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Sooner Mental Health will change name to be more inclusive DAYTEN ISRAEL news reporter @daytenisrael

A new student organization focused on propelling awareness and decreasing stigmatization of mental health on campus has decided to change its name amidst controversy.

Sooner Mental Health will drop the term “Sooner” from its name in an effort to be more inclusive, JD Baker, Sooner Mental Health co-founder, said.

Baker said the group has contemplated whether to keep “Sooner” in its name for weeks and that it recently decided to remove it. The group will vote on a new name at its general meeting next week.

The term “Sooner” has negative connotations for many Native American students who suffer transgenerational trauma from displacement of Native peoples following the Oklahoma land rush, Indigenize OU member Sydne Gray said.

Sooner Mental Health is one of many groups to remove “Sooner” from its names, including LGBTQ Ally and OU Students for Social Justice.

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The men’s basketball team watches senior guard Buddy Hield (left) shoot the ball during Monday’s media day.

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Junior guard Jordan Woodard (top) dribbles down the court Monday.

REDress to adorn campus Chambers faces murder charges in crash for cause

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Sophomore forward Khadeem Lattin (middle) chases after the ball during warm-ups Monday.

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The team (bottom) gathers around Lon Kruger as he coaches at Monday’s practice. The Sooners tip off their 2015-16 season with exhibition games against Washburn and Mid-America Christian on Nov. 6 and 12.

Project raises awareness for missing Aboriginals

Psychologist says woman is mentally ill, not competent for trial

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Red dresses, posters and signs will flood the South Oval on Nov. 12 to raise awareness about Aboriginal women in Canada who have gone missing or been murdered in the past 30 years.

Indigenize OU members Sydne Gray and Ashley McCray will join OU’s Native American sorority Gamma Delta Phi for the project.

McCray said it is a visually striking way to bring people into the conversation about missing and murdered indigenous and Aboriginal women.

“I think that a lot people don’t realize that it is an issue, and I think that seeing a lot of red dresses in the middle of campus will be a very striking presentation for people, and they will be curious about what it means,” McCray said.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A woman accused of running a red light and purposely driving around a barricade and over a police motorcycle before crashing into spectators at Oklahoma State University’s homecoming parade was formally charged Wednesday with four counts of second-degree murder and 46 counts of felony assault.

Payne County District Attorney Laura Thomas filed formal charges against 25-year-old Adacia Chambers of Stillwater.

Each murder count is punishable by at least 10 years and up to life in prison.

Chambers has remained jailed in Stillwater on $1 million bond since the Oct. 24 crash that left four people dead and at least 46 others hurt, including many children. A judge also has ordered a psychological evaluation for Chambers.

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murder charges are warranted when someone acts in a way that’s “imminently dangerous to another person” but does so without premeditation.

Chambers’ attorne y, Tony Coleman, said Wednesday that a psychological evaluation performed by a forensic psychologist he retained, Shawn Roberson, indicates his client suffers from bipolar disorder and is not competent to stand trial.

“She is severely mentally ill and in need of immediate psychiatric treatment,” Coleman said.

Po l i c e i n i t i a l l y s u s p e c t e d Chambers was driving under the influence of drugs when she crashed into the parade crowd, but Stillwater Police Capt. Kyle Gibbs said Wednesday the results of a blood test have not been returned.

“The suspicion was DUI drugs from the get-go, and we’re awaiting the test results to see if those support that charge,” Gibbs said. “Any DUI arrest is initially based on probable cause, based on observations of the driver, their actions, things like that.”

Gibbs said Chambers stopped talking to investigators shortly after her arrest, and that it’s still not known what may have prompted

her to drive into the crowd.

“That’s the $64,000 question, is why,” he said. “It’s too soon to speculate about that.”

Thomas, the district attorney, said in a statement last week that evidence suggests the incident “was an intentional act, not an accident.” She declined to elaborate Wednesday on the charges.

Also on Wednesday, Thomas formally requested a competency evaluation for Chambers and asked a judge to impose a gag order to prevent all parties involved in the case from speaking publicly.

Stillwater police on Wednesday also released audio recordings of 911 calls and police radio traffic in the aftermath of the crash that depicted frantic callers asking for ambulances.

“We need everything we can get,” an officer tells a dispatcher just after the crash.

In a 35-minute video of Chambers’ booking recorded at the jail, she quietly answers a jailer’s questions but appears to show little emotion. Several portions of the video are pixelated, including when Chambers is searched and when an officer appears to administer an alcohol breath test.

