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Tapingo use increasing at OUFood-ordering mobile app allows users to skip queues at campus restaurants
CAITLIN SCHACHTERNews Reporter
Since its launch in August, thousands of students have registered to use Tapingo, a mobile phone app that people can use to order food at campus restaurants.
The app serves nearly 4,500 registered users, said Amy Buchanan, spokesperson for OU Housing and Food Services. Within the last month, there have been nearly 1,500 active users per week, Buchanan said.
Active users are defined as people who place at least one order through Tapingo on a given day, Buchanan said.
Additionally, the app’s following is growing. An average of 200 new devices have registered for the app per week in
the last four to six weeks, Buchanan said.
Based on information from orders and sales, in-d i v i d u a l s u s e t h e a p p most often at Crossroads Restaurant, Starbucks in Oklahoma Memorial Union, Quiznos, The Bookmark a n d t h e Un i o n Ma rke t , Buchanan said.
Musical theater junior Mary-Clayton Gilbert works as a campus Tapingo repre-sentative. As part of her job, she works to improve market-ing for the app and gives the company student feedback, she said.
Gilbert enjoys using Tapingo because she has time to
eat meals and snacks between classes when she otherwise wouldn’t be able to, she said.
“My schedule is so rigorous that most semesters I don’t have time for lunch, which makes it really hard to stay ener-gized throughout the day,” Gilbert said. “Thanks to Tapingo, that’s not a problem anymore.”
Energy management junior Ramil Manora likes Tapingo because it saves him time, he said.
“I like Tapingo because it’s convenient and faster than waiting in line,” Manora said.
The app is even more handy because it allows users to save a payment option, Manora said. That way, he can buy food without carrying around money, he said.
SGA president Matt Epting and vice president Sarah Campbell smile in front of the Bizzell Memorial LIbrary. The two leaders will step down this week as other students take their places.
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A student donates at the blood drive Tuesday afternoon. The drive will continue throughout the rest of this week.
Annual Bedlam Blood Drive will be held throughout rest of this week
Current SGA leaders step downPresident Matt Epting, vice president Sarah Campbell leave legacy on campus
PAGE JONESNews Reporter@pageousm
This week we usher in a new Student Government Association president and vice president and say goodbye to Matt Epting and Sarah Campbell.
The new SGA president and vice president will be inau-gurated at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Beaird Lounge. Epting and Campbell were elected in spring’s general election in 2014 following the former presi-dent’s sudden resignation.
They entered their term and planned to do as much as
they could with their limited time. They started planning as early as they could.
“They always say that it’s a marathon, not a sprint. But in this case it really was a sprint,” Campbell said.
Both Epting and Campbell were continuously involved with student government during their time at OU. They were both on the Sooner Freshman Council together before Campbell decided to join the Campus Activities Council and Epting stayed with the main SGA body.
Epting decided to run because he saw all the potential that SGA had and he wanted to put some of his ideas into action.
“So I started to think of who I wanted to run with me and I had known [Campbell] from freshman year and Soonerthon,” Epting said.
JUSTINE ALEXANDERNews Reporter@caffeinejustine
If humans are bound by the principles of genetic evolution, why can’t instruments be too?
Who says they can’t?Using a website that is the brainchild and thesis project of
David Rice, a computer science master’s student, you can toy with the evolution of instruments yourself at GenSynth.ou.edu.
“It’s taking an inspiration from biological evolution,” Rice said, “You have some basic ‘DNA’ that’s encoding the [art] and then that gets mutated or bred with other [art] to create more.”
Rice said the idea was a combination of his interests in art and computer science. In his occupation, Rice normally works with interface design and graphic artists.
“I was starting to look more at [deviant] art and trying to create an artistic artifact through code,” he said. “There’s a subset that tries to evolve art.”
The main flow of the platform is really similar to what Picbreeder does with images, showing their evolution from a single image to more, Rice said. Evolutionary art has not been done collaboratively before with instruments, Rice said.
When you go to the GenSynth website, you are creating art-work by selecting the instruments that appeal to you, he said.
In the past, there have been computer programs that select good instruments from a variety of candidates that then un-dergo generations of change by algorithm.
Rice said he is taking a different approach called evolution-ary interactive computation, in which different users guide the evolution of their own favorite instruments.
