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School stands firm on apparel OU cutting off VF Corp. over workers’ rights concerns DAYTEN ISRAEL news reporter
OU has found new apparel to sell after ending a relationship with previous licensee of the university due to a dispute over fair labor. Last spring, OU severed ties with VF Corp., an American clothing corporation, because of its refusal to sign the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety. The Bangladesh Accord
followed the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory, a large, multi-story building that was poorly constructed in Bangladesh, in which approximately 2,515 workers were injured and 1,129 were killed on April 24, 2013, Leah Kennedy, Sooners Against Sweatshops founder, said. A lot of the workers noticed the dilapidated structure of the building and didn’t want to go in but were forced to go or else they would lose their jobs, Kennedy said. With most people who are working in sweatshop conditions, their only option is to endure it so they can provide for their families, Kennedy said.
The Accord is legally binding and would have ensured that the companies that signed it would take control and responsibility for safe building practices and would be under strict monitoring, Kennedy said. Though VF Corp. is a member of the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, this group doesn’t require its companies to do anything financially towards ensuring factories are built to higher, safer standards, unlike the Accord, Kennedy said.
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Alicia Cervantes, psychology junior, looks for backpacks in the OU Bookstore. SEE VF CORP PAGE 2 Northface is among brands that the University is no longer getting from the VF corporation after cutting ties with the corporation whose labor practices are not aligned with the university’s values.
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n OU professor hosted the “I Can’t Breathe” workshop and discussion in Zarrow Hall Wednesday night, where she held discussion topics from poverty, to race and gender identification. Sherri Irvin, director of Graduate
Admissions, began the event by quoting a man named Eric Garner, who said “I can’t breathe” 11 times before police choked him to death. Irvin said people and systems tell others their bodies are not good enough in subtle and unsubtle ways. “There are all sorts of forces in society that tell us that our bodies are not acceptable — our racialized bodies, our gender bodies, our queer bodies, our aging bodies, our trans bodies, our disabled bodies are not good enough,” she said.
“There are all sorts of forces in society that tell us that our bodies are not acceptable — our racialized bodies, our gender bodies, our queer bodies, our aging bodies, our trans bodies, our disabled bodies are not good enough.” SHERRI IRVIN, DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE ADMISSIONS
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The OU Student Government Association is exploring the idea of bringing a bike share program to campus, allowing students to bike from class to class without having to buy their own. A mass email was sent to OU students, asking them to answer a poll about the potential program. The poll consists of just one question, asking students if they would like to see the program on campus. The program has been in the idea stage for awhile, said Kevin Gaffney, an SGA cabinet member. “We need to know that students support the idea for the next steps to be taken,” Gaffney said. SGA has been looking at different companies to possibly implement the program, Gaffney said. It has also looked at other universities that have started bike share programs, including Ohio State University and Harvard University, Gaffney said. Many cities in the United States have bike share programs, including New York, Boston and Oklahoma City. There is no goal date for implementation, Gaffney said. The poll runs through Friday.
Diversity, travel on fall SGA docket Student Congress also excited by book group BRIANNA SIMS news reporter @briannana18
The Student Government Association is trying to pass a collection of initiatives to help students with connectivity, transportation and diversity. Recently, Student Congress has been focusing on diversity on campus with the Good Neighbor Initiative, for which SGA has
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partnered with the Department of Diversity. On Tuesday during the Student Congress meeting, SGA announced there would be a new committee to solely address diversity issues within the university. For the new Human Diversity Committee, SGA is looking for students who are passionate about diversity and standing up for people who don’t have a voice, said SGA Human Diversity Chair Daniel Pae, whose position was confirmed on Tuesday night. SGA’s other major focus is to provide students with an easier way to travel to campus. Turn Up for Transit offers students alternate
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options for transportation, so commuting students don’t have to find a parking spot after OU lost 600 in order to build new student residences. “We’ve been encouraging people to park at the Lloyd Noble Center and taking the transportation to and from campus using the trolley system. However, a lot of people have been doing that, but we’re experiencing line delays, so we’ve been working with Parking and Transportation to encourage other ways to get to campus, and we hope to continue these initiatives for alternate forms of transportation,” SGA President Alex
Byron said. Another plan SGA is really excited about is One Campus, One Book, which is essentially a campus-wide book club where the all students will read the same book and participate in a collective discussion of the topics addressed in the novel.
