Norman Music Festival’s growth from humble beginnings to two-day spectacular suggests possibility for further expansion, event organizers sayMATT CARNEYDaily Staff Writer
Who would have thought that a man doing calisthenics in his un-derwear would have contributed to a $2.5 million boost in Norman’s
economy? Norman Music Festival fundraising chairman Jonathan Fowler says it’s true.
President of the Norman Arts Council Board of Directors, Fowler served as the main stage manager at NMF last year when Kevin Barnes,
the frisky frontman for headliners Of Montreal, resorted to unique measures to pump his band up for the big show.
“My wife and I were backstage waiting on them to show up,” said Fowler, the star-struck music fan. “Kevin Barnes walks up in regular street clothes and proceeds to
strip down to nothing but tighty whities ... [the band] get into a circle, and, without warning, they broke into a sprint and the music starts as the first foot hits the stage. It’s something I’ll never forget.”
Fowler, who’s Norman-born and Norman-bred, is armed with more than just bizarre stories about rock-band weirdos and festival-going hippies. He’s got hard facts and good intentions. Last year’s economic impact survey of city businesses substantiates his $2.5 million claim, a statistic he
and the rest of the festival planners on the Arts Council are committed to increase for this year’s festival and into the future, at the behest of the downtown store owners, whose street the council shuts off to set up outdoor stages.
“We’re guests of the downtowners. It’s their street and they allow us to do this,” Fowler said. “The grand goal that all the board members have is that it keeps getting bigger and bigger, moving forward.”
That’s not bad for a big, public party the Arts Council initially thought they were getting away with.
“If you’d have asked any of us that first year if we’d thought we’d be able to do it again, we would’ve told you no and laughed,” Fowler said.
Now, the council’s long-term vision models itself after top-notch spring and early summer festivals South by Southwest and Coachella with the possibility of growing into a four-day sched-
ule or a quarterly teaser format, said Stephen Koranda, Norman Convention and Visitors Bureau executive director.
“The possibilities are endless,” Koranda said.One thing’s for certain: The Norman Music Festival has been, is and always will be a community-
hosted event dedicated to building unity by showcasing music, with plenty of good-natured fun thrown in along the way.
SHOWCASING MUSICIt would be easy to write Norman off as a dull void for music in the Dark Ages before the
music festival, but Fowler claims that’s not the case. The lifelong resident of the city and OU alumnus said Norman has never lacked qual-
ity music or venues, though it has suffered a general lack of cohesion between interested parties.
“The only thing I’d say that’s really different about what things were like before the festival is the cooperation,” he said. “Everybody’s done a really good job realizing that there’s a way to
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Greg Mortenson spoke to Wednesday about his philanthropic endeavors TROY WEATHERFORDDaily Staff Writer
When best-selling author Greg Mortenson decided to build his first school for an under-privileged region in 1993, he was recovering from climbing the second-highest mountain in the world.
He didn’t make it to the top of the mountain, but he has since succeeded in other ways.
During his recovery, Mortenson met a group of children using sticks to write in the sand. He promised to help them build a school and then followed through on that promise.
He returned to the U.S. and began sending letters to celebrities asking for donations. In the first year, he spent $126 on postage and re-ceived only a $100 donation check from Tom Brokaw.
He lived out of his car for a period of time, but in 1996, the first school was completed.
Since then, he has started or significantly supported more than 130 schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He also has authored two best-selling books about his work in the Middle East.
Mortenson said Gen. David Petraeus de-termined three lessons from his book, “Three Cups of Tea,” that should be applied to U.S. for-eign policy: listen more, use respect and build relationships.
Mortenson has influenced military men of all levels. In fact, “Three Cups of Tea” is re-quired reading for U.S. Special Forces deploy-ing to Afghanistan.
Speaking to a packed audience Wednesday
at Lloyd Noble Center, Mortenson said the title of his book is a metaphor for the long process of relationship building.
During the first cup you’re a stranger, the second cup you’re a friend and the third cup you’re family, Mortenson said.
Author’s promise becomes a lifelong devotion to service
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Greg Mortenson, author of New York Times best-seller “Three Cups of Tea,” speaks Wednesday evening in Lloyd Noble Center about raising awareness for issues across the world.
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Jacobson House to host exhibit of 89er Day from American Indian perspective, director saysAUDREY HARRISDaily Staff Writer
Today in 1889, settlers rushed to claim parts of Oklahoma in what is known as the Land Run of 1889. The term “Sooner” originated from this day — those who staked claims before the run began to get the best pieces of land first.
But the land was already inhabited by American Indians who were forced there from their original homes. To some, the day is an important one in Oklahoma’s history, but not one of celebration.
The Moore-Lindsey Historical House and Museum and the Jacobson House Native Art Center will host an exhibit called “180 for 89er’s Day Perspective.” The Moore-Lindsey home will feature an exhibit of the Land Run participants, while the Jacobson House will feature the American Indian land lost through artwork, stories and photographs, said Kricket Rhoads-Connywerdy, Jacobson House executive director. The Jacobson House is in the process of setting up the exhibit today, she said. Both will open Friday.
Connywerdy said there will be a human perspective through the artwork and stories, including some person accounts from American Indians.
“I think Native American people might come to the Jacobson House first, and I think the people that celebrate 89ers Day, as opposed to mourn it, would go to the Moore-Lindsey home. Then they can come here, and our constitu-ents can go there and see both sides of the story,” she said.
Connywerdy said she thinks the presentation will be tasteful, but has always wondered why 89ers Day is con-sidered a celebration.
“It was a real hard time for the pioneers, but it was hard here too,” she said. “There’s a difference between history
Groups to honor otherLand Run perspective
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OKL AHOMA CIT Y—Former President Bil l C l i n t o n r e t u r n e d t o O k l a h o m a C i t y o n Wednesday to remember the 15th anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
Clinton said in the 15 years since the terror-ist attack in downtown Oklahoma City, he has seen many examples of courage that were first put in place when the people of Oklahoma responded to the explosion.
“ Ma n y p a r t s o f t h e world have been affected by your courage,” Clinton said. “Courage that began here and echoed out into the rest of the world like a ripple in a pond.”
Clinton shared mo-ments in his presidency and times in his global initiatives in which he said he could clearly see the lessons the world learned April 19, 1995.
“I met a man in a park in Haiti painting pictures outside of the airport right after the earthquake,” Clinton said. “He said he had lost his wife and all of his children, and that he came out there because that was his way of coping ... This man is your brother in spirit.”
The world learned les-sons on how to cope with tragedy because of what happened how Oklahoma responded to the bomb-ing of the federal building, Clinton said.
Before Clinton arrived at the dinner at the Oklahoma Western Heritage Museum, he made an unscheduled stop at the Oklahoma City National Memorial to lay a bouquet of flow-ers on the memorial chair of Alan Whicher, a secret service agent who pro-tected Clinton in the first part of his presidency and then was transferred to the Murrah Building and died in the explosion.
