Wednesday, March 13, 2013

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sunshine Week, a week set apart to promote the importance of open government and freedom of information. much of our content will use information gathered from records requested through ou’s open records office.

Sports: The OU men’s basketball team prepares for the first round of the Big 12 tourney (Page 5)

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Drought in Oklahoma is a growing problem Gaylord College panel explores drought crisis ATIBA WILLIAMS Campus Reporter

Oklahoma’s drought is a huge problem, and it’s getting bigger, three expert panelists who spoke at OU on Tuesday said.

The panel discussion was held at 10:30 a.m. in Gaylord Hall’s Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation Auditorium, as part of the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communications’ Journalism Centennial Project.

Fourteen participants were in the audience, and the event also

was streamed online.

Deke Arndt, chief of the National Climatic Data Center’s Climate Monitoring Branch, Baxter Vieux, director of OU’s Environmental Modeling and Geographic Information Systems Laboratory, and Seth Borenstein, a science writer for the Associated Press, looked at the problems of journalists covering drought as a local and national issue.

Drought is defined as when the water supply is lower than the demand, Arndt said.

One of the problems with covering drought is it’s an unappealing subject when compared with more exciting weather phenomena like tornadoes and ice storms.

“ It ’s n o t s e x y . T h e r e ’s n o screaming, no chasing, no scary violent weather,” Arndt said.

Ye t, d ro u g ht more online remains a growFor an in depth ing problem in story covering O k l a h o ma b e the national cause of climate Tornado Summit. change. The wet oudaily.com/ areas are becomnews ing wetter, and the dry areas are becoming drier, he said.

For about two years, Oklahoma City has had a D4 drought rating, the highest rating given by the U.S. Drought Monitor, according to its austin mCCrosKie/tHe daiLy website. peter gade (left), gaylord professor, and baxter Vieux, College of Engineering professor, speak Tuesday at the national Tornado summit held in gaylord Hall.

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Pest control potentially a pricey problem OU Housing and Food Services quickly reaching budget limit AJINUR SETIWALDI Campus Writer

OU Housing and Food Services may surpass its annual pest control budget this year, officials say.

From October 1 to September 30 every year, Housing and Food has $119,000 to spend on controlling pests around campus, Housing and Food director Dave Annis said. Since October, $60,000 of that budget already has been spent.

At that rate, Housing and Food probably will surpass its pest control budget, Annis said. While the department does not have routine inspections, facilities are treated each month.

Terminix Extermination Services, the department’s main pest control service provider, treats Traditions Square apartments, Kraettli Apartments, campus dining facilities and residence hall basements and main floors,

Annis said. invoice from Terminix.

Terminix conducted its routine service on more than Several spiders, about two dozen roaches and two 25 housing and dining locations on campus in January, house mice were found at sites serviced in January, acaccording to the receipts generated for service. cording to work orders from Terminix.

The upper floors of residence halls are On January 11, the pest control service found not treated unless there is evidence of evidence of German cockroaches at the garpests, Annis said. However, the residence bage disposal area and kitchen at Couch halls do receive attention throughout Restaurants, according to a work order.

How do we use the year when students move in and On January 26, 16 German cockroachpublic records? out. Custodians and housekeepers es and two house mice were found at this story utilized inspect, make repairs to and clean Couch Restaurants in and around records about money the rooms at the end of the semester. the kitchen and the garbage disspent on pest control posal areas.

“We probably have housekeepers and the number of The dining facilities on campus follow in rooms at least half a dozen times pest sightings. the health code set by Cleveland County, throughout the summer cleaning the rooms,” Annis said. “We very seldom iLLustration By austin mCCrosKie and Housing and Food has the dining areas treated with boric acid as a prevensee anything.” tive measure, Annis said. The pests usually apHowever, sometimes Terminix does find evidence of pests at the inspected and treated sites. pear with deliveries, so Housing and Food officials are Housing and Food was billed over $9,000 for the standard monthly service in January, according to the see BUGS paGe 2

CULTURE nIgHTs

Japan night crosses culture divides with dancing, food Student association partnered with exchange students CEDAR FLOYD

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Japanese and American students converged Tuesday night to experience each other’s culture and to say goodbye after a month of getting to know each other.

