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OU summer enrollment surges Enrollment increases can be attributed to earlier classes, block scheduling switch ALYSSA GRIMLEY The Oklahoma Daily
Enrollment convenience and classes offered as soon as the spring semester ended, prompted by the OU administration, has increased the number of summer students by 27 percent from last year. Since 2005, the number of students enrolling in summer courses has been falling, according to documents from the Dean’s Council. Reasons behind the enrollment decrease include cost, the length of courses and a limited course selection, according to
documents from the Dean’s Council. In the summer of 2010, the total number of credit hours students enrolled in for the College of Arts and Sciences was 13,329. The current enrollment for summer 2011 is 16,988 credit hours, which is a 27 percent increase, said Kelly Damphousse associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Robin Stroud, assistant to the executive vice president for administration and finance, and Damphousse worked together to address enrollment rates, Stroud said. Damphousse said they are not sure if the new block system implemented this summer is the reason for the increase in enrollment, but the first block of the summer has been popular, OU decided to offer classes as soon as the spring semester
ended because students demanded them, Damphousse said. OU’s administration also worked to increase publicity and visibility for summer courses, Damphousse said. Damphousse, Stroud and other faculty members worked with advisors in order to better communicate what classes need to be offered, Stroud said. The creation of a summer session web site also made it easy for students to find information, according to Stroud. The addition of classNav, a search tool on OU’s summer session website, made it easier for students to find what classes are being offered, Damphousse said. READ FULL STORY ON OUDAILY.COM
FUN IN THE SUN | SOONERS TEACH LOCAL KIDS TO SWIM
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Rendon Chambers, business junior, trains Jacy how to swim Monday during her swimming lessons at OU’s pool. OU offers swimming lessons for local children through the summer. Parents interested in enrolling their children should visit recservices.ou.edu
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Retired Maj. Gen. Toney Stricklin was appointed by Gov. Mary Fallin to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education in April and sworn in May 27. Stricklin, who said he values higher education, transitioned from the Army, where he served for more than 32 years, to the business world and now to the regents’ board. “I attribute any success that I’ve had over the course of my lifetime to higher education,” Stricklin said. Stricklin joined the military at 21 years of age from his hometown of Charleston, W.Va. The Army afforded him the opportunity to attend Officer Candidate School Toney in Oklahoma, the Stricklin first step in a long military career that culminated in Stricklin rising to the rank of major general, Stricklin said. Stricklin obtained his bachelor’s of business administration degree at Oklahoma’s own Cameron University in Lawton, where he still resides. Stricklin said he chose to major in business after watching his father throughout his career as an accountant who enjoyed his work and made a good living for his family. His father encouraged him to follow in his footsteps. READ FULL STORY ON OUDAILY.COM
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Gaylord College is hosting 20 South Asian students to teach them how to use new technologies to their advantage in their journalistic endeavors as a part of Gaylord’s New Media Institute. Students arrived at OU May 21 and will stay until June 15 as part of the U.S. Institutes for Student Leaders. Students in the program are from Bangladesh, India, PHOTO PROVIDED Sri Lanka and Nepal. Students from South Asia participating in the Gaylord Prospective participants, College New Media Institute take notes on iPad 2s. selected from their respective universities, were nominated by the U.S. Embassy in their the state department to fund at least one student. “I’m really enjoying this country, and those nomina- the institute, Latham said. The institute’s subject of journalism, so tions were reviewed includes lectures, now I’m planning to get my and finalized by the skill labs, commu- master’s in this,” said Umme U.S. Department of ONLINE AT State. OUDAILY.COM nity service and Mahbuba, a junior from leadership train- Asian University for Women “It’s a very com- » Link: Gaylord petitive process,” New Media Insti- i n g , w h i c h a r e in Bangladesh. streamed live via Editor’s note: Six former s a i d E l i z a b e t h tute’s Facebook t h e i r Fa c e b o o k or current Daily employees Latham, program fan page page, said program are involved with the Gaylord officer for the U.S. d i r e c t o r C h r i s New Media Institute. Department of State Bureau of Educational Krug. READ FULL STORY ON The institute already has and Cultural Affairs. OUDAILY.COM OU received $240,000 from had a lasting impression on
