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Annual average wage of secondary teachers as of May 2015

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Student pursues teaching despite Oklahoma economy CHLOE MOORES • @CHLOEMOORES13

t took a small crisis and one night spent lying awake in bed for education junior EJ Parker to realize his true passion and pursue teaching high school history in Oklahoma. His mom initially told him that he was wasting his time when she found out he had switched his major from journalism to education. “She put a lot of emphasis on me making money because she and my dad did a lot of work to get me where I am now. She said, ‘You deserve more than that,’” he said. Once Parker explained pursuing teaching was for his own happiness, his mom was more receptive to his career choice, but he often runs into criticism from others. “I still get people who say, ‘You want to be a teacher here? If you want to be a teacher, why not move to Texas?’ I don’t want to live in Texas. Nothing against Texas, but this is my home. I’m not going to abandon it,” he said. The budget shortfall in Oklahoma has heavily impacted the state’s education system. The annual mean wage of secondary school teachers in Oklahoma as of May 2015 is $42,960 — the lowest of all 50 states, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. As a graduate of the public school system in Bristow, Oklahoma, Parker feels fortunate to have received his education in a decent school district where parents supported the school system and tried to keep programs running. However, he said he noticed a lack of resources during his first field experience in Little Axe Middle School. “They were kind of pushing it, in terms of resources. It’s a really small school system,” Parker said. “It’s tough, but there are really good educators who are finding

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ways to hold their own to help with these problems, and I tip my hat to them because they love what they do, and they love their students, so they do what they can.” Erin Vaughn, a special education resource teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Norman, graduated from OU’s Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education two years ago. Since graduating, Vaughn has watched a number of her peers move out of state, she said. “I can count on one or two hands how many people have moved to Texas or other places — and not necessarily because they were unhappy with where they were, but (because) they couldn’t provide for themselves,” Vaughn said.

helps alleviate some of her financial stress, allowing her to keep some extra money she can tithe in church and give to nonprofits she cares about, she said. “I worry about the teachers who are like me, who are single — or even single moms — who literally can’t pay their bills because they aren’t being paid enough, but they love what they do, and they’re good at what they do,” Vaughn said. Vaughn said she feels fortunate to work at a school that maintains a positive attitude in the midst of poor funding and the flux of teachers who have decided to challenge Oklahoma legislators for their seats this year. More than 40 teachers filed to run for one of the 126 open

“I don’t want to do this perpetual struggle with our baby girl for all the years to follow. It’s not a case of if the grass is greener, it’s a case of there is grass versus no grass. It is dying on our side.” SHAWN SHEEHAN, NORMAN HIGH SCHOOL ALGEBRA AND SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER

A lack of funding means larger class sizes without teachers’ assistants to give one-on-one attention to students and more pressure put on teachers to bring students up to testing standards while managing behaviors in the classroom, Vaughn said. Vaughn benefits from the OU College of Education’s Debt-Free Teachers program, which was established to increase retainment of teachers in the state, and it subtracts $5,000 from students’ loans every year they teach in Oklahoma after graduation for up to four years or the equivalent to $20,000. She currently plans to teach in Oklahoma for the next two years to continue benefitting from the program. Living with a roommate also

state Senate and House of Representatives seats, according to Education Week. Shawn Sheehan, a Norman High School algebra and special education teacher, is running as an independent for Senate District 15 against incumbent Republican Rob Standridge. Sheehan was Oklahoma Teacher of the Year for the 20152016 school year and one of the four finalists for the 2016 National Teacher of the Year. Sheehan has been teaching for six years and admitted he didn’t pay much attention to the funding situation in Oklahoma until he was teacher of the year and traveled the state. “I went to schools out in very rural places like Anadarko and

Haworth and just kind of small places where I was like, ‘How are you guys doing this?’ We have districts south of us, (such as) Noble and Newcastle, that are going to four days a week, and that’s really not what’s best for kids ... There are a lot of parents who don’t really know what to do with their second grader on Friday,” Sheehan said. Sheehan’s wife, Kaysi Sullivent Sheehan, an AP English teacher at Norman High School, is pregnant with their first child. When the two looked into buying a house, they were disappointed to find out they wouldn’t be able to afford it. “ W hy w ou l d n ’ t I m ove t o Texas?” Sheehan asked. “I don’t want to do this perpetual struggle with our baby girl for all the years to follow,” he said. “It’s not a case of if the grass is greener, it’s a case of there is grass versus no grass. It is dying on our side,” Sheehan said. Although $33 million was appropriated for textbooks in the 2016 fiscal year, legislators cut textbook funds completely for the 2017 fiscal year, according to a release from the Oklahoma State Department of Education in June 2016. “As a result of the funds being cut this year, we are seeing a number of textbook publishers pulling out of Oklahoma,” State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister said in the release. Norman is struggling, but not as badly as kids in Oklahoma City who are using the same textbook for the 12th consecutive year, Sheehan said. He believes Oklahoma legislators aren’t addressing the issues that need to be dealt with. “I didn’t want to believe there are folks out there who are trying see EDUCATION page 2

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WHY TEACHERS ARE LEAVING OKLAHOMA

Teachers are opting for higher wages in bordering states, rather than staying to teach in Oklahoma for an average wage of $42,960.

