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Biology and letters sophomore Muneeb Ata prays on the South Oval Sept. 21. Ata practices Islam.
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Health and exercise science senior Hope Atiya worships in a chapel Sept. 21. Atiya is a practicing Catholic.
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Speech pathology sophomore Bella Silberg worshipping on the South Oval Sept. 28. Silberg is Jewish.
What religion means to four OU students
uneeb Ata rises at dawn each day in prayer. Hope Atiya worships in the pews at her church for an hour every day. Bella Silberg celebrates the new year with her family in September. Tyler Dang walks in quiet and solitary devotion. On a campus of thousands, these four students have one thing in common: faith. Ata, Atiya, Silberg and Dang were each raised in separate religions, but all four grew up with faith and tradition passed down from their families. And at a time when 18 to 29-year-olds are the least likely of any age group to be engaged in faith or belief, all four found their faith in their own way as they entered high school and college. For these OU students, faith is everything: a tradition, a community, a family, an anchor. MUNEEB ATA The year he arrived at OU, Muneeb Ata took a break from his faith. The biology and letters sophomore, raised Muslim since birth, was ready to find the truth for himself. “I went on this little period of just trying, looking at all religions, looking into different faiths, looking into science, stuff like that, and it all led me back to Islam,” Ata said. Ata partially credits his brief departure from the faith to being
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a part of the wrong community of Muslim believers, those who didn’t represent Islam’s true values. But he attributes his return to the miracles he found in Islam and the Quran. “I read a lot of great writing and I also learn a lot about science, and in the Quran, there’s a lot of science and there’s a lot of great writing — it’s actually a linguistic miracle,” Ata said. “So the more I read the Quran, the more I fall in love with it a bit more every time I read it.” Growing up Muslim in Oklahoma and Alabama was once a burden for Ata, who was always aware he might be the only Muslim some people would ever meet, the one to dismantle negative stereotypes surrounding his faith. Today, Ata would say that duty is a privilege. “It used to be a burden, but now it’s very humbling, in a way — like I have something greater than me to kind of represent,” Ata said. Ata’s religion does reflect a low percentage of Oklahoma’s population — less than 1 percent of Oklahomans identify as Muslim. 2017 is also an increasingly difficult time to be Muslim. According to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights group, there were 91 percent more hate crimes in the U.S. during the first half of 2017 than there were during the same period in 2016. For Ata, that lack of representation and abundance of misunderstanding surrounding his faith is a motivator to represent
Islam as best as he can. Still, he notices others’ common misconceptions. “ Mu s l i m s a re n ’ t s e x i st — that’s one misconception that people have,” Ata said. “So it’s just something that is kind of odd to me — I guess culturally, there are a lot of countries that are sexist in a way, but (in) Pakistan, we’ve had a woman be head of state twice. America has never had that.” Today, Ata’s faith is rooted in testimony — of what he sees as God’s work in his life and in the world around him. Ata, born in Pakistan with little hope of progress and brought to America by his father’s pursuit of education and career, said his life story is one that draws him back to God. “I see God in everything — I look around me at the university, I look around me at my homework and I’m like, ‘okay, this is organic chemistry — look what God created,’” Ata said. “And for the life of me, I may not like O-chem, but I can appreciate it a bit more. “I was created, and everything around me was created too, so I’m here for a reason, and that gets me through the day, that makes me want to be better, that makes me want to go do things for other people that God created.” HOPE ATIYA Hope Atiya’s church gave her a place to start over with her faith. For the health and exercise science senior, St. Thomas More, a Catholic church just steps from OU’s campus, offered her space
