16 February 2015

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february 16, 2015 issue 17 ~ volume 100

CAUGHT IN THE STORM

TU garners national news coverage for Trey Barnett’s suspension, reaction to Collegian investigation, p. 3

MADE@TU builds custom-designed tricycle for family, p. 5 No date on Valentine’s Day? Listen in on Singles Awareness Day, p. 6 Commentary: TU harrassment policy unacceptably vague, p. 8 Phillip Montgomery discusses TU football, p. 11

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Barnett news roundup: SA to investigate, Collegians missing Last week’s story about Trey Barnett’s suspension got the attention of SA and natinoal media outlets.

Managing Editor Conor Fellin reports.

Barnett story hits national news outlets Since the Collegian published “TU suspended student without hearing” and “TU suggests Collegian investigation may result in disciplinary action,” a number of media organizations and national media outlets have published stories on the Barnett case and the resulting Collegian investigation.

Stories have appeared from the Huffington Post, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the Student Press Law Center, Reason and Inside Higher Ed. SA’s investigative committee to host open session The SA Senate Student Investigation

Committee (SIC) will be hosting a special open session in the Fish Bowl this Tuesday at 5 p.m. to discuss both TU’s harassment policy and freedom of speech at TU in light of the Barnett case.

“The (SIC) listens to student wishes and concerns, researches potential solutions, and authors legislation” to go before the SA Senate, said Senate President Pro Tempore and Senate Parliamentarian Rob Egan.

If the legislation passes in the SA Senate it will be presented to the university administration for consideration.

All students are invited to the session.

Reporters to face no disciplinary action, according to administration A press release from the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) reported that Director of Marketing & Communications Mona Chamberlin said that the university does not plan to pursue disciplinary action against Editor-in-Chief Kyle Walker or Managing

Editor Conor Fellin for reporting on the suspension of George “Trey” Barnett.

“No one threatened Collegian staff in any way,” she said. She also said that she did not know what university policy the Collegian could have broken by publishing the article.

While Walker and Fellin were gathering evidence for the Barnett article, Chamberlin had told them that if “anything that the university deems to be confidential” is “published or shared, (that) could violate university policies.”

Collegians go missing prior to Tulsa Time Student Writer Olivia Blankenship was working her desk shift at Lottie Jane Mabee this Thursday when she discovered that there were no Collegians in the Lottie Jane lobby. The papers, she soon discovered, had been ripped up and were sitting in a recycling bin.

Student Miranda Wolf reported that, while she was on a 5–7 p.m. desk shift at Fisher

West Suites this Friday, someone took all copies of the Collegian from the front desk.

She said this person “looked like a college student with blond hair in a ponytail.”

Friday evening and Saturday morning, the Collegian staff examined eleven buildings and found that nine of them (Fisher West, Fisher South, the Pat Case Dining Center, ACAC and Keplinger Hall) contained no copies of the most recent issue on their news stands.

There were still Collegians in the Mayo SAC and Stephenson Hall.

The Collegian distributed its remaining copies of the most recent issue on Sunday to fill in for those that had gone missing.

The Collegian has reported the missing papers to Campus Security, and an investigation is ongoing.

Commentary Editor Giselle Willis contributed to this report.

MADE@TU designs, builds trike for disabled boy

Courtesy Laura Waldman Left: TU students Laura Waldman and Andrew Parker, as well as Chair of Mechanical Engineering John Henshaw test out the trike. Right: Andrew Parker works with a drill press.

Students at TU recently designed and built a tricycle for a local family. Apprentice Editor Michaela Flonard reports.

Last Saturday, students and faculty from MADE@TU completed their first project, which gave a family an inventive way to exercise together.

Junior Mechanical Engineers Laura Waldman and Andrew Parker were the primary workers on the project, advised

by John Henshaw, the Chair of Mechanical Engineering.

The students provided the Dittus family with a custom two-seat tricycle. This tricycle allows the family to exercise together, a favorite activity that is sometimes complicated by their son’s developmental disability.

Within days of getting the trike, the family has used it several times, according to Laura Waldman.

Funding, provided by President Upham, allowed the trike to be donated to the Dittus family.

The project idea originated with Henshaw

since he is a friend of the Dittus family.

Henshaw had known of the need to build something to allow the family to exercise.

Building the trike took several years for MADE@TU. Henshaw “wants students to work on projects they’re excited about,” leading to the project being an “on/off process.”

The tricycle seats two, side-by-side.

This arrangement allows the passenger to “share the same view as the driver,” unlike a tandem bike.

The driver can steer, brake and pedal, while the passenger holds onto a restraint bar and pedals.

Waldman started on the project about a year and a half ago, while Parker began this summer as part of his TURC research.

When Waldman began the project, it was “about 95 percent done.”

The project lacked documentation and specified details, however, so Waldman had to “make (her) own paperwork and take it back to 60 percent and then go from there.”

She “spent more time taking apart old parts than fabricating new ones,” she said.

Although the project was “rideable and adequate,” design changes were made.

Steering underwent the most changes, as it

went from a traditional wheel design to a design using levers.

Changes were also made to increase the safety, especially for the passenger, by adding a lap bar much like a roller coaster.

“By fixing these issues, we found problems in building trikes and designing them,” Parker said. They then tried to incorporate these observations into their next set of designs.

As time working on the trike passed, Waldman and Parker were joined by others.

Waldman said, “At first it was just me,” but the project grew until there were twelve others helping with the project.

“It’s good because now people can share the workload,” Waldman said, but it can be “hard to get twelve people on the same page.”

Work on the new tricycle has already started, in cooperation with SENEA (Sustainable Engineering for Needy and Emerging Areas).

The second generation will hopefully be lighter and fixed in minor ways, according to Henshaw.

“We plan to use what we learned to improve on the model and (to) design one that can be produced quicker,” said Parker.

While SENEA may use the tricycle for other purposes, Parker said the new tricycle will be kept on campus, as a “learning model for similar trikes” and a way to transport people around.

The trikes kept on campus will be used as shuttles during tailgates and other events.

This version will have four seats, with two for passengers and two for a driver and copilot.

Henshaw said the idea came from someone outside the engineering department, as both sensible transportation and publicity for engineering and MADE@TU. The experience was inspirational to the pair of students. Waldman liked to “see something we did make a difference.”

While she’s not sure how the experience will affect her future, working on the project allowed her to “put lectures to practice,” which helped her studies.

Parker enjoyed “being able to work on something that you can complete and see the results.” He hopes to “work somewhere where I can engage in projects” and then see the results of his labor.

“You don’t always get opportunities to build and design something” like this as a student, Waldman said.

The Collegian stands by its reporting The Collegian defends its decision to publish "TU administration suspended student without hearing."

Last Tuesday, Feb. 10, President Steadman Upham sent an email to University of Tulsa students, faculty and staff. In that email, President Upham stated that the Collegian improperly assumed that Trey Barnett’s case was handled under the Student Code of Conduct, when it was actually handled under the Policy on Harassment.

The Collegian stands by its reporting in “TU administration suspended student without hearing.” The Policy on Harassment states multiple times that the Student Code of Conduct still applies in harassment cases.

Under the section entitled “Formal Complaint Process” the Policy on Harassment states that “investigations, and if appropriate, hearings shall be conducted in accordance with the appropriate governing document.”

Under the section “Who is Covered,” it states that the Policy on Harassment “shall be applied and interpreted in conjunction with the following existing documents: …

‘The Student Code of Conduct’ and ‘The University of Tulsa Statement on Rights, Freedoms and Responsibilities.’”

Finally, “harassment” is included as a violation of the “General Standard of Conduct” given in the Student Code of Conduct.

As reported in our original story, the Stu-

dent Code of Conduct reads under Section D.4 Procedures: “In all cases, a student accused of one or more violations of the student code has the right to a hearing.”

It further states in Section E.5 Rights of the Accused that “no student shall be found partially/fully responsible for an offense without having been afforded each of the following rights, except with respect of those rights specifically and knowingly waived by the student in writing: … 2. The opportunity at the proceedings to hear all information against the student and to question all the witnesses against the accused student. 3. The opportunity at the proceeding to present relevant information and witnesses on his/her behalf.”

TU’s policies unequivocally suggest that a harassment complaint ought to be handled under the joint aegis of the Policy on Harassment and the Student Code of Conduct.

As reported in the story, we asked for clarification from the school multiple times. The school declined to comment in each case.

Though the Policy on Harassment does bind university officials to confidentiality, it does not prevent them from discussing policies or procedures in the abstract.

We received no response from university officials after presenting them our reading of the harassment policy.

Kyle Walker Editor-in-Chief

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Spring Film Festival, Jazz Band Concert previews The first TU jazz band concert of the semester will strike its opening chords on Feb. 19. Apprentice Editor Michaela Flonard reports.

The seventh annual Spring Film Festival occurs Feb. 23, Apprentice Editor Michaela Flonard reports.

