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“I might have a different birth country, but it isn’t my home.

All I know is

America.”

OU students reflect on their uncertain futures after Trump administration’s decision to end DACA

CARLOS RUBIO

Moved to the U.S. at age 3

“We’re going to fight for our rights. We’re not just worth a piece of paper — we’re more valuable than that and we have to show it.“

JANELY FRANCO

Moved to the U.S. at 6 months old

“Family is the most important thing to me.

That’s a common trend that you’ll see with DACA students and undocumented citizens too, because such a big family sacrifice doesn’t go unnoticed.“

DIANA PRIETO

Moved to the U.S. at age 7

“I wish that (people) knew that we’re not trying to steal anything, we’re not trying to skip to the front of the line … we’re just trying to contribute to a country that we already feel like is our home.”

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arlos Rubio dreams of one day being an astronaut.

Diana Prieto wants to mentor foster children and juvenile detention youth.

Ruth Cruces hopes to be a pediatric oncologist and surgeon.

But the lofty aspirations of these three, and the 77 other OU students like them, may never become reality because of a minor detail they share in common: their place of birth.

On Sept. 5, the Trump administration announced its plan to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, but with a six-month delay to allow Congress time to create a legislative solution. The program gives those who came to America as children the ability to obtain work permits, travel permits and temporary reprieve from deportation for two-year periods.

The program will be phased out so that current recipients will lose DACA benefits when their two-year status expires.

While new applications are no longer being accepted, those whose DACA status expires between now and March 5 will be allowed to apply for renewal.

Rubio is a DACA recipient whose status expires in June 2019. For now, he can finish his college degree in industrial and systems engineering, but without a work permit upon graduation, his future is uncertain.

Still, he has no choice but to keep moving forward.

“I’m just going to keep grinding,” Rubio said. “Right now I’m just trying to keep my head up, grades, to be the student I want to be, continue to stay involved like I want to be involved and just focus on these next couple of years. Who knows what will happen when I graduate — I’ve got three good years left at a good university where there’s still a lot to do, so I just kind of have to keep my head up.”

Prieto’s work permit will expire in a year, at which point she will be unable to work to support herself.

“If I can’t hold a job, I can’t

pay for my apartment and I can’t pay for my school, so I would have to drop out,” Prieto said.

“Basically, I wouldn’t have anything without DACA.” Prieto first heard the news while sitting in Cate Center about to meet friends for lunch.

She cried, overwhelmed by sadness and anger.

“I have two choices: I can either be like, ‘Why am I doing this, why am I pursuing something I don’t even know if I can finish?’ and drop out,” Prieto said. “But then, what’s the purpose of me and others fighting for this cause if I’m not going to pursue my degree? So at this point, it’s uncertain, but I can’t just quit.”

DACA’s regulations require that applicants must have immigrated to the United States before turning 16, have no felonies and no more than three small misdemeanors and must have at least a high school diploma (or equivalent) or currently be in school, among other guidelines.

Applicants must pay a $495 fee upon acceptance and with each renewal, in addition to disclosing their undocumented status to the government.

The program was created in 2012 by an executive order from then-President Barack Obama and has since faced backlash regarding its constitutionality and whether the executive branch has the right to make immigration policy, said Nima Zecavati, OU’s immigration attorney.

The official decision to end the program came after Trump received an ultimatum from attorneys general from various states. They threatened a lawsuit if he did not end the program by Sept. 5, Zecavati said.

Even with the looming cancellation, current DACA recipients have a small window of opportunity to get an extension. Approximately 800,000 people nationwide have DACA status, and close to 7,000 are in Oklahoma, Zecavati said.

“It looks like they did put some thought into it rather than just terminating the program and saying everybody with DACA

doesn’t have DACA anymore,” Zecavati said. “It does put a little pressure on Congress to find a fix — and quickly.”

Zecavati said there have been multiple bills brought up in Congress to address underaged, undocumented immigrants, but they were never passed.

Many of those who receive opportunities through DACA, like Cruces, didn’t know they were undocumented until they were teenagers.

