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BUDGET

Oklahoma slicing OU’s funding University is receiving less money from state MATT RAVIS

Campus Reporter

As the state’s higher education funding decreases and the amount of money OU raises from private donations increases, President David Boren said he must question at what point the university will become a private institution.

The cost of education continues to increase as the state contributes less, Boren said in a press conference Monday. Although private giving to the university is at an all-time high, fixed costs such as health insurance and utilities are

rising, leading to possible tuition increases.

OU received 16.2 percent of its funding from state appropriations during the fiscal year 2013, which is half what it received 15 years ago.

The state’s appropriations for the university have also decreased from $154 million in 2008 to $141 million in 2013.

Boren said this decrease is more serious than it may seem at first, because the university faces rising fixed costs from health care, utilities and other unavoidable expenditures. Given that these costs are fixed, even when funding from the state remains constant, it is just like funding has been cut, Boren said.

“Zero is not flat; zero is a cut,” he

said.

Boren said he believes “disinHigher education institutions vesting” in higher education will in Oklahoma received 14.77 per- endanger the future of students in cent of total state appropriations Oklahoma. in 2013, which is the least amount A college education is absolutely of funding these instinecessary for the U.S. tutions have received “Zero is not flat; economy, Boren said. in state history, Boren purchasing power zero is a cut.” The said. of Americans doubled OU recently record- PRESIDENT DAVID BOREN in the 28 years after ed an all time high in the GI Bill was introprivate giving, receiving almost duced, which enabled the average $140 million in the first half of the American to attend college.

2013 fiscal year, according to a press Now, the U.S. has dropped from release in January. first in the world to 12th in the As private giving increases and amount of college-aged students state funding decreases, OU is get- going on to higher education, ting pushed in the direction of be- Boren said. coming a private university, Boren said.

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FORGOTTEN FOUNDATIONS

Piece of OU history finds its way home Former employee’s generosity brings back plaque from OU’s first building MARY STANFIELD Editor in Chief

It was sitting in a dark corner of warehouse north of campus in 1966 when he found it: a piece of OU’s history.

David Harper was working for OU that summer, having recently graduated from Norman High School.

He said he was working with a crew of 15 summer hires and six “grown-ups” in the area they called the “north base.”

His crew was dusting classroom desks in a dark warehouse when he found a piece of granite, engraved with the year 1892, a list of names and a word he didn’t recognize: “regents.”

The next year, working in the same warehouse, he came across the stone again. When he asked his boss about it, Harper said his boss offered to let him take it home, thinking it likely had little value.

“It was the Harper saved it from first thing that destruction and kept it really rooted the safe for more than 40 university into the years. He said it has been in his possession all that ground.” time, except for a brief stint in the air force — PRESIDENT DAVID BOREN during which his brotherin-law attempted to carve a peace sign into it.

It wasn’t until October, when Harper saw a photo of the university’s first building, that he understood the significance of the stone he had been using as an end table.

The stone is a plaque that once hung on the university’s first building before it burned down and is engraved with the names of OU’s first regents and Oklahoma’s territorial governor, A.J. Seay.

“It was lost in time,” Harper told the audience at the plaque’s unveiling during a press conference in Gaylord Hall’s auditorium on Monday.

OU’s first building, which was located behind the current chemistry building facing east, was ready for student use in 1893 and housed all functions of the

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Top: A plaque that once hung on OU’s first building in 1892 was returned to the university by a former employee, who discovered the plaque and kept it safe for more than 40 years.

The plaque is engraved with the names of OU’s first regents and the state’s territorial governor, A.J. Seay.

Left: President David Boren unveils the plaque at a press conference Monday. David Harper, the man who discovered it, OU historian David Levy and John Levett, director of Special Collections, joined Boren.

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LECTURES

Pulitzer Prize historians, authors to ‘Teach-In’ Teach-In expected to fill Catlett auditorium ARIANNA PICKARD Campus Editor

Sooners and the Norman community are invited to learn about the Great Depression and World War II from Pulitzer Prize-winning historians and authors at OU’s Teach-In on March 11.

