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Equality could come to Oklahoma OU alumna’s case rules Oklahoma’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional PAIGHTEN HARKINS Campus Editor @PaightenHarkins
An OU alumna and her partner won a battle Tuesday when a federal district judge ruled Oklahoma’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. Alumna Sharon Baldwin, class of 1992, and Mary Bishop have been fighting alongside Gay Phillips and Susan Barton to end the ban for almost 10 years, since November 2004. Judge Terence Kern ruled on the ban Tuesday afternoon. His ruling is stayed pending appeal, meaning couples still
can’t get married, Baldwin said. Kern concluded the band is unconstitutional because it denies a class of citizens equal rights, according to court documents. “Equal protection is at the very heart of our legal system and central to our consent to be governed. It is not a scarce commodity to be meted out begrudgingly or in short portions,” Kern said in the ruling. Kern’s ruling comes almost a month after a federal judge ruled Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, and Kern mentions the case in his ruling, according to court documents. Kasey Catlett, LGBTQ Programs graduate assistant for the Women’s Outreach Center, said he is surprised the ruling came so quickly.
“I was aware of the case, but I never thought it would happen so quickly. From a federal ruling perspective, I’m not surprised by the ruling,” he said. “From an Oklahoman perspective, I’m thrilled to see it moving forward.” Baldwin and Bishop filed their case so they could get married. “That’s the bottom line,” Baldwin said. Baldwin and Bishop wanted to get married and fight the ban on same-sex marriage not only so they could reap marriage benefits but so other same-sex couples could as well. Baldwin said she and Bishop weren’t fighting for a religious issue. Instead, they were fighting for a civil issue because the government issues marriage licenses. SEE RIGHTS PAGE 2
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Sooners go against the grain, get married More students deciding to marry before graduation MADELINE STEBBINS For The Daily
Molly Allen is packing. She takes posters off the walls of her Adams Center dorm room while her fiancé, Tyler Dettmann, sits on her sofa. Mid-November is an unusual time to be moving, but Allen is getting ready for the biggest change of her life so far: marriage. She and Dettmann got married Dec. 13, just 10 days after their one-year anniversary. Allen, now Dettmann, 22, and Tyler Dettmann, 23, went against the grain by marrying while she’s still in school — a move some couples make despite
pressure from parents and friends to wait until after graduation. Young people just aren’t getting married like they used to. According to a 2011 study by the Pew Research Center, marriages among people from 18 to 24 dropped 13 percent in just one year, from 2009 to 2010. This student-aged group had the largest decrease of all adults, according to the study. It’s not just students, though, marriage is declining in the U.S. across all age groups. In 1960, 59 percent of adults from 18 to 29 were married; today, it’s just 20 percent, according to the study. Compare that to adults of all ages. In 1960, 72 percent were married. Today, that number is down to 51 percent. The study attributes part of this decline to the rise in other living arrangements,
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such as cohabitation and single parenthood. Justin Westmoreland is the campus minister for Reformed University Fellowship and often works with young couples. He said some parents worry their children won’t focus on school if they marry before graduation. “They want to make sure you’re not going to quit,” Westmoreland said. “They want you to get the degree.” Westmoreland sees three options in college relationships. “I think it’s popular to just wait. Get out of school, go be single, go do something. Your second option, the ideal one, you finish college then you get married,” Westmoreland said. “The third, and I think least desirable, thing is getting married in college. It’s just not a SEE I DO PAGE 2
instein Bros. Bagels will open for business in Headington Hall on Feb. 3. The restaurant was confirmed in late September to move into one of the retail spaces at the bottom of Headington Hall, according to Daily archives. Headington Hall residents can use meal points at the new restaurant in addition to cash and credit cards, but not meal exchanges, to purchase meals, said Pete Moris, administrator of the Athletic Department. Non-resident students can use meal points, meal exchanges and cash or credit card to purchase meals, Moris said. Like the OU bookstore in Headington Hall, Einstein Bros. Bagels will have a main entrance facing Jenkins Avenue to accommodate Headington Hall residents and non-residents, Moris said. University College freshman Amber Davis is one OU student who is anticipating Einstein Bros. Bagels opening in February. “I think it’ll be awesome since it will be relatively close to the other dorms,” Davis said. “The closer it is, the better.” University College freshman Zac Meyer is excited to have more food options on campus. “I feel like it’ll be nice having an extra place to choose from where to eat at,” Meyer said. Einstein Bros. Bagels will serve coffee, muffins, sandwiches and bagels, according to requested documents. Caitlin Schachter caitlinschachter@yahoo.com