“I didn’t find out I was undocumented until I was a junior in high school. I was applying for scholarship, and that’s when I found out,” Cruces said. “And so that was this moment where everything flipped, and that’s when I started to realize more about the things that could happen. Like what if I get pulled over and it doesn’t go how it should go, and I get detained and deported? I mean, what would that mean for the rest of my family?

For my parents?”

For students like Cruces who now face potential deportation when their DAC A status expires, the threat of being sent to a country that is completely foreign to them clouds their vision of what America has always meant to them.

“I grew up singing ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ and saying the Pledge of Allegiance. These things are about freedom and America and hope,” Cruces said.

“I might have a different birth country, but it isn’t my home. All I know is America.”

DACA students have received support from the OU community in the past few days. On the day of the decision, OU President David Boren issued a statement addressing OU’s undocumented students, expressing his full support of DACA students and acknowledging their leadership and place on campus.

“In my opinion, it would be un-American and grossly unfair to deprive these young people

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THINGS YOU

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ABOUT

DACA 1. Nationwide,

there are 800,000 DACA recipients — 7,000 in Oklahoma, 80 at OU

2. DACA provides

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3. Applicants

must have no felonies and no more than three misdemeanors, must pay a fee and must have at least a high school diploma or GED. For more information and coverage on DACA, visit oudaily.com

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Valero gives $1.5 million to OU Gallogly Hall to house biomedical engineering program HANNAH PIKE @h_pike_

Gallogly College of Eng i n e e r i ng ’s s ma l l e st school will soon be located in a 70,000 square foot building, and OU will name a large multipurpose space within it the “Valero Lecture Hall” after receiving a $1.5 million gift from Valero.

Gallogly Hall has been under construction since April and will house the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering and the college’s diversity and inclusion program.

It will be ready for students by the fall of 2019, said Thomas Landers, dean of the Gallogly College of Engineering.

“Many companies who recruit our students want to make an investment in our programs and places that well-prepared those students to graduate and go to work in their industry,” Landers said. “But I think it’s also recognized in the commercial sector that you have to establish your brand.”

Buildings funded by private donations are common — the majority of OU’s academic and athletic buildings were funded, at least in part, by private donations, said Matt Epting, OU’s press secretary.

Biomedical engineering is the fastest-growing field in engineering and requires laboratory space for undergraduates to get hands-on experience, Landers said.

“I believe that’s essential

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The Gallogly Hall groundbreaking ceremony April 6.

to an engineering education,” Landers said. “And we’ve adopted years ago, as a part of the strategy of this college, that we focus at the undergraduate level on experiential learning, where they do hands-on, teambased project work.”

Landers said Gallogly has had strong growth in enrollment and graduation numbers since 2005, so even though Devon Energy Hall and the ExxonMobil Lawrence G. Rawl Engineering Practice Facility have been constructed since then, additional growth demands additional space,

especially for the school of biomedical engineering.

Alex Douglas is a biomedical engineering pre-med junior and will be in the inaugural class to graduate from the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering.

“Even though… I won’t be around when Gallogly Hall is finished, it’s still a representation of my time here,” Douglas said. “If I come back five years from now, I’ll be able to say ‘Wow, even though I wasn’t able to be a part of this building, I know this is still my legacy.’”

Currently, biomedical engineering students

have laboratories on the fourth floor of the Carson Engineering Center, which is also home to other engineering disciplines, Douglas said.

Soon, Gallogly Hall will house the biomedical engineering students, as well as hosting freshmen and sophomore biology and chemistry courses, Landers said.

There will also be a variety of features in the new building, including a terrace, a “living room” and a maker’s space, which is an area where people can create, with three zones, Landers said. One of these zones will

be sealed so that living tissue can be worked on because the 3-D printers in the space are capable of printing tissue, he said.

“There are very specialized aspects of each zone of that lab, so they need space that’s dedicated to biomedical engineering and designed for the kinds of work that they’ll do both as a student and in the future as a practicing engineer,” Landers said.

Having laboratories specific to biomedical engineering majors and separate from those at the research campus will allow for more

undergraduate research, Douglas said.

“I think (Gallogly Hall) kind of just solidifies the essence and the home of biomedical engineering, like being able to say, ‘That’s my b u i l d i n g ,’” h e s a i d .

