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norman faces lack of resources CEDAR FLOYD

Campus reporter

For students facing homelessness in the Norman community, a lack of resources to serve their needs may be to blame for a portion of their problems.

As finals and summer vacation approach, many students are looking forward to leaving their classes behind and returning home for a few

months of rest. However, not every student has that option.

More than 33,000 university students in the U.S. are considered homeless, meaning they don’t have a family home to which to return during academic breaks, according to data compiled from the 2011 FAFSA. In the past 12 months, local homeless shelters and food pantries have seen a definite increase in the number of people requesting their services, said Linda Barnes, vice director of Mission Norman.

Mission Norman, which offers a variety of services for those in need, currently is in the process of building housing for homeless families that will be completed this fall, but the organization will not be able to offer housing for individuals without children, Barnes said.

“People [who] come in just needing shelter, we’re not going to be able to help them,” Barnes said.

In such cases, individuals might be recommended to The Salvation Army, which offers emergency housing for five days, and individuals

may be granted an extension, if they are employed, for up to 30 days.

After that, individuals must vacate, Barnes said.

East Main Place is another local organization that offers shelter, and it has helped university students in the past, programs coordinator Randi Brockhaus said.

Anyone seeking assistance from East Main Place has to fill out an application and get a letter confirming they are homeless, said Brockhaus.

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Center offers free iBook for organic chemistry labs Students can save $30 by purchasing digital copy instead of print version HALEY DAVIS

Campus reporter

Students in organic chemistry labs may be getting their assignments in a way they never have before thanks to an initiative by The Center for Teaching Excellence.

The center has created an interactive iBook for organic chemistry labs as part of their Textbook Alternatives Initiative.

The center’s main goal is to save students money while still adequately teaching them, according to their website.

Originally students would have had to pay $30 for the organic chemistry lab manual, but the iBook is free to OU students and available through iTunes.

The iBook version of the book is different from the print version because it includes videos as well as feedback quizzes, said Mark Morvant, executive director of The Center for Teaching Excellence.

There also will be a PDF available for students on D2L, he said. see IBOOK pAge 2

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Researchers battle their own numbers

Campus editor and assistant Campus editor

With OU supporting more postdoctoral fellows and non-faculty Ph.D. researchers than it has before, and with federal research expenditures rapidly rising, researchers are seeking help to distinguish themselves amidst such a competitive pool.

For graduate research assistant John Wickham, the answer to distinguishing himself from a group of other researchers is fairly simple: You just need to question the status quo,

ARIANNA PICKARD AND PAIGHTEN HARKINS

Note: some of this information is paraphrased.

After The Daily found out about there being alcohol in the Students for a Democratic Society office in Oklahoma Memorial Union, we assumed drinking in the office was against university policy, or at least state law. However, the legality of it isn’t as clear as it would seem.

We talked to Maureen Shanta, public integrity and

compliance official for the Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission, and city attorney Jeannie Snider. Both explained the situation was ambiguous, and there was no right or wrong answer.

According to the Oklahoma statute, drinking alcohol or any other intoxicant in a public place is illegal. This means people can drink in a private residence or area without fear of legal consequences. However, how public places are defined can get a little muddy.

place?

What is considered a public

Streets, sidewalks, parks, some parking lots — anything not owned by a private citizen … but places people can get to easily.

How do you det e r m i n e w hat ’s private?

It would depend o n t h e p l a c e. It does get a little dicey. You’d have to take them space-byspace. A hair salon could be open to the public, even though it’s privately owned.

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and in doing that, you’ll develop your identity as a researcher.

However, no matter how much questioning you do, in a field of researchers as large as OU’s, and one that seems to keep growing, these researchers need more than questions — they need resources, he said.

“For a lot of research, for a lot of knowledge building, you can pursue, whatever you pursue it’s going to take resources,” said Wickham, who also is a consultant for the interdisciplinary research program at the Center for Research Program Development and see RESEARCH pAge 2

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After discussions about equality and representation, OU student leaders eliminated stipends for the executives of five organizations Sunday at a meeting of the Graduate Student Senate.

The “Keeping Our Promise Act of 2013” was approved with 36 votes in the GSS after receiving a majority of votes in the Undergraduate Student Congress in March. The amendment eliminates the salaries and stipends of positions that no longer affect the entire student body, starting fall 2014, according to the legislation.

The positions no longer receiving funding are the Housing Center Student Association president, the Interfraternity Council president, the Multicultural Greek Council, the National see FUNDS pAge 2

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Research: Program provides for new numbers Continued from page 1

Today around campus A softball game against North Texas will take place at 6:30 p.m. at Softball Complex & Marita Hynes Field.

A lecture by Victoria’s Secret CEO and president Sharen Jester Turney about giving with style. The event is part of the OU Women’s Philanthropy Network and will last from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom.

Thursday, April 11 A reading, wine and cheese reception will be held at 7 p.m. in the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. It will feature author Kelly Barth, who will talk about her experience as a lesbian from a conservative background.

Contemporary Dance Oklahoma brings final performances of original, dynamic choreography at 8 p.m. April 11 to 13 and at 3 p.m. April 14 at the Rupel J. Jones Theatre. For tickets, call the Fine Arts Box Office at 405-325-4101.

A lecture explaining the term “jihad” will be help from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. The event is part of Islam Awareness month.

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Corrections A Monday article, “Non-stop party goes live,” incorrectly spelled actress Jane Leeves’ name.

