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Teach-In to take on racial issues Open-forum setting allows OU community to share experiences CAITLIN SCHACHTER Campus Reporter
Sooners and community members will spend part of Wednesday discussing race during OU’s first Teach-In on Race. The event is the culmination of many events the Women’s and Gender Studies Center for Social Justice have put on throughout the academic year, starting with the After Trayvon event in August, said Mallory Gladstein, program coordinator for the center. Gladstein said the events the center has done, such as Playing the Race Card and Know Peace: Activism in the Wake of Tragedy, have been popular with students and faculty. Through these and other events, such as Being Black at OU, Sooners are able to have conversations about race,
Gladstein said. “Discussing race requires talking about identity and personal experience,” Gladstein said. “Our experiences differ based on our skin color.” Gladstein said through an open forum like the Teach-In on Race, Sooners will be able to engage with one another, share experiences and discuss ways to change or improve problem areas they’ve noticed. The Teach-In is open to the public, and attendees are encouraged to Tweet during the event using #OUTeachin, Gladstein said. Registration for the event begins at 9:15 a.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom, according to the press release. The event is being held by the Women’s and Gender Studies Center for Social Justice, OU Writing Center, Housing and Food Services and Student Affairs, according to the press release. JESSICA WOODS/THE DAILY
Allen Guelzo delivers a lecture entitled “Lincoln’s Four Roads to Emancipation” to a Teach-In audience in March.
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IT’S A LOVE TRIANGLE Earning a college degree and playing two collegiate sports is a reality for OU student JOE MUSSATTO • ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
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he freshman student/quarterback/outfielder is living the life of a two-sport student-athlete. Besides the extra hyphen other OU athletes don’t have, the label translates to a busy schedule for Thomas. As spring football practice began in mid-March for Thomas the quarterback, Thomas the outfielder was already in the midst of baseball season. Spring football wrapped up shortly after Thomas went 5-of-9 with a touchdown in the Red-White Spring Game. Now the quarterback’s whirlwind schedule is spinning him back to baseball. “It’s been a really busy spring, but I can’t picture it going any other way,” Thomas said. “I think I’ve taken strides in both sports.” Thomas has appeared in seven games for coach Pete Hughes’ baseball squad, and at the same time, he is in a battle to earn the backup quarterback spot for coach Bob Stoops’ side. The rigorous days have been a challenge for the Colleyville, Texas, native, but Hughes has been impressed by the work ethic Thomas has displayed during the process. “I think he’s handling it as good as you can,” Hughes said. “His energy level is always there, he’s super positive and he never looks like the weight of the world is on his shoulders.” It has been a collaborative effort among the coaches to help Thomas succeed. Stoops said co-offensive coordinator Josh Heupel has worked with Hughes to pencil in a mutually beneficial schedule. The main concern was to help Thomas thrive in both sports. “It was two professionals, not wanting the best thing for Oklahoma, but for Cody Thomas No. 1,” Hughes said. “We both always erred on the side of the welfare of Cody. I think it worked out pretty good.”
His energy level is always there, he’s super positive and he never looks like the weight of the world is on his shoulders.” PETE HUGHES, OU BASEBALL COACH
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Students present facilitating work Intern teams ease everyday business problems with new technologies MIKE BRESTOVANSKY Campus Reporter @BrestovanskyM
After working on projects for an entire semester, four teams of interns from the Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth gathered at Sam Noble Museum of Natural History to present the results of their work. The teams, which were composed of OU students in a wide range of majors, worked with real clients to help create and market new technologies. CCEW employed a record number of 65 interns across three different campuses to help businesses combat large and important programs this semester, CCEW executive director Jeff Moore said. The first team presented a marketing plan for alloy manufacturer ETREMA Products for the distribution of their newest product, Galfenol. Galfenol, a vibrational energy harvesting material, can be used to efficiently power monitoring devices on oil wells. This utility can help minimize revenue lost due to well downtime, which can total up to $5.4 billion, team member Cole Jackson said. The second team, Team Ripple, presented an investment plan for African infrastructural agency Water and Sanitation for Africa. Team Ripple developed a plan for the appropriate distribution of $50 million to be invested in water and sanitation companies across Africa. The third team worked on a marketing and implementation plan for Pinying, an interlanguage created to help Mandarin Chinese speakers improve the pronunciation of English syllables. The team worked closely with Jonathan Stalling, an associate professor of English at OU who specializes in translation studies, who developed the language. More online at OUDaily.com
EARTH DAY
‘Water Walk’ represents tribulation of retrieving water Students recreate the journies made for clean drinking water
For Earth Day on Tuesday, students spent several hours trudging across the South Oval, carrying 10 gallon buckets of water to demonstrate the struggles of those without regular access to drinking water. The students took turns walking in pairs, carrying a rig of four buckets attached to a wooden pole from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event was sponsored by Sooners Without Borders, Global Brigades, 1040i, OU Wells Project and WaTER Center. The groups planned the event to show students the reality of living
in places without instant access to clean water, said Jim Chamberlain, OU WaTER Center researcher. In countries around the world, women and children fetch water for cooking and drinking. The trip to get water is typically around four miles, according to the press release. “We wanted students to get the experience of carrying water because this is something that women and children around the world have to do,” Chamberlain said. At the events, there were sign-up sheets available for students to get more information about trips to help out in other countries or participate in poverty-related projects within the country, Chamberlain said. Sooners Without Borders president Yaqub Betz participated in the event, carrying water buckets
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around the South Oval. “We want students here at OU to understand what it would be like to live without water,” Betz said. Betz said it’s important for students to understand how much time it takes for the women and children to travel to retrieve the water. When children have to get water, they don’t have enough time to go to school, Betz said. Betz said he also hopes the event showed students what different organizations on campus are interested in, and how students can get involved, he said. This was the first water walk on OU’s campus, but Chamberlain said he hopes it will happen again.
