11 April 2016

The Movement...

In late March, a change.org petition to allow guns at the GOP National Convention this July made its rounds on the internet.

The petition currently has nearly 54,000 out of a goal of 75,000 signatures.

While open carry is permitted in the state of Ohio, the Quicken Loans Arena has a private policy prohibiting the presence of firearms — open carry or concealed — on the property.

The writer of the petition expresses concern about the safety of convention attendees, citing National Rifle Association quotes which claim that gun free zones are the most vulnerable to mass shooting attacks: “[the] safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.” They claim that leaving firearms at home puts “tens of thousands of people at risk.”

“This doesn’t even begin to factor in the possibility of an ISIS terrorist attack on the arena during the convention,” the petition writer, identified only as “The Hypernationalist,” continues. “Without the right to protect themselves, those at the Quicken Loans Arena will be sitting ducks, utterly helpless against evil-doers, criminals or others who wish to threaten the American way of life.”

“All three remaining Republican candidates have spoken out on the issue and are unified in their opposition to Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s ‘gun-free zones.’”

The writer’s main argument is that the policies of the Quicken Loans Arena should not supercede the 2nd Amendment rights given to US citizens by the Constitution.

Five demands are outlined in the petition.

They include 1) a suspension of the arena’s policies during the Republican National Convention, 2) the NRA’s condemnation of the gun-free zone loophole in Ohio state law, 3) an effort from Gov. John Kasich to override this loophole, 4) an explanation on the choice of venue from the Republican National Committee, and 5) support for the petition from all three Republican presidential candidates.

On Monday, March 28, Secret Service spokesperson Robert K. Hoback responded to the petition’s supporters: “Title 18 United States Code Sections 3056 and 1752 provides the Secret Service authority to preclude firearms from entering sites visited by our protectees, including those located in open-carry states.”

Despite the petition’s many supporters, only security personnel working in conjunction with the Secret Service will be allowed to carry guns during the convention.

Any unauthorized individual will not be allowed into the arena with firearms.

All three Republican presidential candidates have been asked about the petition.

None have directly supported it.

Gov. John Kasich responded with “All that matters is what the Secret Service

Hannah Kloppenburg

Commentary Editor

Voters headed to the polls this past Tuesday for the City of Bixby Special Utility Franchise election, as well as the City of Collinsville, City of Glenpool, City of Jenks, City of Owasso, City of Sapulpa and City of Tulsa Special Elections. The Tulsa County Sheriff Special General and Special Proposition Elections were also held.

Results for the Tulsa County elections are as follows: Vic Regalado (R) will be Tulsa County’s next sheriff.

Regalado beat out Rex Berry (D) for sheriff 62 percent to 38 percent. Regalado is a sergeant and a Tulsa Police Department detective. He has extensive experience with police work as well as law enforcement education and training. Regalado is a Medal of Valor recipient. His platform focuses on his qualifications and accomplishments within the police force, as well as his status as a family man and “proud American.” He has also shown opposition to illegal immi-

gration, which has raised some concern in Tulsa’s Hispanic community.

All Vision propositions passed Proposition 1 installs a permanent tax to benefit public safety, and passed 72 percent to 28 percent. Proposition 2, also a permanent tax, will benefit Tulsa’s public transportation system, and passed 75% to 25%.

Proposition 3 creates a 15-year temporary tax to benefit Arkansas River infrastructure and development projects, and passed 63 percent to 37 percent.

An additional sales tax question passed A final proposition retains the 0.05% of the expiring sales tax not covered by the new Vision proposals, and passed 64 percent to 32 percent. This means that the total sales tax will remain the same. These funds will go towards roads, infrastructure and county parks, as well as capital improvements for building and parking.

says” at an event on the 28th.

“One of the things about security that I’ve had to learn over time is that when they tell you not to do something, you don’t do it, it’s for your interest,” he continued, “And the Secret Service is very important in these decisions as is security around the entire convention.”

Senator Ted Cruz provided a similar response, saying that he hadn’t actually reviewed the petition in question but that “you would certainly want to get the recommendation from Secret Service — how to maintain security for everyone.”

Donald Trump said that he would have to read “the fine print,” but that he is also “a very, very strong person for the Second Amendment.”

Kirsten Kukowski, a spokesperson for the Republican National Committee, reinforced the party’s collective support for the Second Amendment in a public statement.

She also emphasized that “the Republican National Convention is a National Special Security Event which means the Secret Service is the lead agency and we will defer to their planning as it relates to the safety and security of the Convention.” ...And the man behind it Despite being shot down by the Secret Service, the RNC open carry petition garnered more than 50,000 pro-gun supporters. It also elicited responses from GOP

presidential candidates, the Secret Service and countless major news outlets.

The only problem? The writer of a petition is not a Republican party member or even a gun supporter, but rather a liberal gun control proponent.

Six days after the petition was written, CBS News traced the username “The Hypernationalist” to a man who chose to identify himself only as “Jim.” Jim described himself as a liberal Democrat, and he intends to vote for Hillary Clinton should she become the Democratic presidential nominee. He is also a passionate advocate for gun control.

Jim told CBS that the petition is not quite a work of satire, and insists that it was a genuine political statement rather than what many would refer to as “trolling.”

“I’m 100 percent sincere in my conviction that guns should be allowed at the GOP convention,” he said. “[It would be a reflection of] the policies they sought to impose around the nation.”

Jim knew that the chances of firearms being allowed at the convention were slim, but he also wanted to hold Republican party members accountable for their support of Second Amendment rights and promote discussion.

“If they can’t live in accordance with the policies they impose upon us, they owe us that rational conversation.”

April 1 1:00 a.m.

University of Tulsa campus Security officers were dispatched to investigate a possible noise complaint at Brown Village. Upon arrival officers heard loud bass coming from an apartment. Officers made contact with the resident and asked them to turn down the bass. They were issued a housing contact card and informed of the policy if we were called back again.

April 4 9:58 a.m.

University of Tulsa campus Security officers were dispatched to the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority for a suspicious individual approaching students. Upon arrival officers made contact with the individual who was identified as a non TU affiliate. Officers explained they were on private property and trespass banned the individual and escorted them off campus.

April 2 9:10 a.m.

University of Tulsa campus Security officers were dispatched to investigate a possible a person screaming in University Square South Apartments. Upon arrival officers could not hear anything and checked the area but could not find any evidence of anything going wrong.

3:03 p.m.

University of Tulsa campus Security officers were dispatched to investigate a a fire alarm at Brown Village Apartments. Upon arrival officers made contact with the resident who stated while cleaning their oven it caught on fire. Officers investigated the apartment and found the fire already out.

Tulsa Fire Department arrived to evaluate the scene and found no danger, as well as inspection by the Brown Village PSM and Physical Plant Maintenance Manager.

April 3 4:50 p.m.

University of Tulsa campus Security officers were dispatched to Pat Case Dining is response to reports of an irate TU student.

The student was upset that the facility did not offer a greater variety of food. Staff members stated that a similar incident had a occurred before. The officer met with the student, and informed them that their behavior would not be tolerated.

10:40 p.m.

University of Tulsa campus Security officers were given a set of keys. The owner was unable to be contacted so the keys were placed into the property locker for safe keeping.

The Collegian does not edit the Campus Crime Watch except for content and brevity.

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Springfest Concert brings energy, variety

Misterwives’ Mandy Lee interacts enthusiastically with the crowd.

The trumpeter and the sax-player from Misterwives play alongside Josh Hogan, the guitarist from The Mowgli’s.

Mandy Lee singing alongside Jesse Blum, the Misterwives’ trumpeter.

Colin Dieden, the singer from The Mowgli’s.

The singer of Rebel Light.

Mandy with the drummer from Misterwives.

Mandy Lee raises her drumsticks triumphantly.

photos by James Whisenhunt, Greg Diskin

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Despite rough start, Springfest concert entertains

This year’s Springfest concert would have benefitted from a shorter lineup, but provided a unique and memorable experience.

James Whisenhunt Apprentice Editor

Last Tuesday night, SA concluded their Springfest activities with their annual concert in the Reynolds Center. The short distance from the crowd to the stage and the standing room floor gave the venue a similar vibe to concerts held at Cain’s Ballroom.

This year’s show was the largest in the last three years, with four artists performing throughout the night. Opening bands The Rebel Light and Knox Hamilton warmed the stage for The Mowgli’s and headliner Misterwives.

Though it may seem initially appealing to have as many bands as possible to maximize the concert experience, the concert started at 7:45 and ended almost four hours later. Though it may be an appropriate tactic for a weekend festival, having a four hour concert on a Tuesday night when many people, myself included, had essays and homework due the next day felt like more of a nuisance than a benefit.

It also certainly didn’t help that the first band, The Rebel Light, only managed to shift back and forth between being actively annoying and blandly inoffensive.

The actively annoying portion was their banter before the show began. The L.A. indie pop band’s attempts to banter with the crowd came down to cringe-worthy cat puns, shamelessly plugging social media (including Flickr and Google+) and attempting to take a selfie with the small, unresponsive crowd. The most egregious offense, however, came when the vocalist referred to our school as

OU Tulsa while attempting to talk about how much of an honor it is to be playing here.

Thankfully, in a sense, their sixsong set fit into the blandly inoffensive category. There was nothing horrid about the performance, but there was nothing to grab the listeners’ ears, either. The chord progressions were simple, the lyrics were uninspired and their stage presence was almost nonexistent. An occasional trumpet solo seemed to show potential, but they each used five notes at most and felt unnecessary. Similarly, their attempt at a big rock ending sounded less like a showcase of musical prowess and passion and more like the song was awkwardly falling apart.

After The Rebel Light left the stage, next on the lineup was Knox Hamilton. The band came to campus to perform last semester, thanks to SA, and seemed happy to be back to TU. Their set was more instrumentally complex and highenergy than The Rebel Light’s, allowing them to captivate the crowd and have some fun banter between songs.

Each of their songs felt unique and distinct, though the set as a whole lacked an ebb and flow.

Like a good album, a good concert set has periods of highs and lows, times to speed up and times to slow down. Even The Rebel Light had a slow dance song near the end of their set. Knox Hamilton, however, had a consistent high level of energy, leaving them feeling like a bit of a one trick pony. This does not diminish the quality of each individual song, but it would benefit their performances in the future to work on incorporating more variability into their set.