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ibook: Center creating similar texts for other OU science courses Continued from page 1 Some of the examples of experiments that are available in the iBook for students to observe include recrystallization, extraction of low-density organics, extraction of high-density organics, acid-base separation and thin-layer chromatography, according to the center’s website.

Morvant said students involved in certain sociology lecture classes already have open access to online textbooks, and it is one of many on which the center is working.

“We are working with several other members of the OU faculty to create interactive iBooks for classes like biochemistry and human physiology,” Morvant said.

Enrichment.

In the 2012 fiscal year, OU’s federal research expenditures neared $60 million, which is about double what they were nine years ago, according to Norman campus financial support services statistics.

Only a small increase in federal expenditures occurred between 2003 and 2008, starting at $30 million in 2003 and never reaching above $40 million over the next five years, according to the statistics.

Starting in 2009, more growth occurred in the next three years than it had in the past five years, according to the statistics. It grew from just over $40 million in 2009 to $60 million in 2012.

Because of this fast growth, OU has had to adapt to these changes.

For the most part, grants have helped add to the research campus, with new facilities and centers, but one center was developed specifically to help researchers get their foot in the door of research at OU, said Kelvin Droegemeier, vice president of research.

In 2010, Droegemeier helped create the Center for Research Program Development and Enrichment, which served as an analog for all services related to researchers, he said.

“We constantly, in my office, try to help researchers be successful in scholarly activities, and we do everything we can to help them secure funding and be successful in the creation and dissemination of knowledge,” Droegemeier said.

The center, located on the

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Cindy Clark, program development coordinator for the Center for Research Program Development and Enrichment, spends the afternoon at her desk working.

BY THE NUMBERS OU researchers

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postdoctorate fellows

135 434

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tenured and tenured track faculty

1,812

graduate students with assistantships Source: Vice President of Research statistics

research campus, is open to any researcher looking for any sort of guidance, although people mostly come looking for money, said Marilyn Korhonen, associate director of the center.

“I think most people come here thinking they want money, when probably what they need is a path for being

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in the university setting there are resources available to researchers, there still were many unanswered questions, he said.

“What supplies do they need? Do they need a laboratory? Are they going to have to travel somewhere?

All those kinds of resources,” Wickham said. “It’s a big undertaking that you take on as a new faculty member figuring out how you’re going to piece everything together and make it happen.”

This confusion made it harder for researchers, especially the news ones, to succeed and standout by forming their identity as a researcher, he said.

“I think what it is helping form your own sort of identity of what kind of knowledge you’re going to pursue and how you’re going to pursue it,” he said.

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funds: New bill seeks equality, says president Continued from page 1

officeholders.

Kallmann said she commits at least 20 hours a week to HCSA and has enPan-Hellenic Council president and the rolled in at least 15 hours each semester, Panhellenic Council president, accord- making it difficult for her to get a job.

“I seriously doubt that without the ing to the legislation.

A similar amendment was discussed stipend I would have been able to give in Fall 2012. The “Give the Money to the HCSA that time and still do well in my Students Act” proposed the elimination classes,” Kallmann said.

SGA should have communicated of stipends for four of the five positions that will no longer receive funding from more with the organizations and discussed alternative sources for stipends, SGA starting Fall 2014.

Joe Sangirardi, president of SGA, Kallmann said.

Alternative funding for stipends said he vetoed the previous bill after it’s approval in the GSS because there have been discussed, Sangirardi said.

Student Life declined hadn’t been proper di“It wasn’t about to pay the stipends bealogue with the orgathey don’t want nizations affected by it. the money. It was cause to treat their organizaAt that time, presidents about putting all tions unequally. Most of those organizations of those affected have were not notified about organizations decided not to seek althe legislation until it equally.” ternative sources of entered the legislative funding, he said. process. joe sangirardi, But money isn’t the Without previous desga president major issue that concisions about the legislations, they automatically were forced cerns SGA, Sangirardi said. “ It wa s n ’ t ab ou t t h e m o n e y ,” to defend themselves, Sangirardi, a letSangirardi said. “It was about putting all ters senior, said.

This time there were discussions organizations equally.”

All positions that receive a stipend about equality, representation and alternative sources of funding, Sangirardi through SGA should be directly resaid. The 2013 proposal to cut stipends sponsible to SGA and the student comlisted the same four positions named munity, Sangirardi said. The Greek in 2012, but added the Housing Center councils and Housing Center Student Association have become too autonStudent Association president.

“I don’t think the legislation is omous and don’t represent the entire as thought out as it could be,” Allie student body.

In a letter to the OU Daily published Kallmann, HCSA presidents, said.

Kallmann, a mathematics and letters in November 2012, Sangirardi stated senior, said she is worried that eliminat- that at one point the Greek councils, the ing the monthly $290 stipend for her po- Student Bar Association, the HCSA and sition may put greater burdens on future the Commuter Student Association collectively represented the student body,

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successful,” she said.

To help the researchers distinguish themselves in such a large, competitive pool, those working in the center offer help in many different ways, from funding, to framing research questions, to helping researchers collaborate on projects with those from other disciplines, Korhonen said.

One of the best things the center does is it helps researchers collaborate, because in his research and in his experiences working at the center, he’s found that’s really difficult for the researchers to do, Wickham said.

“There’s just something inherently difficult for a scientist to do this. Many of them do a good job, but for most of them, it’s not in their DNA, so to speak,” Wickham said.

Before the center, there weren’t many opportunities for researchers to work things out in relation to their work.

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and their presidents were part of the SGA president’s cabinet.

That’s no longer the case, Sangirardi said. The Commuter Student Association no longer exists, which means the presidents of the Greek councils and HCSA no longer collectively represent the whole student body.

