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OU defensive coordinator Mike Stoops walks on the field before the Red River Showdown at the Cotton Bowl Oct. 6. The Sooners gave up 48 points and 501 yards against Texas.

Mike Stoops no longer defensive coordinator after disastrous performance, years of defensive problems

ike Stoops is out as Oklahoma’s defensive coordinator after the team’s 48-45 loss to Texas, according to The Daily’s sources. After Saturday’s game, Stoops had an answer for every question except, once again, how to stop an OU opponent. The Oklahoma defensive coordinator spoke for more than 15 minutes to the media after thenNo. 7 Oklahoma’s 48-45 loss to then-No. 19 Texas. He owned the performance the Sooner Nation is blaming him for. “I’m extremely disappointed in my inability to get this team to play at a higher level,” Stoops said. “It takes everybody pulling the same way, and I certainly take a lot of that responsibility.” This has been a recurring theme the past four years — the defense plays poorly, the offense bails them out and Stoops takes the blame. But this time the offense’s late heroics weren’t enough to bail them out, and it may have just cost the Sooners their season, just like it did last

GEORGE STOIA • @GEORGESTOIA year … and the two years before that. And that’s why something had to change — assistant coaches, players, schemes, mentality — if Oklahoma wants to once again reach the pinnacle of college football. A n d j u s t s o i t ’ s c l e a r, Saturday’s rock bottom result is not the reason something needed to change. It’s just another step back in the disaster that has been the Sooner defense the past few years. S i n c e St o o p s re t u r n e d t o Norman in 2012, Oklahoma has finished in the top 30 in total defense just twice. Here’s where the Sooners ranked in total defense the past six years: 67th (2017), 69th (2016), 29th (2015), 55th (2014), 29th (2013) and 51st (2012). Heading into the Red River Showdown, the Sooners ranked 89th — it’s not getting better, it’s getting worse. Texas came into Saturday’s game averaging 28 points and 390 yards a game. The Sooners

gave up 48 points and 501 yards Saturday. Oklahoma looked confused the majority of the game, lining up wrong and constantly looking to the sideline as if to be asking for answers on how to slow down the Longhorns. And rarely did the Sooners match Texas’ physicality.

“I’m extremely disappointed in my inability to get this team to play at a higher level. It takes everybody pulling the same way, and I certainly take a lot of that responsibility.” MIKE STOOPS, OU DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR

“We didn’t tackle well … I didn’t think we covered well … And the glaring deal was the

third-and-longs,” coach Lincoln R i l e y s a i d . “ We d i d n ’ t g e t enough stops.” And that right there has been the ending of too many stories for the Sooners since Riley arrived at Oklahoma and turned the Sooners into the offensive powerhouse they are. Oklahoma has finished in the top five for total offense each of the last three years and are on pace to do so again this year. In 2015, a Texas team that finished 5-7 and fielded two receivers as quarterbacks put up 24 on the Sooners, which then was followed by Clemson ending the Sooners’ season in a 37-point performance. In 2016, Oklahoma allowed 78 combined points by Houston and Ohio State to derail their season just as it started. In 2017, Iowa State bullied its way to 38 points and a win in Norman while Georgia ended the Sooners’ season with 54 points. And in 2018, after a disastrous performance against Texas, it looks to be trending in the same

direction. In their last two losses, the Sooners have been outscored 102-93. For a program that once prided itself on defense, how is that acceptable? Fans automatically want to point to Stoops when things go wrong, and rightfully so, as he is in command of the defense at the end of the day. But at some point every defensive player, coach and staff member needs to take a good look in the mirror too, because it’s not one man’s fault. “It’s all frustrating,” Stoops said after the game Saturday. “It hurts. But it is what it is.” But Sunday night, Riley did something that his predecessor never did to get his team to the next level: he let Mike Stoops go. George Stoia

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Murray grapples with first loss as OU starter Last-minute heroics by quarterback not enough to save team ABBY BITTERMAN @abby_bitterman

DALLAS — Kyler Murray’s face said it all in the postgame press conference at the Cotton Bowl. “Obviously, I’m not used to losing,” the redshirt junior quarterback said of his performance. “It hurts. I’m disappointed.” Then Murray went silent. For 13 seconds, the Sooners’ starting quarterback fought back tears as he sat in a stunned silence, searching for what to say next. Coach Lincoln Riley sat next to him and patted him on the back for support. “It’s just tough because I feel

