Knight, 2014; QB Landry Jones, 2010; QB Sam Bradford, 2008; DL Gerald McCoy, 2008). “Pretty rare, that doesn’t happen around here much,” coach Lincoln Riley said. “He knows he’s a leader now, whereas last year he kind of got forced into the role because of the position he played ... I think (his teammates) saw his potential and have a respect for how much he’s grown as a player.” The game against Army Sept. 22 is the perfect representation of who Murray has become. On the field, his time in the weight and film room showed as he broke the school record for tackles in a game (28). Off the
Sermon’s big night comes from just more than 15 minutes of being on the field compared to Ar my’s 44 minutes. In those 15 minutes, coach Lincoln Riley was impressed. “I thought he was good ... he had some really nice runs,” Riley said. “I think he had probably two or three that he wishes he had back, but I think he’s getting better.” The “two or three” runs Riley is referencing a re w h e n A r my stu f f e d Sermon twice at the goal line on third and fourth down, causing a turnover on downs and letting Army burn the clock in an already-close game. Offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh, however, took the blame.
“The lesson learned is I gotta scheme better,” Bedenbaugh said when asked about the four-andout series. “That’s the biggest lesson. It’s not on those guys.” But despite Sermon’s struggles at the goal line, it’s clear he’s the Sooners’ guy. And he knows Oklahoma will be relying on him the rest of the season. “I’ve become a lot more comfortable just believing in myself and really clicking with the offensive line more and Kyler as well,” Sermon said.
field, the lessons he learned as a kid showed as he shook ever y ser vice member’s hand on the field following the game. He’s grown into the man his parents shaped him to be and is still that same kid Boutte saw greatness in years ago. “He wanted to be a great f o o t b a l l p l aye r i n h ig h school, then his next goal was to go off to college and
do well academically and athletically, and of course, his dream beyond that is to go to the NFL,” Dianne said. “He’s accomplished all that, and I have no doubt he’ll accomplish anything else he puts his mind to.”
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”Crazy Rich Asians” stars Henry Golding and Constance Wu in the movie trailer. The movie was the first Hollywood blockbuster in 25 years with an all-Asian cast and contemporary storyline.
major Hollywood studio release with an entirely Asian cast. While “Joy Luck Club” grossed $33 million domestically at the time of its release, the film’s executive producer, Janet Yang, said “Joy Luck Club” could not market to an Asian demographic in the same way “Crazy Rich Asians” did. “People couldn’t articulate (desire for representation) until ‘Joy Luck Club,’ because they never even imagined a film like it,” Yang said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Since “Joy Luck Club” functioned as the sole portrayal of Asian culture in cinema for a quarter of a century, there was immense pressure on “Crazy Rich Asians” to succeed and open the door for increased representation in the future, Black said. “There’s a chain reaction once there’s good feedback on something that’s considered not generally well-accepted,” Black said. “It makes it more normal to see Asian faces, so I definitely think there’s going to be a chain reaction where we see more Asian actors.” Nguyen said the film’s success will help spark interest in future projects led by Asian stars. She hopes the film will inspire budding Asian actors to realize they aren’t condemned to a career of only playing insignificant, stereotypical roles, she said.
