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courses challenge students’ abilities Rigorous courses — Also known as weed-out or threshold courses, these classes tend to challenge students significantly more than previous classes

Rutledge said she defines these courses as those that separate students who genuinely are interested in the subject from students who aren’t sure what field they want to pursue.

“I don’t think that professors make classes intentionally harder to weed people out,” Rutledge said. “It’s the breaking point, and everyone falls on either side of the line.”

The Daily identified a set of these challenging courses and obtained respective

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general education courses — Usually taken the first few semesters, these are courses students must complete to obtain nearly any degree from OU

Genetics. Economics.

Organic Chemistry.

These courses, which students commonly call “weed-out” courses, represent a fraction of subjects that thoroughly test a student’s ability within a particular field of study.

Accounting junior Katie

non-identifying aggregate grade data over the past seven semesters for these classes.

Similar data also was obtained for a variety of general education classes that students typically take in their first few semesters.

Compared to grade percentages of these general education courses, the identified demanding courses had 16.6 fewer percentage points of A’s and B’s and 12.6

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CAC chair candidate Vicky Vargas (second from the left) answers a question during An Evening with UOSA on Tuesday while fellow CAC chair candidate John Fraser, UOSA presidential candidate Joe Sangirardi, UOSA vice-presidential candidate Rainey Sewell and HCSA presidential candidate Allie Kallmann (right to left) listen.

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Potential high-level student government candidates said they want to make OU feel more like a family and get students involved in more activities at an event Tuesday at Walker Center.

Undergraduate Student Congress sponsored An Evening with UOSA to give students an opportunity to question spring 2012 election candidates. The potential UOSA president, vice president, Campus Activities Council chairs and Housing Center Student Association president answered a myriad of questions ranging from what changes they hoped to mandate to what theme song would describe their lives.

The evening was the first public opportunity for students to hear CAC chair candidates John

AT A GLANCE Questions asked at forum What are your ideas for improving the UOSA website and making it easier to navigate and use? (To presidential ticket) Many of my non-greek friends did not want to participate in CAC events.

How will you change CAC to help approach non-greek people? (CAC) How do you plan to improve HSCA? (HSCA) What things set you apart from your predecessor? (HSCA)

Fraser and Vicky Vargas explain their plans and ideas for CAC in person.

Fraser said he plans to get more students involved by making a concentrated public relations push to alert students about the range of events offered by CAC in and around campus.

Vargas said one of her main plans regarding CAC is to emphasize the organization’s crew organization.

How would you make OU feel more like a family? (To all) Are there any immediate changes you would like to see mandated (To all) How would you describe the perfect CAC chair? What qualities or strengths would they have? (CAC) What would be the theme song of your life? (To all)

Crew is a volunteer group students can join to help out with the conceptualization and implementation of CAC events across campus.

Vargas thinks having students volunteer at events will help CAC get more involvement, she said.

A concerned student submitted a question to UOSA presidential ticket candidates Joe Sangirardi and Rainey Sewell regarding whether they currently had plans

to dissolve Undergraduate Student Congress and Graduate Student Senate.

Sangirardi didn’t dispute that claim, but he said he and Sewell had been making inquiries on ways to make OU’s student government more efficient. The inquiries are just about looking at how other student governments are run and how their best practices could impact OU’s government, Sangirardi said.

Student Congress chairwoman Alyssa Loveless said dissolving the Student Congress and Senate would require legislation from both bodies, approval by a majority student vote and approval by the OU Board of Regents.

Loveless said she thinks the forum was a success even though fewer students attended than at a similar event held prior to last year’s spring elections.

Fewer students probably attended because there are so many see FORUM page 3

The spring 2012 UOSA presidential election will remain uncontested after Undergraduate Student Congress did not approve emergency legislation Tuesday.

The group struck down an emergency bill to reopen the spring 2012 election filing period.

The vote was 13 to 11 against with two abstentions, making it the closest vote Student Congress has undertaken all year.

Current UOSA president candidate and letters junior Joe Sangirardi and vice president candidate and communications junior Rainey Sewell will remain uncontested and become the next leaders of the UOSA executive office.

The bill was drafted and presented to Congress after finance junior Jeff Mos ele y and Andrew Belliveau petitioned the UOSA Election Board at 3:06 a.m. Monday seeking placement on the ballot.

Moseley intended to run as UOSA president and Belliveau wanted to run as vice president.

However, Belliveau said the request to get on the ballot wasn’t about winning, but it was about creating a debate about uncontested elections.

Moseley said he was pleased with how far the bill progressed through Student Congress.

“To get this far, we consider it a success,” Moseley said. “We created a little see ELECTION page 3

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Students, faculty and staff will congregate today on campus to participate in OU Arbor Day 2012. The event includes a picnic and volunteer tree-planting.

A’s: Classes educate Sooners for future subjects Continued from page 1

A seminar on time management and battling procrastination will be given at 3 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245, as part of the Student Success Series.

A lecture will be given series at 5 p.m. in the Catlett Music Center as part of the Norton Lecture. Lecturer Cherlene Dell will talk about a comparison study on test scores of students who participated in orchestra and those who did not.

THURSDAY, MARCH 29 A workshop, “Capstone Central: Doing Library Research for Your Capstone Paper,” is open to students of all majors from 3 to 3:45 p.m. in Bizzell Memorial Library, Room 149D. A seminar about using technology for academic success, part of Student Success Series, will take place from 5 to 6 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245.

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Restaurants bid for space

Burger King might not return to OU after June’s end

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Students in Principles of Microeconomics take notes during class Tuesday. Classes like micro- and macroeconomics, as well as organic chemistry, often are referred to as “weed-out” classes because the coursework requires students to work and study harder, sometimes reducing the amount of students who stay within that particular major.

course taught her how to use academic resources as a college student.

Rutledge’s personal challenge came in the form of her financial accounting course.

“It was overwhelming because ... I went into it knowing nothing about it. I had no reference to go off of,” Rutledge said. “Financial a c c ou nt i ng n ow s e e m s like the easiest thing in the world, and it is compared to all of the accounting classes I’m taking now. Everything I learned in that class I still use today.”

Organic Chemistry Everyone approaches organic chemistry with a lot of trepidation, pre-medical adviser Nancy Blass said.

“Listening to what they say ... that’s one of them they really freak out over,”

she said.

Blass said she believes that horror stories about organic chemistry created by upperclassman and medical doctors contribute to the terrifying image.

“Once they get into it, ... it’s really kind of simplistic,” Blass said. “There are no weed out classes. Some classes are more difficult than others, but it’s more about what we’ve done to ourselves ... [Students] have to break that mental barrier that they build up against things.”

Biochemistry sophomore Rickie Pody said he might call these courses by another name: reality checks.

“During freshman year, my classes weren’t really intensive,” Pody said. “This year, you get the shock of how difficult the courses can be. People are so used

to having a bunch of free time.”