and guidance to rediscover the tenants and heart of the religion she’d grown up with. W h i l e At iya i s a s e l f-p ro claimed “cradle Catholic,” baptized into the faith as a baby, she didn’t find her own sense of faith until college. Growing up, she attended mass and claimed Catholicism because it was something her family did, but attending St. Thomas More made her realize how little she knew about her faith. “It challenged me to dive deeper into the faith and to learn what the teachings of the Catholic church were, so I had answers to tell my friends, ‘Oh yeah, this is why we believe what we believe,’” Atiya said. “And so once I started really diving into the teachings of the faith, it just opened up a whole new world to me really, of just how beautiful the faith was.” Atiya credits the start of her journey at St. Thomas More to the friends who originally invited her during her freshman year, but also to those who have mentored and taught her along the way. She now helps lead a Bible study of her own and mentors another student in the church, she said. Though Oklahoma is overwhelmingly Christian, the state is only 8 percent Catholic. Atiya said while OU is a welcoming place to practice her faith, she has encountered misconceptions about Catholicism here. “I think a misconception is that Catholics worship Mary, and that’s definitely not the case — we venerate her in the sense
that we give her so much honor ... one of (Jesus’) commandments is to honor your father and mother … he honored his mother, our lady, and held her in such high regard that we should imitate him in that aspect and honor her as well,” Atiya said. But Atiya wants to answer questions — she’s passionate not only about her personal faith, but about sharing it, especially as the world around her becomes more politically and ideologically divided. “ I t h i n k r ig ht n ow e ve r y body, whoever they might be, is just desiring to be loved and to seek love,” Atiya said. “I know that I experience that from the Catholic church, and from this community here, just encouraging me to deepen my faith.” BELLA SILBERG The greatest moment of clarity in Bella Silberg’s faith came when she was farthest from home — when she was in Israel her sophomore year of high school finding her Jewish identity. The speech pathology sophomore was raised Jewish, but didn’t find roots in her faith until that trip to Israel. “A lot of people are scared to go to Israel ... my parents were scared to send me, but whenever I was there I just felt at home and at peace,” Silberg said. While Silberg established a strong connection to her Jewish community throughout high see FAITH Page 2
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school in Tulsa and through that trip, she’s had a more difficult time acclimating to Jewish life at OU. “Just the small community of Tulsa was so tight-knit that that’s what I really wanted to gain at OU, but it’s just been hard adjusting with school and college and everything going on,” Silberg said. Silberg does have a faith community available near campus — at the corner of Elm Avenue and Boyd Street sits OU’s Hillel, a national Jewish college outreach and community. Since the nearest temple and synagogue are in Oklahoma City, Hillel also welcomes the broader Norman Jewish community for practice and celebration. But being in college doesn’t always offer Silberg the opportunity to practice her faith as she desires. The first night of 2017’s Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, Silberg missed festivities to take a physics test. While Silberg may not always have time to spend at Hillel or opportunities to attend services and prayers, she still cherishes her faith as something unique and individual that doesn’t bind her to any one type of practice. Expression of faith
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varies from person to person within the Jewish community, Silberg said, and those differences come without judgement. “That’s what really, I love about Judaism ... I don’t necessarily feel bad when I can’t make a service, because I know that I can always pray on my own and I’m not judged for doing things differently, and that’s really important to me,” Silberg said. “When it comes to praying in the Jewish religion, a lot of people do things differently — some people will chant it to a different rhythm, or they’ll stand, or they’ll sit, and it’s just really an individual basis.” As with Islam, Judaism still faces violence and hate beyond simple misconceptions. 2016 represented a 34 percent jump in anti-Semitic incidents from 2015, with 30 percent of those instances, which include threatening speech, assault and vandalism, occurring in November and December 2016. AntiSemitic and white nationalist flyers appeared across OU’s campus in spring 2017. But hateful political or social attitudes toward Judaism don’t affect Silberg’s conception of her religion, she said — she’s proud to show her faith. Silberg is outspoken about her religion and heritage, and usually wears external reminders of her faith like a
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Political science economic junior Tyler Dang sits on a bench outside the Honors College Sept. 28. Dang is a practicing Buddhist.