After Knox Hamilton made their way offstage, the first headliner, The Mowgli’s, came to perform. The band’s feel-good lyrics and chill vibes create a very engaging juxtaposition when paired with their high-energy instrumentals, and their set as a whole had

Rebel Light’s guitarist and saxophonist.

a good mix of slower songs and celebration tracks. One thing The Mowgli’s did well that the first two bands didn’t attempt much was giving more than one member of the band time in the spotlight.

While most of the focus was on lead vocalist Colin Dieden, percussionist Katie Earl and guitarist Josh Hogan also received time in the limelight.

The band’s vibrant stage presence and frequent banter between songs gave the impression that they were truly enjoying themselves and were grateful to be performing. They were especially receptive to the crowd’s applause after performing their brand new single (unreleased at time of performance), “Freakin’ Me Out.” For their final song, “San Francisco,” Misterwives saxophonist Mike Murphy and trumpeter Jesse Blum joined the band on stage, a sneak peak of the final act of the night.

Once Misterwives finally took the stage for their set, they immediately filled the stage with energy.

Vocalist Mandy Lee, in particular,

photo by James Whisenhunt

was almost constantly moving, engaging the crowd and bringing her very unique personality to the show. Every other member of the band had their time to shine throughout the course of the show, but Lee was the one commanding the attention of the audience during most songs and speaking between songs.

Lee was very vocal about her beliefs and political opinions throughout the show, explaining them as the basis for some of the songs. She talked about inequality between men and women and going against society’s emphasis on conformity. Lee also called out Donald Trump before playing “Hurricane,” saying “I believe that love is stronger than hate, and we won’t let a racist, misogynist homophobe run this country!”

The set as a whole had an excellent variety, juxtaposing slow songs like “Oceans” and “Queens” with more energetic songs like “Best I Can Do” and “Reflections.” Their between-song banter and segments was also the best of any band at the concert. Mo-

ments like band members can-canning during the slowed down section of “Not Your Way” and Mandy Lee interpreting Jesse Blum’s horn (“I speak trumpet”) before the same song made the set fun and engaging.

The best part about Misterwives’s set, though, is how genuine Mandy’s every word and action felt. Whenever the crowd cheered after songs or after Mandy thanks them for being a good crowd, as she was apt to do, a smile would spread across her entire face and she would throw her head up to look away from the crowd and take a deep breath. She made the gesture rather frequently, but it always came off as genuine, like she felt truly blessed to be loved and respected by so many people.

Each band felt more engaging and entertaining than the one before them, and the show as a whole was a worthwhile experience. Despite a weak first band and a lineup that was too long for a Tuesday night, the Springfest concert was an excellent experience full of legitimately talented performers.

TU’s Heartland Gaming Expo: Just a little uncomfortable “twenty-one plus” Custom cocktail creations and accompanying critiques presented by TU’s own hobbyist mixologist.

Sara Douglas Student Writer Grasshopper Latte 3 oz. coffee liqueur 3 oz. cream liqueur 1 ½ oz. mint schnapps Pour all liquors over ice and stir.

Drink this if: Coffee gets you going in the morning and you’d enjoy a minty splash to go along

with the smoothness of a creamy cocktail. This grasshopper will jumpstart your day—or night!— and go down so sweetly you’ll find yourself needing another. Coffee cocktails provide a nice departure from fruity or bitter drinks, and this spiked latte is no different. Go ahead and fill your thermos with this in the morning—no one will suspect a thing!

Despite good intentions and passionate attendants, Heartland Gaming Expo can’t shake an air of awkwardness.

Sam Chott Apprentice Editor I felt a little bit uncomfortable at the Heartland Gaming Expo.

That, in itself, isn’t that remarkable. I’m generally an uncomfortable person. If you see me walking around campus, I’m probably walking without comfort. That having been said, there’s something about being roped into an extended conversation with an anime merch vendor that takes my level of comfort from the typical low all the way down to a “hearing an argument through a thin wall,” level.

The Heartland Gaming Expo was held at the Reynolds Center this weekend. When you walk up, the first thing you notice are several inflatable obstacle courses, which are pretty cool. There was also a table where a group of zombie-themed LARPers were apparently recruiting.

They were wearing some mix of military and post-apocalyptic costumes, and, in what you may be noticing as a theme, I was too shy to talk to them and ask them the things that I wanted to, such as “why?,” “who would win in a fight, you or a zombie version of me,” and “where do you experience the most chafing while wearing that costume?”

I paid $15 to get into the Expo proper, which seemed a little steep for what it offered. To be fair, that was for two days of admission, and I was only there for a fairly quiet hour or two, but it seemed strange that there wasn’t a way to just buy admission for a day, or at least a student discount.

The outer hallway of the Reynolds Center was used for competi-

tive gaming. With no context as to what good competitive gaming is supposed to look like, I decided that it looked pretty much like regular gaming, only slightly faster, more intense, and with a significant portion of the players wearing fedoras. As I passed the wargamers who were stuck all the way in the back, I realized that this was not the place for me.

Maybe the actual floor of the expo would be more me-friendly, I foolishly thought. The basketball court was covered in long tables, where different exhibitors were sparsely scattered, showing off their self-made games. Most of the exhibitors that were there had pretty polished-looking games, which was very impressive considering that most of them were working on games solo. I was told that I

for a Zodiac-themed fighting game and a game about very well-drawn witches fighting something.

At this point, you, being an astute reader, might point out that my reluctance to actually talk to the people exhibiting their hard work, who are there for the sole purpose of being talked to, got in the way of both enjoying this expo and writing about it. To that, I’d like to respond by saying that I’m a journalistic maverick, like a latter day Hunter S. Thompson.

However, not only am I not nearly high enough to be realistically compared to Thompson, you’re also right.

I want to know more about that zodiac fighting game, and that generic fantasy story, and even those crappy high school games – if only because there are so many people

missed most of the many high schoolers, and while it’s great that high schoolers are into programming things – go STEM education! – I was also told that many of their games were pretty bad.

Surrounding the floor of the expo were the vendor tables, where I got roped into a conversation about anime merch. I’m really not interested in anime trading cards, but to the vendor’s credit, his enthusiasm about them was a little bit infectious. The other tables ranged from a local game store showing off their inventory to someone apparently just selling some of their old WarCraft stuff.

There was also a section for exhibitors who didn’t have games, but only art, story ideas, and sound design. These ranged from a laminated binder outlining maybe the most generic fantasy story I’ve ever read, to some legitimately impressive concept art, including art

at the expo, there have to be some good stories there. To be fair, I was at the expo too late to see many of the exhibitors, and too early to see the games that came out of the Code Jam, a 24-hour contest to see who can build the best game from scratch.

Ultimately, the Expo wasn’t worth the admission fee, at least if you experienced it like I did – walk around with a few friends and quietly judge everyone else there. If you’re really into games, or really into talking to people about the games they made, $15 is still pretty steep – that’s like a few days worth of food from New Hong Kong – but it might have been worth more. Heartland has been held annually for a few years now, so check it out next year, but maybe only if you’re more into video games than I am.

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realized that this was not the place for me”

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Special Collections highlights astral projection in Vietnam In its newest exhibit, the Special Collections department showcases the work of Bruce McAllister, and the real-life experiments that inspired it.

Trenton Gibbons Apprentice Editor

Eco Fight Night: 2 Fight 2 Night

graphic by Josiah Moser

Earth Matters hosted a pillow fight that serves as an entertaining metaphor for climate change debates.

Tara Grigson Student Writer On Friday, April 1, Earth Matters hosted its second environmental pillow fight, this one called ECO FIGHT NIGHT TWO: 2 FIGHT 2 NIGHT. Why the entire TU student body was not in attendance, I will never understand, because it was a great time. Last time, the event was more structured and included brackets and betting, but this time it was a free for all, although most participants still donated money to the Tulsa Urban Wilderness Coalition (TUWC).

There are certain integral parts of this event. The first is the donations to TUWC. The second is that the pillow fight is a battle between climate change deniers and climate scientists. Everyone chooses a hilarious, pun-based name. I was Ted Cruzin for a Bruisin. Which is objectively hilarious. Other standout names include: Dwayne “The Rocks are Cool Let’s Protect Them” Johnson, Sarah Impalin, and Jim Inhoffe.

No pun for Jim Inhoffe. His role in climate change is no laughing matter (see the time he threw a snowball on the senate floor to prove climate change is not real).

Aside from the pillow fight itself, there were great snacks, including the popular drinks Mountain Explosion and Dr. Topper.

Those classic sodas.

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brawl in Sasha West (Earth Matters President) and Gracie Weiderhaft’s (Earth Matters’ President’s Roommate) apartment. They put a mattress on the floor, surrounded it with couches, and put a bunch of pillows out. It was also BYOP, bring your own pillow, but they had extra just in case.

The only rules I could determine were: no nunchuks, and no putting bricks in the pillowcases. I know those were rules because I asked.

The whole thing was livestreamed via Periscope, and had a total of twenty viewers with a 0% retention rate. Presumably those viewers were expecting a different kind of pillow fight than the one they got.

Of the fighters, Peer-Reviewed Science was almost definitely the winner, although it is debatable whether he cheated — it really depends on your definition of “pillow fighting.” Peer-Reviewed Science’s main strategy was to take the pillow and just slowly push people over with it, which seems like a strategy with a fairly tenuous relationship with pillow fighting in the classical sense. He was also prone to picking people up, which again, seems like a bit of a stretch. It works out, though, because he was Peer-Reviewed Science, so even if he wins with some shady strategies, at least the earth ends up saved.

Really, the whole event was like a giant metaphor. Like a bunch of people engaged in a pissing contest, and Peer-Reviewed Science comes in and just slowly takes them all out. Very realistic. Except that real people are much harder to knock down, even with PeerReviewed Science.

McFarlin Library’s Special Collections Department recently closed its previous exhibit, which showcased the fictional biography of and real-life influence of the ingenious character Sherlock Holmes. In its place is “Astral Traveling in the Nam.” The display uses Bruce McAllister’s book, “Dream Baby,” and a variety of related documents to elaborate upon soldiers’ personal experiences of what seemed to be a kind of out-of-body transcendence and the military’s rather predictable desire to experiment with and ultimately exploit this seemingly supernatural ability.

The novel, which would win a National Endowment for the Arts writing award and finished as a finalist for both literary science fiction awards of Hugo and Nebula, is the product of years of research.

This research included, first, years of extensive study involving ESP, OBEs and NDEs. More important however, were McAllister’s 200 plus interviews with American war veterans who reported having paranormal experiences that saved their lives, and his access to classified military contingency plans to end the war in Vietnam. After all that effort, “Dream Baby” seemed to be the story he was “Hell-bent to tell.”

