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Civil engineering major Kyler Norman plays his guitar and enjoys the warmer weather in the Unity Garden on the South Oval. Norman is expected to warm up over the weekend before dropping slightly during the middle of the second week of school.

Winter will return soon Absence of cold air mass raises temperature

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Joe Castiglione’s phone lit up as Ty Darlington addressed his fellow student-athletes and school administrators at Saturday’s first-ever NCAA autonomy session.

As Darlington spoke, the Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione had a slew of texts from fellow administrators, praising Darlington’s poise and leadership.

Castiglione couldn’t help but to be proud of the Sooner.

“His presentations today didn’t surprise me, but I did have to hide my pride a little bit,” Castiglione said. “I was kind of bursting over here.”

Darlington was one of 15 student-athletes, three from each Power Five conference, to vote on matters of autonomy for the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC. The inaugural autonomy session was historic in its own right, but equally momentous was student-athletes having voting rights in the Division I rules-making process.

“We finally got asked to be a part of it and now you see student-athletes step up and represent themselves,” Darlington said. “That’s going to have a great effect on the welfare of athletes for years to come.”

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Ruff said this early in winter there is still a lot that can change.

Snow is a possibility, Ruff said.

For information about the forecast of severe weather, visit For students who are curious if the cold weather is gone for the winter season, the shift in temperature is normal and win- the National Weather Service on their website. ter weather will be back by this Friday.

Gloria Noble, glorianoble@ou.edu Wayne Ruff, senior forecaster at the National Weather Service in Norman, said the warm weather can be attributed to the absence of a cold air mass.

Ruff said that shifts in temperature are normal due to natuSee More Online ral shifts of warmer and colder temperatures throughout the season.

Scan this QR code with your phone to go straight to the National As for the warmer weather sticking around, Ruff said that it Weather Service website, http:// just depends on whether the colder air masses will come back www.weather.gov. to the plains quickly or slowly.

The forecast for the rest of the week brings back highs in Follow the National Weather Service on twitter, @NWS the 50s for Tuesday and Wednesday, and highs in the 40s on Friday.

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A modern languages and literature professor granted his students a unique opportunity last semester: the chance to study an English translation of a medieval legend that only a handful of people in the world have ever read.

OU professor Joseph Sullivan is working to produce the first English translation of the story “Wigamur,” only the second modern language translation of the story following a 2009 version in modern German.

“Wigamur” is one of 15 Arthurian romances originally recorded in Middle High German during the Middle Ages, Sullivan said. While many of the more popular and academically-revered stories have already been translated — in some cases, multiple times — Sullivan chose to go after one of the lesser-known texts.

As a teacher of several German language and medieval culture classes, including medieval German culture, history of the German language, medieval literature and medieval Arthurian romance, Sullivan wanted to introduce his translation to his classes in order to feedback from his students, he said.

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After months of training and preparation, OU students will present their own original dance pieces at the School of Dance’s Young Choreographers’ Showcase this weekend.

The performance will feature two acts with five dances each. Each act includes a mix of dance styles ranging from classic to modern contemporary, dance senior Manuel Valdes said.

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A lot of the insights that they were going to have reading this are going to be insights that nobody else has ever had before” JOSEPH SULLIVAN, MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE PROGESSOR

He first incorporated the story into the curriculum of a graduate seminar focusing on Arthurian romance in the fall of 2013.

One of his students, Chelsea Epps, who now also teaches in the OU German program, was excited to read and discuss the new story.

“It was really fun to read it, because not many people know about the story.” Epps said. “I’d never read something that no one else has read before.”

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WIGAMUR: Original manuscript obscure, rare Continued from page 1 Epps said she could not wait to read the completed text and that hopes Sullivan continues to use it in his classes, especially since it demonstrated some of his out-of-class work.

“It was cool to see that professors actually do something besides grading our papers. They’re out there doing research.” Epps said.

After getting positive feedback from his graduate students, Sullivan felt that the story could fit into his larger undergraduate Arthurian legends and literature class.

“For that class I don’t want to give them anything that I know is going to be a dud, because a dud with 80 people is really, really bad.” Sullivan said. “It’s important to me … that I not only pick things that are good [and] worth doing, but ones that people are going to like.”

Sullivan included “Wigamur” this past fall at the end of his undergraduate class, when he felt the students had secured a tighter grasp on Arthurian characters and themes. Sullivan was also excited to use the translation in an undergraduate class because of the opportunity for them to spark original ideas, he said.

“A lot of the insights that they were going to have reading this are going to be insights that nobody else has ever had before,” Sullivan said. “The comments that they make as they’re reading this and in their discussions

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OU professor Joseph Sullivan sits at his office Monday afternoon.

Sullivan working to produce the first English translation of the story “Wigamur.”

in class — they’re all new ideas.”

While Sullivan is 98 percent done with the translation, he said it will not be until this spring that he has finished revisions and produces a completed copy, he said. The final version will be published, along with many other medieval translations, in D.S. Brewer’s “Arthurian Archives,” which will be released either later this year or early 2016.