Historians and authors David McCullough and David Kennedy will headline the event, President David Boren said at a press conference Monday. Joined by four other historians, they will share their perspectives on the Great Depression and World War II during the daylong event.

McCullough will end the day’s events with a lecture about President Harry Truman, the subject of his Pulitzer Prize-winning b o o k “ T r u m a n ,” B o r e n s a i d .

Kennedy will speak at the luncheon

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on “A Tale of Three Cities: How the United States Won World War II.” He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for his book, “Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945.”

The Teach-In will begin with a lecture about author John Steinbeck and his perspectives on America as a cultural history during that era. OU history professor David

Wrobel , an expert on the Great Depression, will lecture at 9:30 a.m. at Catlett Music Center’s Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall.

Following this, a professor from the University of California will discuss lessons to learn from the Great Depression that can be applied to current policy , according to the event’s website. The afternoon sessions will consist of two more talks, followed by a panel discussion at 4 p.m. moderated by OU Senior Vice Provost and classics and letters professor Kyle Harper and featuring all the day’s speakers.

Last year’s Teach-In turned out to be an unexpected success with about 3000 attendees, said Harper, organizer of the event. Organizers were afraid they wouldn’t be able to fill Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium, but they ended up overfilling the largest auditorium on the main campus, Catlett Music Center’s Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall.

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LEARNING DAY

Alums invited back to OU Day offers talks from top scholars ARIANNA PICKARD Campus Editor

OU President David Boren has created a new intiative to allow OU alumni and friends the opportunity to “come back to college for a day” and be inspired by OU’s top faculty.

The President’s Day of Learning will take place April 19-20. The event will begin with a dinner, reception and lecture about OU’s early history from award-winning teacher and OU historian David Levy on Friday at 6 p.m. at Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Boren said at a press conference Monday.

On Saturday, OU’s most outstanding faculty will speak on a variety of topics, ranging from cancer research and the future of medicine to Syria’s recent revolution and the future of U.S. foreign policy following the War on Terror, Boren said. After the lectures, a dinner will be provided at Oklahoma M e m o r i a l U n i o n ’s Crawford University C l u b a n d t h e a n nu a l President’s Concert will feature the performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at 8 p.m. in Catlett Music Center.

Boren said he created this event after hearing from several OU alumni that they wished to come back to college and be intellectually inspired.

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Opinion: State lawmakers should lose control over OU policies to reflect low state allocations. (Page 3)

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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20 OU baseball plays Arkansas-Pine Bluff 3 p.m. at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

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Women’s basketball plays Kansas State 7 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center.

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One factor in this drop is rising tuition rates. When asked if the university would increase tuition this spring as a result of falling state funding, Boren would not provide an estimate.

“We are very determined to changed that zero,” Boren said, referring to the expectation that Oklahoma will not increase funding for higher education next year.

Boren said he does not w a n t O U t o b e g i n c u tting new programs in the last few years, such as the Honors College and the expanded Education Abroad program. But the choice may come down to raising tuition or cutting programs and laying off faculty members, he said.

The university has begun to take measures to trim some of the fixed costs through measures such as automatic lights to cut down on energy bills, Boren said.

OU faculty members feel the constraints of the budget as well, because of the salary freeze in place.

“Our faculty is paid 10 to 20 percent less than their current market,” Boren said.

But Boren said the university must offer competitive salaries to attract

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President David Boren gives a press conference Monday for the Daily, OU Nightly, and a public relations class in Gaylord Hall.

new faculty. This results in “compression,” where faculty members who have worked at OU for several years end up with a salary less than a new hire.

Tuition may have to increase to enable OU to address compression and for the university to stay competitive in hiring new faculty, Boren said.

In Boren’s “State of the U n i v e r s i t y ” a d d re s s i n O ctober 2012, he mentioned OU’s funding was

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its budget, university officials must complete a “needs survey,” which includes its operating estimate for the next year, said Senior Vice President and Provost Nancy Mergler.

Boren said Monday that students, community leaders and politicians must organize to address the lack of funding for higher education.

“We need a sort of Paul Revere’s ride to wake people up,” he said.

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down $90 million from four years ago, but would like to see an added $13 million, according to Daily archives.

