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Black History month celebrated on campus Groups holding events to remember heritage ALEX NIBLETT

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The Black Student Association will be holding events throughout February to celebrate Black History month. “Not many people notice the impact that we make as a small African American group, so whenever we get a whole month to show everyone how much we love our heritage, it’s truly amazing,” said Marla Bailey, Alpha Kappa Alpha member and this year’s Miss Black OU. Events throughout the month include a Black History Month edition of Jeopardy, a Hip Hop Extravaganza, movie screening of “School Daze” and a Black & White Affair heritage dinner to close out the month. For Ernest Ezeugo, Student Government Association president, Black History Month is a time for everyone to honor the legacies of black leaders, both big and small,

“... it asks us to look back and realize how much the leaders of the past have paved the way for the leaders of the future.”

a 6-year-old African American girl, integrated into a New Orleans public school called William Frantz Elementary. To many, Bridges is known as the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. However, she wasn’t the only one to break barriers that day. That’s where Tate comes in. Just down the street, three other 6-year-old African American girls, known as the McDonogh Three, also became the first black students to integrate into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans called McDonogh No. 19. Tate remembers seeing people lining the streets as she was driven to school. Then she thought it was a parade since Mardi Gras parades took place on that street. But Nov. 16 wasn’t Fat Tuesday, and soon enough she found out why those people were there. The rest of the day — indeed, the rest of the school year — was tense. For the first part of the day, she and the other girls sat in a foyer waiting to be placed in a classroom. Once they were assigned a room, the

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who have changed society for the better, he said. “In a sense, it is significant because it asks us to look back and realize how much the leaders of the past have paved the way for the leaders of the future,” Ezeugo said. African American Studies professor Sharri Coleman met Leona Tate, one of those leaders and one of the first black students to integrate into an all-white school, last year. Coleman admires what Tate did for society, but some people still don’t know her story and how she’s changed history. When Tate was changing history, she didn’t know either. On Nov. 16, 1960, Ruby Bridges,

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Black History Month events on OU’s campus Feb. 3: Jeopardy!: Black History Month Edition, 6 p.m. in Jim Thorpe Multicultural Center Feb. 11: Hip Hop Extravaganza, 8 p.m. in Houston Huffman Center Feb. 13: “School Daze” screening, 7 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium Feb. 28: Heritage Dinner: Black and White Affair, 6 p.m. in Jim Thorpe Multicultural Center Source: Maci Johnson, Black Student Association Black History Month Event chairwoman

white parents and students flooded out of the building. By the end of the day, only the McDonogh Three were left inside, Tate said. The hostility continued for the next year and half, they were the only students in the building and they weren’t allowed to go outside for their safety. Eventually, the three were sent to another school — this time without the aid of police escort and U.S. Marshals.

“I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy, how I was treated during that year,” Tate said. “That’s a year I hardly ever try to think about. If you attempted to go eat lunch, someone would try to knock it out of your hand.” Coleman said Tate’s contribution to history has impacted the world today, just as civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. did.

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Say goodbye to paper tickets

Campaign to address dating violence Write messages on flags Feb. 17

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Paper tickets may become a thing of the past, as OU is moving toward a paperless ticketing option for athletics events. The OU Board of Regents approved a $415,000 contract with Paciolan, Inc. that will expand OU’s paperless ticketing options for ticket sales, merchandise sales, marketing initiatives and donations, according to the regents’ agenda. The technology would capture and store customer’s information per transaction to use in metrics, analytics or data for administrative purposes, according to the agenda. Athletic director Joe Castiglione said the university made the switch because paperless ticketing is getting more popular. However, OU won’t switch to purely paperless ticketing until customers are comfortable with the transition, he said. “There is something still traditional about having the ticket, the souvenir element of it as well,” Castiglione said. “But in time, like everything else, it’s going to change.”

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Two students wrestle over the football while playing flag football Sunday on the South Oval outside George Lynn Cross Hall. These students played in 28 degree weather with about 2 inches of snow.

Facilities Management works to clear snow Snow storm not unusual for this time of year AMBER FRIEND AND KATE BERGUM Campus Reporters

About 30 Facilities Management workers braved the snowy sidewalks Sunday to make campus safe for student traffic Monday. The landscape crew arrived around 8 a.m. and the custodial crew came two hours later to de-ice and plow sidewalks and building entrances as well as plow snow-covered streets, Facilities Management director Brian Ellis said.