Sullivan’s translation is being edited by Norris Lacy,

who Sullivan calls as the greatest living scholar of Arthurian literature and legends in the world.

“It’s intimidating too, I’d have to say,” Sullivan said after expressing his excitement to work with Lacy. “He’s very, very gentlemanly and very kind in his criticism.”

The reason why so few people have tried to translate “Wigamur” into modern languages is largely due to the poor quality and scarcity of the original, handwritten manuscripts, Sullivan said.

“It’s a real puzzle trying to figure out sometimes what the manuscript is trying to say because it just has lots and lots of mistakes and things that are hard to understand,” Sullivan said. “That kind of discouraged people from actually getting into it because it’s more work than if we had really good, firstrate manuscripts for it.”

Despite these difficulties, Sullivan found a system to piece together the translation. As the original documents are handwritten in Middle High German cursive, contain many abbreviations and leave out punctuation, the first step is transferring the original text into a workable document, Sullivan said.

Once a more readable version — which includes modern capitalization, punctuation and spelled-out abbreviations — is prepared, work can begin on actually translating the Middle High German into English.

The finished product will be published in facing-page volumes, which feature the original medieval language on one side and the English translation on the other, Sullivan said.

Sullivan said it was essential to go back to the original source in order to create a quality translation.

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DANCE: Only 10 out of 20 students accepted Continued from page 1 “Dance majors who wish to choreograph for the Young Choreographers’ Showcase create their works in the fall and they are seen in two adjudication performances,” said Mary Margaret Holt, professor and director of the School of Dance. “The work must be half-complete by the first adjudication and in the second adjudication we must see the complete works.”

Valdes said 20 students auditioned, but only 10 performances made it into the final show.

Students receive feedback from School of Dance faculty, Holt said. Seven faculty members adjudicate the submissions, and each students have faculty mentors who offer feedback during the rehearsal process.

Although the audition for dances is early in the fall semester, Valdes said he initially came up with his idea over the summer, knowing he wanted to choreograph this year. Valdes’ piece, “Into the Abyss,” is a mix of classical and modern dance that deals with escaping darkness and finding light.

“Working with the other dancers had to be my favorite part,” Valdes said. “We were always together and got really connected. I would also watch how they did a movement or interpreted a phrase and take in their ideas.”

Fellow dance senior Lindsey Hinchliffe created a contemporary ballet titled “Counterparts” that shows the need for a connection or relationship and how to achieve it.

Starting sophomore year, students are able to choreograph a piece, Hinchliffe said. No dancer can perform in more than two works and choreographers are only permitted to perform in one work, Holt said.

“I performed all three years and then this year I decided to go for it as a choreographer,” Hinchliffe said. “I’m proud I went out and did it. It’s my first serious time choreographing where people can see it. Hopefully they get what I was trying to get across, and if not that’s fine too.

Just enjoy it. Enjoy the art.”

“Everyone should come see it because it’s student-based,” Valdes said. “People can just sit back and watch something different and support their fellow students.”

The Young Choreographers’ Showcase is set for 8 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 22 through 24, and at 3 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25, in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center.

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Long-standing professor to hold annual music recital

Sooner Bassooners perform free concert

After 45 years at OU, Irvin Wagner still has a trombone performance every year

Chamber group lets students perform and have sense of community at OU

Kevin Jones, a music education senior, has been a member of the group for four years and enjoys the sense of community being involved with the Sooner Bassooners has created, he said.

Started in 1984 by Carl Rath, Ackmann took over as director CORT FISHER Life & Arts Reporter of the Sooner Bassooners three years ago. @cort_fisher A member under both directors, Jones still enjoys the music the Sooner Bassooners have created with Ackmann at The Sooner Bassooners will perform at 8 p.m. tonight in the lead.

“It’s turned into something different, but just as fun,” Jones Pitman Recital Hall.

This chamber group consists of 11 music and non-bas- said.

The free concert is open to the public. soon major students from all over the country, with Professor Rodney Ackmann directing the group.

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OU music professor Irvin Wagner will present a trombone recital at 8 p.m. tonight in Sharp Concert Hall.

Wagner has taught at the university for 45 years and, despite performing all around the world, performs a recital at the university every year.

Although Wagner is a founding member of the Oklahoma Brass Quintet, he will perform alone on Tuesday.

Each piece will have a different set of instruments accompanying Wagner. The pieces include: “Sonata à 3 for Two Violins and Trombone” by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, “Concertino” by Lars-Erik Larsson, “Sonata for Trombone and Piano” by Armand Russell and “Conversation for Trombone and Timpani” by Doug Bristol.

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President Barack Obama speaks Jan. 9, 2015 at Pellissippi State Community College, in Knoxville, Tennessee President Obama is turning to his biggest television audience of the year to pitch tax increases on the wealthiest Americans and put the new Republican Congress in the position of defending top income earners over the middle class.

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President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address to learn about political issues and form your own opinions.

President Barack Obama will give his sixth State of the Union address today, a speech highly anticipated by political participants on both sides of the aisle.

