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Festival attendees gather in front of the Main Stage to watch Ty Segall perform Saturday during Norman Music Festival. Thousands of people gathered downtown during the three-day event.
Festival draws eclectic bands, crowd
College of International Studies associate dean to teach in arezzo, Italy
RIchaRD IMMeLThe Oklahoma Daily
The faculty-in-residence for the university’s study abroad pro-gram in Arezzo, Italy, has been appointed.
Suzette Grillot, College of International Studies associate dean, has accepted the position and will move to Arezzo before the beginning of the fall semester.
While in Arezzo, Grillot will teach two courses during both the fall and spring 2012 semesters.
“For me and my family it is a great opportunity to live overseas for the academic year, but more importantly it’s an opportunity for students that haven’t studied abroad or perhaps reluctant to study abroad on their own to pro-vide them an opportunity to be with a faculty member overseas who can help them,” Grillot said.
Opportunities are still avail-able to students hoping to study in Arezzo, regardless of major or class standing, Grillot said.
Students can have four courses each semester that will provide them general education credits, and then they will have language courses they can take, she said.
“They have a full spectrum of courses they can take while study-ing abroad and at the same time being enrolled at OU and being taught by OU faculty,” she said.
There are 29 OU students set to travel to Arezzo in the fall, but slots are still open for anyone in-terested in going, Grillot said.
“No matter what your major is, a global experience is beneficial not only just to be a better global citizen, but to provide the certain kinds of skills and experiences that are going to boost ones po-tential in the global workplace,” Grillot said.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Sooner fraternity steps ahead of opponents on its way to grand prize
SaRa GROOVeRThe Oklahoma Daily
An OU fraternity stomped out the competition to win a cash prize during an annual event Saturday at Lloyd Noble Center.
The OU chapter of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity won the Black Student Association and National Pan-Hellenic Council’s 28th annu-a l S t o m p d o w n : T h e Ultimatum contest and received the grand prize of $2,500 and the “The Most Motivated” award.
The contest featured sorority and fraternity members performing choreographed dances, and students in attendance filled the arena with cheers and rocked the bleachers while dancing along to the music.
Male and female runners-up awards were presented to the Univeristy of North Texas chap-ter of Omega Psi Phi and OU chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, respectively.
“We have literally been practic-ing since January,” said Adryan Moorefield Phi Beta Sigma mem-b er and mo dern dance p er-formance senior. “We wanted this so bad, and I think we were shocked [we won] because we knew anything could happen in this competition.”
The event had a healthy turn-out, filling several sections of Lloyd Noble Center, said Lauren Whiteman, public relations ju-nior and event executive co-chairwoman.
The event returned to Lloyd Noble Center after taking place in McCasland Field House last year, Whiteman said.
Alpha Kappa Alpha perform-ers considered their involvement in Stompdown this year a come-
back of sorts, nursing se-nior Christine Knighton said.
“ I ’ m s p e e c h l e s s . We have b e e n w o rk-ing so hard, and we are s o p a s s i o nat e ab ou t Stompdown,” Knighton s a i d . “ W e h a v e n ’ t had a chance to be in Stompdown for a while, and this is the first year
we have had a large chapter and really come back into the scene.”
Knighton said she is proud of her organization’s growth as both a sorority and step team.
“Some of the girls on our team just started stepping a month ago.” Knighton said. “They are like my babies.”
Stompdown is one of the larg-est black student-led events at OU, said Jaren Collins, entrepre-neurship senior and event co-chairman.
“Not only does it give us an op-portunity to showcase the culture of African-American students, but it allows us to program on a large scale.” Collins said.
Stomp competition shakes Lloyd Noble
Performers deliver a wide varietyof musical acts at fourth annual festival
Janna GenTRYThe Oklahoma Daily
N orman Music Festival 4 may now be history, but during its three-day run, the festi-val drew a diverse array of performers and attendees to
Main Street in downtown Norman.This year’s festival featured musical per-
formances in genres ranging from hip-hop to indie rock to a band called Foot Slave that sang exclusively about feet.
During the festival, an Oklahoma Victory Doll Roller Derby team member who called herself Luxy Cupcake ac-cepted donations and spreading awareness about her organization.
The festival was enjoy-able not only for the bands but also the general atmo-sphere, she said.
“This festival is great because of the incred-ible amount of energy it has, and the bands aren’t shabby either,” she said.
