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After quick ascent, provost shows no signs of stopping
yle Harper finally has a chance to breathe. O U ’s provost has just finished a book on climate, disease and the fall of the Roman Empire — his third book since 2011 — and his youngest child, Blaise, has just turned 8 months old. But even as he clears one big hurdle, he has his eyes focused on the next ones in line. “There’s always some project,” Harper said. “I just finished this book, so I’m a little bit coming up for air after that. And I’m trying to read a lot and figure out exactly what I want my next big project to be, but in the meantime I have a lot of commitments to contribute this or that article or chapter.” Harper, who finished his undergraduate work at OU in 2001, has climbed the administrative ladder — a rise one of his former professors and current colleague called “meteoric.” He has collected responsibilities, stacking more and more tasks onto his shoulders instead of shrugging them off as he goes. “He’s just able to take on a lot. ... He’s provost, he’s a professor, so he’s doing research and he’s teaching,” said Melanie Wright, director of Honors College curriculum. “I think he still has a hand in the constitutional center, father of three little bitty kids, does a lot publicly, and he seems to do it all. Concern, but he seems to do it.”
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“I do like to say I’m a child of the ‘70s. … I was there for three days.” — Harper When Harper, 37, returned to Norman as a faculty member after receiving his doctorate in histor y from Har vard University, he found familiar faces in former professors at meetings — and a few more in the student ranks. “When I first came back and joined the faculty in 2007, I was much closer in age to the students,” Harper said. “My cousins that I’m very close to were still in school, and a lot of my brother’s friends were still in school, so in the early days I was much closer in age to the students than I am now. But over the last decade, I certainly feel a lot older, and having kids will do that to you.” Now more than two years into his job as the full-time provost, Harper is straddling generations in age and appearance — his liberally gelled hair hints ever so slightly at gray, while his neatly tailored suits give way to scuffed cowboy boots. That is fitting, perhaps, for a man who took the ladder a few rungs at a time. He was still an associate professor when he ascended to senior vice provost in 2013, then he became interim vice president and provost a year later before taking the job
for good in 2015. He now answers directly to OU President David Boren, who is twice the provost’s age and became the OU president when Harper was just 14 years old.
“I think he still has a hand in the constitutional center, father of three little bitty kids, does a lot publicly, and he seems to do it all.” MELANIE WRIGHT, DIRECTOR OF HONORS COLLEGE CURRICULUM Harper had long impressed the university’s faculty as a student and a colleague. But his selection as provost still left some of them floored. “Ever ybody was astounded. Not because he didn’t deserve it, but, you know, in private industry, people are often successful at his age — either at a startup or they just work their way up the ladder,” said Alan Velie, an English professor who taught Harper when he was an undergraduate. “But in
academia, where the standards aren’t as rigorous, usually you have to have a long apprenticeship — chairman, dean, then you become provost. “I think it’s a tribute to David B o re n ’s v i s i o n t h a t h e s aw (Harper’s potential).” Even with nearly a decade under his belt at OU, he’s easily the youngest provost in the Big 12 — every other school’s chief academic officer was already a professional academic before Harper finished high school. “This is what makes him such a fascinating educational leader — that he can simultaneously relate to faculty as scholars because he’s a serious scholar, faculty as teachers because he’s a very popular and dedicated teacher, and as students because he’s not so far removed from being a student,” said Allen Hertzke, a political science professor who taught Harper when he was a student. “And OU students because he did his undergraduate here. S o that ’s quite an unusual combination.”
“I didn’t single him out or tempt him to start it. He joined in the general merriment.” – Velie When Harper moved from Edmond to Norman in 1998, he was ambitious but focused on a different field.
“When I came to OU, I probably wanted to go into law school and into politics,” said Harper, who at one point also considered pursuing a degree in physics. “But I changed my major five or six times, and it was always because I loved something new. It wasn’t because I necessarily didn’t like what I was doing. It was because I really wanted to do something that I just discovered.” While he bounced from one fascination to another, he maximized his OU experience in different ways. He ser ved in the student government, was a member of the College Republicans and served as chair of OU Speaker’s Bureau, allowing him to rub shoulders with politicians such as John McCain and — in another passion of his — a few headlining comedians. “Some of those things you really remember from college are picking up Jimmy Fallon and Tracy Morgan from the airport and hanging out with them for a day,” Harper said. He took advantage of every opportunity in the classroom, as well. He graduated with a letters degree in three years, participated in OU’s Honors at Oxford p ro g ra m — w h e re, h e sa i d , Velie taught him how to drink beer — and was a finalist for both the Rhodes and Marshall see HARPER page 2
OU withholds retirment incentive records Open Records Office refuses requests, cites concerns over privacy STAFF REPORTS
OU has refused three requests to release the names of employees who could receive thousands of dollars in public funds if they accept a new retirement incentive package, saying the requests constitute an invasion of privacy. The OU Open Records Office denied The Daily’s requests for the names of faculty and staff eligible for OU’s Special Incentivized Retirement program on the grounds that the ages of faculty are protected as a personnel record under the Oklahoma Open Records Act.