On Thursday, February 19th, TU’s jazz bands will have their first concert of the semester.

The concert is one of two planned for the bands this semester. TU’s big bands will perform a variety of selections with solos by visiting artist/composer Walter White.

Big bands are jazz ensembles ranging from twelve to twenty members that were popularized in the 1930s. Although TU is a relatively small school, it has two big bands, levels I and II. TU’s Big Band II is composed of mostly freshmen and sophomores, with fourteen members. Its program will be pieces chosen from four different selections. TU’s Big Band I is mostly juniors and seniors, with nineteen members. The program will

Monday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m.,TU’s Department of Film will host its 7th annual Spring Film Festival.

The film festival is one of three hosted by the film department each year. All films in the festival were written, directed and produced by TU students within the past year.

Any student can enter a film at the Spring Film Festival, regardless of their association with the film department.

According to Ashley Etter, of the Office of Film Studies, the Spring Film Festival is the “Oscars” for TU. It is the largest and

feature composed pieces from ten different selections. Members of both bands include vocalists, trumpets, trombones and a rhythm section.

The concert will feature several of White’s compositions. Vernon Howard, Director of Jazz Studies, taught White at a summer camp in the 1970s and watched his career develop.

White, a trumpet soloist and composer, has traveled the world as a jazz player. He has played with a variety of bands and for several soundtracks. Several of White’s new compositions will have their world premiere at the concert.

The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Gussman Concert Hall in the Lorton Performance Center.

2012: Court ruled that Student Handbook is not a contract According to a federal court, TU is not contractually bound by policies printed in its student handbook. Editor-in-Chief Kyle Walker reports.

In 2012, Judge Terence Kern of the Northern District Court of Oklahoma ruled that TU’s Student Handbook “does not form any part of the contractual relationship” between students and the university.

In the case Ye Li v. University of Tulsa, a Collins College of Business student who had been dismissed from the university for academic misconduct alleged that TU had broken its contract with her by not following the conduct proceedings outlined in the Student Handbook.

Although the court found that the Student Handbook does not apply in cases of academic misconduct, it also concluded that TU is not contractually bound to adhere to the Handbook’s policies.

“The Student Handbook contains at least 14 statements that expressly disclaim any intent that (it) form the basis of any contract between the University and student,” the court ruled.

No “Student Handbook” is currently available on TU’s website. Instead, the Collegian located a document called “University Student Conduct Policies and Proce-

dures” contains many of TU’s disciplinary policies including the Student Code of Conduct and the Policy on Harassment.

This document is available on TU’s website under “Campus Life,” “Office of Student Affairs,” “Student Policies.”

“University Student Conduct Policies and Procedures” contains a disclaimer similar to that described in Judge Kern’s ruling.

The disclaimer reads: “This handbook is not a contract. It provides information and reproduces certain significant policies of the University. Academic policies, including policies relating to academic misconduct, are established, published and enforced by the colleges and Office of the Provost. Policies and interpretation by the administration are subject to change as circumstances warrant. Please check with the appropriate office for updates and current application of any policy.”

The disclaimer is only included in the comprehensive document “University Student Conduct Policies and Procedures.”

It does not appear in the text of individual policies, available at the same webpage.

Service Day coming to TU

Service Day is designed to help out the Tulsa community, writes Sports Writer Wade Crawford.

This Saturday marks yet another of the annual service days hosted by the Student Association.

Service Day is when many University of Tulsa students take time out of their weekend to give back to the Tulsa community.

Students form groups based on the campus organizations that they participate in and then work within

those groups for most of the day.

The event takes place Feb. 21 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Students will meet in the Student Union, then board buses to be taken off campus and to their various service assignments.

These include working with children and taking care of community gardens.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided for volunteers.

most juried festival. Judges not associated with the department view and rank each film before showing.

Prizes for Best Film and Runner-Up, Best Original Score, Best Actor, and Audience Choice will be awarded. Last year’s winners included “Forgery” by Isaac Holton, “The Highway” by Casey Stack and “Too Deep”

by Steven McDonald.

This year, six student films were entered, with a total running time of 59 minutes. The films range in genre, as there are no genre specifications to enter the festival.

Jazz Hall of Fame dodges eviction The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame came down on some hard times but will be able to stay in its current facility. Student Writer Meagan Collins reports.

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Above is the Tulsa Union Depot, where the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame is currently located.

The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame was almost thrown out of its current location after it found itself in the red with State Farm and Tulsa County.

But as of last week, the crisis has passed over.

The Jazz Hall of Fame owed State Farm Insurance roughly $11,200, in addition to a couple thousand owed to Tulsa County, NewsOK reports.

Faced with the choice of either paying its bills in court or selling memorabilia and the like to get more cash, the organization was given a deadline of Feb. 20 to pay Tulsa County or face eviction.

To end the crisis, the Jazz Hall of Fame organized fundraising concerts.

Two benefit concerts were set for

the month of February hoping to raise awareness of the music hall as well as boost morale for their patrons.

NewsOK interviewed the Jazz Hall’s executive director, Jason McIntosh, who suggested that “the museum was being unfairly targeted” for a minor slip up.

Just last week the Tulsa World reported that the Jazz Hall of Fame had paid its $3,000 debt to Tulsa County and need no longer fear threats of eviction from the Union Depot Building, where the Jazz Hall of Fame is currently housed.

It was also reported that a State Farm Insurance spokesman confirmed that the Jazz Hall of Fame had fulfilled its debt to them as well.

Education savings account bill introduced

A new bill would give some parents state funding that can be used for various aspects of their children’s education, including private school, tutoring and testing, in lieu of public schooling. Politics Reporter Brennen VanderVeen reports.

A bill titled the “Oklahoma Education Savings Account Act” has been introduced in the state legislature. It would allow certain parents to establish an education savings account for their child.

The account would receive funding from the state based on the parents’ income.

State representative Jason Nelson, a Republican, introduced the measure in the house, and state senator Clark Jolley, also a Republican, introduced it into the state senate.

This measure would expand a current law that covers children with disabilities.

If enacted, this bill would take effect for next school year. Parents who sign up for the program would be able to use the money

for a variety of educational purposes.

They could apply the funds to tuition and fees at private schools, virtual schools, virtual course-work providers and also postsecondary institutions. The fund could go to supplementary materials like textbooks or other items required by curriculum.

The funds would also cover “educational therapies and services.” The bill does not define these terms, leaving it to the Okla.

State Department of Education to determine eligibility. Tutors are eligible for funding, but they are included in a separate clause of the bill.

An account could be used to cover “services provided by a public school.” Those include extracurricular activities.

National tests would also be covered.

Presumably, it would cover the ACT, SAT and AP tests.

Parents could alternatively invest the funds in a Coverdell Savings Account, which is a federal education savings program with special tax privileges.

Finally, funds could be used for the financial management of the account and “insurance or surety bond payments” that the State Board of Education requires.

The eligibility for the savings account program is based on eligibility for the federal free and reduced price lunch program.

Eligibility for that program varies by family size, but an Oklahoma family of four with an annual income of less than $44,123

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would be eligible this school year.

Funding for the savings accounts are based on the funding a student would generate for a school based on a state aid formula.

Families that make through 100 percent of the free and reduced lunch program income threshold are eligible for 90 percent of education funds. Families with income between 100 and 150 percent of lunch program eligibility are eligible for 60 percent of education funds. Families that make 150 to 200 percent of lunch program eligibility would be eligible for 30 percent of education funds.

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TU Photo Club shares photography with Kendall-Whittier

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TU student Chuyi Wen helps Kendall-Whittier students in a photography scavenger hunt where students had a list of objects they had to find and take pictures of. This event was put on by Photo Club.

Gov. announces state hiring freeze In response to declining revenues, Governor Fallin has issued an executive order restricting new hiring by the state. Politics Reporter Brennen VanderVeen reports.

It was expected that the state of Oklahoma could bring in about $300 million less next year than it did this year. That number has since been adjusted to about $600 million.

For reference, the governor’s budget listed an expected revenue of about $7.212 billion and a slightly lower expected expenditure.

In response to the initial $300 million estimated decline in revenue, Governor Fallin issued an executive order that limits new expenses relating to government employees.

Specifically, it prevents state agencies from “hiring, reinstating, granting salary raises, awarding performance bonuses, promoting employees and accepting a transferred employee from another agency.”

The only way to get around these limits is by approval, in writing, from either the appropriate statewide elected official or cabinet member.

Changes regarding IT employees have a more limited ability for alteration. Those

changes must be authorized by the Secretary of Finance, Administration and Information Technology.

In the event that a change for a statewide elected official or cabinet member is necessary, the Secretary of State will be the appropriate authority to provide an exemption.

In order for any such changes to take place, the Chief Administrative Officer of an agency must request the change and note the “unique, fact-specific conditions justifying the request.”

The only exception to the personnel freeze is if the Oklahoma Military Department is able to be completely reimbursed by the federal government.

