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Sooners will dance (or stand) for 12 hours Saturday to raise money for the Children’s Hospital Foundation to help children who aren’t well enough to do so themselves. OU’s Campus Activities Council’s official philanthropy event, Soonerthon, will take place from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. in the Huston Huffman Fitness Center. Soonerthon is OU’s largest student-led philanthropy, according to CAC’s website. Soonerthon is based on a larger event called
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Studying in a field traditionally dominated by men, some OU women are using competition to better their engineering skills. Seventy-eight percent of students in the engineering program are men while 22 percent are women, according to the OU Factbook. This gender gap is reflected among the competitive engineering teams within the college, mechanical engineering senior Lauren Woodbury said. Woodbury, who works as the suspension and dynamics lead for the Sooner Off Road team, is the only woman on the team, she said. Joining the Sooner Racing Team as a freshman, Woodbury was afraid that her teammates, all but one of whom were male, would judge her because of her gender. However, she was surprised at how welcoming they were and how positively they responded to her questions, Woodbury said. “They would be so excited, and they just loved teaching me stuff,” Woodbury said. Anna Masters, industrial and systems engineering senior and the frames systems lead and chief of design of the Sooner Racing Team, also joined the racing team as a freshman and was intimidated at first by her teammates, who were primarily men and upperclassmen, she said. However, Masters said she learned that her worth as a team member would be judged by her efforts, not her gender. “Anyone who adds value to the team won’t be turned away,” Masters said. Though OU has provided an accepting environment, Woodbury said people have not always supported her decision to pursue engineering. During high school, Woodbury took a cosmetology class to earn money in college. Some of the women
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urrying through halls between her classes, a student rushed to retrace her steps in pursuit of lost treasure — her glasses. Despite her desperate search, she couldn’t remember where she’d left them. They were gone. University College freshman Ashley Marullo said she never even tried to call the university’s central lost and found after losing her glasses last semester. In fact, the small, brown office tucked away inside the Facilities Management compound had completely escaped her notice, she said. When she learned someone else could be wearing her glasses today because of a university lost-and-found policy, Marullo laughed. Credit cards, car keys, baby toys, a half-empty bottle of lube — smaller lost-and-founds across campus swallow each semester’s haul of abandoned campus miscellany.
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The university donates or sells lost-and-found items in an annual sale after a minimum of six months. Every December OUPD sells unclaimed bicycles to the public, netting the university around $1,000, said Carla Greeson, Facilities Management’s customer service supervisor. Along with the forgotten bikes, the year’s remaining lost-and-found items are sold for an unrecorded sum of cash and added to the university’s general fund, Greeson said. Some items — like Marullo’s old glasses — are given special treatment. As a rule, glasses are donated to Lion’s Club, an international charity distributing glasses to needy recipients. Cell phones are donated to another charity, while car keys are thrown away, Greeson said. Selling off students’ abandoned items isn’t an uncommon practice for universities. Oklahoma City University follows the same routine, auctioning off the SEE RETRIEVE PAGE 2
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Spring football practice opens Saturday and coming off the squad’s Sugar Bowl victory and winter workouts, coach Bob Stoops is pleased with the offseason progress the Sooners have made. Stoops went position by position as he outlined his 2014 squad at his annual spring football press conference Thursday afternoon. Oklahoma is still riding the wave of momentum it gained in New Orleans, according to the coach. “ Ju s t t a l k i n g t o Je r r y Schmidt, our strength coach, we really believe it’s been our best or one of our best years we’ve had out of season,” Stoops said. “Their overall speed, attitude and work ethic have been really positive,” he said of his players. “We’re in great shape coming into spring ball.” Set to begin his 16th season patrolling the Sooner sidelines, Stoops acknowledged the talent the team lost after last year but showed confidence in his underclassmen. OU’s 2014 signing class added 27 new members to the squad. Spring practice gives the coaching staff a glimpse of inexperienced players who may be ready to make an impact on Saturdays. “It’s my most exciting time SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 2
