June 13-19, 2012

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There is a farmers market from 8 a.m. to noon at the Cleveland County Farigrounds, 615 East Robinson St.

THURSDAY

“21 Jump Street” will showing at 6 and 8:30 p.m. at Meachum Auditorium in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Admission is free for students.

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FRIDAY

Oklahoma native Kyle Brewer will play a set at Othello’s on Campus Corner, 434 Buchanan Ave.

SATURDAY

King of the Cage cage fighting will be held from 9 to 11 p.m. at the Showplace Theatre in Riverwind Casino, 1544 W. State Highway 9.

Tickets start at $20.

SUNDAY

Norman photojournalist Kendall Brown will be displaying her exhiit titled, A Portrait in Protesting featuring pictures of Occupy Wall Street protesters at Mainsite Contemporary Art Gallery, 120 E. Main St.

MONDAY

The Damn Quails will play from 10 p.m. to midnight at The Deli, 309 White St.

TUESDAY

Buddha Mind Monastary, 5916 S. Anderson Road in Oklahoma City, will offer classes in Zen Meditation from 7 to 9 p.m. The classes, taught by JianMao Shihfu, are offered every Tuesday at the same time.

For a full calendar of events, visit oudaily.com

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Woodcut art by OU graduate Thomas Shahan. Shahan describes himself as someone more interested in the history of wood engraving than actually participating in the craft, which he only picked up three years ago.

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Football

New receivers will need to be ready to play, freshman says Only one WR with a catch returns for OU

OU still has reasons to celebrate despite Super Regional loss Dillon Phillips Sports Reporter

Dillon Phillips Sports Reporter

It used to be an anomaly for freshman to receive immediate playing time in collegiate athletics.

In fact, until 1972, it wasn’t just unusual — it was against the rules.

But even after the NCAA made freshman eligible to play, freaks of nature like Earl Campbell, Herschel Walker and Marcus Dupree used to be the exception, not the rule — thoroughbreds who were few and far between.

Now it seems there are a handful of freshmen who make their presence felt every season.

Callowness be damned.

Th e re a re t h e Ad r ia n Petersons, Michael Vicks and Reggie Bushes of the world who not only come in and play immediately, but play well. Exceptionally well.

Still, it takes a special kind of talent to be able to arrive on campus fresh out of high school and assert oneself as a starter.

This fall, freshmen receivers Sterling Shepard, Durron Neal and Derrick Woods will have a chance to do just that.

The OU football team has been rocked by suspensions recently, especially at the receiver position, leaving the door open for freshmen to get reps early and often.

OU returns only one receiver who has caught a pass in NCAA play — junior Kenny Stills — and will rely

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Incoming freshman receiver Sterling Shepard will look to be a factor in a Sooner receiving corps depleted by suspensions. Shepard played his high school ball at Heritage Hall in Oklahoma City.

heavily on the contributions of the incoming class of receivers.

Prep star Trey Metoyer and junior college transfers Courtney Gardner and LaColtan Bester will join Shepard, Neal and Woods — but those three already have experience playing at the collegiate level.

Shepard, Neal and Woods are fresh off the proverbial boat.

But to Heritage Hall product Sterling Shepard, it’s all part of the process.

“I always thought of myself as being able to play just like any other freshman, but I have a greater chance now, obviously, with some of the guys being out (from

suspension),” Shepard said.

However, the Sooners’ inexperience at the position is a double-edged sword for the younger guys — while the depth chart opens up, allowing for a greater chance of playing early, the team is left with a lack of leadership.

“It’s kind of disappointing because you can look up to [the older guys], and they can teach you things just like Ryan (Broyles) taught Kenny (Stills) things,” Shepard said.

“I don’t really have that right now.”

A receiving corps that went from elite to anemic after the loss of NCAA career receptions leader Ryan Broyles last season once again will have to prove itself.

O nly this season, the Sooners will be without juniors Jaz Reynolds and Trey Franks and sophomore Kameel Jackson.

It’s just Stills and the Lost Boys, swapping Neverland for the realigned Big 12.

When Sept. 1 rolls around, Rivals’ rankings and stars mean nothing.

“I think it’s just a matter of, like, how hard us freshman come in and work and get everything down,” Shepard said. “When you get everything down, you’re able to play to the best of your ability. So if all of us freshman can get everything down, we’ll be pretty good.

