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Protesters display signs against the Dakota Access Pipeline Saturday on Main Street in Norman. The pipeline is being built in North Dakota and has drawn thousands in the state and around the country to protest its construction.

STANDING FIRM OU students, Norman residents make statement against pipeline DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE TIMELINE Jan. 20, 2016: The North Dakota Public Service Commission granted Dakota Access a construction permit for the pipeline. Jan. 25, 2016: Construction begins on oil terminals for the project May 2016: Pipeline construction begins April 2016: Standing Rock Sioux Tribe members gather at the Sacred Stone Camp in opposition of the pipeline July 27, 2016: Standing Rock Sioux Tribe files a lawsuit in federal court against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which issued permits for Dakota Access water crossings Aug. 11, 2016: The first ten arrests happen of protesters near Cannon Ball, North Dakota Sept. 3, 2016: Dakota Access bulldozed an area the tribe claimed to contain burial sites Sept. 9, 2016: A federal judge denied the tribe’s request for an injunction that would halt pipeline construction Oct. 9, 2016: A federal appeals court denied the tribe’s appeal of the Sept. 9 ruling Oct. 27, 2016: When authorities moved in to dismantle a roadblock that closed down a state highway, 141 protesters were arrested, bringing the number of those arrested since the protests began to more than 400 Source: oilpatchdispatch.areavoices.com

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rittany McKane, a Native American studies and anthropology junior, could see the bright red blood staining the attack dog’s mouth from where she stood 50 yards away. A police officer unleashed the dog on a group of protesters after they ducked under a fence to stop bulldozers from digging up a sacred Native American burial site while constructing an oil pipeline. This is what McKane witnessed when she recently visited the Oceti Sakowin Camp in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline. “That hurt me to see that because that’s the blood of our people. We bled on this land for so long. They’ve made us bleed. They’ve hurt us so much,” McKane said. “I don’t feel like there’s anywhere you could step where there isn’t indigenous blood that’s been spilled there.” Thousands are now camped out with the goal of impeding construction on the pipeline, a $3.7 billion project that would carry approximately 470,000 barrels of oil each day from northernmost North Dakota to southern Illinois, an underground route traversing 1,170 miles, according to NBCNews.com. In response to events occurring in North Dakota, the Many Nations Youth Council of Norman held a rally Nov. 5 to garner public support. MNYC member Kaimera Cornell said she also visited North Dakota for several days recently and was inspired by her experience. “It opened my eyes up to what is happening right here in Norman,”

Cornell said. “They’re (also) having the Plains Pipeline going on in Norman right now, so that’s another thing to be protesting. It just opened my eyes up to more issues that I wasn’t aware of before I went there.” Plains All American Pipeline recently received a permit from the city of Norman to construct a pipeline that would run through east

“That’s why they’re fighting, that’s why we’re fighting, that’s why we have these demonstrations to let people know that we’re still here, and that we’re thriving people, and we need our land to survive, and we need people to recognize that.” BRITTANY MCKANE, NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES AND ANTHROPOLOGY JUNIOR

Cleveland County in its route from Cushing, Oklahoma, to Longview, Texas. Both it and the Dakota pipeline draw similar concerns from environmentalists and Native Americans, but the Dakota Access Pipeline has reached a much larger audience. Thousands of people from around the world have been gathering in North Dakota since late summer to show solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The tribe sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for violating the National

Historic Preservation Act by failing to properly consult the tribe before beginning construction of the pipeline on sacred burial sites. Since then, the federal court denied the tribe’s request to halt construction of the pipeline, although the Army Corps is currently reassessing the situation. McKane said protesters are fighting for a host of various issues, including the protection of the environment and Native American culture. Environmentalists are concerned because of a potential pipeline malfunction that would contaminate the Missouri River. “As native people, we’ve never been removed from the earth the way that other societies and cultures have. We’ve stayed connected through our medicines, our prayers and our songs, and we know the importance of it,” McKane said. “And so we know that you might be creating jobs, you might be making money, you might be helping the economy, but what good is all of that when you’ve ruined the earth? What good is that when you have no land to survive on, you have no water to drink? Once you’ve cut down every last tree, you can’t even make any more money.” McKane wept as she spoke of the struggles of Native Americans who continue to protest despite police retaliation in the form of arrests and physical brutality. “Those people are gathering for our ancestors to protect those sites, and they’re fighting for our children and our grandchildren so that they can have clean drinking water, so that they don’t have to fight these fights that we’re having to fight, so

that they don’t have to be brutalized just to have a way of life, so that they don’t have to be attacked every time they want to make a stand for something, so that they can be seen as fully human in our society,” she said. The protest in Norman Nov. 5 drew a group of more than 30 people who marched up and down Main Street chanting, singing and holding signs that read: “People over pipelines,” “Respect our water,” “Don’t bite the land that feeds you” and “Honk if you drink water.” Blue Cloud, another member of the Many Nations Youth Council said he attended the protest to show his support. “Voices, even if they’re quiet, they have to be there,” Cloud said. “All these people, you never know who we’re giving strength to. There could be somebody with the right connection on the street that would pass by and be like, ‘Man, you’re right, I do need to do something about that.’ So you never know who we might reach.” The group attracted the attention of passersby in cars who rolled down windows and honked and waved in support of the protesters. “That’s why they’re fighting, that’s why we’re fighting, that’s why we have these demonstrations, to let people know that we’re still here, and that we’re thriving people, and we need our land to survive, and we need people to recognize that,” McKane said. Anna Bauman

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Navigating race, mental health African-American students speak out on stigma, silence EMMA KEITH @shakeitha_97