The Blackwatch Stage functioned as one of
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2011 Stompdown winners
» $2,500 grand prize — Phi Beta Sigma (OU)» Runner-up in male division — Omega Psi Phi (University of North Texas)» Runner-up in female division — Alpha Kappa Alpha (OU)» “The Most Motivated” — Phi Beta Sigma (OU)
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University of North Texas Omega Psi Phi fraternity members perform a stomp routine Saturday night at Lloyd Noble Center. The fraternity was one of five groups that performed stomp routines at the annual Stompdown.
Position for Italy program filled
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al-Qaida leader killed by U.S. forces, Obama declares Sunday night
Osama bin Laden, the glow-ering mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was killed in an operation led by the United States, President Barack Obama said Sunday.
A small team of Americans carried out the attack and took custody of bin Laden’s remains, the president said in a dramat-ic late-night statement at the White House.
A jubilant crowd gathered outside the White House as word spread of bin Laden’s death after a global manhunt that lasted nearly a decade.
“Justice has been done,” the president said.
The development comes just months before the 10th anni-versary of the Sept. 11 attacks
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Today around campus
» The spring final exam preparation period begins.
» The School of Art and Art History Capstone class will host their capstone work in a free exhibition from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Art Center’s Lightwell Gallery.
» Martin Kramer with the Student Center in Jerusalem will give a lecture for the Arab-Israeli Conflict Presidential Dream Course from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
Tuesday, May 3
» University College will host an event providing tips on managing stress from 4 to 5 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245.
Wednesday, May 4
» University College Action Staff will give tips on test management for final exams from 2 to 3 p.m. in Adams Center’s Muldrow Tower.
» Beth Sievers will present the Sooner Strings Project from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall.
Thursday, May 5
» OU softball will play North Texas at 6 p.m. at Marita Hynes Field.
Students screen documentaries, debate current issues
JUan SanchezThe Oklahoma Daily
Students interested in watching and discussing social, po-litical or cultural documentaries are invited to join a peer-led discussion group.
An Honors College watch party hosts a documentary screening 6 p.m. Fridays for anyone — not just honors students — to discuss after the viewing. Usually, the films are critically ac-claimed, so students are familiar with them, said Evan DeFilippis, discussion leader and political science and economics junior.
So far the group has screened three films this semester — “Food Inc.,” “Waiting For Superman” and “Inside Job.”
Honors College Dean David Ray said promoting intellectual discussion on campus has been a goal of his since arriv-ing at the Honors College. The bulk of intellectual discus-sion doesn’t happen in the classroom, but in dining halls or among friends, Ray said.
DeFilippis said Ray asked him and his friends for advice about how to start up more student-led discussion groups around the college. DeFilippis said he brought up the idea of a documentary watch group during a current events meeting he attended with Honors College students.
He said about 30 students have attended each of the three documentaries screened, while 15 of those students usually stay for the discussion afterward.
“I always think it’s incredibly impressive when kids on a Friday will stay for discussion for four hours,” DeFilippis said.
He said while he is the group leader, he doesn’t like to think of himself as one. DeFilippis said his main duties are to open up the room, set up the equipment and lead the discussion.
“Everyone is really active in this, people don’t come to just to put this on their resume,” he said. “They come because they are genuinely interested in the discussion.”
The group’s discussion topics have ranged from the melt-down of the financial markets from 2007 to 2009 to the future of the U.S. public school system. Each documentary has won awards at film festivals such as the Sundance Film Festival,
according to Honors College newsletters.The next steps for the documentary
group include expanding the participat-ing audience and applying for funding to provide snacks during the screenings, DeFilippis said. However, not feeding at-tendees has its benefits, Defilippis said.
“We kind of like not providing food, be-cause then you know the people are com-ing not because they want lunch or dinner, but because they actually care about the discussion,” he said.
DeFilippis said he enjoys the documentaries because they are a better way to facilitate discussion among the students than getting them to read articles or books beforehand, which they don’t end up finishing due to other commitments or time conflicts.
Two more films remain for the documentary watch group to choose this semester.
“We’ve kind of democratized the process. I used to choose them all, but a lot of people are participating through the Facebook page, so I’m going to just throw up a question for which film they want to see next,” DeFilippis said.
The watch party meets at 6 p.m. Fridays in the Joe C and Carole Kerr McClendon Honors College, Room 180. For more information, call the college at 405-325-5291.
