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title iX has ‘huge ripple effect’ HILLARY MCLAIN Campus reporter

Two OU professors and a coach agreed that Title IX legislation has brought more rights to women but more work is required to ensure enforcement and equality.

Close to 240 Oklahomans, alumni, faculty and students joined in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the passage of Title IX legislation Wednesday.

Title IX mandates that all colleges and universities cannot discriminate

on the basis of sex for any programs that may receive federal assistance.

“I think the thing that’s the most striking about it ... is that this has had this huge ripple effect,” said Jill Irvine, director of the OU Women’s and Gender Studies program. “It’s not just what happens on college campuses. It really affects every part of our society.”

Many people consider Title IX

to be a sports-centered law, but it includes all higher education programs, Irvine said. Women enrolled in higher education has increased by 230 percent.

“At OU, as in other places, you see this huge jump in not only enrollment of women in college but graduation rates,” Irvine said. “In terms sEE TITLE IX PaGE a3

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Stream shows eagles in natural habitat PAIGHTEN HARKINS Campus reporter

A branch of OU’s biological survey allows anyone to witness the day-to-day habits of our national bird, the bald eagle, in its natural Oklahoma habitat 24 hours a day.

The George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center allows people to “peek into the private nest life of our national symbol,” said Steven Sherrod, executive director of the center.

The Nest Camera Project, which streams 24-hour feeds of eagles tending to their young, and the Eagle Tracking Project, which follows the young eagles once they leave the nest, are two projects the center has on display on its website.

The nest camera currently broadcasts an eagle nest at sEE EAGLE PaGE a5

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An all-woman dance group, comprised of members of OU’s korean Student Association, performs a choreographed dance to “i am the Best” by 2NE1, a popular pop group from korea, at Wednesday’s korean Night in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium.

Cultural celebration champions unity Student cultural night marries modernity with older traditions COCO COURTOIS Campus reporter

Students united two sides of Korean culture — the modern and the traditional — during a Korean cultural night Wednesday in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium.

The Korean Student Association hosted Korean Night to emphasize unity, said Kichang Lee, association president.

“I want people to realize that Korean traditional culture and our present culture exist at the same time and work well together,” Lee said.

Because most Americans think

of Korean culture as the old traditions and a deep sense of respect, the association wanted to bring more modernity to the stage this year, Lee said.

“That’s why we featured some K-pop (Korean pop music),” said Lee, microbiology senior. “We thought maybe people from here will like it since it already worked in other countries.”

The modern theme rang throughout the performances.

A boy-band dance team performed to the song “Where U At”

by Taeyang, a popular singer in Korea and member of famous K-pop band, Big Bang.

To echo the large proportion of female lovers of K-pop, a group of four women danced to the song “I am the Best,” by 2NE1, another famous K-pop group in Korea.

OUDaily.com see a photo gallery from Wednesday’s korea night. oudaily.com/news

“This year, I’ve come to know a lot of students from a lot of other countries, and I think I have the responsibility, having lived in Korea my whole life, to show people what Korean culture is like,” said Youngmin Kim, a South Korean exchange student in English education who danced with the group.

The night also featured older Korean traditions.

Children from the Korean Culture and Language School of Oklahoma performed the GgogDuGakSi, a traditional

Korean dance depicting scenes of a couple spending time together, according to the program.

Korean school children commonly learn the dance in Korea.

The 5- to 6-year-old children were part of the center, which aims to teach Korean culture to second-generation Koreans or Americans in Del City, according to its website.

The night also showcased a demonstration of Tae Kwon Do, a traditional Korean martial art concentrating on speed, power and kicking. The team demonstrated the pumsae (prearranged martial art techniques to music), the breaking of wooden planks and a presentation of self-defense moves and sketch fights. sEE KOREAN PaGE a3

Laundry service a joy for OU staffer Vicki Northcutt adds motherly touch to handy student service EMMA HAMBLEN Campus reporter

Every Monday and Thursday from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., Vicki Northcutt sits behind a desk in Johnson Tower of Adams Center to receive and return laundry to students.

As students approach the desk to drop off or pick up their laundry, Northcutt smiles as she greets them by name and asks if they had a nice spring break. She makes sure they get a “goody” from the candy tray she keeps by the check-in sheet.

One of the students pauses to chat with Northcutt about the weather, another to talk about sEE STAFF PaGE a2

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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

staff: Northcutt stresses student relations Continued from page A1

Today around campus A symposium about copyright, fostering creativity for business goals and brand management will take place from 10 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium.

A social responsibility fair displaying how the OU community is going green will be held from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Union Courtyard.

A seminar about how to manage stress will be held at 4 p.m. at Wagner Hall, Room 245.

The men’s gymnastics team will compete in the NCAA championship qualifier all day at Lloyd Noble Center.

Friday, April 20 A symposium about art of the American West such as furniture, pottery and saddles will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium.

A lecture by former senator and presidential candidate George McGovern will be held at 3 p.m. at the Thurman J. White Forum Building.

La Tomatina water balloon toss, hosted by the OU Spanish Club, will take place at 3 p.m. on the Walker-Adams Mall. There will be free snow cones.

An open house at The Oklahoma Daily will be held at 5 p.m. in the newsroom (Copeland Hall, Room 160).

the different kinds of candy Northcutt has that day.

Regardless of the topic, every student visits with Northcutt for a few minutes and thanks her before leaving.

Northcutt was hired by University and Student Services to receive, register and return laundry to students, but she has shaped the job description to building relationships with students.

“I love my job,” she said.

“The students are just really nice. We get along well.”

Northcutt has worked for University and Student Services since October 2009 and in the laundry field since 2008, Northcutt said.

University and Student Services is a national company that works with large universities throughout the nation to bring services to students, company president Vincent Peseski said.

“There has been a huge demand from parents sayi ng, ‘ Jo h n ny ha s n e v e r washed clothes in his life. I don’t want his whites to be pink,’” Peseski said.

The company’s goal is to create a better living environment for students through services and employees like Northcutt, Peseski said.

Peseski recommended Northcutt for her current position while she was working for the launderer contracted with University and Student Services, Northcutt said.

“If we can find a woman who has her own kids, she brings in the motherly attention to the students,” Peseski said. “Anyone who brings their laundry to Vicki — those are her kids.”

Northcutt said if the laundry service was offered at

Thursday, April 19, 2012 •

Column

I know quitting is important, but it isn’t what I want to do

Editor’s Note: Sam Higgins is a campus reporter who started the university-sponsored smoking cessation class two weeks ago. He writes a column once a week to describe his first-person experiences and struggles with trying to quit smoking.

then smoked a pack of cigarettes.

I wasn’t able to quit thinking about death. I imagined my eulogy: n Friday, I was driving west on Highway 9 when “Sam Higgins is a person all hell broke loose. The rain had begun to come who was, and he always will down, and I recall there was a bit of hail. I probe that. Oh, and he wrote ceeded on my course despite the radio’s urgent calls to some articles for a student Sam Higgins take shelter far from a vehicle. I was crossing the overpass newspaper. Donations will samuel.b.higgins-1@ou.edu heading due west before the road bends onto Interstate be accepted for Sam’s griev35 when I saw it: a portion of the dark-grey sky dipping to ing parents, and there also the ground. A tornado was manifesting itself before me, is a bar in downtown Tulsa that has been losing money and I was driving right into its path. hand-over-fist since the loss.”

No, it can’t be like this, I thought.