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Alta Gracia is the only clothing company in the world that is independently certified in paying living wages to its workers, according to its website. In addition, the company also respects their workers’ right to a safe and sanitary workplace, their right to form a union and their right to be treated fairly and respectfully as human beings and workers. Because of this separation due to VF Corp.’s refusal to sign the agreement, the OU campus bookstore will not be ordering any more brands carried by the corporation, which include The North Face, Timberland, Jansport, Wrangler and others, though what had been previously ordered before the separation is still in stock, according to Lesli Williams, the bookstore general manager. Some other members of the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety include Gap Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. A full list of members can be found here. Other VF Corp. brands and information can be found on their website at www.vfc.com.
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LaVonya Bennet speaks at Wednesday night’s “I Can’t Breathe” event where members of the OU community gathered to discuss inclusion and issues of diversity. The event was hosted by the Center for Social Justice.
WORKSHOP: Continued from Page One Irvin said the discussion will be about how society is not set up to take care of others as they are and how it’s affecting each of our lives. Seven speakers — L a Vo n y a B e n n e t , Christopher Basaldu, Julia Ehrhardt, Corey Davidson, Sarah Woolwine, Eric Bosse and Roksana Alavi — spoke to the crowd about what keeps them from breathing. They spoke about racial tensions, gender discrimination, violence in society and
disabilities. These people asked that their personal stories not be shared. The workshop included students and faculty getting into groups to share their personal stories and what keeps them from breathing. Human Relations senior Marina Knoll said the event was a good bonding experience for students. “ I t h i n k i t wa s re a l l y eye-opening to hear everybody share things that are very personal. Everybody was vulnerable, and it was just really cool. And I really enjoy things like this, so I was glad that OU had something like this and that the Center for Social Justice held
this event,” she said. Davidson, a representative from Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies and one of the speakers in the workshop, said the event was amazing. “I’m really glad that we have things like this going on on campus, and I’m just really honored to be a part of it,” he said. Histor y and Women’s and Gender Studies senior Parker Manek said the w orkshop was handle d gracefully. “They really intertwined and related those different experiences of radically different individuals,” he said. Irvin said she was very pleased with the turnout.
“It was a standing-room-only event. A lot of people seemed to be really excited to be here, and I thought the speakers did a great job at helping us see many of the ways in which the notion ‘I can’t breathe’ circulates in people’s lives,” Irvin said.
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(Front Page) Professor Julia Ehrhardt holds hands with a student at the end of the group discussion portion of Wednesday night’s “I Can’t Breathe” event. The event hosted an open discussion on inclusion and diversity for the OU community.
SGA: Continued from Page One This initiative has tremendous support from the Honors College, the School of Education, SGA, the OU administration and OU President David Boren. It encourages one central dialogue as a university and emphasizes the notion of a Sooner Family, Byron said. This year’s One Book is “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis” by Robert D. Putnam. After listening to students’ interests and SGA’s proposition of an extension of Library Hours, The Bizzell Library is piloting a 24-hours-a-day, 5-daysa-week system. During finals week, there are already extended hours, but some students need more time to study outside of finals week. SGA was working toward creating a more virtualized SafeRide program, providing vouchers that are emailed to the students and increase a more accessible program. This initiative was modeled around the extremely successful Uber and Lyft. However, the focus has been put onto other plans like OrgSync. “We’ve put it on hold for the time being simply because the companies we
Some of the existing companies that work with OU have stepped in to help compensate for the lack of brands since the university cut ties with the clothing company, university press secretary Corbin Wallace said in an email. All of OU’s licensees that conduct business or production in Bangladesh are members of the Accord, Wallace said. Several other universities across the U.S. are trying to cut contracts with VF Corp. in the hope that multiple consumer loss will encourage the corporation to sign the Accord and do the right thing, Kennedy said. If they sign the Accord, the student group is open to the university doing business with VF Corp. again. “But until that (happens), we don’t think they should have the privilege of being able to make OU apparel,” Kennedy said. Whitney Blake Segraves, store director at the OU Bookstore, said that Alta Gracia, an apparel company based in the Dominican Republic, really stepped in.
