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911 calls continue at 3rd Base Formerly Kong’s Tavern, new Campus Corner restaurant and bar remains location of frequent calls to NPD despite change in branding
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The sound of “My Type” by Saweetie pierces the ears while walking through the open front entrance and, with only the dimly lit bar as a visual guide, it is nearly impossible to see anything but the silhouettes of those gathered to let loose on a Friday night. Welcome to a reopened Campus Corner establishment called 3rd Base Norman, formerly Kong’s Tavern. After Kong’s mixed beverage permit was suspended by the city of Norman in July and officially closed, ownership was reorganized, and 3rd Base opened in the same location at 563 Buchanan Ave. on Aug. 27. The location, both before and after the change, has been known to stir things up on Campus Corner. I n 2 0 1 9 , t h e No r m a n P o l i c e Department has been called to the location of Kong’s and 3rd Base a total of 116 times, according to data from the
department through Oct. 15. That is four and a half times higher than the number of NPD calls at other popular bars and restaurants on Campus Corner so far this year. In comparison to the 116 calls to Kong’s and 3rd Base, NPD has been called 25 times to Logie’s On The Corner, 24 times to O’Connell’s Irish Pub & Grille, 24 times to Seven47, 17 times to The Porch, 10 times to Volare and six times to The Deli in 2019. A manager at 3rd Base, who would not give his name to The Daily, said he was surprised by the high amount of incident calls because they have “a letter of support from the city.” “(The letter says) that our turnaround and our effort has produced results and ... made it a more positive situation,” the manager said. “So, we’ve done everything we can. We’ve gotten better. We’re still getting better.” Shyon Keoppel, one of the two co-owners of 3rd Base, said the majority of calls would occur even when “something wasn’t happening,” and
some people “just call and make false reports.” “When it comes down to actually police and fire and any of those types of people coming in, that has definitely gone down tremendously,” Keoppel said. Holly Morris, elementary education junior, described 3rd Base as a “vibrant place to go to” that has “the best music in town.” Dory Lieber, early childhood education senior, and Morris said 3rd Base is very loud, and Lieber said her experiences at 3rd Base have been “lackluster.” “During the night, it’s dark,” Lieber said. “The music is considerably louder than it was at Kong’s. The smells are the same — sweaty, pretty gross, liquor. The outside of 3rd Base is the same as it was with Kong’s — 3rd Base is Kong’s with a new name.” Lieber said she wasn’t surprised Kong’s shut down, but she was “surprised to see how fast 3rd Base went up.” “I’ve actually talked to some people
who worked there and told them that I thought it was the exact same as Kong’s, and they responded defensively, claiming that it was completely different,” Lieber said. “I guess I don’t see the major differences because I’m on the consumer side, and the physical setup of 3rd Base is the same as Kong’s.” The manager said 3rd Base has worked with the city and has done what has been asked of them. “It is a completely different situation,” the manager said, “and sure, there are things that are bound to happen in a place that gets so busy. But it’s a lot better than it was. It’s getting better every day, and we don’t condone the things that were happening before.” Physical differences aside, the location still brings in a significant amount of incident calls: 13 of 3rd Base’s 116 calls have taken place between the restaurant’s reopening on see 3RD BASE page 3
Norris, Gau ticket wins SGA election Other candidates discuss diversity issues, question voting process on OrgSync ARI FIFE @arriifife
Justin Norris said he was gratef u l a f t e r b e i ng e l e c t e d Stu d e nt Government Association president Wednesday night, defeating two other candidates with nearly 70 percent of the vote. Norris, a vocal performance and marketing junior, and political science sophomore Dalton Gau ran on a platform focused on uniting the campus and facing problems proactively. With a campaign slogan of “Tomorrow Together,” they emphasized partnership with registered student organizations, as well as greek organizations, among other things, in their campaign. Norris sent a statement to The Daily via text after his victory. “(Gau) and I are very humbled and grateful,” Norris said. “None of this would be possible without
