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Campaign ads flood airwaves, archive

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Archivists study ads from 1930s to present PAIGHTEN HARKINS campus reporter

During this election season, the political commercial archive on campus already had captured more ads by July than it did throughout the entire 2008 campaign.

Although the archivists don’t know how many ads they’ve collected so far this election cycle, they know they surpassed the 2008 total, 3,800 ads in July, said Terri Jordan, curator of the Julian P. Kanter Political Commercial Archive and Political Communication

Center.

The university purchased the archives in 1985 from Julian Kanter.

They were Kanter’s private collection, which he started in 1956, Jordan said.

Kanter went on to become the first curator for the center, Jordan said.

When the archives came to OU in 1985, they included about 25,000 ads.

The archives featured audio ads from the 1930s and video ads from the 1950s and forward, said Lisa Henry, staff assistant for the center.

Jordan said the spike in the number of ads this election season is because there simply have been more ads generated this year and there has

been a lot more money put into this election season.

That, in combination with the ease and cost-effectiveness of putting ads on the Internet, has created a significant backlog in the center of at least 1,000 ads that haven’t been cataloged, she said.

In addition, there are about 40 boxes of material that were donated to the center that haven’t been opened yet, Henry said.

Jordan predicts they will have cataloged and digitized all the new ads by the end of the spring semester. If not, then by the end of the summer semester.

Archivists will begin cataloging the

new election material about a week after this election ends just to make sure they’ve gotten all the ads they can from the Internet before they are taken down.

Since 1985, when the archives were purchased by OU, more than 100,000 ads have been collected, Jordan said.

In the beginning, the archives were filled predominately from donations by private collectors, ad agencies or political campaigns.

As politicians began moving ads from just TV and radio to the web, the archivists have changed their strategy to keep up. They now see ADS paGe 2

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senior quarterback Landry Jones (12) holds up the the ’Horns down following OU’s 63-21 victory against Texas at the Cotton bowl in Dallas. Jones, who improved to 3-0 against the Longhorns as a starter, became the program’s career wins leader with 33 wins, passing former OU quarterback steve Davis’ record.

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With all eyes on the Red River Rivalry matchup Saturday in Dallas, senior quarterback Landry Jones helped orchestrate one of the most dominant wins over archrival Texas since coach Bob Stoops took over the Sooner program.

And when the dust settled at the Cotton Bowl following the 63-21 beatdown by the Sooners, the four-year starting quarterback not only was able to celebrate the tremendous accomplishment of besting the program’s archrival for the third-consecutive time, but with the win, Jones (33-9) also earned the right to be called OU’s winningest quarterback.

“It’s hitting me right now,” Jones said. “You look back at all the great quarterbacks, all the

great players around this place, and it’s been really fun to be in that company, and God has just blessed me so much to be able to play this game.”

The emotions of a 23-year-old football player erupted so quickly because Jones’ journey to the top hasn’t been without adversity.

During his freshman season, Jones couldn’t find a way to salvage the much-anticipated 2009 season after former OU quarterback Sam Bradford went down with an injury, forcing Jones to step in and help the Sooner offense recover.

Although OU ended up with five losses that year, Jones helped atone for the poor regularseason performance by directing the Sooners to a win over a Stanford team that had future NFL running back Toby Gerhart on the roster.

Jones also was the starting quarterback during the two rare home losses in back-to-back seasons, including the 41-38 loss to Texas Tech in 2011 and the 24-19 slip-up to Kansas State

on Sept. 22.

But all of those negatives can’t compare with the overall wins record Jones tabbed during a victory over Texas. The win also made him the fourth quarterback in OU history to beat the Longhorns in three consecutive games as a starter.

“I got here in 2008, and I never would have thought that I would’ve stayed around this place this long,” Jones said. “It’s really special here, and there is so much tradition around this (program).”

When most teams would give their right arms for a quarterback who has more than 13,000 career passing yards and 101 touchdown passes, the Sooners have gnawed on Jones’ imperfections and inconsistencies.

“I think people don’t understand it takes 11 guys playing cohesively, everybody doing their job,” co-offensive coordinator Josh Heupel said. “When you have the turnover see FOOTBALL paGe 6

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Lab waiting approval from Board of Regents Building new core facility lab to cost $500,000, $219,660 provided by grant PAIGHTEN HARKINS campus reporter

With the Oklahoma Board of Regents approval, a new core facility lab costing $500,000 will be built on the OU’s research campus by the end of the spring semester.

