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Sooners carefully craft cement canoes Student team prepares for upcoming national competition this summer PAIGHTEN HARKINS

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After losing last year’s regional competition and not qualifying for nationals, members of OU’s Concrete Canoe team are headed to Illinois in June with redemption on their minds.

The team, under the leadership of engineering seniors Nick Ibarguen and Alyse Burgess, will spend the weekend of June 20 through 22 showing off the culmination of an entire year’s work against a tough field of competitors for the American Society of Civil Engineers National Concrete “Going from Canoe Competition. regionals to “Going from regionals to nationals, it’s a big step up in nationals, it’s a competition,” Burgess said. big step up in The national competition competition.” brings together engineers from 18 different regions, alyse burgess, with the overall goal of apco-captaiN plying classroom concepts in concrete and canoe design, Burgess said. To qualify, the teams must complete four requirements for which they’ll be judged, each composing 25 percent of the team’s total score.

The teams are judged on engineering design and construction principles of their concrete mixture, the report they write detailing the planning that goes into their project, how well they present their project and how well the team’s canoe does in the race events, according to the society’s rules and regulations handbook.

Throughout the school year, team members have been working to get their contest entries up to par with the competition’s standards, as well as to make a canoe that is streamlined, light and sturdy enough to be competitive, Burgess and Ibarguen said.

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civil engineering senior nick Ibarguen shows off this year’s concrete canoe at the rowing team’s work bay Monday in the exxonMobil Lawrence G. Rawl engineering Practicing Facility. The concrete canoe team will compete in a national competition this June.

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OU employees still restricted from own personnel records OSU officials attempting to change policy denied ARIANNA PICKARD campus editor

OU officials will continue to restrict university employees from viewing some of their own personnel records, despite a state regent citing open records laws as the reason to oppose Oklahoma State University’s attempt to implement the same policy.

When OU officials consider university employees for promotions or tenure, the employees cannot view the letters sent from outside scholars evaluating or recommending them for the position if the letters are “solicited in confidence or sent with the expectation of confidentiality,” according to section 5.34.4 of the OU Faculty Handbook.

The only way OU officials might release these evaluation letters is if they are “ordered by a court of law.”

OU officials ask outside sources to submit peer review letters to help OU decide whether to promote an employee, said Nancy Mergler, OU senior vice president and provost, in an email.

When the outside sources submit the letters, OU officials tell them the letters of evaluation are treated as confidential

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23, was in reFreedom of However, these sponse to an Information of letters are part of email sent Oklahoma requested employee personabout an Nancy Mergler’s nel records, and all hour before emails about the peruniversity employfrom OSU legal sonnel records policy. ees have the right to counsel Gary Clark, view their own personwho said Andy AUSTiN MCCROSKiE/THE DAiLY nel records through the Lester, Oklahoma Oklahoma Open Records A&M Board of Regents Act. chairman, opposed the Recently, Oklahoma State University change because it violatofficials tried to change their policy to ed the open records law. make it similar to OU’s in order to re“I’m sorry to have to pass on this strict access to some of the information news,” Sternberg said in the email. “…I in these records. However, officials cit- thought that OU has used an analogous ing the Oklahoma Open Records Act procedure for years with no problem, shot it down. but perhaps I misunderstand what Currently OSU employees have they do.” open access to peer-review letters writTwo years before, Sternberg had sent ten about them unless they sign waiv- an email to Mergler asking if she had “a ers renouncing their rights to access way around” OSU’s policy of making them, according to OSU’s Policy and the evaluation letters available to tenProcedures. ure candidates, according to an email Instead of sometimes waiving em- record obtained by Senat. ployees’ rights to view their evaluation “Most candidates sign a waiver, but letters, OSU officials wanted to change some do not. I am not so happy with its system to redacting the letters, ac- this system, because I think that open cording to an email record obtained by OSU journalism professor Joey Senat.

Graduate students to present original choreography L&A: the fifth annual degrees of rotation will feature a range of performances on saturday. (Page 7)

Sooners to face Mountaineers away from home Sports: West Virginia has become a dark horse in the Big 12, and oU will have its work cut out for them as they battle it out for supremacy. (Page 6)

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OU alumnus, photographer Thomas Shahan to speak, hold workshops on techniques used to create his work An oklahoma insect photographer plans to speak at 7 tonight at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of natural History. thomas shahan, recent graduate of oU’s Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts, will be talking about his photography and the techniques he uses to create his work. shahan has worked with insects in tulsa and Norman, said Pam Mcintosh, development and communications director at the museum. His work has been on display at the museum since February.