— I turned the ball over, they didn’t,” Murray said. “I feel like that’s just giving them the advantage when you turn the ball over. I feel like if I didn’t turn the ball over, we would have had a better shot of winning that game ... We knew coming into this game it was going to be a four-quarter game, and we’ve got to do better. We’re better than that. “It’s just tough.” Then-No. 7 Oklahoma lost to then-No. 19 Texas 48-45 on a last-second field goal that closed another classic Red River Showdown. Things started to fall apart for Murray and the Sooners (5-1, 2-1 Big 12) early. After Texas (5-1, 3-0 Big 12) tied it at 7-all in the first quarter, Murray tried to hit redshirt senior wide receiver Myles Tease with a deep pass, but Texas’ junior defensive back Brandon Jones jumped out in front of the

ball and intercepted it. “Knowing the coverage, knowing the situation, I shouldn’t have tried to fit it in there,” Murray said. Four plays later, the Longhorns scored to take their first lead of the game — a lead they kept until Oklahoma tied it again with 2:38 left in the fourth quarter. Oklahoma was up and down offensively throughout the game, as it struggled to find a rhythm and relied more on the run game — recording 222 yards on the ground — than it had since the season opener against Florida Atlantic. Murray doesn’t lose often — he was 42-0 as a starter in high school, and though he suffered defeat at Texas A&M, this was his first loss starting for an Oklahoma team – it’s seemed like he’s willed to win at times. The empty sadness on Murray’s face

showed that he wasn’t taking the loss easily. The Texas high school legend possibly saw his chances at a national championship and the Heisman drop slightly Saturday afternoon. In what will probably be his last season of college football, Murray doesn’t have much room for error if he wants to accomplish his goals before he leaves the gridiron for a baseball diamond. “G o i ng i nt o t h i s s e a s o n ,” Murray began after another long pause, “knowing that it could be possibly my last season, every game is my last shot at every team that I play against.” With 8:29 left in the third quarter, the Sooners started a drive down 31-24. On the first play, Murray scrambled, trying to create something. But, as he tried to pivot to escape the Texas defense, he tripped. He fell to the

ground, trying to stop himself with his hand holding the ball. Instead, Murray dropped the ball on the ground and fell away from it, allowing the Texas defense to fall on top of it and setting up a short 23-yard touchdown drive for the Longhorns. “Coach Riley preaches it all the time — ball security in the pocket,” Murray said. “I don’t know how many times he’s told me that, so that one definitely hurts.” Murray’s play hurt the Sooners, who needed every point they could get on the offensive side of the ball, but his play-making ability and talent almost saved the Sooners in the end — almost. In the closing minutes of the game, Murray did everything he could to bring Oklahoma back from the hole he’d helped put them in. With 5:22 left, down 14, Murray See KYLER page 2

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Tackling a weak spot for OU Kyler’s offense not able to make up for abysmal defense CALEB MCCOURRY @CalebMac21

DALLAS — With Kyler Murray and company continuing to bail out then-No. 7 Oklahoma’s defensive efforts, one would think no amount of offensive firepower could keep up. The Sooner defense has continued to allow big yardage from offenses all season, but it didn’t matter because its backfield on the offensive side of the ball was always there to pick up the pieces. But what happens when a team’s Heisman trophy candidate actually looks human for the first time this season? Then-No. 19 Texas didn’t let Murray pick up the pieces for three whole quarters in a 48-45 Longhorn win. It was another week of Oklahoma’s defense struggling to get off the field. Texas tallied 324 passing yards and 177 rushing yards — 84 from quarterback Sam Ehlinger, who rushed for an absurd three touchdowns, six third-dow n conversions and two fourth-down conversions. These offensive successes against the Sooners are nothing new to Oklahoma.

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took the snap and quickly found a hole to run through. He took the ball 67 yards to the burnt orange Texas end zone to put Oklahoma within 7 and with a real chance to come all the way back. The Sooners’ sideline and the crimson half of the Cotton Bowl erupted.

Oklahoma as a team seemed to wake up in the fourth quarter, as the defense held Texas to just three points while Murray and company scored 3 touchd ow n s. T h o s e 3 p o i nt s from the Longhorns were all they needed to take the game, showing how late the Sooners decided to join the party. “It’s very frustrating,” said sophomore corner Tre Brown after Saturday’s game when asked about the Longhorns’ offensive success. “They were being very successful. We obviously weren’t doing our jobs at the same time. “It’s too late for us to turn around, like you saw in the fourth quarter.” When asked about what the defense needs to focus on for this upcoming bye week, Brown didn’t even have to think about his answer. It was blurted out in almost half a second. “Tackling,” Brown said. “We’re g onna fo cus on tackling. That’s really what we should do. Focus on tackling.” B ro w n i s n ’ t a l o n e i n this thought. Tackling was the talk of the town when Oklahoma’s defense was mentioned. “The obvious issue is we got to tackle better,” sophomore linebacker Kenneth

Murray’s late-game heroics weren’t enough this t i m e, t h o u g h , w i t h h i s struggles outweighing his successes in the end, but he brought Oklahoma back from what could have been an even more demoralizing loss. Murray showed Saturday that, even when he doesn’t p l ay h i s b e s t, h e’s s t i l l O k l a h o m a’s b e s t h o p e at being a national title contender. “ H e s t e p p e d u p ,”

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Freshman defensive back Bookie Radley-Hiles and junior cornerback Parnell Motley corner a Longhorn player during the Red River Showdown Oct. 6. Head coach Lincoln Riley said the team will focus on tackling during the upcoming bye week.

