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Boren to suggest tobacco-ban policies President to meet with Board of Regents on Tuesday to give recommendations CHRIS MILLER

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President David Boren’s recommendations for a tobacco-free Norman campus could be accepted as early as Tuesday when he meets with the OU Board of Regents in

Oklahoma City.

Among Boren’s proposed changes to the university’s tobacco policy are a campuswide ban on the use of cigarettes, cigars, pipes and smokeless tobacco, the creation of two designated

smoking areas and the implementation of fines for students, faculty and staff who repeatedly ignore the new policy.

Pending the Regents’ approval, the ban is set to go into effect July 1.

“Approximately 500 leading universities have taken measures to ban or reduce tobacco use on their

campuses,” Boren said in a press release. “It is time for OU to play its part in responsible leadership.”

If the policy is approved, tobacco use will be prohibited in any buildings, vehicles or campus grounds leased or owned by the university, including Oklahoma

AT A GLANCE Designated smoking areas The smoking ban policies President David Boren will propose to the OU Board of Regents will include two designated smoking areas: • One on the edge of the parking lot for Dale Hall (north

of Lindsey Street and east of Elm Avenue) • One on the southern area of the parking lot at Lloyd Noble Center Source: President David Boren

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Program aiding student success Retention rate remains above average VICTORIA GARTEN Campus Reporter

Freshmen who did not maintain OU’s minimum GPA requirement after their first semester have multiple resources available to them, which has helped keep the university’s retention rate above average, officials say.

OU leaders are constantly trying to develop new programs they think will make the university better for students and keep OU see SUPPORT paGe 2

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Professor Matthew Esker poses Wednesday in front of a poster in the classroom where he will teach Introduction to Unmanned Aerial Systems at Max Westheimer Airport.

Esker, a former Air Force test pilot, made his teaching debut with the first class this semester.

Aviation class flies with low numbers Course to teach skills that are in high demand, director says

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A new OU Department of Aviation course, intended to prepare students for the future of unmanned flight, is suffering from low enrollment numbers.

Introduction to Unmanned Aerial Systems students will examine the history of unmanned aerial systems and survey current platforms, terminology, challenges to airspace integration and operational theory, instructor Matthew Esker said in an email.

Five students are currently enrolled in the course, but there are 15 seats remaining.

Department administrators selected Esker to teach the course because of his previous experience with unmanned aircraft in the Air Force’s Global Hawk Research and Development Program.

The unmanned aerial systems course was first considered in late 2009, and it was implemented this semester due to growing demand

for unmanned aircraft programs, department director Ken Carson said in an email.

Until recently, these systems mainly were used for military and security operations, according to the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Fact Sheet by the Federal Aviation Administration.

The burgeoning fields of unmanned aerial photography, land and crop research, monitoring environmental conditions, rescue operations and law enforcement have contributed to this increasing interest, according to the FAA. “Unmanned aircraft promises new ways to increase efficiency, save money, enhance safety and even save lives,” according to the FAA fact sheet.

Wider access to unmanned aerial aviation also has become available recently, as the technology involved is getting cheaper and civilian

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and commercial entities are finding more uses, Esker said.

“Students should take this course to familiarize themselves with a growing sector of our national and state economies,” Esker said.

Worldwide unmanned aerial vehicle expenditures have risen to nearly $6 billion annually and expected to reach $11 billion annually by 2021, according to a 2011 market study by the Teal Group, an aerospace and defense research corporation.

Integration of unmanned aircraft into the national airspace system could create more than 23,000 jobs from 2010 to 2025, according to estimates by the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.

Corporations and government soon will demand graduates who have a broad knowledge and understanding of the capacities and limitations of these systems, Carson said.

“The career options for students interested in unmanned aerial systems appear limitless,” Esker said.

Several other programs across the nation also are offering introductory courses and some offer full unmanned aerial systems degree programs.

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Storm chaser brings experience AMY BAKER

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Living by the motto, “Never stop chasing,” one OU student is transforming his passion for tornadoes into a website, videos and new insight into meteorology.

The National Weather Center nominated meteorologist and storm chaser Reed Timmer to fill one of 11 positions in the TEDxOU line-up, organizer Adam Croom said. see SPEAKER paGe 2

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Today around campus Free donuts and hot chocolate will be served while supplies last at 8 a.m. on the South Oval by the Campus Activities Council Winter Welcome Week.

An art exhibition by students of the School of Art and Art History will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Sandy Bell Gallery.

A free exhibit by invitational artist Clint Stone can be seen from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Lightwell Gallery. An opening reception will take place at 6 p.m.

Free lunch will be served at noon on the South Oval by the CAC Winter Welcome Week while supplies last.

Play with puppies from 1 to 3 p.m. on the South Oval, weather permitting, sponsored by CAC Winter Welcome Week.

A mixer and involvement fair for transfer students will take place from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Jim Thorpe Multicultural Center, located south of Couch Restaurants.

A free concert will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium. “American Pie� will be screened from 9 to 11 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium.

Midnight breakfast will be served by CAC Winter Welcome Week from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. at Crossroads in the union.

Friday, Jan. 20 Free breakfast will be served at 8 a.m. on the South Oval by the CAC Winter Welcome Week while supplies last.

Free lunch will be served at noon on the South Oval by the CAC Winter Welcome Week while supplies last.

Play with puppies from 1 to 3 p.m. on the South Oval, weather permitting, sponsored by CAC Winter Welcome Week.

Step Up to Stompdown will be put on by the Black Student Association and CAC Winter Welcome Week from 7 to 9 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium.

A wrestling dual will take place against Iowa State at 7 p.m. at home.

An opening reception for the 98th Student Art Exhibition will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Sandy Bell Gallery.

Saturday, Jan. 21 Tennis matches against Drake and ArkansasLittle Rock will take place starting at 9:30 a.m. at home.

A women’s basketball game versus the University of Texas will be played at 11 a.m. in Lloyd Noble Center.

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Tickets to the Jan. 27 event are sold out, but videos from the event will be posted, according to the event website.

The center recommended Timmer for his career accomplishments and personality, Croom said. “Timmer is a landmark of OU,� Croom said.