Six OU students, all members of Sooners Without Borders, and one OU staff member returned from a two-week engineering service trip to Potosi, Bolivia on June 2. The students, along with staff and students from St. Francis University in Pennsylvania, spent the trip constructing a limestone channel to treat contaminated river water in Potosi. Rachel Rogers, a member of the small group that made the trip to Bolivia, explained the work the group did while in the country. “We implemented a limestone channel outside of Potosi, Bolivia,” Rogers said. “Water flowing out of mines is contaminated with metals and this flows downstream and adversely affects crops and livestock. The limestone channel we are implementing is part of a larger project which will help filter out metals from the stream.” Despite the technical nature of the limestone filtration system, the work the OU team did was largely physical, Rogers said. “We physically put the limestone into the stream,” Rogers said. “We took samples of the water and cleared out other rocks.” The group’s goal was to make the contaminated stream usable for crop irrigation, Rogers said. This project is a step closer to serving many underprivileged communities, Aissata Cisse, environmental engineering
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graduate, said in an email. “I felt that this project could be a good way to get started in the developing world because I am from Mali, a developing country where I would like to realize this kind of project,” Cisse said. Engineering physics senior, Dillon Carroll, called the trip an idealistic college student’s dream. “The trip was a chance to put the engineering principles and knowledge I’ve been learning into practice to benefit others,” Carroll said.
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Blind support dangerous Our View: America’s unwavering dedication to Israel may threaten U.S. foreign policy.
has managed to get away with such appalling behavior while still receiving more than $3 billion annually in U.S. military and economic asEarlier this week, Israeli soldiers reportedly sistance lies within the unqualified support of our killed at least 20 people as protesters attempted politicians. to cross into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights Congress is more pro-Israel than the Israelis are. to commemorate Naksa Day, the start of the 1967 According to Reuters, 57 percent of Israelis supWar. This marks the second time in the ported Obama’s speech and were critical past month Israeli soldiers have fired live of Netanyahu’s. About five thousand peoThe Our View ammunition at unarmed protesters. ple marched Sunday in Tel Aviv in support is the majority Such actions are consistent with the apof a Palestinian state along 1967 lines. opinion of proach other countries in the region have There are some American leaders, The Daily’s taken to deal with the Arab Spring, but we however, who think there will be consenfive-member would hope for better from such a close editorial board quences if the U.S. abstains in the peace U.S. ally. process between Israel and Palestine. Exactly how close an ally was made OU President David Boren, along with clear last month when Benjamin Netanyahu, several other prominent figures, signed a letter the Israeli prime minister, gave a speech to Jan. 24 asking Obama to reassert America’s role thunderous applause from Congress. He cerin the peace process. The letter was reprinted retainly was more popular than President Barack cently by the New York Review of Books. Obama, whom the prime minister lectured — via We reaffirm the principles of this letter, which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — about the un- states: “We believe that if the American people acceptability of the 1967 borders. are fully informed by their president of the likely Netanyahu’s reception in Congress points to consequences of an abandonment of U.S. leadera real weakness in American foreign policy. Our ship in a part of the world so critical to this counsupport for Israel is bipartisan and unconditional, try’s national security and to the safety of our which becomes a liability when Israeli leaders de- military personnel in the region, he will have their cide to humiliate us. support.” Lecturing Clinton about a policy position the It makes little sense that there is more support U.S. has held since before the Bush administrafor Netanyahu’s agenda here than in Israel. tion might be one such example. Another would We applaud Boren for his balanced stance and be announcing the approval of a massive housshare his hope that the American people will suping project in occupied East Jerusalem when Vice port a more constructive policy if they’re better President Joe Biden visited to promote peace informed. talks. Comment on this at OUDaily.com The only reason Netanyahu’s administration
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The 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo — E3 — opened with three press conferences Monday from the three biggest video-game companies. Here’s a quick rundown of what happened during each company’s conference.