Murray said. “We didn’t tackle well,” head coach Lincoln Riley said. “We missed too many big tackles in the open field.” Tackling is by far the biggest issue for the Sooners. Big receivers who are put up against corners junior Parnell Motley and sophomore Tre Norwood have been finding ways to gain major yardage because of it. Te x a s r e c e i v e r s L i l ’ J Humphrey and Collin Johnson enjoyed a combined two touchdowns with 214 receiving yards against a Sooner secondary that kept on missing tackles and mishandling assignments. In

Oklahoma’s 66-33 routing against Baylor last week, the Sooner secondary allowed more than 400 yards passing, a lot of it coming from missed tackles, as seen this week through Texas’ plays in the air. “I think what I was most disappointed in is that we didn’t defend the slants and the inside routes as good as we needed to,” Riley said. “And then we let them get loose.” “They played more physically than we did today ... That’s an area that we obviously need to get a lot better at,” defensive coordinator Mike Stoops said

after Oklahoma’s loss to Texas. “Just the physicality across the board and every position.” Oklahoma’s physicality has been called into question more and more as the season progresses. Texas’ 48 points is the most it’s ever scored in the series. That’s as low as Oklahoma’s physicality can get. Oklahoma’s defense will have a lot to think about this off week, or maybe it’ll just be one thing: toughness. Caleb McCourry

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sophomore wide receiver CeeDee Lamb said. “Even when things got bad on his end, he still stepped up. I salute you, man. He had two costly turnovers, and he’s still brought us back from 21.”

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Caitlyn Epes/The Daily Redshirt junior quarterback Kyler Murray runs the ball in for a touchdown Oct. 6.

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10 facts you might not know about the Halloween classic ABBEY CHILDRESS @abbey_childress

Ma r y S h e l l e y ’s n ov e l “Frankenstein” turns 200 this year. With all the excitement surrounding two centur ies w or th of this Halloween classic, here are 10 fun facts you probably didn’t know about “Frankenstein.” 1. FRANKENSTEIN HAS BEEN PRODUCED INTO TONS OF MOVIES: To be exact, 130 films. Thomas Edison produced the film, which is a silent film titled, “Frankenstein.” Some other famous films are “Bride of Frankenstein” (1935), “ The Curse of Frankenstein” (1957) and “ Yo u n g F r a n k e n s t e i n ” (1974).

3. SHELLEY WAS ONLY A TEENAGER WHEN SHE FIRST STARTED WRITING “FRANKENSTEIN”: Shelley was only 18 years o l d w h e n s h e b e ga n to write the legendary novel, and she had been writing long before then. In “The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,” a collection of Shelley’s journals and letters compiled by Florence Ashton Marshall, Shelley said, “As a child, I scribbled; and my favourite pastime, during the hours given me for recreation, was to ‘write stories.’”

4. THE MONSTER’S APPEARANCE, AS WE K N O W O F I T TO DAY, COMES FROM THE MOVIE, NOT THE BOOK: In the book, the monster is described as having “flowing hair, yellow, almost translucent skin, glowing eyes and black lips.” That is much different than how Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” will celebrate its 200th anniversary this year. he is pictured today: a tall, green creature with bolts in “demon” and “vile insect” the book was published be entertaining to see which 2 . “ F R A N K E N S T E I N his head. but is never given an official anonymously in 1818. one of them could write the FOOD” IS SLANG FOR name. However, readers felt dif- best ghost story. GENETICALLY MODIFIED 5 . I N A R E A D I N G O F ferently. A play version of the Shelley was eager to write FOOD: “ F R A N K E N S T E I N , ” 7. SHELLEY’S CLASSIC book was published, which a story but experienced Frankenstein has even SHELLEY REFERS TO THE TALE IS KNOWN AS THE launched its popularity in writer’s block. That evening inspired the food industry. MONSTER AS ADAM: FIRST SCIENCE FICTION 1823. “Frankenstein” was re- she had a nightmare about The earliest use of this term published in 1831, this time a phantom-like man who In one of the only instanc- NOVEL: was in 1989, and in 1992, es where the monster reShelley was the first to with Shelley’s name pub- came to life. She knew that the terms “Frankenfruit,” ceived a name, Mary Shelley coin the idea of the “mad sci- lished as the author. if it had scared her, it would “ F r a n k e n p l a n t s ” a n d called him “Adam,” making a entist,” which would become scare others. She ended up “Frankenscience” arose as biblical allusion to the Adam a regular trope throughout 9 . S H E L L E Y W A S I N - winning the contest. well. For example, Flavr Savr from the garden of Eden. horror fiction novels. SPIRED TO WRITE is known as one of the first “FRANKENSTEIN” FROM 1 0 . I N T H E S A M E Frankenstein Foods. A Flavr 6. FRANKENSTEIN IS THE 8 . C R I T I C S I N I T I A L - A NIGHTMARE: CONTEST SHELLEY Savr is a genetically mod- NAME OF THE SCIENTIST, L Y R I P P E D A P A R T While visiting Switzerland W O N F O R W R I T I N G ified tomato and was the NOT THE MONSTER: “ F R A N K E N S T E I N ” I N with her family in 1815, “ F R A N K E N S T E I N , ” first commercially grown they were trapped inside CA M E T H E I D E A F O R F r a n k e n s t e i n i s a c - REVIEWS: genetically engineered food tually the scientist who John Crocker, a reporter of due to bad weather. They WHAT WOULD BECOME that the Food and Drug brought the monster to life. the Quarterly Review, wrote read ghost stories from T H E M O D E R N D A Y Administration cleared as Throughout the book, the in 1818 “what a tissue of hor- “Fantasmagoriana”, a French “DRACULA”: safe for human consump- monster is called various rible and disgusting absurdi- collection of German ghost On this vacation in tion in 1994. names, such as “creature,” ty this work presents” when stories, and thought it would Switzerland was Lord Byron,