Th e n e w l ab, ca l l e d the Protein Product Core Facility, will be made available to all OU researchers

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needing to use the lab’s new equipment. The lab specifically will be used to produce proteins and then purify them, said Ann West, chemistry and biochemistry professor.

This summer, the National Institutes of Health awarded OU’s molecular biology department a $9.7 million grant to support its research.

The new core facility will be

funded partly from money from this grant and partly from other OU sources, West said.

The grant will cover $219,660 of the facility. The remaining funds will be provided by the office of the vice resident for research and the chemistry and biochemistry department, according to the proposal on the Regent’s agenda.

The grant was awarded to the university so it could increase the “pace, competitiveness and success rate” of

structural biology research in Oklahoma, according to the proposal.

The grant is the reason the university is able to build the new facility, said Melany Dickens, assistant vice president for research. The university has been working toward developing a campus resource such as this for the last decade, Dickens said in an email.

The grant makes it possible now.

The goal of the new facility is to allow researchers to

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Despite an increase in out-of-pocket expenses, the number of National Merit Scholars coming to OU has remained steady, according to officials.

Of the around 1.5 million entrants, around 9,000 National Merit scholarships are awarded each year, according to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation’s 2010-2011 Annual Report.

For the past five years, around 200 National Merit Scholars have enrolled at OU on average, said LeeAnn Burns in an email, director of OU’s National Scholars Program.

The university expects this number to remain steady, she said, and has allocated funding based on the consistent trend.

A National Merit scholarship from OU is guaranteed to any National Merit finalist who names OU as his or her top choice by the corporation’s deadline in April, regardless of whether the student is a resident or non-resident, Burns said.

Funding for the National Merit scholarships comes from the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, private funding and OU’s tuition waiver budget, Burns said.

The National Mer it S cholarship program promises scholars a 100 percent waiver of their resident or non-resident tuitions, but non-resident scholars actually must still pay a portion of resident tuition, Burns said.

The National Mer it scholarship only covers $10,000 of resident tuition for non-resident students, according to OU’s National Scholars Program website.

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lab: 3-D structures a focus Continued from page 1

Today around campus Reference assistance will be provided by OU Libraries from 10 a.m. to noon in Adams Hall, Room 110, and Gould Hall, Room 275.

Mid Day Music will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s food court. Marjorie Flint will play the piano.

A Student Success Series seminar, titled “Overcoming Procrastination,” will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. in Adams Center’s Muldrow Tower, Room 105.

A Sutton Artist Series concert by the Oklahoma Chamber Players will be held from 8 to 10 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Pitman Recital Hall.

A roundtable discussion for the “Imagine the Future: Campus Media in a Digital Age” will be held at 7 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Boomer Room. The event is hosted

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be focus ed on the next generation of research, she said.

Structural biology will be the focus of researchers such as West.

Structural biology refers to the 3-D structures of va r i ou s m o l e cu l e s, t h e largest being proteins and nucleic acids like DNA and RNA. However, while these are large molecules, they can’t be seen without a microscope.

To see the 3-D structure, researchers need to use a technique called X-ray crystallography, in which they turn the proteins into gem-like 3-D structures, shine x-rays through the structures and determine from the x-ray’s refraction pattern the detailed 3-D structure of the protein.

To do this though, the proteins have to be pure.

That’s where the core facility comes into play, West said.

“Right now, there’s sort of a bottleneck in the whole process,” she said. “If we never get pure proteins, we can’t ever get to the [the crystallization stage].”

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ads: Media taken from every race Continued from page 1 have student workers and a graduate research assistant who work at the center browsing the web for new commercials.

They search for every political commercial they can find, whether it be from presidential campaigns to senatorial races, congressional races or gubernatorial races, English senior Joey Lynch, who works at the center said.

Lynch said they capture ads from the smaller races in case that candidate becomes a major political figure someday.

“You never know who’s going to come out of those races,” he said. “They might become a national political figure in the next few years.”

Each student worker searching for ads is assigned a few states in which to primarily focus. Lynch was given Washington, Minnesota, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Georgia.

While he does look at different websites, like the politician’s website, Lynch said he finds most of his material on YouTube.