However, the same records were given to The Daily last year. Rebecca Brink, director of the OU Open Records Office, said in a March 31 email to Daily reporter Anna Bauman that the university “reevaluated the law when it became clear how personal the information ... is to employees who have served the institution for many years.” “The legal determination notwithstanding, the University does wish to balance those individual privacy rights against the public’s interest in knowing how the retirement incentive saves money,” Brink continued in the email. The Daily is seeking the names of the individuals eligible for the cost-saving, taxpayer-funded program so that it may report on which
of the individuals intend to retire and the consequences of their retirements. The names of these individuals are important for The Daily to determine how much money the program will save the university and which university departments may lose some of their most experienced employees amid a university-wide hiring freeze, and they are the only way The Daily may fully report on the program’s consequences. The Daily’s decision to publish the names of eligible employees in 2016 was met with criticism. Eugene “Joey” Albin, institutional research analyst at OU, wrote a letter to the editor in February 2016 after the names were published, saying The Daily’s decision was reckless and lacked journalistic value.
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The OU Daily newsroom during production Jan. 16. The OU Open Records Office has refused three requests concerning the Incenitivized Retirement program.
“The decision to participate in one such measure, the voluntary incentivized retirement program, is an extremely difficult and personal decision,” Albin wrote in the letter.
“But due to the publication of this list, what should be a personal and private decision for each person see RECORDS page 2
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scholarships. “He was a brilliant student, he really was. And he was intensely engaged in the life of the mind, in public policy debates,” Hertzke said. “So he wasn’t just someone who was like a good student or a brilliant student — we have a lot of brilliant students — he was really engaged in both kind of the intellectual quest and in the public debates that were happening at the time.” Having set his mind to becoming a history professor, Harper headed to Ha r va rd Un i v e r s i t y f o r graduate school and took his cowboy boots with him, Oklahoma never far from his mind. “He wasn’t here for very long, but he certainly made his mark,” Wr ight said.
“The books and the babies come out at the same rate.” – Harper Harper’s increased responsibilities have, if anything, enhanced his intellectual curiosity. The student who struggled to pick a field to focus on can now, as provost, use a business lunch as an excuse to pick the brain of an expert in nearly any field. “The previous chair of Faculty Senate does a lot of work on infectious disease,” Harper said. “And so when we would go to lunch to talk about shared governance in Faculty Senate,
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on that list is now somewhat more of a public matter. The pressures they each feel are now exacerbated, and there is even a chance that for those of suspect character, a list like this can serve as a list of targets to pressure to retire in order to free up funds.” The program was first implemented on Jan. 27, 2016, to save university money by incentivizing employees older than 62 to retire. The university gave The Daily the names of all 386 faculty and staff members eligible for the program in February 2016. The OU Board of Regents renewed the program at its March 8 meeting, lowering the age requirement from 62 to 60. Full-time, benefits-eligible faculty or staff members who take advantage of the program would be paid an amount equal to 75 percent of their annual base salary that was in effect on March 15. Full-time, benefits-eligible support and service staff who are not exempt from overtime rules would receive
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we would get through business and talk about gruesome diseases and human society.” Despite his relative youth, Harper is a throwback to a different time in the academic world. He believes in the value of public education and its value to society, blending work from different classical fields in his own research. “There’s a real continuity between how he as a student was grappling with what it means to be a citizen, an active citizen, of a free republic, and his work as provost and trying to lead the university in various ways,” Hertzke said. Harper never fully left OU, keeping in contact with old professors throughout his graduate program and even meeting up with Wright and Velie one summer while they were in Oxford. He never worked anywhere else, moving from Harvard University back to the university he grew u p l ov i n g t o b e c o m e a colleague of the professors who had become his friends. As a professional, Harper has impressed many with his work ethic. He tries to write from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. before beginning the rest of his day, co-teaches an Honors College class, is a professor of classics and letters, and is an affiliated faculty member in the history and religion departments. He and his wife Michelle also have three children under the age of 7. “ H e ’s t r e m e n d o u s l y self-disciplined,” Hertzke said. “He’s a provost who intends to remain a serious
s c h o l a r a n d a v i b ra n t teacher. That’s a tough combination to maintain — and a father with young family. That ’s a tough combination.” Velie, who has been at the university since 1967 and is seeing its appropriations slashed by the Republican-dominated state government, is not s hy w i t h h i s t h o u g h t s about the man he considers one of the best students he’s ever had. “ I t h i n k h e’s i d e a l l y suited to be a (university) president, from my s t a n d p o i nt, b e cau s e I think given the current political situation, you need, first of all, a person from Oklahoma, and he is,” Velie said. “Preferably from the University of Oklahoma, which he is. And then it would be helpful, given the present political situation, if the person who became president was a Republican.” Ve l i e a d m i t t e d t h a t he didn’t know if such a move was in the offing whenever Boren, 75, retires. Harper said simply of his own future, “I hope I’ l l b e h e re s e r v i ng a s needed,” but he certainly wouldn’t be intimidated by the workload of a president. “He really has shown that he has the capacity to navigate all of the stakeholders that exist — students, faculty, administrators, donors — I mean, a modern university is a complicated enterprise,” Hertzke said. “And so he’s clearly demonstrated that leadership capacity.”
