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Big Event volunteers clean up storm mess OU students help homeless shelter clear debris Saturday TIM FRENCH

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During the Big Event on Saturday, OU student groups spread throughout the Norman and Oklahoma City area to show the student body’s gratitude for the cities they call home. One such group was designated to assist an organization that helps those with no place to call home.

The International Advisory Committee was sent to the East Main Place homeless shelter. The committee works to give a voice to the more than 2,000 international students on OU’s campus. They used that ethic to help the residents of East Main Place on Saturday.

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Cancer survivors begin OU’s 2012 Relay for Life with a survivor lap Saturday on the South Oval. The 12-hour event brought students together to stay up all night “fighting the disease that never sleeps.” After collecting donations before the event, participants spent the night circling the South Oval, collecting donations and selling snacks, bracelets and other souvenirs to meet the organizers’ goal of $100,000 for the American Cancer Society.

Relay for Life raises nearly $100K

The two stars have been cooling for 10 billion years

Event raises money for cancer research, honors victims alive and passed

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BEN FRIEDLANDER and MAXINE JANERKA Campus Reporters

The Relay for Life, held on campus over the weekend, was the largest in OU’s history, both in the number of participants and the amount of funds raised.

The 11th annual event drew 1,352 students, faculty, staff and Norman residents to comprise 69 relay teams and raised $98,108 according to the event page on the Relay for Life website.

Relay for Life raises money for American Cancer Center research, in addition to serving as a way to honor loved ones who have battled cancer.

The on-campus relay outdid previous fundraising totals of $84,000 and $80,000 earned in 2011 and 2010, respectively.

The 12-hour event began at 7 p.m. on the South Oval, and participants walked and ran around the oval continuously until a closing ceremony was conducted at 7 a.m. Sunday.

The relay’s opening ceremony honored cancer survivors, caregivers and participants who raised more than $1,000 each before survivors wearing purple shirts led the event’s first lap.

Among the survivors was University College freshman Tanner Linn, who said he was first diagnosed with bone cancer in sixth grade.

The cancer was discovered in his right humerus bone when Linn, self-professed “sports fanatic,” found he could no longer throw a baseball.

His father took him to a sports doctor and then a hospital, he said.

After his diagnosis, Linn endured

Researchers discover two white dwarf stars in 2008

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Tanner Lin, University College freshman, passes Kaufman Hall as he retraces the steps he took around the South Oval on Saturday night and Sunday morning during Relay for Life. Lin, a cancer survivor, was diagnosed in sixth grade and celebrated his sixth year without cancer in December.

three different kinds of chemotherapy for 14 months and underwent multiple surgeries.

After the last bout of chemotherapy, tests came back confirming the cancer was 100-percent gone.

In the end, Linn’s humerus and rotator cuff were both replaced with metal.

“As of December 17, last December... I am six years cancer-free,” Linn said.

In those six years, Linn has returned to

AT A GLANCE Relay for Life Participants: 1,352 Relay teams: 69 Total raised: $98,108 Top-earning teams: Society of Petroleum Engineers: $26,104 Delta Sigma Pi: $7,671 Relay for Life Executive Committee: $5,436 Source: Relay for Life OU campus event website

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An upcoming article in a scientific journal will detail an OU professor’s work to identify two new white dwarves considered to be the closest examples of some of the oldest stars in the galaxy.

OU astronomy and physics professor Mukremin Kilic discovered these stars by chance in 2008 and said they offer insight to the age of the galaxy.

“These two stars we found were there since the beginning, formed right after the Big Bang, and have been cooling since then,” Kilic said.

The white dwarf stars originally burned as bright as the sun but shed their outer layers and cooled over time, leaving a core of carbon and oxygen, Kilic said. These two stars lived shorter than the sun because they have more mass, meaning they burned hotter and cooled more quickly.

“It’s just like a cup of coffee or tea that cools down over time,” Kilic said.

Kilic was the lead author of the paper announcing the discovery. The paper was accepted in the astronomy and astrophysics journal, “Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.”

The paper will be published within the next two weeks. Co-authors of the paper include John Thorstensen from Dartmouth College, Piotr Kowalski from Helmholtz Centre in Potsdam, Germany, and Jeff Andrews from Columbia University.

The white dwarves are very small objects about Earth’s size but have mass comparable to the sun, said Thorstensen, who worked with Kilic to measure the distance of the stars.

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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

CLEANUP: Playground debris surprises volunteers Continued from page 1

TODAY AROUND CAMPUS Staff Week begins with two sessions of bingo. The first will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Stadium’s Santee Lounge, and the second will be from 2 to 4 p.m. at Couch Restaurants.

TUESDAY, APRIL 24 A seminar about managing final exams will take place at 4 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245.

Write Club Creative Writers Writing Group will meet at 6 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 280.

An OU Jazz Bands concert featuring guest artist Drew Zaremba, a saxophonist from the University of North Texas, will be held at 8 p.m. at Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall.

Tickets are $5 for OU students, faculty and staff.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25 A Latin Americanist Lunch featuring Marcelo Rioseco, assistant professor of Spanish literature, will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Hester Hall, Room 160.

A seminar about time management will take place at 2 p.m. in Adams Center’s Muldrow Tower, Room 105.

The baseball team plays Dallas Baptist at 6:30 p.m. at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

The softball team plays Oklahoma State at 7 p.m. at Marita Hynes Field.

A lecture, “Speaking Truth to Power,” by Center for Social Justice activist-in-residence Lauren Zuniga will be held at 7 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Regents Room.

A hornsemble and brass recital will take place from 8 to 10 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall.

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After President David Boren gave an introductory speech Saturday morning to the volunteers gathered on the North Oval, advisory committee members dispersed into two groups.

One headed straight to the East Main Place facility, and the other headed to pick up supplies.

