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OU President David Boren held a mandatory “family meeting” with various fraternity councils today at the Catlett Music Center to encourage members to stand against racism after the Sigma Alpha Epsilon incident. Members from the Interfraternity Council, National PanHellenic Council and the Multicultural Greek Council were present at the
mandatory meeting, which focused on events surrounding the leaked video of SAE members singing a racist chant on a date party bus. The meeting was held in Catlett’s Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall. Some attending fraternity members were forced to stand in attendance after they filled the 1,018-seat hall to capacity. Boren opened the meeting by greeting members and telling them it was important for the councils to come together and discuss how to make the campus more inclusive. “What we do and how we handle this moment is going to really shape our university for years to come,” Boren said. SEE FRATERNITY PAGE 2
SAE freshman speaks out about video appearance ANDREW CLARK News Reporter @Clarky_Tweets
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Recently expelled OU S i g ma A l p ha Ep s i l o n freshman Levi Pettit apologized for his actions featured in a viral video in a press conference this afternoon alongside black community leaders, OU students and local pastors. Pettit and Parker Rice, another former SAE member, were expelled after being identified in a leaked video of SAE members singing a racist chant on a date party bus.
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Former OU Student Levi Pettit makes his first public apology Wednesday afternoon at Fairview Missionary Baptist Church.
Oklahoma Sen. Anastasia Pittman opened the conference, located at Fairview Missionary Baptist Church, and explained that she had shared a private meeting with Pettit and was prepared to move forward in light of
the event. “We have hope for our healing,” Pittman said. “The state of Oklahoma has issues that we need to talk about, and we’ve done that, and this is just the beginning of a great conversation.”
Pettit took the podium after Pittman, saying his meeting with many black community leaders helped him understand the reality of the black experience. SEE SAE PAGE 2
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For the first time, the OU Campus Activities Council Chair election is held separately from the OU Student Government Association presidential election, and unlike the past uncontested presidential elections, it promises a competitive race between three candidates: John Pham Pre-med psychology junior John Pham currently
serves as treasurer on CAC’s Executive Council. Pham has been a member of CAC since his freshman year, when he started out working on finding sponsors for Howdy Week. “I applied to be Howdy Week chair, and when I didn’t get it the new chair asked me if I wanted to be in charge of sponsorship,” Pham said. Pham was not impressed by his first experience with CAC. He said that he felt CAC’s sponsorship department lacked leadership and he learned little about CAC as a whole. When he was finished with Howdy Week, he thought he would never work with it again.
Instead of being upset about his new position, Pham decided to look at what he didn’t like about his experience and try to improve it for other students. He made several changes to the sponsorship positions to ensure that the students serving in those positions would get the most out of their experience. Pham moved on to work with Winter Welcome Week and then to his current position. Pham said that his position as treasurer is what motivated him to run for CAC chair. “[It] has given me the opportunity to see CAC as a whole and look at where we
can improve,” Pham said. One area of improvement he would like to see is to incorporate more diversity into CAC. Pham said to some people, CAC seems like an exclusive club and that is not what it should be. “I am running because I want to bridge the gap between CAC and the student body as a whole,” Pham said. “I feel I have the knowledge and the experience to be able to do that and create a more inclusive CAC.” Pham wants to make three changes to CAC. First, he wants to make CAC more accessible. Pham feels that if more students can apply, they will have more diversity
by default because they will be able to choose from a larger pool of applicants. He hopes to encourage all types of diversity, not just racial diversity. “Whether it’s what your hobbies are, what your ideas are, how you think, where you come from, if we increase our pool we’re going to have more diversity,” Pham said. Next, Pham wants build cohesion between the members of CAC to prevent CAC members from feeling excluded. Pham wants to encourage members to come together and form friendships with other members. “CAC gives you a lot of knowledge, but it’s the feeling
of family that makes you want to stick around,” Pham said. Lastly, Pham said that he wanted to develop members into leaders so they can get the most experience from CAC as possible. Matt Rogers Matt Rogers is a marketing and sports management junior. This past year he served as chair of Winter Welcome Week. Matt first joined C AC during an open house his freshman year. He joined the Winter Welcome Week committee and remained on the committee as vice-chair during his sophomore year. SEE ELECTION PAGE 3
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FRATERNITY: Members must be accepting Continued from Page One “It’s going to determine what kind of university family we’re going to be, so I think we really need to come together about it.” Boren said he understood fraternity members as a whole have been painted broadly in a negative light due to a few members of one fraternity, but he encouraged them to change that impression through their leadership. “What are you doing to show that this is not you or how you think?” Boren asked the audience. Boren told the crowd he had previously met with the OU football team, who said they expect to be welcomedwhen they are invited to fraternity and sorority events, but when they arrive are made to feel as if they don’t belong. Instead, they are made to feel as if they are only “numbers on the back of a jersey,” Boren said. Boren assured fraternity members that he strongly believed in their ability to do great things for the community by raising money for charities and mentoring others, and he asked that those efforts expand to include making a more inclusive campus. “You have to make everybody at this university feel like they belong,” Boren said. “How are you going to do that? I can’t do it alone. I need your help. We don’t want to hunker down, we need to stand up.” Student reactions to the mandatory meeting varied. “I’m happy he took a stand and talked to everybody
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President Boren talks with members of all fraternities on Wednesday afternoon. “This is not who we are. Not Here!” President Boren said in response to the recently emerged SAE video.
