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What would you give up to stop cancer? Sooners shaving their heads for cancer research raised more than $7.5 thousand PAIGHTEN HARKINS Campus reporter
Top 40 hits and the sound of clippers buzzing filled the north end of the south oval Thursday as men and women gathered to raise money to find a cure for cancer by shaving their heads. Event chairwoman Kitty Raadschelders said, seventeen people signed up to get their heads shaved Thursday, 10 of which were men and seven were women,
was ready to get it over. “I’m not nervous,” she said. “I’ve had so much time to prepare for it. I’ve looked at the benefits of it, including herself. and I’m just kind of ready.” The head-shaving Raadschelders was the event was sponsored by Before the event first person to get her head Alpha Phi Omega to raise shaved at the event. They money for the St. Baldrick’s decided to open the event Foundation, a national Goal with women getting their nonprofit charity that raishead shaved because it is es money for children’s Source: Kitty Raadschelders, evvent coordinator more meaningful, chemicancer research. cal biosciences sophomore Raadschelders has been Amanda Tran said. planning to shave her head Raadschelders sat down since the event last year but the foundation, she said. P r i o r t o t h e e v e n t , on a chair with a nervous decided to wait so she could eviN moRRisoN/tHe daily put more effort into plan- Raadschelders said she was Early childhood education sophomore Kitty Raadschelders holds up ning and raising money for feeling slightly anxious but see CANCER paGe 2 her two ponytails after they were cut off Thursday on the South Oval.
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CAMPUS ACTiViTiES COUNCiL
UNiVERSiTY SiNG
‘Kickin it with Pops’ events to begin Friday CAC to provide activities including a carnival, petting zoo and brunch MIKE WORMLEY Campus reporter
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Members from Alpha Chi Omega, Beta Upsilon Chi and Pi Kappa Alpha, dazzle the crowd with their rendition of “Big Spender” by Broadway Cast fosse. (Page 5)
ACCiDENT
Catlett wall falls; no Sooners injured OU will re-carpet, not replace wall CHASE COOK
Assistant Campus Editor
The walls came tumbling down wasn’t the line of a song in Catlett Music Center Wednesday night. A half wall near a lounge in the music hall, which housed a phone booth in the center, fell down Wednesday night for unknown reasons, Facilities Management Director Brian Ellis said. It was taped off and left over night, but the crews
came by and cleaned it up Thursday morning. Nobody was injured, he said. “It’s a little bit of a mystery why it tipped over like that,” Ellis said. “The bottom line is that it’s gone and we removed it, and it’s no longer there.” There are no plans to install a new wall, Ellis said. There were already plans to re-carpet that area of the Catlett Music Center so OU staff will just carpet over the location where the wall fell, he said. Chase Cook chaseacook@gmail.com
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Silent auction to give homes to homeless EMMA HAMBLEN Campus reporter
The Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work and the Graduate Social Work Association are hosting a silent auction to raise money for a nonprofit program that provides homes for homeless families with mental or physical disabilities. This is the first year that GSWA has partnered with the Homeless Alliance to raise money for the nonprofit’s Supportive Housing Program, said Annie Smith, Homeless Alliance intern
Beethoven String Quartet to premiere PAIGHTEN HARKINS
A low wall in Catlett music center lays fallen Wednesday night.
and event volunteer and a social work and public health graduate student. Smith, community liaison of the GWSA Administrative Community Practice, said she suggested that GSWA collaborate with the Homeless Alliance to hold the auction. Many of the families that benefit from the Oklahoma City nonprofit’s subprogram usually have single moms or dads, Smith said. These families see a case manager weekly and receive a lot of support from the Homeless Alliance. The holidays are usually a hard time of year for these families, so the Homeless Alliance will use the money raised to hold an event to make the
holidays more special for the kids, Smith said. The auction will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Nov. 16 in Anne and Henry Zarrow Hall, Room 120. All proceeds will help the nonprofit organize the event for 20 families supported by the Supportive Housing Program, said Crystal Navarro, social work graduate student and president of GSWA. The alliance has received great donations from companies and individuals, Navarro said. The auction also will feature two raffles, one of which will offer participants a chance to win a variety of smaller see NONPROFIT paGe 2
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PRESiDENTiAL DREAM COURSE
New spring class features live music component
NONPROfiT
Gift certificates, Thunder tickets to be raffled off
The Campus Activities Council will sponsor a weekend-long event series starting Friday; “Kickin it with Pops”, the title of this year’s CAC Dad’s Day, will have a variety of events for Sooners, their fathers and families. CAC is planning to host Little Boomer Bash and Petting Zoo. The bash will have activities for younger people, including carnival games, a petting zoo and other activities, according to the event schedule. There will be baby otters and baby tigers, neither of which would be available for petting, Student Life Associate Director Quy
Nguyen said. The Little Boomer Bash and Petting Zoo will launch three hours before the OU football game’s 2:30 p.m. kickoff Saturday at Oklahoma Memor ial Union’s East lawn. The final CAC-led event will be the CAC Dad’s Day Brunch from 10 a.m. to noon Sunday at Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom. There will be a presentation of CAC Dad’s Day Father of the Year 2012, a performance by The Redliners and free food.
While most courses benefit from the addition of speakers or performers in a Presidential Dream Course, one classes’ vitality is entirely based on it. The dream course called Beethoven String Quartet will explore the history of
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Ludwig Van Beethoven’s string quartets, how those quartets fit into the history of string quartet repertoire and how Beethoven wrote them, associate professor of music theory Sarah Ellis said. This will be the first time that Beethoven’s entire string quartet cycle will be played at OU, Ellis said. Hearing the music live is integral to the class because there’s a lot one can’t get from music by hearing it on a CD or see COURSE paGe 2
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