“A lot of people have adverse reactions to spiders,” Mcintosh said. “[Shahan’s work] is driven to show a different side, by showing their faces.”

At 9 a.m. saturday, shahan will hold a workshop for children about the different insects found in oklahoma, according to the website. At 1 p.m., he will give a workshop on the techniques used to photograph the insects.

Atiba Williams, Campus Reporter

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Sooners receive awards to pay for trips Four oU students planning to study abroad in areas critical to U.s. security have been awarded international scholarships to pay for their trips. the Boren Awards for international study, named after oU’s current president, david Boren, provide up to $20,000 to students who want to study abroad with a focus on geographic areas, languages and fields of study deemed important to national security, according to a press release. “never in our history has it been more important for America’s future leaders to have a deep understand of the rest of the world,” Boren said in an email. the chosen students are going to universities located in Africa and Asia, according to the press release.

The scholarship recipients and the universities they’ll be attending are: • Siera Collins: University of Alexandria Egypt • Matthew Davis: fall 2013 — State University of Zanzibar, Tanzania; spring 2014 — School for international training in tanzania • Lindsay Hefton: fall 2013 — Jordan institute of Diplomacy in Amman, Jordan • Marjorie Tanner: Beijing Normal University Max Janerka, Campus Reporter

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This year’s concrete canoe team competition canoe sits in the team’s work bay Monday in the ExxonMobil Lawrence G. Rawl Engineering Practicing Facility. The concrete canoe team will compete in a national contest in late June.

Continued from page 1 For the two co-captains, qualifying for nationals has helped them redeem themselves from the disappointment they experienced last year when they didn’t win their regional competition, they said.

They didn’t lose regionals to just anyone last year — they lost them to their regional rivals from the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, making the loss even harder to swallow, Ibarguen said.

However, this year’s regional competition brought OU’s team to its rival’s home turf, as it was held at the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville campus, making OU’s victory a sweet relief flavored with a heavy dose of redemption, he said. “[Winning] was really fun. Coming from last year, we had a rough region- 19 feet 6 inch canoe is decorated with al competition in a few aspects of our a single red stripe encircling the hull, project. So there was a lot of pressure, which is accented with dinosaur footI felt like, to come back and do well,” prints. Inside, the floor is decorated with a painting deIbarguen said.

After this year’s na- “[Winning] was really picting a dinosaur tional contest, the fun. Coming from last fossil.

The canoe was team will have comyear, we had a rough cast in the fall from peted eight times, according to records regional competition the team’s original kept on the society’s in a few aspects of our concrete mixture — a process that takes website.

The last and only project. So there was about three hours, Burgess said. time OU’s team placed a lot of pressure.”

To prepare to naviin the competition Nick Ibarguen, gate the canoe during was in 2003 when they co-captain the races, the team got fifth place, accordspends many Saturday mornings east ing to the website.

Part of the competition is coming up of Norman practicing their paddling with a theme for the canoe. This year, techniques in fiberglass canoes on a OU’s team picked “Unearthed,” as a small lake in a housing subdivision tribute to the Sam Noble Oklahoma called Summit Estates, Ibarguen said.

Members of the team don’t pracMuseum of Natural History, Ibarguen tice using the competition concrete said.

The white, black and red 195 pound, canoe because it could be damaged in

transport, and it’s also impractical to carry around due to its weight, he said.

Although sometimes they do take the canoes from past competitions out to practice, Burgess said.

Currently there are three concrete canoes in the team’s work bay in the ExxonMobil Lawrence G. Rawl Engineering Practice Facility. As new canoes come in each year, the old canoes will either get their noses cut off and mounted on the wall like a hunter’s trophy or they’ll be otherwise destroyed, she said.

Despite the canoes being made from concrete, there have been few instances when either captain has seen a canoe sink in practice or in competition, and OU’s team has never had a canoe sink, they said.

“Surprisingly most of them float pretty well,” Ibarguen said.

This year ’s national competition is at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Records: Confidential Okla. looks for young patients of dentist letters have been Oral surgeon under investigation for ‘mostly protected’ health

unsanitary conditions, spread of disease

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma’s Office of Juvenile Affairs said Thursday it is working to track down at least 191 patients who while locked up at a state juvenile facility were treated by a Tulsa oral surgeon now being investigated for unsanitary conditions at his clinics.