about the issue,” said student Aaron Mercier. Other students felt as if the meeting was unnecessary. “Honestly, I already knew all of this,” said student Terry Fowler. “I didn’t learn anything. My parents already instilled in me you need to know these things, being a minority.” For O U s enior L ester
Asamoah, he simply took the meeting as a challenge to improve the fraternity system. “[Boren] challenged us to talk about it in individual chapters,” Asamoah said. “It’s still pretty open-ended, but he wanted us to find different ways to make others feel welcomed. He’s challenged us to step forward
and I think that everybody is going to step forward because we have a great system here.” Brittney Bennett brittney.bennett@ou.edu
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“I can never thank you enough for the way you have embraced me and opened my eyes to things I have not seen before,” Pettit said. One place that has not embraced Pettit is the university campus, where Pittman said he is not to step foot for a while. Pettit made an apology for his actions, which the men behind him, who included Garland Pruitt, president of the Oklahoma City branch o f t h e N A A C P, a n d Oklahoma City attorney David Slane, said they accepted. Pettit said that the Levi Pettit in the video is not representative of him. “ It ’s n o t h o w I w a s raised to be and not who I think of myself to be,” he said. Pettit said he has grown and has met with pastors and leaders over the past week to learn about what his words in the video meant and what effects they have produced on the African American community. “Meeting with a few people does not change what I did, but it has begun to change me and my understanding of those hateful words,” Pettit said. Pettit said he sees this event as a learning experience, but also as a starting point for the creation of policy against racism. “Our goal is to tear down the walls of racism,
discrimination and [prejudice],” he said. Pittman spoke about specific policies to accomplish this, including incorporating more elements of cultural relevance and diversity into school and university curriculum. Other than the media, few people attended the press conference. OKC resident Demetrius Gibson said he came to the church to watch Pettit apologize. He said he believed Pettit’s apology was sincere, and that time is the only way he can grow and heal from this incident. “I think he will get a lesson out of this,” Gibson said. “People make mistakes, and that was just a huge mistake, and he’s got to fix it.” Pettit declined comment on the specifics of the bus incident, such as where he learned the chant or how he felt while participating. He focused on apologizing for his words on the bus and what he said he is going to do in the future to prevent racism and be an advocate against it. “I will spend the rest of my life trying to be a person who heals and brings people of all races together,” he said. “That is what I hope and pray will come out of this.” Andrew Clark Andrew.T.Clark-1@ou.edu
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ELECTION: Potential chairs plan improvements Continued from Page One Regarding the who, Rogers wants to implement focus groups so that CAC can better fit everyone’s needs. The goal would be to cooperate with student organizations like the Black Student Association and the Asian-American Student Association to make events to fit all students. Regarding the what, Rogers wants CAC Crew, CAC’s volunteer group, to focus more on student life so the volunteers will be more likely to join other organizations across campus. He also said he wants to hold leadership development seminars so that members can get the
fullest experience possible out of CAC. And as for the why, Rogers said he wants to focus on the opportunities that CAC offers to students at OU and that if he becomes CAC chair, Rogers said he would try to make CAC a catalyst to make great things happen on the OU campus. Chloe Tadlock Chloe Tadlock is a marketing and sports management senior and currently serves as Homecoming chair. Chloe first joined CAC during her freshman year. The summer b efore, at Camp Crimson, her small g ro u p l e a d e r ha d t a l ked to her endlessly about
Soonerthon, then called Dance Marathon, which inspired Tadlock to be a part of CAC. Tadlock worked on the Soonerthon committee for two years until she joined the Homecoming committee, serving as the large group’s liaison before becoming committee chair this year. Tadlock said she wants to be CAC chair to give back for all the good it has given her in life, and she wants to see CAC continue to grow. “CAC still has work to be done, it should never remain stagnant,” Tadlock said.” I’m very excited about where we are headed.” Tadlock said recent events
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have allowed for new conversations about how CAC can be improved to serve its students best and how it provides new obstacles that she thinks she is more than capable of tackling. “I’m always up for a challenge, and I’m always up for change and that’s why I’m running,” Tadlock said. To improve CAC, Tadlock said she wants to improve the application process in order to make applying as easy as possible. She proposes that instead of having 14 different applications for the 14 different committees, that there be two applications, one for each season, in order to cut the confusion out of joining CAC.