Pody, who is currently enrolled in Organic Chemistry II this semester, said he believes the difficulty arises out of the minute distinctions between hundreds of reactions and the necessity of knowing why a certain reaction takes place.

“I think it’s become a weed-out course because ... there isn’t a gradual [difficulty] gradient,” Pody said. “You go from general chemistry straight to organic chemistry, and it’s a step up.”

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Ten restaurants are now competing to occupy the Adams Center food venue when the university’s current food-service contract with Burger King is satisfied at the end of June.

Au Bon Pain, Denny’s, Einstein Bros. Bagels, IHOP, Game Time Sports Grill, Panda E xpress, Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers and Steak ‘n Shake, all submitted proposals to obtain the location by the March 16 deadline, said Nathan Baird, OU purchasing department acquisition manager.

Burger King also submitted a proposal to renew its contract.

The Daily requested the specifics of each restaurant bidding for the Adams Center venue, but a public body, such as OU, may keep confidential records relating to bid specification for competitive bidding prior to publication by the public body, OU Open Records Office Director Rachel McCombs said in an email, citing state Open Records Law. The bids are sealed when submitted to OU, and the university does not publish the results of the bidding until the award is made, including, if applicable, approval by the Board of Regents, McCombs said in the email.

Students have conflicting attitudes about what restaurant should be in Adams Center.

Business senior Jonathon Garrett works on campus and said Burger King is convenient for him when he eats on the days he works.

“I would be kind of disappointed if [Burger King] was

April 4, 2012 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Election: Candidates relieved with outcome Continued from page 1

A student leaves Burger King, which is located in Adams Center. The fast-food facility has submitted requests to stay at its current location. Nine other venues are also in talks with OU so they can occupy the space. Housing and Food hopes to have the spot filled by August 15.

AT A GLANCE Restaurants bidding Au Bon Pain

IHOP

Burger King

Panda Express

Denny’s

Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers

Einstein Bros. Bagels

Steak ‘n Shake

Game Time Sports Grill

gone,” Garrett said.

A survey done last semester by OU Housing and Food showed students were interested in an all-day breakfast options, Housing and Food spokeswoman Lauren Royston said.

Garrett said he likes that there is a lunch option in Adams Center because he would not eat breakfast on campus.

Source: Nathan Baird, OU purchasing department acquisition manager

University College freshman Ashley Nevitt said she and her friends only go to Burger King late at night because it is the only food option available after midnight in the dorms.

Matt Roberts, Housing and Food purchasing manager, said the hours of operation will remain the same at the Adams Center venue because it is the option

for students when Couch Restaurants, Cate A La Carte, Couch Express and Xcetera are closed.

Nevitt said she never goes to Burger King during the day but would be more likely to go if there was a different option. Her top pick is Raising Cane’s, she said.

“That’s what I hear is going around campus, that everyone wants Cane’s,” she said.

A group of OU officials and one student representative will review the proposals and submit their choice to the OU Board of Regents for a vote hopefully by the group’s meeting May 10, Roberts said.

Housing and Food aims to have a food venue operating in Adams Center by the time fall meal plans begin August 15, Roberts said.

Forum: Turnout less than last year’s event Continued from page 1 uncontested elections, she said. The presidential ticket, HCSA and Student Bar Association elections will all be uncontested.

University College freshman Parisa Pilehvar said she enjoyed the forum but wished the candidates were a little more specific when answering their questions. If the forum was a little less formal, the candidates might have been more specific, she said.

“I would like to approach them and ask them questions without the pressure of having people stare at you and maybe interrupting your thought process,” Pilehvar said.

Pilehvar said she still is torn about CAC candidates Vargas and Fraser. They both have different leadership styles and ideas, so it’s going to be hard to choose one of them even after the forum, Pilehvar said.

All questions were submitted by students before the forum started. The discussion was moderated by African American Studies professor Lupe Davidson.

This was the only public event planned for the candidates to speak together about their platforms and ideas, Loveless said. However, the candidates will continue campaigning until elections begin Tuesday.

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bit of enthusiasm over the last two days.”

Now that there is no chance for the race to become contested, Sangirardi and Sewell said they were relieved with the outcome.

Sangirardi and Sewell have spent a less than $1,000, and a contested election may have made them spend more, Sewell said.

If the bill would have been approved, Sangirardi would have welcomed the competition, he said.

“It’s important to see the process get tested every once in a while,” Sangirardi said.

Simply wanting to contest the election was not sufficient reason to reopen the filing period, business representative Andrew Carlough said.

Social Sciences representative Laura Shapiro defended the bill based on Belliveau and Moseley’s desire to make the race contested.

“There is nothing wrong with a little healthy competition,” Shapiro said.

Moseley doesn’t have any concrete plans since the bill wasn’t passed, he said.

In other business, Student Congress did not see any other legislation. The body will meet 7 p.m. Tuesday in Adams Hall, Room 150.

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Economics

Today around campus

Dining

Sarah Martin

more percentage points of C’s, D’s and F’s on average, according to the document.

Macroeconomics professor William Clark said he recognizes that certain subjects require a higher level of thinking. In the case of economics, the difficulty comes from the application of a well-defined, comprehensive body of theory, Clark said.

“Supply and demand.

Diagrams. Pretty straight forward,” Clark said. “When you start asking what ... happens out in the ‘real world,’ it’s difficult. It’s an intrinsically, deceptively difficult subject.”

A lack of genuine familiarity with concepts such as gross domestic product, interest rates and unemployment rates contributes to the difficulty, Clark said.

Even the common citizen lacks a thorough grasp of these central ideas in economics, he said.

“I would prefer that all of my students get an A and deserve the A,” Clark said.

Last semester’s aggregate grade data for principles of macroeconomics and principles of microeconomics showed a distribution of 17.5-percent A’s, 35.1-percent B’s, 20.8-percent C’s, 9.8-percent D’s and 6.9-percent F’s.

The remaining 9.9 percent constitutes other grades such as withdrawn courses, according to the document.

While Rutledge said she did find the economics courses to be particularly challenging, she said the

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Laney Ellisor, campus editor Kathleen Evans, assistant campus editor Chris Miller, assistant campus editor dailynews@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666

Students, faculty and staff will congregate today on campus to participate in OU Arbor Day 2012. The event includes a picnic and volunteer tree-planting.

A’s: Classes educate Sooners for future subjects Continued from page 1

A seminar on time management and battling procrastination will be given at 3 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245, as part of the Student Success Series.

A lecture will be given series at 5 p.m. in the Catlett Music Center as part of the Norton Lecture. Lecturer Cherlene Dell will talk about a comparison study on test scores of students who participated in orchestra and those who did not.

THURSDAY, MARCH 29 A workshop, “Capstone Central: Doing Library Research for Your Capstone Paper,” is open to students of all majors from 3 to 3:45 p.m. in Bizzell Memorial Library, Room 149D. A seminar about using technology for academic success, part of Student Success Series, will take place from 5 to 6 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245.

