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Death reported at Cross Village

Students hold walkout to support DACA recipients

University releases statement, expresses sadness for loss of life SCOTT KIRKER @scott_kirker

An OU student was found dead at Cross Village on Nov. 9, a university spokesperson told The Daily.

According to an emailed statement Nov. 9, the OU Police Department received an 8 a.m. call reporting a body found at the address. Upon arrival, OUPD determined that there was no threat to others and secured the area.

The medical examiner’s office will determine the official cause of death, according to the statement, and authorities are withholding the identity of the individual until next of kin is notified.

The Nov. 9 statement did not say whether the body found had been identified as an OU student, but the spokesperson confirmed that it was a student in a Nov. 10 text message.

“The university is deeply saddened by this tragic loss of life,” the statement said. “University counseling services are being made available to provide support for OU community members.”

OU has resources for members of the university community seeking help in crisis, including the University Counseling Center at Goddard Health Center, which offers counseling appointments for $10. There are also resources available throughout the Norman community.

This story was updated Nov. 10 at 3:51 p.m. to indicate that the person was identified as an OU student.

The Daily will continue to investigate this situation and report any new information at oudaily. com.

Blake Douglas contributed to this report.

Scott Kirker stk@ou.edu

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Students march down the South Oval during the “Home Is Here” march for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Temporary Protected Status programs Nov. 8.

Protesters march at OU before Supreme Court oral argument EMMA DAVIS

@emmarileydavis

More than 100 people carrying signs marched on the South Oval before a Supreme Court decision that could affect OU students.

OU community members participated in a walkout in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals at Evans Hall on Nov. 8.

The walkout, part of a statewide “Home is Here” campaign hosted in part by Oklahoma n o n p ro f i t D re a m Ac t i o n Oklahoma, comes before a Nov. 12 Supreme Court oral argument considering whether President Donald Trump has the power to end the Obamaera initiative and whether it was implemented correctly, the Dallas Morning News reported.

DACA allows some unauthorized immigrants who were brought to the United States as children protection from deportation and renewable two-year work permits.

OU student and College D e m o c rat s o f O k l a h o ma President Tasneem Al-Michael said at the walkout that the fight for DACA is a fight for the lives of DACA recipients and undocumented immigrants, and the fight is for all people of color, not just DACA recipients.

“Congress refuses to listen to us,” said Latinx studies senior Ruth Viridiana Cruces Peña.

“They refuse to acknowledge our lives as an actual person and not just a number. This is not OK. I am done with this, and the fact that it’s 2019, (and) we’re still fighting to keep this.”

The group gathered at Dale Hall and marched through campus to Evans Hall, chanting phrases such as, “Undocumented, unafraid,” “This is what community looks like” and “We have nothing to lose but our chains.” “(We’re) showing our campus we’re here, and this is our home,” Peña said. “We’re here to stay. For me, my home has been here since 2001. And so, it’s really important to keep a program like this.”

Dream Action Oklahoma member and OU alumna Brenda Lozano said similar walkouts took place at

universities and other schools Friday. Lozano said the walkouts were held because, though many professors and teachers support the fight for DACA, “higher-ups” believe the fight is “too political.”

“That’s where we come in,” Lozano said. “We need to continue to come in, not just for today, not just for the next rally.

Because this is just one action, but it is the start of something that we want to instill in this institution because we need resources for our own undocumented immigrants at this university.”

Lozano said Oklahoma made history Nov. 8 by having the most university and high school student bodies walk out. “(There is) no other state that I would rather be at than to watch that change happen right here ... because my home is right here,” Lozano said. “Because when I step on the ground, this is my home. And this is your home, and this is our home. And I’m tired of the white man telling me it’s not my home.”

Al-Michael said the walkout was for students to stand together for DACA. “For me, this is about justice,” Al-Michael said. “This is about

deliverance. This is about morality. This is about our humanity. I’m asking you to be more than just my friend. I’m asking you to be more than just my ally, right? I need you to be here with me.”

Those who can vote should vote for other communities who do not have that voice or option, Peña and Al-Michael said.

“I need you to be an activist,” Al-Michael said. “I need you to be an accomplice. I need you to be an ally. I need you to be here.

I need you to show up. I need you to be here to put yourself on the line.”

The walkout came after another student demonstration was held on OU’s campus Nov. 7. A group of students held a sit-in at interim OU President Joseph Harroz’s office in protest of OU policies that affect global climate change.

The group of students participating in the climate strike remained in Harroz’s office for roughly three hours until they were able to set up meetings with multiple university leaders, which are scheduled for Nov. 11.

Emma Davis

emma.r.davis-1@ou.edu

Activists march for sustainable changes Organizers will meet with officials, discuss environmental impact EMMA DAVIS

@emmarileydavis

For more than three hours, anyone attempting to enter or leave the president’s office was met with a few dozen protesters advocating more environmentally friendly university policies.