“Dream Baby” centers on the fictional story of army nurse Mary Damico, who “dreams about the future. She dreams about the soldiers who will soon be her patients.

She dreams about their deaths before they happen. She is powerless to save them and it is devastating to her, but Colonel Bucannon is only too ready to recruit her for a

secret CIA experiment using psychic talents like hers for potential warfare.” Though the story may seem far-fetched, many of its most fantastical details are rooted in reality, or at least some popular misconceptions of the time.

The program ‘StarGate’ is one such example of fact being stranger than fiction. In the early 1970s, two renowned physicists, Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ, began a fruitless search that would cost $25-million and nearly 25 years before being deemed a failure. Its goal was to investigate the existence of paranormal psychic abilities at Stanford Research Institute.

“It was federally funded, classified as Top Secret, and of great interest to the CIA, DOD, and others in the intelligence community. The program employed psychics to visualize hidden extremist training sites, describe new Soviet submarine designs, and pinpoint the locations of US hostages held by foreign kidnappers.”

Out of body experiences (OBE), have been a medical anomaly for centuries. In 1912, psychologists reached a tentative and woefully incorrect description of the phenomenon. “OBE experiences are similar to those common in dreams. The subliming mind reorganizes the ESP-acquired information into a hallucination of being in a different physical location.” Carl Jung, a renowned psychotherapist, redefined out of body experiences once again in the 1960s, saying, “Such experiences are part of the individuation process (i.e. of becoming a single, homogenous being) and embracing one’s incomparable uniqueness.”

Today, OBEs are generally understood as being an entirely natural and medical occurrence. “One’s cognitive system creates models of reality based on sensory input.

When certain conditions disrupt the sensory input models, other models take over, using resources such as memory and imagination.”

The story of “Dream Baby” itself is one of metamorphosis. In its first proposal, it emerged as a soon-abandoned novel, “Little

Boy Blue.” Next it was the collaborative screenplay of “Skywatcher,” only to resurface as a short story, which would be renamed once again to “Dream Baby” before finally becoming the final novel as we know it today. Beside these drafts are notes from McAllister himself, in which he makes personal, detailed observations about his earlier works.

Complementing these are letters from Vietnam veterans who helped contribute their personal stories to McAllister’s research.

One of these letters begins sentimentally, but quickly moves into genuine conspiracy. “I hope my unusual experience helps you in the writing project. I’ve waited for several years now to write and publish my story, but always stop after 30 to 40 pages. Guess I’m afraid to admit that I wasn’t the All American Boy; Afraid I might shock my family about my former unseemly side... I have accessed rooms of documents concerning CIA and others from days in S.E. Asia and the more unreal it sounds the truer it is. Our government and its associated parties played and continue to play a very dirty game using American servicemen and women.” These notes help to make the exhibit something unique, though I’d argue the subject matter alone already made it worth checking out.

Milissa Burkart, who organized the Bruce McAllister papers for the display, “wanted to highlight this small, but unknown, collection among all those housed in Special Collections.” She was greatly “impressed by McAllister’s depth of research in the topics of Vietnam, the war and the paranormal, and how he was able to earn the trust and deep appreciation of veterans who were eager to share with him such intensely personal stories they’d never before told anyone.”

When asked why she chose the theme of this ‘astral exploration’ conducted throughout the Vietnam War, Burkart responded that, “Really, there was no need to fabricate a theme — the material itself set the theme.”

Circle Cinema celebrates silent film Every month, the Circle Cinema shows silent movies as a part of an ongoing series which celebrates the cinema’s history in Tulsa.

This month’s feature was “Safety Last,” featuring one of the three silent geniuses, Harold Lloyd.

Caitlin Woods Satire Editor The second Saturday of every month, the Circle Cinema shows silent movies as a part of their series “Second Saturday Silents.”

This month’s feature was Harold Lloyd’s famous film, “Safety

Last,” followed by an episode from Harry Houdini’s “Master Mystery” series.

Second Saturday Silents is a unique event which celebrates the Circle Cinema’s long history in the city of Tulsa. Each month, the films are accompanied by the Circle’s original theatre organ, stationed in Screen 1 with pipes running the length of the entire screen. The organ was renewed last year by volunteers, and the musical accompaniment is provided each month by the Sooner State chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society.

Silent movies are always a cool experience. In a way, the silent masters are often more impressive to watch than the flashy films of

today. Even though modern films are a more fleshed-out storytelling medium, the use of visual gags and carefully choreographed stunts in silent films were highly innovative and often still hold up.

There’s a sense of realness to the sets and stunts in silent films, one that the audience could definitely feel when watching Lloyd climb a twelve-story building in the feature film.

Even if you’re not impressed by nearly 100-year-old stunts, it’s a cool experience to see a film with live musical accompaniment.

Second Saturday Silents are held at the Circle Cinema every month and cost $5, and it’s worth going just to experience something so unique to Tulsa.

TU opera uses Mozart to display student talent TU Opera Theatre’s most recent production, Highlights from Die Zauberflöte (the Magic Flute) brought to light some of the outstanding talent that’s right here on campus.

Hannah Kloppenburg Commentary Editor The Magic Flute is one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s more famous operas and includes a number of well-known and impressive arias. It follows the adventures of a handsome prince, a bird-catcher, the Queen of the Night and her beautiful daughter, and a mysterious wizard named Sarastro.

Rather than a full-scale, lightsand-scenery production, TU Op-

era Theatre held a more intimate performance of The Magic Flute in Meinig Recital Hall. The show, beginning at 7:30 p.m. this past Friday, featured the musical stylings of a very talented group of TU students.

TU’s production was what vocal professor Brady McElligott cheekily referred to as “a Reader’s Digest version” of The Magic Flute. The show was somewhat condensed and interspersed with narration from McElligott, which summarized the events of the opera for those who didn’t happen to be fluent in German.

I really enjoyed the formatting of the show, since it seemed like a little less of a commitment for the casual viewer or anyone not particularly versed in opera. It was easy to understand and accessible to the general public while still showcasing the talents of the TU

singers and providing an enjoyable storyline.

I will say that towards the end the formatting grew to be a little tiring, simply because I had seen the same characters sing similar bits of music for the past two hours and was getting worn out.

However, it strikes me that this is more a reflection on the structure of opera as a whole rather than on the performers.

Soprano Melanie Piché gave a lovely vocal performance and nearly convinced me that she was a real princess with her role as Pamina, the queen’s daughter.

Zane Cawthon played an equally convincing Prince Tamino with a clear, noble-sounding voice.

Also striking was soprano Abigail Raiford, who performed two beautiful and nearly flawless arias as the Queen of the Night.

Accompaniment for the sing-

ers was simple, keeping with the tone of the production. Abigail Gschwend and Professor McElligott accompanied the singers beautifully on the piano.

Margaret Mealy played the part of the Magic Flute itself by accompanying the singers on the flute when the script called for it.

I loved the character this added to the production, and her playing was wonderful.

I particularly enjoyed how the performers lightened up the show (which, admittedly, is a comedy) with costumes and props — for example, signs saying “thunder and lightning” or “applause” to replace sound effects. The costumes were often lighthearted as well.

One of the opera’s villains, Monostatos, was dressed as Mario.

They also compensated for shortages with comedy — the cast was short one female singer, so Pa-

pageno (baritone Josh Harris) had to sing a duet not with the lovely lady Papagena, but rather with bass Michael Schragg, decked out in a very glittery and suggestive dress and tons of feathers.

I definitely enjoyed this production. What was most striking to me was the number of outstandingly talented students collaborating on this production. I’m not a vocalist, so I can’t speak as an expert, but to me many of the musicians seemed as though they wouldn’t be out of place in a professional production.

I’d like to see more students attending TU music productions in the future. There’s no reason not to experience the outstanding talent that’s right here on our own campus, especially when most (if not all) productions and recitals are free for students.

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SA budget shortfall averted Despite overspending concerns, SA is able to avoid falling short.

Brennen VanderVeen

Student Writer

Student Association Senate allocates funds to student organizations for various events. However, this year they were short on funds and concerned about their ability to continue paying organizations. Mackenzie Smith, Treasurer for most of this year, released the figures on SA’s budget.

SA gets their funding from a variety of sources. They got about $200,000 each semester from student fees. The Provost Office gave them about $203,000 for the year.

They also had about $155,000 leftover from last year. Combined, they had about $757,000 for the year.

At the beginning of the year, $275,000 was allocated for spending on student organizations. Scholarships and student awards each got small allocations, with $4,000 and $2,000, respectively. Cabinet was allocated $300,000. The reason Cabinet received more funds is that their events are supposed

to appeal to the campus as a whole rather than more niche interests.

Senate had spent more than half of their money for student organizations by the end of first semester. That was a concern because student organizations typically request larger sums second semester.

The reasoning for the shortage was primarily because of different class sizes from past years. This year’s incoming class was smaller, and the seniors who graduated last year were a larger group. This meant less money available from student fees.

A few steps were taken to ensure that student organizations would continue to have plenty of funding. Some money was taken out of Cabinet’s allocations. Additionally, the Treasurer has the authority to recall funds left in student accounts at the end of the semester. While this step is not normally taken, Mackenzie Smith did so this year.

About $50,000 of organization money is left. Smith said this should be enough to cover student organizations for the last few weeks of the year. Even if it isn’t, SA has a $40,000 contingency fund. Overall, they’re expecting a rollover of $100,000.

Sammie Hottel Student Writer

Paris terror suspects arrested in Belgium On Friday, Belgian police arrested Mohamad Abrini for his suspected involvement in both the Paris terror attacks and possibly the Brussels bombings.

Abrini is a thirty-one-year-old Belgian-Moroccan man who is among Europe’s most wanted and considered “armed and dangerous.”

Along with the previously arrested Salah Abdeslam, Belgian police now have at least two suspects directly tied to the November Paris attacks.

According to Eric Van der Sypt, spokesman for Belgium’s federal prosecutors’ office, authorities also arrested a man named Osama Krayem, who is not well-known but could possibly have played a critical role in the attacks.

UK Prime Minister challenged for investments UK Prime Minister David Cameron faced accusations of global tax avoidance after admitting that he benefited from his father’s Panama-registered trust.

Lawmakers demanded that Cameron testify before the House of Commons whether he holds other similar investments in trusts beyond the British tax system.

The scandal began after a massive data leak of 11.5 million documents from clients of law firm Mossack Fonseca.