The Oklahoma Higher Education system recently requested a $97.4 million increase for the 2014 fiscal year, which would bring its total budget to $1.05 billion, according to the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

In order for an Oklahoma public university to increase

university. Classes were taught there, students lived there and administrators worked there.

“It was the first thing that really rooted the university into the ground,” said OU President David Boren.

OU historian David Levy said the local residents were pleased with the building, but not everyone felt the same way.

“Opinions varied about the beauty of its architecture,” Levy said, noting that Vernon Parrington, OU’s second head football coach, called it an ugly building with “a wart” on top.

For better or for worse, the architecture can be attributed to the Kansas construction firm chosen to build the university’s first building, because the first regents were all Republicans with ties to Kansas, Levy explained.

Harper’s plaque bears the firm’s mark.

When Harper saw a photo of the building, he said he knew the plaque he had belonged to this part of early university history. And he knew what he needed to do.

“I immediately thought, ‘This has got to be at the university,’” he said.

“And my second thought was, ‘It’s

going into the hands of David Boren.’” Collections, to verify its authenticity.

But how does an everyday citizen go The two used markings on the about getting an audience with Boren? plaque and information from univerFor Harper, it was as easy as doing sity archives to confirm its origin, achis civic duty. Harper ran across OU’s cording to the press release. president at the Episcopal church At the plaque’s Monday unveilpolling location they both visited to ing, Boren announced it will be percast their votes in the most recent manently displayed in the wall of presidential election.

Stuart Landing in the Seizing the opporOklahoma Memorial “It was the right tunity, Harper said Union w ith a brass he extended his hand thing to do, but not plaque explaining its to shake Boren’s and historic origins. everybody does asked for a minute of Harper said he the right thing. He his time. hadn’t par ticularly “He didn’t give me a did, and I think the thought about bringminute,” Harper said. community is in his ing the artifact back “He gave me about 15 to the university for debt.” minutes.” future generations to DAVID LEVY, Boren said the pair appreciate, but that his OU HISTORIAN were almost thrown actions were just comout of the polling locamon sense. tion for talking, but by the end of the “He viewed it as us preserving histoconversation, Harper had gifted the ry,” Harper said. “I viewed it as ‘What’s plaque back to the university. this old stone just doing out here in “It was the right thing to do, but not my workplace?’ But I’m very glad it’s everybody does the right thing,” Levy where it belongs.” said. “He did, and I think the community is in his debt.”

Gavin Smith contributed to this report.

After receiving the plaque, Boren handed it off to Levy and John Lovett, the curator of the Western History Collection and director of Special

CAMPUS BRIEFS ACADEMICS

CONSTRUCTION

BEDLAM BLOOD BATTLE

Applications due Friday for some study abroad programs

South Oval Scholars’ Walk expected to be completed during summer of 2014

OU: Vein to vein with OSU

Students interested in studying abroad have until Friday to turn in their applications for many study abroad programs and locations.

The deadline allows students to have enough time to complete their paperwork to get academic credit and financial aid for their trip, said Alice Kloker, director of Education Abroad.

For information on all the logistics of studying in another country, the Education Abroad office also hosts a daily information session, Study Abroad 101. The presentation is 30 to 50 minutes long and anyone interested can register online on the study abroad website, Kloker said.

“Study Abroad 101 covers the basic of how to study abroad,” Kloker said.

Kloker encourages students to study abroad

Updates on the South Oval’s Scholars’ Walk construction plans were announced by President David Boren Monday at a press conference.

Initial plans for the construction were announced in 2011, according to Daily archives. The plans included the removal of the Van Vleet Oval, which would be replaced with a wide pedestrian walkway and bicycle lane identical to that on the west side of the South Oval, according to Daily archives.

Boren said the Scholars Walk will remove traffic and the fumes it causes from the South Oval and relocate the campus bus transit hub to the cul-de-sac on Asp in front of Oklahoma Memorial Union.

On top of infrastructure improvements, Boren said student discussion about the need to recognize academic excellence — along with a Daily editorial expressing the same concern — was a major impetus for the project.

“It is inspiring to show that academic excellence has a long history here, just like academic excellence,” Boren said.

