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Tar creek project short on funds OU research team limited to quarterly visits to region’s only passive water treatment system director says HILLARY MCLAIN The Oklahoma Daily

A lack of funding has forced an OU research team to scale back its work on passive watertreatment systems in northeastern Oklahoma at the Tar Creek Superfund site. The team is led by professor Robert Nairn,

OU Center for Restoration of Ecosystems and Watersheds director, and has already used a $6-million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to design and build the treatment system. The system was completed in 2008, and the group returned to the site monthly for more research and maintenance, Nairn said. Nairn’s team now visits the site four times a year. Quarterly visitation is possible only through the use of systems implemented to

automatically collect samples and data from the site, Nairn said. “It isn’t as good; it doesn’t give us all the same information, but it gives us something,” he said. The system utilizes no fossil fuels — just gravity — to purify water through the use of natural means similar to filtration through compost, Nairn said. SEE RESEARCH PAGE 2

Election board sets CAC runoff Because of conflicting runoff guidelines, upcoming election will set new rules KATHLEEN EVANS The Oklahoma Daily

SERVICE EVENT SEES BIG TURNOUT

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Thousands of students, faculty and staff gather on the North Oval before heading out to volunteer at various job sites around the Oklahoma City area during Campus Activities Council’s Big Event. OU President David Boren addressed students at the event’s opening ceremony.

Big Event draws record volunteers Volunteers perform a variety of tasks at more than 150 sites throughout Oklahoma RACHAEL CERVENKA The Oklahoma Daily

ore than 5,400 students, faculty and staff gathered Saturday on the North Oval before spending the day serving local communities. OU President David Boren gave a speech at the Big Event’s opening ceremony before participants left campus to begin work at more than 150 work sites. “A lot of people ask me, what is the real Sooner magic? This is the real Sooner magic,” Boren said. “It’s caring about other people.” Among the volunteers on the North Oval, a group of 10 seniors, who said they were unaffiliated with any student club or organization, stood together waiting to disperse to their work site.

The group called themselves Dudes Hanging With Dudes, and members said they were just a group of friends who wanted to lend a hand. Will Haskell, business senior and group leader, said the name came about as an inside joke. Last year was the first time they signed up as a group. However, several members said they had participated in the Big Event with other organizations during each of their four years on campus. Group members decided they wanted to spend their Saturday volunteering rather than relaxing and sleeping, zoology senior Andrew Vienot said. Following the opening ceremony, Dudes Hanging With Dudes headed to a local non-profit organization, Bethesda Inc., a childhood sexual abuse therapy center. Bethesda Inc. Executive Director Kay Christiansen said the SEE VOLUNTEERS PAGE 2

The Campus Activities Council chair runoff election will be 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday after the spring election board chairwoman sought an opinion from UOSA’s General Counsel because of ambiguous election rules. The UOSA Code Annotated and Constitution are vague on runoff election procedures, causing confusion on how and when the runoff election should take place, Election Board Chairwoman Natalie Jester said. After voting ended Tuesday and Wednesday, no CAC chair candidate received a majority of the vote, which is required by the UOSA Constitution for election. This means a runoff election between the top two candidates must occur. Candidates Greg Emde and Melissa Mock each received about 36 percent of the vote and will participate in the runoff. Public relations junior Bridgitte Castorino will not participate after receiving approximately 27 percent of the vote. “The Code says that we should have an automatic electronic runoff, which would mean [last] Wednesday after everyone voted,” Jester said. “That would have ranked the three people running and then go to the second-place ranking and then narrowed it down automatically.” However, after this process was used in the 2010 spring election, the UOSA Superior Court decided this method was not appropriate because students were not properly informed to rank each candidate, according to Daily archives. Because of the confusion, Je s t e r a n d U O S A G e n e r a l Counsel Chair Amber Siddiqui have had to interpret the laws and determine the best way to conduct the election. General Counsel saw the two options as creating a special election, which would take about three weeks, or to have a runoff within one week, which the Constitution outlines for the presidential election, according to the Counsel’s official opinion. To vote, students can visit the official polling site at the top of South Oval by Bizzell Memorial Librar y or go to elections. ou.edu.