Supplies were provided by event coordinators and consisted of gloves to protect the workers’ hands from the glass and sharp objects on the ground around the facility, post diggers to help dig a new fence, and shovels and rakes to help with the cleaning of the debris.

This was the group’s first year back after a two-year absence from the Big Event, and international security studies sophomore Hillary Medina said group members were happy to resume their participation.

“A lot of people wanted to volunteer to help at the Big Event,” Medina said.

“With [the International Advisory Committee], it’s

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Exchange student Bumpei Kinsui (left) and University College freshman Daniel Song plant new flowers in an overgrown sitting area Saturday in Andrews Park for the 13th annual Big Event.

good to get the international kids involved with the local community.”

Once on site at East Main Place, committee participants were tasked with helping to clean up the area around the facility’s playground.

The debris littered around the two play sets included broken glass, roof shingles and small metal nails.

The 11-person crew had plenty of work to keep them busy during their time at the facility, in part because of the storms that recently

ripped through Norman.

“The facility was slightly damaged in last week’s storms,” said Cory Allen, East Main Place facilities manager and volunteer donations coordinator. “But a SEE BIG EVENT PAGE 3

STARS: Findings to be announced in magazine Continued from page 1 These two stars formed 11 to 12 billion years ago and have been cooling for the last 10 billion years, Kilic said.

“One thing Kilic has been involved in is using them as clocks,” Thorstensen said.

“In other words, as indicators for how old the galaxy is because you can tell how long a star like this has been cooling down since it ended its evolution.”

These stars are currently about 100 light years away, Kilic and his colleagues found after measuring the position of the stars over four years using a 2.4-meter telescope in Arizona.

The stars are constantly moving and just happen to be so close right now, Kilic said.

“We’re lucky to get to study them while they’re so close to us,” Kilic said. “In the next billion years, they will be 50,000 light years away.”

Working with Kilic to chart and describe the white dwarves was a good experience, Thorstensen said.

AT A GLANCE The natural steps of stellar evolution When the fuel that powers a star’s nuclear reactions is used up, energy from the core of the star stops. The nuclear reactions outside the core cause the star to expand outward into the “red giant” phase. This is the beginning of the star’s inevitable collapse.

During the red giant stage, it has been calculated that the Earth’s sun will grow 200 times its current size. This could cause the inner planets, including Earth, to be destroyed. The Earth’s sun won’t go into this phase for billions of years.

RELAY: Event raises funds, spreads awareness Continued from page 1 playing sports after teaching himself how to throw with his left hand, he said.

The on-campus relay was Linn’s second Relay for Life.

During his first relay, held during his freshman year of high school, he walked for nine hours, he said.

Linn walked this weekend for many people, including his grandmother, the friends he had made while undergoing treatment and two students in his hometown who have recently been diagnosed themselves, he said.

Linn is planning to major in petroleum engineering at OU, he said.

“I plan on trying to get my degree in four-and-a-half, five years, going to work for Exxon or something, have a job ... have a family,” Linn said, “I still plan on trying to give back to the Cancer Society as much as I can.”

In addition to the continuous walk around the oval, attendees participated in the Luminaria Ceremony, in which paper bags were lit up by candles to honor loved

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Chemistry junior Blake Jones (center) and other Relay for Life paticipants watch their friends play a game to stay awake at 3 a.m. Sunday at OU’s 2012 Relay for Life event, which challenged participants to walk laps around the South Oval and stay awake from 7 p.m. Saturday to 7 a.m. Sunday to show that cancer never sleeps.

ones who have battled cancer.

Attendees also participated in the Fight Back Ceremony, during which pledges were made to take up the fight against cancer by getting regular screenings, eliminating health risks like smoking and speaking up to elected officials about the importance of cancer research.

The event also featured root beer pong games, a flag football tournament, Zumba, music and a mock oil rig erected by the OU Society of Petroleum Engineers, which raised $26,104.

OU Relay for Life will accept donations for the American Cancer Society until the end of the semester.

Events to include blood, food drive Campus Reporter

OU’s Staff Week kicks off today with a more healthcentered focus after a survey was conducted after last year’s events.

This year’s health-centered events include a bike ride and a health and information fair, according to a press release.

The bike ride will be a tour of the campus to show how OU has become more bicyclefriendly, Staff Senate chairwoman Fran Stephens said.

The week also includes

traditional events, such as bingo, craft and hobby fairs and the ice cream social, which have been part of the week for decades, Stephens said.

“We are trying to encourage people to live a healthier lifestyle,” Stephens said.

The committee behind staff week has been working on this year’s events for the entire year. The committee raised funds through a host of T-shirt sales, Stephens said.

Another new staff week event will be “The Taste of OU,” which will feature foods from campus restaurants, such as Casa Del Sol, Smoke House, Chick-Fil-A, Shanghai

Stir Fry and the Laughing Tomato, according to a press release.

A blood and food drive will take place. Participants can bring canned food to any of the events or attend the blood drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Wednesday at the Thurman J. White Forum Building.

“We encourage all supervisors to let their employees off to take part in all of the festivities,” university spokesman Michael Nash said.

Students are invited to attend all of the events, excluding the staff awards ceremony, which is closed to the public.

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Relay for Life was started in May 1985 by Gordy Klatt. Klatt wanted to raise awareness and money for his local chapter of the American Cancer Society, so he decided to run a marathon and ask people to pay $25 to walk or run with him for half an hour. That first event raised $27,000, according to the website.

lot of the work being done is leftover from the big storms last year.”

At one point, advisory committee member Steven Dixon picked up a piece of roofing that was the size of his whole torso. However, members kept their spirits up by keeping their conversations light. They joked about learning the Spanish word for roly-poly, due to the creatures’ abundance across the damp ground.

