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OU dealing with bidding lawsuit Construction company sues over steel contract ANDREW CLARK

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The University of Oklahoma is being sued by a construction company that submitted a bid to supply steel for the university’s football renovations on claims that OU violated a bidding requirement.

Haas Metal Engineering Inc. (HME) is suing OU, claiming it violated title 61, section 117 of

Oklahoma’s Public Competitive Bidding Act. According to the act, all public construction projects exceeding $50,000 “shall be let and awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, by open competitive bidding after solicitation for sealed bids...” The project, titled “Gaylord FamilyOklahoma Memorial Stadium Expansion and Renovation,” is subject to the provisions of the act.

In its petition filed on Oct. 5 to the Cleveland County Court clerk’s office, HME alleged that its base bid for the project was $11,796,450.

It also said the company the university selected to supply the

project’s materials was $11,880,680 — more than $84,000 higher. OU denied the base bid totals in its response to the petition, but did admit HME was the lowest initial bidder. The bids were submitted on Aug. 20, the petition says.

The petition also alleges that the day after the bid proposals were submitted, Flintco, LLC, the university’s construction manager and agent for the product, contacted HME to inform it that OU would be changing an aspect of the project. Flintco “represented that it intended to remove the erection of pre-fabricated concrete panels from the project scope of work and

award the Project to W&W as low bidder on the structural steel and erection scope of work.”

In its response to this allegation in HME’s petition, OU denied Flintco “ever acted or had the authority to act on its behalf whether as an agent or otherwise.” OU also admitted in its response that W&W’s bid proposal for the “contract structural steel” was $153,770 less than HME’s.

On Aug. 28, Flintco notified HME that it had recommended OU to award the project to W&W. OU confirmed Flintco advised “that W&W should be awarded the ‘steel fabrication, steel erection, design

allowances and precast erection’” in its response to HME’s petition.

According to section 117 of the Public Competitive Bidding Act, “if an award is made to other than the lowest bidder, the awarding public agency shall accompany its action with a publicized statement setting forth the reason for its action.”

HME’s petition claims that OU issued a notice regarding its awarding of the project to W&W in the Journal Record. OU’s reason for awarding the project to W&W in the statement in HME’s petition SEE HME PAGE 2

Awards given to five OU students Grants fund study, teaching overseas ANNA MAYER News Reporter @AnnaMay136

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A therapy dog from A New Leash on Life checks out the newly-installed James Surls art sculptures on campus outside the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Oct. 15. Therapy dogs were brought to campus from A New Leash on Life to play with students on campus and help OU relax. Their visits to campus have increased due to request from students and faculty.

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s the percentage of college students with depression, anxiety or stress grows nationwide, so does the need for therapy dogs on campuses.

Dogs are easy to talk to, and they listen, Kai Barclay, a linguistics and computer science sophomore, said. Barclay owns a psychiatric service dog at OU. Barclay said

dogs understand feelings in a way that some humans cannot.

A few years ago, OU began working with a local non-profit organization called A New Leash on Life, a group that services the state of Oklahoma by training service dogs, shelter dogs and the well-known therapy dogs.

Canines can help soothe depression, stress and anxiety ANNA MAYER NEWS REPORTER @ANNAMAY136

The organization brings its therapy dogs to OU’s campus whenever the need arises. For example, the therapy dogs will be seen around campus a lot during finals week, when stress is high and the university thinks the students deserve some canine comfort.

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Five OU students were recently awarded Fulbright Grants for the 2015-2016 academic year.

“The OU family is excited to see so many outstanding students honored with Fulbright awards,” OU President David Boren said in a press release.

“We are proud to have such able scholars represent the university internationally.”

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program bestows grants for individual research projects or English Teaching Assistant Programs for students wanting to study in different countries.

The recipients include Hunter B r u nwa l d , L i n d say Fl oyd , Chantel Green, Kayla Privett and David Stroup.

Each of the students will be spending the next year abroad, studying different cultures and teaching the English language.

They were chosen from a group of 9,800 nationwide applicants.