Corrections The Oklahoma Daily is committed to serving readers with accurate coverage and welcomes your comments about information that may require correction or clarification. To contact us with corrections, email us at dailynews@ou.edu.

Visit OUDaily.com/corrections to see an archive of our corrections

Restaurants bid for space

Burger King might not return to OU after June’s end

Carey Flack/The Daily

Students in Principles of Microeconomics take notes during class Tuesday. Classes like micro- and macroeconomics, as well as organic chemistry, often are referred to as “weed-out” classes because the coursework requires students to work and study harder, sometimes reducing the amount of students who stay within that particular major.

course taught her how to use academic resources as a college student.

Rutledge’s personal challenge came in the form of her financial accounting course.

“It was overwhelming because ... I went into it knowing nothing about it. I had no reference to go off of,” Rutledge said. “Financial a c c ou nt i ng n ow s e e m s like the easiest thing in the world, and it is compared to all of the accounting classes I’m taking now. Everything I learned in that class I still use today.”

Organic Chemistry Everyone approaches organic chemistry with a lot of trepidation, pre-medical adviser Nancy Blass said.

“Listening to what they say ... that’s one of them they really freak out over,”

she said.

Blass said she believes that horror stories about organic chemistry created by upperclassman and medical doctors contribute to the terrifying image.

“Once they get into it, ... it’s really kind of simplistic,” Blass said. “There are no weed out classes. Some classes are more difficult than others, but it’s more about what we’ve done to ourselves ... [Students] have to break that mental barrier that they build up against things.”

Biochemistry sophomore Rickie Pody said he might call these courses by another name: reality checks.

“During freshman year, my classes weren’t really intensive,” Pody said. “This year, you get the shock of how difficult the courses can be. People are so used

to having a bunch of free time.”

Pody, who is currently enrolled in Organic Chemistry II this semester, said he believes the difficulty arises out of the minute distinctions between hundreds of reactions and the necessity of knowing why a certain reaction takes place.

“I think it’s become a weed-out course because ... there isn’t a gradual [difficulty] gradient,” Pody said. “You go from general chemistry straight to organic chemistry, and it’s a step up.”

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Ten restaurants are now competing to occupy the Adams Center food venue when the university’s current food-service contract with Burger King is satisfied at the end of June.

Au Bon Pain, Denny’s, Einstein Bros. Bagels, IHOP, Game Time Sports Grill, Panda E xpress, Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers and Steak ‘n Shake, all submitted proposals to obtain the location by the March 16 deadline, said Nathan Baird, OU purchasing department acquisition manager.

Burger King also submitted a proposal to renew its contract.

The Daily requested the specifics of each restaurant bidding for the Adams Center venue, but a public body, such as OU, may keep confidential records relating to bid specification for competitive bidding prior to publication by the public body, OU Open Records Office Director Rachel McCombs said in an email, citing state Open Records Law. The bids are sealed when submitted to OU, and the university does not publish the results of the bidding until the award is made, including, if applicable, approval by the Board of Regents, McCombs said in the email.

Students have conflicting attitudes about what restaurant should be in Adams Center.

Business senior Jonathon Garrett works on campus and said Burger King is convenient for him when he eats on the days he works.

“I would be kind of disappointed if [Burger King] was

April 4, 2012 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Election: Candidates relieved with outcome Continued from page 1

Kelsey Higley/The Daily

A student leaves Burger King, which is located in Adams Center. The fast-food facility has submitted requests to stay at its current location. Nine other venues also are in talks with OU to occupy the space.

Housing and Food hopes to have the spot filled by Aug. 15.

AT A GLANCE Restaurants bidding Au Bon Pain

IHOP

Burger King

Panda Express

Denny’s

Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers

Einstein Bros. Bagels

Steak ‘n Shake

Game Time Sports Grill

gone,” Garrett said.

A survey done last semester by OU Housing and Food showed students were interested in an all-day breakfast options, Housing and Food spokeswoman Lauren Royston said.

Garrett said he likes that there is a lunch option in Adams Center because he would not eat breakfast on campus.

Source: Nathan Baird, OU purchasing department acquisition manager

University College freshman Ashley Nevitt said she and her friends only go to Burger King late at night because it is the only food option available after midnight in the dorms.

Matt Roberts, Housing and Food purchasing manager, said the hours of operation will remain the same at the Adams Center venue because it is the option

for students when Couch Restaurants, Cate A La Carte, Couch Express and Xcetera are closed.

Nevitt said she never goes to Burger King during the day but would be more likely to go if there was a different option. Her top pick is Raising Cane’s, she said.

“That’s what I hear is going around campus, that everyone wants Cane’s,” she said.

A group of OU officials and one student representative will review the proposals and submit their choice to the OU Board of Regents for a vote hopefully by the group’s meeting May 10, Roberts said.

Housing and Food aims to have a food venue operating in Adams Center by the time fall meal plans begin August 15, Roberts said.

Forum: Turnout less than last year’s event Continued from page 1 uncontested elections, she said. The presidential ticket, HCSA and Student Bar Association elections will all be uncontested.

University College freshman Parisa Pilehvar said she enjoyed the forum but wished the candidates were a little more specific when answering their questions. If the forum was a little less formal, the candidates might have been more specific, she said.

“I would like to approach them and ask them questions without the pressure of having people stare at you and maybe interrupting your thought process,” Pilehvar said.

Pilehvar said she still is torn about CAC candidates Vargas and Fraser. They both have different leadership styles and ideas, so it’s going to be hard to choose one of them even after the forum, Pilehvar said.

All questions were submitted by students before the forum started. The discussion was moderated by African American Studies professor Lupe Davidson.

This was the only public event planned for the candidates to speak together about their platforms and ideas, Loveless said. However, the candidates will continue campaigning until elections begin Tuesday.

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bit of enthusiasm over the last two days.”

Now that there is no chance for the race to become contested, Sangirardi and Sewell said they were relieved with the outcome.

Sangirardi and Sewell have spent a less than $1,000, and a contested election may have made them spend more, Sewell said.

If the bill would have been approved, Sangirardi would have welcomed the competition, he said.

“It’s important to see the process get tested every once in a while,” Sangirardi said.

Simply wanting to contest the election was not sufficient reason to reopen the filing period, business representative Andrew Carlough said.

Social Sciences representative Laura Shapiro defended the bill based on Belliveau and Moseley’s desire to make the race contested.

“There is nothing wrong with a little healthy competition,” Shapiro said.

Moseley doesn’t have any concrete plans since the bill wasn’t passed, he said.

In other business, Student Congress did not see any other legislation. The body will meet 7 p.m. Tuesday in Adams Hall, Room 150.

Campus Reporter

Economics

Today around campus

Dining

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more percentage points of C’s, D’s and F’s on average, according to the document.

Macroeconomics professor William Clark said he recognizes that certain subjects require a higher level of thinking. In the case of economics, the difficulty comes from the application of a well-defined, comprehensive body of theory, Clark said.