J. D. Ba ke r c h o ke s u p and pauses to reflect for a moment. “It’s not easy,” Baker, a public relations junior who is also running for Student Government Association president, said as he spoke of the toll of dealing with mental illness alongside the daily micro-aggressions he faces as a black man. “You really question the value of life or how other people value your humanity,” Baker said. “It has a deep, deep, deep toll on the whole black community.” Despite dealing with regular rates of mental illness, the black community faces a lack of discussion or awareness concerning mental health and illness. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, while African-Americans are just as likely to deal with a serious mental illness as the rest of the population, only 25 percent of African-Americans seek help for mental illness compared to 40 percent of white Americans. Additionally, according to research released in July 2015 by the Journal of American Medical Association Network, the suicide rate for black children has nearly doubled since 1993, and black youth are significantly “less likely to seek help for depression, suicidal ideation and suicide attempts.” This lack of discussion despite the prevalence of mental illness is nothing new at OU, said Jabar Shumate, the vice president for the university community. “I can remember from my time here as a student and even today, you know, not being able to consider and not being able to understand what might be mental health issues and then not seeking the appropriate help,” Shumate said. “If you don’t understand those things, if you don’t understand your experiences and what you’re going through, then it is very, very difficult to seek help.” But the silence at OU is not unique. This absence of conversation in the black community stems from an intersection of racial stigmas and mental health stigmas and has several contributing factors on a nationwide scale, Baker said. The black church is among those factors, Baker said, and can shut down the discussion about mental illness for African-Americans. “A lot of people say, ‘Oh, pray it away,’ you know, ‘Pray the depression away, God can heal you,’ and everything,” Baker said. “God can

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Public relations junior J.D. Baker speaks about how race and mental health intersect Sept. 29 in the Oklahoma Memorial Union courtyard. Baker also spoke about dealing with micro-aggressions.

heal you, and you can pray it away, but sometimes God sends people, sends solutions and sends therapists and counselors. People, they want to say it’s like a magical fix, and it’s like, ‘OK, I’ve been praying, and I’m still depressed.”’ Shumate also spoke to the role of faith in black communities’ understanding of mental illness. “ I c a n re m e m b e r m y grandmother saying to me, ‘What are you talking about?’ when I might say something as a child as innocent as, ‘I feel like I’m depressed,’ or, ‘I have friends going through depression,’ and that being a conversation — ‘You just need to pray about that,’” Shumate said. Rodney Bates, a Walker Center coordinator and Gateway class instructor, said while faith can play a large role in the lack of discussion, so can the historic demands for the black community to show strength. “I think black students have a lot of resiliency,” Bates said. “I think that’s a historical thing as well, like you have to be tough. My parents and my mom, raised me that I have to be extra tough, and not just like strong, but mentally tough, because she knew that I was about to go into a world that wasn’t really going to accept me 100 percent of the way.” Baker said this emphasis on African- American strength can further serve to tell black students that their feelings are not valid. “We’ve always been taught that we’re supposed to be strong, you know, especially through slavery and oppression and the civil rights movement,” Baker said. “All that stuff, it takes a toll on you, like I said. So you have to understand that this is

real. This is real, and it’s very authentic.” While the black community has not openly discussed mental illness or solutions, black mental health issues are further compounded by everyday occurrences of racism and micro-aggressions, Baker said. “It’s not easy seeing those videos all the time on social media,” Baker said in reference to videos of police shootings circulating online. “I’ve heard people say, ‘I re-

oppression, and then they oppress themselves, and it’s just a constant cycle of them oppressing themselves,” Bates said. However, there are murmurs in the black community that are beginning to bring up the mental health discussion, Baker said. A major step in the right direction for discussion and awareness has been the voices of black celebrities and artists speaking on mental health, Shumate said.

“I can remember my grandmother saying to me, ‘What are you talking about?’ when I might say something as a child as innocent as, ‘I feel like I’m depressed,’ or, ‘I have freinds going through depression,’ and that being a conversation — ‘You just need to pray about that.’” JABAR SHUMATE, VICE PRESIDENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY

fuse to watch another video, another thing,’ and then they still end up watching it, and it has impact.” “Those videos, you could consider them micro-aggressions because you see them one after the other,” Baker said. “All that accumulates, and that all sticks with you.” Police violence and micro-aggressions have hit especially close to home for Shumate. Shumate was a friend of Terence Crutcher, who was killed by police on Sept. 16 in Tulsa. “I grew up with Terence, so it’s still a very difficult thing for me because we grew up in the same church,” Shumate said. Bates said this lack of discussion, yet constant buildup of violence or micro-aggression, can sit heavily with students of color and black students. “They internalize that

Kid Cudi is among the most recent black artists to vocalize mental health struggles. In an Oct. 4 Facebook post, the hip hop artist talked about his long battle with anxiety, depression and suicidal urges, as well as his decision to seek help through rehab. Cudi’s statement produced a Twitter hashtag called #yougoodman encouraging black men to check in on one another’s mental health and have discussions on the subject. As national discussion progresses, Baker said the voices of students of color at OU are growing stronger on the subject of mental health. “It’s a growing group,” Baker said. “It’s still hard, and not a lot of people understand, and there’s a lot of knowledge that needs to go around, but I do. There’s some students that I can talk to.” Baker and Shumate are

involved with Developing Black Males, a new student organization focusing on support and community for black male students. Baker led a discussion on mental health in one of Developing Black Males’ most recent meetings Oct. 16. Delta Sigma Theta sorority is trying to start the discussion, as well. The sorority hosted “Don’t Hurt Yourself,” an event with speakers and open discussion on mental illness and suicide in the black community, Nov. 2 in the Henderson-Tolson Cultural Center. Alexis Hall, a mechanical engineering senior and the event organizer, said the topic was both personal and important within the OU community. “This past summer, personally, one of my friends that I’ve grown up with my entire life committed suicide. So that’s why I have a personal interest in prevention and awareness — because you hear about things, and you aren’t really aware what’s actually going on until it hits close to home,” Hall said. “I’ve been doing some research on some statistics on, especially within the black community, how often we overlook mental health issues,” Hall said. “It’s a huge taboo, and I think we’re starting to uncover that within the black community, so it’s important to me that I kind of shed light on that.” Hall shared her story at the event; along with a former Goddard counselor and a student speaker. “I kind of want it to be an open dialogue for people to give their story if they feel comfortable,” Hall said before the event. “I think all health, whether it be physical, spiritual or emotional, needs to kind of