“This is the second highest number of recipients in OU’s history, and we are very proud of the talent and years of hard work that enabled our students to receive these prestigious grants,” Global Engagement Fellowship and Fulbright programs coordinator Jaci Gandenberger said in a press release.

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Campus living has costs, possible benefits Dorms more expensive, but may help students DAISY CREAGER news editor @daisycreager

For more than 30 years, the Board of Regents has required that freshmen live in OU campus housing, with a few exceptions.

However, living on campus is almost 25 percent more expensive for students than living in an apartment.

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According to a USDA report, the average monthly cost for a single person between the ages of 19 and 50 to cook food at home is $281.80 per month. This brings the average cost of rent and food for a student living in an apartment near campus to $7,946 for the academic year.

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The average cost of living in David L. Boren Hall, Walker and Couch Center, Adams Center, Headington Hall and Cate Center is $9,883.60 per year. This price includes a meal plan that is $2,134 per semester, which freshmen living in the dorms are required to have, according to Amy Buchanan, assistant director of marketing and communications for OU Housing and Food Services.

This cost also includes a furnished dorm room shared with one roommate, a shared bathroom, Wi-Fi and utilities.

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Spikeball launches on campus New sport added to roster of intramural athletic offerings GARRETT WATTS News Reporter @GWattsThoughts

OU’s Huston Huffman Fitness Center has introduced a new sport to its intramural roster this year after popularity for the sport skyrocketed.

Spikeball is a new sporting phenomenon that has gained a substantial following in recent years, primarily among west coast schools with beach access, due in part to media exposure on the TV show “Shark Tank.”

It is now being introduced to OU’s campus to bring some diversity and shake up an intramural program that has traditionally focused on the typical sporting lineup, said Alex Horn, graduate intramural assistant and Spikeball player.

“A lot of schools in the Midwest aren’t offering Spikeball. I think OU is an

“It’s trending. It’s hot. It’s different than any other sport you can pick up and play.”

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innovator in that respect. OU is bringing it to the Midwest.

It’s trending. It’s hot. It’s different than any other sport you can pick up and play,” Horn said.

Typically played in sand, Spikeball is a modified form of 2 vs. 2 volleyball that uses a small trampoline-like object with string netting, and a small bouncing ball (usually yellow) with a 12-inch circumference. In all versions, the game starts with a serve from one team to another, continues as long as the ball is being hit from players to the trampoline, and ends when an infraction occurs between either the players or the ball, according to USASpikeball.com. “ I t h i n k i t ’s s i m p l e ,” graduate intramural assistant Daniel Fragel said.

“It is something that people can catch onto quickly, and it adds an element of competition.”

The experience of playing Spikeball is both dramatic and exhilarating, due in part to the opportunity to utilize one’s teammate and land acrobatic trick shots that leave the competition unable to defend, along with the added perks of a minimal learning curve and faster pace than its counterpart volleyball, Horn said.

“For me the best aspect of the sport is the awesomeness of some of the shots you see when you have long rallies,” Horn said.

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Brunwald graduated with an international studies degree and a minor in German and will spend the year teaching English to a secondary school in Germany.

Floyd graduated with a bachelor’s degree in letters and plans on teaching English in Brazil where she will also be researching the country’s attitude toward primary education.

Si m i l a r l y , G re e n w i l l teach English in Morocco this year. Green has a bachelor’s degree in English.

Privett will soon graduate with a degree in elementary education. She is going to travel to Thailand with a group of other Fulbright recipients, where together they will spend a month learning about the culture before she begins a term as an English teacher in the area.

Stroup is working toward a Ph.D. in political science.

Unlike the others, he will be conducting dissertation research on the impact of urban renewal on ethnic minority communities in the cities of Jinan, Yinchan and Xining, China.

Congress established the Fulbright Program directly after World War II in hopes of encouraging international education and access to education worldwide.

The apartment complexes considered w e re Ca mpu s L o dg e, University Greens, The Edge, OU Traditions and The Cottages.

According to the OU Housing and Food Services website, all single freshman younger than 20 years old who have less than 24 hours of college credit or have not already lived in university residence halls for two semesters must live in university housing.