Discussion groupsThe Honors College hosts several student-led discussion groups. For more information, email [email protected].
— Source: www.ou.edu/honors
Discussion group meets for movies
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on the World Trade Centers and Pentagon, orchestrated by bin Laden’s al-Qaida or-ganization, that killed more than 3,000 people.
T h e a t t a c k s s e t o f f a chain of events that led the United States into wars in Afghanistan, and then Iraq, and America’s entire intelligence apparatus was overhauled to counter the threat of more terror attacks
at home.A l - Q a i d a a l s o w a s
blamed for the 1998 bomb-ings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 231 peo-ple and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors in Yemen, as well as countless other
plots, some successful and some foiled.
In a statement Sunday night, Former President G e o r g e W . B u s h s a i d Obama called that U.S. forc-es had killed bin Laden.
Bush said, “This momen-tous achievement marks a victory for America, for peo-ple who seek peace around the world, and for all those who lost loved ones on Sept. 11, 2001.”
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We are approaching the end of another aca-demic year. Our stacks of approaching deadlines and finals are thinning, and between the reck-less celebration of these circumstance and studious preparation for our last in-tellectual endeavors of the semester, many of us are thinking the same thing, “What am I going to do with my life?”
We are all bound to do something to feed ourselves. Many of us are privileged to know that because of our degrees, we’ll be able to find work that allows us to sup-port our body’s caloric needs.
Securing shelter is next, and if you’ve got those two things covered, sip a glass of clean, readily available water because you’re sitting prettier than half of the world’s population.
So you’ve got the toolkit to knock out your basic human necessities. You’ve got your biological require-ments met, and now you need to satisfy your social responsibilities.
You should be honest with yourself about your place in the world. As a person with an education, you know how to think and to write and to begin to accomplish your goals.
This knowledge, and the power you have gained through your degree, gives you an advantage over al-
most every other human who has ever existed, and over a vast ma-jority of all the people alive in the world at this moment. So what? What are you going to do with all you’ve got going for you?
Are you going to use your privi-lege to reproduce the same con-ditions of our world — which, de-spite devils living in the details, we can all agree is rather messed up — or to change them?
Don’t tell yourself lies to help yourself sleep better. You know that job with Exxon or the state department isn’t a direct route to making the world a healthier, safer and more enjoyable place
for all the people in it. Will you use your knowledge of math and economic
theory to assist capitalist economies that deliver enor-mous wealth to a just a few, exploiting the labor of the starving masses? Will you use your well-honed writing skills and your knowledge of logical fallacies to keep the rhetoric machine that makes us think war is OK running smoothly? Do you plan to sell yourself to the forces that keep themselves going by keeping other people down?
Make your own decision; I support your freedom and right to self-autonomy and determination.
My realization is this: my freedom and ability to deter-mine my own life is linked to yours, the guy sitting next you, the freedom and ability of people in China, Brazil, Libya, Iran and Angola to do the same, to determine our own lives.
I plan to use the skills I’ve developed here, and the piece of paper that certifies them, in the service of de-struction — destruction of market alienation, destruc-tion of racism, sexism and hetero-normativety.
I plan to use it to start a class war, to call attention to, and to destroy the economic system that enslaves all of us — except those rich enough to buy their freedom.
I plan to use it to call out and shut down all of the un-spoken things that lull us into cooperating with the man-tra “decent lives for a few, misery for the rest, and money for me”.
What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to work in the service of liberating your fellow human beings, or are you going to use your power and your abil-ities to help keep things the way they are?
— Sarah Garrett,anthropology senior
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This is a response to Grant Keeter’s letter, “Atheists need stronger arguments.”
I would like to start by noting I didn’t choose the headline of my letter. I was rather shocked The Daily slapped such an incendiary title on it.
It would seem you have little interest in actually paying at-tention to what I said and where it was directed and instead would rather be snide and patronizing, making grand, sweep-ing assumptions. I did not seek to demean religion in general. I made four basic points that were directed specifically at the original letter I replied to.
First, Christianity’s main purpose is to prepare you for death. The original author stated that his goals were “use-less” before he dedicated himself to Jesus, a sentiment I’ve had argued to me over and over from various people. Christianity does indeed teach that a life not lived preparing
you for death is meaningless. Second, many of the laws in the Bible are culturally biased, something the original author in-sisted was not the case. I Timothy 2:12 states “but I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence, for Adam was first formed, then Eve.” Third, most Christians I have discussed the subject with have this assumption that atheists have a “love of sin,” a term I’ve heard bandied about more times than I can count. I guess the as-sumption is that if you’re not a Christian, you’re just dying to use meth and strangle children or something. Finally, you can most certainly have a fulfulling life outside of religion.