be doctored,” Hall said. It’s important to kind of seek that help if you need it before it’s too late.” Another way forward at OU, Shumate said, is to ensure that the university is hiring a diverse faculty and staff that can relate to the needs of marginalized student groups, as well as educating existing staff to be culturally competent. “I think that what is really important to help particularly students of color is they’ve got to be able on the staff to see people that look like them, to feel comfortable enough that they know they see someone who might have had shared experiences to open up and talk to,” Shumate said. Baker said this solution should particularly focus on staff and counselors at OU’s Counseling Center, and students should be able to find people to speak with who reflect their situations and life experiences. “You’d rather be telling it to a blank wall if you’re talking to a counselor who does not understand your experience,” Baker said. “You know, you’d rather be talking to yourself.” Bates said he believes OU could challenge and change the stigmas around mental health care if the university puts in the time and resources to educate students on mental health. “We definitely need to build education and literature around mental health, so that when students get here who have been conditioned to believe that mental health services are bad, we need to have a system in place that says, ‘Actually, no, it’s good, and here’s the study that says if you go get this, you’re more likely to graduate or be successful,’” Bates said. “There’s ways for (that narrative) to turn around if we put the resources in and to tell people that it doesn’t have to be a stigma, it doesn’t have to be negative,” Bates said. A more personally practical step forward for AfricanAmerican students is practicing self-care when walking through mental illness and micro-aggressions, Baker said. “You have to take care of yourself, and you also have to understand the mental impact of all these events and all these instances it takes on you, because it can — if you focus too much in on it and let it take its toll on you, it can mess you up,” Baker said. “And so it’s all about having the right coping skills, taking care of yourself by sleeping and eating and just — even for me, it’s meditation,” Baker said. “I do different things that remind me, like, I do have value, I do have worth despite what people say. What I experience is valid, and it is real, and it’s my reality.” Emma Keith

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THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA INSTITUTE FOR WRITING, RHETORIC, AND TECHNOLOGY PRESENTS ITS FIFTH BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM Featuring a Reading from Back to the Blanket: Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies BY DR. KIMBERLY G. WEISSER, Assistant Professor of English & Director of The Native Writers Circle of The Americas

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2016 READING ROOM, CATE CENTER TWO 11-11:30 a.m.

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Students engage fellow activists

Mosaic Symposium illuminates issues of diversity, inclusion ABBY BITTERMAN @abby_bitterman

The OU Gender + Equality Center hosted its fourth annual Mosaic: Social Justice Symposium Nov. 5 i n L i s s a a n d Cy Wagner Hall. The symposium was open to students, faculty and community members and featured speeches on social justice topics like the privatization of juvenile correctional facilities, the human rights of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and more. The symposium opened with a presentation from student keynote speaker Angie Tran, an OU sociology senior. Tran was invited to give the keynote speech, and said she wanted her speech to represent her community. “I felt like I had to make my presence visible by giving up parts of myself in college,” Tran said in her speech, as she focused on the issue of invisibility and her desire to represent the various communities of which she is a member. “She said her point was ‘Do we need to speak louder?’ Or ‘Are people not listening?’ And you know, I’m really not sure,” music senior Chelsea Van Dolah said. “Because Asian issues aren’t talked about as much, or maybe I just don’t hear about them as much because maybe they’re not as reported on.” After the keynote speech, attendees could chose one of several presentations being given in time slots throughout the day. After a couple of blocks of presentations, Maria del Guadalupe Davidson, the

director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and co-director of the OU Center for Social Justice, gave another keynote speech. Davidson addressed the relationship between maintaining an activist mentality and finding rest and health. She provided steps for activists to stay healthy, including pushing past imposter syndrome, praising oneself and others, and taking time away from activism to rest. “I’m going to ask that you be selfish,” Davidson said in her speech. “So much of activist life is selfless.” Belle Lamfu, human relations senior, said she aspires to influence people just like Davidson, and that Davidson is not just a bleeding heart. “Hearing (Davidson) talk in whatever capacity, especially this one, where you can have so many different people from so many different majors hearing her is a charm,” Lamfu said.

“I’m going to ask that you be selfish. So much of activist life is selfless.” MARIA DEL GUADALUPE DAVIDSON, DIRECTOR OF WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES PROGRAM

Lamfu said she appreciated the symposium being on a Saturday when people are more available, and said she like d g etting the chance to interact with members of her community and learn about the things going on in the world. J.D. Baker, public relations junior, member of the executive committee for the symposium and a candidate for Student

Government Association president, said for each of the sessions, the speakers were given free reign to lead the presentations how they wanted. “If they want to do an open forum discussion, they can,” Baker said. “Or if they just want to stand up and lecture the whole time, they can, depending on the topic and how they want to engage the crowd.” Stephanie Allred, chemical biosciences senior, gave a presentation titled “The Modern Day White Man’s Burden: A White Student’s Perspective on Foreign Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Allred spoke about “voluntourism” and the “white savior complex” during her experience working at a health center in Uganda. “If you want to see the developing world, you don’t have to do it under the guise of service work,” Allred said in her presentation. Sofi Halpin, literature j u n i o r, g a v e a p r e s e n tation about “Jim Crow Po st B row n v. B oa rd o f Education: Intra-School Segregation in the U.S.” Her presentation was about how tracking, among other causes, leads to intra-school segregation, and many members of the audience shared their personal experiences with the issue. “(International Baccalaureate) becomes a code word for white very quickly,” Halpin said in her presentation. Miles Kelly, a graduate student, gave a presentation titled “Am I My Sister’s Keeper? Black Males as Advocates of ‘Black Girl Magic.’” Kelly spoke on the dynamic between black men and black women, and the historic undervaluing of black women within their community.

