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Orphanage seeks OU volunteers MAX JANERKA

Campus Reporter

A local organization is reaching out to encourage Sooners to volunteer and help orphaned children in Kenya this fall.

Maisha International Orphanage is a nonprofit organization based in Oklahoma City that works in the Nyanza Province of Kenya, the organization’s founder Beatrice Williamson said.

The organization was founded in 2006 to help the impoverished orphans of Nyanza Province, according to its website. People in this province have been suffering from an epidemic of HIV/AIDS, to the extent that children in one of every three households in the province do not have parents.

Since 2009, various delegations of OU students and faculty have worked with the organization, Williamson said. Many of them have gone multiple times, including Honors College professor Andreana Prichard, who is going again this

summer.

The organization already has sufficient volunteers for the upcoming summer trip but is in need of 15 volunteers with particular skills for the trip in the fall, Williamson said.

For this trip in particular, it is important the organization has volunteers with medical knowledge and education, Williamson said.

Teachers are very important to the orphanage and its goals, Williamson said.

While Kenya contains 40 indigenous communities, each with its own native language, English as

the official language of the country and its schools, according to the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality.

While primary school — the first eight years of education — is compulsory in Kenya, continuing on to higher education requires passing the national examinations for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education, according to the consortium’s website.

This exam is given in English,

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OU staff and faculty talk among themselves at the first official day of the President’s Day of Learning dinner on Friday night at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History.

OU alumni return for President’s Day Event meant to ‘signify OU’s interest in life-long learning’ HALEY DAVIS

Campus Reporter

OU alumni returned to campus to continue their education on topics that varied from history and politics to the latest cancer research Friday and Saturday.

OU’s President’s Day of Learning was held for alumni who wished to return to the university to continue learning from OU faculty through a series of lectures.

The event was meant to signify OU’s interest in life-long learning, said Kyle Harper, senior vice provost and classics and letters professor, who gave a lecture about the political philosophy of the classical world and how those principles shaped modern civilization.

“I wanted to be a part of this event because, like any other teacher, I find it encouraging and inspiring to be in the presence of men and women united by intellectual curiosity and an openness to ideas,” said OU historian David Levy, who taught attendees about OU’s early history.

Levy said he hoped his talk would raise

curiosity in the audience about OU’s history and cause them to look at the institution in a different light than they had before.

Attendees also learned about cancer research from Shubham Pant, professor and researcher of hematology, the study of blood, and oncology, the study of cancer.

In his lecture, Pant described how cancer research has developed over time and talked about clinical trials taking place at OU to help cancer patients get new drugs.

Pant hoped his lecture would help attendees SEE LEARNING PAGE 2

CLOTHES SWAP

Donations given to aid impoverished women Temporary thrift store helps at-risk women in OKC area MORGAN GEORGE Campus Reporter

Vividly colored dresses, lightly worn shoes, shirts and jeans of all sizes, shapes and hues neatly lined the walls of a Norman elementary school gymnasium Saturday as it was turned into a momentary thrift store boutique for a noble cause.

The first Norman Clothes Swap, started by a few women from Redeemer Church in Norman, was held from 10 a.m. to noon at Roosevelt Elementary School. Shoppers were encouraged to bring clothes to donate, or swap, or just to come and purchase from the various donations received earlier.

The event raised money to provide clothing and supplies for at-risk women in the greater Oklahoma City area, and all of the extra clothes will be donated to various local community groups that help women in need, said Jenny LaBahn, the event’s organizer.

A few agencies in the area that work to assist at-risk women tabled at the swap and

discussed the importance of the event.

Vanessa Morrison, representative from the Women’s Resource Center of Norman, a domestic violence and emergency shelter for women, expressed how important this event was in helping to provide much-needed clothing for the agency.

“The women that come [to the Women’s Resource Center of Norman] often have nowhere else to go, and many come in with no shoes or their babies come in with no clothes, literally in a diaper, so [the Norman Clothes Swap] is very important for us because it pulls together the community resources to provide those clothing articles for the residence of our shelter,” Morrison said.