“Supply and demand.

Diagrams. Pretty straight forward,” Clark said. “When you start asking what ... happens out in the ‘real world,’ it’s difficult. It’s an intrinsically, deceptively difficult subject.”

A lack of genuine familiarity with concepts such as gross domestic product, interest rates and unemployment rates contributes to the difficulty, Clark said.

Even the common citizen lacks a thorough grasp of these central ideas in economics, he said.

“I would prefer that all of my students get an A and deserve the A,” Clark said.

Last semester’s aggregate grade data for principles of macroeconomics and principles of microeconomics showed a distribution of 17.5-percent A’s, 35.1-percent B’s, 20.8-percent C’s, 9.8-percent D’s and 6.9-percent F’s.

The remaining 9.9 percent constitutes other grades such as withdrawn courses, according to the document.

While Rutledge said she did find the economics courses to be particularly challenging, she said the

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OPINION

“Why do I need to be baptized in order to see the light of a different Faith when I am comfortable following the Judaic path?” (cjmays, RE: ‘COLUMN: Mormon practice of baptism for the dead done with good intentions’)

EDITORIAL

All candidates need competition Our View: UOSA elections need a vote of confidence for uncontested elections.

uncontested race.

Simply electing a candidate by default isn’t good for anyone.

With UOSA elections less than a week away, a So, in cases of an uncontested race for any oflast-minute presidential candidate has petitioned fice, UOSA needs to institute a vote of confidence. the election board for permission to join the curThis would entail a question on the ballot askrently uncontested race. ing voters whether the uncontested candidate UOSA’s general counsel released an would make a fit leader in whatever caopinion Tuesday stating a candidate only pacity they are running for. The answers The Our View could be added to the election now if is the majority would be in a simple yes or no format. The opinion of Student Congress passed legislation excandidate would need to get a majority of The Daily’s tending the filing deadline. “yes” votes to successfully take office. nine-member As of the time this opinion page went to If the candidate did not receive a maeditorial board print, Student Congress had not made a jority of “yes” votes, the existing system decision. for dealing with unsuccessful elections We are firm supporters of competition in the po- would go into effect. litical sphere, and as such, we were ready to urge Already, if the initial election fails to produce a Student Congress to take whatever steps necescandidate with the majority of votes, another elecsary to add another candidate to the presidential tion takes place. race.

In this case, the UOSA Code Annotated would But, as journalists, we also understand the immerely need to be changed to allow for new candiportance of deadlines. A leader must exhibit fore- dates to run in this second election. thought, dedication and the ability to follow the In that way, individuals who weren’t sure rule of law. enough about their desire to run to declare canAllowing a candidate to join the race at the last didacy by the filing deadline would see the vote minute — even for a good reason — disrespects of no confidence and potentially realize that OU these important values. needed a better option.

After much discussion, we realized This system would not be a blatant this problem extends beyond this parflouting of the established rules by igEDITOR’S NOTE ticular race. This is a problem with all noring the deadlines, but would allow Because of the opinion page’s deadline, this uncontested races. for more competition and for better editorial was fi nalized Even if Student Congress passes candidates to join when the initial canbefore Student Congress legislation to allow Jeff Moseley and didate is not satisfactory. made a decision about Andrew Belliveau onto the ballot, fuOf course, we mean none of this whether to allow late-entry ture uncontested elections will have no UOSA president and vice to imply that letters junior and curpresident candidates. To such last-minute fix. rent UOSA presidential candidate Joe read the results of the So, regardless of the immediate deci- decision, see page 1.

Sangirardi is an unfit candidate. sion, UOSA must implement a method But uncontested elections, no matof introducing an element of competition into un- ter who is running, deny the public the imporcontested races. tant benefits that come from campaigning and Competition forces candidates to prove their competition. worth to their constituents — something they And this election has made it clear an unconhardly need to concern themselves with if the race tested election with an unfit candidate is a future is uncontested. possibility.

Working against an opposing candidate requires If this year’s election remains uncontested, them to campaign, which entails listening to the and for all future uncontested elections, OU’s needs of the public and compromising with them. student government needs a vote of confidence And it gives candidates a legitimacy, a mandate. procedure.

These factors benefit the public, and the politician, greatly. They are necessary, even in an Comment on this at OUDaily.com

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Republicans not hateful people First, I feel it is imperative to contextualize this opinion article. As Scott Starr pointed out in his Tuesday column, “Republicans can at least be civil toward Obama, administration,” he did vote for Obama in 2008 and does declare himself an independent voter.

I, however, am a conservative, both socially and economically. Reading the article that Starr wrote, I am not quite sure what country he has lived in the past decade.

That is not meant to be condescending, but concerned.

Starr wrote the people who had “Bush Derangement Syndrome” were less cruel and offensive than those suffering from “Obama Derangement Syndrome.”

His examples are people calling Obama “a secret Muslim, the Anti-Christ, a Communist, a Nazi or all of the above.”

If you truly think Obama is treated worse than Bush, I encourage you to go to YouTube, type in either president’s name and tell me the results.

Bush was/has been accused of not only all of what you just said, but even beyond that, killing his fellow

Americans.

What exactly do you consider a socialist? Obama may not be a full-fledged socialist, but I encourage you to look up the definition of the word.

I am not going to say Obama is a socialist, because compared to other world leaders, he is not.

However, the legislation such as ObamaCare, where health care is one-sixth of the U.S. economy, is to be run by the state.

That, by definition, is socialist.

I disagree with people who slander anyone in the way both he and Bush have been, but I disagree more with the notion that Republicans are these hateful, ignorant people simply because a minority of people left comments on an online article you read.

Please do research before you bunch all Republicans together and cry “wolf.”

Cody Hickman, history junior

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Stricter gun laws will not prevent crime Editor’s Note: This letter is in response to Tuesday’s editorial, “Trayvon Martin tragedy questions whether state unchecked gun laws are reckless” The Trayvon Martin shooting is a tragedy, as is any loss of human life, but should that automatically mean that Oklahoma needs stricter guns laws? “How would this have been different if Zimmerman had not had a gun?”

Just because a person picks up a gun does not diminish that person’s value of human life; it is the person.

If they are going to commit murder

or rape, the gun is optional.

Stricter gun laws will not change this; they only restrict law-abiding citizens, not criminals.

As for the world turning into a Wild West shoot out if everyone has a gun, you might want to visit a few websites, such as the FBI website.

The FBI has studies proving areas with looser gun control have a lower crime rate.

The Students for Concealed Carry on Campus website also answers many of the questions mentioned in the article.

I have been shooting since I was 6

years old and know firsthand that gun laws are not the answer: Education about firearms is.

The more you know about them, the more you will understand about why gun laws actually endanger us. It is my right to carry my gun on my hip to be able to defend my life or another’s life.

I hope I never have to draw it, but if I do, I would rather have it with me and not have to ever use it, than to need it and it be in my home.