The Student Bar Association presidents will continue to receive stipends because the bar association is a part of SGA, according to the constitution.

All first year students under the age of 20 are required to live on campus.

Participation and representation isn’t optional like it is for the Greek organizations, Kallmann said. HCSA represents all students that go through OU housing at one point or another.

But there are still students that are left unrepresented by HCSA like graduate students, transfer students, and students over 20 who choose to live off campus, Sangirardi said. Students shouldn’t have to pay for positions that don’t represent them.

However, SGA isn’t severing ties with the Greek Council and HCSA, Sangirardi said.

Kallmann said she would still like to have a stipend available for future HCSA presidents. She said she is discussing alternative sources of funding with Andrew Carlough, management information systems junior and author of the bill.

“Hopefully we will be able to work to strengthen our relationship with SGA,” Kallmann said.

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A formation of U.s. navy blue Angel fighter jets perform a flyover above graduating Midshipmen during the United states naval Academy graduation and commissioning ceremonies May 29 in Annapolis, Md. The commander of naval air forces announced Tuesday the U.s. navy has canceled the remainder of the elite blue Angels demonstration team’s 2013 season because of federal cuts.

Air Force to ground combat aircraft amid financial worries Branch to focus on ground training for affected units BROCK VERGAKIS, MELISSA R. NELSON the associated press

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The U.S. Air Force plans to ground about a third of its active-duty force of combat planes and a top general warned Tuesday that the branch might not be able to respond immediately to every event when needed.

The Air Force didn’t immediately release a list of the specific units and bases that would be affected on Tuesday, but it said it would cover some fighters, bombers and airborne warning and control aircraft in the U.S., Europe and the Pacific.

Gen. Mike Hostage, commander of Air Combat Command at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia, said the branch would focus its budget and resources on units supporting major missions, like the war in Afghanistan, while other units stand down on a rotating basis.

“The current situation means we’re accepting the risk that combat airpower may not be ready to respond immediately to new contingencies as they occur,” Hostage said in a statement.

The Air Force says, on average, aircrews ‘lose currency’ to fly combat commissions within 90 to 120 days of not flying and that it generally takes 60 to 90 days to conduct the training needed to return aircrews to mission-ready status.

Returning grounded units to mission ready

status will require addition- we’ll be turned back on for al funds beyond Air Combat 2014.”

Command’s normal budAs the news trickled out, get, according to Air Force business owners and resiOfficials. dents of the coastal enclave “Even a six-month stand where the team is based were down of units will have sig- disappointed. nificant long-term, multi“I just think it’s sad that year impacts on our opera- there are political games tional readiness,” Air Combat being played. I doubt the Command spokesman Maj. Blue Angels are even half of Brandon Lingle wrote in 1 percent of the entire Navy an email to The Associated budget,” said Lloyd Proctor, Press. co-owner of Blue Angel Hot For affected units, the Air Tubs in Pensacola. Proctor Force says it will shift its focus and his wife named their to ground training. That in- business after the team 10 cludes the years ago. use of flight “They have national “ T h e y simulators have nationand academ- name recognition al name recic training ognition and and they are to maintain are loved loved by people they ba si c ski l l s by people eveverywhere.” and aircraft e r y w h e r e ,” knowledge, Proctor said LLoYD proCtor, Lingle said. Co-oWner oF BLUe angeL Hot Tuesday.

Aircraft mainMost held tUBs in pensaCoLa tainers plan to out hope clear up as much of a backlog that the grounding was temof scheduled inspections and porary and that the season maintenance that budgets could somehow be salvaged. allow.

Thousands of fans flocks On the same day, the U.S. to Pensacola Beach each July Navy confirmed that the Blue to watch the team fly over the Angels aerobatic team would white sand and turquoise be cancelling the rest of its surf. It is always the biggest season. tourism revenue weekend of Tom Frosch, the Blue the year, said W.A. Buck Lee, Angels lead pilot and team president of the Santa Rosa commander, announced Island Authority. Lee said he the news late Tuesday at the had hoped that the six fighter team’s Pensacola Naval Air jets would be allowed to conStation headquarters stand- tinue practicing as a team ing in front of the one of the and the Pensacola Beach iconic blue-and-gold jets. show could be replaced by Frosch said the news marks a routine practice over the the first time since the Korean beach.

War that the team would not Instead, the Navy anmake the air show rounds. nounced Tuesday that the “The Navy held off as long six elite pilots would mainas possible with the hope of tain only minimum flight salvaging some of the sea- hours to remain qualified in son,” Frosch said. “We hope their F/A 18 Hornets and that

hOMe: Few options for homeless Continued from page 1

a Norman Transcript article.

Bridges is a program that provides affordable housing on a sliding scale to high East Main Place allows people to live at school students who have a job and are livtheir location and assists in finding and ing on their own due to a family crisis. Rent helping with down payments on other hous- is 30 percent of the student’s income, and the program provides the support to allow ing, said Brockhaus.

“Predominantly what we see from OU stu- the student to graduate from high school. dents is that they’re seeking rental or utility Post-graduation, some of those students choose to attend OU or assistance with some regularity,” Natalie Gardner, di- “I would encourage Oklahoma City Community rector of programs for Food any students having College and may continue to receive assistance from and Shelter, said. “I would issues to call and the Bridges program, Debra encourage any students having issues to call and ask ask to see if there’s Krittenbrink, executive director of the program, said. to see if there’s anything we Since 2010, Bridges has can do. If we don’t have what anything we can do.” had four of its graduates atthey need, we can refer them nataLie garDner, tend OU, though more may to someone else.”

