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Top right: OU President David Boren wears a big smile at his surprise party Friday. Above: OU President David Boren and First Lady Molly Shi Boren are honored at the OU Regents meeting for their 20 years of service to the university. Left: First Lady Molly Shi Boren poses for The Daily in Boyd House’s garden.
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t was a very freakish storm because the ground wasn’t frozen — the ice was all up in the air. You couldn’t drive anywhere because trees were all over the roads, reaching into the sidewalks and lawns. That was how OU First Lady Molly Shi Boren began the story about her most gratifying day at OU — the day over 1,000 students came together to help restore campus after an ice storm that ruined over 1,600 full-size trees in 2007. “It looked like a war zone,” said Allen King, director of OU Landscaping and Grounds. Monday marked OU President David Boren and First Lady Molly Shi Boren’s 20th year on campus. Their tenure began in 1994 after David Boren resigned two years early from the U.S. Senate to take the job at OU. In those 20 years, Molly Shi Boren said the dreary Saturday students spent volunteering putting campus back together was the best day. King said he estimated around $1.7 million in damages. “It would’ve taken our people a year to clear out all the trees,” Molly Shi Boren said. She said OU officials sent a letter to donors and alumni to raise money to replace the trees, and students were invited to come back the Saturday before spring semester started to help clean up. Molly Shi Boren said when she asked Clarke Stroud, vice president of Student Affairs and dean of students, how many students to expect, he said about 250. That morning, when she arrived at Oklahoma Memorial Union, around 1,000 students turned up to help that day. The volunteers did the equivalent of $150,000 worth of work, Molly Shi Boren said.
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“They cared about their campus. They felt it was their community. They didn’t have to come — it was purely voluntary — but they chose to come,” she said. It’s this response, this sense of responsibility for one’s community, that Molly Shi and David Boren stressed as one of the things they are most proud of in their two decades at OU. “If you’re going to create a community, you have to have been part of a community,” David Boren said. The university is an example of what real community looks like, he said. “We demonstrate to the world that we can be a real community. We can debate with each other and still respect each other,” David Boren said. He stressed how diversity is imperative to making a community stronger, which is one of the reasons he implemented programs like OU Cousins, which matches over 1,000 American students with international students.
Kyle Harper, interim senior vice president and provost, attended OU as a student, and he said he’s seen a change in OU culture in the last 20 years. He said the Borens have globalized OU by expanding programs like Education Abroad and creating the College of International Studies in 2011.
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It’s no secret that donating blood saves lives, but it’s sometimes not clear which three people a pint of blood could save. One could save the life of a teacher with cancer or another could save someone’s mom who was hit by a drunk driver. Or the unit of blood could save the life of a very sick little girl, who was just born and was already fighting for her life. Mattie Hurley was born in March 2011 at The C h i l d r e n ’s H o s p i t a l a t OU Medical Center. She was born with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia, meaning that she was born without the left side of her diaphragm. Her dad, Jeremy Hurley, is a U.S. Army veteran and an OU football season ticket holder who by the time he was 30 had donated 30 gallons of blood. Jeremy Hurley started donating blood because he knew others needed it. After family members began getting sick and dying of cancer, his donations became more personal. After his daughter was born, his perspective changed again. He found out platelets were needed just as much as blood, and he began donating those as
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Thanks to blood donors, Mattie Hurley survived a congenital diaphragmatic hernia, compelling her father to donate more blood.
well. Because Mattie Hurley’s diaphragm did not form correctly, all of her organs were in her chest when she was born. She did not have a left lung and her heart was pushed to the right side of her chest, compromising the right lung. The issues with her heart and lungs caused pulmonar y hypertension, and Mattie Hurley had to be placed on a heart and lung machine, called an ECMO. It requires several units of blood to keep the ECMO running. Without the machine, Mattie and other babies with congenital diaphragmatic hernia would die soon after birth. “The importance of the blood and the importance
of the pump is priceless,” Jeremy Hurley said. Seeing his daughter hooked up to machines and being given blood and platelets to survive made Jeremy Hurley realize the impact of his donations. “I’ve been told hundreds of times that each one of my donations have saved a life, but having experienced the impact of the donation changed me,” Jeremy Hurley said. After her birth, Mattie Hurley received seven units of platelets donated from 10 different people. Jeremy Hurley said, “If you give up a few minutes out of your day, it’s nothing compared to a lifetime of memories. Mattie Hurley still has
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health problems. On her first birthday, the patch the doctors put in place of her diaphragm failed, and she was rushed to the emergency room. She made a full recovery because of blood and platelet donations. Jeremy Hurley said there is always a fear her pulmonary hypertension will come back, but he and his wife hope she won’t need anymore surgeries. Mattie Hurley is three now, and while she is below the average weight for a 3-year-old, she is still active with plenty of energy. She enjoys watching OU football and wants her father to take her to a game. Jeremy still donates blood, sitting at 295 donations over his lifetime.