Japan Night, one of many cultural events happening this month, was hosted by the Japanese Student Association, or Japanese Student Association, which works hand-in-hand with Ritsumeikan, an intercultural exchange program that brings Japanese students to OU ever y year, said Minkee Kim, people search, a human resources and management junior and member of Japanese

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Student Association. is Japanese drumming, and These students expe- ninja dance performances, rience American culture Kim said. and end their month-long “It is basically like the stay by helping Japanese high school spring festivals Student Association or- they have in Japan,” Kim ganize Japan said. “You can “You can see Night, she see it’s such a said. big success. If it’s such a big This was the success. If JSA can JSA can surfirst time in vive into next decade Japan survive into next year and reNight was in year and recover cover its memfestival form. bership, we’ll Us u a l l y , t h e its membership, definitely do it e v e n t c e n - we’ll definitely do again.” ters around The purit again.” a stage, with pose of culMaster of ture nights is MinKEE KiM, C e r e m o n i e s HUMAn RESOURCES AnD to raise awareMAnAGEMEnT JUniOR introducing ness about cultural perparticular culformances while light re- tures and to allow students freshments are s er ve d. to connect through diversiThis year, however, the as- ty, Kim said. sociation decided to set It’s important to recogup booths and activities nize that not everyone from in addition to the Karate Japan will identify with Club, Arashi Taiko, which see JAPAN paGe 2

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japan: Students experience Japanese culture Continued from page 1

Today around campus A presentation of OU IT and CTE’s first monthly Faculty Learning Community Series focused on using innovative technology in the classroom. Entitled “What is a Flipped Classroom,” it will take place at 9:30 a.m. in the OU IT Store Community Space.

A meeting of the OU Pre-Dental Club will take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Dale Hall, Room 125.

Baseball will play New Mexico State at 6:30 p.m. at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

An OU Holmberg String Quartet concert will take place at 8 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall. The quartet is entering its fourth decade as the faculty string ensemble at the OU School of Music.

Members are Hal Grossman, Violin, Gregory Lee, Violin, Mark Neumann, Viola, and Jonathan Ruck, Cello.

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Corrections A p.1 story Tuesday about the OU Open Records office’s refusal to release records related to certain parking citations inaccurately spelled the name of the executive director of Student Press Law Center. His name is Frank LoMonte.

the culture showcased at Japan Night; not every person from Africa does the same kind of dance; not every person from China will act the same way, Sitta Tarawally said.

“No, it doesn’t remind me of home,” Yumi Morooka, an international relations major and participant in the Ritsumeikan Intercultural Exchange Program, said.

“It feels like I’m in an old movie. That’s OK, though; I like American movies.”

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Morgan Missel, University College freshman and Yumi Morooka, Ritsumeikan Univeristy in Japan playing ring toss at the Japanese Culture Night held at Jim Thorpe.

bugs: Roaches sighted most often Continued from page 1 very careful about how and where employees unload deliveries to avoid bringing in pests.

Mice usually make appearances in facilities during the winter, when they come inside to get away from the cold weather, Annis said.

“We try to keep a very clean kitchen all the time,” Annis said. “ You’ll find roaches in warm, wet areas like under the dish machine … those are areas we treat very heavily to make sure we do what we can to take away comfortable living spaces for pests.”

Housing and Food has an information sheet on the bulletin boards of all of its areas and instructs employees to record the time and

place of all the pests they see in the facilities, Annis said.

“If there is a pattern in between regular service, we bring in the company to do additional treatment,” Annis said.

The garbage disposal areas and the basement are the main locations pest infiltrate, facilities manager Sandy Terry said.

Employees are told to close the lids of containers tightly when they throw food and other garbage away, Annis said. Housing and Food takes serious measures to keep food sources away from pests.

“We even got to the point at Couch where we don’t throw food scraps or anything like that in the garbage anymore,” Annis said. “We use a digester, which actually takes all those food scraps

and turns it into gray water.”

Most of the complaints that come from students are about ants, Annis said.

More complaints about a nt s c o m e f ro m Cat e Center because its halls have windows that open.

Residents are instructed to keep their residence halls and apartments clean in the Traditions Square Community Living Guide. Residents are asked to dispose of garbage properly, seal food containers and clean kitchen surfaces after preparing food.

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Talk to focus on cultural contrast An Oregon professor will travel to OU to talk about the culture clash between the U.S. and Chinese.

The talk is titled “A Cultural Cold War between China and the United States” and will be presented by Richard Kraus, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Oregon, said Ronda Martin, secretary of OU’s Department of International and Area Studies.

The department is sponsoring the talk, and it is free and open to the public, Martin said.

The event will take place at 4 p.m. today at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, she said.

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Scouts must change again Our View: Like with segregation, the Boy Scouts must follow society’s progress and allow participation from gay members.