The agency collected records dating to 1995 — the year it was formed — to generate the list it provided to the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, which is sending letters to the patients advising them to contact the state health department to arrange to be tested for hepatitis and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The 191 juvenile patients saw Harrington at his clinic and were all were housed at the L.E. Rader Center in Sand Springs, which was the only maximum-security juvenile facility in the state, OJA spokeswoman Paula Christiansen told The Associated Press. The center closed in 2011.

In late March, authorities urged Harrington’s roughly 7,000 patients to get tested after finding unsanitary conditions at his two Tulsa-area clinics, including varying cleaning procedures for equipment, needles re-inserted in drug vials after their initial use, drug vials used on multiple patients and no written infection-protection procedure.

More than 3,700 patients have been tested so far.

On Thursday, the Tulsa Health Department reported that four more patients of Harrington’s tested positive for hepatitis C, bringing the total to 69 since testing began. One more patient tested positive for hepatitis B, bringing that total to four. One or two patients have tested positive for HIV. It’s not clear if the patients got the diseases at the clinic.

Officials noted in their investigation that Harrington’s staff had said they knew several patients came to the clinic already infected. Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says spreading disease at a dental clinic is extremely rare, with just three known cases in two decades.

A message left for Harrington’s attorney seeking comment was not returned Thursday evening. Previously, his attorney said Harrington was cooperating with investigators and noted that his previous record with the state’s dental board was “impeccable.”

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This 1977 license picture provided by the Oklahoma Board of Dentistry shows Tulsa oral surgeon Dr. Scott Harrington. The prominent Tulsa oral surgeon accused of exposing as many as 7,000 of his patients to hepatitis and HIV is expected to meet with investigators from the state board of dentistry by April 12.

Several health officials did not know whether the 191 juvenile patients were included in the 7,000 who originally were notified. Tulsa Health Department spokeswoman Kaitlin Snider said Thursday she was unaware if her agency could cross-match the names on the two lists.

“There were minors accounted for, but I don’t know how many patient notification letters went to juveniles,” Snider said. “We were only able to contact patients going back to 2007. If they had seen Dr. Harrington after that, they would have been captured on the list.”

letters are not worth very much,” Sternberg told Mergler in the email sent Oct. 20, 2011.

Mergler replied saying the letters are only made available to faculty at OU who are eligible to review and make recommendations from the letters for employees in their departments, according to the email record.

She said OU officials have had to produce redacted letters twice in the previous 16 years when a faculty member had appealed the tenure recommendation, and the same member hired independent “I am sure with the counsel.

“So we have mostly procurrent tea party tected the letters as confiMergler said in the folks so intent on dential,” email. “I am sure with the open records ... that current tea party folks so inwe will be getting tent on open records ... that we will be getting a more aga more aggressive gressive challenge sometime challenge sometime soon.”

About half an hour after soon.”

Mergler’s email was sent, O U ’s a s s i s t a n t p rov o s t nancy mergler, senior vice president and Gregory Heiser sent her an provost email explaining OU Legal recognizes the university is required to give out the records unredacted.

“But we won’t unless you sue us to get them,” Heiser said in the email. “Furnishing them in redacted form has been a halfway measure that does incur some risk of personally identifying the reviewer, but in each case it seemed the better course to provide them during the appeal so as to rebut some dark, groundless suspicion about them.”

Arianna Pickard aripickard@ou.edu

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First marriage to be held in August PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island on Thursday became the nation’s 10th state to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed, as a 16-year effort to extend marriage rights in this heavily Roman Catholic state ended with the triumphant cheers of hundreds of gays, lesbians, their families and friends.

G o v. L i n c o l n C h a f e e signed the bill into law on the Statehouse steps Thursday evening following a final 56-15 vote in the House. The first weddings will take place Aug. 1, when the law takes effect.

“I’ve been waiting 32 years for this day, and I never thought it would come in my lifetime,” said Raymond Beausejour, a 66-year-old gay North Providence man who has been with his partner for 32 years. “For the first time in my life, I feel welcome in my own state.”

After Chafee signed the bill, the hundreds of people who gathered on the Statehouse grounds erupted into cheers as a chorus sang “Chapel of Love.”

“Now, at long last, you are free to marry the person that you love,” Chafee told the crowd.