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OU Graduate Council to specify cases for students to utilize stop-out policy The OU Graduate Council is proposing changes to university’s stop-out policy that would clarify policies that are already in place. The current stop-out policy, which is used by students pursuing a graduate degree who may have to stop for a period of time because of varying circumstances, doesn’t specifically name the circumstances under which a student may pause their studies, Graduate Council secretary Stephanie Powers said. The proposed policy would add a bullet point to the current policy outlining the different circumstances for which a stop-out could occur, such as pregnancy, disability or emergency medical condition, according to the proposal. The proposal said the student’s dean would have the final say on the stop-out petition, and each petition will be considered on a case-by-case basis. While Powers said few students use the stop-out option, she wants students to know the option is available if they need it. “We know that graduate students have families and a lot of them work full time, so we’re willing to make exceptions and make reasonable accommodations,” Powers said. Matt Woods, Campus Reporter
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Letters junior Skyler Sikes and early childhood education junior Katie Chesher sit on Owen Field on Tuesday evening for Flick on the Field’s screening of “The Great Gatsby.” Flick on the Field, OU’s newest class tradition, invited the Class of 2015 to the field for the movie, free food and prizes, according to OU’s website.
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OU has been named Big 12 Conference champion in the Green Power Challenge for using the most renewable energy in the conference during the 2013-2014 academic year. More than 33 conferences and 79 schools competed in the Green Power Challenge, a contest among colleges to conserve energy and use more green power, according to the Environmental Protection Agency website. Green power is electricity generated from renewable resources, like wind and solar power. Using green power helps accelerate development of new renewable energy capacity nationwide, and helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions from
the power sector, according to a press release. OU used nearly 154 million kilowatt-hours of green energy, an estimated 85 percent of annual electricity use, according to the press release. The estimated carbon dioxide emissions avoided from the green
energy is equivalent to that of 15,000 annual American home emissions. While OU leads the Big 12 Conference, Oklahoma State came in second place, using about 100.3 million kilowatt-hours, 71 percent of annual electricity use. Collectively, the 33
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Brad Burnett, OU’s associate vice president for enrollment and student financial services, received the 2014 Regents’ Award for Superior Staff on OU’s campus. His supervisor Matt Hamilton, vice president for enrollment and student financial services and registrar, nominated Burnett, according to the press release. Burnett was nominated because of his personality and work ethic, according to the press release. Burnett was involved with implementation of oZONE and gift cards for tuition. He also founded the OU Financial Education and Counseling Program, according to the press release. The OU Board of Regents created the award in 1988. Burnett was presented with the award at the staff awards ceremony Tuesday, according to the press release. Staff Reports
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Music festival boosts comedy scene Organization sets up comedy stage at annual jamboree Andrew Wagner Life & Arts Reporter @A_Wagner98
Years ago, The L oony Bin Comedy Club was the only place in Oklahoma City to watch or perform comedy. Local comedians found it challenging to hone their craft because of the shortage of practice opportunities. Determined to make comedy a staple of Oklahoma City entertainment, comedians used the bars and venues in the area. Their persistence has made shows consisting of local and national comedy acts a recurring aspect of the Norman Music Festival. Oklahoma City comedians BradChad Porter, Spencer Hicks and Cameron Buchholtz will kick off the Norman Music Festival with an evening of stand-up comedy at 8 p.m. Thursday in Sooner Theatre on Main Street. Comedian Ryan Singer will headline the comedy stage at the festival this year. Porter started performing stand-up comedy at open mics at the Loony Bin in 2006. The open mics were
Norman Music Festival April 24 - April 26 offered every week but comedians could only sign up for a short slot every other week, Porter said. “There wasn’t enough (opportunities) to get good,” Porter said. “It takes 100 years to get good only doing comedy four minutes every week.” Ready to take their performances to the next level, Porter, along with Hicks and other Oklahoma City comedians, used other bars and venues in the area to hold open mics and comedy showcases, Porter said. This included an open mic at Othello’s Italian Restaurant on Campus Corner. “We basically star ted booking our own shows and seeing if venues would let us perform there, and it kind of just grew from that,” Hicks said. Hicks and Porter went on to found OKC Comedy, a program that pays and provides venues for national and local comedy acts to