Boren said two statues currently are slated to be erected on the Walk in addition to university scholar plaques. The statues will be of an outstanding female and male faculty member from each of the university’s first two 50-year periods, chosen by OU historian David Levy.

“We will have the majority of the work completed this summer,” OU Facilities Management director Brian Ellis said.

The remaining work on the Scholars Walk is expected to be completed during the summer of 2014, Ellis said.

OU is competing with Oklahoma State University this week in a Bedlam Blood Battle to see who can rally more blood donors in two days.

This year marks the third Bedlam Blood Battle, said Leslie Gamble, director of community relations for the Oklahoma Blood Institute.

OSU has beat OU every year since the competition began, said Julie Gimmel, program consultant for the Oklahoma Blood Institute. Last spring, OU lost to OSU by 49 participants.

The competition gets students energized, which causes an increase in donations, Gamble said.

This past fall, 1,310 Sooners donated blood for the Bedlam Blood drive throughout the entire semester, and the goal for just this week is 750 total, Gamble said.

While this may sound like a huge number, Gamble said that the hospitals the institute serves require 700 donors a day to help all of their patients.

“You can save a life and make a difference, and it doesn’t cost anything,” Gamble said.

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the summer after their first year at OU and explore the many options available to OU students such as the Journey programs to Brazil and China, Kloker said.

Study Abroad 101 Times & Locations Mondays at 8 p.m. in Dale Hall 125 Tuesdays at 4 p.m. in Nielsen Hall 170 Wednesdays at 4 p.m. in Dale Hall 103 Thursdays at 11 a.m. in Nielsen Hall 270 Fridays at 11 a.m. in Jacobson Hall 102

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editorial

State must have less say if it doesn’t want to pay Our View: State government has too much control over OU policy.

mostly to cover fixed cost increases, according to the regents’ website.

The regents’ effort to increase fundIs OU really a public institution? ing is admirable, but the regents’ 2012 President David Boren raised the legislative agenda also describes sigquestion in a press conference nificant cuts in salaries and benefits Monday while discussing the future of and eliminating positions. university funding. State allocations The state government can also have steadily decreased as a percent- control university policy directly. age of the university’s budget, The most recent example of but because OU is technicalthis power is Governor Mary The Our View is the majority Fallin’s smoking ban on state ly a public institution lawopinion of makers and state appointed property. Despite receiving The Daily’s regents still exercise control only 17.5 percent of our fundnine-member of Oklahoma’s colleges and editorial board ing from the state, Fallin can universities. institute a 100 percent smokAs the saying goes, he who ing ban. Students should be pays the piper picks the tune. If the able to smoke on a third of campus Oklahoma Legislature contributes a — we can designate another 17.5 persmall percentage of OU’s budget, they cent section as Fallin Park. should have less say in university polThe state government also had sigicy. Student tuition and fees will com- nificant control over OU students’ prise 29 percent of OU’s 2013 budget push for gender-neutral housing.

— state allocations will make up 17.5 One of the many concerns in the percent. housing movement seemed to be poDespite this disparity in contrilitical. Representatives appeared to butions, the governor and state be concerned with voter retaliation Legislature exercise significant conmore than student approval. A survey trol over university operations. The of 310 students by the OU Housing governor, for example, appoints the Center Student Association showed Oklahoma State Regents for Higher that 64 percent of the students apEducation who must be confirmed by proved gender-neutral housing. the state senate, according to article Even without resistance from law13A section 2 of the Oklahoma State makers, the regents would still have Constitution. the ability to approve or disapprove The regents exercise many controls the measure. over state colleges and universities The best possible solution to higher including prescribing standards, out- education funding is an increase in lining course standards, issuing distate allocations. But if the state does plomas, recommendation of budget not increase funding, Fallin and the allocations, and recommendation of regents should not have disproportuition and fees, within the limits des- tionate control over university policy. ignated by the Legislature, according Students, administration and even to the state constitution. donors should be able to reject the Despite the regents’ status in the smoking ban, establish gender-neustate constitution, the Oklahoma tral housing and make decisions Legislature is not forced to accept the about curriculum. regents’ recommendations. The regents’ have requested a $35 million Comment on this on OUDaily.com increase in state allocations in 2013,

