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Board of Regents meeting today Topics include fine arts dean, video scoreboard ANNA MAYER News Reporter @AnnaMay136

The OU Board of Regents will meet at 2:30 p.m. today in Lawton, Oklahoma. Here are three important topics that will be discussed at the meeting: Agenda Item 7: Engineering Academic Building OU will begin evaluating potential firms to construct the Engineering Academic Building.

The new building will be located at the Engineering Quadrangle and “will provide up to 90,000 gross feet of space to include reconfigurable and dual-use research and teaching laboratories, team rooms, forum rooms, offices, classrooms, and a large 150-person lecture hall,” according to the agenda.

Five firms will be presented to the Board for consideration: J.E. Dunn Construction Company; L i p p e r t B ro s. , In c. ; Fl i nt c o, LLC; Manhattan Construction C o m p a n y ; a n d Ti m b e r l a k e Construction Company, Inc. J. E . D u n n C o n s t r u c t i o n

Company is currently ahead in the points system used to evaluate potential firms, according to the agenda.

The project will cost an estimated $30 million.

Agenda Item 9: Video Scoreboard and Displays for the Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium The Board of Regents will authorize a contract in an amount that is not to exceed $5 million with Daktronics, Inc., of Brookings, South Dakota to replace the video scoreboard and other video displays at the Gaylord

Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

The new video board is projected to be the second-biggest college scoreboard in the country. The size of the scoreboard will be 46.8’ X 166.8’ 13mm, equaling an area of around 7,806 square feet, larger than the Texas A&M University scoreboard. Auburn University currently has the biggest scoreboard in the nation, which has an area of 10,830 square feet.

Agenda Item 12: Approving a Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts dean OU President David Boren will

recommend the Board of Regents approve the appointment of Mary Margaret Holt as the dean of the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts at an annualized salary of $235,000 beginning Oct. 1, 2015.

Holt has twice served as the interim dean of the college, held several professorial positions, University Theatre executive producer and has served as acting director of the Helmerich School of Drama.

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Mental health is focus of group

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Organization wants to raise awareness DAISY CREAGER News Editor @daisycreager

Late on a Sunday night, seven students gathered to discuss the formation of a registered student organization that will eliminate stigmas about mental health issues and increase awareness of resources on campus.

At Sooner Mental Health’s first meeting on Oct. 18, co-founder JD Baker, a public relations and public affairs and administration sophomore, said he wanted input from members about how to achieve the goals of the organization.

“There are many stigmas that criminalize and demonize mental illness, and we need to change that conversation and mindset. We are part of something bigger than ourselves in really helping people realize that,” Baker said at the meeting.

Baker said he knew change was needed on campus when a student threatened suicide at Adams Center in November 2014.

“That was a wake-up call for the university,” Baker said.

“It scared me, and it broke my heart. This is something real and something people struggle with.

It’s partially the responsibility of the students. We heard the call, and now we are responding in this way.”

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Physics engineering sophomore Sean Rutherford looks back as he climbs the rock wall in the Huston Huffman Center on Oct. 21. Rutherford’s highest climb was 80 feet in Arkansas.

Despite risk of fall, climbing is passion

a rock cliff.

“That’s one of the risks involved with rock climbing, but I still love it,” said Sean Rutherford, physics engineerANNA MAYER News Reporter ing sophomore, one of OU’s @AnnaMay136 well-practiced rock climbers.

In comparison, the rock Thirty-five feet. Imagine wall at the Huston Huffman falling 35 feet from the side of Center is only 20 feet tall. That

is where Rutherford can be found now. This semester, he took a job at the gym, working at the climbing wall with about seven other students.

“The tallest route that I’ve climbed was I think 80 feet in Arkansas,” Rutherford said.

“It’s called Orange Crush. It probably took me around 30

minutes. That’s the tallest I’ve climbed, but not the hardest.”

Rutherford only began climbing three years ago.

Originally from Tulsa, he attended the University of Arkansas for a few years, where one of his fraternity brothers took him climbing for the first time as a freshman.

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Alpha Sig fraternity returns after 18 years Group, disbanded in 1997, is starting anew MARY SMITH

News Reporter @marysmitty21

This August, an IFC fraternity decided to make a comeback on campus after an 18-year absence.

