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ith each pump of her legs, Liz Smith neared the finish line, coming closer to the culmination of all her training, all the countless hours spent running to break up days of speaking with students and studying.

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Liz Smith crosses the finish line of the Boston Marathon around 1:15 p.m. Just before 3 p.m., while Smith was eating a celebratory lunch with a friend, two bombs detonated at the finish line she crossed about an hour and a half before wounding over 175 people and killing three.

The feelings were almost indescribable. She felt euphoric, certainly — at least that much she recalls.

After running over 26 miles, her dream was in sight.

Smith, an English graduate student, crossed the finish line at about 1:15 p.m. About an hour and a half later, she was in a restaurant eating with her friend, celebrating the fact she’d completed something only a handful of people can say they have.

She’d finished the Boston Marathon.

But she didn’t have time to enjoy the meal she was eating a few blocks from the finish line. She didn’t get to bask in the glow of her accomplishment.

As she sat in the restaurant, the world turned into chaos around her.

TVs tuned to news stations framed the walls around her, all of them showing the first bomb exploding at the finish line of the marathon.

Only two hours before the line had been a symbol of her own endurance, her hard work, her victory. It then was consumed in pandemonium, which she had to watch playing over and over again on the screen, showing the explosive force of a homemade bomb.

Smith said the bombs were a violation to the spirit of the marathon.

They were senseless. She couldn’t — and still can’t — understand them or what happened.

Smith was among the runners who qualified and ran in the Boston Marathon on April 15, the day two bombs exploded very near the finish line of the marathon, killing three people and wounding over 175 others.

In the wake of the tragedy, Smith and other runners turn to the resilience they’ve developed by being part of the running community and look at the tragedy as a means to pull through. It’s a testament to the perseverance it takes to run long distance, as well as overcome tragedies.

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this year, the student government Association inauguration and the registered student organization Awards of excellence ceremonies will be combined for the first time. the inauguration will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. monday in oklahoma memorial Union’s Beaird Lounge.

Winners of the 13 registered student organization Awards of excellence will be announced to begin the program, said KatieBeth gardner, director of student organizations. then, the following offices will be inaugurated: • Housing Center Student Association president • Student Bar Association president • Graduate Student Senate chair • Undergraduate Student Congress chair • Campus Activities Council chair • Student Government Association vice president • Student Government Association president For each office, the outgoing officer will be invited to speak, gardner said, and the newly inaugurated officer will also have a chance to speak.

All students are welcome to attend and free food will be provided, gardner said.

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Incoming Sooner wins scholarship ARIANNA PICKARD Campus reporter

An incoming OU freshman was one of four Oklahoma high school seniors to receive a scholarship from the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education on Thursday.

Micah Workman from Tu s h k a Hig h S c h o o l i n southern Oklahoma received the Chancellor Hans Brisch Scholarship at the regular Regents meeting Thursday.

The Regents established the scholarship in 1990 to recognize students who show leadership and demonstrate commitment to enhancing their communities, according to the meeting agenda.

Workman recognized a need at his high school for helping disabled students, so he developed a weekly “sharing is caring” program, Regents secretar y Mike Turpen said at the meeting.

The program has created a friendly and more caring atmosphere for the student body.

Workman also helped devise a plan to fund the building of the new parking areas at the school as the previous ones were destroyed by a tornado, Turpen said.

Workman will begin atte n d i ng O U i n t h e f a l l , Turpen said.

T h e re g e n t s a l s o a p proved the addition of a degree program option added to OU’s master of business administration degree at the meeting, and OU’s master of architecture degree was deleted.

T h e m a s t e r o f a rc h i tecture degree was deleted based on the National Architectural Accrediting Board’s requirement that non-accredited, post-professional degrees in architecture be clearly distinguished from accredited degrees, according to the meeting agenda.

The one student enrolled in the option will be allowed to complete the program.

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A clothes swap will be held Saturday to support local agencies that assist women in need.