Star of David necklace. “I even have a ring that states in Hebrew, ‘this too shall pass’ ... it’s just a good reminder that every struggle you go through, you will get through it with faith and love and support from everyone around you,” Silberg said. TYLER DANG Tyler Dang feels alone. The economics and political science junior has friends and community at OU. But Dang is Buddhist and has yet to find many others who share his faith on his campus. “The necessity of being a college student has forced me to realize what Buddhism means to me
personally, I guess, and try to internalize ways where I can actually practice it in this environment,” Dang said. “It’s difficult at times, and sometimes it’s a very solitar y pursuit, but for me at least, I find it to be a worthwhile endeavor.” Buddhism has no active student group or nearby center of worship at OU — the temple Dang attends irregularly is about an hour from Norman. He can’t help but feel the loneliness when friends of other religions go to prayer groups or Bible studies, or when he’s the only Buddhist in the room and feels the need to represent an entire religion. Still, coming to college has been Dang’s greatest
moment of spiritual realization. Raised “culturally Buddhist” as a Vietnamese American, Dang reconnected to the heritage and truth in his faith as he began to learn about it for himself and experienced what he calls his “coming to Buddha moment.” “It really happened in college, when I was really confronted with what it meant to be Buddhist, and that’s where I started to delve more into the actual text and I started to delve more into the actual philosophies,” Dang said. “And I found a way to connect it back to what my parents or my grandparents and what my ancestors really believed … i t g rou n d s m e i n my
community, my family and who I really am.” With Dang’s solitude in his faith come myriad misconceptions about Buddhism from those around him — that it’s just a philosophy, that it’s nothing but meditation, that Buddhism is not as serious a religion as the Abrahamic faiths. “It’s a way of life. It’s a religion just like any other religion, and I think people who call it a philosophy almost degrade it in a way in that it’s not necessarily positioned to be with the other great religious traditions of the world,” Dang said. But even if Dang can’t make it to temple and doesn’t have a Buddhist community to turn to, his faith is manifested in his actions and thought process. “It’s not necessarily like you go to church ever y Sunday — it’s more where I try to make sure that all of the major decisions and even the minor ones, too, just conform with the value systems that Buddhism has taught me,” Dang said. “In many cases, that’s trying to find a way to be selfless, that’s trying to find a way to apply myself to the greater world and truly make a difference, however cheesy that sounds.” Emma Keith
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OU student arrested, will face felony charge Dawson Rogers threatened to kill people in local bar STAFF REPORTS
An OU student has been charged with a felony and misdemeanor after sending text messages threatening to kill himself and others at a Campus Corner bar, according to cour t records. Dawson Don Rogers was charged Friday with planning to perform an act of violence and placing an obscene and threatening phone call. He was booked into the Cleveland County Detention Center on Monday and bonded out the same day, jail officials said. The incident was first reported by KFOR. Rogers allegedly sent a text message Sept. 24 to a victim saying “ I’m killing ever yone at 7s,” in reference to popular bar Seven47 on Campus Corner, “including myself.” Another message said, “IM COMING RN YOU BETTER GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE,” according to the affidavit dated Sept. 28. Rogers sent more than 200 text messages to the victim between Sept. 21 and Sept. 26, according to the affidavit. The victim perceived the messages as a threat to her life, the affidavit states. Police found a 9mm handgun with two magazines capable of holding several rounds of ammunition at the residence where Rogers was placed in protective custody, according to the affidavit. Rogers lives in a house two blocks from the South Oval, according to the warrant. According to OUPD web
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OU student Dawson Rogers was arrested Oct. 2 and faces criminal charges after allegedly sending text messages threatening to kill himself and others at a Campus Corner bar.