DireCtor oF prograMs For have transferred in from Despite the variety of orFooD anD sHeLter OCCC, Krittenbrink said. ganizations in Norman that “In my personal opinion I think awareseek to help the homeless, there aren’t a lot of options for people without children, or ness about homelessness is lacking,” Afton who don’t qualify for more specialized pro- Redmon, sociology senior and intern for grams that help those suffering from mental Food and Shelter, said. “Since Norman is a fairly cheap place I didn’t think there would illness or substance abuse, Gardner said.

There currently are about 600 homeless be as much of a need as there is, but there’s people in Cleveland County total, including a lot of college aged people who need our between 200 and 250 children, according to services.”

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squadron practices would end for the remainder of the season.

“The economic impact of the show for us is more than $2 million,” Lee said. “People are going to start cancelling their hotel rooms and will hurt businesses here.”

A spokesman for the Navy said team members would be allowed to fly minimal hours to maintain flight proficiency in the F/A 18 fighter jets, but the six-jet squadron would discontinue group practices for the remainder of the season. The elite pilots selected to serve a two-year rotation with the team are among the top Navy’s top fighter pilots.

Many are graduates of the Navy’s famous Top Gun fighter tactics school.

Forsch said the team will continue its focus on community outreach and on Navy and Marine recruiting.

“To be a part of this team in any way is an honor and there is an obligation to continue that legacy of the Blue Angels that inspired me and others to fly and to join the Navy and the Marines,” he said.

stAnLey, n.C. (Ap) — the north Carolina father who was working in a two-story-deep hole that collapsed says he worked frantically to save his daughter and her cousin who died under a wall of falling dirt. thirty-one-year-old Jordan Arwood of stanley was operating a backhoe sunday night in the pit when the walls caved in on the children. the bodies of the two young cousins, 6-year-old Chloe Jade Arwood and 7-year-old James Levi Caldwell, were dug out Monday morning.

Arwood is the girl’s father. in his first media interview, Arwood told the Associated press that he reached out to save the children but they were just outside his reach. He says he dug faster and faster trying to save the children until he couldn’t breathe.

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Kelley wins special election for Jackson’s seat in US House CHiCAgo (Ap) — Former state rep. robin Kelly has won the special election for Jesse Jackson Jr.’s vacated illinois congressional seat. the Matteson democrat was widely expected to win tuesday’s contest over republican community activist paul McKinley. the strongly democratic Chicago-area district includes suburbs and rural areas.

Kelly easily won the special primary in February from a crowded field of candidates including former Congressman debbie Halvorson. the main issue in that race quickly became gun control and Kelly’s campaign received a $2 million boost in ads including ones on television targeting Halvorson. Kelly is in favor of an assault weapons ban and has vowed to be a leader in the federal fight for gun control.

Jackson resigned in november. in February, he pleaded guilty to charges accusing him of misspending campaign funds.

3. tUpeLo, Mississippi

Circus elephant wounded during drive-by shooting in Tupelo, Miss. tupeLo, Miss. (Ap) — Authorities say a ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephant was hit by a bullet in a drive-by shooting in tupelo, Miss.

Circus spokeswoman Melinda Hartline says the elephant was not seriously hurt tuesday. she says no other animals were harmed. the elephant, Carol, is part of a circus in town for a series of performances. the Asian elephant was in an outside area of the tupelo Bancorpsouth Arena. police Chief tony Carleton says a vehicle drove past the arena about 2 a.m. and fired into the area. police are investigating.

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I think you could make arguments on both sides if someone was in that office drunk. It’s dependent on the situation, but [the office] is open to the public. If you were in a classroom at Dale Hall drunk, that’d probably be public. But if it was a professor’s office?

That may be different … Private office?

That’s probably private. Beaird lounge?

Probably public.

uninvited from approaching into that area.

Do people have to have permits for these private parties in public places?

They have to get a license from us, and this permits them to conduct certain activities without being in violation of the law.

How does this work during football games? Surely not everyone has a permit in that situation.

Low-point beer is permitted only if you’re not getting drunk from it. Enforcing it is difficult. Sometimes, like during a football game, it’s not the priority that they’re drinking in public, it’s the fights that result from it.

Where can people be drunk in public?

In Oklahoma, there’s no legal place other than the privacy of your own home to be drunk.

What about if you’re in a hotel room? Or camping at the lake?

If you go to a hotel and rent a room, the law applies that it is your domicile, so you have the rights there like you do in your own home. If you’re at the park and camping, they can say that’s the privacy of your own home. If you’re on the lake in a boat, you’re not going to have a problem.

And an office?

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Q&A with Maureen Shanta, public integrity and compliance official for the Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission: What’s the difference between low-point beer and intoxicating liquors?

All beverages containing more than 3.2 percent alcohol by weight and all mixed beverage coolers constitute intoxicating liquors. All beverages containing more than half of 1 percent alcohol by volume and not more than 3.2 percent are defined as low-point beer.

If it’s illegal to drink intoxicating liquors in public, what about parks?

Parks are public because the general public can go there. If That’s a very good question. I it’s a private party, that doesn’t apply bewould have to understand the circause it’s not a public event.

How do you make an event pri- cumstances before I take action. vate in a public park?

We require them to restrict the Arianna Pickard; Paighten Harkins area. It’s got to have some sort aripickard@ou.edu; paighten.harkins@ou.edu of boundary so people know this is where they can consume and to prevent the

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Homelessness at any college is unacceptable Our View: College students are best situated to help their peers avoid homelessness.