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Friday marks the last day for potential voters to add or update registration for Norman city elections on April 1. Voters will address the Public Safety Sales Tax proposal, which would permanently retain a temporary 0.5 percent sales tax and continue funding 71 police and fire positions along with improved emergency facilities, according to the official voting ballot. Norman voters will also elect candidates for even-numbered wards to the city council. OU students are encouraged to register and participate since the university’s population has swayed past local elections, said Anette Pretty, Cleveland County Election Board secretary. “The more people that vote, the better,” Pretty said. However, out-of-state students should check their financial aid to ensure registering won’t affect certain scholarships dependent on their current residency outside Oklahoma, Pretty said. Potential voters can find printable voter registration forms online at ok.gov. Forms are also available at the Cleveland County Election Board Office located at 641 E. Robinson St. and at any county tag agency, post office or public library. Matt Woods, matt.woods@ou.edu
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Dance Marathon, which is a nationwide event where over 150 universities and high schools participate to raise money for local children’s hospitals and foundations, said Linzy Hall, senior development officer for Children’s Hospital Foundation. All the money raised at the event will go toward research, education and clinical care for the children, Hall said. Last year, Soonerthon raised over $196,000 for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and the Children’s Hospital Foundation
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Engineers: Gender gap is not a problem for the women in the program Continued from page 1 in the class made fun of her decision to pursue a career in engineering because she was a girl. The teacher said that pursuing engineering was “so cute,� Woodbury said. But Woodbury didn’t think her career goals were cute. She knew she loved engineering at an early age. As a child, she watched car races with her father. “‘One day,’ I told him, ‘I want to drive a race car,’� Woodbury said. “He kind of laughed and was like, ‘You might want to try engineering instead.’� Additionally, Woodbury’s grandparents own a shop that repairs classic vehicles. She began helping out around the shop at a young age, at first by sweeping up and exploring the garage and later by working on the cars. During her junior year of high school, Woodbury realized she wanted to work on vehicles as a career. The judgment from the women in Woodbury’s cosmetology class only motivated her to achieve her goal, she said. Environmental engineering junior Sarah Myers said
Obviously, there are people who underestimate women, which sucks, but I guess the best thing you can do is prove them wrong, right?� Sarah Myers, Environmental Engineering junior
she joined the solar car team this year. On a team with about 10 to 15 males she is one of four girls, she said. Myers was never judged for pursuing engineering or working on the solar car team, but some women elsewhere are likely discriminated against, she said. “Obviously, there are people who underestimate women, which sucks, but I guess the best thing you can do is prove them wrong, right?� Myers said.
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Mechanical Engineering Senior Lauren Woodbury works on a project for the engineering team. Lauren has been working on cars all her life and has secured her spot on one of OU’s competitive engineering teams despite the obvious gender gap.
Competing on one of the engineering teams not only looks good on a resume, but it also helps students learn about engineering and gives them access to more resources that are helpful in the field, Meyers said. Masters said working on
the racing team has given her a better understanding of her chosen career and that students on the competitive event teams essentially do engineers’ work without the degrees. “I really hope that I come back to the team 10 years
from now and there are a lot of girls,� Masters said. It’s important that the competitive teams recruit women, and it’s important for more women to become engineers, Myers said. “It’s better for our entire gender and the entire world
if everything is more — just more equal, and we have more women in our engineering workforce,� Myers said. Kate Bergum kate.c.bergum-1@ou.edu
retrieve: Items donated to charity Dance: CAC hopes for $235,000 Continued from page 1 in Oklahoma City, according to CAC’s website. Organizers aim to raise 20 percent more funds than last year’s event because of a campaign called Zero/Zeros, Soonerthon recruitment director Emily Desantis said. The goal of zero/zeros is for no registrants to show up at Soonerthon with zero dollars already raised, Desantis said. Soonerthon represents the 12 hours a week many children may spend in dialysis or chemotherapy, or the hours doctors and nurses spend on their feet to help their patients, according to the Campus Activities Council website. Taylor Bolton/The Daily
A lost and found sign hangs from a wall outside the OU Facilities Managment building on Felgar Street near Oklahoma Memorial Union. Popular lost items include credit cards, car keys, baby toys and glasses.