Dustin Scheller, aerospace engineering junior

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n March 11, OPINION COLUMNIST Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was accused of the pre-meditated murder of 17 Afghan villagers in the Panjwai district of Kandahar Province.

Bad news continued to Scott Starr roll in from Afghanistan scott.e.starr-1@ou.edu as eight more Afghani civilians were killed by a roadside bomb attack in Helmand Province on Wednesday and 13 more were killed in the same manner Thursday in the Uruzgan Province. It stands to reason that now is as good a time as any to voice misgivings about the Afghan war.

There is quite a bit of speculation that the sergeant who stands accused of the killing spree near Panjwai was suffering from war-related stress. What we presently know about Bales is just a few questionable facts. I use the adjective “questionable” because most of the information coming out on this story and the suspect is filtered through the military. This is the same military complex that brought us the carefully stage-managed and subsequently debunked official stories of the rescue of Jessica Lynch and the death of former NFL star, Pat Tillman.

Lynch was injured and captured in Iraq on March 23, 2003. Her combat story and dramatic, highly publicized rescue were later revealed to have been somewhat staged and falsified for effect and employed as a propaganda tool for making Americans feel patriotic about the war.

Tillman, who gave up a lucrative football career and enlisted in the Army shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. The military covered up the circumstances of his death until it was no longer able to do so. Until then, the military portrayed his death in a heroic light, even awarding Tillman the Silver Star. It was later revealed that Tillman was killed in a rather mundane friendly fire incident.

Taking into account these events, it is fair to cast some doubt upon anything the military tells us. Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, said, “In war, truth is the first casualty.”

How right he was.

Bales, a 38-year-old, married father of two children, ages 3 and 4, was on his first tour of combat in Afghanistan, but his fourth tour overall. This includes three tours in Iraq, since his enlistment in 2001. His most recent injury was a concussion suffered during a vehicle rollover caused by a roadside bomb. The soldier’s attorney, John Henry Browne, said the day before the rampage the soldier saw his friend’s leg blown off while he was standing right next to him. Browne also revealed that the suspect had been injured twice during his three previous deployments to Iraq and didn’t want to go to Afghanistan to begin with.

Let’s put this in perspective. The Afghan War began on October 7, 2001. That means a large amount of present university students were enjoying their pre-adolescent years in elementary school when the war began. This staff sergeant is said to have been engaged in the theater of war for the preponderance of time for nearly the last 11 years.

In that time, he has been injured more than once and witnessed no telling what kind of other horrors.

World War II only lasted six years, from 1939 to 1945.

I can tell you that when the Afghan War started, I predicted it would be a long, bloody affair with limited success at best. I based that prediction off of the history of Afghanistan and how it earned the nickname “Graveyard of Empires,” since no occupying force has ever won there.

I never dreamed that over a decade later I would be discussing current events from the same war in Afghanistan.

If I was skeptical about how much success would come for the U.S. when the war began over 10 years ago, I am more skeptical than ever today. After over a decade, the most powerful military force in the world’s history using the world’s most advanced technology has failed to bring this conflict to a close. If anything, after all the death and destruction and the hundreds of billions of dollars spent, the war seems like not much more than an expensive stalemate.

It’s time for the citizens and leadership of this country to face some sobering facts and daunting choices about the U.S. commitment to the Afghan War. We cannot continue to keep this war on our mental back burner while our personnel are pushed past the breaking point, and Afghani civilians continue to be caught in the crossfire and die. It’s time to totally rethink the war in Afghanistan.

Visit rethinkafghanistan.com to learn more about why the Afghan war should be ended sooner than later.

Scott Starr is a Native American studies senior.

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Gingrich would back Romney Presidential hopeful voices support if he loses to race leader ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Under pressure to help unify his party, Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich pledged Tuesday to support Mitt Romney if the former Massachusetts governor wins enough convention delegates to clinch the nomination by the end of the GOP primary season in June.

If Romney falls short, “I think you’ll then have one of the most interesting, open conventions in American history,” the former House speaker said as he campaigned for votes in next week’s Maryland primary.

Gingrich is short on funds, and his hopes for a Southernbased comeback in the race were all but extinguished by rival Rick Santorum’s recent victories in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.

Even so, he has insisted he plans to campaign actively into the party convention, which begins on Aug. 27 in Tampa, Fla. He signaled his change in remarks to reporters. If Romney gets the 1,144 delegates needed for the nomination by the time of the Utah primary on June 26, Gingrich said, “obviously I will support him and will be delighted to do anything I can to help defeat Barack Obama.”

Gingrich and Santorum have both come under increased pressure from some Republicans in recent weeks to swing behind Romney, who is on track to pick a majority of delegates before the primaries end with the vote in Utah.

Gingrich has tried to position himself as an anti-establishment figure in the race, and has bristled at the devastating attacks that Romney

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Supreme Court justices question health care plan’s merits The fate of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul was cast into deeper jeopardy Tuesday as the Supreme Court’s conservative justices sharply and repeatedly questioned its core requirement that virtually every American carry insurance.

The court will now take up whether any remnant of the historic law can survive if that linchpin fails.

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Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks Tuesday in Annapolis, Md., after a visit to Maryland State House. Gingrich said if fellow presidential candidate Mitt Romney clinches the GOP nomination, Gingrich plans to back Romney.

“... obviously, I will support [Romney] and will be delighted to do anything I can to help defeat Barack Obama.”

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and a Romney-aligned super political action committee unleashed at him at key moments in the campaign.

Yet as a former House speaker, he is also aware of the importance of party unity as the general election campaign comes into view.

Romney is the front-runner with 568 delegates, based on a tally by The Associated Press. That is slightly less than half the needed 1,144 delegates, and more than four times as many delegates as Gingrich, who has 135.

Gingrich conceded he

is strapped for campaign funds.

“The money is very tight, obviously,” he said. “That’s why we’re trying to raise more money.”

Gingrich has struggled since his campaign peaked just before the Iowa caucuses kicked off the nominating process in January. He has won just two contests — in South Carolina and his Georgia home state.

His campaign listed more than $1.5 million in outstanding debt by the end of February, according to

Federal Election Commission filings, including legal fees and advertising production costs. At the same time, Gingrich had about $1.5 million cash on hand — the lowest of the four GOP candidates.

Maryland, where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 2-to-1 margin, has drawn unusual attention from the from the GOP presidential candidates. The state has 37 delegates at stake in its primary next Tuesday.

Romney campaigned in Maryland last week. Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the fourth Republican in the race, has scheduled an event at the University of Maryland on Wednesday.

The leaders of five states plan visit to the only place where a beef product known as “pink slime” is still made, an effort aimed to support its embattled manufacturer, a company spokesman said Tuesday.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback and Texas Gov. Rick Perry will visit the Beef Products Inc. plant that’s still in operation to combat misconceptions and misinformation about the company’s “lean, finely textured beef” product, company spokesman Rich Jochum said.