“We always try to work with OU,” Allen said. “It is refreshing to have a younger crowd around helping us out.

It’s important to have them recognize those who have struggled and to help us get people back on their feet.”

But Allen wasn’t the only one who has seen the good that volunteering can cause.

“I chose to volunteer for Big Event because I hadn’t last year and felt left out afterward,” advisory committee judicial board chairman Joe Loveless said. “But also because the more I read, the more important volunteering seems to be to improving the world.”

After nearly three hours of hard work spent clearing potentially harmful debris, the group was finished.

“I felt good after spending time helping the community to recover from the tornado,” Loveless said. “It just makes me think what we could accomplish if we volunteered more often. I will probably volunteer again somewhere over the summer. It is a good way to spend some of the free time I will have and make a difference doing it.”

If students are interested in helping out at the East Main Place homeless shelter, Allen urged them to contact the facility or to donate anything they can spare, whether it be monetary, food or clothing. Every little bit helps.

OU Staff Week to feature more health-centered events SEAN LAWSON

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*Not to scale

After the star reaches the red giant phase and the star is about the same mass as Earth’s sun, the star will collapse in on itself and become a white dwarf star. White dwarves are very dense stars that are only slightly larger than Earth but are 200,000 times as dense.

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AT A GLANCE University Staff Week events through Friday Today Two sessions of bingo will be held from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium’s Santee Lounge and from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in Couch Restaurants.

from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Thurman J. White Forum Building, which will coincide with the blood drive. The bike ride will start at 10 a.m. at the Huston Huffman Center. The Health fair will include a cookout that begins at 11 a.m.

Tuesday The staff awards ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom. It will be held in conjunction with the Staff Week art exhibit and competition in Fred Jones Jr. Art Museum.

Thursday The craft and hobby fair will take place between 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the armory.

Wednesday The health and information fair will take place

Friday Taste of OU is set from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Brooks Mall. In the event of rain, it will be moved to the armory.

Source:: OU Staff Week press release

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CAMPUS

• Monday, April 23, 2012

CAMPUS

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

CLEANUP: Playground debris surprises volunteers Continued from page 1

TODAY AROUND CAMPUS Staff Week begins with two sessions of bingo. The first will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Stadium’s Santee Lounge, and the second will be from 2 to 4 p.m. at Couch Restaurants.

TUESDAY, APRIL 24 A seminar about managing final exams will take place at 4 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245.

Write Club Creative Writers Writing Group will meet at 6 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 280.

An OU Jazz Bands concert featuring guest artist Drew Zaremba, a saxophonist from the University of North Texas, will be held at 8 p.m. at Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall.

Tickets are $5 for OU students, faculty and staff.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25 A Latin Americanist Lunch featuring Marcelo Rioseco, assistant professor of Spanish literature, will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Hester Hall, Room 160.

A seminar about time management will take place at 2 p.m. in Adams Center’s Muldrow Tower, Room 105.

The baseball team plays Dallas Baptist at 6:30 p.m. at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

The softball team plays Oklahoma State at 7 p.m. at Marita Hynes Field.

A lecture, “Speaking Truth to Power,” by Center for Social Justice activist-in-residence Lauren Zuniga will be held at 7 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Regents Room.

A hornsemble and brass recital will take place from 8 to 10 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall.

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.

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After President David Boren gave an introductory speech Saturday morning to the volunteers gathered on the North Oval, advisory committee members dispersed into two groups.

One headed straight to the East Main Place facility, and the other headed to pick up supplies.

Supplies were provided by event coordinators and consisted of gloves to protect the workers’ hands from the glass and sharp objects on the ground around the facility, post diggers to help dig a new fence, and shovels and rakes to help with the cleaning of the debris.

This was the group’s first year back after a two-year absence from the Big Event, and international security studies sophomore Hillary Medina said group members were happy to resume their participation.

“A lot of people wanted to volunteer to help at the Big Event,” Medina said.

“With [the International Advisory Committee], it’s

REBEKAH CORNWELL/THE DAILY

Exchange student Bumpei Kinsui (left) and University College freshman Daniel Song plant new flowers in an overgrown sitting area Saturday in Andrews Park for the 13th annual Big Event.

good to get the international kids involved with the local community.”

Once on site at East Main Place, committee participants were tasked with helping to clean up the area around the facility’s playground.

The debris littered around the two play sets included broken glass, roof shingles and small metal nails.

The 11-person crew had plenty of work to keep them busy during their time at the facility, in part because of the storms that recently

ripped through Norman.

“The facility was slightly damaged in last week’s storms,” said Cory Allen, East Main Place facilities manager and volunteer donations coordinator. “But a SEE BIG EVENT PAGE 3

STARS: Findings to be announced in magazine Continued from page 1 These two stars formed 11 to 12 billion years ago and have been cooling for the last 10 billion years, Kilic said.

“One thing Kilic has been involved in is using them as clocks,” Thorstensen said.

“In other words, as indicators for how old the galaxy is because you can tell how long a star like this has been cooling down since it ended its evolution.”

These stars are currently about 100 light years away, Kilic and his colleagues found after measuring the position of the stars over four years using a 2.4-meter telescope in Arizona.

The stars are constantly moving and just happen to be so close right now, Kilic said.

“We’re lucky to get to study them while they’re so close to us,” Kilic said. “In the next billion years, they will be 50,000 light years away.”

Working with Kilic to chart and describe the white dwarves was a good experience, Thorstensen said.

AT A GLANCE The natural steps of stellar evolution When the fuel that powers a star’s nuclear reactions is used up, energy from the core of the star stops. The nuclear reactions outside the core cause the star to expand outward into the “red giant” phase. This is the beginning of the star’s inevitable collapse.