“Whenever Gallogly does get finished, that’s going to be a place where we can just physically have our own research and an area where people are doing the exact same thing as us and wanting to just help promote each other.”

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Historical monuments subject of discussion Panel will focus on confederate general, statues IPEK DUMAN @ipek_duman1

An OU depar tment is sponsoring a panel discussion about a confederate general’s life and legacy in an effort to learn from the past.

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of the opportunity to continue to live in the United States, where they are making a significant contribution to this country,” Boren said in the statement.

The “Robert E. Lee in History and Monuments” p a n e l , h o s t e d b y O U ’s Departments of Histor y and of Jewish and Israel Studies, will take place 7 p.m. Sept. 12 in Dale Hall.

The idea for this panel came after recent controversies about confederate monuments, but the panel itself will focus more on Lee and his life in general, according to a press release.

Daniel Snell, a professor who teaches Slavery in World History and has written about ancient slavery, put together a slideshow with facts about Lee’s life that he said will be featured as people enter. Snell said he intends to ask questions to the other panelists after the slideshow is finished.

The panel will feature historians and scholars Karlos Hill, a professor of African and African

American studies and expert on lynching in the post-civil war period and Rachel Sheldon, a professor who teaches courses on the Civil War in American History and has written a book over pre-civil war politics.

“It’s important for hist o r i a n s b e cau s e i t ’s a n opportunity for us to talk about how we understand the past. Did we check it all? How do we relate to

unpleasant things that happened in the past?” Snell said.

It is important for people to be informed about what Lee actually did and why he did it, Snell said.

“How do you commemorate things in general? Is there a good way or bad way of doing it? It is kind of interesting that there are not really any war monuments of any sort before the civil war,” Snell said.

The event is open to the public, and attendees will be provided with cards to pose questions following the discussion, Snell said.

For additional information or special accomodations, contact Daniel Snell at dcsnell@ou.edu or the Department of History at (405) 325-6002.

The OU Student Government Association has created advocacy cards for students interested in petitioning state congressmen and senators to “act with compassion” to sign at various locations across campus on Sept. 7 and 8.

OU’s DACA students will also be able to attend forums to help guide them

on what actions to take, Zecavati said, but the details of these forums have not been finalized.

With the executive branch ending DACA, it is now up to Congress to create workable legislation to protect young immigrants, Zecavati said.

“A lot of us in the immigration world were hopeful

that as bad as the termination of DACA is, that it provides a catalyst for us to pass some kind of permanent fix to help the DREAMers,” Zecavati said.

O n S ept. 6, attorne ys general from 15 states and D.C. filed a lawsuit to stop the Tr ump administration from ending the program, the Washington Post

reported.

Even with the next six months stretching out in uncertainty, Prieto said she there is action to be taken, such as calling legislators and senators to remind them of these problems.

“That’s what we can do,” Prieto said. “There’s a lot of things we can’t do, but I got tired of thinking of that,

and now I just have to think about what I can do.”

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Emma Keith contributed to this report.

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Anna Bauman

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Andy and Marian Nuñez, owners of the Opolis, on Sept. 6. The couple is celebrating the venue’s 15th anniversary this weekend.

Opolis celebrates anniversary

Local venue invites bands to reminisce on 15 years of music CHANDLER KIDD @chanannkidd

In a one-room music venue off Crawford Avenue, Marian and Andy Nuñez sat in front of an enormous picture of a cat. Owners of Opolis in dow ntow n Norman, the couple looked at each other with excitement, reminiscing on their 15 years of hosting musical talent.

“Norman has quite a history of bringing in bands,” Marian Nuñez said.

Opolis, which has hosted bands such as Washed Out, The National, Vampire Weekend and Grizzly Bear, will celebrate its 15th anniversary this weekend with a concert series.

In the ‘90s, Andy Nuñez remembers shows being held in Norman at venues like Club 90, Jailhouse and Crossroads at the University o f O k l a h o ma’s s t u d e nt union when he was growing up. Club 90, where famous bands such as the Flaming L ips and the Chainsaw Kittens played, was located in Stubbeman Village outside of Couch Dorms.

