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COMPETITION
Tragedy graces stage
Entrepreneurs to duke it out in business event
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Four students team up to take on entrepreneurship project, ‘The Boom’ ALI HAUSNER
Campus Reporter
Student entrepreneurs are representing the school in a competition between other universities by trying to gain more financial support for their product. David Rainwater, entrepreneurship, marketing and supply chain management junior, is the president of the student based
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company, Case In Point — which is representing OU in a competition against student entrepreneurs at other universities. Case In Point is made up of four OU students. Besides Rainwater, photography sophomore Kelsey Higley is the company’s lead media artist, computer engineering junior Dylan Lawbaugh is the lead product engineer and entrepreneur and finance sophomore Jeff Bissinger is the lead resource manager. The competition, The Fall Classic, lasts 30 days and is what Rainwater describes it as a “battle-of-theentrepreneurs.” The competition is through the crowd-funding platform Ufunded. The competition challenges student companies to gain funding for their projects through crowd funding. Student companies post videos, set funding goals and time limits and work to encourage people to pledge money in
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Top: The cast of “Iphigenie En Tauride” celebrate during Act IV The Altar in rehearsal at Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center Tuesday. Oreste (top right) is prepared for sacrifice when his sister, Iphiigenie (top left) recognizes him as her brother. “Iphigenie En Tauride” opens Oct. 17-19. Left: Oreste (left), played by William Browning, sacrifices himself for his comrade, Pylade (right), played by Jonathan Murphy, during Act III Iphigenie’s Chamber in rehearsal at Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center on Tuesday.
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SOONER ALLY
FEARS LECTURES
Awareness group adds training session
‘Freedom in America’ lecture course by Rufus Fears to be released by OU institute for constitutional heritage
Proper training is important INDIA MAXWELL Campus Reporter
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Emma Newberry-Davis (left), women and gender studies senior , and Abby Skinner, environmental sustainability junior, share cartoon pictures Wednesday in Oklahoma Memorial Union.
Increased student interest in OU’s Sooner Ally program has forced the Women’s Outreach Center to add an additional training session in November for students who want to learn how to reach out and connect with the LGBT student community. The sessions always fill up, but this is the first time that the program needed to add another session to meet student demand, Sooner Ally spokeswoman Kasey Catlett said. The Sooner Ally program was established four years
ago with the purpose of connecting LGBT students with the faculty and other students on campus, Catlett said. Students who participate in the program work to create an accepting environment on campus. “The goal of the Sooner Alley program is to build a more inclusive campus community and to give LGBTQ students resources and support,” Catlett said. “We do this through education and awareness.” There are around 500 Sooner Allies up to date and membership is growing, Catlett said. There are also Faculty Allies and Greek Allies, which are tasked with helping LGBT students in the classroom and the Greek see ALLY page 2
STORY LABEL
OU battles OSU in cyber security bout ‘Bedlam battle’ to be held in October
The institute for the american constitutional heritage at ou will release a lecture course by the late J. rufus Fears this Thursday. in his 18-lecture course, “The story of Freedom in america,” Fears explores american freedom from the revolutionary War to the present, according to an ou press release. each lecture is around 30 minutes long and focuses on a particular point in history, like a specific presidency or a time period such as the great Depression, said rachelle Barteau, the institute’s marketing and public relations specialist. The lecture series will be part of the institute’s “He will always be civic education outreach remembered at the program, freedom. University of Oklahoma, ou.edu, in which it will where he leaves such an be free and open to the public. important legacy.” in his 22-year career at DAVID BOREN, ou, Fears won professor OU PRESIDENT of the year three times. he passed away oct. 6, shortly after he completed filming “The story of Freedom in america,” according to the press release. “When we taped these lectures, we knew that it was a special opportunity, said Kyle harper, the institute’s director, in a letter that will be sent to ou alumni Thursday. “little could we have known that these would be the final lectures of such a great teacher.” This lecture series was Fears’ final gift to the university, president David Boren said in a press release. “he will always be remembered at the university of oklahoma, where he leaves such an important legacy,” Boren said.