In addition to capturing ads from this year’s election season, the archivists are working on reorganizing the archives because they’ve recently run out of space, Henry said. During this process, they’ve been inventorying the collection and digitizing what they can.

The archives, which once housed every manner of media from 35mm film to VHS tapes to cassettes and DVDs all strewn

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Lisa Henry, Julian P. Kanter Political Communications Archives staff assistant, discusses all the different kinds of media formats that can be found in the collection.

“You never know who’s going to come out of those races.

They might become a national political figure in the next few years.”

AT A GLANCE Archives To request ads visit: http://cas.ou.edu/ political-commercialarchives Political Communication Center Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday

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about in no particular order, now are in the process of a complete overhaul.

The archivists have ordered and put up new shelves and received more boxes to better organize the archives and already have doubled the available space. None of the original films will be moved during the reorganizing and digitizing process, Henry said.

Instead, they’ll be kept in the archives, just in a way that makes more sense, she said.

The archives are maintained at 55 degrees

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Fahrenheit and are kept at a relative humidity to maintain the condition of the various films. The constant cool temperature prevents the films from deteriorating quickly.

Paighten Harkins paightenharkins@ou.edu

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Father John Misty performs Saturday at the Austin Ventures stage at Austin City Limits festival in Austin. Lead singer, Joshua Tillman, led the band in hits from the band’s new album “Fear Fun.”

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ithin the first minute of South Aftican rave/rap group Die Antwoord’s set, there already were too many bleepable words said to count on one hand.

Modest and respectable they are not, but they ooze energy and get the crowd to do anything they want.

DJ Hi-Tek appeared on the stage first, clad head to toe in a neon orange sweat suit and covering his face with a gruesome-looking mask.

Next came Ninja, wearing the same outfit, and YoLandi Vi$$er skipped onto the stage soon after wearing the exact same thing. Die Antwoord may not yet be a household name in America, but enough people seemed to know the Cape Town trio to produce a massive eruption of cheers.

Rather than showing a zoomed-in view of their set on the screens next to the Honda Stage, a loop of trippy videos were playing. Leave your kids at home, parents, because this definitely is a set that’s going to induce some kind of “talk” afterward.

Ninja told the thousands in the audience to hold up their wristbands, to which he responded: “What you got there, son? Expensive shit!” The crowd then began to chant that line over and over, and it led into the intro for Die Antwoord’s next song.

With lines like “Don Perignon — it’s like an angel peed in my mouth,” Ninja and Yo-Landi got the audience going crazy.

Gradually stripping off their sweat suits to reveal less and less clothing, the two ended up in shorts clad with the cover of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side Of The Moon” (Ninja) and a tiny neon pink crop top and matching hot pants (YoLandi).

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Sunday bands highlight ACL F

inally, the day of all days had arrived at Austin City Limits music festival. Sunday, the best day of the festival and the day with the biggest headlining bands, hit Zilker Park in Austin like a heart attack.

Sunday was the day I had been looking forward to the most because of two things: Gary Clark Jr. and Bad Books.

I wasn’t too excited for Bad Books at first, but a friend wouldn’t stop talking about it. “Blah blah blah, it’s Kevin Devine and the Manchester Orchestra blah

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live. I don’t know if I would buy the band’s new album, “II,” because it is much better live, but Bad Books is worth the listen.

The highlight of Sunday

afternoon was Gary Clark Jr. After watching Gary Clark Jr. shred on his guitar for 30 minutes, I’m convinced he is Jimi Handrix reincarnate.

Or more likely, he is an illegitimate son of the guitar god.

This guitar master was dripping with sweat that soaked his black tank top and made his black skin glisten as he picked faster on his guitar than any other musician I’ve ever seen.

He looked like Hendrix, his music sounded like

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blah blah.” To appease him and to see if the hype was genuine, I went to give the band an impartial ear.

I was impressed. Most bands sound better live, but Bad Books sounded amazing live. I was hooked.

It also helped that the band made a couple of jokes at Kanye West’s expense.

The band’s live performance of its new single “Forrest Whittaker” was even catchier than the recorded version.

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UOSA name change would clarify its purpose Our View: Students should be given a chance to change UOSA’s name to better reflect its purpose.

The name “Student Government Association” would clearly signal the purpose of the organization: to be the representative and Do you know what UOSA does? If you’re not decision-making body of the students within the particularly involved on campus or transferred power structure of the university. A clear purpose from another school, it’s possible you’re not exactly is essential for helping students, particularly sure. The name — University of Oklahoma Student freshmen and transfer students, understand what Association — doesn’t give you many clues.