During the red giant stage, it has been calculated that the Earth’s sun will grow 200 times its current size. This could cause the inner planets, including Earth, to be destroyed. The Earth’s sun won’t go into this phase for billions of years.

RELAY: Event raises funds, spreads awareness Continued from page 1 playing sports after teaching himself how to throw with his left hand, he said.

The on-campus relay was Linn’s second Relay for Life.

During his first relay, held during his freshman year of high school, he walked for nine hours, he said.

Linn walked this weekend for many people, including his grandmother, the friends he had made while undergoing treatment and two students in his hometown who have recently been diagnosed themselves, he said.

Linn is planning to major in petroleum engineering at OU, he said.

“I plan on trying to get my degree in four-and-a-half, five years, going to work for Exxon or something, have a job ... have a family,” Linn said, “I still plan on trying to give back to the Cancer Society as much as I can.”

In addition to the continuous walk around the oval, attendees participated in the Luminaria Ceremony, in which paper bags were lit up by candles to honor loved

Continued from page 2

MELODIE LETTKEMAN/THE DAILY

Chemistry junior Blake Jones (center) and other Relay for Life paticipants watch their friends play a game to stay awake at 3 a.m. Sunday at OU’s 2012 Relay for Life event, which challenged participants to walk laps around the South Oval and stay awake from 7 p.m. Saturday to 7 a.m. Sunday to show that cancer never sleeps.

ones who have battled cancer.

Attendees also participated in the Fight Back Ceremony, during which pledges were made to take up the fight against cancer by getting regular screenings, eliminating health risks like smoking and speaking up to elected officials about the importance of cancer research.

The event also featured root beer pong games, a flag football tournament, Zumba, music and a mock oil rig erected by the OU Society of Petroleum Engineers, which raised $26,104.

OU Relay for Life will accept donations for the American Cancer Society until the end of the semester.

Events to include blood, food drive Campus Reporter

OU’s Staff Week kicks off today with a more healthcentered focus after a survey was conducted after last year’s events.

This year’s health-centered events include a bike ride and a health and information fair, according to a press release.

The bike ride will be a tour of the campus to show how OU has become more bicycle-friendly, Staff Senate chairwoman Fran Stephens said.

The week also includes traditional events, such as bingo, craft and hobby fairs and the ice cream social, which have been part of the week for decades, Stephens said.

“We are trying to encourage people to live a healthier lifestyle,” Stephens said.

The committee behind staff week has been working on this year’s events for the entire year. The committee raised funds through a host of T-shirt sales, Stephens said.

Another new staff week event will be “The Taste of OU,” which will feature foods from campus restaurants, such as Casa Del Sol, Smoke House, Chick-Fil-A, Shanghai

Stir Fry and the Laughing Tomato, according to a press release.

A blood and food drive also will take place. Participants can bring canned food to any of the events or attend the blood drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Thurman J. White Forum Building.

“We encourage all supervisors to let their employees off to take part in all of the festivities,” university spokesman Michael Nash said.

Students are invited to attend all of the events, excluding the staff awards ceremony, which is closed to the public.

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BIG EVENT: Volunteers give back to Norman

Relay for Life was started in May 1985 by Gordy Klatt. Klatt wanted to raise awareness and money for his local chapter of the American Cancer Society, so he decided to run a marathon and ask people to pay $25 to walk or run with him for half an hour. That first event raised $27,000, according to the website.

lot of the work being done is leftover from the big storms last year.”

At one point, advisory committee member Steven Dixon picked up a piece of roofing that was the size of his whole torso. However, members kept their spirits up by keeping their conversations light. They joked about learning the Spanish word for roly-poly, due to the creatures’ abundance across the damp ground.

“We always try to work with OU,” Allen said. “It is refreshing to have a younger crowd around helping us out.

It’s important to have them recognize those who have struggled and to help us get people back on their feet.”

But Allen wasn’t the only one who has seen the good that volunteering can cause.

“I chose to volunteer for Big Event because I hadn’t last year and felt left out afterward,” advisory committee judicial board chairman Joe Loveless said. “But also because the more I read, the more important volunteering seems to be to improving the world.”

After nearly three hours of hard work spent clearing potentially harmful debris, the group was finished.

“I felt good after spending time helping the community to recover from the tornado,” Loveless said. “It just makes me think what we could accomplish if we volunteered more often. I will probably volunteer again somewhere over the summer. It is a good way to spend some of the free time I will have and make a difference doing it.”

If students are interested in helping out at the East Main Place homeless shelter, Allen urged them to contact the facility or to donate anything they can spare, whether it be monetary, food or clothing. Every little bit helps.

OU Staff Week to feature more health-centered events SEAN LAWSON

Source: NASA, COSMOS Magazine

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STAFF APPRECIATION

*Not to scale

After the star reaches the red giant phase and the star is about the same mass as Earth’s sun, the star will collapse in on itself and become a white dwarf star. White dwarves are very dense stars that are only slightly larger than Earth but are 200,000 times as dense.

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AT A GLANCE University Staff Week events through Friday Today Two sessions of bingo will be held from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium’s Santee Lounge and from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in Couch Restaurants.

from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Thurman J. White Forum Building, which will coincide with the blood drive. The bike ride will start at 10 a.m. at the Huston Huffman Center. The Health fair will include a cookout that begins at 11 a.m.

Tuesday The staff awards ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom. It will be held in conjunction with the Staff Week art exhibit and competition in Fred Jones Jr. Art Museum.

Thursday The craft and hobby fair will take place between 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the armory.

Wednesday The health and information fair will take place

Friday Taste of OU is set from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Brooks Mall. In the event of rain, it will be moved to the armory.

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“I smoked for the better part of 15 years with some periods of time in which I quit and then stupidly started back up again after several months and even a year. However, I quit cold turkey this last time and never looked back. If I can do it, you can do it!” (kagou, RE: ‘COLUMN: Brush with death affects perspective on smoking habit’)

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Our View: Invisible Children’s new Kony film commits the same sins as its predecessor.

