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Panel debates future of OKC bombing memorial OU hosts forum on 20th anniversary of 1995 OKC bombing
Anniversary of bombing spark terrorism panel Discussion covers many aspects of terrorism Tuesday
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As the 20th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing approaches, a group of panelists have examined the memorial itself. The panel, titled “Witness and Memory After Terror: The Oklahoma City Bombing,” SEE INSIDE w a s p a r t of a tw oRead about day symthe annual posium Oklahoma held at City Memorial OU. Janet Marathon Ward, a (Page 4) professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, moderated the panel.
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Director of the OU’s Division of Architecture Hans Butzer speaks about his work with the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial Tuesday afternoon in the Frontier room of the Union.
The first speaker was Hans Butzer, the co-designer of the memorial and the director of the division of architecture at OU. Butzer gave a presentation explaining how
memorials have changed over time. He said that the Oklahoma City memorial was unique in that it was it was both an open design and an open process, meaning that members of
the general public were involved in the development of the design for the memorial. Butzer said that the 9/11 SEE PANEL PAGE 4
Terrorists’ motivation to act in violent extremism was the topic of discussion for a small group of people during a panel Tuesday. The panel, titled “Perspectives on Violent Extremism,” was held in the wake of the approaching 20th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Murrah Building bombing. Many terrorists who work with Al-Qaeda see their actions as part of God’s plan or a personal obligation, said Jytte Klausen, a political science professor at Brandeis University.
Other cultures use a narrative to influence their followers, said Steven Corman, director of the center for strategic communication at Arizona State University. Rebecca Cruise changed the topic up a bit. “There is no profile of a terrorist,” said Cruise, assistant dean of OU’s College of International Studies. “However, people do have ideas of what the profile of a terrorist is — and that does not include females.” When women commit acts of terrorism, they’re often seen as victims instead of being held accountable for their actions, Cruise said. In some terrorist organizations, women mainly support other members, but their role is changing to recruiting other women and using sexism as a tactical advantage.
Style of coaching doesn’t reflect a lack of passion RYAN KING
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eep inside the University of Oklahoma men’s tennis facility, on most days you can find Coach John Roddick prepping his team for another day of practice by throwing a football at his players as they warm up and stretch. He may even crack a joke or two, laughing and smiling, enjoying the game he grew up with. Many do not see this side of Roddick, but behind his steely-eyed, intense demeanor, lies a passionate caring man, with a deep love for his players and the sport of tennis. SEE RODDICK PAGE 5
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Head tennis coach John Roddick poses in the Oklahoma men’s tennis facility. Roddick has been playing tennis since he was in grade school and has been coaching, starting with his brother, Andy Roddick, almost as long.
Big Event volunteers help restore church Conference to Students work with address diversity community church Prospective students to visit for Black Males Conference AMBER FRIEND Staff Reporter @amberthefriend
Nearly 80 prospective students will visit OU this weekend for Diversity Enrichment’s Developing Black Males Conference, which aims to break down higher education barriers for young African American men. The conference was developed by Diversity
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Enrichment’s D’Andre Fisher and Trey Moore last year. They were inspired into action by a statistic that only 37 percent of African American males who begin a bachelor’s degree will graduate, as opposed to 51 percent of African American females, Fisher said. To Fisher, the conference was a chance to reinforce support for campus diversity as well as to help individuals prepare themselves for their freshman year. “We’re not just talking SEE EDUCATION PAGE 4
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Pastor Brent Hardesty of Norman Community Church of the Nazarene coordinated with Big Event groups to improve the landscapes and surrounding area of the church. Norman Community Church of Nazarene is one of the many establishment that benefited from Big Event 2015.
