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OU looks to ‘tune-up’ curriculum University to amend gen. ed. requirements MATT RAVIS

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After 20 years of the same general education requirements, OU officials say it’s time for the university’s curriculum to have a “tune-up.”

Several OU officials would like to see changes in the university’s curriculum, especially regarding the general education requirements.

Because it has been over 20 years

since the general education curriculum was changed, it needs a “tuneup,” said Kyle Harper, OU senior vice provost.

Although the curriculum has strengths, it also has its weaknesses, Harper said.

Harper said he would like to see freshman general education courses become more inspiring and impactful. There are “tremendously exciting” talks in the history and political science departments about introductory survey classes.

The university can use general

education technology classes to help students discover what they’d like to become, Harper said.

OU Senior Vice President and Provost Nancy Mergler said she also would like to see some changes, considering national discussions about the value of a bachelor’s degree and OU’s current financial situation.

She said she would like to better communicate to students about why general education classes are important. These classes allow a student to become an “articulate information citizen leader,” able to solve

problems beyond a single major’s narrow curriculum.

Mergler said she also wants to ensure American history and government classes build students’ citizenship to empower them to “build and sustain global communities.”

Harper also said he believes general education classes can be used to prepare students for the world.

“It’s a powerful and inspiring ideal,” Harper said. “College is about more than becoming prepared for SEE ACADEMICS PAGE 2

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Sooners experience the spirit of Brazilian culture Carnival showcases Brazilian diversity HALEY DAVIS

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Students played traditional Brazilian instruments and experienced a taste of the diversity, spirit and complex social themes that go into one of the largest festivals in the world at an event Friday on campus.

OU’s Brazilian Carnaval was organized by Jena Vieira, modern languages, literatures and linguistics professor, and Erika Larkins, international and area studies professor, and held from 3 to 4 p.m. Friday in Kaufman Hall as part of the College of Arts and Sciences Focus on Arts and Sciences Week.

Multiple language departments held events last week to represent different cultures for Focus on Arts and Sciences Week, Vieira said.

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Vieira said she wanted to hold an event to showcase Brazil.

“When you think of Brazil, you think of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro,” Vieira said.

“I’ve talked about Carnival in my class, and I wanted my students to really experience Brazilian culture. I wanted people to see what the real Rio de Janeiro Carnival parade is like.”

Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is an annual Brazilian festival that officially starts the Saturday before Ash Wednesday and ends on Fat Tuesday , which marks the beginning of Lent, the 40-day period before Easter, according to the carnival’s website.

It’s the most famous carnival in Brazil and one of the biggest carnivals in the world.

University College freshman Cassade Davis attended OU’s Brazilian Carnaval and said it was very interesting and more than she expected.

“The music was really loud but I enjoyed it,” Davis said.

Students at the event played traditional Brazilian instruments and talked about the origins of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, how it has changed and its historical context, Vieira said.

International and area studies junior Nick Aguilera experienced Carnival in Rio de Janeiro firsthand and said he appreciated the event’s incredible spirit of festivity.

“Dancing in public is not my forte, yet even my shoulders and feet swayed with the resonating music and motion,” Aguilera said.

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Like many undergraduate students, Taylor Woodruff struggled at first to balance work and school. He needed the extra money, but he also needed to stay on top of his studies. There wasn’t a lot he could do to bend his studies to his will, so he needed flexible work.

Woodruff became a self-employed home-improvement laborer and began making the bucks and the grades. In the beginning, he said he used common classified sites like Craigslist to find work.

After graduating from OU with a degree in international security studies in 2012, he used the money he’d saved to create mystudentlist.com , a website to help college students find flexible jobs, Woodruff said.

“Every client loved the fact that I was a college student, so when I graduated, I decided to build a site for college students to advertise their skills,” Woodruff said.

After brainstorming i d e a s i n Au g u s t, h i ring a web programming team in India to design the website in October and finalizing the details in the next few months, Woodruff said he launched his website in January 2013.

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employment — it’s about [becoming] prepared for an engaged and reflective life in a free society.”

The most important part of a college education is not training for a single career, but to prepare for a lifetime of change, according to the Philosophy of OU General Education found on the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost website.

At OU, each academic department revises and refines its curricula, which the Academic Programs Council then reviews, Mergler said.