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In the third full installment of Dallas Green’s side project, the Alexisonfire frontman provides more of the same wailing vocals over indie-folk tunes. Green strays from the slower, almost whiny strains of his previous releases for a happier, peppier sound. The album also features several contributions from other musicians, including Daniel Romano of Attack in Black, Dylan Green and Scott Remila of Raising the Fawn, Nick Skalkos of The Miniatures, Misha Bower of Bruce Peninsula and Anna Jarvis. “Fragile Bird,” the album’s first single, rated the highest single of the side project’s short life, promising to be an accurate preview for the release. If you only listen to one song from this album, I’d recommend “Fragile Bird.” It will let you know exactly what you will get from the album as a whole. Once again, another solid release from Green that hipsters will love unless City and Colour goes mainstream. — James Corley/The Daily
Sony had a lot of explaining to do during its press conference after hackers broke into the Playstation Network and compromised consumer information, taking the system offline for more than two weeks. Jack Tretton, Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO, opened the conference with apologies that sounded sincere and promised Sony would make an extra effort to ensure the security of its network. To top off the apology, Sony spent more than an hour announcing new games like Insomniac’s “Overstrike,” the space fighter “Starhawk,” the adventure game “Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception” and the first-person shooter “Resistance 3.” Sony also made a concentrated effort to show-off new games for its motion controller, the Playstation Move. Sony’s motion controller will feature new games this year and new installments of NBA 2K, Bioshock and Resistance will all feature motion control support. READ FULL RECAP ON OUDAILY.COM
Microsoft: Kinect-ion lost Microsoft opened E3 with a press conference showcasing its dedication to its Kinect peripheral. The company announced titles like “Mass Effect 3”, “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier” and other hardcore-gamer-friendly games will be using the device to enhance gaming experiences. However, these “enhanced” experiences are nothing more than verbal commands that could be done with a basic microphone and motion controls that have no real use in legitimate game time. But that notion will not deter Microsoft, and it continues to ask — maybe force — developers to build games with Kinect in mind. What Microsoft should focus on is selling Kinect like it was originally marketed: A family-friendly add-on.
Nintendo’s biggest announcement was its new console, the Wii U. This new device brings Nintendo into the HD era with computer specs that rival both the PS3 and the Xbox 360, while continuing Nintendo’s desire to innovate with a new controller that features a 6.2-inch screen. The controller looks like a tablet and will function with the system beyond typical controllers. If someone changes the channel on the TV, players using the Wii U will be able to glance down at the controller’s screen and continue playing their game. It also will offer different gameplay experiences by combining the TV monitor and the controller’s screen. Although the new system will come bundled with the new controller, it will still support old Wii remotes. The Wii U may have a terrible name that sounds like a fire-truck siren if you say it quickly, but the thought put into the system may benefit both hardcore and casual gamers. The system has the power to bring gamers’ favorite Nintendo characters to life in HD while offering unique gameplay experiences. Nintendo’s goal was to create a system that brings together all types of gamers, and this system may be the answer. This year’s E3 falls during the same year that The Legend of Zelda celebrates its 25th anniversary. That’s right — Link is 25 years old. Nintendo celebrated with a live orchestra playing Legend of Zelda theme music and announced “The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword” would be released during holiday 2011 amid speculation the title would get pushed back. Nintendo then announced a myriad of first-titles for the Nintendo 3DS that included new Mario Kart, Super Mario, Luigi’s Mansion, Star Fox and Kid Icarus games. READ FULL RECAP ON OUDAILY.COM
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The OU softball team (43-19) watched its season come to an end with a 4-1 loss to Missouri on Saturday in the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City. And while the Sooners went out with a quick twoand-out during the program’s first trip to the series since 2004, OU coach Patty Gasso said she wasn’t disappointed in her team’s weekend performance. “ P ro u d i s n o t s t ro n g enough word for me to describe how I feel about this team,” Gasso said. “We’ve gone through quite a bit with a pretty tough schedule that we’ve had to play.” With sophomore Jessica Shults still out of the defensive lineup, junior replacement catcher Katie Norris also joined the disabled list with an elbow strain prior to Saturday’s game. Norris’ late-season injury forced senior Dani Dobbs to step behind the plate for her first start at the catching position after playing third base