In response to the leak, Cameron admitted that he sold over 30,000 pounds in shares in his late father’s Blairmore Holdings, and Mossack Fonseca helped organize the investment in the Bahamas.

Tom Watson, leader of the opposing Labor Party, claimed that Cameron must be involved in other offshore investments and called for the Prime Minister to release his entire investment portfolio since 2005.

Saudi King announces plans for bridge over Red Sea Tuesday, April 12 at 5:30pm to 8:00pm Student Union, Chouteau/Great Hall

Etiquette Dinner A presentation on etiquette will begin at 5:30pm in the Student Union (Chouteau room) and the dinner will begin at 6pm in the Great Hall.

The 2016 Etiquette Dinner hosted by Career Services is back on April 12th! Come join us for an in-depth etiqutte seminar presented by Jana Christian from The Etiquette School of Oklahoma. Professionals from a variety of industries will be on hand for networking during and after dinner. This is a unique opportunity that is presented free of charge to students through the generosity of the Student Association as well as the four academic colleges at TU. Registration is now open for students! Please go to your Golden OpporTUnities profile and find more information on your News Feed!

If you have questions about this event, please email recruitingcoordinator@utulsa.edu

Tuesday, April 12 at 6:00pm Helmerich Hall, Room 219

Talk on Personal Safety Lori Fullbright from News Channel 6 is coming to TU to talk about women’s personal safety. Open to the General Public.

Wednesday, April 13 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm Student Union, Chouteau Room SEXpectations: A Discussion on Healthy Relationships & Sexuality Join us for a discussion of healthy relationships and sexuality in a safe environment.

Can’t wait to see you there!

Free Burn Co. BBQ & Dessert from Antoinette’s Baking Co. Wednesday, April 13 at 5:00pm to 6:00pm Student Union, Alcove

SA Town Hall Join us to exercise your political freedom, voice your opinions and ideas for SA. Qdoba will be provided.

Thursday, April 14 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm Wesley Foundation Free International Lunch Join us for a free lunch every Thursday at 12 p.m. at the Wesley foundation. This event is sponsored by International Student Ministries

Thursday, April 14 at 6:00pm to 9:00pm Tyrrell Hall, Ellen G. Adelson Auditorium Big Ideas@TU: A Touch of Sin Join the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at TU in our annual Big Ideas@TU event, a screening of the award-winning 2013 Chinese film A Touch of Sin. The film will be followed by an interdisciplinary panel discussion on contemporary global issues to which the film speaks.

Panelists include TU professors Thomas Buoye (History), Jeff Van Hanken (Film Studies), Mike Trolio (International Business), and Helen Huiwen Zhang (Chinese and Comparative Literature). Free and open to everyone.

The event is free and open to the public.

Thursday, April 14 at 6:30pm to 8:00pm Harwell Tennis Courts

Hurricane Games Assemble your team of 3-5 people to have fun and compete for the charity of your choice in tests of agility, intelligence and eating.

The cost is $10 per team to compete. Attendance is free.

Saudi King Salman announced plans for a massive bridge over the Red Sea to Egypt, showing strong support for the government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

Saudi Arabia has been a leading supporter of al-Sisi since 2013, when he overthrew his Islamist predecessor Mohamed Morsi.

Salman, an eighty-year-old monarch, took a rare five-day trip to Cairo. He announced the bridge directly after a meeting at Sisi’s palace.

Salman stated, “This historic step to connect the two continents, Africa and Asia, is a qualitative transformation that will increase trade between the two continents to unprecedented levels.”

Immediately following the announcement, representatives from Egypt and Saudi Arabia signed several investment deals and memorandums of understanding.

Myanmar releases 69 student activists from jail A Myanmar judge announced on Friday the release of sixty-nine student protesters who had been jailed for over a year without a trial.

During the court hearing, Judge Chit Myint said the prosecutors had decided to drop charges on all of the protestors except three of the leaders.

The students were arrested last March for their demonstrations against a law that restricted academic freedom.

The release came only a day after the government’s new leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi stated that freeing political prisoners was her top priority.

Castro makes rare visit to Havana educational center Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro visited the Vilma Espín Educational Center, where he spoke to preschool and elementary school children.

He also took part in a tribute to the center’s namesake, Vilma Espín. Espín was the founder of the Federation of Cuban Women and was married to Raul Castro until her death in 2007.

During the tribute, Castro said, “I am sure that on a day like today, Vilma would be very happy. She would be seeing why she sacrificed her life, how those who die struggling for the revolution leave their energy along the way.”

Fidel Castro has only made a handful of public appearances in the last few years due to his declining health and mobility.

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TU student wins big in local ADDY Awards

Senior Cristina Moore wins gold at the ADDY Awards, the largest advertising competition in the US. Kyle Crutchfield

Student Writer

Cristina Moore, a senior graphic design student, won big at the ADDY Awards in Oklahoma City on February 20.

The ADDY Awards, hosted by the American Advertising Federation, is the largest competition in the advertising industry in the nation. It receives over 5 million entries annually from across the nation. This year, 13 of those entries came from Cristina Moore.

“I entered thirteen pieces and won seven. Three bronze, three silver, and one gold. So I think it was a good return investment,” Moore says.

The ADDY’s are a tiered competition, so students must first enter their pieces in local competitions, usually held in one city.

Then, winning entries move on to the regional competitions, and then finally to nationals.

“They usually have only one competition for Tulsa, but the city couldn’t host an Addy’s Awards this year, so I entered into Oklahoma City’s ADDY’s Awards. It was their 50th anniversary event, and it was their biggest ever.”

About the increased competition in Oklahoma City, Moore says

“I was competing against students from the entire state of Oklahoma.

And I was the only student from TU that entered.”

Moore didn’t let this intimidate her, though. Instead, she took it as motivation to challenge herself.

She describes, “It was fun to stack up my work against students from bigger programs. It’s like, oh well, we’ll see if I do well against bigger competition, and it ended up working out.”

One of Moore’s pieces, a logo she crafted for a local non-profit, even won Gold. “Pathways was a logo I made for Pathways Adult Learning Center of Tulsa, which is a non-profit here in Tulsa,” says Moore. “[Pathways] is a support system for adults with develop-

behind the logo, Moore says, “I made a preliminary sketch and I told them that this letter A in the name Pathways can be this human figure walking on a path. The T is supposed to represent him walking towards the cross. They really liked it.”

About her design process, Moore says, “I hand-drew [the logo]. I’m a big fan of hand-lettering. I started last summer after an internship where I made friends with this other designer who had some hand-lettering in his portfolio. And I was like ‘Huh, I want to try that out.’ And now it’s just become something that I really like doing. Now I try to incorporate hand-lettering into most of the things I make.”

mental disabilities. They have these art camps and programs where people with learning disabilities can make pieces of artwork or sell things, so that they can make a living and become independent adults.”

Moore’s logo captures the essence of Pathways’ mission. She notes, “They didn’t like their previous logo, so they asked for a rebrand and a new look. They wanted something that emoted their company and gave a strong impression of its Christian values.”

Describing the thought process

Pathways is one of many nonprofits that Moore and other students provide free artwork for.

“I made that logo through Third Floor Design, which is a studentowned graphic-design agency here at TU.” Housed within the school of art and run by the head of the graphic design department, Teresa Valero, Third Floor Design gives students the opportunity to produce probono promotional materials for local nonprofits, charities and social service agencies.

Moore describes, “It’s a class

“Moore’s logo captures the essence of Pathways’ mission.”

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The “a” in the Pathways logo Moore designed is a man trekking towards a cross.

that you can only take with Teresa Valero’s permission. She picks the best students in the program, and we’re the designers for these nonprofits and charities.” “[Valero] has non-profit connections and charities who go through her, and then she submits their design requests to us. They get free student work from us, so we’re helping the Tulsa community and we’re also building our portfolios at the same time.”

Moore also does pro-bono work for 108 Contemporary, a nonprofit art gallery in the Brady Arts District and partner of Third Floor Design. She won an Addy for her work there, as well.

“I made a brochure for 108 Contemporary that I got a Silver for. It highlights the 2016-2017 exhibits, so people can see which ones are up and coming and which ones they want to attend.”

Much like Third Floor Design,

the ADDY Awards give students and aspiring advertisers the opportunity to set themselves apart from the crowd.

About the ADDY’s, Moore remarks, “It’s a celebration of the advertising industry. Agencies recognize up-and-coming student talent at these competitions and extend hiring opportunities to the students who won awards. I want to go into advertising, so [the ADDY’s] are a great opportunity to get ahead.”

With all of Moore’s hard work, she has certainly gotten ahead.

“I got a summer internship with the Richards Group, which is the largest independent advertising agency in the US. I’ll be working for RBMM, which is their offshoot design firm. They do all of the logos, branding, illustrations, everything that I enjoy doing.”

TEDxUniversityofTulsa dares community to challenge perceptions The second TEDxUniversityofTulsa gave a platform for students and faculty to share their ideas and perspectives with the rest of the world.

James Whisenhunt

Apprentice Editor

Last Friday afternoon, TU held its second annual TEDxUniversityofTulsa event at the Lorton Performance Center. The event was started last year when two TU students involved with the NOVA Fellowship, Katie Snyder and Hannah Hutchison, “wanted to bring an event to campus that would showcase the talent of ideas of our students and faculty.” The two eventually decided on the TED Talk format as the best way to facilitate the sharing of ideas from our campus to the rest of the world. Snyder continued as a co-organizer for this year’s event, along with Sam Beckmann.

The idea behind TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is rather simple: using small ‘talks’ around 10-15 minutes in length, great minds are able to send their ideas around the world. A TEDx event comes when an external organization reaches out to TED for a license, and (if approved) plans a completely independent event with its own unique flair and target population. The TU branch of the event features talks and performances from professors and stu-

Teresa Stastny giving her talk, “The One Question that Changed the Way I Think.”

dents in the university, with some of last year’s segments viewed thousands of times on the TEDx Talks YouTube page. Giving TU students and faculty the opportunity to spread their ideas emphasizes the event’s local focus and grassroots organization.

Having been to both TEDx events, this year’s certainly had as many, if not more, well-received and enlightening ideas as last year.

This year’s theme was “Truth and Dare,” which Beckmann describes as being “meant to challenge students’ perceptions and ideas about themselves and the world around them.” Beckmann also emphasizes the centrality of the theme to planning the event, noting that it was “on our mind when choosing speakers, videos and even activities for the intermission.”

