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OU DAILY Clara Luper, civil rights activist, pictured in 1988. Luper was an integral part of the civil rights movement in Oklahoma during the 1950s and 60s.

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LEADING THE WAY How Clara Luper organized the nation’s first sit-in and left a legacy as a leader in Oklahoma

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e was instructed to sit still no matter what. If someone spit or cursed or got in his face, he should not react.

Suddenly, they came in yelling: “You better get off that seat, boy.”

J.D. Baker was about to get into a fight with a heckler when he remembered — it was only a simulation.

The former OU student body president and other students w e re i n a n Int ro d u c t i o n t o African and African-American Studies class when asked to participate in a re-enactment of the 1958 Oklahoma City sit-in.

“It was so tough, it was so tough in that setting,” Baker said.

“So I can only imagine.”

Replace the chalkboard and supervising professor with a diner counter and police officers, and the scene that day in the classroom was just like the one 60 years prior at Katz Drug Store on Main and Robinson streets in the heart of downtown Oklahoma City.

T h e c o u n t r y ’s f i r s t s i t- i n movement was spearheaded not by college students in North Carolina, but rather by schoolteacher Clara Luper, who, along with hundreds of members of the NAACP Youth Council, integrated restaurants across Oklahoma City one by one in the face of resistance and continual arrests.

In March, the state’s flagship university took its first step toward honoring its own civil rights icon, who was also one of OU’s first black graduates, by naming its African and AfricanAmerican Studies department after her. Classes like the one Baker was in are intended to exemplify excellence in research, teaching and service — goals Luper embodied and passed on to those whose lives she touched. “ Th e re i s n o o n e a l i v e o r passed away,” said Karlos Hill, the department’s chair, “that better suits what we’re about than Clara Luper.”

FIRST OF ITS KIND Stanley Evans sat slouched on a diner seat, gazing at the spot on the counter in front of him where there should have been a

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The 11-year-old, along with three other children, was waiting. Waiting for the white servers behind the counter at Katz Drug Store to fulfill the promise of equal rights promised

by America’s forefathers in the Constitution.

Evans, now 71, remembers the striped shirt he wore that day.

He remembers the haircut and the “big ugly” glasses he says made him look like the nerd he was.

What he doesn’t remember is sitting on that stool, or anyone taking the photo that would become one of the most iconic images of an event that would inspire black college students in North Carolina to ask for coffee at an all-white lunch counter two years later and launch a nationwide movement that helped end Jim Crow policies of segregation.

“We didn’t see that we were making history,” said Evans, former OU Law dean of students.

“We just saw that we were fixing a problem that was a problem for us — we thought we should be able to eat anywhere we wanted to.”

The sit-in idea was sparked

by Luper’s 8-year-old daughter, Marilyn, after a trip to New York City for an NAACP convention opened her eyes to how life could be. The group was able to eat in restaurants and stay in hotels without any questions asked.

“We didn’t see that we were making history. We just saw that we were fixing a problem that was a problem for us — we thought we should be able to eat anywhere we wanted to.”

STANLEY EVANS, FORMER OU LAW DEAN OF STUDENTS

“They came back to Oklahoma where they couldn’t go and eat in a restaurant, they couldn’t order a hamburger and a Coke, they couldn’t stay in a hotel, they had to stay outside,” Evans

said. “The bathrooms in the South had ‘white’ or ‘colored’ — so they were forced back into the Jim Crow rules.”

Evans, who lived down the street from the Lupers, was in their yard one day after the New York trip when the elementary school kids were discussing the issue. Marilyn said she did not understand. She didn’t like the situation, and she wanted to fix it.

“So Ms. Luper said, ‘OK, if you guys are really serious about this, we’re going to do it — but we’re going to do it right. We’re going to be organized, and we’re going to do it in a nonviolent way,’” Evans recalls. “And that was the start of the sit-in movement in 1958.”

Luper, who taught at Dunjee High School east of Oklahoma City, had the key element of trust on her side. Parents of the children involved in the project knew the beloved history teacher would keep their children safe. Such was the case for Evans, whose parents were leery of his involvement in a controversial movement in the overwhelmingly white Oklahoma City, but permitted it anyway.

On Aug. 19, 1958, Luper and 13 kids walked into Katz Drug Store, sat down on stools lining the counter and asked to be served. They waited quietly until closing time, even after a white woman sat on the lap of a black girl and four white youths came in waving Confederate flags.

Two days later, Katz corporate management in Kansas City, Missouri, desegregated its lunch counters in three states.

In s p i re d by t hat s u c c e s s, the group worked its way from restaurant to restaurant, following the same strategy. They spread out across lunch counters, tables and booths, quietly reading magazines or coloring with crayons until they were served. Some places saw them coming and immediately gave in. Some caved after several days.