Other representatives of local organizations devoted to assisting women expressed the event’s significance not only in raising funds and receiving donations, but also in spreading the word about local agencies and getting in contact with individuals interested in helping in their communities. “[The Norman Clothes Swap] is a great chance for us to meet people who are interested in partnering with us,” said Corrie SEE CLOTHES PAGE 2

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Play dramatizes California policy

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A group of OU law students turned a courtroom into a stage Sunday afternoon with a theatrical reenactment of the 2010 federal court case contesting the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8.

A stage reading of “8,” a play by Hollywood writer Dustin Lance Black, was brought to the OU College of Law by The Legal Group for Building Tolerance and Acceptance to raise awareness about the details of the actual hearing. The hearing currently is setting the precedence for marriage equality in California and across the nation, said Matt Covert, president of the group and second year law student.

“It’s important for [law students] to stand up because, for us, [marriage equality] is a matter of equal rights,” Covert said. “We’re lawyers and we fight for people. I think for a state to ban something like [marriage equality] violates the full protection or the due process clause of the constitution.”

The cast was made up of 20 individuals ranging from law students to professors to theater majors, Covert said.

Covert said he obtained the license to perform “ 8” f ro m t h e A m er i can Foundation for Equal Rights, a nonprofit organization Black is a board member of.

The organization was excited about the play being performed in Oklahoma because they want the play to be as accessible as possible in order to raise awareness.

About 30 people showed SEE PLAY PAGE 2

Men’s, women’s gymnastics finish second at NCAA Championships Sports: The OU gymnastics teams both finished as runners-up during the weekend.

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which often is a problem for children who have not had a chance to perfect their English, Williamson said.

This is why it is so important the people who volunteer with the organization also act as teachers, Williamson also stated.

The organization also has a clinic that will need to be staffed, because, by the fall trip, the clinic will have gone through the set up phase and be ready to function, Williamson said.

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Blake Gatewood dances with Maisha orphans in Kenya. Maisha is a nonprofit organization based in Oklahoma City that runs an orphanage in Kenya.

PLAY: ‘8’ takes equal rights stance Continued from page 1

procreation would be diminished if the state allowed same sex marriage because they can’t create children on up to watch the play.

Nathan Holliday, music their own. However, this arbusiness senior at Southern gument did not hold water Nazarene University, said he in court, in part because all but two of the was surprised defense’s witat the low turn“People just nesses stepped out, given the Supreme Court don’t realize down and would not testify under appeal currently the hurt they oath after their is in the public eye. cause people ... arguments were by The play when they don’t dismantled preliminary opens with t h e c l o s i n g allow them the cross-examinaa r g u m e n t s same rights as tion. The plaintiffs argued the of the plainheterosexual right to marry is tiffs in Perry v. a basic, constituSchwarzenegger couples.” tional, civil right a n d re c o u n t s that cannot be witness testimoNATHAN HOLLIDAY, taken away withny and the priMUSIC BUSINESS vate experienc- SENIOR AT SOUTHERN out a compelling es of plaintiffs’ NAZARENE UNIVERSITY reason. The federal court ruled families during the hearing, which added in favor of the plaintiffs, a humanistic and personal ruling which since has been appealed all the way to the elements.

“People just don’t realize Supreme Court, according to the hurt they cause people, the text of the play.

It may be that the incomreal people, when they don’t allow them the same rights petency of the defense aras heterosexual couples,” gument was exaggerated in the play, but that artistic libHolliday said.

The defense’s argument erty did not detract from the was the purpose of mar- meaning of the production, riage is procreation and Holliday said.

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Matchell, a representative from the Spero Project, an organization that mobilizes the church to under-resourced populations, mainly in Oklahoma City.

Claudia Lovelace, executive director of Skyline Urban Ministry, an organization serving at-risk children and adults that includes a food pantry, after-school program, eye clinic and clothing center, hopes that through this event the word can be spread about the resources of Skyline Urban Ministry to those who need it.

“It doesn’t matter to me if I tell just one person about our programs and they pass that on to that needy person.

Because of this event, somewhere, somebody is going to get the information,” Lovelace said.

LEARNING: Lecturers discuss cancer, history Continued from page 1

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“In a courtroom, everything is laid out for people to see,” Holliday said.