T h e n , t h e p rov o s t , O U Regents and State Regents of Higher Education review the curricula.

Faculty members always consider the curriculum in light of “national and international trends,” Mergler said.

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This represents the 20-year-old core requirements to graduate for all OU students. OU administrators hope to update the general education curriculum.

university officials are working to keep the curriculum relevant and important.

General education reform is a “massive, collective

philosophy, Mergler said. effort,” Harper said.

A review of all general education courses is underway to see how each one addressMatt Ravis matt.ravis@ou.edu es OU’s general education

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“I want other students to have the flexibility I had and still make a good amount of money,” Woodruff said.

Woodruff said people like Jason Zimmerer, a local resident who helped him brainstorm ideas for mystudentlist.com, are great potential employers because they understand students need flexibility.

Zimmerer said he understands

students need temporary and adjustable work because of their studies. Often, it’s easier to find a reliable worker on mystudentlist.com than on a larger site like Craigslist.

“I think it’s probably because students are typically more trustworthy and goal-oriented because they are in college,” Zimmerer said.

The website is very simple and easy to use, Woodruff said. College students register at mystudentlist.com to set up profiles highlighting their skills, and employers choose what kind of work they want and where to search through lists of students with those skills.

“It took less than five minutes to

register,” OU geology sophomore Eric Doughtie said. “Pretty straightforward — you give your general information and capabilities … It was pretty simple.”

Doughtie said he signed up because several of his friends did. For students like him who concentrate on their coursework, the site offers flexibility.

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Citizens must advocate for adherence to open records Our View: State agencies and employees must

Act. abide by Oklahoma’s open record and open But open records and open meetings have been meetings legislation. tested recently in a case involving the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board.

The staff at the O’Collegian, Oklahoma State Oklahoma County District Attorney David University’s student newspaper, claimed anPrater is preparing a misdemeanor case against other victory in their fight for open records rethe parole board for violating the open meetings quests. Samantha Vicent, copy desk chief at the act.

O’Collegian, is leading the charge. Vicent’s latest Prater alleges the parole held secret meetings to opponent is Payne County District Attorney Tom determine inmate release and parole dates. Under Lee. the Open Meetings Act, the parole board is reVicent requested documents Wednesday relating quired to conduct public meetings relating to the to the departure of Lee’s Assistant District parole of inmates. The meetings came to Attorney Jill Tontz. Lee refused to give the light in 2012 when Prater discovered posThe Our View documents to Vicent, a clear violation of is the majority sible preferential treatment in the board’s opinion of the Open Records Act, Vicent said. decisions.

The Daily’s Lee reversed his decision on Thursday Prater has told board members they can nine-member after the O’Collegian began working on an avoid criminal charges if they resign — an editorial board appeal to the Oklahoma Bar association, offer the board refused.

Vicent said.

Gov. Mary Fallin has spoken on behalf of Lee violated the act when he denied the the parole board saying she saw no malicious inO’Collegian access to Tontz’s employment dates. tent in the board’s actions.

Tontz was involved in the prosecution of an OSU This attitude is not surprising from Fallin, who basketball player for rape in July 2012 and the has denied open records requests for email perO’Collegian wanted to write a story about why she taining to state healthcare. was no longer working at the district attorney’s ofIn response to accusations that her office was fice, Vicent said. not complying with the Open Records Act, Fallin In Oklahoma, it is a misdemeanor to violate the called on her cabinet to offer examples of her ofOpen Records Act, but the O’Collegian decided to fice’s transparency over the last two years. go to the Bar Association because if they filed crimDespite Fallin’s optimism, Oklahoma is not exinal charges in Payne County, DA Lee ercising compliance with open records would be unlikely to sign off on charges and open meetings efforts. The Center Contact against himself, Vicent said.

For Public Integrity gave Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin Lee’s opposition is just one exama “D” in its grading system ranking 405-521-2342 ple in a list of recent Open Records Act state’s compliance with open records and Open Meetings Act violations by and accountability efforts.