“family man” with Christian values.

And of course there have also been the typical doomsday prophesies of punishment from onhigh, Sodom and Gomorrah, etc.

The Boy Scouts of America, in case the rock Many conservative voices, in addition to the you’ve been living under doesn’t have usual Biblical rhetoric, are calling the soThe Our View Internet access or a satellite dish, bans cial pressure being put on the Boy Scouts is the majority an attack on the group’s rights to reliopenly gay people from belonging to its opinion of organization or participating in its activigious and associative freedom. This is a The Daily’s ties. That means when a lifelong scout in ridiculous assertion. nine-member his teens realizes he is gay, he had better The Supreme Court clearly upheld editorial board keep it to himself or get kicked out of the that the Scouts have the right to exclude organization. anyone they want to from their private In response to a recent decision by national scout organization back in 2000. Nobody is arguing the leaders to leave the anti-gay policy in place, the Boy Scouts should be forced by a court or legislaband Train and singer Carly Rae Jepsen have detive body to allow gay members into their club — cided to boycott the 2013 National Scout Jamboree any more than Christian activist groups like One that takes place every four years.

Million Moms are arguing that JC Penny should Both Train and Jepsen said they would play the be forced to stop using Ellen DeGeneres in their show if the scouting organization did away with the commercials. policy before the Jamboree takes place this sum Rather, by boycotting the Boy Scout’s mer. By boycotting the Boy Scouts, the musicians Jamboree, Train and Carly Rae Jepsen (like One are not alone. UPS, Intel, United Way and others Million Moms) is exerting pressure on a group by have already pulled donations and funding from publicly refusing to associate with it. If the Boy the Scouts as a result of this policy.

Scouts want to continue discriminating against Many supporters of the Boy Scouts’ ban on gays gays based on junk data and archaic notions of claim the organization shouldn’t cave to social sectarian morality, they are free to do so. pressure, but the Boy Scouts wasn’t fully racially The rest of us, however, have options as well. desegregated until 1974 — a decade after the public We can find other ways to teach our kids about school system. Surely no one would argue it did this nature, and we can refuse to donate to or support for any reason other than pressure from a society the Boy Scouts of America. that no longer favored segregation.

Most importantly we can stand up for our gay Sadly, many of the arguments against desegrega- friends, family and neighbors by sending orgation back then have now been recycled into argunizations like the Boy Scouts the clear message ments against including gays. that in order to remain relevant they are going to In Christian conservative media, the response have to reflect the values of the majority of today’s to calls for inclusion of gays in scouting has been society, which thankfully no longer equates gay the standard one. There has been the usual rush to men with pedophiles and doesn’t condone shunequate openly gay men with pedophilia, like when ning teenagers for embracing who they are.

Christian radio host Mat Staver said lifting the gay We hope the Boy Scouts of America will join ban in scouts would be like “having Jerry Sandusky us in the 21st century and do away with this exas your Scout leader.” clusionary practice.

Never mind that Sandusky, like most child predators, presented himself as a straight male and a Comment on this on OUDaily.com

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OU must stop hiding behind privacy laws Our View: OU’s too-narrow interpretation of privacy laws strips students of their right to know.

Monday’s front page story explored OU’s refusal to provide students with a record of student parking tickets. These records would enable Sooners to verify for themselves the fairness of the parking ticket system.

Because these records are maintained by the university, a public entity, using public resources, the public should have open access to the information in them.

But OU denies such requests, hiding behind the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. This federal law was intended to protect confidential educational records of students — a worthy purpose.

OU is just one of many universities that interpret the law to mean any document maintained by the university about a student is private.

Freedom of information experts and the courts of North Carolina and Maryland disagree with this interpretation. It’s clear lawmakers intended FERPA to protect a specific kind of document, not to provide a broad cover for the university to operate in secret.

Parking tickets have no expectation of confidentiality (under windshield wipers for all to see) and do not pertain to a student’s education. They should not be withheld under FERPA. A broad interpretation of privacy laws is a serious threat to the public’s right to know — and to students’ abilities to hold the university accountable.

Favoritism in parking tickets for student-athletes was discovered at the University of North Carolina and the University of Maryland through records requests the universities initially denied under FERPA. More seriously, just this year OSU officials failed to report cases of sexual assault to the police in fear of violating their too-strict interpretation of privacy laws.

There is very little oversight to ensure open records and privacy laws are being followed properly, so students will need to take matters into their own hands. If you believe in your right to know, call the President’s Action Line at 405-325-1212 and demand a more accurate interpretation of FERPA.

