College dean hopes to remain competitive by raising money for endowed, annual scholarships
KATHLEEN EVANSThe Oklahoma Daily
The OU College of Medicine is launching a cam-paign to raise $5 million in scholarships to celebrate its centennial.
The goal of the college’s Second Century Campaign is to raise private funds over the next five years and allo-cate the money toward annual and endowed scholarships, Development Director John Cougher said.
“It’s vital for us to increase the assistance available to our stu-dents in order to keep our top medical students in Oklahoma, be competitive in attracting outstanding students region-ally and nationally and keep the costs of medical school afford-able for students from all eco-nomic backgrounds,” alumnus and college Dean Dr. Dewayne Andrews said in a statement.
According to a 2008 report by the American Association of Medical Colleges, the OU College of Medicine charges the second highest out-of-state tuition rate in the region, behind the University of Nebraska.
To balance these costs, the college raised about $8
million in scholarship endowments in the 2008 fiscal year, according to the 2008 association report. It also distributed $543,000 in scholarships, according to the report.
Because of the high costs and the low number of scholarships awarded, the college has had a hard time retaining some Oklahoma students, especially
since Texas schools have more affordable out-of-state costs, Cougher said.
“The costs to go to school have remained steady over the past years, but students still leave OU with an average debt of $147,000,” Cougher said. “We want to change that by giving out more scholarships.”
Through the campaign, col-lege administrators are asking alumni to donate toward an annual or endowed scholar-ship fund, according to cam-paign materials. Those who donate more than $2,500 each year will have the scholar-ship given to students in their name. Donations of less than $2,500 will go in the general Dean’s Scholarship Fund.
For endowed scholarships, donors must give at least $25,000 to set up a scholarship in their name or a designee’s
name, according to the campaign statement. College of medicine alumni understand the costs
of medical school and the challenge of paying for it, so they are more willing to donate, Cougher said.
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OU to offer mental health training for faculty, staff
OU faculty and student volunteers will receive training on how to deal with common mental health problems today on campus.
The Talking Helps Mental Health Advocate Program will hold a training session from 7 to 9 tonight in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Regents Room.
The nonprofit program aims to enhance awareness about mental health conditions, according to a press release.
The training will be modeled after the Sooner Ally Program, event coordinator Ron Haas said.
The program will provide information about common mental health disorders and teach basic skills for engaging individuals in distress, Haas said.
It will also provide participants with the information and resources necessary to direct affected individuals to professional services available in and around the OU and Norman communities.
“We’re excited that the program has all come together,” Haas said. “We will use feedback from the participants to help improve and expand the program next year.”
— Russell Taylor/The Daily
Max Westheimer wins Airport of the Year award
The OU Max Westheimer Airport has been named Oklahoma’s 2011 Airport of the Year by a group comprised of Oklahoma airport managers and officials.
The Oklahoma Airport Operators Association presented the award to the Norman airport — known by many students as the home of on-site diner, Ozzie’s — for improvements made on-site over the past five years, according to the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission website.
The airport’s staff has renovated the main runways, improved heating and air systems, improved taxiways, updated navigation equipment and updated communication and surveillance equipment along with making other general improvements to the control tower, according to the website.
The airport staff works very hard to keep the airport safe for everyone, OU Department of Aviation Director Ken Carson said.
“We approach it from a team perspective,” Carson said. “It’s an integrated process, and we’re very happy with the award.”
Additionally, Westheimer administrator Walt Strong was named Airport Manager of the Year.
Strong has worked at Westheimer Airport since 1998 as an administrator, according to the aeronautics commission website.
—Rochelle Randles/The Daily
By the numbers
650 Number of students attending OU College of Medicine
240 Number of students receiving scholarships
$2,100 Average value of each scholarship
$22,567 In-state tuition and fees
$147,000 Average debt of OU College of Medicine
student
Source: Second Century Campaign statement
New architecture building takes steps to become more green
With Gould Hall set to open this summer, College of Architecture students are working to design recycling centers for the building.
During Green Week, Interior Design Interim Director Mia Kile presented prototype interior design models for Gould Hall.
“We were looking at how do we want to be responsible in that building, so they explored recycle and reuse centers,” Kile said. “Many of the students went around campus and did research on what’s being done at other buildings.”