l o g s, a re p o r t wa s f i r s t made to police on Sept. 26. Rogers was placed into emergency custody that day and taken to Red Rock Behavioral Health Services, said Major Bruce Chan with OUPD. OU press secretary Matt Epting said that while federal law prohibits the university from commenting on the status of any individual student, the university’s protocol in situations like this is to temporarily suspend and trespass a student from campus until more information is available and a more thorough determination can be
made. “The university is aware of the situation, is coordinating closely with OUPD and has taken all necessary steps to maintain the safety of our campus,” Epting said in an email. Staff Reports
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Fraternity accused of hazing Lawsuit alleges OU Beta Theta Pi mistreated pledge NICK HAZELRIGG @nickhazelrigg
A former OU student has filed a personal injury complaint against Beta Theta Pi fraternity and two of its members involved in an alleged hazing incident and its subsequent cover-up. Former OU student Blake Novacek filed the petition in Tulsa County Court Sept. 29, 2017, in connection to an October 2015 incident in which he claims to have suffered “serious bodily injury” when struck by a bat and knocked unconscious during a fraternity initiation ritual, court documents show. The petition calls for punitive damages against OU students Shane Muselmann and Gavin Martindale, Beta Theta Pi Corporation of Oklahoma, the OU chapter of Beta Theta Pi and Beta Theta Pi, all accused of negligence and civil conspiracy. Muselmann and Martindale are also accused of intentional infliction of emotional distress, in addition to Beta Theta Pi, BTP corporation and the local chapter being accused of vicarious liability and negligence, according to court documents. The documents allege that Novacek, a Beta Theta Pi pledge at the time of the incident, was called to the fraternity house, where more than 100 members and alumni were gathered, with other pledges in the early morning hours of Oct. 11, 2015. The fraternity members allegedly blindfolded the pledges, put pillowcases over their heads and took them to individual members’ rooms within the fraternity house. Novacek was allegedly taken to the room of Muselmann, a member since January 2015 and current leader within the chapter,
The Beta Theta Pi Fraternity house pictured at 800 Chautauqua Ave. Sept. 6, 2016. A lawsuit was recently filed against the fraternity.
who was allegedly “heavily intoxicated” at the time of the incident. Muselmann showed him a video of hogs being slaughtered and asked him to recite “pledge facts,” according to the petition. When Novacek could not recall the information, Muselmann allegedly “became enraged” and swung a baseball bat into Novacek’s abdomen. Novacek was knocked unconscious when he fell backward and hit his head on a hard object, and woke up hours later on a couch, according to the petition. Martindale, a Beta Theta Pi fraternity member since January 2015, allegedly told Novacek “to keep his mouth shut” about the incident, or the fraternity would “ruin his and his family’s reputation,
damage his property and have him kicked out of school,” the petition states. Several months later, the fraternity’s pledge class president asked Novacek not to file a report about the incident, to which Novacek agreed. His car was then vandalized the next day, according to the petition. The petition alleges that Beta Theta Pi “tolerates hazing ceremonies among its chapters and has failed to act to prevent pledges from being injured by fraternity hazing.” The court documents say the defendants’ negligence caused “serious bodily injury, such as traumatic brain injury, physical pain and suffering, permanent disability, past and future medical expenses, past and future
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emotional distress and loss of wages and future earning capacity.” The petition states that the actions of the two fraternity members were “atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized society.” Muselmann said the lawsuit was a surprise that he intends to refute. “This suit and these allegations came as a complete surprise to me,” Muselmann said in an email statement. “The allegations against me are completely false, and I have no idea why they are being made. I intend to aggressively fight this suit and
defend my reputation.” Martindale also said the suit was unexpected and unfounded, and he will be seeking defense. “I’m bewildered by this lawsuit,” Martindale said in an email. “The allegations are entirely untrue, and I’m mystified why this person is making these claims against me. To be honest, I’m angry about this, and I will be hiring a lawyer to aggressively defend me against these baseless accusations.” Zach Allen, president of the housing corporation for Beta Theta Pi at the University of Oklahoma, said
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in an email that the group had not heard of the allegations until Oct. 2 and plans to contest the lawsuit. “While we are mystified by the plaintiff ’s motivations, we do firmly believe that the subject allegations are false and that the suit’s claims are entirely without merit,” Allen said in the email. “We are offended by the allegations, we intend to vigorously contest this action by all legal means at our disposal, and we are confident of vindication.” Nick Hazelrigg