Regardless of your ideology, we believe it’s important to pay attention to politics and stay updated on our president’s future plans, which Obama outlines in each State of the Union address.

The theme of the 2015 State of the Union address is the middle class, from tax proposals to benefit middle-income Americans to the concept of free community college and bringing high-speed Internet to more citizens. Maybe you’ll agree with some, all or none of Obama’s future goals; either way, we believe it’s our duty as America’s future leaders to stay abreast of domestic policies.

Although many of Obama’s talking points were made public prior to his actual speech, we believe it’s important for Sooners to up their political participation today and watch the State of the Union address. Sure, you can read

bullet points online, but we feel it’s more valuable to watch Obama’s speech in full and draw your own conclusions.

Partisanship in America is worse than ever, and the State of the Union is no exception. Democrats will tout the speech as proof of Obama’s success in office and Republicans will use it as proof of the left’s subpar ideology. Of course, the speech is written to positively portray the president’s past efforts and future plans.

With that in mind, we urge OU students not to get caught up in the spin stories surrounding the State of the Union address and watch the speech for themselves.

Listening to the speech with a neutral mindset and critical ear is so much more valuable than merely adopting the stance of a partisan outlet. Fact-check the president’s statements on your own, develop independent opinions and discuss the state of the union with other students. Open-minded, smart discussion is how America will make progress, not by ingraining immovable viewpoints and ignoring opposing attitudes.

We also feel it’s critical for Sooners to get involved in politics so they don’t fall into the

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Oklahoma has seen some of the lowest voter turnout numbers in the country over the past few years, including ranking 49th in voter turnout for the 2012 federal election.

As college students, we’re only harming ourselves if we don’t Our View is become the majority educated opinion of The Daily’s ourselves seven-member about editorial board political issues and exercise our right to vote whenever possible.

It’s our responsibility to elect the officials we want in office because, like it or not, we will be dealing with the outcomes of politicians’ decisions, both large and

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Fortunately, you can take a simple step toward boosting your political IQ today by watching the State of the Union address. You can catch it at 8 p.m. on multiple websites, including whitehouse. gov, on local TV news stations or by following inevitable live-tweets on Twitter. We recommend using fact-checking websites like factcheck. org or politifact.com to test the validity of statements made during the address. Civic engagement is our duty, but to make that engagement valuable we must first be educated.

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CONFERENCE: Ty Darlington speaks against concussion safety proposal Continued from page 1 All in the room had the opportunity to weigh in on the proposals, and Darlington took advantage. Wearing a black suit and his signature shoulder-length hair, the Apopka, Florida native offered a personal anecdote about concussions.

“It’s a personal issue for me,” Darlington said as he began his presentation.

As a senior in high school, his brother Zack suffered a concussion, which knocked him unconscious and had to take a medical flight to the hospital. Now a freshman quarterback at Nebraska, he had to undergo speech therapy for a stuttering problem caused by the blow.

But Darlington was against Saturday’s concussion safety proposal — he said it didn’t go far enough. Other administrators, mostly from the Big 12, echoed a similar sentiment.

They felt the proposed legislation was murky and would give coaches a say in whether players could reenter the field of play. The conference asked for medical personnel to have full authority.

“It’ll look like a vote against it says you don’t care about athletes’ welfare,” he said to hundreds. “I would ask for everyone in this room to vote on it based on whether or not it JOE MUSSATTO/THE DAILY goes far enough for athletes. We can do better.”

NCAA convention in Maryland.

Though he garnered respectable support, the moto keep going,” Castiglione tion failed. The original said. “We made a lot of proposal passed 64-16. The progress but you can’t stop result didn’t go his or the here. There are steps we Big 12’s way, but Darlington took today that were long knew he did all he could. overdue.”

“This is a room full of Also long overdue, as “Historic, important steps were taken doctors, lawyers and very many noted, was the reptoday but we have to keep going... We learned people,” he said. resentation of student-ath“You’d think if you throw a made a lot of progress but you can’t stop letes taking part in voting group of 19- to-22-year-olds issues that directly affect here. There are steps we took today that on in here that they’re not going them. were long overdue.” to be up to par or adept in Not everything went his dealing with the language of way, but Darlington seemTY DARLINGTON, these proposals.” ingly captivated the crowd JUNIOR CENTER ON THE OU FOOTBALL TEAM The student-athletes were each time he spoke. His athup to par, and many of the letic director was proud of senior administrators took notice. Though Darlington was him and other administrators had taken notice of him, but one of the most vocal, nearly all of the 15 student delegates most evidently Darlington had pleased himself. spoke multiple times on a variety of issues.

“If I have kids one day, I’ll be able to tell them that I was “I thought it brought such energy,” Castiglione said. “It a part of that first group that got to have a student-athlete JOE MUSSATTO/THE DAILY was beautiful.” voice,” he said.

Ty Darlington attends last weekend’s NCAA Convention in Maryland.

“It’s really an experience that’s going to prepare them for life beyond athletics. They’re getting exposure that even some people in the business didn’t get until well into their Reach reporter Joe Mussatto at joseph.mussatto@scripps.

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