Students researched sustainable materials to create recycling centers because of the amount of materials they use in studio classes, Kile said.
“For designers and architects, because we do make models, we use a lot of cardboard and mat board and other materials. So instead of throwing it all away, how can you reuse it if it’s still reusable?” Kile said.
College administrators are putting together a Gould Hall Green Initiative Committee to change practices on campus.
— Ana Lastra/The Daily
College of Medicine strives to keep medical students in state
University plans ahead for upcoming state budget cuts by outsourcing utilities to private company
NICHOLAS HARRISONThe Oklahoma Daily
A deal made last year to let a private com-pany manage OU’s utilities will allow the university to weather an expected 3 to 7 per-cent cut in state funding, President David Boren said.
The university earned about $120 million from the outsourcing contract with Corix Utilities Inc., approved by the OU Board of Regents last summer. Part of that sum paid off bonds on the utility plants and part went
for capital projects. Boren also said he set aside about $25 million to cushion against the effects of upcoming budget cuts.
“The governor wanted to do 3 percent,” Boren said. “But then some of the things she wanted passed to pay for it didn’t pass.”
B o r e n s a i d t h e Legislature was current-ly considering cuts rang-ing from 3 to 7 percent, which would come on top of increasing utilities charges and heath care costs.
“So, if we get cut $7 or $8 million on the
Norman campus, that’s on top of anoth-er $6 to $8 million we’re having to eat be-
cause we’re not getting an increase to cover those costs,” Boren said.
Over the past three years, OU has absorbed $20.5 million in cost in-creases while also in-curring $13.9 million in budget cuts, Associate Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Chris
Kuwitzky said.“This has really been a tough period for
the university economically,” Boren said.Boren said he could see this situation
coming four years ago and he didn’t want to see the institution cut back on course offer-ings or lay off faculty and staff, Boren said.
“I didn’t want to see this be a time when we sort of dismantled the things we had built,” Boren said. “So, what do you do? We cannot expect a bonanza of private giving to make up the difference. And we’ve already absorbed 30 million in cuts.”
Executive Vice President Nick Hathaway suggested to Boren that OU monetize one of its assets to raise enough money to make it through until the economy started to recover.
Utilities deal cushions funding cuts
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SARAH PHIPPS/THE OKLAHOMAN
A car drives through standing water Sunday on Lindsey Street in Norman. More than 2 inches of rain fell Sunday in Norman, according to National Weather Center estimates. Scattered thunderstorms are expected again today. Flooding in Norman was minimal compared to eastern Oklahoma where more than 7 inches of rain fell, causing highway and road closures.
This has really been a tough period for the university economically.”
—DAVID BOREN, OU PRESIDENT
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CAMPUS
Today around campus
» University College’s UC Action Staff will present a Student Success Series seminar on test-taking strategies from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245.
Tuesday, April 26
» The Center for Social Justice will present the Sundance Film Festival selection “Miss Representation” from 6 to 8 p.m. in Gaylord Hall, Room 1140.
» University of California at Davis’ Peter Wainwright will give a lecture entitled “Coral Reef Fishes: Novelties Underlie Ecological Impact in Nature’s Richest Realm” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. The lecture is free and open to the public.
» As part of the Sutton Concert Series, the OU Percussion Orchestra will perform from 8 to 10 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students, faculty, staff and senior adults.
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“Over three years ago, it was clear that the nation was heading into a time of relative economic turmoil. We thought it was reason-able to assume that the na-tional turmoil would have a negative impact on the state and university bud-gets,” Hathaway said. “Chris Kuwitzky, Burr Millsap and myself started to have a se-ries of conversations about major assets held by the university that could poten-tially be monetized.”
University administra-tors investigated this option and hired C.H. Guernsey & Co. to conduct a feasibil-ity study in April 2008, ac-cording to the OU regents’ minutes.
“Our ambition was to ... avoid the draconian cuts, furloughs and faculty reduc-tions being made at other universities all over the country,” Hathaway said.
C . H . Gu e r n s e y & C o. recommended the uni-versity conduct a competi-tive bid process, and Boren appointed Daniel Pullin, vice president for Strategic Planning and Economic Development, to head the project.
Team members had meet-ings in the evenings and on weekends. Everybody in-volved contributed 80 to 90 hours per week, Boren said.