“I know a lot of people don’t pursue their dreams because they don’t see people like themselves on the screen,” Nguyen said. “We should represent what we are in real life — in real life, we’re so diverse. There’s so many people from so many different backgrounds that there’s not just a token person. There’s so much more to show than that.” Ho l ly w o o d ha s f a c e d abounding criticism in recent years for whitewashing Asian and other minority roles. One recent example was the controversial casting decision of Scarlett Johansson as the lead in the 2017 blockbuster “Ghost in the Shell,” which was based on a Japanese manga series. A recent study conducted by Nancy Wang Yuen, scholar of race and ethnicity in film, television and new media, found “whites dominate the television landscape, making up nearly 70 percent of television series regulars compared to monoracial Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) who comprise only 4 percent.” The study also found 64 percent of all shows do not feature a single AAPI series regular. Additionally, 87 percent of AAPI series regulars are on-screen for less than half an episode, and 68 percent of TV shows featuring AAPI series regulars have only
one AAPI actor. “Crazy Rich Asians” director Jon M. Chu held an open casting call for the movie in order to avoid casting faux pas and expand casting opportunities for a wider range of Asian actors. Aspiring Asian actors and “cool personalities with hidden talents” were invited to audition for the movie by showcasing their talents in a two-minute YouTube video, according to The New York Times. Andy Lin, biology pre-pharmacy senior and member of OU’s Asian American Student Association, said he admired the film’s ability to incorporate Asian culture into the film while still making the story relatable and enjoyable for wider audiences. “The director put so much thought and symbolism into the movie, like the mahjong bamboo number eight for the winning piece — that was pretty much symbolizing luck,” Lin said. “The number eight symbolizes a lot of things in Asian cultures, especially Chinese culture, so it’s just cool to see how many things a lot of people wouldn’t really notice unless they really look into it.” Nyugen, Black and Lin all hope for a future of broader, more realistic representation of minorities in the media. It turns out this hope may come to fruition sooner rather than
later. The new Netflix movie “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” is the first mainstream teenage romance film with an Asian-American star. Netflix also announced it will release the Philippine romantic comedy film “Always Be My Maybe” next year, written by and starring Asian-American actress and comedian Ali Wong. Additionally, the blockbuster thriller “Searching,” which stars South Korean actor John Cho and KoreanAmerican actor Joseph Lee, has already grossed more than $23 million at the box office and has an impressive 93 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Although Hollywood still has a lot more work to do in terms of increasing diversity and providing minority actors with roles that don’t center on lazy racial stereotypes, the desire for increased representation is finally starting to be realized. “It’s really hard to look up to people if there isn’t that figure role,” Nguyen said. “Not even just Asian representation but also Hispanic, African American and everything else. I just want Hollywood to diversify.” Devin Heitt
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Science Museum Oklahoma’s second annual Tinkerfest will allow an opportunity for participants to explore their curiosity and creativity through various workshops. The day-long event will have 65 activities to choose from, including taking apart two cars, 3D printing, carpentry, making edible slime,
launching rockets and building dog houses. The high-profile attractions in last year’s Tinkerfest will be featured again, such as foil sculpting and robotics. New activities will include a 21-inch-tall robot, rope making, violin making and podcast making. “Our inaugural Tinkerfest in 2017 set the bar high, and this year, Tinkerfest is back with even more to explore,” said Sherry Marshall, Science Museum Oklahoma President and CEO. “It is an experience like no other for our community.” Guests of all ages will
have the opportunity to spark creativity through new experiences. “We think that tinkering helps us advance our own knowledge by trying things you’ve never tried before,” said Lindsay Thomas, communications director of Science Museum Oklahoma. “We would say tinkering is the core of all learning. No matter who you are and how old you are, you will get to experience something at Tinkerfest you’ve never experienced before.” The event will surround the entire museum and grounds, stretching from the
parking lot to its gardens. All of the museum’s permanent exhibits, including Science Live, an auditorium that hosts live science shows, and the newly-upgraded, immersive sky theatre Kirkpatrick Planetarium, will be available during the event. Admission and all act i v i t i e s a re f re e t ha n ks to the National Science Fo u n d a t i o n O k l a h o m a Established Program to St i m u l a t e C o m p e t i t i v e Research. Other sponsors include Allied Arts, Boeing and Express Employment Professionals.
Tinkerfest will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 29 at the museum, 2020 Remington Place, Oklahoma City. Parking is available at the museum and Remington Pa rk , a n d s hu t t l e s w i l l be available to and from Remington Park from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Advance registration is not required, but guests will need to check in at the box office to receive a wristband.