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Rights: Ruling gives same-sex couples potential to have ‘married’ benefits Continued from page 1 “It’s just unconscionable for us that the government would treat some of its citizens different from others,” she said. Social security benefits, tax benefits and not being forced to testify against their partner in court are some of the privileges married couples get that same-sex couples can’t, Baldwin said. With this ruling, same-sex couples are closer to receiving those benefits — although they can’t get married yet. Baldwin expects the state will appeal the ruling but is optimistic it will be upheld because of the precedent other judges across the country have set. “It’s been a long time since there’s been a negative ruling against the same-sex marriage proponents in any jurisdiction anywhere,” Baldwin said. “So we feel really confident and optimistic things are going to turn out well. Baldwin didn’t know Kern would rule on the case today, so the decision came as a surprise to her. “It’s just been someday it’s going to happen and today was the day,” she said. After years of fighting, Baldwin said she was excited for the ruling, for not just herself but for all the same-sex couples in Oklahoma. Almost 10 years ago, Baldwin said she and Bishop were sitting around waiting for another couple to challenge the ban before they finally decided to stand up and challenge it themselves. “We’re so happy to see movement. That’s the upshot of this: We’re finally moving again,” Baldwin said. The couple plans to celebrate the ruling tonight at a party put on by the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center in Tulsa. Paighten Harinks paighten.harkins@ou.edu
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Gay Phillips (left), her partner Sue Barton, and Mary Bishop and her partner Sharon Baldwin have a champagne toast during a celebration at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center in Tulsa, taken Tuesday following U.S. Senior District Judge Terence Kern’s ruling that Oklahoma’s ban on marriage equality is unconstitutional.
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Continued from page 1 popular thing.” Brooke Madden, now 21 years old, was a sophomore when she married her husband, Kristopher, just two months before she turned 20. She was hesitant when he first proposed, she said, because she didn’t know how it would affect her college experience. “I was kind of iffy about it at first,” Madden said. “I said, ‘Give me a year to experience college on my own.’” Ma d d e n l i v e d i n t h e dorms, joined a sorority and bought a house her freshman year. Not exactly the typical freshman experience, but it gave her enough of a taste that she gave up her freedom for married life in September of her sophomore year. If she weren’t married now, she would probably be more into school, Madden said. But marriage hasn’t made her eager to finish school. She just applied to a master’s program and is interested in earning her doctorate. While she studies, her husband works and supports her. Westmoreland said it may seem counterintuitive, but being married can help a student succeed. “You get your best friend living with you to keep you accountable for doing your homework and studying,” Westmoreland said. “It ends up structuring your time a lot better than a typical student would be doing.” As their choice becomes increasingly less popular, many college spouses face the same question: why? These couples’ responses? That’s easy. Why not? There are practical reasons to get married now, of course. Molly Dettmann found a part-time job related to her future career and could no longer live on campus and work as a Resident Adviser for OU. Tyler Dettmann cites the amount he spends on rent and on gas, driving back and forth to visit her. “We wanted to wait until the end of school, but it just worked out better this way,”
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CAmpus Briefs Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education present legislative agenda The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education met to present their 2014 legislative agenda, which outlined the regents’ plan for the spring semester. Glen Johnson, chancellor for the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, gave a presentation titled Higher Education: Oklahoma’s Road to Jobs and Prosperity at OU’s Tulsa campus Monday. In the presentation, Johnson said the regents would focus on improving campus security, as well as maximizing college attendance and retention in Oklahoma. As well, Johnson said only 23.8 percent of Oklahomans 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree, compared to 29.1 percent of the rest of the country. With 90 percent of the nation’s fastest-growing jobs requiring some kind of higher education, Oklahoma’s low rate means higher college attendance and retention is essential to keeping Oklahoma competitive, Johnson said. Mike Brestovansky, Campus Reporter
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Molly Allen — now Dettmann — and Tyler Dettmann take a break from moving out of Allen’s dorm room at OU. They joined a minority of married students on Dec. 13.