“This cross-functional team helped unlock value from legacy university as-sets,” Pullin said.
The university ultimate-ly awarded a contract to Corix Utilities, Inc. — a firm with experience operating
utilities plants on military bases. The company would take over the responsibil-ity for operating and main-taining the university’s util-ity plants. The contract’s net benefit to the univer-sity was about $120 million, Kuwitzky said. Part of that money was used for capital projects and part was used to eliminate the university’s bond obligations on the util-ity plants. However, Boren said he set aside $25 to $30 million to cushion against the effects of upcoming budget cuts.
“If we don’t have to use it all over the next three years, we’ll hold it back because we could face this kind of situation again,” Boren said.
Boren said that the funds could also be used for the creation of the College of International Studies and the renovations of a monas-tery in Arezzo, Italy for the university’s study abroad program.
When the project was complete, Boren awarded each of the team members a bonus – ranging from $5,000 to $10,000. He said he also assigned Pullin to regulate the rates that Corix could charge the university and raised Pullin’s salary by $50,000 to reflect the added responsibilities.
Boren said that each of the university’s employees who stayed on with Corix after the deal was complet-ed also received a $10,000 signing bonus. About 30 employees received these sums, university spokes-man Chris Shilling said.
A new fountain was added to the research campus south of Constitution Street and east of Jenkins Avenue with the intention of providing the area with a more park-like feel.
“It’s not like any other fountain we’ve ever put in on campus,” Facilities Management Director Brian Ellis said.
The fountain is about 30 feet tall with a base almost 40 feet wide, Ellis said.
Facilities Management workers also planted trees and installed park benches around the area.
“There aren’t really any sort of social gathering areas outside on the south research campus, so this will be the first one of those,” Ellis said.
With these additions the area will display more of a park-like atmosphere, Ellis said.
These installations were all Facilities Management workers were able to complete by the time of the fountain’s dedication, but there could be more installations in the future as part of expansion and development of the research campus.
—Reina Lyons/ The Daily
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The passionate words of author Sara Gruen are beau-tifully envisioned by director Francis Lawrence’s (“I Am Legend,” 2007) adaptation of her best-selling novel “Water for Elephants.” The film paints a canvas of a depression-era landscape, a lavish circus production and an unrequit-ed romance.
With a gifted cast, stun-ning visuals, a moving story, and, yes, a lovable elephant, Lawrence and screenwriter Richard LaGravenese (“The Bridges of Madison County,” 1995) have crafted the year’s first great film.
“ Tw i l i g h t ” s u p e r s t a r Robert Pattinson breathes life into the character of Jacob Jankowski whose extraordi-nary life is told as a flashback by the great Hal Holbrook.
Jacob is a charming, bright young student studying vet-erinary medicine at Cornell University. Before he’s able to secure his license, tragedy en-sues with the death of his two Polish-immigrant parents.
He is left orphaned and homeless, carrying his pos-sessions in a briefcase and traveling down an isolated railroad track. He hops on the first train that approaches and, conveniently enough, finds it is a majestic circus train with a myriad of colorful and eccentric characters.
However, Jacob’s concen-tration is on the show’s star attraction — Marlena (Reese Witherspoon). This poses a dilemma for Marlena’s hus-band, the sadistic ringmaster
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August (Chistoph Waltz) who attempts to throw Jacob off the train until he learns of his skills with animals.
These skills come in handy when he and Marlena are assigned to train the show’s newest member, a four-ton, middle-aged elephant named Rosie. As the two tackle this task, they form a romantic bond. Now, cast into the ef-fervescent world of entertain-ment, Jacob has the life he’s always dreamed of.
The only thing missing is a ravishing partner to share it with, an aspiration the men-acing August will stop at noth-ing to dismantle.
The movie is a work of pas-sion full of energy and emo-tion. Gruen’s tale of a once-crumbling economic world splashed with vibrant colors and the prospect of hope makes for a tasty treat.
However, the film is not merely eye candy. Waltz is as bloody brilliant as August, charming and pleasant on the outside but cruel and rot-ten at his core.
Twi-hard fans will adore their beloved Pattinson prov-ing he has more range and depth than his beastly alter-ego permits him to explore. He and Witherspoon make an electric romantic duo.
Though in all fairness, the true scene-stealer of the film is the enormously talented Rosie. The four-ton beauty has more brains and per-sonality than her co-stars combined.