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were looking into don’t actually have the technology at this time,” Byron said. Students can get involved with SGA in a number of ways. There’s a programming branch, which includes the Campus Activities Council, and the three traditional branches of government — which includes the Undergraduate Student Congress and the Graduate Student Senate, the SGA president and the General Counsel. Students can apply to be a part of the executive cabinet this November, and the members will be chosen
based on what the president and vice president believe they need. “We currently have our a p p l i c a t i o n s av a i l a b l e for Congress. There are a few representative seats, which means they get to sit and vote with us,” said SGA Congress Chair Emily Sample. Representatives, members of Student Congress, and Associates fill out the same application, which is due Sept. 10 at 5 p.m.
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Gamers to have Norman home Loot & XP: The Game Hub to be table-top hot spot ANNA MAYER News Reporter @AnnaMay136
The first ever board game café in Norman is expected to open this November, allowing customers to play their favorite games while earning points and prizes for loyalty. Loot & XP: The Game Hub of Norman, location still uncertain, will include numerous games from Monopoly to designer games such as Settlers of Catan, along with a café offering coffee, pastries and craft beer. “We want this store to become something special for the people of Oklahoma,” Loot & XP President Justin Yozzo said. The idea for the shop
came from one of the owners, Matthew Buell, who came across comic book cafés while in Japan and similar board game cafés in Washington and Colorado. Along with a group of his long-time friends, including Yozzo, Buell decided to bring Loot & XP to Norman. “Loot is the games that people will buy from us,” Yozzo said. “XP is the experience folks will gain from playing games at our gaming tables.” In addition to providing customers with board games, the store itself will a c t a s a ga m e. Vi s i t o r s w ith memberships w ill gain points through playing games and leveling up. Reaching new levels will win them awards and free food. Loot & XP has already managed to raise $15,775 through its Kickstarter campaign, 250 percent of the
original goal, but the owners have also expressed their willingness to work with anyone who has more ideas for their future. “There are still many hurdles to overcome, and remodeling our chosen location will take a significant amount of time,” Yozzo said. “It is hard, but we have to ask our followers and eager patrons to be patient as we prepare the best space we can.”
“There are still many hurdles to overcome, and remodeling our chosen location will take a significant amount of time.” JUSTIN YOZZO, LOOT & XP PRESIDENT
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(From Left) Jack Claxton, Justin Yozzo, Matthew Buell, and Morgan Dickey, along with Rachelle Au (not pictured), are the founders of Norman’s first ever board game cafe Loot & XP. The cafe is projected to open in November.
Must-Stay Weekend will feature rapper YG Compton musician will perform show at OU on Sept. 26 BRIANNA SIMS News Reporter @briannana18
The performer for the sixth installment of the MustStay Weekend will be an award-winning rap artist, the Campus Activities Council announced Wednesday. YG, an rapper from Compton, California, will p e r f o r m o n Mu s t-S t a y Weekend, which encourages students to stay on campus during the weekend instead of going home, according to
the press release. The Must-Stay Weekend was created so students will make lasting memories and to give the students a lot of engaging things to do, said Concert Series Director Reid Hamberlin. YG released his album “My Krazy Life,” which features Drake on the track “Who Do You Love?” in 2014. He is set to release another album called “Still Krazy” in 2015, according to the press release. The first five Must-Stay concerts included performances from Iron and Wine, the Casey Donahew Band, Karmin, Sleigh Bells and David Nail, and each had
over 4,000 attendees. CAC, Union Programming Board (UPB) and OU Summer Session are hoping to appeal to a wide variety of students for every show, according to the press release. The concert will be held at 8 p.m. on Sept. 26 on the east lawn of the Union, and YG will start at 9 p.m. The concert will be free admission and open to students as well as the public, said Hamberlin. The CAC, UPB and OU Summer Session have organized the concert. If anyone is interested in volunteering for the event, please contact muststayweekend@gmail. com.