OU freshmen organize video to bring comedian to campus Students will enter video in contest for episode of Tosh.0 to be filmed at OU CARMEN FORMAN The Oklahoma Daily

Two OU students are organizing an effort to bring the host of a cable television Internet clip show to campus. Daniel Tosh, host of Comedy Central’s “Tosh.0,” bases his show on poking fun at clips gathered from the Internet. Tosh has been to OU before, when he performed a stand-up comedy show in 2008 in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium. Now University College freshmen Zach Pennington and Max Boyd are determined to

get Tosh back by entering a contest for a show’s episode to be filmed on a college campus. Pennington and Boyd said they are Tosh fans, and Boyd heard about the contest on the show. Boyd said they contacted 200 people on Facebook to see if they would be interested in helping. There are now 1,600 confirmed guests for the event, Boyd said. “We had no idea it would get this big this fast,” Pennington said. Boyd said he has spoken with one of the production assistants of “Tosh.0” about the rules of the contest. There aren’t any time limits for the video and the film has to be turned in by the end of April, Boyd said. Pennington and Boyd have completed four minutes of a planned 10-minute video.

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“The big part of the video we have done so far is pictures of everything on campus: people, sports, parties and the Bizzell Silent Rave,” Boyd said. The duo have at least 30 people willing to compete in a cinnamon challenge. Boyd said the challenge, in which a person eats a spoonful of cinnamon without drinking any water, was featured on an episode of “Tosh.0.” “A lot of the other videos [from other colleges] so far are just one or two people saying he should go to their school,” Boyd said. “There’s nothing as complete or as elaborate as what we are trying to do.” Pennington and Boyd said it hasn’t been announced how the winner of the contest will be chosen, but they think Tosh’s crew will look at the videos sent in.

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by proving that student research does matter and has a very positive effect on both education and environmental stewardship,” LaBar said. LaBar said she has learned more from work at Tar It is the first system of its kind in Oklahoma, Kansas or Missouri, but there are 500 to 600 passive water-treatment Creek than in many classes. “Literally dozens of OU students systems in the world, he said. have gained real-world, applicationNairn said his team is also working “Literally dozens of OU based experience as a result of class with the Grand River Dam Authority to students have gained real- projects, as well as group and inditest lake waters held back by the dam world, application-based vidual research, at Tar Creek,” LaBar for pollution from the underground said. waters affecting the Tar Creek site. experience as a result of The technologies used at Tar Creek Research is still being done on water class projects, as well can be applicable anywhere around quality changes, microbial activity and as group and individual the world where there is mining, as ecology in the Tar Creek area, accordresearch, at Tar Creek.” the technologies for other sites would ing to the Center for Restoration of be nearly the same, Nairn said. Ecosystems and Watersheds website. — JULIE LABAR, ENVIRONMENTAL Nairn’s next focus is taking his reStudents are able to take real-world SCIENCE GRADUATE STUDENT search abroad. The team will travel to experiences from study and research South America to implement one of at Tar Creek, said Julie LaBar, environmental science graduate student and research team these systems in Bolivia, Nairn said. In addition to Bolivian research, Nairn said he also is member. “The installation of the passive-treatment system in looking into using this technology for treatment of sewCommerce has enhanced those real-world experiences age water.

» Gray Hale’s Exhibition will be on display from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Lightwell Gallery. » The Puterbaugh Symposium will be held from 9 a.m. to noon the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom. A lecture by Mills College Professor of Art Hung Liu will follow the symposium from 2 to 4 p.m. » University College will give a presentation about finding your learning style 2 to 3 p.m. in the Housing Learning Center in Adams Center’s Muldrow Tower, Room 105. » “The Arab-Israeli Conflict as a Presidential Dream Course” public lecture will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. » Hornsemble and brass chamber will host a free concert from 8 to 10 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall.