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Student voices get snubbed Editorial Board It took less than two weeks for OU students to get shorted in the search for a new president. On Tuesday, the Undergraduate Student Congress unanimously approved SGA President J.D. Baker’s selections to nominate as members of the search committee — selections Baker said he made by himself in under 24 hours after receiving nowtice from the Board of Regents on Oct. 2 that he had one week to find nominees. There is a lot of blame to go around. Some of it rests with us at The Daily. We had read the regents’ policy manual about the search committee, but we failed to press for clarification on how those nominees would be selected. The manual specifies that the faculty, staff and student governance organizations will choose the nominees, but, for students, that could encompass several organizations. We should have figured out how the process would work. Some of it also rests with Baker. While we applaud
his decision to put his nominees up for congressional vote — something he did not have to do — the end result does not make students feel represented. Realistically, there was no way Student Congress could have done anything but rubberstamp the selections. Baker was put in a tough position, but many students don’t feel represented by SGA, and low voter turnout in the presidential election and little public debate makes the idea that these selections have been “vetted� by the student body a dubious one. Picking his own vice president, a student congress leader and graduate and law school student government leaders will elicit eye rolls from most of campus. Most of the blame, however, lies with the regents. There are more than 25,000 students on the Norman campus. The idea that any process could choose four people for the search committee in a week while making the process inclusive is ridiculous. The regents do not even have to listen to the search committee in the
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The Board of Regents met Oct. 1 at OU’s Health Science Center to discuss the presidential search committee.
end, but starting off the search process with chaotic, unrealistic deadlines does nothing but create animosity to the board and their eventual choice for David Boren’s successor. Before we knew anything about this search
process, we were skeptical. The Board of Regents are appointed by the governor. Gov. Mary Fallin has overseen massive budget cuts to higher education, and we have serious concerns that the decision for the next president will
not be in the best interest of students. Now that the process has begun, we are even more concerned. The little power that students have is already being trampled, and we expect it to get worse as the process goes along.
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Gun laws must change now CLASSIFIEDS Las Vegas has been named the worst mass shooting in modern American history, but this has changed four times in my lifetime of only 19 years. People showed their greater concern for guns than lives after the Sandy Hook massacre. If someone didn’t want to change the laws then, after tiny innocent children who will never live to see prom or a family of their own died, then they showed what they really care about. This shouldn’t have happened. Yes, we all have the right to bear arms, but the caliber of our weaponry is exponentially greater than it was when the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution in 1791. As a civilian, there is absolutely no need for anyone to have a semi-automatic weapon. In an article from the Huffington Post, there is a video of people altering their semi-automatic weapons to “mimic automatic firing – without breaking any laws.� Keep your other guns for hunting, keep them for self-defense, but no one needs a weapon that can make the worst mass shooting in American history possible. Weapons themselves don’t kill people. A gun cannot pick itself up and pull its own trigger, but civilians don’t need a trigger that can rapid-fire over thousands of people. Walking around campus
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Growing up in Las Vegas, my mom worked graveyard shifts on the strip, and she would frequently mention that she was scared to go to work. “There will be a terrorist attack on the strip one day. I just know it,� she always warned. It frightened me knowing after increasing domestic terrorist attacks, every night she left might be the last time I saw her. On Sunday, June 8, 2014 an attack on my hometown happened. After hearing about Sunday’s shooting, I can’t say I was surprised. Gun laws in the U.S. are so open, making weapons of mass destruction accessible to almost anyone. After a tragedy like this, people often bash those that call for stricter gun laws, calling it insensitive to “turn the situation political.� I hate to break it to you, but mass shootings and gun laws always have been and always will be political. After all, the policies of the country allow the weapon to get into the wrong hands — the hands that can so cruelly kill so many innocent people. The mass shooting in
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gun sales are okay. Local gun laws are prohibited. You do not have to ‘register’ a gun to someone else.� We are letting this happen. Many other states have laws similar to Nevada, and all these laws make it possible for another mass shooting to occur — just wait on it. The Daily welcomes letters to the editor and guest columns from the OU community. To submit a letter or column, email dailyopinion@ou.edu.