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Speaker Sofi Halpin gives a presentation over intra-school segregation in the U.S. for the Mosaic: Social Justice Symposium Nov. 5. The symposium was hosted by the Gender + Equality Center.

In his presentation, Kelly said if all black women went on strike, he couldn’t imagine how the community would thrive or grow because black women run it. Black men must begin to respect the autonomy of and dialogue around black women, he said. “I just keep hearing from participants that their small group sessions were really energizing, engaging, that they learned a lot,” G+E Center director Kathy Fahl said. “So that’s what we want, conversations and critical thinking, and I think we’re getting that.” Fahl said about 200 people registered for the event online, but there were not always 200 people at the symposium. People came and went depending on which presenters they wanted to see. “The goals are to give students a platform to talk about the issues of social justice from their

perspective and inspire diEmma Keith and alogue and conversation Hannah Pike contributed about these issues,” Fahl to this story. said. “Hopefully people walk away rethinking some t h i ng s, wa l k away w i t h Abby Bitterman some new ideas to interact abbybitt@ou.edu with other and to engage with the communities they work in and live in.”

ABOUT PAST MOSAIC SYMPOSIUMS Number of attendants this year: About 200 Past session topics: The implications of the words “boomer sooner”, inclusivity of people with disabilities, rape culture, micro-aggressions against people of color Major changes: In May 2015, the event switched names from Sooner Mosaic to just Mosaic Past speakers: Sydne Gray and Ashley McCray of Indigenize OU, Kami Day, women’s and gender studies instructor, George Henderson Department of Human Relations as director of the advanced studies program. Source: Daily Archives

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WATCH PARTIES

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Audience members absorb the remarks of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump during their first debate Sept. 26. There will be watch parties to see the presidential election results in Gaylord College, at Earth Rebirth, Millenium Apartments and Traditions West.

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ne of the most polarizing U.S. presidential election cycles of all time will soon come to a close, and a winner will be revealed Nov. 8 after long-fought campaigns by Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Students who want to pay attention to the results of the election in real time can do so starting at 6 p.m. Nov. 8 in the Gaylord Ethics and Excellence Auditorium, where OU Votes will host a watch party for attendees to see the election’s curtains close and witness who will become the next president. Dick Pryor, the former host of Oklahoma Educational Television Authority’s Oklahoma News Report and a member of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame, will moderate a series of panel discussions at the watch party with OU faculty members and Democratic and Republican political professionals. OU faculty on the panel include Keith Gaddie, the chair of the OU political science department, Patrick Meirick, an associate professor in OU’s Department of Communication, and more. Political professional panelists include Joe Dorman, the 2014 Democratic nominee for

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Oklahoma Governor, Trebor Worthen, the political director of the Oklahoma Republican Part, WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Gaylord College for Journalism and and more. While many polls in weeks past have shown Mass Communication, Ethics and Excellence in Clinton holding a strong edge over Trump, he Journalism Auditorium - Room 1140. has been gaining ground on her in many recent nationwide polls. Many have credited Trump’s climb to the FBI’s discovery of more emails on Clinton’s private server. However, the FBI told WHEN: 6 -10 p.m. lawmakers Nov. 6 that it again has cleared WHERE: Earth Rebirth, 325 E. Comanche St. Clinton of any criminal wrongdoing. The watch party will also pay attention to state election results. It is being hosted by the Carl Albert Center, Gaylord College, Housing and Food Services, the Political Communication Center, Student Gover nment Association, University Libraries, the Political Science Club WHEN: 6:30 p.m. and the Constitutional Studies Student WHERE: Millenium clubhouse, 900 E Lindsey St.

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Candidates for SGA president, vice president to debate issues Monday

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Student Government Association presidential candidates attend a town hall-style discussion hosted by Unheard and Delta Sigma Theta Thursday. The discussion featured all candidates except computer science junior Sam Noble and took place in Dale Hall.

SGA candidates discuss platforms at town hall

Delta Sigma Theta, OU Unheard host Formation forum REGAN STEPHENSON @regan_leanne_

OU students and faculty gathered Nov. 3 at a town hall forum where presidential candidates for Student Government A s s o c i at i o n s p o ke o n important issues facing the university community. The tow n hall for um, titled Formation: Stand Up, Stand Strong, Stand Together, was created and hosted by OU Unheard and Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Fo u r o f t h e f i v e S G A presidential candidates attended and took questions from a moderator, senior Jessica Roberts, on behalf of OU Unheard, and the audience. Candidate Sam Noble, computer science junior, was not present at the forum. The forum was

conducted in two stages. In the first, candidates Ryan Echols, Corey Abernathy, J.D. Baker and Matt Marks answered questions concerning their platforms and the upcoming S GA election. Questions during this stage ranged from topics like sexual assault to diversity. “ We a re r u n n i n g o u r campaign on three main things: mental health, sexual assault and Project Threshold ‌ Enough isn’t being done (about mental health) because our students are still suffering,â€? said Abernathy, political science junior. “We want to be the voice for other people ‌ We want to bridge the gap, and we want everyone to have the best experience on this campus,â€? said Baker, public relations junior. Echols, drama and economics senior, is shaping his campaign based off of his experiences within SGA and other student

organizations on campus as well as aiming to address issues facing students at the university. “What I find problematic is the response to protests on campus ‌ I am seeing a lot of talk by the administration, but not a lot being done,â€? Echols said. Marks, broadcast journalism junior, is centering his campaign on making food available to all OU students. “Food insecurity is very high on campus ‌ 40 percent of students on this campus qualify for food stamps,â€? Marks said. The second part of the town hall focused on issues in the U.S. presidential election. Baker and Abernathy each discussed his position on the election, believing that the results will affect the next SGA president. Both candidates also discussed how the election results will affect the issue of police brutality. Baker and Abernathy

each said he would work with SGA to keep the policies that have created more inclusivity on campus. “We must make sure SGA sticks to policies and resists interference from the state,� Baker said. “What we are seeing right now is a lack of accountability on our police force and our criminal justice system as a whole,� Abernathy said. OU Unheard President Everett Brow n said the forum met his expectations and that he was glad to see students coming together to discuss issues. Vice President of U n i v e r s i t y C o m mu n i t y Jabar Shumate and current SGA President Daniel Pae were also in attendance. Regan Stephenson

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A statue of Jack Trice outside of the stadium at Iowa State University Nov. 3. Trice died in 1923 after sustaining injuries during football game.