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to see what it will look like when they are done working.” During the course of their volunteer period, Dudes Hanging with Dudes trimmed hedges, tended flower beds, cleaned carpets, swept floors and picked up trash. organization has been based in Norman since 1982. “Serving the community makes you feel Christiansen said she has worked with good, but it also gives you a sense of purthe Big Event for six years. It’s really nice to get pose,” Haskell said. Vienot said he enjoyed giving back to an out with a bunch While performing their work around organization dedicated to helping those in Bethesda Inc., group members told jokes need. of friends and to and sang. “It’s really nice to get out with a bunch of see the effect this “The work isn’t necessarily fun, but friends and to see the effect this institution institution has on hanging out, talking and messing around has on the community. That we could help the community. That with my friends makes it fun,” Sledge said. them out is great,” Vienot said. we could help them On Saturday, a total of 20,000 communiChristiansen said she was anxiously ty service hours were completed throughout is great.” awaiting the arrival of her volunteers and out central Oklahoma due to the Big Event, had plenty of chores for Big Event particiaccording to a press release. pants to perform. — ANDREW VIENOT, “It’s not every day the whole community “These are chores that we couldn’t afford ZOOLOGY SENIOR comes out to do something like this, and I to have done for us, and our staff doesn’t have the time or desire to do it. They wouldn’t get done if it am just happy to be a part of it.” Vienot said. weren’t for the Big Event,” Christiansen said. “I am excited

» Gray Hale’s Exhibition will be on display from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Lightwell Gallery. » A librarian will host a “Search Factiva” workshop to provide tips to navigate and search the online Factiva database. It will be from 10 to 11 a.m. in Bizzell Memorial Library, Room 149D. » A noon pianist concert will be held noon to 12:30 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Sandy Bell Gallery. » The LGBTQ Advisory Board will host a “You Better Work: Here. Queer. Career.” workshop to give tips on finding and working for LGBT-friendly employers. The session will be from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Union’s Frontier Room. » The E. Deane Kanaly Lecture Series presented by Michael F. Price College of Business will feature James R. Young, chairman, president and CEO of Union Pacific Corp. The lecture will be held at 1 p.m in the Union’s Meacham Auditorium. » The Writing Center and Student Learning Center will host “Research Writing II” for students from 3 to 4 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 280. » 2011 Student Film Festival submissions are due at 5 p.m. in the Student Life office located in the Union, Suite 370. » A member of University College’s action staff, Sarah Swenson, will present a seminar titled “Preparing for Medical School” from 5 to 6 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245. » OU Baseball will play Oklahoma State at 6:30 p.m. at L. Dale Mitchell Park. » Mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne will begin her master classes for OU School of Music singers from 7 to 9 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Pitman Recital Hall.

» This day in OU history

April 4, 1973 OU student preachers arrested on OSU campus Two OU students were among six people who pled innocent to charges of trespassing on the Oklahoma State University campus in Stillwater. The six students were part of a Norman group of “Jesus people” who regularly preached on OU’s South Oval between classes. The group was singing, praying and talking on OSU’s campus when university police arrested them. They were issued a warning the day before that they would be escorted off campus if they preached. $185 stolen from snack bar The Student Services Corporation snack bar in Ellison Hall was robbed of about $185 Monday night, corporation president Bill Nation said. The money was taken from a wooden cash box from which the lock was removed. There were no signs of vandalism or forced entry into the snack bar. — Source: The Oklahoma Daily archives

Business college to host railroad president The president of a longstanding railroad company will deliver the featured speech at an annual lecture series hosted by the Price College of Business. James Young, Union Pacific Corp president and chief executive officer, will lead a public lecture for members of the OU and Norman communities as part of the college’s Kanaly Lecture Series at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium. A question-and-answer session and reception are scheduled after the lecture, according to a press release. The Kanaly Lecture Series is typically held once a year, but sometimes a speaker is brought in each semester, said Kate Burch, Price College communications director. Young will be the first leader from a railroad company to speak in the series, Burch said. Young’s standing in the railroad industry made him a good choice for this year’s event, Burch said. The railroad president was named chief executive officer of Union Pacific in 2005 and chairman in 2007 after working with the company since 1978. He was chairman of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity and on the board of the FXE Railroad in Mexico, according to a press release. The lecture series is named after the late E. Deane Kanaly. Kanaly, an OU graduate, was the founder and chairman of Kanaly Trust Company, according to the event invitation. Kanaly’s wife, Virginia, currently provides funding for the lecture series. Previous Kanaly Lecture Series speakers include leaders from energy, accounting and airline businesses, according to a press release. The event is free and open to all OU students, faculty and staff. — Samantha Brulé/The Daily

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Medieval regulars share fair stories JANNA GENTRY AND CONOR O’BRIEN The Oklahoma Daily

