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OU dancers flourish on stage OU School of Dance presents Summer Dance NOOR EEMAAN @nooreemaanj
Between getting to class an hour early to warm up, going straight to rehearsal after lunch, and then working late, Isaac Martinez doesn’t start his homework until 1 a.m. Martinez, a senior performing in this year’s Summer Dance show, is an old hand at balancing his performances with his academic classes. He’s more concerned for the “three freshmen that no one has seen dance yet.” Once such freshman is
Gabbi Sorenson. At 5 feet 11 inches tall, Sorenson cuts an impressive figure. But her drive to dance truly makes her a standout. Sorenson is one of only three incoming freshmen starting her dance education at OU this summer, as opposed to taking the traditional route and beginning in the fall with the rest of her class. This year’s Summer Dance show, “Something O ld, Something New, Something Ba r b e r. . . ,” w i l l b e h e l d Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center. The show itself is, in some ways, a physical representation of its title. It uses cast members — both old and new
— to restage both classic and contemporary ballet pieces. Sorenson is dancing in pieces choreographed by the dean of the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts, Mary Margaret Holt, and assistant dance professor, Ilya Kozadayev. “I thought it would be a good idea to come and get my feet wet and experience campus and the teachers and the people and just get to know everything before I actually start,” Sorenson said. “They’re very welcoming,” Sorenson said of her new professors. “They treat you like they’ve known you for longer than they have, so I can tell I’m learning a lot, and they’re teaching me a lot, and I’m really growing just with these four weeks already.” On the other end of the spectrum are Nathan Young and Erin Norris — far from newcomers to the OU dance scene. Young graduated from OU in 2013 and currently dances with the Nashville Ballet, but he has returned to his alma mater as the featured guest artist for the Summer Dance show. Norris will finish her undergraduate requirements this summer, but she walked in May. She performed in Summer Dance last summer as well but says this year is more strenuous. “It’s been really intense this year,” Norris said. “We’re putting together a show with all ballet pieces. Usually there are one or two modern dance pieces, but there’s no modern course this summer, so they’re putting together a show which is more ambitiously ballet than it has been in the past. So we’ve been here a lot — 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. almost every day.”
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Ballet performance graduate Erin Norris rehearses in the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center on Monday. The Summer Dance show starts on Thursday, June 30, at 8 p.m. in the RPAC.
Eleven ballet students — plus Young — are carrying this summer’s show, with most of the school’s modern dance majors in Barcelona for study abroad. However, the opportunity to work with OU professors keeps students like Isaac Martinez coming back during
the summer, despite the long days. “It’s going to be a good show,” Martinez said. “We have amazing faculty: Ilya, (Mary Margaret) and Clara Cravey. They’re all outstanding professionals, and with their backgrounds it’s just
crazy, and the facilities that we have, it’s paradise. It really makes you push harder. “I’m just happy. I would not sleep if I didn’t have to, just to come here.” Noor Eemaan
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Camp Crimson hits milestone Camp Crimson celebrates 20 strong years
MITCHELL WILLETTS @MitchBWilletts
The ground floor of Walker Center is overflowing with future OU students who are checking in after running through the gauntlet of high-energy volunteers outside. They wait impatiently to unpack and begin their threeday introduction to the camp which, as of Wednesday, is a Sooner tradition 20 years strong. Some shuffle in excited circles, socializing; others sit alone, fidgeting with their laminated name tags. Madilyn Cook of Madill, Oklahoma, whose graduating class consisted of 95 people, sits in a lobby with twice that number. “None of my friends are going to college here,” Cook said. “So, I decided to come early and make some.” Camp Crimson’s primary goal is to encourage students to foster friendships and establish lasting connections with peers and faculty. Far from home and surrounded by strangers, many students inevitably feel homesick during the fall semester. The camp aims to show students that home is not a place; no coordinates can take them there. Home is something they will have to make for themselves among new people and with the promise of shoulders to lean upon. The Camp Crimson coordinator, Bridgitte Castorino, told camp-goers in her opening session speech, “Today’s the day you start your OU family.” Castorino is a Camp
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Zac Stevens, an associate director of Student Life, introduces himself at the Camp Crimson opening session for the week of June 20. Camp Crimson turns 20 this year.