Homeless students live in their cars, stay on friends’ couches or sleep in homeless shelters. These conditions can impact a student’s school perforOn Tuesday, The Daily reported on a story about mance. Children who are homeless perform worse Students for a Democratic Society allowing a home- academically than housed children, according to less person to live in its student organization office a study published by the American Academy of in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Conoco Phillips Pediatrics. wing. It may be easy to ignore a problem we In Norman, the problem is particularly bad The Our View among college students. The largest group of don’t see every day, but when the OU comis the majority individuals under the poverty line are 18 to munity is confronted with homelessness opinion of on campus, it is important we examine the 24 year olds. This number is more than twice The Daily’s conditions that create homelessness and ask nine-member the average for Oklahoma as a whole. In short, what the OU community can do — and is editorial board more college-age Norman residents are poor doing — to help. and are more likely to be homeless.

Homelessness in Oklahoma affects peoOptions for homeless people in Norman are ple of every age. A study of homeless students by limited. Food and Shelter for Friends is a soup kitchthe Department of Education in 2011 found that en and shelter program that provides services to 6,979 children under the age of 18 were identified as Cleveland County families and individuals in need. homeless and received special services through the The shelter’s housing program is only for families, department. In some Oklahoma districts, 5 percent but homeless students could use shower and launof the population is homeless. dry facilities and eat in the soup kitchen, director of College students are not immune from housing programs, Natalie Gardner said. problems. Too often, college students find themOU’s new initiative, Sooners Helping Sooners, selves in over their heads. Financial aid applications also is doing what it can to help prevent students in 2011 showed 33,000 students reported they were from becoming homeless. Sooners awarded $11,650 homeless, according to a report by USAToday. to students in emergency situations last semester,

according to the organization’s website.

The efforts of these organizations are incredibly admirable but there is more we can do. The best people to help students in need are other students.

At Oregon State University, the Human Resources Service Center coordinates with students to provide food and other services for students in need.

At OU, there is a lot you can do to help. Sooners Helping Sooners holds events to raise funds for students. You also can work with organizations that provide low-cost medical treatment and mental health services. Homelessness is just a symptom of larger social issues. Helping address the root causes decreases the number of vulnerable citizens Helping students you know is the best way to get involved. Many students are too afraid or ashamed to admit they are suffering from financial or housing problems that could lead them to become homeless. Just being supportive and helping your friend to access programs already available can make all the difference. There is no reason for any Sooner to be homeless. By giving just a little, you can make a huge difference in the lives of vulnerable OU students.

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You should know who makes the important decisions on campus

Spiritual experiences are just as important as scientific objectivity

Many of the people making the big decisions impacting the 20,000 plus undergraduates on campus are not widely known by undergrads. In hopes of bringing these people to the surface, I touch on the three most important people on campus you should know.

While she does teach classes, many undergrads may graduate from OU without ever knowing her name or directly working with her. But she will soon be watching over a program introducing undergrads to writing at the college level.

•Nicholas Hathaway

•Kyle Harper

Nicholas Hathaway is executive vice president and vice president of administration and finance. The last descriptor, “finance,” is key: Hathaway watches over an annual budget process totaling $810 million in university-related spending.

If you have ever dealt with, for example, the Graduation Office, Parking and Transportation Services, or the OU Police Department, you have dealt with Hathaway. If you have ever connected with the Graduation Office or Sooner Success Program, you have connected with a program initiated by Hathaway.

In an email to me he said, “I’m always working with President David Boren to make OU an even better university. I always love and appreciate student ideas in regard to how we can improve.” Evidence of this improvement is OU’s recent growing interest in Apple. OU has started to embrace the Cupertino company through iTunes U and Hathaway was instrumental in College of Education students receiving free iPads.

•Sandra Tarabochia

Sandra Tarabochia came to OU just a few years ago. As an assistant professor in the Department of English, Tarabochia is co-director of First-Year Composition, those two required writing classes 2,000 plus undergrads slough through.

Tarabochia is a name to know as the plan is for her to eventually take full control of the First-Year Composition office. A bright, engaging person, she tells me “Every decision we make involves considering students’ needs, interests, situations. I sit on campus committees as a representative for first-year writing, all in an effort to give students the most valuable learning experiences we can.”

The last name should be most familiar. At least his picture should be as it is on the OU homepage and promotional material. He is an associate professor in the department of classics and letters and director of the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage.

In December, Kyle Harper skyrocketed to near the top of the administrative ladder at OU and is now the senior vice provost. Few people on campus are making more important academic decisions impacting undergrads at OU than Harper. He still teaches classes every semester, and expresses a passion for teaching, but with changes looming on the horizon at OU, Harper’s role as senior vice provost will be one to watch.

Harper explained to me, “I am hoping to provide strategic insight into curriculum development and digital initiatives. My role is to ask, continually, how we can maintain and enhance the impact of place-based education in a time of enormous change in the world of higher education.”

When Harper asks questions like this, changes will come and his decisions will impact you and the courses you take.

At OU, we are lucky to have dedicated administrators. People who may not always be in the classroom but make the decisions about what goes on in the classroom.

Hathaway, Tarabochia and Harper are positioning OU to move forward. As concepts such as massively open online courses gain traction, look to these three to be at the fore of change.