“So we’d go to Greens, we’d sit in there for three or four days,” Evans said. “Then we’d go to the next restaurant, do the same thing all over again.”

Others refused to serve black people for years, calling the police to arrest the group for trespassing each time they arrived.

Luper herself was arrested 27 times during the movement, which lasted six years.

“The thing for us was,” Evans said, “it was about changing a situation that bothered us.”

LUPER AS A TEACHER Sitting in his office at OU College of Law where the sitin photo rests in the corner on its own stand, Evans laughs as he offers one word to describe Luper — mean.

He recalls Luper once calling to say she wanted him to fill in on her radio show the next day.

The then-recently retired Army colonel had never before been on the radio, but that didn’t matter. Luper hung up before he could protest any more.

“If you understand anything about Ms. Luper, anybody that knows her will tell you that if Ms. Luper wants you to do something, there is no such thing as answering no,” Evans said. “She will not accept no for an answer.”

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Former OU Law dean of students Stanley Evans at the sit-in at Katz Drug Store in Oklahoma City Aug. 19, 1958.

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Luper, who died in 2011 at 88, continued to be active in the NA ACP. She took part in Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 March on Washington where he delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech, marched from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 on what became known as “Bloody Sunday” after police attacked the 600 activists and ran unsuccessfully for a spot in the U.S. Senate in 1972.

Her late-night demanding phone calls, emphasis on excellence and love of young people made her a beloved educator and community figure who was responsible not only for her civil rights movement contributions, but also for the achievements of a generation she challenged and inspired to greatness.

“There is no one alive or passed away that better suits what we’re about than Clara Luper.”

KARLOS HILL, AFRICAN AND AFRICANAMERICAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT CHAIR

“I became a colonel in the Army because of her,” Evans said. “Another person that became the first black police chief in OKC was another one of her students ... and you start to see all these people that grew up around her and

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through her. Her standard, her strength, her courageousness, but also, her way of forcing us to rise up, to meet the bar, really kind of helped us to take off.”

Though he is now retired, a steady stream of law students filters through Evans’ office each day. He offers his mentorship, a friendly hug and a listening ear to anyone lucky enough to set foot in the lamp-lit space.

B a k e r, w h o s e g r a n d mother was friends with L u p e r, r e m e m b e r s h e r quizzing him and his brothers once when they visited her in the hospital post-surgery. His brother told Luper he dreamed of going to Duke to play basketball, but she scorned him — why would he not want to go to a historically black college like Langston University?

“She believed in her people,” said Baker, who now serves as a special assistant to Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt. “She believed in us and our ability to rise up and to build up to greatness.”

Luper’s gift for educating and inspiring a young generation was another compelling reason to name the African and AfricanAmerican Studies department after her, Hill said.

“She, in many ways, is someone that I aspire to be like,” said Hill, co-host of a podcast on race and culture and the author of an academic book on lynching. “Because if I can have just, if I can have a tenth of the impact that she had on students, I would have had a successful career, you know what I mean? So I think that’s to me what’s most amazing about her

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Civil rights “wash-in” demonstrators, including Clara Luper, far right, leave a segregated laundromat June 2, 1964, after washing a load of clothes.

legacy.”

HONORING A LEGEND It wa s m i d -Au gu s t i n downtown Oklahoma City and Hill was trying to keep an eye on his 5-yearold twins amid the throng o f p e o p l e m a rc h i n g t o Ka i s e r ’s G ra t e f u l B e a n Cafe, which now sits on the corner where Katz used to.

They entered the restaurant along with hundreds of others who, just 60 years ago, would have been denied service. But that day, on the anniversary re-enactment of the sit-in, people of all races and ages

Clara Luper remained an activist with the NAACP after the sit-in movement.

rejoiced in the freedom they have thanks to the courage of Luper and her many students.

The room was filled with a sense of energy and passion for social justice, Hill said, as voices of all ages and races joined to sing gospel songs like “Freedom Movement” and “We Shall Overcome.”

“My daughter to this day hums and tries to sing the songs that we were singing on that march,” Hill said.

The recent anniversary, organized by a committee that included Hill, Luper’s daughter Marilyn and

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several other participants of the original sit-in movement, has sparked a flurry of activity aimed at commemorating the sit-in and Luper’s lasting legacy. But while Oklahoma shined a light on its hometown hero, the rest of the nation remains in the dark.

“For the most part, Clara Luper’s story is understood as an Oklahoma story and maybe even an Oklahoma City story,” Hill said. “So one of the things that I know the committee wants to do is to really help people understand that Clara Luper’s story is a national story.”

In September 2016, the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened on the National Mall in Washington, D.C . It includes a civil rights exhibit but is missing a large piece of the story. “ They have an install a t i o n a r o u n d t h e s i tin movement, and the Oklahoma City sit-in is nowhere to be found — not even a footnote,” Hill said.