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a prominent British poet, who only had pieces of a story put together for the ghost story competition. Another competitor, John William Polidori, an English writer and physician, was inspired by Byron’s ideas and used them to write his 1819 novel, “The Vampyre.” Seventy years later in 1879, Bram Stoker wrote “Dracula,” which was based off “The Vampyre.” Abbey Childress

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Juliacks contemporary art exhibit open at OU “The Blind Rooms” exhibit brings new art style to Norman HEATH KUYKENDALL @HeathKuykendal1

Artist, writer and performer Juliacks is bringing her sound-based exhibit, “The Blind Rooms,” to the Lightwell Gallery at OU. Hosted by the OU School of Visual Arts, the exhibit will feature choreography of natural light, surrounding paintings and performing bodies. The audience will listen to headsets with different pre-recorded audio narratives while viewing the piece, according to a press release from the School of Visual Arts. The end result is several distinct “rooms,” which may or may not line up with the narrative the viewer is listening to. Juliacks wants each viewing to be different from the last, according to the press release. “The experience for the viewer will be filled with symbolic coincidences, so

that each viewer will have a different experience of the narrative that they hear,” Juliacks said in the release. Juliacks will collaborate with student -artists from the visual arts and drama departments to install the piece and bring it to life during the opening exhibition. According to Jonathan Hils, associate professor of contemporary sculpture, unique art experiences like Juliacks’ have grown to be increasingly popular among Norman residents. This popularity has attracted artists from around the world to bring their pieces to OU. “There is a strong and unique pull for contemporary artists to consider exhibiting in Oklahoma,” Hils said in an email to The Daily. “As we don’t necessarily have a strong national art scene in Oklahoma City per se, there is an exoticism associated with the experience to exhibit contemporary art here.” Hils said that bringing artists like Juliacks to the university and giving them a space in which they can display their work benefits the

students and the Norman community immensely. “As an institution, our mission is to provide the campus, city and surrounding areas with contemporary art that doesn’t necessarily fit within the normal expectations,” Hils said in the email. “We try to bring a range of works, with a range of perspectives and diversity that can speak to the way art translates, redefines, and represents the ideas and emotions of our contemporary times. This is the kind of work that our students need to be exposed to and aware of as they move into the professional art world.” “The Blind Rooms” opens Oct. 8 and will be on display until Nov. 2 in the Lightwell Gallery. The gallery is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every weekday and is free to the public. There will also be an opening reception on Tuesday from 5 – 7 p.m., with an artist talk by Juliacks at 5:30 p.m.

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Student groups will be funded by same process as in past JORDAN MILLER @jordanrmillerr

Although OU President James Galloglyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s administration has taken a hard look at finances across the university, this review has had little impact on the financial system of OUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Student Government Association. However, the review is forcing other departments to spend less money, which indirectly impacts student government. The SGA is seeing more organizations come to them for funding that were previously funded by other sources, such as the Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office, said chair of the Undergraduate St u d e nt C o n g re s s To m Cassidy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our rules of what we can spend money on and all that stuff is all our own,â&#x20AC;? Cassidy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once we have that pot of money, it is ours. So, President Gallogly coming in has not changed our processes or anything like that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our budget is certainly tightening. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still figuring out what to do with this tighter budget, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re certainly seeing more people come and ask us for money.â&#x20AC;? FUNDING FOR REGISTERED STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS The process student organizations must go through when requesting money can be lengthy but will remain the same. Each spr ing, projected funds from the Student Activity Fee, which is about $5.50 per credit hour per student, are pooled to finance 10 university divisions, such as student government, Student Affairs, and the Gender + Equality Center, among others, according to Cassidy. For spring 2018, the Student Activity Fee committee, which consists of the SGA president and the Campus Activities Council chair, along with the vice president of Student Affairs and a few other SGA leadership positions, helped decide the allocation of about $4 million in student fees, Cassidy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This committee makes a recommendation for allocation (of the fee revenue), which we then send to the university president and to the regents,â&#x20AC;? Cassidy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have the final approval over it, but what we