After Monday’s university-sponsored cessation session, I don’t want to die in fear. it has become more apparent to me that I don’t really I want to express myself more. I want to take more pho- want to quit smoking. I just know I have to. This is causing tos, write more stories and have more sex. something you psychology students may identify as cogDo the people driving in front of me, acting like cattle, nitive dissonance. know what could happen to them?

I love something and want to want to quit doing it. It’s a Well, come to think of it, this actually is a fairly badass great thing that’s bad for me. I have to stop, and I’m stopway to go out. ping because of fear.

I didn’t accomplish anything. I didn’t finish anything.

What feeling will rush over me when a physician tells For what will I be remembered? me the bad news? When they tell me the irreversible conI really wanted to have more sex. sequences of my habit, will I feel that chilling sensation My heart was palpitating, I slowed the car and then akin to having my skin filled with ice like a plastic bag? sped up. I was going to outrun it. I was going to Bill Paxton If I continue, I’ll know death is right there in front of me, the Twister. sooner than I had thought, and of course there is no turnI made it about a mile when I heard the tornado had ing back. crossed the highway at Lindsey Street. I was going to be But right here and now, I do have a chance to turn fine, and in that brief minute, when I was faced with one around and avoid that perilous situation, watching the of nature’s most destructive juggernauts, I genuinely apothers go in — like cattle. preciated my life. I had the will to make something of myself. I acknowledged the fragility of my life’s vessel and had an urge to truly take care of it.

Sam Higgins is a journalism sophomore and a campus I realized these things, took them to heart and reporter for The Daily.

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Erika Philbrick/The Daily

Vicki Northcutt demonstrates the proper way to fold laundry in order to fit it into cramped drawers. Vicki enjoys getting to know students as they drop off and pick up laundry on Mondays and Thursdays in Adam Center, Johnson Tower. Northcutt said she strives to act as a welcoming motherly figure for the students.

her daughter’s school, she would use it.

“It’s actually a lot cheaper to do your laundry through this service and frees up the students’ time,” she said.

University College freshman Louis Libin lives in Cate Center and uses the laundry service.

“When I came here the first day, my mom said I was going to be super busy because I’m on a club hockey team here,” Libin said. “I wasn’t complaining, but she thought it would be

“Anyone who brings their laundry to Vicki — those are her kids.”

Vincent Peseski, University and Student Services president

best. And also, I don’t have too much experience doing laundry.”

The service isn’t just for freshmen, and some upperclassmen and even a married couple have used it in the past, Northcutt said.

Libin said the laundry service does a great job, especially the way in which its employees fold the clothes to accommodate the small dresser drawers in the residence halls.

He said Northcutt is very friendly and even helped him decide where to take his family when they came to visit him at the university.

“I think we’ve become great friends,” Libin said.

“It’s more than just a pickup; it’s a couple of minutes of conversation.”

Korean: Event represents Korea to Americans Continued from page A1 The high point was the humorous “farting lady” skit, based on a story passed down through generations.

The skit tells the story of a lady whose fart is so powerful it catches the attention of the man who becomes her husband, but she is later thrown out by her parents-in-law because of her

“I want people to realize that Korean traditional culture and our present culture exist at the same time and work well together.”

Kichang Lee, Korean Student Association president

explosive farting.

After many adventures, the lady meets her husband again, and they live happily ever after, according to the program.

The skit was performed in

Korean to keep the tradition and to express the complexity of the language, which is not always translatable to English. It also featured traditional Korean costumes.

Korean culture is still

a vague notion for most Americans because usually they only hear about North Korea, Lee said.

“Some people asked me if I were from the north or the south,” Lee said. “They don’t realize that if I were from North Korea, I couldn’t be here. We want to restore Korea’s image by showing how we bring tradition and modernity together into one beautiful country.”

Title IX: Dinner funds to benefit 3 programs Continued from page A1 of sports, it doesn’t only impact OU — it impacts the whole state.”

The Women’s and Gender Studies advisory board developed the idea to celebrate the anniversary of Title IX, Irvine said. A panel in the afternoon in the Oklahoma Memorial Union discussed the continuing impact of Title IX in both sports and education.

Panel members were: Jackie Farley, founding member of the OU women’s basketball team and current professor; Carol Ludvigson, former OU women’s golf coach; and Susan Laird, OU professor of educational leadership.

Some regulations provide waivers to religious institutions, fraternities AT A GLANCE and sororities, beauty pagTitle IX eants and sex-segregated living facilities, Laird said.

Part of the Education “The law’s pragmatic Amendments of 1972; purpose was to avoid use states, “No person ... of federal funds to supshall, on the basis of port sex discrimination sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied in education programs the benefits of, or be and to protect individuals subjected to discrimination from such practices,” Laird under any education said. program or activity...”

Many schools are beginning to lack enforceSource: U.S. Department of Labor ment of Title IX and affirmative action programs, and the legislation has continuing importance in education, Laird said.

Farley discussed her time as a founding member of the OU women’s basketball team and said she is proud to see how far the team has come.

“We can never be satisfied in saying, ‘Well, it’s better than it used to be,’” Farley said.

Ludvigson shared her experience playing golf for the university shortly after the passage of Title IX and the financial challenges the team faced. Ludvigson echoed Farley with an interest in continuing to stand up for women’s rights.

“We’ve come a long ways, baby, but we’re not there,” Farley said.

On Wednesday evening, the Women’s and Gender Studies program also hosted a dinner at which women’s basketball coach Sherri Coale delivered the keynote address.

Former Rep. Laura Boyd, former Lt. Gov. Jari Askins, former Oklahoma Secretary of State Susan Savage and Rep. Emily Virgin, D-Norman, all were present.

Tickets were $125, and funds raised from the dinner will go to three Women’s and Gender Studies programs.

The money will be allocated to the activist-in-residence program, student participation in the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and student travel scholarships for national conventions, Irvine said.

Campus departments and local businesses sponsored tables at the event. OU Athletic Foundation, OU Public Affairs, BancFirst and Reynolds Ford were among the sponsors.

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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.

A Wednesday news story, “The truth about birth control — ignorance clouds health debate,” misspelled the name of the low-hormone intrauterine device brand, Mirena.

A Wednesday photo caption accompanying a news story, “Arabic program to provide dual summer session,” misidentified the Carson Engineering Center.

A Wednesday infobox accompanying a news story, “Applications available for UOSA Executive Cabinet,” misidentified the Sooner Freshman Council.

A Wednesday photo caption on the Campus in Photos page misidentified the international and area studies major.

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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

staff: Northcutt stresses student relations Continued from page A1

Today around campus A symposium about copyright, fostering creativity for business goals and brand management will take place from 10 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium.

A social responsibility fair displaying how the OU community is going green will be held from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Union Courtyard.

A seminar about how to manage stress will be held at 4 p.m. at Wagner Hall, Room 245.

The men’s gymnastics team will compete in the NCAA championship qualifier all day at Lloyd Noble Center.

Friday, April 20 A symposium about art of the American West such as furniture, pottery and saddles will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium.

A lecture by former senator and presidential candidate George McGovern will be held at 3 p.m. at the Thurman J. White Forum Building.

La Tomatina water balloon toss, hosted by the OU Spanish Club, will take place at 3 p.m. on the Walker-Adams Mall. There will be free snow cones.

An open house at The Oklahoma Daily will be held at 5 p.m. in the newsroom (Copeland Hall, Room 160).

the different kinds of candy Northcutt has that day.

Regardless of the topic, every student visits with Northcutt for a few minutes and thanks her before leaving.