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Faculty and students cut the ribbon to open the bike share program during the ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday. The bikes, called Crimson Cruisers, have 10 bike hubs around campus.
OU SGA rolls out new bike share program Students eligible to rent bikes, ride across campus
in public administration. The bikes, provided by bike share company Gotcha Bike, have solar panels to power lights for those riding at night. The program was a Student Government Association initiative spearheaded by Crisp and Kade Kordonowy, finance a n d e c o n o m i c s j u n i o r. The two began working on the project in March 2016, Kordonowy said. Crisp said the program is designed specifically for students. “It’s a service that’s provided specifically for them, something they can take pride in, something they can feel like, ‘this is my campus, this is my bike,
this is not only my bike but a bike for generations of Sooners and the Sooner family that’s going to come here,’” Crisp said. Crisp said he hopes the program will make it easier for students without a lot of time or money on their hands to get around campus. “The maintenance of a bike, the expense of a bike, the amount of time that it keeps to upkeep a bike — when you’re not an avid biker — is a lot to take on as a student,” Crisp said.
their hourly rate that was in SVRI ELEGIBILITY BREAKDOWN effect on March 15, times 1,560 hours. In 2016, the nearDivision SVRI Eligible Employees % by Division ly identical program yielded Academic Affairs - Faculty 204 48% $13.7 million in savings from Academic Affairs Staff 95 22% the 146 individuals who indiAdministration & Finance 42 10% cated their intent to retire. College of Continuing Education 18 4% On March 23, Bauman sent the open records request for Executive Affairs 23 5% the names of faculty members Information Technology 11 3% at OU who are eligible for the Student Affairs 21 5% Special Voluntary Retirement Other 11 3% Incentive program. These Total 425 100% would be faculty members who are aged 60 or older, the SVRI ELEGIBILITY requirement for program eligibility. BREAKDOWN BY DIVISION On March 28, Amanda Academic Affairs - Faculty Wilder, Open Records Office 11 21 staff assistant, emailed Academic Affairs - Staff 11 Bauman that the requested 23 records were available for Administration & Finance pickup. Upon arrival, Bauman 18 was provided a document College of Continuing Education stating that the request was denied because the ages of Executive Affairs 204 42 faculty are protected. The same day, Bauman Information Technology emailed Wilder asking why the request was denied when Student Affairs it was granted in 2016. Brink then emailed Bauman March 95 Other 31, citing the university’s reevaluation of the law. In place of the records Bauman reSource: OU HR, Benefits Analysis and Planning quested, Brink offered in the O n M o n d a y , D a n a the part of the Open Records case in which the court ruled email to provide the number of faculty members eligible for Branham, The Daily’s edi- Act provision that Brink cited. that releasing the birth-dates the program and their salaries tor-in-chief, emailed Brink Branham also cited a 2011 of public employees can lead to say age is not included in Oklahoma Supreme Court to identity theft. The ages of — but not their names.
public employees are not mentioned in the ruling. Additionally, knowing an individual’s age doesn’t allow someone to commit identity theft. The Daily is also not seeking the exact ages or birthdates of the eligible employees. The Daily seeks records that would only reveal which employees are aged 60 and over. The Daily believes the OU Open Records Office has cited a nonexistent provision to the Oklahoma Open Records Act so as to seal the requested records. The Daily plans to involve a lawyer in the situation if the OU Open Records Office continues to block access to the records. In the final email from the OU Open Records Office, Brink provided a breakdown by department of employees eligible for the retirement initiative. The Records Office’s data shows 425 OU employees are eligible to retire through the program, and 299 of those employees come from the Academic Affairs division. View the chart to see the complete breakdown.