Last week, posters for the Stop Kony campaign appeared in interesting locations around campus — most notably covering the anatomy of the statue outside the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. These posters were likely placed by students as part of Invisible Children’s “Cover the Night” event, announced in its second Kony film.

This new film was clearly an attempt by Invisible Children to answer some of the criticisms aimed at the campaign. While this second film does offer some small redemption from these criticisms, it is not nearly enough: This film commits the same sins as its predecessor.

The film is centered around what privileged members of American and European communities are doing to organize and fight these issues. It portrays the filmmakers and the organization, once again, as white knights.

The Our View is the majority It paints the simple act of being aware of others’ suffering as a heroic opinion of act, worthy of praise, reward and The Daily’s nine-member adulation. editorial board Never mind the fact that these problems have been going on for years with little notice from the international community. Never mind that Western societies contributed to — even caused — them in the first place.

Never mind that these young activists know very little about these cultures, nations and people. Never mind that they couldn’t point to Uganda on a map.

And in inflating this sense of feel-good activism on the part of non-Africans, it ignores the voices of the Ugandans, Congolese and other people who are actually affected by the war and the actions of the Lord’s Resistance Army. It ignores their unique understanding of the true situation and what must be done to solve the problems there.

The new film does feature a few token individuals.

But their roles are small and clearly situated simply to justify the efforts of Invisible Children against widespread criticism.

On top of that, it argues yet more strongly for militarized intervention and support of the local regimes. These local governments have human rights records to rival Kony’s. Did we not learn our lesson about supporting harmful dictators against a common enemy after Iraq?

In our last editorial, we illustrated the racism inherent in the white savior complex: The idea that privileged white Americans can drop into a foreign country and “save” the poor, savage, colored populations from problems the privileged white citizens know nothing about.

Watch the “Uganda 2012” video, produced by Uganda Speaks, to see what you can do — as voiced by those actually affected — to help the people of Uganda.

But at the time, those of you concerned about the Kony situation didn’t have much of an option. It was either support Invisible Children’s convenient campaign or do the hard work of educating yourself about another culture and a complex socio-political situation in Africa. And who has time for that?

Well, now, you have another choice. If you are really concerned about the Kony situation, go to OUDaily.com to watch the informational video made by the group Uganda Speaks. The group has started a campaign called Uganda 2012, appropriately placing the spotlight back on the nation and people affected instead of the mass-murderer himself.

Both of Invisible Children’s films have focused on a white man’s story and given very little space for actual Ugandans to tell their story. This disenfranchises and infantilizes the very people the campaign is supposedly trying to help.

Uganda Speaks’ video gives a voice to those affected by Kony and the war, putting the truth and the efforts to improve their conditions back in their own hands.

But we must warn you, supporting them will not be as glamorous. This group’s film offers no easy answers. And it doesn’t come with a marketing campaign.

The group’s website explains, “If you help fund this project, we will not send you a T-shirt. We will not send you a bracelet. We will not ask you to vandalize your city with the face of a mass murder.”

This is the test. We want to see the same passion in the support for this group. We want to see this video reach a million views. We want to see tweets and Facebook posts pointing people to this local effort.

We want to see people get the same emotional tingle, the same calling, without the flashy film techniques. And we want to see you do your part, donate and spread the word, without the rewards or the T-shirts or the savior complex.

If you truly care about the people, the children, of these African countries once plagued by war and still suffering from its aftermath, you must see them as equals and offer them enough respect to put their words over the self-righteous white-knighting of some privileged documentary filmmakers. You must work to make them visible.

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ow, let me say this OPINION COLUMNIST as politely as possible: Whenever I am having a political discussion with someone and they start trying to tell me about the “liberal media,” I quickly conclude the person I am talking to doesn’t Scott Starr know enough about the scott.e.starr-1@ou.edu media to be talking about it in the first place.

The road to this conclusion has been a long one.

For most of my adult life, which began when I registered with the Selective Service in 1982, I wasn’t politically aware or engaged. Sure, I had opinions, but they were formed on intuition or gut instinct rather than research and analysis. I piled up college credit hours in the field of journalism and mass communications in those first years, receiving training on how to look at the world objectively and with a “big picture” sensibility.

But, after putting off my education for a couple of decades and entering the workforce as a wage slave, the only use I had for well-formed and informed political opinions was in occasional banter with my coworkers or friends, who would frequently send me propaganda emails.

I often would take great joy in debunking those emails, which were almost always manipulative, partisan political rants most likely written by some goofball sitting at his computer in his underwear. Then, there came the highly contested presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore in 2000 and then the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

This got my attention. It really got my attention when I lost my job in the convention and special events production industry. The company I worked for went belly up when the

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air transportation system got shut down and business travel and special events were canceled indefinitely. The events of 9/11 not only took food off of my table but left me with nothing much to do for months other than try to figure out what the heck the terrorists were so angry about and try to decipher the bewildering array of mass media coverage.

Then, of course, there was the launch of the Afghan war and the subsequent invasion of Iraq by the U.S. military. The unity U.S. citizens felt for an all too brief time after the attacks dissipated quickly. These were highly contentious times and the political divide in this country reached levels of acrimony I had not seen since I was a schoolboy. That acrimony remains.

Since September 12, 2001, I have paid close attention to politics and renewed my interest in mass media and journalism. And what I have discovered entirely contradicts the concept of the “liberal media bias.”

Don’t misunderstand me: I would not contend the mass media is anymore “fair and balanced” than Fox News is.

There are some studies like former OU economics Professor Dan Sutter’s that show a higher percentage of journalists are left of conservative politics, and maybe even “left of center.”