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Discussions will help you keep personal and professional situations running smoothly this year. Don’t hesitate to ask questions. Showing emotional responsibility will help ward off complaints. Refrain from making impulsive decisions that could disrupt important partnerships.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Don’t fold under pressure. Being prepared and willing to go the distance to get what you want will pay off. Your experience will help you avoid making the same mistake twice.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Speak from the heart and smoothly settle any matters that concern your personal or professional life. Commit to making improvements that are good for everyone involved.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- One of your peers, colleagues or friends will tempt you with something you should avoid. Don’t take a risk that might affect your career, reputation or relationships with others.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- You’ll desire change and excitement. Look for something interesting to get involved in to meet people you SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Refuse to let anyone push or pressure will find mentally stimulating. If you. Know what you want and what you collaborate, good things will transpire. you are willing to do to get your way before entering negotiations. CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Stick close to home and do things that SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) will add to your comfort and make -- Your home should be calm and you feel good about who you are peaceful. Do whatever it takes to incorporate a space for you to relax and what you represent. Avoid in and figure out how you want to anyone acting unpredictable or indulgent. move forward. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -Emotions will be difficult to control. Taking a trip or dealing with foreigners will result in confusion and uncertainty. Don’t question what you know or how you do things. Live life your way.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Share your interests with someone who is heading down the same path as you. A business trip or meeting will help you make a decision regarding your future. Don’t fold under pressure.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Money matters can be resolved. Look at investments and make a move. Be smart about your emotional, mental and physical health. Do what’s best for you.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Investments, medical issues and contracts need to be looked at carefully. Ask questions and find out where you stand before making a commitment. Emotional deception will be costly if it’s not dealt with quickly.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Aim to stabilize your position, reputation and prospects. Don’t get sidetracked by what others do
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ICONIC RAP LIVES ON Former OU football player’s freestyle still inspires OU a decade later
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onning their 2006 Big 12 Championship hats, Oklahoma players formed a tight circle around wide receiver Malcolm Kelly and nodded along, hyping him up with each line, as he delivered his now-famous freestyle in the locker room. “But we gonna’ get it, cause we gotta finish, Nebraska Cornhuskers, man we diminished.” Kelly’s freestyle came after a 21-7 victory over Nebraska in the Big 12 title game and quickly became the stuff of legends. From giving props to teammates who played well to shouting out his hometown to calling out the Cornhuskers, Kelly’s rap had it all. Eleven years later, the Texas native’s freestyle has taken on a life of its own and become a proud part of OU’s culture. “It was something that happened after the Big 12 Championship game, and it was really spontaneous,” former Oklahoma wide receivers coach Kevin Sumlin said. “There’s a lot of things that happen after a big win, and particularly a championship win, and I think somebody just started beating on a trash can, and the rest is history.” The freestyle was uploaded to YouTube in 2007 and picked up steam on social media soon after, becoming well-known among football players and OU fans everywhere. With more than 1 million views on YouTube and more than 2,200 retweets and 4,100 likes on four tweets alone, Kelly’s rap has become a viral sensation. “I was the head coach at (the University of Houston) — they talked about it,” Sumlin said. “Here they talk about it. Recruits talk about it. It’s a bigger thing than I ever thought it would be.” Sophomore wide receiver Mykel Jones, a Louisiana native, said his high school team used to play Kelly’s freestyle right before they ran out of the tunnel every game, showing how wide the rap reaches. Despite a wide variety of people knowing and loving the freestyle, the people who it’s most impacted are the OU players who have come after Kelly. What started as a simple celebration turned into a part of Oklahoma football’s culture. Today’s players know all the words to the freestyle, and proudly claim Kelly as an alum. “I think it brings about a culture to the team,” Jones said. “I think when everybody hears the freestyle it just brings a team camaraderie. It’s a song that everybody knows so it makes everybody hype. It’s a worldwide freestyle, so every time it comes up on social media everybody’s crazy about it.”