This sweeping romantic spectacle has something spe-cial to offer everyone.
— Laron Chapman, film and video studies senior
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The most persistent delusion among economists is the belief that their discipline has no limitations and that, like in science, everything can be reduced, quan-tified and calculated. The sooner this hubris is aban-doned, the better.
There is a consistency to scientific observations that gives support to robust predictive power. The laws of motion or gravity are not capricious — every person who jumps out a window will fall to the ground.
Tides go in, tides go out; there’s never a miscommuni-cation. Contrary to what some political commentators would have you believe, these phenomena can easily be explained with a third-grade understanding of science. The observations of economics are dictated by the more complex and inconsistent whims of human behavior, which makes predictions complicated.
There is a bias in economics to believe human behav-ior must also be subject to these immutable laws and the tides of human interaction can be perfectly commu-nicated through a simple equation.
John Montier, in his letter, “In Defense of Old Always,” produced a graph that detailed the failure of economic consensus over the last four decades. It demonstrated at no point in time was consensus forecasting anywhere close to predicting actual inflation, bond yields, real gross domestic product or the likelihood of a recession.
Despite this, economists and laypeople alike contin-ue to cling to predictions as if they contain any merit at all. The phenomenon of “base rate neglect” explains why this reliance is so tenacious.
Humans have a psychological need to make and re-ceive forecasts because they cannot grapple with the idea of a chaotic world unaffect-ed by human inquiry and understanding.
As a result, when evaluat-ing our own belief in the re-liability of forecasts, we cling to information close at hand, such as a recent prediction or intuition, but we discount the base rate of the relevant event, such as the percentage of failed predictions.
O n the aggregate, this means that most humans will accept economic predic-tions without scrutiny, pure-
ly because they are discomforted by the admission of ignorance.
Economic forecasters, then, are frighteningly similar to snake-oil salesmen; they exploit their desperate con-sumers with unverifiable quackery to make a quick buck. But unlike psuedo-scientific hacks, if these economic salesmen are exposed, they are given a job as a Treasury Secretary or Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
A similar finding was observed by Philip Tetlock, a Berkeley professor of Psychology, who found that ‘so-called’ experts in a variety of subjects performed worse at forecasting events than average people. Tetlock found that the more specialized an individual becomes, the worse their predictions are; there is a point at which hyperspecialization yields worse predictive accuracy than general familiarization.
The logic behind the argument should be familiar: imagine you’re searching a massive online database to diagnose your own minor medical ailments (I can’t be the only one, right?).
Undoubtedly, the exhausting list of results that appear will be petrifying-- cancer, lupus, maybe even boneitis (what a funny name for a horrible disease.) In the same way, experts with robust conceptual knowledge have a difficult time delineating between random symptoms and real, systemic problems — to them, everything seems systemic.
Applying theoretical knowledge to empirical reality becomes increasingly difficult as a function of one’s ex-pertise; the more knowledge one has, the more chains of logic one can hastily pursue, and the further down the rabbit hole one gets.
No matter the social science, forecasting is going to be hard. Nevertheless, there are steps that should be taken to improve economic forecasting and the trajectory of the discipline.
First, economists need to refuse the impulse to treat their discipline as if it’s science. Human behavior is unbelievably complex and oversimplifying the macro-economy so that it can be modeled does more harm than good.
Second, economic history needs to be taught and re-inforced in every school around the world. Too many economists are trying to change lanes without using a rear-view mirror, and such hubristic behavior has re-sulted in one too many crashes.
Third, the public should take economic forecast-ing with a grain of salt. The dangerous implications of forecasting would be minimized if society treated them like fortune cookies or horoscopes—harmless forms of entertainment.
— Evan DeFilippis,University College freshman
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Many people around the world celebrated Jesus’ resurrec-tion this past weekend, most believe it actually happened. Paul wrote “if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile… if in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied” (I Corinthians 15:17-19).
Some might call resurrection stories “the product of a de-veloping tradition and as powerfully true metaphorical nar-ratives,” as liberal Protestant scholar Marcus J. Borg does.
This interpretation fits nicely in Western society, where re-ligion exists primarily in the private sphere and is equated to values, and therefore seen as inherently subjective.
