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SAM NOBLE
RYAN ECHOLS
J.D. BAKER
MATTHEW MARKS
COREY ABERNATHY
MEET THE CANDIDATES Five students to appear on ballot for SGA president K AYLA BRANCH • @K AYLA _BRANCH
Five OU students will run for Student Government Association president this year following the term of current president Daniel Pae. Each candidate recently spoke with The Daily about a multitude of topics, including their platforms and why students should vote for them. Sam Noble
Ryan Echols
J.D. Baker
Matthew Marks
Corey Abernathy
Computer science junior Sam Noble will focus on practical changes on campus to make OU a more sustainable and accessible university.
Drama and economics senior Ryan Echols wants to use his experience and detailed plans to bring change to campus and give students a bigger voice.
Broadcast journalism junior Matthew Marks will center his campaign on bringing OU students and the Norman community together.
Political science junior Corey Abernathy will focus on making SGA and different resources more accessible to students.
The Daily: What are the main points of your campaign? Noble: “The first is the focus on victims of sexual assault. We want to partner with an outside agency that has expertise in contributing for support for victims and also providing an office with student staff that can help these victims as well. Secondly, we want to improve the efficiency of our large facilities on campus, specifically the dorms, cafeteria, large class halls, the library and the union, so we can save energy and save money. We intend to establish an office whose primary job will be to assist average students in finding scholarships that are available and attainable to them. We’ve also heard a lot of negative things about diversity training, so we hope to replace diversity training with a program that puts demographically diverse groups of freshmen together that go out and fulfill service projects. We believe the best way to overcome biases towards people of other backgrounds is to build relationships with people of different backgrounds. Lastly, we hope to expand (the Student Organization Resource Office) so it can help more student organizations and to work with different students and professors to come up with a plan to fix the flooding on the South Oval.” The Daily: Why should students vote for you? Noble: “There are two reasons: the first is that I would make an enormous effort to extend myself to the students where they are. There is a big problem with communication between administration and students, and I want to continue efforts to combat this. Secondly, I have humility. I know some things, but I don’t know everything, and I am willing to ask for help to achieve all the things that students want to happen on campus and the things that I have promised in my campaign.”
The Daily: What are the main points of your campaign? Echols: “Our points are empowerment, sustainability, community, mental health, sexual assault and worker enrollment. We plan on creating a student regent position where a student would serve as a voting member of the regents board. Next, we want to copy (University of North Texas’) style of wind turbine use. They received a national grant and installed wind turbines that are effective and power some of their campus, cutting costs and helping the environment. We want to bring people together to have meaningful conversations and have the executive branch be more involved in the philanthropic side of campus. With that, we want to create a position in the cabinet with the intent of investigating and addressing mental heath issues on campus. With sexual assault, we want to create an environment on campus that makes people feel comfortable reporting, so we can completely address the problem. We will do this by throwing our resources behind this cause and helping students know the resources they have available to them, and combating rape culture. Lastly, we know college is expensive, and we want to implement a type of early enrollment, so that if students are working a certain job schedule because they have to work, their school schedule will be more flexible.” The Daily: Why should students vote for you? Echols: “I would be the best SGA president because I have the experience in SGA. I know what resources are available to us and what the job entails. I won’t go around just saying things — it’s about getting down to business and making real change. I am the only candidate that has the experience and qualifications necessary to make that happen.”
Public relations junior J.D. Baker will be running in the election with hopes of bridging gaps between different groups on campus by pushing inclusivity and community.
Running mate: Josh Steward
Running mate: Josh Shumway
Running mate: Cameron Burleson
The Daily: What are the main points of your campaign? Baker : “Our overall idea is bridging the gap. Our biggest point is mental health. Our campus is in a time of budget cuts, but there are still ways we can better inform our students, bring more awareness and provide more effective services to students. This includes updating the mental health website for the university and pushing to include information on different resources on the syllabus for classes. Along with that, we want to push inclusivity. One way we want to do this is to make sure every academic building has at least one gender neutral bathroom. There needs to be more in the library and at least one on each floor in the union. We also want to introduce the idea of a dinner table event where SGA will host a monthly dinner with different people of the OU community. We would get everyone together and discuss different things about the university and what we can do to make it better. This would make people feel closer and more a part of the university community, which is what we are pushing.” The Daily: Why should students vote for you? Baker: “I’m not necessarily asking for people’s votes. I want to make sure that I present a platform and ideas that people want to give a vote to. I want to win, but if you don’t believe in my platform and what I want to do, then vote for a person you do believe in. I hope I do provide that platform for students, but if I don’t, then let me know, and I can change it. I want students to vote for me because I am here to listen to you and to be your voice. Vote for me if you believe in me and if you want to work with me because I want to work for you.”