The Daily set out Saturday to find the most interesting characters at the Medieval Fair of No r m a n a n d u n c o v e r t h e i r stories. Martin Hill has chosen a career selling drums and didgeridoos (an Australian instrument) at medieval fairs. THE DAILY: Is this your fulltime job? HILL: Yes. I went to college at Texas Tech, but I just decided I enjoyed doing this, and I should do it full-time. I sell drums and didgeridoos and also juggle and do acrobatic stunts with my wife. THE DAILY: What is it about these fairs that keeps you coming back? HILL: Definitely the energy of all the people. I especially love the acrobatic thing because it’s kind of a vaudevillian thing that gives people the opportunity to have a belly laugh, and belly laughing is a healing sort of thing. THE DAILY: How did you meet your wife? HILL: I met my wife six years ago at a Renaissance fair. She helped me get started with the acrobatic show.

class, and one of the students’ assignments was that they had to come and present a story at the fair. Sometimes I would also recite, and people from other Renaissance fairs took an interest in me. This is how I began to perform at other fairs. THE DAILY: How did you get the costume, and is your sword real? WILSON: Yes, the sword is real! It’s an Irish longsword. I made a lot of the rest of my outfit with the help of my wife, and some of the other items, like my shoes, I bought at fairs. My outfit is 20 years old, and I still fit into it!

Mariah Menzie, an environmentally passionate OU alumna, poses as Mother Nature when she isn’t working as a full-time nanny. THE DAILY: How did you become Mother Nature? MENZIE: Well, I started stilt-walking when I was eight, and about 10 years ago I had a woman in Oklahoma City help me sew this costume, and I added to it over the years. It just grew and grew. I started getting paid to go to fairs, and I think what I represent is a beautiful message. THE DAILY: Can you tell me about this message you represent? Steven Wilson, an MENZIE: I really OU alumnus and exbelieve in reducing, professor, credits his reusing and introduction to medirecycling, and I think eval fairs to an English that it is important class he taught. to involve young THE DAILY: What Steven Wilson children in that, and did you study at OU? this costume is a WILSON: My great way to do that. Kids are so undergraduate degree was excited to come talk to me, and in communications, and I if I just tell them, ‘hey, maybe went to graduate school for recycle your cans or something,’ medieval English literature. I maybe something will stick with taught a fantasy and folklore

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The York family from Kansas stands together for a picture while at the Medieval Fair of Norman. them.

THE DAILY: How many of these events do you go to? MENZIE: Well, I actually didn’t do very many while I was a student at OU, but since I have been out I have been picking it up. I go to the fair in Wichita, Kan., Earth Days, a few parades, and I’m looking at doing a fair in Dallas. However, I’m a fulltime nanny, so this is my side job. Timothy York, along with his wife, Mary, and daughter Katrina, makes renaissance fairs a family affair by bringing his wife and adult daughter with him to the events. THE DAILY: Timothy, how did you get into this? YORK: Well, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I started with the society for creative

anachronism. When I got married, I gave it up briefly, but once the kids were out I joined a local fencing group that does renaissance-style fencing. This is how I reacquainted myself with renaissance fairs. THE DAILY: How did your family get involved? YORK: In high school my kids started going to Renaissance fairs. Our son now participates in the Kansas City renaissance Fair. It’s in our blood I guess you could say. THE DAILY: Is there sort of a cast of regulars you see around? YORK: There is. There are a lot of people that you see at each fair participating as either vendors or actors. It’s a big family really. We keep in touch with some. Others admit that they have real lives, but we don’t associate with them much.