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Editor’s note: Artist william walker larason prefers to have their name printed in lowercase. MAINSITE Contemporary Art will feature the texture-centered artwork of four artists in a new exhibit opening on Oct. 12. The “Touchy-Feely” opening reception will coincide
with October’s 2nd Friday Norman Art Walk. The artists involved in this exhibit use unconventional methods and materials to create dimensional paintings that entice the viewer to reach out and touch them. The show marks the curatorial debut of artist Sarah Clough, who hand-selected the works featured in “Touchy-Feely” by searching out artists who she felt broke the conventions of painting. Clough is an Oklahoma native who is now based in Baltimore. She exhibited her own works in a gallery show called “The Bright Side” at
MAINSITE in 2017. Clough pitched the concept of “Touchy-Feely” when she pitched the concept for her solo exhibition in 2017, based off her interest in artists using unconventional textures in painting. “I was really looking for people who use paint in unexpected ways,” Clough said. When she thought of people who were doing something different with the medium, she already had a few artists in mind, she said. Clough selected Tampabased artist Caitlin Albritton and Iowa-based artist Sasha Backhaus after becoming
familiar with their use of texture in paintings at the Maryland Institute College of Ar t. She als o s ele cted Oklahoma artists Sara Cowan and william walker larason for the exhibit. Clough became aware of Cowan’s use of raised dots and textures to create patterns and larason’s use of painted industrial materials like foil and resin from the Oklahoma City art scene. The exhibit will not be the kind of show people expect, Clough said. “A lot of the works started as just material experiments. They’re very much
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Bold, bright and striking weren’t the typical stereotypes Bobbi Black knew to be associated with the Asian community. That’s why she was so surprised when a vibrant, colorful book cover entitled “Crazy Rich Asians” caught her eye in a New York City bookshop. “It seemed really bold because Asian stereotypes are that we’re the ‘model minority,’ so that just kind of felt like it was going against the norm, which I really appreciated, and a month later I found out it was turning into a movie,” said Black, supply chain management senior and member of OU’s Asian American Student Association. The film “Craz y R ich Asians,” based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Kevin Kwan, shattered historic and cultural precedents by grossing more than $111 million in its first three weekends running in the North American box office. This was an especially significant feat given that the film was the first Hollywood blockbuster in 25 years with an all-Asian cast and contemporary storyline. Annie Nguyen, president of the OU Asian American Student Association, said she thinks our society’s evolving views about the importance of diversity and representation helped make this movie a success. “I think usually they portray us stereotypically — like the Asian nerd or the kung fu master or whatever. I think right now, because there’s an interest in diversity, it was important to do this movie. Especially after the success of ‘Black Panther,’” Nguyen said. “I was so excited because there was an Asian cast, Asian director, and it’s just been a long time coming.” Prior to the release of “Crazy Rich Asians,” the 1993 American drama film “Joy Luck Club” was the last
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SGA votes for beer in stadium Congress passes resolution calling for sale of alcohol JORDAN MILLER @jordanmillerr
The Undergraduate Student Congress passed a resolution calling for the sale of alcohol in the stadium at its meeting Tuesday. The bill passed 25-3 with two members abstaining, and was meant to “urge that the OU Board of Regents change University policy to allow the sale and distribution of alcohol in the stadium at games,� as stated in its text. The bill comes after the Sept. 13 OU Board of Regents meeting, where President James Gallogly said the sale of beer at sporting events is being considered. Social sciences representative Dan Williams was the author of the bill, and said in the past former OU President David Boren was vocal about his opposition to the sale of alcohol in the stadium, and Williams said attempting to pass the resolution then would have been a “futile effort.� “We’re in a year of changing course,� Williams said.
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The Undergraduate Student Congress meeting Sept. 25. A resolution calling for the sale of alcohol in the stadium passed 25-3 with two members abstaining.