“So the committee, myself, want to change that. We think that’s an injustice.”

History books and Wikipedia pages cite a Greensboro, Nor th C a r o l i n a , s i t- i n a s t h e event that first sparked the movement, but it occurred two years after the one in Oklahoma City.

Evans said the college students who led the Greensboro sit-in got the idea after several of the Oklahoma City sit-in participants reported their progress at a national NAACP meeting. “ T h e d i f f e re n c e w a s, (the Greensboro sit-in) got a whole lot of publicity,” Evans said.

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City leaders, is intent on getting the site where Katz Drug Store once stood recognized as a national landma rk t o c o m m e m o rat e the movement that began there.

“That national landmark, coupled with potentially getting them to revise the civil rights exhibition at the National Mall, and then just beginning to do scholarship on Ms. Luper and the sit-in-ers, will help to raise the awareness,” Hill said.

“So that’s our mission.”

On a recent weekday afternoon, Hill sits in his office on the fifth floor of the Physical Sciences Center where a wide row of windows offers a view of the tops of browning trees on OU’s campus.

His walls are adorned with posters, photos and paintings that illuminate his passion for the field he studies and the department he directs. There’s a framed photo illustration of Tulsa’s Black Wall Street, a map of the historic all-black towns in Oklahoma, a poster for a talk he gave on police shootings of unarmed black people.

There’s one blank spot on his wall, too, but he said he already knows what image he wants fill it — the famous photo of Evans and other children sitting at the lunch counter, a constant reminder of the spirit of social justice and community engagement he hopes to instill in his department.

“That’s what keeps me up at night,” Hill said. “How do we live up to it … what are we doing to extend, further Mother Luper’s legacy? What are we doing to extend that?”

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SGA concludes semester Congress passes bill, resolutions in final fall meeting JORDAN MILLER @jordanrmillerr

In its last meeting of the semester, the Undergraduate Student Congress passed a bill appointing justices to the parking appeals court, along with two resolutions on drug policy and course evaluations, among other things.

One resolution called for the institution of a more explicit university drug policy, and another called for the reshaping of course evaluation structure. Student Government Association President Adran Gibbs also authored a bill presented during the meeting appointing parking appeals court justices and was present through the latter half of the meeting, with 10 chosen justices being appointed to the court.

Gibbs said he was excited about his first appointments and is looking forward for more to come in the spring semester.

“Parking appeals is only a drop in the bucket of what we’re trying to do as far as appointments,” Gibbs said. “I’m excited for the new year, and I’m really excited for what we can get accomplished next semester.”

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The meeting of the Undergraduate Student Congress Oct. 3. The congress held its final meeting of the semester Nov. 27.

Gibbs began working on his presidential duties even though his official inauguration is Thursday, Nov. 29.

This was Gibbs’ first meet as president, and he said he was happy to come back and see familiar faces as well as new ones in congress.

“I always think that building relationships internally inside SGA is incredibly important,” Gibbs said. “(I’m) incredibly excited to work with congress, I’m incredibly excited to get started.”

After the bill on parking court appointments passed with unanimous consent, congress saw a resolution on drug policy, which suggests the implementation of

explicit university guidelines regarding drugs that the university did not have before, according to the bill. The bill was authored by university policy committee member Savanah Patterson and modeled off the university’s current alcohol policy.

“If (the administration) goes forward with this, it will provide more consistency and more stability to the students,” Patterson said.

“Trying to put their mind a little more at ease, just like with the alcohol thing that we currently have, so that’s our overall goal.”

Congress also saw a resolution authored by Humanities Representative Karley

Nadolski and associate Molly Power, which is meant to “enhance student participation and increase viable feedback, providing for distribution,” according to the bill.

Nadolski said the issue regarding course evaluations was brought to the congress

by Faculty Senate Chair Megan Elwood Madden due to faculty concerns about evaluations being poorly written and oftentimes “used to make summative decisions about awards, hiring decisions, and tenure,” with questionable validity from the evaluations themselves, according to the resolution.

The meeting also saw a bill on congressional district

reapportionment, which happens every two years as stipulated in the SGA constitution. The bill received a vote of 27-3 and failed because it did not garner the 30 votes needed for the threefourths majority of the entire congress necessary to pass a reapportionment bill.

Although the bill’s aut h o r, S o c i a l S c i e n c e s Representative Dan Williams, acknowledged there were some concerns with the bill, he said with the constraints they had from the SGA constitution, “this is the best we could do.”

“We need to get these districts solidified so that the next election cycle, we know what we’re doing,” Williams said. “I would like to get this done before the next election cycle because eventually these districts are going to change.”

C h a i r o f t h e Undergraduate Student Congress Tom Cassidy said he was proud of the accomplishments of the meeting and the semester as a whole.

