The student government president’s vision of con-solidating UOSA’s Executive Branch hit a road block Tuesday.
Undergraduate Student Congress voted on UOSA President Joe Sangirardi’s Departmental Consolidation and Efficiency Act, approv-ing the consolidation of the Academics and Off-Campus Living and Transportation departments but not approv-ing the consolidation of the Department of Health, which was created April 15.
The consolidation act was
one of Sangirardi’s platform issues before he assumed office.
“I really think this will make our student govern-ment run more efficiently,” Sangirardi said.
The bill Sangirardi origi-nally submitted to Student Congress consolidated the Academics, Off-Campus Living and Transportation and Health departments
into the executive branch’s Interior and Exterior depart-ments. Student Congress decided to split up the bill and vote on the Academics and Off-Campus Living and Transportation depart-ments separately from the Department of Health.
Former vice chair Kelbie Kennedy said consolidating the departments would put the same amount of work
on fewer students. Kennedy said removing the depart-ments would limit future presidents.
“Why not let future presi-dents have the idea and bone structure that has already worked in the past?” Kennedy said. “If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Sangirardi said he appre-ciated the discussion about consolidation but ultimately disagreed with the outcome of the vote.
“I disagree with their trying to govern another branch,” Sangirardi said.
The part of the act UOSA approved will be submitted to Graduate Student Senate for their meeting at 7 p.m. Sunday in Sarkeys Energy Center, Room A-235.
JAKE MORGANCampus Reporter
Newly introduced, stricter language in Oklahoma legis-lation regarding amateur boxing has forced OU fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon to cancel indefinitely its 10th annual boxing tournament benefitting Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
Event organizers projected to break their previous fund-raising record and raise around $14,000 for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, but they are in the process of returning monetary contributions from ticket holders, sponsors and alumni.
Last year, Sigma Alpha Epsilon donated $8,500 to the children’s charity. The event raised more money than any other fraternity philanthropies, Interfraternity Council President Nick Coffey said.
This year’s event was scheduled for April 13, but event chairman Rich Hyde said he announced its cancellation a week before the event upon realizing there was no way to work around the legislative changes.
“I figured it would be fine, but when I did find out, we only had two weeks to make a decision,” Hyde said.
The legislative changes apply to Title 3A in Oklahoma State Statutes and will become effective July 1, said Joe Miller, Oklahoma State Athletic Commission director. While the law has always required amateur boxing events be sanctioned, the legal modifications will more clearly define what falls within the law when it comes to amateur boxing events.
“The law was there, but it wasn’t real,” Miller said. “[SAE’s boxing tournament] has technically been considered ille-gal, but the problem arises from miscommunication and misinterpretation.”
The fraternity’s amateur boxing event has been able to take place illegally under previous legislation because the commission lacks the financial resources to enforce regu-lation, Miller said.
“We’re not the boxing police, and it’s never been that ap-pealing for law enforcement to take action,” Miller said.
The death of University of Tulsa linebacker George Clinkscale III at an unsanctioned church boxing event Sept. 22 in Tulsa prompted the new language over amateur boxing events in Oklahoma. The autopsy report showed that Clinkscale had died of complications from sickle cell anemia and sudden exertion, the Tulsa World reported.
“[Clinkscale’s death] broke our backbone a little bit more,” philanthropy chairman Alex Albert said.
In addition to the tighter legal language, the changes also redefine penalties for organizing an unsanctioned event. Before, the offense was considered a misdemeanor and in-cluded a $500 fine. Organizers can now face a $5,000 felony under the new changes.
“Miller is correct that the event is not sanctioned,” Hyde said. “The law was extremely vague, and it just wasn’t as taken as seriously before.”
While the event was never officially sanctioned, Hyde said event organizers annually meet most of the provisions required by the Oklahoma State Athletic Commission and USA Boxing. A few of these aspects include insurance for the entire event, physicals before fighters enter the ring, professional referees and appropriate protective gear.
“Everyone was devastated,” Albert said. “Many people came up to me and asked, ‘Is it really canceled? Was that
BENNETT HALLCampus Reporter
A staff association will hold a tour of proposed bike routes as part of OU
Staff Week and efforts to make OU a bicycle-friendly university.
The Informational Staff Association will host the tour at 10 a.m. today begin-ning at the fountain of the OU College of Continuing Education building. People are encouraged to bring
their bikes to join the tour and learn about possible bike routes.
T h e b i k e r o u t e t o u r comes just two weeks after the Faculty Senate unani-mously passed a resolution outlining a tentative plan to improve bicycling con-ditions on campus, said
Scott Moses, Committee on Faculty Welfare chairman.
The senate eventually wants to see OU certified as a bicycle-friendly university by the League of American Bicyclists.
Both the Staff and Faculty Senate call for OU to be des-ignated a bicycle-friendly
university within the next five years, according to the resolutions.
Currently, 35 U.S. univer-sities have bronze, silver, gold or platinum status as bicycle-friendly universi-ties, and most of them are on the east and west coasts, according to the league’s
website. A p p l i c a t i o n s f o r t h e
designation are due each July, and certification in-volves an evaluation of five components.
Norman and Tulsa are the only two bicycle-friendly
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The Cat in the Hat will come to campus in ‘Seussical’ (Page B1)
EDITORIALNorman could benefit from bicycle friendlinessOU can’t improve conditions for cyclists without the city’s cooperation, and students can make that happen. (Page A4)
SPORTSSooners lose Bedlam battle to Oklahoma StateThe Cowboys bested OU, 6-1, Tuesday in Stillwater after Oklahoma blew a 1-0 lead.(Page B5)
Exhibit shows off Oklahoma culture, clayThe Daily gives you an inside look at the cultural celebration of the new Oklahoma Clay: Frankoma exhibit. (Multimedia)
Geology senior Shelly Wernette reads as she donates blood Tuesday in Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Oklahoma Blood Institute will return to the stadium from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today to continue collecting donations. (Page A3)
Tuesday
Friday
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Pharmaceutical invoice data from Goddard Health Center from August 2011 to present — To learn if use of certain drugs increases as � nals week approaches.
Most recent contract between OU and Apple Inc. — To better understand Apple’s relationship with OU’s journalism college after it was named to the Apple Distinguished Educators program.
List of events that served alcohol during � scal year 2011 at the Oklahoma Memorial Union — To better understand the number and types of events granted the ability to serve alcohol.
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FACULTY SENATE
Officials call for bicycle-friendly OUStaff group to hold tour of proposed routes today
SEE BIKES PAGE A2
SEE BOXING PAGE A3
PHILANTHROPY
Sig Ep boxing tournament knocked out State tightens laws’ vague wording, which forced fraternity to cancel event
Student screams through course
MELODIE LETTKEMAN/THE DAILY
Petroleum engineering sophomore Ali Milo shouts as he passes the first obstacles of an inflatable course Tuesday on the South Oval. Healthy Sooners offered the course as an opportunity for physical activity to help students relax before dead week.