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Online music synthesizer evolves like DNA SCIENCE
Master’s student creates program that lets instruments change through time
MEGHAN WHITINGNews Reporter@heyitsmeghanw
After the snow day snuffed out the first day of the Bedlam Blood Drive at OU, OU trails OSU in number of successful donations.
More than 180 OU students and faculty members signed up to donate blood Tuesday during the annual Bedlam Blood Drive.
Of those 180, 155 made successful donations at OU. At Oklahoma State University, 307 people successfully do-nated, said Lindsay Hix, senior account manager at the Oklahoma Blood Institute.
The staff of the Oklahoma Blood Institute hopes that about 1,000 people from the OU community donate during the drive.
Pre-nursing freshman Lindsay Strunk had never given blood before she signed up to donate through her sorori-ty, Pi Beta Phi, this year, she said.
Undecided freshman Katie Egger also signed up to vol-unteer through her sorority, Alpha Omicron Pi. Though Egger didn’t donate blood, she spent her afternoon help-ing direct donors to where they needed to go.
However, for many volunteers, this wasn’t their first time at the Bedlam Blood Drive.
Kate Hilmes, an employee of the Oklahoma Blood Institute, has worked the Bedlam Blood Drive for three years in a row now, she said.
Another veteran volunteer, retired hospital clerical worker Wanda Sanders, volunteers for the Oklahoma Blood Institute frequently, she said.
“After you retire, you need to give back to the commu-nity,” Sanders said.
Sanders was amazed at how many young people volun-teered to give blood, even if that meant standing outside in the cold while waiting for their turn, she said. She is sure that there will be even more volunteers Wednesday, Sanders said.
Tuesday marked the first day of OU’s blood drive. The drive was supposed to begin Monday but was canceled due to inclement weather and the campus closure.
Students, faculty and staff can sign up to donate from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. To schedule an ap-pointment visit the Oklahoma Blood Institute’s website.
MORE ONLINEHow do you pronounce Tapingo?The Daily asked, and you answered. See students’ responses online at OUDaily.com.
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Union Programming Board daily event: Blender Bike — 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union Create and blend a customized smoothie on the first floor of the Union, courtesy of the Union Programming Board.
Chips and Queso with the Dean — 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Collings Hall Meet Gregg Garn, dean of the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, and join him for chips, queso and conversation.
BoomerTM! Boulder Climbing Competition — 7 p.m. in Huston Huffman Fitness Center Test your fortitude at a free competition to climb the Huff’s rock wall. As space is limited, pre-register at the Fitness Center’s front desk.
Bedlam Blood Battle — 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in ROTC Armory Help save a life and defeat OSU by donating your blood.
Native Crossroads Film Festival: “This May Be the Last Time” — 7:30 p.m. in Sam Noble Museum of Natural History’s Kerr Auditorium Watch this free screening of Sterlin Harjo’s documentary following the power of music throughout Native American communities.
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The Gossips don’t miss a beat as they continue to chatter with their newly acquired beards. The beards were part of a campaign from Lindsey + Asp to raise awareness for Movember.
Lindsey + Asp finds creative ways to promote campaignEMILY SHARPNews Reporter @esharp13
A s s t u d e n t s b r a v e d the cold to get to class on Tuesday after a snow day, many noticed the appear-ance — and subsequent dis-appearance — of beards on campus statues.
The beards were a move from Lindsey + Asp to raise awareness for Movember, a spin on No-Shave November, when people are encouraged to grow facial hair and throw events to raise awareness for prostate cancer.
L i n d s e y + A s p m e m -bers have scheduled sever-al events for November in honor of their faculty advis-er, Robert “Pritch” Pritchard, who announced he had been diagnosed with cancer last summer.
The company’s overall slogan is “For the Boys.” The bearded statue event was one of their surprise events scheduled for this month, said Caitlyn Kayser, advertis-ing director at Lindsey + Asp and advertising senior.
Lindsey + Asp members put up mustaches in the bath-rooms, hoping they wouldn’t be taken down quickly, and they stuck beards to campus statues Monday night. They also hung a sign on the Seed Sower statue.
The beards were taken down for reasons the mem-bers don’t know, and the honor society took down the Seed Sower sign and re-turned it, saying they are the only ones allowed to put a sign on that statue, Kayser said.