“I think we had really productive semester, and we had a really productive meeting as well,” Cassidy said. “I think tonight was just also an example of all the work we’ve been doing all year.”

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2 city council members bid for mayor Clark, Hickman hope to lead Norman community forward JANA ALLEN @jana_allen21

Tw o m e m b e r s o f t h e Norman City Council have announced their bid for Norman’s next mayor, who will be elected in February.

OU employee and Norman Ward 6 Councilwoman Breea Clark announced her candidacy on Nov. 24 on her social media platforms, and OU alumnus and Norman Ward 4 Councilman Bill Hickman announced Nov. 18. Both are in their second terms on city council.

Clark serves on the city of Norman’s legislative committee and the community planning and transportation committee, and is also the chairwoman for the oversight

committee, according to a press release announcing her candidacy.

Clark’s roles as the president of the Norman Eastside Business Association, a member of the Economic Strategic Plan steering committee and a member of the Ready for 100 Norman group have helped prepare her to lead the community, the release said.

“These past several years have given me the knowledge and experience to lead our city,” Clark said in the release.

“I am grateful for the active citizens and organizations in our community, and I am confident we have the hardest working staff in Oklahoma.

We need a leader that can bring us together and move us forward, and I am ready to do that for Norman.”

Clark wants the city to move forward with projects such as a new station for the Norman Police Department and a new fire station for east Norman.

Along with that, Clark would prioritize passing a Complete Streets Ordinance and updating the city’s engineering design criteria to enhance accessibility and walkability throughout Norman, according to the release.

Clark’s other priorities would be to audit the building permit process and increase city staff to create more positions that will help the Ready for 100 initiative, a campaign to move Norman toward 100 percent renewable energy by 2035. She would also like to enforce new ordinances to protect the city’s trees and help with public works projects, according to the press release.

“To move forward, we need a strong leader that can help us to capitalize on our strengths and chart a course for the future that will support a flourishing local economy, build better infrastructure and enhance accessibility and

strengthen relationships with our partners,” Clark said in the press release.

Hickman said his goals include making Norman into a thriving arts city supported by strong local business and a commitment to environmentally friendly practices, according to Hickman’s campaign announcement in the Norman Transcript.

“I will bring a collaborative, visionary and proactive leadership style to the Mayor’s office to bring people together to get things done,” Hickman said in his Twitter announcement. “I will advocate for the interests of the people.”

He also supports the construction of a local senior center and improved water quality to strengthen the community, according to the article.

His other focuses include expanding youth sports facilities, renewable energy sources and entrepreneurship, according to the

campaign announcement in the Transcript.

During his time in the Norman City Council, Hickman has promoted initiatives such as safe routes to schools, infrastructure improvements and promotion of local business. He also supports the Norman Animal Welfare Center and launching the city’s upcoming transportation initiative.

“We can achieve our collective goals to be the best with collaboration, transparency and innovative thinking,” Hickman said in the Transcript article. “I am ready to continue my service and will work tirelessly for the people of Norman.”

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‘SpongeBob’ creator dies at age 57 Oklahoma native battled ALS for more than a year ALMA CIENSKI @almacienski

After battling ALS f o r m o r e t h a n a y e a r, “SpongeBob SquarePants” creator and Oklahoma native Stephen Hillenburg died Monday at age 57.

Since creating the series in 1999, Hillenburg gave life to an animated empire that has resulted in 12 television show seasons, two major motion pictures, a Broadway musical, a variety of merchandise and characters beloved by children all over the world.

Born in Lawton at Fo r t Si l l m i l i t a r y b a s e, Hillenburg graduated from Humboldt State University in California with a bachelor’s degree in natural resource planning and interpretation. He taught at the Orange County Marine Institute as a marine biology teacher, where he created stories and characters used as teaching tools that would one day transform into a television show on

Nickelodeon.

“A s p o n g e i s a f u n n y animal to center a show on,” Hillenburg said in a 2001 inter view with the Washington Post. “At first I drew a few natural sponges — amorphous shapes, blobs — which was the correct thing to do biologically as a marine science teacher. Then I drew a square sponge, and it looked so funny. I think as far as cartoon language goes he was easier to recognize. He seemed to fit the character type I was looking for — a somewhat nerdy, squeakyclean oddball.”

After earning a master’s degree in experimental animation from the California Institute of the Arts, Hillenburg started at Nickelodeon as a director and writer on “Rocko’s Modern Life” from 1993 to 1996.

After years of development, the first episode of “SpongeBob SquarePants” aired on May 1, 1999. The program now has more than 250 11-minute episodes and a large fanbase, according to IMDb. The show has won several Emmy Awards, as well as a consistent win at the

Theatre with “SpongeBob S q u a r e P a n t s ,” w h i c h opened December 2017 and closed September 2018. The musical was nominated for 12 Tony Awards and won one for scenic design.