Asserting Jesus’ resurrection actually happened moves the question from the pri-vate sphere to the public realm where such subjects as history and science are housed.
Many people argue that such assertions about the resurrection are oxymoronic — the resurrection is a scientific impossibility or a-historical at best.
Instead of being driven by consistent logic, the authority behind their argument is cultural: the post-Enlightenment concept of fact or hard-truth has exiled the supernatural.
I want to put this essentially anti-theistic bias aside and ask if we can believe with sufficient justification that Jesus physi-cally rose from the dead.
We can observe the body of facts dealing with the resur-rection and attempt to determine which explanation best ex-plains the evidence.
Let us assume Jesus did not actually rise from the dead. His disciples either deliberately fabricated such stories or were mistakenly convinced Jesus rose after his body was sto-len from the tomb, buried in a common grave, eaten by dogs and crows or resuscitated. What kinds of resurrection stories would they have invented?
Many Jews believed in an afterlife of darkness and slumber, though some did not believe in any sort of afterlife, like the
Sadducees. A group of Jews called Pharisees did believe in the resurrection, but even their party was given to disagree-ment as to what that term meant.
In seeking to appeal to their Jewish contemporaries, one would suspect an appeal to previously existing beliefs about the resurrection. One would be wrong.
Instead of adapting to current resurrection assump-tions, the early Christian community departed from them in a number of ways. Christians argued resurrection trans-formed the physical body, not simply reanimated it or oc-curred in a purely spiritual sense. They argued about while
resurrection for all people did happen at the end of time, it had already occurred for one particular man.
They argued a resurrection connected to righteous living and baptism for living believers or simply as vindication for why Jesus was no longer around.
Something happened changing their preexisting views of resurrection and mo-tivated them to advance those views in a society that counted them as strange and
worthy of persecution. Furthermore, these alien views came to be held by former persecutors, like the above-quot-ed Paul.
If Christians had fabricated the resurrection, they would have been better off leaving out women – as demonstrated by second-century Celsus’ misogynistic quip: “But who re-ally saw this? A hysterical woman…”
Certainly their stories need to be analyzed and evaluated, but analysis is not tantamount to discrediting or a predeter-mined rejection.
— Trevor Clark,professional writing and religious studies junior
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People pay millions to listen to a person ramble for hours about how to do good, how to be good or how to feel good, so why is it that nobody bothers to explain what this good is? This is not just some academic question for perfectionist-philosophy professors. It is a question that ideally ought to be answered before we do anything. It is at once the most abstract and the most practical problem we can examine.
We all want something we think will be good for all of us — and yet to get what we want, it sure helps know what it is.
Someone trying to buy a stapler with-out knowing what a stapler is — just going to a store, trying to decide what feels most like a stapler to him — would be an interesting sight, especially when he starts attaching pieces of paper to-gether with a nail gun.
Yet, this is precisely what lots of people are doing right now; simply going about life, following whatever their blind-fickle emotions tell them is good — instead of rationally deter-mining what good is.
Their method might work, depending on the nature of the good. But of course, we can only know whether their method works if we already know the nature of the good. What makes their plan especially bold is that, should they choose very poorly, their entire life might be wholly worth-less – and that, most of us can agree, would not be good.
They are really just putting the rest of their entire life and its years of work up to chance; if their emotions pull them the wrong way, then it was all a waste.
Suppose there is no such thing as good, or that a set of rules objectively determining what we are to do with our-selves cannot be found. But that is an utterly senseless thing to believe.
We certainly cannot prove that good does not exist, and since it would presumably give meaning and direction to our lives, it has to be the most important and useful thing we could ever find.
So only the most sophisticated sort of imbecile could give up the glorious chase and just assume it never was, cynically asking “what is goodness?” to those exhorting them to be better.
Any hypothetical is-ought they might defend themselves with presupposes the non-existence of the good in the first place and is an ab-surd excuse. It is merely saying, “I have no obligation to search for the good, be-cause I’ve assumed it isn’t there.”
It is not as though we have no clue at all about what good might be; books have been piled up dealing with theories of it. Some say an object’s goodness lies in its fulfilling its complete potential, or performing its unique, specific role.
Others have taken a more Epicurean approach, reducing goodness to human happiness, while the Stoics insist on some mysterious, universal plan that we must conform to. Many have come to identify good with existence – after all, nothing exists which does not have anything good at all about it, and we call things bad mostly when they destroy other things.