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Eliminate the failing post office

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Opinion Columnist hrough rain, sleet But don’t worry, we’re or snow, unless it’s going to cut Saturday delivSaturday. The Postal ery to reduce our operationService recently announced al costs. Ending Saturday it will be cutting Saturday dedelivery will supposedly liveries starting in August. save $2 billion. How is losing This change shouldn’t $14 billion a year any better? come as a surprise to anyone Do we need a government after the Postal Service postagency that just seems to Jeff Black ed a record $15.9 billion loss deliver junk mail and adverjeffreyblack@ou.edu last year, but it’s plan is too tisements? No, we don’t. little too late. It’s time to be We don’t need more suhonest with ourselves. The Postal Service, permarket catalogs, and no, the enclosed like the humble penny, is leftover waste of a information in that envelop is not urgent. bygone era.

The Postal Service isn’t flexible enough to The Postal Service should be eliminated, make the changes necessary to survive. and the parcel delivery industry should be The Postal Service is unwilling to admit completely privatized so we can rid ourthe price of stamps is far too low, and selves of an enormous budgetary flub that, should be increased from 46 cents to at frankly, not too many people use anymore. least 80 cents, but I think this change is I’m not shocked the Postal Service is unlikely to occur anytime soon since the falling apart. It has a horrendous business Postal Service rarely raises the price of model — I can mail a letter anywhere in the stamps more than two cents per year. country for 46 cents. The cost of mailing Mail delivery should be privatized to lift a letter in France is roughly 80 cents, and a large burden from our budget, the Postal France is slightly smaller than Texas. With Service needs to be eliminated in an effort rising gas prices and the advent of the inter- to balance the budget. net how could charging 46 cents be a good The relevance of the Postal Service has idea? waned in the past decade; it’s time the I, like many students, pay bills for school Postal Service drastically alter its course, and rent online. Even the Postmaster or maybe it is time the Postal Service cut its General knows the technological realities. losses and parked its weird vans for good, “It’s simple, it’s easy, it’s free. You cannot so we can finally rid ourselves of the masbeat free,” Postmaster General Patrick sive anachronism that is the U.S. Postal Donahoe said in an article in Fox 40. It’s Service. hard to come up with any reason to keep the Postal Service around when it loses Jeff Black is a broadcasting junior. $15.9 billion a year.

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Wrestling needs a spot as a core summer Olympic sport

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he Olympic But it is far more disturbOpinion Columnist Games have reing that we are willing to mained a worldsacrifice a sport that at its class test of athleticism, most rudimentary levels endurance and comtests an individual’s ability petition for centuries, to overcome another. The stemming back to the ability to use the mind to ancient Olympic Games overcome time and fear that spanned from eighth and the body to overcome Andrew Sartain century B.C. to the fourth obstacles is one of the simAndrew.Sartain@ou.edu century A.D. Wrestling plest challenges of characwas one of the core events ter in a man. included in the creation of This is why wrestling has the games and has remained existed as long as it has. Sport ever since. was a test of character. Sadly, In depth But Tuesday, the we have sacrificed that for a Core International Olympic false interpretation of what Olympic Committee despicably recrepresents showmanship. sports ommended cutting wrestling That doesn’t mean table from the agenda of the 2020 tennis, badminton or shoot• athletics Summer Olympics. ing don’t take a certain level • rowing “This is a process of reof skill and athleticism, how• badminton newing and renovating the ever, these sports do not exist • basketball program for the Olympics,” through tradition, they require • boxing committee spokesman Mark some form of mechanism to • canoeing Adams said in an article in compete and a far lower level • cycling USA Today. “In the view of of physical exertion. This • equestrian • fencing the executive board, this seems reason enough to re• football was the best program for the consider what the Olympics • gymnastics Olympic Games in 2020. It’s is designed to demonstrate as • weightlifting not a case of what’s wrong athletic.

• handball with wrestling, it is what’s Wrestling is not gone for • hockey right with the 25 core sports.” good yet; it is now a part of • judo What’s right with the core an eight-sport group that has • aquatics 25 sports? I may be biased, been short listed and will pres• modern but I think most people can ent to the executive board a • pentathlon agree that at least two or demonstration of why it de• tae kwon do • tennis more of the core sports lack serves the last spot in the 2020 • table the level of athleticism or Olympics.