The event will take place from 10 a.m. to noon at Roosevelt Elementary School in Norman, said event organizer Jenny LeBahn.

Attendees are asked to bring gently worn, clean clothes and swap them for other clothes for under $5 an item, LeBahn said. Items include shirts, pants, shorts, dresses, maternity clothes, shoes and accessories.

Proceeds and remaining clothes will be donated

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Today around campus A Chinese talent show will take place at 5:30 p.m. at Dale Hall.

A baseball game against New Orleans will take place at 6:30 p.m. at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

Saturday, April 20 A baseball game against New Orleans will take place at 2 p.m. at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

Sunday, April 21 A baseball game against New Orleans will take place at 1 p.m. at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

A men’s tennis game against Oklahoma State will take place at 1 p.m. at Headington Family Tennis Center.

Monday, April 22 An international juried exhibition titled National Weather Center Biennale featuring art about weather and the role it plays in shaping lives will open at 8 a.m. at the National Weather Center.

tuesday, April 23 A lunch discussion with filmmaker Luis Argueta, director of “El Silencio de Neto” and “abUSed: The Postville Raid,” will take place at noon at the IT Event Space. Lunch will be provided. RSVP to jeffswanson@ou.edu.

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Marathon, runners from all walks of life have to adapt and reevaluate their sense of community Marathon, runners from all walks of life have to adapt and reevaluate their sense of community in a sport that from the outside seems incredibly solitary, may it be casual race-runners, Boston Marathon veterans or those looking for a rookie spot in the race.

Runner’s Reactions: After she heard about the bombings, the first thing Hayley Ryckman, civil and environmental engineering graduate student, thought to do was to run. It was the only thing that seemed appropriate, she said when she called The Daily minutes after news of the tragedy made its way across the nation. She wanted to get together with a group of people for some sort of unofficial memorial run.

“It’s a bonding thing. I know it sounds really dumb, but you find other runners and it is bonding,” Ryckman said.

While running may seem like a solitary activity with just the runner and tony ragle/the daily his or her thoughts, most runners feel Liz Smith, English graduate student, displays her finisher’s medal from the 2013 Boston a strong sense of community when they run, especially when they run in Marathon. The jacket she is wearing is specific to this year’s marathon. She said each large groups — like in marathons, said year’s jacket tells a story, and hers will serve as a reminder of this year’s tragedy.

Evan Fry, biochemistry and economics me more to want to do it,” Ryckman said. said. senior.

For Ryckman and Fry, seeing the tragThe year Smith’s husband ran the “Before, when I was just running on my own on campus, I wouldn’t have edy play out on the TV screen has only marathon, a nor’easter came through and whenever people see him wearing ever imagined that sense of communi- reinforced their desire to run.

“You can’t just stop because a tragedy his jacket, they know that, she said. ty… The epicness of the marathon itself happened,” Ryckman said.

Instead of only being a testament to is a uniting thing,” Fry said.

Moving on and getting better: her physical endurance, Smith said her Fry will be running his first maraSmith has a different relationship jacket is now a reminder, almost a medal thon on April 28 in the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon. He hopes to fin- with the race and what happened sim- of honor, of what happened Monday, ish with a good enough time to qualify ply because she was there for it, and ex- which she could have never predicted him for the Boston Marathon in 2014, he perienced the rollercoaster of emotions when she bought it earlier.