To see more campus life photos from Tuesday, see page B6.
Congress OKs part of consolidation billUOSA
• Consolidating the Academics and Off-Campus Living and Transportation Departments into the Executive Branch Interior and Exterior Departments:
17 “yes,” � ve “no” and one abstained• Consolidating the Department of Health: 17 “no,” � ve “yes” and two abstained
AT A GLANCE Voting resultsUOSA votes to keep health department
communities in Oklahoma , according to the league’s website.
OU is already in the pro-cess of becoming more bicycle-friendly, assistant to the vice president Lezlie Marsh said.
In 2008, the university hired MA+ Architecture and Alta Planning+Design to draw plans for the upcom-ing improvements, referred to as the bicycle master plan, which began last year.
“The plans for the bike improvements do not cur-rently have a set budget, but funds will be allocated as they are needed,” Marsh said.
OU currently has about 5,000 feet of bicycle routes on campus, Marsh said.
“The proposed master plan identifies an estimated additional 38,000 feet of bi-cycle routes via the use of existing, widened or new paving for shared bikeways or bike lanes,” Marsh said.
Along with bike lane ex-tensions, OU will add more bike racks as biking be-comes more popular, Marsh said.
More than $100,000 in university funds have been put toward bike rack ad-ditions around university buildings during the past three years due to demand.
The master plan will also be incorporated into the future Scholars Walk, a pe-destrian walkway that will go along the east side of the South Oval, said Nick Hathaway, chairman of the Bicycle Master Plan Steering Committee.
The Scholars Walk does not yet have a final design set in place, so there is no
Chris Miller, assistant campus [email protected] • phone: 405-325-3666
A2 • Wednesday, April 25, 2012
CAMPUS
CORRECTIONSThe Oklahoma Daily is committed to serving readers with accurate coverage and welcomes your comments about information that may require correction or clarification. To contact us with corrections, email us at [email protected].
A Tuesday news story, “OU professors preparing for Arezzo program,” was unclear about the responsibilities of Italian literature professor Jason Houston, who will head up OU in Arezzo’s 2012 and 2013 summer language program.
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TODAY AROUND CAMPUSA Latin Americanist Lunch featuring Marcelo Rioseco, assistant professor of Spanish Literature, will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Hester Hall, Room 160.
A seminar about time management will take place at 2 p.m. in Adams Center’s Muldrow Tower, Room 105.
The baseball team plays Dallas Baptist at 6:30 p.m. at L. Dale Mitchell Park.
The softball team plays Oklahoma State at 7 p.m. at Marita Hynes Field.
A lecture, Speaking Truth to Power, by the Center for Social Justice’s activist-in-residence, Lauren Zuniga, will be held at 7 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Regents Room.
A hornsemble concert will take place at 8 p.m. at Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall.
A string students chamber recital will be held at 8 p.m. at Catlett Music Center’s Pitman Recital Hall.
THURSDAY, APRIL 26Write Club Creative Writers Writing Group will host its weekly open mic at 7 p.m. at Café Plaid, located at 333 West Boyd St. The event is open to all community members to read their works or listen to other’s.
CAMPUS Wednesday, April 25, 2012 • A3
BIKES: Master plan includes lane expansionsContinued from page A1
ILLUSTRATION BY JAMES CORLEY/THE DAILY
NIKKI SELF/THE DAILY
just a joke?”Si tu ate d at t h e A sp
Avenue parking lot on Campus Corner, the fights typically take place in a ring during a spring afternoon. Last year, the event drew about 2,000 attendees.
Many of the fighters begin training months in advance for the event, and some even join gyms to prepare for the bouts, Albert said.
Hyde he fought in the tournament as a freshman, and he even joined a box-ing gym two months be-fore the event, he said.
“I thought I knew how to box, and after two months of training, I thought I was pro,” Hyde said. “When I got into the ring, every-thing I learned went out the window.”
The fraternity provided all of the elements to cre-ate the sense a professional boxing ring, Albert said.
“They may not be the best boxers in the world, and they are not at all, but it’s definitely a boxing tour-nament,” Albert said.
Albert and Hyde said the fraternity’s philanthropy stands out from the others because it brings the greek and student community together without attach-ing a specific label to the event.
“Basically it’s a bunch of guys beating each other up, and all your friends who come to watch are hanging out,” Albert said. “It took the greek aspect out of it.”
Hyde said he views the event in broader terms.
“It’s a campuswide date party,” Hyde said.
certainty on how to incorpo-rate bicycle-friendly routes yet, Hathaway said.
A buffered bicycle lane is slated to be put in place on Asp Avenue south to Timberdell Road, which will coordinate with Scholars Walk construction, Marsh said. All plans are still sub-ject to change throughout
the project.T h e C o m m i t t e e o n
Faculty Welfare formed the original draft of the resolu-tion, which identifies the environmental and health benefits of becoming bike friendly.
“Resolutions are one of the means that faculty can draw awareness to issues
and indicate to the univer-sity administration that they support a certain action,” Moses said.
OU President David Boren w i l l re v i e w t h e Fa c u l t y S e nat e re s o l u t i o n , a n d Hathaway, executive vice-president of finance and ad-ministration, will review the Staff Senate resolution.
AJINUR SETIWALDICampus Reporter
T h e O U a t h l e t i c d e -partment is collaborat-ing w ith the O klahoma Blood Institute to host a blood drive from 9 a.m. to 3p.m. today at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium .
The dr ive is a par t of the annual Bedlam Blood Drive competition between OU and Oklahoma State University .
Individuals are required to fill out a registration form and go through a screening before they donate blood.
The process takes about 45 minutes, blood insti-tute spokeswoman Andrea Heister said.
The drive is open to the public, and anyone 16 years and older can donate if they meet health requirements, according to an Oklahoma B l o o d I n s t i t u t e p r e s s release.
MELODIE LETTKEMAN/THE DAILY
Chrissy Harris (right) collects test samples of geology senior Shelly Wernette’s (left) blood Tuesday during a blood drive sponsored by the OU athletic department. The drive continues today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the north end of Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
Above: Meterology sophomore Ben Lehman tries to pass some pedestrians on his way to class by the laundry facility between the residence halls. This is one place where a more bike friendly campus is needed.
Left: States containing bicycle-friendly universities are colored red, and each dot represents a university the League of American Bicyclists considers to be bicycle-friendly.
BOXING: Event was not legal, chair saysContinued from page A1
SPEAKER
South African author to speak at OU
The OU Office of the President and Department of History will present author and speaker Mark Mathabane at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Dale Hall, Room 211.
Mathabane was born in South Africa to a destitute family during the time of the apartheid, according to his website.