Kayser said they would put the sign up again to promote their benefit night.
The benefit is from 5 to 8 p.m. at Diamond Dawgs to-night on Campus Corner.
Since Tuesday morning, five donations have been made to support their initia-tive, Kayser said.
T h e b e a r d e d s t a t u e s
started conversations on Yik Yak, the anonymous so-cial media app, and even though some people didn’t know if it was purposefully planned to raise awareness for Movember, many people asked. One Yak said to cele-brate Movember even if you can’t grow a mustache, just like the statues.
There are many organiza-tions that support men not shaving in November to raise awareness for cancer.
No-Shave November has been around for a while to raise awareness of cancer by growing extra hair, which many cancer patients lose
during cancer treatment, ac-cording to the website.
T h e M o v e m b e r Foundation aims to raise money for saving and im-proving the lives of men af-fected by prostate cancer, testicular cancer and mental health problems, according to their website.
To help the cause, students can donate as a member of the Lindsey + Asp team on-line. The team has already raised over $1,900 according to their website.
Forward Ryan Spangler shoots a free throw during Sunday’s game against Southeastern Louisiana.
Men’s basketball travels to Omaha for first game on the road against Creighton
Michael Hunnicutt refuses to let a make or a miss define himJOE MUSSATTOSports Editor@joe_mussatto
He takes three steps back and two long, lateral strides to the left. He steals one final look at the uprights before leaning back from the waist and forward into form.
The play is snapped and his calculated steps carry him closer before his cleat collides with the upright ball.
Michael Hunnicutt has done it hundreds, maybe thou-sands of times. As the kick travels end-over-end toward the uprights, chances are it’s going to go through. The senior is Oklahoma’s leading scorer in school history.
But sometimes the game is cruel. The three-point tries ar-en’t always automatic — not even for “Moneycutt,” as Sooner fans have come to call him.
The nickname bothers Michael. “It would’ve been better if I never had it,” he says, “all the
pressure and stuff that it brought.”
He swears nothing was wrong on Oct. 18. The Sooners were squaring off against Kansas State in an 11 a.m. affair pitting two of the conference’s top teams.
Pregame warm-ups went as usual. Michael sailed a kick wide left in the closing ticks of the second quarter but says he was back to hitting his practice kicks during halftime.
But in the fourth quarter, things unraveled for the Richardson, Texas native. First, Kansas State broke through the line and blocked what would’ve been a game-tying extra point.
Then, Michael took his steps with the Sooners down 31-30. The 19-yard attempt beelined left off his foot. Less than four minutes later, the score remained the same when the final whistle blew.
“I’ve never seen him hook one like that,” Rhonda Hunnicutt recalls. “He could’ve made that with his left foot, with his eyes closed.”
“I’ve watched him hit a thousand kicks. I’ve never seen him kick the way he did in that game — ever,” Rhonda Hunnicutt said.
Michael’s mom used to shag balls for him in practice. She goes to every game, home and away. Her teeth clench with every kick, her neck stiffens.
After the Kansas State game, her heart wrenched. “Did I cry over it for him? You bet I did,” she says. “I was
heartbroken.” Michael closes off when recalling the game. Short memo-
ries serve kickers well. He calls it a fluke and knows it was just one game. But that doesn’t quell his disappointment weeks later.
“I let ... ” he says, “a lot of people down.”
He was 8-9 on the year before the Kansas State game. He was a semifinalist for the Lou Groza award — given to the na-tion’s top collegiate kicker — in 2013 and had drilled over 80 percent of his field goals in three years.
But like kickers, fans have short memories.“There was definitely a lot of backlash,” Michael says.
“Social media wasn’t the best thing to be on. I’m glad it was me and not my teammates getting that stuff.”
Twitter became a bloodbath of insults. “My phone was set up to where it notified me every time,
so that kind of sucked,” he says. “I had to turn it off after a day or so.”
It was tough for Rhonda to hear fans revolt against her son. He was obviously disappointed and the misses had effec-tively taken him out of the running for any awards. The All-American honor will likely elude Michael once more.
But it wasn’t ever about the awards. “It was more about disappointing all of them,” Rhonda says.