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Before Big Event volunteers gathered at the North Oval Saturday morning, OU students had already made an impact at several of the event’s job sites. OU’s Big Event, a day of community-wide service, allows volunteers to help hundreds of local sites each year, including schools, churches, animal shelters, senior centers and more. One of these sites, the Norman Community
Church of the Nazarene, has partnered with the Big Event for seven years in a row. Big Event volunteers help the facility each year by painting, planting gardens, maintaining the building and building an outdoor basketball court, among o t h e r j o b s, s a i d B re nt Hardesty, senior pastor. To Hardesty, the impact is very apparent. Since working with Big Event, most of the facility’s interior has been repainted or redecorated, and he sees community members use the basketball court nearly every day, he said. Hardesty said he enjoys SEE BIG EVENT PAGE 4
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OPINION
Kaitlyn Underwood, opinion editor dailyopinion@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666 oudaily.com/opinion • Twitter: @OUDailyOpinion
Public panels really should be public Our view: We disagree
with the “off-the-record” status of a panel that took place Monday and Tuesday during a public symposium dedicated to the Oklahoma City bombing.
We were surprised to learn Tuesday that a panel at a public, advertised symposium dedicated to the Oklahoma City bombing was considered “offthe-record” and our photographer had to delete his photos. The two-day long symposium, entitled “Terror, Trauma, Memory” that featured talks centered on the Oklahoma City bombings, was open to the public and widely advertised around campus. In fact, the entire back page of The Daily on April 9 was an ad for the symposium. Although we understand the speakers at the panel in question were members of the
CIA and FBI, we don’t agree with a portion of a public event being closed to the media. The “Current Terrorism Threats and Emerging Challenges” panel took place Tuesday morning and was “off-the-record,” meaning it could not be photographed or quoted. For transparency’s sake, our event photographer arrived late to the panel and missed the announcement that it would be off-limits for media coverage. However, that doesn’t change the fact that the panel took place during a public event and, as such, should be public for all. Events like the free bombing symposium are powerful tools for members of the public to learn and experience talks they might not otherwise have access to. In reality, only a small group of the OU community can
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This advertisement about the Terror, Trauma, Memory symposium ran in Monday’s edition of The Daily. A Daily photographer was told at the event “Current Terrorism Threats and Emerging Challenges” at 10 a.m. Tuesday that the panel discussion was “off record” and was asked to delete his photos.
attend such events, and it’s our job to share the knowledge from events like the public symposium. Obviously, we can’t communicate what was discussed at these events if portions of them are cloistered
without notice. That’s one of our main issues with the “off-the-record” panel; it took place during a promoted, public event sponsored by various campus groups, yet not one piece of
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Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences; Irene Karpiak, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education; Michael Kaspari, Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences; Susan Kates, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences; Randall Kolar, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, College of Engineering; Daphne LaDue, School of Meteorology, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences; Valliappa Lakshmanan, School of Meteorology, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences; Roberta Magnusson, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences; Edith Marsh-Matthews, Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences; Lisa Monroe, Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education; Sheena Murphy, Homer L. 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Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences; Keith Strevett, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, College of Engineering; Robert Terry, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences; Hilde Votaw, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences; Jeffrey Wilhite, University Libraries OUTSTANDING FACULTY AWARD Tommy Olds, Department of Human Relations, College of Arts and Sciences GOOD TEACHING AWARDS Lance M. Drege, School of Music, Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts Keith A. Strevett, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, College of Engineering GENERAL EDUCATION TEACHING AWARD Katherine “Tassieâ€? 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NANCY L. MERGLER FACULTY MENTOR AWARD FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH Lloyd Bumm, Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences PATENT AWARDS AND INVENTORS AWARD Sesh Commuri, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering Brian Grady, School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering Roger Harrison, School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering Kianoosh Hatami, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, College of Engineering Matthew B. Johnson, Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences Patrick McCann, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering Tetsuya Mishima, Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences Robert Palmer, Advanced Radar Research Center, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences Michael Santos, Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences James Sluss, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering Monte Tull, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering Pramode Verma, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering Rui Yang, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering Guifu Zhang, School of Meteorology, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences Dusan Zrnic, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies and School of Meteorology, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences National Academy of Inventors Award Daniel Resasco, School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering REGENTS’ AWARDS FOR SUPERIOR TEACHING Paula Conlon, School of Music, Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts Jennifer J. Davis-Cline, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences Stacy Reeder, Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education REGENTS’ AWARDS FOR SUPERIOR RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY Diane M. Horm, Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education Jeffrey F. Kelly, Oklahoma Biological Survey, and Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution. www.ou.edu/eoo
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Taylor Scat, health and exercise science freshman, plans to run the half marathon in the 2015 Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon.