Since he was 5 years old, Timmer has had an interest in weather, but it was not until his freshman year at OU that he witnessed his first tornado, Timmer said.

After studying the powerful wind speeds, a mystery of meteorology, Timmer’s deep-rooted interest in storms evolved into his passion, he said. This passion has not only served as a hobby but also allowed him to make a career out of what he loves: storm chasing.

Du r i ng h i s p re s e nt a tion, Timmer said he plans to share information about tornadoes and the data he has collected using radars to measure different components of a tornado.

However, he hopes to have a deeper impact on attendees than just whirling winds and high-tech machinery, he said. “Stick to your dreams, and good things can happen,� Timmer said. “A career should never be about money — that will come if you follow your passion and do what you love.�

Since 2008, Timmer has b e e n w o rk i n g w i t h t h e Discovery Channel on the TV series “Storm Chaser,� which focuses on the science-related aspects of tornadoes and gives insight into what his job entails, Timmer said.

He also has his own website, TornadoVideos.net, which features storm-chasing videos, forums and projects. “TornadoVideos.net ... has

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Stormchaser Reed Timmer will be showing off a bulletproof, tank-like vehicle that protects chasers from big storms and tornadoes when he speaks at the Jan. 27 TEDxOU event.

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become the premier source of weather footage for news and production companies worldwide,� according to the TEDxOU website.

The ultimate goal of the w ebsite, how ever, is to stress the importance of warning and keeping people informed about severe

weather, Timmer said.

Despite the risks tied to storm chasing, Timmer said he is not fearful of the intense weather surrounding his lifestyle.

To help ease his fears is the Storm Research Vehicle, a tank-like vehicle that protects him as he dives into the heart of a storm, Timmer said. It was built in 2009 with bulletproof sheet metal and Lexan armor and will be present at the TEDxOU event.

The TEDxOU event is designed to gather numerous, well-respected and interesting individuals of the local community to speak in hopes of stirring thought-provoking discussions, according to the event website.

in the top among the nation for retaining students, University College dean Doug Gaffin said. “It’s a laser-hot focus on retention,� Gaffin said. “The two numbers that matter are graduation and retention rates.�

Retention rate is a measure of first-year students who enter college immediately after high school and how many graduate within six years, Gaffin said.

OU’s current retention rate for the 2009 freshman class is 83.1 percent, exceeding the national average by 3.1 percent, he said.

Gaffin said he is confident that, with the programs OU offers to retain students, the 2011 freshman class retention rate will be the best ever at about 86 percent.

Resources offered this semester to retain students on academic notice or probation are classes teaching strategies for success, Gaffin said. Gateway, freshman seminar and a faculty mentoring program also acclimate new students to college life. “The university was supportive and responsive to my questions,� chemical engineering sophomore Hai Vu said when asked what made her come back to OU for her sophomore year.

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smoking: Two areas designated as exceptions Continued from page 1 Memorial Stadium during Sooner football games, according to proposed additions to the Regents’ Policy Manual.

The two areas of exception on campus will be designated smoking areas located “on the edge of the parking lot for Dale Hall (north of Lindsey Street and east of Elm [Avenue]� and “on the southern area of the parking lot at Lloyd Noble Center,� according to the proposed additions. “No policy is perfect and the entire policy, including the impact of these designated smoking areas, will be evaluated after one year of implementation,� Boren said in a press release.

The designated smoking areas will be proposed to protect the health and atmosphere of neighborhoods near campus and Campus Corner, Boren said in the

release. “Having designated smoking areas on campus will discourage OU students and employees from resorting to smoking in these offcampus locations,� he said.

Enforcement of the ban “depends on the consideration and cooperation of both users and non-users of tobacco� and “non-compliance with this policy is ... subject to the disciplinary process,� according to the proposed policy additions.

After a student or university employee is found guilty of initial violation resulting in a warning, fines of $10 for second offenses and $50 for third offenses will be imposed, and “an appeals process will be used similar to that used for appeals of parking fines� will be implemented by the university.

Exceptions to fines can be made for tobacco use taking place in accordance with religious or ceremonial purposes, according to the

proposed changes.

Smoking cessation classes and aides will be offered through the OU Health Services and Healthy Sooners program to students, faculty and staff between the acceptance of a new policy and its implementation, according to the press release. “I sincerely thank all who took an active role in helping the advisory committee formulate a policy that will best suit our campus, and I look forward to preseting these recommendations to the Board of Regents,� Boren

said.

Boren formulated his recommendations to the Regents with help from a tobacco advisory committee staffed by OU students, faculty, staff and administrators.

Phone calls and emails to committee members Gary Raskob, committee chairman and College of Public Health dean, UOSA President Hannah Morris, UOSA Vice President Laura Bock and Student Congress chairwoman Alyssa Loveless were not returned as of press time.

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The University of Oklahoma Student Association is seeking applicants for the Student Parking Appeals Court. Judges are charged with evaluating and making decisions about on-campus parking citations.

Deadline to apply is Jan. 27. Submit the form located at ou.edu/parking.

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New course available to aid students in an increasingly digital society A new course on campus is intended to help students come to grips with the ethics and controversy of a digitized world.

The Digital Information Ethics course, offered by the OU School of Library and Information Studies, will cover a variety of issues involving computer usage and the Internet.

Some of the topics to be discussed include electronic surveillance, hacking, plagiarism and online privacy, professor Ellen Rubenstein said.

A recent addition to the faculty from the University of Illinois, Rubenstein said she hopes the class will be an eyeopening experience.

“One of the things that happens in this course is that students realize things they’ve never thought about before,” Rubenstein said. “Copyright is something they haven’t thought of much. The digital divide — it’s not something they deal with, so it’s not something they think about. This is a digitized society.”

The course will be structured to give students a chance to critically examine their media involvement, Rubenstein said.

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The OU College of Architecture’s undergraduate program was named among the top 10 in the South, according to a design publication.

“Design Intelligence,” a twice-monthly report of the Design Futures Council, recognized three aspects of the college — creative programs, outstanding faculty and premier facilities — according to a press release.

Part of what sets OU’s College of Architecture apart from others is its focus on creating and making, college dean Charles Graham said.