—Colin Kirk,aerospace engineering sophomore
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During the past couple of years, the field of journalism has faced many hurdles. Newsrooms are shrinking, tech-nology is advancing faster than we can and budgets are being cut across the board. To compound this problem, universities have begun to completely shut down their journalism programs. This means, even less people are going to be able to go into the profession to help improve our plight.
Journalists around the world have banded together to spread the word about our shrinking industry for Tuesday’s World Press Freedom Day.
Yes, as practicing journalists we have a vested interest when it comes to the future of journalism and how we can recover from this financial slump, but it is our hope that we can express our ded-ication and love for this industry to our readers.
As stated above, one of the greatest hurdles we are facing is the shrinking newsroom and lack of funding for proper journalism. With fewer journalists in the newsroom, it would be impossible for us to cover every aspect of a topic. The news — which we feel is so important — for our citizens to stay informed about what is going on in their governments would not be as ex-tensive and our representatives could take advantage of this gap.
President Barack Obama said Saturday night at the White House press Correspondence Dinner, “I may not agree with everything you write or report … but I do so with the knowledge that when you are at your best, you help me be at my best by holding us accountable, by demanding honesty, by preventing us from taking shortcuts and fol-lowing into easy political games that people are desper-ately weary of. That kind of reporting is worth preserving. Not just for [journalism’s] sakes but for the public’s.”
We would like to applaud Obama for his glowing re-marks about our profession, and hope our readers share his sentiments. We have been able to produce good con-tent providing students information from how student fees are divvied out to unwarranted raises for certain OU
employees. We hope to continue to provide such quality journalism to our readers, but with problems like what the University of Colorado are facing, the future looks bleak.
In April, Colorado’s Board of Regents decided to shut down their school of journalism. It had been open for 49 years when the 5-4 decision was made to shut it down.
Instead of getting a strictly journalism degree, Colorado students wanting to practice journalism are forced to double major with mass communications. This is unfair to their students; they are forced to take additional class-es that would take away from the time they could spend studying journalism.
We are already a struggling industry, and muddling up our classes with having to double major doesn’t help improve the situation. We are not ready to give up on our profes-sion, and we would hope universities across the nation wouldn’t either.
“I know that each newspaper and media outlet are wrestling with how to respond to these changes, and some are struggling simply to stay open,” Obama
said. “And it won’t be easy, not every ending will be a happy one. But it is also true that your ultimate success as an industry is essential to the success of our democracy. Its what makes this thing work.”
Citizens have become used to getting all of their news for free on the Internet, but even when they choose to go this low-cost route the information is gathered from what we would hope is a legitimate news sources.
It is sad when more people probably tuned in for the NFL draft and royal wedding this weekend than picked up a newspaper. We have become a society so obsessed with famous people and what they are doing that we have for-gotten about what is going on in our government.
We believe Obama summed up the media’s importance best: “A government without newspapers, is a government without a tough and vibrant media of all sorts is not an op-tion for the United States of America.”
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Practicing what you are preachingLETTER TO THE EDITOR
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Trump is bad choice for AmericaAnyone who honestly believes Donald
Trump is a valid option for being president of the United States is sorely mistaken. Over the past few weeks, Trump has moved from talk show to talk show, leaving hints to view-ers about whether or not he is actually going to run for president.
Unfortunately, he has been able to find support from a few members of the Republican party, lending even more unwarranted credibility to his potential campaign. However, those who have actually watched some of Trump’s non-talk show media appearances will realize what a media whore he really is.
From appearances on Wrestlemania to his reality television series, Trump has proven it is all about his ego — a trait no one should want in a president. Whenever anyone attempts to challenge the mogul’s authority he lashes back quickly and violently in order to reestab-lish his alpha-dog status.
What would happen if this were a for-eign power? What if Kim Jong-il speaks ill of Trump’s char-acter? If past reactions are any indicator, he is going to do whatever it takes to heal his ego, whether that means start-ing a war, or creating animosity between nations.
Trump’s ego is not an asset America needs right now. We are still recovering from the financial crisis and cannot even decide on a proper way to balance the budget. We need a leader who will listen and negotiate, not simply say “my way or the highway.”