Northcutt was hired by University and Student Services to receive, register and return laundry to students, but she has shaped the job description to building relationships with students.

“I love my job,” she said.

“The students are just really nice. We get along well.”

Northcutt has worked for University and Student Services since October 2009 and in the laundry field since 2008, Northcutt said.

University and Student Services is a national company that works with large universities throughout the nation to bring services to students, company president Vincent Peseski said.

“There has been a huge demand from parents sayi ng, ‘ Jo h n ny ha s n e v e r washed clothes in his life. I don’t want his whites to be pink,’” Peseski said.

The company’s goal is to create a better living environment for students through services and employees like Northcutt, Peseski said.

Peseski recommended Northcutt for her current position while she was working for the launderer contracted with University and Student Services, Northcutt said.

“If we can find a woman who has her own kids, she brings in the motherly attention to the students,” Peseski said. “Anyone who brings their laundry to Vicki — those are her kids.”

Northcutt said if the laundry service was offered at

Thursday, April 19, 2012 •

Column

I know quitting is important, but it isn’t what I want to do

Editor’s Note: Sam Higgins is a campus reporter who started the university-sponsored smoking cessation class two weeks ago. He writes a column once a week to describe his first-person experiences and struggles with trying to quit smoking.

then smoked a pack of cigarettes.

I wasn’t able to quit thinking about death. I imagined my eulogy: n Friday, I was driving west on Highway 9 when “Sam Higgins is a person all hell broke loose. The rain had begun to come who was, and he always will down, and I recall there was a bit of hail. I probe that. Oh, and he wrote ceeded on my course despite the radio’s urgent calls to some articles for a student Sam Higgins take shelter far from a vehicle. I was crossing the overpass newspaper. Donations will samuel.b.higgins-1@ou.edu heading due west before the road bends onto Interstate be accepted for Sam’s griev35 when I saw it: a portion of the dark-grey sky dipping to ing parents, and there also the ground. A tornado was manifesting itself before me, is a bar in downtown Tulsa that has been losing money and I was driving right into its path. hand-over-fist since the loss.”

No, it can’t be like this, I thought.

After Monday’s university-sponsored cessation session, I don’t want to die in fear. it has become more apparent to me that I don’t really I want to express myself more. I want to take more pho- want to quit smoking. I just know I have to. This is causing tos, write more stories and have more sex. something you psychology students may identify as cogDo the people driving in front of me, acting like cattle, nitive dissonance. know what could happen to them?

I love something and want to want to quit doing it. It’s a Well, come to think of it, this actually is a fairly badass great thing that’s bad for me. I have to stop, and I’m stopway to go out. ping because of fear.

I didn’t accomplish anything. I didn’t finish anything.

What feeling will rush over me when a physician tells For what will I be remembered? me the bad news? When they tell me the irreversible conI really wanted to have more sex. sequences of my habit, will I feel that chilling sensation My heart was palpitating, I slowed the car and then akin to having my skin filled with ice like a plastic bag? sped up. I was going to outrun it. I was going to Bill Paxton If I continue, I’ll know death is right there in front of me, the Twister. sooner than I had thought, and of course there is no turnI made it about a mile when I heard the tornado had ing back. crossed the highway at Lindsey Street. I was going to be But right here and now, I do have a chance to turn fine, and in that brief minute, when I was faced with one around and avoid that perilous situation, watching the of nature’s most destructive juggernauts, I genuinely apothers go in — like cattle. preciated my life. I had the will to make something of myself. I acknowledged the fragility of my life’s vessel and had an urge to truly take care of it.

Sam Higgins is a journalism sophomore and a campus I realized these things, took them to heart and reporter for The Daily.

Staff Columnist

O

Erika Philbrick/The Daily

Vicki Northcutt demonstrates the proper way to fold laundry in order to fit it into cramped drawers. Vicki enjoys getting to know students as they drop off and pick up laundry on Mondays and Thursdays in Adam Center, Johnson Tower. Northcutt said she strives to act as a welcoming motherly figure for the students.

her daughter’s school, she would use it.

“It’s actually a lot cheaper to do your laundry through this service and frees up the students’ time,” she said.

University College freshman Louis Libin lives in Cate Center and uses the laundry service.

“When I came here the first day, my mom said I was going to be super busy because I’m on a club hockey team here,” Libin said. “I wasn’t complaining, but she thought it would be

“Anyone who brings their laundry to Vicki — those are her kids.”

Vincent Peseski, University and Student Services president

best. And also, I don’t have too much experience doing laundry.”

The service isn’t just for freshmen, and some upperclassmen and even a married couple have used it in the past, Northcutt said.

Libin said the laundry service does a great job, especially the way in which its employees fold the clothes to accommodate the small dresser drawers in the residence halls.

He said Northcutt is very friendly and even helped him decide where to take his family when they came to visit him at the university.

“I think we’ve become great friends,” Libin said.

“It’s more than just a pickup; it’s a couple of minutes of conversation.”

Korean: Event represents Korea to Americans Continued from page A1 The high point was the humorous “farting lady” skit, based on a story passed down through generations.

The skit tells the story of a lady whose fart is so powerful it catches the attention of the man who becomes her husband, but she is later thrown out by her parents-in-law because of her

“I want people to realize that Korean traditional culture and our present culture exist at the same time and work well together.”

Kichang Lee, Korean Student Association president

explosive farting.

After many adventures, the lady meets her husband again, and they live happily ever after, according to the program.

The skit was performed in

Korean to keep the tradition and to express the complexity of the language, which is not always translatable to English. It also featured traditional Korean costumes.

Korean culture is still

a vague notion for most Americans because usually they only hear about North Korea, Lee said.

“Some people asked me if I were from the north or the south,” Lee said. “They don’t realize that if I were from North Korea, I couldn’t be here. We want to restore Korea’s image by showing how we bring tradition and modernity together into one beautiful country.”

Title IX: Dinner funds to benefit 3 programs Continued from page A1 of sports, it doesn’t only impact OU — it impacts the whole state.”

The Women’s and Gender Studies advisory board developed the idea to celebrate the anniversary of Title IX, Irvine said. A panel in the afternoon in the Oklahoma Memorial Union discussed the continuing impact of Title IX in both sports and education.

Panel members were: Jackie Farley, founding member of the OU women’s basketball team and current professor; Carol Ludvigson, former OU women’s golf coach; and Susan Laird, OU professor of educational leadership.

Some regulations provide waivers to religious institutions, fraternities AT A GLANCE and sororities, beauty pagTitle IX eants and sex-segregated living facilities, Laird said.

Part of the Education “The law’s pragmatic Amendments of 1972; purpose was to avoid use states, “No person ... of federal funds to supshall, on the basis of port sex discrimination sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied in education programs the benefits of, or be and to protect individuals subjected to discrimination from such practices,” Laird under any education said. program or activity...”

Many schools are beginning to lack enforceSource: U.S. Department of Labor ment of Title IX and affirmative action programs, and the legislation has continuing importance in education, Laird said.

Farley discussed her time as a founding member of the OU women’s basketball team and said she is proud to see how far the team has come.

“We can never be satisfied in saying, ‘Well, it’s better than it used to be,’” Farley said.

Ludvigson shared her experience playing golf for the university shortly after the passage of Title IX and the financial challenges the team faced. Ludvigson echoed Farley with an interest in continuing to stand up for women’s rights.

“We’ve come a long ways, baby, but we’re not there,” Farley said.

On Wednesday evening, the Women’s and Gender Studies program also hosted a dinner at which women’s basketball coach Sherri Coale delivered the keynote address.