The theme shone through in many ways. Each talk used “truths”, such as Dr. Todd Otanicar’s numbers on the world’s energy consumption and Teresa Stast-

ny’s prevalence rates of mental illness, and utilized those truths to make “dares,” such as Olivia Rogers daring viewers to embrace a natural fear of the unknown or Dr. Bradley Brummel’s dare to tailor their professional development to reach their dreams.

The performances, too, had aspects of both truths and dares.

From the truth evident in Kalyn Barnoski’s acoustic songs based on real life experience to Asura Oulds’s extremely daring and unique experimental music performance. Hosts Carter Neblett and Claire Wood played an impromptu game of Truth or Dare on stage before intermission, in which volunteers handed out cards to attendees with Truth or Dare questions to facilitate conversation.

The event ran shorter than its allotted four hours, which is a fine problem to have. It simply meant viewers had more time in the intermission and after the show to discuss ideas presented in the

courtesy Taylor Mitchell / TEDxUniversityofTulsa

talks, visit booths set up outside the venue and enjoy the free Andolini’s pizza and garlic knots. After the show, each attendee received a bag with a Truth and Dare t-shirt,

the x that was cut out of the attendees’ nametags, and other gifts.

Beckmann noted that this was one of many improvements from the year before, due to “a significantly earlier start on planning this year’s event compared to last year.”

Next year’s event already has a date: March 31, 2017. TED has a 100-ticket limitation on TEDx events, and tickets have gone fairly quickly the last two years.

Tickets are typically released about two weeks before the event.

Video of this year’s talks and performances should be available in approximately two months. If you are interested in helping plan next year’s event, email tedxuniversityoftulsa@gmail.com.

courtesy Taylor Mitchell / TEDxUniversityofTulsa

TEDxUniversityofTulsa hosts Claire Wood and Carter Neblett.

TU’s cyber defense team advances to national competition in San Antonio For the first time since they began competing, TU’s cyber defense team will attend a national competition.

Sam Chott

Apprentice Editor On April 22, the members of the University of Tulsa’s Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) team will be in San Antonio, Texas, for the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.

CCDC is a competition designed to test student’s ability to

protect a network from attackers.

The networks that the students are asked to defend imitate commercial networks, and provide various services, such as e-mail and e-commerce sites. The teams of up to eight students attempt to both protect their servers and keep their network’s services running, while the “Red Team,” composed of professional penetration testers, attempts to shut down the student’s network. At each competition, every team is given an identical hardware and software setup at the start, and scored based on how well they protected their network.

Teams are in charge of a different network at each competi-

tion. “The first time, [the network we were given was] just a small business kind of thing, and then at regionals it was just a medical insurance company,” said Michael Frohlich, a member of the CCDC team. The teams only learn what kind of network they’ll be in charge of running once they walk into the competition room.

“Last time [at nationals] it was a SCADA network, so like wind farm networks, things that manage infrastructure. Before that, it was domain hosts, so very complicated systems that you have to know what you’re doing.”

Competitors in CCDC also work at some disadvantages, compared

to real IT personnel. “This time we have limited internet connectivity, so we only get [to access] ten websites of our choice,” said Frohlich.

“It’s to prevent people from trying to smuggle in extra utilities.”

They also can’t bring in software that they’ve previously written. “You’re not allowed to bring in any external USB drives,” Frohlich said. “Any code is printed on a piece of paper. You essentially just have a manual that your team creates, and that’s it. It’s to constrain you from having a bunch of tools set up, ready to go.”

This year, TU’s team first had to compete in a regional qualifying round, held remotely. After

winning that round, they advanced to the regional finals, which were held at Texas A&M UniversitySan Antonio. In less than two weeks, they’ll be back in San Antonio, but the finals will be held in a convention center downtown.

TU has participated every year since the competition began, and this is the first time they’ve made it to Nationals. “This is a big deal for everyone presently, and everyone in the past who participated, because we were always the underdogs to some of the larger schools in Texas,” said Frohlich. “This year we have a strong team.”

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Disparities in diagnoses cause problems for female patients courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives / Flickr

Females often present different symptoms than males do for a particular disorder. Since many medical studies use males as the primary basis for their research, females can be misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at all.

Michaela Flonard Apprentice Editor According to CDC statistics, health care providers diagnose boys with ADHD at a rate of 13.2 percent while about 5.6 percent of girls are diagnosed with the disorder. However, a large study of children found that of those who met the criteria for ADHD, 51 percent were boys and 49 percent were girls.

This difference in diagnosis rates suggests health care providers aren’t correctly diagnosing females in their practice.

ADHD isn’t the only disorder where sexbiases in diagnosis are unwarranted. Researchers at the University of Exeter found that even when girls and boys displayed similar severe symptoms, boys were more likely to be diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Currently, the ratio of males to females diagnosed with high-functioning autism varies from 4:1 or 10:1. Some researchers, like Dr. Judith Gould, the director of the National Autistic Society’s Lorna Wing Centre, think the ratio could be around 1.5:1, males to females.

The misdiagnosis rate of ADHD is generally blamed on differences in how girls and boys present symptoms of these disorders.

Research in children suggests girls are more likely to present the inattentive subtype, while boys present the combined subtype (impulsive and hyperactive).

The hyperactive subtype is most easily spotted by adults working with the child.

The inattentive subtype presents itself as more inconspicuous behavior that often won’t attract teacher attention.

Even if girls do present hyperactive-impulsive behaviors they “don’t necessarily fit the so-called ‘classic’ profile of ADHD,” said Patricia Quinn, director of the National Resource Center for Girls and Women with ADHD. People generally view girls with this subtype as pushy, aggressive or overemotional, which is more likely to be considered a personality problem rather than a disorder.

Autism is conceptualized as a primarily male disorder. Hans Asperger, the physician who is well-known for his work on Asperger’s, said “the autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence.”

To those who believe the different sexes have distinct brain patterns — something scientists still debate — autism is an extreme form of the male tendency for logic, numbers and a weakness in empathy. According to this theory, the current ratio of males to females with autism is perfectly natural.

With females with autism becoming more visible, and sharing their stories of learning to hide their disorder, this theory becomes questionable.

Socialization and gender roles appear to play a large part in why these females are undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. Newer research suggests the ratio of males to females with the disorder may be lower than previously recorded.

What parts of male-female differences are due to genetics and hormones and what is due to socialization and gender roles has remained a topic of debate.In addition, different sociocultural forces are at work with females and males.

These forces may help to explain why females with autism can go so long without being diagnosed. Women with autism often describe learning how to mask their differences, by engaging in “normal” behavior that seems foreign or difficult to them.

Because girls are expected to be social in communication, girls with autism, especially if they are high-functioning, may learn to engage in social behavior most boys with autism do not. The strain of appearing “normal” can lead to secondary problems, such as anxiety or depression.

Describing autism as “extreme maleness” falls back on the issue surrounding ADHD and other misdiagnosis of women, which often leads to disastrous results. Most medical research uses a male model when studying disorders.

A study by Annaliese K. Beery and others of publications in the “Neuroscience and

Biobehavioral Reviews” found that out of 2,000 animal studies, 8 out of 10 disciplines were biased towards the use of male subjects. In the neurosciences, 5.5 males were used for every 1 female.

Even when a disorder, like depression or heart disease, may be more prevalent or deadly in women, male subjects still outnumber female subjects in many studies.

The male model of treatment can lead to misdiagnosis of many ailments. For example, if the male model of ischemic heart disease were applied to women, physicians would end up under-diagnosing the disease.

Specifically in the case of ADHD, Ellen Littman, a clinical psychologist specializing in ADHD gender differences, said the original studies of ADHD were based on the symptoms of “really hyperactive young white boys who were being taken to clinics.”

But failing to study women means that proper dosing or different ways disorders present themselves are not studied. Because of women’s menstrual cycles, their hormones tend to fluctuate, leading to differences in systems compared to men, which can cause issues when a male model is applied.

Using primarily males, or failing to note sex differences, leads to the generation of models that while claiming to be universal, generally only represent one sex.

The reasons for the use of a male model are many. Because women have a hormonal cycle caused by their menstrual cycles, good scientific studies should include women on all stages of this cycle, which can be costly.

Analyzing this data can also be more difficult, as the population isn’t homogenous.

Part of the issue also stems from a historical background. Historically, medical con-

cerns for women focused on the reproductive organs.

Emotions were also a common cause of ailments, according to doctors. From 1977 to 1994, the FDA banned all women who could become pregnant — which ended up including those on contraceptives and lesbians — from drug trials, in an effort to protect women after the thalidomide incidents.

This ban helped perpetuate a bias that continues today.

When females do not meet the male model, their symptoms may either be ignored or blamed on another issue.

A National Autism Survey found 42 percent of females had been wrongly told they suffered from psychiatric, eating or personality disorders, compared to 30 percent of males. Several women who had been misdiagnosed reported their doctors saying, “girls don’t get autism,” and suggesting they should just “act normal,” even as their symptoms suggested autism.

Since ADHD often presents itself differently in females than in males, females with the disorder are often believed to have a personality disorder, or to just be forgetful and imaginative.

The use of a male model in treatment of disorders is a self-perpetuating cycle. By describing the symptoms generally experienced by males, males are generally diagnosed more than females. The imbalance of diagnosis further confirms researchers’ suspicions about the disorder being primarily male-focused, which ignores females with the disorder to their great detriment.

To correctly understand health issues affecting humans today, researchers need to use more females in their studies, and discover what, if any, sex differences there are.

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Misdiagnoses due to the use of a male model of diagnosis can be damaging to young girls with ADHD, autism or other disorders.

Open carry petition reveals underlying conflicts

A petition calling to allow open carry at this summer’s Republican National Convention is excellent satire that ultimately reveals the polarizing effects of our political system. Its most telling aspect is that we all believed it.

James Whisenhunt Apprentice Editor The change.org petition to allow open carry of firearms at this summer’s GOP national convention currently has 53,882 supporters. It needs 75,000 to be sent to presidential candidates and Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena, a goal that doesn’t seem like

it’s going to be reached. What’s more important is that Secret Service spokesman Robert K. Hoback refused the request made by the petition, saying “Only authorized law enforcement personnel working in conjunction with the Secret Service for a particular event may carry a firearm inside of the protected site.”

Despite the petition dying before reaching its goal, it still sparked plenty of discussion about gun control, which is what petition creator The Hypernationalist claims was the point. Through interviews with Newsweek and CBS, The Hypernationalist revealed that he is a liberal gun control advocate. He stated that the petition is a piece of satire, saying “[advocates of open carry] should have guns at their convention because I think that’s the only way to live in accordance with the principles they have tried to make us all live with.”