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MES, Iowa — As the Iowa State Cyclones clustered at the front of their tunnel Thursday, preparing to enter Jack Trice Stadium to face Oklahoma, they were greeted by the face and words of the venue’s namesake, a player, just like them, but one who left Iowa in a coffin 93 years ago. T r i c e, Io w a St a t e’s f i r s t African-American football player, was pummeled during a game at Minnesota on Oct. 6, 1923, breaking his collarbone early and suffering internal injuries after returning to the game. Trice, who rode the 200 miles back to Iowa in a train car filled with straw in an attempt to ease his pain, died two days later. As the decades have passed and the role of race and sports in America have grown more complex, his death has been viewed in a changing light. “There was an initial investigation, a question into it, when he died in 1923, and people testified that ‘No, it wasn’t racially motivated.’ Over the course of history, people have asserted that it absolutely was,” said Jaime Schultz, a sports historian at Penn State whose book “Moments of Impact : Injury, Racialized Memory, and Reconciliation in College Football” includes Trice’s story. “So we have two different accounts, and it’s hard to sort out which is accurate.” “Everyone who was ever interviewed that was in the game said … he was not singled out because he was black,” said Tom Kroeschell, the director of athletics communication at Iowa State from 1993-2013. “Can any of us unequivocally say we know? No.” Trice eventually took on a

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“The honor of my race, family and self is at stake. Everyone is expecting me to do big things. I will. My whole body and soul are to be thrown recklessly about the field. ” JACK TRICE, FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN FOOTBALL PLAYER AT IOWA STATE

mythical quality, viewed by some as a college football racial martyr. Former Sooner Eric Striker remembered being struck by Trice’s story when an OU trainer told it to him during Oklahoma’s visit to Iowa State in 2012. “As an African-American player, you appreciate the things that he has done and his life and his struggle,” said Striker, whom OU honored for his leadership after a racist fraternity chant became public and roiled campus last year. “It’s just a moment that you have with yourself before you play on that field. I know I’m not a Cyclone, but his story is just touching, being an African-American male.” Trice, banished to eat alone in a private room in the Minneapolis hotel where the team stayed before the fateful game, seemed to recognize the importance of the moment in a letter he wrote to himself on Curtis Hotel stationery — the same words Iowa State players see as they come out of the tunnel. “The honor of my race, family and self is at stake,” the letter began. “Everyone is expecting me to do big things. I will. My whole body and soul are to be thrown recklessly about the field.” RACE AND SPORTS No. 14 Oklahoma beat Iowa

State 34-24 Thursday night in Ames, recording its 74th win in 81 tries against the Cyclones. In a sport known for the unexpected, Oklahoma-Iowa State is as consistent as it gets. What was different this year is that it was the Sooners’ first game in Jack Trice Stadium since the Sigma Alpha Epsilon video scandal rocked Norman, which sprung the football team into a public crusade against racism. The SAE scandal and its aftermath was just one in a recent series of high-profile racial protests in the sports world. Last fall, the University of Miss our i football team threatened to boycott a game against BYU if the school’s president did not resign for allegedly failing to react properly to complaints of racial abuse on campus. Then, this August, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the national anthem before games to protest police brutality against people of color. Players from around the league — including Miami Dolphins receiver and former Oklahoma star Kenny Stills — soon joined him. History shows that the issue of race in sports, at Oklahoma or elsewhere, won’t go away. It’s always there, regardless of whether it’s vocalized, surging in different eras.

“Sometimes it’s simmering beneath the surface, and sometimes it erupts in the form of somebody like C o l i n Ka e p e r n i ck o r p e o ple at Missouri or Oklahoma where they just say ‘Enough is enough. We’re not going to take it anymore,’” Schultz said. As some of the Sooners’ leaders at the time of the SAE incident have moved on from the program, the activism has quieted. The younger players they left are not publicly grappling with the racism they encounter. “I definitely think it’s something that we all think about, that we had to go through last year to make us a better team,” sophomore offensive tackle Orlando Brown said. “And man, as far as it being an issue, we don’t really have to deal with it anymore, obviously, because of what happened to them and things like that. So we haven’t had to deal with it, really.” Players say the ongoing protests driven by Kaepernick’s stance haven’t made a ripple among the team. “Honestly, I haven’t really heard anyone talk about it in the locker room. We’re never out there for the national anthem and things like that,” Brown said. “I mean, we’ve got a bunch of positive guys, so if one guy kneels, I’m pretty sure we all would, but there isn’t

much talk about it.” But Striker, the most outspoken Sooner player during the days following the SAE incident, said the conversations are ongoing at OU, even if one player isn’t pushing the issue into the public eye. He said the Sooners are just waiting for the next outspoken leader to emerge. “The conversations are always had with administration, different groups on campus and also the football team, but I think it takes somebody to want to come out,” Striker said. “It’s a sacrifice, to put some things on the line to lead it. It has to be somebody, and I think that’s what the search is for now.” SLOW PROGRESS It would be five decades after Trice’s death before integration became mainstream in college athletics. Even at those schools that were seen as pioneers, the transition was not smooth. When Trice came to Ames in 1922, he had trouble finding a place to live because locals were reluctant to rent to an African-American, Kroeschell said. “In the ’20s, ’30s, ’40s, ’50s, black athletes weren’t allowed to live on campus. Even at majority schools that were integrated like Ohio State, they had to live off campus,” Schultz said. “They couldn’t get their hair cut at local barbers. They couldn’t eat at local restaurants. So you’ve got a community that will really cheer and adore and love people on Saturday gameday, but the rest of the time people are treated like second-class citizens.” Even among the pioneering schools, the integration was not complete. Former see TRICE page 6