Mathabane is noted for his books, including the autobiography “Kaffir Boy,” which chronicles his childhood and has appeared on such programs as “Charlie Rose” and “The Oprah
Winfrey Show.” During a time of racial segrega-
tion and political and economic dis-crimination against non-European groups, Mathabane, the oldest of seven children, lived in a shack in a one square mile ghetto home to more than 200,000 people, accord-ing to his website.
Using tennis as a means to gain freedom from the ghetto, Mathabane got a scholarship in 1978 with the help of 1972 Wimbledon champion Stan Smith.
He graduated cum laude from Dowling College in Oakdale, N.Y., in 1983 with a degree in economics, ac-cording to his website.
Sam Higgins, Campus Reporter
SCHOLARSHIP
Families give $500K gift to College of Law
The Aubrey K. McClendon and Aubrey M. Kerr Jr. families have en-dowed the OU College of Law with $500,000 in honor of Aubrey M. Kerr Sr.
Beginning in fall 2012 , the Aubrey M. Kerr Sr. Scholarship will award $25,000 annually to students with a demonstrated interest in energy and natural resources law, according to a press release.
The scholarship will award in-coming and current students in the juris doctor program and the John B.
Turner LL.M. program, which spe-cializes in energy, natural resources, and indigenous peoples law, accord-ing to a press release.
“The Kerr and McClendon fami-lies have helped shape the oil and gas industry in our state and nation, therefore this endowed scholar-ship will be given to students with a demonstrated interest in energy and natural resources law,” said Joseph Harroz , OU College of Law dean.
The scholarship was announced at the student award ceremony last Friday, as organizers felt the an-nouncement was appropriate for the event, public affairs director Evie Holzer said.
Sean Lawson, Campus Reporter
BEDLAM BLOOD DRIVE
OU athletics hosts blood driveRed Cross saysO-negative the most requested blood type
D o n o r s r e c e i v e a n Oklahoma Blood Institute T-shirt, free health screen-ings and Donor Rewards Points.
There will also be free prize drawings, according
to the release. T h e b l o o d t y p e m o s t
often requested by hospi-tals is Type O, according to the American Red Cross.
O-negative blood-type donors are universal donors
because their blood can be donated to people of all blood types, according to the American Red Cross.
Students should eat and hydrate well before donat-ing blood, Heister said.
Individuals must have a photo ID to donate, Heister s a i d . S t u d e n t I D s a r e accepted.
About 9 percent of people in the U.S. have O-negative blood type, according to the American Association of Blood Banks.
All blood types are need-ed to maintain Oklahoma Blood Institute’s supply, but individuals with O-negative blood are especially en-couraged to apply, Heister said.
Koby Seitter, a multidis-ciplinary senior, said she donated frequently.
This time, she is register-ing to donate blood mar-row. She said she will con-tinue to donate in the com-ing seasons.
“I think it’s worth the time it takes to get the oppor-tunity to potentially help someone,” Seitter said.
Meaghan Fuhrman , a sci-ence education sophomore, said she donates because she hopes that someone else will do the same for her if she needed blood.
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communities in Oklahoma , according to the league’s website.
OU is already in the pro-cess of becoming more bicycle-friendly, assistant to the vice president Lezlie Marsh said.
In 2008, the university hired MA+ Architecture and Alta Planning+Design to draw plans for the upcom-ing improvements, referred to as the bicycle master plan, which began last year.
“The plans for the bike improvements do not cur-rently have a set budget, but funds will be allocated as they are needed,” Marsh said.
OU currently has about 5,000 feet of bicycle routes on campus, Marsh said.
“The proposed master plan identifies an estimated additional 38,000 feet of bi-cycle routes via the use of existing, widened or new paving for shared bikeways or bike lanes,” Marsh said.
Along with bike lane ex-tensions, OU will add more bike racks as biking be-comes more popular, Marsh said.
More than $100,000 in university funds have been put toward bike rack ad-ditions around university buildings during the past three years due to demand.
The master plan will also be incorporated into the future Scholars Walk, a pe-destrian walkway that will go along the east side of the South Oval, said Nick Hathaway, chairman of the Bicycle Master Plan Steering Committee.
The Scholars Walk does not yet have a final design set in place, so there is no
Chris Miller, assistant campus [email protected] • phone: 405-325-3666
A2 • Wednesday, April 25, 2012
CAMPUS
CORRECTIONSThe Oklahoma Daily is committed to serving readers with accurate coverage and welcomes your comments about information that may require correction or clarification. To contact us with corrections, email us at [email protected].
A Tuesday news story, “OU professors preparing for Arezzo program,” was unclear about the responsibilities of Italian literature professor Jason Houston, who will head up OU in Arezzo’s 2012 and 2013 summer language program.
Visit OUDaily.com/corrections to see an archive of our corrections
TODAY AROUND CAMPUSA Latin Americanist Lunch featuring Marcelo Rioseco, assistant professor of Spanish Literature, will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Hester Hall, Room 160.
A seminar about time management will take place at 2 p.m. in Adams Center’s Muldrow Tower, Room 105.
The baseball team plays Dallas Baptist at 6:30 p.m. at L. Dale Mitchell Park.
The softball team plays Oklahoma State at 7 p.m. at Marita Hynes Field.
A lecture, Speaking Truth to Power, by the Center for Social Justice’s activist-in-residence, Lauren Zuniga, will be held at 7 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Regents Room.
A hornsemble concert will take place at 8 p.m. at Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall.
A string students chamber recital will be held at 8 p.m. at Catlett Music Center’s Pitman Recital Hall.
THURSDAY, APRIL 26Write Club Creative Writers Writing Group will host its weekly open mic at 7 p.m. at Café Plaid, located at 333 West Boyd St. The event is open to all community members to read their works or listen to other’s.
CAMPUS Wednesday, April 25, 2012 • A3
BIKES: Master plan includes lane expansionsContinued from page A1
ILLUSTRATION BY JAMES CORLEY/THE DAILY
NIKKI SELF/THE DAILY
just a joke?”Si tu ate d at t h e A sp
Avenue parking lot on Campus Corner, the fights typically take place in a ring during a spring afternoon. Last year, the event drew about 2,000 attendees.
Many of the fighters begin training months in advance for the event, and some even join gyms to prepare for the bouts, Albert said.
Hyde he fought in the tournament as a freshman, and he even joined a box-ing gym two months be-fore the event, he said.
“I thought I knew how to box, and after two months of training, I thought I was pro,” Hyde said. “When I got into the ring, every-thing I learned went out the window.”
The fraternity provided all of the elements to cre-ate the sense a professional boxing ring, Albert said.
“They may not be the best boxers in the world, and they are not at all, but it’s definitely a boxing tour-nament,” Albert said.
Albert and Hyde said the fraternity’s philanthropy stands out from the others because it brings the greek and student community together without attach-ing a specific label to the event.
“Basically it’s a bunch of guys beating each other up, and all your friends who come to watch are hanging out,” Albert said. “It took the greek aspect out of it.”