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While she was being booked, Chambers told jail staff that she had a history of suicidal attempts and treatment for mental health issues, and admitted feeling suicidal at the time of the crash, according to a probable cause affidavit signed by Stillwater police officer Kurt Merrill.

Coleman said that when he told Chambers about the deaths, “her face was blank.” He said that he was not sure Chambers was aware that she was in jail.

Coleman previously said that while speaking with Chambers in jail after the crash, he “was not satisfied at all that I was communicating with a competent individual.” He has said Chambers was at work before the crash and that she does not remember much, only that she felt confused as she was removed from the car.

C h a m b e r s ’ f a t h e r, F l o y d Chambers, has said previously that his daughter had received inpatient mental health treatment several years ago, but that nothing seemed amiss recently, except that his daughter had recently called and said she wanted to move back home.

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Continued from Page One Baker said the issue the group is focused on is not about Native American students or the term “Sooner” but rather mental health.

“That’s why we removed the term — to be inclusive, but the term ‘Sooner’ and the controversy around it and how it offends Native Amer ican students is a distraction from our real focus,” Baker said. “Mental health is the focus, and it affects all of us: Native American students, African American students, Asian American students, LGBTQ students, graduate students, undergraduate students, veteran students, old students, young students.”

Mental health is a universal cause and something the organization wants to be as inclusive about as possible when raising awareness, Baker said.

“Though our intentions weren’t to offend, sometimes it’s not about the

REDRESS: Continued from Page One Gray said they are taking red dresses as donations and will have signs and posters for basic statistics and facts about the Aboriginal women in Canada.

The REDress Project was started by artist Jaime Black in Winnipeg, Canada.

“Just a red dress with the absence of a body,” Gray said.

Gray said she wants the visual impact to lead people

The White House will host the 7th Annual White House Tribal Nations Conference with tribal leaders from across the nation on today, according to a release from the White House Press Office. The conference will serve as a follow-up to president Barack Obama’s visit about his ConnectHome initiative in July to Durant, Oklahoma and his visit to Alaska. There will be 24 youth delegates in attendance to the conference, continuing Obama’s focus on Native American youth to promote change within Native American Communities.

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Sooner Mental Health meets for the first time on Oct. 26. The group decided to remove the word Sooner from its name.

intentions but the impact,” Baker said.

Baker said that keeping the original name of the group would hinder the positive message it is

working to convey, which is several suggestions from raising awareness of mental the group’s members. health issues.

Baker said he is excited about the new name possiDayten Israel bility and has already gotten daytenisrael@gmail.com

to the information booth that will be set up next to the Bizzell Statue in the South Oval.

“If people are seeing the dresses, seeing the signs, and they’re reading these facts, and they want to know more about the impact of these situations and the statistics, we will be taking shifts being present to be voices and explain why we need to decolonize the concepts of racism and sexism,” Gray said.

Indigenize OU, the same group that worked to implement Indigenous Peoples Day at OU, speaks at an SGA meeting. The group has worked to bring the Red Dress movement to OU.

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First poll adds validity to hype Men’s basketball ranked No. 8 in AP preseason poll TRENT CRABTREE

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The Associated Press validated the preseason hype surrounding the Oklahoma men’s basketball team by placing the Sooners at No. 8 in its first poll of the season.

It’s OU’s highest ranking to start a season since 2008, when the Blake Griffin-led Sooners began the year ranked 12th by the AP. By all accounts, though, OU has earned the sports media’s respect as it enters a season that is one of the most anticipated in program history.

The Sooners return four of their five starters from a lineup that made a Sweet 16 run this past March, including reigning Big 12 Player of the Year Buddy Hield, who bypassed the NBA this offseason to finish what has been an all-time great

career in Norman. OU has also defied the preseason Big 12 rankings the last two seasons by finishing higher in the final poll. To add some much needed depth to his bench, coach Lon Kruger went down to Texas and snagged a couple long, athletic wings in freshman guards Rashard Odomes and Christian James.

If there is one thing about this year ’s Sooners that has been born out of these raised expectations, it is that they aren’t sneaking up on anyone this year — they have gone from being the hunter to the hunted.

“We want to be the hunted,” Hield said at media day Monday. “We want to show that if you come to hunt us, then you’re going to pay a price. This is a great team we have in front of us coached by a great coach, so we just can’t wait to show what we can do.”