“Now this jacket,” she said, gesturing said. Right now, his running times indi- herself — from the high of crossing the finish line, to the low of watching the to the one she was wearing, “it means cate that he may achieve that goal. something different now than it did Once he found out about the bomb- area around it burn. “[The bombing] just feels like such a when I purchased it beforehand … It’s ings, he began to drift into the what-ifs violation of the kind of spirit of the mar- so weird to have that sort of significaof the situation. athon and the peo- tion, to have the jacket symbolize that “It’s an out-ofbody experience to “It’s so weird to have that ple who are there now, instead of the marathon itself.” try and think about sort of signification, to to support you. It However, things will get better. makes it feel perTime will pass, wounds will heal and what would have happened if it was have the jacket symbolize sonal,” Smith said. runners will keep running, because The memory of that’s what runners do. They push the year before, if that now, instead of the the day is going to themselves to keep going, maybe an I was in that situamarathon itself.” hang with her for extra mile or an extra minute, no mattion,” he said. the rest of her life, ter the weather or the pain, they push Despite the iniliz smith, just like the blue through races and tragedies. tial shock, Fry said boston marathon runner and yellow jacket The first woman to finish the Boston he isn’t discouraged that was hanging on her shoulders be- Marathon said when you lose faith in from running the Boston Marathon.

On the other hand, Ryckman has fore and after the race always is going to humanity, go to a marathon. Smith been running since high school, but symbolize the bombing and the events thinks that may be the solution, saying she plans to run the marathon with her she’s never run a marathon, sticking that occurred that day.

For the running community, Smith husband again next year. mostly to 5K races, she said.

“The marathon is something where However, after the bombings, her said, the Boston Marathon jackets are a you have that community without tragdesire to run the Boston Marathon be- big deal.

When another runner sees someone edy. It’s something that will bring entire came stronger than ever.

“When it first happened, I was like, I with one on, they immediately know cities together. They have that community,” Smith said. never want to run the Boston Marathon, what that person has been through.

“Each year’s jacket tells a story,” she but then I feel like it’s kind of motivated

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OU students are collaborating with NASA to create phone applications on campus today through Sunday.

The university invited NASA to use OU’s Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth as one of the locations for the International Space Apps Challenge, said Lauren Wright, public relations senior.

The purpose of the Space Apps Challenge is for students to think of new ideas for applications, Wright said.

Some of the challenges include developing applications to help backyard poultry farmers and designing a tour of the moon, according to the Space Apps Challenge website.

“NASA really wants to propose these challenges for something to be done that they could never even think of,” Wright said.

The weekend was created as part of a public relations capstone class, and the students were assigned to NASA. OU’s campus is one of 75 global locations where this challenge is taking place, and only three of these locations are universities in the U.S., Wright said.

The event will kick off today with a social gathering. On Saturday, after an introduction at 9 a.m., participants will disperse to work individually in their groups until 6 p.m.

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QUOTABLE: “[The bombing] just feels like ... a violation of the kind of spirit of the marathon and the people ... supporting you,” Boston Marathon runner Liz Smith said (Page 1)

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Let’s reserve judgment until the time is right Our View: Don’t let the 24-hour news media interfere with the Boston bombing investigation.

Turn it off.

Eighteen years ago today, following the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City, several major news outlets including CBS, the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times all attributed the terrorist act to “Muslim extremists” or “Middle East terrorism” within hours of the blast. Every person of — or even resembling — Arab descent in Oklahoma was looked at suspiciously by their neighbors while a white guy with a crew cut and mom jeans almost got away with it.

Were it not for Timothy McVeigh’s The Our View own stupidity — driving a getis the majority away vehicle down Interstate 35 opinion of without a license plate and visible The Daily’s pistol bulging from his jacket — nine-member editorial board his escape would have been partially because of the negligence of a large number of major news outlets for drawing the public’s eye to the wrong group of people.

And here the nation is, right back where it was in 1995. A bomb has gone off, innocent people have lost their lives and a few idiots with microphones and pens are causing confusion, and potentially mucking up the investigation.

Just hours after the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon, the New York Post reported a “Saudi national” was in custody as a suspect in the attack. This report has been vehemently denied by every city, state and federal law

enforcement agency involved, but that hasn’t stopped parts of the public from reacting as if the news were true anyway. Alex Arredondo (@annonymouskitty) tweeted, “Let’s go to Dearborn and kill some of those towel heads!”