Senior receiver Jordan Smallwood said the receivers are especially proud of Kelly, as he’s someone they can look up to for both his rap and his style of play. “We all listen to it,” Smallwood said. “Every blue moon we’ll play it and start to jam. I think Malcolm Kelly came up here a couple times over the past summer and it was awesome seeing him. We always brag about it and say that’s the receiver group and that’s why you love us.” Current Oklahoma players take pride in claiming Kelly as one of their own, but it’s not just because he has a viral freestyle — it’s also because he backed up every word of it. Before stepping into the locker room to deliver lines like “I ain’t even trippin’ cause we some athletes,” Kelly was on the field putting his money where his mouth is. He hauled in 10 receptions for 142 yards and two touchdowns against Nebraska, adding to an illustrious career with the Sooners that ended with 2,285 receiving yards and 21 touchdowns. Kelly helped lead the Sooners to their fourth Big 12 Championship that night, alongside quarterback Paul Thompson, who threw for 265 yards and two touchdowns. “Let me sit sideways ‘cause I’m steady comin’, PT throwin’ that ball and it’s hummin’.” “ Yeah it was (humming),” Thompson said. “It was. We lit it up … It was a good night throwing the ball, running the ball, for as cold as it was, too. It was like 15 degrees with the windchill. So yeah it was — it was hummin’.” On a night where he averaged 14.2 yards per catch, Kelly’s rap is what has lived on to inspire OU and Sooner Nation for more than a decade, as well as inspiring others who know him only as a college football player with a freestyle. “I didn’t even know anybody was recording it,” Sumlin said. “Everybody was just so happy after the game. It was just one of those things. A spontaneous deal which probably makes it even better. A spontaneous deal after a game just like when guys celebrate with dancing or water or all kinds of things. That’s probably what makes it unique and probably makes it even better than some people think.” Kelli Stacy
kelliastacy@ou.edu
Abby Bitterman abbybitt@ou.edu
ABBY BITTERMAN • @ABBY_BITTERMAN
Boys is getting quiet Go on get crunk Head back to Longview, Kelly popping trunk I ain’t even trippin’, riding and I’m sippin’ Let me come through fo-fo’s steady tippin’ On that new ‘Lac, watch that trunk crank Let me sit sideways, CB, running back Maybe AP, maybe AD I ain’t even trippin’ cause we some athletes Messin’ with Schmidty, in the summertime He get pissed if we don’t make our times But we gon’ get it, ‘cause we gotta finish Nebraska Cornhuskers, man we diminished Looking for a fiddle, paint like a skittle I ain’t even trippin’, I ain’t ever double dribble ‘Cause I’m a playa, from the Himalaya Let me sit sideways man Maybe back door, maybe fall off Sippin’ codeine cause I gotta kill the cough Let me sit sideways in the big Benz OU boys they my brothers, they my friends
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ANNOTATION: 3. Malcom Kelly is from Longview, Texas. 8. Chris Brown, then-freshman running back. Had seven carries for 12 yards against Nebraska. 9. Allen Patrick, then-junior running back. The Sooners’ leading rusher in the game with 15 carries for 41 yards. 9. Adrian Peterson, then-junior running back, whose nickname is All Day. He did not play in the Big 12 Championship that year due to injury. 1 1 . Je r r y “S c h m i d t y ” Schmidt has been Oklahoma’s director of sports enhancement for 18 years. S ophomore safety Chanse Sylvie said this is the part of the freestyle the team relates the most to today. 1 4 . T h e S o o n e r s ha d just defeated Nebraska 21-7 for the 2006 Big 12 Championship.