Running mate: Jacob Thomas
The Daily: What are the main points of your campaign? Marks: “The biggest thing we have is community outreach. We plan on doing this in multiple ways. We will be reaching out to different groups in the community, one of these being Mission Norman, which is a food pantry that we want to partner with. We also want to do things with sustainability to keep OU and Norman green and start community building programs where our cabinet gets students plugged in and engaged. Our next point is inclusivity. Our motto is ‘We are one.’ We want to have town hall meetings with student organizations and leaders on campus so we can come together and discuss what we want to do to move forward. Another big point is the introduction of a food pantry on campus. This will be opening soon, and we want to continue to work with them and make sure that students have what they need.” The Daily: Why should students vote for you? Marks: “The biggest thing is that we have not waited. We are game changers that are here to make things happen. We have not waited to get elected to start implementing the things we want to do on campus — we have already reached out to groups on campus and in the community. So once we are elected, we can hit the ground running and start positive change.”
Running mate: Landon Wright
The Daily: What are the main points of your campaign? Abernathy: “There are multiple issues we care about, but there are three main points. The first is sexual assault. We want to address rape culture and educate students on sexual assault and the effect on the lives of victims through mandatory training. The second is mental health. This is a personal issue for me, and we want to highlight and expand the services and resources available to students and also de-stigmatizing the idea of getting help. Our last main point is expanding options for financial assistance for first generation and minority students. We would do this through putting more funds into the Heritage Scholarship and continuing to give and expand funding for Project Threshold.” The Daily: Why should students vote for you? Abernathy: “SGA has been an organization that has been somewhat separated from students, and students don’t feel connected. We want to open SGA up to the student body. I’ve enjoyed my experience as an ally for the LGBTQ community, and I want to be an ally for all students. We want to make sure that what they want to see happen on campus happens and that their voice is heard. This isn’t about us. This is about making change on campus and hearing the voices of students that feel unheard and bringing those to the forefront.”
EYES ON ELECTION DAY Students will be able to fill out two different ballots on Election Day next month — one at the polls for the U.S. president and one online for SGA president. SGA presdential elections will be held online via OrgSync Nov. 8 and 9.
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Inmates gather acorns at OU Work-release program benefits state’s tree nursery BRYCE MCELHANEY @bryce_mac
A crew of 10 men collect acorns on their hands and knees in front of Traditions Square East on a Wednesday morning. Each of them wears a gray T-shirt that say “CORRECTIONSâ€? in large black print on the back. Some of the men sit on w h i t e b u c k e t s, g ra z i n g their hands through the grass, while a few others roll over the seeds with nut collectors. The men are from the Union City Corrections Center and are on a work-release program at the state’s only tree nursery, located in Goldsby, Oklahoma, about 7.5 miles south of campus. Ryan Oberst, a tree nursery specialist for the Oklahoma Department of Forestry, oversees them with Mike Martin, a farmhand supervisor. “We go all over the state to get stuff ‌ but we try to get the majority of it here,â€? Oberst said. The crews collect acorns around Asp and Jenkins avenues, specifically near t h e Mu r r a y C a s e S e l l s Swim Complex, Traditions Square East and also near the stadium. The men are nonviolent, minimum security offenders, Oberst said. At the tree nurser y, rows of different sapling
species are growing over s e v e ra l a c re s. Th e t re e nurser y operates under Oklahoma’s Department of Forestry and helps reforest Oklahoma, said George Geissler, the director of forest services at the Department of Forestry. Three to 6 million seedlings are grown every year at the nursery, he said. G e i s s l e r s a i d O U ha s many Shumard oak trees, and the campus is one location the crews go to collect seeds to take back to the nursery. “It’s a good source of seed for us, and it’s something that’s been going on for us for over a decade,� Geissler said. The seedlings are grown and then distributed throughout the state, he BRYCE MCELHANEY/THE DAILY said. “They are used for wild- An inmate picks up acorns by Traditions Square East on Oct. 12. The acorns gathered are grown and used for wildlife habitats. life habitats in the northeast — and depending on do, we wouldn’t be able to the species, they could nursery and the inmates, day to give it back.� S o m e i n m a t e s c o m e get a lot of our stuff done,� be in almost any of the 77 having cheap labor and alHOW THE lowing the inmates to de- back after their sentence he said. counties,� Geissler said. PROGRAM Th e p ro g ra m a l s o a l crease their sentence time. as farmhands, Oberst said, WORKS “Say they get a year sen- but the program lasts no lows the inmates to recon“They don’t get Inmates from the tence, they’re able to do longer than six months be- nect to the community, Union City Corrections that in five or six months,� fore the inmates have to Oberst said. Martin said he paid a lot, but Center (about an hour doesn’t ask the inmates to Oberst said. “A lot of peo- find another job. that’s not the drive northwest of ple get mad about that, but T h e p a y r a n g e s f ro m do anything he wouldn’t Norman) collect acorns they’re coming out here $7.25 to $9.50 an hour, he do. purpose. The as part of a work“Even though they’re ina service, work- said, depending on the release program. purpose is to really providing mates, they’re serving their ing their labor for us.