However, the evidence that the entire mass media complex is “leftist” is skimpy and inconclusive, if not non-existent. Sutter concludes more or less the same thing. Most evidence shows the media is actually quite corporatist and conservative.

The fact is that in America we have a corporate media driven by advertising dollars and an audience filled with groups of people who mostly just want to be entertained.

What picture of the world do you think would come out of that? Hint: It has nothing to do with political leftism. In this country, even the leftists are right-wingers.

Scott Starr is a Native American studies senior.

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Romantic films prove that true love does exist outside fiction

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ith the recent OPINION COLUMNIST re-release of “Titanic” to theaters, there has been an onslaught of people proclaiming their undying love or abject hatred of the film.

Viable reasons are Kimm Johnson presented on both sides, kimm.johnson@ou.edu but I want to focus on the haters.

Some might dislike the film’s cast, its historical accuracy or disaster movies in general. But more interestingly, there is always a group of people who dislike the movie’s romanticism.

Like all chick flicks, “Titanic” is hailed as putting unrealistic expectations into the minds of women — expectations men cannot possibly uphold.

But mainstream society continuously endorses these films. Why? If people spend so much time sitting around griping about how nothing happens like in the movies, why do we keep going out in droves to see them?

The answer is simple: These films are not as unrealistic as we think they are.

Case in point, “Titanic” was based on a true story.

“The Vow” was based on a true story. Were they 100percent accurate? No. But the skeleton of the romantic story we fell for happened to two people in the real world.

The amount that the people cared for each other superseded the amount of money they made captured our hearts.

Romantic movies are not all fiction, rainbows and butterflies. Plenty of films show the hard work that goes into any successful relationship.

As Young Noah from “The Notebook” said, “So it’s not going to be easy. It’s going to be really hard. We’re going to have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.”

Instead of listening to this line and believing it could be true, some movie patrons think it’s just a nice thing he said — it couldn’t be the way he was actually going to live.

The problem with our generation is that we watch these movies, we see the challenges these characters face, but we still think it will be a cake walk in real life.

Chick flicks do not teach us this.

We have the third-person effect ingrained into our minds: The movies will tell us that we might have to walk a narrow road, but we think that is a message intended for everyone but us.

In these films, love is portrayed as a big thing that can conquer all. When we see that, we shout, “Lies! It won’t work out that way.”

Yet, in this big conservative state of Oklahoma, we have girls who get inked with 1 Corinthians 13, a wildly acceptable practice despite the stigma against other tattoos.

This Bible verse tells us the same thing that Hollywood preaches: Love never fails. The kind of love that never fails is not only seen in movies and the Bible, but in real life.

The kind of love that never fails is the kind that makes people look crazy.

Does it happen every day and with every person we will date? No. But it does happen.

And movies like these show us that we are worth waiting for a love that is crazy.

If chick flicks, Katy Perry songs and love quotes on Tumblr have taught me anything: It is that love is weird. It is a hard thing to find.

And yes, I will expect a lot from someone to classify my feelings toward them as love.

But in the same token, despite our modern cynicism, finding someone whose happiness you would put before your own and who would do the same for you isn’t an unrealistic expectation.

The truest thing movies like “Titanic” have taught me is that I never have to settle.

And I pray that is not an unrealistic expectation.

Kimm Johnson is an environmental design and professional writing senior.

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icholas Sparks’ name has become known to teenage girls and young women everywhere as the writer of some of the most romantic stories of our generation.

Whether you’ve ever read any of his books, you can recognize him as being behind such great movies as “The Notebook” and “A Walk to Remember.”

On the other hand, we’ve seen his stories be turned into film duds as well, such as “Dear John.” So with the advent of the newest film adaptation of one of his books, “The Lucky One,” I was a bit apprehensive about its chances of being a movie I’d enjoy.

Would this be another beautiful tear-jerker, or would it be an unintentional laugh riot?

“The Lucky One” is directed by Scott Hicks (“No Reservations”) and based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks.

It stars Zac Efron (the “High School Musical” series, “17 Again”), Taylor Schilling (“Mercy” TV series) and Blythe Danner (“Meet the Parents”).

“The Lucky One” tells the story of an emotionally scarred Marine who, upon returning home after three tours of duty in Iraq, travels to North Carolina in search of a woman whose picture he believes saved his life during combat.

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“When it comes to film adaptations of (Nicholas) Sparks’ movies, they seem to fall into two categories: really good or really bad.

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Unfortunately, the trend lately has been pretty bad, and “The Lucky One” continues that trend with flying and ridiculous colors.

As the shell-shocked Marine, Efron struggles to display the depth required

that of Danner as the female lead’s knowledgeable grandmother, who seems to be thrown in to provide elderly wisdom every few minutes.

As far as the script goes, I can only hope Sparks’ novel is much higher quality. The script treads water, with to make the character work. not much action. This apWhat we’re left with is an parently was noticed in the unbelievably flat character editing room, because the with almost no interesting film is edited in a fast-paced qualities. style.

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Let’s hope we’ll see some more quality Sparks adaptations soon, but if you’re craving some romance before then, I’d recommend just popping in a classic like “The Notebook” and saving yourself the $8 a ticket.

Erin Roberts is a University College freshman.

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For only the second time in six meetings, OU softball didn’t need extra innings to decide the series winner between the fifthranked Sooners and No. 10 Missouri.

Instead, OU took care of business with a 2-1 victory in seven innings during Sunday’s rubber game to win their sixth consecutive conference series this season.

While the win improved OU’s overall record to 38-7, the victory more importantly put distance between the rest of the Big 12 field and the top-ranked Sooners, who now have a league best 13-4 record.

Both Missouri and Texas A&M have 11 w ins this season.