The crew began work on the main streets early in the day, and then moved to clear secondary streets and parking lots. Since the main streets got slushy throughout the day, the crew came back later Sunday to finish those, Ellis said. To c l e a r t h e s n o w , Fa c i l i t i e s Management employees used snow trucks and bags of de-icer, Ellis said. “At least as far as we’re concerned, campus will be ready [Monday] morning,” he said. Employees primarily focused on clearing places students were likely to be on Sunday, such as the residence halls, the library and the Huston

Opinion: Gov. Fallin should use existing taxes to fund school shelters instead of raising property taxes. (Page 3)

Huffman Center, Ellis said. Custodial workers began clearing regular campus buildings when they got to work at 4 a.m. on Monday, he said. While the sidewalks should be clear Monday, students should still be careful and watch their footing, he said. “I encourage people (Monday) to be vigilant and take their time,” he said. Overall, the entire process of removing the snow and ice from campus walkways and building entrances should took around 10 hours in total, Ellis said. Sunday’s snow was typical for this time of the year, said Kevin Brown, SEE WEATHER PAGE 2

L&A: Take a look into the life of former Sooner and now DC comic writer Sterling Gates. (Page 2)

In mid-February red flags will blanket the South Oval as part of the Red Flag Campaign to raise awareness for dating violence, so that more people will speak up when they notice its effects. On Feb. 17, the Women’s Outreach Center will provide flags for students to write encouraging messages on and then place them on the South Oval for the rest of the week, Melanie Adams, Women’s Outreach Center programming coordinator said. “This engages our students about the topic, which in turn, creates better awareness as well as understanding,” Adams said. The Red Flag Campaign is designed to address dating violence and prevent it on college campuses. The red flags are supposed to remind students to say something when they see red flags, or indicators of dating violence, in their friends’ relationships, according to the campaign’s website. In 21 percent of college dating relationships, one of the partners is being abused. That’s one in five SEE AWARENESS PAGE 2

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A flag football quarterback drops back to pass to his teammates Sunday on the South Oval outside George Lynn Cross Hall. These students played in 28 degree weather and around 2 inches of snow.

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snow: Expert: Stay off phone while walking Continued from page 1 National Weather Service meteorologist. January is normally the driest month in both Norman and in the U.S. and coming into February the weather patterns changed with moisture coming in from the Gulf of Mexico. Since the air was cold enough, there was snow, Brown said. Another storm system will come through Oklahoma Monday and Tuesday, but Norman shouldn’t be hit by much accumulating snow, Brown said. By Mo n d ay m o r n i ng, much of the snow that has

melted on pavement will have re-frozen, making for icy sidewalks and roads if they haven’t been chemically treated, Brown said. To keep safe during the icy weather, Brown said to drive cautiously and be aware of other people on the road. For pedestrians, stay off your cellphones while walking and keep your eyes up. “Just slow down,” Brown said. Campus editor Paighten Harkins contributed to this Taylor Bolton/The daily report. Two students high five each other after a play while playing flag football Sunday on the South Oval outside George Lynn Cross Hall.

relationships, according to the statistics on the campaign’s website. Forty-three percent of dating, college women report experiencing abusive dating behaviors including physical, sexual, tech, verbal or controlling abuse, according to statistics on Loveisrespect.org. As someone who was in an abusive relationship, University College freshman Mileena Zafra said it’s important for students to be aware of dating violence because it’s a common occurrence. “I was in an abusive relationship during high school and it affected my grades, my life both at school and at home and especially my confidence,

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even though my partner only used emotional and verbal manipulation,” Zafra said. English sophomore Samantha Frey’s best friend was in a physically abusive relationship and no one, not even her friend’s family, knew about it. One night Frey’s friend ran away with her boyfriend and the police found her and sent her to a juvenile detention center, where she finally revealed the abuse, Frey said. The experience taught Frey that if you’re in, or think you may be in an abusive relationship, you should tell someone. “If you think that you’re experiencing dating violence do not be afraid to seek help. It’s better late than never,” Frey said.

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Comic Sterling Gates answers our questions excitement that those characters gave me when I was 16 years old.