Oklahoma Oklahoma state government employees. Pardon and The example from OSU and recent Open records legislation is essential to controversies with the Governor’s ofParole Board democracy in Oklahoma and citizens fice and parole board highlight the 405-602-5863 deserve full access to information about need for Oklahomans to become instate employees and programs. volved in the enforcement of open reThe Oklahoma Open Records Act was cords and open meetings legislation. created in 1985 to supplement and expand the The best part about open records legislation is Open Meetings Act of 1977. it allows any Oklahoman access to information Both acts increase citizen access to government about the state. Contact Fallin’s office and the painformation and allow citizens to attend meetings role board and ask them to comply with the Open of state agencies. Emails of state employees, meet- Records and Open Meetings Acts. ing transcripts, budgets, employment histories and many criminal records are just a few of the records subject to public access through the Open Records Comment on this on OUDaily.com

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Republicans, don’t block nomination of secretary of defense

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Opinion Columnist see no good reason why U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., should not be confirmed as secretary of defense, a potential appointment by President Barack Obama that is largely being blocked by Hagel’s own Scott Starr Republican Party. scott.e.starr-1@ou.edu Sen. Hagel won my approval as far back as 2008 when he was strongly critical of the policies of the Bush administration in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

I had to respect anyone from the GOP that would go against the grain on that point alone.

The GOP hailed this kind of maverick action as a virtue in the 2008 election cycle.

What was considered as an asset is now commonly marshaled as evidence of a person being a Republican in name only. This inconsistency is confusing and comical. It leaves one with the impression that whoever is controlling the Republican Party is either incapable of self-reflection or thinks the American public is completely incompetent.

One could make the argument the objection’s to Hagel’s nomination is evidence that the Republican Party is willing to break its uniformity and criticize its own members. But it could also be cited as evidence that the Party will oppose anything that Obama puts on the table. I am confused. The logic employed by many Conservatives lost me a long time ago.

It wasn’t so long ago that the GOP also threw Republican icon Colin Powell, former national security adviser, commander of the U.S. Army Forces Command, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, retired four-star general and 65th U.S. secretary of state under the bus. During the 2008 presidential race, Powell had become weary of the partisanship and tactics of his own party and dared to back Obama for president. This in turn earned him charges of being racist and voting based on skin color or ethnicity rather than merit.

Coincidentally, Powell backs the Hagel nomination, stating the senator from Nebraska is “superbly qualified.”

He should know. Since Feb. 17, the opponents of Hagel’s appointment have softened their position and conceded that he is likely to be installed.

Not only should you be comfortable with the appointment, but also do whatever you can as a citizen to help influence the Republican Party to reel in the rhetoric and return to rationality. As much antipathy as I have for the GOP, this country absolutely needs both of its mainstream parties to be able to reach compromise. This remains true no matter what you think of the other party. Be a part of the solution rather than the problem.

Scott Starr is a Native American studies senior.

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Stop wasting taxpayer money on anti-smoking legislation Opinion Columnist

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understand legislators are trying to protect public health when making laws prohibiting the uses of legal substances, and I think we all know cigarette smoke causes cancer.

However, in an attempt to protect public health, someTrent Cason times our leaders become cason.trent@yahoo.com overly zealous to the point of ridiculousness and unconstitutionality.

It has been confirmed tobacco is bad for everyone, so why keep it legal while wasting money and time on restricting where and when it can be consumed?

For example, in Berkeley, Calif., it’s illegal to smoke on the sidewalk. So, a person can walk down the sidewalk, enter a store, and purchase cigarettes. The tax from that sale of cigarettes goes, in part, to city works, like paving, cleaning, and policing the sidewalk. If a person wanted to smoke on his or her walk home, however, Berkeley prefers he or she doesn’t use the sidewalk. So, if you go to Berkeley and someone is standing in the middle of University Avenue having a cigarette, don’t be too upset; that person is avoiding a ticket for illegally smoking outdoors.

In New York City, there’s no smoking in public parks at all. Of course, you can score any drug known to man in many New York City parks, but the no-smoking policy will be enforced. New York City also has banned smoking from public beaches. So, if you find a dead body washed up on Brighton Beach, you had better not be polluting the air with nasty tobacco smoke when the police show up — if they show up. Plus, nobody wants cigarette butts mixed in with the sand, garbage, broken glass and hypodermic needles. That’s just unclean.

There are countless other examples of pointless smoking legislation across the U.S. In Zion, Ill., for example, it is now illegal to give your pets lit cigars. Sorry, Fido. The list of ridiculousness goes on.