“Collaborate, create and construct are three basic things our and other excellent colleges of architecture are doing,” Graham said.

“But we also have one special thing we refer to as creating and making. That’s what we do probably better than most of the colleges in U.S.” Gould Hall, the new home of the college, houses work areas where students can design and build projects, Graham said. Though students can use digital replicas, the idea of visualizing design in 3-D realities is very important, so the college emphasizes creating and making models.

The college has had a longstanding goal to achieve national recognition for its work, Graham said. The college collaborates across specialties, including meteorology and engineering, does design projects throughout the country and sends students and faculty abroad to work on projects.

“One of our goals in plan is to be recognized,” he said.

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Ty McCarthy, regional and city planning graduate student, shows off student work in Gould Hall. The OU College of Architeture was recognized among the top 10 in the South by a design publication.

“Our faculty are giving papers in conferences and meetings.

Other universities are learning what we are doing. We are making people aware of what we are doing. It turns out three of our five divisions have gained recognition.”

More and more quality students are learning about OU’s program, even before the publication’s honor, college alumna Miaomiao Chen said.

“They are collecting good applications,” Chen said.

“Students with national scholarships and different honors or awards from high schools

are going to the program.”

Part of what makes the college and its students successful, including in national and international design competitions, are the multiple outlets they have to learn, Graham said.

“Students learn from three different ways: faculty, research and each other,” he said. “The collaboration can occur between students and faculty, other students and other teachers and coming guests. They create this cooperative environment in college. All three accesses can be given at any time.”

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The ranking is an honor for the college, and credit goes to all students and faculty, as well as the university for creating the new facility, he said.

H o w e v e r, h e s a i d h e hopes the college continues to achieve something more than just rankings and recognitions.

“It’s about the quality education we are giving to our students and making other people aware of that,” Graham said. “Our goal is educating students as the leaders in their field. We are hoping in three years and five years we can be still cutting-edge.”

Oklahoma income taxpayers can benefit from a tax credit this year by making a charitable gift to the Peggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer Center at OU. The Oklahoma Biomedical Research Tax Credit gives $1 tax credit for every $2 donation, according to a press release. The maximum tax credit for an individual taxpayer, corporation, estate or trust is $1,000 per year and $2,000 for couples filing jointly.

The tax credit reduces a taxpayer’s Oklahoma Income Tax Liability by the amount of the credit and is offered in addition to state and federal tax deductions, according to a press release.

Cancer continues to be one of the most devastating health problems in Oklahoma, according to a press release.

One in two men and one in three women in Oklahoma will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime, Director of Development Von Allen said.

“Research is the only way we can change these statistics,” Allen said.

The Cancer Center uses the donations to support laboratory and clinical research to help develop new cancer treatments, Allen said.

The Oklahoma Legislature authorized this tax benefit in tax year 2011, but it was limited to $50,000. This year, there is not a true cap, Allen said.

Cancer Center officials encourage donors to consult professional tax advisers for other factors that could affect their tax liabilities, according to a press release.

Rachael Cervenka, Campus Reporter

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Fight to prevent SOPA, PIPA Our View: The fight against online censorship legislation is far from over. So get involved.

AT A GLANCE What is PIPA, SOPA?

If you spent time online Wednesday, you probably noticed some of your usual sites were blacked out. Many featured information about two bills, Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act, which would legalize Internet censorship under the guise of fighting online The Our View piracy. is the majority opinion of We hope you found this to be The Daily’s more than a 24-hour inconve10-member nience. We hope this proved just editorial board how much these bills could affect your daily life.

This blackout shows what the Internet could look like if these bills pass. Sites would be partially or completely blocked if one of their millions of users posts or links to infringing content.

Sites likes Wikipedia, Twitter and Facebook would find it nearly impossible to police every post. Under either of these bills, that inability would open them up to a host of lawsuits. Worse, offending pages — even whole sites — would be blocked from all American Internet users by their service providers.

We hope today’s protest has opened students’ eyes to the danger these bills represent. This fight isn’t over — the bills are still set to be discussed within the coming weeks — and it does affect you.

There is still a real possibility that these bills will find legislative support and eventually become law, unless each of you joins the fight and combines your voice with thousands of others demanding that their congressmen ignore Hollywood lobbyists and defend the Internet from censorship.

If you’re already involved in the fight against SOPA and PIPA, then keep up the good work. The protest can’t lose momentum, even as the bills lose support.

The Protect IP Act (PIPA) was brought before the U.S. Senate on May 12. The Senate is scheduled to bring it to a vote Tuesday.

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives on Oct. 26. Its sponsor said it will be discussed in early February.

These two bills would make it possible for a site to be declared copyright-infringing if a single post or link is found with infringing content. A court could then order that a site be cut off from financial services,

ad services and search engines, as well as blocked from all American users by Internet Service Providers.

SOPA also would make streaming of infringing content — like a video of you singing to Lady Gaga — a felony with up to a five year prison sentence.

These provisions have caused concerns about censorship, abuse of the system, the lack of due process, the harm to U.S. businesses and the technical harm caused by blocking some domain names only in the U.S.

If you’re just hearing about them, then it’s time to get involved. Educate yourself. Tell your friends.

Then do what you can to help fight these dangerous bills.

A veto pledge from President Barack Obama would be a death knell for these bills. So far, Obama has expressed concern but not pledged a veto.

Demand that the president stand against censorship by signing the DemandProgress.org petition.

You can find a link to the petition on OUDaily.com.

And don’t forget to take the fight to those directly involved. If you didn’t call or write to your congressmen Wednesday, do so today. And whether you sent a letter months ago or today, we want to read them.

Send original letters to dailyopinion@ou.edu by Jan. 24, and we’ll publish them to show your fellow Sooners (and your congressmen) that you believe in a free and open Internet.

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Injustice remains an obstacle

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artin Luther OPINION COLUMNIST King, Jr. had more than a dream. While we remember this eloquent man primarily through his words, we must not forget that those words engaged a movement: His speeches and sermons were Elizabeth Rucker neither the beginning nor wordful@ou.edu the end of the struggle for justice in the U.S. and the world.