To reinforce the fact that Trump’s ego cannot handle the responsibilities of being the president, Saturday night at the White House Press Correspondent’s Dinner, both President Barack Obama and Saturday Night Live writer Seth Meyers took quite a few verbal jabs at Trump. At first, Trump chuckled along but after a few minutes his grin quickly turned to a frown.
The man cannot take criticism. We all would feel bad if we
were continuously in the verbal crosshairs of others, but thinking you can be presi-dent and not have to deal with the count-less citizens, politicians, comedians and press outlets who will be scrutinizing your every move is ludicrous.
Trump’s current claim to fame is get-ting Obama to relent and finally release his long-form birth certificate. However, Trump did not hold up his end of the bargain. In return for the birth certificate, Trump was sup-posed to publicly release his tax forms. Why isn’t anyone hounding Trump for his documents in the same way Trump
treated Obama? The man is too hypocriti-cal and egocentric to do what is best for America as a whole.
This leads to my next problem with Trump as president, the man is far too involved in the stock market and with his own business to be neutral in his policy making. Why wouldn’t he pass numer-ous bills that would benefit his compa-nies further on down the road? Why not
give him and his billionaire buddies a huge tax break? If he screws up the country, he can use his billions of dollars to move — something most Americans can’t afford.
I am not attempting to advocate one person over another in the upcoming election season; I am simply stating that Trump in 2012 is the last thing America needs.
I would like to leave you with a quote from Seth Meyers from the correspondent’s dinner: “Mr. Trump may not be a good choice for president, but he would definitely make a great press secretary. How much fun would that be? Kim Jong-il is a loser, his latest rally was a flop. I feel bad for Ahmadinejad, the guy wears a wind breaker, he has no class.”
— Tim French,journalism, senior
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We are not ready to give up on our profession, and we would hope universities across the nation wouldn’t either.”
For those who have actually watched some of Trump’s non-talk show media appearances they will realize what a media whore he really is.”
You should be honest with yourself about your place in the world. As a person with an education, you know how to do think and to write and to begin to accomplish your goals.”
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5 Slight amount
6 Golden calf, infamously
7 Audibly 8 Blue ___
Mountains 9 Wide gulf,
poetically 10 White
elephant, e.g. 11 Friendly
comic strip? 12 Verve 13 The pope
may lead it 18 Rumored
Himalayan beast
24 Spread out, as the fingers
26 Barley beards 28 December
26 event 30 Fall short of
success 31 “Fifteen
Miles on the ___ Canal”
32 Design detail 33 ___ stick
(bouncy transporta-tion)
34 Friendly former foot-ball game?
36 Hither’s partner
37 Sound of discomfort
38 “Victory ___”
(1954 film) 41 Clarified
butter 45 Animated
Springfield minor leaguer
47 Point in the right direction
49 Pitt of the movies
51 Lake near Reno
52 Water vessels by basins
53 Unloads, as stocks
55 1,760-yard racer
56 Host before Paar and Carson
57 Hair arrangement
58 Deep cut 59 Alternative
bread spread 61 Plumlike fruit 65 Covert ___
(army as-signment)
Universal CrosswordEdited by Timothy E. Parker May 2, 2011
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- The size or intricacies of a big project won’t intimidate you. Your talents come more sharply into focus when you’re involved in something huge and signifi cant. It behooves you to go for broke.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Don’t underrate your hunches or premonitions, with the exception of negative ones, because all they’ll do is stop you from trying your best. Use the positive ones to score big.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Whenever there is harmony of purpose, the will to succeed will win out every time. It behooves you to pursue collective endeavors, because if the group wins, every-body wins.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Some-thing you’ve been overlooking for quite some time can be of signifi cant benefi t. Fortunately, you should fi nally start seeing it for what it actually is and what it can offer.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- It behooves you to at least attempt to put back on track a valued relationship that has been faltering lately. Squarely face the problem and do what you can to mend it.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Something rewarding might be beckoning you, but you might hesitate if it’s in an unfamiliar area. Remember, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Go for the gold.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- It’s your attitude that determines the type of responses you get from others. If you want colleagues to be convivial, offer them friendliness in an earnest, sincere and cooperative manner.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Exerting your efforts on behalf of those you love will make your actions seem larger than life. As a result, your sense of accomplish-ment will be huge to you as well.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Your executive qualities will be exceptionally sharp, so if you fi nd yourself involved with a group that needs organization, step to the fore and organize matters.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- If you’re negotiating a delicate but important matter, remember that everything comes to those who wait. Patiently cling to the end results, and the victory you envision will come to pass.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Cu-riosity can be good when it is used to inform and learn. Don’t hesitate to ask questions about something a group involvement that you fail to fully comprehend.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Although you’re a cool-headed individual, your emotions and sen-sitivities could be more acute than usual, working to your advantage by helping you better understand another.