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OU and OSU have collaborated to create a cyber security competition for Cyber Security Awareness Month during October. Each week in October, the two schools’ information technology departments are sending out computer safety bulletins to all students, faculty and staff at OU and OSU, according to an email from the IT HelpDesk Norman. Each bulletin contains security tips in text and a link to an informative security video. The winner of the “Bedlam Battle” will be determined by the number of faculty, staff and students who read the informative emails and watch each week’s video, according to the email. At the end of the three-week period, the school with the largest percentage of video views will win. The tips include relevant information about how to stay safe online,
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such as using strong passwords and not responding to bogus emails, said Courtney Kneifl, public relations specialist for OU Information Technology. “Simple things that don’t really take any time to do that will help with having a secure computing experience,” Kneifl said.
The first email advised its recipients to always install software and system updates whenever their computers remind them, according the OU IT HelpDesk Updating systems protects users from hackers exploiting their see BOUT page 2
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Sooners look to continue undefeated fall SPORTS: The oklahoma softball team will play Butler (Kan.) community college at 6 p.m. at Marita hynes Field in norman. (Page 7)
Alumna lives happily ever after L&A: a former ou student blogs about her real-life love story that has reached a happy ending after a long time coming. (Page 5)
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ToDay arounD caMpus A book sale will be held from 10 a.m .to 4 p.m. on the south side of the Bizzell Memorial library’s neustadt Wing. Thousands of books ranging from best sellers to foreign language books will be offered. Bingo will be held by union programming Board from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in oklahoma Memorial union’s crossroads lounge. A Student Success Series seminar titled “get ready to enroll” will be held from 3 to 4 p.m. in lissa and cy Wagner hall, room 245. A workshop titled “how to Worth the JMc career Fair” presented by marketing communications agency saxum will be held from 3 to 4 p.m. in gaylord hall’s hall of Fame room. students will learn how to express strengths and make a good first impression during a career fair. The softball team will play Butler community college at 5 p.m. at Marita hynes Field. A lecture titled “Matt stock lost in liège: Belgian Trumpet contest pieces” part of the norton lecture series will be held from 5 to 6 p.m. in catlett Music center, room 131.
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favor of their product. The product Case In Point is presenting in The Fall Classic is called “The Boom.” “The Boom is an iPhone case that acts as a portable boom box,” said Rainwater. The product has speakers and a battery embedded into it. It serves not only as a case and speaker system, but also increases battery life, Rainwater said. “We are trying to show that there is unmet potential in devices we use everyday,” said Dylan Lawbaugh, lead product engineer. Case in Point has a goal of getting people to pledge $12,000 to The Boom by Dec. 1. Rainwater said the initial goal was lower, but it increased with the release of the iPhone 5 in September — which also caused the team to completely redesign their product. When people pledge money for support, they receive predetermined rewards. For example, if you donate $45 to Case In Point, you will receive a Boom, according to their website. If the product entered into the competition does not earn the amount budgeted by the end of their time limit, the team will not receive the money that has been pledged to their product. “It’s all or nothing,” said Rainwater. Case in Point only had about two weeks to get everything ready for this competition, Rainwater said. Each one of the competitors had to go through an entrepreneur’s organization. The Collegiate Entrepreneur
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David Rainwater, Entrepreneurship, marketing and supply chain management junior works on his case in point company Monday, at Price College of Business.