Molly Dettmann said. and works at Alcott Middle in their mar r iages, but Madden and her hus- School in Norman, while Westmoreland thinks there band were planning on liv- Molly Dettmann still has one are advantages to marrying ing together while she was in semester to go. young. school, whether or not they “If you’re 35 or 40, and you “We wouldn’t be getting got married. married if he were still in col- haven’t gotten married yet, Westmoreland sees a mo- lege,” she said. you’re so caught up in your tivation that doesn’t involve Westmoreland has mar- own life,” Westmoreland practical concerns. ried five couples, all involving said. “Introducing another “If you’ve decided this is at least one student spouse. person into your existence is the person you want to com- He’s been asked to officiate a lot more of a shock.” mit to forever, why wait?” he two more next summer. College students are used said. “You’re just “I wouldn’t change anything about the way we’ve prolonging your a g o n y t o h o l d done everything. I think when you know, you know, off on getting so why put it off?” married.” That was a Tyler Dettmann common thread with these couples. Even When he works with a cou- to living with other people though all of them easily ple, he goes through a five and sharing their space with could have waited to marry or six week counseling pro- others. and continued to date, they gram to help them prepare Westmoreland thinks this decided to go ahead with it. for married life. Preparation lifestyle makes it easier to “I wouldn’t change any- can only do so much, though. begin living with a spouse, as thing about the way we’ve “I worked with a minis- opposed to an older couple done ever ything,” Tyler ter who thought premarital who have been living on their Dettmann said. “I think counseling was worthless, own for a decade or more. For Madden, married life when you know, you know, because, one, the couples so why put it off?” aren’t listening, and two, at this age is something she There’s another thing these they don’t have the experi- wouldn’t trade. couples have in common. In ence to ask good questions,” “We’re young, and we’re both relationships, the man Westmoreland said. p o o r,” Ma d d e n sa i d . “ I is older and is finished with Westmoreland tries to re- wouldn’t take that away for school. In Madden’s case, connect with couples he’s the world.” her husband finished school counseled a few months after when she was a senior in high the wedding to check in and school. talk through issues they’ve Madeline Stebbins madelinestebbins@ou.edu Tyler Dettmann grad- faced. uated in December 2012 All couples have problems
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More lanes on Lindsey will create bottleneck businesses around Norman on game dayss, those interchange reconstruction, according to the conday traffic problem in Norman, and the city should ceptual plan. businesses may have to close for the day. If that’s instead bus fans from rented parking lots. the case, the city could agree to reimburse business The plan states the construction will be done in tandem so that “motorists, merchants and citizens owners for their projected Saturday earnings on a home game day and then co-opt city Game-day traffic is a problem in Norman during will see construction in this corridor buses to transport fans to droponly one time.” the football season every year. At a university of off points by the stadium. Just Sure, we will only have to over 30,000 students with one of the most storied, as there is a fee to take the deal with major construcbeloved football programs in the country, traffic is Lloyd Noble shuttles on tion on Lindsey one inevitable. game dayss, the city time, but it will be The Norman City Council proposed and adoptcould charge a fee to one hell of a time. ed a plan in 2012 to expand Lindsey Street to four park in the lots, say Everyone will have lanes, and in some spots five lanes, with an addi$5, $10, thereby to deal with clotional turn lane at traffic signals. The expansion minimizing the from Interstate-35 to Berry Road in an effort to alle- sures and delays cost to rent the viate the clogged streets that plague the city during as Lindsey Street lots. is widened, and each home game, according to the city’s website. Diverting the people traveling While it is admirable that our council members rectraffic problem south to Norman ognize the need to reduce traffic, roadway expandown the road will have to deal sion is more of a Band-Aid than a cure. is not