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SGA Ways and Means committee chair Sam Quick in the Conoco Student Leadership Center Oct. 3. Quick said SGA finance procedures will remain unaffected by the presidential transition.

recommend is what happens basically.â&#x20AC;? The committee does not work with the regents or the president to help determine the allocation amounts, other than some restrictions on what the money can and cannot be spent on in the regentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; manual, Cassidy said. After SGA receives its portion of the Student Activity Fee, it decides how the rest of its allocation will be divided up among registered student organizations and student government branches like the Undergraduate Student Congress and the Campus Activities Council. SGAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s allocation from the Student Activity Fee committee last year was about $777,853, Cassidy said. During primary funding, $300,531 of that money was given to registered student organizations, and $477,322 was given to governmental organizations such as the Campus Activities Council, according to bills passed by student government. On average, the SGA allocates â&#x20AC;&#x153;over $600,000 of the student activity fee each year to Registered Student Organizations,â&#x20AC;? according to the SGA funding website. Student organizations apply for allocations through a process called primary funding, which begins every spring for funds to be used during the following school year.

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For groups that were not able to apply for primary funding or that need more money than the original amounts allocated to them, auxiliary funding is another route registered student organizations have to request funding, which can be applied for three times per semester, Quick said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every Sunday, I field all of the (funding) requests and put them together for the committee,â&#x20AC;? Quick said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We look at each one of them individually, and we suggest how much we would like to fund these organizations, and we propose that in the form of the auxiliary funding bill to SGA.â&#x20AC;? The bill is generally first s e en by congress, then is seen by the Graduate Student Senate and is sent to the SGA president for his signature, Quick said. Last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s allocation process was the first year only primary and auxiliary funding were available for registered student organizations. Previously, funding allocations had a primary, subsidiary and emergency system,

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For pr imar y funding, registered student organizations are each allocated a portion of money â&#x20AC;&#x201D; determined by the Ways and Means committee â&#x20AC;&#x201D; based on requests sent in by student organizations that include why they need money from SGA and what they will use the money for. These requests are processed by the Ways and Means committee. Chair of the Ways and Me a n s c o m m i t t e e Sa m Quick said his committee helps determine how much specific registered student organizations are allocated based on the service the organization provides to students, the scope of the organization, the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fiscal history and the quality of its budget. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We try to look at all of these things holistically,â&#x20AC;? Quick said. After registered student organization requests are evaluated and funds are appropriated by the budgetary committee, all appropriations are put in a bill that is voted on by congress and the Graduate Student Senate.

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Club unites adopted students

New organization aims to educate OU about adoption CHARLEY LANZIERI @charlanzieri

A new club’s first meeting was a dream come true for the two OU students who started it together. The first meeting of the Adopted Students Association took place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday. About 15 people met in a small conference room to talk about what the association was created to do and share personal stories about adoption. Emily Sharp, an OU mechanical engineering and film and media studies senior, is a co-president of the Adopted Students Association. She said she was adopted from China at 5 months old. “Our vision really is just to make a community for adopted students here,” Sharp said. “And we mean adopted in its broadest sense, so if you were raised by other family members or people that were in the foster care system — we want to ... create a community for people from those backgrounds to come together and talk about their experiences.” When Sharp was born in 1995, a one-child law was in effect in China, so many boys with disabilities and girls were put up for adoption during that time. “What I’ve been told is I was put up for adoption from the day I was born. I was put in a basket and placed on the steps of the police station,” Sharp said.

Sharp was kept in an orphanage for five months and then adopted by her parents in July of 1995. She said her parents specifically wanted to adopt from China because they wanted a girl. Valerie Smith, a management sophomore and Sharp’s co-president, was adopted from Oklahoma City. Smith’s adopted parents knew her birth mother while she was pregnant and took care of her throughout the pregnancy. “I knew my birth mom did what she did because she couldn’t give me a good environment to grow up in,” Smith said. Sharp hadn’t met very many OU students who were also adopted, she said, and even fewer who were interracially adopted. That’s when she met Smith. She said the two made a lot of jokes about being adopted, which sparked the creation of their own association. S h a r p s a i d , “ We l l , i f there’s a Lettuce Club here at O U, w hy ca n ’ t t h e re be an Adopted Students Association?” What started as a joke turned into a reality last spring, when the girls gathered three officers, an advis er and 10 de dicate d members. The adviser for the group is Robert Con DavisUndiano, an OU professor and the executive director of the World Literature Today program. Smith and DavisUndiano met through the President’s Distinguished Faculty Mentoring Program at OU when Smith was in one of his sections. “I was really happy to do it,” Davis-Undiano said about his role in the club. “I