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Tadlock said this change would also give members a sense of unity, instead of feeling compartmentalized by different committees. “Regardless of what event you’re on, you’re a member of CAC,” Tadlock said. Tadlock said that CAC has a reputation of nepotism: students have to know someone in CAC in order to join it. To correct this reputation, Tadlock said she wants to hold selection bias training seminars for the event chairs so that they will choose the best people for their event. “Because we receive student fee money to serve the students, we should reflect [the students],” Tadlock said.
Tadlock said she also wants to address CAC’s diversity problems. She said only 30 percent of C AC members are minority students, so CAC still has a lot room to grow. She proposed educational training for members to ensure that current members are aware that some things they say or do could be seen as offensive. CAC elections will take place from March 31 to April 1. Students can vote online at elections.ou.edu. Page Jones page.c.jones-1@ou.edu
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Sooners battle MSU Spartans OU plays Michigan State in the Sweet 16 game on Friday TRENT CRABTREE
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Playing in its first Sweet 16 game in the NCAA Tournament since 2009, No. 3 seed Oklahoma (2610, 13-7) will face No. 7 seed Michigan State (2511, 12-6) in Friday’s East Regional semifinals. The matchup, which tips off at 9:07 p.m. in Syracuse, New York, pairs two squads that w ill come into the Carrier Dome with plenty of confidence from recent victor ies in the second and third rounds this past weekend. After handling Albany 69-60 in their opening round game last Friday, the Sooners took on the Dayton Flyers the following Sunday, winning 72-66. OU struggled on both ends of the floor throughout, even trailing by as much as nine points with fewer than 12 minutes to go. The Sooners then
decided to lock down on defense, holding the Flyers to just 10 points in the final nine minutes and 30 seconds of the game. OU coach Lon Kruger said the energy from his team in practice has been high and that they are focused on continuing to advance in the tournament. “They’re fired up, anxious to go. They have a great deal of respect for how good Michigan State is, but you would expect that in the Sweet 16,” Kruger said. “We have to play well to win and play better than w e did last week.” Th e Spa r t a n s, o n t h e o t h e r ha n d , hav e b e e n one of the surprise stories in March Madness. Coach Tom Izzo is widely considered to be one of the best coaches in the history of college basketball, winning 468 games and leading MSU to the Sweet 16 or better five out of the last eight years. During the 1999-00 season, Izzo won 32 games and captured MSU’s second national championship in
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school history. This season, though, the Spartans were forced to rebuild after losing a group of elite players to the NBA
draft. “They’re typically good. Michigan State has been g o o d f o r a l o n g t i m e ,” Kruger said. “Tom’s done
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Wednesday was the first time this spring the Sooners hit the practice field in pads. After weeks of unrest stemming from the SAE incident and subsequent fallout, defensive tackle Matt Romar said the team performed with a special energy. “It felt good,” he said. “It’s been a long time since we were in pads.” Romar, a sophomore, is the new father of a baby girl. He said his daughter gives him something more to play for, even in spring practice. “I know she is going to need money and things like that,” he said. “That took me to a whole new level with my playing style and the way I think.” Romar said he has grown up since his daughter was born, including learning how to change a diaper. “I didn’t want my mom to show me,” he said. “I wanted to do it myself. I went behind her back and looked it up on YouTube.” Four-man front making a return to Sooners’ defense Co-defensive coordinator Mike Stoops said the team has been experimenting with a mix of three-and-fourman fronts in spring practice after Oklahoma transitioned
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exclusively to a three-man before last season. “We’re trying to implement some new schemes, and we’ve been progressing in these practices,” Stoops said. The Sooners ranked second in the Big 12 last season in rushing defense. However, the secondary struggled, placing Oklahoma at No. 9 in passing defense. In 2013, in a four-man front, the Sooners were one
of the best teams in the country in passing yards allowed at No. 28. “Our defense is so versatile,” junior linebacker Jordan Evans said. “We have so many guys that are on the bench that can come and play. You want your playmakers on the field and we have a lot of them.”