What’s the point, exactly? Eventually, it will be legal to

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buy tobacco but illegal to smoke it. The taxes keep going up on tobacco to the point where it would be cheaper to just smoke pot instead.

I’m sure we could argue all day about the actual health hazards of a person smoking on a sidewalk. When on a sidewalk, one is breathing exhaust fumes. That’s carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, ozone and soot going into your body through your lungs.

As a parking garage is full of these airborne chemicals and contaminates, I hereby propose that we outlaw combustion engines in parking garages and within 25 feet of any sidewalk.

While we are at it, let’s outlaw farting in public, because that is really what this is about. It’s not about cancer; it’s about the smell of cigarette smoke. I don’t believe that anti-smoking proponents think that they will get cancer from smelling smoke at a bus stop or walking down a sidewalk or through a park. If that was the case, everybody born before 1990 would be dying of cancer due to cigarette smoke exposure. When I was little, you could smoke on planes and anywhere in restaurants; however, I, strangely, remain cancer-free.

Rather, proponents of these kinds of invasive laws are manipulating public health concerns to stop other people from doing something they don’t like. If Oklahoma adopts legislation giving communities unimpeded power to restrict the use of legal substances like tobacco, it opens the door to the kind of time-wasting, illogical and frankly embarrassing regulations that plague Berkeley and Zion.

You can have my dog’s cigar when you pry it from his cold, dead, cancer-ridden paws.

Bradley Quy, Freshman Chinese Major, smokes on Sept. 18, 2012 at what students call “cancer corner,” which is located on the Trent Cason is an English literary and cultural studies west side of Adams Tower.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- You’re likely to get an opportunity to show someone important that you’re willing to stand behind him or her even if others aren’t. Don’t miss this boat.

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Grooms, Osby lead Sooners in blowout win against Baylor

OU stomps UCLA in front of record crowd

Senior guard scores career high in tournament resume-boosting win

No. 2 Sooners set records, remain unbeaten

GARRETT HOLT Sports Reporter

RAPID RECAP OU 90, Baylor 76

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The No. 2 Oklahoma women’s gymnastics team recorded its highest team score in program history in a dual meet victory against No. 5 UCLA on Friday.

In front of a record crowd of 2,874 at Lloyd Noble Center, the Sooners posted season-best team totals of 49.525 or better on each event to contribute to the program record of 198.375 that topped the previous best of 197.950 set against Alabama in 2010.

“It was a huge win,” said senior Brie Olson in the press release dated Feb 22.

“They’re huge competition, and to know that we protected our house was great. It was just filled with emotions.”

Olson claimed the allaround title earning a career high all-around score to surpass the nations top all-arounder — UCLA senior Vanessa Zamarripa — by 39.700 -39.650 . In addition, junior Taylor Spears and freshman Keeley Kmieciak both scored career highs of 39.650 to tie Zamarripa in the all-around.

“You know that you’ve nailed it when the three all-arounders competing for you have done the best they’ve ever done,” OU head coach K.J. Kindler said in the press release. “I think that says a lot.”

In addition, the Sooners claimed three of the four event titles.

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Junior Taylor Spears poses on the beam during a Jan. 18 meet against Denver. Spears posted a career-high all-around score against UCLA on Friday.

Setting the tone of the meet, Oklahoma came out strong on vault with freshman Maile’ana Kanewa’s career debut for the Sooners, along with Kmieciak and Olson — all three scoring a 9.925 and tying for first on the event.

OU continued the momentum on uneven bars with Spears, Kmieciak, and Olson each scoring a 9.925.

The score marked a career high for Kmieciak and tied a career high for Spears.

To close out the meet, the Sooners displayed solid performances on beam and floor to earn the highest team scores on those events out of any one in the country so far this season coming into the meet Friday.

Now 15-0 this season , Oklahoma will travel to Denton, Texas on Friday to take on Texas Woman’s University.

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The Oklahoma men’s basketball team had a big first half on its way to a 90-76 vicKey stat: Baylor shot tory over Baylor.