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Bigger doesn’t mean better U.S. culture On Saturday, more than 5,400 volunteers geared up for making the place you live in for eight of the year’s 12 months the Campus Activities Council’s annual Big Event. Members more pleasant for everyone. of the OU community spread throughout the Oklahoma What we are suggesting is scaling down the Big Event. By City area with the goal of improving our community. There no means are we suggesting fewer volunteers, but rather we were a variety of volunteer jobs to work on. Some groups think the number of venues should be reduced. This way planted flowers, while others painted buildings, all in the sites can be properly evaluated and the ones in most need name of helping our community. are the ones who receive our attention. Despite the event’s productive intent, some groups were Big Event officials said their operations staff of 40 students left twiddling their thumbs because of a lack of projects at evaluated each of the 152 job sites before sending groups their site. out on Saturday. However, with One group, who went to an Oklahoma so many sites, it is hard to believe City Public School to pick up trash, felt The Big Event is an opportunity each and every one of those was they were ineffective because of a lack of for students, who don’t normally evaluated with the same amount of trash around the school’s campus. They scrutiny. get involved with volunteer noted some parts of the school needed The Big Event shouldn’t increase groups, to get out and provide repainting and some of the equipment the number of job sites for marfor their community.” was in need of refurbishing. But, these keting’s sake. Instead, they should jobs were ignored, and the group was make sure each site will provide volleft searching for trash to pick up. unteers with fulfilling activities. To compound the problems this group faced, in-school We realize it takes a lot of work to organize over 5,000 volsuspension students had already picked up trash as a pun- unteers across 152 job sites, and we hope CAC takes this as ishment, leaving the group of volunteers with even less to a suggestion and not a criticism. But, we also want all of the pick up. volunteers to feel they had an impact at their job site and The Big Event is an opportunity for students, who don’t provide their area with the same amount of care as the othnormally get involved with volunteer groups, to get out and ers, and picking up an already clean area doesn’t accomprovide for their community, and if they had a good time plish this. while doing it, they would pass along positive word of mouth Organizers should look to make the biggest impact on to get more volunteers for next years event. If students are the parts of the community most in need not small impacts left doing menial labor, then they won’t feel as motivated to across a larger area. volunteer next year. Next year’s success will depend on how a majority of volAnother example of misused volunteers was a group of unteers felt about their work. If they felt they had a positive volunteers assigned to plant flowers at an upscale subdivi- impact then they will let their friends know about it, but if sion. We think these duties should be left to the homeown- they were left with nothing to do at their site then they will er’s association, not volunteers. not feel motivated to come back next year or suggest their We are not trying to say Big Event does not do any good, friends help out next year. quite the opposite actually. The Big Event allows OU to reach out to the community that many of us call home. Even if you Comment on this column at OUDaily.com aren’t from the Oklahoma City area, you can take pride in

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Quran burning not justified Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who alshould—if they haven’t already—base their most made good on his promise to burn script on it. The time is ripe for a shameless, STAFF COLUMN the Quran in September, has finally done it. direct answer to common criticisms. On March 20, he and members of his conWhat do most Muslims believe? What Steven Zoeller gregation held a mock trial of the Muslim separates the radical Muslim from the majorholy book and, like a church stuck in the ity of Muslims? Why are radicals—like those middle ages, sentenced it to smolder. in Afghanistan—so hostile to free expression? Despite restrained media attention, the repercussions What does the Quran have to say about women’s rights? were felt around the globe, particularly in Islamic countries What’s the official explanation for Mohammed’s sex life? in the Middle East. On Friday, the news was broken to a mob These questions may be shocking or offensive to devout of Afghan Muslims, and they responded by attacking the Muslims, and it’s understandable that organizers may not United Nations Assistance mission. At least 12 people were want to dignify them with a response. But, these were no killed, including U.N. workers, two doubt the same questions posed at of whom were allegedly beheaded. Terry Jones’ mock trial, and the same No doubt, this ongoing crisis will be posed again and again as Unlike other awareness campaigns, that is gruesome and contemptible. long as demagogues like him exist. Islam Awareness Month is sorely But undeniably, Pastor Jones has So, here’s the charge organizneeded, and organizers should use ers must bear in coming weeks if they set the stage perfectly for Islam this unfolding controversy to show have any hope of spreading meanAwareness Month. What’s happening in Florida ingful awareness: Give the Quran the why.” and the Middle East is exactly what proper defense it never got, this time awareness would prevent. On one to a jury of college students. Engage side of the ocean, there’s a man with a ridiculous mustache Islamophobia as if the Quran will be burnt for every person who has not only taken Quranic ideas out of historical con- who leaves an event unconvinced that Islam can be a civitext, but also tried to square them with the radical rhetoric lized religion. of jihadist outliers. On the other side, there’s a reactionary, This doesn’t mean to proselytize—in fact, that should be murderous mob that is openly hostile to the concept of free avoided at all costs. It also doesn’t mean to respond to chalspeech. lenges in ways that are equally inflammatory. It means to And in the middle is a media that will inevitably blur get passionate. The perception of Islam, and its faithful, is the line between radical and moderate ideologies, cast- at stake. ing Pastor Jones as a United States representative and the — Steven Zoeller, Afghan mob as representative of Islam. Unlike other awareness campaigns, Islam Awareness University College freshman Month is sorely needed, and organizers should use this unfolding controversy to show why. In addition, they Comment on this column at OUDaily.com