The importance of junior point guard Jordan W o o d a r d i n K r u g e r ’s up-tempo, drive-and-kick

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Coach Lon Kruger instructs the men’s basketball team on what drill to run during warm-ups during basketball media day on Monday. Kruger’s Sooners open the season at No. 8.

attack hasn’t been discussed at length since the Arcadia, Oklahoma, native arrived in Norman, but it probably should be.

Woodard finished sixth in the Big 12 in assists per game last season, and his special ability to find the open man played a big part in many key victories.

Woodard is aware of the target on the Sooners’ backs this season, but he said the team has already dealt with it — on the practice court.

“I feel like we’ve been so much hungrier in practice, and our practices have been so competitive because we have to play our best every game,” Woodard said. “We

are going to get the opposition’s best shot, so they’re going to be wanting to take us out. Coach (Kruger) has been helping us with our focus to make sure that we are ready night in and night out.”

The evolution of sophomore forward Khadeem Lattin will be one of the

more intriguing storylines to follow throughout the course of the season. In sparing minutes last year, Lattin showed signs that he could develop into a dominant defensive player. His rare blend of length and athleticism really caused havoc for opposing teams when they wanted to work the ball inside. His workload is expected to increase significantly this season with the loss of forward TaShawn Thomas, who graduated in May. “It’s nice to have accolades and people congratulating us, but at the same time, we know that that’s only half the battle,” Lattin said. “We have to prove to people that we are better than they say we are because eighth simply isn’t good enough for us right now.”

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Gauging Oklahoma’s game at first glance John Walker/ Men’s basketball reporter/ @jtw2213 As OUprepares to open its season with an exhibition game against Washburn on Friday night, we took a look at the eighth-ranked Sooners’ biggest strengths and weaknesses.

STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES Experienced starters: Inexperienced bench: The Sooners return four of their five starters from last season. Reigning Big 12 Player of the Year Buddy Hield returns for his senior season to pair with senior wing Isaiah Cousins and junior guard Jordan Woodard. Senior forward Ryan Spangler is entering his third season as a starter

for the Sooners. The 24-yearold transfer has proven consistent as the team’s interior defensive anchor and leading rebounder. Collectively, this unit had its best season of coach Lon Kruger’s tenure in 2014-15, winning 24 games and making an appearance in the Sweet Sixteen.

Defense:

Kruger emphasized defense throughout last season, and it paid dividends.

The Sooners held their opponents to 10 fewer points per game than the year prior. The backcourt trio developed into menacing defensive stalwarts, forcing the second-most turnovers in the Big 12. Cousins operates as the main catalyst on

the perimeter, which has turned it around significantly on defense. Spangler remains the team’s bodyguard in the paint with his strength and defensive rebounding.

The Sooners have substantial length and athleticism inside with redshirt freshman Jamuni McNeace, who could emerge as a rim protector in spot minutes.

Athleticism:

Part of last season’s defensive turnaround was due to applying focus and awareness to the squad’s tremendous athletic ability.

Oklahoma primarily focuses on creating turnovers and

capitalizing in transition.

The Sooners return the starting core that excelled in both areas last season and a mixture of young talent that has the tools to follow the same format.

Make no mistake, Oklahoma sports a talented second unit. Ripe with athleticism and confidence, most of the newcomers fit into the team’s scheme of pushing the tempo and collecting transition baskets. But, with sophomore forward Lattin thrust into the starting lineup, senior

guard Dinjiyl Walker is the lone returning player who has played significant minutes off the bench. Kruger is excited for this year’s incoming talent, but the learning curve might be steep as players will continue adjusting to the speed of the game during the season.

Interior scoring:

Partially dependent on the backup duo of redshirt freshmen big men Dante Buford and McNeace, the Sooners will need to find ways to replace the production of TaShawn Thomas.

Lattin is set to take over

the forward position. The 6-foot-9 big provided energy and athleticism in spot minutes but averaged just a bucket per game in 12 minutes. Look for Buford to help ease pressure with his versatile scoring.

Ball distribution: Last season’s Sooners were top of the line in scoring. Hield led the Big 12 in scoring, Cousins ranked first in conference three-point percentage and the Sooners were third in the Big 12 in points per game. But despite the Sooners’ ability to put the ball in the basket,

Oklahoma ranked near the bottom of the conference in assists. Against tougher defenses, the lack of ball movement stood out and scoring production suffered. Six of the team’s 11 losses occurred last season when the Sooners dished 10 or fewer assists.