TEXAS • $53,640

ARKANSAS • $48,600

COLORADO • $52,650

KANSAS • $47,680

NEW MEXICO • $54,590

MISSOURI • $47,960 Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics Note: data is average wages for secondary teachers

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Students react to the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Sept. 26 at the Bizzell Memorial Library. OU Votes hosted debate watch parties in the library for the 2016 election.

Group urges student votes Students work to push their peers to polls for elections KAYLA BRANCH @kayla_branch

OU Votes, a nonpartisan, student-led initiative on campus, aims to raise awareness and interest regarding political matters to OU students. The group, run by four student Civic Engagement Fellows in the Carl Albert Center, co-hosted on-campus presidential debate watch parties and a state question forum and ran voter registration drives around campus throughout this semester. “Our general goal is to get students registered to vote,”

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to dismantle public education, and last year I learned that there are, there really are. There are people who want to implement methods to starve public education in an effort to improve and increase privatized education,” Sheehan said. P r i vat i z e d e d u cat i o n marginalizes students with disabilities because private schools aren’t required to enforce Individualized Education Programs. An IEP is a legalized document educators must fill out for kids who qualify for special education assistance. Privatized education also excludes children with more moderate to extensive behavioral issues, Sheehan said. “This will clearly be a situation of have’s versus have not’s, and public schools will be reserved for the low-income folks, and it will perpetuate these cycles we are trying to break,” Sheehan said. Reviewing the state’s tax policies and finding ways to generate more revenue will be on the top of Sheehan’s priority list as senator, he said. While State Question 779, commonly known a s O U211169A01 P re s i d e nt D av i d B oren’s penny tax proposal, is not a “desirable”

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said Jess Roberts, a Spanish and political science senior and one of the four Civic Engagement Fellows running OU Votes. “What they do with that is up to them — we hope they will vote. But most people don’t know how to start, so we provide them with a way to do so.” And now that the time to register in many states — including Oklahoma — has passed, OU Votes will host an election watch party Nov. 8 to await the results of the presidential election. The group has received attention on campus due to its role in promoting this year’s election, but it is active in non-election years too, said Seth Nightengale, political science and letters sophomore and Civic Engagement Fellow. “Especially on election

option, it is needed in order to provide immediate relief in the form of a $5,000 increase to teachers’ salaries, Sheehan said. Boren’s penny tax proposal is a one percent sales tax increase; c o n s u m e r s w i l l p ay a n extra cent for every dollar they spend. “It is a regressive tax by definition, and so the point that is made is that it affects low-income folks more significantly than others. What also affects low-income folks is having this revolving door of educators,” Sheehan said. Boren has looked into the regressive effects his penny tax proposal could have. “While the sales tax is somewhat regressive, recent studies have found that those in the top quartile economically spend three or four times as much each year as those in the bottom quartile. This reduces the regressive effect,” Boren said in a statement. Ad d i t i o na l l y , p o l l i ng data indicated sales tax had the highest likelihood of passing by popular vote over an income tax or property tax, Boren said. “Education is the main way up for young people who are trapped in poverty. The greatest part of the benefit from better funding for education comes in many cases to lower income groups,” Boren said.

years, we are more visible in a lot of ways because we do election watch parties and things like that,” Nightengale said. “But in any given year, we are turning voter booths and signing people up to vote; we are putting on events similar to the State Question forum, just doing all kinds of things to promote civic engagement and to promote informed citizenship and to enable people to participate in democracy.” During years without presidential elections, OU Votes brings in speakers to talk about relevant topics at events called Pizza and Politics, Roberts said. “Last year we did topics such as immigration, or why we are moving towards an incredibly partisan system and the rise of populism,” Roberts said. “So we’ll do

events like that, with speakers and discussions, to try and get people engaged.” Whether it’s by voting in local or national elections, the group encourages students to get involved, Nightengale said. “I think it’s important we are nonpartisan because OU has such a large student body and you have so many different people that believe so many different things,” Nightengale said. “And in order to serve the university in the best possible way, we need to be as removed from the partisan system as possible.” Providing opportunities for students to learn basic information about the political system is important because it affects everyone, whether they know it or not, said Lorna Vazquez,

assistant director for N.E.W. Leadership for the Women’s Leadership Initiative at the Carl Albert Center and OU Votes adviser. “It ’s so hard to separate politics from real life,” Vazquez said. “You can’t pretend that just being here on campus as a student separates you from the political world. So I think it is really important to get yourself educated, bring your friends to get educated and to go out and vote because you have a right and a duty and it will make a difference in your life.” For more information about OU Votes and the Nov. 8 watch party, visit the organization’s website or Facebook page. Kayla Branch

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Education junior EJ Parker works on a group project during his Oct. 26 class. Parker plans to remain in Oklahoma to teach following his graduation.