Hyde said he views the event in broader terms.
“It’s a campuswide date party,” Hyde said.
certainty on how to incorpo-rate bicycle-friendly routes yet, Hathaway said.
A buffered bicycle lane is slated to be put in place on Asp Avenue south to Timberdell Road, which will coordinate with Scholars Walk construction, Marsh said. All plans are still sub-ject to change throughout
the project.T h e C o m m i t t e e o n
Faculty Welfare formed the original draft of the resolu-tion, which identifies the environmental and health benefits of becoming bike friendly.
“Resolutions are one of the means that faculty can draw awareness to issues
and indicate to the univer-sity administration that they support a certain action,” Moses said.
OU President David Boren w i l l re v i e w t h e Fa c u l t y S e nat e re s o l u t i o n , a n d Hathaway, executive vice-president of finance and ad-ministration, will review the Staff Senate resolution.
AJINUR SETIWALDICampus Reporter
T h e O U a t h l e t i c d e -partment is collaborat-ing w ith the O klahoma Blood Institute to host a blood drive from 9 a.m. to 3p.m. today at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium .
The dr ive is a par t of the annual Bedlam Blood Drive competition between OU and Oklahoma State University .
Individuals are required to fill out a registration form and go through a screening before they donate blood.
The process takes about 45 minutes, blood insti-tute spokeswoman Andrea Heister said.
The drive is open to the public, and anyone 16 years and older can donate if they meet health requirements, according to an Oklahoma B l o o d I n s t i t u t e p r e s s release.
MELODIE LETTKEMAN/THE DAILY
Chrissy Harris (right) collects test samples of geology senior Shelly Wernette’s (left) blood Tuesday during a blood drive sponsored by the OU athletic department. The drive continues today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the north end of Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
Above: Meterology sophomore Ben Lehman tries to pass some pedestrians on his way to class by the laundry facility between the residence halls. This is one place where a more bike friendly campus is needed.
Left: States containing bicycle-friendly universities are colored red, and each dot represents a university the League of American Bicyclists considers to be bicycle-friendly.
BOXING: Event was not legal, chair saysContinued from page A1
SPEAKER
South African author to speak at OU
The OU Office of the President and Department of History will present author and speaker Mark Mathabane at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Dale Hall, Room 211.
Mathabane was born in South Africa to a destitute family during the time of the apartheid, according to his website.
Mathabane is noted for his books, including the autobiography “Kaffir Boy,” which chronicles his childhood and has appeared on such programs as “Charlie Rose” and “The Oprah
Winfrey Show.” During a time of racial segrega-
tion and political and economic dis-crimination against non-European groups, Mathabane, the oldest of seven children, lived in a shack in a one square mile ghetto home to more than 200,000 people, accord-ing to his website.
Using tennis as a means to gain freedom from the ghetto, Mathabane got a scholarship in 1978 with the help of 1972 Wimbledon champion Stan Smith.
He graduated cum laude from Dowling College in Oakdale, N.Y., in 1983 with a degree in economics, ac-cording to his website.
Sam Higgins, Campus Reporter
SCHOLARSHIP
Families give $500K gift to College of Law
The Aubrey K. McClendon and Aubrey M. Kerr Jr. families have en-dowed the OU College of Law with $500,000 in honor of Aubrey M. Kerr Sr.
Beginning in fall 2012 , the Aubrey M. Kerr Sr. Scholarship will award $25,000 annually to students with a demonstrated interest in energy and natural resources law, according to a press release.
The scholarship will award in-coming and current students in the juris doctor program and the John B.
Turner LL.M. program, which spe-cializes in energy, natural resources, and indigenous peoples law, accord-ing to a press release.
“The Kerr and McClendon fami-lies have helped shape the oil and gas industry in our state and nation, therefore this endowed scholar-ship will be given to students with a demonstrated interest in energy and natural resources law,” said Joseph Harroz , OU College of Law dean.
The scholarship was announced at the student award ceremony last Friday, as organizers felt the an-nouncement was appropriate for the event, public affairs director Evie Holzer said.
Sean Lawson, Campus Reporter
BEDLAM BLOOD DRIVE
OU athletics hosts blood driveRed Cross saysO-negative the most requested blood type
D o n o r s r e c e i v e a n Oklahoma Blood Institute T-shirt, free health screen-ings and Donor Rewards Points.
There will also be free prize drawings, according
to the release. T h e b l o o d t y p e m o s t
often requested by hospi-tals is Type O, according to the American Red Cross.
O-negative blood-type donors are universal donors
because their blood can be donated to people of all blood types, according to the American Red Cross.
Students should eat and hydrate well before donat-ing blood, Heister said.
Individuals must have a photo ID to donate, Heister s a i d . S t u d e n t I D s a r e accepted.
About 9 percent of people in the U.S. have O-negative blood type, according to the American Association of Blood Banks.
All blood types are need-ed to maintain Oklahoma Blood Institute’s supply, but individuals with O-negative blood are especially en-couraged to apply, Heister said.
Koby Seitter, a multidis-ciplinary senior, said she donated frequently.
This time, she is register-ing to donate blood mar-row. She said she will con-tinue to donate in the com-ing seasons.
“I think it’s worth the time it takes to get the oppor-tunity to potentially help someone,” Seitter said.
Meaghan Fuhrman , a sci-ence education sophomore, said she donates because she hopes that someone else will do the same for her if she needed blood.
NEWS BRIEFS
* Some restrictions apply. Offer valid April 2nd-8th.*Some restrictions apply. Offer valid April 2nd-8th.
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and full-sized washer/dryer in every unit. No other residence can compete.
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Our View: Norman and OU must do more to welcome cyclists.
OU soon could be working toward certification as a Bicycle Friendly University from the League of American Bicyclists. The Faculty Senate’s re-cently passed resolution to that effect could result in huge improvements to the experience of cyclists on campus.
But this effort cannot be focused on OU alone.
Norman does not have a culture that en-courages biking. How can OU students be expected to add cycling to their lifestyles when the greater city doesn’t cooperate?
Norman already has been given the bronze clas-sification in the League of American Bicyclists’ Encouragement category, but this is not enough. The city lacks ranking in the other four categories and resides in the 43rd worst state for cyclists, ac-cording to the League.
Encouraging a bicycling culture in Norman and on campus will benefit the environment, im-prove the health of the community and decrease traffic and parking pressures. OU and the greater Norman community should work together to in-vest in greater bike friendliness.
The most important way to improve bicycle friendliness is through creating a bicycling culture in the community. This can be accomplished by focusing on three key areas:
InfrastructureSurveys by the League of American Bicyclists
have shown that infrastructure development is the most important factor that determines whether people cycle. The creation of a complete, connect-ed infrastructure is essential to making bicycling safe and convenient in a city.
This begins with bike lanes. All the major roads should have bike lanes or parallel bike trails that enable safe access to all parts of the city.