I say justice, rather than equality, because the term equality has been deployed to whitewash and sandpaper over the framework of oppression. January after January, many of my white friends flood social media with reminisces of King’s dream as if that dream has been realized.

Yet, sadly, this is far from true.

The racially fueled injustice in our country is truly staggering. Black women earn about 50 or 55 cents to every dollar made by white men; black unemployment has doubled white unemployment; residential segregation persists doggedly even 44 years after King’s death. Brown University researchers concluded just last year that race is still the largest predictor of where a person will live, more so than even income level.

In 2007, the “Toxic Waste and Race at 20: 1987-2007” report found that people of color still are far more likely than white people to live in neighborhoods within three kilometers of a toxic waste dump.

Despite the fact that people of all races use drugs at roughly the same rate, the Disproportionate Justice Impact Study Commission found people of color — young black men, in particular — are eight times more likely to be imprisoned for drug-related crimes; they also are more likely to be sentenced to death than a white person for the same crime.

As has been documented over and over in academia and activism (see Peggy McIntosh’s “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of White Privilege”), white people are systematically blinded to the reality of racial dynamics of our society — dynamics that benefit white people, period.

While the Civil Rights Movement has finally made it into mainstream curricula (where it should be), we also have fostered the understanding that racial discrimination is a thing of the past.

Furthermore, we often write historical narratives in a way that make oppression and social justice movements brief sidebars to our history, rather than the source and substance of it. As the black feminist blog “Crunk Feminist Collective” noted Monday, we have used the sanitized myth of King to convince ourselves race is no longer an issue in the U.S. This attitude has allowed the — now lily white — Republican presidential-nominee field to claim they disavow racism despite their well-documented support for racists (particularly in Ron Paul’s case) and racist policies.

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and Ron Paul opposes the Civil Rights Act. The potential nominees all favor policies and practices that undermine the social services upon which poor people (of whom a disproportionate amount are people of color) rely to survive — such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

Yet these men quickly become indignant at the suggestion they promote racist oppression in our country.

As my friend (and former Daily columnist) Matt Bruenig wrote recently, “This has always been the position of the conservative, denying injustices and blocking progress in favor of a status quo that affords them so many unequal and unfair benefits.”

As the Occupy movement has forced us to consider, the American Dream remains the American “Nightmare” for the vast majority of Americans. The fact that some white people are waking up to this fact highlights, rather than takes away from, the lived reality of people of color in this country.

The 99 percent, the impoverished and the working poor are not a homogenous group, but Martin Luther King, Jr. recognized and emphasized the economic dimension of black struggles and the racial aspects of the oppression of the poor.

In 1967, he urged, “We must ask the question, ‘Why are there 40 million poor people in America?’ And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.

“And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to ask questions about the whole society. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life’s market place. But one day, we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring,” King said.

I urge you to ask questions about injustice of all kinds — and the connections between them. You attend a university whose faculty and student body are about 75 percent white.

Where only eight percent of our faculty is black, Native American or Hispanic. Where two-thirds of the faculty are men. Where gender identity and expression are not protected under our nondiscrimination policy.

Those questions should lead you to the campus organizations in which students are dedicated to combating oppression and injustice here at home and worldwide.

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Recognizing rape crucial for students

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recently spoke to OPINION COLUMNIST an OU student who described an experience she had one night with a guy she had been “hooking up” with but hadn’t had sex with. On the night of her 21st birthday, she went out drinkJanna Gentry ing with him. janna.f.gentry-1@ou.edu She could remember very little from the night, and when she went to his house, she blacked out. When she’s drunk, she said she often blacks out at places where she feels safe. She said that she woke up at 6 a.m., still a little drunk, to find him having sex with her.

When she woke up the next morning, she asked him about what happened the night before, and he said they had sex several times. She only recalled one time they had sex, and she gave no consent to have sex with him any of the times.

She didn’t know this was wrong until a friend told her so.

As she was telling me this story, she still expressed confusion in trying to label the situation. She had drunkenly hooked up with the guy before, and she was unsure how drunk he was. Because of these reasons, she didn’t label the situation as what it was.

This is the college face of rape. It happens in situations where people are under the influence of some substance, and both parties are incapable of making clear, responsible decisions. Lines often are blurred in both the perpetrator and victims’ minds when alcohol comes into the picture.

Sadly, college students often do not label this AT A GLANCE type of situation as rape Campus because they may have resources been under the influence or may have expressed » Sexual Assault Response interest in the perpetraTeam — 405-615-0013, tor. But if someone is not available at all times cognitively able to give » OU Sexual Misconduct consent, it is rape.

Officer — 405-325-3546 Recently, the Senate revised the FBI’s defini» University Counseling tion of rape to line up Center — 405-329-2911 with the reality of how it often occurs. Since 1929, the definition of rape recognized by the U.S. was “the carnal knowledge of a woman, forcibly and against her will.” This definition excluded men and made resistance from the victim an important part of determining if it was rape.

The new definition includes men and women as both victim and perpetrator, includes anal and oral penetration and doesn’t include victim resistance as a prerequisite to defining the situation as rape. This definition includes drunken college trysts in which the victim cannot remember giving consent to the perpetrator.

This definition change is important for men and women in all walks of life. Using a broader definition, one in five women and one in 71 men have been raped in their lifetime, according to a 2010 survey by the National Center for Injury Prevention.

But this is particularly pertinent to college students.

According to a 2008 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 20 to 25 percent of college-aged women reported experiencing a rape attempt. And this statistic only takes into account the women that actually reported an incident. Like the student discussed above, many women feel hesitant to report instances of sexual violence.

College students need to understand that there is no “fine line” when it comes to rape. It doesn’t matter if the victim put themselves in a vulnerable situation; rape is inexcusable.

The revision of the old definition of rape is an important step for victims of rape to receive justice, but it also is an important step for both men and women to have a greater understanding of what rape looks like.

Hopefully, more awareness can be brought to this very important campus issue. If you are a victim of rape who was unsure if what happened to you “counted” as rape, I urge you to seek help from the many services offered for you at OU. What happened to you is not OK, and there are people ready and willing to help you.

Janna Gentry is a English education senior.