“In addition at OU, if State Question 779 does not pass, we will likely be faced not only with forced layoffs of faculty and staff and the cancellation of courses, but also with larger tuition and fee increases on students. This hurts our (low-income) students most of all,” Boren said. Parker notices the education cuts on a collegiate level. He watches his friends fight every day to stay in college, pay their tuition, buy books, find the time to study and be successful in the classroom. He does what he can to

help increase their chances for success. Just last week, Parker ’s friend in Tulsa was short $300 on rent, so Parker helped him out. “I help people study. Even if I don’t have the means to help them, I want to motivate them, encourage them. A little instant feedback can go a long way,” he said. “When someone gets a C on a paper when they got an F prior, I encourage them to improve and tell them ‘Well, next time you will get a B.’ I love it. The greatest feeling is watching other people succeed,” he said.

Parker has thought about working for programs like Teach for America in cities like Detroit and Chicago, but there aren’t many reasons for which he would leave Oklahoma. “I would love to teach AP U.S. History in schools that don’t have it. I might start that up, but if I have to teach on-level history, I’m going to make sure they aren’t getting cheated,” he said. Chloe Moores

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State cuts to colleges and universities were the largest in state history this year! The cut was $153 million. At OU, it resulted in faculty and staff early retirement programs and holding vacant 320 faculty and staff positions. The state share of paying the costs of students to attend OU has shrunk in four decades from 52% to 12% and at the medical school it is at 6%. As the state share shrinks, the cost has been shifted to students and their families. Passing 779 will help ensure that OU can continue the courses and programs we need while slowing tuition and fee increases. It is not a cure- all. It replaces $100 million in recurring funds to help reduce the effects of the $153 million cut this year.

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OU professors develop new, noninvasive therapy BRYCE MCELHANEY @bryce_mac

Two OU professors have developed a non-invasive cancer therapy that targets cancer cells with carbon nanotubes. Biochemical engineering professors Daniel Resasco and Roger Harrison said the therapy has great potential to treat bladder cancer, breast cancer and melanoma. The therapyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s targeting capabilities make it a unique treatment, Harrison said. The nanotubes are singular tubes that have a protein that has a high selectivity for cancer cells and blood vessels that go through the tumor, he said. Harrison said that once the therapy is ready to use in clinical trials, it will most likely first be applied to bladder cancer, a condition OUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biomedical engineering center funded research. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We think that could be the first application, because the nanotubes donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be injected into the bloodstream â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they can be injected into the bladder,â&#x20AC;? he said. The nanotubes are injected into the bladder, then bind to the cancer tumors, Harrison said. Once there, he said, the nanotubes are essentially heated up by near-infrared,

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Nineteen OU student veterans may not have their full government benefits in the spring 2017 semester. The students are waiting to see if the tuition and fees for their degree-required aviation courses will be covered next year, after receiving the necessary funding this semester by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs under the GI Bill. This fall, the OU flight pro gram was approve d

invisible light, and therefore destroy cancer cells. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We think that is the quickest way to apply this; the most rapid route to use would be that way,â&#x20AC;? Harrison said. The carbon nanotubes for this therapy have to be made with exact conditions, Resasco said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The diameter of this tube is 100,000 times thinner than a human hair,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we use a laser with that wavelength, only the nanotubes get hot â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (nothing else) gets hot, so you only kill the cells that are in the tumor,â&#x20AC;? Resasco said. The therapy has been patented internationally with the help of Chris Corbett, an

OU researcher in the technology transfer department, Harrison said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are in the process of contacting companies and having exchanges with them about moving forward. I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at a good point now that we have this strong patent position,â&#x20AC;? Harrison said. The therapy was first discussed between the two professors about eight years ago, Harrison said. Since then, the therapy has been funded by the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science & Technology, the U.S. Department of Defense Cancer Research Program Concept Award and the U.S. Department of Energy,

Harrison said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That really got us ahead of steam, and we could really accomplish a lot. And it was difficult â&#x20AC;&#x201D; you can have an idea, but then you have to put it into practice, so doing it was difficult â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but we did it,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great when you have an idea that turns out to be a good idea, and you can move forward and maybe benefit the public in some way. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great feeling,â&#x20AC;? Harrison said.

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by t h e O k l a h o ma St at e Accrediting Agency, but was initially rejected by the VA, said Taylor Kelling, a political science senior and the director of legislative affairs for OUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Student Veterans Association. He said the VAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to reject OUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flight program left 19 students without the benefit of having their tuition covered. Kelling said the VA eventually reversed its decision on the flight program after pressure from the media and students calling their congressmen. The VA is now covering the tuition and fees for the 19 students for the remainder of the fall semester, he said.