Records of requests and approvals are to be kept with the Office of Management and Enterprise Services. The director of that office will have the power to implement the executive order and require reporting in order to enforce the order.

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Feb. 6 11:25 p.m.

Officers were dispatched to Fisher South to investigate a suspicious odor. Officers found marijuana and paraphernalia in the room. Officers destroyed and disposed of the items.

1:02 a.m.

Officers are investigating malicious mischief/vandalism reported by the Kappa Sigma fraternity. During the listed date & times, unknown persons threw eggs at the front entrance of the Kappa Sigma house.

Suspects are believed to be a neighboring fraternity.

Feb. 8 1:10 a.m.

Officers observed 3 individuals (later identified as TU students) looking into Thomas Plaza while standing on the gate. Officers made contact with the students who stated that they had seen a cat climb under the gate and that they were trying to get its attention.

Officers asked the students to please not stand on the gate and the students agreed that it was not a good choice and left the area.

8:00 p.m.

Officers were dispatched to John Mabee Hall in reference to a fire alarm. Upon arrival it was discovered that the resident had

excessively used cologne to set off the fire alarm. Tulsa Fire Department was informed of the situation and cancelled. All students were let back in to the building after the scene was deemed safe.

Feb. 9 3:40 a.m.

Officers responded to Fisher South Residence Hall to investigate a marijuana scent coming from one of the rooms. Security officers searched the suspected dorm room and found drug paraphernalia, marijuana and alcohol. The items were collected and destroyed.

7:50 a.m.

Officers on patrol observed a white male at the north dock of the Hardesty building.

Upon investigation when making contact with the male, the Officer discovered that the male had a felony warrant for his arrest.

Tulsa Police Department was called to the scene and the male was arrested and transported Tulsa County Jail.

8:30 a.m.

Officers came upon a threatening note that was placed on a University of Tulsa student’s vehicle parked in the Mabee East lot.

Officers spoke with the student who owned the vehicle and he stated that the note could of came from another TU student. The investigation is ongoing at this time.

Oscar Ho Student Writer

Malaysia upholds one conviction, arrests dissident On Tuesday, Malaysia’s highest court upheld Anwar Ibrahim’s conviction for sodomy.

Sodomy is illegal in the Muslim majority nation, but few are prosecuted. The current opposition leader and former Deputy Prime Minister had a previous conviction for sodomy, but it was overturned in 2004. In 2008, he faced a completely new charge of having sex with a male aide. Now, after several rounds of appeals, the conviction remains in place. Anwar always maintained his innocence, saying that the accusations are politically motivated. “This is a complete fabrication,” he said. Anwar is considered to be the only politician who may have a chance at breaking the ruling party’s 60-year hold on power.

Two days after the court’s judgement, police arrested a cartoonist under sedition laws.

Zulkiflee Anwar Haque, also known as Zunar, used Twitter to accuse Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak of influencing the High Court’s decision to imprison Anwar. Additionally, the police have said that two opposition politicians are under investigation for sedition, allegedly in relation to comments critical of the court’s ruling.

American hostage killed by ISIS The United States confirmed Tuesday that American hostage Kayla Mueller has been killed by the Islamic State. ISIS had claimed that Mueller was killed by Jordanian air strikes on February 5. The Pentagon now says there is no doubt IS killed her, though the details of her death have not been made public. Mueller went to Syria as an aid worker. She was abducted by IS in 2013.

New York police officer charged in shooting On Tuesday, a grand jury recommended charges against a New York policeman who fatally shot an unarmed man in an apartment complex. Officer Peter Liang will be charged for the death of Akai Gurley, a black 28-year-old. Police described the shooting as an accident.

US, UK and France close embassies in Yemen The United States, the United Kingdom and France indicated they are closing their embassies in the Yemeni capital in response to the deteriorating security situation. The US and the UK removed diplomatic staff from Sana’a on Wednesday, and France closed its embassy on Friday. Houthi rebels forcibly took control of Yemen in January, arresting the president and his ministers and dissolving parliament.

Canada stops mass shooting plot The Royal Canadian Mounted Police say that they foiled a plot to carry out a mass shooting in Halifax. Three suspects were arrested. A fourth shot himself after police went to his house. Police said that “there’s nothing ... to classify it as a terrorist attack. It’s not culturally based.” The suspects reportedly had an obsession with killing and death.

Shootings in Denmark Two shootings in the Danish capital raised fears of an armed terror spree. In the first incident, an unidentified gunman killed one person and injured three in a Copenhagen cafe where a debate was being held.

The discussion covered free speech and blasphemy, and was attended by cartoonist Lars Vilks, who has faced death threats over his depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.

Just after midnight, the same gunman opened fire near a synagogue about 3 miles (5 km) from the cafe. He fatally shot one person and injured two police officers.

Two hours after the second attack, a person opened fire on police at a train station. Police fired back and killed who they believe was the suspect. Although his name has not been released, the 22 year old was already known to police for his connection with criminal gangs, prior convictions for violent offenses, and weapons dealing.

Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said the attack was “a cynical act of terror.”

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“Two Days, One Night”: mediocre film with brilliant actress “Two Days, One Night” features superb acting from Marion Cotillard in an otherwise mediocre film.

Student Writer Joe Watkins reviews.

“Two Days, One Night” opens with a sequence that seems to be a microcosm of the film as a whole.

Sandra (Marion Cotillard), a working-class Belgian woman, wakes up on a Friday afternoon, glumly cooks a meal and answers a phone call before retreating to her restroom.

We watch her through the mirror as she swallows a pill and makes a futile effort not to weep. The complete lack of music and complex camera work previews the starkly realistic film that follows.

Sandra has taken some time off from her job at a factory as the result of a nervous breakdown. The phone call she just received was from a sympathetic coworker at the plant, informing her that during her leave of absence the 16 other employees at the plant had discovered that they could cover her shift if they each worked a few hours more during the week. In exchange, their employer has promised them each a €1,000 bonus.

The plant’s employees, Sandra included, are just barely scraping by, and the bonus is the difference between social housing and home ownership for many of them. There will be a vote in 2 1/2 days among her coworkers over whether to keep the bonus and leave Sandra jobless or to give up the extra money to allow Sandra to remain employed.

These events take place in about ten minutes, and the rest of the 95 minute film, except the last five or so minutes, follows Sandra visiting

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Marion Cotillard portrays Sandra, a woman who has been layed off from her job after a hospital visit.

each of her coworkers and attempting to persuade them to sacrifice their bonus. They each begin similarly and end with the coworker either remorsefully explaining that they need the bonus or confiding in her that they will support her after a short conversation.

I wish I could say that each of these encounters proves to be unique, tense and engaging in a different way from the last, but that’s just not the case. This approach to documenting Sandra’s efforts leads to the film progressing at a snail’s pace through the majority of its run time. This is the film’s critical weakness. I suspect the directors’ aim was to mirror how demoralizing the entire experience must be for Sandra, but they succeeded only

in boring me. I felt as though every aspect of the film would be stronger if it was half as long.

The sparse, realistic cinematography and lethargic, repetitive pace mean that each scene relies exclusively on Cotillard’s acting to carry it. Thankfully, she is more than capable of this. Cotillard’s portrayal of an individual fighting desperately against mental illness in the face of a terrifying situation, whether she’s in the grips of a panic attack or trembling with remorse after impoverished coworkers agree to give up their livelihood, is perfect.

The performances of the other actors are of variable quality, but the film remains focused singularly on Cotillard.

Overall, the film is decent at best,

Photographer reframes yoga Student Writer Adam Lux visits a local yoga studio and finds non-sexualized beauty in Anga-Limb, a yoga-inspired photography project by Western Doughty.

The atmosphere at Be Love Yoga Studio was earthy. The walls were brick and wooden. It smelled of incense.

Lots of people older than me stood around talking and drinking wine out of plastic cups. Someone rung a singing bowl, and everyone turned their attention towards Western Doughty as he began talking.

Doughty was at the studio showing one of his recent photography projects, Anga-Limb. (The word anga translates to limb.) The photos hung on two walls and varied in size. Doughty got his idea after being upset by the oversexualization of yoga, often times in pornography.

He postulated that by cropping

to tight slices of the overall poses he could emphasize the artistic form of yoga without sexualizing the models’ bodies.

The photographs were all monochromatic on a white background giving the models a platinum look. He used strong lighting and contrast to accentuate the topography of the models’ bodies.

The pictures rarely had more than a few body parts in them and never any faces causing the focus of the scenes to be on the posing of the models rather than their physical appearance. Very little editing was done because Doughty thought it was important to accurately depict the models. Freckles, uneven complexions, sometimes even goosebumps can be seen in the photos.

One of the more entertaining aspects of the showing was Doughty’s liberal use of orientation.