“We are trying to show that there is unmet potential in devices we use everyday.” DYLAN LAWBAUGH, LEAD PRODUCT ENGINEER
Organization has supported Case in Point in this competition. There are two other universities competing in the Fall Classic: the University of Nebraska and Ohio State University. The University of Nebraska’s product is a foundation serving families with cancer, according
ALLY: Fall sessions full, Enroll for spring sessions Continued from page 1 community respectively. Students must participate in a three-hour training session to become an Ally, Catlett said. The training sessions address how to reduce prejudice against LGBT students, locate LGBT resources in the Norman area and reach out to connect with the LGBT community. The session acts as an educational resource to build awareness and help LGBT students feel more comfortable on campus, Catlett said. Students learn that their duty as fellow students is to realize that this is a difficult time in LGBT student’s life and to appreciate how important it is to be in an accepting environment, history senior and Sooner Ally Parker Marek said. “In training sessions, I
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learned to make sure to follow protocol and make myself an open outlet for LGBT people to contact, almost as a living resource,” Marek said. Training sessions are completely full for this semester, but students can register for training sessions in the spring on the Sooner Ally website. India Maxwell indiajanetmaxwell@yahoo.com
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Homecoming displays welcome 170 virus cases confirmed home Sooners, alumni 11 deaths in Oklahoma so far KEN MILLER
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Homecoming signs lie on the south oval for all to see this week. The signs are in honor of the homecoming game against Kansas on Saturday
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma has had 170 confirmed cases of West Nile disease and 11 deaths, the state Department of Health said Tuesday in its biweekly report. While the number of reported deaths rose from nine the previous week, health officials said the spread of the disease had slowed as cooler weather limited the activity of the Culex mosquito, which spreads the virus to humans through its bite. “The number of West Nile Virus reports that we’re receiving has consistently declined since the middle of September,” said Dr. Lauri Smithee, chief of acute disease service at the Health Department. The state also benefitted by earlier-than-usual freezing temperatures, which drive the mosquito into dormancy.
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Laboratory technician Ruth Rutledge packages cerebrospinal fluid of the three confirmed meningitis cases in Minn., to send to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta for further testing, at the Minnesota Department of Health in St. Paul on Tuesday.
The first freezing temperatures of the season were recorded during the first week of October at various stations around the state, according to the National Weather Service. That was two to three weeks before the average first freeze. “Mosquitoes are slowing down,” Smithee said.
“Indeed, there is less transmissions going on.” The latest deaths involve people who contracted the disease earlier, when its spread was more prevalent, she said. Among the victims this year are former Guthrie Mayor Jon Gumerson, who died Oct. 6.
BORDER PURCHASES
U.S. government taking advantage of border landowners Government purchasing land on Mexican border for below market value PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — When the federal government began seizing private land along the U.S.-Mexico border to build a towering fence, Teofilo Flores was offered $1,650 for a slice of his backyard. At first, it seemed like a square deal. But then the cotton grower learned that his neighbor had received 40 times more for a similar piece of land. And another nearby farmer pocketed $1 million in exchange for his cooperation. Since 2008, hundreds of landowners on the border have sought fair prices for property that was condemned to make way for the fence. But many of them received initial offers that were far below market value. And dozens accepted those amounts without seeking any legal help, only to discover neighbors had won far larger settlements after hiring attorneys. “You get angry. But that’s the way of life, I guess,” Flores said of the bigger payouts won by other landowners. “You know, people that got more money can afford to do more things.” The disparities raise questions about the Justice Department’s treatment of hundreds of landowners from Texas to California who couldn’t afford lawyers and must now live with a massive steel barrier running through their farms, ranches and yards. The wide variation in price “underscores how unfair these original offers were,” said attorney Corinna SpencerScheurich, who represented poor and middle-class landowners when the seizures began. The federal government “is using its power, its clout, to try to take land from people at a price that is unfair. I think that is clear based on the settlements,” she said. Federal attorneys say the initial offers represented only a Eric gay/the associated press starting amount that would permit the seizures to begin and In this Sept. 6, photo, cotton farmer Teofilo “Junior” Flores, left, with his wife, Maria Flores, talks about the U.S.-Mexico border fence could be adjusted later. that passes through his property in Brownsville, Texas. Since 2008, hundreds of landowners on the border have sought fair prices for In 2006, Congress ordered construction of 670 miles of property that was condemned to make way for the fence, but many of them received initial offers that were far below market value. heavy metal fence to help curb illegal immigration. The project required landowners on the border to give up property that ranged from the size of a driveway to much larger farms and commercial lots. The Constitution requires the government to provide compensation whenever it takes property for a public project using a process known as eminent domain. About 400 landowners have been affected. Most are in Texas, because that state has more private property along the border than do New Mexico, Arizona or California, where much of the border land is already in federal hands. An Associated Press analysis of nearly 300 Texas land cases found that most of the settlement money went to a small group of owners, all of whom had attorneys. The legal help appeared to pay off: Of nearly $15 million that has been paid out, 85 percent has been awarded to just a third of the property holders. Associated Press writers Ramit Plushnick-Masti and Christopher Sherman contributed to this report.