The day was bittersweet for Deborah Tevyaw, whose wife, state corrections officer Pat Baker, succumbed to lung cancer two years ago. Months before she died, Baker, relying on an oxygen tank, angrily told lawmakers it was unfair that Tevyaw wasn’t considered her wife in Rhode Island despite their marriage in Massachusetts.

“I’m ecstatic, but sad she’s not here to see this,” Tevyaw said. “I’m sure she’s watching, but she’s not here next to me. Before she died, she told me, ‘I started this, and now I’m leaving it in your hands.’

We worked hard for this.

There were petitions, door knocking, phone calls. I think people decided, ‘just let people be happy.’”

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Wildfire rages through Ventura County as residents evacuate A wind-driven wildfire is raging close to homes in communities 50 miles west of Los Angeles and residents are evacuating.

The Ventura County Fire Department says the blaze broke out Thursday morning along U.S. 101 in the Camarillo area and quickly moved down slopes toward modern subdivisions. More than 100 acres have burned. There is zero containment.

More than 200 firefighters with help from aircraft dropping water and retardant worked to protect dozens of homes around the Camarillo Springs Golf Course.

Several residents have voluntarily evacuated.

Fire officials said other residents should shelter in place and be prepared to leave at a moment’s notice.

Santa Ana winds with gusts up to 30 mph are sending up plumes of smoke over the homes and strawberry fields to the south.

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Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee holds up a gay marriage bill after signing it into law outside the State House in Providence, R.I., Thursday

“I’ve been waiting 32 years for this day, and I never thought it would come in my lifetime.”

RAYMOND REAUSEJOUR, A 66-YEAR-OLD GAY MAN

advocates succeeded this year thanks to a sprawling lobbying effort that included support from organized labor leaders, religious clergy, leaders including Chafee and Providence Mayor Angel Taveras and hundreds of volunteers. Their efforts overcame the opposition of the Catholic church and lawmakers including Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed, who voted no but allowed the issue to come to a vote anyway.

Supporters framed the issue as one of civil rights, arguing in daylong legislative

hearings that gay and lesbian couples deserve the same rights and protections given to opposite-sex married couples. The Catholic church was the most significant opponent, with Bishop Thomas Tobin urging lawmakers to defeat what he called an “immoral and unnecessary” change to traditional marriage law.

On Thursday, Tobin repeated his opposition, writing in a letter to the state’s Catholics that “homosexual acts are ... always sinful.”

“Catholics should examine their consciences very

carefully before deciding whether or not to endorse same-sex relationships or attend same-sex ceremonies,” Tobin wrote. “... To do so might harm their relationship with god.”

The Rhode Island legislation states that religious institutions may set their own rules regarding who is eligible to marry within the faith and specifies that no religious leader is obligated to officiate at any marriage ceremony and no religious group is required to provide facilities or services related to a gay marriage.

While ministers already cannot be forced to marry anyone, the exemption helped assuage concerns from some lawmakers that clergy could face lawsuits for abiding by their religious convictions.

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World Trade Center to tower once more Workers celebrate as completion nears NEW YORK (AP) — Adorned with an American flag that flapped in the breeze, the last pieces of a silver spire were hoisted to the top of the World Trade Center on Thursday as construction workers cheered its ascent.

The final two segments of the 408-foot spire will rest on a construction platform for several weeks until the entire needle is permanently installed. With the spire as its crown, the trade center will soar to a symbolic 1,776 feet in the air — a reference to the birth of the nation in 1776.

Sunlight glinted off the

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slender steel structure as it rose slowly into the blue sky.

Construction workers inside the building clustered around unfinished floor ledges to get a better glimpse of it.

“It will give a tremendous indication to people around the entire region, and the world, that we’re back and better than ever,” said Steven Plate, who is overseeing construction of the World Trade Center.

Composed of 18 parts and weighing 758 tons, the spire floated into Manhattan several months ago on a barge.

With a beacon at its peak to ward off aircraft, the spire will provide public transmission services for television and radio broadcast channels. An

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The building is rising at the northwest corner of the site where the twin towers were destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

“It’s not just a construction site,” Plate said. “It’s truly a mission for all of us.”

With the additional 408 feet, the building would be the tallest in the U.S. and third-tallest in the world, although building experts dispute whether the spire is ac-

tually an antenna — a crucial distinction in terms of measuring the building’s height.