The “incomplete” nature of the cropped photos made it difficult to immediately understand which direction was actually down in any of the photos. Because of this he

would have multiples of the same photo throughout the studio all in different orientations. There were even two of the same picture right next to each other, one just flipped upside down. It was surprisingly hard to notice and made it seem as though there were many more photos than there actually were.

Overall I believe Doughty succeeded in his quest to depict yoga as beautiful without being automatically sexual. The intense crops force the viewer to focus on the relationship between muscles and body positioning in yoga, the subtle features of accurately depicted skin and the perfect cooperation involved in partner yoga.

The photos look a bit dry due to their unedited nature; however I think this limits the distraction that might have been caused by more liberal manipulation of the pictures and thus does not detract from the experience.

More information of Doughty and photographs can be found at www.westerndoughty.com.

and the droll repetition of scenes holds the entire experience back.

Cotillard’s performance is the one exception to this mediocrity. Her quiet despair carries the entire film through to its conclusion and is the only reason I didn’t regret seeing it.

The Oscar nomination she received for her performance in this otherwise passable film is well deserved. So in the end, I feel as though this is a somewhat mediocre film that happens to feature an incredible performance.

Phi Mu Alpha serenades Last Friday members of Phi Mu Alpha held their annual philanthropy week concert. Student Writer Nate Beckemeyer thought it was magical.

On Friday night, the music fraternity Phi Mu Alpha had its third annual Philanthropy Week Recital.

The recital featured a variety of music. It started with a cover of “Uptown Funk” by Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson, showcasing impressive dancers and a fantastic trumpet section.

Phi Mu Alpha performed a total of thirteen tracks. Although I appreciated them all, my personal favorites were “The Parting Glass,” “Scenes From an Italian Restaurant,” “Lux Aurumque,” and “Down to the River to Pray.”

I really enjoyed seeing the performance of “The Parting Glass” because it captured the traditional Scottish and Irish folk song, and, performed by senior Taylor Conley, stuck out as an ode to his great years in Phi Mu Alpha.

“Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” was impressive not just for the performance, but its instrument switches: One person had to switch instruments twice while performing the song. The most impressive part about it was that it felt natural, and didn’t look rushed. He calmly replaced his instruments both times.

“Down to the River to Pray” was the closer, and it did its job well. Everyone participated in the

a capella tune, generating a wonderful sense of unity and joy in front of the audience. During this song, the fraternity really came across as just that: A fraternity. A brotherhood of excellent singers and musicians.

I thought that the most impressive performance overall was “Lux Aurumque.” A pretty song by nature, Phi Mu Alpha sang an excellent rendition, with a wide range of voices and harmonies. I very much enjoyed its hypnotizing effect. This song encapsulated me the most.

All of Phi Mu Alpha’s musicians performed well. The Simon and Garfunkel cover was a solid take on an old classic, the Dust Bowl Refugees’ performance of “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder was phenomenal, and towards the end of the show there was a percussion line that did a fantastic job of drawing the audience in.

Of course, there were some other surprise entries as well. “Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf” was a rather comical insertion. Some of the performers read the song’s lyrics from their phones while singing it, which made the number even funnier. Another surprise entry was “Make You Better” by the Decemberists. The recital contained many talented musicians, excellent songs, and really demonstrated Phi Mu Alpha’s musical talent. I was very impressed at the performances, can’t wait to attend their next recital, and encourage all to attend.

By Managing Editor Conor Fellin I have an ambivalent relationship with Singles Awareness Day. On one hand, we all know singles that never fail to brighten up our day. On the other hand, we all also know singles that we wish would just get over themselves.

The real question is this: why do we need a special day dedicated to singles when radio stations are shoving A-sides into our faces day in and day out?

Well, just to humor everyone, I’ll talk a little bit about singles. Historians trace singles back to the late 19th century, when the gramophone was having its first commercial success.

Even then, I’m sure there were some people who didn’t like them.

“It’s too commercial,” they said, as they drank whatever the 19th-century equivalent of an IPA was.

Advances in technology gradually improved the sound quality of singles, thus allowing discerning listeners to develop a keener sense of how overproduced and awful they were.

Eventually, someone came up with a bright idea: take the forty songs that are already most overplayed on the radio and dedicate a syndicated radio program to giving them even more air time. I wish I were making this up.

If it sounds like I’m being a scrooge, rest assured that for every dozen singles that I hate, there are a few that I love to listen to over and

over again. Like “Karma Chameleon.” The odds are pretty good that as you read this, I am thinking about that song.

And if you know the song, you now have it stuck in your head too.

I’m not sorry.

Anyway, I should get back to Singles Awareness Day. What do you do on Singles Awareness Day? Do you listen to pop radio nonstop as an exercise in self-denial? Or do you make a cross-genre playlist of singles that the DJs never picked up and have some real fun?

Honestly, I’m imagining some sort of a party that exists solely for the guests to quietly make fun of whoever the one person is who gets excited every single time “Demons”

comes on.

I’ve got to give Singles Awareness Day some credit; making it the same day as Valentines Day makes a lot of sense. Ever since the biggest boy band ever got out of Liverpool and into our living rooms, love and love lost have been the dominant subjects of singles.

Talking about love lost gives me an idea: what if there were a holiday dedicated specifically to people who weren’t in a relationship?

I’d say we should call it “Singles Awareness Day,” but that would just be too confusing.

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TU harassment policy dangerously vague

TU should change its harassment policy to guarantee hearings and protect speech. Editorial Consultant Nikki Hager writes.

In my four years at the University of Tulsa, I’ve seen four new buildings, a host of renovations and new academic programs.

I’ve also seen the school respond to student sentiment and make changes due to SA recommendations. I’ve seen that TU administrators are willing to change TU for the better.

We don’t want to think that TU would suspend a student for speech that wasn’t his or her own.

We don’t want to think TU would do so without a hearing. We don’t want to think that it would try to intimidate its student journalists.

We don’t want to think our ad-

ministration would prioritize its image above the best interests of its students. Yet the administration’s handling of the Trey Barnett case really made me question both TU’s policies and the administration’s judgment.

If the University of Tulsa wants to reaffirm its commitment to freedom of speech and expression, it should reform its harassment policy so that all students are explicitly granted a hearing in all harassment cases. It should also alter the language so that it is less ambiguous, encouraging and promoting expression and criticism.

The Policy on Harassment prohibits “any form of inappropriate conduct which… places an individual in fear of harm to his or her person or reputation on or off campus” and includes what a “reasonable person” would consider to be “insulting,” “vulgar” or “inappropriate” speech.

According to a FIRE article, this definition is not consistent with the legal definition of harassment unless the damage to one’s reputation “is severe and pervasive enough to actually create a hostile environment.”

It is also concerning that “the authority to grant exception to one or more of these policies and proce-

dures is vested with the President of The University of Tulsa or his/ her delegated representative(s)” is included in the policy.

There is a distinct difference between language and engagement that is rude or makes an individ-

individual’s reputation on campus.

This definition is so vague that it could be applied to almost anything. For example, it could apply to a Facebook post critical of a professor, criticism of how a football player fumbled an important

“As soon as someone’s name is attached to anything deemed ‘harassment,’ you could be violating the harassment policy” ual uncomfortable and harassment that stunts learning or creates an unsafe environment.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) gave TU’s speech-related policies a red light rating because TU “has at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech. A ‘clear’ restriction is one that unambiguously infringes on what is or should be protected expression.” The harassment policy prompted this ranking.

It is particularly concerning that the definition of harassment includes conduct that may harm an

play during a big game or your snapstory about how you’re mad at your roommate.

Under the current policy, it is acceptable to say almost anything about an institution, such as the university itself, an academic department or its current policies.

However, as soon as someone’s name is attached to anything deemed “harassment,” you could be violating the harassment policy.

Criticism is important. It keeps people honest. It’s a way to fight corruption. While sometimes criticism makes people uncomfortable, it is vital for accountability and of-

ten spurs innovation and change.

First of all, TU should require hearings in all harassment cases.

While it does appear that the Student Code of Conduct would require hearings under the harassment policy, it should be explicitly stated in the harassment policy.

Second, the university should reform the language of the harassment policy, eliminating the fear of harm to one’s reputation from the definition.

It should also limit the definition of harassment to the legal definition so that behavior must be severe and pervasive enough to create a hostile environment, rather than simply offend someone.

I’ve seen TU change its policies before. Last year, President Upham added sexual orientation and gender identity to the Equal Employment Opportunity Policy, after SA passed legislation requesting the change.

That same year, TU created a non-discrimination statement that included those groups, amongst others, that applied to other university activities, such as academics, housing and admissions.

I know the administration can do the right thing by improving the Policy on Harassment.

Asocial programmer trope harmful and untrue Besides being inaccurate, the image of a programmer as a gruff loner is gendered and therefore detrimental to female representation in the field.

Managing Editor Conor Fellin observes.

We’ve all seen him in television and movies: that guy who’s a programmer and nothing else. The genius of superhuman talent that effortlessly solves difficult problems and who dedicates so much of himself to his field that he doesn’t have a life outside of programming.