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Courtney Goforth Life & Arts Reporter

As we begin to settle into the first month of the new year, many new local bands will start to cycle through Norman’s bars and venues, hoping to bring the flair of 2012.

H o w e v e r, o n e l o c a l Norman group, My So Called Band, shamelessly pulls material from the pre-Y2K music realm and encourages musical déjà vu.

Band members Carly Gwin, Brian Stansberry, Aaron Daniels, Ricky Salthouse and Kyle Davis invite all former “Saved By the Bell” fans and ex-JNCO wearers into their ’90s time warp from 7-9:30 tonight in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium for Campus Activities Council’s Winter Welcome Week ’90s Night.

“They are all really good musicians — they are a bar band — but they are not the cheesy, tacky, kind of kitschy kind of band,” said Joshua Boydston, psychology senior and concert series chairman.

“All of them attended OU, and it was neat to have that connection of people affiliated with OU to come back and perform in a cool place like Meacham.”

A mutual love of the decade’s music and frequent jokes made about starting a cover band eventually convinced the friends to collaborate, and they inevitably created a list of more than 80 songs to perform. The quintet has been known to cover a range of ’90s standards such

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Local ’90s cover band, My So Called Band, plays a free show for ’90s Night at 7 tonight at Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meachum Auditorium. All five members of the band are former OU students.

GO AND DO ‘90s Night WHO: My So Called Band WHEN: 7 tonight WHERE: Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meachum Auditorium PRICE: Free for students

as Nirvana, The Cardigans, Weezer, Beck, Third Eye Blind, Beastie Boys and No Doubt.

My So Called Band’s set list — in all of its ’90s-soaked

diversity — will predictably cause collective sighs of remembrance, subtle foot tapping and lots of lip-syncing.

Despite a few songs-youlove-to-hate sprinkled into the set, the band members say they take their gig seriously and apply their talents from their other side projects.

When the band takes a break from reminiscing about Crystal Pepsi and white Ford Broncos, Gwin and Salthouse perform in the rock group The Workweek, Stansberry in Over Stars and Gutters and Davis in Evangelicals.

“I think most of the students at OU spent our

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There will be a public reception from 7 to 9 p.m.

Friday with awards at 8 p.m.

The exhibit will run until Feb. 12.

“It’s really important for me and for all the students to be featured in the show because it’s our chance to have our work seen in a museum in a high-art setting,” Henley said.

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Tu e s d a y m a r k e d t h e opening of the 98th Annual School of Art and Art History Student Exhibition located in the Nancy Johnston Records Gallery at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Selected works by students of OU’s School of Art and Art History were chosen by a curator to be featured in the show.

Senior studio arts major Tiffany Henley has two ceramic pieces featured in the show.

“We have a really wide range of work in the show ... from realistic to very abstract portrayals,” Henley said.

Because of construction on the new Stuart Wing, the exhibit has been held in the Lightwell Gallery and is now in the museum for the first time in three years.

The School of Art and Art History has worked handin-hand with the museum in efforts to make this event possible. Coordinators on both ends said they are excited about what the exhibit has to offer.

“The exhibition has become a community-wide event with, at times, 500 people in attendance,” said Mar y Jo Watson, director of the School of Art and Art History. “We are proud of our students who have worked hard to display the results of their studies and training.”

The exhibit gives the museum an opportunity to provide real-world experience for students and help prepare them for their futures, said Gail Kana Anderson, the museum’s deputy director.

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formative years in the ’90s, so it is nice to have a trip back to that decade,” Boydston said.

“I think they do a good job at bringing it back without the cheesiness or tackiness but can still bring back fun songs like ‘Barbie Girl’ to the show.”

My So Called Band welcomes audience requests and strives to get the crowd dancing in the spirit of junior high memories. If ’90s Night seems too throwback for freshmen who did not come to be until later in the decade, My So Called Band also will perform at 10:30 p.m. Jan. 27 at The Deli.

tieg Larsson’s Life & Arts Columnist “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” tells a story about a magazine writer searching for redemption while investigating the infamous disapperance of a young girl in a powerful family.

Katie Piper I’m going to be honest — piper_katie@ou.edu I wasn’t really interested in this book at first. It sounded overhyped, with a bit of controversy attached to it that I didn’t care about. I thought the plot was overdone, and I didn’t want to bother reading something with the movie already in theaters.

I even tried to start it once, but after 30 pages of meticulous detail, I felt bored and detached from the plot.

It didn’t help that my copy of the book was tiny and hurt my eyes.

But, from rave reviews from my friends and their constant nagging about how I needed to read it, I decided to start again with determination to finish it, no matter how tedious it was.

And still, the book didn’t mag“Slowly, the ically change for me. The first 30 story became pages still felt forced and foreign, and I wasn’t connecting to the riveting, story like I wanted to. and I needed But as I progressed, I became to know more interested. Slowly, the story became riveting, and I needed to about the know more about the missing missing girl.” girl and the dysfunctional family with so many secrets.

I found that Larsson’s meticulous detail was needed to understand the story, and I couldn’t read fast enough.

Although some parts of the book are extremely graphic, it wasn’t for shock value, but a gritty depiction of constant violence that women face all over the world.

Larsson begins each part of the book with a fact about violence toward women in Sweden, and I appreciate a male author writing honestly about the atrocities that can happen to women and children without trying to sensationalize the issue.

Overall, I felt this book does live up to it’s reputation.

There is intrigue, horror, mystery and an unexpectedly somber ending that made me want to pick up the sequel right away.

Which is exactly what I did.

Katie Piper is a journalism senior.

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ne of the best things about owning an e-reader is it allows for taking advantage of free books in the public domain.

Admittedly, one could have done this before, but it’s much easier now thanks to the tablets’

portability. Briefly, I’d like to touch on which free books you should have on your e-reader if you happen to be one of the lucky ones to receive one over the holidays.

Steven Zoeller is a journalism sophomore.

“This Side of Paradise” by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This was Fitzgerald’s debut novel, it deals with greed and class in the Jazz Age, which is a typical subject matter for him.

“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle Depending from which website you download this, you may or may not be able to get the illustrations.

Read life & arts columnist Steven Zoeller’s in-depth reviews and recommendations for free books to download on your e-reader.