“I think in the same way w eather happens here, m u s i c c o m e s f ro m t h e north and south and causes a mix-up,” Andy Nuñez said.

“I feel like there is a DNA to it, for sure.”

ON THE ROAD The journey to Opolis began at OU, where Marian and Andy met. They joined a band called Starlight

Mints. Traveling and seeing different music venues inspired them to create their own musical home.

In 2002, the couple decided to open Opolis.

“We learned all that we know through venues,” Andy Nuñez said. “We first rented this place as a rehearsal hall and it slowly became a DIY. During the day, it was a coffee shop and shows happened at night.”

“I have been sober for about 12 years now.

When the Kittens started, it was a rock ‘n’ roll party — I would throw up on stage. It was nuts.”

TYSON TODD MEADE, GUITARIST AND VOCALIST OF THE CHAINSAW KITTENS

Having been traveling mu s i c i a n s t h e m s e l v e s, Andy and Marian knew the reality of being in a van for three, eight or 12 hours a day. They created an environment for bands to feel instantly welcome in the Norman music scene. “ W h e n y o u ’ re o n t h e other side you want to create an environment that you want to walk into. We understand that when someone shows up we want to make them feel comfortable — get them food and basic hospitality,” Andy Nuñez said.

“TERRIFIED BEYOND BELIEF” O p o l i s’ e nv i ro n m e n t is one of the reasons the Chainsaw Kittens is headlining the anniversary

show, even though the band hasn’t played in a decade.

“I am terrified beyond belief,” Tyson Todd Meade, guitarist and vocalist of the Chainsaw Kittens, said.

Meade is known as one of the godfathers of indie and alternative music. His first band, Defenestration, was formed in the mid ‘80s and is mentioned in the book “Road to Nirvana” as one of the bands that influenced Kurt Cobain’s music.

“I have been sober for about 12 years now. When the Kittens started, it was a rock ‘n’ roll party — I would throw up on stage. It was nuts,” Meade said, sitting on his porch in paint-splattered loafers, drinking tea across from the home of the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne.

During the mid ‘80s and early ‘90s, The Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth, Minutemen and Red Cross were producing material that was outside of the mainstream.

Meade said Defenestration was a band “that was sort of over before it began.”

In 1989, after a month of practice, the Chainsaw Kittens made a demo and began talking to record companies. The first record, “ Violent Religion,” was made on about $3,000 and told the story of Meade losing his mind over the breakup of Defenestration.

“When we were playing and starting in 1989, the first show we played had 100 people, and the second show, there were 500 people there,” Meade said.

As the Chainsaw Kittens gained popularity, Butch Vig, who produced Nirvana’s “Nevermind,” also

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The front side of Opolis Aug. 31. This weekend is the business’ 15th anniversary.

Zombies come to Norman Annual escape challenges people to use their brains CHANDLER KIDD @chanannkidd

Norman’s Second Annual Zombie Escape will take place Sept. 30 at the Griffin Park Dis c G olf Cours e.

Zombie Escape is an event in which participants complete a course while avoiding zombies. Check-in opens

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Re g i s t rat i o n w i l l r u n through Sept. 17 and costs $15. Participants will receive a medal and T-shirt. There is no age limit to participate in the zombie escape, but participants under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult. The 2017 Zombie Escape welcomes many new additions, including the option to participate in a long or short course and the ability to be a participant as well

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Participants will begin by wearing a flag football belt with two flags attached, and zombies will attempt to “infect” participants by stealing their flags. Those who end the event with one or both flags will be rewarded a survivor medal, and those who have zero flags will be given an infected medal.

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produced the Kittens’ second album, “Flipped Out,” in Singapore. This growth led the Kittens to be signed

by Mammoth Atlantic.

Although the band hasn’t played in a decade, Opolis is a special place for them.

Meade said the only person he would perform for would be for Andy Nuñez.

“We feel like when we play, it should be a special occasion because we don’t want to be that band that plays all the time,” Meade said.

at Opolis claim the venue as their “home base.”

“Forever ago I remember going there and meeting Marian and Andy. They gave us a map on how to do things,” Tim Gregory, Helen Kelter Skelter’s technician, said.