“From that day on, I have never called anyone who works for the federal government a federal bu-reaucrat,” Clinton said. “He moved out here because he believed Oklahoma is one of the finest places to live in this country and he was absolutely right.”
Clinton said America must remain strong in its efforts to fight terrorism.
“I remember giving a speech to some college students telling them that terrorism for them will be like the nuclear bomb was to my generation, but as we’ve seen from other at-tacks that have come that isn’t so. I wish I was wrong,” he said.
Clinton said America must fight terrorism togeth-er without partisanship.
“We can’t kill and jail every terrorist this country can face,” Clinton said. “We can’t fight every enemy combatant, but we can work together to reduce future attacks.”
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get us noticed in this town by coalescing ev-eryone’s efforts into a solid group. The genres of music change, styles change, but there’s always been a music scene here.”
Festival public relations chairwoman Holly Jones said the council’s intent to ex-pand has been supported by the musicians, 360 of whom applied when it announced an open call for bands earlier in the spring.
“After very difficult deliberation, 80 bands from this call were chosen to join the 2010 festival,” Jones said. “Most of all, we just want to make sure any expansion is comfortable and sustainable into the future.”
Tommy McKenzie, English sophomore, plays lead guitar for The Boom Bang, a local surf-rock band playing NMF this year. McKenzie said he and his bandmates are ex-cited to exhibit their band to a much larger Norman community that doesn’t often get to hear music in their genre and style.
“Our contribution is to grow the ever-growing garage scene in Oklahoma,” he said of his band’s role in the festival.
Any city festival strong enough to draw an internationally appreciated band like Dirty Projectors to headline alongside home-state hero Leon Russell is progressing in the right direction, while still cherishing its history and identity.
BUILDING COMMUNITYIt’s the role the festival plays: Drawing
visitors from out of town and connecting the Arts Council with businesses, musicians with fans and campus organizations with the larger community.
Well-tailored to suit this role, the festival is free of charge, essentially a big-billing party run by a nonprofit organization.
It’s not cheap organizing 200 acts to play this year’s 15 venues, Fowler said, but Wimgo.com, Fowler Auto Group (Fowler’s family business), local banks and hard work by the Arts Council foot the majority of the bill, which also is paid for by private dona-tions between $25 and as much as $500.
Fowler said the council’s connections
within the community help to alleviate the cost of the festival and that without the most important donations of time and effort, NMF would be impossible.
“We don’t pay anything for advertising be-cause everybody donates that to be a spon-sor,” he said.
Fowler also points out that local artists and festival supporters produce most of the advertising for the festival, whether it’s by word of mouth, social networking or by cre-ative design.
It’s even possible for students to contrib-ute as festival volunteers, spreading the word and even simply by attending. Community building is easy and beneficial when such a strong mechanism as NMF exists to conduct it.
JUST PLAIN FUNThe second edition of NMF generated an
atmosphere about Main Street not unlike game day during football season, optimis-tic with hopes for a national championship berth. Like last year, Main Street’s regular traffic will be replaced by foot traffic as an es-timated 100,000 people will take in the sights
and sounds of Norman’s downtown.Aside from music aplenty, this year’s fes-
tival boasts stages for children, comedy and spoken word, along with activity booths of-fering science experiments, temporary tat-toos and arts and crafts. Local vendors will be out in force as well, hawking food and retail, and the popular Dustbowl Arts Market will set up right in the middle of all the action.
If that isn’t enough to draw you in for even just a few hours Sunday afternoon, then you may just be the least-interested person in all of Oklahoma.
So that’s it. Norman Music Festival may have initiated as a one-and-done fluke, but the community has spoken and its wishes are clear. We like it, we love it, we want some more of it, and we want it to expand into the future, wishes shared by its propagators on the Arts Council.
Attend, support and otherwise engage this event that Norman residents plan and host free of charge for their fellow citizens in an earnest effort to promote our city and com-munity by the showcasing of music.
Otherwise, we’ll send a naked Kevin Barnes to get you off your seat and dancing.
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“It doesn’t just mean go around the world and drink a lot of tea ... We need to build relationships,” Mortenson said.
Mortenson stressed the importance of education, particularly that of girls living in rural, poverty-stricken regions of the world.
He said there are 118 million children who should be in school but aren’t, and 78 million are girls.
“If you educate a boy you educate an individual. If you educate a girl you edu-cate a community,” Mortenson said, quoting an African proverb.
Afghanistan in the last 10 years has seen the greatest educational increase of anywhere in history. In 2000, 800,000 children were in school in Afghanistan, and in 2010 there were 8.5 million, Mortenson said.
He said women are instrumental in the increase.
“The driving force behind the tenac-ity to get an education is essentially the mothers,” he said.
The solution to poverty begins in the community, Mortenson said.
“We can never solve poverty from a think tank in Washington, D.C.,” he said
The state of Oklahoma raised more than $17,000 for Pennies for Peace a nonprofit organization started by Mortenson. He said this is the most money raised by any state for his organization.
“Of all the states, Oklahoma is No. 1,” Mortenson said.
Pennies may not seem like much, but there are enough pennies in the world to eradicate global illiteracy, Mortenson said.
He concluded his speech with a quote from Martin Luther King Jr.: “Even if the world ends tomorrow, I will plant my seed today.”
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Oliver Plumley, American Indian Student Association president, said he thinks there needs to be more education about the Land Run. He said it’s a touchy subject because the Land Run is part of state history, but educators also need to tell the truth about the American Indians who were already here.
“I wouldn’t mind having something passed in the Oklahoma gov-ernment for more education about the Land Run,” said Plumley, Native American studies junior.
Wes Wilson, Society of Native American Gentlemen member, said some people have strong opinions about what happened, but he also thinks people need to be more educated about what actually happened.
“There’s always two tales to every story,” said Wilson, sociology se-nior. “Everyone should be educated so that they can judge and make their own decisions.”
Connywerdy echoed Wilson’s thoughts.“I have two grandmas, one is Indian and one isn’t, you know? You
have two stories there,” Connywerdy said.
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Free Movie: “Leap Year” | free screening at 4, 7, 10 p.m. & 12:30 a.m. in Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Presented by the Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council Film Series. ALWAYS SOMETHING at the union!
Crawfi sh Boil | 6 p.m. in the union courtyard. It’s our second annual Crawfi sh Boil and it’s bigger, better and crawfi shier than the last! Come and enjoy the food and fun for only $3, but don’t be late because it goes fast. Presented by the Union Programming Board, www.ou.edu/upb.
Art After Hours: Pablita Verlarde, “I Want the Earth to Remember Me Through My Work” | 6 p.m. in the Dee Dee and Jon R. Stuart Classroom, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
Sutton Concert Series: Prodigal Son Ballet in Three Scenes | 3 p.m. in the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center Hall. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students, faculty/staff and senior adults. Please call the Box Offi ce at (405) 325-4101 for more information.