AT A GLANCE What’s the public domain?

The public domain is generally defined as consisting of works that are either ineligible for copyright protection or with expired copyrights. No permission whatsoever is needed to copy or use public domain works.

Some of the most critical information that faculty members and students rely upon are public domain works. They can serve as the foundation for new creative works and can be quoted extensively.

The works can be copied and distributed to classes or digitized and placed on course Web pages without permission or paying royalties.

These works are not protected because: 1. The work’s term of copyright has expired 2. The author failed to satisfy statutory formalities to perfect the copyright 3. The work is a creation of the U.S. government

“Walden” by Henry David Thoreau

Source: University of California

I bet if Thoreau knew he was being read on electronic tablets, he’d be rolling in his grave. I can’t imagine he would appreciate the iPad.

Everything from Mark Twain

BY THE NUMBERS Public domain terms

“Thus Spake Zarathustra” by Friedrich Nietzsche

1978

By everything, I mean everything Mark Twain has written that’s available online. I decided to recommend everything because there’s just so much of it.

Worry your family by quoting this book! But seriously, it’s a good read.

Works published after Jan. 1 of this year protected by copyright for the life of the author plus 70 years after their death.

1977

Works published before this year but after 1963 were protected for 28 years but received a 67-year extension to bring the total to 95 years.

1963

Works published before this year but after 1923 are protected for 28 years and had the option to be renewed for up to 67 more years of copyright protection. If they were not renewed they are now a part of the public domain.

1. “Organized Simplicity” 2. “How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete

Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents” 3. “Puzzlebook: 101 Puzzle Quizzes”

4. “Taming Mad Max”

8. “Never Buried”

5. “Last Summer”

9. “Thread Words”

6. “Directed Verdict”

10. “Edwina”

7. “Hollywood Secrets”

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Works published before this year are part of the public domain and therefore free to the public.

Source: University of North Carolina

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Jan. 19 - Jan. 22 Thursday, Jan. 19 Intramural Update: Pre-Season Basketball Entries (single elimination) 8 a.m.-5 p.m., today and tomorrow at the Huston Huffman Center front desk.

Entry fee is $25 per team (free if all participants living in OU housing). For more information visit http://www.ou.edu/far or call Jonathan Dewhirst, (405) 325-3053.

Intramural Update: Regular Season Basketball Entries (5-game guarantee) 8 a.m.-5 p.m., today and tomorrow at the Huston Huffman Center front desk.

Entry fee is $60 per team (free if all participants living in OU housing). For more information visit http://www.ou.edu/far or call Jonathan Dewhirst, (405) 325-3053.

Transfer Student Welcome Mixer | 5-6 p.m. in Wagner Hall, room 145. This will be a come-and-go event where new transfer students can come to meet current transfer students, learn about different offices to support them and find out how they can get involved at OU. Presented by the Transfer Student Advisory Board, CAC Winter Welcome Week and the office of Student Life.

Campus Activities Council Presents: 90s Night | 6-11 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Start the night with the free iRock Concert featuring 90s cover band, “My So Called Band.” Presented by CAC Concert Series and sponsored in part by the Union Programming Board. Stay after the concert for iWatch: a free, 9 p.m. screening of “American Pie,” one of the decade’s most iconic comedy films, presented by CAC Film Series.

OU Write Club Open Mic Night | 7-9 p.m. a Café Plaid, Campus Corner. Poet Melissa May will be returning to the microphone with a feature at the end of the night that will rock you like a hurricane, an earthquake and the mighty Roc rising from the volcano to devour us, all at the same time. Welcome to 2012! It’s time to pull out all the poetry you’ve been storing in your thorax for the winter and bring it. Email mozias@ou.edu for more information. iFeast: FREE Late Night Breakfast | 10 p.m. in Crossroads Lounge. Come and enjoy a free breakfast courtesy of Healthy Sooners and CAC Winter Welcome Week.

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Step Up to Stompdown | 5-7 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Presented by the Black Student Association and the Campus Activities Council.

Saturday, Jan. 21 OU Track: JD Martin Invitation Duals | all day at the John Jacobs Track and Field Complex. FREE admission for OU students with valid ID. Visit soonersports.com for more information.

Hockey: OU vs. Arizona State University | 4 p.m. at the Blazers Ice Centre, 8000 S. I-35, Oklahoma City, OK. General admission $5 and reserved seating $10. Call the Blazers Ice Centre at (405) 631-3307 or see www.ouhockey.com for more information.

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OU Women’s Basketball: OU vs. Texas | 11 a.m. at the Lloyd Noble Center.

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THURSDAY JANUARY 19, 2012

It behooves you to raise your goals a few notches higher than usual in the year ahead. Even if you have to convince yourself that you’re capable of higher achievements, know that your chances for success are better than normal.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- It doesn’t look like any old accounts will be squared up with you, because, unfortunately, others might not show you the same consideration that you’ve shown them in the past.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -There’s a possibility that, carelessly, you could talk to the wrong person and reveal something meant to be confidential. That which should be kept secret could become common knowledge.

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Monday- Very Easy Tuesday-Easy Wednesday- Easy Thursday- Medium Friday - Hard

Instructions: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. That means that no number is repeated in any row, column or box.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -Honestly examine your motives about your poor behavior toward a friend. If you’re treating him or her badly because of envy, you need to clean up your act fast.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- A failure to take a firm stance on an important issue could prove to be unforgivable to those who need your support. Trying to stay out of it makes you look like a traitor.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- If helpmates do not live up to your expectations, the fault might not be entirely theirs. It could be due in most part to the faulty instructions you gave them.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -Unless you’ve learned from past experiences to keep your guard up, you’re destined to suffer the

same unpleasant results again from someone with a smooth tongue and low motives.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -Because neither you nor your mate are likely to be at your best when it comes to making a major decision, it would be smart to wait until at least one of you has your head on straight.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Unless you properly plan the logistics of your day, you could end up spending a lot of time being extremely busy but accomplishing little to nothing. Avoid all that wasted effort.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- This is one of those rare days when you could be too much of a risk-taker for your own good. If you go in where the odds are stacked against you, don’t expect to be bailed out.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Unless you find a balance in situations where you should be bold, you’ll be unduly cautious. Conversely, when you should be wary, you’ll end up being far too reckless.