“You just have to step up and play.”

The OU baseball team’s season came to an end after Monday’s 5-1 loss to back-to-back national champions South Carolina sent the Sooners home from the Columbia Super Regional.

The final game of the Sooners’ 2012 campaign took nearly 24 hours to complete as officials suspended play twice Sunday night because of rain.

After dropping the first game of the best-of-three series to South Carolina on Saturday, Oklahoma came back in game two and hung tough with the defending national champs.

Both teams remained scoreless until the game was postponed in the middle of the sixth. Upon the game’s resumption, South Carolina broke the gridlock with a two-run top of the seventh and never looked back.

The Sooners answered with an RBI single from senior first baseman Evan Mistich — OU’s only run of the series — in the bottom of the seventh to get within one, but that was the closest the Sooners would come to pulling off the upset.

However bitter the end to the Sooners’ season might taste, in retrospect, it still has to be considered successful.

Oklahoma had its fair share of ups and downs over the course of the season — oscillating from a championship contender to a bubble team — on its way to compiling a 42-25 record and making its third trip to a Super Regional under coach Sunny Golloway.

Keep in mind, this season’s Sooner squad was a perfect 5-0 against No. 4 Baylor, a win away from the Big 12 tournament title, a two-seed in the NCAA tournament and the Charlottesville Regional champions — all despite losing 11 players in last spring’s draft.

So while this last loss surely hurts, the Sooners should keep their chins up.

This season didn’t turn out the way OU wanted, but when it’s national-championship-or-bust, they rarely do.

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OU pitcher Steven Okart waits in the dugout after giving up three runs to South Carolina in the eighth inning of Game 2 of the Columbia Super Regional on Monday, June 11, in Columbia, S.C.

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Art

‘Archaic’ art form ignites OU grad’s passion Photography lands Thomas Shahan spot in local exhibits, national magazine Sam Higgins

Campus Reporter

It’s easy to tell Thomas Shahan is the kind of person who does something interesting just by looking at him. The wildness in his large, somewhat unkempt beard is matched only by the passion in his eyes, magnified through the thickness of his glasses.

He speaks about woodcutting and the insects he photographs COVER with the fire-like STORY intensity.

Shahan graduated from OU in December with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art, specializing in printmaking. “A hundred years ago, printmaking was not an art form,� Shahan said.

Shahan explains the history of printmaking as a practical application. “Let’s say there’s a guy who paints a landscape,� he said. “He paints the Appalachian Mountains or something, and if they wanted the image in a newspaper, say in 1859, there was no chemical process to reproduce that.�

An engraver reproduced the painting, but the painter was solely credited with the artistic work, he said.

Shahan describes himself as someone more interested in the history of wood engraving than actually participating in the craft, which he only picked up three years ago. He gets excited talking about a dollar bill and the fine engraved lines used to create the portraits. “It’s mesmerizing that somebody could cut that with their hands,� he said. “I thought it was just amazing, and I thought, ‘Why isn’t this a fine art form? Why don’t you go to a gallery and

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“He’s one of those students you learn just as much from as you teach.�

Curtis Jones, studio art professor

see wood engravings?’�

Because technology has changed, some forms of art are seen as archaic, he said. “It takes expensive equipment, it takes a lot of time, and it takes a fair amount of understanding about what you’re doing,� he said.

Shahan said he got into the right art school because of the etching press and letter press available in the Fred Jones Junior School of Art and Art History.

Curtis Jones, the studio art professor who taught screen printing to Shahan, explained how determined Shahan can be in learning new art forms. “He’ll use his p ro f e s s o r s o r whatever he has available to him to get him as far as he can,� Jones said. “And if we can’t get him as far as he wants to go, he’ll just keep trying. “He’s one of those students you learn just as much from as you teach.�

Though Shahan is passionate about printmaking, he also is known for his macro photography of insects. Shahan’s photographs, which have been featured in National Geographic, come from his passion for insects.

It is a means of communicating what he finds important, Shahan said. “There are these

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Top: Thomas Shahan demonstrates his tactics for getting his lens close to the insects Saturday.

Shahan, who graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art from OU in December, customized his camera by making his own flash diffuser.