So, the petition doesn’t look like it’s reaching its goal, isn’t going to succeed anyway, and wasn’t even created seriously.

Why does this matter, then? There are silly change.org petitions made every day. What matters about this petition is that people on both sides took it seriously.

Yes, it’s probably not a good idea to have guns at a convention where Trump threatens

that his fans will riot if he isn’t the nominee.

It’s absurd that presidential candidates and the Secret Service had to release statements on the topic. I had a completely different outline for this article that I had to ditch at the last minute because I didn’t realize the petition was fake. There are plenty of news and opinion pieces taking this petition seriously.

What’s most telling about this petition isn’t the number of supporters, many of whom seem to be sassy gun control advocates commenting that they hope the Republicans all shoot each other at the convention, but that the whole ordeal doesn’t seem out of the ordinary. I didn’t have trouble believing for even a minute that Republicans would want guns at their convention, and there probably are some people who signed and commented on the petition seriously, but this petition reveals how broken and bipolar our current political rhetoric is.

This election cycle’s rhetoric has been extremely volatile, mostly centering around hot-button topics like gun control and Donald Trump’s candidacy. Many candidates, to differentiate themselves as “more liberal” or “more conservative” than their opponents, have pushed further and further to opposite ends of the spectrum, leaving little room in

the middle for a legitimate discussion and fusion of ideas. Of course, this isn’t news.

Obama noted this as one of his biggest regrets in his last State of the Union address.

George Washington warned us about this hundreds of years ago.

What can we do, then? The ideal would be for multiple smaller parties to exist for people at different places on the political spectrum. Of course, at this point, the Republican vs Democrat rhetoric is so entrenched in our politics and culture that third parties don’t have much of a chance unless the big two fall apart or there’s a surprisingly large social movement.

The only thing we can do at this point is vote and discuss. I urge everyone reading this to branch out, speak to those ignorant fools in the other party and legitimately discuss your viewpoints. Even more important is that everyone researches candidates on the local and national level, and becomes an informed voter who knows what candidates stand for and is willing to keep them accountable during their terms. I realize that this is a large request, but if we want to see a change in our political environment and discourse, it will have to start from the bottom.

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Election results suggest openness in sheriff’s office; possibility of improvements due to sales tax Tulsan voters approved all Vision Propositions and elected Republican Vic Regalado for sheriff. There were concerns with Regalado’s campaign funding, but his invitation of investigations implied openness. It also looks like Oklahomans may be willing to accept slightly higher taxes for public benefit.

Michaela Flonard Apprentice Editor Last Tuesday, Tulsa voters elected Vic Regalado as sheriff in a special election and passed all four sales tax proposals. Countywide, all Vision proposals were passed, and most passed by 60 to 70 percent.

This passage means the sales tax will remain at its current levels. For further examination of the proposals and candidates for sheriff that were voted on, refer to Hannah Kloppenburg’s news article on pg. 6.

Vic Regalado has very little time to celebrate his success, as filing for the regular election is next week. The primaries begin on June 28.

This election allows Regalado to replace Stanley Glanz, who resigned under fire for various scandals last year. But with the general elections in a little over two months, how important is this victory?

tion controversies, among other things, Tulsa deserves a sheriff without such questions.

About $42,000 of Regalado’s campaign funds are linked to ISTI Plant Services, a Rogers County business involved in manufacturing and assembling equipment for oil and gas industries.

These donations all came from employees of the company or their spouses/housemates. Several of the employees were in leadership positions, and most donations were close to the maximum contribution.

Regalado has said he would not allow these donors to become command staff under his administration, but didn’t say whether they could be “advanced reserve” deputies like Robert Bates, who killed an unarmed man last April.

He also welcomed investigation into the donations. Donations of such large amounts by a company may be common in many campaigns, but each time such a company donates large amounts, they raise questions of impropriety and buying influence.

Regalado being open to investigation, however, does help to soothe worries, which will be valued after the controversies during Glanz’s tenure.

The success of the Vision proposals shows that the people of Oklahoma are willing to forgo lower sales taxes for better community services. This response shouldn’t be ignored by those on the state level. Since the

“The people of Oklahoma are willing to forgo lower sales taxes for better community services” This election of sheriff only filled Glanz’s vacant position in the time before the general election.

Regalado will soon have to continue his campaign to win the general election, which will distract from his new job.

Questionable campaign donations also taint Regalado’s victory. With the previous sheriff resigning due to campaign and dona-

early 2000s, income tax levels in Oklahoma have decreased, especially for top income earners.

Lowering taxes, according to most legislators, will help bring companies and jobs to the state.

But this lowering of taxes has contributed to the state’s budget issues, as it represents lost potential revenue for a state that has

graphic by Madeline Woods

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Thousands of protesters crowded London’s Downing Street to protest Prime Minister David Cameron’s connection to the Panama Papers leak. Protesters claim that Cameron’s family’s involvement in the leak is indicative of wrongdoing as well as the government’s failure to crack down on tax evasion, and are demanding that the Prime Minister resign.

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Sheriff Vic Regalado poses with his wife and two daughters. Regalado will serve as sheriff until the general elections this summer, unless re-elected.

overpopulated prisons and one of the worst ranked educational systems in the country.

Yet voters in Tulsa indicated they would be willing to keep the current sales tax rate for increased public safety and transportation, improved infrastructure and assorted economic projects. This decision indicates that voters feel businesses won’t be scared away by higher taxes, but that they might be scared away by the current conditions of the city.

The proposals all work to fix issues of the city that make it unappealing or unsafe, at least according to city council. By adding transit routes, the city hopes to make the lives of public transit users easier.

Not all have been supportive of the proposals. Citizens for a Better Vision opposed the tax on multiple grounds.

The packaging of the proposals meant voters couldn’t support only one idea; they either voted for development issues or nothing at all. North Tulsa also factored into

many people’s complaints against vision; they felt the North side was not receiving projects that would bring economic development. Instead, they viewed projects such as parking garages as potential nuisances.

The success of the Vision projects, especially in the North side, will be have to be seen in the coming years.

While the Vision proposals are not without their flaws, their success suggests that slight tax increases are possible in the state if they are clearly tied to improvements. In the future, separating proposals might tease out what Tulsans, and Oklahomans in general, believe are worth higher taxes.

The success of the Vision projects will also factor into this, because if the projects do not bring in the expected jobs or revenue, or if there are too many issues or delays, people may become disillusioned with the government’s ability to use their tax dollars well.

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Drillers open season Matt Rechtien Sports Editor

Baseball is back in Tulsa… well almost anyways. The Tulsa Drillers opened up their season this past weekend with a road trip against Corpus Christi and San Antonio. In their second season as the double-a affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Drillers will look to improve on their finish from last season, where they finished fourth overall in the North Division. They dropped two of three to Corpus Christi in their opening series, and the Sunday game was too late for print.

There’s a couple of reasons to go to ONEOK Field this season to watch the Driller. As the AA-affiliate of the Dodgers, they have a couple of players to keep an eye on, because they could be making their way up to Los Angeles in the next couple of years. One of these players is Cody Bellinger, the starting first basemen, and the sixth best prospect in the Dodgers’ farm system. He is the No. 100 overall prospect in the country and the sixth best first baseman prospect in the country. He spent the last three seasons playing for the Dodger’s various Rookie League teams and the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes Advanced-A team. Currently he’s on the 7-day disabled list.

The next prospect to keep an eye on is Alex Verdugo, a centerfielder and the seventh best prospect in the Dodgers organization. He spent last season between the Quakes and the Great Lakes Loons Full-A team. Both him and Bellinger are expected to play in the Majors around 2018, but could be called up for short time during the 2017 season.

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Premier League turned upside down this season, Leicester City on top

The biggest story of the Premier League this year is the rise of Leicester City and the fall of the top powers.

Mason Morgan Sports Writer

The season is nearing the end, but anyone who has been watching the Barclays Premier League can agree that this year has been one of the most entertaining.

In a league that doesn’t usually see much much parity — after all, only five different teams have won the title since 1992 — this year has seen lower tier teams rise to the top of the standings and some of the usual powerhouses struggling.

Defending champion Chelsea has gone

through a lot of trouble this year, as they sit in the middle of the pack. They even fired their polarizing coach Jose Mourinho halfway through the season.

Usual staple Liverpool is also struggling as they are near the middle as well. The club is still trying to find replacements for former stars Luis Suarez and Steven Gerrard.

The most fascinating story though, comes from Leicester City. The club has only been in the top league for two years and had to make a late run last year to avoid relegation again. This year has been completely different under new coach Claudio Ranieri. They have soared to the top of the standings and lead the table by 10 points with five games left after this week’s 2–0 win at Sunderland.

They are led by two amazing playmakers in Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez, who

combine for the more goals (35) than any other pair in the league. Mahrez will likely win Player of the Year because he’s fifth in goals scored (16) and second in assists (11), but Vardy is the more intriguing story. He embodies the success of the Leicester City club, working his way up without any hype and eventually earning the starting spot for his native England team.

The club still has work to do to hold off Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal, but their story has been unbelievable already. They entered this season with 5,000-1 odds to win the league. Think about this: the odds of the horrible Philadelphia 76ers to win the NBA Championship this year were only 1,000-1.

The insane people who took that bet could end up costing English sporting books up to $14 million in payouts.

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This graph shows the history of the Leicester City Football Club. For the past ten years they have been in the second tier, called the Football League Championship, and were close to being relegated from that league as well. Their rise to the upper ranks of the Premier League has been rapid, coming about in the last two years.

Recent events create rifts in US soccer In the last couple of weeks, the men and women’s national soccer teams have been involved in various scandals that have created rifts between the two teams, something that can’t bode well for US soccer.

Joseph Edmunds Sports Writer At the end of March, the United States Women’s National Soccer Team (USWNT) filed a wage-discrimination action against the United States Soccer Federation (USSF).

The team has achieved a great amount of success in recent years, topped off by their victory in the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Through their play and the excitement around the team during that time, they generated approximately $20 million more than their counterparts on the United States Men’s National Soccer Team (USMNT) last year. However, the women were only paid a quarter off the wages that the mean were paid.

How does this make sense? What logical reason could there be for the women to be paid less than the men? Athletes are often paid based on their performances. Following that logic, the women should be making more money than the men. The USMNT has put together a solid team that competes at a decent level with the rest of the world, but the USWNT are on top of the soccer world.