This obviously needs to stop. The 24-hour news machine needs to either stick to the facts or stop calling itself “news.” Experts speculating and witnesses recalling on camera may be news, but it isn’t fact. We at The Daily understand the push to get the news out quickly, but we know it’s more important to be correct than first.

What if the person or people who did this, regardless of their reasons or race, or religious preferences, are smart enough to put a license plate on the getaway car?

Many comparisons also have been drawn to Richard Jewell lately. Jewell was a police officer who, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, saved many lives by identifying a pipe bomb and clearing the area before it was detonated. Thanks to Jewell, only one life was lost as a result of the bomb, but when the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Jewell was being treated by the FBI as a suspect, the major news networks pounced.

Jewell was given a “trial by media,” despite never being charged, until he passed a polygraph test

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and had to be officially exonerated in writing by the U.S. attorney. There never was any evidence against Jewell; he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The trial by media was unfair and reckless. The real bomber, Eric Robert Rudolph, confessed to the incident in addition to several other bombings in 2005. Jewell’s character was assassinated by news teams, comedians and political commentators from coast to coast.

Unfortunately for Jewell, he didn’t live to see his name cleared. He died in 1997.

Now, the 24hour news providers are showing off pictures of two men captured on security camera at the scene. If we actually want justice for the Boston Marathon bombings, we all need to resist the urge to let emotions run public discourse and let the FBI and the courts do their jobs. The only thing worse than letting the real culprits get away would be punishing the wrong people. We all owe it to the victims of this attack to remain collected, calm and focused on the facts. We can do this by ignoring the 24-hour news networks and the opinions they masquerade as news.

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Human trafficking should be Attending events outside your everybody’s passion, concern comfort zone spurs intelligence

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he film “Girl children. So, it doesn’t OPINION COLUMNIST Rising,” shown on matter who you are, you campus last week and your family are vulin an exclusive screening nerable to this scourge. as part of the Puterbaugh When I asked how Festival, is a powerful docmany people are estiumentary about the lives mated to have patronof nine different girls from ized these prostitution or various parts of the world. human trafficking rings, Scott Starr The film chronicles their there was no clear anscott.e.starr-1@ou.edu struggles against compliswer, but I was told the cated cultural and geopolitical forces to available polling or survey data reveals obtain a basic education. It also shows the that only between 10 and 20 percent of power unleashed when females, some of surveyed male adults in America would the greatest problem solvers in the world, admit to “never having paid for sex”. That become educated. As the film says, the is staggering. It means maybe 80 percent power to solve problems largely lies with of the male population in this country the women of any society. With the showhave sexualized, commoditized or exing of this film were two panels: one disploited others for personal gratification. cussing the film itself and one about the That estimate sounds high doesn’t it? problem of human traffickConsidering the available ing or slavery. statistics on the usage of If you did not catch the porn here in America, IN DEPTH film, do yourself a favor and perhaps it isn’t all that Trafficking in watch it. If you are not conoutrageous. Studies and the U.S. cerned about the problem of surveys done as recently human trafficking and doing as 2007 and 2008 reveal 83 percent are U.S. something to help deal with between 72 and 86 percitizens it, you should be. cent of college age men The panel on human trafadmit to viewing Internet 87 percent of sex ficking preceding the April pornography at least once trafficking victims are 11 screening of the film within a year. Only one under 25 years old was chaired by University in five of those surveyed 81 percent of College freshman Lucy admitted to being regular suspected offenders Mahaffey and was simply consumers of porn. Those are make stunning. Not only was I numbers are significantamazed by the poise and ly lower among women.