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Virtual reality gets real OUVR club gives students chance to develop projects ANNA BAUMAN @annabauman2
Computer science sopho m o re E r i c G o n z a l e z ’s mouth dropped open when he strapped the Microsoft HoloLens, a $3,000 virtual reality headset, to his head. “ Is t h i s w h a t h e av e n looks like?” Gonzalez said jokingly. He and other students involved in OU’s new virtual reality club experimented with the rare, pricey piece of technology during one of their first club meetings March 24. OUVR was founded in early March to provide a space for students to work together on virtual and augmented reality development projects, said Ryan Dobyns, computer science sophomore and OUVR president. Dobyns said he hopes club members will gain valuable experience in the new and rapidly developing field of virtual reality that will allow them to build a strong portfolio to show potential employers. “We’re not just hanging out, playing games,” Dobyns said. T h e g ro u p f o r m e d t o bring together the diverse skillsets needed to develop virtual reality content, such as coding, artistic design and creative brainstorming, said Bryson Reece, computer science sophomore and OUVR vice president. “ We’v e t a k e n u p t h i s hobby of developing for (VR), and in doing that we realized we need to expand the people we know and the skillsets we can take advantage of in order to create good VR experiences,” Reece said. The organization has about 15 members, but it is in the process of reaching out to potential members to expand as much as possible, Dobyns said. Virtual reality is a relatively new and quickly growing technology that typically involves wearing some type of headset and allows users to experience a 3-D world without being present in it.
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Computer science sophomore Eric Gonzalez tries out the newest virtual reality system for the club March 24. This new system works by moving your pointer finger and giving voice commands.
“Good VR is extremely immersive,” Reece said. “You get transported to a different place, you forget that you’re standing in this room — at that moment you are somewhere else. You are interacting with things that aren’t there, interacting with things in entirely new ways that aren’t possible in physical reality.” The new club is part of the university’s wider efforts to expand virtual reality on campus, led primarily by University Libraries. Carl Grant, chief technology officer of University Libraries and OUVR faculty adviser, said OU is at the forefront of this new technological frontier. After the successful use of vir tual reality in the Galileo’s World Exhibition in fall 2015, the library installed virtual reality stations at Innovation @ The Edge, a technology-driven public experimentation space heavily equipped with 3-D printers, VR headsets and more located on the first floor of the Bizzell Memorial Library. Other virtual reality workstations based on this first model can be found
across campus, with locations at the Innovation H u b, t h e a r c h i t e c t u r e Library in Gould Hall and the Inasmuch Foundation Collaborative L earning Center in the OU College of Law. Grant said there are 24 classes from various departments across campus whos e students are required to use the virtual reality technology at these locations to complete some classwork.
museums. “We talke d to the researchers down in the research park, they’ve got all kinds of issues where unless you can shrink yourself down to a microscopic size and climb inside things, you just can’t see it,” Grant said. “We can do that in virtual reality.” Grant said he has received positive feedback from other schools and technology companies which have expressed in-
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“We bring the technology, faculty brings what they’re trying to teach and instruct, and then we show them how we can help with what they’re trying to teach students,” Grant said. Grant said virtual reality provides endless opportunities in an academic setting, such as allowing science students to “climb inside” chemical compounds or giving art students a chance to get a hands-on, up-close view of objects that remain locked away in
terest in OU’s virtual reality initiatives. “It ’s pretty satisfying when you’ve climbed into the ranks where the leading institutions are looking at you, saying, ‘OK, we like what you’re doing there,’” Grant said. Grant said he is happy that students created a VR club and hopes they will help develop content that can be used in an academic setting. “One of the things we were really trying to do this
year was build community around (Innovation @ The Edge) ... so this is great,” Grant said. “We’re thrilled to see this club come together and hope it does some amazing work. I have high hopes for it.” Gonzalez said he was excited about joining the club because it gives him access to expensive technology like the Microsoft HoloLens, which the club received free of charge from the One University Store, that he otherwise would not be able to learn how to use. “Outside of it, we don’t have the money and the capabilities to do it, but with this club, you’re able to,” Gonzalez said. Reece said the field of virtual technology is expanding quickly, and he would not be surprised if OU provides students with their own personal VR headset in the next three years. “We’re really grateful and really lucky to be here at OU, (which) is pushing the forefront of VR,” Reece said. Anna Bauman
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Panel to focus on sexual assault, media Discussion to follow screening of 2016 Best Picture ANNA BAUMAN @annabauman2
Students will have the opportunity to discuss sexual assault with clergy members and journalists at an upcoming screening and discussion of the movie “Spotlight.” The OU Gender + Equality Center, Women’s Resource Center and The Daily are co-hosting the panel, which will take place at 6:00 p.m. Thursday in the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation Auditorium in Gaylord Hall, room 1141. “Spotlight,” which won PROVIDED VIA FLICKR the award for Best Motion The OU Gender + Equality Center, Women’s Resource Center and OU Daily will co-host an event discussing the move “Spotlight.” Picture at the Academy The movie is based on a true story of how Boston Globe reporters uncovered child abuse within the Catholic Church. Awards in 2016, relays the reports of sexual assault and interesting opportunity to Fahl said she hopes the true story of how a team local resources for victims. hear different perspectives event highlights issues reof Boston Globe reporters “SPOTLIGHT” “Hopefully (event attend- on the movie. lated to sexual assault beuncovered the mass covSCREENING ees) will come to a better “I hope to hear from peo- cause April is Sexual Assault er-up of a wide-spread child understanding of different ple in the community about Awareness Month. abuse scandal within the Time: 6 p.m. perspectives that various how journalists can do a “I hope that people come Catholic Church. Date: Thursday groups have as well as makbetter, maybe more respectout to see a very provocative The event will begin with Place: Ethics and ing sure people are aware of ful, maybe more sensitive and critical movie and that a screening of the movie Excellence in Journalism the resources that are avail- job, when they’re covering there’s good discussion and followed by discussion faFoundation Auditorium in able in our community,” issues about sexual assault,” increased understanding,” cilitated by a panel of clerGaylord Hall, room 1141 Fahl said. Branham said. “I’m real- Fahl said. gy members, sexual assault D a n a B r a n h a m , e d i - ly interested to learn about victim services representaCenter, said the discussion tor-in-chief of The Daily how I can do my job better tives and journalists. Kathy Fahl, director of will center around how cler- and panelist, said she thinks going into a career after The Anna Bauman anna.m.bauman-1@ou.edu the OU Gender + Equality gy and media respond to the discussion will be an Daily.”