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Members of the Adopted Students Association hold up M&Ms during an icebreaker at their meeting in Dunham Residential College Oct. 3. The group formed this year to “make a community for adopted students” at OU, according to its co-president Emily Sharp, who was adopted from China at 5 months old.

think coming to college is really exciting for everyone, and a little traumatic, too... To have an extra layer of complexity — maybe wanting to know your family of origin, maybe wanting more contact or less — gets really complicated.” Reety Erwin, public relations sophomore and public relations chair of the club, said she joined because of her friendship with Smith. “I’ve known Valerie for a very long time,” Erwin said. “I think it’s something that’s really important on her heart, and it automatically becomes so on mine.” Erwin said she is one of several officers who were not adopted but joined because

they believe it’s an important club. “While we might not have the similar experience (of being adopted), we just help in any way we can,” Erwin said. Both Smith and Sharp were adopted by white families and said they have had trouble connecting with their different cultures. “I consider myself a Latina woman but also acknowledge that I have privileges that other people in that group don’t have,” Smith said. “So I try to stay in my lane while also embracing my culture.” Since Sharp is ethnically Chinese but culturally American, she said she feels

like people have certain expectations of her that she doesn’t meet. “Because I’m Chinese, people have the expectation that I know how to use chopsticks, or I know how to speak mandarin, and I love pandas and Mulan,” Sharp said. Sharp and Smith both said that people typically didn’t associate them with their parents because of the difference in ethnicity. “It’s like always feeling like an imposter wherever you go,” Smith said. Smith said one of the club’s big goals is to educate the OU community about adoption and try to debunk some of the myths

that people may believe. She wants the group to open up discussions about adoption issues around the world. “The idea of having this support group where people can relate to each other about thes e things is a chance to open doors that need to be open for everyone, and over time it could become a large group,” Davis-Undiano said. “It’s really good to have other people to talk to about it.” Charley Lanzieri

charlton.r.lanzieri-1@ ou.edu

Festival to return, showcase Haitian culture Literature festival to bring fun events, new prize winner MARY TODD @always_mt_

The Neustadt Festival will return to OU’s campus this year in celebration of literature, Haitian culture and the fine arts. The festival will host free events open to the public such as book signings with writers, Q&A discussions, dance performances and a session with the 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature winner Edwidge Danticat, according to the Neustadt Festival website. It will be held at different venues across campus from Tuesday to Thursday. According to the Neustadt Festival website, the festival is sponsored by World Literature Today, a magazine published in Norman, that focuses on international literature and cultures, and the Neustadt family, who have donated funds for projects like the Neustadt library section in the Bizzell Memorial Library, among others. “Our whole goal over these past 12 months is to really prepare an exciting festival that involves the arts as well as literature,” said Daniel Simon, editor-in-chief of World Literature Today. “And to really make it possible for students to meet (Danticat) in person, meet the other writers and other scholars coming to campus, and to really make it an exciting event created around Haitian culture.” NEUSTADT PRIZE T h e N e u s t a d t Int e r nat i o na l P r i ze f o r Literature is awarded every two years to an individual with accomplishments in literature and consists of a prize of $50,000, a certificate and a replica of a silver eagle feather.

The annual Neustadt Lit Festival will begin on Tuesday. The festival will hold events throughout the OU campus through Thursday.

“Traditionally, (the eagle feather) is seen as a Native American symbol, so that’s the indigenous power of the word ... The feather and the writing quill have also been associated with poets and writers,” Simon said. Candidates for the prize must be voted on by a jury of writers, editors and other artists. This jury is selected each year by the executive director of the World Literature Today magazine, and the jury will then meet up to vote on OU’s campus. “ We h a v e p o e t s a n d novelists and playwrights that serve (on the jury). Sometimes they pick a writer from their own country, sometimes they pick someone completely unexpected to us,” Simon said. “For instance, this year for Edwidge Danticat, the juror that nominated her is from Cuba originally. So, there may be a geographical affinity to their work, but they don’t necessarily have to be from the same language or country of origin.” Other international winners, according to the Neustadt website, have included individuals such as the 2010 winner, Duo

Duo, who was a Chinese poet. Also included was the 216 winner, Dubravaka Ugrešić, a Russian writer and scholar. 2018 PRIZE WINNER: EDWIDGE DANTICAT The winner of the 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature is Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian-American writer who has written the novels “Breath, Eyes, Memory,” “The Dew Breaker,” “Krik? K ra k ! ” a n d “ T h e A r t o f Death: Writing the Final Story,” among others. “It’s very cool. You see that a lot in her work, how she combines an autobiographical component with this broader meditation on Haitian culture, language and history,” Simon said. “And how the Caribbean area in general is this important site for her.” Danticat will speak on the opening night, which will take place from 6:30– 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the Fred Jones Jr. Art Museum, Other festival prizes, such as the NSK Prize for Children Literature, will be announced at the opening event.