� workers’ skill levels. give them a feeling Dan Hix, the Union City “They don’t get paid a time, and they’re about The acorns — many from OU’s campus — of giving back to Corrections Center admin- lot, but that’s not the pur- re a d y t o g e t o u t . T re a t go to a tree nursery in istrative specialist, said the pose,� Hix said. “The pur- them like human beings, society.� Goldsby, Oklahoma. program builds skills for pose is to really give them you get what you want out of them,� Martin said. the inmates. a feeling of giving back to DAN HIX, Inmates are paid “Some of these guys, they society.� UNION CITY CORRECTIONS betwen $7.25 and have very few skills, some S ome workers are alCENTER ADMINISTRATIVE $9.50 an hour. don’t really have any,� Hix lowed to operate equipSPECIALIST Bryce McElhaney said.� The primary thing ment like tractors and fork- btmcelhaney@gmail.com The work-release is to get them in a sense lifts, Oberst said. program lasts no more than six months. “Without these guys Oberst said the work-re- of habit — getting ready, lease program benefits the going to work, working all doing the hard work they
Anti-sexual misconduct program to be renamed Student activists to help rebrand One Sooner training EMMA KEITH @shakeitha97
OU’s One Sooner training program will receive a name change in coming months after recent demands from student activists. The name change is part of a list of demands from student protesters who met with OU President David Boren Oct. 12. The One Sooner program is a sexual assault prevention training held by the Gender + Equality Center that teaches students to use their influence on campus to prevent sexual assault and misconduct. Kathy Fahl, director of the GEC, said the GEC and OU’s Title IX and Sexual
Misconduct Offices have a student advisory committee to advise on the organizations’ sexual assault prevention efforts. On Oct. 14, the protest organizers were invited to join the committee’s meeting, Fahl said. Fahl said the One Sooner name change was the main topic of discussion, but that the group did not come up with any definitive ideas for new names. The committee will reconvene in November with the protest organizers to officially decide on a new name, Fahl said. After that meeting, the decision will go to Boren for approval, she said. Micah Stover, a human relations junior, protest organizer and attendee, said the name change was an important demand for the protestors because the name references
a term that is a reminder of violence against indigenous peoples and is not a descriptive title for the program. “We want to add some subtitles to clarify that it’s something that you know helps students use their influence to prevent sexual violence on campus,� Stover said. “Definitely, it’s not an inclusive name for a program that really does need to be very inclusive to be very effective,� Stover said. Fahl said the GEC is excited to work through this change with the student activists. “I think it’s great for us to revisit the name and actually have a name that better reflects what we do in the training program,� Fahl said. Emma Keith
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Organization raises awareness, funds for free local health clinic New student group challenges lack of healthcare equality KAYLA BRANCH @kayla_branch
When five OU students volunteered at a free health clinic in the basement of an Oklahoma City church last May, they found the work to be far from easy; supplies and aid were frighteningly low. “ That day was particularly stressful because we had so many patients and very little volunteers,â€? Naomee Ryana, psychology sophomore, said “It was eye-opening. That’s when we came up with the ideawhy don’t we make a fundraising group for Manos Juntas?â€? And so the Student Healthcare Outreach group was created. After spending time organizing it over the summer, the new student organization was introduced on campus this semester. Ryana now serves as the first president of Student Healthcare Outreach, working with other co-founders and students to fundraise for free health clinics. FundaciĂłn Manos Juntas in Oklahoma City, the first clinic the organization plans to raise funds for, is open to patients every Saturday and takes around $4,000 to run on those days, Ryana said. The clinic provides regular services, such as checking vitals and blood pressure, and houses a pharmacy and ultrasound systems. “ T h e p hy s i c i a n s t hat volunteer their time there, they provide the best services they can and try to see as many patients as they can while not losing any efficiency,â€? Ryana said. “It’s such a great clinic, and it’s sad because they are working in the basement of a church because they can’t afford an actual building since they have no funding. We chose them as our beneficiary because we want to
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Juan Del Rosario, chemistry sophomore, speaks in the Oklahoma Memorial Union courtyard Oct. 14. Del Rosario is a member of the new student organization Student Healthcare Outreach, which focuses on fundraising for free health clinics.