“It wasn’t about himself or any accolades. It was about disap-pointing his team. That’s the kind of man he is.”
Kickers are often outsiders even on their own team. They have different practice routines, different workouts and the most specialized skillset of any position.
“It’s like a fraternity,” Philadelphia Eagles rookie Cody Parkey says. “We all know each other.”
Michael began attending kicking camps in high school where he met others that concentrated on his craft. Parkey was one of his close fellow kickers. He headed to Auburn as Michael enrolled at Oklahoma.
Within the close-knit position, a common code has arisen among kickers.
“I don’t wish a bad game for anyone, even the kickers I’m playing,” Parkey says. “I know how it feels to miss.”
Rhonda hates seeing missed kicks whether they come from her son or not. She knows there is probably a mother in the stands who feels the same way she does when Michael kicks.
And although kickers aren’t always accepted among team-mates, Michael says that’s not the case in the Oklahoma lock-er room.
“It goes to show how close our team is,” he says. “They kind of accept everybody and there are no real factions on the team. We’re all good friends.”
Rhonda said her son was worried that his missed kicks against Kansas State might keep Oklahoma out of the College Football Playoff. After a 48-14 mauling the Sooners endured against Baylor Nov. 8, OU’s shot at a big bowl is minute.
The season is spiraling downwards in Michael’s final year. A missed field goal in the Baylor game dipped his make per-centage under 80.
But Michael’s recent miscues don’t undercut what he has done while donning a Sooner uniform. He never dreamed he could ever suit up for Oklahoma; now he’s atop the program’s points list — the thought makes Rhonda pinch herself.
“I tell him to stop every once in a while and look at those fans, take a deep breath and suck it all in,” she says.
Three steps back and two strides to the left. And soon, facing a potential future in the NFL, Michael doesn’t want a make or a miss to define who he is.
“It’s just a game at the end of the day,” he says. “Enjoy it.”
Sooners don’t get to spend much time in Nebraska these days since the Cornhuskers bolted from the Big 12, but OU men’s basketball will get the rare chance Wednesday in Omaha.
No. 18 Oklahoma (1-0) will face its first road test of the season when it takes on Creighton (2-0) from the Big East Conference. It will be a unique, early-season challenge for the Sooners, who are coming off a comfortable opening vic-tory at home against Southeastern Louisiana.
“It’s a tough opponent, tough environment,” coach Lon Kruger said. “It will be a big challenge. These are the games you work in preparation for.”
The environment Kruger referred to is an intimidating one. The Sooners will have to contend with an atmosphere that looks more like an NBA arena than a collegiate field house. More than 18,000 Bluejay fans will pack CenturyLink Center Wednesday for the prime-time matchup and the urge for an upset will likely be on their minds.
“It’ll be a good barometer for where we’re at and what we still need to work on,” Kruger said.
Junior forward Ryan Spangler said that games like this are good for OU’s younger players.
“It’s always good to open their eyes and show them what
college basketball really is about,” Spangler said.“Wednesday we’ll have some up and downs, but I think it
will just show us what we need to get better on.”When it comes to tough environments, success often de-
pends on how tight the offense is from possession to posses-sion. This is where sophomore Jordan Woodard comes in.
As the Sooners’ floor general at point guard, it will be Woodard’s job to control the tempo and keep his teammates calm when the fans get loud.
“Turnovers are going to lead to fast breaks and that’s real-ly what gets the crowd into it — when they see their players moving up and down,” Woodard said. “We just have to make sure we’re making shots and not turning the ball over and we’ll be fine.”
The Bluejays are off to a solid start this year, trying to fol-low up a 2013-14 season that was one of the best in the his-tory of the program. They went 27-8 on the year and 14-4 in their first season as members of the Big East, good for second in the conference. How far Creighton goes this year, however, will depend on how they replace Doug McDermott — last season’s National Player of the Year.
Guard Austin Chatman is the only returning starter for a Creighton squad that will have to find scoring depth if they hope to maintain success in a competitive Big East.
Tip-off time is 7 p.m. Wednesday and FOX Sports 1 will carry the broadcast.
Kicker Michael Hunnicutt kicks the ball during OU’s game against Texas. Hunnicutt works to enjoy football through the wins and losses.