UOSA does and get involved.

This is one of the reasons UOSA’s It will also help alumni and other Undergraduate Student Congress voted important community members The Our View to give students the choice to change is the majority immediately recognize the purpose of the the organization’s name to Student organization. opinion of The Daily’s Government Association.

Off campus, it will bring OU in line with nine-member If the bill passes the other branches, the many of the other universities in the nation editorial board — particularly in the Big 12. This will make question will be added to the fall UOSA election ballot for all students to vote on. it easier for OU’s student government to Students absolutely should be given the chance network and work with other university’s student to choose the name of the organization that governments. represents them. And if they are given that chance In the end, changing the name to the clearer in the upcoming election, they should vote “yes” on and widely accepted “Student Government this referendum.

Association” will allow everyone — nationally and

locally — to immediately recognize what UOSA does for OU. And the name change will be a perfect outreach opportunity for student leaders. While the organization works to spread the news about the name change, it can use the effort to educate students about what UOSA does, how it affects their lives and how they can get involved and have their voices heard.

It seems likely these benefits will outweigh any costs accrued in the change over, but we cannot be confident in that assertion without more information. UOSA should take responsibility for releasing an accurate cost estimate long before students must vote one way or the other.

Assuming this estimate reveals a reasonable figure, students should see the benefits are well worth the cost and vote to change UOSA’s name this fall.

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Level up gamer culture so everyone can join the party Editor’s Note: This the first in a two-part series on misogyny in gaming and its effects.

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o you like videogames online? Do women deserve respect?

Sadly, current gaming Steven Zoeller culture would have you think stevenv.zoeller@gmail.com you can answer yes to only one of those questions.

Women have it tough in the gaming community. Not only are they regular targets of harassment, but they’re subject to a host of absurd stereotypes that cover everything from their playing ability to their physical appearance.

To make matters worse, some gamers deny the reality of misogyny in gamer culture. They tend either to downplay its impact or blame the victims, suggesting women should grow thicker skin or else stop playing altogether.

But discrimination against women in gaming is serious, and it demands the attention of men and women. We need to acknowledge this and learn to recognize misogyny where it appears, from Internet forums to in-game lobbies.

Below are four of the most common anti-women phenomena typical of — but not exclusive to — gamer culture. It’s my hope this list will help gamers, male and female, recognize sexism in the gaming community so they can act to stop it.

Obviously, the solution to this problem is to avoid using gendered insults. If you must insult other gamers online, only use slurs that don’t implicate sex or race. The online world is cruel enough already.

Gender Roles

It’s a common idea in mainstream society that men and women are made to fulfill certain roles. Sadly, this myth extends to gamer culture as well.

In the minds of many, women can’t be gamers. It violates their idea of what a woman is. For this reason, many gamers express surprise when they realize a fellow gamer is female. “[Gamers online] typically make a big deal out of it,” Anichini said. “They say things like ‘Whoa, I’ve never seen a girl on here!’”

While this sort of surprised reaction is fairly innocent, the assumptions that give rise to it still must be dispelled.

The fact is women gamers are not nearly as rare as most people seem to think. According to a recent study by the Entertainment Software Association, women represent up to 47 percent of gamers.

In addition to gender roles being enforced in the general gaming community, they’re also enforced in smaller cultures for specific games and genres.

Sydney Vaughn, European studies and astronomy junior, recalls discovering gender roles within the community for World of Warcraft, a hugely popular online multiplayer game.

“I think the biggest thing in World of Warcraft is that once [gamers] find out you’re a female gamer, you kind of have to fall into the role of a healer,” Vaughn said.

“Being anonymous “They think ‘Okay, you’re a woman, so you to be nurturing.’” online does not give have Vaughn’s current guild in “World of you an excuse to Warcraft” has a few women, and they all play — meaning they focus less on combat either be a creepy healer and more on keeping the other players pervert or a bitter healthy. She says when she first became a asshole to girls ...” member, she played a role other than healer, and this didn’t sit well with the others.

Sequoia Anichini, “I came in as the tank, which is the very pre-physical therapy masculine role,” Vaughn said. “There are sophomore a lot of comments that go around that I shouldn’t be playing that role.”