HOROSCOPE By Bernice Bede Osol
Copyright 2010, Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
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4 • Monday, May 2, 2011 The Oklahoma Daily | OUDaily.com
19 musical venues and was situ-ated in an alley between brick buildings and a power station.
During The Pretty Black Chains’ set Friday, the area around the stage was filled with attendees standing shoulder-to-shoulder while watching the performance.
Also on Friday, the group
Monte Negro performed at the Latin Stage. Band members sang in both English and Spanish and stayed in near-constant motion during their set.
Hip-hop artist Jabee, whose lyrics told his story of growing up in Oklahoma City, performed Saturday at the Sooner Theater.
Festival attendee Maddie Lee said the diversity of the crowd was an added incentive to attend.
“I like the variety of it all,” she
said, “It brings out so many differ-ent people — people I didn’t even know lived in Norman — and I love it because of that.”
Jennifer Brightwell attended the festival with her children and said she was impressed by the festival’s family-friendly atmosphere.
“I think this festival is just a great place to bring your family and have a good time,” Brightwell said.
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MATT CARNEY/THE DAILY
Top: Oklahoma City-native Jabee performs at the Sooner
Theatre during Norman Music Festival on Saturday in
downtown Norman. Jabee was one of 13 acts to perform at the theater during the three-
day festival.
Right: Jacob Abello sings to a crowd at the Blackwatch
Stage during Norman Music Festival on Friday.
MATT CARNEY/THE DAILY
While some hardened Norman Music Festival goers managed to craft their weekend schedule with the best-possible bands, I wasn’t sure I would at-tend my first festival until Friday, when I decided I should immerse myself in one of the only hipster events Norman has.
9:30 P.M. — Meet three of my friends outside the Sooner Theatre to plan our evening. We pore over a crumpled schedule. I get distracted by the carnival across the street.
9:45 P.M. — Get to the Opolis, where we plan on seeing Stardeath and White Dwarfs. We pile into the tiny venue. I get a beer spilled on me.
9:55 P.M. — We realize Stardeath is playing at the outside Opolis venue. We rush for the door.
10 P.M. — The bands are either an hour behind or the schedule was wrong. We decide to scrap this band and head down Main Street to find something else.
10:15 P.M. — We stop and watch a Latin rock band
called Monte Negro at the Jagermeister Stage. I drool over the fair food. Music isn’t the dominant thing on my mind right now.
10:30 P.M. — We head over to the Blackwatch Stage to catch the end of the Burning Hotels. After asking
a security guard where we were, he informed us the festival had its own iPhone app.
11 P.M. — We watch The Pretty Black Chains. The lead singer comments on all of the weed in the audience. The man next to me pours vodka into a Big Gulp cup.
11:45 P.M. — We leave for the Brewhouse Stage, where there is a line forming for Hush Hush Commotion.
12:30 A.M. — Hush Hush Commotion finally goes on. Worth the wait.
1 A.M. — We head home, exhausted and smelling of smoke. I think my night was a success.
— Sydney allen, University College freshman
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My first Norman Music FestivalFeSTIVaL SIGHTS
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SPORTS oudaily.coM ›› ou baseball team avoids sweep with win over Texas on Sunday afternoon in austin
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Sooners split Texas seriesTeam upsets No. 3 Texas on Saturday for Longhorns’ first conference loss
TObi NeiDyThe Oklahoma Daily
With nothing to lose going into the series, the No. 15 Oklahoma Sooner softball team found a way to hand Texas its first conference loss of the season with a 5-2 win Saturday before settling for a weekend split in Austin.
The Sooners lost the sec-ond game of the series, 5-3.
OU made multiple lineup changes over the weekend but found ways to play as a team against a Longhorn program that had only four losses this season.
Sophomore home-run hitter Jessica Shults started at the designated player po-sition, allowing freshman Brittany Williams some ex-perience as catcher.
S o p h o m o re i n f i e l d e r Brianna Turang did not play in the first game after suffering an injury before Wednesday’s game against Oklahoma State.
