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Candidates required to attend a meeting to uphold election integrity EMMA HAMBLEN Campus Reporter
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Members of the Karate Club spar during a club meeting Friday in Sarkeys Energy Center.
Students discover own niche Karate Club members represent varied martial arts backgrounds SAM HIGGINS
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Sarkeys Energy Center: home to fossils, geology classes and, yes, karate. The lobby of the Sarkeys Energy Center may seem like an unusual
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place for a martial arts practice. experiment. It’s trying to apply that However, that is where the Sooner principle physically. That’s what I Karate Club meets every Friday and enjoy about karate, and I think that’s what people find rewarding.” Sunday. English junior The group, which consists of 15 members, “I figured I should Dylan Alford has been a member of the club was started three years be active as I for about a year. He ago by Henry Badra — get older and says he was never a geology student who has since graduated. do new things. physically active as a kid, but he has found Ryan Lago, a black Martial arts is a niche in the Sooner belt, now leads the group. Lago has been just the thing that K a r a t e c l u b t h a t practicing the art of provides a way for him karate since he was in sounded right.” to become active. the 4th grade. “I hadn’t done DYLAn ALFORD, “Martial arts is a very anything really enGLISH JUnIOR humbling experience,” physical before. I just Lago said. “So we’re all very open haven’t been interested in it,” Alford to learning new things. It’s formal said. “I figured I should be active as I in the sense that you are learning get older and do new things. Martial new techniques every day, but it’s arts is just the thing that sounded also informal because it’s kind of an see CLUB paGe 2
Students who have applied to run for UOSA office will take the next step as they attend a mandatory meeting that lays out the ground rules for campaigning. The meeting helps avoid controversy by giving all of the candidates the information needed in order to campaign fairly, UOSA Election Chair Cole Jackson said. The filing period to run in the Nov. 6 and 7 UOSA general elections closed Thursday, and candidates now must attend one of the meetings at 1 or 6 p.m. this Thursday. Thirty-seven positions in UOSA must be filled, according to an email from UOSA. These open seats include the Interfraternity Council President, the Panhellenic Association President, the National Pan-Hellenic President and the Multicultural Greek Council President, as well a s 3 3 Un d e rg ra d u at e “Student Student Congress District Representative positions. government is an Students who wanted to run filled out a form under opportunity to affect the General Elections tab the university in a on the UOSA website, positive way while Ja c k s o n s a i d . T h e s e students were required also learning to hold to be in good standing w i t h t h e i r a c a d e m i c people accountable department, which had who seek to to be confirmed by the represent us.” dean of their college, and be members of whatever JOe SAnGIRARDI, district for which they were UOSA PReSIDent running, Jackson said. As soon as the information from the students’ applications is verified, the students’ names will be put on the ballot. The candidates will have the two weeks before the elections — the weeks of October 22 and 29 — to campaign. Each candidate will receive a portion of the UOSA Code Annotated that pertains to the elections, and they will be required to follow all of the campaign rules laid out in that portion. Students can vote at elections.ou.edu with their OU 4x4. OUIT will collect that data, which Jackson will then process and turn in to the Undergraduate Student Congress, the Graduate Student Senate, Superior Court and General Council within 24 hours of the polls’ closing. Students can view the candidates for their district see UOSA paGe 2
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Voting for royalty court begins today Sooners kicked off week-long homecoming celebration Monday BROOKE HANKINSON Campus Reporter
Royalty voting for homecoming king and queen begins today and ends tomorrow night. Voting starts at 8 a.m. and closes at 5 p.m. Wednesday, said Nicole Jenkins, Campus Activities Council Homecoming chair. All OU students can vote at elections. ou.edu. The CAC kicked off homecoming week Monday with a banner competition welcoming back alumni. The banners will hang all week At A GLAnCe on the Oklahoma Memorial Royalty voting Union Parking Garage, said Colin Goodhart, associate Cast your vote for homecoming king chair of CAC Homecoming. and queen by 5 To d a y , t h e r e w i l l b e p.m. Wednesday at a South Oval Board elections.ou.edu competition where groups will take a large piece of Source: Nicole Jenkins, CAC Homecoming chair plywood and decorate it according to the group’s theme, Jenkins said. The structures will line the grass of the Michael F. Price Walkway on the South Oval, Jenkins said. At noon each day, there will be free food provided to all OU students on the South Oval. On Wednesday, there will be a Homecoming Hold-Up on the South Oval where registered groups will have one representative held up in a makeshift jail, Goodhart said. The goal is to donate money to the representatives to bail them out of the jail. The donated money will benefit the Children’s Miracle Network, Goodhart said. The see ROYALTY paGe 2
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Ring Ceremony to honnor philosophy professor
Sooner Ally book club to discuss bullying related to the coming out experience
an award-winning ou philosophy and religious studies professor will be honored at ou’s annual ring Ceremony on Friday. ou philosophy professor tom Boyd has been teaching at ou for 40 years, according to a press release. He retired from fulltime teaching in 1997 but was talked out of retirement in 2002 to join ou’s religious studies program. Boyd, who specializes in philosophy of religion and ethics, recently has been concentrating on the relationships between different world religions and between religion and culture. the oklahoma Foundation for excellence awarded him the medal of excellence in 1996 for his contributions and pursuit of excellence as an educator, and he is currently in high demand, as he speaks at campuses across the country regarding religion. Boyd and his wife, Barbara, were the first to participate in the Facultyin-residence program initiated by president Boren in 1996, press secretary michael nash said. Boyd will retire at the end of the academic year in the spring, according to nash. this year’s ou ring Ceremony will be held at 4 p.m. in oklahoma memorial union’s courtyard, according to a press release. the ceremony will honor graduating seniors, alumni and Boyd. in the event of rain, the ceremony will be held in oklahoma memorial union’s Beaird Lounge, according to the press release.
the sooner ally program will host its first book club meeting this week to encourage students to share personal experiences and reflect upon other testimonies from the book. the sooner ally book club will meet from noon to 1 p.m. oct. 24 in the ou it store community space. “since the theme is bullying and the coming out experience, we will share personal experiences for those attending,” said Kasey Catlett, a spokesman. they will be reading and discussing “it Gets Better: Coming out, overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living” by dan savage. the book club is open to everybody. “We chose the book because the typical college students are at that age where they are trying to find themselves and come into themselves,” Catlett said. “the book provides multiple voices, including numerous famous people like ellen deGeneres, Hillary Clinton and president obama. the book also addresses bullying in all forms, not just in the gay community; it hits on all forms of the spectrum of sexuality and gender identity.”
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Women’s team aiming for championships Sports: ou was picked to finish second in the Big 12 by the conference coaches but are shooting for more. (Page 5)
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