Sexual Harassment

Behind the veil of Internet anonymity, some gamers are prone to sexually harass women while playing online. They sometimes do this by speculating aloud about a woman’s body type and sexually propositioning them.

Online journalism sophomore Miranda Sanchez has had firsthand experience with harassment over Xbox Live in the form of unsolicited friend requests. “[Sometimes gamers] start making fun of you, like ‘Oh are you hot?’” Sanchez said.

“Then they send you a friend request two seconds later. I get that kind of a lot.”

The messages women gamers receive range from mildly annoying to downright scary. While comments about your weight and your attractiveness can be easily ignored, those threatening graphic sexual violence cannot.

Like Sanchez, pre-physical therapy sophomore Sequoia Anichini is no stranger to harassment. She recommends women ignore harassers and promptly delete or block them.

Her message to the harassers also is very straightforward.

“Being anonymous online does not give you an excuse to either be a creepy pervert or a bitter asshole to girls, or anyone for that matter,” Anichini said.

AT A GLANCE Harassed for playing These are colorful exmaples of real messages women have recieved while gaming online, compiled from user submissions to the blog FatUglyOrSlutty.com.

Editor’s Note: These messages contain graphic, threatening language that may be triggering.

Condescension

There’s a common set of assumptions about women who play games. The most common by far is they are inherently less competent than men. After revealing their sex to the group they’re playing with online, many women are derided as n00bs and immediately dismissed.

“I’m pretty sure [other gamers] assume that I’m not going to be very good and that I just got on because my boyfriend plays,” Sanchez said. “Which is very wrong because I’ve been playing since I was really young. [The assumption] is a hard thing I try to fight. I always try to do my best in a match just because I always feel like I have to prove something.”

Gendered Insults Sometimes gamers judge women explicitly. A woman Regardless of your gender, chances are you’ve been might be kicked from a match or mocked because it’s cursed at over the Internet. This is a natural part of the online assumed she has a low aptitude for the game. Other times gaming experience. the condescension is implicit. Male gamers might try to That said, some insults are specially tailored for women. explain how to play even if the woman already knows.

It’s not uncommon to hear women called “whores” or Regardless of how it’s done, it’s unfair and obnoxious. “sluts,” while it is comparatively uncommon to hear those Gamers ought to withhold judgment about their fellow words spat at males. These insults are gendered in the sense gamers’ playing ability until they have a legitimate basis on that they target a person’s sex, which makes them more which to judge. To judge skill on the basis of sex is fallacious. personal and more offensive than others.

Vaughn believes the stereotype of women as inherently There’s not a woman gamer I know who hasn’t been unskilled alienates women who might otherwise join in. subjected to this sort of language while playing online. All “When you’re seeing derogatory comments, you don’t the women I interviewed for this column reported having know what you’re doing and you’re getting harassed for not been insulted online with more or less the same words. knowing what you’re doing … It really drives you away from Fat, Ugly or Slutty is an excellent website that documents playing games altogether,” Vaughn said. insults commonly thrown at women in online gaming. As the website’s name implies, the three most popular seem to be calling women fat, ugly or slutty.

Steven Zoeller is a journalism junior.

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The soccer team furthered its bid for a top-five seed in the Big 12 tournament when it beat TCU, 3-1, on Sunday.

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If this were to happen, the Big 12’s four-step tiebreaker — which was approved after the 2008 season and went into effect June 2011 — would come into effect.

Per the Big 12’s official website, if there’s a threeway tie among teams with Dillon Phillips the same record, whichdphillips85@ou.edu ever team has the highest ell, now what?

BCS ranking will win the After another tiebreaker, “unless the two Red River highest ranked tied teams rout, how the Sooners will are ranked within one spot fare down the stretch has of the other in the BCS poll. become one of the most In this case, the head-tointriguing storylines in head results of the top two college football. highest ranked tied teams Since losing to Kansas shall determine the repState at home Sept. 22, OU resentative in the Bowl has looked as impressive Championship Series.” as any team in the country And if none of that — winning back-to-back works, the winner will be games by a combined score determined randomly by a of 104-41. draw. Exciting stuff.