O n S u n d a y , s o p h o -mores Michelle Gascoigne and Keilani Ricketts split the work on the mound. Ricketts allowed six hits and four earned runs before Gascoigne was brought in to finish the game.
Gascoigne allowed two hits and struck out three during 2.2 innings
After falling behind in the first inning for the sec-ond time over the weekend, Texas mounted a three-run performance in the third to take the lead for good.
James Corley/The Daily
Sophomore pitcher Keilani Ricketts pitches in a game earlier this season. The Sooners beat Texas, 5-2, on Saturday before falling to the Longhorns, 5-3, on Sunday in Austin.
The Sooners mounted a two-out rally in the seventh inning after falling behind, 5-3, in the fifth.
Shults hit a single to right field before Ricketts walked to bring the go-ahead run to the plate in senior third baseman Dani Dobbs.
But Dobbs flied out to center field to end the game, ending the come-from-be-hind opportunity.
The Sooners jumped to a 1-0 lead in the first in-ning Saturday after Shults
knocked in senior Chana’e Jones.
OU tacked on runs in the third and fifth innings before junior Katie Norris blasted a solo homer to give the Sooners the team’s larg-est lead, 5-0.
The Longhorns put up two runs in the bottom of the seventh, but the Sooners still ended Texas’ unblemished 12-0 conference record.
Ricketts was instrumental in the Longhorn defeat, cap-turing OU’s single-season
strikeout record with 10 Ks in the game. Ricketts limited Texas to four hits and three walks.
North Texas is next on the Sooners’ schedule. OU hosts the Mean Green for a mid-week matchup at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Marita Hynes Field.
The North Texas game begins a three-game home stand for the Sooners as they finish the regular schedule with a series against Iowa State this weekend.
Nfl
Oklahoma players selected in later rounds of 2011 NFL Draft
Four sooners were picked in the NFl Draft over the weekend. oU didn’t produce three of the top-5 picks like 2010, but with first-round talents Travis lewis and ryan Broyles opting to return for their senior years, 2011 was as good as expected.
— James Corley/The Daily
deMarco Murray | 3rd Round, Pick 71 | dallas cowboysThis pick made all parties involved happy.
sooner fans have another reason to make the trek down i-35 to JerryWorld, Jerry Jones will have a few thousand more butts in his seats and bucks in his pocket and murray joins a Cowboy backfield with a strong chance to see the field early and often as a running back and special-teams contributor.
Dallas’ move to acquire murray further signals the expected departure of marion Barber, who didn’t do much last season, and that’s great news for murray. Though Felix Jones and Tashard Choice will get carries before murray, neither have been entirely what Dallas had hoped.
Quinton carter | 4th Round, Pick 108 | denver broncosDenver and new front-office man John elway
addressed the defense over the weekend, taking two linebackers and two safeties with four of the Broncos’ first five picks.
elway tweeted that Carter was high on the organization’s draft board and that he was happy the safety was still around for Denver.
Carter could have an impact early because the Broncos’ current secondary consists of aged, veteran players in need of youth, energy and speed.
Jonathan Nelson | 7th Round, Pick 229 | St. louis RamsNelson joins former sooners mark Clayton, C.J. ah you and
sam Bradford on the rams’ roster. The arlington, Texas, native was an anchor on the sooners’ otherwise-young secondary last season.
Jeremy beal | 7th Round, Pick 247 | denver broncosFew expected Beal to drop deep into the seventh round,
but elway spoke highly of Beal’s talent and productivity in a tweet after the Broncos acquired the Carrollton, Texas, native.
most analysts agree the defensive end was a big steal for Denver so late in the draft to polish off the Broncos’ defense-rebuilding project.
DeMarco Murray
QuintonCarter
President David Boren Invites
All Students To an open discussion of the University’s budget, including possible impacts related to tuition and fees for the next school year.
3 p.m.
Wednesday, May 4
Beaird LoungeOklahoma Memorial Union
The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution.
For accommodations on the basis of disability, please call the Office of Special Events at (405) 325-3784.
President David Boren Invites
All Students To an open discussion of the University’s budget, including possible impacts related to tuition and fees for the next school year.
3 p.m.
Wednesday, May 4
Beaird LoungeOklahoma Memorial Union
The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution.
For accommodations on the basis of disability, please call the Office of Special Events at (405) 325-3784.