The image of the asocial programmer is the scourge of the programming community in more ways than one. First of all, it’s completely false to imagine that successful programs are written by prodigies sitting alone in basements, scrawling out code as if possessed by some frenetic muse. Second, the image is deeply tied to traits we have been socialized to treat as masculine and therefore serves as a menace to gender equality in computer science.

The notion that raw ability to solve puzzles and riddles is somehow indicative of programming skill is a historical accident. When programming was first being adopted by the corporate world, there was no such thing as a computer science major. Companies had no idea who would be qualified to program these newfangled computers.

So they started handing out personality exams. Over time, the exams caused it to be accepted that good programmers

were rugged individualists who obsessed over their puzzles. Nevermind that the programmers that served as the baseline for the exams were the ones who had been hired already and thus demonstrated biases already inherent in the corporate culture.

The idea was, in many ways, selffulfilling, as the results informed companies’ hiring practices, and those who were already programmers began to get comfortable with their newly assigned persona. The stereotype persists to this day.

In reality, the general consensus among the computer science community is that a lone programmer just hacking away on a problem is a great way to quickly produce software that will become unusable the instant a bug is discovered. The programmer writes working code, but this code is nearly impossible to understand and entirely impossible to modify.

And so it turns out that ability to work with a team to produce carefully compartmentalized and readable code is a much better indicator of a successful programmer. Needless to say, team coordination and ability to communicate how a piece of code works are both fairly social skills.

Yet we never see the social programmer on TV or in movies. And some sociologists would say that this is a contributing factor to the abysmal underrepresentation of women in computer science and programming.

In “The Anatomy of Interest,” a paper about an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon who interviewed a series of male and female computer science students once per semester starting with their admission, the image of the asocial programmer completely absorbed in his work turns out to be a major cause of attrition among female computer science students.

Many of the women leaving the computer science program expressed the feeling that somehow they were inferior computer scientists because they had hobbies outside

of the field or because they were not tinkering with computers from a young age.

Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher, authors of the paper, speculated that while these disparities do exist to some degree, much of the difference was exaggerated by males in the program.

Ultimately, Margolis and Fisher recommend that computer science programs extend their curriculums to place greater emphasis on the social aspects of programming alongside the technical aspects.

If you’re not convinced that a technical emphasis versus a social emphasis is a gendered divide, well, you’re right.

Margolis and Fisher note that they

interviewed several male programmers that do not identify with the purely technical computing ethic, and that these programmers did not feel nearly as discouraged as their female counterparts (because, of course, there are quite a few barriers for females in computer science).

Still the responses of the women leaving the program cannot be ignored. In a perfect world, whether or not a field is social would not produce a split along gender lines. But we do not live in a perfect world, and it’s time to stop pretending.

If society is persistently going to portray a hacker alone in a basement as male, than maybe it’s time for the programming world to start taking its image more seriously.

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“Publish or perish” leads to sketchy research

The pressure on academics to perpetually put out papers might lead to scientific biases and also, on the fringes, to some interesting “journals.” Managing Editor Conor Fellin explains.

“Publish or perish,” or the pressure on academics to perpetually put out publishable research, has led to a number of phenomena that weaken the credibility of academic research, particularly scientific research.

One result of “publish or perish” is the predatory open-access journal. These are non-peer-reviewed journals with distinguished-sounding names that will publish anything for a fee and sometimes for exclusive rights to publish the article.

And when I say “anything,” I mean that the “International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology” once accepted ten pages of the sentence, “Get me off your fucking mailing list,” repeated over and over again.

It is unclear whether academics that choose to publish with such journals are actually fooled by their prestigious-sounding titles or simply desperate to stick another

article on their curriculum vitae.

Academics can also cave in to the “publish or perish” system by writing their papers to maximize publication output per unit of research. While outright self-plagiarism is seldom a problem, academics can learn to publish in a “least publishable increment” or to tack on extra results to a previously published paper.

The most frightening aspect of “publish or perish,” however, is the way in which it distorts the scientific method. Peter Higgs, Nobel Prize winning physicist, famously said that he did not think he could have devoted the proper attention to his instrumental work in subatomic physics if he had received the kind of pressure to publish that most modern academics do. If he was constantly being expected to output a paper for publication, he could not have had the time to establish a focused research curriculum.

In fact, Higgs’ university was on the verge of firing him for a lack of publication output until Higgs’ 1980 Nobel Prize nomination made them decide he might be worth keeping around.

Additionally, studies that show positive results (i.e. results that affirm the author’s hypothesis) are often more likely to be published than studies that do not. So what if the desire to be published biases scientists towards positive results in their experiments?

When he was a fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Daniele Fanelli was happy to publish the positive result that a positive correlation existed between the number of papers published in a state and the percentage of positive results reported by the

state’s professors. More competitive states, Fanelli reasoned, placed more pressure on their professors to publish and thus cause a bias towards positive results. (Admittedly, it perplexes me in what sense professors are somehow more in competition with professors in their own state than academia in general.)

It should go without saying that science where the experimenter is biased towards a specific outcome is unacceptable. And negative results are valuable for future academ-

ics, in that they establish unfruitful avenues of investigation.

I won’t claim to have a clear solution to the problems enumerated above. In many ways, the number and profile of an academic’s publications may be the most reasonable way to quickly appraise an academic’s productivity. But these are issues we need to be aware of and work to gradually combat if the credibility of academic enterprise is not to be gravely damaged.

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Figure 1 could’ve been published along with the paper “Get me off your fucking mailing list,” but the authors didn’t want to pay the fee. The article was accepted by the kind of predatory journal that will publish anything for the right price.

Bad news for students: TU policies non-binding

Apparently, TU’s written policies don’t mean a goddamn thing.

Editor-in-Chief Kyle Walker is disturbed.

Newsflash, fellow students: TU doesn’t have to follow any of those conduct policies

it’s published. Apparently, they are only for your reading enjoyment. I hope you had fun reading ‘em, because that’s all the good you’re going to get out of those policies if you do something to displease the powers that be. Let’s review the evidence.

Last week, the Collegian reported on a disciplinary case that was handled in a summary fashion and with no hearing.

The morning after that story came out, President Upham sent a campus-wide email explaining that “no hearing was required” in that case since it was handled under the Policy on Harassment and not under the Student Code of Conduct.

Never mind that the Policy on Harassment lists the Student Code of Conduct as a

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When you think about it, President Upham’s email is almost more frightening than the original story. Like, did TU really just admit in writing that it has no qualms about disciplining its students summarily and without a hearing?

I’d be in a more charitable mood except that the school deliberately created an atmosphere of uncertainty and fear to discourage us from publishing our story about Trey Barnett. When that story hit the national press, the school rapidly backpedaled. A spokesperson from University Relations went so far as to tell the Student Press Law Center that she was not aware of any policies the Collegian could have violated.

We can’t get a straight answer out of these guys. They wouldn’t tell us at the time what policies we might have violated in investigating and publishing that story, and now they tell us that no such policies exist?

What’ll it be, TU? In other news, it turns out that TU might not be liable for violating its own disciplinary policies.

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Court of Oklahoma ruled that TU is not contractually bound by its Student Handbook. Why? Because the handbook contains disclaimers which say it isn’t a contract. Now that’s just great.

Of course, the individual policies available on TU’s website don’t contain this disclaimer. Mixed messages are always the best way to communicate with your constituency.

But wait, it gets better. TU’s Policy on Harassment, Non-Discrimination Statement and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy (accessed via Campus Connection) all end with a delightful piece of cover-your-ass language.

Here it is: “The authority to grant exception to one or more of these policies and procedures is vested with the President of the University of Tulsa or his/her delegated representative(s).”

There’s nothing quite like writing a policy that has places no meaningful limits on your actions whatsoever.

Here’s a question, TU: Why do you bother publishing the policies if you don’t promise to hold up your end of the bargain?

Seems kind of cynical if you ask me.

Oklahoma state Rep. Jason Nelson has proposed the “Oklahoma Education Savings Account Act,” which would allow parents to get state funding for expenses such as private schooling, tutoring, books and more.

The money that would have been given to the child’s public school by the state of Oklahoma will instead be put into a bank account that is controlled by the child’s parents.

This plan could give parents more control over their child’s education, allowing them to opt out of public schooling in favor of private, online or homeschooling options.

This idea has been spreading and is expected to be voted on in states such as Iowa, Nevada, Texas and Nebraska.

There is, however, the possibility that giving too much freedom to parents could have ill effects on a child’s schooling.

Online or homeschooling options could lead to gaps in education. While many children excel in such programs, the lack of

oversight can be cited as reason for concern.

Depending on the parents, there is always a possibility of structure-less learning environment, which could leave children ill-prepared both intellectually and socially when they rejoin formal schooling for high school or college, according to middleschool.net.

The other option for parents would be moving their children out of the public school system over to private schools.