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Sexual violence cannot end when promoted on a T-Shirt

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n March 1, a soOpinion columnist cial media campaign called Miss Representation informed its Facebook followers about “Keep Calm and Rape A Lot” T-shirts sold on Amazon UK on behalf of the global T-shirt company out of Massachusetts Kayley Gillespie called Solid Gold Bomb. kayley.m.gillespie-1@ou.edu Additionally, the T-shirts were also sold on Solid Gold Bomb’s website.

Immediately after Miss Representation’s Facebook posting, hundreds emailed Solid Gold Bomb, tweeted with the hashtag #NotBuyingIt and posted concerns on Solid Gold Bomb’s Facebook page.

Within 30 minutes, the company began deleting comments posted on its Facebook account. I know this because mine were deleted.

Within 40 minutes, the company posted the following reply to each posting on its Facebook account: “The shirts were mistakenly created by a computer program and have since been deleted. It was an eror [sic] that ran words from the dictionary…”

Within 45 minutes, Solid Gold Bomb deleted its Facebook and Twitter account. No trace of the outrage is available. The posts chronicling disgust and concern from hundreds of Facebook users may as well have never existed.

Solid Gold Bomb proceeded to remove its phone number, email address and mailing address from its website and asserted the mistake — the creation and posting of the shirt on SolidGoldBomb.com and Amazon.co.uk — was “the result of a scripted programing process that was compiled by only one member of [its] staff.” Though the contact information is now reinstated, it should never have been removed.

I’m upset the shirt was created and approved. As an employee who maintains a retail website, I can attest website maintenance is done manually by humans, not computers.

There is no excuse for this company to shift the blame.

The weekend after the scandal, Solid Gold Bomb sold just three T-shirts, instead of the typical 800. The CEO of the company said he will be “destitute” because the company can’t sustain more than a few weeks without sales.

I’m upset a rape culture is perpetuated in such an outright, obvious way and that when the company is called out for its actions, it deletes all evidence of a controversy, deletes

shirts like “Keep Calm and Rape A Lot,” or in contact information and points fingers at coma culture that blames the victim (“She asked puter programming. We cannot resolve the vioContact for it!”), trivializes sexual assault (“Boys will lence and misogyny in our culture if no one will Solid Gold be boys!”), publicly scrutinizes a victim’s dress own up to it.

Bomb (Hillary Clinton, anyone?), defines “manhood” I’m upset that for me to effectively report on as dominant and sexually aggressive or teaches this subject and quote the company, I had to Phone: victims how to avoid getting raped instead of (luckily) take screen shots on my phone and 508-926-8517 teaching rapists not to rape. computer, and rely on the screen shots of others Such violence will not subside with opposition within the Twitter community. By deleting the Email: service@ to social policy like the renewal of the Violence comments and the outrage, Solid Gold Bomb solidgoldbomb.

Against Women Act. Enacted in 1994, the act gets off scot-free — or at least the company com helped to hold rapists accountable for their makes their horrendous shirts more difficult to crimes by strengthening federal penalties for sex talk about. Technology does not create a paper offenders, mandated victims should not be forced to pay for trail. Where’s the transparency and accountability? rape exams or for service of a protection order and kept vicNearly one in five women surveyed in 2011 said they had tims safe by requiring a protection order will be enforced in been raped or had experienced an attempted rape, accordall state, tribal and territorial jurisdictions within the U.S. ing to The New York Times. One third of women said they Signed by President Obama March 7, the renewed had been victims of rape, beating or stalking or a combinaViolence Against Women Act expands federal programs to tion of assaults, according to the same survey.

Rape and violence will not subside in a culture that claims assist communities with law enforcement and aiding victims of domestic and sexual abuse. It protects gay, bisexual or transgender victims and allows Native American women who are assaulted on reservations by non-Indians to take their case to tribal courts.

Oklahoma Reps. Jim Bridenstine, Markwayne Mullin, Frank Lucas and James Lankford, along with Sens. Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn, all voted against the Violence Against Women Act. That is six out of seven members of Oklahoma’s Congressional delegation that did not vote in favor of females.

We need to encourage a culture of accountability, transparency and equality. There is no doubt that those who don’t call themselves feminists — or those who don’t support equal rights — have sisters and mothers or female neighbors, teachers, cousins and coworkers.