Hillenburg decorated the television screens of millions of people with musical numbers like “F.U.N.,” “The Campfire Song Song” and “The Best Day Ever”; voice cameos from stars like Tina Fey and David Bowie; and colorful characters that made viewers laugh during and long after any episode.

Stephen Hillenburg, known as Steve by family, friends and fans, is survived by his wife, Karen, and his son, Clay. According to a Twitter post, Nickelodeon employees observed a moment of silence at work on Tuesday to remember Hillenburg’s life.

Nickelodeon announced PHOTO BY CARLOS CAZURRO VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONSN Stephen Hillenburg, Oklahoma native and creator of the show on its press website that “SpongeBob SquarePants,” died Nov. 26. season 12 of the television show and a third movie are Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Movie” and then again in set to premiere in 2019, the Awards in the “Favorite 2015 with “The SpongeBob series’ 20th anniversary Cartoon” category.

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Students help local thrift store Business majors worked with owner for capstone class DEVIN HIETT @devinhiett

Colorful, hand-painted murals and classic cartoon characters adorn the entryway of an old church turned into a modern thrift store, complete with stained glass windows and a sprawling altar, now covered in eclectic furniture. The owner of the store greets each visitor with a smile, eager to chat or show newcomers around the vast, two-story building.

On a slow afternoon, Lyz Farrar is likely to be found in the store’s basement amid rows of meticulously organized toiletries. She buys necessities in bulk and donates them to the elderly, one of the many groups of people Farrar has devoted her life to helping.

Before creating her charitable thrift store, Donate a Miracle Thrift Store & Boutique, Farrar owned a restaurant in Texas. While driving to the restaurant one day, Farrar saw two hungry young men on the side of the road and offered to feed them for free and give them part-time jobs. “I just felt called by God to do something like that again,� Farrar said. “In the restaurant, I could feed a couple people, but not a whole lot because you can’t afford it. So I thought if I had a thrift store and people are giving me stuff, then I could help a lot of people.�

Farrar founded Donate a Miracle in Norman in 2012 as way to help feed, clothe and give back to those in need. “Ever y day someone w a l k s t h ro u g h t h a t w e help,� Farrar said. “I’ve noticed Norman is a very giving town, so we try to give back. We won’t turn anyone away.�

Before opening her store, Farrar was passionate about helping others, but she had little experience in business or finance, so she enlisted the help of her best friend Karen Bacon, who later worked as the store’s accountant and office manager.

Farrar set up her business to have two components: half of the store functions like a regular business, and the profits are used to finance her charity, Saks Outreach, and other philanthropic endeavors. Most of the items available for purchase inside Donate a Miracle have been donated.

Once people donate items to the store, Farrar sells them and uses the profits to finance the nonprofit side of the business so she can donate clothes, food and other necessities to the elderly, homeless and others in need. Farrar partners with local charities and organizations including the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the Central

Oklahoma Community Mental Health Center.

However, Farrar’s dream of helping others and maintaining a successful thrift store came crashing down when Bacon was diagnosed with lung cancer.

At the time, Bacon was the only person with the knowledge and ability to access the business’ taxes, finances and account passwords, but her memor y faded quickly while she was sick. Bacon became unable to remember the passwords she had created and passed away three months after being diagnosed. “After she passed away, I went through a depressed state. I didn’t do anything for that year,� Farrar said. “My books had gotten so far behind, and I didn’t even know how to do my taxes.

She had done everything.�

Donate A Miracle was at risk of foreclosure by the Oklahoma Tax Commission when one of the store’s customers, Stephanie Sullivan, a graduate from OU’s Price College of Business, noticed the struggles the store was facing. Sullivan then petitioned one of her old college professors to take on Farrar’s store for an undergraduate field project.

Each year, undergraduate seniors majoring in management information systems at OU have the opportunity to take a capstone class called Field Project.

In the class, students work with real businesses to try to solve a problem for them, said management information systems associate professor Albert Schwarzkopf, who teaches the class. “The academic goal is to have students experience a real project, to understand what the business needs and make sure the solutions you come up with actually add value to that organization,� Schwarzkopf said.

To help Farrar manage

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Donate a Miracle Thrift Store & Boutique on 315 Alameda St. Business students helped owner Lyz Farrar with the store’s finances.

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her finances and get the store back on track, a team of six students devoted their semester to working with Donate a Miracle. They tracked the store’s inventory and expenses, set up the technology needed for Farrar to do her bookkeeping online and helped teach Farrar how to maintain a successful small business in the digital age, Schwarzkopf said.