Without the spire, One World Trade Center would actually be shorter than the Willis Tower in Chicago, which currently wears the crown of tallest building in the U.S. at 1,451 feet, not including its own antennas.

T h e C o u n c i l o n Ta l l Buildings and Urban Habitat, a Chicago-based organization considered an authority on such records, says an antenna is something simply added to the top of a tower that can be removed.

Shots fired at Houston airport; at least one person critically injured HOUSTON (AP) — Shots were fired near a ticket counter at Houston’s largest airport on Thursday, and at least one person was critically injured, a Houston police spokesman said.

A call that there had been a “discharge of firearms” came into police at 1:35 p.m., John Cannon, the spokesman said. The shots were fired near the ticket counter in Terminal B at Bush Intercontinental Airport, he said. One person has been taken to an area hospital with life threatening injuries.

Dale Howard, of Tomball, was at the baggage handling area of the airport waiting for his sister to arrive on an incoming flight when he heard two shots fired from the floor above. A few seconds later, he said he heard three more shots.

“People were screaming. I knew exactly what it was — gunfire,” Howard said.

Police from an adjacent station rushed in, and Howard said he directed them to the floor above.

Parts of the terminal were blocked off as police investigate.

3. ANNAPOLIS, MD.

Maryland becomes 18th state to do away with the death penalty Maryland has become the first state south of the Mason-Dixon line to abolish the death penalty.

Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley signed the measure at a crowded ceremony on Thursday. Attending was one-time Maryland death row inmate Kirk Bloodsworth. He is the first person in the U.S. freed because of DNA evidence after being convicted in a death penalty case.

Maryland is the 18th state to abolish the death penalty.

The bill will not apply to the five men the state has on death row, but the governor can commute their sentences to life without parole. O’Malley has said he will consider them on a case-by-case basis.

The state’s last execution was in 2005.

Supporters of the death penalty could still try to petition the bill to the ballot.

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The No.1 Sooner softball team travels to the Sunflower State this weekend to face the Kansas Jayhawks at Arrocha Ballpark in Lawrence.

BASEBALL

Sooners face Big 12 dark horse on the road Mountaineers trail OU by one game for conference lead JONO GRECO

Assistant Sports Editor

West Virginia has been a surprising team so far.

The Mountaineers (27-19) were picked by the conference’s coaches to finish dead last in the Big 12. But after back-to-back quality weekends where it went 5-1, West Virginia is within striking distance for first in the Big 12.

A l t h o u g h w h a t We s t Virginia has done so far has surprised some people, coach Sunny Golloway is not part of that group.

“Does it surprise me what they’ve done? No,” he said.

“Things have fallen into place for them really well.

We’ll go in there and we’ll respect them, but we’re not going to fear them.”

The No. 12 Oklahoma baseball team holds the Big 12’s top spot with a 10-5 conference record, and Baylor trails by mere percentage points with an 11-6 Big 12 record. Kansas State and West Virginia are tied for third with 9-6 records.

So what once seemed like an easy series, which starts at 5:30 tonight at Appalachian Power Park in Charleston, W.Va., has turned into a crucial match in the battle for conference supremacy.

“It is a big weekend,” senior third baseman Garrett Carey said. “But we’re just going to roll out and play our game and not do too much.

We should come out on top if we do what we’re capable of doing.”

But what OU (33-12) is

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Junior first baseman/designated hitter Matt Oberste lifts a pitch into the outfield for a leadoff single in the bottom of the first inning against Texas Tech in OU’s 6-2 win on Saturday in Norman. Oberste’s bat continues to be hot heading into the end of the season going 2-4 with a walk and an RBI on Saturday.

capable of doing has not been what’s displayed at the plate during the last two games.

The Sooners seemed to be on a roll by winning five of their last six games, but their lone loss during that stretch plus Tuesday’s loss against Dallas Baptist exposed one of the team’s biggest flaws at the plate.

During the first two games of Texas Tech series, Red Raider pitchers attacked OU hitters on the inside half of the plate, and the Sooners scored 14 runs en route to

TRACK AND FIELD

Sooner men’s and women’s teams headed to Waco this weekend to compete in Big 12 Championships OU’s men’s and women’s track and field teams hope for a win at the Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championship starting at noon Friday at Hart-Patterson Track and Field Complex in Waco, Texas.