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terling Gates is an OU alumni and noted writer for DC Comics, where he has written some of the company’s most popular characters including Superman, Supergirl, The Justice League and Green Lantern. Life & Arts reporter Sama Khawaja sat down with Gates for an interview about his career in comics, his time at OU and what it’s like to write some of the most iconic characters in American pop-culture. Q: Tell us a little about yourself. A: My name is Sterling Gates, I’m a writer. I primarily write comic books, notably for DC Comics. I’ve written a number of titles for DC including “Superman,” “Justice League,” “Supergirl” and “V.I.B.E.” Right now I’m writing a series about a group called Argus, a superspy organization in the DC Universe. Q: How did you come to work for DC Comics? A: Well, I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. My parents owned a comic store in Tulsa and so comics were always a big part of my upbringing, superhero comics particularly. I moved to California because I wanted to write for television. I ended up working on a TV show called “Blade: The Series” which was produced by a man named Geoff Johns. I was a writer’s room production assistant, which basically meant that the writer’s room would summon me and I would run off

Q: Any advice to future students who plan to go into the comic industry? A: I write a lot and I read a lot and I find those the two most valuable skills to have. A lot of the time people will say that they can’t draw so I ask how often they practice drawing. And they say, “Never. I can’t draw. Why would I practice drawing?” It frustrates me because drawing and writing both, are much like musclebuilding. You go to the gym and you work out that set of muscles and over time you see a lot of improvement in those muscles. Writing and drawing are skill sets and if you exercise and continually foster JacQueline eby/the daily those skill sets eventually they become something great. Practicing different Sterling Gates stands outside the Fred Jones Jr. Art Center. types of writing is very, very important because everything adds in to the writing to get coffee or buy notepads. I was an bought some and that’s how everything muscle. Reading is essentially the protein that feeds that writing muscle. And so the errand boy essentially. But what that did got started. answer is, and it’s so cheesy, is to read a lot was put me in contact with people that were actively writing for television. So it Q: When you graduated from OU, what and write a lot. was a really great learning experience. did you expect to do with your degree? Q: Do you miss Oklahoma? Through that experience I became friends with Geoff Johns. He was going A: I wanted to write for television. To A: Yes. I like Oklahoma. I spent 25 years to write and direct a movie called put it in perspective, the quote we always “Robot Chicken” and he hired me to be use is there are more people playing here so it’s a part of me and my upbringing. his personal assistant. I worked for him professionally for the NBA than there are You leave Oklahoma but it doesn’t leave for over a year and then when we were writers writing comics and making a living. you. talking about comics one day he said, “It’s I had better odds of perfecting a jump shot Gates’ latest comic, “Forever Evil: a shame you only write for television and than I really did of writing comics for a A.R.G.U.S.” #5, hits shelves Feb. 26 from you won’t write for comics.” And I said, living. DC Comics. He also recently contributed “I’d love to write for comics.” He didn’t know that I’d done comics in college. My Q: How do you see yourself? Has anything a story to the premiere issue of “Speeding capstone project here at OU was a comic changed since you started working for DC? Bullet Comics Presents,” to be published by Norman’s own Speeding Bullet Comics that I co-wrote and drew. And so Geoff essentially took me under A: I think of myself as a writer first and later this Spring. his wing and trained me how he writes foremost. I like the work that I do and I’m superhero comics. At a certain point in proud of the work that I do. I didn’t set that training process he introduced me out writing comics to seek fame. Fame Sama Khajawa is a petroleum geology to his editors. They said to pitch a story was never part of it. I really wanted to junior. and so I started pitching stories. DC work for DC in part because of the joy and

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Enough is enough. We are tired of hearing about Gov. Mary Fallin’s deplorable politicking and questionable decision-making. Her latest blood-boiling antics include refusing to offer support for a common sense proposal to use franchise taxes to construct storm shelters in all Oklahoma schools in favor of her own plan to jack property taxes up to pay for the shelters. Yes, building acceptable storm shelters in all of Oklahoma’s schools is an expensive proposition, but it is also absolutely essential in light of the devastating May 2013 tornado in Moore that hit Plaza Towers Elementary School, killing seven children. Although it’s nice to see Fallin finally say constructing storm shelters is a priority — nine months after the fact — using general property tax increases is not the proper way to get the shelters built. Oklahoma Rep. Joe Dorman, D-Rush Springs, proposed a bill that would use the existing franchise tax to bankroll the shelters. Dorman’s proposal would not increase taxes on anyone, but would instead allocate the franchise tax to be used as bonds that

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schools could then use to build storm shelters, according to the bill. The annual franchise tax is levied on all corporations in Oklahoma, requiring businesses to pay $1.25 per $1,000 of capital used or invested in the state, according to the Oklahoma tax commission’s website. Dorman’s bill does not propose increasing the franchise tax or any other tax. It simply advocates for setting aside the franchise tax to be used toward the estimated $500,000 it would cost to put storm shelters in Oklahoma schools. We believe Dorman’s bill is the right answer. A thought-out proposal to use existing taxes and funds to finance such a major project is obviously the better option over increasing taxes