OU students participated in a march and sit-in for the climate strike at the office of the president in Evans Hall on Nov. 7. The Environmental Justice Coalition of Oklahoma held a march down the South Oval before transitioning to a sit-in outside interim OU President Joseph Harroz’s Evans Hall office.

Environmental Justice Coalition of Oklahoma co-founder Gant Roberson was one of the event’s main organizers and said action has to be taken.

“Our generation is being forced to pick up the pieces of previous generations, and we have very little time to take meaningful action

on a global scale before it is too late to prevent climate change,” Roberson said.

Other parts of the world are already suffering from the effects of climate change, Roberson said, and change must start at OU before climate change progresses further.

The group presented a list of demands to the university, sectioned off by financial demands, social demands and sustainability demands. The demands included renaming buildings named after oil and gas companies and mandating game-day food and landscaping techniques, according to a document the group distributed during the sit-in.

Other demands included more vegan and vegetarian food options and using low or no water with landscaping, Environmental Justice Coalition of Oklahoma co-founder Matt Salcido said.

The group stayed in the office until Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and Assistant Dean of Students Brynn Daves set up a series of meetings with the heads “over executive affairs, over operations, over development and all the areas (that concerned

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OU students and activists protest climate change in a strike hosted by the Environmental Justice Coalition of Oklahoma on the South Oval and in Evans Hall Nov. 7.

the group)” after more than three hours of protesting.

The protesters are scheduled to meet with OU officials Nov. 11.

“Today a group held a peaceful protest in Evans Hall,” wrote OU Director of Media Relations Kesha Keith in a Nov. 7 email. “The group issued a list of demands related to both the oil and gas industry and

the university’s sustainability efforts for attention and response.

Productive dialogue between members of the group and OU officials resulted in a plan for a meeting with OU executives.”

Roberson said he sees this as one step in their journey and discussed ultimately taking this issue to the state and national levels.

“Our action is going to continue to be disruptive until all of these institutions are held accountable for their actions and begin to take real steps to prevent climate change,” Roberson said.

Emma Davis

emma.r.davis-1@ou.edu

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CULTURE

• Nov. 11-17, 2019

Third Space fosters community Campus Corner coworking place aims to support ABIGAIL HALL @abigail_wah

The Hive in The Third Space Sept. 27. Membership has been free since the space opened in September.

for more than a decade, Grillot and Braun met w h i l e w o r k i n g i n O U ’s Department of International and Area Studies — Grillot as a professor and former dean, and Braun as a marketing and public relations specialist.

Both feminists and academic professionals without an inclusive and safe space to create community around their passions, the friends discussed the need for an off-campus community space for years. In September 2019, after a year of Grillot battling the Gallogly administration at OU and being fired from her position as dean of the College of International Studies, the duo finally decided to create what they needed.

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and a necessar y reform to the system she believes needs to take place.

“This is a project where I’m literally putting my money — and all my money — where my mouth is, but I believe in it. I believe in this community. I believe that we all deserve better. And I believe we can do better, and so I’m going to try to be a part of that solution,” Grillot said. “I’m in it. I’m not going anywhere.”

While Grillot is still a professor at the university, in June 2019 Braun quit her full-time position of 13 years to be the creative and operational director of the co-op.

“I loved working (at OU), but I’ve never been the kind of person who can go to work, do my job, and go home and leave my work at work — I give 100 percent to whatever I do,” Braun said.

“Third spaces are really important in any kind of social environment to just be the place where you can be yourself.

(Where) you can let things go, you can find the support that you need.”

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Suzette Grillot — a tenured international and area studies professor at the University of Oklahoma, mother, co-worker, friend, academic and business partner — sits in a wooden chair on a brisk Thursday morning.

Pink triangles painted on the back wall and warm rays from a window overlooking Campus Corner fill the background as she shares the story of her previous year, fraught with contention at the University of Oklahoma, and the space she created for people like herself to find a safe, inclusive and supportive community.

Grillot opened The Third Space, an off-campus coworking space intended to foster community and inclusivity, with her business partner and friend, Jacque Braun, in September in the former offices of Harold’s clothing store at 331 W. Boyd St. The Third Space is Norman’s only coworking co-op after the closure of The Coop, a former coworking space for local businesswomen on Main Street, in 2018. The Coop closed after operating from June 2016 to March 2018 due to financial and personal reasons, said former owner Kylie Hill-Hubbard.

The closure of The Coop left Norman without a coworking office for a year and a half, until The Third Space opened and filled an unmet need.

Complete w ith a color-coded library, an all-gender bathroom, community office spaces, a recording studio, a cozy living roomstyle hangout space with comfortable chairs, games and coffee — The Third Space offers a safe haven for many students and faculty in higher education.

The idea of a “third space” is commonly discussed in higher education and communities with fast-paced lifestyles. Coined by urban sociologist Ray Oldenberg in his 1991 book “The Great Good Place,” the term “third space” follows the idea that humans have three spaces of importance in their daily lives: the first space, the home; the second space, the workplace; and the third space — a neutral, supportive space where people can gather and connect without agendas or hierarchies.