However, if every child in the state of Oklahoma is given the option of transferring, it could very quickly lead to high ranked schools becoming overpopulated while schools in poorer neighborhoods would lose students and funding, creating even more poverty for such institutions. The specifics are more complicated than this, but adults working in education expect the trends of shifting enrollment numbers are expected to follow this pattern.

Fewer students would lead to shrinking the public school system. The cost of education for Oklahoma would also increase, as parents who are currently paying for their children’s education look for ways to get the state to pay for it instead.

Also, what happens when a parent wants to send their child to a religious school?

Once institutions accept government funding, they sometimes become subject to government control and influence. The situation could become tricky as religious schooling and government funding intertwine.

While Oklahoma’s current practice of giving disabled children money for alternate schooling makes sense, expanding it to all children in Oklahoma would lead to more problems than it would solve.

The state already provides an education for those who want it. It’s not its job to pay for those who don’t.

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Golden Hurricane falls in Connecticut to the Huskies The men’s team stumbled on the road against Connecticut, only able to put 45 points up against the Huskies, as the Golden Hurricane fell out of first place. Sports Writer Joseph Edmunds reports.

Softball Goes 3–2 This weekend at the FAU “Strike Out Cancer” Tournament, the women’s softball team dropped their opening games against Michigan State (4–3) and host Florida Atlantic (1–0). While losses are still tough to take, the promising sign is that both losses were only by one run.

Following the two-game slump the Golden Hurricane bounced back to win their last three in the tournament against Maryland, Drexel and Providence. There is one more tournament in Waco, TX before the women return to play their first home games of the season.

Softball has Top Player Senior Erica Sampson was named the first American Athletic Conference Softball Player of the Week of 2015 for her performance in Tulsa’s opening weekend, in which she hit .412 with six RBI and seven runs.

Tennis Roundup The men’s team went on the road this week, traveling to Arkansas and Washington. In Arkansas, the Golden Hurricane pulled off a big win against the Razorbacks, taking a 4–3 win over the host.

They next traveled to Seattle to take on the Washington Huskies, getting edged out in the last match, which the Hurricane, in a heartbreaking move, were forced to cede due to cramps. The women dropped their lone match against the 36th ranked Sooners 5–2. Thier next match is against OSU on Saturday.

Soccer’s Class Ranked 27th College Soccer News ranked the Tulsa’s men soccer team’s recruitment class 27th in the nation. Their reasoning is as follows: “Tulsa has been consistent over the last few years, competing for conference titles throughout, and this class should only help continue the trend. This class is highlighted by U18 National team forward Juan Sebastian Sanchez, a creative forward who has a knack for scoring goals. The additions of Ashby Clark, Marcel Da Silva, Keegan King, Munashe Raranje and Miguel Velasquez all will add depth to a very good Tulsa side.”

Spring Dates Announced Coach Montgomery has announced the dates for spring football practice which will begin on Mar. 8 and go through Apr. 18. “We’ve extended spring over a longer period of time with the idea of being able to spend more time from a drill and meeting standpoint, and hopefully being able to retain more information from the spring into the fall,” Montgomery said.

The Golden Hurricane men’s basketball offense faltered as the team dropped their second straight game, 70–45 against UConn.

The Huskies started the game hot, running out to a 10–0 lead only three minutes into the game, and the Golden Hurricane never caught up.

For the remainder of the first half, UConn never led by less than 6, and held Tulsa’s offense to only 17 points as they took a 26–17 lead into the locker room at halftime.

In the second half, Tulsa’s lackluster offense picked up, scoring 28 points. However, UConn’s offense picked up considerably, putting up 44 points in the second half alone to run away with the game.

Just five minutes into the half, the Huskies had pushed their lead over twenty points, leading 41–20. For the remainder

of the game, the lead fluctuated between 15 and 25 points.

The closest Tulsa could come was 50– 35 with seven minutes left in the game, but UConn shut down the comeback from there, and the game ended with a 70–45 victory for The Huskies.

The 45-point offensive output is the lowest for the Golden Hurricane this season.

Said Tulsa coach Frank Haith, “Defensively, they were really good. We really struggled scoring around the basket.”

The game had a very different outcome than the previous meeting between the two teams in Tulsa, in which the Golden Hurricane controlled the tempo of the game and came away with a 66–58 win.

In that game, Tulsa guard James Woodard scored 21 points; he was kept scoreless the entire game in Connecticut.

With the loss, the Golden Hurricane fall to 17–7 (10–2 American Athletic Conference), and now sit at second in the American Athletic Conference standings, ahead of third place Temple, who have a 19–7 (10–3 AAC) record and behind conferenceleading SMU, who are 21–5 (12–2 AAC).

Excitment in Nascar?

NASCAR racers Kevin Harvick and Joey Logano had a heated conversation after Saturday’s Sprint Unlimited. After bumping and grinding all race long, the racers came close to blows.

Harvick alleged that Logano tried to drive him into the wall among other racing atrocities, leading to words that surely made Mrs. Harvick and Mrs. Logano blush. Fortunately for NASCAR, the near-skirmish put the sport on the news.

Desperate for attention, the sport pops up in mainstream culture only with brutal crashes or good ol’ man-on-man violence.

By contrast, the NFL relishes when its manon-woman violence hits the press.

Oladipo Sings a New Tune The NBA’s Slam-Dunk Contest seems to grow in splendor every year. The Orlando Magic’s Victor Oladipo didn’t want to slack off, so he surprised the crowd with his own rendition of Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York.”

Of course, Oladipo was no Sinatra, but Sinatra certainly can’t throw down a 540 jam. So, all in all, Oladipo came out ahead.

Plus Oladipo served as a reminder to the rest of the NBA that, yes, Orlando has a basketball team.

Scorpions on a Plane A dark and ominous cloud has descended over the Reynolds Center lately. The seemingly omnipotent entity portended not one, but two conference losses for the Hurricane men’s basketball team.

The fall from first place has signaled tough times for the TU squad. Nonetheless, the team must focus on the positives, such as; “Hey, at least we don’t have scorpions on our planes.” Scorpion-less planes are a luxury that not all D-I schools can afford.

Just ask the folks of Oregon State’s men’s hoops, whose flight had to return to LAX after a woman on board was stung by a scorpion.

Now, I’m not usually a proponent of negative recruiting, but, if used properly, we may be able to nab some big bodies from Oregon State.

“Now, son, certainly you’re not a fan of scorpions on your planes. Flying is scary enough,” I say in my whiskeyed and wise voice.

“No, coach, I fervently hate all arthropods, especially those that fly,” the recruit replies with increasing interest.

“Well, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, I can personally guarantee—and I don’t do this for all our recruits—that your son will not have to deal with ANY scorpions on Tulsa basketball flights.”

“We take good care of our boys here,” I say with a wry but reassuring smile.

“Golly gee, coach! That sounds swell!

Where can I sign?” says the five-star, sevenfooter.

If the parents need extra convincing, I tell them, “There aren’t scorpions in Tulsa at all! The only exoskeleton-esque creatures we tolerate around those parts are armadillos, and, boy, are they cute. Mrs. Smith, how would you like an official Tulsa basketball armadillo?”

Thunder’s McGary energizes team The Oklahoma City Thunder has had a tough season thus far, plagued with injuries across the board. Yet it still has a chance to reach the playoffs thanks to rookie Mitch McGary. Student Writer Mason Morgan reports.

Not much has gone well for the Thunder in the past 12 months.

Injuries and overall team chemistry have hurt them since the start of 2014. It started with a lingering injury to Russell Westbrook that caused the Thunder to fall to the second seed in the Western Conference playoffs and face a tough Grizzlies team.

After fighting through that series and the next one against the Clippers, they were facing the Spurs without home court advantage.

An injury to power forward Serge Ibaka left them undermanned in the conference finals as they lost the series in six games.

That leads to this season. Injuries to Kevin Durant and Westbrook again put OKC in a big hole in a ridiculously competitive Western Conference. With other teams like Golden State and Memphis emerging as front-runners, the Thunder will have the rest of the season to fight for the eighth and final seed.

After their two superstars returned, OKC’s season still hadn’t bounced back the way it was expected. The attitudes and inconsistent play of some bench players like Reggie Jackson and Dion Waiters have hurt the chemistry and flow of the team.

This team disarray opens doors for others like the Suns and Pelicans to take the lead for the eighth spot.

Enter rookie and team savior Mitch McGary.

The Thunder’s newest rotation member was called up for the Sunday afternoon game last week against the Clippers because of Kendrick Perkins’ suspension.

In just his third real NBA game and first that wasn’t at the end of a blowout, McGary posted a 19-point, 10-rebound performance in a 23 point win. The performance earned him a standing ovation from the home crowd for their new favorite player. He followed that up with a 17-point, 10-rebound game the next night in a road win over the Denver Nuggets.

The first thing you notice about McGary’s game is that he sprints from end to end of the court on every change of possession.