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The must-stay weekend performer was announced on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. YG will perform a free concert on the East lawn of the Oklahoma Memorial Union on Sept. 26, 2015.
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only be released for sale after tests show they are safe. The company voluntarily recalled its products in April after they were linked to 10 listeria cases in four states, including three deaths in Kansas. A facility in Sylacauga (sihl-uh-KAW’guh), Alabama started production again in late July. Copyright 2015 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. STEVE GONZALES/HOUSTON CHRONICLE VIA AP
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Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a speech in support of the Iran nuclear deal at the National Constitution Center, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, in Philadelphia. In a letter delivered to Congress Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry called Israel’s security “sacrosanct,” recounting the billions of dollars the U.S. has provided the Jewish state for missile defense and other security assistance. U.S. and Israeli officials, he said, are working on a deal to “cement for the next decade our unprecedented levels of military assistance.”
Agreement has votes to remain secure, despite GOP opposition WASHINGTON (AP) —
Overcoming ferocious opposition, President Barack Obama secured a legacy-defining foreign policy victory Wednesday as Senate Democrats clinched the necessary votes to ensure the Iran nuclear agreement survives in Congress. The decisive 34th commitment came from Maryland Democrat Barbara Mikulski, who is retiring next year after three decades in the Senate. In a statement she said “no deal is perfect, especially one negotiated with the Iranian regime.” But she called the pact “the best option available to block Iran from having a nuclear bomb.” Supp or ters now have the votes in hand to uphold Obama’s veto, if one
becomes necessary, of a resolution of disapproval Republicans are trying to pass this month. GOP lawmakers who control the House and Senate ardently oppose the agreement, which curbs Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for hundreds of billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., grudgingly acknowledged that his side would not be able to block the deal after Obama, in his words, secured “the tepid, restricted and partisan support of one-third of one house of Congress.” McConnell spared the accord no criticism, saying it leaves Iran “with a threshold nuclear capability.” Israel als o has railed against the deal, arguing that its conditions would keep Iran perilously close to developing nuclear weapons while enriching a government that has funded
anti-U.S. and anti-Israel militants throughout the Middle East. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had personally lobbied U.S. lawmakers to block the pact, will continue fighting the agreement, an Israeli official said, while a spokesman for the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC said his group also would seek to build further opposition. In Philadelphia, Secretary of State John Kerry defended the deal. “Rejecting this agreement would not be sending a signal of resolve to Iran, it would be broadcasting a message so puzzling that most people across the globe would find it impossible to comprehend,” he told lawmakers and civic leaders at the National Constitution Center. His speech was carried live on Iranian television, an unusual occurrence White House press secretary Josh Earnest called the growing support a validation of Obama’s effort to “make sure that every member of
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the Senate understands exactly what’s included in the agreement.” The deal sets Iran back so that it is at least a year away from being able to produce enough nuclear material for a weapon, before the restrictions ease after a decade. For all the geopolitical ramifications, the debate in the U.S. has often seemed more about domestic partisan politics over a resolution that, on its own, wouldn’t be able to reverse a multi-country agreement already blessed by the United Nations. A vote of disapproval, however, could signal Congress’ readiness to introduce new sanctions at the risk of causing Tehran — and other governments — to abandon the accord and blame the U.S. for the failure. Among American lawmakers, the debate has broken along party lines. Republicans, defending their congressional maj or ities and aiming for the White House in next
year’s elections, have denounced the deal in apocalyptic terms. The bulk of Democrats have rushed to the president’s defense. Next week, Donald Trump and fellow presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz will rally outside the Capitol against the agreement, as lawmakers return from a five-week recess to begin debating it. Several GOP presidential hopefuls issued statements Wednesday vowing to undo the agreement if they are elected. “When I’m president of the United States, we will re-impose those sanctions on day one,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said. In the House, the disapproval resolution is certain to pass by a wide margin when it comes to a vote next week. But in a letter to fellow Democrats Wednesday, House Minority L eader Nancy Pelosi said she has the votes to back up an Obama veto. Supporters of the deal
are seeking a bigger victory in the Senate. If they can assemble 41 votes in favor, they’d be able to block the d i sap p rova l re s o l u t i o n from passing at all, sparing Obama the embarrassment of having to veto it. They need seven of the remaining 10 undeclared Democrats to back the agreement, though several in this group could still come out in opposition. ___ Lee reported from Philadelphia. Josef Federman in Jerusalem and Josh Lederman from Air Force One contributed to this story.