Continued from page 1 year’s collection and giving the rest to Jesus House or Salvation Army, said Steve Taylor, assistant chief at Oklahoma City University. “Probably 10 percent [of lost-and-found items] are claimed,� Taylor said. At the end of Feburary, OU’s central lost-and-found was mostly empty from the December sale; a single pair of glasses sat next to a small bag and a calculator. But 20 rings of car keys dotted a corkboard on the wall and a plastic box was bloated with student ID’s and credit cards. Items will start to flood in once football season starts again, Greeson said. The OU collection’s obscure location across from
Felgar Hall may contribute to the typically low claimrate on lost items, but panicked searchers will make the trek to recover the most valuable items. Human relations sophomore Jeremiah Stinnett remembers scrambling to find his friend’s cell phone after leaving it in Dale Hall last spring. After a quick phone call to confirm it had been found, the pair sought out the lost-and-found in its “weird place.� Greeson, who Stinnett described as “really nice,� produced the phone right away after his friend described the items and signed a log. “It was a wonderful experience,� Stinnett said. “It was really nice that someone found it and brought it to the lost and found.�
Another student was gifted an OU alumni pin when she retrieved her keychain from a maintenance employee in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. “It was really easy to find my keys when I’d lost them,� architecture senior Kimm Johnson said. But for every rare reunion stor y, nine ar ticles are added to a collection bin never to be returned to their former owners. William Sevier, Bizzell Memorial Library security guard, even found a partially-used bottle of sexual lubricant in the library’s repository. Unsurprisingly, it was never claimed, he said with a laugh. Matt Woods matt.woods@ou.edu
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Newspapers must adapt in order to survive Our View: Journalism is still a vital component to a healthy society, but newspapers face challenges in learning new methods for profitability.
Look around as you read this. Chances are if you’re somewhere on campus, say the Oklahoma Memorial Union or the Bizzell Memorial Library, there probably aren’t too many people with newspapers in their hands. And we mean any newspaper, not just The Daily. It’s no secret that revenue for print newspapers is down and continuing to drop. We believe that journalism is entering a new era and will have to experiment to find new revenue streams to maintain its relevance in a fast-paced, digital world.
TULSA WORLD We see newspapers all over the country cutting costs any way they can, including restricting circulation. In fact, Oklahoma’s own Tulsa World recently decided to cut back on its circulation, withdrawing daily delivery from Norman and Oklahoma City, other than the Capitol. Tulsa World decided to pull back circulation after the number of seven-day subscribers in Norman dropped to around 50, and single-copy sales of the newspaper dropped to lower than 100 per day, said Susan Ellerbach, managing editor of Tulsa World. Those low numbers simply could not justify the time and money lost for delivery, she said. Readers in the Norman and Oklahoma City area still can access the newspaper’s content via its website and take advantage of a free 90-day digital subscription, Ellerbach said. Adjusting to a digitally focused readership can be difficult, especially when trying to cater to readers from different generations, Ellerbach said. Although the Tulsa World cut back print circulation, that doesn’t mean the print product is no longer important, she said. Newspapers now need to view their print editions as a tease for the website and focus on tailoring medium-specific content, she said. Like the Tulsa World, we understand the difficulties of balancing both a print product and a digital product, and we have made it our mission this year to focus on bolstering the Daily’s website.
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Local newspapers ranging from The Oklahoma Daily to The Oklahoman lay stacked atop one another on a table. While print media has taken a backseat to digital media, the written word is still the common language of academia or people in information-driven industries such as business, science, politics and education.
of Student Media, Nick Jungman, explained in his Feb. 7 report to the Publications Board, The Daily’s expenses exceed revenue by $80,000, and we’re on track to end the fiscal year $150,000 in the hole. That means, we have to embrace change and experiment with new profitability models. Fortunately, our director is committed to moving the Daily toward The Our View self-sufficiency and is open to exis the majority opinion of ploring diverse ideas to meet that The Daily’s goal. So, if the Daily seems different eight-member to you, it’s because we are working editorial board to adapt to the demands of a techy readership, and priority number one is enhancing our digital product. One option we’re considering to cut costs is reducing the number of print editions per week. THINNER NEWSPAPERS Student newspapers across the country have done You may have noticed that The Daily has been especially lean this semester, sometimes with only so, including Oklahoma State University’s Daily O’Collegian, which cut its Friday edition this sefour pages for the day’s paper. We, like campus mester. In 2011, the O’Collegian also became the newspapers across the U.S., have been struggling first college newspaper to experiment with a paid with drops in ad revenue. We can’t have thick papers without ads, and advertisers are using newspa- digital subscription program, according to the Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project. pers less and less to reach their audiences. Our tactic this semester has been to adopt a digInstead of fretting and lamenting over our smaller ital first approach, a strategy several other college papers, we are exploring new options to make The Daily profitable by means other than traditional ad newspapers have embraced, as well. Our website is revenue. Journalists typically don’t focus on the dol- totally free, and we’re focusing on quality content that translates well digitally, such as photo galleries, lars and cents side of their news operations, but it has become a necessity for us. As our new Director interactive surveys and supplemental videos. We,
like newspapers everywhere, are adapting to a culture that is transitioning toward making everything digital. We know the importance of the process because we know the essential nature of good journalism to a democratic society.