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Catholic official on trial for potential molestation cover-up Prosecutors aired dozens of confidential church documents in court Tuesday to try to prove the Philadelphia archdiocese routinely buried complaints that priests were molesting children.

Monsignor William Lynn is the first Roman Catholic official in the U.S. charged with endangering children by keeping accused priests in parish work.

The letters and memos read in court Tuesday centered on now-defrocked priest Edward Avery. Avery, known as the Smiling Padre, adopted six Hmong children and moonlighted as a disc jockey throughout his three-decade church career.

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As you are walking down White Street on Campus Corner, you will see a parking meter with a green vintage bike leaned up against it.

If you look past the bike and into the windows of the shop behind it, you will see a small nook with classic light fixtures and antiques on one side.

On the other side, you immediately will be overwhelmed by beads. Beads are along the walls, beads on tables, beads hanging from the ceiling, beads everywhere.

The bike belongs to the Wild Hare Beadery owner Reese Truesdell, the owner of one of the first beaderies in Oklahoma.

A beadery is a shop where people can go to buy beads and other jewelry craft supplies.

Customers can sit down at a work station in the shop and make jewelry and pay based on the beads and supplies they chose.

“We never run out of beads,” Truesdell said.

This little nook on the corner has been a beadery for nearly 25 years, Truesdell said.

Beaderies became popular in the hippie era during the ‘60s and ’70s, he said.

The name and style of the shop has changed throughout the years, he said. Truesdell worked at the beadery when he was a college student at OU, he said.

It had blue carpet and pink walls back then and had more of a boutique-like feel, Truesdell said. When he bought the beadery about two years ago, he transformed it by name and by design, he said. He named it the Wild Hare Beadery, ripped out the blue carpet and repainted the walls. He also gave it what he describes as a totally vintage eclectic feel.

The Wild Hare Beadery has unique and quality beads from all over the world, Truesdell said. They receive authentic beads from India, China, Brazil and the Czech Republic, he said. They also have a collection of hard to find vintage African beads, he said.

“We have a lot of beads unique to Norman,” Truesdell said. “We have stuff you can’t get at Hobby Lobby and

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Above: Mike Todd, Norman resident and local jewelry maker, stops by the Wild Hare Beadery on Monday, March 12 to find beads for his jewelry that he makes and sells. Todd said he frequents the shop regulary because they have a selection of beads and supplies you can’t find locally. Owner Reese Truesdell is a great resource who also offers customers interested in beads and jewelry making a wealth of knowledge they can learn from, Todd said.

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A major downfall for the little shop is that people don’t care enough about quality, he said.

Most of Truesdell’s customer base comes from people strolling around Campus Corner, looking for something interesting to do, he said.

The beadery has tables for customers to sit at and create their own jewelry masterpieces. Bracelets are one of the most popular things for customers to make in store, he said. Customers can spend anywhere from $2 to $102 depending on what they make and what beads they use, he said.

OU students make up about 40 percent of the beadery’s customer base, Truesdell said. The majority of customers are 18 to 30-year-olds looking for unique vintage items or jewelry for

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Three students will represent their culture in a scholarship competition to be crowned Miss Hispanic OU. The Hispanic American Student Association is holding its annual Miss Hispanic OU pageant at 7 tonight in Oklahoma M e m o r i a l U n i o n ’s Meacham Auditorium.

Th re e u n d e rg ra d u ate Hispanic students will compete for the title and a $1,000 scholarship through a series of five categories including an interview, cultural talent exhibition and evening gown showcase, said Crystal Garcia, Hispanic American Student Association adviser.

Each of the three women has developed a platform to speak to during their interview, Garcia said. Whichever student is crowned Miss Hispanic OU will spend the next school year fulfilling her platform through various events sponsored by the Hispanic American Student Association, she said.

“Really [the pageant] is an opportunity for the Hispanic community to come together and celebrate their culture,” Garcia said. “We can celebrate it through the women on campus who are diverse in their own way and serve as excellent role models.”

Left: The Wild Har Beadery uses a variety of vintage items to show off many of owner Reese Truesdell personal jewelry that he makes and sells both in the beadery and in shops throughout the region. photos by Ally Burt/the daily

their homes, Truesdell said.

About 50 to 100 customers visit the beadery on the weekends, he said. The Wild Hare Beadery brings in a diverse group of people because they offer more than beads, he said.

The beadery also has a variety of vintage items ranging from cuckoo clocks to light bulbs to clothes.

Truesdell is a jewelry maker himself and sells products in shops in New York City and

Tulsa, he said. He grew up making jewelry and has continued with the craft, he said. He uses rare gemstones to make his jewelry pieces, and they usually range around $300, he said.

Truesdell not only sells his jewelry out of state, but also sells it in the beadery, he said.

Mike Todd, a local jewelry maker, frequents the beadery a couple of times a month to find unique beads to add to his latest jewelry designs, he said.

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Todd is usually looking for rustic beads in turquoise or copper, he said.

“Reese is a wealth of knowledge,” he said. A lot of the beaderies Todd visits have salesmen who have no idea what they are talking about, he said.

Todd gets about 70 percent of all his beads at the Wild Hare Beadery, he said.

“The Wild Hair beadery has stuff you can’t get anywhere else,” Todd said.

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Your leadership and executive abilities are likely to be far more pronounced in the year ahead than they ever were in the past. As a result, it is extremely possible that you will be appointed manager of something enormously significant.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) --In order to appease your restlessness, you’re going to require a variety of activities and the ability to keep your schedule open. Be as flexible as possible.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -Although you may need a bevy of activities to satisfy your restless spirit, you should take some time to work on your budget. You’ll feel good about yourself if you can trim some of the fat.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) --Your restless and dynamic sides will be very much in evidence, causing a stir wherever you go. Think of it as spreading a little excitement around.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) --Your natural sense of humor and quick tongue are likely to be two of your most effective tools. Used constructively, you can reverse any relationship that is heading for disaster.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) --Attend to your duties without making it a no-play kind of day. You’re going to need some kind of lighthearted diversion to help refurbish your attitude and outlook on life.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- By being flexible and prepared to change

tactics to meet the needs of the moment, you can turn what would have been an unpleasant episode into one filled with fun and laughter.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) --Listen up when wiser heads are speaking.

Even if a conversation wasn’t meant for your ears, something is likely to be said in your presence that will be well worth remembering.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -Before getting yourself involved in some kind of new endeavor, it would be best to go out of your way to examine all the available information and data.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Your spirit of cooperation will enhance all of the assets you possess as well as your appeal to others. A new partnership arrangement could be a consequence.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) --If you desire to be as productive with your time as you can, keep your head and hands as busy as possible.

Projects that require both mental and physical dexterity are best.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) --Instead of participating in the same old things with your friends, experiment with something new. If your pals don’t want to take a chance, go off by yourself and join those who do.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) --Your residence could be the magnet that attracts others for a group gathering, so be prepared. Don’t be surprised if you have a lot of unexpected, uninvited drop-ins.