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The area around Oklahoma Memorial Stadium goes under renovation during the summer and continues into the fall semester. The image was taken via drone.
Sophomore quarterback Trevor Knight leaps over a Baylor defender early in last year’s game at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Baylor defeated the sooners 48-14.
Senior center Ty Darlington (56) prepares to snap the football at the line of scrimmage. The Sooners trumped Louisiana Tech 48-16 in last season’s opener at Gaylord Family Memorial Stadium.
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The luxurious locker room once home to the Oklahoma football team inside the Barry Switzer Center met its demise this summer. The Switzer Center was demolished as a part of OU’s stadium renovation project, which forced the team to move across Jenkins Avenue to a temporary locker room facility. OU’s new quarters are more cramped, not as glamorous but as smelly as one would expect for a football team’s dressing room. Oklahoma has done as much as it can to replicate the same experience, however, senior Charles Tapper said it’s brought the team back to reality. “It’s going to make you hungry,” Tapper said. “We don’t have that big, lavish, lovely, home-feeling living room. It’s now just a grind. Now we get to feel the struggle the other team is feeling. It’s not bad as the visiting locker room, but it’s not as great as the old locker room,” he said. OU’s old locker room was one of the best in the country. However, the seven-time national champions temporarily downgraded while the south endzone of Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium undergoes construction. “It’s a little bit tighter,” Tapper said. “It reminds me of a Texas high school locker room. We kind of took a step back. It brought us back to reality that everything is not given. You got to go out there and take what you want.” “I feel like it brought us together,” senior receiver Durron Neal said. “We’re in a small space now. Some guys, if you don’t talk to them on a normal basis, you got to get to know more. I feel like it’s made us come closer as brothers.”
Week one always meant a start for junior Trevor Knight. The arrival of fellow junior Baker Mayfield and a lessthan-stellar 2014 season, however, has put Knight second on Oklahoma’s depth chart. The OU quarterback was voted a team captain, but Mayfield will be the Sooners’ starting signal-caller against Akron on Sept. 5. While Knight has grown a beard and changed up his hairstyle, he’s still the same level-headed player with a positive attitude, even after losing a quarterback battle at OU for the first time. “It’s one snap away,” Knight said. “That’s the mindset you got to have about it. You’re one snap away from being the guy again and ready to go win a bunch of big ball games. You never know what could happen down the stretch of the season.” Oklahoma is in a unique position. Knight, Mayfield and third-string quarterback Cody Thomas have all started games in the Big 12 and put together winning performances. Learning he wouldn’t get the job was a difficult conversation for Knight, but he’s focused on being a leader on the sideline and keeping the energy up for his teammates. “It’s not easy, obviously, given the circumstances,” Knight said. “It’ll be a transition for me. You got to roll with the punches. I still feel like a big team leader on this team. Everyone’s got a role.” Pending an injury, however, Knight could be back in the saddle and leading Oklahoma again at any moment this season.