E xceptions include living with a parent or guardian who lives within 50 miles of the university, marriage or an emergency approved by the Room and Board Release

The accessibility of Spikeball is another attractive feature that brings in new participants. A complete set of necessary gear costs $50 dollars, and the game itself requires a minimal amount of athletic conditioning compared to sports like soccer. Instead, Spikeball relies more upon technique and finesse, Horn said.

“The ease of accessibility helps with any kind of learning curve, and being so user friendly helps with its assimilation into university culture. I think it’s gonna be big here,” Horn said.

Playing Spikeball on OU’s campus comes with the opportunity to hone one’s skills for a chance to one day make it in the big leagues of professional Spikeball, an emerging entity that is in need of new talent and captivating personalities.

Regional tournaments and other grand-scale competitions are now being organized by Spikeball leadership in order to establish the sport as a major player in the US sporting scene, according to USASpikeball.com.

“People that want to get involved in this on another level can look into it. There are professional Spikeball players,” Horn said.

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Dave Annis, director of Housing and Food Services, said he would prefer to require freshmen and sophomores to live on campus, and studies have shown that students who lived on campus for at least one year have a higher success rates.

Annis said although the requirement that freshmen live in residence halls benefits OU financially, it builds a foundation for students and builds a common bond for them, much like Camp Crimson.

“I think that it takes that freshman year to both discover yourself and what you’re capable of doing and discover what it’s like to live with other people, live in a community,” Annis said.

“You’re finding what interests you. You’re finding the groups you’re going to belong to.”

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“I think that it takes that freshman year to both discover yourself and what you’re capable of doing and discover what it’s like to live with other people, live in a community.”

DAVE ANNIS, DIRECTOR OF HOUSING AND FOOD SERVICES

Gerardo Marrufo, who lived in Couch Tower his freshman year and now lives in an apartment, said living in a residence hall helped his transition to college and built a sense of community among the freshman class.

“I had several friends there, and they would always talk about what was happening on campus when I wasn’t necessarily integrated with campus student life my first semester,” Marrufo said. “There was this unspoken bond

and sense of relation to the struggles of everybody else.

There’s something special about everyone having to do the same thing.”

It also helps students adjust to being away from home, Marrufo said.

“It takes people who come from small and big schools and shoves them into one place and forces them to interact with each other, which, if you look at it, is what we’re trying to do with diversity,” Marrufo said.

However, Marrufo said

the resident hall facilities are lackluster for the price students pay, and that he would prefer to ease into independence with more freedom to spend money on the food he wanted to instead of within the limits of a meal plan.

“My apartment bedroom is a little bigger than the size of my old dorm. I think it’s ridiculous that we pay so much for so little,” Maruffo said.

Annis said the Housing and Food Services staff occasionally compares prices and amenities of the residence halls to surrounding apartment complexes.

“When everything is said and done, I think we’re pretty viable,” Annis said.

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Gaylord-Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium under construction on Monday. OU is being sued over a bidding dispute.

HME: Continued from Page One cites W&W’s “experience in stadium construction projects.” However, OU denied the allegations in HME’s petition regarding the publication of the statement in the Journal Record. If OU did not in fact publish this statement, it would be a violation of section 117 in Title 61.

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petition, the company issued open records requests to OU on Sept. 4 “in an effort to investigate the wrongful award of the project to W&W...” It continues by saying OU has failed to provide the documents “in violation of the Open Records Act.” In its response, OU “denies the allegations as to any alleged Open Records request Plaintiff sent to the University.”

HME’s petition claims the company issued another records request to view the

contract between OU and W&W after it had been created. In its response, OU denied it “ever denied plaintiff any open records request for the contract executed between it and W&W...”

HME is seeking the following relief, according to its petition: “A court order enjoining performance of the contract between the University and W&W since it was awarded in violation of the Act” “A judicial declaration that HME was the lowest

responsible bidder” “A court order directing the University to award and execute the subject construction contract with HME” “An order directing the University to produce all documents requested in accordance with the Open Records Act” In its affirmative defenses, OU claims: “Plaintiff has failed in whole or part to state a claim upon which relief may be granted, entitling

the University to dismissal of this lawsuit and/or judgement on the pleadings.”