“What a great weekend of softball games,“ coach Patty Gasso said. “We want to be in good position to win the Big 12 championship, and I thought it was very important to win at least 2-of-3 because its very difficult to sweep a team like Missouri.”

The OU defense was less than perfect during Sunday’s outing, committing three errors. With only 32 errors in the previous 44 games, the miscues by the Sooner defense gave Missouri plenty of opportunities to come away with the series victory.

But it was OU ’s starting pitcher, junior Keilani Ricketts, who pulled her team together to get the series win.

“Keilani did a great job about not letting the things out of her control affect her,” Gasso said. “You can’t make people make plays, and Keilani didn’t pay attention to those mistakes. There were some big time clutch pitches happening today.”

The ace dismantled the Tiger offense, hurling 11 strikeouts.

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Oklahoma bounced back from a nail-biter Saturday to complete the series sweep and extend its winning streak to eight games with a 7-0 win over Alabama State on Sunday afternoon.

Sophomore Drew Krittenbrink took the mound in his first ever appearance Sunday. The Okarche, Okla., native threw 7 2/3 shutout innings, surrendering only three hits and three walks with one strikeout.

“We didn’t name him the starter until going down the line, and it was just a gut feeling,” coach Sunny Golloway said. “But he responded. He’s worked hard, and he’s one of the favorites on the team, and we knew the team would play really hard behind him.”

OU put two runs on the board in the bottom of the second when senior catcher Tanner Toal hit a single to left center field, scoring senior infielder Evan Mistich and Oklahoma freshman first baseman Hunter Lockwood.

In the bottom of the third, junior outfielder Max Alabama St. White hit his first home run of the season on a solo shot over the wall in right field.

“I think it’s big for him, especially an opposite field job like that, but I don’t want him swinging for the fences,” Golloway said. “He’s been a guy that’s shot the ball all over the yard and been really our best, our purest hitter all year, and he needs to stick with that approach.”

After two offensive miscues in the home half of the fourth — failing to advance the runner on a sacrifice bunt and getting caught stealing — Lockwood was pulled from the game and replaced by junior Drew Harrison.

In the top of the fifth, Krittenbrink recorded his first career strikeout, fanning Alabama State second baseman Leo Rojas on a full count for the inning’s first out.

White drove in his third RBI of the day with a two-run single down the left field line in bottom of the seventh, giving the Sooners a 5-0 lead and sparking a four-run inning.

With runners on second and third and two outs in the top of the seventh, Golloway pulled Krittenbrink in favor of sophomore Kindle Ladd. Ladd struck out the final Hornets’ batter to end the inning.

“I wanted to stay in pretty bad and try to finish the inning, but I knew the guys — Kindle, Overton, whoever’s going to come in — would do a good job and finish the inning,” Krittenbrink said. “So, I wasn’t too mad.”

Sophomore Dillon Overton relieved Ladd for the final frame and closed out the win for the Sooners.

Oklahoma takes its eight-game winning streak Tuesday in Stillwater for a one-game Bedlam preview before next month’s Bedlam series.

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Junior Keilani Ricketts serves up a fastball against No. 10 Missouri on Friday night in the first of a threegame series. The No. 5 Sooners beat the Tigers two of the three games to win their sixth consecutive conference series. Ricketts struck out 12 batters in the contest while only walking one.

SERIES RESULTS vs. Missouri Game 1: Oklahoma 2, Missouri 1 Game 2: Oklahoma 2, Missouri 4 Game 3: Oklahoma 2, Missouri 1

Ricketts also came up big for the Sooners on offense during Sunday’s match, going 1-of-2 while also plating sophomore Destinee Martinez to give the Sooners the early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first.

Although the Sooners only tacked on one more run in the game in the following inning, Ricketts knew her team had

the right mindset for going into the final game against a team that had knocked them out of the Women’s College World Series a year ago.

“These guys beat us three times last season, so we knew it was going to be a challenge, but our team never lost focus,” Ricketts said.

The Sooners opened up the series with a 2-1, 10inning win over the Tigers before Missouri bounced back for the 4-2 win in eight innings during Saturday’s contest.

During Friday night’s extra inning victory, freshman Georgia Casey hit a walk-off RBI single to give OU its first

win in the past four meetings against Missouri. Ricketts, threw a season-high 157 pitches in the win.

In the Sooner loss on Saturday, freshman first baseman Lauren Chamberlain hit her 20th homer of the season to tie OU’s single-season home run record. OU was up by two runs heading into the sixth inning before the Tigers took the come-from-behind win on a pair of walks, a single, and sacrifice fly out by the Missouri offense.

Next up, the Sooners host OSU for the final installment of this year’s Bedlam series at 7p.m. Wednesday at Marita Hynes field.

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Oklahoma suffers narrow 4-3 loss to No. 24 Texas A&M on Senior Day Sooners lose 2nd straight to top-25 foe GREG FEWELL Sports Editor

The OU women’s tennis team came up short in its upset bid on Senior Day on Sunday in Norman, losing to No. 24 Texas A&M, 4-3.

The loss makes the second straight for the team at the hands of a top-25 opponent after a 5-2 defeat to No.

6 Texas on Saturday.

Texas A&M swept the doubles portion in dominating fashion over the No. 46 Sooners, outscoring Oklahoma 24-11 in the three matches to take the early 1-0 lead.

Freshman Abbi Melrose won her match at the No. 4 spot in two sets, 6-4, 7-5, and sophomore Whitney Wofford put together a victory at the No. 5 singles position (6-3, 7-5) to keep the

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Senior Marie-Pier Huet, who has spent much of the season at No. 1 singles for the team, plated at No. 2 doubles Sunday and easily recorded the team’s third and final victory — 6-1, 6-2 — over A&M’s Nazari Urbina.

Oklahoma gave the Aggies a scare, making the match a close one. However, A&M was too strong in the end.