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Brother Jed exemplifies pride Brother Jed has a great deal to teach the world. It’s only a shame he’s made a scandal and a mockery of himself to do it. Brother Jed and his cohorts have said a great many things which have amused a great many people and disgusted a great many more. If you listen to him long enough, one of the most outlandish things he says is that he is morally perfect. That’s right, morally perfect. He believes that he has not sinned since 1972 when he converted. It is my firm conviction that this particular belief is the source of the rest of his “quirks.” He has no hesitation calling students whores and whoremongers, and asking people if they are gay because he believes he can’t do wrong. He revels in his bad old college days — and it is revelling without hesitation — because he believes those days and his fallibility are behind him.

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He is living proof that the devil will always allow a person to give up a lesser sin if that person takes on a greater one in its place. In this case, it is my suspicion that he was much better off as a loser and whoremonger at Kentucky State than as proud Brother Jed at OU. He is a lesson and a warning to us all, Christian and non-Christian alike. He has caused me to ask myself repeatedly today, “Am I being an arrogant jerk right now?” I have found the answer to be “yes” disconcertingly often. We should all strive to be better every day, because it’s when we don’t think we need to be better that we need it the most. For reminding us, or at least me, of this truth, I thank you, Brother Jed.

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reflected in overly violent language All the war-like imagery used in our political debates rips the out the STAFF COLUMN heart of citizens’ ability to think clearly about the isGerard Keiser sues, and incites others to violence. So, let us wage war on those destructive metaphors, throw out all the words that excite our passions for blood and incinerate all phrases that encourage hate. The marketplace of ideas is filled, not with noble ideas, but with guns, grenades, flamethrowers, howitzers and every kind of weapon for crushing your enemies, rather than understanding them. We must demolish this market and build a new one, a deeply fortified one, which will repel every invasion of the rhetorical arms-dealers. Some will argue the real problem is education; we no longer produce citizens with the mental training to extinguish the flames of hate upon their ears. They say we must teach our students to think for themselves, so they can battle their way past the raging sound bites into the reason’s safe territory. But, this way is a waste of ammunition. Students who know more about philosoThe marketplace phy and politics will know of ideas is filled, less about math and scinot with noble ence; as a result, this plan ideas, but with will lead to an American deguns, grenades, feat in the global economy. flamethrowers, And these days we must howitzers and every also spend time teaching them to use computers efkind of weapon fectively; they will never for crushing your learn on their own how to enemies, rather use something so complithan understanding cated and ever changing. So instead of losing time them.” by arming our children while our enemies outflank us, we must drive it away, castrating our discourse of every word that provokes violent thoughts. As the private sector has proven itself unwilling to regulate itself, we must enlist the government to conquer our campaigns, and run a tank over the heads of our enemies. Perhaps we could call it the Political Protection Agency, to highlight its fight to defend positions that are the victims of aggressive rhetoric, and to prevent the use of toxic weapons during campaigns. Or add one more letter to the BATFE, to make the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives and Rhetoric. Certainly the first offensive is to bombard political campaigns; this term makes us think of military campaigns, poisoning our thoughts with the ideas of war. Thus, subconsciously hurling us towards more violence. After that, we must massacre analogies like “victory” and “battleground.” While these may seem neutral, once everyone sees an election not as a fight, but as a cooperative endeavor towards better laws and representatives, the more vicious and dangerous words will be disemboweled. For a vision of politics without war, consider the recent UOSA elections. The efforts of the candidates had no trace of anger or violence on them; everything was peaceful and positive, and the horses that draw the chariots of hate had been hamstrung. Because of this, everyone was focused on issues, while many were so tolerant and accommodating of the opposing view that they didn’t vote for their own; they were willing to give others a chance instead of brutalizing them as enemies. If we could bleed rhetoric of her wrath and wage genocide against all those martial metaphors, even our presidential election years would be just as calm and constructive as a quiet day walking among the signs of UOSA candidates. — Gerard Keiser, linguistics and classical languages junior

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TOMORROW â&#x20AC;şâ&#x20AC;ş The Dailyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s RJ Young says the hire of Lon Kruger (shown right) is good for OU

GYMNASTICS Âť Men finish 2nd in MPSF Championships

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OU earns return trip to championships Oklahoma advances in NCAA tournament behind record-setting afternoon