help them and want them to continue what they are doing.� Student Healthcare Outreach — also known as SHO — hopes to highlight the financial and administrative sides of healthcare, along with spreading the idea that any person has the right to healthcare, Ryana said. “Our mission statement is to improve healthcare in a holistic approach, with the help of students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines,� Ryana said. “I think one of our primary goals for this organization is to hopefully persuade people. Because when you get sick, what do you do? You probably go to the doctor. But for a lot of people, that just isn’t an option.� T ra m L e, b i o m e d i c a l engineering sophomore, co-founder and vice president of SHO, has seen the importance of free clinics firsthand. “After having worked at Manos Juntas and getting to work with all the patients, the general story behind all of them is that they have gone through a lot of hardships in life, and at this
point in time, they are not able to afford healthcare,� Le said. “I feel like we have the duty to help them, and so that is why I decided to be involved in SHO.� Le said the specifics of how the group will fundraise will be left to the creativity of the different committees that will be formed within the organization. “We want to play up their creativity, but we have been t a l ki ng ab ou t d i f f e re nt ideas,� Le said. “We talked about working the concession stands at football games, having a fun run and doing a benefit week.� SHO is open to all students, regardless if they are going into the medical field, Le said. “A n o t h e r m a n t r a w e have is that we want to be diverse,� Le said. “That includes anyone on campus with any major or background.� Juan Del Rosaria, chemistry sophomore, said being a member of SHO will hopefully give him experience while also allowing him to help others. “This will give me handson experience with becoming more of a people
person,� Del Rosario said. “We will be advertising these events, chalking the South Oval, giving out fliers.� Del Rosario said he thinks most students could probably relate to the mission of SHO and should consider looking into the group. Along with Del Rosario, Aysha Bilal, art freshman, s a i d s h e w a s i n t e r e s ted in becoming a member of Student Healthcare Outreach because the claims of diversity and equality the group made. “I think it gives you a lot of perspective on other peoples’ lives, and you get to see what people are struggling with and how hard it is to pay for healthcare for other people,� Bilal said. “One of the major claims is to show that all cultures and races are equal and everyone deserves equal healthcare,� Bilal said. “I think what they are doing is a great thing, and I would encourage everyone to do it.� Kayla Branch
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The star of an award-winning AMC television show will be giving a lecture at OU next month. RJ Mitte, an actor with cerebral palsy who played Walt Jr. in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Breaking Bad,â&#x20AC;? will speak about his experiences of overcoming adversity at 7 p.m. Nov. 2 in the Molly Shi Boren Ballroom of the Oklahoma Memorial Union, according to a Facebook event. The event is free to the public. There will be a question and answer session, as well as a meet and greet, following Mitteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speech, according to the Facebook event. There will also be a hot chocolate bar. The event is being hosted by Campus Activities Council, Union Programming Board, the Student Government Association and the Student Alumni Association, according to the Facebook event. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Breaking Bad,â&#x20AC;? which ran from 2008 to 2013, featured actor Bryan Cranston as a high school chemistry teacher with lung cancer, who turns to cooking meth to support his family through his health problems. Mitte played Cranstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teenage son, who also has cerebral palsy on the show. The show won several Golden Globe and Emmy awards, among others.