Crimson alumna herself. She attended in 2008 and returned as a volunteer small group leader the following year.
“The people here are genuine, authentic; they want to be a cheerleader for you, and so I want to help the students know all they have to do is ask.” BRIDGITTE CASTORINO, CAMP CRIMSON COORDINATOR
“I was one of the first members of my family to go to a bigger university, and we kind of didn’t know how it was going to work,” Castorino said. “I was a little bit nervous coming to Camp Crimson, but going through that spirit tunnel and having all those people who
legitimately wanted me to be here ... that, for me, was confirmation that this is where I’m supposed to be.” A happy student sticks around. Without any interpersonal attachments there is little motivation to go to class, no reason to study that extra hour, and no reason not to pack up and head home. It’s easy to simply burn out entirely. “It gives you that sense of belonging, of being part of an OU family, which is dire for any student leaving home and starting this new adventure as a young adult,” Castorino said. In-house research conducted by the OU Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost provides more than anecdotal evidence to support the Camp Crimson approach to acclimation. They have found a positive correlation between the camp and retention rates, with results showing that attending camp increases
the odds of returning sophomore year by four percent. Camp Crimson has undergone a lot of changes throughout the last two decades, the most notable of which is attendance. It has grown to the point that each of the five three-day camps will see roughly 500 new attendees. This may seem problematic for a program that prides itself on face-to-face interaction, but there is a solution. The program breaks that number into smaller, more manageable groups of no more than 20 that are led by no fewer than three volunteers, known simply as small groups. These small groups are designed so their members grow closer over the course of the three-day session and continue to do so well after the camp has ended. “Camp Crimson is enchanting, but what good would it be if it were only enchanting for
three days?” Castorino said. Small group leaders are encouraged to consistently interact with their campers through any means available — be it in person, via text, or over Facebook — and to plan small group reunions throughout the coming year. There may not be any hard statistics to back up the efficacy of this strategy, but Zac Stevens, an associate director of Student Life, has seen enough to believe it. “We made it an expectation that all of our small group leaders were going to stay in touch with these students throughout their first year, and the following year after we made that change, our small group leader application numbers skyrocketed,” Stevens said. It’s neither the tours she gives nor the fight songs she teaches at camp that stick with Bridgitte Castorino the most. “I think the OU family is my
absolute favorite thing about the University of Oklahoma,” Castorino said. “The people here are genuine, authentic; they want to be a cheerleader for you, and so I want to help the students know all they have to do is ask.” Stevens has been a part of the Camp Crimson program for a long time, but he has recently gained a new perspective on it. “One of my favorite parts of camp is seeing the comfort level of the parents from the time they drop them off to when they come back and pick them up, and they see this transformation that has happened,” Stevens said. “Especially now that I’m a parent, I’ve got a kid who went through kindergarten this year, and now I see him in school, and I feel that nervousness when you send your kid off like that. They wonder, ‘what could have happened in two days?’ Then they see this brand new kid they’re picking up: more confident, more excited.” Mitchell Willetts
mitchell.b.willetts-1@ ou.edu
CAMP IN GEAR FOR 20 YEARS • This year marks the 20th year of OU’s Camp Crimson. • The camp’s primary goal is to foster friendships and connections amongst peers and faculty. • Each of this year’s five three-day camps will see about 500 new attendees.
