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Boren: stolen art here to stay President Boren will not remove art unless forced MATT WOODS & ETHAN KOCH Campus Reporters @matopher, @sportsmaestroOU
OU President David Boren said the university would not return a French oil painting, stolen from its original owners by Nazis during World War II, until the matter has been decided in court. Giving away the donated painting, “Shepherdess Bringing In Sheep,” would set a bad precedent for the university and would not be fair to the painting’s donors, Aaron and Clara Weitzenhoffer, Boren said in a statement to The Daily. The painting is currently on display
at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Leone Meyer, daughter of the painting’s former owner, filed a lawsuit in May claiming the museum is in wrongful possession of the 1886 painting, according to court documents. Aaron and Clara Weitzenhoffer, longtime university donors, donated the painting by French impressionist Camille Pissarro in 2000. Max Weitzenhoffer, Aaron and Clara Weitzenhoffer’s son, was 14 years old when his parents bought the painting, he said. Aaron and Clara Weitzenhoffer offered the painting back to its original owner in the 1950s, who didn’t accept, OU regent Max Weitzenhoffer said. “The owner had ample opportunity to get the painting back,” Max Weitzenhoffer said.
Aside from his parents donating the painting to the museum, Max Weitzenhoffer said he has nothing to do with the case. However, he said Meyer’s suit doesn’t have merit. In a similar 2007 lawsuit against actress Elizabeth Taylor, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Taylor to keep a Vincent Van Gogh painting after an appeal from a Jewish woman who said she was coerced into selling it in Nazi Germany in 1939, according to a Reuters article. Max Weitzenhoffer alluded to the case when he said Meyer’s suit didn’t have merit. Rep. Paul Wesselhoft, R-Moore, protested and handed out fliers Tuesday at the Warren Theater encouraging SEE ART PAGE 2
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Safe sex starts with a trip to the Union Representatives promote health EMMA SULLIVAN Campus Reporter
Wo m e n ’s O u t re a c h Center representatives will work throughout National Condom Week to teach students safe sex practices. Representatives from the Women’s Outreach Center have been tabling at the Oklahoma Memorial Union to educate students about safer sex, sexually transmitted diseases and how condoms are
effectively used, said Kathy Moxley, director of the Women’s Outreach Center. Terry Dennison, director of education for Planned Parenthood, will also be tabling at the Union the rest of the week, Moxley said. B o t h t h e Wo m e n ’s Outreach Center and Goddard Health Center have free condoms available for students to take if they need them throughout the year, not just during National Condom Week. More online at OUDaily.com
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The lab’s High Intensity Sound Apparatus (right) simulates a war zone blast so Gan’s team can better study ear-related injuries.
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civilians. Among veterans with service-connected disabilities, tinnitus — a constant ringing in the ears — is the most prevalent condition and hearing loss is the second, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The study also stated that more than SEE EARS PAGE 2
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Shangyuan Jiang, who is on Rong Gan’s research team, examines very thin slices of human ear tissue to check for disease and damage Feb. 4. Gan, a biomedical engineering professor, received a $2.5 million grant for research toward a device that checks the ear for damage caused by blasts on the battlefield.
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“Shepherdess Bringing in the Sheep” is on display in the Fred Jones Jr. Art Museum. The painting was stolen by Nazis in the 1950s, and the university is being sued for the painting’s return to the original owner.