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SPORTS

OUDaily.com ›› For the full feature on OU junior guard Sam Grooms, check out the sports section on OUDaily.com.

Greg Fewell, sports editor dailysports@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666

basketball

Sooner basketball player in it to win Sam Grooms is no stranger to a victory on the court RJ Young

Sports Reporter

Sam Grooms can’t stand losing, and he’s not afraid to say he’s used to winning.

It ate at him when OU began its Big 12 campaign winless.

“I want to win,” he said. “I don’t like losing. It’s just not in me.”

But that’s not what immediately stood out about him to Chipola College coach Jake Headrick.

“It didn’t take you long to see how great a kid he is off the floor and the kind of kid he is on the floor,” Headrick said. “That shows in him.”

Headrick molded Grooms into the point guard he is for the Sooners but said Grooms’ rise has more to do with his ability to satiate his teammates’ appetite to score.

“Point guards are measured off wins and losses,” Headrick said. “He held the team together. He sacrificed his role to keep other guys happy. I don’t think you find kids who are willing to be as unselfish as he is.”

It’s that unselfishness that has made Grooms the ball player he is.

Grooms first signed with South Florida before deciding to attend Chipola College in Marianna, Fla. He started 50 games in two seasons for the Indians and was voted first-team All-Conference.

As a sophomore, Grooms led Chipola to a 25-6 record, a league title and the NJCAA Region VIII championship.

He averaged 11.1 points per game, 5.9 assists and 3.4

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Junior point guard Sam Grooms scans the floor as he pushes the ball upcourt during the team’s 82-73 upset win over then No. 18 Kansas State Jan. 14 at Lloyd Noble Center.

rebounds per game as the squad’s floor general.

He finished the 2010-11 season as the nation’s third ranked junior college player in the country, according to JucoRecruiting.com.

Grooms was offered scholarships to some of the nation’s top programs, including Baylor, Illinois, North Carolina and Oklahoma State. He turned them down and signed with OU. Why? Because Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger was honest with him.

“I was comfortable with what coach Kruger was

saying,” Grooms said. “He didn’t give me a whole lot of nonsense. He said, ‘This is what I need you to do, this is what’s got to be done, and can you do it?’ You can respect that.”

Grooms has taken it upon himself to create a winning atmosphere at OU and believes the team has the pieces to exceed expectations. “ You’re going to take bumps and bruises in order to be good,” Grooms said. “I believe that last year was a learning point for everyone that was here. I was winning where I was at, and coming

here I’m going to bring a winning attitude. I want to win.”

His teammates think he is the smartest player on the roster. Sophomore guard Cameron Clark was quick to point out the things Grooms does well.

Clark is often the recipient of a Grooms pass leading to a daring windmill dunk. But it’s Grooms’ sense of awareness and commitment to communication that impresses Clark.

“Sam Grooms is a very vocal point guard, getting us where we need to be on

plays,” Clark said. “He has a good feel of where we need to be on offense.”

Grooms isn’t quiet at practice and can sometimes be seen taking freshman point guard James Fraschilla aside and teaching him the subtleties of the position. After all, a pure point guard is supposed to be an extension of the head coach, and Grooms considers himself just that.

“I love to see my teammates score,” he said. “I believe nowadays, the point guard position is being pushed out to a combo guard, and it’s allowing a lot

wrestling

Sooners to face Iowa State OU striving for victory in re-match against Iowa team Greg Fewell Sports Editor

The No. 11-ranked Sooner wrestling team continues its conference schedule when it hosts the Iowa State Cyclones at 7 p.m. Friday from McCasland Field House in Norman.

On paper, the Oklahoma wrestling team holds a significant advantage heading into tomorrow’s home dual.

For one, the Sooners have already defeated the Cyclones once this season. In the second conference dual of the season, Oklahoma defeated Iowa State 22-13 in Ames.

The Sooners dominated a large portion of that contest, recording 18 takedowns and only allowing nine by Iowa State. OU won six out of 10 matches last time against the Cyclones, including a 10-0 decision by junior 125pounder Jarrod Patterson in the first match of the day.

From there, the Sooners continued to roll through the lightweight matchups.

However, Iowa State fought back, winning the 165-, 174-, and 184-pound matches.

Then, after the Sooners took the 197-pound bout, Iowa State won the heavyweight match. OU wrestling coach Mark Cody is hoping to improve on those matches this time around, though.

“We got beat last time at 65, and we’re going to try to turn that around this time,” Cody said. “We also took our lumps at heavyweight. We have a different heavyweight in there now, so we’ll see how that’s going to go.”

Since facing Iowa State, the Sooners have had their downfalls, losing to No. 1-ranked Oklahoma State and suffering a heartbreaking one-point loss to No. 12ranked Wyoming.

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Sophomore Kendric Maple, ranked No. 1 in the nation in the 141 pound weight class, looks for a take down opening in a Nov. 18 dual against then No. 9 Missouri in McCasland field house.

PLAYER TO WATCH Kendric Maple Year: Sophomore Position: 141 pounds Hometown: Wichita, Kan. Season stats: Maple, the No. 1-ranked 141 pounder in the country, is 19-0 this year with 49 dual points for OU.

However, the team came back strong Saturday, Jan. 14 at the Lone Star Duals in Dallas, winning all three of its duals and only giving up nine total points. Cody views the team’s next match as a good opportunity to see how much his wrestlers have progressed.

“It’s always good to wrestle a team like Iowa State,” Cody said. “Particularly, we wrestled them earlier in the season, and just to see how far we’ve come between now and then. This will be a good gauge.”

The Cyclones have not fared quite as well as the Sooners since the two

squads last saw each other.

The team has struggled to find the win column for most of the season.

Iowa State followed the loss to Oklahoma with a home dual against perennial wrestling powerhouse Iowa. The Hawkeyes easily handled Iowa State, winning the contest 27-9.

The team then struggled through its seventh and eighth consecutive dual defeats at the hands of Minnesota and Missouri before finally finding the win column against Arizona State. One more loss to No. 14 Missouri and a win against Virginia Tech put the Cyclones at 2-9 heading into Norman to face the Sooners.