GOOD JOURNALISM TAKES MONEY Bottom line, quality journalism takes monetary backing. Journalists need support to do their jobs well, and that support traditionally has come from advertisers. This is no longer the case. It is critical that newspapers, including our own, work until they find new profit models to sustain themselves. The American public misses out on the ability to critically examine society and government without the hard-hitting stories, unbiased reporting and investigative work provided by quality journalism. We are encouraged by examples like eBay Founder Pierre Omidyar’s First Look Media venture, a $250 million project to revitalize journalism. First Look Media will be a nonprofit company, with all profits going toward funding the venture. It will take more committed businessmen like Omidyar to provide the financial support to facilitate the field of journalism. We believe journalism will remain an essential service industry, but it will likely look different in the future.
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ith spring break assistant opinion editor “necessary” to lose weight. approaching, Furthermore, if you acmany students’ tually take a look at the biggest concerns are about list of ingredients found looking good in a swimsuit in an Herbalife product, and having enough money you’ll find words such as: to pay for a week in drunksoy protein isolate, monoen paradise. If only you glycerides, diglycerides could solve both problems and sucralose hidden Rachael Montgomery at once, right? Well, accordamong the vitamins and rachaeljmo94@gmail.com ing to Herbalife, you can. minerals listed. For those Herbalife is “a global nuof you unfamiliar with nutrition company that helps people pursue tritional terms, monoglycerides and tria healthy, active life,” and its mission is to glycerides that function as trans fats, aka “change people’s lives by providing the bad fats, and soy protein isolate is genetbest business opportunity in direct selling ically modified soy, meaning that — just and the best nutrition and weight-manlike high fructose corn syrup — it’s proagement products in the world,” according cessed. Sucralose is an artificial sweetener to the Herbalife website. made through the process of chlorination, So there you have it, you can have your yes,chlorine is the same stuff that goes into cake and eat it too, because making money your swimming pool. and losing weight are just about two of the Now that we’ve discussed the nutritioneasiest things you can do, according to al side of Herbalife, let’s take a look at the Herbalife. I beg to differ. business opportunities it has to offer, shall Although I do not doubt the progress we? I’ve seen people make using Herbalife, If you’re one of those people who likes to I will point out the excessive amount live on the edge and break those rules that of money they must shell out to buy no one really cares about, such as jaywalkthe shakes, foods and health products ing , writing on dollar bills or participating
in pyramid schemes, Herbalife is just what you’re looking for. A pyramid scheme is defined as a dishonest and usually illegal business wheremany people are persuaded to invest their money, and the money of later investors is used to pay the people who invested first. How many Herbalife distributors do you know who make enough money to support themselves without another job? If I had to guess, you probably don’t know many. Why? Because that’s how pyramid schemes work. Only the top 1 percent make any real money, and Herbalife even admits on its website that most of the examples of success stories come from that percentile of Herbalife independent distributors. So if you’re considering trying or distributing Herbalife, I urge you to consider this question: Does the ends truly justify the means?
Rachael Montgomery is a public relations sophomore.