the support of the student body. This is the first step towards our #TomorrowTogether!” African and African-American studies junior Jamelia Reed and electrical engineering pre-law junior Rosa SanRoman were the runners-up with 27.81 percent of the vote. Reed and SanRoman ran on a platform focused on intentional allyship with all groups on campus, but especially with the multicultural and LGBTQ organizations. Their campaign slogan was “Real Change Today.” “I expect nothing less from an institution that is predominantly white,” Reed said after the results were announced. “As a woman and part of the queer community, I expect nothing less ... We have an elitist, misogynistic, patriarchal system that is OU, and so I expect nothing less.” Reed also said she doesn’t expect Norris and Gau to handle the challenges of their position well. “When it comes to another blackface incident,” Reed said, “they’ll be running around campus with their heads cut off because they don’t
know what to do ... I do expect them to say something really nice ... but at the root of it, I expect nothing less than the same cycle to happen over and over again. When diversity and inclusion is a real concern, everybody has to be involved, not just the people who are affected by it.” Reed and SanRoman both said they were thankful for the support they have gotten throughout the campaign. “I think we gained a lot from this experience,” SanRoman said. “I know I gained a large community of leaders who are also tired of seeing what’s going on with OU and, as (Reed) said, we don’t really plan on sitting on our ideas, and putting them in a box, and putting them away for good.” Vivek Vijay and Behin Sanei, city planning graduate students, ran on a platform focused on increasing research initiatives, campus safety and reforming the SGA code annotated, among other things. Their campaign received 2.36 percent of the vote. Vijay told The Daily in an email that even though he congratulated his opponents, he did not think their
supporters wanted real change. “This is well-played politics, and they won,” Vijay said in the email. “And I would like to congratulate them. But from the logical perspective, it is clearly evident that whoever voted for them doesn’t really want to change anything but just needs someone who they know to be called president.” Vijay also said in the email he thought there were problems with the voting on OrgSync. Vijay said the SGA campus elections page on OrgSync had more than 28,300 members when the election started, but the member count is now is a round 27,000. Vijay said he doesn’t believe the number of enrolled students is exactly 27,000. “I would like to openly challenge the election commission to prove ... how they reduced the number and how did it exactly come up to a rounded figure of 27,000,” Vijay said in the email. Ari Fife
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Researcher to investigate vaping OU Medicine to study how vapes affect young people KATIE BELTZ @katbeeee
As rates of vape use on college campuses rise, a researcher from the OU Medical Center hopes to understand the connection between vapes and e-cigarettes and lung injuries. A l ay na Ta cke tt, a re searcher at the Oklahoma Tobacco Research Center at Stephenson Cancer Center, was given a five-year research grant to study the respiratory effects of vaping on youth and young adults by the National Institutes of Health, according to a press release. According to an April column by student health consultant Anshule Takyar as part of Public Health Discussions, research on vaping lacks data on college students. Studies like Tackett’s may begin to help fill the gap beyond what is currently available. Tackett said the study will examine the respiratory effects of e-cigarettes on young adults aged 15–21 by assessing how they impact the respiratory systems of current e-cigarette users compared to non-users. Many e-cigarette products are not yet regulated by the FDA, Tackett said. She hopes her study will help public health officials better understand the effects of vaping products and how they can be regulated.
Tackett’s research comes at a time when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 1,888 reports of lung injuries connected to use of e-cigarettes and vaping as of Oct. 29, 2019. According to the report, 21 percent of patients were aged 18–20 and 16 percent were under 18. Norman Public Schools implemented a tobacco and nicotine prevention curriculum for the 2019-2020 school year due to e-cigarette use among youth — which has “skyrocketed in recent years” according to the NPS website. The new curriculum is devoted to educating K-12 students on the dangers of exposure to cancer-causing substances, as increased risk of asthma and respiratory irritations can be attributed to vaping, according to the district’s website. “Some of these kids and these young adults that have experienced the disease — we still don’t know how they’re going to do later on down the road,” said Jeremy Moad of OU Medical Center in Edmond. “I mean, they could be really causing problems for themselves.” One of the concerns for pulmonary critical care specialists like Moad is that young people who use vapes may permanently damage their lungs and could pick up cigarettes in the future. “Related to the U.S. epidemic of e-cigarettes, a lot of youth are using these products — we don’t really know what the effects are on them on the respiratory system,” Tackett said.
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A Juul with vapor Oct. 9.