“Third spaces are really important in any kind of social environment to just be the place where you can be yourself,” Grillot said. “(Where) you can let things go, you can find the support that you need.”

For marginalized groups of people, supportive and inclusive community spaces are not always easy to find in established, hierarchical social systems such as higher education.

The first American university, Harvard, was founded in 1636 by Puritan colonists as an exclusive institution of knowledge for Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, upperclass men to be educated in civil responsibility and religion. With succeeding American universities founded on similar premises, those from other backgrounds, genders or beliefs often find it difficult to integrate into a system that was not built with them in mind.

“Creating a nontoxic work environment, that is what I wish I’d had for years,” Grillot said. “And there’s no reason why we shouldn’t have supportive, empowering, nontoxic work environments — in our secondary spaces, our work spaces and our school spaces.”

Friends and co-workers

Suzette Grillot, former OU dean

For Grillot, creating The Third Space came directly from her experiences in higher education, as well as being the face of dissent against the university’s administration, which ultimately branded her as a controversial figure on campus.

“I firmly believe that what you allow will continue, and what I’ve seen happen at the university is not something that I think I can allow, and therefore I have to do something about it,” Grillot said. “And doing something about it makes you the noisy person around, and you become a little toxic, and people kind of run from you.”

But for Grillot, it comes from a place of love and respect for higher education,

“So I wanted to do something that I have ownership in and something I believe in, and something that’s meaningful and that makes a difference. And that’s what this is.”

Braun is the creative mind behind all of the art and decorations in The Third Space, making it the inviting and homey space that members know it to be. As Grillot still works at OU, she spends her days on campus teaching and visiting the space in her off-time, while Braun runs the day-to-day operations.

The co-op is intended to create an accessible and affordable space for students and locals to work, whether for school or professional

tasks, as well as to foster a community for those in need, Grillot said.

Use of the space requires a membership, but the membership comes at no cost.

When the space opened in September, the plan was for paid memberships to begin in the second month of operation. However, Braun and Grillot altered their business plan to be more accessible to the community, Braun said.

“We’ve actually changed our business plan because we want to make this space available forever to everyone,” Braun said. “So anyone can come in here and use the space for free to just hang out or study or work.”

To date, 55 people have acquired memberships at The Third Space, and while members filter in throughout the day, the atmosphere remains generally quiet and an intimate space to work or get to know other members, Braun said. “(Fifty-five) people don’t come in here a day. It’s not crowded — it’s still quiet and it’s still intimate, but we have people coming through,” Braun said.

Thos e intereste d can sign up for a free membership online or at The Third Space’s front desk. Members receive free access to The Th i rd Spa c e’s c o m m o n areas, coffee, water and WiFi, with printing for 10 cents per page.

Use of the recording studio and private office rooms or exclusive rental of any space comes with a fee, as well as the workshops and events hosted at the space, unless otherwise stated.

Because of the educational backgrounds of Grillot and Braun, the space offers quite a few events and workshops catered to broadening the mind, as well as social justice and self-care.

Upcoming events include a workshop discussion about immigration in Oklahoma, a Harry Potter trivia night and a collaborative art project.

The Third Space has an alternative option to membership for those more interested in attending workshops through the workshop package. The package costs $30 per month and includes access to two workshops or lunch events each month.

Individuals can purchase the package online or at The Third Space.

“I think, in any job, it’s important that you work with people you love because that can make or break your experience,” Braun said.

“So for me, this is my job, and working with Suzette is amazing because we’ve been friends for over a decade. But also people who come in here ... studying or working with their friends ...

I think that connection is really important.”

Miles Francisco, a political science and African and African American studies senior at OU, is one of The Third Space’s 55 members.

Francisco, an international and area studies minor, was familiar with Grillot through their shared college, and he heard about The Third Space over the summer while he was at an internship in Washington, D.C. “I was really excited that it opened, so I went to check it out and immediately became a member after seeing the space and seeing how cozy it was, how close to campus it was, how beautiful it was,” Francisco said. “(I) immediately thought about ways that I could utilize the space for my organizations.”

Francisco is the co-founder and vice president of Foundations for Liberating Minds, a group that strives to liberate those who are discriminated against through education. Through Francisco’s membership at The Third Space, the group plans to start a men’s accountability group for men to discuss toxic masculinity, patriarchy and ways to work toward “a more nurturing masculinity,” Francisco said.

Francisco said he also

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plans to us e The Third Space’s recording studio to start a podcast for his group, as well as using the space to do homework, hold team meetings and build community in an intentionally inclusive place away from campus.

“It’s not necessarily that campus isn’t a safe place — (it’s) that all of campus isn’t always intentionally inclusive,” Francisco said.

“Being at a campus as large as OU that is a predominantly white institution, there aren’t always those spaces where marginalized students feel safe and welcome.”

Francisco said he looks forward to building an inclusive community in Norman through The Third Space because that can be hard to find outside of big cities.