Meet results 1. Oklahoma â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 197.350 2. Utah â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 196.475 3. Washington â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 195.300 4. North Carolina â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 195.225 5. New Hampshire â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 194.500 6. Missouri â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 194.175

GREG FEWELL The Oklahoma Daily

Just a year removed from making the first Super Six appearance in school history, the Sooners are one win from a return trip. T h e O k l a h o ma w o m enâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gymnastics team won Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NCAA regional at Lloyd Noble Center, dispatching Utah, Washington, Missouri, North Carolina and New Hampshire to earn a spot alongside 11 other teams in the NCAA Championships. On Feb. 11, the Sooners became only the second team in the nation to eclipse the 197-point mark this season. Until Saturday, they had yet to reach the mark again. Oklahoma came out of the gate strong and never looked back, posting a new seasonhigh score of 197.350. OU also won all four individual event titles during the recordsetting day. The team that competed Saturday was a polar opposite of the team that failed to capture the Big 12 title March 19. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we were kind of uptight at Big 12s, and I think that just kind of taught us how to relax and how to be confident,â&#x20AC;? sophomore Natasha Kelley said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We knew we had to start out hot, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we did. And we were able to keep it going the whole meet.â&#x20AC;? In the Big 12 Conference Championships two weeks

Meet notes Âť Oklahoma scored a 197.350 on Saturday, a new program-best postseason score. Âť No Sooner scored below a 9.825 on vault, but true freshman Hope Bruceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vault was a highlight. She had a near-perfect performance to win a share of her first collegiate title with a careerhigh 9.9. Âť Sophomore Natasha Kelley had a career-high tying performance on bars, winning the title with a score of 9.95. JAMES CORLEY/THE DAILY

Senior Natalie Ratcliff performs her beam routine in OUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win over five opponents at an NCAA Regional on Saturday at Lloyd Noble Center. Oklahoma won all four individual event titles en route to a second-straight berth to the NCAA Championships. ago â&#x20AC;&#x201D; OUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first loss of the season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Sooners were average through the first three rotations before scoring a season high on beam. Coach K.J. Kindler said the team needed to build momentum early in Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meet if it hoped to come out on top. Despite nervousness early on, Kindler said OU found that momentum with ease.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first few (routines) were just a little bit jittery,â&#x20AC;? Kindler said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I think the end of our lineup kind of picked it up better than we did at Big 12s, and we carried more enthusiasm over to the next event. Instead of kind of just trying to make our routines, we competed today.â&#x20AC;? In the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first event, floor, three Sooners scored a 9.8 or higher to help the team

score a 49.250. On vault, the team tied its second-highest score of the season (49.300). After the first two events, top-seeded Oklahoma posted a score of 98.550 with New Hampshire trailing in second place with a 97.100. OU took control of the meet on the uneven bars. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bars was phenomenal,â&#x20AC;? Kindler said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have

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Sooners place in California The OU womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rowing team knocked off a pair of top-20 opponents at the San Diego Crew Classic on Sunday. The Sooners earned third and fifth in grand final races and first and fifth in petite final events. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m extremely proud of how the team handled themselves on and off the water this weekend,â&#x20AC;? coach Leeanne Crain said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are maturing every day as a squad, and the results are beginning to reflect that growth.â&#x20AC;? The varsity eight bested No. 11 UCLA in the petite finals, and the varsity four beat out No. 4 Stanford in the grand final. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Daily staff reports

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asked for more.â&#x20AC;? Oklahoma scored a 49.525 on the event, tying its season-high by finishing with four straight routines of 9.9 or better. Oklahoma scored a 49.275 on beam to clinch the meet and earn a return trip to the NCAA championships. The first round of the championships kicks off April 15 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Âť Junior Megan Ferguson took the beam title with a 9.9, and sophomore Kayla Nowak won the floor title with a 9.9. Âť Oklahoma swept the South Central Region coaching awards, presented after Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meet. OU coach K.J. Kindler won Coach of the Year, and assistant coaches Lou Ball and Tom Haley shared Assistant Coach of the Year honors.