“I’m not surprised [that so many defense witnesses declined to testify in court] because I feel like the reason people don’t want homosexuals to have equal rights or to marry is just out of fear. That fear and ignorance biases them against the reality that homosexual couples are not any different from heterosexual couples.”

The Supreme Court heard the appeal of Perry v. Schwarzenegger beginning on March 26, and the decision is expected in June, Covert said.

“I think, likely, they’ll decide that the defendants didn’t have standing to bring the case on appeal so it will just leave the initial judges’ decision.

Basically California will have equal marriage again, but it won’t apply to other states,” Covert said.

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understand how complex cancer is so they will be more open to participating in clinical trials, which would help researchers continue to develop new cancer treatments, he said.

“Every cancer is different and treatments are varied … I want to encourage more participation from patients in clinical trials so we can move forward,” Pant said.

Following Pant’s lecture, classics and letters professor Andrew Powancher discussed the Gilded Age murder trials of the 1800s.

Powancher talked about the book he’s currently working on, which tells the tale of a revered Civil War hero who was slain by his daughter’s fiancé while defending her honor. This story helps people understand the tumultuous

“History furnishes us with real life dramas far richer than anything Hollywood could ever dream up.”

ANDREW POWANCHER, CLASSICS AND LETTERS PROFESSOR

political, legal and cultural climate of Gilded Age America, Powancher said.

“History furnishes us with real life dramas far richer than anything Hollywood could ever dream up,” Powancher said.

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THUMBS UP: An orphanage in Kenya is looking for OU students to volunteer in educational and medical positions. If you have experience, please help this great cause. (Page 1)

Editorial

Oklahomans should risk safety to protect others Our view: In the face of a horrible hate crime,

Oklahomans demonstrate a community can have a positive impact.

After the attack took place, Seal took out an advertisement in the Oklahoma Gazette making his opinion on the incident very clear, “Neither you Hate is alive and well in Oklahoma but it does nor I gets to decide who is or is not allowed in this not define Oklahoma. When a man yelling anbar.” The ad goes on to explain that all kinds of, ti-gay slurs attacked Jim Roth on April 6 outside “hippies and elected officials and lesbians and Grandad’s bar in Oklahoma City, the bar owner, hipsters,” come into his bar and all are welcome Greg Seal, used the experience as a way to demon- and, “Hate is not on tap at Grandad’s.” strate what Oklahoma is really about — comIt would have been simple for Seal to ignore the munity. It is important to talk about the hateful issue — even though it happened at his bar, it was state senator who speaks out against the “honot his responsibility. Seal also is putting his bar at mosexual agenda,” or the violence used risk — in July 2012, a man’s car was burnt against GLBTQ people to intimidate and to the ground and vandalized because he The Our View terrorize, but it is more important to talk is the majority was gay. opinion of about the progress we have made, and the Seal demonstrated the community spirThe Daily’s Oklahomans who have helped us make it. it he spoke about in the ad by reaffirming nine-member Roth is one of those people. Gov. Brad editorial board his business’ commitment to inclusiveHenry appointed Roth to the state’s ness. The ad was quickly shared across Corporation Commission in 2007. Roth social media through Facebook and blogs. became the first openly gay elected official in We hope more business owners will follow his Oklahoma in 2002 when he served as a county example. commissioner.

This type of attack in Oklahoma is nothing These numbers are disturbing. It is shocking new. An 18-year-old gay man, Cody Rogers was it took until 2002 to elect an openly gay man to attacked in Tulsa in March 2012 by other teens serve in government. But Roth’s election and yelling anti-gay slurs. Instead of hiding, Rogers subsequent appointment demonstrate that used the experience to advocate for anti-hate Oklahoma might be moving in the right direction. crime legislation in Oklahoma — anti-hate crime Republican Gov. Mary Fallin even recommended protections in Oklahoma do not include violence Roth to the state election board, although the state committed based on sexual orientation. senate eventually turned him down.