The Sooner track and field women’s team currently ranks No. 23 in the country, while the men’s team recently dropped from the Top 25. Oklahoma has not won a track and field outdoor title as a team since 2007.

Several Sooners placed in the top three of meets last weekend at Stanford, Arkansas and Iowa, including freshman pole vaulter Rachel Bolton, senior miler Riley Masters and senior thrower Tia Brooks, who set a meet record at the Drake Relays.

There are many Sooners, as well as these stars, to watch for during the championship this weekend, which will continue through Sunday.

Olivia Salsbery

“I think the book clearly is on Oklahoma: Pitch away and let their big guys try to let their ego get the best of them to pull the ball for power, and then on the left-handers just mix.”

SUNNY GOLLOWAY, OU COACH

victory.

In the series finale, Texas Tech changed its approach and challenged hitters with outside pitches. The Red Raiders won, 9-3, with two of OU’s runs coming in the ninth inning.

Dallas Baptist used a trio of freshmen pitchers Tuesday to continue the attack on the outer half of the plate and found success, shutting out the Sooners, 2-0. OU was held to three hits in the loss.

“I think the book clearly

is on Oklahoma: Pitch away and let their big guys try to let their ego get the best of them to pull the ball for power, and then on the left-handers just mix,” Golloway said. “Our conscious effort is to use the whole yard — not worry and be selfish about power numbers. Go back to what we’re doing best.”

The solution to this scouting report is simple: just be mentally prepared for it, junior first baseman/designated hitter Matt Oberste said.

“It’s all mental right now,” he said. “Physically we’re

prepared, but mentally … we’ve just got to be ready to hit once we step in the box.

We’ve got to clear our heads through everything and quit guessing and just hit the ball.”

If OU hitters do not figure out how to stay back and go the opposite way or lay off outside breaking balls, which killed at-bats and opportunities against Dallas Baptist, then West Virginia’s pitching staff that boasts a 3.87 team ERA will have its way with the Sooners all weekend.

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Dancing to share perspectives Students showcase their choreography Life & Arts Reporter

Graduating seniors to present artwork Ali Hausner

Life & Arts Reporter

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Kilmyn Graf, a graduate student who will present her original choreography at the fifth annual Degrees of Rotation on Saturday, previously choreographed “Dolce” (above).

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Saturday Where: Reynolds Performing Arts Center, Room 3002 Price: $5 for students with ID and $10 for public

used the concept of fall and what it means in different scenarios she said. She tried to use any kind of concept of fall, like fallen heroes or falling over.

“I tried to abstract those words and meanings into movement,” Codalata said.

Another one of her pieces is a much more happy and energetic dance. However, it was much more challenging, Codalata said. She used ideas and influences from a piece of literature and worked to make an abstract representation of the story.

“I would like people to come away with a different way of seeing dance,” Codalata said. “It’s not necessarily all fairytales and princesses, but also not some weird thing that happens randomly in the street.”

Overall, the graduate students are really excited to see how everything pans out, Barr said. They have worked really hard on these performances they created on their own.

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From modern dance to ballet, there will be a little something for everyone at the Degrees of Rotation performances on Saturday.

OU graduate students will present their original choreography in the fifth annual Degrees of Rotation performances by the School of Dance. Kilmyn Graf, Sierra Codalata and Joshua Barr choreographed the dances, with production assistance

by Alexandra Niemeyer.

“I think it’s just a great opportunity for us graduate students to have complete freedom to explore new movement and ideas,” said Barr, a first year fine arts in dance graduate student.

The students choreographed their performances with influence from music pieces and works of literature. As choreographers, they want people to come away with a different way of seeing dance, said Codalata, first year dance graduate student.

“We’re just trying to show everyone that there are different spectrums in the scale, and it kind of depends on your taste,” Codalata said.

“Like finding your favorite muffin in the bakery.”

Barr choreographed a ballet piece — the first he has ever created — allowing him to explore the ballet realm, he said. Past performances Barr has choreographed have been more modern contemporary work.

One of Codalata’s pieces

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School of Dance played a big part in these graduate-produced performances, Barr said. The students met once a week with mentors which really made a difference.

The Degrees of Rotation performances will be held at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday at the Reynolds Performing Arts Center, Room 3002.

Tickets are $5 for students with an ID and $10 for the public.

“It’s always refreshing to see someone else see your work,” Barr said. “But the real joy in the end is just seeing what pleasure it brings to the audience.”