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Campaign to shed light on multi-minority stories Gender + Equality Center plans to tell #MyStoryOutLoud ANNA BAUMAN @annabauman2
Editor’s note: Anne Tran is a pseudonym used to protect the source’s identity because she has not come out to her parents. The minute Kyle Bohanan, microbiology senior, heard about a storytelling campaign for LGBTQ people of color at OU, he knew he wanted to use the platform to share his own story. The #MyStoryOutLoud campaign, originally started by the nonprofit organization Advocates for Youth, uses various forms of media to illuminate the unique experiences of people who identify as both LGBTQ and a racial minority. “I think it takes a lot of courage to be not only out and queer, but also being a person of color and out and queer, there’s something about that that I think is special,� Bohanan said. Bohanan serves on a subcommittee of the OU Gender + Equality Center’s LGBTQ Program Advisory Board, which is in the beginning planning stages of bringing the campaign to OU. Kathy Fahl, director of the GEC, said she suggested the idea of running a #MyStoryOutLoud campaign at OU after hearing about it at a Creating Change Conference. “I think it’s often an overlooked community, people whose identities intersect,� Fahl said. “We sometimes just focus on one part of somebody without realizing how their various identities impact one another, impact how people treat them, interact with them or recognize and celebrate those parts of that person.� Bohanan said the campaign is not a single consolidated effort but a loose collective of stories shared on social media throughout college campuses nationwide. An online application on OrgSync allows OU students to submit their stories, which will be simultaneously shared through different
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Microbiology senior Kyle Bohanan speaks to a reporter in the Oklahoma Memorial Union March 23. Bohanan explained the OU Gender + Equality Center’s #MyStoryOutLoud storytelling campaign.
media at a later, undetermined date. The subcommittee has received three or four responses so far but are looking for more students to be involved before they officially launch the campaign, Fahl said. Bohanan said there will be various media formats included, such as posters, social media and videos to share personal stories in a way that is comfortable for the individuals.
“I think it takes a lot of courage to be not only out and queer, but also being a person of color and out and queer, there’s something about that that I think is special.� KYLE BOHANAN, MICROBIOLOGY SENIOR
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Entrepreneurship and marketing junior Alec Armer has unofficially defeated biology junior Jonna Vanderslice in the runoff election for OU Campus Activities Council chair, said Abbey Taylor, Student Government Association Election Board chair. Armer received 50.86 percent of the 2,275 total votes, and Vanderslice received 49.14 percent of the vote, Taylor said. The original March 28 and 29 election eliminated geology junior Will Shelden from the race after he received 25.94 percent of the votes. Vanderslice received 43.99 percent of the votes in that election, and Armer received 30.7 percent. Shelden later endorsed Armer for the chair position in a Facebook post Sunday. “I’ve been able to work more closely ALEC with Alec over the past year and see him ARMER grow during that time,� Shelden told The Daily Monday. “I have confidence that this is something he can take on.� Armer ran on a platform of assessing the state of CAC, acting on what said assessment shows and creating a common application that would allow more people to participate in more events. He has served on CAC’s executive committee, Howdy Week executive committee, homecoming and U-Sing. The election’s results must still be verified by SGA’s Superior Court before they can be deemed official. The court will most likely verify the results Thursday, Taylor said. Staff Reports
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that’ll help people realize this is a whole community at OU whose needs have not been accounted for,� Tran said. Bohanan said individuals who experience the intersection of more than one minority identity are often stereotyped by others. “We have these archetypes of how this particular skin color and this gender means this,� Bohanan said. “It’s like we have these equations for how we expect people to be, and I think this project aims to say, ‘You really don’t have that, there really is no equation for that, there is no set system of variables.’� Bohanan said the story-sharing platform will allow members of the OU community to engage in conversation about issues faced by these individuals in order to increase understanding and solidarity. “There’s something very powerful about seeing another human being and hearing their experience and just knowing that’s what they go through,� Bohanan said.