“New president, new buildings on campus, (it) seems like everything’s becoming different. My thought, since President Gallogly expressed support for this, (was that) now was the time for this bill.� Williams said he thinks alcohol being sold in the stadium would be a positive impact on students. “They won’t feel the need to drink before the game and get super drunk,� Williams said. “They will drink at the game, and overall this will create a safer, more positive
environment and more positive experience for the fans and students.� Although the bill’s title says alcohol, the bill’s resolution is specifically in reference to beer, Williams said. “You look at these universities, the first thing they did is allow beer in the stadium,� Williams said. “But in the future, if the university wants to expand on that, and they have the research to say it’s safe, it’s gonna do positive things and it’s going to be a net benefit, then I’d be more than in favor of
that.â€? Wi l l i a m s s a i d h e b e lieves it will pass all three branches of the Student Government Association. C h a i r o f t h e Undergraduate Student Congress Tom Cassidy said the bill showed how congress should represent students in current issues. “We know that President Gallogly and the athletics department and the regents ‌ are trying to come up with some new policy for the university,â€? Cassidy said. “I think that’s exactly where
student government should step in and say ‘We represent the students, we know this is an issue happening on campus, and this is our perspective. We think that you should value our perspective and consider our perspective when you’re making your decisions.’� Williams said he hopes the resolution can be evidence of student support if Gallogly brings up a change in the stadium alcohol policy at a regents meeting. “I wanted to send a clear message to the regents,
‘Hey, there’s student support for this,’â€? Williams said. “So when they ask that question to President Gallogly when he presents this initiative in October, he can clearly point to ‘Well, one of our representatives passed this bill in congress and got it signed ‌ and so (students) seem to support it, they seem to be well informed about it, so let’s get on the ball and do this.â€? Jordan Miller
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OU Medicine leads state in robotic surgery Surgical robots can lead to less pain, quicker recovery SIERRA RAINS-MOAD @sierramrains
Tiny robotic instruments controlled by mechanical arms are changing surgery as patients know it, and OU Medicine is leading the state in the use and development of this technology. On Sept. 21, OU Medicine hosted an event at The Children’s Hospital highlighting the health system’s advanced robotic and minimally invasive surgery options, according to a press release from OU Medicine. At the event, individuals were able to witness surgeons access hard-to-reach places in the body using a viewing screen and robotic tools that translate the surgeon’s hand movements into smaller, more precise actions, according to the press release. OU Medicine has more surgical robots and physicians trained to use them than any health care system in the state, according to the release. These surgical techniques result in less pain, shorter hospital stays and quicker recovery times and are practiced at OU Medical Center, The Children’s Hospital and OU
Medical Center Edmond. “Robotic surger y provides patients an opportunity to return to their lives sooner,� said Michael Cookson, chair of the robotic surgery program at OU Medicine, in the release. “The robotic surgery program at OU Medicine gives Oklahomans across the state a wide range of surgical options for a variety of procedures ranging from simple hernia repairs to complex gastrointestinal cancer cases.� Around 40 surgeons in the OU medical system use robotic technology regularly. Of that technology, only three surgical robot systems are lead thatd the way, according to the release. The Da Vinci Surgical System gives surgeons a 3D view into the operating area and provides surgeons with wristed instruments that offer a greater range of motion than the human hand. The Medrobotics Flex Robotic System enables surgeons to operate on parts of the body that are impossible to reach with the human hand. The Synaptive Brightmatter System with Modus V allows surgeons to see details that can’t be seen with the naked eye, such as parts of the brain. OU Medicine physicians conducted national
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OU Giving Day doubles funds Day of donations brings in more money this year BAILEY LEWIS @BaileyLewis75
OU’s second annual Giving Day far surpassed expectations by gathering more than double the funds it raised last year. The OU Alumni Association and OU hosted their annual OU Giving Day on Tuesday, Sept. 25, and raised $472,264 from 2,121 gifts for 40 different organizations, according to the OU Giving Day website. According to OU Giving Day 2018’s Facebook, the OU Giving Day team leaders were hoping to make more than double the funds from last year at $179,377. That goal was accomplished. “Since last year was our pilot year, the fund options were more limited. This year, we expanded our fund choices from 30 funds to over 500 funds. This allowed donors the opportunity to give where
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An OU Giving Day ribbon is tied to a bench on campus Sept. 24. The OU Alumni Association and OU raised $472,264 for Giving Day on Tuesday, Sept. 25.
their heart lies,” the OU Giving Day team leaders said in an email. The OU Giving Day team consists of Karen Renfroe, associate vice president of donor engagement services, Rhiannan O’Shea, director of annual giving, Beckie Tramel, director of campus campaign, direct mail and special programs, and Nikki West, director of digital initiatives. OU Giving Day aims to help
students attend OU through scholarships and allows OU to add new degree programs and keep its current ones in the top ranks. The university-wide fundraising event took place Tuesday and lasted 24 hours. The goal was to inspire students, alumni and friends to make a gift to the university or to the programs or schools that are meaningful to them on campus.