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BORENS: Bringing students together Continued from page 1 Matt Epting, Student Government Association president, said programs that have been created or improved at OU under the Borens’ leadership provide students a unique experience. “They want every single little facet of the university experience to be special, and I think that’s what kind of defines their time at OU,” Epting said. Epting, a political science and public relations senior who is in David Boren’s class this semester, said you can tell how much the president cares about students by the way he interacts with them after class. “You can just absolutely tell in everything he does, he loves working with students,” Epting said. David Boren said he’s seen the university improve academically during his time at OU, as this year’s freshman class is the biggest and has the highest average ACT score in OU history. “It’s like a stone gathering moss or a snowball in the snow — it gets bigger and bigger,” David Boren said. David Boren’s commitment to education extends outside the classroom, with events such as the Teach In, where scholars gather to discuss important moments in history. Harper said when he heard about the first OU Teach-In, he liked that it connected students, faculty and staff. “They have an ability to bring together all those parts of the university, and ... include them in what OU is all about,” Harper said
Molly Shi and David Boren both stressed how important building community has been to them during their time at OU. Molly Shi Boren has taken a special interest in the gardens and outside space of campus, but when she is thinking about space, she thinks about more than just how it will look. Molly Shi Boren said she and Allen King drive around campus in a golf cart to look at the gardens and watch where people walk, sit and move around campus to get an idea of how people are using space. The commemorative benches scattered around campus are meant to encourage people to sit down, talk and enjoy the campus, Molly Shi Boren said. “If you want to build community, you have to configure space that encourages certain behavior,” she said. And the Boren’s want to build a community, as they both see it as a means to improve society. “I feel so strongly that one of the greatest problems in the country right now is the fragmentation of community,” David Boren said. Molly Shi Boren said she and the president are committed to creating opportunities for OU that will bring people together. “We want to give students the very best possible education, but we also want to send out good citizens into the world,” she said. Blayklee Buchanan blayklee@ou.edu
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It’s pretty special to go to a university where you know students’ voices matter. Much of the credit for OU’s reception of student concerns must go to OU President David Boren and Molly Shi Boren — students’ president and first lady. Students at other universities might go their entire academic careers without laying eyes on their president, but Sooners can see the Borens at campus events on a weekly basis. We could not be more grateful David and Molly Shi Boren have devoted the past 20 years of their lives to improving and leading OU. We hope OU will see 20 more years of the Borens, and the impact they have already had on the university will be felt by students for decades to come. David Boren’s commitment to students has been obvious in recent weeks. First, he met with and listened to students in the Pride of Oklahoma marching band, subsequently helping to bring back former director Brian Britt to lead the band. Just last week, David Boren effectively ended OU student Joey Stipek and The Daily’s lawsuit against the university over its refusal to release university parking ticket records by asking for the records to be released. David Boren is unique because his mission for educational excelOur View is lence extends beyond the grounds the majority opinion of of OU. We are proud to have a presiThe Daily’s dent who frequently and steadfastly nine-member speaks out in support of higher edueditorial board cation in Oklahoma. It’s also obvious the Borens have invested their own time and financial resources to the success of the university, and we believe it’s that commitment to the school that has helped OU continually improve throughout their 20 years at OU. Even as Oklahoma lawmakers have continued to cut state funding for higher education, Boren endeavors to find ways to prevent increased financial burden for students. For example, OU’s private endowment has increased from $204 million in 2014
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to more than $1.8 billion and the amount of private scholarships has doubled in the past five years. At a school like OU, known around the country for its athletics, it would have been easy to solely focus on bolstering our athletic teams. But David Boren has ensured that the university has grown and excelled on both the academic and athletic fronts. Our Honors College is now one of the largest programs at a public university, we have a College of International Studies and OU has the highest number of National Merit Scholars enrolled at a public university. David Boren also created the Sooner Heritage scholarships in 2003, and increased the number of study abroad scholarships and opportunities at OU. Plus, OU isn’t just a football school anymore. Our men’s basketball team was ranked in the top 20 in AP’s preseason top 25 poll, our women’s gymnastics team won its first ever NCAA championship last year and our men’s tennis team was runner-up in May’s national championship. Beyond the classroom and the field, OU’s campus
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has benefitted enormously from the care and attention of Molly Shi Boren. Molly Shi Boren has continually worked with the landscaping department to create a campus famous for its beauty. We believe our strong sense of community at this university can largely be attributed to Molly Shi Boren. OU is more than just a pretty campus — Molly Shi Boren and the landscaping and grounds department have created a campus that’s more like a park. The gardens, benches and trees around campus encourage students, faculty, staff and visitors to engage with each other. During their 20 years here, the Borens have grown OU into a top public university, and as students we benefit every day from their campus leadership. Our only suggestion for improvement to President Boren is to expand his social media presence with his own Twitter account, so we can share posts like these with the tap of the @ button.