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of finding the right words to use. “I think that it takes time to kind of sift through those emotions and feelings and realize, ‘What do I want to say, how do I want to present myself?’� Bohanan said. “You’re putting yourself out there, and there is potential for people to recognize you and that kind of backlash. I think that’s the risky part of it, but hopefully the more people we get the more solidarity there is in that.� Anne Tran, English literature and biology freshman and member of the campaign planning subcommittee, said intersectional identity has its unique challenges that need to be illuminated, such as a lack of community on campus. “It feels like you’re only allowed to be one minority at a time,� Tran said. “When you’re in Asian American spaces, you can have a lot of really cool experiences with other Asian Americans ... but then you can’t really talk about your queerness. And then in queer spaces, you can talk about your queerness and that’s awesome, but then you can’t talk about race.� Tran said she hopes the campaign will help the OU community recognize these issues. “Once we can get that conversation going, hopefully
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Sooners, Volunteers agree to future series Oklahoma slated to face Tennessee in Norman in 2020 SPENSER DAVIS @Davis_Spenser
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Then junior cornerback Jordan Thomas during practice Dec. 29, 2016, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Thomas has been one of the stand-outs at practice, according to inside wide receivers coach Cale Gundy.
Offensive positions available Sooners to promote from within after Westbrook, Mixon KELLI STACY @AstacyKelli
With Joe Mixon and Dede Westbrook headed to the NFL Draft, Oklahoma is looking for replacements in the return game this spring. With anywhere between six and eight players taking reps this spring, the S ooners have plenty of talent vying for a few positions, according to special teams coordinator Jay Boulware. All have been impressive throughout spring camp. “They’ve been working their tails off,” Boulware said. “I’ve been watching
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the film and coaching them up in the meeting room, and I think that we’ll have some good candidates back there to return punts for us.” Boulware acknowledged that things could change once the real games start, but for now, he remains positive. “Any time you get a new kid back there you don’t know how he’s really going t o re a c t , b u t I l i k e t h e
prospects,” he said. “We did kickoff return for the first time today. I like a couple of the guys we’ve got back there going into it, knowing what their ability level is, so I’m stoked.” Last season, Westbrook returned nine kicks for 244 yards and five punts for 81 yards and a score. Mixon did the bulk of his damage on kickoffs, leading the team with 494 yards and a score on 21 returns. He added another 25 yards on four punt returns. Senior wide receiver Jeffer y Mead, sophomore receiver Marquise Brown, sophomore corner Parnell Motley, senior c o r n e r Jo rd a n T h o m a s and junior running back Marcelias Sutton have all been practicing returning punts and kicks this spring
in an attempt to replicate some of that production. Inside wide receivers coach Cale Gundy said that no decisions have been made yet as to who will take Westbrook’s and Mixon’s positions. “All of the guys have been doing a pretty decent job, so that’s something we’ll probably try to narrow down to three or four guys at the end of spring camp,” Gundy said. “Then those guys can work really hard in the summer and see how i t c o m e s ab ou t c o m e two-a-days.” Gundy said that Brown, Sutton, Thomas and Motley have all stood out so far in practice. Kelli Stacy
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Oklahoma and Tennessee have agreed to a home-andhome series in Norman in 2020 and Knoxville in 2024, according to a press release from OU Athletics. The Sooners and Volunteers most recently played in 2014 and 2015 — Oklahoma took both matchups, including a thrilling overtime victory at Neyland Stadium in 2015. “The Tennessee series renews our commitment to marquee non-conference games,” athletic director Joe Castiglione said. “The games in 2014 and ‘15 demonstrated a tremendous respect between two storied programs as well as between a pair of passionate fan bases. And so for the players, coaches and fans, we’re excited to renew this high-profile series.” In addition to the Volunteers, Oklahoma has non-conference games scheduled with Ohio State, UCLA, Nebraska, Michigan, Houston and Army over the next decade. In 2014, the Sooners took advantage of a late pick-six and defeated Tennessee in Norman 34-10. Former Sooners’ quarterback Trevor Knight led the way with 308 yards and a touchdown on 20-33 passing. T h e f o l l o w i n g y e a r, Oklahoma met the Volunteers in Knoxville and needed some late Sooner magic to pull off a 31-24 overtime victory. Trailing 17-3 halfway through
the fourth quarter, Samaje Perine capped off a scoring drive with a two-yard TD catch. Then, with 40 seconds to go in regulation, Sterling Shepard caught a five-yard pass from Baker Mayfield to send the game into overtime. In the extra period, the Volunteers struck first an with eight-yard TD from Jalen Hurd. The Sooners, however, followed with a touchdown run from Mayfield and a catch from Shepard to put them out front. Zach Sanchez sealed the game with an interception on the Volunteers’ ensuing drive. The atmosphere in Knoxville was record-setting and still draws praise from OU players who were there.