Oklahoma had an entire offseason to think about its 40-6 loss to Clemson last December. The humiliating bowl defeat left a bad taste in the mouths of the team, especially for senior center Ty Darlington. “The day after Clemson, I made a picture of that game with the score as my (phone’s) home screen and the score my passcode,” Darlington said. His home screen and passcode was that way all spring and summer for Darlington, who said he won’t change the reminder of OU’s bowl loss until Saturday’s contest against Akron. Darlington is entering his final year in Norman, and Saturday will be his final season opener as a Sooner. The sour taste from Clemson’s victory over Oklahoma in the 2014 Russell Athletic Bowl only increased the anticipation for Sept. 5, Darlington said. OU’s long wait for its opener will end in a few days. However, Darlington said he can feel the intensity once he gets in the locker room. “It’s tense,” he said. “You can feel the anticipation building. Friday, you start to feel it. You start to see the tailgaters. “When you get in that locker room on game day, you feel that anticipation, you feel the tension. When you run out the tunnel, you feel like it all just lets loose.”
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After two consecutive victories, Oklahoma soccer will look to take its record over .500 Friday night at home against Oral Roberts. The Sooners finished last weekend with two shutouts and a combined six goals scored in 2-0 and 4-0 defeats of Oklahoma State and Arkansas-Little Rock, respectively. For the Sooners, the same things they didn’t execute on in their first two games of the year, they did execute in their last two, including scoring the games’ first goals. “When you’re playing the quality of teams that we’re playing, to go a goal down is a tough assignment for anybody,” coach Matt Potter said. “Scoring that all-important first goal sets the tone for what happens next.” Offensively, the Sooners were excellent at being in the right places at the right times last weekend against UALR, scoring two goals off rebounds. “I think we did a good job at coming out and setting the tone and pace of the game from the start,” senior Laura Rayfield said. “Overall, the group was pleased that we were able to put together two solid performances
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Junior midfileder Shiloh Price hits the ball off her head during the game against Arkansas Little Rock on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015 at John Crane Field.
during the weekend.” The Sooners now turn their attention to the visiting Golden Eagles, who are 2-0-1 and coming off a scoreless draw with Southern Illinois Edwardsville. ORU has outscored its opponents 11-1 this season, including a 8-1 victory over ArkansasPine Bluff on Friday. Oklahoma will certainly be tested against a team that takes over 23 shots per game. D u r i n g S u n d ay ’s g a m e against UALR, the Trojans never tested sophomore goal keeper Kaitlyn Fahrner until the 70th minute, but the Sooners can’t expect to face that same fortune two weeks in a row.
“Oral Rober ts is a kind of high-output, attack-minded team that has given us problems in the past,” Potter said. “No. 1, the primary focus is on ourselves and what we can do to get better as a team. No. 2, we’ll do our due diligence in preparation for our opposition, that’s the staff’s job. “Ultimately, the idea is to be ready to perform come Friday night.” Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. at John Crain Field. Scott Hiney scotthiney@ou.edu
“ The tournament was definitely frustrating, but I think it was so frustrating because it was so easy to see how much potential we had and how much talent we had, and so coming back to practice, our coaches have been pushing us really hard this week,” Spann said. Junior Kimmy Gardiner also believes the early losses are easy to blow out of proportion. “I don’t think it’s nice to see a little record that says 0-3,” Gardiner said. “People are going to think whatever they want to think, but we are confident in each other and confident in what we need to do.” The players still have the same focus in this week’s practice and are not specifically changing anything to their game. “I mean you actually learn a lot more,” Gardiner said. “I think we’ve been using this week to really zone in on the things we need to work on as a team and individually
just picking up everything that we need to do. I think it is going to make a huge difference coming into this weekend.” Saturday also marks the first home game for the OU football team. The volleyball team plays its last game of the tournament against Central Arkansas at noon Saturday. “I am very honored to be here at a school where (it’s) the only facility in the country that has their volleyball facility next to their football stadium,” Restrepo said. “I mean, that’s just — we are in the heart of campus. We have to be very honored to have that available for us. It’s a privilege to be here next to such a tradition and history. And that’s what we’re trying to build here too.”