Gregor y said he enjoys playing at Opolis because it is a place of experimentation.

“You can do things a bit differently. It gives you the opportunity to do something different than the norm,” Gregory said.

HOME BASE Marian and Andy have THE SHOW made an impact on more Breaking the norm, the than just Meade. Many of lineup for Opolis’ 15th anthe bands that have played n i v e r s a r y s h o w h a s n o

hierarchy, Andy and Marian Nuñez said.

“When a band would play here and if we connected with them, we asked them to play,” Andy Nuñez said.

The couple wants students from OU to realize that they are here with the anniversary show, Marian Nuñez said.

The anniversary concert series will take place Sept.

7-9. Attendees can purchase a three-day pass for $15.

More information about t h e a nni v e r s a r y c a n b e found on at www.opolis.org.

Chandler Kidd

chandlerkidd@ou.edu

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Thor: Ragnarok, the third movie in the franchise, will be released Nov. 3.

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s the leaves begin to change, movie theaters fill with an abundance of Oscar-seeking dramas, Halloween films and holiday season blockbusters. In the coming months, there are several films coming out that already have a buzz about them. Here are the five most anticipated movies coming out this fall.

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Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, “Itâ€? is about a town in Maine with a shrinking number of children and an evil clown problem. This movie is director AndrĂŠs Muschietti’s follow-up to his debut horror film “Mamaâ€? (2013), which had a mediocre reception from critics and audiences. Considering the source material for “Itâ€? is from Stephen King, I’m willing to give this director another chance. “Itâ€? comes to theaters Sept. 8.

BLADE RUNNER 2049

As a huge fan of the original “Blade Runner,� I was skeptical when I learned a sequel was being made. Then I saw Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling were in it, and I was intrigued — then I saw it was directed by Denis Villeneuve who gave us “Arrival,� and I was very intrigued. Then I saw how good the trailer looked, and I was sold. “Blade Runner 2049� comes out on Oct. 6.

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Michael Fassbender is starring in this crime thriller about a serial killer who leaves a trail of clues and snowmen. Tomas Alfredson has not directed anything since the critically acclaimed “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,� which I loved for its noir-infused slow burn intrigue. I am curious to see what he can do with a story as intense and exciting as this one. This should be a good October movie for those of us less inclined toward supernatural horror and more toward hauntings of the human variety. “The Snowman� premieres on Oct. 20.

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The event opens at 6:30 p.m. with pre-show activities such as various food trucks and drinks, as well as face-painting by Kaleidoscope Arts Face Painting and Henna. Live music from Jenkins Valley will also be available before the ofďŹ cial screening, which will start at 8 p.m. The screening will consist of 75 minutes of the best funny cat videos on the Internet.

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By Eugenia Last

Copyright 2017, Newspaper Enterprise Assn.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2017 ASTROGRAPH by Eugenia Last Explore new interests and people if you want to discover things about who you are and what you are capable of doing. Satisfaction will come from looking inward and realizing what you have to offer.

Don’t disregard your achievements, attributes or ability to make a difference.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Do the work yourself and save some money. Use your skills to fix minor problems at home or find natural ways to improve your health and avoid unnecessary costs.

your current situation. Relationships will weigh heavily on the decisions you make. Romance is encouraged.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Look for alternative ways to put your skills, knowledge and experience to good use. If someone stands in your way or puts demands on you, back away and do your own thing.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Emotions will surface and could cause trouble if you cannot control what you do or say. Concentrate on personal growth and your outward appeal. Choose love over discord.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Go over your important papers or contracts and make any adjustments LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Draw that are needed. A discussion with on your experience and the people you know you can count on. a colleague or instructor will result in positive personal or professional Someone who has a tendency to bully will question a change you try change. to implement.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- If SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Don’t you pitch in and help, the rewards will be worth your time and effort. feel that you must follow the Make family a priority and put a crowd. Impulsive or risky pursuits passionate relationship at the top may work for some, but you of your list. aren’t likely to prosper if you get involved. Do your own thing.