“It’s just a really cool, innovative and unique space that O klahoma doesn’t have, period — and it’s really cool that it’s here in Norman,” Francisco said.

“To have this space that is in walking distance with campus, that’s really vibrant and colorful, and it’s centered around creativity and justice — it’s just something to definitely take advantage of because a lot of places don’t have something like this.”

Abigail Hall ahall@ou.edu

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OU food options still fall short Campus dining lacks halal, vegan, kosher options ABBY TOW @abby_tow

While OU boasts inclusive and accessible dining options, some students who practice halal, kosher, vegan and other special diets aren’t experiencing these claims.

Meal plans are a required purchase for almost all first-year students at OU. For most students, there are plenty of options to make use of these plans, w ith a star ting pr ice of $2,308 for a regular plan, but for students with special and religious diets, the options begin to dwindle.

“Housing and Food has a lot of options for dining on campus but has very few restaurants that offer halal food,” said Muneeb Ata, biology and letters senior and outreach chair for the Muslim Student Association. “In fact, on campus I (eat) vegetarian because of the lack of halal meat.”

A h a l a l d i e t , a c c o rd ing to the Islamic Council of Victor ia, means eating foods that are considered “permissible” by t h e Qu ra n , t h e Is l a m i c holy text, although not all Muslims practice the same levels of observance.

For meat to be considered halal, it must be slaughtered by a Muslim adult in a manner that reduces the suffering of the animal.

A halal diet prohibits alcohol, pork, carnivorous animals, non-halal meat and animal byproducts, and any fo o d contami nated by non-halal foods,

A salad bar at Cate Restaurants on Oct. 25.

according to the Islamic Council of Victoria.

“There are more than 200 students in the (Muslim Student Association) and they do not all practice halal. A very large group does practice halal, and many of those who do not practice halal still would prefer it,” Ata said.

OU food staff is given “regular training” about halal and vegan food p re p a r a t i o n , s a i d A m y Buchanan, a spokesperson for OU Food Services, in an email to The Daily. But Ata said this training doesn’t always have the intended impact.

“Many student workers are not properly trained or educated about halal or kosher options. Depending on who is on shift, you acquire the food you need.

That shouldn’t be the case,” Ata said.

Students who eat a vegan diet also have

limited options on campus. Spanish and pre-med freshman Rowan Fread is a vegan student who has found some challenges with her meal plan on campus.

Veganism prohibits all animal by-products including meat, dairy, gelatin and eggs.

Fread said sometimes products are labeled as meatless, but it is unclear whether the pro duct is completely free of animal byproducts such as butter or eggs. “ I t ’s e a s i e s t u s u a l l y to eat at Couch Dining,” Fread said. “But on some days, they don’t they have a vegan and vegetarian station.”

S t u d e n t s w h o h av e a hard time finding options with their special diet may not know about the resources available to them, Buchanan said. “ Fo o d S e r v i c e s ha s a

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dietitian and an ingredients specialist on staff for trainings and education.

They are also available for anyone at OU to contact regarding special dietary needs,” Buchanan said in the email.

Additionally, Food Services does not cater to kosher students, Buchanan said.

“Our on-campus restaurants do not offer kosher menu items. The rigorous standards for food to be kosher certified — operations would have to have completely separate cooking equipment, vessels, utensils and plates — are not able to be implemented in our restaurants,” Buchanan said in the email.

I f a s t u d e nt p rov i d e s “documentation” of their kosher diet, they aren’t required to purchase a freshman meal plan, Buchanan said.

Buchanan did not give

details on what type of documentation was needed, but said that in cases where no accommodation can be made for a student’s diet, Food Services would document the situation and not require the purchase of a meal plan.

The difficulty of obser ving kosher at OU is p a r t o f t h e ov e ra l l d i fficulty of keeping kosher in Oklahoma, said Abby Jacobson, rabbi of Ema nu e l Sy nag o gu e i n Oklahoma City.

“One of the features of being a Jewish Oklahoman is that we have to handle a lot of the kosher needs ourselves,” Jacobson said.

Aside from not eating pork and shellfish, kosher students have to maintain kosher kitchens and mind what foods they mix in the same meal, Jacobson said.

According to Healthline, Jews who keep kosher consider food to fall into three categories: meat, dairy and pareve, which is food that isn’t meat or dairy. Meat and dairy cannot be prepared or eaten together in the same meal.

Only the forequarters of animals with split hooves, like cows and sheep, and domesticated fowl like turkeys and chicken, are considered kosher. The animals also must be soaked to remove all blood and then slaughtered by a shochet, which is a certified butcher that practices Jewish law, according to Healthline.

“If we do choose to eat meat, we are not allowed to mix it with any dairy, so whether that’s in the same food, like a cheeseburger, or whether that’s in the same meal, like a hamburger and a milkshake,” Jacobson said.