a soluwith the interWe believe the city of Norman should use the tion. The city of change construcfunds allotted to expand Lindsey to Norman should tion as well. buy or rent parking lots in the city The Our View use its existing reThe proposed and then bus fans to the stadium. is the majority timeline from 2015 sources to manage The game-day traffic problem opinion of an age-old problem through 2016 means does not end after the cars get into The Daily’s instead of ripping up the city; in fact, even more headeight-member that we will have to sufthe roadway and assuming aches arise when trying to find editorial board fer normal game-day traffic more lanes will translate into less compounded by major construcparking for those thousands of cars. traffic. tion on the most popular The planned Lindsey Street conBENNETT HALL/THE DAILY road into Norman. Oh, struction is slated to run from 2015 through 2016, Students walk and bike across Lindsey Street to and from class. Comment on this at according to the city of Norman’s conceptual plan. what happy days those Construction is currently underway to make Lindsey Street wider to Theoretically, expanding Lindsey Street will allow are sure to be. ease traffic. OUDaily.com We feel Norman offimore vehicles to exit I-35 and enter the city more quickly. However, making the street four lanes wide cials should explore the prospect of buying or rentwith a fifth turn lane at traffic lights will only create a ing local parking lots during the football season as massive bottleneck effect after cars reach the Berry an alternative to road expansion. The construction project will cost an estimated Road intersection where Lindsey will go down to $29 million, with $11.5 million coming from federal two lanes. Expanding Lindsey will not fix the traffic problem; funding, according to the conceptual plan. Why not use some of that money to instead conit will just move the epicenter of congestion further tract with local business owners to use their parking Do you agree with the plan to expand down the road. In fact, students, or anyone wanting lots six Saturdays a year? There are not many open to get into Norman off of I-35, will have a maddenLindsey Street to four lanes? ing time during the proposed construction because areas to build new lots in Norman and those giant slabs of concrete are not aesthetically pleasing. the Lindsey Street expansion is designed to take To cast your vote, log on to In order for the city to use the parking lots of place at the same time as the I-35/Lindsey Street Our View: Lindsey Street will not solve the game-
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committed yet another deception with his offer “to engage immediately in time-bound and result-oriented talks.” The subsequent negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 resulted in little more than a temporary deceleration of Iran’s Corbin Brown nuclear program. The latter brown.corbin.h@ou.edu nation is still able to enrich owever banal uranium and maintain facilthe phrase “wolf ities that could, with some in sheep’s clotheffort, be used in the proing” may be, it accurately duction of nuclear weapons. describes Iran’s president, Israel’s president, Benjamin Hassan Rouhani. Far from Netanyahu, is understandthe “moderate” that some ably mortified by the terms claim him to be, Rouhani of this agreement, which he is yet another aggressivecalled a “historic mistake.” ly anti-Western pawn of Rouhani has certainthe Iranian regime, à la ly been open concerning Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. his hatred toward Israel. One can easily find eviFollowing his attendance dence of Rouhani’s calcuat a pro-Palestine rally in lated deceptions. During an August, Rouhani told reinterview on Iranian state porters that the “Zionist television, Rouhani boasted regime has been a wound about how he, as Iran’s chief on the body of the Islamic nuclear negotiator at the world for years and the time, defied a 2004 agreewound should be removed.” ment with the International The Islamic Society of North Atomic Energy Agency. The America, which reported terms of this agreement Rouhani’s remarks, later called for Iran to “suspend edited their translation to all uranium enrichment exclude his call for Israel’s and reprocessing activremoval. Rouhani’s anti-Isities.” In response to the rael sentiments remain, interviewer’s claim that regardless of whether or not Iran stopped its nuclear he explicitly called for the activities as a result of this destruction of that nation. agreement, Rouhani stated, Like previous Iranian “We halted the nuclear pro- presidents, Rouhani is a gram? We were the ones to puppet of the Ayatollah. complete it.” Iran’s supreme leader, not In a Sep. 24 speech at the the president, has the power United Nations, Rouhani to make declarations of war