Peta Maree Lancaster, the one other senior on the

squad, fell 6-2, 6-0, at the No. 6 singles spot. Sophomore Whitney Ritchie fell in three sets on the No. 1 court, while sophomore Mia Lancaster was knocked out early in two sets on the No. 3 court.

The Sooners now have lost four out of their last five matches going into the Big 12 Championships.

The conference tournament begins Thursday in College Station and runs through Sunday.

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Senior center fielder Max White runs for third on a Hunter Lockwood foul ball in the bottom of the first on Friday night in Norman. The Sooners beat Alabama State, 5-0, in the series opener.

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Jake Dalton leads Oklahoma with six All-American titles

Sooner closes out with runner-up individual finish

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Ferguson earns second on beam in event finals; Stone, Olson also place

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As a team, Oklahoma collected a total of 12 AllAmerican honors Saturday at the NCAA individual event finals, the most since the 2006 squad claimed 14 behind 2008 Olympian Jonathan Horton.

Juniors Chris Stehl and Troy Nitzky finished fifth and sixth, respectively, to earn All-American honors on the event.

Sophomore Presten Ellsworth finished third on vault with seniors Patrick Piscitelli and Michael Heredia coming in seventh and eighth, respectively, giving the Sooners three more All-Americans.

Danny Berardini capped off a stellar freshman season with a third-place finish on the parallel bars for his first All-American honor, but junior Jake Dalton stole the show, earning six AllAmerican honors by himself.

Dalton is the first gymnast in OU history to accomplish the feat, winning national titles on the parallel bars and in the all-around competition Friday night en route to All-American nods on floor, rings, vault, parallel bars, high bar, and the all-around. “It feels great. I definitely wanted All-American on everything that I did, so that part feels good,� Dalton said. “It was a long day today, running from event to event. But, it all feels really good today.

I’m really proud of the team.�

OU’s 12 All-Americans were the most for any team this year. However, the night was a highlight to a somewhat disappointing weekend in which the Sooners fell just short of a ninth team national title.

Despite winning only one team event title in Friday’s team final (vault), the Sooners put themselves right in the hunt for the national title going into the final rotation of the meet.

Oklahoma went into its final rotation, high bar, up only .9 of a point on Illinois.

The two teams had battled for

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Junior Jake Dalton competes on the rings during the NCAA gymnastics team championships Friday at Lloyd Noble Center. OU took second place in the championships. Dalton earned six All-American honors, the first Sooner to accomplish the feat, and won individual titles on parallel bars and all-around competition.

the top spot since Thursday’s qualifiers and that battle did not stop until the final competitor.

Illinois took a narrow lead, 355.6-355.4 over the Sooners with only two competitors left. The Illini then finished up on rings and took a strong lead over the Sooners with only one competitor remaining for OU. That competitor was Dalton, the top all-around gymnast in the country. “I told him, ‘you know, we’re down and no matter what you do, we’ll probably still be second, but you can make it close,’� coach Mark Williams said. “That’s exactly what he did and gave us every chance. As a team, I’m really happy. I thought we held a

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Oklahoma, the No. 1 team heading into the NC AA championships, was a heavy favorite to win it all as the host team. However, the team is very young, and that showed during Thursday’s qualifiers.

A total of seven freshmen competed in at least one event Thursday night, and that number would have been even higher had Jacoby Rubin not been forced to miss the competition due to mono.

Despite that, the team was able to grab OU’s 10th runner-up finish since 2001, and the future appears very bright for OU, which returns Dalton along with a slew of talented underclassmen with a year of

experience under their belts. “It just shows how strong we’re going to be next year,�

Dalton said. “We’re a young team with 10 freshmen, and they really just stepped up to the plate huge this year.

They did everything they could and left everything out there.�

Seven-time All-American senior gymnast Megan Ferguson capped off her collegiate career as the nation’s runner-up on balance beam during the NCAA individual championship finals Sunday in Duluth, Ga. Alabama’s Geralen Stack-Eaton posted a 9.9375 to narrowly defeat Ferguson (9.925).

Ferguson’s runner-up performance is the highest beam finish under coach K.J. Kindler and ties the school record for best individual finish under Kindler, joining teammate Madison Mooring (vault, 2011) and Hollie Vise (bars and floor, 2010).

Ferguson also finished ninth on floor.

Senior Sara Stone also competed on beam, posting a 9.85 to finish seventh.

Junior Brie Olson finished fourth on bars.

The Sooners narrowly missed their thirdstraight Super Six by fractions of a point during Friday’s NCAA semifinal round.

Third-ranked Oklahoma finished .200 Megan behind10th-ranked Stanford, ending OU’s Ferguson season shy of its goals.

The competition was tight right to the end, but the Cardinal edged the Sooners on the last rotation to secure the last spot in the championship from the semifinal. “Honestly, we did all we could this afternoon,� Kindler said. “The adversity we experienced this season has been some of the greatest challenges we have ever faced as a staff and a team. We stuck 24 routines, with some athletes competing for the first time in their careers as seniors.�

The Sooners started alternates on several events after key injuries to senior Natasha Kelley, freshman Rebecca Clark, sophomore Hayden Ward and a number of other minor injuries throughout the season. “Sometimes you grow so much more through these kinds of times,� Kindler said. “No matter who went down, someone else stepped forward. No one said ‘I am not willing, I am not ready or I am afraid.’ We wanted it, there was never a doubt and we couldn’t be more proud of the effort and heart that went into their performance. “We simply fell short.�

At the halfway point, the Sooners sat in third behind UCLA and Utah, who each built commanding leads after the first two events. The third berth was still very much up for grabs at that point, though.

But in the final rotation, Stanford notched a 49.375 to top OU’s 49.225 and advance.

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