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5 Flower near a mill?

11 “Up, up and away� defunct flier 14 At the crest of 15 Beginning with “dynamic� or “nuclear�

16 Actor McShane of “Deadwood�

17 Christmas carols may put one in this 19 Cold War aircraft 20 Civil War soldier in gray (Abbr.)

21 Put together, as a model 23 Hedgehog mascot of Sega 26 January, in some dates 27 Closer to raw, as a steak 28 1986 Oliver Stone movie 30 Indiana NBA team 31 Beat one’s gums 32 Card game like rummy 35 Residence visited in summer, perhaps 40 Lazy person’s state 41 Flossing-endorsing org.

43 Decorative necktie 46 Arrogant

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52 Antique-car starter 53 Similar version 55 Spoonbender Geller 56 “___ only money!�

57 1970s fashion statement 62 “What’d I tell you?�

63 Field hockey positions 64 Cantina munchie 65 Make a mistake 66 Corporate jet maker 67 “... bad as they ___�

DOWN 1 “Let’s go, team!�

2 “How was ___ know?�

3 Capitol Hill figure, briefly 4 “Guest of honor� at a seance 5 Attack with a dagger 6 “___ will be done�

7 Furnish with new personnel 8 Having an irregularly gnawed edge 9 Andy’s partner in old radio 10 In a medium tempo

11 Quality of a singing voice 12 Bob Marley backup 13 Arouses wrath in 18 Art ___ (1920s-’30s style) 22 Former Portuguese territory in China 23 “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, ___�

24 Any of several kings of Norway 25 California wine valley 26 Broadcasting now 29 Certain chamber music group 30 “Fiddlefaddle!�

33 “Believe it or ___!�

34 Absinthe flavor 36 Type of servant or

engineer 37 Like some steroids 38 “The Thorn Birds,� for one 39 First lady’s residence?

42 40 days and 40 nights boat 43 “Longue� chair 44 Blusterer 45 Badmouther 47 Land measurement 48 Batches of grain for the mill 50 Acropolis attractions 51 “For� words 54 Trait determiner 55 Celestial bear 58 Banquet coffeepot 59 Abu Dhabi’s federation (Abbr.)

60 “Cool� target for a yegg?

61 Rocker Petty

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Team avenges loss to Eagles Oklahoma holds off Oral Roberts for 5-2 victory Tuesday in Norman Dillon Phillips Sports Reporter

Oklahoma avenged last year’s late-season loss to coach Sunny Golloway’s former team Tuesday night with a 5-2 victory in the first of a four-game home stand.

The Sooners jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first after a Max White blooper to shallow right-centerfield drove in both runs.

Tuesday night was White’s fourth straight game batting clean up and marked the 17th time in the junior’s last 19 outings he’s had at least one base knock.

In the bottom of the third, White was back to work with another single to shallow right-center. In the next at-bat, freshman Hunter Lockwood drove White home with a two-run blast to deep left field ­— his seventh of the season — to make it 4-0.

“The wind helped me a little tonight,” Lockwood said. “(Oral Roberts pitcher Alec Smith) flipped in a slider, fooled me actually, but hit-and-run, just trying to get the barrel on the ball and floated it out.”

OU padded its lead by adding another run in the fourth on a Jack Mayfield sacrifice fly that scored freshman Brian Brightwell.

But, the Sooner’s offense quickly cooled off as the Golden Eagles held them scoreless for the remainder of the game.

Redshirt freshman Cale Coshow was solid in only his second start of the season until control issues forced Golloway to pull him in the top of the sixth in favor of sophomore Kindle Ladd.

“It felt great,” Coshow said. “I just didn’t have the command like I had in my first start, but that’s just something to work on during the week in practice.”

The 6-foot-5, 270-pound right-hander displayed poise while working out of jams in the third, fourth and fifth innings and utilized an arsenal highlighted by a curveball that moved nicely and a fastball that consistently hit the mid- and upper-90s.

“I just used my defense,” Coshow said. “I lost control, but luckily I had some great defense tonight, and they backed me up.”

Ladd lasted just 2 2/3 innings before being relieved himself by hard-throwing closer Damien Magnifico.

However, Magnifico’s time on the mound was shortlived as he walked a pair of batters and gave up a run in two-thirds of an inning.

Sophomore Jordan John finally finished off the Golden Eagles after he replaced Magnifico, entering the game straight from the dugout with one out in the top of the ninth to close out the Sooners’ win.

Although ORU scored only two runs, Oklahoma’s sloppy pitching walked 12 Golden Eagle batters.

Fortunately for the Sooners, Oral Roberts was unable to capitalize, leaving 10 runners stranded and hitting a measly 1-for-17 with runners on base.

The No. 25 OU men’s tennis team took down the Golden Hurricane, 5-2, on the road in Tulsa on Tuesday night to move to 10-2 this season.

OU eyes Bedlam victory

Sooners, Cowgirls tied at 70 wins apiece in rivalry Tobi Neidy

Sports Reporter

The No. 7 OU softball team clashes with Oklahoma State for the first round of Bedlam softball at 7:30 tonight at Hall of Fame stadium in Oklahoma City.

The overall record between the in-state rivals is deadlocked at 70 apiece.

That adds even more emphasis to this always heated matchup, as the winner of tonight’s game will be the new series leader.

The Sooners (26-4, 2-1 Big 12) are coming off a recent 17-game win streak that ended Sunday against No. 15 Baylor. The Cowgirls (16-12, 1-2 Big 12) are coming off a 2-1 series loss to Kansas during the team’s first weekend of Big 12 competition.

OU brings one of the nation’s best pitching staffs to Oklahoma City tonight in junior pitchers Keilani Ricketts and Michelle Gascoigne.

While the pitching staff collectively leads the conference with a .74 earned run average, Ricketts (11.3) and Gascoigne (10.8) are ranked third and fifth, respectively, in average strikeouts per seven innings.

Ricketts also was named the Big 12 Pitcher of the Week recently for the second consecutive time — third overall this season — after helping the Sooners to the 2-1 series win over the Bears last weekend.

The San Jose, Calif., native gave up nine hits in 13 innings while striking out 18 batters.

With it being her third conference pitching honor this season, Ricketts became the first pitcher in OU’s history to accomplish three weekly honors in multiple seasons.

Only two other pitchers, Lauren Eckermann (2007) and Jill Most (1996) have earned three weekly honors in one season.

Oklahoma State’s lineup does not match up well with OU’s high-powered pitching staff on paper. The Cowgirls

come into the game ranked ninth in overall batting in the Big 12 with a team average of .231.

However, three OSU batters are hitting over .300, while the team is led at the plate by Tamara Brown (.359).

OU spouts one of the most feared hitting lineups in the country with three batters hitting over the .400 mark in junior catcher Jessica Shults (.429), freshman second baseman Georgia Casey (.439), and Ricketts (.403).