Source: Bureau of Justice articulate delivery of this More than likely, the numfreshman, but also by the bers in both categories are commentary of other panfar greater, with those surelists and the testimony of a woman who veyed simply not telling the full truth. actually had been trafficked herself, right Mahaffey is sure to head up more prehere in Oklahoma. The testimony of the sentations locally and has received a woman took tremendous courage and large grant to do so. She, and this issue moved me to tears more than once. she is passionate about, deserves the I was amazed by the statistics on human support of her fellow students and the trafficking. The panel said that somewhere faculty here at OU. Any of you, especially between 27 and 30 million people are vicif you are a female, could be kidnapped timized and abused in human trafficking any time and sold into slavery, most around the globe. That’s more than all likely to be used sexually or prostituted 400 years of the trans-Atlantic slave trade against your will. combined. The numbers could be higher.

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rying new things is brilliant. He is brilliant beOPINION COLUMNIST something we have cause he shared his views in been taught to do a way that logically can’t be since our parents started proven to offend any single to try to get us to eat vegeperson because he offends tables. Now that we are in everyone. college, it is important we He isn’t racist because he continue to do that. If we bashes every race, including are to educate ourselves his own. He isn’t persecutSarah Sullivan to the fullest while we are ing Christians because he is sullivan.sarah313@gmail.com here, we might as well do equally unfair to everyone. that in every facet of our He even mocked his 7-yearlives. old Catholic self. He can’t be called out for Oklahoma is a red state. The majority castigating the Republican party because of Oklahoma citizens are Republicans. he castigates politics all around. It’s shockIn the 2012 Obama-Romney election, 67 ing, but people love him for it. percent of Oklahomans voted Republican.

I went to Maher’s show because I, too, Also, Oklahoma has 58,598 Christians per am a liberal, gay-loving, Bush-hating athe100,000 people, according to newsok.com. ist. I assumed everyone else there was, too.

This is why when I learned Bill Maher was I was wrong. coming to the Civic Center April 14, I was His following goes far beyond an arshocked. I thought to myself, “what would chetypal audience. Despite his constant make someone like him want to come mythologizing of Christianity, there were here?” I knew I had to get tickets. older attendees who had been at church As I walked up to the front doors of earlier that morning. I heard a group of the Civic Center with one of my closest 50-somethings discussing their pastor’s friends, he quickly remarked that the last morning sermon. time Maher came to Oklahoma, there were There was something for everyone in not only protesters outside, there were Maher’s routine. Everyone laughed and left protesters who bought tickets and were re- content with their decision to spend $70 moved from the theater during the show. to see him late on a Sunday night. Maher There weren’t protesters outside or inbrought a little bit of blue progressivism to side the theater this time. I was surprised Oklahoma last week, and an entire theater so many people had come to see him. of people was glad he did.

There were few seats left I could see from Maher’s show is an example of somemy seat in the balcony. Everyone cheered thing that can help to open the door to when he came out, and within seconds, he broader horizons. answered my initial question, “why would The vast variety of individuals who athe come here?” He said it was because tended are a tribute to the importance of there are people who share his views evbreaking through traditional ideas — even erywhere, and he wanted to cater to the your own — and opening yourself up to liberal, Democratic intellectuals of the other opinions. You don’t have to accept state. them or convert to the beliefs of someone As his show continued, I realized he was else, something Maher claimed he is very not what I had initially thought he would good at getting people to do. be. Yes, he is a liberal atheist, smokes pot, I encourage you to attend something loves the gays, hates former President like this and to see him if he comes back George Bush and is sometimes foul to Oklahoma. What you gain from it is a mouthed, but he is a brilliant individual. broader intelligence. You have educated He bashed the Republicans, but he bashed yourself, and that is the most important the Democrats, too. thing you can do.

He bashed Christians, but he also bashed Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism and just about every other religion you can Sarah Sullivan is a professional writing junior. think of. I am not saying that is why he is

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Sooners chase first national title OU looks to bust championship monopoly CECILY TAWNEY Sports Reporter

After clinching its fourth straight NCAA Regional Title, the Oklahoma women’s gymnastics team will compete at the NCAA National Championship tournament in Los Angeles this weekend, hoping to claim the first national championship in the program’s history.