25.8 percent from the The Sooners (18-8, 9-5 Big floor in the first half, 12) finished the first half on leading to an 18-1 OU run to close the half. an 18-1 run, turning a reasonably close 29-20 game into a Key performer: Senior 47-21 halftime blowout. guard Sam Grooms Baylor (16-11, 7-7 Big continued his recent 12) had a difficulty putting offensive binge, any offense together in the scoring a career-high first, mostly because a large 23 points and dishing amount of their frontcourt, four assists. notably freshman center What it means: The Isaiah Austin, were in foul Sooners push their trouble early.

Big 12 record to 9-5 The lack of offense was and march ever closer compounded by the fact that to their first NCAA Big 12 scoring leader, Baylor tournament berth senior guard Pierre Jackson, since 2009. was held to 1-8 shooting in the first half, managing only What’s next: The Sooners head across four points. the border to take “The first half was pretty on Texas at 8 p.m. good offensively and a little Wednesday in Austin. bit better defensively,” coach Lon Kruger said. “I thought Garrett Holt, Sports Reporter that [the players] opened the game really well focused.

[The players] have done a great job of getting each other ready to play and I thought that they did that again today.”

Jackson would go on to have a much better second half, leading the game in scoring with 28 points along with eight assists.

However, the Bears’ push in the second wasn’t enough to overcome their dismal start to the game.

Every time Baylor would pull close to single digits, someone on Oklahoma would “I’m a senior. I want make a play to push the lead further out of reach. to win right now Senior guard Sam ... I’m going to do Grooms was the star of night for the Sooners. whatever it takes at the He scored a career-high this point in time.” 23 points and also dished four assists.

SAM GROOMS, “I’ve been in the gym SENIOR GUARD working hard just about every day trying to build confidence in myself,” Grooms said. “I’m a senior. I want to win right now, so if that’s what’s going to help the team, I’m going to do whatever it takes at this point in time.”

Joining Grooms in having a big game was the Sooners’ steadiest player, senior forward Romero Osby, who finished with 17 points and eight rebounds, despite matching up against Baylor’s 7-foot-1 freshman center, Isaiah Austin.

“I tried to battle him,” Osby said. “He is a 7-footer, so he’s a couple of inches taller than me. I just tried to use my strength and my size against him.”

The only real bit of anxiety for Sooner fans came in the first half, as freshman guard Je’lon Hornbeak fell and chipped two of his teeth.

Luckily, he only missed a small amount of the game and was able to come back and contribute with 13 points and five rebounds.

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The V-Day foundation is a global activist organization dedicated to ending violence against When: 7 p.m. tonight and Tuesday women and girls, according to the foundation’s Where: Oklahoma Memorial Union’s website.

Meacham Auditorium The foundation is also the creator of the One Billion Rising movement, a global action to Price: Suggested donation of $5 for students and $10 for nonstudents end violence against women, according to the movement’s website.

Info: Proceeds go to V-Day foundation and “The point is to replace violence with dancNorman Women’s Resource Center ing,” said Kaci Toole, sociology senior and director of this year’s “Vagina Monologues,” of One Billion Rising. “The reason they chose dancing show.

“It has been incredible to say the least. They is because it’s such a unifying act.”

Women who are faced with violence often try are a wonderful cast,” Toole said.

Toole said this is her first year involved with to make themselves unseen or unknown, but dancing requires them to take up space and as- “The Vagina Monologues” and that while she participated in theater in high school, she has sert themselves, Toole said.

Emma Newberry-Davis, a women’s and gen- only limited directing experience.

But, Toole added, the main job der studies senior who works for for a director of an activist piece the Women’s Outreach Center is not to critique the actors but to and helped produce this year’s focus on the goals of the produc“Monologues,” said One Billion tion, which is to raise awareness Rising is the subject of this year’s about ending violence against ‘spotlight’ monologue. women.

The spotlight monologue “The Vagina Monologues” changes each year and is choEven if people is just one part of the Women’s sen because it is considered seem a little Outreach Center’s efforts to do particularly timely or relevant, just that. The center offers breast Newberry-Davis said. wary about it, health programs, sexual assault While some of the monologues I’d like them to prevention and awareness proin the play are done every year, come because grams and hosts many speakers the spotlight monologue and sevthroughout the year, Newberrythey might be eral other optional monologues Davis said. change each time, Newberrysurprised.”