“The incident was caused by the acts of third parties over which the University had no control.”

“Plaintiff has no lawful entitlement to any relief requested against the University.”

“Plaintiff’s claims are not susceptible to a judgement for attorney’s fees, costs, or expenses.”

OU press secretary Corbin Wallace and legal

representatives of HME would not comment on the case since it is in litigation. The Daily attempted to reach out to Flintco for comment as well, but the company could not be reached for comment before 5 p.m Monday.

T h e s i d e s a re d u e i n court at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Cleveland County Courthouse.

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A therapy dog takes a tour of the newly-installed James Surls art sculptures on campus outside the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art on Oct. 15.

Therapy dogs were brought to campus from A New Leash on Life.

DOGS: Continued from Page One T h e nu mb e r o f v i s i t s made by A New Leash on Life to OU has increased since they first partnered in 2009, said E lizabeth Maupin, A New Leash on Life therapy dog program director. “Therapy dogs just bring joy to other people,� Maupin said.

Studies have shown that dogs have a positive correlation with human health.

Owning a dog has been proven to lead to better physical and mental health.

One study funded by the National Institute of Health observed 421 adults who had suffered from heart attacks and the effect of dogs on them. According to the study, “the scientists found dog owners were significantly more likely to still be alive than were those who did not own dogs, regardless of the severity of the heart attack.�

Although there is still no solid explanation as to how exactly animals affect human mental health, it has been evidenced that dogs help decrease feelings of loneliness and increase human socialization. “We have a lot of dogs that will go to care facilities where people haven’t really been verbal, and they’ll start talking to the dog,�

Maupin said. “They won’t they would be violating talk to the staff, but they’ll their own anti-discrimishare their problems with nation against disabilities the dog.� policy.

While therapy dog visits Several cases have folon campuses have become lowed this pattern, but now very common, there is a universities are choosing heated debate on whether to avoid such lawsuits all or not therapy dogs should together. Many are beginbe allowed as pets for stu- ning to simply allow live-in dents with psychiatric di- therapy dogs, because in agnoses living in university the end they would rather housing. pay the cheaper price for Universities are now fac- accommodating those aniing the challenge of creat- mals rather than the expening a balance in their pet sive litigation prices of repolicies. How fusing them. can they allow W h i l e an emotionO U ha s a l ally unstable lowed some student to students to have a therkeep pets for apeutic pet, emotional yet also deny s u p p o r t, i t a pet for just has so far foa n o rd i na r y cused more homesick stuon encourd e n t ? A l s o, aging theraGALE LAUGHLIN, what happens py dog visits, A VOLUNTEER WITH A to students rather than with allergies live-in therNEW LEASH ON LIFE or phobias of apy dogs. animals?

Barclay Several court cases in var- and Maupin both believe ious states have already up- that in some ways, OU is held allowing the animals. in the right. Barclay menOne such instance can be tioned that if universities found in a suit filed in 2011 made it easier for needagainst the University of based students to own therNebraska, where a student apy dogs, then that could with serious anxiety was increase the number of studenied being able to live dents who exploit the syswith her therapy dog by the tem. A student could claim university. they have depression just so In 2013, a federal judge that they would be allowed ruled that the university to keep a pet. must comply with the student’s request, otherwise

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The therapy dogs that visit OU are not owned by A New Leash on Life or the university. They are owned by family households who volunteer to be a part of the program. “ I st a r t e d b e cau s e o f his temperament,� Gale Laughlin, a volunteer with the organization, said of her dog. “He loves people, and he’s very calm, very laid back.�

Laughlin became a volunteer through her experience with therapy dogs.

When her grandson was in the hospital a few years back, a therapy dog came by one day to visit him. “It’s just when a therapy dog walks in the room, everyone smiles,� Laughlin said. “It’s a happy thing.�

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Mayfield prepares to face Tech Quarterback says he’s treating game just like any other

I’m happy here. They’re happy now.”

Despite anything Mayfield might say, cornerback Zack Sanchez said Mayfield has some extra motivation this week.