The Sooners enter the final weekend of the postseason as the No. 2 seed and will take on No. 3 Alabama, No. 6 UCLA, No. 7 Michigan, No. 10 Utah and No. 11 Arkansas in the semifinals Friday.

In order to advance to the Super Six team finals Saturday, Oklahoma will need to finish in the top three of the semifinal competition.

“Our semifinal session is very heavy with rankings,” coach K.J. Kindler said. “Also in that division are four Super Six qualifiers from last season, so it’s heavy with experience as well, but you can’t focus on that.

“This year is different, and if we can hit our gymnastics, I believe we will move on.”

OU has reached the NCAA Championships each of the last 10 years, finishing as high as second in 2010. Yet, the Sooners hope to take it even further this year.

“We just know that this could be our first time to win a national championship,

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Sophomore Lauren Alexander leaps through the air as part of her balance beam routine during the Sooners’ meet against Denver on Jan. 18. OU defeated the Pioneers, 197.325-195.850. At the time, the score was the Sooners’ 10th-highest team total in program history.

and we all want it so bad, and we have been working super hard,” freshman Keeley Kmieciak said. “I just feel like we definitely have stepped it up a little bit.”

Boasting the most wins (25) and the best win percentage (.962) of any team in the nation this season as they head into the final weekend, the Sooners close out one of the most impressive seasons in program history and look forward to facing the top teams in the nation.

“We are all very consistent, and we have had a great year,” Kmieciak said. “It will be exciting to see some of those big

AT A GLANCE Programs with NCAA titles Since becoming an NCAA sport in 1982, women’s gymnastics have had only four teams win national championships — Georgia (10), Utah (9) Alabama (6) and UCLA (6). OU could be No. 5.

teams we haven’t competed against yet this year.”

One of the teams OU has yet to face this season is No. 1 Florida, who currently sits

just above the Sooners in the national rankings.

However, Kindler stressed the importance of keeping the focus off of their opponents.

“We cannot focus on anyone else because we cannot affect what they do,” she said.

“We can only affect what we do, and I think it will be important that we stay zeroed in on our team.”

Based off of this season’s consistent high scores, Oklahoma thinks the title is in reach.

“It’s definitely in their reach, but we have some incredible competition,”

Kindler said. “In all honesty, I think this is one of the deepest fields that the NCAA has ever produced, so it’s really anyone’s game. Have we positioned ourselves to have an opportunity for it?

Absolutely.”

“They will never look back on this season and say, ‘we didn’t do enough;’ it’s just going to come down to the wire and what they have to give this weekend.”

The Sooners are set to compete in the second session of the semifinals at 8:05 tonight.

Oklahoma competes for ninth NCAA Championship The No. 2 OU men’s gymnastics team is slated for competition at the NCAA Qualifier meet at noon today in University Park, Pa. The Sooners — who earned a No. 2 seed with the second-highest qualifying score behind top-ranked, top-seeded host school Penn State — will compete against No. 3 Michigan, No. 6 Minnesota, No. 7 Illinois, No. 10 Nebraska and No. 11 Air Force in the first of two qualifier meets.

The second meet, which will feature Penn State, No. 4 Stanford, No. 5 Ohio State, No. 8 Iowa, No. 9 California and No. 12 Temple, begins at 6 p.m.

During the regular season, OU competed against eight of the 12 teams it will see this weekend, outperforming each of those eight teams except for Stanford.

After today’s qualifi ers, the event finals will take place at 6 p.m. on Saturday and the individual finals will follow at 1 p.m. on Sunday.

OU’s gymnastics program has won eight national championships — five since 2002 and its last coming in 2008 — and has finished second in each of the past two seasons.

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OU to face New Orleans without Carpenter Sooner goes home in wake of Waco factory explosion JONO GRECO

Assistant Sports Editor

The No. 11 Oklahoma baseball team has a mustw in ser ies against New Orleans this weekend, but there are moments in life that put the game’s importance on the backburner.