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Sooners seek room to run OU’s inexperienced backs face tough test in Ohio State ABBY BITTERMAN @abby_bitterman

One of Oklahoma’s most inexperienced position groups — the running backs — may prove important Saturday against Ohio State.

There has been a lot of talk about the battle in the trenches between the Oklahoma offensive line and the Ohio State defensive line. This battle will be key because it will give the running backs the holes they will need to be able to have an impact in the game.

Ohio State ended up doubling the score on Indiana, but the game was close until late in the third quarter. Despite Ohio State’s struggles in the game, its D-line was always strong.

The line held Indiana’s run game to 0.6 yards per carry and allowed no rushing touchdowns.

Last year the rushing attack didn’t work for Oklahoma against Ohio State. The stable of backs combined for just 177 rushing yards in 36 carries — that breaks down to 4.9 yards per carry.

T h i s y e a r ’s r u n n i n g back room will look to improve on those statistics.

However, no one in the stable played in that game last year. Sophomore running back Rodney Anderson didn’t play because he was out for the season with a

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Sophomore running back Abdul Adams runs with the ball in the game against UTEP Sept. 2.

neck injury, sophomore running back Abdul Adams didn’t see the field, Trey Sermon was still in high school and junior running b a c k Ma rc e l i a s S u t t o n was in Pennsylvania at Lackawanna Community College.

Anderson said the team and the running backs need to focus and prepare for Ohio State like they will

for ever y other game in order to reach their goals — like making the College Football Playoff.

“We just need to be mentally sound in our assignments and need to run as hard as we can,” Anderson said. “And that’s exactly what we’re going to do, and that’s what we’re going to do every game.”

This will be the biggest

game any of the backs have played in so far in their careers. Anderson did play in a game against Tennessee — when he suffered a season-ending injury — but he was on special teams then.

Regardless, he may be the only running back in the room who can prepare his teammates for a big game like this.

“You can’t pay attention

to the people in the stands because the only people that matter are your brothers right next to you,” Anderson said.

Co-offensive coordinator Bill Bedenbaugh said game experience is better than practice while speaking on the offensive line, but the same may prove true for the running backs.

T h e b a c k s w i l l h av e t o

overcome their inexperience quickly as they play in what is arguably their biggest scheduled game of the season so early on.

The Sooners will play Ohio State at 6:30 p.m.

C T when the y travel to Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday.

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Team switches up practice to improve defense, rotation CHARLENE AINSWORTH @charleneyvette1

The Sooners (1-5) are headed to New Orleans this weekend for the Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Classic, where they will face Nicholls State (1-5), Southern Miss (7-2) and Tulane (5-2).

This will be the team’s second weekend away from Norman, and after dropping all three games in the Bobcat Invitational last week, the Sooners are looking to rebound and return to the win column.

“I feel we’ve had a good few days of practice and I think we’re ready to win a few,” junior outside hitter Madison Drescher said. “I think we’re getting frustrated, so it’s going to come out on the court and we’re going to do good.”

The team is focusing on

doing a better job on defense as well as finding which rotation will put them in the best position to win. For example, in its game against High Point on Sept. 1, the team recorded only three blocks.

“We have all the pieces together. We just need to be a little more aggressive and competitive, have a little bit more swag .”

SANTIAGO RESTREPO, OU VOLLEYBALL COACH

“We are working on good serving and setting up good blocking, trying out different lineups to adjust to different teams every weekend,” coach Santiago Restrepo said.

Restrepo is happy with the improvements his team has made over the past few weeks and feels more improvements will come as the team continues to play together.

“We have all the pieces

together. We just need to be a little bit more aggressive and competitive, have a little bit more swag” Restrepo said.

The Sooners’ opponents have recorded 11.96 kills per set to Oklahoma’s 11 — junior outside hitter Alyssa Enneking leads the team with 4.05 kills per set, respectively. The team currently has a .175 attack percentage.

Oklahoma is optimistic that as the team continues to play together, it will be a more cohesive group.

“We are really close outside of the gym. We all hang out together all the time,” junior setter Morgan Miller said of the team building a stronger bond, which will hopefully translate on the court.

The Sooners will first face Nicholls State 4 p.m. CT Friday Sept. 8.