Judaic studies s enior Graham Wall has kept a kosher diet throughout college, but knows Jewish students who reduced their observance of a kosher diet due to a lack of options, he said. “ I k n ow t h e re w e re a couple of kids ... who had been more kosher in high school and in their towns growing up who just gave it up because it was easier,” Wall said.

Without a kitchen his freshman year, Wall said he mostly ate vegan options on campus because kosher meat wasn’t available on a meal plan. Now as an upperclassman, he has more options in cooking his own meals, but the closest place to get kosher meat is in Oklahoma City.

“S o m u c h o f t h e c o l lege experience revolves around food, which people don’t talk about,” Wall said. “You meet people in the caf and things like that, and it becomes an isolating experience ... it becomes a weird and other-izing thing.”

For halal diets, Ata said halal meat isn’t difficult to find in Oklahoma, and contacting halal vendors to bring in more options for Muslim students would be a key step in creating a more inclusive campus.

“Food is a great way to make OU more inclusive because not only is it crucial to the students who have dietary restrictions, but it is also a vital part of every day,” Ata said.

Abby Tow

abby.tow1@ou.edu

Review: ‘Jojo Rabbit’ finds light in darkness Satirical film about Nazi child centers on love in WWII JUSTIN JAYNE @justin__jayne

The coming-of-age genre is a style of film that exists to assure young people that everything will be all right.

Coming-of-age films, however, do not typically center around a 10-year-old Nazi whose imaginary best friend is Adolf Hitler.

That is, until “Jojo Rabbit” (2019).

Director Taika Waititi — who also directed “Thor: Ragnarok” — takes on a difficult task with his latest project, making a funny, dark and dramatic film also feel real and fantastical all at once.

Based on the novel “Caging Skies” by Christine Leunens, “Jojo Rabbit” is set in the final months of World War II. The plot follows a 10-yearold German boy named Jojo,

played by Roman Griffin Davis, who is raised during the largest war the world has ever seen and wants nothing more than to become a soldier and rise through the ranks to become best friends with Hitler.

The hear t of the film comes from the conflicting desires of Jojo: He wants so desperately to be a good Nazi, but he is a non-violent, caring young boy. Jojo is further challenged when he discovers that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl named Elsa, played by Thomasin McKenzie, in their attic.

The film is entirely satirical. Nazis are portrayed largely as Scooby-Doo-level villains, but are still capable of the real-world violence that Nazis actually dealt in their day-to-day lives. All of the villains are played comedically by notable actors such as Rebel Wilson (“Pitch Perfect”), Sam Rockwell (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”) and Alfie Allen (“Game of Thrones”).

In his times of struggle, reflection and self-doubt,

Jojo also converses with an imaginary Hitler, played by Waititi, in order to sort out his thoughts. Hitler takes the place of the devil on Jojo’s shoulder, encouraging violence and forwarding the already-engrained nationalism in Jojo’s mind. Jojo’s mother Rosie, played by Scarlett Johansson, on the other shoulder, is the angel — encouraging love, dance and compassion at every point of conflict.

In a particularly heartwarming moment of the film, Jojo and his mother bond by dancing in the park after a heavy conversation.

Hitler looks on at the mother and son from a distance with disgust.

Jojo struggles with identity throughout the film. As he begins to build a bond with someone he is supposed to hate, his whole notion of the world crumbles.

“You’re not a Nazi, Jojo,” Elsa reminds him. “You’re a 10-year-old kid who likes dressing up in a funny uniform and wants to be part of a club.”

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“Jojo Rabbit” is a darkly comedic coming-of-age film about the resilience of love in a world filled with hatred.

Despite the dark setup, “Jojo Rabbit” is actually an incredibly heartfelt film, centering on the emergence of love, even when hate is the status quo.

Waititi, who wrote and directed the film and played Hitler in it, took incredible measures to ensure that any portrayal of Nazis was explicitly satirical or evil.

Many jokes are made at the

expense of Nazis, Nazi propaganda and the fact that their losing the war was bound to happen.

Stylistically, the film echoes the works of Wes Anderson. Early scenes in the film scream the influence of “Moonrise Kingdom.”

A surprisingly bright color palette lends much-needed levity to what would otherwise be a bleak setting.

Balanced and varied framing is used to make every scene in the film appear carefully constructed and light-hearted.

Joj o’s family home is brightly colored with deep greens and bold yellows. The buildings on the German streets are vibrant with every color of the rainbow rather than the typical gray-brown palette of other World War II films.

The score is an equal balance of wistful and mournful piano music, as well as German dubbed remixes of ’60s pop-rock such as “I Want to Hold Your Hand” by The Beatles or David Bowie’s

“Heroes,” appropriately setting the mood for the film’s various tones.

The only real problems with the film are the range of accents — some characters speak in a German-English accent while others sound as though they would fit better in Waititi’s native New Zealand — and a third act that is a bit too humorous for the heavy topic the subject matter is covering.

With Oscar season beginning to rear its head, “Jojo Rabbit” will likely find itself among the buzz for nominations. Specific standouts were the writing, set design and the performances from McKenzie (Elsa), Johansson (Rosie) and supporting actor Rockwell (Captain Klenzendorf).