Sunday, April 25Women’s Tennis: OU vs. Iowa State | 11 a.m. at the Headington Family Tennis Center. Admission is free for all fans.Sooner Softball: OU vs. Texas | 2 p.m. at the OU Softball Complex. Admission is free with a valid OU student ID.
Sutton Concert Series: President’s Concert | 3 p.m. in the Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall, Catlett Music Center. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students, faculty/staff and senior adults. Please call the Box Offi ce at (405) 325-4101 for more information.
Rent | 7 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium. Presented by the Boheme Student Theatre Troupe in support of Oklahoma RAIN foundation. Rated R, for more information, please email [email protected].
Revisiting the New Deal: Government Patronage and the Fine Arts | new exhibition on display now through May 9 in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Visit www.ou.edu/fjjma for more information.
Intramural Update | Homerun derby today at Reaves Park Softball Fields. Co-ed softball championship today, time time and date subject to weather. Spring golf entries, individual stroke play at Westwood Municipal Golf Course. For more information visit recservices.ou.edu or call Jonathan Dewhirst, (405) 325-3053.
OU Cousins BBQ | 5:30 at the Whinery Ranch. President David L. Boren & First Lady Molly Shi Boren & Professor and Mrs. Leo Whinery cordially invite you to the annual OU Cousins BBQ. The event is free and open to all OU students, transportation will be provided at the Northeast Corner of the Lloyd Noble Center. Buses will leave promptly at 5:15 p.m. Presented by Student Life, Coca Cola and Housing and Food Services.
Student Film Festival | 8 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium. Come and watch a bevy of fi lms created by OU students and see which ones take home a prize! Presented by the Campus Activities Council and the Union Programming Board.
Jazz Lounge | 8 p.m. in Beaird Lounge, featuring the Ivan Pena Trio and the Anthony Nagid Quartet. Free music and free food. Presented by the Union Programming Board.
Sutton Concert Series: Wind Symphony | 3 p.m. in the Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall, Catlett Music Center. Free Admission. Please call the Box Offi ce at (405) 325-4101 for more information.
Women’s Tennis: OU vs. Nebraska | 2:30 p.m. at the Headington Family Tennis Center. Admission is free for all fans.
PRESIDENT’S FESTIVAL OF THE ARTSOU Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts presents the President’s Festival of the Arts with special performances by the OU Schools of Dance, Drama and Music. Schools of Drama and Music Opera Theatre perform at 8 p.m. in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center.
CAC FILM FESTIVALCampus Activities Council will host a Student Film Festival at 8 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium.
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PRESIDENT’S FESTIVAL OF THE ARTSSchools of Dance and Music will perform at 8 p.m. in Reynolds Performing Arts Center.
POLICE REPORTS
The following is a list of arrests and cita-tions, not convictions. The information given is compiled from the Norman and OU Police Departments. At times, the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Department and the Oklahoma City FBI will contrib-ute to these reports. All those listed are innocent until proven guilty. AGGRAVATED DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCEJarrod R. Pryor, 27, Fort Road, Tuesday COUNTY WARRANTBurton Gregory Stover, 34, North Porter Avenue, Monday WARRANTJames Earl Shockley, 28, 1400 High Meadows Drive, Tuesday MUNICIPAL WARRANTCameron Brent Chesney, 29, 201 W. Gray St., TuesdayChristi Angela Lamb, 31, 201 W. Gray St., TuesdayTimothy Wayne Lewis, 47, 201 W. Gray St., TuesdayJames Emmitt McCraw, 35, 536 Macy St., Monday, also possession of con-trolled dangerous substances DRIVING UNDER SUSPENSIONJonesia Marie Carman, 35, Boyd Street and Elm Avenue, Friday PUBLIC INTOXICATIONErnest Edmund Belmore, 19, 1400 Asp
Ave., SaturdayAshle y Nicole Davis , 20, 2900 Chautauqua Ave., TuesdayAlvin Sonny John, 42, Dakota Street, Monday DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCEStephanie Angela Wallis, 29, West Lindsey Street, TuesdayAllen David Rickett, 35, 500 Elm Ave., SaturdayTaylor Barrett Hale, 26, 300 First St., SaturdayJeffery Marshall Sublett, 25, 300 W. Boyd St., SaturdayChristopher Rowan Burch, 19, 1500 Asp Ave., SaturdayCharisa Dawn Blandon, 33, Boyd Street and Elm Avenue, Sunday, also expired tagCiera Nicole Lilly, 21, Lindsey Street and Asp Avenue, Sunday, also possession of marijuana and possession of drug para-phernaliaCynthia Lynn Mansell, 50, 300 Boyd St., SundaySamuel Collier Chase, 22, Jenkins Street and Imhoff Road, MondayKendra L. Mcintyre-Moore, 22, 200 Boyd St., Tuesday POSSESSION OF MARIJUANABrandon Ross Fore, 19, North Peters Avenue, Tuesday DISTURBING THE PEACEChristopher Matteson Hart, 29, 102 W. Eufaula St., Monday
OU has surpassed its goal of $150 million in scholarships and is extending the Campaign for Scholarships for five more years, increasing the goal to $250 million, OU President David L. Boren an-nounced Wednesday.
The announcement was made at a special uni-versity convocation featuring Greg Mortenson, author of the book “Three Cups of Tea,” which de-scribes his work building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Boren said $157 million of gifts from 20,893 alum-ni and friends has allowed OU to triple its original
goal in less than five years.“In light of this success, we are raising our goal
to one quarter of $1 billion and extending the cam-paign for five more years,” Boren said. “I am deeply grateful to all of those who have helped our stu-dents and their families in these times of financial hardship.”
The success of the campaign has allowed OU to more than double its private scholarships in the last five years, Boren said.
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SCHOLARSHIP GOAL RAISED TO $250 MILLION
GREG MAUSDaily Staff Writer
The Tea Party movement is neither entirely a group of grassroots amateurs, nor is it a case of astroturfing, a University of Michigan professor said Wednesday night.
Lisa Disch, professor of political science and wom-en’s studies at the University of Michigan and author of “Hanna Arendt and the Limits of Philosophy” and “The Tyranny of the Two-Party System,” spoke at a public lecture at 7 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
Disch described the Tea Party as a network and an energy source, whose effects will depend on what taps into it and what it hooks up to.
She emphasized the diversity of the movement, saying it consists both of uneducated, recently un-employed groups as well as 1960s-era conservatives who believe that President Obama does not under-stand the needs and problems of people like them, and that he is taking the country in a direction they do not agree with for the benefit of people who are not like them.
“The thing that most unites tea partiers is that 62 percent of them say that they rely on Fox News for
most of their news,” Disch said.This is not the only point of unity, as according to
a New York Times poll she cited, 39 percent of those who said that they supported the Tea Party Movement would define themselves as “very conservative,” 54 percent and identified as Republican.