Former Rep. Laura Boyd, former Lt. Gov. Jari Askins, former Oklahoma Secretary of State Susan Savage and Rep. Emily Virgin, D-Norman, all were present.

Tickets were $125, and funds raised from the dinner will go to three Women’s and Gender Studies programs.

The money will be allocated to the activist-in-residence program, student participation in the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and student travel scholarships for national conventions, Irvine said.

Campus departments and local businesses sponsored tables at the event. OU Athletic Foundation, OU Public Affairs, BancFirst and Reynolds Ford were among the sponsors.

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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.

A Wednesday news story, “The truth about birth control — ignorance clouds health debate,” misspelled the name of the low-hormone intrauterine device brand, Mirena.

A Wednesday photo caption accompanying a news story, “Arabic program to provide dual summer session,” misidentified the Carson Engineering Center.

A Wednesday infobox accompanying a news story, “Applications available for UOSA Executive Cabinet,” misidentified the Sooner Freshman Council.

A Wednesday photo caption on the Campus in Photos page misidentified the international and area studies major.

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

Stay connected with The Oklahoma Daily for campus, sports and entertainment news

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NUMBER ONE is nothing to celebrate.

sooner

��a�����

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Land runs should be honest Our View: Land Run celebrations should acknowledge native struggles.

AT A GLANCE Term definitions Land run: The first run, in 1889, in which settlers lined up at an appointed time and raced to claim parcels of land in modern-day Oklahoma.

could settle the “Unassigned Lands.”

Sunday is ’89er Day, which celebrates the 1889 land run often viewed as the birth of this state.

Sooners: Those who entered Saturday, Norman will host a reenactment trail ride the territory before the that will end its multi-state journey with a parade on appointed time and hid out Main Street.

Boomers: Citizens who argued until the land rush, to have an Around this time each year, many students in early stake on the land. loudly for the land run so they Oklahoma schools are treated to re-enactments of their own, celebrating Land Run Day by racing to stake their claim on sections of the playground. The and to Oklahomans’ views of these issues in the nonnative-Oklahoman members of the editorial board academic world? It’s all deny, deny, deny. have fond memories of this excuse to play outside.

Even the traditional symbols of OU — Boomer, What those memories don’t include is any menSooner and the schooner they pull behind them — tion of the native peoples who lived on the land are blatant tributes to Oklahoma’s founders who those settlers claimed. were complicit in the widespread, national extermiDon’t get us wrong: We understand these celnation of native peoples. And these symbols are enebrations are important traditions that celebrate joyed every Saturday in the fall by tens of thousands Oklahoma’s history. They have an important place of football fans without a thought to the troubling in many people’s lives and memories, which cannot crimes they represent. be ignored.

The land run is Oklahoma’s history, and But they come at a heavy price. no matter how tarnished, it should be reThe Our View In order to enjoy these celebrations comis the majority membered. But that’s exactly the point: fortably, Oklahomans sanitize the real No matter how tarnished, our real history opinion of The Daily’s events. They focus on the land claiming and should be remembered. nine-member the Western cultural trappings of the landBeing proud of this state means acknowleditorial board runners, ignoring the native peoples who — edging its true legacy — all the good and the already displaced once and forced to settle bad. It may be difficult to love something in Oklahoma — were then displaced once again to while recognizing its faults, but Oklahomans owe make way for settlers’ land claims. that much to the people hurt and the cultures all but This sanitized version may be easier to cheer for, destroyed by those ’89ers. but it ignores and invalidates the pain and suffering Oklahomans cannot continue teaching history of the people who were displaced and the cultures with one breath and celebrating this sanitized verlost to these events. sion in the other. Learning the details of the Native A cursory glance at the media coverage and adver- American genocide in the classroom is not enough tising for this year’s land run celebrations reveals not to keep it from happening again. If Oklahomans, and one mention of a Native American event, a native all Americans, are to keep history from repeating speaker or any attempt to educate the crowds about itself, we must have the maturity to confront these isthe other side of these events — those who lost evsues in a real way in our everyday lives. erything to encroaching foreign settlers.

Sooners must remember: When we watch that And it’s not surprising, given Oklahomans’ every- schooner race over the field, we don’t see the culday relationship with the unsavory aspects of state tures it ran over in the process of becoming a symbol history. Sure, public school curricula and university of triumph. courses address these issues in more or less depth and frankness. But when it comes to real life actions Comment on this at OUDaily.com

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individual must file an equal-pay lawsuit within 180 days of the first occurrence of the discrimination. This statute limited many, including Lilly Ledbetter.

Ledbetter, an area manager at Goodyear Tire and Rubber for 19 years, learned just before her retirement in 1998 that she wasn’t earning nearly the amount that her fellow male coworkers were earning, even though they all held the same position.

That difference amounted to $223,776. After filing a lawsuit against Goodyear Tire, the Senate ultimately ruled in Goodyear Tire’s favor because Ledbetter had exceeded the 180-day response window dictated by the Civil Rights Act. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, the first act of Congress signed by President Barack Obama following his inauguration, was in direct response to Ledbetter’s personal experience with the inadequate terms in the Civil Rights Act. Currently, employees can sue up to 180 days after receiving any discriminatory paycheck.

Ledbetter appropriately spoke at the Gaylord College of Journalism last month for International Women’s Day on March 8. She said, “Life does throw us some curve balls. We may not expect them. We may not want them. But we’ve got to make things right.”

Ledbetter urged that it’s important for women to use their voice and be active players in the political scene. She encouraged both men and women in the audience to weigh their decisions based on a politician’s record.

Undoubtedly, the gender pay gap has certainly shrunk in the past thirty years. In 1970, nine years before Ledbetter became area manager at Goodyear, women only earned 59 percent of what men earned. Though the figure has risen, progress has slowed and almost stalled in the past decade.

We have to be particularly aware of the politics within Oklahoma, especially when representatives like Sally Kern legitimize female disempowerment by maintaining that “women usually don’t want to work as hard as a man” because “they aren’t willing to commit their whole life to their job like a lot of men do.”

While it is important to recognize that the complexities within gender roles and cultural ideals play into the pay gap discourse, ultimately, both men and women must become active members in the political scene for change to be realized. We must also realize that issues “for women” do not automatically mean “against men.”

Kayley Gillespie is a literature and cultural studies junior.

Mark Brockway is a political science junior.

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he issues surOPINION COLUMNIST rounding education funding are not limited to institutions of higher education.

Because colleges are usually paid for by the individual students through loans and scholarships, Mark Brockway we forget the tax expendimark.d.brockway@ou.edu tures paid for the 12 years of education it takes to get a student to the collegiate level.

The United States ranks at the top of the list when it comes to education spending on students in its public schools. The U.S. spends $11,000 per student annually in the public school system. While this figure is encouraging, it masks the disparity in education spending between wealthy and impoverished areas of the country.

Education in the United States is funded on three levels: federal, state and local.

At the federal level, the government usually gives grants to states and areas specifically ear-marked for education.

This is widespread funding and makes up 8-9 percent of the total funding for public education in the United States.

State and local funding sources each contribute approximately half of the remaining bill. At the State level, funding is controlled primarily by the state budgets that allocate funds for education from the state treasury. In Oklahoma, funding for public education has been cut by $222 million even though enrollment is up by over 22,000 students.

State funding is also administered relatively broadly and evenly despite some disparity between districts.

The real problem comes at the local level of education funding, in which local property taxes are mostly responsible for nearly half of the funding a school receives.