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QUOTABLE: “[I] gave him a blatant kick in the ass and then went back to chat with my friends,” said alumna Lauren Parajon about meeting her husband, the subject of her popular blog. (Page 5)
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Which road leads to a stronger economy? Our View: Either of the economic plans released by the candidates could improve the economic crisis, but with different amounts of risk.
• Enact the Buffett Rule, which will ensure that no household making over $1 million a year will pay less than 30 percent of their income in taxes. This would replace the Alternative Minimum Tax.
Here’s the big secret: Both candidates essentially This is part one of a two-part series on the candidates’ Spending: say the same thing about the nature of the current economic views. Part two will run on Thursday and cover job, • Shave almost $4 trillion from the federal deficit economic crisis, and both of their plans likely labor and reform plans. over the next decade. This includes $1.7 billion would work toward fixing the economy. It simply is From now until Nov. 6, The Daily will editorialize about a in spending cuts already enacted by his work a question of how. different aspect of the elections each Wednesday. These with Congress, $1.9 billion by closing corporate But “how?” is an important question. The fallout editorials will cover presidential, federal, state and local loopholes and ending the Bush-era tax cuts on the of the candidates’ plans are vastly different and will elections, as well as ballot questions and voting issues. highest income earners, $850 billion by ending affect the majority of Americans — for better or for and social security, and reduce subsidies to the the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and $590 billion worse. National Endowment for The Arts and Humanities, from health-care reform and other mandatory the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Mitt Romney initiatives, among other sources. Legal Services Corporation. Republican candidate Mitt Romney wants to • Slow the growth of the deficit to below the rate • Bring federal spending below 20 percent of GDP of growth of the economy. A Center on Budget bite the bullet all at once, dramatically shifting the by the end of his first term, down from the current path of the nation and dealing with the fallout. He and Policy Priorities study shows Obama’s 24.3 percent. This would require spending cuts of would: deficit reduction plan will stabilize the debt so $500 billion per year until 2016. it will no longer grow faster than the economy, Taxes: Though these actions would correct the mistakes if the Congressional Budget Office’s economic • Cut the corporate tax rate to 25 percent from 35 that led to the crisis in the first place and put projections hold out. Even if the economic picture America on a path to recovery, it would come at a percent. for the next decade is decidedly less optimistic, heavy price. The short-term effects would include • Reform the corporate tax code in a two-part Obama’s plan will still come close to achieving this widespread unemployment, GDP shrinkage, process that fails to balance tax reductions with goal. and increased debt, deficits and wealth loophole closure. This plan would cost the • Invest in infrastructure, education and inequality. government nearly $1 trillion in the first manufacturing, which will reduce the side effects The Our View Individual consumers would bear the decade, according to data from the Tax is the majority on the average American and help the private brunt of these effects, and these side effects sector get back on its feet. At the same time, Policy Center, and the majority of the cuts opinion of The Daily’s would only worsen the national outlook would benefit the top 1 percent of wage between re-structuring for efficiency, reducing nine-member and consumer confidence. It’s possible earners. improper payments and cutting and consolidating editorial board that this painful adjustment period could • Eventually move the country to a programs, Obama’s policy will reduce discretionary damage the spending power of individuals spending to a projected 22.5 percent of the GDP by “territorial system,” which means an end enough to further cripple the economy, setting off 2016, down from the current 24.3 percent. to all taxes on earnings made on foreign soil. He a chain reaction similar to the current situation in has promised to pay for this part of his tax plan, Overall, Obama’s plan focuses on short-term Greece — which was set off by similar techniques along with a further corporate tax rate cut, by investments that will likely increase the national to the ones Romney proposes. ending certain loopholes and exceptions. But he debt and require further borrowing from other has failed to point out which ones. The Committee countries. But now is the time for such borrowing, Barack Obama for a Responsible Federal Budget’s corporate tax with ever-falling interest rates and friendly President Barack Obama favors a slower calendar shows he would need to find $67 billion international borrowing