At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, there will be a roundtable discussion on Caribbean migrations led by three scholars, including an OU professor of African and African-American studies and the juror who nominated Danticat for the prize. Following the roundtable discussion will be an RSVP-only event starting at noon on Danticat’s message about Haitian-American culture, which will include three scholars as well. Simon said the scholars for this event include Catherine John Camara, an OU professor of hip-hop and Caribbean literature at OU, Marcia Chatelain, a Georgetown University professor from Haiti, and Flor ine D émosthène, a Haitian artist from New York. On the last day of the Neustadt Festival, Danticat will participate in a final presentation in Gould Hall Gallery consisting of a final prize acceptance speech and a lecture about her works, followed by a Q&A. HAITIAN DANCES The Neustadt Festival will also feature cultural dances, including the performances

of two different groups : Rara Tou Limen and the OU School of Dance. The dances will take place throughout the day on Thursday, in the Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall at the Catlett Music Center. At this event, Rara Tou Limen, a dance group from Haiti, will be performing a dance called “ReBIRTH.” The OU School of Dance has been preparing a dance called “Women Like Us,” which is inspired by the prologue in “Krik? Krak!,” Danticat’s 1995 collection of short stories. “Basically, the dance is about our ancestry and the generations of women before us,” said Alexis Tella, a modern dance freshman who is participating in the “Women Like Us” dance. “None of us knew anything about Haitian dances coming into this, so it’s interesting to be able to come out of this with a grasp on a new style and culture.” “As a dancer, I’m excited to be able to express a narrative that is not only about the oppression of women, but also about the community,” said Bethey Ruble, a modern dance sophomore

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who will also be involved in the dance. The dance will be choreographed by Marie Casimir, who is also a scholar involved in the roundtable discussion on Caribbean migrations. “(Casimir) gives us a lot of freedom with our movement, so we can make it about our own journey,” Tella said. “I think she has really great ideas like that.” For those who are not knowledgeable of Haitian culture, the dance performances will be an opportunity for people to get a glimpse of the works of Danticat and see how events like these connect the arts to written works, Simon said. Mary Todd

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From left to right: Oklahoma Victory Dolls All-Stars team members Lori Bautista, aka Galaxy Inferno; Candace McKinney, aka Roxy Star; Neiley Harris, aka Sassyfras; and Rachel Porter, aka SharpE MarkHer, watch their teammates during a scrimmage at Star Skate in Norman.

Normanite skates to victory Local roller derby star plays to win, embrace toughness

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Lori Bautista comes home from her job at the Oklahoma State Department of Health and heads to Star Skate Norman with a bag full of gear. She sits at a table and begins to put on her roller skates and helmet, transforming into her alter-ego “Galaxy Inferno” as she skates onto the track. Bautista is a member of the Oklahoma Victory Dolls roller derby team and has fallen in love with the sport of roller derby. “When I’m on the track, I really love hitting people — I love hitting the crap out of them,” Bautista said. “It’s a mental and physical thing because it makes me mentally happy, and physically I’m in the best shape of my life.” Bautista has been playing roller derby for more than seven years and plays on the Victory Dolls AllStar team and the Tornado Alley Roller Girls B team as a blocker. She is also the head of human resources for the Victory Dolls and was recently elected vice president of the team for 2019. The Victory Dolls is one of the more than 450 member and apprentice leagues represented by the Women’s Flat Track Derby

Association, which is the international governing body of women’s flat track roller derby, according to the association’s website. Flat track roller derby is a fast-paced contact team sport that requires speed, strategy and athleticism. The sport has grown rapidly since it evolved in 2001, especially because setting up a flat track can be done on any flat surface that can be skated on, such as skating rinks, basketball courts and parking lots, according to the association’s website. T h e w o m e n i n ro l l e r derby use nicknames to show that roller derby is their escape from their everyday lives and to allow them to embrace a tougher and edgier side of themselves. When players step into the rink, their “derby alter-ego takes over,” according to the association’s website. W h e n Bau t i s t a i s n o t p l ay i ng ro l l e r d e r by a s “Galaxy Inferno,” she works for the state health department’s long-term care unit as an administrative assistant. Bau t i s t a s a i d a l o t o f things she has learned in roller derby transfer over to her job, such as patience and teamwork. However, she does not hide the fact that she plays roller derby from her coworkers and is very open about her love of the sport. “Most of the over 100 employees that work in my department know that I play roller derby,” Bautista said.