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SYNTH: Users can play variety of instrumentsContinued from page 1
Determining what makes an instrument good is diffi-cult because aesthetics are subjective, Rice said.
When you go to the web-site to evolve an instrument, you start with a node that generates a wave, like a sine or square wave, to generate audio signal, he said. Then, you select as many instru-ments as you want to con-tribute to the next generation of instruments, he said. Just like in biological evolution, the musical mutations are random changes, Rice said.
“When [the instrument] mutates, another oscillator can be added, which com-bines into the output,” he said, “or it might add some sort of intermediary node be-tween them that’s subtract-ing sound, adding sound or filtering them in some way.”
You use an on-screen keyboard to play the instru-ments, which are essential-ly networks of nodes that produce different waves. If we draw an analogy to a re-corder, the keyboard on the website is analogous to the top headpiece; the rest of the synthetic instrument would be the body of the instru-ment and whether a hole is covered or not, Rice said.
“When you press a key on a keyboard, the basic oscillator nodes will generate a sound,” he said. The sound will then go through the network to the output.
“Whenever I play a par-ticular instrument, a lot of
the songs come from what the instrument is capable of … which pushes me to cre-ate different types of songs,” Rice said. “It’s more of a phil-osophical approach of cre-ating music based on the in-strument and what it caters to.”
Sound travels in waves, so the changes to the nodes or their connections will change what you will hear. If you’re familiar with audio synthesizers, those are just collections of nodes, Rice said.
Different instruments that the user selects can be bred in different ways or randomly mutated across generations, he said.
Frequency modulation is just one change that can occur.
“You can get some real-ly wild sound effects going,” Rice said. “If you listen to dubstep, the basic ‘wubs’ that are happening are modula-tions on the frequency itself by other oscillator nodes.”
The research behind the project is broken up into a
few different sections, Rice said. One of the sec-tions concerns the ways this type of platform can be developed.
T h e d e v e l o p e r s o f Picbreeder listed a set of challenges for single-user evolution, Rice said. Some of Rice’s research ques-tions are based on apply-ing Picbreeder’s system to an audio domain and seeing what ways those challenges can be met in a different area.
One of those challeng-es is whether or not users can evolve instruments that would not be possible with a single user.
With user-guided evo-lutionary art, one must present people with a smaller subset of objects. They can only evolve so many instruments before they hit a fatigue wall, he said.
“The most interesting instruments are often fur-ther out,” he said. “These are the instruments that are on the front page.”
Users can name and save their instruments for themselves and others to branch off from, he said. So far, Rice said he esti-mates that six is the largest number of generations an instrument has reached.
“One the biggest issues right now is getting users,” he said.
Epting also said he chose Campbell because he want-ed to serve as many students as possible but also get them energized so that they will want to help themselves, and he saw no better per-son to help him do that than Campbell.
“She is a visionary when it comes to bringing students together; I was very happy when she signed on,” Epting said.
To g e t h e r E p t i n g a n d Campbell have brought programs to OU like One Campus One Book and Turn Up For Transit.
They also pushed for funding approval for restrooms and water fountains at the intramural fields and wrote columns opposing government cuts to higher education.
Despite the shorter term, Epting is proud of what they accomplished.
“It was a challenge to see what we could do with that lim-ited amount of time, and I think we rose to that challenge,” Epting said.
SGA: Leaders proud of year’s accomplishmentsContinued from page 1 If they had another semester, Epting and Campbell said
that they would have created more programs, such as a mental health advocacy program, a sexual assault preven-tion program, a 24/5 section of the library and renovations for the Huston Huffman Fitness Center.
“[Leaving] is bittersweet. I’m pretty bummed about it, but we knew it was coming,” Epting said.
Epting also said that he would like to think OU is a little better after their term.
“It’s weird being done with something when you’re knee-deep in it; I feel like I’m graduating in December,” Campbell said.
Epting and Campbell still have a semester left at OU. They plan to relax a little bit but still want to be active in some student organizations.
After OU, Epting hopes to work in government or pub-lic policy, but he said it is still to be determined. Campbell plans to take a year off as a medical tech and then apply to physician assistant schools.