With explosive players like Durant and Westbrook on the court with him, that kind of effort can really pay off.

The most important thing about McGary though is his confidence. He plays like prime Tebow the way he smiles at everyone and makes everything a bit more fun.

Ever since the James Harden trade in 2012, it seems like there has been a black cloud over the Thunder in every thing that they do. Every draft pick is critiqued differently and every loss has people criticizing the front office.

Even McGary’s draft selection was criticized by how the Thunder could have gotten a better player late in the draft, when finding contributing players is basically a crapshoot. OKC had faith in McGary and what they saw in the offseason made them really think that he could be a key to their bench.

After several injuries to his foot and shin at the beginning of the season, he was considered an afterthought but now with his contributions, he could be the main turnaround for a Thunder team that could still be a legitimate contender.

Women on best streak since ’06 The women’s basketball team added two more wins against the Temple Owls and SMU Mustangs to put its win-streak at six. Sports Editor Matt Rechtien reports.

With wins over the Temple Owls and and SMU Mustangs the women’s basketball team is on their first six-game winning streak since 2006.

Looking for their fifth straight win, the Golden Hurricane hosted Temple on Feb. 10th, a team that is right on Tulsa’s heels in the conference standings.

Temple rushed out of the gate taking an early 10–3 lead in the first four minutes before taking a 19–9 lead with ten minutes remain in the half.

From here Tulsa found their footing and responded with a 12–3 run to cut the Owls’ lead to one.

For the remainder of the half, Tulsa and Temple traded the lead with Temple eventually taking a 33–29 lead into the half.

Tulsa started the second half with a 8–2 run to take back the lead, which they never lost for the remainder of the game.

Lead by Kelsee Grovey and Mariah Turner the Hurricane were able to get as high as 12-point lead against the Owls, who could not get within eight for the rest of the half.

The Golden Hurricane played a strong defensive second half and stayed ahead of Temple to take a 75–67 win. Grovey, Turner, Antoinet Webster, Ashley Clark and Kadan Brady all put up double figures for the Hurricane in the game.

After the win over Temple, Tulsa traveled to Dallas to play the Mustangs, who they had beaten just two weeks prior at home.

This game was a lot more contested in the early stages with TU and SMU trading leads up through the seven minute mark of

the first half, when Tulsa was able to pull forward to an 8-point halftime lead.

Coming out of the break, the Golden Hurricane continued to add to their lead, at one time a 14-point lead, then an 18-point lead and finally a match high 23-point lead with four minutes left in the game.

SMU finished the game with an 11–3 run, but that was not nearly enough as Tulsa won 72–59 to sweep the season series.

Clark and Teanna Reid both scored double-digit points for the Hurricane, while Clark added seven rebounds and three steals. The Golden Hurricane shot 45 percent on the day including 41 percent from behind the three-point arc.

With the pair of wins, Tulsa has improved their overall record to 14–10, with a 9–4 conference record. Their next game comes at second-place USF on Wednesday, Feb. 18 at 6 p.m.

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In the Bleacher Creature’s vision of the future, he forgets that the University of Tulsa is host to one Scorpion, specifically the one that claims to “rock you like a hurricane!” For the sake of his story though he will be forgiven for his error.

Notice how I segue smoothly into the gift offering. Now, gifting armadillos isn’t necessarily allowed under NCAA rules. But they aren’t explicitly prohibited either. And that’s how you build a program.

‘Cane Calendar Feb. 16 – 22 Wednesday, Feb. 18 Men’s Basketball vs. East Carolina;

Reynolds Center; 6 p.m.

Women’s Basketball @ USF; Tampa,

FL; 6 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 19 Men’s Tennis @ Oklahoma State; Stillwater, OK; 6 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 20 Softball vs. Oregon; Waco, TX; 2 p.m.

Softball vs. Baylor; Waco, TX; 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 21 Softball vs. North Texas; Waco, TX;

11:45 a.m.

Women’s Basketball vs. UConn;

Reynolds Center; 2 p.m.

Women’s Tennis vs. Oklahoma State; Case Center; 1 p.m.

Track @ Arkansas Last Chance; Fayetteville, AR; All Day

Sunday, Feb. 22 Men’s Basketball vs. Temple; Reynolds

Center; 5 p.m.

Women’s Tennis vs. Stephen F Austin;

Case Center; 10 a.m.

Women’s Tennis vs. Oral Roberts; Case Center; 2:30 p.m.

Men’s Tennis @ Texas A&M; College Station, TX; 1 p.m.

Women’s Golf @ Wisconsin Westbrook Invitational; Peoria, AZ; All Day Men’s Golf @ Puerto Rico Classic; San Juan, Puerto Rico; All Day

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An interview with the new face of Tulsa football, Head Coach Philip Montgomery Philip Montgomery assumed the head coaching position at the University of Tulsa on Dec. 11, 2014, following the firing of Coach Bill Blankenship. Previously, Montgomery had been offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach under Coach Art Briles, at Stephenville High School (Texas), the University of Houston and Baylor University. Montgomery has aided in the careers of quarterbacks such as Kevin Kolb, Heisman winner Robert Griffin III and Bryce Petty. Sports Writer Wade Crawford sat down and had a chat with Coach Montgomery.

The Collegian: Why Tulsa? Why do you think this was the right fit?

Philip Montgomery: I love the tradition of the program.

It’s a place where I felt like you could come here and win.

With my family, the city itself felt like a great fit for them.

Those were my two biggest factors; I also liked the private university. It’s a small campus, and I really like that niche, the family atmosphere you get here.

TC: What did Coach Art Briles have to say about your move? Is there any advice he gave you on your first head coaching job?

PM: Coach Briles was very supportive. I’ve been with him for such a long time, and he had been such a great mentor to me, and I’ve tried to learn as much as I can from him.

It was special, the way he helped me and guided me through this process, he thought it was a great opportunity.

TC: How has the welcoming been from the Tulsa community, such as alumni and other coaches on staff?

PM: It’s been great. The city itself has been wonderful— the people here are down-to-earth, friendly people that will do anything for you.

You can double that when you start talking about the University in itself, from Stead all the way down. Everybody has bent over backwards for us and welcomed us with open arms.

As I meet the local high school coaches, there’s so many alums that are out there, a bunch of those guys are excited and the energy has been phenomenal.

TC: Besides the fact that this is your first head coaching job, what are some differences between TU and the other places you’ve been?

PM: Tulsa’s smaller and has a little bit more tight-knit community. Overall, I think anywhere you go, you have hurdles you have to climb.

For us, it’s getting back on track here, getting to our winning ways, getting the alumni and lettermen involved, but especially getting the city and the student body involved.

Whatever we can do to make this a unique setting and a difficult place for teams to come in here and play.

TC: What immediate challenges do you see for this team moving forward into next year?

PM: Until we get into spring football and fall camp, it’s tough to tell. Our guys have been working their tails off.

There’s some need, as I’ve looked at our roster, that we’ve hopefully tried to address in our recruiting class.

From a depth standpoint, not having the guys we needed all the way through it. When you get in a situation where

one guy goes down, that next guy that needs to step up—is he ready, or do you even have that guy? That’s when you need to start moving around players and changing some spots. Hopefully we’ve addressed those things, but the team is young.

TC: How has the team welcomed you to TU? PM: They’ve been great. They’re excited, they’ve brought a ton of energy, they’re really determined. They’ve really been working hard out there. We keep pushing buttons, grinding them, getting them to where we really want them. Those guys have stepped up and accepted the challenge.

TC: You’ve had the great opportunity to work with many outstanding quarterbacks, such as Bryce Petty and Robert Griffin III. What do you think of the quarterbacks here at TU? Do you think you’ll be able to develop them like you have those other great quarterbacks?

PM: A lot of these guys on campus and the guys we’re bringing in all have talent. They have different strengths and

cial teams. All those guys have to be in the same boat, going in the same direction. I have complete faith in our defensive staff and what we bring to the table.

We’ve got a good mixture of experience and youth that brings a lot of energy. I’m not concerned about that; my job is to make sure that when we step on the field, we play with the passion that you need to win.

TC: How do you think you’ll be able to use your relationship with Texas high school coaches to improve recruiting?

PM: I was one of those Texas high school coaches. I know their struggles, and they know mine, and there’s a working relationship there.

They know I’ve got their back on some things. Being able to say “that coach knows me,” and knowing the type of person I and my staff am, I think that’ll help with recruiting going forward.

TC: What kind of off-the-field philosophies did Coach Briles have at Baylor? What of those will you bring here to TU?

weaknesses. We have to make sure we’re developing them as a complete person. We have to use their strengths. I have great hopes for all of them.

Like I said, we have to get out on the field, see where it all falls, but I’m excited about what they can bring.

TC: Is there anybody you’d like to mention that’s really rising to the new challenge?

PM: [Keyarris] Garrett’s doing a great job, Derrick Alexander’s doing a great job, those seniors have really bought in to what we’re doing.