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Buddy Buckets bounces to NBA Buddy Hield’s path to the draft paved through hard work DEREK PETERSON @DrPetey15
It’s an early morning and daylight has yet to touch Sunrise Christian Academy in Wichita, Kan. Jeremiah Adair is walking the halls of one of the dorms he oversees as a “house dad” when he comes to an empty room at the end of the hall. The room is tidy and clean — unexpected of a high school boy — and Adair notices one thing that sticks out like a sore thumb. The bed is made. Normally, Adair would be confused. But with this particular room, he knows exactly what’s going on. He walks over to the gym to find a young Buddy Hield, drenched in sweat, shooting one dribble pull-ups from every spot on the floor. This is a typical morning for the
young man. As Adair returns to the dorm, the boy — Buddy Hield — just keeps shooting. Buddy Hield is still shooting, but Sunrise Christian Academy has become a NBA practice facility. After a Final Four run and a Naismith Trophy in his final season at OU, Hield became the highest-drafted Sooner since Blake Griffin when the New Orleans Pelicans nabbed him with the No. 6 pick in last week’s NBA Draft. Considering how far the 6-foot-5 Bahamian shooting guard has come, it’s hard to imagine that his stock was once on the complete opposite end of the spectrum. Hield was a guy who averaged under eight points per game his freshman year in college and shot well south of 40 percent from the floor. Now, just three years later, he has turned himself into a legitimate contributor for his new NBA home, the New Orleans Pelicans. Adair, one of Hield’s high
school coaches at Sunrise, credited the guard’s growth as a player to his work ethic. “It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen,” he said. “Work ethic isn’t really appropriate to use to describe Buddy. He’s just relentless in the way he attacks things,” Adair said. “There’s nothing you can do that will exhaust him.” Adair said Hield’s “rags-toriches” story doesn’t surprise him because of the amount of time Hield spends working on his game. “It’s not a big surprise sometimes to see the successes he has on the court,” Adair said. “Some guys will go into the gym with a set amount of shots they want to get up or a set amount of time they want to go; Buddy is different, Buddy’s a perfectionist. For him it’s about completing a perfect rep; a planned 45-minute workout turns into an hour and a half because he has to have it perfect and have it right.” That gym-rat mentality has
no doubt helped with Hield’s development over the course of his career. During his freshman season at OU, Hield registered an effective field goal percentage — a relatively new metric for calculating a player’s shooting percentage that takes into account the added risk-reward of the three-point shot — of 43.3 percent with a player efficiency rating of 14.9 in just over 25 minutes of playing time a night. Compare those numbers to that of his senior season — 62.8 eFG% with a PER of 28.2 and an offensive box plus/ minus of 10.6 — and the leap in his game is hard to ignore. With most players, a jump in offensive responsibility marks a decline in their efficiency. For Hield, the exact opposite happened. When he was a freshman, he wasn’t a complete player. As his time at Oklahoma wore on, he improved his footwork and his ball handling and tweaked his shooting motion to make it quicker and more fundamentally sound.
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Senior guard Buddy Hield celebrates his three-pointer that put OU over Kansas on Feb. 13. Hield was picked No. 6 overall by the New Orleans Pelicans in last week’s NBA Draft.
Only time will tell if Hield can fill the shoes of such a high draft slot and become a legitimate NBA star — he still needs to improve on the defensive end and isn’t much of a playmaker for his teammates — but the tools are there for him to at least have a
long, successful career in the NBA.
“His love and desire for the game is second to none,” Adair said. Derek Peterson
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Sooners to represent OU in 2016 Olympics Three former Sooners picked for USA Olympic team SPENSER DAVIS @Davis_Spenser
Former Sooner gymnasts Chris Brooks, Jake Dalton and Alex Naddour were named to the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team over the weekend. FILE/THE DAILY The trio will compete for Jake Dalton competes for the Sooners on the pommel horse the United States in this sumagainst Ohio State on Jan. 22, 2011. Dalton will compete for mer’s Olympic Games in Rio Team USA in de Janeiro, Brazil. de Janeiro, Brazil.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled,” Mark Williams, coach of the OU men’s gymnastics team, said in a press release. “I am excited about the journey ahead and with three Sooners in the Games, that’s an amazing thing. These guys work hard, do the right things, and this is just really exciting.” This is Dalton’s second appearance in the Olympics, but it will be Brooks’s and Naddour’s debut. “Everything was for my family,” Naddour said in the press release. “It was a team effort with a lot of help from my
family. My wife sleeping on the other side of the house with the baby so I could get my rest and train. I’m just happy. This has been my goal since I was a kid. I had to sit on the sidelines in 2012. It hasn’t been four years, it’s been my whole life of training. This is everything I have wanted and more.” The three former Sooners will also have their former collegiate coach with them for the ride. Williams was named head coach of the team shortly after the roster was announced. “I feel very comfortable with those guys having coached