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perform in Oklahoma City. “When we started with national acts, nobody else was bringing in that kind of talent,” Porter said. The first big name they were able to book was Doug Benson in 2010, who has returned every year since for what is now called “Doug Benson Day.” Although Hicks and Porter have booked many of the biggest comedy shows in the area, Porter credits Cameron Buchholtz for starting and maintaining comedy’s involvement in the Norman Music Festival. Buchholtz started doing stand-up in Oklahoma City and has since moved
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to Austin, Texas, to continue his career. He became involved in comedy at the Norman Music Festival in its second year in 2009. “I had a lot of friends involved in putting the festival together,” Buchholtz said. “At that point, I was taking comedy pretty serious, so it was just kind of a no-brainer.” According to Buchholtz,
the first year that comedy was part of the festival, about six local comedians would perform in between bands at The Redroom in downtown Norman. “It didn’t really work between bands, so it wasn’t until the next year that we had a dedicated comedy space,” Buchholtz said. Since then, Norman Music Festival has been an
opportunity to expose people to local comedy acts. “ The biggest problem we have at OKC Comedy is letting people know it exists,” Hicks said. “Norman Music Festival opens it up to people.” Andrew Wagner andrew.w.wagner-1@ou.edu
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just any playoff game, but the second game in just the first round. If the Thunder were to win an NBA championship, they would have to win 15 more playoff games, with teams only getting better the further along they go. Every playoff game is intense, with the best basketball players in the world focused on one goal: an NBA championship. Ideally, the Thunder would’ve breezed through the first round so they could stay rested for the long playoff run. Despite the loss, the Thunder should be able to eventually get past
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18 Feudal lord’s realm 19 Most lacking in seriousness 24 Adam’s firstborn 26 Winged god of love 27 It’s harvested in Hawaii 29 Wrists 30 Winnerless game 31 Poem of homage 33 Of low character 35 Add up 36 Bit in a newspaper 37 He fiddled infamously 39 Always, in poesy 40 Word before “flung� or “fetched� 41 Break, as a horse 45 Bill holder
46 Called up, as a memory 47 Apply crudely, as paint 49 Bay of Naples island 50 Fend off 52 He could eat no fat 53 Appalachian Trail, e.g. 54 Slightly open, as a door 55 Sean Connery is one 57 Main port in Yemen 58 Showy Scandinavian rugs 60 Publichouse drink 61 Dined
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DOUBLE LIFE always been a winning one. But the examples don’t make it any easier for players like The New York Yankees selected Thomas. Thomas in the 30th round of the 2013 “It’s a learning process right now, but I’m just trying to Major League Baseball Draft. In football, he was a be the best player I can be at both sports,� he said. four-star recruit coming out of high school after passHughes is confident that his young outfielder will pass ing for more than 50 touchdowns his senior year. the test. With offers from the likes of “He’ll be fine,� the baseball coach Alabama, Florida and Notre Dame, said. “Cody’s a super talent and is very Thomas decided to take his duintelligent. It also helps that he’s an al-sport prowess to Oklahoma. outstanding student.� While the ride has been smooth so Both coaching staffs want Thomas, far, Thomas’ main obstacle lies in his but neither are willing to deny him the chosen position on the gridiron. unique privilege of playing two sports “Playing quarterback, especially at a school like Oklahoma. at this university, is very demandThe two programs have national ing,� he said. “The biggest challenge championships in their pedigrees, I couldn’t pick one ... If I is time management and managing and Thomas is able to experience knew which one I liked more, both. my priorities.� Hughes said one of his former “We’re allowing a young man to I would’ve picked one sport baseball players was a punter, but fulfill his dreams and get out of it as and stuck with it� that Thomas’ situation is much more much as he can,� Stoops said. difficult to work around. But for every athlete that plays two CODY THOMAS, “If he was another position, it’d be sports, the question is always the FRESHMAN QUARTERBACK AND OUTFIELDER easier,� Hughes said. “He has to get same: “Which is your favorite?� ILY DA his throwing in, his homework in, “I couldn’t pick one,� Thomas said. U O Y/ EB his meetings, has to go to practice, “If I knew which one I liked more, I E N ELI lift and run and then come play baseball.� would’ve picked one sport and stuck with it.� QU C JA Stoops was less certain that the position is making it tougher for Thomas. He said playing baseball and quarterback might be harder in the long run, but pointed out the Joe Mussatto, jmussatto@ou.edu successes of a more well known two-sport star. “Jameis Winston seems to be doing it,� Stoops said. “It didn’t seem to hurt him a whole lot.� Florida State’s Heisman Trophy and national championship winning quarterback has also made a name for himself away from football. Winston serves as the closer for the Seminoles’ baseball team and leads the squad in saves. Continued from page 1 Others in professional sports have also paved the path for Thomas. Russell Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks played both “They’ve been helping me week to week on what I’m sports in college and now stars in the NFL. Jeff Samardzija going to go to, what time I’ll be at stuff and just coordinatpitches for the Chicago Cubs but was a two-sport athlete ing everything,� Thomas said of his coaches. For the 6-foot-4-inch Sooner, the two-sport formula has at Notre Dame.
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