• tennis physical sacrifice that wresThe eight sports competing • shooting tling brings to the table. for this spot are: baseball,soft• archery As a fellow biased wrestler ball, karate, roller sports, sport • triathlon who carries deeply the “once climbing, squash, wakeboard• sailing a wrestler, always a wrestler” ing, wrestling and wushu — all • volleyball mentality, this decision has of which have no historical no merit toward the betterbasis in the Olympics, other ment of the Olympic Games. than wrestling.

Kendric Maple is a junior, The 125th International wrestling at 141 pounds for Olympic Committee session the Sooners and currently is will take place on September 7 ranked first in the nation. “I think this is a to 10, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In order terrible decision. Wrestling was the first to protect the tradition and preserve the sport created and still has strong supsports of the ancient Olympics, contact port and tradition. Taking the committee to express your wrestling from the Olympics support for wrestling. will take away many hopes I have no problem with addContact of young kids wanting to ing sports to the Olympics, but International dropping one of the fundapursue professional careers in wrestling after college,” mental sports a part of its creOlympic Maple said. ation is far from the answer.

Committee I would focus on the hit college wrestling would take pressoffice@ olympic.org Andrew Sartain is an from this, after all, I perinterdisciplinary perspectives sonally owe the privilege of +41 21 621 6000 on the environment & claiming OU as my home to nonprofit management senior. the Sooner wrestling team.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2013 A situation that is very important to you and your dependents could take a substantial turn for the better in the year ahead. Old obstacles that have been standing in your way will dissipate as if they had never been.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- You rarely have a difficult time knowing what to say to friends. Even though you’re likely to be surrounded by a larger crowd today, you’ll still find a way to charm everybody.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- A number of unanticipated changes could occur in an area of importance. Be flexible, keep an eye on the competition and remember to roll with the punches.

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hocking as it may be, LIFE & ARTS COLUMNIST like pit stains, you know. we eventually will So, now that you’re out have to end this life of and standing in your underclasses and craziness to enter wear, it’s time to make the the “real world.” Within this real choices. First off, put on mysterious but boring realm, a conservative dress shirt. everyone must apparently This means no chest pockets. “get a job” — or so my parents As for colors, you can wear a tell me. After all, we can only lot of different tints and look Buck Roberson charge stuff to our bursar and okay, but a white shirt is honbuckroberson@ou.edu mooch off of relatives for so estly your best bet, with blue long. coming in at a good second.

Of course, getting a job isn’t easy. There You’ll never go wrong with the former and are many steps in the process, but perhaps rarely with the latter. the most critical is “the interview.” The inNow you need some pants. If you’re wearterview, as most of us probably have expeing a suit, your choice is obvious, get a pair rienced by now, is the obstacle course of in khaki, gray, brown or navy. Conservative judgment most employers use to find the is the word here. Get pants that fit naturalleast-problematic candidate for a job. When ly at your waist, which is a bit below your you go in there, you have to prove that you navel. It’s not trendy, but trendy isn’t what aren’t just some random kid from off the you’re going for, now is it? Also, make sure street, or even the cool kid on the block. You that the bottoms of your trousers get a small need to be the professional they’re looking bit of a horizontal crease when worn with for — particularly if you’re planning to atyour shoes. This is called a “break,” and altend the Career Fair on Wednesday. though you have a bit of range here, this litYou may have noticed, if you’ve dropped tle bit of crease is the sweet spot. by a temple to gainful employment, most of Next, you’ll need to figure out your tie. the professionals any given company has I’ll leave the pattern and color up to you, hired dress in a certain way. This is called although solids or simple patterns in red or professional dress. So, if you don’t want to blue are your best options. Do tie it yourself, be homeless after colhowever, and make lege, you need to massure the bottom tip ter this look and begin hits right on your belt wearing it, particubuckle. A lot regarding larly for that blasted ties is of personal taste, interview. but do make sure your Although this is by taste is more along the no means a comprelines of roast duck than hensive manual, here of McDonald’s — i.e., are some tips for looking like a suitable no cartoon characters or similar crap. candidate most employers are looking for.