ART: OU will battle painting lawsuit Continued from page 1 audiences of “The Monuments Men” — a film about saving Jewish art from Nazis in World War II — to petition Boren for the painting’s return from the museum to the family of its original owner. “We know the exact date that it was stolen and we know that he owned it,” Wesselhoft said. “I think it’s
the right and moral thing for OU to return this painting back to the Meyer family.” Wesselhoft plans to boycott the museum until the painting is returned, he said, describing the painting’s presence as a “scar” on the museum. “Even if OU wins this in the court, they will lose it in the court of public opinion because I believe most Oklahomans want the painting returned to its original
owner,” Wesselhoft said. Boren said university officials don’t want to keep any items that don’t belong to the university and will immediately comply with whatever the courts rule. “The university and the donor are strongly opposed to the theft of art by the Nazis,” Boren said. Matt Woods, Ethan Koch matt.woods@ou.edu samuel.e.koch-1@ou.edu
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60 percent of U.S. service members wounded in action have eardrum injuries, and the most devastating is permanent hearing loss because of a blast injury. Though researchers know a blast injury causes trauma to the cochlea, the auditory portion of the inner ear, the exact nature of the trauma has not been well understood. Rong Gan, a professor and biomedical engineering researcher at OU, received a $2.5 million grant from the army to investigate this problem. Her main purpose is to create a 3-D model of an ear demonstrating the way sound is transmitted through each separate part, thereby providing a way to assess damage, Gan said. A picture of the first ear model her team created for work on an implantable hearing system dominates one wall of Gan’s office. “Our model is the best across the world — not just the United States — the world,” Gan said. She has spent almost 20 years working in the field of sound transmission. However, this new project is her first foray into OU’s Defense, Security and Intelligence, or DSI, Research Initiative. Robert Palmer, associate
Our model is the best across the world — not just the United States — the world.” RONG GAN, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCHER
vice president for research, said Gan’s work translates well into a new line of research, opening up a new piece of her research portfolio she never had before. “She’s just a perfect example of a faculty (member),” Palmer said. Gan said she loves working with students who have the opportunity to help create the model in Gan’s lab at the Stephenson Research Technology Center. While some carefully examine slices of cadaver tissue for damage, others, such as Zach Yokell, chemical engineering graduate student, get to work closely on the lab’s High Intensity Sound Apparatus, which is essentially a shock wave device. It simulates a war zone blast with a high-energy impulse pressure of 200 decibels. Yokell said working in the lab was daunting at first but now he appreciates learning
in a lab with so many varied experiments. Don Nakmali, biomedical research engineer, and Yokell experiment with the machine using cadaver and animal tests. Gan’s experiments and her team of students and doctors will not only find how an impulse transmits through the ear but also how to improve the design and function of hearing protection devices for soldiers, hopefully decreasing the number of hearing injuries in the first place. Ke l v i n D ro e g e m e i e r, vice president for research, praised Gan’s research for impacting students and their learning and contributing to the well-being of the country. “ It ’s a w i n - w i n - w i n ,” Droegemeier said.
IN DEPTH Decibel levels of common sounds Normal Conversation: 60-65 dB Sustained exposure at 90-95 dB= Possible hearing loss Rock Concert: 115 dB Permanent damage Loudest recommended exposure WITH hearing protection 140dB Gan’s High Intensity Sound Apparatus: 200 dB Source: Galen Carol Audio website
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
OU takes on red-hot WVU WVU star-guard could cause problems for Sooner defense BRETT COPPENBARGER
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The Oklahoma women’s basketball team will play host to the 13th-ranked Mountaineers on Thursday night in a showdown between two of the best scorers in the Big 12. West Virginia star guard Bria Holmes leads West Virginia into Norman, coming off the best game of her career. She scored a game-high 31 points to lead the Mountaineers to a victory over Kansas State. In Ho l m e s’ last matchup with the Sooners on Jan. 18, she scored 21 points. Head coach Sherri Coale remembers that matchup very well and will have her hands full trying to stop Holmes on Thursday. “She can really shoot the three, so you can’t give her threes, especially in transition,” Coale said. Holmes has averaged almost three money balls per game, which ranks her second in the Big 12. Oklahoma will try to counter West Virginia’s scoring punch with its own deadly weapon. A reigning Big 12 first-team player last season, senior guard Aaryn Ellenberg has had another good season for the Sooners so far. In their win against Kansas, Ellenberg scored 17 of her 19 total points in the second half. “I certainly hope that not just her momentum carries over into the West Virginia game, but the way we functioned offensively as a whole in the second half needs to carry over too,” Coale said. “We just had a really good cadence about us, and the players within the rhythm of the offense had a confidence about them.” As Coale has searched for a game plan to stop the Mountaineers, she said she has nothing but respect for the team from Morgantown. “West Virginia may be (one of ) the hottest teams — certainly in our league — but may be one of the hottest teams in the country right now,” Coale said. “They’re really long, really athletic, they’re really deep, and when they’ve been shooting it the way they’ve been shooting it, which has been about 50 plus percent behind the arc. There are problems because their post guy is really good too.” Oklahoma will have to depend on its only true post presence, senior center Nicole Griffin, to lock down the paint. In the last matchup with the Mountaineers, Griffin struggled to get going with only four points and four rebounds. She wasn’t the only one to start off slow; West Freshman guard Virginia had a 17-point lead at one Gioya Carter goes point in the first half. The Sooners must start up for the layup against Baylor on the game strong if they want to walk out of Monday night at Lloyd Noble Center with a win Thursday night. Lloyd Noble Center. The Sooners fell to the Bears 81-67.