Memorial Marathon remembers lives Annual run takes place to commemorate lives lost in Oklahoma City bombing “It’s something that you can never get out of your head.”
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he OKC Memorial Marathon, a marathon held to commemorate the anniversary of the 1995 Murrah Building Bombing, will take place on Sunday, April 26. This year marks the marathon’s 15th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of the Murrah Building Bombing, the largest terrorist attack on U.S. soil by an American. “It was nothing like I’d ever seen,” said Maj. Steve Vanderburg, a firefighter in OKC at the time of the bombing. “It was incredible, the destruction and the loss of lives.” Vanderburg worked for days to clear the rubble in the attack’s aftermath. Vanderburg said death is a part of the job, but the horror of the Murrah Building Bombing left a great impact on those who witnessed the tragedy. “We were, in a sense, used to some death but not to the extent that we saw that day,” Vanderburg said.
MAJ. STEVE VANDERBURG, OKLAHOMA CITY FIRE FIGHTER DURING MURRAH BUILDING BOMBING
Vanderburg said many firefighters and rescue workers retired due to the trauma they experienced witnessing the disaster. Rescue workers who dealt with children were impacted the most. “It’s something that you can never get out of your head”, Vanderburg said. In honor of the 168 lives lost in the bombing, 168 banners will be spread throughout the marathon course with the names of the victims, said marathon coordinator Mollie Bennett. Many survivors and their families will be present to remember the bombing in the spirit of the marathon’s slogan: “A Run to Remember.” Bennett said the marathon hopes to not only
remember but teach future generations about the impact of violence through the kids marathon, which is paired with a teaching curriculum so children can learn about the bombing in school. “Every act of violence is important for us to know about,” Bennett said. Bennett said that the marathon’s logo, the “survivor tree,” was based on the tree outside the Murrah Building that was the only thing near the building that survived. The tree had been destroyed but grew back the following spring, exemplifying the marathon’s theme of rebirth. Health and exercise science freshman Taylor Seacat will participate in the half-marathon this year for the first time. Seacat visited the Memorial in OKC a few years ago and was stunned by the intensity of the event. “I think that we should remember what happened and not let history repeat itself,” Seacat said. The full marathon will begin on at 6:30 a.m. at 5th and Harvey Ave.
PANEL: Museum speakers reflect on need to engage younger generation Continued from Page One memorial in New York City and the Texas A&M bonfire memorial are similar to the Oklahoma City memorial. The second speaker was Jason Williamson, OU’s
German language coordinator and a survivor of the blast. Williamson said that the emotions surrounding his memories of that day have dulled over the years. “It seems like 20 years ago,” Williamson said.
Williamson said that, while some of the pomp and circumstance that goes along with the anniversary of the bombing feels unnecessary, he feels positively about the physical memorial. The final speakers were
Kari Watkins, executive director of the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, and Linda Lambert, a member of the Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation. One of the keys for the museum going forward is to
“It seems like 20 years ago.” JASON WILLIAMSON, OU’S GERMAN LANGUAGE COORDINATOR AND A SURVIVOR OF THE BLAST
adapt to new technology to better engage younger generations, Watkins said. The museum recently underwent a redesign that
made it more up to date on technology, including the addition of touchscreens, Watkins said.
EDUCATION: Black males to receive college prep BIG EVENT: OU volunteers
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Continued from Page One about it,” Fisher said. “We’re doing this conference. This shows that we’re backing up what we say.” Fisher and Moore planned the conference in order to be a resource to young African American men, and to help them be more equipped to get into college, Fisher said. Diversity Enrichment has invited 80 high school students from Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Houston and Dallas to come and learn about higher education and the resources that can help them succeed there, Fisher said. The conference will begin with Friday’s welcome ceremony, which will kick off the event with opening statements from newly hired Vice President Jabar Shumate and higher education professor T. Elon Dancy II, a dance performance and an appearance from Mr. and Miss Black OU. Saturday’s events, which will take place primarily in Lissa and Cy Wagner Hall, will feature several professors and alumni as well as a reverend and career services staff member to speak on building relationships, balancing athletics and academics, writing
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Participants of OU’s first Developing Black Males conference in 2014. This year’s conference will host 80 high school students for Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Houston and Dallas to come to OU and learn about higher education.
resumes, selecting a major and succeeding as a freshman, according to the event’s itinerary. The conference will close Sunday with words from human relations director George Henderson, retiree Norris G. Williams and OU alumnus Russell Wilson, as well as a scholarship award ceremony. Fisher said he hopes that the conference will not only continue in the future but also become a university initiative even after he has left.