These features must be continuous and con-nected so cyclists don’t end up stranded in certain parts of the city. This also means ensuring cyclists have access to bridges, underpasses and other features that block travel.
Norman could start this process by ensuring complete, connected sidewalks along all major roads — an improvement that also would increase pedestrian safety — and make it legal to cycle on sidewalks.
Then, the city should move on to dedicated bike lanes and examine the potential for parallel bike trails.
Businesses also can help improve the cycling infrastructure by ensuring that bicycle parking is accessible and convenient. And OU and Norman could improve access to bicycles by operating
bike rental programs.In addition to renovation, city officials should
take a proactive approach by ensuring that fu-ture improvement and construction projects are planned with all manners of transport in mind — pedestrian, cyclist and motorist.
EducationThe next step is education. Once the infrastructure is in place
to guarantee citizens they will be safe and have access to the whole city if they choose to bike, it is important to educate about cycling safety and encourage citi-zens to choose cycling over driving.
This means programs in schools to familiar-ize children with bicycles and cycling safety, and safety courses available for adults — both on the driver’s side and on the cyclist’s side.
Norman also could work with the state gov-ernment to add cycling safety to the driver’s education curriculum to improve driver-cyclist relations.
It also means promoting citywide events, such as Bike to Work Day or Biking Month, that will in-fluence the community and bring attention to cy-cling in Norman.
The city also could launch a media campaign to encourage cycling.
LegalCity laws and law enforcement must guard cy-
clists’ equal right to the roadways, protect cyclists from careless and reckless drivers, and ensure cy-clists themselves follow the rules.
This could entail training for law enforcement and advocacy campaigns to change local laws to further protect and define the rights of cyclists, pedestrians and motorists.
Cyclists should have the same rights as motor vehicles. This includes requiring safe passing from motorists, the ability to control the travel lane when passing is impossible, and access to all parts of the roadway and all major roads (with a few logical exceptions).
In order to help make Norman a truly bicycle-friendly city, you can bring these concerns and suggestions to your Norman City Council mem-bers and advocate for the city to prioritize cycling issues.
To continue these improvements on OU’s campus, you can bring these issues to your new Student Congress representatives.
And, most importantly, do your part by leaving the car at home and cycling to school or work.
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CISPA endangers civil liberties The Stop Online
Piracy Act wasn’t the government’s
last attempt to control the Internet.
Recently, support has amassed behind another proposed law called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA .
The law isn’t identical to SOPA, but it is similar insofar as it tackles a legitimate problem by endangering civil liberties.
Many questions remain about CISPA. Talk of the bill has been quieter than the last proposal of Internet regula-tion, the infamous SOPA.
Here I’d like to pull some basic information together to answer some questions readers likely have about this “security measure” — namely, how it works and why it’s controversial.
What is CISPA’s goal and how does it work?CISPA is a legislative effort to thwart cybercrime. In order
to accomplish this goal, it would allow companies to share the private information they gather about users with the government.
Who supports it?Unlike SOPA, CISPA has widespread support by many
companies including AT&T, Facebook, Microsoft and Verizon . The bill has over 100 cosponsors in Congress.
Why is it controversial?As was the case with SOPA, it all comes down to vague-
ness. There are very thin, almost nonexistent limits on what exactly constitutes the kind of information that is ap-propriate to share with the government. What counts as a cyber security threat?
It’s worth mentioning one could theoretically take legal action against a company for giving away your information in some cases. But as is the case whenever a little guy chal-lenges one of these big-time companies, the chances of success are depressingly low.
What can be done?After learning more about CISPA from online resources,
suppose you decide you don’t want it passed. What action can be taken? Most people might recommend contact-ing your representatives, but I’d take a different approach. Contact the companies that support the law, instead. Those are the opinions the politicians really care about. They’re also activists’ best hope of generating meaningful opposition.
Steven Zoeller is a journalism sophomore.
What comes to mind when you think of
Kraettli Apartments? I recently posed
this question on my Facebook status, and the answers reflected the common student senti-ment toward Kraettli: They are international student housing, and they are ugly apartments.
The first sentiment is only partly true, but the second is thoroughly true. Kraettli Apartments are not specifi-cally for international students, but they have a large contingent of international students for practical and economic reasons.
The practical reasons are that it is both close to cam-pus and the only OU student housing in Norman for families. It is understandable why international stu-dents (or anyone for that matter) would want to be in close proximity to the university, and for married inter-national students with families, Kraettli is the only op-tion for student housing.
The economic reasons for international students to stay in Kraettli are the most understandable incentive. For an unfurnished apartment with two bedrooms and one bathroom at Kraettli, the monthly rent is $307.50 per person.
The only other student apartments, Traditions Square, are $494 per person for an apartment of the same number of bedrooms and bathrooms. Some international students also have four students to an apartment instead of two, so the monthly rate is a little cheaper.
However, there are vast differences between Kraettli Apartments and Traditions. The most obvious differ-ence is the second common student sentiment toward Kraettli: The apartments are hideous.
When I first saw the apartments, I thought they did not fit in at all with the rest of the university. They are brown, drab buildings with outdated architecture and minimal landscaping around them.
Not only do they differ from Traditions in outward appearance, but many of them also are internally defi-cient. French exchange student Juliette Faraggi told me about her experience living in Kraettli.
She currently lives there with three other exchange students. Her rent, for a furnished apartment, is $173 a month, but her stay has not been without difficulties.
In the apartment in which she was first placed, the door handle to the cabinet came off in her hands when she tried to open it, rain fell on her head while she was sleeping due to a leaky roof, and the fire alarm would sporadically go off for no apparent reason.
After complaining to the management about the roof, she was eventually placed in another apartment where there were no demonic fire alarms or leaky roofs.
These internal problems are being partially ad-dressed by the university, according to the tour guide who showed me one of the apartments. She informed me that the apartments are constantly undergoing ren-ovations, and one section of Kraettli, the 100 block that is closest to Lloyd Noble Center, soon will be demol-ished completely.
However, from Kraettli’s outside appearance, one would not know the apartments were constantly un-dergoing renovation.
For me, it’s a bit discouraging to see the condition of Kraettli when faced with the construction and renova-tion of other buildings on campus, such as the athletic dorms and the College of Architecture.
I am not saying that these buildings should not have been renovated or built. I am glad that Gould Hall was renovated, because it certainly needed it, and though I question the enormity of the new athletic dorms, its construction will only enhance the beauty of our university.
But I think the next big renovation or construc-tion project the university should focus on is Kraettli Apartments.
Though Kraettli is not solely for international stu-dents, the reality is that many students (and by proxy, students’ parents) view Kraettli as the subpar student housing for international students.
However untrue this may be, it reflects poorly on a university whose president has emphasized the impor-tance of international students to the university com-munity, and something should be done to address it.
Janna Gentry is an English education senior.