Kelling said the OU administration volunteered to pay the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tuition if they were unable to work something out with the VA. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The university felt as though students were put in a situation that was beyond their control,â&#x20AC;? Matt Hamilton, vice president for Enrollment and Student Financial Services and Bursar, said in a statement provided by OU Press Secretary Corbin Wallace. Ha m i l t o n s a i d i n t h e statement that the university wanted to help the students and hoped the situation would be resolved. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The university would have worked with individual students to provide

scholarship money to cover the necessary costs that were left unfilled,â&#x20AC;? Hamilton said in the statement. Th e p ro c e s s i s o ng o ing and the university will continue to work with the students so they can fulfill graduation requirements, Hamilton said in the statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very excited that OU did that and very proud that OU administration decided to do that,â&#x20AC;? Kelling said. Abby Bitterman abbybitt@ou.edu

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Women’s head basketball coach Sherri Coale at the OU-Kansas football game Saturday. Coale is preparing for her 21st season with the Sooners.

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Coale’s success built on strong local foundation

t was a freezing fall day in No r ma n , O k l a h o ma, i n 1995 and Sherri Coale, the women’s basketball coach for the Norman High School Lady Tigers, found herself inside a stuffy basketball gym, packed with too many bodies for one coach to realistically handle. One of Coale’s players, a senior named Stacy Hansmeyer, was commanding national attention thanks to her season averages of 17 points and nine rebounds per contest. Coaches from all across the country were coming to Norman to see just what it was the forward had to offer. O ne coach in par ticular walked through the doors of the gym and stuck out like a sore thumb. The lapels of his suit jacket were turned up to shield his face from the random snowstorm that was pounding Norman, and he was wearing loafers without socks. Geno Auriemma, the head coach for the University of Connecticut Huskies women’s basketball team, was in town to recruit Hansmeyer. He left with a new name on his mind: Coale. “I had a chance to watch a full practice, and I came away thinking that it was as close to a college program practice as I had ever seen in high school,” Auriemma said. “This level was certainly not the level you normally see at a high school girls program.” Auriemma settled in and observed, praising Coale as a teacher by drawing a distinction between teaching her players the game and just coaching them. In that moment, Coale said, a friendship was born. “I’ll never forget the day that he came to watch (Hansmeyer) because it was snowing sidew ay s, a n d i t w a s l i ke t h i s snowstorm out of the blue in Oklahoma, like all of the sudden it just descended upon us and the wind was blowing,” Coale said, starting to laugh. “He’s got the lapels of his jacket up walking into the gym, and he’s like, ‘What is going on?’ I was like, ‘Who wears shoes with no socks? What are you doing?’” The basketball coach at Norman High School had met one of the giants of her sport — UConn was fresh off the 1995 National Championship

DEREK PETERSON • @DRPETEY15 — mocked his attire and made a lasting impression. STRUGGLES AT OU Elsewhere in Norman, OU’s women’s basketball team was struggling. Five years removed from an eight-day shutdown of the program, the Sooners had experienced sparse success with Gary Hudson (3945 in three seasons) and Burl Plunkett (WNIT appearance). After Plunkett retired following the 1995 season, the Sooners were looking for a spark to their program. Back at Norman High School, Coale was leading her team into the playoffs. The Lady Tigers had lost only once all season, and Coale was focused on a state title. “I remember walking through the teacher’s lounge to get my mail out of the central mailbox, and a couple of guys in the lounge said, ‘Hey, Oklahoma women’s basketball, the job is open.’ I said, ‘What?’ And they said the job was open, and I was busy trying to win a state championship,” Coale said. “I was like, ‘That’s fantastic, or maybe it’s not fantastic, I don’t know, but I’ve got a state championship to win’ ... so the fact that this job was open was like way down the priority list for me.”Coale’s Lady Tigers rolled through the playoffs and dominated thirdranked Sapulpa in the Class 6A State Championship game, beating them 73-35. After that game, some started to pitch Coale on the idea of going after the Sooners’ vacant coaching position. “A group of community folks came to me and said, ‘We want you to apply for this job.’ I said, ‘Are you crazy? I’ve never been a college coach. I don’t have any background there,’ and they said ‘We think you should just apply,’” Coale said. “Eventually I called (then-associate athletic director) Marita (Hynes) and she said that collegiate experience was not a prerequisite, that they were going to hire the best person that they could hire.” Coale was in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing. NEW OPPORTUNITIES Coale was likely on the outside looking in for the Sooners’ vacancy — Hynes admits she

was skeptical of hiring a high school coach for the job. But she kept getting calls from people around the state talking about the upstart coach at Norman High School. Then, Hynes got a particularly memorable call — from Auriemma. Auriemma said Coale was doing things at a high school level that some college coaches don’t do, that she was teaching her players the fundamentals of the game, and they were retaining those fundamentals. When Ha n s m e y e r c o m m i t t e d t o Auriemma’s Huskies, he raved about how sound of a player she was. When it was time for her interview, Coale lived up to the hype. She walked in for her interview, equipped with a writ-

Friday night. Donnie called me at 6:30 on a Saturday morning and said, ‘Who do you want to hire?’ “‘I want to hire Sherri Coale,” she replied. BUILDING A FOUNDATION Coale got right to work, but success didn’t come quickly. First, a foundation for the program needed to be constructed. “People were saying that OU didn’t really care about its women’s basketball team, so they hired a high school coach,” said Jan Ross, a longtime assistant coach under Coale. “I think she heard those things, but she didn’t believe them and didn’t let it change anything she did. She didn’t need any motivation. Her motivation was to make this place great, not to get back at anybody that said anything.”