conditions. recovery, the effects of which would build up for worth of these exceptions. This softer approach to economic a decade or so before the economy • Cut taxes across the board 20 percent and reform will cushion consumers was fully recovered. This plan would eliminate two large sources of revenue: the estate — who make up 70 percent of the AT A GLANCE reduce the side effects felt by the tax and the alternative minimum tax. He has economy — and allow them to Definitions promised to balance these deep cuts by eliminating average American while guiding the recover their spending power and Alternative Minimum nation onto a stronger economic path a similar amount of deductions for the nation’s pay down their individual debt. After Tax - a tax imposed on for the future. He would: top earners. However, even under impossibly individual debt has been reduced those who earn above generous assumptions, the Tax Policy Center’s a certain amount if sufficiently to empower the consumer Taxes: their deductions would comprehensive study shows Romney still would base, the government can focus on reduce their income • Cut the corporate tax rate to 28 have to make up $86 billion in revenue — even if he paying down its own debt. tax contribution below eliminated every deduction for those earning more percent from 35 percent. the amount of this tax. However, his plan is surprisingly • Cut the tax rate for manufacturers than $200,000. weak on reforms to entitlement GDP - gross domestic based in the U.S. even more to • To make up the revenue lost, Romney likely programs that will be necessary to product, or the market encourage companies to develop would have to raise taxes on the middle and lower value of all recognized ensure long-term debt reduction. Part final goods and classes, which he defines as those making less than domestically and keep jobs in the of the responsibility for this failure services produced in a $200,000 and who he has pledged will not pay more country. rests with Congressional Republicans, country in a year. • Extend the Bush-era tax cuts for a under his plan. who refused to compromise on year on the first $250,000 of income, • Let a few tax cuts for the lowest income tax increases as part of a deal to Americans expire, which will result in higher taxes which would be taxed at 35 percent. restructure these entitlements. But failure to for this group, while every other group sees a deep Anything earned above that amount would be provide strong leadership on these issues could taxed at the Clinton-era rate of 39.6 percent. This tax cut. In addition, because the tax cuts are a undermine his efforts to restructure the core of the percentage cut across the board, they actually will would result in a continuation of low tax rates for economy and strengthen it for the long-term. In the benefit the highest earners significantly more than the majority of Americans and a return to a higher worst case scenario, these programs could collapse rate for the richest Americans. the middle class. entirely. • However, taxes for the highest earners would Though Obama could stand to make even be extended a little beyond the Clinton-era rates, Spending: stronger plans for long-term debt reduction, his because the tax health-care reform law will raise • Send a bill to Congress on Day 1 to cut noneconomic policies are clearly the best option for them an additional 3.8 percent. security discretionary spending — including strengthening the economy without sacrificing the • End tax subsidies for the highest income education — indiscriminately by 5 percent across jobs and security of the American people. earners based on childcare, housing, health care the board. and retirement, which they do not need. • Repeal Obamacare, restructure Medicare Comment on this on OUDaily.com
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Remembering professor Fears’ love of wisdom, dedication to teaching In a less articulate outpouring of speech I continued Oh my heart hurts; I am so so sad. The very first time I visited professor J. Rufus Fears, on endeavoring to convey my essence. When at last I had finished my manifesto, Dr. Fears I was all atremble and even near tears, smiled knowingly and said, “So you for it is a vulnerable task to earnestly “In Dr. Fears I found love Wisdom too.” confess one’s dream. an uncommon In Dr. Fears, I found an uncommon I entered his office hurriedly and friend, sublime of soul and an excellent began my declaration abruptly, afraid friend, sublime guide, who altered the course of my life that old cowardice might overcome my of soul, and an for the better. resolve. I am studying what I love in graduate Speaking as one whose life is on the excellent guide ...” school at Yale today only because line (and in the truest sense it was) o f t h e t i m e a n d e f f o r t D r. Fe a r s I said, “Hello sir, my name is Lauren Smith. Most people forget my name, but it is very spent encouraging, kindly correcting and actively important to me that you do not, because in you I see supporting my reading, writing and thought. Never did I guess I would be deprived of my what I most desperately desire to become.”