J. Michael Rifenburg is a Ph. D student and program assistant at the OU Writing Center.

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Oklahoma Creativity Festival spurs students’ imagination, inspiration Tonight, I encourage my fellow students, peers and members of the OU community to attend the Campus Activities Council Oklahoma Creativity Festival benefit night at Café Plaid from 7 to 10 p.m. This event is a celebration of an undervalued aspect of all individuals: creativity.

Creativity is unique because you don’t have to be the next Dr. Seuss or da Vinci to be creative. Creativity is everywhere and in all that we do; all you have to do is open your eyes and listen.

Everyone has the special ability to do something unique, that is what makes creativity so extraordinary. So go ahead and pick up the pen, the paintbrush, play some notes on the piano and express your ideas.

We want to celebrate and inspire the breath-taking, the fascinating, the interesting, the abstract and everything in between.

The OU student body represented at the council’s Oklahoma Creativity Festival has incredible talent and creates many diverse, beautiful things.

Tomorrow night is an occasion to appreciate, as well as enjoy all of the creative minds we have at this institution.

Musicians, poets and artists will be displaying their finest renditions and pieces of art for the entire community.

It is hard to imagine a world without creativity; thus, members of the council’s Oklahoma Creativity Festival executive committee are excited to share this outlet of expression with our peers. In the words of the late, great Albert Einstein, “Creativity is contagious, pass it on.”

Christopher Corbaz is a member of the Oklahoma Creativity Festival’s executive committee.

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s an American Opinion columnist Indian with a strong cultural background, I have been exposed to incidents or phenomena that cannot be dismissed simply or explained by science or duplicated by the scientific Scott Starr method. I also have met scott.e.starr-1@ou.edu many other individuals, often referred to as “peoples of tradition,” who have related stories and experiences similar to my own. Many of them are educated people and grew up being taught the principles of rationality, reductionism, science and the scientific method in school.

The experiences we have would be defined as “spiritual” rather than “scientific.” These spiritual, nonscientific experiences force us to consider the limitations of traditional science, so you should consider them too. That’s right, I said it: Science is not nearly as objective as it is claimed to be. If you scientists, skeptics, militant atheists or rationalists reading this are stretching your fingers, getting ready to write zinging responses or letters to the editor, hear me out.

I have read, or been exposed to, much of the same literature, media and learning processes as you have. I am just as skeptical as the most jaded among you. Yet, I still stand by my statement that I, and many others, have seen or experienced things so convincing or compelling they must be taken into account as more than just “projection,” myth, superstition, imagination or wishful thinking.

I, and many like myself, have had no choice but to reconsider or redefine these terms based on my experience. I am here to tell you if you base your world view on only science and reductionism, rationality or the scientific method, you are getting only a partial and limited view of the wondrous cosmos we live in.

Many Native Americans, indigenous or religious/traditional people from outside the mainstream Western culture know, rather than merely believe, there is more to spiritual experience than science can explain. We are forced to live in two worlds at once — one of reductionism and linear thought and one of spirituality and nonlinear thought.

Allow me to define what I believe faith is — as opposed to the popular misconceptions of what it means. Simply put, one cannot have faith without doubt. True faith is composed of three inseparable parts.

In Latin, these words are: notitia, knowledge or a proposition to be believed or not; assensus, a simple assent to truth via intellect and the testing of an idea; and fiducia, resting upon a conclusion, being convinced of its reality.

This points out the big difference between real “faith” and belief. The faith I am referring to here is something I know, rather than something I merely believe. I know there is such a thing as the spirit world and what we call God. Because of this, I must acknowledge that science is often an ideology or exclusionary system of ideas in itself.

During Native American Heritage Month, do yourself a favor and open yourself up to the possibility that your own faith or beliefs, or lack thereof, are not complete and may even be your own form of superstition. Why? Because that’s what learning and the college experience is all about.

Scott Starr is a Native American studies senior.

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ust what precisely is a “man?” In these complicated times when iconoclasm has become fetishized, the long-standing idea of what a man should be has been lost in the murky world of political correctness, changing values and complicated family lives.

Rare is the young boy fortunate enough to have his father around, willing and able to teach him the values once passed from father to son for generations. Instead, many young men today have grown up a bit lost as to just what being a man even means, aside from their anatomy and a few clichés picked up from movies and video games. In many ways, a lot of us are lost boys rather than men.

ART PROVIDED In response to this, there has been something of a An old photograph of a man ironing is featured in “How To Properly Iron A Dress Shirt” on “The Art of minor movement to reestab- Manliness,” a blog about traditional manhood in the modern world. lish the skills and values that pictures, the pedantic prose for advice on how to start once were a part of growing getting into shape or an outand the cliché topics all up. A prime example of this THE ART OF doorsy girl looking for campmake the blog seem like revivalism is the blog “The MANLINESS ing tips, go ahead and check its writers take the subject Art of Manliness,” authored out the site. way too seriously. One of

by Brett and Kate McKay, the most commonly-used native Oklahomans and resipictures on the site is of dents of Tulsa.