This week’s performances are Davis said. So even those who EMMA NEWBERRY-DAVIS, a great opportunity to give back have attended the monologues WOMEN’S AND GENDER to the organization. before will find something new STUDIES SENIOR “Even if people seem a litthis year. tle wary about it, I’d like them The monologues have titles like “My Angry Vagina,” “The Woman Who Loved to to come because they might be surprised,” Make Vaginas Happy ,” “The Flood” and “My Newberry-Davis said. “I’ve never met anyVagina was My Village,” a piece about the ram- one who was disappointed by ‘The Vagina pant rape and sexual assault that occurred in Monologues.’”

Kosovo during the ‘90s conflict , NewberryDavis said.

Graham Dudley, graham.dudley4@gmail.com Exploring these pieces are 16 actresses from all walks of life. While almost all of them are students, they range from freshmen to graduate students and are a very diverse group, Newberry-Davis said.

“They are incredible women and I’m excited to do this with them,” Newberry-Davis said.

Director Toole had similar praise for the women involved and her experience with the

The artwork shown is a sampling of pieces created by cast members of “The Vagina Monologues” to act as cast photos. These works are meant to metaphorically represent each cast member’s vagina and were inspired by a similar craft activity described in one of the monologues, “The Vagina Workshop.”

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STUDENT LIFE

Group fights human trafficking The Freedom Movement helps raise awareness BRIANA HALL

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Members of the OU student Freedom Movement met Thursday in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s food court to discuss their cause.

“... you’re standing for freedom ... you’re standing for the 27 million who are enslaved ...”

ALLISON WHITMEYER, ELEMENTARY EDUCATION SOPHOMORE AND PRIMARY FOUNDER OF FREEDOM MOVEMENT

for trafficking,” Putnam said.

Putnam said he is passionate about providing enslaved people with rights and freedom.

“Thinking about the fact that somebody is enslaved makes me angry, and that’s a light way to put it,” Putnam said. “I have a passion for helping people.”

There are many chapters of the Freedom Movement at other universities interacting across the nation, Whitmeyer said.

“Some of the movements aren’t as big, but a lot of universities are participating ... I got to meet with people

who are doing International Justice Mission, which has the exact same mission and goals,” Whitmeyer said.

Student participation and enthusiasm has been increasing as a result of the recent “Freedom Week,” and simple word of mouth, Whitmeyer said.

“Consider the reality of it, because I know 27 million is a huge number and I can’t even understand that number, but to take little steps to get that and be more observant in your everyday life ...

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you’ll see other things that you usually wouldn’t see,” Sorrels said.

The issue of human trafficking is especially pressing because truck stops at Oklahoma’s North/South and East/West interstates and intersections harbor a lot of trafficking, Putnam

said.

“There are a lot of factors in sex trafficking — coercion and forcing them to have sex ... These people are doing these things against their will, they’re being forced to do it,” Putnam said.

S o o n , O U ’s F re e d o m Movement is going to be working nationally with the International Justice Mission, Whitmeyer said.

“We’re going to try to work with International Justice Mission and do an event called Stand for Freedom,” Whitmeyer said. “A bunch of schools do it. It’s just going to be 27 hours and you stand for people who are enslaved ...”

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The Freedom Movement, a student-led activist group, has taken campus by storm and doesn’t plan to stop anytime soon.

Allison Whitmeyer, an elementary education sophomore, is the primary founder of the Freedom Movement at OU. “The main purpose is, of course, raising awareness about human trafficking and fighting for the freedom of those who are enslaved,” Whitmeyer said. “We are religious based — we want those who are enslaved to find freedom through Jesus Christ.”

Millions of enslaved workers worldwide often participate in the production of everyday goods and services, Whitmeyer said.

Whitmeyer said she feels like she has been called to raise awareness for the cause since she is fortunate enough to not have been enslaved herself.

Though it is a religious program, everybody is invited to participate regardless of religion, Whitmeyer said.

Lacey Sorrels, social work junior, has become heavily involved in the project and said she is excited to see how the Freedom Movement progresses over the years since it is a new organization.

“I believe that we’re not going to fix this without God,” Sorrels said. “He’s the only one who can fix this, but he’s waiting on us to stand up and take care of his children.”

Another student, human relations senior John Putnam, said awareness is very important to him.

“For me it’s about creating a culture that doesn’t allow

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