Out of the 40 organizations involved, the five that raised the most donation funds were the Gallogly College of Engineering at $96,100, the College of Law at $76,040, the College of Medicine at $39,260, OU Athletics at $34,665 and the Price College of Business at $31,606, according to the OU Giving Day website. Kristen Lazalier, executive director of the Price College
Office of external relations, said the two main funds in the Price College of Business that were supported were the Momentum Scholarship, which provides broad access for undergraduate students with financial needs, and the Do More Sooner Scholarship, which provides opportunities for excellence for MBA and graduate students. Price also saw an increase in the number of donors compared to last year’s Giving Day. “We are grateful for the financial support of OU Giving Day from our alumni, friends, faculty, staff and students,” Lazalier said. “The success of yesterday helps to remind us of how fortunate we are to have an army of supporters behind our students to provide them with the momentum they deserve to succeed.” Joseph Harroz Jr., dean and Fenelon Boesche chair of law, said all the money raised for the College of Law will go to student scholarships and programming, as well as general support of the law school. “Over 170 of our students donated back to OU Law
yesterday, helping us establish a culture of giving, which is something done by our aspirational peer law schools,” Harroz said. “We were also fortunate to have OU’s former head football coach, Bob Stoops, come and generate excitement and raise awareness for Giving Day by dunking me once we raised $50,000.” Gallogly College of Engineering Director of Development Stephanie Buettner said the College of Engineering was “Giving Day champs last year,” so the college was on a mission to raise even more money this year. “These gifts will make a major impact in the college,” Buettner said. “We had approximately 70 funds listed on the Engineering Giving Day page. Everything from our schools to programs, and scholarships to student organizations. Donors were able to give exactly to what they wanted.” Bailey Lewis
bailey.n.lewis-1@ou.edu
County clinics to administer flu vaccinations Goddard Health Center to offer free flu shots for students CHARLEY LANZIERI @charlanzieri
T h i s f l u s e a s o n , the Oklahoma State Department of Health will offer free flu vaccinations at its county clinics. Beginning Oct. 1, the department will provide flu shots at no out-of-pocket cost at all county health clinics statewide. Anyone going in to get a flu shot will be asked to show proof of
insurance. Last flu season was one of the worst in decades, according to a press release from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. In Oklahoma, there were 291 deaths and 4,819 hospitalizations between September 2017 and May 2018, according to a press release from the Oklahoma State Department of Health. “These numbers serve as a sobering reminder of the dangers of influenza,” said immunologist and doctor Eliza Chakravarty in the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation press
release. The state health department’s press release said the flu vaccination is recommended for people aged 6 months and older, and people should get it every year because the flu evolves each year, and the new vaccination is made specifically to combat that year’s flu. Also, after a year, a person’s immune protection from the vaccination will decrease. If everyone gets the flu shot each year, it reduces the chances of the flu spreading through commu n i t i e s a n d f a m i l i e s,
according to the state health department’s news release. “We are encouraging everyone to get their flu vaccination and we hope this effort to provide the shots at no out-of-pocket cost to recipients will make it more accessible,” said Tom Bates, the health department’s interim commissioner, in the press release. “The last season was especially devastating, and we want to ensure that as many people as possible can receive the added protection that the flu vaccine provides.” Goddard Health Center will also give out free flu
shots to students on campus. Flu vaccinations will be offered from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 2, 3, 16 and 17. No appointments are necessary to receive a flu shot. Along with getting a flu shot, the Oklahoma State Department of Health recommends living a healthy lifestyle, getting enough sleep and washing hands to reduce the chances of getting the flu. If the flu has been caught, the department recommends covering the mouth with a tissue or sleeve, or staying home. “ There is literally no downside (to getting the
flu shot),” Chakravarty said in the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation press release. “It’s extremely affordable — free in many cases. Even 40 to 60 percent effectiveness still reduces your chances of getting the virus considerably ... If you can physically get the flu shot, do it. It saves lives.” Charley Lanzieri
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New dean focuses on multiple initiatives College of Arts and Sciences leader names new goals HANNAH PIKE @h_pike_
Late in the afternoon, on the third floor of Ellison Hall, David Wrobel can be found listening to music from the Bose system in the corner of his office as he works. “I purchase, I expect, more CDs on a monthly basis than I should,” Wrobel said. The recently named permanent dean of the College of Arts and Sciences is a historian, author and scholar who aims to expand research opportunities and scholarships. But he is also a music collector, avid tennis player and friend to students and faculty alike. “It’s sort of refreshing to have a pursuit outside of the institution,” Wrobel said. ROAD TO THE DEAN’S OFFICE Wrobel grew up in England and studied history at the University of Kent before moving to the United States for graduate school at Ohio University. Growing up, his mother used to take him to visit castles, and that is what first got him interested in becoming a historian. “They would have these little booklets, these sort of pamphlets that you would buy for 10 pence ... about this castle or this church or cathedral,” he said. “I was an avid reader of these things, and I thought that’s what a historian was.” He later learned it was not, but after graduate school, he decided it was teaching that he really loved and wanted to do. “ I’d always imagine d
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David Wrobel, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Wrobel said he has many goals for the college, including making OU a better public research university.