“He’s ready. I just had a class with him,” Sanchez said. “He’s definitely amped and ready to go. But who wouldn’t be?

“Baker’s a competitor. It doesn’t matter who we’re playing. He’s going to be amped up. I think it’s just a little more this week just f ro m h i m c o m i ng f ro m there. That’s definitely expected out of Bake(r). I’d be the same way or anybody else at this level.”

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Junior quarterback Baker Mayfield led his Sooners out on to the field and took a knee in the end zone with a few of his teammates. The junior accounted for 282 passing yards and five touchdowns through the air.

always bring it,” he said.

“That’s just how their crowd is. That’s how they always have been. I went in trying to help our guys out and trying to help them get the win and cheer them on.”

Now, while preparing to suit up against his old team, Mayfield said the biggest part of keeping his typical

attitude is refusing to let in outside noise.

“It’s human nature to try to get revenge,” he said.

“That’s just how everybody works but I got to focus on doing my job and my job only.”

Mayfield’s familiarity with the Texas Tech offense helped OU coaches read

the opposing calls from the sideline. This time around, Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said he could provide the Sooners an advantage on the field.

“We’ll confer with him this week, just like we did last year on what they may like, not like and/or anything else he can provide,” he said.

A l t h o u g h Te x a s Te c h coach Kliff Kingsbury did not want to make any comment about Mayfield’s transfer, the quarterback said it ended up working out for everyone.

“I don’t feel like there’s any differences,” Mayfield said. “No conflict. I felt like I’ve moved on. Obviously,

Air raid Two air raid offenses will clash in Norman when Texas Tech visits on Saturday. For Oklahoma offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley, it’s more a collision of past and present, however.

Before his current job or his last at East Carolina, Riley was a walk-on quarterback at Texas Tech in 2002. After a year on the scout team, thencoach Mike Leach had eight quarterbacks on his roster — three more than he was willing to keep for the 2003 season.

To Leach, Riley stuck out.

It wasn’t his passing ability that caught the coach’s eye so much as his feel for the game, however.

“He was a smart guy even though he was a student,” Leach said in August. “He was a little more put together than most of those guys. He could see the big picture. He could pick up the offense in a couple days.”

Because of Riley’s mind, Leach offered him a position — not as a quarterback but on the coaching staff.

“I told him he wasn’t going to get paid as a student assistant but it would probably be good for his career,” Leach said. “He was back the next day.”

What Riley received as a coach was worth far more than any salary. He learned the air raid under the wing of one of its co-creators.

Riley knew he would probably become a coach later in life, but he didn’t expect an opportunity like that to fall into his lap as a sophomore in college.

“I thought I would be a high school coach and was really, really excited about that,” Riley said.

“When that opportunity came, I knew it was probably one I wouldn’t get again.”

He spent three years learning as a student under Leach before assuming offensive graduate student duties in

2006. The next year, he was put in charge of developing star wide receiver Michael Crabtre e, who w on the Biletnikoff Award as a freshman, becoming the first underclassman to do so.

He also coached wide receiver Danny Amendola, who is currently with the New England Patriots.

“It was a great experience for me there,” Riley said of his time at Texas Tech. “(It was) just where I just totally grew up as a coach — learned what college football was like, learned what recruiting was like, learned this offense, learned about handling players.

“It was like Coaching 101 right there and I got a firsthand look at it for several years and learned a ton. Mike (Leach) and all those guys gave me a ton of opportunities to learn and a ton of access, and it definitely helped shape what I do as a coach now.”

When fellow Texas Tech

assistant Ruffin McNeill left for the head coaching job at East Carolina in 2009, he brought Riley along as his offensive coordinator. Even with a chance to explore outside the air raid, Riley stuck with what he knew.

It took a few years to get his system implemented.

“It’s just proven — it works... I think I’d be crazy to do anything else.”

LINCOLN RILEY, OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR

However, in 2013, East Carolina quarterback Shane Carden threw for over 4,100 yards while running back Vintavious Cooper rushed for almost 1,200 more on the way to a 10-3 mark. The Pirates averaged 79 plays per game as well.