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wholly destroyed by these circumstances. Our political leaders’ apparently credulous natures may have fatal consequences. Trusting Rouhani, who is open concerning his desire for a nuclear Iran, will allow that country to increase its influence in the Middle East. A healthy skepticism in diplomatic engagements, while certainly off-putting to some nations, will allow the U.S. government to accurately assess their motives and conditions. An optimism bordering on gullibility, such as that demonstrated by the P5+1 in their negotiations with Iran, will only further destabilize the Middle East. Rouhani, like his predecessors, is primarily a puppet of the Iranian reASSOCIATED PRESS gime, and to argue otherThe official photo of the seventh president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani. Rouhani assumed office on Aug. 3 wise would be to disregard after the 2013 Iranian presidential election. that government’s policies. The president’s status as a and peace and to command elections. In order to remain stranglehold on the elec“moderate” among some and mobilize the armed commentators is wishful on the ballot, presidential toral process, the pool of forces. The supreme leader candidates must, in the eyes presidential candidates was thinking at its most danis given sweeping powers gerous, given his relatively of the Guardian Council, a reduced from 678 to just by the nation’s constitu12-member body appointed eight. Two more candidates transparent nuclear ambition, which states that he is tions and concurrent deby the supreme leader, have would later exit the race. responsible for the delinceptions. In all diplomatic a “firm belief in Islam” and That this vetting process eation and supervision of relationships, we must a “good reputation based on is, at the very least, greatly the “general policies of the judge foreign leaders on trustworthiness and piety.” influenced by the supreme Islamic Republic of Iran.” In addition to these more eader’s own political desires their actions, rather than Rouhani’s position as an their words. theocratic stipulations, can- cannot be doubted. The instrument of the regime didates are also required sole benefit of this process is similarly demonstrated to be religious or political is the conspicuousness of by current supreme leader Corbin Brown is a University figures, hold Iranian citithe Iranian government’s Ayatollah Khamenei’s con- zenship and be of Iranian College freshman. inherent corruption. The stitutionally granted power origin. possibility of a democratto dominate presidential As a result of Khamenei’s ically elected candidate is
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Erin Engelke graduated from Oklahoma Christian University and decided she would never leave Oklahoma. Through her job at Feed the Children, she learned she wanted to make a difference. Engelke will speak at TEDxOU about balancing work life with being a parent. Q: Why are you speaking at this event? A: I was incredibly honored to be asked to speak at the TEDxOU program this year and am excited to share my perspectives on a topic I am passionate about : supporting work/life balance for working moms and dads.
As a working mom myself for nearly nine years, it’s a topic that hits close to home for me and is one that is rarely discussed. Q: When speaking, what topics will you focus on covering? A: My presentation will speak directly to the challenges faced by working moms, the pressure to achieve perfe ction and do it all. I’ll be questioning the viability of balance, at all, and sharing personal experiences of the challenges I’ve faced in answering this question for myself.
day that’s the same, and (that’s) precisely why I love my job! I oversee a team of 10 staff (members) and am responsible for managing the image and reputation for Feed The Children, one of the nation’s largest nonprofits. I oversee branding, media relations, internal and external communications, public relations campaigns, advertising, events and social media. In addition to serving as the organization’s [spokeswoman], I have the honor of traveling to visit our domestic and international programs.