For every victim of a hate crime, there are comAs a public servant, Roth seemed more conmunity members calling for justice. What you cerned about Oklahoma, rather than his own must decide is what side of the fence you will be safety, “I don’t think the actions of one bigot rep- on. resent the attitude or feelings of all Oklahomans,” Would you stay silent in the face of discriminaRoth said in an interview with newsok.com. “I tion, or will you, like Seal and Roth, risk your own personally have met hundreds of thousands of safety to stand up for the rights and security of Oklahomans through my time in public service. your fellow Oklahomans?

I’ve certainly met some who were closed-minded. But the great majority of people I have met are kindhearted and open-minded,” Roth said.

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Letter to the editor

Don’t let terrorism take nation down Glad the nightmare in Boston is over. The manhunt for the suspects reminded me of a day in October 1997 in Sri Lanka.

A horde of Tamil Tiger suicide bombers attacked the World Trade Center in Sri Lanka — some escaped after blowing up a truck but failing to bring it down. Some of the terrorists were wearing suicide vests. They had to be hunted down one by one by security forces — Tigers kept blowing themselves up when cornered — soldiers who caught them knew they were going to die but had to do their job, and they did by sacrificing their own lives.

I cringed when I was following the news about these two attackers and was glad it ended this way. I remember the terrible tension and uncertainty of what was going on — we had to rely on TV. The city was relieved when the last terrorist was killed hiding inside a publishing house. People in Colombo never let terrorists change their lives despite dozens of terrorist attacks — they were resilient and courageous just like the people of historic Boston. I feel proud of this great city and this great nation. Never let terrorists get you down or change our way of life. If we live in fear, the terrorists win.

Mano Ratwatte is a MIS instructor.

Column

Gaylord event ends students’ assembly, speech protections Editor’s note: The Opinion columnist Society of Professional Journalists hosted a “First Amendment Free Food Festival” in Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communications on Thursday. Students could eat free Raising Cane’s Micah Wormley chicken, pizza and cookies m.wormley@ou.edu if they temporarily signed away their right to free speech. Event organizers broke up groups of students, banned talking in lines and attempted to recreate conditions in societies without free speech rights.

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minimized, funding decreased

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he Obama adminthe anticipation of high tension between the Republicanopinion columnist istration recently controlled House and the Obama administration during submitted a $640.5 budget talks, military spending requests may be a barbillion fiscal year 2014 regaining chip as Republicans look to cut down spendquest for military spending. ing. Cuts to the military requests may be offered to The request is only a slight Republicans as an alternative to tax increases they are increase from last year’s certain to refuse. but falls $55 billion above But the most logical reason for requesting a large milithe spending cap set by the tary budget is much more straightforward.

Storm Dowd-Lukesh Budget Control Act of 2011.

The Obama administration is likely convinced by the storm.dowlukesh@gmail.com Despite campaigning to military consensus that U.S. power is the backbone of end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and carry out those global stability and liberalization. It is not hard to assume promises, President Obama has allowed non-war “nathe government believes the United States should lead tional defense” spending to rise too high. the world or assert our ideals on global proceedings, but it The request is in stark contrast from is a flawed assumption.

“It is not hard news stories earlier this year, which reI respect President Obama’s thorough ported military spending cuts of $480 biltroop withdraw from the Middle East and to assume the lion by the Obama administration. While believe his anti-war stance is beneficial to government Republicans like Rep. Howard McKeon, our nation. However, there is more to the R-Calif., called the cuts dangerous and irbelieves the United military than war, and removing troops responsible, the announced figures turned while continually leading the world in States should out to be misleading. military spending without strong cuts is a lead the world or problem itself.

The funding “cuts” actually were calculated from the Congressional Budget assert our ideals on The military–industrial complex can Office’s baseline projections — projected be separated from interventionist poliglobal proceedings, cy temporarily, but military investments spending figures, which take into account wartime spending and are significantly but it is a flawed will find their way into the international bloated. Essentially, the CBO projected community. assumption.” military spending would rise much faster If the military budget request is intendthan the near-constant spending levels ed to create political leverage and true Obama has budgeted. spending ends up significantly below the Obama has done well to curb military spending, but his more than $600 billion dollars requested, then the Obama progress may be too slow. It is clear there may be alterna- administration can be forgiven. tive motivations for the high spending level requests.