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M I A M I — G e o r g e Zimmerman spent his first 24 hours free on bail “on his own” and in fear of his life, his attorney said in a tele-vision interview Monday night.
Zimmerman was released from jail early Monday wear-ing a bulletproof vest, de-fense attorney Mark O’Mara told CNN. He said authori-ties were not providing secu-rity for him, so several loca-tions have been arranged for him to “maintain his safety and security.”
“There’s been a lot of chat-ter about his release, and that’s concerning him and us,” O’Mara said. “He’s sort of on his own with his own protection at this point.”
O’Mara said the security and housing were being paid for by Zimmerman’s family. It was unclear how much has been raised from web-sites set up to collect dona-tions, he said. One site has about $800 and another a few thousand dollars, but he was not certain that anyone had withdrawn any funds, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
Zimmerman faces a sec-ond-degree murder charge in the Feb. 26 shooting of unarmed Miami Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman shot Trayvon in a gated community in Sanford, near Orlando, in what he claims was an act of self-defense.
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George Zimmerman answers a question Friday during a bond hearing in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman, who was released from jail Monday, spent his first day free on bail in fear of his life, his attorney said.
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Zimmerman was arrested, and he now faces the possi-bility of life in prison if con-victed. He posted $150,000 bail.
“George greatly appre-ciates your thoughts, and donations. We are work-ing on obtaining an update directly from George very soon,” someone posted on
Zimmerman’s website. “GZ hopes to be able to update the site in the next day or two, God willing.”
By late morning Tuesday, the site had been taken down. O’Mara posted a note on Twitter saying his cli-ent would have no Internet presence.
More court documents
relating to the murder trial were posted online Tuesday, including one showing that his attorney filed a written not-guilty plea on April 16.
O ’ M a r a a l s o w a i v e d Zimmerman’s right to ap-pear at his arraignment. It was originally scheduled for late May, but was moved up to May 8.
C o u r t r e c o r d s s h o w O’Mara filed a demand on April 16 that prosecutors let him examine or copy any ev-idence they have in the case within 15 days.
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President Barack Obama went after the college vote Tuesday, pitching cheaper student loans as he courted the one age group where he has a decided advantage over Republican rival Mitt Romney. The twist? Romney, too, has endorsed the idea, though it’s unclear whether deficit-leery Republicans in Congress will go along.
In the race for the White House, both the Obama and Romney campaigns see huge opportunities to court younger voters. This week, their efforts are focused on the millions of students — and their parents — who are grap-pling with college costs at a time when such debt has grown so staggering it exceeds the totals for credit cards or auto loans.
Trying to make it personal, Obama told students at the University of North Carolina that he and first lady Michelle Obama had “been in your shoes” and didn’t pay off their student loans until eight years ago.
“I didn’t just read about this. I didn’t just get some talking points about this. I didn’t just get a policy briefing on this,” Obama said. “We didn’t come from wealthy families. When we graduated from college and law school, we had a moun-tain of debt. When we married, we got poor together.”
Obama’s emphasis on his personal experience set up a contrast with Romney, whose father was a wealthy auto ex-ecutive. It’s a point the president is sure to return to during this summer’s campaigning.
Late Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., introduced legislation that would keep the inter-est rate for subsidized loans for poorer and middle-class students at their current level for another year at a cost of $5.9 billion. The timing is important because the rate will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1 without intervention by Congress, an expiration date chosen in 2007 when a Democratic Congress voted to chop the rate in half.
Obama carried voters between the ages of 18-29 by a margin of about 2-to-1 in 2008, but many recent college graduates have had difficulty finding jobs. That raises con-cerns for the president about whether they will vote and volunteer for him in such large numbers again.
Obama said allowing the interest rates to double this summer would hurt more than 7 million students, costing the average student $1,000 and amounting to a “tax hike” for those students and their families.
“Anybody here can afford to pay an extra thousand dol-lars right now?” Obama asked to jeers from the crowd. “I don’t think so.”
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Much of the time has been dedicated to the set; the giant scenery that will fly in and out to create the Seuss’ famous Whoville, which is the town on a speck, on a clover that the main character Horton the elephant hears and tries to save, said musical theatre senior Sophie Menas, who plays Mayzie La Bird.
“No one believes [Horton the ele-phant] and thinks he is a fool — there’s a whole song about it,” Menas said.
Everything that happens on stage comes from the thoughts of a little boy named Jojo, while The Cat in the Hat narrates, Menas said.
“Seussical” is a compilation of differ-ent Dr. Seuss stories, such as “Horton Hears a Who,” “Horton Lays an Egg,” “The Cat in the Hat” and “Green Eggs and Ham,” Menas said.
“All of these imaginations come to life on stage,” she said. “Jojo’s parents scold him for having an imagination, and The Cat in the Hat is the one that encourages him to have these thoughts,” said musi-cal theatre senior Kate Dinsmore, who plays Sour Kangaroo in the production.
Dinsmore said the characters who are supposed to be played as animals are suggested, rather than the cast members actually dressing up in big an-imal costumes.
“I’m like the rocker chick,” Dinsmore said as she explained her pink hair and her high-heeled black leather boots.
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Musical theatre senior Sophie Menas, as Mayzie La Bird, performs a number during Monday’s rehearsal of “Seussical the Musical” in the Fine Arts Center’s Rupel J. Jones Theatre. The musical, based on a compilation of Dr. Seuss classics like “The Cat in the Hat” and “Green Eggs and Ham,” opens at 8 p.m. Friday and runs through May 6.
‘Seussical’ to inspire imagination in children, adults
was a child. Both actresses will be working this
summer at Music Theatre of Wichita, then moving to New York to continue chasing their dreams of performing on Broadway, they said.
Whether you’re 8 years old or a se-nior in college, “Seussical” provides en-tertainment for all ages, they said.
“I think everyone has a kid in them,” Menas said. “[Seussical] is so playful, and everyone leaves happy.”
“It is encouraging young minds to have an imagination,” Dinsmore added.
The women encourage children or children at heart to sit in the first four rows for optimum “Seussations.”
“I’m not going to be running around in a giant kangaroo suit.”
The characters who are the most similar to their animals are the birds with their tails, but the rest are left to the audience’s imagination, she said.
Many of the characters have to dance and sing at the same time, Menas said. She compared the feeling to singing while running on a treadmill.
“It is really challenging, but at the same time, it is the most exhilarating ex-perience,” she said. “It’s crazy, but I love it.”
Both Dinsmore and Menas have done over five musicals at OU, they said. Menas did not start doing musical the-ater until her junior year in high school, while Dinsmore said she had been a part of musical theater productions since she
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Musical theatre senior Jamie Goldman, as the Cat in the Hat, rehearses his lines for “Seussical the Musical.” The cast and crew is working to get everything put together for Friday’s premiere.
The wonderful world of Dr. Seuss will come to life on cam-pus Friday night.