Freshman first baseman/ designated hitter Kolbey Carpenter went home to We s t , Te x a s, T h u r s d a y morning to be with his family and friends following Wednesday night’s fertilizer plant explosion that has killed at least 15 people and injured another 160 people.

All of Carpenter’s immediate family are OK, but he did lose people he was very close to, Golloway said.

“He was pretty emotional,” coach Sunny Golloway said. “My concern was how he was going to get home.

So we kept him until we really thought he was going to be safe; we even thought about having somebody drive him back, but he assured me he’d be OK. “We’ve been in touch with him, and he’s close to

being home, which is where he needs to be right now.”

Carpenter may or may not be back in Norman this weekend, that’s up to him, Golloway said.

“We just need to keep him in our hearts and our prayers,” he said. “And I’m sure our fans understand that if he’s not back this weekend he’s where he needs to be. When he does come back, I’m sure our fans are going to give him tremendous support just like his band of brothers (are).

“Those guys love him, and they care about him. I know they’ve been reaching out to him all day.”

Although Golloway told his players to make sure to contact Carpenter and keep the West, Texas, community in their prayers through social media, the players have not talked to him yet, senior right fielder Max White said.

“I haven’t had a chance to talk to (Carpenter), but our thoughts are with him,” he said.

Carpenter is hitting .258 with one homer and 14 RBIs this season.

But baseball still has to be played.

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PLAYER PROFILE Kolbey Carpenter Year: Freshman Hometown: Waco, Texas Position: First base/designated hitter/third base Statistics: .258 batting average, one home run, 14 RBIs, .984 fielding percentage

Big 12) and Privateers will square off in a three-game set starting 6:30 tonight at L. Dale Mitchell Park. The last two games of the series are slated for 2 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.

The players know this is a huge series although New Orleans enters the weekend with a 6-33 record.

OU is on a three-game losing streak, including a double-header sweep against Arkansas-Little Rock on Tuesday. “(This series is) not a must sweep, but it still goes back to winning the series,”

junior first baseman/designated hitter Matt Oberste said.

The Sooners’ biggest deficiency since the start of the Texas series on April 5 has been their lack of production at the plate.

During the team’s last three series, it has scored 25 runs on 58 hits — 10 runs and 14 hits came in one game against Baylor — for a .232 team batting average.

OU has gone 3-5 during that stretch.

It d o e s n o t m a t t e r i f Golloway has one of the best one-two combinations on the mound in junior pitchers Jonathan Gray and Dillon Overton, his club’s lack of production and readiness, especially in Tuesday’s losses against Arkansas-Little Rock, are not going to lead to wins,

Golloway said.

“We took the yard, got in the ring and got knocked d o w n ,” h e s a i d . “A n d when we got up, we got knocked down again. We got knocked down so many times we never really threw a punch. Now we’ve got to learn to get off the canvas and make an adjustment.”

Gray is slated to start tonight’s game, and Overton will start Saturday’s game.

Sunday’s starter has not been announced yet, but junior Ethan Carnes, freshman Ralph Garza Jr. and redshirt freshman Adam Choplick are potential options to take the mound in the series finale.

Again, baseball is just a child’s game grown men are paid to play. While the Sooners will be going for a critical series victory, there

are more important things going on with a community and a teammate a few hours south on Interstate 35.

“I’m not going to sit here a n d p re t e n d a s a h e a d coach or any of our players or coaches would pretend that it is going to affect us as much as it’s going to affect Kolbey, but because it affects Kolbey, it affects us,” Golloway said. “It’s almost to the point I wish we were closer to where we could go and do something as a team to help out.

“Just to let West, Texas, know that the Oklahoma Sooners are thinking about them.”