In the creation of this type of policy, it was thought that parents who live in the district their children attend school in should have direct involvement in funding the local schools. This system, however, applies to all individuals who own property in a certain school tax district.

It works like this: If an individual owns a home or other property, that individual pays a certain percentage of the appraised value of the home each year in local property taxes to the municipal government. A large portion, varying by district, goes toward local schools.

The residents of that district can vote on the percentage and amount of their property tax that will be used for educational purposes.

This creates large gaps in education funding between districts in a few ways.

First, wealthier areas simply have more expensive property and thus pay more in total to local schools.

Homeownership is also more prevalent in wealthier areas and thus a higher percentage of the population is actually paying property taxes. In Oklahoma, areas like Edmond have a larger percentage of home ownership than areas in Oklahoma City, and so on.

Also, because they have more disposable income, wealthier areas are more likely to approve bond issues that raise the percentage of total property tax that will be earmarked for education.

To put it simply, wealthier areas spend a higher percentage of larger property taxes on education.

This situation creates a very large gap in funding between the wealthiest and the poorest areas. Schools in less wealthy areas simply receive less funding than schools in wealthier areas.

This lack of funding creates poorer education through lack of resources, lack of more qualified teachers, larger classrooms and inferior curriculum.

It is easy to pick out token schools, teachers and students to attempt to mitigate the impact of funding in the public school system, but it is foolish to ignore wide trends that have negative impacts on large numbers of students.

If you are born to wealthy parents in a wealthy area, you get a better public education than you would have access to otherwise.

The solution is simple. Local property taxes that pay for education can be routed through the state’s department of education and distributed evenly on a per student basis to the individual schools. In this way, no child would have access to biased public education.

The United States has long held equal access to rights as a fundamental and guiding principle. The right to education is no less important. Students should not be held back by the economic conditions they are born into.

Education is an integral part of the economic and social fabric of this country. It is the most important investment we can make in our future and the future of our children.

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uesday was deOPINION COLUMNIST clared Equal Pay Day by the National Committee on Pay Equity.

The date is important: it symbolizes how far into 2012 women must work to earn what men earned in 2011.

While many of us are still Kayley Gillespie in college and barely making kayley.m.gillespie-1@ou.edu above minimum wage, we must be cognizant of the pay gaps and various disparities that exist within the workforce.

This system we are entering has great potential, but we cannot correct a problem until we recognize it.

Nationally, white women earn 77 percent of what men earn. The gap is even worse for racial minorites: Black women earn 64 percent of what white men earn, and Hispanic women earn 55 percent.

The American Association of University Women recently approximated the wage gap by state, using 2011 U.S. Census data. Interestingly, the wage disparity was smallest in Washington D.C., where women earned, on average, 91 percent of what men earned. The largest wage disparity was in Wyoming, where women earned a measly 64 percent of what men earned.

Wondering how Oklahoma sized up? Our Sooner state was just below average, as women reportedly earned 76 percent of what men earned. Considering that more Oklahoma graduates are staying in Oklahoma, this number is scary.

The Employment Outcomes Report observed that five years after graduation, 61 percent of those who received a bachelor’s degree from a public college in the state of Oklahoma following the 2001-02 academic year were employed in Oklahoma.

Moreover, one year after graduation, 82 percent of those who received bachelor’s degrees from a public college in the state of Oklahoma during the 2005-06 academic year remained in Oklahoma.

Plainly, this data isn’t just a news story that we read in the Huffington Post. As potential graduates and post graduates of the University of Oklahoma, this is our reality.

As many of us begin to enter the workforce, we may be consoled by the legislation that has already passed. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is partly responsible for our false hope.

It has failed to protect many because the terms within the legislation aren’t perfect. Notably, it dictated that an

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Continued from page A1 Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge near Vian, Okla., and one north of Stillwater near Sooner Lake.

The tracking project trails a few more birds, following six from the previous nesting seasons, senior biologist at the center Daniel Reinking said. The center will have transmitters on six more eagles next month, he said.

Since December, the nest camera website has gotten 575,107 visits from people in 115 countries, Sherrod said.

While the nest site is more popular, the tracking site attracts a “fair number of folks,” and this year, the website has received more than 20,000 hits, Reinking said.

A number of those hits come from classrooms where children watch the eagles every day and have lessons devoted to what they see on the camera, Sherrod said.

The nest camera project started six years ago. Sherrod said he was surprised at first by the popularity of the site, but not anymore. He attributes the positive response of the camera to a basic human desire.

“We are part of the natural world, but we push ourselves away,” he said. “I think there’s just an instinctive need just to see what’s going on in the natural world with other forms of life.”

However, it takes money to see what’s going on in the natural world. It costs $30,000 for one nest site to be put up and equipped for live streaming, Sherrod said.

That cost includes cameras and electrical boxes, manpower and planning for unexpected setbacks, like when nests fall from trees or when electrical equipment stops working, Sherrod said.

To offset the costs of the nest, the center takes donations on the website. In 2010,

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Elizabeth Smart to talk about abduction experience, obstacles Elizabeth Smart, whose story garnered national media attention in 2002, will speak today at 8 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium.

Smart made headlines when, at the age of 14, she was abducted from her home in Utah. She was found nine months later in the company of her abductors, 18 miles from her hometown in Sandy, Utah.

Smart will speak about her abduction experience, as well as other obstacles she has overcome. She is an activist in support of sexual predator legislation and the Elizabeth AMBER Alert system, as well as a regular Smart contributor to ABC News.

Allison Mrasek, Campus Activities Council Speakers Bureau chairwoman, said she hopes the audience will leave inspired by Smart’s story.

“More than anything, we hope to learn more about her real experiences and to create a platform for abuse awareness,” Mrasek said.

A reception for the event will begin at 7:30 p.m. in front of the auditorium.

Sam Higgins, Campus Reporter

Above: Young bald eagle chicks stand in their nest. The George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center has two cameras — one watching an eagle’s nest, the other tracking eagles that have left their nest — streaming 24 footage on the center’s website.

The bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list in 2007.

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the donations amounted to $2,085. In 2011, the amount dropped to $1,367, but so far this year, the center has received $2,675, Sherrod said.

The donations and the projects fund teaching people about wildlife and protecting the eagle, Sherrod said.

“By teaching folks about these birds, we hope to make them care about them a little bit more, and that may, we hope, lead to more interest in bird conservation

and general environmental awareness,” Reinking said.

The center has been part of the conservation efforts with eagles for years and was a large part of the eagle’s removal from the endangered species list, Reinking said.

The eagle was removed from the list in 2007, according to the center’s website.

The center helped to restore the eagle population from 1984 to 1992, when it raised and released 275 bald eagles into the wild,

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Left: An eagle’s nest sits atop a tree. The George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center’s eagle cameras are used by classrooms every day, and lessons are generated based on what the students see.

according to the website.

Since then, the number of eagles’ nests in Oklahoma have increased from fewer than 20 in 1990 to more than 100 in 2009, according to the website. Additionally, the eagles have been spotted nesting in Kansas, Texas, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.

“It’s rewarding to see a species on the brink of extinction here in the lower 48 states make a really strong comeback as they’ve done,” Reinking said.

Pi Kappa Phi fraternity members have worked to raise donations for people with disabilities this week through their annual Push Week activities.

Events have included cycling on stationary bikes for 48 hours, hosting pie games and raffling tickets for prizes.

Push Week accepts donations for the nonprofit organization, Push America.

The organization uses the money earned from events like Push Week to host programs for people with disabilities, such as educational programs, community service events and summer camps, according to the Push America website.