“So the goal of this project, or this project study period, is to really determine some foundational evidence of the respiratory effects related to e-cigarette use.” According to a report by the Office of the Surgeon General, when young people become addicted early on, it becomes more difficult to quit. Environmental studies junior Isabel English said she started using friends’ vapes when she was a freshman in high school and began using e-cigarettes more often this
past summer. “When I was regularly vaping, I’d do it pretty much all the time — anytime I was in my car, out with friends or doing homework,” English said. “I began because my friends had been vaping and I would be trying theirs, and I eventually wanted one of my own.” English’s story is similar to many young adult vape users Tackett and Moad have found. “What we see is that 15 to 17 is actually one of the highest periods of use experimentation with e-cigarettes,” Tackett
said. “If we really want to understand what products these kids are using, what the health effects can potentially be of using these products, we really want to target the people that are using it.” English said she stopped using e-cigarettes because of the financial strain, health concerns and the plastic waste created by e-cigarettes, but quitting has been difficult because they are so addictive. “I have read a lot of articles online about new cases of respiratory illness believed to be
linked to vaping,” English said. “I’ve had a lot of discussions with friends about whether these companies market their products toward minors, whether flavored vaping products should be prohibited, or if outright bans are the right choice. I definitely think these products should have stricter regulations and should be less popularized in media.” Katie Beltz
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State lawmakers talk impeachment inquiry Lankford, Cole, Horn respond to Thursday’s vote EMMA DAVIS
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Members of Oklahoma’s congressional delegation commented on Thursday’s House impeachment inquiry resolution. According to NPR, the House of Representatives passed a resolution formalizing the impeachment inquiry by a 232-196 vote. According to the draft of
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Au g . 2 7 a n d O c t . 1 5 , which is around double the amount of calls to each of the six other restaurants and bars in the same period. By contrast, during that period, NPD was called to O’Connell’s seven times, Logie’s six times, Volare four times, Seven47 four times, The Deli two times and The Porch once. The severity of the calls in this period also differs between 3rd Base and the other six locations. NPD has been called to 3rd Base two times for fights and once each for an alleged assault, a noise complaint, a suspicious individual and a domestic disturbance. The other eight calls consisted of following up on previous calls, welfare checks and one 911 call of an unknown nature. Five of the seven calls to O’Connell’s were due to parking problems, one was for vandalism and the other for a domestic disturbance. All six calls to Logie’s were for alarms, and each of the four calls to Seven47 were for different things — a missing person, a welfare check, vandalism and a parking problem. All four of Volare’s calls were for alarms. NPD Capt. Brent Barbour said these cover any type of fire or burglary alarm that goes off at a location. At The Deli, one call was for public intoxication
the resolution, it enables the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee to have open hearings and allows the president and his attorneys to cross-examine witnesses. Sen. James Lankford said in a press release he did not support the inquiry as the resolution was written. The private hearings will be continued without participation from the president or his legal team, Lankford said in the press release. Republicans will not be able to call witnesses until the Democrats decide to move to public hearings, Lankford
said in the release. Once in public hearings, Democrats must agree to every witness that Republicans call. “Clearly, the rules created for this politically-motivated investigation are focused on the witnesses that agree with the Democrat view, not based on the facts with a balanced view,” Lankford said in the release. “Voting to continue a one-sided, partisan investigation does not make it legitimate.” Rep. Tom Cole said this process is different from past impeachment processes, such as action related to President Richard Nixon
and the other for a domestic disturbance. The single call to The Porch was for larceny. But these numbers — or lack thereof — can be deceiving, Barbour said. “For bars, you may have a bouncer or a manager who says, ‘I’m calling the cops every time,’ and other ones who say, ‘We’re dealing with this in-house. We only call them if we need them,’” Barbour said. “But we are (at 3rd Base) a lot. I mean, it’s not a secret by any means.” In 2019, however, 14 of the calls to Kong’s/3rd Base were for noise complaints, 12 for alcohol violations or public intoxication, 10 for fights and eight for assaults. All six of the other bars and restaurants have had no assault calls in 2019, and O’Connell’s has had one call for a fight. A fight, Barbour said, is if someone gets shoved or hit by another individual, which may or may not result in an assault charge. The Porch and O’Connell’s have both received one noise complaint. The Porch has had three calls for an alcohol violation or public intoxication, O’Connell’s has had two, The Deli has had one, Volare has had one, Seven47 has had one drug violation and Logie’s has had none. Most of the calls at the other bars and restaurants were due to parking problems, bar checks and alarms. Hannah Stephen, nursing and biology junior, said she went to Kong’s once in the spring when a fight broke out.
“I didn’t feel unsafe when I was there, but it was a little scary that a fight broke out and the cops had to be called,” Stephen said. In April, The Norman Transcript reported that Kong’s Tavern was cited for being over capacity, along with citations and arrests for alcohol violations, which were discovered during two NPD proactive projects for safety on Campus Corner. The projects took place on Friday, March 29. One of the projects was in collaboration with the fire marshal, and Kong’s was found to be over capacity by 51 people, according to The Transcript. James Vu, former co-owner of Kong’s, told The Transcript at the time that it was raining outside when the fire marshal came to the restaurant to address a noise complaint, so the bar was overcapacity because “outdoor patrons” were taking shelter inside. During its second project, which focused on reducing underage drinking, NPD arrested two people for public intoxication, cited seven for minor in possession and two for possession of a fake ID, and arrested a 17-yearold for using a fake ID to get into the restaurant, The Transcript reported. Lieber said she has been to Kong’s about 15 times, and 3rd Base around three to five times. “I personally haven’t had any bad experiences at 3rd Base, but some of my friends have had terrible ones when it was Kong’s,” Lieber said.
and President Bill Clinton. “Today’s resolution sets forth a process for impeaching the president of the United States,” Cole said. “It is not a fair process, it is not an open process, it is not a transparent process, but instead a limited, closed process with a pre-ordained outcome.” Republicans submitted 17 amendments that Cole said in the release would make the impeachment process more fair and that would provide more rights for everyone involved, but they were all denied. “Without due process and
without a fair process that respects minority rights, I do not believe the American people will regard this process as legitimate,” Cole said in the release. “A legitimate process is one that offers protections for everyone involved. And without those protections, this will be seen as just another partisan exercise, one the majority has been pushing since the first day of the 116th Congress.” Rep. Kendra Horn said in a press release that after much consideration, she approved the resolution because it will create more transparency through more
People dance inside 3rd Base on Campus Corner Oct. 18.