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Sooners split 2-game series with Texas Tech

Oklahoma completes first conference sweep of the season against Texas Tech ZACK HEDRICK The Oklahoma Daily

With an 8-5 win Sunday, the tenth-ranked Oklahoma Sooners finished a sweep of the Texas Tech Red Raiders in a three-game home series over the weekend. It was OUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first conference series sweep this season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was really big for us,â&#x20AC;? OU coach Sunny Golloway said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sweeps are hard to come by in this league, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no doubt.â&#x20AC;? The Sooners (22-6, 5-3 Big 12) cleared a double-digit hit total Sunday, raking the Red Raidersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pitching staff for 16 hits. It was the 15th time this season OU recorded 10 or more hits. The Sooners totaled 40 hits in the threegame set and scored 29 runs. In Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game, the first three hitters in the batting order were a combined 8-for12 at the plate. They also combined to drive in seven of OUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eight runs and scored six times. Junior catcher Tyler Ogle hit in the leadoff spot for the Sooners over the weekend. He had a rough start in the first game, but he was a spark plug the last two games. On Sunday, Ogle led off the bottom of the first with a solo home run, also hitting an RBI single and scoring three times â&#x20AC;&#x201D; twice from first base. Golloway said there are multiple players on his roster who could bat in the leadoff spot, but he was just looking for a spark when he put Ogle in the leadoff spot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I came in the dugout one day and I was No. 1,â&#x20AC;? Ogle said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s give it a try.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Ogle said he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hit in

OU holds off late-inning push by Red Raiders to take a split in pair of games in Lubbock, Texas TOBI NEIDY The Oklahoma Daily

The No. 15 OU softball team rebounded Saturday to hold off Texas Tech, 7-6, after a 5-0 loss in the first game of the series in Lubbock, Texas. After the fourth shutout this season, OUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offense scored six runs in the first inning, including a three-run homer by senior outfielder Haley Nix. The Sooners moved to 29-10, 2-2 in Big 12 play, after splitting the first conference series against Nebraska last weekend. Nix was 3-for-4 durHALEY NIX ing Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game, and Âť Year: senior captain Chanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;e Senior Jones recorded a solo Âť Position: home run in the third to Outfielder give the Sooners a 7-0 Âť Hometown: lead. Daingerfield, Tech almost duplicated Texas a late-inning rally the Red Âť Game stats: Raiders used to down the 3-4, three-run home run Sooners last year. After being down 5-1 going into the seventh, Tech topped OU, 7-6, in nine innings last season. On Saturday, the Red Raiders scored a run in the bottom of the sixth before putting together a five-run performance off a pair of fielding errors to load the bases in the seventh. Techâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mikey Kenney hit a bases-clearing double and scored off of a double to bring the Red Raiders within one run of forcing extra innings. But sophomore ace pitcher Keilani Ricketts struck out Raven Bledsoe to finish the game and squelch Techâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comeback bid. Ricketts recorded the split, moving to 17-6 this season. After allowing five earned runs off five hits to begin the series, Ricketts bounced back in Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game, allowing six runs off eight hits in seven innings. Ricketts recorded 16 strikeouts over the weekend. In Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance, OU was held to just two hits during the game, both recorded by freshman outfielder Destinee Martinez, while the Red Raiders recorded three runs in the first inning. OU will travel to Kansas for a Wednesday doubleheader in Lawrence, Kan. First pitch is set for 4 p.m., and the second game scheduled to start at 6 p.m.

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Junior outfielder Cody Reine bunts in the Soonersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 8-5 win over Texas Tech on Sunday at L. Dale Mitchell Park. OU swept the Red Raiders in the three-game series. the leadoff spot when growing up, but he said now it is just part of doing his job. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely not your stereotypical leadoff hitter,â&#x20AC;? senior third baseman Garrett Buechele said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But he gets on base, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for.â&#x20AC;? Junior shortsop Caleb Bushyhead (3-for-4) scored twice and was a home run short of the cycle. Buechele (3-for-4) hit his seventh home run of the season and knocked two RBI singles. Eight of the nine OU starters had a hit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a cohesive group

offensively, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re swinging the bat better,â&#x20AC;? Golloway said. Buechele said it was nice for the offense to play like it did over the weekend because it took pressure off the starting pitching. Junior starting pitcher Burch Smith (4-2) set a career high for strikeouts in a game by fanning 12 Red Raiders on Sunday. He pitched into the fifth inning but got into some trouble, so the ball was handed to the bullpen. Golloway said Smith was subject to a pitch count, and

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