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Reasonably so, the women are upset about the disparity between the wages each team is paid. At least some of the USMNT agree that the wages should be more fair, as USMNT goalkeeper Tim Howard has stated that the USMNT “understand and appreciate” the USWNT fighting for equal rights.

A few days later after the action was filed, USWNT star Abby Wambach was arrested for a DUI charge. A few members of the USMNT took advantage of the opportunity to take some shots at her for previous comments she made about USMNT coach Jurgen Klinsmann starting to play more foreign-born Americans. Alejandro Bedoya tweeted that the DUI, “must’ve been a foreign American player’s fault.” Jozy Altidore followed up with a tweet that read, “should’ve used one of the team vans”, referencing an incident where USWNT goalkeeper Hope Solo’s husband was driving a team van with her in it and was arrested for a DUI. These comments seem to show a possible rift between the USMNT and the USWNT. However, Klinsmann stated a few days later that there are no issues between the two sides. He said that they “are big friends” and are “getting really well along”. Klinsmann’s comment could be a cover, just an official statement to save face for each side.

With these recent events, it’s difficult to tell the current relationship between the USMNT and USWNT. While they have their differences, they have historically been supportive of each other. Hopefully, these tensions will be resolved in a favorable manner so the sides can come to good terms.

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Get a Load of This Kid With the sparkling debuts of such baseball wunderkinds as Mike Trout, Bryce Harper and Carlos Correa in the last several years, you probably thought you had seen it all when it comes to incredible rookie seasons. But then you heard a different story that made you question what was even possible. A Trevor Story (bad pun, but I had to).

Trevor Story, rookie shortstop for the Colorado Rockies, not only homered in his first at-bat in the major leagues, he decided to hit another one in the same game. And then another in the game after that. And another after that one. And then two more in the same game after that!

For those of you keeping score at home, that’s six home runs to go along with 11 RBIs — both MLB leading totals — through his first four games. Can Story possibly keep this up? Unless you think he’ll somehow end the season with 200 some odd homers, it seems pretty likely that Story will cool off sooner rather than later.

He has the pedigree of a decent prospect but the talent he has displayed before this point has never been indicative of anything otherworldly like that displayed by the big three mentioned before.

In all likelihood, his will be the story of lightning in a bottle, something like the Johnny Vander Meer of position players (Vander Meer was the league-average pitcher who set the league on fire in 1938 with a record two consecutive no-hitters) or for a cross-sports reference, Linsanity in New York. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t enjoy the ride while it’s happening!

Oh Ernie Golf is hard, ok? I know a hell of a lot of people who like to deride golfers and criticize them for their lack of athletic ability because a fair few of them look a bit out of shape. But if you’ve never actually tried taking a swing and getting the ball to go where you actually want it to, or putting on a slick, impossible-to-read green, I urge you to give it a go!

You’ll be terrible, I guarantee it, and it will really make you appreciate the low scores, incredible drives and perfect spins of the pros the next time you tune into a major.

Of course, there are times when the professionals look just as hapless out there as the rest of us, and it’s those moments that remind us just how difficult gold really is, as well as the fact that everybody who plays it is still human.

Ernie Els, four-time major winner, former world number one, and World Golf Hall of Famer, had one of these meltdowns at the very first hole of the Masters this past Thursday, shooting a 6 over par 10 and missing five putts from within two feet of the hole.

It’s something that would have looked embarrassing at your local country club, and he did it on the biggest stage in the game.

Just don’t get too anxious to make fun of the guy, because honestly most of us could not do much better.

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Pictured here is Ernie Els. Also pictured here is the face of a man who is broken. It was supposed to be a simple shot, a two-foot putt, but everything that could go wrong did go wrong.

We’ll Always Have the Jokes It’s really happening guys. D’Brickashaw Ferguson, three-time Pro Bowl Left Tackle for the New York Jets and owner of the greatest name in all of sports, is retiring and it’s a sad day indeed to be a sports fan.

He was never a flashy player despite that glorious moniker but rather was the definition of workmanlike consistency, missing just a single snap over his entire career dating back to 2006.

Mostly though, we’re going to miss saying “DBrickashaw Ferguson” out loud — the name that inspired that outrageous Key & Peele skit.

He will join the ranks of the great retired sports names, alongside God Shammgod, Dick Trickle, Rusty Kuntz, Boots Day, Fabian Assman, Stubby Clapp, World B. Free, Have-a-Look Dube, Fair Hooker, Dick Butkus, Misty Hyman, Wonderful Terrific Monds Jr. and of course Randy “The Big Unit” Johnson. It’s elite company big guy, you’ve earned it.

With all the attention on Golden State as they get closer to the Bull’s record, retired players are coming out against the Warriors, saying they are only good in this era.

Justin Guglielmetti Student Writer

Human beings all have some level of inherent narcissism in that we all think we are correct, we all believe that we know best and our way is the right one. It’s not a particularly admirable trait to constantly be seeking this form of self-validation but it’s one that is just a part of life. Don’t believe me?

Ask an elderly person if things were better off “in their day.” You know, that bygone age when gas was cheaper, America freer, success harder to attain and worth so much more? We have it easy nowadays only walking uphill on the way to school; the old folks had to do it on the way there and back! The point is that people want to feel good about themselves and for many that means demeaning others so as to elevate one’s own self-perception.

Now in the middle of this philosophical query into human nature, we bring you a discussion on NBA basketball and the ridiculous way in which every retired player and his mother insists on how much better the game was when they were playing. There’s a bit of hyperbole there; not everybody is so dismissive of the advancements made to the sport and the incredible accomplishments of many of its brightest stars.

Still, too many former players, as well as purported fans of the NBA, seem to be stuck in the past. This has never been more obvious than during the 2015-16 season with the Golden State Warriors’ quest to win 73 games and break the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ record for best single-season record.

Never mind that the Dubs are redefining the way basketball is played behind the impossibly great shooting of Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson and their seamlessly switching, positionless defense. Never mind that the NBA has never before been so full of dynamic and multi-skilled athletes. If you listened to the loudest voices of the naysayers, you would think that the league had never been in worse shape.

Those of us who like the modern NBA and appreciate what a remarkable thing it is that the Warriors are doing are sophisticated enough to understand that it would be just as much a fallacy to say that basketball is “better” now as it would be to say that it is worse.

Rather, shouldn’t it be enough to say that it’s evolved? Too much has changed in the game over the decades to merit a valid comparison between the abilities of the star teams and players from different eras. For instance, let’s examine Oscar Robertson’s well-publicized claim that Steph Curry would never be able to get his shot off if he had played in the 60s because of the more physical style of play.

He’s partly right, there is a good chance that Curry would be manhandled on the perimeter which would surely do something to rattle him. Of course he also wouldn’t be attempting as many shots from outside due to the lack of the three-point line and would take over the game from the free-throw line if any team ever decided to hack him, which would have happened in Oscar’s scenario.

After all, it’s not like you could do anything to a person in the ‘60s and avoid a foul. Now Curry is an objectively better ballhandler than anybody who played before the rules about carrying and traveling became more relaxed, so under the modern rules the Jerry Wests and KC Jones of the world wouldn’t be able to keep up with him.

And if he played under the old rules that he’s not used to, who knows if he would be effective at all at penetrating the defense?

Do you see how futile an exercise this is?

It can be a fun hypothetical to debate, I suppose, but too often the tone I hear when it’s being discussed is intensely critical. Rather than having a friendly conversation about Jordan and Pippen vs. Curry and Thompson, it becomes a personal battle over the honor of two eras.

People seem so desperate to defend the quality of play they experienced in their youth, to feel as if they had it the toughest, that they will resort to base arguments to tear down what is before us here and now, and that’s nonsense.

Sports are supposed to be a good time, try to get rid of that cynicism when you’re watching them and just appreciate what the athletes we’re watching can do! Trust me, I guarantee you’ll have more fun.

Rowing has strong races at Knecht Cup, wins Varsity 8+ The women’s rowing team traveled to Windsor, New Jersey to compete in the Knecht Cup, a regatta that offers competition for 70 teams across the country.

Matt Rechtien Sports Editor The women’s rowing team traveled to New Jersey to compete in the Knecht Cup, a regatta that offers competition for 70 schools from around the country. Tulsa was able to put together six strong races on Saturday before the weather forced races to be suspended until Sunday.

Jules Soper, Sarah Palilionis, Elizabeth McCabe, Anna McHenry and Eva Trabucco, who make up the Varsity 4+ team, finished in fourth place in both their initial Heat race — beating conference foe UConn in the process — and their semifinal race, pushing them into the Petite Finals on Sunday. The 2nd Varsity 4+ team — made up by Lauren Turner, Chaselyn Ruffaner-Hanson, Alexandra Griffith, Adrianna Catalanotto and Elizabeth Natho — finished second in the Heat, with a nine-second faster time than UConn, and fifth in their semifinal, earning them a spot in the Petite Final.

In this particular regatta, each event has two or three different finals. The top teams participate in the Grand Finals, the next groups participate in the Petite Finals and if the event is large enough, the Third Final for the two who do not qualify for the Petite Final.

Head Coach Kevin Harris talked about the Fours, “In general the team handled the conditions pretty well. I don’t think we raced the Varsity 4+ as well as we could have in the Heat, but they had a much better race in the Semifinal. I am excited about how our Fours performed today, but we will have to compete harder for a win in the Petite Finals tomorrow.”

On the Eights side, Tulsa’s Varsity 8+ team — composed of Maria Gearing, Hannah Vissers, Lauren Vander Hoeven, Ashley Lane, Hannah Emnett, Sam Tober, Emily Farrar, Jennifer Casson and Marcia Vidaurri — finished with the top time in their Heat, with an eleven-second finish over runner-up North Carolina. The 2nd Varsity 8+ team —

composed of Colleen Giesbrecht, Janelle Payne, Kristy Covre, Jerusha Blankenship, Madeline Lyons, Skylar Luttjehuizen, Sarah Ringler, Phoebe Mulligan and Sam Barber — finished second in their Heat to Massachusetts.

Both of the teams qualified for the semifinals, but weather pushed those races to Sunday as well. Harris said about the Eights, “The 2nd Varsity 8+ had a solid heat and rowed well considering this is the first time we’ve put these lineups together. They had good competition with North Carolina and were able to finish second, while the Varsity 8+ executed their race plan and were able to establish a rhythm down the course.

I am excited to see how both Eights do in the semifinals tomorrow against very good competition.”