Now we’re getting into more details. Your Beyond this, being great is completely up to socks should be a solid color that matches you. your outfit. Traditionally, you want them to First off, you need to get the best clothing be the same color as your pants, but that’s you reasonably can. Although employers more of a suggestion than a true rule. If you know college students are more broke than want a real rule, never wear white or athletic Greece, you need to look like you actually socks. want to look nice. As strange as it sounds, Your belt should be simple leather, have a trying to look nice is an important part of ac- simple buckle and match your shoes. Your tually looking nice. Additionally, high-qual- shoes should be brown, black or oxblood, ity clothing usually will get good mileage and they should be of some refined style. and retain a high Blue Book value if properly If you don’t think “sleek” when you look at maintained. You get what you pay for, after them, you’re probably wearing the wrong all. shoes. Wingtips, cap toes, and tassel loafIn line with quality is fit. Seriously, make ers are all good options, but if those words sure your clothing fits. This goes for anymean little to you, think “fancier than penny thing you’ll ever put on. It doesn’t matter loafers or boat shoes.” Or look them up. The if you’re in a T-shirt, a pinstripe suit, or a Internet is good, no? lampshade; if it doesn’t fit right, you’re A last touch you’ll want to add, if you have just ruining the look. I also might point out it, is a dress jacket. If you’re wearing a suit, that you may very well have the wrong idea obviously your suit jacket is the right choice. of what fits you. Supposedly 85 percent If not, go for a navy blazer. Other colors of women wear the wrong bra size, and if can work, but this staple of college wardwomen can’t get that right, what makes you robes goes with just about anything except so sure your kind-of-sort-of-I-guess sizing for black. You shouldn’t be wearing black is right? There are online guides for these during the day, anyhow. kinds of things; use them.

So, hopefully you’re now well-dressed So, let’s say you’ve got a big interview enough to get past that first five seconds. I coming up. What are you going to wear? can’t help you beyond that, however; it’s all Slow up, man, you’ll be fine. Start off by on you. Good luck, man. The interviewer grooming well. Get a clean-looking haircut, awaits. shave/trim that facial hair, brush your teeth and take a shower. Oh, and be sure to put Buck Roberson is a classical languages on deodorant because you’re going to be sweating up a storm. Nothing says “hire me” junior.

Career Fair to offer job and internship opportunities to students Wednesday BRIANA HALL

Life & Arts Reporter

OU’s Spring Career Fair returns this semester as a way for students to engage with major corporations.

The fair will be held from 12:30 to 4 p.m. Wednesday in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom, according to the Career Services website. A list of 97 attending employers also can be found on the website.

Career fairs always prove to be very successful for both students and employers, said Bette Scott, director of OU Career Services.

“It’s an opportunity for the student to go up and introduce themselves and tell why they’re interested in the company,” Scott said.

Face to face interaction between potential employees and companies is very beneficial for both parties, Scott said.

“This is the chance for the employers to showcase their company and for them to have an opportunity to meet the students face to face,” Scott said. “That’s important to them, and continues to be important even in this digital age.”

There was a surprising amount of employer response to the career fair this year, which speaks to the recent and gradual recovery of the economy, Scott said.

“It’s a calculated decision on their part to come to this career fair. They do that because they’ve hired our students in the past, and they want to come back and get more outstanding employees,” said Scott.

However, there are a few measures students should take before attending the fair, Scott said. Students should develop a professional resumé, dress appropriately and research the companies beforehand in order to prepare for meeting the employers, Scott said.

Kirsten Viohl, a journalSEE MORE ONLINE ism and English writing sophomore who attended Visit OUDaily.com the fall fair, agreed that pracfor the complete story tice and preparation are key.

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An OU spokesman confirmed Sunday three football players have left the team. How will their absence affect the Sooners in 2013?

| MEN’S TENNIS: The No. 8 Sooners went 2-1 at the ITA National Men’s Indoor Championships, which wrapped up Monday afternoon in Seattle.

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Freshmen, sophomores and newcomers do not become team leaders and super stars overnight.