“If anybody stopped to pay attention to the foundation and the way she was building the foundation, they would see that the program was being positioned for tremendous success way down the road.” JOE CASTIGLIONE, OU ATHLETICS DIRECTOR

ten portfolio that she handed to each of the seven members on the selection committee. It wasn’t a resume but a plan. There were no timelines, but Coale spelled out exactly how she was going to rebuild the program from the ground up. “Sherri came in and told us what she could do for OU women’s basketball and presented a written plan,” Hynes said. “After we interviewed her, we all just kind of sat back and thought, ‘Man, we could all put on tennis shoes right now and go play for her,’ because she was so passionate about the job. “I knew it was going to take a lot of energy and passion to turn that program around. She had it, and she convinced the selection committee that she had it. Donnie Duncan was our athletic director at that time, and I had one more interview to do, and I did it very late on a

Turning Oklahoma into a great program started with seemingly the simplest of things. “I remember in the middle of January in the first year, celebrating the fact that we went through a two-hour practice,” Coale said, remembering her first season at OU, a 5-22 campaign and the worst record Coale ever endured. “The little private victories came way before the public ones. It took us until January to really figure out how to be engaged and be intense and be productive for two hours at a practice period. “There was a culture that we were creating — a way we were going to be, a way we were going to behave, a way we were going to treat people — and everything had to be established. Everything had to be built from a foundation.” Joe Castiglione, the Sooners’

current athletics director, hadn’t yet taken over — he wouldn’t until 1998 — but he could see through the trees from the outside. “If anybody stopped to pay attention to the foundation and the way she was building the foundation, they would see that the program was being positioned for tremendous success way down the road,” Castiglione said. “She was recruiting players that were buying in to the vision she had for the program.” The frustration came in year two, when Coale finished 8-19, her second straight losing record. “That second year she was so frustrated, she had had some good recruits come in, and still we’re not having a very successful season, and she’d be sitting down in the tunnel after a game and be, you know, kind of crying,” Hynes said. “It was hard, it was hard for her, and I thought she might give up on it, but she didn’t. We would have long talks after games and things, and I kept just encouraging her to take it one step at a time.” CASTIGLIONE’S PLAN Castiglione officially took over in 1998, right before Coale began her third season. He doesn’t remember their first official meeting, but he clearly remembers the ice breaker that took place that July. The team was hosting a preseason tipoff event, and Coale had planned a skit for the team to perform. The premise behind the show was that the returning players would be welcoming the new ones in; it was a quirky way to build team chemistry in advance of the season. At the last moment, Coale pulled Castiglione onto the stage to be a part of it. “They used a spoof of ‘The Brady Bunch’ in the skit to try and metaphorically make this point, so they had different people playing the different characters in ‘The Brady Bunch,’” Castiglione said. “You know how at the beginning of the show, there are nine boxes and they just have the faces in all the boxes? They made this little prop, and they had nine boxes, and they asked me to be a part of the skit, so I was Mike Brady and Sherri was Carol. When the music started I thought, ‘What have I gotten myself into?’”

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• October 31-November 2, 2016

SHERRI COALE’S IMPACT ON OU BASKETBALL Look back at how Sherri Coale has affected the OU women’s basketball team.

1990:

Oklahoma women’s basketball program briefly shut down before reinstated eight days later.

1995:

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Athletic director Joe Castiglione hugs women’s basketball head coach Sherri Coale during the OU-Kansas football game Saturday. Coale began coaching at OU in 1996.

COALE: Continued from page 5

Coale said the skit proved to her that Castiglione was committed and was “all in” with her and her program. “He didn’t have to do that, looking back on it,” she said. “It was funny at the time — it’s even funnier looking back on it now — and we did the squares where you open them up, and it was hysterical, and he played right along.” Later that year, Coale returned the favor, show ing Castiglione she had faith in him. He was looking to renovate the men’s and women’s basketball facilities. When he arrived on campus, the women’s locker room was up a flight of stairs. Castiglione took Coale and then-men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson to visit key donors and ask for a small donation to get the renovations off the ground. Castiglione had

one surprise, though. “Joe (Castiglione) waited until coach Sampson and he and I got until about halfway from Norman to Ardmore to tell us that we were actually going to thank them for having us, but we were not going to make them ask, we were going to tell them ‘no thank you’ for the gift because we were going to come back and ask them for another gift later,” Coale remembered. “What Joe was doing was teaching us about the power of vision. His idea for our basketball complex was not a couple hundred thousand dollars worth of renovations. It was a $16.8 million facility, which is what we have here (now).” That facility that Castiglione pushed for was one of the first of its kind. At that time, not many universities had individual facilities for their men’s and women’s teams. Coale was on board with the new plan, and Castiglione was blown away by the amount of trust she was placing in him.