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defensive coaches and moving Stoops to outside linebackers coach from safeties, almost every player on the defensive side of the ball is adjusting to a new coach this spring. “There’s a lot of competition in practice,” junior linebacker Dominique Alexander said. “It’s like a first interview for all of us with the new coaches.” Even though Evans is working in a different position unit than Stoops – inside linebackers – he said having his defensive coordinator near him in practice has been a positive. “He’s going to make sure you’re always right,” Evans said. “He’s going to make sure you’re doing the right [thing] and if you’re wrong, you’re going to know. Sophomore defensive tackle Charles Walker said the coaches who are new to the staff have gelled well with the existing team. New-hire Diron Reynolds took over Walker’s position unit after Jerr y Montgomery’s departure to the NFL last month. “Coach Reynolds is a great coach,” Walker said. “He knows the game. It’s like coach Montgomery never left.”
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However, Texas has dominated their last two matches, including a rematch against Ohio State in which they won 4-1. The last time thes e two teams met in the regular season, the Longhorns took the victory in Austin 4-3. The Sooners then got their ow n revenge, stompi n g Te x a s 4 - 0 i n t h e Big 12 Championships semifinal. The Sooners have packed their schedule full of top-ranked teams, so two top-10 matches within 48 hours should not rattle this team; OU is ready when it comes to big matches, big games and big points. Even with a full schedule, tw o more top-10 wins could only help the Sooners separate themselves from the field. OU will play on Friday, March 27, at 5:30 p.m. against the No. 10 TCU Horned Frogs in Norman.
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OU’s men’s tennis team will battle the No. 10 TCU Horned Frogs at 5:30 p.m. Friday in Norman. OU is coming off an impressive win at the Oracle Classic in California, where they defeated the No. 3 Baylor Bears 4-1 for their second win over Baylor this season. The Sooners have only stumbled once this season, accumulating a 17-1 record with an impressive 6-0 record versus top-10 teams. This should be good experience for the Sooners, as both of their opponents are in the top 10 currently. TCU has had some troubles with a 14-5 record. However, just over a week ago they beat the No. 4 Illinois Fighting Illini 4-0 at home. In a d d i t i o n , TC U ha s won five consecutive matches, only dropping two points in all five matches combined. A win over the top team in the country would definitely cement TCU as a real contender and catapult them up the rankings. The Sooners will have to keep their head on a swivel because the No. 7 Te x a s L o ng h o r n s c o m e to Norman right after the Horned Frogs on Sunday, March 29, at 1 p.m. The Longhorns are 14-2 on the year, only losing to
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Softball goes to Texas for three matches This weekend will be the team’s first Big 12 game HANK TOBOLKA Softball Reporter
This weekend, the sixthranked OU softball team will travel to Lubbock for a three game set against Texas Tech. They are scheduled to play the Red Raiders on Friday at 6 p.m., Saturday at 4 p.m. and finally Sunday at noon. A good performance this weekend performance would help the Sooners bounce back from a pair of losses to No. 1 LSU last weekend. As big as winning against a top-five team would have been, OU must turn their heads toward the Big 12. This weekend will be the Sooners’ first Big 12 showing of the season. Unranked Texas Tech is
16-17 overall on the season, but are best at home, with a 6-3 record. The Sooners (25-5) have taken three of their five losses playing against a team with home field advantage. Winning on the road is never easy, but the Sooners have the firepower to do so. A solid set of wins this weekend, and particularly a sweep, would put the Sooners on top of the Big 12 standings. This is the first weekend of Conference play for the big 12, and No. 8 Kansas is currently in the top spot ahead OU with a 29-2 overall record. Kansas will play Texas this weekend in a three game series. If OU performs better than Kansas this weekend, then they will be back on top of the conference standings. Hank Tobolka htobolka@ou.edu