Oklahomans — college students, especially — need to stand up for the small things and the big things. “Keep Calm and Rape A Lot” T-shirts and rape culture undermine the big picture concepts like the Violence Against Women Act. You can email Solid Gold Bomb and Oklahoma Representatives to demonstrate your commitment to equal rights and a safe Oklahoma.

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Kayley Gillespie is an English literary and cultural studies senior.

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PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- You are presently in a positive cycle in terms of your financial affairs. You might even acquire something that was long overdue.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- One of the best ways to get your co-workers’ cooperation is to make sure that what’s good for you can be great for them as well. It’s one of the keys to success.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Rather than vying for center stage, keep a low profile, especially if you’ve been given a key role to play. It’s the best way to get the acknowledgment that you crave.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- If you want some interesting things to occur in your social life, you can’t wait for the right people to come to you. Seek them out yourself and, in a nice way, make your presence felt.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- One of the best ways to deal with a competitive situation is to take more positive action than your adversaries do. Keep an optimistic, proactive frame of mind, and you’ll come out ahead.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Examine all new endeavors not merely for

what they can do for you immediately, but how they can enhance your future. When you look ahead, make sure all the pieces fit together.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -Sometimes we find ourselves in the excellent position of being able to reap a harvest from seeds we haven’t sown. This might be your scenario today, so be alert for such an opportunity.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Snap judgments you arrive at might not be as perceptive as those of your mate’s. Listen to his or her input, which could provide you with some alternatives that you haven’t considered.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- The amount of zeal you display while working on a job is likely to set the tone that others will follow. If you want everything to unobtrusively buzz along, maintain an accelerated pace.

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ACROSS 1 Bamboo muncher 6 Gives careful attention to 11 Last name of a famous plane 14 French love 15 Detach by tearing 16 Line that has a ring to it?

17 Certain participant in a chorus line 19 Expunge 20 Org. with crowning achievements?

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34 Bartender’s supply 36 Defeated king of Troy 39 “... o’clock and ___ well�

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -You are likely to have more fun and feel more comfortable in a small gathering than in a large group. Try to stay within your comfort zone.

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53 Struck sightless 56 Alters 58 Doctored account 59 “Cash� add-on 60 Half a score 61 ___ Arbor, Mich.

62 Lana Turner was one 68 Firecracker with no fire 69 ___ hole in (rip) 70 Like a hot fudge sundae 71 Back-andforth curve 72 Auto suggestion?

73 Exercise by Chopin DOWN 1 Apartment, slangily 2 Org. for doctors 3 Alternative to “smoking�

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- If your primary goal is to amply provide for those you love, you’ll make sure that this objective is met, no matter what the day may throw at you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- You should pay attention to intuition that tells you the proper course of action to take. Any afterthoughts will be less accurate, and land you on the rocks.

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OUDaily.com ›› Oklahoma’s baseball and men’s tennis teams competed in Norman on Tuesday night against New Mexico State and Florida State, respectively.

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OU, ISU face off in first round of Big 12 tourney UP NEXT Sooners, Cyclones Iowa State slated for highstakes rubber match When: 11:30 a.m. Thursday Garrett Holt

Where: Sprint Center in Kansas City

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The Oklahoma men’s basketball team will try to put its surprising loss to TCU in the rearview mirror as it takes on Iowa State in the Big 12 tournament at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at the Sprint Center in Kansas City.

In their last game, the Sooners (20-10, 11-7 Big 12) couldn’t recover fully from an atrocious first half as they fell to TCU, 70-67.

OU trailed 44-22 at the half before closing the gap to one point and eventually falling to the Horned Frogs, who rank dead last in the Big 12. “Very disappointing play on Saturday,� coach Lon Kruger said. “It was hard to anticipate that, given that we had shot the ball so well and played with so much energy, but we didn’t really do either on Saturday. “Credit TCU, they came out and had great energy and took the fight to us.�

The Sooners will need to crank their energy up a notch if they hope to compete with Iowa State (21-10, 11-7 Big 12).

The Cyclones appear to match up evenly with the Sooners, as the two teams played to a 1-1 draw in their two meetings this season.

Iowa State won 83-64 in

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Ames, one of the Sooner’s worst losses of the year.

However, the Sooners recorded one of their best wins when the two teams met in Norman, winning 86-69.

The recent return of freshman guard Buddy Hield, who missed the last meeting against Iowa State with a broken foot, will bolster the Sooners.

Hield will be making his third appearance since returning from an injury that sidelined him for just over three weeks. “Every day I’m getting better; I’m taking one step forward,� Hield said. “Thursday should be a fun opportunity to get after the ball a little bit.�

Hield’s continued involvement should help the Sooners defensively, as he is one of OU’s best perimeter defenders, leading the Sooners with 1.3 steals per game.