The Oklahoma volleyball team will host the Nike Invitational at McCasland Field House Thursday through Saturday. OU will face ArkansasLittle Rock, North Texas and Central Arkansas. The Sooner squad is looking for its first win. OU played in the Colorado Tournament last weekend but left with no wins. Even though the volleyball team didn’t win any games, it still had some positives to take away from the tournament. “We got a lot of deflections, we got a lot of blocks,” Keenan Betz coach Santiago Restrepo keenan@betzpower.com said. “Any time that you are in double digits in blocks it’s extremely good. Some of our passing and passers did a very good job. Our defense behind the block was a lot better. So there is a lot of things that come positive after the losses. “We’ve definitely got to improve on putting the ball away and generating more points, which is what we’ve been talking — how can we produce more points? Whether it’s a block, whether it’s a serve, whether it’s a kill. We’ve just got to produce more points. And most of the time it has to come with kills,” Restrepo added. CHRIS MICHIE/THE DAILY Junior Micaela Spann believes in OU’s potential as a Senior libero Taylor Migliazzo dives for the ball during a Nov. 18 match unit despite the rough start against Central Arkansas at the McCasland Field House. The Sooners overcame a two-set deficit to defeat the Sugar Bears 3-2. to the season.
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Toby Keith raises his red Solo cup to the audience during his Neighborhood Sessions concert, hosted by State Farm. Keith returned to Oklahoma to play at the exclusive event.
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The atmosphere throughout Hollywood Corners Tuesday night was exactly what State Farm had in mind when it brought Toby Keith to Oklahoma as part of its Neighborhood Sessions — warm and welcoming. Neighborhood Sessions is a program by State Farm that allows musicians to come back to the venue of their choice in a community that was influential to them and play to people who represent that community. The show was a private event, with guests only allowed entrance by invitation. But no matter how people came by the tickets, once they stepped through the door of Hollywood Corners, which Keith owns, they became neighbors. The evening activities began at 7 p.m. with country singer, songwriter and guitarist Scotty Emerick, who has written for Keith in the past. He charmed the crowd, playing his own songs and
covering others’, such as “Like My Dog” and “I Can’t Take You Anywhere.” After a 15-minute session by Emerick and a 15-minute intermission, Mac McAnally, a seven-time winner of the Country Music Association’s Musician of the Year award, played a 30-minute gig showcasing his classic country roots, mandolin ability and fantastic guitar skills. He even played a song titled “Little Martha” with one guitar even though it is usually played with two. From the moment that Toby Keith took the stage at 8:30 p.m., he commanded the audience’s attention. His speeches elevated everyone’s experience. Whether he was talking about how important the military was to him or about how his songwriting was mostly inspired in the “surrounding eight miles,” he had the crowd eating out of the palm of his hand. He was always interacting with the audience, making sure that everyone was having a good time. Anyone at the concert could see the respect that Toby Keith had for the community and how the community loved him for that. He opened with “Made
in America,” and the rest of his set included some old songs like “I Ain’t As Good as I Once Was,” “How Do You Like Me Now?!,” ”Should Have Been a Cowboy” and “Beer For My Horses,” which had all of the crowd dancing. “Red Solo Cup” was the height of the set and had the whole crowd singing every word alongside Keith. He also played some new songs, like “35 MPH Town” and one unreleased track, “Rum is the Reason,” from his upcoming album, due out Oct. 9, that he played with Emerick and McAnally. He closed the show with his hit song, “American Soldier.” John McBride, who does marketing strategy for State Farm, said that Neighborhood Sessions was a way to “use the environment to say thanks to the neighbors that made Toby great.” The one-hour program will air on TBS in October.