But if the United States continues to fear military cuts, First, the $88.5 billion “placeholder” request for war even in peacetime, future administrations will find peace funding is likely to drop once force levels are determined more difficult to maintain. in Afghanistan. The request is equal to last year’s, but the Obama administration has announced they will amend it when troop totals in Afghanistan are finalized.

Storm Dowd-Lukesh is a University College freshman.

The requests also may be politically motivated. With

think the Kingdom of the Socialist States of the People’s Republic of Gaylord is a glorious, prosperous nation. These people are the best of the best. Any rumors that the Socialist People’s Republic of Gaylord only existed from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday are completely false.

The rumors that the government consisted wholly of members of the nefarious group known as the Society of Professional Journalists are also false. As we all know, these criminals have been spreading silly thoughts about “First Amendment Rights.”

If it weren’t for [redacted — SPRG officials], the insurgents and their plans to promote these rights would cause horrible damage to the happiness of our citizens.

Instead, 1,905 people became citizens of our nation.

All the rumors that the Party only attracted about 50 attendees are false and heresy. Rally attendees who arrived early were treated to the latest in party approved music.

“This is amazing food,” said [name redacted]. “Free food is the only kind of freedom I need.”

[Redacted by SPRG officials], a journalism senior who looked like our wise leader, Alex Ewald, said the idea of the [redacted by SPRG officials] was to make people realize what freedom really means. “The point is to get people talking, ironically, about their rights,” he said. “To talk about what it’s like not to express themselves, assemble or have religious expression.” He was [redacted by SPRG officials] and could not continue interviewing.

As we all know, the five rights these [redacted — SPRG officials] promote are nothing compared to the freedom we all share from knowing we will be well provided for.

The food at the [redacted — SPRG officials] was bountiful and plenty. So were the state approved talking points, which included: the Oklahoma City Thunder using nothing but puns, the fall of actress Amanda Bynes, how awesome our glorious leader truly is, Google maps vs. Apple maps, “That’s what she said” jokes and tornadoes.

Our leader, Alex Ewald provided wonderful commentary on the state of our nation and of the [redacted — SPRG officials]. “You don’t need these rights because we run a perfect nation with one opinion and one view that benefits all.”

This report has been deemed counter-factual. Micah Wormley, a professional writing junior, is to be removed and judiciously dealt with by the Kingdom of Socialist States of the People’s Republic of Gaylord officials.

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OUDaily.com ›› OU’s Student Film Production Club held its fifth annual Redbud Film Festival on Friday.

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New film should be banished to ‘Oblivion’ Life & arts columnist

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eleased Friday, “Oblivion” has got to be one of the worst films of the year. There is hardly a plot; there are only two good performances (Tom Cruise’s and Morgan Freeman’s); and there are too many twists — most of them completely unrelated to the story.

In “Oblivion,” an alien invasion in the year 2017 completely destroyed the moon and left Earth a nearly barren wasteland. It is implied nuclear weapons were the only way to rid Earth of alien invaders, leaving Earth uninhabitable by humans.

That part kind of makes sense. Just like every other nuclear apocalypse story, the earth turns to crap and civilization will never be the same. It’s what happens after that makes “Oblivion” start to suck.

The story revolves around Jack Harper (Tom Cruise), who lives on Earth with his lover, Victoria (Andrea Riseborough). The year is 2077, 60 years after the war.

Their job is to extract all of the remaining resources out of the earth and repair drones that guard giant water extraction and purification systems. How they can survive on Earth and no other human can is a question that goes unanswered.

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When Earth is destroyed by a nuclear war, Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) and his partner Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) stay behind to send the last of Earth’s resources to Saturns moon, Titan, where humanity has moved. But when a container of comatose humans falls from the sky, Jack realizes the universe is not what it seems.

Fahrenheit.

After the first hour, you’ll probably want to get up and leave. Watching Jack Harper Starring: Tom Cruise, fly around in a cute little Morgan Freeman and Andrea dragonfly-looking helicopRiseborough ter-thing, repair drones and talk to himself does not proRated: PG-13 vide much entertainment.