Coale saw it as the ultimate sign of support and respect. NEAR THE MOUNTAINTOP In her third season, Coale’s Sooners won 15 games and punched a ticket to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament. The next year, Coale went 25-8 and took the program to the Sweet 16. By 2002, Coale had the Sooners playing for a national title against Auriemma and the Huskies. Coale’s teams have made the NCAA tournament every single season since. She’s won 20 games or more 13 times since the turn of the century. Coale has now been a part of the women’s basketball program for nearly half of its existence — she’s preparing for her 21st season — and to her contemporaries, she’s had as big an impact on her sport as Auriemma, a man who has won more national championships than any other coach in collegiate basketball history. “O ne of her strengths is this cross between her own

selflessness and an insatiable desire to learn,” Castiglione said. “Taking what she learns and mentoring those around her, with her staff, and obviously the culture that she creates with each team. That’s a yearto-year commitment. You can’t just do it once, and it carries on and on and on. You have to do things differently each year.” Ross said Coale still has the same goals as when she to took the job. Sh e wa nt s t o t e a c h ; s h e wants to be a mentor. “ He r p a s s i o n i s t o g row young women, not just basketball players but grow young women. She does that by growing herself,” Ross said. “She’s always staying up on stuff and new ways to teach and paying attention to what they need. She’s just amazing at being able to teach young people and at the same time learn herself.” Derek Peterson

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“One of her strengths is this cross between her own selflessness and an insatiable desire to learn.” JOE CASTIGLIONE, ATHLETICS DIRECTOR

Conneticut coach Geno Auriemma visits Norman to recruit player Stacy Hansmeyer, meets Sherri Coale

1996:

Coale hired at Oklahoma

1999:

Coale earns her first winning season at Oklahoma, advancing to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament

2002:

Oklahoma advances to the national title game

2009:

Oklahoma makes Coale’s second Final Four

2010:

Oklahoma makes Coale’s third Final Four

2016:

Coale inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame

Defense glimpses future in young Sooners DeBerry, Kelly gain needed experience against Kansas JESSE POUND @jesserpound

On a night that didn’t reveal much about its current team, No. 16 Oklahoma (6-2, 5-0 Big 12) got a long look at some young defensive players that the Sooners hope will be key cogs in the coming years. Oklahoma had no trouble with hapless Kansas (1-7, 0-5 Big 12), ending the night with an easy 56-3 victory. But two freshmen linebackers, Caleb Kelly and Ricky DeBerry, were on the field to start the game, and they stayed there much of the night, gaining some much-needed experience.

“I want to make a lot of plays and do whatever I can to help the team win. Just do what I can, everything coach Mike (Stoops) has been teaching me, I just knew I had to put it all out there on the field.” RICKY DEBERRY, FRESHMAN LINEBACKER

“All the time we’re talking about ‘We’ve got to be the future. We’ve got to do this, we’ve got to do that,’” Kelly said. “And it was cool because we both went in the same personnel (group). We both started, too, so it was a real special moment together.”

Kelly, who has had a limited role most of the season, finished with two tackles and a pass break up on the night. DeBerry, who has seen almost no action this season behind Ogbonnia Okoronkwo, had three tackles, one of them for a loss, and a quarterback hurry. “They all did a really nice job,” coach Bob Stoops said of the outside linebackers. “Ricky did a really good job. Caleb played well. Kapri (Doucet) did really well.” DeBerry made the first start of his career due to an injury to Okoronkwo. “Just anxious, very anxious,” DeBerry said of his first start. “I want to make a lot of plays and do whatever I can to help the team win. Just do what I can, everything coach Mike (Stoops) has been teaching me, I just knew I had to put it all out there on the field. I know everything I needed to know.” Both DeBerry and Kelly said they’ve had to make a mental adjustment to not playing as much as they did in high school, but they’ve been learning from watching those above them on the depth chart. “Being behind a guy like (Okoronkwo) who’s great on the field and makes a lot of plays, all I do is keep learning from him and add a little bit to my game,” DeBerry said. “So when I get my chance out there, I’ll make the same plays as well.” Both Kelly and DeBerry were highly-rated recruits. DeBerry, out of Mechanicsville, Virginia, was considered one of the gems of the 2015 class before redshirting last season. Kelly, a five-star recruit

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Freshman linebacker Ricky DeBerry waits for the snap during the homecoming game against Kansas Saturday. DeBerry had three tackles in the game.

by two recruiting services, came to Norman from Fresno, California, as part of the 2016 class. “Ricky’s a very steady player,” defensive coordinator Mike Stoops said. “I like Ricky. I think he’s very smart. We need to find the right spot for him where he can continue to develop and help our defense … I think he played really well

for a first start.” The Sooners used a variety of defensive packages against Kansas, getting experience to several younger players that may be thrust into games down the stretch due to injuries. Developing younger players was something Mike Stoops has said the coaching staff didn’t do well early in the season.