Disch also cited a Gallop poll which stated that 28 percent of Americans support the Tea Party movement, demonstrating that it is not a fringe phenomenon.
Disch claimed that the movement is not merely a puppet of the Republican Party.
“The Tea Partiers are generally portrayed as anti-Obama,” she said. “I think it’s very important to un-derstand that they are opposed to the Republican es-tablishment as well.”
Disch said the movement has connections to the political establishment through such organizations as FreedomWorks, Tea Party Express, Americans for Prosperity and Americans for Limited Government. It also demonstrated some connections to Glenn Beck’s 912 Project through the use of logos downloaded through his group’s networks used at some of their protests, she said.
“The Tea Party is an emergent political force that many different players—including themselves—are competing to control,” she said.
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Manifest Destiny is not always all it is cracked up to be. Today is 89er Day, a day marked to celebrate the 1889 Land Run that spurred the influx of
people who would soon make up our state. In elementary schools across the state, students participate in re-enactments and pre-
tend to stake their claim. This is a fond memory for some, but for others it is a yearly re-minder of what was lost.
The American Indian population in Oklahoma was not the victor on this day. As families crossed the state vying for land, the Americans Indians, who never asked to live in the terri-tory in the first place, saw their land being picked apart acre by acre.
For every action there is a reaction and what is advantageous to some is not advanta-geous to all. Most Oklahomans rarely think about the people who were affected by our gains, but this year we should remember the consequences.
Even today, we still can see people being removed from their homes all across the world.
People in slums are routinely uprooted and moved from shack to shanty. Even in the Middle East, Palestinians are still looking for a place to call their own.
This is not to say there is no reason to celebrate. We would not be the state we are today without the Land Run. We would not be the Oklahoma Sooners without those who fudged the lines and crossed the border early.
So as you celebrate, recognize the Land Run’s impact. It meant a new life for many, but for some it was a new life for which they never asked.
The future, as it has been pointed out by numerous oth-ers, will not look very much like the present for one impor-tant reason: We are running out of energy.
The military has been worrying aloud recently that we may reach peak oil as soon as 2015. Coal is not sus-tainable; nuclear power has a significant number of problems associated with waste disposal. In short, barring some miraculous advance in energy tech-nology, we are unlikely to have the sort of unfet-tered access to energy that we enjoy now.
As George Monbiot has so eloquently pointed out, “the battle lines are drawn between expanders and restrainers.” Some of us realize that we must change, and change now. Some of us, to further ap-propriate Monbiot, are still clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged and flailing wildly.
And restraint is difficult. It is not only difficult because of the American culture of indulgence, but because we do not have useful information about how many of our activities impact the energy, balance of the world in real ways. Which is more energy-intensive: Using your com-puter for an hour, using a desk lamp for three, or using a space heater for 15 minutes? You can guess — but you’re not sure.
If you knew the wattage of all three devices, you could calculate the energy usage, but that is exactly the sort of opacity that people are reluctant to deal with.
Enter the smartgrid.
Smartgrids are the first real update to electric grid tech-nology in a very long time, and Norman is the first com-munity in Oklahoma to have its electric meters upgraded to smart meters. Smartgrids allow, among other things, for
energy usage to be dynamically and continuously monitored. This means that it is now possible to have real-time, easily accessible information about how much electricity we are using. Without this sort of information, it is difficult to impossible to make smart choices about energy use. It is a vic-tory for the restrainers.
It also is a victory for the electric companies. Dynamic monitoring of electricity also allows for dynamic pricing. This means that energy will be more expensive during the middle of the day — when people use it most.
For people living on a fixed income, this could be a real problem. Ditto for those living paycheck-to-pay-check. It is not always possible to turn off the air condition-ing in the middle of the day during a triple-digit Oklahoma summer.
There also are significant security concerns associated with smart meters, a part of the smartgrid system, are net-worked devices.
Virtually every networked device has some sort of vulner-ability that allows it to be remotely compromised. A num-ber of people and organizations, among them the Gartner Group and InGuardians, a network security research firm,
have been pointing out that smart meters belong to this cat-egory of devices.
If compromised, they would allow an attacker to theo-retically turn off power to whatever the smart meter is at-tached to.
If that happened, it could be a hassle for individuals, a real problem for businesses and a critical issue for hospi-tals, the defense sector and any operation that requires a reliable supply of power. It is well-known that our infra-structure — power lines, oil pipes, interstates — is poorly guarded against possible attacks, terroristic or otherwise. Given Google’s recent experience with China, is it really a good idea to make our power infrastructure potentially hackable?
In addition to getting used to the new battle lines, we also must get used to the idea that there are no longer any easy decisions. Maybe there never were — but there are certainly none now.
On the balance, smartgrids are an important part of the constellation of changes we will have to make into the com-ing century.
The problems associated with them are not insurmount-able, and while they will not solve our problems in and of themselves, they are a necessary part of the puzzle.
Without useful and reliable information about power usage, effective and smart consumption reduction is much more difficult.
Chris Dearner is an English and linguistics senior.
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Editor’s Note: Brett Stidham is the chairman for the Undergraduate Student Congress.
Life on campus is often hectic enough with classes to attend, papers to write and exams to pass. Then comes the added responsibility of enjoying extracurricular activities, spending time with friends and finding time to relax before waking up to do it all over again.
Add on top of all of these duties, reading up on your student govern-ment each day in the newspaper.
Most recently you have seen page after page of UOSA presiden-tial election coverage with details that over time may have become tangled as you try to make sense of it all.
A process that began for candidates in February concluded one week ago with an opinion from the UOSA Superior Court.
In its opinion, the Court outlined its rea-soning for declaring that a runoff take place between the Ally and Zac campaign and the Franz and Cory campaign.
The election system used by UOSA is the Meeks System, which utilizes a ranking mechanism to automatically conduct run-offs in elections with more than two candi-dates for a particular office.
Four pairs took part in this election cycle, causing the ranking function to be utilized.
Following the first round of voting, which
used all first place votes for candidates, the team with the least number of votes was eliminated.
This left three candidates to take part in two “instant electronic runoffs.”
The UOSA Constitution mandates that only one runoff may take place.
In addition, the Court said voters may have become confused by the Meeks system, and thus mandated that a run-off election take place be-tween Ally and Zac and Franz and Cory, effectively invalidating the runoffs that had already occurred.
Preparing for a possible runoff, Student Congress and Graduate Student Senate passed legislation that set election dates for Monday and Tuesday.
Your commitment to the process of elect-ing leaders that will serve all students on this campus was evident when, in record numbers, you turned out to vote March 30 and 31.
I encourage you to vote this Monday and Tuesday at elections.ou.edu for your next president and vice president.
Brett Stidham is a human resources management junior.