(Top) Senior guard Buddy Hield drives to the basket during the 2014 home opener against Southeastern Louisiana at Lloyd Noble Center. The Sooners defeated the Lions 78-53. Christopher Michie/The Daily (Left) Senior guard Isaiah Cousins practices during the first preseason warm-up at Monday’s media day. Cousins is one of four senior starters. Anna Mayer/ The Daily (Right) Senior guard Buddy Hield speaks to the press during Monday’s media day. Hield was named Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year on Oct. 8. Anna Mayer/ The Daily

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The men’s basketball season is almost underway. The Sooners open play with an exhibition against Washburn at 7 p.m. in Norman Friday, and Oklahoma is looking to capitalize on last season’s 24-win campaign under coach Lon Kruger, who is entering his fifth year with the program. But the Sooners will have to grind through a not-so-favorable schedule to exceed last season’s success.

The non-conference schedule does not hold back, and the Sooners will likely face their toughest competition away from home.

Oklahoma begins the s e a s o n i n Te n n e s s e e against a young, talented Memphis squad. On Nov. 29, Oklahoma will host No. 17 Wisconsin, led by All BigTen forward Nigel Hayes.

Kruger will coach against longtime Badgers coach Bo Ryan in what could be Ryan’s final year with the program.

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Head coach Lon Kruger speaks to the press during basketball media day on Monday. Kruger has more than 550 career collegiate victories in his 30th season of coaching.

travel to Hawaii to play No. 11 Villanova in Bloch Arena at Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu. After home games against Oral Roberts and Creighton, Oklahoma travels back to Honolulu on Dec. 22 to play in the Diamond Head Classic against Washington State. The four-day, eightteam tournament also features Auburn and BYU. The schedule does not ease up entering the Big 12 conference. The Sooners begin 2016 with consecutive games against the league’s best, facing Iowa State in Norman on Jan. 2, followed

by a road game against Kansas two days later. The Sooners take a small break midway through conference play with a road game against LSU as part of the annual Big 12-SEC Challenge.

The Sooners finish the final stretch of the regular season away from home in four of its last six games.

With tough road competition and playing in arguably the nation’s best conference, the Sooners will have to earn nearly every win on their schedule. The majority of the Sooners’ non-conference games are at home,

but its toughest matchups will be away from Norman.

Oklahoma will play LSU and Memphis on the road, while Villanova will be played in Hawaii. The Sooners take a second trip to Hawaii in a midseason, eight-team tournament. The Sooners begin Big 12 play with a cluster of the two highest-ranked teams in the conference against Iowa State in Norman and on the road against Kansas. The team will need to finish its schedule strong away from home as four of the Sooners’ final six games are on the road.

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Dana Branham, engagement managing editor dailyopinion@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666 oudaily.com/opinion • Twitter: @OUDailyOpinion

YOUR VIEW

Why do you choose to either listen to the preachers on the South Oval or keep walking?

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t least once a semester, radical preachers make a stop at OU on their campus tours.

This week, Ross Jackson, who goes by Bob Ross, has stood outside of Dale Hall to evangelize about homosexuality, premarital sex and

pornography, among other controversial topics.

From when he starts the day off at Dale to when he packs up, Jackson always draws large crowds of students. Here’s what you had to say about the South Oval preachers:

Josh Sadler @JSadler405

Matt Welsh @WelshMatt

@OUDaily I don’t stop to listen. They don’t deserve my time. They aren’t preachers either.

Just trying to get attention by insulting​s​ tudents

@OUDaily I don’t stop because people who argue with them desire attention just as much as they do. Ignore them and they won’t affect you. Just trying to get attention by insulting​​ students.

Joshua Clinton @joshuaclintonn

Broderick Lockett

@oudaily No. Being gay, I don’t wish to be vil@brodielockett ified; especially in a setting that prides itself of @oudaily very interested in knowing why they diversity and inclusiveness.. are allowed on campus. it’s harassment at this point as they insult so many students.

Michael Cox @mcox_

@OUDaily It’s like a car crash, I just can’t take my eyes off of it.

What do you think of the South Oval preachers?

Tweet @OUDaily and let us know what you think.

Adrian​ ​Sanchez @adrian28sanchez @OUDaily nope. Don’t have time to listen to arrogance from those “preachers”.

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ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT

Jessie Barber, arts and entertainment editor dailyent@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666 oudaily.com/life&arts • Twitter: @OUDailyArts

‘SNL’ still under fire over Trump Groups continue to protest candidate’s impending host gig

“It is shameful for ‘SNL’ and NBC to think that racism can be repackaged as comedy”.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK (AP) — Pressure continued to mount on NBC to cancel Donald Trump’s guest-host appearance on this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” as a coalition of advocacy groups delivered petitions to the network Wednesday calling for him to be dropped from the show.