professor so soon. I am deeply grateful for his life’s work, which ultimately was to set all hearts ablaze for Wisdom, to recall us — all human beings — back to our best selves, and to teach us how we may live free and well. I owe so much to my beloved teacher’s memory and thus I send off his spirit with bereaved Crito’s promise in Plato’s “Phaedo” at the deaht of Socrates: “The debt will be paid.” The debt will be paid so long as I and all those who knew him remember his resounding words and attempt to emulate the man who, “of all the men of his time was the wisest, the best and the most just.” Lauren Smith, OU alumna
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Editor’s Note: Lauren Parajon was employed by Student Media at OU. After years of fighting distance and immigration laws, an OU alumna finally got a happy ending to her real-life fairy tale. Lauren Parajon, who works at a digital media agency, has an award-winning blog, www.fairytale-beginning.blogspot. com, she uses to talk about the long-distance love story she has been living for the past three years. Parajon wasn’t always a huge fan of blogging. “I thought [bloggers] were liars because they weren’t really journalists,” Parajon said. However, she eventually found a reason to justify blogging. After graduating with a journalism degree in 2008 from OU, Parajon was offered a job in New York City. Shortly after moving to New York, Parajon met her Prince Charming. The day after she met him, Parajon knew there was something between them worth talking about. In her blog, she posted a play-by-play of how the two actually met at a New York City bar. Parajon’s drink was getting low, and she wanted to find a man to buy her another. So, there was Kamran Saleem. After spotting the tall, dark, sexy man, Parajon explained in her blog “[she] just had to meet him.” “My elementary flirting skills got the best of me … I reached my leg behind [a friend], gave him a blatant kick in the ass and then went back to chat with my friends,” Parajon wrote. “He gave me a confused look that I knew meant, ‘Did you just touch my butt?’ A curious smile played off his lips.” The two awkwardly
exchanged names, and Parajon was thrown another intriguing characteristic about the man. He had an adorable British accent, Parajon wrote. “For the next hour or two, there was no bar,” Parajon wrote. “There were no friends. No ickies. No music. No nothing. Just me and [Kamran] … Talk. Laugh. Touch. Repeat.” “The night I met Kamran [July 2009] I went home and felt I had to write about it, so I grabbed a notebook and pen,” Parajon said. Meanwhile, Parajon and Saleem had started dating. “We were talking three times a day … I became practically obsessed with him,” Parajon said. “But, around September [2009] Kamran explained that he was falling for me and that he couldn’t go through another long distance relationship.” Parajon said one day she sent what she wrote to Saleem, and he encouraged her to keep writing. She wrote her first post in May 2010 and officially became a blogger. The two broke up, and Parajon moved back to Texas and started seeing someone else, until Saleem asked her to visit
him in London. “My parents met on vacation and got married the third time they ever saw each other,” Parajon said. “They were very team Kamran.” The two officially started dating again and made a plan for Saleem to find a job in the U.S. He couldn’t find a company to sponsor his work visa with unemployment being as high as it was, Parajon said. “Kamran proposed to me September 2011 [because] it was our best option to get him here,” Parajon said. “It wasn’t the route that either of us wanted to take, but I knew that I was going to be with him, so it didn’t matter what the name on the visa was.” The couple began to send in visa paperwork in October 2011. At one point, thinking Saleem was going to be approved, a wedding date was set and a dress picked out. Then, the couple found out the visa was not yet approved and needed additional processing. Without any information for 16 weeks, the couple canceled the wedding but decided to meet in Cozumel to have an early honeymoon. Eventually, the day came when Saleem officially was approved to enter the U.S. on a visa. “It’s been a yearlong process, and an awful one,” Parajon said. “I don’t wish it on anybody. But, it all worked out, and now we get to have a wedding.” The couple had their marriage ceremony in Parajon’s parents’ backyard Sept. 15 and are planning a wedding for Oct. 20. “Doing the blog has really opened me up to talking about relationships with women around the whole world,” Parajon said. “I have this real life perspective and know that life isn’t a fairy tale by Disney standards. This is just a new chapter, and now I actually get to date Kamran.” Erica Laub ericalaub@ou.edu PHOTO PROVIDED