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Q: Why do you like TEDxOU? A: I fully support any opportunities to give our local community the opportunity to showcase the talent that exists right in our own backyards, and TEDxOU is the perfect outQ: What daily duties are let to allow that to happen. required of your job? A: One of the aspects of Q: What are some of your my role is that there is no favorite things about the Q: Where are you from? A: I was raised in a small country town in Idaho and moved to Oklahoma 18 years ago to attend college. I loved this state so much that I never left!
TED talks? A: The TED talks exemplify what makes our world so great : that we’re inspired by creative, forward thinking individuals who both want to make a difference and who are making a difference. Q: Have you watched any TED talk programs online? A: I absolutely have and value the platform TED talks give individuals of all walks of life to encourage a different way of thinking ... to challenge and inspire. Q: What are some of your favorite TED talks? A: Because of my TE DxOU platform and because it’s a topic that I’m incredibly passionate about, one of my favorite TED talks came from Sheryl Sandberg, where she discussed the role of women in the workplace and the need for increased equality between men and women. Michelle Johnston michelle.johnston-1@ou.edu
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Progressive motion will get you where you want to go in the coming months. Expect emotional issues to be brought out into the open. Clear up any matter that is keeping you from getting what you want. Use emotional tactics to win personal battles.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Keep everything out in the open so you can deal with issues as they arise. You must clear up any misunderstandings with alacrity. Turn a negative into an opportunity.
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be tempted by an offer that may not be legitimate or that is based on hearsay rather than facts. Step back before you suffer a loss. CANCER (June 21-July 22) -Relationships, partnerships and mingling with people who share your interests and concerns will bring about unusual and exciting opportunities. Love is on the line, and romance will seal the deal. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Watch your back today, especially when dealing with financial, legal or medical issues. Take some time to confabulate with trusted allies before taking a chance on someone or something you know too little about. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Your suggestions will be well-received. Do your best to help out, but don’t let anyone take you for granted. Friendships will grow, and people from your past will reappear.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Take a chance and try something unique. Offer help and look for ways to utilize what you have to offer in more diverse ways. Romance will lead to happiness.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Stay calm and rely on your knowledge and ability to deliver information with intelligence and passion. Don’t allow anger or emotional tension to come between you and your goals.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Avoid altercations. Partnership problems will escalate if you aren’t willing to compromise. A common-sense approach to work and money will pay off. Keep your life simple.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Enjoy the moment, take part in unique activities and develop relationships that will be of use to you in the future. Alterations to your living arrangements will be comforting.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Take a chance, and present what you have to offer. Showing your skills and expertise will be far more effective than talking about them. Actions speak louder than words.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Keep an eye on your personal papers and concerns. Be prepared to make a sudden and unexpected move should anyone stand between you and your goals. Protect your assets.
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Megan Deaton, life & arts editor Tony Beaulieu, assistant editor dailyent@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666 oudaily.com/life&arts • Twitter: @OUDailyArts
The seven DEADLY sins of OU TONY BEAULIEU • Life & Arts Editor • @tonybe787
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f you’ve ever passed a preacher along the South Oval, you know that we’re all going to hell. Fornicators, masturbators, boozers and partiers abound in this lush landscape we call higher education. This article is your handy guide to the seven deadly sins around OU. Use it to avoid, or direct, yourself toward the hottest places on campus that will lead to your eternal damnation. Heaven always sounded boring to us, anyway.
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Oklahoma Memorial Stadium: As the great Hunter S. Thompson wrote right
before killing himself, “Football season is over.” We can’t really blame him; without football games, all we have to look forward to every weekend are studying, bacchanalian parties and anonymous sex. Yet every year we make do with other sports, getting by on news from the baseball and basketball teams. But let’s be honest, it’s just to whittle away the time as we count the days until the beginning of the next football season. The football squad will always be something Sooners take pride in. This may be the Bible belt, but remember that when Oklahomans go to church on Sunday morning, they’re usually coming from the Sooners’ game on Saturday. We also have a strong feeling that the number of prayers made in Oklahoma is directly proportional to the formidability of the team the Sooners are playing that weekend.