Another successful Big Event has come and gone through campus. Now most students on campus are kicking back and stay-ing busy with their lives again.
Everyone feels satis-fied for giving away one Saturday from the entire year for community ser-vice, but what they don’t
realize is that the community needs help more than just one Saturday per year.
It is very easy for students to get busy with academic, greek and social commitments, but we need to make time for more commu-nity service. The reason that this is crucial now, than ever before, is due to the current economic conditions as well as the rising un-employment rates in Norman.
A 2007 point-in-time homeless count showed that there were 1,455 people home-less in Cleveland County.
This number has probably increased now, as there are more people unable to ful-fill their basic needs due to severe financial problems.
These are fellow human beings who need a little help to get on their feet. Organizations created to help them are struggling from the sheer volume of people that require the use of their facilities. The various organizations are kept busy arranging for accommodations that they are in dire need of help in the little manual jobs such as cleaning, painting, and organizing.
These places could really use our help. If most students managed their time a little bet-ter, we can create a force of volunteers, like The Big Event but one that meets weekly.
G re e k h o u s e s c a n o p e n u p t h e i r
community service to the campus to get more involvement. The more people that volunteer for a community project, the faster it will get done. Year, after year, The Big Event proves the power in numbers.
The organizations around Norman un-derstand that most students are struggling financially themselves, so all they ask is for a little bit of time. Students’ don’t have to look very far for volunteering opportunities, as there are numerous available through stu-dent organizations on campus.
Summayah Anwar is a University College freshman.
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OU rebounds; improves to 34-10 on the season after winning both games in double header in WacoTOBI NEIDYDaily Staff Writer
The No.14 OU softball team relied on explosive hitting and strong pitching performances Wednesday night to sweep the two-game series against Baylor in Waco, Texas.
With a 6-1 win for freshman pitcher Keilani Ricketts during the first game, OU freshman pitcher Michelle Gascoigne held off the Bears to collect the 3-1 win during the second game of the evening. The Sooners improved to 34-10 overall for the season and 8-3 in Big 12 action.
The Sooner bats jumped to a quick 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning with an RBI single by freshman infielder Jessica Shults during the first game of the evening.
The single to left field by Shults scored freshman center fielder Brianna Turang who reached base earlier in the inning off of a single down the left field line.
The Sooners scored their second run in the top of the third inning after a fielding error by Baylor allowed junior outfielder Chana’e Jones to score after hitting a double to right field.
Jones advanced to third base with a single by senior second baseman Amber Flores. The run was scored while Flores attempted to steal second base but the throw was misfired.
Baylor would score its only run of the game in the bot-tom of the third inning after Bree Hanafin was hit by a pitch and Kayce Walker singled to shortstop to begin the inning.
A ground out to first base by Courtney Nieten allowed Hanafin to score from third base after advancing by a field-er’s choice.
Ricketts ended the first game with five strikeouts, one earned run and two hits through seven innings.
The Sooners tacked on four runs in the top of the fifth inning with back-to-back home runs by Shults and senior catcher Lindsey Vandever. Both teammates have now hit double-digit home runs with Shults leading the team with 13 and Vandever following behind with 10.
The home run by Shults scored Jones and Flores who reached base by a walk and a hit by pitch respectively to start the inning.
The tempo continued for the Sooners in the second game with, this time with starting pitcher Michelle Gascoigne. The freshman pitcher held the Bears to no runs through six com-plete innings before giving up an RBI double late in the bottom of the seventh.
The Sooners led off the second game by scoring in the top of the fourth inning off of an RBI single by Vandever. Flores walked and then advanced to third base on a fielding error by the Bears before finding home plate off of Vandever’s single through the left side.
Sophomore pinch runner Evan Sallis advanced to third base on the single after running for Shults who reached base off of a single up the middle. Sallis scored later in the inning off of a wild pitch to put the Sooners up 2-0.
OU added an insurance run in the top of the sixth inning off of an RBI single through the
left side by junior pinch hitter Haley Anderson with the bases loaded. After Shults singled and Vandever was hit by a pitch, junior infielder Dani Dobbs reached
on a Baylor fielding error to load the bases. Anderson’s single through the left side scored Shults to put the Sooners up 3-0 over the Bears through six innings.
Baylor tried to rally in the bottom of the seventh off of a double by Kathy Shelton to score Nicole Welsey who reached base off of a single to start the inning.
Gascoigne closed the rally down by striking out Sydney Wilson with two runners left on base. Through seven innings pitched, Gascoigne struck out seven batters and allowed only one run on three hits.
The Sooners head north to take on the Nebraska Huskers this weekend in Lincoln, Neb. The first game begins at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 24, with a second game scheduled at noon Sunday.
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Kirsten Allen, sophomore pitcher, throws a ball during the game against Texas Tech on April 15 in the OU Softball Complex. The Sooners defeated Baylor 6-1 and 3-1 Wednesday night.
SOONERS SWEEP BAYLOR BEARS
WHAT’S NEXT
After sweeping Baylor, the Sooners will continue on to the second half of a four-game road trip.
OU VS. NEBRASKA
When: 2 p.m. Saturday
Where: Lincoln, Neb.
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6A Thursday, April 22, 2010
Draft day is finally here and, according to multiple sources, OU’s Sam Bradford is all but a lock to go to the St. Louis Rams as the No. 1 overall pick.
Two things certainly await the young quarterback: A fat paycheck (former Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford picked up a six-year, $72 million deal last season with $41.7 million guaranteed as the first overall pick by the Lions) and a losing environment, as the Rams have won just six games during the last three seasons.
Will Bradford be the answer to St. Louis’ dwindling franchise?Let me put it this way: Anything is better than Marc Bulger. And
if you combine Bradford with one of the NFL’s top running backs in Steven Jackson, the Rams could certainly be better than 1-15. They
have some young talent both on the defensive line and in their receiving corps, but who knows?
What I can tell you is that Bradford’s situation is one-in-a-million. Think about it.This time last season, Stafford was the consensus No. 1 overall pick. Stafford received
one of the best (ridiculous?) contracts of all time despite his questionable decision-making at Georgia. Still, his talent was unmatched by the rest of the quarterbacks who entered the draft.
But what about a highly touted, Heisman-winning talent like Bradford, who opted to stay one more season and not enter the draft?
Bradford’s draft placement was never quite known as he did not attend any work-outs or the NFL scouting combine last season. But stay with me here, as I’m about to make a few assumptions.
First, assume all the teams that took quarterbacks in last year’s draft were the only potential destinations for Bradford last season. Then, assume that Bradford would put up anywhere from a decent to an above-average performance at the combine and pre-draft workouts. This is not a big leap at all considering he was highly scouted and thought of before the combine last year and performed great this year.