“Seussical The Musical” is sure to evoke the imagination of the audience and take them back to their favorite bed-time stories. The cast and crew have been working on this production since November, stage management senior David Pilchman said.
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omez wakes up one day in his 2-D world and travels
to meet one of his elders on the top of a floating island his small village resides on.
The day seems like any other day until Gomez reaches the top of the island. After speaking with his elder, a strange 3-D cube mani-fests itself above Gomez. The cube speaks to Gomez in a strange language and bestows upon him a quaint fez hat.
Once the hat rests neatly on the back of Gomez’s head, his world is changed forever.
Polytron’s “Fez” is a retro-styled, 2-D puzzle platform-er set in a 3-D world. Players are given the ability to shift the perspective of the 3-D world from four different sides, but they can only in-teract with objects in 2-D.
As Gomez explores the world searching for cube bits, cubes and anti-cubes players must use the abil-ity to shift the perspective to solve puzzles and gather goodies to open doors and discover more secrets about Gomez’s world. There are 32 cubes and anti-cubes to collect, as well as a myriad of other puzzles that help ex-plain Gomez’s world.
It’s difficult to describe how “Fez” works, but here it goes: That platform is too far away? Press the left trigger, and as the world spins, the platform may be a bit closer to the intended goal because the platform is being viewed from a different angle. That wall is too long and Gomez
needs to get to the other side? Press the right trig-ger and you quickly will discover that it’s really thin and easy to pass through. Another quick trigger press and Gomez is able to pass through the wall like he is teleporting.
There are other things Gomez can do, such as pick up bombs or move blocks, but the crux of the gameplay revolves around shifting perspectives. Once you get the hang of things, it will take about five to six hours to col-lect the 32 cubes needed to finish the game.
Once you’ve completed the game one time, you are given access to a new game, which lets you finish collect-ing the 64 cubes with a new trick.
While Fez’s gameplay is difficult to explain, the bril-liance of the puzzles isn’t. Polytron went all out in using the relationship between 2-D and 3-D worlds with a heavy dose of M.C. Escher-esque illusion to craft small, clever puzzles that make you feel incredibly smart.
But they also spent a lot of time and energy — the game has been in develop-ment since 2007, but it hit a few snags before its April 13 release — to craft some of
the most challenging, mind-bending puzzles. Once you get the hang of maneuvering through the 3-D world, “Fez” will ask you to solve the game’s own alphabet and number system to discover clues and solve even more challenging puzzles.
There is a particular
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at a glanCeIf you like ‘Fez’• Braid (Xbox 360, Windows, mac, PS3)
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• Echochrome (PSP, PS3)
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puzzle with a tuning fork that will have you scratch-ing your head, but once you feel it out and solve it, it’s a Tiger Woods fist-pumping moment.
And that last bit, the Tiger Woods fist-pumping mo-ment, is really what “Fez” is all about. The game is lit-tered with more cleverness and intuitiveness than any puzzle game in recent mem-ory. Each gathered cube and anti-cube is a victory. Not only because it furthers you toward the goal of 32 cubes to finish the game, it’s be-cause almost every cube is
a trophy. And these aren’t your thanks-for-participat-ing-and-riding-the bench-all-season trophies. You have to earn these bad boys. Some of them might even get you a high-five in line at Crossroads Restaurant if your fellow student knows what the hell your 2-D and 3-D babbling is all about.
That’s why “Fez” is one of the best games to be re-leased in 2012. One could go on about how it’s retro-like graphics are charming and vibrant and filled with references to “The Legend of Zelda” and “Tetris” and “Riven: The Sequel to Myst.” Or how the soundtrack by Disasterpeace is one of the best indie game sound-tracks since Tomáš Dvorák’s “Machinarium” soundtrack. Both of these elements en-hance the game’s appeal,
but they aren’t what a player should focus on during his or her experience.
“Fez” shows us that deep down, at an atom-like level, we are all Tetris pieces try-ing to fit together in a larger machine. Sometimes things slide perfectly into place and we don’t have to worry about anything. Other times we crash and collide into one another. At that moment, maybe we are trapped in the second dimension like Gomez. Moving along two axises because it’s easy to only worry about left and right and up and down.
That type of world is sim-ple and comfortable. We be-come complacent.
But, if we take a moment and shift our perspective, we might get a glimpse of some-thing new or wondrous on the other side. Perhaps it’s the cube we have been look-ing for to open that locked door. Perhaps it’s just a new way of looking at things.
Either way, we win.
Chase Cook is a journalism senior and the managing editor for The Daily.
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The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art opened a new exhibi-tion that celebrates Oklahoma culture through pottery.
T h e O k l a h o m a C l a y : Frankoma Pottery exhibit is a collection of ceramics done predominantly by John Frank and features pieces by several of his students or colleagues.
“This exhibit is an impor-tant part of the cultural his-tory of Oklahoma,” said Mark White, Eugene B. Adkins cu-rator and chief curator at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
John Frank grew up in Chicago in a family of modest means, said Jane Aebersold, curator of ceramics at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. His mother had a vision of him going to college even though they did not have a lot of money, Aebersold said.
When Frank did make it to the Chicago Art Institute, he learned his love for ceram-ics from his prestigious pro-fessor Myrtle Meritt French, Aebersold said. She taught everything about ceram-ics from throwing to making glazes, she said.
A f t e r s t u d y i ng u n d e r French, Frank went to work for Oscar Jacobson, then director of OU’s School of Art, in 1927, Aebersold said. Jacobson was the founding director of the ceramics pro-gram at OU, Aebersold said. She said that Jacobson was looking for someone to open a ceramics department and French recommended Frank who then taught at the uni-versity for eight years.
In 1928 Frank began work-ing w ith the O klahoma Geological Survey in order to find clay to use for his ceram-ics, Aebersold said. She said
that they happened upon a creamy, white clay near Ada, Okla., which Frank used in his personal studio, as well as at OU until 1954.
After 1954, the Ada clay was running out so when Frank moved to Sapulpa, Okla., he
found red clay near there and began to work with that in-stead, Aebersold said.
During his time at OU, Frank opened a studio called Frank Pottery, later named Frankoma Pottery in 1934, Aebersold said.
What Frank really wanted to do with Frankoma was provide decorative tableware such as saucers, cups, bowl serving dishes and pitchers that were affordable and fash-ionable, Aebersold said.
The two most elaborate sculpture sets that are on display in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art are two of these tableware sets designed by Frank, she said.
The first is called “Wagon
Wheel Place Setting,” and is made out of both Ada and Sapulpa clay with a prairie green glaze. This place setting was made in 1948 and each piece has some sort of wagon wheel or wagon spoke that makes the entire set cohesive, Aebersold said.
“This is probably the most iconic piece in the collection,” she said.
The second place setting is called “Mayan Aztec Place Setting.” This place setting also uses both clays but is glazed in desert gold. There are little Aztec or Mayan sym-bols around the outer edges of the plates and saucers as well as on the cups and pitch-er, Aebersold said.