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n the bottom of the first inning against Louisiana Tech on Tuesday, coach Patty Gasso watched as the top of her order took control of the game. Sophomore Erin Miller led off with a base hit through the left side, after working a 3-2 count to start the inning. Lauren Chamberlain followed with a 3-2 base hit of her own, a double down the right field line. Shelby Pendley then drove them both in, giving the Sooners a 2-0 lead before an out had been recorded. Georgia Casey added a single of her own, before Whitney Ellis drove a home run over the left field wall, 5-0 Sooners. This was the fifth game in a row Gasso went with the Miller-ChamberlainPendley combination at the top of the order, and it has helped Oklahoma to a 4-1 record over that time. Through the first 15 games of the season, Chamberlain was struggling. She was hitting just .194, with just one home run and six RBI. Despite her low power numbers, Chamberlain was still getting on base. She walked 19 times in 55 plate appearances, giving her a .482 on-base percentage, which was good enough for second on the team. Meanwhile, Pendley had been the team’s most
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consistent hitter, pairing a .429 average with three home runs and 18 RBI prior to the Spring Preview Tournament. At that point, Gasso decided to make a change. Though Chamberlain is not a prototypical two-hole hitter (she’s on pace to break the all-time NCAA home run record before her career is over), her high on-base percentage allowed coach Gasso to justify moving her there. In the last five games, the trio combined to hit .419 with three home runs, 19 RBI, 21 runs scored and 15 walks. Adjustments like this are part of the reason why Gasso is in her 20th season as head coach of Oklahoma. It would seem that Gasso made this adjustment to ensure that her power hitters would always come up with runners on base.
In this sense, Chamberlain would become more of a table setter than a run producer. Gasso doesn’t see it that way. “If you want to really talk about table setters, they’re at the bottom of the lineup so that they can get themselves on for Erin, Lauren and Shelby,� Gasso said. “We just don’t want you to have an opportunity to throw around Lauren. You throw around Lauren, you want to get to Shelby, you throw around Shelby, you get to Georgia, you throw around Georgia, you get to Whitney.� So far, it’s working. Casey and Ellis, who combined to hit three home runs in Oklahoma’s win over Louisiana Tech, have seen their RBI totals increase significantly since the switch at the top of the order was made. That pair alone has
combined for 14 RBI over the past five games, despite only producing 10 RBI in the previous 15 games. “The goal is just to not give a pitching staff a break,� Gasso said. Oklahoma will get another chance to test this new batting order this weekend in Norman, as they host the Courtyard Marriott Tournament. Because of rain in the forecast, the Sooners will now have a double header today, taking on Liberty at 3:30 p.m. and Western Illinois at the conclusion of that game. They will then see No. 20 Tulsa on at 1:30 p.m on Saturday. before concluding the tournament with another matchup against Western Illinois on at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday.
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of year because you get to see the young guys that we’ve been seeing in practice in more competitive situations,� Stoops said. “It’s exciting to see them figure it out and get ready to play.� In the squad’s trek to 10 wins and a postseason BCS bid last year, several underclassmen weren’t given the chance to take the field. The slate is clean now and nearly every spot is an open race. Sophomores Dakota Austin (corner) and Ahmad Thomas (safety) along with redshirt freshmen K.J. Young (receiver) and Charles Walker (defensive tackle) were among a handful of young players that have impressed the coach in the offseason. “Those guys that have played a little or haven’t played at all are chomping at the bit to get out and show they’re ready for it,� Stoops said. “It’s their time now.� The Sooners’ spring schedule begins with practice Saturday and Sunday. OU will put its offseason development on display for the fans 2 p.m. April 12 at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in the annual spring game.
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No. 2 seed in Big 12 tournament on the line for Oklahoma Saturday Ryan Gerbosi
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A s k Je’ l o n Ho r n b e a k about OU’s game at TCU last March. He can tell you ever y detail. “We all remember how t h e w h o l e ga m e w e nt,” Hornbeak said. “We’re not going to let anything slack off.” The No. 23 Sooners (22-8, 11-6) play their last regular season game on the road against TCU (9-20, 0-17) for the second straight season on Saturday. Last year, Oklahoma was upset in Fort Worth 70-67 after trailing by 22 at the half. The win was just one of two last season in the Big 12 for the cellar-dwelling Horned Frogs. They are still winless in conference this season with just one game to go. OU has a chance to end its best regular season since 2008-09 and gain the No. 2 seed in the Big 12 tournament. A win would guarantee at least a tie with Texas, giving Oklahoma the nod on head-to-head record. “ T h e re ’s o b v i o u s l y a group of teams right after Kansas and they’re all pretty even,” OU coach Lon Kruger
We know they’ll be battling like crazy to get a win.” Lon kruger, basketball coach
said. “It ended the season bad in my opinion. It was a good season, I just didn’t like how we ended.” “I want to finish the season stronger than we did.” Hornbeak said last year’s team got caught looking ahead to the postseason. “There are certain people that understand that we have to take it one game at a time,” Hornbeak said. “I think last year, we kind of looked more towards the tournament necessarily, but now we’re more focused in on that game at the moment.” W h i l e O U may b e f o cused, beating lowly TCU isn’t the walk in the park it should be. “We’ve got a lot of respect for how tough it is after last year,” Kruger said. “We know they’ll be battling like crazy to get a win.” With TCU playing its senior night, Kruger’s crew will need to have the energy that escaped them early in last season’s contest. “We’ve got to play with more energy and more enjacqueline eby/the daily thusiasm than they do,” Sophomore guard Je’lon Hornbeak goes up for the layup against Texas on March 1 at Lloyd Noble Center. Kruger said. “Otherwise it The Sooners beat the Longhorns 77-65. Oklahoma is one win away from claiming the second seed in the will be a tough battle.”