“It really forms a brotherhood with the guys,” Fisher said. “They hold each other accountable so they can be successful this first year at the university.” Current freshman DeAndre Martin can attest to this brotherhood. Martin, who attended the conference as a high school senior last year, said the event helped him learn how to network and take advantage of resources. He attributes these skills to
leading to his involvement in OU track and his upcoming job as a resident adviser, he said. “It was actually a life-changing experience,” Martin said. “It changed me and my freshman year a lot.” While the event is aimed toward prospective students, current students are welcome to attend as long as they email Fisher first at dfish-1@ou.edu .
working with the students who stop by to help every year, appreciating their excitement and energy towards service. “I believe they represent the best of the students at the campus, and it’s always a pleasure to work with them,” Hardesty said. “We enjoy the time, and we appreciate them helping the community that we share.” Erinn Gavaghan, director of the Norman Arts Council, said that the day of service helped bring the school and town together as a single community. Students helped the council with a segment of their StART Norman project, a 2014 initiative to make a lasting impact on downtown areas through art. Volunteers helped enact the Better Block project, which temporarily altered Main Street to give a sense of community. Bi g Ev e n t s t u d e n t s helped by cleaning up the block, setting up new seating areas, painting a gallery space and installing an art exhibit in a
lumberyard, Gavaghan said. “It was such a large scale that we needed a lot of volunteers,” Gavaghan said. “So we were able to utilize OU students for that, which was a big help for us.” Students also have made a difference at the Blanchard Cemetery the past two years, said the cemetery’s superintendent Sharon Winslow. The nonprofit cemetery, which only has one maintenance employee in charge of maintaining the cemetery’s 20 acres, faces many visitors on Memorial Day. Volunteers have helped prepare for the holiday in past years by mowing, picking up flowers, maintaining graves, picking up trash and raking leaves. Winslow, who also works at OU, enjoyed getting to know the students and explaining the importance of the cemetery as they worked. “Everybody was just so energetic and so helpful and so willing to serve,” Winslow said. “It made a tremendous difference in maintaining our cemetery.” Over 5,800 OU volunteers participated in Big Event on Saturday, helping several hundred sites.
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Head men’s tennis coach John Roddick talks to a reporter after the match against Wichita State on Jan. 20. The Sooners beat the Shockers 6-1.
RODDICK: Tennis coach earns players’ respect through exemplification Continued from Page One Even though his older brother is a diver, Roddick realized that path was not for him. “I did not have the temperament to be a diver because if you have any apprehension when you are jumping off of a 10-meter high diving board, it’s not going to end well,” he said. “After that, my mom signed me up for tennis and here we are.” Playing tennis quickly became a passion and emotional outlet for Roddick. “I started to just play all the time,” he said. Even though he was on multiple baseball, basketball and soccer teams, tennis was a year-round passion for the young star, and other sports started to take a back seat. “It just became my outlet. I went to school and played tennis. It’s just what I did,” Roddick said. When people hear the name Roddick, they think of
Andy Roddick, tennis major champion. Most do not think of his brother, John, but what many do not know is John coached Andy all through school. Andy showed his potential early. At 12, he didn’t lose a single match, quickly surpassing his older brother. John was never envious of his younger sibling though. “I worked with him so much that I just wanted to see him with that success,” Roddick said. John knew he wanted to go into coaching later in life. When the OU position opened, Roddick was at the front of the pack. “I pushed for [the job] really hard when it opened up,” he said. “I had to convince them that I was the right man for the job and rightly so.” Even after coaching a pro, Roddick always loved college tennis the most. “There are three levels — high teen, college and pro,” Roddick said. “College is the most fun and my favorite. Here, you have them for
four years, and you can implement your plan.” Roddick prefers a dry and blunt approach to coaching. “I’m not going to tell them something unless I 100 percent believe it,” he said. “A lot of coaches want to change tiny details, but we are more focused on the broad things. If someone is disagreeing, I will enact some sort of common sense analogy that they can’t argue with, and then they get it,” Roddick said with a grin. Assistant coach Bo Hodge, who played under Roddick at Georgia on a national championship team, knows why the athletes love playing for Roddick. “John wears his emotions on his sleeve,” Hodge said. “ He can’t hold things back, and the guys know it’s to better them. They see how important this team and school are to him. They know that when they go out there, if they do not give everything they have, he is not going to let it happen, because anything less than their best is not acceptable.”