John L. Sullivan, a 19th cen- Buck Roberson is a classical With the goal of “helping languages junior. tury champion boxer who men be better husbands, looks almost exactly like the better fathers, and better Overly-Manly Man meme. men,” there’s an article for And, to be honest, that’s just about any topic you can how I feel about the site think of relating to good, to some degree. I like “I’ll old-fashioned men. From the “manvotionals,” excerpts Make a Man Out of You” grooming tips to manual of writing from the past relat- from Mulan as much as skills to etiquette, this blog has you covered. My person- ed to developing a character the next guy, but really, the in line with traditional man- uber-masculine man is losal favorites are the clothing hood, such as honesty, hard ing his relevance. Societally, and style tips, work and lead- we’ve rejected the patriarsuch as the ership. It’s cool chy, which means being how-to for ironto get a glimpse a man is not ever going to ing a dress shirt into the roman- return to the way it once or the guide tic notion of was, and some of the adto measuring rugged invidu- vice is downright dated. We yourself for alism straight can’t just expect the past clothing. out of the past solve our identity issues, But don’t It’s cool to get from the likes to which seems to be what the think the blog is a glimpse into of Theodore McKays are trying to do. all about formal Roosevelt and Of course, I certainly apthings — one the romantic Jack London. plaud them for the effort. It of the more notion of rugged Sometimes, seems like many of our geninteresting posts of late is individualsim when I need a eration feel lost, and their pep talk to get blog is one of the few willing a visual guide straight out started on that to give some open-ended to surviving of the past pesky essay direction rather than tella bear attack. (or article), I’ll ing you exactly what you Many of the from the likes read a quick must do or the feel-good posts involve of Theodore “manvotional” “be yourself or whatever” skills and wisstuff floating around. In fact, dom we know Roosevelt and for motivation, such as much of the material on the we should Jack London.” William James site is simply good advice, have learned Dawson’s “The whether you’re a man, boy, growing up, but Gains of Drudgery.” girl, woman or somewhere somehow never did.

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Café Plaid to hold benefit profiting the Oklahoma Creativity Festival On Wednesday, OU students will get the chance to express themselves through art while supporting OU’s own Oklahoma Creativity Festival at a benefi t night at Café Plaid.

The benefi t night will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. to raise funds for the September festival, said Christopher Corbaz, journalism junior and media coordinator of the festival.

The purpose of the festival is to encourage people to express themselves and their emotions through various forms of art, including but not limited to songs, film, dance, poetry and visual art, Corbaz said.

“We want to celebrate and encourage creativity on this campus and within this community,” Corbaz said.

Café Plaid is the perfect place to foster the upcoming festival’s feeling of creativity, Corbaz said.

At the benefi t night there will be live performances by musicians and poets that attend OU, as well as an auctioning off of art made by OU students, Corbaz said.

All proceeds will go toward sponsoring the campus-wide event in September, Corbaz said.

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Network welcomes guest speaker to share story, inspire women at OU On Wednesday, the Women’s Philanthropy Network will host the president and CEO of Victoria’s Secret as a guest speaker for its spring symposium “Giving with Style: Making a Statement Through Philanthropy.”

Sharen Jester Turney, the president and CEO of Victoria’s Secret, has spoken before at OU, but never for the Women’s Philanthropy Network, said Sharon Alexander, the assistant director of the organization.

“Our goal is for her to share her philanthropic story and inspire other women to use their time, talent and resources to support their own philanthropic goals,” Alexander said.

The Women’s Philanthropy Network would ideally encourage students to give back to OU, but want to empower women to use their philanthropic abilities and talents overall, Alexander said.

Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday and sessions run at both 10 and 11 a.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Beaird Lounge. Lunch will be at noon in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom, Alexander said. Students may attend for free, but there is a fee of $25 for public attendees. Call 405-325-GIVE to register for the symposium.

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Panel to discuss human trafficking World Literature Today symposium to highlight student-run session Briana Hall

“She’s very quiet normally,” Simon said. “We were One student’s hard work surprised that she proposed is trying to make a difference it.” in the fight against human Simon said World trafficking.

Literature Today really valMelissa Weiss, English ues when students take the writing senior, has taken on initiative to get involved. the heavy role of organiz“We had all the events set ing and enacting an infor- but this student was so permational panel session for suasive that she convinced World Literature Today’s up- us that it made a lot of sense,” coming symposium.

Simon said.

Weiss said she came up In addition to the panel, with the idea for the infor- OU’s Freedom Movement mational panel, found par- Oklahoma placed 270 red ticipants and organized the flags, representing 27 milevent throughout. lion modern slaves, in the With Weiss’ help, the an- shape of an X on the South nual symposium, which val- Oval and encouraged peoues expression through both ple to draw red X’s — a writing and visual art, will symbol for human traffickspotlight the fight against ing similar to that of breast human trafficking. cancer’s pink ribbon — on “We were focusing on their hands as part of End It human rights, and there has Movement’s “Shine a Light recently been a lot of legisla- on Slavery Day” on Tuesday, tion about human traffick- according to a press release ing and childated April 8. dren being trafJ o h n ficked,” Weiss P u t n a m , said. hu ma n re l a She believes tions and publiterature can lic relations jube a powerful nior and memsource of social ber of Freedom I hope that movement.

Movement people leave “I wanted to O k l a h o m a’s tie in the whole executive comwith a sense issue,” Weiss ittee, will of the crushing m said about the be part of the weight of human panel’s student cause.

D a n i e l trafficking ... ” advocates, acSimon, ascording to the Kristian rose, law sistant direcpress release. t o r a n d e d i - student and founder We i ss b e of Law students t o r- i n - c h i e f lieves that, against trafficking of World along with the at OU Literature power of writToday, said he ing and literawas taken aback by Weiss’ ture, the panel will put a face sudden passion and interest on the cause and allow peoabout the cause. ple to really connect with the

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OU’s Freedom Movement Oklahoma encouraged people to draw red X’s on their hands as part of the End It Movement’s “Shine a Light on Slavery Day” on Tuesday. The X’s are meant to be a symbol for human trafficking.

issue.

“I’m hoping the panel will raise awareness to people who don’t know much about human trafficking.