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The lines of scrimmage were unsung heroes in Texas rout. The OU passing and running games were on point in the 42-point win over the Longhorns last week in Dallas. The defense also found ways to force turnovers and hold Texas to just 65 yards in the first two quarters that allowed the Sooner lead to balloon to one of the biggest halftime deficits in series history. Going into the start of the season, both lines Bob were snake-bitten with injuries and absences that had a lot of people asking if these lines stoops could hold up in big games. In the Red River Rivalry game, both lines of scrimmage played like it was for all of the marbles. “Both lines of scrimmage were major factors as it always is in games like this,” coach Bob Stoops said. “When you rush for 343 yards and throw the ball for 334 yards and only have one sack on the day, it’s an outstanding job. And our run defense was incredible by the guys up front.” Junior fullback Trey Millard is just heating up. During Big 12 Media days over the summer, Stoops said the coaches wanted to get Millard more touches this season after he finished with 169 rushing yards and 127 receiving yards for three touchdowns in 2011. Through the first couple of games this season, Millard wasn’t getting a lot of the calls, averaging 13.5 rushing yards and 11.5 receiving yards per game. But that was until the Columbia, Mo., native exploded for a career-high 119 receiving yards and 45 Trey rushing yards against Texas. And now he says Millard he is ready to be a leader for the OU offense. “You know that since your role is bigger you have a bigger responsibility to the team,” Millard said. “That just makes you focus that much more.” Senior quarterback Landry Jones is all about “taking care of business.” It seems like every time sophomore Blake Bell and the famous ‘Belldozer’ package has a good day (four touchdowns against Texas), Jones gets asked if using the redzone, short-yardage situation call gets the senior out of rhythm. But as Jones has expressed Landry numerous times — he did it again Monday jones
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Junior fullback Trey Millard (33) sprints toward the endzone in a game against Texas on Saturday. The Sooners pounded the Longhorns, 63-21. Millard led the team with 119 receiving yards and one touchdown on five catches.
— he wants to win football games, and whatever gets that done, he will continue to support. “It’s just taking care of business,” Jones said. “It’s just one of those things that when we get down there close, that’s the package we use in short yardage and goal line situations, so for me it’s just taking care of business and doing what our offense is supposed to do.” Defensive line is getting more comfortable in its own skin. Typical questions about the defensive line before the start of the season focused on whether this line could replace head hunters like defensive ends Frank Alexander and Ronnell Lewis. And when two starters were absent from the first game, causing players like senior defense end David King to move inside, this line still was looking for its identity. While there is still a lot of season left that will test the validity of a line jamarkus that held Texas to 289 total yards and didn’t mcfarland allows any points from the Longhorn offense until the forth quarter, you can tell this defense is starting to gain confidence in itself and in each other. “I thought we got better this weekend but it’s kind of shown what we’ve been working on,” senior defensive tackle
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Jamarkus McFarland said . “(Coaches) are letting us freelance and be more vocal with each other, and we’re just growing day by day.” In a complete win like the one last Saturday, everyone’s a winner. Usually picking out a Player of a Game is easy because there’s always someone who makes that one big play that sticks out on film and usually finds its way on some social media platform or highlight reel. Game balls are tradition at OU to recognize these accomplishments, and when it came time to decide who was going to get the coveted Blake awards following the Texas slaughter, Stoops Bell didn’t have enough to go around. Too many players had career-high or dominant plays that there was no clear-cut winner. So he gave pretty much everyone on the team — offense and defense — a ball. “The whole defense was a player of the game, and the whole offense was for offense,” Stoops said. “It really was a team deal.”