There’s a bunch of guys trying to get to know us; we’re trying to get to know them. But as a team, it’s just been, “Coach, whatever we have to do to win,” so I think they’ve really bought in.

TC: There’s been some major struggles on defense this past year for TU. Especially now that you have to worry about the other side of the ball, how do you think you’ll be able to face those struggles?

PM: On that question, to be honest, we’re gonna win or lose as a team. It’s not going to be offense, defense or spe-

PM: Coach didn’t have a ton of rules. We had some simple rules that were laid out. As you get to college, it’s part of your maturation process.

We’re going to treat you like men, as long as you’ll act like a man. They know they’re accountable for what they do on and off the field, but they also understand that it’s not always going to be roses.

There’s going to be some bumps in the road, and to adapt to and learn how to handle those is key. Also, to find something in your day to compete at-life’s about competition, not just on the field but off it, too. He’s always stressed those things, and we stress them here.

TC: Is there anything else you want to say?

PM: I’m excited about the opportunity. I’m excited about the way our guys have responded. I can’t wait until spring football, to get out on the field with them, and really putting them through the drills. Knowing we have a lot of ground to cover. Those guys are ready to get out there and get winning again.

“I’m excited about the opportunity. I’m excited about the way our guys have responded. I can’t wait until spring football, to get out on the field with them, and really putting them through the drills.”

16 February 2015

The State-Run Media

the

State-Run media Still more reliable than Brian Williams.

“I misremembered being present at the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot” Disgraced NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams also embellished his involvement in the Tulsa Race Riot.

Brian Williams Very Sorry

Graphic by Eli Brinkman

Last week, when honoring the men and women who had to endure the horrors of the Tulsa Race Riots, I made a mistake in recalling the events of 94 years ago. It did not take long to hear from the men and women in Greenwood who were also experiencing the horrors of that time.

I want to apologize that I recalled being beaten and having my home burnt down when, in fact, I wasn’t even there at all. In my last apology, I stated that I was actually in a nearby district of Tulsa watching the events unfold. That was also false.

This was a bungled attempt by

me to shed some light on the horrors of the Tulsa Race Riots and honor the innovative men and women in Greenwood who created the Black Wall Street, only to have it taken away in an event that has been mostly scourged from history. I hope they know they have my greatest respect.

During the events, I was actually just north of Tulsa in a cabin waiting out the ... nope, actually no. I wasn’t there at all. Hell, I hadn’t been born yet. I didn’t even know where Tulsa was until a few weeks ago when my new assistant told me about the Giant Praying Hands at Oral Roberts University.

I also would like to apologize for the story of myself rapelling off those praying hands to escape giant robot fire during the alien invasion. That also never happened.

My niece sent me those photoshopped pictures, and I guess I just believed I was there. Crazy right?

Ahh journalism.

An artist’s depiction of Brian Williams at the Race Riot. Or rather a depiction of what Mr. Williams thinks it would have looked like if he had been at the Riot, which he was not.

Sci-Fi fan fails physics Mal Jayne, a freshman and science-fiction fan, failed to realize that watching reruns of Dr. Who and hoping for the best does not count as studying for tests.

Adam Lux Trekkie

Sci-fi fan Mal Jayne was surprised last semester after continuously receiving poor grades in his Physics I course.

Jayne, who picked up the syllabus on the first day of class and didn’t go to class again until the first test, felt confident in his ability to do well. He had read everything: from H.G. Wells to Orson Scott Card. He watched all the Star Treks, even Deep Space Nine! Two weeks into classes his friend asked him why he never attended. Jayne replied,“Physics is super easy.

Don’t worry, I’ll ace all the tests.”

However, when the first test rolled around and Jayne showed

up to class for a second time, things didn’t quite turn out that way.

He was late because he couldn’t decide if he should bring his calculator, but then thought to himself “Nah I can do it all mentally.” The test was, according to witnesses, over something called “constant acceleration.” Jayne didn’t know what that meant, but he “kept seeing this variable t so he assumed it had to do with time travel”. He stated that he was confident working the “New age Whovian Mechanics” problems but had some trouble remembering the “more classical Well’s spinning disk equation.” Overall he was confident in his performance on the test.

He was surprised a week later when he received an F on the test.

Confused, Jayne decided that he would actually spend some time studying for the next test.

The night before test number two Jayne spent an hour on

Wikipedia reading about various physics related topics. He walked into the classroom the next morning with only 5 minutes left in the test period. Jayne wrote “Everything is relative” on the top of his test and turned it in. His professor hunted him down two weeks later and handed him his test back with a big red C on it. This, in fact, wasn’t his grade.

His professor advised him that he couldn’t pass the class and that Jayne should work on a way to keep the F from going into his GPA. Jayne stated that he was going to take action to remove the bad grade from his GPA but apparently found a sticky note on his desk from his future self claiming that he would somehow actually pass the class. Jayne decided to stick with the class despite it being mathematically impossible for him to pass. Also because he was apparently predestined to get an A he still did not attend any lectures.

Announcement: Department of Quality Assurance The University of Tulsa has created a new department to manage the use of free speech and other fundamental rights on behalf of students.

Bryan Marks

Angry, Angry Man In response to recent events, The university will be opening a new department focused on maintaining universal satisfaction among students.

In order to increase morale and decrease stress, the office will handle the processing of public and private information made available by students in all media except the verbal kind.

This will remove the responsibility of expression from students, allowing them to focus on schoolwork without worrying

about affecting the quality of life of their peers.

The program also aims to reduce the hassle and stress of free interaction, protecting the student from their own words as well as the potentially dangerous words of others.

Students of the university will be required to obtain department approval before exposing their thoughts to the outside world.

Failure to submit thoughts to the bureau will result in appropriate reprimand.

In addition, any association with those who refuse to comply will be met with automatic suspension. Plans to introduce premade social media updates, text templates, and university approved “Happy Talk” have also been initiated.

Remember, our goal is to keep your experience at the University of Tulsa golden.

New utulsa.edu draws criticism from smug sophomore TU student Gordon Aoyama is convinced that he could do better than professional web designers.

Caitlin Woods

Uses Internet Explorer

Graphic by Sam Beckmann and Elias Brinkman

Aoyama’s website, for which he received a B-. This is the only page. Note the poorly chosen font, as well as all the other bad stuff.

The new Utulsa website has raised considerable controversy since launching on February 2.

Critics have taken note of how, amongst issues of navigability and design, the site crashed within 45 minutes of its launch. Among these critics is a young man named Gordon Aoyama, a business and accounting major who took a web design class his freshman year and claims he could design a better site.

As soon as he got the email about the new website, Aoyama said he knew it was going to be terrible. “I took Intro to Web Design,” says Aoyama, “so I’ve got a pretty good eye for this kind of thing, and I just knew it was going to be terrible.”

The list of issues he has with the

new site is seemingly endless and ranges from font family and color scheme to the width of margins and navigable scroll-down menus.

“The old website had its problems,” says Aoyama. “But... 16 point font? Are you kidding me?”

To illustrate his point, Aoyama opened up the “Inspect Element” window on one of the new site’s buttons, only to begin sweating when he saw that everything wasn’t written using HTML 2.

In an obvious attempt to reestablish his credibility, Aoyama brought up the issue of the site’s navigability. “I had the placement of all the old categories memorized,” he complained. “But now that they’re all in one convenient place? And the menu scrolls down? Don’t even get me started.”

Aoyama continued to point out minute issues with the website’s design until we had to cut him off, saying we “really had to run” and “it’s been nice talking,” but really we just wanted an excuse to get out of there since he obviously had no idea what he was talking about.

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Kendall-Whittier students take part in photo scavenger hunt A student participates in the photo scavenger hunt put on by TU’s Photo Club.

Objects that needed to be found and photographed included “something bumpy, George Washington (and) a group of stars,” according to graphic design major Elias Brinkman.

Elias Brinkman / Collegian

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Mardi Gras Bash

Presents THE MEDICINE WHEEL AWARD Recognizing Meritorious Community Service

February 17, 2015

6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

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Come to our exciting

Mardi Gras Bash for free food, games, raffle prizes, activities and more!

Nominations for faculty, students, staff and organizations requested.

Nomination Deadline is March 13, 2015 Nomination forms available throughout campus or by calling 918-631-3535 or stop by the True Blue Neighbor Volunteer Center in Sharp Chapel, room 2209

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Please see the housing website for additional information on roommate options and requirements.

ROOMMATE EVENTS: Pat Case Dining Center Garage, Thursday, February 19, 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 1, 7 p.m. FREE PIZZA

Promotions Each student who completes a license and makes a selection will qualify for that day’s drawing and every drawing thereafter.

(Limit one daily prize per person.)

Feb. 16 – March 4: $25 Target Gift Cards given away each day.

Win an iPad Mini! One iPad Mini winner will be drawn March 5.

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