“It works. Everywhere I’ve been that I’ve been involved with it, there’s been success,”

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Riley said. “Not because of me, just because of the mentality and the scheme. I think it’s versatile. It can work a lot of ways.”

As he built a nearly unstoppable offense at East Carolina, Leach looked on from afar, recalling those who claimed Riley wasn’t experienced enough to come on paid staff at Texas Tech so early in his career.

“Lincoln had 5 years of experience at my right elbow,” Leach said in August. “Then I hired him anyway, and I never regretted it.”

Saturday, Riley will once again see the program where it all began, just from the other sideline.

He and Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbur y were in Lubbock together for a year when Kingsbury was a senior in 2002, but it wasn’t until after they both became coaches they started keeping

in touch.

“I’ve stayed in touch with him when he got the Tech job. I was thrilled for him,” Riley said. “That was a place that was special to me and it was good to see them make a good hire and get back to what they’d had so much success with.”

Although Leach is long g o n e f ro m Te x a s Te c h, Kingsbury is still running the same type of offense, just with a few more wrinkles, Riley said. “ Ev e r y b o d y ’s k i n d o f branched out and added their own little wrinkles,” Riley said. “He’s done that, too. Did it at Houston. Did it at (Texas) A&M. He’s doing it there. You can certainly watch the two films and see the same origin, for sure.”

It’s an offense that intimidates defenses. Even Oklahoma cornerback Zack Sanchez, who was

responsible for two interceptions last week, knows the Sooners won’t be able to completely stop Texas Tech.

“It’s kind of like guarding LeBron or (Kevin Durant),” he said. “You’re not going to shut them down, but you got to do your best to slow them down and eliminate big plays and things like that. These offenses are made to move the ball, so it’s going to happen.”

That’s precisely why Riley has stuck with the system he learned under Leach for so long. At Kansas State, Oklahoma scored its first three touchdowns in a combined 3:27 of gameplay.

Quarterback Baker Mayfield had five touchdowns — before halftime.

“It ’s just proven — it works,” Riley said. “I think I’d be crazy to do anything else.”

Spenser Davis contributed to this report.

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Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield is approaching Saturday’s game against Texas Tech like any other.

The only thing is, it’s not.

“I mean, obviously I’ve had a past and a history with them, but I can’t treat it any differently. I just have to go at it in practice like it’s normal,” he said.

Mayfield transferred from Texas Tech after the 2013 season, citing a lack of communication with the coaches. He enrolled at Oklahoma without ever speaking to a member of the football staff, a move for which he was labeled crazy.

“I’m confident in my abilities,” Mayfield said at OU’s media day in August. “It’s just something you want to bury deep down inside of you, and you don’t say anything until later.”

Although he didn’t play, Mayfield traveled to Lubbock when the Sooners took on Texas Tech last season. What he received was a less-than-warm welcome from the fans.

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Violin performance sophomore Jennifer Terrell sits outside Buchanan Hall Monday. Terrell has been playing the violin since she was in fifth grade.

The school of art and art history will be hosting the M.F.A. Inclusive Exhibit for the last few weeks of October to showcase the work of graduate students in several different mediums, according to a press release sent by the School of Art and Art History.

“The University of Oklahoma’s Master of Fine Art in Art program gives talented students who are interested in making art the focus of their lives a chance to foster their practice both intellectually and

professionally,” said Curtis Jones, School of Art, Art History professor and graduate liaison.

The OU School of Art and Art History offers a variety of expansive areas of study, including media arts, studio arts and design, according to the press release.

“The learning environment is supportive and critical in a way that, hopefully, helps them come to a better understanding of themselves and their art while preparing them for the realities of the art world,” Jones said.

The M.F.A. show gives visitors the ability to take a large and diverse look at the work graduate students do. The showcase also offers public exposure for students, he said.

The exhibit will take place in the Lightwell Gallery on the second floor of the OU School of Art and Art History.

The gallery will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday until Oct. 30, according to the press release.

Years of practice pay off for student violinist Music sophomore discusses difficult but satisfying path CHLOE MOORES

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For sophomore violin performance major Jennifer Terrell, crying in her weekly private lesson is a common occurrence.