Jeanne Snider, Norman’s assistant city attorney, said Kong’s liquor license was suspended in July because it would not provide documentation requested by the Norman city clerk to prove it fell under the qualifications of a restaurant. “Kong ’s was licensed as a restaurant, which requires 35 percent or more of sales be food,” Snider said. “Kong’s did not provide all required documentation to make that determination.” Rather than providing the documentation, Kong’s Tavern closed for about a month, and 3rd Base opened in its place. The new 3rd Base is also licensed as a restaurant, and Snider said, as of now, “the city has no information that
it is not operating within that license.” Carrie Hendricks, executive director of the Campus Corner Association, declined to comment about Kong’s closure or 3rd Base’s opening, saying the association “does not comment on individual businesses.” Keoppel said he and the other owner wanted to start a new restaurant in place of Kong’s to reboot things. “We wanted to start off fresh with new names, all new management and employees,” Keoppel said. Vu was one of the three co-owners of Kong’s and stepped down in July after it closed down, The Transcript reported. There are now two co-owners of 3rd Base instead of three, Keoppel said,
effective public hearings. “As I’ve said all along, I always look at the facts in front of me and vote in the best interests of Oklahomans,” Horn said in the release. “The questions before us are serious, and I approach them without any predetermined opinion or judgement. I took an oath to defend the Constitution, and will weigh the facts as they are presented in a thoughtful, fair and transparent manner.” Emma Davis
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but he would not give the name of the other co-owner. “I’d ask to leave his name out of it,” Keoppel said in a text to The Daily. “He’s a quiet guy and would like to stay that way.” Lieber said while she has never personally felt unsafe at Kong’s or 3rd Base, she is not shocked by its high amount of incident calls. “Hearing that the police have been called to 3rd Base is not surprising because it was the same way with Kong’s — I guess old habits die hard,” Lieber said. “I’ve never felt unsafe at 3rd Base, but I’ve also never felt super comfortable there.” Bailey Lewis
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Ellen Stackable, second from left, poses for a group photo with volunteers and members of Poetic Justice, a nonprofit writing workshop focused on hope and change for incarcerated women, in June 2018 at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center in McLoud, Oklahoma.
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Nonprofit offers women in prison hope via poetry DEVIN HIETT @devinhiett
Ellen Stackable wanted to create a space where women could feel safe, but she faced a big challenge. She was trying to create that safe space in one of the least safe spaces imaginable: prison. Stackable has dedicated the past 20 years to helping students find their voice through writing. She has taught English at the Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences since 2001, but the women in this class differ from the sea of teenage faces she typically spends her days with. They are more inquisitive than her usual students, more appreciative and, often, more willing to take a risk, even though some of them have never written before. In 2014, Stackable founded Poetic Justice, a nonprofit that offers restorative writing workshops emphasizing hope, voice and the power of change to incarcerated
women. “Our classes are looking at who you were, who you are today and who you want to become,� Stackable said. Poetic Justice launched in the Tulsa County Jail in March 2014 as a small operation that included Stackable and about five volunteers who came to the jail twice a week. Over the past five years, they have expanded to every women’s prison in Oklahoma and reached more than 2,000 incarcerated women. The classes last six to eight weeks, and the Poetic Justice volunteers collect the women’s handwritten poems each week to type up. On the last week of class, volunteers spend their own money to print the collection of poems in a book they hand out at graduation. It was important to Stackable that the women in her classes be able to tell friends and family they are officially published poets by the time they graduate from the Poetic Justice program. “It’s amazing. For a lot of them, not only have they never seen their name in print,� Stackable said, “many of them have never finished anything before.� Stackable’s effor ts to
bring healing and meaning into the lives of women in Oklahoma prisons led her to be honored as a top 10 CNN Hero in 2018. But if you ask her about the award, or about her TEDx talk, she will say, “It’s not about me. It’s about getting the story of these women to other people because, honestly, they inspire me.� It all started in 2013, when Stackable was researching her graduate thesis at OU. She learned Oklahoma imprisons women at twice the national average, at a rate of 151 out of every 100,000. That’s more women per capita than any other state in the country — a record Oklahoma has held for almost 25 years. She said she was also disturbed to learn that roughly 80 percent of these women are locked up for nonviolent offenses. Stackable immediately knew something had to be done, although at the time she had no idea what that “something� would be. A passionate writer and teacher, Stackable said she has “always been hardwired with the power of voice and helping students find their voice through writing.� So that’s where she started.
A Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences colleague told Stackable about a spoken word poetry night he put on at the Tulsa County Jail, and she thought this was perfect. She attended and asked if anyone was working on a similar program with women and was told no one was. Going by the jail’s rulebook, women were allowed to help with men’s classes, but men were not allowed to assist women’s programs. Stackable began brainstorming. While she said she enjoyed the spoken word poetry nights, she wanted to create a program that was “more therapeutic and restorative,� since most women incarcerated in Oklahoma have been victims of domestic and childhood abuse. If she was going to make a difference, she felt she would need to cultivate a safe place where women could overcome their trauma and pain and open up to one another. “The reason I love poetry is it has this wonderful no-rules writing style, so even people who have never written before find themselves writing,� Stackable said. “And as they start to
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write from the heart, pen to the page, healing inevitably comes, and so does an incredible eloquence.� Many of the poems written during Poetic Justice workshops focus on transformative moments and self-reflection, like “Dear Younger Me,� by a woman known as M.G., which reads: “There will come a time in your life when you think that life isn’t fair and you want to quit. Don’t do it. It gets better. There will be a time in your life when you think the bad people in your life won’t go away. Don’t do it. It gets better. There comes a time in your life when you fall deeply in love, but the love of your life doesn’t feel the same. Please don’t do it. It does get better. There comes a time in your life when you break, and you think that your life isn’t worth living. Please don’t do it. It really does get better. There comes a time in your life when you are urged to slow down and are eventually forced to stop. Find the
glue and piece yourself back together. Spend time finding yourself, and then thank God that you didn’t do it, because it did get better. Because you got better.� Although Stackable now believes people “would be blown away at some of the poems these women write,� she said she did not initially anticipate how talented many of her students would be when she launched Poetic Justice. Walking into the Tulsa County Jail five years ago, Stackable said she came with “all kinds of implicit biases� that have since been proven unfounded. “I assumed they would not be very literate, and I was wrong,� Stackable said. “I assumed I would feel unsafe a lot of the time, and I never did.� In fact, Stackable said that throughout her 20 years of teaching, incarcerated women have been the best, most gracious students she’s ever had. “They are so grateful, they’re so focused in on the moment, so attentive, and it makes it hard sometimes see POETRY page 5
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Film seeks Native actors, extras OKC, Tulsa to host open casting calls for Scorsese movie ABIGAIL HALL @abigail_wah
A Hollywood production team will host open casting calls for indigenous men and women in in Oklahoma City and Tulsa in mid-November. The second casting call for “Killers of the Flower Moon” will open Nov. 13 in Oklahoma City and Nov. 16 in Tulsa, open to members of the Osage tribe or other Native American tribes for the roles of actors and extras, according to a press release. The production team is exclusively looking for men
and women as speaking actors and background extras to portray Osage Nation and other Native American roles. Children 16 and under will have a future casting call date to be announced, according to the release. Directed by Martin Scorsese, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” based on the New York Times national bestseller book of the same name by David Grann, tells the true story of the 1920s Osage Nation murders and the ensuing investigation conducted by the newly established FBI. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Tom White, the lead FBI agent, and Robert De Niro as William Hale, a member of the Osage Nation known as “King of the Osage Hills.” The Oklahoma City
casting call is open from noon to 5 p.m. Nov. 13 at the Renaissance Waterford Marriott at 6300 Waterford Blvd. The Tulsa casting call is open from noon to 5 p.m. Nov. 16 at the DoubleTree by Hilton at Warren Place 6110 S. Yale Ave. At the casting calls, individuals will have full-length photos taken of them by production staff and will be measured by size. The production team seeks cast members with a “fresh and natural look,” s o attende es are aske d to not wear false eyelashes or heavy makeup. Attende es are aske d to wear form-fitting clothing, such as a T-shirt and jeans. Additionally, anyone interested in being cast is encouraged to grow out their
hair and eyebrows in order to be styled according to the era. Those interested in being extras in the film are asked to submit a current photo and contact information to kotfmcasting@yahoo.com with a subject line “KFM Extra.” Additionally, Osage and Native American actors who cannot attend the casting call can submit a current photo and contact information to Rene Haynes Casting at rhctalent@gmail.com with the subject line “KFM Casting.” For more information about the production, contact kfmgeneral@gmail. com. Abigail Hall ahall@ou.edu
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honestly to go back to teach high school the next day,” Stackable said. “Like you guys, you don’t know how lucky you are.” Hanna Al-Jibouri, president of the Poetic Justice board of directors and volunteer coordinator, was a student of Stackable’s in high school. Afterward, AlJibouri attended Hendrix College before moving back to Tulsa to teach elementary school. She said she was scrolling through Facebook one day when she came across a post from her former English teacher asking if anyone was interested in accompanying her to Tulsa County Jail to teach writing classes. Al-Jibouri was part of the original group, and she said she had no idea what to expect the first time she stepped into Tulsa County Jail. Five years ago, she could never have anticipated the deep connections she would cultivate with many of her students, Al-Jibouri said. Often, the most challenging part about her job is remembering to focus on the positive changes she is helping create in these women’s lives rather than dwelling on the unfair circumstances that landed many of her students in prison. “I could choose to get really jaded, but the truth of it is to remember, ‘What do I have in my control? What power do I have, and how am I using that power?’” Al-Jibouri said. “Yes, sometimes of course it’s very difficult, but rather than staying in that state, you have to think, ‘OK. How can my power help in this situation to make it better?’ It’s a lot of learning how to balance those feelings because they’re very real, they’re
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Ellen Stackable hugs a member of Poetic Justice, a restorative writing workshop that emphasizes the power of change to incarcerated women, in June 2018 at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center in McLoud, Oklahoma.