“Just trying to get guys (in), tr ying to build experience and get guys to develop,” Mike Stoops said. “That’s where we’ve struggled, developing some of the younger players ... but it was good (against Kansas). It was a good start.” Jesse Pound

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ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT

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Spook yourself with five video games The horror genre has been relatively stale in the 21st century. Cheaply-made jump-scare horror films have dominated the industry with great horror films like “It Follows” being few and far between. The horror video game genre has picked up some of the slack. With Halloween approaching, scary video games are more relevant than ever. Here are five spooky video games I recommend for your Halloween night. MAX ROOT • @MAXWELLDALLAS

“Alien: Isolation” — PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows “Alien: Isolation” is an action-adventure survival horror video game developed by the Creative Assembly. Based off of Ridley Scott’s “Alien” movie series, the game follows Amanda Ripley, daughter

of movie protagonist Ellen Ripley. Amanda must survive on board a spacecraft with a killer alien called a “xenomorph” on the loose. The alien is randomly spawned, which creates suspenseful gameplay.

It also features a ‘70s vision of how the world would look, drawing even more similarities to the “Alien” series. It’s a definite must-play for fans of the movies. I recommend it to everyone, though.

“Amnesia: The Dark Descent” — Windows, Mac and Linux “A m n e s i a : T h e D a r k Descent” is a first person survival horror game developed by Frictional Games. It follows protagonist Daniel as he explores an eerie castle full of various monsters

and puzzles. With his memor y deliberately erased by himself, he must travel to the inner sanctum of the castle to kill the baron, Alexander. The game was received well by both critics

and users and won numerous awards. If you’re going to attempt to play any game on Halloween, try your luck with this one. You will regret it in the best way possible.

“Don’t Starve” — PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, Windows, iOS, Android, PlayStation Vita, Mac and Linux As the most inventive game on the list, “Don’t Starve” is a top-down survival horror game with a Tim Burton aesthetic. Trapped in a mysterious wilderness, the player

must find resources, food and weapons. Surprises and freaky monsters are scramble throughout the large map. The game guarantees to please, even after months

forest, the player must lo- pale, faceless being, creeps cate eight pieces of paper. closer and closer. The game As more pages are collect- is simple and creepy. ed, Slender Man, a tall,

“Dead by Daylight” — Windows Fo r t h e s l a s h e r f a n s, “Dead by Daylight” is a 4v1 co-op survival game where one player assumes the role of “killer,” while everyone

else must try to survive. To beat the killer, players must jump-start generators around the map. Suspenseful and eerie, the

game forces players to work together in a heart-pounding sequence of hide and go seek.

Tips to extend pumpkin’s life Best products to help jack-o’-lanterns stay fresher longer KAELAN DEESE @RedNPinkFish

Creative pumpkin carving is one of the most enjoyable aspects of the Halloween s eas on. Unfor tunately, carved pumpkin creations are quick to mold and rot. Here is one home remedy to keep your pumpkin in pristine condition. To start, no matter what solution is being used, it is important to coat the surface and insides of the pumpkin thoroughly. The easiest and most effective way to treat a pumpkin is by simply using three common household products: bleach, Vaseline and borax. The bleach should be carefully coated across all surfaces of the pumpkin to

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Bleach, Vaseline and borax are three simple home ingredients that help keep a pumpkin from rotting. Pumpkins, alter they are carved, take about five to 10 days to rot, according to NPR.

kill the bacteria that would normally cause rotting. Remember to get the mouth and eyeholes, as well! After the bleach has somewhat dried, Vaseline should be applied to the interior of the pumpkin to prevent further drying, for this can be an undesirable effect if this step is not taken. For an optional last step, borax can be placed on the

of play. “Don’t Starve” is impressive in many ways, with special mention of its setting. With its color tones, graphics and setting, no other game makes you feel more alone.

“Slender: The Eight Pages” — Microsoft Windows and Mac

“Slender : The Eight Pag e s” i s a n i n d i e f i r st p e r s o n su r v i va l h o rror game. Set in a dense

inside surfaces post-vaseline. This helps to ward off any bugs that may still find their way in. And that’s all it takes! Keep those jack-o’-lanterns looking strong with these simple steps. Visit chemistry.about.com for more pumpkin preserving ideas. Kaelan Deese

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1. A screenshot from “Dead by Daylight’s” official trailer. The multiplayer game was released June 2016. 2. From YouTube user BlackSilverUfa Twitch’s “Amnesia: Dark Descent” video. The game was originally released September 2010. 3. A screenshot from YouTube user Killboy520 playing “Alien: Isolation.” The game was originally released in October 2014. 4.”Slender: The Eight Pages” was released in June 2012. Slender is a survival horror game. 5. A screenshot from the early-access beta trailer for “Don’t Starve.” The wilderness survival game was originally released April 2013.