said. “We’re one of those.” The team’s standing this late in the season is a testament to their ability, the third-year coach said. “That’s a good position to be in,” Kruger said. “To be in that group means you’ve played good basketball, and our guys have done that.” Kruger also said his team needs to keep getting better as the season winds down. A loss to TCU could be disastrous heading into the upcoming Big 12 Tournament. postseason, especially after what followed last year’s “That’s not a game I want Hornbeak’s mouth, one that game. The Sooners followed made the season seem to be that defeat with first-round to lose,” Hornbeak said. T h e r e s u l t i n g l o s i n g almost a failure. exits in both the Big 12 and streak left a bad taste in “That was the first loss, NCAA tournaments.
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it came there and then lost to Iowa State in the [Big 12] tournament and then San Diego State,” Hornbeak
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Sooners to welcome No. 1 Sooners to face strong field golf to swing against team after last week’s win OU ranked teams in tourney Sooners prepared for tough match against Ohio St.
gain, but the losers don’t have a whole lot to lose.” A non-conference loss to a top-5 opponent hurts the losing team as much in the rankings as a loss to an unranked opponent. Roddick said coaches use these high-profile matches as opportunities to bolster the team’s seeding come NCAA tournament time in May.
last night in Oklahoma City, and a guy came up to me and started asking me about the match,” Roddick said. “That’s a first for a tenBrady Vardeman nis match.” Men’s Tennis Beat Reporter The team will make Sooner fans of any sport a q u i ck tu r na rou n d o n are accustomed to watchSunday when they host ing their team take on some Wake Forest. of the nation’s most elite Coach Roddick said the talent. team will start to focus on Oklahoma men’s tennis Wake Forest after the Ohio squad will take their turn State match. this weekend. “The only thing we have Fresh off a victory over talked about is, with Ohio L o u i s v i l l e S u n d ay , t h e State being such a big Sooners welcome No. 1 match, it’s important for the Ohio State to Norman today guys to remember that we and Wake Forest on Sunday. do have a match Sunday,” Coach John Roddick Roddick said. was pleased with the way Even with two opportuhis team performed in the nities to grab huge victories match against Louisville, The winners have a this weekend, Roddick said where he shuffled the linelot to gain, but the his main focus for the team up. Roddick placed sophis competing and executing omore Axel Alvarez in the losers don’t have a properly what they work on No. 1 singles spot, where he whole lot to lose.” in practice. only lost one game. “Those are the two things john roddick, Ro ddick said Alvarez I ever expect out of the tennis coach earned the opportunity to guys,” Roddick said. play at No. 1 with the way Roddick said he hopes he has performed so far this for a big turn out today, if spring. weather allows. “He’s played a lot at No. 2 Oklahoma takes on (singles) recently,” Roddick The Buckeyes are led by Ohio State at 5 p.m. and said. “With as well as he’s junior Hunter Callahan, Wake Forest Sunday at done at national tourna- who won his 15th consec- noon at the Headington ments, it wasn’t something utive match this weekend Family Tennis Center. that was a big deal for him. and improved his record Admission is free for He obviously handled it to 19-3 in 2014, and senior students with an OU well.” Peter Kobelt, ninth best student ID. Children Chil Ch ildr dren en tto otheKing Kin Ki n Size The team’s focus now player in the nation, accordturns toward today’s match- ing to the ITA individual up with the No. 1 Ohio State rankings. Brady Vardeman Buckeyes. Even the surrounding brady.vardeman@gmail.com “It’s a big non-conference community is aware of the matchup,” Roddick said. caliber of today’s match. “The winners have a lot to “I was eating some pizza
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The OU women’s golf team will tee up along the East Coast today when they compete in the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate in Hilton Head, S.C. The tournament features another elite line up, including No. 3 Duke, No. 4 Arizona State and No. 6 Alabama. Senior Emily Collins has experience with the Lone Cove Club and said she is looking forward to warmer weather along the Carolina coast. “I played there once in high school, and it’s a fun course. Getting away from the really cold weather will be better,” Collins said. The No. 8 Sooners are hoping to bounce back from a disappointing performance at their spring opener in February, where they tied for eighth. They got off to a solid start in the first round, positioning themselves in fifth, but struggled to score down the stretch. Head coach Veronique Drouin-Luttrell said the team didn’t play very well, but under the circumstances, played solidly. “It was a very strong field. The top teams in the country were there. At the