always there, they never leave.” For Al-Jibouri, the most fulfilling part of working with incarcerated women is getting to know them on a personal level and forming meaningful relationships with women like Sophia Carbajal. Carbajal had been incarcerated at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center — a maximum security prison in McLoud, Oklahoma, known for having the highest sexual violence rate of any female prison in the country — for almost five years when she met Stackable in November 2016. The pair met only
three days before Carbajal was paroled. Most of the women at Mabel Bassett at the time were familiar with Stackable even if they hadn’t taken her classes, Carbajal said. This was largely because Poetic Justice filmed the documentary “Grey Matter” there. Stackable believes it’s not a coincidence that prisons are often situated in rural, sparsely populated areas. It’s intentional because people don’t want to see prisoners. People don’t want to know what’s happening, Stackable said. Mabel Bassett, which is in Pottawatomie County, is
no exception. That’s part of why the Poetic Justice team filmed their documentary there. “ It ’s h a rd e r t o t h ro w somebody in a prison in some rural place that you’ve never seen if you start to see them as human beings,” Stackable said. “If people could recognize who these people are — that they’re not just people who have done something wrong so they deserve everything that’s coming to them, but p e o p l e w h o hav e d o n e something wrong who almost always regret it and want more than anything to live past that.”
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The movie “Killers of the Flower Moon” will open a round of casting calls in OKC and Tulsa Nov. 13 and 16, respectively.
The film explores how Oklahoma leads the country for female incarceration rates. It shows how writing has served as a creative, therapeutic outlet for the women at Mabel Bassett and interviews legislators, employees and volunteers at the prison, as well as inmates. Carbajal, who struggled with substance abuse and was sentenced to prison for drug trafficking, said programs like Poetic Justice are essential to helping incarcerated women be able to express their feelings and discover where their struggles come from. “Most of the women that I was incarcerated with have gone through such abuse, such trauma that has haunted them for a majority of their life, which caused them to start with drugs and alcohol,” Carbajal said. “And these women in prison, many of us had that in common. I think they need counseling, they need more programs that will help them have healing through all that they have been through.” At 39, Carbajal was sentenced to 15 years. She was released on parole five years into her sentence and now works as the manager at She Brews Coffee House in Claremore, which employs formerly incarcerated women and helps give them the second chance Carbajal feels she was given. Carbajal believes that if more incarcerated women have access to programs like Poetic Justice, they will be able to reunite with their families and hold steady jobs once they’re released, just like she has. “It’s hard for many who have been abused to verbally express what we went through, and writing helps you. It’s a form of release, and it’s a form of healing,” Carbajal said. “It’s just amazing, the work Ellen does — that someone could be a voice for the voiceless.”