The Dorms: This mostly pertains to first year Sooners, but many students who aren’t freshmen still opt to live in the dorms. Guess they can’t tear themselves away from the sweet smell and cramped living spaces — hole in the wall, sweet hole in the wall. The lure of the dorms has forced many a first-year student to drop out. Why go to class when you can stay snuggled up in half a twin-sized bed with your boo? Lie around all day and watch Netflix, or feed that growing testament to Sloth called the “Freshman 15” with some nice junk food sent from home in the latest care package. We recommend “Breaking Bad” paired with some nice Cherry Twizzlers and a liter of Code Red Mountain Dew. College is hard work, but at the end of the day, nothing’s more American than sitting on your ass and doing nothing.
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Campus Corner: On most college students’ list of priorities, food is listed somewhere between booze and studying. Grab a giant burrito at Fuzzy’s, a giant slice of pizza at New York Pizza or — if Asian is more your thing — a giant plate of noodles at Tea Café. Notice a pattern here? If you’re hungry for it, there’s likely a restaurant on campus corner that serves it in generous portions. No, we don’t really need five sandwich shops on one block, but we want them. And isn’t that what gluttony is all about, anyway? Want over everything else. Campus Corner also satisfies your material wants with a string of boutiques and shopping locations. So go stuff yourself with five-layer nachos, and buy that dress in the window of Vanity’s, just remember to get a size larger than usual.
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Sugers: I once overheard three guys waiting outside The Deli talking about buying a hooker later that night at Sugers. All three wanted in but could only afford one, so they struck a gentleman’s deal that whoever popped first would foot the bill. Sugers is the lure of candy-colored sex, distilled into its nastiest form. Have a drink or two across the street at O’Connell’s before your midnight rendezvous, it’ll make the girls look better.
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The Bursar’s Office: You didn’t think we were only going to mention sins committed by students did you? The Bursar’s Office is where we open our checkbooks and genuflect at the altar of money. Once semesterly, the great and powerful Bursar demands a sacrifice to the pagan Board of Regents, known as tuition. And all must pay, if not in money, than with the blood of your first-born son. In other words, the Bursar is the vacuum OU uses to suck money out of your and your parent’s pockets. Five hundred Headington Hall: I mean, have dollars for three hours of tennis? I wouldn’t pay that much you guys been to Headington yet? It’s a palace. The new for a Phys. Ed. credit from Harvard. athletic dorms are not only nicer than the aforementioned hole-in-the-wall, commoner-peasant residence halls, they’re also nicer than pretty much any other building at OU. Yet simply calling them “nice” is such an understatement, Headington is resplendent, luxurious, opulent, even Parking Lots (all of them): palatial. We’d bet that even President David Boren is jealous Nothing is quite as frustrating as losing an open parking space of the students who get to live there. Good news is, even though you don’t get to live in the lap at the last second to some douchebag. What’s worse is then being forced to park somewhere where the university will of luxury, you won’t ever have the horrifying experience of ticket you. A last-minute parking decision is usually the dif- moving out of Headington into some low rent apartment. ference between getting to class in the nick of time and an un- Nope, for us regular folk, hopping from one mediocre living excused absence (and you only have one of those left!). So, space to another is just a way of life. maybe you made it to class on time, but the parking office left you a present in a little yellow envelope on your windshield. Taking a key to the door of the idiot who stole your spot is forgivable, but going postal at the parking office would definitely result in expulsion, or maybe just more fines. Essentially, there’s no way to win, but sooner or later the parking situation at OU is going to incur your wrath. That $25 dollar ticket means two meals to a college student — but hey, you shouldn’t have parked near a curb for less than an hour, punk.