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One-act operas get update Members of show’s cast look forward to performing classics MOLLY KRUSE @mollykruse98
OU’s upcoming rendition of the famous Giacomo Puccini one-act operas “Suor Angelica” and “Gianni Schicchi” promises fresh and relevant retellings of their storylines. Most have been exposed to Puccini’s work in some form — whether they know it or not — be it in pop culture, a movie or even a television commercial. But this month, students will get the chance to hear Puccini’s music in context in the two one-act operas. Of the two operas, professor William J. Ferrara, OU’s stage director of opera, said that “Suor Angelica” is very touching, and “Gianni Schicchi” is very funny. The story of “Suor Angelica,” translated to “Sister Angelica” in English, was originally set in a cloistered convent in 17th-century Italy. Sister Angelica is a noblewoman whose family forces to become a nun after bearing an illegitimate child. In the opera, Angelica is visited by her aunt, who tells her that her child has died. “In the traditional version, (Sister Angelica) drinks poison,” Ferrara said. “She realizes that she will not join her baby in heaven because she has committed suicide, and she begs mercy of the Madonna, and the Madonna appears to her and receives her into heaven.” Ferrara has tweaked the opera slightly to make it more relatable to a modern audience, he said. “My version is a little different because I think we are in a new era. We have a new idea of redemption,” Ferrara said. Ferrara’s updated version is set post Vatican II, at a school for poor children in 1960s Central America. The opera will have a different ending, but its theme of redemption
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Nina Estelle Whyte, second-year MFA vocal performance candidate, performs the titular role in Puccini’s one-act opera “Suor Angelica.” There will be performances Oct. 20 through Oct. 23 in Holmberg Hall of the Reynolds Performing Arts Center.
remains intact, he said. Maggie Armand, a vocal performance junior who plays Sister Dolcina, one of the nuns in “Suor Angelica,” said that her favorite part of her role was to provide a little comic relief to the otherwise serious opera. “I enter at lunchtime and swing a spoon around in the air. And it’s a little bit of a silly part in the opera,” Armand said. The second act of “Gianni Schicchi” could be described as “Downton Abbey” meets “Monty Python,” Ferrara said. It tells the tale of a greedy family and its madcap attempt to rewrite the will of a dead uncle with the help of a wily con man, Gianni Schicchi. The only major change Ferrara made to this opera was to, once again, change the opera’s time period from its original 1299 setting to 1918.
“I just think it’s funnier somehow in those Edwardian (period) costumes,” Ferrara said. Individuals unfamiliar with “Gianni Schicchi” are probably still familiar with “O Mio Bambino Caro,” which is a piece in the opera, Ferrara said. A lot of work has gone into preparation for the opera. Jonathan Buckelew, a vocal performance junior who plays a lawyer in “Gianni Schicchi,” said cast members received their sheet music for the opera last semester. Cast members also had to undergo diction coaching because both operas are in Italian. “You speak through all the words of it and make sure you’re knowing what you’re talking about, all the parts of speech, all the correct pronunciations,” Armand said.
Cast members also had to attend music coaching to learn how the songs were traditionally performed. Armand’s favorite part of opera is the opportunity for the character insight it provides. “I like opera because it is a different type of expressive theater,” Armand said. “In regular plays and straight theater ... you don’t really get to see the characters’ personal intentions, influences, emotions, but in opera you have arias where you just kind of get a feel for who the character is a little bit more. And it gives you a little bit more of a personal connection with the character, because you get to kind of see stuff that the other characters aren’t seeing.” Molly Kruse
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SHOWTIME INFORMATION • “Suor Angelica” and “Gianni Schicchi” performances are scheduled for 8 p.m., Oct. 20, 21, 22 and 3 p.m. Oct. 23. • Advance tickets can be purchased at the OU box office and are $10 for students, $20 for adults and $15 for senior citizens, OU faculty, staff and military. • Tickets at the door are $30 for adults and $15 for students. • To purchase tickets online, visit ou.edu/ finearts, or call the OU Fine Arts Box Office at (405) 325-4101.