Coach Sunny Golloway and his coaching staff know this all too well to the point t h e y h av e a d o p t e d t h e Japanese word “kaizen ” when they work with the younger players.

Kaizen means “improvement,” and Golloway uses it as a philosophy to try to get his players “to improve in small increments over a long period of time,” he said.

And the No. 18 Oklahoma baseball team’s midweek , two-game series against Arkansas-Pine Bluff that starts at 3 p.m. today at L. Dale Mitchell Park is the perfect time to put the kaizen mentality into play following a weekend against Hofstra when young players made major contributions.

In the S o oners’ (4-0) sweep this past weekend, they started eight firsttime OU starters — freshmen center fielder Craig Aikin , outfielder Hunter Haley , infielder Anthony Hermelyn , first baseman Kolbey Carpenter and pitcher Corey Copping; redshirt sophomore Colt Bickerstaff ; and transfers second baseman Hector Lorenzana and pitcher Billy Waltrip.

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Freshman center fielder Craig Aikin makes contact with a pitch during a game against Hofstra last weekend at L. Dale Mitchell Park. Aikin was one of eight freshman to start during the series.

“They need to understand the Oklahoma way of doing things. We grind it out.”

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combined to hit .219 with one homer — by Lorenzana — and four extra-base hits — three doubles and one triple — while driving in 10 runs and scoring 12 more.

“But to get these guys going facing another team — not just intrasquads — their experience is already being gained right there,” said

senior outfielder/infielder Max White, who had a .293 clip with 15 homers and 43 RBIs during his freshman campaign in 2010.

Although Aikin only collected three hits in his opening weekend, his presence was felt more on the base paths and in center field.

He scored the game-winning run from first base on a dropped fly ball in center in the 11th inning Saturday night and ran down 12 balls deep in center and in the gaps to prevent potential runners from scoring.

“Coach (Golloway) put the trust in me,” Aikin said.

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that he knows that I’m going to run it down and get that ball.”

Copping, who played his high school ball at Temple City High School in Temple, City, Calif., did not earn a victory in his Sunday start, but he tossed seven innings of one-run ball to help him earn a spot in the weekend rotation.

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his past Saturday’s SPORTS COLUMNIST rushing the court exhibition was completely and utterly justifiable.

The win was by an up-andcoming team that really solidified its March credentials.

Maryland absolutely deserved to rush the court Mason Morgan Saturday after beating Duke. masonmorgan@ou.edu Oh right, about that other game.

I’m starting to realize my columns aren’t a worldwide information source everyone bases their opinions from because, obviously, the majority of Stillwater didn’t read my last one. This is starting to become a thing, and as de facto aficionado of court-rushing protocol, some definite rules need to be brought forth.

Keep in mind that these are not set in stone, and I will gladly consider other opinions.

But my allowance of court rushes basically fall under three distinctive guidelines: an unranked team beating a topthree-ranked team that is not currently on a losing streak, an unranked team buzzer beating a top-10 ranked team or an unranked team beating a top-20 ranked rival they have not beaten in a minimum of 20 years.

I have been part of two court/field rushes in my life. One was two Saturdays ago and the other was Oklahoma State’s Bedlam football victory to win the Big 12 two years ago. What I have noticed in those two “life-altering” experiences was that other than getting on TV and grabbing players, court rushers’ main objective is to steal stuff.

I have seen both sides of this free-for-all. One of my friends acquired a much needed down-and-distance marker, whereas my other friend lost his jacket, phone and snap-off sweatpants.

Even my OSU friends were embarrassed after their court-rushing exhibition on Saturday. What could they do?

You can see it coming, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. It’s like a Kendrick Perkins jump shot.

Sportscenter host Scott Van Pelt tweeted that OSU fans didn’t even know who the ranked team was. Columnist Rick Reilly stated rushing the court was “more watered down than cruise-ship drinks.”

It’s starting to become a federal issue. Along with fixing the Bowl Championship Series, the president should tack guidelines for rushing the court onto his sports czar list.

Mason Morgan is a University College freshman.

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Distinguished Alumna Angela Riley, “The Jurisgenerative Movement in Indigenous Human Rights” 3 p.m.

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