Assuming those things, he would have gone one of three places: No. 1 to the Lions (in place of Stafford), No. 5 to the Jets (in place of Southern California’s Mark Sanchez) or No. 17 to the Buccaneers (in place of Kansas State graduate Josh Freeman).
To say that Bradford would have jumped Stafford is a tough argument to make. Not saying it couldn’t have happened, but it just seems these guys are so neck-and-neck that it’s hard to back up any one of the two.
However, I do think Bradford, a Heisman winner and experienced quarterback, would have jumped Sanchez. However, that isn’t even a sure thing. Freeman is an after-thought, as Bradford would have most likely been picked above the former Wildcat.
My point in saying all of this is this: Bradford might have been the first player taken in the draft, but he could have fallen to as low as the third quarterback taken at pick No. 17. This season, he looks to be the consensus first pick of the first round and will definitely be the first quarterback taken.
Bradford chose not to go to the NFL, got injured and sat out almost the entire season, and is now probably going to make more money than he would have last season and is almost guaranteed to be taken higher than he would have been.
That’s truly a one-of-a-kind circumstance. To decide against the NFL, come back to school and earn your degree while gaining same much needed weight and now look-ing at potentially the biggest rookie contract in history.
It doesn’t get much better than that.
Clark Foy is a journalism junior.
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Bradford has a strong arm even after the two shoulder injuries, and he can throw the ball where only the receiver can catch it. Bradford can make any throw at any part of the ! eld out of the shotgun, under snap, in the pocket or on the run. The only question is whether his surgically repaired shoulder can withstand NFL hits.
McCoy was the leader of OU’s defense. He ! lled the gaps up front in the running game and found ways to sack the quarterback in the face of double-teams. He received some criticism after having a poor showing during the bench press at the NFL Combine, but McCoy’s strength is only topped by his agility and quickness.
Even though Gresham didn’t play a snap in 2009, he’s entering tonight’s draft as the top tight end in the nation — and there’s good reason for it. He can do it all. He can catch, block, run crisp routes and be a weapon for any quarterback he’s paired with. His challenge is that tight ends are not historically drafted highly.
Williams was the victim of being a good offensive lineman on the Sooners’ poor, injured line in 2009. He had to move around and play just about every position on the line. His two best positions are left and right tackle. He played on the right side for most of his career and performed well, and was moved to the left side for his senior season. When he goes to the NFL a lot of teams will look at him to play back on the right side.
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Giving student filmmakers a chance to flex their artistic muscle, the annual Student Film Festival will begin at 8 to-night in Meacham Auditorium.
The festival is presented by the Campus Activities Council and the Union Programming Board.
Featuring 12 short-film projects by 11 OU students, the Student Film Festival will af-ford the filmmakers an opportunity to have their work seen by peers and judged by a faculty panel.
This judging will yield prizes including a $500 scholarship for first place and a $250 scholarship for second, said Greg Emde, CAC Film Series chair.
“We also have awards for crowd favorite and we have added a category for lead actor/actress, both of which are voted on by the crowd,” said Emde, microbiology sophomore. “And we’ll have a few door prizes to give away to attendees.”
The festival will feature a wide variety of film genres in-cluding comedy, documentary, drama, action, suspense and more, he said.
Two-time Student Film Festival participant Benjamin Poynter, film and video studies junior, said his entry, “Percival
Stalls is Dead,” is a comedy and rock mockumentary.Viewers may come away from Poynter’s film with an idea
of how insane the times are now, he said.“The main character, which I play, has time traveled from
the ’80s to the present in a rather over-the-top fashion, and he’s having a hard time adjusting,” Poynter said. “He has turned to drug addiction, and he just doesn’t know today’s
sexual boundaries.”Also featured in the festival is “Side Effects
May Include,” a documentary short by film and video studies senior BJ McDougal. The film explores the circumstances surround-ing the drug-related death of McDougal’s high school friend Clayton Duncan, McDougal said.
“[Clayton] died April 21, 2007—so al-most three years ago,” McDougal said of his
film’s subject. “I think a lot of people have dealt with some-one who has struggled with some kind of addiction and that they maybe didn’t know how to address it, and I think ‘Side Effects May Include’ can broaden people’s understanding of this problem.”
The remaining shorts featured in the CAC Student Film Festival will range from styles based in romance to those in science fiction, and each will exhibit the varying talents and sensibilities of OU’s filmmaking population.
FILM FESTIVAL SHOWCASES STUDENT TALENT
RICKY MARANONAssignment Editor
OU will unofficially host the game Humans vs. Zombies beginning Friday.
Those playing the game must sign up online and also report who they have “killed” online as well.
“Basically, this is a huge, weeklong game of tag. It’s sort of like gotcha or assassins, but more complicated than that,” the event’s Facebook page states.
There will be one original zombie who will tag humans. Once tagged, humans become zombies after an hour, and then they need to tag humans, the page states. If a zombie doesn’t tag a human for 48 hours, it dies.
“We’ll see if the humans can win,” the page states. “The humans will wear a ban-dana around an arm or a leg. The zombies (except not the original one) will wear a bandana around his/her neck or head.”
The event is not intended to d i s r u p t c l a s s a n d o t h e r c a m -pus events, Doug Serven, one of the event’s organizers, said in a Facebook message.
“One of the big things is not disturbing the academic en-
vironment at OU,” Serven said. “So that’s why we’re not going to be running through
OU buildings with a hoard of zombies after humans. So keep it outside. There are a few events that will be off limits.”
Serven said some rules have
been changed since the game was first announced.
“We are only doing socks. No Nerf guns,” Serven said. “Next time we can talk to the administration about nerf guns, but we didn’t want to risk it this time.“
Just because ever yone begins as a human doesn’t mean that they have to wait until they are tagged and become a zombies, Serven said.
“The humans will often have missions, so be ready and check your e-mails often so you can be on the alert,” Serven said. “The zombies may sometimes have some missions.”
Serven said participants should not to take the game too seriously.
“The big thing is to have fun,” Serven said. “Don’t be a punk and get too caught up in the technicalities. If we all end up as zombies, then the zombies win. There will be a moderator. He or she will give you the benefit of the doubt once, but if there are more problems, then you’ll have to abide by the moderator’s decisions or be out of the game.”
Serven said the event will be one week in duration from Friday to April 30.
The event will end with a human or zombie 1980s-themed dance party, de-pending on which group wins, Serven said.
To sign up to play Humans vs. Zombies, visit this story on OUDaily.com.
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Editor’s note: The Oklahoma Daily will feature one Oklahoma band each day leading up to Norman Music Festival. Today’s featured artist is Norman art rockers Gentle Ghost.
CAITLIN TURNERDaily Staff Writer
One of Norman’s most talked about local bands, Gentle Ghost, will christen the main stage at Norman Music Festival at noon Sunday. Gentle Ghost performed at last year’s NMF, but it was only the band’s second per-formance. Ever.