Other programs brought to OU by Matt Epting and Sarah Campbell● Greek Recycling Program ● Student Environmental Council ● Registered Student Organization Consulting ● The Department of Special Communities ● OU Votes ● Rah Council
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Coffee. Whether it’s brewed black or half of the cup is filled with cream, the grounds are left behind. It would be easy to toss these leftovers into the
garbage and never let the thought of them bother the brain again. What if saving them could grow food without having to buy any fertilizers?
In the modern world, the amount of garbage people pro-duce is fairly hefty. According to Duke University’s Center for Sustainability & Commerce, just one person produces about 4.3 pounds of waste on a daily basis. This amount has increased by 1.6 pounds since 1960. More than half of the waste generated in the U.S. ends up in landfills.
Recycling is a simple and efficient way to lower each per-son’s impact on the environment. Take it a step further and produce something new with something old and you’ve got composting.
Tom Marak, local composter, gathers old coffee grounds from several shops in Norman including 7/11, Crimson and Whipped Cream, La Baguette and Starbucks. He uses the grounds for farming and gardening.
“I apply them directly to the lawns. They keep it wet and help break down the leaves in the compost,” Marak said. “Basically, the grounds can be mulch.”
These grounds lose acidity throughout the brewing process. This allows the composted grounds to produce nitrogen, which promotes growth of seeds. Obtaining grounds is easy and free.
“It’s convenient. I just leave a clean bucket to make it easy and they fill them up for me,” said Marak.
Here are some other creative ways to make use of spent coffee grounds:
Use a few teaspoons of coffee grounds as a scrubbing agent to combat grease while washing dishes. Rinse thoroughly and admire the shine.
FEED PLANTS
Just as local composter Marak uses coffee grounds to aid in the farming process, you can add coffee grounds to your own plants. This method works best with plants that thrive in acidic soil.
DYE ART PROJECTS
Let the natural colors of saturated coffee grounds be the inspiration for your
next art project. Use the grounds to dye paper or
other craft materials to give it a unique, aged look.
Bailey Chambers is a professional writing
senior.
If you’ve ever cooked with onions or garlic, chances are you’ve experi-enced the challenges of getting the smell of these ingredients off your hands. Rub a handful of coffee grounds on your hands to eliminate the smells while exfoliating your skin.
DEODORIZE YOUR FRIDGE
Place coffee grounds in a jar, close the door and let nature’s odor-eliminator work its magic. This will especially come in handy when your fridge is full of holiday leftovers.
LIFE & ARTS COLUMNIST If you’re a music lover, your pulse is going to start quickening right about now. With summer now a thing of the past, this winter’s selection of albums is looking to shake things up with
a bevy of highly-anticipated releases. Some of the biggest names in the business along with some promising up-and-comers are all slat-ed to drop their latest offerings this month.
But with such a broad selection, this month is also shaping up to be an unintentional “battle of the bands.” Will Foo Fighters or Pink Floyd win the title of “Biggest Rock Album?” Will teenyboppers snatch up One Direction’s latest release or the new Hunger Games
soundtrack? And will indie aficionados turn to She & Him’s cozy melodies or Walk The Moon’s poppy art-rock? We’ll find out sooner or later, but for the time being here’s a look at albums to keep an eye on this month.
For a while, it looked like the Jonas Brothers were officially yesterday’s news. Then, out of nowhere, Nick Jonas re-appeared in the spotlight as a teen idol, model for Calvin Klein and solo artist with his new single “Jealous” gaining heavy radio play.
When boy band One Direction exploded onto scene in 2001, it was widely believed they were nothing than a flash in the pan. But three years later, the teenybop-per quintet has releases its fourth studio album and their popularity con-tinues to grow.
Seeds marks the group’s first disc since the death of bassist Gerard Smith and also their debut on their new label, Harvest Records. For better or worse, Seeds marks a new beginning for the band, and while the album’s trailer doesn’t give much away, there’s a hint of some epic synth and drum sounds.
The blockbuster franchise’s soundtrack has already spawned a hit in the form of Lorde’s “Yellow Flicker Beat.” And since it’s being specially curated by the 17-year old wunderkind, expect similar results from her collaborators Charli XCX, Tove Lo and Bats for Lashes among others.