Carbajal has accompanied Stackable to events to talk about what it’s like to be incarcerated and share the power of voice and writing. Stackable hopes Poetic Justice will help more women like Carbajal work through their trauma to find healing and lead fulfilling lives outside of prison. Poetic Justice currently offers writing workshops at the Tulsa County Jail, Mabel Bassett Correctional Center, Eddie Warrior Correctional Center, Turley Correctional Center and Kate Bernard C o r re c t i o na l C e nt e r i n Oklahoma City. It also offers classes at Las Colinas Detention Facility in San Diego and at La Esperanza in Tijuana, Mexico. Stackable’s long-term goal is to bring restorative writing programs to every facility in Oklahoma and create a foundation that will allow others to start these types of programs throughout the country. In 2014, Stackable thought she would be the one helping students heal, but she has learned that healing goes both ways. About a month after her mother died, Stackable went to class at Mabel Bassett — not realizing her students had somehow found out about her mother’s death. When she arrived, she said around 25 women were waiting in the yard, ready to shower Stackable with love and affirmation. “I think what got to me is that they don’t have that luxury themselves. They don’t get to be at the side of a family member when they die, they don’t even really have space to mourn, and yet they were willing to extend that to me,” Stackable said. “It was really really touching. “As somebody who grew up with five brothers and no sisters, I felt like I had sisters.” Devin Hiett
hiettdevin@ou.edu
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SPORTS
• Nov. 4-10, 2019
How OU can still make playoff Sports editor talks scenarios for OU’s shot at national title GEORGE STOIA @georgestoia
Hello darkness, my old friend. It’s that time of year again, when Sooner Nation spends its time rooting against other teams as much as it roots for the Sooners. No. 10 Oklahoma, similar to years past, is going to need some help if it wants to make the College Football Playoff for the third consecutive season. Thanks to a shocking loss to Kansas State a week ago, the Sooners are in a familiar spot as they sit with one loss heading into the final stretch of the season. So what needs to happen if Oklahoma wants to get back to the semifinals? Well, first, the Sooners have to win out and win the Big 12 Championship — that’s for sure. So let’s just pretend that’s exactly what Oklahoma does in the following scenarios. Here’s the ultimate guide for what needs to happen for OU to reach the College Football Playoff:
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The National Championship trophy on display at Big 12 Media Days July 15.
thing that could happen to the Sooners’ playoff hopes is for Georgia or Florida to win the SEC Championship. Think about it: The winner of Alabama-LSU will likely be in the SEC title game as an undefeated team. The loser will be ranked as one of the best one-loss teams. If a oneloss Georgia or Florida upsets Alabama or LSU in the conference title game, the SEC will almost certainly get two teams in. THE DOOMSDAY The same could happen SCENARIO if an undefeated Minnesota Short of every team in the beats an undefeated Ohio country winning out, which State or Penn State in the Big is not possible, the worst 10 Championship. Then the
Big 10 could get two teams in. So yeah, cheer for Alabama or LSU to win out, as well as Ohio State or Penn State. THE MOST LIKELY SCENARIO Let’s say Clemson, Ohio State and the winner of Alabama-LSU win out and win their respective conferences. Then let’s say Oregon wins the Pac-12 as a one-loss. And finally, let’s say the loser of Alabama-LSU finishes with one loss as well as Penn State. So three spots are filled
with Clemson, Ohio State and Alabama or LSU. That leaves the committee to choose between four oneloss teams for the final spot: Big 12 champ Oklahoma, Pac-12 champ Oregon, oneloss Alabama or one-loss LSU, and one-loss Penn State. I like Oklahoma’s chances here, but only if the winner of Alabama-LSU wins convincingly, if OU wins big in Waco and if Kansas State finishes the season ranked. What’s likely going to happen is the committee is going to have to choose between a one-loss Big 12 champion in
Oklahoma or a one-loss SEC They need to win and make team. Who will they choose? a statement doing so. No one knows. Nov. 23: Ohio State vs. Penn State THE DREAM SCENARIO Much like Alabama-LSU, cheer for a blowout. If Ohio Oregon loses a game. State loses, it could lose again C lems on los es a game. to Michigan. Penn State Alabama loses to LSU and only has Rutgers after the Auburn. Ohio State loses to Buckeyes. I think the loser Penn State and Michigan. of this game is eliminated It doesn’t matter which anyway. two, but if two of those things Nov. 30: Clemson vs. South happen, Oklahoma is in. It’s Carolina that simple. South Carolina. Duh. Nov. 30: Alabama vs. KEY GAMES GOING Auburn FORWARD If Alabama loses to LSU, the Iron Bowl could serve as Nov. 9: Minnesota vs. Penn the dagger to the Crimson State I t h i n k y o u w a n t Tide. If Alabama beats LSU Minnesota to win and then and then loses to Auburn... Penn State to beat Ohio Oh, boy. Now that would be State? But I really don’t chaos. know. This game will prove Nov. 30: Ohio State vs. important at the end of the Michigan Cheer for the Michigan season. fighting khakis. Nov. 9: Alabama vs. LSU It doesn’t really matter. GEORGE’S BIGGEST Just cheer for a blowout, PIECE OF ADVICE preferably LSU because Alabama could lose to Isn’t this what makes colAuburn — whereas LSU isn’t likely to lose another game lege football great? There’s a lot of football left with Arkansas and Ole Miss left on the schedule after the to be played. Oklahoma has Crimson Tide. just as good of a chance to Nov. 16: Oregon vs. Arizona make it as any other team. Arizona. Duh. So just breathe and enjoy the Nov. 16: Clemson vs. Wake games, because there’s nothForest ing worse than when the colThis is probably the only lege football season comes to real threat for Clemson to a close. lose a game. Nov. 16: OU vs. Baylor Biggest game left on the George Stoia schedule for the Sooners. georgestoia@ou.edu
Riley responds to KSU loss, NCAA decision Caleb Kelly to join Sooners’ fight for spot in 2019 playoff VIC REYNOLDS @vicareynolds
After suffering a 48-41 loss to No. 22 Kansas State, No. 10 Oklahoma (7-1, 4-1 Big 12) had a bye week. Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley addressed the media at his weekly press conference Wednesday, and he discussed everything from injuries to a new NCAA ruling about paying players. Here are three takeaways from the presser: HOW THE TEAM IS RESPONDING TO A LOSS When he was asked about how shocking the loss to Kansas State was, Riley interrupted a reporter’s question and was blunt about the expectation levels of Oklahoma. “Remember this: Every loss at OU is shocking,” Riley said. “Bob (Stoops) told me that the other day, and he’s right. Rarely do we ever play a game that we’re not favored in, and rarely do we play a game that everyone
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OU coach Lincoln Riley stands on the field during the game against Kansas State Oct. 26.