them before,” Williams said in a press release. “I know they have been on championship teams and have represented the United States at World Championships and at the Olympics for Jake. They are guys that have earned their spots and in the next three or four weeks we will put in the training necessary to go to Rio very well prepared.” Spenser Davis
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Pride Week celebrated in OKC Large turnout at OKC Pride Festival despite weather KATHRYN LYNN
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Thousands of pe ople turned out for Oklahoma City’s Pride Festival this weekend despite heat, rain and protestors. Attendees of the OKC Pride Festival on 39th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue didn’t let the 93-degree heat keep them indoors on Saturday. They turned out by the thousands in their loudest and proudest outfits to walk among the stalls and listen to the live music. Many also attended the Love is Love ceremony, the mass wedding that has been held at the festival since Oklahoma’s ban on same-sex marriage was overturned on Oct. 6, 2014, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the fundamental right of
same-sex couples to marry. The downpour on Sunday m i g h t h av e d a m p e n e d clothes but not people’s spirits. Despite it literally raining on their parade, the atmosphere was celebratory. Hunter Ogle, an incoming sophomore at OU studying human relations and women’s and gender studies, attended the festival on both Saturday and Sunday. “Everyone got louder once the rain started happening, like, ‘we’re going to keep going.’ It was pretty inspirational,” Ogle said. There were a few differences between this year’s festival and previous festivals, including designated entrances, bag searches, an increased number of police, and the introduction of paramedics on-site. Ogle said that the increased security did not really bring down the vibe of the parade. “Actually, I think it brought it up because people felt
more safe with having that security,” Ogle said. Derek Robinson is a longtime volunteer at the festival and a paramedic, but this is his first year working for pride in that capacity. “Medical presence is new this year ... Police are here with a heavier presence because of Orlando,” he said. Robinson stood next to the police for a time, advising Pride-goers to ignore the three men protesting the festival with signs and a megaphone. He said paying attention to them just gave them what they wanted. “They are rude but non-vio l e n t p ro t e s t e r s,” s a i d Robinson. He then went on to explain that people protest every year. “The police are there to stop any violent protests. We have a great police force out here. We are happy. This is a safe, proud event.” Kathryn Lynn
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Members of the Church of the Open Arms United Church of Christ run a booth at the Oklahoma City Pride Parade. The parade took place on Saturday June 25, beginning on West Pennsylvania Avenue and Northwest 39th Street.
OU team, 4 other schools to take part in five-day meteorological experiment
OU, other universities under Title IX investigation for possible policy violations
For five days, five schools including OU will be taking part in a revolutionary experiment involving unmanned flight and meteorology, increasing scientific understanding of the weather through an unusual set of tools. The experiment begins June 27, ends July 1, and will be conducted by OU, OSU, the University of Kentucky, the University of Colorado Boulder, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as part of a four-year project funded in part by the National Science Foundation. According to a press release, the five teams will be PROF. PHILLIP B. using a “wide range” of “unmanned aerial vehicles” to CHILSON take atmospheric pressure measurements. The OU team will be led by Phillip B. Chilson, professor in the OU School of Meteorology and Advanced Radar Research Center, and will “focus on collecting vertical profiles of pressure, temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction,” according to the release. The week of tests will take place in various locations in northern Oklahoma before a debriefing at the National Weather Center on Friday, July 1.
The University of Oklahoma is one of a number of universities currently under Title IX investigations by the U.S. Department of Education. Title IX prohibits gender discrimination in all education programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance. Possible policy violations include gender discrimination, sexual harassment, sexual violence, sexual exploitation, dating violence, domestic violence, stalking and pregnancy discrimination, though the exact violation for which OU is being investigated is not yet known. OU is one of 194 other universities under investigation, including four other Oklahoma institutions: Northeastern State University, Langston University, Oklahoma State University and the University of Tulsa. “We are aware of the investigation and we’re cooperating with that fully,” Bobby Mason, university equal opportunity officer and Title IX coordinator, said. The school only reaches out to students about current Title IX investigations if “there is a perceived ongoing threat,” said Mason. Mason said the University of Oklahoma takes all cases of sexual misconduct very seriously, but was “unable to comment on an ongoing investigation.”
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