OKLAHOMA VS. TENNESSEE Both teams will face each other in 2020 and 2024. 2020 football site: Norman, Oklahoma 2024 football site: Knoxville, Tennessee
“Nothing I’ve ever experienced or ever will experience will compare to Tennessee,” former Sooners’ center Ty Darlington said in December 2015. Oklahoma has won four straight games against the SEC. Bob Stoops is 7-4 overall against the conference and 2-0 against Tennessee. OU also announced a home game against South Dakota for 2019, completing its non-conference schedule for that year. Spenser Davis
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Local indie band far from basic Norman musicians experiment with covers, love songs JENSEN ARMSTRONG @jenfin21
Kat Lock, lead singer of indie alternative band St Basic, perched on the edge of her seat in Gray Owl Coffee and sipped a vanilla latte. Her loose, rose gold curls bounced as she joked about some of her favorite people in the world: her bandmates. Two of the three boys in the four-piece band are boisterous characters, almost constantly ribbing each other. Drummer Jack Martin claimed he initially picked up a guitar to get chicks, while guitarist Sam Wegrzynski quipped about how learning to play actually benefited his love life. “I guess I got my first acoustic guitar in high school because this girl was like, ‘I like the song “Wish You Were Here” by Pink Floyd,’” Wegrzynski said. “So I bought a guitar, and I was like, ‘Look, I can play it,’ and six years later I’m still writing songs about that same girl.” St Basic’s members met each other through Lock, who had known only bassist Matt Swann, chemistry junior, for more than a few months. Now after more than half a year of making music together, Martin and Wegrzynski run a YouTube video game comedy channel called “Life Long Riot” together; Wegrzynski also co-hosts a podcast called “Okla-Homewreckers” with Lock in which they recap and comment on Bravo’s “Sweet Home Oklahoma.” The band came together slowly, but it has taken off in the local music scene since
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Kat Lock and Jack Martin perform at The Deli on Campus Corner Feb. 27. Lock and Martin are two members of St Basic, a band that had its first performance in September 2016.
its first official performance in September 2016. The group’s name came from an inside joke Lock has with her sister and their mutual friends. “Instead of saying someone’s basic, they’d be like, ‘Ugh, look at her in her St Basic sweater,’” Lock said. The sisters wear chevron, UGGs and other stereotypical suburban girl garb to a St. Basic’s Day party they host each fall, Lock said. L o ck ’s s i s t e r a l s o re cords videos of the self-proclaimed “Smash Mouth-approved” band’s performances. “We got a really good (video) that Smash Mouth shared on their Twitter, because we do a cover of ‘AllStar,’” Lock said. “Because a retweet is the same as an endorsement, obviously.” While the band performs at least one iconic cover
per gig, most of its music is original. Wegrzynski described St Basic’s sound as indie pop-rock heading toward alternative rock, a byproduct of each musician’s skills in distinctly different genres.
“I guess I got my first acoustic guitar in high school because this girl was like, ‘I like the song “Wish You Were Here” by Pink Floyd.’” SAM WEGRZYNSKI, GUITARIST
“It’s what happens when you put four guitarists in a band. It’s almost like we were all subconsciously stubborn and wanted to bring in our own thing, and we kind of secretly did that,” Wegrzynski said.
Writing St Basic’s music is a collaborative effort. Martin and Wegrzynski respectively add rock ‘n’ roll and alternative elements that change how a song sounds after Lock has written it. “A lot of them are about dumb boys,” L ock said. “Friends all want to ask, ‘Oh, is that song about X?’ I mean, yeah, but at the end of the day they’re about me. It’s my perspective.” Not all of St Basic’s music is about romance, though. “I wrote one song, ‘Demitrius’ — which we have recorded on Bandcamp — and that is about a friend of mine that died. I wrote that for him,” Lock said. The late Demitrius Graves’ mother requested to play the song at his funeral, so St Basic recorded it and sent it to her, Lock said.
The band plans to make a music video to go along with the ballad. St Basic is also recording its first EP, “Bug Bites,” w h i c h w i l l f e at u re f i v e songs from old set lists. The group’s first single, “I Like You, But,” will be in production soon. The band has been lucky to know so many people with the ability to find shows and record its music, especially considering its causal beginning, L ock said. “By the way it started, obviously, it was very fun and lighthearted. I didn’t even know if Jack could play drums,” Lock said. T h e g r o u p’s f r i e n d l y chemistry makes St Basic’s performances feel like a practice session. Once, Wegrzynski asked the entire audience to sit down for an acoustic song.