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art will become the first American host of a select 20 busts from the world’s oldest museum, the Capitoline in Rome. The exhibit, “Immortales: The Hall of Emperors of the Capitoline Museums,Rome,” contains pieces from the age of Augustus to the late Roman Empire. To i n a u g u r a t e t h e opening of the exhibit, a President’s Associates lecture and dinner will be held. Kyle Harper, OU Senior Vice President and Provost, will give a keynote address on “A New Lesson from the Immortal Empire of Rome.” “Rome has always been a source of fascination, in part because the Romans built one of the largest and longest lasting empires in human history,” Harper said. “So civilizations return again and again to the Romans for new lessons to be learned from their experience.” Art is a visual
representation of history from which we can continue to learn, and each of the pieces in the exhibit represents different aspects of Roman history and culture. “(The statues) are iconic images of Western civilization,” Harper said. “They represent the rulers of Rome when the empire was at its height.” The height of the Roman Empire continues to inspire young artists. Jordan Satepauhoodle, a sophomore art major, describes Roman art as an appreciation for humanity. “I see Roman art as being a celebration of being and of appreciating humanity just as it is, which I can agree with to a certain extent. But an over-reliance on that sort of thinking produces stuff like Miley Cyrus,” Satepauhoodle said. “In my work, I want to critique our desires and obsessions in an attempt to focus on the possibilities that lay outside of ourselves,” he said. Within the exhibit, each individual can find different aspects to explore. For Satepauhoodle, it’s about h ow t o s e e a r t a n d t h e human form differently in his own work. For Harper, the history and power represented in each carefully sculpted bust is the focus.
IMMORTALES What: 20 busts from the world’s oldest museum, the Captoline in Rome. When: It opens on Sept. 4 and will run until Dec. 6. Where: Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
“A personal favorite of mine is Marcus Aurelius. He has always been one of the most admired emperors, and in this collection, we see him as a very young man,” Harper said. “Marcus stood out so much as a boy that he was picked to rule Rome, and surprisingly he lived up to the enormous expectations that were placed upon him.” The exhibit will open Sept. 4 at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and will run until Dec. 6. Jessica Barber jessiedylan16@gmail.com
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The exhibit “Immortales: The Hall of Emperors of the Capitoline Museums, Rome”, a collection that is going to be exclusively at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, is traveling from Rome for the first time in over 2000 years.
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Do you love finding the perfect GIF and then texting it to your closest friends to give them a good laugh? The application PopKey allows you to do exactly that. PopKey is an app that adds another function to your phone keyboard just like your emojis do. After downloading PopKey, you can type in any emotion and the app automatically searches the Internet for any GIF that matches your emotion search.
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because you don’t have to spell a lot,” said Eun Chae, an accounting senior. PopKey has a four-star rating in the Apple App Store, and it requires “iOS 8+ and a sense of humor.” It is compatible with Apple iMessages, Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, text message, email and more. The version of PopKey
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to crew faces outside of the director as the vast majority of screentime is Taylor and (actor) Scott (Eastwood).” Kahn, who directed Swift’s NEW YORK (AP) — The “Blank Space” and “Bad director of Taylor Swift’s new music video is defending the singer after some claimed she whitewashed her video based in Africa. Joseph Kahn said that the video for “Wildest JOSEPH KAHN, Dreams” includes black MUSIC VIDEO DIRECTOR people and was produced by a black woman and edited by a black man. “ This is not a video about colonialism but Blood,” is Asian. “Wildest Dreams” pora love story on the set of a period film crew in trays Swift as an actress who Africa, 1950,” Khan said in falls in love with her co-star a statement Wednesday. on the set. Black actors are “There are black Africans seen in some of the clips in the video in a number from a distance. “The reality is not only of shots, but I rarely cut
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were there people of color in the video, but the key creatives who worked on this video are people of color. ...We cast and edited this video. We collectively decided it would have been historically inaccurate to load the crew with more black actors as the video would have been accused of rewriting history,” Khan said. “This video is set in the past by a crew set in the present and we are all proud of our work,” he added. Swift is donating all of the proceeds from the “Wildest Dreams” video to the African Parks Foundation. The song is the fifth single from her best-selling “1989” album. Copyright 2015 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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