Pi Kappa Phi raised $180 the first day of festivities, and doubled that total to $360 the second day, event chairman Tim Johnson said.

“The donations we received from this week more than doubled from the donations we received last year,” Johnson said.

Pi Kappa Phi members host Push Week annually to give students an opportunity to give back, Johnson said.

“Pi Kappa Phi offers special opportunities to work and do service,” Johnson said. “I recognized Pi Kappa Phi was doing something different on campus.”

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Oregon airport stripper says he was ‘nude but not lewd’ Disorderly conduct charges dropped at man’s arraignment PORTL AND, Ore. — A high-tech worker who stripped naked at Portland International Airport as a protest against airport security screeners said Wednesday he was being “nude but not lewd,” and characterized his act of defiance as protected political speech.

John E. Brennan, 49, of Portland was charged with disorderly conduct and indecent exposure after taking off far more than this belt and JOHN shoes during BRENNAN the screening process before a Tuesday evening flight to San Jose, Calif.

The incident report from the Port of Portland, which operates the airport, said some passengers covered their eyes and the eyes of their children. Others laughed and took photos. The disorderly conduct charge was dropped at Brennan’s arraignment Wednesday.

Brennan, in an interview at his home, said he did not arrive at the airport with the intention of getting naked.

He said the Transportation Security Administration crosses the line between privacy and security. He decided to protest after he was pulled aside after going through the metal detector and a pat down, he said.

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Police chief who pepper-sprayed student protester will step down UC Davis police chief resigning after pepper spray The police chief who oversaw the University of California, Davis, police department during its notorious pepper-spraying of Occupy protesters said Wednesday that she is stepping down.

UC Davis spokesman Barry Shiller said Annette Spicuzza is retiring effective Thursday.

Spicuzza said she does not want the Nov. 18 incident to define her or the university, and she’s leaving so everyone involved can move forward.

“For the past seven years, I have accomplished many good things for both the police department and community here at UC Davis,” she wrote to the paper.

Spicuzza has been on paid leave since the incident, along with Lt. John Pike, who sprayed the orange liquid into the faces of protesters who were seated.

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John E. Brennan stands naked Tuesday at Portland International Airport after he stripped down while going through a security screening area, as a protest against airport security procedures. The incident report said Brennan’s actions caused some passengers to cover their eyes and their children’s eyes while others looked, laughed and took photos. He later told authorities he flies often and “disrobed as a form of protest against TSA (Transportation Security Administration) screeners he felt were harassing him.”

Brennan after he ignored requests to get dressed.

“The most effective way to tell them I’m not carrying a bomb is take off my clothes,” Brennan said.

Authorities led Brennan from the screening area with a towel around his waist.

Brennan was transferred to a downtown Portland jail and released late Tuesday.

Brennan has criticized TSA previously, saying on Twitter

last May that airport security violated his privacy during a pat-down in San Jose. The tweet came after intense criticism in 2010 over the government’s use of full-body scanning machines and invasive pat-downs in airport security.

Annie Linstrom, a spokeswoman for the Port of Portland, said two screening lanes closed temporarily during the incident, but there

were no flight delays.

This was not the first time Brennan has undressed for political reasons. In Portland, the World Naked Bike Ride attracts thousands each year to protest oil dependence.

Brennan said he has ridden in the event three times.

Brennan booked a flight to San Jose for Wednesday night, and had no plans to protest.

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Judge quits Trayvon Martin case, cites possible conflict of interest The Florida judge presiding over the Trayvon Martin shooting case removed herself Wednesday after the attorney for defendant George Zimmerman argued she had a possible conflict of interest relating to her husband.

Judge Kenneth M. Lester Jr. will preside over the case, including the Friday bail hearing for the neighborhood watch volunteer, according to a news release.

Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder for the Feb. 26 shooting of the unarmed Martin, 17. Zimmerman said he shot Martin in self-defense after the teen attacked him.

Martin’s family and supporters claim Zimmerman was the aggressor, targeting Martin for suspicion mainly because he was black. Zimmerman’s father is white and his mother Hispanic.

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he nostalgic value of vinyl records has rushed back like many decades-old trends that have returned revamped for the millennial generation.

Record Store Day was conceived in 2007 to celebrate more than 700 independently owned record stores across the country. Within this vast sea of local businesses, Guestroom Records rallies for the cause in Norman and Oklahoma City. The store has pushed for the celebration of Record Store Day since 2003 and invites people to come celebrate every third Saturday in April.

This year, Guestroom customers will find special releases from The Flaming Lips, Mastodon, Feist and Farside, said Joey Powell, store employee. Other artists with special Record Store Day releases

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Students will take the stage to showcase their passion for dance and choreography tonight in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center.

The Sooner Dance Company’s spring showcase is a showcase of creativity, individuality, choreography, technique and style, said Alex Eppler, the company’s president. “Some of the company’s dancers have been the choreographers of most of the company’s performance pieces,� Eppler said. “Dancers have the opportunity to develop their own dance for the team to perform or for their solo piece.�

The organization performs at other events during the year, so they like to have an event for themselves, Eppler said. “What we like to do is not just showcase all the dancing we’ve learned this year, but also show off what’s so unique about our organization,� she said. “The spring show also provides an opportunity for people to choreograph their own pieces and show off some of their personality.�

The showcase also will feature performances from five other organizations, Eppler said.

One of the performers, Julia’s Champions, is particularly special because it is a dance group with disabilities from the Norman studio Julia’s International Academy of Dance, she said. The studio has partnered with the Sooner Dance Company this year and lets the company use its facilities.

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‘50 Shades Darker’ lacking in depth I

’m going to first say this is not my fault.

I read “50 Shades of Grey” by E.L. James, decided it was the worst book ever and wanted to block the whole thing from my memory. But it kept gnawing at me.

I had to know what happened next, because the whole plot is so utterly ridiculous that I needed to know what else could possibly go wrong. So I’m placing the blame on Wikipedia for its failure to put a complete synopsis of the book on its website. Because of its laziness, I had to buy “50 Shades Darker” and read it.

In the second installment of the trilogy, Ana Steele

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is overcome with grief that she left her beloved, mysterious, totally insane Christian Grey. She doesn’t eat, she doesn’t sleep, she whines about how she’ll never love again — blah, blah, blah. It’s all very dramatic.

And for five whole days, she survives without him.

But of course, they immediately get back together, because what kind of story would that be without some hot action?

Seriously, the amount of sex in these novels makes me want to smack my head against the wall. (Side note: That’s also probably something Grey would consider while doing the dirty.)

Anyway, they get back together and embark on a series of adventures. At least this time around they have other external factors to deal with, like psychotic ex-submissives and dominants, perverted bosses who aim to blackmail, and so on. But at least there is some action (other than in

the bedroom) going on.

Like the first book, this is also terribly written. James is not a great writer, and the dialogue is cheesy and immature. Her sense of reality seems to be more than slightly skewed, and part of me thinks she must live a dull life to dream something like this up.

For instance, why does Grey have to be a millionaire? Why can’t Grey be a sex-crazed fisherman looking for the world’s largest trout? Really, anything is better than “he’s a CEO at 28. Super hot. Millionaire.

We have no idea what he does, but it must be important.” Lame.

Steele’s inner dialogue

is incredibly shallow. She has no concept of how relationships work, and at this point, probably never will.

She’s so helpless; it makes me feel weird that she’s supposed to be my age.

And mainly, she’s boring.

Incredibly boring. I kind of want the bad guys to win, just for some real entertainment.