The Field Project classes love working with charities and nonprofits that do not have the resources to hire a consulting firm to help solve business problems for them, Sullivan said. “It was a big blessing, and I owe them a lot,� Farrar said. “I was about to lose my mind, but I couldn’t let this place go because I’d be letting a lot of people down.�

Jordynn Smith, a management information systems master’s student who worked with Donate a Miracle for her Field Project class, said the experience helped her realize there’s more to business than just financial success. “(Farrar) has the biggest

heart of anybody I think I’ve ever met,� Smith said. “Her heart was the whole reason that place was going. It’s the whole reason she has customers come in and donate to her because they support her, believe in her and knew her passion was so great. Had she not had that foundation of who she is as a person, I don’t think she would still be in business.�

Since working with the Field Project class in the spring of 2018, Farrar has kept up with her bookkeeping and has the knowledge to run both a thriving business and nonprofit organization, she said.

These days, Farrar has more time to focus on her charity, Saks Outreach, which donates supplies such as toilet paper, shampoo and deodorant to the elderly — a demographic she feels is often overlooked.

Farrar also partners with roughly 40 philanthropic organizations in Norman including mental health programs, churches and food kitchens. The organizations inform Farrar of what items people need,

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36 Does a laundry chore 38 RPM dial 39 Three things with milk 43 Farmer’s measurement 44 Hawkins of Dogpatch 45 Sexy leg in B movies 46 Pottery pieces 49 Thing for golfers to avoid 50 I’s digit 11/29

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and Farrar fills the orders.

She also welcomes people in need who come directly into the store looking for help. “We’ll do whatever we can to help people, and if I don’t have what they need, I send them somewhere that I know might have it,� Farrar said. “We don’t let anybody walk out of this store (without) help.�

Donate a Miracle Thrift Store & Boutique is located at 315 Alameda St. The store is open from noon to

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Donate a Miracle Thrift Store and Boutique shop owner Lyz Farrar. Farrar founded the store in 2012.

HOROSCOPE

By Eugenia Last

Copyright 2015, Newspaper Enterprise Assn.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2018 ASTROGRAPH by Eugenia Last Take care of details. Don’t leave anything to chance. Trust in yourself and your ability to get things done properly. Recognize manipulative people and walk away from them. Don’t let anger take control when tranquility should be your priority. Make choices based on facts.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Problems while traveling or discussing personal matters will surface. Be aware of what you are up against, and leave plenty of time to assess and react to events with insight and compassion.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Keep your personal books in order. Don’t feel you must donate to a cause or pay for someone else’s mistake. An investment or joint venture will have serious implications.

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7 p.m. on Monday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Satu rd ay a n d i s c l o s e d Sunday.

There is a box placed in front of the store where visitors can leave donations. The store is currently in need of small furniture items such as end tables, nightstands and hygiene products for the elderly.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Look for ways to expand your income. A temporary or part-time job will lead to an interesting opportunity. Expand your interests and skills.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Be careful while traveling or when dealing with institutions or authority figures. Letting your emotions take the reins will make you look bad and deter you from getting things done.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Listen to your heart and do what comes naturally. Don’t trust someone else to take care of your responsibilities or personal matters. Personal growth will encourage a better relationship with a loved one.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -Shop around and find a bargain.

Participating in a cause you believe in will be enlightening, but your generosity should not go beyond what you can afford.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Relationships take work, and without honesty it will be difficult to overcome some of the emotional tension building at home. Avoid overspending and indulgent behavior.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Spend time with a close friend, sibling or someone you like to share ideas with. Self-improvement should be a priority. Don’t try to change the people around you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Getting together with people who share your concerns, interests or skills will be enlightening. Get the lowdown, but don’t let temptation lead to a needless cost.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Emotions will surface when dealing with domestic problems and time management. Listen to what others have to say, and consider the best way to satisfy everyone’s needs. Be a solver, not a complainer.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Share your thoughts and get things done.

Learn from watching others and use experience to do a better job. An unexpected offer will come from a former colleague.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -Expect the unexpected. Plans aren’t likely to turn out as anticipated, but if you are innovative you will find a way to work through any problem that comes along.

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SPORTS

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George Stoia, sports editor dailysports@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666 oudaily.com/sports • Twitter: @OUDailySports

OU stays aggressive on court Oklahoma defeats North Texas, not dependent on James CALEB MCCOURRY @CalebMac21

Oklahoma (6-1) ran away with a 73-57 win Tuesday night against North Texas (8-1) while not needing its highest scorer, Christian James.

James was limited to a free throw in the first half that was a struggle for both teams, as both Oklahoma and North Texas made only nine baskets. The score at the half was just 29-27, Oklahoma leading.

“Obviously a tough, ragged battle early,” head coach Lon Kruger said. “I thought both teams were playing extremely hard but couldn’t get anything going on either end offensively.”