Holla at Coach Sumlin, holla at the Stoops Let me sit sideways in a two-door coupe
16-17. Different sport, but the same idea: Kelly is balling and doesn’t mess up.
Cause I’m sittin’ clean, fo’s on the lean Look at my pants got a sag in my jeans
24. Kevin Sumlin was Oklahoma’s wide receiver coach at the time.
Let me sit sideways cause I’m steady comin’ PT throwing that ball, and it’s hummin’
24. Former Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops.
I’ma gon’ catch it, I’ma gon’ wretch it Let me sit sideways, boy showin’ naked
3 0 . Pa u l T h o m p s o n , then-senior quarterback. Threw for 265 yards and two touchdowns in the game.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
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KEVIN SUMLIN
ADRIAN PETERSON
MALCOLM KELLY
Kevin Sumlin has been the head coach of Texas A&M since 2012. His Aggies are 4-1 this season, and he is 83-39 as a head coach, which includes his time spent at Houston from 2008 to 2011.
Adrian Peterson is currently a running back for the New Orleans Saints. He’s rushed for 81 yards on 27 attempts this season. While in the NFL, Peterson has amassed 11,828 yards and 97 touchdowns.
Malcolm Kelly is now an offensive graduate assistant for the University of Houston’s football team, a position he entered into this past spring. He had a short NFL career that ended in 2010 due to recurring knee issues after being drafted in the second round of the 2008 draft by Washington.
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Chosen nominees will help select Boren replacement NICK HAZELRIGG @nickhazelrigg
O U ’s U n d e r g r a d u a t e Student Congress voted unanimously to nominate four students to the search committee tasked with finding OU president David Boren’s successor in its meeting Tuesday night. St u d e nt G ov e r n m e nt Association President J.D. Baker presented the four nominees for congressional approval after OU’s Board of Regents informed him in an Oct. 2 memo that he must present a list of names by Oct. 9. That left Baker roughly 24 hours, he said, to select nominees before SGA’s Oct. 3 meeting, since he said he was unaware that it would be his responsibility to name student nominees until he received the memo. Baker was not technically required to receive congressional approval, said Undergraduate Student Congress Chair Kaylee RainsSaucedo, although he said he felt it was important to do so. The nominees, chosen by Baker alone, are all involved in student government. The choices are Rains-Saucedo, SGA Vice President Cameron Burleson, Graduate Student Senate Chair Carrie Pavlowsky and Student Bar Association President Mackenzie Coplan. Baker said he chose these nominees because they had already been “vetted” by the student body, since they serve in elected positions. “I really appreciate Congress and their questions on this,” Baker said following the meeting. “It’s important, and so we really want to be transparent on this and make sure students understand
why this process is happening, what it is, and the way we’re going about it.” While Baker nominated two undergraduate students and two graduate students, only one of each will be chosen for the committee along with one student from OU’s Health Sciences Center. Each student member will have a one-third vote on the committee. “It was a tough decision — okay, we’ve got a week, what are we going to do? So I thought about our top leaders, the ones who had been elected by their peers,” Baker said. “I believe these students are highly respected and they’ve been equipped to make larger official decisions.” Many within Congress were unhappy by the short timespan given to the student body to nominate candidates. Social sciences representative Dan Williams called the short time span “disgusting” and said the Regents were treating SGA as a “rubber stamp.” Rains-Saucedo, one of the four nominees and chair of Congress, said she had concerns about the process but still understood the need for timeliness. “If it was up to me I would absolutely love a different process, but at the end of the day this is not an SGA position — this is a nomination by SGA, which is something J.D. didn’t even have to do,” Rains-Saucedo said. “Would I have loved the Regents to give us more time? Absolutely, but I also know this process needs to get started and I don’t want to miss out on the opportunity for student voices to be heard.” Rains-Saucedo said if chosen she would be able to help keep the student body informed of what’s happening within the search committee. Nick Hazelrigg
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