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Paul McCartney performs solo after rising to fame with The Beatles. A new album, “The Art of McCartney,� is full of McCartney covers by various artists and released today.
employing artists as varied as Miley Cyrus, My Morning Jacket and Phantogram, the album doesn’t even sound like The Beatles because it rearranges melodies, slows down tempos and puts the lyrics in a new light. “The Art of McCartney,� on the other hand, is much more straightforward. The songs you know and love are all there, covered by these different artists without so much as a key change. This is both the album’s biggest strength and weakness. Starting off strong with Billy Joel’s “Maybe I’m Amazed� from McCartney’s 1970 solo debut, the album zips by at a refreshingly fast pace. There are the usual suspects on display, like “Hey Jude,� “Helter Skelter� and “When I’m 64.� The best of these Beatles covers comes in the form of Chrissie Hynde’s “Let It Be,� with her cracked contralto meshing beautifully with the iconic lyrics about letting go of the past. But it’s the lesser-known Q L E B R S L S P A Z & Q Z P K I P W N G D K
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of talent involved, there aren’t enough of these AT A GLANCE magic moments to el‘The Art of evate the proceedings. McCartney’ With so many of the songs sung straightforward and lacking personality, one might wonder why the album needed to exist in the first place. For example, Paul Rodgers sounds great, but he sings “Let Me Roll It� note-fornote without bringing Artist: Various artists anything especially noteworthy to the table. Released: Today If “The Art of McCartney� may not especially stand out on its own terms, it more than tracks by some surprisworks as a tribute album. ing artists that steal the With such a stellar lineentire album. Her first up and incredible list of piece of music since 2011, songs to choose from, Corinne Bailey Rae’s cover “The Art of McCartney� of “Bluebird� is sweet and simple, the gorgeous melo- achieves its goal of paydies of the 1973 Wings’ track ing tribute to one of the greatest musicians. elevated by her gorgeous vocals. Similarly, while “Put It There� might not be one Keaton Bell is a public of McCartney’s best songs, relations and film and Peter Bjorn and John truly media studies sophomore. make it their own. But given the amount
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ribute albums are a tricky field to navigate in the history of music. Since they’re normally relegated to honoring some of the most iconic musicians in the industry, a new roster of performers reimagining classic tracks can be very hit-or-miss. There’s the good, such as 1994’s “If I Were a Carpenter� where ’90s mainstays such as Sonic Youth and The Cranberries breathed new life into the Carpenters’ ’70s soft rock. Then there’s the bad, like when Cheap Trick and Blues Traveler reimagined John Lennon on the heinous “Working Class Hero.� But when describing “The Art of McCartney,� it’s hard not to get a little giddy at the idea of the project. Covering songs Paul McCartney wrote with The Beatles, Wings and as a solo artist, the 36-track album has the full backing of McCartney along with a swoon-worthy collection of artists. Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, Kiss, Roger Daltrey, Heart, Sammy Hagar. The album’s roster reads like a who’swho of the best rock and roll artists from the ’70s and ’80s. Throw in some surprises such as Chrissie Hynde and Def Leppard and strange additions such as Owl City, and “The Art of McCartney� makes for a diverse listen. But is it any good? For the most part, definitely. The pleasure of tribute albums all depends on what the listener expects from them. Take, for example, Wayne Coyne’s recent tribute album for The Beatle’s 1967 classic “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band,� aptly titled “With A Little Help From My Fwends.� By
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Annual accolade meant for college football’s most inspirational figure
Joe Mussatto jmussatto@ou.edu @joe_mussatto