In a lackluster situation, the Sooners could have looked to James, who came into the game with a Big 12 Conference-leading 20.8 points per game. But with James racking up three fouls in the first half, graduate student transfer Miles Reynolds took his place as the starter. What happened next was a complete turnaround for the Sooners — they kept North Texas at just

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Senior center Jamuni McNeace drives to the basket during the game against North Texas Nov. 27.

26 percent from the field in the second half.

“I thought our other guys did respond well, especially defensively,” Kruger said. “(Senior Jamuni McNeace) contested everything and was doing a really good job against ball screens.”

Oklahoma was 53 percent from the field in the second half, compared to its 39 percent in the first, and was 5-11 from beyond the 3-point line. McNeace finished the

game with 16 points and 10 rebounds. The team’s highest scorer was Reynolds with 17 points, while James finished the game with six points. These stats showcase a more complete team that doesn’t rely on just one player to sink all of the buckets, and the team’s connection proved to be effective in the second half. “ We k n e w w e m i s s e d some uncontested looks in the first half, especially

me,” said Reynolds, who was 2-6 from the field in the first half. “We went into the tunnel pretty frustrated, but you just gotta credit my teammates that just told me, ‘Keep being aggressive, keep shooting. They’re gonna fall.

Just shoot out the slump.’

“I just wanted to help the team. That’s all.”

Since Oklahoma could successfully depend on players other than the Big 12 Conference’s leading scorer,

Kruger still has a lot to think about with his lineup decisions. When asked if he’s still unsure about those decisions, Kruger said, “It will probably be different every night.”

Sophomore for ward Brady Manek finished the three-game Battle 4 Atlantis tournament just 1-11 from beyond the 3-point line.

Against North Texas, he was 1-3 with 10 points and eight rebounds on the night.

Junior center Kur Kuath didn’t make an appearance against North Texas because of back problems.

“He’s fighting some back issues and missed a couple weeks of practice just before the season started and really haven’t recovered,” Kruger said. “We may hold him out probably for a while.”

Caleb McCourry

caleb.a.mccourry@ou.edu

Red River Rematch, Kyler spark attention Sooners will take on Longhorns in high-stakes game GEORGE STOIA @GeorgeStoia

No. 5 Oklahoma will look to win its fourth straight Big 12 title this Saturday when it faces No. 14 Texas in Arlington, Texas.

I t ’s t h e R e d R i v e r Rematch, which means there have been plenty of headlines this week.

Here’s what’s happening in this week’s Sooner notebook: KYLER MURRAY SAYS PLAN IS TO PLAY BASEBALL AFTER SEASON Kyler Murray will soon have a decision to make: football, baseball or both?

A t M o n d a y ’s w e e k l y press conference, Murray was asked if he feels like he could play in the NFL and if he still plans to play baseball following the season.

Murray said he thinks he can play in the NFL but still plans on playing in the MLB after the 2018 season.

Murray, who was drafted No. 9 overall by the Oakland Athletics in the 2018 MLB Draft in June, has been one of the best players in

college football. Murray is currently one of the frontrunners for the Heisman Trophy with Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa.

GOLDEN HAT NOT UP FOR GRABS IN BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME T h i s y e a r ’s B i g 1 2 Championship may be a rivalry game, but the regular trophy isn’t up for grabs.

W h e n O k l a h o ma a n d Te x a s m e e t i n AT & T Stadium on Saturday, the rivalry’s regular Golden Hat trophy will not be on the line. The Longhorns will continue to keep it as a result of their win in the Cotton Bowl earlier this season.

E S P N ’s J a k e T r o t t e r tweeted that both sides agreed the trophy would remain exclusively for the CAITLYN EPES/ THE DAILY regular season. Instead, Redshirt junior quarterback Kyler Murray runs the ball in the game against West Virginia Nov. 23.

The Sooners face Texas in the No. 5 Oklahoma and No. 14 Big 12 Championship Dec. 1 at AT&T stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Texas will play for a conference title and a potential playoff spot.

Riley that his team would top four, but also one spot Three other Big 12 S O O N E R S C A N ’ T not be allowed to do the ahead of Ohio State. schools made the rankings, OKLAHOMA AT NO. 5 With Michigan falling with Texas at No. 14, West D O ‘ H O R N S D O W N ’ gesture during Saturday’s IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL to the Buckeyes this past Virginia at No. 16 and Iowa AGAINST TEXAS game.

P L AYO F F R A N K I N G S , weekend, there was a small State at No. 23.

The Big 12 strikes again.

This has caused controAHEAD OF OHIO STATE shake up in the top five.

After much controver- versy among fans, who are This likely means if Just. One. Spot. Out. Alabama stayed at No. 1, Alabama beats Georgia in sy surrounding the “horns not pleased with the Big Oklahoma ranked No. Clemson at No. 2, Notre the SEC title game and OU down” symbol that has be- 12’s decision.