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After an eight game winless stretch, the Oklahoma soccer team finally was able to give Sooner fans something to cheer about, defeating Kansas and TCU last weekend and earning its first two Big 12 wins of the season. Here is more good news; Oklahoma can salvage its season if they win out. Considering it has two games left and one of them is against No. 8 Iowa State, it can’t be that hard, right? Wrong. Thursday, OU travels to Morgantown to take on the dominant Mountaineers, who currently are sitting atop the Big 12. While this may seem to make the Sooners chances dismal, it actually is quite the opposite. Through six games of Big 12 play, the Sooners are 2-2-2 with losses coming against Texas, whose sole loss is against Texas Tech. The other loss came against — yep you guessed it — Texas Tech. Both the Longhorns and the Red Raiders currently are second and fourth, respectively, in the Big 12 and after the past weekend, Oklahoma currently is fifth. That is a two spot jump in a week, and the Sooners only can go up from there. Now the question is, how can Oklahoma go into a hostile Morgantown environment and come
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Junior midfielder Sam Howell dribbles past a defender during a game against Baylor on Sept. 21 at John Crain Field. The Sooners ended the match in a 1-1 draw against the Bears.
away with a win? Fortunately, Oklahoma has a habit of playing to their level of competition and if anything can be for certain, No. 16 West Virginia is tough competition. In four games against ranked teams this season, OU is (1-1-2), even defeating then No. 3 OSU back on Sept. 7. While the Cowgirls have fallen out of the rankings since then, Oklahoma certainly is the team that started their fall from grace. On top of that, one of the Sooners ties came against Baylor, who currently has moved up to No. 20 and has yet to lose a game in the Big 12. The Bears are the only team to tie West Virginia in the Big 12. Another positive going into the Thursday’s game is
that OU’s offense finally seems to be clicking, creating 56 shots in the past three conference games, Renae where in the Cuellar first three they only shot 22 times. A major reason for this is the chemistry is starting to build between senior forward Renae Cuellar, who transferred to Oklahoma for her last season, and her teammates. Cuellar has scored in five of OU’s last seven games and has proven she can score against anyone. More importantly, she scores in big games. Salvaging a tie against Baylor, when the Sooners were outshot 23-4,
and had both Oklahoma goals in the two Bedlam matchups this season. If Cuellar can somehow score again against West Virginia, she will propel the Sooners into a chance at a stellar season. By pulling off an upset against the Mountaineers, Oklahoma would take control of their postseason destiny and pick up considerable momentum going into the Big 12 tournament. After Thursday, OU could be the best Cinderella story in women’s soccer. Ross Stracke is a journalism sophomore. You can follow him on Twitter at @RossStracke.
After sweeping its first five opponents of the 2012 fall schedule, the Oklahoma softball team will look to extend its streak when the team hosts Butler at 5 tonight in Norman. Butler, a two-year community college in Kansas, finished with a 39-18 overall record last season after finishing with a two-and-out performance in the National Junior College Athletic Association postseason tournament. During the Oklahoma Fall Festival, the Sooners used their deep bullpen — four pitchers saw action in the five game rotation — to secure the victories, including freshman right-handed pitcher, Taylor Dewberry, who made her debut in a Sooner uniform against Connors State on Oct. 6. Dewberry pitched four innings in OU’s 10-0 win, finishing with three strikeouts, while not giving up any runs or walks during the game. Although the Sooners have outscored their opponents, 47-2, during the first five games of the 2012 fall schedule, the team will have to continue its streak without star pitcher, senior lefty Keilani Ricketts, because she is looking to become just the fifth softball player to be earn the Team Sportswoman of Keilani the Year award that will be presented at the 33rd Annual Salute to Women in Sports cer- ricketts emony Wednesday in New York. Ricketts, who finished the 2012 softball season as the USA Softball Collegiate National Player of the Year and the unanimous Big 12 conference Player of the Year, led the Sooners to a runner-up finish at the 2012 Women’s College World Series, while finishing the season with a 1.08 ERA with 457 strikeouts. Ricketts also dominated at the plate during her junior season, finished with a .825 slugging percentage and the nation’s 10th-best, on-base percentage (.553). The San Jose, Calif., native also played a big role on the USA National softball team, helping Team USA capture a gold medal in the 2012 Pan-American games and earn a first place finish at the World Cup of Softball over the summer in Oklahoma City. Ricketts is among several finalists that will compete for one of the two awards given to an individual and member of a team sport. Tobi Neidy tneidy@gmail.com
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