Tess Thomson tthomson@ou.edu

The annual OU School of Art and Art History Senior Capstone Exhibition will open to feature the work of graduating seniors.

The exhibition will open Sunday and continue through May 17 at the School of Art and Art History’s Lightwell Gallery. An opening reception will be held from 2 to 4 p.m.

Sunday, which is free and open to the public, said Jessica Upson, School of Art and Art History event coordinator.

The Senior Capstone Exhibition will feature the work of graduating seniors from all visual art programs offered at the school.

Work from students will include studio art such as printmaking, painting, sculpture and ceramics along with media art, which includes art and technology, photography, film and video, Upson said.

Jessica Ann, media fine arts senior, will broadcast her piece “Thesauraphone,” an interactive electronic sculpture she has been working on for about six months. The sculpture is an abstraction of a treasure hunting experience, Ann said. Items she found in the treasure hunt are incorporated into the piece.

“I hope people interact with ‘Thesauraphone’ and spend time with it to understand what the experience was,” Ann said.

The event is presented annually in conjunction with a capstone course required for all graduating seniors who are candidates for a bachelor’s in Fine Arts from the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts, said Mary Watson, School of Art and Art History director.

Each student creates a body of work to represent the culmination of their studies at OU and then displays a portion of this portfolio during the exhibition, Upson said. Students also work closely with their professors to organize and install the exhibition and are responsible for every aspect of the show.

“This offers our students the valuable hands-on experience they need to succeed as artists post-graduation,” Upson said.

The event will allow OU students, faculty and staff, as well as friends, family and the Norman community to see what students have been working on during their time at OU, Watson said.

Ali Hausner, alihausner@ou.edu

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Temperamental weather

Students shed shorts for sweaters Top: University College freshman Kimberly Rojas and University College freshman Tarra Clark fight the icy wind with a scarf, layers and ear muffs on their way back to the dorms after class Thursday afternoon.

Temperatures dropped below 40 degrees after an unseasonable chill swept over Norman at 7 p.m. the night before.

Left: Students trudge in the cold across the South Oval in their winter clothes on Thursday afternoon.

Right: Students clad in cold weather clothing walk down the South Oval on Thursday evening.

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the following University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center members who were honored April 29 at an awards ceremony.

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Houchen

Bigfoot

Kolobe

Bard

Blevins

Lockwood

Peck

GEORGE LYNN CROSS PROFESSORSHIPS William Hildebrand, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine Ming-Hui Zou, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine DAVID ROSS BOYD PROFESSORSHIP William M. Tierney, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine

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Regens

Copeland

Grantham

Hildebrand

Ripley

Tierney

Tweten

GOOD TEACHING AWARD Vesper Grantham, Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, College of Allied Health FACULTY GOVERNANCE AWARD Deborah Lockwood, Department of Medicine/ Cardiology, College of Medicine PROVOST’S RESEARCH AWARD FOR SENIOR FACULTY Courtney Houchen, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine

REGENTS’ PROFESSORSHIP James L. Regens, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health REGENTS’ AWARDS FOR SUPERIOR TEACHING Steve M. Blevins, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine Molly R. Hill, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine Jennifer D. Peck, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health Toni L. Ripley, Department of Pharmacy Clinical and Administrative Sciences, College of Pharmacy REGENTS’ AWARD FOR SUPERIOR PROFESSIONAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE AND PUBLIC OUTREACH Dolores Subia Bigfoot, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine

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*Isaac B. Rutel, Department of Radiological Sciences, College of Medicine *Paul H. Weigel, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine *Paul DeAngelis, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine INNOVATOR AWARD *Madeleine W. Cunningham, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine PRESIDENTIAL PROFESSORSHIPS Vibhudutta Awasthi, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Robert Glenn Rapp Foundation Presidential Professor

PROVOST’S RESEARCH AWARD FOR JUNIOR FACULTY David Bard, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine PATENT AWARDS William Hildebrand, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine *Richard F. Harty, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine *David W. Dyer, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine *H. Anne Pereira, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy *Courtney Houchen, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine *Randal May, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine

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Hélène Carabin, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health President’s Associates Presidential Professor Kenneth Copeland, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor Hlapang (Thubi) Kolobe, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Allied Health, Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor

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Rodney K. Tweten, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, President’s Associates Presidential Professor * not pictured