June 20-26, 2012

THIS WEEK TODAY

THURSDAY

Jazz in June opens with “Blues Under the Stars” starts at 7 p.m. at Brookhaven Village, 3700 W. Robinson Ave. For a full festival schedule, see page 3.

FRIDAY

An open rodeo starts at 7 p.m. at the Norman Roundup Club at East Alameda Street and Northeast 60th Street.

SATURDAY

Shakespeare in the Park will perform “Two Gentlemen of Verona” at 8 p.m. at the Myriad Botanical Gardens’ water stage in downtown Oklahoma City.

SUNDAY

The Oklahoma City Redhawks will take on the Omaha Storm Chasers at 7 p.m. at Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City.

MONDAY

Travis Linville will play live music from 7-9 p.m. at The Deli, 309 White St.

TUESDAY

Celebración, an exhibition of Latino artists, will be on display from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Mainsite Contemporary Art Gallery, 122 E. Main St. Featured artists include Paul Medina and Narciso Aguilla.

Admission is free.

For a full calendar of events, visit oudaily.com

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There will be Powwow Singing led by Kiowa tribe members John Hamilton and Tonya Cozad from 7-8 p.m. at Jacobson House, 609 Chautauqua Ave.

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T h e O U Wo m e n ’s Outreach Center created a new position to accommodate program expansion in the last several years, a representative said.

“A program coordinator was needed at the Women’s Outreach Center due to our expansion over the past several years,” center director Kathy Moxley said. “New members were needed to continue the level of programming we’ve been able to enact as well as expand to new venues.”

Melanie Adams, former adviser in Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communications, will fill the position at the center.

Adams said she will work with sexual assault prevention programming and the Sooner Ally program.

“I’ve been wanting to work for the Women’s Outreach Center for a while and volunteered facilitating many programs,” Adams said. “When the opportunity came together, it was perfect.”

Adams started her new position Monday and is focused on the “Step In, Speak Out” program, a sexual awareness program.

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OU School of Dance ballet instructor Rebecca Herrin (right) leads students through a routine Tuesday, June 19. Herrin, who is sevenmonths pregnant, has continued to teach the SummerWind Youth Ballet Camp. Herrin said the camp is tough because she teaches multiple classes in a row rather than having breaks in her schedule like during the spring and fall semester. For more, visit OUDaily.com.

DEATH

Worker dies after falling from Headington Hall Investigation into cause still underway NATHAN ROBERTSON Campus Reporter

A construction worker with Universal Roofing and Sheet Metal died Monday morning from internal injuries after falling four stories on campus.

OU Medical Center

spokesman Eric Ferguson confirmed the death of construction worker Colby Shaw at 9:14 a.m. from injuries sustained after falling from Headington Hall, the new Sooner residence hall being constructed on the corner of Lindsey Street and Jenkins Avenue.

Shaw fell from the building’s roof and was airlifted to OU Medical Center, according

to the OUPD report.

Construction firm FlintCo, which oversees the project, has partnered with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration to conduct an investigation, company spokeswoman Dana Birkes said.

“The preliminary investigation indicates that the worker involved had not secured his fall protection,” Birkes said.

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issued a statement Monday on behalf of the university.

“All of us at the university Follow this developing are deeply saddened by this story as new information tragedy,” Boren said. “Our becomes available. love and sympathy go out to oudaily.com/news the family of Colby Shaw.”

The accident happened The investigation is ongoabout 9:15 a.m., she said, ing to determine the specifics consistent with OU Medical of the incident, Birkes said.

Center ’s time-of-death estimate.

Jenna Bielman contributed OU President David Boren to this report.

June 20-26, 2012 • 3

Gender-neutral housing

OU to test coed pilot program this fall New area to allow men, women to live in same space but still in separate rooms Kendra Whitman Campus Reporter

OU will not adopt gender-neutral housing but will create a coed freshman area where men and women can live — although still in separate rooms, President David Boren said.

Boren’s announcement follows a letter he wrote to The Daily in the spring in which he said he will make the decision before students move into residence halls in August. The letter was in response to a student-led rally March 7 in support of genderneutral housing.