being a historian,” Wrobel said. “I don’t think I’d ever imagined being a dean.” Wrobel was named interim dean in July 2017 and permanent dean this June. When it became clear Kelly Damphousse, the previous College of Arts and Sciences dean, was leaving, Wrobel said he remembers he and his colleagues talking about who would be dean next. “I very happily named about a half a dozen people I thought would have been great in the job, but certainly didn’t think of myself,” he said. But Wrobel said he was “flattered, honored and happy” to do the job. “It’s a chance to do things on a bigger scale for the whole college.”
CONNECTION TO STUDENTS Economics junior Joey Herrera met Wrobel through Camp Crimson this summer while representing Wrobel’s family as a liaison. He said his favorite thing about Wrobel is that while he may seem soft-spoken at first, he has a “quiet competitiveness” that not many people know about. “Before (the games) w e w o u l d d o ( at Ca m p Crimson), he would come up to me and be like, ‘Hey Joey, we’re not going to lose this, right? I hate to lose,’” Herrera said. “I was freaking out a little bit ... but we didn’t lose anything.” Since then, Herrera said Wrobel has been a mentor to him, helping him navigate through some of the
things that will guide him post-graduation. He also said Wrobel is reaching out to everyone in his camp “family,” which is almost 500 people. “That’s just something, especially for a dean and someone who’s as busy as him, that you don’t really see a lot of people like that, taking the time out of their daily lives to just do things like that and reach out to people on that kind of individual basis,” he said. Though the College of Arts and Sciences has around 8,000 undergraduates and generates nearly 62 percent of the university’s credit hours, Wrobel said he wants students, faculty and staff to know he is accessible. “I’m working hard to remain a publishing scholar
and to remain a teacher, and you know, I’d like to think I’m a sort of scholar-teacher-administrator rather than (just) a faculty member or an administrator,” he said. LO O K I N G TO WA R D THE FUTURE Wrobel said he has many goals for the college, but they all surround one objective. “Some people would say, ‘You should only really focus on one thing,’ but all the things are interlinked,” he said. “I’d say it all revolves around, to one degree or another, the need to aspire to be the best possible public research university we can be.” This goal fits in with a wider initiative under the university’s new presidential administration. At a
press conference Aug. 16, President James Gallogly said OU needs to double its amount of research output because it is “about the only thing that keeps us from being an AAU-type institution.” Wrobel said he plans to advance this goal by finding more ways to engage undergraduates and graduates in hands-on research. Also, he said the college needs to be representative of the country and, to some extent, the globe. “We need to think about diversity and inclusion as pathways to excellence,” Wrobel said. Additionally, he said he would like to expand scholarships, especially needbased ones, for undergraduate and graduate students. The most difficult part of the job is that there are more good ideas than there is funding, he said. “One of the great challenges is that we simply don’t have the revenue to do everything that, in the best possible world, you would like to do,” he said. Wrobel said his favorite part of the job, however, is that he has gotten to learn about subjects, such as the natural sciences and the college’s professional programs, which are different from those he was familiar with. “To get a sense of that scale of the College of Arts and Sciences and the incredible connections that there are, and should be, between chemists and anthropologists and economists and historians and so on — that has been the real excitement,” he said. Hannah Pike
hmaepike@gmail.com
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NASA funds OU climate research Meteorology professor studies atmospheric change FRANCESCA MARINONI @FrancescaGMarin
An OU meteorology professor is using a grant he received from NASA to investigate how thunderstorms affect the atmosphere and global climate. Cameron Homeyer, an assistant professor in the School of Meteorology, received NASA’s Early Career Investigator Award, a threeyear $284,000 grant, in April. Homeyer and his team have been using this grant since June to research atmospheric changes caused by thunderstorms and how these changes affect other important characteristics of the planet and human life. “The research is focused on trying to understand how thunderstorms impact the composition of the atmosphere,” Homeyer said. “So, how they move air masses around and change
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Dr. Cameron R. Homeyer sits in his office in the National Weather Center Sept. 14. Homeyer received NASA’s Early Career Investigator Award in April.