The indie-verse is hyper-ventilating with the news that She & Him, the duo comprised of the adorably quirky Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, is releasing an album of covers. They already have a retro, AM radio-influenced sound, but their newest release will see the duo cover 13 classic songs accompanied by a 20-piece orchestra.
Modern Noise is the second solo work from Between the Buried and Me vocal-ist Thomas Giles, Modern Noise is Giles second solo effort. And judging from the guitar-heavy lead single “I Appear Disappear,” it looks like he’ll continue to deliver the sort of electrified met-al-rock we’ve grown accus-tomed to.
With their 2012 debut earn-ing them the approval of indie-rock fans across the world, all eyes are on Walk The Moon and their sec-ond album. And based on their rip-roaring new single, “Shut Up And Dance,” it doesn’t look like we have to worry about a sophomore slump.
MAKE GRIMY DISHES SPARKLE
ELIMINATE COOKING ODORS
Use a few teaspoons of coffee grounds as a scrubbing agent to combat grease while washing dishes. Rinse thoroughly
This method works best with plants
DYE ART PROJECTS
Let the natural colors of saturated coffee grounds be the inspiration for your
next art project. Use the grounds to dye paper or
other craft materials to give it a unique, aged look.
Bailey Chambers is a professional writing
senior.
If you’ve ever cooked with onions or garlic, chances are you’ve experi-enced the challenges of getting the smell of these ingredients off your hands. Rub a handful of coffee grounds on your hands to eliminate the smells while
in handy when your fridge is full of holiday leftovers.
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Contribute in more ways than oneOur View: Sooners should take part in the Bedlam Blood Drive going on through Friday to both gain bragging rights over OSU and help save lives.
Monday’s snow day was a nice break from reali-ty, but it also means the Sooners lost out on a day of competition in the annual Bedlam Blood Battle. OU traditionally dominates Oklahoma State University in athletics, but OU has a woeful losing record in the Bedlam Blood Battle. We urge Sooners to dou-ble-down in their blood donations Wednesday through Friday so we can beat OSU for the first time in four years (and to save lives).
The Bedlam Blood Battle is host-ed by the Oklahoma Blood Institute in the ROTC Armory, and all blood donated will go to Oklahoma hospi-tals. The Oklahoma Blood Institute’s donation goal for OU is 800 units of blood, and each unit of blood can save three lives, The Daily reported.
Even better, signing up to donate blood is as sim-ple as filling out an online form. We all know college students are glued to their computers anyway, so take a few minutes to sign up for a donation time.
“Blood drive” can often conjure images of scary needles, cold medical facilities and post-donation wooziness. But the Bedlam Blood Drive is no ordi-nary blood drive: it features free food, a free t-shirt and a chance to win Bedlam football tickets and Bob Stoops signed footballs. Save lives and score free
stuff? Sounds like a good study break to us.However, we also know there are many students
who cannot donate blood for medical or other reasons but who still want to help out. No willing Sooner should be left out of a Bedlam competition, so we’ve compiled a few ways for students who can’t donate blood to contribute to the Oklahoma Blood Institute’s mission:
1. Financial donationsObviously, this option requires more green than
red, but it goes so far in supporting blood drive ef-forts across Oklahoma. A financial donation to the Oklahoma Blood Institute could be used to help fund mobile blood donation vehicles, health screenings for blood donors and the operation-al needs of the organization. Donating to the Oklahoma Blood Institute can be done online and requires no minimum amount, so whatever you can give will help get blood to patients in need.
2. VolunteeringOU students can also further blood drive efforts
by volunteering their time. Volunteer opportunities with the Oklahoma Blood Institute abound, from helping out with welcoming donors at local blood drive events to more long-term volunteer positions in the institute’s Oklahoma City office. Interested students can fill out a volunteer application and learn more about upcoming volunteer events online.
3. Encourage friends to donateSimply educating your friends and family on the
importance of donating blood is a great way to help out if you can’t donate. Most people don’t know that generally healthy adults weighing over 110 pounds can give blood every 56 days or that the Oklahoma Blood Institute has a donor rewards program that lets donors accrue rewards points every time they donate to redeem for merchandise and gift cards. Let your friends know they can set up a donation time that fits with their schedule and that even infre-quent donations can potentially save countless lives.
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A student holds up her arm after giving blood in the ROTC Armory Tuesday afternoon.
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