Oklahoma also should expect a big day from senior forward Romero Osby, who was recently named a member of the All-Big 12 first team, the first Sooner to earn that honor since Blake Griffin in 2009.

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PLAYER PROFILE Buddy Hield Year: Freshman Hometown: Freeport, Bahamas Position: Guard Nickname: Buddy Love Statistics: Leads team with 1.3 steals per game, second in assists with two per game and fourth in scoring with 8.3

Osby has led the Sooners all year, averaging 15.7 points and 6.9 rebounds per game over the course of the season.

He will continue to lead them as they march towards a potential berth in the NCAA tournament. “We have to go out there and take care of business Thursday,� Osby said. “We can guarantee ourselves a spot in the tournament if we win [the Big 12 tournament].

We win three games and we know that we’re in the tournament. That’s the way we’re looking at it.� astrud reed/the daily

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Senior guard Sam Grooms fights through an Iowa State defender for an open drive to the basket during OU’s 86-69 win against Iowa State on March 2 at Lloyd Noble Center. Grooms finished with 19 points, six assists and one steal. He also leads the Sooners in assists with 3.2 a game.

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hen I first read Tania’s blog Fresh Fizzle, all I could think was, “Wow, why can’t I take perfectly-lit pictures, own all of those outfits and not smile in a picture and not look like I’m taking a terrible mug shot?” Her blog is complete with artsy pictures, beautiful backgrounds and cute clothes that had me instantly jealous.

Tania blogs about the three major things in her life: fashion, food and “fotography.” Each post contains gorgeous pictures of her modeling outfits with a short editorial and a detailed account of everything she is wearing.

A few of my favorite fashion posts include “A Mellow Yellow,” which shows her outfit as the sun is setting, and “A Circle & Plaid,” which features an American Apparel circle skirt and black ankle boots.

In “Something Borrowed,” Tania tries a sequined tribal skirt from Borrowed Closet, a service that allows subscribers to pay a set amount to borrow clothing, accessories and handbags.

Tania documents delicious “food porn” in posts like “Eating Lately” and “Date Night in My Favorite Dress.” I basically drool over the desserts in “A Day

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know how she gets to eat at fabulous restaurants and climb the highest peak of QR Code: www.freshfizzle.com Machu Picchu while still managing to be impeccably @freshfizzle dressed.

Regardless, Fresh Fizzle offers a great visual journal @tanfizzle of a life filled with styled outfits, yummy confections and accessories from plac- and travel adventures. This in NY” and “Those Lazy blog is great for browsing Hazy Days of Summer,” and es ranging from Urban and is user-friendly with Outfitters to Rebecca I think it’s safe to say she Minkoff. Many of her outfits its massive amount of picand I have a serious sweet tures. Prepare to ooze jealhave a heavy price tag, but tooth. ousy, though; her clothes, she always seems to mix Tania also travels and travels and experiences are in pieces from Target and photographs her trips to definitely envy-worthy.

H&M. Peru and Fiji, as well as I only wish she would days in New York under her “fotography” category. share more about herself Jessica Murphy is a public and her life. I think blogs I mean, really, what is this are best when the bloggers relations sophomore girl’s job, and how do I get show their personalities, it? give a glimpse into their Under the “Finds” category, readers can view and lives and add some humor along the way. But as for purchase some of Tania’s Tania, I guess we’ll never choices of clothing, bags

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When: 8 tonight The concert will be held at 8 p.m. in Catlett Where: Catlett Music Music Center’s Sharp Center’s Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall.

Concert Hall The guest perforPrice: $5 for students, mance is designed to $9 for adults enhance the experience of students participating Info: Tickets may be in the Presidential Dream purchased at the OU Course, though it also is Fine Arts Box Office in open to the public, said person or by phone at Sandra Bent, marketing 405-325-4101 and public relations coordinator of OU’s Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts.

Members of the quartet include Hal Grossman on violin, Gregory Lee on violin, Mark Neumann on viola and Jonathan Ruck on cello, according to the press release.

Both the OU Presidential Dream Course and the Norman Arts Council are sponsoring the performance, Bent said.

The concert will be especially interesting to those who truly understand music and want to delve into its history, Bent said.

“Music is a completely different language … there’s so much to it that they would get out of this concert,” Bent said.

The Avalon String Quartet will perform the next concert in the Beethoven String Quartet Series on April 8.

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