“Jojo Rabbit” is a darkly comedic coming-of-age story about finding light in the darkest of places. The film opened in theaters Friday, Nov. 8.

Justin Jayne

Justin.H.Jayne-1@ou.edu

Exhibit to commemorate Native radio show OU to celebrate old program with tribute concert MOLLY KRUSE @mollykruse98

An up coming ex hibit and concert will celebrate OU Libraries’ recent digitization of a historical Native American radio show. “ N a t i v e Vo i c e s O v e r t h e A i r w a v e s ,” B i z z e l l Memorial Library’s newest exhibit, will open Nov. 14. It commemorates the

“Indians for Indians” radio show, which was broadcast from the Oklahoma Memorial Union radio tow er from 1941 to the mid-1970s and provided a space for Native Americans from across Oklahoma to talk or perform, said Lina Ortega, associate curator for the Western Histor y Colle ctions and Native American studies librarian.

“The radio show is really important to Native Americans across the state,” Ortega said. “A lot of people still remember it, you know, with a lot of

good memories and fondness for this show.”

The OU School of Music will host a tribute concert, also called “Native Voices O ver the A ir waves,” on Nov. 14. The concert will feature performances by eight groups representing tribes or schools who participated in the radio show — and even some descendants of participants in the original program, according to a press release.

Performances will include traditional dances, hand-game songs and Muscogee Creek and

Seminole hymns, Ortega said.

“Indians for Indians” was created by Don Whistler, OU alumnus and chief of the Sac and Fox tribe, and it was later continued by O U ’s S e q u o y a h I n d i a n Club and its staff sponsor Boyce Timmons, according to the press release.

“People from tribes from a good portion of the state of Oklahoma would come and participate on the show,” Ortega said. “And they did this on a voluntary basis and at their own expense, you know, during

a time when it wasn’t so easy to travel around as it is now.”

The digitization project started when OU Libraries received a grant last year to have an audio engineer professionally digitize and improve the sound quality of the old “Indians for Indians” recordings.

Before this, people had to drive from all over Oklahoma to listen to the show on cassette tapes in the OU library or pay $20 to get amateur copies made.

Now, the recordings will be freely available online,

Ortega said.

“I see this as a service to the Native communities in this state to make these recordings much more accessible than they have been,” she said.

The exhibit will open a t 2 : 3 0 p. m. Nov. 1 4 i n Bizzell Memorial Library.

The concert will start at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14 in Sharp Concer t Hall in Catlett Music Center, and it is free and open to the public.

Molly Kruse

molly.kruse@ou.edu

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NEWS

• Nov. 11-17, 2019

Sexual assault reports rise at OU Awareness of rape culture may link to increased reports EMMA DAVIS

@emmarileydavis

Reported rape cases at OU have increased since 2016, but experts say this increase can be attributed to a variety of different reasons.

A recent Clery Act Statistical Summar y revealed the number of reported rapes at the OU Norman campus increased from 11 in 2016 to 25 in 2018. According to Gender + Equality Center program coordinator Bliss Brown, this change can be linked to increasing awareness and resources.

One reason for this may also be “a greater cultural dialogue� surrounding sexual assault, sociology professor Meredith Worthen said.

Worthen is also an advocate for sexual assault survivors through her Instagram account Me Too Meredith, which allows survivors to anonymously post their

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A student walks alone on the South Oval Nov. 10.

stories to a public place. “I mean, you can’t even turn on the media of any kind ... in the news or a sitcom or a comedy special stand-up show — everyone’s talking about this stuff,�

Worthen said. “There’s more of a likelihood that people won’t just say, ‘Absolutely not, that would never happen,’ whereas 100 years ago, I think that was a pretty realistic reaction that you would expect to receive.�

Sarah Deer, a professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Kansas who has worked toward ending sexual violence

against women for 15 years, said professionals in this field are careful not to assume, but would attribute this increase in reports to heightened awareness as a society.

Due to increased awareness, survivors understand the y are not alone and can speak out about what happened, said Courtney Foster, Rape Crisis Center coordinator for the Women’s Resource Center. Foster works with volunteer advocates, specialized nurses and community partners to improve the response and services for sexual assault

victims. “I think we’re also starting to understand, as a society, what sexual assault is,�

Foster said.

Recent awareness of sexual assault is known socially by the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, but OU added to this by implementing mandated sexual misconduct prevention training in 2017 for firstyear students. This training, called “Step In, Speak Out,� makes students more aware of resources like OU Advocates, a 24/7/365 crisis hotline and support system, Brown said.

“These improved educational efforts, coupled with streamlined communication between OUPD and the University’s Title IX Office, work toward ensuring accurate reporting across campus,� OU Media Relations Director Kesha Keith said.