The coed area will be a pilot program with a limited number of living spaces that will be evenly balanced between genders.

The program is a step toward what other universities have, such as Oklahoma State University, Boren said COVER in a statement.

STORY Oklahoma State’s program has been available since about 2006, said Matthew Brown, director of Housing and Residential Life. OSU’s program is coed by unit.

Student focus groups showed a desire for this type of housing, and approximately one-third of OSU housing is coed, Brown said. Coed housing gives OSU officials flexibility when determining housing assignments, and there have been no issues created by it so far, he said.

The details of OU’s pilot program — such as location and size of the area — are not yet determined and will be based on student interest, but university spokesman Michael Nash conKingsley Burns/The Daily firmed that the suites will be segregated by gender.

OU President David Boren speaks to students on the South Oval during a rally in support of gender-neutral housing in the spring.

Boren announced Tuesday, June 19, that the university will not adopt a gender-neutral housing policy.

Reaction to decision

Boren met with the Gender-Neutral Housing Coalition, which includes members of several student groups, on March decision-making process.

26 and May 2 to discuss a possible policy change and to listen Calans said there needs to be more understanding about to the students’ viewpoints. the issues, but she said she is thrilled action has been taken in In Tuesday’s statement, Boren said he is not changing the response to student interest. housing policy because the university wants to create a sense Student Organizers Collective, one of the student groups of community by avoiding “separation by group identity.� that was involved in the coalition, will continue to push for the But coalition members reject the idea that program to be permanently adopted and then gender-neutral housing means segregating expanded, said Calans, the collective’s represen“We applaud the tative in the coalition. students.

Coalition member Carly Calans said she Elizabeth Rucker, who represented Students first steps that thinks the administration is missing the point for a Democratic Society, said she thinks Boren Boren has taken because the pilot program will be split between and university officials believe bullying and ha... but more has rassment are not major issues at OU. But coalimen and women. “Not everyone fits into a binary gender,� said tion members are trying to raise awareness that to be done.�

Calans, women’s and gender studies senior. bullying and harassment are present on campus Elizabeth Rucker, Coalition member Laurel Cunningham said — and they need to be addressed, she said.

Students for a she was disappointed the university will not “We applaud the first steps that Boren has Democratic Society change its housing policy but believes Boren was taken to affirm adult students’ ability to chose open to student input. their own living situation and protect LGBTQ “I feel he truly did listen to our concerns and that the chang- students, but more has to be done,� she said. es that he plans to implement are very important and necesRucker said the coed area for freshmen is a great first step, sary for the cause,� Cunningham said. but officials need to continue working with students.

Cunningham said she can understand how the current “We want a student-led advisory committee that works political climate would make it difficult for OU to implement with the administration and staff to implement gender-neugender-neutral housing. tral housing, ensure further reforms to protect students and to make the campus welcoming and safe for all,� she said.

Work continues

Other steps The coed pilot program is a step toward providing more flexible options for students, said Kathy Moxley, Women’s In addition to the new coed area, the university will work Outreach Center director. Moxley also was involved in the to improve the environment for students with special housing

needs through steps Boren outlined in a press release. These include: • Resident advisers will be required to take mandatory sensitivity and resource training related to gender orientation to help ensure students feel comfortable in their living environment. • Housing and Food Services will respond to urgent roomchange requests within 24 hours, and if officials assign students to a single room for safety reasons or special circumstances, students can continue paying their previously determined rate. • Rewriting contracts in order to inform freshmen that they can discuss special housing needs confidentially with Diane Brittingham, Housing and Food Services associate director and Residence Life director. • Upperclassmen who want special consideration for housing options may contact Brittingham at 405-325-2511.

Brittingham and Housing and Food Director Dave Annis will work with Student Affairs to offer the resident adviser training and rework the housing contracts, Nash said.

Brittingham confirmed the new procedures and said the department is looking forward to the work. Brittingham did not comment further on Boren’s announcement.

Boren thanked the students who worked with him throughout the process. “Cooperation among our students and staff allowed us to formulate initiatives we feel will be beneficial to all of our students,� Boren said in a statement.