The Sooners also have the current Big 12 leader in home runs, freshman

PLAYER PROFILE Lauren Chamberl Year: Freshman Position: Infielder Hometown: Trabuco Canyon, Calif.

Season stats: Is leading Big 12 in home runs, runs, RBI’s and slugging percentage

third baseman Lauren Chamberlain, who leads the conference with 12 bombs so far this season.

Sooners to face nation’s best Greg Fewell Sports Editor

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Sophomore infielder Javen Henson rounds second during Oklahoma’s March 11 doubleheader against Indiana. The Sooners swept the Hoosiers, beating them three times over the course of the weekend. The team currently leads the Big 12 in almost every offensive category, including homers and total runs.

Track and Field

200 teams to compete in Texas Relays in Austin

Sophomore catcher Dylan Neal retrieves a wild pitch to throw out a runner at third during the top of the fifth inning of Oklahoma’s 5-2 victory over Oral Roberts Tuesday night in Norman.

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The OU track and field team is preparing for its third outdoor meet of the season, the Texas Relays in Austin.

After a solid indoor season in which the men finished third in the conference championships and the women finished eighth, the Sooners have plenty of confidence.

However, they have not faced the level of competition they will face this weekend.

The annual event is one of the premier track and field meets in the entire nation,

so the nation’s best are represented at the event year in and year out. This year is no different.

A total of 200 university and college teams will be represented at the relays, which also makes the event the largest the Sooners will compete in all season.

The No. 23 men’s team has eight individuals scheduled to compete along with three relay teams. Meanwhile, the sixth-ranked women’s squad will have 10 individuals and two relay teams in Austin.

Thursday will be a light

day for the Sooners, as the team will only be featured in three events.

Senior Eric Cray will compete in the men’s 400-meter hurdles, and the women’s 4x800-meter relay and 1,500-meter run will also take to the track.

The team will see the bulk of its action on Friday.

Several Sooners are scheduled to compete throughout the day, starting with the men’s Clyde Littlefield 4x100-meter relay, men’s 110-meter hurdles where junior Tre Lathan and sophomore Nathaniel Winfrey are

scheduled to compete, the women’s 100-meter dash featuring seniors Ti’Anca Mock and Sherine Wells and the men’s 100-meter dash with Evan Pierson and Marcus Anderson.

Field events also get underway Friday with the high jump, pole vault and throwing events.

Junior Kristen Rice will compete in the high jump, senior Alex Acker and freshman Katie Adair will be pole vaulting, and seniors Brittany Borman, Lauren Guerrieri and Bailey Wagner will throw.

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Texas Rangers use long ball to notch spring win SURPRISE, Ariz. — Rangers manager Ron Washington wasn’t going to take any chances with his starting shortstop.

Elvis Andrus left Tuesday’s game against a San Diego Padres split squad after the second inning, but Texas went on to a 10-9 victory behind Mike Napoli’s two homers.

“Once he said he felt a little tightness in his quad we took him out,” Washington said. “We didn’t give him a chance to say nothing.”

Napoli hit his first two home runs of the spring and Ian Kinsler had three hits for Texas.

“The two balls to Napoli weren’t good pitches on my part,” Padres starter Cory Luebke said. “But I think that results sometimes can be a little deceiving.”

Jeremy Hermida homered on consecutive pitches in the first and third.

Jeff Gyorko, Yasmani Grandal and Andy Parrino also went deep for San Diego.

“The ball was flying out of here today,” Washington said. “If you got it up it was leaving.”

After the Padres scored twice in the top of the ninth to take a 9-8 lead, Matt Kata led off the bottom half with a double off Alex Hinshaw.

Butler followed with a triple into the rightfield corner.

Texas has won consecutive games for the first time since the opening week of Cactus League play.

Left-hander Robbie Ross led a parade of Rangers relievers to the mound, allowing two runs on four hits and a walk in two innings.

He struck out one.

“He had a lot of fight in him,” Washington said. “You’re not going to be perfect in this game but he kept coming and that’s what we want to see.”

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Connecticut guard Tiffany Hayes (3) brings the ball up the court as Kentucky guard Maegan Conwright (20) attempts to defend her during the first half of the NCAA women’s college basketball tournament East Regional final Tuesday night in Kingston, R.I. UConn advanced to the Final Four with the victory.

UConn continues run of Final Fours Huskies advance to Final Four for 5th straight season KINGSTON, R.I. — Tiffany Hayes scored 22 points and top-seed Connecticut beat Kentucky 80-65 on Tuesday night to advance to the Final Four for the fifth straight season.

Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis added 18 for UConn (33-4), which will play the winner of Notre Dame and Maryland on Sunday in Denver.

The Huskies matched their own school mark of five straight trips to the national semifinals. LSU and Stanford have also accomplished the feat.

Unlike their previous four trips to the regional finals, which were quick blowouts, the Huskies had to work hard to pull away from the Wildcats.

UConn led 48-47 early in the second half before turning up its defense. The Huskies used a 21-4 spurt to take command.

Hayes, the lone senior on the team, was the catalyst, scoring seven points during the run. She got it started with a lay-in. Then the Huskies started a parade to the free throw line, with whistle after whistle. The Huskies converted 12 free throws during the game-changing run.

Hayes was selected most outstanding player of the regional.

While the Huskies were scoring points, their vaunted defense was stymieing the Wildcats. Kentucky torched UConn for 39 points, the most allowed in a first half this season by the Huskies.

The Wildcats found it much tougher to score in the second half. During UConn’s burst, Kentucky could only get two field goals over a span of 9 minutes.

Mosqueda-Lewis’ 3-pointer with 7:26 left capped UConn’s burst and made it 69-52.

Kentucky (28-7) could get no closer than 15 the rest of the way.

Samarie Walker scored 14 to lead the Wildcats.

It’s been a strange season for UConn. Coming into the year, coach Geno Auriemma didn’t think this team could make a run at the Final Four or an eighth national championship.

With the loss of Maya Moore to graduation, the Huskies had a lot of questions about themselves.

Despite running through the early part of their schedule, Auriemma knew it was just a matter of time before the team’s shortcomings were exposed.

Losses to Baylor and Notre Dame on the road were understandable, but it wasn’t

until the end of February that UConn really came to a crossroads.

The Huskies lost to St. John’s at home on senior night snapping a 99-game home winning streak. Nine days later the Huskies fell to Notre Dame.

Those two defeats got the Huskies refocused and they’ve been unstoppable ever since.

The Huskies cruised to the Big East tournament championship and rolled through their first three NCAA tournament games.

Now the Huskies are back

in the Final Four for the 13th time in the last 18 years.

The Kentucky women were trying to join their men’s team in the Final Four.

It would have been the eighth time that a school had both programs in the national semifinals. Connecticut has done it three times including last season.

The Huskies are still the only school to win both the men’s and women’s championship in the same season accomplishing the feat in 2004.

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