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OU’s 19th annual Arbor Day Picnic celebrated the beauty of OU’s campus and landscape Wednesday at the David A. Burr Park. The celebration, a tradition resurrected by OU’s first lady Molly Shi Boren, also announced the winners of OU’s Adopt-An-Area beautification program. “One of [OU] President [David] Boren and Molly Shi Boren’s main goals and missions is to keep campus beautiful,” said Vicky Baumgartner, volunteer coordinator for OU Leadership Development and Volunteerism. The picnic began with lunch accompanied by a performance by OU’s Jazz Combo in the park’s gazebo. Guests ate, talked and basked in the sun on hay bales set up surrounding the gazebo. After lunch, SGA president Kunal Naik introduced David Boren, who discussed the history of Arbor Day and its significance on OU’s campus.
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Students plant trees Wednesday afternoon for OU’s 19th annual Arbor Day Picnic. Dean of students Clarke Stroud announced the winners of the Adopt-An-Area competition.
In the early days of the university, David Ross Boyd started OU’s tree-planting heritage, David Boren said. “[Boyd] understood that planting trees was so important,” he said. “It was an expression that we are going to plant trees because we are going to be here forever. It was an affirmation of our future, of what we were going to build here, and so trees stand for a lot at the University of Oklahoma.” “It’s a way of thanking the generation before,” Molly Boren said. “A man named
“It’s a way of thanking the generation before.” MOLLY BOREN, OU’S FIRST LADY
JP Jackson once wrote that there’s a contract between generations that link them and those who planted trees before that links you to the next generation.” A f t e r D a v i d B o r e n ’s speech, Naik introduced Molly Boren and dean of students Clarke Stroud, who announced the student winners of the Adopt-An-Area
competition. The competition challenged student organizations to keep assigned campus areas trash-free. The sorority winners included Alpha Chi Omega, Gamma Phi Beta, and Delta Sigma Theta, while the fraternity winners included members of Alpha Tau Omega, Pi Kappa Phi, and Delta Epsilon Psi. Cate Center won the housing division and the student organization winner was the Hispanic American Student Association.
Aspiring student vocal performers can hone their abilities with the help of a former Metropolitan Opera star on Friday and become eligible for a $2,000 Performance Award based on their talents. Marilyn Horne, a renowned mezzo-soprano opera singer, held a master class in the Morris R. Pitman Recital Hall on Tuesday and will hold a second class on Friday. Horne coached the students individually and privately prior to the public master class. Horne is a visiting professor for the OU School of Music and has visited OU semi-annually for the past 15 years. Attending students performed solos in front of Horne and the audience. While the audience’s only feedback was applause, Horne made comments and worked closely with each performer on their tone, breathing, rhythm and stage presence. During her instructions, Horne even suggested tweaking the rhythm or phrase of the original piece in order to enhance the particular singer’s performance. “You can do a little fudging, but not a lot,” Horne said. In the overall
MARILYN HORNE performance, Horne emphasized the importance of the singer’s character. Before the students uttered a single note, Horne urged them to take on their characters’ personas completely. “Get into your fantasies,” Horne said. One of the master class s t u d e nt s w i l l re c e i v e a Performance Award named in honor of Horne, according to a press release. The money for the $2,000 award is provided by an unknown party. Music education sophomore Madeline Mccornack noticed how attentive Horne was to each student specifically. “She was really good at figuring out how to relate to them,” Mccornack said. Breck Turkington, an associate registrar who received his undergraduate degree in opera, said he enjoys and admires seeing the immense progress of the students after only a few minutes with Horne. “She’s a gift,” Turkington said. The next master class will be at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 27 in the Morris R. Pitman Recital Hall. The master class is free and open to the public.
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