Although Alpha Sigma Phi’s OU chapter was disbanded in 1997, it is founding itself again this year as an entirely new fraternity, and thus, with a fresh start.

Alpha Sig alums have wanted to

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put the fraternity back on campus for years and started the process in August, when they began to send out mass emails to students and speak with those who were interested, said Matt Mullins, the chapter president.

One of its biggest selling points was that whoever joined this year would be considered a founding father. Mullins said he was never interested in belonging to a fraternity until he found out about Alpha Sig and was the first to sign up because the unique opportunity appealed to him.

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start something yourself or build up your own group that you’re going to leave behind for others … to create a legacy,” Mullins said.

The idea of being a founding father drew in biology pre-med freshman Scott Andrews, who said he has enjoyed being a part of

something completely new.

“It’s cool to say that I’m a founding father … it’d be great to come back in 20 years and show my kids (something) that I helped start,” Andrews said.

Junior Nick Pappas, the organization’s secretary, transferred to OU at the beginning of the semester from Texas State. He said he wanted to be a part of greek life here and seized the opportunity to join Alpha Sig immediately.

So far, Alpha Sig has 52 new members and wants to reach the 60-65 range within the next few weeks, Mullins said. Its numbers

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have been fast growing,doubling within the span of a week in September, going from 25 to 50, Mullins said.

The fraternity is currently in the colonization process, which means it is trying to meet goals set for it by the Alpha Sigma Phi National Board and is a temporary Alpha Sigma Phi organization until they meet these benchmarks.

Once it completes colonization, it will have to become chartered by IFC, and then it will be a permanent fraternity at OU, Mullins said.

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Human relations junior Elissa Ungerman, who created the organization with Baker, said it will also be a way to educate students about how to help friends with mental health problems.

“People not understanding mental health issues and throwing around terms like ‘depression’ and ‘anxiety’ (is a problem),” Ungerman said. “They could be hurting their friends around them who actually do (have these conditions), and they don’t know how to address it with them.”

At t h e m e e t i n g , c l u b members discussed their vision for the organization and brainstormed events.

They discussed educating students about mental health resources and creating a community where students feel comfortable discussing problems they are having.

Several students raised concerns about campus resources.

“I really can’t emphasize enough that there are a lot of things that aren’t provided for people who struggle with mental health issues on our campus,” Ungerman said.

“It takes weeks sometimes to get a counseling appointment. It takes even longer to see a psychiatrist if you desperately need medication.”

In the discussion, students suggested co-programming with other

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He didn’t like it. “ The first time I went climbing was six months after I had broken my arm,” Rutherford said. “It was basically the hardest thing I had done in my entire life.

I ended up trying it a couple more times, got a pair of shoes, and just fell in love with it.”

While attending school in Arkansas and studying international studies and Arabic, he tried to learn as much about rock climbing as possible.

“I tried to climb as much as I could,” Rutherford said.

“We’d try to go outside to climb at least once a month, but mainly we’d just go bouldering at the Arkansas climbing wall. We’d probably do that a couple times a week.”

However, after spending two years at the university, Rutherford suddenly realized the extent of his appreciation for rocks.

“I just like rocks,” he said.

Hi s s o p h o m o re y e a r, Rutherford took a geology class and discovered that his calling may not have been international studies after all.

“I just fell in love with geology,” Rutherford said. “It changed the way I looked at things and just life in general, I guess. I took two years off and started studying a little bit of geophysics on my own. I originally transferred

RETURN: Continued from Page One “It will probably take about 10 to 12 months to get our charter, but it’ll fly by,” Pappas said.

Some of these benchmarks include attaining a certain number of members and keeping out of trouble, Mullins said. The new members of Alpha Sig are also working on creating

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The Board of Regents will also take a moment of silence to honor the victims of the tragedy that occurred at Oklahoma State University on Saturday, according to OU press secretary Corbin Wallace.

Four people were killed at OSU’s homecoming parade when a car slammed into a crowd of people. The driver, Adacia Chambers, was arrested following the crash on charges of driving under the influence and now four charges of second-degree murder.

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OU Sooners for Mental Health met for the first time on Oct 19. The club’s purpose is to bring awareness to mental health on campus through student involvement.

organizations, creating a mental health awareness month and holding panel discussions, among other things.