Wesley Wehde contributed to this report.

Concert

Summer festival to jazz up Norman with three days of music Shawn Stafford

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Friday

7:15-8:465 p.m.

What’s That 9:15-10:45 p.m.

Jazz Headliner: Bert Dalton Brazil Project

Andrews Park, 201 W. Daws St.

“Jazz in the Park�

6-6:45 p.m.

New Horizons Jazz Band 6:45–7 p.m.

Norman High Jazz Combo 7:10–8:35 p.m.

Ivan Peùa Ensemble 8:35–9 p.m.

Norman High Jazz Combo 9–10:45 p.m.

Festival Headliner: David Sanborn

Santa Fe Train Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave.

11 p.m.

Blues Jam led by Steve Coleman & the OBS All-Stars

Saturday

“Jazz Under the Stars�

Brookhaven Village, 3700 W. Robinson St.

Brookhaven Village, 3700 W. Robinson St.

7-8:30 p.m.

Steve Coleman & the OBS All-Stars 9-10:45 p.m.

Blues Headliner: Carolyn Wonderland

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“Blues Under the Stars�

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Jazz Jam led by the Grant Goldstein Ensemble

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Jazz in June will span three days — Thursday through Saturday — and each day will offer something a little different, which is shown in the names of each night: Blues Under the Stars, Jazz Under the Stars and Jazz in the Park, respectively.

The festival also features clinics for aspiring musicians led by the world-class musicians of the festival.

Jim Johnson at KGOU said the seats inside have been filled. However, he said speakers will be hooked up so people can listen to the clinic outside in the shade if they can’t get a seat.

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Composer and pianist Bert Dalton’s The Brazil Project will headline Jazz Under the Stars on Friday night.

The final headliner is six-time Grammy Awardwinning saxophonist David Sanborn. He has 24 albums that have sold thousands of copies.

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TRACK & FIELD

Sooner stars look to qualify for Olympics OKCTHUNDER vs. MIAMIHEAT Durant looks to gain momentum in Miami

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The Oklahoma City Thunder and Miami Heat are battling it out for a title in the NBA Finals. Thunder forward Kevin Durant (left) and Heat forward LeBron James have been dominant forces in the series so far. Visit OUDaily.com for continued coverage of the Finals and to hear what The Daily’s sports desk thinks the Thunder need to do to win the series. Game 4 was still being played at time of paper production.

NCAA title winners Brooks, Borman to compete for U.S. national team spots TOBI NEIDY

Sports Reporter

Oklahoma track teammates junior Tia Brooks and senior Brittany Borman like to do things in pairs.

Both student-athletes won national championships in their respective events during the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Championships earlier this month — Brooks in shot put and Borman in javelin — and both helped lead the Sooners to a seventh-overall ranking this season, earning 10 points apiece to apply to the team’s total point count TIA BRITTANY during the competition.

Both titles also were his- BROOKS BORMAN torical firsts for the OU program as Brooks became the first Sooner to win an outdoor championship in shot put while Borman repeated as the national champion for the second consecutive year to become the first Sooner to win back-to-back titles at the outdoor nationals.

And now the teammates — and roommates — will tackle one more feat together in the next two weeks: training together to compete in the U.S. Olympic Trials held at the end of June in Eugene, Ore. “It’s nerve-racking, but we’re excited to make something happen,” Brooks said. “But we’re around each other every day, so we know what we both have to do in order to succeed.”

Brooks — who already has qualified to compete for the U.S. Olympic team by obtaining an A standard with her 62-foot-4-inch throw earlier this year — will need to outthrow just one participant in the upcoming trials in order to earn a plane ticket to the 2012 London Olympic games.

Borman, on the other hand, will need to achieve the A standard of 200 feet in the javelin trials before being able to punch her ticket to the games across the pond. Her longest throw currently stands at 194-feet, 11-inches.

No female member of the OU track team has ever brought a gold medal back to Norman, but having that opportunity to get to the international stage is all the motivation Brooks and Borman said they need going into the trials.

“It’s been all of our dreams to try out for the Olympics,” Borman said. “And that just gets us more fired up at practice.”

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