end of the day, we finished eighth, which isn’t too bad,” Drouin-Luttrell said. “With it being our first event of the semester, I think that there are a lot of things we can improve on. It was a really tough golf course, and for us, we just wanted to go out there and see how we compared against the best in the country.” According to Drouin-Luttrell, the area of most concern going into today’s tournament is the short game. However, the poor weather conditions of late have had an effect on practice schedules. “It’s definitely been challenging for us to get in some good practices, especially leading up to tournaments,” Drouin-Luttrell said. To Drouin-Luttrell, however, the players are good enough to push through this challenge. “The girls are great players, and they know what they need to work on,” DrouinLuttrell said. The tournament is a three-day, 54-hole event from March 7-9. Live scoring is available at golfstat.com. Trent Crabtree trent.j.crabtree-1@ou.edu
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Oklahoma-exclusive stage to continue at SXSW Stage will be held for Oklahoma bands only SaraH Pitts
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Friday marks the beginning of the 27th annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. The largest of its kind in the world, South by Southwest (SXSW) spans 10 days and covers everything from film premieres to music concerts to interactive events. This year will also be the fourth year a stage at SXSW — deemed The Buffalo Lounge — will be set aside to exclusively showcase Oklahoma bands. The Buffalo Lounge has been so successful in recent years that patrons form lines outside the door to attend, said David Kittredge. Kittredge works for the Oklahoma-based media think-tank The Idea Collective, which is spearheading Buffalo Lounge. “We’ve created a hub, a venue for everybody to have a home,” Kittredge said. Networking in the music industry can be difficult for Oklahoma-based acts, especially when — according to Kittredge — most people don’t see Oklahoma as a contender in the national music industry. “I think it’s definitely important for local bands that are trying to get their name out there to play for a bigger audience to pursue a set at South by Southwest,” said Courtney Toombs biology sophomore and SXSW 2013 attendee. “The whole festival really is all about who
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to keep an eye out for, and I think it’s honestly one of the best places to get large-scale exposure.” “It’s a great opportunity to come together with the state’s best and show SXSW what Oklahoma’s got going on,” said Joshua “Fiji” Rehanek, front man for Norman hip-hop collective ADDverse Effects, who will be performing at Buffalo Lounge this year. “For most of us it’s our first [South by Southwest] so we’re just going to try to kick back, soak it in and enjoy ourselves,” Rehanek said. “We’re proud and honored to rep the 405 out in Austin. Should be a hell of a time.” ADDverse Effects will headline Buffalo Lounge
There’s nobody else really doing what we’re doing on the scale that we’re doing it ...” David kittredge, THE IDEA Collective PARTNER
alongside other Oklahoma acts like Prettyboy, Josh Sallee, Sherree Chamberlain, The Del Toros, Kyle Reid, Skating Polly and many more. Local acts going to SXSW not only get bigger audiences who care about smaller bands, but they also get to meet big names in their industry. Oklahoma band Horse Thief was able to sign with Bella Union record company after meeting at the festival, said Kittredge.
“Oklahomans are also exposed to the micro-trends within their field, and able to attend educational sessions, panels from experts, plus network with choice companies,” said Ginger Roddick, a partner at The Idea Collective and co-founder of the Buffalo Lounge with Kittredge. Last year Buffalo Lounge had 44 bands come through, Kittredge said. Because of their success and unique approach, other states have begun to contact The Buffalo Lounge asking more about what they are doing and how they are doing it. “There’s nobody else really doing what we’re doing on the scale that we’re doing it as a statewide initiative and I think that’s important to talk about,” Kittredge said.
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