Spanish and medical science sophomore Auston Stiefer said he wants to create a place where he can interact with people in a way that makes them comfortable being open about mental health. He said many students have the wrong mindset about their own mental health.

“I really just feel like the biggest part is a dialogue,” Stiefer said. “OU’s campus realizing that it’s okay to talk about mental health, it shouldn’t be stigmatized, and there are resources out there and people who care and want to make a difference about it.”

SGA Vice President Avery Ma rc ze w s k i i s w o rk i ng on a movement in SGA to

increase freshman education about mental health resources. She is currently researching programs other universities have and plans to present her findings to administration, she said.

While S ooner Mental Health and SGA may work t o g e t h e r i n t h e f u t u re, Sooner Mental Health is w o r k i n g m o re t o w a rd s crating a community and SGA is focusing more on freshmen, Marczewski said.

“We’re just trying to facilitate discussion as early on in (people’s) collegiate career as possible, because the more early on we facilitate this conversation, the more early on that you will go and be comfortable to seek help,” Marczewski said.

Baker said members of Sooner Mental Health realize they have large goals that will take small steps and time to achieve.

“We’ll target certain stigmas. We’re going to take baby steps because you really can’t do an overhaul. That does not work,” Baker said.

“It’s all about doing what we can and easing our way in.”

Baker said if one person’s life is saved because of Sooner Mental Health’s efforts, the organization will have succeeded.

“The reality is we probably won’t realize who that is,” Baker said. “We probably won’t know that one life was saved or helped, but at the end of the day, we don’t need the satisfaction of knowing who it was, just the satisfaction of knowing that we put the effort towards facilitating that help.”

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down here to study geophysics, but I took a physics course and I just fell in love with physics even more than geology.”

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Rutherford then moved to Norman and began attending classes at OU. That was also the beginning of his career working at the climbing wall at the Huff.

“Places like this where people are willing to talk to you and help you are great places to start,” Nate Richbourg, chemical engineering major, said of the gym. Richbourg works at the wall with Rutherford and the two of them have climbed together before.

Rutherford is a skilled climber, Richbourg said.

While Rutherford’s plans on life have changed, his passion for climbing stayed constant.

“Climbing is a personal thing for me,” Rutherford said. “It’s for exploring. I do eventually want to pursue mountaineering, which is infinitely more dangerous.

I guess it’s just the sense of adventure. I love the beauty of earth and through climbing, you get to go to some of those beautiful places that your average person doesn’t get to go.”

Rutherford has been all over the country. He’s been all over Arkansas including: Horseshoe Canyon Ranch, Fern by Fort Smith, Sam’s Throne and Cave Creek.

He’s climbed in Utah, and, most notably, Yosemite, California. He continues to look for new places, new

ways to challenge himself with tougher and tougher courses. “ The hardest one I’ve climbed, by rating, was a 5.11 a,” Rutherford said.

“I guess Yosemite was the most dangerous climbing I’ve done, because we were doing Trad climbing. But really it’s not that dangerous as long as you’re careful and confident, and you know what you’re doing.”

For those who are unfamiliar with the official climbing lingo, a 5.11 a route, according to one website, is for “the dedicated climber. Expect steep and difficult routes that demand technical climbing and powerful moves.”

Rutherford’s preferred forms of climbing are sports climbing and traditional (Trad) climbing, but more than anything he boulders a lot. Bouldering means to climb without any harnesses or equipment. Sports climbing means the course has permanent anchors attached to the rock, conversely, Trad means there are no anchors or bolts and the climber must place his own removable hooks into the rock as he climbs, according to an online rock climbing dictionary.

“I don’t really talk about

my goals, but some are to be able to climb 5.11 consistently and manage 5.12,” Rutherford said. “One of my biggest goals is to climb El Cap, El Capitan, in Yosemite.

It’s like a 3,000 foot climb.

For regular people it takes maybe 24 hours, but the record is like 2 hours.”

And he is determined to do it, just as he was determined to climb back up after falling 35 feet from a side of a cliff.

“I was really frustrated because I was literally at the last move,” Rutherford said. “I was clipping into the top, into the anchors is what they’re called. My left hand just slipped, and I went down.”

“A l l m y f r i e n d s w e re freaked out, but I just really wanted to get back on it and do it again, which I did, after convincing everyone that I was able to,” Rutherford said. “All my friends were just like, you need to take a minute and breathe, but I was really good to go.”