The efforts of the university are important, especially with the high risk of assault cases on a college campus, Worthen said. Colleges can create situations like this through a “party-type culture� at fraternities and sororities that facilitate irresponsible drinking. “Colleges are full of young people, and young people are more likely and are at higher risk for sexual assault because of ... the sort of lack of a safety net,� Worthen said, “the lack of thinking through long-term consequences, the inability to sort of recognize what’s going on or have somebody looking out for you.�

The Norman community also has the Rape Crisis Center, where assault survivors can receive help in many ways, such as law enforcement connections, a change of clothes or an area

for family and friends who are with the survivor, Foster said.

The Rape Crisis Center works with many Cleveland County agencies like the Gender + Equality Center, the Norman Police Department and the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office to find ways to better serve victims and give victims the correct resources.

An increased dialogue and awareness in a place where students are at a high risk for sexual violence may have a role in the increase of reports because it makes survivors more comfortable and more believed, Foster said. “We start by believing victims,� Foster said. “(We tell them) that we believe them, even if the story sounds strange to us, even if we wouldn’t make the same choices that the victim may, even if the perpetrator is a nice person that we really like ... because that is the number one fear of victims is that they won’t be believed.�

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Campus opens first all-gender restrooms SGA sees project to completion after years of planning ARI FIFE @arriifife

The first all-gender restrooms on OU’s campus w e re o p e n e d i n B e a i rd Lounge in the Oklahoma Memorial Union on Tuesday.

St u d e nt G ov e r n m e nt Association President Adran Gibbs said the conversation about placing all-gender restro oms on cam pus was started by former Department of Inclusivity director and OU alumna Vanessa Meraz.

Gibbs said about two years ago, Destinee Dickson, another former director of the Department of Inclusivity,

wrote a memo to get the all-gender restrooms passed based on the framework Meraz had planned. “And then within (these) p a s t f e w m o n t h s, w i t h Jamelia Reed, who was the Department of Inclusivity c o - d i re c t o r, ( D i c k s o n ) helped scout out potential locations for the all-gender restrooms,� Gibbs said.

Gibbs said he had helped each of the past two SGA administrations ensure the restroom implementation took place. “I was just kind of assisting those directors and co-directors of inclusivity to make sure that this is something that happens on campus,�

Gibbs said. “So it’s finally taken all this time in the past two-and-a-half, three years for it to come to fruition. And now, they’re finally open.�

Gibbs said the location

for the first all-gender restrooms was decided based on discussions among the SGA, OU Student Affairs and the Gender + Equality Center. “It all kind of came together at the right time and place because the Gender + Equality Center needed a new space, because they were kind of cramped in their old space in the Union,�

Gibbs said. “And it all just came together to put them all in one place, and I think it’s only fitting that the first set on campus are in front of the Gender + Equality Center.�

The Gender + Equality Center moved from Suite 247 in the Union to Beaird Lounge earlier this year.

In a final executive branch report given in SGA Undergraduate Student Congress on Tuesday, Gibbs

said he plans to create about 4 5 m o re a l l - g e n d e r re strooms before the end of his administration.

He said the primary goal in opening the restrooms was to recognize nonbinary, gender nonconforming and transgender students on campus. “I think it’s really important to validate these people in every way that we can.

And I think sometimes we forget that just using the restroom is a fundamental right that everyone has,�

Gibbs said. “So I think for those individuals, it’s most important for them to make sure that they feel validated on campus.�

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OU coach Lincoln Riley after the game against Iowa State Nov. 9.

Sooners see silver lining in sloppy late-game play GEORGE STOIA @georgestoia

Everything was seemingly going right for the Sooners on Saturday.

Minnesota beat Penn State. Baylor beat TCU. And LSU beat Alabama. All No. 9 Oklahoma (8-1, 5-1 Big 12) needed to do was beat Iowa State (5-4, 3-3 Big 12) and do it in impressive fashion, and for a good portion of the game, it looked like it was going to.

But, somehow, the feeling as players walked off the field Saturday was that the Sooners might have just eliminated themselves from College Football Playoff contention with a 42-41 win.

Yes, you read that right — a win.

Most Oklahoma players, besides a smiling CeeDee Lamb who had a career d ay w i t h 1 6 7 re c e i v i n g yards and two touchdowns, strolled off Owen Field dejected. Just minutes earlier, s enior cornerback Parnell Motley had made the game-winning and, in many ways, the season-saving interception to keep Iowa State from completing a 2-point conversion to take the lead.

It should have been a cause for celebration but, instead, was a sigh of relief.

“Thrilled to get a win, obviously not real enthused that we let the game get a lot closer than we’re going to feel like we should have,” coach Lincoln Riley said. “ Mo s t o f t h e t i m e, y o u have a couple very defining moments and tough games, tough situations you have to overcome. We did tonight.”

Riley said, at times, the Sooners played some of

their best ball of the season Saturday night. And he’s not wrong.

Lamb and Jalen Hurts looked as explosive as they have all season in the first half. Defensively in the first half, the Sooners looked like the defens e ever yone saw in the first seven games, forcing punts and making plays.