5 in this week’s College Dame at No. 3, Georgia up beats Texas in the Big 12 come a staple for Sooner Football Playoff rankings, to No. 4 and the Sooners at title game, the Sooners will Nation, the Big 12 told George Stoia just one spot outside of the No. 5. georgestoia@ou.edu probably be in the playoff. Oklahoma coach Lincoln

Oklahoma’s best hopes for making playoff OU needs Big 12 championship, Alabama victory CALEB MCCOURRY @CalebMac21

I t ’s n o s e c r e t N o . 5 Oklahoma (11-1, 8-1 Big 12) will need some help getting into the College Football Playoff.

The biggest priority for the Sooners’ playoff hopes is winning the Big 12 Championship game against No. 14 Texas. If the Sooners lose, they’re out.

A win will help the team’s case in the strongest way possible, beating its only loss. But the win itself still won’t be enough.

The Sooners sat at No. 6

before Tuesday night, but they were already helped by then-No. 10 Ohio State beating then-No. 4 Michigan 6239, knocking the Wolverines out of the playoff conversation. In front of the Sooners are Georgia, Notre Dame, Clemson and Alabama.

Along with Alabama, Notre Dame has certainly won a spot in the playoff. The Fighting Irish don’t belong to a conference and have already finished their regular season.

But, luckily for the Sooners, Georgia and Clemson can still be knocked out of the top four.

Alabama plays Georgia in the SEC Championship on Saturday, and the best shot for Oklahoma to get into the playoff is for Alabama to win out, knocking Georgia out of

the mix. Although it would be nice to see the No. 1-ranked Alabama lose, the playoff selection committee would likely keep a one-loss Alabama team in the playoff conversation if the Bulldogs were to win the SEC. If that were to happen, Sooner Nation would have to rely on unranked University of Pittsburgh to upset the No. 2 Clemson Tigers in the ACC Championship game.

The undefeated Tigers losing this Saturday could possibly knock them out of the top four and bring the Sooners into the College Football Playoff, though this doesn’t seem likely.

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Sophomore wide receiver CeeDee Lamb celebrates after a touchdown play during the game against West Virginia Nov. 23. The Sooners are ranked No. 5 in the College Football Playoff rankings behind Alabama, Clemson, Notre Dame and Georgia.

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OPINION

PHOTO ILLUSTRATIONS BY JORDAN MILLER AND CAITLYN EPES/THE DAILY

Rest in peace, ‘horns down’ Dear Big 12, You done messed up. Again.

The Big 12 has few things over other power five conferences, one of them being the Red River Showdown — a game considered one of the best rivalries in sports. But this week, leading up to maybe the biggest conference championship the Big 12 has ever had, you decided to screw it up. You decided to take the spotlight off the game and instead put it on a hand gesture — horns up for Longhorn fans, horns down for Sooner fans — that has been a staple of this game and everything that surrounds it for 118 years.

You decided to neuter “horns down” and, soon with it, the rivalry itself.

Each year, there is one game in the Big 12 that nearly every college football fan looks to. Yep, you guessed it — OU-Texas in the Cotton Bowl on the first weekend in October. And now that the Big 12 somehow gets that game for a second time in one season, this time with a lot higher stakes in one of the best venues in sports, the Big 12 is going to ruin it by making a new rule just so a coach and his quarterback don’t get their feelings hurt.

Classic Big 12.

For far too long Texas has controlled this league.

There’s a reason four teams have left the conference and no one but BYU and Boise State want in it. There’s a reason former Oklahoma President David Boren called the Big 12 “psychologically disadvantaged.” There’s a reason the Big 12 continues to be the laughingstock of college football.

It’s for things like penalizing a signature hand gesture and taking the side of Texas once again. More people watched OU-Army on Twitch than saw one of the biggest games of the year, Texas-Iowa State, because of its precious Longhorn Network. It’s a joke.

“Bottom line is they don’t seem to have a problem with it when they’re doing well, and they put it in everyone else’s face,” former Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said in 2012 after former Texas coach Mack Brown said he thought horns down was disrespectful. “When they’re not and someone else does it, you get it the other way. So be it.”

Stop taking the side of Texas and start taking the side of the rivalry.

Come Saturday, I hope OU players flash the horns down. I hope Breckyn Hager runs out with a sign saying “OU sucks.” I hope Lincoln Riley wears a shirt that says “OK cool. Hook ‘Em.” I hope Sam Ehlinger and Kyler Murray don’t shake hands.

Because at the end of the day, that’s what this rivalry is all about: Hatred. And no matter how hard you try to kill it, that’s what it will always be about.

If there’s any consolation, perhaps it’s this. There’s one thing OU and Texas should hate more than each other: You. Sincerely, George Stoia III