Thirty-five feet down, or 80 feet up, Rutherford is good to go.

a positive reputation, said Andrews.

“We want our guys to pursue excellence in everything,” Mullins said.

“I think the university wants us to be an anti-SAE, so even though there was some negative spotlight on OU in the spring, we’re going to (try) to give a positive limelight for not just the greek life but for OU in general,” Pappas said.

With Alpha Sig ’s new presence on campus, there has even been talk about creating a new greek row

on Jenkins behind the football stadium, where its house would be one of the first built, Mullins said.

Until then, MATT the fraternity has to get MULLINS creative with organizing brotherhood events and chapter meetings without a home base.

The members of Alpha Sig are used to trailblazing and learning as they go, because

since they started recruiting, that’s what they’ve been doing. But once they get chartered, they will learn more about Alpha Sigma Phi traditions and start making their own, Pappas said.

As for now, they are doing their best to meet their goals, recruit members they can see in their fraternity and make a good name for themselves, Mullins said.

“It was basically the hardest thing I had done in my entire life. I ended up trying it a couple more times, got a pair of shoes, got a pair of shoes, and just fell in love with it.”

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“I think it’s an awful tragedy. Everyone is being really negative towards the woman. Some friends and I were talking about it, and we weren’t really sure about that because it was so much hate towards her when we didn’t know the whole story. I think the media was using it as a way to get attention and making it seem so negative. The event itself was awful, though.

I thought it was amazing how everyone came together to support the families that were effected and the victims, too.”

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““It’s pretty bad that a person could be so irresponsible and stupid to get behind the wheel of the car. She’s going to have to live with this for the rest of her life. She’ll probably never see the light of day again, which is probably for the best because four people died because of her — a two-year-old kid died because of her.”

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Hidden Stories Hidden stories build suspense not by what they reveal but by what they do not reveal. They describe everything except the monster very meticulously, and you never know exactly what terror lurks in the shadows or what you might glimpse from the corner of your eye.

“The Blob That Ate Everyone� by R.L. Stine Despite the title of the book and the cover image, this book does not reveal the monster until more than halfway through the book.

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“At The Mountains of Madness� by H.P. Lovecraft In this story, almost all of the terror takes place offpage. An Antarctic team discovers monstrous life forms frozen in the ground, digs them up and takes them back to the base to study.

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His friend sees the whole thing and instantly goes insane. The reader never discovers what they saw nor guesses what happened to the things in the ice.

Almost any book by Lovecraft would be considered a hidden story, especially the “Cthulhu� series.

Descriptive Stories Of all the horrifying kinds of stories, descriptive stories rely the least on suspense. In these stories, even though the end may already be known, the wealth of detail in the story makes the monster seem to jump from the pages. “The Tell-Tale Heart� by Edgar Alan Poe “The Tell-Tale Heart� begins at the end. The plot is already known. The murderer is in jail arguing that he wasn’t crazy when he killed an old man. The murderer is already known and captured; the old man is already dead. Yet this story thrills its readers by the detail of the story and the well-executed plot.

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Ball security causing problems Sooners playing well but struggling with turnovers

“Teams are going to be coming out and trying to rip the ball from us.”

SPENSER DAVIS Football Reporter @Davis_Spenser

DURRON NEAL, OU WIDE RECEIVER

O k l a h o m a’s o f f e n s e had its two most productive weeks of 2015 against Kansas State and Texas Tech with scoring outputs of 56 and 63.

But through seven games, OU players have fumbled nine times and the Sooners have lost possession on six occasions. For context, the Sooners lost just seven fumbles in all of 2014 and just five in 2013. “ T h a t ’s o n e o f t h o s e things you emphasize like crazy,” OU offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley said.

“You don’t want guys afraid they’re going to make a mistake or not running aggressively, but at the same time, we can’t afford to do that, and our kids know that.

“They know if they put the ball on the ground repeatedly, then someone else will be in there playing, and they’ll be over there standing by (the coaches).”

Three of the guilty players, wide receivers Dede Westbrook and Jarvis Baxter and running back Joe Mixon, didn’t have experience with the physicality

“I know that’s one thing that’s going to be focused on a lot this week during practice, because it’s on film now,” Neal said. “Teams are going to be coming out and trying to rip the ball from us.”