Cult classic available in new, old forms ROCKY HORROR PROPS AND USE Rice: to use during the wedding scene at the beginning of the film. Throw rice as the newlyweds exit the church. Newspapers: to use when Brad and Janet get caught in a rainstorm. Cover your head with them. Candles or fl ashlights: to use during the verse “There’s a Light” in the song “Over at the Frankenstein Place.” Water pistols: to use during the rainstorm Brad and Janet get stuck in. Squirt them to make fake rain. Rubber gloves: to use when Dr. Frank N. Furter snaps his gloves during the creation scene. Noisemakers: to use at the end of the creation scene when the other Transylvanians cheer. Confetti: to use when Rocky and Dr. Frank N. Furter head to the bedroom. Toilet paper: to use when Brad yells, “Great Scott!” after Dr. Scott goes into the lab Toast: to use when Dr. Frank N. Furter proposes a toast. Throw it on the stage. Source: The official fan site of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”
Halloween favorite hits local theaters, TV reboot premiers CHLOE MOORES @chloemoores13
It’s time to do the “Time Warp” again. That’s right, all you “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” virgins or die-hard fans, it’s time to don your fishnet stockings, platform shoes and red lipstick because the season of “Rocky” is upon us. Here is your guide to participating in the Halloween season with everyone’s favorite “Sweet Transvestite.” Fox’s new “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” film: Kenny Ortega, former “High School Musical” director, has taken on directing a fresh production of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” The production is packed full of well-known faces, including “Orange is the New Black” actress Laverne Cox as Dr. Frank N. Furter, Nickelodeon’s “Victorious” star Victoria Justice as Janet Weiss, “American Idol” star Adam Lambert as Eddie, “Bring It On: Fight to the Finish” actress Christina Milian as Magenta and Tim Curry (Dr. Frank N. Furter from the original 1975 film) as Dr. Everett Scott. The film premieres at 7 p.m. tomorrow on Fox. Fox is on channel 12 for Cox cable users. 15th annual Sooner Theatre showing: Ruckus Entertainment will host its 15th annual movie presentation of the 1975 “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” at the Sooner Theatre at 10 p.m. Oct. 31. Doors will open at 9 p.m. Audience members
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A screengrab from the 1975 “Rocky Horror Picture Show” trailer. There will be a showing by Ruckus Entertainment at The Sooner Theatre at 10 p.m. Oct. 31.
are encouraged to show up in their best Rocky Horror costumes and be ready to possibly be selected to perform in the Rocky Horror live cast. Outside props cannot be taken into the theater for the showing, but prop bags will be sold at the theatre for $5. Tickets are available at the Sooner Theatre website and the Pfenning Law Offices at 108 E. Main St. Visit the Oklahoma Rocky Horror Picture Show Facebook page for more information about the event. The showing is not a Sooner Theatre production. The Boom’s interactive sing-a-long: The Boom, a dinner theater and entertainment center, is hosting an interactive
sing-a-long to “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” film at 8 p.m. Oct. 20 to 22 and 27 to 30. There will be two special showings of the film at 11:30 p.m. Oct. 26 and at 7 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Oct. 31. The Boom will not sell prop bags, but audience members can bring their own as long as the props do not include food. The showroom opens at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at Ticket Storm. Rocky Horror history: “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” follows quintessential, 1950s-type, newly engaged couple Brad Majors and Janet Weiss. The pair has a car malfunction near a mysterious castle and makes the decision to seek
help there. Majors and Weiss discover the castle is home to Dr. Frank N. Furter, an alien from Transsexual, Transylvania, and Frank’s accomplices. Majors and Weiss’ journey takes on themes of sexuality, life and death, forgiveness and redemption, and a loss of innocence. “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is a 1975 film directed by Jim Sharman and written by Richard O’Brien and Jim Sharman. O’Brien wrote the play, music and lyrics for the musical off which the film is based, “The Rocky Horror Show.” Chloe Moores
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Junior quarterback Baker Mayfield evades defenders in the Oct. 15 game against Kansas State. The Sooners will play the Texas Tech Red Raiders Saturday.
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Mayfield returns to Texas Tech Quarterback to play in Lubbock for first time since transfer JESSE POUND @jesserpound
When No. 16 Oklahoma t a ke s o n Te x a s Te c h i n primetime Saturday night, 64,000 pairs of eyes in Lubbock will all be locked on No. 6 in white. For his part, Baker Mayfield says he’s not as
excited as others might be for his return to Jones AT&T Stadium. He insists that it’s just like any other game. “Everyone tried to talk a b o u t t h e ‘ re v e n g e’ o r whatever, but that’s all way in the past,” Mayfield said. Mayfield played for Texas Tech in 2013 as a tr ue freshman, s cor ing 15 total touchdowns and earning Big 12 offensive freshman of the year honors. He got his first shot at the Red Raiders last year, throwing for 212 yards and