Though, Oklahoma has a distinct advantage on paper, the team is taking every precaution to not take the Cyclones lightly. The team has lofty goals for itself that are much bigger than any one individual match.

“Ultimately, our goal is to do well at the NCAA tournament, and I think we’re on track to do that as long as everybody stays focused and does what they’re supposed to do,” Cody said.

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of people to get false pretenses of what the position really brings to the table.

The job is to make plays and make people better.”

Make plays. Make people better.

You could say those two sentences illustrate the essence of basketball and the foundation on which Grooms has built his game.

“I like to get out and run and get in the open court, and have fun,” Grooms said.

“This up-tempo pace is the perfect thing for me. It’s tough because it wears on your body, but after a while you get used to it.”

He is quick when bringing the ball up the floor, comfortable in transition and can catch teammates off guard with darting passes.

He can remind you of a lot of pure, NBA, point guards: Jason Kidd, Baron Davis, Steve Nash.

But if you ask the Sooners’ No. 1 who he thinks his game most resembles, two names come flying from his mouth: Chris Paul and Ty Lawson.

“I watched Chris Paul play so much, and in high school I watched him do some of the things he did,” Grooms said.

“I try to model my game after him and Ty Lawson because I like to be in the open court.

If I had to say I’m someone, I’d say I’m a mixture of Chris Paul and Ty Lawson.”

Paul and Lawson exude a love for the game that cannot be taught. They take great pride in helping their teammates score.

So, too, does Sam Grooms, and he’s thankful for those skills.

“I’m doing something I love,” Grooms said. “No other way around it.”

SPORTS

Thursday, January 19, 2012 •

Women’s Gymnastics

Sooner retires after long battle Coach says Kelley leaves example of perseverence

PLAYER PROFILE Natasha Kelley Year: Junior Hometown: Katy, Texas Career stats: Career-high 9.95 on bars and 9.925 on both beam and vault; earned AllAmerica honors on both bars and beam last season

James Corley Night editor

OU women’s gymnastics coach K.J. Kindler said she’s encountered few people with as much fight in them as Natasha Kelley.

The junior from Katy, Texas has been fighting constantly to do what she loves since she arrived in Norman four years ago. Her Sooner career was slowed by four major injuries in the last five years, consequences of the punishing lifestyle of elite gymnasts.

After suffering an Achilles tear in her right foot during preseason training this season, Kelley announced Wednesday she is retiring from the sport.

“Gymnastics was my life and will always be close to my heart,” Kelley said. “I have fulfilled my dreams [at OU].”

Kelley was home-schooled before coming to OU, giving her more time to pursue being an elite gymnast. To reach that level, Kindler said athletes begin training 40 or more hours a week before age 10.

“More than a lot of these athletes, gymnastics was her life,” Kindler said.

And the hard work paid off for Kelley. She already was among the best gymnasts in the world before coming to OU. She was a four-time U.S. National team member in high school, earning a silver medal at the 2006 World Championships and winning the U.S. Junior National Championship the same year.

Kelley’s first major injury required a titanium rod in

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Redshirt junior Natasha Kelley talks with coach K.J. Kindler before her beam routine during last season’s NCAA regional in Norman. Kelley announced Wednesday she is retiring from gymnastics.

her tibia, holding her out of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. An Achilles tear in her left foot forced her to miss her freshman season at OU. A month before her redshirt-freshman season, she tore the ACL in her right knee, the same injury that cut short senior wide receiver Ryan Broyles’ OU career last fall.

But rather than miss two seasons in a row, Kelley decided to fight through the pain and competed without

an ACL during the 2010 and 2011 seasons.

T h ro u g h e v e r y t h i n g , Kelley continued to fight.

She refused to let anything get in the way of her dreams.

“Tasha has come back from three potentially career-ending injuries already,” Kindler said. “It takes a tremendous person to push through heartbreak that many times to rise again as a national contender.”

She earned Big 12 Ne w c o m e r o f t h e Ye a r in 2010 and won 17 total

individual event titles in the pair of years, including two straight Big 12 beam titles and All-America honors on beam and bars.

Her most recent injury, though, was just too much.

“When you look at the laundry list of things she’s been through, [her decision] would probably seem obvious,” Kindler said. “But this is like a grieving process for her — like losing part of herself that she’s had for 20 years.

“I don’t know that any of

us can fully understand what that’s like.”

Her retirement in no way means she’s throwing in the towel, though — it means she’s shifted her focus to fighting for something she believes in beyond gymnastics.

As a kid, Kelley dreamed of being an elite gymnast.

Now, she’s shifting her focus to helping kids achieve their dreams.

Kelley plans to graduate in May with a communications degree and already has been accepted into graduate school at OU to pursue a master’s degree in elementary education. She said she wants to teach second- or third-graders.

“If she pours as much soul into her profession as she has into gymnastics, she will be the most-requested teacher at school,” Kindler said.

Her teammates, who have watched her fight through adversity her entire collegiate career, will fight on also because of the example Kelley set.

“She has taught herself, her teammates and all those who have worked with her what it means to love something so greatly you will do anything to continue,” Kindler said.

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sports briefs track & field

And they’re off After a record-breaking performance in their first indoor meet of the season last week, the Sooners’ track and field team will return home to officially kickoff the season when they host the J.D. Martin Invitational Duals meet this Saturday.

N o r t h Te x a s , S M U, Oklahoma State and Tulsa were just a few of the teams that competed in the meet last year, along with several other small Oklahoma schools and unattached runners.

Dillon Phillips, Sports Reporter

men’s gymnastics

Stehl honored by conference Ju n i o r O U g y m na s t Chris Stehl was named the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Gymnast of the Week Tuesday after claiming the all-around title at the Rocky Mountain Open last weekend.

Stehl took home titles on rings and parallel bars at the Rocky Mountain Open en route to his first ever all-around title.

Daily staff reports

women’s gymnastics

Spears steps up for Sooners S o p h o m o r e Ta y l o r Spears has been named the Big 12 event specialist of the week on the vault.

Spears scored a career high 9.875 on the event in the team’s meet against Oregon State on Friday.

Daily staff reports

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