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OU third baseman Ali Vandever, left, forces out Missouri’s Ashley Fleming in the Sooners’ 4-1 loss to the Tigers on Saturday at the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City. the entire 2011 season. It also was the first time Dobbs put on catching gear for live action since her freshman year in high school. “It was a little different out there with Dani (Dobbs) behind the plate,” senior first
baseman Chana’e Jones said. “But everybody on this team is confident no matter what we’ve gone through. No one was panicking.” But OU was not done filling gaps in its defense. Freshman Ali Vandever
BASEBALL
Record number picked in draft A school-record 11 Sooner baseball players were selected in the 2011 MLB Draft, which ran Monday through Wednesday. The 11 picks also were the most from one school in the Big 12 Conference this year. Junior catcher Tyler Ogle was the first OU player chosen, picked in the ninth round by the Los Angeles Dodgers. Several notable OU signees also were drafted, including Broken Arrow pitcher Archie Bradley at No. 7 in the first round. — Daily staff reports
Junior C Tyler Ogle 9th Round (No. 284) Los Angeles Dodgers Junior INF Cameron Seitzer 11th Round (No. 360) Tampa Bay Rays Junior RHP Burch Smith 14th Round (No. 443) San Diego Padres Junior 3B Garrett Buechele 14th Round (No. 447) San Francisco Giants Senior RHP Ryan Duke 25th Round (No. 781) Philadelphia Phillies Senior RHP Michael Rocha 26th Round (No. 811) Philadelphia Phillies Freshman LHP Jordan John 28th Round (No. 850) Houston Astros Senior INF/P Tyson Seng 33rd Round (No. 1,002) New York Mets Junior OF Chris Ellison 39th Round (No. 1,174) Arizona Diamondbacks Senior RHP Bobby Shore 41st Round (No. 1,233) Seattle Mariners Senior OF Elliot Blair 46th Round (No. 1,407) San Francisco Giants
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took over for Dobbs at third, giving OU one of its youngest starting lineups this season with four freshman and two sophomores on the field. READ THE FULL STORY ON OUDAILY.COM
The 2010 season was magical for the Oklahoma STAFF COLUMN baseball team. After a deLuke cent regular season, the McConnell Sooners roared through the NCAA tournament all the way to the College World Series. The 2011 season, however, was filled with frustration and disappointment by the end of it. Saturday’s 7-0 loss to Oral Roberts in the Fort Worth Regional capped a very underachieving season that ended well short of the Sooners’ goal of returning to college baseball’s biggest stage. After starting the season with 16 consecutive victories, the Sooner offense sputtered the rest of the way, scoring five or fewer runs in each of its last eight games. The lack of offense from a lineup that included great hitters like third baseman Garrett Buechele, first baseman Cameron Seitzer and catcher Tyler Ogle put a lot of strain on a pitching staff that looked poised and dominant in the first half of the season. With no run support, OU pitchers were constantly pressured to hold leads or keep deficits small. More often than not, the pitching staff — both starters and bullpen — rose to the occasion and kept Oklahoma in ballgames. However, the Sooners consistently failed to get the hits they needed to win ball games. Nine of Oklahoma’s losses came by one run — shocking for a team that led the Big 12 in runs scored a year ago by nearly 100 runs. Most of the time, OU only needed one hit for a win, but the hit rarely came for the Sooners. One of the reasons could be attributed to the NCAA, which took a lot of the ping — literally — out of the aluminum bats this season by making them safer without as much jump when the ball and bat made contact. The statistics tell the tale. Not everything can be blamed on the bats, but their impact, or lack thereof, is undeniable. The Sooners hit 105 home runs in 2010; that number dropped to 41 in 2011 from virtually the same team. Even with the change in the bats and poor offensive performance down the stretch, OU still led the conference in team average, on-base percentage, runs scored, slugging percentage and hits, which shows how much fluff was in those first 16 games against vastly inferior opponents. The 2012 Sooners will be a totally different team with 10 seniors leaving and a handful more with futures in MLB. Expectations won’t be as high, and you’re less likely to be disappointed when you start with low expectations. — Luke McConnell, journalism senior