Mostly, I just feel sorry for myself, because I got sucked into this stupid trilogy and now I can’t back out. I have to know the ending, so I can promptly try to forget ever reading this.

At a glance ‘50 Shades Darker’

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Katie Piper is a journalism senior.

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Records: Performances to be held at Guestroom DANCE: Showcase to Continued from page B1 exhibit dance variety AT A GLANCE this year include 311, Arcade Fire, The Black Keys, Childish Gambino, Coldplay, Janis Joplin, M83, Misfits and Regina Spektor.

Guestroom began with Justin Sowers and Travis Searle boxing up their own music collections and becoming the Norman store’s first compilation of used music. Two more stores have opened in Oklahoma City, and Guestroom’s small staff continues to pump life into the swelling music scene.

“I think [Record Store Day] is important because it allows independent music stores to kind of have a leg up on the big-bucks retailers,” Powell said. “Super exclusive stuff that is only available from us is immensely helpful because it narrows the choices of where they are going to shop.”

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Record Store Day not only brings in special releases, but performances, too, he said.

“Last year, we probably had 200 people in this store,” he said. “At the end of things, Travis and I’s band — ‘Shitty/ Awesome’ — closed it out, and I think that is the most people I have seen in this store, ever.

It was pretty memorable.”

This year, celebratory music fiends can look forward to Student Film and Crown Imperial at the Bricktown

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Guestroom Records has three shops in the Norman/Oklahoma City area. Performers this year include Student Film and Crown Imperia.

location, DEERPEOPLE and Jacob Abello at the Western Oklahoma City store and Locust Avenue, Beau Jennings and Brother Bear in Norman.

Record Store Day intends to unite the art of music with the independent retailers who sell it in a world of Pirate Bays and Spotify. But, the novelty of physical music and

old school music lovers has kept these music stores alive and thriving, Powell said.

“I know it is easy to go online or to iTunes, but there is nothing like having something tangible and being able to hold it and say, ‘I bought this straight from these awesome guys’, myself excluded of course,” he said.

group that caters to students with a passion for dance without the lifestyle to pursue it, Eppler said.

“It’s basically an organization for people on campus who love to dance and want to perform but aren’t necessarily dance majors, on pom or can make that kind of time commitment in general,” she said.

Eppler, pre-med health exercise science senior, said the organization is a great way for people to pursue their passion for dance and perform.The group studies a variety of dance techniques — from ballet to hip-hop, she said.

This kind of variety will be featured in the showcase as members perform a wide range of dance styles including hip-hop, ballet and contemporary jazz, she said.

Eppler, who is graduating in May, said she is sad to leave the organization but knows it is in talented hands.

The organization won’t be making any money off the show, all ticket sales will go to covering the cost of performing at the Reynolds Performng Arts Center, Eppler said. The organization will be holding a fundraiser next weekend in the form of a dance clinic to benefit the MakeA-Wish Foundation, she said.

Staff Reporter Jalisa Green contributed to this report.

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Daily sports editor Greg Fewell takes a look at the OU women’s tennis team’s recent Bedlam victory and what it means for the team moving forward.

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North Texas scored the first run of the game, forced an Oklahoma pitching change and blasted three home runs against the OU pitching staff during Wednesday night’s game; but none of those factors were enough to earn a victory over the nationally, fifth-ranked Sooners.

OU softball improved to 36-6 this season after scoring six runs in the final three innings of the game to close the door on the Mean Green, earning the 9-4 win in a contest that saw two lead changes and one tie.

“We had an attitude of answering tonight,” coach Patty Gasso said. “The sign of a good competitor is even though we may not be at our best we can find ways to take their steam and momentum away.”

Going into the midweek game, OU pitchers had given up only eight home runs during the previous 41 games, but the Mean Green batters found ways to send three bombs out of Marita Hynes field, the most given up by the Sooners in a single game this season.

“This team respects North Texas, and we understand that their team can take hacks,” Gasso said. “But when they connected tonight, it was gone. However, we had ammunition to come back and then some. We just didn’t get rattled, and we hit the ball hard all night.”

After foregoing the opportunity to use junior lefty Keilani Ricketts to start the m i d w e e k ga m e aga i n st

The red hot OU men’s tennis team, now No. 11 in the nation, takes its nine-match win streak to Stillwater today to take on rival Oklahoma State Cowboys at 2 p.m. at Jack DeBois Tennis Complex in the final match of the regular season.

The Sooners have secured at least a share of the Big 12 title after their win Sunday afternoon against Texas Tech, the program’s first title since the 1992 season.

OSU, on the other hand, is having a tough season. The Cowboys come into the match 0-4 in the Big 12 and 7-12 overall.

Their previous match was a 4-3 loss to the No. 27 Baylor Bears.

The Sooners have four players ranked in the latest ITA rankings with Junior Costin Paval ranked the highest at No. 13 followed by No. 59 sophomore Guillermo Alcorta, No. 96 freshPLAYER PROFILE man Dane Webb, and No. Dane Webb 106 sophomore Peerakit Siributwong.

Year: The Sooners will lean Freshman on their ranked players as Position: they hope to make a long No. 6 singles run in the postseason.

Hometown: The Sooners will look Richardson, to continue their trend of Texas jumping out to an early Season stats: lead in the doubles porLeads Oklahoma in wins with a 16-1 record at No. 6 spot tion of the match, as they are led by the No. 8 tandem in the nation, junior Costin Paval and freshman sensation Dane Webb.

The two have a record of 14-3 in doubles play this year, while, in singles, Paval is 13-3 and Webb is 16-1.

Also, sophomore Tsvetan Mihov and Peerakit Siributwong are 13-4 in doubles play. Siributwong is 12-5 in singles play and Guillermo Alcorta is 14-3 in singles play on the year.

The Sooners look to finish off conference play with a 5-0 record and cement their spot as the top team in the Big 12 conference. No other Big 12 squad is undefeated in conference play this season. .

After the Bedlam showdown today, Oklahoma will have a week off before entering the Big 12 tournament with a target on its back.

The Sooners had to upset many conference foes on their way to their current ranking of No. 11 in the nation, rival Texas chief among them.

The conference tournament will run April 27-29 in College Station.

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Freshman Lauren Chamberlain hits a solid ground ball for a single during Oklahoma’s 9-4 victory over North Texas on Wednesday in Norman. The game was the start of a five-game home stand for the Sooners.

The team now prepares to host Missouri, its biggest rival, for a three-game weekend series.

UNT, Gasso went with her junior back-up, Michelle Gas coigne, to star t the game.

But after Gascoigne gave up two consecutive runs over the left-center field fence in the fourth inning, Gasso marched out to the mound and signaled back to the bullpen for her ace hurler.

“It was my turn to have Michelle’s back this time,” Ricketts said about coming into the game in relief.

“I just felt like it was part of my job.”

Ricketts came in to retire all but one batter she faced, giving up a solo homer in the seventh.

She struck out six of the 12 batters she faced in the 3 and 2/3 innings, but Ricketts’ arm wasn’t the only high point in the game for the San Jose, Calif., native.

Ricketts also went 2-for-2 at the plate, including a tworun bomb over the rightcenter fence to give OU its final runs of the evening and secure a win heading into a tough weekend matchup with No. 10 Missouri.

WHAT’S NEXT No. 10 Missouri The 10th-ranked Tigers come to Norman for a three-game series starting at 7 p.m. Friday.

OU currently holds a slight edge, 49-40, in the Big 12’s most-heated rivalry.