“Last year we played on the Opolis Stage, but we weren’t really ready,” said Becky Carman, keyboard-ist and occasional tambourine player for Gentle Ghost. “This year we have been promoted to the main stage and we are ready and sound better than ever.”
When Carman isn’t playing keys, she is spends her time being a cheese monger, book editor and production coordinator. For her, live performances weren’t always something to look forward to.
“I was really nervous about performing with the band, but once I realized that everyone else on stage was really emotive and fun to watch I knew that people wouldn’t be looking at me during the shows,” Carman said.
This year’s NMF show will feature music from Gentle Ghost’s debut album “Family.” It was the first record pro-duced on the new local label Nice People. The songs on the album are the brainchildren of Seth McCarroll and Brady Smith.
McCaroll has worked with other local bands, but when he played Brady Smith some music he thought was going to be his solo project, Smith decided McCarroll should make his individual efforts into a full-fledged band.
Scott Harper, Tyler Huskerson and Adam Huskerson complete the band whose Facebook interests include travel-ing, screen printing, writing, grad school, reading, “NBA Jam” and culinary delights (mostly fried chicken).
The Gentle Ghost sound isn’t easy to relate to other indie rock bands out there because it has a power
and a sensitivity that is all its own.“We have a very heavy sound with three
guitars, but it isn’t mindlessly heavy,” Carman said. “It is loud but it is pretty and intricately constructed. I would say our fan base is mostly males but when you listen to the record I think you are able to hear things that you didn’t hear before at
our live shows.” According to the band’s website, weare-
gentleghost.bandcamp.com, “the packaging [for the vinyl record] is hand cut, screen-printed,
numbered and assembled by the band.”
The band’s hard work makes it exciting to see the album received so well, Carman said.
“We all literally have the paper cuts to prove the work we put into it,” Carman said.
The cover art for “Family” displays the silhouettes of all six band members and Carman’s lone ponytail easily identifies her as the only girl in the group, but she said this isn’t something that bothers her.
“I am not a super feminine girl and I am used to hang-ing out with a lot of guys,” Carman said. “Plus, I like hav-ing the job of watching the guys unload while I make sure nothing gets stolen.”
So no matter how crazy things get Saturday night be sure to wake up in time Sunday to catch Gentle Ghost’s set and experience some real Norman music.
Norman band haunts festival a second time
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From left: Tyler Huskerson, Scott Harper, Becky Carman, Brady Smith, Sethy McCarroll and Adam Huskerson. Gentle Ghost opens up the Main Stage at noon Sunday at Norman Music Festival.
WHAT TO BRING TO NMFFor those who are un-
sure what to bring and what is allowed at the Norman Music Festival, here is a quick checklist for you.
SUNSCREEN
Being out in the sun all day can result in skin-melting sunburns. Don’t let this happen to you.
WATERWi t h temperau re s
reaching up in the 80s, dehydration is a serious concern. You are allowed to bring in your own bot-tled water onto the festi-val grounds.
CASHYou can’t bring outside
food or drink (besides the aforementioned bottled
water), so unless you’re fasting you’re gonna need money.
CAMERATo document all the
fun you will inevitably have and, of course, up-load on Facebook mere hours later.
SMALL BAG Something comfort-
able to stow all your stuff in really comes in handy.
A FEW MORE THINGSLawn chairs and pets
on leashes are allowed until 6 p.m.
You cannot bring in weapons, unauthorized vending, tents, coolers, large backpacks or glass materials.-Rachel Landers, public relations
junior
FESTIVAL BANDS SHARE WHAT MAKES THEM SPECIAL
WHY SHOULD WE COME SEE YOU AT NMF?Plaid Rabbit — Good show. Good music. Good Times.Fiawna Forté — ... because we will prove ourselves wrong.HipHopotamus — We are about having fun. We have a positive message, but we don’t get too high and mighty with
it. There is something for everyone. OKLAHOMA CELEBRITY CAGE MATCH ... WHO COMES OUT ALIVE AND WHY?
Zombie Vs. Shark — Wayne Coyne comes out victori-ous by hypnotizing Toby Keith and not ! ghting or using violence. Afterwards, Keith moves to Santa Cruz County, becomes a Socialist, and an organic farmer, then picks up the mantle of the great California folk artist, California Slim. I met Slim one evening in a bar in Santa Cruz, right before he died. A great man.
SCAN THE NMF LINEUP. WHO HAS THE BEST BAND NAME?
Scales of Motion — Leon Russell. Whoever came up with that is a genius.Unmarked Cars — Grupo Fantasmo. Plaid Rabbit — Bulletproof Tigers.HipHopotamus — I have to love Zombie Vs. Shark since I think it is a reference to the best scene in the movie “Zombie.”
WHO IS YOUR NMF CRUSH?HipHopotamus — Ali Harter’s voice.Unmarked Cars — Gabe “Master E” Barham from The Venditos, who are playing Saturday night, whose sexy beard supports its own ecosystem.Saturday Sirens — Leon Russell.
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR MUSIC? Zombie Vs. Shark — Our music is loud, ringing and melodic. Its rhythm will make you want to do a pogo dance or hug someone.Saturday Sirens —Garage rock, with a southern element and
twang.
With 170 bands on the Norman Music Festival linep, the majority of whom are from Oklahoma, The Daily decided to send out a question-aire to several state bands to see what sets them apart from the rest.
To see the full Q&As with each band, go to OUDaily.com/normanmusicfestival.
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Not many people crave a slushie thrown in their face. But for three OU students, it would be a small price to pay for a coveted opportunity.
Corrie Hermans, Heather Hall and Andrew Farha are a small sampling of nu-merous OU students who have auditioned for Fox’s hit show “Glee” through an on-line contest, and the numbers are growing daily.
The contest allows anyone over the age of 16 to submit a song performance and personal statement to MySpace to be con-sidered by “Glee”’s executive producers as a character on the show’s next season. Viewers rate the videos by giving gold stars, and there’s no limit to the number of stars a person can give or receive. Each song must be chosen from a required list provided in the contest rules.
A show about a high school glee club, “Glee” is a show in which club members sing covers of songs ranging from the Rolling Stones to Rihanna. The “popular” kids at school often throw slushies on the “uncool” members of the glee club.
C o r r i e H e r m a n s , University College fresh-man, said she started sing-ing at birth. She has partici-pated in musical theatre in middle and high school and is now training in classical theatre.
“I’m being trained to be an opera singer someday”, Hermans said.
H e r m a n s c r e a t e d a Facebook group so every-one she knows could help her get votes. If Hermans got picked to be on “Glee,” she said she would accept in a heartbeat and see where the role takes her. Her parents would support her even if it meant leaving OU.
“Without a second thought I’d go do this, and depending on where the show leads me I would return to school or continue my ca-reer,” Hermans said. “My career isn’t struc-tured into getting an education, but more so being in the right place at the right time.”