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OPINION

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State spews false, ugly rhetoric OU’s Muslim group not ‘jihadists’ that politicians claim

society. They are part of a vibrant, active university community spearheading an upcoming Unity Conference at OU, along THE EDITORIAL with the Iranian Cultural BOARD Association, Black Student Association, Hispanic O n Oct. 25, Muslim A m e r i c a n S t u d e n t Oklahomans were remind- Association and Student ed once again that our state Government Association. remains a hotspot of deOU MSA’s members have famatory and disparaging supported CAIR’s efforts rhetoric. to mobilize Muslim voters, I n a n i n t e r i m s t u d y holding events on campus presented to the House to encourage nonpartiJ u d i c i a r y a n d C i v i l san political participation. P ro c e d u re C o m m i t t e e, They have brought their State Rep. John Bennett stunningly diverse array of asserted American lead- cultural and religious celeers’ obligation to under- brations to campus, despite stand “radical Islam and the threat of retaliation how American citizens are from bigots like Guandolo being radicalized here in a n d R e p . B e n n e t t . Oklahoma as well as the O U ’s M u s l i m S t u d e n t rest of America.” Association is not In front of repa radical jihadist resentatives group. We reject efOur View is from the Council the majority forts to paint them opinion of on Americanas such. The Daily’s Islamic Relations It is b oth puznine-member and other memzling and daneditorial board g e r o u s t o s t r i bers of the Muslim commudently ass ociate nity, he went on groups like CAIR to say: “The enemy is in the and OU’s Muslim Student wire. Some of them are in Association with radical this room today.” ter ror. Of the deadliest A fellow presenter, an- mass shootings in the U.S. ti-Muslim website found- since 2014, only three iner and retired U.S. Marine, volved a suspect related John Guandolo, also stat- to or motivated by “radical ed that Muslim commu- Islam,” according to The nity groups and Muslim Washington Post and the student associations on Gun Violence Archive. The Oklahoma’s college cam- rest? Often perpetrated — puses constitute a “jihadist at an alarming rate — by network” in our state, re- white men, according to ported KOSU. CNN and Mother Jones. The members of There is a conversaO U ’s M u s l i m S t u d e n t tion to be had surroundAssociation are not terror- ing mass shootings and ists. They are not subver- political violence in the sive radicals who intend to U.S. However, based off infiltrate our university and statistical analysis, there

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State Representative John Bennett plans to file legislation prohibiting terrorist organizations from operating within Oklahoma. Bennett was elected in 2011.

is no reason to consider Muslims disproportionate antagonists. Would Guandolo welcome compar isons between himself and Frank Roque, Jim David Adkisson or the Ku Klux Klan? He most likely would not, and such correlations are never reflexively invoked to begin with. When acts of terror are even tangentially connected to radical Islam, mainline faithful are forced to defend their religious and cultural aversion to violence. The same is never asked of other groups. If there is any small hope to be gained from this incident, it is the outpouring of support the Muslim community has received from citizens across our state

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UNITY SYMPOSIUM The Muslim Student Association, the Iranian Student Association, the Black Student Association, the Hispanic Student Association and the Student Government Association will host a unity symposium Tuesday and Wednesday.

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• President Boren: 4:00

• Vice President Stroud: 4:00

• Dr. RC Davis: 4:30 • GIVE AWAY: 5:00 • Chief Smith: 5:15 • GIVE AWAY: 5:45 • Capt. Goolsby: 6:00 • GIVE AWAY: 6:30 • State Rep Panel: 6:45 • DINNER: 7:30

• Dr. Alavi: 4:30 • GIVE AWAY: 5:00 • Imam Enchassi: 5:15 • GIVE AWAY: 5:45 • Student Panel: 6:00 • GIVE AWAY: 6:30 • Dr. Chapman: 6:45 • DINNER: 7:30

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and nation. As allies, we cannot speak for them; we can only speak in solidarity with them and hope that this expression motivates those who have as yet remained silent to stand up and speak out. Words matter. They have the power to heal and build br idg es, as the Muslim Student Association’s efforts have demonstrated so clearly on our campus. Words also have the power to wound. They have the power to perpetuate ignorance and even incite violence. Rep. Bennett and Guandolo’s words do not inspire kindness, compassion or decency, and they have no place on our campus or in our state.

SCREENSHOT FROM NEWSTALK KGVO’S VIDEO VIA YOUTUBE

John Guandolo is the founder of the website “Understanding the Threat.” Guandolo called Muslim student associations at OU and other universities terrorist-linked organizations.

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