On Sunday morning, both the Varsity 8+ and 2nd Varsity 8+ finished first in their semifinal races, coincidentally over Boston College in both races, and qualified for the Grand Final in the process.

The Lightweight 8+ team—composed of Emalia Seto, Abigail Elggren, Annie Martin, Madeline Oleksiak, Julia Herrel, Audrey Brown, Lindsay Crute, Jessica Burke and Betsy Govig—did not compete on Saturday due to weather and got pushed instead to Sunday. In their race they finished in fourth place behind Stanford, Wisconsin and Radcliffe and earn a spot in the Petite Final.

In their final event of the Regatta, the Petite Final, the 2nd Varsity 4+ took first, once again beating UConn, this time by 2.79 seconds. The 7:55.60 time was their fastest time of the weekend. The Varsity 4+ finished sixth in their Petite Final behind Army, Bucknell, Miami (A & B) and Temple. It was also their fastest time of the time in the regatta.

The Lightweight 8+ finished fourth in the Petite Final behind Stanford, Boston University and MIT. In the 2nd Varsity 8+ Grand Final, Tulsa finished sixth behind Massachusetts, Kansas, Boston College, Wisconsin LWT and Connecticut.

In the final race of the day, the Varsity 8+ Grand Final, Tulsa finished with the win, beating Boston College by two and a half seconds. The win gave Tulsa their best finish of the day, and strong finish in the regatta.

Westbrook’s appointment Men’s tennis Head Coach was named to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Board of Directors on Friday, and he was one of six from across the country. The new Board of Directors will serve a twoyear term, and includes six head coaches, various Athletic Directors, one University president and several executives and entrepreneurs not associated with any schools. This isn’t Westbrook’s first time in such a role, as he has previous experience serving on the ITA National Board of Directors and the ITA Operating Committee. On Tulsa’s campus, the Michael D. Case Tennis Center serves as one of his greatest achievements, because the facilities along with Westbrook’s involvement have helped Tulsa host NCAA Division I Championships three times (the third being this upcoming May), and serves as the home of the Saint Francis Health Systems ITA All-American Men’s Tennis Championships, one of the premier events in college tennis.

Softball wins and losses The Golden Hurricane softball team had their toughest week yet, playing instate rival Oklahoma State and then traveling to Orlando to play against UCF, the defending conference champions, and projected winners again this year. In their game against Oklahoma State, the Golden Hurricane scored four runs in each of the first two innings, including a first-inning grand slam by sophomore Shelby Estocado, her ninth home run of the season. With an eight-run lead early in the game, Caitlin Sill didn’t need anymore run support, pitching a two-hitter shutout, her fifth shutout of the season so far. Head Coach John Bargfeldt talked about the early run support saying, “Getting the early runs was huge, because so many times you come up with bases loaded and nobody out and you get one run or nothing. For us to get four runs with one swing of the bat was a big factor in the game today. I told them we had to keep our foot on the pedal, and keep having quality at bats. I thought we did a good job of having some quality at bats throughout the game.” Later in the week in their series against Central Florida, Tulsa would drop the first two games of the series 1–4. In the first game, the Golden Hurricane could only get four hits, as UCF starter Shelby Turnier struck out seven in the complete-game win. The biggest hurt for Tulsa was the three errors and six-walks which helped set up UCF’s runs in the fifth and sixth innings. The second game was a similar story, as Caitlin Sill took just her second loss of the season allowing seven hits and four runs, all unearned. Bargfeldt said “With the walks and the freebie errors, we’re just playing under pressure every inning. We need the experience of some of those games. There have been a lot of games this year where we haven’t been in that situation.” In the final, the Golden Hurricane fell 1–3. Sill pitching for the second straight day, gave up two runs over four innings, and earned he third loss of the season. Jodi Edmiston drove in the lone run for the Golden Hurricane with a single in the first inning. But the Knights responded with a run in the first, third and fifth innings. Their overall record now sits at 27–10 and 5–4 in conference play.

Tennis update After two wins over top-25 foes last week, the Golden Hurricane men’s tennis team got another win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Monday, but dropped their next match against No. 11 Texas Tech 1–4 on Friday afternoon. Their wins from last week pushed them to No. 18 in the country, and depending on how their match goes on Sunday against the University of New Mexico, they would probably stay around that same rank heading into the final week of the regular season. On the women’s side they beat conference foe Houston 5–2, and in their final match of the regular season on Sunday they fell 3–4 against Rice. The next match for the women’s team is the American Athletic Conference Tournament hosted by Memphis on April 20–23.

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3L Cybil Rajan, 2L Bethany Jackson, and 3L Joe Lang, under the direction of Professor Anna Carpenter (standing), Director of the Family Advocacy Clinic, complete a semester project report, A Roadmap for Reform: Addressing the Oklahoma Access to Justice Problems Through a Continuum of Interventions, for their client, the Oklahoma Access to Justice Commission. See the report at law.utulsa.edu/fac.

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Last-minute job fair brings hope to underachievers

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Students who forgot to apply to the internships they really wanted consider their last-minute options.

The latest job fair was exclusively for students that haven’t figured out their summer jobs.

James Whisenhunt QT Kitchen Hopeful

At this point in the semester, most students have either lined up a summer job/internship or accepted the slow heat-death of a summer stuck at home. Some others are still holding onto hope of summer employment, but their options grow slimmer by the day as the semester comes to a close and positions become more scarce.

Noticing this population in

need, both major national companies, such as Target and Starbucks, and local Tulsa businesses, such as Quiktrip and Pie Hole, came to recruit at the first Customer Service and Reception Summer Job Fair last Friday in the Student Union.

The fair aims to give employment opportunities to students without other feasible summer plans and to give students with degrees like elementary education and vocal performance a taste of their inevitable fates.

Most booths at the fair simply featured trifolds displaying the job’s expectations and any perks they offer, such as allowing 5-minute bathroom breaks and paying

$7.50 an hour. Pizza restaurants brought small slices for interested students to sample as they listen to

Sam Chott Protest Protester Every Sunday for a few weeks, pro-life protesters have been picketing outside of All Souls Unitarian Church, due to the Unitarian church’s stance on abortion. So far, they’ve successfully convinced about half of the congregation that life begins at conception.

Head protester Tom Webster

The protesters loiter outside of the church.

was excited about the progress they’ve made so far. “I’m really hopeful about this thing. I think that standing outside of a church with signs can really change some minds.”

“I don’t know about you guys, but I think that harassing people for their personal views at a place of worship is a really good idea,”

he added. “We expect to convince everyone who holds the Unitarian faith that abortion is bad in about a month.”

The leaders of the church, meanwhile, are terrified of the raw rhetorical power that the pro-

“bummed out that these are the only options left, but I have to admit that I did this to myself.”

“The fair aims... to give students with degrees like elementary education and vocal performance a taste of their inevitable fates.” employees talk about an average day on the job and opportunities for advancement.

Quiktrip went above and beyond by bringing a cash register and having students do mock checkouts and bagging. General Manager Alex Kimi felt that this process was invaluable for “helping them develop integral skills for their success over the summer.” It

Pro-life group protests church, everyone soooooooo convinced

A pro-life group in Tulsa finally found the perfect strategy for convincing other people of its view: hassling churchgoers.

also helps to give potential employees an opportunity to prepare for the complexities of customer

service. Some mock checkouts had no issues to prepare for the job’s monotony, but some came with problems like missing barcodes, customers forgetting their wallets in the car or being robbed at gunpoint.

The general consensus among attendees seemed to be one of defeat and acceptance. Sophomore Allan Pau notes that he feels

Monica Vika shares Pau’s sentiment, stating that “as a freshman, I didn’t even bother trying to look for an internship this year. I’ve been well aware of my fate…”

Though both students are hoping for a cashier job at Target, Vika has only received an interview from Starbucks and Jimmy John’s seems interested in hiring Pau as a delivery driver.

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but now that you mention it, I’ve been thinking that life begins at conception more and more,” said a churchgoer who asked to remain anonymous.

“I didn’t think that I was that easy to convince,” she added,

“Members of the church are abandoning beliefs they’ve held their entire lives, in favor of the opinions of a group of strangers.” testers have. “We don’t have anything to counter their signs,” said Reverend Andrea Forbes, one of the church’s ministers. “I mean, we have our beliefs, which corre-

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spond with our church’s doctrine, but these protesters could change all of that.”

Reports indicate that the protests are working, as more and more members of the church are abandoning beliefs they’ve held for their entire lives, in favor of the opinions of a group of strangers.

“I used to be ardently pro-choice,

“but there’s just something about a group of people shouting at you while you try to go to church that makes you realize that women really shouldn’t have a say in what happens to their body.”

The protesters plan on expanding their operation in the coming months. “There are a lot of other places we can protest, and everyone knows that people’s beliefs are really susceptible to being protested,” Webster said. “We’re thinking grocery stores, public pools, day care centers, just everywhere that people who happen to be pro-choice might be.”

For their part, the church leaders are just barely holding on to their existing congregation. “Just yesterday, one of the ministers saw an ultrasound of a child, and decided to abandon his religious belief entirely,” Forbes told us. “When someone shouts, ‘you’re wrong,’ while handing you a picture of an embryo, there’s really nothing you can counter with. That’s the endall be-all of arguments.”

Wills, at the moment she realized he’s out of time.

In a moment of panic, graduating senior Justine Wills realized that she has roughly fourteen days to save her GPA and map out a rough course for her life.

Fraser Kastner Senioritis Sufferer “It was probably the most terrifying moment of my life,” said Justine Wills, clutching a career fair pamphlet in his hands.

Wills, a second semester senior with a robust 2.3 GPA and vague aspirations toward greatness, is recounting her horrifying realization with a dead look in her eyes not unlike that of an underage trenchwarfare veteran.

Like many of her classmates, Wills will be graduating from the

graphic by Josiah Moser

University of Tulsa in a few weeks.

Unlike most of them, however, Wills has only recently become cognizant of this.

“When I realized that I only had a little while to get my life together and figure out how I was gonna make it big, I started freaking out,” said the visibly shaken 22-yearold. “I had to get up and leave class to process it. Well, I would have if I had gone to class that day.”

“It should be easy, right? All I gotta do is bump my GPA up a few points, find a fulfilling job and make a few connections,” she said, perking up a little. “I wonder if that place from two years ago still has an internship available.”

After resolving to check it out tomorrow, Wills promptly went back to watching Dark Souls playthroughs on Youtube.