“It’s so stressful, but it’s good because it makes me want to try even harder,” she said.

Terrell said playing violin began as a way to be different in fifth grade.

“Both my sisters chose band, and I wanted to do my own thing I guess,” Terrell said. “I wanted to play violin because it was the smallest, and it fit better.”

Terrell said her love of violin began when she got a private teacher in eighth grade.

“That’s when I was really serious about it, I think,” she said.

Laura Black, Terrell’s former private lesson teacher, has taught private violin lessons for the past 29 years.

She said Terrell is very talented and naturally gifted, especially for a student who started later than most.

“She moved ahead in youth orchestras ver y quickly, which is hard to do. Not everyone who starts that late catches up,” Black said.

Terrell claims that it was Black who motivated and inspired her to pursue violin performance in college.

“My violin teacher I had in high school pushed me to the point where I wanted to do this in college and the rest of my life,” Terrell said. “She made me the violinist I was and gave me everything.”

But now, playing the violin isn’t just about being different.

“I think there is so much you can do to express yourself through string instruments specifically,” Terrell said. “I feel like I can hear s o m e o n e’s v o i c e m o re through string instruments o r w i n d s — may b e I’ m biased.”

Mallory Forsgren,

sophomore music education major and one of Terrell’s best friends, said that although she may not play the violin, she can tell that Terrell sounds different from other violinists.

“She’s very precise with what she plays. Whenever she plays, she works it until it is up to speed,” Forsgren said. “She has a very full sound to her violin.”

The work put into her craft in high school more than doubled in college, Terrell said.

Instead of practicing her violin for one hour a day, Terrell‘s current private instructor encourages her to practice three hours a day.

“He wants me to practice three hours a day. The stuff that he gave me requires me to practice three hours a day.” Terrell said. “It is exhausting, and it requires that you build the stamina.”

“It is way more intense than anything I ever expected, but I love it. I am better than I was two years ago.”

JENNIFER TERRELL, SOPHOMORE VIOLIN PERFORMANCE MAJOR Through all of the hard work and extra practice though, Terrell has seen results.

“It is way more intense than anything I ever expected, but I love it. I am better than I was two years ago,” she said.

The work does not stop with extra practice time at home. Terrell is currently enrolled in 15 hours but rehearses with the school orchestra an additional six hours a week, takes a private lesson once a week and attends a few other studio classes for violin majors.

Hard work comes with the territory of being music major.

“There are a lot of classes where you can try as hard as

you can, and you still aren’t going to do very well in it because it’s so hard,” Forsgren said.

Despite this, Terrell has big plans ahead of her.

She dreams of joining the New York Philharmonic one day, earning her doctorate to teach violin to other students and possibly becoming a physical therapist for string players.

Tendonitis and carpal tunnel syndrome are common among string players, she said.

Auditioning for a symphony spot in a world-renowned symphony like the New York Philharmonic is no easy task, Terrell said.

“It can be 50-100 people auditioning for one spot (for) the position that is available,” Terrell said.

“If they are a full orchestra, then they won’t have any spots, and you have to time it right and network.”

Building a good relationship with your private teacher and professors is a vital part of networking in the professional world, she said.

“The professor here, Mr. Grossman, is really wellknown. That is another plus to getting out there afterwards,” Terrell said. “If the conductor has a relationship with your professor, they are more trustworthy.”

In addition to networking, money can be found working as a professional violinist in a symphony.

“The Houston Symphony is about $80,000 a year,” Terrell said. “Your college time is one big audition. If you work at it and want it like any other degree, you can find those good jobs.”

Other students pursuing a career similar to Terrell’s should “stay inspired,” she said.

“I love what I do, but sometimes it’s like ‘what am I doing?’” Terrell said. “Keep going to symphony concerts in Oklahoma City and keep watching your friends perform — keep yourself involved in it. You have to keep yourself inspired to keep doing it.”

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Examples of artwork by Graduate students that will be shown in the Lightwell Gallery in the School of Art and Art History. The exhibit features works done in several mediums and runs through the end of Octorber.