But much like the game against Kansas State two weeks ago, all of this fell apart in the second half, with Iowa State outscoring Oklahoma 27-7.

The defense relapsed, giving up 20 points in the fourth quarter.

“There’s some real embar rassing stretches of football that fall back on my shoulders,” defensive coordinator Alex Grinch said. “Defensively, inability to tackle, and I’ve fallen down in coverage — just things that can’t happen, shouldn’t happen, and so I’ve got to be a lot better

moving forward for us to do anything we want to do as a football team.”

And the offense became st ag na nt, o n ly to t a l i ng 125 yards in the final two quarters.

“I think we have a standard that we try to play by for 60 minutes in a complete game,” said Hurts, who totaled 341 yards, five touchdowns and an interception. “We’d rather be sitting here with a win, but there’s a lot to learn from this game. I think it’s a prime example of how much growth — room we have to improve.”

Oklahoma has a lot to improve and little time to do it.

Next week, the Sooners travel to Waco for the biggest game of the season, facing No. 12 Baylor. That’s followed by senior night in Norman against TCU. And finally, a tough trip to Stillwater to face a rising Oklahoma State team.

The road is only going to get harder from here. But they don’t c a l l i t “C h a m p i o n s h i p November” for nothing.

“Y’all have been around here the last few years like I have,” Riley said. “You got to win tough games. That’s a good football team. I’m just telling you right now.

Listen, I want to play a hell of a lot better. I want to play better in the second half and blow ’em out worse than anybody in this room, but winning’s winning, and that’s a win.”

With College GameDay featuring the Sooners in prime time next week, i t l o o k s l i k e Hu r t s a n d Oklahoma will find out real quick what they learned from Saturday.

After the game, Hurts had maybe his most thoughtful and definitely his most talkative press conference of the season. For him, he has only so many games left in his collegiate career. And

as it comes to a close, he’s going to try to continue to lead Oklahoma to what he came here for — a national title.

He knows that nights like Saturday are what can either make or break a team’s year.

“All year, before I got here, for the longest time I’ve said, ‘We won’t knowwe who are as a team until we get in some fire,’” Hurts said. “You look back at the lesson of the previous game we played, and you ask yourself, ‘Did we respond the right way we wanted to?’ You look at this game here, as a team, and you say, ‘We definitely put ourselves in a horrible situation.’

“The unique part about all of this is, we found out a lot about ourselves as far as overcoming adversity ... We needed this for a reason.”

George Stoia

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Hurts shoulders blame for poor second half Quarterback takes fault for near-loss against Iowa State GEORGE STOIA @GeorgeStoia

After No. 9 Oklahoma’s (8-1, 5-1 Big 12) ugly 42-41 win over Iowa State (5-4, 3-3 Big 12) Saturday night, senior quarterback Jalen Hurts was candid for one of the first times all season.

Typically, he’s short and to the point. But not Saturday.

He shouldered much of the blame for the offense’s struggles and explained his mindset in depth.

“You look at this game here, as a team you say, ‘We definitely put ourselves in a horrible situation,’ and I look at myself in the mirror and I say, ‘I put us in a horrible situation,’” Hurts said. “I could have done better, especially in that second half, of executing our offense and just keeping things alive.

Converting on third downs and making smart decisions I always make.”

Statistically, Hurts had a

Senior quarterback Jalen Hurts throws an interception during the game against Iowa State Nov. 9.

spectacular day. Through the air, he was 18-of-26 with 273 passing yards and three touchdowns. On the ground, he ran the ball 22 times for 68 yards and two touchdowns.

But Hurts made near-fatal mistakes. In the first half, he threw two passes that should

have been intercepted and returned for touchdowns.

And in the fourth quarter with less than three minutes to play and only a one-score lead, he threw his worst interception of the season.

Hurts knows he has to be better.

“I mean I touch the ball every play. I distribute the ball every play. It’s in my hands every play,” Hurts said. “People ask me why I carry myself the way I do, why I handle myself the way I do, why I go about my business the way I do, and

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why I try and lead the way I do, why I may work out after every game ... It’s because I take it personal. I want it so bad for this team, as a leader, as the quarterback — I’m willing to lay out, I’m willing to lay it all on the line for

them.”

Hurts is not going to be Baker Mayfield or Kyler Murray, that’s for certain.

He’s going to make mistakes, and some costly ones at that.

And he’s probably not going to win the Heisman Trophy, as LSU’s Joe Burrow seems to be running away with it.

But no one can question his leadership, because he may just be the reason this team doesn’t fall apart.

“Me being the player I am, I know I can definitely control the outcome of a game, and how the game flows and all of that, so there’s a lot to learn from,” Hurts said. “But you know, regardless of how this whole thing went tonight, I look at myself in the mirror and I say, ‘Well (Jalen), you could have did this, you could have did that, but your brothers had your back.’

“So we’re going to build from this, we’re going to enjoy this as much as we can, and try and be 1-0 next week, like we were this week.”

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