“Especially when I started coming to work with bruises, and since they’re nurses, they would ask, ‘Are you okay? Do you need help?’ So I would say, ‘I play roller derby.’ So, they’re all supportive, and I’ve had people come and watch me that work with me.” Bautista said she practices roller derby about three to four times a week and about two-and-a-half to three hours a day, which doesn’t include all of the working out that she does on the side. Because of her dedication to roller derby, Bautista is a highly-valued member on the Victor y

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Oklahoma Victory Dolls All-Stars team member Lori Bautista (left), aka Galaxy Inferno, talks and stands next to fellow team member Kari Larsen (right), aka Twisted Armani, on the court after warming up for a tournament.

OU to raise scholarships, hold tuition costs steady Most merit-based awards to increase by $1,000 to $2,000 ANNA BAUMAN @annabauman2

OU has announced it will increase several freshman scholarship amounts for the next academic year in an effort to keep an OU education affordable. Most scholarships increased by $1,000 to $2,000 per merit-based award per year. These increases will start in the fall 2019 semester. “We want every top student in the state to think of OU as their future college home,” OU President James Gallogly

said in a press release. “OU remains committed to providing the best educational opportunities to students, and to help with that, we are providing more financial aid for those granted scholarships.” These increases come in addition to OU’s decision not to raise tuition for students in order to keep costs low. Gallogly has previously spoken about the need to keep tuition low during several speeches to the OU community. “First and foremost we’re about students,” Gallogly said at a Sept. 20 Q&A with staff. “And one of the things we’ve been doing is pricing ourselves out of the reach

Dollas and is known for being an extremely hard worker and a positive influence on the team. “When I first met her, she was encouraging me to get back out to practice because I was sure I could not do the new recruit class, but she told me about how she broke her ankles (during her new recruit class) and how she came back from that, and I was so encouraged,” said Christina Merrell, a member ofthe Victor y Dolls. “That definitely helped me stick with roller derby.” C h e y e n n e R i g g s, t h e team’s head of public relations, said Bautista always

of the average person in our great state. (Tuition has) been going up about 30 percent over the last five years. If you were a student starting now and start to end you say, my bill went up 30 percent. Because we let this structure that we have and the inefficiencies get in the way of getting the job done. We’ve got to do something about that. So we held tuition flat.” A full list of scholarships available to incoming and transfer students and more information on applying can be found at ou.edu/admissions. Anna Bauman

Anna.M.Bauman-1@ou.edu

goes above and beyond whatever is asked of her and even takes on extra fundraising shifts, PR shifts and days at the gym. “(Lori is) an incredible teammate and one of the best teammates we have here at the Victory Dolls,” Riggs said. “She is always positive and friendly and is always going above and beyond, not just on the track, but outside the track as the committee head for our HR department. She attends every tournament around the country that she can that we play in and is always there, always at practice and always working hard and smiling.” Bautista said roller derby has not only given her a family and had a positive impact on her life but has also empowered her as a woman. Roller derby is often seen as the full embodiment of feminism in the modern era because it’s an extremely challenging sport that has attracted a lot of women and pushes them in ways they may have never experienced, according to a study by Adele Pavlidis, a feminist scholar at Griffith University, and Simone Fullagar, a professor of physical culture, sport and health at the University of Bath. “From the research I have done, what I have found is that roller derby provides a context for women to express parts of themselves that they otherwise can’t,” Pavlidis said. “For example, some women revel in the

ways derby enables them to express aggression and the possibility of hurting others, whereas in their dayto-day life they are usually in a caring role, such as a mother, nurse and so on.” Riggs said a lot of women find roller derby in their mid- to late-20s as a way to stay in shape, but they end up finding a place to belong and a family of women who support them and learn valuable life lessons along the way. “ We hav e a s ay i n g i n derby that ‘roller derby saved my soul,’ and I think for a lot of women that is true,” Riggs said. “There’s a lot that you can fail at in derby, and it’s really easy to fail at it, but in order to get good at it, you’ve got to try 100 times, and then on your 101st time you succeed. So, that’s a life lesson for anybody.” Bautista said roller derby has given her an outlet to express herself and relieve frustrations in her everyday life, and said she does not plan on quitting or retiring anytime soon. “It keeps me physically in shape and mentally in shape,” Bautista said. “It’s like moving chess when you’re out there, so it’s both physically and mentally challenging when you actually play. It has given me so much confidence both on the track and in my regular life.” Bailey Lewis

bailey.n.lewis-1@ou.edu

The Department of Sociology, Department of History, and Center for Social Justice at OU are pleased to present

Public lecture by James Russell Thursday, Oct. 11, 4:30 p.m. 906 Dale Hall Tower OU-Norman Campus