two touchdowns in an easy 63-17 win for the Sooners. Mayfield was injure d during his freshman season and replaced by Davis Webb, who played well enough that Mayfield wasn’t guaranteed a spot. Following a public spat w ith the coaching staff about whether he would be awarded a scholarship, Mayfield transferred to Oklahoma. “It was something the first time he played them, and he got to play,” junior
cornerback Jordan Thomas said. “But now he’s a part of this program. And, yeah, that’s a part of his past, but it’s in the past.” But this week, he will be back in front of a rowdy crowd, full of people who used to be his biggest fans. “It’s going to be a little different with the fanbase,” Mayfield said. “It’s the first time going back there since playing there, so that will be the different part. But for me, it’s no different than playing any other Big
12 team.” The past wasn’t that long ago. Oklahoma fought with the Big 12 to get Mayfield an extra year of eligibility this summer, which he lost when Texas Tech didn’t release him to transfer. The school lost the battle the first time — but then the conference passed a slightly altered ruling the next day, giving Mayfield the opportunity to return to Norman in 2017. Regardless of what happens on Saturday night,
Mayfield should get one more shot at Texas Tech. “Regardless of where we go to play, who we play, whether they just got from there or they were there two years ago, it doesn’t matter,” Thomas said. “I don’t even think about it. We don’t ever think about it. It’s over and done with.” Jesse Pound
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Freshman cornerback gives Sooners stability Jordan Parker steps up to fill cornerback spot
“Some of the experience things are things you can’t gain unless you’re out there playing, and he’s getting that as he plays each week,” Stoops said. “I think he’ll get more confident and be able to crowd people more. We just don’t want to give up big plays. He played loose the other night — that’s OK. He didn’t give up any big plays, he kept the ball in front of him. You’ve got to pick and choose his times when he gets more aggressive, and that’ll come as he plays more. “He just goes out and does his job … He’s mature, he understands the situation. He’s prepared well. The moment isn’t bigger than what he can handle.”
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For the first time this season, No. 16 Oklahoma w i l l e nt e r a ga m e w i t h confidence in its entire secondary. The Sooners have strugg l e d t o f i l l t h e c o r n e rback spot opposite Jordan Thomas, but true freshman Jordan Parker has stepped forward and played well in the last two weeks. Parker, the fourth corner the Sooners have tried at that spot, came on against Texas after an injur y to Michiah Quick, and OU hasn’t looked back. “I think we’re headed in the right direction. I think everyone feels that way,” OU defensive coordinator Mike Stoops said. “We’re starting to get better at that position … We’re not losing the war. We might lose some battles, but we’re making more than we’re losing. That makes a big difference between winning and losing. “Everyone does it. It happens to everybody. We’ve just got to keep battling, trying to get hands on balls. We’re starting to get
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Freshman cornerback Jordan Parker eyes the Kansas State quarterback during the Oct. 15 game against the Wildcats. Parker is the fourth corner the Sooners have played and will start against Texas Tech Saturday.
deflections, and that’s helping our defense.” Parker’s emergence is starting to be noticed — and appreciated — among his teammates, too. “Jordan, he’s a physical kid. He loves to play the game, and he loves to be out there with us. He’s very determined, and I think he’s going to be a great player,” junior safety Steven Parker said. “I think Jordan is doing
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a fantastic job, and I think he’s going to continue to succeed.” However, the Sooners’ next matchup against Texas Tech will be a major challenge for the youngster. The Red Raiders lead the Big 12 in total offense, total scoring and passing offense through the first seven weeks of the season. Tech’s quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, is averaging
nearly 430 yards per game and has 21 touchdowns to just five picks. “He’s going to get tested, we know that,” Stoops said. “He knows that. But play the best you can, that’s all you really can worry about. We don’t change a lot, what we want to do. At times you try to help ‘em if you can, but this team will try to stretch you out, and the help gets limited at times. He’s a
competitor, and he’ll play as hard and good as he can.” Parker, who was not made available to the media on Tuesday, was the No. 3 overall recruit in OU’s 2016 class according to 247Sports, but he’s only getting his shot because of injuries to Quick and freshman Parrish Cobb. Parker earned the chance to start against Texas Tech during the Kansas State game.