Left: A photo Shahan took of an adult female Paraphidippus Aurantius.

awesome, amazingly detailed, intricate, beautiful animals in Oklahoma,� he said.

But taking photos of creatures on this scale isn’t easy. “90 percent of the shots I take are nothing,� he said.

This is because of having to get so close with his reverse mounted lens at the end of a series of extension tubes, allowing his camera to capture photographs that are fractions of a meter in length. “ I m ig ht g o w e e k s o r

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months without taking a photograph of a single thing that is recognizable,� Shahan said.

Shahan said he has a great affinity for the Phidippus audax, commonly known as a jumping spider. To him, these spiders have reached an evolutionary plateau of perfection. “ T h e y ’ re v e r y s m a r t , they’re very quick and they just don’t lose,� he said. “They destroy everything.�

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OUDaily.com Go online to see more of Thomas Shahan’s work, including insect photos and woodcuts. oudaily.com/news

woodcuts are on display in the Student Gallery on the lower level of Oklahoma Memorial Union. Next spring, the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History will host an exhibit on arthropods in Oklahoma,

which will feature some of his photographs.

Although Shahan may be gaining recognition for his art skills, he said he doesn’t consider himself an artist. “I have nothing against the art world, but I feel a little disillusioned with the art community,� he said. “I have these different things I like doing, but they have goals outside of expressing myself. “The process for me is more exciting than the actual outcome.�

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External fire escapes at Evans Hall removed after evaluation deems them unnecessary Norman Fire Department reviews campus fire escapes

result in up-to-date safety measures, said Catherine Bishop, vice president of public affairs.

“The age and historic nature of many of Sam Higgins our buildings, including Evans Hall, presCampus Reporter ent complexities in fire safety implementaCrews removed two external fire escapes tion, and it is the university’s hope that this at Evans Hall on Monday. The process to analysis will provide additake down the structures took two days of tional options to advance preparation, university spokesman Michael safety interests,” Bishop Nash said. said in an email.

The decision to remove the structures Bishop has not respondwas made after considering the upgrades ed to emails and phone made to the interior of the building, Nash messages. said.

The fire escapes have “An evaluation of Evans Hall by the been in place since the CASEY University Fire Marshal in conjunction with original construction of the Norman Fire Department determined COOKE Evans Hall in 1909, Ellis that recent fire suppression upgrades to fire said. alarms and sprinklers in Evans Hall allow Ellis said he was aware there were ways for dismantling of the fire escapes on the to get to the first level of the Evans Hall fire building,” Nash said in an email. escape.

The OU fire marshal declined to “Obviously, it had been happening for comment. some time, but we took action after the inAn evaluation of the exterior fire escapes cident to secure the roof at Evans Hall,” Ellis at Carnegie Hall and Monnet Hall is still said. “So no further unauthorized access to continuing, Nash said. the roof will be permitted at Evans Hall.”

A review of all external fire escapes on A sign posted underneath the fire escape campus was conducted last week in con- stated that unauthorized use of the fire essultation with the Norman cape was not allowed, and Fire Department, said punishable by a $750 fine, Brian Ellis, director of Ellis said.

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Cooke’s uncle, Don Complete follow-up The review was performed Cooke, said she frequently coverage of Casey Cooke, as a follow up to the death climbed the fire escape. the OU student who died of zoology senior Casey Cooke, 22, was discovafter falling from a fire Cooke, who fell off Evans ered unresponsive early escape at Evans Hall.

Hall the morning of June 3.

Sunday morning by OU oudaily.com/news “With the incident that staff on patrol near Evans happened ... we were conHall. She was later procerned about the fire escapes,” Ellis said. nounced dead at the scene.

After evaluating the fire escapes at Evans The state medical examiner ruled Hall, it was determined they were no longer Cooke’s death an accident and determined required, he said. This decision was made she had suffered fatal blunt force trauma to after considering the upgrades made to the the chest and head. A toxicology report is interior of the building, in terms of alarms still pending. and fire sprinklers.

The university hopes the review will Jenna Bielman contributed to this report.

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A bouquet of flowers sits at the base of the west side of Evans Hall on Monday, June 11, where the fire escape used to be. Zoology senior Casey Cooke died June 3 after she fell from one of the building’s external fire escapes. Last week, the university decided to remove the structures.

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