The survivor’s story will be particularly enlightening for people,” Weiss said.

Weiss chose experts in the subject of human trafficking to give speeches and answer questions from the public about the cause, according to Weiss.

One of the guests Weiss chose to be a member of the panel is Kristian Rose, a graduate law student who has started the organization Law Students Against

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Trafficking at OU. Rose said he mostly wants people to get a sense, through numbers and statistics, of how severe the issue is both locally and globally. Rose warns, though, the issue can be overwhelming when people know the immensity, through numbers, of the problem.

“When people are so overcome by the immensity, they sometimes get paralyzed.

They think there’s nothing they should do in the face of such evil,” Rose said. “I hope they get a sense of the scope of the issue but more so I hope they get a sense of

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how it exists locally as well as logically and how there are practical steps on how they respond.”

Simon and Weiss said the panel of students will include Putnam and Anna Irena Przebinda, with Lucy Mahaffey as moderator.

“Melissa was so inspired—it really demonstrates a student-run event where it’s not just faculty or writers from other countries, it was inspired by the students themselves,” Simon said. “We hope that students on campus will engage with their peers in things like this.”

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Rose, like Weiss, hopes after the panel people will feel empowered to join in the fight against human trafficking in any way they can.

“I hope that people leave with a sense of the crushing weight of human trafficking, but also a sense of hope that restoration is happening,” Rose said.

Weiss said she hopes the panel inspires people to form a widespread movement and really get involved.

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Sooners set for tough non-conference test Oklahoma hosts North Texas

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JOE MUSSATTO SPORTS REPORTER

Tonight will be the last time the No. 1 Oklahoma softball team faces a non-conference opponent until the postseason as it hosts North Texas at 6:30 at Marita Hynes Field.

The Sooners (34-2, 3-0 Big 12) are coming off a weekend sweep of No. 17 Baylor, and tonight’s contest will be a tuneup for another Big 12 series beginning Friday at Texas Tech.

Coach Patty Gasso talked about the importance of having one more competitive game before the next conference series. “[The players are] pretty mature in the way of knowing that we need to get better,” Gasso said. “Anytime you play someone in another uniform, it has a different meaning.”

The Mean Green (18-17) has the role of being the team Oklahoma will face as another lead-in to a conference series, the same role No. 18 Tulsa played last

“We’re expecting their pitchers to bring it, and we’re expecting their team to bring it. I know they’ve been doing really well lately, so we’re just going to have to come out and fight.”

Brianna Turang, Senior infielder

Year: Senior Position: Pitcher Statistics: 14-1 Record 0.86 ERA 152 Strikeouts

non-conference wins resulted in run-rule victories.

This résumé moved Oklahoma to the top of both major polls and the RPI ratings.

Another win tonight would put the cap on an outstanding non-conference s che dule, but the Sooners aren’t content, not even close.

Ben williams/the daily “What we’re bringSenior pitcher Keilani Ricketts adds another accolade to her résumé by earning her 116th career victory Sunday, making her the winnin- ing to the table right now gest pitcher in Oklahoma softball history. The lefty has an 18-1 record and 1.04 ERA in 24 games this season. isn’t the best we’ve got,” Chamberlain said. “We’re week. OU defeated Tulsa, Lauren Chamberlain said. we’re expecting their team count and staying patient is just looking for that next 3-1.

“We know if we take a play to bring it,” senior outfield- something the Sooners have game.”

Coming into Norman off and we aren’t on our er Brianna Turang said. “I been able to do all season. against the top-ranked game that our schedule know they’ve been doing Reflecting on the team in the nation will is tough, and anyone can really well lately, so we’re non-conference schedJoe Mussatto, be a trying task for North jump on an opportunity just going to have to come ule that concludes tonight, dailysports@ou.edu Texas, but the squad is no out and fight.” when they see it.” the Sooners went 31-2 stranger to facing the Big Maintaining the same Gasso is looking for hard- with victories against 11 12’s best. level of focus and in- fought at-bats above any- ranked teams, an NCAA North Texas has tensity the Sooners thing, she said. Working the high. Thirteen of the team’s faced No. 8 Texas, displayed against Texas Tech, Baylor No. 17 Baylor this Home Runs Leader Runs Scored Leader AT A GLANCE and Oklahoma past weekend Big 12 Notes 1. Lauren Chamberlain (18) 1. Lauren Chamberlain (48) State so far this will not be as easy 2. Adriana Perez, TTU (13) 2. Taylor Hoagland, UT (42) season, going against North Texas, Standings 3. Tori Torrescano, ISU (13) 3. Mikey Kenney, TTU (42) 2-5 against those who sits at 92nd in teams. So the the RPI ratings. But 1. Texas (35-4, 5-0) Strikeouts Leader RBIs Leader Sooners are not the Sooners know 2. Oklahoma (34-2, 3-0) taking North Texas lauren they need to main3. Kansas (24-10, 3-3) 1. Lauren Chamberlain (46) 1. Blaire Luna, UT (236) 2 . Adriana Perez, TTU (45) lightly.

4. Iowa State (17-19, 3-3) 2. Keilani Ricketts (190) chamberlain tain their sharpness 3. Taylor Thom, UT (43) 5. Baylor (29-10, 3-5) “We know that against the Mean 3. Whitney Canion, BU 6. OSU (24-17, 2-4) anyone can beat Green tonight.

(173) 7. Texas Tech (27-17, 1-5)

Source: big12sports.com anyone on any given day,” “We’re expecting their sophomore first baseman pitchers to bring it, and

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