“We get some very cool unscripted moments by doing stuff like that,” Martin said. St Basic has a uniquely entertaining stage presence and its music can either pull heartstrings or turn an audience into a mosh pit, but the band’s true charm lies in how its members feel about each other. “I know it kinda makes me feel like I have a home somewhere,” Swann said. “I don’t think St Basic would be quite the St Basic (it is) without Sam, without Jack, without Katherine, and so it kind of feels nice to be a part of a family. You know, we’re here for each other and we also play some pretty cool tunes.” Jensen Armstrong
jensen.d.armstrong@gmail. com
Sweet shops near campus compete The Baked Bear adds new dessert option for students MADDIE ROPER @maddieroper4
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A screenshot of the Pepsi advertisement with Kendall Jenner. The ad sparked controversy and was pulled by Pepsi April 5.
Ad makes dangerous misstep confronted by police officers, Jenner immediately solves the conflict by handing a police officer a refreshing Pepsi. The police officer looks around and does nothing as the protest roars. Jenner has Allison Weintraub done it. She’s ended police allison.weintraub@ou.edu @AllisonWntrb brutality. Less than a day later, Ads can be many things #pepsilivesmatter is to many people: a source of trending on Twitter, and annoyance, something you the backlash against the have blocked, or maybe commercial has been so even something to coo over enormous that Pepsi has while you wait for “The pulled the ad. Many have Real Housewives” to come seen the comparison to the back on. But when ads Black Lives Matter movemisstep, they suddenly be- ment and have even called come a source of discourse out Pepsi for being racially about the larger issues. insensitive. That’s the case with There are so many little Pepsi’s newest ad, which elements to this ad that features Kendall Jenner don’t make sense. When and the song “Lions” by Jenner leaves the photoSkip Marley. The ad shows shoot, she takes off her Jenner walking off a photo- blonde wig and throws it at shoot to join a protest. a black woman. A woman Once the protest is wearing a hijab takes
Jenner’s picture á la Ieshia Evans’ iconic photograph at a Baton Rouge Black Lives Matter protest. The danger with this ad is that it normalizes protesting. Protesting becomes something trendy, as opposed to a serious event where people react to a specific and dangerous problem. The protest signs pictured bear generic messages such as “join the conversation.” Clearly, the internet has decided to join. Among thousands of other tweets, Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter, Bernice King, has called out the corporation, tweeting, “If only Daddy would have known about the power of #Pepsi.” It doesn’t help that Jenner was in the white-savior role. Jenner, who has been called out for cultural appropriation for wearing her hair in
cornrows, a historically black hairstyle, hardly helped Pepsi make its case. In a statement, Pepsi said, “Pepsi was trying to project a global message of unity, peace and understanding. Clearly, we missed the mark and apologize. We did not intend to make light of a serious issue.” However, that apology doesn’t cover the full extent of the damage done to its brand. Pepsi has signaled that it does not care about public protests, but maybe the outcry around this incident will force it to reconsider. Allison Weintraub is a professional writing junior and is The Daily’s assistant arts & entertainment editor.
This weekend Campus Corner flooded with customers craving ice cream sandwiches from Norman’s newest dessert s h o p, T h e B a k e d B e a r. The shop’s presence on Campus Corner adds competition for the many dessert shops already in business there, but the other sweet shops have plans in place to combat their new comrade. Jordan Holt, Epic Pops’ g e n e r a l m a n a g e r, s a i d she looks to partner with philanthropies at OU. The shop partnered with OU sorority Pi Beta Phi, allowing them a portion of the proceeds from the red-vel-
the shop is not too worried about the new competition across the street. “If people want ice cream — they’ll go to them. But if they want anything else, they’ll come to us,” Freeman said. Justin Gascot, assistant manager at Hurts Donut Company, agrees that The Baked Bear presents little threat to Campus Corner businesses. “I don’t think we’re really too worried about the situation,” Gascot said. Gascot feels the variety of toppings that Hurts offers will continue to keep the shop a relevant staple of Campus Corner, he said. M o r e o v e r, H o l t f e e l s Epic Pops will stay afloat because of her handmade care and local ingredients. “All your money won’t go to a franchise or a chain,” Holt said. “It will stay here and help support the community.”
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or a chain. It will stay here and help support the community.” JORDAN HOLT, GENERAL MANAGER OF EPIC POPS
vet flavored ice pop. In return, the sorority promotes Epic Pops on campus. Anne Freeman, an employee at Apple Tree Chocolate, said the shop strives to stay relevant by promoting its sweets on the popular app Pocket Points. The app gives OU students points to be used at local businesses for keeping their phones locked during class. While the app helps to g et the w ord out ab out Apple Tree, Freeman said
T h e Ba k e d B e a r gav e away free sandwiches for its grand opening April 1 and continued to draw in people looking for a sweet treat all weekend. Campus Corner has proven to be a difficult area for local businesses to stay afloat with recent shut downs of Chimy’s and CVS. Maddie Roper
maddieroper4@ou.edu