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Oklahoma Coach Barry Switzer, seen by many as a trailblazer for the recruitment of African-American players, said coaches weren’t free to recruit African-Americans at every position while he was an assistant coach in the ’60s and ’70s. “There was a quota system, obviously by coaches. It wasn’t something that was talked about. You went out and you didn’t recruit right guards, you recruited fullbacks, running backs, receivers, your skill people to play — the black athletes,” Switzer said. “You weren’t doing the right thing trying to recruit all the best players at all positions.” Switzer changed that when he took over in Norman. “When I became the head coach in ’73, that was my philosophy and that’s what I told my coaching staff. That you’re coaching for the wrong guy if you don’t believe in what I believe in. We’re going to recruit the best players at all positions, gives us the best chance to win. It’s the right thing to do.”

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Ab o u t t h e s a m e t i m e, a group of students at Iowa State rediscovered the Trice story as the school was building a new football stadium, and a campaign began. “From this class emerged a big movement to name the stadium for him. There were

“This is always a conversation on college campuses, period, and will continue to happen.” ERIC STRIKER, FORMER OU LINEBACKER

other people who said ‘No, we should name it after a donor, we should do it — Trice played in two games in the ’20s, why should we name a stadium after him?’” Schultz said. In 1984, they found what Schultz called a compromise: the field, but not the stadium, would be named after Trice. Similarly, Oklahoma under Switzer wasn’t a complete sanctuary for AfricanAmerican athletes, as his players found out when he started black quarterbacks.

“There was letters to them, there were some comments,” Switzer said. “I laughed at them. Those things never influenced me.” Progress has been made, but tension remains. Those feelings of disenfranchisement felt by players in the early 20th century were echoed in an explosive Snapchat video Striker made following the SAE incident. “This is always a conversation on college campuses, period, and will continue to happen,” said Striker, who was not selected in the NFL draft but spent training camp with the Buffalo Bills. “And they’re always trying to make progress when it comes to race relations and those types of things.” FINAL RECOGNITION Years passed, yet the campaign to name the stadium after Trice wasn’t done. In 1997 — 74 years after his death, and spurred as part of a student political platform — he got his full recognition as Cyclone Stadium was renamed Jack Trice Stadium. The move was part of another surge, just like the collapse of segregation in college football in the ’70s and the protests

of today. “I think there is an idea that there’s a critical mass of black athletes when historically they were simply tokens on white campuses,” Schultz said of the current climate. “It’s encouraging that people can speak out now, but it’s also disheartening that they’re feeling some of the same types of disenfranchisement that they did in early 20th century.” This moment of racial protest may dissipate like so many others, but the sentiment will always be under the surface, looking for a moment to make an impact, just as Trice wrote, sitting alone in that Minneapolis hotel room. “ Ev e r y t i m e t h e b a l l i s snapped, I will be trying to do more than my part. Fight low, with your eyes open and toward the play. Watch out for crossbucks and reverse end runs. Be on your toes every minute if you expect to make good.” Jesse Pound

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7. Wisconsin 8. Auburn 9. Oklahoma 10. Texas A&M 11. West Virginia 12. Penn State 13. Utah 14. Western Michigan 15. North Carolina 16. Colorado 17. Oklahoma State 18. Virginia Tech 19. LSU 20. Florida State 21. Nebraska 22. Florida 23. Washington State 24. Boise State 25. Baylor Source: AP

Mixon allegedly threw ticket at attendant Running back missed Iowa State game due to suspension ANDREW CLARK @clarky_tweets

According to an OU Police Department report, Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon allegedly threw a torn-up parking citation at a university parking attendant’s face, an incident that caused Mixon to be suspended for the Sooners’ Nov. 3 game against Iowa State University. The report said, “A complaint reported a simple assault occurred when the suspect threw a torn up parking citation, which allegedly struck the victim in the face.” The report also classifies the incident as disorderly conduct and says the case is still active. On Friday, Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn said he would not press charges, according to NewsOK. OU Athletics said in a press release Nov. 1 that Mixon would be suspended for the game, which OU won 34-24. “I regret that I did not respond appropriately to parking

attendants and understand and accept the consequences,” Mixon said in the press release. Mixon leads the Sooners in rushing yards this season with 813. He also has five rushing touchdowns and four receiving touchdowns. Running back Samaje Perine also missed Thursday’s game due to a pulled muscle, so fullback Dimitri Flowers received the majority of carries in the game with 22. The civil case between Mixon and Amelia Molitor, which will be heard in an Oklahoma district court, is also ongoing. Molitor is suing Mixon for striking her in the face in July 2014 at Pickleman’s Gourmet Cafe in Norman. Video footage of the incident between Mixon and Molitor is sealed. The Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters is currently suing for public access to the video. Molitor previously filed to prevent the video from being released but withdrew her intervention to its release Oct. 19. Jesse Pound contributed to this report. Andrew Clark

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Running back Joe Mixon walks around the team bench after being carried off of the fields due to an injury at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, Dec. 31, 2015. Mixon was suspended for Oklahoma’s Nov. 3 game against the Iowa State Cyclones on Saturday.