Heather Hall, communications junior, has experience in auditioning for Glee. Hall entered a contest at the local Fox station in her hometown of Houston. The station promised to send one applicant’s audition tape to the executives at “Glee.” They nar-rowed more than 100 applicants down to
four finalists, and Hall was one of them.
Hall wasn’t the final pick, so she’s choosing to audi-tion for “Glee” through the MySpace contest. Hall sang Barbara Streisand’s “Don’t Rain On My Parade.”
“I think it’s a fun song and it’s the best one on the list to show range,” Hall said.
A n d r e w Fa r h a , O U alumnus, was in choir from first grade through his freshman year of col-lege, and even had his own quartet in high school. He knows how to play the piano and the bass.
“I’ve watched the show since the beginning, Farha said. “I can’t imagine a better starting point [for a singing career].”
H e r m a n s s a i d s h e would do any type of singing for anyone who would hire her. And if being on the show meant she’d get slushies thrown in her face, Hermans said she “wouldn’t even feel it” because she’d be too excited to be there.
AUDITION SELECTIONS
Applicants must choose a song from the following list. The contest ends April 26.
“And I Am Telling You That I’m Not Going” — DreamgirlsGold Digger (Radio Version) — Kanye WestRehab — Amy WinehouseYou Can’t Always Get What You Want — The Rolling StonesCan’t Fight This Feeling — REO SpeedwagonDon’t Rain On My Parade — Barbara StreisandHate on Me — Jill ScottKeep Holding On — Avril LavigneLean on Me — Bill WithersTrue Colors —Phil Collins
OU students strive to make it onto the small screen
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Several OU students are competing for a spot on the hit musical show “Glee.” The program airs at 8 p.m. Tuesdays on Fox. PRESIDENT BOREN’S ARTS FESTIVAL
TO SHOWCASE EVERY MEDIUM
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Conducor Richard Zielinski, pictured here at a performance earlier this semester, will lead the OU Symphony Orchestra and OU Combined Choirs as they perform Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” in the grand finale of the President’s Festival of the Arts.
ALEX EWALDDaily Staff Writer
Being bad has never been so good as College of Fine Arts students and professors perform opera and drama pieces as “Saints and Sinners,” the first performance of the annual President’s Festival of the Arts, at 8 to-night in Reynolds Performing Arts Center.
The festival, which began as a one-time concert for the OU president, is a weekend-long fine-arts event in which all the schools of the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts participate.
The opera segment will comprise scenes from composer Wolfgang Mozart’s tragic dramedy-opera, “Don Giovanni,” that reflect what it means to be sinful.
“Don Giovanni is one of the great ‘sinners,’” said music professor Jonathan Shames, who performs Friday night. “He flouts all behav-iors deemed moral, and in his profligacy, damages many lives around him.”
Shames said music professors Lorne Richstone and William Ferrera worked with the student performers to constantly practice.
“Performance opportunities such as those this festival offers allow them to test this de-velopment, to experiment, to see how far they can go,” he said.
The drama scenes comprise excerpts from the plays “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Steel Magnolias” and “As It Is in Heaven,” all of which involve the internal conflict between good and evil within characters of the plays, said drama professor Rena
Cook, who produced and directed the three performances.
“Through struggle, the characters [in the plays] achieve higher goodness as a result of the way they are tested in these circumstanc-es,” said Cook, who teaches voice, speech and dialects in the School of Drama.
In Harper Lee’s “Mockingbird,” Atticus Finch decides to represent a black man on trial for rape though he knows he cannot win in order to confront the racial prejudice of Maycomb, Ala.
Robert Harling’s “Steel Magnolias” char-acter Shelby, a Type 1 diabetic, decides to have a child though she knows the potentially fatal complications that could result from the pregnancy.
“As It Is in Heaven” is a play about a young woman’s struggle against her Shaker com-munity in Kentucky after claiming to have had religious visions of angels, Shaker found-er Ann Lee and George Washington.
Cook said audiences could learn how they themselves can take the “higher road” through the performances this weekend at the President’s Festival.
“We’re all faced with ethical dilemmas,” she said. “When we experience challenges … we have to speak up for what we really want, to stand in the face of resistance.”
The President’s Festival continues Friday night with ballet and music performances by dance and music students and professors and Sunday afternoon with a performance of composer Felix Mendelssohn’s Biblical oratorio “Elijah” featuring the OU Combined Choirs and Symphony Orchestra.
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Today is the 40th anniversary of the
first Earth Day, and OU students and pro-fessors share diverse knowledge about today’s celebrated environmentalism.
“Earth Day is about raising awareness about the Earth and the environment,” said Wade Hensley, a member of the Housing Center Student Association’s recycling committee. “It’s sad that we have to have an Earth Day to raise awareness, but if enough effort is put into raising awareness it can have a beneficial and a substantial impact.”
Hensley, University College freshman, said OU students should respond to Earth Day by taking ad-vantage of campus’ recycling capa-bilities. He said there is no excuse to not recycle.
Chelsea Enochs, mechanical en-gineering junior, said she had never heard of Earth Day. She said in her experience, most people don’t know about Earth Day.
“When people don’t know about Earth Day, most people don’t care, so the benefits would be very little if at all,” Enochs said.
Donald Pisani, history professor, has taught the course “American
Environmental History” at OU for 20 years.
“Earth Day represented simply the recognition that you have to broaden the [en-
vironmental] movement to the American public and make it a
mainstream issue,” Pisani said. Pisani said Sen. Gaylord Nelson,
D-Wis., who was a strong environ-mentalist, instituted the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, because
he thought there needed to be a
mass environmental movement. The Environmental Protection Agency was founded in the same year.
“I never thought Earth Day was impor-tant because it never changed anything [significant politically],” Pisani said.
He said the most notable environmen-tal advances in the last 40 years include water and air pollution regulations and expansion of national parks. However, these changes did not directly result from Earth Day celebrations.
“Earth Day was a media event,” Pisani said.
He said there were protests against pollution, but that it was not originally a coordinated national program to protect the environment. He said the Earth Day protests coincided with Vietnam, civil rights and feminist protests.
Pisani said many conservative students, especially in the Midwest, do not want to be considered environmentalists.
“The way I look at it is not to preach to people, but simply suggest alternatives that may be cheaper, healthier and give people the sense that they are contrib-uting to the environment improvement without becoming what they tend to think are radicals,” Pisani said.
Pisani said OU students should try to make their personal lives environmental-ly-friendly instead of focusing on chang-ing the whole world.
“The most important things people can do is not change the world, but change personal conduct,” Pisani said. “If you don’t want to try anything dra-matic in terms of changing the environ-ment, then change the environment around yourself.”
He said examples of personal changes include walking or taking a bike instead of driving a car and eating local foods with reduced meat.
“My philosophy is for people to look at what they can do individually and com-fortably, not something someone can shame them into doing to protect the planet,” Pisani said.