Eventually, a spaceship Run time: 126 minutes filled with humans falls to Earth. All the humans are in Saturn’s moons. For those of little coffins that apparently you that don’t know, Titan is have preserved their lives for about 800 million miles away sixty years, since the start of and has an average tempera- the war. Unfortunately, the ture of about -300 degrees drones kill all of the humans

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except one, who ends up having a special connection with Jack Harper.

Jack and the one surviving human, Sally (Melissa Leo), form an alliance and spend the rest of the film trying to figure out what really happened to the world. It’s here that “Oblivion” loses any chance of being remembered as a serious movie.

Everything changes and nothing is explained. There is no logic to anything that happens after Jack and Sally team up. In fact, Morgan

Freeman even shows up on Earth — which was supposed to be uninhabitable.

“Oblivion” is like a mashup of “Castaway” and “War of the Worlds” with a romantic theme tossed in. If you have to see “Oblivion,” watch it through a critical lens and note all the many shortcomings. It will make for a hilarious two hours.

Aaron Cotney is an economics and English writing sophomore.

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OUDaily.com ›› The Sooners’ top-ranked softball team won two of three games on the road against Texas this weekened to take first place in the Big 12.

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T h e O k l a h o ma w o m e n ’s g y m n a s t i c s t e a m claimed second at the 2013 NC AA Gymnastics Championships with a final score of 197.375 on Saturday in Los Angeles.

After a second-place finish in the semifinals on Friday, Saturday marked Oklahoma’s third time to compete in the Super Six team finals in program history.

It also was the second time the Sooners have recorded a No. 2 finish in the Championship.

The Sooners finished close behind Florida’s score of 197.575 and were followed by two-time defending champion, Alabama, at 197.350, UCLA at 197.100, LSU at 197.050 and Georgia at 196.675.

“Before we went out, we said no regrets, and in the end, there wasn’t one more toe we could point, there wasn’t one more landing we could stick,” head coach K.J. Kindler said in a news release. “We did everything in our power to do the best we could. They laid their hearts out there.”

The highest event score of the night for the Sooners was on beam with a 49.475, led by sophomore Rebecca Clark who set a career high score of a 9.925. The team beam score also marked the

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Senior Brie Olson flips over the vault during the semifinal round of the 2013 NCAA Gymnastics Championships on Friday at Pauley Pavilion. OU finished second at its semifinal, scoring 197.200.

highest of any other team on the event.

Fierce competition cont i n u e d t h ro u g h o u t t h e meet, which consequently led to the final rotation to determine the national champion.

Oklahoma took to the floor to close out the night and produced dynamic performances, led by senior Brie Olson’s final routine as a Sooner that earned her a 9.925 and contributed to a 49.400 on the event. Yet, with Florida’s strong final rotation on bars, Oklahoma was unable to seal the win.

However, the Sooners’

“Before we went out, we said no regrets, and in the end there wasn’t one more toe we could point, there wasn’t one more landing we could stick,.”

NCAA record for number of meets in a season with a 197 or greater score.

Even without a championship title, the Sooners produced a memorable night filled with emotion.

“The emotion was incredible,” Kindler said. “After landing, we had people crying and tearing up and absolutely losing their minds.

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Oklahoma heats up at plate against struggling Privateers “We come out here Golloway shuffles lineup with success and do some great things. We got a JONO GRECO lot of hits; we got Assistant Sports Editor a lot of runs this The New Orleans Privateers may be the weekend. I think worst team on the No. 11 it gives us a lot of Oklahoma baseball team’s schedule, but this weekconfidence going e n d ’s s e r i e s s w e e p — into this week.” capped by a 14-3 run-rule victory Sunday at L. Dale Mitchell Park — reminded Sooner Nation this team can hit.

The Sooners (32-10, 8-4 Big 12) pounded New Orleans pitchers for 38 runs on 46 hits that featured six homers during the threegame set.

“We come out here and do some great things,” junior first baseman Matt Oberste said. “We got a lot of hits; we got a lot of runs this weekend. I think it gives us a lot of confidence going into this week.”

And OU hitters did all of this with many of them hitting in new spots in the lineup.