Shepard added the team has always gone through a ball security drill after every practice, but now they’ve started going through it twice.

The best way to combat a ball security issue, scrimmaging, is a double-edged sword, according to Riley.

“Do you want to scrimmage and have a lot of live contact and get guys hurt?”

Riley asked. “Or do you want to teach them as you go and TYLER WOODWARD/THE DAILY try to keep them healthy?

Junior wide receiver Dede Westbrook sheds a tackler at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Saturday. Westbrook had 3 catches We’ve tried to keep a good for 58 yards in the 63-27 victory over Texas Tech. balance, and we have physical practices. But at the same time, there’s nothing of FBS football before this with junior college guys OU’s six lost fumbles cur- Sterling Shepard said. “It’s like being in that game and season. who have come in or true rently place it tied for No. just a matter of being aware getting hit like that.”

Westbrook and Baxter freshman. It is different,” 76 in the country in ball and conscious of it.” both came from junior col- Riley said. security.

And as receiver Durron lege, and Mixon last played Still, new comers like “The level that they were Neal points out, Oklahoma’s Spenser Davis at the high school level in Westbrook and Baxter will playing at, Dede and Jarvis, lack of ball security so far davis.spenser@ou.edu California. have to find a way to hold I’m sure guys hawked the this season puts a target on “We’ve had that before onto the ball going forward. ball there too,” receiver its back going forward.

Sooners to display new look against Jayhawks Team will don allcream uniforms at Kansas Saturday BRADY VARDEMAN

assistant sports editor @BradyVardeman

Oklahoma will wear an all-cream version of its Bring the Wood alternates at Kansas on Saturday, according to center Ty Darlington and wide receivers Sterling Shepard and Durron Neal.

Shepard brought along the Sooners’ white alternate helmet to make the announcement after practice Monday. Noticeably missing from the helmet was the crimson center stripe present on the version OU wore last season against Baylor.

“We talked with Brad

Camp, our equipment guy, a while back,” Darlington said. “We started talking about what games would be games that we’d maybe be able to wear alternates for and wanted to wear a look that we hadn’t worn.

We wore that crimson helmet, crimson jersey against West (Virginia), and then this was highlighted as our away game we’d be able to do something for.”

Although the plan is to stick with the all-cream look, Shepard said the Sooners might go with crimson pants Saturday.

As for why the team chose Kansas, Darlington said the 48-14 home loss to Baylor while wearing alternate uniforms in 2014 factored into the decision.

“We weren’t going to wear

“We weren’t going to wear it close to West Virginia, and there’s no more options.”

TY DARLINGTON, OU CENTER

it close to West Virginia, and there’s no more (options),” he said. “We’re not going to wear it for Bedlam, obviously. After last year, wearing alternates against Baylor at home and losing, I don’t think that was something that we wanted to do.”

Brady Vardeman bradyvardeman@gmail.com

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Redshirt freshman running back Joe Mixon cheers on the crowd at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Saturday. Mixon rushed for 154 yards in the 63-27 victory over Texas Tech.

Stoops still not giving media access to Mixon Running back does make appearance on Sunday show BRADY VARDEMAN

assistant sports editor @BradyVardeman

Sunday on coach Bob Stoops’ TV show, along with Samaje Perine, Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon spoke publicly for the first time since

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The Sooners will debut an all-cream uniform against Kansas Saturday. The uniform is part of OU’s Bring the Wood alternate uniform series.

arriving at OU. Stoops said it was his idea to have the duo on together after they rushed for 355 yards and six touchdowns combined against Texas Tech.

“I’m asked a lot about how Joe interacts with his teammates and how exuberant he is,” Stoops said.

“I thought that’s a great example to see how the two guys get along — Samaje and Joe — having them on

“I’m asked a lot about how Joe interacts with his teamates and how exhuberant he is.”

BOB STOOPS, OU HEAD COACH

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So we thought it would be a good idea for people to get a chance to see how they interact.”

Mixon has not been made available to the media since he was charged with a misdemeanor count of acts resulting in gross injury.

Mixon entered an Alford Plea in October, accepting a one-year deferred sentence along with mandatory counseling and 100 hours of community service.

Stoops said Mixon will not be made available to the media any time soon.

“We’re not ready for that yet,” Stoops said.

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