“John wears his emotions on his sleeve. He can’t hold things back, and the guys know it’s to better them.” BO HODGE, ASSISTANT MEN’S TENNIS COACH
Roddick earns players’ respect by leading by example, Hodge said. Since Roddick has taken over the tennis program, OU has a better record every year. The team recorded its highest finish in school history as a national runner-up in 2014. In addition, the team reached No. 1 nationally for the first time in school histor y under Ro ddick and has sp ent many weeks there. The team received its first ever championship in tennis, winning the 2014 ITA Indoor National Championship. Hodge thinks the general image of Roddick is a little skewed though.
“Everyone sees John as this guy who never smiles, and he is exactly the opposite,” he said. “He is always joking around and having fun with the guys, but when you step on the court, it’s time to work.” While he can be serious, Roddick has a few fun activities hidden up his sleeve. “I know the NFL draft is coming up, so I have been working on my arm by throwing the football around before matches and practices,” Roddick said. “I’m trying to get my 10,000 hours in before the 2024 draft, so you can tell coach Stoops that my arm is really coming along if he needs anyone to step in.” He occasionally lets the players throw the footballs around. “It’s fun to see all the international guys try to throw a football,” he said. “Then they bring out the soccer ball, and it’s their way of getting back at us, but you will see some of the ugliest football throws in America right in this tennis facility.”
When asked what tennis is to him, Roddick said it was a mentally and physically challenging game. “To me, tennis is one of the ultimate mental games,” he said. “You have to think so much, and it’s so physical. If you added in tackling I think we would have the greatest sport on earth.” Roddick believes his team takes after him and that they share the same passion he has. “I value every point of every guy’s match, and I think our team has taken on that mindset,” he said. “We are gritty, and we don’t give up. There’s no letting up until it’s all over. We do not give up ever.” Roddick has a message for anyone who has a yearning to be successful at anything. “Just work hard and you should succeed,” he said. “It’s not that hard to have success, you should have success when you put the work in.” Ryan King ryanking@ou.edu
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as last place in the race, Hansen was a perfect fivefor-five on his throws in the spring game in addition to being the only quarterback to not throw a pick (or two, in Mayfield’s case). In fact, from what we’ve seen from Knight and Mayfield, the duo is a bit turnover-prone in regular season games. I’m not trying to sell his performance overprice, however. One thing most everyone failed to mention Saturday is how much Hansen has cleaned up his throwing motion. What once looked Tim Tebow-esque appears now much cleaner. His throws proved as much in the spring game. “Other than Justice Hansen, they all took a little too many risks,� Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said postgame. A quarterback who manages the game is just what the doctor ordered for the Sooners. Spring practices have demonstrated that Oklahoma pulled in — and returns — a lot of talent in the offseason. Wide receiver Dede Westbrook showed flashes of speed and elusiveness on two separate occasions — once on a catch and once on an end-around run. The Sooners return
Sterling Shepard. Shepard led the team in catches with 51 and led the team in yards with 970 last season, and bruising running back Samaje Perine. Joining Perine in the backfield will be Joe Mixon, a touted five-star recruit that has drawn rave reviews from players and coaches alike. Oklahoma doesn’t need a do-it-all quarterback. What it needs is a game manager that can make plays when he has to. Hansen is that man. This offense suits him. Even he thinks so, too. “I think it really does,� Hansen said. “It’s a lot similar to what I ran in high school.� This column isn’t a piece of breaking news, let alone a firm decision from Stoops and Riley. It is, however, a warning. Don’t forget about Justice Hansen.
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