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Sooners find home away from home in bar every gameday

lifelong Sooner fan.” The Mad Hatter’s walls are lined with OU flags and each table is filled with crimson and cream pompoms. Steve Naughton, Ne w Je rs e y nat i ve w h o graduated from OU in 1978, had wanted to visit The Mad Hatter for a while. “I have lived up here for quite some time. I miss Norman a lot, but since I am established here it is hard to find a slice of home. I am just an OU nut and The Mad Hatter feeds that,” Naughton said. Naughton learned about The Mad Hatter through social media and was able to make a trip because he is retired. Even in a place like New York City, the spirit of the Sooners can come to life, Naughton said. “Everywhere you go in the country you might find a corner where someone is a Sooner fan and here in NYC, this is the place,” Naughton said.

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It’s a Thursday night in New York City. While some hustle home from work, Sooner fans rush to 360 3rd Ave. in Manhattan to The Mad Hatter, New York City’s official OU bar. The NYC Sooners have gathered to watch games at The Mad Hatter for four seasons. On game days this bar becomes“sardine city” according to OU alumnus Scooby Axson. Barry Switzer has even made a Mad Hatter appearance. The Mad Hatter stays true to OU with a Campus Corner-like atmosphere and even a T-shir t that models the famous “I heart NY” shirts — with a Sooner Schooner taking place of the giant red heart. T h e Ma d Hat t e r ’s a rchitecture is inspired by British alehouses and is als o know n as the official home of Manchester City Football Club fans and supp or ters in New York. When the Sooners play, The Mad Hatter provides fans with The Montinspired queso and fried pickles. Lana Raleigh, OU season ticket holder, said she came to New York w ith some friends to celebrate her birthday. “I turned 50 in October

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The Mad Hatter OU bar in Manhattan, New York. OU alumni in the city gather at the bar to watch football games as they have for the past four seasons. The bar serves The Mont-inspired queso and fried pickles.

and I wanted to come to New York to celebrate, but I had to find a weekend when it didn’t fall on an OU home game,” Raleigh said. Raleigh and her husband, Lance, have been going to OU games their entire lives and can hardly recall missing a game. Raleigh said missing the game during her birthday trip was not an option. “I looked online on the

OU alumni site for New York and this is where they said they watch the game. It is really neat to see all ages of OU fans gather in this huge city,” Raleigh said. Other fans who gathered to watch the Sooners play at The Mad Hatter were permanent residents in the New York area who were excited to experience a little piece of home. Recent OU graduate

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Nathan Fararough decided to come to New York to pursue his career in civil engineering. “Once I moved up here, I was feeling a little homesick so I googled ‘Sooners N e w Yo r k ’ a n d s a w o n social media where it is named the official OU bar,” Fararough said. Thursday’s game against Iowa State was Fararough’s first time to visit The Mad Ha t t e r. Fa ra ro u g h s a i d

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“I’ve actually had more experiences than just Ukraine and Oklahoma. I’ve been an international student for already three and a half years, first Ukraine, then Norway, and Popular artists now U.S. So I’ve collected quite a few experiences, and I have to say that Oklahoma is collab with creator a very peculiar place. It’s a very American place. Oklahoma is too religious. I don’t like of Broadway smash Christianity in specific; I have some ideas about Christianity not being the best religion for people in general. It values traits of the character that I do not. This victimization, this HIETT slave culture, I hate it. I’m still in this process of getting to know it. It’s really not easy, to get DEVIN @DevinHiett to know a place and especially people. It’s not enough — a year, two years — is not enough. You need at least five to six years, according to my experience. I hope to get it in the end.” Lin-Manuel Miranda, c reato r a n d st a r o f t h e h i t B r o a d w a y Mu s i c a l “Hamilton: An American Musical,” announced on Tw i t t e r Nov. 3 t hat h i s long-awaited “Hamilton Mixtape” is complete and went on pre-sale Friday. The full album will be released Dec. 2. Miranda told Rolling Stone in June the album is “about a 50-50 mix of covers and inspired-bys.” The complete playlist consists of 23 songs, many of which were originally created for the musical but didn’t make it into the show’s final cut. Some of the world’s most popular musicians will be putting their own stamp on numbers from Hamilton.

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that even though he lives in New York permanently now, he will be a lifelong Sooner fan because of his university experience. “ I f e l t l i k e I mat u re d m o re a t t h e f o u r y e a r s when I was at OU. I just l e a r n e d s o mu c h, f ro m work, to politics and even h o w p e o p l e t re a t e a c h other,” Fararough said. “I love that school because of how they treated me while I was a student. I will be a

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Artists featured on the mixtape include Chance The Rapper, Wiz Khalifa, John Legend, Kelly Clarkson and Alicia Keys. Several OU acting students who describe themselves as huge fans of the original musical expressed their excitement for the mixtape’s arrival. “I am so excited to hear the new ‘Hamilton Mixtape’,” said Tori Hartley, acting junior. “There’s so many talented people who are a part of it, and I can’t wait to see what they bring LIN-MANUEL t o t h e s e already MIRANDA amazing songs.” Two songs on the Mixtape were released today to give listeners a sneak peak of the full album. Both tracks are part of the original musical. “It’s Quiet Uptown” is covered by

Kelly Clarkson, and “My Shot” is covered by The Roots and features Joelle Ortiz, Busta Rhymes and Nate Ruess. Caleb Hennigan, acting sophomore, said he hopes people not yet familiar with the musical will listen to the mixtape after realizing some of their favorite artists are featured. “If people learn some of their favorite R&B artists or rappers are singing these songs, it could really bring to light this musical’s impact,” said Ashtonn Thompson, acting sophomore. “I think it would really be a good thing for people to take the time to stop and listen to the mixtape and see how it relates to what’s going on in our country right now,” Thompson said. The Hamilton mixtape is available for pre-order on Amazon in both explicit and clean versions. Devin Hiett