Even if our intellects turn out to be too small to find goodness itself, then, at the very least, it is still good to look for the good.
— Gerard Keiser,linguistics and classical languages junior
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Many people argue that such assertions about the resurrection are oxymoronic — the resurrection is a scientific impossibility or a-historical at best.”
There is a bias in economics to believe human behavior must also be subject to these immutable laws and the tides of human interaction can be perfectly communicated through a simple equation.”
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Around OU, the staff is working hard to make campus a little bit brighter and a much better place for us all. From those who plant flowers on the South Oval, to the men and women who clean, cook and keep this university running.
They are the unsung heroes of campus, and OU is celebrating the work they do with OU Staff Week, which starts today. The appreciation week will encompass a variety of events, including a canned food drive and a health fair.
OU Staff Week is a chance to give back those on campus who work the hardest for the least amount of pay.
The minimum income of a full-time OU staff is $9 an hour, according to The Daily archives.
Especially considering how dedicated some employees are to the university. In February, The Daily reported about Roads and Hauling supervisor Marty Jackson and his crew who worked to
clean up the ice caused by this semester’s storms. Jackson said during the cleanup, his crew worked 12-hour shifts in freez-ing weather.
It is work like this that shows how im-portant these people are. When we were all snuggled up nice and warm in our beds, there were people out making sure we would be able to safely attend classes. Despite whether students were happy or not to have to roads cleared off early, these workers made sure students would have a safer route for their ride to campus.
This week, the university honors its employees for the hard work they do. We should do the same. Even though there is already an event scheduled for today, and every other day this week — let’s make today a day to say “thank you.”
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We certainly cannot prove good does not exist, and since it would presumably give meaning and direction to our lives, it has to be the most important and useful thing we could ever find.”
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Oklahoma returns to formOU rediscovers passion, finds missing offense in pair of wins over Huskers
James CorleyThe Oklahoma Daily
The last OU-Nebraska baseball game was canceled because of Sunday’s tor-rential downpour, but the Sooners still did enough last weekend to send the Huskers packing for the Big Ten with a final parting gift.
Oklahoma won the first two games of the weekend to nab a series win against the Cornhuskers in Nebraska’s final visit to Norman before leaving the Big 12.
After Friday’s 9-2 shellack-ing of the Huskers, OU coach Sunny Golloway said the team had returned to cham-pionship form.
“Our team was looking for a spark or something. Today was the first day we played with a passion we haven’t had,” Golloway said. “Everybody was all in — ev-erything about Sooner base-ball today was positive.”
Senior ace Michael Rocha pitched all nine innings Friday, throwing a career-high 123 pitches.
“He’s one of those guys [who] wants to finish what he started,” Golloway said. “That’s old school.”
The Sooner offense also reappeared against the Cornhuskers.
Senior third baseman Garrett Buechele hit an RBI double and two RBI singles, and junior catcher Tyler Ogle launched a three-run homer.
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Senior pitcher Michael Rocha pitches against Nebraska during OU’s 9-2 win over the Cornhuskers on Friday at L. Dale Mitchell Park in Norman. Rocha tossed a complete game, picking up his eighth win of the season by throwing a career-high 123 pitches.
continued Saturday in a 4-1 win.
Junior righty Burch Smith pitched a career-high-tying 7.1 innings and threw nine strikeouts.
Smith didn’t allow a hit until the sixth inning, con-tributing to Nebraska’s sea-son-low three hits.
OU earned 14 hits against the Huskers’ pitching staff, led by Casey Johnson. The senior outfielder was 3-for-4 with one run and one RBI.
“We spread them out. We bunted a couple guys up and got some key hits,” Johnson said. “It was enough today.”
Golloway said he was happy with the way the Sooners closed out games against the Huskers.
“We’ve had opportuni-ties in ball games where we could have stepped on the gas and moved away, but didn’t,” he said. “We did [Friday] night and we did it [Saturday] in the eighth
inning.”The Sooners will look
to continue their late-sea-son momentum Tuesday in a mid-week matchup against TCU in Fort Worth, Texas, before a crucial trip to Austin against the Texas Longhorns, who sit just above Oklahoma in the Big 12 conference standings at No. 2.
Zack Hedrick contributed to this report.
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