The other artists featured in the Frankoma Exhibit were either students or colleagues of Frank’s here at OU or in Oklahoma, she said.
Joe Taylor, a former sculp-ture professor, was a good friend of Frank and was asked to be a part of Frankoma, but declined the offer, Aebersold said. Taylor did, however, give art to Frank to contribute to Frankoma and those pieces are on display, she said.
“[This collection] deserves some attention because of how it shaped people’s lives by being present in Oklahoma,” White said. He said that be-cause the Frankoma Pottery was affordable that many people had the tableware and
other items in their homes through the 1950s and 1970s.
“Most people over the age of 45-50 that are from Oklahoma would have prob-ably had some Frankoma Pottery in their home,” White said.
White said this is also a cel-ebration of OU because Frank started his career here and continued to refer back to OU even in the years after he left.
The Fred Jones Museum of Art started preparing this exhibit in April of 2010, Aebersold said.
“It is amazing that it opened April of this year,” Aebersold said. “It has been a real plea-sure to research and put to-gether,” Aebersold said.
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Above: The Frankoma exhibit at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art celebrates the work of potter John Frank and show-cases his most iconic pieces created using Oklahoma clay.
Left: Melissa Verville, cus-tomer service representative at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, takes in a collection of tea sets Tuesday. The tea sets are part of the museum’s newest exhibit, Frankoma, which honors the work done with Oklahoma Clay by artist John Frank. Frank started the ceramics program, according the the museum’s website.
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The OU baseball team dropped the first of its back-to-back mid-week games with a 6-1 loss to Oklahoma State on Tuesday, ending its season-high win streak at eight games.
Oklahoma jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the top of the first when junior outfield-er Max White drove senior Erik Ross home on an RBI single through the heart of the Cowboys’ defense. OSU quickly responded, tying the score in the third with a sacri-fice fly from junior designated hitter Randy McCurry.
Both teams remained scoreless for the next two frames until Oklahoma State had an offensive burst in the sixth.
After surrendering three runs to make it 4-1 in the bottom of the sixth and giving up a double to put runners on second and third in the seventh, pitching coach Jack Giese pulled Damien Magnifico in favor of sophomore Jordan John.
Magnifico left the game early for the second time in as many starts, tallying 105 pitches and allowing four runs on seven hits with four walks and seven strikeouts through 6 2/3 innings. His record now stands at 1-1 in four starts.
John entered the game with two outs and two on in the bottom of the seventh and walked the first batter he faced, loading the bases before striking out Cowboy senior Jared Womack to end the inning and extinguish the threat.
However, John — who is expected to be the Friday night starter this weekend against Kansas — pitched only one in-ning before being relieved by junior Steven Okert.
OSU’s offensive barrage continued in the eight, as the Cowboys added two more runs to build their lead into what proved to be an insurmountable deficit for the Sooners.
The Sooners went 5-for-31 against the Cowboys with their only bright spot offensively coming in the form of another solid outing from slugger Max White — who went 2-for-4 and recorded the Sooners only RBI.
season home run record (20) set by Lynette Velasquez in 1999.
Coach Patty Gasso had nothing but good things to say about the addition of Carey to the OU coaching staff, claiming that the move would benefit all involved.
“This move not only ben-efit’s the players, but it also benefits me as well as it gives our staff another set of eyes on the field,” Gasso said. “As a three-time All-American, she knows how to win.”
And now as a coach, Carey admits to reliving her own experiences out on the field while watching Chamberlain chase after the same record.
“It makes it more special when you think about what you’ve done and then see these girls also accomplish-ing their dreams out on the field,” Carey said. “It’s also great for the program be-cause you know that these players are doing their best to get back to the World Series and get that second national championship. The records are just a part of that journey.”
And there won’t be any hard feelings if Carey gets to see the record fall.
“I told her to go get it,” Carey said.
Tobi neiDySports Reporter
The OU softball team looks for its second Big 12 Conference sweep when the Sooners host Oklahoma State at 7 tonight in the final installment of this season’s Bedlam series in Norman.
Oklahoma (38-7, 13-4) owns the overall series 72-70 after winning the first two Bedlam contests earlier this season.
A f t e r s m o t h e r i ng t h e Cowgirls by a combined score of 15-1 in the first two rounds to win the overall series, OU is poised to com-plete the sweep after main-taining a 16-2 record this season when facing oppo-nents in the friendly confines of Marita Hynes Field.
The Sooners also are look-ing to create more distance between themselves and the rest of the Big 12 pack with their eighth conference home win. OU has won three of its last four home confer-ence games, including the 2-1 series win against No. 10 Missouri last weekend.
The clash against the Tigers — and junior All-American ace Chelsea Thomas — gave the Sooner lineup all it could handle. With a combined 23 strikeouts during the series, Thomas disrupted some of the Sooners’ hitting streaks and caus e d s everal OU
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Freshman Georgia Casey swings during the Sooners’ first game in their weekend series with No. 10 Missouri on Friday in Norman.
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Sophomore catcher Ali Vandever waits for the pitch Friday against Missouri. The Sooners will host Oklahoma State at 7 tonight.
players to descend the Big 12 individual batting rankings.
But one player who contin-ued to improve her slugging mark in the Big 12 conference was freshman first baseman Lauren Chamberlain.
Chamberlain, who con-tinues to lead the Big 12 in several batting categories, launched her 20th home run of the season against Thomas during last Saturday’s game
to tie OU’s single season home run record.
Now with every at bat, Chamberlain has the chance to own the coveted record all by herself. Last time against the Cowgirls in Stillwater, Chamberlain fell just short of a home run against the in-state rival and settled for a double off the OSU fence.
“I told her during the last Oklahoma State game last time that she was nearing that record,” volunteer coach Lisa Carey said. “It’s very exciting to just see all of these caliber of athletes here now that will be destroying all kinds of re-cords like Chamberlain.”
Carey, who was a three-time All-American during her stint as a Sooner, was a part of the 2000 National Championship team and finished that year as Big 12 Player of the Year with a .405 average. During her senior year, Carey tied OU’s single-
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Above: Dewayne Norvill, a worker from Buchanan Bicycles, helps out OUPD by fixing and checking bikes on tuesday on the south Oval to get more people to register their bikes.
Right, above: sociology senior Wendy Barton grimaces as she loses an inflatable obstacle course race to criminology senior tyler Vinson (not pictured) on tuesday. the course was set up by healthy sooners to encourage physical activity and provide pre-dead week stress relief.
Right, below: african american studies sophomore Rashid Campbell (left) and african american studies junior Dominqiue Baker talk about race tuesday in front of Dale hall. they talked about racial issues and stereotypes by making their crowd uncomfortable. they are part of the OU Debate team, and will have another meet-ing next week in front of Dale about sexism.
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