on all home-owning Oklahomans, as Fallin has called for. Fallin is slotted to publicly voice her support for increasing property taxes in Monday’s State of the State, according to a press release. Fallin claims she does not support Dorman’s plan or putting storm shelter construcThe Our View tion on a is the majority statewide opinion of ballot beThe Daily’s eight-member cause it editorial board is a decision that should be left to local school districts, not the state, according to an NPR article. Really? We get that she’s a Republican, but it is truly necessary to let schools decide on a district-by-district basis if it’s essential to provide protection for Oklahoma’s children from potentially life-threatening storms? We believe this is not just a local issue; it is a statewide issue that deserves immediate

action, which should not include increasing property taxes. The problem with Fallin’s proposal to raise property taxes lies in the ambiguity of what would happen with increased revenue from the taxes. More often than not, revenue from taxes goes into a general fund, to be used indiscriminately on projects. So, not only would Oklahomans pay more in taxes, but those extra dollars may not necessarily go toward building storm shelters unless they are explicitly earmarked for that purpose. Oklahomans deserve better than a thinly veiled attempt from their governor to increase taxes, using school storm shelter construction as the premise.

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Media day gives fans a look at the future of OU baseball Sooners have young guns, depth and a strong leader Joe Mussatto

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Oklahoma baseball coach Pete Hughes addressed the media Saturday afternoon as the team finishes up its final preseason preparations with opening day looming less than two weeks away. Hughes, whom OU hired away from Virginia Tech last summer, has been leading the program for over half a year, but has yet to manage his first game. That will all change Feb. 14 when his Sooners host Seton Hall. While the first-year coach calmly and confidently spoke of the progress his squad has made during the off-season, it was clear that Hughes longs to see for himself how his team will perform under the lights. But on Saturday, Hughes had to don a polo in the press room rather than a jersey on the diamond as he previewed his first team at Astrud Reed/The Daily Oklahoma. In this file photo, senior right fielder Max White scores on a Matt Oberste double to give the Sooners an Here are the top-five things we learned early lead over New Mexico State last spring. from the coach and his players on media day: more energy than the guys on the team. He’s season after losing its two best arms and two Starts at the top just like another player.” best power hitters. And according to Hughes, Hughes has embraced the rich baseball The coach said he is excited to see what Big it will be up to the underclassmen to pick up history he inherited at Oklahoma, and it’s 12 baseball is all about, as the team tries to the slack. clear the OU brass chose wisely in naming the capture its second straight conference title. “The days of being young and being a Massachusetts native to the position. As for any goal beyond a Big 12 champion- freshman are over, that was in August,” “I can’t tell you how excited I am to coach ship, the squad said Hughes preaches one. Hughes said. my first game in crimson and cream and au“Everyday our motivation is ‘go to Omaha, The coach showed high praise for a numtomatically be a part of one of the greatest tra- go to Omaha’,” senior infielder Hector ber of young players, most notably for a pair ditions in college baseball,” Hughes said. Lorenzana said. “I’m really grateful for what of true freshman infielders — Niko Buentello After the surprise departure of former coach Hughes has done for our program so and Sheldon Neuse. coach, Sunny Golloway, a rough transition far.” “All these new guys are going to be really could have followed, but after spending crucial this season,” Lorenzana said. “I see months with the team Hughes has captured Youth Movement the respect of his players. Of the 34 players on this year’s roster, fresh“He keeps it fun,” sophomore pitcher men and sophomores make up 22 of the slots. Ralph Garza Jr. said. “A lot of the times he has Oklahoma will try to bounce back this

them out there, and I don’t consider them young. They have power and are going to be really productive in our lineup.” Hughes admitted it’s easier to come into a coaching situation surrounded by underclassmen that have the chance to develop in the program. But besides that, age isn’t an issue. “Honestly, for the first month I didn’t know if I was looking at a senior or a freshman,” he said. “Anytime you have freshman and sophomores that are very talented it bodes well for the future.” Arms race Where the Sooners might lack in experience, they are oozing with depth — especially on the mound. When the season starts, the coaching staff will likely try to narrow its starting rotation to three or four, but for now, Hughes said there are six to seven guys competing for those spots. “We certainly don’t have a depth problem,” he said. “It’s as deep as a pitching staff as I’ve ever coached with quality,” he said. Garza Jr. will be the key returning piece in the starting rotation, but even he was unsure of his job when he saw how good the underclassmen arms looked. “I was like, ‘I’m not even sure if I’ll be able to pitch anymore’ from what I heard they had,” he said. “They’re ready for whatever they need to do.” True freshmen Jake Elliot and Octavio Rodriguez were two young pitchers that Hughes said had come along nicely in the offseason. More online at OUDaily.com

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