doesn’t expect us to win.” After the game, Riley wasn’t too concerned about his team’s College Football Playoff chances, saying his team had lost midseason in each of the last two years
when the Sooners made the national semifinals. I n R i l e y ’s t e n u r e a t Oklahoma, he is undefeated in the month of November, and he reported that his current team is rebounding
well from the loss and focusing on improving. “I think there’s a constant hunger to improve and a desire to win a championship,” Riley said. “We’ve put ourselves in that situation
again going into November, and we’re right where we want to be.”
RILEY’S REACTION TO THE NCAA VOTE
CALEB KELLY’S INJURY STATUS
The biggest story of the week in college sports was that the NCAA’s governing board unanimously voted to allow student-athletes to be allowed to profit from their name, image and likeness. It is a stepping stone that has potentially major ramifications to college sports, from the players’ amateur status to what they can financially earn. Riley said he thinks it could ultimately be a good move for college athletics, he’s concerned about how it can be implemented while still maintaining the integrity of the game. “I think it’s certainly not surprising, and I think it can be a positive thing,” Riley said. “It will certainly be interesting to see how it’s all put together ... But it’ll be very important to the future of this game, though — to all the athletes — everybody involved with it to how it’s put together, because now we’re kind of venturing into the unknown there.”
Senior linebacker Caleb Kelly suffered a lower body injur y in April that was projected to sideline him for most of the season, but Riley said that he is making progress. The former five-star recruit is now fully cleared to play and has been practicing. Riley didn’t give a timetable for his return, but with only four regular season games left, Kelly should be able to return to action and be redshirted in the final weeks of the season if he is healthy. The return of an experienced, starting-caliber player could be beneficial to a linebacker room that just lost junior Jon MichaelTerry for the rest of the season with an injury. “He’s doing great and he’s getting close,” Riley said. “He’s fully cleared, doing some nice things and progressing him up. Being fully cleared and being ready to play are two different things, but he’s been doing a lot the last few weeks and getting better quickly.”
Vic Reynolds
victor.reynolds@ou.edu
Sutherland faces protection order petition OU kicker remains suspended as new case details emerge CALEB MCCOURRY @CalebMac21
A petition for a protection order has been made against suspended OU kicker Calum Sutherland b y h i s e x- g i r l f r i e n d i n Cleveland County Court Thursday. This was first reported by Abby Bitterman of The Oklahoman. A hearing has been scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 8. The redshirt sophomore kicker was suspended indefinitely on Oct. 4. In the petition, the
victim said Sutherland hit and choked her with his belt on Sept. 21, the day Sutherland was arrested for public intoxication. The victim also claimed Sutherland has followed her around campus while yelling at her and threatening to kill himself. The arresting officer claimed Sutherland was intoxicated to the point where he didn’t know “what he was and had been doing,” according to the affidavit. Sutherland has also been under a Title IX investigation for what happened on Sept. 21. The victim claims Sutherland broke the no-contact order. Sutherland started the
first three games for the S o o n e r s, b u t h e ha s n ’ t seen the field since. The Monday after his arrest back in September, head coach Lincoln Riley said these situations are handled internally. “I’m disappointed by it,” Riley said. “There will be consequences. I’m never one to air out dirty laundry in front of everybody, so I’m not going to go into what that is going to be. But it’ll be handled in an appropriate manner.” Caleb McCourry
caleb.a.mccourry-1@ ou.edu
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Redshirt sophomore kicker Calum Sutherland during the game against UCLA in Pasadena, California, Sept. 14.