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State questions address crime Voting ‘yes’ will lead to reform in prison system
Katelyn Howard khoward@ou.edu
Before moving to Oklahoma this past June, reforming punishments for non-violent crimes like drug and property offenses had always been something I felt strongly about. I soon realized the relevance of this ongoing issue due to its notorious association with Oklahoma’s history. I will be voting in favor of State Question 780 in November, which would allow the reclassification of specific drug and property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. Passing SQ 780 would have three specific positive ramifications: lowering the population of state prisons, reducing taxpayers’ expenses and using proper resources to transform the lives of drug addicts. In 2014, the U.S. Bureau of Justice reported that Oklahoma has the second largest imprisonment rate in the country with a ratio of 700 inmates for every 100,000 U.S. citizens, making this reform particularly urgent for our state. In August 2016, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections found that with 27,097 convicts currently imprisoned, the penitentiary system was at 104 percent of
its limit. Within this number, 26.3 percent of inmates are drug perpetrators. On the economic side of the argument, The Oklahoman claims that in 2016, the Department of Corrections received $485 million in funding. By approving SQ 780, this number could be lowered, resulting in happier taxpayers. I also have to take into account the emotional and physical benefits that the initiatives included in SQ 780 would provide to inmates. Prisoners are often in worse condition when they leave penitentiaries than they were before entering, which causes a larger probability of reoffending. This can be traced back to the system’s lack of focus on preparing drug addicts to resume their lives in the outside world. Actually caring for drug offenders by using proper recovery methods and services could prove to be more drastically effective than our current practices. SQ 780 would make these services a possibility for our state, since the subsequent State Question 781 would create services for mental health and rehabilitating drug addicts by using the funds that would accumulate with the approval of SQ 780. For even more incentive to support SQ 780, remember on election day that the application of SQ 781 is completely contingent on the approval of SQ 780. In other words, you can’t have one without the other.
Some may object that by passing SQ 780, we would be letting drug offenders off easy and putting the lives of other citizens in harm’s way, since drug offenders would be charged with a misdemeanor instead of a felony. In reality, this “leniency” is only directed toward those who are drug users, not those who sell or make drugs. Also, the seriousness of felonies would increase since the threshold regarding property crimes would shift from $500 to $1,000. This includes theft, embezzlement, fraud, taking or hiding stolen property and more. In the end, our nation and state have spent too many valuable resources on incarcerating drug offenders and those convicted of property offenses, rather than focusing on how to put a stop to it. To see the first step of change in reforming Oklahoma’s flawed prison system, vote in favor of state questions 780 and 781 in November. Katelyn Howard is a journalism freshman and columnist for The Daily.
Editor’s note: Leading up to election day, we’re publishing opposing arguments for each state question on the ballot.
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approach to crime with prison time in favor of rehabilitation. They did not In the 1976 film “All the simply recategorize borderline felonies into misPresident’s Men,” a condemeanors and take a Hail fidential informant gives Mary approach to the rehatwo journalists some of the best advice ever about bilitation of criminals with whatever savings happened how to advance their into result from not building vestigation: Follow the as many prisons. money. SQ 780 and its comAnd, make no mistake, panion SQ 781 require State Question 780 is not that the state’s Office a question of justice or of Management and of public safety, but of Enterprise Services determoney. Proponents of the SQ 780 and 781 ballot mine how much money was saved each year, then initiatives facing us this place this amount into November are salivatthe County Community ing at the cost savings of Safety Investment Fund over $3 billion claimed whose funds will then be by the Texas Department doled out individually to of Corrections and hopeach county in proporing that similar meation to its overall populasures taken within the Oklahoma legislature will tion. The intent is that the yield similar results. While money will be spent on vocational training, mental a laudable objective and health treatment and drug reasonable expectation, rehab. Sounds good, right? Oklahoma’s plan is noBesides the many questions where near comprehensive enough to meet these I have about how simply adding money into the top assumptions. hole results in lower crime In Texas, supporters rates coming out of the of this successful justice bottom hole, one burning reform have claimed to have saved the state a sub- question vexes me. What stantial amount of money, happens to the offenders while at the same time re- we didn’t put in prison while all this proceeds? sulting in crime rates at a Given that this is all likelow not seen since 1968. ly to occur at “the speed of However, before they changed the law, they first government,” I’ll estimate one year to collect the first conceived a multi-layered plan to save the state set of data, another year to get the money into the fund money by backing off and maybe even out to their notorious hardline curt.collins1@ou.edu
each county, another year for the counties to figure out what exactly they can do with that amount and another year to build everything. You probably see where this is going. Perhaps once they’re out the front gate of the jail we’ll explain all the good things we have planned for them and say something like, “So, you guys all wait over here while we build you some helpful stuff. But, uh, try not to get into any trouble. Okay?” That ought to do it. Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn fears that passing these measures will, among other things, lead to a “revolving door” in our prison system. I tend to agree, but only on the grounds that it is premature. I’m actually very much in favor of these measures, I just need them to occur within the context of a comprehensive plan that does not involve letting these people wander through my neighborhood until the next phase of rehabilitation is ready. People deserve second chances, but we need a better plan first. For myself, I must vote ‘No’ to questions 780 and 781. Whatever you decide, please don’t forget to vote on Nov. 8. It’s a big year. Curt Collins studies mathematics at OU.
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