the concentration of gases that we care about in terms of human health and climate, such as ozone, water vapor, even carbon dioxide.” Homeyer said processes like thunderstorms can move the air around, affecting the way the atmosphere absorbs and traps radiation from the sun. This in turn impacts the global climate, whether it’s getting warmer or cooler.
According to Homeyer, the main inputs of the study are radar observations of storms. It works by taking the locations of both storm areas and locations where there aren’t storms, putting little particles into a model and using observed atmospheric wind to drive and steer those particles around to figure out where they go three days downstream, Homeyer said.
Next, they look to see if there is a satellite observation nearby and look at those trace gas observations, comparing the particles that were initialized in storms to the ones put in regions that did not have storms, comparing the air masses, Homeyer said. “We also look at other processes that take place in the upper troposphere and lower troposphere. The
atmosphere has multiple layers — the layer that we live in is the troposphere, the layer immediately above that is the stratosphere,” Homeyer said. “The transport in storms is how they modify composition. Those modifications that are really important take place in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere, and that is where we are studying these changes.” Homeyer also has the help of a few students in his research group. Andrea Gordon, a meteorology and flute sophomore, said she reached out to Homeyer because of her interest in research. “I’m coding for some different models right now, and we are trying to look at the sensitivity between some different models for wind fields and how they impact storm trajectories,” Gordon said. Emily Tinney, a first-year graduate student in the meteorology school, also reached out to Homeyer and is now working in his
lab. “I am really interested in how climate and weather interact with each other, and that is a lot of what his research group is,” Tinney said. “That is a lot of what this project is, seeing how things like storms can impact something in a much bigger scale, which can, in turn, have an impact on overall climate.” Both Tinney and Gordon said their time in Homeyer’s lab has helped them grow in the area of research and they are excited to continue learning. “I have learned a lot in terms of coding and the academic side, but also how to approach research in general,” Gordon said. “On the research project, it is up to you to fix the problems. You can spend a day or two just figuring out the error, why it happened and what to do to fix it.” Francesca Marinoni francescag.marinoni@ ou.edu
Florence researchers return, share findings OU research team studies hurricane, improves learning DREW HUTCHINSON @drethegirl
A team of meteorology faculty and students returned after traveling to collect data from Hurricane Florence and working closely with national weather groups, according to a press release. The University of
Oklahoma Shared Mobile Atmospheric Research and Teaching Radar team set up a radar near Wilmington, North Carolina, to collect data on the storm. The collected data is expected to improve understanding of the physical processes that affect wind and rainfall in hurricanes, Michael Biggerstaff, SMART-R team leader and OU meteorology professor, said in the release. In a first-time occurence, OU radar data
was combined with the National Weather Service’s radar data to produce wind maps, according to the release. These maps were shared in real time with a local forecast office and a disaster impact assessment group. The radar data was shared quickly because of a partnership between AT&T, T h e We a t h e r C h a n n e l and OU, according to the release. Biggerstaff said the team worked closely with the National Severe Storms
Alford and OU master’s student Noah Brauer. The team observed and gathered data for more than 30 hours on the heavy flooding, loss of homes, power outages and wind gusts in the area, according to the press release. O U ’s r e s e a r c h t e a m collaborated with Texas Tech University and the University of Florida to gather data on w ind speeds. This research could help evaluate what kind of building codes
h u r r i c a n e -p ro n e a re a s need to mitigate damage, according to the press release. Drew Hutchinson
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