Oberste, who has been the team’s four-hole hitter all year, hit leadoff, senior shortstop Jack Mayfield was moved from leadoff to last in the order and senior left fielder Max White dropped from the three-hole spot to four-hole. And coach Sunny Golloway’s lineup shake-up was apparent throughout the order as only two players maintained their original spots.

The Sooners’ three upperclassmen in leadership positions — Mayfield, Oberste and White — combined to go 20-for-37 with four homers and 15 RBIs against the Privateers (6-36).

“I just kind of tried to keep it simple,” said Mayfield, who hit two home runs and drove in eight runs

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this weekend. “Let the ball get deep, just try to square it up and hopefully find some holes. I found one that went over.”

Sophomore designated hitter Colt Bickerstaff added two home runs during the series, his first homers of his young career.

Ju n i o r p i t c h e r Et h a n Carnes made a case for winning the up-for-grabs Sunday starter spot after allowing three runs on six hits through seven innings. His only struggles during the win were in the first inning when he gave up all three of New Orleans’ runs.

“It helped when my defense was making every play because I didn’t strike out that many,” said Carnes, who improved to 2-1 and struck out five batters. “(I) felt really thankful and blessed to get my opportunity.”

Freshman infielder Kolb e y Carp enter, who left the team to go home to West, Texas, to be with and help his family and friends following Wednesday’s fertilizer plant explosion, did not make any of this weekend’s games. There is no timetable for Carpenter’s return, Golloway said.

“I’ll be glad when I see him again — give him a big hug,” he said. “I miss him, and I know he’s where he

PLAYER PROFILE Jack Mayfield Year: Senior Position: Shortstop Statistics: Hit two home runs and plated eight runs against New Orleans this weekend.

needs to be right now. It kind of puts baseball into perspective.”

The Sooners head out for a key midweek game against No. 12 Arkansas at 6:35 p.m.

Tuesday in Fayetteville, Ark. Because of how well the new-look lineup worked against New Orleans, Golloway plans on keeping it the same against the Razorbacks.

“I’ll leave (the lineup) alone on Tuesday, and we’ll go battle Arkansas,” he said.

“We’re going to see some power arms. If things go well on Tuesday, we’ll stay with that lineup on Friday (against Texas Tech). So let’s all keep our fingers crossed.”

Redshirt freshman Adam Choplick will start on the mound for the Sooners, Golloway said. The 6-foot8-inch lefty is 3-1 with a 4.20 ERA but has struggled in his last three starts, totaling four innings during those outings.

“We’ve got to stick with the big guy; he’s too talented,” Golloway said. “He deserves it, he’s talented, he’s worked hard and he’s a great kid.”

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Olympian Sam Mikulak won the all-around competition and helped Michigan pull away from Oklahoma in the final rotation to take the NCAA men’s gymnastics title Saturday night.

Michigan finished with 443.200 points, and Oklahoma had 440.100 after leading by five-tenths after five events.

The Wolverines’ final event was floor exercise and they scored 75.250, while the Sooners earned 72.750 on the high bar.

The championship was Michigan’s fifth, and the third for head coach Kurt Golder.

“You work so hard every year and it doesn’t always come to fruition,” Golder said. “When it does, it’s very special.”

Sooners coach Mark Williams was pleased with the second-place finish.

“We were trying to get as good as we could during the year and see how far we could go,” Williams said. “There’s no way I could have projected this team would have finished second.”

Stanford was third at 436.150, followed by host Penn State at 436.100, Iowa at 426.450 and Illinois at 422.550.

Mikulak finished at 91.150 for his second all-around title in three years. He was second last season. Teammate Adrian de los Angeles was second at 88.350.

“We wanted that 1-2 finish and that’s what we got,” Mikulak said.

The NCAA title in his senior season capped off quite a year for Mikulak, a member of the U.S. senior national team who competed in the London Olympics.

“There’s a lot more pride with this team of brothers I’ve been working so hard every day with in the gym,” Mikulak said. “As much as the Olympics was an amazing experience, this is something that I hadn’t accomplished and this is the final accolade I was striving to get for my college career.”

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