But OU’s season is far Of the 12 remaining from over. undefeated teams, only Unlike last season — seven are legitimate national when OU coasted until title contenders, and five a Bedlam showdown at will be eliminated via headEVIN MORRISON/THE DAILY season’s end and lost a pair to-head matchups between Junior running back Damien Williams (26) runs into the endzone on a 95-yard touchdown run against Texas on Saturday. The run was a undefeated teams. of games it should have career-high for Williams, the third longest in OU history and the longest in Red River Rivalry history. won in the process — the So if the Sooners win out, Sooners’ back-loaded there’s a good chance they coach Tyrone navigate the perilous back back in the driver’s seat and could sneak back into the schedule won’t give them an Dame and includes road Willingham’s half of its schedule, it still control its own destiny if it opportunity to savor the win. tests at Iowa State, West national title picture with a Virginia and TCU, not to first season needs Kansas State to lose to can run the table.

“This game, for my 14 little help from their friends. mention Baylor and Bedlam with the Irish. have any shot at a Big 12 title.

But if Kansas State loses years, has never been the What a difference three on Owen Field.

“We’ll see And even then, Kansas State to West Virginia and then end-all on our season,” weeks make.

The question of whether (how good holds the head-to-head tie- wins out — a likely outcome coach Bob Stoops said. this team breaker against OU. considering the Wildcats’ “We’ve got a long road still in OU is for real soon will be answered. In two weeks, is),” Stoops Best-case scenario for the only remaining road games Dillon Phillips is a front of us.”

BOB the Sooners will host their said. “We Sooners: Kansas State loses are against TCU and Baylor After next weekend’s journalism junior and STOOPS second top-five team of beat Texas; on the road to West Virginia — we could be looking at game against Kansas in assistant sports editor the season in Notre Dame, we beat Texas Tech in the next weekend and then loses a 2008-esque three-way Norman, the Sooners have for The Daily. who’s 6-0 for the first time league; that’s it.” one of its last five games. If tie, which certainly would a grueling six-game stretch You can follow him on since 2002 — during thenEven if OU safely can that happens, OU will be complicate things. that starts with No. 5 Notre Twitter at @DillonPhillips_.

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we had from a year ago, quarterbacks getting in sync with a wide receiver doesn’t happen overnight.”

Stoops also credited Jones for being able to pull through for the Sooners after receiving continuous criticism following the loss of former wide receiver Ryan Broyles midway through the 2011 season. “(Jones) unfortunately takes too much of the heat when (the offense) isn’t right and isn’t as good as you want it to be,” Stoops said. “But that’s the nature of a place like this and part of what we’ve built here.”

In the weeks leading up to the Texas Tech game after the disappointing home loss to Kansas State, Jones admitted he received a letter from former OU quarterback — and former wins record holder — Steve Davis that simply gave words of encouragement to the Artesia, N.M., native. The letter also told Jones to keep leading the charge regardless of what happens over the next couple of games.

“He just told me to keep leading those guys, and it was great to hear from a guy who has been in my shoes,” Jones said. “I knew that he had won a couple of national championships, but I didn’t know he was the wins record holder until later.”

But on Saturday, Jones turned those words of encouragement into a decisive win against a then-ranked conference opponent, finishing with 321 passing yards and two touchdowns, his first 300-yard passing game of the 2012 season and 22nd of his career.

Being the starter under center for a program that is supposed to win national championships every year isn’t the easiest position, but it comes with the territory at OU. “You don’t get too many days like this,” Jones said. “You have to cherish and remember them and always thank God for them.”

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Senior quarterback Landry Jones (12) throws the ball during the OU-Texas game Saturday in Dallas. The Sooners beat the Longhorns, 63-21. Jones became the winningest quarterback in OU’s history with the win.

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Above: Junior corner back Aaron Colvin (14) celebrates the Sooner win over Texas by donning the coveted golden cowboy hat. Colvin caught the second interception of his career in the game.

Top right: Sophomore quarterback Blake Bell (10) dives into the endzone for the first of his four rushing touchdowns in the game.

Center right: Senior corner back Demontre Hurst (6) and senior safety Javon Harris (30) look on as junior safety Tony Jefferson (1) pulls down an interception. It was the Sooners’ second interception of the game.

Bottom right: Junior fullback Trey Millard (33) hurdles a Texas defender Saturday. Millard had 119 receiving yards and a touchdown on five receptions, including a 73-yard reception that was good enough for the longest pass play by OU in Red River Rivalry history.

Bottom left: Senior defensive end R.J. Washington (11) tackles Texas sophomore quarterback David Ash (14).

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