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Cornerback’s knee injury follows last year’s heart surgery GEORGE STOIA @GeorgeStoia

Oklahoma sophomore cornerback Jordan Parker will miss the entire 2017 season due to a knee injury, and his teammates and coaches hope he’ll come back even better.

Parker started eight games for the Sooners last season, amassing 36 total tackles and batting down three passes. Despite losing a position battle with sophomore Parnell Motley, Parker was

expected to play a major role this season, providing depth in the secondary.

“We lose a really quality player, and the kid loses a year,” defensive coordinator Mike Stoops said. “It’s disappointing.”

This isn’t the first time Parker has faced adversity after being diagnosed last year with Wolff-ParkinsonWhite syndrome, which causes a rapid heartbeat, Parker had to undergo surgery to continue playing football. Now with his recent season-ending injury, it’s hard for his teammates to see him continue to go through the pain.

“It’s hard to give words to

a guy like that because I’ve been with him every step of the way ever since he’s gotten here,” senior cornerback Jordan Thomas said.

“Whether it’s when he got the heart surgery when he first got here to being thrown in the starting lineup all the way to him getting hurt again.”

Thomas and Parker have formed a bond over the past year, playing the same position together for the majority of the 2016 season.

“It’s tough because watching him play opposite of me all last year and then watching how hard he works and how hungry he was and just the determination in

his eyes, it’s tough seeing that kind of thing,” Thomas said. “That’s just something I wouldn’t wish upon my worst enemy.”

Becoming a shut down corner for Oklahoma the past few seasons, Thomas is a leader on the defense.

He’s become a voice for this Sooners team and almost sounded as if he were the one to suffer a season-ending injury.

In his final season as a Sooner he wants to dedicate his play to his teammate and “brother,” Parker.

“You can tell how passionate he is about the game,” Thomas said. “Even there on the field when they let

him know, I can just see the tears in his eyes and I felt the tears in my eyes. And now it’s like I’m doing this for you even more so than myself because I know this is what you wanted so bad.”

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When the OU players step onto the field in Columbus, Ohio, it will be for their biggest regular season game yet. But for one player, this game is about more than vengeance — it’s his homecoming.

Senior linebacker Emmanuel Beal has been looking for ward to this game for over a year. He’s been begging his teammates for tickets to get as much of his family in the stands for the Sooners’ top-10 matchup against Ohio State as possible.

“I’m excited to go home and play in the Horseshoe,” Beal said.

Beal landed in Oklahoma after playing two seasons at Lackawanna Community College in Pennsylvania and receiving offers from both Penn State and Oklahoma.

The decision was harder than some may think because, while Oklahoma is the more prominent football school, Penn State is closer to home and his daughter, Londyn.

“Being at school, the distance really kills,” Beal said.

“Being from Columbus and going to school all the way in Norman is hard.”

Beal FaceTimes Londyn and his girlfriend, Josie, every night, and jumps at every chance to go home.

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hard, and Beal often marvels at how fast his daughter’s growing.

“Honestly, just watching my daughter grow is the best thing ever, to see the person she’s going to become or possibly become,” Beal said.

Even though Beal believes he made the right choice, he can’t help but miss the little girl whose first word was “dada.” She’ll be 2 years old on Oct. 5, and Beal has been planning her party for a month now. It’ll be in Ohio

during OU’s bye week, so he Beal will undoubtedly can be there for Londyn’s be looking to have the best big day. game of his career in front of his family and friends, something that his team“I’m excited to go mates hope will happen, home and play in for they know how much Saturday’s game means to the Horseshoe.” him.

EMMANUEL BEAL, S enior defensive end OU SENIOR LINEBACKER Ogbonnia Okoronkwo said Beal is one of the fastest “I’ve just been getting the linebackers the Sooners cake and stuff ready,” Beal have and doesn’t get the said in August. “I’m trying to credit he deserves. go overboard.”

“I don’t know why he

doesn’t get more attention than he does,” Okoronkwo said. “His stats are up there, and he’s a really good player. I see him come to work and go hard every day. To be honest, I feel like he deserves a lot more recognition than he gets.”

Beal will look to have his best game yet when the Sooners play Ohio State at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday.

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