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The race itself is designed to test the endurance of the competitors’ bodies and minds. Torres said he had no idea what to expect, but found himself bursting through solid Tess Thomson bricks of ice to get Red Bull cans to singing the state song and Life & Arts Reporter assembling a tent in the middle of nowhere.

“Everything that we did pushed us outside our comfort Rain or shine, college students across the state will compete against one another in the annual Red Bull Land Rush zones and kept us on the edge of our seats,” Torres said. on Saturday.

The Red Bull Land Rush is a 4.2 mile course based off of “We’re just looking for a good time, and if the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889, according to a press rewe win, then we win.” lease dated March 25. The course is comprised of physical, mental and social challenges along the Oklahoma River Bijan hosseini, broadcast journalism and international security studies sohpomore in Oklahoma City. Contestants will compete for weekend passes to Lollapalooza 2013 and a city suite in Chicago from The race is open to any college student who is at least August 2 through 4.

Past contestant, Tristan Torres, who competed in the 2009 18 years old, has a smart phone with Twitter access and a race when he was a freshman at OU, said he studied a lot of quick response code reader, according to the press release.

Oklahoma history, such as learning songs and memorizing Red Bull will provide anything else competitors will need.

Competitors had to apply online at the beginning of April for the state bird and tree, to prepare for the race.

“Aside from brushing up on my Oklahoma history, I feel the chance to compete.

Teams are comprised of three members and each team that I learned so much about Oklahoma’s culture,” Torres

comes up with its own name. Multiple OU teams are competing, such as OU Squirrels, We Will Eat Your Dust, Princess Pioneers and more.

OU Squirrels member, Bijan Hosseini, a broadcast journalism and international security studies sophomore, said though he and his team have not prepared as much as they would have liked for the race, he does feel he has learned a lot about Oklahoma culture.

Hosseini admits his team’s biggest challenge will be navigational skills since no one on his team is familiar with Oklahoma City. However, he is looking forward to having a good time and interacting with college students around the state.

“We’re just looking for a good time, and if we win, then we win,” Hosseini said.

This is the third “once-in-a-lifetime” Land Rush Red Bull has hosted. It will be held two days before Oklahoma Day, which commemorates the original Oklahoma Land Rush that took place 124 years ago.

Tess Thomson, tthomson@ou.edu

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Week to feature music, exhibitions, theater productions The 12th annual President’s Arts Week brings festivities from Saturday to April 28 with concerts, art and theater as a thank you to President David Boren for his support of OU fine arts.

The celebration will begin with the President’s Concert at 8 p.m. Saturday featuring the OU Symphony Orchestra and OU combined choirs, according to a press release dated April 12. Additional concerts include the Symphony and Concert bands at 8 p.m. Monday and the Hornsemble and Brass Chamber Ensemble at 8 p.m. Tuesday. The OU Jazz Bands concert, featuring gypsy jazz guitarist Ivan Pena, will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday and the final concert will feature the Chiara String Quartet at 8 p.m. April 26.

President’s Arts Week also will host art exhibitions including the National Weather Center Biennale Exhibition opening Monday and running through June 2 at the National Weather Center, according to the press release. The School of Art & Art History’s Senior Capstone Exhibition will be held from April 28 to May 10 in the School of Art & Art History’s Lightwell Gallery.

Theater productions will feature student, faculty and staff talent and include “In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play),” which will run Saturday through Sunday and is rated PG-13, according to the press release. The student-directed drama “Eclipsed” will run April 24 to 27 in Old Science Hall’s E. Frank Gilson Studio Theatre. A Broadway-size production of “On the Town” will run from April 26 to May 5 at the Reynolds Performing Arts Center.

“This is high quality entertainment right on campus,” said Sandra Bent, marketing coordinator for the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts. “Students might find something new that they like that they haven’t experienced before.”

Tickets may be purchased 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday though Friday at the OU Fine Arts Box Office or by calling (405) 325-4101, according to the press release.

Jessica Murphy, Life & Arts Reporter

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