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ixteen seasons of allegiance hasn’t stopped Bob Stoops’ name from spinning around the coaching carousel, and this time it’s been linked with a familiar name — the Florida Gators. The Oklahoma coach spent three seasons as Florida’s defensive coordinator under Steve Spurrier. Since taking the head job in Norman, Stoops’ name has surfaced for the job multiple times: in 2002, when Spurrier left to coach in the NFL; 2004, when Ron Zook was fired; and again in 2010 when Urban Meyer left the Gators due to family and health reasons. It is less clear if Stoops was offered the job on multiple occasions. “Whether anyone ever contacts me or not, I never say one way or another and won’t start now,” Stoops said at Monday’s press conference. “Anything like that is always private.” Now there’s another opening in “The Swamp.” Florida announced Will Muschamp’s leaving on Sunday and athletic director Jeremy Foley is hunting for somebody to resurrect the recently proud program. Stoops may be private in what proposals are laid
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Sooner head coach Bob Stoops encourages his team before the annual OU-Texas matchup. Though the Florida Gators have an opening, the chances Stoops will leave OU are slim to none.
in front of him, but he has a quick trigger to dismiss his interest in any job other than the one he currently occupies. No coach will ever admit to talking to another team while under contract someplace else, but Stoops has never been one to mislead. He has surely turned down dozens of offers in the collegiate ranks and it’s thought that a few NFL teams (the Cleveland Browns) came calling for the Ohio native at some point. But Stoops remains a Sooner. “For a lot of years here it’s been the same,” he said. “I’m not a candidate for any job and the only job I’m a candidate for is Oklahoma.”
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In simpler terms, he just isn’t leaving — at least not for another job. Boos rang from the OU faithful as Baylor bludgeoned the Sooners two weeks ago. Stoops knew the displeasure was directed at the coaching staff and not the players. Some think holding one coaching job for more than a decade is too long, while others think the fans’ discontent will lead him somewhere he’ll be more appreciated. But Stoops’ skin is too thick for boos to seep through, and his legacy grows every year — one national championship, eight conference titles and a winning percentage north of 80.
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Stoops might announce his retirement at the end of the season or he might be patrolling the Sooner sidelines 20 years from now. Neither is likely, but each would be less shocking than Stoops taking the Florida job. The coach has always been practical. He seems to favor security over speculation. “All I’m concerned about is Kansas this week — period,” Stoops said, shifting the focus to Saturday’s game. “I’m not going to talk about it anymore.” Joe Mussatto is a journalism junior.
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Coach Bob Stoops and junior wide receiver Sterling Shepard will be this year’s recipients of the Disney Sports Spirit Award, which is given annually by Disney Sports to college football’s most inspirational figure. The two will accept the award at The Home Depot College Football Awards on Dec. 11 at Walt Disney World Resort. After the death of Shepard’s father, Derrick Shepard, a former OU wide receiver and graduate assistant coach, six-year-old Sterling was taken in by coach Stoops and the Oklahoma football program. At the end of his stellar high school career, Shepard signed to play at OU, like his father, and now in his junior year he is one of the top receivers in the country. “Derrick Shepard’s legacy lives on through his son, Sterling, who I’m privileged to coach,” Stoops said. “I’ve been blessed to watch Sterling grow into a talented young man who serves as a tremendous example for our entire team in all that he does.” Shepard has gathered 957 yards and five touchdowns this season, and on Monday, he was named as one of ten semifinalists for the Biletnikoff Award, which is given to the top college receiver in the country. His 106.3 receiving yards per game are third best in the Big 12 and eleventh in the nation. “I’m humbled to accept this honor on behalf of my mom, my sisters and my entire family,” Shepard said. “And when I say family, that includes Coach Stoops and everyone associated with Oklahoma Football. Words cannot express my gratitude to Coach Stoops for allowing me to grow up around the only football team I ever wanted to join, the Oklahoma Sooners.” The Home Depot College Football Awards will take place at 6 p.m. Dec. 11 and will air on ESPN.
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