Following Friday’s series opener, the two teams will face off at 2 p.m. Saturday before closing out the series at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

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Oklahoma to host national championships Sooners prepare to battle for program’s ninth national title GREG FEWELL Sports Editor

T h e No. 1 O k l a h o m a men’s gymnastics team has had only four home meets all season.

However, they will be back in friendly territory for the biggest meet of the year when they host the NCAA championships today at Lloyd Noble Center.

Oklahoma will compete in the 7 p.m. session of Thursday’s qualifying round along with No. 4 Illinois, No. 5 Minnesota, No. 8 California, No. 9 Temple and No. 12 Air Force.

No. 2 Penn State, No. 3 Stanford, No. 6 Michigan, No. 7 Ohio State, No. 10 Nebraska and No. 11 Iowa will compete in the first session at 1 p.m., with the top three teams from each session qualifying for the team finals at 7 p.m. Friday.

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Hosting the championships for the third time in the last 10 years, Oklahoma enters the contest in prime position.

For one, the team is coming off a big victory at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championship for its eighth conference title in the past 10 years.

In addition, the Sooners are led by the NCAA’s topranked all-around gymnast and conference Gymnast of the Year, junior Jake Dalton.

The U.S. national team member will try to improve on his 2011 individual titles on floor and vault by claiming his first all-around title.

Dalton is one of the few experienced gymnasts on the OU team, though. OU, a squad with 10 freshmen, will need big contributions from some of its underclassmen to have a chance at the program’s ninth national title.

“I’m not going to lie, I’m a little nervous,” freshman Dylan Akers said. “But I don’t think that can be helped. As long as I keep hitting all the events and do what I know how to do, I’ll be fine.”

While the Sooners do not have a ton of experience, they are not short on confidence, especially at home.

The Sooners are thus far undefeated in national championships held at Lloyd Noble Center. The team claimed first place in 2002 and 2006.

The members of the 2012 squad, who pride themselves in being a tight-knit group, do not want that trend to come to an end just yet.

“We’ve got so many new guys, but they’re a tight group of guys,” Dalton said.

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Sophomore Presten Ellsworth competes on the rings during the Sooners’ March 10 victory over Michigan at Lloyd Noble Center. The Sooners posted a 355.500 to top the Wolverines and will be hoping for similar results 7 tonight when they return to Lloyd Noble Center for the NCAA championship qualifier.

“They fit in really well with us, so we’re a really tight team this year, super confident in ourselves and just ready to go.”

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Thursday, April 19, 2012 •

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Women’s gymnastics

Strife prepares OU for championships Sooners close to 3rd-straight Super Six berth despite injury-riddled season James Corley Night Editor

The OU women’s gymnastics team left Wednesday for the NCAA Championships, which begin at 11 a.m. Friday in Duluth, Ga. After months of preparing and polishing for this weekend, OU coach K.J. Kindler said the team is prepared and ready. “You get to a point where you just want to go out there and do it, and I think they’re there,� she said.

It’s become a habit in the last several seasons for Oklahoma to be among the nation’s elite in the postseason. The previous two seasons, OU advanced to the final round — the Super Six — with a second-place finish in 2010 and a third-place finish last year.

For those gymnasts who took one or both of the Super Six trips, the experience and knowledge of what to expect helps them prepare for what’s to come, junior Kayla Nowak said.

For the freshmen or transfers who don’t know what to expect, the whole experience is exciting, freshman Erica Brewer said.

Kindler said gymnasts have to experience the situation to know what to expect; there are no magic words the veterans could say to prepare the postseason newcomers.

Still, Kindler said she doesn’t want her team to think of this meet as anything different than what they’ve been doing all season. “Every time we go out, we try to do our very best, and I think this should be no different,� she said. “They know, subconsciously, that it’s important. I don’t need to flash it in their face. They know what our goals have been

AT A GLANCE OU’s competition

UP NEXT NCAA Championships

• 10-seed Stanford NQS: 393.085 Average: 196.033 Coach Kindler’s take: “Their best events are bars and beam.â€?

When: Friday through Sunday Where: Duluth, Ga. (Georgia Tech)

from the very beginning.�

However, the road to nationals has been rocky for the Sooners since the beginning as well.

It started with senior Natasha Kelley’s career-ending injury before the season started, was amplified when freshman Rebecca Clark’s year was cut short halfway through and has been sustained since by several more injuries. “We’ve been through a whole lot this year,� said Nowak, who just got a cast off her wrist Friday after a few weeks sitting out. “We’ve overcome adversity a hundred million times, it feels like.�

Brewer said the Sooners have learned a lot from the struggle, though, and despite the rough patches, the team has the right mentality. “We’ve all learned to trust each other,� she said. “We can all do the gymnastics — it’s just whether your head’s in it. Anyone could go in at any moment, so we need to have our heads screwed on right.�

And the injuries and adversity never changed anything the team wanted to accomplish, Kindler said. “Obviously, to bring home a national championship is the ultimate goal,� she said. “We’ve tried to do that when we’re extremely healthy; why not try it when we’re not?

You’re not going to change your goals because of the situation you’re in.�

Injury-ridden seasons are never ideal in any sport, but

• 2-seed UCLA NQS: 394.495 Average: 196.889 Coach Kindler’s take: “Their best events are floor and vault, really quite the opposite (of Stanford).â€? • 7-seed Utah NQS: 393.530 Average: 196.773 Coach Kindler’s take: “They traditionally make the Super Six. They’re used to being there.â€? • 6-seed Nebraska NQS: 393.555 Average: 196.596 Coach Kindler’s take: “They’re working with a lot of all-arounders. Their best event is vault.â€?

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Junior Kayla Nowak performs her beam routine during a meet earlier this season. Nowak, who injured her wrist during practice prior to March 24’s Big 12 Championship, had her cast removed Friday and will be ready to compete in the NCAA Championships starting Friday in Duluth, Ga.

Kindler said the team’s made the most of it and may be better off, in a way, because of it. “It’s brought a lot of fight out in them, and sometimes the fighters are the ones who win in the end,� Kindler said.

The Sooners will go up against five other teams also fighting to win, including two familiar foes, in Friday’s semifinal round. OU, Stanford, UCLA, Utah, Nebraska and LSU will compete for three spots in the Super Six from their session.

UCLA and Nebraska both defeated the Sooners in the regular season.

“It’s a very, very stacked session,� Kindler said.

The three strongest teams from both sessions will advance to the Super Six on Saturday to determine the national champion, and it won’t be easy, Kindler said. “Usually, there’s an upset here or there, but you’ve got the 12 strongest teams from the season in the championship,� she said. “I think it’s a very strong, well-coached group. I’m excited to get out there and shake it out.�

When asked if this is the year the OU women’s gymnastics team brings a national championship trophy back to Norman, Kindler said it’s impossible for anyone to know.

But she said the Sooners are as ready as they’ll ever be. “They’ve certainly worked like national championships; they’ve certainly put their heart and soul into it like a national champion would,� she said. “It all comes down to that night.�

• 11-seed LSU NQS: 392.645 Average: 195.977 Coach Kindler’s take: “They’re young; very young this year. Sometimes youth can be very ignorant, and ignorance is bliss when it comes to championships because the pressure seems less and you don’t know how nervous you’re supposed to be — you don’t know what the expectation is. They are kind of dangerous because they’re young, ignorant and hungry.â€?

The second session: No. 1 Florida No. 4 Alabama No. 5 Georgia No. 8 Arkansas No. 9 Oregon State No. 12 Ohio State

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