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SQ 776 allows Oklahoma to continue effective methods of capital punishment

be sure that criminals will be punished accordingly. Sen. Anthony Sykes, the amendment’s chief sponsor, believes there is an “obligation to the people of Oklahoma to ensure that we can effectively enforce the death penalty” Aliah Detwiler aliah.detwiler-1@ou.edu in order to ensure criminals will be given the prosecution The case for State deserved. Question 776 draws positive Oklahoma is currently one and negative approaches. of the 31 states that operates The amendment will under a legal death penalty add new sections to the system, and in February of Oklahoma constitution stat- 2015. Oklahoma was ranked ing that all death penalty first in executions per capita. statutes are in effect and can To supporters, this is seen continue to be used. It also as a way of showcasing how states that methods of exeOklahoma effectively hancution can be changed and dles crime. made more flexible in order Many Oklahomans opto accommodate the situapose SQ 776, or even the tion and method of execudeath penalty in general, tion needed. Finally, SQ 776 because of the botched exestates that the death penalty cution that occurred in April cannot be deemed cruel and of 2014. The high-profile, unusual punishment. controversial execution of SQ 776 has support from Clayton Lockett is heavily several political figureheads cited for opposition to both within Oklahoma. Much of capital punishment and the the support stems from the “three-drug protocol” often belief that SQ 776 would pro- used in executions. tect the state’s ability to emThere is a possibility that ploy the death penalty, espe- the drugs used in lethal cially when faced with lobinjections — and even the byist and lawsuit opposition. practice of lethal injections Supporting the bill would — could become illegal and also allow citizens who are deemed unconstitutional. pro-capital punishment to

Oklahoma needs SQ 776 in order to continue their methods of execution and provide alternative procedures to suffice if necessary, whether that means replacing types of lethal injection with electrocution, vice versa, or even continuing their current procedures without interference. Individuals will be able to vote on SQ 776 Nov. 8. I will be unable to vote during the election due to age restrictions, and if I were able to vote I do not know whether I would support or oppose this bill. Even though I will not be voting and have not come to a conclusion on how I feel about SQ 776, I strongly believe that it’s important to vote and also to understand why individuals support this bill and are wanting these changes within the justice system. Aliah Detwiler is a journalism freshman and columnist for The Daily.

ABOUT THIS SERIES Leading up to election day, we’re publishing point-counterpoint columns for each of the state questions on the ballot in Oklahoma this year. For more information about each state question, visit oudaily.com/statequestions. So far, we’ve published columns about the state questions in bold type, which can all be viewed at oudaily.com/opinion: SQ 776 | SQ 777 | SQ 779 | SQ 780 | SQ 781 | SQ 790 | SQ 792

Capital punishment way to exact revenge, not effective at preventing heinous crimes black people comprise only 12.3 percent of the population of the United States. Also, the race of the victim in a capital crime is the single most reliable predictor of who gets the death penalty. Over 75 perPaula Schonauer cent of cases that resulted in paulasophia@ou.edu an execution involved white murder victims, even though In the interest of full disonly 50 percent of all murder closure, I was enormously victims nationally were white. relieved the day Timothy McVeigh died by lethal injec- A common problem in capital cases involves the lack of tion. I felt if anyone deserved the death penalty, he did. You quality representation. Nearly all death row inmates couldn’t see, I was on scene that day, afford their own attorneys. on April 19, 1995. I saw close Supreme Court Justice Ruth up what a radical can do, the Bader Ginsberg famously massive destruction, the loss said, “People who are well of life — especially the chilrepresented at trial do not get dren. I’m glad he can no lonthe death penalty.” ger hurt anyone. Perhaps the real reason My relief, though, was an we keep pursuing the death emotional reaction to the penalty is to exact revenge. horrible crime McVeigh perThe apparatus of the death petuated against the people of Oklahoma City, and I don’t penalty has produced a cathartic valve through which believe emotional reactions we channel our pain, confushould rule the day when it sion and anger. We heap upon comes to decisions about life the offender all our dread and death. about uncertainty and chaos, Proponents of capital and we hope his death will punishment claim the death set things right. According to penalty deters people from the philosopher Rene Girard, committing horrible crimes. author of “Violence and the However, I don’t think the Sacred”, the death penalty has death penalty gave Timothy become a ritual of the state. It McVeigh a second thought, is an imitation of ancient rites nor has it deterred other crimes in places like Orlando, that were designed to ward off evil and promote harmoSan Bernardino, Newtown ny in human communities. and Aurora. If the death penalty is about According to this view, the death penalty can be conjustice, then why aren’t we sidered a state-sanctioned using it in a just way? Why human sacrifice. is the death penalty used State Question 776 wants against poor people and racial to resurrect methods of exeminorities more often than cution that had been deemed anyone else? According to unsavory when the Oklahoma Death Penalty Information Center, 42 percent of all death State Legislature adopted the use of lethal injection, row inmates are black, while

a supposedly humane and painless form of execution, in 1977. Lethal injection made execution look like a medical procedure, but, in recent years, pharmaceutical companies have begun to restrict the sale of lethal injection drugs due to ethical concerns, namely the Hippocratic principle that directs medical practitioners to do no harm. Capital punishment cannot be deployed in a fair way. There are always emotional responses or biases at play. There are agendas and discrepancies involved in every case. We find it too easy to condemn the powerless to the death chamber while giving consideration to those who have the means to make a vigorous defense or to those who can more readily win our empathy. We can no longer justify the death penalty as a means of deterrence because it simply doesn’t function as one, and to use it to exact revenge only contributes to the violence that is all too prevalent in our world. Executions beget more executions as we inexhaustibly try to purge evil from our society and, though I am glad McVeigh is dead, I know atrocities like the one he perpetuated continue to persist. Perhaps the only way to purge violence from our society is to stop being violent, and we can begin to do this by advocating for the end of state-sanctioned homicide. A good way to start is to vote no on State Question 776. Paula Schonauer is a graduate student and columnist for The Daily.

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