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A recent trend among some blogs is to take a more chauvinistic subject matter. Many of these male-run blogs will regularly take harsh stances against anything progressive involving women, such as the blog post above, titled “Girls With Short Hair Are Damaged.”
‘Return of Kings’ demeans women I n elementary school Life & Arts columnist looked into these types of articles, ,my sisters and I dethe worse they got. cided to cut all of our In November, the article “5 hair off and donate it to Reasons to Date a Girl With an Locks of Love. Eating Disorder” was published on One of those sisters even “Return of Kings.” went so far as to later shave “The presence of one of the clasher head completely to sic eating disorders is a reliable raise money to stop child predictor of various socio-economSarah Pitts trafficking in Ghana. ic, cultural and personality traits s.elizabethpitts@ou.edu According to articles on in a young woman–features that, the websites of “Return of in the end, are desirable to today’s Kings” and “Total Frat Move,” we have some American man,” the article said. serious mental issues for doing so. Not only is it incorrect to assume that every“Not only is short-hair unattractive, it’s one with an eating disorder is a skinny, vulnerone of the biggest signals a man can get that able, rich, white girl with daddy issues, but it’s a woman is damaged beyond repair,” said the also demeaning to all women. “Return of Kings” article “Girls With Short Hair An eating disorder is a disease that both men Are Damaged.” and women struggle with all their life. To conClaiming women who have short hair are sider their condition to be desirable is cruel, emotionally unstable or have mental issues and to people without an eating disorder, it is seems completely outlandish, but the more I offensive to think that men will only like you
if you are weak and dealing with a destructive disorder. After reading this article, I truly thought it could not get worse, but “Return of Kings” proved me wrong again. They posted an article on how women train men to rape them, and then another article on when “no means yes.” Despite whatever these articles claim, rape can never be justified. I understand that some men feel women post articles that are hateful toward men and posts about opposite genders being difficult in relationships will never stop. But I have yet to see comparable articles toward men when it comes to the cruelty, disrespect and hatred seen in the articles that are so rapidly trending on “masculine” websites. Sarah Pitts is a journalism sophomore.
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A Gumbo Cookoff will take place from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Feb. 15 at Joy’s Palace to raise money for the 20th annual Mardi Gras parade. The Gumbo Cookoff is $10 at the door of Joy’s Palace at 300 E. Main St. and will feature The Zydeco Allstar Band, coordinator Aimee Rook said. The band features all local musicians, including some OU graduates, according to Rook. Anyone can register to cook at the cookoff and will be eligible for awards. Rook said all registration information for the event can be found on the Norman Mardi Gras website. “We’ve never had an OU entry,” Rook said. She is looking for more student involvement and recommends that different groups or clubs sign up. People can also bring canned foods to the event to donate to the Food and Shelter for Friends. “We’re always trying to do stuff for others,” Rook said. The parade will be on March 1, and all masks and costumes are encouraged.
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