The petitions delivered to 30 Rockefeller Plaza, home of NBC and “Saturday Night Live,” marked the latest attempts to dissuade the network from allowing the Republican presidential hopeful to host the show, with the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda earlier asking that NBC reconsider the decision.

“There’s mounting evidence that Donald Trump’s racist demagoguery is resulting in real-world violence and physical and verbal intimidation,” Mushed Zaheed, deputy political director of Credo Action, one of the participating groups, said in a statement.

On Wednesday, NBC released promotional spots for the show featuring Trump. In one, he refers to a Republican opponent, Ben Carson, as “a complete and total loser.”

Trump drew fire early in his campaign when, as the billionaire developer announced his candidacy, he described some Mexicans who are in the United States illegally as criminals and

JUAN ESCALANTE, DIGITAL CAMPAIGNS MANAGER FOR AMERICA’S VOICE

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Businessman and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Trump Tower on Tuesday, in New York.

rapists, prompting NBC to sever its Miss Universe ties with Trump while declaring he would never again appear on “The Celebrity Apprentice.”

“It is shameful for ‘SNL’ and NBC to think that racism can be repackaged as comedy,” said Juan Escalante, digital campaigns manager for America’s Voice, another group participating in the coalition.

Other participating groups included the National Hispanic Media Coalition, MoveO n.org and National Council of La Raza. About two-dozen protesters were on hand as the

petitions were delivered to NBC’s midtown Manhattan o f f i c e s. S o m e c h a n t e d “dump Trump” and carried signs bearing the same phrase.

The coalition is accusing NBC of reversing itself for the sake of a ratings windfall while granting Trump “a free national platform to bolster his racist and xenophobic campaign,” Zaheed said.

Alex Nogales, president of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, said after delivering the petitions that the protest effort was not over. His group and others would use the days leading up to the broadcast to call on

“SNL” sponsors to remove their commercials from Saturday’s show, he said.

NBC declined comment on the petitions and did not immediately comment on the attempt to get ads pulled.

Meanwhile, Trump drew sharp criticism in an online letter with the names of dozens of prominent writers, filmmakers, academics and others from the United States, Spain a n d L a t i n A m e r i c a a tt a c h e d t o i t, i n c l u d i n g Oscar-winning writer-director Alejandro Gonzalez Inar r itu (“ Birdman: Or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance”).

“We refuse to keep silent in the face of the alarming declarations of the candidate for the presidency of the United States Donald Trump,” the letter posted Tuesday reads. “His hate speech appeals to the lowest passions like xenophobia, machismo, political intolerance and religious dogmatism.”

The letter calls on the American people to “cease to tolerate his absurd positions.”

Trump has played a major role in delivering record-breaking ratings to the first three Republican debates and has been a sought-after guest on talk shows and newscasts.

Asked about the opposition to his upcoming appearance while promoting his new book in New York on Tuesday, Trump said he was pleased to hear demonstrations were already underway.

“Look, I think they should demonstrate” he said. “Ratings will go even higher than they are going to be. It’s going to be one of their highest-rated shows ever, and they’re very excited about it.”

Asked specifically about the petition, he said: “It’s

only going to make it hotter.”

Trump also repeated his frequent assertion that he has great relationship with Hispanics, with tens of thousands working for him over the years, he said.

Saturday’s appearance will be an “SNL” encore for Trump, who first hosted the show in April 2004, long before his entry into politics, as the breakout star of NBC’s new competition show “The Apprentice.”

He appeared on CNN’s “New Day” on Wednesday, where anchor Chris Cuomo voiced surprise that NBC booked him.

“I thought you were at war with them,” said Cuomo, “then all of a sudden they wanted to have you on. You say it’s because of ratings.”

“You’re never at war when you get great ratings with a network, OK?” Trump replied. “Nobody gets ratings like me.”

He went on to say that initially he was asked to do a single sketch on Saturday’s show. Then “SNL” executive producer Lorne Michaels had second thoughts and asked Trump if he would host the entire 90-minute program. “And I said, ‘You know what? I would.’

Because it’s an honor.”

“Every single major politician in this country probably for 30 years has done ‘Saturday Night Live’ if they’re invited,” Trump added. “If they’re invited.”

NBC would not comment on whether any other presidential candidates are being considered to host “SNL.”

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