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hen people think about OU, they think about tradition— mainly football tradition. But what many Sooner fans don’t know is the football team is not the most decorated program on campus. OU men’s and women’s gymnastics teams are among the top programs in the nation year after year. The women have won 11 conference championships, and the men’s team has won 20 conference titles and eight National Championships, along with having 240 AllAmerican team members. The Sooners are also home to seven Nissen-Emery Award winners — the equivalent to the Heisman Trophy in men’s gymnastics. So, if you haven’t ventured to Lloyd Noble Center on a Friday night to watch the girls or McCasland Fieldhouse on a Saturday night to watch the guys, you are truly missing out on two of the most majestic events to ever grace OU’s campus. Maybe you don’t want to go because you don’t know anything about gymnastics or you can’t tell the difference between what the girls do and what the guys do. Lucky for you, that’s where I come in.
men’s Gymnastics
four events beam
six events vault
Vault is the same for men as it is for women. The tricks they do may be different, but it works the same way.
The balance beam is a women’s only event. Once you watch a girl accidentally slip and straddle the beam, you’ll understand why guys don’t compete on it too. The beam is approximately 3 feet off the ground and 4 inches wide. The gymnasts must tumble, turn, leap and jump on the beam without losing their balance or falling off.
floor This includes tumbling (read: “the cool flippy stuff ”) and is part of both the men and women’s floor routines. The main difference is that the women use music to accompany their routines,where they dance and tumble along to the beat. Oklahoma is known for its choreography nationwide.
bars This apparatus is made up of two bars, parallel to one another, with one being than the other. The gymnast must swing around the bar and move back and forth from the low bar and high bar to create a fluid and skilled routine. This event requires quite a bit of strength and core control from the athlete.
parallel Bars While women have uneven bars to compete on, the men have two events that include bars. The parallel bars are even in height and placed side by side. The high bar is a single metal bar that sits approximately 9 feet in the air.
Pommel horse
vault If you enjoy watching someone run full speed at a stationary object with the goal of launching themselves off of a spring filled contraption, flipping 8 feet in the air and then landing on the other side, vault is the event for you. Though this event lasts less than 30 seconds, it requires a lot of explosive power and body control from the athlete.
We talked about why men don’t compete on balance beam, but they do have its counter-part. Just as beam is a mental event for women, pommel horse can be a mental event for the men. This event is made up from a leather-lined cylinder that is approximately 5 feet long and 1 foot wide with two wooden handles screwed into the center.
floor Floor exercise for men is similar to women’s gymnastics. The biggest difference is that the men do not tumble to music. Their event consists less of choreography and more on power tumbling passes.
high Bar The other men’s event requiring a bar is high bar, which is a single metal bar that sits about nine feet in the air that gymnasts do different tricks on, similarly to women’s gymnastics.
Rings
Two wooden rings are suspended on wire cables, and the athletes must perform a routine showcasing their skills and strength moves. Since the rings are free hanging, sturdy core and muscle control is necessary aswell. The goal is to perform the whole routine with as little movement from the rings as possible (hence the name “still” rings).
Scoring Men’s and women’s gymnastics are scored differently. The women are scored on a 10 point scale. Routines have specific start values and lose tenths of points for mistakes. Once deductions are taken from the original start value, the final score is established. When more than one judge is scoring an event, the score is found by averaging the judges’ scores together. To get a total score in women’s competitions, six athletes compete on each event, and the top five scores are added together to create the event total. All four event totals are added together to make the final team score. The men use a newer form of scoring which is extremely similar to the scoring system used at the elite and international
levels. Each athlete’s routine has a numerical value of difficulty depending on how hard the skills within their routine are, and how many skills are in the routine. This score is then added to a separate score that is based on their execution of the skills. The combination of the two results in a final score for the gymnast. During men’s competitions, five athletes compete, and all five scores are calculated together to make the event total. All six event totals are added together to form the final score. This style of team scoring leaves little room for error and puts pressure on the gymnasts to perform perfectly and consistently at each competition.
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